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Curse of Oak Island

Franz said:
Not sure. I was just glad it didn't get canned after the first mini-season. The only thing I can imagine the show trying market is getting investors for their treasure hunts. Not like the other ones trying to market metal detectors/detecting. But I'll put my foot in my mouth if they start advertising private flights to space for long range treasure locating in future episodes...
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That is puzzling how he located objects from space . Wish we could have that type of technology or even close to that in our detectors. I guess if we did there wouldn’t be anything left to find.
 
georgeinsc said:
.... has absolutely nothing to do with reality. .... people are gullible enough to watch them.
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What ? You mean there's no treasure ?? How can that be ? Because *certainly* you know that where there's smoke, there's fire. Right ? None of the generations of pit diggers for the past 100 yrs. would have been doing it, if there WASN'T a treasure there. After all, it's got a cool legend filled with real names, dates, events, etc... Hence it's only a matter of sorting fact from fiction. Tsk tsk.

So repent of your killjoy attitude.


There is most certainly a treasure. Perhaps A little more to the right. Or a little more to the left. Or a little deeper, etc... But at no point in time is the treasure not MOST CERTAINLY there. :cool:
 
Tom there is a lot of treasure. If you want to count the money they are making on that show. Cheap to film and very very profitable. Advertisers pay plenty to get their advertisements on those types of shows due to the number of folks who watch. So I will never say that there is no treasure there but it danged sure is not in the ground.
 
I love watching it and haven’t missed a season yet. One thing I’ve learned, I find more then they do.

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everything they have found has been through metal detecting. Why on earth do they not have 10 guys with detectors blitzing the whole place instead of one guy with two guys following him to dig his signals.
 
firemanphob said:
everything they have found has been through metal detecting. Why on earth do they not have 10 guys with detectors blitzing the whole place instead of one guy with two guys following him to dig his signals.
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Good point. And the same ratios are seen @ hobbyist md'ing forums: Have you ever noticed that the guys who post about the treasure legends they search for, never seem to have any show & tell ?

They've got all sorts of cool slam dunk stories. That they are "very close to finding". Eg.: stolen stagecoach loot, lost military payrolls, miser who died w/mysterious missing funds and didn't trust banks, etc.... There are entire subsections dedicated to the likes of Lost Dutchman, Yamashita, Pearl ship, Oak Island, Dents Run, blah blah blah blah.

But at the end of the day, guess who's posting the show & tell of actual finds ?? It's as you say: The guys detecting normal relicky or coin-shooting mindset places. NOT the guys chasing ghost-story camp-fire legends.

And sometimes even caches get found during simply digging enough larger signals around old ruins, cellar holes, ghost towns, etc.... Even though the person didn't go there "chasing a legend". But instead just dug larger signals around old habitations.
 
Maybe Gary will find this ring for a third time. He found this ring in two different You Tube videos a year apart. :laughing:
The video titles are.....
Looting Dave Jones Locker
Towel Line Gold and Diamonds

Yeah....I won't be watching.
 

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Porsche914 said:
Maybe Gary will find this ring for a third time. He found this ring in two different You Tube videos a year apart. :laughing:
The video titles are.....
Looting Dave Jones Locker
Towel Line Gold and Diamonds

Yeah....I won't be watching.
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You made me watch both those video's... sure looks like same ring to me :lol:
 
I do watch it if there is nothing interesting in all of youtube and if I am sure the paint is fully dry. :lol: I actually read about the oak island mystery when I was a boy and it was of interest to me. If I remember correctly the story said the boys who first found the rope in the tree and depression in the ground dug and found a layer of wood at 10 feet. So imagine you are a boy with a shovel in the late 1700s and you dig a 10 foot hole on some island???? And the original story goes on to state what was found at ten more feet and so on. I have always had an issue with that part of the story.

One thing I find interesting is that Jack Begley was the original "detectorist" although you could tell he was not familiar with the 3030, so then Gary Dreyton shows up and now Jack is his shovel caddy...Jack must love that!:lol:


The one thought in my mind every time I watch is that IF something had been found it would surely have leaked out and we would all know anyway!
 
Cfmct said:
You made me watch both those video's... sure looks like same ring to me :lol:
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I wanted to see what I could learn from the master. I watched the first video and when the ring showed up in the second video I was like "wait a doggone minute"!:roll: I went as far as taking a screenshot of both and comparing them. In my opinion, it is the same ring.:yes:
 
It's an entertaining way to spend an hour or so....it's interesting the things that they're claiming to be doing this year....and even when they don't find anything, it will still be interesting to watch
 
pryan67 said:
....and even when they don't find anything, it will still be interesting to watch
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The only way it would be "interesting" despite not finding anything, is if there were any shred of hope that something existed there. If there was "potential", then sure: Then there's the "thrill of the hunt".

But this is only true when there's a prey to be hunted, in the first place. So for you to say "still interesting", tells me you're probably leaning towards the factuality of the story.

But to those of us who write it off an nonsense, it's not exciting. Like as how exciting it would be to watch a Grizzly Bear hunt in downtown New York, if you know, from the start, that there are simply no Grizzly Bears in New York.
 
Tom_in_CA said:
The only way it would be "interesting" despite not finding anything, is if there were any shred of hope that something existed there. If there was "potential", then sure: Then there's the "thrill of the hunt".

But this is only true when there's a prey to be hunted, in the first place. So for you to say "still interesting", tells me you're probably leaning towards the factuality of the story.

But to those of us who write it off an nonsense, it's not exciting. Like as how exciting it would be to watch a Grizzly Bear hunt in downtown New York, if you know, from the start, that there are simply no Grizzly Bears in New York.
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OK all that being said..

This "Contraption" somebody created hundreds of years ago that IS quite elaborate.. you think it was a total hoax :?: .. just some bored, stoned pilgrims sitting around a campfire thinking "wouldn't it be a funny idea to mess with some peoples heads"

Who knows what's really there.. but one has to believe that "Something" has got to be there..

who knows..Could be some deranged guy hiding his last Corn on the cob so the damn crows can't get to it.
 
The real "Curse of Oak Island" is exhibited upon an unsuspecting and hopeful viewership...sitting through a marathon of all past seasons is just plain painful!!

"My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding" is way more entertaining and educational Family watching! Never a disappointment! ......You get to see a Chick Fight on every episode! The Wife can learn a few things as well! Like what her role should be in the Family! Specifically, How to focus on taking care of her Man, How to keep a trailer sparkling clean, dressing sharp, some dance moves possibly...

A Gorger guy viewer will learn that he has been a total sucker playing it straight and punching a clock for hourly pay!! A Romny Gyp Gentleman can get out of prison in the morning, without a nickel, or a College education! And with some rudimentary driveway MacAdam skills and a specialized pitch of Door to Door Salesmanship, He is pulling wads of Cash Money and driving a brand NEW F150 by Dinner!:laughing: Thats intriguing and alluring to me!! Hell the whole show is!

Chick fights and making cash money in a hurry with some gravel and top black paint? Being outdoors and RVing and wearing a big gold chain even? Fist fighting, drinking, smoking and possibly marrying a 16yr old virgin who can cook and clean? I've got the motivation and the basic skills covered! Theres NO downside that I can see? Except that I'm already married to a Gorger Girl...

So yeah, at least this show has some merit..It gives me hope to someday replicate what is obviously a lucrative and exciting Lifestyle....Not so much on the "Oaf Island" oafs...Waste of time! Whats a guy learning about how to get rich here?

How many stupid Millionaires are out there willing to pay me to be their Metal Detector Specialist? To find them a "Bobby Dazzler Top Pocket" find once a year? Not many! Lots more gravel driveways need a paintjob obviously...I say Focus on the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves!:laughing:
 
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Tom_in_CA said:
What ? You mean there's no treasure ?? How can that be ? Because *certainly* you know that where there's smoke, there's fire. Right ? None of the generations of pit diggers for the past 100 yrs. would have been doing it, if there WASN'T a treasure there. After all, it's got a cool legend filled with real names, dates, events, etc... Hence it's only a matter of sorting fact from fiction. Tsk tsk.

So repent of your killjoy attitude.


There is most certainly a treasure. Perhaps A little more to the right. Or a little more to the left. Or a little deeper, etc... But at no point in time is the treasure not MOST CERTAINLY there. :cool:
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The treasure of Oak Island is the Advertising sales for the show.

They're digging deep for it. LOL
 
Ah come on, didn't y'all watch National Treasure? All you need to do is follow the clues that right out in the open, just need an obscure book to give you the decoder ring and wahla Treasure.
 
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