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Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island. We have a dozen survey plans.

We now have an ability to overlay the surveys.

Shat 6 is right here.

Put your finger on the map, big brother. We focused in on the most likely spot in

the money pit to find some actual treasure. I think it's there. I really

do. Ooh!

It's a coin! No way! This could be a deposit.

Oh, there's some really big timbers. Ah, there we go! And they're oak, which

would be the only oak we've ever seen underground. We must be near the money

pit. That changes everything.

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 a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it,

mysterious fragments of human bone, and a lead cross whose origin may stretch

back to the days of the Knights Templar 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.

At the start of another day on Oak Island, Rick Lagina meets with Jack

Begley, metal detection expert Gary Drayton, and archaeologist Laird Niven

at Smith's Cove. We can excavate this material.

They are eager to continue their investigation of one of the most

intriguing structures uncovered on the island so far, the remains of what could

be a centuries-old slipway, a ramp.

that would have been used to load goods both to and from the island from a large

sailing ship we have to stay focused on here so i think obviously there's a

couple things we need to do uh address proper removal of this piece that

remains okay right you're okay with that sure since discovering the

slipway five weeks ago ah it's a beauty the oak island team has made a number of

additional and equally intriguing discoveries in the area including iron

cribbing spikes and a mysterious metal hinge estimated to date back more than

100 years before the discovery of the oak island money pit in 1795.

i'd go back as far as early 1600s wow it is now

the team's plan to document dismantle and then carefully remove the slipway in

an effort to find even more artifacts or important clues that might help them

determine the identities of the people who built it, and hopefully, what they

might have brought to the island centuries ago.

We have an enormous amount of work that we've uncovered in Smith's Cove.

Slipway, U-shaped structure, vertical wall, L-shaped structure.

But I don't think we have all the answers yet in Smith's Cove. I really

don't. We could be a few feet away from a real answer or a much more substantial

answer in Smith's Cove. So the game's still afoot.

Really, you're going to get as much material as quickly as possible up to

the wash plant.

Jack, you and Gary are going to find something today.

And then looking outward, we'll take the cat and Bobo's a slap. We'll have Mike

West come in, run the EM61. If we find deeper targets, that'd be fantastic.

You know, your cannons and...

and ship's anchors. Right. And Jack and I will hopefully have some good news for

you today. Exactly.

Yeah. Okay?

Okay. All right. Let's get the task.

As archaeologist Laird Niven begins dismantling the slipway at Smith's Cove,

Rick, Gary, and Jack join Rick's brother Marty and other members of the team in

the war room, where they've arranged a meeting with professional surveyor Steve

Kupdill.

Steve is back, has all the data inputted.

We need to really come up with a proper location for where shaft six is, where

tunnel six is, and where we might locate the can. So to that end, I would turn it

over to Steve. Sure. So here's just a quick overview of

everything that has been drilled out there.

That looked like spaghetti.

So...

I took that data and I combined it on some survey plans.

We have about a dozen plans that we've used.

Three weeks ago, while excavating the shaft, known as Borehole H8, the ground

beneath the massive 25-ton rotating oscillator began to give way.

The event forced the team to find another way to

reach the original Money Pit treasure shaft by means of an old searcher

tunnel. known as Shaft 6.

But since Shaft 6 was first dug in 1861, its exact location has remained

elusive. For this reason, Steve Guptill has been hired to combine literally

dozens of searcher records and data into one master map, one that Rick Lagina

hopes will allow the team to locate Shaft 6, and hopefully the Money Pit,

once and for all.

So here's an example.

R.B. Harris, 1958, has estimated that shaft six is right there.

Okay. So let's now turn on Fred Nolan.

So here's Fred Nolan.

Where does he think shaft six is in that plan? So I believe it would be... Can

you see that?

I believe that's where he thinks shaft six is.

So I'm going to go through a couple more.

You're going to see a general consensus of all these plans.

that shaft six is very much in that location.

And the red dots are our efforts, right? The red dots are ours, yes.

Okay, so of the overall grid, shaft six lands right here.

The green's the tunnel, shaft six is green.

So cuts IJ 5.5, K 5.5.

IJ 5.5 is where it is because we cut that in horizontal vertical wood.

yeah what i found really interesting about this is that earlier in the year

when we used the geotech grid and we got the idea that shaft six was here so we

drilled and what did we find yeah tunnel we've identified a tunnel running where

we thought there should be a tunnel i j 5.5 and k 5.5 that came in almost

perfectly how about that but rick if you're right you expect to find

A piece or pieces of treasure. Yes. Yes. You're quite convinced of that. Yes.

Because both the Money Pit and Shaft 6 collapsed in 1861, the Oak Island team

is targeting not only Shaft 6, but also what they believe could be a debris

field, one that should be full of valuable artifacts and perhaps treasure.

I think we're closer than ever to possibly finding the one thing.

Slowly but surely, we're unraveling the money pit.

I think Rick should have the honor of putting his finger on the map, which

will become the place that we're going to put down a case on. So put your

finger on the map, big brother.

I would rather we all put our finger on the map. Put your finger on the map.

Come on.

Where's this going? Not that long.

Right there.

Pin that.

Yes. Okay. Yep.

Okay. Let's do it. Excellent work, you guys. Excellent work.

Later that afternoon, Jack Begley and metal detection expert Gary Drayton

returned to Smith's Cove, where archaeologist Laird Nivet is continuing

to carefully remove sections of the potentially ancient slipway.

I see you've taken some logs off.

I did. I thought you guys should come down and take a look.

Yep. Are you going to go all the way down to the end?

Oh, well, I've taken some logs here. I'll continue to take them down below.

So can I metal detect any of them? Yeah, sure. Now you've taken the logs off?

Yep. That will make it easier. Sounds good to me.

Having talked to Laird, we're both in agreement that this is probably the

oldest structure in Smith's Cove.

The further we follow this slipway up, the more chances we've got... of finding

old artifacts trapped underneath the slipway that's where the old stuff's

gonna be all right well let's move these guys that way i hear that yep

ready when you heard you here do it with the with the trowel the trowel

all right sounds like that may be in the wood too

yeah could possibly be in the wood

That looks like iron residue.

Yes, it does.

Pinpoint it and then we can dig around it. Okay, let me see if I can pinpoint

it.

No, that's not it.

No,

it's still in there. It's deeper. I will get my shovel out.

Should be in the center there.

The fact that it's deep is a good sign.

You think it's out?

Yeah, it's out.

It's probably not something that big then.

Yeah, it's this.

It's in this clump.

It's iron. Yeah, it's iron.

I have no idea what it is. I wish it was heavier.

Yeah. Well, we'll keep it and record it. Yep. Mm-hmm.

and clean it off, see what it is. Yep. Well, there's metal, and it's deep.

It is.

And I'm sure there's going to be some better stuff even deeper. I'll go grab a

bag. Well, you were right. As we started to remove some of these timbers, there's

a lot more items that are going to be found.

Laird, is this outside one ready to take dinner? The outside one is, yeah.

Now that the first section of the slipway has been cleared away, heavy

equipment operator Billy Gerhardt will remove the larger timbers running along

the side of the structure so that the team can begin digging underneath it

imagine the last people who put that log in place i know right the tons of earth

excavated in this process will then be transported to the nearby wash plant

where the materials will be cleaned and automatically sorted according to size

the resulting piles will then be thoroughly searched by hand as well as

with a metal detector.

Sounds good.

What do you think that is?

There's a lot of little shards of iron in here by the sound of it.

Something small.

Now I'm excited.

Where are you?

Uh, no it isn't.

The hell is it?

It is a coin.

No way! Yeah! Look at that!

That's a silver coin.

Wow, this is cool.

It is an exciting moment at Smith's Cove, as Jack Begley and metal detection

expert Gary Drayton have just found what he believes to be a silver coin.

this could be depositor a depositor coin what i like about this it's encrusted

and where it came from these spoils came from at the side of the slipway yeah for

sure it looks like the size of a spanish one real a

spanish silver real first minted in the mid 1300s

by order of king pedro the first of spain the silver real was a predominant

piece of currency among traders and explorers in the Americas from the 15th

to the 19th centuries.

These coins were also common among Spanish and Portuguese pirates who were

known to frequent the islands off the coast of Nova Scotia dating back as

early as the 1500s.

Could this Spanish silver coin be evidence that could help in dating the

recently unearthed slipway and the identities of those who might have built

it?

You both look pretty pleased with yourselves.

Yeah, we got off to a flying start.

It's silver.

I don't know how old it is, but it could be old. It could be an early royal, a

one royal.

I think it's older than more recent because I'm either seeing some sort of

Roman numerals or Latin on there. It's got a milled edge, doesn't it? Yeah,

it's milled. It can't be any older than 1730. No, because it's got a milled

edge. That means it was...

Made by machine.

But, hey, I'd take a nice 1730s or 40s one rail.

Yeah, silver and gold is fantastic, right?

It's, you know, treasure.

But an early date pre-searcher, I'd be just as happy.

I'd settle for copper over silver, but I know you and I want to see him dance.

Yeah, you need me bringing stuff out of my top pocket.

See you later, mate. Yeah.

Okay, to the center of the pin.

I'm good.

I'm good.

It is the start of another day on Oak Island.

Okay, hold it right there. What do you got?

I got 20 feet.

I'm 20 feet to the center of the pin. Okay, good.

And in spite of the harsh fall weather, Rick Lagina and members of the team are

more determined than ever to locate the original money pit.

We'll confirm the data is correct and then we're off to races.

The site, dubbed S6.

has been named after shaft 6, the 19th century searcher tunnel, which, if they

can reach it, should lead directly to the original treasure vault.

This is what we're looking at, folks.

If we're right about this being the money pit, we'd expect the tunnel to

come in from this direction, this direction, and this way.

Historically, right? Right. So, that's good news. This should intersect.

either this way or going this way, which is good.

It's a significant area of interest, and I hope that that can right there will

provide us with answers finally.

The tunnel's our target. Let's set right up on top of it. I love everybody's

enthusiasm. I love the fact that we all concur.

Let's get after it and get it done.

Using a massive 220-ton crane, the team from Irving Equipment Limited

will now move a 35-ton bridge into position over the Essex dig site.

Move them down just a little bit and that's it. Watch down.

Once in place, it will serve as a stabilizing platform for the rotating

oscillator, which will drive a 60-inch wide steel caisson down to its target

depth of approximately 118 feet deep underground.

We're about to begin on probably the most important excavation on Oak Island

this year.

To me, the archival record of the shaft six, the tunnel, the idea of coming

across, coming up underneath the money pit, the collapse, the men run for their

lives, all of that to me reads real.

We think we focused in on the most likely spot in the money pit to find

some actual treasure.

We're in. We're over here.

We're in.

Good.

Right about here is where you need the champagne bottle.

I think it's there.

I really do.

As the excavation of S6 begins at the Money Pit site, later that afternoon,

Rick Lagina heads to Smith's Cove, where he has arranged to meet with

geophysicist Mike West.

Hey, Mike. Can we see you again?

There's Smith's Cove, all prepped and ready for you.

Now that the slipway and other structures have been removed, Rick is

eager to conduct a deep scan of the excavated area using powerful metal

detection equipment.

Yeah, I mean, once I get going, if I get something, I'll mark it out with the

flags and then have something to come back to. You go down there, you'll see

the cove has changed since you were last there.

Significantly changed.

Good to know. Get your gear up, buddy.

I'm going to just take a quick little peek. Oh, yeah. I'm going to throw on my

rubber boots.

It's hard to believe as we look at it how much material we actually removed

and watched.

Yeah. Things have changed. Yeah, you're, wow.

You're down there. Yeah. Given all of this work concentrated in this one area,

you know, what we're standing on right now, the crane pad, probably standing on

the most interesting part of the hunt in Smith's Cove right here. Yeah.

Two weeks ago, Rick, Marty, and the team. Here comes the water.

conducted a dye test to look for evidence of a direct link between the

Money Pit site and Smith's Cove.

After pumping thousands of gallons of water that was dyed red down the C1

shaft,

metal detection expert Gary Drayton discovered traces of it.

Oh, my God.

Right in front of the wooden crane pad used to construct the Smith's Cove

cofferdam. If we're looking for red guys, I'd say that's reddy brown there.

Oh, what?

Although the team has not yet obtained the necessary permits to allow them to

begin excavating beneath the pad,

Rick is hoping today's survey will help identify potential dig sites for their

upcoming operation.

You have the entirety of Smith's Cove at your disposal, so you want to get geared

up? Yeah, I'll get geared up.

Using a device known as an EM61, Mike will now scan the area for any important

clues or possible structures.

that may lie buried as much as 20 feet deep underground.

I got a pretty high reading.

It's something.

Search continues.

All right.

That's as big as they get for targets.

I was hoping to see a sea of pink flags.

After searching for metal anomalies at Smith's Cove, Mike West reviews his

preliminary findings with Rick Lagina.

You only need one.

Only need one.

We got five.

Any of them stand out?

That one over here towards the bank is like 600 millivolts.

Really? It's a huge target, yeah.

And it's next to the crane pad.

Yeah.

A huge target buried beneath the wooden crane pad?

Could it be evidence of the flood tunnels that protect the money pit

treasure vault?

Or something else? Perhaps something of even greater significance?

We got a signal.

coming out from underneath the crane pad.

But what is it?

We want to X out Smith's Cove. We want to get the data that's in there. So

we're probably going to have to excavate the crane pad and explore underneath it.

Coming near end of the day and you've gone all of this.

Yes. That's all of the day. Okay. Good job.

The next day.

morning guys shiny gold things shiny gold things rick marty and the oak

island team arrive at the money pit site to review the day's drilling strategy

with vanessa lucido from rock equipment hey they are hoping that by carefully

digging in the vicinity of shaft six they will find the tunnel that was

constructed to intersect the original money pit along with a possible debris

field which according to rick's research should be filled with artifacts and

evidence of the Oak Island treasure.

What do we got?

Right now with the can, we're at 82 feet, and excavation inside, 78 feet.

So we've got time.

That's good.

Yeah, it's kind of interesting now. Are you getting a lot of timbers coming up?

Yeah, why is that exactly?

Well, they look like chapel shaft timbers. They look to be 6x6, so we're

hoping it's where it fell into the Dunfield excavation in the chapel.

We're hoping to come out of it because if we can get into undisturbed soil,

then we know no one's investigated.

We want to see a little bit of undisturbed before we hit this tunnel.

Although Shaft 6 was reportedly dug to a depth of some 118 feet, more than

a century of digging by numerous searchers has caused depth measurements

to be somewhat unreliable.

Because of this, the team will carefully watch for changes in the soil.

that might indicate they have found their target tunnel i find myself

strangely excited about today anyway i just really want it to happen the

answers are there so just wait and see what comes up

so

you've got to be very close to 95 feet i don't think so

I think we're there, Rick.

I think we're there. You often find boulders associated with this bedded

material.

And there it is.

That's very encouraging.

Looks like we could be coming out in situ.

That's very good, then. That's encouraging, really.

We got a smile out of you.

The sudden change to undisturbed or in situ soil is a promising sign.

It suggests... that the team is digging through an area that could be close to

encountering the tunnel leading from shaft six to the original money pit

treasure vault.

Where's the shaft at?

Shaft is at 101 and six inches.

Danny said that uniquely, the oscillator did build up to it and then it reduced

after that, which for drilling is backwards because the deeper we go, the

more plug we should have, it should keep building.

So he might have been on this tunnel and then broke through. He might have cut

through something or, yeah.

That'd be fabulous.

News that the 60-inch wide caisson may have cut through a hard object at a

depth of 101 feet is an exciting development for Rick, Marty, and the

team.

If they have, in fact, penetrated the roof of the shaft's sixth tunnel, the

spoils that have been brought to the surface should contain important

evidence.

For this reason, it all must be carefully washed and searched by hand.

I'd say we're right where the top should be.

Whatever we're going to find, if it's there where we expect it, it's going to

be inside the can right now, at the bottom of that plug.

Look at that.

That's in situ.

That looks like a wider board than we've been seeing.

That seems pretty confident right there.

Don't see that with the chapel shaft, do you?

No.

No.

Chapel shaft's almost all well milled.

So that's interesting.

And something like that could be a support in the top of the tunnel.

No question about that. You can see the up and down saw marks on the face of

this. Well, maybe we're close.

I don't know.

The fact that this wood, which has just been found, some 100 feet deep in the s6

shaft features a so-called up and down pattern and no evidence of being cut

with a more modern circular saw is promising evidence that it might be

hundreds of years old but could it also mean that it is a piece of the shaft six

tunnel this is the whole ball game if it is the cross connect tunnel between

shaft six and the money pit i am absolutely certain There's something in

there. There's the one thing. We will find it.

I'd say almost certainly in the tunnel.

Yeah. We're into something that I don't think is chapel shaft construction. No,

I don't think so. It's earlier than that. Yep.

I would bet everything on it.

And there's so much damage here.

Yeah. Collapse feature, all of this.

What's that?

Oh, that's leather.

That's definitely leather. That's leather without a doubt. Look at that.

It is an exciting moment in the Oak Island Money Pit area, as Rick, Marty,

and the team have just found what appears to be a large piece of leather

in the spoils of the S6 shaft.

That is unusual.

What the hell is that doing down there?

There's more leather.

If there's leather there, humans were there, and you can date leather to a

degree.

Yeah, let's bag it. If this is indeed more leather, is this the

remnants of the money pit collapse? It's possible. It's very possible.

We need to get it tested. We need to apply additional testing methodologies,

maybe C14 testing.

Hey, Marty.

Hey, Marty, I want to show you something.

Got something good?

Got something for you.

Take a look at this.

What do you make of that?

Gary.

Sure, I know what that is.

Wow, that's a lot of it.

You ever see anything like that? It kind of looks like leather or felt.

At what depth?

Well, 103 for this, so they must be advancing to 105 right now.

What do you guys make of it?

You think leather?

I do.

That looks like a big chunk of what little bits we've been finding.

Is that leather? I think I got a bit of leather here.

During the past two years, the Oak Island team has found numerous bits of

leather, along with what they believe to be antique paper in the HHF, located

some 10 feet away.

these finds corroborate the theory held by many researchers that the oak island

treasure might not only consist of gold or priceless artifacts but also

important historical documents you know i should quit manipulating it because

there could be marks on it you know once you clean it up yeah you got to find a

little leather before you find the gold if that ain't a saying it should be

We're at 106 with it. Yeah, it's in the zone.

We have four and a half feet of possibilities.

I have high hopes in terms of finding objects.

And the hope is that within this conglomeration of objects, there will be

an aha moment.

There will be something in there we've never seen before, something that will

speak.

Where's our bottom?

We've got some revised numbers.

Okay.

Our casing is down to 118.

Eight foot up from that is top of the plug, which is 110, is where the grab is

at right now. We're going to keep going. Tell Bedrock if this is within the

collapse of the money thing.

Drive it to rock and hope something fell all the way down.

Hey, Doc.

One of those? Yeah. Hey, Doc. Take a look at this.

It's a lot of wood, Terry.

Look, look, look.

look at the flat surface there that's more like something we'd be looking for

it's hand-hewn yeah it's nice and flat too right but that's definitely hand ads

axe cut wood found at a depth of 110 feet in s6

what does that mean we're beyond the tunnel could the team have already

reached the bottom of the shaft six tunnel Or could this be evidence of

something much older?

Some more of it coming up.

Look at those ones, yeah. That's what I wanted to see.

We're getting up very, very large chunks of till, and the boards are embedded

within it.

Come over here. Just take a look at where you pulled it out of. See what I

mean? It's embedded in the clay, so it was structurally supporting something.

Those are some big timbers.

Wow. Those are some really big timbers. Yeah, there we go.

There, let's take it over this way.

Holy crap.

Look at that.

That's oak.

There's no question about that.

Yeah.

While excavating inside borehole S6... That's oak.

Rick Lagina and members of the Oak Island team... have just made a

significant discovery, an oak timber found in a depth of 110 feet.

When you scratch the dirt off, it looks like oak to me for sure.

There's no question about that.

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

searchers reported finding nine platforms every 10 feet constructed of

oak logs.

Could this timber found in s6 be part of the wood cribbing from the original

money pit the original money pit was described as having found oak timber so

we believe that some of this material is is oak it's the first time that we've

ever seen it and if these are oak it's it's very interesting

you guys look like you're trying to build a shaft what's going on what's

that yo

That's definitely oak.

The Money Pit collapsed in 1861, and a whole bunch of wood sort of went

missing. Well, the bottom of the Money Pit was never explored.

So these massive oak timbers may be part of the original construct, and the other

timbers we're finding are part of the re-cribbing attempts to get to the

treasure chamber.

Rick, what do you think of these big timbers?

I don't know. What do you think?

I know what I think. These remind me, these big ones, of ship timbers.

Yeah. These big ones.

I've been on beaches after hurricanes in Florida and the parts of the wrecks have

washed up and this is exactly what they look like.

Ship's timbers.

Timbers? From a ship?

Based on evidence found around the island, many Oak Island theorists have

speculated. that the original money pit was constructed by using repurposed wood

and materials taken from some type of large sailing vessel is it possible that

a ship that was used to bring treasure to the island was then deliberately

broken apart not only to construct a secure hiding place but also to destroy

evidence that the ship even existed and could this oak timber found in the

S6 shaft, offer tangible evidence that this incredible theory is true.

They're hand-hewn, clearly. You can see the axe or adze marks.

And they're oak, which would be the only oak we've ever seen underground, I

think. Pretty much.

Those are two different types of timbers as well, like they've reused.

No, I'm thinking we're in two different structures.

Yeah, that's what it looks like.

So what a shock. The day ends and we have another mystery.

Let's call it a night for right now. Get some rest and get back at it. Yep.

As a new day dawns on Oak Island, Jack Begley, Doug Kroll, and Paul

Troutman are continuing to carefully sift through the spoils recently

excavated from borehole S6.

the site where the team has found evidence that may have come from the

Money Pit treasure shaft.

Look at this.

What did you find?

It's a piece of a chain.

Oh. Oh, wow. Look at that.

A piece of iron chain found in the S6 spoils.

This could be a part of the collapse from the treasure.

well you know jack one of the theories chain who's used to chain a slave down

there somebody that was a part of a huge workforce to build a money pit yep

according to legend after a vast treasure was buried in the oak island

money pit some of the slaves who dug the shaft were chained to a post and buried

alive deep underground this was done so that the victim's

vengeful spirits would forever guard the treasure vault and curse anyone who dare

try to remove the contents.

Could this piece of chain, along with the fragments of human bone found last

year, be disturbing evidence that this legend has a basis in truth?

All right,

we need your professional opinion.

What do you think about that?

Chain link.

Yep. A link of a chain. How old would you say it is, though?

Yeah, it's quite meaty.

It's an older one.

Look at it. Because you go on the shape with old chains, the older links of

chain are always oval, not round.

And that looks like it's oval.

Obviously, it's been through some stress. It really looks old. Yeah, it

does look old. It really does.

And what I like about it is the weight.

It would be hand-forged. Where it came out, it was probably used on a pulley

system.

So you think it could have been original for depositing the treasure or something

that was left behind by searchers? We were looking for a debris field in the

tunnel and that is, in my mind, is a possible piece of debris from the

original treasure vault, right?

Yeah, it's definitely, we should have this tested.

Could Gary Drayton's notion that the chain might actually have been used to

deposit something of great value deep in the money pit be true?

And if so, what else might the team find buried nearby?

It's got to be more goodies stashed away in here somewhere.

I think that's both.

While searching through the spoils from shaft S6...

Oak Island historian Doug Kroll may have just made an important discovery.

You think it's bone?

Yeah, I think that's bone. It looks like bone. Oh yeah, I think this is bone.

For sure.

Bone?

If it can be determined to be human, could it be matched to one of the two

individuals whose remains were found last year?

Or might it belong to someone else?

Well, you see the capillary holes on the side. Yeah, you can just see the way

that's cut. That's bone, mate. Good eye.

Cool. Well, the fact that we found it from the shaft six spoils means there is

possibly other debris that drift away from H8 all the way further north like

we were expecting.

If the money pit is H8 or around there, then possibly there's more than just

treasure that was deposited there. There might be remains.

Well done, Doug. That was good eye. That changes everything. I knew there'd be

something good in here.

Well. Hey, Rick.

How's it going?

Good news.

Look what Doug just found.

That is a bone. There's no question about that.

Yeah.

That's pretty exciting, finding a piece of bone on the wash table again.

That's six, though. Why is six and not H8?

The debris field into the tunnel.

If it all originates in the money pit, it could explain chapel shaft, H8, and

into our tunnel. It could. But what are all these bones doing in the money pit

area? Hey, look, anything's possible. One step at a time, get it tested.

If it's human bone, then we take it from there step by step.

That's a good find, but let's keep going. It's crazy because we're cold,

wet, and down, and then something like this lifts the spirits.

That's why we're doing that.

Oh, great.

You know, that's good news.

Bag it, mark it, and we'll send it off.

I think there's a lot to be learned yet. We'll certainly have some DNA analysis

done. Are they human?

Are they not?

But look, if they are human and they're at these depths, there's a story here

and we need to unravel it.

Look, I want to just thank you guys for being out here. We're all wet. We're all

cold. But I think we can't quit now, right? These last two tables have been

significant. So look, maybe the next one will be the one thing.

Okay, well, let's get after it.

For the Laginas and their partners, it has been a week of incredible new

discoveries.

From ancient leather to oak timbers that may have been part of the original money

pit and disturbing evidence that an Oak Island legend might actually be true.

A series of incredible puzzle pieces are starting to be put into place.

But what picture are they forming?

One of a vast treasure, buried deep underground?

Or something else?

Something that suggests the key to unlocking a centuries-old mystery isn't

one of gold and silver, but of iron and bits of human bone.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

These items came from a tunnel associated with the money pit. We might

be closing in. Human beings were down there.

This is the kind of thing you're hoping for.

Oh, really? I would put it in the early 1700s.

Man, look at that. Fits like a glove.

Know what this reminds me of? What? The hole in the cross.

The lead isotope data here is identical to the cross.

Excellent. Wow.