NEW DISCOVERY in the Swamp (Season 12) | The Curse of Oak Island

The crew excavates a mysterious cobblestone pathway. See more in this clip from Season 12, Episode 8, "A Bead on the Target."

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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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[ScRappyB]

This show is literally 90% recap and 10% new footage - I always pop back to check it out randomly throughout the years...and its the same thing over and over lol

[AlanBarnes]

One thing about the show, if you miss seeing a year of it, you don’t miss too much what happened there

[jefferson]

If I ever start a band, it's going to be called "Bobby Dazzler and the Top Pocket Finds."

[OdomfromOklahoma]

Im in so deep i hate to give up. Said by myself and every other person who's gotten interested in Oak Island.

[johnlord]

One needs to go back and look at Fred Nolan's 1960s map and surveying of Oak Island (google image). The pre-1762 stone roadways were from Samuel Ball and Capt James Anderson Lot 25 and 26 (that Ball acquired). Anderson and his floating wharf were cargo unloads, and the shoreline stone roadway has not been excavated. This runs up to the SW portion of the harbor/swamp, where the Vaughns had their original Lot 33 ship dry docks, repairs, construction and pull outs, (and the old pit/gang saw mill in that area) much like these northern timbers being excavated. Later, when the Vaughns split up, the bigger part of the family moves to Labrador with the young whaling industry and made their millions in constructing whaling ships. The other branch stayed on Oak Island and moved their shipping operations over to Lot 1-5, and the boulderless beach, with its drydocks, and the Lot 5 massive windmill operated pit saw mill, klinker machine for pounding down rocks into smelting powder, fabric and textiles weaving machines, klinker machine for pounding out fiber crops grown on the island for linen (flax) and burlap, jute, sack cloth (hemp, sisal, mallow).

The whole western stone roadway of Lot 33 needs to be excavated like Lot 15 and 14. This is where Samuel Ball moved the floating wharf to be near the harbor facilities and industrial operations around the harbor. After his death, the wharf was moved to Lot 15 and the small jetty outcrop and placed there. Later, during the treasure hunts, the wharf was moved to the jetty outcrop seen in the old photos of those times. A massive weather storm ripped the wharf and shoved it (via tidal surge) up onto Lot 33, where there is a picture that is not the colonial snake fencing of split rails, but Anderson's-Ball's floating wharf that then became abandoned, and rotten in place. This would be where any and all such metal debris of this floating wharf would be found in this western stone roadway shoulder area.

The northern area, as I have pounding the pulpit about, had 3 other small floating harbor docks in the NW, NE, and the SE areas. This is why there IS an entire surround-around the harbor a stone roadway for cargo loading and unloading products onto/off from the incoming ships. Oak Island was once a massive industrial and military defense complex making all kinds of products. It would be considered the Hong Kong of its day with crafts, metal works, wood works, rope, sails, ships, boats, flat boats, shallow shore fishing craft, deep ocean (Grand Banks cod fishing fleets), textiles, dyes, fiber crops, grinding stones, lead, zinc, tin, iron, sulfur, carbon powder, gunpowder, rifle/pistol/cannon factories, blacksmithy and smelting operations. Wind-assisted bellows operating for blacksmithy and smelting kilns for metals, saltpeter, hydrous gypsum (whitewash) and anhydrous (dry) gypsum (calcium sulfur products), limestone (calcium, quicklime) ... and so so much much more products.

[gtisid]

12 years in and I swear I have found more stuff in my shed than they have found on oak island

[oldtimer]

the log structure is called a corduroy road, a common road building technique in soft swampy terrain.

[stephenbrewins]

I laid a few platform logs down earlier as well and believe me they took some flushing!😂

[kipperlane]

Metal detector expert lol I guess I’m an expert too

[LELENANA]

I don't care if they never find the treasure, the show is interesting and you learn history. I've been watching for over 5 years and it's my go to comfort show :)

[FNOMINON-gx]

I almost feel bad, I want to sneak on Island and burry some old jewelry just so they have something to find, other than old wood and buttons 😂

[janvandenberg]

I wait for the season in which they find the treasure 😅, and then I will watch the last 3 episodes of this season, save me lots of time😊

[doogalloonni]

Once again- Nothing found, but they got us to watch, didn't they?....

[dorothysfriend]

Is there a help group for Oak Island watchers? I need an intervention, can't stop watching it, or complaining about it when I do.

[TerryCristopher]

I wonder if that big guy in the shovel even goes home at night? Looks like he’s got the same shirt in both days and he hardly moves, lol

[alanmielke]

Let's dig up the whole island while we're at it!!!🤣🤣🤣

[dazturbo]

And yet again found foook all 😮😅 feel like I've been watching all my life and they have mainly found bits of wood and the odd item, my back garden would yield more

[angryamerican]

It wouldn't surprise me one bit that with all the tunnels have been dug on Oak Island. Is spoilage from the tunnels was used to fill in the swamp

[Critical-Thinker]

This show spends much time with the guys just standing there looking down at the ground or whatever thing they were working on.