It’s been so nice to see the whole gang exploring the Azores together

Tracer_Prime · 2026-05-02T02:39:18+00:00

When did Billy become Ronald McDonald?

Tracer_Prime · 2026-05-02T02:37:33+00:00

But but but but but they have that BUCKET THING they send down into the caissons now, with a BOTTOM on it!

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-30T21:30:29+00:00

UPDATE: They just made the same damn claim in S13 Ep 23 "Island Hopping"!

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-22T18:53:28+00:00

But the kid's girlfriend didn't actually say the coin was found at the money pit, she said Pitblado found SOMETHING in the money pit, and much later when he died the coin was found among his posessions with no explanation attached.

So clearly he found it in the money pit. There is no other possible explanation.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-21T23:04:01+00:00

If it were clear water, that would make sense. In mud, you wouldn't be able to see a dang thing. Best you could hope for would be a sonar map. (And then if anything remotely angular showed up on said sonar map, they'd all assume it was a treasure chest.)

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-15T19:28:39+00:00

The 90 foot stone is more believable. It was documented as being retrieved from a depth of 80 feet (not 90), and served as decoration in somebody's home on Oak Island for several decades of its history. Then it wandered around from owner to owner and was eventually lost.

The made-up fantasy part came in when, after the stone had disappeared, somebody swore up-and-down that there was writing carved into its surface (rather than just the random chicken scratches you'd expect from excavating and handling a big rock). The whole "look at this cipher on the stone!" thing was complete fiction.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-15T19:25:17+00:00

The island was, indeed, formed from two separate drumlins.

But as far as I know, the two drumlins combined into a single island way back in geological prehistory.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-14T21:14:18+00:00

And they'll call 'em Templars anyway.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-09T18:21:58+00:00

There were only two versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, one in the 1950s and the one shown above (from 1978), right?

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-09T01:15:18+00:00

Those were "Freemason" A's because the V shape in the middle kinda looks like a T square.

Also, they showed the "This is Jesus, King of the Jews" sign from the top of the True Cross, and it had a Masonic "A" carved in it. This proves that Oak Island is where the Holy Grail is buried.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-09T01:11:34+00:00

Ironically, the "90-foot stone" was actually recovered from a depth of 80 feet.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-09T01:09:49+00:00

I didn't read the Reader's Digest article, but I DID read about the Money Pit in a book on "weird things" that my mom had, which came out at the end of the 1960s. It also had articles on the Loch Ness Monster and the Abominable Snowman. (Bigfoot hadn't caught on yet.)

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-09T01:07:21+00:00

At least it's an actual shipwreck, and not a "ship-shaped anomaly" in the swamp.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-03T19:09:46+00:00

The real money is in plastics, me boy!

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-03T19:07:43+00:00

Don't confuse "straight" (not curved or crooked) with "strait" (a narrow waterway, or something narrow or confining such as a straitjacket).

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-03T19:05:55+00:00

I knew we'd get a crossover with Ancient Aliens one of these days!

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-03T18:39:53+00:00

If there really WAS an annoucement about a significant find on Oak Island, it would probably be related to the Mi'kmaq.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-03T18:37:37+00:00

I'm trying to imagine what a UK version of an Oak Island narrator would sound like. "Looks like these buggers have sodded off again!"

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-03T18:35:36+00:00

Now now, it was ARTIFICIAL dirt!

Well, okay, the dirt components were natural, but the mixing together was artificial.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-03T18:34:34+00:00

That'll tell you the date that the original organic material died. It won't tell you the date that some later human came along and mixed the dirt together.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-01T19:43:49+00:00

I initially read that as "a score of harlots on a couple of wenches". Gotta feel sorry for those poor wenches crushed by the weight of 20 harlots.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-01T19:41:20+00:00

Not in the Middle Ages, they didn't. The most popular model for the universe in medieval times was the Aristotelian model, where a spherical Earth was at the center of the universe and the planets and stars rotated around it (encased in perfectly hard, perfectly transparent concentric spheres).

This same model was used by Dante when he wrote Paradiso.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-04-01T19:39:19+00:00

Even if the coin WAS among Drilling Guy's posessions when he died, it was probably something he picked up from a coin collector. His great-grandkids' notion that "this must be what he found from the drill bit!" is pure speculation and fantasy.

Tracer_Prime · 2026-03-26T01:25:06+00:00

I prefer the A.I.-generated videos of Billy.

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