Buried Treasure in the Apocalypse

"Cristina tells us about the doomsday plot concerning a rogue planet passing by Earth (mark your calendars for November 19th) and Chelsea tells us about the Oak Island Money Pit."

Presented by: Cristina
Category: Extraterrestrial

Nibiru, AKA Planet X, AKA the Twelfth Planet, is a planet that is supposed to be on a collision course with Earth. It was first by Nancy Lieder in 1995, who claimed that she communicated with a race of aliens called the Zetan through an implant in her head she got following an abduction. In her claim, Planet X would pass by Earth and cause the end of the world via polar shifts in 2003. This did not happen.

Zecharia Sitchin later expanded on the mythos, tying it Ancient Mesopotamia. She renamed the planet as Nibiru and the Zetans as the Anunnaki. Sitchin claimed that they had come to earth to mind gold to save their atmosphere and had bred with early humans to make modern humans to be more effective slaves, but had left when their own government shut the project down.

Believers in Nibiru can be counted on to push back the date of destruction when it fails to happen. As of yet, the world is not known to have ended.

Takeaway: Sometime conspiracy theories make great plots for books you know have to write.

Presented by: Chelsea
Category: Historical Mystery, Curse

The Oak Island Money Pit may very well be the closet the world has to real life buried treasure. Discovered in Nova Scotia 1796 when a boy playing on the island found a stone depression in the ground. Following rumors of buried treasure, a company was formed to excavate the island. They found a series of oak platforms buried periodically in the hole. 90 feet into the hole, they found a tablet in code they translated as "Forty feet below two million pounds are buried." After going deeper, the hole flooded and the were forced to try to find another way down.

Numerous companies have formed and dissolved trying to find the treasure. Famous people, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, have worked on the project. There has even been some success, with artifacts and chests of coins. The also discovered that the beach was manmade.

Most recently, the Money Pit is the subject of a show on the History channel.

Theories for the origin of treasure include:


 * Captain Kidd
 * Captain Blackbeard
 * Marie Antoinette
 * The Mason

A curse of unspecified and possibly apocryphal curse says that seven people have to die before the treasure can be claimed. 6 people have died so far.

Takeaway: Sometimes, treasures are real.

Trivia

 * Mentions of Doug and Jim