NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...
We have a large metallic anomaly in the swamp.
MARTY: Wow! That's great.
I believe there are answers in that swamp.
JACK: Yes! We're starting to dig.
The more we dig, the more we find.
Oh, my gosh!
What the heck is that?
PAUL: Something's going on in that corner.
They hit something solid.
They couldn't drill through it.
That's where the gold signal's coming from.
There could be something there.
NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic
where people have been looking for
an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
So far, they have found a stone slab
with strange symbols carved into it,
manmade workings
that date to medieval times
and a lead cross whose origin
may be connected to the Knights Templar.
To date, six men have died
trying to solve the mystery.
And according to legend,
one more will have to die
before the treasure can be found.
Hey, Paul.
Hey, how's it going?
Question is, how are you doing?
All right.
-Mind if we go and have a look? -Yeah.
NARRATOR: Another promising day has begun on Oak Island
for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,
their partner Craig Tester and the rest of their team
as they investigate
the so-called Garden Shaft in the hopes
of finally solving a 228-year-old treasure mystery.
COTE: They're probe drilling straight down in the shaft.
CRAIG: How deep are we?
We're around 65 to 66 feet.
-In between there. -Okay.
NARRATOR: Of all the large-scale excavations
the Oak Island team has performed
during the past decade,
they have a number of reasons to believe
that the Garden Shaft, which is now being reconstructed
by representatives from Dumas Contracting Limited,
may be the key to locating a legendary treasure vault.
After scientifically dating the shaft to 1735--
meaning that it could be related to the original Money Pit--
the team conducted additional tests
on water samples within it,
as well as on wood fragments
collected from the walls of the structure
at depths of 55 and 58 feet.
Incredibly, both exercises yielded
high trace evidence of gold.
Really appreciate you grabbing these samples of the wood
as you're boring through there, cutting a hole.
'Cause, uh, you know, the gold we found up hole a little bit,
it's got us excited to see what's down here.
And if we can use that wood and trace the gold,
hopefully it can tell us where it's coming from.
-Exactly. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: Now, given that the location
of the Garden Shaft is within 20 feet
of the so-called "treasure zone,"
where geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner
and his colleague hydrogeologist Dr. Fred Michael
believe the Money Pit treasure vault
may be buried between 80 and 120 feet deep...
There's another augur on there now.
...Dumas is conducting a probe drilling operation
within the structure
at a depth of approximately 65 feet,
in the hopes of finding more evidence
of the fabled riches.
Using a hydraulic earth drill,
the team is drilling three holes
through all four walls of the original shaft
which will reach as far as 20 feet
in every direction.
RICK: It's all about, at this point,
the probe drilling
and trying to use the information
derived from that program to further our understanding
of the relevance of the Garden Shaft
in terms of treasure recovery.
CRAIG: That seemed to be drilling awful easy.
Yeah.
RICK: It's exciting to think about the possibilities,
because, uh, now we have found gold values,
meaning that...
we might be close to a source location
for gold here.
CRAIG: Where are they at?
-COTE: In, uh, northeast corner. -Okay.
COTE: Something's going on in that corner.
Yeah. Still, it's looking like it's
-a softer corner, which... -Yeah.
...which all indications were from what we've seen.
We've been probe drilling in the northeast corner,
and the ground seems quite soft.
It's very interesting.
It's telling us something.
Are we gonna find tunnels? Are we gonna to find unknown shafts?
And we're real excited about it.
SCOTT: You know, if there's a tunnel there
or anything like that, it's gonna be really interesting.
We just got the information
and we'll start following the information.
That's right. Let the science do the work.
-Yeah. -Yep. -Yeah.
CRAIG: Okay, well, it's moving along.
-Okay. -Thank you very much.
We'll keep at it.
CRAIG: Let me know if you hit anything, for sure.
COTE: Okay, will do.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
MARTY: All right. What we got going here today?
I want to pull this corner back,
because when we first dug,
I thought there were a couple three stones there.
NARRATOR: On Lot 13,
over 400 feet north
of the triangle-shaped swamp...
I agree, it's possible
we could follow that out a little further.
...Craig Tester joins Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with fellow landowner Tom Nolan,
and other members of the team to resume
investigating a mysterious site
known as the great quadrilateral.
First discovered more than 30 years ago
by Tom's late father, Fred Nolan,
the feature is a 32-foot-long formation of boulders,
which Fred believed might have been created
centuries ago.
Based on a diagram that he designed
back in the 1990s,
the team is currently excavating
the northeast portion of the quadrilateral
in the hopes of determining
who created it and just what they used it for.
MARTY: And all this clay is out of place, is that correct?
It shouldn't be there?
Yeah, bottom line is, you found artifacts.
That tells us that somebody's dug that clay.
And we found that staple.
Yeah, we did, and that's the thing.
-If we can dig deeper... -Mm.
...the artifacts should be older.
The more we dig, the more we find.
Hey, Rick? That's a bit of clay there.
Where have you seen that color before?
RICK: Money Pit.
NARRATOR: One week ago,
after uncovering an artificial layer of blue clay,
which is a kind of water sealant
that was also found deep in the Money Pit
back in 1804,
-Ooh! A piece of metal. -...the team discovered
a heavy iron staple.
A staple
that blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge
believed was part of a pulley system
designed to move heavy objects
and may actually date back to medieval times.
To me, this strongly
suggests the original work.
Now we have to figure out the why of this.
Is there a possibility that there's something
underground here that may be the one thing?
I'm-I'm hopeful. I am.
But we have to prove it.
Okay. Go hop in that machine and start finding.
-Yep. -All right, mate. I'll get ready as well.
NARRATOR: As Billy Gerhardt excavates the feature,
metal detection expert Gary Drayton
will search the spoils for important clues
and signs of treasure.
The quadrilateral appears to be an area
of rather substantial impact.
The boulders, they were basically stacked in two tiers.
Doesn't look anything like an agricultural thing.
Farmers are extremely practical people.
They're not gonna waste effort.
And why would they dig down
eight, 12, 14 feet?
No, it's not farmers.
It's not agricultural.
So could it be somehow associated
with the whole mystery? Yeah.
(beeping)
That one weird, little tick like that.
(beeping)
Yeah, we can't ignore that.
Just there.
Is that a lump of coal on the side there?
On the side of that wall there?
A little charcoal?
(Rick blows)
GARY: That is definitely charcoal, mate, isn't it?
RICK: Yeah.
See the glint off of it?
Yeah, definitely part
of the quadrilateral story, for sure.
RICK: Yeah, good eye, Gary, because
-it was right there in the wall. -Yep.
NARRATOR: Because charcoal can be carbon-dated...
I'll put this in the bag, Rick. This is cool.
...perhaps this discovery can offer
the team another clue as to when
this feature was created.
All right, let's get back at it.
The other burning question, where's the metal?
It seems to be
elongated. Oh.
It's there?
Still there?
Yep. It's just...
finding it.
(beeping)
I believe... got it.
That's it.
What the heck is this?
Oh, my gosh!
-Heavy? -Yeah, it's heavy.
Uh, don't know what it is.
-It's a curved piece of iron. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: While excavating the mysterious formation
known as the great quadrilateral on Lot 13...
-What you got, Gary? -GARY: It looks like
some large piece of iron.
-Yep. -...Billy Gerhardt
and Gary Drayton have just unearthed a potentially
important discovery.
-Was that in the clay? -Eh.
It's not in the clay, no.
-Show it to these guys. -GARY: Yeah.
That just seems strange to me.
A little heavy.
A little heavy. Watch yourself.
-RICK: It's weird, whatever it is. -GARY: Yeah.
It's a non-descript hunk of something.
Chunk of metal.
-That's heavy. -TOM: Yeah.
-MARTY: That is rusty. -TOM: Yeah.
-But that's not 30 years of rusty. -MARTY: No.
-It looks more than that. -TOM: Yeah. Yeah.
This goes well back into antiquity.
Right.
Well, that's not something
you find every day.
Nope.
Just on Oak Island.
MARTY: Just on Oak Island.
Tell you, mate, when that chunk of iron
come out there, the way it's curved like that,
the size and the weight of it,
reminded me of a fragment of a cannonball.
I've found loads of them in the southeast United States.
I mean, we did find armament.
-We've found musket balls, obviously. -Yeah.
We've found Portuguese stone shot.
-Yeah. -If you start putting
puzzle pieces together,
then that becomes perhaps more relevant.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: A possible fragment of a cannonball
found in the great quadrilateral?
And of a potentially ancient origin?
-Ready? -Yep.
I love it when we find stuff like this.
That is a bona fide artifact.
NARRATOR: Over the past three years,
the team has found two stone cannonballs on Oak Island,
one of which was discovered deep in the Money Pit area.
Incredibly, those objects,
just like the stone road that was uncovered
in the triangle-shaped swamp
back in 2020
and the stone wall located on Lot 26,
are all believed to be 500 years old or more.
And potentially connected
to the Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar.
If it is indeed a cannonball frag,
then that becomes, perhaps, extremely relevant.
Yep, you got that right, mate.
NARRATOR: Could Rick Lagina be correct
that this discovery may offer a critical clue
in identifying who created the so-called great quadrilateral?
I think we can say we got it, but I'll re-check the hole
-just in case. -Yep. Yep.
NARRATOR: If so, the question
that grows all the more curious is,
just what was its purpose?
GARY: Yep, it's out.
All right.
It's all clear.
Billy, crank it up.
-(dirt grinding) -IAN: Geez!
GARY: I'd say we're getting into some boulders as well.
One there... one there.
BILLY: I don't know if somebody wants to look,
but you got four rocks, all flat,
right there-- you can see where the tops are scratched.
-CRAIG: Yeah. -TOM: You mean those four, four
-small ones there, Billy, sort of... -BILLY: Yeah, it's just...
they're just kind of laid flatted out.
Worried about it, or pulling them out?
-No. Let's see what's under them. -Keep going.
This is definitely a disturbed area
where somebody excavated a bunch of stuff
and then put stuff back in that didn't belong there...
I'm coming down.
...and maybe the boulders here
in this disturbed area might have been used
to seal something.
If treasure was
brought to Oak Island and deposited here,
this would be a great place for it.
GARY: Nothing in there.
RICK: What do you think?
IAN: So there's nothing really here?
MARTY: No. Nothing.
I wouldn't go any further than that.
Yeah.
So now I think what we need to do is
sort of sequentially move towards the west.
I agree.
And we need artifacts.
Or something underneath this.
That's where I sit.
MARTY: Yeah, something went on here.
Something was dug out and something was placed back in.
And we don't know why.
I think we all agree there's something
strangely unique about this.
Oh, yeah.
RICK: We're not done digging at the quadrilateral
is what the next steps are.
We need to dig the structure in its entirety.
I believe there is a chance
that there are additional boulders,
and hopefully find more artifacts.
And make our own assessment of what it might mean.
My usual MO is to say... (chuckles)
...keep digging, so that's what I suggest we do.
IAN: Yep. This is going to take
-a few days. -RICK: Yeah.
But it's about the end of the day,
so let's call it a day.
-TOM: Okay. -MARTY: We'll be back again.
-NARRATOR: The following day... -Going up.
...as the probe drilling operation continues
in the Garden Shaft...
RICK: Certainly, the Garden Shaft is the...
most important, uh, project that we have,
but the swamp also is important.
NARRATOR: ...Rick, Marty and Craig
have gathered members of the team in the war room,
as well as on video conference, for an update
on another major investigation
they soon hope to begin
in order to help solve the Oak Island mystery.
The thing that is required, obviously, is a permit.
I just wanted to bring everybody up to date,
as to where we are. Laird has
put in for heritage research permits regarding
the southeast corner of the swamp.
TONY: How's that for a starting point, guys?
JEREMY: Yeah, that's a good one.
NARRATOR: Earlier this year,
the team conducted new magnetometer scans
in the swamp with geophysical
experts Jeremy Church and Burton Cosgrove.
JEREMY: Whoa!
-TONY: Big one? -Yeah.
-Through the roof. -Fantastic!
NARRATOR: Incredibly, they detected numerous
metallic anomalies in an area
just several yards from the possible
Portuguese stone road located in the brackish bog's
southeast corner.
And we've sent all information to the First Nations, right?
Correct. We have. Yes.
NARRATOR: However,
due to the discovery
of 2,000-year-old fragments
of First Nations Mi'kmaw pottery
that archaeologist Laird Niven made
in the southeast corner of the swamp
back in 2021,
the Oak Island team has been delayed in obtaining
governmental permits to once again draw down,
or drain, the swamp and investigate
those potential targets.
I know things have gotten more complicated and
-we need that draw-down permit because... -Yeah.
...we want to dig and Jeremy's
presentation and there's some things that,
in my mind, should be dug.
Right.
Billy, I'm going to turn it over to you because you've been
more intimately involved in that process than anyone.
So if you can fill everyone in, that'd be great.
So, the government, they've been very good
in communicating with us.
The good news is...
from what we understand...
they gave the approvals
-for a permit. -Perfect!
(laughter)
RICK: All the information has been relayed
to the proper governmental authorities
and all of the permit
application requirements have been met.
Well done, sir.
And I believe that we should shortly
have the permits in hand.
I think we're, uh, we're well on our way.
Hopefully it'll be all positive from here on in.
It's all good. We can't control it beyond this, so proceed.
All righty.
-ALEX: See you, guys. -See you.
-SCOTT: Thanks. -MARTY: Drain that swamp.
NARRATOR: Two days after the Oak Island team's
meeting in the war room...
-ALEX: Hey, Billy! -BILLY: How you doing, guys?
JACK: Hey, Billy.
This is one heck of a big pump.
-ALEX: Yeah, yeah. -BILLY: Well, it's a big swamp.
NARRATOR: ...they have officially received a permit
from the provincial government to drain the swamp
in order to investigate a number of potential metal targets
that were detected earlier this year.
So we cleaned out the sump, sump's all ready to go.
ALEX: When we did this year one,
I don't remember what the flow rate was on those things.
-What-what's this thing? -Uh...
I think, I think this thing would probably seven
-or 800 gallons a minute, I imagine. -ALEX: So that means,
couple three days, we'll have this thing drained?
Yeah, it'll go pretty quick, yeah.
Where are we running the outflow?
This line here, we have it strung over
on Lot 29. Up in the middle, there's
quite a rocky section in the woods.
As you know, we're pretty protective
-of any runoff, so... -ALEX: Yeah.
-Let's get pumping. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: In accordance with environmental regulations...
Hey, Tim!
...rather than pumping the brackish water out
of the swamp and into the nearby ocean,
the Oak Island team will transfer it all
to Lot 29, in the middle of the island.
Tim got tired of taking pumps apart and picking sticks out,
so he designed this little float for us.
Yeah. Ingenious idea.
The swamp definitely has a lot
of secrets that it's still hiding.
You know, it almost looks like
someone covered a stone pathway,
and other related features.
I got to say, Tim, I'm very impressed.
-Well done. -JACK: It makes you wonder,
was that done by the depositors?
Or was that done by early searchers?
Cool.
That is a hooked-up pump.
I think we're all ready.
Oh! Here goes.
All righty! See you, Bill.
-Yeah. -Jack: See you, guys.
NARRATOR: The following day,
while the swamp continues to drain...
COTE: Want tightlining now?
Want to bring them down some nails?
...and while the probe drilling operation proceeds
in the Garden Shaft at the Money Pit...
RICK: Okay, Billy.
-It's up you. -BILLY: Okay.
...Billy Gerhardt returns
to Lot 13,
along with Rick Lagina, Tom Nolan
and other members of the team
to continue excavating the great quadrilateral
for additional clues, as well as signs
of potential valuables.
What say me and you go behind there
-and sort through the spoils? -Yeah.
NARRATOR: Having discovered several
potentially important artifacts
in the northeast portion of the feature,
the team is now excavating
its southern region.
RICK: My hope is that we can
somehow figure out the why of it.
Fred was unable to.
Why build such a structure?
It makes no sense.
To me, it might be associated
with a... what we call "original work," because...
I can't believe a farmer
would conduct such an activity.
GARY: Nothing.
Keep going, Bill.
You know what's interesting
about this is, I mean, Fred described it
as roughly paving,
and if you look at the sketch in the book,
they're mostly big rocks, but he actually
draws little rocks in between them
as though the top was meant to be paved.
In fact, I think even in the book
he calls it a paved area.
Well, now there's paved area in the swamp.
Paved area here.
Are they the same?
I don't know.
NARRATOR: In 2019,
the team was astonished to uncover a vast area
of paving stones near the middle of the swamp.
IAN: Well, we got the date.
And so we just got them back yesterday.
NARRATOR: But even more incredible
was that Dr. Ian Spooner was able
to date the feature to as early
as 1200 AD.
-Medieval, baby! -(laughter)
RICK: Be nice to find
-another artifact or two. -GARY: Yeah.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the great quadrilateral,
which Fred Nolan discovered more than 30 years ago,
could actually date to the same time period?
If so, could this feature
be more evidence that the origin
of the Oak Island mystery goes further back in time
than anyone ever thought possible?
TOM: I believe there's one of the boulders that
formed part of the, part of the structure.
IAN: So if it is part of the structure,
it'd be fun to go over and look at it and see
-what-what its relationship... -TOM: Yeah.
...is to the sediment underneath.
If there's soil underneath the boulder,
then we know it's been moved, you know?
I think we should just come up and go over there
-and take a look at them. -CRAIG: Yeah.
BILLY: There's three rocks in a line at a height
of where we found the other ones, but...
Does it kind of parallel the other side?
-Yes. I'd say, yeah. -So it could be something underneath?
-Could be. -RICK: That'd be interesting.
Yeah, so... like Tom,
you were saying, these boulders look embedded.
Oh, they are.
They were definitely
placed in a certain type
of order here and you can see it here, that they're
-stacked pretty tight. -IAN: Right.
Yeah, bottom line is, if we didn't have
rocks here and rocks there, or rocks in line,
that's a little unnatural, right?
But I want to see if we have any organic matter underneath it.
Yeah, so I think
we just need to pluck this.
Okey doke.
As we get below the layer of boulders, which my dad didn't,
it's deepening the mystery.
This site has been manipulated for a reason.
That's the question, now, we need to find out.
I'd like to metal detect that. We might get an Hail Mary find
-out of there. -That's right.
Yep.
Ooh, bit of pottery right on the top.
Can't really tell a lot about it, it's...
it's just a white glazed shard of pottery.
Right in that last bucket.
RICK: Take a look at this, Gary.
What do you got, mate?
Ooh.
Oh, wow that's old.
GARY: It looks old.
Yeah, that is an old piece of glass,
with it being that thin.
NARRATOR: While searching the spoils
that have been excavated from a depth of more than ten feet
at the mysterious great quadrilateral...
Check that out, Tom.
That's old. Good eye, Rick.
...Rick Lagina has uncovered
a potentially significant artifact.
That is terribly thin.
GARY: Yeah. That's how you know it's old-- when it's thin.
That could easily be 1700s or older.
NARRATOR: A piece of glass
potentially dating back earlier
than the 18th century and found more than ten feet deep
in the great quadrilateral?
That's a crackin' find, Rick. It really is.
NARRATOR: Could that mean that it was left behind
by someone who previously investigated this feature?
Or was it left by someone who helped create it?
IAN: I think wherever that little piece
came from was right at the interface
-between the soil and the C horizon. -GARY: Yeah.
NARRATOR: The C horizon refers
to the natural layer of earth below the topsoil,
which may have previously been disturbed by human activity.
IAN: I think,
all in here, we're down into C horizon.
We're probably out of the, uh... the quadrilateral now.
NARRATOR: At this point,
it is Dr. Spooner's opinion
that they have reached the bottom of the feature.
-We're so far back now. -RICK: Too far?
Yeah, even at its longest point, it was 32 feet,
going north to south, and...
we'd be well past that here, so...
I think we're out of the original structure.
Yeah.
It does look like it's been disturbed.
IAN: Yeah. Quite a bit, right in here.
RICK: Well, bottom line is,
we may not uncover anything more than your father did.
I think the most important thing we've learned
about the quadrilateral to date
is that what Fred wrote about his observations were correct.
We have proven that there was a stacked stone feature.
It can only
have been put there by human beings.
To what end?
That's yet to be discovered.
IAN: We're absolutely certain
it's been manipulated. Somebody's dug it.
It's just who
and when they dug.
So, the quadrilateral still does remain a mystery.
Unfortunately, we didn't find any treasure.
But I think it had purpose.
Was it used here as some sort of a marker?
We just don't know.
But it just validates what my dad discovered
and the work he did here.
I-It's a great fulfillment in life for me.
Well, we gave it a go,
like your father did, but this
-probably defines the dig. -Yeah. -Yeah.
-IAN: I agree. -BILLY: Yep. -RICK: Let's call it a day.
-TOM: Sounds good. -RICK: Well done, guys.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: The following day...
...while representatives from Dumas continue searching
for clues just outside the Garden Shaft
and while the swamp continues to drain...
RICK: So, gentlemen, today's, uh, another data download day.
But it's about my favorite place on Oak Island,
the swamp.
...Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with members of the team...
So, Billy, if you can get Marty and Jeremy up.
...are meeting via video conference in the war room
with geoscientist Jeremy Church.
-JEREMY: Hey, guys. -Hi, guys!
-Hey, Marty. Hey, Jeremy. -Hey!
RICK: So, Jeremy,
I hear you've got some analysis,
and I very much look forward to it.
There's some interesting stuff that's come out of it.
-Great. -MARTY: Hey, I want to say this right now--
I've been telling Rick for years now
we should not quit on that swamp.
-(chuckles) -That's-that's-that's the way
I remember it.
That's not the way I remember it.
-(chuckling) -RICK: Now that we have indeed
the swamp permits, I had asked Jeremy
to further study the geophysical data.
And he believes he has some...
some targets, legitimate targets, in the swamp.
Jeremy, it's over to you.
JEREMY: All right, gentlemen.
Here's the data coverage of the swamp area.
So, jumping in,
first slice that we're gonna look at is
real close to the surface.
We have this "Anomaly SWa" up in...
north part of the swamp.
Hmm.
It was quite interesting 'cause there's something
under the surface when he was in-in the soft muck
that you can see it in the-- in the acquisition line.
It's not metallic, either.
Hmm. Interesting.
But definitely
a very interesting anomaly.
RICK: The potential target
at the base of the Eye of the Swamp
means it probably is some sort of legitimate target
and we'll have to figure out a way to investigate it.
I believe there are answers in that swamp.
Okay. What else do you find?
All right.
About three feet down,
a couple new anomalies in here.
So, uh, I do believe this is your stone path
going along kind of the eastern edge,
with potential kind of extension out into more of the open water.
So, this is a slightly deeper slice.
Now we're at, like, just over three feet.
And I do believe this is your paved area
that has started to show up here,
just north of the peninsula.
And this is where things start getting
a little more interesting for us.
It all shallows up, of course,
as you get north of the peninsula here.
So, this is very bright conductivity.
Bright colors like yellows and-and then getting into reds
represents high conductivity anomalies, and...
the blues and purples are lower conductivity.
So, higher chance of some sort of metallic content.
Oh.
And just on the other side of the peninsula,
that really bright anomaly shows up there.
It's quite a major feature, for sure.
JACK: Why is it
so much darker red there?
The deeper the red, the higher the conductivity.
So it's very elevated there.
That's the strongest metallic response
in the swamp area.
JACK: All right.
RICK: That's great.
JEREMY: That's kind of the strongest metallic response
in the swamp area.
NARRATOR: In the war room,
geoscientist Jeremy Church
has just presented the team with updated magnetometry data
indicating several metallic anomalies may lie buried
approximately three feet deep near the 800-year-old paved area
in the northeastern region of the Oak Island swamp.
And this anomaly does extend to deeper than...
this three-foot kind of level that we're at.
It's quite a major feature, for sure.
In that red zone,
have we ever dug for "Anomaly SWe," like,
around in that area at all?
You know, not to his targeted area.
There may be two feet of water on it right now.
MARTY: That sounds like a good target,
but it's a tough one to get to.
RICK: When Jeremy shows the high conductivity values
in the swamp,
it's a difficult location to dig,
because it's too wet of an environment.
Yes, we were able to drain the swamp,
but the body of the swamp proper retains a lot of water.
We'll have to wait and see what it is.
JEREMY: That-- what I'm calling "the paved area"--
maybe this is another region to take another look at.
That's at least three feet deep.
So now we have reason to go back there.
RICK: In regards to conductivity
within the paved area of the swamp,
the first thought on everyone's mind is,
"This is diggable."
At that location,
you could probably dig 50 feet, maybe.
-Wow. Okay. -RICK: Billy could bring
an excavator in there and dig it to the proper depth.
I think everyone wants to know what it is
or what it might represent.
MARTY: Conductivity in the paved area
could have telltale artifacts on it.
The swamp clearly has mysteries.
I think, Steve, you need to get
all these things on our map
and then it's time to dig.
Yeah. Yeah, that's easy.
JEREMY: So, yeah,
that's what I got for you right now,
but a bunch more exciting data
comes in daily and I'm working it,
so stay tuned.
Well, it's all interesting.
We'll have Steve overlay everything,
as Marty said,
and-and, uh, have a look.
-Yeah. -MARTY: That's excellent, I think.
This data's good.
It means the swamp is full of secrets-- that's what it means.
(chuckling)
Jeremy, thank you very much.
There's a lot to do.
The only way to do it, as usual, it's not in this room--
it's out back, as Dan called it.
So, see you, guys.
Till the next time! Thank you!
-Thanks, Jeremy. -JEREMY: Goodbye. Thank you.
NARRATOR: After the meeting in the war room...
-SCOTT: Hey, Paul! -COTE: Hey, how's it going?
...Craig Tester and Scott Barlow
arrive in the Money Pit area.
Working at a depth of 65 feet
in the Garden Shaft,
the team from Dumas Contracting Limited
has nearly completed their probe drilling operation
at the current depth of the feature's reconstruction.
CRAIG: Where are they at?
So, uh, they got one hole 15 feet
and they hit solid.
CRAIG: 15, did you say?
-15. Yeah. -Okay.
NARRATOR: An impenetrable obstruction
some 15 feet outside of the Garden Shaft
and at a depth of some 65 feet?
The questions that arise now are is it natural
or could it be man-made?
SCOTT: There could be a void.
There could be another shaft right beside this one.
-(walkie beeps) -AURELE: Going down.
SCOTT: Down just below 58 feet, 60 feet.
-(walkie beeps) -Good.
SCOTT: It's-it's a bit baffling.
But it doesn't mean that it can't be significant,
because lots of places
in history where things...
operations like this have been done by the depositors,
they may dig down
but then tunnel off to the side in an offset chamber
or-or back up towards the surface
and that's where their-their cache of treasure is put.
-There's another augur on there now. -CRAIG: Yep.
We'll try to drill through it.
Okay.
(clanking)
All right.
We got something going.
They got something there.
-Did we hit something, Daniel? -(beep)
10-4.
Probably a rock or something.
NARRATOR: After completing 12 20-foot boreholes
covering all four walls of the Garden Shaft,
unfortunately, no signs of valuables have been found
at the 65-foot level.
However, since the shaft extends down
to a total depth of 80 feet,
perhaps they simply need to proceed deeper
in order to locate the large source of gold
that has been detected in the area.
What about timing going forward from here?
How soon until you're mucking again?
Uh, so, after they're done,
they'll pull the drill out,
if we don't encounter any problems,
and then we'll work our way down and then we'll start grabbing.
NARRATOR: Once the probe drill is removed from the structure,
the team from Dumas will prepare
to reconstruct the next eight-foot level, or set,
-of the Garden Shaft. -SCOTT: Let's get down
to the interesting depth, right?
I mean, the closer we get to the bottom,
the more curious it becomes.
Hopefully, that's where the gold signal's coming from,
-but we'll see. -COTE: Yeah.
SCOTT: Thanks, Paul.
-CRAIG: Appreciate it. -COTE: Yeah.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
RICK: Billy, you ready to start making a mess?
BILLY: Well,
-I hope so. I hope... -(chuckles)
I hope it's a good mess.
...Rick Lagina and Craig Tester,
along with other members of the team,
arrive at the triangle-shaped swamp.
This is it?
It would be on the eastern edge.
Okay. So, Bill, as usual,
when it comes to digging, it's up to you.
-Yep. -So, pull up.
Let's start here.
All right. Great.
NARRATOR: Now that nearly three million gallons of brackish water
have been drained from the swamp,
the team is eager to begin investigating
a metallic anomaly that Jeremy Church identified
in the northeastern region
near the 800-year-old paved area.
RICK: Digging in the swamp is incredibly difficult.
But what is
exciting about it
is the possibilities that it presents.
-(clanging) -RICK: Right there. Something hard.
There are some interesting finds yet to be made in the swamp
that may lead to "X marks the spot."
CRAIG: The bucket going across here
is hitting something solid.
You can hear it all the way.
-(clanging) is that? -RICK: What is that?
BILLY: I'm not sure.
NARRATOR: While investigating the swamp,
where a believed metallic anomaly may be buried...
(clanging continues)
JACK: What is that?
...the Oak Island team has just made
a potentially important discovery.
BILLY: I'm not sure, but I think there's all rocks
underneath there. But I think they're coming...
They're sloping up.
Really?
LAIRD: You just see the white tops.
STEVE: Yeah. That's a lot of cobble.
I am gonna take an elevation.
If I remember correctly,
I believe the paved area was about a foot
to a foot and a half below sea level,
but let me get-get an elevation check.
CRAIG: Okay. Sounds good.
And then just see if it's coming up at-at all.
Oh.
Yeah, there's a lot of cobble under here.
It's-- I think it's cobble the whole way up, Steve, yeah.
Yeah.
So, we're a foot and a half below sea level here.
Do you think it's sloping up?
BILLY: Yeah. It seems like it's coming up this way.
And maybe even side to side a little bit.
So we've come up a couple inches here, Billy.
Yeah.
STEVE: So the grade starts to...
come up. So...
it could be a ramp.
Yeah.
STEVE: The elevations are about a foot and a half below sea level,
which is very consistent to the paved area
that we found a few years ago.
Well, that's important, because if a ramp
is connected to the paved area,
it's gonna start at the same elevation.
NARRATOR: A ramp made of stone?
And possibly connected to the 800-year-old paved area
that the team discovered back in 2017?
If so, could it be covering the metallic anomaly
that has recently been detected in this area?
Uh, do we want to go wider or...?
-Any thoughts, Laird? -I would've thought wider
if you think it's sloping up.
Yeah, I was gonna say, let's continue this way.
That's what I would do.
And then if it runs out,
it runs out, which is a good thing.
We definitely think we're in a paved area here.
Oh, yeah. No, there's no doubt.
RICK: I think we're all thinking
the same thing.
R-A-M-P. A ramp.
An inclined ramp.
We believe there was a construct
that possibly connected the paved area to the stone path.
And now we have a potential connection between the two.
Yeah, I'd keep going that way
and-and what-- uncover it from here...
-Yeah. -...and-and if we end up having
-to reposition, we reposition. But... -Yeah.
Yeah. This gives us a good starting point,
and the ramp is as important as anything, I think.
JACK: So let's start here,
dig it up and see if there really is a ramp that connects
this paved area to the road.
I agree.
Okay, Bill, keep going.
Okay.
RICK: Let's see where this leads.
NARRATOR: As another memorable week comes to a close on Oak Island,
Rick, Marty, Craig and their team are once again confronted
with a daunting realization.
The answers to this 228-year-old mystery
appear to be hidden
in a number of ingeniously concealed locations.
And while that suggests
that their quest will remain frustratingly complex,
it could also mean that following every potential clue
and finishing every arduous dig
will lead to many profound rewards.
Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...
SCOTT: Oh, wow.
No matter what we're into in this area,
whether it's wood or water or soil,
-we're getting gold. -(rapid beeping)
-(gasps, laughs) -Oh! What have we got, mate?
JACK: That's awesome!
EMMA: This comes from Sardinia.
Off the coast of Italy.
-MARTY: Whoa. -RICK: It's the trail
-of the Templars. -This thing could have
a worldwide impact.
-Oh, definitely. It's a game changer. -Yeah.
The source of an astonishing revelation.
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