The Curse of Oak Island: 1939 Map Reveals Money Pit Location (Season 8) | History

After we’ve established the money pit area,
and we’ll also be able to predict an actual location for the vault.

In the war room, geographic information system specialist Aaron Helton has just presented Rick, Marty, Craig, and the Oak Island team with an astonishing theory.

A theory suggesting that the so-called anchor points on a possible 14th-century Templar map of Oak Island could hold the key to revealing the true location of the money pit treasure vault.

We’re going to go back to our maps here. I found this map of Oak Island. This was published in Popular Science, June 1939, and one thing that I found really exciting was when I discovered that it’s just such a great clue.

Not only has it the two drilled stones, but it has all of these other boulders marked, and with these other boulders and measurements marked and indicated, and with the anchor, we can triangulate the location of the money pit.

Now we’re going to zoom in here. The boulder south of the money pit on this map, I’m designating 18A. We have 15A along the east side of the swamp, and another feature, 16A, is a suspected boulder on the coastline.

So if we take the location of 15A and we run a line up to our east meridian line, boulder 20A in Smith’s Cove, we run a line from 16A on the edge of the beach, and we draw a circle from the west anchor out to 18A, just south of the money pit location, all three intersect.

And where I think the money pit is located.

And I’m a big fan of corroborating independent data sources, so I asked for the center point for your Kaizon of choice. I guess you could say whatever Kaizon you currently feel is most representative of your money pit.

Fair fun, yeah. This lines up within three feet of my proposed money pit location.

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Look at all the wood. Wow, that is spectacular.

Last year, the team excavated an eight-foot wide steel-cased shaft, known as RF1, where they found incredible evidence suggesting it could be close to locating the original money pit.

Is it possible that Erin Helton, using Xena Halpern’s believed 14th-century map as a baseline for her theory, has just found more evidence that the Oak Island team was, in fact, just mere feet from locating the fabled treasure?

Erin, Steve, I’ve got a question. Do you want me to check all those stones?

If you could lock in the west anchor and north anchor, if we could get those confirmed, that would be great.

Sure.

I’m curious to see kind of how large they are, because the smaller the boulder is, the more precise all the other alignments coming out from it would be, confirming these suspected boulders.

I think we can finally put together an actual location for the vault.

Let’s get her that data and see what she comes up with.

Certainly will.

So, Aaron, we want to say thank you, and we look forward to your continued interest in this subject.

Thank you.

Thank you so much. Thank you, everybody.

Thanks, everybody.

Cheers to the hunt.