The Knights Templar
Who were the Knights Templar and what evidence is there for their presence on Oak Island? From warrior monks of the Crusades to the powerful force behind Oak Island's deepest mystery.
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The Theories
From the Treasure of the Knights Templar to Shakespeare's lost manuscripts.
38 theoriesMedieval Connections
Warrior monks, early adventurers, and the forensic evidence they left behind
The Knights Hospitaller
Often overshadowed by the Templars, the Knights Hospitaller were equally powerful and far longer ...
The Knights of Malta
From the fortress of Malta to the shores of Nova Scotia. The Knights of Malta held a fleet, gover...
De Villiers: The Treasure Bloodline
One family. Ten generations. From the Templar escape of 1307 to the shores of Nova Scotia in 1632...
Oak Island Mystery Trees
The trees that gave Oak Island its name were never oaks. Forensic botanical analysis identifies t...
Zena Halpern and the Templar Map of Oak Island
New York researcher Zena Halpern brought three documents to The Curse of Oak Island that reshaped...
The Portuguese: The Order of Christ
The Templar order never died. It was reborn in Portugal, and its knights sailed to the New World.
Explorers and Expeditions
From Norse longships to Roosevelt's private letters
Vikings
Norse explorers reached Nova Scotia centuries before Columbus. Could Viking expeditions explain Oak Island's earliest construction and what lies below?
The Roosevelt Connection
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Oak Island obsession spanned thirty-six years, from a boyhood visit to th...
The Doomed Expedition of the Duc d'Anville
In 1746, France assembled the largest fleet ever sent to the New World: 64 ships and 11,000 men u...
Henry Sinclair, the Zeno voyage
In 1398, a Scottish earl and two Venetian navigators allegedly sailed west. They may have reached...
William Phips, the Treasure of the Concepción
Could a 17th-century treasure hunter, a sunken Spanish galleon, and a conspiracy to overthrow a k...
Pirates and Privateers
Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and a dying pirate's cryptogram
Pirates
Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Henry Every, and Peter Easton. Oak Island sits in Mahone Bay, a documented pirate haven where crews recruited, resupplied, and disappeared for over a century.
Peter Easton, the Pirate Admiral
The wealthiest pirate of his era commanded 40 ships from Newfoundland, captured a Spanish silver ...
Captain Kidd and the Hidden Maps
The oldest theory and the name that started it all. A privateer's commission, a dying sailor's co...
La Buse and the Unsolved Cryptogram
In 1730, French pirate Olivier Levasseur threw a coded message into the crowd at his execution an...
Blackbeard, the Devil's Bargain
The most feared pirate of the Golden Age claimed he buried his treasure "where none but Satan and...
Secret Societies
Freemasons, Rosicrucians, and the manuscripts of Francis Bacon
William Shakespeare, the Lost Works
Four researchers using different methods each decoded directions in Shakespeare's works pointing to Oak Island. Then the drilling began to prove them right.
Francis Bacon's Secret Island
He invented the biliteral cipher, described a tidal seawater pit in his published works, and held...
Rosicrusians
The Rosicrucian manifestos of 1614 described a sealed underground vault built to survive centurie...
Early Freemasons
Masonic symbols, geometric design, and secretive construction. How early Freemasonry's documented...
Colonial Powers and Hidden Wealth
Empires clashed over Nova Scotia, and fortunes vanished
The Sack of Havana
In 1762, British forces captured Havana and seized a fortune in Spanish gold, silver, and warships. Did rogue officers divert part of that treasure to Oak Island on their way north to Halifax?
The Knights Baronet
Nova Scotia was created as a baronetcy in 1621. The Knights Baronet held direct authority over Oa...
The Treasure of St. Andrew's Cathedral
Scotland's greatest cathedral held a thousand years of sacred wealth. In 1559, it all vanished.
The Secret British Military Bank
Between 1749 and 1783, Nova Scotia was the most strategically contested territory in the British ...
Spanish Galleons full of Inca Gold
Between 1500 and 1650, Spain extracted 181 tons of gold and 16,000 tons of silver from the Americ...
The Treasure of Louisbourg
For twenty-five years, France poured a fortune into the Fortress of Louisbourg, building the migh...
The Jewels of Marie Antoinette
When Marie Antoinette prepared to flee revolutionary Paris in 1791, she packed her diamonds, pear...
Geometry, Alignments and Symbolism
Star maps, sacred geometry, and lines drawn across continents
The Versailles Alignment to Oak Island
A giant Menorah hidden in the gardens of Versailles points directly to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and to Oak Island.
Nicolas Poussin, Keeper of Secrets
Nicolas Poussin painted secret knowledge into his masterpieces. Two of his works, read together, ...
Jean Richer, the Astronomer Sent to Acadia
In 1670, a French astronomer sailed to Acadia on a ship confiscated from Nicolas Fouquet. He spen...
Before Nolan's Cross: Temple Beeld Cross
On a hilltop in the North Yorkshire Moors, on documented Templar land, stands a formation of five...
The Oak Island Star Map
Five independent researchers, using different methods and starting from different assumptions, ha...
The Inscribed Marker Stones of Seborga
In the hills above the Italian Riviera, 34 inscribed boundary stones surround the village of Sebo...
Down-to-Earth Theories
Not every theory involves treasure.
The Natural Formation Theory
What if there is no treasure on Oak Island? A persistent counter-theory holds that the Money Pit is not a man-made shaft at all, but a natural sinkhole formed by the dissolution of the limestone an...
Mi'kmaq, the First Nation
Before the Money Pit, before the first European ship entered Mahone Bay, the Mi'kmaq were there. ...
Black Gold: The Tar Kiln Theory
What if the Money Pit was never a vault at all, but a furnace? Researcher Joy A. Steele and marin...
The Prize
What Lies Beneath?
A five-foot golden candelabrum from Solomon's Temple. The Ark of the Covenant. Shakespeare's lost manuscripts sealed in mercury. Each theory implies a different prize. The evidence supports more than one.
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