Ancient Treasure Found on Oak Island!!

Who whoo who Who whoo whoa, what did you see, Rick? Wood is that anything good, eye, Rick? Is it cut? Yeah, every little thing they find is like a hint guiding them to the big discovery. Rick and his team are on a mission to uncover treasures in the famous Money Pit on Oak Island.

Imagine Dr. Spooner finding something really old, like at least 300 years old, and stumbling upon a secret object hidden 100 ft below the ground. Oak Island is a place that challenges the experts and reveals amazing things.

So, what’s the most important thing they might find there? As the team keeps digging in the Money Pit, they find a big clue that makes them think they’re getting super close to the treasure. It’s pretty clear that all the discoveries they’re making are connected.

Come along with us as we explore the recent huge discovery on Oak Island! After more than 10 years of searching, Rick, Scott, Bo, and Roger Far went underground in the Money Pit location during season 10 when the garden shaft reconstruction was almost done. A few months before winter halted their year-long investigation, Dumar officials thought they might have discovered a tunnel about 10 ft below the garden shaft spot, and they prepared and descended the shaft because they must examine the bottom to locate the tunnel.

This prompted Rick and Marty to investigate together by going to the bottom of the whole area to keep track of the probe drilling operation in the garden shaft. Now that they’ve reached the estimated depth of the tunnel, it is believed to lead directly westward into the potential treasure zone.

Rick and Marty going underground in the Money Pit area and finding themselves in a situation where other people had been searching for this wealth for hundreds of years was like a child’s fantasy. It was time for the metal detecting expert to see what he could find at the bottom after all the signs of gold were found in water and wood samples during the reconstruction of the garden shaft.

Gary used his metal detector and found a hole 2 ft below the surface. By scanning through the dirt and water, the detector finally beeped to indicate that it had found something. The hits are just as important to the team as their level of excitement when they describe it as a non-ferrous metal that could be silver or copper.

Is it possible that Gary has detected evidence of the famous Oak Island treasure in the muddy soil just a few feet below the bottom level of the garden shaft? Even though this is exciting, it is also bittersweet because Rick and Marty cannot risk the project’s future or their team safety by trying to breach the shaft this time.

Riener, Tom Nolan, and other team members got ready to dig on Lot 13, just northeast of the swamp, to see what they could find. 4 ft down, they saw blue clay while excavating a mysterious boulder formation known as the quadrilateral. The team found a potentially crucial clue—it’s exactly the clay found around the Money Pit in 1804 when searchers began the first major excavation of the original Money Pit. At 40 ft, they found a layer of blue clay that acted as a sealant to keep water out of the shaft.

Curiously, when the team investigated a circular feature of boulders known as the Eye of the Swamp in 2018, they discovered the same substance. The team might have now found evidence that the quadrilateral was created by the same people who manipulated the swamp and constructed the Money Pit. Blue clay is part of the historical narrative of the signs of finding the Money Pit.

The following morning, Regina and the team returned to Lot 13 to have geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner examine the mysterious quadrilateral feature. He found a layer of clay below the stones. What he saw was a layer of very clear sediment that’s probably pretty thick, which is very strange. If it was assumed to be geologically deposited, then it’s not, the geoscientist stated. He doesn’t just think so; he further stated that it was in the wrong environment on a hillside, and that it’s a little bit improbable that it would have collected naturally.

He showed that there were also different types of clay seen there that have different colors, suggesting burning or heat. Due to that, it doesn’t go well that the other clay gathered up where there is a sign of heat naturally. They saw stacked boulders, and the explanation that could go well with that has to be that it’s much harder to get boulders out of a hole than it is to get them into the hole.

So this becomes possibly safe because the top is sealed to prevent water from getting down below, and boulders sometimes serve as a key to the safe. Due to all these, the thought was that the quadrilateral is a human construct. The boulders were only put there for fun or games.

Anything that predates the original discovery of the Money Pit provides an opportunity to believe that it may be the original work. But putting this so-called staple in line with the laborious effort it took to create the great quadrilateral is certainly puzzling. The hidden treasure linked to the Money Pit hasn’t yet been definitively discovered, and the mystery around Oak Island remains a subject of interest and guesswork.

But the findings draw them closer to the hidden treasure. In the case of other discoveries, Jack Bigley and archaeologists Lan and Helen Shelton arrive on Lot 26 to continue searching the 900-year-old stone well for clues that might explain who built it and evidence that it contains something of value.

The plan was that they would pump it out and then wouldn’t mind scooping out the debris, but would save it up as best they could. Hopefully, by doing that, they’d be able to find an artifact. The team was especially interested in the well, not only because it is one of the oldest man-made features ever found on Oak Island, but also because a recent water test carried out inside it by Dr. Spooner showed high trace evidence of silver.

The idea is that something of value in a place as remote as Oak Island is more likely to be hidden in a well. Jack was to do the scooping while L’s work was to keep the pump clear of debris. The scoop from Jack was handed over to Helen, who carefully sifted through it for clues once it had all dried out. The more scooping, the more the well gets revealed. While digging, they found a sort of nail in it. According to them, it seemed like it could have been longer in sulfuric, which is a sign that it was an older iron from the 1700s.

Rick confirmed it to be a pretty old metal. It could be from the 1700s, maybe a hand-wrought nail related to a large sailing vessel because machines came into use for nail production around 1880. McCulligan might be correct that this artifact may tell the date of the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795, making all the findings connected.

The material identified to be used is pretty heavy, and rust can be seen from its pent-up state. It is seen to be in pretty good condition, like the rust—there’s not much buildup of it. Northeast of Oak Island, they had to get chemist Dr. Chry Bruso to analyze the mysterious iron artifact found. The chemist later found out it was just a fine piece of metal and nothing more.

The Money Pit question is: what were they doing, though? Were they depositing something? Was that an access point or an exit point to the pit? Again, Alex, Lena, Steve Guptil, Gary, Dr. Ton, Jack Bigley, and Billy G turned to the triangle-shaped swamp to continue searching for clues on the mysterious stone ramp.

The swamp is complex, like everything else, but now we have a ramp that goes through the paved area up to the path, so we’re trying to get to the very end. The last scoop was searched, and a door handle was found. While investigating the stone ramp in the triangle-shaped swamp, metal detection expert Gary Drayton made an exceptional discovery. He told them they found what looked like a brass door handle. Interestingly, this could be off a ship’s cabinet or a door on a ship.

This could also give a date and period and help guess the exact time of happenings there. It got them wondering if it could be connected to the many other pieces of ships and cargo barrels that the team has found in the swamp over the past several years, and maybe it gives more evidence that the stone ramp and also the types of equipment used in building the Money Pit and the 800-year-old paved area were used to offload something of great value onto Oak Island.

A big fact is that it is an artifact. As operations continued on Oak Island, Rick and his nephews Alex and Peter, Oak Island historian Doug Crow, and researcher Coran Mo arrived in Camdo, Italy, where they had a meeting with researchers Emiliano Chti and Alberto Ray. The Knights Templar has remained shrouded in mystery since it was established in 1118 in Jerusalem. They were headquartered on the original site of King Solomon’s Temple to protect Christian interests in the Holy Land during the Crusades. They became extraordinarily wealthy by developing one of the world’s first banking systems, but in 1307 they were disbanded by the Catholic Church and persecuted by the King of France for the alleged crime of heresy.

However, some believed that the Templars were targeted because they had come into possession of many priceless religious treasures. Those sacred valuables have never been found, and researchers like Karan and Emiliano believed that surviving members of the order smuggled them throughout Europe before ultimately hiding them in the New World on Oak Island.

So they went to the mouth of the Brani Cave, Venus Cave. There, the volcanic cave is one of the oldest caves in Cameron. We have the left and right arms, and according to Alberto, there is a slight difference. This arm should be a bit longer than this one, which is exactly what the lead cross exhibits. Is there an intimate relationship between the lead cross found on Smith’s Cove Beach and what this cross represents? Are they aligning their thoughts with that? There is a connection with all findings.

There’s another amazing underground cave system about 30 kilometers wide. Well, there are some interesting carvings in these caves, and Fabrio will show and explain the meaning of those carvings in a cave system known as the Grand Sim in Oimo, Italy. Alex, Lena, and his cousin Peter just found an ancient carving believed to have been made by members of the Knights Templar, matching one found on the so-called Host Stone, which was discovered in the 1920s on Oak Island.

Is it possible that Peter and Alex have found a symbol in the Grand Simenetti related to the sacred treasures that many believe the Templar order smuggled out of Europe between the 12th and 14th centuries? If so, could the Host Stone be a critical clue as to where they are today? This circle with a dot is represented on the Host Stone. We are beginning to draw some connective tissue to perhaps Templar involvement on Oak Island.

Despite the decrease in excitement about finding treasure, it’s still interesting to think about how a group of Roman coins ended up on Oak Island. They were found in a setting that seems to belong to the 17th-19th century. Archaeologists, historians, and people searching for treasure have always wondered if finding ancient European coins in North America by chance could support the idea of journeys across the Atlantic before Columbus.

In 1980, Jeremiah Webstein from the University of Texas at Austin thoroughly studied ancient coin discoveries in the United States and published the findings in Current Anthropology. Following the usual practice in Current Anthropology, his article includes comments from various scholars, and the author responds to them. The article and the resulting discussion show an energetic debate. During that time, a group of archaeologists supported the idea of early and frequent transatlantic interactions, known as the diffusionist school, while most scholars were less inclined toward such ideas.

From the archaeological investigations conducted on Oak Island thus far, we have learned that extensive farming began in the mid-1700s along with some minor industrial activities. It would not be unexpected if ships routinely discarded weight at the island, and some of its landowners repurposed it for their own needs, such as construction. It wouldn’t be surprising if weight dumps from the mainland were transported and repurposed on Oak Island. Some of that weight might have included Roman coins due to the coins they have gotten.

It could explain why they needed to have a Money Pit to store up the coins they had or other treasures. In Seasons 10 and 11, they found some interesting things like Nolan’s Cross, which is a massive symmetrical cross made of five big rocks. It has a human face and a sword image related to the Templar tombs. They also found some Spanish coins from the 17th century and the Roman sword.

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