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Mar 02, 2021 Rick Lagina appears excited and incredulous to hear they’ve found wood from the original Money Pit. Pic credit: History. This week on The Curse of Oak Island, it seems as though the guys have. In the 200 years since Daniel McGinnis first stuck a shovel in the ground, numerous other people have hoped to find the Oak Island treasure in the so-called “Money Pit.” They’ve tried sealing off the flow of water and drilling other parts of the island.

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The dilemma of the producers Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy was finding someone who would consent to having their beautiful home partially destroyed. They located the Ridder mansion on the north shore of Long Island. The house belonged to the family for which the Knight-Ridder news syndicate had been named. As the house was on the market at the time, they consented to have several key sequences shot there. During the course of filming, the house was virtually destroyed and re-built from scratch. During the filming, Mrs. Ridder was reportedly stunned at the sight of the old family home in a semi-demolished state, but was convinced by director Richard Benjamin to appear in one of the movie's final sequences once the place was restored to original condition.

The shoot was delayed due to Shelley Long giving birth to her daughter Juliana, but when she reported to the set, she took on all of the physical acting without a hitch.

My Dad provided the car used in the Money Pit and let Tom Hanks drive it around the set. Since my Dad was on the set, he mentioned that the scene where the turkey is launched was practiced repeatedly with a football. Unfortunately, a fake turkey does not have the same aerodynamic qualities as a real football. Mission fail!
They built a replica of the front of the mansion on the back of the mansion but did not really bring it into play during filming.
I recall him saying that the Hell's Angels used in the movie were recruited from the ranks of an actual Hell's Angels chapter.
Richard Benjamin's birthday was celebrated on the set while filming the movie.

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Could this complicated theory involving a 17th century plot to overthrow the king of England be behind the Oak Island mystery? It sounds pretty convincing—and there's even some hard evidence to back it up.

Anyone familiar with the History Channel series The Curse of Oak Island knows the mystery well. But for those who haven’t yet heard the tale, buckle your seatbelts.

Oak Island is in Nova Scotia, and the mystery in question is a legend that there’s big treasure buried there. Since the 19th century, explorers have tried to locate the loot. And some interesting artifacts have been unearthed. But the main treasure has never been found—and remains a mystery even to these explorers. Theories say that the island could be home to a massive pirate treasure, the Holy Grail, Shakespearean manuscripts, or the Ark of the Covenant.

© IMDB/History Channel There are many theories behind History Channel's 'Curse of Oak Island' Money Pit, but the William Phips Theory has some hard evidence supporting the claim.

Not only is there a mystery, but there’s also a curse, hence the name of the History Channel series. Legend says that seven men will die searching for the treasure before it is found. To date, six men have died.

Now, there’s endless theories to what type of treasure could be on the island—and how it got there. But The William Phips Theory has many convinced, with hard evidence supporting the claim. The theory was recently broken down by writer and history buff Hammerson Peters on his YouTube channel. The video sources much of its information from the book Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure, which first presented the convincing conspiracy.

The theory, as presented by the Peters, goes something like this: William Phips was a successful 17th century explorer with his expeditions funded by the English. When King James II came into power in 1685, the Catholic king was wildly unliked by the Protestant majority, including political leaders and aristocrats. Simply put, they wanted to overthrow him.

An enemy of King James II, who fled to Holland when the king came to power, convinced the King William III of the Netherlands, who was Protestant, to join forces with the English to overthrow King James II. All King William III needed money to fund the war.

Here’s where the treasure—and Phips—comes in. In a previous expedition funded by English aristocrats, Phips found a Spanish shipwreck loaded with treasure. He and his crew recovered about $4 million in today’s currency on their first loot of the wreck. Upon his return to Englad, the rogue Protestants convinced Phips to go back with an increased crew from Holland and gain more treasure to fund the invasion. After all, Phips had his own problems with King James II, who wouldn’t let Massachusetts self-govern even after Phips gifted him boatloads of treasure.

After looting the wrecked ship a second time, the crew from Holland sailed back to the Netherlands with silver coins to fund the invasion, which was successful in overthrowing King James II in 1688. But Phips and his crew went to hide the rest of the treasure for safe keeping on Oak Island. There, his crew dug the infamous Money Pit. Theory has it that while digging, an underground cavern gave way, flooding the pit with water—and leaving the treasure in a precarious and unretrievable state.

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Phips and his men sealed the Money Pit, and went to inform England of the big problem. Secret engineering squads were deployed to the island many times, but couldn’t retrieve the treasure. By the 1750s, the British Crown decided if they couldn’t have the treasure, no one could. The British then booby trapped the island, creating shafts and flood tunnels modern day explorers have since discovered. But the treasure still remains untouched.

Now, that’s a pretty legit theory—and modern-day discoveries on the island, many of which have actually been found on the The Curse of Oak Island series, back it up. There’s the discovery of a 16th or 17th century pick axe, proven to be from England. Then there’s several pieces of wood discovered in the series, all of which have been carbon dated from the late 1600s to the early 1700s. There’s also the two human bones discovered in season 5, one of European dissent and one of Middle Eastern dissent, both carbon dated from the late 1600s to the mid 1700s. Not only that, but core samples from the Oak Island swamp indicate human activity took place somewhere between 1674 and 1700.

A full breakdown of the theory in substantial detail is available in Peters’ YouTube video. But you have to admit, it sounds pretty convincing.