The Curse of Oak Island: Historic Records Reveal NEW MONEY PIT LOCATION (Season 8) | History

Hey well gentlemen, this is probably one of the most important meetings of the year. Oak Island historian Doug Crowell has requested a meeting with Rick, Marty, Craig, and members of the team after making an important discovery in the files of the late Dan Blankenship, which he believes could be critical to the continued search for the location of the original money pit.

But a decision has to be made. I think it has to be made today. So there’s some new information that Doug has found in Dan’s files regarding the money pit.

So, uh, with that, I’m gonna turn it over to Doug and then we’ll have a discussion about what we do next.

So I’m going to share a presentation here with you. We’ve been compiling the data from the historical record. Craig, the drilling has revealed that the Tupper shop sits right about here. It should be contained within that circle.

This shows the caissons OC1. It was between those two shafts that we were pretty sure the original money pit must set, which would mean that the money pit would be here.

And what we know about that area is that this is where we found the wood dated to 1706, the oldest wood that we brought up out of the money pit so far.

Last year, while drilling the borehole known as OC-1, the team obtained evidence of a wooden tunnel some 150 feet underground that was dated to 1706, nearly 90 years before the discovery of the money pit.

This find led the Oak Island team to believe that the original treasure shaft and the fabled vault would most likely be located in that area.

I think we would have been hard-pressed for someone to convince us that we didn’t find the original zone for the money pit. But we had some diagrams from the 1890s, as this revealed the Tupper shot in relation to the money pit that they were working in at the time.

A is the Tupperware shaft, and the money pit is over here. This is kind of exciting because being able to delineate it has given us a whole new place to look for the money pit. We’ve been looking to the east of the Tupper shaft, and that diagram suggests that the money pit’s to the west.

Wow. See, one did present that shiny gold object. See, one hit some shaft and it’d be part of the money pit?

Yeah, yeah. So I like the west side.

Okay, well, Rick, you haven’t said anything. You want to do the west?

Yeah, no, you have to go west. You have to chase the historical context. Yes, otherwise, why are we here?

Yeah, one eighth in the hall we may have is we know there was a shaft in C1.

Yes, most enthused I’ve heard you, man. Everybody’s very optimistic and excited about this, so hopefully it leads to something good.

Well, there you have it. So it’s just a matter of establishing a grid and putting steel down the hole. The question is, where is the money pit? That has always been the question regarding any of the work over the last 225 years.

I mean, we’ve drilled exhaustively. It’s almost a foregone conclusion that we’ve been looking in the wrong places. We can’t drill the entire money pit, at least certainly not this year, and thus we need to remain focused on the C1 location.

Okay, I say make it so. That’s my vote.

Agreed.

Yep, I’m in.

I’m good.

Definitely.

Well, let’s dig the west and call this war room adjourned.

Absolutely.

Alright, thanks guys.