The Curse of Oak Island: FOUNDING FATHERS Connected to BURIED TREASURE (Season 7) | History

The founding fathers, the history, and the mystery is there. Yeah, so along comes the fledgling American Revolution, and there are very clear ties to France. You know, Jefferson was a Frankel, well he even had land up here. Benjamin Franklin was, you know, he was the dandy of Paris, wasn’t he? All the young ladies liked Ben Franklin.

Obviously, they were mucking around for money, right? Wars cost money, lots of money. How was the American Revolution financed? Let’s just say that there’s this great treasure here, and let’s just say that some of the founding fathers knew people who knew about it, and they tell them, “Look, it’s up on Nova Scotia.”

The timing—everything actually ties together. Everything sort of fits because, timing-wise, this area was starting to get settled. My archaeologist friend will agree with me—around 1760 or so, people started showing up.

Oh, really?

Yes, well, you should read again. Yeah. And the French hated the British. Absolutely hated the British. So, they do this, and it would be a politically acceptable way to do it too, because nobody knows about this money anyway. The Americans come, they do what they need to do, they dig down, they get the treasure, and they leave with the money.

Something large happened here on the island many, many hundred years ago—and possibly even longer. We’re unsure about that, but some of the dates that we get back show evidence of human activity. Someone was here doing something, and with the U-shaped structure in Smith’s Cove, it dates back to 1769, which is before the discovery of the money pit.

Ah, I am of the complete and absolute belief that this is not temporal wealth. There may be temporal wealth, but it is not the… it is not the “why” of this. And whenever humans do anything, you can figure out who, what, when, where, and how. If you figure out “why,” what motivates people, that tells you a lot about faith. I don’t mean in God or something like that, but faith in your knowledge, faith in your perceptions.

But the group of people—highly intelligent, motivated—if this is real, and I’ll be the first one to say I believe Martin Marty is absolutely right, belief or faith runs almost counter to hard science. In fact, Rick believes that it’s super, that these people did some of this stuff on faith. And I’ll turn to them and say, “Well, yeah, but what if it was stupid?” You know, I mean, faith isn’t necessarily the end-all.

Yet, also, we—I mean, he’s a wonderful… you busy course source, no reason good. No, keep going.

But I do believe that belief, married to fact or hard science or whatever, that’s where success is found. And these people, if this is correct, they were successful in doing what they did. We merely have to figure out why. Well, when you discover what it is, you’ll know why, presumably.

What makes sense to me at this juncture is that the 1770 expedition or structure was a recovery attempt, a withdrawal. And maybe it had something to do with the American Revolution. Fits. So, we’re going to chase it, or I want to chase it.

Look, history is a fascinating topic. You know where it takes you and what you learn. But what it affirmed to me is that the information hunt, I call it, is always important. Always incredibly interesting. You don’t know where it will lead you. So, the history is there, the mystery is there, the solution lies in the future. Oh yes, and we’re working together to solve this thing.

Beautiful.

After hundreds of years of digging for the truth, it appears we’re left with more questions than answers. Did the founding fathers really know about the Oak Island treasure, and did they retrieve it, or a portion of it, before Nova Scotia sided with the British Empire? Perhaps both the truth and the treasure will soon be revealed on the next episode of The Curse of Oak Island.