The Giant Hole Of Extreme Strangeness

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

This was on the History channel the other day. Some believe the ark of the covenant is down there. It said 6 people have died trying to excavate over the years. Lots of money has been spent trying to get to the bottom.

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Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

This was on the History channel the other day. Some believe the ark of the covenant is down there. It said 6 people have died trying to excavate over the years. Lots of money has been spent trying to get to the bottom.

Jason sought the Golden Fleece, Mr. Hog Farmer. Who knows? Maybe the Golden Hog Jizz is down there?????

One of the biggest problems now (there's a new excavation effort going on as we speak) is that there have been so many efforts over the years that it's difficult to know just exactly where the original pit was. I've seen some photos of past digs and the crazy bastards had the entire island practically dug up.

Another bad thing is that, as I mentioned, the island is only 35 feet above sea level at its highest point ... presumably much higher when the treasure was buried ... so digging down to the level they need to reach is extremely difficult due to flooding.

One researcher who seems to be pretty bright has suggested that the "map stone" was incorrectly translated and actually points to the fact that the real treasure is on an adjacent island. He says that this pit is just a decoy that held the map stone and that's it.

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[aturnis]

[Shaid]

Originally Posted by aturnis

excellent contribution.

[Goldmember]

What the hell is a coconut fiber? Are they talking about the stringy shit on the outside of the coconut? How does that work for plugging a hole?

[teedubya]

I'm sure there is probably money down there... but IMO all of the REALLY, REALLY cool stuff, is in the Vaults of the Vatican.

[-King-]

How did they dig that far down back then?
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Originally Posted by KcChiefsKing

How did they dig that far down back then?
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Some people say they had help from aliens, Mr. KcChiefsKing. Others think that they were mole people. Whoever they were, I think they had experience with building and excavating ... like the Egyptians.

Here's a list of stuff that treasure hunters have found either in the pit or in its environs, so far ...

Copper coin, bosun's whistle, and iron ring bolt embedded in a rock.
Inscribed stone.
Gold links.
Remains of the old cofferdam.
Wood and end of a keg pulled out when the Pit collapsed.
Blue clay.
Parchment.
Anchor fluke of ancient design - since disappeared.
Dump with thousands of broken pottery flasks.
Rock with "1704" inscribed on it..
Nail, washer.
Scissors, heart stone.
Original cofferdam - logs 2 feet thick up to 65 feet long with Roman numerals marked on them.
Nails and metal-straps.
Leather shoes.
3 drilled rocks and ash piles analyzed to be burned bones.

Pirate stuff?

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[big nasty kcnut]

I like it cause the templers had something cause they were not the type mess around with these things. Now my theory is they after burying the treasure they moved to America and died out so no one could find them or the treasure.

[Frazod]

Here's a question for all the treasure hunters - why the hell would anybody go to so much trouble to bury something so completely that they intended to retrieve again?

Say you've got a chest full of gold coins. Sure, you want to safeguard it - but eventually, you want to be able to gain access to it again - people don't steal shit just to bury it forever. What good does a chest of gold do you if it's buried under a boobytrap so intense that nobody can penetrate it in 200 years of trying? Even if there's some secret way to access it, surely that's been screwed up by all the attempts, especially the one that's flooded the shaft.

It just doesn't make any sense.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by frazod

Here's a question for all the treasure hunters - why the hell would anybody go to so much trouble to bury something so completely that they intended to retrieve again?

Say you've got a chest full of gold coins. Sure, you want to safeguard it - but eventually, you want to be able to gain access to it again - people don't steal shit just to bury it forever. What good does a chest of gold do you if it's buried under a boobytrap so intense that nobody can penetrate it in 200 years of trying? Even if there's some secret way to access it, surely that's been screwed up by all the attempts, especially the one that's flooded the shaft.

It just doesn't make any sense.

That's a good question.

Maybe there's some secret rock nearby where, when you sit on it, the whole contraption rises up out of the sand and you just walk over roll the treasure chest away.

[Goldmember]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

That's a good question.

Maybe there's some secret rock nearby where, when you sit on it, the whole contraption rises up out of the sand and you just walk over roll the treasure chest away.

What do you think this is, an Indiana Jones movie or something?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Goldmember

What do you think this is, an Indiana Jones movie or something?

Life is an Indiana Jones movie. Unfortunately, most of us are just peasants being lowered into a pit of lava.

[Tylerthigpen!1!]

Wouldn't be surprised if it was just some religious person trying to make a point about greed.

[PornChief]

I love stories like this, and I've heard about it before. too bad it's a load of nonsense seeing it's just a sinkhole - the whole area is covered in sinkholes and some geologists checked it out years back and said it's a natural formation, the 'hidden booby trap tunnels' are natural as well. The bit about finding some stone in a strange language they translated sounds about real as Joesph Smith's gold plates gotten from some angel. You gotta want to believe.