Rick Lagina Announced Season 12 Has Been Cancelled Because Of TERRIFYING Discovery

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don’t need much Rick lagina just
revealed That season 12 of the Oak
Island Treasure Hunt has been canceled
due to a terrifying find
underground the island long known for
its Hidden Treasures has seen countless
Hunters over the years but something
happened that made everyone leave
suddenly what was so frightening that it
brought everything to a
standstill we will uncover the chilling
discovery that stopped the search in its
tracks buried tunnels beneath Oak Island
Shores the Oak Island Saga is downright
captivating filled with unexpected
twists right from the start it all
kicked off back in 1862 when the Onslow
company got the idea to dig up what they
thought were buried Treasures they dug
deep reaching somewhere between 80 and
90 ft down but then Water started
gushing into their pit completely
stopping their work this strange event
got a lot of people really interested
and made them come up with a bunch of
different ideas about what was going on
before we dive deeper it’s safe to say
that what they stumbled upon is far more
terrifying than anyone expected and this
is just the beginning of what will leave
you speechless a popular thought was that
tunnels were built from the sea to the
dig site intentionally designed to flood
the pit as a way to guard whatever was
hidden there this idea really took off
in 1851 when a pretty strange find was
made at Smith’s Cove on the island they
found coconut fibers which definitely
don’t belong on Oak Island buried under
the beach this led a lot of folks to
believe that someone had actually built
a tunnel to let the seawater flow into the
pit to keep the treasure safe over the
years tons of explorers have tried to
crack the code of Oak Island finding new
clues that often just led to more head
scratching the presence of those
out-of-place coconut fibers hinted at
some big elaborate plans that might have
involved people from all over the world
like Pirates or even hidden Royal
riches things got even more interesting
in 1995 when experts from the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution
suggested that whatever one thought were
signs of people trying to hide something
might just be natural parts of the
island they said the so-called flood
tunnels and drains might just be old
salt works they figured the flooding
could be coming from natural gaps filled
with water not from some cleverly
designed traps this ongoing debate
whether it’s all man-made or just a natural
occurrence keeps Oak Island really
fascinating when all the treasure
hunting suddenly stopped it only made
people more curious and added more
layers to the already complex story of
the place then just when things couldn’t
seem more tangled they found a stone
with weird carvings on it 90 ft
underground there are different tales
about how it got found and what happened
after that each adding to the thick
atmosphere of intrigue surrounding the
island in James Dill’s 1872 novel The
Treasure of the Seas he talks about the
stone being taken out of a chimney
before his characters even get there
putting his own spin on the Oak Island
story initially the markings on the
stone just confused everyone some people
even thought they were just random
scratches but the plot thickened with
Reginald Vanderbilt Harris’s 1958 book
The Oak Island Mystery Harris said that
Jefferson W McDonald brought the stone
over to Halifax around 1865 or
1866 however a letter from Blair says
McDonald only looked at the stone he
didn’t move it anywhere Harris’s story
doesn’t have much backing it up by 1893
the Oak Island Treasure Company was
saying the stone got sent over to
Halifax to be looked at more closely
James Leaky supposedly cracked the code
on the inscription suggesting there was
a massive treasure just 10 ft down but
in 1911 Captain H.L. Bowden wrote in
Coler’s magazine that the stone was
made of hard basalt and didn’t have any
visible carvings on it making him doubt
that any marks had just worn away at
that point the stone was being shown off
in a local guy named Smith’s fireplace
on the island where anyone visiting could
see it after Smith passed away the stone
was pulled out of the fireplace and
taken back to Halifax for experts to
check out but they didn’t find any
carvings it ended up in J.B. McCully’s
place in Truro and was shown around to a
lot of curious folks eventually it got
used by a bookbinder who probably smashed
any carvings that were left by using it to
hammer leather even though the carvings
on the stone faded away leaving more
confusion the search for treasure only
grew stronger forgotten carvings on the
Halifax Stone the stone found its way to
a bookstore in Halifax with nearly all
its carvings gone and nobody really
knows where it ended up but the hunt for
treasure went on despite all the chatter
about the stone its carvings weren’t
looked at again in Edward R. Snow’s 1949
book True Tales of Buried Treasure it
was claimed that the message on the
stone R 40 ft below 2 million pounds
are buried Snow mentioned that Reverend
At Kempton of Cambridge Massachusetts
came up with this reading though Kempton
never spilled where he got his info a
letter from April 1949 mentioned that
Kempton had heard it from a teacher who
had already passed away no one really
followed up on Kempton’s tip so the
stone just became another part of the
bigger Oak Island tale it once drew a
lot of attention but now it’s just a
small piece in the larger problem this
whole story highlights how bold and
sometimes reckless the people searching
for Oak Island’s treasure were including
some pretty famous folks who joined in
Franklin D. Roosevelt for example grew up
listening to his seafaring Granddad
Warren Delano Jr. tell enthralling tales
about Oak Island these stories sparked a
passion that lasted all through his life
from the early 1900s right through his
time as president until he died in
1945 even with all the duties of being
president he kept up with the treasure
hunt and even planned a confidential
trip to Oak Island in 1939 but it got
scrapped because of bad weather and big
global issues Oak Island also caught the
eye of big names like Errol Flynn the
famous Australian-American actor who put
some of his own money into digging
efforts John Wayne another star went
even further by funding the search and
applying top-notch drilling equipment to
help dig up valuable finds William
Vincent Astor who got rich after his dad
died on the Titanic also backed the
project quietly Rear Admiral Richard E.
Bird a buddy of Roosevelt jumped in too
giving strategic advice because he was
so drawn to the island their shared
interest helped them work together on
setting up the United States Antarctic
Service in 1949 a team digging a well in
Mahone Bay hit what looked like another
treasure pit just 2 ft under the
ground they found a layer of stones and
then logs at different depths some even
charred this made a lot of people think
there might be another treasure pit out
there however Joyce Steel suggested
something less exciting saying the
original pit might have just been an old
tar kiln used back when the island was
part of the British Naval stores or
maybe a place where people made salt
illegally tales about famous pirates
like Captain Kidd and Blackbeard who
might have hidden their treasures on the
island really spice up its already
fascinating history Blackbeard whose
real name was Edward Teach was born
around 1680 he became a feared pirate in
the early 1700s Blackbeard was known for
his terrifying appearance he had a long
dark beard tied with ribbons and during
battles he wore burning fuses under his
hat making him look downright
demonic his ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge
was a massive French vessel originally
used for transporting slaves armed with
40 big guns it terrorized the waters of
the West Indies and the American
colonies until Blackbeard met his end in
a violent fight against British Naval
forces in 1718 even though the island
stories are full of interesting bits some
discoveries like a stone found in 1949
with a coded message hinting at a huge
treasure lying deep beneath were barely
looked into this message cracked in
Edward Rose Snow’s book from 1949 with
symbols given by Reverend At Kempton
suggested a massive treasure was buried
40 ft underground but like many other
hints on Oak Island this clue was largely
ignored eventually becoming just another
neglected part of the island’s long rich
tale despite all the problems and
missing clues stories of hidden
treasures kept people excited bringing
famous names and treasure hunter stars
who joined the treasure hunt Kempton
kept mum about where he got his info
until a letter from April 1949 when he
finally spilled that his source was a
school teacher who had since passed away
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