they were the elite the SAS of medieval
knights in armor they thought they were
invincible they would go in first they
would come out last rich they're
effectively multinational corporations
the keepers of holy relics said to have
mystical powers if you touch them then
you had a connection in court but when
the Templar knights were smashed by the
French King there was many evil
equivalent of a adorned police raid
their legendary treasure disappeared
they found nothing yet alluring and
intriguing clues survived shrouded in
mystery
they were fanatically secretive from
ancient French castles and secret codes
to an ingenious pit across the Atlantic
to try and get the treasure will drown
could this be the tantalizing trail that
leads to the lost treasure of the
Knights Templar
turn back the internal tide of time by
almost a thousand years and an enduring
legend bee catches a legend forged on
the long and dangerous pilgrim route
from Western Europe to the Holy Land and
the hallowed city of Jerusalem travelers
risk violence and even death at the
hands of bandits who preyed on pilgrims
around sacred Christian sites like the
Sea of Galilee
a Russian monk who visited the region
described the danger in 1106 this place
is very dreadful and dangerous many tall
palm trees stand by at the town like a
dense forest this place is terrible and
difficult of access for here live fierce
pagan Saracens who attacked travelers at
the fort's travel all the roads was very
dangerous because any Lord who owned
land by the side of the road reckoned it
was his right to take toll off anyone
that passed protection money if you like
some groups decided not to pay and
fought so notoriously certain pilgrim
groups didn't get to Jerusalem because
they were either come to pieces or take
a prisoner amid the turbulent times of
the early Crusades a small group of
devout French Knights appeared in
Jerusalem
willing to dedicate their lives to
Christ
but the country needed fighters not as
men the trade and so the later accounts
say they went to the patriarch of
Jerusalem the head of the church and
Jerusalem has said we want to do
something to help present him we are
Knights and he said for your sins i
order you to protect the pilgrim modes
these were highly trained fighters and
the Knights were at the top of the
medieval military machine they were the
medieval equivalent of a tank they're
fully armed knight on a horse which was
also honored I was pretty formidable so
it could have only taken one or two
knights to protect a road and keep it
fairly safe they became known as the
Knights Templar after basing themselves
on part of Jerusalem's historic Temple
Mount
apparently the Templars asked to be
based in the al-aqsa mosque which they
referred to as the Temple of Solomon
they believed that it went back to the
reign of King Solomon that great wise
king of ancient Israel the Temple of
Solomon had been destroyed by the Romans
in 70 AD during the Jewish uprising so
nothing was left but it was an area
steeped in mythology Solomon was
famously the wisest of all men once
called the Poor Knights of Christ
the Templars became rich enjoying papal
privileges lucrative tax breaks and
lavish donations Templars became very
rich because people in the West heard
about what they were doing and thought
wait I want to help so they gave them
money they left the money in their wills
they gave them land which raised an
income they even created their own kind
of Bank and the equivalent of a modern
traveler's check to protect pilgrims
money
the templates to develop a system
whereby you handed in your money for
example in Paris who wouldn't shit the
sense when he's gone in you present your
shit when you arrive in a cut and you
could have your money back
the Templars had become rich and
influential in cities across Europe for
the pious envious cash-strapped French
King Philip the fair the Knights had
become a threat rivals to his authority
that had to be eliminated Philip was
determined to destroy the order and
would stop at nothing to achieve his
ends the mighty order of knights would
be brought down by charges of the most
heinous of crimes heresy he had
installed spies in the order he got
people to join the order and they were
reported back to fill it the same or
strange things are going on a month
before the arrests secret instructions
were sent out to the Kings officials the
Bailey and the seneschal's in the
various parts of France and they were
instructed the Templars were to be
arrested at all on Friday 30th October
and nothing was to be said about this
beforehand so it was a dawn swoop the
medieval equivalent of a adorned police
raid it was a very well a very slick
operation that was carried out seemingly
without any warning
almost all the temples in France were
arrested
we're psychology is not a modern
invention it was well known in the
Middle Ages that if you want to catch
somebody off guard door when they're
silly in bed is the best time to get
them and the templars were arrested on
this Friday the 13th something which
shocked people because they were a very
powerful and established group and there
were literally hundreds of those centers
and this event
he was so shocking that to this day the
idea of Friday the 13th in France
is synonymous with idler thrown into
prison and tortured many confess to
shocking crimes of heresy
Philip the Fed he was very clever with
his son spin-doctors he had got them to
confess and a torture of course that
they denied Christ and spat on the cross
the charges of heresy worsted shop these
were standard charges brought against
other people that the King of France
wanted to get rid of and get their money
the Pope was also threatened by the
French king's inquisitors and was forced
to dissolve the order of the Templar
knights in 1312 several years later
after languishing in prison
the Templars elderly grand master
Jacques de Molay was burnt to death as a
heretic
we suddenly showed a huge amount of
resolve he's also said by some
chroniclers to have called the Pope and
King Phillip to meet him before God
within the year to account for their
actions this has become known as the
curse of Jacques de Molay and it came
true
apparently the Pope died on 20th of
April just a month later of a stomach
complaint and Philip himself died before
the end of that year he died in November
13 14 in a hunting accident he was a
fanatical Huntsman and at this time he
didn't come back from the hunt the place
where Jacques de Molay was burnt alive
together with one of his companions can
still be seen in Paris today two tomb
shaped portals marked the spot where the
life of the last Grandmaster was
extinguished but some 700 years on the
legend of the Templars continues to
thrive myths that have swirled around
them through time telefon tastic
treasures and divine relics found deep
in the ruins of solomon's fabled temple
the idea the Templars were digging into
the temple mount's a mortal woman nobody
at the time wrote about that and I think
the Templars would have talked about it
had they been doing it as well because
they like to advertise their activities
as a way of raising money
Jurek some excavations carried out in
the 19th century and tunnels discovered
which has been dubbed the Templar tunnel
it's not beyond the realms of
possibility that the Templars could have
discovered something whilst renovating
their part of the temple platform if
they were interested in the legends of
King Solomon one of these stories about
Solomon was his fabulous wealth the
pathway upon his wisdom he also had a
lot of gold and we know that the the
treasure of the temple was actually gold
and silver and precious stones and so on
which after 70 AD when the Romans
destroyed the temple went missing could
such legendary riches excavated from the
heart of the Holy Land still lie hidden
in a secret Templar Treasury
links between the Knights Templar and
legendary holy relics have some
foundation evidence recently uncovered
suggest the Templars hid the Shroud of
Turin set to hold an image of the
crucified body of Christ could the
Templars have secretly removed such
treasures from the Paris temple before
their arrest in 1307
when Philips men went into the Paris
temple on that Friday morning all they
found basically were Templars and they
didn't find any treasure troves no
storerooms or chests full of gold the
hunt for the fabled lost treasure of the
Knights Templar had begun
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according to one alluring tale a band of
French Knights escaped before Philips
dawn raid taking their hoard of treasure
west towards England and a former
Templar fortress as Yasur
perched on a huge mound on Mott it was
here that some Templars found themselves
imprisoned in their own Tower
Hetch tin to the walls of the so-called
prisoners tower ancient graffiti can
still be seen as she saw including
enigmatic symbols interpreted by some as
clues pointing to the Templars lost
treasure a chariot which may have been
used to transport riches and biblical
relics and mysterious figures of what
appear to be North American Indians the
former Templar stronghold has attracted
many visitors through the ages including
a Victor Hugo but was it the prolific
creative artist who wrote lame
Miserables who signed his name in the
ancient walls one has to wonder if it
was just someone else who engraved
Victor Hugo's names luckily we know that
Victor Hugo wrote that he really did
visit Gaeseong and that the site had a
profound effect on him in fact he
details that he carved his name twice at
the castle
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Victor Hugo was not the only one to be
enchanted by the enigmatic Templar
Castle urges or
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a caretaker rajala moi moved into the
fortress in 1929
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he sparked a sensation and a frantic
hunt for the legendary lost treasure
this is where he worked and lived and he
knew the legends told in the area about
the treasure which might be a Templar
treasure clearly he was impressed so
impressed that he started to such
imagine being in his place the end of
the day comes the castle is closed and
he is alone so he starts digging and he
will do whatever he needs to do taking
his time he even asked for permission
from the Town Hall to excavate in the
Town Hall told him yes go on excavate if
you find something they will cross that
bridge when we come to it so he pushes
ahead the Germans come and seize the
castle he's very worried but in spite of
everything he carries on it becomes his
obsession he keeps going and searching
he carries on searching the war ends the
Germans leave and he keeps going he
keeps searching and one day he is
digging above us here in the dungeon he
thinks an amazing pit and there he finds
something raja lemah
claimed to have found an underground
chapel crammed with vast riches in lurid
detail he described an elaborate vault
with 19 stone sarcophagi each 2 metres
long and 30 chests full of precious
metal none other than the Templars lost
treasure
he alerted the local authorities but
when a town committee investigated the
dig all they saw was a hole in the
ground
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possible when people arrive to check
what he has told them all they see is a
pit that has not been securely supported
and which has been constructed in levels
it does not seem stable and looks as
though it's going to collapse two people
nevertheless try to go down but come
back again quickly for fear of being
buried alive the head of the local fire
brigade was one of those who risk their
lives to investigate the pit once safely
back on the surface he reported a
tantalizing clue one of the things that
she farm and was reported to have said
was that he threw a stone in and that he
did hear an echo but at no point did he
say that it was an underground room he
just said that he heard an echo and that
is the only testimony that confirms that
l'amboise did find a cavity despite the
fire chief's fascinating report local
authorities ordered that the unstable
pit should be filled in as soon as
possible the caretaker who claimed to
have found a vast Templar crypt filled
with treasure was also sacked and
expelled from the castle the pit was
filled but the legend of Lost Templar
treasure could not be buried
then in the 1960s a popular book sparked
renewed interest in the so-called secret
Chapel the French Culture Minister
ordered a full-scale excavation it is
highly probable that Andre Malvo was
persuaded of the presence of something
within the Mart and he then ordered
archaeologists to come on and start
digging and in the first instance they
agreed since there was a possibility of
finding something some searches were
made but very quickly the archaeologists
announced that it was not possible for
the Mater to be hiding an empty cavity
but now all insisted very strongly we're
carrying on the searches Dickie etc as
the archaeologists ran out of money to
carry on this task
after a while they decided to stop
working on this site this is when Andre
Mahal decided to send in the army over
you know me
the army battled through excavations at
the Mart for more than a month
at the end of the operation came at Curt
report the result was negative but once
again the legend of the Templars lost
treasure refused to die
despite the lack of any real evidence
the emerge reef or PSA's acted as
military forces do so they sealed the
perimeter and they dug and evacuated the
earth which is the origin of the theory
of trucks carrying off the treasure
buried in the mouth the fact that we are
forgetting is they never found a
construction if it existed they would
have found it but nothing was found
there's no evidence anything was
actually found that she's all stories
circulate but when you look at the
stories they're contradictory nothing's
actually being produced that says this
was found that she's all so it's another
one of these treasure hunters stories
intriguing but when you dig in there
there's nothing there but why would the
discredited caretaker rajala moi invent
such a lurid story of a secret Templar
chapel one person who knew the caretaker
suggests he was acting on real
information meaning that somewhere
somehow a hidden Templar treasury may
well be waiting to be found
Roger Lenoir
never entered this room he never found
it he knew of an exact description of
the room where he may have had a plan of
it and Roger Allam was crafty as he was
adopted the following tactic he dug
obviously but he didn't find anything at
least not the chapel decided to gain
maximum publicity the Shockers knowing
if the chapel was found they thought
that he would be granted a share of the
discovery
a temperature knob said catch by lack
events ended or the teens tempted blur
mobile terror step elevates a sick teen
perch with a hoard of treasure if it
wasn't married and G's or perhaps clues
or even the treasure itself lies beyond
France across the channel in Britain
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in a historic corner of London Street
names a tube station and a template
church still stand as evidence of the
Knights once influential presence in the
capital
the design of the temple Church in
London was inspired by the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
inside lies real historical treasure
stone effigies of Templar knights and
other relics of the past
from London the legendary Templar
treasure trail leads to the northwest
and an old country family estate where a
collection of Georgian fathers appear to
contain tantalizing clues
the house and gardens at Shugborough
Hall were built and landscaped by the
rich and influential Anson family
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the ansan family who date back for a
very long time they were English
nobility English aristocrats and they
were very close to royalty and to the
government I would use the word
influential they were very important
people who were effective in altering
history
the ansan family fortune was amassed by
George Anson a navigator and Royal Navy
captain who attacked Britain's enemies
on the high seas
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his capture of a Spanish galleon and
it's phenomenal treasure made the ansan
family especially rich
after George Anson died it was his
brother Thomas who took over
responsibility for the family estate
spending vast amounts of his deceased
brothers money
the monuments in jean briault were built
on the back of this Spanish silver that
was captured the Spanish treasure and
Thomas Anson the elder brother who was
Abel who lived him wanted to spend all
the money really wanted to play show
pura into a national league he wanted
Shoukry to be considered amongst the
most important houses of the day so used
all this money to use the best
architects
the best artists and to completely cover
the
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that the parkland with these up-to-date
brand-new modern monuments very
different very unique of the eight
monuments scattered across the grounds
one has been linked to the legend of the
Templars lost treasure it's the so
called Sheppard's monument referring to
a copied image of the Arcadian shepherds
by the French painter Nicola Pusa
letters carved into the marble below a
seen by some as part of a secret code
linked to an ancient enigma one of the
strangest most intriguing mysteries
about the shepherd monument here Chopra
the only ten letters underneath the
monument itself there's a D lower than
the other eight with an M at the far end
the alleged cipher that uses these
separate letters each tin to the
Shepards monument has been nicknamed the
DM code those who believe it could be
the key to an ancient mystery claim that
the DM code was mentioned by the
infamous 16th century prophet of doom
Nostradamus a quatrain in his book
centuries reads when the inscription DM
is found in the ancient cave revealed by
a lamp lure the king and Prince
OPN tried the Queen and Duke in the
pavilion undercover this could be
interpreted as when the DM code is
decrypted a very ancient underground
place will be found then laws kings and
princes will be seriously tried could
this underground place refer to a secret
Templar chapel the DM code is a
relatively modern invention yet people
have been trying to decipher it for more
than 200 years perhaps the key that
could unlock the DM code lies beyond the
enigmatic gardens of Shugborough Hall
in Paris where the painting featured on
the Shepards monument Nicola Pusa is
17th century masterpiece the Arcadian
Shepherds is kept of the Louvre the
painting features three Shepherds and a
woman gathered around a tomb in a
dreamlike landscape representing Arcadia
a kind of ancient Greek paradise on
earth
on the tomb a Latin inscription reads at
in Arcadia ego which could be translated
as I too am in Arcadia but there is
another entirely unorthodox translation
the Latin phrase can also be read as an
anagram
I take Oh arcane day which means I keep
God's secrets the Shepherd's hands have
also been seen as lying in an unnatural
and uncomfortable position was the
artist trying to convey some sort of
hidden message
Nikola Pusa was commissioned to paint
the Arcadian Shepherds for an
influential Cardinal who would
eventually become Pope
it wasn't only the painting but the
artist himself who seemed to attract the
attention of influential figures the
king of France was interested in nikola
Pusa and a letter between mutual friends
of both men seems to suggest that the
painter held the key to some fantastic
secret part of that letter reads he and
I have planned certain things about
which I will be able to fill you in
shortly things that because of monsieur
pasa will give you advantages that Kings
would find it difficult to extract from
him and perhaps after him nobody will
rediscover for centuries to come and
these are things so difficult to search
for that nothing on earth could be a
better fortune and this cannot be
equalled what were these secrets that
could give such fantastic advantage to
their holder that nobody on earth would
be able to gain it again for centuries
to come
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legends of treasure hidden by the
mystical Knights Templar and an apparent
trail of clues left in ancient monuments
and paintings leads to a historic church
in the Eternal City
Rome the Church of San Lorenzo in new
China was erected on ruins linked to an
ancient Christian cult curious relics
include a small door which opens to
reveal a throne used exclusively by the
Pope during Privy Council meetings and a
monument dedicated to the French painter
Nicola Poussin
beneath his bust is another engraved
replica of his famous painting the
Arcadian Shepherd's it's this mysterious
picture that was chosen to honor his
memory
above hundreds of other works
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a fellow-countryman the novel is
Chateaubriand the monument erected in
1832 it features a latin verse that pays
homage to Pusan but it also seems to
suggest that his paintings hold some
sort of clue hold back your pious tears
poo sir lives in this tomb he had given
his life without knowing how to die he
keeps quiet in here but if you want to
hear him speak it's surprising how he
lives and talks in his paintings
if Pusa held some kind of magnificent
secret perhaps the solution can be found
in his paintings
the Arcadian Shepherd's has attracted
the interest of influential people over
the centuries including King Louie the
fifteenth and hundreds of years ago it
was this very painting that the great
navigator George Anson had engraved on
the mysterious Shepherd's monument at
Shugborough Hall but this carved replica
is not the same
a finger that originally pointed to the
letter n is missing the carved image has
also been inverted with the addition of
a pyramid on top of the two what does it
all mean there are many theories and
interpretations and some of these lead
back to that mysterious and secretive
order of holy Knights the Templars
some say the carving represents the tomb
of Christ the shepherd s Mary Magdalene
and the bearded Shepherd a Templar
Knight
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letters are also said to be hidden in
the card image letters that point to a
compelling tale of Knights crossing the
Atlantic centuries before Columbus
discovered the Americas according to
this theory letters on the monument can
be decoded to read the name of the
Canadian province Nova Scotia amazingly
one of the words that appears in the
carving of Poussin's painting refers to
exactly the same part of the world by
taking out the are in Arcadia as
suggested by the Shepherd's thumb the
word acadia appears
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this is the old French name for Nova
Scotia
but what links the Knights Templar and
their legendary lost treasure to a far
off shore across the Atlantic in Canada
the trail of these elusive Knights and
fabled riches found in the heart of the
Holy Land now moves to the North
American continent
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here evidence of secret societies linked
to the Templars can be traced back to
the earliest recorded settlements on
Canada's east coast
the French colony was governed by Isaac
Durazo Lee a great night in the hospital
ei order of some John of Jerusalem which
inherited some of the Templars worldly
goods
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a descendant of those early settlers
gol-do se has tried to find the origin
of the French name Acadia
and they're not sure of the origin and
at 1524 an explorer called Verrazano
named the region surrounded philadelphia
Arcadian a paradise on earth according
to greek mythology and some people think
that when the max would carpet the
region was moved higher on the map but
later in Arcadia they dropped the art to
make Acadia
we're not 100% sure according to another
theory the name Acadia comes from the
indigenous Mi'kmaq Indians like other
native people on the North American
continent their legends passed down
through generations they tell of white
skin people who came from the ocean well
before Columbus intriguingly some
Mi'kmaq Indian art resembles the red
Templar cross on a white background but
there's no evidence they made it to
North America a long way from their
original mission in Jerusalem Temple is
escaping to America is a great fantasy
isn't it what would be the point in
taking treasures to Nova Scotia when the
whole point of the order was protect you
Aslam yet in Nova Scotia the
appropriately named Gold River leads to
more glittering conjecture and legends
of hidden temple a treasure
the river flows into Mahoney Bay where
one of a dozen islands hides a real
mystery which remains unsolved to this
day
the oak island treasure pit legend began
in 1795 a local man Daniel McGinnis
apparently stumbled on a small Glade
amid the oak trees he saw the faint
outline of a small depression as if
something was buried there believing he
may have stumbled across a horde of
pirate treasure he went back to get
tools and two friends to help him local
tourism director Danny Hennigan
describes what happened next they
started digging in this depression fully
expecting to find Peyer gold they ducked
down about two feet struck something
hard in the hole with their shovels of
course they were expecting to find a
treasure chest and as he uncovered this
object in the hole they discovered that
the thirteenth foot in diameter
oppression was actually opening up into
a thirteen foot in diameter shaft and
the the hard thing that they struck in
the hole was actually a layer of flag
stones that was covering the mouth of
the shaft that had debris filled so they
continued digging taking those rocks out
and expecting of course any moment to
find treasure some three meters down
there was no treasure but a kind of
wooden platform
they removed it and kept digging only to
find another wooden platform 9 meters
beneath the surface at that time of
course they felt that they were in over
the heads excuse the the pun but they
decided then to try and get help from
mainlanders and they couldn't get any
help people were actually scared of Oak
Island because it's always had a
superstitious character about it and of
course at that time in 1795 people
didn't have the time really to pursue a
treasure hunt and a lot of people
thought these three young men were quite
crazy actually new excavations began
several years later in 1803 around every
three meters the treasure hunters hid a
platform of wooden beams heart-shaped
stones fragments of coal and coconut
fibers were also found then some 28
metres down they hid a mysterious stone
the stories tell us that the digging was
easy and we interpret that as meaning
that the words a lot of large stones
would be removed and the earth was
easily removed obviously because they'd
been refilled again so at the 90-foot
93-foot level they found the stone that
later became known as a warning stone
for the inscribed stone
they roll the stone over they found that
there's characters itched into the face
of the stone such as none of them could
interpret it wasn't a known language at
least to anybody there at the time and
they took the stone and pitched at the
one side and continued digging in the
bottom of this pit the purpose of the
so-called warning stone became clear it
appeared to mark a boundary digging
beyond it workers found themselves
engulf by water flooding into the pit
the next day or so when they came back
they finished off this dig they
discovered there was 60 feet of water
laying in this pit and they tried to
bail them they couldn't they tried the
bailing with buckets they didn't have
pumps at that time at least not on Oak
Island to use and though their spirits
are crushed and they basically left Oak
Island
the flooded pit remained inaccessible
for more than 40 years the infamous
warning stone disappeared
by the 1900's the pet attracted hordes
of treasure hunters eager to try their
luck at defeating the flood defenses
that seemed to protect whatever was
buried there they included a certain
Franklin D Roosevelt future President of
the United States
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no treasure has been found but evidence
has been uncovered of an ingenious tidal
flood trap one of the most vexing and
damning problems trying to secure the
treasure or solve the mystery of Oak
Island has been the water that has
appeared deep underground in Oak Island
at first of course people thought of his
natural water inclusion until they
discovered it was saltwater and not only
was a saltwater but it Rosenfeld with
the tide so they knew there must be a
connection between the money pit where
they are digging for the treasure and
the ocean and they went to the what was
them the most obvious location five
hundred and twenty feet away in a place
called Smith's Cove so as they're
walking across the beach when the tide
went out they noticed the water was
gushing from the beach from the sand as
it was being squeezed from a giant
sponge they notice that was a very
unusual trait to find in any Beach so
they started to do some excavation and
when they are finished they had
excavated over 145 feet of the beach
surface five feet deep and they
discovered buried under layers of sand
and gravel and stones eel grass and so
much coconut fiber the artificial beach
concealed an elaborate network of
channels they ended in a kind of storm
drain linked to the so-called treasure
pit
it is felt by many people that this is a
structure that was artificially buried
in the ground by the depositors with the
intention of securing the money pit so
that if you didn't know the way to get
into it you'd be stopped by the flow of
the Atlantic Ocean and it's worked very
very well and it's even suspected that
there's more than one flood tunnel in
fact it's known by treasure hunters that
there may be two of these flood tunnels
who could have devised and built an
artificial beach irrigation tunnels and
a multi platform pit at least 30 meters
deep
although Oak Island is mired in mystery
there have been some real fascinating
finds including an enigmatic piece of
parchment that lay hidden under almost
50 metres of soil and stones legends of
lost treasure lead to this mysterious
Canadian Island where an ancient
parchment fragment could hold the clue
to a secret burial pit this piece of
parchment actually exists for this day
but it was studied by experts at Harvard
University and was declared to be a
piece of sheepskin parchment upon which
there's writing in India ink done with a
quill pen other artifacts have been
found in Oak Island have been Spanish
style scissors that we found under the
beach and Smith's Cove a heart-shaped
stone that was found in those in the
same area and during some deep drilling
exercises on Oak Island back in the
1970s or late 60s they actually brought
under the ground pieces of chain pieces
of drawn wire and metal that was so
brittle that when it was exposed to air
or was so old that was exposed to air
turn brittle and oxidized immediately
there's conflicting evidence as to the
age of materials found in the pit timber
has been dated to the Year 1575 to an
accuracy of plus or minus 85 years but
coconut fibres recovered at the same
site were found to be much older
there's a lot of skeptical analysis
about Oak Island but one of the things
the skeptics cannot explain away is the
coconut fiber that has been found in Oak
Island and it can actually be found on
Oak Island still if you know we're at
the dig some of those coconut fibers
actually been in that analyzed and has
found have been from the year from the
seventh century or perhaps the sixth
century now I don't know what the
accuracy level is of the carbon-dating
that was done but nonetheless that's the
information we have to work with coconut
palms are not native to Nova Scotia
someone must have brought the fibers
there some believe the Oak Island Pit
bears all the hallmarks of the legendary
Knights Templar or their descendants
engineering skill military discipline
and secrecy but for one scholar other
equally fascinating scenarios are more
probable if you're looking for people
digging tidal pits from Nova Scotia
where there were all those Vikings from
settled in Greenland couldn't it be them
who are doing it there was still a
Viking settlement of Greenland until the
late 15th century and then they
disappeared where did they go
nobody knows something mysterious has
discovered like a pits or a cave with
mysterious markings and then people
automatically think oh it's got to be
the templates the most interesting
fairies to me center around the Templar
knights I find those theories very
interesting although it is kind of ten
of them the Templars had ships based at
La Rochelle on the northwest coast of
France before they were attacked by the
ruthless King Philip in 1307 we know
that some boats left La Rochelle what
was on them we just don't know at all
and those boats vanished they would have
had to have gone somewhere that was
beyond the reach of the church and
Philip the places that would have been
most likely would have been England and
Scotland but those who think the
Templars could have made it to Nova
Scotia point to the presence of related
organizations like the Order of Malta
and the Freemasons among the region's
early settlers in the sixteen and
seventeen hundreds yes there have been
some things found with regard to the
Templar theory the sort of fire people's
imagination one of the many things has
been discovered on Oak Island is a stone
with a letter G carved into it now if
you do some research on the Masonic
Lodge you'll discover that the letter G
is one of the symbols that they use on
their allegory and the letter and of
course the Templar knights can be
connected with the Masonic Lodge as well
Oak Island is now privately owned
excavations continue but so far no
treasure has emerged from the enigmatic
tidal pit
yet real Templar related treasure does
exist
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near the place where the first master of
the order Hugh de panne was born a
breathtaking horde of hundreds of silver
coins dating from the Templar period was
found in 1998 by bernard de la Cour
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and apotheca is also nobody the coins
were stuck together forming packages
packages of coins it was impossible to
estimate the quantity to start with but
I nevertheless realized from the
beginning that it was a major discovery
but the silver horde isn't the legendary
Templar treasure of biblical wonders
Solomon's Temple or ancient world
changing wisdom although they were
brutally crushed some 700 years ago the
Knights Templar live on in legends that
illuminate modern lives dulled by gray
suburban conformity
we live in this culture which is very
very materialistic and the templars
offer a bit of romance mystery and
intrigue
I think palaces are to enjoy and to
enliven our darkened hours but we've got
to remember that they are fantasy I know
some people based their lives around the
Templar myths I think that's quite
dangerous actually
you can lose touch with reality myths
and legends are at the most interesting
when they remain undeciphered when they
have been created for that purpose if
this is more common than you would
imagine
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