The BIGGEST Finding YET On Oak Island!

With every new mystery unearthed, Oak Island’s suspense grows deeper. Another chapter opens in the continuing tale of Oak Island. Season 11’s episode 7 shows discoveries and frustrating setbacks for our determined Lega team of explorers. Underneath the hot island surface, what lies at the bottom of the money pit and along the shores of Lot 5 has kept viewers glued to the show. And the Lega brothers go a step further to unravel these mysteries.

The question on everyone’s lips remains: Are they close to finding the island’s treasures, or are they just shifting the island’s sands? Join us as we go through the seventh episode of the 11th season of The Curse of Oak Island.

Garden Shaft
This season, The Curse of Oak Island takes the team underground. Brothers Rick and Marty Lena enter the Garden Shaft, which, at 2 to 8 years old, might hold the key to the island’s centuries-old secrets. Roger briefs Rick and Marty before suiting up and points out a worrying section where water enters the shaft. To them, this infiltration seriously threatens their search for Oak Island’s hidden treasure, for water has always been the most difficult obstacle to overcome.

Rick and Marty, not giving up, soon wore their protective attire and headed into the depths. Tension mounts as they head down. The garden shaft is bathed in mystery. No one can tell what lies at its bottom — booby traps or buried treasure? Their footsteps take them ever closer to the bottom of the shaft. At the far end lies the key to unlocking the island’s mystery. The Duma contracting crew has already advanced the shaft to 87 ft. Their ultimate aim is a total depth of 96 ft. Will they finally find the breakthrough they’ve been seeking? Perhaps the garden shaft will bring another victim down in its long and difficult history.

In the present, a seventh tunnel had been discovered during Oak Island’s strategic core drilling operation, and the Oak Island team was now set on bursting through this last tunnel and solving the mystery of Oak Island. A tunnel from the 17th century runs east to west from here toward the Baby Blob, an area of high concentration of gold and silver 80 and 120 ft below the surface.

Another immediate threat to exploration in the garden shaft was the water infiltration problem the team was wrestling with. They hope to fill the cracks with a special expanding foam to stop the water from getting in. After they solve the water problem, the team will work on getting to the tunnel. This tunnel could be the key to unlocking Oak Island’s secrets. Dumas contracting can build a new tunnel if the tunnel cannot be reached.

Aladdin’s Cave
At the same time, over in the Money Pit area, Rick, Marty, and Craig Tester called the team to get an update on water testing. Dr. Matt Lukeman and Dr. Fred Michael report their results. It turns out that there is organic matter in all of the water samples from the wells. This is a sign that humans have been here and might be a clue as to where the treasure is hidden.

Perhaps the most interesting result is L16 deep, which is thought to lead into a great empty cave. The water contains organic matter, and this cave may be its source. It could also be the place where the treasure is hidden. The team is excited about these results and looks forward to continuing their research. They feel that they are about to crack the riddle of Oak Island.

Rick, Marty, Craig, and the team are hot on the trail of another clue in the Money Pit area: the mysterious Aladdin’s Cave, a limestone cavern well over 150 ft deep. According to sonar and camera images, it might be a built structure, and water testing discovered unprecedented concentrations of gold and organic materials like wood, proving man has been there.

But this is strange because there are no known human-caused influences at that depth. Several doctors, including Matt Lukeman, Ian Spooner, and Fred Michael, have recently acquired new evidence to support this theory. They hope that the cave has human-made features.

Rick sees the significance: “If stuff is up in that cave from people, it becomes enormous in meaning. It doesn’t make one bit of sense. Apart from the bedrock, there shouldn’t be any organic material. And yet there is wood.” These three different technologies point to there being something. They feel further investigation is necessary.

The strategy is to redrill a hole near the bottom of the cavity, where they have the most height, and send another camera down a second time. This might hint at the location of a cave’s entrance or tunnel.

For Aladdin’s Cave, discovering organic material is a complete gamechanger, pointing to human activity and perhaps undiscovered treasure lying in wait. Aladdin’s Cave, a fascinating cavern hidden in the bedrock, is full of promise. Tightly packed clay beds make it an excellent alternative to tunneling, and the presence of organic matter such as wood confirms human activity. This strongly suggests an artificially constructed object, and the mystery deepens.

Bhole KL14.5 and Lot 5
Charles Barkhouse, renowned Oak Island historian, and geologist Terry Matt monitor Borehole KL14.5 near Borehole L16. They aim to encounter the cave and look down with a camera to find a tunnel or entryway. The excitement is uncontrollable. At borehole KL14.5, the drilling goes on, and one can only hope the cave will be intersected and an entrance found.

On another front, blacksmithing expert Carmen Leg examines artifacts pulled from the ground near Lot 5’s shore. It is clear from subsurface magnetometry data that some kind of hidden feature lies underground, while three recovered metal objects suggest a link with 17th century politician and privateer Sir William Fipps.

One artifact, a handmade spike, was probably a scuppernail used in shipbuilding. Its flathead and early 16th and 17th century timeframe engender interesting speculations. Is it a piece of shipwreck with the wood and metal picked up for salvage? The chlorine in the nail also reinforces the marine connection.

Fortunately, Sir William Fipps fits the timeline and was known to have been in Nova Scotia in the 1600s. Further obscuring his track, he even has a link to the Conpsion, a Spanish galleon carrying a treasure chest that went off the coast of the Dominican Republic. Most notably, only a portion of Conpsio’s wealth made it to the English crown. The fate of the rest remains a tantalizer. Are these artifacts proof that Sir William Fipps boarded the missing Conpsio treasure on Oak Island? The possibility is certainly intriguing.

As discoveries are issued from Aladdin’s cave and Lot 5, the Oak Island intrigue thickens.

In the Money Pit area, drilling in borehole KL14.5 hits the enigmatic cave at some 142.5 ft, leaving a hole more than 3 m in height. This is exciting news because, as geologist Terry Matten and archaeologist Moya Macdonald see it, the cave is a geological enigma, possibly man-made.

Further investigation with a high-definition camera shows an object on the floor that looks to be a square-headed bolt, perhaps even the work of a man. This opens up the possibility of man’s presence inside the cavern, encouraging speculation about whether it may connect to the island’s legendary treasure.

While the evidence remains inconclusive, Charles Barkhouse, Oak Island historian, emphasizes the importance of further investigation:
“We are hoping that there is some evidence that human beings ever were in the cave and that the sonar can get into it and map out the subsoil of the cave.”

On Lot 5, Jack Begley and his archaeology team dig into the enigmatic stone structure. Their excavation widened, and they found the scale was even greater than they thought. What’s more, they unearthed artifacts such as pipe stems and nails. This discovery implies that the structure predates the money pit and may have been a log cabin.

No one knows exactly what it was for, but the team believes only a more systematic archaeological investigation can reveal the secrets of this treasure. They hope before long to solve the mystery of its origin.

The combined evidence from Aladdin’s cave and Lot 5 reinforces the case for human activity on Oak Island before the money pit. The square-headed bolt and pipe stem are tantalizing clues, suggesting it may have been involved in treasure concealment or an earlier settlement. The more deeply the team delves into its discoveries, the more gradually the island’s enigmatic past emerges, attracting them closer to the truth.

Yet just as excitement reaches hysterical proportions, nature has a nasty surprise. A typhoon takes dead aim at Nova Scotia, bringing widespread flooding and an unexpected challenge for the Oak Island team. The most serious development in the area of the Money Pit is the sudden flooding of the Garden Shaft. Standing water at 30 ft prevents them from moving down, and the team must abandon their initial plan.

No one yet knows the source of the leak, and people are beginning to speculate on the legendary flood tunnel encountered by the Enslow Company in 1804. Is this a cunning booby trap intended to keep treasure hunters away and preserve the island’s secrets? Even the most veteran explorers get chills down their spines at such a possibility.

Frustration hangs heavy in the air as Roger Fort remarks,
“It’s so typical. We’ve got the most skilled guys in the world out digging a shaft. And here we are with the same problem every other man has had for the past 20 years. This is a blow. It adds another wrinkle to the already tangled Oak Island puzzle.”

Recap of previous episodes
The first episode entitled On the Money started with a bang, literally. An artifact discovery came from MP70, an untapped area near the money pit. A musk ball, thought to be from the 1700s, pointed to a past human presence, but the crowning touch was a small silver coin. Seemingly innocuous, this Portuguese real in the reign of King John V sent shock waves through the team. A definite piece of European currency turns up on Oak Island for the first time. As such, it’s linking the island to explorers, perhaps even pirates.

Perhaps this is what inspires the team for the second episode titled Tunnel Vision, where they turned their attention to a newly discovered tunnel system near Smith’s Cove. The network of human-made pathways became known as C134. This set off speculation about its purpose: a secret escape route, a hidden chamber, or something even more baffling. Anomalies within the tunnel were detected through lidar scanning, and the team sent down a robotic camera to take a look. The grainy footage showed strange markings and what appeared to be the outline of a wooden structure, adding an even greater sense of mystery.

Then in the money pit, a new hurdle emerged. A succession of flooded chambers dubbed the swamp almost held them up. The team used ingenuity to overcome this handicap. In episode 3 High Voltage History, resident engineer Gary Drayton took a high-tech approach building drainage systems. While Rick Legina, never one to shy away from danger, donned a modified diving suit to explore the submerged chambers. Their hard work earned them numerous valuable insights into the intricate design of the money pit. In some places, the money pit’s wooden cribbing and stonework defied explanation under normal circumstances.

Just then, a controversial theory popped up. Could Oak Island be connected with the Knights Templar, a legendary order of medieval knights charged with guarding sacred treasures? When a lid cross-shaped object with a possible Templar symbol was found near the money pit, some team members fired up one side of their brains and started debating and speculating. Yet skeptics remained unpersuaded, and the hint of such a link added an extra note of intrigue to the compelling tale.

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