1 00:00:01,523 --> 00:00:03,705 Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island... 2 00:00:03,837 --> 00:00:05,547 - Sonar’s set up. - Let’s get it down hole. 3 00:00:05,672 --> 00:00:07,672 - Okay. There it is. - It is a significant opening. 4 00:00:07,716 --> 00:00:09,756 This could be the offset chamber. 5 00:00:09,885 --> 00:00:13,265 Another anomaly was this one in the northern tip of the swamp. 6 00:00:13,388 --> 00:00:15,348 Awfully close to the Eye of the Swamp. 7 00:00:15,432 --> 00:00:16,772 Would a metal box give you that? 8 00:00:16,892 --> 00:00:18,772 - For sure. Yeah. - Wow. 9 00:00:18,894 --> 00:00:22,444 We have managed to purchase Lot 5. 10 00:00:22,564 --> 00:00:24,734 Oh. Cool! 11 00:00:24,816 --> 00:00:27,106 - Look at that! - Wow. 12 00:00:27,236 --> 00:00:28,356 That’s treasure, mate. 13 00:00:31,615 --> 00:00:34,785 There is an island in the North Atlantic 14 00:00:34,910 --> 00:00:37,290 where people have been looking for 15 00:00:37,412 --> 00:00:41,252 an incredible treasure for more than 200 years. 16 00:00:41,375 --> 00:00:44,255 So far, they have found a stone slab 17 00:00:44,336 --> 00:00:46,416 with strange symbols carved into it... 18 00:00:47,548 --> 00:00:50,758 man-made workings that date to medieval times, 19 00:00:50,884 --> 00:00:55,264 and a lead cross whose origin may be connected 20 00:00:55,389 --> 00:00:56,469 to the Knights Templar. 21 00:00:56,598 --> 00:00:59,308 To date, six men have died 22 00:00:59,434 --> 00:01:02,104 trying to solve the mystery. 23 00:01:02,229 --> 00:01:07,319 And according to legend, one more will have to die 24 00:01:07,442 --> 00:01:09,942 before the treasure can be found. 25 00:01:23,667 --> 00:01:25,377 - Jeremy’s here. - Hey, Jeremy. 26 00:01:25,460 --> 00:01:26,800 - Jeremy! - Hey, guys. 27 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:28,356 - You know Tom, don’t you? - Actually, I do not. 28 00:01:28,380 --> 00:01:30,170 - You do not. - Tom, it’s good to meet you. 29 00:01:30,299 --> 00:01:33,129 As a new day begins on Oak Island, 30 00:01:33,260 --> 00:01:35,720 brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, 31 00:01:35,804 --> 00:01:38,144 their business partner Craig Tester, 32 00:01:38,265 --> 00:01:41,185 and members of their team have gathered in the war room 33 00:01:41,310 --> 00:01:44,560 with geophysicist Jeremy Church for a report 34 00:01:44,646 --> 00:01:46,686 that they hope will help them solve 35 00:01:46,815 --> 00:01:50,525 a 228-year-old treasure mystery. 36 00:01:50,652 --> 00:01:52,282 So, what do you got? 37 00:01:52,362 --> 00:01:53,822 Well, I got some preliminary results 38 00:01:53,905 --> 00:01:55,300 that are quite interesting from the swamp. 39 00:01:55,324 --> 00:01:58,544 This map is very preliminary. 40 00:01:58,660 --> 00:02:02,000 So, I need to do some full kind of processing 41 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,460 on the data set, but it’s these little red dots. 42 00:02:04,541 --> 00:02:06,711 Those are the real exciting ones. 43 00:02:06,835 --> 00:02:08,455 There’s all kinds of stuff on here. 44 00:02:08,545 --> 00:02:09,915 That’s correct, yeah. 45 00:02:11,381 --> 00:02:13,721 - -Whoa. Yeah. She’s going off. - Big one? 46 00:02:13,842 --> 00:02:15,028 - Like off through the roof. - Really? 47 00:02:15,052 --> 00:02:16,592 - Yeah. - Fantastic. 48 00:02:16,678 --> 00:02:19,598 One week ago, Jeremy, 49 00:02:19,681 --> 00:02:21,391 diver Tony Sampson 50 00:02:21,516 --> 00:02:24,136 and Jeremy’s colleague Burton Cosgrove 51 00:02:24,227 --> 00:02:26,477 conducted a new geophysical scan 52 00:02:26,563 --> 00:02:28,863 searching for evidence of buried metal objects 53 00:02:28,940 --> 00:02:30,730 in the Oak Island swamp. 54 00:02:30,859 --> 00:02:34,529 It is within this curiously triangle-shaped feature 55 00:02:34,655 --> 00:02:37,875 that the team has made a number of extraordinary discoveries 56 00:02:37,949 --> 00:02:39,579 in recent years, 57 00:02:39,701 --> 00:02:41,411 including numerous pieces 58 00:02:41,536 --> 00:02:44,536 of ancient sailing ships and cargo barrels, 59 00:02:44,623 --> 00:02:47,583 a stone road, or wharf, 60 00:02:47,709 --> 00:02:51,089 and even a massive rock-paved area 61 00:02:51,213 --> 00:02:54,723 that has been dated by geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner 62 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,720 to as early as 1200 AD. 63 00:02:58,887 --> 00:03:02,217 Now, after processing the data he collected 64 00:03:02,307 --> 00:03:04,227 during the recent survey, 65 00:03:04,351 --> 00:03:07,941 Jeremey has returned to present the team with his findings. 66 00:03:08,980 --> 00:03:12,570 So, the hot colors, reds, that’s higher conductivity. 67 00:03:12,693 --> 00:03:14,573 So we’re looking for higher conductivity 68 00:03:14,695 --> 00:03:17,415 if we’re looking for metallic features especially. 69 00:03:17,531 --> 00:03:20,161 What do you think those are, Tom? 70 00:03:20,242 --> 00:03:21,742 - I don’t know. - Hmm. 71 00:03:21,868 --> 00:03:24,788 So, we need a swamp excavator to find out. 72 00:03:26,415 --> 00:03:29,755 You know, this could be the Jack Adams box. 73 00:03:29,835 --> 00:03:32,095 - The box. - Jack approached your father 74 00:03:32,170 --> 00:03:35,420 - and said, "Hey, I’ve got a metal target." - Yes. 75 00:03:35,549 --> 00:03:37,469 Whatever that man found is in that swamp. 76 00:03:37,592 --> 00:03:38,802 And maybe that’s it. 77 00:03:40,137 --> 00:03:44,967 In the 1930s, island caretaker Jack Adams 78 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:48,940 probed the swamp and struck what he described as a "mystery box." 79 00:03:49,020 --> 00:03:53,480 Unfortunately, he was unable to determine just what it was. 80 00:03:53,608 --> 00:03:56,438 But later in 1969, 81 00:03:56,570 --> 00:03:58,280 after hearing Mr. Adams’ story, 82 00:03:58,363 --> 00:04:01,953 Tom Nolan’s late father, Fred, drained the swamp 83 00:04:02,075 --> 00:04:03,575 in order to look for it. 84 00:04:03,660 --> 00:04:08,250 The box was never found, but Fred was astonished 85 00:04:08,331 --> 00:04:11,171 to discover numerous parts of a large sailing vessel, 86 00:04:11,293 --> 00:04:14,303 as well as survey stakes that were dated to as much 87 00:04:14,421 --> 00:04:18,091 as three centuries prior to the discovery of the Money Pit. 88 00:04:18,175 --> 00:04:21,265 This made Fred speculate that the swamp 89 00:04:21,344 --> 00:04:23,354 may have been artificially created 90 00:04:23,472 --> 00:04:27,522 in order to hide the wreck of a ship and its valuable cargo. 91 00:04:27,642 --> 00:04:30,942 Is it possible that Jeremy Church has found 92 00:04:31,021 --> 00:04:34,611 more evidence that this theory could be true? 93 00:04:35,358 --> 00:04:37,688 I truly believe in that story. 94 00:04:37,819 --> 00:04:41,319 So, one of those could be that box. 95 00:04:41,448 --> 00:04:44,528 Would a metal box give you that anomaly? 96 00:04:44,659 --> 00:04:47,329 - For sure, yeah. - Well, that’s interesting. 97 00:04:47,454 --> 00:04:49,044 Real interesting. 98 00:04:49,164 --> 00:04:50,924 Yeah. 99 00:04:50,999 --> 00:04:52,977 You’ve got the small hot spots there, and then around them, 100 00:04:53,001 --> 00:04:55,341 there’s a large area that’s orange. 101 00:04:55,462 --> 00:04:57,356 - What is that? - I think that’s a good question. 102 00:04:57,380 --> 00:05:01,010 So, within here you’ve got a deeper body of water 103 00:05:01,092 --> 00:05:03,222 causing that slightly elevated conductivity. 104 00:05:03,345 --> 00:05:05,685 But as you come northwards here, 105 00:05:05,764 --> 00:05:07,604 the conductivity levels are much lower. 106 00:05:07,682 --> 00:05:10,852 So, another anomaly that I was very interested in 107 00:05:10,977 --> 00:05:13,227 was this one in the northern tip of the swamp. 108 00:05:14,272 --> 00:05:16,692 You see all this blue, and there’s this nice little, 109 00:05:16,775 --> 00:05:19,405 circular, moderately high conductivity feature. 110 00:05:19,528 --> 00:05:20,568 That’s above the eye. 111 00:05:20,695 --> 00:05:22,195 Is that the eye? 112 00:05:22,322 --> 00:05:25,122 Yeah, that’s awfully close to the Eye of the Swamp. 113 00:05:27,285 --> 00:05:29,945 Three years ago, the Oak Island team 114 00:05:30,038 --> 00:05:33,958 drained and excavated a mysterious circular feature 115 00:05:34,042 --> 00:05:37,382 at the northern point known as the Eye of the Swamp. 116 00:05:37,504 --> 00:05:39,674 That looks like one of the conical rocks. 117 00:05:39,756 --> 00:05:43,086 There, a formation of boulders was discovered 118 00:05:43,218 --> 00:05:45,138 surrounding a possible shaft, 119 00:05:45,220 --> 00:05:47,220 which Dr. Ian Spooner believes 120 00:05:47,305 --> 00:05:51,595 may have been artificially created nearly 350 years ago. 121 00:05:51,726 --> 00:05:55,186 Is it possible that Jeremy has found evidence 122 00:05:55,272 --> 00:05:58,272 that something metallic, and of potential value, 123 00:05:58,400 --> 00:05:59,860 could be buried much deeper 124 00:05:59,943 --> 00:06:02,783 at the so-called Eye of the Swamp? 125 00:06:02,904 --> 00:06:05,744 Yeah, if the Eye of the Swamp may be indicating 126 00:06:05,866 --> 00:06:07,656 it has more depth to it 127 00:06:07,742 --> 00:06:09,622 than what we see right at the surface, 128 00:06:09,744 --> 00:06:12,544 - that’s interesting. - All right. 129 00:06:12,622 --> 00:06:14,422 Well, that’s all very, very intriguing. 130 00:06:14,499 --> 00:06:15,935 Is it enough to apply for a permit, though? 131 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:19,169 - Or at least get started? - Yes, I would think. 132 00:06:19,254 --> 00:06:21,344 You know, I think there’s targets here, yes. 133 00:06:21,423 --> 00:06:23,883 But I’d like to see a little more processing 134 00:06:23,967 --> 00:06:26,797 to get more specific targets and see which ones 135 00:06:26,928 --> 00:06:28,638 really jump out as the highest priorities 136 00:06:28,763 --> 00:06:32,103 - and which are more moderate priorities. - Yeah. 137 00:06:32,225 --> 00:06:34,475 Due to enhanced provincial restrictions 138 00:06:34,603 --> 00:06:37,483 on swamp exploration this year, 139 00:06:37,606 --> 00:06:40,266 the team must first identify any targets 140 00:06:40,358 --> 00:06:43,028 they wish to excavate before applying for permits. 141 00:06:43,111 --> 00:06:45,821 That means, they will need to wait 142 00:06:45,947 --> 00:06:48,777 for Jeremy’s fully processed survey data. 143 00:06:48,909 --> 00:06:51,989 Another thing I would like to try 144 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,830 is to see on the north side of the swamp. 145 00:06:54,956 --> 00:07:00,336 According to Dad, there is some sort of a wall system 146 00:07:00,462 --> 00:07:02,342 between the beach and the swamp. 147 00:07:02,464 --> 00:07:04,634 - Right. - We might be able to find it. 148 00:07:04,716 --> 00:07:07,506 And I mean, that would be huge if we could. 149 00:07:07,636 --> 00:07:10,466 You’re well aware of the noninvasive, 150 00:07:10,555 --> 00:07:12,515 geophysical instruments we could run there. 151 00:07:12,641 --> 00:07:14,731 I think we can do that in a few days. 152 00:07:14,809 --> 00:07:17,479 - Yeah. - All right. 153 00:07:17,562 --> 00:07:19,732 I’m eager to get more data. More things to look at. 154 00:07:21,441 --> 00:07:23,531 Intrigue upon intrigue. 155 00:07:23,652 --> 00:07:25,992 - Thank you, Jeremy. - Thank you. 156 00:07:26,988 --> 00:07:29,368 Later that afternoon... 157 00:07:29,491 --> 00:07:32,411 - Okay, sonar’s set up? - Yes, ready to go. 158 00:07:32,494 --> 00:07:34,914 Alex Lagina joins other members of 159 00:07:34,996 --> 00:07:37,866 the Oak Island team in the Money Pit area, 160 00:07:37,999 --> 00:07:39,789 where they are preparing to conduct 161 00:07:39,876 --> 00:07:43,876 a sonar scanning operation in borehole L-15. 162 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:47,009 I’m interested to see how big this cavity is. 163 00:07:47,133 --> 00:07:48,593 When we did the camera, 164 00:07:48,677 --> 00:07:50,446 the scale was, like, the hardest thing to tell. 165 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:52,470 And I mean, to be honest, we don’t really know 166 00:07:52,555 --> 00:07:53,885 - what this is. - Yeah. 167 00:07:55,475 --> 00:07:57,555 It’s coming up shortly. 168 00:07:57,686 --> 00:07:59,686 One week ago, 169 00:07:59,813 --> 00:08:01,613 after drilling into a mysterious void 170 00:08:01,690 --> 00:08:04,030 at a depth of some 150 feet, 171 00:08:04,150 --> 00:08:06,360 Rick, Marty and members of the team 172 00:08:06,444 --> 00:08:08,034 inserted a high-definition camera 173 00:08:08,154 --> 00:08:11,034 to see if it might be a natural cavity 174 00:08:11,116 --> 00:08:13,696 or perhaps something that was man-made. 175 00:08:13,827 --> 00:08:14,987 Wait. No. Stop. 176 00:08:15,870 --> 00:08:18,040 - That’s pretty square. - Wow. 177 00:08:18,164 --> 00:08:21,134 I think it has the possibility of not being natural. 178 00:08:23,753 --> 00:08:26,190 The best thing about the sonar is you get a diameter/perimeter 179 00:08:26,214 --> 00:08:27,974 of what the cavity is. 180 00:08:28,049 --> 00:08:29,485 - Yeah. - Right. This is gonna be interesting, 181 00:08:29,509 --> 00:08:31,299 and hopefully we can get some good data. 182 00:08:31,386 --> 00:08:32,530 Okay. Well, let’s get started. 183 00:08:32,554 --> 00:08:33,794 - Let’s get it down hole. - Yep. 184 00:08:33,888 --> 00:08:35,428 - Help Steve unravel it there. - Yeah. 185 00:08:35,557 --> 00:08:37,347 Now, after obtaining compelling 186 00:08:37,434 --> 00:08:40,444 but limited visual evidence of possible human activity 187 00:08:40,562 --> 00:08:42,362 inside the cavern, 188 00:08:42,439 --> 00:08:45,609 the team is hoping that sonar will help them determine 189 00:08:45,734 --> 00:08:48,444 if it could be a tunnel or perhaps a vault 190 00:08:48,570 --> 00:08:51,110 that might contain something of value. 191 00:08:51,239 --> 00:08:53,779 I’m keenly interested in this cavity. 192 00:08:53,908 --> 00:08:56,908 It’s a long shot, but this could be the offset chamber. 193 00:08:57,037 --> 00:08:58,617 Okay, now we’re scanning. 194 00:08:58,747 --> 00:09:00,917 Okay. We’re in business. 195 00:09:01,041 --> 00:09:03,581 Maybe the sonar will show what’s contained in the cavity. 196 00:09:03,668 --> 00:09:05,128 That’s my hope. 197 00:09:05,253 --> 00:09:07,633 Okay. We’re inside the casing it looks like. 198 00:09:07,756 --> 00:09:10,126 So push it in a little further, maybe. 199 00:09:12,093 --> 00:09:13,593 Must be getting close to the end here. 200 00:09:16,014 --> 00:09:17,854 - There’s your 150. - We’re in the hole. 201 00:09:18,808 --> 00:09:21,268 Okay, now we’re getting an image. 202 00:09:21,394 --> 00:09:24,114 - It’s not a very strong return. - Yeah. 203 00:09:24,981 --> 00:09:27,281 Can you lower it a little bit more? 204 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:28,730 Sure. 205 00:09:30,737 --> 00:09:33,107 Okay, I’ve just dropped six more inches. 206 00:09:34,115 --> 00:09:35,615 Now we have another image coming in. 207 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:36,910 Whoa. 208 00:09:36,993 --> 00:09:38,333 Oh, that’s a good opening. 209 00:09:38,453 --> 00:09:39,873 It is. It’s a significant opening. 210 00:09:39,954 --> 00:09:42,504 - It’s pretty distinct. - Yeah. 211 00:09:42,624 --> 00:09:44,224 You can see the opening coming down here. 212 00:09:48,129 --> 00:09:49,459 Yeah, that’s something. 213 00:09:53,134 --> 00:09:54,394 It’s a decent-sized cavity. 214 00:09:54,469 --> 00:09:56,639 It is. Nearly 15 feet long. 215 00:09:56,763 --> 00:09:59,893 We seem like we have quite an open space right here. 216 00:09:59,974 --> 00:10:02,234 While conducting a sonar operation 217 00:10:02,310 --> 00:10:06,230 in a borehole known as L-15 in the Money Pit area, 218 00:10:06,314 --> 00:10:09,824 members of the Oak Island team have just confirmed 219 00:10:09,901 --> 00:10:11,901 the existence of a large void 220 00:10:11,986 --> 00:10:15,316 approximately 150 feet underground. 221 00:10:15,448 --> 00:10:18,198 - Very large return. - Yeah. 222 00:10:18,326 --> 00:10:22,496 And we have hard signals to the east and the west of it. 223 00:10:22,622 --> 00:10:24,433 That material, whether it’s wood or it’s actually 224 00:10:24,457 --> 00:10:25,643 disturbed material that’s close by, 225 00:10:25,667 --> 00:10:27,167 it’s high intensity. 226 00:10:27,293 --> 00:10:28,923 - Yeah. - So that’s what we’re seeing. 227 00:10:29,003 --> 00:10:30,981 It’s a well-defined, open area to the north and south. 228 00:10:31,005 --> 00:10:33,835 - But it is, as you can see, it’s very linear. - Yeah. 229 00:10:33,967 --> 00:10:35,927 And I see it goes a lot farther than that 230 00:10:36,010 --> 00:10:38,350 - based on the data in front of us. - Yeah. 231 00:10:38,429 --> 00:10:40,599 Linear features? 232 00:10:40,682 --> 00:10:44,772 In a large void at the bottom of borehole L-15? 233 00:10:44,853 --> 00:10:48,273 Could this mean that the team has possibly discovered 234 00:10:48,356 --> 00:10:52,186 a man-made tunnel some 150 feet below ground 235 00:10:52,318 --> 00:10:53,648 in the Money Pit area? 236 00:10:53,736 --> 00:10:56,946 If so, who created it? 237 00:10:57,031 --> 00:11:00,491 When? And where does it lead? 238 00:11:00,577 --> 00:11:02,287 That’s good sonar data. 239 00:11:02,370 --> 00:11:05,250 So, what we’ll do is we’ll download it and process it. 240 00:11:05,373 --> 00:11:07,017 I’ll put it in CAD, and then I can show the guys, 241 00:11:07,041 --> 00:11:09,041 - Rick and Marty, right? - Sounds like a plan. 242 00:11:09,169 --> 00:11:10,459 - Okay. All righty. - All right. 243 00:11:10,545 --> 00:11:12,135 - Let’s pull it up. - Yep. 244 00:11:16,718 --> 00:11:18,718 The following morning... 245 00:11:18,845 --> 00:11:20,105 Is this about the area? 246 00:11:20,221 --> 00:11:22,431 Yeah. Where we’re at here. 247 00:11:22,557 --> 00:11:26,437 We’re at the actual northern face of the swamp. 248 00:11:26,561 --> 00:11:28,311 On Lot 10, 249 00:11:28,396 --> 00:11:31,646 located just north of the triangle-shaped swamp... 250 00:11:31,733 --> 00:11:34,243 This area has changed over the years. 251 00:11:34,319 --> 00:11:38,239 Peter Fornetti and Oak Island landowner Tom Nolan 252 00:11:38,323 --> 00:11:41,373 are preparing to conduct a ground-penetrating radar scan 253 00:11:41,451 --> 00:11:45,581 with subsurface detecting expert Stephan Grund. 254 00:11:45,705 --> 00:11:49,165 My dad did quite a bit of work in this area 255 00:11:49,250 --> 00:11:52,420 and at one point, he thought he had come across 256 00:11:52,503 --> 00:11:54,513 some sort of a structure 257 00:11:54,589 --> 00:11:57,219 that had something to do with constructing this bog, 258 00:11:57,300 --> 00:11:59,550 if it was man-made. 259 00:12:00,929 --> 00:12:02,429 It was in this area 260 00:12:02,555 --> 00:12:04,555 where, back in the 1970s, 261 00:12:04,641 --> 00:12:06,931 Tom’s father, Fred Nolan, 262 00:12:07,060 --> 00:12:09,020 believed he found evidence 263 00:12:09,103 --> 00:12:13,323 that Oak Island may have once been two separate land masses 264 00:12:13,441 --> 00:12:17,821 and were joined together by an artificially-created swamp. 265 00:12:17,946 --> 00:12:22,196 Do you believe there’s any specific items here, or... 266 00:12:22,283 --> 00:12:25,543 I think what we might be looking for here 267 00:12:25,620 --> 00:12:28,620 is some sort of a-a log structure. 268 00:12:28,748 --> 00:12:31,458 - Mm-hmm. - There was some sort of a damming system here. 269 00:12:31,542 --> 00:12:32,792 Good, then let’s set up a grid. 270 00:12:32,919 --> 00:12:34,419 Okay. 271 00:12:34,504 --> 00:12:36,844 Fred, unlike previous searchers, 272 00:12:36,965 --> 00:12:40,225 was focused on trying to unravel the mystery. 273 00:12:40,301 --> 00:12:43,471 Here and then we go down a couple of feet. 274 00:12:43,554 --> 00:12:47,274 And because of his skill and expertise as a surveyor, 275 00:12:47,350 --> 00:12:52,520 he brought a skill set that no one had done in the past. 276 00:12:52,647 --> 00:12:56,647 He thought there was a log wall, a structure, 277 00:12:56,776 --> 00:12:59,816 that he inferred might be associated with 278 00:12:59,946 --> 00:13:03,156 either letting water into the swamp or out of the swamp... 279 00:13:03,283 --> 00:13:05,413 12 and a half. 280 00:13:05,493 --> 00:13:06,804 And I would love nothing better to affirm that 281 00:13:06,828 --> 00:13:07,998 that is true. 282 00:13:08,079 --> 00:13:09,659 Okay. I’m good to go. 283 00:13:10,999 --> 00:13:12,959 In order to search for evidence of 284 00:13:13,042 --> 00:13:14,842 possible man-made workings, 285 00:13:14,961 --> 00:13:17,591 Stephan is scanning the entire area 286 00:13:17,672 --> 00:13:19,632 just north of the swamp in a grid pattern, 287 00:13:19,716 --> 00:13:24,426 using the OKM Gepard 3D ground penetrating radar device. 288 00:13:24,512 --> 00:13:26,102 - Here we go for one more line. - Yep. 289 00:13:26,180 --> 00:13:28,520 - And then we just extend the grid. - Okay. Sure. 290 00:13:28,599 --> 00:13:32,389 The device works by sending radio waves into the ground 291 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,690 which can identify possible structures 292 00:13:34,814 --> 00:13:38,074 buried as much as 130 feet deep. 293 00:13:38,192 --> 00:13:41,242 Okay. 294 00:13:41,362 --> 00:13:43,242 Okay, good. Let’s have a look at the data. 295 00:13:43,364 --> 00:13:44,494 Okay. 296 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:47,990 So, we’re now in the 3D view. 297 00:13:48,077 --> 00:13:50,867 We do see some anomalies, 298 00:13:50,955 --> 00:13:53,535 especially here in the middle. 299 00:13:53,666 --> 00:13:55,536 Perfect. We’re looking for a log structure. 300 00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:58,458 - Yeah. - That might be it. 301 00:13:58,546 --> 00:14:00,506 - Yep. - Pretty exciting. Yeah. 302 00:14:00,590 --> 00:14:02,630 It’s really cool that we’re getting 303 00:14:02,717 --> 00:14:05,137 the GPR anomalies in the area of interest, 304 00:14:05,219 --> 00:14:07,969 - kind of the middle of the bog area. - Yeah. 305 00:14:08,056 --> 00:14:09,636 Which would be kind of where the two... 306 00:14:09,724 --> 00:14:12,274 If there were two islands... They would come together. 307 00:14:12,393 --> 00:14:13,563 Yeah. 308 00:14:14,562 --> 00:14:17,442 Is it possible that Peter, Tom and Stephan 309 00:14:17,565 --> 00:14:20,315 have found potential evidence that Fred Nolan’s 310 00:14:20,401 --> 00:14:24,241 incredible theory about the swamp could be true? 311 00:14:25,448 --> 00:14:28,908 If my dad was here today and seen just the level of 312 00:14:29,035 --> 00:14:30,625 interest in that swamp, 313 00:14:30,745 --> 00:14:33,165 you know, I think he’d be quite amazed. 314 00:14:33,247 --> 00:14:36,627 Hopefully, we can shed some light 315 00:14:36,751 --> 00:14:39,501 on where this is going. 316 00:14:40,088 --> 00:14:42,668 So, hopefully once we have this data processed, 317 00:14:42,757 --> 00:14:46,337 we can maybe see a damming mechanism. 318 00:14:46,427 --> 00:14:48,847 Yep. No. Looking forward to getting the data back 319 00:14:48,930 --> 00:14:50,240 - and seeing what it says. - Yeah. 320 00:14:50,264 --> 00:14:52,024 - Perfect. - Sounds good. 321 00:14:55,770 --> 00:14:58,150 Later that afternoon... 322 00:14:58,272 --> 00:14:59,692 Afternoon. 323 00:14:59,774 --> 00:15:01,194 - Hi, Marty. - Hello, mate. 324 00:15:01,275 --> 00:15:02,435 Hey, guys. 325 00:15:02,568 --> 00:15:03,754 Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina 326 00:15:03,778 --> 00:15:05,908 have called an important meeting 327 00:15:05,988 --> 00:15:07,868 with members of the team in the war room. 328 00:15:07,949 --> 00:15:10,159 Well, Marty, you and I have 329 00:15:10,284 --> 00:15:12,414 an announcement to make and I think where everyone’s 330 00:15:12,495 --> 00:15:14,545 gonna be quite interested in it. 331 00:15:14,622 --> 00:15:16,622 So if you want to tell everybody "the big secret." 332 00:15:16,707 --> 00:15:18,417 All right. Here we go, guys. 333 00:15:19,210 --> 00:15:22,960 We have managed to purchase... 334 00:15:23,089 --> 00:15:24,129 Lot 5. 335 00:15:24,215 --> 00:15:26,885 - Wow. Sweet. - Yeah. 336 00:15:26,968 --> 00:15:28,928 - Huh? - That’s great. 337 00:15:29,011 --> 00:15:31,811 Gary, what do you think about that? 338 00:15:31,889 --> 00:15:34,769 Bloody brilliant. I can’t wait to get on Lot 5. 339 00:15:36,144 --> 00:15:38,354 It was really one of the pieces we’ve been missing. 340 00:15:38,479 --> 00:15:40,359 We have high hopes that 341 00:15:40,481 --> 00:15:42,401 there could be some real crucial, 342 00:15:42,483 --> 00:15:45,493 crucial data on that lot and we own it. 343 00:15:45,611 --> 00:15:47,401 Okay. 344 00:15:48,406 --> 00:15:50,736 Located near the center of Oak Island, 345 00:15:50,825 --> 00:15:54,835 Lot 5’s four acres have never been accessible to Rick, 346 00:15:54,912 --> 00:15:57,872 Marty, Craig and the team until now. 347 00:15:58,749 --> 00:16:00,629 Once owned by the late Fred Nolan, 348 00:16:00,710 --> 00:16:03,340 the property was sold to his then research partner, 349 00:16:03,463 --> 00:16:06,263 Robert Young, over two decades ago. 350 00:16:07,216 --> 00:16:10,716 Mr. Young would make a number of notable discoveries there, 351 00:16:10,845 --> 00:16:13,355 including ancient coins and artifacts 352 00:16:13,431 --> 00:16:16,681 before his own passing in 2020. 353 00:16:18,686 --> 00:16:20,646 Because of Robert Young’s kind offer, 354 00:16:20,730 --> 00:16:23,730 we were able to actually visit his home, 355 00:16:23,858 --> 00:16:26,108 and we saw the artifacts that he had recovered, 356 00:16:26,194 --> 00:16:27,713 and I think we were all impressed, right? 357 00:16:27,737 --> 00:16:29,197 We were. 358 00:16:29,322 --> 00:16:32,872 Robert invested a large portion of his life 359 00:16:32,992 --> 00:16:35,452 in trying to understand what Lot 5 meant. 360 00:16:35,536 --> 00:16:38,456 He found coins. He found buttons. 361 00:16:38,539 --> 00:16:40,459 He found other artifacts. 362 00:16:40,541 --> 00:16:43,541 Everything that we have found, he found. 363 00:16:43,628 --> 00:16:45,958 It’s exciting. We know... 364 00:16:46,047 --> 00:16:49,797 there have been some very interesting finds on Lot 5. 365 00:16:49,884 --> 00:16:53,144 Look, around the table, I-I sense the excitement. 366 00:16:53,221 --> 00:16:54,971 - Yeah. - For a number of reasons, 367 00:16:55,056 --> 00:16:56,716 this is a really good day for Oak Island. 368 00:16:56,807 --> 00:16:58,869 Not only putting the island back together but being able 369 00:16:58,893 --> 00:17:01,563 to advance the search with more puzzle pieces. 370 00:17:01,646 --> 00:17:03,936 Hopefully the ride will be quite entertaining. 371 00:17:04,065 --> 00:17:05,709 Gary, I’m quite surprised you’re still in that room. 372 00:17:05,733 --> 00:17:07,153 Oh, I’m anxious to get out there. 373 00:17:08,903 --> 00:17:10,243 I’ll put some coil to the soil. 374 00:17:12,406 --> 00:17:14,406 This is fantastic news. 375 00:17:14,534 --> 00:17:20,004 Release the hounds. 376 00:17:20,081 --> 00:17:21,081 Big day, Rick. 377 00:17:21,123 --> 00:17:22,226 I’ve been waiting for this day 378 00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:24,170 for a very long time. 379 00:17:24,252 --> 00:17:26,212 I can’t but agree, Gary. 380 00:17:26,295 --> 00:17:28,295 Following their meeting in the war room, 381 00:17:28,422 --> 00:17:32,012 Rick Lagina, metal detection expert Gary Drayton 382 00:17:32,093 --> 00:17:34,343 and archaeologist Laird Niven 383 00:17:34,428 --> 00:17:37,348 anxiously arrive on Lot 5, 384 00:17:37,431 --> 00:17:41,441 located on the western side of Oak Island. 385 00:17:41,519 --> 00:17:43,689 Laird, this must be exciting for you. 386 00:17:43,771 --> 00:17:45,811 Yes. It just bothered me 387 00:17:45,940 --> 00:17:47,480 - to not have access to it. - Mm-hmm. 388 00:17:47,608 --> 00:17:50,028 To-to have that part of the story missing. 389 00:17:50,111 --> 00:17:52,531 And we’ll just add to Robert’s legacy. 390 00:17:52,613 --> 00:17:54,033 Mm-hmm. 391 00:17:54,115 --> 00:17:55,375 That’s the whole point of this. 392 00:17:55,449 --> 00:17:57,049 - Yeah. - Continuing the work that he did 393 00:17:57,118 --> 00:17:58,868 for many, many, many years. 394 00:17:58,953 --> 00:18:00,293 The lot is a mystery. 395 00:18:00,371 --> 00:18:01,831 Let-Let’s see what we can find. 396 00:18:01,956 --> 00:18:03,206 Okay. 397 00:18:09,213 --> 00:18:11,133 When we take down the sign, 398 00:18:11,257 --> 00:18:14,547 we realize that it is indeed our responsibility at this point 399 00:18:14,635 --> 00:18:15,755 to carry on Robert’s work. 400 00:18:15,845 --> 00:18:18,315 This is in the past now, mate. 401 00:18:18,389 --> 00:18:21,099 - To the future. - Let’s get started. 402 00:18:21,183 --> 00:18:23,893 Am I ecstatic, over the moon, to be able 403 00:18:23,978 --> 00:18:26,898 to go dig on a lot that has eluded us? 404 00:18:26,981 --> 00:18:28,481 The opportunity for answers? 405 00:18:28,608 --> 00:18:30,278 Hundred percent. 406 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,069 You could equate it to being given the keys 407 00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:35,864 to the family car when you’re 15 or 16. 408 00:18:35,990 --> 00:18:37,990 I didn’t think this day would ever happen. 409 00:18:38,075 --> 00:18:39,695 It’s very, very cool. 410 00:18:41,078 --> 00:18:42,748 All right. Let’s get stuck in. 411 00:18:44,832 --> 00:18:46,832 I’ll just keep zigzagging. 412 00:18:49,670 --> 00:18:51,000 This is the edge of the lot line. 413 00:18:56,385 --> 00:18:58,675 We’re in business. 414 00:18:58,804 --> 00:19:01,434 Got a signal here. Just there, mate. 415 00:19:13,527 --> 00:19:14,987 Thank you, sir. 416 00:19:18,866 --> 00:19:20,616 Ooh! 417 00:19:20,701 --> 00:19:23,701 I feel something heavy in me hand. 418 00:19:25,039 --> 00:19:27,459 A big ol’ fastener. Look at that. 419 00:19:28,376 --> 00:19:30,626 What the hell’s that doing out here? 420 00:19:30,711 --> 00:19:32,461 This looks like wrought iron. 421 00:19:32,546 --> 00:19:35,086 - It’s heavy, though, isn’t it? It’s well made. - Yup. 422 00:19:35,216 --> 00:19:37,046 Does this resemble anything we’ve pulled 423 00:19:37,134 --> 00:19:38,724 out of the Money Pit? 424 00:19:39,595 --> 00:19:42,305 My first reaction is that it’s almost chisel-like. 425 00:19:42,390 --> 00:19:44,310 - Oh, wow. Like a tool? Yeah. - Yeah. 426 00:19:44,392 --> 00:19:47,312 You hit the nail on the head. No pun intended. 427 00:19:47,395 --> 00:19:49,275 - What’s a chisel doing out here, right? - Yeah. 428 00:19:49,313 --> 00:19:51,403 - Yeah. - And wrought iron. 429 00:19:51,482 --> 00:19:54,232 A hand-wrought iron chisel? 430 00:19:54,318 --> 00:19:56,238 Found on Lot 5? 431 00:19:56,362 --> 00:19:59,572 Because the documented history of the island shows 432 00:19:59,699 --> 00:20:02,079 no record that anyone ever established 433 00:20:02,159 --> 00:20:04,829 a homestead or farm in this area, 434 00:20:04,912 --> 00:20:07,252 just who may have brought this tool here? 435 00:20:07,331 --> 00:20:09,831 And what did they use it for? 436 00:20:09,917 --> 00:20:13,497 I love finding artifacts like this. 437 00:20:13,587 --> 00:20:17,837 We have just pulled up what I believe to be an old chisel. 438 00:20:17,925 --> 00:20:20,215 This is the type of thing you would need 439 00:20:20,302 --> 00:20:22,642 if you’re depositing treasure. 440 00:20:22,763 --> 00:20:25,433 You bring tools. 441 00:20:25,558 --> 00:20:28,188 Okay, mate. It’s definitely worth bagging. 442 00:20:28,269 --> 00:20:30,099 Lot 5, baby. 443 00:20:30,229 --> 00:20:32,439 Been waiting a long time for this. 444 00:20:32,523 --> 00:20:35,613 All right, let’s see if we can add to the collection. 445 00:20:39,363 --> 00:20:41,453 We ain’t going very far, did you hear that? 446 00:20:41,532 --> 00:20:44,282 Yeah, we got another signal, right by the hole. 447 00:20:51,125 --> 00:20:53,255 This train’s a-rolling. 448 00:21:04,847 --> 00:21:07,267 Ooh! 449 00:21:07,349 --> 00:21:08,979 I’m on it. 450 00:21:09,059 --> 00:21:11,649 What’ve we got here? 451 00:21:13,147 --> 00:21:15,067 Oh, look at that. 452 00:21:15,149 --> 00:21:16,229 Another one. 453 00:21:16,317 --> 00:21:17,937 What in the world? 454 00:21:18,027 --> 00:21:20,107 - That’s the same exact thing, though. - Yeah. 455 00:21:20,196 --> 00:21:23,366 It’s not very often that we find... 456 00:21:23,491 --> 00:21:25,371 - Not two. - Two of the same. 457 00:21:25,493 --> 00:21:29,043 You’ve got to imagine that these two were lost at the same time. 458 00:21:29,163 --> 00:21:31,183 - Yeah, which is odd. - I think you’re right, Laird. 459 00:21:31,207 --> 00:21:32,497 They look like tools, chisels. 460 00:21:32,583 --> 00:21:35,753 We could be in ye old toolbox here. 461 00:21:37,838 --> 00:21:41,048 Finding two tools in very close proximity 462 00:21:41,175 --> 00:21:44,435 means that somebody was there doing something. 463 00:21:44,512 --> 00:21:48,852 What makes sense to me is there was an activity happening, 464 00:21:48,933 --> 00:21:51,353 in the moment things got exciting, 465 00:21:51,477 --> 00:21:53,687 and the tools were lost 466 00:21:53,771 --> 00:21:54,901 or misplaced 467 00:21:55,022 --> 00:21:57,572 because of something else going on. 468 00:21:57,691 --> 00:22:01,401 I-I find that possibility incredibly exciting. 469 00:22:01,529 --> 00:22:03,949 Artifacts, every few feet. 470 00:22:04,031 --> 00:22:05,741 This is gonna be fantastic, mate. 471 00:22:05,866 --> 00:22:08,366 - Lot 5. - You’re gonna be sleeping out here. 472 00:22:08,494 --> 00:22:09,794 The giving lot. 473 00:22:09,870 --> 00:22:12,830 Another artifact off Lot 5. 474 00:22:13,874 --> 00:22:18,344 Following his exciting first hunt for clues on Lot 5... 475 00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:20,708 Hey, Craig. 476 00:22:20,798 --> 00:22:22,668 -Hello, Craig. -Hey, guys. 477 00:22:22,758 --> 00:22:24,628 Rick returns to the war room 478 00:22:24,718 --> 00:22:26,888 with Marty and members of the team. 479 00:22:27,012 --> 00:22:29,812 They have gathered to review a report 480 00:22:29,890 --> 00:22:32,730 of the sonar data collected one day ago 481 00:22:32,852 --> 00:22:36,612 in the mysterious void located some 150 feet underground 482 00:22:36,730 --> 00:22:38,320 in the Money Pit area. 483 00:22:38,399 --> 00:22:41,149 These war rooms are my favorite in the sense that 484 00:22:41,235 --> 00:22:43,745 we’ve got some good data, specifically, 485 00:22:43,863 --> 00:22:47,493 we found a rather odd, open cavern in and around L-15. 486 00:22:47,575 --> 00:22:48,995 - Yep. - Who has the data? 487 00:22:49,076 --> 00:22:50,156 - I do. - All right, Steve. 488 00:22:50,244 --> 00:22:51,504 Put it on the screen. 489 00:22:52,329 --> 00:22:54,409 So, we ran the sonar. 490 00:22:54,498 --> 00:22:56,268 We downloaded the data. We processed the data. 491 00:22:56,292 --> 00:22:59,752 And then Scott and I, Craig worked on a couple orientations. 492 00:22:59,879 --> 00:23:04,009 And so, I’ve scaled it. I put an orientation to it. 493 00:23:04,091 --> 00:23:06,181 I locked it to L-15, and I’m gonna drop it in place. 494 00:23:06,260 --> 00:23:08,600 There it is. Okay. 495 00:23:09,597 --> 00:23:11,427 This is our sonar cavity. 496 00:23:11,557 --> 00:23:14,017 It was a wide-open cavity with no obstruction. 497 00:23:14,935 --> 00:23:17,845 And so, the size of it as it sits now, 498 00:23:17,938 --> 00:23:19,898 it’s about 27 feet, east to west, 499 00:23:19,982 --> 00:23:21,482 about 12 feet north to south. 500 00:23:21,609 --> 00:23:23,029 Wow. 501 00:23:23,110 --> 00:23:24,190 And it could be further. 502 00:23:24,278 --> 00:23:25,698 Holy smokes. 503 00:23:27,948 --> 00:23:31,948 A void approximately 150 feet underground 504 00:23:32,077 --> 00:23:33,537 in the Money Pit area? 505 00:23:33,621 --> 00:23:36,211 Measuring some 30 feet long? 506 00:23:36,290 --> 00:23:38,880 If so, is it a natural feature? 507 00:23:38,959 --> 00:23:41,459 Or was it artificially created? 508 00:23:41,545 --> 00:23:44,085 Craig, describe it geologically. 509 00:23:44,173 --> 00:23:46,883 Well, it’s in kind of the-the limestone bed 510 00:23:46,967 --> 00:23:49,047 that’s just above the bedrock. 511 00:23:49,136 --> 00:23:51,006 I look at the other wells in the area, 512 00:23:51,138 --> 00:23:53,518 i-it doesn’t make sense. 513 00:23:55,976 --> 00:23:57,556 This is very, very odd. 514 00:23:57,645 --> 00:24:00,525 Dan, in all the time you’ve been here, have you seen 515 00:24:00,648 --> 00:24:02,898 any open cavities in the limestone? 516 00:24:02,983 --> 00:24:08,243 We had absolutely no discernable flow of water horizontally 517 00:24:08,322 --> 00:24:11,372 and, uh, therefore no erosion by water. 518 00:24:11,492 --> 00:24:12,492 Right. 519 00:24:12,618 --> 00:24:13,908 So, uh, 520 00:24:13,994 --> 00:24:18,964 any voids in the limestone, uh, uh... 521 00:24:19,041 --> 00:24:21,251 would pretty much have to be man-made. 522 00:24:23,837 --> 00:24:25,507 This could be it. 523 00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:31,321 It could be man-made in the sense that 524 00:24:31,345 --> 00:24:33,015 somebody started something 525 00:24:33,138 --> 00:24:35,058 or put something there. 526 00:24:35,182 --> 00:24:39,272 Yeah, could be from the original depositors. 527 00:24:40,312 --> 00:24:42,982 In the Oak Island war room, 528 00:24:43,065 --> 00:24:46,575 Rick and Marty Lagina, along with members of the team, 529 00:24:46,694 --> 00:24:48,864 have just reviewed sonar data 530 00:24:48,988 --> 00:24:50,548 indicating that the void they discovered 531 00:24:50,614 --> 00:24:54,244 some 150 feet deep in the Money Pit area 532 00:24:54,368 --> 00:24:59,078 is at least 30 feet long and is potentially man-made. 533 00:24:59,206 --> 00:25:02,036 Caves are usually made by water flowing through 534 00:25:02,126 --> 00:25:05,376 porous, permeable and soluble material. 535 00:25:05,462 --> 00:25:07,342 According to Dan, water doesn’t move through it. 536 00:25:07,423 --> 00:25:08,763 So, the odds are 537 00:25:08,882 --> 00:25:11,052 if water didn’t create this cave, 538 00:25:11,135 --> 00:25:12,595 then people did. 539 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,560 With the Hedden Shaft and the, uh, Chappell pit 540 00:25:16,682 --> 00:25:18,392 where they are, 541 00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:21,307 this area looks as if it’s in the general area 542 00:25:21,395 --> 00:25:23,615 where those shafts were flooded out. 543 00:25:23,731 --> 00:25:25,021 Okay. 544 00:25:25,899 --> 00:25:27,359 This depth is basically 545 00:25:27,443 --> 00:25:31,153 where the vault was found from Chappell. 546 00:25:31,238 --> 00:25:34,118 That’s right. Yeah. 547 00:25:34,491 --> 00:25:36,741 In 1897, 548 00:25:36,869 --> 00:25:39,959 treasure hunters Frederick Blair and William Chappell 549 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:44,040 drilled into what they described as a seven-foot-tall wooden box, 550 00:25:44,126 --> 00:25:48,836 encased in concrete at a depth of 153 feet. 551 00:25:48,922 --> 00:25:52,302 It was this operation that revealed traces of gold, 552 00:25:52,426 --> 00:25:55,096 as well as a piece of parchment 553 00:25:55,220 --> 00:25:58,520 with the letters "VI" written on it. 554 00:25:58,599 --> 00:26:00,599 In the following years, 555 00:26:00,726 --> 00:26:02,636 two different shafts were constructed 556 00:26:02,770 --> 00:26:06,110 in failed attempts to retrieve the so-called Chappell Vault. 557 00:26:06,231 --> 00:26:10,111 The first was constructed by William Chappell, himself, 558 00:26:10,235 --> 00:26:13,655 along with his son, Melbourne, in 1931. 559 00:26:13,781 --> 00:26:17,451 The second effort was led by New York-based engineer 560 00:26:17,534 --> 00:26:20,374 Gilbert Hedden in 1937. 561 00:26:21,747 --> 00:26:24,207 But now, is it possible 562 00:26:24,291 --> 00:26:25,961 that in borehole L-15, 563 00:26:26,043 --> 00:26:27,543 where the team has found 564 00:26:27,628 --> 00:26:29,668 a potentially man-made linear cavern 565 00:26:29,797 --> 00:26:34,217 some 150 feet deep in the same area of the Money Pit, 566 00:26:34,301 --> 00:26:36,431 that they have potentially discovered 567 00:26:36,512 --> 00:26:39,892 where the fabled Oak Island treasure lies hidden? 568 00:26:39,973 --> 00:26:42,853 Could this be associated with the so-called Chappell Vault 569 00:26:42,976 --> 00:26:45,396 that was drilled, uh, in the late 1800s? Yes. 570 00:26:45,479 --> 00:26:47,689 Because we don’t know 571 00:26:47,815 --> 00:26:50,035 that it is actually sealed at the ends. 572 00:26:50,150 --> 00:26:52,990 What if the end of it connects with the Chappell Vault? 573 00:26:53,070 --> 00:26:54,820 Maybe that’s what they drilled into. 574 00:26:54,905 --> 00:26:57,375 Look, I’m not ruling out that this could be it. 575 00:26:57,491 --> 00:26:59,991 - It’s very, very odd. Yeah. - 100%. 576 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:01,289 100% oddball. 577 00:27:01,370 --> 00:27:02,700 I mean, we have a great image. 578 00:27:02,830 --> 00:27:04,500 It’s already 27 by 12 feet. 579 00:27:04,623 --> 00:27:06,263 We know it’s a substantial cavity at that, 580 00:27:06,333 --> 00:27:07,883 but we don’t have enough information 581 00:27:08,001 --> 00:27:09,251 to really know where it goes 582 00:27:09,336 --> 00:27:11,756 - or how substantial this is. - Right. 583 00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:14,339 When we pull out of it at the top of the cavity, 584 00:27:14,466 --> 00:27:15,944 we know it’s probably gonna collapse a little bit. 585 00:27:15,968 --> 00:27:18,048 Uh, my whole deal was to chase the gold, 586 00:27:18,178 --> 00:27:19,378 and we’re running out of time. 587 00:27:19,429 --> 00:27:20,969 Yeah. 588 00:27:21,056 --> 00:27:23,806 Although the Oak Island team 589 00:27:23,892 --> 00:27:26,192 is excited by this potential breakthrough, 590 00:27:26,311 --> 00:27:30,401 unfortunately, it presents a complicated dilemma 591 00:27:30,524 --> 00:27:32,324 for how to further explore it. 592 00:27:33,110 --> 00:27:36,030 First, if something of great, historic value 593 00:27:36,113 --> 00:27:38,373 really does lie within this cavern, 594 00:27:38,448 --> 00:27:40,988 then drilling more boreholes raises the chance 595 00:27:41,076 --> 00:27:43,366 of damaging whatever it may be. 596 00:27:43,453 --> 00:27:46,623 And secondly, the team has dedicated 597 00:27:46,707 --> 00:27:49,707 a majority of their financial resources for this year 598 00:27:49,835 --> 00:27:52,505 to refurbishing the nearby Garden Shaft, 599 00:27:52,588 --> 00:27:55,838 where high trace evidence of gold has been detected. 600 00:27:55,924 --> 00:27:59,684 However, the project is currently on hold 601 00:27:59,761 --> 00:28:02,851 pending necessary permit applications. 602 00:28:03,891 --> 00:28:05,681 It-It’s worth investigating. 603 00:28:05,767 --> 00:28:08,079 I mean, I can’t believe anybody around the table would say, 604 00:28:08,103 --> 00:28:09,523 - "Ah, let it go." - No. 605 00:28:09,605 --> 00:28:11,655 So, we need more information. 606 00:28:11,732 --> 00:28:13,402 - Yeah. - We need to map it. 607 00:28:13,525 --> 00:28:15,645 - We need 3D sonar. - Yeah. 608 00:28:15,736 --> 00:28:17,896 Paul did find another company yesterday, 609 00:28:18,030 --> 00:28:20,780 and he has reached out, too, for a price on a rental. 610 00:28:20,908 --> 00:28:22,448 And he hasn’t heard back from them yet. 611 00:28:22,576 --> 00:28:24,946 We could go to another location 612 00:28:25,078 --> 00:28:27,248 because we don’t know when the sonar’s coming. 613 00:28:27,372 --> 00:28:28,872 Yeah. 614 00:28:28,957 --> 00:28:30,497 Until we arrive at a plan, 615 00:28:30,584 --> 00:28:33,674 we’re going to have a stand-down, if you will. 616 00:28:33,754 --> 00:28:36,344 So we will move away from this location, 617 00:28:36,423 --> 00:28:39,093 but we are certainly not done. 618 00:28:39,218 --> 00:28:42,138 I say we go drilling near the Garden Shaft. 619 00:28:42,262 --> 00:28:43,682 - How’s that? - Done. 620 00:28:43,764 --> 00:28:46,104 All right. Perfect. 621 00:28:46,183 --> 00:28:48,563 So let’s get back at it. 622 00:28:51,939 --> 00:28:54,319 The following morning... 623 00:28:54,441 --> 00:28:56,571 I’m happy. Lot 5. 624 00:28:57,486 --> 00:28:59,606 - You’ve been flagging, Gary? - Yeah, mate. 625 00:28:59,696 --> 00:29:02,906 Today is gonna be a good day. 626 00:29:02,991 --> 00:29:06,411 Rick Lagina and metal detection expert Gary Drayton 627 00:29:06,495 --> 00:29:10,675 return to Lot 5 to search for additional clues. 628 00:29:10,791 --> 00:29:14,671 All right. Let’s see what we’ve got waiting for us here. 629 00:29:14,795 --> 00:29:16,425 All right. 630 00:29:16,505 --> 00:29:17,925 See what this one sounds like. 631 00:29:18,006 --> 00:29:22,506 Oh, I like the sounds of that. 632 00:29:22,636 --> 00:29:24,426 See how wide it is? 633 00:29:24,513 --> 00:29:26,973 Well, that’s the center of it. 634 00:29:30,477 --> 00:29:32,267 It’s rocky, man. 635 00:29:34,648 --> 00:29:37,318 Let’s see if that did anything. 636 00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:41,649 See if I can pinpoint it. 637 00:29:41,738 --> 00:29:44,818 Oh. 638 00:29:46,493 --> 00:29:47,913 - Survey marker. - Yep. 639 00:29:47,995 --> 00:29:50,125 That’s a survey marker, mate. 640 00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:52,865 Don’t dig on top of it. 641 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,880 Okay, so, the next targets are down here, mate. 642 00:29:56,003 --> 00:29:58,553 And we’re going further into Lot 5. 643 00:29:58,672 --> 00:30:00,592 Okey doke. 644 00:30:00,674 --> 00:30:03,934 Robert Young did exhaustive work on his property, 645 00:30:04,011 --> 00:30:06,011 and he worked intimately with Fred Nolan. 646 00:30:06,138 --> 00:30:09,348 But he did not have the sophisticated equipment 647 00:30:09,433 --> 00:30:11,393 that Gary has. 648 00:30:11,518 --> 00:30:15,558 So, could something of immense value still be hiding on Lot 5? 649 00:30:15,689 --> 00:30:16,859 Absolutely. 650 00:30:16,982 --> 00:30:19,072 All right, this is better, mate. 651 00:30:19,192 --> 00:30:23,322 We’re getting more in to Lot 5. 652 00:30:23,405 --> 00:30:26,745 Now, we stand a chance of finding something good. 653 00:30:28,785 --> 00:30:31,245 - Okay, I’m gonna hold you to it. - Okay. 654 00:30:31,371 --> 00:30:33,541 Ooh, that sounds better. 655 00:30:33,665 --> 00:30:35,745 - It does, doesn’t it? - Yep. 656 00:30:35,876 --> 00:30:37,876 Just there. 657 00:30:43,216 --> 00:30:45,716 There’s nothing but rock. 658 00:30:45,802 --> 00:30:49,182 It’s just too rough land to be farmland, isn’t it? 659 00:30:49,264 --> 00:30:51,394 - You would think, yeah. - Yeah. 660 00:30:51,516 --> 00:30:53,766 All right, mate. Let’s see if you moved it. 661 00:30:53,894 --> 00:30:56,774 Yep. 662 00:30:56,897 --> 00:30:58,187 Yup, think you moved it. 663 00:31:00,650 --> 00:31:03,110 Oh. 664 00:31:03,236 --> 00:31:06,406 Cool! Look at that! 665 00:31:06,490 --> 00:31:08,450 That’s treasure, mate. 666 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:14,160 Oh, wow. Look at that. 667 00:31:14,247 --> 00:31:15,617 Button? 668 00:31:15,749 --> 00:31:17,379 It’s a coin, mate! 669 00:31:17,459 --> 00:31:19,669 Oh, that is old. 670 00:31:19,753 --> 00:31:21,463 On Lot 5, 671 00:31:21,588 --> 00:31:24,418 located on property just acquired by the Laginas 672 00:31:24,508 --> 00:31:26,218 and their partner Craig Tester, 673 00:31:26,301 --> 00:31:29,431 Rick and Gary Drayton have just made 674 00:31:29,513 --> 00:31:31,353 a potentially important discovery. 675 00:31:31,431 --> 00:31:33,521 Look at the patina on that. 676 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,600 - Oh, my God, my hands are shaking, mate. - Turn it over. 677 00:31:36,686 --> 00:31:38,266 That’s a cut coin by the look of it. 678 00:31:38,397 --> 00:31:39,687 - Hmm? - Yeah. 679 00:31:39,773 --> 00:31:42,113 That’s what they did back in the day. 680 00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:44,904 They cut them in half or cut little bits off 681 00:31:44,986 --> 00:31:47,986 for change, ’cause that’s why they cut coins, 682 00:31:48,115 --> 00:31:51,085 especially hammered coins in half, and... 683 00:31:51,159 --> 00:31:53,789 This is freaking gorgeous, mate, 684 00:31:53,870 --> 00:31:56,410 - and that ain’t no milled coin, mate. - No. 685 00:31:56,498 --> 00:31:59,038 To me, mate, this looks like an hammered coin. 686 00:31:59,126 --> 00:32:00,836 Obviously, it’s not a milled coin. 687 00:32:00,961 --> 00:32:02,551 - No. - It’s too thin. 688 00:32:02,629 --> 00:32:05,969 And if it is hammered, mate, it goes way back. 689 00:32:06,049 --> 00:32:08,219 That is old. 690 00:32:09,136 --> 00:32:11,886 Dating back to the first millennium BC, 691 00:32:11,972 --> 00:32:14,022 hammered coinage was the first known method 692 00:32:14,141 --> 00:32:17,481 for creating metal currency in human history. 693 00:32:17,602 --> 00:32:19,902 By placing a small, blank piece of metal 694 00:32:19,980 --> 00:32:23,570 between two patterned surfaces, known as dies, 695 00:32:23,650 --> 00:32:25,940 repeated hammering would create the stamp, 696 00:32:26,027 --> 00:32:29,567 or assigned value, on either side of the coin. 697 00:32:29,656 --> 00:32:31,566 It’s bloody fantastic, mate. 698 00:32:31,658 --> 00:32:33,408 But what makes this find 699 00:32:33,493 --> 00:32:35,413 potentially important for the team 700 00:32:35,495 --> 00:32:38,155 is that the process was replaced by the invention 701 00:32:38,248 --> 00:32:41,828 of machines in Europe during the 15 century. 702 00:32:41,918 --> 00:32:46,838 This means that it could be more than 500 years old. 703 00:32:46,923 --> 00:32:50,343 This is the type of find that you would pull up 704 00:32:50,427 --> 00:32:51,717 in Europe somewhere, 705 00:32:51,845 --> 00:32:54,515 and that’s what makes it so special. 706 00:32:54,598 --> 00:32:56,928 - That’s treasure, mate. - That would be. 707 00:32:57,017 --> 00:32:59,767 Yeah. Brilliant, mate. 708 00:32:59,853 --> 00:33:02,273 This is special. We have got to bag this. 709 00:33:02,355 --> 00:33:04,895 This could be very, very important. 710 00:33:05,025 --> 00:33:09,035 Wow. That’s a little, mini piece of art there. 711 00:33:09,112 --> 00:33:12,702 Okay. Get that sealed. 712 00:33:12,824 --> 00:33:14,204 You know where that’s going, mate. 713 00:33:14,326 --> 00:33:17,616 That is a bona fide top pocket find, mate, 714 00:33:17,704 --> 00:33:19,124 if ever I saw one. 715 00:33:19,206 --> 00:33:21,496 How about getting it right back to the lab 716 00:33:21,583 --> 00:33:24,173 - and finding out what it is? - I’m good with that. 717 00:33:24,252 --> 00:33:27,512 See what the techie machines tell us. 718 00:33:30,675 --> 00:33:33,755 Following their discovery on Lot 5... 719 00:33:33,887 --> 00:33:36,717 Just the people we want to see. 720 00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:39,428 Rick and Gary arrive at the Interpretive Centre 721 00:33:39,559 --> 00:33:42,309 to have it analyzed by archaeologist Laird Niven 722 00:33:42,395 --> 00:33:44,555 and archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan. 723 00:33:44,648 --> 00:33:46,898 Sometimes when we’re in here, 724 00:33:46,983 --> 00:33:48,783 and we’re just standing and Gary and Jack, 725 00:33:48,902 --> 00:33:50,992 - or Gary and Peter come in, right? - Yeah. Yeah. 726 00:33:51,071 --> 00:33:52,991 And what do we always say? "Oh, they’re smiling." 727 00:33:53,073 --> 00:33:54,913 Look. 728 00:33:54,991 --> 00:33:56,491 That’s a good sign. 729 00:33:56,576 --> 00:33:57,986 That’s a very good sign, 730 00:33:58,078 --> 00:33:59,828 especially about this item. Gary. 731 00:33:59,913 --> 00:34:01,663 Well, we just come from Lot 5, mate. 732 00:34:01,748 --> 00:34:03,498 - Right. Yeah. - And pulled up 733 00:34:03,583 --> 00:34:05,503 a nice top pocket find, mate. 734 00:34:05,585 --> 00:34:07,415 Don’t worry, it’s still in the bag. 735 00:34:07,504 --> 00:34:09,174 Check that out, mate. 736 00:34:09,256 --> 00:34:11,256 See what you think of that. 737 00:34:13,969 --> 00:34:15,389 Off come the glasses. 738 00:34:16,304 --> 00:34:17,474 Oh, it’s thin. 739 00:34:17,597 --> 00:34:19,347 Yeah. 740 00:34:19,432 --> 00:34:22,812 It looked like a button at first, but it’s not. 741 00:34:22,936 --> 00:34:24,436 Nope. 742 00:34:27,941 --> 00:34:30,571 Don’t keep me in suspenders, mate. What do you think? 743 00:34:30,652 --> 00:34:32,362 It’s a cut coin? 744 00:34:32,445 --> 00:34:34,815 That’s what I thought as well. 745 00:34:34,948 --> 00:34:36,448 - The patina’s great. - Yeah. 746 00:34:36,533 --> 00:34:38,261 We couldn’t tell whether it looked like copper 747 00:34:38,285 --> 00:34:39,875 - or silver. - Yeah. 748 00:34:39,953 --> 00:34:41,703 I mean, I’ve seen a lot of coins. 749 00:34:41,788 --> 00:34:44,708 I’ve actually found hammered coins in England, 750 00:34:44,791 --> 00:34:46,961 and obviously I’ve found a lot of Spanish reales 751 00:34:47,085 --> 00:34:48,875 in North America, 752 00:34:48,962 --> 00:34:52,222 but I haven’t seen this design before. 753 00:34:52,299 --> 00:34:54,219 I just don’t know what I’m looking at. 754 00:34:54,301 --> 00:34:57,551 Well, we can XRF it. 755 00:34:57,637 --> 00:35:00,217 That will tell us for sure what this metal is. 756 00:35:00,307 --> 00:35:02,597 Yeah, that’s what we’re hoping you can do, mate. 757 00:35:02,684 --> 00:35:05,904 All right. Emma? 758 00:35:08,732 --> 00:35:11,402 - I’m hoping it’s silver. - Yeah. 759 00:35:11,484 --> 00:35:13,904 To gain more information 760 00:35:13,987 --> 00:35:15,737 on the possible origin of the coin, 761 00:35:15,822 --> 00:35:19,332 Emma will use the X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, 762 00:35:19,409 --> 00:35:23,079 or XRF device, which can identify the types of 763 00:35:23,163 --> 00:35:26,463 elements and metals that make up its composition. 764 00:35:26,541 --> 00:35:28,581 Right now, I’m just going through each peak 765 00:35:28,668 --> 00:35:31,458 and identifying all those elements. 766 00:35:32,922 --> 00:35:34,262 It’s preserved like it’s silver, 767 00:35:34,341 --> 00:35:37,141 - and it looks like it’s copper. - Hmm. 768 00:35:37,218 --> 00:35:39,048 Well, we will soon find out. 769 00:35:41,431 --> 00:35:44,601 All right, it looks mainly copper, some tin. 770 00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:46,604 Some iron. 771 00:35:46,686 --> 00:35:49,686 That little tiny bump right there is arsenic. 772 00:35:49,814 --> 00:35:52,904 So, is it arsenical bronze? 773 00:35:53,026 --> 00:35:55,186 Yeah, it would be like an arsenical bronze. 774 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,280 Wow. So, it’s old? 775 00:35:57,364 --> 00:35:58,744 Yeah. Kind of like 1500s 776 00:35:58,865 --> 00:36:00,615 - and kind of trickled out. - Yeah. 777 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:03,740 - Oh. - By 1700s, you wouldn’t have seen it whatsoever. 778 00:36:03,870 --> 00:36:07,040 - So, it is old. - Yeah. 779 00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:13,295 Bloody nice. 780 00:36:13,380 --> 00:36:14,960 It is old. 781 00:36:15,048 --> 00:36:18,178 We don’t see arsenical bronze past a certain date. 782 00:36:18,259 --> 00:36:20,679 In the Oak Island Interpretive Centre, 783 00:36:20,762 --> 00:36:24,682 archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan has determined 784 00:36:24,766 --> 00:36:26,976 that a coin just found on Lot 5 785 00:36:27,060 --> 00:36:29,190 by Rick Lagina and Gary Drayton 786 00:36:29,270 --> 00:36:31,150 contains arsenical bronze, 787 00:36:31,231 --> 00:36:34,401 an alloy that stopped being used in coin production 788 00:36:34,526 --> 00:36:36,066 nearly two centuries 789 00:36:36,152 --> 00:36:40,202 before the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795. 790 00:36:40,281 --> 00:36:42,031 And coins of that size are usually 791 00:36:42,117 --> 00:36:44,117 like 16 century, pre-those dates. 792 00:36:44,244 --> 00:36:46,374 - Yeah. -Yeah. Yep. - Yeah. 793 00:36:46,454 --> 00:36:49,374 You remember the other arsenical copper piece. 794 00:36:49,457 --> 00:36:52,747 - The little guy. - The arsenical bronze. 795 00:36:52,836 --> 00:36:54,876 That was found on Lot 7, 796 00:36:54,963 --> 00:36:57,223 and this is a couple lots over, Lot 5. 797 00:36:57,298 --> 00:37:00,048 - Not too far away from each other. - Mm-hmm. 798 00:37:01,845 --> 00:37:03,605 Two months ago, 799 00:37:03,722 --> 00:37:06,272 Gary and Jack Begley discovered a barter token 800 00:37:06,391 --> 00:37:08,351 on nearby Lot 7, 801 00:37:08,435 --> 00:37:11,155 which also contained arsenical bronze, 802 00:37:11,271 --> 00:37:14,861 and was determined by coin expert Sandy Campbell 803 00:37:14,941 --> 00:37:17,611 to potentially predate the 16 century. 804 00:37:17,694 --> 00:37:19,654 It’s 500 years old, at least. 805 00:37:22,115 --> 00:37:24,995 Is it possible that the team has just unearthed 806 00:37:25,118 --> 00:37:27,788 another critical puzzle piece that could help them 807 00:37:27,871 --> 00:37:30,461 determine the origin of the Oak Island mystery? 808 00:37:30,582 --> 00:37:32,752 You can eliminate, for the most part, 809 00:37:32,834 --> 00:37:34,634 English and Spanish, right? 810 00:37:34,711 --> 00:37:36,711 Yeah, I don’t think it’s English or Spanish. 811 00:37:36,796 --> 00:37:38,796 - So, that takes it into... - Yeah. 812 00:37:38,882 --> 00:37:40,317 Some pretty interesting territory. 813 00:37:40,341 --> 00:37:42,931 We have fingerprints now that 814 00:37:43,011 --> 00:37:46,811 - certainly suggest the 1500s, right? - Mm-hmm. 815 00:37:46,931 --> 00:37:50,141 So, it’s starting to craft or weave some sort of 816 00:37:50,268 --> 00:37:52,938 texture towards a story component, right? 817 00:37:53,021 --> 00:37:55,731 Yeah, I like it when we can add artifacts 818 00:37:55,815 --> 00:37:58,525 - Mm-hmm. - And-and really strengthen our argument 819 00:37:58,651 --> 00:38:00,571 that there was early activity here. 820 00:38:00,653 --> 00:38:02,703 Mm. 821 00:38:02,822 --> 00:38:06,452 Arsenical bronze dating from as early as 1500. 822 00:38:06,534 --> 00:38:07,914 Um, that’s an aha moment. 823 00:38:07,994 --> 00:38:09,794 That’s quite remarkable. 824 00:38:09,871 --> 00:38:11,621 What does it mean? 825 00:38:11,706 --> 00:38:16,456 You know, it’s like, I’m up here with "Wow, fantastic. 826 00:38:16,544 --> 00:38:19,304 "1500. Unbelievable, right? 827 00:38:19,380 --> 00:38:22,630 Little piece of something telling us that." 828 00:38:22,717 --> 00:38:25,847 And then I’m down here like, "But what does it mean?" 829 00:38:25,929 --> 00:38:29,019 Marty, he’s a science guy, right? He loves data. 830 00:38:29,098 --> 00:38:30,848 So, I think I’ll give him a call. 831 00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:35,690 Hey. 832 00:38:36,731 --> 00:38:38,521 We happen to be in the lab. 833 00:38:38,650 --> 00:38:40,410 - So, you know what that means: data. - Yeah. 834 00:38:41,861 --> 00:38:44,951 It’s not Bravo Tango, but it’s... 835 00:38:45,031 --> 00:38:46,741 it’s interesting, let’s put it that way. 836 00:38:46,866 --> 00:38:48,906 So, turn you over to Gary. 837 00:38:49,035 --> 00:38:50,195 Hang on. 838 00:38:51,746 --> 00:38:53,366 Hey, mate. How’re you doing? 839 00:38:55,083 --> 00:38:56,423 No, I wish I was. 840 00:38:56,543 --> 00:39:00,843 We just got the results, and it is a copper coin. 841 00:39:00,922 --> 00:39:05,262 And the most important part is it was recovered on Lot 5. 842 00:39:05,385 --> 00:39:07,015 - Can you show him? - Um... 843 00:39:07,095 --> 00:39:08,725 I’ll try and show you, mate. 844 00:39:08,805 --> 00:39:11,645 This looks like an old hammered coin. 845 00:39:11,724 --> 00:39:14,064 I can’t really make out the details on it. 846 00:39:16,604 --> 00:39:19,114 Yeah, you got that right, mate. Nice pun as well. 847 00:39:19,232 --> 00:39:22,152 But there’s something special about this. 848 00:39:22,235 --> 00:39:24,155 All right, mate. 849 00:39:24,237 --> 00:39:27,277 - So, I’ll pass you on to Laird and Emma. - Emma. 850 00:39:27,407 --> 00:39:28,697 Cheers. 851 00:39:28,783 --> 00:39:30,413 - Will do, mate. - Here’s Emma. 852 00:39:30,493 --> 00:39:32,413 Heyo. Hi, hi. 853 00:39:32,495 --> 00:39:36,865 So, this-this is coming up as an arsenical-like bronze. 854 00:39:36,958 --> 00:39:39,378 Which is pretty similar to the arsenical alloy 855 00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:41,000 that we found earlier. 856 00:39:41,087 --> 00:39:45,127 It’s basically faded out from the 15 century onwards. 857 00:39:45,258 --> 00:39:48,388 And they’re all kind of gathered around Lot 5 to Lot 7. 858 00:39:48,469 --> 00:39:50,219 So, yeah, there’s a collection of 859 00:39:50,305 --> 00:39:53,565 these really old coins and metals 860 00:39:53,641 --> 00:39:55,271 which is really interesting. 861 00:39:55,351 --> 00:39:56,601 - It’s exciting. - Yeah. 862 00:39:58,813 --> 00:40:00,903 No. - 863 00:40:06,112 --> 00:40:08,282 Oh, we might with this. 864 00:40:08,364 --> 00:40:10,454 That’s how... that’s how confident I am 865 00:40:10,533 --> 00:40:12,953 that this is a very, very old coin. 866 00:40:13,036 --> 00:40:16,656 Look, i-it’s a great find, but the more items we find, 867 00:40:16,789 --> 00:40:18,919 the more story, the more connective tissue. 868 00:40:25,298 --> 00:40:27,428 There’s plenty of Lot 5. Don’t worry about it. 869 00:40:29,844 --> 00:40:31,184 - Take care. See you. - Bye. 870 00:40:31,304 --> 00:40:33,064 Cheers. 871 00:40:33,139 --> 00:40:36,679 Okay, well, I mean, it’s all good news. 872 00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:38,689 - Yeah. - Lot 5, Lot 7 are now turning up 873 00:40:38,811 --> 00:40:41,151 some really esoteric metals. 874 00:40:41,230 --> 00:40:43,480 - Yeah. - And we need to find out why. 875 00:40:43,608 --> 00:40:46,488 So, there’s a lot of work to do, but... 876 00:40:46,611 --> 00:40:48,111 you and I won’t do it in here, right? 877 00:40:48,196 --> 00:40:50,606 So I think we should go back out, find more. 878 00:40:50,698 --> 00:40:52,318 - Okay, mate. - All right. 879 00:40:52,408 --> 00:40:53,768 - Good luck. - See you later, guys. 880 00:40:53,826 --> 00:40:55,536 - Thanks. - Cheers. 881 00:40:56,955 --> 00:40:59,965 As another week comes to an end on Oak Island, 882 00:41:00,041 --> 00:41:02,791 Rick, Marty, Craig and their team 883 00:41:02,877 --> 00:41:05,377 have once again made incredible progress 884 00:41:05,505 --> 00:41:08,055 toward solving the Oak Island mystery. 885 00:41:08,174 --> 00:41:11,264 Now, as they continue their pursuit of 886 00:41:11,344 --> 00:41:13,514 breakthrough discoveries in the Money Pit, 887 00:41:13,638 --> 00:41:16,268 the swamp, 888 00:41:16,349 --> 00:41:18,929 and on the western side of the island, 889 00:41:19,018 --> 00:41:23,188 will something that could rewrite North American history 890 00:41:23,314 --> 00:41:24,824 soon be revealed? 891 00:41:24,899 --> 00:41:26,819 If so, 892 00:41:26,901 --> 00:41:29,111 will the team, and the world, 893 00:41:29,195 --> 00:41:33,525 be prepared for what they may find? 894 00:41:35,535 --> 00:41:38,205 Next time on The Curse of Oak Island... 895 00:41:38,287 --> 00:41:40,157 - Oh! We got wood. - Whoa! 896 00:41:40,248 --> 00:41:41,725 It looks like it might be a new shaft. 897 00:41:41,749 --> 00:41:43,143 - It changes the whole story. - Yeah. 898 00:41:43,167 --> 00:41:45,207 We could be looking at the Money Pit. 899 00:41:45,336 --> 00:41:47,416 There’s significant anomalies in this area. 900 00:41:47,547 --> 00:41:50,047 Wow. That is huge. We need to dig. 901 00:41:51,884 --> 00:41:53,014 Oh, yeah. Look at that. 902 00:41:53,094 --> 00:41:54,894 - That is sweet. - Whoa. 903 00:41:54,971 --> 00:41:56,181 This is Roman. 904 00:41:56,264 --> 00:41:57,814 - Roman? - No way. 905 00:41:57,890 --> 00:42:00,350 Definitely from 300 BC. 906 00:42:00,435 --> 00:42:01,735 Roman, baby. 907 00:42:01,811 --> 00:42:03,521 It’s remarkable. 908 00:42:03,604 --> 00:42:06,614