The Curse of Oak Island: SHOCKING SHAKESPEARE CONNECTION (Season 7) | History

The mystery that intrigues me is the
possibility of the Shakespeare’s papers.
If he was written by Sir Francis Bacon,
might reside, might be buried somewhere.
What do you think about that and his
papers? And I mean, that’s a that’s almost
unanswerable. What you see here a lot if
somebody reaches a theory with
plausibility and then everything they
find from then on fits it. The
possibility of such I find it elegant
and intriguing and romantic, right? It’s
certainly a puzzle that continues in the
academic world. And was Shakespeare
Shakespeare? Was it Sir Francis Bacon who
authored the folio? I don’t know that
I’ve said around this table many times,
and we each have articulated why we’re
here, why we’re interested. For me, this is
every bit a search for the truth, no
matter where it goes, as it is a search
for treasure.

That’s fascinating. Anybody else with a
yeah, and Bacon was famous for
experimenting with preserving documents
with mercury, and this year we found that
in the swamp with an I content of
mercury. Not only that, that we did pull
up parchment in bookbinding, which is
evidence that there’s something written
down in the ground, and it was put on
parchment, and they could be the Baconian
document. That’s fascinating. They weren’t
reading a book at 180 feet in the ground.
Exactly. Parchment’s a weird thing to drop
and then that’s not even what they were
looking for.

Inexplicable mysteries. I take it you had
to analyze as much as best you could?
Yes, yeah. It’s definitely a hard, you man.
But we don’t have evidence—hard evidence
of their being treasured there. Just is a
bunch of clues that believe – of course
there’s something there. You know, you got
booby-trapped systems that are guarding
bits of parchment down on the ground. Why
was the booby trap only those worthy
would find it, or entitled? Perhaps it
was meant to be found. Was meant to be found.
A lot of people come here with the
intention of finding something material.
Right? I mean, I was drawn here by gold
bars. How create? Yep, like David. But I
mean, the original manuscripts of
Shakespeare, that do that would do, you
know. But if Francis Bacon wrote it and
put it here, what a fascinating thought
that is. And it would be really cool for
us to say we brought on the bacon.

[Laughter]

Are the lost manuscripts of William
Shakespeare or those of Sir Francis
Bacon really hidden somewhere at the
bottom of the Oak Island swamp?
And if so, could they be buried alongside
other incredible treasures like the
fabled Ark of the Covenant? Perhaps the
Laginas and their partners will soon
find the answers, and hopefully, they will
also avoid a deadly curse, one that’s so
far claimed the lives of six men, and a
legend that says one more will have to
die before the treasure can be found.

If you’ll excuse me, I think it’s time to
get out of here.

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