Tonight on the curse of oak island...
This is the secret of secrets.
The message being conveyed in code
is that the ark of the covenant is on oak island.
- You can put x on the spot? - Correct.
Holy cow.
- Wow. - Is it truly silver?
It is silver. About 90%.
- Yes. - In 40 years, I can't remember
- a piece of silver I found. - Is that it?
I see it, mate. Underneath that Boulder.
Look at that.
What the heck is that?
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.
I heard you guys found something.
We found something. That's correct.
Come down here and you can see it.
As a fresh morning dawns on oak island
for brothers Rick and Marty lagina
- and their team... - Right there.
They are braving the stench and muck
of the triangle-shaped swamp
in order to reveal a man-made feature
that may help them solve a 229-year-old mystery.
That's probably the southern wall,
- and that's the eastern wall. - We don't know.
The only thing is, Gary hasn't found any fasteners,
and there's evidence of dowels.
That speaks to being much older.
What's happening, Billy?
We just got a little wood.
Just a few days ago...
Somebody's dug down in the swamp, and there...
We got a bunch of horizontal and vertical boards.
I think we're onto something, mate.
Billy gerhardt and other members of the team
unearthed a wooden structure
embedded in the southern border of the brackish bog.
Could this have been some sort of
a loading and unloading platform?
Curiously,
it was found in the same area where, in the 1970s,
the late Fred Nolan reported finding evidence
of a wooden dam... a dam which Fred believed
offered proof that the swamp was artificially created
in order to hide something of great value.
Take some of this, too.
Now, due to this feature's close proximity
to the potentially 500-year-old stone road, or ship's wharf,
they are hoping to find more clues
that will help them determine its true purpose,
when it was constructed and just who created it.
Pottery.
- Look at that. - Yeah.
Couple more pieces here.
- Man. Yeah, that's nice. - Here.
- Check this one out. - Yeah. Wow.
That's some high-end stuff.
Pottery can tell just as an important story as a coin
and the more parts you got, the better,
because then the archaeologists will be able
to ID the artifact
and give it a time frame of when people was in this area
okay, so I'll take these back and get it c-14 tested.
But we're just gonna try to expose the structure,
the width and breadth of it.
Hey, I'm looking for gold, too.
There you go.
Gary, there's a piece of wood
that's really deep in the bucket there.
Look.
- You see the edges on it? - Yeah.
That's a barrel stave. It has to be.
100%. Yeah, no, that's a barrel stave.
- That was really deep, as well. - It's really deep.
A barrel stave, or fragment of a cargo container?
- So, that's a keg. Lid to a keg? - Yep.
In 2020,
while investigating a cobblestone pathway
that was uncovered nearby, just north of the stone road,
the team found pieces of wooden barrels
which, incredibly, were dated
by blacksmithing expert Carmen legge
to as far back as the 15th century.
Could this barrel stave offer more evidence
that something of great value
may have been brought to oak island long ago?
If so, might those valuables
have been hidden in the money pit?
Or could they still be here in the swamp
as Fred Nolan believed?
They'd put coins in a barrel.
Yeah, test it on the inside of the stave
and see what wi... might have been in the barrel, right?
- Yeah. - What might have left a...
- All right, mate, I'll put it to one side. - Okay.
Good eye, Billy.
As the investigation in the swamp continues...
- Paul. - Hey. How's it going, Marty?
Good, you old war horse, you.
- Yeah. - You found something.
Yeah, it seems that way?
In the money pit area,
Marty lagina arrives at the garden shaft
for an update on another potentially important discovery
that was recently made by the team.
A lot of mystery to that.
Well, it's kind of strange that, there's only the bottom.
- Yeah. Yeah, you think? - Yeah.
I-I'm just wondering where the other...
- Sides and top went. - The sides and the top.
- Yeah. - Yeah, me, too.
Look at that.
- Right there. - Wow.
Those are big beams.
Two weeks ago, after more than a year
of tireless effort and frustrating setbacks,
representatives from dumas contracting limited
finished extending the 18th-century structure,
known as the garden shaft
down to a depth of some 100 feet,
where they reached a mysterious wooden tunnel.
A tunnel that has not only been carbon-dated
to as early as the 17th century
but which also runs westward into the so-called baby blob.
It is in this region where high-trace evidence
of gold, silver and other metal have been detected
between 80 and 120 feet below ground.
We cannot find any sign of walls or a ceiling.
However, upon reaching the tunnel,
the team discovered that it had either collapsed in that area
or had been partially dismantle
sometime in the past.
So, where are you right now? Bring me up to speed.
So, right now, we got one set in.
The guys lowered the landing where it's supposed to be.
Which is about 102 or so.
We're going to 106.
And from then on, we'll start
- drilling horizontal. - Good.
- We got a plan. - Yeah.
In the coming days,
dumas will further extend the garden shaft
to a total depth of 106 feet.
This will allow them to conduct
a manual probe-drilling operation
to determine if other sections of the tunnel
leading toward the baby blob are still intact,
while also searching for evidence
of the possible treasure that has been detected in the area.
The horizontal drilling will allow US to, hopefully,
find out what that's all about.
Yeah. It'll give you a little bit more information.
- Yes. And may... - Or more questions.
- -Yeah. - Probably. Yeah.
All right, I'm-a let you get back to work.
- Yeah. Later, man. - Cheers. Thank you.
As the excavation of the garden shaft continues.
I will say this.
We have found literally hundreds if not thousands of nails,
but what you have here in front of US,
it's interesting, right, Craig? I mean...
It's unique. Yeah.
Rick lagina and Craig tester
are meeting with archaeologist laird niven
and archaeometallurgist Emma culligan
in the oak island laboratory.
It's very strange. I mean...
And to have found it on lot 5...
In a, what I believe is the rectangular feature...
Makes no sense.
- Correct. - So, we're hoping that you
will make sense of this.
One week ago, as members of the team
were carefully excavating a rectangular stone foundation
located near the northern regio of lot 5
on the western side of the island...
Wow. I think we got something here.
Archaeologist Helen Sheldon
found a hand-forged iron nail in one of its walls
near the bottom of the structure.
Because of previous discoveries that have been made
in the upper layers of this foundation,
such as 18th-century pottery and Clay pipe stems,
Helen believes that it was deliberately back filled,
or buried, by someone in the 1780s,
but may have been originally constructed
by someone else much earlier.
Now, it is Rick and Craig's hop
that the metallurgy analysis of this hand-forged spike,
which was conducted by Emma culligan,
might reveal not only its age
but perhaps also when the original structure
may have been created.
No pressure, Emma.
No pressure.- So, what I can tell you is that
it's definitely hand-wrought...
Um, as can be seen by the grain structure,
which is, like, that wood-like grain structure.
Earlier today, Emma scanned the artifact
with the sky scan 1273 ct scanner,
a device which emits nondestructive X-ray radiation
to penetrate corrosion and reveal its finer details.
Additionally, she also scanned it
with an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, or xrf device,
that can identify its metallic composition.
And I did do an xrf on it,
which I think you guys will be really happy about.
Okay.
So, there's a high sulfur content,
absolutely no manganese,
which would make it hot brittle.
- Really? - Yes.
So, too much sulfur
in the iron can make it brittle, or hard to work with, when hot,
which is not something you want in your irons,
which is why we started adding manganese.
So it could be 1500s, 1600s, early 1700s.
Or it could be, like,
- really, really early. - What is really, really early?
Like, 1100s to, like, 1300s.
- Wow. - Yeah.
What is really, really early?
Like, 1100s to, like, 1300s.
- Really? - Yes.
Why do you say that?
'Cause the iron is really clean.
There's few impurities, which is what you would
see a lot of in that time range.
In the oak island laboratory,
archaeometallurgist Emma culligan
has just presented an astonishing report.
Quite remarkable.
The hand-wrought iron artifact
that was found one week ago
in the rectangular feature on lot 5
could date to as far back as the 12th century.
So what is it?
I think we've decided it doesn't function as a fastener.
Why... and why not? Too thin?
Yeah.
And it's not a file.
No.
So I'm as puzzled as anyone.
I mean, lot 5 continues
to surprise and that's for sure.
In addition to this spike
that was found in the rectangular feature,
the team has made several other ancient discoveries on lot 5
since they purchased it just one year ago.
These include three Roman coins that have been dated
to between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago,
as well as a 14th-century lead barter token
that was unearthed from another structure closer to the shore
and which may be connected to the lead cross
that the team discovered at Smith's cove in 2017.
I mean, timelines are important
to solving any sort of mystery like this.
There are a number of finds
from the early to the late 1600s.
And now we find this.
People were here much earlier than had been presumed.
That may impact the search agenda.
That's always the hope.
Hopefully, we'll find something even more interesting.
Agreed, yeah.
Someone will know what that represents.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Thank you. - Okay. Thank you, Emma.
- Thank you, laird. - All right, see ya later
the following morning...
Hey, chaps.
- I brought the expert. - Hey, Gary. Wow.
Those are huge planks.
Rick lagina returns
to the southern edge of the swamp
with geoscientist Dr. Ian spooner
in order to have him inspect the mysterious wooden feature
now that more of it has been revealed.
It's really, really deep
compared even to the stone road.
Like, to get those planks down
this low you would have had to dewater the swamp.
That's the only way I would see how to do it.
There is some sort of structure
but how did it play into the work around the swamp?
Did it have relevance to the stone road?
What is the relationship between these discoveries?
So at this point we need
to try to collect as much information as possible.
At this stage, I-I can't help but think that it's
some part of this road feature.
- Yeah. - It just, like, kind of
aligns, like, there's a post there,
and then there probably were posts that we...
- Excavated here. - Yeah.
They put stakes in everywhere
to shore up this square structure.
- Yeah. - Nicely adze cut
on this face and it's rounded.
That's shaped.
An adze is a type of cutting tool
dating back to the days of ancient Egypt
that was generally replaced by mechanized saws
beginning in the late 18th century.
And, curiously, the timbers that were recently
recovered from the tunnel beneath the garden shaft
also featured cuts that were made by an adze.
Is it possible that the oak island team
has uncovered a structure in the swamp
that might be connected to the possible treasure tunnel
in the money pit area?
Right now, we should stand down.
And Steve can pin the corners,
so he can put it on the, grid.
Because he believes this structure
could be of historic importance
and perhaps connected to the oak island mystery,
Dr. Spooner would like surveyor Steve guptill
to fully document it before the team
conducts any more excavations around the feature.
We'll wait for Steve.
Yeah.
I think that's all we can do right now, right?
- Yeah. - I think just leave it.
I say we're done.
Good job, guys.
Later that afternoon...
We have... sat around this war room table
and heard some very interesting theories.
And today, we are going to hear something
that I think will easily match that metric and,
how it may impact the search, this search year, in particular.
So let me introduce John Edwards to you all.
John, welcome to the war room.
- Thank you, Rick. - Thank you for coming.
Appreciate everyone having me here.
Rick has invited researcher John Edwards,
who he has been corresponding with for several months,
to share new information regarding the oak island myster
with Marty and other members of the team.
I've spent the past 30 years studying
symbols and icons, with emphasis on that kind of
knights templar through the age of exploration. So...
Something that I think is relevant to oak island.
Awesome.
For several decades, a number of researchers have
presented theories that the medieval order
of Christian monks known as the knights templar,
who were persecuted by the catholic church
in the early 14th century,
conspired with their believed descendants
known as the rosicrucians and the freemasons,
to hide and protect sacred religious treasures
on oak island between the 12th and 18th centuries.
While a number of clues have been found on the island
that support this incredible theory,
such as 12th-century structures
14th-century religious artifacts,
and the fact that every company that has ever looked
for the treasure has included freemasons,
it has yet to be proven.
Is it possible that John Edward has finally
uncovered the irrefutable evidence
that this theory is true?
You know, one of the things that
I've been doing is looking at the royal arch ode.
Masonic odes are poems or hymns
that are sung or recited during secret masonic ceremonies.
And according to John Edwards' research,
they also contain encoded information that only
high-ranking members of the organization may understand
so, if we read it, "this shall be the sacred Mark"
"which shall guide US in the skies,
bearing like a holy ark."
So if you look at that, we have
a reference to a "holy ark."
Now, many people believe that
there are certain Jewish artifacts that the templars had.
Like the ark of the covenant.
Now, "joy, the secret vault is found"
"full the sunbeam falls within,
pointing darkly underground, to the treasure we would win."
And it makes reference to "pointing darkly underground."
To like a vault. Okay?
Now, the question is, where is that vault located?
So we have an early masonic text
and you see someone being lowered into a vault.
Looks like someone recovering the ark to me.
Now, interestingly, I've acquired
two ancient books that have
codes and maps and things that I think
would be, relevant to the oak island search.
One was
the whole genuine works of flavius josephus.
The publication date was 1812.
And he was a Jewish historian
from 37 ce to about 100 ce, common era.
And then the second book has a publication date of 1763.
It's in French and it translates as holy week.
So I believe, possibly,
in the books could be some masonic ciphering.
I just did this one page here,
which has masonic abbreviations.
- Okay. - So...
"Ss," which is "sanctum sanctorum"
or "holy of ho lies."
"Me," "most eminent, most excellent."
And then it was signed with the number 137.
Now, 137 is significant, because...
And what's really interesting is here,
when we look at this page,
there were symbols sketched.
And that looks like the ark of the covenant to me.
Right.
And right here.
- Wow. - It certainly looks like oak island.
Yes, and if it's referencing oak island,
what project would that be?
That is quite interesting.
Yeah.
So if all the clues are correct,
the message being conveyed
in code is that the ark of the covenant is here.
The message being conveyed
is that the ark of the covenant is here.
Awesome.
In the oak island war room,
researcher John Edwards has just presented
what he believes to be secret masonic documents suggesting
that the ark of the covenant
might have been hidden on oak island by members
of the knights templar centuries ago.
But if I'm right, in order to understand...
So...
The tree of life is an ancient Hebrew and Christian symbol
comprised of ten points, known as sephirot,
that represents divine morals and principles
for a spiritual path to god.
It is a symbol that was also revered
by the knights templar, the rosicrucians
and the freemasons.
- This is Nolan's cross. - Good.
In 2013,
Norwegian freemason and filmmaker petter amundsen
presented Rick, Marty and the team
with his research suggesting
that the six megalithic Boulder of Nolan's cross
were part of a larger, ten-point formation
depicting the tree of life.
Is this it here?
- Yeah. This is it. - Good.
And to help prove his theory,
he led Marty and Alex to lot 28
in the middle of the island,
where he believed they would find one of the sephirot,
known as kingdom, buried just below the surface.
- Yeah. Here it comes. - There we go.
- In 2017... - Wow.
Rick lagina and his nephews Alex and Peter
visited a 14th-century prison in domme, France,
that held members of the templar order
after their persecution by the catholic church in 1307.
This way.
There, they were shown
a number of carvings, including one
depicting the tree of life
and also another of a sacred cross.
A cross that was an exact match
to the one that Rick and Gary drayton would find
just weeks later on oak island at Smith's cove.
Could John Edwards be correct
that by investigating Nolan's cross and the sephirot,
which together make up the symbol
known as the tree of life,
he might be able to find the location
where one of the most sacred religious artifacts
ever known to mankind is buried
so, when you come back, you can put x on the spot?
Is that what you're saying?
Look, I'd like to find something.
As far as I'm concerned, you got free reign of the island.
- Tom, you all right with that? - Absolutely.
Yeah.
It's in the proof that the picture resides, right?
Hopefully, you will come back with an x or xs,
and from then we can have a discussion
about how to proceed.
You're welcome, but you've got some work to do, so...
Off we go.
Thanks, guys.
As John Edwards prepares to begin
his field research of the island...
We're making progress.
Let's keep going.
All right.
On lot 5,
archaeologists Jamie kouba and Fiona Steele
are investigating the foundatio near the shoreline
where the team discovered
the 14th-century lead barter token one year ago.
Hey.
I got another button.
That's great.
Yeah. This one's much bigger.
That is quite shiny.
Like, like, gold-plated.
- You sure it's a button? - I'm sure it's a button,
- 'cause we got the loop on the back... - I see the ring.
- But maybe it's gold-plated. - Yeah, I can see that now.
I don't think we've seen any of those yet.
I haven't.
If this was military, it would be an officer's button
if it was gold-plated, so... A gold-plated button?
Could Jamie kouba be correct
that it belonged to a high-ranking military officer
if so, could it have been an officer
who took part in hiding, or protecting,
something of great value on oak island?
Very cool.
I can't wait to see what that turns out to be.
Right?
- Holy cow! - What have you got?
Wow!
- What have you got? - I'm not entirely sure,
but I think it's a piece of silverware handle.
Really?
Near the shoreline of lot 5,
on the western side of oak island...
- And I think it might actually be silver. - Wow!
Archaeologist Jamie kouba
has just found another potentially valuable clue
in the mysterious foundation that was discovered
below the circular stone featur earlier this year.
It's gorgeous. Look at the designs on it.
I've never found a single piece of precious metal,
much less a piece this big
of what could potentially be silver.
This is a big deal.
We're here on a treasure hunt,
so we're hoping that maybe we can analyze that,
and that would give US the best possible chance
to get answers on who built this.
- Hello. - Whoa. Hello.
So, what do you have?
So, I don't really know where to start,
so I'm just gonna show you the first one that I found today,
and we'll work our way through those.
All righty.
- It's a button. - That looked like gold.
It's a very cool button.
That's cool, I can almost imagine a design
- on the front, too. - It's hard to tell.
- What else did you find? - You're gonna flip. It's so cool.
- That's silver, isn't it? - Wow.
I'm-I'm pretty sure it's silver.
It's quite decorative, though, at the top.
Yeah. Hand-decorated.
It's so ornate. Yeah.
That's really cool.
This is not just your average domestic building.
And they were using soil
from deep in the money pit.
And there's that kind of treasure, as well.
Yeah.
- So, what were they doing here? - Yeah.
It reminds me of, like, a crude mortar or cement.
Nearly one month ago, Jamie uncovered a man-made
cement-like substance in this feature
that has also been found around the mysterious tunnel
below the garden shaft.
This has made the team wonder if this feature on lot 5
was connected to an operation to hide
something of great value deep in the money pit area.
I mean, finding is the first step.
Take 'em to Emma and trying to get a date
- on 'em is step number two. - Yeah. Exactly.
All right.
- It's exciting, really. - Yeah.
- We'll find more stuff for you. - Okay.
While the investigations of the stone features
continue on lot 5...
Later that afternoon...
Let's get diggy with it, Billy.
- Yep. - In the southeast corner of the swamp,
now that Steve guptill has completed a survey
of the mysterious wooden structure that sits
next to the stone road,
Jack begley, along with Gary drayton and Billy gerhardt
continue investigating the feature for clues
and potential valuables.
We got a hit, Jack.
Great to hear, Gary. I'm on my way.
A little scrappy one.
Should be right underneath there.
All right, mate. And I'll see if you've moved it.
Sure.
Come out, my little beauty.
What have we got here?
I think it's some kind of digging tool.
Not like any sort of modern digging tool I've seen.
That's old.
It's-it's almost like a trowel.
I think it's unique, mate,
because of where it came from, as well,
in between that wooden feature,
we have no idea what it is at the moment,
and the stone road.
It could be even older.
Maybe this piece of iron could be part of an old tool
left over from building the stone roadway
or even this wood structure.
And hopefully, we can put a date on it.
Yeah, we got a signal here, Jack.
It seems to be right in front
of this big Boulder here.
Just there, somewhere.
See if I moved it.
Let me see if I can pinpoint it for you.
The old stick in the mud, here.
It's actually still there.
It's under there.
- All right. - It's got a good signal.
Is that it? I see it, mate.
Look at that.
What the heck is that?
Look at that!
- That's a big spike. - Yeah.
Look, it's still got wood on it.
At the southeastern border of the oak island swamp,
Gary drayton, Jack begley
and Billy gerhardt have just made
a potentially critical discover
in the mysterious wooden structure that was
recently uncovered next to the stone road.
It looks hand-forged, wrought iron,
and it's still got wood on it, so you know it was a fastener.
- Yeah. - Look at the size of that.
- Yeah. - Wow.
That's gonna come back old, mate.
Possibly, yeah. I think so, too.
This is gorgeous, as well. We've never found one like this.
A - hand-forged, iron spike?
Could Gary drayton be correct
that it is different from other spikes
that the team has found in this area
and might be a much older artifact?
All right, I'm gonna make my way back down there.
Okay, mate. I'm gonna put a bag over the wood
- and put it to one side. - If so,
could it be a key clue
that will help the team determine just when
this feature was constructed?
The question for US to answer is
why were these constructs made?
Perhaps they were intended to be hidden.
And there is every hope that we will,
at some point, discover the reason why they were built.
Hey, Billy. Look at this.
It looks like it's axe-chopped.
There's some type of
a piece of iron that's stuck into it.
And then this is straight-cut along the top,
not circular saw.
From all the artifacts that we have found
and getting a better look at this wood,
I think it might connect with
the stone pathway and the stone road.
It's been a heck of a day, guys.
Great job today.
The following morning...
Three of US were called out to lot 5,
and Jamie came up with these nice artifacts.
At the oak island laboratory.
Rick lagina, Craig tester and Jack begley
meet with archaeologist laird niven
and archaeometallurgist Emma culligan to receive.
Emma's scientific analysis of the gold-plated button
and the possible silver artifac
that were unearthed one day ago
in the large stone foundation on lot 5.
That is somewhat self-explanatory, right?
- Yes, it's a button. - The key question is
composition. What is it?
It is a copper alloy with about 3% gold
on the surface, so it is gilded.
Gilding, which dates back to the times of ancient Egypt,
is a decorative technique
by which thin layers of gold
are applied to the surface of an item.
What's really revealing of that age and Providence
in the metallurgical aspect is the phosphorus.
You got about 5%.
But that kind of button composition you won't see in
your regular old casual clothes.
I'd say it's more like naval military.
It had to have been, like, an officer's button then, right?
Yes. Officer or a gentleman.
Ayuh, I can say that it's most likely
English, 18th century, naval military.
This naval button, does it have something to say
about the activities on lot 5?
Might it have been British
who came searching for something?
But if you're doing original work,
you want to police your area.
I just hope we continue to make finds of artifacts
that will hopefully fill in the gaps
in this story on lot 5.
You know, this one appears to be silver,
but the question is, is it truly silver?
Yes, it is silver.
Yes.
Um, at about 90%.
In 40 years,
I can't remember a piece of silver I've found.
If you remember the treasure trove license, right?
The treasure trove license would define that as treasure.
It is treasure.
The treasure trove licens
would define that as treasure.
It is treasure.
Yeah.
It's precious metal. That's as far as
- we can go right now. - Yes.
In the oak island laboratory,
archaeometallurgist Emma culligan
has just confirmed that
the metal artifact found one day ago
in the mysterious stone foundation on lot 5
is composed almost entirely of pure silver.
So, what is it?
If we look at it functionally,
we both believe, this is its original form.
Yeah.
And here you can see the slits
on these sides, on the edges.
There's some artistry there.
Yeah, I agree with that.
So, it could be
almost like the end of a tassel, decoratively.
- Wow. - A knife hilt,
you know, something like that.
It's one of the cooler artifacts we've found.
The initial excitement,
which you've expressed, is it's silver.
And why wouldn't we be excited about that?
But to go further, I think we need
- more information. - Yeah.
The idea of
there must be silver from the concepción.
If it were a metallurgical match to
silver from the concepción,
and it matches that? Bingo.
Then we would be onto something.
Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.
Since the beginning of this year,
the team has found a number of metal artifacts
in the large foundation on lot 5 that,
according to Emma's metallurgical analysis,
may be connected to sir William phips,
the English naval officer and privateer
who, in 1687,
salvaged more than 30 tons of silver and gold
from the Spanish wreck known as the concepción.
We know that phips found silver on the concepción
and I believe some of the treasure from
the concepción was secreted to oak island.
In 2021, 32nd degree freemason Scott Clarke
informed the team that phips worked closely
with a high-ranking freemason from Nova Scotia
named captain Andrew belcher
during his second salvage operation of the concepción.
And he believes that much of the treasure
they recovered was hidden on oak island.
Laird, you've spent a lifetime
- and you've not found it. - I know, I know.
So, that-that certainly is quite interesting.
I can't remember a piece of silver I've found.
Is it possible, as Rick lagina has speculated,
that the silver artifact could offer more evidence
that Scott Clarke's theory may be true?
If so, might that explain why the team
has found the same man-made concrete-like material
in both the feature on lot 5,
and around the tunnel below the garden shaft?
And finally, could these discoveries
also support John Edwards' theory
that members of freemasonry
were part of a generational conspiracy
to hide and protect treasure vaults on oak island
that were originally established by
the knights templar?
I think this find is invigorating,
there's no question about it.
What it does say, emphatically,
is that the lot 5 feature is important.
I don't think one can dismiss the fact
that this find and the concrete from lot 5
strongly hint at a connection to phips,
but also, it speaks to a connection to the money pit.
I think it only reinforces
that we might be on to something.
We know we have the money pit material,
that was used in that foundation.
They could have kept, you know, some treasure
right on site, before they moved it.
I can't wait to see what other friends pop up as we dig up
- the rest of the feature. - There you go.
- And so, I think we've got - a lot to do. - Yeah.
And, I, for one, am gonna start.
- Yep. Me, too. - All right?
Thank you both.
- Great job. - Yeah.
For Rick, Marty, Craig and their team,
a week that began with the hope for important discoveries
has been rewarded with not only exciting new clues
but also actual valuables that have
advanced their efforts to solve the oak island mystery
and now, as they continue
digging in the garden shaft,
and investigating the believed ancient landmarks
on the island's surface will it lead to
a profound and history-changing breakthrough?
Perhaps it all depends
on whether or not the curse of oak island
can finally be broken.
Next time on the curse of oak island...
The way to unlock Nolan's cross
is built into the cross itself.
If the ark is here,
it would be found using Nolan's cross.
Let's dig there.
- Ooh, look at that. - There's a Boulder.
Maybe this Boulder is marking the spot.
This is the copper artifact found on lot 8.
This could be identified as viking.
The water started coming in faster and faster.
We may have hit a flood tunnel.
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