Unfortunately this show is not great. I was hopeful but it's full of grand speculation and an abundance of jumping to ridiculous conclusions with minimal evidence.

The "searchers" in this program should all be embarrassed that they are exposing themselves as simpletons. Here goes... So at the conclusion of the Civil War, the 4th Michigan Cavalry captures, along with Jefferson Davis, wagon loads of gold. How many men in the 4th Cavalry knew? Hundreds? Yet not one of them left any written or even oral history of such plunder. Oh yes but the three ranking union officers supposedly kept it under wraps??? ...right! Then these intellectual midgets who are searching for the gold maintain that the union officers- Pritchard, Hackley, etc moved this gold all over the country? Moved it from Georgia, to Michigan to Utah and melted it down at some point. Again, such movements call for the inclusion of at least dozens of people... yet not one scintilla of corroboration from any laborer, sailor, trainman, or anyone from the time period. Do they assume/think that all this movement and melting of millions of dollars of gold and and silver 150 years ago happened in a vacuum....And if you think they find anything - don't you think that it would have been reported in the national news already? Don't watch it.This program is more Masonic pipe dreaming, and they expect us to swallow it.

I have made it thru three episodes, but can't take it anymore. The show tries hard to be like Oak Island, but misses by a wide margin. Unfortunately, it continues all the annoying practices such as lots of repetition, "war room" meetings, grand speculation, and obsession with Knights Templar. In addition, it misses the boat on some of the redeeming value of Oak Island, such as interesting characters, history of the area, and use of other experts and parties to solve problems. Marty and Rick are interesting to watch in using management skills, and interpersonal skills in addressing issues that come up on Oak Island. Civil War Gold is the other extreme, with an an apparent control freak who wants to do everything himself - and thus is not very interesting from any standpoint. The historical topic was what interested me to watch, but I cannot overcome the other negatives to continue.

They've already found the treasure, your eyeballs are the treasure! That's all these shows seek to do, get you to tune in next week,next season.I can't believe the Curse of Oak Island has hooked people in this much on so little. They've redone the found coin thing like 3,4 times. They've brought in "experts" who make Ancient Alien regulars look like beyond reproach researchers.Now they created a spin off and done the exact same thing..We found a coin! OMG. I'm touching something, we can't show it to you, but it's definitely there!You know, the story up to now may very well be true. A bunch of Union soldiers may have indeed run off with Confederate gold. The idea of carpetbaggers down south is not new! A ton of Northerners made fortunes stealing from the South.Now here's the thing, if there was really a train sitting on its side, on a beach visible for many years, do you really think everybody would have just ignored it? Ahhh yeah the old train down at the beach, no never took a picture of it, why would i? That articles in local newspapers wouldn't exist about it? Do you? Than this series is for you! Because you'll believe anything. There would be literally 1000's of pictures! There would be POSTCARDS!I know a lot about Oak Island. I looked into it 40 years ago. Here's what they kind of avoid on the show. The island was literally strip mined at one point and none of these guys actually knows exactly where to dig for anything! But they never, ever are truthful about that.Having the thing shaved down to bedrock is why the Canadian government made laws about not doing it over and over.What I see them doing over and over is taking a fact, and then attaching many theories to it. This is what a very accomplished liar will do, start with a foundation of something real. And then build a false story around it, so they can always go back to the provable real thing.My favorite line so far was "If you've heard, that validates.." No it doesn't!!! I've heard of the ghost of the ;Landmark Theater, that doesn't validate the legend at all. This is exactly how practiced liars weave on a single thread of truth.Here's my Karnak prediction,,,5 years from now you'll tune in..and they'll still be ohhh.so close to solving this mystery.