The Curse is Finally Over: Oak Island Team Just Made Their BIGGEST Discovery Ever!
The Curse is Finally Over: Oak Island Team Just Made Their BIGGEST Discovery Ever!
Oak Island is sort of the one of the world’s big unsolved mysteries.
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And if this is a cut coin, mate, I’m getting—
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I’m getting bum swizzle, mate. If this is a cut coin, mate, it could well be uh Spanish coin.
This single discovery may have just ended the 200 year mystery of Oak Island.
Found in a location no one expected, at a depth no one thought was possible, and directly connected to the money pit.
The team didn’t celebrate. They stopped digging because this find changes who, when, and why the money pit was built.
For over 200 years, Oak Island has defeated explorers, engineers, and experts. Every discovery raised hope only to collapse into disappointment.
Subscribe now, because the final piece of the Oak Island puzzle may be closer than anyone realizes. Let’s get into it.
Silver in the dirt
A bunch of leftover dirt from a dig last year got dumped on lot five near that weird round stone thing by the shore. A team pulled up more than 10 truckloads of the stuff trying to figure out what that whole feature even is.
Some think it’s way older than anyone guessed.
14th century tokens.
17th century tools.
Bits of old mortar.
Not stuff you’d expect all mixed together unless something weird went down.
But what they found buried at the very bottom changes everything.
Fiona Steel and Peter Fornetti were the ones sifting through the mess. They dragged out their gear, waved the detectors around, and the beeping started — loud and strong. Something was in there.
They dug in, checked with the pinpointer, and Fiona pulled out what looked like a broken coin. Not just snapped in half, but clean-cut, like someone meant to split it.
Look at that.
Hit the jackpot with wood. That looks like an old timber.
Back in the day, people used to chop silver and gold coins into pieces to make change. This one looked like one of those — quartered, clean, and silver-heavy too.
At first, they thought it might be Spanish. Could be treasure. Something from pirates or soldiers or whoever was hanging around these parts back when folks were sailing all over and cutting deals in silver.
They bagged it and got it to the lab.
Lab analysis
Inside, they showed the piece to archaeologist Lar Nan and metal expert Emma Culligan. Emma ran it through a scanner. It gave off that typical silvery look. Some scratches, nothing super clear.
She said the surface was too rough for perfect scans.
Then she fired up the elemental scanner — the one that shows what’s actually in the metal.
The results were silver with a bit of lead.
But there was more.
Some letters showed up faintly: G V L Y, and a tiny design that looked like two triangles.
Emma dug into it deeper and made a match.
It wasn’t Spanish.
It was English.
A William III shilling from the 1690s. Not 1700 — this one went back a little more.
Not quite pirate treasure, but still a piece of something bigger.
What it could mean
It could mean people were living or working on lot five long before most folks thought they were.
Could mean soldiers.
Could mean payoffs.
Could mean nothing.
But it could mean something.
There was a theory floating around. Some folks thought British troops were up to something secret out there. A couple of authors even wrote a book saying they were digging for treasure way back when.
After a man named William Fipps pulled treasure from a sunken ship, his buddies might have tried to stash some on the island. Then they came back to find it — and failed.
This coin could back that up.
Maybe if British troops had been camped out, digging holes and getting paid in silver coins from back home, it would explain how this one ended up buried in a pile next to a stone structure that shouldn’t even be there.
The team reacts
Now the crew was buzzing.
Rick Lagginina.
Marty Lagginina.
Craig Tester.
All of them wanted answers.
Was this just a dropped coin, or was it part of something bigger?
More coins.
More signs.
More links to treasure that was still underground.
One coin was just the start.
17th century signals
The lab could not remove all the markings from this coin. But what they did uncover fit perfectly.
Diameter.
Design.
Cut.
It all pointed to that shilling, which lined up with older signs on lot five — pushing the timeline back not by a few years, but by decades.
Nobody was saying this coin was the treasure.
It wasn’t gold.
It wasn’t a chest of jewels.
But it was a clue.
And clues stack up.
One coin here.
A tool there.
A strange foundation built like nothing else nearby.
It all added up to something.
Or it didn’t.
Back to the dig
More scans were coming. Longer tests. More details. They wanted engravings, names — anything.
They knew what it was made of now and where it was probably from, but the real question was why it was there and who dropped it.
The team wasn’t done.
Same spot.
More dirt to sort.
More ground to scan.
If one coin made it this far, there might be more.
Two.
Three.
Maybe even four.
And if they were cutting coins into quarters back then, a full one could still be out there.
Everything was focused on lot five for now.
That strange foundation.
Those older tools.
The mortar matching material pulled up from the money pit and near that big stone cross.
It was all too weird to ignore.
The scanner showed faint letters and the images began to come together.
A ponytail.
A couple of triangle ribbons.
Little design flourishes matching old drawings of the William III shilling.
This was not a guess.
It was solid.
Someone had cut it clean.
No cracks.
Not broken by time or weather.
A real slice.
Back in the 1600s, silver was money. If someone cut that coin, it meant something.
Maybe they were short on change.
Maybe they were trading fast.
Or maybe they were on the run.
And if that coin was dropped near that stone circle, it made the structure even more important.
Some thought it was just a foundation.
Others said it looked too precise.
Too careful.
Mortar from deep in the money pit had shown up in the seams.
Not a fluke.
Then there were the tools.
Iron ones from the 17th century.
That didn’t match most settler timelines.
Someone had been there before the map said they were — and they were building something.
Deeper scans
The scans started fast, but Emma ran a longer pass that revealed deeper scratches and more details.
Still not a full image.
But enough shapes here.
Marks there.
Then the surface scan showed the composition.
Silver with a bit of lead — matching coins from that era.
This coin did not just sit in the dirt.
It was part of it.
Buried deep.
Pulled up in one of the many loads dumped during earlier digs.
And those piles held more than broken rock.
They held time.
Now they dig for something bigger.
14 ft to the truth
Big machines.
Bigger hopes.
They’re after what they think might be shaft two — a wooden structure dug way back in 1805.
Supposedly just 14 ft from where the legendary money pit should be.
If they can find it and prove it’s real, they might be right on top of the gold trail.
No guarantees.
But that’s the gamble.
They’re searching for thick old timbers buried deep.
Not just any wood.
They want the kind with visible tree rings so they can run tests to determine the exact year the tree was chopped down.
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That’s the plan.
Find a beam.
Test it.
Hope it matches the early 1800s.
If it does, they could be close to something real.
First timber
Right away, they start pulling up rock and broken dirt, digging deep enough to hit something solid.
Then it happens.
A big chunk of wood pops out of the sidewall.
Long.
Heavy.
Flat edges.
Could be the side of the shaft.
Could be nothing.
But it looks right.
They haul it out, brush it off, and get a better look.
Thick, rounded edges.
Maybe even the outside of the tree.
That’s a good sign for testing.
But one beam won’t cut it.
They need multiple samples to prove anything.
More digging.
More waiting.
The shaft reveals itself
Then they spot something dark.
Really dark.
The kind of old timber you don’t see every day.
Weathered.
Maybe from way back.
They bring in a mirror to peek inside the shaft.
It’s tight.
The hole is over 40 ft deep.
The sides are nearly vertical.
Not easy.
The machine operators are working blind, dropping the bucket in and hoping to snag something useful.
After a few slips and careful moves, they finally pull out another massive beam.
A monster.
Heavy.
Solid.
Clean edges.
No nails.
That’s a surprise.
No metal means older style — built before industrial fasteners were common or made carefully with tight-fitting joints instead of spikes.
A crucial signal
Then, just when things seem steady, the metal detector guy gets a hit.
They stop digging.
Right there, poking out of the dirt, is an old iron spike.
Not just any spike.
A rose-head spike — the kind blacksmiths made by hand in the 1700s and early 1800s.
Rough.
Hammered.
With a flower-like top.
That little piece of metal could mean the shaft is from the right time.
Old wood.
Old spike.
Right place.
Right depth.
Still no treasure.
But now they have something solid to work with.
More layers
Back in the hole, the crew spots even more dark boards.
More layers.
Could mean the shaft was rebuilt at some point.
Maybe it collapsed and someone patched it up later.
That would explain the mix of wood types and colors.
Still, every piece they pull adds another part of the puzzle.
They box up the best samples and prep them for testing, hoping to date the wood to around 1805.
If it lines up, they may have found the first serious search shaft on Oak Island.
And if that’s true, the original money pit could be just 14 ft away.
That distance.
That’s close.
Way closer than ever before.
Closing in
It’s not gold.
But it’s the best marker they could ask for.
Find shaft two — and you might find everything else.
The crew keeps at it, guiding the excavator with radios, trying to nick the side of the wall without splintering the wood.
More beams appear.
Some darker than others.
The darker wood usually means older.
Some black as coal — from age, moisture, or both.
One of the thicker beams slips out of the bucket.
They fish it back in.
Not easy.
The operator guesses half the time, but finally they land it.
Huge piece.
At least 10 in wide.
Solid.
Old.
They check for nails.
None.
They sweep it with a metal detector.
Nothing.
That might mean this wood came from deeper down — untouched.
Maybe part of the original construction.
Maybe a lower wall or base support.
Measuring the past
The team looks around the shaft.
More signs.
More pieces.
Another timber half-buried.
Darker than the last.
Another careful dig.
Breaks loose.
Clean.
Another beam.
Same look.
Same build.
Every new piece has to be examined, cleaned, and measured.
They need to know the layout.
The size of the shaft.
They measure the distance from wall to wall, lining it up with old maps and search logs from early digs.
They believe shaft two was 14 ft southeast of the money pit.
That’s their mark.
If the current dig matches those coordinates and depth, every piece of wood they pull out brings them that much closer to the real target.
Oak Island’s shocking revelation
For over 200 years, treasure hunters, historians, and conspiracy theorists have been obsessed with one question:
What lies beneath Oak Island?
Generations have chased whispers of riches buried deep below its surface, drawn in by the infamous money pit.
And now, after decades of digging, drilling, and dead ends, something extraordinary has finally surfaced.
A find so compelling, it’s shaking the foundation of everything we thought we knew about the island’s hidden secrets.
In a jaw-dropping breakthrough, the team uncovered a gold-plated coin unlike anything ever found on the island.
Buried beneath the sands of Smith’s Cove, this glimmering artifact isn’t just another piece of lost history.
It could be a key to unlocking Oak Island’s greatest mystery.
Another structure
But that’s not all.
Hidden beneath layers of earth and centuries of debris, another stunning discovery emerged.
A mysterious wooden structure — carefully crafted and eerily well preserved.
It appears to be an ancient slipway or wharf.
What was it used for?
Who built it?
And most importantly — what were they hiding or transporting?
The Lagginina brothers
At the heart of this decades-long pursuit are the Lagginina brothers — Rick and Marty.
Two men driven not by greed, but by an unshakable belief that Oak Island holds answers worth uncovering.
Their team, armed with cutting-edge technology and deep historical insight, is closer than ever to rewriting the island’s legacy.
These latest discoveries are not just exciting.
They could change everything.
Could we finally be on the brink of solving the Oak Island mystery?
Are these recent finds connected to the fabled treasure?
Or is something even bigger at play?
Buckle up — because what comes next might just be the biggest revelation in Oak Island history.
Historical context
It all began in 1795 when a young boy named Daniel McGinness stumbled upon a mysterious depression in the ground on Oak Island, Nova Scotia.
What seemed like a simple curiosity quickly spiraled into what would become the most legendary treasure hunt in North America.
McGinness, along with his friends John Smith and Anthony Vaughn, dug into the site.
They uncovered layers of oak logs spaced at regular intervals — an unmistakable sign of an engineered shaft.
This discovery marked the birth of the infamous Money Pit legend.
Rumors spread quickly.
Pirate gold.
Knights Templar treasure.
Ancient manuscripts.
The possibilities were endless.
And the mystery kept pulling people back.
Century after century.
Early discoveries
One of the earliest and most tantalizing discoveries occurred in the early 1800s.
An inscribed stone found 90 ft below the surface.
Believed by some to read:
“40 ft below, 2 million pounds are buried.”
It deepened the mystery.
Then came coconut fiber — found far beneath the surface.
An anomaly.
Coconuts aren’t native to Nova Scotia.
So how did it get there?
Booby-trapped flood tunnels.
Collapsed shafts.
Deliberate defenses.
This wasn’t random.
It was engineered.
The gold-plated coin
For over two centuries, treasure hunters chased Oak Island’s whispers.
Coconut fibers.
Strange stones.
Elusive clues.
Then, deep in Smith’s Cove, a routine sweep changed everything.
Gary Drayton’s detector crackled.
Out came a small weathered object.
A gold-plated coin.
Dulled by age.
Still shimmering.
Likely European.
Possibly from the 1700s or earlier.
Piracy.
Exploration.
Secret voyages.
The theories exploded.
Not just gold — but intention.
Presence.
Meaning.
For the Lagginina brothers, it was confirmation.
Oak Island wasn’t done speaking.
It might just be starting.
Stay tuned.
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