1 00:00:01,958 --> 00:00:03,742 NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island. 2 00:00:03,873 --> 00:00:06,310 -JACK: Today's the day, Gary. -Oh, yeah. 3 00:00:06,441 --> 00:00:08,443 NARRATOR: It's the groundbreaking season finale. 4 00:00:08,573 --> 00:00:10,619 This is what we saw 5 00:00:10,749 --> 00:00:12,795 -in Portugal. -Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's incredible. 6 00:00:12,925 --> 00:00:14,362 -Wow. -[laughing] 7 00:00:14,492 --> 00:00:16,668 We can actually image the entire island 8 00:00:16,799 --> 00:00:18,627 underground to find a target 9 00:00:18,757 --> 00:00:20,237 -in the Money Pit. -That's great! 10 00:00:20,368 --> 00:00:22,500 -GARY: We've hit the tunnel, mate. -Whoa! 11 00:00:22,631 --> 00:00:24,415 -That tunnel will lead us to the treasure. -Yeah. There you go. 12 00:00:24,546 --> 00:00:27,027 Oh, look at that. What we got here? 13 00:00:27,157 --> 00:00:28,332 Oh, what the heck is that? 14 00:00:31,031 --> 00:00:34,077 NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic 15 00:00:34,208 --> 00:00:36,645 where people have been looking for 16 00:00:36,775 --> 00:00:40,431 an incredible treasure for more than 200 years. 17 00:00:40,562 --> 00:00:43,521 So far, they have found a stone slab 18 00:00:43,652 --> 00:00:46,002 with strange symbols carved into it... 19 00:00:47,525 --> 00:00:51,007 ...man-made workings that date to medieval times, 20 00:00:51,138 --> 00:00:53,792 and a lead cross whose origin may be connected 21 00:00:53,923 --> 00:00:56,012 to the Knights Templar. 22 00:00:56,143 --> 00:00:58,884 To date, six men have died 23 00:00:59,015 --> 00:01:01,278 trying to solve the mystery. 24 00:01:01,409 --> 00:01:06,979 And according to legend, one more will have to die 25 00:01:07,110 --> 00:01:09,373 before the treasure can be found. 26 00:01:14,117 --> 00:01:16,946 ♪ 27 00:01:21,385 --> 00:01:23,692 MARTY: Alex, Rick, Craig and I 28 00:01:23,822 --> 00:01:25,824 want to hear everything about Portugal. 29 00:01:25,955 --> 00:01:27,565 Talk to us. 30 00:01:27,696 --> 00:01:28,958 I think it was a great trip. 31 00:01:29,089 --> 00:01:31,352 -We learned a lot. -We-we did. 32 00:01:33,180 --> 00:01:35,356 CORJAN: Oh, morning. 33 00:01:35,486 --> 00:01:37,053 -Welcome to Portugal. -Thank you. 34 00:01:37,184 --> 00:01:38,402 NARRATOR: For the past two weeks... 35 00:01:38,533 --> 00:01:39,795 Wow. 36 00:01:39,925 --> 00:01:40,709 ...Rick, along with his nephews 37 00:01:40,839 --> 00:01:43,015 Alex and Peter 38 00:01:43,146 --> 00:01:45,453 and Oak Island historian Doug Crowell, 39 00:01:45,583 --> 00:01:47,324 have been in central Portugal 40 00:01:47,455 --> 00:01:50,066 investigating numerous sites that once served 41 00:01:50,197 --> 00:01:53,896 as strongholds for the 12th-century Knights Templar 42 00:01:54,026 --> 00:01:56,594 as well as their 14th-century descendants, 43 00:01:56,725 --> 00:01:58,988 the Order of Christ. 44 00:01:59,119 --> 00:02:01,904 Over the arch, the big Templar cross. 45 00:02:02,034 --> 00:02:03,688 This was their trademark. 46 00:02:03,819 --> 00:02:06,865 NARRATOR: Guided by researcher Corjan Mol 47 00:02:06,996 --> 00:02:09,346 and Templar historian Joao Fiandeiro... 48 00:02:09,477 --> 00:02:11,348 Okay, let's see what we can find. 49 00:02:11,479 --> 00:02:12,654 NARRATOR: ...they saw numerous carvings 50 00:02:12,784 --> 00:02:14,177 matching those reportedly found 51 00:02:14,308 --> 00:02:16,701 on historic Oak Island artifacts... 52 00:02:16,832 --> 00:02:19,051 You might be interested in this one over here. 53 00:02:19,182 --> 00:02:21,619 NARRATOR: ...such as the 90-foot stone 54 00:02:21,750 --> 00:02:24,405 and the H+O Stone... 55 00:02:24,535 --> 00:02:27,147 ALEX: The stone path looks exactly like this. 56 00:02:27,277 --> 00:02:29,366 Yeah, it looks the spitting image. 57 00:02:29,497 --> 00:02:32,282 NARRATOR: ...a cobblestone road and pathway 58 00:02:32,413 --> 00:02:35,329 eerily similar to those uncovered two years ago 59 00:02:35,459 --> 00:02:37,896 in the triangle-shaped swamp, 60 00:02:38,027 --> 00:02:40,160 and even a mysterious Masonic well 61 00:02:40,290 --> 00:02:42,379 matching the exact dimensions 62 00:02:42,510 --> 00:02:45,165 of the original Money Pit treasure shaft. 63 00:02:46,601 --> 00:02:48,385 Oh, man. So you would 64 00:02:48,516 --> 00:02:51,432 perfectly see that oak tree from here, right? 65 00:02:51,562 --> 00:02:53,912 RICK: The branch of an oak tree over the well. 66 00:02:54,043 --> 00:02:57,307 That's exactly what the Money Pit story is about. 67 00:02:57,438 --> 00:02:59,918 NARRATOR: Now, as the team is working 68 00:03:00,049 --> 00:03:02,617 to conclude their fifth major excavation 69 00:03:02,747 --> 00:03:05,533 in the Money Pit area this year in a location 70 00:03:05,663 --> 00:03:08,666 where they have previously detected large concentrations 71 00:03:08,797 --> 00:03:10,320 of precious metals... 72 00:03:12,148 --> 00:03:15,020 I don't think Portugal could be Portugal without the Templars. 73 00:03:15,151 --> 00:03:17,240 NARRATOR: ...Rick and Alex have rejoined Marty Lagina, 74 00:03:17,371 --> 00:03:19,808 Craig Tester and the rest of the team 75 00:03:19,938 --> 00:03:22,463 in the hopes of making the ultimate discovery 76 00:03:22,593 --> 00:03:24,160 before they must halt their search activities 77 00:03:24,291 --> 00:03:26,597 until next spring. 78 00:03:26,728 --> 00:03:28,382 RICK: You know, what's been happening here on the island? 79 00:03:28,512 --> 00:03:30,427 MARTY: Well, a lot of stuff. 80 00:03:30,558 --> 00:03:33,604 We did a major effort, Alex, 81 00:03:33,735 --> 00:03:39,175 to ground-truth your OKM swaths on the road up from the swamp. 82 00:03:39,306 --> 00:03:40,655 Hey, all right! 83 00:03:40,785 --> 00:03:42,222 MARTY: So, we had a mini excavator 84 00:03:42,352 --> 00:03:44,963 in there, and we cut some swaths. 85 00:03:45,094 --> 00:03:47,705 It's a little bit difficult to be definitive. 86 00:03:47,836 --> 00:03:50,012 But I would say 87 00:03:50,142 --> 00:03:52,884 -that there was some sort of road there. -Sweet. 88 00:03:54,495 --> 00:03:56,192 GARY: You think this could possibly be a road, Laird? 89 00:03:56,323 --> 00:03:58,586 It's a feature, it looks like. 90 00:03:58,716 --> 00:04:01,893 NARRATOR: One week ago, Marty and members of the team 91 00:04:02,024 --> 00:04:05,419 began investigating a mysterious buried feature on Lot 15, 92 00:04:05,549 --> 00:04:09,074 extending out of the swamp from the stone road, 93 00:04:09,205 --> 00:04:12,904 which Alex and his cousin David Fornetti had detected 94 00:04:13,035 --> 00:04:15,733 using ground-penetrating radar earlier this fall. 95 00:04:15,864 --> 00:04:17,605 It's kind of dipping down. 96 00:04:17,735 --> 00:04:18,910 STEVE G.: It's filled in with rocks. 97 00:04:19,041 --> 00:04:19,868 NARRATOR: Incredibly, 98 00:04:19,998 --> 00:04:21,478 they began uncovering 99 00:04:21,609 --> 00:04:23,524 a cobblestone path feature 100 00:04:23,654 --> 00:04:26,048 similar to the one that was unearthed two years ago 101 00:04:26,178 --> 00:04:29,399 running along the eastern border of the swamp. 102 00:04:29,530 --> 00:04:31,793 RICK: Well, we're here. Let's go take a look. 103 00:04:31,923 --> 00:04:33,795 MARTY: Yeah, I'll show you our road. 104 00:04:33,925 --> 00:04:36,624 RICK: It feels good to be back. 105 00:04:36,754 --> 00:04:38,452 Portugal was a wonderful experience, 106 00:04:38,582 --> 00:04:40,236 but when we had left, 107 00:04:40,367 --> 00:04:41,890 we had some unfinished business. 108 00:04:42,020 --> 00:04:44,458 This way. 109 00:04:44,588 --> 00:04:47,069 RICK: If they've encountered a stone road feature 110 00:04:47,199 --> 00:04:49,158 on Lot 15, that's exciting. 111 00:04:49,289 --> 00:04:51,421 That's very, very impactful. 112 00:04:51,552 --> 00:04:53,075 -Look who I brought. -Hey! 113 00:04:53,205 --> 00:04:54,424 -Hey. -ALEX: Hey, guys. -Welcome back. 114 00:04:55,556 --> 00:04:56,513 ALEX: Oh, wow. 115 00:04:56,644 --> 00:04:58,602 RICK: Wow. 116 00:04:58,733 --> 00:05:00,648 MARTY: So, you've done some work here since I left. 117 00:05:00,778 --> 00:05:03,085 -LAIRD: Yeah. -That's impressive. 118 00:05:03,215 --> 00:05:05,305 -So, what do you think? -LAIRD: Well, we all have in our mind 119 00:05:05,435 --> 00:05:08,917 that it's a nice cobble path coming up here, 120 00:05:09,047 --> 00:05:10,745 -so they're hauling something up. -Oh, yeah. 121 00:05:10,875 --> 00:05:12,181 So, they're still filling... they're filling in low areas 122 00:05:12,312 --> 00:05:13,922 -just to make a path. Yeah. -Yes. 123 00:05:14,052 --> 00:05:16,272 MARTY: What you've dug out of there looks like 124 00:05:16,403 --> 00:05:17,795 what we found down there 125 00:05:17,926 --> 00:05:19,101 -in the swamp. -Yeah. -Yeah. 126 00:05:19,231 --> 00:05:20,537 If you look down here, 127 00:05:20,668 --> 00:05:23,888 the road went through here, we think. 128 00:05:24,019 --> 00:05:26,630 Yeah, it essentially comes off of the stone road in the swamp. 129 00:05:26,761 --> 00:05:29,285 Well, we are in kind of like a central area. 130 00:05:29,416 --> 00:05:33,028 You've got the Money Pit over there, paved area, swamp. 131 00:05:33,158 --> 00:05:34,377 We're in the middle of that area. 132 00:05:34,508 --> 00:05:35,857 Yeah. 133 00:05:35,987 --> 00:05:37,337 The interesting thing, you know, 134 00:05:37,467 --> 00:05:39,077 we were lucky enough to see an actual 135 00:05:39,208 --> 00:05:41,341 Roman road in Portugal, but when we got 136 00:05:41,471 --> 00:05:45,083 to the higher elevations, this is what we saw. 137 00:05:45,214 --> 00:05:47,825 -Mm-hmm. Yeah. -It was somewhat rudimentary, 138 00:05:47,956 --> 00:05:49,740 -just like here. -Yeah. 139 00:05:51,046 --> 00:05:52,656 NARRATOR: Could Rick Lagina be correct 140 00:05:52,787 --> 00:05:54,745 that the cobblestone pathway 141 00:05:54,876 --> 00:05:57,269 extending from the stone road in the swamp 142 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,360 may match the exact design of the one 143 00:06:00,490 --> 00:06:02,971 that he recently saw in Portugal? 144 00:06:03,101 --> 00:06:06,627 If so, might it offer more potential evidence 145 00:06:06,757 --> 00:06:09,020 that Portuguese members of the Knights Templar 146 00:06:09,151 --> 00:06:13,460 may actually be connected to the Oak Island mystery? 147 00:06:13,590 --> 00:06:16,724 So, what would you do next, Laird? 148 00:06:16,854 --> 00:06:21,032 Unfortunately, we'd have to take this much off a large area. 149 00:06:21,163 --> 00:06:23,774 Um, so it'd be a lot of work. 150 00:06:23,905 --> 00:06:25,863 -Yeah. -RICK: And as you can see, 151 00:06:25,994 --> 00:06:27,909 weather's going to get quite inclement here shortly. 152 00:06:28,039 --> 00:06:29,389 -LAIRD: Yeah. -GARY: Yeah. -Indeed. 153 00:06:29,519 --> 00:06:31,739 MARTY: Okay, well, as per usual, 154 00:06:31,869 --> 00:06:34,176 -we've added, not subtracted, from the mystery. -LAIRD: Yeah. 155 00:06:34,306 --> 00:06:37,353 It's a... it's a mystery waiting to be solved. 156 00:06:37,484 --> 00:06:40,574 But there's time yet to gather more data. 157 00:06:40,704 --> 00:06:43,185 And you need to metal-detect that whole line 158 00:06:43,315 --> 00:06:46,231 and see what you find. 159 00:06:46,362 --> 00:06:49,191 -MARTY: Okay. Sounds Good. -ALEX: All right. 160 00:06:52,803 --> 00:06:54,196 NARRATOR: Later that morning, 161 00:06:54,326 --> 00:06:56,546 as archaeologist Laird Niven 162 00:06:56,677 --> 00:06:59,723 conducts a preliminary analysis of the cobblestone path 163 00:06:59,854 --> 00:07:02,204 before the team continues metal-detecting 164 00:07:02,334 --> 00:07:04,249 in search of clues... 165 00:07:04,380 --> 00:07:06,208 JACK: Today's the day, Gary. 166 00:07:07,731 --> 00:07:08,863 NARRATOR: ...over in the Money Pit area... 167 00:07:10,038 --> 00:07:11,648 GARY: We got a chance. 168 00:07:11,779 --> 00:07:13,911 NARRATOR: ...members of the Oak Island team 169 00:07:14,042 --> 00:07:18,350 are monitoring the excavation of the B4-C Shaft. 170 00:07:18,481 --> 00:07:20,527 GARY: Hopefully, we start seeing wood soon. 171 00:07:20,657 --> 00:07:23,617 JACK: Hopefully, it's a tunnel to a treasure chamber 172 00:07:23,747 --> 00:07:25,749 -or an offset vault. -I hope so, too. 173 00:07:27,751 --> 00:07:31,581 NARRATOR: Located just five feet north of Borehole C-1, 174 00:07:31,712 --> 00:07:35,629 B4-C will soon reach the approximate 90-foot depth 175 00:07:35,759 --> 00:07:37,935 in the so-called C-1 Cluster, 176 00:07:38,066 --> 00:07:39,807 where earlier this year, 177 00:07:39,937 --> 00:07:42,026 the team not only recovered evidence 178 00:07:42,157 --> 00:07:45,595 of potentially 15th-century wooden tunnels 179 00:07:45,726 --> 00:07:47,945 but also detected high trace evidence 180 00:07:48,076 --> 00:07:50,078 of both silver and gold. 181 00:07:51,340 --> 00:07:53,429 This has prompted them to speculate 182 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,605 that they have either located the general area 183 00:07:55,736 --> 00:07:57,868 of the original Money Pit 184 00:07:57,999 --> 00:08:00,001 or perhaps a tunnel that may lead 185 00:08:00,131 --> 00:08:02,438 to an offset treasure chamber. 186 00:08:02,569 --> 00:08:05,789 RICK: Even though this is the final can, 187 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:07,008 we're not gonna give up. 188 00:08:07,138 --> 00:08:08,792 We know that there is a tunnel 189 00:08:08,923 --> 00:08:10,620 in the 90-foot horizon. 190 00:08:10,751 --> 00:08:13,493 Well, a tunnel means we're close to finding 191 00:08:13,623 --> 00:08:15,059 the original Money Pit. 192 00:08:15,190 --> 00:08:16,800 -We got to be getting close. -Oh, yeah. 193 00:08:16,931 --> 00:08:18,759 Yeah, we should be in wood soon. 194 00:08:20,935 --> 00:08:23,328 MARTY: Every time we dig, you just wait and see 195 00:08:23,459 --> 00:08:26,941 that next scoop, that next grab, hoping that it's it. 196 00:08:27,071 --> 00:08:30,945 The fact that there's gold in the water means 197 00:08:31,075 --> 00:08:32,816 there was gold introduced into the Money Pit. 198 00:08:32,947 --> 00:08:34,601 It's amazing to me. 199 00:08:35,776 --> 00:08:37,517 GARY: See what we got. 200 00:08:40,868 --> 00:08:44,436 Wow! That's some old wood in there. 201 00:08:46,308 --> 00:08:48,136 Hello, Dolly. Check that out. 202 00:08:50,181 --> 00:08:52,488 -GARY: That's a post. -Yeah. 203 00:08:52,619 --> 00:08:54,055 Oh, look at that. 204 00:08:54,185 --> 00:08:56,623 -JACK: Uh-huh. -GARY: That's tunnel. 205 00:08:56,753 --> 00:08:58,102 Got to be tunnel. 206 00:08:58,233 --> 00:08:59,495 -Yeah, it has to be a tunnel. -Yeah. 207 00:08:59,626 --> 00:09:00,627 It's not a shaft. 208 00:09:04,021 --> 00:09:07,285 That's a big piece of timber. 209 00:09:07,416 --> 00:09:09,636 Do you think that's for the support beam? 210 00:09:09,766 --> 00:09:11,289 GARY: Probably. 211 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:15,511 Five and a half. Yeah. 212 00:09:15,642 --> 00:09:17,992 That's gonna hold a pretty good-sized tunnel for us. 213 00:09:18,122 --> 00:09:20,298 It's dimensioned, and this stuff looks hand-hewn. 214 00:09:20,429 --> 00:09:21,996 JACK: Wow. 215 00:09:22,126 --> 00:09:24,476 That tunnel, mate-- that'll lead us to the treasure. 216 00:09:24,607 --> 00:09:26,261 This is great stuff. 217 00:09:26,391 --> 00:09:28,306 NARRATOR: Hand-hewn timbers 218 00:09:28,437 --> 00:09:31,571 found some 90 feet deep in the B4-C Shaft? 219 00:09:31,701 --> 00:09:34,356 At the same approximate depth 220 00:09:34,486 --> 00:09:36,880 that the team recovered wood which dated to as early 221 00:09:37,011 --> 00:09:39,622 as the 15th century? 222 00:09:39,753 --> 00:09:43,017 Is it possible the team has finally intercepted a tunnel 223 00:09:43,147 --> 00:09:45,193 that might be connected 224 00:09:45,323 --> 00:09:48,196 to the original Money Pit treasure vault? 225 00:09:48,326 --> 00:09:51,547 -Okay, mate. We're ready. -JACK: Yeah. 226 00:09:51,678 --> 00:09:54,550 -[beeping] -JACK: Hey. 227 00:09:54,681 --> 00:09:56,552 -I hear that. -Yeah. 228 00:09:56,683 --> 00:09:58,859 Let me see if I can pinpoint it. 229 00:09:58,989 --> 00:10:00,991 Yeah, you want to get in there first, don't you? 230 00:10:01,122 --> 00:10:03,080 Yeah. 231 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:05,909 -What have we got here? -Oh! 232 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,869 What the heck is that? 233 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:13,351 Oh, it's a fastener, I believe. 234 00:10:13,482 --> 00:10:16,964 NARRATOR 235 00:10:17,094 --> 00:10:20,445 the Oak Island team has just recovered an iron fastener 236 00:10:20,576 --> 00:10:22,796 offering more evidence of a possible wooden tunnel 237 00:10:22,926 --> 00:10:26,800 nearly 90 feet below ground. 238 00:10:26,930 --> 00:10:30,281 It appears to have some square features to it. 239 00:10:30,412 --> 00:10:31,935 -GARY: Yeah, I'm hoping. -I think that's an old nail. 240 00:10:32,066 --> 00:10:33,676 -GARY: I'm hoping. -Yeah. 241 00:10:34,851 --> 00:10:36,113 Hey, Terry. 242 00:10:36,244 --> 00:10:38,072 Hey, Rick. How you doing? 243 00:10:38,202 --> 00:10:40,378 I heard, uh, finally wood, right? 244 00:10:40,509 --> 00:10:41,597 Really, really interesting. 245 00:10:41,728 --> 00:10:43,207 Let's take a quick look. 246 00:10:43,338 --> 00:10:45,819 Look at this dimensioned lumber. 247 00:10:45,949 --> 00:10:47,603 So, that's five and a quarter. 248 00:10:47,734 --> 00:10:51,302 And I'm not seeing any circular saw, uh, marks 249 00:10:51,433 --> 00:10:53,478 or crosshatch back marks. 250 00:10:53,609 --> 00:10:56,220 That, to me, is a pit saw. 251 00:10:57,787 --> 00:10:59,963 NARRATOR: As a method for construction, 252 00:11:00,094 --> 00:11:03,010 the use of manually operated pit saws dates back 253 00:11:03,140 --> 00:11:05,229 to as early as the 13th century. 254 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,710 Since most of the searcher activities 255 00:11:07,841 --> 00:11:11,888 from the 19th century onward employed mechanized saws, 256 00:11:12,019 --> 00:11:15,065 could that mean that the team has encountered workings 257 00:11:15,196 --> 00:11:18,242 built prior to the discovery of the original Money Pit? 258 00:11:18,373 --> 00:11:20,723 If so, could the team be close 259 00:11:20,854 --> 00:11:22,856 to a much more valuable discovery? 260 00:11:22,986 --> 00:11:24,596 RICK: The wood we hit-- 261 00:11:24,727 --> 00:11:26,990 I find it incredibly intriguing, because 262 00:11:27,121 --> 00:11:29,210 we don't know of any previous searcher work 263 00:11:29,340 --> 00:11:30,777 in this entire area. 264 00:11:30,907 --> 00:11:33,562 It could be original depositor work. 265 00:11:33,693 --> 00:11:36,130 But we must stay the course 266 00:11:36,260 --> 00:11:39,916 and let the data tells us what we've encountered. 267 00:11:41,439 --> 00:11:43,093 -TERRY: Here we go. -GARY: Let's see what we got. 268 00:11:49,534 --> 00:11:51,928 God. Just bits of wood everywhere! 269 00:11:52,059 --> 00:11:54,626 Look at that. That's a big old iron fastener. 270 00:11:54,757 --> 00:11:56,193 Whoa! 271 00:11:56,324 --> 00:11:59,196 Wrought iron, hammered round. 272 00:11:59,327 --> 00:12:01,459 -That's what we're looking for. -GARY: That's cool. Yeah. 273 00:12:01,590 --> 00:12:03,810 JACK: How old do you think it is? 274 00:12:03,940 --> 00:12:06,769 I think we're in the 1700s or older. 275 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:09,250 -It's so crude. -Okay, so... 276 00:12:09,380 --> 00:12:11,426 -Yeah. -So, pre-Money Pit discovery. 277 00:12:11,556 --> 00:12:13,863 -Yeah. -Oh, that's sweet, Gary. 278 00:12:13,994 --> 00:12:15,865 RICK: Lo and behold, 279 00:12:15,996 --> 00:12:20,304 there is a... what we deem to be a handwrought spike. 280 00:12:20,435 --> 00:12:23,003 And so, we have an opportunity with this spike 281 00:12:23,133 --> 00:12:26,136 to do some types of analysis on it. 282 00:12:26,267 --> 00:12:28,443 Every little clue means something. 283 00:12:28,573 --> 00:12:30,488 What was that big spike I saw? 284 00:12:30,619 --> 00:12:32,403 -[rhythmic beeping] -Yeah, this is old, mate. 285 00:12:32,534 --> 00:12:34,536 That's an oldie for sure. 286 00:12:34,666 --> 00:12:36,668 It's mushroomed in at the top there. 287 00:12:36,799 --> 00:12:39,889 Hand-forged, wrought iron, nice and heavy. 288 00:12:40,020 --> 00:12:42,022 Nice, big, chunky iron. 289 00:12:42,152 --> 00:12:44,154 [thudding] 290 00:12:44,285 --> 00:12:47,810 Looks like they're advancing the can a little bit. 291 00:12:53,337 --> 00:12:55,513 More and more water. 292 00:13:01,824 --> 00:13:03,347 IAN: There's nothing in that one. 293 00:13:03,478 --> 00:13:05,828 I mean, there's no wood, no... no structure. 294 00:13:12,704 --> 00:13:15,359 GARY: Nope, nothing. 295 00:13:15,490 --> 00:13:18,188 Just limestone. 296 00:13:18,319 --> 00:13:20,495 RICK: All eyes are on deck at this point, 297 00:13:20,625 --> 00:13:22,932 and we all take note of the fact 298 00:13:23,063 --> 00:13:25,979 that the wood appeared, and then a certain amount of footage, 299 00:13:26,109 --> 00:13:27,676 and then it disappeared again. 300 00:13:27,807 --> 00:13:29,373 There's only one conclusion. 301 00:13:29,504 --> 00:13:31,027 That is that it's a tunnel. 302 00:13:32,333 --> 00:13:34,161 -Rick, how you making out? -Hey, Sam. 303 00:13:34,291 --> 00:13:35,771 Well, you tell me. How are we making out? 304 00:13:35,902 --> 00:13:38,513 We've gotten into some harder stuff down there. 305 00:13:38,643 --> 00:13:42,256 Our teeth just, uh, broke the 130 feet. 306 00:13:42,386 --> 00:13:45,912 -With the excavation? -Yeah. That's right. 307 00:13:46,042 --> 00:13:47,957 Uh, then I think we're gonna get crumbly limestone 308 00:13:48,088 --> 00:13:50,133 right around that depth. 309 00:13:50,264 --> 00:13:52,919 We know from past experience 310 00:13:53,049 --> 00:13:55,573 it's highly unlikely there's something below that. 311 00:13:57,793 --> 00:14:00,100 NARRATOR: It is a startling turn of events 312 00:14:00,230 --> 00:14:02,232 for the Oak Island team. 313 00:14:02,363 --> 00:14:04,060 After recovering incredible evidence 314 00:14:04,191 --> 00:14:06,846 of a potentially ancient wooden tunnel, 315 00:14:06,976 --> 00:14:10,110 bedrock has just been encountered at a depth 316 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,549 of approximately 130 feet in the B4-C Shaft. 317 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:16,856 So, long day. 318 00:14:16,986 --> 00:14:18,814 -Yeah. -Appreciate all the hard work, 319 00:14:18,945 --> 00:14:21,077 but we're at bedrock. 320 00:14:21,208 --> 00:14:22,644 The bottom line is, I think 321 00:14:22,774 --> 00:14:24,037 we're pretty close to being done. 322 00:14:25,603 --> 00:14:28,519 NARRATOR: Although the team is now out of time 323 00:14:28,650 --> 00:14:32,393 to conduct any more excavations in the Money Pit area this year, 324 00:14:32,523 --> 00:14:36,049 the fact remains that all five 325 00:14:36,179 --> 00:14:38,834 of the massive steel shafts they dug over the previous months 326 00:14:38,965 --> 00:14:40,880 offered evidence 327 00:14:41,010 --> 00:14:43,056 that the legendary treasure people have sought 328 00:14:43,186 --> 00:14:47,060 for more than two centuries is still buried somewhere below. 329 00:14:47,190 --> 00:14:51,238 The question is, what will it take for Rick, 330 00:14:51,368 --> 00:14:55,242 Marty, Craig and the team to finally recover it? 331 00:14:55,372 --> 00:15:00,160 RICK: I think we have all now come to the understanding 332 00:15:00,290 --> 00:15:04,033 that the Money Pit is incredibly complex. 333 00:15:04,164 --> 00:15:07,732 What it tells me is we need to find new technologies 334 00:15:07,863 --> 00:15:10,213 and the application of those technologies to our situation. 335 00:15:10,344 --> 00:15:13,477 That has been key to moving the search forward. 336 00:15:13,608 --> 00:15:15,262 So, 337 00:15:15,392 --> 00:15:16,959 there's reason to be hopeful. 338 00:15:17,090 --> 00:15:18,700 MARTY: We're disappointed 339 00:15:18,830 --> 00:15:21,398 in the results in the Money Pit, but the scientists say 340 00:15:21,529 --> 00:15:23,661 there are big quantities of gold down there 341 00:15:23,792 --> 00:15:25,533 and big quantities of silver down there, 342 00:15:25,663 --> 00:15:28,101 and there's plenty of evidence that it's true. 343 00:15:28,231 --> 00:15:31,234 So, we need to do more searching. 344 00:15:31,365 --> 00:15:33,367 Look, I think 345 00:15:33,497 --> 00:15:35,456 -every hole teaches us something, right? -TERRY: Sure. 346 00:15:35,586 --> 00:15:38,415 I mean, we have definite 347 00:15:38,546 --> 00:15:40,896 elevations for that tunnel. 348 00:15:41,027 --> 00:15:43,855 We do have a significant artifact that can be tested. 349 00:15:43,986 --> 00:15:46,597 -We have quality candidates for C-14. -Sure. 350 00:15:46,728 --> 00:15:49,600 And we're approaching the depth at which we call the hole. 351 00:15:49,731 --> 00:15:51,080 -Yup. Okay. -I agree. 352 00:15:51,211 --> 00:15:52,952 That's where we're at. 353 00:15:53,082 --> 00:15:54,779 TERRY: Absolutely, Rick. 354 00:15:54,910 --> 00:15:55,998 -All right, See you later. -RICK: See you guys. 355 00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:01,134 NARRATOR: Two days later... 356 00:16:01,264 --> 00:16:03,136 RICK: So, guys, I think 357 00:16:03,266 --> 00:16:05,616 this is a very important meeting, and I think it's really 358 00:16:05,747 --> 00:16:07,792 gonna yield, um, benefit. 359 00:16:07,923 --> 00:16:10,970 So, Steve, if you could bring the Ideon team up and Marty. 360 00:16:12,667 --> 00:16:14,060 - Hello, everybody. -[overlapping chatter] -Hey, guys. 361 00:16:14,190 --> 00:16:16,714 NARRATOR: ...Rick and Marty Lagina, 362 00:16:16,845 --> 00:16:19,369 Craig Tester and members of the team 363 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:21,241 have gathered for a videoconference 364 00:16:21,371 --> 00:16:24,722 with Gary Agnew, Doug Schouten, Max Howarth 365 00:16:24,853 --> 00:16:26,768 and Kim Lawrence of Ideon Technologies 366 00:16:26,898 --> 00:16:31,555 based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 367 00:16:31,686 --> 00:16:33,993 RICK: They brought up something that I think you're gonna be 368 00:16:34,123 --> 00:16:36,038 stunned to hear-- the possibility 369 00:16:36,169 --> 00:16:39,215 of imaging Oak Island, underground, 370 00:16:39,346 --> 00:16:40,738 the entire Money Pit area. 371 00:16:42,479 --> 00:16:44,090 Just as a preliminary, 372 00:16:44,220 --> 00:16:47,093 I would ask that the Ideon team tell us 373 00:16:47,223 --> 00:16:49,312 a little bit of background about the company. 374 00:16:49,443 --> 00:16:51,358 The best analogy I can give you for our technology 375 00:16:51,488 --> 00:16:53,316 is a medical X-ray. 376 00:17:07,852 --> 00:17:08,897 [laughs] 377 00:17:13,032 --> 00:17:16,339 NARRATOR: Muon tomography is a cutting-edge 378 00:17:16,470 --> 00:17:19,168 scanning technology used in the mining industry 379 00:17:19,299 --> 00:17:22,041 that measures subatomic atmospheric particles 380 00:17:22,171 --> 00:17:26,349 known as "muons," as they penetrate the Earth's surface. 381 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,787 By placing specialized muon-detecting devices 382 00:17:29,918 --> 00:17:31,702 deep underground, 383 00:17:31,833 --> 00:17:34,401 a three-dimensional image is captured, 384 00:17:34,531 --> 00:17:37,665 displaying specific subsurface anomalies such as tunnels, 385 00:17:37,795 --> 00:17:40,146 voids and large objects. 386 00:17:40,276 --> 00:17:45,151 In 2017, muon tomography was used 387 00:17:45,281 --> 00:17:47,936 to identify a previously unknown chamber 388 00:17:48,067 --> 00:17:51,592 deep inside the Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. 389 00:17:51,722 --> 00:17:54,334 MARTY: How about if there was a, uh, 390 00:17:54,464 --> 00:17:57,380 a solid cube of, you know, let's say, gold. 391 00:17:57,511 --> 00:17:58,425 Could you see that? 392 00:18:08,391 --> 00:18:10,001 -Good answer. -[laughter] 393 00:18:23,537 --> 00:18:25,147 RICK: Wow. 394 00:18:25,278 --> 00:18:26,583 The only problem with muon technology 395 00:18:26,714 --> 00:18:27,889 is the deployment time. 396 00:18:28,019 --> 00:18:30,239 It takes up to seven months 397 00:18:30,370 --> 00:18:33,982 in the Money Pit for the detectors to collect the data. 398 00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:36,115 But I think this technology, of everything we've tried 399 00:18:36,245 --> 00:18:37,986 to throw at Oak Island, I think, 400 00:18:38,117 --> 00:18:40,336 finally, for the first time, maybe, 401 00:18:40,467 --> 00:18:41,990 we're gonna get some real information 402 00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:43,644 about what's underground on the island. 403 00:18:44,862 --> 00:18:46,777 I think this is incredible technology. 404 00:18:46,908 --> 00:18:49,302 I think it's very applicable to what we're doing. 405 00:18:49,432 --> 00:18:51,260 I think this is imminently doable 406 00:18:51,391 --> 00:18:53,480 and-and I think it's gonna yield great results. 407 00:18:53,610 --> 00:18:56,135 MARTY: You know, I find this really exciting. 408 00:18:56,265 --> 00:18:58,137 If you're looking for my input, I say we move full steam ahead. 409 00:18:58,267 --> 00:19:00,791 I think, we all think this is something that we, 410 00:19:00,922 --> 00:19:02,445 that we need to do. 411 00:19:02,576 --> 00:19:05,361 We're very grateful for you reaching out. 412 00:19:05,492 --> 00:19:08,495 I feel like we're actually on to something, 413 00:19:08,625 --> 00:19:10,453 -that's for sure. -Thank you so much. -CRAIG: Thanks, everybody. 414 00:19:10,584 --> 00:19:12,107 -See you later. -Thanks a lot. 415 00:19:12,238 --> 00:19:14,849 RICK: Who knows what lies beneath? 416 00:19:18,809 --> 00:19:20,507 -MARTY: Hey, guys. -STEVE G.: Marty. 417 00:19:20,637 --> 00:19:22,422 NARRATOR: Following their meeting with the team 418 00:19:22,552 --> 00:19:25,773 from Ideon Technologies, Rick and Marty Lagina 419 00:19:25,903 --> 00:19:28,732 join members of the team on Lot 18, 420 00:19:28,863 --> 00:19:30,604 just south of the Money Pit... 421 00:19:30,734 --> 00:19:32,867 TEDFORD: There we go. 422 00:19:32,997 --> 00:19:34,477 NARRATOR: ...where they are eager to begin the preparations 423 00:19:34,608 --> 00:19:36,827 for one of the most promising subsurface scans 424 00:19:36,958 --> 00:19:40,614 ever conducted in order to solve the Oak Island mystery. 425 00:19:40,744 --> 00:19:42,181 ADAM M.: Good? 426 00:19:42,311 --> 00:19:45,096 RICK: So, I'm excited about today 427 00:19:45,227 --> 00:19:47,360 because this is the start of the muon program. 428 00:19:47,490 --> 00:19:50,754 So, the ability to look underground on Oak Island has 429 00:19:50,885 --> 00:19:53,757 stymied every searcher from day one. 430 00:19:53,888 --> 00:19:56,195 -Yeah. -MARTY: Basically gonna X-ray this old girl, right? 431 00:19:56,325 --> 00:19:58,153 TERRY: Something like that, yeah. 432 00:19:58,284 --> 00:20:00,111 STEVE G.: So, we're starting the first hole today. 433 00:20:00,242 --> 00:20:02,505 Uh, we're gonna drill a series of five. 434 00:20:02,636 --> 00:20:04,333 And we're gonna start here in the South Shore Pit. 435 00:20:04,464 --> 00:20:06,814 -Okay. -So that will give us a good map underground 436 00:20:06,944 --> 00:20:08,946 of any potential tunnels running to the Money Pit. 437 00:20:09,077 --> 00:20:11,688 DANNY: Hold that right there. Stop. 438 00:20:11,819 --> 00:20:14,517 NARRATOR: Because it will take the team from Irving Equipment Limited 439 00:20:14,648 --> 00:20:16,476 several days to disassemble their gear 440 00:20:16,606 --> 00:20:17,781 in the Money Pit area... 441 00:20:17,912 --> 00:20:20,088 That's perfect. Right there. 442 00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:22,308 NARRATOR: ...to begin the muon tomography operation, 443 00:20:22,438 --> 00:20:24,440 Rick, Marty and Craig have enlisted 444 00:20:24,571 --> 00:20:27,095 Choice Sonic Drilling to place a borehole 445 00:20:27,226 --> 00:20:29,750 near the so-called South Shore Pit. 446 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,536 Here, they hope to locate a tunnel 447 00:20:33,667 --> 00:20:35,582 that their late partner Dan Blankenship believed 448 00:20:35,712 --> 00:20:38,149 might be connected to the original treasure shaft. 449 00:20:40,456 --> 00:20:43,154 Ideon will come in, place the detectors downhole, 450 00:20:43,285 --> 00:20:45,766 and then basically, it's allowing it time 451 00:20:45,896 --> 00:20:47,681 to gather enough information 452 00:20:47,811 --> 00:20:50,553 such that it can show us what is in the area. 453 00:20:50,684 --> 00:20:52,816 It-it's the first time ever 454 00:20:52,947 --> 00:20:54,296 that we'll be able to look underground 455 00:20:54,427 --> 00:20:55,428 with some sort of certainty. 456 00:20:55,558 --> 00:20:57,386 Yes. 457 00:20:57,517 --> 00:20:59,867 Once we do this, then-then to image the whole island, 458 00:20:59,997 --> 00:21:01,477 where do we go? 459 00:21:01,608 --> 00:21:03,044 Up to... up by the Money Pit, right? 460 00:21:03,174 --> 00:21:05,264 -Yes. Yep. -Great. 461 00:21:05,394 --> 00:21:07,483 -I think we're ready to go. -Yeah. 462 00:21:07,614 --> 00:21:10,399 MARTY: Okay, Mike, make some hole, put some steel in it. 463 00:21:10,530 --> 00:21:13,141 TEDFORD: Let's do it. 464 00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:15,230 NARRATOR: Later that day... 465 00:21:15,361 --> 00:21:18,625 MARTY: Carmen, welcome back once again. 466 00:21:18,755 --> 00:21:20,801 -It's much appreciated. -NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina, 467 00:21:20,931 --> 00:21:23,456 along with his business partner Craig Tester and Gary Drayton, 468 00:21:23,586 --> 00:21:26,023 meet in the research center 469 00:21:26,154 --> 00:21:28,678 with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge 470 00:21:28,809 --> 00:21:31,507 to get his analysis of the iron spike 471 00:21:31,638 --> 00:21:34,118 recently discovered more than 100 feet deep 472 00:21:34,249 --> 00:21:36,643 in the B4-C Shaft. 473 00:21:36,773 --> 00:21:38,862 GARY: This came out 474 00:21:38,993 --> 00:21:41,212 of the Money Pit spoils when we was digging. 475 00:21:41,343 --> 00:21:42,344 Oh. 476 00:21:50,613 --> 00:21:52,354 GARY: A rock drill? 477 00:21:53,747 --> 00:21:55,009 Used for what, Carmen? 478 00:21:58,186 --> 00:22:01,929 Okay, so, uh, used in the digging process. 479 00:22:02,059 --> 00:22:04,018 You come to a big boulder, you need to break it up. 480 00:22:12,374 --> 00:22:14,376 Well, those swages were old, so is this old? 481 00:22:18,075 --> 00:22:20,121 GARY: Wow. 482 00:22:20,251 --> 00:22:23,690 Whoever made this did it a long time ago. 483 00:22:23,820 --> 00:22:27,563 NARRATOR: Two years ago, while investigating Lot 21... 484 00:22:27,694 --> 00:22:30,218 GARY: And this is even bigger. 485 00:22:30,349 --> 00:22:32,394 NARRATOR: ...which was once owned by Freemason Daniel McGinnis, 486 00:22:32,525 --> 00:22:34,614 one of the men who originally discovered 487 00:22:34,744 --> 00:22:37,486 the Money Pit in 1795, 488 00:22:37,617 --> 00:22:41,751 Rick Lagina, Gary and Dan Henskee discovered 489 00:22:41,882 --> 00:22:45,799 two heavy iron swages, or rock drill sharpening tools, 490 00:22:45,929 --> 00:22:47,844 which Carmen believed could date back 491 00:22:47,975 --> 00:22:50,456 to the mid 15th century. 492 00:22:50,586 --> 00:22:53,284 Is it possible that this rock drill, 493 00:22:53,415 --> 00:22:55,678 found in the B4-C Shaft, 494 00:22:55,809 --> 00:22:57,898 could offer more evidence that the team was 495 00:22:58,028 --> 00:23:02,032 within striking distance of the fabled treasure after all? 496 00:23:02,163 --> 00:23:05,471 That's absolutely fantastic, because that was brought up 497 00:23:05,601 --> 00:23:06,689 by the hammer grab. 498 00:23:06,820 --> 00:23:08,212 This is very interesting. 499 00:23:19,354 --> 00:23:22,836 With these dates, though, this has got to be an artifact 500 00:23:22,966 --> 00:23:25,534 from the original Money Pit construction. 501 00:23:28,058 --> 00:23:30,060 MARTY: This rock drill could go back to medieval times. 502 00:23:30,191 --> 00:23:32,193 So, when you let your mind wander, 503 00:23:32,323 --> 00:23:35,065 it could have been used to chisel out a chamber. 504 00:23:35,196 --> 00:23:37,807 If that's the case, maybe we're looking in the right spot. 505 00:23:39,026 --> 00:23:40,723 I mean, this speaks to me. 506 00:23:40,854 --> 00:23:43,030 It says medieval, baby. 507 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,249 MARTY: We're coming to the end of the season, 508 00:23:45,380 --> 00:23:47,556 so we're out of time, but are we eventually gonna 509 00:23:47,687 --> 00:23:49,471 investigate it? Yes. 510 00:23:49,602 --> 00:23:51,560 We can't walk away from that discovery 511 00:23:51,691 --> 00:23:53,693 without looking more closely. 512 00:23:53,823 --> 00:23:55,651 I mean, this really is, this is holding a piece 513 00:23:55,782 --> 00:23:58,524 of history in your hand from the Money Pit, 514 00:23:58,654 --> 00:24:00,613 which makes it even more special. 515 00:24:00,743 --> 00:24:02,179 MARTY: Carmen, thanks for explaining things 516 00:24:02,310 --> 00:24:03,659 to us once again. 517 00:24:03,790 --> 00:24:06,575 Um, Gary, go find some more stuff. 518 00:24:06,706 --> 00:24:08,359 -GARY: I can do that. -MARTY: Thanks, Carmen. 519 00:24:08,490 --> 00:24:10,361 CRAIG: Take care. 520 00:24:12,581 --> 00:24:13,930 NARRATOR: Later that afternoon... 521 00:24:16,193 --> 00:24:18,500 -GARY: We're here? -MARTY: We're here. 522 00:24:18,631 --> 00:24:21,460 NARRATOR: ...Marty, Gary and surveyor Steve Guptill 523 00:24:21,590 --> 00:24:23,810 return to Lot 15 to search 524 00:24:23,940 --> 00:24:26,073 for more potentially important clues 525 00:24:26,203 --> 00:24:28,379 along the mysterious stone pathway 526 00:24:28,510 --> 00:24:30,904 between the swamp and the Money Pit. 527 00:24:31,034 --> 00:24:33,602 We've got lots of targets inside of this potential road. 528 00:24:33,733 --> 00:24:36,039 -GARY: Good. -MARTY: And we'll find what's findable. 529 00:24:37,171 --> 00:24:39,608 GARY: All right. 530 00:24:39,739 --> 00:24:41,480 -Let's see what this one is. -MARTY: People drop things on roads, 531 00:24:41,610 --> 00:24:43,743 and we can search all along 532 00:24:43,873 --> 00:24:45,571 this road if we know where it is. 533 00:24:45,701 --> 00:24:46,789 [device beeping] 534 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,400 GARY: It is just there. 535 00:24:49,531 --> 00:24:51,359 MARTY: We want to see artifacts, 536 00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:54,188 which could reveal its secrets. 537 00:24:59,367 --> 00:25:00,629 See if I've loosened it up in there, bud. 538 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,936 -Okay. -[beeping] 539 00:25:03,066 --> 00:25:05,155 GARY: It's sounding stronger, so we're getting closer to it. 540 00:25:05,286 --> 00:25:07,723 -Pinpointer time. -Yep. 541 00:25:09,986 --> 00:25:11,510 GARY: It's... I'm on it. 542 00:25:14,251 --> 00:25:16,819 -Oh, ho, look at that! -MARTY: All right! 543 00:25:16,950 --> 00:25:18,734 -STEVE G.: Oh, there we go. -GARY: Right on the road! 544 00:25:23,609 --> 00:25:24,697 Oh, look at this. 545 00:25:24,827 --> 00:25:26,916 [laughs]: It's an ox shoe. 546 00:25:27,047 --> 00:25:28,657 -All right, a find! -Oh, there we go. -Right on the road! 547 00:25:28,788 --> 00:25:30,050 What is it I always say, mate? 548 00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:32,705 Sometimes you get a nice surprise. 549 00:25:32,835 --> 00:25:35,708 NARRATOR: On Lot 15, between the swamp and the Money Pit, 550 00:25:35,838 --> 00:25:40,713 Marty Lagina, Gary Drayton and Steve Guptill have just found 551 00:25:40,843 --> 00:25:42,453 a potentially significant clue 552 00:25:42,584 --> 00:25:45,718 along the mysterious stone pathway. 553 00:25:45,848 --> 00:25:48,764 Yeah, that is brilliant. And it's an oldie by the look of it. 554 00:25:48,895 --> 00:25:52,246 -STEVE G.: How old? Do you know? -I have no idea. 555 00:25:52,376 --> 00:25:54,509 Something serious went on here. 556 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,293 Something requiring lots of oxen. 557 00:25:56,424 --> 00:25:58,208 Yeah. 558 00:25:58,339 --> 00:25:59,949 MARTY: What were a bunch of oxen doing out here? 559 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,255 -They weren't farming. -GARY: Exactly. 560 00:26:01,385 --> 00:26:02,909 There's no way they were farming. 561 00:26:03,039 --> 00:26:05,128 [chuckles] It's just not possible. 562 00:26:05,259 --> 00:26:07,174 RICK: Check that out. The top of a keg. 563 00:26:07,304 --> 00:26:09,524 NARRATOR: One year ago, while investigating 564 00:26:09,655 --> 00:26:11,526 the stone road in the swamp, 565 00:26:11,657 --> 00:26:13,876 the team found pieces of 14th-century 566 00:26:14,007 --> 00:26:17,401 wooden keg barrels and iron ring bolts, 567 00:26:17,532 --> 00:26:20,535 offering evidence of cargo being hauled from the swamp 568 00:26:20,666 --> 00:26:23,451 to somewhere on the island. 569 00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:25,409 -MARTY: A road ox shoe. -GARY: Yeah. 570 00:26:25,540 --> 00:26:26,889 -Yep. -That's why it's here. 571 00:26:27,020 --> 00:26:28,499 It couldn't sink any deeper 572 00:26:28,630 --> 00:26:30,763 'cause of the rocks that were put here. 573 00:26:30,893 --> 00:26:32,503 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the team has now uncovered 574 00:26:32,634 --> 00:26:35,202 the pathway used in that operation? 575 00:26:35,332 --> 00:26:38,248 And if so, could it prove to be leading 576 00:26:38,379 --> 00:26:40,468 to the original Money Pit? 577 00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:43,950 GARY: If you're hauling treasure up to the Money Pit, 578 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,257 you would use a very large animal, 579 00:26:47,388 --> 00:26:51,479 uh, with a big ox shoe on it like this for hauling. 580 00:26:53,133 --> 00:26:55,178 So, that leaves us with more evidence 581 00:26:55,309 --> 00:26:58,486 as to what massive undertaking occurred here. 582 00:26:58,617 --> 00:27:00,619 We're running out of daylight. I say we call it a day. 583 00:27:00,749 --> 00:27:02,403 You got to get your equipment up there, Gary. 584 00:27:02,533 --> 00:27:04,492 GARY: Brilliant. A great find to end the day. 585 00:27:04,623 --> 00:27:05,754 -MARTY: Yeah. -See you later, chaps. 586 00:27:05,885 --> 00:27:07,103 STEVE G.: Great find, Gary. 587 00:27:16,896 --> 00:27:18,941 MARTY: Hey, Craig. 588 00:27:19,072 --> 00:27:21,030 -CRAIG: Hello. -I see our old friend the rig is back. 589 00:27:21,161 --> 00:27:23,032 Yep. 590 00:27:23,163 --> 00:27:25,687 NARRATOR: ...after the departure of representatives 591 00:27:25,818 --> 00:27:29,038 from Irving Equipment Limited and ROC Equipment, 592 00:27:29,169 --> 00:27:32,041 Marty Lagina arrives in the Money Pit area 593 00:27:32,172 --> 00:27:34,870 as the team from Choice Drilling has begun 594 00:27:35,001 --> 00:27:36,698 putting down the boreholes for the upcoming 595 00:27:36,829 --> 00:27:40,049 muon tomography scanning operation. 596 00:27:40,180 --> 00:27:41,747 Tell me a couple things-- how many wells 597 00:27:41,877 --> 00:27:43,357 are we going to drill around here 598 00:27:43,487 --> 00:27:45,664 -so we can see this whole area? -CRAIG: Uh, 599 00:27:45,794 --> 00:27:48,623 five in the Money Pit, one in... right in the very heart of it, 600 00:27:48,754 --> 00:27:51,191 and four on the outside-- north, south, east and west. 601 00:27:51,321 --> 00:27:53,715 We should be able to see by springtime 602 00:27:53,846 --> 00:27:56,805 any high-density treasure. 603 00:27:58,807 --> 00:28:01,723 Something a little farther away, partially collapsed tunnels, 604 00:28:01,854 --> 00:28:04,073 -it's gonna take longer. -All right, well, 605 00:28:04,204 --> 00:28:05,771 I'll try and set up a meeting in the war room. 606 00:28:05,901 --> 00:28:07,860 We need to kind of go over all of this stuff. 607 00:28:07,990 --> 00:28:10,036 And then maybe talk about, you know, 608 00:28:10,166 --> 00:28:11,820 where we're at and where we're going. 609 00:28:11,951 --> 00:28:13,474 -Okay. Sounds good. -All right. You carry on, bud. 610 00:28:13,604 --> 00:28:16,042 -Yep. -Go, muons. 611 00:28:20,829 --> 00:28:22,744 NARRATOR: Later that afternoon... 612 00:28:24,398 --> 00:28:25,921 MARTY: Gentlemen. 613 00:28:26,052 --> 00:28:27,270 Welcome, all. 614 00:28:27,401 --> 00:28:29,011 The Fellowship of the Dig assembles 615 00:28:29,142 --> 00:28:30,665 for the final time this year. 616 00:28:30,796 --> 00:28:32,711 NARRATOR: ...Rick, Marty and Craig 617 00:28:32,841 --> 00:28:35,017 have gathered their team 618 00:28:35,148 --> 00:28:37,150 to take stock of the year they have spent together 619 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,067 working to solve the Oak Island mystery. 620 00:28:41,197 --> 00:28:43,634 And the purpose of this meeting is basically to just make sure, 621 00:28:43,765 --> 00:28:46,594 as we go our separate ways for this season, 622 00:28:46,725 --> 00:28:48,683 that everybody's on the same page. 623 00:28:48,814 --> 00:28:51,077 Uh, we had super high hopes. 624 00:28:51,207 --> 00:28:53,122 We were digging this year, I'd say, 625 00:28:53,253 --> 00:28:56,691 more for treasure than we have ever before. 626 00:28:57,823 --> 00:28:59,563 We've done an awful lot. 627 00:28:59,694 --> 00:29:02,436 This table is testament to all of the finds 628 00:29:02,566 --> 00:29:06,353 and all of the clues that we've been pursuing all these years. 629 00:29:08,007 --> 00:29:09,225 RICK: Gaze at the table. 630 00:29:09,356 --> 00:29:11,924 I mean, we've made progress. 631 00:29:12,054 --> 00:29:14,709 There is information in front of us, and we need to digest it. 632 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,102 We need to understand it. 633 00:29:17,625 --> 00:29:19,583 STEVE G.: It was on this day a year ago 634 00:29:19,714 --> 00:29:22,369 I talked about having a big year and we found 700 artifacts. 635 00:29:22,499 --> 00:29:24,501 Well, we've pushed that number to about a thousand this year. 636 00:29:24,632 --> 00:29:26,286 -MARTY: Wow. -CRAIG: It just seems like 637 00:29:26,416 --> 00:29:28,854 there's been a lot of information found, 638 00:29:28,984 --> 00:29:31,421 but there's a tremendous amount to go yet. 639 00:29:31,552 --> 00:29:33,075 -Yep. -MARTY: Right. 640 00:29:33,206 --> 00:29:34,642 Okay, where do we dig? 641 00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:37,253 [laughter] 642 00:29:37,384 --> 00:29:39,690 What are we gonna do next? 643 00:29:39,821 --> 00:29:41,910 -What say you, Rick? -RICK: Everybody knows 644 00:29:42,041 --> 00:29:44,130 that I've always been fascinated with the swamp. 645 00:29:44,260 --> 00:29:46,393 I-I... I think there are answers there. 646 00:29:46,523 --> 00:29:49,178 -I've always thought that. -Yeah. 647 00:29:49,309 --> 00:29:50,919 DOUG: The swamp truly is a time capsule, though. 648 00:29:51,050 --> 00:29:52,921 I mean, look at the dates on the wood we've gotten. 649 00:29:53,052 --> 00:29:54,836 Mm-hmm. 650 00:29:54,967 --> 00:29:56,882 GARY: Oh, that's interesting. 651 00:29:57,012 --> 00:29:58,971 -What do you have? -We don't know, mate. 652 00:29:59,101 --> 00:30:00,842 Some kind of wooden plug. 653 00:30:00,973 --> 00:30:02,539 NARRATOR: Over the past year... 654 00:30:02,670 --> 00:30:04,672 RICK: Look at this. 655 00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:06,195 NARRATOR: ...no location on Oak Island proved 656 00:30:06,326 --> 00:30:07,936 to contain more clues and evidence 657 00:30:08,067 --> 00:30:09,764 of man-made workings 658 00:30:09,895 --> 00:30:11,810 predating the discovery of the Money Pit 659 00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:14,160 than the triangle-shaped swamp. 660 00:30:14,290 --> 00:30:15,509 JACK: Yeah, it's cut to a point! 661 00:30:15,639 --> 00:30:16,945 NARRATOR: Near the southern border 662 00:30:17,076 --> 00:30:19,382 of the brackish bog, 663 00:30:19,513 --> 00:30:21,558 in addition to a number of survey stakes 664 00:30:21,689 --> 00:30:24,953 potentially dating back more than four centuries, 665 00:30:25,084 --> 00:30:27,608 the team unearthed numerous wooden artifacts 666 00:30:27,738 --> 00:30:30,785 believed to have come from ancient sailing vessels. 667 00:30:30,916 --> 00:30:32,787 One time frame. 668 00:30:32,918 --> 00:30:37,226 -224 to 376 A.D. -ALEX: Wow. 669 00:30:37,357 --> 00:30:40,055 NARRATOR: While some where carbon-dated to the late 17th century, 670 00:30:40,186 --> 00:30:42,623 a section of possible deck planking 671 00:30:42,753 --> 00:30:46,105 could go back more than 1,000 years earlier. 672 00:30:46,235 --> 00:30:49,108 -What you got? -I have a piece of pottery. 673 00:30:49,238 --> 00:30:51,937 NARRATOR: However, after the team unearthed 674 00:30:52,067 --> 00:30:54,504 a mysterious stone path near the stone road 675 00:30:54,635 --> 00:30:58,421 in the southeastern corner, archaeologist Laird Niven 676 00:30:58,552 --> 00:31:01,468 discovered ancient indigenous Mi'kmaq pottery, 677 00:31:01,598 --> 00:31:05,385 which triggered an unforeseen and shocking response 678 00:31:05,515 --> 00:31:07,778 from the provincial government. 679 00:31:07,909 --> 00:31:10,738 The archaeologists asked that we stop down. 680 00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:12,783 MARTY: Our ability to work 681 00:31:12,914 --> 00:31:14,437 and function on our own island is getting eroded 682 00:31:14,568 --> 00:31:16,396 in leaps and bounds. 683 00:31:16,526 --> 00:31:19,790 Well, I-I think we did extremely well 684 00:31:19,921 --> 00:31:21,923 with the cards we were dealt with this year. 685 00:31:22,054 --> 00:31:25,057 -We have a road that we don't know where it started. -Yeah. 686 00:31:25,187 --> 00:31:27,537 Well, bureaucracy is holding us back. 687 00:31:27,668 --> 00:31:30,062 That was the most promising area, wasn't it? 688 00:31:30,192 --> 00:31:32,064 -The southeast corner? -IAN: It's closest to the Money Pit. 689 00:31:32,194 --> 00:31:33,630 It's right by the road. 690 00:31:33,761 --> 00:31:36,068 And I think there was a ton of promise. 691 00:31:36,198 --> 00:31:39,027 So for me, it was also a disappointment 692 00:31:39,158 --> 00:31:42,335 that we couldn't continue the work that was very carefully 693 00:31:42,465 --> 00:31:44,641 and very respectfully-- to history-- being done. 694 00:31:44,772 --> 00:31:46,905 Yeah. 695 00:31:47,035 --> 00:31:51,257 So, I hope we can move forward with the work we've been doing. 696 00:31:51,387 --> 00:31:53,085 -Yeah. -MARTY: Laird, are we gonna 697 00:31:53,215 --> 00:31:54,869 get relief on this issue? 698 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,219 I don't really hold out a bunch of hope 699 00:31:57,350 --> 00:31:59,178 that that's going to happen. 700 00:31:59,308 --> 00:32:02,442 No? Really? You think, six months from now, 701 00:32:02,572 --> 00:32:05,184 we'll still be off-limits down in that southeast corner? 702 00:32:05,314 --> 00:32:09,188 Uh, you know, I don't know which way it's gonna go. 703 00:32:09,318 --> 00:32:10,450 Oh, boy. 704 00:32:17,457 --> 00:32:19,372 NARRATOR: In the war room, 705 00:32:19,502 --> 00:32:21,504 as Rick, Marty, Craig and the rest 706 00:32:21,635 --> 00:32:23,463 of the Oak Island team contemplate 707 00:32:23,593 --> 00:32:25,334 the future of their quest to solve 708 00:32:25,465 --> 00:32:28,120 the 227-year-old treasure mystery... 709 00:32:28,250 --> 00:32:30,861 I'm not that optimistic. 710 00:32:30,992 --> 00:32:32,472 NARRATOR: ...archaeologist Laird Niven 711 00:32:32,602 --> 00:32:35,127 has just shared his concern 712 00:32:35,257 --> 00:32:38,130 that key areas of interest in the triangle-shaped swamp 713 00:32:38,260 --> 00:32:41,437 could remain off-limits in the coming year. 714 00:32:41,568 --> 00:32:44,484 LAIRD: Hopefully, we'll have an opportunity 715 00:32:44,614 --> 00:32:47,313 to suggest radical changes. 716 00:32:47,443 --> 00:32:50,011 -Yeah. -What would our proposal be? 717 00:32:50,142 --> 00:32:52,361 -Just go back to what we were doing, right? -LAIRD: Yeah, 718 00:32:52,492 --> 00:32:54,146 and trust that we know what we're doing. 719 00:32:54,276 --> 00:32:55,712 There you go. Yep. 720 00:32:55,843 --> 00:32:58,193 BILLY: You know, for me, I have hope 721 00:32:58,324 --> 00:32:59,412 because the premier came to the island. 722 00:32:59,542 --> 00:33:00,848 -Yeah. -Mm-hmm. 723 00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:03,764 We have a commitment to meet with, 724 00:33:03,894 --> 00:33:05,722 you know, new management and new government at CCH, 725 00:33:05,853 --> 00:33:08,116 and I-I have... I have great hope going forward. 726 00:33:08,247 --> 00:33:09,248 So do I. 727 00:33:09,378 --> 00:33:11,032 Yeah. 728 00:33:11,163 --> 00:33:12,903 MARTY: This is the fabled Money Pit. 729 00:33:13,034 --> 00:33:14,557 NARRATOR: Earlier this year, 730 00:33:14,688 --> 00:33:16,603 after the Provincial Department 731 00:33:16,733 --> 00:33:19,040 of Community, Culture and Heritage 732 00:33:19,171 --> 00:33:21,825 restricted the team's search activities in the swamp... 733 00:33:21,956 --> 00:33:23,653 -CAROL: Wow. -MARTY: Those are something, aren't they? 734 00:33:23,784 --> 00:33:25,829 -[laughter] -A little big. 735 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,962 NARRATOR: ...Billy Gerhardt arranged for the newly elected 736 00:33:28,093 --> 00:33:30,921 premier of Nova Scotia Tim Houston 737 00:33:31,052 --> 00:33:34,534 and his wife Carol to visit Oak Island. 738 00:33:34,664 --> 00:33:37,493 Anything that's worth doing is worth doing right and, uh... 739 00:33:37,624 --> 00:33:39,408 -Agree. -...and you guys are doing it right. 740 00:33:39,539 --> 00:33:42,281 -We're trying very hard. -Yeah, I feel that way. 741 00:33:42,411 --> 00:33:44,587 NARRATOR: Although no guarantees were made 742 00:33:44,718 --> 00:33:46,633 about lifting any restrictions 743 00:33:46,763 --> 00:33:49,418 that have been imposed on the team's search agenda, 744 00:33:49,549 --> 00:33:53,031 Premier and Mrs. Houston offered support for the quest 745 00:33:53,161 --> 00:33:56,034 and acknowledged how it has positively impacted 746 00:33:56,164 --> 00:33:58,210 the province of Nova Scotia. 747 00:33:58,340 --> 00:34:00,255 It's a big thing that's happening here, 748 00:34:00,386 --> 00:34:01,691 and I think it's gonna have a happy ending. 749 00:34:01,822 --> 00:34:02,910 RICK: I hope so. 750 00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:05,521 [laughter] 751 00:34:05,652 --> 00:34:07,436 RICK: Like Billy, I hold out great hope. 752 00:34:07,567 --> 00:34:10,874 We need to get in a room with CCH 753 00:34:11,005 --> 00:34:13,616 and have a very frank and proper discussion. 754 00:34:13,747 --> 00:34:16,315 And I think we're-we're close to doing that. 755 00:34:16,445 --> 00:34:18,186 And I really am quite positive about that. 756 00:34:18,317 --> 00:34:20,797 -Yeah. -MARTY: All right. 757 00:34:20,928 --> 00:34:22,538 So there's hope for the swamp. Oh, good. 758 00:34:22,669 --> 00:34:24,323 -Yay. I'm happy. -Yay. 759 00:34:24,453 --> 00:34:26,716 [laughter] 760 00:34:26,847 --> 00:34:28,675 I hate that thing. 761 00:34:28,805 --> 00:34:30,198 GARY: And treasure's where you find it. 762 00:34:30,329 --> 00:34:31,765 I mean, look at the table. 763 00:34:31,895 --> 00:34:33,854 These finds are from all over the island. 764 00:34:33,984 --> 00:34:36,030 -MARTY: Yep. -GARY: All these artifacts-- 765 00:34:36,161 --> 00:34:39,729 bona fide artifacts-- because we've been searching 766 00:34:39,860 --> 00:34:42,384 for anomalies on different lots, 767 00:34:42,515 --> 00:34:45,300 Lot 8, Lot 4. 768 00:34:45,431 --> 00:34:47,433 Some of my favorite finds have come off the western side. 769 00:34:47,563 --> 00:34:49,130 Yes. 770 00:34:49,261 --> 00:34:50,958 CRAIG: It's right in through here. 771 00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:52,568 -I'll lead the way. -All right. 772 00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:55,180 NARRATOR: This year, Rick, Marty and Craig 773 00:34:55,310 --> 00:34:57,312 commissioned a magnetometer survey 774 00:34:57,443 --> 00:34:59,488 across the western side of Oak Island 775 00:34:59,619 --> 00:35:01,708 in an attempt to locate the so-called 776 00:35:01,838 --> 00:35:03,579 Hole Under the Hatch, 777 00:35:03,710 --> 00:35:07,105 a site marked on a believed 14th-century map 778 00:35:07,235 --> 00:35:09,977 that the late author and researcher Zena Halpern 779 00:35:10,108 --> 00:35:13,894 believed to have been created by members of the Knights Templar. 780 00:35:15,330 --> 00:35:18,159 The data revealed two compelling anomalies. 781 00:35:18,290 --> 00:35:21,510 The first was on Lot 4, where the team would unearth 782 00:35:21,641 --> 00:35:23,643 a number of compelling clues, 783 00:35:23,773 --> 00:35:28,038 including copper sheathing from a possible treasure chest 784 00:35:28,169 --> 00:35:30,476 and a fragment of a cannon that chemist 785 00:35:30,606 --> 00:35:35,133 Dr. Christa Brosseau believes could be of Portuguese origin. 786 00:35:35,263 --> 00:35:39,093 The second anomaly was located on Lot 8, 787 00:35:39,224 --> 00:35:42,140 a lot that Freemason Scott Clarke suggested 788 00:35:42,270 --> 00:35:45,143 may have once been the site of Masonic rituals 789 00:35:45,273 --> 00:35:48,233 memorializing the burial of holy Templar treasures 790 00:35:48,363 --> 00:35:51,236 believed to be buried on Oak Island. 791 00:35:51,366 --> 00:35:54,108 JACK: If we explore Lot 4 further, 792 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,329 we might actually, really discover where the hatch is. 793 00:35:57,459 --> 00:36:00,549 But we haven't cleared the lots well enough yet 794 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,595 to allow metal detectors and other technologies 795 00:36:02,725 --> 00:36:04,466 to go in there. 796 00:36:04,597 --> 00:36:06,425 -MARTY: That would be a project for next year. -Yeah. 797 00:36:06,555 --> 00:36:09,341 MARTY: And there's the Lot 15 road 798 00:36:09,471 --> 00:36:11,517 to put on the agenda for whenever 799 00:36:11,647 --> 00:36:13,693 -we gear back up. -SCOTT: Yeah. 800 00:36:13,823 --> 00:36:15,390 Yeah, in regards to that lot 15 road, 801 00:36:15,521 --> 00:36:18,567 -my thought goes to the road in Portugal. -Yeah. 802 00:36:19,916 --> 00:36:23,442 RICK: It does look like the stone road. 803 00:36:23,572 --> 00:36:26,096 That type of technique has survived, 804 00:36:26,227 --> 00:36:29,839 certainly in Portugal, for generations. 805 00:36:29,970 --> 00:36:35,367 And to me, this Portugal trip, it presented another culture 806 00:36:35,497 --> 00:36:39,501 that might explain what happened here on Oak Island long ago. 807 00:36:39,632 --> 00:36:42,156 ALEX: When you ask yourself, who was responsible 808 00:36:42,287 --> 00:36:45,072 for what happened or may have happened on Oak Island, 809 00:36:45,203 --> 00:36:48,249 the Portuguese have to be on there, 810 00:36:48,380 --> 00:36:50,599 -on the list of suspects. -Yeah. 811 00:36:50,730 --> 00:36:52,210 -Mm-hmm. -ALEX: It's not impossible 812 00:36:52,340 --> 00:36:55,561 that the Knights Templar or a group 813 00:36:55,691 --> 00:36:58,085 that traced their lineage through the Knights Templar, 814 00:36:58,216 --> 00:37:00,348 through the Order of Christ, came here 815 00:37:00,479 --> 00:37:02,089 with something important that they wanted to hide. 816 00:37:07,834 --> 00:37:09,879 RICK: I don't think anybody can deny the fact 817 00:37:10,010 --> 00:37:12,665 that the Portuguese, they were here in the area. 818 00:37:12,795 --> 00:37:14,449 Oh, yeah. True. 819 00:37:14,580 --> 00:37:16,538 DOUG: The Portuguese, 820 00:37:16,669 --> 00:37:21,108 they are a very likely suspect 821 00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,197 for involvement here on the island. 822 00:37:23,328 --> 00:37:26,418 They were in the neighborhood probably earlier 823 00:37:26,548 --> 00:37:28,420 -than most other countries... -Mm. 824 00:37:28,550 --> 00:37:30,160 ...at a very early date. 825 00:37:30,291 --> 00:37:31,510 BILLY: When you think about it, if you're... 826 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,163 if you got this most valuable treasure 827 00:37:33,294 --> 00:37:34,861 in the world, you're gonna put it on your ship, 828 00:37:34,991 --> 00:37:36,819 you'd want to go somewhere that you'd know, right? 829 00:37:36,950 --> 00:37:37,907 Yes. 830 00:37:38,038 --> 00:37:39,300 You look at these things 831 00:37:39,431 --> 00:37:41,259 on the table in front of us, 832 00:37:41,389 --> 00:37:43,826 they all tell the story. 833 00:37:43,957 --> 00:37:46,133 NARRATOR: With the discoveries that the team has made 834 00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:49,092 in recent years across the island, 835 00:37:49,223 --> 00:37:51,791 from the stone-paved area in the middle of the swamp, 836 00:37:51,921 --> 00:37:55,490 which could date to 1200 A.D., 837 00:37:55,621 --> 00:37:58,188 and the 500-year or older stone road 838 00:37:58,319 --> 00:38:00,843 in the swamp's southeastern corner, 839 00:38:00,974 --> 00:38:06,806 along with the discoveries on Lots 4, 8 and 15, 840 00:38:06,936 --> 00:38:09,896 could the team finally be zeroing in 841 00:38:10,026 --> 00:38:13,769 on just who was behind the Oak Island mystery? 842 00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:17,599 If so, then what is it that was so ingeniously hidden 843 00:38:17,730 --> 00:38:20,428 deep in the Money Pit? 844 00:38:20,559 --> 00:38:22,604 There is a nice progression here, 845 00:38:22,735 --> 00:38:23,910 at least in terms of metals. 846 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:25,825 I mean, lead... 847 00:38:27,130 --> 00:38:29,437 ...copper, silver, in the water. 848 00:38:29,568 --> 00:38:33,963 And then, early this spring, gold in the water. 849 00:38:34,094 --> 00:38:38,620 And then, later on in the year, gold out of the Money Pit. 850 00:38:38,751 --> 00:38:41,188 And those trace elements of gold 851 00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:42,711 on those pieces of metal, mate, 852 00:38:42,842 --> 00:38:44,887 they're just our starting pistol. 853 00:38:45,018 --> 00:38:47,237 It's down there. 854 00:38:47,368 --> 00:38:49,196 We just got to put our hands on it. 855 00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:52,155 [laughter] 856 00:38:52,286 --> 00:38:55,724 RICK: We have a huge opportunity with the muon technology, 857 00:38:55,855 --> 00:38:57,770 which will-- that data will not come in for another 858 00:38:57,900 --> 00:38:59,902 -seven or eight months. -JACK: We got to just wait 859 00:39:00,033 --> 00:39:01,948 until the muon collects the data and see 860 00:39:02,078 --> 00:39:03,863 -what's in the Money Pit. -Seems like it. 861 00:39:03,993 --> 00:39:05,212 -Yeah. -SCOTT: Right now, I think 862 00:39:05,343 --> 00:39:06,735 -the muon is the way to go. -Yeah. 863 00:39:06,866 --> 00:39:10,086 RICK: The hope is that the muon, 864 00:39:10,217 --> 00:39:12,132 uh, technology will actually find 865 00:39:12,262 --> 00:39:14,961 a target "treasure" in the Money Pit. 866 00:39:15,091 --> 00:39:17,355 And that-- we can say to ourselves, 867 00:39:17,485 --> 00:39:20,270 "We put a rig or a caisson at that location, 868 00:39:20,401 --> 00:39:22,838 we're going to find the one thing." 869 00:39:22,969 --> 00:39:25,537 Well, I feel better. I don't know about you guys. 870 00:39:25,667 --> 00:39:27,365 DOUG: I will say one thing. 871 00:39:27,495 --> 00:39:29,541 I feel very fortunate to be able to participate with you all 872 00:39:29,671 --> 00:39:31,107 in a world-class mystery, so... 873 00:39:31,238 --> 00:39:33,327 -IAN: Hear, hear. -No question about it. 874 00:39:33,458 --> 00:39:34,720 -Definitely. -Yeah. 875 00:39:34,850 --> 00:39:36,286 For me... 876 00:39:38,985 --> 00:39:41,509 ...it's been an absolute pleasure and a, and a... 877 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,555 uh... 878 00:39:43,685 --> 00:39:45,948 I owe everyone a sincere thank-you 879 00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:48,429 for continuing to stay involved 880 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,127 in what I have always thought since we were little kids. 881 00:39:51,258 --> 00:39:53,260 This is a wonderful story, a wonderful mystery, 882 00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:55,871 and it has only gotten better because of all of you. 883 00:39:56,002 --> 00:39:58,874 And now it's inspirational. 884 00:39:59,005 --> 00:40:00,920 That's real treasure. 885 00:40:01,050 --> 00:40:02,748 And I am grateful for the experience. 886 00:40:02,878 --> 00:40:04,532 And I thank you all for it. 887 00:40:05,925 --> 00:40:07,448 And then he makes me follow that. 888 00:40:07,579 --> 00:40:10,016 -I mean, come on. -[laughter] 889 00:40:10,146 --> 00:40:12,540 No, look, here's... I would just say, 890 00:40:12,671 --> 00:40:17,545 we didn't win this year, but we can no longer lose. 891 00:40:17,676 --> 00:40:19,939 It's not possible to lose anymore because... 892 00:40:21,549 --> 00:40:23,116 ...there's gold on Oak Island. 893 00:40:23,246 --> 00:40:24,639 There's gold in the Money Pit. 894 00:40:24,770 --> 00:40:27,163 We ain't gonna give up. It's down there. 895 00:40:27,294 --> 00:40:29,209 -We're gonna find it. -MARTY: Yeah. 896 00:40:29,339 --> 00:40:31,603 We got a good thing going, and we need to think about it 897 00:40:31,733 --> 00:40:34,083 and advance the ball next year. 898 00:40:34,214 --> 00:40:35,694 -Hear, hear. Yep. -Yes. 899 00:40:35,824 --> 00:40:37,522 -Shall we? -Cheers. 900 00:40:37,652 --> 00:40:38,740 NARRATOR: When they were just boys, 901 00:40:38,871 --> 00:40:41,221 Rick and Marty Lagina 902 00:40:41,351 --> 00:40:43,571 dreamed about a legendary treasure 903 00:40:43,702 --> 00:40:46,444 buried deep in the Money Pit on Oak Island. 904 00:40:48,707 --> 00:40:52,580 As grown men, the fact that so many capable searchers 905 00:40:52,711 --> 00:40:55,583 had tried for more than two centuries to find it 906 00:40:55,714 --> 00:40:59,631 inspired the brothers to take a chance themselves. 907 00:40:59,761 --> 00:41:01,589 -ALEX: See you. -MARTY: Gary, bud. 908 00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:04,592 -[laughter] -See you. 909 00:41:04,723 --> 00:41:07,508 Till next year. Charles. And Billy. 910 00:41:07,639 --> 00:41:11,773 NARRATOR: And now, after more than a decade of tireless work 911 00:41:11,904 --> 00:41:14,341 with the help of their dedicated team... 912 00:41:14,472 --> 00:41:16,474 -Keep the faith, guys. -We will. 913 00:41:16,604 --> 00:41:19,607 ...they have not only proven that the Oak Island mystery 914 00:41:19,738 --> 00:41:23,785 is more profound than anyone ever thought possible 915 00:41:23,916 --> 00:41:26,701 but are closer than anyone who came before them 916 00:41:26,832 --> 00:41:28,747 to finally recovering the treasure. 917 00:41:28,877 --> 00:41:30,488 MARTY: Honestly, I feel better 918 00:41:30,618 --> 00:41:32,446 about this whole thing than I ever have. 919 00:41:32,577 --> 00:41:34,143 There's no way to say we were on a wild-goose chase, 920 00:41:34,274 --> 00:41:35,841 because we can prove, 921 00:41:35,971 --> 00:41:38,713 for sure, that there's gold down there. 922 00:41:38,844 --> 00:41:40,498 RICK: Now the hunt for information 923 00:41:40,628 --> 00:41:42,195 is every bit as important. 924 00:41:42,325 --> 00:41:44,632 And it will ultimately, hopefully, 925 00:41:44,763 --> 00:41:45,807 yield results. 926 00:41:45,938 --> 00:41:47,679 It will find what we seek. 927 00:41:52,074 --> 00:41:54,903 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS