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Old 01-23-2014, 11:01 PM   #1
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Default Curse of Oak Island

I saw the end of an ad on TV. It is a show on History i think?


Has anyone seen this? Growing up down east this was a huge story, in fact I remember studying it in school.
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I want to see this.
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Old 01-24-2014, 08:24 AM   #3
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my brother was obsessed with this when we were kids. When is it on?
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Old 01-24-2014, 08:30 AM   #4
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my brother was obsessed with this when we were kids. When is it on?
History (Canada) on January 26, 2014.
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Also grew up in the east, and also studied this in school.
Thanks for the tip. Excited to check this out
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Old 01-24-2014, 11:55 AM   #6
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I think this is some sort of Eastern Canadian take on 'The Ring.'

Good luck watching your 'documentary.' It was nice knowing you.
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Old 01-24-2014, 12:18 PM   #7
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Cool, thanks for the heads up. My family's cottage is very close to Oak Island so I've always been interested in the story.
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Old 01-24-2014, 12:20 PM   #8
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There was a Canadian author who wrote a mystery series featuring a brother-sister duo - it was targeted for pre-teens, early teens. One of his books was about Oak Island. I think that's the only reason why I know about it. Be damned if I can recall the author's name though, but I do remember bits from that book series. I"ll try to remember to PVR it.
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Is this a documentary or a docu-drama?

It looked like a scripted show from the synopsis, which doesn't really interest me.
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I have friends that used to love across from the Oak Island Resort, and others that got married there (sadly I couldn't make the wedding).

I too learned about it in school. It's a neat story and legend.

21st century, we can frack oil out of the ground, and from under the sea but can't get a treasure chest out of a well. We really should rename the oak island Treasure "Timmy O'Toole's Gold".
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It's an amazing and fascinating story. I guess the problem is, it is literally a money pit.

To employee oilfield technology to extract whatever is at the bottom might not have a good ROI. Not sure how much it would cost to put a casing around the area to prevent the water ingress, and then pump whatever water is in there out. It should be simple though; more complicated things have been done in the world.
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There was a Canadian author who wrote a mystery series featuring a brother-sister duo - it was targeted for pre-teens, early teens. One of his books was about Oak Island. I think that's the only reason why I know about it. Be damned if I can recall the author's name though, but I do remember bits from that book series. I"ll try to remember to PVR it.
Encyclopedia Brown?
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Encyclopedia Brown?
It kind of sounds like "Magic Treehouse". My son has been bringing a lot of those home from school and it sounds vaguely similar to the themes in this series of books.
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No, but after about 20 minutes of googling, I finally found it - Eric Wilson - Ghost of Lunenburg Manor - I thought the title had Oak Island in it, but I guess I was wrong. Brother sister was Tom and Liz Austen. Man, that was not easy to find!
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PVR'd it last night gonna try to watch tonight.
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No, but after about 20 minutes of googling, I finally found it - Eric Wilson - Ghost of Lunenburg Manor - I thought the title had Oak Island in it, but I guess I was wrong. Brother sister was Tom and Liz Austen. Man, that was not easy to find!
Ha. He came to my elementary school and did a book signing/talk. Those are great books for kids.
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Is this a documentary or a docu-drama?

It looked like a scripted show from the synopsis, which doesn't really interest me.
Looks purely documentary/reality to me. Which instantly made it less interesting to me, but it does seem to have some real lifr mystery around the curse and "money pit" so I will watch the 4 episodes I was able to obtain and see how it goes from there.
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I set my PVR for this, but it didn't record
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I set my PVR for this, but it didn't record

you better not jinx me


I will post tomorrow with my thoughts, let you know if it is worth it.
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So I watched it last night.

I enjoyed it, but I think it is because it reminds me of my youth.

It had all the typical shots and other elements you would expect of this type of show.

I will continue to watch it, but only because of my prior knowledge and interest in the island.
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