Reddit has a sort of love/hate relationship with Oak Island. Going into 11 seasons of interesting archaelogical evidence but no real treasure frustrates a lot of people.
I’m curious as to how Lemmy feels about all of it!
https://www.history.com/shows/the-curse-of-oak-island
For those unfamiliar with the story…
“There is an island, in the North Atlantic…”
In 1795, three young men were attracted by strange lights to the elephant-shaped “Oak Island” off the coast of Nova Scotia.
They found an old block and tackle hanging from a tree branch over a depression in the ground, and, eyes full of dollar signs, began digging for treasure in what is commonly called “The Money Pit”.
As they dug down, they would find a floor made from oak logs sealed with clay every 10 feet.
90 feet down, they found a 2 foot wide flat stone with strange inscriptions on it.
Eventually the tunnel flooded with water and the excavation stopped.
What has happened since is 200 years of digging, tunnelling and excavations, all hoping for a massive payday.
Nothing substantive has been found, but lots of ephemera interesting for archaeology has been.
And that’s where we are today… two brothers who read the story of Oak Island back in the 1960s have been trying for 10+ seasons of television to get to the bottom of Oak Island.
I haven’t watched in years but I thought last season they found something? Was it all bs?
I remember reading the same story that did as a kid. It was in readers digest. I wanted it to be true but it seems like it’s nothing more than a good story.
They’ve found a lot of things, but nothing you’d call treasure with a capital T.
Probably the most interesting thing they found is a lead cross with a weird hand on it:
That was 6 seasons ago now.
In Smith’s cove a few seasons ago they uncovered something called the U-shaped structure, made from logs with Roman numerals carved into it, but that appears now to just be the remains of a barn blown in from a hurricane.
I am curious how much is planted.
I read they found a shipwreck or something? Supposed to be Roman.
As I said I haven’t watched in years since it was becoming just a repeat of the proper episode.
As a kid I wanted to believe there was something to the story. Now I believe if there was anything. It’s long gone. Most likely there was nothing there
That’s a pretty common accusation, at least one artifact from the early days of the show is known to be fake, and, surprise, surprise, they don’t talk about that one any more:
But, it’s worth noting that the sword wasn’t discovered by the show, it was found by noted fraud J. Hutton Pulitzer (not his real name), and was actually exposed by the show as being a fake.
