I hate to be the bear of bad news, but the only thing keeping this whole ordeal going is Rick Lagina. As a wanna be treasure hunter, he’s also a genius in engineering, wine, and apparently keeping a dead horse alive. The funny thing is since 1795 there has been not 6 CONFIRMED deaths on the island, but 14, it’s 15 if you count in Blankenship. The whole treasure tale that’s gone on for hundreds of years is the same tale we all hear when we go out detecting. My brother, and I were just discussing this the other day, as a farmer had told us that he remembers “their being cannonballs on the ground when they’d plow, and that they would pick them up, and put them to the side next to the rock pile”. We discussed between one another how many times have we been told the same type of story, sometimes in a different manner, but all sounding similar in nature.
Just as the “boy” who stumbled upon the disturbed ground at oak island with a rope, and box above it, then in other accounts he’s not a boy at all, and neither is the other “boys”. The fact that a boy let alone a man could dig 90 feet in the rock, sand, silt, more rock, and pieces of broken wood is a hoax. We all know how well a damp landscape holds up once you dig it( if you’ve ever done any kind of construction, or mining with heavy equipment or even a shovel) I’ve done both, and still do the excavator portion a lot of times due to family business. Due to the land showing a void could be a number of things: cave in from land settling, rotting natural material gives way, the natural water table under the ground eroding a certain area. I know darn good and well, that in order to dig down 80-90 foot in that kind of material you would have to dig a circumference of around 100-150’ wide just to be somewhat safe. Would I go down in a hole 90 feet down with walls 100-150’ apart, in that kind of material? No, the reason why is, if you’ve ever dug in gravel, sand, or lose fill, you know what happens when you open that hole to go deeper. The surrounding walls next to it begin to fill back on top of one another.
The fact that this was supposedly done almost 300 years ago, is more than a miracle it’s impossible. I dig in dirt, sand, gravel all the time, and one thing I’ve dealt with many, many times is you get to a certain depth, and one or two things happen first 1. The walls crumble, and go right back into the hole, 2. You hit the water table below, and then your hole starts filling with water.
Judging from their digs at oak island, one thing that always strikes me as funny, irritating, and downright false is the fact that someone would be able to dig a flood tunnel in those kinds of conditions. You would have to have a steel plated structure on both side of the ditch keeping the sides from caving in on top of you, and killing you, and the fact that they “sell” the flood tunnel theory so we’ll. It’s all right smack dab in the viewers, and the researchers faces. Look at the level in which they are digging at relative to the water surrounding the island. They are at most I’m going to say 150’ above the water level of the ocean they can see, but what you, them, I can’t see is the NATURAL water table below them, that you hit everytime you dig a deep enough hole. The items they’ve located mean nothing. That island has been dug, backfilled, dug again, and backfilled. the humans remains, some of which were probably washed ashore, or died looking for treasure were either buried, or rotted away to the point of all there was left was bone, in 200 years a body in that kind of soil, especially bones would have been literally crumbled by the rocks that filled on top of them upon burial, leaving bone fragments, whatever papers they had in their pockets, hell even some of the book binding, and other stuff they find could all very well be a part of human remains that were buried, dug up during a more recent excavation(1900’s-1960’s) then backfilled once they didn’t find anything. Then when Lagina, and crew got there, they sink a steel caisson in the ground and recover what’s been dug before, backfilled, and then natural deposits under the island. Anyone who know tidal landscape, and islands, knows that there are pockets under islands where water travels(cave, or similar water made tunnel) in which debris from the ocean, driftwood, bones, paper, anything can be deposited, and over the course of 200 years those areas of water could have shifted leaving an area, soaked with water, silt, mud, and rock, all of which make it appear as if they’ve dug up a body, artifacts that were purposely buried there 200 years ago.
As long as Rick is the producer, and he still has his multiple billion dollar businesses, and the money that the folks at History Channel give him, for making them a show, and gaining them viewers, it’ll still be here until A. One of the dies,B. Canadian govt shuts them down, finally saying enough is enough, C. The show begins to lose viewers, and then the History Channel has a harsh decision to make: do they lie, and say a hoard was found, or do they give in, and say we just have to give up because there’s just not enough realistic proof. The have circumstantial evidence, but definitive evidence of there being a treasure there is not a fact, it’s a tale, just like many other treasure tales, that gets bigger, and bigger as time goes on.
