Post by bookworm on Apr 24, 2023 13:56:49 GMT -5
I’m really serious about this - the Oak Island mystery does actually present us with a real-life armchair treasure hunt. The key to this is to recognise that the deposit is not in the Money Pit. So, if it’s not there then it’s likely somewhere else, but there’s a heck of a lot of somewhere else on the island.
So, just as in any armchair treasure hunt, you have to look for the clues, solve them and follow where they lead: and it just so happens that all the clues needed to identify the likely spot lie both on the island and in published literature on the subject.
The big difference is that once you’ve solved the clues you can’t go to the spot and dig up the treasure. First, it’s on private land, second, it could be a huge operation and, third, it may well have been removed! Nevertheless, the clues really do exist and there is a solution.
One of the big problems is that what’s needed won’t be found by watching The Curse of Oak Island. The clues are scattered through half a dozen books on the mystery, and it follows that you would have to have read all of these in order to find the clues and recognise them.
The Curse of Oak Island has mentioned some of the clues, but by no means all. A huge problem is that people absolutely refuse to see most of the clues for what they are, and I’d hope that armchair treasure hunters would not fall into that particular trap.
The fact that any clues have been left at all is an odd thing. Once you get into it, it actually feels like following breadcrumbs - as if this was intended to happen. My feeling is that this could have been a form of contingency plan in the event of the depositor’s untimely death without having communicated the location of the deposit. Anyone familiar with what was left on the island in the form of ground markers could work it out.
I’ve already published my suggested solution, but if you’re not familiar with this then you might want to ponder on the likely clues and how to go about solving them. Just don’t be put off by what other people have said about them.
So, suspend disbelief, accept that the clues are genuine and that they do, in fact, relate to Oak Island, and work from there. You’re interested in what they say, not in the pieces of paper they’re written on, nor where they came from or who once owned them.
If you want the clues, I imagine I'll be able to upload them here. You'll probably have seen some of them and might casually have written them off as either being fake or not pertaining to Oak Island. It's just eight documents. They may be modern drawings from the originals, but it's what they say that constitutes the clues, not what they are.
So, just as in any armchair treasure hunt, you have to look for the clues, solve them and follow where they lead: and it just so happens that all the clues needed to identify the likely spot lie both on the island and in published literature on the subject.
The big difference is that once you’ve solved the clues you can’t go to the spot and dig up the treasure. First, it’s on private land, second, it could be a huge operation and, third, it may well have been removed! Nevertheless, the clues really do exist and there is a solution.
One of the big problems is that what’s needed won’t be found by watching The Curse of Oak Island. The clues are scattered through half a dozen books on the mystery, and it follows that you would have to have read all of these in order to find the clues and recognise them.
The Curse of Oak Island has mentioned some of the clues, but by no means all. A huge problem is that people absolutely refuse to see most of the clues for what they are, and I’d hope that armchair treasure hunters would not fall into that particular trap.
The fact that any clues have been left at all is an odd thing. Once you get into it, it actually feels like following breadcrumbs - as if this was intended to happen. My feeling is that this could have been a form of contingency plan in the event of the depositor’s untimely death without having communicated the location of the deposit. Anyone familiar with what was left on the island in the form of ground markers could work it out.
I’ve already published my suggested solution, but if you’re not familiar with this then you might want to ponder on the likely clues and how to go about solving them. Just don’t be put off by what other people have said about them.
So, suspend disbelief, accept that the clues are genuine and that they do, in fact, relate to Oak Island, and work from there. You’re interested in what they say, not in the pieces of paper they’re written on, nor where they came from or who once owned them.
If you want the clues, I imagine I'll be able to upload them here. You'll probably have seen some of them and might casually have written them off as either being fake or not pertaining to Oak Island. It's just eight documents. They may be modern drawings from the originals, but it's what they say that constitutes the clues, not what they are.