Why would he worry about it if there was a platform at 10 ft?
That is, again, the whole point. Nothing you think you know about the OI origin is reliable. Yes, something convinced Onslow to dig a hole but we don't have that information.
That's just my point though. There is more info out there it's just not all known to us at this point in time. Onslow had a reason to form their group and dig. A lot of people on here want to throw out there that the first story written was around 1850's or somewhere around there, but a lot of stuff had already happened at that point. Sure whoever wrote that story was probably dealing with a lot of here say since the story was about something that happened 50-60 years prior.. Both sides of this story have people that want to believe certain parts of certain stories and then not believe others.
Seems like a lot of unnecessary work -10 platforms worth with all the dirt between them.
Tru dat.
The wrong island for what? What appears to have inspired the shifting of stories to OI is the imagination of Freemasons (Archibalds) who had an older colonial story to exploit. Making it play out on your relatives' associate's land (Vaughn's wife was related to the main searchers) is much more practical for the relatives to secure a gain. Add to that the origin stories got popularized by Vaughn only after John Smith had died. Even when Smith was living, Vaughn had tried to fake ownership of lot 18 to sell at least one lease to an unsuspecting gullible fool. There's a wonderfully geometric canvass to exploit on OI that comes from Morris' 1762 plan and survey. If you looked on the ground and were not ware of it you might trick yourself into seeing ghosts.
The Knights of Malta were independent 17h century privateers operating in Europe in their last real incarnation. Where these original authentic individuals had made their living in the protection and housing of pilgrims on the pilgrim trail to Jerusalem, the later name bearers aren't because the Reformation has happened and put and end to the medieval travel schemes. By the 1600s there was nothing left of that. Whoever was left as a card carrying member was at the employ of European Kingdoms (mainly France) and would not have even an ideological remnant link to anything in the distant past. He is Knight of Malta in name only. He roleplays a different role under an old flag which he may or may not have recollections of. Do any of them have a link to religious relics of Templar suggestion? We do not even know the Templars did. If you allege to be in possession of an object mentioned in a story that was in the lineage of possession of Kings who we do not even know existed (King Solomon, i.e.) then what is your claim to truth?
I, for one, have never liked the suggestion it was a sink hole. That's a rationalist's attempt at explaining what he does not know was ever there. A sink hole does not explain a depression that was not there in the case it's a fabrication.
