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Alternative theories of Oak Island's mysteries
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Alternative theories of Oak Island's mysteries
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Curse of Oak Island is a History channel series documenting the journey of Rick and Marty Lagina’s search for a supposed treasure tucked away on Oak Island in Nova Scotia. Many treasure seekers either died or had gone broke due to their attempts to crack the puzzle of the treasure. It is also rumored that Oak Island is cursed causing the failure of those who seek the treasure or “money pit.” This review shall summarize the efforts of Rick and Marty as well as offering a critique of the overall series concerning its reliability and accuracy.
I immediately had my reservations upon discovering that this was an ongoing television series, as that indicates that this would be drawn out and dramatized beyond what is necessary to serve entertainment
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They gave up after some time in which many others came flocking to the area to continue digging. Supposedly, this was towards the end of the pirate era and many believe that Captain Kidd must have left his treasure on that island. There were a few “mysterious” objects that were unearthed; wooden planks, discovered the hole was a shaft, chains, and a stone of inscriptions which was supposedly translated to, “Forty feet below two million pounds are buried.” This is a red flag for several reasons: 1. The stone was translated in the late 1800’s which has been discovered in class to be a very problematic year for gaining any valid information on anything. 2. The stone was anonymously translated so no mention of who the expert was other than that it was a Halifax professor. 3. After it had been translated, the stone “mysteriously” disappears and no one sees or hears of it again. So far, the series are turning out to be quite the …show more content…
There was one part where they were in what they called the “war room,” which was simply a basement office in one of their fellow treasure hunter’s house on the island where they gathered to discuss their plans. If that is not bad enough, they were showing some footage of ambiguous objects that were supposedly filmed in the pit next the money pit or “10x” as they called it, and after the first minute or so they lost their footage as it malfunctioned and the file became corrupted. They acted very alarmed and spooked claiming it must have been the curse working against them. In reality, technology malfunctions quite frequently and it would have been very easy for them to simply set up the footage to do that during the show. Even worse, Rick was expecting the shoreline nearby the wells and came across a wooden tusk-shaped object sticking out in low-tide and immediately called upon everyone to inspect it. He likens it to an elephant tusk and deems it important, they even go as far to suspect that it was planted there to destroy the hulls of ships back when the pirates were sailing about and various nations were exploring. It seems that they are willing to draw any conclusion that they can about whatever they find, another case of confirmation
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The first theory is that researchers claim that the Money pit is just a sink hole and has no treasure in it. Many researchers say that the land on Oak Island is very unstable and has sink holes all over the small island. As Brian Dunning says in his writing of “The Oak Island Mystery Pit”, “The region is primarily limestone and anhydrite, the conditions in which natural caves are usually formed”. The island has had many sink holes all around the Money Pit. The underground cavern at the bottom of the Money pit is thought to be a major sink hole, and that is what made the impression on the ground McGinnis saw. In disagreement, when the Money Pit was first dug up, after digging so many feet the hole started to turn into a shaft. According to “The
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While all of these negative arguments are valid, critics are underestimating the positives of the show. The reason why the series has managed to last through ten years, twenty seasons, two-hundred contestants, and dozens of locations varying from jungle isles to desert oases is that it offers a psychological ...
...ws. How real can you get when you are not even seeing their whole stay. Many of the episodes are different scenes just blended together, you could be watching a scene from the first two weeks of their stay along with one from the last two weeks of their stay and not even know it.
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There is camera proof of pictures of clouds and proof from the U.S. Coastguard of reasons for accidents in the area. The area is a dangerous part of the ocean for those reasons, but there is nothing mysterious about it. Also, there is no proof of the remains of people, planes, and ships because the Gulf Stream carries them elsewhere, but they have not disappeared, they have just been moved and altered. It is impossible for anything to stay in the exact spot it landed in the ocean because of the constant movement in the water. There is no evidence of the remains of people, but there are several contributing factors to why people have crashed such as: the underwater topography, the current of the Gulf Stream, and methane gas hydrates. There are very deep trenches in that area and it is unlikely that ships there will be found. The current in that area is also extremely strong and can misplace evidence of ships
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