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Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.

Ooh.

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

Is it human?

You getting readings? Yeah. Picking something else up right here. There's a

pretty good upswing there.

What do you make of that?

In H8, there is definitely an anomaly.

I think we fell in the money pit.

We now have results from the two bones. Both came back as human.

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.

In the 11 years since brothers Rick and Marty Lagina began their search for

treasure on Oak Island, they may now be closer than ever.

to solving a 222-year-old mystery.

Morning, Terry.

Hi. Where are we right now?

We're down to 210 to 250.

Is it going a little quicker?

A little bit.

I would say the rain slowed things down.

Last week, in their quest to locate the site of the original money pit, the team

found a mysterious object at a depth of 192 feet in a borehole labeled H8.

Glazed pottery.

Pottery.

Pottery at 190 feet. That's confounding.

But in addition to the fragments of pottery, they also discovered evidence

of something even more confounding.

What is that?

Something that, if true, could change their exploration in the Money Pit in a

profound way.

My immediate reaction is it's bone.

Holy smokes.

Now, as the team continues to drill at the H8 site.

This is going to take a little while.

Let's find something important.

Treasure hunters Jack Begley and Dan Henske continue to carefully sift

through the spoils in hopes of turning up even more remarkable evidence of

human activity.

I can't complain that you're not checking in detail.

Well, hopefully we can find more pottery, which we have found already,

and anything else that stands out. Yeah.

If I'm able to discover anything that can be properly analyzed, it's going to

make going through this massive spoil pile well worth it.

But it's one bucket at a time. We've got to go through all of it.

There's a piece of anhydride, I bet.

Yeah, nice one, actually.

With the possible exception of Dan Blankenship, Dan Henske knows more about

Oak Island than anyone else in the world.

After helping Dan and his son Dave dig borehole 10X in the 1970s, he has

continued to make the search for treasure his lifelong quest, and in so

doing, brings a wealth of experience to the team.

Oh, not one more piece there, I think.

This? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Anyway, I'll sit this down.

You've got better eyes than I do. Oh, not really.

All right.

It's all on looking at the right place.

Yes.

Dan, come here.

I think I found a piece of pottery.

I have a pottery bag.

You know, this is enough of a design.

I wonder if it's identifiable. I think an expert will be able to tell, though.

That does actually look pretty significant.

There you go.

Maybe we'll get more today. I don't know. I'll put it with the other stuff.

All right, I'll keep looking.

All right, here's what kind of confuses me.

What do you make of that piece of wood?

Oh, kindling?

Yeah, that pattern is very strange.

It's random, and yet it looks manufactured.

You know, it looks artificial. I just don't know what it's supposed to be.

Well, let's put this in a special bag then.

All right.

Hey, guys.

Oh, hey.

Dan and I have some stuff to show you that we found from the H8 spoils. Okay.

I will say this. You guys look almost as washed as your specimens.

Right back at you. Whatever you've got to show, let's get dry. Let's get in the

museum and take a look at it. All right. I got to grab the other bags. Okay.

Jack and Dan have done a very proper job of creating a wash table and washing

these spoils from H8. It's been a...

long process. It's taken them a lot of time and they've spent a lot of hours

going through them. So I give Jack and Dan a lot of credit for taking the

initiative to wash these things and spending the amount of time, the hours,

going through them and it's been painstaking work.

And where do I start?

You guys found it. You guys looked at it. You tell us which ones you find

intriguing.

Tell me what you think of this.

That's very interesting.

That was the only piece you found like that?

So far, yeah.

That looks significantly different than any pattern we've found to date.

Now, Laird might be able to give us an opinion, but I would definitely get that

one tested.

Yeah, I've never seen that artwork. Never, never.

Yeah. It's an interesting find because lots of pottery have been found over the

years, lots of pottery and ceramic.

This is distinctly and decidedly different.

It might be old.

So what else you got, Jack?

Okay, next is a mystery object.

We don't know exactly what this is.

I think it's a piece of wood, but I'm not exactly sure. Yeah, it's a very

unusual pattern on that.

It's got some weight to it.

Yeah. It was unlike any other piece of wood that was any other school.

I've never seen anything that had that odd pattern to it.

It is weird. There's no question about that. But it does look like bark to me.

I have no idea. That is very strange.

It almost looks artificial.

Yeah, it looks like artwork, not nature's work.

But then the back looks like it has grain.

See that?

Yeah,

it does have some grain to it.

That is very intriguing, Jack.

Great find, guys.

It's the perfect thing that needs to be run through the scanning electron

microscope. Exactly.

We should bring that to Dr. Brousseau and Dr. Yang at St. Mary's.

Awesome. Well, I'd also like to go through some of the other spoil piles,

too. No question about it. Given what you found, we'd be foolish not to avail

ourselves of that process.

Look, kudos to you guys for making these finds, but at the end of the day, we

need some testing done.

So, good job.

Thanks. All right. Very good day. Let's go.

One day after finding additional evidence of man-made materials in

borehole H8, Rick and Marty Lagina, along with their partner Craig Tester,

have traveled some 50 miles northeast to St. Mary's University in the city of

Halifax.

They are eager to get the results of laboratory testing on the object that

archaeologist Laird Niven identified as bone, along with the strange piece of

wood that was found in borehole H8.

Good to see you again.

Welcome back. What did you bring today?

We've got some interesting stuff.

Nice to see you again. Nice seeing you. Dr. Krista Brousseau is an associate

professor of chemistry and an expert.

in the compositional makeup of both metals and organic materials.

These samples actually are all from a hole we find very interesting, and this

item came from 160 to 165 feet down.

Okay. Which is interesting because we really thought that this would be

totally undisturbed, you know, in situ stuff, and for this to come out is

really odd, so we'd like to look at that.

We don't know what it is.

There's conjecture that it's a real dense wood, lignum vitae. I don't think

so. There's conjecture that it's bone.

The thing is, we've pulled up lots and lots of wood.

Nothing like that has ever come to surface.

Well, this is our highest priority.

Okay. Yep. What was the other thing here, though, before? We had two things

here, right? That also is H8. We have no idea what it is.

The grain effect on that. Yeah, that's kind of interesting, right?

Has any interesting pattern on it?

Okay. Wood versus bone should be easy to figure out today.

Okay, so these samples are ready, so we can head downstairs.

Is this odd thing bone or is it wood? Either one actually is of interest.

Hello, Dr. Yang.

How are you doing? Working with her colleague, Dr.

Sean Yang, Dr.

Brousseau will examine the two specimens with the help of a high-powered scanning

electron microscope, or SEM.

The SEM works by scanning an object with a focused beam of electrons.

When the electron beam interacts with the atoms of a specimen, The energy lost

by the process produces signals that can magnify images of the specimen by an

estimated 200,000 times larger than those created by a traditional

microscope.

It can also provide a detailed compositional analysis.

So the first thing we'll do is elemental analysis to figure out what the hard

substance is.

Okay. I thought it might be wood or possibly bone, so that'll be easy to

tell by...

elemental analysis

this

one looks interesting what does that

mean it's bone it's bone

really yes yeah

At St.

Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Rick and Marty Lagina, along

with Craig Tester, have just received confirmation that the mysterious object

found one week ago in borehole H8 is, in fact, a piece of bone.

Are you certain?

A piece of bone, yes.

It's absolutely definitive.

That looks like bone, yeah.

Because the powerful scanning electron microscope detected the presence of

calcium phosphate instead of lignin or carbohydrates, doctors Brousseau and

Yang are confident that the specimen the Oak Island team found in borehole H8 is

unquestionably bone.

But whether the bone is from an animal or a human will require DNA analysis.

A piece of bone comes out of a hole 160 feet underground.

What is it, a mastodon?

All right.

Next sample.

So this is a piece of the heart sample.

Where did this piece come from?

Same hole.

So you can see the elements popping up there.

So here we see calcium phosphate pop up right away.

So this is feasible.

A second bone?

But if another piece of bone has also been found in borehole age 8, why do the

two samples appear so different?

It's interesting looking.

Could they be from two different animals?

Or two different human beings?

And I see layers on the surface. So a piece of bone with some soft tissue on

it still.

I also see hairs in the soft material.

And hair?

And hair.

Tissue and hair?

But could tissue and hair still be attached to bone after decades deep

below ground?

And if so, will they reveal anything about what or whom lies buried in the

area of the Oak Island Money Pit?

To me, the hair looks like they were a fair distance apart from each other.

Yeah. More like you'd think of skin as opposed to animal.

That's weird, but this has skin on it. Well, some kind of tissue. It could be

fat.

Yeah, it's quite gross.

Well, a little piece of bone with the skin on it is creepy.

To see the hair follicles. Yeah.

You know, right now it's just weird.

If it turns out to be human, I guess we've got another mystery to solve.

If it really is skin, surely they could extract DNA.

You would think it wouldn't be degraded enough for that not to be possible.

Yeah. In carbon date bone, I think you can perhaps genetically test bone. Who

knows where that trail of information leads.

This is an odd search.

As Rick, Marty, and Craig conclude today's search for answers at St. Mary's

University... Well, let's get started.

Jack Begley and Dan Henske continue their painstaking search of the borehole

H8 spoils for more evidence.

Well, I need your eyes, Dan.

Yeah, well, I got them today.

From everything that I found going through the H8 spoil pile, I didn't

think I was going to be this successful. I'm really happy at the results.

It's only proof to me and the rest of the team that there's more clues to be

found.

What do you think this is?

Oh, yeah, it seems to be cut here.

So it's not natural, I'd say.

Yeah, it's about the right thickness for shoe leather, actually.

Got an interesting surface pattern there.

Does that look like the residue from an island, actually?

It looks just the right size for an island. Yeah, yeah, it does.

You can still see the imprint.

Leather? From a shoe?

Could it have come from someone who was looking for treasure on the island?

Or from someone who buried it there?

Oh, this is cool. Yeah, it looks like this would then be the top if it has

lace soles.

Well, I think it's a cool enough find because it, you know, first of all, we

weren't expecting to find a piece of leather.

Maybe from a shoe.

I think we need to have this tested.

This looks like it's got some kind of history. Anyway, I'll put it in the bag.

What is this?

From this distance, that looks a little different from some of the stuff.

It is.

What do you think that is, Dan?

Looks like more plastic to me. No, it's not plastic. It's almost paper-like.

It doesn't resemble the piece of parchment that we have, but it kind of

looks like it could be some old parchment.

In June 1897, treasure hunters William Chappell and Frederick Blair drilled

into what they believed to be a seven foot tall wooden vault encased in

concrete at a depth of nearly 153 feet.

When they checked their drill bit, they were amazed to find not only traces of

gold, but also a small piece of parchment with the letters VI written on

it.

But when trying to dig a hole wide enough to retrieve the mysterious box,

the shaft flooded, taking everything in it, including the Chapel Vault, further

beneath the surface of Oak Island.

Could Jack Begley and Dan Henske have found evidence that the team has finally

rediscovered the so-called Chapel Vault?

All right, well, there's still a lot to go through.

Yeah, that's before it gets dark on us. Yes, exactly.

As a new day dawns on Oak Island, Marty Lagina, Craig Tester, and Charles

Barkhouse return to the Money Pit operation, excited by the team's recent

discoveries in borehole age 8.

Where are we?

We're on I-9.

We're just getting back at it this morning. Fighting hard into some wood

here, and it's the bizarrest thing ever.

Why are we in all wood with her?

Walked over here.

There's a shaft right there.

We were on it right from 10 feet. Head and shaft at 125.

To date, the team from Brewster Drilling has completed 35 of 44 planned

boreholes. And the Oak Island team is more eager than ever to see what

drilling the rest of the grid might reveal.

Here's Mike.

Mike? But there is also another reason why today is so exciting.

The team has scheduled geophysicist Mike West from Gemtech Limited to run a dual

induction device down the recently drilled boreholes to see if he can find

evidence that a massive treasure vault could be buried in its vicinity.

So you're going to help us out here today?

Yeah, actually we've got to go through the logs and kind of see where we want

to start based on what...

what you found and you know probably try to find some some hard objects and

conductive something that we know that you know some metal so i want to

concentrate more on this area you know that f4 would be would be a good one in

my mind this there's a debris field we're looking for yeah and then we're

looking for a vault that's down around 150 feet let's rig up on that one okay

okay let's go get some results to conduct the dual induction process

Mike will first lower a probe down to the bottom of each of the six inch wide

PVC lined bore holes.

As he then slowly raises it back up to the surface, it emits an electromagnetic

field, two feet in diameter, that will scan the ground surrounding the bore

hole.

Taking readings every two inches, the electromagnetic field will register a

hit whenever it comes into contact with or senses a nearby conductive object.

The dual induction log is an inferential tool. It doesn't identify gold

doubloons. It identifies conductivity.

But if there's a vault and if there were metal and pieces in there, the graph

would spike outwards.

Are we going to do it today?

Are we going to get out of the wood today? That's the main thing. Yeah, I

agree.

Where's Rick at?

The fact that Rick Lagina is absent from today's search efforts is highly unusual

and draws the immediate attention of the Oak Island team.

I'm going to go give him a call, OK?

The dual induction test is something he had been especially looking forward to.

And the fact that Marty hasn't heard from him is a cause for concern.

Rick.

What is going on with you?

Yeah? You

know

what, though? I'm telling you what. That sounds like maybe you should get... I'm

serious. Maybe you should go to the emergency room.

That's enough of an emergency. You should not mess with this.

Rick fights all the time. You know, he hardly...

That guy has hardly ever been to the doctor in his life. He's like one of

those kind of guys.

Rick doesn't let much get him down.

It's pretty tough. I mean, you know, this is serious.

I have reached out to get him a doctor's appointment.

Yeah, but if you can't get a doctor's appointment, I think you go off to the

hospital. I mean, this could be really serious. You know, you still have the

pounding headache, yes?

Yes. Oh, boy.

All right, I'm coming over.

See you.

How's big brother?

He's sick.

I'm a little bit worried about him, actually. I mean, he's usually so

indestructible, but he's, he doesn't, if he's not here, he's not well.

Anyway, I'm going to go see him. Absolutely.

All right.

It is a tense and suspense-filled moment on Oak Island.

The news of Rick's sudden illness has serious implications for everyone on the

team. But for Rick's younger brother Marty, the situation is much more

personal.

I'm concerned. This is just really disconcerting.

The seriousness of what Rick's suffering from was underscored, obviously, because

he's not going to stay away from Oak Island while exploration efforts are

underway. It's going to take getting, you know, figuratively hit by a truck to

keep him off here.

Rick. Hey. So what is going on?

I'm doing research.

No, no, I'm not talking about that. You.

I mean, I know you're sick because you don't... I am not sick.

You got a rash?

Yeah, take a look. Come on over here. Come on over here in the light.

He does not look good. You know, just his whole presence, he's got no spark.

And I could tell that the pain from his headache was, you know, almost

unbearable. I've had headaches for about four days.

Ibuprofen or... Right now, even now, pounding headache?

Oh, yeah.

See it?

Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I don't know, but that looks like Lyme disease or shingles to

me.

Lyme disease.

is a bacterial infection transmitted by the Ixodes tick, known more commonly as

a deer tick.

It is often identified by a telltale rash resembling a bull's eye.

Stay there.

All right, got it.

Although not usually life-threatening, if not detected early, it can result in

severe damage to the brain, muscles, heart, and nervous system.

I know this is serious, Rick, because there's no way you weren't on Oak

Island. I mean, let's get you to a doctor. Let's go. Come on.

It's difficult for me to see Rick clearly very, very ill. He's been his

whole life more or less indestructible.

Come on. Let's go.

Let's go. You know I have an aversion to doctors, right? Yeah, I know.

You're about to be... I haven't been to a doctor in 50 years. It doesn't matter.

We're going to a doctor. Let's go.

He has a very high tolerance for pain. I can tell you that for sure.

And he will motor through, carry on, finish the job in virtually any

circumstances. So I know this is serious.

So, you know, I mean, you know, he's my brother. I love him. I hate to see him

sick like that.

Let's go.

One hour after being taken by his brother Marty to a local doctor, Rick

Lagina has just been diagnosed with a debilitating condition called Lyme

disease. Tell you what, though, I really, I would have not, had it not

been for the rash.

No, you wouldn't think. You'd think you just got something, you know, a bug. I

know, it's scary.

Scary considering what it can turn into. I'm glad you brought awareness, though,

because now I'm going to be paranoid.

I was completely unaware that I had gotten Lyme disease.

Had it not been for the bullseye, I would have paid no attention.

And there's a lot of serious complications that arise if you don't

catch it early.

Luckily, Rick's case of Lyme disease was caught early.

He will only require a regimen of antibiotics for the next 30 days.

But he will also have to submit to his doctor's orders.

Something the fiercely healthy treasure hunter will have difficulty getting used

to.

The worst thing for me is now is, you know, because of the side effects of the

pills. I have to stay out of the sun.

And you know me, I hate that.

Oh, yeah, Rick, but come on.

Well, look, you have to do what you have to do. I get that. You're just lucky you

got me to come in here and take care of you. That's all I can say. Go home. Go

home and lay down. You know, give it a day.

At least. Yes.

All right, big brother, go lay down. I am. My head's pulling apart as we speak.

See you, Rick. All right, see you. Thanks. Yeah.

That slowed him down.

Rick is the spiritual leader of this group.

While he's gone, you know, things don't quite have the same intensity or...

you know spirit we need him here

while rick lagina gets some much needed

rest craig tester and jack begley along with geophysicist mike west are back at

the money pit am i good okay they are continuing to scan the previously

drilled geotech holes for traces of metal and possible treasure so far

They have searched a total of eight boreholes, but have yet to register any

significant results.

Hey, H8, this is the important one.

OK, just run her down.

But now, the team is about to scan borehole H8, where they have not only

found two fragments of bone, but also bits of paper, similar to the one found

in the so-called chapel vault more than a century ago.

Is this your favorite so far of the drilled holes?

Probably is, with the china being as deep as it was and below the clay.

That's proof that it's part of the old money pit and then it collapsed down,

or? It could be. That's my thinking, so.

Marty.

Hi, guys. Hey, Marty.

We just got down to the bottom of H8.

Oh, good.

This is the depth here.

In meters.

To the bottom of the bottom of the course because this is 200 some odd

feet, right? Yep It started as the dual induction probe is raised from the

bottom of borehole H8 It will emit an electromagnetic field through the

surrounding earth The team is hoping for significant readings in two areas of

interest Okay, that's kind of interesting one at 192 feet where they

recovered bits of 18th century pottery Wow

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

And another at a depth of 145 feet, where the drill encountered a mysterious

object.

The standout well in our geotech grid is H8. I'm really intrigued by it. We have

pottery way too deep for any searchers to have placed it there.

We have odd bones that came out of that hole, and now we need to see what's

there.

You getting readings? Yeah.

Picking something else up right here.

What do you make of that?

have just received some potentially exciting information.

Let's see where it finishes.

There's a pretty good upswing there pretty quick.

That's at 160 feet where it first even started picking up. The actual anomaly

is probably a little higher.

The spike on the graph registering above the 160-foot mark indicates the

likelihood of a large metal anomaly near borehole H8.

But now, a bigger question remains.

What does it mean?

Could it be that the team has located the fabled chapel vault?

Or might it be evidence of something even more significant?

Which would put it very near the vault.

You mean that this hit corresponds with where the vault's supposed to be at?

Very close, yeah.

And, you know, historically, how accurate is everything, so... Yeah, it

kind of went off scale, and now it's coming back down to...

to kind of what you typically see.

That's a little odd. A little discreet little blip there as well.

So I understand what this thing's reading. That looked pretty significant

to me. Is it to you? It matters whether it is to you. Most of the changes we

were seeing were much more subtle than that. The response was fairly rapid, and

then it decayed off, and it's about 155 feet, as I understand it. Yeah, yep.

Well, it is the chapel vault, isn't it? I mean, I don't know that that's the

chapel vault, but that's where it should be. That's the depth range it should be

in. Well, I hope. So in one hole, we got evidence of something at the chapel

vault level.

We got pottery where it can't be.

Way too deep, yep. And we got oddball stuff.

Oddwood. It's the money pit.

The money pit?

The original treasure shaft?

First discovered in 1795?

and then lost after a cave-in more than 100 years ago?

What I'm trying to say is this just went to target number one if we dig a big

hole. Yeah, my eyes.

Yeah. Are you sure enough for me to say this is for real?

Well, it's a for real target right there. Yeah, that's what I mean. It's

not a glitch in the machinery or something. No, no, there's definitely a

drastic difference there from the surroundings. It went off the chart.

There's some big chunk of metal there.

There's definitely something out of the ordinary.

I have liked H8 as our target well anyway because of that pottery found at

200 feet and the bone. There's just no way to explain that other than that is

the money pit and having a chance at piercing the vault too at 155 as we go

on down is doubly exciting.

Can the chapel vault and the Oak Island treasure be one and the same?

And have the Laginas and their partners finally found it at last?

Well, I'm gonna go tell Rick. Okay, sounds good. I'll see how he is too. All

right. Thanks a lot guys. That's great Although Rick Lagina is still

recovering from the debilitating symptoms of Lyme disease The news he is

about to hear from his younger brother Marty may very well provide the perfect

cure. Well What's going on?

How you feeling?

I feel better, you know Rick I know you don't you know why because you weren't

on the island You know, everybody's, you know, missing your presence, and

everybody's saying they miss you.

I was gonna, I wanted to be there because you guys ran H8 today, right?

Yes. And?

In H8, there is definitely an anomaly at about

44 meters.

right where Ivan said he thought he was going past something, right where the

chamber should be, right where Chappell would have drilled it.

So that's pretty exciting because a lot of the other wells aren't showing

anything like that.

If we had to sink a large caisson right now, you'd pick H8.

That's where I would dig for this year.

Yeah, to me, Rick, I think we found the money pit.

That's where it is.

Coming from here, that's a pretty... There was a money pit, Rick. I never

doubted there was a money pit.

When I hear from my brother saying, we found the money pit, I mean, he

describes himself as the skeptic-in-chief, and the skeptic-in

-chief has just pronounced that we found the money pit. Look, I'm not going to

come this far and quit.

They found the money pit for sure, and then they quit.

You know, we've spent years together doing this, and, you know, our families

are involved, our nephews, you know, his son, Craig's sons.

In that moment, my thoughts go to all the people that have come before us.

All right. All right, so that's it. That's your report.

Okay. So get well. Yeah. See you. See you in the morning.

H8. H8 it is. Let's do it. We found the money pit.

Three days after a metal detection device confirmed the presence of a large

metallic anomaly near borehole H8, Rick Lagina has sufficiently recovered from

his battle with Lyme disease.

to return to the Oak Island War Room with some exciting information he has

just received from St. Mary's University concerning the bone fragments found at

the Money Pit drill site.

Look, guys, I've got some really, I think you're going to find, almost to

the point of being incredible information here. We need to get Marty

on the line.

I think we all need to hear this. Sounds serious.

Well, it's important.

It's very important.

So let's get my brother on the line.

although he had to fly home to Michigan on important business.

Marty Lagina is able to join the meeting via video conference.

Hey, guys, come on.

What do you got?

Okay, I have here in my hand some very, I hate the word interesting,

but some very interesting results.

You know, we sent the bones off to be tested, and I'm going to read this

verbatim, okay? Okay, yeah.

It says, we now have results from the two bones.

Both sequenced successfully and both came back as human.

Wow. Just a second. Just one minute.

They appear to be different.

Okay.

I'm just reading it verbatim.

I will do some more work trying to see what we can learn about these sequences,

i.e., if it is possible to infer something about region of origin.

What? It should just take a few days for that.

Wow. I didn't even think to ask that.

Yep, I know.

Fantastic. Quite remarkable.

Human bones from two different sources?

Could they be the bones of past treasure hunters?

Or could they be those of the men who buried treasure there more than two

centuries ago?

Perhaps further testing will reveal at last the origins and possibly the

identities of the perpetrators of one of the world's greatest mysteries.

When you were talking about finding the one thing, could it have been something

different than this, please?

What's going to happen when we notify the government about this?

Well, I think our next step is carbon dating.

We have a window of time to notify the authorities.

If they carbon date... Long, long ago. I think, Charles, the rules are 50 years

or something. Something like that. I'm not sure, but there is a... No, if there

is, it's much, much older, hundreds of years.

There's no notification processes that we have to follow.

So we're going to immediately start down that road of carbon dating.

I think we should send it off to have another entity look into it.

Well, this is serious and significant.

So, yeah, I agree. Let's look at it from every which way, but wow!

Wow. Human bones in the money pit.

Unaccounted for.

I told you, AJ, is the place to dig. I told you. Well done.

Well done. Yes, thank you. Thank you. My hope is that they can infer something

about origin.

Ethnicity, if you will. That would be spectacular.

I'll tell you what's going to be interesting when we dig that big hole

right at that depth. Oh, boy.

Okay, Rick, that's great. Fantastic news.

Really, really interesting.

Yep, it is. No question about it.

All right, let us know as soon as you find out more.

You know that's the case.

I just want to get down there now. Let's get down there.

Okay, we're off.

All right.

You know, you couldn't have guessed it or you couldn't have predicted it, but I

guess it's Rick's one thing. He wanted to find one thing out of those 44 holes,

and up pops this.

We couldn't have predicted it.

It's not the one thing that I had hoped for, but it's certainly close, if not

it.

Look, it's high time we have a breakthrough, and maybe this is a

breakthrough.

So let's get it done.

For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, their decades-long quest to solve the

Oak Island mystery has just achieved an important breakthrough.

but once they begin a further exploration of the area around borehole

age eight what will they find a treasure vault filled with gold and priceless

artifacts precious manuscripts written on parchment or a tomb containing

ancient human remains perhaps the answers lie in two pieces of bone

and in man-made objects found some 190 feet below the island surface.

More than 50 feet deeper than anyone has ever been known to go before.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

If somebody was actually going to build this engineering marvel, it would be Sir

Francis Drake.

It's definitely not natural. And it's perfectly square.

Like a chess.

I say we dig it up.

Whatever it is, it's hard.

Wow, this is really interesting.

What is it? It's a piece of bookbinding. What is bookbinding material doing at

the money pit? Do you think it's Shakespeare's manuscripts?