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Tonight on the curse of oak island...
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We're now gonna move to the swamp.
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- See this log here?
- Yeah.
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Somebody built this with purpose.
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What in the heck is going on?
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I think I found something kind of cool.
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No way, moya.
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We came across a
really interesting artifact.
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It's venetian.
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So that feature is much older
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- than we thought.
- Yeah.
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- We got wood.
- Wow.
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I think we have found the money pit.
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- That's amazing.
- It's all coming together.
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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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Here we go.
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Let's do it.
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You know, we've done a
lot of survey work out here.
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We've done a lot of drilling trying
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to just figure out what's
going on underground.
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This is one of the few
boreholes where we get to say
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that there's a potential
for treasure coming up,
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- without it being an accident.
- Yep.
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It is the start of a
potentially significant day
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on oak island for brothers
Rick and Marty lagina
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and their team, as the answers
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to a 230-year-old mystery,
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as well as a vast cache of treasure
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may finally be within their reach.
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So today we've moved a little north
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of where we've been drilling, d.25-6.75.
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And the goal today is to hopefully slide
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into the wall where-where
the original money pit was,
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and go all the way down to 150 feet
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- where we're hoping to find the vault.
- Okay.
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And the tunnel that
we hit last time is at...
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It is at 109 to 117.
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We could be very, very
close to the original money pit.
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One week ago, the team
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drilled a borehole known as e.75-5.6
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in a region of the fabled money pit area
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where new groundwater tests have
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identified high traces of gold
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more than 100 feet deep.
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This could be the bottom
of our tunnel right there.
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Incredibly, as the coring drill reached
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a depth of 109 feet... There's a core.
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It penetrated what appeared to be
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a mysterious nine-foot-high tunnel.
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Okay, we got a little bit of wood here.
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- We got wood!
- Huge wood.
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- Whoa, whoa, whoa! Absolutely.
- We got a lot of wood.
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But as the team drilled deeper,
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reaching a depth of over 150 feet,
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they may have encountered
something that has remained
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one of the greatest oak island
legends for more than a century.
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It looks like we have two small beams
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sandwiching a very large beam.
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To me, this sounds
like the chappell vault.
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In 1897,
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treasure hunters Frederick
Blair and William chappell
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drilled through a reported
seven-foot-high wooden chest
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at a depth of 153 feet.
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When they extracted their drill bit,
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they were astonished to find it covered
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with small flecks of gold,
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as well as a tiny piece of parchment
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bearing the letters "vi."
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Primary target today is a vault
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at 155 plus or minus five feet.
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Yeah.
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Today, the team is
drilling borehole d.25-6.75,
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located just a few feet to the northeast
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to confirm the existence
of the mysterious tunnel
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at 109 feet deep,
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and the chappell vault below
that, some 155 feet underground.
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If successful,
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they will install a massive steel caisson
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in order to retrieve
the legendary treasure.
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The historical narrative indicates
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that there might be a vault
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within this horizon, 150 to 160.
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We have retrieved wood from this depth,
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so, there's every hope
that we will find a structure.
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I think, the hope today, Alex, is to...
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To hit the vault, pull up a coin, a Jewel,
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and then you can go
and put that in Rick's hand.
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Fingers crossed on that.
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So that's exciting. Let's get going.
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Here we go.
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As the core drilling operation proceeds
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in the money pit...
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It's a pleasure to see a full war room.
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Because lately, we've been
extremely busy, all of us,
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doing a bunch of different things.
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Alex lagina and Steve guptill join Rick,
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Marty, Craig tester
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and other members of
the team in the war room
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to discuss another
critical search operation
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that they are about to begin.
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We went scouting
today in the swamp, and
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I don't know about anybody
else, but I smell swampish.
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And I'm sure Marty misses that.
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I'm certain of it.
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- I do.
- So, at this point in time,
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we're now going to move
the large-scale efforts
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to the swamp, because there's a lot
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of opportunities there yet, even after
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all these years.
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For more than a decade,
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Rick, Marty and the team
have been investigating
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the mysterious, triangle-shaped swamp
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based on the research
and past discoveries
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of the late landowner and
treasure hunter Fred Nolan.
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After unearthing potentially
ancient survey stakes
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and pieces of a large sailing vessel
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in the brackish bog
back in the late 1960s,
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Fred came to believe
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that the swamp was artificially made
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in order to hide important clues
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and possibly, valuables.
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- This is really cool.
- It's impressive.
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This is mondo cool, isn't it?
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And in recent years,
the team has uncovered
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numerous artifacts and
structures in the swamp
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that suggest Fred
may have been correct.
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These discoveries include
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a potentially 500-year-old stone road
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in the southeast corner,
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an adjacent cobblestone pathway
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that leads up toward the northern border
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and a massive, stone-paved feature
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near the center of the swamp
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that geoscientist Dr. Ian spooner
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has carbon-dated to
approximately 1200 ad.
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Let's start by getting Steve
to bring up the permitted areas
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that we applied for this year.
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So we started off this
winter making plans
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of what we wanted to
accomplish this year.
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We have come up with four areas.
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Permit area one to four, and
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- let's start in permit area one?
- Sure.
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Down in the southeast corner,
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we have the stone road.
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We want to get back into that
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and do some more work in there.
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We go further up, we
have permit area two.
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We have the paved area.
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Hopefully, find an artifact
or something, and, you know,
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get a real answer on who
may have built that feature.
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Permit area three.
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That includes the stone path,
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which Rick is eager to get back and do.
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He loves being on his
hands and knees in the muck.
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So, the fourth permitted area
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is what we call the north bog.
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That's on the north side of Tom's road,
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and I know Tom is eager to get in there
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- and see what he can find.
- Yeah. 100%.
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So, we've been pumping the swamp now
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for about two weeks.
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You know, we've
managed to dry up the...
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The northernmost part of it.
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Once we can get in there,
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we can start taking off
some of the surface cover,
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getting down to what
hasn't been seen before.
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Yeah. There's a lot of work to be done,
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but I'm confident we can do it.
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We'll-we'll get it done.
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If I could just suggest
something for discussion.
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Since the most under
explored area is in something
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my big brother's been wanting to do,
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forever, is north of the road,
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what about starting there
and then coming back to this?
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Cause what I hear
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is everything is dry,
everything looks good.
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- Yeah.
- I, for one, would be
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most disappointed if we
somehow didn't get to that.
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There might be a real "aha" there.
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To me, the northern end of
the bog contains some secrets.
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It's something that we
should devote time and energy
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and resources to, to see
if something is still there.
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I mean, it's a big area.
It's gonna take a lot of work.
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It's gonna take a lot
of eyes on the target.
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All right, look, this is exciting stuff.
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I'd never thought I'd say it, but I do want
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to get out there and
see and feel and smell,
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along with you guys.
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So
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I think it's time to quit
talking and get after it, right?
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When can we start?
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As soon as we go outside, we'll go at it.
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Great!
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Okay, I'm all excited
to get into the swamp.
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Yeah. Let's go get dirty.
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Later that afternoon...
I think she's going in.
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While the core-drilling operation
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continues in the money pit area...
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There's got to be something here.
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We're really close to the shore
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in an area with a lot of history,
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and we know there's
been a lot of activity.
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Yeah.
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Rick, his nephew Alex,
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metal detection expert Gary drayton
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and Billy gerhardt prepare
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to begin excavating near the
mysterious, cobblestone pathway
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in the northern region of the swamp.
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Which side are you
going to put the spoils on?
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Probably over this way, I think.
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Okay, mate. We'll get ready for 'em
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and count all those silver coins.
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All right, get ready for the spoils.
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Smells like treasure.
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That's how you know we
haven't dug here before.
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Yeah.
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It's important to understand the swamp.
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And there are some answers
in there. I truly believe that.
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I mean, how do you deny
that there are some sort of
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answers there that will affirm the fact
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that this may have been a
multigenerational attempt
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to hide something on oak island?
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What's that board there?
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Is that an old plank, Rick?
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It looks like it.
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Yeah, it's been notched.
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Notched out right here.
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That does not have
the look of a new board.
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A hand-cut plank?
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Could Rick have merely uncovered
a piece of discarded lumber?
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Or could it be part of yet another
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previously unknown structure
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that was hidden long ago in the swamp?
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It's old. It's not dimensional lumber.
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You might want to haul that
out later and take a look at it.
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Hold up, bill!
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See this log here?
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Yeah.
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And then there's
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a couple more here running this way.
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Big ones.
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Yeah.
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So somebody was out
here doing something.
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It's curious.
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And these are some pretty
big logs to haul down here.
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And even just a couple inches down,
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- that could last a long time.
- Yeah.
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While investigating the northern region
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of the oak island swamp,
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Rick lagina has just
uncovered what appears to be
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a large wooden structure.
263
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Somebody was out
here doing something,
264
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and they-they installed that
265
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- right on the subsoil.
- Yeah.
266
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- Well, let's keep looking.
- Yeah.
267
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Yep.
268
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These logs are massive.
269
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There's a strong hint that
there are certainly some answers
270
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or at least some clues
at the bottom of that bog.
271
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And... If it is associated
272
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or can be associated with original work,
273
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it's incredibly important.
274
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See right there?
275
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There's a bunch of
big logs going this way.
276
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I see that log.
277
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- Yeah.
- That we should reveal
278
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and see if Tom remembers
his father building
279
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- something like that.
- Yeah.
280
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If he doesn't, then that makes
that all the more interesting.
281
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Right.
282
00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:39,899
It's possible that it's
much older than we think.
283
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Yeah.
284
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This-this log structure
that we're uncovering here.
285
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Yeah.
286
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There's the bottom.
287
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Lot of rocks there.
288
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Boulder under that wood there.
289
00:12:57,830 --> 00:12:59,410
Stone in there, in amongst the...
290
00:12:59,580 --> 00:13:01,290
Yeah, I see that.
291
00:13:02,790 --> 00:13:05,290
This is a lot like the
cobbles from the paved area.
292
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- Same kind of rock.
- Yeah, same kind of rock.
293
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Which you don't really see on the beach.
294
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Yeah, I don't know.
295
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A layer of stones
296
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similar to the paved area
near the middle of the swamp
297
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and which is believed to date
back to as early as 1200 ad?
298
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If so, could the team have just uncovered
299
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another key clue that
could help them solve
300
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the 230-year-old mystery?
301
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That's right at the edge of the swamp.
302
00:13:32,870 --> 00:13:34,176
They may even have
introduced material there
303
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to try to build a platform.
304
00:13:36,870 --> 00:13:39,950
Yeah, no, this is... Curious.
305
00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,410
Things are built upon other things.
306
00:13:42,580 --> 00:13:46,330
So did the cobble
represent an older path,
307
00:13:46,540 --> 00:13:47,580
an older structure?
308
00:13:47,750 --> 00:13:49,700
There's all kinds
309
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of possible explanations
for these two things,
310
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and we need to slow down and
take a real good look at them.
311
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It might be a platform, but that's
312
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Tom would have an
idea of what his father did
313
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- or did not build out here.
- Right.
314
00:14:02,910 --> 00:14:05,660
Small cobble rocks are
interesting because...
315
00:14:05,870 --> 00:14:08,540
We have seen that on the stone road.
316
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We saw that on the stone path.
317
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We need to try to understand
318
00:14:13,330 --> 00:14:16,000
what that may or may not represent.
319
00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,120
It's quite a collection of rock though.
320
00:14:19,330 --> 00:14:22,580
- Yeah.
- What have we found?
321
00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:26,830
Well, we don't know. There's
that log embedded north-south.
322
00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,410
And then there's some big
timbers running east-west.
323
00:14:30,540 --> 00:14:31,830
Appears to be on top of it.
324
00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:33,880
Right, and then also in
the corner down there,
325
00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,800
there's all those rocks
on top of each other.
326
00:14:35,910 --> 00:14:37,450
No material in between 'em.
327
00:14:37,620 --> 00:14:40,000
I remember when Dr. Spooner
looked at the paved area,
328
00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,160
he said that's not common in nature.
329
00:14:42,370 --> 00:14:44,160
I mean, there's a lot of questions here.
330
00:14:44,290 --> 00:14:47,620
Let's stand down and figure
out a way to-to take advantage
331
00:14:47,830 --> 00:14:49,580
of what-what we might be seeing.
332
00:14:49,790 --> 00:14:51,790
But first we need to see what Tom says.
333
00:14:51,950 --> 00:14:54,200
So... Okay.
334
00:14:54,330 --> 00:14:55,910
Let's, stand down for now.
335
00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:57,120
Stand down for now.
336
00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,410
- But there's other work to do.
- Yep.
337
00:15:01,580 --> 00:15:04,540
While the investigation
continues in the swamp
338
00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,910
over near the shoreline of lot 5,
339
00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,250
on the western side of the island...
340
00:15:12,290 --> 00:15:14,170
If you start finding any
artifacts or anything,
341
00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:15,346
will you tell me? Cause I'm curious.
342
00:15:15,370 --> 00:15:18,790
- Okay.
- Archaeologist Fiona Steele,
343
00:15:18,950 --> 00:15:21,290
Jack begley and other
members of the team
344
00:15:21,410 --> 00:15:25,346
continue their investigation
of a large stone foundation.
345
00:15:25,370 --> 00:15:28,750
A foundation where they have
made compelling discoveries
346
00:15:28,910 --> 00:15:30,950
that include venetian trade beads
347
00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,000
that may date back to the 16th century,
348
00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:37,660
a mortar-like substance
that matches soil samples
349
00:15:37,830 --> 00:15:42,450
collected from over 100 feet
deep in the money pit area,
350
00:15:42,580 --> 00:15:44,370
and several iron artifacts
351
00:15:44,540 --> 00:15:47,500
that have been scientifically
linked to sir William phips,
352
00:15:47,620 --> 00:15:51,660
the 17th-century English
politician and treasure hunter
353
00:15:51,830 --> 00:15:55,660
who some believe buried a large
cache of Spanish gold and silver
354
00:15:55,870 --> 00:15:59,370
in the money pit back in 1687.
355
00:15:59,540 --> 00:16:03,040
Well, it certainly is the gravelly layer.
356
00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,330
We have a connection through
the soil chemistry of the money pit
357
00:16:06,540 --> 00:16:09,370
and the construction over on lot 5.
358
00:16:09,540 --> 00:16:12,700
I want to find something
that really helps us explain
359
00:16:12,870 --> 00:16:14,370
what went on here.
360
00:16:15,410 --> 00:16:18,160
It certainly suggests that, efforts made
361
00:16:18,290 --> 00:16:21,016
by whoever inhabited lot 5
362
00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,080
had something to do with...
363
00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,370
Perhaps the construction
of the money pit.
364
00:16:25,540 --> 00:16:28,660
We're hoping that lot 5 helps us solve
365
00:16:28,830 --> 00:16:29,830
the whole mystery here.
366
00:16:43,580 --> 00:16:44,910
Hey, Helen, Jack,
367
00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:46,870
I think I found something kind of cool.
368
00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:48,290
What is it?
369
00:16:48,450 --> 00:16:50,540
- I think it's a bead.
- A bead?
370
00:16:50,700 --> 00:16:52,620
- No way, moya.
- Yeah.
371
00:16:52,790 --> 00:16:55,790
And it's smaller than
the ones from last year.
372
00:16:55,910 --> 00:16:57,500
My heavens, it's tiny.
373
00:16:57,700 --> 00:16:59,160
- Yeah.
- Wow.
374
00:16:59,330 --> 00:17:01,000
The red's a very stark color
375
00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:02,400
- against the...
- Let me see it.
376
00:17:02,450 --> 00:17:03,790
Dirt.
377
00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,000
Look at it.
378
00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,700
Do you think that could
be another venetian bead?
379
00:17:09,830 --> 00:17:11,250
We need to get it cleaned up
380
00:17:11,370 --> 00:17:12,730
and have a really good look at it.
381
00:17:13,870 --> 00:17:16,200
Great find, moya.
382
00:17:16,370 --> 00:17:18,370
That's the third bead that we've found
383
00:17:18,540 --> 00:17:20,516
- on this lot.
- Yeah. And the other two were white.
384
00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:22,140
Remember, they were the
venetian glass with the stripes.
385
00:17:22,164 --> 00:17:22,556
With the red
386
00:17:22,580 --> 00:17:24,120
- and the blue stripes, yeah.
- Yeah.
387
00:17:24,250 --> 00:17:25,830
And this one is a solid red.
388
00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:29,000
A possible venetian bead?
389
00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,330
In 1470,
390
00:17:31,450 --> 00:17:35,250
specialized glass bead jewelry
was created in venice, Italy,
391
00:17:35,410 --> 00:17:39,330
and soon became a highly
valuable form of barter currency
392
00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:42,160
along trade routes
throughout Europe, Asia,
393
00:17:42,290 --> 00:17:44,660
and ultimately North America.
394
00:17:44,830 --> 00:17:49,410
In 2023, the oak island
team was astonished
395
00:17:49,540 --> 00:17:51,886
when they discovered
two venetian beads
396
00:17:51,910 --> 00:17:54,040
in the round feature on lot 5.
397
00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,540
Laird, want to come and
see what moya's just found?
398
00:17:57,700 --> 00:18:00,830
If they have indeed discovered
a third venetian bead,
399
00:18:00,950 --> 00:18:04,250
could it offer more evidence
that this feature was created
400
00:18:04,410 --> 00:18:06,450
in order to hide valuables?
401
00:18:06,580 --> 00:18:10,040
And if so, just what else might they find
402
00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,330
as they continue to dig?
403
00:18:13,330 --> 00:18:14,450
Wow.
404
00:18:14,620 --> 00:18:15,910
Yeah.
405
00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:17,240
Looks like two colors, glass.
406
00:18:17,330 --> 00:18:19,700
Yeah. Looks like
407
00:18:19,870 --> 00:18:22,003
there's, like, a black ring on the inside.
408
00:18:22,027 --> 00:18:22,370
Yeah.
409
00:18:22,580 --> 00:18:24,660
So it's either part of the firing process
410
00:18:24,790 --> 00:18:27,580
or it's different glass in the interior.,
411
00:18:27,700 --> 00:18:30,700
but that looks to be a
venetian bead to me.
412
00:18:30,870 --> 00:18:32,450
Yeah. The other two we found
413
00:18:32,620 --> 00:18:34,460
weren't too far from
where we're at right now.
414
00:18:34,620 --> 00:18:37,330
The presence of beads
in the round feature
415
00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:40,250
on lot 5 can be a really important find.
416
00:18:40,410 --> 00:18:42,370
We're finding enough artifacts that are...
417
00:18:42,540 --> 00:18:44,290
Enigmatic and intriguing.
418
00:18:44,410 --> 00:18:47,346
Hopefully we'll find the
answer to what it was used for
419
00:18:47,370 --> 00:18:48,660
and who was using it.
420
00:18:48,790 --> 00:18:51,160
Perhaps the xrf will tell us
421
00:18:51,330 --> 00:18:53,200
- and compare the beads.
- - Yeah.
422
00:18:53,330 --> 00:18:55,290
That'd be cool. Right?
423
00:18:55,450 --> 00:18:56,910
- Good job.
- Thank you.
424
00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,370
Fantastic find of the day.
425
00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,620
As a new day begins on oak island...
426
00:19:07,910 --> 00:19:10,410
If he can stay straight,
it's gonna be a good day.
427
00:19:10,620 --> 00:19:12,886
While the core-drilling
operation proceeds
428
00:19:12,910 --> 00:19:14,120
in the money pit area...
429
00:19:15,910 --> 00:19:17,886
- Hey, Billy.
- Hey.
430
00:19:17,910 --> 00:19:19,370
I brought reinforcements.
431
00:19:19,540 --> 00:19:21,460
Well, I think we need
'em, by the looks of that.
432
00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:25,000
Rick lagina and fellow
landowner Tom Nolan
433
00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:26,500
join other members of the team
434
00:19:26,700 --> 00:19:29,080
in the northern region of the swamp.
435
00:19:29,250 --> 00:19:31,750
That long beam is the
first thing we exposed.
436
00:19:31,870 --> 00:19:34,500
Rick is eager to have Tom examine
437
00:19:34,700 --> 00:19:36,580
the mysterious wood and stone feature
438
00:19:36,750 --> 00:19:39,660
that was uncovered just one day ago.
439
00:19:39,870 --> 00:19:43,000
It's at least 14 feet, I would guess.
440
00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:44,306
We never really found that end,
441
00:19:44,330 --> 00:19:45,790
and we never really found this end.
442
00:19:46,830 --> 00:19:49,540
It's underneath a
substantial root structure.
443
00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,580
I don't think it was
done by us, or my dad.
444
00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,200
You know, to get those size logs out here
445
00:19:59,370 --> 00:20:00,830
is quite a... quite a job.
446
00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,950
You know,
447
00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,516
I can't imagine how somebody really did.
448
00:20:04,540 --> 00:20:06,580
The other thing is
449
00:20:06,700 --> 00:20:09,250
we got rocks in a row
underneath you here.
450
00:20:09,410 --> 00:20:10,810
Yeah, that's almost a perfect line.
451
00:20:10,910 --> 00:20:12,200
Yeah.
452
00:20:13,580 --> 00:20:18,000
If you're saying that
probably not your dad's
453
00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,040
and that he didn't know of it,
454
00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,500
then it makes it
certainly very interesting.
455
00:20:22,700 --> 00:20:24,450
Now that Tom has confirmed
456
00:20:24,620 --> 00:20:28,620
that his late father Fred
Nolan did not build this feature
457
00:20:28,750 --> 00:20:31,660
during his extensive
investigations in the swamp,
458
00:20:31,870 --> 00:20:35,160
the burning questions
that remain are who did,
459
00:20:35,330 --> 00:20:38,790
why, and might it be
another critical discovery
460
00:20:38,950 --> 00:20:43,120
that will help the team finally
solve the oak island mystery?
461
00:20:43,250 --> 00:20:45,080
Want me to take a little off this end
462
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:46,676
so you can try to find the end, or...?
463
00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:49,250
Okay, but let's be patient with the dig.
464
00:20:49,410 --> 00:20:51,200
If you see anything here
465
00:20:51,370 --> 00:20:53,120
beyond what we're seeing here, call me.
466
00:20:53,290 --> 00:20:55,080
- I'll come back.
- Okey doke.
467
00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:56,950
Good luck, and we'll
see you guys in a bit.
468
00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:58,330
Thank you.
469
00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:03,540
There might be
something significant here,
470
00:21:03,750 --> 00:21:06,226
so we need to go slow, approach it
471
00:21:06,250 --> 00:21:09,000
from an investigative process
472
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:10,620
and an intellectual process,
473
00:21:10,750 --> 00:21:12,660
meaning, what is the purpose of it.
474
00:21:19,410 --> 00:21:22,290
You can hear clanging on rocks.
475
00:21:28,660 --> 00:21:30,410
Right now, there's...
476
00:21:30,540 --> 00:21:32,700
Just in this little area, there's one,
477
00:21:32,870 --> 00:21:37,200
two, three, four, five, maybe six logs,
478
00:21:37,370 --> 00:21:39,540
just from here to here.
479
00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:41,450
- Half a dozen more over there.
- Yeah.
480
00:21:41,620 --> 00:21:45,000
So, the hope is, Billy just exposes it.
481
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:49,040
We may be able to see how
long and how big this thing is.
482
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:50,580
- Right, Billy?
- Yup.
483
00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:55,330
It's very apparent from the first log
484
00:21:55,540 --> 00:21:58,450
we uncovered is that it's well made.
485
00:22:02,950 --> 00:22:04,580
Right here.
486
00:22:08,540 --> 00:22:11,000
That's not a small log there.
487
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,580
What in the heck is going on?
488
00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:16,750
There are two parts of the construction.
489
00:22:16,950 --> 00:22:18,750
There are what I call the "carry logs."
490
00:22:18,950 --> 00:22:21,330
They are the support of the structure.
491
00:22:21,450 --> 00:22:23,580
And then there are what
I call the "platform logs,"
492
00:22:23,790 --> 00:22:26,040
which sit on top of the carry logs.
493
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,160
And there are multiples of those.
494
00:22:29,330 --> 00:22:31,500
There's one here, running this way,
495
00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:34,830
and there's another one
there, running that way.
496
00:22:36,290 --> 00:22:38,330
And it was Alex who noticed the cobbles
497
00:22:38,540 --> 00:22:40,540
at the bottom of the dig.
498
00:22:40,700 --> 00:22:44,910
An intentional layer of cobble
laid down for some purpose.
499
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,580
I don't know its relevance
500
00:22:46,750 --> 00:22:50,410
to furthering our
understanding of the mystery,
501
00:22:50,580 --> 00:22:52,290
but it's definitely quite large.
502
00:22:52,410 --> 00:22:55,160
- This is a mystery.
- Yeah.
503
00:22:55,330 --> 00:22:56,500
- And its massive.
- Yeah.
504
00:22:56,660 --> 00:22:58,120
I mean, this would carry
505
00:22:58,290 --> 00:23:00,660
a tremendous amount of weight.
506
00:23:00,870 --> 00:23:02,370
I think you're right.
507
00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:03,790
What do you make of it, laird?
508
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,750
It's odd.
509
00:23:05,870 --> 00:23:08,500
That's not sufficient.
510
00:23:08,660 --> 00:23:10,330
We have enough for Dr. Spooner
511
00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:12,410
to make a pretty good
evaluation right now.
512
00:23:12,580 --> 00:23:15,660
- Yeah.
- I think we get Dr. Spooner in, and
513
00:23:15,790 --> 00:23:18,660
he can take these organic
samples that we can date.
514
00:23:18,830 --> 00:23:20,700
This is unique.
515
00:23:20,870 --> 00:23:23,750
But Dr. Spooner can maybe tell
us exactly what happened here
516
00:23:23,870 --> 00:23:27,080
and what progression of time.
517
00:23:27,250 --> 00:23:29,000
So, we're done for the day.
518
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:30,540
It was a cool day, though.
519
00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:32,120
- Interesting day.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
520
00:23:32,330 --> 00:23:33,910
A new discovery on oak island.
521
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:35,660
It's a great day.
522
00:23:36,660 --> 00:23:38,790
Later that afternoon...
523
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,620
We have a core!
524
00:23:41,750 --> 00:23:46,200
In the money pit area...
Maybe this will be 99.
525
00:23:46,370 --> 00:23:48,120
Is this the core of interest?
526
00:23:48,290 --> 00:23:49,540
It is.
527
00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:51,160
Charles barkhouse,
528
00:23:51,330 --> 00:23:52,556
Steve guptill and Jillian Parsons
529
00:23:52,580 --> 00:23:56,870
continue monitoring the drilling
530
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,370
of borehole d.25-6.75.
531
00:23:59,580 --> 00:24:01,580
- What do you got, Steve?
- 99.
532
00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:03,330
99. That's what I thought.
533
00:24:03,540 --> 00:24:05,160
A borehole that the team hopes
534
00:24:05,370 --> 00:24:08,500
may be on course to pinpoint
the legendary chappell vault
535
00:24:08,660 --> 00:24:10,750
and the source of precious metals
536
00:24:10,910 --> 00:24:14,580
that have been detected
below a depth of 100 feet.
537
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,346
- I thought we had wood.
- We do have wood.
538
00:24:17,370 --> 00:24:18,410
How does it look?
539
00:24:18,580 --> 00:24:20,200
- Good.
- Yeah, we got wood.
540
00:24:21,410 --> 00:24:22,750
I mean, we have wood here, here.
541
00:24:22,910 --> 00:24:24,830
Yeah.
542
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,870
- There's a big piece of wood there.
- Ooh.
543
00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:30,040
These are some of the biggest pieces
544
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,790
- we've found in this borehole.
- In this borehole,
545
00:24:32,910 --> 00:24:34,726
and in particular, when we've
been looking for the money pit.
546
00:24:34,750 --> 00:24:36,870
Yeah. I mean, finding wood at this depth,
547
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,660
- in this hole, is amazing.
- Yup.
548
00:24:39,870 --> 00:24:42,620
We're in the right depth for the
original level of the money pit.
549
00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:52,000
Finding wood at this depth,
in this hole, is amazing.
550
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,200
Well, you know what?
We're in the right depth
551
00:24:54,410 --> 00:24:55,766
for the original level of the money pit.
552
00:24:55,790 --> 00:24:58,000
It is a surprising
553
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,830
and thrilling moment
in the money pit area
554
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,500
for members of the oak island team.
555
00:25:02,620 --> 00:25:04,540
That's a good sign.
556
00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:06,220
Although they were hoping to encounter
557
00:25:06,250 --> 00:25:09,250
a mysterious tunnel
at a depth of 109 feet
558
00:25:09,370 --> 00:25:13,580
in borehole d.25-6.75,
they have just encountered
559
00:25:13,750 --> 00:25:18,450
a different wooden structure
at a depth of just 100 feet.
560
00:25:18,620 --> 00:25:20,450
You know what that reminds me of?
561
00:25:20,620 --> 00:25:23,016
- This borehole is close to caisson t-1.
- Yeah.
562
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,596
There's a reason we
keep drilling around t-1,
563
00:25:24,620 --> 00:25:26,700
which is an old caisson... it's from 2016.
564
00:25:26,870 --> 00:25:28,390
You know, it's some of the oldest wood
565
00:25:28,540 --> 00:25:30,290
- we've ever found in the money pit.
- Yeah.
566
00:25:30,500 --> 00:25:31,790
It dates back to the late 1600s.
567
00:25:31,910 --> 00:25:33,040
Yeah.
568
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,910
X marks the spot.
569
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:36,790
T-1. Tester-1.
570
00:25:36,950 --> 00:25:41,500
In 2016, Rick, Marty, Craig and the team
571
00:25:41,620 --> 00:25:43,330
installed a 40-inch-wide steel caisson
572
00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:49,000
that was located less than five
feet to the south, known as t-1.
573
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,040
Although no treasure
vault was ultimately found
574
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,040
during that excavation, at a depth
575
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,700
of 102 feet, a massive,
hand-cut timber was unearthed,
576
00:25:58,870 --> 00:26:03,500
which was carbon-dated
to as early as 1670.
577
00:26:03,700 --> 00:26:06,160
What if this is part of the money pit?
578
00:26:06,370 --> 00:26:08,580
We should actually take
that back sooner than later
579
00:26:08,750 --> 00:26:10,250
- and get Emma testing it.
- Yeah.
580
00:26:10,370 --> 00:26:11,830
Is it possible
581
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,830
that the team has once
again found the same
582
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,886
potentially 17th-century structure,
583
00:26:16,910 --> 00:26:19,410
which they believed could
be the original money pit,
584
00:26:19,540 --> 00:26:22,200
less than five feet north of t-1?
585
00:26:22,370 --> 00:26:24,870
If so, could that mean
586
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,000
that they are now finally on course
587
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,200
to pinpoint the legendary treasure vault?
588
00:26:30,370 --> 00:26:32,410
So, this is good news.
589
00:26:32,580 --> 00:26:33,790
Very good news.
590
00:26:33,950 --> 00:26:35,910
If this is the money pit,
591
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,016
then we got a good shot
at hitting the vault below.
592
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:39,120
Yeah.
593
00:26:42,370 --> 00:26:44,080
- Hey, guys. -Hey, guys.
- Hey.
594
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:45,636
So I'm wondering if
you want me to push it
595
00:26:45,660 --> 00:26:47,330
to at least till 150, right?
596
00:26:47,540 --> 00:26:48,750
Let's just keep on going.
597
00:26:48,910 --> 00:26:50,580
- Okay.
- That's what we want, right?
598
00:26:50,750 --> 00:26:51,976
That's the vault level, so
that's where we want to be.
599
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,660
Yeah. Okay.
600
00:26:53,870 --> 00:26:55,190
The preponderance of the evidence
601
00:26:55,250 --> 00:26:58,660
is that the t-1 area is
602
00:26:58,830 --> 00:27:01,250
the area of the original money pit.
603
00:27:01,370 --> 00:27:03,160
This one can go.
604
00:27:03,330 --> 00:27:04,930
Based on the water
sample testing alone,
605
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,160
I think that the area could be a possible
606
00:27:08,290 --> 00:27:09,660
treasure location.
607
00:27:09,870 --> 00:27:12,700
It's also the area where the soils
608
00:27:12,910 --> 00:27:14,750
from the money pit
609
00:27:14,950 --> 00:27:17,830
have a significant
match to the clays found
610
00:27:17,950 --> 00:27:20,450
in the lot 5 feature.
611
00:27:20,620 --> 00:27:24,830
So, for two reasons, this is
an area of significant interest.
612
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,846
So that wood that we
were holding in our hands
613
00:27:26,870 --> 00:27:29,160
that could have been part
of the original money pit?
614
00:27:29,330 --> 00:27:30,540
Absolutely possible.
615
00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:32,660
That's amazing.
616
00:27:32,830 --> 00:27:34,676
We got another 50 feet,
and we're at target depth.
617
00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:37,870
If there's a treasure
to be found, it's there.
618
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,750
As the core drilling
operation advances deeper
619
00:27:40,910 --> 00:27:42,410
in the money pit area...
620
00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:45,620
Thank you, guys, for coming.
621
00:27:45,750 --> 00:27:46,846
We've been working down on lot 5,
622
00:27:46,870 --> 00:27:48,290
and we actually came across
623
00:27:48,450 --> 00:27:49,650
a really interesting artifact.
624
00:27:49,790 --> 00:27:52,950
Rick lagina and other
members of the team
625
00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:54,830
meet in the oak island laboratory,
626
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,120
regarding the small, but
potentially valuable bead
627
00:27:58,250 --> 00:28:00,580
that was discovered just one day ago
628
00:28:00,750 --> 00:28:03,450
near the rounded foundation on lot 5.
629
00:28:03,620 --> 00:28:05,580
How the heck did you find that?
630
00:28:05,790 --> 00:28:08,250
I've been used to finding, like, bricks
631
00:28:08,410 --> 00:28:11,330
and red coarse earthenware,
so I kind of had an eye out
632
00:28:11,540 --> 00:28:14,750
for, like, a red color,
so I managed to find it.
633
00:28:14,870 --> 00:28:16,700
But, yeah, it's tiny.
634
00:28:16,870 --> 00:28:19,160
It's what we call a "seed
bead," for obvious reasons.
635
00:28:19,370 --> 00:28:21,830
- I can see why, yeah.
- Yeah.
636
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:23,500
- Are they pretty durable?
- Yes.
637
00:28:23,660 --> 00:28:24,870
- They are?
- Yup.
638
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:26,790
They'll come out of
the ground looking like
639
00:28:26,950 --> 00:28:28,830
they just... they're brand-new.
640
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,556
So, it could have been
around for a long time?
641
00:28:30,580 --> 00:28:33,000
Yeah. We have the circular feature.
642
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:34,950
It was found in the southwest exterior.
643
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,450
So this is coming from the yard.
644
00:28:37,620 --> 00:28:38,830
Not from the fill.
645
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,540
So in terms of context, this is coming
646
00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:45,080
- from a much better context.
- Is it venetian?
647
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,580
We did find two venetian
glass beads last year
648
00:28:48,750 --> 00:28:52,000
so I did run a compositional comparison.
649
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,000
Prior to their meeting,
650
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,620
archaeometallurgist Emma culligan
651
00:28:56,790 --> 00:28:58,450
scanned the small glass bead
652
00:28:58,620 --> 00:29:01,910
using the X-ray fluorescence
spectrometer, or xrf,
653
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,080
a device that uses gamma
ray radiation in order
654
00:29:05,290 --> 00:29:07,500
to not only identify the elements
655
00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:09,830
that make up an object's composition,
656
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,870
but potentially help
determine when it was created.
657
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,516
So, here are the venetian
658
00:29:16,540 --> 00:29:18,160
glass beads that we found last year,
659
00:29:18,330 --> 00:29:23,000
and it's in the same kind
of cluster, compositionally.
660
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,830
And that one is also
matching with the coloring
661
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,500
from last year's beads.
662
00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:32,290
So, all in all, it's coming
from a similar batch.
663
00:29:35,250 --> 00:29:37,750
But it is, yes. It's-it's venetian.
664
00:29:37,910 --> 00:29:41,040
So, for the red coloring.
665
00:29:42,540 --> 00:29:44,160
So there's no selenium, no gold,
666
00:29:44,370 --> 00:29:46,950
but there is copper, and
I think that is an indicator
667
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,450
that the red colorant is...
668
00:29:49,620 --> 00:29:52,750
Early 1700s and before that.
669
00:29:52,910 --> 00:29:57,290
- So early 1700s -into the 1600s.
- And pre. Yeah.
670
00:29:57,410 --> 00:29:58,870
That's pretty interesting.
671
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,500
Pre... pre-money pit.
672
00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:02,700
Yeah.
673
00:30:02,870 --> 00:30:03,910
Bingo.
674
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,080
That's fantastic.
675
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,120
The red colorant is early
1700s and before that.
676
00:30:13,290 --> 00:30:15,200
- Pre-money pit.
- Yeah.
677
00:30:15,370 --> 00:30:17,330
In the oak island laboratory,
678
00:30:17,540 --> 00:30:21,660
laird niven and Emma culligan
have just informed Rick lagina
679
00:30:21,870 --> 00:30:24,120
and other members of the team
680
00:30:24,290 --> 00:30:26,910
that the glass bead found one day ago
681
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,910
near the rounded stone feature on lot 5
682
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,250
is, in fact, the third
piece of venetian jewelry
683
00:30:33,410 --> 00:30:35,290
that they have discovered in the area,
684
00:30:35,410 --> 00:30:37,950
and may predate the
discovery of the money pit
685
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,910
by more than a century.
686
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,830
So how do we explain that being there?
687
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,640
They could have been trading from there.
688
00:30:44,790 --> 00:30:46,750
This is another piece of evidence
689
00:30:46,950 --> 00:30:51,450
that dates from the
mid-1700s into the 1600s.
690
00:30:51,660 --> 00:30:55,500
So it's kind of reinforcing
my gut feeling that we have
691
00:30:55,700 --> 00:30:57,830
an earlier structure on-site
692
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,830
that was repurposed at a later date.
693
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,200
And the 1600s date
694
00:31:03,370 --> 00:31:05,711
lines up with some of the
wood we found in the money pit.
695
00:31:05,735 --> 00:31:06,016
Yeah.
696
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,620
Is it possible that the team has
now found more evidence on lot 5
697
00:31:10,750 --> 00:31:13,790
suggesting a connection
between the rounded feature
698
00:31:13,950 --> 00:31:15,500
and the money pit?
699
00:31:15,620 --> 00:31:18,620
Could that explain why
the team has uncovered
700
00:31:18,790 --> 00:31:21,000
a mortar-like material in the feature
701
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,660
that matches soils collected
from more than 100 feet deep
702
00:31:24,870 --> 00:31:27,000
in the money pit area?
703
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,950
And if so, could that help
explain the wooden timbers
704
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:35,040
that were recovered in
the t-1 caisson back in 2016
705
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,500
that were dated to 1670?
706
00:31:38,660 --> 00:31:42,040
Lot 5 is starting to play
a pretty significant role,
707
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,120
both in terms of the story
and perhaps the treasure
708
00:31:45,330 --> 00:31:47,250
or the remnants of the treasure.
709
00:31:47,450 --> 00:31:50,120
There's lots of evidence
of people being here
710
00:31:50,290 --> 00:31:53,700
way before people from Europe
were supposed to be here.
711
00:31:53,870 --> 00:31:55,290
So I want to keep investigating.
712
00:31:55,450 --> 00:31:58,330
It surely gives us a clue
713
00:31:58,540 --> 00:32:02,000
that corroborates your
intuition that that feature
714
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,160
is much older than the
current inventory of artifacts
715
00:32:05,330 --> 00:32:06,580
- are telling. So...
- Yeah.
716
00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:08,330
Moya, congratulations.
717
00:32:08,540 --> 00:32:10,830
- I would not have found that.
- Thank you.
718
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,500
Thank you very much.
Very interesting. All right.
719
00:32:13,660 --> 00:32:17,040
As Rick lagina concludes
the meeting in the lab...
720
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:19,160
We have a core.
721
00:32:19,370 --> 00:32:21,500
Back in the money pit area...
722
00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:23,080
What do we got, Leighton?
723
00:32:24,450 --> 00:32:25,540
That's 159.
724
00:32:26,580 --> 00:32:30,700
Members of the team
anxiously monitor the progress
725
00:32:30,870 --> 00:32:35,370
of the core-drilling operation
in borehole d.25-6.75,
726
00:32:35,540 --> 00:32:39,580
which has now reached
a depth of nearly 160 feet,
727
00:32:39,750 --> 00:32:42,160
the target depth where
they are hoping to encounter
728
00:32:42,330 --> 00:32:45,500
more evidence of the
fabled chappell vault.
729
00:32:45,660 --> 00:32:47,580
Here you are.
730
00:32:47,750 --> 00:32:48,750
Great, thank you.
731
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,370
That's a pretty stark transition.
732
00:32:53,540 --> 00:32:54,540
Sand?
733
00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:56,330
Yeah.
734
00:32:56,500 --> 00:32:57,830
It's a lot of sand.
735
00:32:57,950 --> 00:33:00,160
- Hey, Charles.
- Hey, Steve.
736
00:33:00,330 --> 00:33:02,790
That's about as Sandy as
you can get right there. Look.
737
00:33:02,910 --> 00:33:04,870
You know, obviously
we have back fill here
738
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,306
- and we have it here.
- Yeah. Yeah. -Yeah.
739
00:33:06,330 --> 00:33:08,330
But I'm not seeing any wood.
740
00:33:08,540 --> 00:33:09,540
No.
741
00:33:10,620 --> 00:33:13,000
That's the depth we
expected to see something.
742
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,016
But we didn't hit the vault.
So we might be sliding back
743
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:16,200
into the old caisson.
744
00:33:16,410 --> 00:33:17,750
Yeah.
745
00:33:17,870 --> 00:33:20,370
This hole is ticking all the boxes
746
00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:22,500
that there's something deep down there.
747
00:33:22,620 --> 00:33:25,370
Unfortunately, we hit caisson back fill.
748
00:33:25,540 --> 00:33:28,540
It was just... Extremely
disappointing for us.
749
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:31,580
Frustrating.
750
00:33:31,790 --> 00:33:33,910
With this Sonic drill, we're getting pulled
751
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,450
- to the path of least resistance.
- Yeah.
752
00:33:36,580 --> 00:33:39,120
Just when the team believed
that they were on track
753
00:33:39,290 --> 00:33:41,160
for a major breakthrough,
754
00:33:41,330 --> 00:33:44,200
what they discovered
instead is gravel back fill
755
00:33:44,370 --> 00:33:47,370
from one of their previously
excavated steel caissons.
756
00:33:47,580 --> 00:33:51,410
This means that an
obstruction, such as a Boulder,
757
00:33:51,580 --> 00:33:53,910
diverted the coring drill off course
758
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,500
and to the side of its intended target,
759
00:33:56,660 --> 00:34:00,580
which in this case may have
been the legendary treasure vault.
760
00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:02,870
We didn't get to where we wanted to be,
761
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:04,040
which was a straight hole
762
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,120
- all the way to 160.
- Yeah.
763
00:34:06,290 --> 00:34:07,540
We are in the right location.
764
00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:09,176
We are just pulled in the wrong direction.
765
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:10,950
Right. 100%.
766
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,500
It's a bit disconcerting
to have all these clues
767
00:34:14,660 --> 00:34:16,160
and all this data
768
00:34:16,330 --> 00:34:19,410
that strongly hint that
this area is significant
769
00:34:19,580 --> 00:34:22,500
but not having made a proper discovery.
770
00:34:22,700 --> 00:34:26,660
I have hopes that if there
is something to be found,
771
00:34:26,830 --> 00:34:28,910
it is within this general area.
772
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:30,160
You don't give up.
773
00:34:30,370 --> 00:34:32,040
You follow it to the end.
774
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,176
We've got to find a way
to get back into that vault
775
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,500
- without getting pulled into a caisson.
- Yeah.
776
00:34:36,660 --> 00:34:38,381
Let's all head back
to the research center.
777
00:34:38,405 --> 00:34:38,676
Yeah.
778
00:34:38,700 --> 00:34:40,450
Okay.
779
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,580
The following morning...
780
00:34:47,700 --> 00:34:49,200
Figure it out yet?
781
00:34:49,370 --> 00:34:50,500
Almost.
782
00:34:50,660 --> 00:34:52,250
Yeah. Okay.
783
00:34:52,370 --> 00:34:54,450
I'm pretty sure it's not
supposed to look like this.
784
00:34:55,450 --> 00:34:57,410
While members of the team
785
00:34:57,580 --> 00:35:00,450
plot the next course of
action in the money pit area,
786
00:35:00,620 --> 00:35:03,950
Rick lagina and
geoscientist Dr. Ian spooner
787
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,200
join Rick's nephew Alex,
788
00:35:06,370 --> 00:35:08,160
Gary drayton, and Billy gerhardt
789
00:35:08,370 --> 00:35:10,540
in the northern region of the swamp.
790
00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:14,290
They are eager to
have Dr. Spooner assess
791
00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:16,120
the recently uncovered wooden structure
792
00:35:16,290 --> 00:35:19,500
that sits atop a layer of cobblestones.
793
00:35:19,660 --> 00:35:22,660
You seen anything like this before, Ian?
794
00:35:22,790 --> 00:35:24,250
No. No, I haven't.
795
00:35:24,370 --> 00:35:25,726
And, I haven't seen a platform like this.
796
00:35:25,750 --> 00:35:29,120
I wonder how it extends
back towards land.
797
00:35:29,250 --> 00:35:32,160
Well, these are the platform logs.
798
00:35:32,370 --> 00:35:35,250
But if you see here... Yeah. Yeah.
799
00:35:35,370 --> 00:35:36,540
So there's this one
800
00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:39,000
- and then there's that one.
- Yeah.
801
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,096
And it looks like it keeps
on going into land there.
802
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,160
It's almost like this is a...
803
00:35:43,370 --> 00:35:45,040
- A ramp, right?
- Yes.
804
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,790
Yeah, this is a ramp. I
have no problem with that.
805
00:35:47,950 --> 00:35:50,016
The-the amazing thing is
806
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,700
how big this structure is.
807
00:35:51,870 --> 00:35:52,289
Yeah.
808
00:35:52,313 --> 00:35:55,290
This was meant to carry
extremely heavy loads
809
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:59,330
or to be very stable for
something very, very heavy.
810
00:35:59,540 --> 00:36:02,330
If you just wanted access out here,
811
00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:04,250
you're not doing this.
812
00:36:04,410 --> 00:36:06,950
You know, for me, it's...
this is built with purpose.
813
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,160
But to what end?
814
00:36:09,330 --> 00:36:11,790
There's a lot going on here. I mean
815
00:36:11,950 --> 00:36:14,231
I think I'm more interested
in what's going on down lower
816
00:36:14,330 --> 00:36:16,160
than up top. You know,
817
00:36:16,370 --> 00:36:19,160
why is everybody so
interested to get out to this point?
818
00:36:19,330 --> 00:36:21,386
There's something right here
that somebody was chasing.
819
00:36:21,410 --> 00:36:23,580
- That's what I would say.
- Strangely,
820
00:36:23,790 --> 00:36:25,830
it seems to point towards
the eye of the swamp.
821
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:27,500
Yeah.
822
00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:30,120
We're only about 60
feet away from the eye.
823
00:36:30,290 --> 00:36:32,290
- Yeah. Yeah.
- So
824
00:36:32,450 --> 00:36:34,580
I know the eye is a human-built feature.
825
00:36:34,750 --> 00:36:35,676
Yeah.
826
00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:37,040
It's entirely plausible
827
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,540
those same people
built this feature here.
828
00:36:46,950 --> 00:36:48,660
The eye's right there,
which we know was
829
00:36:48,790 --> 00:36:49,830
a man-built feature.
830
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,330
It's entirely plausible
831
00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:56,580
that this was part of that same
interest in this environment.
832
00:36:56,750 --> 00:36:58,120
Right.
833
00:36:58,290 --> 00:36:59,770
You just don't do this kind of stuff.
834
00:36:59,870 --> 00:37:03,160
In the northern region
of the oak island swamp,
835
00:37:03,330 --> 00:37:07,200
geoscientist Dr. Ian
spooner has just suggested
836
00:37:07,330 --> 00:37:09,750
that a newly uncovered wooden structure
837
00:37:09,870 --> 00:37:11,160
and cobblestone pathway
838
00:37:11,330 --> 00:37:13,540
I have no clue what this is.
839
00:37:13,750 --> 00:37:17,000
May be directly connected
to another man-made feature
840
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,846
known as the eye of the swamp.
841
00:37:19,870 --> 00:37:22,620
It's the first thing that
we ever have found
842
00:37:22,790 --> 00:37:24,750
that points directly to
the eye in a structure.
843
00:37:24,870 --> 00:37:27,500
And we have Dr. Spooner
that did work in that.
844
00:37:27,620 --> 00:37:31,790
His cores show industrial
activity way back.
845
00:37:31,950 --> 00:37:34,000
This is a very puzzling feature here,
846
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:35,370
this eye of the swamp.
847
00:37:35,540 --> 00:37:37,200
The all-seeing eye.
848
00:37:37,370 --> 00:37:40,540
In 2019, the oak island team
849
00:37:40,700 --> 00:37:43,500
investigated a mysterious
circular formation
850
00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:45,830
in the triangle-shaped swamp
851
00:37:45,950 --> 00:37:48,370
where vegetation would never grow.
852
00:37:49,750 --> 00:37:51,370
Wow. That is massive.
853
00:37:51,580 --> 00:37:53,410
That's-that's a big Boulder.
854
00:37:53,580 --> 00:37:56,160
Incredibly, after draining the area
855
00:37:56,370 --> 00:38:00,160
and discovering a man-made
formation of boulders,
856
00:38:00,290 --> 00:38:03,040
they dubbed it "the eye of the swamp"
857
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,290
due to its eerie resemblance
to the masonic symbol
858
00:38:06,450 --> 00:38:09,080
known as the all-seeing eye.
859
00:38:09,250 --> 00:38:11,700
This is quite a provocative site.
860
00:38:11,870 --> 00:38:14,200
And after analyzing organic materials
861
00:38:14,370 --> 00:38:16,830
within the feature,
862
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,750
Dr. Spooner presented the
team with astonishing data
863
00:38:19,950 --> 00:38:22,620
about when it was likely created.
864
00:38:22,790 --> 00:38:27,290
I'm very confident we're
looking at 1680 to 1700
865
00:38:27,450 --> 00:38:29,160
that that disturbance took place.
866
00:38:29,290 --> 00:38:30,750
Really interesting.
867
00:38:31,790 --> 00:38:33,346
I just want to take a look at the stone,
868
00:38:33,370 --> 00:38:35,330
at the bottom of it.
869
00:38:35,540 --> 00:38:37,660
Is it possible that this wooden ramp
870
00:38:37,870 --> 00:38:41,160
and cobblestone feature were
constructed at the same time
871
00:38:41,370 --> 00:38:43,200
as the eye of the swamp?
872
00:38:43,370 --> 00:38:47,160
But if so, by who and for what purpose?
873
00:38:47,330 --> 00:38:49,330
This kind of stuff always intrigues me.
874
00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:51,000
See that rock?
875
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:52,830
This little rock here
876
00:38:52,950 --> 00:38:55,830
was wedged between this
piece of wood here and that rock.
877
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,660
So if we date that lowest piece of wood
878
00:38:57,830 --> 00:38:59,250
that's sitting right on the rocks,
879
00:38:59,410 --> 00:39:00,676
we know that the rocks were put there
880
00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:02,500
before the age of that piece of wood.
881
00:39:02,660 --> 00:39:04,330
- Yeah.
- If this feature
882
00:39:04,450 --> 00:39:06,290
is the same age as
the eye of the swamp,
883
00:39:06,410 --> 00:39:08,016
that lines up with the
William phips theory.
884
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,000
Right.
885
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,580
We know that phips found
silver on the concepción.
886
00:39:12,790 --> 00:39:14,870
Since 2021,
887
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,450
the team has been
investigating the theory
888
00:39:17,620 --> 00:39:20,370
that the 17th-century
English treasure hunter
889
00:39:20,580 --> 00:39:23,290
and politician sir William phips
890
00:39:23,450 --> 00:39:27,370
and his masonic associate
captain Andrew belcher
891
00:39:27,580 --> 00:39:30,830
buried a vast cache of
treasure in the money pit.
892
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:36,290
In 1687, at the direction
of the English crown,
893
00:39:36,450 --> 00:39:38,370
phips conducted two salvages
894
00:39:38,540 --> 00:39:40,500
of the famed Spanish treasure galleon
895
00:39:40,620 --> 00:39:42,370
known as the concepción
896
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,120
which sank in a hurricane
near the Dominican Republic
897
00:39:47,290 --> 00:39:49,200
in 1641.
898
00:39:49,370 --> 00:39:51,450
In a controversy that bewildered many,
899
00:39:51,620 --> 00:39:54,540
phips delivered less than half
900
00:39:54,750 --> 00:39:56,830
of the 100 tons of silver and gold
901
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,660
that were recorded
on the ship's manifest.
902
00:40:00,330 --> 00:40:03,950
Now, after previously finding iron tools
903
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,080
in the round feature on lot 5
904
00:40:06,250 --> 00:40:07,790
that have been scientifically matched
905
00:40:07,910 --> 00:40:09,830
to the birthplace of William phips,
906
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,160
could the so-called eye of the swamp
907
00:40:13,330 --> 00:40:16,830
and perhaps these two
additional man-made features
908
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,330
offer more compelling
evidence that this theory is true?
909
00:40:21,540 --> 00:40:23,540
I would just send these out for dating.
910
00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:25,410
- We're absolutely gonna do that.
- Yeah.
911
00:40:25,540 --> 00:40:27,250
And some of these logs are
912
00:40:27,370 --> 00:40:31,000
- sufficient size to facilitate that.
- Yeah.
913
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,370
Whole area seems to
have some sort of reason.
914
00:40:34,540 --> 00:40:36,226
If you're moving through a bog,
915
00:40:36,250 --> 00:40:38,830
you-you would have to have
a platform from which to work.
916
00:40:38,950 --> 00:40:42,330
If it were 1680 dates or thereabouts,
917
00:40:42,540 --> 00:40:45,450
you know, certainly one
of the possible theories
918
00:40:45,620 --> 00:40:47,410
might be a phips connection.
919
00:40:47,580 --> 00:40:48,910
So, we got a plan.
920
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,410
I think we just keep
pulling down this line.
921
00:40:51,540 --> 00:40:54,000
Yeah. And we start finding some metals
922
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,700
and some Bobby-dazzlers
and top-pocket finds.
923
00:40:56,870 --> 00:40:58,330
- Yes.
- Hopefully.
924
00:40:58,540 --> 00:41:00,330
There are still answers down there.
925
00:41:00,540 --> 00:41:01,870
Yeah.
926
00:41:02,910 --> 00:41:05,500
Whatever may lie deep in the money pit,
927
00:41:05,700 --> 00:41:08,540
perhaps within a seven-foot-high vault,
928
00:41:08,700 --> 00:41:10,870
remains elusive.
929
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:12,870
At least for now.
930
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:17,040
But as Rick, Marty, Craig, and
their team unearth more clues
931
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,120
all across oak island
932
00:41:20,290 --> 00:41:23,040
and keep zeroing in on
the original treasure shaft,
933
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,040
just how much longer
934
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,750
can the answer to this
230-year-old mystery
935
00:41:30,620 --> 00:41:32,620
stay buried?
936
00:41:35,660 --> 00:41:38,290
Next time on the curse of oak island...
937
00:41:38,450 --> 00:41:40,750
- What is it?
- These are bricks.
938
00:41:40,910 --> 00:41:42,950
That's looking pretty structure-like to me.
939
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,250
- What a perfect place to hide something.
- Yeah.
940
00:41:45,410 --> 00:41:46,910
Ooh!
941
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,330
That has got a good
chance of being gold.
942
00:41:49,450 --> 00:41:51,346
We see the ct scan.
943
00:41:51,370 --> 00:41:52,660
My gosh.
944
00:41:52,870 --> 00:41:55,660
Imagine my surprise when I saw that.
945
00:41:55,870 --> 00:41:57,290
As I was going down,
946
00:41:57,450 --> 00:41:58,636
there's definitely nothing solid there.
947
00:41:58,660 --> 00:41:59,660
Like, totally open?
948
00:41:59,870 --> 00:42:01,016
- Yeah.
- That sounds like a void.
949
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,450
It could be the treasure chamber.
950
00:42:03,660 --> 00:42:05,660
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