NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...
(gasps) No way!
Look at that!
-(laughing) -Yes!
-GARY: This is magnificent. -RICK: It's incredible.
-We found a piece of treasure. -It's amazing.
IAN: Gold and silver, copper,
zinc, tin, lead, they are all now metals of interest.
There is still a treasure to be found here.
ALEX: This is as close as we've gotten to an "X marks the spot."
RICK: We've got to go down there.
SCOTT: We've waited a long time for a moment like this.
RICK: This is astounding.
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NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic
where people have been looking for
an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
So far, they have found a stone slab
with strange symbols carved into it...
...man-made workings that date to medieval times,
and a lead cross whose origin may be connected
to the Knights Templar.
To date, six men have died
trying to solve the mystery.
And according to legend, one more will have to die
before the treasure can be found.
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-JACK: Hey, Rick. -RICK: Hey, Jack.
-Morning. -Good morning.
That hammer grab's fun to watch.
RICK: Yeah.
Dumas seems to be
-moving along quite quickly. -Good.
NARRATOR: As a new day dawns on Oak Island,
for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina
and the members of their team,
the hope that they may be
on the verge of solving a 228-year-old treasure mystery
has never been higher.
RICK: Good morning, Roger.
-ROGER: Good morning, Rick. -How are you?
Good morning, how's it going? Nice to see you guys.
-Yeah. -What's the depth?
Oh, right now we're at about 23 feet.
Uh, we're gonna be mucking a little bit more,
go in that end, and then we're gonna be installing
-another two sets. -Okay.
NARRATOR: Although a number of investigations
are currently being conducted all across the island
to search for critical clues and valuables,
their most promising operation is underway
in the Money Pit area with Dumas Contracting Ltd.--
a mining company that is reconstructing
the so-called Garden Shaft.
-The material is still just really mucky right now? -Yeah, yeah.
So it's kind of-- you can tell that it's-it's backfilled clay.
-It's backfilled? Yeah. -But you're right.
They kind of were careful as to what they dumped in there.
Correct.
NARRATOR: Based on numerous
recent discoveries this year,
the team has good reason to believe
that this 80-foot deep, decayed wooden structure
may be connected to the original Money Pit.
Wood samples from the shaft have not only been dated to 1735
but water testing within it has also revealed
high trace evidence of gold.
In addition, it is also located
in close proximity to a potential void
or chamber that the team drilled into earlier this year
at a depth of just 55 feet.
TERRY: This looks like the continuation
of this tunnel that we hit here out of DN 12.5.
NARRATOR: And it may also be connected to a mysterious tunnel encountered
two weeks ago at a depth of 95 feet,
which the team discovered in a nearby area
known as the Blob...
...an area where water testing conducted by
geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner has found evidence
that a motherlode of gold appears to lie buried
between a depth of 80 and 120 feet.
MARTY: There are some pretty concrete signs that say
this might be the original Money Pit.
Or it could be right next to it.
It could have been the original attempt,
one of the original attempts.
I really would like to see
what's at the bottom of that shaft.
So the hope is that once we get down 50, 60 feet,
we'll be able to drill horizontally, vertically.
Yeah.
And hopefully we do find a tunnel from this shaft.
At least in some direction.
Some of our better water sample tests
have been from here that had the gold and the silver.
Yeah.
We would love to find original works.
So there's all kinds of hopes here.
We just have to learn as much as we can about this location.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Having already rebuilt
the first two sets-- or 8-foot sections--
of the Garden Shaft,
in the coming weeks, Dumas will complete a new,
vertical structure down to a total depth
of approximately 80 feet.
During the process, they also have the ability
to probe outside the shaft and even build lateral tunnels
in order to let members of the team
search for evidence of treasure.
-(Rick exclaims) -SCOTT: Heads up, guys.
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JACK: Here we go.
ROGER: Okay, tightlining coming down.
Watch out.
NARRATOR: As the team from Dumas continues
excavating and reconstructing the Garden Shaft...
Yeah.
-That's pretty cool. -Very cool.
NARRATOR: ...members of the team
will be able to monitor the operation
using the Inuktun Spectrum 120 high-definition camera.
We are fortunate enough to be able to put a camera down here,
with Roger's assistance.
So, I mean, it's-it's a great tool
for us to be able to see what's going on down there.
Yeah. It's amazing.
NARRATOR: The device, which features
a lens that can pan 360 degrees,
is not only designed to operate in low light conditions
but is also equipped with a number of
visual enhancement capabilities
such as high-powered zoom function.
SCOTT: Really gives you an idea of how small an area it is.
Seeing those two guys down there.
Yeah.
Do I believe that there's treasure
at the bottom of the Garden Shaft?
I'll be honest, I'm hopeful. (chuckles)
But I just want to get underground in the Money Pit.
Let's get underground
and exploit the opportunities
that the shaft represents.
I want to go down there.
-(both chuckling) -Soon.
-RICK: All right. Take care. -JACK: See you.
NARRATOR: While the excavation of the Garden Shaft continues
in the Money Pit area...
...later that morning...
-MARTY: Hey, guys. -CRAIG: Hey, guys.
-ALEX: Hey, guys. -IAN: How're you doing?
Hi there.
NARRATOR: ...Rick and Marty meet with
geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner
and other members of the team
for an important video conference
with Craig Tester and geohydrologist Dr. Fred Michel.
MARTY: Finally, we have new data
on the gold and the metals in the water,
and as everybody here knows--
'cause I haven't been shy about it--
this is what I've been really looking forward to.
NARRATOR: After analyzing
new water samples that were collected
two weeks ago from previously drilled boreholes
in the so-called Blob area near the Garden Shaft...
We've got seven slides.
NARRATOR: ...Dr. Spooner and Michel
are ready to present an updated report
on the believed location of the gold
that has been detected in the Money Pit area.
This to me is, is the search,
this to me is what this year is all about,
so I'm gonna shut up now
and turn it over to Ian.
So, Ian, you want to kick it off, then?
IAN: Yeah, yeah.
And Steve's gonna cue up a PowerPoint presentation.
Just to recap,
that Blob was an area of primarily gold.
-That's what I've been waiting for. -IAN: Right.
But as you'll see,
some other metals become very important, too.
So let's try the next slide here.
So, what's the red?
Well, the red is what we started to see
in the most recent round of sampling--
copper, zinc, and tin.
And this is highly anomalous.
What does "highly" mean, in this case?
Almost many magnitudes higher.
And I think everybody knows what you take
when you add copper and zinc.
That would be brass.
And when you add copper and tin,
you get bronze.
FRED: You have brass and bronze and of course
you also have gold, and you have silver.
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IAN: But the key thing is that we don't think this is geological.
Mm.
FRED: So if it's not natural,
if it's man-deposited,
then a variety of objects
that are being buried
that contain those metals.
MARTY: Works for me.
(laughter)
I mean, this is what we're hoping for.
Yeah.
Let's say we wanted to find this area.
Well, that was a great segue into the next slide.
MARTY: The new Blob!
Blob version 2.0.
-Baby Blob. -IAN: Yeah, Bab--
Well, yeah, Baby Blob.
This is a very, very small area.
I think we have done what we had hoped to do,
which is shrink the size of the Blob down
to something maybe that's manageable to explore.
Wh-What are the dimensions?
It's about 20 feet by 20 feet.
-Okay. -And it's just outside of the Garden Shaft.
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MARTY: That's really exciting stuff.
It's about 20 feet by 20 feet.
And it's just outside of the Garden Shaft.
NARRATOR: It is an incredible moment
in the Oak Island war room
as geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner
and hydrogeologist Dr. Fred Michel
have just presented scientific evidence
to the Oak Island team
that a large deposit of gold, silver, and other metals
appears to be located within a 20 by 20 foot area
and between 80 and 120 feet deep just west of the Garden Shaft,
an area the team has now dubbed "The Baby Blob."
Gold and silver.
Copper, zinc, tin, lead.
They're all now, to us, metals of interest.
Anyone who has found a great treasure in the world,
you would find all those metals
in that great treasure.
So if, if we went
and we drilled the Blob right now
what are the chances that we'd come up
with the treasure?
It seems that we have a--
an isolated source
for those metals.
DOUG: Who knows how many
different types of metals are mixed into
a potential treasure chest?
Gold alongside brass. Trade tokens.
Sure. Of course.
We've always said treasure is just a bunch of gold.
Well, in the things that I've read,
treasure can be many different things.
And I think of other relics
that may not have even been what we call a precious metal.
But this is every bit as good.
MARTY: The results are excellent
in that they do indicate some sort of large grouping
of metallic objects that could be highly significant.
And these other metals,
they would almost always be found
in conjunction with gold and silver.
Any sort of treasure cache that I would know about
would have these metals as well.
There's still a lot of work to do.
-Yeah. -RICK: So...
we have to make the right choices moving forward.
CRAIG: Yeah, I'm eager to drill
and see what we come up with.
That's one of our next targets we could move to.
-We'll move there tomorrow. -Okay.
RICK: To have the so-called treasure zone
in such close proximity to
probably the biggest endeavor we have conducted this year,
i.e. rehabbing the Garden Shaft,
it's almost serendipitous.
It presents very unique opportunities.
Whether it be through vertical drilling,
horizontal drilling,
or maybe even tunneling off the side of the shaft.
So what we need at this point is to design a proper grid
and drill that and hopefully find the one thing.
This was the most significant, the most direct indication
that there is still a treasure to be found here.
I want to put whatever resource we can,
so let's go see what it looks like on the ground.
Absolutely.
-Okay. -CRAIG: See you, guys.
-ALEX: See you. -IAN: Thank you.
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NARRATOR: The following morning...
TERRY: We are in the center
of the new possible treasure location.
-How deep are we? -CRAIG: We're getting started.
TERRY: We're only down about eight feet.
NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina joins his partner Craig Tester
and others members of the team in the Money Pit area
where they have begun drilling a new borehole
within the Baby Blob, or treasure zone,
just several feet west of the Garden Shaft.
-It's right there. -MARTY: That one. Yeah, okay.
The treasure Blob. This is excellent.
I'm very keenly interested to where the metals are.
It's surprising, that's for sure.
That somewhere in that area is the origin, right?
TERRY: Oh, yeah, we're a ways away
-from target horizon. -Yeah. All right.
NARRATOR: As the drilling operation
and the reconstruction of the Garden Shaft continues
in the Money Pit area...
RICK: I see you've got the pump all hooked up.
LAIRD: Yeah.
So it will, it will pump down really quickly now.
NARRATOR: ...on Lot 26,
located on the western side of the island
Rick Lagina
and Dr. Ian Spooner join archaeologist Laird Niven
and archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan
as they investigate a mysterious stone well.
RICK: So, what's the plan?
I just want to see what the bottom's like.
You know, we've got that really old date, 1100,
or somewhere around there.
It's a really cool little well.
NARRATOR: The well has become one of the island's most curious features
after Dr. Spooner not only dated its construction
to as early as the 11th century...
It was one of our only silver hits
outside of the Money Pit.
...but also conducted water testing
that yielded high trace evidence of silver.
IAN: Boy, that goes down quickly.
LAIRD: Yep. That pump is doing the job.
You'll see that it's a really nice,
nicely formed little well.
RICK: It's quite artfully done.
You have to know what you're doing.
It's not just a simple matter of just piling
-one stone on top of another. -LAIRD: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
RICK: They kept that radius
-almost perfect all the way up. -LAIRD: Yup.
RICK: When you look at the construct
right here, you can put your hand in it,
and it goes back, as though that was intentional,
to put something in here.
There are a whole bunch of crevices here.
RICK: I'm as mystified about it now as the day we started.
To have found a human-contrived edifice,
like a well,
where you might store something important, it's huge.
But we have a lot of work to do in terms of
the who, what, when, where, why of it.
We're not there yet.
LAIRD: So that's bottom.
I think it's about, like, five, five and a half feet deep.
Mm-hmm. So, what's the next step?
I'm wondering if we shouldn't excavate a little bit more.
I mean... I mean, in theory,
-something could be in it. -Yep.
Somebody should take a look at it.
-The construct. -LAIRD: Yeah.
IAN: Would Terry Deveau have a little bit of insight?
I think that's well worth doing.
To have an expert to come and render an opinion,
I find it an incredibly vital part of the search.
Terry Deveau has years of experience
understanding the history here in Nova Scotia.
So his perspective will be interesting.
And I think his eyes,
we may find something that previously
has been hidden from us.
I guess, Laird, I guess the next step is
pull the outside rocks away.
Who knows,
-you might retrieve something. -Yep. We can do that.
-Okay. Well, we'll let you do your work, then. -Okay. All right.
-Thanks, Laird. -See you later.
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NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
GARY: I love it when it's raining, mate.
It doesn't get any better than this.
-JACK: Yep. -GARY: Here we are, mate.
Back on Lot 26 to dig up some more flags.
NARRATOR: ...metal detection expert Gary Drayton and Jack Begley
arrive on Lot 26,
less than 100 yards from the mysterious stone well.
Let's get after it.
Let's see what this one sounds like.
NARRATOR: While the archaeological team
continues investigating the feature itself...
GARY: Just there, mate.
NARRATOR: ...Rick, Marty and Craig are hoping
that Gary and Jack might be able to find clues in the nearby area
that might explain just who may have constructed it.
All right, let's see what we've got here.
(beeping)
(whew) That sounds great.
It's in the top of the pile by the sound of it.
♪ ♪
Well, actually, it would be the bottom of the pile.
Come on, I know you're hiding in here somewhere.
-(whooping) -Oh! Oh!
GARY: (whooping) That's nice.
What is it?
That is either a spoon or a fork handle.
NARRATOR: On Lot 26,
located less than 100 yards
from the mysterious 11th-century stone well...
GARY: It's got to be old by the patina.
...Gary Drayton and Jack Begley
have just unearthed
another potentially important discovery.
GARY: It's copper alloy by the look of it,
but could be silver and we're not seeing it
because it's been in the ground awhile.
Is there any idea on date that you can... guesstimate?
I'd have to say definitely period for the lot, late 1700s,
but I'm hoping that it's older.
JACK: No...
Just like all that fancy pottery we find around the island--
they were a sign of opulence and wealth back in the day.
And so was cutlery, so this is nice, mate.
NARRATOR: Because Lot 26 was inhabited
by several 18th and 19th-century landowners,
could this spoon have simply been left behind
by one of them?
However, since one of those owners was Samuel Ball,
who became mysteriously wealthy while living on Oak Island
after the American Revolution...
And we'll go to the next flag.
NARRATOR: ...could this potentially silver spoon be a clue
that something of even greater value
may lie hidden on Lot 26?
GARY: All right, mate, let's see what this one sounds like.
(intermittent beeping)
Definitely something there. It's kind of faint and choppy.
More than likely, it's iron.
(grunts)
All right. Let's see if you moved it.
-JACK: There we go. -GARY: We're on it.
Let's see what we've got.
-Ooh! -JACK: Way better!
A flat button, mate.
-Look at that. -That's a nice-looking button.
Yeah, it really is, mate.
I've got a feeling that might be a pewter button--
but it's a single loop.
Or it might be silver-washed.
Well, that's got a sheen on it.
-You see that? -JACK: Oh, yeah.
More than likely a jacket button, mate.
Would have gone like that.
JACK: Do you have a best guess
-on time frame? -Uh, yeah.
It's an older type of button.
Definitely period for the lot.
Late 1700s or even older, mate.
Wow!
NARRATOR: A button,
possibly made of silver
that may date back earlier than the 18th century?
One week ago, the team found a hand-forged iron nail
in the nearby stone well,
which was scientifically dated to the mid-17th century.
Could Gary's suspicions
that this button may date to the same time period
mean that the two artifacts could be related?
If so, was it someone who was searching for
something of value in the well?
Or was it someone who actually made a deposit?
GARY: All right, mate.
I'll put it in a bag.
-JACK: Ah, a great find. -Be really, really careful with it.
JACK: Well, let's keep going, we're on a roll, Gary.
GARY: We are, mate.
NARRATOR: The following morning...
-PAUL: Hey, how're you doing, Alex? -SCOTT: Hey, Alex.
How's it going?
-Good. -Great.
NARRATOR: ...Alex Lagina arrives at the Money Pit area
TEDFORD: It's gonna be a good one.
...to check on the progress
of Borehole DN-9.5,
a borehole located several feet west of the Garden Shaft
in the so-called Baby Blob, where the team believes
the fabled Oak Island treasure
may lie buried between a depth of 80 and 120 feet.
And where are we at, right now?
We've got, uh, ten feet away from our target zone here.
-This next core... -Okay.
...is actually gonna be right on top of it.
ALEX: They've been able to shrink
our area of interest in the Money Pit
down to this much smaller area.
So this is as close as we've gotten
to an "X marks the spot"
from any of the efforts that we've done.
(whirring)
This is it here, guys.
This is the one.
-ALEX: Coming out of the core. -Fingers crossed.
-What do we got? -This is gonna be 95 feet.
SCOTT: 95 feet.
ALEX: 95. Thanks, Colten.
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Yeah, that's solid maroon till.
SCOTT: Man, oh, man.
PAUL: That's not what we want to see.
Not at all.
Is there anything in the end of that?
It's a little softer here at 95.
I think we might be close to something right here.
'Cause, I mean, that's a lot softer than it is up there.
PAUL: We don't know.
We could be on the edge of something.
-Right. -It all rides on this next core.
I mean, we're gonna see if we have a void on the table,
-right in front of us. -Yeah.
♪ ♪
What do we have there?
This is to 98 feet.
-PAUL: 98, so... -ALEX: 98, okay. Thank you.
PAUL: Okay. Go ahead.
♪ ♪
Well, I do not see any wood.
PAUL: All right.
SCOTT: Ooh. It's pretty soft in here.
It is really soft. Like, really soft.
PAUL: Yeah, it is.
It's very soft. Saturated.
It has a lot of moisture content in it right now.
SCOTT: We could be very close to something.
When you get a little bit loose like that,
it can mean a chamber or a cavity of some sort down there.
PAUL: Whatever it is, we're on the edge of something.
RICK: Loose soils do indicate some sort of activity
was conducted in that zone.
If it's a chamber,
it's almost certainly associated with treasure.
So this last run is gonna be very important.
Yep.
This is gonna tell us whether there's a void here,
it's a wood structure,
-or maybe gold coins. -Yeah.
I'm saying my prayers that this run is gonna tell us
something that we don't know.
Right.
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Looks like we got our last few feet coming out.
PAUL: He's got some material in there.
Which is a great thing.
NARRATOR: It is a potentially exciting moment
in the Money Pit area as the team
has just encountered evidence of human activity
in Borehole DN-9.5 at a depth of 95 feet...
What do we have there?
-COLTON: This is to 109. -ALEX: Okay.
NARRATOR: ...a borehole located
in a 20 by 20-foot zone near the Garden Shaft
where scientific water tests
have suggested that the Oak Island treasure
may be buried between 80 and 120 feet.
SCOTT: Okay.
What do we see?
(Paul exhales)
It looks like graywacke we got into there.
Very solid.
There's nothing here but still stone.
SCOTT: Yeah.
PAUL: Cobbles.
-And till. -SCOTT: Just tight till.
Unfortunately, we didn't find any gold,
but there's still other areas we can drill and plan to drill
-in this treasure area. -Okay.
So there's still hope yet.
Yeah.
RICK: This is a process,
and we didn't find treasure, but it gave us information.
The belief is that there's something there.
So we will continue to do the drilling program.
I think we're very early on.
One mustn't jump to conclusions.
This is a painstaking process.
I know we have to be patient.
And there's a lot of gold that's in this area,
so everybody's excited to get some answers.
So we move off and we drill elsewhere.
-PAUL: Okay. -ALEX: Sounds good.
-See you guys in a bit. -SCOTT: Thanks, guys.
PAUL: All right.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
LAIRD: Hey, Rick. Doug.
-Laird, we've brought a guest. -Hey, Terry.
-Hey, Laird. -You know Terry.
-Always good to have you here. -Thanks a lot.
NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina, Doug Crowell
and historical researcher Terry Deveau
join archaeologist Laird Niven
on Lot 26 at the mysterious
900-year-old stone well.
TERRY: This is quite a thing you've found here.
Beautiful well.
NARRATOR: Terry currently serves
as the president of the New England Antiquities
Research Association
and has previously consulted with the Oak Island team
on a number of their discoveries,
including the stone road uncovered in the swamp,
which Terry believes is at least 500 years old
and of Portuguese origin.
TERRY: The stones are really well-formed around the inside.
LAIRD: Yeah.
We're 98% sure that's the very, very bottom of the well.
Can you infer anything, Terry?
At all? Your opinion?
TERRY: Well, I mean, the thing is,
people have been building wells with this kind of technique
for thousands of years,
and it's more or less universal among cultures as well.
It's a traditional
technology that's been around for so many millennia.
The well must have been in use for a long time
because it's actually really clean down there.
Not many artifacts.
RICK: The other wells across the island--
I do not remember any of them
being constructed like this.
I mean, circular, yes.
But not like this.
This construct is unique.
You know, the well that does look a lot similar to that
is the one at New Ross.
RICK: You think that one was
represented by this type of construct?
Yeah. It does definitely remind me of it.
That doesn't look like soil, does it?
That is weird. Look at this right here.
Very strange bottom.
NARRATOR: In 2016, Rick Lagina,
diver Tony Sampson
and members of the team
visited a mysterious, historic site
located 20 miles north of Oak Island
in the town of New Ross, Nova Scotia.
A site containing stone carvings,
a well,
and the foundational ruins of a structure
that some researchers believe
were created by members of the Knights Templar
more than 600 years ago.
TONY: Well, that's kind of weird.
TEDFORD: What did you find down there, Tony?
TONY: I've got what could be a triangle.
NARRATOR: Incredibly,
while investigating the stone well on the property,
Tony discovered what appeared to be a triangle
with an eye in the center--
a Masonic and Templar symbol
that is eerily reminiscent of the shape
and possible design of the Oak Island swamp.
Could Terry Deveau be correct
that the well on Lot 26 matches the specific design
of the one in New Ross?
If so, might they have been created by the same builders?
Well, when we went to New Ross to look at that well,
the other interesting thing we saw there was the stone.
And it seemed to have that Portuguese
or Templar cross carved on it.
That was interesting because
this whole idea of the possible Portuguese
-connection to the island. -Yeah.
The possible Templar connection to New Ross
goes way back.
So I-I think there's, there's a lot of opportunity
to further that research
and come up with a definitive answer.
That's what our hope is here.
We want to understand the truths
to be uncovered here just as there are at New Ross.
Does the timeline allow
for the idea that there's some Templar association
here at lot 26?
Certainly it does.
But that's not enough to draw conclusions.
So I'm interested enough to keep pursuing this.
Do you think this one is earlier than that?
Well, it could easily be.
The construction technique seems to be similar.
And the way the stones are put together,
they intended this to be here for a long period of time.
100%.
TERRY: Well, thanks a lot for showing me.
I really appreciate it.
It's amazing.
Yeah. Very cool.
Yeah, it-it is. Hopefully it will tell a story.
NARRATOR: As Rick, Terry and the members of the team
continue their inspection of the stone well...
GARY: All right, let's see what's waiting for us
underneath this flag, mate.
NARRATOR: ...less than 100 yards away...
-(intermittent beeping) -GARY: Oh, that sounds great.
All right, mate, just there.
Almost there. Here we go.
NARRATOR: ...Gary Drayton and Jack Begley set out once again
to search for additional clues that might reveal
the true story of Lot 26.
GARY: All right.
I think you dug deep enough, mate.
-Did I get it out? -It sounds like it. Yeah.
-(beeping) -GARY: Ooh.
-It is here. -It's that thing?
-Yeah. Let's see what we got. -Or is it in a clump?
It's in the clump.
-JACK: A musket ball? -No.
-JACK: Whoa! -GARY: Sweet baby Jesus.
-Look what we found. -No way.
-Look at that! -Oh, my--
What the heck is that, Gary?
Let's see.
-Oh! -Oh, my...
GARY: Is it a brooch?
JACK: I think it might be.
That's a brooch or a buckle.
-(laughing) -Yes!
NARRATOR: On Lot 26, less than 100 yards
from the ancient stone well
metal detection expert Gary Drayton and Jack Begley
have just made a potentially valuable discovery.
I think we've just found a piece of jewelry, mate.
I mean, look. That is unusual.
-JACK: Can I hold it for a second? -GARY: Yeah, of course, mate.
JACK: I just want to get a...
This looks really nice.
But that looks really, really old, mate.
JACK: Oh, wow.
-Any idea on the date for this? -(sighs)
I don't know, 'cause I don't know what that red is.
-I have no idea, either. -I don't know if it's some
kind of stone.
JACK: Yeah, but it looks like there's glass.
GARY: Yeah, it's either glass
or some kind of crystal.
But it looks to be ornate.
I'd hate to damage it.
It's very, very, unusual.
I mean, look at the patina, mate.
You know it's old.
JACK: I think this is one of
the coolest things we've found around here.
And it could be really, really old.
Yeah, but either way, that is a real bobby-dazzler.
Talk about top-pocket finds. That is one.
JACK: I think this is an important find
to where we should stop right now
and take it to the lab.
Ah, you're right, mate. This is unbelievable.
I'm not gonna put it in my pocket or anything.
We'll treat this with kid gloves.
We'll give it the respect it deserves.
Ooh! I can't wait to see their faces.
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RICK: Hey, guys.
-Hey, guys. -Hey.
-JACK: Good timing. -GARY: Hey, chaps.
What's the excitement about?
The excitement is about this. What's in the bag.
NARRATOR: After notifying Rick Lagina and Craig Tester
of their discovery,
Gary and Jack join them
in the Oak Island Interpretive Centre
along with Laird Niven,
archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan
and Billy Gerhardt.
GARY: Jack and I recovered this--
Well, how do we describe it?
Bobby-dazzler, top-pocket find, all rolled into one...
-(chuckles) -GARY: ...on Lot 26
at the side of that old wall.
And it is spectacular.
Check that out.
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RICK: What do you make of it?
GARY: Jack and I believe it could be either a brooch
or a buckle.
I mean, whether or not it's a brooch,
someone wore it ornamentally or it was used
to decorate something.
GARY: And it's almost Masonic-looking.
It's got that intricate design.
What does that remind you of, Rick?
On Lot 8?
-The brooch. -GARY: Yup.
That is beautiful.
NARRATOR: In 2017,
Rick and Gary discovered a semiprecious
garnet gemstone on Lot 8 near the middle of the island--
a garnet gemstone that is believed
to not only be 500 years old or older...
And I know you keep referring to it as a brooch.
I have a different possible interpretation.
NARRATOR: ...but according to 32nd degree Freemason Scott Clarke,
it may have been part of a Masonic breastplate,
one linked to the sacred missing treasures
of the Knights Templar.
CLARKE: The breastplate was used in a specific Masonic ritual
meant to mimic the retrieval of the Ark of the Covenant
from a secret vault underground.
Wow.
That is a strange piece.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that Gary and Jack have found
a related artifact near the 900-year-old well on Lot 26?
And if so, could it also be connected
to the silver that has been detected in the water?
I'm intrigued enough to put it in the CT scanner.
Mm-hmm.
-Right now. -JACK: Yeah.
Okay, I can do that.
JACK: Let's see what it looks like.
NARRATOR: In order to examine the brooch,
Emma will use the Skyscan 1273 CT scanner.
By emitting nondestructive X-ray radiation,
the device can penetrate corrosion
and encrusted soil on the surface,
revealing a three-dimensional computer image
that shows the object's finer details.
♪ ♪
GARY: Here we go.
OK.
JACK: Ooh.
GARY: Oh, that's bloody beautiful, isn't it, eh?
♪ ♪
RICK: Can you flip it, Emma?
180.
♪ ♪
GARY: That is bloody gorgeous.
LAIRD: And remember, this is just...
a snapshot.
GARY: Yeah, a bloody nice snapshot.
LAIRD: It's definitely jewelry.
Yeah.
-RICK: It's quite intricate. -GARY: Mm.
There's some craftsmanship associated with that.
-CRAIG: It looks like a flower. -JACK: Yeah.
-GARY: Yeah. -RICK: There are one, two, three,
four, five leaves, aren't there?
GARY: Yeah, you're right, mate.
I'd love to know what type of leaves they are,
'cause that should speak to origin.
The question is, how old is it?
Yeah.
And what does that--
Does that design reflect anything?
GARY: Yeah.
Mm. Got a lot going for this.
RICK: We need more information.
More of a CT scan, XRF, maybe even XRD.
NARRATOR: To further analyze the brooch for important clues,
Emma Culligan will need to spend several days
scanning the artifact
with the team's additional laboratory devices
which will hopefully help her determine
its metallurgical composition,
the possible time period it was created,
and perhaps the geographical region where it originated.
RICK: Kudos to you guys.
It's a top-pocket find
-and a bobby-dazzler. -Yeah.
RICK: There's no question about it.
And, uh, hopefully we'll learn something.
And we may have found a piece of treasure.
JACK: Yep. GARY: Two thumbs up from Rick.
RICK: Thank you all very much. Great day.
-RICK: It's an exciting day. -SCOTT: Yep.
-RICK: Roger. -Hey! How's it going, guys?
-RICK: Good, how are you? -Good, good, good, good.
NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,
Rick Lagina, along with
Oak Island Operations manager Scott Barlow,
are about to experience a moment
that Rick has dreamed of
since he was just a boy
and first read about the Oak Island mystery.
We have all kinds of emotions
running through us, you know.
Bottom line is, we're radically changing the search agenda now.
We're gonna go looking for
what's underground by being underground.
That's pretty cool.
Oh, I think so. I think so.
But it's kind of bittersweet.
Like I was telling him just before we walked in,
this will be our only first time underground
in the Money Pit, so we better enjoy it, right?
-Oh, yeah, for sure. -It's gonna be a moment
that we're gonna remember the rest of our lives.
Yeah, absolutely.
-Okay. -So, what do we have to do?
We'll get you suited up.
Also, I've got a couple of coveralls
-for you guys here. -Okay, cool.
I got another one for you, Scott.
NARRATOR: Now that the reconstruction
of the Garden Shaft has reached a depth of 44 feet,
and after completing the required safety training...
Perfect.
NARRATOR: ...Rick will have
his first opportunity ever
to personally go underground in the Money Pit area.
ROGER: Okay, guys, we are gonna
head down there and we're gonna go see what we can see.
-Sounds good? -Yeah.
RICK: For the first time,
we are gonna go underground
in the Money Pit.
That in and of itself is pretty cool.
But we're here to solve the mystery.
-Go ahead, Roger. -Thank you.
RICK: And the hope is that when we go down in the shaft,
our senses will be more attuned to the possibilities
of what the shaft represents in terms of
furthering our understanding in the Money Pit.
ROGER: There we go.
I'll go down and you guys can follow me in there.
Let me know if you have any questions
-on the way down, Rick. -Yeah. -Okay.
RICK: It's intensely emotional
to be underground in the Money Pit
where so many people
who have come before us had that same experience.
And I think life is all about shared experience
because I do believe this is a wonderful story.
And we know the people that have come before us,
their legacy now is
being carried by us.
Wow. (sighs) Beautiful.
I've believed in Oak Island since I was a little boy.
As a little boy, I dreamt of treasure,
and hidden wealth, and booby traps,
and underground tunnels.
Wow.
Now that I'm underground... (chuckles)
...in the Money Pit, I'm in awe.
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-This is astounding. -ROGER: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
-SCOTT: This is pretty amazing. -ROGER: Yeah, it is, eh?
So what you see
below this set that we are installing right now,
everything in there in the bottom that you see
-is all original. -RICK: Wow.
I mean, not just the work you are doing,
which is quite amazing...
ROGER: Yeah.
RICK: ...but this is what is astounding.
You're looking at history, right?
To see how that wood has been preserved is unbelievable, man.
-SCOTT: It's amazing. -RICK: It's quite remarkable.
Yeah, it is, eh?
RICK: You look at the shaft and you think
"My goodness, people long ago, they didn't have cranes."
It's a testament to their will,
to their desire, to their belief
that where there's a will, there's a way.
And there was certainly a will to their enterprise.
Not only the searchers but the original depositors as well.
So, Roger, now that we're down near 50 feet here, I mean...
-Yeah. -SCOTT: ...there's a lot of potential
for other works to be in the area.
Offset chambers,
and the tunnel at the 95-foot mark.
Oh, for sure.
There may be original work beneath this.
You're right, and that's one of the reasons why
we pound on that timber all the time,
to see if there is any void behind us.
But yeah, we're expecting
to get some answers as to what happened here, why.
Boy, this is interesting and it's quite phenomenal.
-ROGER: Oh, it is. It is. -It really is.
It's been an amazing experience.
You stand here and you look up,
-and it's-- -Yeah.
SCOTT: I-I can't explain how I feel right now.
-ROGER: Oh. -RICK: Thank you.
This-this has been very unique, right?
Yep.
Forever grateful for this opportunity.
RICK: We really, really, appreciate it.
ROGER: Glad you enjoyed it.
NARRATOR: After another productive week on Oak Island,
Rick, Marty, Craig and their team
have good reason to believe that they are on the cusp
of a major breakthrough in the 228-year-old mystery.
They have not only found more incredible clues
that may soon reveal just who created the Money Pit long ago,
but now, as they dig deeper and deeper
into the Garden Shaft,
they may finally unearth a fabled treasure
that could rewrite the history of North America.
NARRATOR: Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...
Whoa! I can feel the rods break through something.
Whoa, we got lots of wood.
Wood all through this core.
TERRY: Oh, my gosh, we are into something.
There are some quantities of gold in the wood.
That's fantastic.
Now we have gold
in the wood and in the water.
This might lead us to where the treasure may be.
Wow, look at that. They found an old ladder.
SCOTT: It's all handmade.
RICK: This could be
the long-sought-after answer.
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