Wow! Never thought there was that much money in flogging a dead horse. Consider me educated!
You just need to find an audience into necro-sado-beastiality.
I dug up the story I recalled about Season 5 being in question because the brothers did not want to do another season (the original story was linked on IMDB)
The other stories I was thinking about were also on the IMDB news feed, all from around the same end of season 4 time period. One was about how fans had started a social media campaign to convince History Channel not to cancel the series plus another one that said the NS govt had increased their subsidy of the show’s season 5 to just below $2 million per season because it was such a big tourism boost. As I read the stories now, I get the impression that the whole position of the brothers not to do season 5 was a negotiation ploy to suck more money from th NS govt.
I haven’t really followed it for a couple years, I was never a regular viewer. I think I saw the season 4 finale and was so disappointed they found nothing (again) that I looked it up to see if was going to be renewed, and saw the 3 stories I referenced above.
You’re 100% correct about the ratings, I’m stunned at how highly rated they are. I notice they’re also now intertwined with the dipshit from Ancient Aliens and hinting there may be a supernatural or extra terrestrial basis for the “money pit”. It’s pretty pathetic TV, but congrats that they can keep the viewers.
I find the dating of some of the wood from the cove project fascinating; some of the other finds as well. But I have a strong sense that its all much ado about not much.
I’ve never understood the thought process that lead people to believe there’s buried treasure involving so many complicated pitfalls. To do so, you need a lot of people, which means there are a lot of people who, after you’ve all left, can go to their other friends and come back to steal it. After all, they helped bury the stuff and construct it, so they have some idea how to get it.
Oak Island should be a required course in skepticism.
About 50 years ago, K364 was gobsmacked to read an article in Readers Digest about pulleys, platforms, coins, and flood tunnels on Oak Island. Wow! Amazing!
But, it’s all bullshit. A lesson for us all.
But something interesting seems to have been done there; treasure I doubt but possibly something in the line of smuggling/piracy or maybe just some advanced commercial fishing operation that left signs behind for the original searchers to say “buried treasure”. And even if I’m the only one I am damn curious what that something was. Maybe it was a forerunner (circa 1761) of our current Dopers and it was a massive colonial hooker and blow operation? 
Hell, maybe the block and tackle hanging from the tree was left over from when the treasure was removed.
There’s a website for that!
Yeah but they just sell your ISP to the Dutch Clown Porn sites.
There’s an entire multi-season show about the subject? I’d have thought that you could say everything there is to say in a single episode. How do they fill the time?
Using shovels and dirt from previous digs?
Just another special instance of Rule 34.