Rick Lagina Breaks His Silence: “Some Things on Oak Island Can’t Be Explained — And Maybe Shouldn’t BRick Lagina’s lifelong search for Oak Island’s hidden treasure takes a chilling turn as unexplainable phenomena—dead equipment, ghostly whispers, and impossible artifacts—leave even the most rational minds shaken and questioning whether the island’s curse is more real than anyone dared to believe.e

For over a decade, The Curse of Oak Island has taken viewers deep into one of the most mysterious archaeological digs in history — a centuries-old hunt for treasure buried beneath a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia.

But as Season 12 draws to a close, even the show’s most determined figure, Rick Lagina, admits there are discoveries that shake even his faith in science.

Oak Island has always been a place where logic collides with the impossible.

Over the years, the team has uncovered tunnels that predate known settlements, artifacts that shouldn’t exist in North America, and anomalies in the soil that seem to rewrite history.

But the most chilling moments, according to Rick, aren’t always shown on TV.

“Some nights, the equipment just dies,” Lagina confessed during a behind-the-scenes interview filmed in late August 2025.

“There’s no explanation.

One minute everything’s fine — then it’s like the island itself decides we’ve seen enough.”

The first time the unexplained struck was during a 2018 dig near Smith’s Cove.

Cameras captured the moment the metal detectors began emitting distorted sounds, before all recording equipment abruptly powered off.

When power was restored, the team’s digital time logs had inexplicably shifted backward by three minutes — something technicians have never been able to replicate or explain.

A similar event occurred in 2021, when Alex Lagina, Rick’s nephew, was conducting a ground-penetrating radar scan over Lot 8.

The radar picked up what appeared to be a perfectly square structure nearly 200 feet underground — too deep for colonial construction.

Yet, within seconds, the reading vanished.

When they tried again, the signal was gone.

“It’s as if something knew we were looking,” Alex later said in a post-episode discussion.

But not every strange occurrence is technical.

Some are deeply personal.

Rick recalls one incident during a night dig in the swamp area.

“I heard someone say my name.

Clear as day.

I turned, and no one was there.

The others heard it too.

” Crew members have since reported similar whispering voices and inexplicable shadows moving in areas where no one else was present.

Then there are the objects — the pieces of evidence that defy reason.

Among them: a 13th-century cross, discovered in 2017, that experts later linked to the Knights Templar; a small shard of Roman glass embedded in clay nearly 30 feet below ground; and, most recently, a fragment of a parchment made of sheepskin, believed to contain writing invisible to the naked eye.

In 2024, during testing at Dalhousie University, that fragment revealed faint traces of what appeared to be Latin script.

The words, translated roughly, mean “they wait below.

” When the results were shared with the team, Rick reportedly went silent for several minutes before saying only, “We’re not ready to understand this yet.”

Even Marty Lagina, the show’s more skeptical brother, has started to acknowledge that not everything happening on Oak Island can be rationalized.

“You can call it superstition or science — but something connects all of this,” he told reporters after filming wrapped this season.

“Every answer just opens another door.”

As for Rick, he’s no longer chasing just treasure.

“People think we’re here for gold,” he said.

“But the truth is, Oak Island isn’t about wealth.

It’s about what we’re not supposed to find — and why someone went to such lengths to hide it.”

Fans of the show know that the “curse” associated with the island warns that seven must die before the treasure is revealed.

To date, six men have lost their lives pursuing the island’s secrets.

And yet, the Lagina brothers continue their work, driven by something they can’t quite define — a pull that goes beyond reason or greed.

Season 12 of The Curse of Oak Island ends on an ominous note: a strange metallic object uncovered near the Money Pit, giving off a faint electromagnetic signal despite being buried in solid earth for centuries.

“Whatever’s down there,” Rick said in the episode’s closing moments, “it’s not done with us yet.”

And as the lights go out on another season, one thing is certain: Oak Island’s greatest secrets remain buried — and Rick Lagina, the man who has spent his life chasing them, may finally be realizing that some mysteries were never meant to be solved.