1 00:00:05,921 --> 00:00:20,201 Speaker 1: Approche production. Welcome back to silent Secrets. Tonight we travel 2 00:00:20,401 --> 00:00:23,961 Speaker 1: to a small, wind shaped island off the coast of 3 00:00:24,001 --> 00:00:30,081 Speaker 1: Nova Scotia, Canada. It's a place where trees bend with 4 00:00:30,121 --> 00:00:36,481 Speaker 1: the sea breeze, where gulls cry over calm coves, and 5 00:00:36,521 --> 00:00:40,481 Speaker 1: where for more than two hundred years, people have been digging, 6 00:00:41,521 --> 00:00:47,881 Speaker 1: chasing a mystery that keeps leading them deeper. They call 7 00:00:47,921 --> 00:00:52,921 Speaker 1: it the Oak Island money Pit. Some say it hides 8 00:00:52,961 --> 00:00:57,881 Speaker 1: a private treasure. Others say it's a vault for ancient 9 00:00:57,961 --> 00:01:05,801 Speaker 1: manuscripts or even proof of lost civilizations. Whatever lies beneath 10 00:01:06,601 --> 00:01:12,121 Speaker 1: the island has never really given up secrets. It offers 11 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: just enough to keep you digging, just enough obstacles to 12 00:01:17,401 --> 00:01:23,721 Speaker 1: keep the treasure out of reach. Close your eyes that 13 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: the gentle roll of the ocean guides you come with 14 00:01:29,041 --> 00:01:43,241 Speaker 1: me to Oak Island. Picture the coast of Nova Scotia, 15 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:50,801 Speaker 1: pine forest meeting cold Atlantic waves, fishing boats tracing lines 16 00:01:50,841 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: between scattered islands. Oak Island is small, just one hundred 17 00:01:57,321 --> 00:02:03,201 Speaker 1: and forty acres, with winding paths and rocky shores. From 18 00:02:03,241 --> 00:02:09,441 Speaker 1: a distance, it's like any other island Emmahone Bay. But 19 00:02:09,481 --> 00:02:13,001 Speaker 1: when you step onto its soil history seems to hum 20 00:02:13,121 --> 00:02:17,561 Speaker 1: under your feet. It's been privately owned for most of 21 00:02:17,601 --> 00:02:21,441 Speaker 1: its history, but to the treasure hunters it's one of 22 00:02:21,481 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: the most famous places in the world. And it all 23 00:02:25,001 --> 00:02:28,841 Speaker 1: began with a story the kind that starts like a 24 00:02:28,921 --> 00:02:40,201 Speaker 1: legend around a campfire. The year is seventeen ninety five. 25 00:02:41,601 --> 00:02:45,441 Speaker 1: A young man named Daniel McGinnis is exploring the island. 26 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:51,361 Speaker 1: He notices something strange, a patch of ground that looks different, 27 00:02:52,441 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: like it's been disturbed. Near it, a large oak tree stance, 28 00:02:58,881 --> 00:03:05,201 Speaker 1: the block and tackle hanging from a sturdy branch, the 29 00:03:05,281 --> 00:03:09,241 Speaker 1: kind of setup sailors might use to lower heavy cargo 30 00:03:10,601 --> 00:03:16,601 Speaker 1: beneath the tree, a circular depression in the earth. Daniel 31 00:03:16,641 --> 00:03:24,881 Speaker 1: returns the next day with two friends. They start digging. 32 00:03:26,841 --> 00:03:33,521 Speaker 1: Two feet down, they hit flagstones, flagstones that are not 33 00:03:33,761 --> 00:03:39,441 Speaker 1: native to the island. At ten feet they find a 34 00:03:39,481 --> 00:03:49,041 Speaker 1: wooden platform. They remove it and start digging deeper, and 35 00:03:49,161 --> 00:04:00,961 Speaker 1: then another platform exactly ten feet lower, then another. Each 36 00:04:01,081 --> 00:04:06,041 Speaker 1: layer has been carefully constructed, as if someone had intentionally 37 00:04:06,761 --> 00:04:17,721 Speaker 1: hidden something below. By the time they reach thirty feet, 38 00:04:18,361 --> 00:04:22,361 Speaker 1: the work is hard, the pit is filling with water 39 00:04:22,521 --> 00:04:29,321 Speaker 1: from the rain. They stop, but the seed is planted, 40 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:36,681 Speaker 1: a story spreads. There's something buried here, and whoever put 41 00:04:36,721 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: it here didn't want it to be found. Over the 42 00:04:49,361 --> 00:04:54,241 Speaker 1: next few decades, different groups take up the challenge. Each 43 00:04:54,481 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: starts fresh, digging down through layers of dirt and timber, 44 00:04:59,521 --> 00:05:04,401 Speaker 1: and each runs into the same pattern, a wooden platform 45 00:05:05,241 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: every ten feet, sometimes with bits of coconut fiber material 46 00:05:13,481 --> 00:05:20,041 Speaker 1: not native to Nova Scotia packed between the layers. They 47 00:05:20,081 --> 00:05:26,441 Speaker 1: go further. The further they go, the stranger it gets. 48 00:05:27,801 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 1: In the mid eighteen hundreds, one group reaches ninety feet. 49 00:05:33,001 --> 00:05:39,281 Speaker 1: There they find a flat stone carved with symbols. No 50 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:44,601 Speaker 1: one could read it at the time. Years later someone 51 00:05:44,681 --> 00:05:51,561 Speaker 1: claimed it said forty feet below, two million pounds are buried. 52 00:05:54,161 --> 00:05:58,561 Speaker 1: They dig on and then, without warning, the pit floods 53 00:05:58,601 --> 00:06:05,161 Speaker 1: with sea water. No matter how much they bail, the 54 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: water rushes back in, as if the island itself is 55 00:06:08,921 --> 00:06:20,041 Speaker 1: defending a secret. Eventually, explorers discover why Oak Island appears 56 00:06:20,041 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: to have an elaborate system of flood tunnels connecting to 57 00:06:24,161 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: the pit of the ocean. Whoever built this didn't just 58 00:06:29,161 --> 00:06:35,281 Speaker 1: bury something, They engineered a trap designed to protect it. 59 00:06:37,521 --> 00:06:41,281 Speaker 1: The tunnels are packed with eel grass and coconut fiber 60 00:06:42,721 --> 00:06:45,961 Speaker 1: acting like a natural filter to keep sand from blocking 61 00:06:45,961 --> 00:06:53,121 Speaker 1: a flow. If you dig too far, the sea itself 62 00:06:53,241 --> 00:06:59,761 Speaker 1: rushes in to stop you. To bypass the water, teams 63 00:06:59,801 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 1: try drilling shafts along the pit, humping out the water, 64 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:11,201 Speaker 1: and building dams along the shore. Each method meets the 65 00:07:11,241 --> 00:07:18,241 Speaker 1: same fate collapse, flooding, or an empty hole. Despite all 66 00:07:18,241 --> 00:07:24,201 Speaker 1: the setbacks, small discoveries keep hope alive. Drill cause bring 67 00:07:24,281 --> 00:07:28,441 Speaker 1: up pieces of wood from deep underground, bits of metal, chain, 68 00:07:29,321 --> 00:07:34,761 Speaker 1: and even traces of gold. Had over one hundred and 69 00:07:34,761 --> 00:07:39,241 Speaker 1: fifty feet. Drilling once brought up fragments of parchment like 70 00:07:39,281 --> 00:07:43,801 Speaker 1: the page of an ancient book. Some say these could 71 00:07:43,841 --> 00:07:48,481 Speaker 1: be clues to something much bigger, manuscripts from lost libraries, 72 00:07:49,321 --> 00:07:54,401 Speaker 1: treasures from Spanish galleons, or even the missing jewel of 73 00:07:54,441 --> 00:08:03,081 Speaker 1: the Marie Antoinette. Every fine feels the fire, Every failure 74 00:08:03,521 --> 00:08:17,481 Speaker 1: makes the mystery deep. Over more than two centuries, theories 75 00:08:17,521 --> 00:08:25,081 Speaker 1: have multiplied the pirate treasure theory. The most popular is 76 00:08:25,121 --> 00:08:28,921 Speaker 1: that Captain Kidd or another pirate buried of fortune here, 77 00:08:29,721 --> 00:08:35,961 Speaker 1: using their seafaring skills to design the flood tunnels. There's 78 00:08:36,001 --> 00:08:40,921 Speaker 1: the Knights Templar theory. Some believe the Templars, a medieval 79 00:08:41,041 --> 00:08:45,041 Speaker 1: order said to possess great wealth and sacred relics, brought 80 00:08:45,081 --> 00:08:50,281 Speaker 1: their treasure here after fleeing Europe. This theory ties Oak 81 00:08:50,361 --> 00:08:53,801 Speaker 1: Island to legends of the Holy Grail and the Ark 82 00:08:53,841 --> 00:09:02,561 Speaker 1: of Covenant. The Shakespeare manuscript theory. Others suggest the island 83 00:09:02,641 --> 00:09:06,681 Speaker 1: Hinde's original works of Shakespeare, proof that the plays were 84 00:09:06,681 --> 00:09:13,281 Speaker 1: written by someone else hidden away here for safety. Or 85 00:09:13,361 --> 00:09:19,721 Speaker 1: perhaps it's an ancient culture pre dating European arrival, creating 86 00:09:19,801 --> 00:09:25,601 Speaker 1: the tunnels that left something behind that. Of course, there's 87 00:09:25,641 --> 00:09:30,281 Speaker 1: the simplest theory of all. The money pit might be 88 00:09:30,361 --> 00:09:34,641 Speaker 1: nothing more than a natural sinkhole, with the platforms and 89 00:09:34,761 --> 00:09:42,601 Speaker 1: artifacts added later by unrelated activity. Still, the sheer complexity 90 00:09:42,641 --> 00:09:46,881 Speaker 1: of the flooding system keeps most people believing that someone 91 00:09:47,801 --> 00:09:57,361 Speaker 1: at some point went to incredible links to hide something. Today, 92 00:09:57,721 --> 00:10:03,121 Speaker 1: Oak Island is still privately owned, but excavations continue under 93 00:10:03,161 --> 00:10:08,201 Speaker 1: modern technology. A TV series has brought new attention to 94 00:10:08,241 --> 00:10:13,481 Speaker 1: the hunt, using ground penetrating radar, water pumps, and diving 95 00:10:13,521 --> 00:10:20,241 Speaker 1: equipment to explore the flood tunnels. The island is quiet 96 00:10:20,521 --> 00:10:26,401 Speaker 1: and still outside of the dig sites, pines sway in 97 00:10:26,481 --> 00:10:31,961 Speaker 1: the wind, waves slap against the shore, and the gulls 98 00:10:33,001 --> 00:10:40,601 Speaker 1: call overhead, the same sounds heard in seventeen ninety five 99 00:10:41,361 --> 00:10:45,561 Speaker 1: when a young man noticed a depression in the ground. 100 00:10:47,841 --> 00:10:58,761 Speaker 1: The treasure, if it exists, remains hidden. Two centuries of digging, 101 00:10:59,441 --> 00:11:03,961 Speaker 1: countless theories, and still the Oak Island money pit keeps 102 00:11:04,041 --> 00:11:13,161 Speaker 1: in silence. Maybe the answer is simple, Maybe it's extraordinary. 103 00:11:13,881 --> 00:11:18,961 Speaker 1: But there's something quietly beautiful about a mystery that resists 104 00:11:19,121 --> 00:11:25,801 Speaker 1: being solved, a reminder that the world still holds places 105 00:11:26,521 --> 00:11:31,601 Speaker 1: where our mapped say known, but our hearts say not yet. 106 00:11:47,001 --> 00:11:50,641 Speaker 1: As the tide pulls back from the shore and the 107 00:11:50,681 --> 00:12:00,161 Speaker 1: island rests under the moon, you can almost hear it breathing, patient, unhurried, 108 00:12:01,241 --> 00:12:12,281 Speaker 1: and in no rush to give up its secret. Thank 109 00:12:12,321 --> 00:12:16,361 Speaker 1: you for listening to silent secrets. I hope tonight's story 110 00:12:16,361 --> 00:12:20,401 Speaker 1: has given your mind something soft to wander through as 111 00:12:20,441 --> 00:12:25,121 Speaker 1: you drift towards rest. At the quieter the night. Wrap 112 00:12:25,161 --> 00:12:28,441 Speaker 1: around you now and know that mysteries will still be 113 00:12:28,481 --> 00:12:35,241 Speaker 1: here tomorrow. Close your eyes, bread deeply, and let's sleep 114 00:12:35,841 --> 00:12:43,081 Speaker 1: take over until we share another secret next time. Good Night, 115 00:13:18,881 --> 00:13:53,121 Speaker 1: dut