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Tonight on the Curse of Oak Island.

They believe the money pit was over here.

What we haven't got is what direction they were drilling. We have to do more

research. This is quite a document. Have you seen that before? No, I haven't. It

showed unmistakable evidence of having gone into gold.

He's in some sort of void, but he hit something.

Oh, please. What we're looking for. Okay, that's interesting.

Wow.

I'll read 190 feet.

We have one more piece.

What is that? My immediate reaction is it's bone.

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.

As a new day begins on Oak Island,

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with their team, remain singularly

focused on their efforts to locate the original money pit.

It lost the wood again.

Guess what we need?

More wood. More wood.

They have recently completed 16 of approximately 40 six-inch wide boreholes

using what is known as the geotech system.

This involves drilling each hole down to bedrock and then, after lining it with

plastic PVC pipe, scanning the hole with a metal detector to locate artifacts or

possible treasure.

If one or more of the exploratory shafts offers positive results, they can be

marked as sites for future excavation.

Today, the team is joined by geophysical engineer and Oak Island researcher John

Wannacott, who, along with his partner, Les McPhee, helped to develop the

geotech grid map.

John Wannacott is an engineer's engineer.

He's a mining engineer. He and Les McPhee actually give me a lot of hope

about the money pit because those two guys, they look at that data and they

conclude with a high degree of certainty.

that it's a man-made structure.

Where the hell is it?

Where is it, John?

How come we got 12 holes drilled here and we haven't found anything yet?

Actually, how many? 16, right? Yeah, that's right. Pushing that.

Nothing in the places you looked, I guess.

Thank you. Thank you.

To create their geotech drilling grid, Wanakot and McPhee relied on information

compiled over the past 200 years by generations of treasure hunters.

But what has made their task much more difficult is that the Money Pit area is

literally cluttered with drill pipes, giant boulders, and a number of

abandoned searcher shafts, including those built by M.R. Chappell in 1931 and

Gilbert Hedden in 1937.

There are very few knowns in the Money Pit area.

We have lots of documentation. We have lots of archival records.

And we know them to be inconsistent, if not misleading.

I still believe we'll be successful. I still believe there's something there to

be found.

And that we will engage in a large-scale engineering project to recover whatever

it is at great depth in the money pit.

So I'm not giving up.

Where's the treasure? John, where's the treasure? Put your figure on it, please.

Well, actually, I think the money pit is still where we've got the dotted line on

the drawing. Really?

And William Chappell gave us his notes of his drilling, and I'm relying on this

dotted outline for the drilling platform.

What we haven't got is any actual description of where they set up the

drill and what direction they were drilling.

The only logical thing we can conclude is that they believed the money pit was

over here at some depth.

I really want to see what we're going to get in this band of holes down here.

What's the point of all those? Because we're thinking of scratching these. I'll

just be candid with you.

Well, the point was it completed the grid.

This is where we thought the money pit would be. If we're wrong, it could be

this way or this way. We're adding a bunch of holes, and if we can subtract a

couple. There's not an infinite supply of money. Oh, of course. And I think

it's correct to not drill these yet. I think the pattern that we're on drilling

down here, I think we get it. Finish up this way. Finish up this way. Yeah.

To me, this was the high-value target area here.

I always assumed that we would come back to these areas.

Yeah. I've always believed, since we were knee-high to a grasshopper, I

believe it's here. I know you do. It's here.

Right.

I worry about my brother.

Right now, he's carrying the whole weight of this. He is.

And I don't know how he's going to react if we dig all these wells and we don't

find anything.

I mean, he's passionate about it, but he's got a certain reverence about it

that could lead to, you know, some really hard, hard feelings.

Not between us, but on himself.

All right, let's keep drilling.

You won't get an argument from me. Okay.

As Rick, Marty, and the team from Brewster Drilling continue their efforts

at the Money Pit site, an additional search is taking place at the Beaton

Institute, located in the town of Sydney, some 300 miles northeast of Oak

Island.

Here, Alex Lagina, Charles Barkhouse, and Rick and Marty's nephew, Peter

Fernetti, have arranged to meet area historian Doug Crowell.

who has spent the last several days searching a number of important

documents that were donated to the Institute by legendary Oak Island

treasure hunter M.R. Chappell.

Documents which the team hopes will offer fresh information concerning the

precise location of the original Oak Island money pit.

Here's something interesting, Doug. This is an affidavit by William Chappell.

in connection with the drilling done in 1897.

Now, that's, of course, where they hit the suspected vault, where they found

the piece of parchment.

While drilling in the money pit in 1897, treasure hunters William Chappell and

Frederick Blair encountered what they believed was a mysterious wooden vault

located at a depth of 153 feet.

Even more astonishing was the discovery of a tiny piece of paper on which were

written the letters.

The Eye.

But before Chapel and Blair could dig deep enough to retrieve the mysterious

vault, the hole they were digging caved in due to flooding, and the vault's

exact location was lost.

For two years, they attempted to find it again, but plagued by constant flooding

and scarce funding, they gave up their search in 1899.

Since then, dozens of treasure hunters have come to the island in hopes of

finding the vault including chapel's own son melbourne also known as mr

in 1931 he began constructing a shaft of his own off

which he built a horizontal tunnel in the last known direction of the so

-called chapel vault but just like his father's expedition three decades before

the chapel shaft was plagued by flooding and numerous cave-ins

This is quite a document, this thing right here. It's a compilation of a

number of things, affidavits and descriptions of the whole Oak Island

discovery up to that point. Have you seen that before?

No, I haven't, no.

That's fine.

Absolutely. That's the type of information we want, something closer to

the source and the time period.

Have you heard this?

This is a sworn statement by Frederick Blair.

Mr. Putnam was too conservative and cautious to state publicly the important

fact. that when the drill came to the surface it showed unmistakable evidence

of having gone through or into gold he did however make such a statement in

confidence to me and to a few close friends i have heard rumors that there

was indications of gold but i never knew the source this is a sworn statement

that they drilled through gold

While searching through a rare collection of documents once belonging

to Oak Island treasure hunter M. R. Chappell, Alex Lagina, Charles

Barkhouse, Peter Fernetti, and area historian Doug Crowell have just made a

potentially significant discovery.

Well, I think this is interesting enough that we should call my dad.

They have found a sworn affidavit attesting to the fact that traces of

gold were on the drill bit used by treasure hunter William Chappell.

after he penetrated a mysterious seven-foot-tall wooden vault in 1897.

Hello? Hey.

Hey, Alex.

We're here at the Beaton Institute. We've been going through some of

Chappell's old files.

We stumbled across what looks to be like an affidavit talking about the 1897

shaft that was drilled.

This is Blair making a sworn statement.

I was well acquainted with T. Purley Putnam, who acted as manager of the work

done of the island for recovery of the treasure between the years 1896 and

1900.

He was a man in whose honesty and integrity I would place the greatest

reliance. I heard him repeatedly tell his experience with the auger and drill

in the drill hole in which wood was first struck at 154 feet.

Get that?

Yeah, keep going now.

I want to hear this. This is the interesting one.

Mr. Putnam was too conservative and cautious to state publicly the important

fact that when the drill came to the surface, it showed unmistakable evidence

of having gone through or into gold.

Wow. Because Frederick Blair was supposed to be a really honest, honest

guy, right?

Yeah, and this is a sworn, I mean, this is under oath, basically.

Yeah, it would be a criminal act to do that. You're right, it would be.

Probably criminal to lie about this.

Wow, that is pretty impressive.

It was all apocryphal, you know, in sense of, oh, this guy supposedly said

that, and it's in a book. I never heard of a sworn statement before.

Although the story of gold being found on William Chappell's drill bit is not a

new one, finding evidence of a sworn affidavit by Frederick Blair suggests

that this is one Oak Island legend.

that is likely based on fact.

A fact that suggests that the stories of an incredible treasure being buried

somewhere deep within the money pit could also be true.

It just makes you believe it's really there, but why can't we find it?

I mean, that vault has been an enigma since the first time we read about it.

All right, well, good job. Keep digging.

All right. Cheers.

Touche. Thanks.

Bye.

After a productive day of searching through M.R. Chappell's personal papers.

All right. Gentlemen, this is what caused me to lose a little bit of sleep

here. Alex Lagina, along with Charles Barkhouse, Peter Fernetti, and area

historian Doug Crowell.

returned to the Oak Island war room.

In addition to their earlier discovery of Frederick Blair's sworn affidavit,

they believe they have found new information concerning the Oak Island

money pit.

I think this may be affecting the geotech grid, and we may be missing an

important spot.

One of the things that caught my attention, of course, from reading the

dig notes for the chapel shaft, when they were digging the chapel shaft,

which was basically trying to hit the money pit site at the time. The bottom

of the shaft was 10 to 12 feet north of where the top of the shaft was.

I didn't realize it was that far out.

Exactly. If this information is correct, they missed this area and they probably

missed the money pit?

Yes. Mm-hmm.

The news that the bottom of the chapel shaft lies some 10 to 12 feet north of

its entrance is hugely significant.

Until now, Rick, Marty, and the team had assumed that the shaft had been

completely vertical and had used that assumption in the planning of their

geotech grid.

But the new information discovered in the papers at the Beaton Institute will

allow the team to choose their next drilling targets more accurately.

What he's saying is this has not been investigated. Yes. Yeah, exactly. At the

depth in which the chapel vault was encountered.

They would have missed it. They would have missed it. Right.

The fact that now we know the direction in which it had deviated, it exposes new

ground for this geotech grid program.

We may have to adjust some of the holes.

Right now we're only putting three in there. I think we should look to putting

four in each of these sections.

We may.

I think there are discoveries of where the chapel shaft...

deviated to were basically all I could hope for. I didn't expect there to be an

X marks the spot.

I'd say it's about as successful as it could be. Right.

So, excellent new information, guys. Well done.

Yeah. And now let's get back in the field. Agreed?

Agreed.

One day after learning critical new information on the actual location of

the chapel shaft,

Rick Lagina and members of the Oak Island team head to the Money Pit search

area. They are hoping that the new drill sites they have chosen will produce

better results than those they have experienced so far.

Morning, Terry. How are you? Good.

I think the consensus is we'll just push on down the rock. That's the idea.

The Oak Island team has now modified their geotech drilling pattern.

by adding eight new target holes in an approximately 10 by 20 foot triangle

area not covered in their previous grid.

They are hoping the first of these holes, 4-hole H8, will allow them to

finally find the elusive Chappell vault, originally discovered by treasure hunter

William Chappell in 1897.

Let's get it going, see what's down there. Hopefully it's what we're looking

for. Let's roll.

I think I know what you're thinking.

What am I thinking?

You're thinking that this hole's going to be it.

The excitement ratchets up a bit because we've now got data which says that we've

got fresh ground, that we've got an area of interest based upon archival records,

that today might be the day where we actually find the one irrefutable piece

of evidence.

It should be a good day.

As drilling gets underway in borehole H8... Let's go down to the

beach. Marty Lagina, Dave Blankenship, and metal detection expert Gary Drayton

head to the area known as the Boulderless Beach, located on the

island's northern shore.

Here, they hope to discover more important artifacts and possible

treasure that may have been exposed by last winter's powerful storms.

I like this area.

You see here, Gary, how it really is? There's rocks. Yeah, it seems to finish.

When veteran treasure hunter Dan Blankenship first came to Oak Island in

1965, the causeway linking the island to the mainland had yet to be built.

Arriving by boat, he noticed an unusual stretch of beach which lacked the large

rocks and boulders that are characteristic of the rest of the

island's coastline.

Dan speculated that the approximately 100-foot-long stretch of land was man

-made and may be further evidence of unusual activity on the island prior to

the discovery of the money pit in 1795.

It doesn't look natural at all. It really doesn't. And we've actually

subsequently determined that it extends out into the water, that there are rocks

in the water to the right and to the left of this spot, but not here.

So, you know, that implies strongly it should be a good place to hunt.

You can definitely see a defined area where the boulders start and stuff.

This is my go-to Spanish treasurement rig.

Instead of his usual metal-detecting search coil, Gary will be using the GPX

5000, a high-performance pulse induction rig which specializes in finding deep

artifacts.

With strength equivalent to eight metal detectors in one, its increased

sensitivity makes it an ideal choice, especially when searching in areas that

have been heavily scanned in the past.

I can't believe the lack of freaking metal on this lot.

It's been metal detected before, but I was expecting that thing to find

something. But whenever I get discouraged is when he finds something,

so I'm going to sit on this rock and be discouraged.

Signal, guys.

Just as you sit there. What did I tell you?

Oh, man.

Great. More than likely a piece of iron.

Yep.

That's a strong hit. That's definitely something.

Oh, I can see it. Can you see all that iron residue?

No.

There you go.

Where? Right there? Yeah.

There you go. Right in the center of the hole.

Come on. Coin. Coin.

There's rocky in here.

Gold. Want me to shovel a bit more? Oh, there it is. Look.

Where? Oh, look at that. There you go. There you go. What do you got? I see

what that is.

That is an old, raw iron spike.

At the area known as the Boulderless Beach... That's a big one, David.

Marty Lagina, Dave Blankenship, and metal detection expert Gary Drayton have

just unearthed a potentially significant artifact.

And that is commonly referred to as a ship spike.

So I would say that is early 1700s.

A spike from a ship dating back to the early 18th century?

Now that's a good signal.

Could this spike be related to the others the team has found on the island?

Oh, look at that. That's nice.

Both in the swamp and the Galwan spoils.

Yeah, but it'd have to be the size of the Titanic to use a nail that big.

Well, that's just the point, David. That's kind of exciting, actually, isn't

it? It wasn't any itty-bitty boat here.

But that's definitely old. I mean, that's an old... Well, that'd be good.

You know, it occurs to me, we do have an archaeologist running around here, don't

we?

Let's let him help.

Because Marty believes the metal spike may have historical significance, he has

decided to reach out to area archaeologist Laird Niven.

who has recently joined the oak island team hello hello yeah laird hey

do you have a minute to come down to the beach we've got an artifact we'd like

you to have a look at i can drop what i'm doing good deal see you in a bit

thanks this is not going to be easy we have to follow the clues and these

spikes are clues you know when were they made what were they used for how do they

interrelate with each other and we're keeping all this data and we're going to

go over it Gary thinks that the story is going to be told with things like that.

That's how we're going to uncover the whole mystery here.

While Marty and the team wait for Laird to arrive, Rick Lagina and members of

the Oak Island team are eagerly searching the spoils of borehole H8 that

have been brought up so far.

Smell that? Yeah.

Smell that greenhouse smell. We had that last year when we put those large

caissons in.

It's very interesting.

First discovered in the early 19th century, the application of coal-tar

-based creosote became a common treatment to prevent wooden structures

from rotting when heavily exposed to water.

The fact the wood brought up from H-8 smells of creosote most likely indicates

evidence of a 19th century searcher tunnel and not that of a more ancient

structure. Yeah, I don't smell it anymore.

Where are we now?

We are at 135.

We're right around target depth.

Although the chapel vault was originally encountered at a depth of 153 feet in

1897, decades of subsequent searcher activity and underground flooding has

significantly reduced the elevation of the Money Pit search area by an

estimated 10 feet.

this means that the vault could now lie anywhere from 140 to as much as 160

feet deep underground we better watch it now in case just a small amount of wood

comes out of it

the last foot of that one and hit something.

Ivan said he's in some sort of void, but he hit something.

He clipped something?

Yeah, he was going down and then he clipped something.

Where would that have been? That's at 140, 145.

A mysterious void?

One containing a large object?

some 145 feet deep below ground has the drill net just made contact

with the elusive chapel vault and could the answers to the 222 year old oak

island mystery finally be within reach all right that's right where it should

be it mimics exactly the drill platform experience that the chapels when they

encountered the vault it's right depth evan's a great driller and I've always

believed when you have eyes and boots on the ground, those guys, that's who you

go to.

And so you've got testament that you're alongside a hard object that's proper

depth, proper location.

It doesn't get much better than that. I know you can't look underground, but

what do you think you slid by?

Jesse would push by something you never know what it was, right?

Well, let's go to 170 and see if you get a sense that you slide by or pass

something.

In order to find more definitive proof that the chapel vault has been located,

Rick Lagina instructs the team to continue drilling.

i haven't said he went down into a void but he clipped something something that

he doesn't recognize okay senses that later on 171 if

he senses that he passed something then maybe we pull the casing back up put the

plastic down if we're close to the vault we'll find out yeah

As the team from Brewster Drilling continues their search for evidence of

the chapel vault, archaeologist Laird Niven has finally arrived at the

boulderless beach.

Here's Laird.

Hello, guys. You found us. I did.

So what say you?

It's a spike.

Spike? Yeah.

We've come to that conclusion.

Laird Niven's participation in the Oak Island treasure hunt has helped assure

Canadian authorities that all island artifacts, as well as culturally

protected sites, will be properly handled.

That's nice. That really is. He is also an invaluable resource to Rick, Marty,

and the team in their efforts to identify and date objects that may be

not only historically important, but instrumental in helping them solve the

Oak Island mystery.

It's a nice one. Hand wrought, obviously.

Nice rose head.

You do consider that a rose head on that? Oh, yeah.

And now the million dollar question, how old would you say that is?

We keep asking you this. I know, I know.

Well, it's definitely within the 18th century.

Yeah, that's why I figured 1700s. Yeah.

So I was telling the guys, this is like a clue, you know, either a dock or a

wharf here or even a shipwreck.

A wharf would make sense to me. Yeah.

A wharf?

If so, who built it? And what was their purpose?

Could it have been a place for a pirate to offload his treasure?

Perhaps 18th century privateer turned Oak Island landowner Captain James

Anderson. Check this thing out. Whose sea chest was examined by members of the

Oak Island team just a few weeks ago.

I think this is it.

Oh, yeah.

1700-ish? Yeah.

Significant. Yeah, definitely from the 1700s. Well, that's good.

At the Oak Island Money Pit, Rick Lagina, Dave Blankenship, Charles

Barkhouse, and geologist Terry Matheson continue to monitor the progress of

borehole H8. For just hours ago, the drillers encountered a mysterious object

at a depth of 145 feet.

How deep are we now?

195.

All right.

No bedrock yet, so we might as well drive it to bedrock.

He'll put this 10 feet on, and then we're going to be done.

All right. High hopes for this one, too.

Right on the drill platform.

It was crazy geologically.

Kind of weird.

But if this hits rock, we don't find anything.

Now, nearly 200 feet deep underground, 40 feet past their target depth, the

team has yet to find further evidence that they may have discovered the

legendary chapel vault.

I mean, H-8 was set.

on the drill platform of 1897 where they believe they encountered the so-called

fault it's inside of the chapel shaft william mr's father designated the

location of this drill platform and they thought they were spot on and you know

were they is it there or is it not okay

that's kind of interesting

Wow. Wow, really.

Glazed pottery.

Pottery. Blue pottery.

We're getting pottery at 190 feet.

That's confounding.

Pottery found at a depth of approximately 190 feet?

Although finding bits of pottery on Oak Island is not a rare occurrence, the

depth at which this fragment was recovered is deeper than any found

before and deeper than any previously known searcher activities.

Could this perhaps be further evidence that the team really has located the

mysterious chapel vault?

Well, I did not have a tea party down there. That is, yeah, that's... Let's

show these guys, but we're going to drive it to rock.

Hey!

What's that?

That blue, that looked like pottery or something. It is. Pottery is.

What?

Oh, my God.

Pottery. Wow.

You broke up the teapot.

He told me to drill there.

Look, another piece.

That's crazy.

It's a couple of pieces. That's pretty.

We'll call it right here.

We're going to push the bedrock and see if there's more of it. Yeah.

So we'll see you guys in the morning. Yes.

Thank you.

As the team from Brewster Drilling finishes operations for the

day, it is decided that they will continue drilling in borehole H8 until

bedrock is reached.

Oh, what's that jumping up at us?

What do you make of that?

On first inspection, to me it looks like wood, but it's extremely dense.

What was the depth at which this was found?

That was between 160 and 165.

It's dense and hard.

Doesn't look like rock. It's not rock.

You got a geologist saying it's not a stone.

I mean, there's a few possibilities of what it could be.

Like what?

Could it be lignum vitae?

Super dense wood. Super dense wood.

Latin for wood of life, lignum vitae is a dense tropical wood native to the

Caribbean and northern coast of South America.

One of many species commonly referred to as ironwoods, its durability and

resistance to the elements made it an ideal choice for nearly all moving parts

of seafaring vessels.

From 16th century ships, to the first nuclear-powered submarine, the 1952

USS Nautilus.

I only can tell you one thing.

What? We're surely going to get it tested.

Absolutely. That's got to be on the top ten list of curious things we pulled out

of there.

I'd say it's top five. Yeah.

It's a remarkable find. Yeah. Let's find out what it is.

Get to the bottom of it. Anyway, I'm going to bag it. Bag it.

Bag it and tag it.

Hey, me.

You know, we're in H8.

A couple of interesting objects.

One is we found a piece of something at 160 to 165. We

literally don't know what it is. It's extremely dense, very heavy.

Charles gave an opinion that maybe it's some exotic subtropical species called

Lignum vitae, if it's wood.

Yeah, I'm familiar with that.

Is there something we can do to take a look at that?

I'm sure there is, Rick. I'm sure we could do a mass spectrometry.

Here's the thing that's really quite perplexing, and that is that we found

pottery at 192.

No one has been down that deep.

192? 192. 192.

192.

Came up in the samples from 190 to 195, but I

guess we're guesstimating around 192, but certainly 190 and beyond.

That's deeper than anybody's ever been.

Absolutely.

Well, wow, Rick. I mean, if that turns out to be ancient, I mean, pre-1770s,

eh, that could be your one thing.

You may just have done it. Get that analyzed immediately.

That's actually quite exciting.

And if it's old, if it's free, whatever, 1750, you got them both.

You would convert me to a believer right there.

Okay.

Sets me on my task. I'll get it tested or looked at for sure.

All right, Rick. Thanks. Okay.

Take care. Bye.

After a day of breakthroughs on Oak Island... So, Laird, we're very grateful

that you're coming back to us. Your oversight as archaeologist is important

to us.

Rick, Marty, and members of the team gather in the war room, where they are

eager to discuss a few of their recent findings with area archaeologist Laird

Niven. We have a collection here of some artifacts that we've recovered. Right.

We're hopeful that you can help us, at least give us some insight in two ways.

One, perhaps telling us what the items are, maybe a timeline, maybe a

composition. Okay.

So why don't we get Craig on the line?

Hey, Craig. Craig, can you hear us all just fine? Sure can. Hey, guys.

Also joining them via video conference from his office in Traverse City,

Michigan, is Rick and Marty's friend and business partner, Craig Tester.

So we've got a little, I call it our little box of goodies, and Laird's here,

and he's going to give us his opinion as to the... How old they are.

Perhaps, perhaps, timelining them.

Okay, sounds good. This came from the Money Pit area. Look here.

Laird, I'll let you take them out. Yeah.

So this is pearlware.

That's between 190 and 195 feet down.

Yeah. So this would be... This is hand-painted pearlware from England,

Staffordshire.

We're looking at the 1780s to 1800.

It's imitating...

Chinese porcelain is what it's doing.

How did pottery get down to 192 feet? That I do not know.

What did Terry think of it when he looked at it?

You know, Terry Matheson is a geologist, and he's struggling with the mode of

emplacement for that because, I mean, it's below searcher depth. Nobody's been

down that deep. No searchers have been down that deep.

Although it is Laird's estimation... that the pottery may only predate the

discovery of the money pit by just a few years.

The great depth at which it was recovered still offers the team an

important clue, one that may justify a further investigation into borehole H8.

I think the pottery found in H8 below searcher depth is the most significant

thing we've discovered this year. I find that. That's a wow factor for me. Yeah.

For him. For me. For him to say that.

Look, data's data, you know, and when the data says what it says.

No human beings historically were down that deep, period.

And then we have one more piece.

I'm not going to tell you anything about it because we'd like you to give us your

opinion.

What is that?

My immediate reaction is it's bone.

Holy smokes.

It is bone.

Wait, what?

You're certain that's bone?

I'm fairly certain.

Where was that found?

H8 at 160 to 165.

Bone? Found buried 160 feet deep in the money pit?

But if the mysterious object is in fact bone, how did it get there?

And perhaps more importantly, To what, or to whom, did it belong?

Everything I thought you were going to say?

The bone wasn't it? No, absolutely not.

You're certain that's not wood?

I don't think so.

See, it's hollow.

It's dense, I know, but... What is it?

Human or animal?

I can identify human bones, but... It's more difficult with the fragment. Then I

understand. Like any good scientist, you don't want to make a conclusion until

all the data's in. I get it completely. You seriously think that's bone?

I do.

Wow.

I wish I could say I wasn't surprised, but I am very surprised. I never would

have suspected bone.

Didn't expect any of this, did you?

I think it's bone.

I don't think I would have independently thought it was bone, but if the choices

are bone or wood, I think it's a piece of bone. It does not look like wood to

me. Look, if it was human and it's pre-1780, you've got your original works

again.

So we're going to follow where the bone leads.

I think we can get it tested in some way, shape, or form. Can we carbon date

that? What say you, Craig?

Well, I was wondering about getting that.

chemical analysis or something of it to see impurities or whatnot.

Maybe that'll help data too.

Imagine that. We don't have an answer from an artifact in the money pits.

Gee, that's never happened before.

Okay. I think we have a plan. You know, we'll get to the bottom of it.

Absolutely. Thank you, Larry.

Appreciate it.

For Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team, this week's Search for Answers has

offered a number of promising new leads.

But just where, or to what, are they being led?

Is it to an ancient wooden vault, filled with priceless artifacts and treasure?

Or could it be to something far more mysterious, and perhaps more dangerous,

than anything they could have ever imagined?

Perhaps the answer can be found embedded in a simple piece of bone. A bone that

may have belonged to the last person to know the truth about what really...

lies below.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

Ooh.

It's bone with some soft tissue on it and hairs.

Is it human?

You getting readings?

Yeah. We need to see what's there. Picking something else up right here.

What do you make of that?

In H8, there is definitely an anomaly.

I think we found the money pit.

We now have results from the two bones.

Both came back as human.