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The tall gangly guy with the messy hair is the one with the big dream. His brother made a lot of money in the oil business and was/is sort of interested in Oak Island, but needed to be sold on it by his brother. To add some drama I’ve seen him say stuff like “Well, unless we have some real proof by the end of the year I’m not going to fund it anymore.” And then of course, on the last episode of the season they find a piece of gold chain or an old coin 100 feet down!

I watched it for several seasons. I don’t watch much TV anymore, but if I came across it I would stop and watch it again. The last show I watched they went back to Europe to look for clues. One was a church used by the Knight’s Templar.

A fresco in the wall of the church (dated at 1200 AD or whatever) there is an image of what could be a cob of corn - or maybe it was the stalk.

“Could this really be the final clue? A corn of cob on a European church dating to 1200 AD? But how could this be!? Corn only grew in the New World until it was brought back to Europe in the 1500’s! Did the Knight’s Templar leave a clue as to where their Treasure was???”

I’m guessing there are 20 plants in the old world that might look a bit like corn - but it makes for an interesting story. They hit some other places in Europe, and it was interesting to hear the various histories and how it might tie back into the treasure.

Hmm- I used to make up stories and tell them to my kids at night. One of the running themes was some kids looking for a treasure. Fun stuff to imagine.

The gold chain and coin could have been a plant. In the parlance of these kind of ‘treasure hunting’’ expeditions it's called ‘’salting’’. My whole point here is that , logically thinking a bunch of these 18th. century sea faring criminal types or even someone with half a brain weren't about to go digging enormously time consuming and deep digs just to hide a ‘’treasure’’. Certainly not in the case of pirates. They'd take the loot and quickly blow it on whores and booze. Considering that just in the last few years in Britain at least two British guys, out on their own little farm plots, unknown to each and in different parts of Britain just walking along with a simple hand held metal detector have come across a treasure drove of fabulously made gold amulets, bracelets, rare gems and other incredible stuff just inches below the surface and it appears, some of it to date back to the time of the first Viking invasions with, I think were some time in the 5th. or 6th. century(around 400 or 500 a.d.) I can't swear to the exact time line but the London museum verified the stuff as the real deal and these two guys ended up well off. What I'm getting at is the whole show is con game.

And then of course, on the last episode of the season they find a piece of gold chain or an old coin 100 feet down!

In one of the early season episode, they drilled a hole and it did not yield anything. Before they closed the whole, the brother with the glasses, threw a modern Canadian 2 dollar coin down the hole. In Canada they call them Loonie or Toonies. The brother also said something along the lines of if he ever found it again. The show went on until the last season when the metal detecting guy, hit on something in the spoils from the grab. It was revealed to be the samme one (so they say) as the one he threw down there years ago. There is supposedly enough current down at dpeth to move the coin ten feet before it rested on what they think is the bottom. This led to them thinking the treasure vault, when an earlier searched hear the loud rumble which was surmised to be a collapse, it lef themm to believe the treasure vault is mmuch deeper and had moved which is why they were coming up empty in their search since they had found Hole #2. This led to the War room in which took most of the final show with the artifacts found laid out on the table by century in a timeline fashion. The earliest century was the 1500’s and the timeline went up to the Loonie the younger brother threw down a hole which was sealed up later.

Yes there are carvings of corn in that Cathedral. The Cathedral of Exeter dates back to the time of King Ethelwolf in 855. However, corn was a staple crop in England back then as it was given as a form of tithe to the Church. If corn originated in the New World, how was the Old World growing it before the above so-called experts in ancient trade routes claim there was none as we only have “circumstantial” evidence. 855 is before the Vikings grew in stature and power.