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The Curse of Oak Island (Original Post) kaycee22 Nov 2019 OP
Great show. safeinOhio Nov 2019 #1
Had a teacher in high school safeinOhio Nov 2019 #3
I've watched every episode kaycee22 Nov 2019 #5
I'm looking forward to the first episode tonight! I never miss it. shraby Nov 2019 #2
I recall reading, back in the 1960s, a "Readers' Digest" article about the legend. John1956PA Nov 2019 #6
Nothing happened there. Dr Hobbitstein Nov 2019 #4
Something happened there, I don't doubt that one bit. Figuring out what is shraby Nov 2019 #8
Nah, nothing happened there. Dr Hobbitstein Nov 2019 #10
pretty elaborate hoax lapfog_1 Nov 2019 #9
The hoax was the original Reader's Digest article. Dr Hobbitstein Nov 2019 #11
So FDR was a dupe? flotsam Nov 2019 #16
Apparently so. nt Dr Hobbitstein Nov 2019 #17
Something happened there.... Historic NY Nov 2019 #7
im living on top of mels hole.. anything is possible.. samnsara Nov 2019 #12
LOL!!! I recall that on Art Bell. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2019 #13
I just started watching it catchnrelease Nov 2019 #14
Unless multiple people flotsam Nov 2019 #15
That is part of the hoax and is untrue. Dr Hobbitstein Nov 2019 #18

safeinOhio

(34,090 posts)
3. Had a teacher in high school
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 10:00 AM
Nov 2019

that made the class read the Readers Digest article about the treasure. He said he thought a student might give him a suggestion to help him solve it. That was 50 years ago.

kaycee22

(62 posts)
5. I've watched every episode
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 10:08 AM
Nov 2019

At this point I'm more interested in who was there and when than in what treasure there might be.

shraby

(21,946 posts)
2. I'm looking forward to the first episode tonight! I never miss it.
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 09:57 AM
Nov 2019

I also read the first article about it back in the '60s.

John1956PA

(3,374 posts)
6. I recall reading, back in the 1960s, a "Readers' Digest" article about the legend.
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 10:09 AM
Nov 2019

I can not say that I am a believer that any treasure is buried there. The last that I read about the saga was a few years ago. At that time, the dig site was privately owned and no excavation was occurring there.



shraby

(21,946 posts)
8. Something happened there, I don't doubt that one bit. Figuring out what is
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 10:23 AM
Nov 2019

the major goal.
I'd just like to find out what before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

lapfog_1

(30,168 posts)
9. pretty elaborate hoax
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 10:44 AM
Nov 2019

all accomplished 100 to 400 years ago.

Some things are simply wishful thinking... seeing patterns that really aren't manmade... Stories about Templar Knights and treasure or artifact from the Crusades...

but I think it is possible that there was a treasure buried there with an elaborate trap system of box tunnels to flood the chamber where the treasure was kept... only various people have already discovered most, if not all. of what was stored there a long time ago.

Historic NY

(37,859 posts)
7. Something happened there....
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 10:17 AM
Nov 2019

its just what. They have dates all over the map. I'm just wondering if it was a place for careening or heaving down vessels.

catchnrelease

(2,014 posts)
14. I just started watching it
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 08:35 PM
Nov 2019

I'm watching on Prime/History and am only at the beginning of season 2. It's interesting to see how modern tech is being used now. Years ago I read a book called The Big Dig (published in 1988), which was about the pit etc. But back then they had none of the new equipment, so it was pretty primitive. It's been so long now, I'm not sure which people were involved with the searching. I would guess it was the Blankenships. I don't buy into the Knights Templar theory or that Shakespeare's papers are there. It's just fascinating to think that someone engineered the whole deal, with the booby traps etc. That's what I want to know about.

I really enjoy the show but the commercials are horrible! Same ones over and over and over! I wish there was a way to skip through them, at least when watching the older episodes, so I could catch up faster.

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
15. Unless multiple people
Tue Nov 5, 2019, 08:42 PM
Nov 2019

over decades are lying there were distinct markers as each 10 foot level.That doesn't happen by accident nor does anybody do that as a scam past the first ten feet...

 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
18. That is part of the hoax and is untrue.
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 08:43 AM
Nov 2019

It's a natural sinkhole.
History Channel once ran a special debunking most of the myths.
Of course, now they have a money-making TV show that has found nothing of value in the 6 years it's been on.

https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/treasure-hunters-flock-to-oak-island-where-no-one-has-ever-found-treasure/

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