The Curse of Oak Island

[htismaqe]

The Templars did it!

BTW, anybody watching America Unearthed?

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

The Templars did it!

BTW, anybody watching America Unearthed?

That's another interesting show as well.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

That's another interesting show as well.

I can't stand when he gets into the BS Freemason conspiracies. But when he pulls out the "Minoans mined thousands of tons of copper in Michigan during the early Bronze Age" I admit I can't stop watching.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

I can't stand when he gets into the BS Freemason conspiracies. But when he pulls out the "Minoans mined thousands of tons of copper in Michigan during the early Bronze Age" I admit I can't stop watching.

Its entirely too believeable to think that several different peoples were in North America long before Columbus.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

I can't stand when he gets into the BS Freemason conspiracies. But when he pulls out the "Minoans mined thousands of tons of copper in Michigan during the early Bronze Age" I admit I can't stop watching.

I've never heard of Minoans in North America but I have read that the Vikings were here long before Columbus and of course theories of Africans influencing the Olmec as well.

That's interesting stuff..

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I've never heard of Minoans in North America but I have read that the Vikings were here long before Columbus and of course theories of Africans influencing the Olmec as well.

That's interesting stuff..

Oh man. You gotta check out the show, or several other sources for research about pre-Columbian voyagers.

Just off the top of my head:

1. They've found Viking rune stones and land claims in Kentucky, North Carolina, and OKLAHOMA.
2. There's evidence that Minoans mined copper in the Great Lakes region for (possibly) 1000 years during the early Bronze Age.
3. There's a tribe of native Americans in southern California that are of Polynesian descent and similar cultures exist on the coast of Chile, suggesting Polynesians were migrating here during the 10th, 11th, and 12th centuries.
4. There's stone solar chambers of 8th-9th century Irish origin all over the American northeast.
5. There's substantial evidence that the Welsh were here before Columbus and intermingled with the Mandan Indians. President Jefferson even suggested that Lewis and Clark keep their eye out for people of Welsh descent during their explorations.
6. Possible Egyptian artificacts and inscriptions have been found in Arizona and Illinois.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Oh man. You gotta check out the show, or several other sources for research about pre-Columbian voyagers.

Just off the top of my head:

1. They've found Viking rune stones and land claims in Kentucky, North Carolina, and OKLAHOMA.
2. There's evidence that Minoans mined copper in the Great Lakes region for (possibly) 1000 years during the early Bronze Age.
3. There's a tribe of native Americans in southern California that are of Polynesian descent and similar cultures exist on the coast of Chile, suggesting Polynesians were migrating here during the 10th, 11th, and 12th centuries.
4. There's stone solar chambers of 8th-9th century Irish origin all over the American northeast.
5. There's substantial evidence that the Welsh were here before Columbus and intermingled with the Mandan Indians. President Jefferson even suggested that Lewis and Clark keep their eye out for people of Welsh descent during their explorations.
6. Possible Egyptian artificacts and inscriptions have been found in Arizona and Illinois.

That is incredible. It seems those ancient civilization may have been a lot more civilized than we care to admit?

[beach tribe]

Originally Posted by aturnis

I'm not sure why this is so nuts.

Is it more nuts than free diving? Or scuba diving in deep ocean water? What is so nuts about it?

What he did, with that gear that was likely primitive THEN, sure, a bit nuts, but with modern means?

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

That is incredible. It i seems those ancient civilization may have been a lot more civilized than we care to admit?

I rember reading in the local paper a few years back the they had dug up some 3000 year old mummified bodies in the everglades that were of caucasion decent.

Not sure about the specifics though, and my memory is pretty foggy on the subject.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

That is incredible. It seems those ancient civilization may have been a lot more civilized than we care to admit?

Of course.

It's the whole "history is written by the victors" thing.

Just like the fact that the Gallic people weren't AT ALL barbaric, they had more sophisticated mathematics and calendars than the Romans. They also had enough gold to pay off Caesar's debts and enough status to make him a conquering hero. So the Romans conquer them, wipe out their greatest works, and then record them in history as bloodthirsty barbarians.

The US scientific community and the US government don't want to acknowledge pre-Columbian voyagers. If Columbus didn't discover America, the Spanish didn't own the Louisiana Territory. If the Louisiana Territory wasn't owned by Spain, they couldn't legally sell it to the US.

You should read up on the suicide of Merriweather Lewis.

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

I can't stand when he gets into the BS Freemason conspiracies. But when he pulls out the "Minoans mined thousands of tons of copper in Michigan during the early Bronze Age" I admit I can't stop watching.

To me the annoying thing about that show is that they constantly run up against legality issues so they often times introduce a story but can't really do anything about it.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

To me the annoying thing about that show is that they constantly run up against legality issues so they often times introduce a story but can't really do anything about it.

We just laugh about it mostly. He's the master of building up to no conclusion.

"I can say without a doubt that it probably, maybe happened."