The Curse of Oak Island: SHOCKING PRESIDENTIAL CONNECTION (Season 4) | History

While visiting the presidential library
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
in Hyde Park, New York, Rick Lagina, his
nephew Alex,
and researcher Paul Troutman are
searching for information that could
explain
just why America’s 32nd president
remained interested in the search for
treasure on Oak Island.
Throughout his adult life, there were 17
million sheets of documents there,
most of which have not yet been
digitized,
so it’s a difficult research
agenda.

I guess just to give you a sense of what
this collection is, this is called
the President’s Secretary’s File. These
are the documents that were so
secret, personal, or confidential that
they were kept in FDR’s secretary’s office
rather than sent down to the White House
filing room. Interesting, very interesting.
I was hoping to find something from
around the time when we know
he made a trip to Oak Island. Okay.

This letter right here actually does
mention
Oak Island in it. There’s a man named
Richard Perkins
from Englewood, California, who writes to
the president to confirm
that there was an actual expedition, and
right here
the secretary, May Lehan, is confirming
that this was 1909 and that there
might have been more than one expedition,
at least two.
It is true that the president visited in
search of this often sought treasure
about 1909. There have been two other
expeditions also, but the president
understands the treasure has never been
found.
Wow. Although Franklin Delano Roosevelt
did help finance and also took part
in the search for treasure on Oak Island
in 1909,
his family’s involvement with the
mystery goes back
much further. In 1849,
Warren Delano, FDR’s grandfather, had been
an adventurous entrepreneur
whose investments in goods such as tea
and the opium trade with China
made his family among the wealthiest in
the world.
That year, his interest turned to
treasure hunting,
and Delano became one of several
investors in the Truro Company,
the same organization that not only
discovered the box drains at Smith’s
Cove in 1850,
but also small bits of gold chain while
drilling
in the money pit. This right here.

This is a biographer named Joseph P. Lash.
He wrote a book,
two books on FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt.
One of the interviews is with Duncan
Harris,
the one that we found the Oak Island
material on. He went to Harvard,
as well as FDR. There is a distinct
possibility that he’s actually in the
famous photograph.
Now, of course, here is FDR.
I’m not sure who Duncan Harris is, but
apparently he’s in this photograph,
either on top or on the bottom, but I think
he’d be in the frontier,
considering how close of a friend he was.
And in this statement,
he actually says it all started off for
us
on the treasure hunting business.
Franklin, which is F,
always interested in that. He thought
they were the lost jewels
of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
So these are the lost crown jewels of
France.

Marie Antoinette, the crown
jewels of France. Of all the various
theories,
perhaps none is as audacious or
compelling
as the one suggesting that precious
jewels could be buried on
Oak Island or the claim that there isn’t
only
one treasure hidden there, but several,
and that one of the guardians of that
information
might well have been one of America’s
most popular
and powerful presidents.
You.