Season 14 Premieres Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Written by Corjan Mol, author & Historical Researcher, Oak Island Team
- Premiere date
- Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 9 PM ET/PT (8 PM Central)
- Episode count
- 25
- Network
- The HISTORY Channel
- Announced
- October 2, 2026, by The HISTORY Channel (press release)
- Streaming
- The day after broadcast on the HISTORY Channel app, history.com and TV provider on-demand
- Followed by
- History’s Mystery Files, 10 PM ET/PT
- Filming started
- June 1, 2026
- Previous finale
- May 5, 2026: S13E25, "Pure Gold"
- Production company
- Prometheus Entertainment
Oak Island fans have a date to circle. On October 2, 2026, The HISTORY Channel issued a press release, published in full by The Futon Critic, announcing that Season 14 of The Curse of Oak Island premieres in the United States on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 9 PM Eastern, 4 weeks and 3 days from now.
The premiere opens a Tuesday night of mystery programming. At 10 PM the network launches History’s Mystery Files, a new series hosted by actor Jorge Garcia (Lost, Hawaii Five-0) that revisits cases from history and pop culture, from sacred discoveries to unsolved disappearances. New Oak Island episodes stream the day after broadcast on the HISTORY Channel app and history.com, and through TV providers' on-demand services.
Until October 2, TV listings had the premiere scheduled for November 3, but it has now been pushed back a week, presumably because it would have conflicted with the US midterm elections.
Filming for this season began on Monday, June 1, and the latest word from the scene suggests the heavy work is now drawing to a close. No one on the mainland lives closer to Oak Island than the lady who watches the season’s comings and goings from her home at the entrance to the causeway. Through her Facebook page, Oak Island From The Other Side of The Causeway, she reports that almost the last piece of equipment has now rolled off the island.
There is another line in her post that will catch fans' attention: she shares a rumor that "something significant was found this year." The details remain under wraps, giving viewers plenty to look forward to when the season begins. Over the summer, visitors described a busy island and a team in good spirits, while fans followed drone footage on Facebook and YouTube for glimpses of the work. Now that almost all the heavy equipment has left, attention is turning to the discoveries that will unfold on screen. Any remaining filming, on the island or overseas, has yet to be publicly detailed.
The network's announcement doesn't make us any wiser. It simply says that after more than a decade of searching, Rick and Marty Lagina “believe they've never been closer to solving the Oak Island mystery.” In the new season, according to the release, the brothers “push further than ever, determined to validate a lifetime of work and the legacy of generations of searchers who came before them.”
After the November 10 premiere, new episodes follow on Tuesday nights. Canadian broadcasts usually follow on Sunday nights, which would put the premiere on November 15 if that pattern holds. Viewers in the UK and the Netherlands are expected to be among the first in Europe to see the season, starting in January 2027.
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.
A Gold Coin and Unfinished Business
When Season 13 ended on May 5, 2026 with the episode "Pure Gold," the team had more finds to consider than ever before. Steve Guptill's final heat map plotted over 800 discoveries; Laird Niven put the year's total closer to 1,200. The pink markers, used for finds older than the 1700s, were scattered across the island. For Niven, the scale of that early activity had no parallel he knew of in North America.
Down in the Money Pit area, the season's final caisson, MP-1, hit bedrock at 210 feet, five feet short of its planned depth. Gary Drayton recovered nineteenth-century drill pipe, a badly twisted iron fragment, and stained wood with an unusual, palm-like grain. It was the wood that gave Rick Lagina pause: as he pointed out, it had no natural reason to be down there.
Stained Wood Fragment→
On Lot 18, Katya Drayton picked a William III sixpence out of the Dunfield spoils. Emma Culligan identified it in the lab as a coin struck between 1697 and 1701. The same area had already produced a fleur-de-lis cap badge fragment, which Marty linked to Isaac de Razilly, the French Knight of Malta who established a fort at LaHave in 1632.
William III sixpence, 1697-1701 (Lot 18)→
But the gold that gave the finale its name came from Marty himself. At the closing war-room meeting, he produced a one-ounce gold piece bearing a Canadian maple leaf and used it to mark the spot he wants the team to sink first in Season 14. The next season already had a starting point.
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.
What Is Still Waiting Underground?
One of the biggest questions lies beneath the giant 40,000-pound boulder on Lot 8. Hand excavation inside its stone cradle has gone well below the six-foot depth where the adjacent trench appeared to meet bedrock. Yet the hammer-drill samples were too soft to convince Laird Niven that the team had reached bedrock inside the cradle. Marty made his position clear at the end of the season: the work stays open until they understand what is underneath. With Fiona Steele's working estimate placing the boulder as early as the 1200s, there is plenty of reason to keep digging.
Another lead is waiting in the lab. Of fifteen wood samples tested in the program led by Dr. Ian Spooner and Dr. Fred Michel, a piece recovered from Shaft 2A in 2024 returned the island's highest silver reading and its third-highest gold reading. Those results were enough for Marty to commit to more testing.
Piece of wood containing traces of gold→
Then there are the dates. Leather shoe fragments from the swamp's cobblestone path returned a carbon-14 range of 1148 to 1216 AD from Beta Analytical, reviewed by Craig Tester. Adriano Gaspani placed the astronomical alignments of the Lot 5 round foundation at approximately 1236 AD, close to his earlier 1217 AD estimate for Nolan's Cross. Emma Culligan's binder analysis pointed to premodern construction at the Lot 8 cradle, which Fiona Steele's working estimate places as early as the 1200s. In Angra do Heroismo, Portuguese numismatist Alberto Silva narrowed the Pitblado coin's striking date to no later than 1371. Acadia University geologist Dr. Robert Raeside placed the Peacock-1 stoneshot in the 1300s or early 1400s. These findings use different methods and do not all point to the same moment, but together they give the team a medieval possibility to investigate. Season 14 has a chance to test how well those pieces fit.
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.
Familiar Faces, a Few Hints
Rick and Marty Lagina, together with Craig Tester, remain at the heart of the search they have led on screen since 2014. Recent seasons have brought a familiar group to the island: Alex Lagina, Peter Fornetti, Gary Drayton, Doug Crowell, Scott Barlow, Terry Matheson, Steve Guptill, Billy Gerhardt and Jack Begley. Corjan Mol, who has led the European trips since 2019, was spotted in Mahone Bay at the end of July. That suggests another appearance, though whether he takes a larger role on the island this year remains to be seen. The team's lab work and interpretation continue 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, with no cast or production changes announced for Season 14.
The HISTORY Channel issued its press release on October 2, 2026, covering both of its new Tuesday-night programs. The full release was published by The Futon Critic, the television industry news service that carries network announcements as issued, and the date was reported the same day by BroadwayWorld and TV Source Magazine. HISTORY’s own History’s Mystery Files page lists the new series as coming soon.
See the Island Before the New Season
You can check out Oak Island for yourself before the show returns to TV this November. After being closed to the public for six years, the island is welcoming visitors again. You can drive across the causeway to visit the museum and Treasure Shop, or book a guided tour to see more of the island. The two-hour tours run aboard the Money Pit Express, a tram that takes you past the Money Pit area, Smith's Cove and the swamp, with guides including Charles Barkhouse sharing the history along the way. The 2026 tour season runs through October 31, and reservations are required. The museum and Treasure Shop welcome walk-in visitors, and museum admission is five dollars, including parking. Our visitor guide covers the options and what to know before you go.
Oak Island Has Opened to the Public: How to Visit→
We will update this page as more news comes in. Last update October 6, 2026.
