People have been trying for almost 200 years. Every time someone gets decently deep, the hole floods & collapses. If you've seen any of the episodes from this season, they are finally digging, and doing it right. Very expensive to do it right, which is why it hasn't been done right until now.
Tonight's episode was yet another disappointment. I've not lost any enthusiasm though. By all indications, the Laginas are sincere. The sheer amount of engineering is entertaining to me.
I like the Laginas and am rooting for them to find something incredible, but I did experience a touch of regrettable schadenfreude when [spoiler below] the big piece of the timber they brought up from the money vault had circular saw marks on it. Oops.
Guy 1: I found something Guy 2: What is it? Guy 1: I found a coin Guy 3: You found a coin? Guy 2: A coin? Narrator: A coin?
Yes but 100-some feet down? Thats impressive even if it is an old searchers shaft support system. I notice the 'big analysis' (after the timbers were pulled up) was given short thrift on the show. Instead they returned the following week with, basically, the bad news that it was not the long sought wooden vault. Although circular saw marks could indicate being older than the 20th century, the fact that they deduced the wood was from that century shows how much is going on outside the show itself. I was kinda hoping it was at least evidence from a 19th century search.
Yeah, I'm a suckered for this kind of show. I watch...criticize...hate myself for watching...then repeat. If they had found anything of value, we would know about it already. As it is not recorded live.
Followed CLOSELY by... Narrator: "Could it be that this coin is from the Spanish Armada. Perhaps it washed ashore from an old shipwreck. Could it be from ancient aliens...." Lots of "Could it be"s
I wonder if the cavity they just drilled into isn't an underground stream, or connected to underground streams that flow under the island. That may explain why they are finding bits of wood so far down. They never explore anything rational. I mean, booby trapped flood tunnels to keep people out of the money pit? I want to yell at the Lagina brothers & the assorted nephews, cousins, step-sons, etc, you dig 100+ feet down on any small island & it will flood, you're surrounded by water! Anyway, I'll tune in next week to see what happens....
It wore on my nerves, I can't watch it anymore, the pseudo hype leading up to yet another nothing find just irritates me. No thanks.
I watched this show for up until last season. I had hopes, but soon realized it was just another stupid History channel show. I read about Oal Island years ago and it is a very fascinating story about the history of searching for a lost treasure. But these people are never going to find a treasure because there never was one to begin with. It's the same story with all these treasure hunters, they are blinded by the riches, and don't stop to think about logic. Why would anyone bury anything so hard to retrieve? Was of the end of last year when they had the sisters on who showed them a piece of the treasure from the original dig? The reaction of the brothers was hilarious. Almost like "oh, so that means there is no treasure to find. That's nice, we're still going to keep looking." I'm not watching the show anymore, it's too stupid. If anyone finds anything, I'll read about it. But I doubt they will find anything not already related to the endless treasure hunting.
I only started watching this show a couple of episodes ago even though I live less than an hour's drive from Oak Island. It's interesting to watch from the perspective of seeing my home portrayed on this show. Other than that, it's seems like such a fool's pursuit. Even though I've always been interested in the history of the place, none of it makes sense. I wonder how much this show has attracted tourists to Nova Scotia. It is a beautiful place.
A couple of things: I wonder how much of accepted history of Oak Island - namely the items that were supposedly found long before Dan Blankenship - is accurate. If you've read up on the Money Pit, you know about the timbers every 10 feet and the now lost stone, along with this or that. Are the Laginas relying too much on single-sourced accounts that could very well be embellishments or outright deceptions? For whatever reason, everybody has operated under the assumption that whatever was hidden there - if anything - is still there. That is was never recovered by the same people or group later on. If the treasure is manuscripts by Sir Francis Bacon, how does anybody expect them to have survived being (probably) underwater all this time? Were there water-tight boxes in his day (late 1500s - early 1600s)? The author who is publishing a book about Oak Island is most convinced that Bacon was involved, but nobody's talked about how paper documents could have survived a watery environment.
WAAF has gotten worse and worse over the years. Mike Hsu is the only one worth listening to. I wish Matty and Nick the best of luck though.
The entire show is based on speculation as is very evident by 4 seasons and finding nothing. The wild theories about what's buried there are hilarious. It could be anything because why dismiss one theory over another. And this whole legend about "6 (or 8?) must die before the treasure is revealed". Even my 8 year old daughter said "well why don't they just kill someone and then they'll find it?" She also pointed out that no women had tried to find the treasure. I said that's because women are too smart to spend so much time and money on something so stupid.
The 7 must die legend is preposterous. Curses can be dismissed out of hand. This is 2016... The wilder theories are simply driven by the amount of work estimated to have put into constructing the Money Pit. If the stories flood tunnels and other booby traps are accurate, it makes sense that that effort was only worth it if the item(s) hidden there were of extreme value. But that also makes me feel that it's then more likely that those item(s) would have later been recovered.
