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Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
Hold it! Whoa, whoa, whoa!
We have a feature in the swamp. What in the world is happening? This feature
could help us unwrap the whole mystery.
Something this small has fallen to the bottom of the solution channel. Here it
is right there. Could be a chunk of a coin. It's got some sort of design on
If it's a silver coin, that's treasure.
It's what we're looking for.
Be prepared to be gobstruck.
This is going to be special. This is quite pure. Yes, absolutely.
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
connected to the Knight 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.
At the sun rises above Oak Island.
How deep is this one? 240 again?
Yep.
Well, guys, I know we're pretty excited about starting this next hole. This is
F5 .5.
I think we're on a really important site right now. Right.
Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team are drilling deeper than ever in
the Money Pit area in search of the answers to a 230 -year -old mystery.
Because of the collapse last year, we were never able to really see what was
down there. Yeah. I think that the grid that we have laid out here right now to
explore deep down in the solution channel, we're going to find it if it's
That's right.
Today, the team has broken ground on a borehole known as F5 .5.
It is on target to reach a massive cavity underground known as the solution
channel. They believe it's possible the legendary money pit treasure fell here.
after two centuries of failed digging operations.
We're only about seven feet away from F4, and F4 had the highest levels of
and silver in the water.
Yeah, it makes this a really interesting hole because it's so close to the
precious metal finds in the water. I mean, that's one of the confirming
we have in front of us to show that there is a buried treasure here
Yeah, that brings to mind the Portuguese coin.
The team recently learned that a 14th century silver coin was reportedly found
in the original money pit in 1849.
And markings on the coin bear a direct connection to a Portuguese sect of the
Knights Templar.
This has given them fresh hope that the solution channel could now hold the
treasure and may explain the high traces of precious metals they've previously
detected in this area through water testing.
The fact that the solution channel could be the culprit in this whole long saga,
and the fact that the gold and silver in the water still indicate the treasure
still exists, you put those two things together, along with this Portuguese
coin, that speak very loudly that there was something very valuable buried deep
in the money pit a long time ago.
We're going to explore this area thoroughly with the sonic drill rig and
hopefully bring up what we could not with TB1 case on.
Anything that's fallen to that deeper level, we're going to be able to find it
and put it right on the money. For sure. Yep.
While the core drilling operation proceeds in the money pit area.
Come this way and dig that. Yeah.
Let's find something old. Yep.
Over at the western region of the swamp, Rick, Gary Drayton, and Billy Gerhardt
search for new clues and evidence of valuables.
Hold it. Whoa, whoa.
Don't move it.
Great condition.
The swamp really preserves wood.
Should preserve iron, gold and silver if we can find it. If we can find it.
It was right there. Yep.
Does that look like an oldie, Rick?
It is tough to tell.
It's eight sides, isn't it?
Yep. Why are all these snakes in here? I have no idea.
The number of snakes in a 50 by 50 foot area, it's almost overwhelming.
There's another one. They're coming out. What in the world is happening?
I would have expected them to be linear.
These are very erratic.
We've got something going on here.
Oh, yeah.
There shouldn't be this many in such a tight space.
And they're big, big stakes.
Maybe there's a construction that yet awaits us somewhere that is very well
-defined, very accurate, but we are currently unaware of it.
Yeah.
In recent years, the team has found similar wooden stakes in other areas of
swamp.
Some lined portions of a cobblestone path.
that led to an empty vault -like structure.
So could the numerous wooden stakes they're finding here lead them toward
another discovery?
I think here is sand.
Rock sort of under it.
Yeah.
Billy's observation of a sand layer indicates that this is an intentional.
man -made structure.
It was developed for some purpose. It's going somewhere. We need to find out
where and why.
On the edge, it looks very similar to the stone road. It looks very similar.
Either stone road or the paved area. Yeah. It's kind of upy -downy. Yeah.
like the paved area.
They're stacked.
They're level.
Yeah.
A rock feature here, similar to the stone road or massive paved area that
previously found in the swamp?
Seems like it goes back along there, yeah. See, there's rock, rock, rock.
Is it possible the team has uncovered another man -made feature?
No more interest in the area or in the swamp.
If this is a built rock something, that's a lot of work.
This construction is...
eerily similar to the paved area. You can't dismiss it.
Was it done by the same party or group?
It's still a puzzle.
Maybe we can get a hold of Dr. Spooner and have him come out and take a look.
Yeah.
The plan for the swamp really succinctly is to keep digging.
Find something that points to, you know, Rick's who, what, when, where, why, and
how. Or a clue that helps us unwrap the whole mystery.
And this feature could help us do that.
Well, again, Dig the sand. Be as least disruptive as possible to this, whatever
this is.
Wash this as best we can.
See what it tells us. Yes.
We need to get all of these states tested.
Well, you know, it's Pure Oak Island. More questions than answers, but...
Typical.
Okay. We'll keep looking.
Later that afternoon...
You know, we find ourselves back at the lab again. We have an interesting item
in front of us, and I really hope to learn more things today.
Rick, Gary, and Charles join Laird and Emma in the Oak Island Laboratory to
a scientific report on a lead artifact that was discovered while searching near
the border of Lot 5 one week ago.
Charles? I believe you were with Gary when this was found?
Yeah, I was with Gary.
We were kind of opposite where the rectangular feature is. I dug it and he
pulled it out and I think the way you described it was decorative lead.
Yeah. It's decorated as in the end.
Those beveled edges, it kind of reminds me of an arm of a cross.
We've found decorative pieces of lead before.
We've found a really cool scalloped disc.
on lot five and let's not forget the magnificent medieval cross from smith's
cove i've got i hope that this is gonna match one of those older pieces of lead
this lead artifact was found just a few yards from the stone foundation on
lot five where the team previously discovered a lead barter token that was
scientifically matched to the 14th century lead cross and both of which may
connected to the Knight Templar.
So Emma, what more can you tell us about this piece of lead?
Well, first off, I did do a bunch of map scans on the surface.
There are no intentional designs. There are variations, but I think that's more
from usage rather than like a decorative intent.
Prior to their meeting, Emma scanned the lead artifact using an X -ray
fluorescent spectrometer, or XRF, a device that uses non -destructive
that can identify an object's composition, as well as potentially help
its age.
Compositionally, it's a really clean lead. There is a consistent amount of
in it, but there's nothing in here that indicates modernity, as in there's
nothing that indicates that it's...
more recent lead alloys. So it has a good potential to be 1700s and older?
Really?
So it has potential to be 1700s and older?
Told you, mate. Told you this was going to be an old piece. You said that when
we were out there. So it is a curious piece.
In the Oak Island Laboratory, Emma has just shared a scientific report.
that suggests the lead artifact found one week ago may predate the discovery
the money pit by more than a century.
That notch at the top is strange.
Yeah, it is. It looks like attempted angular holes that didn't go all the way
through.
It wasn't recycled, so it's a fresh source of lead. It has high potential
being locally sourced. So these are all great candidates to send off for a laser
ablation analysis.
Brilliant, because I've got high hopes for this.
Laser ablation is a testing method that removes microscopic samples from the
surface of lead artifacts using a high -powered laser.
These samples are then analyzed to identify the exact isotope values
in the lead, which can help determine the time period and geographic region
where such artifacts originated.
It gives you the ore source, so it's a good thing. Yeah. And it will tell us if
there's a relationship to the cross.
Yeah. Using laser ablation testing, the team was able to determine that the lead
cross and the lead barter token Both dated to the 14th century and were from
area of southern France that served as a stronghold for the Knights Templar.
We're always looking for friends at the cross.
And it maybe helps you guys say what's going on in the rectangular feature.
Because it really was. It was dead opposite there, just across the tracks.
what you've said, this is quite pure.
Perfect candidate for laser ablation.
Do you want to carry the ball on that?
Yes, absolutely.
The three of us will go try to find more.
Yeah, but one more thing.
Be prepared to be gobstrucked. This is going to be special.
Thank you, Larry. Thank you very much. See you later.
The following morning, as borehole F5 .5 continues to make its descent
towards the solution channel.
So this is the feature, but one thing you need to recognize is that all of
cobble came from here as well.
Rick and other members of the team are eager to have geoscientist Dr. Ian
Spooner examine the mysterious stone feature that they uncovered in the
region of the swamp.
What you can see in front of you is rocks stacked on rocks, and the smaller
packed in around the big ones to make it smooth.
The other thing that we did find were stakes.
Okay.
Interesting, because if these stakes rot off the top like that, then that tends
to suggest further back in time.
What gets me excited is these rocks here.
They're exactly like we see in the cobble path, Stone Road.
What this reminds me of, too, along the side of the cobble path, we had piles of
stone, sometimes with a cut stake underneath.
suggesting that somebody put the stake there to tell workers where to put the
cobbles to build that feature.
So why were people here? What were they doing?
This might have been a pathway right through here.
Right.
You always take what you have learned in your past experiences on the island and
try to apply them to the current effort last year.
The cobble path led us to the most curious thing we found in the north end
the bog, the so -called vault.
Might there be another construction like that here?
That's the hope.
Just keep digging.
I would certainly, if you have the time, see if this is isolated.
It would be really interesting to see if we came across another feature that
might be similar.
It's interesting.
Well, our permits are under review.
Right. This is on the extremity of the permitted area.
Okay. And once that approval process is completed, we'll keep digging. So I
think we'll find more answers.
Yep. The only way you can do it, I think, is to go somewhere else if we get
permit and see if you find the same kind of cobble. Yeah.
To meet Nova Scotia's environmental regulations, the Oak Island team.
must apply for separate permits to dig in different areas of the swamp.
The area they are in now is on the border of where they are currently
search.
Your brother's going to love this, isn't he?
Another feature in the swamp.
Thank you, Ian. Appreciate it. While the team prepares new permit applications
for their work in the swamp.
There's so much activity on lot five, Rick.
Rick and Gary.
are searching for clues near the middle of Lot 5.
We're still east of the Roman coins, aren't we?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's no place like Rome.
After finding a mysterious lead piece nearby, they are eager to search an area
of Lot 5 where the team previously found evidence suggesting that Europeans
could have visited Oak Island as far back as the 13th century.
This includes... Six ancient Roman coins that coin expert Sandy Campbell
believes could be between 1 ,500 and 2 ,000 years old.
According to Sandy and other experts, coins like these were still being
circulated as everyday currency in Europe up until the 1400s.
Roman coins on an island in the North Atlantic? It's such a puzzle.
To think that someone was here in the 12, 13, 1400s with Roman coins is not a
stretch at all.
Perhaps they were dropped by people from the old world, people who were in
charge of safeguarding a treasure or treasures or something that was
valuable.
A little squeaker here, Rick.
There, please.
Come on.
Now let's
see what we've got.
Oh, what have we got here?
Another piece of lead.
You know, it's really heavy, and I actually think this is really, really
interesting. In fact, it's an elongated piece of lead.
That makes that more interesting. Something like this, you never know, it
be a match to an older piece of lead we've recovered.
Like that medieval lead cross.
We're going to have to bag this and put a flag in it because we don't know what
Emma's going to reveal when she scans this.
Another curiously shaped lead artifact?
Could Gary be correct that this might be a clue connected to the lead cross?
And perhaps even to the Roman coins found in this area of Lot 5.
Right, I'm going to put this in the bag and we'll put the flag in. Thank you.
It's going in the bag.
I think the work of Lot 5 has been exciting, interesting, dramatic.
And there has been an extensive amount of finds that show this place, this
story, this mystery goes further back in time than we had even thought.
Oh, not too bad sounding.
Not too shabby at all.
Fingers crossed.
Check it and see if we got it out.
That's not it, is it?
It is.
What have we got here, mate?
Look at that.
Ow!
Nice. What is it?
It's a handle to a pair of old scissors.
Oh.
While metal detecting near the middle of Lot 5 on Oak Island. See that?
One foot.
Gary and Rick have uncovered another potentially important clue.
Look at the fracture there. Yeah, you're right, Rick. It looks like it's broken
off, so there'll be another piece. Well, recheck the old. Yep. In fact, I can
see it now. Look at this.
That's the other side.
Look at that.
Yeah, they go together.
Now, wait a minute.
Oh, I wonder if they're not the same.
What do you think it is?
We need a second opinion.
Liv's down the lot.
Hey, Liv, check this out, please.
Quite a cool one, that. It is. Yeah, it really is. Here we are.
Hey, mate. How are you? We've just dug up a very curious artifact.
When this first piece came up, I was thinking scissors, old shears.
And then when the second piece came up, I was thinking, look at this.
I think this is something completely different. Look at that. I think this is
horse tassel, which is even cooler.
Looks like a bridal cheek piece.
Would it have been two either side of the cheeks?
Yeah.
That is really neat.
Part of a possible horse bridal.
Found on Lot 5?
While several lots on the island were inhabited by settlers and farmers before
1795, known records suggest the lot wasn't used either as farmland or
as a grazing area for horses.
So given the fact that the team has found artifacts in this area that could
back to medieval times and earlier, just how old is this horse bridle? And might
it help identify?
Who built the structures near the shoreline?
I mean, look at it. I mean, you can see it's crudely made. That's got to be raw
iron and an oldie.
Yeah, I can't imagine that being on an ox.
I think this is horse tack.
Yeah. I'd like to do more research on it.
Would you mind if I took it to the lab? Of course not, mate.
I'll put it in the bag.
All right.
Excellent.
All right, mate.
You deal.
As Rick and Gary continue their search on Lot 5.
Here we go.
Over in the Money Pit area.
Get ready to slice and dice, Terry.
Charles, Terry, and other members of the team monitor the core drilling
operation of borehole F5 .5, which has reached the solution channel.
Here we go, guys.
Here it comes.
206, Terry.
206, thank you. In bedrock at 204, yeah? 204, yeah. Thank you.
Let's carve it up. Here we go.
That's a more promising looseness.
Very, very watery.
Into which treasure could it be dropped?
So bedrock at 204, guy.
And above that looks like we've got some relatively loose material, which is a
good indication, proof of our general premise or idea that the potential of
material could fall in a solution channel.
I'm going to run the pinpointer over this.
Right in there.
Something in there.
Drop it.
There it is right there.
A little bit of iron something there. Wow.
It's a fleck of metal. That could be I don't want to say
coin, but it looks like a chunk of a coin.
It looks like a hot coin.
Really? It looks like a coin.
That's wild.
That's absolutely wild.
It's got some sort of design on it, too, it looks like.
You say there's a pattern on it, Peter?
There is.
I've got to make a phone call.
Absolutely. All right, I'm going to call my Uncle Rick.
Wow, that's very promising.
Yep.
Hey, guys.
Hello. How are you doing?
It was just as we pushed into bedrock, Rick. We hit bedrock at 204, about 204
.5, we came up with that artifact.
After hearing that something of potential interest was extracted from
solution channel... 204 .5 feet.
Rick and Scott arrive in the Money Pit area to join the investigation.
So we're sitting right on the bottom. And pushed in a bit, yeah. So we thought
it was a cut or split coin.
It's a small piece.
What is it?
The metal detector doesn't lie.
We're looking for precious metals.
At the bottom of the solution channel, it feels like a coin. I feel what Gary
calls roundness in my hand.
It could be significant.
It's what we're looking for.
It's a hard metal, for sure. And very dense.
Yeah.
Now, that's a button off the drill bit.
You can see, clearly, right size. There we are.
Sorry, guys.
You think it's a button bit?
Yeah, I do.
Unfortunately, the team is disappointed to learn that the find has turned out to
be a button that broke off from the end of a drill bit during a previous
drilling operation.
We're directly below case on...
So that could have came off last year's sonic drill program. So it could be a
break off from last year. And again, it could prove our principle that dense
material falls to the bedrock solution channel interface.
Yeah.
Go from a high to a low.
We're all disappointed because it's a piece of carbide off the drill bit.
But then I think, wait a minute here.
It's not really a low.
Something this small and insignificant.
has fallen to the bottom of the solution channel in the bedrock.
Proof, definitive proof, that even a possible coin could
fall to these depths at the bottom of the solution channel.
It's down there.
We just haven't found it yet. But we will.
You guys, I am extremely grateful.
But more work to do, so let's get after it. See you guys. See you guys.
See you guys.
As a new day begins on Oak Island, while ground is broken on a new borehole in
the Money Pit area.
So I'm hoping you guys can tell us what these finds are, or maybe it's just
one find.
Rick, Peter, and Gary arrive at the lab to receive Laird and Emma's report on
the possible horse bridle that was found one day ago on Lot 5.
When I saw it in the field and you put it together, I could see that being part
of the horse tack.
But in our research, we couldn't correlate it to anything like that.
Yeah.
Design -wise, so you have the two pieces. These are cross -sections right
that break. And one is more square.
The other is a little bit more rectangular. So that just wouldn't
come from the same break they were not connected as one yeah so they did break
off from the same object it's just the handles of scissors yeah that's what i
thought when the first piece came up yeah well it'd be interesting to see
the metallurgy is what does the actual data tell you yeah so the composition
there is a slight chlorine content fact that i am getting some sodium value
it does indicate it's been in prolonged contact with saltwater.
Wow. There's minimal impurities, which means pre -blast furnace. So it does
indicate it's 1700s. Okay.
Potentially late 1600s. Yeah. Good.
Is it possible that the team has found another artifact that could date back to
the 1600s on Lot 5?
If so, could it help identify?
Just who occupied the structures there more than a century before the discovery
of the money pit?
What country would this artifact be associated with?
It's most likely UK in origin.
You had, I remember, a book here of stylistically how shears changed over
years. Do you still have that?
I do.
Do you want to take a look?
That would be your closest.
It looks pretty identical to that. Yeah.
Mid -17th century.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That explains the sheer excitement we felt when we found
these.
Stylistically, they represent the period of the 1600s.
It certainly then raises the interest in the item.
Does it prove directly some connection to the money pit and the original work?
No. But neither does it say it can't be.
Look, let's be honest. There's two lots on this island that are incredibly
difficult to understand, right?
The Money Pit lot and Lot 5.
Given the enormity of finds, is it becoming clearer or more difficult to
establish what happened on 5?
Every little find like that brings us closer.
Every artifact we find tells a story.
And with finds like these, even though they're quite puzzling in the moment,
next find might help explain it. Exactly. We haven't finished in that
That's true.
It needs metal detecting.
And I say we go right now. Yeah. Okay.
Thank you. Great research.
Later that morning.
Come on. Let's have a signal.
Rick and Gary return to Lot 5.
What do we do here, Gary?
Yeah, well, that's metal detecting.
You've got to do the legwork, and all of a sudden, you find something good. Like
yesterday. Yeah, exactly.
Big old boulders around here.
It's a place where people can sit and lose artifacts.
There's... Potential in the air.
Oh, yeah.
Looks like I've been here before. There's a flag in here.
What the heck is this, Rick?
That circular feature there.
Maybe... I think we can see in there.
Definitely circular stones.
Is it hollow in there?
No, but it's definitely full of stone.
Seems odd, doesn't it?
Circular pattern of rocks.
Nothing there, huh?
No, no metal.
But it's interesting as hell, isn't it?
I wonder what this was for.
I see in front of us a rock that's standing on edge.
There appears to be a circle of rock around it. It does look as though they
placed with intent.
Maybe we've found another feature. We may have another stone structure on Lot
That is worth investigating.
You could peel the layers of rocks away and see if this is a real structure.
I think it's worth having Laird come down and see if there's anything there.
Yeah.
Definitely worth checking out.
This might be the find of the day.
Yep.
What do we have?
I wish I could say I know what we're looking at, but I do know that Gary and
put eyes on this. Yeah, it's certainly an interesting feature.
Following the discovery of a possible man -made stone feature near the center
Lot 5, Rick calls in Laird Niven to get his assessment.
Gary did metal ticking here. I just poked my shovel in here, and I think...
just being weird because there's not a lot of dirt.
Yeah, the rocks are piled up and then everything accumulates on top.
The shape that hits me first, right, it seems to be circular, lined with large
rocks.
That upright flat rock in the middle, it's like you're putting it there to
signify something, which is pretty cool.
So it's done with purpose.
This was a stone that was deliberately placed upright, and my immediate thought
was that that was done...
To mark a location.
This location isn't marking the boundaries of land.
What's interesting is on this lot, there are stone circular formations, right?
Yeah. And now we have another one here.
I mean, we have the Roman coins. We don't understand how they got here. This
help explain some of that mystery.
Could this stone formation have been built by the same people?
who constructed the large, rounded feature near the shoreline?
If so, could it somehow be connected to the Roman coins that have been found in
this area?
If this is a marker or a monument, this might be a very significant find. We
have found a multitude of items that are unexplainable. The list of it goes on
and on and on. So might there be something quite unique and interesting
this?
This location?
Yes, certainly.
Well, you know, I'd certainly clear it off, bring the team in, and then
bisecting it. I think that's certainly worth doing.
I'm excited over this. I mean, this could very well be our next big feature.
We won't know what it is until you actually do the work. And any day that
dig something up on Oak Island is a good day. Good day. Best day ever.
Okie doke.
While Laird prepares to investigate the new stone feature on Lot 5.
Later that afternoon... I'm going to say something that my brother would never
say. Beautiful day in the swamp.
Yep, it's good to be out.
You bet.
You're going here, right?
Yes. Rick, Gary, and Billy return to the swamp.
If you look over here...
That's where we found the stakes and some cobble, roughly, between those two
tall trees.
Right. The hope here is that they carry through to this area.
While they await a new permit to continue investigating the stone feature
western region, they have moved to an area 40 feet to the north, where they
currently free to search.
We're roughly on that line right now.
What we need is an artifact.
More artifacts.
Let's see what we find. Yep.
We are now digging in the southwest corner in the second permitted area. The
idea was to follow the cobble area, we'll call it.
One of the most unexplored areas is the western side of the swamp.
So hopefully there are answers here within the bog.
What kind of charcoal is it?
Is it charcoal, Rick?
I mean, it should do that if it's charcoal, right?
Yeah.
It was right there.
Yeah.
See that little piece? Grab that.
Yeah, that looks like charcoal.
And I remember the archaeologist found charcoal on the stone road.
That was the one consistent thing we found. We found that even all the way
the path. Yeah.
The team has previously discovered charcoal in the southeast corner on the
road, which may be Portuguese in origin and more than 500 years old.
You have a bag?
Yeah, I've got a bag.
Finding more potential charcoal here is intriguing and suggests a possible
connection between the two features.
I'm sure Adela can tell us right away whether it is or not. We'll find out. If
it can be dated.
to a much earlier time that's interesting in and of itself i've got it
bag i think this sample in particular should be sent to the lab to see if it
aligns with the charcoal that was found on the stone road and the stone path
because then possibly there's a connection
we
got some iron here by the sound of it
Let me pinpoint it, Rick.
We've got a net here, and look how it's right at the side of that boulder.
Think it's out, Rick?
Oh, that's an umdinger of a signal.
We'll have a better look.
Look at that.
Look at that.
Yep. Look at the way it tapers down.
In the western region of the Oak Island Swamp, the Oak Island team has just made
another potentially interesting discovery.
Does it have a notch on top?
You know what?
It does.
Yeah.
Why would it have a notch?
Unless this is broken off, there's a hole in it.
Heavy? Oh, yeah, it's really heavy.
This is anforged, raw iron.
Yeah, this is an old piece of iron.
This is something different.
What the heck is this?
If it is hollow and yet you're saying it's heavy, that's even more
Yeah, but that is unusual.
One end appeared to be hollow.
The other end appeared to have a raised diagonal.
That seems strange.
I just don't know what it is.
It's a unique find.
It's not a piece of rebar.
and it needs to go to the lab.
The way it tapers down, it could be like a Petronel, a really old gun from the
1500s, 1600s.
They were very early weapons.
Just one single shot.
A CT scan's really going to be enlightening, but why else would it be
Yeah.
Petronels date back to as early as the 14th century.
They were a short, single -shot firearm commonly used by European militaries
before the invention of long -barreled muskets in the mid -1600s.
Thanks to their compact size, Petronelles were often used by soldiers
riding on horseback.
Is it possible that Gary has found new evidence of a military presence on Oak
Island back in the 1600s or earlier? If so...
Just whose military was it?
Definitely interesting.
Yeah. And what's it doing here?
That's a special find. This could be a smoking gun, literally.
You want so badly to find something that can be tied
intimately to another area of the island that has a proper association
with the search for answers or search for treasure.
We need to do more work in the area to try to understand that story in its
totality. We are going to go back to that lab with a really fantastic effect.
It's pretty peculiar, and to unravel this story, we better get on the ball.
Anyway, tomorrow, another day. Good job. Good digging, Billy.
We've still got a lot of ground to cover.
As another exciting week ends on Oak Island, new finds.
offer Rick, Marty, and their team more validation that something extraordinary
took place here centuries ago.
And while their search for the answers is far from over, they are determined to
reveal the truth.
Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
All right, well, this is the neighborhood, guys. I mean, this is
Central. There's multi -evidence of something happening here long ago.
Hopefully there's some old gold and silver.
We've got a stone structure here. Somebody piled those stones.
So if somebody put this here, somebody went into some trouble.
It could be a 1500 hand cannon.
We're right here.
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