Le Mystère d'Oak Island

I remember hearing the story of Oak Island from my dad over 40 years ago. I really enjoy the show. But I am sick and tired of the narrator " could it be!" And his repeating of what was just said by the searchers. I really wish he could talk about half as much. He manages to ruin a really good show. I'm watching the program now, paused it and created an account just so I could complain about Robert Clotworthy. We discuss the show at work every week and everyone would like to hear a little less from him. Please listen to your audience.

Hideously slow, repetitive garbage built around some possibly interesting history.

These "treasure hunters" dig and gouge their way through Oak Island, instantly assuming everything they find is Norse or Roman and another clue to the treasure they seek. Each episode has a nugget of story stretched out to fill a 1-hour time slot. They stand around and talk and talk and talk.

There's an old cross, an old coin, a concrete wall, a mysterious cavern, a rock with "carvings," etc. With every "find," they jump to an array of conclusions that always hark back to the mythic Roman or Norse explorers from two centuries ago. Nothing is ever substantiated. The "experts" they consult add nothing to the endless blather.

I'd give the story 8-9 stars but the production is just awful. Hey Rick, step on that rock over there. "A rock? On Oak Island? Could this be a rock stepped on by renowned pirate John Laffete? Or slept on by the Knights Templar who may have brought treasure from Jerusalem like the Arc of the Covenant? Or maybe it was used in writing the Magna Carte, or to identify the location of other buried treasure?..." Criminies.

And next time you go diving in a murky hole you think is connected to the sea, maybe a good idea to pump a 100K gallons of clean water in first? Just sayin...

I'll sum up this entire show: Marty "Would you say that's manmade?" Expert "Maybe." (Marty and Rick look at each other.) Narrator "A manmade structure? Could this be the final clue in the Oak Island mystery? Could it hold gold? Pirate treasure? Or something far, far more important?"

It's an alright show but they're connecting things on that island that are results of hundreds and hundreds of years of visitors leaving their own traces behind. The guess work in the digital video recreations paint a false image to the viewer.

In a way Rick and Marty did find gold, since they've invested a little over $5 mil and the show has made over $100 mil. In that way they were very clever.

Please please please don't cancel the show because I am addicted to the story and really like the guys on the show. They obviously are very passionate about what is buried on the island and how it git there and I hope the best for them.

What The History Channel needs to do though is stop repeating the same story of the curse - we get it, stop telling me what's coming next after the commercial and then recapping what I saw just before those commercials- if you think I can't remember that far back then you're airing too many commercials, and maybe combine a few episodes into one so I feel the team has accomplished something or give more details in place of the same curse chants so it doesn't feel like I wasted an hour watching 15 minutes of actual content.

Do not cancel it, fix the damage The History Channel has done to it.