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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

I believe that these stones were transported.

I've never seen anything like this.

Maybe we're done with the money pit. There has to be an enough's enough.

No. I refuse to use the word failure.

Come on, baby!

There'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.

Yes.

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.

Those are some massive beams.

But what's it doing down there, right around 100, 102?

I don't know.

In a year that has already been filled with new discoveries... It's a hot

sport. It's probably 18 feet long.

I'm thinking ship planking.

And frustrating disappointments. Oh, no.

We got a big leak.

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina are hoping that their third big dig at the

Money Pit site...

will lead to their biggest breakthrough yet.

Well, here's the curious thing. This is what Craig actually was really intrigued

by. This one piece of wood, it's a peg.

No, it's not a peg. They cut it off for C14 testing.

Craig thought we might be in the money pit with these timbers, and this might

be part of the original dig.

Remember in the money pit, the description of the layers every 10 feet?

You're right. They could be that, if there'd been layers of these.

Yeah, just like that.

Yeah, exactly.

That'd make a nice platform.

Mm-hmm.

That's a pretty significant piece of wood.

When the Money Pit was first discovered back in 1795,

treasure hunter Daniel McGinnis reported finding platforms made of rounded oak

logs every 10 feet.

When some years later...

he and his fellow searchers eventually reached a ninth platform they found a

large stone slab marked with strange hieroglyphs when the slab was removed it

triggered what was believed to be a booby-trapped flood tunnel and the

ninety foot deep shaft quickly filled with sea water but does the discovery

of this rounded piece of wood mean that the Laginas and their partners have just

located a portion of the original money pit?

Let's see what the man over here has to say. There he is.

Morning, gentlemen.

Good morning. How are you? Andrew, how are you doing?

Good, good. Well, how's it going?

It's going.

Right now we're down 118 feet with the can and 112 feet with the excavation.

Our target depth is still something like 160.

So we find wood. We don't necessarily want to call an all-stop, but we want to

take a good hard look at it. Okay.

Actually, a bunch of round oak logs would be hugely significant.

Yeah.

Andrew, you've got work to do, so let's do it.

We're burning fog.

and hopefully no lightning. Well, it ain't daylight, is it? It ain't

daylight, that's right.

Come on, baby.

Bring something home.

We stand there and watch that Mr.

Pac-Man go in and out of that pipe.

Every time you want to see something really cool hanging out of those jaws, a

significant piece of wood, a bit of a treasure chest, a piece of brass,

something.

I guarantee every time, every time everybody's hoping for it.

That was a good grab.

That's got some wood in it.

There's a round piece of wood there, Eric.

That's some really dark wood.

It's got the bark still on it.

Yeah, it does.

Weird. It is.

No sparkly gold things.

Seems to be raining out here. Yeah.

I guess I'll go put a raincoat on.

Although the massive cranes and equipment can work through rain, if

lightning should begin to appear, the operation will need to be shut down for

safety purposes.

Just watch for lightning. If you guys see any lightning, just let me know.

Anything new?

We'll see how things go here.

We see another flash here. We're going to have to stop.

Yeah.

We are digging hole number three, and we came across something unanticipated.

Exciting, actually.

and we come up with a very different looking piece of wood. It's got a wedge

shape to it, clearly shaped by man.

I'm pretty sure it's hardwood based on its density and the hardness to its

feel. Looks different than the timbers we've been through.

Take a look at this.

This is the most intriguing piece. I mean, I think that might be oak.

Yeah, a lot denser. It's old.

It doesn't really look like it fits with all of that over there.

I think Dan might want to look at this. Yeah, I think he'd be interested.

See that, right?

That's lightning.

We're shutting her down.

As is often the case on Oak Island, water, either from the sky or from the

ground, becomes the obstacle to progress.

Shut her off.

Just set the bucket down.

About the time that some very interesting wood is coming out of T1,

Nature, who always holds the trump card, puts a stop to everything with a nice

loud clap of thunder and a spark of lightning.

Because that crew can't work under lightning conditions with all that steel

way up in the air. So we're shut down.

Perfect opportunity to go show our finds to Dan.

Hey, Dan. How you doing, man?

What do you say there, Marty?

Having worked and lived on Oak Island for more than five decades, Dan

Blankenship has seen more and knows more about the 221-year-old mystery than

anyone alive.

What do you got, Rick?

We dug up some more stuff at the money pit. We're in the third hole now.

Some of these things came from about 101, 102 feet.

Okay.

It's not soft wood. Doesn't seem like it. See how tight the grain is? Yeah.

Yep.

It's old.

Mm-hmm.

And then at 118, give or take, this piece came up.

It's a wedge.

Yes, it was a wedge, yep. That's what it is.

What was a wedge for?

Wedging their timbers in the corners.

And who are they?

Yes. That's more important. Yeah.

Dan has a lot of experience with discovering things on Oak Island.

So, you know, what I'm always hoping is he'll say, oh, yeah, I saw that before

over here, and then that's a piece of data that we can use to correlate.

Show him the next one.

This was about this long.

I cut it in half to send it off for carbon testing.

I cut a piece off of here.

I can't tell whether it's softwood or hardwood. No, it's hard. This one's

hardwood. Go ahead.

Hold on.

Yeah, it's heavy for a little piece of wood. It's hardwood. Yeah.

That's hardwood. I think so. No question about that.

Well, and this has really fine grain too, Dan, just like the other one. See

it?

I see.

If this is oak, let's say this is oak, could this be the original round logs

that they say were in the money pit?

Way back in 1795.

It has an odor.

Definitely has a significant odor to it.

The fact that the wood is both black in color and has a foul odor is a good

indication that it is also centuries old.

We get this singular, round, smaller dimension piece of wood,

very blackened.

I think it was like a stockade, you know, like this. And they were laid

flat. And the original description of the Money Pit is that every 10 feet

there were oak logs embedded in the walls.

Could this be one of them? It appears to be oak. It's very heavy, very tight

-grained.

Could this be one of those pieces?

I'd be interested to find out what the carbon dating shows on it, you know, age

-wise.

If this comes back 1550 or something, then that's pretty significant.

That's a pretty good indication that you're in the right spot.

Well, guys, we're going up here to, I think, probably Fred Nolan's most

traumatic discovery.

While waiting for the operation at the Money Pit to resume, Rick Lagina...

along with island historian charles barkhouse and jack begley have invited

stonemasons mike welling and mark fougere to inspect one of the most

intriguing rock formations ever found on oak island nolan's cross our interest

was for mike and mark to look at it straight over here and see if the stone

had actually been carved this is the headstone of the cross so where the arms

and the stem intersect this is what fred found

In 1981, landowner and professional surveyor Fred Nolan discovered five

large cone-shaped boulders on his property that formed a perfectly

symmetrical cross that measured 720 by 867 feet.

Believing there could be something buried at the center, Fred dug down and

uncovered a sixth boulder that eerily resembled a large human head.

You know, like right here.

That looks like it's been chiseled.

Here, here, here, here, here.

Yeah, it looks like somebody shaped it.

Although there are many who believe that the mysterious boulders on Fred Nolan's

property were meant to represent a Templar cross, there is another, more

ingenious theory.

one that suggests the boulders were carefully arranged to form what is known

as the Tree of Life, an ancient Hebraic symbol which represents the ten

spiritual principles, or sefirot, that are contained in God's creation of the

universe. Yeah, this is it. This is it? Yeah.

This theory was given further credence when a number of smaller, strangely flat

-sided stones were found at the exact places around the cross where the sepi

rock would be located.

What is interesting is it's rounded on the back. Yeah. And the flat side.

Yeah, here it comes.

It can kind of hurt you. You have to look at it looking down. But it's the

impression that, you know, you can see that this would be where the eye would

be and the nose and the mouth.

And there's an indentation here, and you can see right here, although it has

weathered, where you could put like a small naval cutlass or naval sword in.

Like this is the blade part, right? Yeah, exactly.

Now again, it's weathered a lot, and it was much more defined years ago when I

first saw it, about 20-some years ago.

What's unique about this is it's completely different from the other

stones. The other stones are basically granite, and they're cone-shaped, where

this one is obviously much flatter.

The suspicion is that the face, especially the eye perhaps, was looking

at an area of significance.

That's our suspicion.

We're hopeful that Mike and Mark will be able to give us some information from

the stones.

You know, might it lead to treasure? I don't know. Might it lead to other

discovery agendas? I don't know. We have to start somewhere.

And the place to start is with experts.

Any idea what type of stone this is?

Is this sandstone? I think it's a sandstone. Because Fred's always assumed

that it was sandstone. Yeah.

As opposed to the other points on the cross are all granite. Yeah.

Charles, do you remember the face being any more exaggerated than it currently

is? Well, certainly the indentation. I've got a, you know, Fred very kindly

let me take a photo of the headstone. And certainly the cutlass indentation

was much more defined than it is now.

Like you said, over the years it weathered and unfortunately that's the

nature of sandstone. It will weather quickly.

Given the fact that it's been exposed, it was buried, it was re-excavated, then

buried again, moved around. It doesn't take long for that, for the sandstone to

erode and get rid of any indications or any markings.

Whether it was worked is difficult to say.

The curiosity, of course, is its orientation.

The intersection of the stem of the cross and the arm of the cross,

according to Fred's survey data, it's less than a degree off of perpendicular.

And this is at that point.

And then, of course, the carving.

The fact that it was right at the intersection.

I mean, Mother Nature is good, but I don't think she's that good. I think it

was put there for a purpose, you know, obviously. And so did Fred. I mean,

you're talking massive weight to maneuver this into position.

and it could be partly natural shape, a few edges knocked off here and there,

just something that they were looking for and they found this piece and it

suited their purpose. To me, I think it's a calling card. To me, it's a come

look at me and at this point, we don't know. Was it the cutlass that we were

supposed to notice or someone was supposed to notice or was it the face?

You don't know when and where it was done and interventions at any particular

time, right?

Yeah, the curious thing is...

I, for my part, have never seen, I'm not a geologist, but I, for my part, have

wandered the island quite a bit. I don't recall a piece of sandstone this big

anywhere at surface.

A lot of granite, a lot of big boulders, but not this.

And we appreciate you looking at it. I mean, we're just looking for answers in

that the clues as to whether or not it was a human construct have been, those

clues have been lost.

But we do have one more rock we would like to show you.

Yeah.

because it's set in stone, subject to weathering at a rapid pace.

They could not make a definitive statement about the face stone.

They couldn't say yes or no.

Okay, gentlemen, we're going to go down here and we're going to look at the

bottom of the cross, if you will, if it was standing upright.

And it's a cone-shaped granite boulder, possibly, you know, upwards to five tons

in size.

And just take a look at it and give us your impressions.

This is it right here.

Again, they're all granite, the five stones, and they're all shaped like

this. The question is, did they find a stone close to what they need and maybe

just do some, a little bit of, you know.

Tweaking. Right, exactly.

Or was this actually manipulated?

Oh, it's on the surface there, isn't it? Yeah.

I don't think it's natural at all.

I don't know what it is, but it doesn't appear natural.

Oh, my.

I've never seen anything quite like this.

I don't see that being natural.

That's really smooth, Mike, don't you think?

I don't know what it is, but it doesn't appear natural.

Near the middle of Oak Island, on property belonging to the family of Fred

Nolan, local stonemasons Mark Fugier and Mike Welling may have just found an

important clue on the bottom boulder of the megalithic formation known as

Nolan's Cross.

That surface is unusually smooth here.

And it would take a lot of dragging to get a surface that smooth.

Really? Yeah.

What does that, uh...

whether it was what does that tell you maybe it was in transport yeah

something's happened to that surface of the stone the granite is rough the whole

stone and yet at the bottom it was smooth if these stones have been drugged

for long distance to position in this particular place i mean that's an aha

moment i did not know this about this stone no it's not natural but as to when

it was done is anybody's guess

If you drug a stone like that down like a gravel path, you'd almost get a finish

like that if you went long enough. That's interesting.

That's very interesting.

I'm just thinking, how do you maneuver such a large stone?

If that is possibly the result of transport, as you indicate, they had

to have a way to move this thing.

It's almost the footprint if you were to drag it.

Yeah.

I'm glad you found it. Yeah.

Oak Island is a...

A thousand-piece puzzle with 500 pieces missing, yeah. And you just added one.

Yeah. And we thank you for that. Thank you for asking us. Happy to help. Thank

you. Happy to help.

Okay, let's on to more puzzles.

Yeah.

Later that same day... We finally got the data back, right, Greg?

Rick, Marty, and members of the Oak Island team gather in the war room to

hear the results of the carbon testing done on the mysterious pieces of wood.

discovered in the T1 shaft at the Money Pit.

I'm very hopeful because of this piece of wood, this piece of wood, and that

piece of wood.

We want proper dates, but you only get a probability curve.

And, you know, if the probability curves are lean towards the early years,

fantastic.

Everything's in. The first one is the timber at 102 feet, which is this guy

right here.

The 95 percentile range is anywhere from 1670

to 1780.

What? Good times.

A wooden timber dating as far back as 1670 A.D.?

Could this be proof that the team has, at long last, found the location of the

original money pit?

How about this one?

1655 to 1695.

Well, that's pretty good then, isn't it? Yeah.

It's this one that's intriguing.

Yeah, that one might be one of the original logs that covered the money

pit, we're hopeful.

Right. It wasn't just that that intrigued us. It's incredibly heavy.

Yeah.

Even as I continue to read about Oak Island and the description of the money

pit, in my mind, I'm thinking oak logs embedded in the walls.

I'm talking oak logs.

But here's this much smaller dimensioned log.

Is it part of the construct of the money pit?

Could it be? Yeah, because they weren't meant to support anything.

They were simply meant to separate so that each level could fall independently

of the one above it.

Could this be one of those?

Maybe.

Your father has always said, darkened wood, blackened wood, with an odor.

And that has to be oak.

I think so.

I mean, the grains on that are... Well, oak can have wide grain, but it's very

hard. They've still got branches that are sticking out. Right, so they would

have been... Remember, the original money pit was described as logs of oak.

Anyway,

so what's this test at?

So this one tested from 1655 to 1695.

Well, then that means that one is old.

Then you've got something.

That's not the kind of material that anybody used for any of the shafts.

And Craig thinks, and I think maybe he could be right, that that would have

been one of the logs of the 10-foot platforms.

So that would be very significant.

Well, this is sounding like that almost has to be original.

Yeah, that's what this is implying, yes.

Right there, the original money pit. Yeah.

And maybe we're zeroing in on it. Yeah. It could have been Spanish or it could

have been pirates.

The British.

British.

That fits once again with this sort of British military theory.

1762 or prior.

I'm very much more interested in what the hammer grab might bring up. Yeah.

Since we're going to continue to hammer grab, we need to have eyes on it all the

time. Yeah.

Okay, so now I've got more sitting to do in that front end loader. Oh, you poor

boy. I know.

Well, look, it was a great, great meeting. Thanks for the data, Craig. I'm

very hopeful. So I want to go back out there. I'm sure you guys do too. So

let's get after it. Okay.

More clay.

After receiving test results indicating that they may be close to finding the

exact location of the original money pit, Rick, Marty, and the team have

returned to the T1 worksite only to discover that today's findings are less

than encouraging.

Pieces of anhydrite, basically.

They should be pulling up more bits of wood and evidence of man-made workings

deep underground.

Instead... They are now finding only bits of clay and chunks of stone.

The hope is when you dig in the money pit, you dig into something that's

unambiguous.

A vault with gold coins or bars or parchment documents or whatever.

I mean, when you do that, it wouldn't be confusing, would it?

Well, let's talk to Andrew and figure out what's going on.

Morning, Andrew. Morning, gentlemen. How are you?

Good, how are you? Good, good.

All right, talk to us. You know the drill. We are 148 feet with the can, and

we're at 147, 148 with the digging.

Okay. So we're going one for one right now. So if we're going to hit wood, it'd

be right now. If we're going to hit wood, it's going to be this bucket right

now.

I hate to say it, but I don't think there's anything there.

I feel the pressure as each hammer grab comes out because it just kept coming up

with clay.

Certainly nothing definitively man-made.

Murray's absolutely right. I mean, there was nothing definitive about it.

Come on, baby.

Nothing. It never stopped.

I mean, there was...

hammer grab after hammer grab after hammer grab of clay.

I tell you what, Rick, this place could annoy the Dalai Lama.

I mean, for God's sake, you know, we're right where we want to be, right where

we bloody want to be.

None of this makes sense.

All of this is outside the purview of logic.

Amen.

Rick and I and the team agreed on a budget for this year, and we're running

out. We tried to stretch that budget and decided to go for the T1 well, but... We

haven't had that breakthrough yet.

There's the operative org. Yet. Okay.

Yet.

I just think that there's something very significant here. If this doesn't work,

I'm a measure twice, cut once guy.

If we have to go to a much larger scale investigation, I'm willing to go there.

We need answers.

And we have water.

Wow.

Although finding water in the T1 shaft is hardly surprising, the absence of any

wood seems to indicate that the team may have reached yet another dead end.

I think that was it. Totally empty.

Very little of nothing.

Yeah, not a lot.

So guys, right now we're down about 156 with the can in the hole.

It's torqued out.

Oh, yes.

Yeah.

Is there any way you could be on metal?

It's hard to say.

Charles, there have been reports of plates of metal that other explorers

could not get through. True? Yes, absolutely.

In 1897, after discovering a mysterious seven-foot-tall wooden vault, some

153 feet deep inside the money pit,

treasure hunter William Chappell located what appeared to be an impenetrable

metal object at a depth of approximately 171 feet.

Could Rick, Marty, and the team have located another such plate?

If so, who put it there?

And what might it be protecting?

We're hoping that maybe what's killing these teeth Could be a metal plate.

Okay. You've hammered on it. Yep. And, you know, we should see some indication

if that's the case.

Absolutely. Let's let the big dog eat again.

Put Mr. Pac-Man in there.

I'm going to go down and give it a couple foot drop.

Try to stab it and grip it and rip it.

All right. Last chance. Here we go.

I'll rip it.

Here we go.

Ready to do a happy dance, Charles?

All right.

Come on, baby.

Come on, baby.

Last chance.

The next grab comes, and I'm hoping that what's happening is we're clipping a big

piece of metal.

Where do you want it, Rick?

All right, he wants it on the ground.

The chapel expedition drilled into something that they described very like

that. There you go, Rick. Oh, watch out. He's coming, he's coming, he's still

coming. If we're hitting the metal plate, that's exciting. That would be

great.

Bedrock.

It's almost like a slate, though.

That's not good.

Well, of course.

If we hit bedrock, then it's over.

It's not going to go down.

And your mind goes from, oh, wow, this is what I really want it to be, and it

is. And then it goes to the harsh reality of, oh, no, it's not.

Then another question that raises its head, and that is, What do we do?

We're on bedrock. It's time to terminate.

That's it.

We're done.

We're done.

What began as a day of eager anticipation has suddenly turned to one

of bitter disappointment for Rick, Marty, and the team.

You want to lay her down over there if you can?

After spending the last of this year's engineering budget, trying to find the

original money pit they have literally hit bottom and there are no more options

left i'm disappointed i mean that's all we've got is interesting pieces of wood

after three very expensive digs in the money pit we hope to encounter the vault

and come up with metal in pieces and metal bars so i'm disappointed

would it be nice to find it You know, do the happy dance right here. Yeah, I'd

love to see my brother on top of the vault.

But it didn't happen.

There's a difference between being disappointed and being dissuaded from

continuing. There's no guarantee on Oak Island. You do what you can, you

persevere in the face of adversity, and you carry on.

Look, here's the thing. I got more data.

I think what we need to do is get all this data, you know, and take a look.

So, Rick, look, I appreciate the optimism.

We just sank three man-sized shafts into the money pit and didn't come up with

anything except wood. Okay, and I counter that with 222 years. Yeah, well,

they didn't have this.

Look, we're not going to quit.

It's here.

Why are you so convinced, Charles?

Because they were convinced.

All of them were convinced.

Why was Fred Blair involved from 1893 to 1951 if he wasn't convinced?

Huh? Why was M.R. Chapp?

They all had to believe. Otherwise, what was the point of them being here?

Nobody wants you guys to find it more than I do.

I think it's quiet contemplation time. Let's just go have a think about all

this. Let's go.

Tough deal, Rick. Tough deal.

Let's call Craig.

All is not lost.

No, I know. I know.

Craiger.

Hey, guys.

Well, by this time, you are aware that we have now dug three

very deep, very expensive, very large holes in the money pit.

But no vault, no treasure.

Just stating facts here to use a baseball analogy, that's three strikes.

Usually you're out.

But it's only the eighth inning. The game would be over if it were the bottom

of the ninth. It's only the bottom of the eighth.

Is that your call?

Yeah.

I mean, I'm still hopeful and I'm interested going to the Southwest.

And then we continue pushing a new hold on while the gear is here. That's my

thought. You want to do this.

Yeah, I do.

You are certainly a perpetual optimist, big brother.

Yeah.

I don't want to be part of leaving the stone unturned, but this is getting

painful, you know?

You know, there has to be.

And enough's enough.

Rick, let me tell you, I was probably the most excited to put these holes down

in the money pit, but not a lot of treasure to show for it. No, but

information, surely.

It's had its rewards, certainly, but maybe we're done with the money pit.

No, because, no, I'll be honest, no.

I refuse to use the word failure. We now have a greater understanding of the

underground in the Money Pit area.

But is the Money Pit a tough nut? You bet it is. Does it live up to its name?

Absolutely. But there's still opportunities here.

I mean, you know, it's this old sorry topic of money.

It's a reality, you know, but I think we can do it.

I think we take another look at the monies that are available, and I think

there's a way to make it happen.

Craig, where are you?

For me, I put in what's needed to do one more, provided that Irving thinks they

can do it reasonably.

I just want to ask Rick one question.

Mm-hmm.

I want to leave here with having done a damn good try, but your criteria has

always been you don't want to leave here with regrets.

Are you going to have regrets if we don't dig this hole?

In my relationship with Rick, there's a strong bond. Both of us know that if we

fell in a deep hole, the other one would go in and get the person who fell.

I mean, that's just the thing. It's just this confidence that they're there for

you. That's the strong bond between us. And I respect that.

I'm kind of feeling shifted towards doing it.

But you know what?

Charles has picked a hole. Craig has picked a hole. I think the final

position of this one should be yours.

Yeah, definitely.

If I had my shot, you'd get your shot.

No, I think we'd do it for Laginas. You, me, Alex, and Mom, and

Dad. So let's name it for our parents.

Let's call it the Georgian and Lagina number one.

Gal. Gal number one. You all right with it?

My mom was quite a gal.

All right, I like it.

I'm on board. All right, let's dig one more, but you know what? We got things

to do then.

We got to pick the bloody site. Yeah, well, I have an idea, but I want

everybody to weigh in.

Figured you did.

I'm excited about the fourth hole because I've always thought, why chase

one singular target?

Where do you want to go, Ray?

The written history says that in 1861, there were three...

quote-unquote thunderous collapses in the money pit.

There's the supposed location of the money pit right there. When that

happens, that explosively, the material in that chamber is going to be dispersed

over a wide area.

Chase that.

Chase the debris field. The flood tunnel comes in from the northeast, and the

water's coming in from this direction.

Boy, you have been already thinking about this, brother.

In 1861, 12 years after the discovery of what many believed to be two stacked

wooden chests filled with gold, a team of treasure hunters tried to reach the

bottom of the original money pit by digging an adjacent shaft.

At a depth of 118 feet, the shaft, known as shaft number six, began

filling with seawater.

Shortly afterwards, a series of loud crashes were heard leading the workers

to speculate that the wood cribbing in the money pit had collapsed and that

whatever possible treasure lay at the bottom was now scattered across a vast

underground and underwater debris field

so money pit collapses the

debris field goes this way i go right in there right here that's where we drill

Right there.

He's saying seven feet south, four feet west of V3 bottom hole.

Okay, sounds good. Let's go do it. Thanks, Craig.

Take care. Thanks.

Thanks. Okay, I like that a lot. That makes me feel a lot better.

You get to choose a hole on Oak Island. I mean, nobody deserves that more than

you.

Nobody has put their soul into this like you have.

Nobody has been less self-aggrandizing than you.

Look, you deserve it.

It is as simple as that.

Well, thanks.

So, anyway.

We do it together.

Ever since he first read about it as an 11-year-old boy, it has been Rick

Lagina's dream to solve the Oak Island mystery.

It is a dream that has been with him for more than 50 years, and one that he

cannot extinguish easily or willingly.

Good morning. We've got a little change of plans.

Okay.

What we want to do is have one more go at the vault. Sure.

Just to caution you, you know, we could hit wood, we could hit stone, and

we could hit steel. And we could hit what we're looking for. Exactly.

Well, that would make it all worthwhile.

Yeah. That's the location right there. We're about seven feet west and seven

feet south of E3.

We're seven feet right there.

That's our spot right there.

That's where Gail is.

Gail number one.

I just wonder what mom and dad would think, really, is where my mind goes.

What would they think?

Your dad would be interested because... But he would... He likes things like

this. He would reserve judgment. Yeah.

Well, your mother would be proud of you. She'd think we were nuts, but she often

thought we were nuts. What mother doesn't think her boys are nuts

sometimes?

I feel it.

Everything's going to jive. That's the spot.

Very good. Okay. I'll bring you guys back up here in a bit.

Thank you very much. Appreciate the fourth hole. Good luck. Her gal.

Appreciate gal. Gal one.

All right. She's our gal. She's a good looking gal too.

Better be.

For some, the curse of Oak Island comes in the form of death caused by

unforeseen calamity.

But for others, it comes in the form of fierce determination fueled by faith.

and tempered by the likelihood that too much has already been discovered for

anyone to give up now.

For Rick and Marty Lagina and their partners, the bold decision to dig a

fourth exploration shaft has brought a renewed excitement.

But could they really be within a few precious feet of finding their target?

Or will they discover that they have not only tempted fate one more time, but...

Once too often.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

Come on, bring something up.

A special two-hour season finale.

We are starting to zero in on something. Yeah, baby.

Look at that. That's the vault.

Ten years of planning.

That piece was used for treasure chests. That's fantastic.

Four years of digging.

It's a gold coin.

Deep in the money pit. Holy.

Finally pays off. We're gonna get some answers. You really do have something

here. Done it.

Yes!