OK, this isn’t a tech post per se, but I read about this when I was a kid, and while the latest update came from a TV show, I love how the internet has made it possible for me to see it.
In Nova Scotia, there’s a place called Oak Island, and a long time ago (1795, actually,) someone found something interesting: a tackle block hanging from a tree. That’s not terribly exciting in itself, but logic suggests that there’d be something under that, and 1795 logic isn’t that much different from the logic of today, at least my logic, so they started digging.
Flagstones a few feet down. Layers of logs every ten feet or so. Layers of charcoal, putty and coconut fibres at 40, 50, and 60 feet. At 80 or 90 feet, a stone with an encoded inscription. Oh, and somewhere in there, some kind of water channel booby trap to flood the chamber (though this might be a natural occurrence.)
Six people have died to date in the excavation attempts, and theories abound about the nature of what’s buried at the bottom, mostly involving treasure – the stone with the mysterious inscription has theoretically been deciphered to be “forty feet below, two million pounds lie buried.”
I’m calling shenanigans: given that I don’t know how to dig a pit like that with today’s technology, and I figure that means it’s pretty hard to do with technology from hundreds of years ago, I think there’s only one reason someone would dig such an elaborate system on a then-mostly uninhabited continent:
There’s a demon buried below.
Yep, a good old fashioned demon. Some group of badass knights captured the thing and imprisoned it deep in the ground in Nova Scotia, theoretically never to be seen again, or maybe to be held until the technology existed to properly dispose of it. And hey, maybe the demon will get hooked on Twitter and YouTube when it finally gets out.
Just to make this a perfect theory, I think it’ll get out in 2012 to loop the whole Mayan calendar thing into it. I don’t know how they knew, but it’s clear that defeating a demon requires a whole new calendar system. According to one of the leading Oak Island websites, a new dig permit is pending, so 2012 might be the year we finally get answers.
And then I’ll need a new mystery to (passively) obsess over, assuming we all survive. I’m sure the internet will provide something.
