(TVOM) – The Lagina brothers are the producers and stars of the History Channel’s “The Curse of Oak Island”, a popular reality show. The show follows the Lagina brothers, Rick and Marty, as they search for possible treasure on Oak Island. The 140 acre island is located off of Nova Scotia in Canada. Oak Island has been the subject of a mysterious treasure hunt since 1795.
The reality show follows the Lagina brothers as they use state of the art equipment and experts to search the three main area on Oak Island where treasure is said to be hidden. During the episodes experts with theories about the treasure explain the possibilities. The “curse” of the island is also discussed. The television show began airing in January 2014 and is currently in its fourth season.
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RICK LAGINA
Rick is a retired U.S. postal worker from Northern Michigan who has dreamed of solving the Oak Island mystery since he first read about it in the January 1965 issue of Reader’s Digest at the age of 11.
Rick is the kind of guy who sees the world in black and white; honor is everything, and when you believe in something, you never give up. As he puts it: “Once in, forever in!” His faith that someone went to great efforts to hide something of incredible value centuries ago on Oak Island has only been strengthened by the many incredible clues he, his brother, Marty and their team have discovered since they took over the treasure hunt in 2006.
MARTY LAGINA
Marty is Rick’s younger brother and has shared the dream of solving the Oak Island mystery with him since their adventurous childhood in Northern Michigan. However, as an engineer who owns his own energy business, and being a man of hard science, he’s actually somewhat skeptical that anything was ever really buried on the island.
Although he is intrigued by the compelling clues that he, Rick and their partners have found since they first began “The Fellowship of the Dig” over a decade ago, Marty remains on the hunt for irrefutable proof that major works were done on the island prior to the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795.
No by the post office!
The solution to the oak island ”mystery” [if indeed a treasure were buried there,and the money pit is not just a sinkhole] is quite simple to an engineer,who can do some basic calculations,and, think in a logical manner. But how can one send the details of how this original project would have been done,to Marty or Rick?
Marty said: “have we found enough to stop?”. The question should be:” have you found enough to not stop?”
Elk Rapids, MI
The Oddfellows fraternity is kind of a spinoff of the Free Masons. One of the things the things the Oddfellows did was see to the burial of poor people and erecting at least some form of stone. This stone was frequently marked with 3 chain links, especially on slaves’ tombstones. I watch your show regularly and wondered if you knew of this tradition as you site 3 gold chain lengths found on one of the levels going down in the money pit. You state it is believed a slaves body was left behind.