Oak Island Crew Just Discovered a AMAZING Golden Treasure!
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00:00Right here, that's wood?
00:02That's wood right there.
00:03Oh, yeah.
00:05See, there's some wood right there.
00:09After a decade of searching for long-lost treasure on Oak Island,
00:13the Lagina brothers have finally hit the jackpot.
00:16And not just in one spot,
00:17they have uncovered three different treasure locations
00:20and, yes, actual gold.
00:22But where exactly did they find it?
00:24And more importantly, how much is it really worth?
00:28Treasure found in the money pit.
00:29The first stop is the money pit.
00:31You see, for over 200 years,
00:33treasure hunters have been obsessed with Oak Island.
00:35It is just a small tree-covered island off the coast of Nova Scotia.
00:39But why?
00:40Why has everyone been so obsessed with it?
00:43Because legend says that somewhere beneath its surface
00:46lies an incredible treasure,
00:48gold, jewels, ancient artifacts,
00:51maybe even something more shocking.
00:53The money pit is the most famous dig site on the island,
00:56and it has swallowed up fortunes,
00:58destroyed equipment,
01:00and even claimed lives.
01:02But despite countless attempts,
01:04the treasure has remained just out of reach until now.
01:07After a decade of high-tech exploration,
01:10heavy drilling,
01:11and following every possible clue,
01:13the Lagina brothers and their team have finally found something big.
01:17Not just a theory or another frustrating dead end,
01:20they have found actual proof that treasure might be closer than ever before.
01:25And it all started with a borehole called DN11.5.
01:30The team had been focusing their efforts on a specific part of the money pit,
01:34an area rich with historical accounts of buried treasure.
01:37Over the years,
01:38countless searchers have dug deep into this spot.
01:41They have uncovered everything from strange stone carvings
01:44to flood tunnels designed to keep intruders out.
01:47But despite all that,
01:49no one has been able to recover the rumored fortune
01:51that many believe still lies hidden below.
01:53Then the Lagina brothers focused on Borehole D and 11.5,
01:59which is one of several carefully chosen drill sites,
02:02selected based on previous discoveries and high-tech surveys.
02:06The team had already encountered hints of man-made structures underground.
02:10They knew they were close.
02:12So as the drill bit punched through the ground,
02:15all eyes were on the results.
02:17At around 90 feet deep,
02:19something unusual happened.
02:20The drill broke through into open space.
02:23In other words,
02:24they found a void or an empty chamber underground.
02:27This was a huge deal
02:28because natural underground voids are extremely rare in this area.
02:31If there is open space down there,
02:33someone put it there,
02:34and that someone may have been hiding treasure.
02:37Now the question is,
02:38could this be a secret tunnel?
02:40To find out,
02:40the team immediately called in Terry Matheson,
02:43who is a geologist,
02:44to take a closer look.
02:46His first observation was that the void at D and 11.5
02:50lined up perfectly with two other boreholes,
02:52DN 12.5 and DN 13.5,
02:55where previous drilling had also uncovered evidence of tunnels.
02:59That meant one thing.
03:01This was not just some random hole.
03:03They had discovered a part of a larger underground structure.
03:06For decades,
03:07researchers have suspected that a hidden network of tunnels
03:09exists beneath the money pit.
03:12Many of the island's earliest searchers
03:13believe that whoever buried the treasure
03:15also built an elaborate tunnel system
03:18to hide and protect it.
03:19Now,
03:20with DN 11.5
03:22hitting a void at the exact depth and location predicted,
03:25the theory seemed stronger than ever.
03:28But they needed more than just a void.
03:30They needed proof,
03:31something physical,
03:32to confirm what they were dealing with.
03:34To find out what was inside the newly discovered void,
03:37the team extracted core samples,
03:40or in this scenario,
03:41cylindrical chunks of earth and material
03:43pulled straight from the hole.
03:45As they examined the samples,
03:47they hit something solid.
03:48It was wood.
03:50Now,
03:50wood at 90 feet deep is no small find.
03:53This was not some random tree root.
03:55This was man-made,
03:56and given the age of the money pit mystery,
03:58it was almost certainly old.
04:00The team quickly sent the sample off
04:02to a lab for testing.
04:04They needed to confirm
04:05whether this wood came from a natural collapse,
04:08an old searcher tunnel,
04:09or something much older and more significant.
04:12But they were about to get an even bigger surprise.
04:15A few hours later,
04:16the team gathered at the Oak Island Interpretive Center
04:19for the lab results.
04:21The test used an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer,
04:24which is a high-tech device
04:25that can detect tiny traces of elements
04:27in solid objects.
04:28At first, the results were pretty standard.
04:31They found out that the wood contained common elements.
04:34It was all expected.
04:35Nothing was shocking about this.
04:37But then they found out it had gold.
04:40Yes, actual traces of gold were found in the wood.
04:43This was a huge deal
04:44because wood does not just randomly contain gold.
04:48That meant one of two things.
04:50Either gold had been physically touching this wood
04:52at some point in the past,
04:54or water containing dissolved gold
04:56had soaked into the wood over time.
04:58Either way, gold was in this tunnel.
05:01Now, how much gold are we talking about here?
05:03Well, before you picture chestfuls of golden coins,
05:06it is important to clarify that these gold traces were small,
05:10just tiny amounts embedded in the wood.
05:12But the thing is, gold does not travel alone.
05:15If there is gold in the wood,
05:17there is a very real chance that more gold is nearby.
05:19It could be sitting just a few feet away,
05:22waiting to be uncovered.
05:24So what's next?
05:25Finding gold in the wood is not just a fluke.
05:28It confirms that something valuable is buried in this area.
05:31With evidence from boreholes DN11.5,
05:35DN12.5,
05:36and DN13.5
05:38all lining up,
05:39the team now has a clear direction for their next move.
05:42They will keep drilling.
05:43They will keep pulling up samples.
05:46And if they are right,
05:47if this tunnel system leads where they think it does,
05:50they could be on the brink of finding
05:51the legendary Oak Island treasure.
05:54The good thing is,
05:55this is not the only place they have found gold.
05:57So where else did they find the long-lost treasure?
06:00Treasure found in Old Shaft.
06:03Fans of the curse of Oak Island
06:04know that the search for treasure on this island
06:06has always been focused on one legendary spot,
06:10the Money Pit.
06:10But as history has shown,
06:13things on Oak Island are never that simple.
06:15Over the years,
06:16searchers have found evidence of tunnels,
06:19vaults,
06:20and mysterious underground structures.
06:22So when the garden shaft started showing
06:24signs of being connected to something big,
06:27the Lagina brothers knew they had to take a closer look.
06:30This old crumbling structure
06:31was originally over 80 feet deep,
06:34abandoned and barely standing.
06:36But recent tests had detected high traces of gold
06:39in the surrounding water,
06:40meaning that something valuable could be nearby.
06:43If gold was in the water,
06:45was it coming from an undiscovered treasure vault?
06:48That's what the team was about to find out.
06:50The plan was to stabilize the garden shaft
06:52and drill into the walls at different angles.
06:55If a hidden chamber,
06:57tunnel,
06:58or void existed just beyond the shaft,
07:01this method would expose it.
07:03Dumas Contracting Limited
07:04was the company responsible for the excavation
07:07and it was leading the charge.
07:09The goal was to drill 12 probe holes,
07:12three per wall to search for any signs
07:14of man-made structures
07:15or valuable materials.
07:17That morning,
07:18as the crew set up,
07:19Brandon Vanderhoof from Dumas
07:21walked Rick and Marty through the process.
07:24The probe drilling was targeting
07:25a specific depth,
07:27one where past drilling
07:28had hit a 10-foot-wide underground void
07:30just southwest of the shaft.
07:32That void had never been explored further,
07:35but if it was connected to something bigger,
07:37it could be a game-changing discovery.
07:40As the powerful hydraulic earth drill
07:42cut through the walls of the shaft,
07:44it moved effortlessly through soil and clay.
07:47But then it punched into open space.
07:49That's where they found another void,
07:51right where they expected it.
07:53This was not a natural cavity in the ground.
07:55It lined up too perfectly
07:57with previous drilling results.
07:59The logical explanation
08:00was a tunnel or chamber.
08:02The discovery immediately made the team wonder
08:04if this was a collapsed hiding place
08:06for treasure
08:06or a connection to the money pit.
08:09It also made them wonder
08:10if the gold-infused water
08:11was coming from inside this void.
08:13Now Rick was not ready
08:15to celebrate just yet.
08:16To confirm whether this was
08:18a man-made void,
08:19they needed samples.
08:20The drill pulled up chunks of material
08:22like soil, clay,
08:24and something else.
08:26It was wood.
08:27Now finding wood at this depth
08:29is a huge deal.
08:29Unlike scattered debris,
08:32this was not random driftwood
08:33or fallen trees.
08:35This was buried timber,
08:37meaning a structure
08:37once existed down there.
08:39If there was gold in the water,
08:41there was a strong chance
08:42that gold had also seeped
08:43into the wood over time.
08:45And if that were true,
08:46they were officially
08:47on the right path.
08:49By the next morning,
08:50everyone gathered in the Oak Island lab
08:52for the test results.
08:53Leading the analysis
08:54was Emma Culligan,
08:56the team's archaeometallurgist.
08:58Her job was to scan the wood
09:00using an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer,
09:02which is a device
09:03that could detect
09:04even the tiniest traces of metals.
09:07Emma had come back
09:08after scanning,
09:09and she was ready
09:10to announce the results.
09:11She turned to the group
09:13and said this,
09:14for a treasure hunt
09:15that had lasted centuries,
09:17this was a big celebratory moment.
09:19Now you must be wondering,
09:20why is gold in the wood
09:21a big deal?
09:22Well, gold is not like other metals.
09:24It does not just appear
09:25in random places.
09:27So if it was inside the wood,
09:29that meant gold objects
09:30were once stored in this chamber.
09:32And over time,
09:33tiny particles of gold
09:35rubbed off onto the wooden walls.
09:37Rick said that
09:38if the water contained gold,
09:39then the surrounding material
09:41should too.
09:42This result confirmed his suspicion.
09:44The garden shaft
09:46was sitting on top
09:47of something important.
09:48So how much gold
09:49did they find here?
09:50The gold detected in the wood
09:52measured at 0.11% concentration.
09:55That may sound small,
09:56but in scientific terms,
09:58it is significant.
09:59It matters because gold
10:00is one of the rarest elements
10:02in nature.
10:03Even tiny traces mean
10:04you are close to something bigger.
10:06And 0.11 means thousands
10:08of parts per billion,
10:09which is far beyond
10:11what you would expect
10:11in normal conditions.
10:13So in a way,
10:14this was direct evidence
10:15of gold being nearby.
10:17This is when they realized
10:18they are not just
10:19chasing legends anymore.
10:21The gold was real,
10:22and it was right under their feet.
10:24With concrete evidence in hand,
10:25the team now had
10:26a clear direction.
10:28The garden shaft
10:29was an active lead.
10:30They know that a 10-foot void
10:32exists nearby,
10:33which is potentially
10:34a treasure chamber.
10:35Plus, gold traces in the water
10:37suggested something
10:38valuable underground.
10:39Now, gold was confirmed
10:41in the wood,
10:42meaning gold objects
10:43had been in contact
10:44with this structure.
10:45This is exciting,
10:46no doubt.
10:47But we are not going
10:48to pretend it is
10:49the first time gold
10:50has ever been found
10:51on Oak Island.
10:52So what other treasures
10:53have the Lajina brothers found?
10:56The mysterious gold brooch.
10:58A few seasons ago,
10:59the team found a brooch
11:00on Lot 21.
11:01They believed the brooch
11:02was made of gold,
11:03but they were not sure.
11:05To confirm its composition,
11:06Marty, Alex, and Craig
11:08took it to St. Mary's University
11:10in Halifax,
11:11where experts could conduct
11:12a detailed analysis.
11:14Dr. Krista Brousseau,
11:16who was an expert
11:17in metal chemistry,
11:18along with her colleague,
11:19Dr. Xiang Yang,
11:20used a scanning electron microscope
11:22to magnify the artifact
11:24thousands of times
11:25beyond its actual size.
11:26This advanced technology
11:28allowed them to examine
11:29the chemical composition
11:30of the metal
11:31at a microscopic level.
11:32As the analysis progressed,
11:34the results were clear
11:35that the brooch
11:36really contained gold.
11:38The gold was found
11:39in specific areas,
11:41suggesting that parts
11:42of the brooch
11:42were either gold-plated
11:44or had significant gold content.
11:46Alongside gold,
11:48traces of copper
11:48were also detected,
11:50indicating that the piece
11:51may have been crafted
11:52using mixed metals.
11:54This is a common technique
11:55in historical jewelry making.
11:57This revealed that the brooch
11:59was likely valuable
12:00when it was first made.
12:01Its presence on Oak Island
12:03raised new theories.
12:04If the brooch came
12:05from a wealthy European traveler
12:07or a noble family,
12:09it could have been lost,
12:10discarded,
12:11or hidden centuries ago.
12:13Another possibility was
12:14that it had been part
12:15of a larger treasure hoard,
12:17possibly belonging to pirates
12:19or a secretive group
12:21like the Freemasons
12:22or Knights Templar.
12:24Some even speculated
12:25it could have come
12:26from a shipwreck
12:26washing ashore
12:28with other valuable cargo.
12:30What made this discovery
12:31even more important
12:32was that gold traces
12:33were also detected
12:35in the surrounding area.
12:36This suggested that gold
12:37was not just found
12:38on a single artifact.
12:39it could be buried nearby.
12:42So what do you think?
12:43Could this brooch be part
12:44of a much bigger treasure?
12:46Are the Legina brothers
12:47close to uncovering
12:48the legendary riches
12:49long rumored
12:50to be hidden on Oak Island?
12:52Tell us your thoughts
12:53in the comments below.
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