BREAKING: The Oak Island Team Just Got CLOSER Than Ever to the Treasure!
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00:00We have high hopes with the next can location.
00:03You hitch up your boots, you get stuck in, as Gary calls it, and you move forward.
00:10Oh, wow. Look at that.
00:13Oh, look at that.
00:15We found evidence of different constructs.
00:18Oh, you think this could be a bone?
00:19The Oak Island team found human bones deep underground.
00:23One from Europe, one from the Middle East.
00:25After 200 years, they might be closer than ever.
00:28Old tools, a broken barrel, and a strange lead cross are signs of something big.
00:33Some say the tunnels were made to hide a body, not treasure.
00:37Tune in because RP3 is heading straight for the spot where someone may have died to guard the vault.
00:45Deeper than ever.
00:47Rick and Marty Lagina rolled up to the Money Pit area with something different in their eyes.
00:52Not blind hope. Not guesswork. Strategy.
00:55They weren't just digging holes. They were aiming for history's jugular.
01:00Let's start at the beginning of this recent madness.
01:03Shaft 6, the spot that collapsed back in the 1800s during one of the many failed treasure hunts, was their new target.
01:10Why? Because that collapse might have buried the goods.
01:13But what they hit next made the legend look tame.
01:16Back in 1861, a group known as the Oak Island Association drilled deep into the earth and claimed they struck not one, but two treasure chests.
01:25Stacked like a sandwich at around 110 feet down.
01:29But before they could high-five each other, the island did what it does best.
01:33Flooded them out.
01:34A man-made flood tunnel filled the shaft with seawater, turning the whole operation into a soggy disaster.
01:41Their first breakthrough came with RP1, a seven-foot-wide shaft drilled just feet away from the infamous Shaft 6.
01:48So at the bottom of this hole, we should catch part of the tunnel going from Shaft 6 to the Money Pit.
01:52Something that was in the tunnel or in the shaft.
01:55Yeah.
01:56One coin, two coins, a hundred coins, even part of an authentic chest, anything.
02:01While most digs on this island serve up nothing but mud and false alarms, RP1 was different.
02:07They pulled out old iron straps.
02:09Not the kind you'd find holding a fence together.
02:12These looked like chest bindings.
02:14Then came a pipe stem, dated to the late 1600s.
02:18Think about that.
02:19A smoking pipe older than the legend itself.
02:22That single piece pushed the timeline back an entire century.
02:26As RP2 descended past 100 feet, things got weird in all the right ways.
02:31They hit wood.
02:32Not just any wood.
02:33Timbers cut with an adze.
02:35That's a hand tool people used before modern saws, and it's unmistakable.
02:40The marks scream centuries old.
02:42Then came the broken barrel stave.
02:45A thin curved plank, unmistakably from a barrel.
02:48Here's where the fun begins.
02:49Barrels weren't just for rum or nails.
02:53Back in the day, if you had coins, gold, or anything worth hiding, you didn't stash it in a safe.
02:58You packed it in a barrel and buried it.
03:01That barrel piece, it fits the story like a glove.
03:04One of the original workers even claimed he found the top of a keg before the shaft caved in.
03:09Now, the new team has the same evidence in their hands.
03:13Then came the grinding.
03:15The shaft's pressure sensors went crazy, signaling that the drill had hit something dense.
03:21Pressures on the off layers just changed.
03:23We're about at 116 feet with the casing teeth.
03:26Could be something we don't know anything about.
03:28This wasn't soft soil, it was compact, possibly artificial.
03:33They pushed through it anyway, hitting what looked like the base of the old tunnel.
03:36But no coins, no jewels, no jackpot.
03:40Just thick ancient earth and a ton of questions.
03:42There are still questions, of course.
03:44Is the tunnel intact?
03:46Are the chests still buried, or did the collapse scatter them?
03:49Could more shafts be hiding deeper traps, just waiting to ruin the next dig?
03:54The Oak Island team doesn't pretend to have all the answers.
03:57But they do have the tools, the will, and a map that's finally making sense.
04:02Their strategy now is tight, controlled, calculated.
04:05No more random drills.
04:07They're triangulating every find, matching each artifact to a known event from the island's past.
04:12Cross-referencing collapsed zones with water intrusion points.
04:16Its archaeology meets obsession, and it's getting sharper by the hour.
04:21And the treasure.
04:22It might be losing ground.
04:24The zone they're calling the sweet spot.
04:26They're planning to sink RP3 down 120 feet, past old trap zones, past collapsed debris,
04:33aiming for that precise stretch of tunnel believed to have once carried the treasure before everything fell apart.
04:38If it's still intact, it'll be the first time in over a century anyone's breached it.
04:44Meanwhile, the artifacts from RP1 and RP2 are undergoing lab analysis.
04:49That pipe stem?
04:51Turns out it might be Dutch.
04:53And if that's confirmed, it blows the timeline wide open.
04:57Dutch traders were all over the eastern coast in the 1600s.
05:00And guess what?
05:01They were known for moving coins, spices, and weaponry in bulk, often stashed in barrels.
05:07Suddenly, the keg stave and the pipe aren't just cool finds.
05:11They're evidence.
05:12Of movement.
05:13Of intent.
05:14Of people with something to hide.
05:16And that puts Oak Island right in the middle of something bigger.
05:19Not just pirate gold.
05:21Not just old scrolls.
05:22Maybe a trade stash.
05:24Maybe loot from war.
05:26Maybe something no one even knows to look for.
05:28And while all this goes on, there's a new buzz on the island.
05:32Locals are keeping tabs.
05:34Old timers who once rolled their eyes at the treasure hunt are showing up, watching the digs from a distance.
05:40People are starting to believe again.
05:42Not just because of what the team says, but because of that the island is finally giving up.
05:48It took over 200 years for the ground to start speaking.
05:52Next up, RP3.
05:55A shaft that might be the last one they ever need.
05:57Or another chapter in a legend that refuses to die.
06:01Either way, the Oak Island team is going in deeper, smarter, and harder than ever.
06:06Just when things slowed down, it all turned dark.
06:10The cross that shouldn't exist.
06:13Something weird just happened on Oak Island.
06:16And no, it wasn't another rusty coin or some old wooden plank pretending to be a clue.
06:21This time, the ground gave up something way more human.
06:25Literally.
06:26It is porous.
06:28Yeah.
06:28As somebody that knows more than we do, have a look at it.
06:32It started like any other dig.
06:34Same place they've drilled a thousand times.
06:36Borehole H8.
06:38A cursed little patch of dirt known more for wasting time than giving answers.
06:43But this time, something pushed back.
06:45Not rock.
06:46Not metal.
06:47It was softer.
06:49Different.
06:49When they yanked the core out and saw it under the light, they knew right away.
06:53This wasn't debris.
06:55It was bone.
06:55Real bone.
06:57Humans.
06:58Suddenly, it wasn't about gold anymore.
07:00It was about who.
07:01Who ended up that deep underground, 160 feet below?
07:05Who got buried?
07:06No hidden down there.
07:08Was this some poor soul caught in a trap or someone who died building the trap?
07:12The team shipped the fragments off to St. Mary's in Halifax.
07:16And when the results came back, the tone in the war room shifted hard.
07:20One set of bones came from someone European.
07:23Expected.
07:23But the other, Middle Eastern origin.
07:25That single revelation cracked the lid off every theory this island's been drowning in for decades.
07:31The floodgates opened.
07:32Templars.
07:33Crusaders.
07:34Secret voyages across the Atlantic centuries before Columbus.
07:37Sacred artifacts buried under layers of booby traps and lies.
07:41And now?
07:42Now the dirt's telling the story.
07:44No one wasted time.
07:46They expanded the dig radius around H8, scanning every inch like maniacs.
07:50Ground-penetrating radar.
07:52High-res borehole cameras.
07:54Soil cores tested and double-tested.
07:57And while no more bodies surfaced, the artifacts did.
08:00Tools that didn't match colonial standards.
08:03Ceramic fragments with burn patterns unfamiliar to any local process.
08:07A rusted hilt, possibly from a sword, twisted with time, but unmistakably forged in a style that didn't belong.
08:15Then came the cross.
08:16Not large.
08:18Not flashy.
08:19Just a tiny sliver of metal.
08:21Tucked in the mud like it was meant to stay hidden forever.
08:24It had markings.
08:25Not fully Latin.
08:26Not clearly Arabic.
08:28Some strange in between.
08:30Symbols that blurred cultures.
08:32A secret handshake etched in metal.
08:35It wasn't decoration.
08:36It was a message.
08:37Experts clashed hard over it.
08:40One camp swore it was a crusader cross adapted through cultural drift.
08:45Another group insisted it was Phoenician.
08:47A few outliers even brought up early Coptic Christian influences.
08:51The deeper they dug into it, the more it looked like no one really knew.
08:55But one thing was clear.
08:57It wasn't made by accident.
08:59600 years ago.
09:01No.
09:01It was in France 600 years ago.
09:03And arrived here at an undetermined date.
09:07And then came the dating results.
09:0915th to 17th century.
09:12The exact window where Europe was on fire with religious wars, secret societies were being hunted down,
09:18and ships were vanishing into oceans chasing gold, glory, or escape.
09:23Whoever this person was, they didn't belong to this land.
09:27And they didn't die peacefully.
09:29Blunt force trauma.
09:30Crushed ribs.
09:31Fractured skull.
09:33Pressure marks consistent with collapse or restraint.
09:36That bone didn't just fall and break.
09:39It broke with intention.
09:41What if this wasn't just a death?
09:43What if this was an execution?
09:45With that twist, everything flipped.
09:47The money pit wasn't just a trap.
09:49It might have been a tomb.
09:51Or a prison.
09:52Or both.
09:53Old records were torn apart again.
09:56The Onslow Company logs from 1804 had always felt messy.
10:00But now a small note stuck out.
10:02A mention of a foreign engineer.
10:04No name.
10:05Just K.M.
10:06He spoke broken English and drew maps filled with weird tunnel designs that didn't fit any British engineering model.
10:13They ignored it for years.
10:15Now, it's a clue.
10:17Then, there's the 90-foot stone.
10:20Dismissed for decades as a fake.
10:22A hoax to keep treasure hunters chasing a ghost.
10:25But when they fed the symbols through new AI-powered decryption software, parts started making more sense.
10:31Some characters resembled ancient Semitic scripts, close to Phoenician or early Hebrew.
10:37That same tech flagged similarities with symbols used in secret Masonic lodges.
10:42Different origins.
10:42Different origins.
10:43One destination.
10:45The internet caught wind.
10:46Not from a press release, but from whispers.
10:49Oak Island is always leaked.
10:51And when it leaks, it spirals.
10:53Message boards exploded.
10:54Was it a hidden sect?
10:56A Templar tomb?
10:58Proof of pre-Columbian contact?
11:00People threw Atlantis back into the mix.
11:02Some shouted ancient aliens.
11:05But the core team ignored the static.
11:07Their boots were on the ground.
11:08Their hands in the dirt.
11:10It's got some decoration, mate.
11:11If there's going to be anywhere, it'd be on that base.
11:14Some kind of bowl or dish.
11:16There's so much of it.
11:17More funding rolled in, quietly, from private sources.
11:21One of them is allegedly tied to a European historical society that doesn't advertise its members.
11:27Another from a university in Portugal obsessed with naval logs from the 15th century.
11:32Everyone wanted in.
11:33And the pressure?
11:34It tripled.
11:35They launched RP-3, a precision shaft calculated to intersect with the legendary flood tunnel system
11:41believed to guard the main vault.
11:44It wasn't about money anymore.
11:45It was about memory.
11:46A man died here.
11:49Possibly more.
11:50That vault wasn't just hiding gold.
11:52It might have been hiding the truth.
11:55Meanwhile, isotope testing on the bones brought up more.
11:58Diet loaded with seafood, heavy and coastal minerals.
12:02Trace elements matched areas near modern-day Lebanon.
12:05This wasn't a guess.
12:07This was a fingerprint.
12:09DNA sequencing came next.
12:11Mitochondrial lines pointed to ancestry along the eastern Mediterranean coast.
12:16Not a sailor from Spain.
12:18Not a French settler.
12:19A traveler from a world away.
12:22Religious scholars were brought in.
12:24Some whispered the word Moor.
12:26Others leaned toward Templar initiates who may have absorbed eastern customs during the Crusades.
12:32One bold theory, a defector.
12:34A Templar who turned on his brothers, smuggled something west and paid for it with his life.
12:40The evidence piled up.
12:42A strange medallion found near Borehole F7.
12:46Worn beyond recognition, but still showing a faint outline of a figure holding a square and compass.
12:52Buried beside it?
12:53A shard of what appeared to be ancient glass melted at one end.
12:57Lab tests confirmed it predated European settlement by at least a hundred years.
13:03Someone brought technology.
13:05Someone brought culture.
13:06Someone buried it deep and didn't expect anyone to find it.
13:10The team brought in linguists to analyze every marking.
13:13The cross, the stone, even carvings in trees once dismissed as graffiti.
13:19Patterns emerged, geometry, ratios tied to celestial cycles.
13:25Old world knowledge wrapped in symbols meant to be unreadable.
13:28This wasn't just a burial.
13:30This was encryption.
13:31What if Oak Island wasn't just a vault for treasure, but a message in a bottle meant for the future?
13:36A relay point, a warning, or worse, a trap.
13:40The deeper they went, the harder the island fought back.
13:45Buried with traps and resin.
13:48While all this unraveled, locals started reporting strange activity.
13:52Drones flying overhead at night.
13:55Unmarked boats anchored offshore with high-end scanning tech.
13:59A few even claimed to have seen men in uniforms walking the island after hours.
14:03No logos.
14:04No explanations.
14:06Behind the scenes, the lab teams uncovered protein residue on the bones.
14:09Something unusual.
14:11A chemical compound found in old preservation methods.
14:15Possibly a resin used in ritual burial.
14:17That meant whoever buried this man didn't just throw him in a hole.
14:21They preserved him.
14:22They cared.
14:23We can do some chemical analysis.
14:28It looks nice and clean.
14:30I think this is the first time we've seen phosphorus in an iron object, though.
14:33But why bury someone with care in a death trap?
14:37And then it hit.
14:38Maybe the trap wasn't meant to protect treasure.
14:41Maybe it was meant to protect the body.
14:43To stop others from finding what he carried.
14:45That tiny cross?
14:46It wasn't made of local metal.
14:49It was traced to a mine near the Sinai Peninsula.
14:52Thousands of kilometers away.
14:54Somehow it made it to a tiny island off the coast of Nova Scotia.
14:58If this story isn't rewriting history, then history needs better ink.
15:03Now, the team works under round-the-clock surveillance.
15:06Not for safety, but because eyes are watching.
15:09They've been contacted by shadowy groups claiming to represent religious archives.
15:13One even offered to buy the bones.
15:16That offer never made it past the inbox.
15:19Every step closer unearths something older, darker, and heavier.
15:22This isn't an adventure anymore.
15:24It's an excavation of pain.
15:27Of decisions made in desperation.
15:29Of secrets buried so deep they warp the soil around them.
15:33The ground keeps giving up its dead.
15:35And every bone has a voice.
15:38Rick Lagina stood at the edge of RP3 one morning.
15:42Alone.
15:43Cold wind tearing through his coat.
15:45He didn't see maps or blueprints.
15:47He saw a man far from home.
15:49Buried in silence, waiting to be remembered.
15:52This isn't about gold.
15:53Never was.
15:55It's about truth buried in dirt.
15:57About ghosts who refuse to stay quiet.
16:00Oak Island is screaming now.
16:01And the world better start listening.
16:04Through the years, crews have pulled out all kinds of odd stuff.
16:07An old lead cross.
16:09Scraps of parchment.
16:10Broken tools.
16:11And gear that looks straight out of a British military stash.
16:14Some of these finds have links to the Knights Templar.
16:17While others scream secret operations.
16:19And the deeper they go, the more complex it gets.
16:23We're talking multi-layered booby traps.
16:26Underground flood tunnels.
16:28And stone slabs carved with strange symbols.
16:31That's not some prank by bored fishermen.
16:34One theory that keeps heating up?
16:36The British Crown might have been in on this from the start.
16:39Back in 1762, after the British crushed Havana and scooped up massive amounts of treasure, there was only one thing to do.
16:48Hide it.
16:49Halifax was right around the corner.
16:51A perfect staging ground for something sneaky.
16:53And if you followed the trails of movement, it leads right to Oak Island.
16:58And guess what?
16:59Some records from that era have just vanished.
17:02Not in a lost in the attic kind of way.
17:04More like shredded, burned, or buried by someone who wanted it gone forever.
17:09That's not an accident.
17:11That's someone making sure questions don't get answered.
17:14Which only makes people dig deeper, literally and figuratively.
17:17I get excited every time there's a new item, a new science that can advance our search.
17:24Is it French? Is it British? We don't know for sure.
17:27Those traps in the money pit?
17:29They weren't tossed together overnight.
17:31Engineers with serious skill had to be involved.
17:34These tunnels were carved with purpose.
17:37Some lead to nothing.
17:38Others are waterlogged death traps.
17:41There's even one system that seems designed to flood the entire pit if the wrong stone is moved.
17:46This was a fortress built to protect something.
17:49Maybe gold, maybe documents, maybe something far more explosive.
17:54And it gets messier.
17:56Some believe the tunnels were created to protect ancient text, relics, or proof of forbidden knowledge.
18:02Things that would flip the history books upside down.
18:05Think scrolls that reveal royal lies, buried truths about ancient civilizations,
18:10or links between secret societies and global powers.
18:13This wasn't just about keeping thieves out.
18:17It was about keeping the past buried.
18:20Now, with modern tech digging deeper than ever,
18:23the Oak Island team is finding new stuff no one expected.
18:26Ground-penetrating radar has picked up hidden chambers.
18:29Scans have shown massive voids below the surface,
18:31places that don't match any natural structure.
18:34Some of these zones are too symmetrical to be accidents.
18:36And inside those hidden pockets, more items.
18:39More confusion.
18:41More proof.
18:42One layer down, the team found stones arranged in a compass pattern.
18:46Another dig revealed tools made of materials not common in that part of the world.
18:51And just recently, they discovered a chamber with walls lined in some kind of blackened clay,
18:56possibly used to waterproof or hide whatever was stored there.
19:00Every time they dig, the mystery grows.
19:03But treasure hunting isn't the only danger.
19:06The deeper the crew digs, the more pushback they get.
19:10Funding disappears.
19:12Equipment breaks.
19:13Rumors swirl.
19:14There have even been quiet visits from unknown people who ask too many questions and offer no answers.
19:20Coincidence?
19:21Not likely.
19:23When secrets this big start coming up for air, people notice.
19:27And the deeper they go, the darker it gets.
19:30Strange energy readings in some dig sites have spooked even the most experienced crew members.
19:36A few have walked away completely, saying the place gave them nightmares.
19:39Others report hearing noises underground, knocking, footsteps, whispers.
19:45Could be echoes.
19:46Could be something else entirely.
19:48Rituals might be part of the puzzle.
19:51Strange patterns of bones have been found.
19:53Carvings shaped like suns, moons, and stars have been uncovered.
19:58Some even claim to have seen symbols that match ancient fertility or death rituals.
20:03Was Oak Island used for ceremonies long before the treasure theories began?
20:07That would explain a lot.
20:10But the story isn't just buried treasure and creepy carvings.
20:13There's a bigger picture.
20:15One that might stretch across continents.
20:17Some researchers believe Oak Island was a hub.
20:20A node in a hidden map linking secret sites across the world.
20:24From ancient pyramids to underground cities, there could be a network of hidden history waiting to be exposed.
20:31And Oak Island might be the first crack in the wall.
20:34Even the land itself fights back.
20:36Cave-ins, floods, freak weather.
20:38Nature doesn't make it easy.
20:40The island seems almost alive, like it's guarding its truth.
20:44Each time the team gets close, something tries to push them back.
20:48But that hasn't stopped them.
20:50There's something under Oak Island.
20:52Something real.
20:53It might not be gold bars or royal crowns,
20:56but it's big enough for someone to bury it under layers of lies, traps, and centuries of silence.
21:02And now, after all this time, the truth is cracking through.
21:06What if Oak Island was never hiding treasure, but hiding history itself?
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