The original site was called the “blockhouse blog”. It was filled with actual data, all of which refuted the show.
After the laginas purchased it, it became an oak island tours site.
Now it’s a site that backs the show’s claims.
They used the original site address:
https://www.theoakislandcompendium.com/
Someone here (gahzzak?) had a link to a data site that had backed up the original blockhouse blog site.
I’ll search for that and report back.
Wow, I guess I've been de-plonked
*. Okay, so let's parse this out ... so much to untangle here in terms of your misrepresentation.
I'm familiar with the Blockhouse Blog, and have read many interesting pieces there. It was at one time a part of the site oakislandcompendium.ca, and much of its content can be found through the internet archive's wayback machine, e.g.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160201110412/http://www.oakislandcompendium.ca/blockhouse-blog . A more complete archive (of the blog portion) seems to be the RSS feed cache that is available at
https://blockhouse124.rssing.com/chan-63940472/index-page1.html .
In no way could the content of this blog be summed as "all of which refuted the show". Does it present a more comprehensive deep dive into the various sub-mysteries, such as the so-called 90-foot stone, some of which complements what's presented on the show and some of which can at times be contradictory? Yep. As you'd expect from competent researchers who aren't reducing the material to easily digested voice-over narration for a TV audience. And one of those researchers and principal authors happens to be ... the show's own Doug Crowell. Most of the material in the blog seems to date from 2016 onwards, so the show was already a thing by then.
So what happened to the original Compendium? oakislandcompendium.ca did indeed change into a different site, around 2021, focused, apparently, on tourism. Does this equate to "The laginas bought it" ? Not without evidence, sir, and I see none here. As a shill for their biz on Oak Island it would be a very poor example, as it contains only one sentence about the production: "A popular TV series known as 'The Curse of Oak Island' is filmed on the island", accompanied by a static image that isn't even a clickable link back to the History Channel.
The Oak Island Compendium, New Edition, on the other hand, residing at the URL you provided
https://www.theoakislandcompendium.com/ , is another content creator's homage to, and in the spirit of, the original Compendium, and has existed since at least 2023. To summarize its content as "backing the show's claims" is misleading at best. Yes, during the broadcast season they provide episode recaps that don't engage in the same negative histrionics that your usual sources subsist on, but the content is significantly deeper than that and from what I can tell represents the work of genuinely curious seekers who don't have a predetermined bias.
Normally I fault you for content-free nihilism. Now I'm faulting you for sloppy research and conspiratorial thinking. If you've got some smoking gun to back up your claims I'm all eyes and ears, but I won't hold my breath. Bring your data or be mocked.
--GT
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* i.e. let out of the kill-file, for you youngsters.
