All language subtitles for The curse of Oak Island 20_[gre]

Tonight on the curse of
oak island... Here we go.

Wait, wait, wait. Hey! Guess what!

Wow! Wow.

- Brilliant.
- Look at that.

We're starting to get this material.

This is blowing me away
right now, because it's

nothing I've ever seen before.

- This is a covered well, right?
- Yeah, it is.

This has got potential, mate.

Ooh! Look at that!

It's premodern, all the
way back to medieval.

No way.

There is an island in the north Atlantic

where people have been looking for

an incredible treasure
for more than 200 years.

So far, they have found a stone slab

with strange symbols carved into it,

man-made workings that
date to medieval times,

and a lead cross whose
origin may be connected

to the knights templar.

To date, six men have died
trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,
one more will have to die

before the treasure can be found.

- Hey, dad.
- Hey, Marty.

- Hey, Marty.
- Morning, gents.

As their quest to solve

the oak island mystery continues...

You know the gist of today...
you know, we're-we're done

with top pocket find 1.

And,

you know, we found some
interesting things, but...

- We didn't find the one thing.
- No.

Rick, Marty, and members
of the team meet to plan

their next large-scale
dig in the money pit area.

We're still looking for where the hell

the massive collapse
of the money pit went.

And I was hoping we'd find it here.

I really was. I mean,
where the hell did it go?

- It's frustrating.
- Yep.

- We're getting there.
- In recent weeks,

the teams from sb
Canada and roc equipment

have excavated two
seven-foot-diameter steel shafts

where high traces of silver were detected

more than 200 feet deep
in the solution channel...

karma-1 and top pocket find.

And while 17th-and
18th-century artifacts

were recovered in both,

which could be related
to the money pit's collapse

into the solution channel,
no valuables were found.

Well, let's talk about
where we need to go,

because time is pressing.

Right. The year's been predicated

upon getting down into
the solution channel.

So, you know, we're limited in terms

of where we put caissons
without encompassing

- previous work.
- Yep.

We run the risk of collapse.

Yeah.

'Cause we're going
through back fill material.

It's gonna stymie your caisson
from going to the bottom.

Absolutely.

Stop!

It's caving.

Geez.

There's material flopping in.

During the recent dig of the tpf shaft,

the surrounding earth began to collapse.

This was caused by back fill

related to previous digs that
the team has conducted nearby.

This has left the area unstable

and would require several
days or more of repair

and regrading with tons of gravel.

But with only a few weeks left

before the harsh north Atlantic winter

will force the team to halt
their search operations,

their time for a breakthrough
discovery is running out.

Steve, why don't you
put the map up and let's...

- Let's get this figured out.
- Sure.

What if we changed our minds

and went up to the peacock right now?

The peacock has never been explained,

and the reason it could be there

is because of a very
deep unknown tunnel.

Maybe an offset chamber.

So I'm keenly interested
in seeing that hole dug.

Yeah.

Over there, they could
make good progress.

- Right.
- It's virgin ground.

Subsidence is probably not
gonna be so much of an issue,

like we've seen. They're not
going down through back fill.

- They're gonna make good time on it.
- Okay.

That makes sense.

Located over 40 feet
northeast of the tpf shaft,

the so-called peacock is an area

where the team has also
detected precious metals

during past underground water tests.

Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

And this year, during
their core-drilling operation,

they discovered a
mysterious ten-foot void

above the solution channel
at a depth of 150 feet.

- We've got an opening.
- A void

where an underwater
camera recorded images

of possible man-made artifacts,

including metallic objects.

This has led the team to believe

that they may have discovered
an offset treasure chamber

that was once connected
to the original money pit.

- I vote to go to the peacock.
- Okay.

There is evidence

of man-made workings
in the peacock area.

And what if the reason this
area of very loose material

is really where some of
the treasure was deposited

in an offset chamber?

This is as good a choice as any.

- Okay.
- Alex is gonna put that on the, peacock.

So let's be hopeful. Let's be upbeat.

Let's get out there and do some work.

- Sounds good. Thanks.
- All right. Amen. - See ya.

As Rick, Marty, and their team

conclude the meeting in the war room...

on lot 8,

located on the western
side of the island...

Hey, laird. Hey, Fiona. What's new here?

Well... I mean, it looks
to me like a lot's new.

Dr. Ian spooner joins laird and Fiona

at the cradle-like stone feature.

It's starting to change, where
we got the smaller cobblestones

up here and then the larger ones

have presented themselves down here.

We're starting to get
this mortar-like material.

And we're getting it in different spots.

- Can I take a look at it?
- Absolutely you can.

After recently exposing this formation

of hand-placed rocks,

which were covered by
a 40,000-pound Boulder,

Fiona discovered blue Clay
and a mortar-like cement

that was used to bind
the stones together.

It has made the team speculate that this

was done to cover something
buried deeper below.

The deeper I'm going, it's
really hard to dig through.

Now, while Fiona and
laird slowly break up

the mortar and remove the rocks,

Dr. Spooner is collecting samples

for ongoing lab testing in the
hopes that he can determine

when the feature was constructed.

It's under-under every single rock,

and it's literally layered.

This is kind of blowing
me away right now,

because it's nothing
I've ever seen before.

You know, that kind of appearance...

- almost a wall of rock.
- Exactly.

Yeah. I'd be perplexed if we...

if we just uncovered this archaeologically

without a 40,000-pound
Boulder on top of it.

Yeah.

There's something very strange going on

underneath the lot 8 Boulder.

The metal readings,
according to Dr. Spooner,

who knows what he's
talking about, are not natural.

A couple of them have silver in them.

If in fact there is a shaft
directly under this cradle,

it could lead to actual
treasure on the table.

Hey, the whole thing is wildly interesting,

and I can't wait to get to the bottom of it.

What I'd like to do is
get some of that organic

and then, get back to my lab.

Doesn't need to be a lot.

- Think that's enough?
- That's good. Yeah, that's perfect.

I'll take this back to the lab.

I'll see what I see in this

and get those results to you right away.

- Well, thank you.
- All righty. Thank you.

- Meanwhile...
- Billy,

you'll see Peter and I put a stake in here.

- So you could see it.
- Yep.

Rick and other members
of the team begin a new dig

in the southwest corner of the swamp.

We've got orange flagging

a couple hundred feet north of us.

We turn straight west and
we go all the way to the road.

This is the new permitted
area of the swamp.

It's an extension of the
southwest corner of the swamp,

and I'm excited to see
where the sand road might go.

Earlier this year, the team
uncovered two sections

of a sand-covered
cobblestone road in this area

that were lined by several
eight-sided survey stakes,

which, according to new research,

could be nearly 800 years old.

So I'm looking for
corroborative evidence that this is

indeed a path or a road.

While earlier permitting issues

restricted the team's ability
to search for more of the road

and determine just where it may lead,

they have now obtained
government approval

to continue the investigation.

When you find something, give me a call

- and I'll come back to survey it.
- Okeydoke. Thank you, Steve.

We'd like to know why
is it there and who did it.

Why is it lined with the survey stakes?

Might it lead to a treasure or a vault?

These questions
hopefully will be answered.

- Keep an eye out for stakes.
- Yeah.

Whoa. Hold up, bill!

Look at that.

Wow.

Whoa. Hold up, bill!

Look at that.

Wow.

- There's your sand, Billy, right here.
- Yeah.

In the southwest corner of the swamp,

the oak island team has
discovered more evidence

of a sand-covered stone road.

Makes that sand

- really old. Yep.
- That would go way back, right?

We have the ability to go that way.

- Right.
- I'd like to know the width of it.

That sand certainly does
seem to be turning that way.

- Right.
- Here, this is well-defined.

- Yeah.
- There's no question

that what Billy called the sand road is

right in front of us. We're standing on it.

That's exciting and
interesting at the same time.

As we continue this process, it may go

to another area that we are
currently completely unaware of.

We think people were here
at different periods of times

for a significant amount of time, right?

- Yep.
- And we're finding

mounting evidence that they did.

Yeah. Right here.

Okeydoke.

- All right.
- Let's see what we get.

I'm gonna run back
to the research center.

Hopefully there's artifacts in here.

But stakes are just as important.

So just keep an eye open. That's all.

- We'll let you know if we find anything.
- All right.

- See ya, Billy.
- See ya.

Nothing yet.

Hey, Peter. There might
be a top of a stake there.

- Right here?
- Yep.

Yeah.

Might be.

It's big if it is.

Suspiciously straight.

From here, it looks cut.

- Yeah.
- Cut.

But not pointed.

It's decayed in there, so it's hard to know.

Yeah. But it was pretty deep.

Yeah.

Is it possible that the
team has found the remains

of another potentially
ancient survey stake

along the believed sand road?

We'll put it to the side.

Remember where it was for Steve.

- Keep on finding more.
- If there's

- something here, we'll find it.
- Yep.

The follow morning, as
the teams from sb Canada

and roc equipment make final
preparations to begin excavating

peacock-1 in the money pit area...

All right, Gary, it's time.

This is prime hunting ground here, right?

Lots of good finds.

We are between the structure
on lot 5 and the ocean.

- Yeah.
- Marty and Gary arrive on lot 5.

- This here is a covered well, right?
- Yeah, it is.

We don't know how old it is.

So this would have been a busy
area in between these features.

So it stands to reason,

we should be able to
find some artifacts here.

Okay.

One week ago,

Italian archeoastronomy
professor adriano gaspani

analyzed the location of
the round feature on lot 5,

a feature that the lot's previous owner,

the late Robert young,
believed was no older

than the 20th century.

But, incredibly, based on its alignment

with certain stars in the night sky,

professor gaspani
believes that the feature

was originally constructed

as far back as the early 13th century.

Let's start here. Let's go around the well.

Okay.

Now Gary and Marty
want to search a stone well

that sits a few yards away
from the rounded feature

for clues that could help validate

professor gaspani's theory.

Especially since they
have previously found

a bronze button and a spike in this area

that have been scientifically
dated to the 13th century.

How about you get
that end, I get that end,

we flip this thing up, and
you work this from the side?

Yeah.

When we bought lot 5,
the people who looked,

into Robert young's data

told me that this thing that
was covered up in plywood...

Ooh, look at that.

Was that this was just a modern well.

But it's weird.

I don't know why anyone
would dig a water well

so close to the ocean.

If you don't mind, I'd like
to get you down in there.

I'll scamper down.

You had me at "detect
at the bottom of the well."

It's an unswept area that
has not been searched yet.

So there could be artifacts under there.

Let's get to the bottom of this.

Thanks.

Around the edges.

Nothing in that part.

I'm gonna hand you the shovel

- and then I'm gonna crawl down in there.
- Yeah. Okay.

Thanks.

Yeah, it's easy to get down here.

Whoa.

- This thing goes a little deeper...
- Yeah, it's soft.

- A little deeper than I thought.
- Yeah.

That's not even a
good bottom right there.

I mean, this floor is giving
way as we stand here.

Yeah.

We're nowhere near
the bottom of this, Gary.

- No.
- It keeps on going.

Yeah, I'm standing on a bunch of leaves.

- That's all. You want to look again?
- Yeah.

Let me get right on out of here.

Boy, I'm surprised. I thought
there'd be more in the walls.

Thanks.

That was crazy, wasn't it?

Thanks.

- Okay, but we got to talk about this.
- Yeah.

Just because we're not
detecting any metals down there

- don't mean...
- we're not at the bottom.

Yeah. Exactly.

And there could be pottery, glass.

All kinds of stuff.

This is like metal
detecting on a trampoline.

The fact that there are several
feet of leaves below our feet.

We need to get the archaeologists

and do some more exploring in this well.

- This looks promising to me.
- Yeah.

I'm sure, when all these
leaves are taken out,

there's a good chance
of finding an artifact

in the bottom of the well.

That's a good signal.

Sounds like there's a
chance it could be nonferrous

- and deep.
- Yeah.

Looks like, this rock has to go, Gary,

- before...
- yeah.

Yeah, I think so.

You do the hard work,
and I'll take the glory.

Okay.

- This has got potential, mate.
- Really?

Right there.

Woo-woo.

What do you got, Marty?

I can see it at the side.

I see something moving. There.

You do the honors, mate. You dug it out.

You see, that's the tip of it. Just there.

I can pick it out with my hand, you think?

Yeah.

Yep.

You did all the hard work, mate.

See what we got.

Ooh!

It's a hook!

Hoo!

That-that's probably a... An old hook.

And it makes sense if you think about it,

right next to a well.

- Lowering something in it?
- Yeah.

While searching the stone well

near the rounded feature on lot 5,

Marty and Gary have just
made an intriguing discovery.

I bet it's been a long time
since that's been used.

- You know what, though?
- What?

It's not a chain hook,
it's a driven hook. Look.

- Yeah.
- Drove that in, -to pull something. -Yeah.

Kind of like a... a pintle.

- It might be a pintle.
- Yeah.

I kind of hope it is a pintle
because we found a pintle

20 yards away from
that big Boulder on lot 8

and on lot 15.

But if it's a pintle,

then I have a feeling this is gonna be

a real oldie as well.

You think the metal's gonna match?

There could be a connection there. Lot 5,

- lot 8, lot 15.
- Yeah.

A pintle is a kind of pivot pin

used for doors and gate hinges,

allowing them to open and close.

Curiously, the team unearthed

two other possible pintles this year.

One on lot 15,

200 yards northeast
of the money pit area

and another near the
Boulder feature on lot 8.

Both could predate 1795.

If Marty and Gary have
indeed found a third pintle,

could Gary be correct
that it might be a clue

connecting all three areas of oak island?

I would imagine

we're the first ones ever
metal detecting down here.

This has not moved for a very long time.

- Yeah.
- Let's put her in the bag.

Whenever we found these
pintles around oak island,

they've always been
associated with an old feature.

I know this isn't a wishing
well, but I'm wishing

that we would've
explored this well sooner.

We are not at the bottom
of this by any means.

No.

This is under-searched.

Yeah, it really is.

Yeah. We need to get to the bottom of it.

- We gotta talk with the crew.
- Yeah.

- Laird should have a look at this.
- Yeah.

Later that morning...

'Kay, guys, looks like they're
all set up on peacock-1.

The team prepares to
break ground with their third

7-foot-diameter shaft of the year

in the money pit area.

The peacock has been an area where

Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michael
have indicated for years

that the gold in the
water is emanating from.

Gold, silver, it's right
where we're headed.

Terry, what are our depths?

Depth to bedrock in this area

of the peacock, it's, 211.

And this is an area where
the solution channel actually

extends up to about 165 feet.

That's the most likely origin
of the metals in the water

- based on the testing.
- Yeah. In this area. Yes.

We're looking for that
structure that has eluded us,

the structure that perhaps
is emanating the gold,

the structure that is perhaps

- the offset chamber.
- Right.

Before we reach the bottom
of the solution channel,

we have to look at
this area of really loose,

what looks like disturbed
soil underground

that we call the peacock,
because there were some voids

left open down there. There
could be an offset chamber.

Everything starting
from about 150 feet down

and deeper, we're gonna

go through, because it has a chance

of containing the treasure.

People could've been
chasing the money pit,

but the reality is, with the gold

in the water and the other
things that we've found,

maybe, with this information, proves

that the treasure is up here somewhere.

There is a lot that speaks

to the peacock as being the location

of the money pit treasure.

And we're gonna find out
with this caisson, hopefully.

So, the more spoils
we pull out of this can,

the more chance we
have of finding treasure.

- It's virgin ground.
- Yep. Speaking of that,

it looks like we have the first

bucket from peacock-1 coming up now,

so I'm gonna grab some
shovels and we can get going.

Can't wait.

As the dig proceeds,
later that afternoon...

- Okay, we're here to analyze an object.
- Alex,

Gary and Marty

join laird and Emma in
the lab to hear their analysis

of the possible pintle
found earlier today on lot 5.

It was found near the supposed

- well on lot 5.
- Yeah.

Robert young refers to it
as "the 20th-century well."

Anyway, I'm sort of proud of that find

because it was so difficult to get.

So, let's find out, Gary. Shall we?

What do we know about it?

We both thought it was
either a pintle or an hook.

- And we're hoping it's old.
- Well,

here it is, kind of cleaned up.

We are leaning towards
hook rather than pintle.

Maybe driven into something

to lower that bucket down the well.

The iron's composition,
so it is minimal impurities.

This one is just really
clean iron that makes it

harder to locate.

Well, that's interesting, 'cause most

of your artifacts tend
to point towards britain,

- don't they?
- Yeah.

Yeah, and here's one that doesn't.

Yeah. It does have a higher

chromium content and a copper content.

I do see European regions

with a higher copper impurity,

so that could be kind
of a region of interest

to look into.

There's no modern alloying
elements, so that brings it

before 1800s.

There is a lack of
potassium in its base metal.

It does point towards

mid-1700s as the most likelihood.

- Wow.
- Well, that fits with

- the bulk of your artifacts.
- Yeah, it does.

Well, except that then they're
way off on the age of the well.

- Yeah.
- But the takeaway is exciting

because it implies that
that well could potentially

be older than we've thought.

That would be very cool.

It implies that that well
could potentially be older

- than we've thought.
- Yeah.

And it also says there's
more to learn about lot 5.

Yeah. I think so.

In the oak island lab, the
team has just been informed

that an iron hook found
near the well on lot 5

could predate the
discovery of the money pit.

The potential,

what you can find at the bottom of a well

- is so great.
- Always good. Yeah.

- Yeah.
- So, laird, my information

is that Robert young felt
like that well was recent.

But I'm wondering whether this

could lead us to some
action, because just about

everything Robert young touched,

god bless him, seems
to be not what it seems.

And you have looked at

the surrounding areas
of the well, obviously,

- that's where that came from.
- Yeah.

The well is-is circled
with rocks, very similar to

the original round feature.

- Yes.
- Here it is.

Whoa. It's almost perfectly circular.

When the team began investigating lot 5

in 2022, after acquiring it
from Robert young's estate,

what is now the large rounded feature,

where artifacts that may date between

the 13th and 17th
centuries have been found,

was mostly buried and
surrounded by stones

that Mr. Young had placed above it.

Everybody drops artifacts down the well,

because you're leaning over it...

- Yeah.
- Getting the water out.

And they're used to hide things
you don't want people to see.

- Yeah.
- Could laird be correct

that the well, which was also reported

to be a modern structure,

is actually a much older formation?

So, I think, again, the well...

It's worth putting a little bit of effort into it.

Yeah.

Just for the potential
rewards at the bottom.

It might be a lot deeper than you think.

- Well, that's a good thing.
- That's a great thing, yeah.

Well, we're tied up
until the end of the week

with lot 8.

But we can go down, reevaluate.

- I really think you should.
- Yeah, I like the idea too.

- It was puzzling.
- Yeah.

- Okay, well, let's get after it.
- Yep. -All right. -Thank you.

- See you guys.
- See you.

- See ya.
- Thank you.

As a new morning
breaks on oak island...

Let's get stuck in.

- Here we go.
- All right.

- All it takes is -one good find, Terry.
- I know.

Rick and other members of the team

are continuing their investigation

of the possible sand road

in the southwest region of the swamp.

You see how much deeper that is there?

Right here.

Yeah, well, like here...
here, we're on ground

and look how it steps right off there.

- Yeah, just...
- Yeah.

No sand.

Not over there, no.

I wonder if it's going that way,

toward the center of the bog.

It's early on in terms
of trying to understand

the, proper orientation of the sand road.

Does it have anything
to do with the stakes?

Is it going towards the money pit?

There's no way to make
that determination yet,

but I intend to figure it out.

Wait, wait, wait.

Ooh, Rick just found a stake!

Whoa!

- Okay.
- Let's go have a look.

Yeah.

- Is it a eight-sided stake?
- Five.

You can see it's been bounced,

it's been cut with an axe. You can see

those bounces on that side there.

Well, one thing's for sure,

that's exactly where it was...

- Yep.
- So we need Steve to pin that.

- For sure.
- You know what? There's two of 'em.

Two of 'em!

That's eight-ish.

- And look how the...
- one, two, three four... how many,

- how many you got left?
- Five, six, seven,

- eight-sided.
- Eight-sided.

- Good eye, mate.
- They're right there, together.

- No clue what either of them mean.
- No. Yeah.

I struggle with this
find being coincidental.

To me, it's intentional. Five-sided stakes

and eight-sided stakes, I think each

is telling a different story.

We've never seen a
five and an eight together.

No.

One has to remember
dates in the bog indicate

a multigenerational attempt
to accomplish something

as far back as the 13th century.

So, I think they represent

two completely different timelines.

The five-sided stakes could
represent the later occupation.

- That's cool.
- Yeah.

This is a good sign.
Whenever we found stakes,

we normally find some kind of

a Boulder or rock construction.

We don't know if it's a platform or a path.

That's why we find multiple stakes

in different areas of different designs.

The stakes represent
multiple attempts to do things

over an extended period of time,

and I think we need
to do a lot more work

to try to understand
what they may mean.

The sand is back.

And it doesn't look very haphazard,

- it's so perfectly straight.
- Perfectly straight.

- The road's still here.
- Yep.

Or the path. Whatever it is.
Whatever you want to call it,

- it's right here.
- Yeah.

I found another stake.

What kind, Gary?

The good kind.

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight-sided stake.

It's snapped off.

How the heck did we not see that?

But yeah, just... Just wedged in there.

It was like this.

It was kind of like that.

The point was in, I saw the angles.

There's a, there's a
5-pointed one right there.

Right next to it.

And now you've pulled this up.

It's just like the other one.

Two... Yeah, five-sided
next to an eight-sided.

Look where these are, Rick,
and then look behind you. Look.

We're in the line with that other stake.

If this is gonna be
lining up, we should find

a couple more stakes just
over there. Same distance.

Two stakes, different size.

- Two stakes, different size.
- Two stakes, different...

If you're right about this alignment,

then, as you said, there should be

- something right there.
- Yeah.

You know what?

Let's pace it off. One,
two, three, four, five,

six, seven.

21 feet?

- Gary, can you keep me on track here?
- Yeah.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

- There.
- Should be right here.

It'd be nice if there were
some more stakes there.

Should be right here. Billy, why don't you

- just see if there's anything here?
- Yep, we'll check.

I just find it impossible

to believe that this is a coincidence,

that two different people
at two different times

put two stakes in that touch each other.

Does it have anything
to do with the sand road?

Does it have anything to do

with professor gaspani's
archeoastronomy work

that there are significant, accurate

stellar, solar and lunar alignments

associated with the positioning
of the stakes in the swamp?

Guess what? Hey!

Come on over!

Wow!

- Hey! Come on over!
- You found one, Rick?

Right where we said.

Brilliant.

While uncovering more of the sand road

in the southwest part
of the swamp... Wow.

Rick has made another
compelling discovery.

That's the first time we've ever said,

"hey, there should be
one there," and there was.

I mean, Rick measured it out.

- 21 feet in between them all.
- Absolutely.

- And there it is.
- There it is.

Yeah, it's getting all the
more interesting, isn't it?

Yeah, I mean, that's
no coincidence, mate.

Absolutely.

Now we know there's an alignment.

- What the heck?
- Yep.

It's the first time we've ever got excited

about finding wood in the swamp.

- It's true. Yep.
- It is, it's exciting.

And you were spot-on.

You nailed that one up there,

lined it up with that
one, put me on the line.

- Bingo, there it is.
- Yep.

We've got a road and
it's leading to something.

Seem to be the northwest

- end of the swamp.
- Are we interested?

Yep.

I'm hoping to uncover
a heck of a lot more

- of this sand road.
- Absolutely.

Could the team be correct

that the stakes they have
found mean that the sand road

is heading in a northwesterly direction?

If so, just what might
they find at the end of it?

The relationship between
the stakes, the sand road,

all of this speaks to some effort

to facilitate an operation in the bog.

There is a trail to be followed here

and, we have to proceed.

We call it the swamp, but when

you think about it, it's so much more

because look at all the industrial

- purpose that it has.
- Yeah.

Everything just screams
just a ton of activity.

- It's too much to ignore.
- Yeah.

This path, this road

- it continues to be amazing.
- Yeah.

Who knows what else is hidden, as well?

I think what we're
uncovering is work pre-swamp.

And when people could get
out here and do all this work.

There are strong hints here

that this sand road is man-made,

hopefully from long ago.

My mind goes to Fred Nolan's belief

that the swamp was an artificial creation.

And that once you understand the totality

of the work in the bog, then
you can understand the mystery.

Well, we've got to prove it.

So, let's get to work.

It's been a really good day.

- Yes.
- You know, unfortunately,

every day, there's an end of the day.

But there's more to
learn, and that means

- coming back.
- Absolutely.

Just need to figure out how to make

the days longer, we'll be all set.

You work on that tonight, bill.

- All right, Billy.
- All right, see you.

- Good digging, mate.
- Okay, see you later.

Kudos to everybody.

Later that evening...

So, ladies and gentlemen,

what we have in front
of us are two samples

of the mortar/cement-like substance

that we believe is part of The Matrix

of what's underneath the lot 8 Boulder.

Before another productive
day comes to a close,

the team gathers in the war room

for a highly anticipated scientific report.

So, I'm gonna turn it over to Emma

and Dr. Spooner and Fiona and Jillian

to let us know what the
results of their analysis is.

I'm prepared to be astonished.

- Go ahead.
- So, I think I would have

to ask which samples
you brought with us today?

So, this is the blue-gray
soil and this is the gray soil.

Okay, great.

Emma, would you call this a Clay?

I don't think I would call it a Clay.

Call it a nice sand-silt-Clay mix.

- Okay.
- It's been manipulated

to remove the sand, probably the gravel,

- as much as possible.
- Yeah.

It is a mortar, it's not
natural, though, right?

It's natural in ingredients

that you find in lot 8, but it isn't

natural in its formation.

Yeah. If we were just
presented with this sediment,

if you presented it to me and say,

"is that something we
naturally find?" I'd say no.

I just think the people who did it

just used materials at hand.

It's quite gel-like, and

you were doing strength testing of it,

it's got a lot of elasticity to it.

It could be used to support

rocks that you want to support.

- Yep.
- Is there any way that

we can date when this was
made or when it was put down?

There are certain things that I do look for

to firmly date concrete or
cement, which is its binder.

And, right off the bat,
there is no modern binding.

But I'm also not seeing
any of the classic minerals

that I would expect to find
in, like, really old mortar

and it's not typical ingredients
that I see in modern.

Right.

So, I'm a little bit more bullish in

the feature being quite old.

Like, what dates would
you give to "quite old"?

Well, everything I've seen lends itself to

before mid-1700s.

Then I would put it somewhere between

pre-1800s, post-1200s.

It's pre-modern and all
the way back to medieval.

Excellent.

I would put it somewhere between

pre-1800s, post 1200s.

It's pre-modern and all
the way back to medieval.

In the war room, Emma

and Dr. Spooner have just revealed that

the composition of
the mortar-like material

found on lot 8 suggests

that the man-made Boulder feature

may be nearly 800 years old.

We have features on the
island that date back very old.

We have good examples of
the techniques that were used

in the 1700 and 1800s,

maybe even into the late-to mid-1600s.

And we don't see any
construction like this,

which, to me, is suggesting that this

was done outside of those time periods.

Probably earlier.

With your xrf machine,

you were picking up silver.
Emma, are you still seeing

traces of that silver?

So, I haven't made sense
of it yet, but I am getting,

some low detection hits of silver.

Lovely.

Where did the traces
of silver even come from,

to be in the soil like that?

It doesn't typically happen, right?

No, I haven't seen it in organic matter.

Okay, so my dad's theory,

if this is a shaft for something deeper

through which silver
was taken at one point,

could that have moved
that silver signal up

from deeper and then
left it there as a residue?

It could have, with the organic matter.

If you had an object that was laying,

even for a short period of time,

in the organic matter,
an object that was silver

like a candelabra or something,
you know, something like that,

it would probably show the
trace amounts we're seeing.

- We're not there yet...
- No.

But the idea that this could be related

to a deeper signal through

maybe the shaft is still a valid idea.

Yeah.

The organic will soak
up available metals.

Could Marty and Alex be correct?

Is it possible that the traces of silver

detected in the soils
beneath the lot 8 feature

might be related to a shaft

that contains a cache of silver?

If so, after nearly two
decades of searching,

has the team found where the truth

behind the oak island
mystery may lie buried?

Fiona, it is a very weird archeological site

that has no artifacts. Is that not true?

I think this is

very special, and I think that the fact

that we don't have any artifacts

gives it a hint of being much older.

If, in fact, that

40,000-pound Boulder was
placed, intentionally placed,

with a cement mixture of
some sort underneath it,

it didn't happen in the 1900s.

It didn't happen in the 1800s.

It didn't happen in the
1700s by normal people.

Which means it's very, very old.

I mean, medieval brings
you back to the templars

and their descendants.

It's difficult to overstate
the importance of that.

The dates that Emma
mentioned, it's exciting.

Zena's templar map references this area,

the so-called December triangle.

This lot does indeed hold mystery.

Here's my next question.

And it is the question.

I want to know what's underneath it,

like all the way down underneath it.

- We're running out of time.
- Correct.

We are on a treasure hunt.

I want to know what's
under that Boulder.

What are we doing next
and what is the prognosis?

We've removed some very large

rocks down at the bottom and we're

examining the soil that
we're seeing under there,

and it seems to go deeper,

so we're actually at that point

where we are gonna continue
going deeper and deeper.

But we really don't want to miss anything

and I think it's really, really important

that we continue the way
that we are doing it now.

Okay, well, I said

I wanted to be astonished,
and frankly, I am.

The consistency amongst the experts

that this thing is so
significant astonishes me,

but in a very good way.

It's quite complex.

A good problem to have.

Fascinating problem to have.

Usually, it's time to dig.

I would say this time,
it's time to keep troweling

so that we can eventually dig.

So, let's go get it.

- Sounds good. -Okay.
- All right. -That works.

See ya.

The road to answers on oak island

has inspired long and trying journeys

for generations of dedicated searchers.

For many, it led to incredible evidence

of buried treasure in the money pit.

For others, it took disastrous
and even deadly turns.

But now, Rick, Marty,
Craig and their team

have found that it may lead to
valuables all across the island.

As they forge ahead
and dig deeper below,

will their journey end
with the ultimate rewards?

Or will the island lead them

to a curve that they won't...

be able to pass?