What's in the Oak Island Money Pit?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/Canada/AtlanticCanada/2003/12/30/300482.html

http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Nova_Scotia/oakisland.htm

[underpants]

1. Sir Francis Bacon's proof that he wrote the Shakespeare works

that was put forth in a really good article in Rolling Stone a few weeks ago.

The whole thing is amazing to me.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. Yeah, I'd heard that one. I've also heard the Holy Grail theory

but, seeing as the Grail isn't an object, it's pretty surreal.

[TrogL]

15. So what is the nature of the Grail?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. Depending on which theory you prefer

it's either the blood-line of Christ, his descendents, as brought to Glastonbury by Joseph of Arimathea, later protected by Arthur and his fellow Grail-Knights, much later protected by the Knights Templar and Freemasonry.Subscribers to this theory believe that the bloodline lives on in several families, most notably the Stuarts, the (deposed) Royal Family of Scotland. Colourful, at least, isn't it.
The other theory, that I favour, is that the Grail is a repository of ancient knowledge from sources unknown that ended up in the hands of the Knights Templar and others, including the Cathar 'heretics' of Southern France and has guided many developments in world history, such as voyages of discovery (like Prince Henry Sinclair's expedition to Nova Scotia / New England in the last decade of the fourteenth century) and science.
As to whether there really is, or was, a Grail, I don't know, but the whole thing I find fascinating.

[Loonman]

Tons and tons of

Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Relax" T-shirts.

[rasputin1952]

2. A whole lot of water.

n/t

[Hoosier Democrat]

4. Maybe it's Cheney's "Undisclosed Location"

[Richardo]

7. welcome to DU, hoosier!

:thumbsup: :toast:

[lazarus]

5. Not much anymore

There quite likely was something there, once. But there have been so many half-assed attempts to dig it up, and the geology of the area is so bizarre, that there's virtually no possibility that anything has survived.

Personally, I think it was Amelia Earhardt's plane.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. From what I understand

it's a natural sinkhole leading to a large subterranean cavern, and every time people have poked around in the hole, whatever is in there has been pushed further down the hole to the point where now, whatever it is is lying in pieces on the seabed at the bottom of a massive cave. Not too hopeful, eh?

[Cassandra]

8. I sailed by there some 30 years ago

and even then all they were pulling up were wood and fibrous matter. This was supposed to be an indication of pirates' chests full of gold, but the contents have never been found and the site keeps filling with water.

[Red State Rebel]

9. Geraldo Rivera and Al Capone!

[meegbear]

10. You beat me to it!!

LOL!

[SheilaT]

11. Jimmy Hoffa?

Judge Crater?
DB Cooper?

[Aristus]

12. "Al Gore - President" ballots from the State of Florida.

Along with the voter registration records from African-American communities in Florida.

[TreasonousBastard]

13. Jesus.

Bound, gagged, and tossed into the hole so no one can get to him and find out what he REALLY said.

Or maybe Cthulhu.

[Loonman]

14. Unwashed Lederhosen

Piles of them.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

18. Now that is a disturbing image, Loonman.

[Enraged_Ape]

17. Sadaam's WMDs

When they said they were less than 45 minutes away from our shores, they weren't kidding.

[elperromagico]

19. Baby Jessica.