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Post by itsakeeper on Apr 16, 2014 16:49:05 GMT -4
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Post by Enos on Apr 16, 2014 20:08:34 GMT -4
I saw a documentary on that a while ago, the didn't provide any actual proof, just speculation based on the rocks.
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Post by The Garagemahal on Apr 16, 2014 20:14:28 GMT -4
Ya the doc is a few years old , huge speculation !
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Post by Creepy on Apr 17, 2014 9:11:08 GMT -4
I love me some hidden history, but I don't think this one has much validity. The 'city walls' are recorded firebreaks according to the overhead pics. I didn't read the guy's book, just the counter-point in Bill's link dealing with the fire photo's. There is a good time-line and statements from dozer operators.
I've been up there wheeling....on those roads, it looks like a fire-break full of alders. No old weathered rock walls that I saw. There isn't much ground coverage.
We never found exposed granite, might be worth going back to look for crawling spots.
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Post by itsakeeper on Apr 18, 2014 8:56:57 GMT -4
Just fifty years ago, the Norse exploration of the Americas was still just a theory, rooted in an interpretation of the old Norse sagas. These were tales, often filled with epic poems, written roughly between 1190 and 1320. Sagas purported to describe events of a couple hundred years before, from about 930 to 1030, the events of which had previously only been recounted in oral histories.
The shift started in 1837, when the Danish scholar Carl Christian Rafn argued the purported voyages west of Greenland might really describe expeditions to the Americas. But the matter wouldn't be settled until 1960, when the Norwegian husband and wife team of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad, the former an explorer and adventurer and the latter an archaeologist, discovered the L'Anse aux Meadows site in the northern tip of Newfoundland.
Be nice to find some artifacts to back up the hypothesis - but if it existed it'll take a long time to find out.
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Post by Johnniemac on Apr 18, 2014 10:28:21 GMT -4
I watched that along with another on the same topic. I was kinda planning on a tour up around there this summer for a look see myself. CB is full of lots of really cool stuff and great stories. As a kid listening to tales in half English /half Gaelic was pretty interesting. Just as a side note: to date I have found no buried treasure.  |
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Post by C.B.RENEGADE on Apr 18, 2014 16:19:29 GMT -4
I thought the similarities between chinese and miqmac hand writing was interesting.
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Post by sparetire on Apr 18, 2014 19:24:48 GMT -4
I live in new campbellton and and have walked and wheeled the mountain many times, but have yet to find anything except fire breaks and dozer paths, on that note we should get together for run from the end of new harris rd. to big harbour. anyone interested?
-Tony
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Post by C.B.RENEGADE on Apr 18, 2014 19:47:38 GMT -4
I cruise thru that trail quite often in the summer, heading to the campground.
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Post by Creepy on Apr 18, 2014 22:05:27 GMT -4
Who has a link to the 'pro' side of the story? Bill's link is a de-bunk site.
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Post by Johnniemac on Apr 18, 2014 23:22:25 GMT -4
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Post by Hawkes on Apr 18, 2014 23:25:12 GMT -4
Last month I was at a beach in the Bay where Christopher Columbus arrived in Cuba. There's a monument to him in Cayo Bariay. I ended up reading about Columbus for an hour last night.  |
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Post by Enos on Apr 18, 2014 23:34:03 GMT -4
I think I saw it on Netflix. The show is "Mysterious Ruins: Cape Breton" You can find clips and a news interview on the net, but I haven't found the full show. Lots of nay-sayers and no proof.
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Post by ronin on Apr 22, 2014 7:39:44 GMT -4
I read the book and hiked up to the spot where this is all supposed to be located . Its a private road owned by a guy from Boston . Had to talk to him to get permission to do the hike . took a bit of talking to get him to give the ok . almost felt like he was hiding something . Anyways . there was 4 of us and not one saw anything that looked like there may of been a town or village up there . very barren with lots of spots that looked like a bozer had been through there .
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Post by sparetire on Apr 23, 2014 11:35:21 GMT -4
That would be Allan, before he owned the property i could drive my YJ up that fire road. now its a good hike. ARGO is best for this trip. At least if you hike to the ferry hole you will see something not much up there to see.
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