The Curse of Oak Island: Ornate Key Hole Points to Treasure Chest (Season 5) | History

Hey Gary, the Sun has come out. We got a
little bit of time, let’s find something
that’s a good sign.

Yeah, I think so. You got your lucky
digger? Yep.

Today, they are continuing
their search of the areas surrounding
property owned by Tom Nolan, son of the
late Oak Island treasure hunter Fred
Nolan. Any day you go metal detecting is
a good day.

That’s a scrappy iron signal. I’m using a
little bit of discrimination. We’ll just
go for the good targets.

Well, this is a good sign. We’re getting into some iron,
because often you got to find the trash
before you can find the treasure.

That should be up on the wall. That don’t
sound too bad, does it?

[Music]

Oh, drop-in point.
I’m getting in there. Look, scrappy piece
of metal.

Oh no, isn’t… look at that little… oh my
goodness, look! Plate. Look, a keel. Clearly
a keyhole. I mean, we’re looking for
treasure chests. That clearly was an
embossed keyhole. Very old.

Night in it? Yeah.
And, oh yeah, this is like a little
flower.

See that? That’s—yes, see the flower on
the left-hand side, right there?
This was like a rose, huh? Just right here
in the middle of nowhere.

What’s it doing here? I mean, really,
what’s it doing here? I don’t know.
It’s not something a farmer would have
dropped, or a trader, or a fur trader, or
anything. I mean, it looks like it’s part
of a chest.

A chest. Could this lock plate
have come from one of the three missing
chests that once belonged to Captain
James Anderson, and rumored to have been
buried on Oak Island?

And if so, could it also be connected to the mysterious
skeleton key found by Fred Nolan and
given to Rick Lagina just two weeks ago?

Honestly, I’m quite excited about the
key cover that Gary found, because if I
can equate them to mundane things like
farmers and tradesmen and things like that,
you know, utilitarian stuff, then it
doesn’t really mean much.

But it’s hard to picture a farmer having an ornate
keylock cover. So, well, you know, you
immediately jump to this. This was on a
chest. It’s somewhat asymmetrical. This
does not match that at all.

The significance, I think, of being asymmetric
is that I think this is handmade. Yeah.
I mean, somebody hammered this out, right?
That’s very cool.

I know that Fred had said, too many
people who were the year, so he had found
up to 11 sites where he thought that
subsurface treasure had been recovered.
Something had been dug from underground.
He always claimed that he had an actual
piece of a chest reinforced with iron.

Yeah, let’s keep this in mind. You
need to search this area real well. We
need to find out what was in there.

Yeah, okay, great.

Oh my, top pocket fine. Top pocket fine. Good job.

Well, let’s see if there’s anything else
in the area.