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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

So you're gonna put "X" on the ground now, are you?

There is this major anomaly, right in the core

‐of the Money Pit. ‐That's incredible.

There it goes!

You're digging on Oak Island. ‐Wow.

Ooh, that's fantastic!

This is an old digging tool!

Wow!

‐ Look at all the wood. ‐ Oh!

‐ Well, that is spectacular! ‐ That looks carved

‐in there, doesn't it? ‐Roman numerals.

‐ Absolutely. ‐ This is like nothing

‐we've seen before. ‐ That's old.

This could be original wood.

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.

The Curse of Oak Island Season 7 - EP 21 - A Leaf of Faith

Subtitles Diego Moraes / Ewerton Henrique www.oakisland.tk

All right, here it comes.

Bring it up a little!

Looks good.

We're gonna fill this one all the way up.

With only a few precious weeks remaining

before the onset of another harsh North Atlantic winter,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

are determined to locate the original Money Pit,

and the fabled treasure vault reported to be hidden there,

before being forced to suspend all operations on Oak Island

for the rest of the year.

That's good.

After a morning spent filling in

the massive 8‐A borehole...

Welcome, Jeremy.

...Rick, Marty,

their partner Craig Tester, and members of their team

have arranged to meet

with geophysicist Jeremy Church of Eagle Canada.

Jeremy has prepared a report

on the seismic scanning data that was conducted

earlier this year across the eastern end of the island.

Um, I, for one, love this portion of this quest.

You know, I love getting the data back,

and I think everybody else is keen

to see what you've got.

It's a pleasure being here, guys. Thank you.

So you're gonna put "X" on the ground now, are you?

I'm gonna try my best.

Cool.

Using 18,000 dynamite charges,

which were set off across Oak Island's eastern half,

a virtual underground map was created

down to depths of as much as 300 feet,

indicating possible objects,

voids or structures buried below.

Using this new data, as well as previous seismic surveys

conducted in the swamp and Money Pit areas last year,

the team from Eagle Canada has generated a master map

of any notable anomalies

for the team to consider investigating further.

Okay, well, I guess we'll dive in.

We're ready.

Um, here's an overview.

So, this is just showing us what's been shot to date,

plus the new stuff.

So, there's 80,000 sample points

on the east drumlin 3D,

so that's a lot of data.

Let's get into the exciting stuff.

‐ Yeah! ‐Uh, this is

the Money Pit data set.

So, each one of these, these are all little... disturbances,

probably searcher tunnels.

But within there, there is a subtle little anomaly.

So, now we're down 160 feet below surface.

We're right in the core of the Money Pit.

So, this is what I call the "teardrop."

It's sitting right on top of the Money Pit.

What's the size?

13 feet by 13 feet.

An anomaly?

Matching the 13‐foot diameter of the original Money Pit,

as reported by Daniel McGinnis and his two friends

when they discovered it in 1795?

Could the team have finally pinpointed

the original treasure shaft?

And where is it?

Is there not a well through it?

I'll turn it so you can see.

And I've got them at the proper depths.

So, the teardrop sits just below the Chappell shoe.

So H8 catches the south end of it.

‐Just missed it. Just.

Oh!

This much, Marty.

Two years ago, Rick, Marty, Craig and the team

sunk a 60‐inch‐wide shaft known as H8 in the Money Pit area

and were stunned when, at a depth of 170 feet,

they hit an obstruction that they believed may have been

the legendary Chappell Vault.

It feels like I'm on a whole bunch of wood at once now.

Unfortunately, as they attempted to dig deeper,

the object they hit was pushed further down

and somewhere off to the side

into a possible void or chamber.

Could this seismic anomaly, located right next to H8,

be where the Chappell Vault is now located?

For me, this is incredible information.

I mean, there's nothing says

we couldn't drop a can in that area.

‐Mm‐hmm. ‐The three of us

always thought that surely technology

will break this acorn wide open.

And now maybe, just maybe, it will crack.

Yeah.

I am highly encouraged by the anomaly

that Jeremy pointed out near H8,

because it's deep enough that we could have missed it.

I mean, I was... I was rapidly getting to the point

where I thought there's some great treasure there,

we couldn't possibly have missed it

unless it's way deep.

Jeremy, fantastic presentation. Much appreciated.

It gives us lots of things to look at, really,

but one in particular the one you've delineated.

And speaking of that,

let's get after it!

Thank you.

Later that day...

Put it over the center. We'll set her down.

Come up a little bit.

We need to turn it.

Pull it. Pull it, Scott.

...as the teams from Irving Equipment Limited

and ROC Equipment work to reposition

the 60‐ton oscillator over the new dig site

at the Money Pit...

Yeah, that's perfect.

...Rick and members of the Oak Island team

head to the swamp,

where they've arranged to have botanist Dr. Rodger Evans

give his analysis of a recent discovery

near the area dubbed the "Eye of the Swamp."

This is our big question mark.

This is the stump.

Holy snaps.

That's crazy.

Five weeks ago,

while excavating a mysterious circle of large boulders...

That's a big stump.

...Rick, Marty and the team were stunned

to uncover a large stump embedded in the muck and mud.

Because trees cannot generally grow

in bodies of water, the team is curious to know

if their discovery offers additional evidence

that the swamp was man‐made.

The trees indicate

that at one point it was dry land, so...

why are the stumps, um, spread across the width

and breadth of the swamp?

So with Dr. Rodger Evans,

we may get some answers.

What I'd like to do

is take some of this with me.

‐Mm‐hmm. ‐So, what I can do is,

I'll take that back to the lab and clean it up, and I'll

have a look at this tissue and see...

‐under the microscope. ‐Okay.

I bet you'd like to pull that off

and see what's underneath that, wouldn't you?

The way that came off...

you shouldn't be able to pull a tree apart like that.

It almost looks like... cork oak?

Is that cork oak?

‐I have no idea. ‐It's really light.

Yeah. The outer bark of a tree

is called the cork, the corky layer.

It just so happens that cork oaks have a cork layer

that you can harvest without damaging the tree,

and that's where corks come from.

If it was covered in... in cork,

cork oaks only grow in Portugal.

A possible cork oak?

Native to Portugal,

cork oak is known for its buoyancy

and is commonly used for bottling wines.

Because it is a natural fire retardant,

it is also used in construction.

But if this stump is actually from a Portuguese tree,

how did it come to be on Oak Island?

It is well known that Portuguese explorers,

as well as Portuguese pirates, frequently visited

what is now known as Nova Scotia

from the early 16th to the late 18th centuries.

However, some researchers believe

that members from a Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar,

known as the Knights of Christ,

may have visited the region even earlier.

We are always looking for cultural influences,

and to me, that would be a big thing.

You have a nonindigenous species brought here by some culture

or group of people,

‐possibly to mark the island. Yeah,

I'm‐I'm with you that's what I've always thought it was,

like with the canopy oaks and... it was... it was a marker.

It was a way to identify this as the place you wanted to be.

‐That's a big clue. ‐Yeah.

Although red oak trees are common

on Oak Island and throughout Nova Scotia,

numerous treasure hunters and local landowners

have long identified a species they call the "canopy oaks."

According to one theory, they were planted centuries ago

by the original treasure depositors

to serve as a marker or beacon.

Unfortunately, over the past century,

these particular trees have completely died off.

Let me do some investigating on cork oaks.

That'd be really interesting,

if that's what it turns out to be.

Well, if you can shed any light on this,

we would truly appreciate it.

‐Thank you. ‐ All right.

Yeah, this is pretty neat.

As a new day of investigation begins

on Oak Island,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

are welcoming back two special guests

‐to the island... ‐Okay.

Well, here we are.

If I take the box for you,

‐would that be a little easier? ‐Thank you. Great. Thank you.

...Lee Lamb and her brother, Richard Restall, whose family

led by their father, Robert Restall Sr.,

forged an unforgettable chapter

in the 225‐year Oak Island mystery.

‐ There they are! ‐Well...

‐Lee. How are you? ‐ Hello.

I will get a hug. ‐Oh! Rick!

When I think of Lee Lamb and Ricky Restall,

it's hard not to be emotionally connected.

My hope continues to be that as

this mystery evolves under our stewardship,

the Restalls continue helping us with moving

the search agenda forward.

So, welcome! Welcome back to Oak Island.

Thank you. It's good to be back.

You two are sort of like a walking history of the place,

really, in a very real sense.

‐Yeah. Yeah. ‐I'm gonna assume, Lee,

that just returning here

is always got to be somewhat bittersweet, right?

‐Mm‐hmm. ‐I know, or I'm pretty sure,

you're interested still in the search, right?

‐Oh, of course, very much so. ‐Yeah.

Lee, Ricky, I speak for everyone here, you know,

you're such a part of the history, the mystery,

that is Oak Island and, uh, you are part of it.

An integral part of it.

In 1959,

former motorcycle daredevils Robert Restall Sr.

and his wife Mildred moved with their two sons

Bobby Jr. and Richard to Oak Island.

For six years, they braved desolate

and often harsh living conditions on the island

while conducting extensive investigations in the swamp,

at Smith's Cove and the Money Pit.

I feel that the treasure is here, and that we can get it.

And we're going to stay here until we do.

After six exhaustive years,

in the summer of 1965,

Robert believed he was on the verge of solving the mystery,

and that the sacrifices made by his family

were about to pay off.

But on August 17th, while investigating

a 27‐foot deep shaft at Smith's Cove

that he and his son Bobby Jr. had constructed in an attempt

to locate and block off the main flood tunnel,

Robert, Bobby Jr. and two other men

lost their lives due to mysterious poison gasses

that emitted out of the bottom.

Although the tragedy forever altered the lives

of Lee, Richard and their late mother Mildred...

These are Bobby's journals.

...in recent years,

they have visited the island,

in the hopes of helping Rick, Marty and the team

achieve their father's shared dream.

The Restall family is part of our family now,

and‐and that was really the impetus for reaching out to you,

because what do families do, right?

‐They get together. ‐Yeah. ‐Mm‐hmm.

So anyway, we would like to talk to you a little bit

‐about what's going on. Um... ‐ Mm‐hmm.

And the reason these items are in front of you is because

all of these things

speak to something happening prior to 1795.

Look at these.

‐Now, I love me bobby‐dazzlers...

...because not only are they spectacular,

but these are personal items.

‐Mm‐hmm. ‐To me,

the find of the century...

My favorite find is this.

‐This is jewelry. ‐ Uh‐huh.

It's a lead cross.

And this would've been worn by someone

a very long time ago and lost on Oak Island.

‐Mm‐hmm. Yeah. So, it's‐it's, uh,

kind of a plain design, though. That would mean it's older.

Um, yeah, that's what makes it special,

‐that nice, crude design. Mm‐hmm.

And we actually got the lead tested,

and the source of the lead came from France.

Ah.

And that mine closed in 1300,

which is a heck of a long time ago.

Oh. Okay.

The dates are incredible.

They‐they really are. I mean, this is...

All of these finds.

We're taking the story of Oak Island

way, way back into centuries

we could only have dreamed about before.

‐ Mm‐hmm. ‐ And now I'll pass it over to Rick,

'cause he's got some interesting wood news.

Well, I called Lee and...

and asked about the canopy oak.

And, uh, she has kindly brought a leaf and an acorn

representative of the old umbrella oaks,

canopy oaks.

Well, they were digging on the beach

when they first arrived.

Mm‐hmm.

And they dug a small hole.

At the end of the evening, they went home,

‐had supper, went to bed. ‐Mm‐hmm.

Next day, they come up, and the hole

‐is filled with water. ‐Okay.

And floating in the water is an oak leaf and an acorn.

‐Wow. ‐ I don't know that my father

thought that this was a...

a leaf from the canopy trees.

‐ Mm‐hmm. ‐ It was part

of the filtration system,

and it was coming from underneath,

where they used eelgrass.

‐Okay. ‐Coconut fiber.

Coconut fiber. Thank you.

And sometimes branches.

Mm‐hmm.

In 1850,

while excavating beneath the beach at Smith's Cove,

members of the Truro Company

reported finding a dense layer of coconut fiber

covering the five stone box drains.

Because the nearest indigenous coconut trees

are more than 1,500 miles away from Oak Island,

the workers speculated

that the material was used to act as a filter

to keep debris out of the flooding system.

This is where the leaf is.

And you don't mind we open it?

No, I don't mind that you open it.

Is anything around it or just the leaf?

Just the leaf, looks like.

‐Still sticking together. ‐Whoa.

Looks like a twin.

Wow.

Have you brought some acorns,

‐as well? Oh, great. ‐Yes. Yes, we...

They're little, aren't they? They're tiny.

Well, these are markedly different if they're mature.

Mm‐hmm.

Well, the botanist needs to see this.

‐ Exactly. ‐ To put this all in perspective,

the reason we think this is important

is that, let's say, this leaf and these oak... these acorns,

say that it...

You know, this is an oak that normally is found

in Southern France.

‐Right. ‐ Well, then,

then we have some meaning. I mean,

‐this might tell a story. ‐ Mm‐hmm.

Could this oak leaf and acorn,

which Robert Restall Sr. reportedly found

in the flooding system

at Smith's Cove, offer an important clue

as to the exact species of oak tree

that some have speculated to be of a foreign origin?

I'm keenly interested in that. ‐ Mm‐hmm.

I think we need to put that leaf back

in that envelope carefully as we can and then get

Dr. Rodger Evans to look at it.

Thank you for bringing this.

Absolutely.

And again, kudos to your parents for saving it.

This is excellent. Excellent stuff.

You know, we're gonna get this analyzed, and we'll certainly

report back to you what we find.

‐Wonderful. Okay. ‐All right.

Following their meeting in the war room,

Rick takes Richard Restall to Lot 13

to see something he has not seen

for more than half a century:

the remains of a small wooden cabin

that he and his brother, Bobby Restall Jr.

shared for six years while living on Oak Island.

Today, it sits on property belonging to Tom Nolan,

where it was moved to some years ago

by his late father, Fred Nolan.

‐ Hey, guys. ‐Hey, guys.

‐Wow. ‐There she is.

Wow. That is rough shape.

All right.

Well...

Sure doesn't look the way it used to.

So, that...

would be a shelf.

There were batteries below. There was a radio, which...

Bobby always turned the dials on the radio.

Sure. Sure.

I might have bad music taste or something.

And, uh, when I walked in, that was my bunk,

‐because his bunk had the window. ‐I see.

He was the watchman for the boat

‐and the equipment that was stored on the beach. ‐I see.

So, the radio would play, and I would read my stuff.

Uh, Bobby would be writing letters

or finishing his journal.

And that was the sum and total of our existence.

That was it. It was pretty Spartan.

Living in the shack with my brother was...

it seemed rather strict sometimes.

You know, lights out when he said.

Music when he said.

And so on. So...

When my brother was responsible for me,

he was very serious about it.

So, he was protective.

I'll give him that. Um...

I wonder if he would have turned into

as headstrong a person as my father

or my mother.

And it seemed sort of inevitable,

but guess we'll never know.

So, Ricky, it was really Scott and Doug

who came up with the idea of refurbishing the cabin.

‐It's a little side project we don't mind taking on. ‐Yeah.

I see. Right. Well, keep it as sparse as you can,

because, uh, there was nothing fancy about that shack.

It was a toolshed when they built it, I think,

and it became a residence when the whole family

moved to the island.

And finding this place still sort of together

is, uh, something of a‐a miracle, maybe.

60 years. That's a long time.

As I was listening to Ricky,

it was like he was reliving the past.

It hearkens back

to a much more innocent time on the island.

Uh, they were connecting their activities as a family.

Uh, we now call ourselves an Oak Island family,

so there's a connection there.

I thought it was

a healing moment, but only Ricky can tell you

what has transpired within his mind

as he recalled these things.

All I can say is, Ricky,

it's been a privilege and an honor, and I...

At the point at which we refurbish this

and put it in position, to complete the story,

uh, we would ask you to please come back.

‐Oh, for sure. ‐You're never a stranger here.

‐Remember that. ‐I'll test out the bunks.

Okeydoke. Thank you.

‐Thanks, Ricky. Appreciate it. ‐Thank you.

Thank you.

It is the beginning

of a bitterly cold day on Oak Island,

one that serves as a harsh reminder

that another North Atlantic winter

is just a few short weeks away.

And while preparations

for the next major digging operation continue

in the Money Pit area,

at the Oak Island Research Center,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with their partner,

Craig Tester, are joined once again

by Richard Restall and Lee Lamb.

‐Hey. ‐This is Dr. Rodger Evans

‐from Acadia University. ‐Hi, everybody.

They have arranged for botanist Dr. Rodger Evans

to examine the oak leaf and acorn

that Lee shared with the team one day ago.

So, we know we provided you

with a bit of a mystery the other day.

‐We have a bit more of a mystery.

And the Restalls were kind enough

to bring samples from long ago:

‐an oak leaf and some acorns, which we would like ‐Okay.

‐your opinion on. ‐So, Dr. Evans, if you want to come right over here,

you can got a microscope set up for you, too,

‐in case you want to use it. ‐Okay, great.

This leaf was actually...

pulled from what Lee and Ricky's father believed was part

‐of the flood system on Oak Island 60 years ago. ‐Okay. Wow.

‐Yeah, and they've kept it preserved like that. ‐And it's still

‐That's great. ‐So, what we're after is,

do you think it's indigenous? Do you think there's

anything special about it?

Can you tell where it might have come from?

‐Sure. ‐And then, also...

There we go.

‐ Oh. Whoa. ‐That's one of the acorns,

believe it or not, that's been kept all these years, too.

It's tiny.

‐ Isn't it? ‐When we compared them

to the oaks that were around us,

this looks different.

There you go. Acorns.

So, what about these acorns?

The rest are intact, right?

Did this leaf come from the from the tree

‐that these fruits came from? ‐I'm sure it did.

Was it on the same branch, you think?

It was described to me as‐as the nuts

if that's what you call 'em came in a cluster,

‐in the normal, um... ‐Oh, so they were on a branch

‐when they came? ‐Yeah.

Yeah. In the intervening years,

‐the stuff has rattled around. ‐Has Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Okay, so let's have a look at this acorn.

I can tell you right now

that these fruits probably are not viable.

‐ Yeah. ‐ As you can see,

they're empty.

‐Uh‐huh. ‐So, that black material

‐may have been the original seed. ‐Uh‐huh. Uh‐huh.

And the other thing that I find really interesting

is that yellow material that you can see...

‐Mm‐hmm. ‐Um,

what's happened over time is that that seed coat

that was there has just dried up.

It's fairly obvious to me

‐that these acorns are very different ‐ Mm‐hmm.

than the typical

‐red oak acorns. ‐Mm. ‐Mm‐hmm.

I guess there is a possibility that somebody brought a species

of oak here and grew it,

‐and that's where these fruits would come from. ‐Mm‐hmm.

A mysterious species of oak tree

brought to Oak Island?

Could it be from one of the so‐called canopy oaks

that many Oak Island treasure hunters believed

had been planted by the original depositors

to act as a secret beacon marking the location

of a vast treasure cache?

It's very apparent from his initial analysis

that this oak indeed is different.

It's a clue.

It's a pretty amazing clue,

because, you know, the obvious question is,

how'd it get here? Who brought it?

Is there any chance that acorns

would survive drifting across the Atlantic

‐and... ‐I would say that these

‐probably aren't that resistant to salt water. ‐Right.

So, once the cap separates and water enters the...

It would probably it'd probably destroy it

if it was salt water, I would think.

For our search here,

for what we're trying to figure out here,

I‐I draw two conclusions.

One, whatever the Restalls found 60 years ago

uh, markedly different.

Have to be a different species

‐than the native oaks. Okay. ‐Correct. Yeah.

Which means this is significant.

We need to find out, if we can,

what is yet another non‐native species

doing in a flood s‐system

‐or a box drain or whatever? ‐Sure.

I mean, in their own way,

to me, based on today's analysis,

these are as interesting as the coconut fiber,

‐because it‐it's out of place. ‐ Mm‐hmm. ‐ Yeah.

‐It doesn't belong there. ‐Yeah. It doesn't belong here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Can we do any sort of genetic testing

on those? Are they too old?

‐I think they're too old. Um... ‐Aw.

Older material that isn't fresh,

the amount of DNA information that you can get out of it

becomes limited.

All right, then. Great session.

‐Thank you very much. We really... ‐Yeah, my pleasure. Thank you.

‐ Much appreciated. ‐ Yeah, thanks.

Following their meeting in the research center...

Well, here we go.

...Rick and Marty,

along with Lee and Richard,

make their way to the Money Pit dig site.

Through Doug's exhaustive research

and we're utilizing your father's work,

we now have a can positioned over the

an area that we believe holds a lot of promise.

‐Mm. ‐If there's

a treasure left up there,

we have the equipment to get it.

Well, it would be a nice ending...

‐Wouldn't it? ‐...to an exciting adventure.

Yeah. True.

As fate would have it,

the team is about to begin digging

at the very same location

where Robert Restall Sr. believed

the original Money Pit would be found.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen.

We have with us here the Restalls,

‐Lee Lamb and Ricky Restall, who have a... ‐Hi.

...long, storied and interesting history here.

So, anyway, this is the thing.

Rick, tell‐tell her how it works.

Well, those big rams are gonna take

that large can, grab onto it with a set of jaws

and literally rotate it down into the ground.

Mm. Right. Okay.

Generally, in the past, we've named these cans.

And so I think it's very apropos to name this can RF‐1,

the Restall Family 1.

Oh, for goodness' sake.

‐That's nice. ‐And I and I hope

that, at the bottom of that can,

is what we have all sought for 225 years.

I'm very honored

that we were invited to be here at this time,

'cause it is important to me.

This is the first time I've seen the big equipment working

and seen the up‐to‐date stuff that you're doing.

I do remember, you and I,

we were looking at Bobby's journals

and we turned to August 17 and I made you

a promise then that we would be able,

at some point, to fill that last page in.

Now it's about all of us,

including you and Ricky, filling that last page in,

and I hope this is the start of it.

Mm‐hmm. Well, thank you.

I hope it works out, because it's about time.

All right, without further ado,

Vanessa?

Shall we?

The Restalls, unlike any

of the other searchers,

this was a‐a family adventure, really,

and‐and, certainly, it culminated

in a tragedy. So, when they come back,

are kind enough to come back and‐and revisit and

Uh, it's‐it's a connection to the past.

That, in and of itself, is a small piece of treasure,

and they value it, as do we.

There it goes!

Wow. There you go.

‐You're oscillating. ‐Okay. Great.

You're‐you're digging here on Oak Island.

Wow.

Impressive.

‐‐ Pretty cool.

And now we move forward.

Sempre avanti.

Gorgeous.

All that remains is to find it.

With the start of another day on Oak Island...

How are you doing this morning?

Good. Yourself? ‐Good.

...Craig Tester joins Vanessa Lucido

and other members of the team

at the Money Pit site to check on the progress

of the RF‐1 shaft.

It is here that recent seismic scanning identified

a 13‐foot‐wide void

matching the diameter of the original Money Pit

at a depth of some 160 feet.

How deep is the hammer grab?

About 86 now.

Good. Well, it's moving along.

Yeah. It's moving along nicely.

Still getting full buckets with the grab,

and the oscillator's advancing at the rate I'd expect it to.

Still pulling out lots of wood.

Okay. The ones

that are square, six by six, that's Chappell.

‐So that part's gonna be coming up the entire way. ‐Okay.

‐Awesome. ‐So, you know, from 100 to 120 feet

‐will probably be a key area. ‐Okay.

We'll let you know if we have anything unusual

‐or... ‐Okay.

Because we seem to have honed in on what we want,

now it's time to be very careful

looking at these cuttings, so we don't miss

what might be there for us to find.

And we've basically got this down

to a pretty smooth‐running machine.

The hammer grab dumps the spoils in the jersey barrier.

Gary metal detects it.

And then it's washed on the wash table.

And it's all occurring, you know, like, um...

like a machine.

Hey, Jack.

How's it going, Steve?

Because all previous searchers have never been able

to excavate the original Money Pit much below

the 90‐foot level due to the booby‐trapped flood tunnel,

the Oak Island team will begin

thoroughly sifting and searching

through all spoils unearthed below 100 feet

for any important clues, artifacts

or, hopefully, treasure.

We just need to pick out anything

that seems out of the ordinary.

Or man‐made.

Anything that's odd.

There's something.

Look at this.

I think we've got some old pottery.

Oh, yeah.

‐That's... ‐That's a huge chunk of it.

That's really old pottery, Steve.

Look at how thick it is.

‐The thicker, the older, too. ‐The thicker, the older.

And that's the thickest pottery I've seen at this wash table.

Quite honestly, if this is really old,

this could be a good indication that we're inside

‐the original Money Pit. ‐Mm‐hmm.

Or left behind by searchers.

Maybe left behind by depositors, too.

We're on the right track!

While Jack and Steve continue to search

for more important clues at the wash table...

‐Going in. ‐...Gary Drayton

and geologist Terry Matheson

are carefully monitoring the freshly excavated material

retrieved by the hammer grab tool.

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‐We've got a target here.

What do you got?

Ooh! What have we got here?

Check this out.

That's an old pickaxe, a broken pickaxe.

That is serious.

‐ What a sweet find! ‐Right on.

Oh, wow. I mean, this is really, really cool, Terry.

That's something, man.

‐This is really old, mate. ‐Yeah.

We're in the 1700s. This is original stuff.

A pickaxe found some 90 feet deep

in what the team believes could be the original Money Pit?

Could it have been left there

by searchers looking for the fabled treasure vault?

Or might it have been left behind by whoever buried it?

This could've been used by the guys who made the Money Pit.

This is what we're all hoping.

‐You got your phone, mate? ‐I do.

Yeah, we should call Rick and Marty.

Marty and Rick are gonna love this.

That's gonna put a smile on their face for sure.

What a sweet find!

It's really sweet.

‐ Hey, guys. ‐ What you got there,

‐Gary? ‐Finally making some good discoveries.

After being alerted

to Gary Drayton's discovery

of a possibly ancient pickaxe in the RF‐1 spoils,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina arrive

at the Money Pit drill site.

‐That is cool. ‐Yeah.

Another old pick in a different place.

The same style pick that came out the back of the swamp.

Now we got one in the Money Pit.

Ooh. Oh!

‐Wait. ‐Now look at that!

That is a really old pick!

Eight weeks ago, while metal detecting

near the northernmost area of the triangle‐shaped swamp,

Gary and Jack Begley discovered a similar digging tool.

One which blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge later determined

to date back to the mid‐1700s.

Could this pickaxe, found in Borehole RF‐1,

be related to the 18th century pickaxe

that the team discovered earlier this year?

And might it also have had something to do

with the 13‐foot‐wide chamber identified

by seismic scanning at a depth of 160 feet?

Do you think that's broken?

Yes, I do.

And maybe the shaft was broken

on purpose, and it's for tunneling.

‐Yeah. You get a close hit? ‐Yeah.

This looks more substantial and thicker.

I was really impressed by the handle. It was huge.

You wouldn't want to grab that and swing it all day long.

It was quite a handle, quite a pick.

To swing that for eight, ten hours a day, you'd be tired

‐at the end of the day. ‐ It's a cool artifact.

I‐I could tell you without going to the venerable Carmen Legge,

it was probably built long ago.

It's a well‐made tool.

Well, look, everything that's coming up here is

interlaced with very old stuff.

I think it looks really good.

Yeah.

Well, we need to get going.

It's time to get crack‐a‐lacking.

It's very possible

that we are within the Money Pit collapse zone, so,

we need to separate the material that is

relevant to the search, because we certainly have

the possibility of locating the original Money Pit.

Wow. That's impressive.

It's a big timber.

Want to get this one?

That's a big one, huh?

That's a timber.

‐One. ‐ Two, three.

Any luck in there?

Really old wood.

At the bottom of that scoop there, inside Billy's bucket,

there's a really, really big, fantastic timber.

Rick wanted us to take the big ones and set them aside.

Ooh! What have we got here?

Look at this one.

We start pulling up some really impressive

timbers.

These were cut by hand.

This should be original work.

Come and check this out.

Look at there.

Look at all the wood.

Yeah.

Look at that piece there.

Oh.

That is spectacular.

That's cool.

I mean, that's not

a modern design.

‐That is really old. ‐ That's old.

‐ With dowels, no less. ‐ Yeah. ‐ Yeah.

Almost interlocking,

‐like a key in a... a lock. ‐ Yeah.

This is like nothing we've seen before.

This could be original wood.

A doweled timber, possibly

from the original Money Pit?

Dating back to the early 7th century,

a dowel is a kind of wooden fastener

used to lock large planks or timbers together.

Frequently used in shipbuilding,

wooden dowels were considered more reliable

than iron nails or spikes,

which would rust and break down

after prolonged exposure to water.

This wood in RF‐1 was weird and unique.

It was hand‐hewn lumber, it was massive.

It was doweled together at the end with hand‐cut dowels.

I'm going to be very curious

about the dendrochronology on that.

If those are older than 1795,

we have to really think about what might've happened here.

I think that's the one over there with the hole in it.

Look at that.

‐ Oh, yeah. ‐See those two marks there?

They look like they was chiseled out of there.

‐Yeah, they do. ‐I just wondered

if these two marks are‐are actual

‐Roman numerals. ‐ Wow.

What do you think, Laird?

Is that a Roman numeral "two"?

Oh, yeah.

Terry, you got your brush?

I do.

Let's buff it up a little bit.

Yeah, buff that up a little bit.

Looks like some deliberate motion here.

‐ Yeah. ‐Some deliberate...

swipes, perhaps.

Well, guess where we've seen Roman numerals before.

The U‐shaped structure.

‐That'd be quite a tie‐in. ‐ Yeah.

Look at there.

Yeah, I got a Roman numeral right here!

Nice, Charles!

"XI." I've got "11" right here.

One year ago, after damming

and draining Smith's Cove to search

for the fabled stone box drains

and the main flood tunnel connected to the Money Pit,

Rick, Marty and the team unearthed

the so‐called "U‐shaped structure"

a massive wooden formation also featuring Roman numerals.

Incredibly, using a kind

of tree‐ring testing method known as "dendrochronology,"

it was determined to have been constructed in 1769,

more than a quarter century prior

to the discovery of the Money Pit.

Could this wood, found some 100 feet deep in RF‐1,

be connected to the U‐shaped structure?

And if so, might it also be evidence that the team has,

at last, located the original treasure shaft?

You see the Roman numerals, Rick?

That looks carved in there, doesn't it?

That's... That... Look at that.

Quite different.

Very different.

I think the Roman numerals are cool.

They were dramatic.

I mean, there was... I was there.

There was no doubt in my mind those were Roman numerals.

There was artistry put into this thing.

It wasn't a quick construct.

This was meant to last.

So, my thought would be

that the old shaft is original.

Could be.

We'll have to look for more, um,

Roman numerals in this jumble.

So, it's on one side or another of the box joint.

We'll have to take a look for that.

Even 1769's impressive. This is...

If this is the same date as the U‐shaped structure.

And of course, we can have it dendro'd.

‐We can take a sample and have it dendro'd. ‐Yeah.

We got to find some of these and dendro it, yeah.

Well, we'll be able to go through this carefully.

We're in a good spot.

A really exciting day.

As another week ends

in the 225‐year history of the Oak Island treasure hunt,

Rick, Marty, Craig and their team are convinced

that not only have they found new clues

that could finally help identify

those who buried something of great value

on Oak Island centuries ago.

They may have also found the location

of where they hid it deep underground.

And as what Rick and Marty Lagina refer to

as "The Fellowship of the Dig" continues their search,

they may soon uncover something much more valuable

than a vault full of treasure.

They may also find the facts behind an incredible story

one that, were it not for them, may have been lost to history

forever.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

Whoa, baby!

Really big impressive timbers.

‐We're back in the old stuff. ‐ Whoa. Look at this!

‐We have got more markings. ‐ How about that?

Wait. Stop.

‐What's that? ‐ There's no doubt about this.

This is a man‐made tunnel.

‐Ooh, look at that! Oh, wow!

What kind of date are you putting on this?

‐This could be from the original Money Pit. ‐Mm‐hmm.

It's getting tighter.

Pressures are rising a little bit.

‐Oh, whoa! ‐Whoa, whoa, whoa!

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