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NARRATOR:
Tonight, on the thrilling
season finale

of The Curse of Oak Island...

LAIRD:
I think that's meant
to go through something

-like chain mail.
-That would make it old.

From the composition, pre-1600s.

HELEN:
Remember the lead weight?

-Yes.
-I've just found two more.

What would they be measuring?

Gold.

-MARTY: All right, here we go.
-Fingers crossed?

-Yeah.
-RICK: I'm looking for a vault.

This one might tell the tale.

MARTY:
We got a chance of actually
finding treasure with this one.

-RICK: X marks the spot.
-MARTY: That's the spot, man.

-I can feel it.
-I hope so.

MARTY:
Come on, baby!

NARRATOR:
There is an island
in the North Atlantic

where people
have been looking for

an incredible treasure
for more than 200 years.

So far, they have found
a stone slab

with strange symbols
carved into it...

...man-made workings
that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross
whose origin may be connected

to the Knights Templar.

To date, six men have died

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,
one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

♪ ♪

MARTY:
All right, well,
here we go, gents.

NARRATOR: With the harsh
North Atlantic winter

fast approaching,

the final week
of search activities this year

has begun on Oak island.

Well, can we get there?

-I want to find the metal.
-NARRATOR: However,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina
and their team

believe that they still
have the necessary time needed

to make a discovery
in the fabled Money Pit area

that could finally solve

a 229-year-old treasure mystery.

This is that spot
on the map I gave you?

The spot you gave me on the map?
Right there.

STEVE:
We're only about eight feet

northwest off the Garden Shaft.

-CRAIG: Okay.
-RICK: You got to remember,

we're looking for a room.

we're looking for a vault.

This one might tell the tale.

MARTY:
All right,
let's get out of the way

and let's let this hole
get drilled.

-Come on.
-Okay, good.

NARRATOR:
Just over a month ago,

representatives from
Dumas Contracting Limited

were conducting
a probe-drilling operation

some 106 feet deep in
the 18th-century Garden Shaft

to investigate
a partially dismantled

seven-foot-high tunnel.

A tunnel that leads directly

into a region
dubbed the Baby Blob,

where high-trace evidence
of precious metals

has been detected
through groundwater testing

between depths of 80
and 120 feet underground.

NARRATOR: However, saltwater

mysteriously rushed
into the shaft...

NARRATOR:
...forcing the team
to abandon the effort

and to speculate that one
of the legendary flood tunnels

had been triggered,
which have prevented searchers

from digging below 90 feet
in the Money Pit area

for more than two centuries.

SCOTT:
One last crack.

-Let's make it count.
-COLTEN: Will do.

Last one of the year.

NARRATOR:
Now, after geoscientist
Dr. Ian Spooner

and his colleague
Dr. Fred Michel

conducted new water sampling
tests near the Garden Shaft,

they have marked
a new borehole location

known as E.5N-14.5,

where they believe the source
of the precious metals

may be located
some 100 feet below.

MARTY:
We're gonna take one big swing

and, you know, we got a chance
of actually finding

treasure with this one.

RICK:
Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michel
have strongly stated

that, in this area,

there is a source of the metals
they're detecting

and they don't believe
it's natural.

Thus, this location,

maybe, uh, X marks the spot.

I'm calling this Bravo-Sierra.

That's the spot, man.
I can feel it.

-I hope so.
-This is the last hole,

and we might as well drill
till we can't drill.

TERRY:
We got a lot of secrets
yet to unfold.

NARRATOR:
As Marty and Craig Tester

continue supervising
the core-drilling operation

in the Money Pit area...

...later that morning...

JACK: Hey, Rick. Hey, Doug.

DOUG: Hey, all.

-How are you?
-Very good.

-Yeah, we're excited, actually.
-NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina

and Oak Island historian
Doug Crowell

meet with Jack Begley,
lead archaeologist Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

in the Oak island lab.

I have a top-pocket find here,

one that we didn't find,
but that someone else did.

I think we're all gonna find

this artifact
extremely interesting.

We showed Ane
at the Viking museum.

Turns out, it's an arrowhead.

NARRATOR:
During the past three weeks...

-Oh, wow.
-NARRATOR: ...Rick,

Doug and members of the team

visited numerous sites
in Italy...

-Oh, is this it?
-Denmark...

-Wow.
-the Netherlands...

This contains information
about astronomy.

and Iceland

in order to investigate
an incredible theory:

that nearly eight centuries ago,

the Scandinavian culture
known as the Vikings

helped members
of the medieval Christian order

of the Knights Templar

transport priceless
religious treasures

to North America
and hide them on Oak island.

Wow.

This is very interesting to me.

NARRATOR:
During their journey,
they brought

a picture of a metal artifact
which was discovered

on Oak Island in the 1960s
by Robert Dunfield

to the Ladby Viking Museum
in Kerteminde, Denmark.

There, curator Ane Jepsen Nyborg

gave the team
a stunning analysis.

This is very quintessentially
the way

that they made these artifacts
in the Viking age.

We couldn't wait
to come back here

because my hope,
o-of course, is that

you have some
very interesting results.

NARRATOR:
Now, Rick and Doug are eager

to have Laird and Emma
conduct a scientific examination

on the arrowhead
to hopefully determine

that it truly could be
a critical clue

that could help solve
the Oak Island mystery.

This is an interesting one.

M-My first observation
is th... how thin it is,

-how narrow it is.
-EMMA: Mm-hmm.

To me, that speaks
of piercing, not hunting.

The hunting arrows
would be broader.

I think that's meant to go
through something like

-chain mail.
-RICK: Hmm.

Wow. That would make it old.

LAIRD: It would make it old.
It also changes its function,

like, why is it here
for that purpose?

I see Emma smiling.

I bet you can't wait
to put that in the XRF.

Nervous and excited, yeah, yeah.

-Why don't you?
-Okay.

NARRATOR:
Emma is scanning the artifact

using an X-ray
fluorescence spectrometer.

The device emits
nondestructive radiation

in order to identify
the elements

that are present within objects

which can help
in determining their age.

So, the scans are ready,

and I think
you guys will be happy

-with the results.
-Okay.

EMMA:
From the composition,
yeah, I can say

-that it's quite old.
-Hmm.

EMMA:
I think these levels
would indicate,

like, pre, you know, 1600s.

-No way.
-LARID: As far as we know.

-Wow.
-Yeah.

-Wow.
-EMMA: The phosphorus and sulfur

is common in English iron.

So, comfortably, I would put it
in the English region.

-Hmm.
-LAIRD: Being English

doesn't preclude it being Norse.

So far, there's nothing
to say it isn't.

-That it isn't Viking?
-Yeah.

The Vikings pillaged
a lot of England.

Oh, and they also lived there.

DOUG:
It may be supportive

of these other dates from our
other findings on the island

-Yeah.
-that we have
in a medieval context.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

NARRATOR:
In recent years,
the team has investigated

numerous structures
on the island

which experts have suggested

could date back
as early as 1200 AD.

These include
a stone well on Lot 26,

a massive paved feature
in the swamp

and the megalithic formation
of six boulders

known as Nolan's Cross.

Incredibly, they have also found

two lead artifacts and a pickax

that have been scientifically
linked to Scandinavia.

Could this arrowhead be another
critical piece of evidence

supporting the theory
that Vikings

may have helped
the Templar order

bury sacred treasures
on Oak island?

If so, could that also explain

the high-trace evidence
of precious metals

that the team has detected
in the Money Pit area?

If these are out there,

who knows what else
is out there?

So, let's keep looking into it.

-Okay?
-We will.

-RICK: Thank you.
-JACK: Thanks.

NARRATOR:
As Rick and Doug
finish their meeting

with Laird and Emma
in the lab...

ALEX:
All right, Gary.

-Yep.
-What do we have here?

Back at it, mate.
Lots of flags to dig today.

NARRATOR: ...Alex Lagina

and metal detection expert
Gary Drayton

arrive on Lot 10,

where Gary detected a number
of promising metal targets

earlier this morning.

It is gonna be
a cold one today, mate.

-This island tells you
when it's time to leave.
-Yep.

So, uh, whatever we can get out
of the ground before it freezes,

-we got to get out.
-Okay, mate.

NARRATOR:
Two weeks ago, near this area,

Marty Lagina and members
of the team

lifted one of the six megalithic
boulders of Nolan's Cross

known as Cone E

in order to look for clues
that might help identify

just who created the feature.

MARTY:
I mean, if that's cement,

then we found something.

NARRATOR:
Incredibly, Marty discovered

a strange
concrete-like substance

beneath Cone E that contained
animal hair of some kind,

and which the team
plans to further analyze

through DNA testing.

GARY:
All right,
let's see what we got here.

NARRATOR:
Now, after getting permission
from Laird Niven

to dig up the targets
that were marked earlier today,

Gary and Alex hope to find

additional important
or valuable clues.

That sounds good, mate.

It's right there.

ALEX:
I'll see what I can do.

GARY:
It is snowing now, mate.

-Hopefully, it's a bit
of snowy treasure.
-Oh.

-I'll try pinpointing it.
-Okay.

There it is.

Oh, that is very interesting.

GARY:
We'll see what we got.

Oh, very interesting.

Is it a pin or is it a chisel?

NARRATOR:
On lot ten,
near the middle of Oak Island,

Alex Lagina and Gary Drayton

may have just uncovered
a potentially important clue.

To me, that looks like a tool.

You see, it looks like it's
kind of mushroomed on the top.

-Meaning it's been hammered.
-Yeah.

It's like a tool

you would use
to inscribe stones.

And that is part of
the story of Oak Island.

NARRATOR:
A possible chisel?

Over the years,

several boulders
and large stones

have been reportedly
found on Oak Island

that featured
curious carved symbols.

One, known as the H+O stone,

was discovered on
the northern shore

and featured an H,

a cross surrounded by four dots

and a circle
with a dot in its center,

which some believe
signifies the presence of gold.

Another was the legendary
90 Foot Stone,

which was found at that depth

in the original Money Pit
back in 1804.

-CORJAN: There is a four-dot
cross here, like, you see?
-ALEX: Yeah, yeah.

NARRATOR:
During their recent trip
across Europe...

On the other side here,

-circle and dot.
-ALEX: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
...Alex, his uncle Rick

and members of the team

visited numerous sites

connected to the Knights Templar

and others
related to the Vikings,

where they saw many structures

and even runestones
that featured

the same kinds of symbols.

RICK:
Look at how many of those runes

-match the 90 Foot Stone.
-ALEX: Oh, wow.

NARRATOR:
Could it be possible
that Gary and Alex

have just unearthed a tool

in the area near Nolan's Cross

that may have played
a significant role

in the Oak Island mystery?

That is a cool find, mate.

-ALEX: Into the pouch.
-Yeah.

Good digging.

I think this is
a heck of a find, Alex.

ALEX:
I agree.

NARRATOR:
The following morning...

COLTEN:
Going back down two more times.

NARRATOR:
...as the core
drilling operation

inches closer to target depth
in the Money Pit area,

on Lot 5, located on

the western side
of the island...

LAIRD:
Might have to build

a shelter over
this thing for the winter.

...Archaeologists Laird Niven

and Helen Sheldon continue

investigating a rectangular
stone foundation.

Within this feature,

just like a larger,

more rounded structure
near the shoreline,

the team has unearthed
artificially manipulated soils

that match samples recovered
from the Money Pit area.

And curiously, in recent weeks,

Helen has helped uncover
not only an iron spike

that may date back
nearly nine centuries,

but also a lead weight,

which the team believes
might have been designed

for measuring portions
of valuables.

Now, with only a few more days

before winter forces
the team to suspend

all search operations
until next spring,

Laird and Helen are
hoping to find more clues

that could determine just
who created this feature

and for what purpose.

HELEN:
Oh, what's this coming out?

Huh.
HELEN: Look at that...

HELEN:
That's another one...

...of those lead weights.

-Like the other one
that we found over there.
-Yeah.

Yeah, it looks the same.

Finding one is odd,

-finding two
-Finding two.

is bizarre.

HELEN:
And it's all on this layer

just above
this really hard stuff.

Basically, what we think
is the floor.

-Yeah. Yeah.
-The very, very bottom.

The really interesting part
of this whole excavation

are things we didn't expect,

like the soils between Lot 5
and the Money Pit match.

-HELEN: It looks
almost identical
-It does.

-to the other ones.
-It does.

There are so many artifacts
that we haven't

seen before.
The more we excavate,

the more we uncover
within this structure,

the more confusing it gets.

It's unlike anything
I've seen in the 38 years

I've been doing archaeology.

Oh, my heavens.
Laird.

You're not gonna believe this.

LAIRD:
Oh, not another one.

HELEN (chuckling):
Another one.

Same, shaved on the edges.

Here, look.

And, again, it's down here
in this very sandy layer.

LAIRD:
Very bizarre.

Three of the same thing

-that we've never seen before.
-No.

Really weird.

But Marty would be pretty
interested to see those.

MARTY:
One of the things
that was always missing

here on Oak Island was

if there was such
a massive undertaking,

where did they house
the people who did it?

Maybe that's what
we're uncovering on Lot 5.

If, in fact, we have found
the staging area

for whatever happened
originally at the Money Pit,

that would make sense.
That had to happen somewhere.

Maybe, finally,
we're gonna figure that out.

-MARTY: Laird.
-HELEN: Hi.

-MARTY: Helen.
-Ooh.

What'd you find there?

Yeah. Remember the lead weight?

-Yep.
-Yes.
-Yeah, well,

I've just found two more.

-Oh!
-Two more?

-Wow.
-Yeah.

MARTY:
Are they identical?

LAIRD:
One looks identical,
one looks a bit smaller.

MARTY:
The other one was almost exactly

.7 ounces, was it not?

-HELEN: Yeah.
-Yeah.

You don't have any way to
weigh them out here?

Uh, we do, actually.

MARTY:
Helen's found two more

pieces of lead
more or less identical to

the first little
cylindrical lead piece.

That alone is interesting.

You start to believe

that they actually
are meaningful.

-So, there's number two.
-Number two.

-.69
-MARTY: .69.

That's pretty close.

That is pretty damn exact.

There's number three.

LAIRD: .69.

-That's amazing.
-LAIRD: I mean, that's
just not coincidental.

No, that's not coincidental.
Not three of them.

-LAIRD: No.
-No.

JACK:
Well, what would
they be measuring,

-do you think?
-Money.

Treasure?

Gold.

(laughs)

NARRATOR:
Given that soils

found within
this feature on Lot 5

have been scientifically matched

to man-made workings
that were unearthed

deep in the Money Pit area,

could that mean that
these three lead weights

may be directly related

to the large amounts
of precious metals

that have been detected

within the so-called Baby Blob?

MARTY:
I've become
more and more interested

in what's going on on Lot 5
because the archaeologists

are telling me
that this is not normal.

-Three weights, .69 ounces.
-LAIRD: Yeah.

MARTY:
It's got something to do,
maybe, with the Money Pit.

That could be the piece
that's been missing forever.

Okay, you guys
carry on and keep digging.

Jack and I are gonna go,
and it's cool stuff.

-Let's go, Jack.
-JACK: Yeah.

LAIRD:
See you later.

Okay, this next core could
have some good potential in it.

Good possibility where
the metals are coming from.

-Yep.
-Little something
different, hopefully.

NARRATOR:
It is a critical moment

for Rick and Marty Lagina
and their team

in the Money Pit area...

Charles, you got
your fingers crossed?

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
...as the core
drilling operation

in borehole Bravo-Sierra

has finally reached
a depth of some 100 feet,

where vast amounts
of precious metals

were recently detected.

MARTY:
We're supposedly zeroing in

on the source of the metals
very near the Garden Shaft.

More so than any other
drilling this summer

or, really, any prior years,

I'm looking for this borehole

to penetrate a treasure vault.

CHARLES:
We have a core, gentlemen.

-This is it.
-TERRY: One of our last

best chances right here.

What do you have, Marvin?

-119.
-CHARLES: 119.

TERRY:
Thank you.

Let's have a look.

MARTY:
Come on, be something.

SCOTT:
Sand, sand, miserable sand.

TERRY:
Yeah.

MARTY:
Does not look promising.

TERRY:
Unfortunately, it's just
in situ material, sadly.

MARTY:
Hey, Ian.

-Yep.
-So, can we

conclude we're through
the zone of interest

-for the time being?
-IAN: Yeah, we're through

the area that we're
really focused on.

I mean, for us, the big deal now
is letting this whole place

rest a bit so we can see

if we can pick up
anything in the water.

TERRY:
Absolutely.

NARRATOR:
It is a profoundly

disappointing moment
for Rick, Marty,

Craig and their team.

The vast source
of precious metals

that have been repeatedly
detected in this area

remains elusive.

MARTY:
Well, look, I'm disappointed.

It's the end of the season,
and we don't have

the treasure
or the story in our hands.

And it doesn't make any sense.

The data strongly shows

that there is some mass of metal

that was put down
in the Money Pit.

So, once again,
Oak Island hands us a mystery.

The problem with this sand is

there's so much clay with it.

I mean, the sand might
transmit a lot of water

if it wasn't
so full of other stuff.

Yeah, not even really saturated.

MARTY:
I mean, there's
nothing here that can

deliver the kind of water
that's going in

-the Garden Shaft.
-CRAIG: No, no.

MARTY:
So, I mean, the obvious,
Ian, I mean,

what's staring us in the face is

this sand is incapable
of doing what happened

in the Garden Shaft,
then it kind of leads

credence to
the so-called flood tunnel.

Yep.

RICK:
It's just hard to believe

that 479 gallons a minute
is being pushed

through the kinds of sands
that we're seeing on the table

to flood the Garden Shaft.

Then where's the water
coming from?

Perhaps a flood tunnel.

It's meaningful.
There is historical narrative.

Craig, what does it do for you?

I think there's
an external source.

So, a flood tunnel.

And I think, given this,

I totally agree with Craig.

MARTY:
Yeah, me too.

NARRATOR:
Although the team
is greatly disappointed

that they didn't
recover valuables,

could they be correct
that they have unearthed

compelling evidence
that a man-made tunnel

connected to the ocean

may have caused the flooding
that recently took place

some 100 feet deep
in the Garden Shaft?

Let's you two and me go and have

-a little confab here.
-Okay.

NARRATOR:
If so,

could that offer more proof

that the treasure is
in fact somewhere nearby...

...and protected
by a genuine booby trap,

as many have believed
for more than two centuries?

MARTY:
Well, okay, guys, so, uh...

so ends another season,

-at least for drilling, right?
-Yeah.

I am...

sad that we didn't
make progress or solve it.

Uh, it's-it's disappointing.

But in the last five years,
each year, I'm thinking

that we better do it
pretty soon.

I mean, what are we up to--
600 wells now?

I-I don't know.

-I mean, we still have
the metals in the water.
-Sure do.

And I do think what we just
learned down there is important.

That could not have
transmitted the kind of water

-that's in the Garden Shaft,
right?
-MARTY: No.

I still think, though,
the metals are in the water

and we have
two really good scientists

that say it's meaningful.

It's not just
some sort of fluke.

We're still excited.

These metals in the water

still strongly suggest
some sort of treasure deposit.

There we go.

MARTY:
I think we need
to take a deep breath

and we need to look
at what we did

and then try and figure out
what we need to do next year.

Look, you know what?

Tomorrow we're gonna get
the team together.

We're gonna have a lot more
on the table to talk about.

But I got to say, Rick,
it's nice to hear you

still very positive.

RICK:
100%.

If you believe in something,
you-you just persevere.

Sempre Avanti.

MARTY:
Sempre Avanti.

♪ ♪

MARTY: Thanks for everybody
being here.

Want to have a little recap.

This is sort of the deal
where we make sure

-we're all on the same page.
-Right.

NARRATOR:
A bittersweet day has arrived

for Rick and Marty Lagina,
Craig Tester and their team.

With the harsh North Atlantic
winter fast approaching,

their search operations
on Oak island will have to be

suspended until next spring.

So let's get started.

We're talking about
what happened this year

and where everybody wants
to go next year.

NARRATOR:
But before departing,

the team gathers
for a final time in the war room

to weigh the great progress

that has been made
in their quest

to solve a 229-year-old
treasure mystery.

Let's start with Lot 5,
which became

quite interesting last year
and continued this year.

And, of course, Laird,
you ran the investigation,

so why don't you comment first
and let us know

what your takeaways are

from all
that archaeological work?

Well, it became
a much larger project

and complex
and interesting project

than expected.

And it led to some interesting
and intriguing artifacts.

GARY:
Yep.

NARRATOR:
Since the team acquired
Lot 5 in 2022,

they have made
numerous discoveries there,

which suggests
it may have been occupied

by several different groups
over a number of centuries.

At the so-called round feature
near the shoreline...

...they have unearthed
a 14th century barter token

that may be connected
to the believed Templar cross

that was discovered
at Smith's Cove in 2017.

However, they have also found

potentially 16th-century
Venetian trade beads.

And several iron tools
that have been

scientifically connected
to Sir William Phips,

the 17th century
English nobleman

who some believe

hid a vast cache
of Spanish silver

in the Money Pit in 1687.

In the rectangular feature
located farther inland,

they not only found
the three lead weights

that were possibly designed

for measuring quantities
of treasure...

...but also an iron spike,

which Emma Culligan has dated
to as early as the 12th century.

And incredibly,
all of those discoveries

were eclipsed in age
by four Roman coins

that the team uncovered
on Lot 5,

which have been dated to between

2,000 and 1,500 years old.

So, given that soil samples

found in both
of the mysterious structures

have been matched
to others recovered

from deep in the Money Pit,

could that mean that Lot 5

may still hold secrets

that will prove critical

to solving
the Oak Island mystery?

LAIRD:
The so-called round structure

transitioned into...
I'm not sure what.

MARTY: Mm-hmm.

LAIRD: It's a structure.

And the size
of the rectangular structure

in the end, and the artifacts
that came from that

were also a big surprise to us.

-Yeah.
-JACK: And both
the features were

completely buried
and covered over,

-I think, intentionally.
-LAIRD: Yeah.

We still contend
that the former circular feature

is older than the occupation
that's represented within it.

Yeah.

To me, the most
significant thing

that happened there this year
was this tie to the Money Pit.

Yeah.

The Money Pit might have been
built by whoever was

inhabiting
the two different structures.

MARTY:
Right.

Maybe you can get the who

and you can even get a why
and, you know, you tie it

to the treasure hunt that way.

-Right.
-Yeah.

I'm quite impressed
by the potential of how

Lot 5 may improve
our understanding

of the mystery
and its totalities.

Right.

MARTY:
Okay. That's Lot 5.

One of the other prime areas
of investigation this year--

-swamp.
-(all chuckling)

Uh, who wants to kick it off?

I guess, Billy, why don't you?

You did most of the digging.

Well, I know
you like the swamp, Marty.

I love it.

-(laughs)
-BILLY: Every time
we dig in the swamp,

it's just another surprise,
I would say, really,

just one thing after the other.

CRAIG:
We started
hitting rocks everywhere.

NARRATOR:
The team's excavations

in the triangle-shaped swamp
this year revealed

even more stunning evidence
that it may be

an entirely man-made feature.

Near the previously
uncovered paved area

in the center of the swamp,

which Dr. Spooner has dated

to as early as 1200 AD,

they discovered a layer
of massive tree stumps

that were possibly cut down

over 600 years ago,

when that area was
potentially dry land.

In the southeast corner,

they uncovered
a wooden extension

to the believed
500-year-old stone road

or ship's wharf

which may have been constructed
for unloading heavy cargo.

What stands out to me
is this stone

and this stone,
this stone and this stone,

all in a line--

I'm pretty confident
it's a human-made structure.

NARRATOR:
And just several yards north
of the stone road,

they unearthed
a cobblestone pathway

leading to a massive
cone-shaped boulder

that is nearly identical

to the boulders
that form Nolan's Cross.

There's no question
that humans have

manipulated that environment.

-Right.
-JACK: Aside from the stumps,
we had found

part of the stone pathway

kind of leads out
to one of the boulders

that looks
about the same size and shape

as some of the other
Nolan's Cross rocks.

And that one was sitting on
a considerable amount of sticks.

But did you get a date
or anything off of it?

Well, the sticks were old.
I think we got the dates back.

-CRAIG: Yes.
-MARTY: Craig has
the C-14 results.

Is that what this is?

Yep.
The date was

656 to 703 AD.

The second time period,

740 to 774 AD.

(laughing)

MARTY:
Oh, my goodness.

CRAIG: The second time period,
740 to 774 AD.

-So...
-JACK: The dates just
keep going further

and further back.

NARRATOR:
In the Oak island war room,

Craig Tester has just presented

a stunning carbon 14 report

on organic materials
in the swamp...

suggesting that
the cobblestone pathway,

which leads to a massive
cone-shaped boulder

located several yards
north of the stone road,

could be more than
1,200 years old.

CRAIG:
The big thing is, you know,

there's no natural process,

really, to push
that huge boulder there.

Could this be
another marking boulder?

Right? because somebody put
boulders in the swamp.

It matches the ship's railing,

and it wasn't found
all that far from here.

What do you got?

It looks like a piece
of finished wood.

NARRATOR:
In 2020,

while digging just to the west
of the stone road

at the southern border
of the swamp,

members of the team unearthed
a finely crafted piece

of possible ship's railing
that, incredibly,

was also carbon-dated to
as early as the eighth century.

As I look around,
I only see one piece of wood

that kind of resembles it.
And that's up here

-along the bow.
-MARTIN: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
One week ago, while
visiting

the Viking ship
museum in Denmark,

Doug Krohl,
along with Rick Lagina

and other members of the team,

noticed a strikingly similar
piece of deck railing

on a reconstructed Viking ship.

Although it is well documented
that members

of the Viking culture explored
and settled in Greenland

and areas of northern Canada

some 1,000 years ago,

Is it possible that the team
has now found

not only artifacts

but also structures
on Oak island that suggest

Vikings may have reached
as far south as Nova Scotia

and may indeed be connected

to the Oak Island mystery?

You know, one of the key things
this year was

this big European trip
that you took.

I came away with
our interaction in Europe

more convinced than ever
that Nolan's Cross was relevant.

So we've invited Emiliano
and Corjan to join us here.

Corjan, Emiliano, I appreciate
you guys being on board.

-Thank you.
-Thank you so much.

RICK: My objective
was irrefutable proof

that an old-world treasure

and an old-world mystery
could have

come to the new world
long, long ago.

My long, long ago is 1200s.

That was the hope: prove

east to west is possible
at those early dates.

And the Templars,
who had interactions

with the Norse/Vikings
from long ago,

made those voyages.
And something of value,

either information or treasure,

was brought to the New World.

I personally came
away with a belief in that.

I think we came
away from that trip having

proved what you just said.
It is possible that it happened.

EMILIANO:
Well, I mean, the voyage was

very informative.

We moved from northern Italy
to Iceland,

and Iceland
is exactly halfway through

this trip, from east to west,

from the old world
to the new one.

-Corjan?
-You know, the four-dot cross,

the symbol that was on
the H+O stone on Oak island.

You saw it in various places
where it was used

by the Knights Templar,

which shows

a very real connection there.

DOUG:
The major takeaway for me was

science of astronomy
was very important.

So, it makes it
easy for me to believe

that they would have utilized
that same science

here on Oak Island
in the 13th century

-to accomplish their goals here.
-RICK: Mm-hmm.

The information hunt
is incredibly important.

We would be remiss
in not following it.

At this point, it has
produced tangible results.

Emiliano and Corjan, thank
you for coming on the trip.

You've made it more enlightening
and more enjoyable.

Thank you very much.

-Ciao. Ciao.
-Thank you.

MARTY:
We're on a treasure hunt,

and I think
the most significant thing to us

is probably the Money Pit.

-Yeah.
-MARTY: So let's get to it.

We have in front of us
a very fine exhibit.

I really like this.

-These are the canisters?
-STEVE: They are.

I guess, in my view,
there were two big things

this year that we wanted
to accomplish.

One was to find out where those
metals were coming from.

And the other is to see what

the Garden Shaft itself
could tell us.

We got down to 95-ish feet.

We start, just about,
to commence

our horizontal drilling,
which is one of

the purposes, and we were
flooded out.

And not just flooded out,
big time flooded out.

I mean, what's always interested
me about it is this tunnel

goes right into
the Baby Blob, right?

-Yes.
-And so I'm super interested

in what's happening
in that direction.

MARTY:
Fred,

are the amount of metals
you see consistent

with a treasure
that was once there and gone,

-or not?
-Those metal anomalies
that we've been seeing

are truly anomalous.

So, to answer your question,

in order to be getting those

anomalies, there still has to be
something present

in the subsurface.

-Yes!
-MARTY: That's for sure.

Yeah, you're damn right
on that.

MATT:
Like, my feeling is we are

not seeing residuals

from things that were
deposited and extracted

decades or hundreds
of years ago.

The area that I think
I would put

one would be
just north of the Blob.

And the reason is is we...
we know

the Blob is where we're seeing
the metal anomalies,

and we know the water flow
is coming from that direction.

Except that you don't
have enough sampling.

You have no sampling up there.

-None.
-IAN: No.

Guys, I have a thought
that hasn't been floated before.

MARTY: Guys, I have a thought

that hasn't been floated before.

I'm thinking what we do
is we take this pad,

we cut right back here
a long ways,

open this whole area up,

and we continue our sonic
drilling up,

and we can do
some more testing up here.

We don't know
what's going on up there.

Right now, our search
is leading us here.

NARRATOR:
In the war room,

Marty Lagina has just made
a bold proposal for next year

that he hopes could finally
pinpoint the possible

buried treasure that has
been detected

between 80 and 120 feet

underground
in the Money Pit area.

His plan may necessitate
removing tons of earth

as well as the rock formation
that surrounds the Garden Shaft

to create a flat surface
that will allow

for the drilling
of new six-inch boreholes

and subsequent water tests
within them.

RICK: I think you have to.

In terms of the science,
you have to

continue to explore that.

MARTY: Dr. Fred Michel

is absolutely rock solid

that there's some quantity
of metal

that's giving off
these metals in the water.

We drilled the heck
out of the Baby Blob

and we didn't find anything.

So I want to dig
to the northeast between

the Baby Blob
and the Garden Shaft

until we get more data.

We can put some
potential caissons on here,

just so we all
know what is possible.

I'd be open to Aladdin's cave.

Yeah, that's been
a very interesting area,

from what I've been looking at.

SCOTT:
One of my areas of interest

is just outside of RF-1.

I mean, RF-1 is, to me,

the original Money Pit location.

Another area
I'd like to go back to is just

around H-8. I mean, clearly,
that was one of the more

interesting areas that we've
drilled into in the Money Pit.

With a caisson this size,
we can cover a lot more ground.

NARRATOR:
In addition to the regions
surrounding the Garden Shaft,

the team has recovered evidence
in three other locations

that suggest there
could be numerous deposits

of treasure
in the Money Pit area.

One of these
is known as Aladdin's cave...

-MARTY: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
-Hold up.

...where the team discovered
a massive cavern

some 150 feet deep,

containing water
that has yielded

trace evidence of precious
metals and wooden structures.

Look at all the wood.

NARRATOR:
Another area of interest

is borehole RF-1,
where in 2019,

the team was astounded to
discover massive wooden beams

more than 100 feet deep
that featured Roman numerals,

as well as the pickax,

which has been scientifically
linked to Scandinavia.

The other location
is known as borehole H-8,

which was excavated in 2017,

that the team
not only discovered

possible evidence of
the fabled Chappell Vault,

nearly 180 feet underground

but also pieces of parchment

and leather bookbinding.

MARTY:
Rf-1 and H-8, we thought,
were the Money Pit.

It's exciting,

as it just shows how much
opportunity is still here.

I do want to say thanks to Rick

and the team
that put this together,

'cause I-I do think
this is very helpful.

I think we covered
a hell of a lot of ground

and I thank everybody
for their input.

What do you guys think?

Yeah, I think
we had a good year,

and I think we got a lot
of opportunity going forward.

Uh, I'll-I'll be honest.

I thought the other night about,

you know,
when I was a little kid

and, uh, do I still believe?

Is the little boy
still inside of me?

And...

I thought...

I thought long and hard
about that,

and, uh...

and what I came to realize is,
he's still...

he still is there.

But he's there
because of you guys.

And you ladies.

And, uh, I still believe
in the little boy

who's still cheering us on,

and I am extremely grateful
for each and every one of you.

And, uh...

that's all I have to say.

So, thank you all.

♪ ♪

Okay, so I've often said nobody
can follow a Rick Lagina speech.

So, with that, I think
we're done for the season.

After a speech like that,
to the longboats.

(laughing)

NARRATOR:
What started as a dream
for two boys from Michigan

nearly 60 years ago

has become a real-life adventure

that fulfilled
their wildest imaginations.

Matt, good to see you.

NARRATOR:
According to
determined research,

tireless effort
and hard science,

something of profound value
and importance

lies buried on Oak Island.

Thanks, guys,
for all the hard work.

NARRATOR: And when Rick, Marty
and the Fellowship of the Dig

return next spring,
it may finally spell

the end of a mystery

that has lasted
for more than two centuries.

MARTY:
If you look at
the totality of the stuff

we have in front of us
right now, something

rather significant
happened here, so

it's time to find treasure
on this island.

But not today.

Not yet.

RICK:
I want an answer. (chuckles)

I want an answer because there's
a richness to the story,

and the story's not complete.

Who's gonna give up? Nobody.

The last pages aren't written.

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