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Old 06-19-2010, 08:58 PM  
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The Giant Hole Of Extreme Strangeness
Important Note: This thread has nothing to do with Mr. Redrum_69's mom.

Oak Island is a tiny, little island off the coast of Nova Scotia and the location of the strange Money Pit ... a giant hole of mystery that has been investigated by a whole bunch of people since its original discovery.

Legend has it that in 1795, Daniel McGinnis (in his mid-teens at the time) was hanging with a group of fishermen dudes when he stumbled upon a depression (about 5 meters in diameter) next to a clearing and below an old oak tree that had been unnaturally scarred. Upon closer examination, McGinnis surmised that the scarring had been caused by ropes used to lower persons and/or material down and into the depression. Because the area was known as a refuge for pirates, McGinnis decided that the depression contained buried treasure.

So the next day, McGinnis returned with two friends and they began digging. Their efforts revealed a shaft that still bore pick marks and, eventually, at a depth of approximately 4 feet, a layer of flagstones. Their continued efforts revealed oak logs blocking the shaft at 3, 6, and 9 meter intervals, but no treasure. Eventually, they realized that they would be unable to continue without more equipment.

Nine years later searchers returned finding the pit just as McGinnis had left it. Efforts continued and the treasure hunters encountered more oak log platforms at depths of 12, 15, and 18 meters. At 21 meters, they hit a platform of plain oak, followed by more oak but sealed with coconut fibers (no coconuts on the island) and putty at 24 meters. At 27 meters, they recovered a stone (one not native to Nova Scotia) bearing a strange inscription which has since been translated to read, "Forty Feet Below Two Million Pounds Are Buried". It was then that the shaft began to fill with seawater (the entire island being only 35 feet above sea level at its highest point) bringing excavation efforts to an abrupt halt.

Quite a number of additional expeditions have been launched since that time (with one currently underway) in an effort to find the treasure. Interestingly, a sizable number of artifacts have been exhumed from the pit including pieces of chain, parchment, tools, and engraved stone but, so far, no treasure.

Some people think it's just a sinkhole. Some think it's part of an aqueduct system. Others think that the shaft does, indeed, contain treasure hidden there by pirates, or Vikings, or Knights Templar, or ancient Egyptians, or mole people from the planet Blahgram. Either way, it's a fascinating story and the hole is both extremely deep and cluttered with odd artifacts and construction materials.

So, what do guys think? Is there treasure there or not?

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Old 06-19-2010, 09:04 PM   #2
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But what about Virginia Dare and Roanoke mystery? That is what I wanna know.

And about Redrum's mom's giant hole.

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They say that 10,000 years ago, the island wasn't an island at all. Rather, it was part of a peninsula and sea level was about 45 feet below its current point. This means that the pirates didn't have the flooding problem that the treasure hunters have had.

It seems as though there must be something of value down there due to the various points where these log/coconut/putty/stone platforms are found. I mean, why would they be there? Some of that material is not indigenous to the area. Plus, the only possible reason to install these "blockages" is either to dissuade diggers or protect something, right?

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They say that 10,000 years ago, the island wasn't an island at all. Rather, it was part of a peninsula and sea level was about 45 feet below its current point. This means that the pirates didn't have the flooding problem that the treasure hunters have had.
That also means that global warming is for real!

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Oh ... here's something else.

Remember I mentioned that the pit flooded? Well it turns out that, at about 110 feet down, the treasure hunter people encountered another shaft that connects to the money pit at about 90 degrees and runs horizontally all the way to the ocean. Clearly, this was a booby trap created by the people who originally dug the shaft in order to flood the shaft should anyone attempt to dig the treasure out. Cool, huh?

It behooves us to recall that the ancient Egyptians did this kind of thing all the time ... set booby traps, I mean.

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Oh ... here's something else I forgot ...

Not only have artifacts been taken from the original hole, but other artifacts have been found in other locations on the island. These include an ancient carpenter's square and some additional stones engraved with strange markings. One researcher believes that these indicate involvement with the Freemasons and that the mystery hole contains Freemason treasure hidden there from King George III.

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