Tales From Oak Island - Season 1

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 perfect storm of clues suggests that Oak Island's mysterious Money Pit was created by a famed 17th century English politician who is known to have possessed one of history's greatest sunken treasures.

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, and made some of the most critical discoveries in the entire history of the Oak Island treasure hunt.