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A circular, stone depression...
13 feet. That is the exact same dimension
As the money pit.
Containing important clues
And possible valuables.
- Wow! - Stand right there,
- And you'll get a real good perspective. - Unbelievable.
A cobblestone road
Matching a 2,000-year-old construct
Located halfway around the world.
If there is a portuguese connection
To the construction of the road in the swamp,
Maybe this is the blueprint.
And a wooden shaft...
Ooh, that's the best-sounding target.
- Really? - Yeah.
That just might reveal
The oak island mystery's ultimate answers.
Well, where there's muck, there's treasure, mate.
Treasure island, baby.
In just a few short weeks,
Rick and marty lagina, along with their team,
Will be back for the mind-blowing
Season 11 premiere of the curse of oak island.
And while the money pit remains a top priority
In their quest to unearth a legendary treasure...
We got wood!
It looks like it might be a new shaft.
- It changes the whole story. - Yep.
We could be looking at the money pit.
They'll also be investigating numerous structures
Of unknown origin they've discovered
All across the island.
This construct is unique to the island.
This is quite something.
So, tonight, we're digging into
The most perplexing man-made structures
The team has found that suggest
This mystery is more complex
And goes further back in time
Than anyone ever knew.
Is the fellowship of the dig on course
To unearth multiple treasures?
Well, get ready as we count down
Oak island's top ten ancient structures.
Ever since a 13-foot diameter shaft,
That came to be known as the money pit,
Was discovered on the eastern end
Of oak island in 1795,
More than a dozen well-funded treasure hunting companies
Have struggled in vain trying to get to the bottom
Of that mysterious, ancient construct.
And for good reasons.
It contained wooden platforms every ten feet.
It is believed to be booby-trapped
By elaborate flood tunnels.
It reportedly contained a large stone
With carved symbols,
Which have been translated to read:
"40 feet below, two million pounds are buried."
In fact, so much digging has taken place over the years
That today, the actual location
Of the original money pit is also a mystery.
- Are we there yet? - We're getting close, marty.
For more than a decade now,
Brothers rick and marty lagina,
Their partner craig tester and their team,
Have made a number of valiant efforts
Trying to find the shaft...
- Holy shamoly! - And figure out
Just what it might contain.
That's remarkable.
However, they've also made it a priority
To search the entire island for clues
That will help solve the mystery.
I have been fascinated with trying to understand
The mystery in its totality.
- Amazing. - Quite a structure.
Who, what, when, where, why, and how.
And I think we are on the cusp of a discovery
That will ultimately lead to the solution.
We all come at this differently
And yet we all sit at the same table
With the same goals in mind.
The greater good.
Trying to understand this incredibly powerful,
Incredibly complex mystery.
And those efforts have paid off in major ways,
As numerous structures that pre-date
Any known settlements on oak island...
And contain potentially valuable clues...
Have been discovered.
And that brings us to the first entry on our countdown.
The pine tar kiln.
If we turn over rocks here
And we got organics under it,
That will date the beginning of whatever this is.
All right. Let's get digging.
In 2020, the team, led by archaeologists laird niven,
Dr. Aaron taylor and david mcginnis
Investigated a mysterious stone feature
Located on lot 15,
Just a couple hundred yards north of the money pit area.
The site had actually appeared on a survey map
Created more than three decades earlier
By the late oak island landowner
And treasure hunter fred nolan,
Labeled as a "tunnel entrance."
First thing I'd like to do is just peer down in here.
Yeah. Have a look. Have a look.
It looks a lot different than it does on the tube.
Look at the way it's built.
It kind of looks like a tunnel entrance.
As the experts meticulously excavated
The odd feature, they weren't able to determine
If there was, in fact, a tunnel related to it.
Something was intentionally built on this.
- You're sure? - We're positive with that.
Absolutely. That's 100%.
However, they did uncover clues
That made them believe
It could be directly connected
To the oak island mystery.
So, this goes all the way back to 1500.
The most important artifact on this site is charcoal.
Charcoal is throughout this whole site.
That can only be produced at a site
Where you have repetitive burning.
When you add up everything, this is why david and I are
So certain that it is a pine tar kiln.
It could've been used for construction
Of the money pit.
- Wow. - Really?
Finding a structure that may date back
500 years or more and possibly related
To the construction of the money pit
Offered the team critical clues
As to when the mystery may have begun.
And curiously, later that same year,
They'd unearth an even more stunning man-made feature
That dates to the same time period.
And it's the next top entry on our list.
The stone road.
Wow!
It's quite impressive, though, isn't it?
It's incredibly impressive.
Stand right there and you'll get a real good perspective.
Unbelievable.
Over the years,
Some had speculated
That the triangle-shaped swamp
In the middle of the island
Had been manipulated,
If not completely artificially created.
But when the fellowship unearthed
A massive cobblestone road
In the southeast corner of the bog,
It would lead to astonishing revelations
About the potential origins of the mystery.
Hey, marty.
How do you like your swamp expressway?
This is really cool. I mean, this is mondo cool.
- Yeah. - It's impressive.
That looks exactly like an old roman road.
It's possible.
The team archaeologists believe the road
May have once been part of a ship's wharf,
At a time when the swamp was an open harbor.
And given how well-hidden it was in a brackish swamp,
It may have been used to offload
Some kind of cargo onto the island.
But what? By who? And when?
What I tend to find is that,
When roads have been engineered
With so much stone like this,
They were designed to carry heavy loads.
This stone is two or three courses thick.
Exactly.
There probably was a dock
- A little bit more to the sea. - Yeah.
In an effort to find out,
Rick invited terry deveau,
A scientist and historian,
To examine the structure.
So, to me, it would speak to a technology
Of road building that people were used to using
In the 1500s or earlier.
The portuguese were active in nova scotia in the 1500s.
A possible portuguese design?
Well, get ready for a stone-cold shocker.
In 2021, rick, his nephews alex and peter
And oak island historian doug crowell
Traveled all the way to portugal
To visit sites where,
Between the 12th and 16th centuries,
Strongholds were held by the knights templar.
It has long been speculated
That this christian military order
Had come into possession of priceless religious treasures
During the crusades that included the holy grail
And the ark of the covenant
And had later buried them on oak island.
Okay, let's see what we can find.
Every one of them has a symbol.
Incredibly, they saw carved symbols
Matching several that have been found on oak island.
This symbol is definitely on the 90 foot stone.
But in alqueidão da serra,
They were shown a roman-era road
That was an identical match
To the stone road uncovered in the swamp.
If there is a portuguese connection
To the construction of the road in the swamp,
Maybe this is the blueprint.
During our stewardship of the mystery,
The stone road is probably
One of the most significant finds we have made.
A road in a bog?
To what end, for what purpose?
It looks a lot more similar
- To what we have, that's for sure. - Yeah.
We now have a very unique opportunity
To visit a very early stone construct of a road
That goes back to roman times.
And maybe there's a possible connection to oak island.
The lot 26 wall.
So, I'm sure everybody recognizes this area.
In 2022, rick lagina directed laird niven
And members of the team to lot 26
On the southern edge of the island.
There, he asked laird to lead an investigation
Of a curious stone wall
That had always struck him as odd
Compared to others that were known to have been made
By 19th-century settlers.
It's unlike any of the others.
It's wider. Thicker.
There's more of a construct to it.
Regular farmer's stone walls are just...
You find a stone in the field,
You throw it on the pile, right?
Every single rock wall that I've seen
All over the island is more rounded.
Correct.
I'd like to put a test unit hard up against the wall.
So, we can get a good cross-section
And see how it was built.
Yeah. Exactly.
For several weeks,
Laird and members of the team meticulously investigated
Around and within the structure of the wall,
Looking for clues.
This isn't a field stone.
This is coming from probably the shore.
And it shatters. It's broken off.
So, that's what's perplexing to us.
What were they doing?
- Why is this here? - Yeah.
While laird and members of the team continued
To be intrigued by the wall's construction...
We have a researcher in the azores, francisco nogueira.
Historian francisco nogueira
Offered his analysis
On the feature's possible cultural origin.
No way.
If francisco was correct,
Then the wall on lot 26
Was built during the same era
As the stone road in the swamp.
Could it mean that members
Of the portuguese sect of the knights templar,
Who operated between the 12th and 16th centuries,
Really visited oak island?
- That's charcoal. - That's a cool find.
That's pretty interesting.
- We got a nice, burnt twig, basically. - Nice.
Well, laird, alex lagina and miriam amirault
Found a clue inside the wall on lot 26
That could be carbon-dated in order to help verify it.
The date came in one time period.
1474 to 1638.
Wow.
- Wow. - Great.
I'm a bit taken aback,
Because according to francisco,
The wall on lot 26
Exhibits portuguese construction.
And now you have a date of the wall from 1474 to 1638.
You know, there are connections.
We know the portuguese were in the area.
I think there is a rather unique story
Being constructed about oak island,
And I hope that progress continues.
Progress surely would continue,
Because the next "construct," as rick put it,
On our countdown may have been another
Key piece of evidence that supported
The portuguese templar theory.
The stone pathway.
Start going over there now, billy.
Yep.
After unearthing the stone road
In the southeast corner of the swamp back in 2020,
The team was amazed when they discovered
An adjacent stone pathway
Running along the bog's entire eastern border.
It not only also matched a pathway
That the team would later find in 2021
Extending off the stone road in alqueidão da serra...
I'm ready for a bobby-dazzler, gary.
Oof, long overdue.
But it produced even more incredible clues
That could help solve the oak island mystery.
Ooh, good target.
That sounds fantastic.
Yeah, billy, you might want to come and see this, mate.
This sounds really, really good.
Let's see.
Yup. Definitely got something here, mate.
I hope so.
I think there it is, billy.
Ooh, I can feel it.
Look at that! This is fantastic.
Yeah, looks like a ring bolt.
We could have found a ring bolt, mate.
In the 1970s, fred nolan had also found
Ring bolts near the swamp.
And it was his belief that these ring bolts
Had been used to anchor a large sailing vessel
So that valuable cargo
Could be unloaded onto oak island.
Wow.
Wow, indeed.
That is incredible.
- It's amazing. - Yeah.
The swamp, it continues to be the keeper of secrets.
Will we be able to unravel
Or to come to an understanding of what those secrets are
And how relevant they are to the money pit work
Or the money pit story?
I don't know. That's yet to be determined.
But get down and dirty every day,
You'll eventually figure it out.
- You want to whistle gary over? - Yeah.
- Gary! - Yeah?
Maybe we should detect this whole surface.
I agree with that. I'm coming over.
Just a couple weeks later,
While getting down and dirty with his fellowship brethren,
Rick discovered another one of the swamp's amazing secrets.
Hey, look at that.
Check that out. Cask.
That's what that is, mate, a keg.
Hey, guys.
Check that out. Top of a keg.
- Wow. So, that's a keg, lid to a keg? - Yep.
Holy crow.
Right here.
- Yeah, there's another one. - Yeah, another piece.
Does this... Do these go together?
This one's too rounded.
Yeah, they're different...
Different radiuses.
Two keg, or cargo barrel, tops,
Found right along the stone pathway.
How old might they be?
Hey, carmen.
To try and find out,
Members of the team visited
Their trusted blacksmithing expert carmen legge.
Can you venture to put a date on "extremely old"?
Right.
The stone ramp.
- So, pull up. Let's start here. - All right.
In 2022, rick, craig and members of the team
Excavated a spot near the northeastern edge of the swamp,
Hoping to uncover a large metallic anomaly
That had been detected during a magnetometry survey.
The bucket going across here hitting something solid.
You can hear it all the way.
- What is that? - I'm not sure,
But I think there's all rocks underneath there.
But I think they're coming...
They're sloping up.
Really?
You just see the white tops.
Yeah, that's a lot of cobble.
- I am gonna take an elevation. - Okay, sounds good.
After already uncovering
The stone road and pathway in the swamp...
So, we're a foot and a half below sea level here.
Yeah, it seems like it's coming up this way.
- It could be a ramp. - Yeah.
You can imagine how rocked they were
To unearth a man-made ramp connected to the path.
Could it offer more evidence
That the swamp was once used as an offloading point
For something of great value?
If so, what?
Who constructed it? And when?
I think the ramp looks quite spectacular.
The ramp obviously needs to be thoroughly investigated
To try to understand what does the ramp signify in terms of
The so-called stone path
And where does that stone path lead.
While the team was unable to locate
Any metal objects in the area,
As they continued investigating the ramp,
They were able to find organic materials within it
That could be tested
To give an approximate date of its creation.
Okay, we have two samples here... I'm looking at 'em...
That came from the ramp area.
You have carbon dating results, correct?
Yep.
The, the deepest piece, which was under the second rock,
It could have been there,
You know, as they were building it.
It was dated...
1495 to 1656.
Whoa!
The team had now found
Another ancient man-made construct
That was approximately 500 years old,
Just like the pathway and the road in the swamp,
As well as the rock wall on lot 26.
So, could that mean
That the portuguese sect of the knights templar
Are linked to the oak island mystery?
Perhaps. But it's likely not the whole story.
That's because the ramp connected the pathway
To another feature in the swamp
That actually may be centuries older.
And it's the next ancient structure on our countdown.
The paved area.
We just got to go two meters north and we're there.
- So, north now? - Yes.
It should be right around here, within a couple feet.
I wonder if I can probe down there and actually get hands on.
In 2019, rick, marty and craig
Asked steve guptill and diver tony sampson
To help them probe the middle of the swamp
Where seismic scanning identified a massive anomaly
That was eerily shaped like an ancient ship.
Got something here!
That's... That's weird.
See, that's definitely solid.
Yep, still going further out.
If it's man-made, that'd be huge, being out in the swamp.
That makes this extremely interesting.
Although the ship-shaped anomaly
Has remained a mystery so far,
Once the team drained the swamp and began to dig,
They found something that was no less perplexing.
That remarkable?
- Yeah. - Tell me that's natural.
There's no way that's natural, rick.
Look at it. It's just layered right on top.
It was a vast man-made paved feature.
And incredibly, the team would realize later on
That it actually connects to the 500-year-old
Stone ramp and pathway.
Holy crow.
What are we looking at?
However, when geoscientist dr. Ian spooner
Found a stick within the paved area
That he could test, in order to determine
When it was built, things got really muddy.
There's the dates we're getting.
- Wow. - Yeah.
- What are they? - Around 1200 a.D.
- Medieval. - Medieval, baby!
So, what could explain
A possibly 800-year-old paved feature
Being connected with two 500-year-old structures
In a potentially man-made, triangle-shaped swamp?
The team may have gotten their answer in 2016
When the late author zena halpern
Gave them two maps and a cipher
That she believed had been created
By members of the knights templar.
According to her research,
These documents represented smoking-gun evidence
That the templar order made numerous journeys
From europe to oak island
Between the 12th and 14th centuries
In order to hide their sacred religious treasures.
The ramp is coming from the paved area,
Which dates to 1200.
And the ramp leading from it is 1495 to 1656.
So, does that mean there were successive attempts
To construct something, to conduct some enterprise,
And that it was done over centuries?
Right now, that's the only plausible explanation.
Nolan's cross.
In 1981, fred nolan,
Who had been a surveyor by trade,
Was astonished when he discovered
Five cone-shaped boulders on his property
That formed a perfectly symmetric megalithic cross.
And at the center,
He uncovered a sixth massive rock
That was carved into the shape of a human head.
I thought, if you look at nolan's cross,
There's five dots,
And you only need four to make a cross.
So, the fifth might be what you need to place
A pentagram on nolan's cross.
Wow.
Over the past decade,
A number of theorists have presented rick,
Marty and the team with various theories
About what the cross represents and who constructed it.
The head of the nolan cross
Is a huge signpost, if you will,
That the templars were on oak island.
Most have suggested
That the structure was symbolic
And that the builders were none other than...
Surprise, surprise... The knights templar.
I believe that there is an ancient, ancient
Treasure hidden deep below oak island.
And nolan's cross is the key to finding it.
And in 2022,
Architect and author brian pharoah
Presented his theory of how nolan's cross
May actually point to where
The sacred templar treasures are buried on the island.
Curiously also, nolan's cross is encoding
Sacred numbers and geometry.
So, I really believe that nolan's cross
May lead us to a money pit location
- And where the treasure might be. - That's great.
Sacred geometry is an ancient concept
Where symbolic meanings are assigned
To specific shapes and numbers... Also considered to be sacred...
And are found in the designs and measurements
Of many ancient holy sites all across the world.
So, how does this work with nolan's cross?
Well, let's go to the next slide and I'll show you.
So, these are my measurements of nolan's cross.
The short axes had a length of 720 feet.
720 feet could be broken down into two 360-foot lengths.
The long axes was measured at 864 feet.
I looked at the head of the cross,
And it was extremely close to the 144 sacred number.
And then from the center, we got 432 feet.
And at the bottom, we have 288 feet.
All of our sacred numbers now appear in nolan's cross.
All of this cannot be happenstance.
It has to be planned.
So, how's nolan's cross gonna give us a money pit solution?
Let's take a look at the next slide.
Using the measurements of the cross
To create corresponding circles
And then connecting intersecting lines,
Brian discovered that several of them
Converged at a location in the money pit area
Where he suspected the long-lost treasure shaft
Might be found.
- Wow. - That's an interesting spot.
I was gonna say, we should've had him here a few years ago.
As for solid evidence that he's correct, stick around.
We'll come back to that a bit later.
But several weeks after their meeting with brian,
Members of the team would learn that,
According to archaeoastronomer professor adriano gaspani,
Nolan's cross was likely constructed in 1200 a.D.
So, we have potentially
500-year-old features here on oak island
And still others that could date back 800 years,
Predating the voyage to america by christopher columbus.
But believe it or not, there may be a structure
That's even older than that on these 140 acres.
And that brings us to the next entry on our list.
The well on lot 26.
You wouldn't know it was a well.
- Yep. - Looks crudely made.
It does.
In 2022,
Rick lagina prompted laird niven
And dr. Spooner to conduct water tests
And take core samples from this structure on lot 26,
Which is located less than 100 feet
From the believed 16th century stone wall.
From the moment I saw the well
In the wintertime years ago,
It wasn't frozen.
That was the real "aha."
Why is this well so unique?
Let's just see how we did.
Quite good. Excellent.
There we go. That's a pretty good core.
The first major clue that the well might be
Directly connected to the oak island mystery
Came from the water testing dr. Spooner performed.
So, we got samples of the water from the well.
And, it was one of our only
Silver hits outside of the money pit.
Well done.
As the team worked to determine
How old the well might be,
Laird led the effort to excavate the feature,
Revealing it to be much larger
And more intriguing than first thought.
The well is-is really quite amazing.
In the context of other things found on lot 26,
It maybe, moves the dial upwards.
And we're trying to figure out how old it is
Because lot 26 has always been mysterious.
And while the source of the silver detected in the well
Remains a mystery for the time being...
I'll turn it over to dr. Spooner
And let him describe the core and then the results.
When the carbon-dating of the organic materials
Found inside it were complete, it proved that the well
May be the oldest structure ever found on oak island.
The date I got on the twig at the bottom
Was, 1028 to 1172.
- This is brilliant. - Yeah, great.
Those dates, it blew me away.
I mean, what's this doing in this core?
- Yeah. - That is really cool.
If that well is that old,
I mean, you got to really think about
- What happened on this island. - Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Well, like templars were here or something.
There you go, jack.
Y-you got to wonder what the story is.
Templars, baby!
The stone well on lot 26 just goes to show
The circular stone depression.
Here it is.
All right. Here we be.
Yeah.
What is this, laird?
I thought it was something like the cellar for a barn.
- It's almost perfectly circular. - I know.
In 2022,
The laginas and craig tester purchased lot 5,
Which is located on the western side of the island.
All they really knew about it was that it previously belonged
To the late treasure hunter robert young,
And that he had reportedly made
A number of historic discoveries there,
Including ancient coins and artifacts.
We'll just add to robert's legacy.
That's the whole point of this.
- Yeah. - Continuing the work
That he did for many, many, many years.
The lot is a mystery.
- L-let's see what we can find. - Okay.
And continue robert's work
They surely did,
With incredible discoveries,
Such as a stone foundation believed to date to the 1730s,
A 2,000-year-old roman coin
And a lead barter token
That might not only be related to the 14th century lead cross
But also the knights templar.
Let's start by probing, like, here.
Yep.
- And that should be surface. - That is... That is a rock.
And then... And then go the other way.
So, confidently, I can say there's rocks here.
Yeah, and you can see rocks here.
- It's-it's circular. I mean, you can even see it. - Yeah.
- You know, from the trowel to this little tree. - Yeah. Yeah.
So, when they began investigating
The circular depression on lot 5
That was completely lined with rocks...
- That's soil. - Soil.
They were stunned by what they were able to determine.
I think, why don't we measure it?
Sure.
See if it conforms to some sort of standard.
- All right, so you're lined up with the edge? - Yep.
Here we're at 13 feet.
- That's a bizarre measurement. - That is the exact
- Same dimension as the money pit is described as having. - Yeah.
I mean, what are we looking at here?
Yeah.
The structure matched the original description
Of the money pit when it was found in 1795:
A circular depression lined with paving stones
With a 13-foot diameter.
The round feature on lot 5 can turn out
To be significant because it's so odd.
It's a thing not found elsewhere on nova scotia on oak island.
It could be very meaningful.
We need to explore it.
You can see rocks coming up here,
So, well below these placed rocks.
- Yeah. Yeah. - Right?
The occupation could be...
I mean, we're finding artifacts from the 1750s.
Wow.
Is there any chance that the top feature
Was built at a later date than the rocks that are lower?
Absolutely.
Yeah, this was at a later date.
Yeah, and there could be
An even earlier component under that.
Right?
So, this could be
A really old stone feature that was then rebuilt
- And-and rock-lined back in the 1700s? - Yeah.
That's what we're hoping for.
Finding pottery that dated
To the mid-1700s convinced laird niven
That the feature must predate the discovery of the money pit.
But as the team continued to reveal more layers of stone,
It made them wonder if this structure was something
They've been trying to locate for several years.
Sounds to me like the top feature is not just an apron.
- It's the limits of quite a massive structure. - Yeah.
It could go deeper.
This could fit in with zena's map.
This could be the hatch.
It's close to the approximate location
That we're looking for the hatch.
Ever since the late author
And researcher zena halpern gave the team
A reported 14th century map of oak island
That she believed had been created
By members of the knights templar,
They have been looking for
A number of features labeled on it.
And one that has especially interested them
Is marked right in the vicinity of lot 5,
Called "the hole under the hatch."
I believe in zena halpern's work.
I believe that the map represents
Some features on the island.
Um, is it possible that this might be the hatch?
There are a lot of possibilities on this island.
Who knows what we might find
Down at the bottom of that and where it might lead to.
The garden shaft.
Okay, that would be probably the outside wall there.
- 10-4. - A ten-by-ten shaft.
When the team first uncovered the 82-foot-deep
Assumed searcher shaft,
Rick thought it should be preserved for posterity.
So, he and billy gerhardt built a rock garden around it
As a tribute to all the women involved
With the 228-year-old search.
We've sampled wells
Within the money pit area.
And we do have some chemistry back from this.
We did do
A series of measurements of water levels
Near the... The garden shaft,
Heading south.
But then, in 2022,
Geoscientist dr. Ian spooner and hydrogeologist dr. Fred michel
Tested water in the shaft,
As well as in surrounding boreholes,
During their ongoing effort to pinpoint the location
Of the money pit treasure vault.
We scooped up two samples in the garden shaft,
Sent those away.
And we found,
Gold in, the garden shaft.
If those gold results weren't enough,
When carbon-dating on a wood sample suggested
That the garden shaft was more than half a century older
Than the discovery of the money pit in 1795,
Rick, marty and craig commissioned
Dumas contracting limited, a mining company,
To rebuild the structure
So they could investigate for more clues and valuables.
Emma's got some news.
So, you guys gave me these.
- Right. - This piece right here,
'cause it's small, I could do a map scan of it and...
What-what... What is that?
That's the garden shaft inner lining that...
- Okay. Yeah. - The wood pieces.
- The original shaft? - Yeah.
As the reconstruction continued, the team
Had archaeometalurgist emma culligan
Test a wood sample taken from a depth of 50 feet.
And from this one,
I detected...
Gold.
Those results
Made the team suspect
That the garden shaft could be related
In some way to the money pit,
Especially when they discovered a nearby tunnel
Some 95 feet deep
Where water sampling showed the highest traces of gold
Running almost directly below the shaft.
All right, mate, coming down.
What do you think, gary?
Wow.
What a ride.
My god. This is fantastic.
Although nothing was found
Once dumas finished the shaft down to the bottom at 82 feet,
Before they had to suspend the hunt for winter,
Rick and marty just had to ask
Metal detection expert gary drayton
To scan below it for any signs of
Where the gold was coming from.
- It's two feet deep. - Okay.
- Well, where there's muck, there's treasure, mate. - Yeah.
We'll see what's down there, mate. All right.
Extend it a little bit.
All right.
Ooh, that's the best-sounding target.
That's a nonferrous, yeah.
- Really? - Yeah.
I mean, that's a screaming large hit, isn't it?
Yeah. That sounded really good.
I've said it before.
Oak island is an island of what-ifs and possibilities,
But I want more than that; we all want more than that.
I think we all sincerely believe that we have boxed it in
To the point where we will solve it.
So, is the fabled money pit treasure vault
Just beneath the garden shaft,
Or is it connected to a tunnel some ten feet deeper?
Well, don't worry, acorns, because even though
That's the end of our countdown,
Season 11 of the curse of oak island begins soon.
And along with the garden shaft,
Rick, marty, craig and the team will continue digging into
These ancient structures for the ultimate answers
To the oak island mystery.
Thanks for watching, and, as always, keep the faith.
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