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Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Isl
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- Oh!
- Whoa!
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- We got wood.
- It looks like
it might be a new shaft.
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- It changes the whole story.
- Yeah.
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We could be looking at
the Money Pit.
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There's significant
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anomalies in this area.
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Wow! That is huge.
We need to dig.
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- Oh, yeah.
- Look at that.
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- That is sweet.
- Whoa!
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This is Roman.
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-Roman?
-No way.
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Definitely from 300 BC.
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Roman, baby!
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It's remarkable.
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There is an island in the North Atlantic
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where people have been looking for
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an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
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So far, they have found a stone slab
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with strange symbols carved into it...
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...man-made workings that date to medieval times,
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and a lead cross whose origin may be connected
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to the Knights Templar.
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To date, six men have died
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trying to solve the mystery.
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And according to legend, one more will have to die
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before the treasure can be found.
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� �
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Gentlemen.
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What's going on out in the field?
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So I want to get you up-to-date
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and try to figure out
where to go next
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-in the Money Pit area.
-Okay.
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Got different ideas of
where the Money Pit might be
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-based on different records.
-That's right.
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As a new day begins on Oak Island,
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brothers Rick and Marty Lagina
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along with their partner Craig Tester
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have gathered for an important meeting
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with members of their team in the research center.
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We have to
take advantage of the fact
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that the Garden Shaft project
is on hold because it presents
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unique opportunities
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to conduct more drilling
in the Money Pit area.
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All right. Good.
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Unfortunately, due to permitting issues,
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the team's reconstruction of the Garden Shaft
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in the Money Pit area, which began one month ago,
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is currently on hold.
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It is in this 80-foot-deep structure
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that Rick, Marty, Craig and the team
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have not only collected wood samples
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that have been dated to the early 18th century
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but also conducted water tests
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that yielded high trace evidence of gold.
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So let's just summarize what's
going on in the Money Pit.
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- Yeah.
- Yes.
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Now, as they await permission
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for the project to proceed,
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the team must decide how best to continue their pursuit
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of the fabled Money Pit treasure vault,
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and the ultimate answers to a 228-year-old mystery.
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One thing we can discuss while
we're right in this area...
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You know, you can see
what we drilled around there.
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We have five holes all along
there defining a tunnel.
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Right.
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So we started out with K-15.5.
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- K-15.5?
- Yeah.
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So we drilled there
and we hit a direct hit.
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We hit wood around 103 feet.
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I mean, it was the
first time that we felt
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that we had ever drilled into
a tunnel that was still open.
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Yeah.
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Whoa, what's that?
Whoa, whoa, what's that?
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That's a view down the tunnel.
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- Oh, wow.
- It's awesome.
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One recent discovery that the team
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is considering for further investigation
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is a five-foot-high wood-cribbed tunnel
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which they have encountered atfive separate drilling locations
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at a depth of 103 feet.
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This structure has not only been
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carbon-dated to as early as the 17th century
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but may also be leading
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in the direction of the Garden Shaft.
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Here we have a man-made structure underground
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at a consistent elevation.
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So of course, your mind runs
to the possibility
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that this tunnel,
if it is confirmed,
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runs towards the Garden Shaft.
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And there might be
"X marks the spot"
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at the end of that tunnel.
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You know, then the question is,
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do we continue
pursuing this tunnel?
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Or is there a want
to move to D-17.5?
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This one is right offset
to the Garden Shaft,
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where we could intercept
this 70-foot tunnel,
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which was first found in D-17.
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Five weeks ago,
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the team drilled intoanother tunnel in Borehole D-17,
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at a depth of just 70 feet
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that they've speculated
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could be leading to an offset treasure chamber
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extending away from the original Money Pit.
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It's odd that it's
at that depth.
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It almost has to be
an offset chamber.
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There's no point having an
upward facing tunnel, is there?
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What makes this an ideal location
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for the team to investigate now,
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is that it sets just 20 feet south of the Garden Shaft.
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Because when they and the team from Dumas Contracting Limited
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are given permission to continuewith the operation to clear out
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and reconstruct a new, waterproof shaft
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down to at least the 80-foot depth,
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if any evidence of man-made voids or structures
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are detected nearby,
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lateral tunnels can be constructed off the main shaft
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in order to allow the team tosearch for potential valuables.
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Finding the wood in D-17 is important simply because
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it suggests strongly that
this is original work.
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We've never encountered wood at that elevation before.
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So everything that we find, everything we uncover,
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will be new to us
and thus will be exciting.
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So we're actually
looking for two things--
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the 70-foot
and the 100-foot tunnel?
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- Yep.
- Okay.
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So, where are we
going next, then?
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We should talk about it.
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- Yeah.
- To me, I guess,
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do we want to
look for this tunnel
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up towards
the Garden Shaft at D-17?
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We have no records
of this tunnel.
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Is it a tunnel leading to
an offset chamber?
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Yeah. Possibly.
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So we could drill a well to try
to define this D-17 tunnel
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- at D-17.5.
- Yeah, yeah.
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As long as we're getting
the gold data,
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I guess I'm okay with it.
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For me,
that's the objective there.
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Really get an idea of
the orientation of the tunnel.
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-Yeah.
-So those are my thoughts.
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Yeah, okay.
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So we're gonna
move down to D-17.5.
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Good.
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I'd like to know
more about that thing.
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And I would like a water sample,
maybe a couple as you go down.
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Yes.
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So let the data speak.
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Let the science speak.
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-Let's see where this goes.
-Yes.
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All right, guys. Let's go.
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- Thank you.- Thank you.
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Later that morning...
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D-17.5.
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- This could be it.
- All right.
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Look, you've got nothing
north of you.
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So that's why I want you to
cover that ground.
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-Sweet.
-Okay. Go for it.
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That's good.
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...as geologist Terry Matheson
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and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse
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supervise the drilling of Borehole D-17.5
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in the Money Pit area...
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There we go.
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- This is a nice
little area of Lot 5.
- Okay.
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...Rick Lagina
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and metal detection expert Gary Drayton
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arrive on Lot 5,
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located on the western side of Oak Island.
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I've already been in here, mate,
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and I've put
a lot of flags down.
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There's a lot of
good-sounding targets.
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So as far as I'm concerned,
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it's raining with
a chance of artifacts.
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So first flag's over here, mate.
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-Okay.
-Let's get stuck in.
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One week ago, after purchasing this four-acre property
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from the estate of Robert Young,
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who passed away in 2020...
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This is the in past now, mate.
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To the future.
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- Let's get started.
- Okay.
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...Rick and Gary quickly unearthed
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several potentially important clues.
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Look at that.
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These include two possible iron chisels
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and a cut, hammered coin which metallurgy analysis
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suggests could date back to the 16th century or earlier.
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All right.
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That sounds good.
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Now, after flagging a number
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of additional metal targets in the area,
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Gary and Rick have received permission
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from archaeologist Laird Niven
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to find out what other potentialanswers Lot 5 may reveal
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about the Oak Island mystery.
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The ground is so rocky.
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Come on,
little artifacts.
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Yep, that's it.
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What do we got here, mate?
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What the heck... is that?
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If you don't know, I don't know.
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-I mean, what...?
-It's a metal acorn.
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Yeah, that's what
I was thinking as well.
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This really is nuts.
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Yeah, I don't know
what that is.
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It's heavy, it's crude.
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It's not perfect.
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You can see
it's not factory-made.
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I mean, feel how heavy
that is, mate.
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Huh, it's heavy.
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- Yeah.
- It's very dense.
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And the interesting thing
about this is
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we're like maybe
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30 feet away from where we found
that piece of bell metal.
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One year ago,
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while searching on the adjacent Lot 4,
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Gary and Jack Begley found a piece of bell metal,
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which chemist Dr. Christa Brosseau believed
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may have been a fragment of an ancient cannon
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and possibly Portuguese in origin.
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Okay, mate, we're bagging it
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- 'cause it looks old.
- Yep.
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Is it possible that Rick and Gary
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have found another clue on Lot 5
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that could help identify just who may have been behind
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the 228-year-old treasure mystery?
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So next flag...
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Somewhere in here.
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Not bad.
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- Yep. Not bad sounding.
- Just there.
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I'm going to take me jacket off
cause I mean business now.
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Things are hotting up.
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Okay, let's see if you moved it.
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And you've moved it
'cause it sounds better.
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- Oh, what's that?
- It's singing.
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Wow! Look at that.
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It's singing.
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Oh, I love
these little finds, mate.
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It's a musket ball. Yeah.
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On Lot 5, located onthe western side of Oak Island,
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Rick Lagina and Gary Drayton have just found
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what could be a very important clue.
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Might not have been fired but...
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- Doesn't look fired.
- Yeah.
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But I love it when we find
stuff like this, I mean,
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you're going back
to black powder weapons.
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So you know you're going back.
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Maybe you're talking late 1500s.
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Yeah.
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A musket ball?
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Potentially dating back to the 16th century?
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Could it be related to the ancient tools
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and the hammered coin that were also
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recently found on Lot 5?
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If so, who brought them here?
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And just what were they doing on Oak Island?
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And there is a way to
date this, mate.
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We can measure the diameter
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and see what caliber it is
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because this does seem
on the small side.
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-Well, that is baggable.
-Yeah, definitely.
263
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That is a bona fide artifact.
264
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This is just the beginning
of the story, mate.
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The following day...
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- Good morning, gentlemen.- Hi, fellas.
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- Hey, guys.
- Hi.
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- Morning.
- Stephan,
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I know that you
post-processed the grid
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on the north end of the swamp
and I personally am
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- very interested in it.
- Rick Lagina
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gathers in the war room with members of the team
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to meet via video conference
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with ground penetrating radar expert, Stephan Grund.
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We all know that
prior to his passing,
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Fred was kind enough
to inform us
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of a possibility of
a log structure
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in the north end of the swamp.
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So I very much
look forward to this
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because if there's
a log wall there, that is huge.
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That-That's original work.
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If it's there.
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- Okay, I'm good to go.
- Yep.
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One week ago,
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following a preliminary geophysical scan of the swamp
286
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which identified a curious
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underground anomaly near the northern border,
288
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Stephan conducted a follow-up ground penetrating radar scan
289
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of the area with Rick and Marty's nephew Peter Fornetti
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-and landowner Tom Nolan.
-Thank you.
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It was in this same area
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on Lot 10 where Tom's late father Fred Nolan
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found evidence of what he believed
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could be a man-made dam.
295
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A dam that may have been constructed centuries ago
296
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to create the triangle-shaped swamp
297
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in order to hide something of great value.
298
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I'm gonna let you
tell us what you learned.
299
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Yes, definitely.
300
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Now, having fully processed
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his GPR data,
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Stephan is prepared to review his findings with the team.
303
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So let me start with the scans with the OKM Geppard GPR.
304
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We do see significant anomalies in this area.
305
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Coming from the left to the right
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at around three feet depth.
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I quickly want to open another scan.
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This is very interesting
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because we do see here again
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anomalies cut in the middle of the grid
311
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from the left to the right
312
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and those are between two and eight feet depth.
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So it's a duplication more or less.
314
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Wow.
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Numerous anomalies
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running in a linear pattern
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between three and eight feet deep
318
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just north of the swamp?
319
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Could it be evidence to support Fred Nolan's theory
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regarding a potential man-made dam?
321
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The information that Stephan relayed to us,
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I found it incredibly intriguing.
323
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His interpretation of the data suggests
324
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a linear anomaly is in an areathat Fred thought was certainly
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worthy of further investigation.
326
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I believe that Fred was truthful about probing
327
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such a structure or finding such a structure.
328
00:14:44,033 --> 00:14:46,701
And I think
if you come to a point
329
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where you think
a target is legit,
330
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then you need to dig.
331
00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:53,617
Well, thank you for that
because it's very curious.
332
00:14:53,710 --> 00:14:55,969
Craig, do you have any thoughts?
333
00:14:56,063 --> 00:15:00,715
Just, uh, I mean,
get Tom involved, um, obviously.
334
00:15:00,734 --> 00:15:02,067
So it'll be interesting to see
335
00:15:02,218 --> 00:15:03,793
what he thinks
about this location.
336
00:15:03,812 --> 00:15:05,070
Yeah, 100%.
337
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The next steps would be obviously to inform Tom.
338
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And then it would be up to Tom to decide how to proceed.
339
00:15:13,488 --> 00:15:15,580
My hope is, after hearing there is an anomaly there,
340
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that Tom will
acquiesce to, to dig.
341
00:15:18,735 --> 00:15:21,253
Anyways, Stephan,
I hate to say it,
342
00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,756
but... you're gonna be
getting a lot more data.
343
00:15:24,908 --> 00:15:27,484
I'm looking forward to it.
344
00:15:27,502 --> 00:15:28,743
- Fair enough.
- Careful what you wish for.
345
00:15:30,155 --> 00:15:31,488
Great.
346
00:15:31,581 --> 00:15:32,747
Thank you very much.
347
00:15:32,766 --> 00:15:34,658
Appreciate it.
348
00:15:34,676 --> 00:15:36,935
As Rick and members of the team
349
00:15:37,162 --> 00:15:38,920
finish their meeting in the war room,
350
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in the Money Pit area...
351
00:15:41,349 --> 00:15:43,166
- Looks like we got
a core coming.
- Yep.
352
00:15:43,185 --> 00:15:46,611
...Terry Matheson and Charles Barkhouse continue
353
00:15:46,763 --> 00:15:50,523
supervising the drillingoperation in Borehole D-17.5...
354
00:15:50,617 --> 00:15:51,841
Thank you.
355
00:15:51,860 --> 00:15:53,860
...where they hope to once again
356
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penetrate a mysterious tunnel
357
00:15:55,772 --> 00:15:58,272
at a depth of some 70 feet.
358
00:15:58,292 --> 00:16:00,684
39 feet.
359
00:16:00,702 --> 00:16:01,609
- Thank you.
- Got some wood
at the bottom of that.
360
00:16:01,628 --> 00:16:03,110
That's the bottom. What?
361
00:16:03,130 --> 00:16:04,854
We got some wood
at the bottom of this.
362
00:16:04,948 --> 00:16:08,208
-39?
-Well, 39. How about that?
363
00:16:08,302 --> 00:16:09,634
We've got wood.
364
00:16:10,804 --> 00:16:12,137
-That's odd.
-Okay.
365
00:16:13,215 --> 00:16:15,122
At 39 feet.
366
00:16:15,217 --> 00:16:17,200
That's an interesting outcome,
don't you think, Charles?
367
00:16:17,219 --> 00:16:19,126
-Scalpel, please.
-Scalpel.
368
00:16:19,146 --> 00:16:21,646
Thank you.
Wow!
369
00:16:25,152 --> 00:16:27,894
Charles, what we got is wood.
370
00:16:28,046 --> 00:16:30,137
We got a lot of wood here, too.
371
00:16:30,157 --> 00:16:32,232
A large quantity of wood?
372
00:16:32,326 --> 00:16:37,570
At a depth of just 39 feet in Borehole D-17.5?
373
00:16:37,664 --> 00:16:41,407
And less than 20 feet south of the Garden Shaft?
374
00:16:41,502 --> 00:16:42,909
This is really
interesting, Charles.
375
00:16:43,061 --> 00:16:44,002
It's just...
376
00:16:44,153 --> 00:16:45,837
A tunnel at 39 feet
377
00:16:45,989 --> 00:16:47,839
-does not make sense.
-No, it doesn't.
378
00:16:47,991 --> 00:16:50,175
I'm wondering if we caught
an edge of a shaft.
379
00:16:50,326 --> 00:16:52,736
If the team has in fact
380
00:16:52,754 --> 00:16:55,496
encountered a wooden shaft, who built it?
381
00:16:55,516 --> 00:16:57,999
Was it simply previous treasure hunters
382
00:16:58,018 --> 00:17:00,593
during the 19th or 20th centuries?
383
00:17:00,746 --> 00:17:03,763
Or might it have been someone who visited the island
384
00:17:03,857 --> 00:17:07,250
much earlier to hide something of great value?
385
00:17:07,269 --> 00:17:08,527
I'm going to let Craig know,
386
00:17:08,754 --> 00:17:10,195
but let's just leave
everything on the table.
387
00:17:10,346 --> 00:17:11,530
Absolutely.
388
00:17:11,757 --> 00:17:13,256
You know, there's so much
389
00:17:13,275 --> 00:17:14,758
that we don't know about the Money Pit area.
390
00:17:14,776 --> 00:17:16,684
There's a number of tunnels.
391
00:17:16,703 --> 00:17:18,945
There's a number of shafts
that we know nothing about.
392
00:17:19,097 --> 00:17:20,280
A piece right there.
393
00:17:20,432 --> 00:17:21,856
You look at the history.
394
00:17:21,875 --> 00:17:24,376
This is 220-some years of searches.
395
00:17:24,527 --> 00:17:26,119
If this was easy,
396
00:17:26,271 --> 00:17:29,122
this would have been solved
a long time ago.
397
00:17:29,216 --> 00:17:30,549
Charles!
398
00:17:30,776 --> 00:17:32,533
I want answers,
not more questions.
399
00:17:32,553 --> 00:17:33,718
Yeah.
400
00:17:33,945 --> 00:17:35,870
Ta-da.
401
00:17:35,889 --> 00:17:39,057
So there's a nice little
chunk of wood right there,
402
00:17:39,284 --> 00:17:41,042
a split beam or something,
we're not sure.
403
00:17:41,061 --> 00:17:42,786
-But...
-But it's upright.
404
00:17:42,804 --> 00:17:43,878
- Yeah, it seems to be somewhat.
- Yeah.
405
00:17:43,897 --> 00:17:45,230
Seems to be an upright, yeah.
406
00:17:45,381 --> 00:17:46,806
Now we have the possibility
407
00:17:46,958 --> 00:17:49,626
of some kind of shaft
rather than a tunnel.
408
00:17:49,719 --> 00:17:51,236
- Right.
- At that unusual depth.
409
00:17:51,387 --> 00:17:53,572
It's got to be a shaft.
But which one?
410
00:17:53,723 --> 00:17:55,965
It's got to be between
the spot we're drilling
411
00:17:55,984 --> 00:17:58,635
- and the Garden Shaft.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
412
00:17:58,653 --> 00:18:01,471
I was really hoping that D-17.5
413
00:18:01,489 --> 00:18:03,898
was a tunnel at 70 feet
414
00:18:03,917 --> 00:18:07,493
and led to the vault or a side chamber.
415
00:18:07,646 --> 00:18:11,481
The big surprise was, down 39 feet,
416
00:18:11,499 --> 00:18:14,575
we start hitting wood, and it was telling us right away,
417
00:18:14,669 --> 00:18:16,261
"You are in a shaft."
418
00:18:16,488 --> 00:18:18,004
What shaft?
419
00:18:18,098 --> 00:18:20,432
We don't have a clue, uh,
but a big, big surprise.
420
00:18:20,583 --> 00:18:23,101
We were going, looking
for a tunnel, found a shaft.
421
00:18:23,328 --> 00:18:25,011
I think we have to
kind of chase this
422
00:18:25,163 --> 00:18:26,420
and figure out what this is.
423
00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:27,606
Yeah, it's a major,
major change.
424
00:18:27,833 --> 00:18:29,274
Yes.
425
00:18:29,501 --> 00:18:32,669
- It changes the whole story.
- Yep.
426
00:18:32,687 --> 00:18:34,446
We need to get Rick out here.
427
00:18:39,845 --> 00:18:41,177
- Hey, guys.- Gentlemen.
428
00:18:41,196 --> 00:18:42,454
-What do we got?
-We got a shaft, Marty.
429
00:18:42,605 --> 00:18:44,122
In the Money Pit area...
430
00:18:44,273 --> 00:18:46,015
- A new shaft.
- Yep.
431
00:18:46,034 --> 00:18:48,017
...Rick and Marty Lagina,
432
00:18:48,036 --> 00:18:49,944
along with Billy Gerhardt,
433
00:18:49,963 --> 00:18:52,205
have joined members of the team
434
00:18:52,357 --> 00:18:54,023
where they have just made
435
00:18:54,042 --> 00:18:58,119
a surprising discovery in Borehole D-17.5.
436
00:18:58,138 --> 00:19:01,714
At 38 to 39, intersected
437
00:19:01,867 --> 00:19:03,791
a nice little chunk of beam
or something,
438
00:19:03,810 --> 00:19:05,292
more or less vertically.
439
00:19:05,312 --> 00:19:07,270
And then we've got
a ton of wood here.
440
00:19:09,816 --> 00:19:12,651
So we're starting to think maybe
the 70-foot was not a tunnel.
441
00:19:12,802 --> 00:19:14,394
A piece of a shaft.
442
00:19:14,488 --> 00:19:17,063
-Yeah.
-So it's yet another
unknown shaft.
443
00:19:17,215 --> 00:19:18,490
- Yeah.
- Exactly.
444
00:19:20,068 --> 00:19:22,160
This happens a lot on Oak Island.
445
00:19:22,311 --> 00:19:23,828
We're drilling to try and identify
446
00:19:23,980 --> 00:19:27,481
what we were sure was a tunnel at 70 feet,
447
00:19:27,501 --> 00:19:29,150
and we're drilling to confirm
which way this tunnel goes.
448
00:19:29,244 --> 00:19:30,669
Well, lo and behold,
449
00:19:30,896 --> 00:19:33,079
what we find out is,
it's not a tunnel at all.
450
00:19:33,231 --> 00:19:35,732
Totally unknown to us,
451
00:19:35,750 --> 00:19:38,584
a shaft that is not on any maps
452
00:19:38,737 --> 00:19:40,345
or referred to as I know it
453
00:19:40,496 --> 00:19:41,738
by anybody.
454
00:19:41,756 --> 00:19:43,239
What's that?
455
00:19:43,258 --> 00:19:45,408
So that to me
looks like a pit saw,
456
00:19:45,427 --> 00:19:48,669
where you have somebody
below and somebody above.
457
00:19:48,689 --> 00:19:50,522
Yeah, all right.
That's-that's an ancient,
458
00:19:50,673 --> 00:19:52,339
- ancient way of cutting.
- For sure.
- Yeah.
459
00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:53,917
That's how they made
milled lumber
460
00:19:53,935 --> 00:19:55,527
before the age of sawmills.
461
00:19:56,679 --> 00:19:57,921
Wood?
462
00:19:57,939 --> 00:19:59,864
Potentially cut with a pit saw?
463
00:20:00,091 --> 00:20:02,942
Dating back to the time of ancient Rome,
464
00:20:03,094 --> 00:20:05,778
this process of sawing lumber
465
00:20:05,931 --> 00:20:09,374
was widely adopted by Europeans in the 15th century
466
00:20:09,601 --> 00:20:12,435
and utilized until the Industrial Age
467
00:20:12,454 --> 00:20:15,213
when it was replaced by mechanical sawmills.
468
00:20:16,699 --> 00:20:18,199
I don't think that was cut
with a circular saw.
469
00:20:18,293 --> 00:20:19,959
Is it possible
470
00:20:20,053 --> 00:20:21,778
that this structure predates the discovery
471
00:20:21,796 --> 00:20:24,614
of the Money Pit in 1795?
472
00:20:24,632 --> 00:20:26,950
If so,
473
00:20:26,968 --> 00:20:29,953
might it be the breakthroughthe team needs in order to solve
474
00:20:30,046 --> 00:20:32,972
the 228-year-old mystery?
475
00:20:33,066 --> 00:20:35,549
You can see that that has
the touch of man there.
476
00:20:35,569 --> 00:20:38,478
It's relatively
irregular and uneven.
477
00:20:38,572 --> 00:20:41,464
So a pit saw would give
an indication that it was older.
478
00:20:41,483 --> 00:20:43,483
So, do you think there's
any way this is pre-searcher?
479
00:20:43,635 --> 00:20:45,635
I don't know.
480
00:20:45,653 --> 00:20:47,078
I-I-I don't know.
481
00:20:49,249 --> 00:20:51,916
There shouldn't be a shaft
there if that's Shaft Two.
482
00:20:53,828 --> 00:20:56,479
The shafts that you don't know
should be a lot older.
483
00:20:56,498 --> 00:20:58,147
Yeah. It's more
likely to be older.
484
00:20:58,166 --> 00:21:00,592
-You can't dispute that.
-No.
485
00:21:00,819 --> 00:21:02,427
We're not sure what
the Garden Shaft is.
486
00:21:02,578 --> 00:21:04,245
We're not sure
what number two is.
487
00:21:04,264 --> 00:21:06,155
We're not sure what
this one is, so...
488
00:21:06,174 --> 00:21:07,490
-Yes.
-Yeah.
489
00:21:07,509 --> 00:21:08,508
That's it.
490
00:21:08,660 --> 00:21:10,602
Here we go.
491
00:21:10,753 --> 00:21:12,328
- Hey, Mike.
- What's the word?
492
00:21:12,421 --> 00:21:13,679
You think we're
probably going inside
493
00:21:13,832 --> 00:21:14,664
of a shaft
at this point in time?
494
00:21:14,682 --> 00:21:15,848
I'd say so, yeah.
495
00:21:16,001 --> 00:21:17,258
To me, at this point in time,
496
00:21:17,277 --> 00:21:18,668
we just want to get
to the bottom
497
00:21:18,761 --> 00:21:20,336
- of this shaft, so...
- Yeah.
498
00:21:20,355 --> 00:21:22,505
We've got to chase
the wood as far as it goes.
499
00:21:22,524 --> 00:21:23,448
We need to know the bottom.
500
00:21:23,675 --> 00:21:25,024
Yeah.
501
00:21:25,176 --> 00:21:26,451
Well, let's see what's below.
502
00:21:26,602 --> 00:21:28,027
-Keep going.
-Right on.
503
00:21:28,179 --> 00:21:29,195
Thanks, Mike.
504
00:21:29,289 --> 00:21:30,437
All right. Good.
505
00:21:30,532 --> 00:21:32,624
- Carry on.- Good luck.
506
00:21:34,185 --> 00:21:36,586
Later that afternoon...
507
00:21:37,947 --> 00:21:39,798
-Steve, you have
all the data, right?
-Yep.
508
00:21:39,949 --> 00:21:42,525
...Rick Lagina, along with fellow Oak Island landowner
509
00:21:42,544 --> 00:21:43,860
Tom Nolan
510
00:21:43,878 --> 00:21:46,029
and other members of the team,
511
00:21:46,122 --> 00:21:49,365
arrive on Lot 10, just north
512
00:21:49,384 --> 00:21:52,310
of the mysterious triangle-shaped swamp.
513
00:21:52,461 --> 00:21:54,537
Based on the data
that Peter gave me,
514
00:21:54,556 --> 00:21:56,873
I calculated where
the center of the anomaly is.
515
00:21:56,891 --> 00:21:58,817
This is the center location.
516
00:21:59,044 --> 00:22:02,211
So the anomaly itself is
12 feet by 15 feet,
517
00:22:02,305 --> 00:22:03,321
and this is the center point.
518
00:22:05,216 --> 00:22:07,992
Having reviewed the GPR data collected on his property,
519
00:22:08,144 --> 00:22:09,828
Tom has given Rick
520
00:22:10,055 --> 00:22:12,889
and the rest of the team his blessing
521
00:22:12,907 --> 00:22:15,500
to excavate in search of a potential man-made dam
522
00:22:15,651 --> 00:22:18,503
that may lie buried in this area.
523
00:22:18,730 --> 00:22:20,396
So that's kind of the anomaly.
524
00:22:20,489 --> 00:22:22,674
All the way across our grid.
525
00:22:22,825 --> 00:22:24,417
Tom, I don't, I don't know
526
00:22:24,569 --> 00:22:27,086
if you've noticed this
on Zena's map before.
527
00:22:27,238 --> 00:22:28,137
But...
528
00:22:30,183 --> 00:22:32,091
You see where it says
529
00:22:32,243 --> 00:22:33,409
- "the basin..."
- Yeah.
530
00:22:33,428 --> 00:22:34,594
...and "the dam."
531
00:22:34,746 --> 00:22:36,412
It shows right here.
532
00:22:36,431 --> 00:22:39,691
Tucked right in, right,
right where we are.
533
00:22:39,918 --> 00:22:42,360
-This anomaly could be that dam.
-Interesting.
534
00:22:43,605 --> 00:22:46,105
In 2016,
535
00:22:46,257 --> 00:22:48,515
the late author and researcher Zena Halpern
536
00:22:48,535 --> 00:22:51,536
presented Rick, Marty and the team
537
00:22:51,687 --> 00:22:54,614
with a reported 14th century map of Oak Island
538
00:22:54,766 --> 00:22:56,432
that she believed had been made
539
00:22:56,525 --> 00:22:58,935
by members of the Knights Templar.
540
00:22:58,953 --> 00:23:01,880
It featured a number of marked locations,
541
00:23:02,031 --> 00:23:05,775
including what appeared to be the original Money Pit,
542
00:23:05,793 --> 00:23:08,845
the swamp, and the dam.
543
00:23:10,206 --> 00:23:13,616
A dam which appears to be in the same location
544
00:23:13,635 --> 00:23:17,228
as the GPR anomaly that the team is about to dig.
545
00:23:17,380 --> 00:23:19,956
We've been trying to judge
this map on its merits, right?
546
00:23:19,974 --> 00:23:21,807
Because we don't know
its provenance, so...
547
00:23:21,902 --> 00:23:23,884
it'd be really interesting
if there is a wall.
548
00:23:23,904 --> 00:23:25,403
Oh, if there was something here,
it'd be huge.
549
00:23:25,554 --> 00:23:26,963
On a number of levels.
550
00:23:26,981 --> 00:23:28,222
Let's bring in
a machine and dig it.
551
00:23:28,316 --> 00:23:29,407
-Let's go get it.
-Okay.
552
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,304
-I say we don't dig
past the stakes.
-Yeah.
553
00:23:35,398 --> 00:23:38,307
There's no question that my anticipation of a dig
554
00:23:38,326 --> 00:23:40,084
on the Lot 10 anomaly
555
00:23:40,311 --> 00:23:41,920
is high for me,
the interest is high...
556
00:23:42,147 --> 00:23:43,570
Right here's
the center location, Billy.
557
00:23:43,590 --> 00:23:45,089
Okay.
558
00:23:45,241 --> 00:23:46,832
...for two reasons--
559
00:23:46,927 --> 00:23:48,927
Fred certainly believed that it was there,
560
00:23:49,078 --> 00:23:53,322
and the fact that Zena's map indicates a dam at the basin.
561
00:23:53,341 --> 00:23:55,992
I'd love nothing better than for us
562
00:23:56,010 --> 00:23:57,994
to ground truth something
563
00:23:58,012 --> 00:24:01,255
regarding the designation
on Zena's map.
564
00:24:01,274 --> 00:24:04,108
As Billy Gerhardt carefully
565
00:24:04,260 --> 00:24:06,836
excavates the possible man-made anomaly...
566
00:24:06,929 --> 00:24:08,279
I'd say we're about
567
00:24:08,506 --> 00:24:10,097
- three feet down right now.
- Yep.
568
00:24:10,116 --> 00:24:12,099
...Gary Drayton will search the spoils
569
00:24:12,193 --> 00:24:14,285
with his metal detector
570
00:24:14,512 --> 00:24:16,195
for any potentially important clues
571
00:24:16,289 --> 00:24:18,030
or valuables.
572
00:24:18,124 --> 00:24:19,773
Oh, Gary's got a hit.
573
00:24:19,867 --> 00:24:21,960
- Yeah, we've gotten a hit, Pete.
- That's a good sign.
574
00:24:23,946 --> 00:24:27,190
Let's see if I can pinpoint it
for you before we start digging.
575
00:24:27,283 --> 00:24:28,925
It might be close
to the surface.
576
00:24:38,536 --> 00:24:39,626
On it.
577
00:24:39,646 --> 00:24:41,938
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578
00:24:43,708 --> 00:24:44,482
Wow.
579
00:24:48,396 --> 00:24:49,879
Wow! Look at this.
580
00:24:49,972 --> 00:24:53,232
Got like a piece of iron here.
581
00:24:53,326 --> 00:24:56,327
While searching for evidence of a man-made dam
582
00:24:56,554 --> 00:24:58,571
just north of the Oak Island swamp...
583
00:24:58,665 --> 00:25:00,223
Right there.
584
00:25:00,316 --> 00:25:01,741
I'm hoping this is an old find.
585
00:25:01,893 --> 00:25:03,392
...members of the team have just made
586
00:25:03,411 --> 00:25:05,795
a potentially significant discovery.
587
00:25:07,081 --> 00:25:08,655
Fairly chunky.
588
00:25:08,750 --> 00:25:10,508
It could be like
an old iron pin.
589
00:25:12,086 --> 00:25:14,587
I'd say it is.
590
00:25:14,739 --> 00:25:18,349
Which you'd expect
in an old wooden wall.
591
00:25:19,911 --> 00:25:21,577
To me, it looks like
wrought iron.
592
00:25:21,670 --> 00:25:24,188
That's a perfect
candidate for the XRF.
593
00:25:24,340 --> 00:25:26,916
We've found over the years
594
00:25:26,934 --> 00:25:28,417
that the higher the purity,
595
00:25:28,511 --> 00:25:31,011
the interpretation is
that it's older.
596
00:25:31,031 --> 00:25:32,530
Yeah, it'd be interesting
597
00:25:32,757 --> 00:25:34,273
- if we could get an idea
how old it is.
- Yeah.
598
00:25:34,367 --> 00:25:36,108
It's a spike.
599
00:25:36,261 --> 00:25:39,353
Might have been used when a log wall,
600
00:25:39,372 --> 00:25:42,189
as Fred suggested, might have been constructed.
601
00:25:42,283 --> 00:25:44,116
But what we need to do is
602
00:25:44,269 --> 00:25:46,693
some scientific analysis,
some metallurgy on it.
603
00:25:46,713 --> 00:25:50,548
If it's pre-1795, before the discovery
604
00:25:50,775 --> 00:25:53,292
of the Money Pit, well,that would be very interesting.
605
00:25:53,386 --> 00:25:55,611
That didn't float in.
606
00:25:55,630 --> 00:25:56,629
It didn't float in. No.
607
00:25:56,781 --> 00:25:58,372
Somebody put this here.
608
00:25:58,391 --> 00:26:00,299
- Gary?
- Yep.
609
00:26:00,451 --> 00:26:02,543
See the piece of wood that's,
that's out of the bucket?
610
00:26:02,562 --> 00:26:03,619
Just ahead of your foot.
611
00:26:03,638 --> 00:26:05,137
-This?
-Yeah.
612
00:26:05,290 --> 00:26:08,882
It seems to have
some kind of oil on it.
613
00:26:08,902 --> 00:26:11,477
-Yeah.
-That's been shaped.
614
00:26:11,571 --> 00:26:13,813
Let's see what you think.
There's a lot of that there.
615
00:26:13,907 --> 00:26:16,532
Is that oil or creosote?
616
00:26:17,911 --> 00:26:19,985
No, that's not creosote.
617
00:26:20,138 --> 00:26:21,037
No, that's not.
618
00:26:23,249 --> 00:26:26,900
You know they put oil on wood
for a lot longer than creosote.
619
00:26:26,994 --> 00:26:30,088
Wood? Covered in oil?
620
00:26:30,239 --> 00:26:33,816
Dating back to as early as 400 BC,
621
00:26:33,909 --> 00:26:37,169
oil was widely used in Asia
622
00:26:37,322 --> 00:26:38,988
for the purpose of protecting sailing vessels
623
00:26:39,006 --> 00:26:42,658
and structures from long-term exposure to water.
624
00:26:42,751 --> 00:26:45,511
Beginning in the 13th century AD,
625
00:26:45,663 --> 00:26:49,273
this manufacturing technique was also used in Europe
626
00:26:49,425 --> 00:26:52,852
until a tar-based substance known as creosote
627
00:26:53,004 --> 00:26:54,946
replaced it in the 1800s.
628
00:26:57,008 --> 00:26:59,525
That's not creosote,
that's for sure.
629
00:26:59,619 --> 00:27:02,286
Is it possible that the team has found
630
00:27:02,513 --> 00:27:05,181
another clue supporting Fred Nolan's belief
631
00:27:05,199 --> 00:27:06,607
that an artificial dam
632
00:27:06,701 --> 00:27:10,035
lies buried just north of the swamp,
633
00:27:10,130 --> 00:27:11,796
and also corroborate
634
00:27:11,947 --> 00:27:15,299
Zena Halpern's reported 14th century Templar map,
635
00:27:15,451 --> 00:27:19,786
which indicates a dam feature in this area on Oak Island?
636
00:27:19,881 --> 00:27:22,140
How deep do you think
we are, Billy?
637
00:27:23,368 --> 00:27:24,717
Eight feet.
638
00:27:24,811 --> 00:27:26,811
- Eight feet?
- Yep.
639
00:27:27,038 --> 00:27:28,871
We need to go
at least three more.
640
00:27:28,890 --> 00:27:30,773
Okay.
641
00:27:32,819 --> 00:27:34,777
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642
00:27:38,974 --> 00:27:40,658
A big old log on there?
643
00:27:43,221 --> 00:27:44,478
- There we go.
- We got a log
644
00:27:44,497 --> 00:27:47,314
and we got a plank here as well.
645
00:27:47,333 --> 00:27:48,666
Like a board.
646
00:27:50,061 --> 00:27:51,410
There's a piece of board.
647
00:27:51,504 --> 00:27:55,089
And that's definitely
a piece of shaped board.
648
00:27:57,677 --> 00:27:59,177
Oh, that's deep.
649
00:28:00,922 --> 00:28:02,421
Here you go, mate.
650
00:28:02,573 --> 00:28:04,182
That's interesting.
That's been shaped.
651
00:28:04,409 --> 00:28:05,499
It's an interesting find.
652
00:28:05,593 --> 00:28:08,001
It's possibly associated with
653
00:28:08,021 --> 00:28:10,413
a construct in an areawhere there should be something.
654
00:28:10,431 --> 00:28:13,024
Which may imply original work
655
00:28:13,175 --> 00:28:15,601
prior to when the Money Pit was discovered
656
00:28:15,753 --> 00:28:19,271
because there has been no historical narrative about
657
00:28:19,365 --> 00:28:22,349
any of the searchers doing
that type of work in the swamp.
658
00:28:22,443 --> 00:28:24,685
If you come around this side,
659
00:28:24,704 --> 00:28:26,186
you probably can see
the different layers,
660
00:28:26,206 --> 00:28:28,280
three or four feet down.
661
00:28:28,433 --> 00:28:29,498
Down there.
662
00:28:30,710 --> 00:28:32,526
You can see
the layers going down.
663
00:28:32,620 --> 00:28:34,027
Then you've got peat.
664
00:28:34,047 --> 00:28:36,789
And then you've got this clay.
665
00:28:36,883 --> 00:28:38,716
So...
666
00:28:38,867 --> 00:28:39,959
Yeah, you would think
anything below that
667
00:28:40,111 --> 00:28:41,552
is original ground.
668
00:28:42,722 --> 00:28:44,305
So, how much deeper
do you want to go?
669
00:28:46,226 --> 00:28:48,226
I think this is a bigger dig.
670
00:28:48,453 --> 00:28:50,061
Mm-hmm.
671
00:28:51,789 --> 00:28:54,790
What you'd have to do
is get a proper permit.
672
00:28:54,883 --> 00:28:56,459
It's the only way
you'd know for sure.
673
00:28:56,477 --> 00:28:58,644
-That you didn't miss it.
-Yeah.
674
00:28:58,796 --> 00:29:01,480
The whole point of
this exercise is to prove
675
00:29:01,574 --> 00:29:06,244
that what Tom's father Fred
found-- a dam-- exists.
676
00:29:06,471 --> 00:29:10,564
The way to address that is
by getting the proper permits.
677
00:29:10,583 --> 00:29:13,042
Okay, we'll reassess.
678
00:29:14,479 --> 00:29:17,755
This is not an area
that we put an "X" through.
679
00:29:17,982 --> 00:29:22,001
As Rick and members of the team finish their work on Lot 10...
680
00:29:22,095 --> 00:29:24,244
What do you think, Mike?
681
00:29:24,338 --> 00:29:26,155
...back in the Money Pit area...
682
00:29:26,173 --> 00:29:27,431
I think it's
the bottom of the shaft.
683
00:29:27,658 --> 00:29:29,658
All right, excellent.
Thank you.
684
00:29:29,752 --> 00:29:32,252
...Craig Tester, Charles Barkhouse,
685
00:29:32,272 --> 00:29:34,830
and Terry Matheson continue to oversee
686
00:29:34,849 --> 00:29:39,835
the core-drilling operation in Borehole D-17.5.
687
00:29:39,928 --> 00:29:41,279
- What you got, Brandon?
- 109.
688
00:29:41,430 --> 00:29:44,006
- 109.
- 109, here it comes.
689
00:29:44,099 --> 00:29:48,101
It is here, just 18 feet south of the Garden Shaft,
690
00:29:48,121 --> 00:29:50,195
where they are drilling down
691
00:29:50,290 --> 00:29:53,682
through a mysterious wooden shaft in order to find out
692
00:29:53,776 --> 00:29:57,586
just where or what it may lead to.
693
00:30:00,949 --> 00:30:02,133
Oh, yeah, there we go.
694
00:30:04,712 --> 00:30:06,211
Very big chunk.
695
00:30:06,306 --> 00:30:07,805
What do you think, guys?
696
00:30:08,975 --> 00:30:10,199
I think it's wood.
697
00:30:10,292 --> 00:30:12,810
I dare say, eh.
That's great.
698
00:30:13,037 --> 00:30:15,128
- I got some more
right here.
- Yep.
699
00:30:15,222 --> 00:30:16,555
You got one here, boys.
700
00:30:16,649 --> 00:30:18,465
Check that out.
701
00:30:18,559 --> 00:30:20,059
And that's a solid chunk.
702
00:30:20,153 --> 00:30:22,803
That is a solid
chunk of beam right there.
703
00:30:22,897 --> 00:30:25,397
Oh, my God, I can't believe it.
Look at that, gentlemen.
704
00:30:25,491 --> 00:30:27,474
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705
00:30:27,493 --> 00:30:29,410
Wow.
706
00:30:33,666 --> 00:30:35,407
- Check that out.- Yeah.
707
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,317
-See where the axe fell
in there?
-Yeah.
708
00:30:37,411 --> 00:30:39,152
You can almost see the arc
of the leading edge
709
00:30:39,172 --> 00:30:40,504
of the axe, I would say.
710
00:30:40,731 --> 00:30:42,489
- Which makes it very old.
- Yes.
711
00:30:42,508 --> 00:30:45,417
In Borehole D-17.5,
712
00:30:45,511 --> 00:30:48,662
Craig Tester and members of the Oak Island team
713
00:30:48,681 --> 00:30:52,424
have just found more evidence more than 100 feet deep
714
00:30:52,577 --> 00:30:55,077
that the mysterious shaft they have encountered
715
00:30:55,096 --> 00:30:56,745
was cut by hand,
716
00:30:56,764 --> 00:30:59,098
meaning that it could predate
717
00:30:59,192 --> 00:31:03,510
the discovery of the original Money Pit in 1795.
718
00:31:03,529 --> 00:31:05,270
That might have
enough tree rings
719
00:31:05,365 --> 00:31:08,682
and body to it that we can get
a good dendro date.
720
00:31:08,701 --> 00:31:10,926
- Absolutely. Excellent.
- Yeah.
721
00:31:10,945 --> 00:31:13,946
It would be fantastic
if it was pre-searcher, but...
722
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,099
-but who knows
at this point in time?
-Yeah.
723
00:31:17,118 --> 00:31:18,267
It's interesting that we found
724
00:31:18,285 --> 00:31:20,211
a shaft in this location.
725
00:31:20,362 --> 00:31:22,362
Charles, did you think there
was a shaft in this location?
726
00:31:22,382 --> 00:31:23,381
No, I did not.
727
00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:26,108
If the area of the Garden Shaft
turns out
728
00:31:26,127 --> 00:31:27,960
to be the Money Pit,
then, you know,
729
00:31:28,112 --> 00:31:29,536
we could be looking at a shaft
730
00:31:29,555 --> 00:31:31,055
that was connected
into the Money Pit.
731
00:31:32,541 --> 00:31:34,392
- Good point.
- So...
732
00:31:34,619 --> 00:31:36,060
This could be the keys
to the kingdom right here.
733
00:31:38,898 --> 00:31:40,956
From our historical records,
734
00:31:40,975 --> 00:31:42,958
there shouldn't be any shafts in the area.
735
00:31:42,977 --> 00:31:44,643
This is completely new.
736
00:31:44,795 --> 00:31:46,404
Is it a shaft that the original people,
737
00:31:46,631 --> 00:31:49,573
uh, had put in
leading to the treasure?
738
00:31:49,725 --> 00:31:52,985
Is it a searcher shaft that was not documented?
739
00:31:53,079 --> 00:31:55,395
We run into that problem every once in a while.
740
00:31:55,489 --> 00:31:59,232
So we got to do our homework
and, uh, figure out what it is.
741
00:31:59,252 --> 00:32:01,401
I'm gonna run back
to the research center,
742
00:32:01,421 --> 00:32:04,588
try to look up historical
records on the different shafts.
743
00:32:04,740 --> 00:32:07,166
Then we'll get
another location picked
744
00:32:07,318 --> 00:32:09,501
-following this shaft.
-Yeah.
745
00:32:09,595 --> 00:32:12,096
Okay, guys, I will talk to you soon.
746
00:32:12,247 --> 00:32:13,431
We'll finish up here.
747
00:32:14,434 --> 00:32:16,750
� �
748
00:32:16,769 --> 00:32:19,270
Later that afternoon...
749
00:32:21,274 --> 00:32:23,015
- Thanks, Jack.- Yeah.
750
00:32:23,109 --> 00:32:24,833
-Laird. Helen. Emma.
-Looks good.
-How are you?
751
00:32:24,852 --> 00:32:26,669
- Hello.
- Sandy.
752
00:32:26,687 --> 00:32:28,020
- So, we'll set up here.
- ...Alex Lagina,
753
00:32:28,114 --> 00:32:29,763
Jack Begley,
754
00:32:29,782 --> 00:32:31,765
and archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan
755
00:32:31,784 --> 00:32:34,434
welcome numismatist Sandy Campbell
756
00:32:34,454 --> 00:32:36,454
to the Oak Island Interpretive Centre.
757
00:32:36,605 --> 00:32:39,957
Sandy has come to examine the cut copper coin
758
00:32:40,108 --> 00:32:42,518
that was found one week ago by Rick Lagina
759
00:32:42,611 --> 00:32:45,354
and Gary Drayton on Lot 5.
760
00:32:45,372 --> 00:32:48,207
A coin which X-ray fluorescence scanning
761
00:32:48,359 --> 00:32:52,211
has indicated may predate the 16th century.
762
00:32:52,363 --> 00:32:55,806
Okay, so the thing
that we'd like to show you is
763
00:32:55,958 --> 00:32:59,292
-a find on Lot 5, which we've
recently gained access to.
-Okay. Yeah.
764
00:32:59,386 --> 00:33:01,553
-So this is kind of
a new area on the island for us.
-Okay.
765
00:33:01,647 --> 00:33:03,463
-Okay.
-We only recently got access
to the lot,
766
00:33:03,483 --> 00:33:05,649
so we haven't been over it
with a metal detector ourselves.
767
00:33:05,801 --> 00:33:08,819
And that's what Rick and Gary
were doing when they found this.
768
00:33:08,971 --> 00:33:10,821
It's very interesting.
769
00:33:10,973 --> 00:33:12,323
We're not totally sure
what it is.
770
00:33:12,474 --> 00:33:14,808
-Okay.
-Uh, but we have some... ideas.
771
00:33:14,902 --> 00:33:16,552
- Well, let's have a look.
- I'll go grab the coin.
772
00:33:16,570 --> 00:33:17,995
Great. Perfect.
773
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:20,164
Here you go.
774
00:33:20,315 --> 00:33:21,499
Thank you, Emma.
775
00:33:24,152 --> 00:33:25,669
Here, I'll hand it to you
in the bag.
776
00:33:25,821 --> 00:33:27,412
All right.
777
00:33:27,565 --> 00:33:28,655
-I'll let you take it out.
-I'll have a look.
778
00:33:28,674 --> 00:33:30,082
Part of a coin.
779
00:33:30,176 --> 00:33:32,158
Hopefully.
780
00:33:32,178 --> 00:33:34,011
Let's have a look.
781
00:33:38,518 --> 00:33:41,167
So you've done an XRF
and a CT and...
782
00:33:41,262 --> 00:33:43,579
Yeah, we have. Emma, are you
able to pull that up for us,
783
00:33:43,672 --> 00:33:45,022
-by any chance?
-Sure can.
784
00:33:46,584 --> 00:33:48,417
-Thank you.
-It's just loading right now.
785
00:33:48,510 --> 00:33:50,861
While that loads,
here's a picture.
786
00:33:52,606 --> 00:33:54,323
Let's flip it to the other.
787
00:33:57,519 --> 00:34:00,037
Looks like there's
some sort of...
788
00:34:00,264 --> 00:34:02,022
characters or something
inscribed on it.
789
00:34:02,116 --> 00:34:03,599
Yeah. What about, uh,
790
00:34:03,617 --> 00:34:05,209
XRF?
791
00:34:05,436 --> 00:34:09,004
Yes. So, I do have an XRF...
result.
792
00:34:10,365 --> 00:34:14,218
And it shows high content
in copper, lead and tin
793
00:34:14,445 --> 00:34:18,055
but also, um,
about .51% arsenic.
794
00:34:18,282 --> 00:34:21,133
-Yeah.
-Um, and it also has
1.05% silver
795
00:34:21,227 --> 00:34:23,710
in it as well.
796
00:34:23,804 --> 00:34:25,045
Which, yeah, I mean,
797
00:34:25,064 --> 00:34:27,289
you can get silver
798
00:34:27,308 --> 00:34:29,400
-naturally occurring
with copper, obviously, and...
-Mm-hmm.
799
00:34:29,551 --> 00:34:31,310
You know, if it has arsenic,
800
00:34:31,404 --> 00:34:32,978
this is pre-1500.
801
00:34:33,130 --> 00:34:34,697
For sure.
802
00:34:35,891 --> 00:34:36,815
You know, if we weigh this...
803
00:34:36,967 --> 00:34:38,391
Let-Let's weigh it.
804
00:34:38,411 --> 00:34:40,319
This is gonna tell us
something. Okay?
805
00:34:40,471 --> 00:34:43,247
This coin looks like
there's probably...
806
00:34:43,474 --> 00:34:45,490
- a third of it left?
- Mm-hmm.
807
00:34:45,643 --> 00:34:46,733
This is probably somewhere
808
00:34:46,827 --> 00:34:49,420
in the gram range, but let's...
809
00:34:51,649 --> 00:34:53,498
S-So, it weighs exactly a gram,
810
00:34:53,593 --> 00:34:56,427
which, you know, sort of unusual
that it would be
811
00:34:56,578 --> 00:34:58,670
bang-on a gram, but...
812
00:34:58,823 --> 00:35:01,081
-Wow.
-...you know,
it-it's not unusual
813
00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:03,767
to see coins cut up
and used as money
814
00:35:03,919 --> 00:35:06,161
in a partial payment.
815
00:35:06,180 --> 00:35:09,273
Again, y-you know,
you get a coin that's this big,
816
00:35:09,424 --> 00:35:11,683
and, you know,
the deal of the day
817
00:35:11,836 --> 00:35:13,927
-required a third
of that copper.
-Mm-hmm.
818
00:35:14,021 --> 00:35:17,506
-So you're just snipping off
a third of the coin, right?
-Right.
819
00:35:17,524 --> 00:35:19,432
And that's really how barter
worked then.
820
00:35:19,452 --> 00:35:20,692
Right.
821
00:35:20,786 --> 00:35:22,119
Just see here.
822
00:35:23,347 --> 00:35:25,289
I think this is probably...
823
00:35:28,352 --> 00:35:30,276
Uh, I'm guessing
it's either Roman--
824
00:35:30,296 --> 00:35:31,920
It could even be Byzantine,
but...
825
00:35:33,132 --> 00:35:34,781
I'm thinking it's-it's Roman.
826
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,300
-Roman?
-No way.
827
00:35:42,549 --> 00:35:44,867
In the Oak Island Interpretive Centre,
828
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,219
numismatist Sandy Campbell
829
00:35:47,371 --> 00:35:49,705
has just shared an incredible assessment
830
00:35:49,723 --> 00:35:52,374
of the half-coin found one week ago on Lot 5.
831
00:35:52,393 --> 00:35:54,226
What on earth
would that be doing here?
832
00:35:54,378 --> 00:35:55,986
Based on what I'm seeing
on the coin,
833
00:35:56,213 --> 00:35:59,948
I mean, I-I see
Roman-style characters.
834
00:36:01,402 --> 00:36:07,665
The style is definitely
from 300 BC to 500, 600 AD.
835
00:36:07,816 --> 00:36:09,574
-No way.
-Yeah.
836
00:36:09,727 --> 00:36:11,484
A Roman coin
837
00:36:11,504 --> 00:36:15,005
possibly dating back over 2,000 years?
838
00:36:15,157 --> 00:36:18,342
But if so, who could have brought it to Oak Island?
839
00:36:18,493 --> 00:36:20,660
All right, so I'm gonna have
to call Rick. I want to see...
840
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,662
-Yeah.
-I want to see
Rick's reaction to this.
841
00:36:22,682 --> 00:36:23,997
This is unbelievable.
842
00:36:26,577 --> 00:36:28,501
- Hello.
- Hey, Rick.
843
00:36:28,595 --> 00:36:29,928
Hey, Alex. How are you?
844
00:36:30,022 --> 00:36:31,522
Good. Hey, you, uh...
845
00:36:31,673 --> 00:36:33,582
you and Gary might want
to come down to the lab.
846
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,250
Uh, we got
847
00:36:35,269 --> 00:36:36,919
some pretty interesting
information here for you.
848
00:36:37,012 --> 00:36:39,271
-We'll be down A.S.A.P.
-Okay.
849
00:36:39,365 --> 00:36:41,532
-See you soon. Bye.
-All right, see you. Yeah, bye.
850
00:36:41,683 --> 00:36:43,534
This is just an incredible moment because,
851
00:36:43,685 --> 00:36:44,868
you know...
we got--
852
00:36:45,020 --> 00:36:46,611
we have a Roman coin
on Oak Island.
853
00:36:46,706 --> 00:36:49,206
And here we sit trying to draw conclusions,
854
00:36:49,357 --> 00:36:50,933
a-and it's, like, wide open at this point, you know?
855
00:36:50,951 --> 00:36:53,026
Who brought it here? How did it get here?
856
00:36:53,045 --> 00:36:55,454
Why is it on Lot 5 in particular?
857
00:36:55,606 --> 00:36:57,105
It's just a total mystery
right now.
858
00:36:57,124 --> 00:36:58,698
Hey, Laird?
859
00:36:58,718 --> 00:37:00,050
- Hey.
- Can you, uh, join us on this?
860
00:37:00,277 --> 00:37:01,719
-Sure.
-We'd love to get your take.
861
00:37:03,297 --> 00:37:04,537
Th-This is,
862
00:37:04,631 --> 00:37:07,616
like, a typical-looking Roman--
863
00:37:07,634 --> 00:37:10,376
all the way
into Byzantine period-- design.
864
00:37:10,471 --> 00:37:13,713
Laird, is there a precedent
in Nova Scotia of, you know,
865
00:37:13,733 --> 00:37:15,715
-coins like this?
-Not in Nova Scotia.
866
00:37:15,809 --> 00:37:20,070
There are precedents in the East
Coast of the Uni-United States.
867
00:37:20,297 --> 00:37:21,572
-Okay, so...
-From-from archaeological sites.
868
00:37:21,723 --> 00:37:22,798
Hey, guys!
869
00:37:22,891 --> 00:37:24,891
-Hey, chaps.
-Hey, guys.
870
00:37:24,910 --> 00:37:26,243
-We heard excitement
in your voices.
-Brace yourselves.
871
00:37:26,394 --> 00:37:28,412
-Oh, man.
-And we came running.
872
00:37:28,639 --> 00:37:30,563
- Brace yourselves.
- Ooh.
873
00:37:30,657 --> 00:37:33,809
So, this is, uh, what you guys
found on Lot 5 the other day.
874
00:37:33,827 --> 00:37:37,479
And we just showed it to Sandy.
875
00:37:37,498 --> 00:37:40,148
My-my thoughts--
and I think I'm,
876
00:37:40,167 --> 00:37:41,574
you know, pretty confident--
877
00:37:41,668 --> 00:37:42,909
that this is Roman.
878
00:37:42,928 --> 00:37:44,653
Most likely Roman.
879
00:37:44,671 --> 00:37:46,154
Roman, baby!
880
00:37:46,248 --> 00:37:47,247
Oh!
881
00:37:47,341 --> 00:37:48,657
Have I waited for this.
882
00:37:48,675 --> 00:37:50,416
Put it in probably Roman.
883
00:37:50,511 --> 00:37:51,843
-That's my gut.
-Mm.
884
00:37:51,937 --> 00:37:52,919
So...
885
00:37:53,013 --> 00:37:54,162
What do you make of that?
886
00:37:54,181 --> 00:37:55,606
That is incredible, mate.
887
00:37:55,833 --> 00:37:57,090
Incredible!
888
00:37:57,109 --> 00:37:59,001
Run it by me again.
889
00:37:59,019 --> 00:38:02,112
Why is it possibly Roman?
890
00:38:02,339 --> 00:38:06,241
Well, it-it--
the design is definitely Roman.
891
00:38:08,287 --> 00:38:10,603
This is definitely a person here,
892
00:38:10,697 --> 00:38:12,122
and this is a tree here.
893
00:38:12,274 --> 00:38:13,849
Oh, yeah.
894
00:38:13,942 --> 00:38:16,201
This style is Roman.
895
00:38:16,353 --> 00:38:18,462
Does the elemental analysis
896
00:38:18,689 --> 00:38:22,448
confirm what you suspect
about the coin?
897
00:38:22,468 --> 00:38:24,635
- Yeah, when I--
- when I see arsenic
898
00:38:24,786 --> 00:38:27,362
and I see silver in there,
y-you know,
899
00:38:27,455 --> 00:38:29,622
it's a very unrefined copper,
900
00:38:29,716 --> 00:38:31,124
which shows that--
901
00:38:31,143 --> 00:38:33,310
again, really confirms with me
902
00:38:33,461 --> 00:38:36,204
that it's probably,
most likely Roman.
903
00:38:36,223 --> 00:38:38,148
A Roman coin on Oak Island?
904
00:38:38,300 --> 00:38:40,042
-Mm-hmm.
-What's it doing here?
905
00:38:40,060 --> 00:38:42,302
So, when we were in Portugal,
we were investigating
906
00:38:42,321 --> 00:38:44,154
the road that we found
in the swamp, right?
907
00:38:44,306 --> 00:38:46,882
And we saw an example of
a Roman road over in Portugal.
908
00:38:46,900 --> 00:38:48,733
Oh. Morning.
909
00:38:48,886 --> 00:38:50,552
- Welcome to Portugal.
- Thank you.
910
00:38:50,571 --> 00:38:51,995
One year ago,
911
00:38:52,147 --> 00:38:53,905
Rick, Alex and members of the team
912
00:38:54,058 --> 00:38:57,742
visited a number of locations in Portugal
913
00:38:57,837 --> 00:38:59,503
where the Knights Templar established strongholds
914
00:38:59,730 --> 00:39:02,172
between the 12th and 16th centuries.
915
00:39:02,324 --> 00:39:04,399
Okay, let's see
what we can find.
916
00:39:04,418 --> 00:39:06,068
There, they were shown
917
00:39:06,086 --> 00:39:08,070
a number of carvings in Templar churches
918
00:39:08,088 --> 00:39:11,423
matching symbols that have beenfound in the past on Oak Island.
919
00:39:11,575 --> 00:39:13,350
This symbol is definitely
on the 90 Foot Stone.
920
00:39:13,577 --> 00:39:14,500
- Right there.
- That's perfect.
921
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,019
Yep.
922
00:39:16,171 --> 00:39:18,504
The stone path
looks exactly like this.
923
00:39:18,599 --> 00:39:21,507
But one of the most compelling features they saw
924
00:39:21,602 --> 00:39:25,345
was a cobblestone road dating back nearly 2,000 years
925
00:39:25,439 --> 00:39:29,274
to a time when the area was once part of the Roman Empire.
926
00:39:29,426 --> 00:39:32,870
Incredibly, the road was an exact match
927
00:39:33,021 --> 00:39:36,932
to the one unearthed in the swamp by the team in 2020,
928
00:39:36,950 --> 00:39:40,268
which is believed to date back at least 500 years
929
00:39:40,362 --> 00:39:43,121
and be of Portuguese origin.
930
00:39:43,273 --> 00:39:46,775
So maybe the coin
and the road in the swamp
931
00:39:46,793 --> 00:39:48,719
- are connected.
- Yeah.
932
00:39:48,870 --> 00:39:50,888
Is it possible that this Roman coin
933
00:39:51,115 --> 00:39:53,281
may have been brought to Oak Island
934
00:39:53,375 --> 00:39:55,634
by members of the Knights Templar?
935
00:39:55,786 --> 00:39:58,562
If so, could it also explain
936
00:39:58,713 --> 00:40:02,382
the possible dam feature at the north end of the swamp,
937
00:40:02,401 --> 00:40:07,312
the medieval lead cross found in 2017 at Smith's Cove,
938
00:40:07,464 --> 00:40:10,799
or even perhaps the high traces of gold
939
00:40:10,817 --> 00:40:13,726
that have been detected in the Money Pit area?
940
00:40:13,746 --> 00:40:16,488
A Roman-era coin on Oak Island--
941
00:40:16,582 --> 00:40:18,306
it's astounding.
942
00:40:18,325 --> 00:40:20,584
It's undeniable that there is a certain
943
00:40:20,735 --> 00:40:23,145
geographic connection.
944
00:40:23,163 --> 00:40:25,814
But is it Templar-related?
I don't know.
945
00:40:25,907 --> 00:40:29,167
We have to put it through more rigorous scientific analysis.
946
00:40:29,319 --> 00:40:31,653
This story
is incredibly complex.
947
00:40:31,746 --> 00:40:33,488
I know one thing for sure--
948
00:40:33,507 --> 00:40:37,434
Lot 5 is now on the Oak Island
treasure map for sure.
949
00:40:37,585 --> 00:40:38,751
Yeah.
950
00:40:38,771 --> 00:40:40,162
Sandy, y-you know,
951
00:40:40,255 --> 00:40:42,330
we-we welcome your expertise.
952
00:40:42,349 --> 00:40:45,016
-And if you can continue to look
into this, uh, we would...
-I will.
953
00:40:45,110 --> 00:40:48,503
...we would love whatever
information comes of that.
954
00:40:48,596 --> 00:40:50,113
And we need to get back out
to Lot 5.
955
00:40:50,265 --> 00:40:51,523
We do, mate.
"Boots on the ground,"
956
00:40:51,675 --> 00:40:53,450
-as you would say.
-Yeah.
957
00:40:53,601 --> 00:40:55,360
- Thank you very much.- Let's go find more.
958
00:40:55,512 --> 00:40:56,954
- Yep.- All right, let's go.
959
00:40:58,273 --> 00:40:59,790
With each new discovery
960
00:41:00,017 --> 00:41:01,866
that Rick, Marty and their team make,
961
00:41:02,019 --> 00:41:04,110
the confounding puzzle
962
00:41:04,129 --> 00:41:07,522
that is the 228-year-old Oak Island mystery
963
00:41:07,541 --> 00:41:11,284
is one piece closer to finally being completed.
964
00:41:11,303 --> 00:41:15,455
But as they continue to dig all across the island,
965
00:41:15,474 --> 00:41:17,808
could it lead to a discovery
966
00:41:18,035 --> 00:41:19,551
that will merely change their lives?
967
00:41:19,703 --> 00:41:23,296
Or will what they ultimately find rewrite
968
00:41:23,390 --> 00:41:26,632
North American history?
969
00:41:27,377 --> 00:41:30,153
Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...
970
00:41:30,305 --> 00:41:31,822
-We've never seen that before.
-No.
971
00:41:31,973 --> 00:41:33,231
Oh, wow, look at this.
972
00:41:33,383 --> 00:41:34,307
It's looking like some sort
973
00:41:34,326 --> 00:41:35,900
of fairly large feature.
974
00:41:36,053 --> 00:41:37,995
This could be important
for the whole story.
975
00:41:38,146 --> 00:41:40,980
This object
is from medieval Europe.
976
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,725
Wow. This adds validity
to Zena's map.
977
00:41:43,818 --> 00:41:46,895
We're trying to track the gold back to its source.
978
00:41:46,913 --> 00:41:49,840
The area in pink there
would be exactly where
979
00:41:49,991 --> 00:41:52,175
- the gold is.
- -Wow. That is astounding.
980
00:41:52,402 --> 00:41:55,495
- Yeah.
- -Let's go!
981
00:41:55,514 --> 00:41:57,347
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