Hello everyone, Luc Ribeyrol keeps making “investigations” about Rennes-le-Château that only produces his theories without results. How many times before have we come across this sort of thing. In other words, all those people making the claims are just spammers and nothing else. Luc Ribeyrol even acknowledges that excavations are forbidden in Rennes-le-Château. Professional archaeologists don't want to touch the subject matter.

The latest nonsense that has become infected by a similar fantasy is Oak Island, currently shown in 26 countries outside of America – that began its own series in 2014 and is now in its 13th season – and just like Rennes-le-Château, no discoveries have ever been made! And just like Rennes-le-Château, no professional archaeologists are invited or involved and no professional historians are requested!

Some more variations of the same theme:

El Dorado (The Golden City)

Perhaps the most famous non-existent treasure, El Dorado started as a ritual involving a leader covered in gold dust and grew into a myth of an entire city of gold (Manoa) in South America. European explorers, including Sir Walter Raleigh, spent lifetimes and fortunes looking for a city that did not exist.

The Rhine Gold (Nibelungen Treasure)

Mentioned in the 13th-century German epic poem “The Song of the Nibelungs,” this treasure is rooted in mythological literature. It is often considered a symbolic treasure of the Nibelungs, rather than a real hoard to be recovered.

The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine (Arizona, USA)

The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine is a legendary, undiscovered, and likely mythical treasure, supposedly hidden in Arizona's Superstition Mountains. While Jakob Waltz (the “Dutchman”) was a real person who died in 1891 with high-grade gold ore, no credible evidence has confirmed the existence of his alleged mine, and geological studies suggest the area lacks significant gold deposits.

The Treasure of Lima (Isla de Coco, Costa Rica)

In 1820, Lima, Peru, was fleeing Spanish troops, and a fortune in gold, silver, and jewels was entrusted to Captain William Thompson, who was supposed to transport it to Mexico. Thompson allegedly killed the guards and buried the treasure on Cocos Island. Over 300 expeditions have searched for the “largest real-life lost treasure,” yet nothing of significance has been recovered.

The Voynich Manuscript (Various Locations)

This is an ancient, 15th-century book written in an unknown script and language, filled with illustrations of plants, celestial charts, and naked figures. It is considered the “world's most mysterious manuscript” because it has never been deciphered. Cryptographers, scholars, and AI have failed to translate it, leading some to speculate it is an elaborate hoax, while its true meaning remains entirely unknown.

Many of these tales involve specialized, often fatal, searches for treasures that seem to be protected by “traps” or “curses”. TV shows make these mysteries highly popular and of course are driven by massive emotional and financial investment by the believers, often generating books, documentaries, annual conferences and tourist interest without revealing any “material” result.

So it goes, the so-called “mysteries” do not add up to anything at all but tantalising temptations to produce addictions from gullible people, nothing else.

While many of these are in the realm of myth, people have spent decades searching for them, often confusing popular legend with historically verified missing items.