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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

If there's something to be found in the money pit, we'll find it.

Eric, that is interesting.

We're trying to figure out how old it is. This is from the 1400s. Could be a

lot older.

Well, ooh, that's a good hit. We found something that'll blow him away.

This is great.

I have Captain James Anderson's sea chest.

Like a treasure chest?

Does it sit here?

That's the baby. Holy crap, look at that thing.

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 beginning of an exciting new day on Oak Island.

as brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with their team, are about to begin

their first big project of the summer, an extensive drilling operation that

will pinpoint the exact location of the original money pit.

So, you really believe in three weeks, eh, Rick? All will be revealed? I think,

you know, if everything went perfect, in 20 days we will find the one significant

thing. Look, Rick, you and I disagree sometimes, but I am so on board with

drilling everything you want to drill.

We're singularly focused on the money pit this year. I always felt like the

money pit was where it began, and the money pit is probably where it will end.

Because the exact location of the original money pit shaft has been lost

over time, finding it has proved more difficult and more expensive than Rick

and Marty Lagina could ever have imagined.

the team spent more than two million dollars excavating four 40-inch wide

shafts which they hoped would narrow their search digging down to depths of

approximately 160 feet they made a series of important discoveries

particularly in the so-called spoils excavated from their fourth and final

shaft of last summer galwan oh what the heck is that come on

last week While resuming his search of the Gal 1 spoils, metal detection

expert Gary Drayton and members of the team made another eye-opening find.

Wow. What that is, that's an old and forged nail.

This could dip into the 1600s. If we can verify that, I'm holding a piece of the

original money.

Now... Using the Gal One dig site as a center point of reference, Rick, Marty,

and the team are about to employ what is called the geotech system.

If successful, it will confirm the money pit's exact location once and for all.

Okay, let's put these guys to work.

Ready to make some holes?

Yeah. Where do you want to start, Kyle?

I think we're going to start in here and work our way out. So point to the first

hole. Start in here.

The geotech system will involve the drilling of approximately 40 six-inch

-wide holes in a grid pattern down to depths of up to 200 feet.

I am a strong proponent of the geotech grid from a strategy standpoint.

It's scientific, it's methodical. I am convinced it's the right thing to do.

There we go.

Look, I think we've rounded to a pretty proper grid, and if...

And I won't say if there's something to be found, but when it's found, it will

be within the grid.

Rick has spent a lot of time out here already laying out a grid that is going

to make it virtually impossible to miss the original works there if they still

exist. We're going to drill how many holes?

38. Right now?

Yeah. 38 holes.

I think we've all rallied around this idea that if there's something to be

found in the money pit, and I truly believe there is, we'll find it.

During the drilling process, the team will also be obtaining core samples.

These will help them not only in their search for the location of the original

treasure shaft, but also locate valuable clues and perhaps bits of treasure

buried down below.

While the geotech drilling operation gets underway, Rick, Marty, and Craig

Tester make their way approximately 50 miles northeast to St. Mary's University

in the city of Halifax.

They have arranged to have the iron spike found in the Galwan spoils

scientifically tested.

If, as they hope, the spike can be dated to before 1795, the year when the money

pit was first discovered,

Then the spike may have been used in the Money Pit's original construction.

I believe this is her office.

Yes, I see the lab coats.

Hello, Krista. Hello.

Nice to see you again. How are you? Welcome back. Thank you. How are you

doing? Hello, Krista. Nice to see you again. Dr. Krista Brousseau is an

associate professor of chemistry.

She is also considered to be one of Canada's leading experts in the study of

metals and their chemical compositions.

And this is it here. What we're trying to do is figure out how old it is.

All right. Looks like you've already had a section taken.

Yeah? Yeah. Okay.

So we can sample that section directly.

Let's go test out the spike. Let's go check it out. Head downstairs.

Great. Okay, let's go find out what it is.

The hope, of course, is that it dates very, very early, pre-searcher, and that

with certainty.

That's the hope.

Working with her colleague, Dr. Shawn Yang.

Hi, Dr. Yang.

Dr. Brousseau will examine the spike using a high-powered scanning electron

microscope.

So we're going to look at the spike.

The microscope will generate images of the spike surface that are tens of

thousands of times their actual size.

Based on composition and morphology, definite can you can you date this to

what kind of timeline right so there's a few markers so in the metal itself one

of the things we want to look for is from the 1860s onwards metals like

nickel molybdenum were added into iron objects one of the things we want to

look for is manganese it's one of the best elemental markers generally if you

see between 0.2 and one percent manganese in a steel then it's likely

post 1840s and so if we see any of those elements then that would generally be an

indication it's a modern iron object okay well let's let's see what we got

here so we are seeing the texture of

the piece the spike so those are the corrosion so

What we'll do is we'll zoom in and we'll look at what is the elemental makeup of

those darker strings that you see. So they look to be the stringers of slag.

So the reason they're sort of strung out like this is because they would have

sort of hammered the metal to try and get rid of that.

And so they would have kind of gotten squished.

Right, but that is one of those dark streaks that's been magnified. Yeah,

it looks to be. Okay, so there's the metal.

itself, 90% iron and a little bit carbon, which is normal.

So 90% iron, 10% carbon, that's very typical.

No manganese. That's good. That's good. So it's a pretty good indication at this

point that it's an early iron.

I mean, if we knew this piece was from the 1400s, could you look at it and say,

yes, I mean, it's consistent with that.

Could you say that? Yeah, I would say it.

There's nothing here that indicates it couldn't be, at least that I see from

the analysis, that it couldn't be a lot older.

If we knew this piece was from the 1400s, could you look at it and say,

yes, I mean, it's consistent with that.

Could you say that? Yeah, I would say it looks to me to be consistent with that.

There's nothing here that is a flag for a modern iron.

At St.

Mary's University in Halifax, Rick Lagina, his brother Marty, and their

friend and business partner Craig Tester have just received astounding news

concerning the metal spike they found last week in the Galwan spoils.

Right, and no sulfur would indicate that you're... Right, so no sulfur indicates

likely it was smelted with charcoal, so that is also an earlier time date.

Fossil fuels became very common in the 1700s. It's intriguing.

It's old.

Okay, so it's also consistent. When you showed us, you're seeing that same

thing. So we have slag. We don't have manganese.

We've got relatively pure iron. No sulfur.

No sulfur.

Those three things showing up are not inconsistent.

I know that's a double negative, but are not inconsistent with something even

much older.

In my opinion, yes.

Well, that's all good stuff.

I mean, you know, it's almost as good as you can get. Wow.

So, looks good.

The data comes back. Basically, that spike is probably hundreds of years old,

several hundreds of years old.

If it is prior to 1600s, then that's the thing I keep looking for. Because people

on the island 100 years ago is one thing. People on the island underground

100 years before discovery of the money pit is really the definitive thing.

Well, doctors, that's excellent. That's great data.

It's intriguing, the composition of the spike.

We want to thank you very much. It's a pleasure.

Thank you. You're welcome.

Thanks for coming by.

return to the money pit to check on the progress of the geotech drilling

operation. So there's the three holes. That's the fence that way.

These are the three we've done?

Yeah, yeah. Here.

As each borehole in the geotech grid is drilled, the cuttings, or spoils, are

carefully searched by hand.

This will allow the team to know if the holes they are drilling are finding

evidence of underground structures or possible treasure.

Terry Matheson is a local geologist. We hired him to do what we would call mud

logging. In this case, he's going to watch the cuttings. He's going to

describe them and bag them every five feet. He's going to basically take the

geologic sciences that he is proficient in and use them to analyze our

scientific drilling array.

Once bedrock is reached at approximately 200 feet, Each geotech hole is cased

with plastic piping.

This is done to prevent the holes from collapsing.

It will also allow for a metal detecting device to later scan each hole for

possible metal artifacts.

Okay, let's let them get down the hole and start collecting samples.

Yeah, yeah, I got to get at it. Nice talking to you.

To help them search the geotech spoils by hand, the team from Brewster Drilling

has set up what is called a shaker table a device which literally shakes the soil

free from bits of important evidence or artifacts hey rick that's

why you're getting mixed in with the cuttings old and new

i

don't maybe just burnt it almost looks like charcoal yeah that's what i was

getting fire or something

Look at that.

Almost like charcoal.

That's strange.

Yeah, that looks burnt.

He's at 195.

Charcoal? Has the team already found important evidence of ancient man-made

workings more than 190 feet underground?

Before the 19th century, miners would employ a method known as the chimney

effect. This involved burning wood and coal deep within the shaft in order to

force smoke up and out and fresh air down and in.

Did the Oak Island team just discover evidence of this ancient mining

technique being used on Oak Island, possibly in the construction of the

original money pit?

The other possible connection is the early description of the money pit and

removing the log layers every 10 feet, that several of them had charcoal.

Might that be a connection?

Perhaps.

What the hell is it doing down in Vedra?

I don't know.

Eyes and boots.

Eyes and boots.

I'll bag it.

See what the next 20 feet comes up with. Yeah, keep drilling.

We can drill another bar.

Great. We'll just finish it up.

As far as Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team are concerned, the geotech

operation is going smoothly.

and according to plan.

The fact that we have made some finds and we have a much better understanding

of the underground, we will be successful.

While drilling one of the exploratory boreholes in search of the original

money pit, a torrent of water has started gushing out of nearby borehole

C1, the same borehole where the team found a mysterious gold-colored object

two years ago.

Found the bottom of your hole.

Yeah.

Wow.

Definitely communicating.

That's what I was afraid of.

Did the team from Brewster Drilling Just penetrate one of the infamous booby

-trapped flood tunnels or is there another even more intriguing

explanation?

All of a sudden we get a giant geyser

from one of the wells that we were drilling

So the first thing you're sure of is that we've got very solid communication

between those two holes.

If we're pumping air down one, it's coming out the other.

If the two holes are communicating, or in some way connected, does this mean

Rick, Marty, and the team have found a natural underground link between the

money pit and C1?

How deep are we?

You okay? You're not stuck or anything, are you? No, we're not stuck.

Yeah, as soon as it calms down, case it, move on. Yeah.

Unfortunately for the Oak Island team, the explosion of water coming from deep

within borehole C1 means that plans to send a diver down to the bottom of the

shaft will have to be put on hold.

The churned silt and debris could take weeks or even months to settle.

making visibility, even with high-tech equipment, virtually impossible.

Look, it's all communicated. I mean, we're pretty sure of that.

Although the team has suffered a temporary setback, the fact that the

geotech drill hole and the C1 shaft are interlinked could offer proof that a

network of flood tunnels really does lie deep beneath the surface.

It's just so, oh, God, a little piece of something.

But what does it mean?

I've got 55 questions.

Doug.

Hi, Doug.

Hey, Doug. Good to see everybody.

Later that day, Rick, Marty, and members of the team gather at the Mug and Anchor

Pub in the nearby town of Mahone Bay.

They have been invited by their friend, local historian Doug Crowell, who is

eager to share what he believes is some important information.

Good to see you, Doug. Where have you been?

Been well? I've been well. I've been well. Spent a lot of time in the

archives. What have you got for us?

Well, one of the things I was following up on over the winter was your work on

Lot 24.

and finding the coins and various artifacts.

So I thought I'd take a look at lot ownership and see what activity might

have preceded Sam Ball's purchase of those lots.

Holy smokes.

Look at these.

Wow. All in one spot?

Yep. Last year, while searching an area of Oak Island once owned by Samuel Ball,

a former 18th century American slave turned British loyalist, the team found

a number of British coins.

buttons and other artifacts all dating from the 17 and 1800s wow gary

1700s that changes a lot they're not supposed to be here there's so much

stuff here i think this is an encampment or a camp one of the things i found was

that lot 26 was owned by captain james anderson and

This fellow's history turns out to be really interesting.

He was a privateer, and when the American Revolution started, he took the

Patriot Oath, was given command of a ship, defected to the British, took the

ship and all and went across the lines, became a Loyalist privateer.

Although his story is not well known, Captain James Anderson was believed to

be from Baltimore, Maryland.

According to historical records, he was a pirate and privateer before pledging

his loyalty to the united states during the american revolution in the late

1700s but after being given command of an american ship he then defected to the

british and was later charged with high treason and piracy by then virginia

governor and future american president thomas jefferson according to reports

anderson soon fled to canada where he purchased Lot 26 on Oak Island and lived

there until 1788.

He did die in the West Indies in 1796, just after the discovery of the money

pit. What was he doing there?

I suspect privateering.

Well, what I did find out was that there is still a descendant of his here in

Nova Scotia.

And he's agreed to...

talk with us and tell us a little bit more about his family. So I thought it

might be interesting to see if there's any information in the family that might

help us on the search.

Yeah, well worth a look, yeah. Yeah.

The Captain Anderson investigation is interesting because it shows once again

the colorful history on this bloody little island.

If we can get something from his descendants, more about this fellow, it

could be a clue.

Oak Island tells you anything. This island is all about the what-ifs and the

possibilities. You have to follow every lead.

I think we should run it down.

Alex? Sure.

Look, the information hunt, to me, has always been the most intriguing part of

this. And, you know, the young minds should go, as far as I'm concerned.

You know, you guys can puzzle it out.

Look, I know one thing.

He's not going.

I mean, you'd fall asleep in five minutes. So this is every bit of

information hunt as much as treasure hunt. And I find it fascinating.

Absolutely fascinating.

Let's go 60-40, Rick.

60 on the treasure, 40 on the book.

To success.

To the hunt. Cheers.

Cheers.

Did Captain James Anderson bury a portion of his treasure on Oak Island

more than 200 years ago?

And could finding evidence of it really be the key to solving the Oak Island

mystery? All right, then. More work to do.

As a new day begins, and as Rick Lagina and Dave Blankenship continue to oversee

the geotech drilling operation in the Money Pit area on Oak Island.

Alex Lagina, Peter Fernetti, and Charles Barkhouse, along with researcher Doug

Crowell, travel some 50 miles north to the city of Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

They are on their way to meet a descendant of Captain James Anderson.

the 18th century pirate who once owned property on Oak Island.

I mean, the main thing that sticks out to me is the fact that he's on the

island prior to the discovery of the money pit. So, you know, what's the odds

that this guy was involved in the actual placing the treasure there?

Or if he got word of the treasure being there and it was looking. Or that he

knows something, yeah.

It's kind of an intriguing thought. I'm hoping we're going to get some

information and maybe it'll be of some use to us or not.

One of the things we know about Captain Anderson is that he was a privateer.

He was active in the area.

So what we're hoping for is any evidence of actual treasure on Oak Island.

Good day, sir. Hello. How you doing? Hey, Steve?

Yes. Doug Kroll. Nice to meet you, Doug. Hi, Steve. Thanks for taking the time.

No problem.

You guys want to come in for a chat and sex? Absolutely. Go ahead.

Thanks, Doug.

Just take a seat there anywhere you want to. Okay.

Thank you.

Well, Steve, what brought us to look you up was Lot 26 was owned by James

Anderson. Correct.

And according to this record here, it was sold to Samuel Ball in 1788.

And what we're hoping to do is learn a little bit more about the background of

James Anderson.

And there's always been a question of how Samuel Ball came to the area.

I wonder if he knew James Anderson a long time ago. Could he possibly have

sailed with him at one time?

And maybe some secrets spilled out?

Born into slavery in South Carolina in 1765, Samuel Ball won his freedom

by fighting for the British during the American Revolution.

After the war, he fled to Canada, where in 1786 he was reported to be living on

Oak Island as a simple cabbage farmer.

But by the time of his death in 1846,

Samuel Ball had mysteriously and inexplicably become one of the

wealthiest men in Nova Scotia.

Could he, as many suspect, have found a portion of the Oak Island treasure?

And if so, Could the treasure have originally been buried there by Captain

James Anderson?

Samuel Bolt bought Lot 25 the year before he bought Lot 26 from James

Anderson. So we're hoping you can fill us in a little bit more on the history.

Okay. Well, um... Thanks.

He was a mariner, and he was both pirate and spy.

and he had a ship that was called the Betsy. And there's record of him sailing

the waters, I think, in 1768.

So that puts it back a bit before 1788.

So he's been around for a while in the waters, right? He's quite a character.

Yeah. That's a very good way to describe him, yeah.

I can show you guys more things. I have Captain James Anderson's sea chest.

Wow. Sea chest, like a treasure chest?

Yeah, just like a treasure chest. I'd love to see that. That would be a first

for us.

A treasure chest?

Yeah, we'll give you a hand with it. Thank you.

One that belonged to an 18th century privateer who once owned property on Oak

Island? Just through here in the next room?

Does it sit here?

That's the baby. Wow.

Holy crap, look at that thing.

Oh, look at this. Wow. Look at that, guys. Yeah.

Check this thing out.

Alex Lagina and members of the Oak Island team are visiting the home of

Steve Atkinson, a direct descendant of the 18th century pirate Captain James

Anderson. Okay. Who wants to do the honors of opening it? Alex. Sure. Yeah,

love to. Here you go. Okay. They have just been shown an incredible artifact,

a wooden chest once owned by Captain Anderson.

and that has been passed down through the Atkinson family for generations.

This is so cool.

I think this is it.

Wow.

Now, in this chest right here, you'll find some

documents you're going to like.

We open up the chest and we see a couple of older, smaller chests inside and a

bunch of old documents.

So I'm pretty excited by that.

Papers are extremely delicate.

Died July 1796.

Exactly. One year after the discovery of the money pit.

Mm-hmm.

There we go.

To all whom it may concern, we do hereby certify that Brother James Anderson is

a... Registered master mason in the lodge number nine.

Master mason. That's right.

Given under our hand and seal of our lodge this 24th of June, 1791.

Definitely a mason. Definitely a mason, yeah.

Captain James Anderson, a mason?

A member of a society of master builders living on Oak Island during the years

before the money pit was first discovered in 1795?

With ancient ties to everything from the Knights Templar to the Illuminati,

masons, also known as Freemasons, enjoyed a unique status in the history

of Oak Island.

Prominent treasure hunters Frederick Blair and M.R. Chappell were members, as

was future U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

One of the symbols of Freemasonry is the letter G.

which is usually depicted in the center of a triangle.

And both the letter G and the triangle have been found carved on numerous

objects both in and around Oak Island.

That's quite an amazing document.

Now, this one's a little bit better penmanship, I think, for us to read.

It's pretty cool.

Lay that one out there and see if you can...

This says, in consideration of the sum of 67 pounds, 17 shillings sterling,

paid me by James Anderson, the said sum being the amount of a bottomry bond on

the schooner Betsy. So is this the purchase, for lack of a better word, of

the Betsy? Of the Betsy, I would say. In 1778, it was purchased by James Anderson

and presumably then taken here. Yeah. Was the Betsy, was that his

privateership? I do believe so.

Amazing.

Did Captain James Anderson...

A privateer and pirate operating in the waters off Nova Scotia bring his ship,

the Betsy, to Oak Island.

I got something.

And if so, could this be the source of the evidence of an ancient ship recently

found at the bottom of the Oak Island swamp?

It may be a ship's plank.

Now, all those keys he has in his hand, I seem to think. Sure.

That one opens that treasure chest.

Maybe some other ones could be... I couldn't help noticing there were four

keys. There's been more treasure chests on the islands, and that's what I

wonder. Could the three keys be in some way connected to the three treasure

chests, which were reportedly found by Daniel McGinnis and his two friends

while digging in the original money pit?

Grandpa Daniel, he and his two friends started digging.

Now, I've been told they found three treasure chests.

And what is in this box is one of the things that came from that chest.

Wow.

Thanks so much for letting us take a look at this. I mean, this, honestly,

it's like nothing we've seen before.

You've shown us some great information right here.

So, thank you. Oh, you're very welcome, guys.

The next morning, as the geotech operation continues at the money pit,

metal detection expert Gary Drayton, along with Peter Fernetti and Jack

Begley, begins searching for new clues at the area known as Isaac's Point,

located on the eastern side of the island.

I fancy going out to the point and doing around the bluffs. About a couple of big

storms here. There might be some erosion down that side.

And it might have pulled stuff away?

Yeah. That's what I'm hoping for.

Gotcha. All right. Let's go.

One of the first things I was told when I walked onto the island was that

there'd been a couple of bad storms.

And there'd been some beach erosion.

That makes your toes tingle.

Because when the banks are eroded, anything that was in those banks is now

on the beach.

Look at this erosion.

That tree's hanging out.

let me have a little scan along this bank this is sweet careful

so

six inches oh that looks like a good hit too

yeah it's like a bronze something like that I'm not sure what it is. It's tough

because my coil's on an angle.

So somewhere in there.

Nothing like digging higher than you.

Should we pinpoint?

See if it's out?

Yeah, it seems like it's out.

Yeah, it's somewhere here.

Oh, a musket ball.

That's still old.

Let's have a look.

Good sign.

A musket ball?

Over the years, it has been well documented that the islands of Mahone

Bay in Nova Scotia were considered strategic outposts for the British

military during the American War for Independence.

Last year, while searching Lot 24 on the western side of the island, Gary Drayton

found a number of coins and other artifacts that suggested Oak Island had

once been the site of a military encampment.

This is an ingot, a lead ingot for making musket balls.

Well, that's cool. I mean, this is, you know, pre-1850s. Yeah, agreed.

And it goes in the good finds pouch.

I always like finding the musket bar.

But this is sweet. If we can find one thing, we should be able to find more. I

mean, I hate to say it, but, you know, the more erosion, the better.

I'm getting a signal here.

No, it's jumpy.

it's hard to tell once you start putting these search coils at an angle you know

it's you get wonky readings

depth

chair see if i was in the right area let me have a pimple might be out

it just might be surface junk oh no

Might have fallen, yeah.

Don't keep us in suspense.

Oh, it's part of the coin?

Wow. It's a cooked coin.

I bet you this is a cut maravidi.

Oh, this is great.

On the eastern point of Oak Island, metal detection expert Gary Drayton has

just made a potentially important discovery.

You see the angle on both sides here? That was cut on purpose.

For making change, right? Yeah, making change.

Often deemed the first coins of the new world, the maravidi, was a Spanish-made

copper coin that was primarily used by explorers who came to the Americas

during the 17th and 18th centuries.

They were also often used by pirates of various nationalities as payment for

crew members, and were commonly cut into pieces when it was necessary to make

change or make an advance on a purchase.

It was a 17th-century Spanish meravidie that was found in the Oak Island Swamp

nearly four years ago.

Could finding another one add even more fuel to the notion that pirates had

frequented the island more than a century before it was used as a campsite

by the British military?

Definitely have to have this cleaned up. Yeah.

Do you think we should call my uncles?

Yeah, for sure. Yeah? Yeah. We've actually found something that'll blow

them away.

Hello, Rick.

Yeah, Gary. We have got some good news.

Of the surface finds we've had, the Merovides have proven to be the oldest

coins we've found. And they're the best information that someone was here back

in the mid to late 1600s.

You're going to love this, Rick.

All right, what you got?

Well, you're always telling me to find stuff. Yes. And this time we found

stuff. What do you got?

What we got? We got a...

An interesting musket ball to start with. Yeah.

So someone was up here with a musket.

Ball got stuck in the musket barrel.

Pulled it out and just dropped it. This is great, Gary, but there's no way to

date this, right? No. That's what we're looking for, man.

Yeah, we're looking for something with a date on it. Yeah.

Let's see.

This didn't even make the pouch.

This is a top pocket find.

And you think that is?

That is a cut maravilli.

And that's an oldie.

When you say old, what do you mean?

I've got no doubt that's 1700s, might even be in 16s.

And look at the way it's been cut. You can see it's been basically chiseled

off. Yeah, it looks like it was done intentionally, that's for sure.

I agree with you, that isn't worn away, that's cut. Yeah.

We need to do some research on that when they quit cutting coins. Yeah, and the

reason why this is in such good condition is because it was in the soil.

It's had no contact with salt water.

We might get lucky. This might be the part with the date on it. On the date on

it. Yeah.

Gold would be great, and it's always exciting, but the date is super

significant. Oh, yeah.

No doubt this is old.

I mean, there was these.

Maravides were copper.

Then you had silver royales. Right. And then gold escudos.

So maybe we're working the way up slowly.

Gary being turned loose and finding stuff right away underscores the

importance of doing this metal detecting. If he can go out there and

find this stuff reasonably quickly, then there's probably a lot of it.

We've got to get that cleaned and tested.

Yeah.

That's fantastic.

But still no gold dance, eh?

No, no gold ants, but they had me wiggling.

All right, good. Keep going.

Oh, yeah, we've only just begun. Yeah, Gary, all right.

For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, the discovery of yet another Spanish coin

gives hope that the many stories and legends of pirates coming to Oak Island

and burying a vast treasure here could very well be true.

Although their current season on the island has only just begun, they are

encouraged by the many discoveries they and members of their team have made so

far this year.

A rosehead spike.

That is sweet.

A pirate chest.

Oh, look at this. Wow.

And now, another Spanish coin.

But as their geotech search for the elusive Oak Island money pit continues,

an even more important mystery.

lies before them.

What if they find what they're looking for?

What then?

Will it be everything they hoped it would be?

Or will it be something so fearful, so disturbing, that it would have been

best to let it lie buried deep beneath the ground?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island... It's a coin!

Holy smokes. 1,600.

This is really cool.

I've never seen you so excited. It means something.

Here's hard evidence. People were on this island 120 years before the

discovery of the money pit.

The drill bar is stuck.

I got pretty solid on something there now. I think he's in steel.

We've hit an obstruction.

This is so serious. This is the first step of shutting down the whole island.