Posted on 03/20/2019 5:23:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Charles Barkhouse, an Oak Island historian and family friend, described Mr. Blankenship as a “living legend.”
“I mean, how often do you get to meet a treasure hunter?” Mr. Barkhouse chuckled. “In truth he was much more than just a treasure hunter. He had a very full life.”
Mr. Barkhouse said Mr. Blankenship was a U.S. Army veteran who had a successful contracting business in Miami, Fla., when he got hooked on the Oak Island mystery after reading a Reader’s Digest story in 1965.
“He’s poured his blood, sweat and tears into that island trying to solve this mystery,” Mr. Barkhouse said.
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RIP.
RIP
RIP...Oak Island. IMHO a huge scam.
It is an interesting story but I hate that program on “The History Channel”. It is just a waste of time. If they did find something really significant, it would be reported all over the internet etc. Until then it is just redundant nonsense.
Addictive story but it would be better if they found something.
How much is the reality series worth? Isn’t that the treasure?
RIP. Hubby and I went to NS in 1972 and paid a visit to Oak Island (I had read the same article in Reader’s Digest back in 1965, and was delighted to go out to the island as a side trip to our honeymoon)
We were taken around the island by the gentleman who was the present owner and shown the probable location of the Money Pit, other excavations, and Smith’s Cove. It was an awesome visit, and very few people visited the island at the time.
Based on the timeline of Oak Island’s owners, it may have been Dan Blankenship who showed us around. It was the most interesting part of our trip!
Every time Dan Blankenship appeared on the TV series, he seemed familiar to me.
May he Rest in Peace, and, hopefully, has found The Real Treasure in Heaven.
“According to the legend, 7 men will have to die before Oak Island secrets can be revealed.”
Dan is the 7th,
RIP, Dan/
They’re stretched it out for 7-8 seasons, spent tens of millions on it, and don’t have much to show for the effort. But I watch it on HC all the time.
Clues and questions, but no answers.
That explains why there aren’t any women as the main cast.
Money box here we come!!!!
After finishing the first episode of Lost Gold of WWII on the History Channel, I'm going to watch last night's episode of The Curse of Oak Island.
That thought crossed my mind as well.
Awww...I really liked him. He was amazingly fit for 95. My maiden name is Nolen and can supposedly be traced back to Templars so found it interesting that a Nolan ties into Oak Island.
it’s been years of the droning narrator saying stuff like “Could it be... blah blah blah”, or repeating last weeks episode for 1/4 of the show- or sitting i nthe war room discussing crap, or running all over creation to investigate some useless lead- and never finding anything of any real consequences
We tape the stupid show now and fast forward all of it and only stop to watch IF it looks like they found something-
20 minutes. I’m good with that.
Bummer. He waited so patiently to find out what’s down there, but...
R.I.P.
rip
RIP.
I read the same story in my parent’s Reader’s Digest when I was a kid. Interesting story and so is the show. However, thinking about the engineering necessary to do what they purport to make booby traps protecting the treasure doesn’t pass the common sense test.
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