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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. :-)