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Tonight 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.

Whoa! ‐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.

Yeah! Did you see that rush

of water come in down there?

You can see it squirting up like a geyser.

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.

That sounds like you're ripping into wood.

I think we're ripping into another shaft, mate.

Another hand‐carved timber.

That's the second one out of that same hole.

Really? ‐It's hardwood,

but it's got a square notch in both ends, pointed.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- ‐That's impressive. - Yeah.

As a new day begins on Oak Island,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagin,

along with members of their team,

are convinced their ongoing excavation

in the Uplands area near Smith's Cove

will finally lead them to the main flood tunnel,

the one which has been thwarting

treasure hunting efforts at the Money Pit site

for more than two centuries.

Wow.

Look at the size of those boards!

- Man, those are big. - Yeah. Look.

This is an older shaft.

You can see the wall of the shaft going down.

Yep.

That's how deep it is.

There's no bottom, either.

- ‐This might be Shaft Five. - Really?

One week ago,

while excavating in this same spot,

the team unearthed what they believed to be

a vertical searcher shaft

constructed in 1850 by members of the Truro Company,

which was successful in intercepting‐‐

although not shutting off‐‐

the main flood tunnel.

Yeah.

Incredibly,

it was near the bottom of this same shaft

that Jack Begley discovered

a large quantity of coconut fiber,

which signaled that they may be closer

to their target than they thought,

as coconut fiber,

which is not indigenous to the Northern Hemisphere,

was known to be used in the construction

of the original booby‐trapped flooding system

that guards the Money Pit.

Wow!

Those are some big pieces of wood.

People were quite confident it was worth

their time and effort to dig down here,

to try to intercept the flood tunnels.

Well, I've got to get busy. That is...

Man. That's sweet.

I may as well go over there and detect that.

That'd be a good idea.

Four inches.

So, it's in this pile.

I'm on it, whatever it is.

Ooh!

That is a nice old spike.

How old?

You can tell with the weight of this.

Nice, chunky.

Easy 1700s.

Yeah, that's nice.

Yeah.

All right, mate. Carry on.

Careful, mate.

I'm getting a signal over here.

Hang on, Billy! I got a target here to dig.

‐Is that it? ‐Found it.

Yeah, that's another big spike.

Look at that.

Nice and heavy.

That is sweet!

1700s on this one, baby.

So it's definitely an old shaft

‐from the 1700s. ‐Yeah, it's an old shaft.

Two 18th‐century iron spikes?

If they can be verified to predate the discovery

of the original Money Pit in 1795,

they could offer key evidence that this structure

was most likely built not by members of the Truro Company

but by the same people who are believed to have hidden

something of great value on Oak Island.

These are old...

bloody iron spikes.

Well, we'll see if it gets wet the deeper we go down.

Maybe it is connected to the flood tunnel system.

We've got to get to the bottom of this.

Yeah.

As efforts to pinpoint

the flood tunnel continue,

later that morning...

Hello, guys! Hey.

‐ALEX and DOUG: Hey. ‐How you doing? ‐Hey, mate.

Gary Drayton has joined

Rick Lagina and members of the team

for a meeting in the war room.

They have gathered to find out

the results about the massive seismic scanning project

that was conducted on the island by Eagle Canada

earlier this year.

Joining them via videoconference

from their offices in Traverse City, Michigan,

are Rick's brother, Marty,

and their partner, Craig Tester.

Okay. Craig and I had a little

scientific powwow with, Jeremy

from Eagle Canada, and he gave us kind of a...

an interim report.

And we wanted to pass it along to you right away.

‐Right, Craig? ‐Yep. Definitely.

Cool.

The seismic scanning process

involved the detonation of some 18,000 dynamite charges

that were each placed at six‐foot intervals

all across most of Oak Island's eastern drumlin.

The sound waves produced by the explosions

were then measured as they traveled through the earth.

This data was then used to create a virtual map

of any possible voids, tunnels or other man‐made structures

that might be hidden beneath the island's surface,

down to depths of as much as 300 feet.

So, the sonic logs that we ran

are working well.

It's tying into the seismic,

so he's getting better, depth interpretations.

The two most exciting things by far:

He says he sees something off the southeastern edge

of the Cave‐In Pit.

He called it an obnoxious anomaly.

And, you know,

he feels he's seeing some tunnels down there.

When he gave you the tunnels, where‐where was that?

The one he's described runs from...

the Cave‐In Pit area

and then a‐a very distinct linear feature

towards the Money Pit.

And, of course, I asked him about flood tunnel.

But he just alluded to linear features

that he thinks could be tunnels.

It appears, you know,

where tunnels come in

and where the flood tunnel comes in.

But it apparently is a rather glaring anomaly,

and it's at about 60 feet.

A possible tunnel?

At a depth of some 60 feet

and located in the Uplands,

just south of the nearby Cave‐In Pit?

Earlier this year,

while core drilling near this same area,

the Oak Island team obtained evidence

of a possible wooden tunnel

more than 50 feet deep underground.

When tested, these samples dated back

to as early as 1735,

60 years prior to the discovery of the Money Pit.

Could the anomaly detected by seismic scanning

be connected to this same wooden structure?

And could it also be part of the same booby trap

protecting the original Money Pit?

Is it worth investigating? Absolutely.

It's‐it's what we were hoping to see,

a tunnel that connects Smith's Cove to the Money Pit.

From the human heart, hope springs eternal,

and‐and I'm excited about that.

I would move this to the top priority.

- ‐Yeah. - No, I agree.

‐You know? It's all about truthing it, right? ‐Yes.

‐All right. You guys got work to do. ‐We do.

Get after it. We'll be out to help you as soon as we can.

- ‐Okay. - Okay.

‐Thank you. See you. ‐See you.

Bye.

Two days after receiving the seismic data,

Rick and Marty welcome representatives

from Delway Enterprises,

who are delivering a massive 30‐ton excavator

to allow them to dig in an attempt to confirm it.

Hi.

‐How you doing? ‐Good. I'm Marty.

‐Devin Matchett. Nice to meet you. ‐Devin.

‐Nice to meet you, Devin. This is Rick. ‐Yeah.

‐I'm Rick, Devin. Nice to meet you. ‐How you doing, Rick?

‐Nice to meet you. ‐Hey,

what are you doing with this itty‐bitty thing?

‐We ordered a big... ‐

We ordered a big excavator.

No, that's... That looks like quite a tool.

Yeah. Hopefully it does the... does the trick for youse.

Okay. Well, I think we need to get this bad boy working.

All right.

Because the seismic data

indicated that a possible tunnel

might lie some 60 feet underground,

Rick, Marty and Craig have obtained an excavator

equipped with a long‐reach arm, or boom,

capable of reaching their target depth.

Got to say,

that does look pretty... : impressive.

It does.

So, what's different than a regular...?

I mean, other than the obvious.

60 foot... feet of boom,

compared to 35.

- ‐30, 35 feet. - Otherwise, controls

and everything are basically the same?

Yeah. Everything's the same.

The only thing you really got to watch for‐‐ it's quick.

And it... you're gonna feel that boom out here.

Well, I'll be real gentle for a little bit.

All right, well, I'm gonna try it.

‐ ‐Get at her.

I'm all for getting this long reach excavator.

I mean...

I'd like to find the flood tunnel,

not ancillary things.

I'd like to see it.

Well, that would be very significant to me.

So that, to me, is the most important part

of the dig here.

So I am excited as hell and...

crossing my fingers.

How'd you make out?

‐Man, like a Cadillac. ‐

But let's get going, because we need to put that guy to work.

Time's a‐wastin'.

Later that same day,

expert heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt

has made impressive progress with the excavator.

He has reached a depth of some 50 feet,

just ten feet shy of the team's target.

Quite a bit of wood.

Hey, Billy. Craig and I are gonna take a peek real quick.

Yeah, okay.

See anything from there?

Let me look on the other side.

I don't see a... a seam of rocks

or anything like that yet.

Probably coming below yet.

So let's let Billy dig

‐and see if we run into this flood tunnel. ‐Okay.

We gotta be pushing 50 feet.

More wood.

Posts at the bottom.

‐Did you see that rush of water come in down there? ‐Nah.

‐No, it's still coming in. Can you see that? ‐No.

Walk more over there. I'll grab your belt buckle or...

Yeah! You can see it squirting up like a geyser.

Here, stand where I am.

Yeah. ‐JACK. Yeah!

It's freaking awesome.

Marty, come look at this.

After being alerted to the discovery of a potential

flood tunnel in the Uplands near Smith's Cove‐‐

possibly the same one identified

by recent seismic imaging‐‐

Marty Lagina joins Craig Tester, Jack Begley,

Gary Drayton and Billy Gerhardt to inspect the site

and continue the investigatio.

The water's squirting up from the bottom.

‐You'll see it in the back corner. Yeah.

Do we know if it's fresh or salt?

Don't know.

Can't say we found the flood tunnel itself, but...

what I see and hear is a lot of water rushing in.

And it appears to be rushing in from the up‐hole side.

In other words, from the landward side.

This, to me, is very impressive.

The face is giving a little bit.

‐Now you can see it crack up in through here. ‐Yeah.

Suddenly...

Wow, that whole edge is about to go!

- Man. - Yeah.

‐Yep. Let's go. ‐Yep.

This is all getting kind of dangerous.

Yeah, this is not safe.

That was a big enough piece where that

‐whole bridge could go. ‐Yep.

Yeah, we're getting out of here. It's not worth it.

Unfortunately for the team,

the flood tunnel did what it was designed to do

more than two centuries ago:

frustrate the efforts of would‐be treasure hunters

to shut off the flow of water to the booby‐trapped system

that guards the Money Pit.

It's all caving in now.

He's lost a ton of hole. ‐He's lost a ton.

Do we need to see anything more there?

I just think it's gonna cave in too fast.

I'd say put enough in there to make that stable.

‐Yeah. All right, mate, let's reposition.

In order to stabilize the area against further cave‐ins,

the team will now need to act quickly

in order to backfill the hole.

Unfortunately, this also means that any further digging

in search of the main flood tunnel will have to wait

until the ground has settled.

We take some risks out here, and this is a dangerous place.

It'd just be foolhardy to keep digging.

It wouldn't have made any sense.

It was sloughing all the time.

It did hit significant water.

You can put a line on that towards the Money Pit.

I think we may have to

- ‐give up on that one. - For now.

The next day, as efforts to stabilize

the Uplands area continue...

Today we take on the Eye.

The oculus. Right?

‐Yep. ‐That's the hope.

...Rick, Marty, Craig and other members of the team

are eager to resume efforts to uncover what may be

another breakthrough discovery in the triangle‐shaped swamp.

The other hope is that those metal hits that Gary got,

‐that they really turn into something. ‐Yes.

‐ ‐Ooh, that's a clang.

I can feel this one. This is the biggest one so far.

Earlier this year, while probing

near the northernmost tip of the swamp,

recently dubbed the Eye of the Swamp,

Marty Lagina and members of the team

discovered a mysterious circle of stones

featuring embedded iron

beneath the brackish water and muck.

‐You getting more metal? ‐Yeah, getting more metal.

Now, if you would draw the lines to find the center...

There you go.

Right on the Eye of the Swamp. Wow.

It is this very location

that researchers Corjan Mol and Chris Morford

believe may mark the spot where members of the Knights Templar

buried a cache of priceless religious treasures.

According to their theory, this secret knowledge

had been passed down to the 17th‐century French painter

Nicholas Poussin, who encoded it

within a series of three paintings.

Gentlemen.

‐Hey. ‐Hello, chaps.

So you're done with the swamp? This is the last little bit?

No, we're just checking the back of the swamp.

‐Okay, well, let's go back and drain the Eye. ‐Yep.

I'm most excited about getting to the Eye of the Swamp.

If there's something in the swamp of interest,

I think it's gonna be there.

This is the best part of the swamp dig, I think.

I'm chomping at the bit.

I remember last time we was here, Marty,

‐all those targets, those mystery targets. ‐Everywhere.

We're gonna find out, mate, once we scoop this

bloody soup out.

Yeah, it's time. It's‐it's time to dig.

It's time to look into the Eye.

Before excavation of the site can begin,

the team will need to drain the area dry

using a six‐inch pump.

Meanwhile, Marty and Billy will dredge out

water and debris using a 36‐ton excavator.

As Marty Lagina leads the effort to drain

the Eye of the Swamp...

I've been chomping at the bit

to get back to Lot 17.

Rick and Gary head to Lot 17,

located just southwest of the Money Pit area.

Following a hurricane, which hit Oak Island five weeks ago

and caused significant erosion along the island's coastline...

Let's find something.

...they are eager to search the area

for any important clues or artifacts

that may have been moved closer to the surface.

This area's been good.

Sounds good, don't it?

- No. - No?

Not worth digging.

‐ ‐Ooh, that sounds good.

See how good that sounds, mate?

That's good, mate.

And now we'll check and see if you've moved it.

‐Ooh, that water's cold. ‐

Look at that.

This is so cool.

While searching for clues on Lot 17,

located just southwest of the Oak Island Money Pit...

That's a big old chunk of lead. Look at that.

...Rick Lagina and metal detection expert

Gary Drayton have just made a potentially

significant discovery.

‐Scrap lead. ‐‐

Been here a long time, by the look of it.

I thought I saw a number in there, but...

Yeah, it doesn't look like a patch.

You know what lead means.

Maybe we have laser ablation done on it.

Yeah.

The cross, strip on 21, and now this.

The same era would be interesting.

Yeah, that would be.

Could this object be connected

to other important lead artifacts

that the team has discovered on Oak Island

over the past two years,

such as the 700‐year‐old lead cross

found at Smith's Cove,

which was scientifically linked to a region of southern France

with deep ties to the Knights Templar?

I know for certain that whenever Gary finds a piece of lead,

he's now much more interested in it than he was before.

Hopefully, it will explain what happened on Oak Island

hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

- Not a bad start. - I like finding lead.

Let's keep moving.

The following morning,

Rick and Gary have rejoined

Marty Lagina, Craig Tester and other members of the team

in the area known as the Eye of the Swamp.

We're starting to make some good progress here.

‐We've just got to clean this hole out, don't we? ‐Yeah.

Now that it has been drained enough

to begin excavating, the team is eager

to further investigate the mysterious

rock and metal formation

that Gary and Marty discovered several weeks ago.

‐Hey, Gary, what's that? ‐Yeah?

Is that just clay, or is that a... That's a rock?

That's a bit of rock.

‐You want to have a look at it? ‐Yeah.

Tell you what, guys, if you could step back there,

I'll swing this way

- ‐and dump it right there. - Okay.

That looks like one of the conical rocks.

- Look at the clay. - Yeah.

It's just packed onto it.

- ‐Do you see that? - Yeah, look...

But look at this blue clay packed onto it, too.

- Yeah. - Well, we haven't really

seen blue clay in the swamp yet.

- ‐We've seen that grayish till. - That's right.

But some of this is distinctively blue.

What's it doing back in this back pond?

No, I‐I... I think you're right, Jack.

I don't think we've seen that blue clay

underneath any of this.

Blue clay found on the base

of a large stone at the so‐called Eye of the Swamp?

In 1804, while excavating the original Money Pit,

Daniel McGinnis and his partners were struck

by the discovery of a water‐tight layer of blue clay

covering the platform of oak logs at the 40‐foot level.

Could this blue clay actually be further evidence

that the mysterious circular rock formation

at the Eye of the Swamp is, in fact, a man‐made feature?

And if so, could it have been

placed here to act‐‐ just as in the Money Pit‐‐

as a water sealant to protect something

of great value buried somewhere below?

That's one of the boulders.

I just remember standing over there and‐and just putting

my feet down the sides of 'em.

What is that? It's a stump or...

Wash that stump off!

Is that doing any good?

- Yeah. - That's a big one there.

A tree stump... in the swamp?

Because trees cannot generally grow in bodies of water,

the fact that this stump was found

in the Eye of the Swamp further suggests

that this area may have, at one time,

been part of a beachfront or dry land.

It also supports the scientific findings

of geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner,

who believes that significant human activity took place

at the swamp during the late 1600s.

I'm very confident we're looking at 1680 to 1700...

...that that disturbance took place.

Really interesting.

That's a big stump.

It's about... it's about that big.

Are you checking to see

if there's any rocks underneath the roots?

There's another stump right there.

There's another one there, I think.

Another stump?

These stumps should not be there,

unless there was a transition from dry to wet conditions.

It just is so obvious

that something changed radically

between when those trees were growing and today.

And if that's a natural process, okay, doesn't mean anything.

So, if it's man‐made, then it sure means something.

Well, what does it mean?

And most of the tree trunks

seem to be around the perimeter of this Eye.

Yeah. Pretty much.

I'm gonna have a little metal‐detect around here.

Hey, I'm getting a signal over here.

What in the heck is that?

A big piece of iron attached there.

Marty!

There's a big clump of iron attached

to the side of that trunk.

‐Is there really? ‐Yeah.

That's what it looks like. There's like an iron rod.

I think it goes into that trunk.

We know the swamp has been there

for at least a hundred years, because we have pictures.

So that means the tree that grew there

is probably far older than that.

So, I guess your initial thought is

that the piece of metal is as old as the tree.

So, we're hoping it's significant, but...

what are massive trees doing

growing under those wet conditions?

To me, the most interesting feature is the stumps.

Well, it's almost like the stumps grew on top of

‐some of the boulders. ‐Yeah.

We're getting close to that Hail Mary find.

As a new day begins...

...and while the investigation

at the Eye of the Swamp continues...

Craig Tester, Alex Lagina

and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse

have traveled some 50 miles northeast of Oak Island

to Saint Mary's University in the city of Halifax.

- ‐Hey. - How you doing?

‐Good to see you again.

‐Dr. Brosseau. ‐Hey.

They have arranged for Dr. Christa Brosseau,

an associate professor of chemistry,

to scientifically analyze

the possible 18th‐century iron spikes

that were found in the Uplands earlier this week.

If these spikes can be dated to a time

before the Money Pit's discovery in 1795,

they could not only offer important evidence

that the team is close to locating the main flood tunnel

connected to the fabled treasure shaft.

They could also offer evidence

of who built the elaborate Money Pit treasure vault

and when.

Alex has got some gifts for you.

‐Brought me some goodies? ‐I do. Yeah.

We have, two iron spikes.

So, what do you know about these so far? Anything?

They're kind of of an older design.

I think it's fair to say that.

And this, sort of rose head on the top.

So, what do you want to know about these spikes?

So, just elemental analysis?

‐Yup. ‐All right. Sounds good.

We've worked with Dr. Brosseau in the past.

We've brought some of our artifacts to her.

One of the things I'm hoping that we get today

is some sort of clarity on what it's made of and how old it is.

Hi, Xiang. How are you today?

Working with her colleague,

Dr. Xiang Yang,

Dr. Brosseau will examine the spikes

using a high‐powered scanning electron microscope,

capable of magnifying objects

up to 200,000 times their actual size.

In addition, it can also

help identify their chemical composition.

‐

So...

Yeah, we see a little bit of phosphorus here.

‐‐ ‐I think this is the first time

we've seen phosphorous in an iron object, though.

‐Wow. ‐So, it's typically called

"phosphoric iron."

Early methods for making cast iron

were not very good at removing phosphorous.

‐‐ ‐And so, you would see it all the time.

It's a good indication that... more likely pre‐1840s.

That's really cool.

Commonly found in minerals, such as iron ore,

phosphorus has a great effect on the durability of metal.

Because high concentrations of it will cause iron and steel

to become extremely brittle,

the practice of extracting it for manufacturing purposes

became common beginning in the mid 19th century.

We found a lot of searcher stuff. This is different.

- ‐So, maybe this is original. - Yeah. So, right.

A more modern manufacturer of a spike

wouldn't have used an iron ore with phosphorous.

‐That's very interesting. ‐Yeah. Very much so.

Yeah, it's really interesting, um, but...

This is the second spike.

‐Basically, the identical composition, so... ‐Okay.

So, likely these two originated from the same

‐batch of manufacture. Yeah. ‐Right. Right.

- ‐That's good news. - Yeah.

And so, it may...

that may help you trace an area of manufacture.

Some places in the world where we have,

iron ore rich in phosphorous includes,

Britain and Northern Europe.

- ‐Wow. - ‐

Two iron spikes,

potentially predating the discovery of the Money Pit,

and of possible European origin?

It's a coin.

Two years ago, while investigating on Lot 16

near the swamp, Rick, Marty, Gary and Dave Blankenship

discovered two 17th‐century British coins.

I see 1600‐something.

Looks like 1673.

That's 120 years

before the find of the Money Pit, for sure.

Could these iron spikes,

found deep underground in the vicinity

of the believed flood tunnel,

be an even more important clue

connecting people of European origin

to the Oak Island mystery?

So, we've got some sources in Europe...

‐Yeah. ‐...that we can start asking questions about maybe

defining an area it came from.

I think we have a promising indicator

that these might be original,

- ‐to put it that way. - ‐‐

I get excited every time there's a new item,

a new science, that can advance our search.

Is it French? Is it British?

W‐We don't know for sure.

And we've got the potential to be original,

and that'd be huge.

Well, we thank you for the information.

- ‐It's great news. - ‐

I mean, pushing it back as old as it is,

but, you know, it's science, and it's the truth,

‐so we'll pursue that, so... ‐Yeah, exactly.

‐Yeah. It's a little bit of more... new information. ‐Okay.

‐Yeah. Absolutely. ‐Thank you.

Thank you again.

Following their meeting

with Dr. Christa Brosseau

at Saint Mary's University...

‐Here we are. ‐Hey, guys.

Craig Tester and Alex Lagina

meet with Rick, Marty and other members of the team

at the Mug & Anchor Pub in nearby Mahone Bay.

You got the goods? Or the data, at least?

‐Alex has got the goods. ‐Got both. Yep.

These are those spikes that you found.

Yeah. These are little beauties, these are.

Yeah, 'cause of where they came from.

I mean, we dug down there. I mean,

these came from way down the hole,

packed in clay.

Here's the interesting thing about it: pre‐1840.

Looks good.

This is definitely before then,

and maybe with this analysis, we push it back into the 1700s.

Was there anything else she could

- ‐tell you about it? - Yeah.

And this is kind of new.

It had phosphorus in it.

It tends to be when they used furnaces

that aren't quite as hot,

which tends to make it, also, potentially older.

And the phosphorus is part of the original ore, and,

we might be able to determine an area that this came from.

Boy, that is new. That's your... that's your holy grail.

But were any shafts,

down by the beach older than that?

No.

The early searchers,

e‐even in the modern era, if they came across

an old tunnel or‐or artifacts such as those,

they would be a big deal, you know?

It's not what we're looking for.

So, the suspicion that these might be far, far older,

they just, they came across an older dig,

and they said, "Well, this‐this means nothing to us."

It's very frustrating, isn't it?

So, this could've been held by the original people.

You know, I mean, we can go back. We can go back.

I mean, look at the dendro that we got from the bump‐out.

17... What was that? 1741?

'41. Yeah.

Billy!

We want to get a piece of dendro off of it for dendro testing.

Earlier this year, after discovering what appeared to be

evidence of a massive wooden shipping wharf at Smith's Cove,

a sample of wood taken from it was analyzed using

a tree ring method of dating known as dendrochronology.

‐Perfect! ‐There you go.

Incredibly, it was determined

that the structure was most likely built in 1741,

more than half a century before the discovery

of the original Money Pit in 1795.

It's actually a short spike for how massive it is,

‐which means... ‐What about two‐by‐fours?

‐ ‐Well, I mean, i‐it seems like

the most it could hold would be about

a two‐inch board to something else.

It can only attach a not very big thing.

Well, remember all those planks we got, though.

They were only about two inches thick.

Yeah. True.

Yeah, these could be original.

I want to say early depositors, because these are called

rose‐head spikes after they're bashed in.

I wouldn't have thought this was that old, Gary,

'cause this is very exquisitely made.

... no, that's a nice one.

That's a bloody old spike, that is.

Both of them are.

So, maybe it was when they came here, whoever they were.

Well, to me, these are fantastic,

not only aesthetically.

I mean, they're beautiful pieces of art, really.

I think this is evidence of, you know,

maybe unrecorded workings in Smith's Cove.

Possibility of being original, Alex?

I think there's a‐a distinct possibility, yeah.

There you are.

Here we go with another mystery,

and we come up with a spike that could be part of original works,

because if you construct a flood tunnel,

the men have to breathe as they're traveling the distance.

There would have been, I imagine, air shafts.

There might have been, you know, auxiliary entrance points.

So, it could be original.

Well, then let's keep digging

in Smith's Cove, in the Upland area, right?

No point in stopping now.

As a new day begins on Oak Island...

Any luck, Gary?

Not with the metal detecting.

Rick Lagina, Gary Drayton

and Billy Gerhardt have been joined

at the so‐called Eye of the Swamp

by fellow landowner Tom Nolan,

the son of the late Oak Island treasure hunter Fred Nolan.

They are continuing to investigate the site

where, earlier this year, Gary located an unusual,

man‐made circle of stones containing traces of metal

buried beneath the mud and muck.

It is also a formation that Oak Island researchers

Corjan Mol and Chris Morford believe may mark the location

of a treasure vault hidden in the swamp centuries ago

by members of the Knights Templar.

Corjan Mol and‐and Chris Morford have done

a tremendous amount of research

coming up with what I think is a rather elegant theory.

Certainly, we hope they're right.

We just started washing this off.

I know Billy's ready to dig that hole

you want him to dig over here.

‐We all have to have eyes on it... ‐Yeah.

...because the most simplest thing might have an explanation.

So, as you dig, Gary can metal‐detect,

and Tom and I will keep watch.

‐All right. ‐Surgical strike, Billy.

Yeah.

What I found curious about the theory as it was presented‐‐

I have a representation of it here.

‐You can see the pond right there. Yeah. You can.

And you can see that location right there.

- ‐Wow. - Wow.

That is massive. That's‐that's a big boulder.

Another one.

‐That one may not be coming out. ‐No.

I mean, Nolan's Cross stones are easily that big.

Easily. ‐But here in the swamp?

‐They're not buried under a bog, though. ‐Exactly.

A large boulder, matching the size

of the five megalithic boulders that form Nolan's Cross?

Could this boulder be part of some other, similar structure

that might be related to the so‐called Eye of the Swamp?

You've got, like, a boulder field there.

What does that mean?

Look, don't you think that is unusual?

That's the area that's pinged,

and there's this massive boulder there.

It's interesting.

Hey, Bill!

Just try to take this down a bit,

and maybe I can shovel that off and then you can wash them.

Well, let's see what's here.

I never would've suspected...

this type of boulders.

All clumped together, just like this, in one area.

Yeah.

‐Look at all the little stuff in there. Yeah.

‐Almost looks like it's all stacked in there, doesn't it? ‐Yeah.

Kind of reminds me of the paved area. ‐Yeah.

That's what it looks like, isn't it?

Could the stacked boulders

that the team has just uncovered

be evidence that this mysterious location

and the paved area are part of an even larger construction,

one built to hide something of great value on Oak Island?

It's a lot of broken granite and angular stone.

Slate.

And seems strange that the big rocks

are on top of the small rocks.

It's really just nothing but rock.

There is no clay.

There's rock sitting on rock.

Do you think your dad ever saw these?

No. We're the first ones to ever see these.

I hate to do much more disruptive digging here,

because we have no idea if these are purposeful or not.

What's your thought?

If Dad was here, the first thing he'd say is: "Don't move those."

Let me get them plotted before you do anything.

Why don't you do this, Billy.

Dig that.

We'll leave this face and that face alone.

We'll have to call Dr. Spooner and have him take a look at it.

It's strange having all of these

large boulders in a very central location,

because there are none in the general area.

The good news about this is that we have

Dr. Ian Spooner working with us, and...

the key point to address here is:

Are these boulders placed by the hand of man

or are they just glacial erratics

in a somewhat localized area?

Well, that's all we can do for now.

There's so much going on in the swamp.

Yeah.

For the Laginas and members of their team,

the triangle‐shaped swamp has proven to be much more

than a geological curiosity.

Instead, it appears that it might hold the key to solving

the entire Oak Island mystery,

just as Fred Nolan predicted.

But as they continue to dig, will the team's efforts lead

to the discovery of a treasure vault

filled with untold riches?

Or will they uncover something else,

something more astounding?

Or something that was never intended to be found?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

There's no doubt at all

that somebody was digging here

- ‐a long time ago. - Wow.

That artifact has a lot of mercury.

Sir Francis Bacon did experiments

in preserving documents in mercury.

You're gonna take this down as deep as you can go.

See that, right there, Rick?

They're all hand‐hewn.

That's 1769.

We struck something there, Marty.

MARTY There's wood on the left,

and it looks like a tunnel going that way.

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