Part II will you be responding on this blog with a post. I will tell you more about the post later but it will be an intelligent reflection on your researching.
Now the subject. The Money Pit story involves pirates' treasure from the 1700's.Allegedly buried on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, many attempts to unearth this treasure have been made. All have failed. Some have ended in death... but the search goes on to this very day. A king's ransom in treasure lies beneath 100 feet of beach on the island. You will read a detailed account of the search for this treasure that lies in wait for the lucky treasure hunter who finds it.
Or does it? The other source and podcast will deal with skeptical concerns involving this treasure. Is it really there? You will decide and write on this subject.
First, let's read all about this fascinating topic. Click on The Money Pit and you will reach a website that will tell you the entire story, a tale that will take a bit of time to read. Read the background and then click on The Story. Enjoy.
Next, read the article that takes a different look at this story. It can be found by clicking The Skeptical Inquirer. Skip reading the background and get to his article.
The third part will involve listening to a 10-minute Podcast about this story.
Your final step will be to construct a response to all you have read. Your response should show that you understand the reading and your response should make good logical sense.
Listen to this Skeptoid Inquiry by Brian Dunning.
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ReplyDeleteWe believe that The Money Pit's treasure is possible to, however, the clues that lead to the treasure's findings are difficult to believe. For example, it seems highly unlikely that three, sixteen year old boys can dig a 30x13ft hole on a wimb and manage to exit the hole using only a shovel. In addition to creating a pulley- system using a tree branch, buckets, and rope to pull up several pounds of dirt, the boys would be faced with severe exhaustion. Another factor that leads us to believe that it is not there is instilled by the amount of time spent digging for the treasure. One would think after several long years of excavating, that the treasure would have been discovered by this day in time. Based on all of these facts, this leads us to be doubtful about the existence of the hidden treasure located in the Money Pit.
ReplyDeleteIn our group's opinion, the money pit is a false notion of hidden treasure. There is significant evidence that would lead us to believe that it is just a natural occurrence on the island. For example, the island has been known to contain natural sink holes. One was actually found within a reasonable distance of the money pit. In both the pit and the sink hole a layer a flagstone was discovered, along with a layers of oak logs. To further support our opinion, there is a severe lack of official documentation, especially when the so called 'proof' is involved. The supposed evidence-the gold chain and the inscribed stone- that would augment the argument of the pit actually containing treasure has either been lost or never seen, except in sketches.
ReplyDeleteWe think the story of the Money Pit has some very unrealistic components, therefore we do not see it true. The pit seems very advanced for the type of technology that they would have used in that era. the fact that three teenage boys dug 30 feet deep in the pit with shovels seems very improbable. After making many more "discoveries" people found other places with similar features as the pit. this lead us to think that the "layers" had been natural. so we conclude that the story of the Money and its treasures is illegitimate.
ReplyDeleteWe believe that the Money Pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia is a hoax. The evidence related to the mystery just does not add in together in a manner that proves any existence of treasure. Some people might say that the many layers of wood, stone and coconut husks show that somebody went through a lot of effort to bury something valuable. However, there is a logical explanation; Oak Island is naturally honeycombed with sink holes that could easily fill with tree limbs and oceanic debris over time. The same person may also argue that the alleged "booby trap" , or flood tunnel, was a clever trap made to prevent people from getting to their treasure; but, in real life pirates and vikings were not capable of building such extravagant traps. The beach itself branches off into many natural channels that would surely flood in the changing tides. On the topic of pirates and vikings, testing on the materials found in the pit are dated to be from around 1200: years before any pirate or viking settlements ever began to show up. A final blow to the money pit's existence could come in the form of the engraved stone, gold chain, and parchment said to be found deep in the pit. To this it can be said that none of these "artifacts" have ever been properly documented, photographed, or proven to exist. The only time these things show up on record are when the excavation companies began to run low on funds. A cry for support perhaps? Logic would say it was indeed!
ReplyDeleteAfter assessing both sides of the "does the treasure of Oak Island exsist i have come to the conclusion that it does. I don't think that it is a hox, or that natural causes caused logs to be buried at similar depths in the earth. This isn't possiable. There is no way in the world that this could happen. It is to unrelistic.
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