Thursday, April 30, 2009

Oak Island Treasure: Who Buried It?


Oak Island is an island off the south shore of Nova Scotia. Oak Island is the location of the money pit. This is a mystery that has been around since 1795, when Daniel McGinnis, at age 16, made his way to the island, found the pit, and began digging. The money pit is a site of many excavations to recover treasure believed to be buried there. There have been many attempts to get to the treasure, and many people have lost their lives because of their attempts.


After reading all of the possible explanations of how the treasure on Oak Island was buried, I think that the village of Rennes le Chateau had something to do with it.


Renne le Chateau is a quiet village hiding many secrets. There is history that tells of treasure and great riches from Greece, Rome and Jerusalem that have dissappered from all records. This treasure was on a scale of tonnes. It is something that couldn't be easily hidden. Various findings of gold bars from this Holy Land possibly link to the mystery of the money pit. The history of this village involves Rome stealing gold from Jerusalem and taking it back to Rome with them. Three hundred years later, Alaric, was proclaimed King of the Visigoths. He then went and captured the gold from Rome. The treasure had once again changed hands. It is said that the amount of treasure that the Visigoths had acquired was immense. They then captured regions from France, where Renne le Chateau is located.


In the late 19th century, more links to the treasure appeared. Bérenger Saunière was ordained as a priest and arrived to Renne le Chateau in France to take office. As a kid, he enjoyed playing in the woods of the village with his friends, having adventures finding "treasure". When he became priest, some people thought his knowledge of treasure was enough to make him follow his childhood imaginations in hopes of gaining access to the church and treasure. He eventually fell victim to stroke, and his estate was passed on to Marie Denarnaud, his housekeeper and lover. She constantly told people that "they were walking on gold". She too, unfortunately, fell victim to stroke. She took her secrets to the grave.

After a few years, people began finding gold laying around the village. These are thought to have come from the Visigoths, when they transported the treasure between areas. The random gold blocks laying around possibly was from moving tonnes of gold, and dropping some of it.


The Knights of Templar may also have something to do with the mystery. Their presence in this area is definate. It is said that some of the treasure had made it to this village with them. They would have been eager to protect a treasure of religious importance.


It is a mystery to all about how the treasure got to Oak Island, who put it there, and whether or not this is all a big hoax. Maybe someday, these answers will finally be found.


Thursday, April 2, 2009

UFO's: Visitors from another world or natural events?

I don’t really have an opinion on UFO’s. I think it can go either way. It is quite possible that there is life on other planets. There’s no way we would be able to know. There are many planets in our solar system that could support life. If people from earth can visit other planets, why cant beings from other planets come to earth? It is also very easy to not believe in UFO’s. Why would creatures from other planets come to the earth and not try to communicate with humans? There has not been any evidence of UFO’s either. It is also very easy to mistake spaceships for a natural event. Stars have been mistaken for UFO’s. Flocks of birds have also been mistaken for them. Many people claim to have seen UFO’s but they have no evidence. Some people could easily claim to have seen one and make false pictures. Some people think they have seen a UFO, when really they haven’t. It is an event that is quite hard to understand and explain. It is impossible to prove this theory when there is no evidence.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Crop Circle Narrative


Its 2029, and chimpanzees have taken over the earth. My name is Chester the chimp. I’m here to tell you about the most unexplainable thing that I have ever seen outside the city of Edmonton. I saw a crop formation. There isn’t even an explanation as to how this crop formation got there. It must have been formed very quickly and secretively. I was in this same field the night before, and didn’t notice anything out of the usual. Maybe my chimp eyes are failing me.
Last night around nine o’clock p.m. the stars and moon were shining brightly and illuminating everything in sight. My brother had stolen my banana earlier, and was running around the brightly lit field with it. I, being my easily amused self, began chasing after him. I wasn’t going to let him win this one. Breathlessly, the chase continued on for a few minutes. I ran as fast as I could, for I was almost caught up, and then I tripped. I thought I had tripped over a big massive rock, but then I noticed what looked to be some unknown carving in the field. In the green grassy field sat a bunch of lines and circles intricately set in a complicated pattern.

My brother noticed me staring at something, and stopped dead in his tracks. He came closer to investigate the unknown. I was completely confused as to what I was staring at. It didn’t seem to make any sense at all to me. Nobody said I was a smart chimp. The pattern was the strangest looking thing I have ever seen. It seemed to be made up of lines and about five circles. Each circle looked to be fifty feet in diameter. The lines looked to be 15 feet wide. The formation looked endless. I stood there, jaw dropped. These circles looked to form a perfect diamond. One in the middle and four surrounding. Two of the four overlapped the middle circle. Perfectly straight lines connected the five circles. The five circles were all faultlessly the same size. The two outside circles are filled in with a smaller circle in each. It is almost inexplicable.

I wonder how it got put there. The formation was much too big to be manmade, and there was no way the wind could form something so complex. A huge machine could not have ever made something so perfect; so unique. I bet there is nothing like it anywhere else. I had heard of crop formations before, but never thought I would get to see one with my bare eye. My brother decided that a scientist chimp had made the pattern. I definitely don’t believe that. Maybe some unknown living being from another planet made it.

The next day, I had told my sociology class about this crop formation. None of them believed me. I described it in great detail (like I am in this assignment) and still no one believed me. They told me they wanted proof. I told them to get their brother to steal their banana, and run into the field, and they will see the crop formation that I saw. By the end of this story, a lot of my classmates had thought I had gone bananas.