This is exciting. Sounds like a Dirk Pitt novel. Cool if it’s true
I refuse to watch the oak island show until the last episode when they recover the ark of the covenant or the holy grail or whatever they expect to find. To watch anything leading up to it is anti climactic (anti in this case used as ‘Before’ as in antibellum)
Oh, good. They found my property. I’ve been calling the Gettysburg lost and found department for over 150 years now.
If the FBI is involved, be ready for anything.
This is as nonsensical as Oak Island, or Confederate gold in Lake Michigan.
I mean, how does one pay troops with gold bars? The pay was always in coin or currency.
But I don’t blame the “hunters”—they’re probably angling for a tv gig.
I’ve always thought of buried treasure/maps conspiracies as the dreams of 7 year old boys. The thought of grown men chasing this stuff makes me shake my head.
What ever happened to “Shovel and shut up”?
The 50lb gold bricks to pay 100,000 soldiers must be only part of the legend.
I want to hear the rest about the real marvel - the slicing machine they were to use to slice-off cold-cut thin slices of gold for distributuon.
First, the only reason we are hearing about it is because that the company in question needed vital funding and sought out the brothers who are working on Oak Island. This in turn led to a History Channel reality television show.
Second shows like this are great for those who enjoy history as few know a lot of what this shows describes. However, a warning would be “trust but verify”. Who knew Jefferson Davis was caught fleeing the North in woman’s clothing? I was taught in school he was caught nothing more. The same holds true with Oak Island as there are links to the Knights of the Templars. History that has been covered on the Oak Island show have been everything from the previous treasure hunters, to pirates, to French Nobility to Canadian founding history. So while the benefit of them searching for buried treasure the history shows like these and others provides a vast treasure trove of historical information. One of the reasons I also like to watch shows like Dead Files and ghost hunting shows, to learn about the history involved. Who cares if ghosts exist or not, the background to why they are there is more interesting most of the time. For example the British show Most Haunted went into the London’s historical underground which I will never get to see as a disabled veteran.
Lastly, the historical evidence found on Oak Island does have some weight when it comes to promulgating the legend there is or was treasure buried on Oak Island. Most think the first shots of the Civil War occurred on the East Coast but this has been shown to be historically inaccurate.
I thought this gold was found in Sadd Hill cemetery... in an unmarked grave next to one marked “Arch Stanton”.