1 00:00:02,125 --> 00:00:03,292 [Narrator] Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island... 2 00:00:03,417 --> 00:00:05,208 [Clarke] It's very possible a holy relic 3 00:00:05,333 --> 00:00:07,667 related to Jesus may have been concealed 4 00:00:07,875 --> 00:00:09,375 with a Templar treasure on Oak Island. 5 00:00:09,542 --> 00:00:11,750 -[Peter] Whoa. -Wow. 6 00:00:11,917 --> 00:00:14,167 -Got a hit in here. -You do? -[Peter] You got something? 7 00:00:14,333 --> 00:00:15,667 [Katya] Yeah. That's exciting. 8 00:00:15,875 --> 00:00:17,000 -[whoops] -[Scott] Oh, wow. 9 00:00:17,167 --> 00:00:18,583 That's an amazing find. 10 00:00:18,750 --> 00:00:20,333 We've never seen this on an archaeology site. 11 00:00:20,542 --> 00:00:22,417 -Wow. -[laughing] 12 00:00:22,583 --> 00:00:25,167 The peak use was in the 14th and the 15th century. 13 00:00:25,292 --> 00:00:26,917 These could have been dropped by the depositors. 14 00:00:27,042 --> 00:00:28,583 That's pretty exciting. 15 00:00:31,125 --> 00:00:34,250 [Narrator] There is an island in the North Atlantic 16 00:00:34,417 --> 00:00:36,667 where people have been looking for 17 00:00:36,833 --> 00:00:40,833 an incredible treasure for more than 200 years. 18 00:00:41,042 --> 00:00:43,833 So far, they have found a stone slab 19 00:00:44,042 --> 00:00:46,208 with strange symbols carved into it, 20 00:00:46,375 --> 00:00:50,333 man-made workings that date to medieval times, 21 00:00:50,458 --> 00:00:54,542 and a lead cross whose origin may be connected 22 00:00:54,750 --> 00:00:56,000 to the Knights Templar. 23 00:00:56,083 --> 00:00:58,833 To date, six men have died 24 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,667 trying to solve the mystery. 25 00:01:01,833 --> 00:01:06,875 And according to legend, one more will have to die 26 00:01:07,042 --> 00:01:10,417 before the treasure can be found. 27 00:01:14,542 --> 00:01:17,083 ♪ ♪ 28 00:01:21,708 --> 00:01:23,667 -[Alex] Weather's changing pretty quick. -[Laird] Yeah. 29 00:01:23,875 --> 00:01:25,250 I mean, it's the same problem we face every year 30 00:01:25,375 --> 00:01:26,833 on the island, which is being 31 00:01:27,042 --> 00:01:29,333 -at the mercy of the weather. -Yep. 32 00:01:29,458 --> 00:01:30,833 [Narrator] The bitter chill of fall 33 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,917 has arrived on Oak Island. 34 00:01:33,083 --> 00:01:35,542 Well, hopefully, just down another six inches, 35 00:01:35,750 --> 00:01:37,833 we come to the top of a vault 36 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,792 -or something and... -Yeah. 37 00:01:39,958 --> 00:01:42,458 ...and-and we get our questions answered. 38 00:01:43,708 --> 00:01:46,042 [Narrator] But for the Laginas and their team, 39 00:01:46,208 --> 00:01:47,917 the trail of clues that could solve 40 00:01:48,083 --> 00:01:52,458 a 231-year-old mystery has never been hotter. 41 00:01:52,625 --> 00:01:55,208 Especially in the man-made boulder feature 42 00:01:55,375 --> 00:01:58,333 that they have been investigating on Lot 8. 43 00:01:58,500 --> 00:02:00,417 [Fiona] You know, we-we do feel this is something very special. 44 00:02:00,542 --> 00:02:02,667 It's certainly unique, it-it's been 45 00:02:02,875 --> 00:02:04,333 so purposeful and intentional. 46 00:02:04,458 --> 00:02:06,000 It definitely doesn't look like we're anywhere 47 00:02:06,167 --> 00:02:07,333 near the bottom yet. 48 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:09,917 [Alex] We have a lot of structures 49 00:02:10,042 --> 00:02:12,000 -that date through potentially the 1600s... -[Laird] Yeah. 50 00:02:12,167 --> 00:02:13,958 ...definitely the 1700s, 51 00:02:14,125 --> 00:02:16,000 definitely into the 1800s, 52 00:02:16,167 --> 00:02:17,417 and none of them are like this. 53 00:02:17,542 --> 00:02:19,208 No. 54 00:02:19,375 --> 00:02:22,958 We keep on coming to that potential 1200s 55 00:02:23,083 --> 00:02:24,917 -time period. -Yeah. 56 00:02:25,042 --> 00:02:27,083 [Narrator] One week ago, lab tests 57 00:02:27,250 --> 00:02:29,125 on cement-like mortar that were used 58 00:02:29,292 --> 00:02:31,708 to seal this cradle of stones together 59 00:02:31,875 --> 00:02:36,292 showed that the feature may be as much as 800 years old. 60 00:02:36,458 --> 00:02:38,417 Given the fact that the cradle of stones 61 00:02:38,583 --> 00:02:41,292 was covered by a 40,000-pound boulder 62 00:02:41,458 --> 00:02:44,167 and high traces of silver have been detected 63 00:02:44,375 --> 00:02:46,250 in the ground soil, 64 00:02:46,417 --> 00:02:49,167 the team believes this feature may be one of the oldest 65 00:02:49,375 --> 00:02:52,375 ever found on Oak Island and, perhaps, 66 00:02:52,542 --> 00:02:54,750 hiding something of great value. 67 00:02:54,917 --> 00:02:58,250 [Fiona] All right, I'm gonna try a pry bar with this. 68 00:03:03,083 --> 00:03:05,542 -There we go. -[Fiona] Good. 69 00:03:05,708 --> 00:03:08,167 -I can grab that now. -[Marty] I have to say 70 00:03:08,333 --> 00:03:11,250 that this man-made boulder feature on Lot 8 71 00:03:11,458 --> 00:03:15,583 is certainly the top tier of amazingly unique things. 72 00:03:15,708 --> 00:03:18,125 The most likely explanation, to me, 73 00:03:18,333 --> 00:03:20,542 is that it was placed there to cover something. 74 00:03:20,708 --> 00:03:23,875 A shaft, a grave, treasure. Something. 75 00:03:24,083 --> 00:03:26,500 This stuff is pretty cemented. 76 00:03:26,708 --> 00:03:28,458 [Fiona] I'm hitting a lot of slate here right now. 77 00:03:28,583 --> 00:03:31,583 -Like, there's a couple of layers of it. -[Alex] Yeah. 78 00:03:33,333 --> 00:03:36,000 -Hey, guys. -[Fiona] Hello. -[Laird] Hello. -Hey. 79 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,875 -Wow. -[Fiona] Finally, we can get two of us in here. 80 00:03:40,042 --> 00:03:42,792 -[Fiona] Took a while. -[Laird] Yeah, so we started 81 00:03:42,958 --> 00:03:44,333 working on the outside edges. 82 00:03:44,542 --> 00:03:48,833 Where Fiona is seems distinctly different than here. 83 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,958 -Huh. -[Fiona] Even down 84 00:03:51,125 --> 00:03:52,417 to the rock formations. 85 00:03:52,542 --> 00:03:54,708 A lot of smaller rocks on-on this top path, 86 00:03:54,875 --> 00:03:58,333 whereas we had a lot of larger ones down, down below here. 87 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:00,000 Even the soil is a little bit different. 88 00:04:00,208 --> 00:04:02,250 Yeah. 89 00:04:02,417 --> 00:04:04,917 So, the plan moving forward, then, is, I would assume, 90 00:04:05,125 --> 00:04:07,667 dig down and dig out. 91 00:04:07,875 --> 00:04:11,208 Yeah, I think we should excavate here, too, just to make sure. 92 00:04:11,375 --> 00:04:13,167 [Rick] I mean, t-there's something there. 93 00:04:13,333 --> 00:04:15,000 -[laughing] -Yeah. That's exactly it. 94 00:04:15,167 --> 00:04:17,375 -[Rick] Okay. We-We'll let you get back to work. -[Alex] Yep. 95 00:04:17,542 --> 00:04:18,958 -We'll keep you posted. -Okey doke. 96 00:04:19,125 --> 00:04:20,292 -[Rick] Thank you. -[Craig] Okay. 97 00:04:20,458 --> 00:04:22,500 -[Alex] See you, guys. -[Laird] Later. 98 00:04:24,208 --> 00:04:26,292 [Narrator] Later that morning... 99 00:04:27,250 --> 00:04:28,625 [Gary] All right, Rick. 100 00:04:28,792 --> 00:04:31,000 Today is the day. 101 00:04:31,167 --> 00:04:32,708 We're at treasure depth now. 102 00:04:33,750 --> 00:04:35,750 [Narrator] ...Rick arrives in the Money Pit area 103 00:04:35,917 --> 00:04:39,083 where the excavation of the Peacock-1 shaft 104 00:04:39,208 --> 00:04:41,958 is approaching a depth of 150 feet. 105 00:04:43,125 --> 00:04:45,000 [Gary] We're almost in that void area 106 00:04:45,208 --> 00:04:48,542 where Prohawk saw some objects. 107 00:04:48,708 --> 00:04:51,667 I heard one of them was a shiny object. 108 00:04:51,833 --> 00:04:53,417 And I can tell you now, 109 00:04:53,583 --> 00:04:57,458 all the ancient treasures look lovely in water and mud. 110 00:04:57,625 --> 00:04:59,708 [laughing] 111 00:04:59,875 --> 00:05:03,167 [Narrator] Peacock-1 is another target location 112 00:05:03,333 --> 00:05:05,458 where high traces of silver and gold 113 00:05:05,583 --> 00:05:08,625 were detected in underground water samples 114 00:05:08,792 --> 00:05:12,708 taken from some 200 feet deep in the solution channel. 115 00:05:13,708 --> 00:05:17,125 And during their core-drilling operation this year, 116 00:05:17,250 --> 00:05:18,667 this is also where the team discovered 117 00:05:18,875 --> 00:05:24,125 a ten-foot void at a depth of some 150 feet. 118 00:05:24,292 --> 00:05:25,875 Really, there were 119 00:05:26,083 --> 00:05:29,750 interesting things that we kind of noticed in the imagery. 120 00:05:29,917 --> 00:05:32,458 [Narrator] A void where an underwater camera 121 00:05:32,583 --> 00:05:34,583 recorded enhanced video 122 00:05:34,708 --> 00:05:38,292 of potential man-made workings and metal artifacts. 123 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,875 This has made the team suspect that they may have discovered 124 00:05:43,042 --> 00:05:44,708 an offset treasure chamber 125 00:05:44,875 --> 00:05:47,417 connected to the original Money Pit. 126 00:05:48,375 --> 00:05:50,333 What would we expect to see, 127 00:05:50,542 --> 00:05:52,375 in terms of material pullback? 128 00:05:52,583 --> 00:05:55,208 We'll see some rounded, washed boulders 129 00:05:55,375 --> 00:05:57,000 at this point. If we see some wood, 130 00:05:57,167 --> 00:05:58,875 everybody's gonna lose it, I mean, 131 00:05:59,042 --> 00:06:01,667 'cause that would mean we're breaking into a structure. 132 00:06:01,833 --> 00:06:04,000 -[machine beeping] -Anyway, here we go. 133 00:06:12,542 --> 00:06:14,542 [Rick] Okay. Now we got something. 134 00:06:14,708 --> 00:06:17,083 All right, got a lot of cobbles, like you said. 135 00:06:17,250 --> 00:06:18,667 Let's see if there's any treasure 136 00:06:18,833 --> 00:06:20,417 -in those spoils. -[Peter] Yeah. -[Terry] Sure. 137 00:06:21,375 --> 00:06:22,542 I think the most likely place 138 00:06:22,750 --> 00:06:24,458 for a treasure that's still there 139 00:06:24,583 --> 00:06:28,292 is in the solution channel or in a offset chamber. 140 00:06:28,458 --> 00:06:30,167 [Terry] Some boulders. 141 00:06:30,333 --> 00:06:32,125 [Marty] One of the sonic drilling wells in the Peacock 142 00:06:32,292 --> 00:06:34,167 hit some really interesting stuff. 143 00:06:34,375 --> 00:06:36,500 Maybe it has something to do with the offset 144 00:06:36,708 --> 00:06:38,750 chamber theory. I'm hoping it does. 145 00:06:38,917 --> 00:06:41,667 [Terry] Look at how washed those boulders are. 146 00:06:41,833 --> 00:06:44,750 We're definitely into a relative open space. 147 00:06:45,875 --> 00:06:47,375 That's clear, Billy. 148 00:06:47,542 --> 00:06:50,167 Not in this one. 149 00:06:50,333 --> 00:06:52,125 [Terry] That's the void we're looking for. 150 00:06:52,333 --> 00:06:53,958 [Peter] But there was nothing in there. 151 00:06:54,167 --> 00:06:55,333 We're into the slushy, loose area. 152 00:06:55,500 --> 00:06:56,958 Things could've moved around. 153 00:06:57,125 --> 00:06:59,708 Perhaps things fell down into the solution channel. 154 00:07:00,708 --> 00:07:02,250 [Narrator] Could Terry be correct 155 00:07:02,375 --> 00:07:04,458 that the shaft has encountered 156 00:07:04,625 --> 00:07:08,208 the same void the team drilled into earlier this year? 157 00:07:08,375 --> 00:07:12,417 But the possible artifacts they saw in the underwater video 158 00:07:12,542 --> 00:07:14,667 may have fallen through the loose ground soil 159 00:07:14,833 --> 00:07:17,583 to somewhere much deeper below. 160 00:07:19,375 --> 00:07:21,583 [Rick] The area of interest for me now 161 00:07:21,750 --> 00:07:23,250 is the bottom of the solution channel. 162 00:07:23,458 --> 00:07:26,458 -Sure. -Because it could have fallen anywhere. 163 00:07:26,625 --> 00:07:28,667 -Yep. -You have to have an expectation 164 00:07:28,833 --> 00:07:32,167 that, in the Money Pit, every scoop has a chance. 165 00:07:32,333 --> 00:07:34,833 -Yeah. -So, we just have to find it. 166 00:07:35,042 --> 00:07:36,417 Yep. Treasure's where you find it as well. 167 00:07:36,583 --> 00:07:39,542 -There you go. -When you least expect it. 168 00:07:42,417 --> 00:07:44,500 -[Terry] Next bucket. -[Peter] All right. 169 00:07:44,667 --> 00:07:46,000 [Narrator] While the dig continues 170 00:07:46,208 --> 00:07:48,542 in the Money Pit area... 171 00:07:49,875 --> 00:07:52,083 ...later that afternoon... 172 00:07:53,333 --> 00:07:55,417 [Peter] All right. Back in the swamp. 173 00:07:55,625 --> 00:07:57,750 I'm pretty excited 'cause we were finding five 174 00:07:57,875 --> 00:08:00,833 and eight-sided stakes, and 175 00:08:01,042 --> 00:08:03,917 -my guess is they continue. -Right. 176 00:08:04,083 --> 00:08:06,458 [Narrator] ...Gary and Peter join Billly Gerhardt 177 00:08:06,583 --> 00:08:09,333 on the western side of the triangle-shaped swamp. 178 00:08:09,542 --> 00:08:11,167 -[Billy] Well, we have a road. -Yep. 179 00:08:11,292 --> 00:08:13,667 There was big cargo moving along these roads, maybe. 180 00:08:13,875 --> 00:08:17,208 Yep. Hopefully, we find some of that cargo today, mate. 181 00:08:17,375 --> 00:08:19,542 All right. 182 00:08:19,708 --> 00:08:21,708 [Narrator] They are continuing to look for more sections 183 00:08:21,917 --> 00:08:25,500 of a mysterious sand-covered cobblestone road 184 00:08:25,667 --> 00:08:28,208 which they have found lined with five 185 00:08:28,375 --> 00:08:31,000 and eight-sided wooden survey stakes. 186 00:08:32,917 --> 00:08:34,917 Now the team is determined to find out 187 00:08:35,042 --> 00:08:37,000 just where this road will lead them. 188 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:40,833 See all the rocks on the edge of the road, Gary? 189 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,375 [Gary] Yeah. 190 00:08:42,583 --> 00:08:44,667 There's a lot of rocks here. That is for sure. 191 00:08:44,833 --> 00:08:46,667 That's crazy, now it's uncovered, 192 00:08:46,792 --> 00:08:49,667 you can actually see the line of rocks 193 00:08:49,792 --> 00:08:51,792 -[Billy] Mm-hmm. -that represent the edges 194 00:08:51,958 --> 00:08:54,417 of the road, the sand in the middle. 195 00:08:54,583 --> 00:08:57,250 It's definitely a continuation of the sand road. 196 00:08:57,375 --> 00:08:59,833 Right. The road signifies 197 00:09:00,042 --> 00:09:03,292 a major effort by somebody to do significant work 198 00:09:03,375 --> 00:09:04,667 in the body of the swamp. 199 00:09:04,875 --> 00:09:07,333 -Look at what we found in the swamp. -Yeah. 200 00:09:07,542 --> 00:09:09,042 [Rick] You know, as we have chased 201 00:09:09,208 --> 00:09:12,500 this so-called sand road, you ask yourself, 202 00:09:12,667 --> 00:09:14,875 "Is there any association with all the known 203 00:09:15,042 --> 00:09:17,583 construction features in the swamp?" 204 00:09:17,750 --> 00:09:20,458 No one knows why it's here. I believe 205 00:09:20,625 --> 00:09:22,125 that this road might represent 206 00:09:22,292 --> 00:09:24,000 some very early work, 207 00:09:24,167 --> 00:09:26,167 and we need to understand it in terms of understanding 208 00:09:26,333 --> 00:09:28,250 the mystery. 209 00:09:30,333 --> 00:09:32,417 -Hey, Gary. -Hello, mate. 210 00:09:32,583 --> 00:09:34,542 -Figured I'd come help you dig. -Yeah. Good. 211 00:09:36,458 --> 00:09:38,417 [Alex] Anything yet? Or not really? 212 00:09:38,583 --> 00:09:42,167 Um, we can clearly see the sand road now. 213 00:09:42,375 --> 00:09:43,792 [Alex] Yeah. 214 00:09:50,500 --> 00:09:52,750 [Peter] Oh. What's that? 215 00:09:52,917 --> 00:09:54,833 [Gary] Well, that's interesting. 216 00:09:55,042 --> 00:09:57,208 [Peter] I don't know what to make of it. 217 00:10:01,917 --> 00:10:04,583 Yeah, I think this is an eight-sided stake. 218 00:10:04,708 --> 00:10:06,750 Same dimensions, overall. 219 00:10:06,917 --> 00:10:09,333 -Yeah. -[Narrator] After discovering another section 220 00:10:09,542 --> 00:10:11,833 of the sand-covered cobblestone road 221 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 on the western side of the swamp, 222 00:10:14,167 --> 00:10:18,875 the team has just found another potentially important clue. 223 00:10:19,042 --> 00:10:21,458 [Peter] It looks like there's sandy material 224 00:10:21,625 --> 00:10:23,833 on this, which would make sense that it was 225 00:10:24,042 --> 00:10:26,167 running up against the sand road. 226 00:10:26,333 --> 00:10:28,625 Yeah, and I agree. 227 00:10:28,792 --> 00:10:30,167 They seem to be following the edge of the road, 228 00:10:30,333 --> 00:10:32,708 -just like the row of rocks does. -[Billy] Yeah. 229 00:10:39,667 --> 00:10:41,500 [Peter] There's another one right here. 230 00:10:41,708 --> 00:10:44,333 -Another one. -It looks like eight. 231 00:10:44,542 --> 00:10:47,167 -Well, that's good. -They were clearly marking this road. 232 00:10:47,333 --> 00:10:48,833 [Billy] Yeah. I'm gonna go ahead 233 00:10:48,958 --> 00:10:50,250 and I'll get more of it it uncovered. 234 00:10:50,375 --> 00:10:51,875 [Peter] All right, guys. 235 00:10:52,042 --> 00:10:54,708 I'm gonna go check on some other things right now. 236 00:10:54,833 --> 00:10:56,667 Let me know if we find anything. 237 00:10:56,833 --> 00:10:59,250 -You got it. -All right. 238 00:11:02,667 --> 00:11:04,333 Check the rocks on the other side, Alex, 239 00:11:04,542 --> 00:11:06,083 how they had them laid along the road. 240 00:11:06,208 --> 00:11:07,958 -[Alex] Yeah. -[Gary] You can see both sides of road. 241 00:11:08,125 --> 00:11:09,917 [Billy] Yeah, you can see both sides of the road pretty clear. 242 00:11:10,083 --> 00:11:12,167 Yeah, 'cause right now, it's... 243 00:11:12,333 --> 00:11:13,958 -right here. -Yeah. 244 00:11:14,083 --> 00:11:15,167 -And then on the other side... -Seems like over there. 245 00:11:15,333 --> 00:11:16,958 [Billy] Yep. 246 00:11:17,125 --> 00:11:19,292 -[Alex] ...you get rocks again over here. -Right. 247 00:11:19,417 --> 00:11:22,083 I mean, this is a road, definitely. 248 00:11:22,208 --> 00:11:24,333 But it seems like this would have been built for oxen. 249 00:11:24,542 --> 00:11:27,500 [Billy] Yep. We know there was a lot of work done here. 250 00:11:27,708 --> 00:11:29,292 There has to be an infrastructure to support it, 251 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:30,708 -right? -Right. -Yeah. And you know your Uncle Rick 252 00:11:30,875 --> 00:11:32,250 would want to see this, mate. 253 00:11:32,458 --> 00:11:33,792 -Yep. -Maybe text him, 254 00:11:33,958 --> 00:11:35,625 -get him out here. -I will. I'll let him know. 255 00:11:35,750 --> 00:11:37,000 When I first saw the sand road, 256 00:11:37,167 --> 00:11:38,833 I didn't think it was a sand road. 257 00:11:39,042 --> 00:11:41,167 And now, digging where we are, 258 00:11:41,375 --> 00:11:43,500 having followed this path of sand all the way here, 259 00:11:43,667 --> 00:11:44,875 this is unique. 260 00:11:45,083 --> 00:11:46,417 -Okay. -It's actually the only 261 00:11:46,583 --> 00:11:48,750 old road with a sand topping 262 00:11:48,958 --> 00:11:51,000 that we found on the island. 263 00:11:51,208 --> 00:11:53,667 And this could be something really important. 264 00:11:54,708 --> 00:11:56,083 Well, you guys are making a mess. 265 00:11:56,250 --> 00:11:57,542 -[Gary] Hi, Rick. -I hope you found something. 266 00:11:57,708 --> 00:11:59,208 -[chuckles] -A lot of stakes. 267 00:11:59,375 --> 00:12:00,917 [Alex] Series of stakes along the edge of the road. 268 00:12:01,083 --> 00:12:02,875 What we found that's interesting is 269 00:12:03,042 --> 00:12:05,333 we now have both sides of the road very clearly visible 270 00:12:05,458 --> 00:12:07,458 with rocks on both sides. 271 00:12:07,667 --> 00:12:09,125 [Rick] Oh, yeah. Here. 272 00:12:09,292 --> 00:12:10,833 [Billy] Somebody put the sand over the top 273 00:12:11,042 --> 00:12:12,833 to make it smoother, I think. 274 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,500 But it's all that rock, underneath there. 275 00:12:15,667 --> 00:12:18,583 You wonder if this is way back when. 276 00:12:18,708 --> 00:12:21,833 Where else did we see all hand-size cobbles? 277 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,667 We call it the Portuguese stone road out of the swamp. 278 00:12:24,833 --> 00:12:26,333 [Alex] Just kind of standing where I am right now, 279 00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:28,208 looking down the road, I mean, i-it looks like it heads 280 00:12:28,375 --> 00:12:31,792 right for where it would intersect that old stone road 281 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,667 in the southeast corner of the swamp. 282 00:12:33,875 --> 00:12:36,167 -It'd be pretty spot-on. -Right. 283 00:12:36,292 --> 00:12:39,500 [Narrator] Could Billy and Alex be correct? 284 00:12:39,667 --> 00:12:41,875 Might this sand-covered road connect 285 00:12:42,042 --> 00:12:44,500 with the believed Portuguese stone road 286 00:12:44,708 --> 00:12:46,250 which the team uncovered 287 00:12:46,375 --> 00:12:50,417 in the southeast corner of the swamp back in 2020? 288 00:12:50,542 --> 00:12:52,667 [Rick] I say we get Dr. Spooner in, 289 00:12:52,833 --> 00:12:54,833 guide us through some crosscuts, and I think it needs 290 00:12:54,958 --> 00:12:56,625 to be more than one. 291 00:12:56,750 --> 00:12:58,500 We know the doctor makes swamp calls. 292 00:12:58,708 --> 00:13:00,583 Yeah. [laughs] 293 00:13:00,708 --> 00:13:03,792 [Rick] We need to do a crosscut because then Dr. Spooner 294 00:13:03,958 --> 00:13:05,833 can look at the stratigraphy. 295 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,500 Perhaps he can find 296 00:13:07,667 --> 00:13:10,333 a carbon-datable organic specimen. 297 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:12,875 The hope is that it will be very enlightening 298 00:13:13,083 --> 00:13:14,792 because we could find connections 299 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,750 to the Portuguese stone road. 300 00:13:17,958 --> 00:13:20,083 -Well, let's keep digging, see what's what. -Yep. -Okay. 301 00:13:20,250 --> 00:13:22,000 [Billy] I'll just clean it up, and then we can see 302 00:13:22,167 --> 00:13:24,167 -how wide it is. -[Alex] Yeah. -[Gary] Yeah. 303 00:13:28,708 --> 00:13:30,167 [Narrator] The following morning... 304 00:13:31,208 --> 00:13:33,500 -[Scott] Hey, Scott. -[Rick] Good morning, Scott. 305 00:13:33,667 --> 00:13:36,375 -Hey, guys. Good morning. -Welcome back to the war room. 306 00:13:36,542 --> 00:13:38,542 You have brought a lot of thoughtful discussion 307 00:13:38,708 --> 00:13:40,125 to this table. 308 00:13:40,292 --> 00:13:42,000 [Narrator] ...Rick and members of the team 309 00:13:42,167 --> 00:13:45,250 meet once again with author, researcher 310 00:13:45,417 --> 00:13:48,833 and 32nd-degree Freemason Scott Clarke. 311 00:13:49,042 --> 00:13:51,667 [Rick] Scott Clarke has done some research lately, 312 00:13:51,833 --> 00:13:53,667 and he has additional clues to the idea, 313 00:13:53,875 --> 00:13:56,333 the concept, that a sacred religious treasure 314 00:13:56,500 --> 00:13:58,417 has been buried on this island. 315 00:13:58,583 --> 00:14:00,292 So, having said that, Scott, 316 00:14:00,458 --> 00:14:02,333 we look forward to your presentation. 317 00:14:02,458 --> 00:14:04,625 [Clarke] Yeah, thank you very much, Rick. 318 00:14:04,792 --> 00:14:06,417 I-I've been presenting research with you guys 319 00:14:06,542 --> 00:14:08,167 quite a number of times. 320 00:14:08,250 --> 00:14:11,583 My presentation is titled, "From Nazareth to Nova Scotia." 321 00:14:11,708 --> 00:14:13,167 I have additional clues 322 00:14:13,333 --> 00:14:15,625 that I believe really strengthen the theory 323 00:14:15,792 --> 00:14:19,917 that Oak Island does conceal a sacred religious treasure. 324 00:14:22,750 --> 00:14:24,125 [Narrator] Two years ago, 325 00:14:24,333 --> 00:14:26,625 Scott presented a map of Mahone Bay 326 00:14:26,708 --> 00:14:28,375 featuring Oak Island, 327 00:14:28,542 --> 00:14:32,958 which was drawn in 1762 by Charles Morris. 328 00:14:33,125 --> 00:14:35,250 That same year, Morris, 329 00:14:35,375 --> 00:14:37,833 who was also the surveyor general for England 330 00:14:38,042 --> 00:14:40,125 and a high-ranking Freemason, 331 00:14:40,292 --> 00:14:42,667 was responsible for dividing Oak Island 332 00:14:42,875 --> 00:14:45,625 into 32 four-acre lots. 333 00:14:45,833 --> 00:14:47,250 [Clarke] So, I quickly realized 334 00:14:47,375 --> 00:14:48,750 that the Masonic script "A" was pointing 335 00:14:48,917 --> 00:14:51,125 directly up to Oak Island 336 00:14:51,250 --> 00:14:55,000 33 years before the discovery of the Money Pit. 337 00:14:55,125 --> 00:14:58,625 [Narrator] It was Scott's belief that Charles Morris 338 00:14:58,792 --> 00:15:00,583 purposely used a Masonic-styled "A" 339 00:15:00,750 --> 00:15:02,875 in the word "Mahone" on the map 340 00:15:03,042 --> 00:15:05,667 in order to point toward the location 341 00:15:05,833 --> 00:15:07,625 where priceless religious treasures 342 00:15:07,792 --> 00:15:10,125 of the Knights Templar were buried. 343 00:15:11,458 --> 00:15:13,875 [Clarke] So, as you guys know, the Masonic script "A," 344 00:15:14,083 --> 00:15:15,917 with the V-shaped crossbar, 345 00:15:16,042 --> 00:15:18,125 has definitely been used at times, throughout history, 346 00:15:18,250 --> 00:15:20,792 as much more than just a simple letter. 347 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,292 It's been found on Templar churches, 348 00:15:22,458 --> 00:15:24,167 uh, throughout Europe, 349 00:15:24,333 --> 00:15:27,000 carvings by the Knights of Christ, 350 00:15:27,167 --> 00:15:28,792 and of course on the earliest map 351 00:15:28,958 --> 00:15:32,167 of Mahone Bay, which I've shown before. 352 00:15:32,333 --> 00:15:33,958 The "A" in "Mahone" has a V-shaped crossbar 353 00:15:34,125 --> 00:15:35,792 which is very similar 354 00:15:35,958 --> 00:15:38,167 to a Masonic compass and square symbol. 355 00:15:39,750 --> 00:15:41,208 So, I recently became aware 356 00:15:41,375 --> 00:15:44,000 of this really interesting artifact in Rome. 357 00:15:44,208 --> 00:15:47,792 Uh, it's in a church called the Basilica of the Holy Cross 358 00:15:47,875 --> 00:15:49,667 that houses several relics related 359 00:15:49,833 --> 00:15:51,333 to the passion of Christ. 360 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:53,000 Now, these relics are believed to include 361 00:15:53,208 --> 00:15:55,000 a piece of the true cross, 362 00:15:55,208 --> 00:15:57,125 one of the nails that was believed to have been used. 363 00:15:57,292 --> 00:16:00,667 And one of the relics is actually called 364 00:16:00,833 --> 00:16:02,750 the Titulus Crucis. 365 00:16:02,875 --> 00:16:04,708 [Narrator] The Titulus Crucis, 366 00:16:04,917 --> 00:16:06,458 or "Title of the Cross," 367 00:16:06,583 --> 00:16:09,333 was a wooden tablet that was placed 368 00:16:09,458 --> 00:16:13,000 above the head of Jesus Christ when he was crucified. 369 00:16:13,125 --> 00:16:16,042 It was reportedly inscribed with the words, 370 00:16:16,208 --> 00:16:19,875 "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews." 371 00:16:20,042 --> 00:16:23,000 [Clarke] So, as soon as I saw the Titulus Crucis, 372 00:16:23,167 --> 00:16:24,375 I was immediately drawn 373 00:16:24,542 --> 00:16:25,875 to the letter "A" at the bottom there, 374 00:16:26,042 --> 00:16:27,333 uh, with the V-shaped crossbar, 375 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:31,625 highlighted in red in the name "Nazarinus." 376 00:16:33,208 --> 00:16:35,167 The Templars did have, uh, a major presence in Rome. 377 00:16:36,458 --> 00:16:39,125 The holy relics that were housed in the Basilica 378 00:16:39,250 --> 00:16:42,167 also held immense significance for the Templars 379 00:16:42,292 --> 00:16:46,042 who cherished and visited this important religious site. 380 00:16:46,208 --> 00:16:48,542 So, below is just, uh, a comparison of the two: 381 00:16:48,708 --> 00:16:52,292 the-the Morris map from 1762 showing the two different As, 382 00:16:52,417 --> 00:16:55,500 and of course the place name, uh, "Nazarinus" 383 00:16:55,708 --> 00:16:57,375 on the Titulus Crucis. 384 00:16:58,625 --> 00:17:01,042 And so, of course, the big question is why. 385 00:17:01,208 --> 00:17:03,167 Why was this particular "A" carved 386 00:17:03,375 --> 00:17:06,458 with the V-shaped crossbar on the Titulus Crucis? 387 00:17:06,625 --> 00:17:11,875 Why is it on the 1762 Morris map of Mahone Bay? 388 00:17:12,042 --> 00:17:13,667 Uh, it seems to me 389 00:17:13,792 --> 00:17:16,458 fairly possible that this letter "A" with the V-shaped crossbar 390 00:17:16,625 --> 00:17:19,500 is connected to Jesus. 391 00:17:19,667 --> 00:17:21,167 So, additional clues that I believe 392 00:17:21,333 --> 00:17:22,833 really strengthen the theory... 393 00:17:22,958 --> 00:17:25,000 on the map, at the far right, 394 00:17:25,208 --> 00:17:28,208 is the name St. Margaret's Bay. 395 00:17:28,375 --> 00:17:30,667 St. Margaret was known throughout history 396 00:17:30,875 --> 00:17:35,333 as having owned a piece of the actual true cross of Jesus. 397 00:17:35,542 --> 00:17:38,042 And Morris also incorporated three of the As 398 00:17:38,208 --> 00:17:40,667 within the name St. Margaret's Bay. 399 00:17:41,667 --> 00:17:44,750 And they have that same V-shaped crossbar 400 00:17:44,917 --> 00:17:46,250 whereas all the other As on the map 401 00:17:46,458 --> 00:17:48,667 do not. And as I've shown before, 402 00:17:48,875 --> 00:17:51,083 the last time in the war room, 403 00:17:51,292 --> 00:17:52,958 by utilizing those three small As 404 00:17:53,125 --> 00:17:54,417 in the name St. Margaret's Bay, 405 00:17:54,542 --> 00:17:56,667 if you created a circle on the map 406 00:17:56,833 --> 00:17:58,833 using the exact arc 407 00:17:59,042 --> 00:18:01,667 created by the three Masonic script As, 408 00:18:01,833 --> 00:18:03,792 the circle will not only pass directly through 409 00:18:03,958 --> 00:18:06,042 the compass rose of the map 410 00:18:06,208 --> 00:18:08,583 but also directly over Oak Island. 411 00:18:09,583 --> 00:18:11,458 Yeah. 412 00:18:11,583 --> 00:18:13,042 [Clarke] So, uh, Jesus was venerated 413 00:18:13,208 --> 00:18:15,167 by the Catholic orders: 414 00:18:15,292 --> 00:18:17,208 the Knights Templar, the Knights of Christ, 415 00:18:17,375 --> 00:18:19,000 uh, the Knights of Malta, 416 00:18:19,208 --> 00:18:20,167 any of whom may have been responsible 417 00:18:20,375 --> 00:18:22,417 for depositing or incorporating 418 00:18:22,625 --> 00:18:24,250 crosses on Oak Island. 419 00:18:24,417 --> 00:18:26,042 I believe that it's very possible 420 00:18:26,208 --> 00:18:29,167 a piece of the actual true cross of Jesus 421 00:18:29,292 --> 00:18:31,000 may have been concealed 422 00:18:31,083 --> 00:18:32,750 with the Templar treasure on Oak Island. 423 00:18:36,833 --> 00:18:40,958 32nd-degree Freemason Scott Clarke is presenting clues 424 00:18:41,167 --> 00:18:42,667 found on an 18th century map 425 00:18:42,875 --> 00:18:45,500 of Mahone Bay, which he believes 426 00:18:45,667 --> 00:18:48,000 offers more evidence that priceless 427 00:18:48,208 --> 00:18:51,375 religious artifacts may be buried on Oak Island. 428 00:18:52,417 --> 00:18:53,958 And here's another example: 429 00:18:54,083 --> 00:18:56,000 Corjan Mol, he took the photo 430 00:18:56,125 --> 00:18:58,292 that's shown right here. 431 00:18:58,458 --> 00:19:01,833 He informed me that an "A" with a V-shaped crossbar 432 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,708 was found at the Convent of Christ in Tomar, Portugal, 433 00:19:05,875 --> 00:19:07,292 which is a Templar church. 434 00:19:07,458 --> 00:19:10,792 -That's right. -Recently, the Convent of Christ 435 00:19:10,917 --> 00:19:14,708 displayed a number of Portuguese Templar gravestones 436 00:19:14,875 --> 00:19:16,792 which had these pentacles engraved on them. 437 00:19:16,958 --> 00:19:20,458 And the pentacle-- it's a pentagram within a circle-- 438 00:19:20,625 --> 00:19:22,667 was adopted by Christians during medieval times 439 00:19:22,833 --> 00:19:24,125 as a symbol of Jesus 440 00:19:24,292 --> 00:19:27,208 and the five wounds that he suffered 441 00:19:27,375 --> 00:19:28,958 during the crucifixion. 442 00:19:29,167 --> 00:19:32,500 Every pentagram consists of five letter As 443 00:19:32,708 --> 00:19:34,375 in varying positions. 444 00:19:34,542 --> 00:19:36,625 And as we can see, this includes 445 00:19:36,833 --> 00:19:38,708 the "A" with the V-shaped crossbar. 446 00:19:39,667 --> 00:19:42,250 So it's interesting that in all the world, 447 00:19:42,375 --> 00:19:43,750 the only country that incorporates 448 00:19:43,917 --> 00:19:45,333 the five wounds of Christ 449 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:47,958 on its national flag and its early coinage, 450 00:19:48,042 --> 00:19:49,333 of course, is Portugal. 451 00:19:49,542 --> 00:19:51,667 And by association, the Azores. 452 00:19:52,708 --> 00:19:55,542 Both of their flags, to this day, still have 453 00:19:55,708 --> 00:19:59,167 the five blue shields arranged in the shape of cross. 454 00:19:59,375 --> 00:20:00,875 And on each shield, we see the five dots, 455 00:20:01,042 --> 00:20:05,083 which are said to represent the five wounds of Jesus. 456 00:20:05,292 --> 00:20:08,000 [Narrator] The Azores are a Portuguese archipelago 457 00:20:08,167 --> 00:20:13,167 of nine islands some 870 miles west of mainland Portugal. 458 00:20:20,917 --> 00:20:22,958 [Narrator] In 2022, 459 00:20:23,125 --> 00:20:25,833 Portuguese researcher Francisco Nogueira 460 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,167 met with the team as they were investigating 461 00:20:28,333 --> 00:20:31,875 a strange rock wall on Lot 26 of Oak Island. 462 00:20:40,875 --> 00:20:42,792 No way. 463 00:20:42,958 --> 00:20:44,125 [Narrator] And curiously, 464 00:20:44,292 --> 00:20:45,833 Francisco not only affirmed 465 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,250 that the wall appeared to be of Portuguese design 466 00:20:49,375 --> 00:20:53,458 but matched similar rock walls found in the Azores. 467 00:20:53,583 --> 00:20:56,167 And with the discovery or the revelation 468 00:20:56,333 --> 00:20:57,458 of the Pitblado coin this year, 469 00:20:57,625 --> 00:21:00,250 I think, on a research note, 470 00:21:00,375 --> 00:21:02,208 we'd have to turn our attention back to Portugal. 471 00:21:02,375 --> 00:21:04,167 And the Azores as well. 472 00:21:04,292 --> 00:21:05,833 [Clarke] It would probably have 473 00:21:06,042 --> 00:21:07,625 the cross with the five, you know, wounds of Christ. 474 00:21:07,750 --> 00:21:10,875 That was normal for Portugal currency back then. 475 00:21:11,042 --> 00:21:12,917 It does have that. 476 00:21:13,042 --> 00:21:14,708 [Narrator] Is it possible 477 00:21:14,875 --> 00:21:18,250 that the 14th century silver coin, reportedly found 478 00:21:18,458 --> 00:21:21,583 in the original Money Pit by James Pitblado, 479 00:21:21,708 --> 00:21:23,625 might be a corroborating clue 480 00:21:23,708 --> 00:21:26,542 to support Scott Clarke's theory? 481 00:21:26,708 --> 00:21:28,833 Um, I'm not the only researcher that's-that's found 482 00:21:29,042 --> 00:21:30,542 a number of-of connections 483 00:21:30,667 --> 00:21:33,000 with early Christian relics and Oak Island. 484 00:21:33,208 --> 00:21:36,167 I believe that with this new information I presented, 485 00:21:36,333 --> 00:21:37,958 regarding the "A" with a V-shaped crossbar, 486 00:21:38,125 --> 00:21:40,500 it is perhaps a clue 487 00:21:40,625 --> 00:21:42,292 that there is something on Oak Island 488 00:21:42,458 --> 00:21:44,833 directly connected to Jesus Christ 489 00:21:45,042 --> 00:21:47,625 and these groups, the Templars, 490 00:21:47,792 --> 00:21:49,625 -Knights of Christ. -[Alex] It does track. 491 00:21:49,750 --> 00:21:52,250 It fits with the history that we know. 492 00:21:52,417 --> 00:21:54,417 -Oh, absolutely. -Yep, yep. 493 00:21:54,625 --> 00:21:56,333 It's something we can continue to investigate. 494 00:21:56,542 --> 00:21:59,000 It's what we're looking for if we can prove it out, 495 00:21:59,167 --> 00:22:00,500 the thing that connects the Old World 496 00:22:00,625 --> 00:22:02,292 across the Atlantic to Oak Island. 497 00:22:02,417 --> 00:22:04,333 Right, right. 498 00:22:04,542 --> 00:22:06,000 [Rick] I think potentially going to the Azores 499 00:22:06,167 --> 00:22:09,167 is-is an excellent thought. 500 00:22:09,292 --> 00:22:10,667 So I say thank you to you. 501 00:22:10,875 --> 00:22:13,500 Uh, continue your excellent research, 502 00:22:13,625 --> 00:22:17,167 because what you find may be critically important to us. 503 00:22:17,375 --> 00:22:18,833 Sounds good. Thanks very much, Rick. 504 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,833 -Really appreciate it. -[Alex] Thanks, Scott. 505 00:22:21,042 --> 00:22:22,708 [Rick] Thank you, Scott. 506 00:22:24,292 --> 00:22:25,833 [Narrator] Later that morning... 507 00:22:26,042 --> 00:22:27,875 [Ian] So... 508 00:22:28,042 --> 00:22:29,792 we're gonna do one trench. 509 00:22:29,958 --> 00:22:32,333 [Narrator] ...Dr. Spooner joins Rick and members of the team 510 00:22:32,500 --> 00:22:34,625 on the western side of the swamp. 511 00:22:34,792 --> 00:22:37,833 The idea is to do it, uh, across the road, 512 00:22:37,958 --> 00:22:41,708 and what we're hoping to do is see some kind of feature-- 513 00:22:41,875 --> 00:22:44,833 wood, cut wood-- underneath the sand. 514 00:22:44,917 --> 00:22:46,417 Okey doke. 515 00:22:47,375 --> 00:22:48,917 [Narrator] As Billy digs a trench, 516 00:22:49,083 --> 00:22:52,458 or crosscut, in the sand and cobblestone road, 517 00:22:52,625 --> 00:22:56,667 Dr. Ian Spooner will be looking for man-manipulated clues 518 00:22:56,833 --> 00:22:59,917 such as cut wood to submit for carbon dating. 519 00:23:00,042 --> 00:23:03,458 This could help him determine when the road was created. 520 00:23:09,542 --> 00:23:11,875 -[Rick] Still sand? -[Scott] Yeah. 521 00:23:13,083 --> 00:23:15,000 -Lot of material. -Yeah. 522 00:23:16,958 --> 00:23:19,042 Was it a road and then the sand put on after? 523 00:23:19,208 --> 00:23:21,542 Yeah, that's the one thing we've got to take a look at. 524 00:23:21,708 --> 00:23:23,958 -If there's rocks, then duff, then sand... -Yeah. 525 00:23:24,125 --> 00:23:25,292 ...that's two generations, then, 526 00:23:25,458 --> 00:23:27,708 -of construction. -Right. 527 00:23:27,833 --> 00:23:29,958 [Ian] So, we're digging through the sand road, and what we saw 528 00:23:30,125 --> 00:23:31,500 were these layers: 529 00:23:31,625 --> 00:23:33,000 layer of sand on top, 530 00:23:33,208 --> 00:23:34,333 organics below the sand, 531 00:23:34,542 --> 00:23:36,500 then rocks under that 532 00:23:36,708 --> 00:23:38,333 that might have been used to reinforce 533 00:23:38,542 --> 00:23:40,000 the sides of this road. 534 00:23:40,208 --> 00:23:43,000 -[Rick] Let Katya go in. -Yeah. 535 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 [device beeping] 536 00:23:47,167 --> 00:23:49,083 -[Katya] Got a hit in here. -[Scott] You do? 537 00:23:49,250 --> 00:23:51,667 -Yeah. -[device beeping] 538 00:23:51,875 --> 00:23:53,042 It's iron. 539 00:23:55,542 --> 00:23:56,917 I think it's out. 540 00:24:02,208 --> 00:24:03,917 That's exciting. 541 00:24:08,833 --> 00:24:10,417 What in the...? 542 00:24:14,333 --> 00:24:15,208 I think we might have 543 00:24:15,375 --> 00:24:17,833 an old ox nail. 544 00:24:18,042 --> 00:24:20,792 [Narrator] After digging into the sand and stone road 545 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,958 on the western side of the swamp, 546 00:24:23,125 --> 00:24:27,417 Katya has just found a potentially important artifact. 547 00:24:27,542 --> 00:24:30,333 -Yeah. -[Katya] And it definitely is square, 548 00:24:30,542 --> 00:24:32,958 which obviously isn't modern. 549 00:24:34,333 --> 00:24:35,833 Hmm. 550 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:38,542 And the oxen would have been towing the carts 551 00:24:38,750 --> 00:24:41,042 -with everything, right? -[Narrator] An ox shoe nail? 552 00:24:41,208 --> 00:24:44,250 Could Billy be correct that the team has found evidence 553 00:24:44,458 --> 00:24:48,583 that heavy cargo was moved along this road long ago? 554 00:24:48,708 --> 00:24:51,958 If so, just what type of cargo was it? 555 00:24:52,125 --> 00:24:53,542 [Ian] That's encouraging. 556 00:24:53,708 --> 00:24:55,375 An old nail makes me more confident 557 00:24:55,542 --> 00:24:57,667 what we're standing on is something old. 558 00:24:57,833 --> 00:24:59,375 Who knows what we might find in the sand? 559 00:24:59,542 --> 00:25:00,875 Let's keep going. 560 00:25:01,083 --> 00:25:03,000 [Rick] If we can make a determination 561 00:25:03,208 --> 00:25:04,542 that the road is old, 562 00:25:04,667 --> 00:25:07,833 then to me it speaks eloquently to the fact 563 00:25:08,042 --> 00:25:12,375 that the road was constructed to gain access into a wetland 564 00:25:12,542 --> 00:25:15,917 and that heavy loads were transported across it. 565 00:25:18,875 --> 00:25:20,750 [Scott] That's another cut piece of wood there. 566 00:25:20,917 --> 00:25:22,667 Yeah. 567 00:25:27,875 --> 00:25:30,667 Right. Just as-as the teeth are going by here, I mean, 568 00:25:30,792 --> 00:25:32,250 -there's a lot of rocks here. -Yeah. 569 00:25:32,458 --> 00:25:34,250 Somebody laid 'em down as a base. 570 00:25:34,458 --> 00:25:36,333 -Yeah, that's cut, too. -Yeah. 571 00:25:36,542 --> 00:25:38,167 [Ian] So, something like that's what we want to get a date from. 572 00:25:38,375 --> 00:25:40,250 [Scott] Yeah. 573 00:25:40,417 --> 00:25:42,667 [Ian] So, we're digging through the sand road, and what we see 574 00:25:42,833 --> 00:25:46,208 is cut wood above the stones and below the sand... 575 00:25:46,375 --> 00:25:49,708 Oh, look at this, Peter. That log's cut at the end, too. 576 00:25:49,875 --> 00:25:54,833 ...which I think was put down to help stabilize the sand 577 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,125 with the intent of actually supporting a fair bit of weight. 578 00:25:58,208 --> 00:26:01,292 What really stands out to me is some of the layering. 579 00:26:01,458 --> 00:26:05,833 It looks like brush that's been just piled down, piled on top. 580 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,333 -[Peter] Yeah. -I mean, it's pretty complex construction, 581 00:26:08,542 --> 00:26:10,125 but it's hastily done. 582 00:26:10,292 --> 00:26:12,208 The Portuguese stone road is made the same way. 583 00:26:13,750 --> 00:26:15,167 [Ian] Hey, take a look at this. 584 00:26:15,375 --> 00:26:17,500 -That's cut wood. -[Rick] Wow. 585 00:26:17,625 --> 00:26:19,125 [Narrator] In 2020, 586 00:26:19,292 --> 00:26:21,667 when the team uncovered the stone road 587 00:26:21,792 --> 00:26:23,625 in the southeast corner of the swamp, 588 00:26:23,792 --> 00:26:26,667 they found layers of hand-cut tree branches 589 00:26:26,875 --> 00:26:30,667 beneath the cobblestones that served as support bedding. 590 00:26:30,833 --> 00:26:33,292 Could these branches offer a clue 591 00:26:33,417 --> 00:26:35,583 that this sand road may indeed 592 00:26:35,708 --> 00:26:38,583 connect to the road in the southeast corner? 593 00:26:38,792 --> 00:26:40,917 [Ian] But it's worth 594 00:26:41,083 --> 00:26:42,917 trying to figure out the timing of this... 595 00:26:43,083 --> 00:26:44,583 -Mm-hmm. -...because if it connects 596 00:26:44,750 --> 00:26:46,500 to the stone road, 597 00:26:46,708 --> 00:26:48,833 then maybe it's all of a certain design. 598 00:26:49,042 --> 00:26:50,667 That stick right there that's still embedded in the side... 599 00:26:50,792 --> 00:26:52,542 [Ian] Yeah. 600 00:26:52,708 --> 00:26:54,250 I think that's gonna be the one that's gonna 601 00:26:54,458 --> 00:26:56,500 -tell the tale, would it not? -Yes. 602 00:26:56,708 --> 00:26:58,625 We might get a good date off that wood, too. 603 00:26:58,750 --> 00:27:00,458 -[Katya] Mm-hmm. -But what I'd like to do is move 604 00:27:00,625 --> 00:27:02,667 to another site, do another trench, 605 00:27:02,833 --> 00:27:04,750 -if you can do that, Billy? -Yep. 606 00:27:04,917 --> 00:27:06,500 -Okay. -Okay. -Good luck. -All right. 607 00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:08,167 -Thank you. -See you, guys. 608 00:27:11,583 --> 00:27:13,000 [Narrator] The next morning... 609 00:27:14,042 --> 00:27:15,708 -[Ed] Morning. -[Peter] How's it going? 610 00:27:15,917 --> 00:27:17,875 We've already gone down another 20 feet. 611 00:27:18,042 --> 00:27:20,208 So, at this point, the can is down to 170. 612 00:27:20,375 --> 00:27:21,750 That's great. 613 00:27:21,875 --> 00:27:23,458 [Narrator] ...in the Money Pit area, 614 00:27:23,583 --> 00:27:25,208 Rick and other members of the team 615 00:27:25,375 --> 00:27:29,417 monitor the excavation of the Peacock-1 caisson. 616 00:27:29,625 --> 00:27:31,792 I notice we're getting full buckets as well. 617 00:27:31,917 --> 00:27:34,375 -Yeah. -Which is good. The more spoils we go through, 618 00:27:34,583 --> 00:27:36,167 the more chance we got of finding treasure. 619 00:27:36,375 --> 00:27:37,542 [Rick] Everything points 620 00:27:37,708 --> 00:27:39,625 to getting down to 210. 621 00:27:39,792 --> 00:27:41,333 -All right, thank you. -Thanks, guys. -Thanks a lot, Ed. 622 00:27:41,542 --> 00:27:42,625 -Appreciate it. -Appreciate it. 623 00:27:42,792 --> 00:27:44,500 Keep your fingers crossed. 624 00:27:44,625 --> 00:27:46,042 Yeah. 625 00:27:47,583 --> 00:27:48,917 [Peter] What you got? 626 00:27:49,833 --> 00:27:51,250 And you're smiling. 627 00:27:51,417 --> 00:27:54,167 [Charles] That. That came out of Peacock-1. 628 00:27:54,292 --> 00:27:56,167 -What the heck is that? -That's cement. -Let's have a look. 629 00:27:56,375 --> 00:28:00,000 [Charles] This kind of jumped out at him on the wash plant. 630 00:28:00,167 --> 00:28:02,625 -[Rick] Yeah, that is cement. -Yep. 631 00:28:02,833 --> 00:28:04,833 You know what that makes me think of? 632 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,583 My mind went right to the vault. 1897. 633 00:28:07,708 --> 00:28:10,000 Yeah, the vault. 634 00:28:10,167 --> 00:28:12,583 [Charles] The vault was encased in concrete. 635 00:28:12,708 --> 00:28:14,208 [Terry] That's concrete. 636 00:28:14,375 --> 00:28:16,083 -Not maybe. -Wow. 637 00:28:17,458 --> 00:28:19,792 [Narrator] In 1897, 638 00:28:19,917 --> 00:28:22,917 treasure hunters Frederick Blair and William Chappell 639 00:28:23,083 --> 00:28:26,250 reported drilling into a seven-foot-high wooden vault 640 00:28:26,417 --> 00:28:31,208 that was encased in concrete at a depth of 153 feet. 641 00:28:31,375 --> 00:28:33,250 During this same incident, 642 00:28:33,375 --> 00:28:35,792 they claimed to have found traces of gold 643 00:28:35,958 --> 00:28:38,958 and a piece of parchment bearing the letters "V-I" 644 00:28:39,083 --> 00:28:41,458 when they extracted their drill bit. 645 00:28:41,625 --> 00:28:43,833 Is it possible that this concrete 646 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,458 could be evidence of the so-called Chappell Vault? 647 00:28:47,625 --> 00:28:49,167 That needs to go to the lab. 648 00:28:49,292 --> 00:28:51,167 -Absolutely. -[Charles] I'm gonna leave that with you. 649 00:28:51,333 --> 00:28:53,625 I've got to get back down to the wash plant. 650 00:28:53,792 --> 00:28:55,000 -All right. -See you, guys. -See you. 651 00:28:55,208 --> 00:28:57,625 [Rick] That's why the wash plant exists. 652 00:28:57,792 --> 00:28:59,125 Because drilling, 653 00:28:59,292 --> 00:29:00,708 the sinking of caissons, 654 00:29:00,833 --> 00:29:02,708 metal detecting, uh... 655 00:29:02,833 --> 00:29:05,000 you need all the tools in the toolbox. 656 00:29:06,833 --> 00:29:08,292 [Charles] Here we go. 657 00:29:08,458 --> 00:29:10,875 Let's see if we find something. 658 00:29:18,708 --> 00:29:20,500 Hey, Charles! 659 00:29:21,625 --> 00:29:23,125 Down here. 660 00:29:25,292 --> 00:29:27,167 This is pretty peculiar. 661 00:29:30,958 --> 00:29:32,833 You know what that looks like? 662 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,667 [Narrator] At the wash plant, Derek Couch has just made 663 00:29:35,792 --> 00:29:38,708 a potentially important discovery. 664 00:29:38,875 --> 00:29:41,208 It looks like a Portuguese stoneshot to me. 665 00:29:41,375 --> 00:29:43,667 It's the fact that it's coming out of this 666 00:29:43,833 --> 00:29:45,625 -at 100-plus feet down. -Okay. 667 00:29:45,792 --> 00:29:47,500 [Charles] This is cool, man. 668 00:29:47,667 --> 00:29:49,917 We found one before in the Money Pit. 669 00:29:50,125 --> 00:29:52,375 [Narrator] A possible piece of stoneshot 670 00:29:52,542 --> 00:29:56,083 found in the spoils removed from the Peacock-1 shaft? 671 00:29:56,250 --> 00:29:59,333 Dating as far back as the 12th century, 672 00:29:59,458 --> 00:30:02,333 hand-carved stoneshot was a projectile 673 00:30:02,542 --> 00:30:05,333 that was discharged from both small cannons 674 00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:08,167 and early handheld firearms. 675 00:30:08,292 --> 00:30:13,250 Curiously, the team has found two stoneshots in recent years, 676 00:30:13,375 --> 00:30:18,000 one on Lot 15 and the other deep in the Money Pit area. 677 00:30:18,208 --> 00:30:21,500 Incredibly, according to scientific testing, 678 00:30:21,708 --> 00:30:23,750 both of those may have originated 679 00:30:23,875 --> 00:30:26,000 in the Azores islands of Portugal. 680 00:30:26,208 --> 00:30:27,708 [Charles] We got to have Laird and Rick 681 00:30:27,875 --> 00:30:29,458 come down and take a look at this. 682 00:30:29,625 --> 00:30:31,500 -Yeah, you'd better. -Absolutely. 683 00:30:31,625 --> 00:30:32,917 -I'm gonna text 'em. -All right. 684 00:30:33,125 --> 00:30:34,500 Have 'em come down. 685 00:30:34,667 --> 00:30:37,042 [Narrator] Is it possible that Derek and Charles 686 00:30:37,208 --> 00:30:40,833 have found another identical piece of stoneshot? 687 00:30:41,042 --> 00:30:43,042 -Way to go. -I'll keep an eye. 688 00:30:43,208 --> 00:30:46,417 [Narrator] And if so, could it be another key clue 689 00:30:46,542 --> 00:30:50,500 to help identify just who was behind the Oak Island mystery? 690 00:30:50,708 --> 00:30:52,333 -[Laird] Charles. -Hey, Laird. 691 00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:55,708 Hey, you got a smile on your face a mile long. 692 00:30:55,875 --> 00:30:58,458 Well, take a look at that. 693 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,375 [Rick] Wow. Look at that. 694 00:31:03,542 --> 00:31:05,000 What do you make of it? 695 00:31:05,125 --> 00:31:07,875 [Laird] Well, i-it looks like a stoneshot, for sure. 696 00:31:08,042 --> 00:31:10,333 I don't see how that would occur naturally here. 697 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:12,708 Emma and the CT scan might tell us something. 698 00:31:12,875 --> 00:31:14,292 Might see the chisel marks or whatever? 699 00:31:14,458 --> 00:31:15,875 -Yeah. -Hmm. 700 00:31:17,125 --> 00:31:19,708 It was found 100-plus feet down. 701 00:31:19,875 --> 00:31:21,833 So it could come from the solution channel, 702 00:31:22,042 --> 00:31:23,958 it could come from a little bit higher. 703 00:31:24,125 --> 00:31:26,000 All I know is 100-plus. 704 00:31:26,208 --> 00:31:27,500 [Laird] I mean, either way, if it's a stoneshot, 705 00:31:27,667 --> 00:31:28,917 it shouldn't be there. 706 00:31:29,083 --> 00:31:30,542 In 40 years, we've never seen this 707 00:31:30,708 --> 00:31:32,292 on an archaeology site. 708 00:31:32,458 --> 00:31:35,000 -[Rick] It has the appearance of the other ones. -Yeah. 709 00:31:35,167 --> 00:31:36,833 [Rick] There was a suggestion that it could have 710 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,500 come from the Azores. 711 00:31:38,708 --> 00:31:40,208 -So we have to check into that. -Yeah. 712 00:31:40,417 --> 00:31:42,458 -[Charles] Very curious find. -Cool. 713 00:31:42,625 --> 00:31:45,625 [Rick] If Laird is correct in his assessment 714 00:31:45,792 --> 00:31:46,958 that it is a stoneshot... 715 00:31:47,083 --> 00:31:48,750 -Thank you. -Okay. -Thanks, guys. 716 00:31:48,875 --> 00:31:51,792 ...I think it would be quite remarkable. 717 00:31:51,958 --> 00:31:53,875 It's amazing, because now we have found three 718 00:31:54,042 --> 00:31:55,667 in different locations. 719 00:31:55,833 --> 00:31:57,667 And this one was found in an area 720 00:31:57,875 --> 00:32:01,000 where we've actually found traces of precious metals 721 00:32:01,167 --> 00:32:03,333 deep underground as well. 722 00:32:03,417 --> 00:32:07,000 [Narrator] Meanwhile, back in the Money Pit area... 723 00:32:07,167 --> 00:32:08,875 -[Jared] Think we're at bottom. -...the excavation 724 00:32:09,042 --> 00:32:11,042 of the Peacock-1 shaft 725 00:32:11,208 --> 00:32:14,500 has reached bedrock in the solution channel. 726 00:32:14,708 --> 00:32:16,333 -[Rick] So, how's it going? -[Terry] Hey. Just saw 727 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:18,708 how it was turning but it really wasn't going anywhere? 728 00:32:18,875 --> 00:32:20,125 -[Peter] Yeah. -They're on the bottom. 729 00:32:20,292 --> 00:32:22,000 -Really? -Teeth are on the bottom at 210, 730 00:32:22,167 --> 00:32:24,542 -just about where we thought. -Nothing else has come out? 731 00:32:24,708 --> 00:32:26,833 -[Gary] Unfortunately not. -[Terry] Most of the stuff 732 00:32:27,042 --> 00:32:28,708 we're pulling up is relatively loose. 733 00:32:28,875 --> 00:32:30,375 There's some gypsum from the bottom as well. 734 00:32:30,542 --> 00:32:33,292 Sadly, the structure that we thought or hoped for 735 00:32:33,458 --> 00:32:35,667 doesn't seem to have materialized. 736 00:32:35,792 --> 00:32:38,208 Hmm. Unfortunately, we're done. 737 00:32:41,083 --> 00:32:43,500 -Hey, guys. -How we doing? 738 00:32:43,708 --> 00:32:45,042 -You tell us. -Yeah. 739 00:32:45,208 --> 00:32:46,875 Hole's cleaned up. 740 00:32:47,083 --> 00:32:49,167 We definitely are in the layer of bedrock, for sure. 741 00:32:50,333 --> 00:32:51,500 [Rick] I'll say it, it's disappointing, 742 00:32:51,625 --> 00:32:54,250 especially given the clue we just found. 743 00:32:54,375 --> 00:32:57,250 Charles says it better than anyone, you know? 744 00:32:57,375 --> 00:32:59,750 "Maybe you didn't find it yet, but it's down there." 745 00:32:59,917 --> 00:33:03,917 We've collected samples of soil, we've collected water samples, 746 00:33:04,083 --> 00:33:06,083 and they show precious metals, 747 00:33:06,250 --> 00:33:08,833 so we may be close to something. 748 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,458 As everyone knows, we didn't find the treasure. 749 00:33:11,625 --> 00:33:15,125 But we're buoyed by the fact that, you know, 750 00:33:15,333 --> 00:33:17,625 we all stuck together in this, including you. 751 00:33:17,792 --> 00:33:20,667 Now we have a decision to make: where do we go next? 752 00:33:20,833 --> 00:33:23,000 We're certainly not giving up. 753 00:33:23,208 --> 00:33:24,750 -Okey doke? -[Peter] All right. Thank you, guys. 754 00:33:24,917 --> 00:33:26,417 -All right. Thank you, guys. -Thank you. 755 00:33:26,542 --> 00:33:29,000 You know what? Okay, the treasure wasn't right here, 756 00:33:29,167 --> 00:33:31,167 but I'm confident we're gonna find some treasure. 757 00:33:31,292 --> 00:33:33,167 [Rick] You just keep moving forward. 758 00:33:33,292 --> 00:33:35,958 That's all it is. On to the next hole, right? 759 00:33:36,125 --> 00:33:39,375 I mean, at some point, this will get solved. 760 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,417 There it is. 761 00:33:41,583 --> 00:33:43,417 [Gary] On to the next. 762 00:33:47,583 --> 00:33:49,500 [Narrator] The following morning... 763 00:33:50,458 --> 00:33:52,000 [Rick] Everybody knows why we're here. 764 00:33:52,208 --> 00:33:54,583 The find on the far end of the table here 765 00:33:54,750 --> 00:33:56,667 came from Peacock-1. 766 00:33:56,833 --> 00:33:58,750 [Narrator] ...Rick and other members of the team 767 00:33:58,917 --> 00:34:00,542 gather in the lab. 768 00:34:00,708 --> 00:34:03,208 Well, what's unique, I mean, to find one in the Money Pit, 769 00:34:03,375 --> 00:34:05,833 one on Lot 15, and now another one 770 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,833 came from the Money Pit as well. 771 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,917 [Narrator] They are eager to hear Emma's 772 00:34:10,083 --> 00:34:14,167 preliminary scientific analysis of the believed stoneshot. 773 00:34:15,042 --> 00:34:16,500 [Jack] Oh, wow. 774 00:34:16,708 --> 00:34:18,000 What do you see, Emma? 775 00:34:18,167 --> 00:34:20,792 So, there's these two little divots, 776 00:34:20,958 --> 00:34:23,500 uh, from the cross section. 777 00:34:23,708 --> 00:34:26,667 Up on this end, there is a divot up here. 778 00:34:26,833 --> 00:34:29,000 So, these are all wear marks, 779 00:34:29,167 --> 00:34:31,500 or working marks of being worked at. 780 00:34:31,625 --> 00:34:34,708 -By humans, not nature, correct? -I would assume so. 781 00:34:34,875 --> 00:34:36,208 -[Laird] Yeah. -Yeah. 782 00:34:36,417 --> 00:34:38,500 I mean, this one's a little rough, 783 00:34:38,667 --> 00:34:41,167 which is a good thing, because the original stoneshots 784 00:34:41,292 --> 00:34:43,625 were made by, by stonemasons. 785 00:34:43,792 --> 00:34:45,792 Um, the way they were created 786 00:34:45,917 --> 00:34:47,833 is you'd have, uh, a stonemason, 787 00:34:48,042 --> 00:34:50,667 and basically just hitting it. 788 00:34:50,875 --> 00:34:53,500 And this one, you can clearly see the peck marks. 789 00:34:53,708 --> 00:34:56,708 [Emma] Which does identify this as a stoneshot. 790 00:34:56,875 --> 00:34:58,250 Hmm. 791 00:34:58,417 --> 00:34:59,792 [Rick] We believe that some of these fit 792 00:34:59,958 --> 00:35:01,667 swivel guns in Portugal. 793 00:35:01,792 --> 00:35:03,833 Uh, we know that because we took them. 794 00:35:05,875 --> 00:35:10,042 [Narrator] During their trip to Portugal in 2021, 795 00:35:10,208 --> 00:35:11,625 Rick and members of the team 796 00:35:11,750 --> 00:35:14,167 visited the Military Museum in Lisbon... 797 00:35:14,375 --> 00:35:15,875 [Corjan] Oh, look at that. 798 00:35:16,042 --> 00:35:17,500 [Alex] This is pretty close. 799 00:35:18,333 --> 00:35:20,875 So I would say that's a match to this. 800 00:35:21,042 --> 00:35:22,167 ...where they were amazed to discover 801 00:35:22,333 --> 00:35:24,167 that both of the stoneshots 802 00:35:24,375 --> 00:35:27,667 matched with a 15th century Portuguese cannon. 803 00:35:29,125 --> 00:35:31,542 Let's pin down a time frame, then, 804 00:35:31,708 --> 00:35:34,333 when these were used and when they went out of use. 805 00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:36,000 Yeah, I mean, the peak use of stoneshot 806 00:35:36,208 --> 00:35:37,875 was in the 14th and 15th century, 807 00:35:38,042 --> 00:35:41,292 and cast-iron cannonball was introduced in 1450s, so... 808 00:35:41,458 --> 00:35:43,125 it replaced these pretty quickly. 809 00:35:43,292 --> 00:35:44,750 [Jack] Well, the 14th century, 810 00:35:48,708 --> 00:35:49,167 that fits into the same time frame 811 00:35:50,083 --> 00:35:51,750 as the Portuguese coin that Pitblado found 812 00:35:51,917 --> 00:35:53,167 while drilling in the Money Pit. 813 00:35:53,333 --> 00:35:55,083 -Yeah. -[Rick] An early date like that 814 00:35:55,250 --> 00:35:57,625 would be highly suggestive of that, absolutely. 815 00:35:57,792 --> 00:36:00,458 [Narrator] In the lab, the team has just learned 816 00:36:00,625 --> 00:36:03,417 that the object found in the Peacock-1 spoils 817 00:36:03,542 --> 00:36:07,250 is a potentially 600-year-old stoneshot. 818 00:36:07,417 --> 00:36:09,500 [Jack] And if it is, then these 819 00:36:09,667 --> 00:36:12,833 -could have been dropped by the depositors. -Yeah. 820 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,083 [Rick] The timeline associated with the use of stoneshot 821 00:36:16,250 --> 00:36:18,125 predates the accepted history 822 00:36:18,292 --> 00:36:20,458 of the discovery of the North American continent. 823 00:36:20,583 --> 00:36:23,208 This type of stoneshot would have been used 824 00:36:23,375 --> 00:36:25,500 in the 1300s, 1400s. 825 00:36:25,708 --> 00:36:28,750 We know that there's a strong connection, 826 00:36:28,917 --> 00:36:31,792 possibly, to the Order of Christ and the mystery. 827 00:36:31,958 --> 00:36:36,000 And they had the ability to get to the New World. 828 00:36:36,167 --> 00:36:38,333 This could be an important clue. 829 00:36:38,542 --> 00:36:40,542 I know what your brother Marty would say. 830 00:36:40,708 --> 00:36:43,458 "This is nice, but go out there and find some more." 831 00:36:43,625 --> 00:36:46,042 -So let's give it a shot, Rick. -Only if we get out there. 832 00:36:46,250 --> 00:36:47,833 -[Gary] Yep. -[Rick] All right. Thank you. -[Laird] Okay, 833 00:36:48,042 --> 00:36:49,333 -see you later. -[Jack] Thanks, Emma. Thanks, Laird. 834 00:36:51,083 --> 00:36:52,917 [Narrator] Later that afternoon... 835 00:36:53,125 --> 00:36:54,667 [Rick] Hey, Marty. 836 00:36:54,833 --> 00:36:57,208 [Marty] Hello, big brother. What's going on? 837 00:36:57,375 --> 00:37:00,125 A little bit of an update for you in the Peacock. 838 00:37:00,292 --> 00:37:01,583 -Okay. -[Narrator] ...Rick meets 839 00:37:01,708 --> 00:37:03,917 via videoconference with Marty, 840 00:37:04,042 --> 00:37:07,708 who is currently back in Michigan for business concerns. 841 00:37:07,875 --> 00:37:10,667 So, we have reached the bottom of the solution channel. 842 00:37:10,833 --> 00:37:13,333 -Yeah. -And we weren't finding much of anything 843 00:37:13,542 --> 00:37:16,542 other than the proof of unconsolidated soils. 844 00:37:16,708 --> 00:37:19,000 -Mm-hmm. -But somewhere between 100 845 00:37:19,167 --> 00:37:21,500 and 150 feet, 846 00:37:21,708 --> 00:37:23,500 this came up. 847 00:37:23,625 --> 00:37:25,833 I don't know if you can see it. 848 00:37:25,958 --> 00:37:28,208 Oh, yeah. I sure as heck can. 849 00:37:28,417 --> 00:37:32,167 Its appearance, obviously, is stoneshot, right? 850 00:37:32,375 --> 00:37:34,375 -Yeah. -You remember Gary found 851 00:37:34,542 --> 00:37:36,875 the one at the surface on Lot 15? 852 00:37:37,083 --> 00:37:38,833 Yeah. 853 00:37:39,042 --> 00:37:40,292 So, we have the Money Pit find, 854 00:37:40,375 --> 00:37:42,583 we have the Lot 15 find, 855 00:37:42,750 --> 00:37:44,417 -and now we have this. -That's pretty exciting 856 00:37:44,583 --> 00:37:47,917 because, Rick, that would imply that those stoneshots 857 00:37:48,083 --> 00:37:49,833 -are everywhere. -Correct. 858 00:37:49,958 --> 00:37:53,167 And those things, are they not like... 859 00:37:53,375 --> 00:37:55,583 you know, they quit using them, like, in 15-something? 860 00:37:55,792 --> 00:37:58,042 Yeah, in the 1500s. 861 00:37:58,208 --> 00:37:59,875 Yeah. 862 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:04,333 This stoneshot means people were down there a long time ago. 863 00:38:04,458 --> 00:38:06,000 And again, 864 00:38:06,208 --> 00:38:08,667 more evidence of activity 865 00:38:08,792 --> 00:38:12,042 long before anybody thought there were Europeans here. 866 00:38:12,250 --> 00:38:14,792 Probably the 1400s, maybe the 1300s. 867 00:38:14,958 --> 00:38:19,667 So it's hard to overstate the significance of this thing. 868 00:38:19,875 --> 00:38:22,375 Really boggles my mind. 869 00:38:22,542 --> 00:38:26,750 We can have, uh, Laird reach out to Dr. Raeside at Acadia. 870 00:38:26,917 --> 00:38:29,458 He did the previous analysis of the stone. 871 00:38:29,625 --> 00:38:31,583 We need to know what type of rock this is 872 00:38:31,792 --> 00:38:34,125 -and where it might have come from. -Okay, well, 873 00:38:34,292 --> 00:38:36,000 we need to do that. 874 00:38:36,125 --> 00:38:38,958 -What else you got for me? -You know, we are coming 875 00:38:39,083 --> 00:38:41,125 -to the end of the search year. -Well, that leads me 876 00:38:41,292 --> 00:38:42,833 to ask you a question. 877 00:38:43,042 --> 00:38:46,542 How are you feeling about our efforts this year? 878 00:38:47,542 --> 00:38:49,667 The year has been very frustrating. 879 00:38:49,833 --> 00:38:54,708 We made very educated, uh, choices 880 00:38:54,875 --> 00:38:57,083 in the Money Pit, but it was less 881 00:38:57,292 --> 00:38:59,208 than we had hoped for at this point. 882 00:38:59,375 --> 00:39:00,917 Yeah. 883 00:39:01,125 --> 00:39:03,000 That's how I feel. How do you feel? 884 00:39:03,208 --> 00:39:04,792 The island is 885 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,333 just the most frustrating thing I've ever been involved in. 886 00:39:07,417 --> 00:39:10,458 -[chuckles] -But we did, I think, prove 887 00:39:10,625 --> 00:39:12,833 that the solution channel 888 00:39:13,042 --> 00:39:14,875 played a huge role in this. 889 00:39:15,042 --> 00:39:17,167 So, uh, 890 00:39:17,333 --> 00:39:19,333 you know, I still think there's a decent chance 891 00:39:19,458 --> 00:39:21,792 that what we seek is down in that solution channel. 892 00:39:21,917 --> 00:39:23,917 -We just have to figure it out. -Right. 893 00:39:24,083 --> 00:39:26,000 It's been disappointing because 894 00:39:26,167 --> 00:39:27,833 we have not solved the mystery. 895 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,333 But it doesn't mean that you lack hope. 896 00:39:30,458 --> 00:39:32,292 It doesn't mean that you're not optimistic 897 00:39:32,417 --> 00:39:34,833 about the next, the next caisson. 898 00:39:35,042 --> 00:39:36,667 [Marty] Why don't we switch gears a little bit 899 00:39:36,875 --> 00:39:38,917 and ask Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michels? 900 00:39:39,125 --> 00:39:41,417 You know, they're intimately familiar with all the data. 901 00:39:41,542 --> 00:39:42,667 Let's ask them where they would dig 902 00:39:42,833 --> 00:39:44,458 if they were treasure hunters. 903 00:39:44,583 --> 00:39:48,208 I think that's a very appropriate thing to do. 904 00:39:48,375 --> 00:39:49,708 We'll get right on that, ask them, 905 00:39:49,875 --> 00:39:51,292 but we need an "X" on the ground. 906 00:39:51,458 --> 00:39:53,333 Yeah. Soon. 907 00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:54,917 -Okey doke. -All right. Is that it? 908 00:39:55,042 --> 00:39:56,375 Then get back to work. 909 00:39:56,542 --> 00:39:58,583 That's all we got. We'll get back to work. 910 00:39:58,750 --> 00:40:00,292 Thanks, Rick. Appreciate it. 911 00:40:00,458 --> 00:40:01,917 -See you. Take care. -Yeah. Yeah. 912 00:40:03,667 --> 00:40:06,625 [Narrator] For Rick, Marty and their team, 913 00:40:06,750 --> 00:40:10,083 this week has underscored the need for perseverance 914 00:40:10,292 --> 00:40:13,667 in their quest to solve the Oak Island mystery... 915 00:40:14,708 --> 00:40:18,583 ...because new finds and research suggest 916 00:40:18,708 --> 00:40:22,292 they could be closing in on a sacred treasure 917 00:40:22,417 --> 00:40:25,583 with extraordinary, historic implications. 918 00:40:26,625 --> 00:40:30,625 So now, as time is running out for the year, 919 00:40:30,792 --> 00:40:35,667 how can they zero in on where "X" marks the spot? 920 00:40:37,792 --> 00:40:41,417 Do they rely on science or luck? 921 00:40:42,375 --> 00:40:45,375 Perhaps it will take both, 922 00:40:45,542 --> 00:40:48,083 along with their most precious asset... 923 00:40:49,208 --> 00:40:50,667 ...their faith. 924 00:40:52,708 --> 00:40:55,542 Next time on The Curse of Oak Island... 925 00:40:55,708 --> 00:40:56,833 [Peter] I want to find something 926 00:40:57,042 --> 00:40:58,375 -that we can date. -[Gary] Exactly. 927 00:40:58,542 --> 00:41:00,208 -There you go, mate. Wow. -Oh... 928 00:41:00,375 --> 00:41:02,167 Oh. What's under there? 929 00:41:02,375 --> 00:41:04,625 Wow. I want to see what's underneath here. 930 00:41:04,750 --> 00:41:06,458 [Ian] Some of the highest silver and gold values 931 00:41:06,625 --> 00:41:08,208 -show up right in there. -[Jared] HOLD ON, JOSH, 932 00:41:08,375 --> 00:41:10,333 -HOLD ON! -[Rick] Whoa. 933 00:41:10,417 --> 00:41:11,667 [Jared] We're definitely into some hard stuff. 934 00:41:11,875 --> 00:41:14,417 -Wow. Check that one out. -That's a great find. 935 00:41:14,583 --> 00:41:16,292 That all adds up to a possible 936 00:41:16,417 --> 00:41:18,292 human presence here in the 1400s. 937 00:41:18,417 --> 00:41:20,875 -That's really rare. -That's amazing. -Yeah. 938 00:41:21,042 --> 00:41:24,125 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A E NETWORKS