‘Pirate Gold of Adak Island’ Trailer: The Hunt is on for Pirate Booty

Netflix just released the official trailer for Pirate Gold of Adak Island, a new documentary series that finds experienced treasure hunters attempting to locate buried treasure in order to help save an island. The trailer teases a few key discoveries but doesn’t reveal whether we should hold out hope that these expert searchers will have any better luck than the Fellowship of the Dig team on The History Channel’s The Curse of Oak Island. Nine seasons of that treasure-hunting series and thus far there’s been a lot of wood and old tools found but not much in the way of gold or silver.

Googling Adak Island reveals the remote island had around 171 residents in 2020. The island used to have a large military presence but now its occupants work mostly in the fish processing business. Adak’s littered with deserted businesses and homes, but Alaska’s holding out hope the military might return and revive the community at some point.

According to Historic Sites and Ship Wrecks, Captain Gregory Dwargstof of the Hitslap (a seal-hunting ship) buried $1 million there in 1892.

Netflix has set a June 29, 2022 premiere date for Pirate Gold of Adak Island.

Netflix’s official synopsis:

“Over the past one hundred years, caches of gold coins from the nineteenth century have been found buried on the remote and eerie island of Adak. The entire pirate treasure, most of which has not been found, has an estimated value of $365 Million. Mayor Tom Spitler is assembling a team of experienced treasure hunters to search for the booty, which proves to be a treacherous task as Adak is littered with unexploded bombs left over from WWII. Luckily, the mayor himself happens to be specially trained in bomb removal – but will that be enough? They could get rich, but they might die trying.”

Pirate Gold of Adak Island
Dr. M. Jackson, Brian Weed, Jay Toomoth, Burke Mitchell and Thom Spitler in ‘Prate Gold of Adak Island’ (Photo Courtesy of Netflix © 2022)