Remember the story about the man who spun gold key through loom? On his way down the road that connected the island of the oaks to the mainland, he got a phone call from a treasure hunter, an unknown man at that moment, named Kevin Dykstra. One thing that people have frequently wondered about is whether or not these types of television shows have any legitimacy to them whatsoever. They had identified objects on the bottom Lake Michigan and were going to apply for permits to reveal them. Leaving only stories, speculation, and what some may deem conspiracy theories. ", The FBI assertion of an empty hole is "insulting all the credible people who did this kind of work," Dennis Parada previously told the AP. The Curse of Civil War Gold Thread starter Simon1; Start date Feb 14, 2018; Simon1 Gold Member. The Curse of Civil War Gold starts next week, following a hunt for $140million worth of gold bullion believed to be lying at the bottom of Lake Michigan. Apparently, and this is my interpretation, something followed the search team and planted wooden bricks instead, coated with gold paint and simply hung them. They have metal detected every dive except that one. I think the Civil War gold guys were exposed as morons and embarrassed that someone (probably the teenage-looking boat captain) pranked them so hard. They got completely hoaxed and it pretty well torpedoed their show. Why ? 2. These guys have taken to much liberty in almost everything they do and Marty was just financing a circus. A father and son who believe they found a legendary cache of buried Civil War-era gold have been fighting for access to government documents about an FBI dig at the remote Pennsylvania site.. Most of the tales revolve around the supposed millions of dollars in gold that reportedly disappeared from the Confederate treasury at the end of the war. Speaking bluntly, The Curse of Civil War Gold has a lot of potential for continuation, much more so that The Curse of Oak Island. Alex has also arranged for Mark Holley, a marine archaeologist, to help with the underwater search. My grandparents lived in the next town south and we were familiar with the story. History. I can't understand what they were thinking and who was stupid enough to think it was a good idea! Since U.S. authorities didnt recover that gold when David was captured, the story claims that something must have happened to the gold. The throwing of a stone in the shape of gold bars reminded me of another story. In the season finale of season 2, they found gold painted regular bricks on the bottom of Lake Michigan. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) is a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.It satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. Because Marty was pissed at them ! This year's show was becoming ridiculous, looking for tunnels that everyone knew about, and then imagining that this was giving them some sort of original clues. Your link has been automatically embedded. Ironically, their search techniques were kind of proven to work, even if they found gold painted bricks. JavaScript is disabled. Gary Drayton - A Florida based metal detecting expert who was recommended to the team based on his work on The Curse of Oak Island. I think the poor decision about the last episode effectively ended the potential for any further seasons. Also available on most smart TVs and streaming services. It seems that theories about where the gold ended up will always be around. They remove the bricks and dig down, finding wood about 3ft (1m) down. This time Alex also takes a prominent role in the search for treasure. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. If the metal detector did beep it would make it even more exciting, driving up ratings for the finale. I am so pissed at The Curse Of Civil War Gold! Sixty years after the gold goes missing, a man confesses to seeing the gold get pushed into Lake Michigan. Its safe to say that you will never convince everyone that either one of these shows is legitimate. Gold painted bricks does sound like a production company stunt and Kevin and his team and the pro divers did seem genuinely thrilled at what they saw and then how disappointed they ALL were when they realized it was not what they had thought it was. The story goes that Union. The bricks mfg'd at this plant were used ALL AROUND lake Michigan for mills etc. Bricks painted gold.what a joke. "Did the science really go wrong? This is the first time I have seen how factors outside of pursuit place misleading signs for treasure hunters. The stuff in Utah was news to me, I would have liked to see them unearth more about that. Did anyone ever watch it? This is your place to discuss the mysteries associated with Oak Island. The contractor detected an underground mass that weighed up to nine tons and had the density of gold, the affidavit said. Dykstra and his team join forces with Marty Lagina from The Curse of Oak Island to try to solve the mystery and find the lost gold. Too many mistakes for any ther to make. Is Dorinda Medley Hiring Models to Act as Household Help for Her Own Pleasure? The diver passed the metal detector over the bar but did not receive a response. This is an episode list of the long-running documentary television series Modern Marvels . episodes. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam, File), Underground Mass of Nine Tons with Density of Gold. Marty Lagina Just finished the filming of the sixth season of the Damned Island Treasure. Cant recall it getting past season 1 either. With that said, considering the case of The Curse of Oak Island, it is clear that they dont actually need this potential to keep such shows going anyways. am surprised it didnt end oak island as well. Gold bullion, so to speak, lay on the bottom of the lake. r/television. The American Civil War may be about to start up again and not for any of the reasons you might think. Depending on who's doing the telling, the shipment had either 26 gold bars or 52 bars, each weighing 50 pounds (23 kilograms), meaning it would be worth about $27 million or about $55 million today. After all, considering the sheer amount of time that they have spent on Oak Island, they have plenty of experience when it comes to search in the waters. He spends more time than is perhaps wise with his eyes fixed on a screen either reading history books, keeping up with international news, or playing the latest releases on the Steam platform, which serve as the subject matter for much of his writing output. In the show they waited like a year to get permission from the army corps of engineers to be able to touch anything. After visiting the local museum, they inspect the Pritchard house. To install click the Add extension button. If the person who posted the information sounds like they know what theyre talking about, it can be very easy to believe something without proof to back up the claims. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The team finding gold painted bricks at the bottom of Lake Michigan is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen on "reality" television. March 7, 2018 2:17pm. The Americans built their country by using the flywheel to search for the precious metal. Who? Due to licensing problems from the US authorities they could not touch them. There is also absolutely no evidence that either one of these shows has ever been faked. Kevin, Al and Brad meet with Rob Proctor, the great-great-grandson of Benjamin Pritchard. Even worse, there are people who post things when they know that everything they are posting is completely fabricated. Their attorney, Bill Cluck, said the court documents revealed Thursday simply raise more questions. Why did they kick us off the mountain at 3 p.m. that day when we were supposed to be working as partners? The team travels to the boxcar dive site where sonar expert Brian Abbott uses a side-scan sonar mounted on a tripod to scan the area so that a detailed map can be created. This year's show was becoming ridiculous, looking for tunnels that everyone knew about, and then imagining that this was giving them some sort of original clues. New evidence suggests that the stolen $140 million dollars in Confederate gold may have been connected to the US President. The staffer "corruptly" offered to get the treasure hunters a state permit to dig "in return for three bars of gold or ten percent" of whatever they recovered. I was going to give up. Makes one wonder doesn't it? The staff was waiting for official permission to touch and pick them up. :). I wonder how their other spin-offs are faring. Gary and Brad find a nail, a belt buckle, and a Confederate coin while in the basement, the GPR indicates the possibility of a tunnel. As treasure hunters, they are worthless and hopeless. Anyone ever dig up info or see word let slip on what and why this show just went MIA? For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Gary Drayton A Florida based metal detecting expert who was recommended to the team based on his work on. Jeff and another diver dive to the target and find objects that they think look like gold bars. Could it be that since Lake Michigan is not a controlled area, some pranksters figured out the general area where they were searching during season 1? 2023 The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc., A nonprofit 501 (c)(3) Charitable Organization. He presents an image of a park built by Hackley that he believes incorporated the, After several hours, Kevin is discharged from hospital but he must use crutches and is unable to dive. An FBI agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize a fabled cache of U.S. government gold he said was "stolen during the Civil War" and hidden in a Pennsylvania cave, saying the state . I read about it on the Washington Post. In that episode they provide records that detail one of the confederate officers filing mining claims in that district and even tracking how it would have been shipped by Railcar into that lonesome part of Utah. The testimony of a guard in a lighthouse on the shore of Lake Michigan placed the lost treasure in the depths of the lake freezing in the winter. In fact, theres a great deal about both of these shows that are far more alike than they are different. Michigan native Kevin Dykstra is obsessed with a deathbed confession made by a lighthouse keeper in the 1890s about a national treasure dating back to the Civil War. After meeting with the treasure hunters in early 2018, the FBI brought in a contractor with more sophisticated instruments. Aug 27, 2014. For starters, both of the shows feature the people that fans of The Curse of Oak Island have come to know and love, Rick and Marty Lagina. You are using an out of date browser. For that matter, it should be mentioned that Confederate gold stories have shown up a lot in American-made media as well. Is there really a treasure-hunting rival out there, somewhere, who wants to pull the team off the correct trail in order to find the loot themselves? Clearly, this is something that divides the men from the boys, so to speak. As such, assuming that the people behind the show play their cards right, they could keep this going for years and years without exhausting their narrative possibilities. I didn't know the guys, have no connection to them. Under coercion from his butler, Alfred, Bruce Wayne was then force to become the next Batman. More than a mile from shore, the divers actually found gold-painted bricks underwater not bars of solid gold which brings up so many unanswered questions. Marty looked annoyed and maybe even disgusted. rightly so. A deathbed confession made by a lighthouse keeper in the 1890s leads Kevin Dykstra and his team to believe there is Civil War gold to be found in Michigan. It actually makes me suspicious that the producers planted the bricks so that they would be able to tease the pictures of them in the previews all season. If you have followed the Curse of Oak Island for any length of time, you know that the same questions have been asked of that particular show many times over. 429K views 1 year ago A daring diving operation produces potential evidence of some 140 million dollars in gold at the bottom of Lake Michigan, while an informant shares a 50-year-old secret that. For example, Confederate gold has showed up in an Italian comic book series called Tex, which is an Italian interpretation of American Western stories. too new looking, B) Angled sides and rough idea on color would indicate Bricks. Taylor told the television stations he found 280 gold bricks with "U.S. Cavalry" stamped on each; two Civil War-era rifles; a six-shooter; and dynamite. Marty Lagina joins the team as they face their final days of the season before the weather becomes too rough for diving. The team arrange for Brian Abbott to do additional sonar scans of the lake while Kevin, Al, and Brad are in Georgia with Alex Lagina and Gary Drayton. They some times desribe the waves as being 4-5 or 6 feet. Cast . Maybe the confederacy was using painted gold bricks during the whole war all along! Anyone remember the show with the guy who was told about lots of sunken treasure by a NASA astronaut? , Is there a honest way to prove a machine is worth more than 1000 than another. The idea of the war gold and it's relationship to Muskegon's patrons (and their inexplicable wealth) was not new and the show renewed what little I remembered about all of that. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. A new theory suggests that the theft of the Confederate gold may have funded the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Edit: so almost done with this season and not going to watch the second one. Coopers goId I think it was called. This is wholly unsurprising because there isnt a single origin for the stories. The Americans built their country by using the flywheel to search for the precious metal. Thanks for reading! Despite the fact that The Curse of Civil War Gold has only aired a few times, as it just started in March of this year, they have already found a few interesting things that should keep the interest up for anyone whos been watching the show. Copyright 2022 Snugglefish Media. Those could be cinder blocks. This Sept. 20, 2018, file photo, Dennis Parada, right, and his son Kem Parada stand at the site of the FBI's dig for Civil War-era gold in Dents Run, Pa. Court documents unsealed Thursday, June 24, 2021, show that an FBI agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize a cache of gold that he said had been "stolen during the Civil War" while en route to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. Where it seems that apparently someone with the ? The KGC, Archer wrote, was a secret society of Confederate sympathizers that had purportedly "buried secret caches of weapons, coins, and gold and silver bullion, much of which was stolen from robberies of banks, trains carrying payroll of the Union Army during the Civil War and from northern army military posts, in southern, western and northern states. The paint they said is new.but it looks like about 1855 PPG paint. He said he would show the BLM where it was located for a substantial finders fee. He has to check, he needs to investigate, and only after receiving proof he opens the wallet and joins the adventure. Like Curse of Oak Island, gets to the point where every episode is the same, they put a spin on it but essentially same thing. Unsurprisingly, there has been a fair amount of interest on the part of historians when it comes to Confederate gold, so it says something when they tend to be skeptical on the matter. Just better. I had watch this show many times including when they found bricks covered with yellow paint. After seeing season two's finale, I had to make some comments. Dykstra and Monroe believe the lost Confederate gold treasure from the Civil War is somewhere at the bottom of Lake Michigan, thanks to a two-part story that has transcended generations, and was . Anyone that isnt genuinely serious about hunting treasure and getting their fair share in the process isnt going to stick around for long. As the weather begins to turn Kevin and his team begin their search for the boxcar at the bottom of Lake Michigan. Especially the GPS coordinates. On the other hand, if you somehow manage to miss the debut of the show, you might notice a distinct similarity in the names of the two television series. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Too much Talk about Research and, "could it Be's & could it Mean's from the announcer. Kevin, along with his brother and several other friends, were after a long investigation into a $ 140 million, The Gold Rush on the History Channel The Curse Gold of Civil War, The search for gold, whether in rivers and mines, or other gold treasures buried somewhere, is deep in the American narrative. And thanks for returning to the screens! And you have to remember that refined gold bars or other treasure is viewed much differently than someone filling the mining claim and working raw ore. Anyway Based on my first-hand knowledge of what took place in the 90s and then watching that episode of this show This is what I believe happened and why it quietly went away. Michigan native Kevin Dykstra is obsessed with a deathbed confession made by a lighthouse keeper in the 1890s about a national treasure dating back to the Civil War. More specifically, the question is being asked whether or not The Curse of Civil War Gold is actually real or if its just a lot of fake, scripted stuff thats been put together in order to entertain an audience. I watched all seasons of Curse of Oak Island but I stopped watching in 2019, my wife still watches, but I can't give a light of day to Curse of Civil War Gold. The Curse of Civil War Gold is a nonfiction reality television series on the History channel about the hunt for treasure from the American Civil War. For instance, there are historical accounts stating that the Confederates moved some of their gold to Columbus, GA, where it was stored at a local bank for safekeeping. ", The FBI had long refused to explain exactly why it went digging on state-owned land in Elk County in March 2018, saying only in written statements over the years that agents were there for a court-authorized excavation of "what evidence suggested may have been a cultural heritage site.". It was a dumb series. Given its name, it should come as no surprise to learn that it is a spinoff of the very popular Curse of Oak Island, presumably because there is a limit to the number of seasons that the cast and crew can spend at the same location before exhausting viewer interest. Right there I knew it was going to be sleight-of-hand just like Oak Island. The show was canceled after two seasons. Why didn't they just put those two things in the same episode? It is alleged that he broke his hip. In Muskegon, Brad and Jeff visit the home of a former bank employee at the Hackley Union National Bank. Set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, the movie chronicles the lopsided friendship that develops between a gay singer Mario (Manuel Bandera), his straight crush (Angel de Andres Lopez . At record speed was sent to the depths of the earth metal detectors. The Curse of Civil War Gold - Se1 - Ep02 - Right On Track HD Watch HD Deutsch nazmiberkin4312 The Curse of Civil War Gold - Se1 - Ep01 - Betrayal HD Watch HD Deutsch The Curse of Civil War Gold - Se1 - Ep04 - The Utah Connection HD Watch tameruslluuz In Plain Sight - Se1 - Ep03 HD Watch HD Deutsch 21:10 For more than 156 years, the myths of the lost gold of the Confederacy still survive. Marty even mentions "Civil War Gold" during the opening narration of each episode of the show "Beyond Oak Island". "They left Richmond with a bunch of money, and when Davis's group was captured six weeks later, they didn't have it. The pros went out past the 200' mark. Get in Store app . Fargo Season 2 Episode 4 Review: Fear and Trembling, Five Things You Didnt Know about Hulus Harlots, On This Date 15 Years Ago Childrens Show Arthur Aired Their Response Show to The September 11th Attacks, Reality Star Jason Wahler Dishes on Sobriety and His Latest Venture. 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