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Hunting the Ark of the Covenant on "Curse of Oak Island"

11/17/2016

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​As most of you know, Curse of Oak Island returned for its fourth season on Tuesday, and I still can’t bring myself to care about digging holes and brokering an end to the long-simmering feuds between old geezers who fight over who knows best about which hole to dig and how deep and for what reason. But despite my misgivings about what is, at heart, a program about old men hanging out and bonding over a futile but expensive task—the fringe history version of having a golf foursome—the premiere episode struggled a bit to keep things fresh after so many years of looking in vain for some undefined treasure. To find an exciting new angle, they returned to an old one, and recapitulated the first season finale of America Unearthed, which visited the same New Ross location in search of the same artifact, the Ark of the Covenant.
​As regular readers will recall, according to a Facebook broadcast this fall, Scott F. Wolter of America Unearthed and J. Hutton Pulitzer, formerly of Curse of Oak Island, planned to announce their belief that they knew the burial site of the Ark of the Covenant near Oak Island. It seems Curse stole their thunder by remaking Wolter’s first excursion in search of the Ark near Oak Island. Indeed, after the episode aired, J. Hutton Pulitzer took to Facebook to announce that (a) many things on Curse of Oak Island are “changed” or “enhanced,” (b) it was the “best” and most “absolutely amazing” episode ever produced by the “brilliant” Kevin Burns, and (c) Pulitzer would no longer be making public criticisms of the show because he does not want conservatives to have to deal with any more negativity in the wake of all the anti-Trump hatred that he said has taken too much of an “emotional toll” on him and others of his political bent:
​In short, I do not want to detract from your entertainment.  Right now, we all need to ESCAPE and BE ENTERTAINED.  Now, maybe more than any time in history before - we need to be entertained and distracted.  When all week you will see toxic and deplorable news targeted at our new President and trying to make him and his elected staff look like haters and racists, you NEED, better yet, you DESERVE, that one or two hours of entertaining escape every week.
​It sounds rather like Pulitzer and Wolter discovered that criticizing powerful TV producers and the most important network for fringe history is not a useful strategy for marketing one’s own TV show. (For his part, Wolter tweeted that he was “not watching” but nevertheless “enjoying” the show.)
 
So, to sum up: Lies are good as long as they help Trump supporters cope emotionally with liberals. Poor little snowflakes. Fortunately, fringe history has plenty of “entertaining” ethno-nationalism of its own!
 
I have previously outlined how the New Ross location, a colonial-era site, came to be mistaken for a medieval castle by fringe historians looking to extend the timeline for European colonization of America, and it was thus subsumed into the burgeoning myth of Henry Sinclair, the medieval minor noble mistakenly fingered as the fictitious Prince Zichmni of the Zeno Narrative. The Zeno Narrative, which was itself a nationalist propaganda effort to vault Venice above Columbus’s native Genoa in the race to America, is widely admitted to be a Renaissance hoax, and even if it were genuine, a plain reading of the text does not report a voyage to Oak Island but rather a trip to Greenland, the location which the narrative claims was the farthest location Zichmni reached, and where he made his final home. It was fringe historians—Frederick Pohl specifically—who falsely claimed that the text’s Greenland was really Nova Scotia, removing the narrative yet another step from reality. Pohl, of course, famously argued that Native Americans worshiped Sinclair’s party of white Europeans as gods and credited them with all good things. Thomas Sinclair would argue that the Sinclair superior sperm permanently improved the Native population through an injection of masculine whiteness. The version Scott Wolter offered was identical except that it attributed the improvement to fictitious Holy Bloodline Jesus genes.
 
Anyway, this week’s episode focuses on secret codes that supposedly tie the Knights Templar and the Sinclair family to Oak Island. This is all very strange since there is no documentary evidence that the Knights Templar escaped Europe by ship—it’s a myth invented in the nineteenth century by Eugène Beauvois, a man so monomaniacally obsessed with proving that white Europeans invented New World culture that in 1891 Popular Science sighed that the International Congress of Americanists witnessed Beauvois promulgating his claim to the assembled experts “for the seventh time”—and it wasn’t the last. Even after ransacking records for more than a century, the only scrap of evidence for this claim is a single line, under torture, delivered by one Templar knight and admitted by him to be rumor and hearsay. And it doesn’t even say that the Templars took off for America. Beyond that, I explored last week the fact that the Templar association with the Ark of the Covenant was only invented in the 1990s, as a substitute for earlier associations, famously among the Nazis, of their association with the Holy Grail.
 
This week’s “expert” is Zena Halpern, a fringe historian who writes on diffusionist claims. She worked on “translating” gibberish from the fabricated stones from Burrows Cave (and publishing with Burrows Cave advocate and ex-Nazi leader Frank Joseph* in his publications), and she has gone by many descriptions—from historian to Hebrew expert to Knights Templar expert. In that last guise that she appears by phone (due to illness) on Curse to claim that she has documents linking the Templars to Oak Island. Sadly, we have only Halpern’s word that one of the modern papers (some of which were allegedly found in a mysterious book) bearing a secret code included “a mention dated 1178 to 1180 that the Templar voyage to the northeastern part of America took place and that the Templars had made landfall on an island of oaks When I found the map, which is dated 1347, I began to put the pieces together.” Sadly, the map “dated” 1347 is a hand-drawn doodle, which we are asked to believe is a photocopy of a hand-drawn copy of an undefined original. (Even if it were a copy of an old map, it is not “dated” 1347. The text of the map clearly states in French “the landing, one thousand three hundred forty-seven,” which is an incorrect way of giving a date in 1347 and makes no sense in context.) The 1178 map is also a doodle, and the date may have been back-formed from the Ulpius Globe of 1542, which identified Cape Breton as Cavo de Brettoni with the number 1178 beside it. (I have not confirmed that the number appears on the globe; Templar researcher Gerard Leduc reported it.) None of the evidence is medieval, and is worthless. 
 
If this sounds familiar, it’s because in his 2013 book From Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers Wolter described an identical modern “copy” of a medieval map, also in French, also showing Nova Scotia, and also linking Oak Island to the Templars. (The year on the map back then was 1179.) And who was passing that map off as a real one? Oh, right: Zena Halpern. When she worked with Wolter in 2009 and 2010, she also gave him more apparently forged documents, including the infamous “C-document” narrative, written in the fake Theban language, of Templars taking treasure to upstate New York, also a modern “copy” of a medieval text. She offered a bunch of other rocks inscribed with ancient writing, to the point that it strained even Wolter’s gullibility. Halpern refused to let anyone see the original documents, only her hand-drawn copies.
 
So, to be clear: Zena Halpern’s conveniently suspicious discoveries helped shape the odd ideas Scott Wolter used on America Unearthed by convincing him the Templars brought the Ark to America, and Wolter then did an episode of America Unearthed on the Templars or other Europeans bringing the Ark to America (a couple in fact), after which Curse of Oak Island relitigated the same material by going back to none other than Zena Halpern.
 
That’s too much incest for me to take. Surely someone must have noticed that her “documents” exist only in copies that Halpern herself made, under various changing stories.
 
In the rest of the episode, a fellow named Doug Crowell claims that he solved the secret code found on various documents, and it revealed, he said, the words “gold” and “Joab.” Joab was a general of King David, so naturally he concludes that the Israelites might have been in on the conspiracy to move the Ark to Oak Island. Somehow, this leads to a discussion of the Templars again and to the fringe idea that their secrets passed to Henry Sinclair, who as a vassal of Norway had secret Viking knowledge of Nova Scotia and used it to spirit Templar treasure to America, though somehow the Norse chose not to follow.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is 35 years old this year. Curse of Oak Island only proves that the remake is almost always worse than the original.


* Scott Wolter and David Brody contacted me to say that it was inappropriate to note that Halpern published articles with Joseph because Halpern is Jewish and in poor health. They stated that Halpern is deeply upset by this. I am sorry that this hurt her, but the person who is responsible for that pain is Frank Joseph, who hid his past from those whose work he happily used to his advantage.
93 Comments
DaveR
11/17/2016 09:08:03 am

Does anybody even still watch this show?

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Joe Scales link
11/17/2016 11:02:35 am

I did, but generally to satisfy a compulsion to comment during the show a la Mystery Science Theater 2000 given the known nature of the hoax that is treasure on Oak Island. But they're starting to recycle the nonsense from previous seasons, not unlike Prometheus Entertainment's other gem, Ancient Aliens; and the unintentional humor aspect is wearing a bit thin. Knowing how the show will eventually end (the Laginas pat themselves on the back for a job well done, but alas regret that the Curse has beaten them... and then their corporation Oak Island Tours, Inc. opens up a resort), I can't take anymore.

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DaveR
11/17/2016 01:46:51 pm

What I detest about these types of shows is the manufactured drama. A few guys are moving something, and as the item or truck wiggles a little bit one of them yells "Watch out! Watch out!" THEN!

Commercial break.

After the beak we see the same scene, and, I know this is shocking, but nothing happens. The item tips a little and they get it straightened out, or the truck looses traction, the tires spin, and then it regains traction. Almost nothing ever happens.

Time Machine
11/17/2016 02:27:29 pm

What I detest is the debunking of pseudo history by believers in the pseudo-history of the Bible

Titus pullo
11/17/2016 05:40:18 pm

U nailed it. Marty bought half the island cause he knew the real treasure was the publics guilibility.

Time Machine
11/17/2016 02:25:40 pm

Yes, devoted Roman Catholic Jason Colavito
Debunk the myths, buttress fundamentalist Christianity

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A Buddhist
11/17/2016 03:02:39 pm

While Catholicism is childish nonsense compared to even the most basic Pudgalavadan heresy, at least Jason does not try to prove the Roman Catholic teachings to be true, unlike many of his opponents.

Uncle Ron
11/17/2016 06:36:22 pm

A Buddhist - Your ongoing criticism of all things non-Buddhist is sounding a bit smug. Definitely not a Buddhist attitude.

Time Machine
11/17/2016 10:44:02 pm

Buddhism and Christianity are both identical in that neither religions add up to anything tangible,

Christianity is out of date because it did not work the first time when Rome decimated Israel and turned the Temple of Jerusalem into rubble and the country did not get its freedom back until after World War Two.

Buddhism is just nebulous in nature.

Time Machine
11/17/2016 10:50:00 pm

In the interim period between 70 AD and 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708) Christianity evolved into different religion disconnected from its historical origins whilst at the same time utilising the original elements.

DaveR
11/18/2016 07:52:40 am

How do you hijack a thread within three comments? See above.

Time Machine
11/18/2016 03:23:24 pm

DaveR

Jason Colavito deletes on topic messages,

He misrepresents the fringe by introducing the myths of Eugène Beauvois that are rejected by the fringe because they prefer the claim that America was discovered by the Templars related to Zeno Brothers and Henry Sinclair.

Two examples: Timothy Wallace-Murphy and Karen Ralls.

When I pointed this out, Jason Colavito deleted my messages

Carolyn Ekins link
11/18/2016 05:29:06 pm

Titus Pullo - that is so far from the truth. These guys struggled for YEARS to get a treasure trove licence from the Province of Nova Scotia so they could start digging and that was years before the show. I was there the night Prometheus Productions pitched the show and Rick Lagina asked every single person present what they thought and this was something him and Marty thought about seriously as to the impact this would have on their digging, on the local people and on the island (with it being a private island)..... Western Shore in Nova Scotia where Oak Island is located is a very small community. The island is only open to the public one weekend a month throughout the summer months for a handful of tours and all the money made from the tours (which has nothing to do with the island partners)is ploughed back in to the visitors centre and safety and tour equipment. This is done through the Friends of Oak Island Society who are unpaid volunteers and work very hard as a group to raise awareness of the history of the island. Please do not say untrue stuff about these guys. They are honestly a decent bunch of blokes.

Joe Scales
11/19/2016 10:51:36 am

Carolyn,
The Lagina brothers are complicit in perpetrating a fraud by getting into bed with Prometheus Entertainment and allowing the perversion of history in order to profit from what is a known hoax, treasure on Oak Island.

KS
2/10/2017 12:51:26 am

Yes, why not dream! I have a Knights Templar in my family. It would be wonderful to know one of them came to the Americas. I am a direct descendant of Henry the 8th's sister, Queen Isabella and King Fedinand, President George Washington, President Madison, and Mrs. Lincoln. Many of the president's were Mason's and many in my family were Mason's. Just take a big breath and DREAM.

Our history is who we are and what makes us to become who are. To many people don't want to know their history, what a real shame.

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tim
1/2/2018 09:14:37 pm

I think you're too far inland and not deep enough with the technology they had in the tools they had they couldn't go too far inland and Too Deep to bury a treasure

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Peter Geuzen
11/17/2016 09:12:29 am

It looks like the Templar card is going to be played out in subsequent episodes, so it's not over yet. Marty Lagina has put a Templar Cross in the floor of his new winery so the theme is entrenched it seems.

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Time Machine
11/17/2016 02:29:29 pm

The Founding Fathers of America rejected Christian values and principles, they were the very opposite of the Templars

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Lastrycke
12/7/2016 11:49:36 am

Only half of the. Founding fathers rejected Christianity. All of them believed in the Father Creator.

Tom
11/17/2016 09:50:06 am

Presumably every thief, treasure hunter and the CIA is now digging up what, if anything, now remains of Oak Island following a century or more of "scientific" excavations.
Still, if the worse comes to the worst, the spoil can be sold off in little packets marked with the Templar seal.

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JJ
11/17/2016 10:27:08 am

Your slant is that Ms. Halpern made these documents herself. How do you explain the finding of the 'hatch'?

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Jason Colavito link
11/17/2016 10:41:16 am

I said that the documents do not appear to be medieval. The map could have been drawn any time after the "hatch" claim was invented. The McGinnis family, as the episode itself asserts, claims that they knew about the hatch for generations, which means that it is not impossible to fake the map by simply incorporating hearsay tales from earlier Oak Island researchers. Besides, the map is poorly and inaccurately enough drawn that the dot's connection to the "hatch" is only approximate.

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Peter Geuzen
11/17/2016 12:25:10 pm

On that note, the McGinnis ancestors who were on the show last season have quickly capitalized on the appearance with a book release this year. By coincidence, look who the first 5 star reviewer is on Amazon - yep it's Zena Halpern.

https://www.amazon.com/Oak-Island-Connection-Mysterious-Beginning/dp/153304239X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479403241&sr=1-4&keywords=oak+island

Joe Scales
11/17/2016 01:07:36 pm

As to the unintentional humor aspect, when the three sisters showed up on Curse of Oak Island last year, Marty remarked that it was like something out of Shakespeare. I'm assuming the subliminal reference was to the three witches from Macbeth...

Frank
2/7/2017 08:13:24 pm

How does it feel to be on the wrong side of history Jason?

Joe Scales
11/17/2016 11:04:31 am

Wasn't the "hatch" from another television show... Lost?

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Kathleen
11/17/2016 11:26:09 am

Sorry, but I don't know much about OI and I don't watch the show so I don't know what the "hatch" is.

DaveR
11/18/2016 02:10:02 pm

Dave Blankenship claims he has a hatch in his yard, at least that's what I've read. I assume he owns land near the pit.

Kathleen
11/18/2016 03:04:39 pm

Thanks

Only Me
11/17/2016 11:54:49 am

Though not surprising, you KNOW the well has run dry when CoOI starts recycling material from America Unearthed.

What's next? The Laginas take "Templar treasure" to the Pawn Stars guys to find out if it's real?

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Jii
11/17/2016 12:35:35 pm

LOL

Too bad that they can't just focus on old coconut fiber and other repeatable/proven discoveries. Why does it always have to be the most outlandish stuff taking the driver's seat. On the other hand, they disproved the sword, so at least they are trying to lab-test as much of the craziness as they can/afford, compared to some fame, sorry treasure, hunters they at least throw some science and their own money on this stuff.

As always, thanks to Jason for this article.

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Joe Scales
11/17/2016 01:12:21 pm

Proven discoveries? There is no properly documented evidence, nor a scientific and/or historic rationale, that would conclusively lead to even a notion of treasure on Oak Island. It has been a hoax since its inception, which is likely when the first written reference for buried treasure appeared anywhere in print in 1849; a year known for inspiring fool's gold.

Time Machine
11/17/2016 02:44:22 pm

You overlook the fact that these things all originate from Biblical beliefs. And the source itself is spurious and culpable.

William Kimbrel
11/29/2016 10:24:34 pm

"$50 is as high as I can go for that authentic Holy Grail..."
Lol!

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Jim
11/17/2016 12:30:58 pm

But Jason, don't you think it was clever of the Nights Templar to use in 1178 a longitude based on Greenwich as the prime meridian. I mean no one else used this until 1851.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Observatory,_Greenwich

"British astronomers have long used the Royal Observatory as a basis for measurement. Four separate meridians have passed through the buildings, defined by successive instruments.[6] The basis of longitude, the meridian that passes through the Airy transit circle, first used in 1851, was adopted as the world's Prime Meridian at the International Meridian Conference on 22 October 1884 (voting took place on 13 October).[7] Subsequently, nations across the world used it as their standard for mapping and timekeeping."

Neat to see them write the map in french and use Roman numerals (including hooked X's) to depict latitude and longitude. Wolter shows this map on his blog.

https://plus.google.com/101303318310553030547

What a load of crap.

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john d
2/16/2018 03:53:28 pm

Well said, Hate the Vagina brothers, aka Ringling bros. Just don't like fooling others and blatantly scamming those who don't need to lose their intelligence (as there is not much there anyways). And who makes a stone telling someone where their treasure is ? And one of those Templars must not have got his job done - "George, where is that pully we used on that tree branch to lower a ton of gold? George!!

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At Risk
11/17/2016 12:55:52 pm

I would enjoy seeing a future blog that discusses any known origination of the Native American Mi'kmag version of how--in more modern times--so much of their present culture and Tribal beliefs have come to be associated with the Glooscap configuation of Sir Henry Sinclair. It appears that this was not always so, yet still, there are strange details that could be examined.

http://novascotia.ca/abor/aboriginal-people/community-info/glooscapfirstnation/

From wikipedia, about Sinclair:

"In addition, some writers such as Native American historian Evan Pritchard have claimed that Glooscap, the spiritual hero figure of the Mi'kmaq people, is in fact a depiction of an early European explorer, most likely Henry Sinclair.[12][13]"

http://www.wilkesweb.us/algonquin/nations.htm

Then we have this to consider:

"GREAT LAKES
Ojibwa Confederacy-Anishinabe
The nations of the Ojibway hoop call themselves Abishinabe people. At one time a formal confederacy was created with the Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi, who were once one nation. The seven fire prophecies record their migration from the East back to the lands of their ancestors, about 1400 AD."

Same source: "Menominee ("Wild Rice People"). The word relates to the prophecy mentioned above.
They were told to go west to the land where the food grows on the water - wild rice."

But, frankly, I don't understand how the Glooscap of Mi'kmag myth or legend became conflated with Henry Sinclair. Could Sinclair have actually visited and warned previous American Indians living there to vacate westward? How would Sinclair have known about wild rice growing quite specifically in that region?

I've only done limited research on this subject, but I would like to know more about the history of the transition of Glooscap going from a wildly figurative, mythological (or legendary--?) character, to Henry Sinclair in disguise.

It seems from preliminary research that the concept of Gooscap goes back quite far before the Henry Sinclair angle was added and the Nation flag adopted, etc.

I think it might be worth looking into this strange transition, which seems to possibly give more (attempted) credence to the idea of a Sinclair voyage to America's 1400'ish east coast than the notion might deserve...depending on what fresh new insights might be revealed.

I would like to know if a subtle and purposeful conflation of previously established mythological or legendary Native American history has occurred...or whether more consideration might be given to Glooscap and Henry Sinclair being one and the same. What's going on? Is this as fraudulent as the faked Zeno narratives, and if so, we should see more clearly how it occurred.

For what it's worth, H. Holand believed the Newport Tower to be a "defensive church" more in line with European designs a half-century earlier than a proposed Sinclair visitation, so that there wouldn't be any connection between Sinclair and the tower, from his unique perspective. He thought it was built by Sir Paul Knutson's search party, which is another strange idea.

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Jason Colavito link
11/17/2016 01:42:32 pm

I addressed this in my link in the blog post. Frederick Pohl misread a Victorian book of Micmac myths, assumed they were all about Glooscap (when they weren't), and sought correlations with Sinclair because he was already a true believer.

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At Risk
11/17/2016 04:32:48 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Council_(Mi%27kmaq)

Thanks for directing me to the link I overshot . For one thing, I'm trying to understand how it came into being that the "traditional senior level of government for the Mi'kmaq people" adopted the reverse flag image(s) supposedly also representing Templars, and by extrapolation, Sinclair. Did this occur because of Pohl, too? In other words, did a person or persons representing Mi'kmacs choose this flag because of Pohl's influence, or what?

http://bayoffundy.ca/artmackay/more-evidence-of-templar-presence-in-the-maritimes/

(Well, doesn't it just figure that this would end up back to the Grail?)

Does anyone know the mystery behind the flag similarity? I'm just very curious. When and how was it adopted by the Mi'kmag, and is this even true about the Templar battle flag? Thanks.

Only Me
11/17/2016 04:55:44 pm

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-america-unearthed-s01e13-hunt-for-the-holy-grail

Start with the paragraph beginning with "The owner of the land asserts...".

RW Taylor
11/17/2016 09:14:51 pm

There are books that are extremely old, local, that reference Henry Sinclair as Glooscap. The book also reference an idea that he could have been Norse in origin. I first read it at my now deceased grandmother's, one of her pre-WW2 schoolbooks. It stated that he was believed to have blue eyes, a blond/red beard and light colored hair depending on the origination of the story.

A lot of interesting stories from the Natives around here.

RW Taylor
11/17/2016 09:15:01 pm

There are books that are extremely old, local, that reference Henry Sinclair as Glooscap. The book also reference an idea that he could have been Norse in origin. I first read it at my now deceased grandmother's, one of her pre-WW2 schoolbooks. It stated that he was believed to have blue eyes, a blond/red beard and light colored hair depending on the origination of the story.

A lot of interesting stories from the Natives around here.

Jason Colavito link
11/18/2016 06:28:12 am

Pohl has had the idea in print since the 1940s. I've see the "extremely old" publications in which his ideas appear myself. Do you have an older source?

At Risk
11/18/2016 02:19:38 pm

Only Me, thanks for trip down memory lane (seeing my old comment about the Grail possibly being the Holy Spirit).

Thanks for other inputs from others. I'm still curious about the association with the Templar battle flag as seen here (image that says "Templar battle flag"):

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=templar%20battle%20flag

and here, where the Templar battle flag is described as having been something else again, a black and white flag:

http://www.tempelherreorden.org/en/about/knight-templars-battle-flag.html

This seems important because this supposed connection between the Mi'kmaq and Templar battle flag is being highly touted, and the exactitude does catch one's eye. Is someone saying he discovered this direct connection between the flags and then his opinion or what he supposedly found was accepted by those representing the Mi'kmaq people, or had these American Indians already adopted the flag previously? (I mean with all the symbols, not only the cross.)

If not the latter, perhaps we should know more about how this happened...more about the "discovery" of this seemingly unlikely Templar battle flag that looks just like the Mi'kmaq flag in reverse. Thanks.

Doug Crowell
11/17/2016 01:06:49 pm

Hi Jason. Just read your most recent post. As I am under a non-disclosure agreement at the moment, I would simply like to address a few errors in your statements. Now, I live in Canada, so the first episode of COOI hasn't aired yet here, therefore unless editing made it seem like I was making such definitive statements, or you misunderstood me, I just want to set the record straight.

You wrote "a fellow named Doug Crowell claims that he solved the secret code found on various documents, and it revealed, he said, the words “gold” and “Joab.” Joab was a general of King David, so naturally he concludes that the Israelites might have been in on the conspiracy to move the Ark to Oak Island."

I did not claim to have solved the cipher. I stated that in trying to decode it, I had pulled out the words Cephala, Harrar, Gold, Jew, and Joab, which all seemed to have an African connection. I also neither claimed that Israelites were involved, nor that the Ark was involved. In my mind it pointed more to early Portuguese exploration of the east coast of Africa, with Cephala being an early 16th century Portuguese settlement, and with Harrar being a place of gold trading. This gave me hope that I was on to the proper decryption, with the hope that if the cipher could be solved, then it could be better evaluated for validity. For instance, Cephala and Harrar are the old spellings for these place names. If they were the modern names, it would have suggested the cipher was no older than the first usage of the new spellings. As we do not have access to the originals, the copies can only be evaluated on their content, and etymology.

I know that assessing such circumstantial evidence is like watching someone's old home movies, if you are not vested in examining any and all leads that pertain to a subject outside of your area of interests, but for those who are serious about finding answers to the Oak Island mystery, we don't want to leave any stone unturned.

Zena Halpern has spent the last eight years of her life, trying to verify and assess the body of research given to her, and from the portions of her work that we were privy to, concerning Oak Island, it was decided to investigate to determine the merit of those materials. That investigation is what appears as part of the season.

I enjoy reading your articles, as a skeptical mind and critical thinking are assets in research. A great article on Diffusionism can be read here: http://anthropology.ua.edu/cultures/cultures.php?culture=Diffusionism%20and%20Acculturation


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Jason Colavito link
11/17/2016 01:46:13 pm

I elided some of the longer discussion. Yes, they discussed your African claims and then went on to relate them to Israelites and the Ark. As with anything on this show (and it sister show, Ancient Aliens), what we take away as the "conclusion" is more accurately a "suggestion" of a "possibility" that various editing tricks and ambiguous wording try to get the audience to accept. I'll admit to falling asleep while listing to the boring parts. It might not have been you who was presented as saying the Ark part, though that's how other summaries posted online the next morning gave it when I checked.

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Joe Scales link
11/17/2016 02:17:57 pm

Oak Island's mysteries have already been answered by Richard Joltes. It is an age old hoax:

http://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/index.shtml

I do understand the nature of entertainment/reality television, but to believe even the notion of treasure on Oak Island as anything other than pure fantasy is absolutely idiotic. The Curse of Oak Island television show presents legend and myth as fact, distorts history and covers up true scientific/geological findings; and it does all of this by the time the introduction to each episode concludes. What follows is pure, unadulterated nonsense.

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DaveR
11/18/2016 08:05:23 am

Thanks for the link. Some interesting information there, although it's nothing that will sway most people believing in the myth of Oak Island.

Joe Scales link
11/18/2016 11:29:20 am

The irony is that the hoax was dispelled quite neatly by John Brown of the Walton Manganese Company in his report to the Halifax Company back in 1867 (from Richard Jolte's site) that he concluded as follows:

"The tremendous amount of work which has been accomplished, more especially under W Hill’s direction has, so far as I am able to judge, been carried on under the firm conviction that the treasure was there, the object was to get at it, and I believe that had it been there W Hill’s works would have succeeded in reaching it. The whole difficulty has arisen from the fact that it has been taken for granted, that the disturbed condition of the ground, the watercourse etc, were only to be attributed to artificial means whereas had one hundredth part of the capital been devoted towards testing the possibility of its being the work of nature, I think the Oak Island problem would have been solved years ago."

You'd have thought that would have ended things right then and there about a hundred and fifty years ago. Greed, gullibility and stupidity have taught us otherwise.

DaveR
11/18/2016 02:26:37 pm

I think you pretty much summed it up with your last two sentences. Personally I think the guys on the show don't believe there's treasure buried at Oak Island, I think they're found their treasure in the form of a television program.

Joe Scales
11/18/2016 02:49:24 pm

Rick might have been a true believer at one time, or has become a very convincing actor. Marty on the other hand, is an engineer, an attorney and a millionaire. There's no way Marty got involved financially without reading Dunfield's geological reports ruling out flood tunnels and the like which were kept buried until 2003. He had to know it was a crock, and by buying into "Oak Island Tours, Inc.", that's rather telling on its own.

Funny thing about Dunfield and how he's portrayed on the show. Of course they don't mention his geological findings or his opinion that there's nothing to be found on Oak Island. Instead, whenever he is mentioned you see him sitting on a bulldozer smoking a butt as the narrator tells you about his "destructive" past activities on the island. Too funny.

DaveR
11/18/2016 03:21:03 pm

Yup, it sounds more and more like the treasure's in the TV, and not the ground.

Bob Jase
11/17/2016 01:56:11 pm

I'm confused - was it the ancient Hebrew or the much later Templars that brought the Roman sword to Oak Island???

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Time Machine
11/17/2016 02:31:27 pm

It's obvious that sword is a fake because those associated with it haven't got a clue about the history of North America.

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Time Machine
11/17/2016 02:54:00 pm

>>no documentary evidence that the Knights Templar escaped Europe by ship—it’s a myth invented in the nineteenth century by Eugène Beauvois<<

Come on Jason, stop spamming. The pseudo-historians never rely on this person and when they do mention him, they dismiss him (eg, Karen Ralls, Timothy Wallace-Murphy).

Stop misrepresenting the pseudo-historians and address their myths properly.

Stop doing this.

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Time Machine
11/17/2016 02:57:48 pm

Just to clarify the situation, the pseudo-historians dismiss Eugène Beauvois because they want to believe in the Zeno Brothers and Henry Sinclair.

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Kal
11/17/2016 03:09:36 pm

This obsession over Oak Island for some of these guys is not nearly as interesting as Area 51 or some other actual 'secret place'.

What is odd though is the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant seemed to have power, via God, and was able to destroy things, or people which could have been something or not.

The odd thing is not that it had powers, but if it did, wouldn't it have protected itself from being taken by the Babylonians? During one King's reign, he did give it back, because it did, but afterward there is nothing, long before Europeans even knew about it.

The Ark was gone by the time of the New Testament, 2,000 some years ago during Roman times, so even then nobody knows where it is.

This nobody today in modern Nova Scotia would even have a clue about it.

The Templar still seems to be of the wishful thinking and holy relic variety, in the middle ages, long after anyone would have known about it.

Oak Island's treasure is a hoax.

Most of these shows will promise an astounding treasure after the break.

COOI is basically Finding Bigfoot meets Gold Rush. It is reality TV meaning it's fake.

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Kal
11/17/2016 03:11:27 pm

I would rather watch Finding Bigfoot again.

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Bob Jase
11/17/2016 03:39:30 pm

Did you know there is only one episode of Fb that was actually filmed? They just dub over it and use cgi to make the backgrounds and non-player characters look different in all the subsequent episodes.

Titus pullo
11/17/2016 05:50:18 pm

At least in gold rush they actually find gold. History is running out of fringe "mysteries" there isn't much left to cover is there? Sure thus will come back like this stuff always does but I'm betting we get a decade where thus crap isn't part of pop culture.....next time we see F Scott Wolter we all might be old and gray.

Time Machine
11/17/2016 03:15:14 pm

The Ark of the Covenant was deemed a military mascot similar to the way that the Mandylion was the Battle Standard of Russian troops during the First World War.

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V
11/18/2016 01:28:19 pm

Remember--the god of the Old Testament was not a particularly nice one. If you accept the possibility of "there is supernatural power in this thing," you also have to accept the possibility of him getting pissed at the Hebrews and letting the Babylonians take it.

Or, in the real world, you realize that the stories are apocryphal at best and more likely the object was given credit for coincidences such as "people got sick from mingling with the Hebrews and their diseases that had never hit the invaders' population before." Assuming that they weren't just complete fiction in the first place, of course.

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V
11/18/2016 01:28:25 pm

Remember--the god of the Old Testament was not a particularly nice one. If you accept the possibility of "there is supernatural power in this thing," you also have to accept the possibility of him getting pissed at the Hebrews and letting the Babylonians take it.

Or, in the real world, you realize that the stories are apocryphal at best and more likely the object was given credit for coincidences such as "people got sick from mingling with the Hebrews and their diseases that had never hit the invaders' population before." Assuming that they weren't just complete fiction in the first place, of course.

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V
11/18/2016 01:28:39 pm

Remember--the god of the Old Testament was not a particularly nice one. If you accept the possibility of "there is supernatural power in this thing," you also have to accept the possibility of him getting pissed at the Hebrews and letting the Babylonians take it.

Or, in the real world, you realize that the stories are apocryphal at best and more likely the object was given credit for coincidences such as "people got sick from mingling with the Hebrews and their diseases that had never hit the invaders' population before." Assuming that they weren't just complete fiction in the first place, of course.

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Tom
11/17/2016 03:37:19 pm

What is going on ?
This blog was and still is meant to be informative and entertaining not a battle ground.
I would assume most interested people here are sceptics, so why not behave more like the archetypal sceptic Socrates?

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Kathleen
11/18/2016 09:13:05 am

Thanks, Tom.

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John
11/17/2016 06:48:31 pm

This show is a total bullshit as many others. What help explain for us why people like G.W. Bush, Clinton, Trump becomes President of US.

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Rich Moats
11/17/2016 07:26:02 pm

For all of you Jason followers and Jason yourself....when all of you spend as much time doing research as you do bashing those who are,
then I will listen to what you have to say. Dragging everything from Bigfoot to Trump into your pointless critiques produces nothing in the way of advancing the truth about history. It is people like you Jason who has warped the true history into what is written in 19th century text books. It is people like Zena and Scott who are making an effort to find the truth. And the real problem is that when you are confronted with truth you find fault with it in an effort to defend your poorly researched comments you make on the net. Do something meaningful such as looking for the truth about our forgotten history and use your computer for something that will become the text books of tomorrow.

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Only Me
11/17/2016 07:51:10 pm

Rich, when you spend as much time learning about REAL history as you do defending the likes of Scott and Zena, then I'll listen to what you have to say.

Nobody learns their history from 19th century text books. And the real problem is when people like Scott are criticized for their ideas, they claim conspiracy and suppression in an effort to defend their poor research and fanciful speculation.

Now, why don't you do something meaningful, such as learning about our REAL history. Use your computer for something that doesn't involve defending debunked ideas from yesteryear.

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Lee
3/26/2018 09:01:42 pm

Zena is fruit loops...

Jason Colavito link
11/17/2016 07:58:20 pm

I'll just note that it's Oak Island conspiracy theorist J. Hutton Pulitzer who brought Trump into it, as a reason to avoid offering criticism.

How, pray tell, am I failing to deal with the "real" truth when I provide you with translations of the original versions of the claims that Wolter recycles unknowingly? Here, have one:

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/templars-of-ancient-mexico.html

If I judge this alternative "truth" wanting, it is not for lack of engagement.

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Jim
11/17/2016 08:09:57 pm

Perhaps they, or you, yourself could do a little research into the history of longitude. You might find that their use of longitude in 1178 is absolutely ridiculous. For Pete's sake the use of the compass never came into use until the early 14th century. Longitude wasn't properly solved until the 19th century, with the English and many European countries offering huge prizes to solve the longitude problem. The English prize alone would be equivalent to one and a half million dollars in today's values.
But the Knights Templar were adept at using longitude 7 or 8 hundred years before anyone else and kept it a secret.
Pssst... Don't let anyone else know this, but Columbus used GPS satellites to find America !
These people deserve all the ridicule they are receiving for not researching some of the basic claims of this ridiculous map !

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Jim
11/17/2016 08:40:55 pm

Pardon me,, when I said " Longitude wasn't properly solved until the 19th century," I meant the 18th century.

Centurion
11/21/2016 09:04:08 pm

I though the show only mentioned latitudes and not longitude. Latitudes are a function of the height of a celestial body above the horizon while longitude is a function of the sun at zenith at noon compared to a home port clock. For example, the sun is at zenith in London at 12:00 noon. A ship at sea wold see the sun at its local noon and know that it was 15 degrees west of London. 15 degrees being 1/24 th of a circle. Refinements between would be calculated with time equations.

Jim
11/21/2016 10:28:43 pm

The show, yes, but the supposed 1178 map itself had numerous longitudes marked on it that never were used until after 1667 when the french started using Paris as their Prime meridian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_meridian

DaveR
11/18/2016 08:12:42 am

Rich Moats,
Your pointless critique did nothing to advance the intellectual dialogue of this forum. It's people like you who, lacking in any critical thinking skills, should avoid posting on forums to which you have no knowledge. It's best you crack open another Labatt's Blue, sit down in your Lazyboy, and binge watch Ancient Aliens, Curse of Oak Island, Finding Bigfoot, Ghost Hunters, Ice Road Truckers, Axe Men, Alaskan Bush People, and all of those other wonderful shows that are teaching you so much about the world.
Thanks for playing.

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John
11/18/2016 07:21:19 pm

The emergence of Reason constitutes the greatest enigma in the history of human civilization, and there has been no one so far who could convincingly explain the theses and antitheses of this mystery. There is also a need for a more analytical and serious study of the megalithic monuments around the planet. All this false history as we know it, the false calendars that we have followed throughout the centuries and the Christian Bible - a copy of the "invention" of the old Jewish testament - the "being" at any price - plus the new testament written by Sao Paulo and Later adapted and modified over time by the Popes - was a work begun by the Renaissance writers. You can check the veracity of these irrefutable arguments through the works of Nietzsche - "On the Truth and the Lie of the extra-moral sense", Will of Power" among other books of the author. When the own NIetzsche speaks of "superman" in the course of His work what he really want say for the human race more precisely is: Transcend yourself.
Now talking about the Knights Templar and the Crusades these events were nothing more than a sad and massive historical episode of "mass piracy" from beginning to end. And in the middle of this bloody road there were thousands of murders, rapes and robberies across all the countries where this wave was and come back a few times during the low middle ages. The story since long before the Knights Templar was destroyed and rewritten several times by the winning side. Any written evidence that was left behind by mistake "what was on the very beginning" was burned in the public square and not infrequently its owners who kept it as a legacy left by their ancestors.
No doubt they have found many religious artifacts of gold and jewels. The main reason for the emergence of the Crusades. Things like avenging the death of Jesus or saving Jerusalem from the Arabs has never been on the agenda and in the heads of kings and nobility of that time. And many soldier really believed that they were killing the true murderers of Jesus. About the Ark of the Alliance for me is only a gold artifact full of legends and mysteries similar to many other objects or religious or mystical artifacts. If you read with much calm and critical thinking the entire Old Testament, especially the part that talks about the Exodus - where the said Ark of the Alliance appears - you feel a urge to climb the walls of your house screaming. You should ask for yourself, at each sentence, each question, "Is it honest?" "Is it decent?" "Is it fair?"
And now seriously speaking about Oak Island and its presumed curse and mystery, I would like to think that the ocean should be at least 300 to 600 meters lower than it is today. This is not a work of an engineering genius. This is more for something that has been hidden by rising sea levels in the same way as hundreds of pyramids and other megalithic monuments that are now "lost" seabed around the world have been hidden. Or the hundreds of pyramids, megalithic monuments hidden by the sands of the Sahara desert. The hundreds of megalithic pyramids and monuments hidden in the interiors of China, Siberia, the former Soviet republics, Africa, Central America, Australia - "Kalkajaka" mountain, Indonesia e.g..
Particularly what surprised me most was not what was "left behind or hidden by sands, lands, rocks and deserts" but rather what was taken away and which fit perfectly into all those megalithic structures.
Nietzsche in his messages implicit during the book "And so spoke Zarathustra" makes it clear, for each one to interpret as his readers wishes "the true world is deep". Did you hear me?: "Is deep!" "Is deep!"

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John
11/19/2016 09:18:00 am

My comment was totally a bullshit. I messed up with the answer for this topic by mistake. I was foolish. I'm sorry Jason.
God bless you guys.

Juan
11/19/2016 07:13:49 am

It may well be that the only thing to come out of "Curse" is increased sales of Crown Royal, Blankenship's drink of choice to pickle his liver.

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Mr. Sweepy link
11/20/2016 03:59:10 am

I have been on online sweepstakes advertising for 13 years and associated with online sweepstakes for about 16 years. I made a comment at the end of last year's show about this. I said that TV networks don't care if they find any on that island as long as they win the hour's time spot. They win a bigger prize, advertising dollars. Could there be treasure there? Sure, but that's not the point. I think the brothers are in the entertainment business more than treasure hunting. They come across as real nice guys and I am sure they are. But to see the major money of invested this year is not all theirs. I am sure it's the networks money also.

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bill
11/20/2016 01:39:26 pm

Doug'd methodology was illogical. If you're working on the assumption that your cipher is a simple substitution cipher you CANNOT just try random combinations and pick and choose various small words from the whole text, that is incredibly fallacious reasoning. When you solve a cipher, there's no question, you have devised a pattern, a translation table, a set of mathematical operations that delivers the message in its entirety. That is, unless someone screwed up in the encryption or original plaintext spelling.

HALTE NE TERRER PAS, CREUSER A QUARANTE PIED AVEC A ANGLE QUARANTE CINQ DEGRE LA HAMPE A CINQ CENT VINGT DEUS PIED A VOUS ENTRE LECTEUR [-REIDOR] A [UNMIL-] EPUISANTE [CINQPI-] ATTEINTE [LACHAM-] To: Stop your digging at a point of forty feet, with an angle forty five degrees the 522 foot shaft is between you the reader and [-reidor a unmil-] an exhausting [cinqpi-] to reach [lacham-]

The symbols that weren't on the 90-foot stone (C, H, J, Q, V) fit well with French words. The "AVEC" and "VOUS" and "CINQ" seem pretty clear. "LA HAMPE" as "the shaft" seems almost too good to be true.Its obviously another reprint of a reprint of the original myth
http://i.imgur.com/O1qMI5s.jpg
a eulogy :

With Mr. Hayward taken with tender affection at 80 years after a long illness supported with courage 7th of January 1978 - Marie or Maria

The wind is rising we must try to live with the grave.
Raises a lot of questions about authenticity given it was 1978 and not the 1600s

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At Risk
11/20/2016 11:21:36 pm

Pretty interesting, bill: "When you solve a cipher, there's no question, you have devised a pattern, a translation table, a set of mathematical operations that delivers the message in its entirety."

1.
a secret or disguised way of writing; a code.
"he was writing cryptic notes in a cipher"
synonyms: code, secret writing, cryptograph, cryptogram
"information in cipher"

Information in cipher is key in the case of the Norse Code-stone. We are not talking about writing, but we are talking about information in cipher, however, by using a pattern of "encoded" stoneholes in rocks..

With the Code-stone, a pattern was indeed devised...and discovered (by me). The "pattern" was and still is a simple line of stonehole rocks. In essence, bill, there are three stonehole rocks in a line, but with a so-called "missing spot" where it seems like another rock should be. This is the information in cipher which was decoded...the establishment of a recognizable pattern--and broken pattern. This may also be called the "translation table" to which you are referring. Lastly, we need to look for this "set of mathematical operations that delivers the message in its entirety."

Yes, the code-stone does also present a set of mathematical operations that delivers the message in its entirety That is, we have four prospective positions taken by only three stonehole rocks. Therefore, in this operation, we look for the missing fourth stonehole rock in the line of four positions.

This would be like seeing four milking stations in a row in a barn milking parlor, but with one of the cows being missing! Where is the cow? Is something different about the milking station? No. Well, except that something was put there in that spot in place of the cow...a chunk of rock cracked off from a stonehole! (Joking.)

But why does a metal detector get a hit where the cow is shown missing?

Obviously, someone replaced the poor cow with not only a chunk of rock...but also with something buried...made of metal. So, what does the chunk of metal represent?

Quite possibly, something Norse and medieval and made of metal.

We might here resort to numbers, to be more like Scott Wolter. Let's see if an embedded date might be represented:

So, five stonehole rocks are involved with the encoding of something buried. The Code-stone itself has three holes; each of three rocks in the line has two stoneholes each; the offset stonehole had three stoneholes, but the chunk of rock was purposely cracked off from the third hole.

Here then, by loose interpretation, is the proposed date of the Norse Code-stone, if we might believe further encoding was applied: Eleven intact stoneholes and a portion of one (half?), which would be around AD 1150. Why not? Apparently, long distance land-grabbing was in vogue at the time....

Anyway, bill, thanks for the further clarity in my mind about the Norse Code-stone I found last year, about patterns and ciphers, etc. Everything seems to fit into place, using your words, which kind of surprised me.

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Joe Scales
11/20/2016 11:29:12 pm

Richard Joltes' research leaves little room to believe the alleged 90 foot stone ever existed. Allegedly found in the early 1800's only to disappear a century later, it is remarkable no one ever photographed it, traced it or even reduced the symbols to written form. That is until someone writing a book sensationalizing the treasure hunt came out around 1949 purportedly showing what the symbols carved in the stone looked like. Based on at least two layers of hearsay, of course. But one of those sources was a reverend, so it had to be true, right?

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Craig
11/21/2016 12:15:36 am

Bill, Interesting. Forgetting the show for now and just about the Templars: There might be a couple of questions that have not been ask. One, Did the Templars have their own language? Maybe a mixture of writing with both French and Portuguese? I never read or heard if they did or didn't. However would it make more sense that they had their own written language if they were going to present written cipher and encryption? Also wasn't their a possible Templar writing on other stones in Mass. and Minn.? Have they been compared?

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William Kimbrel
11/29/2016 10:46:05 pm

Which Templars? The Knights themselves were largely illiterate. Their scribes, obviously, knew and comprehended the elite languages. Still, this begs a question: how would illiterate folks command enough language mastery to reconfigure languages as ciphers? Furthermore, why would they do it? One might respond that the Templars in question were - as the shows espoused - of the much later variety, and enjoyed the increase in literacy provided post-Renaissance. Problematically, there is absolutely NO evidence that any such persons were Templars.
Therefore, the entire argument is illogical and instantly reputable as nonsense.

Piasillo
11/21/2016 09:07:29 pm

I'll tell you what really bothers me about the show. It's the narrators reading of the copy. Every single sentence seems to end in a question? Could this be the real stone? Did the brothers actually find the treasure or could this actually be another clue? And what about the mysterious map? Oh Jesus! I just get so tired of hearing that same repetitious patter. I mean… Repetitious patter?

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Commodore
11/22/2016 03:38:45 am

Many of the commentators here sound like all the political pondits that predicted Clinton would beat Trump in a landslide. I think everyone will be shocked and humbled by what is discovered on oak island.

Any treasure would be interesting but future episodes are all leaning Knights Templar. I don't believe they'd go all in on the Templar angle only to be proven wrong later.

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Dave UK
11/30/2016 07:45:09 pm

The point everyone has missed is that the Curse stated 7 must die before the treasure will be found.... With Fred Nolan passing you have your 7.

If they get down to the money pit and discover a large wooden vault.... Whether empty or not they will have achieved a great goal....

No one with primitive tech would consider or even in the slightest be motivated to go that far down unless the stakes were high.

History is in the making and the show should be seen for its real value... The promotion of Man's tenacity in life to achieve great things no matter the price.

Good luck to the Lagina brothers.. They deserve it.... Engineering at its best!

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Juan Ruiz
1/3/2018 10:53:00 am

"With Fred Nolan passing you have your 7."

I believe they changed the narration to imply the 7th death had to occur while searching, not as the result of old age.

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Jerry Gauthier link
2/1/2017 02:22:15 am

Getting way back to the very basics. The original shaft with logs every 10 feet. Then a "code" stone. Then flooding of the shaft first written about prior to 1849. Discovery in the bay/swamp of a box drain covered with eel grass and coconut fiber originally used as dunnage in ships of the time to protect breakable objects. These items, found in the tropics were transported North and used as a means to keep the trap working.
If these are facts, then someone went to an unbelievable amount of labor by a very large amount of men to perpetrate a hoax. Tell me where I'm wrong. Thank you
Jerry

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Zach
7/10/2018 12:40:29 am

Actually you're wrong on nearly every single I e of your points. The only thing you've mentioned that has actually been "proven" is the presence of coconut grass, though it certainly wasn't in any "box-drain". Which proves absolutely nothing as the island was always known to be a stopover for passing ships, which only goes to show that they occasionally threw away their garbage on the island.

Truely, what a treasure.

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Stace
11/28/2018 12:56:59 am

You skeptics are such buzz kills.

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Vanessa Adams
10/13/2020 11:09:51 am

After Zena Halpern passed away and the Oak Island team inherited many of her papers and "research," we never heard about her theories again. I suspect they knew they were useless all along, but made for good filler to tie into digging out the hatch. Thankfully, later seasons have a lot fewer "wild theorist of the week" visitors. They may have ran out of people to bring on, or the Lagina brothers said enough is enough. Randall Sullivan's book on Oak Island also skewered Halpern and "Treasure Force Commander" J. Hutton Pulitzer, among others. So maybe that influenced the show's later direction as well.

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