![]() Sir Frances Bacon hid William Shakespeare’s original manuscripts on Oak Island for some reason.They had several decades during their golden age in the 18th century to find, occupy, and leave treasure on just about any island along the Atlantic coast. Frankly, there’s no shortage of pirate suspects. Several pirates are in the running in this theory, including the infamous Captain Kidd. Pirates did it to hide their treasure.Obviously, if the Templars reached Nova Scotia within a few years of 1312, history needs a rewrite. ![]() Some of the Templars are known to have gotten away, some blended into or founded other organizations, and the rumor of a treasure fleet slipping out of the port at La Rochelle, France, persists. ![]() The Templar Knights deposited treasure there after the pope and King Phillip of France wrecked them, jailed them, disbanded them, and executed many of them in the year 1312.Leading theories suggestive of a treasure mystery are: It has found evidence that the Templar Knights or someone carrying a little lead cross identified with them and their regional base in France was there evidence that the British military was there evidence that the French military was there and built what appear to be some defensive fortifications evidence that some of island’s stranger features are man-made as many treasure hunters have suspected evidence that someone created a swamp for some reason several hundred years ago evidence that someone built some extensive cobblestone road works and other areas paved with stone before they created that swamp evidence that someone built a large wharf and evidence that one of the island’s longtime residents, Samuel Ball, was a far more interesting figure than history has thus far recorded. The mystery question still remains: What actually happened on Oak Island, and who did it? The show hasn’t answered that. They’ve found quite a bit of evidence, including a wooden slip for ships, going back into the 17th and 16th centuries and earlier. They haven’t solved the mystery but they are uncovering the incontrovertible fact that something, likely something quite unusual, happened on the island a very long time ago before the money pit’s alleged discovery in 1795. They’ve brought in geophysicists and archeologists, world class divers, a metal detection expert, engineers, and drilling specialists, to apply hard science to the mystery. What has happened is the Lagina brothers, older brother Rick and younger brother Marty, have taken a meticulous and scientific approach to the island’s weird history and strange artifacts. Honestly, I went into the first season fearing they’d work aliens or crystal skulls into the money pit somehow.Įight seasons in, aliens and crystal skulls have yet to make an appearance on The Curse of Oak Island. One of the theories involves the Ark of the Covenant being at the bottom of that flooded treasure shaft. The real story is crazy enough, including six dead men and one future president, a suspected underground treasure vault, and lots and lots of gold - or something that’s so valuable and possibly dangerous that someone went to extreme lengths to hide it. That doesn’t inspire confidence that the channel will handle Oak Island responsibly. I mean, History Channel’s biggest star over the past several years is this guy. The things I’ve seen and heard about there…) but a show about that mystery money pit I’d read about as a kid was something I’d watch even it if was on the network that runs more alien speculation than actual history these days. I don’t even believe in curses (though if anyplace I’ve ever been is actually cursed it’s the Alamo. I’d read the article and then put it away until I eventually lost that copy of it.ĭecades roll by and the History Channel comes out with The Curse of Oak Island. Anyway, the Oak Island mystery was always one of those things that kind of intrigued me but I couldn’t do much about, growing up a zillion miles away from the place. The article fascinated me, at least for a while, until Star Wars or Indiana Jones, or something else came along. I guess I was already into history and just didn’t know it. ![]()
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