The Oak Island Treasure Has Just Been Found! | Season 11

So what we’re seeing is a high-density
anomaly sitting approximately 85 ft
Southwest of the garden shaft, about 230
ft below the surface of The Money Pit.
It’s significant in the latest episode of
season 11 of The Curse of Oak Island.
The team is drilling deeper to find a tunnel
they think is lost. They are still
searching around The Money Pit area.
The big question is whether they’ll discover
the hidden treasure. What have the
archaeologists and the digging team found
recently? Will they need to try more if
they don’t find what they’re looking for?

The episode starts with the Oak Island
crew continuing their search. This time
they’re getting advice from more people
as they go through their tasks. Alex
suggests that the tunnel they might find
through the drilling could have a lot of
metal. Examining what’s inside could show
if it’s pointing specifically West
towards the baby Blob made out of gold.

After making several cuts and going 53
ft down, the drilling tool brings up a
mysterious discovery. It’s covered in
very wet and soft soil from underground.
Based on what they already know, this
type of soil usually means there’s a
tunnel nearby. Another team member meets
with a representative from Dumas
Contracting Limited in the war room. They
discuss the latest updates on their
ongoing search for the Lost Treasure.

New information from the mining and
construction company makes the Oak
Island team get back to work after
stopping a task. Looks like we’ll get
her down there another foot and a half.
The rules for drilling and digging were
approved by the Ministry of Labor in
Nova Scotia. Now the team can move on
with digging the garden shaft. This sets
the stage for the next steps in their
research.

After getting the go-ahead, they speed up
their observation and analysis of specific
marked areas before the big operation
slows them down. Then we’re definitely
shooting for as soon as possible to get
everything submitted to them with respect
to the shaft deepening.

Okay, Gary Drayton and Peter Fornetti,
the metal detector experts on the team,
are busy checking the shoreline for clues.
This time they’re focusing on lot five.
Their goal is to find signs of iron, old
stuff, metal things, or maybe even hidden
treasures. The archaeologists marked
potential spots with flags. They also
figured out where ships used to be parked,
and guess what? They found more signs
of activity.

People have been curious about the Oak
Island Treasure since it was first
discovered in 1795. Some weird events
took place, like people secretly burying
treasures, using lead barter tokens,
and even placing 2,000-year-old Roman
coins and a cross from Smith’s Cove.
Interestingly, there’s a big granite slab
right in the middle of lot 5. It seems
like it was put there to cover something
up. Close to the park shoreline, there’s
a circular hole that goes back to the late
1600s. It looks a bit like a garden shaft.

The metal detector experts decided to check
the spots marked with flags, and guess
what? Their equipment showed that there
was metal below the ground. They dug
carefully and found a spike that was
probably used in building lots of things
on the island. Another spot gave them the
handle of a snipping tool. It turns out
this tool matches the hand-forged iron
scissors from Spain that Dan Blankenship
found back in 1970.

The archaeologists on the team were busy
digging a rectangular hole, thinking it
might be connected to the garden shaft.
Helen, who’s been doing this for a long
time, says these kinds of holes are super
rare and it’s her first time dealing
with one. What’s interesting is that the
foundation of this hole was buried really
deep, almost like someone wanted to hide
it on purpose. It seems something important
happened in lot five and they’re doing
their best to find any clues.

Jack pitched in to help sift through the
dirt they dug up from the hole while they
kept drilling about 100 ft into The Money
Pit area. For hours, they came across
another big discovery in D5 N27, close
to the tunnel garden shaft. It looks like
there might be another structure going
towards the east. The wood in this new
tunnel seems stronger and healthier and
it’s closer to the surface compared to
what they were originally looking for.

Uh, we just hit our target depth we were
looking to hit a tunnel and what we did
hit was approximately 7 1/2 ft of upright.
Wow, that’s pretty cool. Around 100 to
195 ft into drilling, the machine pulled
up a bunch of wet soil with scattered
materials. This not only confirmed the
existence of a second tunnel to the east
of the garden shaft but also hinted at
more findings.

Sadly, they ran out of time and now it
was up to the Dumas Contracting and
Irving Contracting teams to step in
with their heavy machinery. These companies
brought in some serious tools, like 109
ton cranes for lifting heavy material
and a 3-ton hammer grab tool. They
started putting everything together while
Alex and the rest of the team explored
a new area to the east of the garden
shaft. They’re starting a new drilling
operation called C5 N27 to check out the
recently found tunnel. This tunnel is
estimated to be 7 1/2 ft wide and more
than 100 ft deep into the ground.

The team wants to drill in a different
area. The goal of this C5 N27 drilling
isn’t just to explore the tunnel but
also to build a stronger connection from
below the garden shaft. As the Oak Island
team wants, they had to work fast because
there’s a time limit and some parts of
the site can’t be checked for safety
reasons.

While the construction folks did the hard
work, some team members were excited
about checking out the artifacts found
at the interpretive center on Oak Island.
Carmen Leg, an expert in blacksmithing,
was called in to look at what seemed
like a snipping tool. He confirmed their
guess and explained that the broken part
was where the scissors handle was
attached to the shear. There’s a possible
connection found on lot 5. More bits of
ceramic and pearlware were discovered,
but this time they’re colored white and
date back to the mid-1700s. Helen thinks
some of the creamware might have belonged
to a porcelain teapot, matching historical
evidence for that time.

Uh, possibly creamware because it has
like a slightly yellowish tinge to the
glaze. Here’s the mystery: why were these
ceramics buried before Oak Island was
revealed in 1762? Charles Morris split
it into 4-acre lots for exploration and
digging. This makes it tricky to trace
where these ceramics came from. The
discovery complicates things even more,
but they’re eager to solve this puzzle.

But it looks like the rectangular hole
was there before the island was divided
and definitely before they found The
Money Pit. Now they’re drilling a hole
to the east called C5 N27. They went
pretty deep down to 93 ft, hoping to
find something cool. Sadly, time wasn’t
on their side and they had to stop
looking before they could explore the
whole area. Something strange happened
at 104 ft. The soil seemed really
delicate and messed up. When they dug
down to 111 ft, they found a core
filled with wood. The lower part of the
wood looked great and its weird pattern
suggested that someone made it by hand,
not with fancy tools. The cuts on the
wood were different from what you’d see
with axes or the saws they used a lot
in the 1800s. If their idea is right,
it means the tunnel was probably made by
someone secretly depositing stuff or
searching before 1795.

The drilling brought up a mix of
wet soil, bits of wood, and junk. Terry
thinks the smoother and sturdier wood
was part of the tunnel’s roof while the
lower darker and softer fibers were
for the floor. Soon, Dumas Contracting
Limited will start working around the
garden shaft. They’ll begin by getting
rid of the water and then make the
hole 20 ft deeper. There’s a lot more
exploring to do during drilling and
construction.

Unfortunately, the episode ends on a
bit of a sad note: time was running out
and they couldn’t make more discoveries.
The info they got from drilling the
C5 N27 hole will surely be useful for
the mining and construction company as
they keep going with the project.

I’m going to put it in. We’ll zero
it lights are on. There you go. Fans of
The Curse of Oak Island are in for a
treat in a particular episode where Gary
Drayton, the metal detecting expert,
keeps finding one surprising thing
after another. First off, he comes
across a vital clue: a signal tucked
away in a wall. Following this
unexpected lead, they uncover a massive
caster wheel buried underground.