Ranville?s Inscription Symbols
Folks,
The symbols which Keith is attempting decipher for the purpose of promoting himself as some great shaman Cree decoder are nothing more than a 20th Century fabrication by author Charles Driscoll. Driscoll fabricated the symbols for his book Doubloons and admitted to doing this very thing. Not only did Driscoll fabricate the symbols, he also fabricated the number of symbols.
Keith arrived in Nova Scotia in Oct 2005, his interpretation of the symbols pointed him in the direction of Little Gooseberry Island. He promoted Little Gooseberry with the same conviction as he promotes Birch Island today. Inconsistencies with the translation were pointed out and Keith went looking for another target of opportunity.
Keith was made aware of the Driscoll information and to use caution when conjuring anything relating to the stone. Keith then started showing photos of what he thought to be the original inscribed stone and defended the symbols. The stone in fact was manufactured by Oak Island author D?Arcy O?Connor for the TV show ?In search of?. D?Arcy personally told Keith on a public forum that he made the stone and also the number of symbols on the real stone were anyone?s guess.
After finding nothing of significance via google earth, Keith then retranslated his symbols to now point towards the Middle River. He promoted the Middle River as having an access tunnel with large granite counter balanced protective doors. He promoted the Middle River notion with the same conviction as he promotes Birch Island today. Inconsistencies with the translation were pointed out and Keith went looking for another target of opportunity.
After finding nothing of significance via google earth, Keith once again retranslated his symbols to now point towards his ?Skull Island?. Keith was so sure of his interpretation that he even attempted to apply for a Treasure Trove Permit. Again, he promoted Skull Island like he does Birch Island, and once again inconsistencies were pointed out to him. Additionally, Skull Island did not have anything of interest which Keith could associate to a treasure or to promote.
The community itself was now becoming tired of Ranville, especially as he was starting to become nasty towards those who pointed out inconsistencies in his translations.
In about March of 2006 or so, Keith found his Birch Island Illusion. Finally he found something he could promote. The feature itself is nothing more than a result of geological conditions causing subsidence due to the underlying lime based Windsor formation. Nearly every Island in Mahone Bay sits above the formation and nearly every island in the bay which is situated above the Windsor formation has some sort of swamp or feature which can be ?illustrated? to appear as a triangle.
Keep in mind, Little Gooseberry is north north east of Oak Island, Middle River is north, and skull island is north west; yet Birch is east.
When challenged to explain his Birch Island illusion and how he somehow now translated the symbols yet again to change the location, Keith says he knew of Birch Island the entire time. If you care to examine his original TTL application which cost him a $500.00 deposit (lots of money for welfare Keith), you can clearly see he did not apply for Birch Island. It was not until he finally found something worthy of promoting did he amend his TTL application to include Birch Island.
That is how it all unfolded on a public forum.
I?ll write an article on the stone?s actual history that will show how baseless Ranville?s claims are, along with another post to show the real information on his supposed triangle of stones.
Posted on: February 21, 2009, 01:59:35 PM
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Also are thery any theories you can dismiss for sure (e.g. Templar, Shakespeare ... just to give some examples) ...
That's a really exciting topic!
Regards,
Christian
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Christian,
I would prefer to think that no Templar or Shakespeare theory has been proven valid.
A book by Dave Goudsward will be out shortly which shows the supposed assertion of Knights Templar having gained protection of the St. Clair of Scotland as historically invalid. This connection is the supposed imputus to associate the Templar (proper) to the New World.
I do have the Latin text of Henous de Sancto Claro and Willielmus de Sancto Claro testimony at the Templar trials held in Scotland. Henry would be the second Baron of Roslin, Jarl Henry's great-grandfather and his brother William who would be appointed the Bishop of Dunkeld in 1312. This makes it a little tricky to hide a mob of Templar when your brother is a local Papal VIP.
Basically, they say "If the Templar were good Christians, they would not have lost the Holy Land". Considering the context of 1308 Catholicism, this was a damnation comment on the group which the family could not go out and secretly support.
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