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Tonight on the curse of Oak Island
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I don't move some dirt wreck
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machine right there it's time to dig and
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you told me if you know where 30 rods to
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their lands right on that line x marks
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your spot that right there
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I claim this spot
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we're digging on Oak Island
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we can see something wait what's that
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there is an island in the North Atlantic
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where people have been looking for an
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incredible treasure for more than 200
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years so far they have found bits of
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gold chain a stone slab with strange
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symbols carved into it even a 17th
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century Spanish coin to date six men
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have died trying to solve the mystery
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and according to legend one more will
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have to die before the treasure can be
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it is another day in the quest to find
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treasure on Oak Island
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here we me beat all this stuff and it's
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on this day that Rick and Marty lagina
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along with their partners have traveled
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almost 60 miles from Oak Island to
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Halifax in search of large-scale digging
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equipment everybody decide what they
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want to collect that little cat there
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Rick
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one of each sounds good
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hello hi Scott Ferguson Scott my Carl oh
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hey nice to meet you
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so you guys are here looking for some
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equipment yes sir
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hopefully yeah we got all excited
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driving in here you know I mean good
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it's like that's like pornography for us
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out there yeah it's just a great place
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to be we're eager to see those big
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yelling machines
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feeling a little kid in a candy store we
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will be yeah well we'll take you out
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back and we can go on a little bit of a
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shopping spree let you guys see
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something okay see some equipment I'll
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do it
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when we saw that equipment I think there
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were smiles on all our faces and yeah
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love to being new after spending 50
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years of dreaming decades of researching
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and the past two years actively
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identifying likely targets the Oak
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Island team is now ready to dig and dig
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deeper than ever before so here's one
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machine we're looking at right here wow
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that looks like plenty of machine my
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brother needs to step up to the plate on
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that I can work this thing
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Marty had all your remote monitoring
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these are the tracks right that's that's
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the controllers yeah and then a joystick
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control bucket curl on either side right
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and boom lift on the right so this is
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the boom down that'll be your curl okay
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I've got this we'll take it no this is
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fabulous this will do everything we need
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to do and probably more about can't wait
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to get it to the island and we're gonna
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use the big excavator to dig what do we
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want to dig this one here with the
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backhoe we can do with more fine-tuned
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digging where we might need to do that
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that looks comfy okay
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this is mine and then with the bulldozer
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Rick is a good bulldozer operator
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I don't move some dirt wreck Wow and we
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can use that to scrape off or level or
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whatever we need to get into any sites
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for future drilling yeah which is our
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little brother here the d4k these are
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beautiful machines yeah they're one you
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boys get up there take a look see eight
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there you go
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what I think Peter grandpa Ted loved
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running a bulldozer yeah he was never
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happier than when he was driving a
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bulldozer what give me started as Rick
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and Marty's youngest nephew Peter
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Fornetti has been steeped in the various
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legends and theories about Oak Island
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ever since he can remember he's wanted
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to considered by his family to be the
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one who most closely shears uncle Rick's
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passion for solving the 220 year old
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mystery okay so what do you guys think
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well here's the deal I've got strong
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opinions on the excavator backhoe side
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and he's kind of mr. dozer man so okay I
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think we'll take that big excavator the
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backhoe and that big dozer excellent
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okay yeah write it up deal we start
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moving some dirt around yeah
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okay
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okay Big Brother let's have a little fun
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as they await the delivery of the heavy
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digging equipment Rick and Marty lagina
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along with Craig tester stepson Jack
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Begley meet at the most infamous
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location on Oak Island the money pit hey
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Jack hey Marty hey Rick all right what
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we're gonna do we're gonna look for the
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x marks the spot from Robert Marcos
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let's go all right
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hey Robert good morning Gloria I'm Marty
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Marty pleasure yeah pleasure to finally
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have a seat while back home in Traverse
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City Michigan Marty lagina and business
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partner Alan Koh Strava arranged to meet
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with Oak Island theorists Robert Markus
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I want you to knock our socks off okay
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because my brother Alan Craig and I we
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really want to accomplish something this
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year it's time to dig and you told me
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you're gonna convince me that you know
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we're yes sir
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all right go for it based on his years
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of studying books maps and historical
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records his Marcus's belief that the
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lost treasures of King Solomon's Temple
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including the Ark of the Covenant were
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buried on Oak Island hundreds of years
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ago by the Knights Templar
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but while that in itself is not a new
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theory
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what makes Marcus's findings unique is
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that he believes the treasure lies
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buried not at the bottom of the money
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pit or the Oak Island swamp but at a
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very different location you know the
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history of Oak Island one of the
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characters is Gilbert Hedden yeah
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the thing about Gilbert which I really
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found interesting is he actually had
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something physical to look at and it was
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a math and it was Matt based out of a
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book written by Harold's Wilkins back in
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1935 and it was called Captain Kidd and
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his skeleton island in 1937
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industrialist politician and Oak Island
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treasure hunter Gilbert Hedden believed
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he had made a critical breakthrough when
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he saw a startling treasure map in the
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fictionalized account of real-life 17th
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century privateer Captain William Kidd
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this is the map that was in the book but
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as you can see one of the things that's
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strange is the reference to North okay
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North is upside down
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the text and everything is right side up
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but North is upside down and that's not
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the way we're taught to read a map the
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other thing is with the shape of the
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island itself this little Peninsula land
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that comes off the elephant's nose the
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elephant's nose if you look at your Oak
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Island
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there's your elephant's nose right there
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right and North is up so this would be
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like that if you're looking at now all
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the text is upside down right and North
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is up
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Gilbert Hatton was fascinated by the
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multiple similarities between the map
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and Oak Island such as the strange
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oblong shape stone markers a swamp and
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of course a treasure site indicated near
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the exact spot where the money pit was
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located
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excited by his findings Hedden traveled
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to England to meet with the author of
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the book
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Harold Wilkins but Wilkins insisted that
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the map was nothing more than a figment
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of his imagination disappointed and
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desperately short of money Hedden
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returned home and soon after abandoned
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his search for the treasure when he was
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first confronted on this mr. Wilkins
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said this is a rendition he had seen
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this map somewhere before so the
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question is what did he see
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I myself personally believe this map was
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actually created by the Zeno brothers
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and Henry Sinclair
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I believe this map was actually created
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by the Zeno brothers and Henry Sinclair
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Oak Island theorists Robert Marcus has
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just informed Marty lagina about the
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existence of a treasure map that was
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reprinted in a book about Captain Kidd
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back in the 1930s
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although the identity and location of
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the island in the book is unknown when
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turned upside down it bears striking
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similarities to Oak Island similarities
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which according to Robert Marcus are no
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coincidence it is his belief that the
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map was based upon one drawn by the 14th
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century Scottish Explorer Henry Sinclair
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along with his companions the Zeno
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brothers
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I know a little bit about this story
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they're Italian navigators right yes for
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centuries there have been many who
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believe that the Zeno brothers along
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with Sinclair traveling under the
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pseudonym seach Meany sailed as far west
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as Nova Scotia and as early as 1398
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nearly 100 years before Columbus
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according to legend once there
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they hid a vast religious treasure
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possibly the Ark of the Covenant and the
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golden menorah from the temple of King
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Solomon to ensure they would one day be
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able to find it again
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they created a map which was coated with
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a numeric key featuring the numbers 7 by
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8 by 4 I believe mr. Wilkins
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misinterpreted the 7
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there should be one by it by for workers
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and that is based on a stone that was
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found in Massachusetts this is called
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the boat stone located in Westford
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Massachusetts the so called boat stone
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has left researchers and historians
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baffled since its discovery in 1932 it
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is a round 2 foot in diameter stone on
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which can be found what are believed to
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be 14th century carvings of an ancient
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sailing vessel an arrow and the numbers
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one eight four
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could this map really be an important
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link between the boat stone and the 14th
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century Scottish nobleman Henry Sinclair
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this is the starting point okay the boat
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represents a coastal range followed the
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coast in the number a hundred and eighty
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for the unit of measure back then was
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called a league now one hundred eighty
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four leagues north takes you to Overton
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Nova Scotia when you get to there you
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find the stone within the stone right
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here you have a depiction of the circle
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with the Templars cross in it I believe
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the Templars have carved this now
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looking in the directions you have a
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northeast quadrant from that stone to
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travel north east takes you to the south
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end of Mahone Bay and at that you find
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this right here this giant boulder and
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if you're looking at this stone that's
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my home Bay
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okay yeah so you're looking at my home
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base I mean something's great here what
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happened you have an island to look for
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out of 300 Islands find the one that's
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shaped like the one that was in the book
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the one with the elephants from here you
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come across Oak Island
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what's the next thing you do the next
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thing down from 1 by 8 by 4 which is
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actually from one body by 4 the first
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thing you do is behind the tree the
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first tree that the beginners boys found
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in 1795 the tree that was so obvious in
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1795 after seen strange lights coming
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from Oak Island
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the teenager Daniel McGinnis along with
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two companions went to investigate
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what they found was an unusual circular
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impression in the ground under the
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branch of an old oak tree believing the
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impression to be evidence of something
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buried below the boys began to dig
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deeper and deeper until that came upon
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wooden planks and stones at 10-foot
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intervals over the next few years they
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found bits of gold chain coconut fiber
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and even a large stone slab edged with
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strange markings until the hole became
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flooded with seawater and the legend of
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the Oak Island money pit was born
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looking at this right here you have the
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money pit where the tree was yeah now if
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you do what it says 14 north and go
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opposite you go 14 radsolv the next
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thing you have to do is you have to go
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30 rods and it says south west you have
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to go with north east
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thirty rods to their lands right on that
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line x marks your spot let me ask you
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something if I said to you right now
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you can have five million dollars or
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I'll give you enough money to dig you
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can have what's here what would you do I
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dig okay well I like that answer
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interesting thing about Robert Marcus is
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that a lot of people come and have this
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theory in that theory but he is willing
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to put an X on the map right here 40
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feet down why not dig the x marks the
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spot before Marcus is it is who knows
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what we might find I had Jack look for
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the spot via GPS Jack did it the modern
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way you and I are gonna do it the
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old-fashioned way and we're gonna see if
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we end up at the same spot as now no
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problem this is gonna be like an
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old-fashioned treasure hunt we have an x
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marks the spot employment this is an old
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fish you know what you are so right on
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that okay let's find out though the
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exact location of the original money pit
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has been lost since the 1860s due to
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repeated excavations
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Rick Marty and the team believe they may
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have rediscovered it last year
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definitely when they drilled into what
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could be a treasure vault first reported
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in 1897 that's what they found at the
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top of the wall okay so we want to go
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339 feet due east from that point and
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remember that we're already fourteen
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feet north okay yep okay what's the
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measurement 200 something right we got
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to get our easterlies but don't worry
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about the measurement we're gonna find
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the spot using Marcus's coordinates it
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basically just gives an easterly and a
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northerly bearing and to this X but
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first we have to find it
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yeah that steak has to go to the north
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you know that way
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Yeah right there just have this edge
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line up with that steak over there and
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slide it all the way that way does that
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look about right yeah in the U P we do
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what we have to do in order to
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accomplish the task at hand and that's
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what we did we use a 2 by 6 and we use
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the measuring tape I mean it doesn't get
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more basic than that that's you per
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engineering it surely is you per
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ingenuity that it right there
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so we found we believe with a reasonable
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degree of accuracy where Robert Marcus
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would like us to dig I claim this spot
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plus there it is x marks the spot
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according to mr. Marcus it's worth a dig
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let's dig it it'll be farming yeah
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tomorrow we dig
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Oh red truck coming where comes a truck
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yeah that looks like capability right
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there
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finally after years of research
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experimentation and planning it is time
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to start digging that looks good I like
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the looks of that
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and to find out once and for all if any
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of the myths and legends about a
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mysterious buried treasure are true to
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see that stuff come across the causeway
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it's like bringing in the tanks when
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you're an infantryman you know you know
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yeah we could use that
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that's a nice machine
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pretty good-sized excavator I'm thinking
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of digging right in the middle of your
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house dad I've heard there's treasure
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under there
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like again welcome to Oak Island thank
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you Oak Island thanks Lawrence to be
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here did you feel anything when you came
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across this did you get it kind of a you
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kind of a jitter he did a little little
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scary feeling okay well a lot of history
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here's the guy I want to meet ya mr.
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Blankenship Mike Carlo dan Blankenship
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pleasure to meet you sir
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you have a lot of history here okay
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that's for sure today represents a
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momentous day for dan Blankenship at 92
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he has spent more time searching for
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treasure on Oak Island than anyone else
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in its history more than half his life
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in fact say this equipment was being
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offloaded 40 years ago what would you
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have done with it they did
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and when Dan was out there watching that
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equipment mentioned something you know
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Jesus I wish I'd have had those types of
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resources when I was doing my work so
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it's a big that's a big boon to our
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efforts
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but now seeing the big digging equipment
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represents a milestone that he has been
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dreaming up for more than 40 years
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because today his determination to find
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treasure on the island seems closer than
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ever to becoming a reality
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let's try give one little fold there and
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the way you go
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I'm very excited about actually two-week
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something I mean we've been frogging
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around out here with cameras and
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electronics and resistivity and stuff I
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mean at some point you have to dig I'm
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ready to dig
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I want to see the mystery salt what I
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like the lagina name associated with the
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Oak Island story yet for my father
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we asked dad if there's treasure on Oak
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Island what should we do and he didn't
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hesitate a moment he said do good with
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it but as excited as Rick Marty and the
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other members of the Oak Island team
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feel they are also aware that the
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islands long history offers as many
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sobering realities as it does
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opportunities for success last time
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really enormous equipment came across
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that causeway there was quite an
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excavation that went on out here we have
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to be careful to not repeat Robert
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dunfield's issues and even had good
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intent but use big equipment and we want
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to make sure we do this smart
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in 1965 just a few weeks after a tragic
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accident that claimed the lives of
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Robert rest on his son Bobby and two of
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their co-workers california geologist
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Robert Dunfield took over all treasure
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hunting operations on Oak Island after
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constructing the causeway which linked
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the island to the mainland he brought in
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a massive 70 ton digging crane along
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with other large-scale digging and
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drilling equipment but even after months
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of extensive excavations Dunfield
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failed to uncover any evidence of
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treasure instead he left much of Oak
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Island permanently scarred and many of
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its important stone markers and
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landmarks obliterated it is a legacy
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that Marty and Rick are determined not
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to repeat I know we're all eager to dig
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dig dig but it's getting late I say we
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call it a day
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round I've grown time for David last
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wine time for me tomorrow we hit it okay
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let's go right
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it
is the start of a new day on Oak
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Island
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but in spite of the eerie gloom that has
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enveloped the landscape
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Rick Marty and Jack Begley are
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determined to see if Robert Marcus's
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incredible theory will figure this out
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about a centuries-old map and a
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mysterious three number code could
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really pinpoint the exact location of a
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treasure that men have been looking for
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and dying for for over 200 years okay
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we found where Robert Marcus would like
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us to dig so we're going to dig as deep
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as we can with that big excavator we
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have it's time to dig while Marty
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operates the 40-ton excavator which is
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capable of digging up to two yards of
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Earth per bucket his brother Rick will
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stand ready with the bulldozer just in
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case they need to level off the ground
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in my mind what we spend out here in
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terms of time and money has to do with
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risk reward ratio
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the reward is huge if any of these
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theories are correct
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righty-right treasure baby treasure
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fine
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following up on Robert Marcus's
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incredible theory that a 14th century
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map created by Henry Sinclair provided
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dimeric clues as to the exact location
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of the Oak Island treasure
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Rick and Marty lagina along with Jack
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Begley have started to do
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we're digging on Oh God Matt x marks the
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spot
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it's exciting what how can it not be
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excited
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now if we hit something of a historical
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nature that'd be great
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but look nobody is hoping for the
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treasure more than I am
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that is hard digging
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let's see what I got here that is hard
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hard hard digging look see you can
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always tell see the teeth mark in the
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sides
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imagine digging that by hand I can't
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imagine it makes me understand why the
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rest dolls were happy just to get 2
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inches a day it is fun to actually dig
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on Oak Island it is fun to have that big
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piece of equipment and dig why don't I
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just keep digging I'll try I keep trying
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to dig deeper until I can't dig deep and
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yes each bucket that you bring up might
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have something in it I mean I was hoping
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every time as we got deeper something
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would pop out of there
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is that Iraq
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that's just a rock right sure
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it's a piece of one Cimber a wood timber
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at the exact spot where theorist Robert
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Markus told Marty a treasure vault lies
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buried could it be that Rick Marty and
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Jack have found the entrance to an
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underground vault or treasure tunnel or
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could it simply be cribbing the wooden
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posts and boards used by miners and
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treasure hunters to reinforce deep
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tunnels and keep them from caving in
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really
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doesn't smell bad
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although the strange piece of wood may
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have turned out to be a false alarm one
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supposedly dead end could lead to a
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crucial piece of evidence being found
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I think I see something no way what is
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it hey Rick
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is this blue clay
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blue clay although the presence of blue
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clay appears disconnected from Rick and
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Marty search for an underground treasure
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vault the existence of layers of blue
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clay was first reported on the island by
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searchers digging in the money pit in
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1803 it has also been a long-held belief
550
00:27:33,140 --> 00:27:35,630
by gold miners that the presence of blue
551
00:27:35,630 --> 00:27:38,809
clay is a sign that gold or silver could
552
00:27:38,809 --> 00:27:40,370
very well be present underground
553
00:27:40,370 --> 00:27:46,550
take a few more
554
00:27:46,550 --> 00:27:56,830
that's why that blue flag it's right in
555
00:27:56,830 --> 00:27:59,410
the bottom
556
00:27:59,410 --> 00:28:01,090
but as encouraging at the presence of
557
00:28:01,090 --> 00:28:04,900
blue clay is it represents less a
558
00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:08,039
welcome clue and more of an unwelcome
559
00:28:08,039 --> 00:28:09,039
obstacle
560
00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:17,270
baby's wet pretty way yeah where's the
561
00:28:17,270 --> 00:28:21,929
water it looks wet right there can you
562
00:28:21,929 --> 00:28:22,929
see that
563
00:28:22,929 --> 00:28:24,620
where right there yeah
564
00:28:24,620 --> 00:28:27,720
oh now it's pouring in from this side
565
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,559
you got a water of course about eight
566
00:28:31,559 --> 00:28:34,120
feet down coming in this foot it's
567
00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:37,000
coming quick - Rick I wonder if we are
568
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,000
close to something
569
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:43,570
at Marty and Rick simply hit groundwater
570
00:28:43,570 --> 00:28:45,070
or might they have breached one of oak
571
00:28:45,070 --> 00:28:46,860
islands legendary flood tunnels
572
00:28:46,860 --> 00:28:51,510
if so it could mean that they are close
573
00:28:51,510 --> 00:28:54,799
to finding something of great value you
574
00:28:54,799 --> 00:28:57,100
diggin yeah
575
00:28:57,100 --> 00:28:58,260
Oh
576
00:28:58,260 --> 00:29:05,180
see some cribbing or some yeah
577
00:29:05,180 --> 00:29:09,870
so that was my home it's something
578
00:29:09,870 --> 00:29:12,341
you're only gonna get one or two more
579
00:29:12,341 --> 00:29:15,289
scoops and then it's gonna full-blown
580
00:29:15,289 --> 00:29:17,090
you know water you know let me have a
581
00:29:17,090 --> 00:29:20,100
look - just don't take a look what could
582
00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:23,150
have missed I suppose but the water was
583
00:29:23,150 --> 00:29:25,320
already coming in you aren't going to
584
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,690
dig in that particular area much deeper
585
00:29:27,690 --> 00:29:29,529
without it flooding that water table is
586
00:29:29,529 --> 00:29:31,880
consistent there's nothing stopping us
587
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,510
undisturbed yeah BQ I wouldn't take
588
00:29:33,510 --> 00:29:35,279
another step look at that it's breaking
589
00:29:35,279 --> 00:29:36,279
right there
590
00:29:36,279 --> 00:29:40,400
here water coming in there mm-hmm
591
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,809
although Rick Marty and Jack had been
592
00:29:42,809 --> 00:29:45,240
stopped from digging any deeper they
593
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,059
refused to give up on the notion that
594
00:29:47,059 --> 00:29:49,070
the place they are excavating might
595
00:29:49,070 --> 00:29:52,640
still be an important treasure site like
596
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:53,640
what about the timber
597
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,669
yeah to make
598
00:29:55,669 --> 00:30:01,820
yeah it smells kind of new I guess Jack
599
00:30:01,820 --> 00:30:03,510
about where I would be at is there
600
00:30:03,510 --> 00:30:04,929
should be more of it and there's not
601
00:30:04,929 --> 00:30:06,630
yeah if it was connected something we
602
00:30:06,630 --> 00:30:09,070
dug I dug far enough away to check that
603
00:30:09,070 --> 00:30:11,580
oh yeah you're right
604
00:30:11,580 --> 00:30:13,790
if the laginas and their partners have
605
00:30:13,790 --> 00:30:15,860
learned anything during their years on
606
00:30:15,860 --> 00:30:18,660
Oak Island it's that nothing ever comes
607
00:30:18,660 --> 00:30:21,630
easily and no theory no matter how
608
00:30:21,630 --> 00:30:24,390
far-fetched should be dismissed without
609
00:30:24,390 --> 00:30:27,500
a proper investigation I think for the
610
00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:28,950
time being before dinner
611
00:30:28,950 --> 00:30:31,899
let me paraphrase Churchill we're not
612
00:30:31,899 --> 00:30:32,899
done here
613
00:30:32,899 --> 00:30:36,000
but we're done here for today I believe
614
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,080
Robert Marx's theory requires the
615
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,159
treasure chamber to be in the drawer I
616
00:30:41,159 --> 00:30:43,160
and so we've run out of room fast at
617
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,200
that particular location doesn't mean
618
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,480
we're gonna bend it let's fill this hole
619
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:50,480
in it's dangerous
620
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,900
the long fable money bitch
621
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:15,870
now let's see if we can accomplish here
622
00:31:15,870 --> 00:31:19,260
okay gentlemen we're here to discuss
623
00:31:19,260 --> 00:31:21,380
recontouring this when we're gonna need
624
00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:23,100
some heavy equipment to do it and we
625
00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:24,779
need to get the water to run off this
626
00:31:24,779 --> 00:31:26,740
way or you want to check and see if we
627
00:31:26,740 --> 00:31:28,780
can make it go that way see up there all
628
00:31:28,780 --> 00:31:32,440
right let's look after digging at the
629
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,820
precise spot where Oak Island researcher
630
00:31:34,820 --> 00:31:37,559
Robert Markus indicated a vast treasure
631
00:31:37,559 --> 00:31:40,420
could be located and finding only blue
632
00:31:40,420 --> 00:31:44,600
clay and water today Rick Marty and the
633
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,909
team are turning their attention to the
634
00:31:46,909 --> 00:31:49,540
infamous money pit it's really important
635
00:31:49,540 --> 00:31:51,080
Dan that you're here because you have
636
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,350
the most knowledge of what this looked
637
00:31:53,350 --> 00:31:55,350
like originally we know the money pit
638
00:31:55,350 --> 00:31:59,169
was somewhere there we also know that
639
00:31:59,169 --> 00:32:00,990
Robert Dunfield dug very close to this
640
00:32:00,990 --> 00:32:03,500
area right basically it would have been
641
00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,720
this whole big area after months of
642
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,250
extensive and arguably excessive
643
00:32:09,250 --> 00:32:11,360
excavations at the site by treasure
644
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:15,940
hunter robert dunfield in 1965 the exact
645
00:32:15,940 --> 00:32:18,240
location of the original money pit was
646
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,279
lost for nearly five decades
647
00:32:20,279 --> 00:32:25,900
I would get a full barrel that is until
648
00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:28,929
last year when Rick Craig tester and
649
00:32:28,929 --> 00:32:32,620
Dave Blankenship drilled 140 feet down
650
00:32:32,620 --> 00:32:34,669
in an area that Craig had identified
651
00:32:34,669 --> 00:32:36,940
from a series of antique maps and
652
00:32:36,940 --> 00:32:41,059
careful measurements
653
00:32:41,059 --> 00:32:43,529
the result was a core sample that
654
00:32:43,529 --> 00:32:45,450
revealed evidence of what could very
655
00:32:45,450 --> 00:32:48,710
well have been a wooden vault possibly
656
00:32:48,710 --> 00:32:51,070
the same one that was first discovered
657
00:32:51,070 --> 00:32:53,460
by treasure hunter William Chappell back
658
00:32:53,460 --> 00:32:57,519
in 1897
659
00:32:57,519 --> 00:33:00,850
definitely got wood that's definitely
660
00:33:00,850 --> 00:33:04,280
clay concrete and then wood that's the
661
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,390
description that's what they found in
662
00:33:06,390 --> 00:33:10,010
the top of the vault
663
00:33:10,010 --> 00:33:12,679
last year we drilled into what seems to
664
00:33:12,679 --> 00:33:15,779
be one of the original halls but we knew
665
00:33:15,779 --> 00:33:17,940
we were right on the edge we just didn't
666
00:33:17,940 --> 00:33:19,400
know whether we were on the outside edge
667
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:20,880
or the inside edge or the south edge of
668
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,679
the north edge although finding the
669
00:33:23,679 --> 00:33:26,299
fabled wooden vault suggests the
670
00:33:26,299 --> 00:33:28,340
partners are close to finding the money
671
00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:31,320
pit they still can't be sure of its
672
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:35,230
exact location what they are sure of is
673
00:33:35,230 --> 00:33:37,210
that finding the money pit and then
674
00:33:37,210 --> 00:33:40,640
excavating it will take time persistence
675
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,620
and an estimated two million dollars
676
00:33:43,620 --> 00:33:46,330
more than the team can risk spending
677
00:33:46,330 --> 00:33:48,660
unless they find absolute evidence that
678
00:33:48,660 --> 00:33:50,460
they have located the pit and that
679
00:33:50,460 --> 00:33:52,700
something of incredible value really
680
00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:55,600
could be down there what other shafts
681
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,250
might we uncover if we kept digging here
682
00:33:59,250 --> 00:34:00,610
probably the hidden shaft
683
00:34:00,610 --> 00:34:04,820
I'm thinking that this is almost exactly
684
00:34:04,820 --> 00:34:08,539
the corner and of course if this is the
685
00:34:08,539 --> 00:34:11,170
end its rectangular so the other end
686
00:34:11,170 --> 00:34:16,330
would be down there in 1937 treasure
687
00:34:16,330 --> 00:34:19,210
hunter Gilbert Hedden constructed a 24
688
00:34:19,210 --> 00:34:22,099
by 12 foot wood crib vertical shaft that
689
00:34:22,099 --> 00:34:24,050
intersected the original money pit at
690
00:34:24,050 --> 00:34:28,070
its northwest corner approximately 125
691
00:34:28,070 --> 00:34:31,730
feet deep underground although Robert
692
00:34:31,730 --> 00:34:33,480
dunfield's massive excavations
693
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,740
obliterated numerous searcher shafts and
694
00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:39,750
tunnels dating back to 1795 the Hedden
695
00:34:39,750 --> 00:34:43,169
shaft was supposedly left intact let's
696
00:34:43,169 --> 00:34:45,599
say we dug down we saw the entire
697
00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:47,981
rectangle of the head and shaft would
698
00:34:47,981 --> 00:34:50,200
that help us get to exactly where the
699
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,909
top of the money pit was bearing in mind
700
00:34:53,909 --> 00:34:56,390
that there's nothing undisturbed above a
701
00:34:56,390 --> 00:34:59,070
100 foot depth I mean just right across
702
00:34:59,070 --> 00:35:00,070
the board
703
00:35:00,070 --> 00:35:01,070
I mean it's just been although though we
704
00:35:01,070 --> 00:35:02,350
could at least with the best of our
705
00:35:02,350 --> 00:35:05,270
knowledge if we had this head and shaft
706
00:35:05,270 --> 00:35:06,400
excavated we would have a much better
707
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,200
idea where the original money pit was we
708
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,270
couldn't be for sure but we know now
709
00:35:10,270 --> 00:35:12,290
won't be far all right Rick what do you
710
00:35:12,290 --> 00:35:14,589
say to getting a good sized excavator in
711
00:35:14,589 --> 00:35:16,910
here and seeing if we can locate this
712
00:35:16,910 --> 00:35:19,250
precisely this head shaft
713
00:35:19,250 --> 00:35:21,770
what do you say I totally agree
714
00:35:21,770 --> 00:35:24,200
if we do this and we say this is it here
715
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:25,840
is where the original money pit was you
716
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,700
know the 12-foot diameter hole then I'd
717
00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:28,980
like to put a hole right down in the
718
00:35:28,980 --> 00:35:31,250
middle of that thing okay so here's what
719
00:35:31,250 --> 00:35:34,040
we're thinking that we take this and we
720
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,170
dig down a boat not a very big area just
721
00:35:36,170 --> 00:35:38,430
another three feet and we take this
722
00:35:38,430 --> 00:35:42,109
overburden off and we look for the
723
00:35:42,109 --> 00:35:43,730
location of the head and shaft and then
724
00:35:43,730 --> 00:35:45,790
try and use that information and you
725
00:35:45,790 --> 00:35:47,550
could help us to figure out where the
726
00:35:47,550 --> 00:35:50,079
exact money pit was until we see it we
727
00:35:50,079 --> 00:35:52,570
don't know exactly where it is I like to
728
00:35:52,570 --> 00:35:54,400
see all four corners of it when you Ray
729
00:35:54,400 --> 00:36:00,240
I totally agree let's do this
730
00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:03,150
Rick Marty and the team could be on the
731
00:36:03,150 --> 00:36:05,220
verge of the greatest breakthrough they
732
00:36:05,220 --> 00:36:09,099
have ever experienced on Oak Island but
733
00:36:09,099 --> 00:36:12,410
finding the money pit is one thing
734
00:36:12,410 --> 00:36:14,240
digging a 150 foot deep hole to get to
735
00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:15,550
it is quite another
736
00:36:15,550 --> 00:36:19,619
especially since everyone who has tried
737
00:36:19,619 --> 00:36:22,070
has been quickly thwarted by a network
738
00:36:22,070 --> 00:36:25,940
of flood tunnels and a maze a mysterious
739
00:36:25,940 --> 00:36:27,490
underground booby traps
740
00:36:27,490 --> 00:36:32,129
or checking things off the list Big
741
00:36:42,829 --> 00:36:43,829
Brother
742
00:36:43,829 --> 00:36:48,099
as a new day begins so too does one of
743
00:36:48,099 --> 00:36:50,430
the most critical operations in rick and
744
00:36:50,430 --> 00:36:52,970
marty lagina's quest to solve the Oak
745
00:36:52,970 --> 00:36:57,500
Island mystery okay because today will
746
00:36:57,500 --> 00:37:00,390
be the first time in almost 50 years
747
00:37:00,390 --> 00:37:02,260
that ground will be broken in the area
748
00:37:02,260 --> 00:37:05,490
known as the money pit the money pit was
749
00:37:05,490 --> 00:37:08,140
lost long ago over a hundred years ago
750
00:37:08,140 --> 00:37:10,260
according to oral history and some
751
00:37:10,260 --> 00:37:13,820
documentation but they believed at that
752
00:37:13,820 --> 00:37:16,460
point that in connection with the head
753
00:37:16,460 --> 00:37:18,340
and shaft the money pit was very close
754
00:37:18,340 --> 00:37:21,160
thus if we can find the corners of the
755
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,730
head and shaft we can for ourselves come
756
00:37:23,730 --> 00:37:25,720
up with that circle in order to dig up
757
00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:27,390
the head and shaft or what I'd like to
758
00:37:27,390 --> 00:37:29,510
see is bring in the small backhoe you're
759
00:37:29,510 --> 00:37:31,580
good on both of them so bring in a
760
00:37:31,580 --> 00:37:34,160
smaller one find the corner okay then we
761
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:38,420
know where it is all right let's keep
762
00:37:38,420 --> 00:37:40,740
going let's dig
763
00:37:40,740 --> 00:37:43,130
I wanted to do it I wanted to see one of
764
00:37:43,130 --> 00:37:44,760
these shafts with my own eyes I've seen
765
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,230
nothing but pictures of these things
766
00:37:46,230 --> 00:37:52,849
maybe just lifts your spirits a little
767
00:37:52,849 --> 00:37:55,660
it helps their enthusiasm if the Hedden
768
00:37:55,660 --> 00:37:57,720
shaft verifies that bat fall where we
769
00:37:57,720 --> 00:37:59,720
had the vault could be where the
770
00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:01,580
original money pit was
771
00:38:01,580 --> 00:38:08,660
there's no proper jobsite well a guy
772
00:38:08,660 --> 00:38:12,720
leaning on a show
773
00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:15,910
as the excavation begins Marty must dig
774
00:38:15,910 --> 00:38:18,300
carefully I'll get it
775
00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:20,160
it was exciting to dig that big bucket
776
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:21,590
into the ground and start moving the
777
00:38:21,590 --> 00:38:24,300
earth but it was a delicate operation -
778
00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:26,470
I mean that's a big piece of equipment
779
00:38:26,470 --> 00:38:29,800
and I'm concerned that in the process of
780
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,390
investigation we don't destroy what
781
00:38:31,390 --> 00:38:33,750
we're trying to find he will also need
782
00:38:33,750 --> 00:38:36,410
to rely on dan henskee memory of where
783
00:38:36,410 --> 00:38:38,060
the head and shaft is located
784
00:38:38,060 --> 00:38:46,140
ask is that all right okay I think right
785
00:38:46,140 --> 00:38:47,930
about there is where you're gonna find
786
00:38:47,930 --> 00:38:48,930
it
787
00:38:48,930 --> 00:38:51,151
okay all right where the shadow is yeah
788
00:38:51,151 --> 00:38:53,230
Esther May 12 feet from there and you're
789
00:38:53,230 --> 00:39:09,800
right about here it's good this he finds
790
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:23,210
would you'll tell the tale
791
00:39:23,210 --> 00:39:39,320
hold up hold up wait what's that
792
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:40,800
what Rick what a wreck that oak yeah I
793
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:41,800
need to take that all
794
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:42,800
shovel them
795
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:55,210
right in front of that rock it's going
796
00:39:55,210 --> 00:39:57,599
that way yeah let me dig it this way we
797
00:39:57,599 --> 00:39:59,750
strike out so often on Oak Island where
798
00:39:59,750 --> 00:40:02,100
nothing pans out so running into wood I
799
00:40:02,100 --> 00:40:03,770
wanted to get that scoop in there and
800
00:40:03,770 --> 00:40:09,780
dig that thing out good idea get some
801
00:40:09,780 --> 00:40:13,530
dirt moves' switching from the backhoe
802
00:40:13,530 --> 00:40:16,920
to the 40-ton excavator will allow them
803
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,660
to strategically dig in a longer trench
804
00:40:19,660 --> 00:40:20,660
like fashion
805
00:40:20,660 --> 00:40:38,790
tell you get
806
00:40:38,790 --> 00:40:45,050
campaign much deeper
807
00:40:45,050 --> 00:40:51,079
don't spend much time down there Rick
808
00:40:51,079 --> 00:40:53,819
looks like it's right here there's a
809
00:40:53,819 --> 00:40:55,040
beam
810
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:59,480
a beam did Marty Rick and the Oak Island
811
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,000
team just find an important piece of
812
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,390
evidence is that a wall that could be
813
00:41:05,390 --> 00:41:07,721
the wall yep I think we found it could
814
00:41:07,721 --> 00:41:10,020
it be that they found not only another
815
00:41:10,020 --> 00:41:15,130
Oak timber but the Hedden shaft itself
816
00:41:15,130 --> 00:41:18,010
on Oak Island every new day could lead
817
00:41:18,010 --> 00:41:21,300
to a dead end or an incredible
818
00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:24,650
breakthrough and every shovel full of
819
00:41:24,650 --> 00:41:27,650
earth could reveal the answer to one of
820
00:41:27,650 --> 00:41:34,690
the world's most incredible mysteries
821
00:41:34,690 --> 00:41:36,490
next time on the curse of Oak Island
822
00:41:36,490 --> 00:41:40,440
isn't that a Templar cross this cross is
823
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,520
Portuguese I do have evidence that puts
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them at this location in 1502 1580 we
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want to get to the bottom of 10-x this
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is not a routine dive
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there's a wall here we're hoping it'll
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help us identify where the money pit was
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