The Curse of Oak Island: NOLAN’S CROSS LEADS TO TREASURE (Part 1) (Season 4) | History

Well guys, we’re going up here to, I think,
probably Fred Nolan’s most dramatic
discovery.

While waiting for the operation at the
money pit to resume,
Rick Laguna, along with island historian
Charles Barkhouse and Jack Begley, have invited
stonemasons Mike Welling
and Mark Fugier to inspect one of the
most intriguing rock formations ever found on
Oak Island—
Nolan’s Cross.

Our interest was for Mike and Mark to look at it straight
over here and see if the stone had
actually been carved.

This is the headstone of the cross, so
where the arms and the stem intersect, this is what Fred found.

In 1981, landowner and professional
surveyor Fred Nolan discovered five large cone-shaped
boulders on his property that formed a perfectly symmetrical
cross that measured 720 by 867 feet.

Believing there could be something buried at the center,
Fred dug down and uncovered a sixth boulder
that eerily resembled a large human head.

“You know, like right here that looks like
it’s been chiseled—
up here, here, here, here, here. Yeah, it looks like somebody shaped it.”

Although there are many who believe that
the mysterious boulders on Fred Nolan’s property
were meant to represent a Templar cross,
there is another more ingenious theory—
one that suggests the boulders were carefully arranged to form
what is known as the Tree of Life, an ancient Hebraic symbol
which represents the ten spiritual principles
or sephirot that are contained in God’s creation of the universe.

“Yeah, this is it. This is it. Yeah, this theory was given further credence
when a number of smaller strangely flat-sided stones
were found at the exact places around
the cross where the sephirah would be located.

What is interesting is it’s rounded on the back,
yeah, and the flat side. But yeah, here it comes.
It can kind of hurt you, you have to look at it looking down,
but it’s the impression that, you know,
you can see that this would be where the
eye would be, and the nose and the mouth.
And there’s an indentation here.
You can see right here.”

“Although it has weathered, where you could put like a
small naval cutlass or naval sword in, like this is the blade part, right? Yeah.
And then, where’s—
now again, it’s weathered a lot, and it was much more defined years ago,
when I first saw it about 20-some years ago.”

“What’s unique about this is it’s completely different from the other stones.
The other stones are basically granite, and they’re cone-shaped,
where this one is obviously much flatter.

The suspicion is that the face, especially the eye, perhaps,
was looking at an area of significance.
That’s our suspicion, but we’re hopeful that Mike and Mark
will be able to give us some information from the stones.

You know, might it lead to the treasure? I don’t know. Might it lead to
other discovery agendas? I don’t know. But we have to start somewhere,
and the place to start is with experts.”