SEASON 8

[gazzahk]

I was looking for that earlier painting posted by Franklin. Could not find it but come across this cool painting

 

[n2mini]

Of course.. That is why it is just pointless. They must of dug all those holes in a couple of days and they pretend it is contemporary with everything they are doing ie digging up the road. This means they know that they find nothing and are just dragging that nothing out for 20 episodes. They are just re-drilling ground that has been drilled before. When the exact location of the money pit was unknown that was not by 100+ feet. They know where the old shafts are and they have drilled all the area around them. To imply anything else would be to suggest all previous search efforts (including the alleged finding of chappel vault) were hundreds of feet away from where the "real " pit is. The location of these earlier digs are known. So what are they digging for? The only answer is to spin out there show for as long as they can...


n2mini those earlier posts referred to source material that referenced the stone roads from years ago. Not just things "posters have claimed" Do you read any of the referenced material or just watch the show? I am sure that they are digging up bits of the road not previously been dug as earlier searchers were not interested in stone roads as they have no relationship to the pit. So why would anyone bother uncovering them. The Laginas are doing it because they have run out of other things to do. It is not because they have "discovered" hidden roads. These stone roads are referred to in numerous historic documents.

This should say Some parts of the stone roads have previousally been left uncovered. You do not need to uncover every bit of a road to know that a road existed... Why would anyone bother to uncover them?

but as I asked did these articles show where exactly these stone roads go from end to end. It's one thing for a "reference" to say there is a cobble stone road in the swamp from N East end running towards S West edge of swamp. ( or whatever it does say as I have no idea exactly ) and a whole another thing to be fully uncovering it so everyone can see exactly where it is going and document it and everything else found along the way. As I said earlier some of it is under 4' of sediment which would mean it has been 100's of years since it was last seen...Sure it probably has nothing to do with a treasure but atleast they are documenting it as they go. It's no different then them putting in their metal coffer dam and redigging the area that Dan and other has found before in the cove. They wanted to see what else was in there and to BETTER document it... I still find the show interesting which is why I watch. If you don't change the channel...

 

[n2mini]

Interesting. I hope somebody can find the origin of this painting. It certainly seems to show the feature they are calling the 'Eye of the Swamp'. And what are those lines through the woods supposed to be? Paths? Paved road?


It certainly looks like a lipstick case to me. I've found a couple old ones during my detecting and the size looks just right.

I don't think that spot in painting is what is now called the eye of the swamp. I think it is closer to being in the Money Pit area.. Think about if that spot is the eye of the swamp, and how pie shaped the swamp is ( atleast currently) and keep in mind that the MP area is between it and that cove to the right. Scale wise I don't think that leaves enough room for the MP area...

 

[DaveVanP]

In the episode when they first noticed the "Templar Serpent Mound" (S8-Ep.9), remember the FIRST conjecture the archaeologist Aaron Taylor made? That the mound was very likely "spoils" from excavating - likely bulldozed by Nolan or Blankenship in the 70's. Spoils from the various previous excavations are likely spread throughout the island, including the swamp area, containing various bits and pieces of organic (hence, datable) material mixed in with the till - explaining the 100-year gap in dated similar objects found near each other. Maintaining a "pristine, natural/historical environment" on private property was not a major concern 50 years ago, and filling in a swamp with dirt and rock from digging a shaft (or several, or the same one repeatedly) was not a "bad idea at the time", and burying an old, unused cobbled road or pathway under several feet of fill would have seemed inconsequential...as probable (or more so) than any other explanation. Knowing the history of searches and digging on the island, it would not be unreasonable to assume that very little of the topsoil anywhere on the island is in its original location from the past 225 years - and stupid to assume that it is. Using a particular location for disposing spoils at different times, or from different locations would even explain some of the "stratification" of different soil layers.

 

[Singlestack Wonder]

In the episode when they first noticed the "Templar Serpent Mound" (S8-Ep.9), remember the FIRST conjecture the archaeologist Aaron Taylor made? That the mound was very likely "spoils" from excavating - likely bulldozed by Nolan or Blankenship in the 70's. Spoils from the various previous excavations are likely spread throughout the island, including the swamp area, containing various bits and pieces of organic (hence, datable) material mixed in with the till - explaining the 100-year gap in dated similar objects found near each other. Maintaining a "pristine, natural/historical environment" on private property was not a major concern 50 years ago, and filling in a swamp with dirt and rock from digging a shaft (or several, or the same one repeatedly) was not a "bad idea at the time", and burying an old, unused cobbled road or pathway under several feet of fill would have seemed inconsequential...as probable (or more so) than any other explanation. Knowing the history of searches and digging on the island, it would not be unreasonable to assume that very little of the topsoil anywhere on the island is in its original location from the past 225 years - and stupid to assume that it is. Using a particular location for disposing spoils at different times, or from different locations would even explain some of the "stratification" of different soil layers.

Great summary! The laginas and their cohorts continue to attempt to make any object found Templar or treasure related. The show is running out of gas fast.

It will die soon and 30 years from now a new group of hoaxers will attempt to revive interest by locating the mysterious holes that the laginas dug.

 

[ECS]

... Today, I located the cave or tomb where King Arthur was kept during the Winter of 579AD in Kentucky. Yes in Kentucky...

How have you confirmed that this cave/tomb in Kentucky was that of King Arthur when there is NO credible documented evidence that King Arthur actually existed outside of legend and literature, or that Arthur was ever in Kentucky?
The several King Arthur books you've mentioned by Wilson & Blackett are not considered as a reliable of facts or proof that Arhhur existed and made a voyage to the "New World".
*NOTE* Today as mentioned by Franklin was in January 29,2021 POST # 399

 

[Singlestack Wonder]

So King Arthur is connected to oak island due to his using the space/time warp tunnel at the bottom of the money pit to bring 10’s of thousands of troops over to oak island in 562AD for a long hike down to Kentucky?

 

[gazzahk]

Come on Guys...

He flew on his dragon there



This is how he solved the flooding problem when digging the pit....




And I KNOW all about Dragons...

 

[Singlestack Wonder]

Will gawry find dragon teeth next?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

It was the coconuts that gave it away.

 

[gazzahk]

It was the coconuts that gave it away.

I bet the Knights Templar also used coconuts instead of horses...

Finally a realistic explanation for the coconut fibers at Smiths Cove...


Thanks Charlie... (That is one of the best movies ever made...)

 

[ECS]

So King Arthur is connected to oak island due to his using the space/time warp tunnel at the bottom of the money pit to bring 10’s of thousands of troops over to oak island in 562AD for a long hike down to Kentucky?

According to Franklin, all the way down to Florida and out west to Arizona:

"There were 70,000 or more Welsh came to this continent in AD 574 aboard 700 ships. Now that is a fact.
They had cities and fortifications all over what is now America. They build well over 100,000 burial mounds...
Their Kingdom spread from Nova Scotia to Florida and Texas and out west to Arizona and Montana. Now this is fact"-
Franklin/ TN Thread-SWIFT MINES AND THE KGC, post #16/November 18,2020

If "Now this is fact", who and what historical organizations have documented and certified this "fact"?
The burial mounds and middens in America were built by the indigenous Native Americans, NOT by King Arthur's Welsh.
AS for cities and fortifications "all over" by these Welsh in the 6th century, there NO evidence of any of these constructions, unless one wants to claim the pueblos of the Southwest are 6th century Welsh creations as was claimed of the burial mounds.
These alternative fabricated history rants need to end- This is not fact, but FAKE history.

 

[sasquash]

That was the missing structure on top of the money pit ... and the reason for the road from the swamp.




They will find many artefacts ...

 

[Robert_Dazzler]

I really wish you guys would stop spelling my fathers name with a w. Its really not nice to make fun of the way someone talks.

 

[ECS]

... Today, I located the cave or tomb where King Arthur was kept during the Winter of 579AD in Kentucky. Yes in Kentucky...

Question: Considering that there is no credible evidence that 6th century legendary King Arthur ever set foot in the United States, would this claim of finding King Arthur's tomb in Kentucky a TN Rule violation?

 

[Eggplant]

Digging on eBay circa 1950

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Question: Considering that there is no credible evidence that 6th century legendary King Arthur ever set foot in the United States, would this claim of finding King Arthur's tomb in Kentucky a TN Rule violation?

I would say technically "no." After all, the British brought back Admiral Nelson's body from Trafalgar (near Gibraltar) in a rum barrel. If there was a "King Arthur" he didn't have to be alive to be transported and buried. In fact the latter is usually the much preferred method. Less screaming, kicking and scratching.

 

[MikeN]

Spoiler for this week's show:


They find an incredible stack of stones, possibly in the form of a cellar foundation right next to the stone path. A pub to provide beverages to the workers as they haul treasure up to the money pit? Or could it be Anthony Graves' house, where he hid the treasure he didn't spend?

Later they find that one branch of the path is heading toward the eye of the swamp. Gary finds an old caster wheel - just the thing to wheel items through a tunnel? (I think not because it's too small. It could only roll on a rail or wood floor).

In hole CD2.5 near the money pit, they continue finding wood!

The spoils of old shaft E5.25 are searched and fibers are found. And a small cannonball or grape shot. Could it be from the original depositors? Gary determines it to be blunderbuss ammo from the 16th and 17th century era.

 

[ECS]

I would say technically "no." After all, the British brought back Admiral Nelson's body from Trafalgar (near Gibraltar) in a rum barrel. If there was a "King Arthur" he didn't have to be alive to be transported and buried. In fact the latter is usually the much preferred method. Less screaming, kicking and scratching.

Admiral Nelson was a real person with a real ocean going vessel in the 19th century, compared to a 6th century King Arthur of legend and NO ocean going ships, mush less 700 ships, existed in the 6th century that could cross the Atlantic.
The question concerns the claim of discovering the Kentucky grave of King Arthur posted as fact.

 

[Singlestack Wonder]

Spoiler for this week's show:


They find an incredible stack of stones, possibly in the form of a cellar foundation right next to the stone path. A pub to provide beverages to the workers as they haul treasure up to the money pit? Or could it be Anthony Graves' house, where he hid the treasure he didn't spend?

Later they find that one branch of the path is heading toward the eye of the swamp. Gary finds an old caster wheel - just the thing to wheel items through a tunnel? (I think not because it's too small. It could only roll on a rail or wood floor).

In hole CD2.5 near the money pit, they continue finding wood!

The spoils of old shaft E5.25 are searched and fibers are found. And a small cannonball or grape shot. Could it be from the original depositors? Gary determines it to be blunderbuss ammo from the 16th and 17th century era.

Yet discovering even more debris from previous hoaxer’s digs.....there were no, “original depositors” or money pit. Just a general area where folks have been claiming a fictional treasure bearing hole exists...