Stretch Da Truth
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- Jan 13, 2017
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Don’t forget the beale and simpson paper tie in’s.....
Gotta go to the Vault to get that info.
Don’t forget the beale and simpson paper tie in’s.....
Yep.. Not just the forest.. I had a mate that told me there was a box of money/treasure buried somewhere in his garden but he cannot find it. The story was he was really drunk one night (may of been other substances involved also) and got a panic attack and buried his stash in his Garden. He forgot he had done it and months later when he remembered he had done this (while looking for the stash) he could not remember where abouts in the garden he buried it.
As far as I know he is still looking.....
Did a similar thing without Alcohol involved. Buried a clad quarter at 12" to test my detector left it in the yard thinking I would dig it up later. Fast forward 6 months and a home reno project, remove trees, etc... and still haven't found it. It's only a quarter but its also 15' from my house you would think I could locate it... Problem is I counted 12 steps from a tree and then removed the tree and build an addition where the tree was.
Your detector couldn't pick it up at that depth,either now or when you buried it ? If so I suppose it would be hard to find a quarter buried at 12 inches
He should call gawaaay......
This to me is the only "plausible theory" that has been put forward as to who built the pit (for sake of discussion) That is a version of both Fred and Dans theory that saw English military engineers as the ones responsible for building the pit. That the treasure was loot from the Spanish on the way to Halifax. A rouge General/admiral diverted a ship and buried the treasure. It was done so deep with flood tunnels etc so one/few of the crew could not come back and get it themselves as it would take a team with engineers to dig it back up.one possibility why, at some point between 20 and 170 ft your going to need more then one person (or a crew of people) to recover it ? One person just can't get the idea to take it themselves
This to me is the only "plausible theory" that has been put forward as to who built the pit (for sake of discussion) That is a version of both Fred and Dans theory that saw English military engineers as the ones responsible for building the pit. That the treasure was loot from the Spanish on the way to Halifax. A rouge General/admiral diverted a ship and buried the treasure. It was done so deep with flood tunnels etc so one/few of the crew could not come back and get it themselves as it would take a team with engineers to dig it back up.
THE PROBLEM with this theory though is that there is NO WAY did the General not come back and get his treasure. It would not of been abandoned under this scenario. To many people knew it was there. So if the pit was dug by UK military/naval engineers it was recovered by those people and is empty….
This thread is just for the sake of discussion. I do not believe it actually happened. Just discussing the theoretical possibilities of a treasure being buried at 170+ft. Which as I said in the above post are not even plausible...gazzahk: What pit are you referring to? There's certainly never been a "money pit" or any other hole of enormous magnitude on hoax island other than the ones the unsuccessful searchers dug. Its safe to assume you are talking about a real hole somewhere else in the world....
My major problem is as to why bury it 20' - 170' or deeper ?
To me, 10-20 feet should have been more than plenty.
one possibility why, at some point between 20 and 170 ft your going to need more then one person (or a crew of people) to recover it ? One person just can't get the idea to take it themselves
Very good point. The only reason you would put this is if you were giving directions to someone else that had not been there when the treasure was buried. It really makes little theoretical sense why a treasure hider would put this stone at 70 feet.They certainly wouldn't need a cipher stone at 70 feet.
In my one cell brain I keep wondering about the depth. "IF" they did bury something, the deeper they buried it the longer it would take to manually dig. The longer it took, the greater the chance of maybe a passing by ship could spot them and come and investigate. They would not want any undo attention. If a ship dropped off a crew and later returned to pick them up "might" make some sense ? If what was being buried was that valuable that it needed to be buried so deep then one might wonder if the whole crew was told or just a handful. The more that knew, the greater the chances are for someone to take off on their own. They could have easily found a captain and a crew at some port that would be interested and up for the challenge. But then whose to say that didn't happen anyway ?
There are few real fundamental problems with the basic theory of treasure buried on OI (I know there are many more actual problems). Given that it would take a reasonably sized group of people to have done what the legend speculates they are meant to have done.if it is buried some 150 ft deep, which always sounded ridiculous to me. Humans are capable of doing that much digging in the course of looking for something, mining ? Could burying something so deep been an after thought... like, we dug this hole and found the mineral we were looking for, now we have this treasure we need hiding, a long shot but I just can't fathom someone setting out to bury a treasure that deep.