How about ‘The search for JPOP’s preorder pins’. Unfortunately we all know how that one ends.

I think everyone knows this, but it’ll be several more episodes before they reveal it on the show. I think that’s why one of the brothers is getting involved in the new show about Civil War gold, he realizes the Oak Island thing is coming to an end. It’s pretty obvious from the last several episodes that there’s nothing there, but if the brothers are getting paid for every episode produced it’s in their best interest to help draw it out as long as possible and I don’t blame them for it.

You forgot to add that he may have been helped by ancient aliens.

LOL, they keep teasing that tonight’s the night only to have nothing happen. If tomorrow’s the last episode of the season I’m sure there’ll be some ‘discovery’ to make it look like the treasure might still be on the island so people don’t give up on it.

Me too. I wish the Lagina brothers success and I hope one day they find something truly amazing, but there’s no big treasure to be found on the island and I don’t find the bone fragments and other trinkets they discover all that interesting.

Yeah this week seemed to be 100% filler, they could have easily edited most of that out.

Contact the Lagina’s and you’ll probably get to be on the show next season presenting your theory in the war room.

The treasure is the fame and money they are making off this and their other shows, plus tourism and merchandising. Most of that comes to a stop when they admit there’s nothing of value left to find. So yeah, the treasure is still there.

As I tell anyone who watches a series on searching for Bigfoot, the Lochness Monster, or the Yeti, ‘I don’t have to watch it to know how it ends’.

LMAO! That pretty much sums up how I feel about that show. Oak Island has yanked the football away from everyone who’s ever come there looking for a treasure.

I really don’t think this has anything to do with it. There have been a number of people who dedicated their lives to finding the treasure who passed away without seeing any results for their efforts. The main investors involved in the current search effort are all getting older, if they knew exactly where there was treasure they wouldn’t waste time going after it.

I’m not going to argue that. It’s really not a very big area they’re dealing with and with all of the ground imaging they’ve done you think they would’ve been able to locate anything of interest.

1. Miriam Amirault - no explanation necessary
2. Peter Fornetti - doesn’t seem to know why he’s even there, and neither does anyone else
3. Aug. 1795 by Samuel Ball

So after years and years of people searching they’ve finally condensed the treasure search area down to maybe a 20 yard radius. If they don’t find any treasure this summer there’s nothing there except for cobble roads, rock formations, and whatever small bits Gary finds. They will speculate on and on forever about who was there and what they were doing.

If I remember correctly they said that test takes at least a year to complete because you need to leave the sensors buried in place without disturbing them for a long period of time. I can't remember exactly when they started that process? But I agree, there have been other tests which they thought would provide definitive evidence and you either never hear the results or they’re not conclusive. At this point if I was the History Channel I would discreetly buy some ancient gold coins and dump them in the garden shaft to give them something to find and keep people interested. Or maybe they already have and they still can’t find them.

Exactly, there is no proof that any treasure was ever buried there to begin with. The whole story of there being treasure is speculation related to the story of the 3 kids who saw lights and went to investigate. That story is taken as gospel by all the treasure hunters because without it, you don’t have anything. The only ‘hard evidence’ that there's something there is the small debris on the drill bit from years ago, and more recently, the gold in the water tests. That’s pretty flimsy in my opinion. Obviously a lot of work was done on the island hundreds of years ago, but what the purpose of all that work was will likely never be known. People are fascinated by the possibility of a Templar Knights connection so they keep playing that up, but I think it just makes the whole story more unbelievable.

I watched a little bit of one of the ‘top ten’ recap shows about a week ago and the guy who tests the water was talking to Rick and Marty and asked them what they thought the chances were of there being either silver or gold in the garden shaft. Rick said he thought there was but Marty said something along the lines of slim to none. You can see Rick’s enthusiasm and his belief that there’s something there, but I’m pretty sure Marty came to the conclusion a few years back that there's no treasure to be found and he just keeps the search going for the purpose of the show...and for some of the others.

I think we can all agree the main takeaway from last night’s season opener was: where in the hell was Miriam??

On another note, it was interesting they finally received the results back from the muon testing and it seems to indicate some type of underground cavern that looks to be a point of interest this season.

Sure, but how do you explain the sequence of hand cut timbers they’re hitting 100’ below ground that date back to the 1700’s? Someone was able to build a tunnel back then for who knows what reason. I don’t know if there was ever any treasure buried there, and if there was whether any of it is left. But what’s interesting is why the underground tunnels were constructed. There must’ve been a pretty important reason for them to undertake such a Herculean effort like that at the time. Clearly a lot of activity happened on the island that there is no record of.

If it was more reasonably priced I bet someone would buy it and turn it into a vacation rental house.

I was thinking the same thing, the Lagina’s pass on buying the property but that ends up being where the treasure is. Either way, the Canadian government would probably have a claim to part of it.

It was pretty boring even by their standards. While I’m still interested in the story of what happened on the island even if there isn’t any treasure, the way they’re stretching out these episodes makes it tough to keep watching.

Yep, one hour for a piece of wood with a nail, a piece of chain with a hook attached, and a glass bead. The most interesting thing was ‘Aladdin’s cave’, of which Rick said ‘we’ll have to come back to this later’.

Oh yeah, and still no sign of Miriam

I tend to agree with that about Aladdin’s cave. The thing that looks like a ‘rivet’ is probably just a piece of rock that happens to resemble one. But they’re going to delay exploring it just so they can prolong the idea that it might actually be something.

Exactly. Someone was puttingu timber down there back in the 1700’s, those aren’t searcher tunnels. For what reason did they do that?

I’m thinking they found very little of interest last year which is why the episodes are even more stretched out than usual.

Yeah, with or without the treasure. It’s a small island and they have depleted places to search. I enjoy learning about who was on the island and what they were doing, but at the pace the episodes move my interest is fading.

They actually looked like they were taking this theory seriously. A lot of times when they have some looney pitching their crackpot theory about the treasure the guys look like they are trying hard to keep from laughing.

Just like the viewers, I think a lot of the ‘Fellowship of the Dig’ are getting wore down by the lack of results. I don’t know how many still believe they’ll actually find anything. I think some would’ve already left if it wasn’t for the steady paycheck the TV show helps to provide. Rick seems to be the only one who still has a real passion for the search. I think Marty has one, maybe two more seasons left in him before calling it quits and moving on.

Let me think…other than another screwball theorist who claims he knows the Ark of the Covenant is buried there, not a damn thing. We all know the Ark of the Covenant is stored in a large government warehouse.

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Yep, I’m sure the trip to Europe was the idea of the show’s producers realizing that they needed material for episodes as they hadn’t found anything of interest.

I think the current state of things is how the series will eventually end. They find constructs done by people a long time ago, but they never find out why they were built. They find some interesting artifacts left by people, but they never know who these people were. They have several different people present theories, but they can never prove any of them. And finally, they never find a big treasure, and no one really knows if there was ever any treasure to begin with.