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"Curse of Oak Island" Teases "Roman" Sword Find While Hutton Pulitzer Says He's Right Due to Volume Written

1/13/2016

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I haven’t really been keeping up with the Curse of Oak Island, mostly because every episode is the same: the cast digs a hole, speculates about what crazy theory they can prove with it, and then discover nothing. I tuned in to last night’s episode because it promised to cover the infamous “Roman” sword that history gadfly J. Hutton Pulitzer has been promoting as a “100% confirmed” Roman artifact. I still don’t get how this show has so many fans.
The first half of the episode involved watching a man descend into a water-filled hole and find nothing, followed by a bunch of old people speculating whether a boulder was intentionally carved into a human face or whether it’s just a natural formation. Then they speculate about whether rocks on the island form a Templar cross. Finally, at the 57 minute mark the “Roman” sword makes its appearance, and the story behind it is different still from any of the versions given by Pulitzer.
 
In this telling, the “Roman” swords—identified as such without qualification—is alleged to have been discovered in the 1940s “in the vicinity of Oak Island.” Craig Tester and Charles Barkhouse say that “friends of Dan” told them about the sword at some unspecified point after production began on the series, and Barkhouse passed the information along to Tester, and the two men brought the sword to the production facilities for inclusion on the program.
 
The Lagina Bros. find the sword intriguing, and Barkhouse asserts (again without proof) that it is a second or third century CE gladiatorial sword presented by Commodus, claims that are quite obviously derived from the untrue, evidence-free speculation presented by David X. Kenney on his unreliable website. Barkhouse asserts categorically that this sword was a gift from Commodus, but then he backtracks and adds “supposedly” to the end of his statement.
 
Andy White has a lot more about this on his blog.
 
It’s probably worth mentioning why exactly anyone would associate the sword with Commodus, a minor Roman emperor best known for entering the Coliseum to live out gladiatorial fantasies and for attempting to rename the Roman people after himself, the Commodes, and Rome again after himself, the Colony of Commodus.
 
The connection is entirely artistic: The sword hilt which appears to depict Hercules wearing a lion skin and holding a club above his head, bears a resemblance to a famous bust of Commodus dressed as Hercules, his idol. (Commodus also replaced the head of the Colossus of Nero with his own, in the guise of Hercules.) Commodus acted the part of a secutor in the arena, and this type of gladiator carried a short sword or dagger called a gladius, superficially similar to the Oak Island sword.
 
The Oak Island sword measures only 19 inches in length, which was about standard for a gladius of the Pompeiian type, in use until the first century CE, but during the reign of Commodus, the gladius was giving way to the spatha, and the sword size was much longer, typically two feet of more. We would expect that a sword commissioned by the emperor would be up to the latest standards, and we would also expect the capulus, or end of the sword hilt, to be as ornate and detailed as known imperial productions, not a crude casting. Known examples feature animal heads, and Pliny is known to have complained that such a fashion for ornamentation was a drag on traditional Roman virtue. At any rate, the sword in question was not one Commodus actually used in the arena; he play-acted with a wooden sword. There is no record of Commodus presenting ceremonial gladii​.
 
Myles C. McCallum, an expert in Roman antiquities at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, will be examining the sword in the next episode, and the cast speculates about whether the sword means that the Romans visited Oak Island or whether the sword was pirate treasure from another, later visitor. I spoke with Dr. McCallum this morning to inquire into the results of his examination, and he informed me that Prometheus Entertainment had him sign a confidentiality agreement forbidding him from commenting on the sword’s authenticity until 10:03 PM next Tuesday, when the episode has finished airing. However, he said he’d be happy to share more about the sword at that time.
 
Way to drive publicity for your show, Prometheus, by preserving the “mystery” with gag orders! How wonderful that mystery-mongers like Pulitzer and the cast of Oak Island get to spew their unsupported speculation wildly while the production’s legal team (intentionally or not—these agreements are standard on TV) prevents scholarly analysis from competing with it.
 
It looks like, we’ll all have to wait for next week’s thrilling conclusion, which from the selectively edited previews sounds like it isn’t going to be entirely positive for Oak Island fantasists.
 
Chief among those fantasists is J. Hutton Pulitzer, who is on the defensive, having staked his Treasure Force Command on the authenticity of the sword. In an interview with a Nova Scotia newspaper published today (which also interviews Andy White and mentions me!), Pulitzer appealed to the volume of his writings as an indication of his credibility: “Is it enough that I have written 300 history books?” Pulitzer asked. “Is it enough that I’ve published over seven million words on ancient and lost history? Is that enough?”
 
Well, no. Pulitzer says he’s been writing since mid-2002, which means he produces 23 books on average each year, and writes 500,000 words per year, or 1,500 words per day, which is roughly equivalent to my daily output, but without the quality. That said, nearly all of his writing was done in 2014, according to Amazon listings, making his output something like a 100,000 words book per day on average. (Where does he get the time to self-promote with such a heavy workload?) Pulitzer’s claims rest, ultimately, on his series of Commander’s Lost Treasures book series, which he appears to be counting as original writing for 50 state-by-state guides all published in a brief period around 2014. However, those 50 books are all identical except for one brief state-specific chapter in each. So, let’s say each book has the standard 100,000 words, which would give him 5 million of his 7 million words. But since only one chapter differs per book, that knocks him down by about 4.5 million words, at least. Many of his other books, like his very similar 10 Treasure Legends state-by-state series are also cut-and-paste jobs with minimal differences in content from one another. Indeed, Pulitzer himself admits that the 10 Treasure Legends series is a cut-down version of the Commander’s Lost Treasures and More Lost Treasures series. You see the pattern. He also claimed to the newspaper to be “a professional researcher with a specialty in forensic investigation.”
 
Now, as it happens, I have written between three and four million words about ancient history on this website, and an additional 500,000 or so words in my books, and probably about a million words on my old website from 2001 to 2009. I also did university-level training in archaeological field methods. By Pulitzer’s standards, that should give me equal say in condemning him as a terrible historian and offering my expert opinion that his claims far exceed any available evidence. Given that I match him dollars for doughnuts on his claims to greatness as a historian and investigator, it is my highly considered opinion that he has presented no evidence whatsoever to warrant accepting his story. At this point, even if the sword turned out to be Roman, Pulitzer has so mangled the handling of his claims that the elaborate story he wove around it is demonstrably untrue nonetheless.
65 Comments
DaveR
1/13/2016 01:29:00 pm

If Myles C. McCallum does not agree with Pulitzer I'm sure the show will be edited wildly to create the impression that McCallum leaves open the possibility the sword is authentic. Either way it's going to be interesting to see what an expert in the field says regarding this sword.

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Joe Scales
1/13/2016 01:29:07 pm

"Pulitzer" was expelled from the Oak Island television show most likely due to his on the side promotions making promises last year prior to the season finale which were of course falsehoods meant only to hawk his wares. What he has been doing the last several weeks is simply out of spite for the television show, to steal their thunder and continue his ride on their coattails to further promote his brand. When this sword nonsense dissipates, so will his references to it, and he'll be on to something else in short order.

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Killbuck
1/14/2016 06:44:44 pm

I ran into a blog entry from a fellow with a close friend on the production staff. The manifesto of complaints and restrictions imposed on Mr. Pu was impressive to say the least.

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Mike Morgan
1/14/2016 10:27:32 pm

Any way you could point us toward that blog?

killbuck
1/14/2016 10:57:10 pm

I found it in a comment section following a video, Ill attempt to locate it again, and if so will provide a link

Killbuck
1/16/2016 10:45:15 am

Ghettohillbilly1 found the same entry and posted it below.

Rose McDonald
1/18/2016 11:44:17 am

He'll probably go back to his claim that he found the sword of destiny.or the Lost Adams gold, or the skull of Cleopatra as a child. (That's a VERY old archaeology student joke one of my professors at Loyola pulled on the class. Some of the students didn't get it.)

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Durham
1/13/2016 01:31:46 pm

"The Commodes"....awesome

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Shane Sullivan
1/13/2016 01:40:49 pm

That'd be a great name for a band. Like when the Brady kids called themselves the Silver Crappers.

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Andy White
1/13/2016 01:44:25 pm

Obviously potential for "white paper" to be worked in there somehow also.

killbuck
1/13/2016 09:09:15 pm

Andy, wishing a like button was here for that.

Mr Pu should rename his treasure force after Commodus... "Pulitzer's Commodes" has a nice ring to it

Gina Torresso
1/13/2016 01:56:28 pm

Seriously, Thank you so much for this...Jason Colavito !!! I needed this in my life...

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Jonathan
1/13/2016 01:57:16 pm

Do you have patents, college boy? Those are the hallmarks of real historians!

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Clete
1/13/2016 03:18:47 pm

I guess you should go to college. Written material is covered by copyright, patents cover inventions or processes. I suspect that Jason owns the copyrights on his published material.

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Jonathan
1/13/2016 03:22:29 pm

I was being sarcastic.

Holly McFad
1/13/2016 02:02:38 pm

And yet another great story about the truth of hutoon is being put out there as his pseudoscience thinking clogs the air for real historical researchers to do their jobs. I read the Halifax Chronicle Herald and thought that the reporter did their actual job of hunting down the facts to be researched before publishing a story. That was a great unbiased article, when hutoon was asked about his academic degree he scoots along as if his word is enough. What kind of BS is that. Facebook and google are not an archaeological dig site. copy/pasteology is not a career choice! hutoon is a joke who only looks to further is nonexistent history changing career.

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Bob Jase
1/13/2016 02:07:10 pm

I too am a noted historian and have written over a hundred history books. Its easy - just stack up assorted history books, put your laptop on top of them and write like the wind.

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Doug Crowell
1/13/2016 02:28:11 pm

An excellent article, stripping the grandeur from the claims. I did dislike the characterization that "old people speculating" reads as if youth is a necessity of relevance in opinions

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George Johnston
1/13/2016 02:29:09 pm

I am the former Communications Director for OITI (Oak Island Tours, Inc.) the company owned by the Lagina Brothers, Craig Tester, and Dan Blankenship. I cannot speak to how the sword came to the island, or if Pullitzer did any testing on it. Both allegedly happened prior to me joining the company. However I had the sword in my possesion in late October of this year. Prometheus requested that I ship it to A&E in New York so it could be portrayed on one of the 1 hour specials. The sword is roughly 2 feet long and extremely heavy, much heavier than the 3 lbs. that is being bantered around about the comparable sword available on eBay, and the ones held by private collectors. I didn't have a working scale, but shipped it with an estimated weight of 35 lbs. It was shipped as a movie prop, and cleared by both CBSA (Canada Border Services Agency) and U.S. Customs. I was also told by someone in the company, that is in a position to know, that it is circa 1800, but I cannot coroborate that. I am also under no NDA, OITI, Prometheus, or History did not get me to sign one. In my opinion, and mine alone, it is not Roman.

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sword skeptic
1/13/2016 02:38:45 pm

Postal sword weight estimates are almost always well over the actual weight. I doubt it is a 35 pound sword, or even remotely close. Most of my swords are around 2 pounds, but when people unused to swords handle them, they exclaim over the weight (thinking they are much heavier than they are). Here is a good article on sword weight along with a wonderful illustration of just how big a sword would have to be to weigh 20 pounds: http://www.truefork.org/DragonPreservationSociety/Swordheavy.php

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George Johnston
1/13/2016 03:12:03 pm

The sword was not sent postal. Fedex was used, Prometheus has a corporate account with them. The sword definitley weighed more than the 3lbs. stated for the other ones. My wife also hefted it and said it was also heavy. I really had no idea on weight and Prometheus wanted it shipped overnite, so I did over state the weight. However, I stand firm on it, the sword was more than 3lbs. If I had to guess I'd say around 10lbs. I could heft it with one hand, but it was more comfortable handling with both hands.

Bobby B.
1/13/2016 03:01:27 pm

Can you provide ANY proof that you were the communications director?

Also, what are you doing shipping this artifact out of country to the U.S.? Do the treasure laws mean nothing to the production company and the actors for the show? Are you aware the Nova Scotia assembly was none to happy with the show in 2014 for withholding items for several months, which must be reported and turned over immediately? If the show keeps this up, the government is going to shut the show down, possibly even bring charges for smuggling alleged Oak Island related artifacts out of country.

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George Johnston
1/13/2016 03:17:40 pm

I was the real deal. Don't believe me call ROCKMI in Michigan, the parent company, I'm sure they will confirm it. Also get your facts straight. The "sword" was supposedly found 70 years ago, neither the Oak Island Act, or the SPPA would apply. I also wouldn't have sent it if I thought it was legitimate. Did you not read that it was shipped as a "movie prop" and that it was cleared by both CBSA and U.S. Customs? Don't you think they would have had something to say if it was an artifact.

John Frick
1/13/2016 06:08:05 pm

Anyone that knows anything about Oak Island knows that George Johnston is a class act and the real deal!

V
1/14/2016 05:50:28 pm

George, Customs agents are not archeologists. You and Prometheus told them it was a movie prop. So either you are asserting without reservation that it was a modern movie prop or you are asserting that you lied to Customs. And any laws applicable wouldn't care about when the thing was "found," only when it was SHIPPED.

I'm glad that you don't feel that it's an authentic Roman sword, but that hardly makes your claim less shady. I don't think you're a bad person, but I think perhaps you should stop and think about doing things like this a little more thoroughly.

sword skeptic
1/13/2016 03:24:13 pm

Thanks for clarifying, George.

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George Johnston
1/13/2016 03:37:57 pm

You are most welcome...

Bobby B.
1/13/2016 03:43:30 pm

Whether or not the sword was found 70 years ago, before any laws were in place, don't you think the right thing to do would be to turn it over, like they're suppose to? Instead of smuggling it out of country. The fact that you were told to label it as a prop doesn't help the credibility of the sword. In fact, it looks like the production company is being purposely deceitful about the artifact. I'm glad you don't believe it is real, at least someone involved with the Oak Island shenanigans has a degree of skepticism.

Since you supposedly know the Lagina brothers, do they really believe there is treasure there? Are they just doing reenactments of digs they did prior to 2013? It seems that is the case. Are they only doing the show to drive tourism to the island, since they have stakes in the Oak Island Tour company? Is the only treasure to be found on the island the money that can be raked in from gullible tourists who pay exorbitant fees to tour a not so special island?

Paolo
1/13/2016 05:06:56 pm

Lol, that's ridicolous: there's no way a 2-feet (60 cm) long sword could ever weight 3 lbs (1,4 kg), much less 35.
A trained practitioner can easily tire with a 1 kg sword after ten min., and even renaissance greatswords did weight 3,5-4 kg at most.

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John Frick
1/13/2016 05:48:53 pm

The sword is ceremonial, not for actual fighting.

Duke of URL
1/14/2016 12:49:12 pm

Thank you for bringing a breath of factual reality into this discussion of the sword, George.

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Holly McFad
1/13/2016 02:42:33 pm

Here is my whole take on this sword bit, the brothers asked hutoon his opinion on a sword that was shown to him, while he was still under the NDA. After the NDA runs out and hutoon is obviously not going to be back on the show, is when he was talking bad about the history channels, the brothers and the production company. Which okay we get it, he is upset that he is not going to be in the spot light anymore, attention whores, do seem to get a lil upset about stuff lke that. But the point is....That sword was never his story or was it his right to write a story up on and spread his BS to other social media sites. Seems to be someone could be libel for that alone.

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Only Me
1/13/2016 02:51:26 pm

One thing that caught my eye from the newspaper interview was Pulitzer, in his own defense, asked, "Is it enough that 11.9 billion cellphone devices use my patents?"

No, it isn't. I looked into this claim, and lo and behold, look what I found!

http://www.patentbuddy.com/Inventor/Pulitzer-J-Hutton/6679340

Now, I found two of his applications listed at www.justia.com. I looked them up at http://appft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/index.html and guess what? No patent numbers!

So, lot's of APPLICATIONS but no actual patents. Sorry, Pulitzer.

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sword skeptic
1/13/2016 03:06:11 pm

But if you search under his original name, you can find many more:

http://www.patentbuddy.com/Inventor/Philyaw-Jeffry-Jovan/12147954

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Only Me
1/13/2016 03:32:56 pm

I stand corrected then.

Still, I have to wonder if those patents awarded under his original name still apply. If he legally changed his name, wouldn't he have to amend those patents? I don't know how the process works.

Only Me
1/13/2016 03:37:10 pm

Damn, I'm slow today.

I just noticed the patent owners are NOT Pulitzer, but RPX-LV ACQUISITION LLC, RPX CORPORATION and DIGITALCONVERGENCE.:COM INC.

Mike Morgan
1/13/2016 03:44:07 pm

I am in no way a Pulitzer apologist or supporter, in fact quite the opposite, but to be fair, we must remember that the patents he states as now being used in "11.5 billion cellphone devices" are connected to his scanning technology used in his CueCat device. At that time he was still J./Jeffery Jovan Philyaw. Using that name reveals that he was issued 120 US patents @ http://www.patentbuddy.com/pages/inventor-pages/inventorSearch.jsf.

I am not saying that his claim that one or more of those 120 patents was/is used in cellphones is true. AFAIK, he has never stated which patent is being used and I do not have the expertise nor do I wish to waste my time in trying to trace it/them down.

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Mike Morgan
1/13/2016 03:53:01 pm

Opps. I see my one finger typing allowed others to point out the Philyaw connection before mine.

Strange that he used the Philyaw name for a filing for June 16, 2009 years after his name change.

Duke of URL
1/14/2016 12:51:47 pm

He was originally J Jeffery Jovan Philyaw? And he gave that up? What a fool.

Traveller
1/13/2016 03:47:26 pm

I look old into his patents. They are all concept patents with vague details of a possible technology. No schematics or the like to actually show a patented technology. All he does is re ew his patents each year, repeatedly. If I remember correctly there are 2 or 3 that are literally only 2 or 3 words different.

Patent troll is what he is. Nothing more.

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Gina Torresso
1/14/2016 10:42:26 am

This post is about the sword and Hutton's clear interference in the show, history and my sanity.... But I do want to comment on the Patent.

Since he has a problem with cutting and pasting other peoples hard work and Theory's, why wouldn't it be the same for this product he supposedly invented.?. .... We have no clear idea if this was his invention, or someone elses ? and noway to prove it at this point. So lets move on...

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George Johnston
1/13/2016 03:58:29 pm

Bobby B.

I can't reply to your comments as the site won't allow me to do it so I'll do it here. Again, do your homework. Artifacts ONLY HAVE TO BE TURNED OVER IF THEY ARE FOUND ON OAK ISLAND! This item was found offshore, and 70 years ago. Again, before any legislation was in effect. Secondly, the Province knows about the item, and it does not have to be turned over, PERIOD. Contact CCH if you want verification. It is also going to be returned to the Oak Island Museum, and in fact it may already be back now, I don't know, I'm no longer with the company. It was shipped to New York to air on the show, I've already stated this in a previous post.

We're also not going to get into what the partners think, or don't think. You want to know that, go ask them.

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George Johnston
1/13/2016 04:10:37 pm

Also again, check your "facts". The tours cost $15 for a 1 - 1 1/2 hour tour. Hardly exobitant.

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Joe Scales link
1/13/2016 04:32:41 pm

I appreciate both your comments and candor here Mr. Johnston. If you can answer, has the show ever considered a true skeptic's point of view, such as Richard Joltes? (http://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/) His research would make a very compelling limited series on its own.

Gina Torresso
1/14/2016 10:44:17 am

so why does Hutton keep saying the scallop hunting was illegal, therefore everything or anything that he found had to be hidden... ??? Does this guy know his facts, and does anyone feel like calling in someone with a straight jacket for him?

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George Johnston
1/13/2016 04:41:50 pm

Joe Scales,

Pretty sure you asked me this before, same answer, I doubt it would happen. In any case, I'm no longer with the company, you could ask them. Their website, oakislandtours.ca has a contact form.

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Joe Scales
1/13/2016 07:10:14 pm

I did ask on Professor White's blog a month or so ago when you joined in on a discussion there. Forgive me for not catching your reply. Hope you're on to bigger and better things and I mean that most sincerely.

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Ryuthrowsstuff
1/14/2016 03:21:29 am

Joe,

I've done some work for the sort of production companies that make these shows. And in my experience most of your producers know this stuff to be bullshit and fluff. And most of the people involved aren't too happy about it. It's easy to say "well why don't you make x show, with a skeptical viewpoint?" But the fact of the matter is these companies have tried, and most likely continue to.

Sad fact is that the networks won't buy or commission those shows. So when they're shot, or even full seasons are produced they don't get picked up and seldom air.

There's been a huge contraction in tv and film work in the last decade. In most secondary market cities (in the US everything but LA) turn and burn reality TV is all that remains. It's dirt cheap to produce, and fills a ton of airtime. If it hits you've got great profit.

These people need to work. And rich assholes snarling at each other, solid bunk, and cooking competitions are increasingly the only work out there. So a lot of people end up under paid, ill treated, and complicit in pseudoscience and out right fabrication despite their reservations. For everyone of these shows you see, dozens were produced that were turned down by every network. It's kind of a do the shit work or don't work situation.

So the issue is largely with the networks, who don't care to air anything else. They know this kind of crap makes money. They don't care that it's all misleading or fabricated. And they fear any other approach would cost more or drive off viewers.

Joe Scales
1/14/2016 10:28:48 am

I don't doubt any of your points Ry, but I do believe that is someone produced a well promoted television special... or maybe even something like a Dateline episode... dedicated to debunking Oak Island, it would do well at the moment. But I suppose the only long running program with a skeptical point of view has been Penn & Teller's B.S. on Showtime; though that has to be littered with nudity and ad hominem to entertain. Though I'm not complaining...

DaveR
1/14/2016 11:45:10 am

Joe, although I would love to watch just such a show I doubt it would be nearly as successful as the Oak Island show itself because the people who believe that buried treasure of the Templars/Kidd/Blackbeard/Pirates/ANYTHING is there will never watch a program debunking Oak Island. People who don't believe any of the Oak Island stories won't watch because most of them might see this as a waste of their time.

Joe Scales
1/14/2016 01:57:58 pm

I don't believe any of it, but watch the show anyhow. For me, it's the unintentional humor aspect.

Ryan
1/14/2016 02:09:27 pm

Oh I think you're right, just look at how well cosmos did. But for the most part where Networks have paid for pilots, or production companies have risked their own money to do so, these programs never make it to air.

Its the networks and large media companies that are the problem. They're incredibly risk averse, and when it comes to the reality/documentary they really are only interested in the cheapest easiest route to bulk filling air time and picking up easy ratings. Your news magazine television shows are both rapidly dying (tend to have an increasingly aged viewer base that's eroding quickly), and won't really touch this sort of thing. When they do touch on issue of woo (usually medical quackery) they tend to be just as bad on the subject as journalism is typically bad with science these days.

Maybe the continued rise of streaming will have a positive effect. Or maybe as cable audiences continue to erode the networks will be more open to change and potential risk. Who knows. But as it stands right now no network wants to buy or air such a show. They want to show trashy nouveau riche people clawing each others eyes out. Children making cup cakes. And "mystery" shows that stretch 15 minutes of footage into 3 hour long episodes using relentlessly market researched editing techniques. Production companies that are worried about keeping their people working at all, can't risk their own fund on something they know will never be picked up. So you see people trying when they can, and then it never tends to go anywhere.

George Johnston
1/15/2016 08:38:31 pm

Thanks Joe, actually I'm back into retirment. I will be doing some metal detecting and gold panning this summer though. There is a helluva lot more to Nova Scotia besides Oak Island!.

Mike Morgan
1/13/2016 04:59:42 pm

This sword really does have "magical qualities" if Pulitzer can use an "XRF analyser" to determine “... all these other metals that tell you this was made from ore that came directly from the ground. It has the same arsenic and lead signature in it." from just a picture!

In this new Halifax Chronicle Herald article, it is stated "And in showing Pulitzer the pictures of a tarnished Roman sword ...", THE PICTURES. In the original Boston Standard article, he is quoted as stating “I began my forensic work into it using an XRF analyser ...", I AND MY.

Did he actually ever have the "100% confirmed" Roman Sword in his possession to be able to run his "I AND MY" tests? Or did he run his tests on the PICTURES he was shown? Or more likely, is he once again claiming as his own, the work someone else did that he was privy to while still in the good graces of the show?

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j m hume
1/13/2016 06:03:53 pm

Those are great questions mike. I was wondering the same thing. i expected pulitzer to be there last night. Given pulitzers claims,and if history channel is angry at pulitzer, history channel might not be too upset with a negative finding on the sword. It would show hutoon for what he really is.

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orang
1/13/2016 06:51:18 pm

I am one of those Oak Island fantasists. I eagerly await next weeks show. I believe that commodes (toileting areas) have their named derived from Commodus, and now that this show appears to be ready to jump the shark (depending on what they say about this obviously fake artifact), then the show should be named after him in recognition. And again, if they don't reject this sword as a fake, then the next person to die on Oak Island while screwing around with the mystery should be the program director of this show.

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Joe Scales
1/13/2016 07:13:34 pm

Though the concept for Curse of Oak Island never had any credibility whatsoever, I thought the moment the show went beyond ridiculous was with the "corn theory" on what I believe was its second season. There was no coming back from that one.

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Harry
1/13/2016 07:27:34 pm

Maybe not Commodus, but I totally get why claims such as the one involving the sword would involve "Commodes."

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Duke of URL
1/14/2016 12:55:03 pm

Perhaps because they're pure bullshit?

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Mark L
1/15/2016 12:30:51 pm

Yes, that was the joke he was making.

killbuck
1/13/2016 10:43:21 pm

My father was in TV production for close to 30 years, and I have some history with the History Channel and its production companies. I have been a commentator on Modern Marvels (a rather nice series), and was a principle commentator for two 2-hour specials. Producers do not like surprises, and do whatever it takes to control the outcome and desired end point of any production.

This being the case, I'm suspecting that the episode forthcoming will have two possible devised outcomes. Option 1 would be that the sword "could be" an 18th or 19th century piece but certain anomalies "might suggest" it is much older and more analysis is needed to confirm this. This outcome leaves a mystery hanging, and could give the producers a way to soft land the issue, whereas another amazing theory can be introduced while the sword is left to be conveniently forgotten.

Option 2 is that the sword is declared to be an actual Roman artifact, but without documentation of when it was found, by whom it was found, and where in the waters (if it was found in the waters) there is no way to solve it's mysterious appearance associated with Oak Island. This option also leaves tantalizing mystery without having to actually solve anything. The sword mystery can then be binned until some future time when the money pit or some other waiting discovery can confirm it. Meanwhile the producers can bring in a new devotee of an Atlantis, or Phoenician, or Illuminati connection and send this to spin in a new direction as in option 1.

If you want a mystery show to continue and bring in the revenues, the last thing you want to do is, solve the mystery.

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DaveR
1/14/2016 09:10:32 am

Even if the "mystery" is completely manufactured and might even be an outright lie the producers will continue as long as the show makes money.

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ghettohillbilly1 link
1/15/2016 10:04:35 am

Thanks again Jason for continuing to expose this fraud now known as JHP, I started gaining interest in the show about a month ago after seeing the sword article and it being 10 min across mahone bay from me I thought I'd check it out, besides the shows serious lack of admitting facts that discredit their theories and the usual reality tv drama craporama i got onto watching a few of Hutton's videos, which are incredibly hard to watch, I started noticing he had minor facts wrong like mahone bay having the same tides as the bay of fundy,as it just snowballed from there I can't believe some people are gullible to listen to his fabricated BS, though you guys might like this found this on a youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaIaOesYR2I
"Here is a point form rundown of the word on Pulitzer:
- was brought in by Prometheus not the Laginas
- did not find any artifacts on OI
- did not produce any verifiable symbols on OI
- did not have any spearheads tested in the US. They don't possess any for him to have seen.
- the Laginas do not take his theory seriously.
- he was never allowed to examine the McInnis foundation stones up close or physically. He was denied permission to enter the wire enclosure.
- he has not found any physical or even anecdotal evidence of subterranean monolithic structures
- he was flat out told during filming that he could not state any claims about OI being a sacred First Peoples site because in over 200:years there has not been any evidence to show this. He was warned that making claims about M'ikmaq heritage and culture was not acceptable. Humourously, he was also constantly reminded that they are not the "Miggy Mags™ or the " Micky Macks".
- he did not convince anyone on the island that his theory is anywhere near as plausible as some of the more prominent and well developed theories.
- he made promises to produce over 5000 pages of documentary and archival evidence, some of it secret and unknown until his research team discovered it, but has yet to show anything to the Laginas that is substantial and significant.
- he does not have the right to imply that he is a part of the dig-team and partnership on Oak Island nor to speak on their behalf in any way.
- there are already regrets about his involvement which was only initiated for entertainment purposes by Prometheus as just another theory
-the spokesperson knows absolutely nothing about his claim to have found and seen the 90' foot stone in the keeping of a prominent Nova Scotia family with high level Masonic connections who are protecting it from the Church.
- they are fully aware and not impressed by his self a promotion and marketing strategies to cash in on the OI mystery.
-the Laginas are being briefed fully on his online activities and it is expected that they will be investigating further to determine if he has breached confidentiality or damaged relations between the dig partners and outside entities, including the people of Nova Scotia and bonafide OI historians and enthusiasts. Not to mention relations with the Government of the Province of Nova Scotia.
The facts and the end of the story"
I am so sick of his BS and slandering of the people from my province, I've been thinking of making a youtube video on this conman exposing him for what he really is but I assume he'd create problems for my youtube channel and I dont need that, in one video he even states that we (canadians/nova scotians) are hiding history, which is quite funny from a guy who destorts it, I have been thinking of starting an online petition to keep this fraud out of our county

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Gina Torresso
1/15/2016 01:44:20 pm

ghettohillbilly1
Thank you so much for clarifying all of this information, which has been most of what we thought of the situation in the first place. These have been our arguments for over a year... I f you do not mind, will you email me your email information? So we can speak off this blog? Thank you :)
gina.torresso@gmail.com

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Dan
1/16/2016 12:48:04 am

Somewhat off point, but Oak Island related. The entire existence of Borehole 10x owes itself to the dowsing rod "talents" of Dan Blankenship. There is literally no other reason why that particular hole was dug in that specific location. Since the scientific value of a dowsing rod is absolutely zero, it seems as if the usefulness of continuing to search this hole is also zero.

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      • Faking Ancient Art in Uzbekistan
      • Intimations of Persecution
      • Zecharia Sitchin's World
      • Jesus' Alien Ancestors?
      • Extraterrestrial Evolution?
    • Collection: Skeptic Magazine >
      • America Before Review
      • Native American Discovery of Europe
      • Interview: Scott Sigler
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Oh the Horror
      • Discovery of America
      • Supernatural Television
      • Review of Civilization One
      • Who Lost the Middle Ages
      • Charioteer of the Gods
    • Collection: Ancient History >
      • Prehistoric Nuclear War
      • The China Syndrome
      • Atlantis, Mu, and the Maya
      • Easter Island Exposed
      • Who Built the Sphinx?
      • Who Built the Great Pyramid?
      • Archaeological Cover Up?
    • Collection: The Lovecraft Legacy >
      • Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft
      • Lovecraft in Bergier
      • Lovecraft and Scientology
    • Collection: UFOs >
      • Alien Abduction at the Outer Limits
      • Aliens and Anal Probes
      • Ultra-Terrestrials and UFOs
      • Rebels, Queers, and Aliens
    • Scholomance: The Devil's School
    • Prehistory of Chupacabra
    • The Templars, the Holy Grail, & Henry Sinclair
    • Magicians of the Gods Review
    • The Curse of the Pharaohs
    • The Antediluvian Pyramid Myth
    • Whitewashing American Prehistory
    • James Dean's Cursed Porsche
  • The Library
    • Ancient Mysteries >
      • Ancient Texts >
        • Mesopotamian Texts >
          • Atrahasis Epic
          • Epic of Gilgamesh
          • Kutha Creation Legend
          • Babylonian Creation Myth
          • Descent of Ishtar
          • Berossus
          • Comparison of Antediluvian Histories
        • Egyptian Texts >
          • The Shipwrecked Sailor
          • Dream Stela of Thutmose IV
          • The Papyrus of Ani
          • Classical Accounts of the Pyramids
          • Inventory Stela
          • Manetho
          • Eratosthenes' King List
          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
          • Diodorus on Egyptian History
          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
          • Horapollo
          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
        • Teshub and the Dragon
        • Hermetica >
          • The Three Hermeses
          • Kore Kosmou
          • Corpus Hermeticum
          • The Asclepius
          • The Emerald Tablet
          • Hermetic Fragments
          • Prologue to the Kyranides
          • The Secret of Creation
          • Ancient Alphabets Explained
          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
        • Periplus of Hanno
        • Ctesias' Indica
        • Sanchuniathon
        • Sima Qian
        • Syncellus's Enoch Fragments
        • The Book of Enoch
        • Slavonic Enoch
        • Sepher Yetzirah
        • Tacitus' Germania
        • De Dea Syria
        • Aelian's Various Histories
        • Julius Africanus' Chronography
        • Eusebius' Chronicle
        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
        • Ancient Chinese Automaton
        • The Orphic Argonautica
        • Fragments of Panodorus
        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
        • Agobard on Magonia
        • Book of Thousands
        • Voyage of Saint Brendan
        • Power of Art and of Nature
        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
        • Yazidi Revelation and Black Book
        • Al-Biruni on the Great Flood
        • Voyage of the Zeno Brothers
        • The Kensington Runestone (Hoax)
        • Islamic Discovery of America
        • The Aztec Creation Myth
      • Lost Civilizations >
        • Atlantis >
          • Plato's Atlantis Dialogues >
            • Timaeus
            • Critias
          • Fragments on Atlantis
          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
          • Eumalos on Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Gómara on Atlantis
          • Sardinia and Atlantis
          • Santorini and Atlantis
          • The Mound Builders and Atlantis
          • Donnelly's Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Morocco
          • Atlantis and the Sea Peoples
          • W. Scott-Elliot >
            • The Story of Atlantis
            • The Lost Lemuria
          • The Lost Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Africa
          • How I Found Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Termier on Atlantis
          • The Critias and Minoan Crete
          • Rebuttal to Termier
          • Further Responses to Termier
          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
          • The Seven Cities
          • The Lost City of Paititi
          • Manuscript 512
          • The Idolatrous City of Iximaya (Hoax)
          • The 1885 Moberly Lost City Hoax
          • The Elephants of Paredon (Hoax)
        • OOPARTs
        • Oronteus Finaeus Antarctica Map
        • Caucasians in Panama
        • Jefferson's Excavation
        • Fictitious Discoveries in America
        • Against Diffusionism
        • Tunnels Under Peru
        • The Parahyba Inscription (Hoax)
        • Mound Builders
        • Gunung Padang
        • Tales of Enchanted Islands
        • The 1907 Ancient World Map Hoax
        • The 1909 Grand Canyon Hoax
        • The Interglacial Period
        • Solving Oak Island
      • Religious Conspiracies >
        • Pantera, Father of Jesus?
        • Toledot Yeshu
        • Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay on Cathars
        • Testimony of Jean de Châlons
        • Rosslyn Chapel and the 'Prentice's Pillar
        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
        • Louis Martin & the Holy Bloodline
        • The Life of St. Issa (Hoax)
        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
          • Fossil Bones of Teutobochus
          • Fossil Mammoths and Giants
          • Giants' Bones Dug Out of the Earth
          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
        • Purchas His Pilgrimage
        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
        • The Newport Tower
        • Iron: The Stone from Heaven
        • Ararat and the Ark
        • Pyramid Facts and Fancies
        • Argonauts before Homer
        • The Deluge
        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • American Antiquities
        • American Cataclysms
        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
      • US Government Ancient Astronaut Files >
        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
      • Voltaire on Vampires
      • Demonology and Witchcraft
      • Thaumaturgia
      • Bulgarian Vampires
      • Religion and Evolution
      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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