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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

That star lays right on the southeast corner of that swamp.

The back door. This leads to the money pit.

Okay, here it comes. Steady up. I think the swamp has answers and I want them.

It's a coin. Maybe there are answers in the swamp.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

It looks like a pile of boulders. See the water? Substantial amount of water

flowing out of it. Maybe the flood tunnel? The wood of the slipway matches

with a 550-year-old tree.

It is original. Predates the money pit. It's conclusive proof.

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.

With only two weeks to go before the Oak Island team is set to leave the island

for the winter.

The activity at the Money Pit area remains at a standstill.

The strike is on. It can last anywhere from one to 21 days. That's the only

good news.

I'm still optimistic it won't go 21, but in the meantime, we are shut down and we

are running out of time.

I'm not seeing anybody.

Hammer grabs down.

That does not look good. We're in trouble.

One week ago, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina.

along with their partner Craig Tester, received troubling news that the union

of crane operators for the province of Nova Scotia had suddenly gone on strike.

It's just a waiting game. They're hoping to have this resolved within 21 days.

It is a development that forced a halt to the Oak Island team's current

excavation in the borehole known as Site 3, a borehole that they believe could be

on course to intersect the original money pit.

There's no question it's serious. If it's an all-stop, we can't proceed.

While the excavation in Smith's Cove continues... I think we should call

Marty up. Rick and Craig are meeting with Marty via videoconference in the

war room to discuss a radical new strategy to help them achieve their

ultimate goal, to solve the 223-year-old Oak Island mystery.

Hey, Marty.

Hey, guys. How's it going out there?

It's wet and cold today.

Wet and cold.

Glad I'm not there then. No offense.

Well, guys, look, I think we need to make some decisions. Because of the

strike, the door is closed.

And so with the possibility that the strike may indeed last the full 21 days,

what are we going to do?

Talk about right down to the wire, huh?

Are we going to have time to finish this year?

You get into November, it's going to get ugly, right? I was here last year until

November 18th. The thing is, is that the strike, we know that's an elongated

process, right? That's going to take a long time. Why would we dither about?

And then it turns out that we have to wait until November because we

squandered these weeks. And we're just going to get too close to it and won't

be able to dig.

and then we shooting ourselves in the foot you know we got about two weeks

left before it gets ugly out there let's finish up smith's cove and then we take

a long deep breath and we decide either we're looking at enough stuff that

encourages us to keep going or we're not but we sure as hell would have done a

damn good try this season do you feel that way craig yeah but i guess the one

issue rick and i were kicking around is

How thin are we going to spread ourselves and are we just stressing

ourselves out?

So I'm going to say finish Smith's Cove and then, I don't know, but maybe it's

time to call it quits, you know, for the year.

So just so everybody's on board and then I'm fine.

Well, I disagree there. We're nowhere near defeat, but... What's the point of

being here if we're not going to try everything?

within our means to get an answer. You know me, I'm not a quitter, but

I'm going to defer to you guys.

I don't like to fail and I don't like giving up.

And all of those things are probably helpful in this endeavor on Oak Island,

but we are a team and we will have to make that assessment as a team.

Well, you know, Churchill said, when you're going through hell, well, you

better keep going.

That's kind of what's going on here.

Yeah. You know, we're not going to make any more time. You know what Dad always

said, you know, nobody can't beat Father Time.

So what are we going to do?

You know, here's how I feel about the whole thing. You know, I can feel in my

heart that on an overall sense,

I want to do everything we possibly can this year because, you know, we've been

at this for a long time. We're not getting any younger. I mean, for right

now, though, I feel like let's do it all. And even if that includes

resurrecting that damn swamp.

Over the past six years, the Oak Island team has made numerous discoveries in

the mysterious triangle-shaped swamp.

Is it a coin? I believe this is a coin. From a Spanish pirate coin.

dated to 1652.

Oh, look at that. That's nice.

A large iron spike and a piece of deck planking.

All of these finds gave credence to the theory held by the late treasure hunter

and Oak Island landowner, Fred Nolan, that the swamp may have been

artificially created centuries ago to hide a large sailing vessel.

I like the idea of seismic in the swamp. I do.

And I mean, I'm on board for the seismic too. Do we have permits?

Yes, all the permits.

They're waiting for us to give them the okay. Yeah, they've done their

preliminary homework and there should be no problem on their end. Okay.

Ready to go? Roger.

Here it comes.

Earlier this year, the Laginas and their partners worked with a team from Eagle

Canada out of Calgary, Alberta.

to conduct a geophysical exploration of the money pit area by means of seismic

testing by detonating more than 1500 small explosive charges and

measuring the resulting sound waves as they traveled through the earth the team

was able to generate a virtual map of potential voids and man-made structures

as deep as 200 feet underground this anomaly here very interesting Is that

consistent with a chamber?

Yeah, it is. Wow.

But could this same process also help unravel the mystery of the swamp once

and for all?

It's always bittersweet for me to talk about doing something in the wretched,

fetid swamp.

But in the cool light of day, Rick is right.

We have to make sure we've searched it properly.

Let's go.

Let's do it. Let's shoot it. Let's dig the holes. Let's find something.

Let's finish Smith's Cove. Let's beat ourselves to death for two more weeks.

That's how I feel right now. As long as we're all on board. As long as we're all

in, and that would include everybody else.

Okay, make the deals. I'll be out there soon.

Okay. All right.

Sounds good. See ya.

Full speed ahead.

Following his meeting in the war room, Rick Lagina joins other members of the

team at Smith's Cove.

where they are continuing their massive excavation of the beach area.

Nothing yet?

Regret to inform, it doesn't seem to continue beyond the edge.

All right.

Let's start.

We'll be ready.

Three weeks ago, the Oak Island team began digging beneath the beach in order

to remove the wooden crane pad used to construct the cofferdam that surrounds

Smith's Cove.

It is here that the team hopes to locate the place.

where the legendary stone box drains, first discovered in 1850, converge into

a single flood tunnel.

A flood tunnel that the team hopes could lead them directly to the Money Pit

treasure vault.

And there's no metal around here whatsoever.

A few tiny little pieces of iron, small, small, around where the shaft is, but

there's just nothing.

You found anything on the wash plant?

Not even eyeballing any pottery, any glass.

Oh, a piece of wood.

It looks like we found another structure.

So we have.

Yep.

Another wooden structure?

Could it have been placed here by previous searchers in an attempt to

block the flood tunnel leading to the money pit?

Or could it be much older?

and connected to the flood tunnel itself wait a day and we'll find another

structure wow look at that what's the sand interesting no

stones look like they were placed there above it placed stones when the five

finger-like stone box drains were first discovered in 1850 by members of the

truro company they were reported to be constructed out of large flat rocks with

smaller ones packed inside.

Could these stones be more evidence that the structure the team has found is

associated with the main flood tunnel?

Oh, okay.

Look at this.

Maybe this is one of the walls. Look.

I see a piece here and a piece here.

Yeah. Well, dig it out and see what it looks like.

Perfect timing. You show up and we find a structure.

If structures were treasure, we'd be rich.

There it is here. Got it?

There's the length of it right there.

At Smith's Cove, members of the Oak Island team are continuing to uncover

another mysterious wooden structure.

Oh, it looks like it continues.

I just want to see if there's a corner.

All right.

Would you push that back so we can see if there's a wall there?

Quest for corner, I think, has been found.

There's a corner right there.

Well, this is really entrenched, isn't it?

Particularly, yes. Well entrenched.

Give it a little dig there.

They're like slats.

Looks like they had to take a fence around it. Yeah, that's what it looks

like. Yeah.

I never expected to see that. That's bizarre, isn't it?

Doesn't look real structural, does it?

Purposeful for something, right? But why?

It's four sides. This is another shaft.

Another shaft buried at Smith's Cove?

If it predates the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795,

the Laginas and their team may have just made a breakthrough discovery.

Perhaps one that could lead them to the main flood tunnel connected directly to

the Money Pit.

If we clean that wall up. Yeah.

Right here. Clean it back.

We'll clean this up and then photograph it. Yeah.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder.

Yeah.

While efforts to locate the main flood tunnel continue at Smith's Cove,

Rick Lagina, Craig Tester, and other members of the team gather in the war

room to meet with Oak Island theorist Chris Dona.

I want to introduce Chris Dona to everyone.

Hello. Hi, Chris.

Chris has contacted Rick Lagina about new research concerning the mysterious

triangle-shaped swamp, which in light of the team's upcoming seismic test, could

prove more than valuable to their operation.

Since I really started working with Oak Island, I got into the meat of

astronomy. I've really learned a lot about constellations.

They're a creation by man.

You know, they're there with a purpose, not just a picture.

And some people think that that's where the secret knowledge is, in the

constellations.

So whoever was here used that information to map out things on the

island and create structures.

around the island i think it's a road map too to what they did here and

possibly lead to a treasure location on the island it's like a treasure map

there is an esoteric saying goes as above so below yes

and this is a classic meaning to that

many researchers and even some scientists have speculated

based on careful study that the key to solving the oak island mystery may not

lie underground but rather somewhere above including the night sky

this is nolan's cross over the past six years

rick marty and the team have heard numerous theories connecting the

constellations not only to important landmarks such as the megalithic

formation known as nolan's cross

but also to a massive star map corresponding to points across the

entire island.

If we follow the right procedure, we might be led to the point on Oak Island

where the actual treasure is.

I don't know if you guys are familiar with the Royal Archonaut of Freemasonry.

It's very big.

It's also celestial.

And it starts with Leo at the top, and it talks about the three pillars of

Freemasonry. Strength, which is Leo.

uh libros wisdom and aries over here is beauty but it's an arch of the

zodiac actually for more than two centuries the ancient

order of freemasonry has been closely intertwined with the oak island mystery

many prominent treasure hunters such as daniel mcginnis m.r chapel

and even future u.s president franklin delano roosevelt were members

there have also been several well-known masonic symbols documented on and around

oak island including the sacred letter g as well as the triangle or pyramid which

appears not only in numerous stone carvings but also in the shape of the

mysterious swamp virgo is a very important female constellation it's the

only female constellation in the zodiac and spica the main star

That's in her hand. It's a very strong informationary symbolism.

I always think of it as being a swamp, as a womb.

That is like Eve of Adam and Eve, Mary.

Any positive female representation is Virgo.

That sets right over the swamp.

The path of the sun passes through that corner of Virgo.

And Spika lays right on that southeast corner of that swamp as it sets.

What is the purpose?

My guess would be along that eastern edge of the swamp. There's got to be

something. There's got to be a back door through that way to the money pit.

A back door to the money pit?

Could the constellation Virgo really be used as a star map?

corresponding to points throughout the mysterious triangle shaped swamp one of

which was meant to mark a secret entrance to the original money pit

treasure vault that's definitely the closest point to where if the

swamp was man-made have an access point maybe that would be it we can't tell you

this that's we were out there we found a rock about

As big as this table, as long as this table, easily this width.

You could slide a rebar across it.

Smooth as the top of this table.

You got stuff here, buddy. Something there? Yeah. While investigating the

southeast corner of the swamp five years ago, Rick Lagina, Charles Barkhouse, and

metal detection expert Steve Zazulik identified a large non-ferrous signal

indicating the possible presence of gold.

or silver.

This is what you wanted, right?

That's what I want.

However, when the team attempted to retrieve the precious objects with the

help of professional diver Tony Sampson, He's coming up.

the signal mysteriously disappeared.

And their search instead produced nothing more than a mysterious line of

flat rocks on the mucky bottom.

I have no idea what to make of it.

Could these stones have actually been evidence of a tunnel or passageway

buried beneath the swamp?

one built as an access point to the original money pit.

And if so, might seismic scanning of the area confirm it?

The east side of that swamp is definitely, should be investigated for

any tunnels.

There's got to be a back door through that way.

I'm impressed by that.

That's cool.

What's buried here, I don't know.

But all I know is that it was important to them.

Hopefully it's still here.

That's the reason why you're here.

You're not new with, you know, I don't exactly know who, I don't exactly know

when, but this is what I believe based upon my studies. And that's why we

invite people like yourself to come to the island, because we have yet to

answer who, what, when, where, why, and how. Right.

To that end, I think we have our work cut out for us.

Sure do.

Let's go. All right.

As a new day begins on Oak Island. There he is. Hey guys, how you doing? He's

actually smiling.

Did you take a real hard look out here?

Rick Lagina, Dave Blankenship, and Charles Barkhouse welcome back

representatives from Eagle Canada who have returned to begin preparations for

a seismic survey of the triangle-shaped swamp.

What's your first impression?

I think it's going to be manageable for us.

I'm hoping you guys feel the same way.

We've got 3-inch plywood there.

We'd be happy to help plank it out. We did do that, right, Charles? We've done

it a number of times. I'd say 80% of that is easily walkable.

But areas where that darker color is, that's soup.

In advance of the operation, the Oak Island team has spent the last two days

draining the entire... four and a half acre swamp.

However, in order to create a workable surface area for the Eagle Canada team,

sheets of plywood have been laid across the muck and mud.

So we'll do everything we can to get points in there, but some we would just

put stub lines and move them out a little bit. Yeah. We'll see. If we have

to, we can change the program around.

just to suit the conditions.

We'll start in the west edge of the swamp here. We'll work our way east.

How are you going to deal with this? Because it literally is a peat bog.

Yeah, well, we got big poles to plant these phones. It's not like the ones you

guys have seen, which we use in the megabit and the money pit, where you

sort of plant with hand and then use the orientation tool to align them.

These got longer leads on them, and we'll have poles. We can get extensions.

We can put them down.

If they're all at different depths, it doesn't really affect the data or

anything. So we'll get them down there.

Okay, I'm sure you're antsy to get going. The plywood we have is down

there. Okay, excellent. All right, sounds good.

Although some 1,500 dynamite charges were set off over the Money Pit area,

the seismic operation in the swamp will require more than 2,000, placed

approximately two feet deep in the muddy ground.

They will also stage 4,000 recording devices known as geophones, spaced two

meters apart.

in a designated grid pattern.

OK, good luck.

As the team from Eagle Canada continues to prepare the seismic operation,

Marty Lagina and metal detection expert Gary Drayton arrive at lot 27, where

they have transported spoils taken from the swamp during the team's recent

efforts to drain the area.

So do you want to search it first, and then I'll start spreading it around?

Yeah, all this stuff come from a really great area.

When Billy was putting the pumps in on the edge of the swamp there, he noticed

that it had been disturbed.

He figures that someone had been previously digging there.

Okay, so what do you want me to do?

Just rake this over. Yeah, all right.

As Marty uses the excavator to spread the spoils out...

Gary will scan the material with his metal detector in the hopes of finding

any important clues or potentially valuable objects.

Got a target here.

Not very deep, three or four inches.

Right in the deer track.

It's out.

Oh, I see it. I see it. What you got, Gary?

Look at that.

Is that a coin?

Is it a coin? It is. I think it's a coin, yeah. Is it a button?

Is it a coin or a button? No, I think that's a button.

It's got a border all the way around.

Yeah, that's an oldie as well.

That's 1700s button, that is.

That's nice.

It is. Keep going now, Ben.

It's always fun to watch Gary get excited, you know. And in this case, it

was a button.

And he thought, quite old, we'll have to clean it up and see. But always a

pleasure digging the swamp without being in the swamp. I'd do it any day.

That sounds good.

Yeah, it does. Two-way repeatable.

Seven inches.

Yeah, I think it's a shotgun show.

No, it isn't. No, it isn't. No, that isn't.

That's what's a coin or a token.

That's pretty cool, Gary.

That is.

I would say, you know, you're often saying things are, I'd say that's real

old. Yeah, I mean, that does, that looks old.

I know back in the day, it was mainly 1600s, 1700s.

What they used to do in the colonies, because they didn't like the king and

the queen. Yeah, they would punch through the portrait.

But it was still currency.

but it was still currency.

And I believe this is possibly one of those type of coins.

A coin?

Possibly dating back as early as the 1600s?

Although anti-coins are commonly found on Oak Island, the fact that this one

was recovered from the swamp makes it a potentially important clue.

If this coin can be positively identified, It might be key in

suggesting who may have visited Oak Island before 1795 and was behind the

223-year-old mystery.

Hey, you know what? I hate like hell to say this, but maybe there are answers in

the swamp.

I'd be interested to see what the seismic says. Yes, that is for sure.

The seismic will show, you know, you're kind of doing the top layer and the

seismic will show what's deep.

All right, let's go tell Rick and the guys what we found. Okay, let's go.

It is the start of an exciting day on Oak Island as Rick Lagina, Craig Tester

and other members of the team gather at the swamp where representatives from

Eagle Canada are about to begin a seismic survey of the entire area.

We have enough gear on the ground so we can start shooting.

So we're on schedule.

A good rule of thumb is don't move if the shooters are not moving. We're going

to start on the northwest corner of the swamp.

We'll have five shooters on five different lines. So they'll make their

way down and we'll finish on the beach road here.

How many shots in total are we taking this time?

2025.

Wow.

We're probably gonna do about 300 shots today. So we're good to go whenever you

guys are good to go I'm more than ready. I think the swamp has answers and I want

Now that over 2,000 explosive charges each armed with 20 grams of dynamite

have been placed throughout the swamp They will be detonated one at a time

from the command center located nearby on Center Road

Hi, Jeff. How are you today? Good. How are you? Good. Just getting rolling.

Okay, everybody steady up. Here it comes. Steady up.

As each blast sends sound waves deep below the surface of the

swamp, they will be measured and recorded by geophone receivers.

Unlike more common, large-scale seismic tests, which are used to scan as deep as

six miles underground, these geophones have been specially calibrated to create

a diagram of the area from 15 to 85 feet deep beneath the swamp.

It is the team's hope that this diagram will reveal any man-made objects or

possible structures that might lie hidden there.

There are a lot of questions that still remain regarding the swamp.

Is the swamp man-made? Is it a way in to the money pit, i.e. a back door?

I think seismic is going to yield some significant results, and I'm hoping

we'll see it.

As the seismic operation at the swamp continues, Charles

Barkhouse joins geologist Terry Matheson.

and archaeologist Laird Niven at Smith's Cove, where they are continuing to

excavate what they believe could be the main flood tunnel, first discovered in

1850. If they are correct, it could lead them directly to the original money pit.

What do you got?

Another feature just about where the cat is right now. Really?

Yeah. Hit a few boards.

We're just going to carry on until we find our next feature.

You see the water?

Yeah.

Look at that.

You see the water moving out of that?

It actually looks like a pile of boulders, doesn't it?

Yeah. Well, that's pretty wild, actually, isn't it?

Piled up boulders with water flowing through them?

Might the team have uncovered one of the five stone box drains, first reported by

the Truro Company in 1850?

If so, could they finally be on the verge of locating the convergence point

to the main flood tunnel?

Hey, Alex, how you doing?

What's up, guys?

Yeah, well, we noticed this rusty concentration of rock.

Oh, yeah.

It's really the contrast, right?

Right. What does that say to you? It's a concentration of boulders sitting

directly on top of the sea horizon.

You've got a lot of water movement.

You see the coloration as iron oxide is coming out of solution.

I don't know what it all means.

A heck of a lot of work went on down here. A heck of a lot of work at

different times.

Undocumented work.

That's the thing.

Looks like it's a pile of rocks where water's flowing through.

So you think maybe the flood tunnel? Yeah, exactly.

Coming up.

The pattern is fitting really well with our master chronologies.

This is quite impressive.

Yeah. It is original features.

Yes. Predates the money pit. Wow.

So you think maybe the flood tunnel?

Maybe. While excavating beneath the beach at Smith's Cove, Alex Lagina,

geologist Terry Matheson, Charles Barkhouse, and archaeologist Laird Niven

have just made what could be an important discovery.

This is coarse, bouldery material, water flowing through it. It starts to fit the

model that we've been searching for. Right. I think we're actually really

close to the convergence point. The convergence point?

Could the team have actually located the place, where the legendary stone box

drains joined to form a single flood tunnel, leading directly to the original

Money Pit treasure shaft.

Hey, Rick.

We stopped at this feature because it's unusual.

We're getting a lot of rocks, but then we noticed this iron-rich stuff and the

water flowing from it, the concentration of rocks, the contrasts on either side.

You have undisturbed below it and natural bedded sediments from the beach

above it.

Kind of interesting.

Substantial amount of water flowing out of it. Seems like it's going that way.

Exactly.

So what's the idea?

Cut, cut it, peel this back slowly?

If it continued like that, it would become a significant feature.

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Continue forward.

Yeah. I'll be curious about that. Yeah.

Before another day comes to an end on Oak Island, brothers Rick and Marty

Lagina and their partner Craig Tester gather in the war room with other

members of their team for a much anticipated meeting.

Guys, this is the part of the war room meetings I really like. We've got some

information, some results coming in on dendrochronology.

It's specific, it's to the wood we took out of Smith's Cove. I believe we sent

samples of the U-shaped structure, the L-shaped structure.

some of the walls that were more dimensional lumber.

So Professor Colin LaRock with the University of Saskatchewan has analyzed

everything. And Jack, he's standing by. Can you get him up on the screen? Sure.

Colin, how are you, sir?

Good, how are you guys?

Good, thank you. We're looking forward to the results.

That's quite a significant wall.

This is totally undiscovered.

Over the past three months, the Oak Island team has unearthed numerous

mysterious wooden structures.

buried as much as 10 feet beneath the seabed at Smith's Cove.

In addition to finding the U- and L-shaped structures first discovered by

Dan Blankenship in the 1970s, the team uncovered the remains of a massive

slipway, or shipping ramp.

With each new discovery, the Oak Island team extracted wood samples for

scientific testing in the hopes of obtaining reliable dates as to when they

were constructed.

These samples were then sent to Dr. Colin LaRocque, a professor of

dendrochronology and climate science at the University of Saskatchewan.

Hey Colin, why don't you explain what you did briefly on preparing the wood

and then go ahead with the results.

Okay, basically many of the samples that we saw were probably in salt water, so

we had to, in a controlled oven setting, sort of slowly dry them.

and then we sawed them into very flat surfaces to see the ring pattern and

figure out where the wood came from in time.

Dendrochronology, or tree ring dating, is a scientific method studying the size

and pattern of growth rings, which develop as a tree grows over its

lifetime.

The process can accurately determine not only the age of wood, but when it was

cut for use in construction.

Why don't you go through sample by sample and give them the date?

Okay, the first sample was number one.

Item one is a two-inch horizontal wall.

Yeah, our initial assessment was that they were tamarack, large wood, which is

very common, especially in the shipbuilding areas around in Nova

Scotia, New Brunswick. And that had a lot of rings. It had the most rings.

It's one of our best samples.

It looked dimensional.

But we couldn't quite fit it in. It had a lot of wormholes or the kind of holes

that were dug in by the burrowing creatures in the water. So we're still

kind of trying to work on that, trying to see if we're missing some of the

rings and some of the holes.

And so that one is still waiting.

But sample seven, that was one of our more confident samples.

Sample number seven is the slipway. It's the north arm on the east end.

So the slipway, it was, we believe, red spruce. It's reminiscent to some of the

samples we did in other areas of Halifax.

We had a fairly strong date on, and that's 1771.

Wow.

So the slipway, we had a fairly strong date on. That's that 1771.

Right. It is original features.

Yep. Predates the money pit.

Yes.

In the war room, Dr. Colin LaRocque has just shared an amazing scientific report

with Rick, Marty, and members of the Oak Island team.

Using a dating process known as dendrochronology, he has determined that

the slipway discovered at Smith's Cove was likely built in 1771, over two

decades before the original money pit was discovered in 1795.

I did not expect that, I'll be candid.

That was one of our more confident, the pattern is fitting really well with our

master chronologies.

Wow. That's really cool.

Yeah.

The two that are coming up next are actually some of the biggest samples,

sample eight and sample nine, we call them. Sample number eight is the U

-shaped structure, and sample number nine is another piece of the U-shaped

structure. Yeah, those were the bigger samples.

Quite well preserved, especially in the center. So we had really good rings.

It was, we believe, red spruce.

So for both samples, we had 1769.

Wow.

I don't know if it's part of the slipway features, but it seems to all pointing

towards that 1770s area.

This is quite impressive.

Yeah.

And, you know, people didn't take the time and effort to cut down a tree.

unless they were going to use it for something.

Yes. And so many of these trees are kind of all in that ballpark of a few years

in the 1770s. And so I think that data is telling us that time period.

I mean, that's huge.

Yeah.

We could pretty much be sure that all that work in Smith's Cove occurred in

about 1770.

That's pretty amazing.

Yeah. Well, if we can find more of that wood from the money pit, that dates to

that same era, then we'll have a bullseye.

Yes. And it ties in.

Yeah. Hey, Colin.

How accurate of a list do you have that you can compare it to? Right.

The one red spruce chronology that we were using, which is about a 550

-year-old tree that is still growing, and it matches with that.

So something like sample eight, we're at probably 99.999 sure that...

It sort of ends in that 1770 time.

Wow. This is big.

In these kind of things, they tend to answer one question and raise two or

three others. What a shock that is.

Great work. I love the 99.99. We don't get that ever.

So thanks for being in on the quest.

You're welcome.

All right, Colin, thank you very much. We will be in touch. Really appreciate

it. Excellent report.

Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Take care, guys.

That was good news on the slipway. Yeah, and the slipway and the U-shaped

structure, they all were put in at the same time. Yeah.

The obvious question is not you both believe there is something here.

Who? You. Who are you looking at? Yeah.

I believe that we have just found conclusive proof that not everything

we're finding is searcher, okay? Yeah.

For me, this is the biggest thing that's happened since we started this quest.

It's amazing.

I was about to say to Rick, turn to him and say, look, it's time to turn this

island over from the archaeologist to the psychiatrist.

Because this isn't making any sense.

And then, at the 11th hour, we find out something very significant happened

here.

25 to 30 years prior to the discovery of the Money Pit, and it's in Smith's Cove.

To me, that's gigantic.

Well, I have to say I'm impressed with this.

I'm happy that you're impressed. I am impressed.

Okay, so this is great information.

All right, well, look, guys, food for thought.

Let's go.

For Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team, the news that some of the

mysterious wooden structures at Smith's Cove were built decades before the

discovery of the original money pit offers an extraordinary breakthrough.

It means that all of the money and hard work that was invested was not done in

vain.

Not only has the team found hard evidence of a large engineering project

that was undertaken as early as 1769, but the additional evidence they've

gathered neatly corroborates numerous legends and stories.

suggesting that a vast treasure was brought here and then buried centuries

ago.

A treasure that six men have died trying to find.

And, armed with a curse, claiming that one more will have to die before the

mystery can be solved.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

Everything's closing in. We're running out of time. It's the exciting season

finale. No record of this. No. Maybe there's something on the other side of

it. Oh, no, no!

The Rochefoucaulds shared the truth of Oak Island with their founding fathers.

They used the treasure to finance the Revolutionary War.

Holy smokes.

What's that symbol?

George Washington designed it. It matches it perfectly.

Holy shmoly. There's a wall here. Isn't that something? I mean, that's evidence.