One positive to working on “The Curse of Oak Island” is that it’s allowed Emma Culligan to research pockets of Oak Island that she would never have thought to touch without the Lagina brothers’ influence. Laird Niven specifically mentioned Lot 5 in the “Curse of Oak Island and Beyond Podcast,” a place neither of them had considered for a dig.
It also led to an exciting discovery by Culligan and Laird Niven, which subsequently changed how Oak Island’s dig teams treat gold. Culligan told the podcast that she managed to find gold residue on a piece of wood from one of the digs by using surface analysis and water data. “I was there going, ‘We have to call production. We have to let them know,'” Niven explained. Minutes later, they found themselves at the gold pit, being filmed informing the Laginas of her new discovery. Culligan’s reaction to the discovery? “Holy s**t!” Hopefully, she’ll have many more moments worth explosive exclamatory utterances in the future.
