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NARRATOR: Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

JACK:
There's even more
big boulders down there.

Here. Here.

JACK:
Could that be Fred's wall?

-MOYA: Ooh!
-JILLIAN: What?

(chuckles)
That's the find of the day!

JUDI:
There was a button found
on Lot 5,

similar
on a Knight of Malta uniform.

There's a chance
the Knights of Malta

-made it to Oak Island.
-RICK: Wow.

TERRY:
Cross your fingers, gentlemen.

MARTY:
Where are we most likely
to bring up a piece of treasure?

Oh, baby!

Shaft Six.

That's a grab.

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.

♪ ♪

ALEX:
Hey, guys.

Oh. Hey, Alex.

Just checking in.
How'd it go today?

JOHN L.: Oh,
it's going really good.

ADAM E.:
Yep.

NARRATOR:
A chilly fall morning has begun

on Oak Island

for brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina and their team.

It's quite different
than the last two holes

and we're just coming off it
on a bit of an angle.

NARRATOR:
However,

with a new excavation

well underway in
the fabled Money Pit area,

they may be hot
on the trail of the answers

to a 230-year-old
treasure mystery.

Yeah, we were talking about
the last casing that we did.

We ran out of the wood
approximately 117 feet.

Okay.

NARRATOR:
Today,
working with representatives

from ROC Equipment
and SB Canada,

the team is digging

a seven-foot-diameter
steel shaft

known as RP-3
which sets just north

of two recently dug,
identical shafts

labeled RP-2 and RP-1.

The previous, uh,
holes were over Shaft Six.

And now we've moved
just outside of it.

So we're hoping to see
undisturbed material

'cause our target's a tunnel.
Is that what you've seen?

-Yes. Absolutely.
-Perfect.

NARRATOR:
In 1861,

treasure hunters
reportedly drilled

through two stacked
wooden chests

at a depth of some 110 feet
in the original Money Pit,

containing what were described
as "metal in pieces."

Believing a mother lode of coins

and other possible riches
had been located,

but fearing
that they were protected

by a believed
man-made flood tunnel,

workers dug an adjacent shaft,
known as Shaft Six,

18 feet to the west
down to a depth of 118 feet.

From there, they began
tunneling toward the pit,

hoping to safely
recover the treasure

from below the flood trap.

It didn't work.

Just before
reaching their target,

seawater rushed in.

This caused
tons of wood cribbing

in the Money Pit to collapse...

...crushing the chests
and leaving

a believed debris field
of broken timbers

and scattered treasure
in the flooded Shaft Six tunnel.

So I'm thinking, as soon
as the teeth hit 100 feet,

-we should be ready
for anything.
-Awesome.

NARRATOR:
Now, after RP-1
and RP-2 both produced

pieces of timber
that may have come

from the original Money Pit

and several
mid-18th-century artifacts

such as French pottery
and a clay pipe stem,

the team is hoping that RP-3
will make direct contact

with the Shaft Six tunnel

and the fabled treasure
it is believed to contain.

MARTY:
The priority we're using
to set caissons is very simple.

Where are we most likely
to bring up a piece of treasure?

Rick has a real high interest
in and around Shaft Six.

And given what we found

in RP-1 and RP-2, that may mean

that we're closing in
on the treasure.

RICK:
I don't know if I can walk away

from Shaft Six.

It might contain the one thing.
I still believe it's there.

So, uh, last measurement,
we have, uh,

67 feet for depth of hole.

We're looking really good
tomorrow to hopefully finish.

We should be set up
for our target zone tomorrow.

Yep.

Okay, guys, I'll leave you to it

so we can get started
first thing tomorrow.

-Yep. All right.
Sounds good. Thank you.
-Thanks again.

-All right, Alex, we'll see you.
-See you.

NARRATOR:
As the excavation
of RP-3 proceeds

in the Money Pit area...

RICK:
I know one thing.

Winter's not far behind.

It's a little bit nippy
out here today.

Oh, it's lovely.

NARRATOR:
...Rick Lagina,

Jack Begley, and metal detection
expert Gary Drayton

are braving the elements

to search for additional clues--
and valuables--

in the northernmost region
of the swamp.

The agenda today is
cut this across,

look for artifacts, stakes,

-whatever we can find.
-GARY: Okay, mate.

-All right.
-Let's find something!

-Yep. Good luck.
-Good luck, Gary.

Let's go, Al!

NARRATOR:
The team was stunned
several years ago

when they uncovered
a massive stone road,

or ship's wharf,

in the southeast corner
of the swamp

that may be as much
as 500 years old,

as well as a vast
paved feature near its center

that has been dated
to as early as 1200 AD.

But this year, they have
uncovered numerous sections

of a cobblestone pathway

that was lined
with wooden survey stakes

and which led them to an empty

brick and slate
vault-like structure

in the northern region.

All of these finds have given
support to the theory

of the late Oak Island
landowner Fred Nolan,

who believed that the swamp was
created long ago

to hide numerous caches
of buried valuables.

Now, after already finding
more evidence of the pathway

in the northernmost region
of the bog,

they are hoping to prove
that Fred was right

and uncover additional vaults

that still contain
hidden riches.

That looks like C horizon,

but then there's
the organic layer underneath?

Almost like
it's been dug before.

You want to come over, Gar?

On my way.

RICK:
We need to pay attention
to the soils.

Is it in situ, i.e. undisturbed?

Or has it been disturbed?

We may have found evidence
of human activity

that something was done
to hide something

for a lengthy period of time.

Someone's been digging
in this area.

-There's a mixture of materials.
-Yep.

(intermittent chirping)

Got some iron around here.

(steady beeping)

Best guesstimate is
just in there.

-JACK: Wow.
-GARY: Oh, that's some
tough digging, innit?

-That it right there?
-Wood.

So it's a piece of wood,

with, more than likely...

Ooh! Look at that!

If you're looking
for a wharf pin,

that looks like a wharf pin.

Oh, man. Look at that.

That's magnificent.

NARRATOR:
Evidence of a wooden structure
and possible wharf pin?

Oh, yeah.

NARRATOR:
Has the team found evidence
of a second ship's wharf,

located some four feet deep

in the northern region
of the swamp?

If so, was it connected
to the cobblestone pathway?

And perhaps a buried vault,

like the one uncovered
earlier this year

just several yards to the south?

Take a little more out 'cause
we're still in the organic.

No reason not to do
another pull across there.

Got a good signal here,
Rick and Jack!

I'll try pinpointing it first.

Oh, look at that!

-JACK: Oh... yeah!
-GARY: Ooh!

-Wow! Brilliant!
-(laughs)

That is the real McCoy.

Yeah, this is an oldie.

1700s or older.

-What makes you think
that's old?
-Number one, the weight.

And the fact that you can see
the striations going down it.

Now, we've been referring
to them as wharf pins.

It could be a wharf.
It could be off a gate.

It could be for a wall.

JACK: Could that be
a piece of Fred's wall?

RICK:
Maybe.

That's a bloody good find.

NARRATOR: After partially
draining the swamp

in the late 1960s,

Fred Nolan claimed
to have discovered evidence

of a wooden wall, or dam, buried

near the northern boundary
of the brackish bog.

And incredibly, Fred's account
of this structure matches

a feature labeled "The Dam"

on a reported
14th-century map of Oak Island

that was given
to the team in 2016

by the late Zena Halpern.

A map that Zena believed was

created by
the Christian military order

known as the Knights Templar.

Nice one.

Okay, Al.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the wood

and the heavy iron pins
the team has found

were not from a wharf

but perhaps the wall

that Fred Nolan claimed to have
found more than 50 years ago?

♪ ♪

-RICK: Wait.
-JACK: What's that?

(chuckles)
That's awesome.

I don't know if this is a,
a board or a log.

The dimension of that is
roughly what Fred described.

JACK:
It could be evidence
that we're getting close

-to finding the wall.
-RICK: Could be.

ALAN A.:
Want it out of there?

RICK:
Yeah, we might as well
take it out.

We'll take a look at it.

NARRATOR:
While investigating
the northernmost region

of the Oak Island swamp,

Rick Lagina and other members
of the team have just

unearthed a large,
potentially man-made timber.

RICK:
That's roughly
what he described:

10, 12 inches wide.

NARRATOR: A timber
that may be part

of a wall, or dam,
that the late treasure hunter

Fred Nolan believed
was built long ago

in order to artificially
create the swamp.

You think that might be
a piece of the wall?

I don't know.

-Clean it up a little, Al,
and we'll take a look.
-All right.

JACK:
Based upon everything

that we've found
in our excavations

in the northern part
of the swamp,

it keeps leading to more
and more strange work.

Is that a really big rock
down there?

RICK:
A big rock. (grunts)

JACK:
It makes me think more
and more that there is a wall

and that somebody dammed off

to make sure that they formed

into a swamp to hide
the work that they dug.

Maybe this could be a clue.

JACK:
Ho-ho, wow.

(clanking)

There's even more
big boulders down there.

-RICK: Yep.
-JACK: Something tells me

all these boulders were
put in place,

and not by Mother Nature.

RICK:
There was the piece of timber,

and now to find
three boulders in a line,

it does appear as though
these boulders were placed

in a way that would be
reflective of purpose,

some sort of intent.

ALAN A.:
There's lots of wood here.

Oh, yeah, a bunch of wood.

I think
we found something, Rick.

RICK:
Hopefully.

Yeah, because we have

one right here that ties
these two together.

So there's one here,
here, here, here,

here, here, here, here, here.

So it's just
kind of like a wall.

Mm-hmm.

-JACK: It's a clue.
-RICK: Yep.

NARRATOR:
A wall of boulders?

Could it be connected
to the evidence

of a man-made dam
that Fred Nolan reportedly

uncovered in this area
of the swamp

back in the late 1960s?

It's still not making
too much sense yet.

RICK:
Not yet.

NARRATOR:
And if so,
was it built to conceal

numerous caches of treasure,
as Fred also believed?

RICK:
The swamp was
heavily manipulated,

in all kinds of ways.

Roads, paths, ramps,
paved areas, stone roads.

The next big domino to fall

would certainly be
if there is a wall

associated
with that manipulation

on the north end of the bog.

We're hoping that
if Tom's father was correct

and there is a wall,

this could lead to answers
to the mystery.

JACK:
It makes me feel like we're
hot on the trail of this wall.

Right.

Maybe, maybe we'll find out.
Okay, Al.

-Let's keep going.
-ALAN A.: All right.

NARRATOR:
Later that afternoon...

JARED:
Yeah, keep going.

NARRATOR:
...as the excavation
of RP-3 continues

in the Money Pit area...

RICK: Research is
an important component

of trying to find
the treasure, solve the mystery.

NARRATOR: ...Rick
and Marty Lagina meet

with members of the team

in the Oak Island Museum
to hear a report

from Judi Rudebusch,
who was also

the research partner
of the late Zena Halpern.

Judi has taken upon herself

to look
into John Edward's books.

Contained within those books are

encryptions and codes

which we believe tie directly

back to the island.

It's the most fascinating thing
I've ever worked with.

So we started to do
a deep dive in the books.

The clues all seem to point
directly to Oak Island.

NARRATOR:
Six weeks ago,

researcher John Edwards,
along with author

and 32-degree Freemason
Scott Clarke,

shared excerpts from a series

of five
18th- and 19th-century books

which they believe
contained Masonic clues

linking the medieval order
of the Knights Templar

and a related group known
as the Knights of Malta

to the Oak Island mystery.

Curiously,
one of the books featured

a hand-drawn map of Oak Island
and depicted a square structure

in the northern region
of the swamp

that was eerily similar

to the brick and slate vault

that the team discovered
earlier this year.

CLARKE:
We definitely believe

that the books show,

it is
a multigenerational endeavor

linking Biblical treasures
to Oak Island.

Judi, it's all yours.

JUDI:
Okay.

So we have the Knights of Malta.

They traveled
side by side with the Templars.

They fought with the Templars.

They started out as
the Hospitallers in Jerusalem.

As time went by

and as they moved through

to the different islands,
the knights took on the name

Knights of Rhodes,
Knights of Malta.

These are all names
of the same group.

Next step.

It starts in Jerusalem.

They were a hospital group.

And they were taking care
of all the Crusaders

and people coming
to the Holy Land.

NARRATOR:
In 1119,

the military order of monks
known as the Knights Templar

was formed by
the Catholic Church and tasked

with protecting Christians
and securing territories

in the Holy Land
during the Crusades.

For nearly two centuries,
they amassed great power

and established strongholds

throughout the Middle East
and Europe

with the support
of the Knights Hospitaller.

However, they also
accumulated great wealth

by establishing
an elaborate banking system

and were rumored

to have taken possession
of priceless religious treasures

such as the Holy Grail,

the Golden Menorah that once
stood in King Solomon's Temple

and the Ark of the Covenant--

treasures that some
researchers believe

the Templars began
safeguarding across the ocean

on Oak Island.

But in 1307,
the Templars were suddenly

persecuted by the Pope
and the King of France

on controversial charges
of heresy.

Many Templar Knights
were imprisoned,

but much
of their known treasures

and the rumored
religious artifacts

they may have possessed
have never been found.

Now, after 1312,

everything that the Templars had

went to the Hospitallers.

And that meant
the money they collected,

the artifacts, the treasures,
everything went to them.

They would have carried along

the same secrets,
the same knowledge.

And they started moving.

So they go from Cyprus,
and then they go to Rhodes.

And then, they go to Malta
in the 1550s.

But while they're on Malta,
what are they doing?

They are digging fortifications
in the underground.

They are making tunnels.
They've got caves.

They're going
into the limestone.

Not real different than
what you see in the Money Pit.

They knew how to dig
in that soil.

So you got to keep
thinking in your head

that they maybe came over here.

And they could have been
depositors, too.

-RICK: That'd be fantastic.
-DOUG: Yeah.

They knew how to dig
in that soil.

You got to keep
thinking in your head

that they maybe came over here

and that they could have been
depositors, too.

NARRATOR:
In the Oak Island Museum,

Judi Rudebusch is presenting

astonishing new research
that could potentially link

a secretive fraternity

connected to
the Knights Templar--

known as the Knights of Malta--

to the Oak Island mystery.

Okay. Now we're coming
into our side of the world.

This is Isaac de Razilly.

He was a direct descendant,
through his mother,

of the de Villiers.

The de Villiers were
the grand masters of Malta.

He was also a Knight of Malta.

Isaac de Razilly came
to Nova Scotia

and settled his capital
in the LaHave River,

just around the corner
from Oak Island.

That was 1632, 1633.

Yeah, there's a chance
Isaac de Razilly

and the Knights of Malta made it

all the way up to Oak Island.

And we have found
that there could be

a lot of connective tissue

going on at Lot 5.

NARRATOR:
After acquiring Lot 5 in 2022,

the Laginas and their team were
stunned to uncover

a rounded stone foundation

near the shoreline

that archaeologist
Laird Niven believes

may have been
inhabited and modified

by several different groups

prior to the 18th century.

Within and near this feature,

they have found
a mortar-like material

that matches soil samples

from more than 100 feet deep
in the Money Pit area.

And they have also uncovered
stunning artifacts

such as a believed
14th-century lead barter token

that, just like the lead cross
discovered at Smith's Cove

in 2017, may be related
to the Knights Templar.

However, they have also found

numerous pieces
of pottery and buttons

that have yet to be identified.

JUDI:
There was an item found
on Lot 5,

which is on the table.

You're gonna see a button.

What's unique about this button

is that the rays going out
aren't clockwise.

They're counterclockwise.

And then there was

this button here
on a Knight of Malta uniform.

This button also goes
the opposite way around.

And it was Emiliano who spotted

the backwards turning sunrays.

Pretty odd that we've got
a button very similar to that.

This might be the find
that could prove

the Knights of Malta were
on Oak Island.

That's quite remarkable.

-DOUG: Yeah.
-MARTY: Look, you know,
Judi is the first person

that's come up
with anything resembling

that starburst button.

This is first I've seen
anything that looks like it.

-Yeah.
-Now, on the table,
you're gonna see

some beads
that were found on Lot 5.

Here is a chart, says Venice.

And you've got
some pretty close matches

but who was in that area?

Who was by Italy?

It could have been
the Knights of Malta.

They were doing trade.

They had every, every chance
to have a bead like this.

It's a clue.

So it could be part
of the same story

that Judi's following.

Did they come
into some information

that the Templars
had deposited something

on this side of the Atlantic?

NARRATOR:
Based on the various discoveries

that the team has made
in recent years,

Rick Lagina has come to suspect

that the 230-year-old
mystery involved

different but related groups
who may have hidden valuables

on Oak Island
over a number of centuries.

Could that explain
the mysterious structure

and artifacts found on Lot 5,

as well as the numerous
man-made stone structures

including a vault-like
feature in the swamp?

And, if so, have Judi Rudebusch,

along with her late friend

and Templar researcher
Zena Halpern,

potentially identified

two of the groups
who may have buried

incredible treasures
in the Money Pit?

MARTY:
So if the Templars had
something to do with this,

I'd say this presentation says

the Knights of Malta knew
about it.

Treasure, secrets,
all kinds of stuff.

You know, there's no stronger
bond than brothers in arms.

I don't have all the answers
to this story.

But I'm still gonna work on it.

(laughter)

RICK:
I do believe--
I've always believed--

that things were done
on the island,

regarding this mystery,
incrementally.

And you've shown
how incrementally

the Knights of Malta evolved
in terms of their presence,

in terms of their efforts,
in terms of their travels,

and where
their influences led them.

There could be lots
of information in Malta.

And I think we should
consider having a look.

RICK:
I would agree.

It's gonna take a lot
of homework to validate a trip.

And, uh,

we need to wrap our heads
around it collectively.

So let's get after it.

MARTY:
All right. Good deal.

NARRATOR:
The following morning...

JACK:
Keep going, Al.

NARRATOR:
...as the investigation

in the northern region
of the swamp continues...

Take another chunk out of there.

STEVE:
Hey, Adam.

-Hi again. How's it going?
-Good.

We're about 90 feet,
92 feet on the dig.

Okay.

NARRATOR:
...and the excavation

of RP-3 proceeds
in the Money Pit area,

on Lot 5,

located on the western side
of the island...

MOYA:
Are you finding
anything good, Ethan?

Yeah, I found some,
uh, blue bottle glass.

NARRATOR:
...Moya MacDonald,

Ethan Green and other members

of the archaeology team are
continuing their investigation

of the round feature
near the shoreline.

We found blue bottle glass
just in test pit 28, over there.

-So...
-Okay.

That's great.
It might mend together.

-That'd be pretty cool.
-ETHAN: That would be awesome.

MOYA:
But we're just starting.

-Decent find. Yeah.
-MOYA: Yeah.

Hopefully we'll find some more

-or something different.
-Yeah. Let's do it.

MARTY:
All of the archaeologists
who've worked on Lot 5

have said that the bulk
of the artifacts they're finding

could support
multiple occupations here.

So I have a certain,
sort of, uh, excited curiosity

to find out if they can identify
who was in there first.

Oh!

What? What?

(chuckling)

JILLIAN:
No way.

-MOYA: Oh. Another one.
-JILLIAN: What?

HELEN:
Another what? Bead?

-MOYA: Yeah.
-JILLIAN: No way!

-Seriously?
-MOYA: Yeah way. Yeah.

NARRATOR:
While investigating

the large stone foundation

near the shoreline on Lot 5,

archaeologist Moya MacDonald has

just made a potentially
important discovery.

HELEN:
Is it pink like the other one
or a pinky brown?

-MOYA: Yeah.
-JILLIAN: Really?

MOYA:
It's broken in half, though.

-JILLIAN: It's so little.
-HELEN: Now where was
the other one?

The other one was over there.

MOYA:
Yeah. There you go, Helen.

Oh, my God, they're strung out
all over the place.

Oh, look at that.
Oh, look. It's tiny.

-It is tiny.
-Wow.

HELEN:
So that's two now.

And they look
like they are the same.

It's the same color

-from what I can remember
from the other one.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Over the past year,

the team has found
several Venetian trade beads

in this feature.

And several weeks ago,
Moya unearthed a bead

that is identical to the one
she just uncovered.

The red colorant is
early 1700s and before that.

Oh.

NARRATOR:
Upon conducting

scientific analysis
on all of them,

archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan determined

that they could date back
to as early as the 17th century.

MOYA:
That's the find of the day!

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that Moya has now found

a fourth Venetian bead?

Beads that, according to
the research of Judi Rudebusch,

could support the theory that
members of the Knights of Malta

may have visited Oak Island?

HELEN:
Nice.

MOYA:
Yeah, so, from what I remember

from Emma's analysis is

the red coloring on the bead
comes from copper content,

-which she found
through the XRF.
-Okay.

Very good. Excellent eyes. Wow.

-Thanks, Helen.
-HELEN: That's twice now.

-JILLIAN: Yeah.
-(laughs) That she's done it.

And that one is smaller,
'cause it's half of one.

HELEN:
It's half of one.

-So...
-Okay,

we're down onto the bead layer.

(singsongy):
Bead layer.

NARRATOR:
As the archaeology team
continues

to search for clues on Lot 5...

JACK:
Another big boulder,
right alongside, Rick.

-RICK: Really?
-JACK: Yeah.

That's a pretty straight line.

-RICK: Same elevations, too.
-JACK: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Rick Lagina is joined

in the northern region
of the swamp

by fellow Oak Island landowner
and son of Fred Nolan,

Tom Nolan.

TOM:
Maybe the wall's over here?

Obviously, if this is
where the work took place,

this is where
you're gonna put your wall.

RICK:
Yeah.

Al, can you take
another scoop there?

-Sorta in...
-ALAN A.: Between
those two rocks?

-Yeah.
-Okay.

NARRATOR:
They are eager

to uncover more of the possible

man-made feature of boulders
and determine if it could be

part of the believed wall
that Fred reportedly found

more than a half century ago.

TOM:
Somebody did
a tremendous amount of work

in this swamp,
and there's more swamp

we haven't taken apart yet.

It's very interesting, because

it leaves a big question
of who did this work?

There's something here.

TOM:
Oh, I see it.

Yeah, it looks
like a bit of a log.

Unless it went through the rock?

It's right here.

It's just kind of pinned
against the rock.

Seems to be cut there.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.
That's cut, right there.

For sure.

RICK:
Axe cut, too,
that's no chain saw.

-TOM: Mm-hmm.
-RICK: We should save that,

because if we reveal this

-and this looks
like something...
-Yeah.

...then that would be

a perfect test subject
because it's in the structure.

Yeah. Let's set it aside
and just see

-where this is going.
-Yeah.

-ALAN A.: I'll scrape
the top off it.
-Okay.

RICK:
The bog has some story to tell.

Fred spent a lot of his time

trying to uncover
secrets in the bog.

And I firmly believe

that when Fred volunteered
this information

about a wall
in the north end of the bog,

I believe him.

And I hope
that we find that wall.

Looks to me like we've got
an alignment here.

-Yeah.
-And I'd like to find
another one alongside this.

But between this and whatever

that bigger boulders is there,
it-it seems like something,

something went on here.

But what is that?

Is that to keep that
from intruding on the workspace?

-Yeah.
-Or this is to prevent water

from coming in
till the wall is built?

And then you can control
the water in and out.

-Yeah.
-But it's all speculation
till you find the wall.

-Yeah.
-RICK: I still believe

there's a wooden wall
in here somewhere.

-TOM: Yeah.
-RICK: Maybe there's
a tie-in somehow.

TOM:
Yeah, definitely.

RICK: I still believe
there's a wooden wall

in here somewhere.
But what is that?

Is that just to prevent
water from coming in

till the wall is built

and then you can
control the water?

Maybe there's a tie-in somehow.

Yeah, definitely.

NARRATOR: In the northern region
of the Oak Island swamp,

Rick Lagina and Tom Nolan are
working to uncover

a potentially
man-made feature of boulders.

GARY:
Has anything changed?

TOM:
Are you seeing
something here, Gary?

NARRATOR:
The question is,

could it be part of the wall,

or dam,
that Tom's father, Fred Nolan,

believed he discovered
back in the late 1960s?

I know from the top
of the spoil pile

it really stands out.

A line of big boulders
that come here

and then you've got

like a little offshoot
of boulders here.

Seeing it's like some kind
of, like, wall or...

no idea what it is.

That's why Steve should come out
and pin all of these.

Pin the orientation.
Pin the elevation.

Take a look at it.

So I'll-I'll just text Steve,
tell him to come down.

TOM:
Yeah.

All right. I got to go,

but I think we got a plan here.

-Yep.
-All right.

We can't be dismissive
of anything found

in the north end of the bog,

albeit the real objective here
is to find the wall.

Steve can do a survey

and you might see a relationship
between some other constructs

across the width
and breadth of the swamp.

-Hey, guys.
-RICK: Hey, Steve.

How you doing? What do you got?

No one's looked at the plans
more than you have,

but you see this line?

Yep.

And we have one, two, three,

-and we don't know
what's beyond.
-Yep.

I think you have a seawall.

-This is how you'd
close this swamp off.
-Hmm.

NARRATOR:
Built to shelter
the coastline from ocean waves,

tides and storms,

seawalls are often constructed
out of boulders,

concrete or wood to protect

man-made structures
such as wharfs or docks.

You guys have done
a great job of uncovering it.

NARRATOR:
If Steve is correct

that this feature is
a kind of seawall, or dam,

could it be part
of the so-called wall

that Fred Nolan discovered?

It wouldn't take long with
a bunch of boulders this size

to build up enough material
to block this off...

to build a swamp.

NARRATOR:
And if it was indeed used

as a dam to create the swamp,

could it also be
the same feature

on the believed
14th-century Templar map

that Zena Halpern shared
with the team back in 2016?

RICK:
I wish I knew
if there was a relationship

between these boulders
and the wall.

It's possible.

The one thing that came to mind

when Fred first spoke
of this wall was

the reference to Zena's map

and the reference to a barrage,
which is a dam or a barrier.

It would be wonderful
to prove that.

To me, it speaks to the fact

that Fred saw something there

and it affirms
that the map is legitimate.

I think you have to plot
all of them together

-and see if it makes sense.
-STEVE: I will.

RICK:
It's just a very

-unique alignment, right?
-Mm-hmm.

And it would be hard to say
it's a nothing.

Oh! This is a something.

If this really is
some sort of seawall,

between all of us,
we can figure out

what this may or may not mean.

-All right?
-Okay. Sounds good.
Thanks, Rick.

Thank you.

Cross our fingers.

NARRATOR:
Later that afternoon...

-RICK: Afternoon, guys.
-MARTY: How deep are we, man?

JOHN L.:
We're about 110

with the, uh, the dig.

Okey doke.

-We're right there.
-Yep.

NARRATOR: ...Rick and Marty
return to the Money Pit area

as the RP-3 shaft approaches
its target depth

of 118 feet and a tunnel

that may contain a vast cache

of untold valuables.

-Hit any wood?
-JOHN L.: I feel like I may be
hitting it right now,

the pressure's spiked up a bit.

I was about 120.
Now it's going to 140ish.

So I think I'm just right at
the top of the wood right now.

All right, well, let's get
over to the table, Rick,

-see what's coming up.
-Well, some of this stuff
it's exciting times, though.

MARTY:
The stakes are high.

We're about to get
into the tunnel

that led from Shaft Six
to the Money Pit

where the collapsed occurred.

And we're about to dig
into that very zone.

We're getting close, yeah?

I'm getting impatient.

-Let's see some coinage.
-Yeah.

RICK:
The bar has been
raised significantly

due to everyone's efforts.

And now it's,
where is the treasure?

Where is the treasure?

Anything short
of something irrefutable,

it'll be a little difficult
to take, to be honest.

Some evidence
that there once was something.

Okay, here we go.

ADAM E.:
Kind of spiking up on you?

Yeah.

-ALEX: Look at that.
-MARTY: Ooh, baby!

-ADAM E.: Holy crap, man.
-JOHN L.: That's the most wood

that we've pulled out so far,
just like that.

Never seen that before.

MARTY:
That's a grab!

-MARTY: That's a grab.
-ALEX: Wow.

STEVE:
Oh, it's loaded.

MARTY:
Look at that old beam.

GARY:
Yeah, that looks like old wood.

RICK:
Why don't you put
your bucket over here

-and I'll just toss it in?
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
In the Money Pit area,

an intense and potentially
historic situation is unfolding

for brothers Rick

and Marty Lagina
and the Oak Island team.

-You guys got it?
-Yeah.

-It's got some weight to it.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
At a depth of some 115 feet

in the RP-3 shaft...

Put it right here.

NARRATOR: ...they are now
recovering evidence

of what they believe could be

the Shaft Six tunnel.

-GARY: Look at that.
That's old wood, innit?
-ALEX: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
But the burning question now is,

will they also recover

the treasure that legend claims

the tunnel contains?

TERRY:
That's a lot of wood.

RICK:
We're coming close
to the bottom of the tunnel.

TERRY:
Yeah.

-Hey, guys.
-Hey, Adam.

What do you got there, Adam?

116 feet on the nose on the dig.

-116 for the dig.
-Yeah.

STEVE:
That makes sense.

-We picked 118.
-Yep.

We got two more feet of hope.

That's the bottom, that's
where everything would be.

RICK:
We're getting close

to the tunnel floor on RP-3.

It's a three and two count.

The pitcher's gonna pitch
the ball, and you're either

gonna hit it out of the park
or you're gonna strike out.

I hope it's not a strikeout.

MARTY:
It should be
in the scoop right here.

♪ ♪

RICK:
Nothing.

NARRATOR:
Because the hammer grab tool is

no longer
bringing up wood but instead

packed clay and soil,

it means that RP-3 has gone
through the remains

of the Shaft Six tunnel,

and just like RP-1 and RP-2,

failed to produce
evidence of valuables.

You have to think,
if there was something,

you'd see it here.

-I was expecting something.
-MARTY: Yes, I know you are.

And you're probably
disappointed, right?

Very much so.

We had high hopes,

but you have to say to yourself,

"Well, you know, it's not here."

They ask how difficult it is

to search for treasure
on Oak Island.

You just have to say,

"230 years
people have been looking

for a long-lost
fabled treasure."

230 years to try
to solve a mystery.

That's how difficult it is
to look for treasure

on Oak Island.

Nope, nothing else.

Right now, I feel
like you're having

a little crisis of faith
and I'm not.

(chuckles)
Isn't that weird?

Because...?

'Cause I-I think it all
makes sense that it went deep

into the solution channel.

There's way too much material

-to fill up that tunnel.
-Right.

NARRATOR:
Several weeks ago,

while excavating
a shaft known as TB-1--

where the team believed

they were digging
through the original Money Pit--

upon reaching a depth
of some 160 feet,

the earth surrounding
and below the shaft

suddenly collapsed
and fell deeper.

-RICK: That ain't good.
-Hey. Stop.

It's caving.

NARRATOR:
This has made the team believe

that a massive natural cavity,
or solution channel,

exists in the bedrock
more than 200 feet underground.

I really had high hopes.

-I really did. I did.
-I know.

Everything seemed to make sense.

It did make sense.
It still makes sense.

NARRATOR:
Because the Shaft Six tunnel was

connected
to the original Money Pit,

could Marty be correct
that much of its contents

including the treasure
it was believed to contain,

has now fallen into
the so-called solution channel?

MARTY:
We proved that the tunnel
that goes from Shaft Six

is headed to the Money Pit.

We've proven
that a collapse occurred.

We've accomplished quite a lot.

I think the reason why is

because it fell
down into the solution channel.

We have to get down
into that solution channel

because we've never
really explored it.

-ADAM E.: Hey, guys.
-Hey, Adam.

TERRY:
Hey, Adam. How you doing?

-MARTY: What do you got?
-Well, 120 and a half,

we picked up some material,
cleaned it all out.

It's all out?

-It's all out.
-Well, then,
I think we're done. Rick?

We tried.

Well, we probably have
enough time for perhaps

two shallow or one deep caisson
and that's probably it, right?

That's what we talked about.

But, uh, we got to talk,
right? So...

-It's still down there, Adam.
-Yep.

RICK:
The treasure could have fallen
into this solution channel.

So on to the next thing.

On to the next.

All right, well, we need
to assemble the crew

and figure this out,
get you some instructions.

Yep. Perfect, and we'll get to,
uh, backfilling.

Thank you, Adam.

♪ ♪

I'll be honest, I'm a little
disappointed, you know.

I thought it would
really be here.

But we've faced days
like today before.

So there's no hanging our heads
here, we just move on.

So sempre avanti.

-MARTY: Yes, sir.
-So let's get going.

-TERRY: Right on.
-MARTY: All right, let's go.

NARRATOR:
For more than two centuries,

the tireless digging
by faithful searchers has

produced compelling evidence

that a vast treasure is
buried on Oak Island.

But have Rick, Marty
and their team discovered

that the island has taken
those valuables

to a much deeper, darker
and foreboding place?

One thing is certain.

To find out,
they will not be deterred

by the challenge they now face,

because if they can succeed,

they will not only reap
a potentially priceless reward--

they could rewrite
the history of North America.

Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...

There is something
four feet down

and 14 feet long.

GARY:
Ooh! What the heck is that?

(laughs)

-Check out what I just found.
-What?

This is definitely
prediscovery of the Money Pit.

That's treasure.

And that's the only one
of its kind.

This could be medieval times.

That's right
in the era of the Templars.

Did the Knights of Malta come
to Oak Island?

ADRIANO:
We could get an answer
if we go to Malta.

-Then let's go!
-(laughs)

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