Oak Island JUST Got A LOT More Interesting With Rick Lagina’s SECOND Money Pit Find?

Rick Lagginina just proved the skeptics wrong.
According to history, excavations have been ongoing for 200 years. But earlier this month, the Oak Island team uncovered major evidence of a possible second money pit. For two centuries, everyone from Franklin D. Roosevelt to John Wayne focused on one specific spot, which was the original money pit found in 1795.
The story is well known. Teenagers found a depression in the ground, dug down, and hit log platforms every 10 ft. That shaft collapsed in 1861 and turned the entire area into a soup of mud, timber, and broken dreams.
Since then, searchers have just been churning up debris. But this week, February 13th, 2026, the show is on a mid-season hiatus. Fans are waiting for the series to return on February 24th to see if the team can finally pinpoint the source of the gold traces.
The History Channel’s cameras are always rolling, but with the show on break, no new footage has been released. This week we are looking at the potential for a completely separate underground structure rather than another button or ox shoe. It is located in the high density zone they call the baby blob just west of the garden shaft. Water testing shows high gold traces, but a confirmed chamber remains elusive.
This is trending right now because the science finally matches the legend. The Muan tomography data finished processing and shows a clear anomaly that doesn’t match the messy geology of the collapsed money pit. This is a deliberate man-made chamber sitting right where the water testing said the gold should be. The internet is reacting strongly because this implies the original money pit, the one that killed six men, was just a decoy.
Let’s examine the location.
For the last two seasons, the team has been obsessed with the garden shaft.
They rehabilitated it, went down, and found high trace evidence of gold.
However, the real secret was hiding just a few feet away.
Dr. Ian Spooner, the geocscientist who has become the team’s most valuable asset, identified a specific area with water chemistry that didn’t make sense.
He called it the baby blob. Until this week, it was just a theory.
The latest sonic drilling results from the money pit area have hit something extremely hard. At a depth of roughly 140 ft, the drill bit refused to advance. It wasn’t bedrock, as bedrock on Oak Island is usually deeper, around 160 ft in this area. This was an obstruction.
When they pulled up the core sample, it was chaotic, impenetrable clay mixed with coconut fiber. Oak Island Mystery confirms this is the exact same ceiling material described in the 1800s.
This proves that the baby blob isn’t just a patch of dirt. It is a sealed structure that has remained untouched while searchers destroyed the ground 50 ft away. Dr. Spooner’s data is the smoking gun here.
Back in 2020 and 2021, he first identified spikes in zinc, copper, and gold in the water. Data released in previous seasons has shown anomalies, and the team is now reinvestigating these areas. We are looking at parts per billion that are 10 times higher than the background levels. Gold doesn’t dissolve easily. For water to carry that much gold signature, it has to be sitting in a high flow environment directly in contact with a massive surface area of metal.
Spooner explained that a few coins wouldn’t do this. You would need a surface area equivalent to a dump truck of silver. The water samples from this new bore hole in the baby blob are practically glowing with evidence. It suggests the treasure vault isn’t flooded with seawater like the original money pit. It might be sitting in a clay sealed bubble that preserves whatever is inside. That explains why previous searchers missed it. They were chasing the flood tunnels while the goods were dry and safe just next door. If you are finding this breakdown interesting, hit subscribe and the notification bell as we cover breaking treasure news like this every week. Now we return to the drill results. We have been waiting for the Muan data for what feels like a decade. This technology uses cosmic rays to map densen underground functioning like an X-ray for the Earth. The results were delayed, processed, and reprocessed.
The Muan tomography data released in December 2023 shows a clear voidlike anomaly that doesn’t match the geology of the collapsed money pit. It shows a low density void exactly where the drill hit that obstruction. The shape is rectangular.
Nature doesn’t build rectangles underground as sink holes are round or irregular. This thing has corners.
The dimensions roughly match the Chapel vault descriptions from the 1930s, but the location is offset. This validates the theory that the money pit was a complex system rather than a single hole.
Imagine a bank where the money pit was the lobby where the robbers or searchers get trapped. The vault is in the back room.
The Muan data shows we are finally knocking on the door of that back room.
Rick Lagginina looked at that map with visible relief. He isn’t chasing a ghost anymore. He is chasing a blueprint. It is not just mud and water. The spoils coming up from this new borehole are loaded with artifacts that date the site perfectly. Gary Drayton is having a field day. In a previous season, the team excavated pieces of pottery with a glaze that experts pegged to the mid600s.
That date is key. As Oakland Tours documents, it predates the 1795 discovery by over a century. It aligns with the Knights Templar theory or perhaps the French military bringing assets over before the fortress of Louisborg fell, which is a historical event cited by the Canadian Encyclopedia.
They also found wood chips at depth that were handw.
This isn’t searcher wood. Searcherwood from the 1800s is saw cut. This timber was shaped by an ADS which is a tool used by shipwrites in the 17th century.
It proves that whoever dug this pit had the manpower and the discipline of a military operation. They weren’t just burying a chest. They were constructing an underground facility. The decoy theory is worth revisiting because it is the only thing that makes sense of the last 200 years. The original money pit was rigged with flood tunnels leading to Smith’s Cove. It was designed to collapse. You wouldn’t put your treasure in a trap. The trap is for the thieves, while the treasure goes in the second money pit. This new find in the baby blob fits that profile perfectly. It is close enough to the trap to be part of the same construction site, but far enough away to remain dry when the flood tunnels are triggered. Marty Lagginina has always been the skeptic who looks at the checkbook. Even he admitted on camera that finding this second shaft might finally allow us to hone in on the true location of the original money pit.
We haven’t found the treasure yet because we have been doing exactly what the original builders wanted us to do by spending millions of dollars digging in the trap. It wouldn’t be Oak Island without the Nova Scotia government getting involved. Just as the team identified this new target, the Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism, and Heritage stepped in. They require new permits for any excavation that might disturb indigenous artifacts.
This is the tension of the current season. Rick has the X on the map, but he can’t just send in the quesons. They have to surgically drill. This slows everything down, but it also increases the precision. They are using 6in bore holes instead of the massive 10-ft cans.
This restriction might actually be a blessing. Dropping a massive hammer grab bucket blindly could crush whatever is down there. By forcing them to go slow, the government is ensuring that if they do bring up the Holy Grail or Shakespeare’s manuscripts, they won’t bring them up in pieces.
The frustration on the team’s face is real, but so is the anticipation.
Another huge piece of this puzzle fell into place with the analysis of the 90 ft stone symbols.
While the original stone is long gone, new scans of the area have revealed stone markers on the surface that align with Nolan’s cross.
When you overlay these surface markers with the new underground muon data, they intersect directly over the baby blob.
It is a perfect geometric alignment.
This suggests the surface markers were pointing to this second location all along, not the original depression.
The 90 ft stone that said 40 ft below 2 million lb are buried might have been referring to this offset chamber instead of the vertical shaft it was found in.
The team is now working with crypto analysts to see if the cipher has a secondary meaning that points west.
If they are right, the map was staring us in the face all along. This discovery changes the entire trajectory of the project. If this bore hole confirms gold, the big dig is back on the table.
We are talking about freezing the ground, which is a massive engineering project to create an ice wall around the baby blob so they can excavate dry. For viewers, this means we are moving from the search phase to the recovery phase.
The mystery is no longer about if there is treasure, but rather how to extract it. The implications for history are even bigger. If this is Templar or the lost treasury of Fort Luborg, it rewrites the history of North America.
It proves that a sophisticated European presence was here long before the history books admit. For the Lagginina brothers, this is validation. As reported by Distractify, they have spent millions of dollars and over a decade of their lives on this island. They have been called crazy and fools. But if they pull gold out of this second pit, they become legends.
The curse says seven must die before the treasure is found. Six have died.
Perhaps the collapse of the original money pit counts as the seventh sacrifice. The island is finally giving up its secrets, and 2026 brings renewed hope that the mystery might finally be solved. We will be tracking every drill turn, so if you want to see history unfold, make sure you are subscribed.
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