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Here you go..the two partners in the treasure hunting business on Oak
Island just can't get along. They are putting the island up for sale asking 7 mill...... bargain basement price of approx 5.5 mill in Yankee dollahs. For this you get an island in a beautiful sailing area (Mahone Bay) and a chance to discover what is really buried there... some think Captain Kidd's treasure...others say Shakespear's manuscripts...or the Holy Grail left by the Knights Tempular. Act quick...it won't last long. see http://www.cbc.ca/ns/ go to 'more Nova Scotia news... province won't leap into treasure hunt' |
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![]() Don White wrote: Here you go..the two partners in the treasure hunting business on Oak Island just can't get along. They are putting the island up for sale asking 7 mill...... bargain basement price of approx 5.5 mill in Yankee dollahs. For this you get an island in a beautiful sailing area (Mahone Bay) and a chance to discover what is really buried there... some think Captain Kidd's treasure...others say Shakespear's manuscripts...or the Holy Grail left by the Knights Tempular. Act quick...it won't last long. see http://www.cbc.ca/ns/ go to 'more Nova Scotia news... province won't leap into treasure hunt' NOYB will buy it with a reverse mortgage!!!! |
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![]() Don White wrote: Here you go..the two partners in the treasure hunting business on Oak Island just can't get along. They are putting the island up for sale asking 7 mill...... bargain basement price of approx 5.5 mill in Yankee dollahs. For this you get an island in a beautiful sailing area (Mahone Bay) and a chance to discover what is really buried there... some think Captain Kidd's treasure...others say Shakespear's manuscripts...or the Holy Grail left by the Knights Tempular. Act quick...it won't last long. see http://www.cbc.ca/ns/ go to 'more Nova Scotia news... province won't leap into treasure hunt' I know for a fact it isn't Kidd's treasure. Of the portion of his loot that actually made it back to America via the "Quedah Merchant" to Hispaniola and then the smaller sloop "Antonio" to Boston, nearly everything was accounted for. He used some of it to try to bribe Bellomont, as well as Bellomont's wife. (Bellomont "claimed" he turned all of that back to the Crown). Kidd ditched a portion of it on Gardiner's Island, but fessed up to the location under Bellomont's interrogation and most of that was recovered as well. The Lyon family of Gardniner's still displays a swatch of silk cut from one of the bundles that Kidd gave them for safe keeping. Even so, and even in it's day, the small portion of the treasure that Kidd retained after hauling down the Gran Mogul's treasure ship on its pilgrimage to Mecca was substantial. He was forced by Robt. Culliford and mutineers among his own crew to share out in Madagascar and then saied for the Caribbean with about a dozen remaining loyal men, Kidd retained enough wealth that when it was *finally* escheated to the Admiralty years later it proved sufficient to buy the Monarch's estate at Greenwich. The ADmiralty used the land purchased from the king to provide a site for the British Naval Academy. Hell, it ain't even the holy grail. Dig deeply enough into the old legends and you will discover that Mary Magdalene was said to be the "vessel" (or cup) carrying the unborn child of Jesus to Europe. For many centuries, European royalty claimed to rule by the divine right of being descended from Jesus. There's an abbey in France where the Catholic Church says that Mary Magdalene is buried. The Templar knights knowledge of "the grail" was actually (supposed) knowledge of the secret that Jesus fathered a child. That child, not a cup from the Last Supper, was supposedly carrying the blood of Jesus. Some historians think the confusion in the middle ages was due to the simple corruption of the word "sangria" (blood) into something like "sancte grail" approximating "holy cup" in some old European dialects. So who knows just what is really at or not at Oak Island? Maybe the current owners, who have decided to skedaddle while the getting is good? But it sounds like it's cheap enough- about the price a decent three bedroom house on a questionable cul-de-sac will reach in a year or two if everybody betting the farm on this high-priced real estate is correct. :-) |
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