The Oak Island Files

Corjan Mol

For more than two hundred years, a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia has held onto a secret. People have died searching for it, fortunes have been spent and the deeper anyone digs, the stranger the story gets. The Oak Island Files works through the mystery, one story at a time. Meet the pirates, the treasure hunters, the dreamers, the believers and hear what evidence there actually is. Written by historical researcher and Oak Island recurring cast member Corjan Mol.

Episodes

  1. What Is Oak Island? The Whole Story, Plainly Told

    20h ago

    What Is Oak Island? The Whole Story, Plainly Told

    Oak Island is a small island off Nova Scotia, Canada, where people have dug for more than two hundred years in search of something buried beneath it. Discovered in 1795 as a strange depression with man-made oak platforms below, the Money Pit has never given up its secret. The search continues today. Read the full article, with its sources, at https://thecurseofoakisland.com/the-record/start-here

  2. Oak Island Season 13 analysis: The Medieval Case

    1d ago

    Oak Island Season 13 analysis: The Medieval Case

    Season 13 of The Curse of Oak Island did something the show had not quite managed before. Independent scientific methods (carbon-14 on swamp leather, archaeoastronomy on Lot 5, binder analysis on the Lot 8 cradle, and a Portuguese coin authenticated to no later than 1371) converged on the medieval window. Read the full article, with its sources, at https://thecurseofoakisland.com/the-record/oak-island-s13-medieval-case

  3. The Real Daniel McGinnis of Oak Island

    2d ago

    The Real Daniel McGinnis of Oak Island

    Daniel McGinnis discovered evidence of a previously excavated shaft on Oak Island around 1795. He recruited John Smith and Anthony Vaughan to help dig, and they found oak log platforms at regular intervals before stopping at roughly 30 feet. The earliest published sources disagree on nearly every detail of the discovery, including who McGinnis was, what he found, and who helped him. Read the full article, with its sources, at https://thecurseofoakisland.com/hunt/the-real-daniel-mcginnis-of-oak-island

  4. Captain Kidd and the Hidden Maps

    3d ago

    Captain Kidd and the Hidden Maps

    Captain William Kidd is the name most closely linked to the origin of the Oak Island legend. A dying sailor's confession, first recorded in 1863, placed treasure worth two million pounds on an island "east of Boston." Kidd is the only major pirate known to have buried treasure, confirmed by recoveries from Gardiners Island in 1699. Four maps found hidden in furniture attributed to Kidd between 1929 and 1934 depict an island some believe resembles Oak Island, while 17th century coins recovered on the island during the television series fall within his operating period. Whether Kidd acted alone or in partnership with Henry Every, the "King of Pirates," the tradition connecting him to Oak Island is the oldest and most persistent of all the theories. Read the full article, with its sources, at https://thecurseofoakisland.com/theories/captain-kidd-and-the-hidden-maps

  5. The Knights Templar on Oak Island

    4d ago

    The Knights Templar on Oak Island

    The Knights Templar and Oak Island are linked through 20 medieval-dated artifacts that converge on the year 1211. The cluster was produced by radiocarbon dating, lead-isotope analysis, metallurgical typology and archaeoastronomy, working independently. The Templar order was active 1119 to 1312, suppressed in 1307 with its treasury missing from Paris. Read the full article, with its sources, at https://thecurseofoakisland.com/theories/the-knights-templar

  6. The Ark of the Covenant on Oak Island

    5d ago

    The Ark of the Covenant on Oak Island

    The Ark of the Covenant vanished from Solomon's Temple in 586 BC and has never been recovered. For six centuries, the papal cathedral in Rome claimed to possess it. In 1745, Pope Benedict XIV ordered its removal. Fifty years later, three boys on Oak Island allegedly discovered a shaft that would consume the next two centuries of searching. Read the full article, with its sources, at https://thecurseofoakisland.com/theories/the-ark-of-the-covenant

  7. The Portuguese: The Order of Christ

    6d ago

    The Portuguese: The Order of Christ

    When the Knights Templar were dissolved in 1312, Portugal's King Denis I simply renamed them the Order of Christ. This Order funded every major Portuguese voyage of discovery, their cross on every sail. Documented Portuguese expeditions reached Nova Scotia by 1520, and artifacts found on Oak Island, including Azorean stone shot, cannon fragments, and a 14th century Portuguese coin, point to direct contact with the island. Read the full article, with its sources, at https://thecurseofoakisland.com/theories/portuguese-connection-order-of-christ

  8. Dan Blankenship and Borehole 10-X

    Jun 28

    Dan Blankenship and Borehole 10-X

    Dan Blankenship was a Florida building contractor who read about Oak Island in a 1965 Reader's Digest article and devoted the rest of his life to the treasure hunt. He drilled Borehole 10-X to 235 feet, co-founded Triton Alliance with David Tobias, and lived on the island for nearly five decades until his death in 2019. Read the full article, with its sources, at https://thecurseofoakisland.com/hunt/dan-blankenship-and-borehole-10-x

  9. The Restall Tragedy on Oak Island

    Jun 27

    The Restall Tragedy on Oak Island

    Robert Restall and his family lived on Oak Island from 1959 to 1965, conducting a methodical low-budget search focused on the Smith's Cove flood system. The expedition ended on August 17, 1965, when Robert, his son Bobby, investor Karl Graeser, and worker Cyril Hiltz died after being overcome by gas in a 27-foot shaft near Smith's Cove. Read the full article, with its sources, at https://thecurseofoakisland.com/hunt/the-restall-tragedy

  10. Oak Island, Ghost Island

    Jun 26

    Oak Island, Ghost Island

    The ghosts of Oak Island form a documented body of folklore stretching from the 1850s to the present. This haunted history includes reports of a black dog with fiery eyes, soldiers in eighteenth-century uniforms at Smith's Cove, phantom fires, apparitions near the Money Pit, and the unexplained equipment failures admitted to by Marty Lagina himself. Read the full article, with its sources, at https://thecurseofoakisland.com/island/oak-island-ghost-island

  11. The Geometry of Nolan's Cross

    Jun 25

    The Geometry of Nolan's Cross

    In 1981, Nova Scotia land surveyor Fred Nolan discovered five cone-shaped granite boulders arranged in a cross formation measuring 360 feet wide by 867 feet tall on Oak Island. Geologist Petra Mudie confirmed the boulders were not glacially deposited. Architect and researcher Brian Pharoah identified sacred proportions (144, 288, 360, 432, 720, 864) matching Chartres Cathedral and the Temple Mount, and demonstrated that the formation encodes equinox and solstice alignments. Christopher Morford demonstrated that the boulders align with drilled stones to form sightlines converging on the Garden Shaft. Petter Amundsen predicted and found buried stones at positions calculated from a Kabbalistic Tree of Life projection. A matching five-stone formation exists on confirmed Templar land in Yorkshire, England. Read the full article, with its sources, at https://thecurseofoakisland.com/evidence/real-or-not-the-geometry-of-nolan-s-cross

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For more than two hundred years, a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia has held onto a secret. People have died searching for it, fortunes have been spent and the deeper anyone digs, the stranger the story gets. The Oak Island Files works through the mystery, one story at a time. Meet the pirates, the treasure hunters, the dreamers, the believers and hear what evidence there actually is. Written by historical researcher and Oak Island recurring cast member Corjan Mol.

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  • Creator
    Corjan Mol
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Corjan Mol
  • Show Website
    The Oak Island Files