{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "NewsArticle", "@id": "https://badiyaa.com/curse-of-oak-island-season-14-lagina/#article", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://badiyaa.com/curse-of-oak-island-season-14-lagina/", "headline": "The Curse of Oak Island returns for season 14 as Marty Lagina says he nearly quit the treasure hunt", "description": "The Curse of Oak Island season 14 premiered on History on November 10, with Marty Lagina saying this year's finds on the Nova Scotia island surprised him.", "datePublished": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+00:00", "dateModified": "2026-11-11T19:30:00+00:00", "author": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Badiyaa Editorial Desk", "url": "https://badiyaa.com/author/editorial-desk/" }, "publisher": { "@type": "NewsMediaOrganization", "@id": "https://badiyaa.com/#organization", "name": "Badiyaa", "url": "https://badiyaa.com/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://badiyaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/badiyaa-logo-color-600x60-1.png", "width": 600, "height": 60 }, "email": "badiyaavideo@gmail.com", "publishingPrinciples": "https://badiyaa.com/editorial-policy/", "correctionsPolicy": "https://badiyaa.com/corrections/", "actionableFeedbackPolicy": "https://badiyaa.com/contact/", "ownershipFundingInfo": "https://badiyaa.com/about/#ownership", "sameAs": [ "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61595518283625", "https://www.instagram.com/badiyaa.com.ai/", "https://www.threads.net/@badiyaa.com.ai" ], "parentOrganization": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Rezilient Digital", "url": "https://www.rezilientdigital.com/", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Fl No 3, Nav Shyam Sadan, Plot No 38, Pestom Sagar, Chembur", "addressLocality": "Mumbai", "addressRegion": "Maharashtra", "postalCode": "400089", "addressCountry": "IN" }, "sameAs": [ "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rezilientdigital" ] } }, "isAccessibleForFree": true, "inLanguage": "en-US", "wordCount": 610, "image": [ "https://badiyaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/island-and-wharf-oak-island-nova-scotia-canada-august-1931.webp", "https://badiyaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/island-and-wharf-oak-island-nova-scotia-canada-august-1931-1024x735.webp" ], "articleSection": "Entertainment", "keywords": "Marty Lagina, Nova Scotia, Oak Island, Rick Lagina, The Curse of Oak Island", "articleBody": "Rick and Marty Lagina are back on Oak Island for a 14th season, and Marty says this year’s dig threw up things he never saw coming. The Curse of Oak Island returned to History on Tuesday, November 10, at 9 p.m. Eastern, with new episodes every Tuesday and each one streaming the following day. “I never could have anticipated what showed up on that island this year,” Marty Lagina said in an interview published ahead of the premiere. He also admitted that “there have been times where I certainly considered throwing in the towel” before the season’s finds changed his mind. What season 14 is chasing The brothers pointed to three threads. The first is Lot 5, where Marty said the artifacts “are sort of unprecedented in Nova Scotia,” according to the archaeologists working with the team. Rick, who has long argued that people were on the island far earlier than the familiar 1795 discovery story, said work there has reinforced “a very early timeline.” The second is the solution channel under the Money Pit, a deep natural cavity the team has been probing with heavy equipment. Rick said this year they found it was larger than they had understood, but stopped short of calling anything definitive. The third is a large boulder that Marty, once a skeptic, now accepts was “placed by human hands,” based on what the scientists who examined it have told the team. Weather was the main obstacle. Rick said the swamp was “as wet this year as it was dry last year,” leaving some structures there only partly explored. Thirteen seasons in numbers The show is now one of the longest-running treasure hunts on television. It premiered in January 2014 with just five episodes. The order then grew steadily: 10 episodes in season 2, 16 by season 4, 22 in season 6, and 25 a year from season 8 through season 13. By the series’ encyclopedia entry, that adds up to 280 episodes across 14 seasons, with the new run still in progress. The calendar has barely moved in that time. Every season since the second has opened in early or mid-November, from November 2 in 2019 and 2021 to November 15 in 2016 and 2022, and most recent seasons have run into April or May. Viewers can expect this one to follow the same pattern and carry the search into spring 2027. How two Michigan brothers ended up here The obsession began with a magazine. Rick Lagina was 11 when he read a January 1965 article about the Oak Island money pit and pulled his younger brother into the mystery. In 2006 the pair bought most of the island, and Prometheus Entertainment later approached them about a reality series. The legend they inherited is older than the country next door. Settlers in the 1700s reported strange lights on the island, and young treasure seekers found a sunken patch of ground that started two centuries of digging. History’s own show page notes that the hunt has drawn interest from figures as varied as Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Wayne. Every attempt to dig deep has met the same problem: seawater floods the shafts through channels some believe were man-made. No major treasure has turned up yet. The team has instead logged smaller finds over the years, including a Spanish copper coin thought to date to the 17th century, a lead cross and a garnet brooch estimated at 400 to 500 years old. For more TV and screen stories, browse the Badiyaa entertainment section, or dig into older mysteries in our history coverage. Episode 2 of season 14 airs on History on Tuesday, November 17. Further reading Wikipedia: The Curse of Oak Island Image: Richard McCully, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.", "markdown": "https://badiyaa.com/curse-of-oak-island-season-14-lagina.md" }