Kingdom Stone (Malkuth)

About This Carved Stone

The Kingdom Stone is a small red granite boulder unearthed in May 2003 at the location predicted by Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen, an organist at Oslo's Evangelical Lutheran chapel in Holmenkollen. Amundsen had projected the Cabalistic Tree of Life onto Nolan's Cross, identifying the five known boulders as half of the diagram and calculating where the remaining Sephirot should fall. The base point of the Tree, called Malkuth in Hebrew or "Kingdom" in English, lay south of the foot of Nolan's Cross, on the extended line of the long arm.

Working with Dan Blankenship and with Fred Nolan's permission to investigate, Amundsen scraped away roughly five centimeters of soil and uncovered the stone. According to Blankenship's account in Randall Sullivan's book The Curse of Oak Island, one face was curved like a seashell while the opposite face presented a nearly perfect flat edge, suitable for standing the stone upright. Amundsen identified three small indentations on the flat surface arranged in an isosceles triangle, a configuration that resembles both the Triple Tau of Masonic Royal Arch symbolism and the triangular dot patterns reported on the lost 90-foot Stone. A second flat-faced stone was reportedly recovered at the projected Victory (Netzach) point, although it has received less attention.

After the 2003 discovery, Blankenship reburied the Kingdom Stone to keep its existence and location from Fred Nolan, his Oak Island rival of nearly four decades.

The stone was unearthed for a second time in 2014 during The Curse of Oak Island Season 1, Episode 4, "The Secret of Solomon's Temple." Amundsen guided Rick and Marty Lagina to the area. The first rock they exposed was too small, but Marty then identified a larger flat-sided stone that Amundsen confirmed as the original. An aerial flyover that followed showed that adding the Kingdom Stone to the five existing Nolan's Cross boulders produced a diamond whose long axis pointed toward the swamp, where Amundsen had placed the Mercy Point and where the Lagina team subsequently recovered a seventeenth-century Spanish maravedi.

Two physical observations remain unresolved. The cleanly flat face has no obvious natural counterpart; if the stone is a product of glacial fracture, the matching half has not been located on the island. And the Kingdom Stone sits on the projected line of the long arm of Nolan's Cross, the same line that runs through the buried Headstone at the center of the cross. Both stones share the same three properties: deliberate burial, a single flat surface that reads as worked rather than weathered, and a position on the cross's central axis. Whether this points to a single underlying design or to a coincidence of two buried stones on a long survey line is an open question.