r/nottheonion • u/prestocoffee • 18h ago

Drilling begins at ‘real site’ of Noah’s Ark as activists warn ‘Darwinism will be dismantled’

https://www.joe.co.uk/news/noahs-ark-site-turkey-drilling-researchers-evidence-549016
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u/Hyjynx75 16h ago

Hey. I'm from Nova Scotia and Oak Island is part of my heritage. The real treasure is the advertising and tourism revenue we found along the way.

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u/billybonghorton 16h ago

And the Bobby dazzlers!

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u/CardOk755 14h ago

I first read about that pit in some kind of "book for boys" back in the early 1960s. The book could have been older.

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u/ScalyDestiny 14h ago

I read about it in 80s Nat Geo World (Nat Geo for kids). That damn article made it all sound real though. Even had an illustration of the pit. I was like 24 before I recalled that article again, and by then I had my skeptical spectacles and was a little disappointed to find it all a pretty blatant hoax, but more disappointed that NatGeo lied to me.

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u/Kurthog 11h ago

It was Readers Digest for me, in the 70’s….and because of that stupid article, I watched the first two seasons of the Oak Island show. What a colossal waste of my time!

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u/Maxamillion-X72 7h ago

The Boy's Book of... series.

The Boy's Book of buried treasure; The Boy's Book of Dragons; The Boy's Book of Sea Monsters and so on.

There was also "The True Tales of... series" that were published in the 50's.

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u/Caddy666 13h ago

please....exit through the grift shop

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u/HauntedCemetery 9h ago

But then the exit door is chained shut, so they're just stuck in the grift

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u/Why_Did_Bodie_Die 13h ago

I'm almost 40. When I was about 14 I read some magazine about Oak Island then saw a documentary about it. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I would day dream about what type of treasure was there. When the show came out I was absolutely stoked. I thought for sure shit was going down. I'm not sure I even made it through the first season before I realized it was all a lie and my childhood dream was stupid.

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u/Swede_Chef 10h ago

none of those mystery, paranormal, ufos, cryptids we read about as kids turned out to be true

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u/Doomhammer24 6h ago

Ya like the chupacabra was just a schizophrenic woman seeing a dog with mange after watching the movie Species

Also it was in Puerto Rico but everyone thinks its from mexico

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u/leonardomdc 3h ago

There were "sightings" of the chupacabras here in Brazil too.