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Season 14 Is 18 days Away
Twenty-five new episodes begin November 10, as filming on Oak Island winds down and rumors of a significant find build anticipation. Where the dig left off, what Season 13 left unanswered, and what could be coming next.
The story in five chapters
Chapter One
The Money Pit
In 1795, three boys discovered a mysterious circular depression on a small island off Nova Scotia. What they found beneath would spark the world's longest treasure hunt.
Dig into the Money Pit
Chapter Two
Over 230 Years of Searching
Countless expeditions. Millions spent. Lives lost. From early treasure companies to modern technological operations, the search has never stopped.
Join the Hunt
Chapter Three
What Could Be Buried?
Templar treasure. Pirate gold. Shakespeare's lost manuscripts. The Menorah. The Ark of the Covenant. Marie Antoinette's jewels. The theories are as extraordinary as the engineering.
Examine the Theories
Chapter Four
The Evidence
Oak platforms at precise intervals. 13th century coconut fiber from the Caribbean. Roman coins. Bone fragments carbon-dated to the Middle Ages. The evidence is mounting.
Study the Evidence
The Show
History Channel Series
Since 2014, millions have followed Rick and Marty Lagina's quest to solve the 230-year-old mystery once and for all.
About the Show
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The Season 13 Verdict
A Portuguese coin struck no later than 1371, carbon dates on swamp leather reaching into the 1100s, and a stone foundation the stars place around 1236. The full case, laid out finding by finding.
The Money Pit
In 1795, three boys discovered a mysterious circular depression on a small island off Nova Scotia. What they found beneath would spark the world's longest treasure hunt.
Oak Island, The Map
Oak Island sits in Mahone Bay, on the south shore of Nova Scotia. Barely 140 acres, it holds countless excavation sites from 231 years of digging, from the Money Pit and Smith's Cove to the Swamp and Nolan's Cross. Each location is mapped with the finds, articles, and episodes tied to it.
Over 230 Years of Searching
Countless expeditions. Millions spent. Lives lost. From early treasure companies to modern technological operations, the search has never stopped.
What Could Be Buried?
Templar treasure. Pirate gold. Shakespeare's lost manuscripts. The Menorah. The Ark of the Covenant. Marie Antoinette's jewels. The theories are as extraordinary as the engineering.
The Evidence
Oak platforms at precise intervals. 13th century coconut fiber from the Caribbean. Roman coins. Bone fragments carbon-dated to the Middle Ages. The evidence is mounting.
What the Data Shows
Every scientifically dated find on the island, plotted across its full date range, produces two peaks: one in the 1200s, one in the 1700s.
The colonial peak around 1700 is not hard to account for, given two centuries of recorded activity on the island. The medieval cluster is the harder problem. More than twenty finds carry dates in the Middle Ages, a concentration with no parallel elsewhere in North America. If those dates hold, they describe activity on Oak Island five centuries before its recorded discovery, and that is the question any solution to the mystery has to answer.
History Channel Series
Since 2014, millions have followed Rick and Marty Lagina's quest to solve the 230-year-old mystery once and for all.
Recent Episodes
Episode guide →Pure Gold
In the Money Pit area, the season's final caisson, MP-1, advances toward the solution channel where soil sampling earlier in the year identified th...
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In the Portuguese Azores, Rick Lagina, Alex Lagina, Peter Fornetti, Doug Crowell, and Emiliano Sacchetti join author and researcher Corjan Mol and ...
Read the recapIsland Hopping
On Oak Island, crews from ROC Equipment and Soletanche Bachy Canada, with Adam Embleton and Billy Gerhardt, repair the Money Pit area for another e...
Read the recapThere's a story buried on that island that I want to figure out. That's the real treasure.
— Rick Lagina, 2014