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Narrator: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

- Steve g.: Look at this. - Charles: What is that?

Steve g.: There's something in there.

- This could be it, man. - What's in that thing?

- Terry: Holy cow! - Steve g.: Oh, wow.

The artifacts are pre-searcher.

- Marty: Whoa. - What was going on here?

That is the question.

Oh, what the heck is that?

Aaron: Wow. That is very badly burned

- part of a ship. - Alex: Wow.

Steve g.: He's getting close.

- Doug: Oh, look at that. - Whoa! Whoa! -Hey! Hey!

There's a big timber running this way.

- Rick: Oh, baby. - Gary: Oh, that's fantastic!

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.

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(phone ringing)

- marty: Hello? - Rick: Hey. Good morning.

Marty: Boy, this is early. What's up?

Rick: Actually, it's pretty exciting news.

- Marty: Bravo tango? - No. Not bravo...

(laughter)

- not bravo tango. No. - Damn.

Narrator: As another hopeful and exciting day begins

on oak island, rick lagina,

along with oak island historians doug crowell

and charles barkhouse,

eagerly place a call to rick's brother marty to update him

on a potentially significant discovery made one day ago

in the man-made, triangle-shaped swamp.

Rick: Yesterday, billy and doug were digging in the swamp.

I'm going to let them tell you what has been found

and the potential of what today might mean.

- Doug. - Marty: Yo.

- Lay it on me. - Doug: I'm quite excited, actually.

We were nine to ten feet down and we brought up

part of what looks like a, uh, I'll say ship's railing.

- Really? - Yeah. A very finished piece of wood. Rounded corners.

- It-it's... - No kidding?

Yeah. This has the potential to be really old.

Charles: Also, marty, when billy was excavating this hole,

he's riding on some wood.

And he doesn't know whether

it's a platform or-or, you know,

- long pieces of wood, but there's something. - Marty: Right.

- He's not down to the bottom layer yet. - Wowzer.

Wowzer.

Narrator: Although the oak island team has made a number

of incredible discoveries in the swamp this year,

including a massive stone road,

believed to have once been part of a ship's wharf,

there is one tantalizing mystery

that has baffled them for nearly three years now.

In 2018, the oak island team

conducted a seismic survey across the swamp

using more than 2,000 dynamite charges.

This produced astonishing data that revealed

a 200-foot-long anomaly

buried in the center of the brackish bog

that resembled the shape of a galleon ship.

- Oh. Look at that. - Billy: Yeah.

- What've you got? - It looks like a piece of finished wood.

Narrator: Is it possible that the believed piece of ship's railing

and the large, mysterious obstruction

that members of the team discovered

some ten feet deep in the swamp one day ago

might be key evidence of just what that anomaly is?

So the plan today is, uh, we're going to expand the hole,

- and hopefully he can hook a piece of it up. - Marty: Look.

Is this classic or what? I mean, come on.

- Yup. - What is with this bloody island? You know?

And the rain's closing in...

(laughter)

geez!

Yeah. But...

We have a reprieve from the weather.

Today is supposed to be beautiful,

but we're going to take our time.

We have to have a real understanding

of what this might mean.

Marty: Wow. That is something.

I mean, this is big, I think, so...

Rick: We'll give you an update at the end of the day.

Marty: That'd be great. I'll, uh, I'll be on pins and needles.

- Thank you. - Rick: Okay. Thanks. Bye.

- Marty: See you guys. Bye. - Rick: Bye.

Well, if it's a piece of ship's railing,

you know, the mind jumps to the old deal that the swamp

was used as a disembarkation point for treasure or something.

Or a ship was blown in there and wrecked.

But along comes a piece of data that supports it,

and you get excited about it.

I'm excited that they were going back to the same spot to dig,

and I'm real hopeful that it'll show something.

- Steve g.: Hey, guys. - Rick: Morning.

- Billy draw that down or did the pump do it? - It's been pumping.

Narrator: Now that the harsh fall winter has begun to set in,

bringing with it a heavy rainstorm last night,

the team has installed a six-inch pump to drain the area

and allow the team to continue digging

with the 30-ton swamp excavator.

Well, bill, what's the plan?

Well, the water's down some.

I guess, we've got to bail it out and look at

every bucket that comes out to see if there's

more pieces of the wood from yesterday.

- Right? - Right.

You know, we're at a depth where it should be

sand and gravel, but it's not sand and gravel.

Look. If we found something amazing,

we should take our time.

Go slow. Gary, metal-detect.

Steve, take all your elevations and everything you need to do.

Charles and I will be down here putting eyes on it.

Doug, if you want to get up there, put your eyes

- on the bucket. - Billy: Sure.

- Okay. Well, let's not waste the beautiful day. - Billy: No.

Rick: They believe that the bucket was sliding

across a massive wooden something.

So the hope is we'll find something else,

but you don't put the cart before the horse.

You don't start dreaming of artifacts

until you actually hold them in your hand.

He should be able to put the bucket down

- and feel... if he feels here what he felt over there. - Yeah.

You're pretty close to the depth we were yesterday.

Yeah. And now you can feel it.

There's wood on the bottom there. I'm sure of it.

Doug: It's almost covered with water now. That's the problem.

Is there any way to keep that pump running, scott?

No. It's all porridge over here now.

Rick: You're just going to have to dig it out and throw the slop out.

- Scott: Yeah. - Rick: That's all.

Narrator: Although the team is hopeful that they may be close

to a major discovery,

the heavy rains from the previous evening have made

the muck and mud of the swamp a frustrating

challenge for billy gerhardt and the excavator.

The water level is higher than it was.

The water is boiling in down here now.

- You can just see it swelling in. - Yeah?

- It's coming in from behind us there, right? - Scott: Yeah.

Rick: Okay. Well...

- Every minute we waste, the more water's coming in, so... - Billy: Yep.

- Doug: Let's find out what it is. - Rick: Okay.

(wood creaking)

doug: Oh, look at that.

There's a... There's big timber running this way!

I mean, look at that. That whole side.

Narrator: A possible wood timber?

Tony: I've got something!

- What is that? - It's a large board.

Narrator: Four years ago, while exploring in this same area,

professional diver tony sampson discovered

what is believed to be a piece of deck planking

from a large ship that was dated to as early as 1680.

Is it possible that billy has just made

an identical find, or could he be on the verge

of a much larger and more definitive discovery?

Steve g.: He's getting close.

- This is undermined very badly here now. - Yeah.

You can feel this whole thing. You know?

Steve g.: Like jell-o.

Scott: Don't move for a second!

You can feel that. You feel that?

Rick: Oh, yeah.

Steve g.: I would take it quick because we're going to lose this!

Rick: It's just not stable.

It's wet, it's liquid,

it's muddy, it's black, it's thick, it's...

(chuckles)

it's a nightmare.

That big piece is going to go right now.

Look at that piece right there. It's going to go.

Rick: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...

Steve g.: There it goes.

- Whoa! Whoa! - Hey! Hey!

Rick: That ain't good.

Rick: Well, keep digging.

It's all you can do.

Billy: Yep. We'll clean it out.

You guide us in.

Narrator: In the oak island swamp, rick lagina, along with

members of the team, are trying to uncover

what they believe to be

a large, flat surface more than ten feet deep

in an area where they recovered

a possible piece of a ship's railing just one day ago.

What's the plan?

Start here?

Yeah.

Narrator: Unfortunately, the more billy gerhardt digs

with the swamp excavator,

the more the hole fills back in

with soppy mud and sludge.

I think we have to stay focused.

We have a piece of wood

that we believe might be from a ship.

You're never going to get a good look at this

with the amount of water in the area

unless you pull it out.

That makes it all the more important to come

to an understanding of what this is.

Billy: It just caved in over the top of it.

Charles: It's not even draining out there now.

It's draining right into here.

Look at... look at that water coming in right there.

Yeah.

Well, I'm not sure it's worth continuing.

We need to fix this issue. Otherwise, the water will

just keep recirculating here, so...

Yeah. It wouldn't matter what you did now, I don't think.

Rick: You're not getting any headway.

Billy: We can't advance through it.

Rick: What it tells me is,

putting in sheet out there is a good idea.

Narrator: Because the rain-soaked mud in the swamp keeps caving in

and also because the weather is only expected

to get worse as winter approaches,

the oak island team

will have to wait until next spring

to continue this investigation,

when they will have time to install a cofferdam system

similar to the one they constructed at smith's cove

two years ago.

Using sheet piling,

which is hammered deep into the mud and sediment,

the cofferdam will create a watertight barrier

that will allow for a complete excavation

of this area of the swamp.

You know, it's disappointing.

Again, it's the emotional roller coaster ride

that is oak island.

But we still have chances

to answer questions about this stone pathway.

To me, there's going to be some answers there.

So, for the remainder of the year,

that's our area of focus.

- I think that we're done here. - Gary: Yeah.

Yeah. I think we are.

Okay, billy.

You're free to fill this in.

- Okay. Yep. - All right? Okay.

We'll get out of your way.

You know, we'll see

what the rest of the day brings.

Narrator: Later that day

on the western end of the island...

Charles: This is a massive root cellar.

...Charles barkhouse and scott barlow

join archaeologists laird niven and liz michels

at the 18th century stone foundation

of the house that once belonged to samuel ball,

a man who came to oak island in 1787

as a simple cabbage farmer

but who mysteriously grew to become one of nova scotia's

wealthiest landowners by the early 19th century.

Is it too much square footage just to store

root vegetables and that type of thing?

Laird: That's a good question.

Uh, if he's just storing food,

- this seems like a lot. - Charles: Right.

Laird: Oh.

- Charles: What do you got? - Laird: Got a hinge.

A hinge and wood.

- Liz: It's nice that it's right by the stairs. - Yeah.

Yeah, the positioning is pretty significant.

Narrator: A metal hinge found in the stone foundation

of samuel ball's home?

Was it perhaps simply part of a door in the house?

Or might it have come from some kind of container?

Or chest?

Looks like the fasteners are still in it, as well.

Laird: We've got some wood coming up here.

Ooh. It's delicate.

Oh. There's a crosspiece.

Charles: Wow.

Laird: So, this is the... kind of the working floor

right here.

- So it's not floorboards? - Laird: No.

No. This is just a plain dirt floor.

The floorboards were up here.

- Right. - Laird: Yeah. So this...

This would have come from somewhere else.

Liz and I came upon some wood that seemed to be intact.

They're vertical boards and horizontal boards,

so it looked like a door.

I actually hadn't seen anything like that before.

I'm curious about this.

If they're floorboards,

they obviously would've been above this level.

They wouldn't have floorboards in the root cellar.

No. Maybe cobbles.

- Maybe rocks. - Okay.

Laird: That's great.

(laughing): Now we know we have more work to do.

Narrator: While charles and scott continue working

with laird and liz at the ball foundation...

Rick: So here's what we found.

Ian: Holy cow.

Narrator: ...Near the eastern edge of the swamp,

rick lagina, along with geoscientist dr. Ian spooner

and members of the team,

are focusing their investigation

on the stone road and pathway,

looking for any more evidence of a ship

or other clues that could help solve

the oak island mystery.

Let's see how far these stones go that way.

- Yep. - Gary: I'll grab a detector.

Rick: You have to have context

for these anomalous features, I.E.,

the possibility of making artifact finds

certainly are near the shore.

So we're going to investigate it

and hopefully come up with some answers.

Aaron: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

That's a good depth there, billy.

Okay.

Aaron: Oh, look at that.

So we're getting more cribbing.

- Something's going on here. - Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Rick! Check this out!

- What have you got, gary? - That's unusual.

That came out of that last bucket.

- Ian: That's one piece of wood. - Rick: Yeah. That is strange.

- Ian: It's perfectly square. - Rick: Yeah.

- Gary: Oh, it was made that way, by the look of it. - Ian: Yeah.

Gary: Aaron!

- Rick: Check this out. - Hey, guys. What do you got?

- Gary: We're hoping you can tell us. - Oh, god.

- Wow. - Ian: It's got to be a tool.

Aaron: Yeah. I was going to say, like, something for...

- Architectural or... - Gary: Yeah. Yeah.

- Yeah. Like a little carpenter's square. - Yeah.

Narrator: A possible carpenter's square?

Found near the stone pathway on the eastern border of the swamp?

Could it be an important clue, like the wooden survey stakes

and wood pieces dating back as far as the 15th century,

that might be connected to the feature's construction?

And, if so, might it also help identify

just who built it?

Ian: The interesting thing about something like that,

you can actually date them. It's wood.

- Yeah. - So this is probably more important than we think.

I will put this away.

- Aaron: Well, good find. - Ian: Yeah.

- Thank you. - Aaron: Thanks, guys.

Narrator: While rick and members of the team

continue their investigation in the swamp...

...Later that afternoon...

- Marty: Hi, guys. - Gary: Hey, marty.

Doug: Hey, marty. Thanks for coming down.

This is the item.

Well, that is cool.

Narrator: After learning of the discovery

of the possible carpenter's square,

marty lagina meets with oak island historian doug crowell

and gary drayton in the research center

to inspect the potentially important clue.

At first I thought it was metal because of the shape of it.

Yeah.

Marty: That is actually kind of exquisite. Isn't it?

- It's one piece. This is not joined to this. - Yeah.

Marty: What do you think it is?

Doug: I've looked through shipwright tools.

I've looked through old carpenter tools.

It came up as a stonemason's tool.

Gary: Bloody hell.

Doug: It was a stonemason's tool.

That's what it most closely resembles.

Narrator: In the research center,

doug crowell has just revealed

that the possible t square

may be an actual stonemason's tool.

Well, obviously its use is for right angles.

Isn't it? I mean...

Doug: That's the idea I ran with 'cause they say that-that form

- follows function, so... - Yeah.

Narrator: If the team has actually found

a stonemason's t square in the triangle-shaped swamp,

could it be evidence tying one particular organization

to the oak island mystery?

Ever since the discovery of the money pit in 1795,

the secretive fraternity of builders known as

the freemasons, who also descended

from the ancient order of the knights templar,

have been closely linked to oak island.

In addition to the fact that several

prominent treasure hunters, including daniel mcginnis,

m.R. Chappell, and even a young

franklin delano roosevelt, were members,

numerous masonic symbols,

such as the letter "g" for "god" or "grand architect,"

crosses and prominent triangles,

have been found all across the island.

That is really cool.

This so-called mason's tool, it's nicely crafted,

which seems to have sort of masonic connections.

And, more to the point, creates angles that are

very useful in a practical sense.

30-degree angles, 60-degree angles,

90-degree angles... Those are very useful

in building and laying out things.

So I want to get a date on it,

and I want to find out what its use is.

Both those things are very interesting to me.

Gary: It's amazing how it's well preserved like that

'cause of the swamp.

That's a pretty cool find, gary.

Marty: I'm gonna say two things.

One, which I've been saying a lot lately,

let's put it in the line for carbon dating.

- Doug: Okay. - Oh, yeah.

And what's the second thing I always say?

That was nice, but go out and find some more.

That's right. Sorry, gary. I hate to be so predictable.

All right, guys, I'll let you carry on.

- See you. -Gary: See you. - Doug: See you, marty.

Narrator: The following morning

on lot 25...

Charles: Ha! Reinforcements!

Well, I brought the person you need.

Narrator: ...Rick lagina, gary drayton,

and rick and marty's nephew david fornetti

arrive at the foundation of samuel ball's

18th century home after being alerted

to another potentially important discovery

by archaeologist laird niven

and other members of the team.

Laird, do you want to tell them what we found?

Yeah. So, we were clearing out the cellar floor.

- Rick: Mm-hmm. - Laird: As we were working along, we found

some wood that seems to be in situ.

- Perhaps a hatchway or a doorway. - Gary: Wow!

Narrator: A possible doorway?

Embedded in the floor of the ball foundation?

Just what might have been, or could still be,

on the other side of it?

Rick: Would I love it to be a door

to an opening in the floor? Absolutely.

Who knows what it is?

How much of the door is still there? Is it intact, all of it?

We've got a good number of boards here,

but, um, it's pretty partial.

Narrator: Because the door is embedded in the foundation,

laird and liz will have to take their time

to carefully excavate around it

before they can remove it to reveal whatever might lie below.

Rick: The wood appears to be laid horizontally,

appears to be a door.

If this is an opening in the floor,

that's a big find.

But, again, it's the oak island roller coaster.

We want to make sure that it's not explainable

in any other way.

We found a really nice hinge that I want gary to look at.

Yeah. I'd love to.

Oh, wow! That's nice, mate.

It was found right here.

- It's small. - Gary: Might be too small

for a cellar door, though. I'm thinking this would be

the type of strap hinge

you'd see on a chest or a box.

Narrator: A strap hinge for a chest?

One year ago, while conducting an excavation

near the stone foundation on the ball property...

Kelly: It's starting to look, uh,

like a chest hinge of some kind.

...Artifact conservator kelly bourassa

found a similar item.

Gary: If it was a chest or a box,

you would need a bracket like this.

Narrator: Is it possible that these two discoveries are related?

And could they be further evidence that samuel ball

may have hidden something of great value on his property?

So many places to hide something good in here.

Fantastic. You've done really well, laird.

- Okeydoke. - Laird: Yeah.

- Rick: Good luck. - Laird: Thanks, rick.

Liz: Thanks, rick.

Narrator: Later that afternoon,

rick, marty, craig and members of the team...

- Hey, guys. - Gentlemen. -Hey, guys.

...Have arranged to meet with researcher

and oak island theorist philip stephenson

via videoconference in the war room.

Mr. Stephenson, welcome.

Narrator: After the discovery of the possible masonic t square

one day ago in the swamp,

the team has invited mr. Stephenson,

who contacted them earlier this year,

to share what he believes to be important information

that could help solve the oak island mystery.

Doug: So, mr. Stephenson, I'm looking forward

to what you have to tell us.

They sure do.

Rick: Wow.

Narrator: In the war room, researcher philip stephenson

has revealed a masonic cipher that he believes

is directly related to the oak island mystery.

Alex: Wow.

So, this is amazing.

Marty: That's very interesting

and really mind-boggling.

Narrator: In 2016, late author

and researcher zena halpern presented the laginas

and their team with three documents that she believed

had been created by members of the knights templar.

Two of them contained maps, which appeared to describe

journeys that the templars supposedly made to oak island

during the 12th century and again in the mid-14th century.

The third document, also known as la formule,

is a coded cipher containing many of the same symbols

reportedly found on the legendary 90 foot stone,

which was removed from the money pit

when it was first excavated to that depth in 1804.

Could the remarkable similarities between la formule

and the reported masonic cipher being presented

by philip stephenson offer more evidence

tying both the knights templar

and the freemasons to the oak island mystery?

It certainly gets your attention

when you come up with a whole bunch

of correlative things: The same symbols,

masonic connections.

So it has credibility right out... right out of the door.

Marty: Did you just figure this out, you know, using

the substitution, trial and error?

Is that how you got to these?

Okay. In other words, once you figure out

the substitution, this is what you get?

- Yeah. - Marty: Wow.

It gives great credence

- to the la formule cipher. - Philip: Yeah.

Narrator: Although no one has been able to conclude

just what the megalithic formation of six boulders,

that was discovered by fred nolan in 1981,

actually represents,

many believe it symbolizes

that the oak island treasure is of a religious nature

and may include priceless relics such as

the holy grail and the ark of the covenant.

It is for this reason that many have suggested

a link to not only the freemasons

but also their predecessors, the knights templar.

Marty: Wow.

This is excellent.

So, we have a survey from 1988. It's the barringer survey.

It has four potential nonferrous targets.

And your target "z" lands fairly close

to one of them, I believe.

It's definitely a spot of interest

that we haven't explored.

Narrator: Conducted across the area

from smith's cove to the money pit in 1988

by dan blankenship and his partner david tobias,

the barringer survey was a low-velocity radio wave survey

that identified four potential nonferrous targets,

meaning they could be composed of silver or gold.

Although the team has not fully explored the four target sites,

could mr. Stephenson's research not only corroborate

at least one of them but also mark the location

of something people have been trying to find

for more than two centuries?

Rick: I don't like to rush to judgment.

But, boy, phil's theory is quite compelling.

There's an "x" on the ground.

He's suggesting that it's only 40 feet down.

Let's just put a rig over the site and drill it.

Marty: Very interesting stuff.

I mean, look. I can tell you right now.

There's nobody on this screen or in that room

- who isn't going to want to go dig there. - Yup.

Rick: It's more than interesting. I mean, as I sit here,

my mind rebels against the thought

that it's mere coincidence.

Alex: I agree.

There's a lot pointing to the same place.

Let's get out there and mark "z"

- and find out what's down 40 feet. - Rick: I'm very hopeful.

Phil, thank you very much for your presentation.

Marty: Okay. Every man to his duty.

Narrator: The following morning...

Terry: Ps-1. Here we go. This could be the day.

...On lot 20, near the money pit area...

That's it, we're looking for a treasure chamber.

Okay.

- You think mike can get us there? - I think so.

...Members of the oak island team begin drilling

at the location provided by philip stephenson...

- This could be the one right here. - Yeah.

...Where he believes they will find something of great value

at a depth of 40 feet.

Well, let's peel this back and see what's happening.

Charles: Pretty tight looking stuff, terry.

Terry: That is in place.

I don't see any evidence of disturbance.

Rick: It's always a great thing when a theorist will say,

"here's your 'x, ' dig here."

he's saying that his location is about 40 feet down.

Well, it's a simple matter of putting a rig over the site

and find out whether or not there is a vault there.

Charles: What are we looking at?

- Brennan: 29! - Charles: 29.

Yeah. It's kind of a sandy blue-gray till.

This is actually the stuff that you want over a treasure vault

if you're going in from a tunnel, right?

- Oh, absolutely. - You want this hard stuff over the top...

- No question. - ...To preserve whatever vault

- or whatever treasure you're burying, right? - Yeah.

This is exactly what we want to see if we're looking for

- a treasure trove at depth. - Yeah.

Our target horizon being

only ten feet away. It'll be coming up in this next core.

- Charles: Look! What is that? - Steve g.: There's something in there.

Charles: What's in that thing?

-Narrator: On lot 20...

Terry: There's something interesting in there!

I'll go take a look.

...While core-drilling at a location east

of the money pit area,

members of the oak island team

have just recovered something at a depth of 40 feet

where theorist philip stephenson

predicted a cache of treasure

- would be found. - Steve g.: One, two, three.

So, that's interesting. What's that?

That looks to me like a ground-up

something or other.

And, in fact, it is a ground-up boulder.

So, 49 feet, all the way back up to 39 feet.

This is the... pretty much the fateful intersection.

This is what we were looking for.

Narrator: A ten-foot boulder?

Found at the precise depth where the team

was told they might find something of great value?

Is it simply a coincidence of nature?

Or like other massive boulders that have been found

on the island's surface,

could it be a marker

placed there for some purpose?

Rick: There's all kinds of possibilities,

and that's what's so disconcerting, but you have

to follow where the clues lead you.

It's typical oak island.

"here's a little clue, guys.

"you may want to take a look at it

and see if you want to go somewhere else."

- terry: All right. - Steve g.: Unfortunately,

there's no treasure vault right here.

Basically, that's where we know where it isn't.

Marty: Every time you dig and you don't get what you want,

you're discouraged,

but I think we're missing something, though,

uh, on phil stephenson's theory.

And that is, I'm not at all sure we know where the altar is.

I think it's deciphered brilliantly, but you have

to start at the altar.

That's the problem.

- So, that's that. - Yeah. That's that.

They're going to pull out of that hole

and, uh, we'll update rick.

- But we'll let him know the results. - Yep. Super.

Narrator: Later that afternoon...

Gary: This is going to be really soupy,

but we'll soon see.

...Along the eastern border of the swamp,

gary drayton and david fornetti

continue scouring the area near the stone pathway

for more important clues

and hopefully items of value.

- (beeping) - gary: We have got

a signal here, mate.

(beeping)

it's an iron signal.

- David: All right. - Gary: Just here, mate.

- I'll get to the higher ground. - Okay.

It's a great area to find something,

when you think about it.

We've got all these old boulders.

- See that? - David: Yup.

Gary: What the heck? Rick!

- Check this out. - I guess I don't have to ask

- what you found. - No. I mean,

this is a really old piece of iron, rick.

- Rick: Yeah. And huge. - Yeah.

Rick: That does look broken.

I mean, it's bent in two directions, right?

Let's have a look.

Oh, it's broken all right.

If you could imagine

you complete the circle, it would have gone closer to...

- that's what it looks like to me. Some kind of... - There's a ringbolt.

Ringbolt. Ringbolt!

Hey!

Narrator: A possible ringbolt?

Could it be connected to the others the team has found

this year along the stone pathway?

Ringbolts that dated back to as early as the 17th century

and offered evidence of cargo being offloaded

from a ship and onto oak island?

Gary: I mean, this has been under some stress.

I mean, was it in a boulder?

Rick: I don't know what to make of it.

Look, we're-we're speculating a lot about what this might be.

- David, why don't you take that to dr. Taylor? - Yeah.

- And have him take a look at it. - David: Yeah. Sounds good.

- That's fantastic. - Rick: That is.

It's an inch and a quarter solid steel bar.

That took some force to bend that.

But why, why, why? I have no idea.

But that's why we try to apply science to it,

and we also have people

to take a look at it

and try to give us a greater understanding as to its purpose.

-Hey. -Hey, dave. -Hi.

- What you got there? - We found something in the swamp.

Aaron: Wow. That is very heavy.

Miriam: That's cool.

David: So, what are... What are your initial thoughts?

What I first notice is how black your hands are.

- Miriam: Yeah. - Aaron: And that's not from swamp. That's charcoal.

And this thing has seen intense burning.

- Alex: Oh, it's been burnt? - Aaron: Yeah. Very badly burned.

So much so that it's still adhering to the iron.

So, I think it was part

of a wooden structure.

Maybe something to do with some large timbers on a ship.

That's good.

Narrator: The iron object severely burned

and potentially related to the wooden timbers

of a sailing ship?

Could it be related to the possible piece of ship's railing

that the team found three days ago

near the southern border of the swamp?

And possibly the massive ship-shaped anomaly

the team identified with seismic scanning

two years ago?

All right. Well, we'll go take this to the research center.

- I'll come with you. - All right.

Aaron: Thanks for showing that to us.

- David: Yeah. You bet. - Aaron: That's great.

Narrator: Later that afternoon,

before the day comes to a close...

- Welcome to the war room. - ...Rick and marty lagina

gather members of the team in the war room

for a videoconference with craig tester

to hear a highly anticipated scientific report

on the possible mason's t square

found two days ago in the swamp.

Rick: Craig has the c-14 results from the swamp.

And so, I very much look forward to that.

Okay. All right.

Rick: So, craig, I'm going to turn it over to you.

Okay, uh, we're gonna look at

the wood mason's tool.

This one was from

1632 to 1668.

- Wow. - Marty: Whoa!

Narrator: In the oak island war room

craig tester has just revealed carbon test results

indicating that the possible masonic t square,

found two days ago in the swamp,

could date as far back as 1632,

more than 160 years before the discovery of the money pit.

What do you make of that, aaron? You're shaking your head.

Uh, a lot older than I-I thought it would be.

I wasn't optimistic that it was pre-searcher,

but I'm happily surprised.

Marty: Of course, that mason's tool could

be in use for how many years?

Ten? 20?

Laird: Yes. For sure.

The followers of a group of scottish knights settled

in nova scotia during the early 1600s.

They were

the freemasons.

Narrator: Three weeks ago,

author and oak island theorist james mcquiston

shared information on his incredible theory

that a 17th century scottish organization

with close ties to both freemasonry

and the knights templar,

known as the knights baronet,

were behind the oak island mystery.

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 treasure on oak island.

It's quite remarkable.

Narrator: Could the carbon dating test

on the possible masonic tool

be corroborating evidence

that james mcquiston's incredible theory is true?

I think we create this timeline, and you're going

to see a grouping, is what I think.

- Yeah. - It happens to fit with just about everything.

Jack: You know, luckily, we're finding

evidence of pre-money pit.

What is it about oak island

that made them choose to build a huge stone path?

You know?

- What was going on here? - That is the question.

- Yeah. - I wish I knew.

I think the carbon dates are exceedingly interesting.

Rounding to the mid-1600s.

But the more important issue is:

That item had a purpose.

I want to know what that purpose is,

and then the carbon dates become even more interesting.

Marty: What is a wooden instrument

from the mid-1600s

doing in our swamp here on oak island?

- Marty: All right. Well, that's very cool and very old. - Yeah.

And, uh, we just have mountains of data

that-that something significant happened on oak island

prior to the discovery of the money pit.

- Yeah. - Rick: I think we can all attest to that.

- Yeah. - We have an agenda, right?

The southeast corner, finding out

where "x" marks the spot, where the pathway ends.

Yeah. I agree.

Rick: So, we're very hopeful, and...

I thank everyone for continuing to puzzle over this.

- So, I'm grateful to everyone. - Marty: All right, then.

Let's get back to it. Thanks to everybody.

- Craig: Bye, guys. - Alex: Thanks, guys.

Rick: Take care.

Narrator: The laginas and their team

often remark in jest that the oak island mystery

is a 1,000-piece puzzle

missing several hundred pieces required to complete it.

If they have proven anything in their quest so far,

it is that the analogy is no understatement.

Because despite the daunting setbacks,

sometimes caused by nature

and others by perhaps more mysterious sources...

(bird squawking)

...Rick, marty, craig and the team

have found a trail of puzzle pieces

suggesting that something extraordinary happened

long ago on oak island.

And if they keep moving forward down that trail,

they may soon uncover the ultimate piece

that will complete the puzzle.

Next time on the curse of oak island...

This is typical of something to do with ships

- or parts of ships. - Charles: Wow.

Alex: There's a couple of wharfs

on samuel ball's property.

Yes, alex. Right here's the second one.

We were 75 to 100 feet from shore.

- Yeah. - So that's a huge wharf.

- Yeah. - Rick: Why do you need such a massive wharf?

Alex: Take a look at this. We found a coin.

- Gary: Look at that! - Alex: I think that's gold.

It's stunning.

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