re: The Curse of Oak Island

We've got a boootton.

I just can't get around the fact that they are finding hand hewn wood so deep underground. Someone went to a lot of trouble to put it there, at one time there must gave been something very important on that island.

That metal

Biggest damn washer I've ever seen.

Thickness wise I should say.

Yep. In 100 years some other group will be pulling up parts of the hammer grab.

It's truly an amazing story. Too many man made substantial items at 160 ft deep that are nearly unexplainable.

There is or was some kind of treasure in the money pit, I have zero doubt about that. If it's still there is anyone's guess at this point.

It would be a bad arse story if the swamp is the true treasure spot, and the money pit is a diversion.

But there is something going on...and the damn brits know what it is lol.

I just don't see how they have the technology at this point to go any deeper without it being a massive excavation by hand.

But the metal hinge is by far the most intriguing item I've seen from the island.

I don't put much stock in any of it and I've followed Oak Island stuff since I first saw a re-run that old In Search Of... from the '70s when I was a kid in the '80s.

First, the geology of that area is sandstone in close proximity or contact with seawater and it is rife with natural sinkholes, caves and caverns.

Also, the show (on purpose) does a poor job of (among other things) emphasizing just how far back exploratory attempts go, and how many there have been. People started digging for the "treasure" there in the 1850s! So when their hammer claw brings up old wood beams or metal, it's really not remarkable. Not even "hand-hewn" wood. In the 1850s, way out there, it would have been hand-hewn.

So one problem (among many) is that while what they are looking for is old, so is all the detritus left behind by past treasure hunters!

If Oak Island were a crime scene, it's been so irrevocably messed up by past searchers that a judge would have to throw all the evidence out.

I could be wrong here but if I remember correctly the type of dating they use is good for approximate dating of really, really old stuff but not that exact. It throws out a ballpark and 1700 is close enough to 1850 in the grand scheme of time that I bet it falls in the margin of error of the test. I also have doubts about their ability to pinpoint when it was *cut* vs a ballpark of around when it was alive.

Bottom line, Dunfield dug up that whole entire part of the island where the money pit is down to 135 or so feet. A huge hole, a crater, comprising the area below where all of these shafts the Laginas are sinking, 135' down. Dunfield dug up all of the old shafts and searcher tunnels. All there is below the ground there now is the randomly jumbled up detrius of all the old shafts and tunnels that Dunfield wrecked, tore out, and then bulldozed back in the giant hole. So all the Laginas are doing is putting down shafts and pulling out the rubble of what amounts to a giant landfill Dunfield made. Dunfield made any sort of scientific or archaeological methods on that site impossible for the future because he wrecked it all. The show's biggest sin is how it generally obfuscates about that fact.