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[narrator] Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

[Steve] This structure is very different.

If it's a marker, then there's at least one other one.

-[Marty] Well, let's find it. -Wait, look at this.

-[Gary] Another marker stone. -What?

[Katya] This was found on Lot 15.

[Carmen] It's an engineering tool.

And that may be the most sophisticated item

-that has shown up. -[Charles] We have a core, gentlemen.

-The core? -Could be the core.

-[rapid beeping] -Yeah, I got something right here.

-That is pretty much what we're looking for. -[Rick] Incredible.

[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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[Terry] Okay, guys.

I-9.5. Here we are.

We're looking to get to the deeper sections

-of the solution channel. -That's right.

[narrator] As the sun rises high above the Money Pit area

on Oak Island, Rick and Marty Lagina's team

move forward in their quest to solve a 230-year-old mystery.

We've picked up the points where it's deepest,

and this is gonna be one of them.

Destination for this hole is 210 to 220. Right, Steve?

[Steve] Yeah, that's right. 220,

maybe even 230 feet deep.

Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michel fully believe

that those metal deposits are placed by man,

not natural,

-in the waters themselves. -[Terry] Exactly so.

-A very exciting hole. -Yeah.

[narrator] Today, they are drilling a new borehole

known as I-9.5,

which is on target to reach an unexplored area

of the solution channel.

And based on new water tests that reveal gold,

silver, and other metal objects may be in this area,

the team has renewed hope that they are narrowing in

on the elusive treasure.

[Alex] When we get down there,

we should be looking for really soupy material.

Yeah. Hopefully we'll drill through

some loose coins at the bottom of a very loose and soupy area.

-Yeah. -[Marty] I am a little bit disappointed

by the initial speed of drilling in the solution channel,

but the significance

of the precious metals and others dissolved in the waters

has never been diminished.

-[whirring] -We have a core, gentlemen.

[Marty] There's lots of indications that

there is a great treasure here still.

168.

Thank you.

At this point,

it looks like we've got fairly loose material,

but it's not as really as watery

and washed-out as we would like to see.

[Charles] Thanks, Adam.

It's kind of what we wanted. It's loose.

But there's just too much volume here.

It wouldn't allow things to fall through.

It looks like we're into, uh...

a little bit of gypsum now.

It's not solid stuff. But if he starts out

and it starts getting into very firm material,

he's probably into the bedrock plateau.

[Alex] I think that's kind of what we're hoping for,

because, so far, most of the collapses we've observed

have been right on the edge of the bedrock plateau.

So if we're looking for a-a cavity underneath

that-that maybe remained open long enough

to swallow up the Money Pit,

then it should be right there.

I think that bodes well, as you say.

Now, let's hope that this is just the edge

of the most distant protrusion out into the solution channel

and we've just caught a little boulder.

[Steve] At this point,

I would've assumed it would've tagged into something.

But those metals still come back positive,

and they give me a lot of hope that we're in the right spot.

We just haven't tagged it yet.

Every core could be the one that breaks through.

And then we're into the solution channel

and potential treasure depth.

[Terry] Absolutely.

[narrator] As the drilling operation continues...

...several hundred yards to the west on Lot 5...

-[Tansy] Hopefully we find something cool soon. -Yeah.

...members of the team search for new clues

in the round stone foundation,

one of several mysterious structures

that have been uncovered on this lot

and which could help identify just who occupied it

before the discovery of the Money Pit.

[Tansy] Oh, wow.

We got more pearlware.

Oh, nice. You can bag it up and clean it.

[Laird] What's satisfying for my job

is when we find a piece of pottery like this,

it proves to us

that people were on Lot 5 doing work in the early 1700s.

But things like the different buttons we're finding indicate

that this feature could potentially be

a lot older than we thought.

So we're starting to perhaps build a picture of...

a very early occupation on Oak Island.

Hey. Found a bead.

Oh, wow. Good eyes.

Hey, Laird.

Come check this bad boy out.

[Laird] All righty.

What is it?

-[singsongy] It's little. -Ooh.

-Oh, nice. -It's a bead.

[Laird] And it's from Venice.

-It's from Murano. -You can tell

-just from looking at it? -Yeah.

Stylistically and we've done analysis on the other ones.

[Tansy] So how old

-would one like that be? -Well,

th-the tradition of beadmaking in Murano goes back, like,

hundreds of years.

But the beads could speak more to theories

about the Knights of Malta having a presence on Oak Island.

[narrator] This is now the sixth Venetian bead

that the team has found in this feature.

And, curiously, these ornate beads,

which were also used as currency

between the 12th and 19th centuries,

have been potentially linked to a group known

as the Knights of Malta,

a religious order related to the Knights Templar

who established a stronghold

just 15 miles south of Oak Island in 1632.

It's got red and blue inserts.

The base glass is, uh, white.

It's great that we're finding this variety of beads.

Three of the same type kind of makes you think...

-Someone's necklace broke. [laughs] -Yeah.

And there's more out there.

They were used for trade,

but-but they were also worn by the people

that, uh, brought them over.

So that's pretty cool.

I don't find a lot of beads, so I'm always excited

-when we get a bead. -[laughs]

Cool.

Like it a lot. Good job and good eyes.

Keep up the good work.

[narrator] Later that afternoon...

[Rick] So, what you see before us,

it's curious. I don't know what to make of it.

...Rick and Marty join other members of the team

in the research center to discuss

another curious discovery on Lot 5--

a man-made stone marker

found just three weeks ago.

Gary was metal detecting, uh,

and we came across this and we both went,

"Well, that's strange."

[narrator] And to help their investigation,

Laird has created a 3D model of the feature.

[Laird] I did a drone-based 3D model

of the split stone feature.

I fly the drone around at different angles,

different heights, and take a lot of photographs.

And then I bring all of those photographs back into the lab,

and I have a program that will reconstruct everything.

Very similar to the reconstruction of a CT scanner.

And in the end, we have this beautiful 3D model,

so we can show all angles and all heights and get a really

much better idea of what this split stone looks like.

Laird, what can you tell us about it?

Well, it was... the stone sticking out,

like, that much from the ground.

Looked like a standing stone.

And then we found a much larger rock

beside the standing stone.

If we flip it up, you can see how the rock was sitting.

[Steve] Mm-hmm.

[Marty] Yeah, I don't see a natural way

-for that to happen. -No. -No.

[Laird] So, a hole was dug.

It was placed in the hole, propped up,

and then surrounded by rocks.

[Marty] I don't have the expertise to say

that it was 100% placed,

but the people who do have that expertise tell me that.

So the scientific finding is that that boulder was placed.

Okay, to me, there's only two alternatives.

It was placed to cover something up

or it was placed to be a marker of some sort.

We need to figure out which of those it is.

We did get this dark organic soil underneath the rock.

And as I was removing that,

we got this lone piece of wood

that is being sent for C-14.

[Steve] The dating on that will be important.

Could be quite significant to figuring out who was on Lot 5.

Because I went back through

some of my old survey stuff last night,

and this structure is very different.

And so I had to go way, way back in time

to find structures like this.

This formation was typically used by the Romans

-or later by the Vikings. -[Marty] Really?

[Rick] Wow.

This formation was typically used by the Romans or Vikings

-as a marker. -Really?

-Yeah. -[narrator] In the research center,

Steve Guptill has revealed

that the man-made stone formation

near the middle of Lot 5

could be an ancient surveying marker of European design.

[Steve] This marker could go back hundreds,

if not thousands of years.

And so it's used for two things.

It's used as a marker stone to say

you're on a, you know, like, a Roman road.

You're at 100-mile point.

Or it's used to claim land. So they put it

on an area of significance to say,

-"This is ours." -[Scott] Which one used it to claim their land?

The Romans.

The Vikings were more so "We were here."

[Marty] Right. So it was purposeful?

Yeah. Oh. 100%.

What else has been found so far in that area?

We've got six Roman coins within a 250-foot radius of this.

-Yeah. -[Doug] You know, one thing we learned

on our research trips,

tracking Templar movement all over Europe,

oftentimes Viking settlement sites

had Roman coins associated

-in those settlement sites. -Yeah.

[narrator] In 2023...

[Roberto] There is a cave that I would like to show you.

-[Alex] Great. -[Rick] Absolutely.

...members of the team traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland,

to investigate the theory

that descendants of Vikings and members of the Knights Templar

hid sacred treasures on Oak Island

as early as the 12th century.

As you can see, there is a cross with a circular top.

-[Doug] Oh. -[Rick] Wow.

-We've seen that before. -[Alex] Oh, yeah.

[narrator] And while visiting sites

where some believe the two groups traveled together,

they saw not only a carving of a cross

that matches the 14th century cross found at Smith's Cove...

[Doug] Do you know the years the coins were issued?

Yeah, this is fourth century.

-Fourth century? Yeah. -Yeah. -Well, that's great.

...but were also shown a number of Roman coins

found at the same site matching the six coins

that were found on Lot 5.

Is it possible that the stone marker,

which Steve believes has a connection to both the Romans

and the Vikings, may be another clue

that could support this theory?

[Marty] Is this oriented

-to north right now? -[Steve] Yes.

It's just common knowledge, too.

You would never put your next marker out of sight.

You have to see between the two.

-There should be another one? Yeah. -Exactly. Yeah.

[Steve] I went out and surveyed the orientation of...

...the six-foot diameter with the rocks sitting in the center,

um, and that's the orientation of the face on top.

[Marty] If you project that line,

-does it hit anything? Okay. -Nothing as of yet.

When we were out there on the site, you said, "Let's walk it."

-I think we should. -Yeah. -[Steve] Yeah, yeah.

-[Laird] Yeah. -There might be another one of these

-or something even more important. -I know.

And then that would really clinch it, wouldn't it? Yeah.

[Rick] It could be highly relevant to...

some of the early work that was done on this island.

It might have some association to Nolan's Cross

and to the five stone cairns.

But a more valuable aspect of this find

is this--

how many other structures like this have we walked past?

How many other structures are there yet to be found?

How many other things have we missed

in our ongoing daily efforts to try to solve this mystery?

Think we've got a little bit of work we can do.

Let's walk that line

and then follow where it leads.

-Yeah. -And of course we'll bring Gary and we'll detect it.

-Okay. Let's go. -[Laird] All right.

-See you later. -[Doug] See you, guys.

[Tom] See you.

[narrator] The next day...

[Steve] All right.

Back at the marker stone. So, what I'd like

-to do is walk southeast. -[Peter/Gary] Okay.

...Steve and other members of the team

prepare to find out if the possible stone marker on Lot 5

might point them to an even greater discovery.

[Steve] Because we're in pretty thick woods,

what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna set my control point

behind this stone and we're gonna run a line of sight

until Ethan can't see us anymore.

Then what we'll do is we'll move him to that location

and we'll keep going on that line.

[Gary] And what is this station? What does it do?

Total station. It does the exact same thing my GPS does.

-It just doesn't use satellites. -Okay.

It uses ground control, and it's great

for situations like this, where you can't get

-a signal because of the trees. -Okay, mate.

-[Steve] We'll get set up. -Yep. -[Peter] Okay.

-You need this, I assume? -Yep. I do.

I need you to hold that, Ethan.

What I plan to do is use my total station,

create a-a control line, we'll call it.

I plan to move it every couple hundred yards so we can survey

a perfectly straight line, looking for

another control point or marker stone.

This is essentially a land version of my GPS.

So this is the satellite, essentially.

And this is my...

what you'd see me run around with the GPS.

And I got to tell you, mate-- I'm a little bit jealous.

I've got my magic wand,

-but that looks better. -[laughter]

-All right. I'm ready to go when you guys are. -Let's do it.

You tell me where, Ethan.

Yeah, more right. More right.

There you go.

Perfect.

-[Steve] All right, Gary. Here's our first location. -Okay, mate.

[Steve] So, you know, we go a couple hundred yards.

We've got Peter and I cutting line.

We got Gary metal detecting.

And that's important because if this truly is

a line of significance, anything he finds

could really be a big clue

of what this marker stone could've been

-or who could've walked this line. -[beeping]

[Gary] Pete, got a target over here, mate.

We're not too far off the line.

[beeping]

-[Gary mutters] -Iron, right?

-Yeah. -[high-pitched beeping]

A little...

...little piece of strap.

-Mm-hmm. -You see that?

Square hole in it.

-Whoa. -It could be

-a barrel loop. -It looks pretty thin.

[Gary] Yeah.

I like this little piece of strap.

We've had some amazing results from pieces of strap

that we found around the island.

And, of course, if you're looking for treasure

and it's in a large barrel,

they would've had iron straps around 'em.

-Just put it in my pouch. -Sounds good.

It's going back to the lab.

Okay, mate. We'll keep following the line.

[Steve] All right, Gary. I'll keep moving.

[Gary] Okay, mate.

[narrator] As the team continues their search for clues...

[Rick] You know, the item in front of us, I think,

could be highly informative.

...in the Oak Island Lab, Rick and other members of the team

meet with Laird and Emma regarding a possible compass

found one week ago on Lot 15.

-Yeah. So, this was found closer to the beach. -Mm-hmm.

-[Doug] So you found it up on the bank? -Yeah.

When we pulled it out, I mean,

we originally thought it was a compass of some sort.

-You weren't wrong. -Yeah.

It's what we'd call a compass.

Just like someone navigating on a map would use.

Exactly. It's a-a tool either for navigating.

-It-it can be used in construction. -[Rick] Really?

[narrator] Dating back more than 2,000 years,

a compass is an instrument used for measuring distances on maps

and to design various kinds of structures on land

such as buildings and even megalithic formations.

[Emma] So these are images

with all the corrosion on. So what you're seeing

is what's on the screen right now.

The side views.

The back view.

But this is what you can see in the interior.

You see one arm. A pin.

This is the other arm.

So there's two components

with one pin holding them together.

But it's hand-forged.

And I got a fairly good comparable

of this specific design.

-[Katya] Oh. -[Doug] Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah.

What date are you putting on this?

[Emma] So, no signs

of modern alloying elements,

so it kind of takes it away from the mid-1800s onwards.

-Oh, wow. -[Katya chuckling]

That's interesting.

[Rick] Pictures are fantastic.

[Emma] So 18th century or the 1700s.

Very comfortably fits within there.

But, I mean, there's nothing to say that it's not from

mid to late 1600s.

Possibly older.

[Doug] That's interesting.

[Emma] I mean, there's nothing to say that it's not from

mid to late 1600s.

-Possibly older. -Wow.

[narrator] In the Oak Island Lab,

Laird and Emma are revealing

that the compass found on Lot 15 could date back

more than a century before the discovery of the Money Pit.

-[Doug] That's interesting. -[Rick] Yeah, very interesting.

You said yourself it's a construction tool.

-Yeah. -Lot 15 is in close proximity

to the Boulderless Beach and the stone cairns.

To me, the stone cairns

-are made by the hand of man. -[Laird] Mm-hmm.

[narrator] The stone cairns were a formation

of five pyramid-shaped mounds

that Fred Nolan documented in the early 1960s on Lot 15

before they were destroyed by treasure hunting activities.

In 2023, archaeoastronomy expert Professor Adriano Gaspani

shared peer-reviewed research suggesting the cairns

had been designed to perfectly align

with stars in the night sky during the 13th century.

And when the team visited a site in Bornholm, Denmark,

possibly connected to the Knights Templar

and descendants of Vikings...

I have the picture here of the stone cairns.

I'd say it's almost identical.

...they were stunned to find a petroglyph

of the exact same formation.

[Rick] I think in order to create the stone cairns,

which are just uphill from the find,

you would need measuring devices.

You would have to draw a map

of what you intend to-to accomplish

with distances, measurements, orientations, alignments.

Well, this is a measuring device.

A device such as this would have been needed

to actually create these constructions.

Here we have a construction on top

of the hill that needed to be laid out rather precisely.

And we have a tool that would've assisted in devising a plan

to create these constructions.

We always seek to connect the dots

in terms of what's found here.

So it's a great find.

But I think I'd really like Carmen to take

-a look at that. But at the end of the day... -Yeah.

...the search agenda continues.

And thus we have work to do, as do you in the lab.

-We do. -So we really appreciate it. -Thank you, guys.

-[overlapping chatter] -[Laird] Good luck.

[narrator] As Rick ends the meeting in the lab...

-[Peter] Steve, look at this. -[Steve] What's that?

This rock right here.

Would it be any sort of marking?

It could be.

[narrator] ...near the bottom of Lot 8,

Steve and the team continue searching for clues

along a straight line from the possible marker stone

on Lot 5.

For me, there'd be some type of mark on it,

because, again, we have so many

boulders and stones on this island,

-and this doesn't have any. -Okay.

But, uh, over the next 20 or 30 feet,

we're at the highest point, so if we're gonna find

a marker stone in line of sight, it could be somewhere in here.

-Wow. -So, good eyes, Peter.

-Let's keep going. -Okay.

[Steve] Any time I see a boulder, you have to take

a double look, because some of them have turned out to be

substantial pieces of evidence left by somebody.

So, anytime that we come across something

that looks like it's been placed by man,

we have to investigate it.

So, we are now moving into, I would say, Lot 27.

[Peter] Keep your eye out for rocks.

Okay, I'll turn around here.

Wait. Look at this.

[Gary laughs] Oh, man. I just walked straight over that.

[Peter] That looks like a drilled stone.

[Gary] Yep.

And they found drilled stones like this before,

in the Money Pit.

[narrator] A drilled stone found on Lot 27?

In 1895, treasure hunter Frederick Blair

found a drilled stone just north of the original Money Pit.

Over four decades later, in 1937,

Gilbert Hedden found another near Smith's Cove

on a perfect east-west alignment from Blair's discovery.

[Peter] Steve, do you know anything

about this, what looks like drilled stone?

Actually, I do. So, a few years ago,

Rick and I were doing some work out here.

He found it, came out and surveyed it,

but we had nothing to tie it to.

-But now we do. -Yeah.

[narrator] Is it possible

that the team has just found a connection

between the feature on Lot 5 and this drilled stone?

[Steve] Every time we've found a marked stone,

or a drilled stone, it represents something.

And it's a point of interest that usually is followed up

by another point of interest,

-and they project to an area. -Yeah.

So, this is a really important spot,

but I suspect that we'll find an artifact

or a marker stone anywhere between

where we are now and just up over the hill.

-Perfect. All right. -[Gary] Okay. -[Steve] All right, guys.

-Follow me and we'll keep moving. -Okay. -Okay.

[Peter] This drilled stone connects

to the Lot 5 marker feature.

So, it makes the marker feature

way more important,

and I'm excited to see where it might go.

[Steve] All right, guys. So, I got us back on line,

and I can actually do it with my GPS

-now that we're in the open. -Okay.

-[Gary] What lot are we on, Steve, now? -We-we are currently

standing on 28, on the western side of the island.

And do we know any features in this area?

Oh, absolutely.

We're heading right towards Kingdom Stone.

-Okay. -So, Kingdom is part of the Tree of Life,

and a lot of theorists work with the Tree of Life

-and Nolan's Cross. -Yeah.

[narrator] The Kingdom Stone?

[Petter] There is a coded map I found,

and it will lead you to the ultimate point X.

[narrator] In 2013,

Norwegian Freemason and researcher Petter Amundsen

proclaimed that the six megalithic boulders

that form Nolan's Cross

may actually be part of a larger feature

that included four additional buried boulders

known as the Tree of Life,

an ancient religious symbol

comprised of ten points, or sefirot,

that was highly revered by the Knights Templar.

Yeah. This is it. Good.

[narrator] To prove his theory,

Petter, along with Marty and Alex,

uncovered the sefirot at the base of the formation

known as the Kingdom Stone.

It was only half of a small boulder

that appeared to have been precisely cut in two.

And because it was such a potentially historic find,

the team reburied it for preservation.

[Steve] I mean, as you can see here, we've done a lot of work

-in this area over the years. -Yeah.

So, Kingdom Stone is buried here.

-Okay. -So, you can see along our projection,

it's pretty close.

-Actually, it's probably... -Probably...

-...on the projection from the drilled stone. -Mm-hmm.

What we're seeing here is, if this lines up with Kingdom,

it could've been a reference point

for building out Nolan's Cross and the Tree of Life.

-Is that possible? -Absolutely.

Usually, when you can line two or three items up

on a linear projection, it was done on purpose.

-Yeah. -[Peter] Okay.

I'm gonna get my Uncle Rick to come meet us

-at that drilled stone. -I think that's a good idea.

Gary] I'm sure he's gonna love it.

-[Steve] Oh, here comes Rick now. -[Peter] Yeah.

-You remember this, don't you, Rick? -I do.

[narrator] On Lot 27 of Oak Island,

Rick joins the team to investigate

a stone with a curious drilled hole

and which sets on a perfect southeast line

from the stone marker on Lot 5.

[Rick] So, the question, then, to you is,

were you able to project any lines off

other drilled stones or features in the area?

Yes. If you project this line

from Lot 5 to here, we cut through Kingdom Stone.

-What? -Yeah, isn't that crazy to think of?

[Gary] I mean, who would have thought the Kingdom Stone

was connected to that monument marker there on Lot 5?

-Huh. -[Peter] This drilled stone

is near the middle of the island,

-at one of the highest points. -[Steve] That's right.

You want your survey points at high locations,

because it's line of sight.

-Mm-hmm. -So, this becomes a piece

that you pivot on.

Maybe we project to Nolan's Cross,

maybe we project to the cairns,

maybe we project to the drilled stones

in the Money Pit and look for more clues.

So, it becomes a big network for me to work with.

-Mm-hmm. -[Steve] This line

from the marker stone, through the drilled stone,

it hits Kingdom Stone.

That ties to Nolan's Cross,

which could be part of a bigger network

and something significant to figuring out

where this treasure is.

So, right now, it's pretty exciting.

[Rick] It's difficult to put your mind back and say

men in white robes with red crosses

emblazoned on their chests were here on this island,

but the kind of planning, information

and network of infrastructure needed,

it conjures up the idea that it was

significantly important to whomever was designing it.

-Mm-hmm. -[Rick] Digging and drilling

is part of the search agenda, but only part.

We're building a body of evidence that someone

went to a lot of planning, logistics and effort to create,

possibly, an island-wide map on the ground.

It reaffirms my belief,

all these many years,

that digging and drilling alone

will not solve the Oak Island mystery.

Maybe the answers are in the ground.

[Rick] Everything builds on something else,

and sometimes, the most innocent observation presents

some stunning opportunities to learn more and to do more.

Let's see what we find.

-Let's see what we find. Absolutely. -[Peter] Yep.

-I say we get going. -All right. Sounds good.

[Steve] I'll follow you.

[narrator] As another exciting day begins on Oak Island...

-[Terry] How you doing, Rick? -[Rick] Where are we?

I think we could see an open, washed area

with, effectively, a void down below.

-And that's what we're looking for, for sure. -Right.

[narrator] ...Rick arrives at the Money Pit area

where Borehole I-9.5

may be close to entering the solution channel.

We have a core, gentlemen.

-The core? -Could be the core.

-Let's hope it's the core. -Okay.

[Terry] He went from 185.5 to 209ish,

so he's gonna have probably about 20 feet

in the core barrel.

So, we got an anaconda coming our way.

[Rick] Every time you open a core,

what you're hoping is that you will find the one thing,

given the fact that, you know,

there are detectable levels of precious metals at the depth.

Get that pinpointer ready, Charles.

Right there.

[Steve] And that's really what we're looking for.

Really loose material.

You like to see that. That's just falling out.

[Terry] Let's hope we get some gold in the mud.

[Adam M.] Okay, choke it off here.

[Rick] But what is most important is the soil.

Meaning, would a treasure fall through

the type of soils that we've encountered?

That's the hope. So...

It's an interesting location, but at the end of the day,

something has to come up from the core.

Which one do you want? You want that, Terry,

-or do you want that to come to me? -This is the top?

[Steve] Yes.

So, that's 209, Terry.

209. Let's be hopeful.

That is pretty much what we're looking for.

It is, yeah. It's very loose.

Very loose.

If, uh, if nothing else, this is proof

that the soft material hangs out right under the ledges

-in the solution channel. -[Rick] Yep.

I'll spread this apart for you, Charles,

and then we'll let you get at it with the... the pinpointer.

Now, that's probably the start of our bedrock right there.

Okay. Okay, I'm gonna run the pinpointer over this.

Okay.

[pinpointer beeps]

I got something right here, guys.

You know, you get fooled sometimes

by the-the screws in the table.

-[Steve] Let's take it over. -Yeah.

[Terry] Here we go.

-Watch it, Terry. -Yep.

[Alex] Watch yourself.

Good? Good?

-Nicely done. -[Terry] Here we go.

[pinpointer beeping rapidly]

[Charles] Yeah, I got something right here.

-[Steve] Oh, wow. -Right here.

[Terry] Okay. Whoa.

-[pinpointer beeping rapidly] -I have something right here.

-[Steve] Oh, wow. -[Terry] Okay.

[narrator] While the team investigates a drilling core

taken from 209 feet deep in Borehole I-9.5,

Charles is detecting a possible metal object.

[pinpointer beeping]

-Right there. -[Terry] Whoa.

[Charles] Somewhere.

It's gone.

Just give this another sweep through.

I-I got nothing.

[Terry] It is what it is.

[Rick] Well, you know, to be safe,

we could have Katya come up and...

-Yeah. -...just run the Manticore over here.

-Yep. -[Rick] And you know for certain.

Absolutely. Let's do it.

[Rick] It's exciting in the moment.

There's something here that is

making the pinpointer react,

but I don't understand how the signal disappeared.

It's very curious. I don't know what it means,

so we need to call in Katya

and test the entire sample.

The entire drill core.

-[Katya] Hi, guys. -[Alex] Hey, Katya. -[Rick] Hey.

-[Charles] Hey, Katya. -[Terry] Katya, how you doing?

Good. What do we have here?

Well, Katya, I was getting a hit, but then I got

a harder signal right here, a more stronger signal.

-Mm-hmm. -If you could go over it again, just to confirm?

-See if there's something there? -Sure. Yeah.

[Rick] Let's just lift it up and put it on the garbage cans.

Let's start with the pinpointer.

[pinpointer beeps]

[beeping rapidly]

-There we go. -Wow. -There we are.

[Alex] If you want to start

separating it out, you can use that.

[beeping continues]

[Charles] So, there was something there.

-See, this is what happened to us. -Yeah.

[pinpointer beeping rapidly]

It's just fine stuff in here,

that when you get big clumps of it

and it's concentrated...

-[Alex] Mm-hmm. -...it'll go crazy.

We're looking for little flecks of gold.

Could that possibly be ground up in that?

-We've found it in other samples. -Yeah.

This could definitely be something

really interesting here.

[Alex] If there's gold dust in those bags,

that could be part of the treasure.

-There you go. -So, that could also be an indicator

that we're getting really close, if it's in there.

-Yep. -[Terry] Bingo.

So, it's all the more reason to send this off to the lab.

-Sure, yeah. -I have a bag here,

so we're gonna get a sample and get it back to the lab.

-[Alex] Okay. -[narrator] Is it possible

that the team has recovered traces of precious metals

in soils collected from the solution channel?

If so, could that mean they may be closing in

on the legendary treasure?

[Rick] There's no apparent gold coin or anything like that,

but something of metallic nature is in that core.

Hopefully, the lab can confirm

if it is gold or silver.

If this is some sort of metal,

especially if it's fine flakes of gold or whatever it is,

you'd put a caisson shaft over this.

-Oh, yeah. -No question about it. -[Charles] Yeah.

So, there's reasons to be hopeful,

but there's also reasons to give it your due diligence.

[Terry] Absolutely.

-[Rick] Thank you, Katya. -[Katya] Of course.

I'm hoping you guys have some success on this.

[Alex] Yeah, me, too.

[narrator] Later that morning...

[Carmen] Well, look here. How you doing?

-[Craig] Hey, Carmen. -Found something else?

Yes, sir, we did.

[narrator] ...in the Oak Island Lab,

members of the team meet with blacksmithing expert

Carmen Legge.

So, this was found on Lot 15.

[narrator] While they await soil test results

on the Money Pit core, they have asked Carmen

to examine the tool found on Lot 15

to help determine just how old it could be.

And when I pulled it up, I thought it was, like,

a compass, a navigation tool of sorts.

I'll have a look.

Well, it's not a compass.

What it is is a divider.

It's an engineering tool.

Dividers were used a lot on planning

structures or developing structures

from maps or plans.

Also, if you measure the diameter of something,

you determine the circumference of whatever it is.

[Marty] So, a divider is, if I understand

what you're saying, aren't really that much different

-from a compass. It's the same principle, yeah. -No, it's...

[Carmen] Yes. Dividers were used a lot on determining

-how structures would fit together. -Mm-hmm.

I think you're describing ancient geometry, too.

Yes. Yeah, yeah. That's right. Yep.

I'm looking, and it seems like it's double-sided, right?

-[Marty] Mm-hmm. -If you look, you can see

there's two sides to it and there's also a middle

that comes out with probably

another two sides going this way.

In other words, it simply wasn't this.

-Huh. -[Craig] Oh, yeah.

[Carmen] Where it's double-sided,

it's really a high-quality tool.

It's quite thick and wide and robust,

so, again, that tells me that it's

an engineering tool that was meant to last.

I would suspect it was probably about

that long in the beginning.

-Oh, wow. -Wow.

-I was not expecting it to be that long. -Mm-hmm.

[Emma] What is the earliest date

that you'd put on it?

I've seen some French ones that were 1620.

-Hmm. -They were double-sided as well.

[Carmen] I remember seeing

in a British journal, I believe,

a set of dividers-- same style, same design...

...it was 1543.

-Oh, wow. -Oh, wow. There we go.

[laughter]

[Carmen] I remember seeing in a British journal

a set of dividers that was 1543.

-Oh, wow. -[Craig] Oh, wow.

[narrator] In the Oak Island Lab,

Carmen has just informed the team

that the divider tool found on Lot 15

could predate the discovery of the Money Pit

by more than 250 years.

Emma, you could probably determine

what's in there for metal, age-wise.

[Emma] Um, the composition really lines up with 1600s.

But there's a huge chlorine content,

and it's not just saltwater exposure,

it's saltwater submersion,

for really long periods of time.

I mean, you kind of see it now

in the-the buildup of that kind of corrosion.

Iron doesn't do well underwater.

-[Emma] No. -Under seawater.

And if the chlorine content

is affecting other aspects of the composition,

maybe a second look could, yeah, sway it towards the 1500s.

[Marty] But how'd it get chlorine in it?

[Carmen] Yes. How did it go

from being under saltwater for a long time

to being where it was found?

[Craig] Well, it could've come from

the flood tunnel.

If the original depositors lost it in there

and then the searchers found it

-and brought it up to surface and... -Or Dunfield.

[Craig] Yeah, there's records where

the flood tunnel came crashing in at him.

Maybe this came in and later on was brought to surface?

[Peter] There are Dunfield spoils

all along Lot 15, all along there.

All right, well, maybe we're getting somewhere.

-Yeah. -But that makes it a depositor item, doesn't it?

-Depositor item. -Or a flood tunnel

construction item.

[narrator] In 1965,

treasure hunter Robert Dunfield

excavated a massive 100-foot diameter hole

in the Money Pit area,

and moved the spoils from his dig

to nearby lots such as 15.

But due to the inflow of seawater

from an ingeniously designed man-made flood tunnel system

that originated at Smith's Cove,

the massive hole repeatedly caved in

and the dig failed to reach any deeper than 140 feet.

Is it possible that Mr. Dunfield

may have unknowingly recovered this tool

from the flooded depths of the original Money Pit

60 years ago?

This is quite possibly the most sophisticated item

that has shown up from metal detecting.

This is a tool of an upper-level craftsman.

-[Carmen] Oh, it certainly is. Yeah. -Yeah.

Very high-quality. A very expensive and valuable tool.

Well, it kind of speaks to the fact that

whoever was here with that,

did something of great significance.

And whether that be an alignment of boulders

or something in the Money Pit, they would need that.

Yeah, I would think.

[Rick] The divider is a very interesting find

because the original depositors' work in the Money Pit

took time and planning.

So, there would've been a plan, probably on paper.

This was an endeavor that was not done on a weekend.

And everything that we have discovered,

I think, can fit into that theory.

And thus, the reason to continue work like this.

Next time, you two, find something equally interesting

but less inexplicable,

-okay? -[laughter]

[Marty] This thing's so interesting.

It's gonna take a little bit more thought to figure it out.

Always good to have your input, Carmen.

Thank you, Emma.

So, for now, let's get back out there.

-Okay. -Sounds good.

-[Marty] Let's go find some more. -[Peter] Okay.

[narrator] With the team's new discoveries and revelations,

more questions arise.

Is it possible that people visited Oak Island

nearly 800 years ago

with an elaborate plan

to hide sacred treasures?

And did others, who knew of those secrets,

come centuries later to bury more?

For the Laginas and their team, one thing appears to be certain.

The more they peel back the layers

of this 230-year-old mystery,

the deeper it becomes.

Next time, on The Curse of Oak Island...

[Charles] We have a core, gentlemen.

[Terry] This must be the solution channel.

[Scott] That has the ability to hide treasure.

[Charles] I've got something right in here.

-[Terry] Oh, there it is. -Yeah, it's there.

-[pinpointer beeping] -Ooh.

Ho-ho! What do we got here?

Well done, mate.

[Isabelle] Oh, my gosh.

Laird. Can you tell if this is a jewel?

It is high-grade.

-Made in the Old World? -Yep.

[Laird] That takes us to a whole new level.

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