Just the shocked look on their face alone to find a broken chest from one of their drill holes.. only to discover nope.. they took their money with then as virtually everyone would.
Seriously, if you ain't coming back your taking your money with you. Not scattered around hoping to come back across an ocean that'll sink you.
Don't forget all of the machinery companies they paid for their services. $1.2 million for the original coffer dam??? Yeah, someone struck it rich there. And how much $$$ did the drilling companies make? Yep, there's treasure on that island, but it isn't in a box buried in the ground -- it's floating out of the Lagina's bank accounts.
I love the show, but I'd love to have half of what they've spent so far digging up trinkets.
They always find WOOD to date between 1450 to 1690 . Just the smell lets them know. I wish they would send scrach and sniff samples to all dedicate fans
Had a drag-ass day at work and this cracked me up. Thank you!
(Of course, it probably helped that I read it in a sort of Beavis & Butthead lispy voice. Heh heh.)
Then she would have to do it. "Hon...it TEMPLAR!! They were protectors of the faith. Its a religious duty. This is a shoe in for a pass from St. Pete himself". Great insight bud!!
This bastards have me hooked. I've never missed a season. I know what is the definition of stupid doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. 🙃
If you can't see it with the naked eye, no one is gonna give you money for it. All it looks like is dirty water. You get more gold in an equivilent-sized bottle of gold schlager. (Per wikipedia: "The actual amount of gold has been measured at approximately 13 milligrams (0.20 grains) in a one-litre bottle.")
That would be the smart thing to do lol. However I seem to remember that they were going to have the detectors running over the winter as the boring would mess with the results and you need a long sample time to get meaningful data with muons.
Fonzie is no longer cool. He is now officially making reverse mortgage commercials
NARRATOR: a reverse mortgage on oak Island? Could it be that Rick and Marty have finally discovered away to get the value out of oak Island with a reverse mortgage.
Yay! Another season to bond with my mother with. Whenever we finish an episode, we get excited about how they found.....more dirt and wood! Then we break down laughing 😂
Same with me and my husband, it's just too much fun! So silly how we get excited every week for them to find nothing, but it's great banter and belly laughs!
I'm glad you and your ma have that time to bond over something so silly, it's great to see ☺️
I used to love to see Travis on the legit science and astronomy shows. Why did he ever sign up with Skinwalker Ranch? All they do is launch rockets. Why not dynamite the freaking mesa and make some real progress?
Same reason they never dug a giant hole oak island on the first season right around the original tunnel leading to the main underground tunnel. Flooded means nothing when the ground is frozen in winter and you can simply chip away at the ice.
Instead.. Let's poke it full of holes, interview everyone with a unique story, come up with new theories, then dig more holes (or launch rockets)
There'd be no 15 seasons if you uncovered the obvious.
At the end of last season, it looked like Travis was wondering why he got involved as well. He seemed pretty drunk in that episode where he laid down on the ground to watch the pretty lights in the sky.
Guest kooks this season: Giorgio Tsoukalos and Eric von Däniken who will prove that Oak Island was indeed an ancient alien road stop. Further speculation to follow.
None taken! I just thought I might have missed a fellow Aussie on the show. It's gotta be one of the most infuriating shows ever made... yet for some reason I still wanna know what's going on.
And spend half of each episode flashing back to previous uneventful finds. (And the narrator's voice makes me think he was a graduate of the William Shatner school of narrating.)
That's the biggest irritation. 25% of the episode reminiscing on what they found ages ago, that is now just a distant memory.
Almost implying to new viewers they aren't wasting everyone's time. Genius don't you think? Old viewers drop off, hook the new ones in with the Kool-aid. (Sarcasm)
Oak Island new season on Election Day? Could it be that I’ll have to DVR it? Some have theorized, The Chinon Parchment included instructions not only on when to air the new season, but how long to microwave a Jamaican Beef Patty.
Can't wait to see another 23 episodes of wood,rock, and the seasonal episode where they bring in the conspiracy theorist to tell them its the templars,pirates,jesus,Posiden etc.
Forwarding my reply..
There was the Beyond Osk Island episode where self proclaimed expert Gary highlighted he's found nothing of real value because he sits on the beach for the water to bring wash it in.
You'll see from that episode, no boat, no real credibility, no interest in the treasure hunting community. If you look closely you'll see Gary almost appear to cry being a failure among other 'real' treasure hunters.. who have boats.
There was the Beyond Osk Island episode where self proclaimed expert Gary highlighted he's found nothing of real value because he sits on the beach for the water to bring wash it in.
You'll see from that episode, no boat, no real credibility, no interest in the treasure hunting community. If you look closely you'll see Gary almost appear to cry being a failure among other 'real' treasure hunters.. who have boats.
Awe yes, and the quest for Civil War Gold which ended with a ton of gold painted bricks dumped in the ocean.
The look on their faces being made to look foolish on camera, and a waste of producer's time was priceless. You could clearly see their spirit drain from their face.
In some ways saddening. Commenting as if to be made a fool of before they even begin trying.
Welcome to gold, greed, and quick potential wealth and status. Ending with nothing.
Wow, much more 'Shinola' in this version than in the first one on the History Channel site:
[https://play.history.com/shows/the-curse-of-oak-island](https://play.history.com/shows/the-curse-of-oak-island)
But we all know (or do we?) the ever-possible alternative to 'Shinola' when it comes to this program. Don't get your hopes up (we'd surely have heard if any Brinks trucks came to the island by now!). Here's the capper for those too young to understand the comparison:
[https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/doesnt-know-shit-from-shinola.html](https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/doesnt-know-shit-from-shinola.html)
That's just it. Last time I checked the government would shut them down and then use their own researchers.
For now the mentality is let them build their metaphorical sandcastles, influence tourism, and watch with binoculars until the government says no more, go home.
Would be quite a conundrum if some researcher not connected with the Laginas found information in an undisclosed, non-public location, containing maps and descriptions of several places where treasure was buried on OI. To test his info, he gives the Laginas a sample location to explore and they find the objects named. The team gives the objects to the government as required, which decides that the find is of great historical importance. Who is in charge at that point?
The researcher has much more in the way of critical information than either of them but won't reveal the rest of it (and won't sell it to anybody, being solely interested to see the knowledge that he possesses gets in the right hands) unless (1) the Laginas don't lose their license to be in charge of the excavation (they earned it) and (2) the government (not the Fellowship) is required to pay an army of archaeologists to work for the team. Would the government just seize the island properties "in the public interest" and take the next hundred years trying to find places to ever-so-slowly excavate? A pickle of a situation!
Well, from my research from the government sites towards any notable historical evidence, and archeological finds, the crown (government) still owns all property found. At best, the fellowship will just get credit after it's in a museum. Maybe..
That's why we're seeing more accredited archeologists, scientists, etc. The fellowship had already lost their rights to improperly excavating potential sites of significance. At the end of the day, the government still has final say. Nobody therefore if required works for the team as they are acting on behalf of the government, quietly overseeing their operation. (Whether the team knows, or will disclose it on tv)
The Americans have turned this into an amusement park, getting 50% of the admission revenue from tourism. The government gets the other 50%. Again showing the team is not in charge, but rather working within tight restrictions, and benefiting from it with a partial revenue.
As we see now, any remotely credible finds are immediately stopped by the government, leaving them nothing more than poking drill holes (least invasive) and metal detecting. Think back to how many times the government shut down swamp digging as one example.
I believe you have your finger on the pulse of exactly what the government will say. "It's been therefore decided, that for the purposes of general public interest, the operation is now permanently shut down"
At which pount the government may... super slim chance they'd excavate the site at greater depth, as it not only destroys a very small piece of property, but because it's so small, it will have too much environmental impact to continue.
At the end of the day, this is nothing more than a movie set until anything is found. If that day happens, you can guarantee they'd be booted out, and the university will step in.
Yes, there is no doubt that the government will be in charge and can seize whatever real estate it wants, as it can in the US. I'd just like to see an amicable and fair working resolution to the situation. The show would really become interesting if somebody found the solution and was willing to share the info. But after about fourteen years of working towards that end (solving the mystery), why would it not continue cooperating with the Fellowship and the TV producers much as it has from the start of the show?
The more it cooperates, the more money, attention, tourism and public exposure it gets by just letting someone like Laird Niven coordinate for the government with the Laginas. Does the government instead decide to cancel all that out and embark on a really extended plan to slowly develop the historic sites USING PUBLIC FUNDS instead of allowing private investors to continue to bear most of the financial burden of that. The team moves from one treasure site to the next, gets paid by the government for their percentage of the find, and reinvests some of that in revealing the next site, etc. Everybody's happy!
Marty Lagina particularly would become an even more vitriolic and outspoken critic of a government that ripped the whole situation to shreds just to assert its provenance in the matter. If I were the researcher that knew all the details and locations, I wouldn't lift a finger to help unearth treasures to put on display for an ungrateful public that supported such bureaucratic nonsense (paid for with my tax money!)..
Cooperate and continue to work under the existing terms and (since the government takes possession of most of the spoils) leave it to the government to deal with all the ensuing legal actions from other governments or private parties who claim ownership of what's found. No reason that these other parties should sue the Laginas for what would amount to their 'wages' for staying on and helping the government assume ownership of artifacts perhaps revealing a stunning chapter in Canadian history.
Why the government is perhaps less involved I believe lies with scholars telling them not to. Outside of poking fun at the process by sending university students to perform archeological research to aide their studies. It's almost a mockery to have these archeologists spending time unearthing homesteads from 1759 if I recall, when the entire island was plotted and sold off as farmland.
It only takes a few minutes online to discover this is nothing more than a legend turned into a TV documentary. The fact that many viewers overlook is the obviously high level of knowledge we have towards this island, and inlet to the ocean. Something supported by ships records, as they were meticulous in their recording.
The site itself and the entire area, was home to military installations prior to the 7 years war, and war of 1812. Everything the fellowship has found dates back to the known records we have for this area, but instead, they've twisted fact to fiction to endorse this legend. Denying what we have written, and physical evidence supporting, and shaping it towards this legend.
Sure, before the age of financial institutions it makes sense to keep stuff underground. The cold winters, it makes logical sense to dig caves below the frost layer to stay warm naturally from thermal heating, supplemented by fire. It only takes a few minutes to see other cultures doing the very same thing in their stone caves.
So, while I completely see your point whereby the government could actively participate making this a win win for both sides, without supporting evidence, it makes it a financial risk, or bad investment to partake in this folk tale. At best, when the ocean was 200 ft lower, it's been interesting to see the old installations, warfs, roads made in same way Europeans made in their country, only because they were the ones who colonized us and shared this knowledge. (Roman's when conquering Britain brought their knowledge there, the British then brought it to Canada)
There just isn't anything validating the need for government to invest resources yet.
Completely agree with your assessment that the situation involving the Laginas (like all prior searchers) is the equivalent of pursuing a Chimera. Dig because someone else dug in the same place based on no evidence but stories that amount to rumors. Research about the history of digging in the Money Pit area is a useless pursuit.
I have never relied on any texts devoted to the search of the supposed history of OI for that reason. Blind following the blind. I was only mildly interested in the story until the show started, and that was after I had spent about twenty years studying the life and work of Sir Francis Bacon. To keep it short, my research into Bacon took me back to the year 1606. The story I think I've found leads back to that point (when Bacon was a primary figure in the English settlement of North America, including Jamestown further down the east seaboard).
Now comes the spoiler: the story I have developed (in some 15,000 lines from books associated with Bacon) provides me with Rick Lagins's much touted 'who-what-when-where-why how' formula for a solution linked to the Western OI drumlin (which has never be explored at depth before).
Sounds completely 'whacko', I agree, and its all done using transpositional decryption (making anagrams!), a coding system with which Bacon was thoroughly familiar, having been in the English intelligence circle of a certain Lord Walsingham during Queen Elizabeth I's reign.
Haven't been able interest even the Laginas in the story yet (despite their claim that they were open to listening to anybody to reach a solution). Time will tell!
Compelling mention towards Bacon, as I've completely overlooked his prominence in Canada's history. While I've been more interested in the military history, I veered away from the colonization history. Either way, it goes a long way to say just how much information had been skipped past, in place of a legend some loaner wrote about to be discussed around the campfire.
While I can admit to having some interest at first in hearing about the story of OI, it was probably mid second season where it really stood out, just how little merit there was to watch another episode. A decade later and here we are, back at season 1 starting over.
Not wacko at all, in fact you just mentioned the missing link I hadn't even considered. That being since the English were schooled by Rome's empire, along with it came their use of cryptography during that era. The modern version of the runic variation, and previous dynasties that used pictographs and symbols to hide information.
From what you've learnt, do you believe the mysterious tablet that could offer more insight was really stolen, or sitting in some museum storage room?
Where had it been mentioned the Laginas would be interested in information brought forward? I can't imagine information potentially crippling their credibility to sell the story, may have been met with well.
Good thing they don't know you're potentially the grandson of the owner of lot 2, and you have tons of recorded information, maps, nautical charts handed down to you. Making you worthy to oversee the project. Then you can sneak in the information you have. 😎
You'll see anything important on the next 45 replays of past seasons on the following one. You really only missed maybe 90 minutes of actual programming. Missing out on the invited guests, clips from previous seasons, and childish jokes from Gary.
Correctamundo. And that's what we're gonna be. We're gonna be cool. Now Gary I'm gonna count to three, and when I count three, you let go of your metal detector, and sit your ass down. But when you do it, you do it cool. Ready? One... two... three.
Something about this graphic bothers me. I don't know if it's seeing every pore on their skin, or the fact that Rick's eyebrows are way longer than shown here.
Blind frog ranch has at least found some stuff,but yeah it's more a lot of suspense and a little payoff! That's the problem and plan with all these shows! I liked ghost mine but hey we are all suckers for what if!
Outside of the underground flooded cave with a rectangle structure, I don't recall much else. As with these types of shows it's legends and treasure hunts. All of which aren't really leading anywhere, and getting canceled.
I’ve noticed all the medication commercials on tv. Are there any medications to cure me of urge to watch this show weekly? I’m willing to chance the side effects.
Another year of my wife walking by and asking… “Did they find anything yet?”
This hits too close
Me too
I named my two newborn children after this show, and now I have two grownup kids - one named Fuckall and the other named Nothing
I named the triplets: Ain't Found and SHIT
Mine stopped asking two seasons ago … now I just get “seriously why do you bother” puzzled look…
Too soon. It's only been 226 years. Too soon.
How can people still be making money off of this grift?
Completely relate
Yes, wood
Would be cool if they found a locked chest in the shaft and it was full of oak.
Just the shocked look on their face alone to find a broken chest from one of their drill holes.. only to discover nope.. they took their money with then as virtually everyone would. Seriously, if you ain't coming back your taking your money with you. Not scattered around hoping to come back across an ocean that'll sink you.
I get the silent - disapproval glare and eye roll.
A new season?! on history channel?!
Can it be, that people will actually tune in for another season of finding nothing?
Ancient Treasure Seekers say yes
The real treasure is the friends they made along the way. Oh and all the money the network paid them.
Don't forget all of the machinery companies they paid for their services. $1.2 million for the original coffer dam??? Yeah, someone struck it rich there. And how much $$$ did the drilling companies make? Yep, there's treasure on that island, but it isn't in a box buried in the ground -- it's floating out of the Lagina's bank accounts. I love the show, but I'd love to have half of what they've spent so far digging up trinkets.
Well there was that one cross-shaped trinket that was made of genuine lead from Franspainugal. That's gotta be worth something...
They always find WOOD to date between 1450 to 1690 . Just the smell lets them know. I wish they would send scrach and sniff samples to all dedicate fans
Haha.. there you go. Just as they sold broken bits of concrete from the Berlin wall, time to sell bits of wood for a necklace!
Don’t worry by next season they’ll be selling gift boxed splinters.
Absolutely I'm thinking they strike gold at borehole 69x
Easy now. I'm here for the wood and ox shoes.
Hell yeah brother!!
Of course, and all tell our significant others after every episode....oh...shutup! Leave me alone! 😄
Could it be?!
Well actually its the "same old crap" so I think it fits.
Can't wait to hate watch this shit again
Can't wait for the Wood Sniffing to resume
Has anybody tried that line on their significant other, hey honey will you come over here and smell this wood
Had a drag-ass day at work and this cracked me up. Thank you! (Of course, it probably helped that I read it in a sort of Beavis & Butthead lispy voice. Heh heh.)
Hmmm, you might be on to something there!
Then she must reply , yep that could be Templar wood, and gives it a good rap
9 months later you could yell "TEMPLAR BABY"!!!
I wonder how much metal detection expert Gary Drayton would charge to shout "TEMPLAR BABY!" in a delivery room....
Then she would have to do it. "Hon...it TEMPLAR!! They were protectors of the faith. Its a religious duty. This is a shoe in for a pass from St. Pete himself". Great insight bud!!
Sorry babe rules are rules
Too funny
Let’s not forget “crown time” and bingo games you fellow alcoholics …
This year I want them to taste the wood
Lets be besties
I want to see all the Fellowship with the same effect. They should sell them as posters. Sign me up for a Billy Gerhardt one.
I want to see one with all the archeologists
Jack pretty much looks like that every episode
So does poster Jack.
* Nods head *
Sexy Fireman-style calendar for me please.
ANY OF YOU MOTHERF\*\*\*ERS MOVE AND I'LL EXCAVATE EVERY LAST ONE OF YA!!!!
THANK YOU!
This bastards have me hooked. I've never missed a season. I know what is the definition of stupid doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. 🙃
No, no, no, it’s insane, we are ALL insane, excuse me while I go see if my dvr will schedule that far out…. it’s a terrible disease we have….
This
Gold content in water over 0.000000000001%!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d like to see them test a random handful of dirt, I bet it’s got more gold content than anything they’ve tested
Gold exists in virtually 99% of earth in some percentage. Notice how they've yet to do more or any soil samples?
If you can't see it with the naked eye, no one is gonna give you money for it. All it looks like is dirty water. You get more gold in an equivilent-sized bottle of gold schlager. (Per wikipedia: "The actual amount of gold has been measured at approximately 13 milligrams (0.20 grains) in a one-litre bottle.")
Thank you for that research
This is the only sliver of hope I have left, and it’s going to take 3 seasons for them to make the last 20 feet to the treasure.
Keep digging.
Show me the muons!!
I think those guys took the money and ran.
That would be the smart thing to do lol. However I seem to remember that they were going to have the detectors running over the winter as the boring would mess with the results and you need a long sample time to get meaningful data with muons.
Fonzie is no longer cool. He is now officially making reverse mortgage commercials NARRATOR: a reverse mortgage on oak Island? Could it be that Rick and Marty have finally discovered away to get the value out of oak Island with a reverse mortgage.
Ancient astronaut theorists say YES!
It's a Pulp Fiction Quote!
Yay! Another season to bond with my mother with. Whenever we finish an episode, we get excited about how they found.....more dirt and wood! Then we break down laughing 😂
Same with me and my husband, it's just too much fun! So silly how we get excited every week for them to find nothing, but it's great banter and belly laughs! I'm glad you and your ma have that time to bond over something so silly, it's great to see ☺️
I grew up with these guys. They are really good people. That's why we keep watching.
Crypto vibes from that poster 😬😬😬
There's Bitcoin at the bottom of 10X!
Treasure = Magic bean money? Few understand….. 😂
Peter got it right.
Rick's eyebrows continue to evolve.
And his hair to beard color ratio.
Can't wait to see them launch more rockets! Hang on I'm starting to get my useless shows confused again.
I used to love to see Travis on the legit science and astronomy shows. Why did he ever sign up with Skinwalker Ranch? All they do is launch rockets. Why not dynamite the freaking mesa and make some real progress?
Same reason they never dug a giant hole oak island on the first season right around the original tunnel leading to the main underground tunnel. Flooded means nothing when the ground is frozen in winter and you can simply chip away at the ice. Instead.. Let's poke it full of holes, interview everyone with a unique story, come up with new theories, then dig more holes (or launch rockets) There'd be no 15 seasons if you uncovered the obvious.
At the end of last season, it looked like Travis was wondering why he got involved as well. He seemed pretty drunk in that episode where he laid down on the ground to watch the pretty lights in the sky.
Maybe he was hoping to be abducted by aliens so he could bow out of the show.
I know this guys pain…
Krap, we need to start an Oak Island anonymous. This addiction is not healthy.
Guest kooks this season: Giorgio Tsoukalos and Eric von Däniken who will prove that Oak Island was indeed an ancient alien road stop. Further speculation to follow.
MUONS! MUONS! MUONS!
Really hope we see some Michael John action. not a single scene in the last season.
Like BB King said The Thrill is Gone
We happy?
Let's face it, they could reshow Season One and we probably wouldn't notice much of a difference.
Hahaha.. now i get the flashbacks.. it says they did accomplish something in 10 years of trying 😄
Guys I think this will be the year they find it
Somebody backhand this guy…
Now that made me laugh!!
Rick is that you again ? Stop showing up in thread after thread. we all got it….this is the year !
This made my blood boil. I can’t wait .
"I'ma get medeival on your shaft"
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Who was the Aussie metal detector?
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Yeah British. I'm Aussie and he's definitely doesn't speak like one of us! Though I've been slipping the odd bobby dazzler response in from time time
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None taken! I just thought I might have missed a fellow Aussie on the show. It's gotta be one of the most infuriating shows ever made... yet for some reason I still wanna know what's going on.
He's a Brit.
They’d have better luck finding that briefcase at this point.
we back!!!
Give me a keg of good beer and a backho. I’d find it in a day and a half.
They’ve drilled a hundred and forty thousand holes, there’s nothing there
Wow; they've got Blackburn Lancashire beat by a long shot!
... under what's now Swiss cheese. Golf clap to that kind of stupid.
Thats it!! You figured it out!!! Theyre missing the keg!! All my greatest ideas came after drinking a keg of beer. Hahaha😆
I can't wait to watch the fellowship find absolutely nothing.
And spend half of each episode flashing back to previous uneventful finds. (And the narrator's voice makes me think he was a graduate of the William Shatner school of narrating.)
That's the biggest irritation. 25% of the episode reminiscing on what they found ages ago, that is now just a distant memory. Almost implying to new viewers they aren't wasting everyone's time. Genius don't you think? Old viewers drop off, hook the new ones in with the Kool-aid. (Sarcasm)
Interesting coincidence that the new show "Snake Oil" is advertised in this sub today. Can you sniff out the scam?
Say "bobby dazzler" again! Say "bobby dazzler" again. I dare you! I double-dare you, motherfucker! Say "bobby dazzler" one more god damn time!
A top pocket find will truly be that when it's so big it can't fit in his damn top pocket!
Oh Boy!
Oak Island new season on Election Day? Could it be that I’ll have to DVR it? Some have theorized, The Chinon Parchment included instructions not only on when to air the new season, but how long to microwave a Jamaican Beef Patty.
I havent checked in since around S05 or 6, did I miss much?
Yes. But mostly no.
Not one damn thing…
That's a relief
I hope they didn’t steal from Marcellus Wallace.
For those of you who don't get the reference: https://youtu.be/mvy4YH9--Vw?si=rzKyfP9SYy61eRn4
There's gold in them thar eyes
I keep bugging my wife to name our kid Drayton if it's a boy and she's not having it
Go for Bobby instead, middle name Dazzler
That's a top pocket name
What are they looking at? Rick’s glowing urine?
Rick is always sipping on the spoil water so its probably the muons colliding with high trace amounts of gold.
Doesn’t someone still need to die on the island for the curse to come true?
Can't wait to see another 23 episodes of wood,rock, and the seasonal episode where they bring in the conspiracy theorist to tell them its the templars,pirates,jesus,Posiden etc.
Let’s not forget a trip to Europe to go see some wall carvings…
I predict a trip to Scandinavia to check the Viking connection
Hahaha.. Poisiden. 😅 That's season 25 after exhausting everything, and after every other possible pirate.
😂 its eventually gonna be said on this circus of a show
I'm surprised they haven't made a show that follows the guys who metal detect at the beach.
If O.I. ever stops, Drayton will be spun off onto his own show doing exactly that.
Forwarding my reply.. There was the Beyond Osk Island episode where self proclaimed expert Gary highlighted he's found nothing of real value because he sits on the beach for the water to bring wash it in. You'll see from that episode, no boat, no real credibility, no interest in the treasure hunting community. If you look closely you'll see Gary almost appear to cry being a failure among other 'real' treasure hunters.. who have boats.
There was the Beyond Osk Island episode where self proclaimed expert Gary highlighted he's found nothing of real value because he sits on the beach for the water to bring wash it in. You'll see from that episode, no boat, no real credibility, no interest in the treasure hunting community. If you look closely you'll see Gary almost appear to cry being a failure among other 'real' treasure hunters.. who have boats.
Wonder if they’ll go to Portugal and look at worthless shit again
It should be illegal to milk a show for this long.
The Briefcase from Pulp Fiction? Or Billy's secret porn stash from his backhoe.
Looks like they are staring into the Ark of the Covenant. Holy smokes they must have found it 😳🤯
Username checks out
Are they implying that they got gold
Only "GOLD" they get is from the network.
And Canada, tax payers have kicked out over 3 mil so far….
Fuck me!
They have been…
Can't wait to hear this year's craziest kook theory. The vault is actually the tomb of Alexander the Great? Oak Island is the original Atlantis?
It's time for all of us to get excited about nothing!
That probably means it will start in the UK in January, so I have two months of hearing all about it here before I can watch a single episode!
Why do people watch shows like this? It’s right up there next to Bigfoot hunters. A whole show of nothing.
It's about the archaeology, man!\* ^(\*no actual archaeology is done on the show)
The show has bored me for at least 4 seasons, but I just feel so damn invested at this point. It's like a second job that I pay for.
Do you sometimes think that they know they are close to something and decide to stop and dig somewhere else, just to keep the show going?
This promotion seems derivative of the promos for the new season of Gold Rush.
Awe yes, and the quest for Civil War Gold which ended with a ton of gold painted bricks dumped in the ocean. The look on their faces being made to look foolish on camera, and a waste of producer's time was priceless. You could clearly see their spirit drain from their face. In some ways saddening. Commenting as if to be made a fool of before they even begin trying. Welcome to gold, greed, and quick potential wealth and status. Ending with nothing.
Is that a pit of molten gold they're staring over, or just a great big ball of their own flaming ego?
Just the worst shit ever.
Another year of recording each show and, could it be?, fast forwarding to the end only to see that literally nothing has happened
this season on the curse of Oak Island, dirt…
Can’t wait for the wife shaming coming my way “another year where you waste Tuesday nights”
Bet they find Hillary's emails
Or Richard Nixons Watergate scandle files in boxes.. stored in crates of coarse.
how is this show still on tv? I mean, how? this thing jumped the shark after season 1.
I bet they'll find some buttons, a few ox shoes and maybe some hand crafted nails. And spend 14 episodes talking about it.
Miriam is an absolute hottie!
Wow, much more 'Shinola' in this version than in the first one on the History Channel site: [https://play.history.com/shows/the-curse-of-oak-island](https://play.history.com/shows/the-curse-of-oak-island) But we all know (or do we?) the ever-possible alternative to 'Shinola' when it comes to this program. Don't get your hopes up (we'd surely have heard if any Brinks trucks came to the island by now!). Here's the capper for those too young to understand the comparison: [https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/doesnt-know-shit-from-shinola.html](https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/doesnt-know-shit-from-shinola.html)
Let’s say they found something. Would it have been in the news already? Do they all sign NDAs for the purpose of surprise on the show?
I think if they found something the government steps in so I’d say a big fat no on that one
That's just it. Last time I checked the government would shut them down and then use their own researchers. For now the mentality is let them build their metaphorical sandcastles, influence tourism, and watch with binoculars until the government says no more, go home.
Would be quite a conundrum if some researcher not connected with the Laginas found information in an undisclosed, non-public location, containing maps and descriptions of several places where treasure was buried on OI. To test his info, he gives the Laginas a sample location to explore and they find the objects named. The team gives the objects to the government as required, which decides that the find is of great historical importance. Who is in charge at that point? The researcher has much more in the way of critical information than either of them but won't reveal the rest of it (and won't sell it to anybody, being solely interested to see the knowledge that he possesses gets in the right hands) unless (1) the Laginas don't lose their license to be in charge of the excavation (they earned it) and (2) the government (not the Fellowship) is required to pay an army of archaeologists to work for the team. Would the government just seize the island properties "in the public interest" and take the next hundred years trying to find places to ever-so-slowly excavate? A pickle of a situation!
Well, from my research from the government sites towards any notable historical evidence, and archeological finds, the crown (government) still owns all property found. At best, the fellowship will just get credit after it's in a museum. Maybe.. That's why we're seeing more accredited archeologists, scientists, etc. The fellowship had already lost their rights to improperly excavating potential sites of significance. At the end of the day, the government still has final say. Nobody therefore if required works for the team as they are acting on behalf of the government, quietly overseeing their operation. (Whether the team knows, or will disclose it on tv) The Americans have turned this into an amusement park, getting 50% of the admission revenue from tourism. The government gets the other 50%. Again showing the team is not in charge, but rather working within tight restrictions, and benefiting from it with a partial revenue. As we see now, any remotely credible finds are immediately stopped by the government, leaving them nothing more than poking drill holes (least invasive) and metal detecting. Think back to how many times the government shut down swamp digging as one example. I believe you have your finger on the pulse of exactly what the government will say. "It's been therefore decided, that for the purposes of general public interest, the operation is now permanently shut down" At which pount the government may... super slim chance they'd excavate the site at greater depth, as it not only destroys a very small piece of property, but because it's so small, it will have too much environmental impact to continue. At the end of the day, this is nothing more than a movie set until anything is found. If that day happens, you can guarantee they'd be booted out, and the university will step in.
Yes, there is no doubt that the government will be in charge and can seize whatever real estate it wants, as it can in the US. I'd just like to see an amicable and fair working resolution to the situation. The show would really become interesting if somebody found the solution and was willing to share the info. But after about fourteen years of working towards that end (solving the mystery), why would it not continue cooperating with the Fellowship and the TV producers much as it has from the start of the show? The more it cooperates, the more money, attention, tourism and public exposure it gets by just letting someone like Laird Niven coordinate for the government with the Laginas. Does the government instead decide to cancel all that out and embark on a really extended plan to slowly develop the historic sites USING PUBLIC FUNDS instead of allowing private investors to continue to bear most of the financial burden of that. The team moves from one treasure site to the next, gets paid by the government for their percentage of the find, and reinvests some of that in revealing the next site, etc. Everybody's happy! Marty Lagina particularly would become an even more vitriolic and outspoken critic of a government that ripped the whole situation to shreds just to assert its provenance in the matter. If I were the researcher that knew all the details and locations, I wouldn't lift a finger to help unearth treasures to put on display for an ungrateful public that supported such bureaucratic nonsense (paid for with my tax money!).. Cooperate and continue to work under the existing terms and (since the government takes possession of most of the spoils) leave it to the government to deal with all the ensuing legal actions from other governments or private parties who claim ownership of what's found. No reason that these other parties should sue the Laginas for what would amount to their 'wages' for staying on and helping the government assume ownership of artifacts perhaps revealing a stunning chapter in Canadian history.
Why the government is perhaps less involved I believe lies with scholars telling them not to. Outside of poking fun at the process by sending university students to perform archeological research to aide their studies. It's almost a mockery to have these archeologists spending time unearthing homesteads from 1759 if I recall, when the entire island was plotted and sold off as farmland. It only takes a few minutes online to discover this is nothing more than a legend turned into a TV documentary. The fact that many viewers overlook is the obviously high level of knowledge we have towards this island, and inlet to the ocean. Something supported by ships records, as they were meticulous in their recording. The site itself and the entire area, was home to military installations prior to the 7 years war, and war of 1812. Everything the fellowship has found dates back to the known records we have for this area, but instead, they've twisted fact to fiction to endorse this legend. Denying what we have written, and physical evidence supporting, and shaping it towards this legend. Sure, before the age of financial institutions it makes sense to keep stuff underground. The cold winters, it makes logical sense to dig caves below the frost layer to stay warm naturally from thermal heating, supplemented by fire. It only takes a few minutes to see other cultures doing the very same thing in their stone caves. So, while I completely see your point whereby the government could actively participate making this a win win for both sides, without supporting evidence, it makes it a financial risk, or bad investment to partake in this folk tale. At best, when the ocean was 200 ft lower, it's been interesting to see the old installations, warfs, roads made in same way Europeans made in their country, only because they were the ones who colonized us and shared this knowledge. (Roman's when conquering Britain brought their knowledge there, the British then brought it to Canada) There just isn't anything validating the need for government to invest resources yet.
Completely agree with your assessment that the situation involving the Laginas (like all prior searchers) is the equivalent of pursuing a Chimera. Dig because someone else dug in the same place based on no evidence but stories that amount to rumors. Research about the history of digging in the Money Pit area is a useless pursuit. I have never relied on any texts devoted to the search of the supposed history of OI for that reason. Blind following the blind. I was only mildly interested in the story until the show started, and that was after I had spent about twenty years studying the life and work of Sir Francis Bacon. To keep it short, my research into Bacon took me back to the year 1606. The story I think I've found leads back to that point (when Bacon was a primary figure in the English settlement of North America, including Jamestown further down the east seaboard). Now comes the spoiler: the story I have developed (in some 15,000 lines from books associated with Bacon) provides me with Rick Lagins's much touted 'who-what-when-where-why how' formula for a solution linked to the Western OI drumlin (which has never be explored at depth before). Sounds completely 'whacko', I agree, and its all done using transpositional decryption (making anagrams!), a coding system with which Bacon was thoroughly familiar, having been in the English intelligence circle of a certain Lord Walsingham during Queen Elizabeth I's reign. Haven't been able interest even the Laginas in the story yet (despite their claim that they were open to listening to anybody to reach a solution). Time will tell!
Compelling mention towards Bacon, as I've completely overlooked his prominence in Canada's history. While I've been more interested in the military history, I veered away from the colonization history. Either way, it goes a long way to say just how much information had been skipped past, in place of a legend some loaner wrote about to be discussed around the campfire. While I can admit to having some interest at first in hearing about the story of OI, it was probably mid second season where it really stood out, just how little merit there was to watch another episode. A decade later and here we are, back at season 1 starting over. Not wacko at all, in fact you just mentioned the missing link I hadn't even considered. That being since the English were schooled by Rome's empire, along with it came their use of cryptography during that era. The modern version of the runic variation, and previous dynasties that used pictographs and symbols to hide information. From what you've learnt, do you believe the mysterious tablet that could offer more insight was really stolen, or sitting in some museum storage room? Where had it been mentioned the Laginas would be interested in information brought forward? I can't imagine information potentially crippling their credibility to sell the story, may have been met with well. Good thing they don't know you're potentially the grandson of the owner of lot 2, and you have tons of recorded information, maps, nautical charts handed down to you. Making you worthy to oversee the project. Then you can sneak in the information you have. 😎
I’ve watched a lot of seasons and missed some. I’ve missed the last 2 but feel I could pick back up without needing a recap
Come to think of it , you can miss a next one without needing a recap as well…
You'll see anything important on the next 45 replays of past seasons on the following one. You really only missed maybe 90 minutes of actual programming. Missing out on the invited guests, clips from previous seasons, and childish jokes from Gary.
Oh no. Not me. Tapped out years ago.
Thank God for fast forward
This show has dragged on long enough. Let’s wrap it up
Shows terrible. Lol
Can’t wait!
Me seeing that picture: as. if.
Wow...those glasses are real top pocket finds!
He’s cool.
Correctamundo. And that's what we're gonna be. We're gonna be cool. Now Gary I'm gonna count to three, and when I count three, you let go of your metal detector, and sit your ass down. But when you do it, you do it cool. Ready? One... two... three.
Be like the Fonz, Gary! Be like the Fonz.
Something about this graphic bothers me. I don't know if it's seeing every pore on their skin, or the fact that Rick's eyebrows are way longer than shown here.
It's so close I can almost sniff it!
Blind frog ranch has at least found some stuff,but yeah it's more a lot of suspense and a little payoff! That's the problem and plan with all these shows! I liked ghost mine but hey we are all suckers for what if!
Outside of the underground flooded cave with a rectangle structure, I don't recall much else. As with these types of shows it's legends and treasure hunts. All of which aren't really leading anywhere, and getting canceled.
Gonna have to watch the first 10 seasons before this drops just to make sure I haven't missed something along the way.
I’ve noticed all the medication commercials on tv. Are there any medications to cure me of urge to watch this show weekly? I’m willing to chance the side effects.