Curse of Oak Island is back!
Curse of Oak Island is back!
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.
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.