The Curse of Oak Island: MIND-BLOWING COCONUT FIBER DISCOVERY *Flashback* (Season 1) | History
The Curse of Oak Island: MIND-BLOWING COCONUT FIBER DISCOVERY *Flashback* (Season 1) | History
All right, and see if we can find anything other than more stones, gravel, and mud. Jack Begley and Dan Henske are in a race against the tide. Dan is convinced they are getting close to finding a mass of coconut fiber he remembers seeing at Smith’s Cove 20 years ago.
Finding it could be an important step in proving to Rick and Marty Lagina that at least one of the many Oak Island legends is true. But a lot has changed over the years, and Dan only has his memory to rely on.
Dan: “Heard you on, needed some help. Yeah, you guys good at digging rocks?”
Jack: “As good as you can get it, I guess. We’re slowly trying to drain this down so we can get at where the coconut fibers are.”
Dan: “Where do you think they are?”
Jack: “Kind of right by that big rock, just in the water, just past it.”
Dan: “All right. We only have maybe two or three hours because the tide’s coming back in. So, we’re under the gun. We’re digging like crazy, and we’re trying to get the water to drain, and we know after we do that, we still have to dig a big pit and look for coconut fiber.”
Jack: “This what you guys expected coming out here? You think you’ll be doing this all summer?”
Dan: “Oh yeah, I love the way the water is clearing.”
Jack: “Well, I just don’t think we have much time to do this. By the time we get done, then we’ll start filling back in.”
Dan: “The coconut fiber should be in this general area, which, if I’m right on the measurements, this line right here, and probably right about here where I’m finding all this sand. So, we know this is the spot. Now, it’s definitely the area, and this is very much where we should be digging. We’re making progress here. Let’s keep doing this, Pete.”
The tide left a lot of small tidal pools in the area that we were trying to dig, so basically, we built these little copper dams when we started bailing water on our own. Dan Henske’s digging a pit where he thinks the coconut fiber is. We’re really just hoping that we find anything.
Dan: “What exactly does coconut fiber look like?”
Jack: “Well, if you can find a supermarket that has coconuts, which are not quite as completely peeled, that’s the fiber that you find on coconuts.”
Dan: “So, we’re looking for the outside of a coconut?”
Jack: “Yeah, it’s the same, obviously the same color, the same type of fiber, pretty much like somebody’s brown hair.”
Dan Henske has been searching for treasure on Oak Island for more than four decades. Along with Dave Blankenship, he helped Dave’s father, Dan Blankenship, dig 10X to a depth of more than 235 feet. To this day, he insists he’s seen ghosts, demons, and other strange occurrences on Oak Island. One time, several years ago, he became so frightened, he stripped off his clothes and swam naked back to the mainland. All he took with him was a globe of the earth, a textbook on advanced calculus, and a copy of Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley.
Dan: “Guys, the tide’s getting close, we gotta hurry.”
Dan and the boys have cleared enough water away so they can finally dig and see if Dan’s plan to find coconut fiber will actually work.
Jack: “Oh, what’s that?”
Dan: “Let’s see if we move this down a little. Hold your breath, though. This is so violent.”
Jack: “Right there, right? Uh, it doesn’t look quite like it.”
Dan: “Yeah, oh whoa, whoa, whoa! That’s a mother lode right there! That looks like—”
Jack: “Yeah, there it is. No way, no way! I think that is coconut fiber on Oak Island. Could it really still be here? Yeah, that’s it! Buried in the ocean sand and rocks after all these years. Looks like it to me.”
And just a few hundred feet from the money pit, it looks like the fiber, doesn’t it?
Jack: “Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah!”
Dan: “Guys, the tide’s getting close, we gotta hurry. I mean, we got maybe ten minutes, tops.”
Jack: “Well, as long as everybody keeps doing what they’re doing.”
Dan: “This looks like more right there, right there. Ah, check that out!”
Jack: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let’s find out.”
Dan: “That’s the same. Yes, yeah. Then this must be two.”
Jack: “That’s what I was looking for. Looks like heavy brown hair.”
I was really excited to find the coconut fiber. I was really surprised to see it there. I couldn’t believe it.
Dan: “Oh yeah, the water is rapidly arriving. We can count the seconds now until we get flooded out.”
Jack: “Wow, it’s coming in quick.”
Dan: “Now, you suppose that anybody can walk in here and not see that if you’re looking for it?”
Jack: “Oh yeah.”
Dan: “Hey, guys! All right, guys, get over here!”
I got to say, as the skeptic, I didn’t think we’d find anything, but I can’t believe we found what we did. So, I mean, I would say this was a success, guys.
Dan: “We gotta go tell Uncle Rick. I mean, he won’t believe this. He’s going to be ecstatic. Let’s go tell him. Let’s go.”
Jack: “You got it. You got everything?”
Rick: “Okay, nothing but good news, right? We got good news and we got bad news.”
Dan: “Uh, I’ll take the bad news first.”
Rick: “We were having some trouble with the tide. We didn’t have a lot of time, even with it cleared out and draining. You’ve got, you know, water seeping out of the ground. If we want to look there again, we should get some kind of a pump to make it really get a three-inch pump tomorrow.”
Dan: “And the good news?”
Rick: “You guys actually found coconut fiber, in the same spot in this damn thought. That’s incredible.”
Dan: “How deep we had to go down?”
Rick: “It’s beautiful stuff. I didn’t think we’d find anything.”
Dan: “Always keep your eyes open on Oak Island. You’ll never know when the island gives you a clue. There’s a story here. I believe that when I was 11 years old, and I believe it now. And for me, it’s not just retrieval of whatever has been buried on Oak Island. The end game is to solve the mystery.”
Rick: “We got proof. Yeah, cool.”
Dan: “Yes, that is great. That is great. You, sir, are going to give that to your dad and make him eat it.”
Rick: “First words out of his mouth are going to be, ‘Are you sure it’s coconut fiber?’ I guarantee it.”
Dan: “That’s cool. I mean, I’m proud of all you. It’s a great job. Wonderful day. We’re not giving up. If you give up, you know you’re not going to succeed. I guarantee you, we’re not giving up. Tomorrow’s another day. Let’s have at her and get it done.”
