The Curse of Oak Island: Secret Slipway Unearthed Near Money Pit (Season 8) | History

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[@threwthelookingglass7194]

that means the entrance is not to far away.. bye 5 trees. unless all dead.. or removed

[@nancymccall4118]

Love these pieces of history. Love Rick

[@auntbelinda6501]

We ALL have to continue watching, and re-watching, on some episodes lol!! Right, Mates!

[@auntbelinda6501]

@@nancymccall4118 Hey, Rick gave his life to this, no wife, no children, all of his money, focus, and concentration has been Oak Island, and I pray that 2021 is THE YEAR for the treasure to be found! I too read the Readers Digest article in '65, and I am 63, so they need to find it soon! Lol

[@lindabegovich7463]

Its going to take years to dig up every spot trying to find something but that’s 👌 as long as History Channel keeps letting us watch.

[@apollonia6656]

Same findings and they all get excited ! Honestly think they will find Nothing like treasure 😂😂😂😂

[@juliannarmitage7060]

I absolutely love this program ..can not get enough of it. ..I pray they find their treasure..I love going on the journey with them as well. FANTASTIC ADVENTURE..HARBOR SPRINGS. MI

[@lisaward60]

Love how excited they get.

[@richardadams8830]

i have diligently watched this show since it started. It does move at a snails pace. The history part of Oak Island is fascinating. However, those of us that have been dedicated are worn out with how long and drawn out this has become. We need something big to happen.

[@MoogMoog]

Nothing will happen

[@apollonia6656]

Richard Adams, I agree with you 100%. Personally, I find it boring now. Wow ! Found a slipway , found more axes, found more wood etc. Methinks they will find nothing. Please no Series 9 !

[@PapawCulberson]

More money in making television episodes - that's where the money is out there - not in the ground. With season pay - episode pay - and residual pay - this is the real treasure.

[@barrycrump6189]

If this is the best tease you have for season 8 - then it looks like it will be another lemon of a show.

[@apollonia6656]

Or a banana slip !

[@YoungGun.]

I love how Exited they get.

[@RWildekrav66]

Just when I thought I was OUT and wouldn’t watch ! They pulled me back IN !

[@johnwoa]

That's because the show contains subliminal messages and is habit forming.

[@ggh8384]

Wow what hooked you back in ? For me it was when they found the wood . That was crazy

[@stephenberry3551]

Just think of what these men have learned during this work. And still learning

[@hayden2169]

Narrator: “Wood? On Oak Island? Could it be that the team has just found wood on Oak Island!” Relax I’m joking 😂

[@grahamethompson3270]

Thought I would stop by for my annual check on Oak Island and, ahh, moving on.

[@sandrakisch3600]

Love this show. Happy New Year everyone.

[@neilurwin9670]

Absolutely Brilliant Series And Totally Timeless.

[@lolacola6457]

You're joking right?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😋😋😋😋🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😋🤣😋🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LARGERTHANLIFE21]

I was starting to think this show was staged until I seen that grin on his face that was a honest excited reaction

[@barrycrump6189]

Fascinating - yet more wood. This show is beyond a joke.

[@luissmith1234]

🤣😂lmao but true

[@rockscousteau]

I figure at this point....Rick & Marty will get beat up if they walk into any bar......anywhere.

[@ggh8384]

@@rockscousteau Are their names seriously Rick and Marty like Rick and Morty?

[@trinamarshall8027]

Have every show love oak island.

[@StultifiedGraphics]

Wish they would Prank him - "Your on Speaker we have found a treasure chest"

[@Michel-7.7.7]

Amazing efforts for the production of this tv show. Burying a 'slipway' and film 6 episodes digging it out

[@hamiltonkhoza1469]

Our prayers are with you Lagina Brothers and Crew...we wish you tones of Luck in your endeavour

[@colleenforrest7936]

I'm enjoying the archeology :)

[@MarkJones-si2bb]

Notice how they're rarely dirty, often find artifacts minutes after starting in a new area, and the dirt is often already broken / loose? Not saying they plant it... but my guess is pawns do the work, then they come in w the TV crew to 'find' the new item.

[@chopper5332]

What a surprise that was some oak found on oak island just WOW

[@deec5420]

I read the original Readers Digest article on Oak Island when I was a kid (the 1960`s I think) and it's how I learned of it. As I follow the episodes it gets so much more complex than the simpler idea of a pirate cache. The history of the island has contributed a great deal to the idea of who came to the Americas and when. I'm wondering if the swamp was originally used as harbor for ships to layover and later deliberately filled in with tailings out of the treasure pits they were digging. An enormous amount of dirt must have been brought up from the holes. It had to go somewhere. For them to go to the effort to build a stone road, they must have lowered something valuable into the hole so it can't be one pirate chest. Maybe Samuel Ball discovered a lesser trouve buried by someone else. It's possible the island was used by pirates at different times besides the building of the pit. The island has been disturbed so much, it's not an easy thing to find the original pit. Just because it hasn't been pinpointed yet doesn't make it a hoax like some people suggest. Who on earth would hoax that much work to create a "reality" show? The drill that pulled up a piece of parchment and some fragmented gold is proof there's still something down there that wasn't found by hunters. I hope they find the spot after all the time and work they've invested besides the money they've spent. I'm happy the Laginas were able to follow their boyhood dream. Their contribution to archeology and the history of the region is extremely valuable in and of itself.

[@281chrismiller]

Let's see if they actually figggin got something this time

[@stephenbachman132]

Probably not.

[@shawnerickstad129]

There’s no riches to find on that island and only money they are going to make is from tv show

[@ajcook7777]

In episode 1 they say this year they find definitive proof of what happened (at least one part of the story) clearly it won't be revealed until the very end of the season though...

[@drumnbass49]

apparently they found shiny gold artifacts in c1

[@stephenbachman132]

@@drumnbass49 really. Well why aren't they doing a segment on that.

[@andyhanson2623]

How many siginificant finds does it take get on with it lads. Dig. Or i will just wait until someone tells me you found it. Lmao it’s like seasons 7-8 of the office. Just finish it

[@suzannemuise9345]

Great show! If someone had information that is new/has not been known of, how do we contact anyone?

[@Wiiggz]

Stop messing about and dig out the huge anomaly in the swamp

[@burialsphinx2841]

They may not have permission to do so

[@deec5420]

Yes, a lot of the work they're doing is dependent on permissions from the government. Some episodes mention that they had to get permissions even for shallow work.

[@shovelhead4558]

Drain the swamp

[@jeffcarroll1990shock]

They've already tried that and it won't work.

[@avstud09]

as well as the DC swamp!

[@johnwoa]

@@avstud09 The one in DC is a cesspool. The DemocRATS are definitely 'Number One' in the "number 2" business!

[@TheMorganMonroeShow]

Here’s a little tip that will help every single one of us watching the show. Instead of pointing around in different directions talking about what it could be, why don’t you take it up? There’s an idea. The road archaeologist and pick it up. Just a thought. Does it take an entire episode to get to the point here? Good God it’s like watching paint dry.

[@jeannettelovescreamingmama]

I save my excitement for the big time. I don't want to be teased with rusty trinkets of history. Where is the beef?

[@tomwinchester55]

They had ox shoes...close enough to beef?

[@johnwoa]

Where's the beef?.... At Wendy's !

[@jeannettelovescreamingmama]

@@johnwoa talking about the meat of the treasure. Gold Coins, jewls, religious artifacts. Got it ?

[@lprophit]

i like the smug smiles

[@kaillumfc]

I am just impressed there was no narration this time around of all this... maybe that’ll come...

[@benjaminwheeldon9853]

*deep husky voice* A slipway... In the swamp!?? Could it be evidence of activity leading to the money pit?!?

[@almadocampo6225]

It never ends

[@michaelboyer9630]

INANE TRAIN has the best oak island parody videos!

[@sebastianbarthel2393]

two theories: - officially there is nobody who know what happened once on this island. - unofficially there is somebody don't wanna tell what happened on this island!

[@johntinus9438]

While metal detecting, Gary discovers an old thumb tack that could have been used to fasten a pirates treasure map to a a wall in the money pit.... I better call Marty. This is a fantastic discovery. Yippee, I did it. Didn't I?

[@stephenbachman132]

In all seriousness just dig it up an see what it is.

[@OneVancatPlaceVancat]

Rick Lagina proved the Slipway theory last season when he recovered his coin from a current drill site, after tossing the coin months earlier into a hole, far removed from where it turned up at. That was in one of the last 5 episodes of last year.

[@johnwoa]

It was Marty Lagina who dropped the Toonie down the shaft, and how did recovering the coin "prove" the slipway theory???

[@williamwill182]

This entire island is a money pit.

[@richardgooding498]

I'm from a world that states that if you don't know you will never know. But yet, I can say that my family member was the first recorded templar and just because we had to change our name doesn't mean that the world stopped. Be who you are and be the best you can be at it.

[@johnwoa]

"Be who you are and be the best you can be at it". Words of wisdom and well said!

[@gerryconstant4914]

I have to admit that I am an acorn and watch every episode. I realize that because of Covid that this season 8 was not a long one so they are giving you clues at a slower pace. Are other fans of the show as disappointed as myself in regards to the number of commercial interruptions? Still I will watch every Tuesday night because of the scarcity of good content on TV. Remember 35 years ago when the selling point of getting cable TV was no commercials.

[@johnwoa]

Regarding the commercials, it's not just this show. It's every television show today. The number of television commercials/breaks has gradually increased over the years and decades to what we have today.... for example, a one-hour program contains only 44 minutes of actual programming. This steady increase in commercials has increased along the same lines as the sea level surrounding Oak Island, which is rising at the rate of 30 centimetres (12 inches) every one hundred years (SOURCE: the Geological Survey of Canada, circa 1990's). It really sucks when you compare today's television programming to shows from many decades ago which contained more actual programming and less commercial interruptions.

[@apollonia6656]

Gerry, Absolutely fed up of commercials and nonsense.

[@roseenaldo1040]

really hope they find what they are looking for

[@MichaelJohnson-og5pm]

Zeke looking good xD

[@jamescooper8107]

Could it be?

[@willymaykit1482]

This guy stands around talking and watching everyone else work.

[@derektaylor1527]

Thats what you call common sense pretend to be interested and stand back keeps you clean 😂we have all done it bud 😂😂😂😂

[@ahuckerby6]

Is that Peter's 1st find? Welcome to the fellowship

[@kevinweakley2852]

Bury a treasure, yes. Leave a treasure, no !

[@johnwoa]

That's because the Money Pit never contained "treasure" per se in the first place.

[@jaxgreene9937]

the guy who bought land with spanish coins and the slave who became one of the richest men in nova scotia obviously took the treasure.

[@Pbs-xs4xk]

Exactly

[@johnwoa]

Yes, but "whatever it is" that was buried deep in the Money Pit in ancient times is something completely different from the treasure that was obviously buried in conventional "shallow" holes on Oak Island by the privateers and/or pirates.

[@jasonvogel4100]

He found a 'little' treasure, but not the 'real' treasure THAT'S STILL IN THE N.W. END OF THE SWAMP!!!

[@apollonia6656]

Mac Greene, Yes, his name was Ball and he became very rich.....wonder if he found the treasure ? These guys are wasting their time and ours !

[@maxsoon1097]

Gary did it again with Peter.

[@lolacola6457]

Gary is trying to run the show.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@funtimedude1]

People once travelled by boat. Every waterfront property in the maritime provinces at on time, had a slipway and or wharf. Usually built on top of or near the previous one. Sometimes we forget that life was much different. Tar kilns would be a necessity and could be made by aby ships crew. Laying a boat over to redo her hull was a six month affair. With everything manufactured on site.

[@ggh8384]

People still travel by boat

[@lancebaptie2165]

the new swamp slipway proves it was open ocean long ago

[@johntinus8185]

All of those logs are cut on both ends! Is this another major find? Get Billy over here and have him tear it apart so we can see what's beneath those logs!

[@fzinnff883]

Melhor do que a Netflix

[@mariestevenson9459]

Can’t see a picture

[@jeffrodman2715]

I know everyone thinks it's boring or fake but there is proof there's something I mean whatever is buried and whoever buried definitely took their time doing it. I think it's weird that with the amount of people it took to do this and the years nobody knows more.

[@pegm1710]

Why didn’t you look for the image of the ship in the swamp? I kept waiting for you to dig there. Fred Nolan was also sure it was there. Miss your show.

[@ras8514]

slip way... for a ship? for a dingy yes not a ship 😆

[@johnwoa]

Speaking of dinghies, did you hear the story regarding the seaman that was taking his 100-ton Masters USCG Captain's license examination, and when asked on the test what a "dinghy" was, he answered that it was the sound that a ship's bell makes---- "dinghy! dinghy! dinghy!"...... I don't think he passed the exam......

[@MachineHeadDissent]

Spoiler alert in season 24 they actually find....wait for it....more dirt....

[@johnwoa]

Maybe it will be "paydirt".

[@aliengranpa]

Dig where ever you want, just quit listening to that woman erin. She's just guessing at this point

[@jaxgreene9937]

exaclty! no need for someone else that’s never even been to the island to tell them where to dig.

[@johnwoa]

Erin scares me!

[@craigtucker1290]

Everyone is guessing...

[@craigtucker1290]

Have they ever found anything of actual consequence?

[@jimmyd8206]

Of course not.

[@ggh8384]

They found a craig tucker once

[@hoosierhermit]

Wow ! More wood !!

[@crystallarente7736]

I love this show

[@tammyjeanjohnson5313]

Me too!!!

[@barrycrump6189]

You're easily pleased. Have you tried watching paint dry? I'm certain that you will love that too.

[@icyhotryan9339]

Barry Crump just because somebody has an opinion that you don’t agree with doesn’t mean you should insult what they enjoy.

[@JuliaSugarbaker]

@@barrycrump6189 Your comment was hysterical. 😆❤ I almost choked on my coffee. 👍

[@barrycrump6189]

@@icyhotryan9339 I am afraid that you have misinterpreted my sentiment. I wasn't intending to be insulting at all. As it happens, I have just finished applying the topcoat of emulsion paint to my basement walls and I am aware that some people undoubtedly find the process of paint drying to be quite absorbing.

[@TheBrownFamilyWorkshop]

I wish you a Happy New Year. I'm not sure if this is finally the end of a horrible nightmare, or a sign of things to come. I remember 2019 wasn't a very good year, until compared to 2020. I choose to make 2021 a GREAT year !!! How about you?

[@auntbelinda6501]

2021 is going to be a GREAT YEAR!!! But we will not know for sure until January 6 and January 20th!!

[@lancebaptie2165]

i read the original readers digest story in 1972 and was captured ever since.

[@christianbeevers4937]

Well I think it’s so funny is that everything is a significant find, even though they never find anything really LOL that will lead them to the money pit, but by God I can’t quit watching LOL I hope they hit that money pit

[@wookchang8852]

Another major discovery, wow. How many major discoveries are needed to finally see some gold coins or bars?

[@johnwoa]

You might only get to "see" gold coins or bars. That's because if there is any such treasure like that remaining at Oak Island, it would be on the sea floor of Mahone Bay near Oak Island within one of the many shipwrecks there. But Canadian law prohibits the searchers from touching or retrieving any treasure on the sea floor even if they clearly see it..... :(

[@celsotorgozanardi9091]

My simple suggest: Can U open a paid channel in You tube for everybody see the all seasons de Oak Island.

[@LeifGruenwoldt]

The episodes are available in Google Play Movies.

[@luke5947]

Finding leftovers ... 😂👍 century’s of settlers had come and gone ...😆

[@yarblis1]

Patience,grasshopper

[@marcinhibner9507]

I think it's time for me to wait till I hear it on the big time breaking news, sometime time later maybe:) that they found something maybe. Technically not my treasure quest in any shape or form. 🍁

[@derektaylor1527]

All the negative comments 🤔 yet you still watch it 🤔

[@johnwoa]

That's because the show is habit forming for the naysayers.....

[@chiefmac88]

There's clearly a history of European militaries that were there in the 17th and 18th century and maybe even earlier, but I just don't think there's any treasure buried there. If there was, someone probably already got to it and didn't say anything.

[@marchjrewereii707]

Me too

[@derrelllipscomb693]

Are there no termites on Oak Island? Buried wood usually gets quickly consumed by them.

[@funtimedude1]

Lol. No. No termites.

[@user-by6ct6br4s]

The description says this episode is named "High on the bog". I think most of the theories presented they must be "High as a kite".

[@johnwoa]

Well, recreational Cannabis is legal in Canada and it can be smoked out in the open on the street.

[@johnnysmoke612]

Imagine in the narrator's voice "Little did Gary know at the time, but he just missed the discovery of another axe blade".

[@lornaburgess9762]

Get Gary some specs

[@johnwoa]

@Johnny Smoke Your 'Comment' is very profound because there have been possibly two (2) ANCIENT ivory or bone boatswain's whistles, one found in 1901, unearthed at the beach at Smith's Cove. If any artifact like this was concealed in the beach sand today, Gary Drayton would not be able to detect it with his equipment and would probably never be found. Those ancient boatswain's whistles were not made of metal,.

[@nellumyeoj]

The funniest thing about it all is the CC of the things Gary says.

[@johnwoa]

?

[@curtishuff4759]

They found it exactly where they buried it 😆

The only secret there is ain't nothing there but dirt.

[@celestewhite5129]

It looks like since all that rain after so long thay have been demolsh so thats why you can find all the timber pulled apart the way it is water pull it apart

[@johntinus8185]

I think Gary cleaned out his cellar and dumped that junk on Oak Island all around the places he uses his metal detector. That is a fantastic find. It's a rusty muffler off of a 1933 Ford. Look at how rusted it is. It's really, really old. They don't make em like that anymore! Whooeee. .

[@fivehigh4718]

if theres nothing here, then what is the point of everything on the island?

[@jasonvogel4100]

Again. look in N.W. part of swamp...................jv

[@arlenekrese6912]

Were the timbers ever tested?🚩

[@Gogglelog]

No flies on Gary like no Treasure on Oak Island or should I say joke Ireland

[@ThomasFlansburg]

I wonder if they have considered diving-tents to investigate those locations off-shore. With a depth of 30feet + - that would be my suggestion to work underwater with the freedom they are accustomed to. They are centuries old technology that has only improved with time or dive when there is ice cover using hot water suits similar to what is used in arctic sea salvaging.

[@johnwoa]

The problem is, Canadian law prohibits anyone from touching, moving or retrieving anything from the sea floor of Mahone Bay. That is frustrating. If the diver(s) would find an open treasure chest filled with gold doubloons and Pieces of Eight on the sea floor adjacent to Oak Island, they couldn't touch it or retrieve it. :(

[@ThomasFlansburg]

@@johnwoa But they built a coffer dam around Smiths Cove so there has got to be a loop-hole or permit somewhere that would allow sea floor recovery operations. From my experience in dealing with government red tape, its all a matter of knowing who to talk to. As someone who builds French drains and finds them, without seeing those boulders and metal debris field on the north side of the island make sense to me.

[@johnwoa]

@@ThomasFlansburg Thanks for your reply! They got the permit for the "time-limited" coffer dam in order to hold back the water at high tide so the man-made beach at Smith's Cove could be drained and then excavated. You are correct when it comes to government red tape, laws and "who to talk to". The way I understand it, the laws up there for Mahone Bay are to prevent indiscriminate scavenging of all the countless shipwrecks and possible ancient burial mounds on the sea floor. There is A LOT of politics in Nova Scotia as to the First Nations Peoples, etc.... But I am hoping that with all the professionals that are now part of the team and are on site at Oak Island which consist of three or four archaeologists, a geologist and a geoscientist, that they along with the Lagina brothers, et at. can sit down with the Government of Canada and the Provincial Government of Nova Scotia and work out a "professional" agreement to jointly work together with the objective of completely solving the Oak Island mystery, be it on Oak island, any adjacent islands or on the sea floor of Mahone Bay, where any artifacts or treasure "professionally" retrieved from outside the boundaries of Oak Island proper would be turned over to the government. By completely solving all aspects of the Oak Island mystery, the Lagina brothers and the team will be richer by far than if they found and kept "treasure". Solving the 225-year-old Oak Island mystery would make them world famous, would put Nova Scotia and Canada on the world stage and would make Oak Island/Mahone Bay a great tourist destination. It would be a win-win for everybody involved. Sorry so Lengthy!

[@ThomasFlansburg]

@@johnwoa I love to be involved more greatly and hope that someone there might appreciate a little input. I've been thinking if those large submerged boulders are the covers and those numerous objects are expelled materials from the Money Pit then perhaps if they could get a probe with boring capabilities and telemetry down the flood-tunnel they might have a ton of information as to the actual condition of the Money-pit area. Also it might be prudent to expedite negotiations with the Nova Scotian Government as people who are less concerned with rule and more interested in profit might descend on that area of interest now that it is public knowledge. We still have pirates and opportunists aplenty.

[@johnwoa]

@@ThomasFlansburg I'm sure History Channel reads all these 'Comments' and your comments are very intuitive. As for people "who are less concerned with rule and more interested in profit", I'm sure Mahone Bay is monitored very closely by the authorities regarding scavenging. As the show stated, Canadian law prohibits anyone from touching, moving or retrieving anything from the sea floor of Mahone Bay. Only an extensive joint agreement between the (Oak Island) professionals, the Laginas and the federal and provincial governments would allow for an exception to existing laws. It is my understanding that even the owners of the adjacent islands are not permitted to dig for treasure/artifacts on their own islands. The above mentioned exemption would have to apply to the adjacent islands also--- with owners consent. It would be a very involved legal process.

[@rossbarmache2811]

is slipway a verb ? "i slipway/d on down the slipway"?

[@C5J9]

I thought Gaben lost 400 pounds

[@arlenekrese6912]

Which slipway is older the one at 🏹⚔ Smith cove ot the neat the money pit?¿🚩

[@bilalshaikh5176]

Mast bro

[@jameskearney4100]

Looks like a ladder.

[@stephenbachman132]

A possible, wooden ladder on Oak Island. Expert in ladders Steve Jimmy says it could be of a sailing boat.

[@barrycrump6189]

It's part of an old wooden treasure chest that once belonged to Jesus.

[@marieaustria5770]

Hi

[@johnnyutah6565]

According to the legend, one more person has to die before they can find treasure. It might be about time to draw straws.

[@ultimateormus7903]

Its a slipway! Pants wet

[@CarlosAlberto-ki2cm]

Está igual desenho do Scooby-Doo só tem misteriooooo

[@joematus410]

Cool life

[@zombienectar]

move the whole island over 5 feet.

[@pauldutil7254]

eureka

[@apollonia6656]

At least he found something !

[@yvonnegonzales2973]

Many tunnels