All language subtitles for THE.CURSE.OF.OAK.ISLAND.S08E20.WEB.H264-(SUBRIP)-AR

Narrator:
Tonight on
the curse of oak island...

Terry:
Whoa! We got a shaft here,

-and maybe
it's the money pit.
-Aaron: Wow.

That's super cool.
This would indicate

that there
was a structure in here.

-ooh, look at that.

-Michael j.: What's that?
-Gary: This is old.

It's typical
of early time periods.

With the narrow cork
on the back, it means

-that it was scottish
that did this.
-Jack: Oh, no way!

This came from
underneath the pathway,

and they're
from one time period.

-Wow.
-That's really cool.

That's stunning.

Narrator:
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.

-rick: Hey, guys!
-Scott: Hey, guys.

-Marty: Hello!
-Alex: Hey, everyone.
-Rick: So...

The current update
on the path...

Steve's latest estimate
is 460 feet.

-Mm-hmm.
-Narrator: As a new day

begins on oak island

for brothers rick and marty
lagina, craig tester,

and the members of their team,

rick has gathered
them to report

a potentially
significant discovery

near the man-made
triangle-shaped swamp.

A mysterious
building foundation

unearthed next to
the stone pathway

that has been determined
to be extending

off the swamp's eastern border

and possibly branching off
in two separate directions.

Uh, we're right where

tom's field is,

right behind the barn.

It's at that juncture where

the road seems
to, uh, separate.

-Right.
-Rick: There appears to be

a... What miriam and aaron
both say is a foundation.

What's curious about it is--
and this is the hope--

there are voids
between the rocks.

You can actually reach your
hand, most of your forearm in.

-Oh, really?
-Wow.

-Rick: There's a big hole.
-Miriam: Oh, yeah.

Rick:
You can put your hand
right in there.

Narrator:
One day ago,
while investigating

several of these small voids,

the team speculated
that they may be evidence

of a possible substructure.

It's a stone foundation,

and we now have
two right angles.

The feature's about
two feet high, give or take.

How much soil was covering it?

Three feet, craig.

Just seems like a lot of,
uh, material to be covering it.

You know, the more material,
the older it is.

I'm going to let steve tell you
what his thoughts are, but, uh,

-it's certainly not the road.
-Steve g.: Mm-hmm.

So, I've come across
numerous amounts

of foundations from the 1700
and 1800's in nova scotia.

And, uh,
coming up on this,

that's the first thing to cross
my mind, and I said,

you know,
we're near anthony graves,

where his house
and foundation and property.

And there are stories
that anthony graves had found

a treasure
or cache of some sort

because of the coins
he was spending.

And what are the chances that

he could have stored maybe his
treasure under a foundation?

Narrator:
One persistent rumor about
a possible treasure discovery

on oak island

revolves around a farmer
named anthony graves

who purchased most
of the island in 1857.

Although never known
to have participated

in organized treasure hunts,

many locals reported
that mr. Graves

occasionally purchased goods
on the mainland

using spanish
silver and gold coins

after he began living
on the island.

Look, graves spent spanish coin.

That's irrefutable, and...

Back then,
when graves was alive,

there were no banks.

You trusted
putting your treasure

where you deemed it
to be safe.

Well, you wouldn't put it
in your principal residence

because that's where
people would look.

-Yes.
-Rick: If I had

a sum of money, coin,

I would put it
in a rock wall,

or I would put it in
the floor of a foundation.

We know there are voids
down between these rocks,

and I would love
nothing better than

to probe deeper into it.

It's certainly interesting.

We were chasing the road,
and we come upon this.

So, interesting enough
to continue to pursue it,

that's for sure,
and we'll-we'll figure out

a way to get at that target.

That's really cool.
You know,

and the road is still an enigma.

It will lead us where it wants
to lead us, so... All right.

Well, good. That's excellent.
That's exciting, guys.

We'll get to the bottom of it.
No pun intended.

All right. Good deal.
Thanks, guys. Appreciate it.

Rick:
All right, see you.

-Take care.
-Craig: Talk to you later.

Narrator:
Later that morning,
near the swamp...

Miriam:
How is the stone throwing going?

David f.:
Uh, so far so good.

Narrator: ...Archeologist
miriam amirault

and rick and marty's
nephew, david fornetti,

continue investigating
the mysterious stone foundation

for additional clues.

Miriam:
Nothing popping out?

No. I mean,
it looks like it's deeper,

but I don't know
if that's normal or not.

Okay.

Miriam:
At the beginning
of the excavation,

we were finding these voids
between the stones.

It's almost like
the stones were all stacked

on top of each other, and then
soil was placed on the top,

and then it didn't fall
into these holes,

and so
it's obviously not natural.

You would never find something
like that just in nature.

What it is, I think we're
all still kind of baffled,

but after we remove the stones

that will help us figure out
what it actually is.

David f.:
What does this look like to you?

Is that charcoal
or is that...

More like a burn area?

Miriam:
Looks like it to me.

This is how we check.

Yes. See how smudgy that is?

-David f.: Yeah.
-Charcoal.

Narrator:
Charcoal discovered
in the stone foundation?

Could it offer a valuable clue

as to how old
this structure might be?

-Aaron!
-Aaron: Yeah?

Can you come over here
for a bit?

Hey, guys.

Look how big
that charcoal feature is.

Aaron:
Wow.

Huh.
I was not expecting that.

that's super cool.

Wow. Okay.

Miriam:
it's pretty much
at the level

that the till would be on.

Aaron:
It's interesting
how it's running.

-Miriam: Mm-hmm.
-David f.: Linear.
-Yeah.

Like, this is almost like a
corner, you got this big stone,

-and above it a big stone.
-Miriam: Mm-hmm.

Aaron:
You know, and in that area,
you got the fire.

And then look at
how red this is.

-Miriam: Yeah.
-Aaron: And that's indication

that it's been a hot fire there.

David f.:
Have you seen something
like this before?

Yeah. This would indicate
that this is the result

of the structure burning down

or that this might be
some sort of hearth feature,

where it had continuous burning.

You can just see
by the redness of the soil

and the depth of the charcoal.

-Miriam: Yup.
-Narrator: A hearth feature

or a structure made for the
purpose of continuous burning?

Could david fornetti
possibly have found evidence

linking this feature to similar
discoveries made this year,

like the pine tar kiln

located on nearby lot 15,

which archaeologist
laird niven believes may be

connected to the construction
of the original money pit?

I was not expecting
to see that.

-Miriam: Yeah.
-I think I would excavate that

as a separate feature, take a
sample, bag it, and then take

everything right down to till.

All right. I'll let
you guys continue on.

-Okay.
-David f.: All right. Well, I'll
keep pulling this down to till,

-and I'll let you...
-Yeah.

-...Excavate that charcoal.
-I'll get a bag right now.

Aaron:
All right.

Well, let's get back to it.

Narrator:
While aaron, david and miriam

continue investigating
the mysterious structure...

Gary:
That's some big rocks.

Narrator: ...Approximately
50 yards to the south,

project manager scott barlow,

metal detection expert
gary drayton,

and heavy equipment
operator billy gerhardt,

are searching the stone pathway
for valuable artifacts

or any evidence that could offer
a definitive date

as to when
the feature was created.

-Getting anything
up there, gary?
-Gary: Not yet, mate.

Couple little, small,
scrappy nail signals. That's it.

Once we start getting
down to depth, though,

we have a chance
of finding something good.

This is the same road?

This is the road,
but we may be coming near

its destination, right?

Marty:
The data is a little bit
all over the board

on this road or path.

But some of the oldest stuff
appears to date into the 1600s.

And, remember,
with the younger things

on top of older things, that's
its youngest possible age,

not its correct age.

The road could've been there
for a thousand years.

You have to get the artifacts
in the succession of layers

to figure out
how old that thing is.

It'd be nice to find
another ringbolt

or some really old ox shoes.

Or, even better,
some of the stuff

that they were hauling
along this track.

Hey, a gold coin would be nice.

-Oh, would it.

we'll see.

Scott:
I want something
that we can say,

-"who did it?"
-gary: Yep.

Yeah. Another 90 foot stone
or something like that

-would be good.
-Scott: That'd be great.

is the cobble road there?

Scott:
It's starting to get
a little cobbly here now.

He's getting down
to that level.

Pretty hard, isn't it?

There's lots of stones
in here, like,

there, there, there.
Oh, wow.

There's something here.

Not sure if it was buried here
or if it was in place

-when they laid the stones.
-Well, that's totally
out of place.

What is it doing here?

-Scott: It'sn not cut
-yeah.

It looks like a branch,
doesn't it?

Scott:
A tree root or something.

Where's the rest of it?

-It was right up
against the rock.
-Billy: Yeah. Exactly.

I'd say it is cut,
because the rest--

it should go down
to a small piece, right?

-Gary: Yeah.
-Scott: That's it there.
The stump should be

right by my knee.

Then it suggests that
it may be placed, right?

-Yeah.
-Billy: People laid

the sticks down
and threw the rocks on top.

Gary:
Exactly right, mate.

And then treasure
run over the top of it.

-hey, scott.
-Scott: Hey, aaron.

Aaron: You guys have moved
a bit of dirt.

Well, we're trying
to chase this along here.

How's it looking?

Scott:
Right here we got
a lot of cobbles.

You can see it. Then this.

We took it out.
It was in amongst,

almost as if the rocks
were placed within it.

-Aaron: Yeah.
-You know,
the stump wasn't there.

Uh, there was rocks
on top of part of it,

so maybe we can
do c-14 on it,

and we can get an age.

-Yeah.
-Marty: Look at that!

-That's cut.
-Narrator: Three weeks ago,

the team discovered a number
of wooden survey stakes

bordering the pathway
that were dated

to as early as 1636.

However, since these newly
discovered wood pieces

were found beneath the pathway,

meaning that they were
most likely placed there

when the structure was built,

could testing them reveal

a more precise age
of the feature?

That's the sort of stuff
we're looking for.

Trying to make
a connection between this

and the stone feature

we just found, um,
and have excavated.

And more and more
we're digging, we're finding

similar building techniques,

and when you add up
all these small little pieces

it makes a compelling argument
that the two are connected.

What's interesting about
wood going under stone--

wood can't naturally
lodge itself

under, uh, a bunch of stones.

So these were
intentionally placed,

possibly as a cribbing method
to keep the stones

from sinking
to the bottom through the mud.

So when you add all these
little things together,

that gives us
a more confident date

on when this was constructed.

Just one more piece
of the puzzle.

-One more little piece.
-We find enough pieces,

-we'll be able to put
the puzzle together.
-Yeah. Hopefully.

But this is--
this is looking great,

and, uh, I'll let you guys
get back at it.

-All right. Thank you.
-Thank you.

Narrator:
While members of the team

continue investigating
near the swamp...

...In the money pit area...

Steve g.:
So, change of game plan

-just a little bit.
-Terry: Okay.

Narrator: ...Steve guptill
meets with oak island historian

charles barkhouse
and geologist terry matheson

to update them
on new instructions

from rick, marty and craig

regarding the team's
core drilling operation.

We've had a lot of success

with consistent wood hits
in this area

in the 86 to 91 range
plus or minus a foot.

-Yup.
-Steve g.: What we want to do
is head back east a little bit,

so what we're going to do is
we're going to punch a hole

-at cd-7, the hole I just set
mike up over. -Good.

Steve g.:
We're looking for the
eastern edge of the tunnel

-or hopefully in the center
of the money pit.
-Okay.

-Cd-7.
-Cd-7.

-Charles: Cd-7.
-Terry: Okay. I'm in.

-Steve g.: We're looking
for the tunnel.
-Charles: The tunnel.

Bingo!

Terry:
This is the top
of a tunnel, not maybe.

So it comes from somewhere,
and it goes to somewhere.

Narrator:
Over the past several weeks,

the oak island team
has drilled six boreholes

in the vicinity
of the c-1 shaft

on the western side
of the money pit area,

and in each case encountered

what appears
to be a wooden tunnel

between 86 and 90 feet deep.

Now, it is rick,
marty and craig's hope that,

by moving some 13 feet eastward

to a borehole on their refined
grid known as cd-7,

they will once again
obtain more evidence

of this mysterious tunnel

and hopefully be another
step closer to locating

the original money pit
and the fabled treasure vault.

I'm very interested

in the progress we're making
in the money pit.

We've intersected
a tunnel or tunnels,

but we don't know the direction
in which they're headed,

so we're following that,
basically.

It's like a hound on a scent.

You pick up a scent,
you need to follow it.

In this case,
the prey is the money pit.

This one going up.

-Charles: 38 feet.
-Terry: All right.

narrator:
Although the coring drill
has yet to reach

the target depth of 86 feet,

geologist terry matheson
is ready to begin looking

for any indications of backfill

or human activity from
possible treasure depositors.

-So, terry, this is
in situ material?
-Terry: Yep.

Blue-gray till that
hasn't been disturbed

in a very long time.

Something's wrong there.

It looks in situ,
but it's relatively loose.

And that looks like it
might be disturbed.

It's borderline. It's definitely
till, but it could be backfill.

We could be close to something.

Narrator:
Disturbed backfill material?

Could the team
have just located evidence

of human activity?

And, if so,
is it from prior searchers?

Or perhaps someone who came
to oak island much earlier?

The clues are adding up,

and I'm never sick and tired
of a clue being found.

That's what this is all about.
I've referenced it before:

This is a thousand-piece puzzle,
you know?

Every piece counts,

so we need to stay the course.

Terry:
We've got a shaft here.

And maybe, maybe,
it's the money pit.

Narrator:
The following morning...

Ian:
So here we are.

Narrator: ...As the core
drilling operation continues

in the money pit area,

rick lagina has invited
geoscientist dr. Ian spooner

to join archeologists
dr. Aaron taylor

and miriam amirault

for a further examination

of the mysterious stone feature

near the northeastern border
of the swamp.

Aaron:
So, this was all covered

in-in charcoal.

-Right.
-Aaron: And you can see in that

-profile wall the depth of it.
-Ian: Right. I can see that.

-Mm-hmm.
-And we get that
orangey color soil.

Ian:
Indication of all the oxidation

that's taking place
because of all the heat.

-Yeah.
-Ian: It's very common

with any kind of fire, right?

But this amount
of burning here is pretty--

-pretty intense.
-Aaron: Yeah.

And these stones here,

you know, they look
intentionally placed.

-Ian: Yes.
-Aaron: They don't look
rubbly to me.

Ian:
No. I'm starting
to think of that as,

if you have that road,
and all the coal,

if you have major
burning here--

I mean, maybe it speaks
to industrial activity.

I can't even imagine the amount
of work put in and to what end?

Miriam:
Well, it's just,
like, with the depth

that we are finding
in this burn feature,

it's been burned
multiple times.

What were they burning,
why was it burned so much,

and where
is any evidence of that?

That's what's confusing us.

There is nothing in this.

-Yeah.
-This couldn't be
one single burn event?

-Not with that. No.
-Not with that depth.

You can see it
in the profile wall.

It's similar to what we were
getting up at the pine tar kiln.

Narrator:
Is it possible that,

like the pine tar kiln
on lot 15,

which may date to the
16th century and be connected

to the construction
of the original money pit,

this stone feature
might have been used by someone

who came to oak island long
before 18th-century settlers?

If so, what was it used for?

And could it be connected
to the mysterious wealth

of previous landowners
like anthony graves?

Or, for that matter,
samuel ball?

It doesn't necessarily
have to be a campsite.

It could be a workplace.

It could be an area
where work was done

in association with, perhaps,
the eye of the swamp.

There's all kinds
of variables here,

and so we need to take a very
slow, methodical approach

and give the archeologists time
to put this story together.

We say this
over and over again,

but I think
it is worth repeating.

No artifacts here.

It's interesting
and perplexing because

of all my experiences,
anything like this--

anything--
you're finding artifacts.

-Ian: Right.
-And in large quantities.

Right.

It seems like everything
that we've excavated,

there's like a secretive
component to it.

It's almost eerie

that there's so little.

Maybe there is a swamp story
and a money pit story.

-Yeah.
-Aaron: I don't believe there's

two parallel stories here.

I think there's one story,
and they're connected.

There's too much going on here

for it to be
some other parallel story.

Like, what would possess
people to do

what they've done here,
this path,

unless it was for some
real important purpose?

Rick:
The swamp seems to be
telling us some things

which we had previously
no knowledge of.

My concern is simply this:

Is there a unique swamp story

and a unique money pit story
or are they connected?

Why not go directly
towards the money pit

if it is
in association with that?

I don't know,
but that's the point

of this whole exercise.

Ian:
So, I'm going
to clean off this face.

-I'm going
to get some soil samples.
-Yep.

-Okay.
-All right. Sounds good.

-Rick: Thank you, everybody.
-Ian: Yep.

Narrator:
While the investigation
of the stone foundation

located near the pathway
in the swamp continues,

in the money pit area...

Terry:
Alley-oop.

Narrator: ...Charles barkhouse
and terry matheson

are making timely progress

in the drilling operation
of borehole cd-7

as they have nearly reached
their target depth of 90 feet.

Terry:
Unbroken...

...Complete section
of maroon-ish till.

You know what we're not seeing?

-Spendables?
-Charles: No.

We're not seeing
that 87-88 level

-where we see wood.
-No.

-86.
-Charles: Yep.

Terry:
87ish...

-We should see it
right about there.
-Yeah.

Terry:
A little too continuous,
and not really any wood

that we were hoping to run into.

There's the end of it.

91 feet and nothing to report.

Narrator:
Unfortunately for the team,

their hope that borehole cd-7

might offer the breakthrough
they have been working for

this year
has failed to be realized.

Is it possible that the drill
rod just missed its target?

Or has the team
now lost track of the tunnel

they've been tracing
some 90 feet deep underground?

With the harsh winter months
now fast approaching,

they will have
to reassess their strategy

on how best to move
forward in their quest

to locate
the fabled treasure vault.

-Charles: The clock is ticking.
-Terry: We're running
out of time.

-Exactly.
-Pretty uneventful

going on here, charles.

We haven't been able
to intersect the tunnel.

Charles:
It's down there, terry.

Terry:
We just haven't
found it yet, charles.

Narrator:
Later that afternoon...

Gary:
Here we are, mate.

Narrator:
...Over on lot 26...

Gary:
This used to
be owned by samuel ball,

and it was farmland
back in the day.

Narrator:
...Metal detection
expert gary drayton

along with treasure
hunter michael john

are investigating an area
near the foundation

that once belonged
to samuel ball.

They are hoping
to find more clues

as to why the 19th-century
oak island landowner

mysteriously came to be
one of the wealthiest men

in the province of nova scotia.

Gary: What I've done,
since we have cleared out

the surface artifacts,
I've brought the big mama jama.

There you go.

Gary:
It's a little bit of

-a bigger coil.
-Yes.

What's the maximum
depth for this one?

Like a cannonball-size target?

About six, seven feet.

-Okay, wow.
-Gary: This area

is now cleared of trees

and scrubs and bulrushes.

Gives me an opportunity
to run the gpx 5000

with a 32-inch coil.

We're looking for deep targets.

Okay, mate. This is a good
little clearing to start.

Yeah. Okay.

I want to go in these
wide-open spaces.

-Hopefully we find something.
-All right.

Gary:
Okay. We are ready
to rock and roll.

Michael j.:
All righty.

Marty: Other than the interest
in samuel ball, the human being,

there is a little bit
of a glimmer that he was...

A little bit more
than meets the eye.

I don't think there's
any way anybody that smart,

that aware of things,

wouldn't have known exactly
what was going on oak island

the whole time he was there.

The more I can find out about
this person, uh, the better.

-that was a small piece of iron.
-Small piece?

Gary:
Yep.

gary:
Come on. Where are you?

-oh.

Whoa.

look at that.

-A very strong signal.
-Michael j.: Yeah.

-Gary: Looks like
it's just here, mate.
-Michael j.: Okay.

-michael j.: Check?
-Gary: Yep.

see? I should be able to hit it.

Gary:
That should be
something good. It's deep.

So it should be old.

Oh. What we got here?

-Gary: That's it. Yeah.
-That's probably it, yes.

That is...

Oh, a little baby ox shoe.

-we found the shack daddy,

-the mother of all ox shoes...
-Yeah.

-Yeah.
-...Uh, near the swamp.

And now we've found
a little baby one.

That is a small little ox shoe.

Now we've pulled up several
different ox shoes

in really good condition.

And if there is some kind
of industrial operation,

you're going
to need beasts of burden

to transport whatever
you was doing there.

And when we show these
to carmen,

hopefully carmen will give us
a country of origin.

It is an oldie.
This is an old artifact.

I've just never seen them
this small.

What a nice little artifact,
and I'm looking forward

to taking this
to carmen legge...

-There we go, yeah.
-To give us a story behind this.

Hey, great find, michael.
Great find.

We've got to tell
the archeologists

-about this area.
-Michael j.: That's right. Yeah.

-Narrator: The following
morning...
-Marty: What's going on?

What's today's issue?

Narrator: ...Marty lagina
meets with his partner

craig tester and jack begley

to discuss the team's
current setback

in the money pit area

and to decide how best
to prioritize

the use of
the core drilling rig

with just a few
precious weeks remaining

before the onset of winter.

So, we're chasing
the money pit

-towards c1.
-Marty: Mm-hmm.

Craig:
And, uh, the most recent one
we drilled was cd-7.

It's not on the map yet,
but it's right here.

-Marty: Yep.
-A-and we didn't find
the tunnel there.

So, that didn't work.
What do you want to do?

Well, the question is:

Do we continue
following these tunnels that

we're finding because, you know,
we're running out of time.

Do we have any other options?

Anywhere else to move that rig?

We have the barringer anomalies.

-The nonferrous anomalies?
-The nonferrous ones.

-Yeah.
-Jack: Can we go after
one of those?

I would.

Narrator:
Earlier this year, while
searching through the files

of rick, marty and craig's
late partner dan blankenship,

oak island historian
doug crowell

discovered a 30-year-old survey

that had been conducted
by a company known as barringer.

A survey that used
low-frequency radio waves

which identified four targets
some 100 feet deep

in and around smith's cove
that were nonferrous in nature,

meaning they could be
composed of silver or gold.

Because the covid-19 pandemic

delayed the start of their
drilling operation this year

by nearly two months,
the laginas and craig

had planned to focus their
efforts on trying to locate

the original money pit.

However, now that they have hit

an unfortunate setback there
and with only a few

precious weeks remaining
before the onset of winter,

perhaps investigating the
targets on the barringer survey

could lead
to a significant discovery.

The barringer survey
has not one, two, three,

but four nonferrous
targets delineated.

It's a vlf survey:
Very low frequencies.

And it was never followed up on.

I-it's sort of
risk-reward ratio.

If it hits,
it would turn everything.

-Jack: Mm-hmm.
-You know, if there's gold
or silver at that location,

it would change everything.

Yeah.

There is certainly some belief

that the barringer survey
was accurate.

That is supported
by some inferential data.

In the money pit,
we found an area

that may have been interpreted

by the barringer survey
as a tunnel.

I think there's
some value in it.

And it's interesting enough
to follow up on.

I'd go do the barringer thing.

What the hell?
Let's have a go at it.

Yeah, I have no problem going
to the barringer survey.

We're not giving up on these.

-It's a time issue.
-There's so much more
to do here.

-So that's where I'm at.
-Okay. I'll go meet up
with rick.

-See you out there
in a little while.
-Yep.

-Jack: Let's find some gold.
-Marty: Let's do it.

Narrator:
Later that afternoon,

jack begley
and charles barkhouse

have traveled some 50 miles
north of oak island

to centerville, nova scotia

where they have arranged
to meet

with blacksmithing expert
carmen legge

to have him examine
the artifact found one day ago

on the property once belonging
to samuel ball.

-Jack: Hey, carmen!
-Well, hello.
-Charles: Hey, carmen.

Carmen: What do you got today?

Jack: Well, this is from lot 26.

It was found metal detecting.

Let's see if
you can identify this.

-Oh, a little fella.
-Yeah.

Carmen:
Very nice.

Well, this is a--
the hind shoe off an ox.

-Right.
-Carmen: The front cork

and the back cork
are fairly parallel.

With the narrow cork
on the back it means

it was
scottish that did this.

-Really?
-Yes.

Do you have any idea
what a date on that might be?

Carmen:
Uh, I would say 1610

-to 1740s.
-Wow.

Jack:
This would have been
made before samuel ball.

Yeah.

Narrator:
A scottish ox shoe?

Possibly dating over a century
prior to the arrival

of samuel ball and the discovery
of the money pit?

Is it possible that this ox

was used to haul valuable cargo
across the island,

and, if so,
how were the scottish involved?

Uh, just trying to figure out
why the scottish would be there.

There's a theory that
the scottish may have buried

uh, a treasure on oak island.

James:
So here's the theory
in a nutshell:

Followers of a group
of scottish knights

settled in nova scotia
during the early 1600s.

Narrator:
One week ago,
author and historian

james mcquiston
shared an incredible theory

that the oak island treasure
might be connected

to a 17th-century scottish order

known as the knights baronets,
an organization

with strong ties
to both the freemasons

and their predecessors,
the knights templar.

James:
Unfortunately, the french

attacked nova scotia,

leaving the scots
ousted in the spring of 1632,

and I believe they
took shelter in mahone bay

and buried
the oak island treasure.

That's remarkable.

Narrator:
Is it possible that the team
has now found evidence

that could corroborate
that treasure theory?

And on property that
once belonged to samuel ball?

And the time frame for that is?

Charles:
Uh, right around
that time frame.

-Carmen: Is that right?
-Yeah.

We're coming up with
so much different information

of people
all over europe, at least,

having some sort
of a stop on oak island.

Not just around
the money pit, either.

Given the date, as far as we
know, there was nobody living

on oak island at that time.

So, to me, that says a lot.
It really does.

We've dug up a lot of ox shoes
on the island over the years.

These guys were not just
settlers that were making

these ox shoes,
so there's a lot of activity

going on the island.

This could be
from the depositors.

We keep bringing you iron.

Hopefully, we can bring you
some precious metals.

Oh, wouldn't that be nice?
Yes. Yes.

-Make sure
you bring it here first.
-Okay.

-Charles: Thank you, carmen.
-Carmen: Very good, see you.

-Charles: Bye now.
-Carmen: Oh, yeah.

Narrator:
As the team
from choice sonic drilling

repositions their rig
at smith's cove

in preparation
to drill in search of

one of the nonferrous targets

identified on
the barringer survey...

Miriam:
Oh, wow.

Hey, aaron!

Do you want to come
check this out?

Narrator: ...In the uplands
near the northeastern border

of the oak island swamp,

archeologists miriam amirault
and dr. Aaron taylor

continue to search for more
evidence that might tell them

which direction the mysterious
stone pathway is heading.

-Aaron: Ooh, what do you got?
-Look what I just found.

Aaron:
Oh, nice.

Hand-painted.

Miriam:
I haven't seen colors like that.

Aaron:
Yeah.

-Blue, pink, and green.
-That's great. Wow.

Narrator:
Hand-painted pottery?

Discovered near the pathway
in the uplands?

Was it left behind by someone

after the discovery
of the money pit in 1795?

Or is it evidence
of much earlier human activity

-on oak island?
-Miriam: It's almost, like, uh,

a base of maybe a teacup
or something? Or a bowl?

-Do you see that base?
-Yeah.

-Rick: Hey. Good morning.
-Aaron: Hey, rick.

-Miriam: Hi.
-Hey.

-Miriam just had
an interesting find.
-Look what I just found.

Oh. In the black
or in the...?

Yeah.

Here you go.

Rick:
What do you make of it?

-Aaron: That's hand-painted.
-Miriam: Hand-painted.

-Isn't it pretty?
-It's very pretty.

The thing about doing
the archeological work

with aaron and miriam is that
you learn to pay attention.

You learn that the most
insignificant find

might be highly revealing.

This is what
archeology is about.

Finding artifacts,
studying them, dating them,

and then weaving them
into an understanding--

a "story," if you will--
of what happened.

This is certainly quite unique.

Aaron:
What the ceramics do tell us

is that this was exposed

when those ceramics

-came down on it.
-Miriam: Yeah.
-Rick: Right.

But right now, the question is:

Does this connect to the road?

I mean, is it believable to
think that this is all man-made?

Well, we know parts of it
are definitely man-made.

-In here is definitely man-made.
-Rick: Right.

I think it's-it's stronger
that it moves upland

at some point,
and the road connects to there,

it's coming along here, stops,
and turns up here.

And that's why I want
to see if billy is available

to take another
bucket-width back

to see if this is something.

So, for right now, I'll talk
to billy about digging this

-and digging that. Okay.
-Great.

-All right.
-Thanks, rick.
-All right, thank you.

-Rick: Good find, miriam.
-Yeah, it's exciting.

Aaron and miriam have decided

that they're going to take
basically a leap of faith.

This road has to go somewhere,

and there are significant clues

that have led them to believe
that the road has turned upland.

And, thus,
they've chosen to open up

some test pits
around the stone path.

The hope is that we can follow
it in some way, shape, or form.

Billy, if you would be able
to pull back this area

then maybe we can see if the
road's, uh, coming up there.

Billy:
Okay.

That's the perfect depth, billy.

that's great, billy.
That's perfect.

I think this is good for now.
Thank you.

-Okay.
-Aaron: So we can

get in here
with our shovels and trowels.

If maybe just we can get that
little blob out of there?

-I'll get that with a shovel.
-Yup.

Rick:
What's that?

Did you see this?

-There's stone here.
-Aaron: Wow.

Miriam:
I'd say that's exactly what

-we're looking for.
-Yeah.

Narrator:
Evidence of more cobblestones?

Could dr. Aaron taylor's
intuition have paid off

with the discovery of another
section of the stone pathway

leading further into the
uplands, away from the swamp?

If so, just where is it leading?

And what will the team find
when they reach its end?

The stones are here,
and then they stop.

I'm thinking that's
telling me the road is

probably stopping here,

and coming up this way.

The path appears to have

turned to the upland
at this point.

And all the
treasure-associated thoughts

around oak island,

are, of course,
based in the money pit.

Well, we're certainly headed
in that direction, and so

I have every reason to hope

that we're following
the right path.

Do you want me
to shovel this out?

Yes, please.

-rick: Okay.
-Miriam: Yeah.

Narrator:
Later that afternoon...

We all recognize the amount
of work that we've done

trying to uncover
the stone pathway.

Narrator: ...Rick, marty
and their partner craig tester

have gathered members
of their team in the war room

for a highly anticipated
scientific report

regarding the hand-cut
wood recently found

beneath the mysterious
stone pathway.

I believe craig
has a c-14 test result,

so, craig, fill us in.

Well, this sample came from,

uh, right before fred's road.

We found this piece of wood
underneath the rocks.

It was obvious
it was, uh, in place

when the road was put in place
there, the pathway.

And, uh, we got
two different time periods,

but, really,
they're so close together,

basically one time period:

From 1489 to 1654.

-Wow.
-Oh, wow.

Great!

Craig reveals these dates of,
uh, 1489 to 1654.

Those are stunning, uh,
there's no question about it,

but they do fit.

I've always believed
that the road

was quite a bit older than,
uh, the 1700s,

and here we have dates
that support that.

Look, that is a very
exciting date range.

Okay? That's a fabulous
date range.

That's really cool.

But is this
a shaped piece of wood

or a twig or something?

It was like a branch,
a small branch.

-You feel good about that?
-Yeah.

Marty:
Great. Fantastic.

But I think
the dates that come from

organics under the road
are more telling than

the artifacts found on it,
because once that road is built

-it could have been used
for hundreds of years.
-Yeah.

Alex:
This is a great one.

It's good for the theory
the road might be quite old.

If we keep getting
these numbers,

then it becomes
more and more conclusive.

Miriam:
And that's basically what we do.

If we find an artifact
that seems completely

out of the ordinary, but then
we find more with those dates,

that's how we conclusively say,

"yes, this is... This is right."

I-I'll just reference
fred nolan:

"duplication,
duplication, duplication."

-marty: Yeah.
-Craig: Yep. Absolutely.

I'll tell you what
those results mean to me.

They mean that
this thing is real.

Somehow, this thing is real,

and remember
who you're talking to.

For the longest time, my number
one theory of what happened

on oak island
was nothing of significance

prior to 1795.

We've already proved
that's not the case.

That makes me enthused
to keep going.

We haven't solved this yet
and we're going to.

That is an extremely

intriguing and exciting range.

-I agree. It's exciting.
-Marty: Yeah.

-Absolutely.
-Marty: Carry on, guys.

Hope the weather holds for you.

-Rick: Take care.
-Doug: Take care.

Narrator:
As another week
comes to a close

for rick, marty, craig
and their team,

despite a frustrating
setback in the money pit,

there is new hope
that a breakthrough discovery

may still be within
their reach at smith's cove.

And new revelations
at the swamp

provide strong encouragement
that they are getting

closer and closer to unraveling

the 226-year-old
treasure mystery.

But as they continue
to research,

drill and dig,

will they ultimately reveal

that the carefully-hidden truth
about oak island

revolves around one story?

Or a number of them?

Whatever the case may be,

their story could re-write
north american history

as we know it.

Next time on
the curse of oak island...

Gary:
I love the smell
of treasure in the morning.

Oh, look at that!

I would say this looks military.

This particular artifact
was found in the swamp,

and I've never
seen anything like that.

Marty:
Wow. What the hell is that?

We are hoping you might
have an idea of what it is.

Well, this is really,
really old.

-Middle 1400s.
-Jack: Oh, wow.

Scott:
What do you got?

Looks like a piece
of finished wood.

It looks like railing.
It looks like ship's railing.

-Steve g.: It was on the ship
in the swamp.
-Billy: Yeah.

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