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"The Curse of Oak Island" follows brothers Marty and Rick Lagina as they investigate the mystery of a buried treasure on Oak Island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
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[@Rellianno]

It’s kind of obvious they won’t find treasure but as a watcher for years I’m more intrigued by what actually happened on the island and how long ago..

[@veronicajacob6938]

Is not only about the gold and treasure is about the history of the place. Who was there for what purpose. The story is more important than the treasure at this point.

[@themobseat]

The show is the definition of insanity. They find a doorknob, it MIGHT be from a chest. The chest MIGHT be full of gold. The chest MIGHT have been left by Blackbeard. The chest MIGHT contain the Holy Grail. The Holy Grail MIGHT have been put there by Knights. And on and on and on....

[@usmcmustang2972]

I agree 110% ... They really let their minds run away with pathetic disregard for reality .... The same way that UFO'ers and archaeologists do.. 😂😄😆😎👍

[@rossbarmache2811]

you could be the narrator for it cause i hate the current guys voice

[@usmcmustang2972]

@The Progressive Goldbug ... who is it, that "moves goal posts" of the plandemic and votes for BS "insurance" legislation, so we can "see whats in the bill" ..????? ... . 🤔🤔🤔 Yes .... "progressives" (interpretation - regressive)

[@wo7925]

Don’t you guys miss it when the history channel actually talked about history and not conspiracy theories, truck drivers, or conspiracy theories

[@donellmuniz590]

Do you proofread your comments before you send them? 🤔 --- The Dept. Of Redundancy Dept. 😉

[@howiegruwitz3173]

@@donellmuniz590 alright Hitler

[@reggierendert6494]

I kinda like the truck drivers but yes

[@donellmuniz590]

@@howiegruwitz3173 Hitler? Really? Jerk.

[@rossbarmache2811]

nope

[@biggieed949]

Looks to me that it’s off the door of an alien spaceship that was probably filled with Spanish treasures from China by way of Finland.

[@cliveturner4980]

my thoughts too it proably contains a mind altering drug that makes people watch this bullshite !!!!!!

[@johntinus9438]

Could it be?

[@DADDYFO1973]

On Oak Island?

[@Russia-bullies]

Why should it be from China when it could be from out of Earth?

[@guyanderson5384]

This is South Holland Guy 👦LOL x1000

[@nicktatum3301]

This show has been peeing on my head and telling me it's raining for to long.

[@jeffmahoney1271]

Love how they say gold in the title of the video, even though its brass...

[@sheapantera]

Gold is also a color my friend

[@jeffmahoney1271]

@@sheapantera then the word would be golden

[@BeardedDragonMan1997]

@@sheapantera golden

[@donellmuniz590]

It's not brass. I can absolutely, positively, 100% guarantee that. Brass would turn green in one year in the dirt, buried or not.

[@genehasenbuhler2594]

Brass is Norse Gold!

[@johnnysmoke612]

Narrator's voice "Little did they know, at this time, but it was the button off a Viking's loin cloth. Viking pubics were later found in the ultra sound cleaner."

[@dawnofthewalkers4915]

Series finale prediction. They find out that the treasure was already raided and has been gone for hundreds of years

[@frankarmilio8902]

That's been my theory since the beginning. I think it's been gone for a long time

[@richardjenkins3594]

Nip I know what they find and prepare yourself to be disappointed or be amazed!!!!

[@Charlie_Crown]

Series finale in season 50. At this stage they've found enough wood to start up a lumberyard 😆👍

[@richardjenkins3594]

They won't find a ship they can surely build one now!! LOL 🤣🤣

[@ericbedenbaugh7085]

There was no treasure.It's from a story published in Readers Digest that Rick thinks is real.

[@stephenkulawinski4200]

Pretty sad when the guy who does metal detecting for a career could not identify this metal as gold with his detector or by observation.

[@yoyo-lf3ld]

Right?? Purposefully dramatised

[@johndeans1469]

Or by simply scratching it

[@debbiecarter4398]

So over Gary..........

[@stevenheath741]

@@debbiecarter4398 Absolutely Can’t see him as an expert on anything except the ability to not even be able to pronounce the letter H ...It looks like an inge ,,,it’s an inge etc.

[@rossbarmache2811]

it literally has a screen! gary sorry to say mate your out of a job,,,

[@eddielane9569]

I would have it tested to determine what it really is made of because brass being in the ground for years and years I would think would be tarnished heavily.

[@cindypape3444]

It could be the top of a walking cane or walking stick

[@kontrolledkhaos4853]

Most likely

[@kontrolledkhaos4853]

And it looks mass produced

[@scubawi]

My first thought was that it was a pummel from a sword or knife.

[@airgunningsa3771]

Or the pommel of a sword

[@coreycayton2303]

It’s a butt plug mate an ancient one holy moly

[@XxTheAwokenOnexX]

Given the difficulties the fellowship are having digging down with the most advanced equipment ever to be used on Oak Island. There is no way anyone else found the loot and whatever is buried on Oak Island is still there. I'm so stoked for season 9.

[@chandamusonda4624]

Finally someone understands!!

[@XxTheAwokenOnexX]

@@chandamusonda4624 Thankyou and even if the treasure is not in the money it is buried somewhere on that Island lolz

[@Kurisutofa22]

Nothing is there they would of found it by now. This show is just dragging on and on.

[@XxTheAwokenOnexX]

@@Kurisutofa22 Too much original work into Oak Island for there to be nothing there. If modern science technology can not get underground, then people of decades and hundreds of year's ago had no chance of locating or retrieving the treasure. Whatever was buried on Oak Island is still there and the fellowship are going to find it and solve the curse

[@donellmuniz590]

They're using all this modern equipment to FIND it, not dig it up. Digging is the easy part. But if you're descended from whoever hid it, you don't HAVE to "find" it. You know where it is. Was.

[@TradertalkwithGaz123]

So that's where my old doorknob went....ah thanks guys!

[@usmcmustang2972]

The most hilarious thing in life, is how the mind of man will construct an anomaly into what he WANTS something to be, rather than what it actually is ... 🤔😐😒

[@rdm5190]

Maybe someday they'll find that rollerskate key i lost in 1972 when i was a teen

[@drstone1167]

LOL! 😆 Oak Island searchers have been on the verge of finding the treasure for eight seasons and still a big zero just like everybody that search before them. Guess why it’s long gone.

[@mondachewon2873]

Samuel ball took it and sold it all to buy land

[@siipack8888]

The island is ruined from years of blasting. Just give up. The "treasure" is long gone and no one cares any more. I love this story but even I can tell when the stripper won't go home with me.

[@reallife2849]

More about history than values

[@chuckstith838]

You need to find the treasure if you want the stripper.

[@EndangeredMooseknuckle]

The stripper isn't the treasure. It's the STD... the gift that keeps on giving... that's the treasure.

[@generaltso4250]

LMFAO to funny

[@jmemixx]

That’s exactly what a knights Templar descendant would say lol

[@cocoasmic]

You know, the real oak island treasure is the friends they make along the way.

[@_-5163]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@perrywatson5476]

Yeah we're there gold mine but I sure you ain't paying a penny to see them

[@thunderbird5273]

Watch all new episodes of The Curse of Oak Island, where they perpetually pull garbage from a swamp! Now THAT'S entertainment!

[@scark00]

At 1:55 at the top of the object I clearly see an X. It could be Roman numerals.

[@stacks2754]

On season 74 episode 25 - the origins of a brass chain.

[@jameyforbes]

😂

[@perrywatson5476]

That was a button from a Sasquatch uniform when they were civilized but they got smart and went the other way

[@eighthgate1420]

Notice how all these years they’ve only found bits and pieces. Droppings when things were removed back in the 1800s

[@riggs1590]

If they put anymore holes in that island, it'll sink into the sea.

[@johndeans1469]

One can only hope my friend.

[@kingcrabbrc]

From the seven-eeen-unreds!?

[@Skeptik-pe6ze]

Lol shamoleyyy

[@ChrisDavis1975]

Not quite a Bobby Dazzler.

[@dwaynejohnson4892]

Medevil bayybee

[@integralroofing9500]

These guys crack me up

[@Jim_1955]

Makes a change from finding wood.

[@kry13t]

my great grandfather was sandy C ampbell from BADECK , HE WAS A SKIPPER OF SEVERAL VESSELS THE LAST BEING THE TALLAHASE, HE RODE THE EASTERN SEABOARD FROM THE BAHAMAS TO NEWFOUNDLAND,

[@donellmuniz590]

UH, OK, AND THEN WHAT?

[@lolacola6457]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Gary, AGAIN, is WRONG!!! "IT'S GOLD!!" HILARIOUS!!! He looked so stupid! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@donellmuniz590]

Not if you knew what he knows. How much sunken Spanish treasure have YOU found? HE is the expert, not that fraud of a "numismatist".

[@lolacola6457]

@@donellmuniz590 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😋🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@everything-yd4xm]

A place with a bunch bunch of gold is more like blessings to me than a curse.

[@victorlane2172]

I love this channel

[@donellmuniz590]

I love THIS show, and Counting Cars (despite factual errors), but Pawn Stars and American Pickers are as fake as circa-1998 Pamela!

[@compxc]

Been watching this show from the beginning hopeful they would find something other that wood and occasionally a bobby dazzler lol now I believe this show should be renamed joke island 🏝️

[@ronlobato1206]

The Lagina brother's remind of two people who are motivated by greed and if it came down to one of them giving their life to the treasures they would throw the other in so they could have it personally. They seem like that.

[@UpStreamLivn]

Well,shiver me timbers,i was looking for that! Thanks,wife was beating me in the head,it flew off cane.

[@parajeeper]

Whatever it was on must have been heavy to rip out the center like that

[@Paulenda20]

I really love the plot around the island but as a consumer, I just hope for something different in season 9 - that "aha moment"

[@mindset2motivate747]

GOLD OBJECT REVEALED.. to not be gold! Tune in next week for further disappointment

[@dennisjamieson3328]

It would be nice to actually find something of true value

[@carolirene49]

you did, these videos...

[@warGasmshit]

the entertainment value is through the roof, i mean i enjoyed several seasons and I cant wait to find out what they find next.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

Didn't they found a sword?

[@donellmuniz590]

The two jeweled brooches would be worth a few hundred bucks each at auction, but their real value is their historical significance. The lead cross could be very valuable, as a real artifact of the Templars. But I know what ya mean, I wanna see stacks of gold coins, Shakespeares (waterlogged and disintegrated) manuscripts, the Holy Grail, and Elvis Presley too!

[@donellmuniz590]

@@TheMrPeteChannel Yes, but it wasnt as ancient as they thought. It was a decorative item no more than 200 years old, cast in bronze. Real swords were steel, of course, and would be extremely corroded in shallow saltwater.

[@kirittosanbitter9573]

I always thought History chanel was about history not about Witch hunter!

[@dennisjamieson3328]

I like the show for the history it gives us but a treasure of some type would be nice to actually find.

[@80losthighway]

They find treasure all the time just not treasure like we think. All the stuff they find on that island is treasure in some way or another

[@shawnerickstad129]

The only reason they keep digging is because of high tv ratings and nothing of serious value to find especially all the digging they done and found almost notthing

[@bluntsnmods4207]

To me that looked like the bottom of a sword pommel... I could be wrong but that’s the first thing that came to mind when I seen it...

[@mealex303]

I feel it's from a dagger or an end of one of those horseshoe shaped necklace with two balls on each end . are they called torc? Saxons or celts wore them.

[@michaelnocera7147]

If logs and rust was worth anything they would be billionaires.

[@chuckstith838]

They are. How much do you think that they have spent so far.

[@jamesmudd2227]

😂🤣

[@joehoover7711]

@@chuckstith838 5.4 mil

[@keenobservations3050]

Could be a round chunk of brass with a hole in it.

[@michaelobrien5537]

That is a very keen observation

[@dee3368]

Lol

[@keenobservations3050]

@@michaelobrien5537 Well thank you

[@mrdouglas6thand7thgrademath]

Hilarious in the midst of all these wishful thinking wish list day dreams... Statistical reality door slammed LOL Consider yourself expert certified😃 have your agent call the show... I do love the series tho

[@keenobservations3050]

@@mrdouglas6thand7thgrademath I’ll have my agent call your agent

[@motoproductions8015]

You Should just get Time Team on there... they would have solved the whole thing in three days lol not 8 seasons and still finding nothing but wood chip and rust

[@scottbaxendale323]

Every pawn shop in the country has a simple device that can test gold content in seconds.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

100% that "swamp" was a little harbor connected to the ocean that at some point was sealed off from the sea by man or a epic storm. The fact that wharf or drydock was dated to around 1200 and the apparent shipwreck is fifty feet below the silt and muck is astonishing, that indicates tremendous age for what is likely the remains of a ship.

[@BenRusk11]

I dont understand all the criticism this show gets. I can only assume 90% of it comes from people who stopped watching after season 1. People are too used to full package documentaries on historical sites all wrapped up in one 1 hour special. Oak Island is an ONGOING project that is largely made possible by the TV show.

[@Keysersoze786]

You are so gullible

[@BenRusk11]

@@Keysersoze786 yeah, and?

[@Keysersoze786]

@@BenRusk11 it's not an ongoing project u fool. The treasure has been found a long time ago. The real treasure for those brothers and history channel is making money off the show and tours from gullible fools. No offence just stating the truth

[@BenRusk11]

@@Keysersoze786 who?

[@albersonik]

It is my theory but, evidently that object received a strong blow that detached it from where it was, there is a part of this story that is not told, perhaps, there is a part of the treasure that has already been stolen, either by the English or someone plus.

[@fearlessfosdick160]

It is nothing but a brass drawer pull. Somebody was likely using the swamp as a dump at some point.

[@buzzlightyear1191]

Nice toaster 😂😂

[@marinegrunt1995]

At first glance I thought they found a pickle...

[@Highland_lad]

From the 1st show this season,I've been waiting to see what I thought was gold the way they advertising shows to come..its getting a bit monotonous having to con people theres more when theres not..

[@perrywatson5476]

I guess it's clickbait like the stimulus updates

[@user-cs3zs6jn1d]

They did find something though.

[@Highland_lad]

@@user-cs3zs6jn1d I know,I'm dying to find out what..I think its Roman stuff after there empire fell..

[@donellmuniz590]

The clickbaiting of America continues.

[@donellmuniz590]

@@Highland_lad So far, we've heard it was the French, er, the English, or was it the Scots...no, it was the Spanish, the Templars, the Mayans, the League of Women Voters, the Hobbits....what's next, the Martians?

[@kevinsusia7209]

I love history ❤️

[@billsmafiahitman7537]

I hate liberals

[@kennethnyhus1337]

I love drugs

[@straightener2001]

They must have found all the wood.

[@jslevenson101]

The journey is the treasure. ❤️

[@dee3368]

They brought in an expert who prob gets paid handsomely ....."I have no clue what it is" ....

[@Scharades288]

"It could have been for a secret box, who knows?" Guy obviously specializes in secret boxes so obviously it was the Ark of the Covenant...

[@keensweep]

More likely from a tool box of some sort.. surveying stuff maybe?

[@tomboyqueenX]

probably fell off their excavator last season.

[@montymiller4966]

sword handle

[@satwik007]

Is it just me or everyone else can see 1227 embarked on coin @2:08

[@onebullet2689]

Most likely a serial number

[@satwik007]

@@onebullet2689 yes

[@chuckstith838]

Do you think like storage wars the producers are putting tricklets in the swamp and saying look over here guys

[@satwik007]

@@chuckstith838 no absolutely not.....they worked in the swamp to find the ORIGINAL treasure its not fake it might be the key to other questions

[@additionad]

Or perhaps Aliens? (wait wrong show)

[@ifimnothereandimnottherewh2576]

Same producers, so it might be. Wait I know where the treasure is area 51 that's why the flying saucer crashed it was too heavy with gold

[@barrysterry5435]

Looks like the end of a walking stick perhaps! Or officers stick of office!

[@donellmuniz590]

My thoughts exactly. Gold topped walking sticks have been around for centuries!

[@lynpatricia6854]

@@donellmuniz590 that's the best explanation I've heard, why didn't their expert think of that?

[@donellmuniz590]

@@lynpatricia6854 THAT dope doesn't even know BRASS turns GREEN in the dirt!

[@joehoover7711]

@@lynpatricia6854 he didnt even test it for gold

[@rogeriocesargoncalves4585]

muito bom.........

[@imb4unxrp4]

Came off a heavy chess full of treasure

[@richardmason4941]

That could be a sword pommel!!

[@antoineningewance5709]

Still here from season 1 ❤❤

[@MattDaBoneless]

I'm sorry, I have gotten to the point of never expecting treasure to be found... Just history

[@thomas-w8948]

Lol they really made you waste that much time

[@poopsmcgee4693]

They need to give up the name of The History channel and just call it what it is.. Obscure reality show channel

[@the_original_skytiger]

More like Obscure Fantasy Channel.

[@johntinus9438]

It came from Rick and Marty's wine cellar door!

[@coolmodelguy6304]

It is a doorknob!

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

How loooooong can they stretch this is out for???

[@mickden3155]

How long is a piece of string ??

[@bhn028]

Thank you!

[@robsmithracing]

Wouldn’t it be funny if there isn’t anything on Oak Island and this is all a prank and paper chase from beyond the grave? Even funnier The History Channel has followed it for 8 seasons so far! Surely in the modern age with all our technology and others over the years if there was any treasure someone would’ve found it by now?! Instead it’s like watching my 4 year old digging in the garden and finding a marble and an old nail 😂

[@Keysersoze786]

Treasure probably found years ago and they are milking the series now they probably know nothing there

[@jeditor9687]

Why don’t they just focus all their efforts digging out the money pit area? It’s either there or it isn’t. Oh wait, they wouldn’t have a show otherwise...

[@dogismyco-pirate]

Looks like a doorknob to me lol how one could jump to the conclusion its off a jewel chest is beyond me?

[@bonnie2057]

could their be a connection to the knights templar mission on the island

[@mrz6462]

ITs interesting how this show has gotten politically correct, adding 2 girls and a Black guy to the team whose only job is to be on camera!! They say and do mostly nothing!!! I think this is a bit disingenuous and patronizing, not really helping anybody or any cause.

[@thekenyan1697]

I was thinking the exact same thing

[@renaissanceman5847]

soon they will have a transgender cook with pink hair

[@danielabatabogdanov8586]

Planted

[@com2375]

Since the new folks have joined the team, you can tell the joy of things are gone. They aren't their happy selves. They have the ones with intials behind their last names pushing them aside on things. What a yr of darkness so far and it's only less than a month old

[@donellmuniz590]

No they don't. Marty brought them in. He needs the help. He writes the big checks.

[@brianbrown1319]

I watch this show, I believe Frances got it before England own Canada not sure yet. There still undiscover x spot new area not money pit

[@rumplestiltskin3653]

Time to pack up and move to a new island

[@raymondpinner8328]

Looks like an ink well.

[@rahallivex]

The reason they are not giving up the search is because they have actually started making money from the show. So there's no need to end the doomed search if they are already profiting. it's the audience who is the biggest fool thinking they will find a pirate treasure or the ark of the covenant.

[@icrcb1]

All the bad comments and reviews..... Hey, there is great news!!! You can change the channel, and won't cost you anything, nor will it hurt!! We will miss you.... How about we enjoy the history of the show and not dwell on treasure? Easy to sit back in your chair, not spending a penny and complain. Move on!

[@oldbaldwiseone]

Possibly a uniform button???

[@ty-nw7ny]

Cool

[@f1uckme]

Send transmitters down the hole and set up receivers top side , you might need a tech wizard to help but it might save you some money , good luck.

[@f1uckme]

I mean the type they use in tornado,s.

[@f1uckme]

Like what you done with the dye .

[@eighthgate1420]

The Knights Templar Removed any treasures.

[@donf1006]

I belive that all that stuff they find has been blown in from storms over the centuries. Lot of shipwrecks out there! Florida's gold coast is a perfect example!

[@markpape6565]

The line comeing off the meridian line through the anchor point's did you notiocethe cross when rotated land's more or less in the middle of that line know if the anchor point's are exactly two anchor point's for working in the middle.

[@renecordova6349]

I didn't think gold would stain! Gold and silver usually come out of the ground looking shine, all that is needed is brushing, even after years underground...you don't need an expert to tell you this...

[@tyhroneskyles4873]

That's treasure hunting finding more trash than treasure before you find the real thing but that's actually a pretty cool Relic, I found a coin in a TotLot in Texas that look exactly like the one they found , Chinese coins are a dime-a-dozen, but at least you know these are real finds.

[@solitarybell2836]

More wood and coconut fibres Hahahha

[@oldatarigamer]

A jewel chest? Of great value? In the swamp?

[@donellmuniz590]

You havent been paying attention. Why would there be stone structures and pathways, some dating back to the 1200s? It wasnt ALWAYS a swamp.

[@oldatarigamer]

@@donellmuniz590 a swamp? On an island?

[@donellmuniz590]

@@oldatarigamer Evidence suggests it was man made. (OLD maps show Oak Island was once 2 small islands, with a narrow channel between them.) For what purpose? Perhaps to burn and sink an old treasure ship.

[@bobbycummings608]

That thing looks like a cane topper to me , if I was a gambling man , I'd bet on cane topper or something to that effect not a handle. Just wanted to state my non-expert opinion.

[@reggierendert6494]

I just come here for the comments, some of the best

[@pastorovmuppets]

Lmfao!! They didn't need an expert to tell them what it was made of 🤣🤣🤣 even pawn shops can do it. Their pommy metal detecting expert could have told them for free.

[@astroboy5456]

They are so deep into there pockets they have no choice but to milk every button or sliver of wood they come across .

[@ricanbee2849]

Please stop checking every little thing just shut up and keep digging smfh

[@michaelnocera7147]

They always call Marty or rick to check out the scrap that they found. Draton woo woos everything. Rick always says it's a significant find. Their next series will be looking for bigfoot on oak island. Lol

[@johntinus9438]

Looks like it's a Yo Yo! It looks expensive but it's really a toy!