The Curse Of Oak Island A KNIGHT’S JOURNEY 13×11 NO CAP RECAP #moneypit #swamp #lot8 #knightsofmalta

Hello everybody. Video here for today.
This is the no cap recap of the curse of Oak Island season 13 episode 11 called A Night’s Journey. Originally aired January 13, 2026. If you missed any of my recaps of previous and future episodes, there’s a link to the Oak Island playlist in the upper right.
Let’s get into it.
Previously on the curse of Oak Island, people have been looking for an incredible treasure for at least 231 years.
In the money pit area, the new bore hole is BN14 to the immediate southwest of the garden chaft within the boundaries of the peacock formation. Just like the DN13 bore hole from the previous episode, which was three feet west of BN14.
DN13 revealed the existence of a 10-ft high, possibly man-made cavity just above the solution channel.
As a reminder, the team refurbished the garden shaft and was going to use it to tunnel, not drill, into locations of interest. probe drilling into one of the walls, perhaps the one nearest to BN14, led to the flooding of the garden shaft and the end of the tunneling plant. The goal for BN14 is to drill not only the higher cavity, but also the solution channel below it.
On lot 8, the investigation continues into the huge boulder by the archaeological team.
Ask for still early opinion by Rick. Lar says it’s weird.
It has smaller stones all around. It has a void beneath it.
Narrator Robert Clawworthy reminds us that location matches that of the December triangle from Zena Halprin’s map she believed was created by a member of the Knights Templar in the 1300s.
Landmarks were written French originally and match places on the island, including the money pit, the swamp, the stone triangle, and the lot 8 boulder.
Peter puts an exploratory camera into an opening below the boulder, and it goes 4 feet into very loose soil before hitting compact soil he can’t push through.
Blair would do a test pit in that location to see what is lower and also under the boulder in the northern bog above the man-made triangleshaped swamp. The team is continuing excavation efforts.
It was a very dry summer as you can see.
Back to Zena’s map. The basin is perhaps the eye of the swamp. And as far as the dam, many seasons ago, the team uncovered a wall-like structure, but did not have a permit to dig below 4T, so could not fully excavate it. If it was followed up on, that footage did not make the show.
In season 12, the team excavated the area, but have returned this season 13 to hopefully uncover more parts of this cobble path that was lined with eight-sided survey stakes and led to this empty slate and brick vault.
Researcher John Edwards found an 1800’s book that contained a drawing of the island, the vaults, ships, and the Nova Scotia coastline that was not part of the original publication.
Tom finds another eight-sided stake. His father, Fred Nolan, found stakes in the swamp in 1969.
His experience as a surveyor led him to believe that the stakes were for a large construction project that he thought to be the swamp being created to join two separate islands.
Since they are seeing stones that have swamp material below them, Craig calls in Dr. Ian Spooner, who many seasons ago determined that the swamp was indeed man-made, as Fred suspected.
Dr. Spooner finds a cut piece of wood below the stones inside the swamp material. He will carbonate it to provide a time frame for this activity.
Rick later says that the swamp is perhaps even more complex than the money pit. Many theorists, including Fred, have thought that the answers to the Okan mystery lie in the swamp.
While metal detecting the excavation spoils that were dumped to the side of the swamp at a higher elevation, Gary finds a lot of bricks.
He wonders if there is another vault nearby.
Researcher and show veteran Emiliano Sketi returns to the war room to share with the team his latest findings concerning the Knights of Malta.
His presentation is the culmination of almost a year of work. Previously, we learned that in 1632, wealthy French captain and knight of Malta Isaac Dazzali led a battalion of approximately 300 men to establish the colony of Acadia, which is now known as Nova Scotia.
His headquarters was built 15 miles south of Oak Island and is now known as Fort Point.
Accompanying Dazzle on the two-month voyage from France was businessman Nicholas Denny’s.
Denny kept a journal which included documentation of setting out from Laave to the head of the bay and finding islands with big oaks. Our narrator wonders if Dazzle was just exploring or if he had knowledge of something hidden there due to his high rank in the Knights of Malta which was an offshoot of the Knights Templar.
In Ottawa, Canada, Miliano found two inventories of D. Rozali’s belongings taken after a 1636 death due to unknown causes.
The first one in 1636 in Aadia and the second in 1637 in France. The one taken in France was missing a copper astrolab, two flint lock musketss, and two leather covered chests. contents unstated.
Emmeliano says it’s possible that his missing items were hidden on Oak Island.
The Knights of Malta possess relics from the Holy Land.
Scott says if you’re going to undertake an engineering effort like they believe happened in the Money Pit area and the swamp, it’s likely to hide more than just a chest of coins.
As far as the musketss, in 2021 on lot 8 just yards from the huge boulder, Gary metal detected this flint lock plate that can date back to the 1600s.
Ricker says that the 1600’s artifacts, a folded coin, Venetian beads, and the buttons could be links to the Knights of Malta and they via Dazzle are linked to the island.
Back in the war room, Rick emphasizes how important such research is to their efforts and thanks Ameliano.
He also says that it looks like they will be going to visit Fort Point to try to get more information.
Back on lot eight within view of the huge boulder behind them. Gary and Scott metal detect in the area the flint lock plate was found. The first find is a shotgun shell. Gary, ever the optimist, says later that you have to dig through the trash to get to the treasure.
The next find is this lead splash, which is the remnants of a bullet after it hits a hard surface.
After pronouncing it that it’s a splash, Gary does say that Katchcha found the lead bag seal close by and that it’s possible this is a folded bag seal.
folded just like the coin as a ritual to protect something and or ward off evil.
Even close to the huge boulder, Gary detects this piece of iron that we get to see still partially obscured by the soil.
And that turns out to be an iron chain oval style, which Gary says means older.
Gary and Scott theorize that since ox shoes were also found nearby that perhaps the chain and oxen were how the boulder was put in place. Gary can’t resist and says these could be the missing links.
Thanks Gary.
He leaves flags in the find location so that Steve can add them to the heat map of finds colorcoded to pre-searcher searcher and modern dates.
In the money pit area, bore hole BN15 does not intersect the void from the previous bore hole, but is now in the solution channel. It is 8 ft away from C.5N-13.5 that is connected to the solution channel and is a source of some of the highest gold and silver traces Dr.
Spooner has obtained.
The solution channel core sample is from 198 ft and contains a good amount of sand, which is unusual. Dr. Spooner takes a large amount of the sample to test for metals. We’re still waiting for the other mud test results. Samples have been taken for that purpose pretty much the entire season so far. A new practice this year. Mr. clockworthy says that the results are still pending but could be more accurate than water tests which could help in locating those metals.
After the commercial break, he declares this a golden sunrise and I included it because we usually see things like this on the show at the huge boulder on lot five. Work is continuing. Ethan says they have found a weird area containing flat rocks placed on top of loose subs soil.
Gary says they look like stepping stones from where he is standing and Ethan agrees saying they kind of do look like pavers. They summon Terry Mat the geologist who runs the money pit operations and ask him where they come from. He says they are granite and look like flag stones. Rick informs that the original money pit discoverers found flag stones laid out like a floor as they reach 2 feet underground.
Mr. Clotworthy wonders if anything is buried beneath the ones on lot 8.
In the lab, Emma has completed her analysis of the iron chain found on lot 8. Gary clarifies that it was found 20 yards west of the huge boulder.
Emma says that it’s 99% iron, a good sign that it’s pre-1800s.
Rick asks her to be more specific and she says 1600s comfortably based on the composition, but technically it could go back to the 1500s.
Scott says it’s had a hard life after he notices how thin it is on the left curve. Emma agrees that the wear pattern indicates a heavy workload. Scott says, “Well, if you were moving a 50,000 lb boulder,” and Emma says, “Exactly.” Marty later says that they must have walked past that boulder 20 times. If it’s that significant as the archaeologists seem to think it is, how many things like it are all over the island? Meaning significant things that they have no idea are significant.
Next time on an allnew The Curse of Oak Island season 13, episode 12 called a Fortnite.
While the team investigates a knight of Malta who may have visited Oak Island, they record video of possible treasure buried underground.
And on January 27th, 2026, the episode 13 is called Testing Their Metal, Me Tao.
After compelling new clues are discovered in the swamp and on lot eight, the Oak Island team finds an astonishing silver lining in the money pit.
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