Options
The Curse of Oak Island... THREAD BUMP...Any Fans out there ? Season 7
Rosco
Posts: 254 ✭✭✭✭
I clearly remember reading the story in Readers Digest.
What will Rick, Marty and the crew unearth ?
Millions, Billions, Trillions in treasures... and artifacts unknown ?
You watching ?
R.I.P Son 1986>2020
0
Comments
It's strangely addicting. Kind of like watching the Golf Channel, or listening to elevator music. I like shows where nothing ever happens.
Oh. And chess. Bridge.
Kind regards,
George
They are Milking it, for the series for sure...
It's kinda like a potato and no steak often times.
R.I.P Son 1986>2020
Dig hole, find nothing, guess at another spot, dig hole, find nothing, guess at another spot...
Latin American Collection
I myself am burned out watching it ! Dont want to watch again tell they find it ?
@Rosco Oh, and the lottery. You Can't Win If You Don't Enter!
Kind regards,
George
Love it! I just TIVO it so I can buzz past the commercials!
Love,love the show. I also remember reading the readers digest story many moons ago
Rainbow Stars
I do the same thing, but buzz by the show and watch the commercials.
The show is more like "dig hole - fill with money."
You mean there is something other than commercials?
One of my curiosities is the years of legal battle nonsense that could occur.
Country of origin etc...
R.I.P Son 1986>2020
If I recall, Bowers wrote about this decades ago. Great story. I don't watch anymore. It is just like the shows looking for "Bigfoot."
A double drydock-like structure needs to be built around every water inlet they find. It may be a mile long in some places. Then dig the entire island up dumping the dirt to fill the enclosure and the perimeter. If there is any treasure, they will find it. I'd let the Chinese do the job as they are good at Island making.
I like the show and the idea behind it, but the way they present it is very tiring honestly. There is so much recap, review, and hype at every break, there's only 20-25 minutes of new material for each one hour show. It's becomes tedious to watch. I wish them luck, but just fast forward to the end of the season.
I have been 1 number off on Hot Lotto twice in the past year...
3rd time "Charm" I hope !!
R.I.P Son 1986>2020
I have said in another thread on this topic.... the millions poured into this search (for almost 200 years now) is far greater than any potential treasure... for which there is no tangible evidence of existence. This is an entirely manufactured program for entertainment and will just drag on until interest wanes and it dies the quiet death it deserves. Cheers, RickO
@Rosco Years ago back before the Virginia Lottery merged with the MegaMillionGazillionBucksGorgeFest, I played the key dates in Lincoln cents one time, just for grinnies. 9, 14, 22, 31, 55, and the kicker 26 (for 26-S). At the time I had a high-paying, high-stress, high-travel job as a corporate communications manager for a well-known chemical company.
I got 5 out of 6. That's a mixed blessing, it turns out. While I got to drive up the road a ways to historic Abingdon, Virginia, and collect a nice check for, IIRC, $1573, for years after I would get out of bed, put on my dress shirt and tie, and grumble "Just one more @#$^^)& number" as I drove to work.
The jackpot was 6 million bucks.
Kind regards,
George
They need to get the Gold Rush guys in there with their equipment and I guarantee we'll have an answer within a couple months.
that is if there equipment doesn't break down
Tiring? Omg I've never seen a more tedious program. Leonard Nimoy did in one hour what these nimrods will take 10 seasons to do.
There's no more history on the history channel . There's no learning on the learning channel . No sports on the ESPN . Time to cut the cord folks
Well, at least they find something.
No they don't , they see a sign something might be somewhere , they drive to the other side of the island and dig in a random location . As mentioned above , the recaps are mind numbing. Oh this is what we are going to do after 10 comercials they repeat the same thing then do the opposite.
It's like watching the news in the morning , they say next up after the break , the weather, but 40 minutes later you might see the weather.
@giorgio11 **I'M WRITING ABOUT THE GOLD DREDGE SHOW!!! NOT OAK ISLAND. **
The show intrigues me as to what went on 400 years ago on a little out of the way island. Some great engineering feats and for what. If they ever truly break the code it will be very interesting. Just to know why someone went to this trouble is the most attractive facet of this series. The fact they dig and find nothing but a clue is all editing to keep the viewer coming back. I hope they eventually find out some true information as to the original planners and excavators, but who knows.
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
It's like the ghost hunter shows one of my sons used to watch. Look, there's nothing here...that proves it...let's bring in more equipment to find nothing...OMG we've proven without a doubt that the great all-knowing nothing is here!!! That's the famous nothing of 1766, not the false-rumored nothing of 1857!
Ha ha if they keep digging holes the island is going to sink. To slow for me at 1st I was looking at it but now I'll pass it up when flipping the channels.
Hoard the keys.
I was a fan of the story decades sho when I read the books of Edward Rowe Snow. I saw part of one episode of the show and it was unwatchable to me, being do much hype and contrived buildup.
I figured they should just bulldoze the island to see what turns up, but the permits for that might be a little tough to arrange.
I've seen a few episodes and find it intriguing, so I may have to try and find it on-line so I can watch the previous episodes.
Donato
Donato's Complete US Type Set ---- Donato's Dansco 7070 Modified Type Set ---- Donato's Basic U.S. Coin Design Set
Successful transactions: Shrub68 (Jim), MWallace (Mike)
The easiest way to become a millionaire is to go treasure hunting as a billionaire. However, I am a watcher and enjoy the arm chair treasure hunt. I am pulling for the boys. They said they are living a second child hood. Good for them.
100% Positive BST transactions
Insert cheesy narrator trying to sound stunned : "What??????????? A piece of tree root????? 200 feet below????? Could it be........?????????"
Then they will find some crackpot theorist who will say that Captain Kidd carried a piece of tangled tree root as a pocket piece and twenty more holes will be dug.
The show is both hilarious and mind-numbing.
Nothing will be found because nothing was ever there.
As @rickO said, supreme milking job.
I watch but it is slow and tedious. as far as the gold rush people they obviously find gold but Ill never understand why the heck the Hoffman family find gold and then decide to run away to an area where they have to beat their heads against a wall when they don't find enough gold to pay the bills.
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
What if really smart people FOUND the treasure many years ago. They were so smart, they never told anyone about the find and cashed it in slowly.
Maybe the show is the final death that the island needs to claim before the treasure can be found.
Latin American Collection
Yes, would love to see some gold come out of those holes. I also watch curling and I live in the desert.....go figure.
bob
There is a lot of gold in the desert, I'm not kidding there is.
Hoard the keys.
I am fascinated by the Oak Island legend and started watching the first season but soon realized they just weren’t going to find anything. It’s all just to get viewers and ad revenue.
My thought is if there WAS something there, if was removed long ago.
More boring than a show about a kid in his basement mining bitcoin. At least with "Gold Rush" they do find something.
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat
Wasn't that in a hardbound Book for kids printed in 1964? That is where my interest was inspired and has been with me my whole life!
They have to milk every penny out of that show. I really wonder how the funding for their project is divvied up!
LOL !!!!!!!!
I see it coming...here's how its going to go:
These guys are going to see something...
He's going in for a closer look...
Then the MAN who gets RESULTS says dig here...
And stuffs this guy down the hole...
And then Giorgio is going to steal the show !!!
End of story.
R.I.P Son 1986>2020
In the teeth of the people buried in shallow graves,,,,,,,
Some of that mud looks VERY promising!
Painfully, I do watch.
I also watch Finding Escobar's Millions.
Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
double post
Oh, sorry, I UnDisagreed. That's a verb, right?
Kind regards,
George
I heard about it when I was a kid 40 years ago. Didn't make sense back then. Doesn't make sense today.
The manpower, effort, and expense necessary to build what was supposed to be there would have been enormous. For what? You want to hide treasure, you dig a hole and put dirt over it. You want to let everyone in the world know where you put something, you spend years building a huge, complex, elaborate system of shafts and tunnels and caverns in Nova Scotia, and then run away and never come back.
It's just dumb.
--Severian the Lame
And in those dropped from helicopters.
bob
My son and I got bored with that show, [although at first we both liked it]..............too, too, too many 'recaps' of previous shows.
Each new episode contains approximately 12 minutes of "new material".
JMHO
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb, Ricko
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
I watch it time to time but every episode seems exactly the same. They drill, a guy finds something small with a metal detector, there is permit drama and they are over budget
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
You're spot on. When I was a kid I ate that story up. Nothing there. I started digging holes. Nothing there....another hole, etc.
My main concern was DANGER! Grandpa was always digging for water. As a little guy I was told to stay away! You could fall in and never be found. So...while I was digging my one foot deep treasure shafts, I always knew it was DANGEROUS BUSINESS! Never found any treasure. But the potato bugs were interesting. And scary!
I don't have any experience with the desert, but as I understand it deserts are also a good place to find meteorites, which I gather can be quite valuable.
They tried that in the post ww2 era. All it did was mess things up. With today's regulations it would be impossible. They say that with today's regulations and environmental impact blah blah they couldn't even get the remaining bodies of Mount Rushmore finished. How s> @giorgio11 said:
One does not simply "undisagree" an @insider post however "undisagreeable" one may find it later!