Rick Lagina: “This Secret Pathway Has Led To An AMAZING Treasure!”

They continued to uncover two of the most incredible discoveries ever made in the 225 years search.

Check that out. Top of a keg — wow.

So that’s a keg?

Led to a keg — yep.

An ancient hidden road in a hidden Oak Island swamp became Rick Laggin’s highway to hope, as he said it could lead straight to a huge treasure. He believed it even more when strange things like a chain from the 1500s and old wooden pieces started to show up, pointing to something big that was lost long ago.

The fan theories are exploding online: Templars, pirates — who built this road, and why? Tune in to see if Rick’s path leads to gold or just more heartbreaking questions.

Whispers in the swamp

The Oak Island Swamp is a wet, muddy, and dangerous part of a small island in Nova Scotia, Canada. People have always talked about it with curiosity, telling strange stories and sharing wild ideas about what might be hidden there.

For many years, brothers Rick and Marty Lagginina, along with their hardworking team, only explored the edges of this swamp. But now, they decided to dig deep into the muddy center, hoping to find something important.

Rick, the older brother, has always had a deep and almost spiritual desire to solve the mystery of this island, which has lasted over 200 years. And as they finally pierced the swamp’s dark heart, nobody knew if they were about to uncover a wonderful treasure or a mystery even deeper and more dangerous than they ever imagined.

Their latest work focused on an incredible discovery — a giant stone road built by people long ago, now buried under layers of wet soil and swamp mud.

What is that?

That’s the proper question to ask — what is that? Every time the machine scooped out the dirt, it felt like they were digging through time itself. One worker even said it was like going back a hundred years with each shovel of dirt.

They had reached a dark, wet layer of ground where the stone road had been built — a layer that might still hold clues about the people who made it. Even though they were covered in dirt and sweat, you could see how excited the whole team was.

To help them understand what they had found, they brought in Dr. Aaron Taylor, a well-known expert in archaeology. After looking at the large stone path, Dr. Taylor said he believed it was a real road that stretched from the swamp all the way up to higher land on the island.

Even more interesting, he noticed another smaller path made of rough stones that seemed to split off from the main road, and he guessed it might lead to a man-made harbor or dock where ships could unload heavy cargo.

The size and strength of this road were hard to believe. Dr. Taylor explained that building something this big through a swamp would have taken a lot of work and a large group of people with a strong and important reason to do it. This wasn’t just a farm path — it was something serious and powerful.

As they kept digging, the team found even more amazing clues. They discovered wooden pieces, some cut into stakes beneath the rocks, showing that the builders had created a strong wooden base to support the road in the soft swampy ground.

In some places, they even saw that there were two stone layers with more wood in between, proving how much effort had gone into this project.

But this raised a big question: Why would anyone go through so much trouble to build a huge, strong road deep into a swamp, just to have it disappear under mud for hundreds of years?

“If I had to give you my opinion on what it is right now, I’d say it’s a road leading up to the uplands.”

Fans online quickly shared their thoughts, saying this was proof that some unknown, highly skilled people had worked on Oak Island long before the famous discovery of the Money Pit in 1795.

Of course, other people were quick to disagree. Some said it could have been part of an old road used for moving logs, or part of early industry, or maybe even just a strange natural thing that the treasure hunters were misunderstanding.

As always with Oak Island, the argument started again.

Then something even stranger was found — coal. Not just a little, but a lot of coal. Big, heavy pieces were found in and around the stone road.

This made the team very confused. One worker pointed out that coal doesn’t float, so it couldn’t have just drifted into the swamp. Someone had to carry it there and leave it behind on purpose. But why would anyone bring coal to a swamp hundreds of years ago?

A new idea quickly popped up: maybe there had been a burn event. This reminded people of a long-standing theory from Fred Nolan, a famous Oak Island researcher. He believed that Oak Island used to be two smaller islands, and that treasure holders — maybe pirates, or even the mysterious Knights Templar — had sailed a ship into the gap between them. After unloading treasure, they may have burned the ship and created a swamp to hide the treasure forever.

Could the coal and charcoal be the first real proof that this wild theory might be true?

You see, coal wasn’t really used on the island until the 1860s, when searchers used steam-powered pumps. But what if that coal isn’t just from a simple fire?

Finding so much of it, so deep, is very unusual. Ancient people sometimes buried special items or made strange layers in the earth to mark important places or to protect them. Think about how old cultures sometimes left valuable things in tombs — not just gold, but tools or food for a journey to another life.

Could this coal be a deliberate marker — a sign left by the builders pointing to something even deeper? Or perhaps it was part of an old, forgotten way of treating the ground for a special reason — a technique we no longer understand.

It wasn’t common to find coal used like this back then. This discovery makes the mystery even deeper and more serious.

What secret message did they leave with these black stones?

It was yet another strange and exciting piece of the Oak Island mystery — one that made Rick Lagginina more eager than ever to find the truth.