300 Year Old Oak Island Treasure Is Exactly What We’ve Been Searching For!

The Curse of Oak Island has hidden the mysteries of the Nova Scotian Island for centuries and guarded its treasure for just as long. However, with such a dedicated team determined to uncover the truth about the island, they have collected all kinds of shocking clues and evidence that paint a colorful picture of Oak Island’s true past. The past year has brought with it some shocking revelations and artifacts. After almost three hundred years, the team feels they are closer than ever to finding the long-hidden gold and treasure that has been hidden on the island.

After watching this list of the most important artifacts found on the island, the answers to all of these ancient mysteries and questions will be clearer. Rick Lagina and Jack Begley observe as the Dumas Contracting team works on the Money Pit, moving things with their hammer grab. Roger Fortin informs the pair that they are 23 feet below in the Garden Shaft and installing more sets. Simultaneous investigations are going on across the island, but this is by far their most pressing and interesting project, refurbishing the shaft, and exploring what is inside. The Dumas crew is working to remove backed-up clay and muck from the shaft.

Based on numerous discoveries on the island, the team has reason to believe that the decayed 80-foot shaft could be connected to the original Money Pit. Wood and water samples from the shaft have been dated to 1735 and revealed high trace evidence of gold. The proximity to a chamber that the crew drilled into at a depth of 55 feet has also reinforced their notions that there is something of value to be gained by opening up the shaft. Marty Lagina believes the Garden Shaft could have been the original Money Pit or the original attempt to find the treasure.

Rick Lagina hopes that once they reach a depth of 50 feet in the Garden Shaft, they will be able to drill vertically and possibly gain more answers. Jack hopes they will find a tunnel leading from the shaft, one that can explain the high traces of gold and silver in the location’s water. Having already rebuilt the first 2 sets of eight-foot sections of the Garden Shaft in the coming weeks, Dumas Contracting will be able to complete a new vertical structure down to a total depth of approximately 80 feet, and during this process, they will be able to probe drill outside the shaft. They will also be able to build lateral tunnels to allow members of the team to search for evidence of treasure.

As the Dumas Crew excavates and reconstructs the shaft, the Oak Island crew will be able to monitor the entire operation using the Inuktun Spectrum 120 High Definition Camera. The camera has features that allow it to pan 360 degrees and is designed to operate in low light conditions with enhancement capabilities like a powerful zoom function. Rick Lagina hopes that there is treasure at the bottom of the Garden Shaft, but if not, he thinks he can still find a way to exploit the opportunities of the shaft. He thinks he would like to go down into the Garden Shaft himself.

In the Money Pit area, Rick Lagina and Oak Island’s operations manager, Scott Barlow, are going to get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by going underground and entering the Garden Shaft. After completing the required safety training, Rick and Scott get dressed to enter the Money Pit for the first time and possibly solve the mystery with the help of all of their senses. Rick is moved by the historical value and shared experience with previous treasure hunters. The idea of legacy and dream completion is a major motivator for the Lagina brothers. Rick is emotionally touching the mud and wooden walls made by previous adventurers with reverence.

This trip down into the Garden Shaft has been inspiring and motivational for Rick. Though nothing has been found, the dedication to solving the mystery has been renewed. It is with a grateful heart that the men savor their first trip underground on their mission to find the truth of Oak Island.

Back in the Money Pit area, historian Charles Barkhouse and geologist Terry Matheson are closely monitoring the drilling of Borehole DN 11.5. The drilling has reached the possible treasure zone, which lies between 80 and 120 feet deep below the earth’s surface. Charles and Terry are looking through core samples as they talk to Andy and update him on their work. A loud grinding sound can be heard coming from the drilling crew, and everyone looks up as the screeching only gets louder. The drill operator has to pull up the drill because they broke through something.

The Dumas team pauses their work and measures the pipe to figure out what happened. The drill operator makes his way to Terry and relays what happened; he explains that they have broken through something when they reached 90 feet underground. Terry explains in layman’s terms that the drill operator now has an open space 90 feet below grade, meaning there is a void down there. The three men in the tent let the operator know that they are going to talk over this development and they will let him know what to do once they reach a consensus. Charles takes out his phone to contact the Lagina brothers, Rick and Marty.

Rick is always excited whenever he gets a call from the Money Pit drill program because the DN 11.5 is within the treasure zone. To Rick, the significance of the area is due to the high gold values, the introduction of trapped air, and the voids in the area. He is hopeful they have found the Oak Island treasure. The entire team starts to file into the tent near the Borehole when Rick arrives. Mike, the operator of the drill, tells the crew that at around 90 feet he could feel the rods break through something and it was open about a foot and a half past his rods. He speculates that whatever he cut through likely fell out into this void.

Terry takes out a map of the area and he determines the DN 11.5 borehole lines up with DN 12.5 and DN 13.5, which is all along an east-west alignment, all of it is a structure at 94 feet below grade. He speculates that Mike hitting it at below 90 feet suggests that they are at the top of the tunnel. Because the team has recently encountered a believed tunnel at the same depth in two other nearby boreholes, which all line up with the Garden Shaft, could they be right, that they have intercepted another section of the structure? Could this be related to the large amount of gold that was detected within the baby blob?

Marty believes that they need to confirm whether it is a tunnel or not, and the only way to do that is to pull the core. Marty commands Mike to get them some core and to find them their treasure. The drill operators march back to fulfill his wishes. Rick is left thinking about how every time a drill bit goes down, every time they encounter a void, the first thought he has is that it may lead them somewhere.

Rick, watching the operations, says that if they were to encounter a tunnel close to the Garden Shaft, or even if they came across the tunnel at the base of the Garden Shaft, it would be a true revelation for the team. He observes the drill operators filling a core sample, which Terry and Charles will then slice and dice for some clues.

As the team hurriedly cuts into the core, they immediately notice that they have some wood. This triggers quite a bit of interest in everyone. There are solid chunks of wood all through the center of the core. Where could this wood come from? Terry decides to take a sample of the wood immediately and he places it into a Ziploc bag, to send to the lab right away. He is interested in learning if there are any metals in the wood.

Later that afternoon, at the Oak Island Interpretive Centre, they received the tests back on the wood sample they found in the core from the DN 11.5 borehole. Rick and Craig Tester join Laid Niven to speak with Emma Culligan, who is their archaeometallurgist. The XRF results of the wood sample will tell them what is inside their apparent tunnel. Twenty-four hours have passed since they retrieved this sample from their theorized tunnel system 90 feet below ground. A tunnel that they wonder whether it is man-made or naturally recurring, and that they wish to know whether it contains another clue for their long-awaited treasure.

The wood sample was first dried out and then scanned by Emma Culligan using the X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, or XRF for short. This device is incredibly useful, as it uses Gamma Rays to detect any added elements or metals that can be found on or within their samples. Emma tells the group that she is seeing some very minuscule quantities, so she has had to double-check her results multiple times. She explains that all the typical and expected elements like iron, magnesium, titanium, calcium, potassium, and aluminum are all very commonplace. However, she says that there are some unexpected quantities of gold.

She confirms that this is an unusual result and calls it an outlier. Rick sees these tests as a confirmation of their theories. He says that they now have proof that they have singularly unique results from the application of that concept in two different modems, in the wood and the water. Rick realizes that this may connect them to where the treasure may be. This could connect them to a direction they can follow. The gold sampling of the water and now the wood is their greatest find of the year. Their hopes of finding the treasure at the bottom of the Garden Shaft by drilling has led Rick to think that it is the start of an evidence trail. In his eyes, every bit of evidence that has led them here is as important as the gold traces they have found. They leave Emma with the promise of bringing her more samples.

The Lagina brothers arrive at the Money Pit area to check on the progress of the probe drilling operation within the Garden Shaft.