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Episodes
256 episodes · 14 seasons
Season 14 (in production)
Upcoming
- E1 The Comeback
- E2 Billion Dollar Baby
- E3 Medieval Intentions
- E4 The Smoking Gun
- E5 Keep On Rockin'
- E6 The Heat Is On
- E7 Walk The Line
- E8 Into The Fold
- E9 So Close, Yet Sonar
- E10 Boulder And Wiser
- E11 A Knight's Journey
- E12 A Fort Knight
- E13 Testing Their Metal
- E14 The Shining
- E15 Swamped
- E16 Raising the Stakes
- E17 The Missing Links
- E18 Breaking the Seal
- E19 Axis of Medieval
- E20 The Sands of Time
- E21 A Sacred Symbol
- E22 Road Trip
- E23 Island Hopping
- E24 Overseaing the Dig
- E25 Pure Gold
- E1 The New Digs
- E2 Whistle While You Work
- E3 The Saga Continues
- E4 Concrete Evidence
- E5 A Flood Of Secrets
- E6 Hide And Seek
- E7 It's All Your Vault
- E8 A Bead On The Target
- E9 Brick By Brick
- E10 Graves Concerns
- E11 Best Caisson Scenario
- E12 Mapping It Out
- E13 Caissons Ho!
- E14 Sinking In
- E15 Channeling the Solution
- E16 Open Sesame
- E17 Boots on the Ground
- E18 If The Shoe Phips
- E19 Barreling Forward
- E20 Just Bead It
- E21 The Solution Solution
- E22 Knight After Knight
- E23 Family Ties
- E24 Into the Void
- E25 Uplifting Discoveries
- E1 On the Money
- E2 Heavy Lifting
- E3 Taking Their Shot
- E4 Shear Mystery
- E5 Muon The Horizon
- E6 The Grand Opening
- E7 The Great Flood
- E8 A Void At All Costs
- E9 Filling Cavities
- E10 Chain Reaction
- E11 Plugged Up
- E12 Digging Back In
- E13 Tea Time
- E14 Rick and Mortar
- E15 On Target
- E16 Dark and Stormy
- E17 Piling On
- E18 May The Norse Be With You
- E19 Hi Ho Silver
- E20 Wet and Wild
- E21 Straight as an Arrow
- E22 Abbey Road
- E23 Cone E Island
- E24 Hairy Situation
- E25 Worth the Weight
- E1 On Their Marks
- E2 Across The Pond
- E3 Bubbling Over
- E4 Wharf And Pieces
- E5 Duc It Out
- E6 Over The Muon
- E7 Norsing Around
- E8 A Lot To Be Desired
- E9 A Damming Clue
- E10 The Blob
- E11 Oh, Well!
- E12 Beware the Blob
- E13 All's Well
- E14 Getting the Shaft
- E15 Wood You Believe It?
- E16 Striking Gold
- E17 A Well of Secrets
- E18 A Quadrilateral Move
- E19 Ramping Up
- E20 A Barrel Full of Clues
- E21 Roman Around
- E22 Starry Knights
- E23 The Italian Job
- E24 Down the Hatch
- E25 And the Hits Keep Coming
- E1 Going for the Gold
- E2 The Gold Metal
- E3 Stone Roadblock
- E4 Spoils Alert
- E5 Hatching the Plan
- E6 The Root Cause
- E7 It All Adze Up
- E8 Deeper Digs, Bigger Stakes
- E9 The Unusual Suspects
- E10 Chamber of Secrets
- E11 A Boatload of Clues
- E12 The Silver Liner
- E13 Go Big or Go Home
- E14 Premier of the Dig
- E15 Eyes and Boot in the Ground
- E16 Gold Diggers
- E17 Blast From The Past
- E18 Playing the Dunfield
- E19 Shoal Me the Money
- E20 The Hedden Truth
- E21 A Lot of Secrets
- E22 Yes We Can
- E23 Follow the Cobblestone Road
- E24 On the Road
- E25 Treasure Island
- E1 Remote Control
- E2 The Boys Are Back
- E3 If the Ox Shoes Fit
- E4 Alignment
- E5 The Master Plan
- E6 Seaing Is Believing
- E7 Mounding Evidence
- E8 High on the Bog
- E9 Rock, Paper, Serpents
- E10 Connecting the Lots
- E11 Rocky Road
- E12 Digging Their Heels In
- E13 The Fellowship of the Ringbolt
- E14 A Bend in the Road
- E15 Cask and You Shall Receive
- E16 Leather Bound
- E17 Staking Their Claim
- E18 Cannon Fodder
- E19 A Loose Cannonball
- E20 Fire in the Hole
- E21 Off the Railing
- E22 Be There or T-square
- E23 Old Wharf's Tale
- E24 Silver Lining
- E25 The Silver Spooner
- E1 The Torch Is Passed
- E2 Core Values
- E3 Eye of the Swamp
- E4 The Lucky Thirteen
- E5 Tunnel Visions
- E6 Closing In
- E7 Things That Go Bump-out
- E8 Triptych
- E9 An Eye for an Eye
- E10 Gary Strikes Again
- E11 The Eye of the Storm
- E12 Fortified
- E13 Bromancing the Stones
- E14 Burnt Offering
- E15 Surely Templar
- E16 Water Logged
- E17 To Boulderly Go
- E18 The Turning Point
- E19 Lords of the Ring
- E20 Springing the Trap
- E21 A Leaf of Faith
- E22 Marks X the Spot
- E23 Timeline
- E1 Rick's Big Bang Theory
- E2 Gold Rush
- E3 Depth Perception
- E4 A Legacy Revealed
- E5 Homecoming
- E6 Precious Metal
- E7 Rock Solid
- E8 Unearthed
- E9 As Above, So Below
- E10 Fingers Made of Stone
- E11 Wharfs and All
- E12 Slipway When Wet
- E13 The Paper Chase
- E14 Voyage to the Bottom of the Cenote
- E15 Dye Harder
- E16 Detour
- E17 Clue or False?
- E18 Heavy Metal
- E19 Striking Distance
- E20 Short Days and Tall Knights
- E21 Seismic Matters
- E22 Lost and Founding
- E1 Forever Family
- E2 Dead Man's Chest
- E3 Obstruction
- E4 Close Call
- E5 Bone Dry
- E6 Remains of the Day
- E7 The Lot Thickens
- E8 Dan's Breakthrough
- E9 The French Connection
- E10 The Signs of a Cross
- E11 Moving Targets
- E12 A Key to the Mystery
- E13 Unhinged
- E14 The Templar Connection
- E15 Steel Trapped
- E16 Seeing Red
- E17 A Family Album
- E18 Amazing Discoveries
- E1 Going for Broke
- E2 Always Forward
- E3 Swamp Things
- E4 No Stone Unturned
- E5 Bullseye
- E6 Circles in Wood
- E7 All That Glitters
- E8 The Mystery of Samuel Ball
- E9 Echoes from the Deep
- E10 About Face
- E11 Presidential Secrets
- E12 Hyde Park & Seek
- E13 One of Seven
- E14 Of Sticks and Stones
- E15 Blood Is Thicker
Artifact Vault
320 artifacts- 'Ball' name tag
- 14th-century barter token
- 1671 Order of the Garter Medallion
- 1700s spike
- 18th-century wharf nail
- Anchor Fluke
- Ancient trade weight
- Annular ware pottery, early 1750s-1760s (swamp pathway, Lot 13)
- Ashbury ware ceramic shard
- Barrel hoop (iron, large)
- Barrel of a hand cannon
- Barrote Nail (Spanish Galleon)
- Black Glass Jewel
- Boatswain's whistle (bone/ivory)
- Bone fragments and periwinkle shell (Borehole 10X sieving)
- Bone-handled knife
- Brass fragment (Borehole 21)
- Cap Badge Fragment (Money Pit Dunfield spoils)
- Carved wood piece (possible tool handle)
- Cast iron stove (starburst design)
- Cast-iron cooking pot fragment
- Chain link (Lot 5)
- Chain with oval hand-forged links
- Charcoal from the Stone Road
- Clay pipe bowl fragment
- Clay pipe stem (4/64ths bore, Lot 5 round feature)
- Clay pipe stem (Lot 5 stone feature, Miriam find)
- Clay pipe stem (north shore seafloor)
- Clay Pipe Stem with "O" Inscription
- Copper Nameplate
- Copper shards (decorative box)
- Copper sheeting (decorative)
- Copper ship nails (pair, 1720-1760)
- Creamware plate base, c. 1762-1763 (swamp pathway, Lot 13)
- Crib spikes (multiple)
- Crossbow bolt (Wroclawski/Dunfield)
- Cylindrical metal object (Borehole 10, Warnock Hersey)
- Decorative brass boat fitting
- Decorative iron hinges (pair, Spanish-style)
- Decorative keyhole plate
- Drilled Stone (Lot 15)
- Drilled Stone (Lot 27)
- Drilled Stone (Money Pit Area)
- Drilled Stone (Nolan Property)
- Drilled Stone (Smith's Cove)
- Dutch Onion Bottle Glass
- English nail (1750s, Shaft 6)
- Folded copper/brass piece (decorated)
- Folding skeleton key (cross-shaped)
- Glass fragments
- Gold chain links (3)
- Gold-colored knob
- Gold-Copper Alloy Fragments (Tumbaga)
- Gold-plated brooch (leaded glass gem)
- Grapeshot (iron cannon ball)
- Hand-forged chain links (Karma-1 shaft)
- Hand-forged iron pintle
- Hand-forged nail (pre-1795)
- Hand-forged rose head spike
- Hand-wrought iron spike (12th-13th century)
- Hand-wrought nail + nut/washer
- Handmade nail (barrel or treasure chest)
- Handwrought iron hinge (small, chest)
- Heart-Shaped Stone (Nolan's Property)
- Heart-Shaped Stone (Smith's Cove)
- Hidden wooden box (Smith's Cove, Blankenship 1969-70)
- Human bone fragments (2 individuals)
- Iron and lead strap (chest/box)
- Iron box or chest strap
- Iron chopping knife
- Iron Fire Grate Fragment
- Iron hinge (massive)
- Iron Hook (Lot 5 Well)
- Iron projectile (Lot 26, possible Roman pilum)
- Iron ship's timber brace (burnt)
- Iron Spike Boulder (Lot 2)
- Iron Staple (Quadrilateral)
- Jewelled brooch (rhodolite garnet)
- Keg bottom (wooden)
- Large log with Roman numerals (65 ft)
- Large-diameter pipe stem (Shaft 6)
- Lead artifact (scalloped, Sardinian lead)
- Lead Bag Seal - Leeds, with Golden Fleece
- Lead Bag Seal - London, I. Lloyd Army Packers
- Lead Bag Seal - Norwich Cloth
- Lead coin weight (Lot 5 round feature)
- Lead cross
- Lead Decorative Piece
- Lead ingot (musket ball making)
- Lead spoon handle
- Lead tag (Mediterranean origin)
- Leaf/Fern Brooch
- Leather book binding fragments
- Leather boot heel
- Leather Boot Sole
- Leather Shoe Fragments
- Marlinespikes (pair)
- McGinnis Gold Cross
- Metal bits with fleur-de-lis design
- Metal fragment with gold traces
- Metal object from 171-foot void
- Metal pieces (200 ft depth)
- Metal pipe fragment (Smith's Cove, Blankenship 1969-70)
- Mi'kmaq pottery
- Miner's oil lamp (whale oil)
- Musket Ball (Lead Shot)
- Musket Flintlock Mechanism
- Nail from U-shaped structure timber (Smith's Cove, Blankenship 1969-70)
- Oak peg (Smith's Cove U-shaped structure, GX-1692)
- Ornate Faceted Glass Jewel
- Ornate metal ring (flowered)
- Ox shoes (multiple)
- Parchment fragment
- Parchment scrap (H8)
- Pewter Spoon Bowl
- Pick Axe (Eye of the Swamp)
- Piece of chain + bone
- Pigmented Parchment Fragments
- Pink glass bead (17th century)
- Pipe stem
- Porcelain fragments
- Possible booby trap spike
- Pottery (18th century)
- Pottery fragments (Smith's Cove ramp, Blankenship 1969-70)
- Pottery pieces (Lot 12 dump site)
- Pottery shard with raised leaf design
- Pottery shards (mercury traces, Hedden find)
- Pottery shards (Staffordshire pearlware)
- Purple-stained wood fragment
- Ramrod Guide
- Ring Bolt (Smith's Cove, Historical Account)
- Ring Bolt (South Shore Cove, Blankenship)
- Ring Bolt Rock (Lot 13)
- Rock stake (ship anchor)
- Rose Head Spike (Karma-1)
- Rusty hook
- Ship spikes (numerous)
- Ship's wooden pin
- Silver Spanish ring
- Silver tassel piece (90% silver)
- Skeleton key
- Slag-like metal piece (Bowmaster dewatering hole)
- Small horseshoe (mule/pony)
- Spike (1700s wrought iron)
- Spike coated in limestone/concrete
- Square nails
- Staffordshire slipware pottery
- Stained Wood Fragment
- Starburst Button (silver-plated)
- Stone Shot (Lot 16)
- Stone Shot (Money Pit)
- Stone Shot (Peacock 1)
- Swivel Gun Metal
- TD pipe stem (Thomas Dormer)
- Toe tap (leather and copper)
- Trapezoid-Shaped Wood Piece
- Treasure chest hinge
- Venetian glass beads (multiple)
- Wharf pin (large iron)
- Wharf pin nail (1700s)
- Wharf-Pin Ringbolt (Eastern Uplands)
- Wood from 2A shaft
- Wooden cargo barrel fragments
- Wooden keg barrel pieces
- Wooden Ship's Plank
- Wooden ship's railing
- Wooden Stakes
- Wound glass bead (forest glass, Normandy)
- Wrought iron spike (swamp)
- Yarmouth Runic Stone
- 1850 Cofferdam remains
- Arcadia Stone
- Box drains (fan-shaped)
- Cement/concrete vault layer
- Chappell Vault
- Concrete/cement wall
- Fireplace Hearth Foundation
- Flagstone layer
- Garden Shaft
- Inclined ramp (Smith's Cove, Blankenship 1969-70)
- Iron barrier
- L-shaped wooden structure
- Large boulder (TEFERET location)
- Lot 5 Standing Stone
- Lot 8 Giant Boulder
- Man-made stone tunnel
- Nolan's Cross (5 boulders)
- Oak log platforms (multiple)
- Paved Area / Stone Wharf
- Paving stone ramp/incline
- Pine Tar Kiln
- Possible box drain entrance
- Quadrilateral boulder formation
- Rectangular structure (Lot 30)
- Rock Wall (Lot26)
- Round stone feature (Lot 5)
- Sand Road (Western Swamp)
- Slipway (wooden)
- Spruce platform
- Square Swamp Vault
- Square-shaped hatch
- Stone and cement foundation (Smith's Cove)
- Stone Cairns
- Stone Road
- Stone Triangle
- Stone well (Lot 11)
- Stone Well (Lot 5)
- Stone well (never freezes)
- U-shaped wooden structure
- Unknown tunnel (east-west)
- Adze-marked wood
- Axe-cut tree stumps
- Axe-cut wood slivers (Hole 201X)
- Blue clay layer
- Charcoal layer
- Coconut fibre (Money Pit)
- Coconut fibre (Smith's Cove)
- Crude lime mortar fragments (Becker Hole B33)
- Eelgrass layer
- Flat decking wood (carbon dated)
- Metal in pieces
- Oak leaf and acorn (Restall collection)
- Oak stumps (Mercy Point)
- Piece of wood containing traces of gold
- Putty layer
- Sticks/organic matter (Eye of the Swamp)
- Wood slat and wooden stake (Triton Alliance, 1981)
- Wood, clay, charcoal (various boreholes)
- Britannia coin, 17th century (Lot 32, S09E13)
- Britannia copper, 1673 (Charles II, Lot 16)
- Britannia copper, 1694 (William III, Lot 16)
- British copper coin, 17th century (Lot 32, S09E11)
- British Tudor portcullis coin, 1500s (Lot 5)
- Chinese cash coin, 400 BC-900 AD (Lot 15)
- Coin with possible cross design, medieval (Money Pit)
- Copper coin, late 17th-early 18th century (swamp stone pathway, S8E10)
- Copper coin, late 17th-early 18th century (swamp stone pathway, S8E11)
- Copper coin, pre-1816 (Lot 6, Samuel Ball property)
- Cut silver coin, 15th-18th century (Lot 5 round feature)
- Cut Spanish maravedi, 17th-18th century (Isaac's Point)
- Folded copper coin, post-medieval (Lot 5 round feature)
- George III "Cartwheel" twopence, 1797 (island general)
- George III penny or halfpenny, 1760-1820 (Lot 5)
- George Washington funeral urn medal, 1800 (swamp)
- Gold-plated coin, 18th century (Smith's Cove)
- Half Roman coin, c. 300 BC-600 AD (Lot 5)
- King George II coins, 18th century (multiple, island general)
- King George II copper coin, 1771 (island general)
- Large copper coin, 1730s-1740s (Lot 25, Samuel Ball foundation)
- Portuguese Tornes, 1369-1371 (Pitblado coin)
- Possible silver coin, post-1730s (Smith's Cove slipway)
- Queen Victoria copper halfpenny, c. 1840s (island general)
- Roman coin (Claudius II), 268-270 AD (Lot 5)
- Roman coin, 100-300 AD (Lot 5)
- Roman coin, 200-300 AD (Lot 5)
- Roman coin, pre-100 AD (Lot 5)
- Small coin, 17th century (island general)
- Spanish 11 maravedis, 1598 (Smith's Cove)
- Spanish 8 maravedis copper, 1652 (swamp)
- Spanish half-real silver, 1781 (island general)
- Submerged coin, undated, possibly Chinese (shoreline)
- Two copper coins, undated (Lot 5 round feature)
- Unusual coin or token with webbing design, undated (Money Pit)
- William III sixpence, 1697-1701 (Lot 18)
- 1704 stone
- Ardoise Hill Gravestone (C. Manulis, 1558)
- Bedford Petroglyph of an Eight-pointed Star
- Brooklyn Symbols
- Evans Stone - 13-branched tree carving in rock
- Flat Stone with Hooked X
- Glooscap Stone
- Goose Paw (Palazzo Falson)
- Goose Paw symbol (Brooklyn, NS)
- Goose Paw symbol (Valkenburg, Netherlands)
- H+O stone
- Head Stone (human face/sword)
- Hornfels Rock
- Inscribed stone (90-foot stone)
- Kingdom Stone (Malkuth)
- Masonic 'G' stone
- Masonic Stone of Port Royal (1606)
- New Ross Herm Stone
- New Ross Well Symbol
- Overton Stone
- REDDEM Stone
- Tory Martin Stone
- Adze Head
- Axe
- Axe Head
- Block and tackle hook
- Bush Scythe Fragments
- Cornish miner's pick
- Divider Compass
- Forest Axe Heads (3)
- Iron cargo hook (Lot 11 well)
- Iron scissors handles (Lot 5)
- Iron swages (2 blacksmith tools)
- Lifting chain (wharf cargo)
- Pick Axe
- Plumb Bob
- Ramrod (musket rifle)
- Ruler/set square
- Shear handle (Lot 5 shoreline)
- Wooden T-square / masonic tool
- Wrought iron scissors
Research Sites
68 sites · 10 countries
Canada 26
- Acadia University
- Apple Island
- Beaton Institute
- Bedford Barrens Petroglyphs
- Bedford Institute of Oceanography
- Brooklyn Nova Scotia
- Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS)
- Dartmouth Heritage Museum (Evergreen House)
- Dawson Print Shop - Nova Scotia School of Art & Design
- Fort Point Museum
- Fortress of Louisbourg
- Grand Lodge of Halifax
- Halifax Club
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Lordly House Museum
- Lunenburg Academy
- Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
- Mug & Anchor Pub
- New Ross
- Northville Farms Heritage Centre
- Overton Stone
- Peggy's Cove
- Ross Farm Museum
- Saint Mary's University
- University of New Brunswick
- Yarmouth County Museum
Denmark 4
France 5
Italy 7
Netherlands 2
Portugal 12
- Church of Fonte Arcada
- Church of Our Lady of the Conception
- Church of Saint Sebastian
- Convento de Cristo
- Grota do Medo
- Museu de Angra do Heroismo
- Museu Militar (Military Museum)
- Quinta da Regaleira
- Regional Public Library and Archives of Angra do Heroismo
- Roman Road of Alqueidao da Serra
- Serreta
- Tomar Town Square
United Kingdom 4
United States of America 2
The Research Archive
110 sources · 15 types- The Jerusalem Files
- The Secrets of Nolan's Cross
- The Secret Treasure of Oak Island
- The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt
- The Templar Mission to Oak Island and Beyond
- Oak Island Mystery: Solved
- Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure
- The Seven Steps to Mercy: with Shakespeare's Key to the Oak Island Templum
- The Oak Island Mystery: The Secret of the World's Greatest Treasure Hunt
- The Money Pit Mystery: The Costliest Treasure Hunt Ever
- The Oak Island Mystery
- The Oak Island Enigma: A History and Inquiry into the Origin of the Money Pit
- The Precursors of Jacques Cartier, 1497–1534
- A History of Lunenburg County
- 1873 Historical and Genealogical Record of the First Settlers of Colchester County
- Rambles Among the Blue-Noses
- The Voyages and Explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1604–1616)
- The Rotarian: The Strange Case of the Money Pit
- Reader's Digest: Oak Island's Mysterious Money Pit
- The North American Review: The Oak Island Treasure
- The Wide World Magazine: Pirate Gold (1920)
- Collier's: Solving the Mystery of Oak Island
- Collier's: The Lure of Pirate's Gold (1906)
- Collier's: The Lure of Pirate's Gold (1905)
- The Penny Magazine: The 100 Years' Search (1897)
- The New Dominion Monthly, July 1870
- Norman Creighton: CBC Radio Talk Transcript on Oak Island (1969)
- Robert Dunfield: Field Sketches (1966)
- John Whitney Lewis: Notes on the Money Pit (1957)
- Hamilton: Notes on Work Done in Summer 1939
- Details about the Salvage Co. (1912)
- The Old Gold Salvage and Wrecking Company (1909)
- List of Old Gold Salvage and Wrecking Company Crew (1909)
- MG1 Vol. 380: Activity Description (1909)
- F. Blair: Account of the Oak Island Treasure Co. Operations 1896–1900
- Captain Welling on Oak Island (1898)
- Notes on the Eastern Chronicle Article, 5 April 1894
- Operations of the Oak Island Treasure Company
- James McNutt's History of Oak Island (1867)
- Notes from James McNutt (1867)
- The Fourth Attempt (1866)
- The Third Attempt (1865)
- Oak Island Association: Meeting Notes on Formation (1861)
- Man-Made Flood System (1850)
- The Second Attempt at Recovery (1849)
- The First Treasure Company (1803)
- Voyage de Samuel Champlain (Latin, 1603)
- Oak Island Mystery Trees
- History, Hoax, and Hype: The Oak Island Legend
- Oak Island Treasure (UK)
- Oak Island Book
- Quest of Oak Island Facebook Group
- Oak Island Legend
- Chronology of the Oak Island Treasure Hunt
- CMHS: Interactive Oak Island Map
- Blockhouse: 90-Foot Stone Series
- CMHS: Inscribed (90-Foot) Stone
- Critical Enquiry: Oak Island Information
- OakIslandTreasure.co.uk: George Greene Documents (1955)
- Chester Municipal Heritage Society
- OakIslandMystery.com
- Nova Scotia Archives
- The Oak Island Compendium
- National Archives of Scotland
- Nova Scotia Archives - Oak Island Maps
- OakIslandMystery.com - Research Index
- CMHS: Timeline of Searchers
- CMHS: Ownership of Oak Island, 1795–Present
- Triton Alliance Documentation
- Coconut Fibre Carbon Dating Reports
- Blockhouse: Les MacPhie Archives
- MemoryNS: Jotham Blanchard McCully Fonds
- Lunenburg County Church Records
- Early Canadiana Online
- Hathi Trust Digital Library
- British Newspaper Archive
- Nova Scotia Virtual Archives
- The National Archives (United Kingdom)
- The National Archives (United States)
- Library and Archives Canada
- Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
Glossary
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