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Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island...

We've got a target here, Jack.

Oh, 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?

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.

Season 7 - EP 15 Surely Templar www.oakisland.tk

Let's go find this ship!

For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and their team, a new day full of hope

and anticipation of a major discovery

is just beginning at the Oak Island swamp.

So here we are.

This is the spot.

‐We're gonna dig down and trench to 15 feet. ‐Mm‐hmm.

And I'm hoping this would be where

I think a ship anomaly may actually be.

Well, we're about to find out, mate. I hope you're right.

‐Oh, look. ‐ What is that?

One week ago, while metal detecting in the area

the same area where, earlier this year,

seismic scanning revealed evidence of what appears

to be a ship‐shaped anomaly

Rick Lagina, along with metal detection expert Gary Drayton

and Jack Begley, made what they hope

might be a game‐changing discovery.

Not only did they unearth the remains of an iron strap

one that blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge identified

as possibly coming from an 18th century Spanish galleon.

‐Wow. ‐They also found evidence

that the strap may have been caught in some sort of fire,

one suggesting that the ship it was on was burned,

and then sunk, somewhere in the area.

A burnt ship in the swamp, Gary?

Yeah, and that's how you hide a ship. You burn it.

Yeah.

This is still

majority unexplored over on the western side of the swamp.

And if we're trenching this whole area, though,

there's a good chance we'll find something.

‐ Yeah. ‐ Something.

‐I believe we will. ‐Me, too.

‐Hey, Rick. ‐Hey.

What does it look like?

Uh, it's pretty hard.

Very dry, too, towards the top, which is not really a surprise.

This is the heart of the anomaly?

Yeah, the top portion of it.

So this is the shallower end then?

Yes. Exactly.

Because the ship‐shaped anomaly

identified by the seismic scan appears

to be buried at an angle with one end some 55 feet deep

and the other only 15 feet deep

the team is hoping to find evidence of it

with their 36‐ton excavator.

Hey. Hey, hey, hey! Look at that!

Right there.

‐ Right there. ‐ Yeah, I see that.

‐Can you get it out? ‐ Looks like a wood beam.

I‐I'm not gonna get it now.

We're gonna have to have Billy pull it out.

Yup.

Up.

There you have it.

Assuming I don't fall in the hole.

Do you think that's a survey stake?

‐It's definitely different, but... ‐Mm‐hmm.

‐I don't know. ‐A different diameter,

‐or were the survey stakes...? ‐No, they found they

‐found them this small. ‐Yeah, they were about that size.

‐There's‐there's that one picture that we found. ‐Yes.

A wooden stake?

Could it be connected

to the other ancient markers the team has recently

found in the swamp?

All right, we'll keep this.

Good eye, Jack.

I saw the wood.

Hey. While you guys are trenching,

I'm gonna go metal detecting around here.

Okay. And then we will have a better perspective

if we go over there and watch the trench.

‐Yes. ‐Yeah. ‐ I'll go help him dig.

Okay, mate. See you in a bit.

‐Good luck. ‐Thanks.

As Rick and the team

continue their investigation in the swamp...

some 1,000 miles west of Oak Island

in Traverse City, Michigan...

‐Hello, Vanessa! ‐Hey, guys.

‐How you doing today? ‐ Great. ‐Good. Good.

...Marty Lagina

and his business partner Craig Tester

have arranged a call with Vanessa Lucido,

the CEO of ROC Equipment, to discuss plans

for what promises to be the largest excavation

the team has ever attempted at the Money Pit.

One thing I'll tell you, Vanessa,

that is kind of exciting actually, it's very exciting

is that Rick and company managed

to find this shaft called "Shaft Two,"

and we know from the records, it was only 14 feet away

‐from the original Money Pit. ‐Okay.

So, we really think we're closing in

on the original Money Pit with that information,

‐which is exciting. ‐Awesome.

Four weeks ago,

while drilling near Shaft Two‐

the 1805 searcher tunnel dug by Daniel McGinnis

and members of the Onslow Company

the Oak Island team obtained samples

of unusual, hand‐cut wood.

Wood which was later carbon‐dated

to the 17th century,

more than 100 years before the discovery

of the original Money Pit.

So we want to discuss

what is the largest can, perhaps two,

that we could put down on the island

from a practical standpoint?

So, the last couple years,

we've been putting down five‐foot diameter shafts,

but I do have eight‐foot cans readily available.

Uh, we can do an eight‐footer this year.

‐Perfect. ‐That'd be great.

And to be safe, I was gonna bring up 220 feet of pipe?

Okay.

We did five‐foot cans

last year and the year before.

And an eight‐foot can doesn't sound

like it's that much bigger,

but we're actually getting two and a half times more material.

Well, that's a lot. It's a lot more sampling.

So, I'm excited about it.

The‐the ability to do this is great.

Are you fairly confident we can get through a shelf

in the bedrock into the cavity below?

We're gonna have a lot better chance because

we're gonna have more of a cutting area.

‐Okay. ‐So,

um, I think we're gonna have a lot,

‐lot better chance to get down. ‐Good.

What about the, uh, hammer‐grab? Is it...?

What size do you go with?

So we'll bring eight‐foot grabs.

Bigger boy. We have a big hammer‐grab coming.

Okay.

So, we'll look forward to seeing you there.

‐Couple weeks? ‐Yeah.

Got a lot of trucks coming your way.

That's great. Get it rolling,

Vanessa. We're ready. It's time to dig.

Yeah. We're‐we're gonna drill shafts all over the island.

‐All over the place. ‐Okay. ‐We're gonna find it.

‐Yeah, okay. Good. I love that.

See you in a couple weeks.

All right. Bye, guys. ‐ Bye.

I've never

been back here, Gary, when it's been this dry.

Yeah, it's really dry.

Hey!

We've got a target here, Jack.

‐Rick!

‐Come here! ‐ Check this out!

At the Oak Island swamp, Rick Lagina,

his nephew Alex, along with Jack Begley and Gary Drayton

are continuing to search for tangible evidence

that can identify the nature of the strange,

200‐foot‐long, ship‐shaped anomaly

that was revealed by seismic testing earlier this year.

Still in there, so it's down there.

Oh, look at that. What is this doing down here? Look!

What the heck is that?

Oh, look at that.

What the heck... is that?

That looks like...

I don't know what. Some kind of metal point.

Yup.

Some kind of metal post or pin.

Yeah.

There might be wood in there. There might be wood.

Yeah, that's not solid iron.

No. Man,

‐that is an interesting find. ‐Yeah.

See right here? To me, there's certainly some feature there.

‐So it's got a fastener. So this was... ‐Oh.

A pole would be in here, right?

And that pin would go through there.

‐That and that. ‐Yup.

So something was pinned through because something was put in.

Yup.

Initially, it looked like a spear point.

It did. Or a lance point, rather.

But then, we turn it about, and it appears hollow.

And at that point, if this can lead us down a path

towards the ultimate goal of trying

to come to an understanding of what happened on Oak Island,

that's certainly worth investigating.

Gary, I... I have no clue.

Yeah, it is really, really old.

Well, it's got us all stumped.

That is unusual, and...

if you found that, who knows what else is here?

‐Exactly. ‐Good hunting.

‐All right, mate. ‐Great find.

‐Yeah. ‐We're gonna go back

observing that trench.

You guys keep hunting.

All right, let's recheck this hole, Jack.

‐See if there's anything else here. ‐Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure.

As Jack and Gary continue metal detecting,

Rick and Alex join Paul Troutman,

Dave Blankenship and Billy Gerhardt

as they dig for more evidence of the ship‐shaped anomaly.

I don't like how hard that material is.

No, I didn't hear loose

‐material in that at all. ‐No, no.

We'd have to have a different bucket

‐on there to dig deeper. ‐Yes, yes.

You could spend hours digging that,

‐and beat the equipment up. ‐ Yes.

That's just hard, hard ground.

Yeah, he's just, he's just grinding.

Hey, Billy!

Let's, let's call it.

Let's call it.

You're grinding away.

Although they are only

a few feet away from reaching

their target depth, Rick and the team

have just encountered a frustrating setback.

The densely packed clay bottom of the swamp

is too hard for them to continue digging,

without risking serious damage to their equipment.

But have they encountered a natural barrier,

or one that like the swamp itself, is man‐made?

At the end of the day, this is about expectation management.

And as we speak, I think the preponderance of the evidence

is indicating there's something there.

But we need to take some time and‐and figure this out.

Hope springs eternal.

Hope springs eternal.

After a long day

of investigation in the swamp...

We've invited a guest.

Jim, I welcome you to the war room.

Rick Lagina and other members

of the team gather in the war room

where they are joined once again

by Oak Island theorist, James McQuiston.

I think everyone is familiar with,

you know, your original presentation.

But, we look forward to what you have to tell us today.

I, uh, I have a little handout.

Essentially, what it is,

it's how the Freemasons connect directly to Oak Island.

One year ago,

James presented the team with his research

that suggested Scottish descendants

of the Knights Templar,

known as the order of the Knights Baronet,

not only began settling the region of Nova Scotia

in the early 17th century,

but may have been connected to the Oak Island mystery.

Founded in 1625 by Sir William Alexander,

a Scottish royal advisor to King James I of England,

their mission was two‐fold.

One, to establish a safe refue

for Templar descendants in Nova Scotia.

And their second objective,

according to James McQuiston, was to add valuables to a vast

Templar treasure vault that had been buried on Oak Island

centuries earlier.

The story starts with William Alexander working

on this idea of creating the Knights Baronet of Nova Scotia.

Immediately, clan chieftains started signing up.

They were going to move out of Scotland,

but they were going to get 30,000 acres,

name their own town,

lay it out the way they wanted to, and if you're gonna

leave behind Scotland, well, you're not gonna

leave all your valuables there.

So, you would have clan valuables, and...

I would say the first couple dozen of these Knights Baronet

that signed up had connections

backwards to the Knights Templar.

So, they may have even‐even had some

Templar artifacts in their family.

I believe it was their best option to literally create

the Money Pit and say, "We're gonna bury it.

"We're gonna booby‐trap it.

Nobody's gonna know about it."

Well, on top of all that, if

as if that wasn't enough, Sir William Alexander was

leading a secret Templar Masonic order when he died,

which may have simply been a description

somebody made of the Freemasons.

The bottom line is that it's more

than apparent that the Scottish clan leaders,

who became the Knights Baronet of Nova Scotia

had a lot of links to the Freemasons.

Sir William Alexander,

the founder of the Knights Baronet,

also a Freemason?

For more than two centuries, the secret society of builders

known as the Freemasons has been closely intertwined

with the Oak Island mystery.

Not only have prominent treasure hunters been members

including Daniel McGinnis,

M.R. Chappell,

and Franklin Delano Roosevelt‐

but many sacred Masonic symbols

such as the letter G,

representing the great architect of the universe...

triangles...

and even what appears to be the all‐seeing eye...

have been discovered on the island.

So, right off the bat, you have the Alexanders

controlling what became Freemasonry.

The next person to take over the Freemasons of Nova Scotia

was James Maclean.

What a lot of people don't realize is that John Smith,

who was one of the people who found the Money Pit,

his mother was a Maclean.

And the McGinnises were very tight with the Macleans.

I mean, all of these families are connected.

In 1795,

after reportedly noticing strange lights

coming from Oak Island,

Daniel McGinnis and John Smith, along with their friend,

Anthony Vaughn, took a boat from the mainland

to investigate.

There, they were stunned to find

a mysterious, 13‐foot‐wide depression

at the base of an old oak tre,

which according to some accounts, was also carved

with strange, Masonic symbols.

Believing they had found the hiding place

for a treasure vault, they began to dig.

Over the course of several years,

they made a number of shocking discoveries,

such as platforms made of oak logs every ten feet,

and at a depth of 90 feet,

a stone slab with strange markings carved into it.

But could McGinnis and his friends have found

the legendary treasure shaft,

not by chance, but by recognizing

a number of carefully placed clues?

Clues which they knew about through their association

with Freemasonry, and by extension,

the Knights Templar?

I'm proposing that maybe they weren't just

lollygagging around and tripped over the Money Pit,

but they were actually here looking for something,

looking for some sign of a buried treasure.

That it had been carried down through

the Alexander family, and through the Maclean family,

and maybe the McGinnis family, and they were,

uh, looking for something when they found it.

They just didn't trip over it.

It's really interesting now.

Yeah.

And that would explain why

they so readily grabbed shovels

and dug 30 foot down by thir

'Cause that's a mammoth project for three guys.

I mean, it's just a‐a big thing to do.

So, that's my story and, uh,

I appreciate you giving me a chance to tell it.

But, um...

history continues to reveal itself.

I have to say this, James.

It's been, uh, an incredible pleasure

uh, to‐to be witness

to‐to what you have accomplished.

Thank you, Jim.

‐Thank you. ‐Appreciate it.

As a new day begins on Oak Island...

Here we are, guys.

...Marty Lagina, Charles Barkhouse,

surveyor Steve Guptill,

and archeologist Laird Niven arrive on Lot 21.

In light of the new research presented one day ago

by theorist James McQuiston,

they are eager to further investigate

the early 19th century foundation

of what was once the home of Daniel McGinnis.

Although any investigation of the site has previously been

restricted by the provincial government of Nova Scotia,

Laird Niven has been able to help the team obtain a permit

to conduct a near‐surface

archeological excavation of the area.

Okay, Laird, this is your show.

You are clearly in charge at this point.

Mm‐hmm. ‐You know, examining this is

certainly a step in the right direction

of telling the‐the true story of what took place here.

Is there any chance that these guys

found a treasure or part of the treasure?

That's the speculation.

Following their discovery of the Money Pit in 1795,

Daniel McGinnis and his friend John Smith

each purchased land on the island,

where they would spend the rest of their lives

trying to solve the mystery.

Although records suggest that they and their partners

were never able to excavate below the 90‐foot level

in the treasure shaft, due to the flood tunnels...

Now, I've been told they found

‐three treasure chests. ‐Really?

In 2015, Daniel McGinnis's

direct descendants visited the island,

and presented Rick, Marty, Craig and the team

with a stunning artifact, which Joan McGinnis claimed

had been passed down through generations

‐of the McGinnis family. ‐Oh, my goodness.

Well, that is quite extraordinary.

So, we have to do this right.

‐This is under permit, so why don't you ‐Yep.

tell us what we need to do.

So, we're setting up a baseline.

‐All right. ‐Yeah, so, here's a visual.

Yeah, so, here are the anomalies right here.

Baseline is running this way.

Test pits are in here.

We had an anomaly there.

‐ Okay. ‐It was a very strong anomaly

‐at about four feet down. ‐Earlier this year,

the team enlisted ground penetrating radar experts,

Steve Watson and Don Johnston to scan the area,

and were stunned to find a number

of underground anomalies, including

a possible hidden sub‐basemen.

Could it be that Daniel McGinnis kept

a secret hiding place for what he found on Oak Island?

If so, could important clues or valuables

still be hidden somewhere on the property?

Using the collected GPR data,

Laird has designed an archeological search grid,

which the team will methodically excavate

in three‐foot sections known

as "test pits."

One of the most significant names

way back in the beginning of all this was McGinnis.

But his foundation, the foundation of his house

has been off‐limits because it's an archaeological site.

So, under Laird's supervision, we'll conduct

a proper archaeological dig of the foundation

and the surrounding area.

And the hope is that

that will provide us a greater understanding

of their involvement and maybe the possibility

that they may have found something significant

long ago.

It's time to dig.

And then he does the shimmy.

What you looking for? Bits of pottery

‐and things like that? ‐Yeah.

But even every stone you should look at

just in case, you know.

‐This is a high activity area. ‐ Yeah.

‐Sounds like a good place for people to drop things. ‐Yeah.

Well, I think big picture,

we're hoping, "Were they associated

with the discovery of the Money Pit?"

Mm‐hmm. ‐Things that say what happened here, right?

Artifacts or features. ‐PETER: Mm‐hmm.

‐Yeah. ‐ Well, as per usual,

‐I'm more interested in artifacts. ‐Artifacts.

Yeah, something with a date.

So, with each bucketful,

we'll be able to maybe get some answers?

I hope so. I mean,

‐that's the intent, right? ‐PETER: Yeah.

All right. Well, let's keep going.

As Laird Niven and members of the team

begin their investigation of the McGinnis foundation...

You can see we're still into that thick, clay layer.

Jack Begley, metal detection expert Gary Drayton,

and heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt

have resumed search operations

in the Uplands area of Smith's Cove.

A friend or a relative of the cross

could be just beneath our feet.

That's why we're here, mate.

While the team reassesses

their search options in the swamp

and with a large‐scale dig in the Money Pit area

now just a few weeks away,

they have decided to redouble their efforts

to locate and shut off

the island's infamous booby‐trapped flooding system.

I notice we're getting into thicker clay.

Natural layer.

Yeah, that's still clay.

Just be nice to find a tunnel

with a big sign saying, "Treasure this way."

You know it's towards the Money Pit.

That's wood.

Yeah, a lot of timbers down there.

That's definitely wood.

‐Oh, yeah! Yep. ‐Oh, we got a big piece of timber.

‐Yeah. ‐ I mean,

that's deep for a piece of timber.

Yeah, look.

Yeah. There's one on its edge now, too.

And that looks hollow under there

unless that's just the way it...

You think it's hollow over there?

Kind of looks like a tunnel down there.

Yeah.

‐Yeah. ‐ What have you found now, Jack?

Some kind of a stump.

I think we have to dig some more,

expose more of this wood and see if it does

‐end up being a structure. ‐Yeah.

I'll just pick it out.

‐We'll see what it... ‐Yeah.

Oh, that's really big.

Pull it away, Billy!

There's something underneath it.

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

Yeah, I‐I think this is the tunnel we're looking for.

There's stacked timbers.

I think we ran into the tunnel that's leading...

‐That's what it looks like to me. ‐ I mean, it might

‐just be by searchers, but we're in the right spot. ‐ Yeah.

Yeah, that's got

all the makings of being a tunnel, mate.

Timbers running that way.

The hole.

That's sweet!

A possible tunnel or shaft?

Could it be from previous search efforts

to intercept the main flood tunnel?

Or could it be a structure

used to create the flood system centuries ago?

All right, what do we got? What do we got?

I think we've opened up a wooden Pandora's box here.

I mean, look at all these timbers.

All different sizes and shapes.

I think we might have hit

a collapsed tunnel or some sort

of linear feature of wood that got disturbed.

Huh. Excuse me, Gary.

I‐I'm gonna go have a look.

And we've only just got into it,

so we figure we'd give you a call

and see what you make of it before we dig it out.

Maybe we cut through the fabled flood tunnel.

Now we have to follow it back.

It could be yet another clue

as to where the original Money Pit was.

So let's go dig it up.

Come here. Look at this.

Is this coconut fiber?

I think there's big chunks of coconut fiber.

That is very interesting.

Look at this, Rick.

Think that's coconut fiber?

That is interesting. Well,

‐it's hairlike. ‐ Yeah.

Yeah. And it's clumped, as well.

Yeah, no, that's...

‐That is very interesting. ‐Yeah.

The presence of coconut fiber is curious

not only because the nearest indigenous coconut trees

are more than 1,500 miles away from Oak Island

but also because it was discovered

by Daniel McGinnis and his tem

some 60 feet deep

in the original Money Pit in 1804

and then by members of The Truro Company

at Smith's Cove in 1850.

It was there that a massive layer of it was discovered,

covering and acting as a filter for the five stone box drains

which converge into the main flood tunnel

that the team is currently looking for.

If the material the team has found

can be scientifically verified to be coconut fiber,

it could mean the team is closer than ever

to finding and shutting off the booby trap

that has thwarted efforts to excavate the Money Pit

for more than two centuries.

‐ How much of it is there, Jack? ‐Um...

There's a lot of it over here.

You'd need a lot to pack a lot of treasure.

‐We need... we need to bag this. ‐Mm.

So, let's try

to get a sample without touching it.

‐ Yep. ‐ Yeah. Just open the bag

and use the bag like a glove.

Oh, yeah. There's a big chunk of it.

‐ That's it. Grab a big clump.

Look at that.

‐And there's still a bunch more. ‐Yeah.

‐There's a whole bunch more right there. ‐Yeah.

Yep. This bit of coconut fiber

makes me think that we might be into original works.

There's a lot going on right here.

Rather massive structure going on here.

Yes.

There are only a few things

that I find absolutely unique

to this quest, to this search,

and one of them is coconut fiber.

I want a definitive test,

science‐based, that it is indeed coconut fiber.

So do I, Rick.

‐Is that enough of this, Rick? ‐ Yeah, that's enough.

‐I'll put it to safety. ‐Good.

I'm actually kind of excited about this.

Absolutely.

The following day,

as members of the team continue to carefully excavate

in the Uplands...

It's like ye old times.

We're back again at Carmen Legge's.

...Marty Lagina, along with his son Alex

and Gary Drayton,

travel some 20 miles north of Oak Island

to the Ross Farm Museum,

located in the town of New Ross, Nova Scotia.

They have arranged

for blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge

to examine the mysterious metal object

found two days ago in the swap

near the area where seismic scanning

detected a 200‐foot‐long, ship‐shaped anomaly

earlier this year.

We got some stuff we're trying to figure out.

‐Should I put them on this table? ‐Yep.

Right.

This came out of the swamp.

And the story with this

is Jack and I saw this conical boulder

sticking out of the edge of the swamp,

and it just drew attention to it.

And that was found right at the side

of the conical boulder.

Does it look old to you?

‐There you go. ‐ Sweet.

‐Yeah, I love those dates.

Yeah, 'cause when we first pulled it out,

we thought maybe it was, like, the...

the bottom of the leg of a survey stake,

but it's so chunky.

It's so heavy.

Too heavy?

Mm‐hmm. Mm.

Wow.

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

‐From the right time period. ‐Yeah.

Wow.

An 18th century pike pole

possibly used to maneuver a large ship?

Also known as a boat hook,

a pike pole was a long wooden or metal tool

with one end featuring a hook and blunt‐pointed tip

for pushing and pulling faraway objects.

Commonly found on shipping wharfs,

these pike poles would serve as a docking aid

to guide sailing vessels

in and out of a boat slip or pier.

But what would a pike pole be doing

in the Oak Island swamp?

Could it be another key piece of evidence

that a ship could have been deliberately sunk there

in order to hide it

along with the precious cargo it contained?

He's quite certain it's off a sailing ship.

All right. What does that mean?

I guess it could mean

that there was once a ship in the swamp.

The data's getting overwhelming that something happened

mid‐1700s here.

You know, Carmen, right about the time

I give up on the swamp, it produces something like that.

Because there's been bits and bobs

of ships coming out of there since we started.

Just tiny bits like this.

But the bottom line, thank you for analyzing it.

I appreciate it.

And we'll be back. We'll be back.

We're gonna find some more stuff.

We'll definitely be back. We need to know

‐what this stuff is. ‐ Yeah.

Thanks for the great news.

Seeing anything else, Rick?

There's a board here.

Another piece of wood right here.

Following his visit with blacksmithing expert,

Carmen Legge, metal detection expert Gary Drayton

has joined Rick Lagina, Jack Begley

and heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt

as they continue their excavation

of a mysterious wooden shaft

located in the Uplands near Smith's Cove

a shaft that may be connected to the main flood tunnel

believed to feed seawater into the Money Pit.

Definitely a heck of a lot of timber here,

and it's been...

smashed.

Yeah, 'cause if this is one structure...

this is one of the biggest ones we've run across.

Yep.

Whoa.

Yeah, thick clay.

It's not the clay.

It's wood every...

everywhere.

You got a board here,

a board here, a board here, a board here.

And then there's a...

log or beam...

right here.

When you look from the top, it all seems

to be running towards the Money Pit.

Maybe we are in...

one of those old tunnels or close by.

I think that... we'd be foolish

not to investigate everything as though it were.

I think we're on the right path here.

Expose, so Billy gets a line, and then...

just keep creeping in and try to find

a structure well‐defined.

All right, how about...

‐we step out of the way and... ‐Yeah.

...let Billy do his thing.

We're hitting wood

in the Smith's Cove Uplands,

and I'm hoping this could be the activities

of the original depositors. I mean,

we have to keep digging.

This is a very interesting, uh, development.

Uh, who knows where it will lead?

Hey, Rick.

‐What you guys got? ‐Actually, Marty,

we're continuing to dig up this collapsed tunnel.

In the middle is clay,

and we hit a layer of whoa!

Look at that!

You hit a gusher.

Wow.

What's interesting about it is, there's rocks.

And there's rocks here.

Yeah.

Kind of like what we found in Smith's Cove.

Could the massive and sudden water flow mean

that the team has finally intercepted

the main flood tunnel connected to the Money Pit?

It just started gushing water out.

Just a lot of organic material.

It's a big hole.

Oh.

It goes way down beyond the shovel.

It just keeps going.

Is that actually a hole?

Watch.

This is how deep it is.

Well, that's a little odd, isn't it?

There's no bottom, either.

What if it's a shaft, not filled?

So maybe this is...

a spot where the shaft transcended down into a tunnel?

This might be Shaft Five.

The one that intercepted the flood tunnel.

Shaft Five?

In 1850, following their discovery

of the five stone box drains,

which converged into a single flood tunnel

beneath Smith's Cove,

members of The Truro Company

began sinking a wood‐cribbed shaft in the Uplands area

hoping to locate and cut off

the booby trap that fed seawater into the Money Pit.

At a depth of 35 feet, they encountered

a large boulder that blocked their path.

However, when it was removed,

the shaft suddenly began filling with ocean water,

leading them to believe they had intercepted their target.

Unfortunately, the effort proved unsuccessful

in stopping the water flow,

and Shaft Five was abandoned.

The earlier searchers knew

where the finger drains converged,

at least in a general sense.

And they literally were trying to shut off the flood tunnel.

Now, what I'm hoping is...

that we find the flood tunnel itself.

Because we do know that they thought they were very close.

And we need to excavate and see what they found.

So let's see how deep it goes,

and then... decide what to do.

As a new day begins on Oak Island,

and as the excavation of what could be Shaft Five

continues near Smith's Cove...

Guys, thanks for assembling on quick notice.

I appreciate it.

...brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

have gathered members of the team in the war room

to hear a scientific report via telephone conference

from geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

regarding the potential cocont fiber found there two days ag.

Yeah, Ian. You've got Marty and Rick

and Doug and Steve and Alex.

Well, we‐we'd like to think so. Sure.

Anyway, I know you had some information.

Okay.

Wow.

So it's coconut fiber?

That's cool.

News that the material

that the team has found is, in fact,

coconut fiber is a potentially historic development.

It suggests that, after years of searching,

Rick, Marty and the team may finally be on the verge

of locating the main flood tunnel,

which was constructed more than two centuries ago,

in order to protect something believed to be of great value

buried in the Money Pit.

You've never seen anything like it, and you've dug

a lot of stuff out of the walls of soil, right?

Wow.

No, that's fabulous. I mean,

we found lots of structures in Smith's Cove,

but the difference is, this one we found now

has all this coconut fiber, and that's a pretty key difference.

Absolutely.

Hey, thanks for the quick info on that.

That's pretty cool.

Yeah, okay, good deal. Thanks.

‐Cheers. ‐Bye.

‐Bye. ‐DOUG: You've been questioning

the lack of coconut fiber,

so it's kind of cool to come up with.

At least that says, yeah, at one time there was some

‐of this here. ‐It's something different.

It's confirmation

of the old stories

that they found tremendous amounts of coconut fiber

when they were looking for the box drains.

And it appeared to have been placed as a filter.

‐The Restalls noted that there was gobs of it. ‐Not only that,

but nobody else put a bunch of coconut fiber down

while they were doing anything in Smith's Cove, so...

it represents original work.

Represents original work.

And very cool.

At the end of the day,

we were looking for...

evidence...

that would corroborate or confirm

‐the old story, right? ‐Yes.

Now we have this evidence

that it is indeed coconut fiber.

So there's some kind

of original something going on here.

We're certainly finding

what people were originally looking for.

I think we're absolutely closing in.

Okay, let's go.

We're gonna find it out.

For Rick, Marty and their team,

a week that began with finding

a promising new clue in the swamp

has ended with a potential breakthrough discovery.

One that means they could be closer than anyone before them

to intercepting and disabling

Oak Island's legendary booby traps.

But even if they are successful,

will they finally be able to uncover

Oak Island's centuries‐old secret,

somewhere deep inside the fabled Money Pit?

Or will they find that this mystery is much more complex

and more dangerous than they could ever have imagined?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

Time to look into the Eye.

That's a big boulder.

Nolan's Cross stones aren't that big.

‐We're the first ones to ever see these. ‐Exactly.

This year it's go big or go home.

What are you doing with this itty‐bitty thing?

‐We ordered a big excavator.

Geez, that's long!

It's all about the flood tunnel.

Oh, yeah! Did you see that rush

of water come in down there?

You can see it squirting up like a geyser.

Subtitled by Diego Moraes /Ewerton Henrique www.oakisland.tk