Oak Island: Digging Deeper
Monday March 3, 2008 8:17 AM
"Forty feet below two million pounds are buried." The promise of buried treasure, believed to be contained in a strange cipher inscribed upon a stone found in the Oak Island Money Pit, has kept people digging through logs and clay and rising water for over 200 years. But what is the Money Pit?
From the late 18th century onward, there has been a persistent belief that an island in Nova Scotia, Oak Island, to be exact, contains a secret. This secret has been theorized to be anything from pirate booty to the lost treasure of the Templars. The location of this secret is a small portion of land where, at one point, settlers discovered the block and tackle of a ship hanging from a tree. Beneath the block and tackle, there was a depression in the earth, and it seemed to logical to assume that something heavy enough to require the block and tackle had been lowered into a pit at some point, and that pit had been covered up to conceal this mysterious item. And so began the digging, as well as the legend of Oak Island.
Through the years, a variety of treasure hunters (including a young Franklin Roosevelt!) have tried their hands at discovering what may have been placed into the pit. However, no matter how deep one digs, the Oak Island Money Pit seems to yield up only more puzzles and clues. The cipher, scribed upon a stone found at a depth of 90 feet, remains one of the most mysterious and most compelling. Comprised of simple geometric figures, most researchers accept the translation of this cipher as given above, and they see it as directions to the treasure that lies another 40 feet below the point at which the cipher lay. The problem with this, of course, has been the fact that, past a certain depth, the pit has begun to fill with water. Since diggers have had to work their way through seemingly endless layers of timber, clay, putty, and even coconut husks, the influx of water was seen as just another booby trap laid to prevent the discovery of the real treasure. But First Nations researcher Keith Ranville has recently proposed a new interpretation of the inscription, once which draws upon his knowledge of the pictograms of the Cree Salavics. Through his reassessment of the pictograms, Ranville asserts that the cipher actually details a complex tunnel system that connects Oak Island with the nearby Birch Island.
What might this network of tunnels really contain? Ranville prefers not to speculate. Considering that 200 years of digging have failed to yield anything other than curious, compelling, and often frustrating clues, Oak Island may in fact contain nothing treasure-worthy at all. But the promise, and the mystery, keeps people digging still.
Comments (10)
Anyone viewing Ranville's work in detail will see it is grossly inaccurate. He has no idea where the Money Pit actually is on Oak Island (this is seen clearly in many of his home made diagrams which wrongly identify the site), and Ranville has never even been to Oak or Birch Island.
His "theories" change more often than his socks and lack credibility, ranging from Templar to Mayan, to Christain to indigenous Canadian, to time portals. His imbalanced defamatory drivel which is leeching across the internet like silage needs to be approached with extreme caution.
Be careful what you read on the internet and always verify your sources.
Oak Island Tours Inc, comprising new investors from Michigan, USA and Dan Blankenship, long time Oak Island treasure seeker have already begun preliminary exploration of the site on Oak Island for new digs expected to start in the spring time, 2008.
Posted by Mikhail765 | March 3, 2008 11:05 AM
Posted on March 3, 2008 11:05
oakislandtreasure.co.uk sucks and are jealousy construde
Posted by nonesense | March 4, 2008 1:41 AM
Posted on March 4, 2008 01:41
The oakislandtreasure.co.uk is a website for Dummies
http://sinclair-clan.blogspot.com/
Posted by CRUSADER | March 4, 2008 1:53 AM
Posted on March 4, 2008 01:53
Mid Summer 2005 First Nations Keith Ranville set out from his Vancouver home to investigate a at the time a Oak Island's diminishing place of interest. But a new Oak Island beginning emerged through Keith's traveling research studies a simple unencrypted solution was generated to resolve this 213 year-old elaborate treasure mystery. The close examination of Oak Island clues proclaimed a interesting triangle theory' in-which was instrumental in locating the core to understanding and reviving the Oak Island treasure mystery. http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/
Posted by 9ARANORMAL STATE | March 4, 2008 3:37 PM
Posted on March 4, 2008 15:37
Thanks for the Oak Island post Paranormal Insider very informal...and well wrote.
Posted by Kool | March 4, 2008 6:08 PM
Posted on March 4, 2008 18:08
If you like this story, you might enjoy a novel inspired by Oak Island called Riptide by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, authors of Relic and Brimstone.
Posted by Michael | March 5, 2008 8:20 AM
Posted on March 5, 2008 08:20
I have done some simple background research into Keith Ranville and it didn't take long for me to realize that he's about as un-scientific and un-professional as could be possible.
He has no real proof, the letters of support he offers are not recognized by their "supposed" authors. This isn't fair to these individuals who may suffer character degredation as a result. Also he is asking for money for a project he has no licence for or permission to enter personal property.
Also, he isn't even in Nova Scotia.
Posted by Jason | March 31, 2008 3:51 PM
Posted on March 31, 2008 15:51
Geez Michael
We have not been on the planets in our solar system, but we seem to know a whole about them by observations? I seen no other articles concerning Oak Island that reads new research? I am not at your house or N.S Michael, but it appears that you are a idiot.
Posted by Jeb | May 15, 2008 4:00 PM
Posted on May 15, 2008 16:00
Hey Jeb (Keith is that you?)
You responded to the wrong person....look carefully, the one making derogetory comments about your theories was me....at least you can join me in being an idiot eh?
Posted by jason | May 23, 2008 11:28 AM
Posted on May 23, 2008 11:28
Nonesense
Posted by t-bone | June 2, 2008 1:04 PM
Posted on June 2, 2008 13:04