In 1965, an article in Readers Digest entitled 'Oak Island's Mysterious Money Pit' inspires some of the greatest chapters in the world's longest 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-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, and made some of the most critical discoveries in the entire history of the Oak Island treasure hunt.