The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

[Champakian]

History channel ... REALLY???

Just like the Secret of Oak Island, every week, they act like they're going to find something...

... they never find anything, they never will find anything,

but every week they get a substantial number of dumbass viewers
who think that this is going to be the week...

I just shake my head. At least on the gold shows,
they find something every fucking week.

The Cajuns find alligators and
all those people in Alaska and who are Alone find bears...

I'm not sure what the Mountain Men find,
but find it they do or they would be dead.

Pawn Stars, Counting Cars and Forged in Fire. That's the ticket.

Don't even get me started on Ancient Aliens,
those people live in an alternative really.

 

[rockcasbah]

luk skinwalker's a much better alt name than luk skyfokker.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

luk skinwalker's a much better alt name than luk skyfokker.

You're a simple, predicable simp, lil lace.

See, losers, Luk doesn't have to vanity search because Luk knows at least one of you pathetic trolls will have multiple shitpists about Luk before Luk even wakes up. Luk owns you in his sleep.

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[juttjaw]

History channel ... REALLY???

Just like the Secret of Oak Island, every week, they act like they're going to find something...

... they never find anything, they never will find anything,

but every week they get a substantial number of dumbass viewers
who think that this is going to be the week...

I just shake my head. At least on the gold shows,
they find something every fucking week.

The Cajuns find alligators and
all those people in Alaska and who are Alone find bears...

I'm not sure what the Mountain Men find,
but find it they do or they would be dead.

Pawn Stars, Counting Cars and Forged in Fire. That's the ticket.

Don't even get me started on Ancient Aliens,
those people live in an alternative really.

I've been hooked by oak island too many times! I swear, they make a whole season out of 5 days. Oh look! Another piece of rusted iron! The blacksmith says it could be from 1000bc to 2020ad! What a find!

The excavation of the cobble stone path has been tedious. But I still watch an episode every week or so.

 

[HisArpy]

Most of the shows make a big deal out of "WHOA Did you see that?" exclamations. Which of course the viewers didn't see because it was off camera. The "Ghost Hunter" shows are the worst for this. The "Finding Bigfoot" shows are just pathetic.

At least Oak Island does find something on occasion even though, after all these seasons, it's getting fairly repetitive and predictable. What gets me is the fact that these people are fairly successful in business because they aren't stupid, yet they can't seem to find a hole in the ground and keep looking hundreds of yards away (if not further) for it than where it's supposed to be.

It's like those ding-a-lings in the past who thought: "Well gee, the tunnel we're digging filled with water. To fix that, what we need to do is dig a deeper tunnel right next to it, come up from underneath to where we were going in the first place, and we'll avoid the water table that's flooding the other tunnel."

At least the history bits are mildly informative. There's a lot that's known, and still more that's unknown, about that era in that particular location and documenting it is a good thing. I just wish they actually put the bits together with what's known about how people lived back then. Some of the crap they come up with is worse than junk science.

 

[rockcasbah]

luk doesn't have to vanity search...but he does.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

luk doesn't have to vanity search...but he does.

Luk doesn't have to ruin lil lace's life... but he does.

also, this thread was at the top when I logged in thanks to you, brainiac.

 

[Rightguide]

Most of the shows make a big deal out of "WHOA Did you see that?" exclamations. Which of course the viewers didn't see because it was off camera. The "Ghost Hunter" shows are the worst for this. The "Finding Bigfoot" shows are just pathetic.

At least Oak Island does find something on occasion even though, after all these seasons, it's getting fairly repetitive and predictable. What gets me is the fact that these people are fairly successful in business because they aren't stupid, yet they can't seem to find a hole in the ground and keep looking hundreds of yards away (if not further) for it than where it's supposed to be.

It's like those ding-a-lings in the past who thought: "Well gee, the tunnel we're digging filled with water. To fix that, what we need to do is dig a deeper tunnel right next to it, come up from underneath to where we were going in the first place, and we'll avoid the water table that's flooding the other tunnel."

At least the history bits are mildly informative. There's a lot that's known, and still more that's unknown, about that era in that particular location and documenting it is a good thing. I just wish they actually put the bits together with what's known about how people lived back then. Some of the crap they come up with is worse than junk science.

I've seen two episodes of the Skinwalker Ranch series and got the same impression you did. It is interesting the government had it for 20 years though.

Been hooked on Oak Island for years, even before it became a series. Read a book about it as a kid. But I hate the constant repetition of previously mentioned information on the show. I think there is something to the story, what, I don't know. A lot of smart people over the years have believed so as well. These two brothers and their partners have spent millions on this venture. The logistics are complicated and expensive. The latest water test in C1 for metallurgical values that supported findings of a "truckload of silver," are interesting and might support the show for another couple of seasons.

 

[Lazaran]

Luk doesn't have to ruin lil lace's life... but he does.

also, this thread was at the top when I logged in thanks to you, brainiac.

"lil lace" is on you like MTG on AOC.

 

[rockcasbah]

I've seen two episodes of the Skinwalker Ranch series and got the same impression you did. It is interesting the government had it for 20 years though.

Been hooked on Oak Island for years, even before it became a series. Read a book about it as a kid. But I hate the constant repetition of previously mentioned information on the show. I think there is something to the story, what, I don't know. A lot of smart people over the years have believed so as well. These two brothers and their partners have spent millions on this venture. The logistics are complicated and expensive. The latest water test in C1 for metallurgical values that supported findings of a "truckload of silver," are interesting and might support the show for another couple of seasons.

A few interesting things about "the Oak Island Mystery", a topic covered in middle school geography in much of Canada:

- oak trees were not native to that part of Canada
- there were 2 Oak Islands; the one from the show on the Atlantic side of the province and a now flooded one (due to a hydro project) on the Bay of Fundy side
- some say the Oak trees were brought from Europe and planted as navigation markers
- French explorer (and rumored Knight Templar) Champlain's maps of that part of the New World omitted the very large St Margaret's Bay (where the TV's Oak Island is)
- the 2 Oak Islands were connected by the Gold River
- halfway between the 2 Oak Islands on the highest point of land between the two are ruins of a castle with man-made caves/rooms under the ruins
- the land is owned by the Masons
- some believe the mid-point on the Gold River is/was the actual location of the treasure

 

[LukSkyFokker]

"lil lace" is on you like MTG on AOC.

That's why I treat him like the dumb cunt he is.

 

[PaxNurgle]

I believe the fact that they haven't found gold on Oak Island is simply because... it's not there anymore.

I think whoever actually stashed it there (assuming there ever WAS an actual treasure there) probably came back and subsequently removed it. It could be that it was never meant to be a permanant storage vault, only a temporary cache, more along the lines of a bank, and the owners of the fortune have long since made the withdrawal.

On those "Ghost" shows, it always amuses me that whenever Zac Bagans acts like a total douche lord to Aaron and/or the rest of the crew, he conveniently blames it on "Being Deeply Affected by the Negative Energy of the Spirits," or whatever, and it never has anything to do with the fact that Zac Bagans is simply a hot-headed douche lord.

I used to watch those goofballs from Alaska on there, and they were mildly entertaining for a while, even though it turns out that most of that show was actually scripted behind the scenes. The fact that they still call it "Alaskan Bush People" even though none of them actually live in Alaska anymore though...they seriously need to just end that show.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Ghost hunting shows are total bullshit. Dont matter if you believe in ghosts or not, the shows are very obviously fake.

The Oak Island show is idiots with money finding new ways to lose said money. Namely hunting for treasure that doesn't exist.

Never seen and know nothing about the skinwalker show but I've heard enough about the area itself to convince me its bullshit.

Now Ancient Aliens, there's some intelligent, well researched and insightful history right there .

 

[hobbit.]

Some of those series have a certain cache though, "Joel and Avram search for gold in the deepwater disaster fund" is a real drama. it involves creative accountancy, the desire to rob from a disaster fund, lack of judgement, all in all the whole range of human detritus. All shot from spectacular angles with John Woo and Tarantino interested in the movie rights, sound track by metalicca and Babs striesand.
sponsored by teamviewer (solvency permitting)

 

[rockcasbah]

Didn't know about the second Oak Island.

Most don’t.

https://www.oakislandgold.com/the-secret-estate.html

 

[hobbit.]

Its fiction, it sells subscriptions to tv stations.

 

[jaF0]

So, this isn't about a bordello with a secret dungeon?

 

[dolf]

I like Haunted, because delusional and hysterical superstitious people are funny. My favourite ever show had a recording that these eejuts had made of a woman screaming in the woods outside their house.

It was a fox call. The comments section was just full of, " it's a fox..." comments. But they lived in the woods and didn't know what a fox sounds like, and they got on tv without anyone ever telling them.

Awesome!