Curse of Oak Island TV Program

[OleSarge]

Let's not pretend for an instance that there's a lot of reality to these so called reality shows. The guys on the screen are making plenty of money from the "show", and that's exactly what it is. It's like Gold Rush show crying over the cost of fuel, etc, when the show is paying for it plus highly compensating them as well. Give me a break. Kind of like that show, Jon and Kate Plus 8 back before they got divorced. Oh poor me, poor us...we have 8 kids and no money. Let's moan about that every day, never mind the fact they were paid $22,500 per episode and made MILLIONS over the run of that "reality" show.

sumrtym, I won't use the space or time to give a class on Far East history but I do recommend anyone interested in treasure hunting research the reign and exile of South Korean strong man Syngman Rhee. I seriously believe that at least 1/2 of the total worth of all gold held within the South Korean treasury in 1947 now lies hidden in the lava caves of Jeju Island, off the southern tip of South Korea. Like the myths surrounding a cache of hidden treasure on Oak Island, there are also myths of deaths, backed mostly by historical records, of the bloody history of Mr. Rhees involvement with the populace of this, once isolated and much politically contested, volcanic island which is laced with immeasureably deep volcanic lava tubes. The return of Mr. Rhee to his destructive and bloody reign during the Korean Conflict was greatly due to the American influence of General Douglas MacArthur. Probably this plays a role in the fact that very little is publicized about his removal from power in 1947, or there-abouts, and his being placed in exile in Hawaii. But Mr. Rhees departure from his vicious assault on the Republic of South Korea didn't end with his departure from the country. My association with South Korea has spanned a time period beginning in 1962 and continuing today. The myth has survived with 100% consistency that Mr. Rhee hadd the entire contents of the South Korean treasury loaded aboard two C-47 aircraft and they departed enroute to, it is believed Japan. One of the C-47's supposedly went down in the bay of Japan, possibly shot down by the Japanese Air Force to prevent American retaliation against their country for allowing the plane to land. It is believed that the other plane was either hijacked from those within his own conspiracy or landed, or even crashed on Jeju Island. Regardless, it is strongly believed by Koreans and Americans alike that the plane was too overloaded and the flight aborted to prevent it from crashing into the sea also. According to the legends still alive on Jeju Island, every year spelunkers come to the island solely to search the lava caves in belief the treasure off loaded from the plane was hidden there. And, a integral part of these legends are the tales of cave divers entering the caves never to return, their only traces are the remains of cut ropes extending along the deep walls in the razor sharp and pitch black caves. Do I believe Syngman Rhee's loyalists are still protecting the treasure from others? Well, it is a interesting thought....beats The Real House Wife's Of (?)anyway.

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[Bayoutalker]

http://rense.com/general47/oak.html

you will need to watch all the episodes till Blankenship reveals his proof (theory).
In order to do that you will have to suffer through 5 back to back ads every 6 minutes till the end. I for one am not going to do that.
The show is boring and is nothing more than a rehash of all the the tales preceding it. I watched one episode last week all hype over coconut husks.

Previous adventurers found the fiber years ago. So really, whats new?

For sure not that article. It is dated 2003.

As for the show, I will continue to watch it until the end and see what is revealed. Sooner or later someone will figure out what is there.

 

[OleSarge]

http://rense.com/general47/oak.html

you will need to watch all the episodes till Blankenship reveals his proof (theory).
In order to do that you will have to suffer through 5 back to back ads every 6 minutes till the end. I for one am not going to do that.
The show is boring and is nothing more than a rehash of all the the tales preceding it. I watched one episode last week all hype over coconut husks.

Previous adventurers found the fiber years ago. So really, whats new?

Thank you for the neat link grinsebring. Personally, I hope they never solve either this, or any other similar myths because they give us something to wonder about beyond where we stashed the toilet paper. The medical community searches for new medicines, and that's what they identify with, Arby's searches for a new BBQ and cheddar cheese sandwich, and that's what they identify with. But those of use who have ground all our axes, or have no axe to grind, likes to consider Sasquatch, UFO's, Atlantis, Cibola or even ghosts and goblins as points of interest and should value the fact they do remove us from the grind of daily reality. I will watch the remaining episodes of Curse of Oak Island simply because it is a venture into mythology and does contain some interesting theories and unusual endeavors. The grabber on the coconut fibers was the advent of microanalysis equipment capable of positively establishing, as a fact rather than supposition, that it was coconut fiber. Hopefully, the guy who goes into the drained swamp with the metal detector will shed new light on how to use a metal detector in a drained swamp....and for me that'll be new.

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[OleSarge]

I'm certain when they get to the bottom they will find Bigfoot gaurding a small space craft, that can only be driven by a ghost.....

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[Lively]

The one thing I don't understand is, why don't they get a backhoe or a trackhoe, or even shovels and start digging where the coconut fibers are to confirm the shafts theory. The "gas" was and is probably H2S gas. It comes from rotting vegitation, flesh, and any decomposing matter. You also ex spell this gas from your body. Just passing gas! Lol. I am very familiar with it in the oilfield. I like the show due to the mystery and the legends of the island. But I think if they make a huge discovery, it would already be on the web and in the news, since the show was filmed during the summer months. But hey, when it's cold outside you mite as well watch something interesting vs the previously stated "Kate plus 8" lol. And thanks goodness for DVR's so I don't have to watch those beloved commercials


Proud to be a Texan!

 

[boretti4blues]

The one thing I don't understand is, why don't they get a backhoe or a trackhoe, or even shovels and start digging where the coconut fibers are to confirm the shafts theory. The "gas" was and is probably H2S gas. It comes from rotting vegitation, flesh, and any decomposing matter. You also ex spell this gas from your body. Just passing gas! Lol. I am very familiar with it in the oilfield. I like the show due to the mystery and the legends of the island. But I think if they make a huge discovery, it would already be on the web and in the news, since the show was filmed during the summer months. But hey, when it's cold outside you mite as well watch something interesting vs the previously stated "Kate plus 8" lol. And thanks goodness for DVR's so I don't have to watch those beloved commercials


Proud to be a Texan!

I hear ya!! Years ago they built a coffer dam in the cove in hopes to stop the tide from coming in. They claim they were successful and dug up the area to reveal 5 box drains under coconut fibers leading into one. After a few days a storm rolled in and washed the dam away which ended up covering the box drains back up. Not sure if thats true or not. Why did they not take pics to document. But I agree, why not take a excavator and dig it up again...sounds like a few hours work..haha!! Some things do not add up..but it makes for a good mystery. Can't wait to watch on Sunday.

 

[leslie(nova scotia)]

really

Been on the island many a times and have seen the pit and the excavation first hand....aint no treasure there. Not allowed to dig either....lol!

 

[itsaring!]

Even Pirates had to drydock their ships for repair. Not like they could go to the local shipyard. If it wasn't used to get the water down in the manmade lagoon I'd then say it was space alien related. Filtered bay, leading to a deep hole with 10 ft interval levels to hand buckets of water up. Dry bay. Poor guy lost his gold necklace and didn't know the troubles he'd cause down the road

 

[itsaring!]

The one thing I don't understand is, why don't they get a backhoe or a trackhoe, or even shovels and start digging where the coconut fibers are to confirm the shafts theory. The "gas" was and is probably H2S gas. It comes from rotting vegitation, flesh, and any decomposing matter. You also ex spell this gas from your body. Just passing gas!

Old story on the deaths wasn't H2S gas. It was from carbon monoxide poisoning from the motors they left running. Some of this series varies from other stories out there. Just depends on who is telling it

 

[TwistedTig3r]

Just run the CTX over the money pit, mystery solved. From everything I've read a gold coin at 120 feet should be nothing for the CTX.

 

[OleSarge]

The one thing I don't understand is, why don't they get a backhoe or a trackhoe, or even shovels and start digging where the coconut fibers are to confirm the shafts theory. The "gas" was and is probably H2S gas. It comes from rotting vegitation, flesh, and any decomposing matter. You also ex spell this gas from your body. Just passing gas! Lol. I am very familiar with it in the oilfield. I like the show due to the mystery and the legends of the island. But I think if they make a huge discovery, it would already be on the web and in the news, since the show was filmed during the summer months. But hey, when it's cold outside you mite as well watch something interesting vs the previously stated "Kate plus 8" lol. And thanks goodness for DVR's so I don't have to watch those beloved commercials
Proud to be a Texan!

Kate Plus 8 is starting to look pretty enticing after the build up to the metal detecting episode and the 20 second let down after it started. Yoiks!, they were dragging old pieces of plywood all around the area and probably dropped lots of old nails, some staples, maybe a few keys and probably a coin or two. The "professional" with the "most expensive metal detector made" jumped in the water, done a couple of half hearted sweeps and declared "there's something down there which appears right here-Touching his control panel-and that's exactly where gold would be on this detector". I thought they were looking for the "Mercy Stone" which is the entrance to a treasure tunnel, not a treasure chest. I also thought gold was a alloy and, depending on it's dilution with other metals, would give off any number of possibly different signals. I want to believe a perfect 64 on my AT Pro is that huge gold ring, but I really expect it to come in somewhere between tin foil and a pull tab. But, I will watch next weeks episode and see how they convert a square of 1/2" PVC pipe into a high tech metal detector.

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[Iron Patch]

I'd rather watch 30 minutes on this guy than 30 episodes of Oak Island speculation.

http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Nova_Scotia/alex_storm.htm

 

[Beaker]

Just run the CTX over the money pit, mystery solved. From everything I've read a gold coin at 120 feet should be nothing for the CTX.

You have the second sight ! They used a CTX in Sun. episode in the swamp What's Wed. powerball #s? How far did you travel to reach earth?

 

[Bayoutalker]

I also thought gold was a alloy and, depending on it's dilution with other metals, would give off any number of possibly different signals. I want to believe a perfect 64 on my AT Pro is that huge gold ring, but I really expect it to come in somewhere between tin foil and a pull tab. But, I will watch next weeks episode and see how they convert a square of 1/2" PVC pipe into a high tech metal detector.

Another comment he made was that the signal was hitting where he would expect gold AND silver to ring up on his detector. Now I haven't found any gold or silver with my ATP yet but from what you guys post they don't exactly ring up the same on any detector.

As for the PVC square, I have seen a similar contraption used by the meteorite hunters in large fields on their show. They pulled it behind an atv. I guess the PVC is just a way to stretch the wire to make a large "coil".

 

[Bayoutalker]

I'd rather watch 30 minutes on this guy than 30 episodes of Oak Island speculation.

http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Nova_Scotia/alex_storm.htm

I wish he had a show, I would watch it!

Of course the producers would find a way to make some of his tactics look stupid all in the name of ratings.

 

[scorpio264]

I love this show.

Why is everyone so down on the best treasure hunting show on TV? I personally enjoy the hell out of it. The possibility of vast wealth and/or priceless historical artifacts has me riveted. It sure beats reruns of the spaz brothers tripping and falling over each other when they find a used razor blade and abbreviating every other word and calling it detecting lingo.

Of course the producers of the Oak Island show are rehashing the whole known story. Should they start at the end? That would be a short show and it wouldn't be on TV until the mystery was solved. They have to educate everyone who is watching and sell ad time. They have to do both. That's the nature of the beast.

The brothers that own the island are doing their due diligence before investing millions in trying to recover the treasure. They dug up the coconut fiber to prove it was there. They didn't just take the rumor as fact. They investigated the location and found what they heard would be there. In the real world of high finance people don't just dump millions with no evidence. If previous attempts had been so methodical perhaps they wouldn't have flooded the shafts and possibly damaged the treasure.

I would love to see them recover the religious artifacts they believe could be hidden there. To see something like that happen in my lifetime would be amazing. I guess I am just a treasure hunter at heart. It isn't all about the destination. Sometimes the journey is the adventure.

 

[upstatedigger]

I m just glad we still live in a world where there are still mysteries to think about.

 

[itsaring!]

Why is everyone so down on the best treasure hunting show on TV? I personally enjoy the hell out of it. The possibility of vast wealth and/or priceless historical artifacts has me riveted. It sure beats reruns of the spaz brothers tripping and falling over each other when they find a used razor blade and abbreviating every other word and calling it detecting lingo.

Of course the producers of the Oak Island show are rehashing the whole known story. Should they start at the end? That would be a short show and it wouldn't be on TV until the mystery was solved. They have to educate everyone who is watching and sell ad time. They have to do both. That's the nature of the beast.

The brothers that own the island are doing their due diligence before investing millions in trying to recover the treasure. They dug up the coconut fiber to prove it was there. They didn't just take the rumor as fact. They investigated the location and found what they heard would be there. In the real world of high finance people don't just dump millions with no evidence. If previous attempts had been so methodical perhaps they wouldn't have flooded the shafts and possibly damaged the treasure.

I would love to see them recover the religious artifacts they believe could be hidden there. To see something like that happen in my lifetime would be amazing. I guess I am just a treasure hunter at heart. It isn't all about the destination. Sometimes the journey is the adventure.

The coconut fibers and 5 fingers wasn't just a legend. It was already dug up before. Why they need to dig a small hole to look for fiber where a coconut could have just floated and came to rest is the mystery. Hell they used to use coconuts for food, water, and ship ballast anyways. All in one neat package. Could just be a coconut trash pile

 

[scorpio264]

The coconut fibers and 5 fingers wasn't just a legend. It was already dug up before. Why they need to dig a small hole to look for fiber where a coconut could have just floated and came to rest is the mystery. Hell they used to use coconuts for food, water, and ship ballast anyways. All in one neat package. Could just be a coconut trash pile

They are just high dollar privy diggers. Maybe some kind of highly advanced cats that bury all their waste in shafts 100 feet deep?

Now I'm really interested!!

 

[boretti4blues]

Why is everyone so down on the best treasure hunting show on TV? I personally enjoy the hell out of it. The possibility of vast wealth and/or priceless historical artifacts has me riveted. It sure beats reruns of the spaz brothers tripping and falling over each other when they find a used razor blade and abbreviating every other word and calling it detecting lingo.

Of course the producers of the Oak Island show are rehashing the whole known story. Should they start at the end? That would be a short show and it wouldn't be on TV until the mystery was solved. They have to educate everyone who is watching and sell ad time. They have to do both. That's the nature of the beast.

The brothers that own the island are doing their due diligence before investing millions in trying to recover the treasure. They dug up the coconut fiber to prove it was there. They didn't just take the rumor as fact. They investigated the location and found what they heard would be there. In the real world of high finance people don't just dump millions with no evidence. If previous attempts had been so methodical perhaps they wouldn't have flooded the shafts and possibly damaged the treasure.

I would love to see them recover the religious artifacts they believe could be hidden there. To see something like that happen in my lifetime would be amazing. I guess I am just a treasure hunter at heart. It isn't all about the destination. Sometimes the journey is the adventure.

Totally agree!! Best show on TV right now for me..peaks my interest.