I am half-convinced that Oak Island is an elaborate Illuminati joke.

Oak Island is that weird place that may or may not have buried treasure buried in it somewhere; and the people who think that there is buried treasure are, for some reason, prepared to find that treasure if they have to sift through every molecule on the island. That sort of… ah, dedication… can also encourage other… ah, enthusiasms. Case in point:

Researchers claim they have evidence that Roman ships visited North America ‘during the first century or earlier.’

Their theory centres on the discovery of what they believe to be a Roman sword on Oak Island, off Nova Scotia.

And never mind that the Romans weren’t fond of boats, didn’t really like the Atlantic Ocean at all, and had a habit of writing it down when they went somewhere. Somebody found a sword! …Which, judging from the picture in the link, is simultaneously: in ridiculously good shape for something that was abandoned on a wet island for two thousand years; and apparently made out of bronze.

[pause]

I’m telling you.  Elaborate Illuminati pranking.  Or just people who don’t mind mining a place with a practical joke that may not go off in their lifetime. Honestly, I can see the attraction of a plan like that; it’d give you a reason to read the daily paper each morning, at least.

10 thoughts on “I am half-convinced that Oak Island is an elaborate Illuminati joke.”

  1. Only half convinced?
    OK, Occam’s famous razor insists that it’s because people are remarkable gullible when they want go believe something. But I’m pretty sure he was Illuminati before Illuminati was cool.

  3. History is full of anomalies. In a castle they call Tintagel in Wales they found the remains of a blue glass goblet dating to about 400 to 500AD around the time they believe King Arthur lived. That type of glass was being made in Spain at about that time. In the legends Palomides and his brothers were supposed to be from a kingdom in North Africa that was under siege. So they were sent to live with a relative in Britain to keep them safe.
    While the Romans hated sailing that doesn’t mean their Briton, Gallic, Iberian and North African subjects did. And trade routes developed during the Empire may have survived for some time after the Empire fell.
    Utze the Iceman’s bronze axe lasted thousands of years in remarkably good shape in a glacier. Interestingly he had tatoos on points that correspond to acupuncture points. But he lived in ancient Europe not China.

  4. Bronze could certainly have survived in that condition from that age there, though most Roman soldiers didn’t use bronze swords at that timeframe. I’ve read that the officers still generally did, because bronze would actually hold artwork and such in the hilts. However, the coin in the picture is certainly not gold, and I don’t believe it’s of Carthage, if I get bored this afternoon I’ll grab my reference books and figure out what it is.
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    Most people believe that the various Roman/Greek coins that get periodically found on the east coast came from dumping ballast that had been scooped up in Europe and dumped here by sailing ships.

  5. A friend asked me what I thought they would find at the bottom of the “Money Pit”, and I replied, “Disappointment.”
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    However, the “Romans” (as in the Mediterranean Area) had mariners fully capable of sailing across the Atlantic, but what incentive would they have had? Were they looking for treasure? But wait, they sailed across the Atlantic to BURY treasure, not seek it. Rather odd, considering the trouble and expense involved in doing so.
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    And the fact this sword (dagger, really) proves a theory of a noted Oak Island author makes me highly suspicious of it being planted. After all, you’ve got to find SOMETHING to keep the suckers… I mean “investors” interested. Anything to keep people funneling money into this flim-flam, buying books and videos.

  6. “Out of Place Artifacts” are a big thing in some circles. Viking coins in Minnesota; East Asian stuff in pre-coolie western America. Phoenician/Cathaginian stuff everywhere. Those guys, who actually DID like boats, are more likely than Romans.
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    Also, a sword with a decorative humanoid hilt doesn’t seem very Roman to me…..

  7. Clearly, this was all from the time period when Jesus came to the Americas, during the “lost” years, brought by the last Atlanteans.

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