NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...
JAMIE: Look at this.
-FIONA: Oh. -JACK: Wow.
-JAMIE: Oh, that's so cool. -This is an important artifact.
Yeah.
Ooh, is that it? Oh!
-That's gorgeous. -Oh.
Whoa.
Here is the cave.
You can see some sort of opening.
MARTY: That's a pretty clean right angle.
And that's not natural, then, right?
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...
...man-made 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.
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RICK: So, here's the thing, guys.
You know, the Dumas people have sent us an email
regarding the agenda moving forward.
The timeline they proposed
for the completion of the Garden Shaft,
I think we were, uh,
-surprised by it. -Right.
-Yep. -NARRATOR: As a new morning
begins on Oak Island, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with their partner Craig Tester,
have called an urgent meeting in the war room
regarding the ongoing difficulties
of deepening the Garden Shaft in the Money Pit area.
The new timeline is, of course, part of it,
is the issue with the weather.
There's a lot of voids behind the shaft.
There's all kinds of ancillary issues.
-It's a bit troubling. -Yeah.
Yeah, this is a disconcerting piece of news, Rick, Craig,
because, uh, I mean, the Garden Shaft
was probably one of the big things this year
that we wanted to get done, but the bottom line is,
the date they now have for completion of just the deepening
has moved way off into the fall.
NARRATOR: For the past three weeks,
representatives from Dumas Contracting Limited
have been working tirelessly to halt
a mysterious inflow of water into the structure
which has a current depth of 87 feet.
While the team is uncertain whether or not the water flow
is associated with the legendary flood traps
that have plagued treasure hunters in the Money Pit area
for more than two centuries,
it has delayed their efforts to extend the Garden Shaft
down to a final depth of some 95 feet.
It is here where the team is on course
to breach a seven-foot-high wooden tunnel.
A tunnel that leads due west into the so-called "Baby Blob,"
where high-trace evidence of gold, silver and other metals
have been detected through water testing
between depths of 80 and 120 feet.
Now, Rick, Marty, Craig and the team
must find another way to reach the valuables
that they have all but proven to be buried deep
in the Money Pit area.
Let's call up our partners and let's talk to them.
-Hello, guys. Welcome back to the war room. -RICK: Hey, guys.
-Hello. -Hello, Marty.
Well, w-we're in receipt of your email, Cameron, Tony,
you know, about the-the anticipated completion
of the Garden Shaft, and, you know, clearly,
we're disappointed, but we have to deal with it.
And so, we want to do damage control.
So that's point one.
CAMERON: Yeah, understood, Marty.
You know, we have tried to-to mitigate, you know,
that-that water ingress as much as possible,
but it has delayed us from, uh, achieving
where we had hoped to be at this point.
-Right. -So, you know, our focus has been on
making sure that that shaft is sustainable
moving forward.
RICK: We would like to continue
the work extending the shaft.
We would like to go to 95 feet,
so we can absolutely determine whether or not
it's original depositional work.
As of right now, we're not gonna deviate from that.
-MARTY: Yeah. -CRAIG: We want to go deep enough
to be able to put that drill downhole
and go horizontal at those depths.
And I guess the other question is, though,
will the equipment that's gonna be here
be able to plug those wells after we're drilling
without water issues continuing?
Yeah, so, we've got the Minova fellas coming in
and-and they're gonna give us a hand
with Geofoam filling, and that will fill the voids
in behind the shaft and stabilize it again.
-That will be another week from now. -Okay.
NARRATOR: If Dumas can safely extend
the Garden Shaft into the tunnel below,
the team can use a probe drill capable of reaching
up to 40 feet outside of the structure
to potentially pinpoint the location
of the precious metals that have been detected.
But first, representatives from Dumas
will utilize Geofoam, an industrial-grade material
that can expand up to 40 times its size
to fill voids in the walls of the structure
which will stabilize the shaft
and, hopefully, stop the current flooding.
MARTY: It remains extremely important to be able to utilize
the Garden Shaft for horizontal drilling.
We want to find this treasure if it exists,
and the Garden Shaft remains highly valuable
in that exercise.
If we can get the 40-plus feet out,
uh, we can find out
what's outside in an 80-foot diameter circle.
CAMERON: Yeah, and we are going to work together
to solve the challenges, always.
-Fair enough. -Love to hear it.
MARTY: Okay. Gentlemen, appreciate it.
Let's make a shaft. Thank you.
-CRAIG: Thanks, guys. -Take care guys. Thank you.
Take care. Bye-bye.
Okay.
All right, well, we are on the same page with those guys.
-So, that's good. -Yeah, I think, at this point,
the possibility of doing caisson work
-is looming large, but where? -Where?
I would like to pump Aladdin's cave,
and if the metals hold up, I'd vote for that.
You could maybe put a can over it.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Nearly 60 feet southwest
of the Garden Shaft and the Baby Blob,
the Oak Island team has also been investigating
another spot in the Money Pit area
where something of great value could be buried:
a large cavern located some 150 feet deep
that Marty has dubbed "Aladdin's cave,"
due to the evidence of wooden structures and gold
that have been detected there through water sample testing.
CHARLES: What's that sitting
right on the end of it, right there?
STEVE: It looks like a bolt.
NARRATOR: In addition, the team has obtained
compelling sonar and underwater images
inside of Aladdin's cave,
suggesting that it could be a man-made chamber.
If they can recover definitive evidence
that it contains treasure...
the team has the option to dig a large diameter steel caisson,
as they have done in the past, in the hopes of retrieving it.
MARTY: I've been a proponent
of Aladdin's cave ever since we found it.
I'm saying, "This needs to be investigated."
What is clear is we need to get
a better image of the whole thing.
So we need to drill another hole.
And we need to think about putting a caisson
down into this thing.
Well, I mean, I'm-I'm game
for looking into caissons, I think it's a great idea.
There's a lot of work to do there, so...
-let's head on out. -All right, okay.
MARTY: Well said.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
RICK: So, Bill, pull that back a little bit,
-if you would. -BILLY: Yep.
NARRATOR: ...in the southeast corner of the swamp,
Rick Lagina, along with his nephew Alex,
Gary Drayton and Billy Gerhardt
continue searching for important clues
near the potentially 500-year-old stone road.
Keep Gary busy. (chuckles)
NARRATOR: Since first uncovering this massive feature in 2020,
the team has found critical clues nearby,
such as ancient pieces of wooden barrels
and a stone pathway,
suggesting that it may have been used long ago
to unload valuable cargo onto Oak Island.
Now the team hopes to find more of the stone road,
and any valuable clues that may help solve
the 229-year-old mystery.
ALEX: There's more chain.
GARY: Oh, look at that chain, yeah?
More chain.
Good eye.
Yep. Look, that's all connected.
-And this looks old. -That does, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is definitely not factory-made. This is crude.
Hey, Uncle Rick!
You might want to come look at this.
Seems like the larger one would be maybe to anchor that,
and then the smaller ones would be for whatever you're doing.
GARY: Yep.
-It's hard to tell because of all the crusty stuff. -Yeah.
-Hi, Gary. -There you go, mate.
If we're looking for signs of loading and unloading,
you'd need some chains like this.
RICK: Wow.
Yeah, that's very cool.
You know what that reminds me of is a multipoint.
-BILLY: Yeah. -You know what I mean?
You have this ring and then you have
your three points off, and there are four points.
-That's what that is. -BILLY: Yeah. -Yeah.
RICK: You have a three-point hitch,
it's gonna be able to pull across
even something like a beach.
-Right? -Yeah.
It's gonna keep it level.
That's a great find,
but there is more here to be found, so...
-Yep. -Yeah.
RICK: I've got a few other things to check in on.
-You know, good luck... -ALEX: Okay.
...and, uh, good hunting.
-We'll take it from here. -Okay, mate.
-See you soon. -See you.
See you, mate.
-Okay. -ALEX: Okay, let's go through some more.
(detector beeping)
GARY: I got a hit.
I think that could be in that wood.
On it. It's in there.
-That's it? -It's on top.
GARY: Look at that. That's gorgeous.
-GARY: Look at that. That's gorgeous. -ALEX: Yeah?
-It's a piece of wood. -NARRATOR: While excavating
near the stone road
in the southeast corner of the swamp,
metal detection expert Gary Drayton,
Alex Lagina and Billy Gerhardt
have just found a potentially important clue.
GARY: Yep, there's definitely some iron here.
You can see it.
-Iron oxide. -ALEX: Yeah.
Might be the top of the spike.
-I'll set this aside, too. -Yeah, please.
-ALEX: Well, let's see what else we can get out. -Yeah.
(detector beeping)
Yeah, we still got another hit in here.
Thought there might be.
See if it's there.
(detector beeping)
Let's see.
(pinpointer beeping)
Oh, we got some...
Oh, ho, ho, ho. Look.
ALEX: Oh.
GARY: That's the pointy end of the spike.
Look at the black spike in the wood.
This is one of those old rosehead spikes,
by the look of the top, that bevel on it.
ALEX: And that would make it pretty old, right?
GARY: Oh, yeah, yeah. This is old.
Yeah, a spike like that looks like it's from
-the 1700s or older. -Great.
GARY: This actually might be a smaller ship spike
-or wharf pin. -BILLY: This corner of the swamp,
-it's the one that just keeps on giving. -Yeah.
It might indicate that it was part of a structure.
-Yeah, it's-- it'll help us with our database. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: An iron spike embedded in wood?
Could Billy Gerhardt be correct
that they offer evidence of a buried structure?
Before his passing in 2016,
legendary Oak Island treasure hunter Fred Nolan
reported to Rick Lagina that he had once found evidence
of a dam feature in this same area.
A dam that may have been used
to artificially create the swamp.
Could the team have just found evidence
of what Fred believed is hidden beneath the south shore road?
ALEX: This is gonna mean a lot to my Uncle Rick.
So, I want to see what we keep digging up.
Well, that was a heck of a dig, mate.
-We got a shipload of finds. -(laughs)
We're gonna be taking a lot of artifacts back to the lab.
-ALEX: Absolutely. -BILLY: Yeah.
GARY: All right, mate, ready for the next scoop.
ALEX: Okay.
NARRATOR: As operations continue in the swamp
and in the Money Pit area...
MARTY: As we're all keenly aware,
this structure on Lot 5 has turned into
into a much bigger rectangular structure.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: ...Rick has joined his brother Marty,
Jack Begley, archaeologist Laird Niven
and archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan
in the Interpretive Centre.
If it's literally as big
as we think it is, then, it's a big deal.
-Yeah. And... -It's a large structure.
And we're starting to find more artifacts.
-LAIRD: Mm-hmm. -NARRATOR: Emma and Laird
have conducted scientific analysis on an iron artifact
as well as a carved stone
that were found one week ago in the large foundation
that was recently discovered
below the circular stone depression on Lot 5,
located on the western side of the island.
LAIRD: This is what Jamie called the "carved stone."
-Mm-hmm. -I have an idea of what it is.
-So, what is this? -It's a whetstone.
-MARTY: Oh, is it a whetstone? -Oh, there you go.
LAIRD: For sharpening tools.
I would expect knives.
-JACK: Yeah? -You can see the grooves.
-LAIRD: Right? Yeah. -RICK: Yeah.
That's a technique that hasn't changed in forever.
LAIRD: No, exactly.
NARRATOR: Although the practice of sharpening tools
dates back thousands of years,
whetstones, commonly made from sandstone or slate,
have been used since the first century AD.
LAIRD: I'd say that is the working side.
But the real tell...
I got Emma to XRF it.
Okay, so we get to know composition?
Uh, even better than that.
NARRATOR: Earlier this morning,
Emma analyzed the artifacts
using two devices: an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer
that uses X-rays to identify the elements
that make up an object's composition,
and the SkyScan 1273 CT scanner
which emits nondestructive radiation
to penetrate built-up corrosion,
revealing finer physical details.
EMMA: With the XRF,
we can actually see the iron content where...
-RICK: To know where... -...they sharpened the-- yeah--
they sharpened their tools or knives.
MARTY: That makes it basically definitive.
-Yeah. -This was a sharpening tool.
Exactly.
Okay, well, I am curious about the next one.
LAIRD: Jamie called this a decorative piece of iron.
JACK: And she thought it was
ornately decorating a box.
-And there might have been a design on it, too. -LAIRD: Yeah.
MARTY: Looks like a crochet hook.
The CT scan does show us
-it used to be straight. -Oh, okay.
EMMA: So, that's with its current iron state.
So the red is the oxidized irons.
And the original iron remaining is actually this blue color.
There's not a lot left.
-No. -I don't see any decoration.
We have singularly unique pieces
found in association with that feature.
And we should compare that metallurgical analysis
with others found at the site.
Let me just run a comparison, real quick.
If it matches, that would be meaningful.
EMMA: Its aluminum-to-silicon ratio
matches 17th-century English.
Just looking at the spectrum, the composition,
I'd say it's similar to Phips, it's just not 100%.
I like that.
NARRATOR: So far this year,
the team has unearthed several metal artifacts
in the mysterious foundation on Lot 5
that have been scientifically connected
to the 17th-century English politician
and privateer Sir William Phips.
A man who is believed by some to have buried up to 50 tons
of Spanish silver and gold in the Money Pit back in 1687.
LAIRD: You can see
the two, uh, structural failures.
NARRATOR: Could the team have found
another critical clue to identify
who constructed the mysterious feature on Lot 5?
If so, might that also explain
the high-trace evidence of precious metals
that have been detected in the Baby Blob
or in Aladdin's cave?
RICK: We have a match between metallurgy of items
found on the Lot 5 feature
with artifacts from the Phips residence in Maine.
You can't throw out
this Sir William Phips connection to Oak Island.
I think it was buried for a reason.
LAIRD: I think the key lies
beneath the rocks at the very bottom.
-Yeah. -RICK: These things
in front of us indicate
it's important to keep going on, but in order to do that,
-we got to get out back. -Let's do it.
So, Laird, thank you. Emma, thank you.
-Okay. Take care. -See you.
-MARTY: Let's do it. -RICK: Let's go.
NARRATOR: The following morning...
TERRY: 15-ish more feet to go, gentlemen,
-and we're away to the races. -ALEX: All right.
...in the Money Pit area, Alex Lagina
and other members of the team are overseeing
the drilling of Borehole KL-15.
A borehole where they hope to breach a mysterious cavern
known as Aladdin's cave,
located some 150 feet below ground.
MARTY: This is the most unique feature
we've found underground in the Money Pit area.
If we see something in there worth recovering,
we'll get in it.
COLTEN: This is gonna be 148.
-148? Okay. -Yep. 20 per run.
Well, I don't know.
Let's carve it up and have a look.
CHARLES: Yeah.
ALEX: That is bizarre.
TERRY: We seem to have a line
of demarcation right here
between this very, very fine material
and that relatively coarse material.
But we should've went into the open cavern.
Yeah.
TERRY: Hey, Mike. How you doing?
-Not too good of news. -ALEX: Uh-oh.
-Really? -TEDFORD: Yeah.
-So, we didn't hit it, eh? -Ah, we did.
-Oh, You did hit it? -Yeah. Probably about 147.
-What? -Yeah, and if you look at this stuff, it's...
like, this is what's getting pulled into my casing,
-ALEX: Yeah. -That sandy...
-It's full of slush. -I think so, yeah.
Our worst-case scenario here is things have collapsed
-from above. -Yeah.
So, I'm a little worried that we had
a collapse down there. Is that what you think?
Yeah.
ALEX: I think I'd better give Rick a call
-and explain the situation to him. -Sure.
-RICK: Hey, guys. -ALEX: Hey.
MARTY: Hey.
So, we don't have real good news
-regarding the cave. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: After being alerted of a potentially devastating
development in the large cavern known as Aladdin's cave
in the Money Pit area...
I guess the short explanation is,
there is reason to believe that the cavity
-may have collapsed. -What?
NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina has gathered members of the team
in the war room to discuss the situation
with Marty Lagina and Craig Tester,
who join them via video conference.
So, here's what happened.
We drilled down to about 146-ish feet.
And we got some infill.
Obviously, if it collapsed,
the material had to come from somewhere.
MARTY: I think that cave is important.
So, I'd be disappointed if the whole roof fell in.
-Yep. -Yep.
MARTY: A plausible location for some sort
of treasure would be in Aladdin's cave
because of the fact that there are high concentrations
of precious metals, dissolved in the water,
and high amounts of organic material,
which indicate, perhaps, wood in the water.
We're not gonna give up on Aladdin's cave.
ALEX: It's possible it wasn't, like, a total collapse of the feature.
Maybe one of the walls gave way and there was a bit of a slump.
RICK: Having said that,
we have a lot of data
and I think we need to find a way to assimilate it all.
Between the camera, the sonar,
let's get a very competent understanding
of what we have currently
and then decide how to move forward.
MARTY: I agree with Rick.
Let's get, I don't know, maybe Paul and maybe Steve
to just look at all the data and see what we got.
RICK: Given what our current understanding of the cave is,
if a collapse has happened or a partial collapse,
then we need to understand it completely
and figure out, you know, what we can do moving forward.
So it's imperative to gather all the information we have
about Aladdin's cave, and from there,
we may be able to try to learn more about it.
There's a bit of a bright spot actually which is that
the other hole was one where we got another vantage point
in the cave for the, uh, 3D sonar.
And when we put the data together maybe we'll be able
-to say exactly what's down there. -MARTY: We'll see.
All right, guys, thanks for the update.
Let's just see what the data suggests.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
RICK: All right. See ya.
-ALEX: Talk to you later. -RICK and CRAIG: Bye.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
LAIRD: We're gonna remove these stones.
-Ideally, we want to see a nice wall. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: ...Jack Begley has joined
archaeologist Laird Niven and other members of the team
as they continue investigating
the mysterious foundation located on Lot 5
for not only more clues
that might explain why it was built
but also to determine
if it contains something of value.
We still don't know exactly what this is.
One way to find out.
Let's keep digging and figure out what it is. Yeah.
NARRATOR: While Laird, Jack, Fiona,
Moya and Lindy clear soil and debris
away from the stones to expose
more of the structure, Jamie and Helen will sift
the collected spoils for artifacts and clues.
Hey, so Laird, we've got this piece of ceramic from up there.
There's no glaze on it.
It could be white salt glazed. I think it's stoneware.
Which is mid-16s to mid-1700s.
(chuckling) I like that.
-Find the rest of it, please. Thanks. -Yeah, will do. Okay.
LAIRD: We're finding a lot of evidence
that this feature, it could well be
related to William Phips.
But why was it there?
And the obvious connection would be with the Money Pit.
If you, uh, accept the assumption that
that was a large-scale operation.
I'm hoping as we get deeper,
we're gonna find even more evidence to who built it.
Hey, Jamie.
So, as I'm in here,
I'm noticing that I'm not finding any more rocks
out here, so it almost looks like the wall,
maybe it's ending here.
JAMIE: Hey, Laird.
Kind of getting interesting over here.
FIONA: If you look at the angle,
perpendicular to the possible wall there.
It... could it be the entrance to a cellar?
-Maybe? -LAIRD: It could.
Could be a staircase?
LAIRD: That's interesting.
NARRATOR: A possible staircase?
If it really does lead
to yet another buried level
of the mysterious structure, then just what might it contain?
It's starting to look like something.
-I'll jump back in there. -JAMIE: All righty.
JAMIE: Stone structures and features like that are
really interesting for us because they can tell us
a-a bigger picture story.
We have some indications that there's actually
more below-ground features that we haven't seen yet.
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Holy cow!
JACK: What is that?
JAMIE: Look at this!
JACK: Oh, wow.
JAMIE: Look at this!
-Oh, wow. -You have got to see this.
-FIONA: Oh, my goodness. -JAMIE: Isn't that gorgeous? -LAIRD: How nice.
NARRATOR: While investigating a possible staircase
that may lead to another hidden level
of the stone structure on Lot 5...
FIONA: Oh, wow. That's really neat.
NARRATOR: ...archaeologist Jamie Kouba has just made
a potentially important discovery.
It's a gorgeous, decorated bead.
Oh, wow. What would that be made out of?
-Glass. -JAMIE: That's what it looks like.
-You think it's Venetian glass? -LAIRD: I don't know yet.
JACK: What would be the tell-tale sign
that it is Venetian?
Size, technique, uh, the chemistry.
-It's actually relatively rare. -JACK: Whoa.
NARRATOR: Decorative glass beads have been traded among cultures
dating back thousands of years to the times of Ancient Egypt.
However, in 1470 AD,
glassmakers in Venice, Italy
developed a new technique for mass-producing glass beads
that became renowned throughout Europe and Asia
as they were not only used
to adorn clothing and religious relics
but were also exchanged as a high-valued form of currency.
So we can get a rather definitive date off of this?
LAIRD: That's what we're hoping.
This is an important artifact.
And I think it's gonna pull the date back a bit.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the team
has found a potentially 500-year-old Venetian bead
in the stone foundation on Lot 5?
If so, could it offer evidence that the feature is
even older than the team previously thought possible?
JACK: The surprising thing is
the amount of different types of artifacts
that are popping up.
It means that this was a heavily occupied area
for quite some time.
So, why has it remained hidden for so long?
This is the first bead we've found.
JACK: I hope we find more.
JAMIE: Yeah. Absolutely.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
GARY: I like the look of this material.
NARRATOR: ...in the southeast corner of the swamp...
That's good stuff.
NARRATOR: ...Jack Begley has joined
metal detection expert Gary Drayton
and Billy Gerhardt
to continue searching for additional clues
and evidence of buried structures
near the massive stone road.
That is worth digging.
(detector beeping)
I think it's out.
It's a little bit of some scrappy signal
but see what we've got.
(pinpointer beeping)
It's coming out.
-There it is. -Oh, wow!
And we've got something really, really cool.
-Yeah. -Look at the size of that.
I believe that that is some kind of fastener.
-Yeah! -And that looks like it's wrought iron.
You know, we're talking 1700s or older with this.
Brilliant.
NARRATOR: A potentially ancient iron fastener?
Could it be related to the stone road,
which may have once been part of a ship's wharf?
Or could it be more evidence of the buried dam feature
that Fred Nolan claimed to have found in this area
more than three decades ago?
I can't wait until it's cleaned up in the lab...
-GARY: Yeah. -...and we can see what it really is.
That is a beauty. Come here, my little beauty.
Oh.
All right, we'll bag it and keep scanning.
JACK: Sweet find, Gary.
NARRATOR: The following morning...
MARTY: Hey, Carmen.
CARMEN: Good day. Good day. How are you?
NARRATOR: ...Rick, Craig and members of the team
meet with blacksmithing expert
Carmen Legge in the Interpretive Centre
to get his assessment of several artifacts
that have been recovered this week
near the stone road in the swamp.
Where would you like to start?
JACK: This fastener that's inside the wood.
CARMEN: I'm looking at it
and I see one, two handmade nails inserted along
-inside the bigger item. -JACK: Any idea on what
it might have been used for, just based on that?
A lot of times, uh, things were driven
into walls where you needed
to hang lanterns for light in tight spaces,
like underground, to illuminate the space.
NARRATOR: Could Carmen Legge be correct that this fastener
may have been used to aid in the building of a structure
in the southeast corner of the swamp?
If so, could it be more evidence that the brackish bog
was artificially made, as Fred Nolan believed?
JACK: It makes the next finds we're gonna show you
even more interesting.
This is a big piece of iron.
Okay.
This is not a-a spike. It's a tool.
-CRAIG: Oh. -RICK: So, is it a chisel?
-What is it? -No. Its-it's...
Yep. Yep.
Might set planking in a ship, perhaps.
In the timber construction of a ship.
-Yes. -What date would you give
-something like this? -Oh.
Um...
I'm gonna say 1600 to late 1700s.
RICK: There's always been the speculation
that a ship foundered in the swamp
and that it was covered up.
So, why were they there?
And are there any artifacts at a greater depth?
Maybe Craig, you can help me sort of straighten this out.
Oh, okay.
This hook is very old.
And why is that?
Because the hooks made in the later time periods
had a curve in the shank.
This has a straight shaft coming down and, um,
a heavy curl on the end here.
So I would say that is definitely not past 1650.
Whoa.
RICK: Wow.
CARMEN: That is definitely not past 1650.
And I would even go back to the 1500s on that.
-Whoa. -RICK: Wow.
NARRATOR: In the Oak Island Interpretive Centre,
blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge
has just given his expert opinion
that the large hook found one day ago in the southeast corner
of the swamp could be more than 500 years old.
The design or the... stylistically?
The design and the weight of it.
The chain itself...
from here to the ring is also
the same time period as the hook.
Wow.
Now, each one of these links are handmade.
However, the three chains on the end here
-are all machine-made. -Mm-hmm.
RICK: Really? So...
basically what you are saying then, this was, you know,
cannibalized together, if you will.
And an older piece was attached to a modern piece.
What would--? Let's forget this chain.
What would that have been used for?
A setup like this with three chains fastened
to a central link was used to lift or drag things.
A lot of times they would hang from a boom to load
a cargo onto a harbor.
Like, a chest or a trunk.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the original use of this hook,
and at least part of the chain connected to it,
were used to move valuable cargo
from a ship onto the stone road
and then to somewhere on Oak Island
as much as five centuries ago?
If so, who modified the chain at a later time?
And was it repurposed in order to hide
something else of value here, as well?
I think at this point, given the amount of artifacts
that have been recovered at the swamp's edge,
that might be related to ship activities,
there is reason to believe that there was an old wharf there.
So if you found such a structure, it had to be
closely associated with the original work.
We may find more, and we may find something
that helps us connect the dots.
Carmen, we thank you very much for your insight.
-You haven't heard the last of us. -Well, very good.
-RICK: Thank you. -CRAIG: Take care. -JACK: See you, Carmen.
-RICK: That's interesting. -CRAIG: Yeah, it is.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
MARTY: Guys, this is going to be really interesting.
We're gonna talk about the fabled Aladdin's cave.
NARRATOR: ...in the war room, Rick, Marty
and Craig have gathered members of the team
for a follow-up meeting regarding
the mysterious cavern located some 150 feet deep
in the Money Pit area known as Aladdin's cave.
These gentlemen have done a deep dive into it.
And we eagerly await your findings.
Okay, so we did several sonar scans
and video scans for this cave anomaly.
We tagged into it in a couple different boreholes.
NARRATOR: Because the team fears that part of the cave
may have collapsed earlier this week,
Paul Troutman, surveyor Steve Guptill
and geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner
have further processed all of the visual
and water sampling data that was previously collected inside
the feature in order to determine not only
if it could be man-made, but, also,
if it might contain something of great value.
So I think I'm gonna jump into the videos.
On the left is what we recorded.
On the right is Pro-Hawk's version.
Geez.
NARRATOR: The video files, which were originally
recorded earlier this year, have been refined
by Pro-Hawk Technology Group,
a company that specializes in the enhancement of images
that were originally captured in harsh or low-lit environments.
STEVE: Yeah, so this is what everybody noticed.
-MARTY: The bolt. -STEVE: Yeah.
It's something that looked completely different
from anything else we'd seen.
MARTY: There is a little flat area around it, too,
-which is different than the rest. -JACK: Oh.
Does that make more sense that it's human-made?
Why would a bolt be there?
MARTY: Well, it could be stuck in a piece of wood like we find.
So let's keep going.
STEVE: I think there is a feature that you want to see.
There.
You were looking for right angles,
there's a right angle we could find.
CRAIG: Hmm.
That's a pretty clean right angle.
JACK: Yeah. That's pretty clean.
MARTY: What is this?
You wouldn't get that right angle naturally.
It's been dug out before.
I wonder if this is the opening
that we're looking for.
MARTY: Wow.
-STEVE: You wouldn't get that right angle naturally. -Right.
I wonder if this is the opening that we're looking for.
MARTY: Wow.
CRAIG: The flat surface and the corner.
To me, could be potentially man-made.
That might be.
NARRATOR: In the Oak Island war room,
Rick, Marty, Craig
and members of the team have just seen
enhanced video evidence of a potentially
man-made entrance connected
to the large cavern known as Aladdin's cave,
located approximately 150 feet deep
in the Money Pit area.
MARTY: We do see some right angles.
Right angles generally don't exist in nature.
But it could be partially collapsed.
The magnitude of it is yet to be determined.
-There's more. Right? -There is.
There you go.
So this here is what we deem
to be a possible opening heading westward.
And so I will show you the sonar
-and it sort of confirms that. -Okay.
STEVE: So what you're looking at here
is a bird's-eye view of the cave.
-North is up, just for reference. Okay. -MARTY: Mm-hmm.
So, when we were westward,
-and you can see that opening. -CRAIG: Yeah.
STEVE: I'm gonna change some color here, too, and jump down.
So the opening is right here.
Okay.
The sonar images are quite beautiful and
it certainly suggested a possible way in.
That's important.
If you can't get in, nothing can be in there.
STEVE: So, when we look down at the cavity,
we've got a few different things to show.
So from this point to this point is about 25 feet.
North/south is about 15.
And the deepest portion of the cavity,
-right here, is about ten feet deep. -Okay.
And you can see that the cave sits nicely at 150 feet.
And you can see somewhat of an opening heading east,
somewhat of an opening heading west.
-MARTY: Right. -Perfect.
Okay, so, Ian, what does that tell you?
To me, I see this connected to some man-made features.
But the bottom line is, it's collecting gold
and silver values in that cavity.
-And the wood. -Yeah.
-So either the wood's in there. -MARTY: Right.
Or is it connected to a structure
-where wood is? -Right.
And is that where the metals are coming from, too?
Right. Yep.
And when you guys are ready, we've got one more video.
Okey doke.
-Go for it. -So last video.
We're looking into the cave here.
So we're just coming down into it.
So, this is in the southern edge of the cave.
And there's a look at the floor.
Looks like it might be sort of collapsed
around the debris that's all fallen in.
MARTY: I'd say this thing has collapsed over time.
-Yeah. -Maybe...
it hides the evidence of what you're looking for.
-Right? If they... -Mm-hmm.
JACK: I'd really like to put a caisson
in that because I want to bring some of that material up
and wash through it.
'Cause if there is bits of wood,
or anything in there,
you know, then it could lead on to more discoveries.
MARTY: Yeah. I agree with that.
-Yeah, let's do that. -CRAIG: Right.
-I would say so. Yeah. -MARTY: You would?
Okay.
RICK: Aladdin's cave
continues to provide tantalizing clues.
The levels of metals and the levels of organics
suggest strongly the presence of something there.
The clues strongly suggest there's a reason
to put a caisson in that area.
MARTY: We don't see what we hoped to see,
that being man-made objects.
But a collapse would hide what could've been on the floor.
I don't know when we're going to get
back to it, but it is certainly on the list.
I think everybody in this room still believes
that there's a very intriguing, compelling mystery here.
And that is a good thing.
MARTY: All right, I think we're done here for today.
-Good job, gentlemen. -Thank you.
Thank you very much.
-Okay. Let's go. -Fair enough.
NARRATOR: At the end of another week on Oak Island,
Rick, Marty, Craig and their team are facing
the most daunting challenges they have ever encountered
in their quest to solve a 229-year-old mystery.
However, the clues
and evidence of hidden valuables
that they continue to unearth all across the island
suggest that the answers they seek
are well worth the pursuit.
And perhaps it's just a matter of time
before the ultimate reward,
which could rewrite North American history,
will finally be theirs.
Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...
-GARY: Can you go deeper, Billy? -Definitely.
GARY: Whoa!
JACK: There's a structure.
These are massive.
A piece of Oak Island history.
Whoa!
I hit the void at 183.
That's what we want.
Do you think we hit the anomaly?
What we have here is a void that encapsulates
-the Chappell structure. -Yeah!
That's the treasure of the Money Pit
that was never recovered.
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