Tom_in_CA
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...this thread is about Oak Island.
Hey Grizz and gang, y'all will probably enjoy this video. Sure it's "just in fun", but ... it carries a point too !
...this thread is about Oak Island.
This shows you dont know what you're talking about but want to feel relevant for some reason.Grizz, let's be totally honest : Even if a skeptic watched every episode, and created detailed explanations for how the "salacious details" have more-plausible explanations, then : Would that *really* drive the faithful to loose faith ? I don't think so. Hence, really then, it's not a matter of someone being up-to-date . The faithful will merely reject any & all pushback, no matter HOW well-versed the skeptic is.
Yeah somewhat funny but the only point I see being made is people poking fun at others because they have nothing better to do with their livesHey Grizz and gang, y'all will probably enjoy this video. Sure it's "just in fun", but ... it carries a point too !
... why in the world are you so obsessed with it? ...
Sounds to me like you had a great time and learned something. But from your perspective you were taken advantage of and now you dont trust any treasure stories, I get it...Good question ! Answer :
Because in the early 1990s, I got swooned into this type fever . An employee of mine (immigrant from Mexico) learned that my hobby was md'ing. So he began to regale me with treasure stories from his home country areas . High in the Sierra madres, in towns that were 300+ yrs. old. They all sounded SSEeeeooo convincing and iron-clad. And , shucks, a metal detector would make child's play out of finding more such treasures there, eh ?
So I planned and saved and made the trek with him @ his annual return visit. Idea being that I was to be the technical guy (since I had the md'ing experience know-how). And he would be the guide and interpreter to lead to all these "slam dunk" sites.
Yet one by one, they all fell apart. So I began to quiz him about the details he'd spun back in the USA. And one by one, it became obvious that all the salacious details had more plausible explanations. They were all he said /she said campfire legends gone awry. Yet they are so invested in these stories, they grow with each telling. And are always first-person singular, no matter how many levels of telephone game they went through. For example, people who "saw the coins", well ... gee, now that we're down there, and now that I can meet and interview these eye-witnesses. Well ...., it turns out he didn't exactly see them. But he got it on good authority from so & so down the street who saw them. So I hunt down THAT guy. And ... yup ... you guessed it ... He didn't actually see them either. But not to worry, because he got it on good authority from so & so. And so forth back to infinite regression.
I realized that with a little skepticism, I could have saved myself a lot of grief and expense. But I was so swoon by treasure fever (who can resist?), that .... I was blinded. No one wants to be laughed at all-the-way to the bank, so we put critical thinking aside. I fell for it myself.
And so to answer your question : I wondered if the same psychology play isn't EXACTLY what starts the legends we always hear about (albeit 50, 100, or 200 yrs. ago). Eg.: Yamashita, O.I. , lost Dutchman, etc.....
Hope that answers your question
Sounds to me like you had a great time and learned something. ....
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Robert Dunfield dug the money pit area to great depths and proved nothing was ever there. ...
Don't you have a permissions thread to go question?No. This isn't true. Robert didn't prove anything. Because: Robert *didn't dig deep enough*
Or : A little more to the right, or a little more to the left, etc...
But at NO POINT, is there *not* a fabulous treasure there !! After all, how ELSE do you explain the "road in the swamp" . Huh ? HUH ?
The road in the swamp is what got me, thats too coolI like the show, that being said, do I believe there's a curse where one more must die? Absolutely not. Do I think there's a booby trapped shaft? Sure, it was documented. Is there a treasure? Don't know, but for the Laguina's sake, I hope so, they're in up to their necks in money there. Did something happen on that island? Yes, but what, again who knows, maybe they'll find out, keep watching.
Folks on the island needed to haul things across a wet area, thus using human ingenuity they made a common roadway out of rocks.The road in the swamp is what got me, thats too cool
.... Did something happen on that island? Yes, ....
What do you think of Gary on Oak Island?
Don't forget to set the DVR Tom, we all know you watch the show.I could create a narrative for my own backyard, and assemble salacious details that 'point to treasure'.
I rather watch mold grow than waste my time watching that soap operaTom is like most everyone who already know the outcomes of the episodes and seasons without ever watching.