NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...
-Can you go deeper, Billy? -Definitely.
-GARY: Ooh! -RICK: Oh!
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 Vault. -Yeah!
That's the treasure of the Money Pit
that was never recovered.
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: Morning, Bill. -BILLY: Morning.
Should say good morning, right?
We're gonna find something today, right?
Well, we're pretty excited on this area.
The closer we get to the stone road,
the more exciting it's gonna get.
NARRATOR: As a new morning dawns on Oak Island
for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team,
the quest for answers
to a 229-year-old treasure mystery continues
in one of the most intriguing
and inhospitable locations on these 140 acres:
the triangle-shaped swamp.
-Gary, you're up. -All right, mate.
I'm ready to get stuck in.
-Hopefully, it's not literally. -(Rick laughs)
This looks old.
-That does. Yeah. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: One week ago, while excavating the potentially
500-year-old stone road, or ship's wharf,
that was first uncovered in the southeast corner
of the brackish bog back in 2020,
the team found a large hand-wrought chain and hook,
which, according to blacksmithing expert
Carmen Legge, was not only used to lift heavy cargo
but may also date back to the 16th century.
I'll start down there at the bottom
-and work my way back. -Okay.
NARRATOR: Now the team is digging further into the southern shore
that borders the swamp
in the hopes of uncovering more of the stone road
and also clues that could prove whether or not
the swamp was artificially created
in order to hide something of great value on Oak Island.
Is that a stick there, mate?
On this side of the hole?
Yeah.
RICK: Yeah. There.
-It's axe-cut. -GARY: Oh, yeah?
-That's worth bagging. -Okay.
-I'll put it in the bag. -Okay.
This is almost peaty, though, here.
-Yeah. That does. -BILLY: It's a little bit of peat,
and then it goes to a mud.
And it's the only layer in here
that's kind of like that.
RICK: What it tells me is, we need to know
-what's under this dirt. -Right.
We should have Dr. Spooner come down.
GARY: Yeah.
-I'll send him a text. -Yeah.
RICK: The axe-cut wood is interesting because
it represents older type of wood construct,
and this material is coming up in the peat.
It's quite layered there. There's sand, peat, sand, peat.
I would say that it's not natural.
So, what is going on here?
-Hey, Billy. -Hi.
We don't know what to make of the possible
connection between here and the stone road.
What do you make of the peat, the gray sand,
-the raw sand? -That's kind of odd.
Yeah. The peat shouldn't be over the sand.
If this beach is moving landward with time,
then the sand should be over the peat.
I mean, this is, to me, really important because
it tells us this feature extended out this way.
So, why doesn't that feature, the way it exists there in front
of our eyes, why doesn't that extend here?
I think it was beach.
They pulled the boat up on the beach,
but you can't just have a big
26-foot boat sitting on a beach.
You're trying to unload it.
And they needed a platform to haul it on,
so I think they placed peat over the sand.
And that's what it looks like to me.
NARRATOR: Could Dr. Spooner be correct that the swamp
and surrounding area was artificially manipulated
in order to construct the stone road
for the purpose of moving something of great value
from a ship onto Oak Island?
I think you need to go three or four feet deeper.
-Oh, okay. -Good.
So, I think we should get back at it, right?
-Yeah. -Yeah. Okay. Good.
Yeah. I-I think so. Thank you.
I hope there is something below here.
IAN: I hope so, too.
NARRATOR: As the investigation of the stone road
continues in the swamp...
-MARTY: Hey, guys. -CRAIG: Hey, Roger.
-Hey, how's it going, guys? -Hey, Roger.
NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina
and Craig Tester
arrive in the Money Pit area
to meet with Roger Fortin of Dumas Contracting Limited.
These are the guys that are going to help us get these voids
filled in the shaft itself.
NARRATOR: Along with Ryan Hooker and Clint Molyneaux
of Minova Global, a company that specializes
in large underground construction operations.
We got to get down to that 95-plus feet.
-Yep. -And this is going to allow us to do it?
-You're pretty sure, right? -Oh, absolutely.
-Yeah. -Once we get this geofoam in place,
-I'm very confident that we're going to get down there. -Okay.
NARRATOR: For the past four weeks,
the 18th century, 87-foot-deep structure
known as the Garden Shaft
has been continuously flooded after a number of voids formed
just outside of the remodeled feature.
This has made Rick, Marty and Craig wonder if the cause
is related to one of the legendary
man-made flood tunnels
because it has stopped them and Dumas
from extending the shaft down to a target depth
of 95 feet, where a seven-foot-high tunnel
has been discovered.
A tunnel which runs directly toward an area
known as the Baby Blob,
where numerous groundwater tests have yielded
high-trace evidence of gold, silver and other metals
between depths of 80 and 120 feet.
Okay. Tell us what we're going to do.
Well, we're gonna pump some foam in there and try
to get your voids filled up.
-All right, well, this is just a pump, right? -Yep.
NARRATOR: Ryan and Clint will use an industrial-grade material
known as geofoam, which is specifically designed
for use in mining and construction projects.
Once injected into the open cavities,
it will expand to fill those voids,
seal out the inflow of water,
and stabilize the Garden Shaft so that Dumas can extend it
down into the possible treasure tunnel.
-All right. -Well, gentlemen, good luck.
-We'll let you get to your work. -Thank you. Nice to meet you.
Pleasure to meet you guys.
ROGER: All right, thanks, guys.
NARRATOR: As the process begins in the Garden Shaft,
-just 60 feet to the southwest... -So, where are we?
-We are down 88 feet below grade. -Awesome.
...geologist Terry Matheson,
Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse,
and Alex Lagina are supervising
a new core-drilling operation in a borehole known as K-06.
A borehole that might actually be on track
to encounter another potential cache of buried valuables
some 180 feet deep, near a site that the team
previously investigated six years ago.
Okay, so K-6, drilling for
-the muon low-density anomaly. -Exactly.
-Also could be where the H-8 plug ended up. -TERRY: That's right.
We're only about seven or eight feet away
from the actual H-8 caisson,
which makes it doubly interesting.
So what we're seeing is a high-density anomaly
southwest of the Garden Shaft.
It's significant.
NARRATOR: Several weeks ago, representatives
from Ideon Technology, utilizing a process known as
muon tomography, presented the team
with a subsurface scan of the Money Pit area
that revealed numerous low-density targets,
such as voids and possible buried containers.
One of the most compelling was identified
at a depth of nearly 180 feet.
MARTY: Come on, baby, let's make hole!
NARRATOR: It was in the same area where, in 2017,
the team excavated with a five-foot-diameter
steel caisson known as H-8 while they were attempting
to locate the fabled Chappell Vault.
A seven-foot-high chest
reportedly encountered by Frederick Blair
and William Chappell during a drilling operation in 1897
that uncovered trace evidence of gold,
along with pieces of parchment
bearing the letters "VI."
After Rick, Marty, Craig and the team discovered
their own pieces of parchment and leather book binding
in H-8, they were stunned
when the caisson encountered a large object
at a depth of 170 feet.
However, as the team extended the caisson deeper
in the hopes of penetrating the object,
the plug, or spoils inside of the caisson,
fell from the bottom and pushed the mysterious object deeper
and somewhere off to the side.
Is it possible that the muon target
that was detected at that same depth
might be a void that now contains the missing plug
from H-8 as well as the fabled Chappell Vault?
They hit a cobble there.
At least they got-- I think they got the cobble.
Hey, Colten.
-That's going to be to 118. -118.
We just pushed a rock for 20 feet, so it's gonna be 118.
TERRY: Yeah. It's in there, I believe.
That's a core barrel blocker, for sure.
How often do we hit cobble around 100 feet?
Uh...
I would say, "Not very often."
I'm just wondering, the flood tunnel's description
is un-cribbed...
-Yeah. -...stacked rocks, right?
-Yeah. -That's exactly the size
of a rock you'd put in a flood tunnel.
-TERRY: That's interesting. -CHARLES: Yep. Very interesting.
ALEX: That's exactly the size of a rock
you'd put in a flood tunnel.
In my head, it could be
a tunnel or something, right?
TERRY: Yeah, you raise a pretty good point.
NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,
while drilling borehole K-6,
where something of great value is potentially buried
at a depth of approximately 170 feet,
Alex Lagina and members of the team
may have just made an important discovery
at a depth of just 118 feet.
ALEX: I think it would at least
be worth recording.
On this one, say, on your log...
-TERRY: Okay. -...just make a mark
saying we hit a cobble at 118.
-Okay. -TERRY: Sure.
'Cause I'm just wondering if...
if maybe there's a pattern there.
TERRY: Yeah. And that's actually
an interesting premise.
-Maybe we should look into that. -Yeah.
ALEX: And as we're drilling,
I'm thinking,
the stories of the flood tunnels are that they're full of stones,
so we wouldn't have an open cavity if it was a flood tunnel.
Maybe we're actually pushing
the topmost cobble through the flood tunnel,
through the bottom.
NARRATOR: In 1897, the same year
that Frederick Blair and his team encountered
the so-called Chappell Vault,
they also reported discovering a man-made flood tunnel
which halted their efforts at a depth of 111 feet.
It was described as measuring
nearly three feet wide by four feet high
and was packed with large cobblestones.
Is it possible that the team
has now also found evidence of a flood tunnel?
If so, could that mean
that they are on target to encounter
what it was designed to protect?
ALEX: The flood tunnels were said
to be full of stones, small stones,
about the size of what we're seeing in the drill bit.
TERRY: The breaks don't seem to be very fresh or new.
ALEX: It could be evidence of depositor activity.
TERRY: So, this is all very, very interesting ground.
We're gonna cover it today.
The most important thing is the muon target at depth.
-ALEX: Yeah, I agree. -CHARLES: Yeah.
NARRATOR: As operations continue
in the Money Pit area, on Lot 5,
located on the western side of the island...
-Hey, Laird, archaeological team. -Marty.
-HELEN: Hey, Marty. -I'm checking up on you.
...Marty Lagina joins lead archaeologist
Laird Niven, Jack Begley, and other members of the team
as they continue their investigation
of a mysterious stone foundation.
So, what is this? Any more insight?
-This is definitely something going on. -Mm-hmm.
The soil is darker, it's looser, we got larger artifacts in it.
Here it's tighter packed, like they've been walked on
-a lot more. -Okay.
NARRATOR: Curiously, the Oak Island team
has discovered evidence on Lot 5
that suggests that a number of secretive operations
took place in this area long ago.
For instance, near the middle of the lot,
they have found a rectangular feature
which Helen Sheldon believes was purposely buried,
containing pottery and other artifacts
suggesting that it may date back to the same time period
as the early 18th century Garden Shaft in the Money Pit area.
And near the shoreline, they are also investigating
this circular feature that not only sets above
a much larger foundation, but which has produced artifacts
that have been dated to between the 14th and 18th centuries.
MARTY: Okay, is there anything I can do for you, Laird?
Yeah.
-Over here. -Okay.
-Um... -What you got?
LAIRD: Where Jack and Fiona are,
we need the rocks to go,
-including that big rock, if possible. -Mm-hmm.
And then we're expanding to the west.
So we need half of the circle, those rocks, taken out as well.
-Okay, I'll go get the backhoe. -Okay.
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What started as a circular feature
is turning into a rectangular feature.
(beeping)
The archaeologists themselves
are quite amazed at what they're finding.
Let me nudge that one, Jack.
We've always been looking for some sort of encampment.
This is clearly very important.
-Oh, that's got it. Yeah. -Yeah.
JACK: Perfect, Marty.
My gosh, we'll have room to work.
-Well done. -NARRATOR: While the investigation
of the mysterious structure proceeds on Lot 5...
GARY: We are right at the end of the stone road, mate.
This should be good.
I know the archaeologists found a lot of pottery
but hardly any metals.
-They're gonna be here. -(chuckles): Okay.
NARRATOR: ...along the southern edge of the swamp,
Rick Lagina, Gary Drayton
and Billy Gerhardt continue their efforts
to uncover another section
of the possibly 500-year-old stone road
and, hopefully, valuable clues.
I think that's the end of the road right there,
'cause there's stacked rocks, right?
RICK: That's what I would say.
If that's the end of the road, though, then...
if you're transitioning from one form
of transportation to another,
-this is where the stuff should be. -Yeah.
GARY: Yeah. Exactly.
I'm gonna go check that pile.
(device beeping)
What have we got here?
Look, we have got a signal.
Right in the corner, so that would've come out
of that last scoop.
All right, Rick, dig that sucker up.
It's gonna be an artifact.
Might have come from the road, right?
GARY: Yep.
I'll try pinpointing it
and then grabbing it out of there.
(device beeping)
RICK: Boy, it's tiny, whatever it is.
GARY: I'm not bothered, as long as it's old.
(device beeping)
(whispers): Let's see what we got.
Come on, baby. Be something good.
I think it's that.
It is this.
That was a lot of noise for what looks like some kind of tack.
That looks like it's, uh,
either a round or triangular shank.
Some kind of small fastener.
I think it's too long for boots and too thin
to be an oxshoe nail or an horseshoe nail.
Yet to be determined. That is definitely
a candidate for the XRF machine.
RICK: Bag it.
-Dang. -There's got to be something more than that.
GARY: Yeah. Into the bag it goes.
-We'll get more. Just got to go deeper. -Yeah.
Okay. Can you go deeper, Billy?
Oh, definitely.
-Okay. -Okay. Dig deeper. Let's go.
GARY: Oh, see that, Rick?
Look. What's that he's dragging?
-GARY: Ooh! -RICK: Oh!
Whoa, whoa. Whoa.
GARY: Oh, see that, Rick? Look.
-GARY: Ooh! -RICK: Oh!
-Look at that. -Whoa, whoa. Whoa.
-Got a nice piece of pottery. -Whoa, whoa.
NARRATOR: While digging near the massive stone road
in the southern region of the Oak Island swamp...
Look how deep it was.
...Rick Lagina, Gary Drayton
and Billy Gerhardt have just unearthed
several potentially important clues.
Oh, that's gorgeous.
Look at that.
Hopefully, it's got some decoration, mate.
If it's gonna be anywhere, it'd be on that base.
-RICK: Here's another one. -Ooh.
GARY: That's a big chunk of pottery, isn't it?
-Mm-hmm. -It's some kind of bowl
or a dish.
There's so much of it.
RICK: There might be more.
-We should hand-dig this now. -Yeah.
Talk about finding something in situ,
as the archaeologists say.
That's gorgeous. Do you see any marks on any pieces?
RICK: Not yet. Nope.
Ooh, look at that.
-GARY: What have you got, Rick? -A handle.
Look at that. That's nice.
GARY: Yeah, that's gorgeous. Look at that.
Someone would have had money.
I'm telling you, mate,
wherever there's muck, there's money.
-This is great. -RICK: But they--
the archaeologists can put that together and clean it up.
-Maybe there's a maker's mark. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: If Rick's hope that this pottery, which was found
near the potentially 500-year-old stone road,
might bear a maker's mark proves to be true,
could it help verify the revelations
the team made two years ago and nearly 3,000 miles away?
-ALEX: It should be just up here. -NARRATOR: In 2022,
while visiting Alqueidão da Serra in Portugal,
a town known to have been a stronghold
for the Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar
between the 12th and 16th centuries...
Whoa, look at, look at how beautifully constructed--
I mean, rough and raw, but look at the curvature.
Look at-- the degree of slope remains constant.
-It's beautiful. -...Rick,
his nephews Alex and Peter, as well as Doug Crowell,
were shown a stone road that was nearly identical
to the stone road in the swamp.
ALEX: If there is a Portuguese connection to the construction
of the road in the swamp, maybe this is the blueprint.
RICK: Okay, now we got to really keep our eyes peeled, all right?
NARRATOR: Could Rick, Gary, and Billy have just gotten one step closer
to proving whether or not that potential connection is true?
There's pottery there, Gary.
GARY: Oh, yeah. No mistaking that.
What is it, Rick?
The thin stuff, I think.
Yeah. It's the thin stuff,
and this looks like it's a plate.
That's a plate rim, by the look of it.
There's got to be some maker's marks on some of this stuff.
Good eye, mate.
-Check this out. -Oh.
It's coming up. Look at that.
That's a beautiful piece of pottery.
That could be old.
Yeah, this could be old, mate.
That is really, really fancy.
-Look. -That's pretty.
Almost like a leaf design on it.
I haven't seen that before,
so that makes it interesting.
Here you go. Another one.
-Excellent. -Oh, one more.
GARY: Oh, man. That's sweet, isn't it?
RICK: Mm-hmm.
GARY: Yeah, glazed on one side.
It's got to be...
This is lovely, mate.
Good eye. That's some sweet pottery.
And I believe that this pottery
is older than that dish or a bowl we found.
RICK: Yep. I would agree.
GARY: I think the pottery is getting older,
the deeper we're going.
RICK: Yep.
We found a number of different types of pottery,
one or two vessels where they can possibly be reconstructed,
and it was quite localized.
Nice finds, Rick.
RICK: But what does that say?
Perhaps Laird can
make sense of it.
I know we're running out of daylight, mate,
but we've got to come back and dig some more,
because there really could be anything anywhere in this sand.
Well, then what you need to do is ask Billy
if we want to keep digging.
Guess what his answer's gonna be.
-Yeah. Hell yeah! -(Rick chuckles)
BILLY: Exactly. Yeah.
RICK: All right. Good job.
GARY: Love it.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: The following morning...
RICK: I don't think they have to go any deeper, do you?
Take that little square out of there.
Yep.
NARRATOR: ...as Rick leads the efforts
in the swamp...
So it is expanding and filling that void up.
That's great. That's what we want to see.
Absolutely.
...and while the geofoam application
proceeds in the Garden Shaft...
MIKE ST. LOUIS: Oh, there she goes. There she goes.
-ALEX: Hey, Charles. Terry. -TERRY: Hey, how you doing, Alex?
I hear we're close to target depth.
-We are. -Okay.
...Alex Lagina returns
to the Money Pit area...
TEDFORD: Oh, yeah. Lovely.
NARRATOR: ...to check on the core-drilling operation in borehole K-6--
a borehole which the team hopes
will encounter man-made workings or valuables
between the depths of 170 and 180 feet.
They haven't brought anything up for quite a while.
-We got to cross our fingers this could be it. Yeah. -Yeah.
ALEX: This is it, eh?
There it is. There's the core barrel.
This is a big one.
They got to put it in the Bobcat bucket.
Hey, Mike. What's up?
TEDFORD: I hit the void at, uh, 183.
TERRY: Wow.
ALEX: That could be it.
I mean, that could be what we're looking for here.
TERRY: Yeah.
TEDFORD: I hit the void at, uh, 183.
ALEX: All right.
So let's see what we got.
NARRATOR: It is a potentially important moment
in the Money Pit area
for members of the Oak Island team.
CHARLES: Here we go.
If we're looking for something
that slipped out of the H-8 caisson...
-That could be it right there. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: After encountering a void
in borehole K-6
at a depth of 183 feet,
where a highly specialized muon tomography scan
identified possible man-made workings earlier this year...
Thank you, Mike.
TEDFORD: No prob.
Let's carve this bad boy up
and see what we got here, gentlemen.
...they are examining
a freshly unearthed core sample that will hopefully
reveal clues
as to what the void contains.
TERRY: We have ten feet of real bedded material.
For the most part, it seems relatively natural and normal.
Except here. Right under the bedrock.
TERRY: Yeah.
That potentially is low density material there.
And it looks like it might be disturbed.
If the plug slipped out of H-8, settled anywhere,
it's gonna be mixed up like this.
TERRY: Absolutely.
I think, you know, we have the potential
to have a portion or an aspect
-of the H-8 plug. -Okay. -CHARLES: Yeah.
Chances are, we just may be close to the Chappell Vault.
Yeah.
So we're close, I guess, is-is the optimistic take.
Yeah.
H-8 was a very interesting caisson.
That's the caisson where a 12-foot plug
just dropped overnight
and went somewhere down into a void.
So if we can locate where that plug is,
it could indicate that we're near the Chappell Vault.
NARRATOR: Possible evidence of the spoils, or plug,
that the team believes
may have pushed the Chappell Vault
to a deeper location in the Money Pit area?
If they have found the missing plug
from H-8 in this mysterious void,
is it possible that they are close
to locating the fabled Chappell Vault as well?
And we find it just in under the lip
of an actual large bedrock overhang,
so it's possible the depositors
were able to work to this point and get in under there.
So, possibly this was an open area.
Right, but K-6, 183 to 187, looks good.
-It could answer a lot of questions for us. -ALEX AND CHARLES: Yeah.
ALEX: So we might be close to finding something.
-TERRY: We should let Rick know. -ALEX: Sounds good.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
RICK: So, gentlemen,
the K-6 hole
was meant to find and determine the Ideon anomaly.
NARRATOR: ...Alex, Terry and Charles
meet with Rick Lagina
and other members of the team
in the war room to report their potentially
important discovery that was made
in borehole K-6.
RICK: What did the hole do?
Do you think we hit the anomaly?
I think it's important to show where it is in relation to H-8.
Can you plot the K-6? Can we see it up on the screen?
K-6 is right there.
TERRY: I definitely think we hit some loose material
and probably disturbed, uh,
at about 183 to 187 or 188.
Given the low-density anomaly
seems to jibe with the levels
at which we lost the plug to the H-8 caisson,
I really think we hit a piece of that plug from H-8.
STEVE: And so the void that Terry is talking about,
so I brought up the data from Ideon.
Our borehole K-6 would have gone through here.
This is the anomaly
they're talking about. You're not wrong.
The H-8 caisson would have gone through,
and this potentially could be the area where we lost the plug.
I think the Ideon low-density anomaly is
potentially the void that encapsulates the Chappell Vault.
Great.
-Yeah. -Exactly.
JACK: In my mind, that's where
the treasure of the Money Pit that was
never recovered has been slowly falling
deeper and deeper.
RICK: The K-6 drilling
has significantly
upped the ante, if you will,
in terms of the interest in this area.
It's eminently possible that the Chappell Vault fell
to a greater depth into areas that have been
not explored or investigated.
So this could lead to possible
treasure recovery or something of great importance.
Well, bottom line is, there's potential for caisson work.
Everyone should weigh in on where the drill program goes.
Agreed.
If the question is, "Where do we drill?"
I'd want to put one more borehole
through that H-8 plug.
-Yeah. -I don't see how you can walk away from it.
Okay.
NARRATOR: If the team is able to discover more definitive evidence
of man-made workings or valuables
in the area around borehole K-6 and H-8,
they could, as they have done in the past,
install a much larger diameter steel caisson
in order to retrieve it.
Over the next coming days, we'll reposition
and try to hit the anomaly of the void.
That'd be great.
Lot of work to do. Let's go.
ALEX: Okay.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
-ALEX: Lindy, Helen, Moya. -LINDY: Hello.
-HELEN: Hey, Alex. -ALEX: How's it going? So...
this looks like the dig has expanded yet again
since the last time I was here.
-Yes. -MOYA: Yes.
NARRATOR: ...Alex Lagina joins Helen Sheldon
and other members of the archaeology team
on Lot 5 as they continue
their investigation of the mysterious stone foundation.
Are you still getting artifacts?
HELEN: A few. We got a really interesting one.
It's called a strike-a-light.
It's a piece of European flint
that they would have used to hit on the metal
to make a spark to start a fire.
-See all those bits that have chipped off it? -ALEX: Yeah, right there.
-HELEN: Yeah. -ALEX: And this is how you identify it?
This kind of worn edge?
HELEN: Yeah. There were quite a few worn bits on it.
-ALEX: How do you know it's European? -HELEN: Just by the color.
And they used to bring it
-over to North America as a ballast on ships. -ALEX: Mm-hmm.
And it's unusual to find them.
NARRATOR: A piece of flint?
Of possible European origin?
And discovered in the foundation
that was buried beneath the circular structure on Lot 5?
Is it possible that it was left here by someone
who secretly inhabited this area long ago?
If so, might there be more clues in the feature
that will help the team better understand
how it could be related to the Oak Island mystery?
All right. Well, thank you for the update,
and then I'll stick around and make myself useful.
-Sounds good. -Sounds good.
ALEX: All the indicators are
that something happened on Lot 5
long before people started looking for treasure here.
Anything that happened on the island
prior to the discovery
of the Money Pit is possibly connected
with any kind of deposit that might have been made.
Hey, Helen.
What do you make of these?
Ooh.
ALEX: What do you make of these?
-HELEN: Oh, my heavens. -NARRATOR: On Lot 5, located on
the western side of Oak Island...
ALEX: It's copper, I think.
HELEN: Yeah. Definitely copper, 'cause of the greenness of it all.
...Alex Lagina has just made what
could be an important discovery
in the spoils that have been excavated
from the mysterious stone foundation.
HELEN: I would say decorative rather than functional
-just because of the fragility of it. -ALEX: Mm-hmm.
It's not the first copper we've found on the island like this.
Peter and David, a few years ago,
-found copper sheeting... -Oh, wow.
...on the high side of the beach.
HELEN: Very cool.
NARRATOR: Two years ago...
GARY: Wow, this is fantastic.
...while investigating the shoreline of nearby Lot 4...
GARY: Old piece of copper sheeting.
...Gary Drayton, along with brothers Peter
and David Fornetti, found a very similar artifact.
Well, I'll have a look.
NARRATOR: An artifact that blacksmithing expert
Carmen Legge believed might be one of the most
significant clues ever found by the team.
CARMEN: So, it'd be used, like, on a box.
Were there certain boxes that would consistently
have that type of sheeting on it?
Only for valuables.
-Treasure. -(laughs) Right.
CARMEN: Well, it's very old.
When you say "very old," how old do you mean?
Oh, this could go all the way back to the 1100s.
Wow. That's pretty old. (laughs)
NARRATOR: Is it possible that Alex has just found evidence
of an ancient container
designed to hold something of value
in the mysterious foundation on Lot 5?
If so, what happened to the contents?
And could they be buried deeper
within this feature, or perhaps somewhere deep
in the Money Pit area?
I think this is going to be
a good candidate for the lab here.
Right. We should put it all carefully together,
so it doesn't get crushed by anything else.
Okay. I'll do that.
Thanks.
NARRATOR Later that afternoon...
GARY: A scoop full of opportunities.
JACK: Oh, look at that piece of lumber.
GARY: Yep. I saw that.
NARRATOR: ...in the swamp, Gary Drayton, Jack Begley
and Billy Gerhardt
continue unearthing new potential clues
just to the south of the possibly
500-year-old stone road, or ship's wharf.
What is it, Jack?
It's an old, cut piece of wood.
-There we go. -GARY: It could be a roller.
Something that was used on top
of the stone roadway, and you'd roll cargo up on it.
BILLY: Sure. And it's in the right area right by the road, right?
We got wedges, rollers and the chain hoist to pull.
-Yep. -BILLY: Right? So...
NARRATOR: Could Gary and Billy be correct
that this cut wooden log
might have been used along with the large chain
that was found one week ago in this area,
and which Carmen Legge believed
was designed to lift heavy cargo
in order to transport something of great value
along the stone road long ago?
So, we'll set it aside and get it tested.
Okay, mate.
NARRATOR: If so, could that suggest
the clues that the team has found
in the swamp and on Lot 5
have revealed more evidence
that there could be multiple treasures
buried in the Money Pit area?
Ooh. I see wood.
Ooh, look at this.
That looks like a bit of decking or a bit of planking.
Oh, you might be right.
-It's dimensional. -GARY: Yeah.
And I'm saying that it could be
a piece of decking or planking,
but it could be a bit of railing.
I like how you keep thinking ship
-'cause definitely there's ship pieces in here. -Yeah.
GARY: To me, the most important recoveries
we've got out of this dig is the wood.
Because we can have the wood C-14'ed.
You can see it's been worked,
and I'm hoping that when this is tested,
we get those same ancient date ranges.
That would be fantastic.
All right, well, keep an eye out for more wood.
I'll keep an eye out, mate.
And I'll go put it up with the other wood we found.
-Thanks, mate. -Good find, Gary.
-All right. So, back to the search. -Yep.
JACK: Look, is that...?
When you pull that bucket away,
can you see the difference between the swamp muck
-and the gravel there? -Yeah, there's a line.
Oh, nice. Look at that, Gary.
-GARY: Ooh. -JACK: There's a structure under there, Billy.
GARY: Look at that.
h.
Hey, Billy.
-Can you see that wood? -Yeah.
NARRATOR: While excavating the earthen barrier
between the Oak Island swamp
and the waters of Mahone Bay,
Billy Gerhardt, Jack Begley and Gary Drayton
have just uncovered another compelling find.
Could that be a piece of the wall that Fred Nolan found?
I think that's it.
Yeah. I mean, if we found the wall in the swamp,
-that would be a major discovery. -Yeah.
Rick would be as happy as a pig in the proverbial.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Fred Nolan's wall?
After partially draining the swamp in 1969,
the late Oak Island landowner Fred Nolan
reportedly discovered evidence
of what he believed to be timbered walls, or dams,
buried along both the northern and southern borders
of the brackish bog.
This led Fred to theorize
that the entire feature
had been artificially created centuries ago
in order to hide something of great value.
That looks like two pieces of wood
and they've been cut to fit like that.
-There's definitely two pieces there. -Right.
NARRATOR: Is it possible the Oak Island team
has found corroborating evidence
that Fred's theory was true?
-I think this is the wall. -Mm-hmm.
-Maybe we can wash it down a little bit. -JACK: All right.
But I think we should call Rick to come and see.
Yeah. I agree with that, mate.
BILLY: All right.
GARY: There are so many things
connected with Oak Island that no one
has seen for a very long time.
Fred Nolan's wall is one of them.
-RICK: Hey, guys. -Hey, Rick.
It could be true.
I don't see a treasure chest.
No, but we got news for you.
We just wanted to wait for your input
before we went any further.
That.
RICK: Wow.
JACK: We were thinking this might be the wall
that Fred Nolan had found.
It's possible.
And those two pieces of wood there look like they was cut,
and the angles look like they fitted together.
Does it look broken? Or, I mean, I got to go over there.
Between the two, they certainly look like they were cut-fitted,
-but that somebody fit 'em together. -Yeah.
JACK: Hope you don't mind having wet feet.
RICK: It's a big piece of wood. There's no doubt about that.
-Like you said, cut, angled, cut there. -GARY: Yeah.
Certainly, we have the live edge on the backside
-if we wanted to C-14 it. -JACK: Mm-hmm.
It would be interesting to expose the top of that.
-RICK: Yeah. -BILLY: It certainly looks like
it could be pretty important.
Well, yeah. I would dig that
-to see if it extends. -Yeah.
But I think we need to understand what this may
represent and perhaps its association with that.
GARY: And that's exactly why we stood down, mate.
We figured this could be important.
-JACK: Yeah. -RICK: Right.
We want to understand this in its totality, right?
And the only way to do that is be very specific
about how we approach exposing it.
It's all good news.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
RICK: I so desperately want this to be the wall
that Fred had stated
was there, so I'm very hopeful.
Because if you found such a structure
in the face of the swamp,
I would go on record as saying
it had to be closely associated with the original work.
There's a real story here, and we are all endeavoring
to come up with an answer.
And that's why we're doing the work.
Okay. Well, you know, guys, great job.
It was a long day in the hot sun.
I know, you know, unfortunately, every day
there's an end of the day, but I see no reason
why we can't continue. Pretty good day.
Amazing day of discoveries and recoveries.
RICK: Oh, absolutely.
Okey doke, guys.
NARRATOR: After another week of digging and drilling
into the 229-year-old Oak Island mystery,
Rick, Marty and their faithful team
have discovered more incredible evidence
suggesting that people went to great lengths
to keep secrets that were never meant to be revealed.
But now, as the team works
to overcome the odds that have defeated
all who came before them in search of the truth,
are the days that those secrets will remain buried
finally coming to an end?
Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...
What the hell have you got there?
A big chunk of steel.
MARTY: That could be the drill that found
the famous Chappell Vault.
A small jewelry chest or something.
ALEX: Which means it could have been
part of any treasure that was here.
Look at that. A coin.
-What?! -ALEX: Cool. -(laughs)
-LINDY: Wow. -There's a boulder.
-GARY: It looks similar to the stone roadway. -BILLY: Yeah.
This could be very important.
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