National Treasure: Book Of Secrets.....

Triple B

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Date: 8:00 AM, 03/12/08

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It looks like we have our very own 'Ben Gates' on board here! Welcome! :) I've heard about this 'money pit' before but truthfully not alot. It's fascinating sleuthing material to say the very least. It would be cool if some modern day treasure hunter could solve the mystery of the islands. BTW, I've been to Nova Scotia. What an incredible and wild country and coastline! __________________ If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~~~Stephen Levine~~~

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NEWS RELEASE

NEW READING OF MYSTERIOUS OAK ISLAND INSCRIPTION

Theory points to possible connection with nearby Birch Island

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia: Friday January 18^th 2008- -

For the past two centuries, the tunnels of Nova Scotias Oak Island have piqued the imagination of historians and treasure hunters alike. Now, a new theory by First Nations researcher Keith Ranville may add fresh speculation to the mystery. Based on a unique reading of an inscription once found in the Money Pit, Mr. Ranville believes that the answer to the riddle may be found on nearby Birch Island.

Oak Island, located on the scenic Mahone Bay about an hours drive south of the provincial capital of Halifax, has been associated with buried treasure since the late 18th century. Local settlers reportedly found a ships tackle block hanging from a tree branch, overhanging a large depression in the ground. Early efforts to dig down failed when the diggers encountered layers of timber every 10 feet. In the ensuing generations, several organized excavation attempts have drilled down nearly 200 feet, en route encountering some artifacts within the staggered layers of logs, clay, putty, charcoal, flagstones and most perplexingly, coconut husks. Among the scores of enthusiastic treasure hunters was a young Franklin Roosevelt, one of the investors in a 1909 excavation attempt.

During the earlier diggings of 1800s, the tunnel had become flooded by seawater which many believed was the result booby trap being sprung thus complicating further digging since then. A drilling effort in the mid 1800s was said to have uncovered fragments of a gold chain. In 1971, a camera was lowered into the pit and reportedly captured images of wooden chests and human remains.

One of the most fascinating artifacts from the pit was said to be a flat stone recovered at the 90 foot depth, carrying a mysterious inscription. A fragment of stone with similar symbols was found nearby in Smiths Cove in the 1930s. The stone tablet itself has gone missing, but a record of its symbols remains. Until now, the consensus is that the symbols are a code translated as forty feet below two million pounds are buried. However, Keith Ranvilles theory offers a different interpretation as to the stones symbols, which could lead to a new explanation of the Oak Island mystery.

I believe these symbols have been incorrectly assumed to stand for something else. In the First Nations tradition that Im a part of, we believe symbols should simply be looked at in and of themselves, rather than thinking of them as codes that have to be cracked, Mr. Ranville explained. In the pictograms of Cree Salavics, for example, the images are meant to be descriptive, not abstract. Using this approach, Mr. Ranville examined the Oak Island symbols and found what may be a set of instructions about a tunnel system involving both Oak Island and nearby Birch Island.

For example, the stone inscription begins with a triangle symbol, which is repeated throughout. Mr. Ranville believes that this represents nearby Birch Island, which has a distinctly triangular clearing on its north shore. Likewise, a symbol showing a circle divided into two hemispheres can be thought of as representing north/south directional markers. A series of dots in singles, pairs and triplets may be quantitative symbols.

Examining all the symbols in this way, Mr. Ranville believes that the symbols on the Money Pits stone tablet are actually technical instructions describing the location and layout of a possible underground network involving both Oak Island and Birch Island. There was a fragment of another stone tablet that was found on Oak Islands Smith Cove in the 1930s, Mr. Ranville explained. It too has these types of symbols, but one in particular appears to be a Greek symbol designating underwater door. In conjunction with the other symbols, I believe this points to underwater doors and additional shafts on Birch Island itself. Smiths Cove is on the part of Oak Island that is closest to Birch Island, and is said to have yielded several artifacts itself over the years.

Based on the inscribed symbols, I think we should be looking at Oak Island and Birch Island together in order to solve the mystery. If Birch Island proves to have underwater doors and tunnels around its triangular clearing, then it would be a huge step forward in our understanding of what Oak Island is all about.

There have been many, occasionally bizarre, theories as to what the Oak Island tunnels may contain: a Masonic vault containing the Holy Grail, Viking or Pirate booty, Inca treasure, the French Royal Crown Jewels, payroll for colonial British soldiers or even the secret writings of Francis Bacon. Mr. Ranville prefers not to speculate. Those are interesting and sometimes funny theories, but Id rather just look at the evidence that we do have, and go from there.

Mr. Ranville is a self-taught researcher born in Manitoba. While living in Vancouver, he became acquainted with the Oak Island mystery and began studying it. In October 2005, he relocated to Nova Scotia to further research and advance his theories on the subject.

Both Oak Island and Birch Island are private property, and access must be sought by permission of the landowners. http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/

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Keith Ranville

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Hello my fellow fans. I went to see National Treasure 2 today 12/23/07 and it was great. I thought that because it was Sunday there would be not many people at the threatre. Boy was I wrong. There was an actual line to get into this movie. I felt great. It was a full seating. The movie was great and of course Nicholas was great along with this co-stars. If you have seen this movie I'd really like to hear what you thought of it. Take Care All.... __________________