Comments on: The Last Great Buried Treasure Mystery: The Money Pit at Oak Island

By: paboy69

paboy69 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:18:09 +0000

has no-one else thought: 'hey, they put up
a block n tackle. maybe that was
to REMOVE a treasure' ???? just a thought

By: Satya Swaroop Mati

Satya Swaroop Mati — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:53:51 +0000

I have plans of traveling to US this summer. Now I guess I will move to Nova Scotia after the stay of 6 months which earlier wasn't there in my map but I will definitely go to the Oak Island!

By: Lou Mazza

Lou Mazza — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:47:03 +0000

In 1960 we build a summer home in Toms River, New Jersey. History shows that Captain Kidd had used Barnegat Bay as a hideout where he could replenish supplies and go about seizing ships off the Jersey coast.

I would summer there and was a lifeguard on a local beach. The area where our house was built was sparsely developed and my brother and I would explre the forests around our house. there was a high hill that was about 1/4 mile from an inlet and we found a tree at the top of the hill with a chain hanging ftom a limb and a depression below the chain. Locals told me that the chain was used when deer had been caught and hung to dry and then cut into pieces. I thought that this was strange since the chain was couvered by the bark on the limb and I stuck a kife into the crevass and the barch overlay was over 2 inches thick.

I had read about Oak Island but no one believed my story. Today that hill has many summer homes, roads and a park. No one dug for the treasure but I believe that it's there.

By: Satya Swaroop Mati

Satya Swaroop Mati — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:56:51 +0000

Well, to be honest, I don't think the treasure is there at all. I mean it is there somewhere but may not be in that exact place! Like the people of the old age were quite talented in terms of reasoning than we are today. The reason being readily available materials for whatever we want, for example here we got the material for hidden treasure of Oak Island by just typing "lost treasure of world" in Google.
The people of the earlier times utilized their brains to the full and we, having internet at home are quite lazy to move our ass from the chair and start real research.
So, the point here is that we will have to think the way they thought. Now we are quite advanced in terms of technology and science so it is natural to have no knowledge of how we could have thought without these advancements.
Like Sir Albert Einstein was not able to define the atom after he had invented the atom bomb. The reason being that his level of thought had gone beyond the normal way of thinking of normal human beings.
So we have to think what they would have thought like to encode it with hardwares without having any automatic machines.
THINK guys! Its time to move back and do research and come back to present again.

By: andrew cooper

andrew cooper — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:56:14 +0000

well to realy solve the problem in my case. i would figure out the diameter of the money pit and lay stiel pipeing or walling around the excuvation area. that way when you dig. you can aline the stiel walling or a single piece of stiel pipeing int the whole ware you digg. an you can dig more easley without the worry of water leaking in. an it will be alot easyer to excuvate the dirt and simply repeat the proceses untile you get to your required destination of depth...

By: xtremevidlord

xtremevidlord — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:42:55 +0000

if it is writted,"Forty feet below, two million pounds are buried."
then perhaps it is simply forty feet below the surface?
Perhaps, the layers are code for the searching...... clay and youre there, coconut and youre too far....
Perhaps the treasure is ...7degrees out form the orignal tunnel?
Perhaps if the treaure is in someway related to the freemasons it will be spoken of within there writtings?
Perhaps the treasure can only be reached at set tied in some relation to the water tunnels?
.........
Sometimes when the puzzle is difficult and clouded, the answer is simple and clear.....just the mind confuses it up...

but, in saying all that.... there are alot of "perhaps"....... arrr mi hearties......where's the rum....

By: Black Dog

Black Dog — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:29:09 +0000

Has no one thought that the original diggers would want to recover whatever treasure lies at the bottom. Why make it so impossible to dig again. Perhaps all the traps and obstructions are there not to protect a treasure but to make sure something is never recovered.

By: Pudnik

Pudnik — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:54:38 +0000

...According to this web page:
http://www.veling.nl/anne/templars/knight.htm
...In the fourteenth century, some of the Knights Templar, escaping persecution in Europe, may have come to Nova Scotia with a certain...ah..."Treasure". Several people have questioned why somebody would create such an elaborate hiding place for, apparently, not very much treasure. Wellll, if what they were trying to hide was *the Holy Grail*...then definately what they created was worth it! - Pudnik....

By: lawrence tasker

lawrence tasker — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:56:53 +0000

the money pit has eluded men for decades, and it seems that so much digging has only hamperd a true find of what may be a treasure trove.. not just in value but history knowledge ect!! the scientists who decipherd the stone tablets read, at 40ft two million will be found, the only problem with this quote, is the oak platforms where discoverd at ten foot levels going down 90ft.. so please why should pirates dig 50ft more for NO reason ? this work must of taken months to complete!! and after all they wernt land lovers.. the sea was there companion, any how more ships to loot out to sea... yours Lawrence.......

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:43:56 +0000

I'm trying to contact Dan Blankenship or someone in the new Michigan Group directly. Can someone please help me to do this! Thanx

By: TWIN STONES

TWIN STONES — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:57:04 +0000

The Oak Island stone triangle points north with a dividing stone line through it' directional straight up to the money pit. For some reason the stone triangle also pointed seven degrees west of the money pit, I believe this seven degrees off was because the stone triangle could line up with the two drilled stones at a right angle' the drilled stones were found north and north east of the money pit.
http://oakislandtreasurenewsarchives.blogspot.com/

By: madeleine

madeleine — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:06:33 +0000

are you a hacker?

By: hacker

hacker — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:05:42 +0000

whatz up?
i can be your friend madeleine

By: madeleine

madeleine — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:03:48 +0000

anybody here?

By: madeleine

madeleine — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:02:59 +0000

hi i just wanted to know if anybody wants a friend.i am confused and freaked.i just want a mission to do in my house.

By: Smiths Cove

Smiths Cove — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:28:41 +0000

If the Smiths cove dam was to stop water from leaking inland into the flood tunnels beneath Oak Island, then there must be a similar shaft tunnel in the Birch Island triangle, in the inscriptions on the money pit stone found at the 90-foot level distinctly point to the right angle of a triangle. The Birch Island triangles right angle has a similar artificial beach as to the Smiths Cove Beach area; if these two-beach areas are built by the same original builders then they were built for the same purposes. There is visual evidence that shows that there was an ancient flood dam built around the right angle of the Birch Island triangle.

Since these two beach areas are similar, then flood tunnels run the same depth to the 100-feet level under the Islands, we know this because by the excavations of the Money pit. So what’s ever is in the Birch Island triangle probably goes to the100 ft depth and it has surface shafts inland that more than likely surfaces out of the triangle..... http://www.canadaka.net/blog/oakster

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:45:05 +0000

Thanks for the update, Jo! I wonder why they don't just cofferdam the inlets...

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:37:25 +0000

Did you know that excavations are about to start up again on Oak Island?

A new group from Michigan, along with Dan Blankenship (long time Oak Island treasure hunter) have established Oak Island Tours Inc.

They have recently received their Treasure Trove Licence (necessary to conduct digs) and plan to begin their search very soon. For more information vistit: http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/36/49/

Jo Atherton
Oak Island Treasure

By: MoniA

MoniA — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:15:03 +0000

I grew up In NS and remember hearing about this. People said it was Blackbeard's treasure. Hope something really cool is down there and I hope they find it.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:30:54 +0000

Perhaps I'm wrong but I thought that there were other dye studies that showed multiple outlets.

By: Daversa

Daversa — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:34:12 +0000

Just a little FYI on this one regarding the "drains" Woods Hole did a study on them.

From http://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/whoi.shtml

The Woods Hole scientists introduced an extremely sensitive dye into Borehole 10-X and then monitored the coastline around the island to check for outflow. Absolutely no dye was detected emerging anywhere around the island despite the fact that the water level in the 'borehole' varies with the tide in the same manner as is claimed of the Money Pit. Also, the water in the hole is not actually seawater. Instead it is brackish, indicating that a freshwater 'lens' exists on the island, riding atop the surrounding seawater due to the density difference between the two. This is apparently quite common where island geologies are concerned (Aubrey, 2002). If the so-called 'box drains' actually existed we would expect to find only seawater in the Pit. Instead, the findings indicate that a subterranean stream, normal water infiltration through the deeper 'sand and boulder' soils, and/or other natural mechanisms have caused the flooding of the Pit and other shafts.

This finding is reinforced by the results of side-scan sonar studies that were conducted at the same time. No indications of any sort of channel or 'drain' between the Pit area and the shoreline were found. The scientists summarized this finding during the interview by stating that 'no direct connection to the surrounding ocean was found during the study (Gallo, 2002).'

By: skh.pcola

skh.pcola — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:19:28 +0000

sammy, magnets only work on ferrous (iron) material. Gold or silver wouldn't be "attracted" to a magnet.

By: Gaby

Gaby — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:58:43 +0000

Now this is something Scooby Do & Co. would solve in just a day!

By: Renton

Renton — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:34:12 +0000

If you've ever seen the British show time team, you'd have to say that anything down there would have been found by now. There is so much equipment that can be used to see large metal objects under the earth without actually digging... although it is rather deep...

Interesting stuff though

By: sammy

sammy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:50:04 +0000

you'd think they would have got a powerful magnet down there by now to see if they can get anything.. weirdness.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:02:47 +0000

That's an awful deep hole to dig...