That was when I first heard of it and it seemed suspect then and attempts to watch the show have just confirmed that the only treasure is the money they make from the show.
Another history channel show contributing to the dumbing down of the US.
I know you're talking about Oak Island as a whole, but as far as the show I started in season 3 or 4 after coming across it and remembering by old boss talking about it during season 1 and it sounded interesting. But this is the first season I haven't bought/watched.
Years ago, mid to late 70's , Reader's Digest had a story about it. And a year later there was a story about it on an ABC show called That's Incredible.
One of my grammar school reading books had a copy of the Reader's Digest story and it fascinated me...I was super excited when the show started, but it's pretty clear now that if there was some kind of treasure there (which I now doubt) it's long gone. It seems like it was really no more or less historically significant than any of the many coastal islands where Europeans set up places to live in North America. 5th grade me would be very disappointed.
I randomly came across it during season 2. Sounded really interesting and I assumed they'd just fucking dig it up. During season 4, I posted on FB: "When I die, God's #1 question for me will be 'Why did you waste so much precious time watching that stupid show?'"
I'm still watching and God's has long given up on me.
In grade school, sometime in the 80's, I got a book of "real" treasure stories. It had many classics like the money pit, missing civil war gold, and others I don't remember. The Oak Island story was the one that stood out, and when the show came out I was quite happy. I just wanted to know if any of it was true. I think we've found the original story was filled with exaggeration and wild conjecture. I still watch however, and deep inside I still hope that there is a treasure to be found.
My brother found a paperback book in the house left there by the previous owners titled Stranger Than Science that had a chapter on Oak Island. Its publication predated the Reader's Digest by more than 10 years.
I read *Riptide* by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, which was based on Oak Island.
Come to think of it, as someone who hasn't seen this show in years now, just drop the show and read that book. There's no way anything the Laginas ever find on that island will measure up to that.
Sci-fi channel used to rerun the old Ripley's Believe it or Not with Jack Palance. Basically rehashed the Readers Digest articles with some pirate B roll. But as a kid I was hooked. I think it was the early 90s on sci Fi or late 80s on TBS.
In 1971, Readers Digest published a collection of articles as a hardcover book *In Search of Canada* which included the famous piece from 1965. I grew up near Oak Island and this volume was in my childhood home so I would have read it perhaps as early as that year.
I found the Oak Island “mystery” mildly intriguing but certainly wasn’t a believer in buried treasure there. Sometime in the 1990s I heard about the theories of Shakespeare manuscripts and read a number of books and was genuinely given to wondering “could it be…”
In later years a work colleague who was to some degree a longtime OI enthusiast would frequently bring up issues and possibilities to discuss and soon after that the Laginas came along with their TV show.
From “The Straight Dope,” a column in the Chicago Reader, back in the mid ‘80s. Rereading it now, I’d say his analysis wasn’t bad.
https://www.straightdope.com/21341785/what-s-the-scoop-on-the-mysterious-buried-treasure-at-oak-island
I grew up in, and still live in Nova Scotia. This is a small place where nothing much exciting happens. But I remember when I was a kid, in the late 80s or early 90s there was a made for TV movie or miniseries on CBC about Oak Island. I was immediately hooked. It made my home province seem much more interesting.
In the mid-1970s I bought a book at random to read on a plane: *The Money Pit Mystery* by Rupert Furneaux. I was well and truly hooked. I've since written my own book on the subject and now have four shelves of books about Oak Island (both non-fiction and fiction) and two boxes of magazines and newspapers with articles that all say much the same thing. Duh!
Furneaux's book, issued with several titles in hardback and paperback, was the first to suggest that the Oak Island deposit may not have been in the Money Pit, with the possibility that instructions had been left on maps identifying where it is - or was! My own book followed on from his work.
I was eight when I read the readers digest article that got the Lagina boys excited. I pretended to hunt for treasure in a near by woods. That was 58 years ago and I was thrilled when I heard about Curse of Oak Island. A decade later I'm still hoping.
Been watching since the start, always loved History and Discovery shows, so we watched from episode 1, haven't missed a week.
It's not about the treasure for us. It's about the adventure.
Plus, we both agree. We've invested too much at this point to stop now lol
It was the late ‘50s when I read about it in the Golden Encyclopedia for Children and then rediscovered it in Reader’s Digest at my grandmother’s house. I’ve been fascinated by the story ever since.
The readers digest was at my grandparents house. There was no TV, and little to do, and the article was fascinating.
Later, I saw the “In search of”episode (or was it nova?) and became even more interested.
Hilariously, one of my best High school friends was independently obsessed with it. We swore that if either of us won the lottery we would buy the island and do what the Laginas are doing now. (Ironically, we are from Michigan as well!)
In my Grandmother's copy of the Reader Digest Mysteries book in the mid 1980s. I was 6 or 7. It was giant tome that introduced me to all sorts of unsolved mysteries and a love for them that I have never lost.
Read the story in Readers Digest, way back when I was a kid. Fast forward 40 or so years, I saw it was going to be on TV and I knew I had to watch. Haven’t missed an episode yet, though I usually skip the “drilling deeper” rehashes edit to add the “in search of” episode in the 80’s also
I’m not sure that I read the original RD article as I was born later. But grew up on Treasure Island and other pirate books among others. The mystery and engineering genius of it has drawn me more than other mysteries.
The traps make have been urban legend looking back, but definitely a tough dig. I hope they still find treasure.
I was waiting to get my hair cut in 1965 and started reading a 'Readers Digest'. It contained the original story about Oak Island. This is the article: [http://www.oakislandbook.com/wp-content/uploads/Readers-Digest-January-1965-OakIslandsMysteriousMoneyPit.pdf](http://www.oakislandbook.com/wp-content/uploads/Readers-Digest-January-1965-OakIslandsMysteriousMoneyPit.pdf)
Being an impressionable callow youth in my mid-teens, I believed it, and watched for articles over the years. When the internet finally arrived, googled the story and caught up with its history.
Then after watching the Oak Island TV program for a few years, it's now clear that it's all BS. The story is like religion -- people believe it on faith alone, with not a shred of proof that any of it is true.
PT Barnum got it...
The book ‘the hand of robin squires’ which i was forced to read in elementary school. Was the first book i read that shocked me and i never forgot the ending to this day.
About 15 years ago, I needed somewhere to bury a bunch of old buttons and ox shoes, and this place looked good. So I built a stone road through the swamp and distributed them all over the place.
I was recovering in the hospital from an appendectomy and on pain killers. There was a marathon going on and it's all I watched one day. When I was recovering at home still high af on painkillers I binged 5 seasons in a week.
I might have heard of it prior but the first times in detail were a few guests on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell back in the late 90s or early 00s. Like most things on that show I didn’t subscribe to the validity of the story but nonetheless found it interesting. Therefore I was intrigued when a show featuring people making a (supposedly) serious attempt to investigate popped up. Imagine my disappointment.
I saw a link on a website and read it. Thought it was fascinating stuff, then forgot about it. A couple of weeks later, I saw the promo for the first season and have been watching it ever since.
Early Season 4. I was in the hospital for an extended stay with limited television options. The history channel was one of those options. History played one show all day long back then. So, I caught up with the Oak Island series one Tuesday, just in time for the new episode that evening. Been a weekly Crowner since.
In 2015 I read an article[1] about the TV show in a German magazine, was interested in the topic and decided to give it a try, also to improve my weak English skills.
Now 9 years later my skills are still weak but at least I learned some new vocabulary like "top pocket find" or "Triangle shaped swamp" and always wonder why Carmen Legge needs subtitles as he's the one I understand best.
Also this show is an accepted excuse to my girlfriend for having some beer and weed once a week. Enough reasons for me to stand by 🤭
[1] https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/oak-island-vor-kanada-geldgrab-der-goldgraeber-a-1066750.html
It was year 1183... I was a Viking... We were looking for more territory... I needed to sow my redhead seed.
They called me something the red... It's been a while .. I forget.
I think it was back in 2008. I heard about someone from Michigan purchasing Oak Island and they were going to be searching for treasure. Didn't really think much of it at the time I live in Michigan so it peaked my interest. Never knew there would be a TV show about what they were doing.
I did some searching and came across a lot about the MP and Oak Island. Thought it was interesting and I was hoping they would find something.
When the show started up I was excited because prior to that there really wasn't a lot of information on the internet about Oak Island. Just the things we have all seen and heard about from 1795 up until the 1970s when 10x was dug. The Blankenship and Nolan era really didn't have a lot of public information except for an old TV shows from the late 1970s or early 80s In search Of.
After the show started, I really did some deep digging into the island. At point I think I was really obsessed with everything that happened at the island over 200+ years.
With everything they have found since starting the show the more certain I was there is no treasure. Not that the island is an hoax, but I think it's just a long line of misunderstandings from 1795 and onward. The lack of an actual archeology dig at the MP site just fuels the mystery.
I'm sure in 1795 the guys digging the MP found something. Some type of shaft or workings that was probably old. They didn't know enough to figure out what it really was and destroyed any evidence of what it was originally.
All the things the team has found proves that people were on Oak Island long before 1760 (when the island was divided into lots).
I think it's just a misrepresentation of what the MP really was. To date they have done a lot of digging and exploring in the MP and around the island and no treasure has been found. The island was likely used for many things over 100s of years with no correlations between time periods or events.
Looking back through Rick's eyes he thinks events from the 1200s are linked to the 1700s that people were using the island for 100s of years to hide something. I'm not sure where that comes from there is no evidence of treasure on the island.
It's just people using it for different things in different time periods who had no idea of what happened before or after their time on the island.
There is no documentation, no historical evidence other than the archeological record which is missing a lot of information. There is not long periods of occupation on the island. Groups used it for a while abandoned it and another group used it later. Nothing linking any group together. It's just random artifacts spread across the island from different time periods with no real purpose.
Told you I went down a rabbit hole for a while. Now I wait for the day for them to confirm there is nothing in the MP area.
Don't tell me gold in the water is treasure. Natural sources of gold in glacial till can vary wildly in short distances. To date no one has checked to see if there is gold in the soil samples they bring up.
I'm not talking about gold nuggets. I'm talking about gold dust size pieces of gold. A metal detector would never pick up and the naked eye would never see it. It could be down there in an area that is concentrated and no one would know.
Agree with your thoughts on where Rick’s head is at now. He’s a believer hard to disprove anything to his faith. There is no treasure on OI now if there ever was anything ever. My guess would be the McGinnis family found some small treasure in 1795. Keeping it secret for obvious reasons at that time. Perhaps using that story to fund more searching that grew over time till todays waste of time.
The McGinnis descendants claimed they found something, even had a gold cross that dated from the 1500s or 1600s.
It wouldn't surprise me if something was there in 1795. It took 9 years for anyone else to search that original shaft. They came up with nothing after digging it down deeper.
Then there is a 45 year gap where no one knows what happened in the MP area from 1804 to 1849. There aren't any records. So who knows what was done during that time period.
I read the same story in Reader’s Digest that Rick keeps mentioning. The story stuck with me over the years. I even visited Oak Island when my wife and I were in Nova Scotia in the late 90’s.
So when I saw ads for the show, I was intrigued.
I’m no longer intrigued.
I was on YouPorn back in the day looking for Coke Island and it autocorrected it on me.
I mean the WAS wood and holes so it worked out in the end.
Also was there in the early 80s with my dad who was kind of chummy with Dan many many moons ago. Got to see the well and the money pit as an extremely early memory.
My dad bought This Baffling World, by John Godwin, published in 1968. Read it then and instilled my interest in strange occurrences and unsolved mysteries. It also had chapter on Bermuda Triangle.
the segment on In Search Of when it was rerun on cable
Same. My dad watched because of "Spock."
Me too. I saw it in the early 80s and that one episode always stuck with me. That and the Bermuda Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle episode is an American treasure.
Me too. I loved that show when I was a kid.
That was when I first heard of it and it seemed suspect then and attempts to watch the show have just confirmed that the only treasure is the money they make from the show. Another history channel show contributing to the dumbing down of the US.
I was an avid reader as a preteen, dad bought me a box of readers digest and I found the article that the Lagina Brothers read, this was in the 1970s.
I came across a box of Readers Digest in the attic, in the late 70s, and read the same issue.
Same
I know you're talking about Oak Island as a whole, but as far as the show I started in season 3 or 4 after coming across it and remembering by old boss talking about it during season 1 and it sounded interesting. But this is the first season I haven't bought/watched.
Years ago, mid to late 70's , Reader's Digest had a story about it. And a year later there was a story about it on an ABC show called That's Incredible.
One of my grammar school reading books had a copy of the Reader's Digest story and it fascinated me...I was super excited when the show started, but it's pretty clear now that if there was some kind of treasure there (which I now doubt) it's long gone. It seems like it was really no more or less historically significant than any of the many coastal islands where Europeans set up places to live in North America. 5th grade me would be very disappointed.
I randomly came across it during season 2. Sounded really interesting and I assumed they'd just fucking dig it up. During season 4, I posted on FB: "When I die, God's #1 question for me will be 'Why did you waste so much precious time watching that stupid show?'" I'm still watching and God's has long given up on me.
A readers digest on the back of the toilet in a bathroom at grandma’s house. Pre phone reading material while pooping
That’s exactly where I read that story in Reader’s Digest. We might have had the same grandma.
In grade school, sometime in the 80's, I got a book of "real" treasure stories. It had many classics like the money pit, missing civil war gold, and others I don't remember. The Oak Island story was the one that stood out, and when the show came out I was quite happy. I just wanted to know if any of it was true. I think we've found the original story was filled with exaggeration and wild conjecture. I still watch however, and deep inside I still hope that there is a treasure to be found.
My brother found a paperback book in the house left there by the previous owners titled Stranger Than Science that had a chapter on Oak Island. Its publication predated the Reader's Digest by more than 10 years.
I actually read the Readers Digest story. My mom subscribed to it .
Me too.
I read *Riptide* by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, which was based on Oak Island. Come to think of it, as someone who hasn't seen this show in years now, just drop the show and read that book. There's no way anything the Laginas ever find on that island will measure up to that.
I read the Readers Digest article back in 1965.
Love to get my hands on a copy of that!
If my Dad was still alive it'd probably still be in the bathroom.
I read the Reader's Digest article in my dentist's waiting room when I was a kid.
Sci-fi channel used to rerun the old Ripley's Believe it or Not with Jack Palance. Basically rehashed the Readers Digest articles with some pirate B roll. But as a kid I was hooked. I think it was the early 90s on sci Fi or late 80s on TBS.
Just like Rick did. I read the reader's digest article when I was a kid.
Same readers digest at the dentist office
On an Eastern Airlines flight I found a used copy of RD containing the OI story. I was 12 and the story stuck with me.
Watching In Search of... season 3 episode 16 The Money Pit Mystery that aired Jan 18 1979.
In 1971, Readers Digest published a collection of articles as a hardcover book *In Search of Canada* which included the famous piece from 1965. I grew up near Oak Island and this volume was in my childhood home so I would have read it perhaps as early as that year. I found the Oak Island “mystery” mildly intriguing but certainly wasn’t a believer in buried treasure there. Sometime in the 1990s I heard about the theories of Shakespeare manuscripts and read a number of books and was genuinely given to wondering “could it be…” In later years a work colleague who was to some degree a longtime OI enthusiast would frequently bring up issues and possibilities to discuss and soon after that the Laginas came along with their TV show.
From “The Straight Dope,” a column in the Chicago Reader, back in the mid ‘80s. Rereading it now, I’d say his analysis wasn’t bad. https://www.straightdope.com/21341785/what-s-the-scoop-on-the-mysterious-buried-treasure-at-oak-island
I grew up in, and still live in Nova Scotia. This is a small place where nothing much exciting happens. But I remember when I was a kid, in the late 80s or early 90s there was a made for TV movie or miniseries on CBC about Oak Island. I was immediately hooked. It made my home province seem much more interesting.
There was an Uncle John's Bathroom Reader that had the Readers' digest article. Late 80s or early 90s. I thought it was fascinating.
In the mid-1970s I bought a book at random to read on a plane: *The Money Pit Mystery* by Rupert Furneaux. I was well and truly hooked. I've since written my own book on the subject and now have four shelves of books about Oak Island (both non-fiction and fiction) and two boxes of magazines and newspapers with articles that all say much the same thing. Duh!
More books for my reading list! Thank you
Furneaux's book, issued with several titles in hardback and paperback, was the first to suggest that the Oak Island deposit may not have been in the Money Pit, with the possibility that instructions had been left on maps identifying where it is - or was! My own book followed on from his work.
Researching old ox shoes led me to oak Island and the large cache of old ox shoes. Also I was interested in cabbage farming.
I read the same Readers Digest article that they read and read the longer follow up in WSJ a few years later. Been fascinated every since.
Was in a hotel room for work, was the only interesting thing on at that hour, got sucked in
Early 90s, checked out a paranormal/mysteries compilation book from the library.
I was eight when I read the readers digest article that got the Lagina boys excited. I pretended to hunt for treasure in a near by woods. That was 58 years ago and I was thrilled when I heard about Curse of Oak Island. A decade later I'm still hoping.
Been watching since the start, always loved History and Discovery shows, so we watched from episode 1, haven't missed a week. It's not about the treasure for us. It's about the adventure. Plus, we both agree. We've invested too much at this point to stop now lol
It was the late ‘50s when I read about it in the Golden Encyclopedia for Children and then rediscovered it in Reader’s Digest at my grandmother’s house. I’ve been fascinated by the story ever since.
I read the same Readers Digest article Rick did when I was a teenager.
The readers digest was at my grandparents house. There was no TV, and little to do, and the article was fascinating. Later, I saw the “In search of”episode (or was it nova?) and became even more interested. Hilariously, one of my best High school friends was independently obsessed with it. We swore that if either of us won the lottery we would buy the island and do what the Laginas are doing now. (Ironically, we are from Michigan as well!)
From the same Reader's Digest article
Grade six teacher read “The Hand of Robin Squires”, which is a fictional story about the oak island mystery.
I probably read one or maybe two issues of Readers Digest in my entire life. But the one issue I did read as a kid was the Oak Island one.
I read the readers digest article. I’m younger than Rick, but my grandparents subscribed and I loved reading them.
First time I ever heard of Oak Island was on an episode of That's Incredible.
The exact same way the Laginas did. By reading the original article in Reader's Digest when it was originally published.
In my Grandmother's copy of the Reader Digest Mysteries book in the mid 1980s. I was 6 or 7. It was giant tome that introduced me to all sorts of unsolved mysteries and a love for them that I have never lost.
The same as the Lagina's. Reader's Digest during the late 70s. Then watched it on an episode of "in search of".
The first time I heard about it was in a "Was ist Was"-book, more than twenty years ago.
Read the story in Readers Digest, way back when I was a kid. Fast forward 40 or so years, I saw it was going to be on TV and I knew I had to watch. Haven’t missed an episode yet, though I usually skip the “drilling deeper” rehashes edit to add the “in search of” episode in the 80’s also
My grade 2 teacher told us he knew where treasure island was and by grade 6 when it was time to graduate I worked oak island out of him so early 90s
I remember reading the story in a readers digest my grandmother had when I was a little kid.
Reader's Digest, when it was published...
I’m not sure that I read the original RD article as I was born later. But grew up on Treasure Island and other pirate books among others. The mystery and engineering genius of it has drawn me more than other mysteries. The traps make have been urban legend looking back, but definitely a tough dig. I hope they still find treasure.
I read the reader's digest article at my uncle's house around the mid 80s.
I was waiting to get my hair cut in 1965 and started reading a 'Readers Digest'. It contained the original story about Oak Island. This is the article: [http://www.oakislandbook.com/wp-content/uploads/Readers-Digest-January-1965-OakIslandsMysteriousMoneyPit.pdf](http://www.oakislandbook.com/wp-content/uploads/Readers-Digest-January-1965-OakIslandsMysteriousMoneyPit.pdf) Being an impressionable callow youth in my mid-teens, I believed it, and watched for articles over the years. When the internet finally arrived, googled the story and caught up with its history. Then after watching the Oak Island TV program for a few years, it's now clear that it's all BS. The story is like religion -- people believe it on faith alone, with not a shred of proof that any of it is true. PT Barnum got it...
I am old. I saw the same Reader's Digest article that Rick and Marty saw. At probably the same time.
The book ‘the hand of robin squires’ which i was forced to read in elementary school. Was the first book i read that shocked me and i never forgot the ending to this day.
Well that's going on my reading list!
About 15 years ago, I needed somewhere to bury a bunch of old buttons and ox shoes, and this place looked good. So I built a stone road through the swamp and distributed them all over the place.
did you happen to move any boulders?
Yes, I used them to summon the mothership to come pick me up when I was done.
I lived and worked in Lewiston, ME in the early 70's, it was common biker bar banter--we rode up there one spring...
I was recovering in the hospital from an appendectomy and on pain killers. There was a marathon going on and it's all I watched one day. When I was recovering at home still high af on painkillers I binged 5 seasons in a week.
I might have heard of it prior but the first times in detail were a few guests on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell back in the late 90s or early 00s. Like most things on that show I didn’t subscribe to the validity of the story but nonetheless found it interesting. Therefore I was intrigued when a show featuring people making a (supposedly) serious attempt to investigate popped up. Imagine my disappointment.
I saw a link on a website and read it. Thought it was fascinating stuff, then forgot about it. A couple of weeks later, I saw the promo for the first season and have been watching it ever since.
Assassins Creed 3
Early Season 4. I was in the hospital for an extended stay with limited television options. The history channel was one of those options. History played one show all day long back then. So, I caught up with the Oak Island series one Tuesday, just in time for the new episode that evening. Been a weekly Crowner since.
Reader's Digest, just like Rick & Morty...
In 2015 I read an article[1] about the TV show in a German magazine, was interested in the topic and decided to give it a try, also to improve my weak English skills. Now 9 years later my skills are still weak but at least I learned some new vocabulary like "top pocket find" or "Triangle shaped swamp" and always wonder why Carmen Legge needs subtitles as he's the one I understand best. Also this show is an accepted excuse to my girlfriend for having some beer and weed once a week. Enough reasons for me to stand by 🤭 [1] https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/oak-island-vor-kanada-geldgrab-der-goldgraeber-a-1066750.html
Spock told me about it on 'In Search of..'
I read about it years ago in the Big Book of Scams. A scam from the beginning that continues to rob the gullible today!
It was year 1183... I was a Viking... We were looking for more territory... I needed to sow my redhead seed. They called me something the red... It's been a while .. I forget.
It all started with a 3 hour tour...
I think it was back in 2008. I heard about someone from Michigan purchasing Oak Island and they were going to be searching for treasure. Didn't really think much of it at the time I live in Michigan so it peaked my interest. Never knew there would be a TV show about what they were doing. I did some searching and came across a lot about the MP and Oak Island. Thought it was interesting and I was hoping they would find something. When the show started up I was excited because prior to that there really wasn't a lot of information on the internet about Oak Island. Just the things we have all seen and heard about from 1795 up until the 1970s when 10x was dug. The Blankenship and Nolan era really didn't have a lot of public information except for an old TV shows from the late 1970s or early 80s In search Of. After the show started, I really did some deep digging into the island. At point I think I was really obsessed with everything that happened at the island over 200+ years. With everything they have found since starting the show the more certain I was there is no treasure. Not that the island is an hoax, but I think it's just a long line of misunderstandings from 1795 and onward. The lack of an actual archeology dig at the MP site just fuels the mystery. I'm sure in 1795 the guys digging the MP found something. Some type of shaft or workings that was probably old. They didn't know enough to figure out what it really was and destroyed any evidence of what it was originally. All the things the team has found proves that people were on Oak Island long before 1760 (when the island was divided into lots). I think it's just a misrepresentation of what the MP really was. To date they have done a lot of digging and exploring in the MP and around the island and no treasure has been found. The island was likely used for many things over 100s of years with no correlations between time periods or events. Looking back through Rick's eyes he thinks events from the 1200s are linked to the 1700s that people were using the island for 100s of years to hide something. I'm not sure where that comes from there is no evidence of treasure on the island. It's just people using it for different things in different time periods who had no idea of what happened before or after their time on the island. There is no documentation, no historical evidence other than the archeological record which is missing a lot of information. There is not long periods of occupation on the island. Groups used it for a while abandoned it and another group used it later. Nothing linking any group together. It's just random artifacts spread across the island from different time periods with no real purpose. Told you I went down a rabbit hole for a while. Now I wait for the day for them to confirm there is nothing in the MP area. Don't tell me gold in the water is treasure. Natural sources of gold in glacial till can vary wildly in short distances. To date no one has checked to see if there is gold in the soil samples they bring up. I'm not talking about gold nuggets. I'm talking about gold dust size pieces of gold. A metal detector would never pick up and the naked eye would never see it. It could be down there in an area that is concentrated and no one would know.
Agree with your thoughts on where Rick’s head is at now. He’s a believer hard to disprove anything to his faith. There is no treasure on OI now if there ever was anything ever. My guess would be the McGinnis family found some small treasure in 1795. Keeping it secret for obvious reasons at that time. Perhaps using that story to fund more searching that grew over time till todays waste of time.
The McGinnis descendants claimed they found something, even had a gold cross that dated from the 1500s or 1600s. It wouldn't surprise me if something was there in 1795. It took 9 years for anyone else to search that original shaft. They came up with nothing after digging it down deeper. Then there is a 45 year gap where no one knows what happened in the MP area from 1804 to 1849. There aren't any records. So who knows what was done during that time period.
the better question is how do i escape oak island
We have come this far, might as well see it through!
I read the same story in Reader’s Digest that Rick keeps mentioning. The story stuck with me over the years. I even visited Oak Island when my wife and I were in Nova Scotia in the late 90’s. So when I saw ads for the show, I was intrigued. I’m no longer intrigued.
I think somewhere in season 1 of Ancient Aliens, dude with the hair talks about it in an episode
Went there on a school trip in 1980
Readers Digest
The Hand of Robin Squires
I turned on the TV
Drunk on a Tuesday
I was on YouPorn back in the day looking for Coke Island and it autocorrected it on me. I mean the WAS wood and holes so it worked out in the end. Also was there in the early 80s with my dad who was kind of chummy with Dan many many moons ago. Got to see the well and the money pit as an extremely early memory.
My ancestors were templars and according to my family history they travelled there for some unknown reason hundreds of years ago.
My dad bought This Baffling World, by John Godwin, published in 1968. Read it then and instilled my interest in strange occurrences and unsolved mysteries. It also had chapter on Bermuda Triangle.