In 1965, an article in Readers Digest entitles "Oak Island's Mysterious Money Pit" inspires some of the great chapters in the world's long running treasure hunt.
The answers to a 229-year-old treasure mystery may be connected to a former American slave and British soldier who became one of Oak Island's wealthiest residents.
A storm of clues suggests that Oak Island's mysterious Money Pit was created by a famed 17th century English politician; the politician is known to have possessed one of history's greatest sunken treasures.
The most significant clue to solving the 230-year-old Oak Island mystery may be a lead cross, whose design has been found not only on the island, but all across the globe.
In 1746, a mysterious ship's log was written suggesting that a vast treasure may have been buried on Oak Island by a French Admiral who was connected to the Knights Templar.
In the late 1930s, a man named Gilbert Hedden explored some of the most astonishing theories; he made some of the most critical discoveries in the entire history of the Oak Island treasure hunt.
