Re: Which is the biggest treasure in the world never found? Pirates,Masons,Spani
romeo-1 said:
I don't think Oak Island is a hoax. I have visited there many times and way too much effort had been put into the original dig to have been a hoax. There is definitley something there. I have spoken with one of the owners of the island, Dan Blankenship, and have learned much which has not been made public...enough to make me a firm believer.
Hey Romeo,
I know the guy the new owners hired to do the history and background of the Pit for potential investors. There are a ton of facts that don't add up. Some are completely contradictory. When my guy brought that to the attention of the owners, not only did they renig on his contract, and not pay, but they tried defaming him in local press.
I believed in Oak Island until I read the true facts of the story. I'll give you a couple:
Story: The story is that Oak Island was uninhabited when the young boys discovered the depression under the swayed branch.
Fact: Not only was the island inhabited, but the families of all three lived on the island! Kind of hard to make a "voyage of discovery" to an islands where you already live! In an older map of the island, the original place of the money pit was listed as lot#18.
Story: The story of the finding of the Money Pit in 1795. Three young boys on a voyage of discovery, discover a depression on the ground under a swayed tree branch, with a length of rope hanging from the branch.
Fact: There is NOT ONE contemporary (1795) written article about the event. In a community as small as that, it would have been big news in the area. It would have made it into one of the two or three papers in the area. The first article about the Oak Island Diggings was in the Liverpool Transcript in (I believe) 1864 or 1859. that story was given to the paper by the the man looking for investors in his expedition.
This information and a lot more is available at criticalinquiry.org The site is down right now, but should be back up tomorrow.
Best,
Mike