Oak Island Treasure Found, History Channel Confirms the Discovery!?

To you guys who said the Oak Island treasure was merely a myth and a waste of time, it’s time to eat those words.
Because now, thanks to over 200 years of searching and in-depth exploration, History Channel has finally confirmed something every adventurer and treasure hunter has been dying to hear.

And while you might not have followed others to the small island off the coast of Nova Scotia, you have been captivated by its tales of hidden riches and ancient curses.
So join us as we flesh out what the History Channel discovered at this Oak Island treasure and what it means for veteran and new treasure hunters.

This discovery is not just about golden knives and cups or beautiful jewels inlaid with precious stones, but it also gives us a better understanding of the history of what has been a hot ground of exploration.

That said, we’ll start this mind-blowing story by applauding the History Channel’s continued resolve.
They have had their finger in the Oak Island treasure jar for quite some time despite having little to show for their huge effort.

They launched the multi-season reality television series called The Curse of Oak Island on January 6th, 2014.
The show was anchored by brothers Marty and Rick Lagginina with their dedicated team.
They went with their cameras and fans got to tag along for the journey.

Using modern technology, the brothers and their team began their search on the island for treasure.
They spent countless hours digging, analyzing, and theorizing about the legendary treasure.

And within the first season of their show, fans were introduced to areas of interest like the Money Pit, Nolan’s Cross, the Hatch, and the Swamp.
While some were hopeful that the team would be rewarded for their effort, others believed that fans would be greatly disappointed.
And you can understand why people thought this after over 200 years of searching.

As the seasons progressed, the show dug up various coins and artifacts, including a Spanish copper coin believed to be dated to the 1700s.
Amongst other things, they found a supposed 12th-century manuscript, a rotoly garnet brooch that was almost 500 years old, and a piece of sheepkin parchment with markings that looked like medieval text on it.

The lack of a wholesale treasure after a couple of seasons began to frustrate some fans, and this led to speculations that the show was a hoax.
There were those who didn’t think the show was to blame, believing that there was treasure at some point, but it had already been found a long time ago, and it was never reported.

Despite the backlash, The Curse of Oak Island continued into its 12th season and had quite a number of spin-offs before it was temporarily paused.
That was until the History Channel confirmed shocking findings that sent shock waves through the entire treasure hunting community.

The first find had been aptly named the Money Pit.
The crew had sent a sonar scanner down borehole L15, and the images it sent from about 140 ft deep were of a huge void.
Initially, the team thought it would be weird if this were a natural cave, but a closer look at the displays from the sonar scanner showed that there was no way this was a cave.
The images had a massive linear cavity with distinct well-defined walls.
This was obviously an artificial construction.

While the team was theorizing on what it could be and how monumental this discovery was, something was happening on another part of the island.
The second find was from what the team had thought was a naturally occurring swamp on the island.
Thanks to ground-penetrating radar, the state-of-the-art conductivity survey had lit up as it scanned the swamp, showing that something of high metallic content was underneath.
This huge buried structure looked exactly like a man-made dam system.

But was a dam doing here?
The team took a peek at their research notes and recalled a controversial theory that Fred Nolan, a researcher, had proposed.
He had stated then that Oak Island was once two separate islands.
Quite a number of people disagreed with him at the time, but with the radar showing an artificial dam now, it confirmed that it had been built to create the swamp, thereby merging two islands into one.

But the question was why? Why go through all that trouble?
The answer is simple.
When has man ever gone through any trouble, if not to protect or hide something of value?
The swamp wasn’t natural. It was serving as a veil, and it had done its job exceptionally well for at least over 200 years.

The team wondered if this swamp was just located in a random place, but they soon found out it wasn’t.
It was the exact location of where the Jack Adams box was supposed to be.
And anyone familiar with pirate stories would tell you that the Jack Adams box was said to contain artifacts you simply can’t put a price on.

At this point, the team knew they needed more minds on deck.
So, they called in Zena Halpen, a researcher who had access to two very ancient maps that showed Oak Island before modern history.

One map was dated 1179 and had a mysterious dot labeled Rodong that some researchers have theorized was connected to Henry Sinclair, who was heavily linked to the Knights Templar.
The second map was French from 1347 and contained instructions of some kind.

With two important maps in hand, the team needed a way forward and all it took was a stroke of genius.
They decided to compare these old maps to the island’s current layout.
Simple idea, but brilliant.

They overlay Zena’s ancient maps onto modern high-resolution satellite images of Oak Island, and the old map lined up almost perfectly with the island’s borders and features.
And then it was seen, clear as day.
Located right near Dave Blankenship’s house, it was an obvious bright spot on both the old map and the new satellite image.

Fortunately, the area where Dave lived was also part of the location under serious scrutiny.
Dave himself had lived all his life in treasure hunting.
His dad, Dan Blankenship, was a treasure seeker on Oak Island for nearly five decades and was responsible for drilling borehole 10X.
He had reportedly dived to the bottom of the deepest shaft on the island.

Dave had been helping his father on the island since the ’70s and was one of only three permanent inhabitants of Oak Island.
The clear, bright spot on both maps was shaped like a circle.

Without wasting time, the team hurried to Dave’s house.
They soon discovered that the spot was a door.
A heavily corroded hatch specifically.
After centuries, for the first time, a door was found.

The team took out the metal detectors and began to sweep the area.
The detectors soon began to buzz, confirming that indeed there was something underground.
There was nothing holding the crew back.

They opened the hatch and a set of stone steps unrolled into a dark space.
As they descended the stairs, they couldn’t help but pay attention to the moss that had been undisturbed for hundreds of years.
The steps went straight down into a long corridor that kept twisting as they moved forward.

Eventually, it gave way to a large room that was quite big with a high arch ceiling.
The walls were covered in strange markings and symbols.
The team immediately understood that this was clearly an important room or even sacred.

In the center of the room was a big stone table and there were a number of things on it.
There were several small, intricately carved wooden chests and old colored scrolls.
The team was shocked beyond, as you would expect.

But that shock soon took another step higher when they saw the cup holding old gold coins that shined despite the dust.
After the group recovered from that, they noticed that the symbols carved into the chest on the table matched the ones on the walls.

Taking another look at the walls, they realized that there was another doorway that was sealed shut with a huge solid stone slab.
This door was so heavy that it took both humans and machines to move it slightly out of position.
And when they managed to get past it, they were shocked by what they saw.

The room they entered was a smaller one than the one they had left, and its walls were lined with wooden shelves, and on those shelves sat dozens upon dozens of small, intricately carved boxes like the ones they had seen on the table in the bigger room.

The team started to look inside these beautiful ancient boxes, and inside were ancient scrolls with strange writings.
In some boxes were tools used for navigation that the team could swear were not supposed to exist at the time.
The people who built these rooms and placed these objects there existed.

This was a library of information long lost and forgotten.
A treasure trove of historical artifacts that was so important that someone had gone through so much difficulty and work to hide them.

Whether for protection or preservation from the world, the team of The Curse of Oak Island had come upon things that the treasure hunting community and honestly everyone knows would change the way we look at a number of things.

Some insiders suggest that what has been found could rewrite the history books.
Even experts agree that the findings may include artifacts that provide insight into the island’s past, possibly linking it to historical figures and events.

This is truly a significant moment in the history of treasure hunting.
The implications of this discovery are so many that we can’t begin to discuss them here.
One major one that must be mentioned is that it reignites interest in the island’s unsolved mysteries.

And the effect was immediately seen as History Channel announced that the 13th season of The Curse of Oak Island will premiere on November 4th, 2025.
This is something the show deserves. It has earned it.

When Rick and Marty Lagginina set out to tame what seemed untameable, they were backed by History Channel.
They wanted real facts that would produce final and definite answers.

The two Michigan brothers had grown up in a working-class family and had done so believing in the American dream.
They had worked very hard to make something of themselves, from being a postal worker to laying some strong claim in the energy business.

The fortune they made was used to buy the rights to much of Oak Island so the two brothers could try to solve the mystery together.
But they didn’t just jump into this adventure alone.
They looked for people who had dedicated their lives to it and followed their lessons and guidance.

Discovering some of the Oak Island treasure is truly a victory for the Laggina brothers.
The Oak Island treasure hunt had been a thing since as far back as the 1700s.
Solving something that had no answer for 200 years deserves our collective respect.

To provide you with a short summary, the story is that in the 1790s, Daniel McInness, who was a young man at the time, was walking around Oak Island when he saw a shallow depression in the ground.
McInness noticed that this wasn’t a natural depression, but a man-made hole that we would later nickname the Money Pit.

So, he returned the next day with two friends.
The trio was so into local pirates’ law and the idea of treasure hunting that they immediately set to work and began investigating the shallow depression they had found.

After digging to around 10 ft, they came across a tier of rotten oak logs.
Another 5 ft later, they ran into what they described as a man-made shaft.
These layers of logs were found every few feet and might have been put there to keep the hole from collapsing and revealing its location.

The boys, after getting tired from working all day, decided to stop there to come back later with more helpers.
But the help they went to look for was hard to come by.
Mainly because the people of the mainland were incredibly superstitious and were also skeptical about the existence of anything of value on the island.

So the three boys didn’t return to the site and the secret trove remained protected and undiscovered as the next century rolled by.

The 1800s arrived to meet a burning desire in the heart of the trio that found the depression in Oak Island.
A desire to return to the island was so strong that every warning the mainlanders gave was completely forgotten.

The three adventurers had joined with a businessman named Simeon Lind from the town of Onslow to form a treasure hunting group called the Enslow Company.
And as early as 1804, they had resumed work at the island.

As the story goes, the deeper they dug, the stranger things got.
They found a gold chain, tools, nails, and lots of coconut fibers, which was shocking because the nearest coconut tree is some thousands of miles away.

Then there were mysterious and now missing stones with strange symbols.
When the symbols were eventually decoded, it allegedly read: “40 ft below 2 million lie buried.”

Unfortunately, before prospectors could continue digging, the initial exploration had caused some ancient trap to activate.
The hole that had been dug and had led to the stone’s discovery began to fill with water, making any further digging impossible.

Quite a number of people theorized that the water came from a series of intricate underground booby traps that went all the way to the sea.
So, there was no pumping away the water. This was the 1800s after all.

While this presented a serious problem for the treasure seekers, it was a case of a double-edged sword because on the positive side, it validated their reason for being on Oak Island.
Simultaneously, it punctured some holes in the skepticism and arguments made by those who doubted the existence of the mysterious treasure.

Because who would go to such excessive measures to hide something, and what would be so valuable?
This expensive question soon got people talking about the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, including the Holy Grail.

Others believed that it could contain prizes such as the French crown jewels.
A number of people even mentioned the secrets of the lost continent of Atlantis.

But first, the prospectors needed a solution to the problem at hand.
The water trap that was now 60 ft deep was proving to be a very difficult issue.

The men had tried to empty the pit with buckets, but the water level just remained the same for obvious reasons.
The following year, the men attempted to bypass the water by means of a parallel shaft from which they hoped to tunnel to the supposed treasure.
But this shaft was equally filled to the brim with water.

This problem became the Waterloo of the Onslow Company’s expedition.
For the next 50 years, there was no activity at the site.

Then a new exploration venture decided to try its luck.
The group named the Truro Company re-excavated the original shaft and faced the same water issue.

So this time the workers built a platform in the pit and used a hand-operated orreger to drill and remove a number of materials.
They found clay, bits of wood, and three links of gold chain, supposed evidence of buried treasure.

This was encouraging enough, so the company proceeded to sink additional shafts.
Unfortunately, all of these efforts were wasted thanks to the unrelenting power of water.
This forced work to stop just barely a year after it had begun.

As the years went by, more operations tried their hands at obtaining the treasure, even losing a life in the process, but they went away with no rewards, too.

It was at this point that the Oak Island Association felt it had had enough of outsiders making the effort.
The association took on the responsibility of tracing the tunnel that many had claimed fed water to the pit.
And then they attempted to intersect it.

After they successfully extended the tunnel, water began coming in again.
And this time, the Money Pit collapsed.

People stated that everything that was initially within arm’s reach had now fallen into the deep void that made further prospecting a waste of time.
But of course, that wasn’t going to stop anybody.

Even after the Oak Island Association gave up the work, a couple of other businesses tried their best and still failed.
Some looked for a famed pirate’s tunnel, which was said to be a secret path to how the treasure was stored.

In the resulting search, a second life was lost on site.
This wouldn’t be the last life that would be claimed by the hunt for this elusive treasure.

By the 1900s, so much digging of drill holes, shafts, and tunnels had happened that the area was looking completely different from what those three boys saw in the beginning.

A report on the changes at the time read:
“The entire Money Pit area has been topographically demolished, changing completely its original appearance and rendering old maps and charts useless.”

Still, this didn’t stop people.
One later expedition reported that four people died in one of the shafts while they were trying to explore another option that would lead them deeper into the ground.
Rather than serve as a caution, the news only encouraged people to want to do more.

For example, by 1960, two companies in a combined effort announced a projected $10 million “big dig,” and the venture went ahead to dig more than 60 boreholes in one year alone.
Unfortunately, they suffered some mechanical problems.

There were issues of land disputes, other problems including the stock market crash of 1987 which forced a stop to the whole venture, and once again, work ceased.

And while the island was partly abandoned, news and stories of it spread more globally.
In fact, it caught the attention of famous people like President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

When he visited Halifax during his tenure, he planned to personally visit Oak Island, but couldn’t because of the weather.
But he reportedly kept following every development on the island until his death.

There were more celebrities who did more than keep tabs.
Hollywood actor Errol Flynn invested in an Oak Island treasure dig.
John Wayne, the iconic actor, also invested in the drilling equipment used on the island and offered his equipment to be used to help solve the mystery.

Rear Admiral Richard Eird Jr. and William Vincent Aster, heir to the Aster family fortune after his father died on the Titanic, were also passive investors in digging for treasure on the island.

Like wind to wildfire, the records of deaths also added to the growing mysticism of the Oak Island treasure.

And now it is no longer a mystery, a testament to our curiosity, and the efforts of all the individuals who have kept on doing their part.
More details about what has been found would obviously be revealed during the new season of the show.
For now, we celebrate this incredible achievement.