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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

This is packed with stones. Isn't it the flood tunnels?

It's the box strings.

This is what was done to protect the treasure in the money pit. That's

beginning to look interesting.

There's a chamber or tunnel system going from Oak Island to Little Mash Island.

And in that chamber, there are several hundred tons of gold bullion.

That is a big piece of wood. That's hand chopped.

This is part of the original money pit.

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 bits of gold chain, a stone slab with strange symbols

carved into it, even a 17th century Spanish coin.

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.

It is the start of another day on Oak Island. A day that, like the one before

it, offers renewed optimism and the possibility that an exciting new

discovery could happen at any moment.

Looks like they got the can about 80 feet to me.

Interesting to see what their rate of advance is.

Yeah.

In an effort to pinpoint the exact location of the Oak Island money pit,

the fabled treasure shaft, first discovered by Daniel McGinnis and two

friends back in 1795.

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with their partners, agreed to dig two

large 40-inch-wide holes at the two most promising locations.

The first of these was at the site known as V3, or Valley 3, where Rick and

Craig Tester discovered what they thought was evidence of a 7-foot-tall

wooden vault first discovered by treasure hunters Frederick Blair and

William Chappell.

back in 1897 concrete and then wood that's what they found in the top of the

vault the second location known as c1 here we go was the site where one

year ago rick and oak island historian charles barkhouse discovered what

appeared to be a mysterious metallic object what's that embedded in the walls

of a cavern some 170 feet deep beneath the surface of the island how yellow

that is it's your gold color but after investing hundreds of hours and

millions of dollars exploring the two sites the results though somewhat

disappointing are we seeing saw marks on there convinced the team that the

location of the original money pit lay within yards of where they had been

digging the question is in which direction there is no proper reference

material that can say, here's X, dig here.

We have areas unexplored in the money pit where that vault might have ended

up. We only have one shot left.

So it's going to have to be partially data and partially intuition.

Working from old maps and charts recently discovered in Dan Blankenship's

basement, Craig Tester was invited to pick the location.

for what is now the team's third major excavation where do you want to dig well

i don't know i guess i'm pushing him towards this corner in here nevertheless

the decision to continue operations at the money pit site was not an easy one

in addition to this year's planned efforts in the swamp at smith's cove and

at borehole 10x the oak island team began this year with only enough money

to dig two holes at the money pit.

Only through careful management of their resources was the digging of this third

hole even possible.

The stakes, both personally and financially, could not be higher.

Hey, guys. Hey. How's it going?

What's the word?

Right now, the word is we're 82 feet in the ground with the casing and 75 feet

with the excavation.

Okay.

going a little slower right now than you thought or uh no overall i think we're a

little bit ahead of the game but uh right now we had to add water because we

had a significant water drop the water went down to uh 65 feet below this grade

wow so there's no water coming in you're four feet away from v3 yeah and there

was tons of water that's significant but what it means i don't know

The absence of water in the T1 shaft is indeed unusual.

Excavations at the Money Pit site usually strike water at a depth of 40

feet and are thought to be the consequence of hitting one of the booby

-trapped flood tunnels that have plagued Oak Island treasure hunters for more

than two centuries.

Is it possible that Rick, Craig, and the team have been successful at avoiding

the flood tunnels?

And if so, How long might their luck hold out?

You're going to start carting the spoils off-site?

That's still the plan?

Yeah. So by the end of today, you're hoping to get to the 100-foot level?

By the end of today, I absolutely want to get to the 100-foot mark. Stuff like

this is so hard to predict because you don't know what's in the ground. Sure.

I wish you could predict what's in the ground.

I really wish you could.

If we're at the 100-foot level, then...

start being interested in what's coming out.

I want to say at the end of this season that we either found the treasure in the

money pit or we're done with the money pit. So I'm on board with going for

broke and digging one more well.

We feel we're zeroed in, if you will, on this specific area. So considering the

costs associated with doing it at a different moment in time, doesn't make

sense. Do it now.

Could all the years of research, planning, and hard work really be on the

verge of paying off?

Well, thank you. Yes. We're going to go work over here for a bit. Okay.

Are Rick, Craig, and the team just a few feet away from finding the ultimate

target, the original Money Pit treasure shaft?

Wait until you get to that 100-foot level.

Thank you. All right. Take care.

While the digging operation at T1 continues at the Money Pit,

Rick Lagina, along with other members of the Oak Island team, have gathered in

the war room.

So guys, I think today all of us will find this very interesting.

Joining them is researcher Doug Crowell, who has offered to shed new light on a

piece of evidence that further connects the activities of the Knights Templar to

the Oak Island mystery.

Craig has reached out to a University of Southern California professor by the

name of Kevin Knight, and he and his grad assistant, Nada, they've done some

work with the LaFormula page.

Yep. Let's dial them up and see what they have to say.

Hey, Kevin. It's Craig. How you doing?

Hi, Craig. How's it going?

Dr. Kevin Knight is a fellow at the Information Sciences Institute and

professor of computer sciences.

at the University of Southern California.

You sent us basically this drawing here, the Formula Cipher.

He, along with his graduate student, Nada Alderab, have been working to

decode the mysterious La Formula Cipher, the same one that New York-based writer

and historian Zena Halbern believes is proof that members of the Knights

Templar visited Oak Island as early as the 12th century.

You know, we've been very curious on this formula.

You know, I've got some information that you've already sent me. Yeah. Can you

give the people here a review of what you do?

We do research in historical cryptography, and we have some computer

programs that we can apply to ciphers. So we've been working together on this

kind of stuff.

Well, then we've talked to the right people, that's for sure.

The so-called La Formula Cipher.

is composed of a number of symbols which curiously match those reported to have

been on the so-called 90-foot stone, which was found in the money pit in

1804.

When the stone was first translated in 1862, it was believed to read, 40 feet

below, 2 million pounds are buried.

But the translation was based on the assumption that the cipher was meant to

be translated into English.

and has opened the door to speculation that the actual code was more complex

and the translation even more profound.

Okay, you want to go over how you deciphered this and what he came up

with? Yeah, sure.

What we have to do is type into a computer-readable format these cipher

letters. So we did this, and then Nada ran it through her computer algorithm.

And the computer said, I've searched through lots and lots of potential

languages that this might be a code for, and French came out at the top.

And so French is the language behind the cipher. At least that's the computer's

initial opinion.

French? Could this be an important clue indicating the identity of the persons

responsible for creating the Oak Island mystery?

And if so, does it mean that the 90-foot stone was incorrectly translated more

than a century ago.

So then, Nana, what happens next?

And we proceed to do full decipherment of the text against French.

And it looks like there's a lot of words in there, like five or 40 feet or some

kind of angle.

Those seem like the right kind of words that you would want to see, so that's a

good sign.

OK. I did take what you had done, and to me, it looks like we're missing quite a

few words.

I've got halt, do not hold up, dig at.

Then 40 feet with an angle, 40 NR degree. The shaft is

522 feet to enter the... Then after that, there's gaps in the

sentence.

There's a word read, or a... And then a word that doesn't make any sense.

I thought we had come to the conclusion that it was 1,000.

Moon, the middle.

Right.

Then five feet, and then at the bottom, reach the field.

So it is a good interpretation, but it sounds to me like we're missing a lot of

words at the ends or the beginnings of these sentences.

Yeah. Especially at the end of the right part, it says, enter the something.

It says some word that starts with a C. So I don't know, in French, what would

you enter that would start with a C, like a cave or something like that?

Professor? Could that also be chamber?

That's a good connection.

Because in French, it's chambre.

And then there was some hint that where you have reed and gold, that might have

been a spelling mistake and it actually says corridor.

Yeah, I wanted it to say gold so bad.

Yeah, that part's going to require guessing.

Your guess sounds reasonable.

You know, this is always the case with these historical ciphers. They often

include misspellings, often include archaic usages.

Okay.

It does lead one to wonder what was supposed to happen when that 90-foot

stone was encountered.

You're supposed to not dig deeper. It was a warning. You're supposed to dig

off to the side somewhere.

The singular reference of 522 feet, it's 520 feet from Smith's

Cove to the money pit.

If the actual treasure was buried much nearer the surface from a shaft going

out from the money pit, that has always made sense to me.

Could the La Formula cipher actually contain a message?

connecting smith's cove where an elaborate flood tunnel system is

believed to originate and a golden treasure buried some 520 feet away in

the money pit zena some of your research suggested that this is part of a larger

document yes when writer and historian zena halpern first shared the formula

cipher with the team several weeks ago she indicated that it was only one piece

of a much larger document.

On the bottom of the La Formula page, it says, un

de set, which means one of seven.

Right. If you look at the La Formula, you can see it's cut in a very strange

way. So there were seven pieces.

It does fit like a puzzle. It's ripped into a puzzle piece, basically.

It seems to suggest seven pieces. Seven pieces, exactly.

Seven pieces?

Could the number seven be a critical clue to understanding how to solve the

Oak Island mystery?

Throughout history and mythology, the number seven has played a significant

role. It not only corresponds to the number of days of the week, but also the

number of days God reportedly took to create the universe.

Seven is the number of candelabrum in the Hebrew menorah.

And seven is the number of men who must die while actively looking for treasure

in the so-called Oak Island Curse. As we push this agenda forward, it's very

necessary that we marshal forces to try to find the other six pieces of this

puzzle. I think that once all the seven puzzle pieces are put together, then it

will become a true message, if you will.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

have returned to smith's cove well it's much changed there's no question of that

yeah a lot was done yesterday they are hoping to find the remains of the five

stone box drains that were reportedly discovered back in 1850.

if they can find evidence of even one of the finger-like drains they may be able

to locate the master flood tunnel it is connected to and trace it back to the

original money pit

Hi, Laird. Hi, Ray.

How are you doing? Great. How are you? Good. Good.

Joining the team is area archaeologist Laird Nivett.

He has been hired in order to ensure that any ancient working that may be

discovered at Smith's Cove are excavated in the most careful way possible.

So I think, Dan, it's a very simple question that I'll pose. What do you

want to do as far as a dig?

Okay, I'm thinking about behind the machine from this angle where the copper

dam takes a turn.

How deep do you think?

I think it's got to be found by experimentation.

So when you start, you dig down several feet, maybe even five feet. Ben, why

don't we walk down and talk to Billy and get him up to speed about the dig? Yes,

it'll be dark before too many more hours.

Yep, exactly.

If one of the original box drains is uncovered, it is imperative that it be

done without causing it further damage so part of what i'm going to enjoy about

this not only the hope that we find something but my brother thinks he's a

skilled operator but i suspect that you're skilled and he's a novice i want

to see what a skilled operator can do let's see what we can find yep we're

getting out of your way

Today in Smith's Cove, it's going to be another attempt to find the box strings.

My hope is that we'll find something, something legitimate, something that

pointedly says there was an artificial creation in Smith's Cove and that that's

how the seawater was introduced into the money pit.

Ah, water coming up.

What do you mean the water's coming up?

That.

Oh, like it's bubbling up from the bottom?

Well, no.

bubbling, but flowing.

What does that mean, Dan?

Just means that we're not getting seepage from the ocean.

Could the water that has begun to pool inside the pit be coming from the

outside of the cofferdam?

Or could it be coming from somewhere inside the enclosure?

Perhaps from some kind of man-made drainage system?

You can see it. It is coming up.

In order to remove the rising water so that they can continue digging in search

of the box drains, Rick and the team hurry to lay out hoses connected to a

four-inch pump.

Heads up.

All I can say is it looks like virgin ground.

That's the right color and, you know.

Is that a layer of clay and then it goes to rocks?

That's beginning to look interesting.

The team has suddenly uncovered a mysterious pattern of rocks beneath

Smith's Cove.

But is it natural? Or could it be man-made?

Jack, do you see stones?

with space between them down there. Those are the ones I'm looking at.

Yeah, I'm wondering if there's... Yeah, that.

Isn't that stones, three, four stones touching?

Yeah.

Careful, don't be digging that away. That's a big rock there, isn't it?

Watch it, watch it, watch it.

What do you make of it, Laird? I don't know what to make of it. No, neither do

I.

How about if you dig that out right there? See if we can't get a cleaner

look at it. Everybody clear?

Yep.

Based upon other diggings around here, this is an anomaly.

It is an anomaly, yeah.

Based on what we've seen so far.

This is packed with stones right here, and just next to it was...

you know virgin soil isn't this the description of what happens right

before they find the flood tunnels isn't it like layer of coconut fiber layer of

heat a bunch of gravel and this stuff right above like the actual flood

tunnels right yeah exactly you're right that seems to be you know a

layer it's unusual looking i'll say that

You think you could gently go deeper there, like right here, and just pull

that away? That big rock is there, and I think we'd undermine the cofferdam.

Would we go any further?

Yeah. Yeah.

I'm afraid that's going to collapse.

The way she's bleeding through, all it would take is that thing to collapse.

I just feel like we might have gone into a V of these round stones.

But at some point, we have to be safe, too.

Because what if the flood tunnel drain is right here?

What if that comes in on you and buries you?

You're right.

If we lose this, then we lose the opportunity to continue the search. If

we lose this, then we're dangerously close.

Although the team has made what could be a major discovery, it lies precariously

close to the cofferdam.

If the dam is compromised...

millions of gallons of water could rush into the cove.

If you undermine that big rock, we don't even know how big it is, right?

And if you weaken that, the water will breach through underneath it and, you

know... Then we've lost it. We've lost it, yeah. The team will have to wait

until the area inside the cofferdam is drier and more stable before they can

return and continue digging.

After concluding their day's work at Smith's Cove, Rick Lagina and island

historian Charles Barkhouse have arranged to meet with local property

owner and fellow treasure hunter, Gary Clayton.

Gary, first of all, I want to say thank you for coming.

It's my honor to meet you. Well, no, my honor to meet you. Having traveled from

his home in Arizona, Gary is the owner of Little Mash Island.

A small, one-acre landmass just a few hundred yards from Oak Island, and which

Gary believes is directly connected to the Oak Island mystery.

So what have you brought us here today?

Well, friend, I brought you the key that unlocks the door of your dreams.

Well, I'm not being disrespectful here, but many people have said that and truly

believe that.

That's fine, but mine's not based on belief.

Mine's based upon an assessment of facts and a record.

After purchasing the tiny island in 1988, Gary spent the next 10 years

conducting a series of surveys, drilling operations, and excavations in an effort

to prove a connection between Little Mash and the Oak Island mystery.

Like fellow treasure hunter Fred Nolan, he became convinced that answers could

be found not only below ground, but also above it.

I thought we'd take the time to look at some targets under Little Mash.

Now, this is Little Mash?

That's Little Mash. It's basically a fish-shaped island.

They did an assessment or a test trench across this area here.

At three feet, they ran into a solid strip of clay, 12 inches high, running

15 feet and squared off at the ends.

as they went down at four feet they discovered a secondary topsoil

underneath the first topsoil so that suggests to me this island was

completely man-made a man-made island some four hundred

yards from oak island but if so who made it and for what purpose

oak island the whole thing is covered with a labyrinth

Both Fred and Dan believe that. Yes, that's true.

There's a seal, a chamber, or tunnel system going from Oak Island to my

island. There are certain access points on both sides of the island, and they

can be found by simple equipment and simple excursion time, low cost.

The only difference is you have to understand what the surface is saying to

you. I can read the surface, and I can understand what's below it.

This is a stone foot.

It was dug up about 1993, and it was dug up right here.

It's about nine inches long.

There's an obvious arch underneath, as you'll see.

Now you're looking at the bottom of the foot. Here, you can compare that to

this. You'll notice it's the same as this.

So the information on the surface was telling us exactly what was below, what

is above.

is below.

So what are these targets?

This is a foot-shaped void.

That one is 63 feet across.

We drilled four holes very close together over in this area right here,

and we went down 231 feet.

A 63-foot-wide, foot-shaped void located some 231

feet below ground?

But if so...

How does it connect to the Oak Island mystery? And what, if anything, could it

contain?

As far as the story, the background, the history of this place, who might have

done it?

I think Lord Anson was involved in the structure.

He's an English admiral.

Lord George Anson was a decorated 18th century British naval commander.

He was reported to have been entrusted.

with a vast priceless treasure by members of the english royal society a

select group of freemasons with ties to the rosicrucians as well as to the

knights templar it is believed that members of the secret order revealed a

coded map to lord anson that relied on constellations and which was based on

navigation calculations made at the royal greenwich observatory under a

commission by king charles ii in 1675.

according to gary clayton's theory lord anson used this map to set sail from

england in 1740 and with orders to hide the treasure somewhere in the new world

oh is that a coin that's a king jewel just a few weeks ago metal detection

expert gary drayton found a number of 18th century british coins on the

eastern end of the island We've got a book. We've got coins. Maybe this is

some kind of camp.

1700s, that changes a lot.

They're not supposed to be here.

Could the coins Gary Drayton found on Oak Island offer important evidence that

Gary Clayton's incredible theory is true?

I think the tunnel system takes me to several different chambers, and some of

these chambers have things which are not even on the archaeological scope.

In one chamber, there's a table.

And on it is a very shallow cup.

And beside it, there's a golden altar of incense.

That's in one.

In the other one are two calendars, the books of Mayans, and some

relics which we cannot identify yet.

On another one, we have a tomb.

Then on the bottom floor of the same chamber, we have a sealed door.

And that sealed door goes to a second level.

And in that chamber, several hundred

tons of gold bullion.

You have any questions? I have a question.

Ask away.

Why are you here?

I'm here to give you an offer for a consultant contract.

15% of anything we find using my information for one year, and you get to

keep the rest.

Secondly, I know how much is involved, and by the information here, I think

that I have a pretty good chance of being correct.

You sit across the table from a person who...

adamantly and fervently believes in what they're telling you that they've done

all their homework they've they've created this database of information and

it's catchy yeah migrates across the table you want to reach out you want to

grab onto it and latch onto it and say yes yes i do i too believe you know

gary this this is a lot it's a lot to take in i need to talk to my brother and

craig and dan and and have a proper discussion about your your generous

offer and good And I will relay the information as best I can.

All right.

Appreciate it. Appreciate it. I was glad to meet you. Okay.

As the massive search for the money pit continues at the exploration shaft known

as T1.

Hey, guys.

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with members of their team, return to

their search for the man-made box drains at Smith's Cove.

So, talk to us. What do you got here?

That feature right there.

Those are big.

I mean, that's a big rock right there. But the rest aren't. It's more like, you

know, human size.

I mean, I built many a rock wall, as you well know, and that looks somewhat

fitted.

In the late 1980s, I dug around and I exposed what looked to me

like a wall.

and and something cut as an angle which reminded me of the diagram showing the

uh flooding that's what i see here that's the remnants of that yes i want

to come down and take a look you can see i will i'd like to

bring me the elevator buddy

what

i'm looking at i think it's

legit going down

Now, Marty and Craig may look at it and go, a bunch of rocks.

I don't know.

But I do know this, that Dan Henske believes that this is something real.

And I'm hoping Marty and Craig will too.

It is interesting, the gradation, right? You know, you got the smallest rocks at

the bottom, then bigger, then big, great ones that seem to be holding it all in

place. Now, I don't know, is that natural or is it not?

I mean, Rick, you think those look set, inset?

I do.

I think that humans built that.

For what end, for what purpose, I don't know, but this face here in particular.

It continues. It's this wide, at least.

There's still stone there. Yep.

Some of these stones are very much square, you know, cut.

Is that a wall?

What else could it be?

When I first saw the rock wall, I immediately thought, well, searchers

wouldn't have been out there in the cove jumbling piles of rocks around. I mean,

they would have been pointless to do that.

I can't conjure up a reason for that. So if it is in fact man-made, it's probably

the most likely thing we've seen with our own eyes that was original.

Well, let's dig it some more. I'm fine with that.

Smith's co-work is actually at least as exciting as the money pit work. It's the

box drains.

You reveal the box drains or a remnant of it.

There's a lot of information that can come of that.

Yeah, Dan's here.

Hi, Marty.

Daniel, how you doing? Don't fall in, though. No, I won't.

What are you making at? Anything?

The fact that there appears to be stone in there, and if that has a wall there

and a wall here, I think they call it a French drain. Yep.

A French drain is a type of trench which has been filled in with rocks for the

purpose of redirecting and controlling water flow.

Although named after Henry Flagg French, a 19th century lawyer and assistant U.S.

Treasury Secretary.

Their design and use is believed to date back many centuries.

Could the team have finally found a part of the original flood tunnel system, the

one that featured the five box drains that were first discovered at Smith's

Cove in 1850?

I think it's continuing, Craig.

And it keeps taking scoops out that are pretty much all rocks.

So it's headed back this way?

That would mean that under the copper dam would be the other part of it.

Really?

I would love to keep digging this way, but you can't dig outside the bladder,

right? The rock structure it's close proximity to the bladder is disturbing

because we cannot Carry that discovery process in that area. It's just

not safe I mean if we destabilize the bladder system all is lost Although

the team must end their search for the stone box drains at least for the time

being They have made what they believe is an incredible discovery an ancient

man-made stone structure beneath Smith's Cove.

Laird, I'm going to put you on the spot now.

Man-made?

It's definitely what we'd call cultural, yeah. Okay.

You mean you're saying based on your expertise with certainty, this is placed

here? It's a man-made something?

I believe so, yeah. Wow. Yeah.

Because it's relatively localized. Yeah. Right? So that kind of rules out

anything geological. And the sorting of the rocks is unusual.

We've found something that we need to continue to look at.

It's truly a unique structure. I believe it's original.

But I think we have to terminate at this point.

There is a closure date for the permit when that bladder system has to be

removed. And it's very, very near. So we have to arrange to get that bladder

system out of Smith's Cove and stored properly for perhaps a dig next year.

We're done here.

We're done here. But we're not done with the search. Bill, you want to fill this

in then? I will, for sure. Thank you.

Thanks, Billy.

Later that afternoon, Rick Lagina and Craig Tester arrive at the T1 excavation

site for a final update on the day's progress.

Suddenly... There's a chunk of wood.

That's vertical.

That's hand chopped.

Look at the... Do you want that down here, guys? Yeah.

Shell?

What the hell could it be?

Definitely hand-cut.

That is a big piece of wood.

So the ends were sawed, but this is definitely... That's an ad, Sarah.

That's hand-hewn.

When the vertical timbers come up, we were all excited immediately.

Now, the curious thing is they're hand-hewn. That is the first piece.

of wood from underground in the money pit that has been hand hewn under our

auspices first time ever a hand cut wooden timber retrieved

from the t1 shaft in the money pit area has the oak island team finally located

their elusive target

there

we go two more

While the team from Irving Equipment Limited continues digging a third

massive hole at the Money Pit site known as T1, Rick Lagina and Craig

Tester have arrived just in time to witness a potentially momentous

discovery. I'm going to go look at that bucket drop.

Different type of wood now.

So that almost looks like it was a vertical timber by the way it came up.

What depth do you have us at?

102 feet.

102? Could be a tunnel.

A lot of people, when they went down next to the original money pit, the

money pit's here, they came down next to it, then they tunneled over to it. Oh, I

see, yeah. Maybe we're hitting parts of that tunnel.

nearly five decades before the reported discovery of the chapel vault in

eighteen ninety seven members of the truro company drilled through what they

believed to be two stacked wooden chests at a depth of ninety-six feet according

to reports each were full of what was described as twenty-two inches of metal

pieces or possibly gold coins in an attempt to retrieve the chests and

avoid the booby-trapped flood tunnels the searchers dug an adjacent shaft 10

feet from the money pit and began constructing a lateral tunnel toward it

their hopes of solving the oak island mystery were quickly dashed however as

the tunnel collapsed from flooding just before they reached the mysterious

chests we're hoping at this point in time maybe we'll find the the shallow

supposed treasure from this vault area Wow.

Oh, there you go.

We just brought out a whole bunch more wood. There you go, look.

What the hell is that?

I mean, what if this is part of the money pit, the original money pit?

A round piece of wood located at a depth of approximately 105 feet beneath

the surface of the money pit site?

When the money pit was first excavated more than two centuries ago, searchers

reported finding nine wooden platforms made of rounded oak timbers located at

10-foot intervals.

at which point massive flooding halted further exploration.

Could the Oak Island team have just discovered evidence not only of the

original money pit, but of a previously unknown 10th platform, 10 feet deeper

than where the 90-foot stone was discovered in 1804?

If you read the records of them originally finding the money pit, You

know, every 10 feet or so, they'd hit a platform.

They thought the vault was sitting on a platform.

And this, you know, three-inch diameter piece of wood, to me, could definitely

have been one of those pieces of wood from the platform.

You know, can we date this? I mean, it seems much blacker to me than this. This

is a very dark gray, but this seems black.

And if this comes back, you know, in the 1500s or something, then... It's heavy.

Yeah, it is heavy.

You want to just take a section of it? Yeah, we'll cut a little piece off, and

it'll tell you what time did this log get cut down. All right, let's get this

off.

See what comes back?

I don't know what to hope for. More wood, less wood, no wood.

Wood that's in the form of a chest?

Rick,

Marty, Craig, and the team appear to be on the verge of one of the most

significant breakthroughs in their quest to solve the Oak Island mystery.

but as they continue to dig deeper what will they find precious religious

artifacts wooden chests filled with gold coins the priceless treasures of

the ancient maya or will they come face to face with an ancient curse what

that threatens a deadly fate to those who dare try and solve the mystery

perhaps the answer is now only a few precious inches away.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

The point of interest is the stones on Oak Island. I believe that these stones

were transported.

Oh, my. Never seen anything quite like this.

Come on, baby.

It's a round piece of wood there. This might be part of the original dig.

This one tested from 1655 to 1695.

Right there, original money pit.

That's what this is implying, yeah.