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From the Treasure of the Knights Templar to Shakespeare's lost manuscripts.

The Knights Templar

The Knights Templar

Who were the Knights Templar? From warrior monks of the Crusades to history's most powerful secret society, and the o...

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The Knights Hospitaller

The Knights Hospitaller

Often overshadowed by the Templars, the Knights Hospitaller inherited their assets, their secrets, and possibly their...

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Vikings

Vikings

Norse explorers reached Nova Scotia centuries before Columbus. Could Viking expeditions explain Oak Island's earliest...

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Pirates

Pirates

Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and the golden age of piracy. Could Oak Island's Money Pit be the ultimate pirate vault, or...

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The Knights Baronet

The Knights Baronet

Nova Scotia was created as a baronetcy in 1621. The Knights Baronet held direct authority over Oak Island, a connecti...

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Baconians

Baconians

Did Sir Francis Bacon hide the original Shakespeare manuscripts beneath Oak Island? The Baconian theory and its surpr...

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Early Freemasons

Early Freemasons

Masonic symbols, geometric design, and secretive construction. How early Freemasonry's documented presence in Nova Sc...

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The Treasure

The Treasure

What is actually buried on Oak Island? From Templar gold and royal jewels to religious relics and ancient documents, ...

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