Rick Lagina: “We Found Something BIG In The Garden Shaft Mine”

Really significant orientations and markings, and I’m excited to find out more.
You see the Templar cross? Oh yeah. I’m hopeful that we will be able to learn something, or at least see some symbols here that could be really important to help us figure out what’s going on on Oak Island.

At the bottom—did you see that rush of water coming down there?
“No, it’s still coming in!”
“Can you see that?”

From the discovery of an interesting drain that could be the link to all the booby traps that have forced many to return home empty-handed, to the discovery of articles that could help the team progress with their treasure hunt—here are the terrifying things that were discovered at Smith’s Cove.

When people talk about visiting Canada, most of them may want to visit cities like Toronto or Ontario. However, these tourists would find that there’s another popular spot in Canada that has attracted people from all over the world for over two hundred years.

We’re talking about this little island located on the south coast of Nova Scotia.
There you’d find that this island is filled with the promise of adventure and treasure—as it is rumored that there is a hidden treasure of vast fortunes hidden somewhere on the island.

For that reason, hundreds—if not thousands—of people have made their way to this mysterious place that we all know as Oak Island.
Unfortunately, although these optimistic treasure hunters made their way to the island in droves, they’d find that their efforts were in vain, as they’d all return home empty-handed.

Perhaps this is because of the mysterious nature of the treasure and many booby traps on the island that are designed to deter these treasure hunters from coming across this treasure.

If there is some sort of connection here, they need to know it—and we need to know it.
If we get lucky, this will tell us.

But sure—don’t tell that to the Lagina brothers.
They and their determined crew are hellbent on using the most modern techniques and equipment to find and follow any clues that they could find, so that they could emerge victorious as the ones who finally overcame the treasure hunting challenge of Oak Island.

Well, thanks to their efforts, they have made some interesting discoveries along the way.

For example, there is the stone slab with the strange markings on it that they found some time ago.
As if that isn’t mysterious enough, they have also found fragments of human bones—interesting, yet stomach-turning at the same time.

Hopefully we can capture your imagination with this lead cross that was also discovered some time ago.
Holy shimoly!
All right, it’s a cross—that’s a cross.
This lead cross has since been associated with the Knights Templar, the ancient Christian military organization of medieval times.

As fascinating as these discoveries may be, it must still be a source of discouragement for the Lagina brothers and their team when they think about how they still haven’t come across this treasure.

Maybe they haven’t found the treasure because, according to legend, there may be a curse on the treasure which says that before it can be discovered by anyone, seven men have to die searching for it.
So far, about six men have met their end.

Perhaps until one more person falls, the Lagina brothers and their crew may just have to be satisfied with the ancient relics that they have picked up during their treasure hunting attempt on Oak Island.

Curse or no curse, the Lagina brothers and their determined crew of treasure hunters don’t look like they’re going to be quitting on this project anytime soon.

This reminds us about a time they performed a huge excavation at Smith’s Cove.
The spirits were high because after spending some time there, it looked like all their efforts were beginning to pay off.

Just a day ago, the team had succeeded with their attempt to dig up the U-shaped structure found in the area.
This was huge, because they were able to complete this job so many years after the U-shaped structure was discovered by Dan Blankenship.

In the course of this dig, they seemed to come across a rather fortunate and exciting discovery.

“How deep are they?”
“That’s its farthest point of penetration—right where you can see right there.”
The thing still looks real sturdy, though.

This discovery came in the form of a French drain—an ancient water system that makes use of several rocks of different sizes, allowing those who built it to steer the direction of water from one location to another.

Truly an ingenious system.

This is just the first 10–15% of the full text, broken up for easier readability. The original content is very dense and spans several scenes, characters, and topics, so it would be best to split the full thing into readable sections or even chapters if you’re planning to present or edit it further.

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