Previewing Diggers

After the History mini-series, the Hatfields & McCoys are having a big comeback of sorts into pop culture. The feud’s biggest climax, the New Year’s Day Massacre where the Hatfield’s burned down the McCoy homestead in the hopes of killing the patriarch celebrated its 125th anniversary this year. Surprisingly in those 125 years, no one has found where the two story McCoy house once stood. In fact no artifacts have been dug up before. Until now.

The new National Geographic Channel show Diggers are traveling to the Kentucky / West Virginia border to uncover long lost artifacts from the time of the feud including where the former home of the McCoy’s once stood. The diggers in the title are George “KG” Wyant and Tim “Ringy” Saylor are amateur scientists. Indiana Jones these guys are not, as they are armed with nothing but metal detectors and a shovel. But they are easily excited but each and every find and have created their own lingo for when they are out digging (do not worry, they definition pop up on the screen to help you out).

Ironically the land where the McCoy’s once lived is now owned by a descendant of the Hatfeild’s. Wyant and Saylor do find a bunch of bullet fragments that they believe could have been from the New Year’s Day Massacre and think they have found where the house of the McCoy’s once stood. You will have to turn in to see if actually archaeologist confirm that they found are the remains of the McCoy homestead.

Diggers airs Tuesdays at 10:00 on the National Geographic Channel with back to back episodes.