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The History Channel just aired a 2-hour special that included an in-depth discussion titled "Holy Grail in America" which talked about the island and the Money
by fname 17y ago
The History Channel just aired a 2-hour special that included an in-depth discussion titled "Holy Grail in America" which talked about the island and the Money Pit. I would recommend catching it if you missed it.
Pretty fascinating as it really gets down to how the Knights Templar discovered America perhaps hundreds of years before Columbus.
http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=481900 http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=...
- jwb119 17y agois it me or has the history channel gotten more and more out there with their definition of "history"? i personally found the "holy grail in america" show to be just a bunch of sensationalist conspiracy theory talk.. 15 minutes of wikipedia-ing shows how out implausible most of the theory that they mentioned is
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- nimaj 17y agois it me or has the history channel gotten more and more out there with their definition of "history"? Sadly, it seems to be the norm these days: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NetworkDecay http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NetworkDecay
- ygd_coder 17y agoWell, they have to do something to get people to watch. Imagine how may people out there almost fall asleep when they hear the word "History".
- jsz0 17y agoIt certainly has tilted in the direction of entertainment over education. It's unfortunate because I do believe there's an audience for serious content. Like most these things days there are much better resources online. The History Channel (like the Discovery Channel and others) exist for people who are curious but not curious enough to step away from the TV.
- dhughes 17y agoOak Island is not that far from where I live, it's been pretty much stripped clean. This has been going on for decades. Farther north east over in Newfoundland is where the Vikings had a settlement and there are some clues up north; Labrador and Nunavut, in the form of stone carvings of hooded monks with Celtic cross symbols. Add to that the Clovis culture in the eastern USA and I'd say people have been in eastern US/Canada many times over the last few thousand years, before the native people arrived.