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Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.

This structure is very different. If it's a marker, then there's at least one

other. Let's find it. Wait, look at this.

Another marker style.

What?

This was found on Lot 15.

It's an engineering tool. That may be the most sophisticated item that's shown

up. We have a core, John. The core.

Could be the core.

Yeah, I got something right here. That is pretty much what we're looking for.

Incredible.

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 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.

Okay, guys, I -9 .5, here we are. We're looking to get to the deeper sections of

the solution channel. That's right.

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 going to be one of

them. Destination for this hole is 210 to 220, right, Steve? Yeah, that's

220, maybe even 230 feet deep.

Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michael fully believe that those metal deposits are

by man, not natural, in the waters themselves.

Exactly so. Very exciting hole.

Yep.

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 it on the elusive treasure.

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.

Yep. 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.

We have a core, gentlemen.

There's lots of indications that there is a great treasure here still.

168. 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.

Thanks, Adam.

It's kind of what we want. It's loose, but there's just too much volume here.

wouldn't allow things to fall through them.

It looks like we're into...

A little bit of gypsum. Now, it's not solid stuff, but if he starts out and

starts getting into very firm material, he's probably into the bedrock plateau.

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 cavity underneath that maybe remained open long

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. We've just caught a little boulder.

At this point, I would assume it would have tagged into something, but those

metals still come back positive, and they give me a lot of hope that we were

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 central treasure

depth.

Absolutely. As the drilling operation continues.

several hundred yards to the west on Lot 5.

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.

Oh, wow.

We got more pearlware.

Oh, nice.

You can bag it up and clean it.

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

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.

Alrighty.

What is it?

It's little.

Oh, nice.

It's a bead.

And it's from Venice. It's from Murano. You can tell just from looking at it.

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

So how old would one like that be? Well, the tradition of bead making 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.

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

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 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.

Yeah, and there's more out there.

They were used for trade, but they were also worn by the people that brought

them over.

So that's pretty cool.

I don't find a lot of beads, so I'm always excited when you get a bead.

Cool.

Like it a lot. Good job. Good eyes.

Keep up the good work.

Later that afternoon.

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, and we came across this, and we both went, well,

that's strange.

And to help their investigation, Laird has created a 3 -D model of the feature.

I did a drone -based 3 -D model of the split stone feature.

I fly the drone around at different angles, different heights, and take... a

of photographs, and then I'd bring all of those photographs back into the lab,

and I have a program that will reconstruct everything.

It's very similar to the reconstruction of the 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 that much from the ground.

It 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.

Yeah, I don't see a natural way for that to happen. No.

So the hole was dug.

It was placed in the hole, propped up, and then surrounded by rocks.

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, I got this lone piece of wood that is being sent

C -14.

The dating on that will be important. It 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.

Really?

Wow. This formation was typically used by the Romans or Vikings as a marker.

Really? Yep.

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.

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,

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.

Which one used it to claim their land? The Romans.

The Vikings were more so we were here.

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 250 foot radius of it.

Yeah. You know, one thing we learned on our research trips, tracking Templar

movement all over Europe, oftentimes Viking settlement sites had Roman coins

associated with those settlement sites.

In 2023... The reason I came is that I would like to show you. Absolutely.

Members of the team traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland, to investigate the

that descendants of Vikings... and members of the Knights Templar hid

treasures on Oak Island as early as the 12th century.

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

Oh. Wow.

We've seen that before.

Oh, yeah.

And while visiting sites where some believe the two groups traveled

they saw not only a carving of a cross that matches the 14th century cross

at Smyskov,

You know the years the coins were issued? Yeah, this is 4th century.

4th century. Yeah. So that's great. Yeah. But we're also shown a number of

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?

Is this oriented to north right now? Yes.

It's just common knowledge, too.

You would never put your next marker at a site. You have to see between the two.

Should be another one. Exactly. Yeah.

I went out and surveyed the orientation of the six -foot diameter with the rock

sitting in the center, and that's the orientation of the face on top.

If you project that line, does it hit anything?

Nothing as of yet.

Okay. When we were out there on the site, you said, let's walk it. I think

should. Yeah.

There might be another one of these or something even more important. I know.

Then that would really clinch it, wouldn't it?

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?

I 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. All right. See you guys. See you later.

The next day.

All right.

Steve and other members of the team prepare to find out if the possible

marker on Lot 5 might point them to an even greater discovery.

Because we're in pretty thick wood, what I'm going to do is I'm going to set my

control point behind the stone, and we're going to 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.

And what is this station? What does it do?

A total station does the exact same thing my GPS does, it just doesn't use

satellite. It uses ground control and it's great for situations like this

you can't get a signal because of the trees.

Okay, Mo. We'll get set up. Yeah.

You need this?

Yeah, I do.

Are you going to hold that, Ethan?

What I plan to do is use my total station, create a control line, we'll

I plan to move it every couple hundred yards.

So we can survey a perfectly straight line looking for another control point

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 a GPS.

And I got to tell you, mate, I'm a little bit jealous. I've got my magic

but that looks better.

All right, I'm ready to go when you guys are.

Can you tell me where, Ethan?

Yeah, more right, more right.

There you go.

Perfect.

All right, Gary, here's our first location.

Good night.

So, you know, we go a couple hundred yards.

We've got Peter and I cutting line. We've got Gary metal detecting.

And that's important because if this truly is a line of significance,

he finds could really be a big clue of what this marker stone could have been

who could have walked this line.

Pete, got a target over here, mate.

We're not too far off the line.

To the left.

Iron, right? Yeah.

A little, little piece of strap.

Mm -hmm. You see that square hole in it?

Oh, it could be a barrel loop. Looks pretty thin. 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 have had iron straps around them.

Just put it in my pouch.

Sounds good. Let's go back to the lab.

Keep following the line.

All right, Gary. I'll keep moving.

Okay, Mike.

As the team continues their search for clues... 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. 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 call a compass.

Just like someone navigating on a map would use.

Exactly.

That's a tool either for navigating or it can be used in construction.

Really?

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 formation.

So these are images with all the corrosion on. So what you're seeing is

on the screen right now.

Side view, 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.

Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah.

What date are you putting on this?

So no signs of modern alloying elements. So it kind of takes it away from the

mid -1800s onwards.

Oh, wow.

That's interesting.

Pictures are fantastic.

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.

That's interesting.

I mean, there's nothing to say that it's not from mid to late 1600s, possibly

older.

Paul? 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.

That's interesting.

Very interesting.

You said yourself it's a construction tool.

Yep. Lot 15 is in close proximity to the boulder of this beach and the stone

cairns. To me, the stone cairns are made by the hand of man.

The stone cairns were a formation of five pyramid -shaped mounds that Fred

documented in the early 1960s on Lot 15 before they were destroyed by treasure

hunting activities.

In 2023, archaeoastronomy expert Professor Adriano Gasvani 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

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.

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 accomplish with distances, measurements, orientations,

alignments. While 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

precisely, and we have a tool that would have assisted in devising a plan to

create these constructions.

We've always seeked 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.

Yeah. But at the end of the day, the search agenda continues.

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

appreciate it. All right. Thank you, folks. Good luck.

As Rick ends the meeting in the lab.

Steve, look at this. What's that?

This rock right here.

Would it be any sort of marking?

It could be.

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 over the next 20 or 30 feet, we're at the highest point. So if we're going

to find a marker stone in line...

of sight and it could be somewhere in here so good eyes peter keep going okay

anytime 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

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.

keep your eye out for rock

Okay, I'll turn around here.

Wait, look at this.

Oh, man, I just walked straight over that.

That looks like a drilled stone.

Yep, and they found drilled stones like this before in the money pit.

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

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

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 around here.

He found it, came out and surveyed it, but we had nothing to tie it to. But now

we do.

Yeah.

Is it possible?

that the team has just found a connection between the feature on Lot 5

drilled stone?

Every time we 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

interest, and they project to an area. Yeah. So this is a really important

but I suspect that we'll find an artifact or a marker stone anywhere

where we are now and just up over the hill.

Perfect. Okay. All right, guys. Follow me and we'll keep moving.

Okay.

The drills don't connect to the lot 5 marker feature.

So make the marker feature way more important.

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

All right, guys. So I get it back online and I can actually do with my GPS now

that we're in the open. Okay.

What lot are we on, Steve? We are currently staying on 28 on the western

the island.

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 in Nolan's Cross.

Yeah. The Kingdom Stone?

There is a golden map I found, and it will lead to the ultimate point X. 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 sephiroth,

was highly revered by the Knights Templar.

To prove his theory, Petter, along with Marty and Alex,

uncovered the sephiroth at the base of the formation, known as... The Kingdom

Stone. It was only half of a small boulder that appeared to have been

cut in two.

And because it was such a potentially historic find, the team reburied it for

preservation.

I mean, as you can see, we've done a lot of work in this area over the years.

Yeah.

The Kingdom Stone is buried here. Okay. So you can see along our projection,

it's pretty close.

Actually, it's probably on the projection from the drilled stone.

What we're seeing here is if this lines up with kingdom, it could have 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. Okay.

I'm going to get my uncle Rick to come meet us at that drilled stone.

I think that's a good idea.

He's going to love it.

Here comes Rick now.

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

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.

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 Kingdomstone.

What? Yeah, isn't that crazy to think of? I mean, who would have thought the

Kingdomstone was connected to that monument marker there on Lot 5?

Huh. This drilled stone is near the middle of the island at

one of the highest points. That's right. You want your survey points at high

locations because it's line of sight.

This becomes a piece that you pivot on.

Maybe we project to no one's cross. Maybe we project to the Cairns. Maybe we

project to the drilled stones and the money pit and look for more clues.

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

This line from the marker stone through the drilled stone, it hits kingdom

stone. And that ties to no one'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.

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.

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 that

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.

Everything builds on something else, and sometimes it's the most... Innocent

observation presents some stunning opportunities to learn more and to do

And see what we find. See what we find, absolutely.

Let's say we get going.

All right, sounds good. Follow you.

As another exciting day begins on Oak Island.

How you doing, Rick? Where are we?

I think we could see an open, washed area.

Effectively a void down below, and that's what we're looking for for sure.

Right.

Rick arrived at the Money Pit area, where borehole I9 .5 may be close to

the solution channel.

We have a core, gentlemen.

The core?

Could be the core.

Let's hope it's the core. Good.

He went from 185 .5 to 209 -ish. So he's going to have probably about 20 feet in

the core barrel. Good.

We got an anaconda coming our way.

Every time you open a car, 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.

Is that pinpointer ready, Charles?

Right there.

That's really what we're looking for, really loose material.

Do you like to see that?

That's just falling out.

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

Hey, Joe, get off here.

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.

What do you want? You want that, Terry? Yeah.

What? 209, Jerry.

209. Let's be hopeful.

That is pretty much what we're looking for.

It is. Yeah, it's very loose.

Very loose.

If nothing else, this is proof that the soft material hangs out right under the

ledges in the solution channel.

Yep. Spread this apart for you, Charles, and then we'll let you get at it with

the pinpointer.

That's probably the start of our bedrock right there.

Okay. Okay, I'm going to run the pinpointer over this.

I got something right here, guys.

You know, you get pulled sometimes by the screws in the table.

Let's take it over. Yeah.

Yeah, I got something right here.

Oh, wow. Right here. Okay.

Whoa.

I have something right here. Oh, wow. Okay.

While the team investigates a drilling core taken from 209 feet deep in

I -9 .5, Charles is detecting a possible metal object.

Right there.

Whoa.

Somewhere.

It's gone.

Just give this another sweep through.

I got nothing.

It is what it is.

Well, you know, to be safe, we could have Katya come up and just run the

manticore over here. Yep. And you know for certain. Absolutely.

Let's do it.

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.

Okay. 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.

If you could go over it again just to confirm, see if there's something there.

Sure, yeah.

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

Start with the pinpointer.

Wow, here we are. If you want to start separating it out, you can use that.

So there was something there.

See, this is what happened to us.

Yeah.

It's just fine stuff in here that when you get big clumps of it and it's

concentrated, it'll go crazy.

We're looking for a little flecks of gold. Could that possibly be ground up

that? We found it in other samples.

Yeah.

This could definitely be something really interesting here.

If there's gold dust in those bags, that could be part of the treasure.

There you go.

That could also be an indicator that we're getting really close, if it's in

there. Yep.

Bingo. So it's all the more reason to send this off to the left. Sure, yeah.

I have a bag here, so we're going to get a sample and get it back to the left.

Okay. 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?

There's no apparent gold coin or anything like that, but something of

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

shot over this, no question about it. So there's reasons to be hopeful, but

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

Absolutely. Thank you, Katya. Of course.

I'm hoping you guys have some success on this. Yeah, me too.

Later that morning.

Well, looky here. How you doing?

Think I'm all right? Found something else?

Yes, sir, we did.

In the Oak Island lab, members of the team meet with blacksmithing expert

Legg. So this was found on lot 15.

While they await soil test results on the Money Pit core, they have asked

to examine the tool found on lot 15 to help determine just how old it could be.

When I pulled it up, I thought it was like a compass 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 measured the diameter of something, you would determine the

circumference of whatever it is.

So dividers, if I understand what you're saying, aren't really that much

different from a compass. No, it's the same principle.

Dividers were used a lot on determining...

how structures would fit together.

I think you're describing ancient geometry, too. Yes, yes, that's right.

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

If you look, you can see there's two sides to it, and there's also a middle

comes out with probably another two sides going this way.

In other words, it simply wasn't this.

Oh, yeah.

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. I was not expecting it to be that long.

What is the earliest date that you put on it?

I've seen some French ones that were 1620.

They were double -sided as well.

I remember seeing in a British journal, I believe, a set of dividers.

Same style, same design.

It was 1543.

Oh, wow. There we go.

I remember seeing in a British journal a set of

dividers that was 1543.

Oh, wow.

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 um the composition really lines up with 1600 but there's a

chlorine content and it's not just salt water exposure it's salt water

submersion for really long periods of time i mean kind of see it now And the

buildup of that kind of corrosion.

Iron doesn't do well underwater, under seawater. And if the chlorine content is

affecting other aspects of the composition, maybe a second look could,

sway it towards the 1500s.

But now to get chlorine in it. Yes. How did it go from being under salt water

for a long time to being where it was found?

Well, it could have 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.

Or Dunfield.

Yeah, there's records where the flood tunnel came crashing in at them. Maybe

this came in and later on was brought to surface.

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? A depositor item.

Or a flood tunnel construction item.

Mm -hmm.

In 1965,

treasure hunter Robert Dunfield excavated a massive 100 -foot diameter

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

the flooded depths of the original money pit 60 years ago?

This is quite possibly the most sophisticated item that has shown up for

detecting. This is a tool of an upper -level craftsman. Oh, it certainly is.

Very high quality, 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 folders or something in the money pit,

would need that. Yeah, I would think.

The divider is a very interesting find because the original depositors' work in

the money pit took time and planning.

So there would have been a plan, probably on paper. This was an endeavor

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?

This thing's so interesting, it's going to 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. Sounds good.

Let's go find some more, okay?

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 secret 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 you have a core gentlemen this must be the solution

channel that has the ability to hide treasure i got something right in here

it's there

Oh my gosh.

Laird, can you tell him this is a jewel?

It is high grade. Made in the old world?

Yep. That takes us to a whole new level.