This is you at Smith's Cove, Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
This is the spot, somewhere here, and we don't know for sure, that in 1795 those three young
boys allegedly found this depression in the ground.
So they go home to Chester and they get picks and shovels and pry bars and buckets and all
the equipment they can lay their hands on, according to the story, come back, dig down
about two feet, thinking that it's pirate treasure, right, because they brought stories
of pirates from Northeastern United States.
The people who were living here at the time were called planters, the planters.
They came, it was prior to the American Revolution, so there was a large influx of northern New
Englanders into Chester, this whole area, Lunenburg and what have you.
So they come over here and they dig down.
At two feet, they go through a layer of flagstone.
At ten feet, they hit a layer of oak logs, embedded into the sides of this shaft.
This is a well-defined, according to the story, 13-foot diameter shafts, they can see
pick marks in the sides of this hard clay.
The story is they get down to maybe 25, 30 feet and realize it's too much for three young
boys.
Now, when I tell you that they've been searching for treasure for 221 years, that's not entirely
true, because there's periods of inactivity when nothing happens on Oak Island.
And the first period is not until 1803, when a company comes here from north of Truro called
the Anzlo Company.
Anzlo is a little community north of Truro.
So they come here, right, and they re-excavate the pit, and they're going down, down, down,
down, down.
Every ten feet, they hit a layer of oak logs.
At the top of some of the oak logs, there's charcoal, some of them there's coconut fiber.
You've got to remember, the nearest coconut tree is 2,500 miles from here.
Some of them had small, little stones, and the reports out there was something carved
on the stone.
But they're never, they're not looking for stones, they're not looking for coconut
fiber, they're not looking for that, they're looking for treasure.
So a lot of these things, when they do find them, and this is going right back in history,
were just thrown by the wayside.
If it's not shiny, or as David would say, it's not expendable, they weren't interested.
That's how we've lost so much here.
So they get down to 90 feet, right, that's where they find the stone, right, the stone.
And we're still looking for the 90-foot stone, we're tracking down a number of leads, no
success yet, but we're still looking.
And the stone had marks on it, right.
In fact, John Smith, John Smith built his house, right to the right of where that large
maple tree is, and he put it in his fireplace, top of his fireplace.
Hundreds of people saw the stone.
There is no rubbing, there is no drawing, there is no photograph, and there was a photographic
crew here in 1861, in fact that's the earliest photo we have, and his house was still standing
at that point, because he died in 1856, but they were using his house and his barn as
kind of headquarters for the operations that were going on here.
Hundreds of people saw the stone.
Even back in 1803, there was a tourism faction that was going on.
People were coming to the island to see people digging for treasure, right.
You can see in that 1861 photograph, you can see ladies with long white dresses, so they
were coming here from Chester to see what was going on, right.
So it was their habit each day to take an iron bar and sound down to the next level.
So this happened late on a Saturday night, okay, they're at 90 feet.
The men are exhausted, they're working double shifts, they're working by lanterns and candle,
basically 80 feet below where we're standing, somewhere in this area here.
So they hit something at 98 feet, not 100, and it was a hard sound, right, it was a
solid sound, so they knew, okay, we must be here, you know, so they thought, okay, well
this is late on Saturday, we're not going to worry about it, we'll come back, we'll
come back on Monday, you know, and being good Presbyterians that they were, they weren't
going to work on Sunday.
So they come back on Monday morning, some reports said it was late Sunday, and what
are they fine, but 60 feet of water in the pit, and that's been the problem ever since,
trying to control the water, right.
So just to give you a little grade 12 physics here, at two levels in the money pit area,
and according to some reports it was 30 and 70 and some it's 40 and 60, they went through
12 to 15 inches of a putty like substance, right.
So in between all these layers is soil, and it started to compress.
So you have the oak logs, you have the putty like substance, and on top of that you have
soil, right.
So they removed the putty like substance, in fact there's reports of the workers taking
it home and glazing around their windows with it.
So just to go back to grade 12 physics here for a second, if you take a straw and you
put it in a glass of water, water will go up the straw, right, it has to find equilibrium,
right.
However you take another straw and you put your finger on the top of that straw and you
put it in a glass of water, and you can try this experiment for yourself.
You know I didn't invent it.
The air pressure contained in that straw prevents the water from going up, it's the same principle
here.
By removing that putty like substance at those two levels, it's like taking your finger
off the straw, it activated the hydraulics from Smith's Cove, and there's a flood tunnel
coming from Smith's Cove which is 520 feet long, enters the money pit at 110 feet below
the surface, and the water started to come through.
And over that 24, 36 hour period when they stopped working, that's how it filled this
thing.
And that's been the problem ever since.
There are probably 15 major shafts in this area, and I would say maybe 700 boreholes in
this area.
Over a thousand in the eastern end of the island and over 32 major shafts on the eastern end
of the island.
And that's what you need in the tight space, right?
Terrifying.
David Blankin just went down and he kind of looked at me like I'm going to include fish.
This is the bottom of the cross.
Now if you Google no one's cross, Oak Island Cross, uh, Oak Island Christian Cross, you'll
see photographs and diagrams of it on the island.
Um, not a solid cross, only the points on the cross, right?
It's made up of five cone shaped granite boulders ranging anywhere from side to about five
tons, probably 15 tons.
Now from here, and it runs kind of like that on a straight line, it's 867 feet to the top
of the cross.
Each arm of the cross is 360 feet in length.
The angle between the arm and the stem with an affraction of one degree is almost 90 degrees.
That's how perfect it is.
Now, the reason they call it a Christian Cross is 294 feet up along the stem.
There's another stone or boulder very similar to this.
And that represents where Jesus' feet were nailed to the cross.
That's why they call it a Christian Cross.
Now where the arms and the stem intersect, Fred dug down about three feet and found
what he describes and then hopefully we'll get a geologist to look at it.
He said it was sandstone.
And in profile, looks like the side of somebody's head.
You gotta use your imagination a little bit, but if you Google Nolan's headstone, Oak Island
headstone, you'll see photos of it, uh, on the internet.
Now you can see where the mouth is.
Again, you gotta use your imagination a little bit and interpret it, see where the mouth
is, you see where the nostril is, you see where the eye socket is.
And definitely in the temple or forehead region, there's an indentation where you could lay
a naval cutlass or a naval sword right in the temple region.
Um, very, let me tell you something, Mother Nature did not do this.
Human beings did this.
You'll notice that there's excavation around it.
Both Dan and Fred do this.
When they find a boulder or a stone of interest, and believe me, they think most of them on
Oak Island are interested, they excavate around them or underneath them, and they do that
for a reason.
If the soil is heavily compacted, then they know that that boulder or that stone has been
there probably since the glaciers went through here 10, 15,000 years ago.
However, if the soil is disturbed, there's one or two possibilities, either a farmer
moved it, you know, to, or somebody placed it there for a reason.
And they lean on that side of the coin more so than on the other side of the coin.
