Original subtitles

Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island...

I'd like to know who did it, why they did it.

Watch yourself. ‐Baby.

No, no!

Hey! ‐

I see a big timber down there.

Yeah. And I think this is a notch right here.

- ‐Yeah. It's a big structure. - Yeah. It's huge.

‐ ‐We got a signal over here, Jack.

- We got it. All right. - Look!

Wow. What is that doing in the swamp?

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,

mysterious fragments of human bone,

and a lead cross whose origin may stretch back

to the days of 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.

Those dates are bloody fantastic.

- Yeah, those are good. - Yeah.

It is an exciting moment

in the Oak Island war room,

as brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with members of their team,

have just received an important scientific report.

A wood sample obtained during a recent drilling operation

some 106 feet deep in the Money Pit area

has been dated to as early as 1626,

more than 150 years before

the original treasure shaft's discovery in 1795.

Could the Oak Island team, at long last,

have located the original spot where Daniel McGinnis

and his friends discovered what they believed to be

the entrance to a vast underground treasure vault?

Okay. So, real interesting numbers.

What would be the next step with regard to this data?

Well, I mean, it's so old, it's‐it's definitely,

in my eyes, a‐a good area to,

look at for putting a big can down.

That's kind of crying out

for one of the caissons, then, perhaps.

Yeah. That's‐‐ it's an outlier date.

That's for certain, but...

this certainly begs for further investigation.

I never have a problem

with that, Rick. Yeah.

Okay. I'll reach out to‐to Irving

and to Vanessa, to ROC and see if we can't

line out some gear and‐and put some large cans down.

Perfect.

- Come on, baby. - Let's make a hole!

Over the past three years,

the Laginas and their partners have attempted to locate

the original Money Pit shaft

by drilling dozens of deep exploratory boreholes...

...most as small as six inches wide

and some as large as 60 inches in diameter.

The most promising shaft, known as H‐8, was dug two years ago

and produced astonishing discoveries,

including pieces of pottery,

shards of parchment and leather book binding

and even 17th‐century human bones.

Now, with the recent drilling of borehole FG‐12,

which is located just 25 feet from H‐8,

the team believes they may have finally found

the original Money Pit shaft,

which has been lost for nearly 100 years.

We're gonna talk about the logistics and timing

and possibility and feasibility of putting down

one or more big caissons in the Money Pit area.

I want to be able to have the equipment

so we can eliminate that spot or find what's there.

Okay. Once again, it's time to dig.

‐Got to follow the clues, see where they lead. ‐Yep.

‐We go get them. ‐Let's do this.

Let's go kick some Oak Island butt.

Later that afternoon...

- Hey, guys. - Hey, Laird.

‐Let's go talk with Rick. ‐Okay.

...as members of the team begin researching options

for a new excavation in the Money Pit...

Hey, Rick.

...Craig Tester, Jack Begley

and archeologist Laird Niven

join Rick Lagina at Smith's Cove.

Well, Laird, just looking for guidance

on how we proceed from here

to dig in front of that box structure.

Right. ‐So,

is it a concern from an archaeological standpoint?

‐No, probably not. ‐Okay.

Now that the recent hurricane damage to the cofferdam

has been repaired, they are eager to resume

their examination of a large wooden structure

that is located near the remains

of what was determined to be an ancient slipway.

It has recently been suggested that the structure

may have been built by a previous search team

in their attempt to shut off the flow of ocean water

to the Money Pit and to make digging in that area possible.

Every structure we found in Smith's Cove, we've surmised

that it might have been used to stop the flood tunnel.

The people who built those probably saw more

than we can see now.

Maybe they found the flood tunnel.

I mean for me, the curiosity,

right, is how deep does it go?

Well, I know. Exactly.

‐Yeah. ‐So...

It'd be a big step to telling us why they were there at all.

Could he dig a corner?

Try to take it down to see how deep it goes?

Yeah. I think he should take the soil from the whole front.

‐Okay. ‐I mean, leave about that much

in front of it and we can hand dig, you know what I mean?

‐Push it down. ‐‐

- ‐All right. - Surprisingly,

there is no nails or anything.

- ‐No fasteners, no nothing. - Yeah.

As long as he stands off, you know, far enough

where he's not putting side pressure on it from the machine.

‐Yeah. ‐I think just digging it out will be fine.

Yep.

Because the wooden structure was made without the use

of any metal nails or fasteners, there is a chance

that it may have been built not by searchers,

but by the original builders of the Money Pit.

If so, is it possible that it was done not to shut off

the booby‐trapped flood tunnel system but to maintain it?

In order to explore it furthe,

without it being damaged or falling apart,

the team will need to exercise the utmost caution.

So, Billy, my thought is just clean off the front,

and hope the majority of it stays together.

And then just backfill the front of that so it doesn't collapse.

And just leave it alone.

‐Yeah. ‐If all the flood tunnel work

was done out here, then it's down in the cultural area.

Yeah.

‐All right? Let's go. ‐Okay.

As Billy Gerhardt clears

the heavy earth and debris blocking the structure...

‐We're gonna knock part of that wall down? ‐Yeah.

...Rick, Craig and Jack will carefully try

to expose it by hand.

Look at the bottom here.

Is that‐‐ is that chunky peat?

Ooh, that stinks.

Is that the bottom right where you're at?

I think it might be.

Okay, let's step away.

We'll see if it goes any more for a minute.

Are you good?

Yeah! Just peachy.

All right. That's probably good for now, right?

Yeah.

Okay. Just want to clean it up a little.

Yeah.

All those beams in there, they've got cross beams

in the center that are hooked like this.

Okay. ‐So, I'm just looking at, a safety standpoint,

you've got all the ones cutting across that are holding the ones

that are sticking out on this side so...

‐It could collapse. ‐Yeah.

Especially if we fully expose it.

Yeah.

Everything we've found in Smith's Cove indicate

that laborious work was done to‐to some end.

Well, you have this rock feature outside of the boxes.

Was it possibly a way to shut off the water?

Hey, Gary.

How you doing, mate?

‐We're ready again, Billy. ‐All right.

Obviously, this thing was built at low tide

without the aid of any cofferdam, too.

‐ ‐Having to wait

till that moment when it's low tide and slowly rolling down

these logs to put them in place.

I'm wondering how long it would take.

How many men did they have?

Be careful, Rick.

- ‐Watch yourself. - Whoa! Whoa!

Why don't you jump over here, Jack?

Billy! Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! ‐

Yeah, that's gone.

As Rick Lagina and members of the Oak Island team

were excavating a mysterious log structure at Smith's Cove

in search of one of the stone box drains,

it suddenly collapsed.

Well, it's...

it's not staying now.

All right, unfortunately,

that's probably not repairable,

but we need to get some dirt back here to save this one.

It's starting to separate a bit, too.

Problem is, you dig much deeper,

that wall's gonna go, then the front wall's gonna go.

If you're gonna save that one, you got to do something.

‐We're not gonna dig anymore here. ‐Yeah.

There's one thing I'm not seeing.

‐‐ ‐Box drains.

Yeah. Over here? Yeah.

Just miscellaneous rocks, but not‐‐

nothing, like, was in through here.

Although the collapse

of the mysterious wooden structure is unfortunate,

the team's careful examination of the site

has led to an important conclusion:

the wooden structure did not appear to be connected

in any way to the stone box drains

that fed the flood tunnel system.

We didn't find what we had hoped to find.

Well, we now have huge confidence

that‐that what we didn't find here,

might be there in the Upland. Let's get this done.

Get it sealed back up.

There's only one thing to do, move forward.

The next day...

It's a swamp. You can find anything anywhere in here.

Exactly.

...Rick Lagina and members

of the team have returned to the Oak Island swamp,

where they are hoping to find answers

concerning their recent discovery

of a mysterious stone‐paved area.

All those spoils that Billy said they'd raked over

came from the paved area, didn't they?

Yes, they did.

One week ago,

the team came to the stunning realization

that the paved road, or possible ship's wharf,

appeared to continue further out

into the triangle‐shaped swam,

towards the northern‐most point.

It was here that the team discovered

a mysterious circular stone feature,

which they have dubbed "the Eye of the Swamp."

I think the swamp is much more complex than we believe.

I've always thought that there were some answers in there.

Because the paved stone area is of such significant interest,

the hope is that somehow we connect

this strange formation to another strange formation,

the so‐called Eye.

The hope is that, if there is a connection,

that will help us understand both.

So it just kind of laid out a little grid here

because it's impossible to walk, right?

‐Yeah. So, metal detect wherever the plywood is,

and then we'll leapfrog them ahead.

‐Okay, mate. ‐

Can't go too far in there

'cause it is really, really sloppy.

Yeah, we got a hit in here, mate.

See if we've got it.

All right, positive force, guys.

See what we've got.

‐Just a nail. ‐Yeah, a nail.

You think it's old?

Not by the weight of it.

‐It's really lightweight. ‐Yeah.

That looks modern to me.

Got a signal over here, Jack.

Does it sound good, Gary?

- Yeah, it's tough to tell. - It's not very deep, though.

You're on it.

Look.

What is that?

We just pulled out a big piece of iron, Rick. Look.

- ‐Looks like an old bracket. - Looks like a strap.

Yeah, a strap or a bracket.

That's an old piece, and I know it's in not

very good condition, but who knows how old it is

and how long it's been in that hole?

I'm thinking the hinge, the other hinge from the beach.

That's a really good point, Rick.

Same looking metal, the same striations;

same dimensions, as well.

Here we go!

That looks like a hinge.

Last year, while excavating near the 18th‐century slipway

at Smith's Cove, the team discovered

a similar metal object.

One that blacksmithing expert Carmen Legg later identified

as a hand‐forged iron hinge,

which could be as much as 400 years old.

Could the iron strap the team has just found

be related in some way to the object found last year

at Smith's Cove?

And could it also be connected to the 200‐foot‐long anomaly

identified by seismic scanning in this same area;

and which appears to resemble a large treasure ship,

or galleon?

This is cool. We know the old iron

always has that wood grain effect.

If there's an old ship in this area,

we're finding old iron... It's a good sign, mate.

Let's give Laird a call and see if he can't come out

and at least take a look at it.

- Hello? - Hi, Laird.

‐Hey, Rick. How are you? ‐Good. Um,

we made a find out here in the swamp.

We'd like you to come take a look at it.

- ‐Okay. - When I

first see this piece of iron,

it‐it's got that old look about it.

It looks like an hinge, but it could also be,

like, an iron strap

that went around a chest or a box.

And we all know what implications

finding a chest on Oak Island could be.

I mean, this could be part of a treasure chest.

Hey, guys.

‐Hey, Laird. ‐Hey, Laird. Always nice

- ‐to meet you in the swamp. - ‐

Wait till you see what we found.

Big ole piece of iron for you to inspect.

It is old, isn't it?

To me, it looks like a piece of strapping or...

- ‐Like reinforcing strap. - Yeah.

This didn't go into the wood.

It‐it went around the wood and held it

‐like that. ‐Like a chest.

What about the breaks?

Does it look like it was

broken, stressed?

That looks broken to me.

That is pretty cool.

It's for something substantial.

To me, I can see it being reinforcing

for a big timber, which is...

‐no less intriguing, right? ‐Yeah.

Yeah. But still, what would it be doing

‐in the middle of a swamp? ‐No, I know. That's... Yeah.

That's‐that's the intriguing part.

This came from deep in that hole

where Billy was digging.

Where it should not have been.

Wow. That's amazing.

I think Carmen might have a lot to say about it.

I mean, he would be the guy, I would think,

‐to‐to do that. ‐‐

It's cool.

It's certainly intriguing.

You can't just find these items

and then not seek information about them.

You have to apply science to these finds.

You need to seek out sources

that may tell us the purpose.

Maybe come to an understanding of when these items

were constructed, who they were used by.

We need someone's counsel.

I know, but one thing. That didn't float in.

‐No. No. ‐No. Too heavy.

As another day begins on Oak Island...

- All right. Here we go, Alex. - Time to dig.

Marty Lagina and his son Alex,

along with metal detection expert Gary Drayton,

have traveled to the area

between Smith's Cove and the Money Pit site

known as the Uplands.

It is here they hope to find a way

to shut off the flow of ocean water

to the infamous flood tunnels once and for all.

So, here's the plan.

‐You see the sand in the side there? Yeah.

We want to get that exposed all through here.

You know, we're looking for evidence of the flood tunnel

or anything else we can find.

It was while drilling

in this same area earlier this year...

Nice.

Good grab.

Are you ready for this one, boys?

...that Rick Lagina

and members of the Oak Island team

obtained evidence of a possible wooden structure

some 50 feet deep underground.

Look at that.

These are pieces, probably, of beams.

Incredibly,

these wooden samples were later determined

to date as far back as the 1730s,

which led the team to believe that they may have come

within inches of the main flood tunnel

that connects Smith's Cove to the Money Pit.

Gary, here's the deal. I'm gonna start

over there. I don't have too much to pull off there.

I don't know where I'm gonna put the spoils.

Probably wherever you guys can work and then

dig my way back through this way

- ‐is what I'm thinking. - I know

we should find a few coins and artifacts.

- ‐I see all those layers. - Yeah.

They're all high tide lines.

‐There should be something in here.

So, let's get going.

Maybe we'll hit something in line

with the U‐shaped structure

‐and the flood tunnel. ‐Yeah.

My great hope

for the Upland dig coming out of Smith's Cove

is to find proof positive of the flood tunnel.

We have a couple of core holes

that seem to have encountered the flood tunnel.

Plan for the Upland area is,

deeper and bigger.

Hey!

That sounded like wood, didn't it?

Yeah, it did.

When you was taking

that last bucket out, I heard something creak like wood,

‐and I see a big timber down there. Really?

Yeah, a big, square timber.

A large, square timber?

Have Marty, Alex and Gary encountered part

of the same wooden structure that the team

drilled into earlier this year

some 50 feet deep in the Uplands area?

That big timber.

Probably about that big.

It's in situ about three feet down.

Okay. We'll get it.

It's underneath that crack.

It's not that one, is it?

That's not it, no. It's still in situ.

It's deeper.

It should be out with this bucket.

‐There it is. ‐

There it is.

Hey!

It's right there.

Couple pieces.

Here?

- Ooh! Look! - There it is.

Yeah, there's a lot of wood down there.

Yep.

Now we're cookin'.

I see another timber there going that way.

Hey!

This has been unexcavated before?

Yep.

This is totally in situ.

Look at the different color here.

‐Let me‐‐ I'm gonna jump down in here.

Right here.

This is all wood.

Down here‐‐ maybe the flood tunnel?

But it looks like it's not just tossed

in there‐‐ it's placed in there.

‐Take another chunk out. ‐Where?

Right there.

Definitely one there and one here.

And this was perpendicular to that one.

‐Is it? ‐Pretty sure that's a cut end.

Right?

Yeah, I mean, this is cut.

Right here.

So somebody put this here.

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if that's a shaft

or a tunnel.

Some kind of structure down there.

A shaft or tunnel?

Found some 15 feet deep?

Could it have been built here by previous treasure hunters

in an attempt to intercept a flood tunnel?

Or could this structure actually be part

of the flooding system itself?

What I'm hoping is...

that we find the flood tunnel itself.

But the earlier searchers had more information than we had.

They knew where the finger drains

converged, at least in a general sense.

So whether it's searcher or original works,

we need to excavate

and see what they found.

All right, guys, what do you think?

These guys are telling me that's a big structure down there.

I'm gonna climb down in there and shoot it.

You should check

‐that timber out, Scott. It's impressive. ‐Yeah.

I'm gonna go down and have a look.

It looks very disturbed in here.

I mean, this looks like backfill to me.

Not natural material.

‐You seeing the edge of a wall there, Scott? ‐Yeah.

There is other timber here. We'll come out

of the hole, take some more out of the bank right here

and see how far it continues to go.

We'll find out soon enough.

Hey, Alex?

‐Yes? ‐Well, yeah,

‐I'll do it if you want. ‐Yeah. Just go real slow.

Yep, that's wood.

This is probably a shaft.

This is very similar to the shafts last year.

Wow.

Looks pretty big.

Yeah, it's huge.

That's definitely a structure now.

‐It all is a clue, so... ‐That's right.

One more piece of the puzzle.

Let's get Laird here, let's get Rick here,

and, we'll see what this means.

This is exciting.

We started digging,

and damned if we didn't hit a tunnel.

One day after finding a possible tunnel

in the Uplands area of Smith's Cove,

Marty Lagina is eager to show his brother Rick

and archaeologist Laird Niven what he believes might be

a breakthrough discovery.

- ‐Where is it? - Kind of in line

with the wall we found last year and...

a little bit askew of the Cave‐In Pit.

It looks like it's well constructed.

‐But no record of it. ‐No.

You'll have to take a look.

It's right over there.

Hey, guys.

Hey, Marty. ‐How's it going?

It's good. We're having a good day.

We've got a big timber across there

and a big round timber coming there.

There's one main beam there, Laird.

A big... a big thing.

A notched piece came out of here.

Kind of in there.

That notched one came

when we took the last scoop out.

- Interesting, for sure. - Yeah.

Gary, you said you saw a cross member back here.

Yeah, and it's a different kind‐‐ it's more like a log.

Kind of similar to the U‐shaped structure logs.

A log?

Similar to the ones used

to build the massive U‐shaped structure

uncovered at Smith's Cove last year?

And which was scientifically proven

to have been built in 1769...

over two decades before the discovery of the Money Pit?

Those logs and the construction method...

could be original.

But... why speculate?

I think we need to keep digging.

Let's go.

There's so much undocumented stuff going on,

‐especially in this area. ‐Yeah. Yeah.

‐Yeah. Pretty disturbed on both sides of it.

There's a big piece there.

‐ ‐LAIRD: Whoa!

Yeah, see, there‐there it is.

‐Look at this, right here. ‐Yeah, I see that. Yeah.

Just buckled the timber.

You'd expect that from an abandoned shaft, right?

- ‐ - Yeah.

Yeah.

That is parallel.

I thought the whole thing was kittywampus, but it's not.

That's parallel to that beam.

- ‐Right? - Yeah.

Square‐cut nail.

Show that to Gary.

Yeah.

‐ ‐That's interesting.

Yeah. Yeah, that is a nice oldie, isn't it?

- ‐Yeah. - Round nails came in

in, like, 1880 or something like that.

Yeah. Looks handmade, Rick.

Really?

Precursor to a cut nail.

Cut nail would have two flat sides...

be wider.

Hey, guys.

Hey, everybody's here.

‐Want to see a cool spike, mate? ‐Yeah.

There you go.

‐Wow. ‐More than likely early 1800s.

Like an early cut nail, isn't it?

Who would have been here early 1800s?

1800 to, say, 1850.

Well, that's easy. 1849, you have the Truro Company here.

‐ ‐They put a cofferdam in 1850.

They may have come back here and tried to, you know,

backtrack, trying to find where the flood tunnel is,

and‐and did some type of a structure back here.

Because it is Gary's assessment

that the square‐cut nail dates back to the early 19th century,

the structure the team has uncovered

was most likely built by searchers

sometime after 1795.

But is it possible that these searchers

could have successfully found the main flood tunnel?

And, if so, could further excavation of the shaft

finally lead the team to their target?

The timbers are interesting, for sure.

It is suspicious that there's

so many massive pieces right here.

- ‐I mean... - Yeah.

‐Where did they come from? ‐Where'd they come from?

- Whoa! Whoa! - Billy!

Hold!

You got a big chunk of it.

Yeah, you got a chunk of it right there, Bill. ‐Yeah.

- That's a big log. - Yeah. That is.

- There you go. - Yeah, that's good.

Just come out.

This thing is gigantic.

Hey, Billy?

You can get rid of that stuff there.

This stuff here?

There you go.

Smith's Cove has offered up

a whole bunch of stuff that we didn't expect.

Structures all over the place.

We're finding out about all kinds of things

that we didn't know were ther.

That is big.

That must be the biggest piece

- ‐of wood we've seen down here. - Yeah.

Other than the U‐shape.

And I think this is a notch, right here.

There's a lot of data

adding up to support that a flood tunnel really exists,

and did exist, here on Oak Island.

And it's gonna be well worth digging in and around those

to see what we can find.

There's no doubt about this‐‐ this is a massive project.

We'll dig that big one out and see what happens.

Later that day, as Rick and the team

continue their excavation in the Uplands area...

It's just up here on the right.

Okay.

...Marty, Alex and Gary have traveled

some 20 miles north of Oak Island

to the Ross Farm Museum,

located in the nearby town of New Ross, Nova Scotia.

We're about to get some answers on these mystery items.

They've arranged

for blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge

to inspect a number of mysterious iron objects

recently found during the excavation in the swamp.

In addition to the old iron strap

discovered one day ago...

‐That is a really old pick! ‐they are also eager

for Carmen to examine

two possible 17th‐century digging tools

found last week

near the northern point,

also known as the Eye of the Swamp.

‐ ‐MARTY: Carmen!

We're here to see you again.

Brought my buddies.

How are you, sir?

‐G‐Good. ‐Carmen, good to see you again.

Hello, mate.

‐We got some stuff. ‐Wonderful.

All of these came from the back of the swamp.

We found a big chunk of iron, and we kept digging.

We'd like you to tell us how old this stuff is.

We were thinking

it's a shovel... spade.

‐ ‐ ‐Um...

‐‐ ‐‐

- ‐‐ - Show him the stuff

‐you found with it. Might help. ‐Yeah. ‐Yeah.

Here's the next one.

‐That's a tool. ‐Yup.

Would you say it's kind of like a tunneling pick?

‐Yeah. ‐Yeah.

Yup. Yup.

There you go.

Wow. That's cool.

At the Ross Farm Museum

in New Ross, Nova Scotia,

blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge

has just shared his incredible assessment

that the hand‐forged iron pickax recently found

in the Oak Island swamp could date back

as early as the mid‐18th century.

Could the team have found evidence

that tunneling took place in the area prior to the discovery

of the Money Pit in 1795?

But if so, by who, and for what purpose?

Is that a local style, or

could that have come from Europe?

- ‐ - Well, the amazing thing,

I mean, these were found at the back of the swamp.

‐Yeah. ‐ ‐Yeah.

Carmen Legge opines that the pick could've been used

for tunneling, but let's face it.

We know that searchers did a lot of tunneling,

but there's also conjecture

that original depositors did a lot of tunneling.

There's evidence perhaps of tunneling under the swamp,

tunneling up by the Money Pit,

and our almost impossible task

is to sort out who did what tunnels.

‐What's next? ‐All right.

We saved the best 'till the last, we hope.

And this came out of the spoils.

We knew he'd be interested in that!

Gary.

We looked at this, and we thought

this was similar to that strap that you found

was interesting that we recovered in Smith's Cove.

Here we go.

- ‐Yes! - Really? Seriously?

That's what we're looking for in the swamp‐‐ an old ship!

The iron strap from an old ship?

And found near the mysterious stone‐paved area in the swamp?

What would it have been used for exactly?

To hold timber to timber?

‐Wow. ‐Wow.

‐Yeah, it's fantastic. ‐Um...

Could this iron strap be evidence

of a ship visiting Oak Island

as much as 85 years before the discovery of the Money Pit?

And if so, could it also support the theory

that a large sailing vessel was‐‐

as the late Fred Nolan believd

and as recent seismic data suggested‐‐

buried beneath the muck and sludge centuries ago?

You know what? He had a hunch about this.

Yeah. I love those dates. I mean, that really is...

That's the golden age of piracy, right there.

How do you know that?

‐Wow. ‐

‐Yeah. ‐A burnt‐‐ a burnt ship

in the swamp, Gary.

‐That is fantastic. Yup. ‐Yeah, that is.

What is that doing in the swamp?

‐Yeah. ‐What's a ship doing in the swamp?

‐Well, a bit of a ship. ‐Well... Wow.

You burn it. ‐Yeah.

‐Boy. ‐Wow.

Could Carmen Legge's notion be correct?

Might the charring

on the eighteenth century ship's strap be evidence

that a galleon ship was not just

buried in the possibly manmade Oak Island swamp

but intentionally burned

in an effort to conceal any trace of it?

But if so, by whom?

And just what were they trying to hide

that made such an ingenious

and incredibly engineered hiding place so necessary?

Wow. What is going on in this swamp?

Was I surprised? Yes.

These dates of 1710 to 1790 that Carmen Legge gave us

for this strap on a ship is actually scary to me, because,

as I sit here right now, I'm more or less certain

that something significant happened here

mid‐1700s on this island.

Well, that is really cool.

I got to think about what that means, but it's definitely cool.

So, we brought you in a box full of scrap from the swamp,

and we're leaving with a box

full of shipwreck and mining stuff.

Thank you for analyzing it.

I appreciate it, and we'll‐well be back.

We're gonna find some more stuff.

Thanks for the great news.

Sure. We catch you drinking?

‐We're out working, and we catch you guys drinking. ‐Hey, guys.

Hey, guys. ‐There they are. ‐What's the deal?

‐You've got good news for us? ‐We do.

Following their meeting

with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge,

Marty and Alex Lagina, along with Gary Drayton,

arrive at the Mug and Anchor Pub in nearby Mahone Bay,

where they are eager to share his report

with Rick Lagina and other members of the team.

Any time you go show stuff to Carmen, you get a surprise.

- ‐ - Yeah.

What did you end up showing him this time?

I kind of knew he would be excited about this.

And he turned it over and over and over.

According to Carmen,

this is a brace from a typical nine‐inch

diameter ship's timber.

And it's broken, and it would've been all the way around.

And he was really excited about this.

‐And then he measured it, which was interesting. ‐Yeah.

He measured the distance, and he went like this, and he said,

"This is off a sailing ship."

‐Yup. Wow. ‐That's what he said.

An old ship, as well.

So you know what I'm gonna ask you, Gary. How old was it?

He said this was typical 1710 to 1790.

Wow. ‐Hey.

What's a ship part doing there?

Well, we have got that ship anomaly in that area.

That's true. ‐This seems to have come under

significant stress.

He didn't say anything about that?

- ‐It was burned, as well. - Yup.

- ‐It's signs of being burned. - That's right, yeah.

He was certain it had been burned.

And he said in a fierce fire.

What if it just ran aground?

What if it's carrying a bunch of treasure, and it runs aground,

and you need to offload it and hide it,

- ‐because you can't get it off? - And then... Yeah.

And what better way to hide it‐‐ set fire to it?

One of the theories about the swamp is that

the‐the treasure ship is brought in, offloaded of treasure,

and it either became grounded or they... for some reason,

they couldn't get the ship out,

and either burnt the ship or blew it up.

Say they needed the paved area, a working platform, to offload.

Well, you're not gonna get it precise, right?

It just needed to be a working platform.

So, they don't fashion it perfectly.

They're in a haste to get whatever's on the ship off.

‐‐ ‐They lay down a bunch of rocks,

it doesn't have to be smooth.

Look, the swamp to me was always interesting, right?

There's certainly something there.

There's some work yet to be done.

Maybe we find something that is highly definitive.

Agreed. Well, Jack, I'll bet

you're anxious to quit sitting around and get back to digging.

There's got to be more pieces of the ship in the swamp.

‐That sounds like an end to this meeting to me. ‐Yeah.

‐Cheers! Cheers! Salud!

For the Laginas and their partners,

another week of hard work has ended.

But unlike most, this time,

they not only believe they might

have found the location of the original Money Pit.

They have also obtained physical evidence

that a ship, possibly filled with treasure,

could have been deliberately sunk, and then hidden,

in the triangle‐shaped swamp.

Could Rick, Marty and their team

finally be on the verge of solving a 225‐year‐old mystery?

Or will they find

that they've only just scratched the surface

of a much larger and more profound history?

One that will challenge everything they think they know

about a small 140‐acre island

off the coast of Nova Scotia?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

We have got a target here, Jack.

Look at that.

What the heck is that?

Does it look old to you?

That's what we're looking for in the swamp.

Very cool.

What is that, mate? That looks like a tunnel!

There's a massive structure going on here.

What have you found now, Jack?

CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS