# History Channel's "Curse of Oak Island"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 11, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channels-curse-of-oak-island/701048 "2014-10-11T16:56:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-channels-curse-of-oak-island/701048/21 "2014-10-14T16:19:41Z")

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> [@Loopus](#):
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> The links of chain, along with the “two million pounds” stone tablet, disappeared at some point, and it’s plausibly suggested that they never really existed.

I seem to remember there being a B&W photo of the tiny gold link on the bit. And the ‘Twenty feet below two million are buried’ stone tablet has always been considered a laughable fake. I think it was on the wall in a tavern for a while. It uses a simple one-to-one fake foreign character to modern English letter replacement code! It was made by one of the search teams to create interest (and investment) in the hopeless search…

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