Season 14 Premieres November 3, 2026
- Premiere date
- Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (listed)
- Episode count
- 25
- Network
- The History Channel
- Filming started
- June 1, 2026
- Previous finale
- May 5, 2026: S13E25, "Pure Gold"
- Production company
- Prometheus Entertainment
The release date of Season 14 of the Curse of Oak Island is known. The first episode will air on Tuesday November 3 in the United States.
Filming for this season has started on Monday, June 1 of this year.
Rick Lagina is in Nova Scotia and the first excavators, pumps and Choice Drilling rig have arrived on the island.
New season artwork has popped up on Reddit. Across thirteen seasons since 2014, production has run roughly June through October, with the season premiering on a Tuesday in early November.
The season premiere is listed in the big TV Guides for Tuesday, November 3, 2026, followed by weekly Tuesday episodes through November 24.
Dig Deeper
Oak Island: The State of the Search, 231 Years In
Where the search stands at the close of Season 13, from the Money Pit to the Lot 5 camp.
The Lot 8 Giant Boulder
Fiona Steele estimates the cradle may date to the 1200s. Marty intends to excavate underneath it in Season 14.
The Portuguese & The Order of Christ
Of all the possible "Who's," the Portuguese stand out. By 1521, their cattle was grazing at the latitude of Oak Island.
Where The Search Left Off
Season 13 closed on May 5, 2026 with the episode "Pure Gold," ending the most artifact-rich year in the show's history. Steve Guptill's final heat map plotted more than 800 finds, while Laird Niven put the year's total closer to 1,200. Pink markers on the map, denoting anything older than the 1700s, showed island-wide activity at a scale Niven described as having no parallel he knew of in North America.
The season's last caisson, MP-1, reached bedrock at 210 feet, five feet short of its design depth. Gary Drayton recovered a section of nineteenth-century drill pipe, a heavily twisted iron fragment, and a piece of stained wood with palm-like grain that Rick Lagina noted has no natural place at that depth.
Stained Wood Fragment→
Katya Drayton found a William III sixpence struck between 1697 and 1701 in the Dunfield spoils on Lot 18, identified by Emma Culligan at the laboratory. Marty connected an earlier fleur-de-lis cap badge fragment from the same area to Isaac de Razilly, the French Knight of Malta who established a fort at LaHave in 1632.
William III sixpence, 1697-1701 (Lot 18)→
Marty closed the war-room meeting by unveiling a one-ounce gold piece marked with a Canadian maple leaf. He placed it as a physical marker for the spot the team intends to sink first in Season 14.
Explore Oak Island
The Artifact Vault
Hundreds of catalogued finds with discovery details, dating, and analysis.
Oak Island Interactive Map
Every key location on and around the island. Pan, zoom, and click through more than fifty marked points.
A Hunt with No End
The full history of the Oak Island treasure hunt from the 1795 discovery through the present day.
Where Season 14 Picks Up
Season 13 ended with a few threads open. The first is the Lot 8 stone cradle below the giant 40,000 ton boulder. Hand excavation inside the cradle has descended well below the six-foot bedrock reading from the adjacent trench, and hammer-drill samples returned material that Laird Niven judged too soft for bedrock. Marty Lagina was explicit at the close of the year that the cradle work is not finished until the team understands what lies underneath it. Fiona Steele's working estimate places the boulder itself as early as the 1200s.
A second thread is the wood metals testing program. Of fifteen samples processed under the program led by Dr. Ian Spooner and Dr. Fred Michel, wood recovered from Shaft 2A in 2024 returned the highest silver and third-highest gold readings recorded on the island. Marty has committed to extending the program.
Piece of wood containing traces of gold→
The hardest result of Season 13 was a carbon-14 floor of 1148 to 1216 AD on leather shoe fragments from the swamp cobblestone path, returned by Beta Analytical and reviewed by Craig Tester. Adriano Gaspani's archaeoastronomical analysis of the Lot 5 round foundation placed its alignments at approximately 1236 AD, consistent with his earlier 1217 AD result for Nolan's Cross. Emma Culligan's binder analysis on the Lot 8 cradle returned a premodern construction window, and Fiona Steele's working estimate places the cradle as early as the 1200s. Portuguese numismatist Alberto Silva at Angra do Heroismo narrowed the Pitblado coin's striking window to no later than 1371. Acadia University geologist Dr. Robert Raeside dated the Peacock-1 stoneshot confidently to the 1300s or early 1400s. Five methods, five objects, one window. The thirteenth-century framing has stopped being conjecture and become a working hypothesis the science has now made for the show.
Archaeoastronomy on Oak Island→
Oak Island S13: The Medieval Case→
Finds, Facts & Figures
All Past Episodes
Every season from 2014 to 2026, with detailed descriptions for all episodes that have aired to date.
Research Locations
Museums, archives, churches, caves, and commanderies the team has investigated beyond Oak Island.
Who Owned Oak Island
Two centuries of land titles, lot by lot, on an interactive timeline.
Returning Cast and Production
The core team is stable. Rick Lagina and Marty Lagina have led the search since 2014, together with Craig Tester. Marty's son Alex Lagina, nephew Peter Fornetti, Gary Drayton, Doug Crowell, Craig Tester, Terry Matheson, Steve Guptill, Billy Gerhardt, and Jack Begley have all been on-island regulars across recent seasons. Corjan Mol has led the European trips since 2019 and will surely return. The lab and analysis work continues to draw on Emma Culligan, Dr. Ian Spooner, Laird Niven, Fiona Steele, and Carmen Legge.
Prometheus Entertainment continues to produce the series for the History Channel. No cast or production changes have been announced for the next season.
The HISTORY Channel has yet to officially announce the new season with a press release, which is a familiar pattern from previous seasons.
This page will be frequently updated when developments happen. Last update June 11, 2026.
