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 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.