Narrator: Tonight on the curse of oak island...
Steve g.: This is the lidar anomaly.
-Rick: That's incredible. -Marty: Let's dig it up.
Ooh! Look at that.
-Laird: Looks like a handle. -Jack: To a chest?
Gary: Ooh! That's fantastic.
Rick: Get us down there.
There's gonna be some answers
At the bottom of that shaft.
Oh! We clipped the edge of a beam.
This might be completely unknown.
Marty: At 70 feet, it almost has to be an offset chamber.
The sample came out to be pre-searcher time period.
Narrator: There is an island in the north atlantic
Where people have been looking for
An incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
So far, they have found a stone slab
With strange symbols carved into it...
...Man-made workings that date to medieval times,
And a lead cross whose origin may be connected
To the knights templar.
To date, six men have died
Trying to solve the mystery.
And according to legend,
One more will have to die
Before the treasure can be found.
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Narrator: Another historic day has arrived on oak island.
-Oh, there they are. -Yep.
Narrator: One that marks the beginning
Of an exciting new chapter
For brothers rick and marty lagina
-And their team... -Rick: Gentlemen.
Welcome to the island.
Narrator: ...In a quest to locate
The original money pit,
And finally solve a 227-year-old treasure mystery.
I'm sure you guys are anxious to get to work,
So if you'll follow us, we'll take you up to the money pit.
Al: We'll follow you.
Narrator: Today,
They are welcoming representatives
From dumas contracting limited, a company
That specializes in mining construction,
To begin rebuilding the so-called "garden shaft."
Rick: Well, guys.
Let me show you the garden shaft.
It's right this way.
Narrator: Located on the eastern edge
Of the money pit area,
The ten-by-ten-foot diameter garden shaft was
Uncovered by the team back in 2017.
Okay, that would be probably be the outside wall there.
Narrator: Although they first believed it had been built
In the 1800s by previous treasure hunters,
Recent wood samples taken some 80 feet deep
Have been scientifically dated to 1735,
Over half a century before the money pit was discovered.
Ian: We've sampled wells within the money pit area,
And we do have some chemistry back from this.
Narrator: And just three weeks ago,
After conducting scientific analysis
Of the water flooding the shaft,
Geoscientist dr. Ian spooner
Made an extraordinary revelation.
Ian: We found, uh,
Gold in, uh, the garden shaft.
(laughter)
I have the data up on the screen.
Narrator: Additionally,
Recent core-drilling nearby
Has revealed a tunnel some 103 feet deep
That appears to be leading toward the shaft, as well.
Steve g.: It does point just west a few feet of the garden shaft.
This is the garden shaft.
So, scott, you can tell the guys why the shaft is of interest.
Scott: Well, one of the big reasons,
We started a program last year, water testing.
As you can see, it's always had a body of water in it,
So we captured some of that water,
And it tested high for gold.
-All right. -Scott: So, it's definitely worth exploring.
Rick: To me, the most interesting thing about this shaft is
That there very possibly could be a tunnel at the bottom
Of that shaft, which still might be available to enter.
So, there's some information down that hole,
And we would like you to provide access to it
Because we really think
That there's gonna be some answers there,
But what we need to understand is
What's the plan here? How do we approach this?
How do you approach this?
I think, right now, we're-- we've got a bunch
Of engineering m-- done up here to
Make a-a cap on top and-and start from the top down,
And we can start moving, uh, some of the dirt
And, uh, rehabbing the shaft,
Making it safe for everybody.
Narrator: Over the course of the next two months,
The team from dumas will drain and excavate the old shaft
And then install a new, waterproof wooden structure,
Reaching a planned depth of at least 80 feet.
If evidence of tunnels or voids are encountered
As the work progresses deeper and deeper underground,
The team can also tunnel out laterally from the main shaft.
Rick: We'll be underground in the money pit
For the very first time.
I mean, that's important.
Rehabbing the garden shaft
Provides some very unique opportunities
To further explore that area.
You guys are the eyes and boots component of this
Maybe history-making agenda.
Marty: There are high concentrations of gold
In the garden shaft,
And, amazingly, the garden shaft
May be
Where the treasure actually is.
Get us down there.
Figure out what it is.
You guys are the company
-That's gonna make this happen. -Al: And we can't wait
To get down there and get our, get our hands dirty
And-and get you some answers.
Rick: I'm looking forward to getting started,
And if you ever need an extra hand when you get down there,
My arm goes up.
-(laughter) -rick: So, again,
Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.
Let's get to the bottom of this. What do you say? We all in?
-Others: We're all in. -Okay. Let's do it.
-Yeah, let's get after. -Do it. Yeah.
Narrator: As operations get under way
At the garden shaft,
Rick lagina heads
Just 60 feet to the south.
-Charles: Hey, rick. -Morning, guys.
-How're you doing? -Good.
-How are you? -Good. -Not too bad.
Where are we?
Can you point out the location?
This one right here, rick.
And here we are down here in the l-16.
Narrator: Here, geologist terry matheson
And oak island historian charles barkhouse
Are supervising the drilling
Of a borehole known as l-16.
A borehole where the team is conducting
New water sample testing
In order to confirm dr. Spooner's findings
That gold could be buried in the garden shaft area,
As well as additional evidence of the believed tunnel
Some 103 feet deep.
What's happening?
We're down about 108, and when we were just reviewing the core,
Just a normal logging, we came across
-A little chunk of wood, just kind of unexpectedly. -All right.
Rick: What was the depth of this?
106.5 to 107. Right in there.
It was in situ ground above, and in situ ground below.
At this point, we're thinking another tunnel.
(chuckles)
-Rick: There you go. -Narrator: Wood?
Discovered in situ,
Meaning in undisturbed ground,
At a depth of approximately 106 feet?
If so, is it possible
That the team has encountered another section
Of the tunnel they recently discovered,
Which may potentially lead toward the garden shaft?
Almost every time we drill anywhere near the money pit,
Something pops up that we didn't expect.
And here it happened again, part of the tunnel.
So, what it means has to be figured out.
Not only is it at-at the depth, but
We're in a fairly under-investigated
-Area of the money pit. -Terry: Absolutely.
And because of that,
It's a prime candidate for c-14 testing.
-Oh, for sure. -Rick: 100%
You know, to have
A small chunk of wood
Might provide a very unique
Window of insight
As to what's going on in this area.
-Absolutely. -Yep.
Rick: I think this retrieval of the wood,
Should further our understanding of this area.
We have a unique opportunity to investigate an area
That strongly suggests
Very early activity, if not original depositional work.
And we have to take every advantage of this opportunity.
Water sampling, gold monitoring,
C-14 testing,
Eventually, we'll figure this out.
-Let's see what happens. -Rick: Okay.
-Thanks, guys. -Yep. Take care.
-See you. Take care. -Yep.
Narrator: Later that afternoon...
Rick: Thanks, everybody, for coming.
You know, guys, generally,
When we sit around this war room table,
It's always about new things. You know,
-New information, new data, new discoveries. -Yeah.
Narrator: Rick has gathered in the war room
With dr. Ian spooner
And other members of the team regarding
Another investigation focused nearly a half mile
From the money pit, on the western side of the island.
I've asked ian to
Take a look at the lidar data.
Uh, we wanted to know
-Where the targets are. -Yeah.
-Okay, we'll stand back. -Just stand back, and we'll get going.
Narrator: One week ago,
The team commissioned representatives
From phoenix aerial productions
To conduct a drone-based lidar survey of the entire island.
After making a number of potentially
Pre-16th century discoveries on lots 7 and 8,
Including an ancient barter token
And a bunk hook, designed for hoisting heavy cargo,
The hope was that an extensive geophysical
Survey might reveal more substantial clues,
Such as buried structures or large, valuable objects.
I, like you, this will be a learning experience
Because I'm not aware of what he's exactly found.
Narrator: Now, with his more than 30 years of experience
Studying ground surfaces and differentiating between
Natural and man-made formations,
Dr. Spooner has completed his analysis
Of the lidar survey data.
Ian, you've been kind enough to review the data,
So what've you got?
Ian: So, I took a look at the lidar,
And, in particular, lot 30, uh, jumped out, a feature there,
And, uh, that
I think steve's gonna take us to right now
And see what people think.
Steve g.: Sure.
So, I brought this up first.
So, this was supplied to us from a lidar that they ran.
Uh, you'll notice down here, so it's right in here.
There's the anomaly on lot 30.
It's about 100 by 150 feet.
Ian: Yeah, I'm pretty excited by this.
This is very geometric.
It's not some natural feature.
So, the question is, what is it?
Rick: That's incredibly interesting.
Narrator: In the war room,
Dr. Ian spooner and steve guptill
Are presenting rick and members of the team
With lidar images
Of a potentially important discovery on lot 30,
Located on the western side of oak island.
Ian: So, this is very geometric.
And it deserves, I think, a little bit
O-o-of a more careful look.
Yeah.
Rick: Every one of the experts has said to us,
Look for rectangular features because mother nature
Does not do right angles very well.
Here, we have in front of us a very rectangular feature.
The inference being that's a man-made construct.
Anything man-made on this island should be investigated.
There's no reason not
To try to figure out what it, what it may represent.
Yeah.
-Yeah. -Gary: I like that area
'cause it was kind of opposite
Where the wharf would've been on lot 32,
Where we found a wide variety of metal finds.
-Mm-hmm. -Steve g.: I'm gonna turn off
The lidar just so we can see the image.
Jack: Maybe this is
The camp that the wharf we're looking for
On 32 is associated with.
-Gary: Yeah. -Mm-hmm.
It's really not that far.
Rick: No, it's not. You're right.
Narrator: Over the past two years,
Gary drayton and members of the team have discovered
Abundant evidence of an old ship's wharf
On nearby lot 32,
Which sits only some 200 yards
From the mysterious lidar anomaly on lot 30.
Is it possible, as the team is speculating,
That the two locations are potentially related?
Two big areas, where we've recovered artifacts,
By the shore there on 32 and then just inland.
Steve g.: Yeah.
Makes sense that it could be some kind of camp.
Yeah. Connects.
Gary: We just got to find out when they were
Using that area.
Yeah.
Jack: If this feature's from
The depositors that were using a wharf,
Then I'd say we're the first people that ever came across it.
Surprises abound, and this might be one of them.
Yeah.
Rick: Everything that we talked about
Indicates that that area
Should have an explanation for it, right?
-Yeah. -Rick: So, laird,
-Not to put you on the spot... -(chuckles)
How do we go about investigating this feature?
Laird: I think we come in and do
A small test trench by hand
Across one of the intersections.
I think we take our time and make sure
We get all-all the bases covered.
Gary: And there's actually one area
Close to there that I haven't got into yet,
On lot 32.
Rick: Ian, thank you very much. Appreciate it,
But now it's time to put the eyes and boots on it
-And see what we can discover. -Yep.
Rick: Let's head out back.
Narrator: Following their meeting in the war room,
As operations continue
In the money pit area...
Rick: Anything over there, laird?
Laird: Nope. Not yet.
Just getting below the roots now.
Narrator: Rick lagina and laird niven join
Helen sheldon on lot 30 to begin
Their investigation of the mysterious, buried feature.
What would be better to find: Pottery or glass?
Pottery.
It changed more frequently over time,
So you get a better date off it.
Narrator: Over the course of the coming days,
The team will meticulously excavate a series
Of small square test pits all across the feature
In the hopes of not only identifying what it may be,
But also unearth any important artifacts
Or valuables that it may contain.
In order to completely understand what this is,
I think we need to define this structure.
We need to find artifacts that
Can timeline this structure.
We need to let the discovery activities
That we conduct tell the tale.
It's very gravely-looking gravel.
Rick: It is, yeah.
So, we're close.
Just gonna take a little more work.
Narrator: As rick, laird, and helen
Begin investigating the feature on lot 30...
...Approximately 200 yards to the east,
Gary drayton and jack begley
Arrive on lot 32.
-You go first, gary. -All right, mate.
Lead us to the treasure.
Narrator: Here, they will search for additional clues
In the area where they previously discovered
Evidence of an ancient ship's wharf.
What we'll do, we'll go in lines.
We'll go along the shoreline and come back down.
-Make sure we cover everything. -Yeah.
Gary: Right,
Let's see if we can get lucky.
Ooh, I can hear some little chittery-chattery.
I'm looking for good, two-way
Repeatable signals,
Like that.
Yeah, this one's got to come out.
Let me try pinpointing it for you, mate.
(detector squeals)
-It's right there. -Right there, mate.
(grunting)
-All right, gary. Work your magic, bud. -Gary: Thank you so much.
There.
-Right in the bottom there. -Yeah.
That's exactly where we thought it was.
That is deep. That's very impressive.
I just hope it's something really old.
Careful, mate. It might be sharp.
What is that?
To me, that looks like
A part of a fire grate.
Whenever you see any pieces of flat iron like this,
And it's got those ridges.
Yeah.
I mean, this could be old, mate.
To me, it looks like 1700s.
Along with a lot of artifacts that we've recovered
Off this lot.
Yeah. I, uh, I agree.
-Let's bag it and tag it and get it tested. -Yeah.
And I'm sure there's some more pieces in there.
Okay, let's double-check then.
-(grunts) -whoo!
Wow, look at that.
-That was a surprise. -Jack: Oh, there's more.
Yeah?
The heck is this?
-That is cool. These look old, mate. -(chuckles)
This is unusual, mate.
These spikes are substantial.
Eh, I don't know if they're fasteners or they're tools,
But, either way mate, there's some oldness here,
-We're holding some ancientness, in our hand. -That's sweet.
-Yeah, you can see, like, the striations on it. -Yeah.
These are really, really cool.
-Fantastic. Feel the weight of those, mate. -Oh, yeah, I'd love to.
Good digging as well.
What I love about these pieces of iron is
They fit in perfectly with the time frame
Of the old wharf, that lead bale seal.
Same time frame
-Or maybe a lot older. -'cause the wharf
-Would've been just right out there, is where we suspect. -Yeah.
Yup.
The deeper we're digging in this hole,
Uh, the more we're finding.
And these two artifacts, they're made of iron,
And anytime you see those striations
Along the shank, then you're talking
About hand-forged iron,
Which is always older.
These are just the type of artifacts
You want to be recovering in an area
Where you think there's a potential old wharf.
So, let's see what else is in there.
So, should we double-check the hole?
Yeah.
All right.
(detector beeping)
-Oh, there's more. -Wow.
Every signal sounds better than the last one.
This is a cool, little area.
Oh, yeah, I'm glad we didn't leave.
Gary: Oh, ho, ho, a screamer!
You can feel it though,
-Can't you? -Jack: Oh, I can see it.
Narrator: On lot 32, located on the western side
Of oak island...
This is like a little pandora's box of iron.
Narrator: ...Gary drayton and jack begley
Have just found a number of potentially important clues.
There we go. Come on.
Whoo!
-(laughs) -look at that one, gary.
That is fantastic.
Jack: That's a hefty spike.
Gary: Oh, wow.
I'm not sure if it's a tool or a wharf pin.
-To me, this reminds me of a wharf pin. -Oh.
It's got that flat head.
It looks like it was made
To be driven into wood.
So, a wharf pin, you mean, to stick two pieces of
-Wharf wood together and hold them? Yeah. -Yeah, exactly.
-I've seen how deep you've been digging, mate. -Definitely.
That's been there one very long time.
-(both laugh) -narrator: Could gary and jack
Be correct that they have found more evidence
Of an ancient wharf?
If so, might it be related to the french cargo
Bag seal found two years ago?
And perhaps, also the large, rectangular anomaly,
Located nearby on lot 30?
This is fantastic, mate.
This is different kinds of artifacts in one small area.
Typically, when you find things
Close together, what-what do you think?
-Are they related? -Yeah.
Normally, I think activity, mate. Work.
'cause this could be a-a loading and unloading zone.
Yeah. Exactly.
This could be, like, a staging point, inland.
Potentially, we could be in an area, there could be
A little encampment here.
With a grouping of finds, that tells me,
It's a place where people
Would've spent some time.
This might be the start
Of something really, really big.
We just might be at the tip of the iceberg.
There could be so much more deeper down,
-As well. -Yeah.
Gary: All right, mate. I'll put it in the bag.
Jack: Mm-hmm.
Narrator: The following morning...
...As preparations for the reconstruction
Of the garden shaft in the money pit area continue...
Oh, look who's here.
Narrator: ...Rick and marty lagina,
Along with their business partner,
Craig tester, arrive at the money pit.
Hey guys, good morning.
-What's going on? -Hey, guys. -Craig. Marty. Rick.
Good to see you.
Narrator: ...After being alerted
To a potentially
Important find in a new borehole
Known as d-17.
Here, they are hoping to continue tracking the path
Of a tunnel discovered one day ago in borehole l-16,
Some 106 feet deep, which they believe may be
Heading toward the garden shaft.
Terry: We've got some interesting stuff in an area
That we've never found things.
D-17,
From 70 to 71.5,
Intersected some wood.
Oh.
-Terry: Relatively shallow. -Charles: Unusually shallow.
It's odd that it's at that depth.
So, it's spread out over quite a bit, and
You can see there's more than just those few little chunks.
We clipped the edge of-- and broke up a beam,
I would say. It seemed to break into
Six blocks that looked just about
Like what you have in your hand there, marty.
Marty: That looks like an old, broken edge.
Craig: Like they caught it, an end
Of a beam or something.
Terry: This is 68 to 72.
That's that section we have there.
Below that, in that same hole, very soft material.
There was no wood left or right of it.
I think we're into another tunnel.
Rick: This might be completely unknown.
Craig: Yeah.
Well, this is a new find.
It's a good indication that
We've got, you know, something going on in this area.
Right.
This presents another unique opportunity,
And that is that if we find
A tunnel, and we get a bearing off of it,
And it leads uphill,
Then that presents a very unique opportunity
To run a series of holes with the sonic drill.
That's the idea.
Marty: If you find a tunnel going upwards,
It almost has to be an offset chamber.
There's no point in having an upward-facing
-Tunnel, is there? -No.
So, yeah.
I-I would want to follow that.
Narrator: For more than two centuries, generations of searchers
Have been thwarted by seawater
Flooding their efforts whenever they dug below
The 90-foot level.
This has led the oak island team
To suspect that the treasure
Is most likely located in a much shallower,
Offset chamber.
Marty: This was unexpected.
This is a previously unknown tunnel.
We're close to either excavations
Or constructions we're unaware of, and the most exciting
Construction would be
An offset chamber that holds the treasure.
I've been a big believer in an offset chamber,
And if it only went to 70 feet, that would be about right.
Narrator: Could marty be correct,
That this possible tunnel
Might lead to the fabled treasure vault?
If so, could it also be connected
To the garden shaft,
Which sets just 20 feet away,
And where high trace evidence of gold
Has recently been detected?
Because we have-- hold such promise in the garden shaft,
Once we get to the bottom of that garden shaft,
We can do vertical and horizontal probing.
If we find this
At the bottom of that shaft as we probe out,
There may be a way to tunnel to it and find out what it is.
Is it your upward chamber?
From that perspective, it's incredibly exciting.
Yeah.
A lot of promise in this area for sure.
-Oh, yeah. -Okay.
Terry: All right.
And there's the wood we've got from d-17.
There is it, there's the chunk we're
-Gonna send away and carbon-14. -Marty: Okay.
That's good. Something new.
-Let's keep going. -Terry: All right.
Narrator: Later that afternoon...
Marty: Gary.
-You got something good? -Yep.
Okay, bring it over here.
Narrator: Rick, marty, and archeologist
Laird niven meet with gary drayton and jack begley
In the interpretive centre
To inspect the numerous discoveries
Made one day ago on lot 32.
This one came up first.
A nice piece of, uh, decorated,
Iron plate, I guess you'd call it.
And it led to even better things.
Jack: It's got crisscrossed lines.
Laird: Yeah.
Strength.
Decoration.
Marty: Part of a stove, maybe?
It's kind of what it feels like, isn't it?
-Yeah, that's where we went. -Oh, that's cool.
Probably part of a stove.
-Marty: All right. -And it was quite deep.
And then we started digging deeper.
Marty: Hmm.
And we found these two pieces.
-Very similar. -Pins of some sort.
What do you guess?
Some kind of fasteners, unless they're chisels.
So, if they were fasteners, that's where
They broke off.
-Yeah. -Well, they're massive,
Whatever they are.
And we found this.
This is my favorite.
-Look at that. -(chuckles)
That's beautiful.
Gary thought that it could be a wharf pin.
Yeah, but based on what carmen legge has told us
Previously, I think that's too thick
And not long enough.
-I think this is one of those rock chisels. -Gary: Yeah.
Marty: I'm hoping. It's been pounded on.
Begs the question, what were they doing
Inland from the beach?
We've got so many iron objects.
Finding them is one thing,
Having them tell a story is quite another.
Marty: Gary shows up in the lab
Over here with some very significant finds from lot 32.
And it's very intriguing because
There's an awful lot of stuff,
Metal stuff in this one spot.
And these all came out of one hole?
Like how big? Like a big, giant hole or how big?
Uh, it was deep,
It was maybe a few feet wide.
And we need probably
Mechanical means of digging it up.
Marty: I know you're parsimonious
About the use of such things, but can I bring the backhoe?
-Absolutely. -All right. Well, let's go.
Let's go find out what else is out there.
Gary: Excellent.
Cote: Should be good, eh? Ready, bill. Bring it up.
-Keep pumping. -Yeah.
Narrator: As representatives from dumas contracting limited,
And members of the oak island team
Continue their work in the money pit area...
Colten: I guess we keep going then.
Narrator: ...Rick and marty lagina, and other members of the team
Arrive on lot 32.
Where am I digging?
Right here, marty.
Narrator: Under the supervision
Of archaeologist laird niven,
They are about to conduct a larger excavation,
Where gary drayton and jack begley have found new,
Compelling evidence of an ancient wharf
Some 200 yards from the remains
Of a potential encampment nearby on lot 30.
All right, mate, this is the hole
Where we dug the iron artifacts out.
Got it. Okay.
I'm gonna put the spoils on that side
Because it'd be hard to push them back from this side.
Okay.
Okay. Have at it.
With all things associated with archeology, laird is in charge,
But he's allowing us to dig in this area.
Marty's going to take the backhoe
And remove the soils gradually.
Gary will get in and metal detect.
And laird will supervise.
Jack: Are you getting any other hits?
Nothing worth investigating at the moment.
We do know there's some older stuff deeper.
Marty, around like here is the original grade.
Marty: More? Do you want to get in the hole?
Rick: Do you want to jump in there?
Yep.
Coming in.
Marty: I think there's all kinds of stuff in there. (laughs)
Yeah, there is.
(detector beeping)
That sounds like a good signal.
Hey, all right!
Gary: Two-way repeatable.
Let's see if it's in pinpointing range.
(pinpointer beeping)
Yep, we're on it.
That is lead sheathing.
-Is it really? -Gary: Yeah, that's lead sheathing.
Marty: 300-year-old duct tape.
-Gary: Yep. -Laird: Yep.
-Or older. -Gary: Yeah.
I think the lead's got something to do with shipping.
-Me, too. -Gary: Yeah.
Narrator: Lead sheathing? Found in an area
Where the team has previously discovered evidence of a wharf?
Dating back to the 3rd century bc in ancient greece,
Lead was commonly used in the construction and repair
Of sailing vessels due to its versatility and resistance
To corrosion during long journeys at sea.
Yeah, that's a nice piece of lead.
Mm-hmm.
They used to line the hulls of old
Sailing ships with lead sheathing.
Jack: So, it might actually be
-A really significant find. -Gary: Yeah.
Narrator: Could this piece of lead sheathing
Offer more evidence of a ship
Visiting oak island long ago?
I ain't finished yet, either.
Narrator: If so, what else
Might the team find to explain just who was here?
When? And what else they may have left behind?
Oh, ho, ho, what is that?
Any ideas?
Laird: That almost looks like a handle.
Gary: Flat iron. Some kind of ridge on it.
Could be off, like, a little ship's stove.
Laird: Yeah.
Marty: I'd keep digging.
There could be more down here.
-Yeah. -Okay, coming out.
Rick: We know that
A number of finds on lot 32
Have been associated with maritime activity.
I.E., the lead bag seal,
Wharf pins, ship spikes.
Might there be a connection there?
Certainly possible.
That's the hope.
(pinpointer beeping)
Look at that.
What is it?
-Oh. -It looks like some kind of tool.
-Jack: Look at this, laird. -Any ideas, laird?
I think it's hand-forged.
That's just got an old feel about it.
-Yeah. -Gary: All of these artifacts we're
Pulling out of this hole, totally different.
-If you wanted to prove that something went on... -Yeah.
...This is the way to do it.
I'm sure we're gonna find some more.
Marty: One encouraging sign with this pile of metal
That we're finding on lot 32 is that lot 32 is very close
To lot 30 where there is some sort of anomaly.
Why are all these artifacts showing up?
(chuckles)
A big chunk of iron.
But there's still more down there.
Marty: I mean, every time gary waves his
Magic wand, another piece of metal comes out.
Ooh, this is exciting.
You'd do this all day and all night long, wouldn't you?
Yeah, I could.
Marty: The hope is that these are puzzle pieces
That help explain what happened on this island.
That's the hope.
What is that?
It's a smorgasbord of artifacts.
That what it is, mate.
And this whole area has enough metal in it to keep you busy
-For the rest of your life. -Yeah.
Can we take another shovel-full out of there?
-I vote yes. -(chuckles)
You can take as much fill off as you want. Yeah.
Gary: This has been an amazing experience.
The more we dig in this hole, the more we find.
It's painting a clear picture
That there was a lot of activity
On the edge of lot 32.
Look at that. Cooking pot, mate?
Probably a piece off a fireplace.
-Jack: Nice. -Gary: Just so many pieces.
This could potentially be a very important site.
Rick: Have at 'er.
Going in the hole.
Marty: Find something good, gary.
What's that reading?
Gary: It's tough to tell on this.
Rick: Sounded good.
Gary: Something wedged underneath here.
This might be something really cool.
Wow.
What the heck is this?
Gary: Do you want to check this out, jack?
-Yeah. -Look at the scalloped design on it.
Narrator: On lot 32,
While excavating a site where a number of
Mysterious metal artifacts has recently been found,
Near the remains of an old wharf...
Wow, that's gorgeous.
...The team has just made another potentially
Important discovery.
I think there's parts of a stove here.
You think it's to a stove?
Yeah. Probably.
You might be able to put
Some of these pieces together.
Gary: Yeah. Now you're cooking.
(chuckles)
Jack: And we're not done yet.
(detector beeping)
Gary: That sounds sweet!
Marty: That's a different sound.
Gary: Something in this area.
(beeping rapidly)
Gary: That is sweet sounding.
Oh, look at that! That's nice.
That's like an old strap.
Jack: Wow.
What is that? A strap? Look at this.
What do you think that's a strap to, laird? Any idea?
Laird: No.
It could be to a chest.
Laird: Quite possible.
Rick: Are these maritime-related objects?
This is a possible strap to a chest.
Well, it certainly fits into the treasure story.
The facts are we've made significant finds
At a very specific location, and we have the kind of science
Necessary to try to understand what these items are.
And then you can speculate.
-There was probably a wharf here. -Rick: Exactly.
Might help explain some of these finds.
Everything is tied together.
You just have to keep layering things to derive
All the information possible from a site.
This has been a pretty successful dig, eh?
I think I'd like to take some of the artifacts back, get emma
To ct scan them and kind of evaluate what's going on.
What interests us about lot 32 is really the number of finds
That gary was getting from one particular spot.
There's an incredible variety.
-No doubt about that. -Yep.
Laird: The agreement we have with the province
Is that if gary finds a concentration of artifacts,
We'll go in and set up a test unit in that area
And determine whether or not those finds are significant.
If you could just clean up the loose...
I'll try not to dig any deeper. I'll just clean this.
Yup. Yeah, and then we'll come back
With our trowels and set up a unit.
Good. All right.
It's a mini treasure trove of items here.
Gary: God, I love this place!
(laughter)
Narrator: Two days later...
Mike: Maybe we'll get some bedrock
Way over here.
Narrator: ...As work continues
Up in the money pit area...
Marty: Hey! Hey, guys!
Narrator: ...Rick and other members of the team
Gather in the war room
To meet via video conference with marty and craig.
So, craig, explain to everybody,
We have the wood samples in front of us here on the table.
-I believe you have the results from the lab. -Yep.
Narrator: Craig has just received
The carbon-14 test results
From the wood samples recovered earlier this week
From borehole l-16 at a depth of 106 feet,
And in borehole d-17
At a depth of just 70 feet.
Craig: It's good information. For the l-16...
This was the tunnel found at 107 feet.
52% from 1724 to 1812.
21.8% from 1648 to 1695.
We can eliminate the 1900s
Because we know historically there wasn't any
Tunnels out in that direction at that time period.
50% at least in periods that could not
Be searcher, is that right?
Correct. More than that I would say.
Nobody was tunneling around at 100 feet
At that time period.
Craig: No, it doesn't make sense.
Rick: Craig, you have one more report?
Yeah, I sure do.
The other one is d-17, where it looks like
We hit a tunnel at 70 feet.
The results are almost identical: 49.9%
From 1722 to 1814,
19.2% from 1656
To 1698.
It's a very odd data point at 70 feet.
You know, the majority of it puts it
Pre-searcher time period.
Rick: That's pretty cool.
Marty: Wow.
Narrator: In the oak island war room,
Craig tester has just shared carbon-14 results
From two different boreholes that may date back
Approximately a century before the discovery of the money pit.
I mean, the really odd thing about this is the 70-foot depth.
You know, why was anybody at that depth?
Doug: At that depth, it doesn't seem to correlate
With a searcher's effort to get to the treasure chamber.
-Yeah. -Narrator: Could the test results
From borehole l-16
And borehole d-17, which sets just 20 feet
From the garden shaft
And a possible vast deposit of gold,
Mean that the team is close to a major breakthrough
In solving the 227-year-old mystery?
We don't have anybody looking at 70 feet, do we?
Anywhere in the historical record. Do we?
-Craig: Correct. -That is correct.
Steve g.: Could be related to the garden shaft
Just strictly based on depth.
We know the garden shaft bottoms out at 77 and a half feet.
It would make sense to tunnel out.
Marty: That's great.
I think that's the most
Interesting result of all,
Because at 70 feet it almost has to be an offset chamber.
That's right.
Rick: D-17 may lead
To what my brother has often described
As an offset chamber where treasure is deposited.
Is it exciting?
Absolutely.
Marty's offset chamber within
20 feet of the garden shaft? Could be.
Because of the indications of some human activity
At a depth and an area previously unknown to us,
There's obviously the chance that you'll find the one thing.
I mean, nothing would be better than that.
But that's what this island is.
It's an island of what-ifs and possibilities,
And you have to chase them all.
What's interesting is we continue to be
Mesmerized by the oak island mystery.
It's complex. It's difficult.
And we just have to follow the data.
Yes. Exactly.
And the data continues to be quite provocative.
-Yeah. -Yep.
So, let's start
Getting some real answers. (chuckles)
-Yep. -So, thank you, guys.
We'll see you later.
Marty: Cheers, guys. Good job.
-Doug: See you. -Marty: Carry on.
Narrator: As another incredible week
Comes to an end on oak island,
Rick, marty, craig and their team have collected
More key pieces to help complete the oak island puzzle.
With meaningful new discoveries in the money pit area,
And on the western side of the island,
Could they now be on the verge of identifying
Just who was behind the 227-year-old mystery?
And as they prepare for their most ambitious dig yet,
Will a fabled vault of riches that were left behind
Soon be within their reach?
Next time on the curse of oak island...
-Jack: Oh, there we go. -Gary: Wow.
The heck is that?
It was very common during the middle 1700s.
Corjan: In 1746, king louis xv sent two ships
To oak island, where they later created the money pit.
Rick: If we can find original works at the base of this shaft,
It may solve the mystery.
Oh, what's that? Whoa. Whoa. What's that?
Steve g.: That's a view down the tunnel.
Is it possible that this tunnel could lead to
Finding the treasure?
The answer is unequivocally yes.
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