1 00:00:02,167 --> 00:00:04,083 NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island... 2 00:00:04,208 --> 00:00:05,750 RICK: We're following the trail of the gold. 3 00:00:05,875 --> 00:00:07,542 MARTY: There's a highly unusual source of gold here. 4 00:00:07,667 --> 00:00:09,792 -Hey, look at this. -Nice. 5 00:00:09,917 --> 00:00:12,125 If you can get a date off of that, you could date this wall. 6 00:00:12,250 --> 00:00:16,208 We're talking about 1650 to about 1690. 7 00:00:16,333 --> 00:00:17,875 RICK: Come on in, Bill. 8 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,083 We're digging up a hidden well. 9 00:00:20,208 --> 00:00:23,333 -(beeping) -Oh, look at that. That's fantastic! 10 00:00:23,417 --> 00:00:26,083 There's definitely higher counts of gold here. 11 00:00:26,208 --> 00:00:28,625 -That's exciting. -Yeah. -Yeah. 12 00:00:31,375 --> 00:00:34,417 NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic 13 00:00:34,542 --> 00:00:37,042 where people have been looking for 14 00:00:37,167 --> 00:00:41,042 an incredible treasure for more than 200 years. 15 00:00:41,208 --> 00:00:44,083 So far, they have found a stone slab 16 00:00:44,208 --> 00:00:46,333 with strange symbols carved into it... 17 00:00:47,542 --> 00:00:50,750 ...man-made workings that date to medieval times, 18 00:00:50,875 --> 00:00:55,000 and a lead cross whose origin may be connected 19 00:00:55,167 --> 00:00:56,167 to the Knights Templar. 20 00:00:56,292 --> 00:00:59,042 To date, six men have died 21 00:00:59,208 --> 00:01:02,000 trying to solve the mystery. 22 00:01:02,125 --> 00:01:07,167 And according to legend, one more will have to die 23 00:01:07,333 --> 00:01:09,667 before the treasure can be found. 24 00:01:15,042 --> 00:01:17,292 ♪ ♪ 25 00:01:22,042 --> 00:01:23,833 -MARTY: Hey, guys. -RODNEY: Hello, Marty. 26 00:01:23,958 --> 00:01:25,667 NARRATOR: As a new day begins 27 00:01:25,792 --> 00:01:27,333 on Oak Island for brothers 28 00:01:27,458 --> 00:01:29,875 Rick and Marty Lagina and their team... 29 00:01:30,042 --> 00:01:31,542 MARTY: Okay, Rod, Paul, 30 00:01:31,708 --> 00:01:33,250 I see you have us set up with camera. That's great. 31 00:01:33,375 --> 00:01:34,750 NARRATOR: ...the belief that they are close 32 00:01:34,875 --> 00:01:37,000 to a groundbreaking discovery 33 00:01:37,167 --> 00:01:39,542 in the Money Pit area has never been stronger. 34 00:01:39,708 --> 00:01:42,708 Rod, where are we currently with the dig? 35 00:01:42,833 --> 00:01:46,167 -We're just putting in our set now at 50... roughly 56 feet. -Yeah. 36 00:01:46,292 --> 00:01:48,917 NARRATOR: Working with representatives 37 00:01:49,042 --> 00:01:50,417 from Dumas Contracting Limited, 38 00:01:50,542 --> 00:01:53,417 they have reached a depth of nearly 60 feet 39 00:01:53,542 --> 00:01:57,042 with the reconstruction of the so-called Garden Shaft, 40 00:01:57,167 --> 00:01:59,750 a dilapidated, 80-foot-deep structure 41 00:01:59,875 --> 00:02:03,333 that may not only be related to the original Money Pit, 42 00:02:03,458 --> 00:02:05,500 but might also hold the keys 43 00:02:05,667 --> 00:02:10,000 to solving a 228-year-old treasure mystery. 44 00:02:10,125 --> 00:02:12,000 We want you to do something here, Rod. 45 00:02:12,125 --> 00:02:14,208 Uh, when you were drilling your holes, 46 00:02:14,333 --> 00:02:17,000 Rick had you hand over some of those wood samples. 47 00:02:17,167 --> 00:02:19,083 Well, it turns out that we had those tested, 48 00:02:19,208 --> 00:02:22,000 and there's gold in those. 49 00:02:22,125 --> 00:02:24,167 RICK: Drill's going in now. 50 00:02:24,292 --> 00:02:25,375 -All right, bud. We're in business. -Yup. 51 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:26,833 NARRATOR: One week ago... 52 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 ALEX: If we get lucky, this'll tell us. 53 00:02:29,167 --> 00:02:32,167 NARRATOR: ...after conducting exploratory probe-drilling 54 00:02:32,333 --> 00:02:35,708 from within the shaft at a depth of 55 feet, 55 00:02:35,875 --> 00:02:37,583 the team had archaeometallurgist 56 00:02:37,708 --> 00:02:41,375 Emma Culligan test a sample of wood, 57 00:02:41,542 --> 00:02:46,417 taken from the original feature, for signs of precious metals. 58 00:02:46,542 --> 00:02:49,708 From this one, I detected gold. 59 00:02:49,875 --> 00:02:52,000 -Wow. -0.11% 60 00:02:52,125 --> 00:02:53,208 Isn't that like a big number? 61 00:02:53,333 --> 00:02:55,333 This is huge. 62 00:02:56,708 --> 00:02:59,667 MARTY: We're gonna want to take more samples. 63 00:02:59,792 --> 00:03:03,250 And while your guys are down there, can they cut a section 64 00:03:03,375 --> 00:03:05,542 of that tight lining and get us a piece? 65 00:03:05,708 --> 00:03:07,167 Yeah. Yeah. 66 00:03:07,250 --> 00:03:09,333 NARRATOR: Now, while Dumas 67 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:11,750 completes the final eight-foot sections, 68 00:03:11,875 --> 00:03:13,167 or sets, of the Garden Shaft... 69 00:03:13,250 --> 00:03:15,417 Hello, Dan. Do you got a copy? 70 00:03:15,542 --> 00:03:17,208 NARRATOR: ...down to a total depth of 80 feet... 71 00:03:17,375 --> 00:03:18,833 MACKENZIE: What's going on? 72 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,167 Can you take out a piece 73 00:03:20,292 --> 00:03:21,833 of the tight lining and send it up? 74 00:03:21,958 --> 00:03:24,250 -No problem at all. -Thank you. 75 00:03:24,375 --> 00:03:25,667 NARRATOR: ...the Oak Island team will continue 76 00:03:25,792 --> 00:03:28,500 testing samples of the original structure 77 00:03:28,667 --> 00:03:31,958 in an effort to pinpoint just where the ultimate source 78 00:03:32,083 --> 00:03:33,917 of the gold may be located. 79 00:03:34,042 --> 00:03:36,500 I bet you wouldn't have thought there'd be gold in that wood. 80 00:03:36,667 --> 00:03:38,042 I would never have thought there'd be gold in that wood. 81 00:03:38,167 --> 00:03:40,375 Well, there is. I don't know what to make of it. 82 00:03:40,542 --> 00:03:42,667 -We're trying to figure it out. -RODNEY: Okay. 83 00:03:42,833 --> 00:03:45,208 -There's our sample. I'll go grab it. Yeah. -Good deal. 84 00:03:45,333 --> 00:03:48,208 MARTY: If we find gold at this 50-foot depth, 85 00:03:48,333 --> 00:03:50,167 then we have two alternatives. 86 00:03:50,292 --> 00:03:52,167 The source of the gold either went deeper, 87 00:03:52,292 --> 00:03:53,833 or it was actually emanating 88 00:03:53,917 --> 00:03:57,333 from the Garden Shaft and is much closer. 89 00:03:57,458 --> 00:03:59,458 So, there could be something like an offset chamber, 90 00:03:59,583 --> 00:04:02,792 shallower than we realized, and that would be great. 91 00:04:02,875 --> 00:04:05,333 Well, those ought to do. 92 00:04:05,417 --> 00:04:07,750 Those are some pretty good chunks. 93 00:04:07,875 --> 00:04:09,917 Should be good enough for a sample size off of that. 94 00:04:10,042 --> 00:04:13,167 -Oh, I think so, yeah. -PAUL: We have all those gold areas 95 00:04:13,292 --> 00:04:15,250 that are in the water over here on the corner. 96 00:04:15,375 --> 00:04:17,458 So there must be some communication somewhere. 97 00:04:17,542 --> 00:04:20,167 Whether it's further below, in deeper caverns and tunnels 98 00:04:20,292 --> 00:04:21,667 that extend out into the Money Pit. 99 00:04:21,792 --> 00:04:24,542 -But somewhere there's a contact point. -Yeah. 100 00:04:24,708 --> 00:04:28,167 Okay, well, look, these are the samples from 58 feet, right? 101 00:04:28,333 --> 00:04:29,417 -Yeah. -We're gonna want more, I guarantee it. 102 00:04:29,542 --> 00:04:31,167 So, stay tuned, all right? 103 00:04:31,292 --> 00:04:33,208 Especially after we get the results of this. 104 00:04:33,333 --> 00:04:35,167 -Perfect. -MARTY: Yup, okay. Thank you, guys. 105 00:04:35,292 --> 00:04:37,000 -RODNEY: Thank you. -PAUL: All right. 106 00:04:37,083 --> 00:04:38,875 NARRATOR: While the reconstruction 107 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,292 of the Garden Shaft continues in the Money Pit area... 108 00:04:42,417 --> 00:04:46,042 RICK: Gentlemen, I'm glad we're here. 109 00:04:46,167 --> 00:04:48,000 I was speaking with Tom the other day, 110 00:04:48,083 --> 00:04:49,375 and he's come up with an idea: 111 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:51,417 developing a new search agenda 112 00:04:51,542 --> 00:04:53,708 based on your father's work, of course. 113 00:04:53,875 --> 00:04:56,250 NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina, along with fellow 114 00:04:56,375 --> 00:04:58,667 Oak Island landowner Tom Nolan, 115 00:04:58,833 --> 00:05:01,167 gather in the war room with members of the team 116 00:05:01,292 --> 00:05:04,000 for an important meeting regarding the decades 117 00:05:04,125 --> 00:05:06,167 of documented search activity 118 00:05:06,292 --> 00:05:09,833 conducted by Tom's late father, Fred Nolan. 119 00:05:09,917 --> 00:05:12,250 I think we're all going to find it very interesting. 120 00:05:12,375 --> 00:05:14,000 So, Tom, I'm going to turn it over to you. 121 00:05:14,125 --> 00:05:16,958 Well, in the early '80s, 122 00:05:17,042 --> 00:05:21,875 my dad started to compose a book of his work on the island. 123 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,375 And it was never published. 124 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:28,792 But it does give, you know, a really good read, 125 00:05:28,917 --> 00:05:30,958 of his work over the years on the island. 126 00:05:34,458 --> 00:05:37,667 NARRATOR: From the early 1960s 127 00:05:37,792 --> 00:05:41,958 until his passing in 2016, Fred Nolan, 128 00:05:42,083 --> 00:05:45,333 a professional surveyor from Halifax, Nova Scotia, 129 00:05:45,458 --> 00:05:48,667 made some of the most important discoveries 130 00:05:48,792 --> 00:05:51,042 in the history of the Oak Island treasure hunt 131 00:05:51,208 --> 00:05:53,042 on the six lots that he owned. 132 00:05:53,208 --> 00:05:57,250 These include numerous parts of a large sailing vessel 133 00:05:57,375 --> 00:05:59,667 that he found in the triangle-shaped swamp, 134 00:05:59,792 --> 00:06:03,542 as well as the megalithic formation of six boulders 135 00:06:03,708 --> 00:06:07,708 that came to be known as "Nolan's Cross." 136 00:06:07,833 --> 00:06:10,458 Back in the 1970s, 137 00:06:10,542 --> 00:06:13,500 we were working around the outer edge of the swamp, 138 00:06:13,583 --> 00:06:15,042 and we got into a well. 139 00:06:15,167 --> 00:06:18,417 It had been filled in and buried. 140 00:06:18,542 --> 00:06:22,000 As I recall, I'm going to say it was ten feet deep. 141 00:06:22,125 --> 00:06:24,708 But one of the odd things was, 142 00:06:24,833 --> 00:06:27,125 when we got to the... what we assumed was the bottom of it, 143 00:06:27,250 --> 00:06:32,000 we came across a tremendous amount of broken pottery. 144 00:06:32,125 --> 00:06:36,000 -Wow. -Like somebody had just taken everything they had 145 00:06:36,167 --> 00:06:39,125 and smashed it and thrown it to the bottom of this well. 146 00:06:39,250 --> 00:06:41,333 We didn't know what to make of it. 147 00:06:41,458 --> 00:06:43,000 Filled it back in. 148 00:06:43,125 --> 00:06:46,000 But it's interesting where you guys have found this well on 26. 149 00:06:46,125 --> 00:06:49,083 -You just might want to have a look at that. -Yeah. 150 00:06:49,208 --> 00:06:51,000 -I'd be happy to go out there and take a look at it. -Yeah. 151 00:06:51,125 --> 00:06:53,500 -Yeah. -TOM: We can come up with some answers 152 00:06:53,667 --> 00:06:55,000 as to why this thing was put there. 153 00:06:55,083 --> 00:06:56,833 I mean, I-I think 154 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,792 it's certainly worth our time to investigate it. 155 00:06:59,875 --> 00:07:02,250 RICK: Well, I mean, I see no reason not to dig it. 156 00:07:02,375 --> 00:07:06,708 -Uh, me personally. -Yeah. -Yes. 157 00:07:06,833 --> 00:07:09,875 TOM: So, there is another thing. My dad discovered, 158 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,542 in the early '90s, something that we refer to 159 00:07:14,667 --> 00:07:17,583 as "the quadrilateral." 160 00:07:17,708 --> 00:07:21,792 He found it using some sort of an offset sightline 161 00:07:21,875 --> 00:07:22,958 of the cross. 162 00:07:23,083 --> 00:07:25,333 It's within, oh, 163 00:07:25,458 --> 00:07:28,375 a couple hundred feet of the top of the cross 164 00:07:28,542 --> 00:07:31,583 on the north side of the swamp. 165 00:07:31,708 --> 00:07:34,167 When they did get into the site, and they cleared it off, 166 00:07:34,250 --> 00:07:35,583 they brought in a small backhoe, 167 00:07:35,708 --> 00:07:37,667 and they did a little bit of light excavation work, 168 00:07:37,833 --> 00:07:39,875 and what they found themselves in 169 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,833 was some sort of a boulder field. 170 00:07:41,958 --> 00:07:44,458 And it definitely 171 00:07:44,542 --> 00:07:47,833 didn't look natural once they started to uncover it. 172 00:07:48,958 --> 00:07:51,500 This is the section in the book that was dedicated 173 00:07:51,667 --> 00:07:53,167 to the quadrilateral. 174 00:07:53,292 --> 00:07:54,500 As you can see what... 175 00:07:54,667 --> 00:07:57,167 What are the diagrams? 176 00:07:57,333 --> 00:08:00,375 So, here are his pictures 177 00:08:00,542 --> 00:08:03,375 of how he sketched out the quadrilateral. 178 00:08:03,542 --> 00:08:05,167 You can see it's... 179 00:08:05,250 --> 00:08:08,958 On its long side, it's probably 32 feet long. 180 00:08:09,042 --> 00:08:11,000 Runs about ten feet deep 181 00:08:11,083 --> 00:08:14,333 with three layers of large boulders. 182 00:08:14,458 --> 00:08:17,208 RICK: That's intriguing, right? 183 00:08:17,333 --> 00:08:18,708 -Very intriguing. -TOM: No farmer 184 00:08:18,833 --> 00:08:20,042 working the island would have done this. 185 00:08:20,208 --> 00:08:21,667 It-it has another purpose. 186 00:08:21,750 --> 00:08:24,833 -Mm-hmm. -Is the whole thing dug out? 187 00:08:24,958 --> 00:08:27,625 Or are we able to do some sort of an excavation? 188 00:08:27,750 --> 00:08:29,875 TOM: He partially back-filled it. 189 00:08:30,042 --> 00:08:33,833 So, I mean, yeah, it could certainly be re-excavated. 190 00:08:33,917 --> 00:08:35,500 Well, I'll tell you what. Here's what we'll do. 191 00:08:35,625 --> 00:08:37,667 And I think this is exceedingly interesting. 192 00:08:37,792 --> 00:08:39,250 And we need to explore this further. 193 00:08:39,375 --> 00:08:42,042 But I would advocate to explore this well 194 00:08:42,208 --> 00:08:44,000 that you're referencing first 195 00:08:44,125 --> 00:08:46,917 because the well is in the northern end of the swamp, 196 00:08:47,042 --> 00:08:49,917 -and we know the swamp was manipulated. -Yup. 197 00:08:50,042 --> 00:08:52,375 RICK: The well on Tom's property-- 198 00:08:52,542 --> 00:08:54,167 it's interesting for two reasons. 199 00:08:54,292 --> 00:08:57,375 One, it's a hidden well. That's how Fred described it. 200 00:08:57,500 --> 00:08:59,708 There are other wells on the island. 201 00:08:59,875 --> 00:09:01,833 They're all open. They weren't filled in. 202 00:09:01,917 --> 00:09:06,292 The quadrilateral is a unique geometric figure, 203 00:09:06,417 --> 00:09:08,333 and we will look into it further. 204 00:09:08,458 --> 00:09:11,458 First, let's dig the well out properly. 205 00:09:11,583 --> 00:09:13,333 Well, I think we all want answers here. 206 00:09:13,458 --> 00:09:15,625 So, we better get at it and get out there. 207 00:09:15,708 --> 00:09:17,583 -Right? -Yeah. -Let's do it. 208 00:09:17,708 --> 00:09:20,792 RICK: Let's try to figure this out. 209 00:09:21,958 --> 00:09:24,167 NARRATOR: Later that afternoon... 210 00:09:25,250 --> 00:09:27,167 -RICK: Come on in, Bill. -(mechanical beeping) 211 00:09:27,292 --> 00:09:29,500 ALEX: Probably about here. 212 00:09:29,583 --> 00:09:31,292 BILLY: All right. 213 00:09:31,417 --> 00:09:33,167 NARRATOR: ...Rick and Alex Lagina, 214 00:09:33,292 --> 00:09:36,625 along with Billy Gerhardt, arrive on Lot 11, 215 00:09:36,750 --> 00:09:41,167 near the northern edge of the triangle-shaped swamp. 216 00:09:41,333 --> 00:09:43,000 I'd work from the outside in, 217 00:09:43,125 --> 00:09:45,125 -so we don't tear it up. -BILLY: All right. 218 00:09:45,208 --> 00:09:47,917 NARRATOR: Having been given the location 219 00:09:48,042 --> 00:09:51,375 of a reported buried well by Tom Nolan, 220 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:54,750 they are eager to excavate the feature and look for clues 221 00:09:54,875 --> 00:09:59,542 that might help solve the 228-year-old mystery. 222 00:10:01,875 --> 00:10:04,042 Another little mini treasure hunt for you, Gary. 223 00:10:04,167 --> 00:10:05,750 Ooh, wow. 224 00:10:05,875 --> 00:10:07,667 As you well know, Fred did not have a metal detector. 225 00:10:07,833 --> 00:10:09,542 -No. -He wasn't, you know, a proponent of that. 226 00:10:09,708 --> 00:10:11,667 So, we may find something here. 227 00:10:11,792 --> 00:10:13,958 -Okay. -First, let's figure out 228 00:10:14,083 --> 00:10:15,500 the extent of the well and then go from there. 229 00:10:15,625 --> 00:10:16,875 -ALEX: Yup. -BILLY: Yup. 230 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,958 NARRATOR: As Billy Gerhardt 231 00:10:19,042 --> 00:10:23,792 removes muck and earth in an effort to uncover the well, 232 00:10:23,875 --> 00:10:26,333 Gary will scan the spoils for signs of artifacts 233 00:10:26,417 --> 00:10:29,167 and potential valuables. 234 00:10:40,667 --> 00:10:42,833 Going in. 235 00:10:46,917 --> 00:10:48,833 Ooh! 236 00:10:52,875 --> 00:10:54,542 GARY: Ooh. Look what I see. 237 00:10:54,667 --> 00:10:56,958 I see something old. 238 00:10:57,042 --> 00:10:59,125 I just about sweep over it with my metal detector. 239 00:10:59,208 --> 00:11:00,833 ALEX: Oh, yeah. 240 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,333 NARRATOR: Just north of the Oak Island swamp... 241 00:11:03,458 --> 00:11:05,292 It's an old spike. 242 00:11:05,375 --> 00:11:07,500 NARRATOR: ...while helping Rick Lagina and members 243 00:11:07,625 --> 00:11:09,833 of the team uncover a mysterious 244 00:11:09,958 --> 00:11:12,875 stone well, Gary Drayton has just found 245 00:11:13,042 --> 00:11:15,167 a potentially important clue. 246 00:11:15,292 --> 00:11:17,750 GARY: Ooh! It's our friend, the rose head. 247 00:11:17,875 --> 00:11:19,875 It's a beauty, as well. Look! 248 00:11:20,042 --> 00:11:22,042 -These are old. -ALEX: Yeah. 249 00:11:22,208 --> 00:11:23,750 Look at that. Look at the head on it. 250 00:11:23,875 --> 00:11:26,292 Mm-hmm, yeah, it's a rose head for sure. 251 00:11:26,417 --> 00:11:28,833 GARY: Imagine the last person to touch that before us. 252 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,750 It might have been the person who dug that well. 253 00:11:30,875 --> 00:11:32,500 -GARY: Yeah. -Yeah. 254 00:11:32,583 --> 00:11:35,167 NARRATOR: A rose head spike, meaning 255 00:11:35,250 --> 00:11:38,792 that it was hand-forged some time prior to the discovery 256 00:11:38,917 --> 00:11:41,167 of the Money Pit in 1795? 257 00:11:41,250 --> 00:11:45,333 But if so, how might it be related to the buried well 258 00:11:45,458 --> 00:11:49,500 that Fred Nolan discovered here more than four decades ago? 259 00:11:49,667 --> 00:11:51,125 GARY: Brilliant. Oh, my God, 260 00:11:51,250 --> 00:11:52,917 that's a thing of beauty, isn't it? 261 00:11:53,042 --> 00:11:54,917 -ALEX: And in the top couple feet, too. -GARY: Yeah. 262 00:11:55,042 --> 00:11:57,000 Question is, what would you be doing here 263 00:11:57,083 --> 00:11:59,792 -to necessitate using that? -Yeah. -Yeah. 264 00:11:59,875 --> 00:12:02,625 It is a really old iron fastener. 265 00:12:02,750 --> 00:12:04,167 BILLY: It's not only is it a fastener. 266 00:12:04,292 --> 00:12:06,167 -It's a big fastener, right? -GARY: Yeah. No. 267 00:12:06,250 --> 00:12:08,375 It's-it's... You'd think tunneling or shafts. 268 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:10,667 Yeah. Yeah. 269 00:12:10,750 --> 00:12:12,333 A beautiful find. I'm gonna bag it, 270 00:12:12,458 --> 00:12:13,833 and I'll recheck the spoils here, 271 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,833 -see if we got anymore. -Perfect. 272 00:12:16,958 --> 00:12:18,792 RICK: I don't know what to make of the rose head spike 273 00:12:18,917 --> 00:12:21,667 that's in close proximity to the hidden well. 274 00:12:21,792 --> 00:12:23,792 We have found those in the Money Pit. 275 00:12:23,875 --> 00:12:26,167 We have found those in Smith's Cove. 276 00:12:26,292 --> 00:12:29,333 We know for certain have been highly manipulated 277 00:12:29,458 --> 00:12:31,000 by the hand of man. 278 00:12:31,125 --> 00:12:35,250 So, that's interesting and intriguing in and of itself. 279 00:12:35,375 --> 00:12:36,833 Nothing yet. 280 00:12:36,958 --> 00:12:38,750 So are there other structures in proximity? 281 00:12:38,875 --> 00:12:40,125 There may be. 282 00:12:40,250 --> 00:12:43,958 To what end, we don't know quite yet. 283 00:12:45,667 --> 00:12:47,167 (beeping) 284 00:12:47,333 --> 00:12:49,333 GARY: I think there's a piece of iron here. 285 00:12:52,875 --> 00:12:55,125 Looks like it could be modern, though. 286 00:12:55,250 --> 00:12:57,708 -(rapid beeping) -Oh, maybe I am wrong about that. 287 00:12:57,875 --> 00:13:00,333 It's singing. 288 00:13:00,458 --> 00:13:03,000 Oh-ho! Look what we got. 289 00:13:03,875 --> 00:13:05,667 Look at this! 290 00:13:05,792 --> 00:13:07,250 A hook. 291 00:13:07,375 --> 00:13:09,750 An old hook, as well, by the look of it. 292 00:13:09,875 --> 00:13:13,333 Maybe it was a hook connected 293 00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:16,333 when they were bringing the water out the well. 294 00:13:16,458 --> 00:13:18,042 ALEX: Yeah. 295 00:13:18,167 --> 00:13:21,333 -Yeah, that could be. -GARY: Yeah. -Yeah. 296 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:23,625 GARY: That looks really old. 297 00:13:23,708 --> 00:13:25,583 That's an hand-forged hook. 298 00:13:25,708 --> 00:13:27,458 -Yeah, you can kind of see the striations on the tip. -Yeah. 299 00:13:27,583 --> 00:13:29,042 ALEX: The point. 300 00:13:29,208 --> 00:13:31,958 We have found a... another hook on the island. 301 00:13:32,042 --> 00:13:34,042 -Remember that bunk hook? -Mm-hmm. 302 00:13:34,208 --> 00:13:37,250 That Carmen ID'd as from 1600s? 303 00:13:37,375 --> 00:13:40,000 Same date range would be nice or even older. 304 00:13:40,125 --> 00:13:41,875 Mm-hmm. 305 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 MARTY: Oh, my goodness. What the hell is that? 306 00:13:44,125 --> 00:13:45,917 NARRATOR: Earlier this year, 307 00:13:46,042 --> 00:13:47,792 while investigating Lot 8, 308 00:13:47,917 --> 00:13:50,083 less than a quarter mile to the west, 309 00:13:50,208 --> 00:13:54,458 Gary and Marty Lagina unearthed a 17th-century bunk hook-- 310 00:13:54,583 --> 00:13:59,792 a tool specifically designed for lifting heavy cargo. 311 00:13:59,917 --> 00:14:01,833 -Another good candidate for the lab. -Yeah. Yup. 312 00:14:01,958 --> 00:14:03,667 NARRATOR: Is it possible 313 00:14:03,750 --> 00:14:05,667 that Gary has found a similar artifact 314 00:14:05,833 --> 00:14:08,667 near the reported buried well? 315 00:14:08,792 --> 00:14:12,000 And of course, we'll show it to Carmen Legge, 316 00:14:12,125 --> 00:14:14,000 -and hopefully, he'll know... -Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. 317 00:14:14,125 --> 00:14:15,708 GARY: ...what this was used for. 318 00:14:15,875 --> 00:14:18,250 -All right. I'm gonna bag it. -RICK: Absolutely. 319 00:14:18,375 --> 00:14:21,000 -Yeah. Yup. -I say keep digging, Bill. 320 00:14:26,375 --> 00:14:28,375 (mechanical squeaking) 321 00:14:38,208 --> 00:14:40,000 RICK: I just don't understand. 322 00:14:40,167 --> 00:14:42,542 Tom said, "You'll see the stones." 323 00:14:42,708 --> 00:14:45,000 The problem is there's no rock. 324 00:14:45,083 --> 00:14:47,083 -ALEX: Yeah. -There's just... there's no rock. 325 00:14:47,208 --> 00:14:50,083 -There doesn't seem to be a well. -(laughing): No. 326 00:14:50,208 --> 00:14:52,667 ALEX: To me, this looks like backfill stuff. 327 00:14:52,750 --> 00:14:55,667 RICK: There's not a stone to be found. 328 00:14:55,750 --> 00:14:57,042 No. 329 00:14:57,208 --> 00:14:59,583 -Nothing on this side at all. -Okay. 330 00:15:01,667 --> 00:15:03,750 We're done. 331 00:15:03,875 --> 00:15:05,333 So, I think what we'll do is 332 00:15:05,417 --> 00:15:07,417 bring Tom in and see what he says. 333 00:15:07,542 --> 00:15:10,167 -Mm-hmm. -BILLY: If there's a well, I think, unfortunately, 334 00:15:10,250 --> 00:15:12,250 it might be... It could be deeper. 335 00:15:12,375 --> 00:15:14,000 But we're-we're below Tom's two feet now. 336 00:15:14,167 --> 00:15:17,500 All the more reason to stand down 337 00:15:17,583 --> 00:15:18,958 and see if Tom has some answers. 338 00:15:19,042 --> 00:15:20,458 We have to get more information from Tom. 339 00:15:20,583 --> 00:15:22,333 -Yup. -Yup. 340 00:15:22,500 --> 00:15:24,333 -Back at it when Tom gets here. -RICK: Yup. -GARY: Yup. 341 00:15:24,417 --> 00:15:26,333 RICK: You got to be patient in this place. 342 00:15:26,458 --> 00:15:27,958 GARY: Yup. 343 00:15:30,167 --> 00:15:32,333 NARRATOR: The following morning... 344 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:34,250 AL COUTURE: All right, Rods, going down. 345 00:15:34,375 --> 00:15:36,375 NARRATOR: ...as the team from Dumas Contracting Limited 346 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:38,875 continues to reconstruct the Garden Shaft... 347 00:15:39,042 --> 00:15:40,750 MACKENZIE: Good. 348 00:15:40,875 --> 00:15:43,083 MARTY: Peter Romkey is here. 349 00:15:43,208 --> 00:15:45,375 He is an expert in trees and forestry. 350 00:15:45,542 --> 00:15:47,500 NARRATOR: ...at the research center, 351 00:15:47,583 --> 00:15:51,167 Rick and Marty Lagina, along with other members of the team, 352 00:15:51,250 --> 00:15:54,208 meet with forestry technician Peter Romkey. 353 00:15:54,375 --> 00:15:58,833 -We went out to the wall where we excavated. -Yes. 354 00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:01,500 -Let's bore a tree. -MARTY: Okay. 355 00:16:01,583 --> 00:16:03,292 NARRATOR: One week ago, Peter took a core sample 356 00:16:03,375 --> 00:16:07,208 from an adult oak tree that had grown up 357 00:16:07,375 --> 00:16:10,333 through the mysterious rock wall on Lot 26. 358 00:16:10,500 --> 00:16:13,500 A wall that sets less than 50 feet 359 00:16:13,667 --> 00:16:16,083 from a 900-year-old stone well 360 00:16:16,208 --> 00:16:18,083 where the team has recently found 361 00:16:18,208 --> 00:16:20,417 high-trace evidence of silver. 362 00:16:20,542 --> 00:16:22,833 Now, Peter has returned 363 00:16:22,958 --> 00:16:24,667 to report the age of the oak tree, 364 00:16:24,833 --> 00:16:27,542 which, if it pre-dates the discovery of the Money Pit, 365 00:16:27,708 --> 00:16:31,750 will prove that the stone wall's construction did, as well. 366 00:16:31,875 --> 00:16:33,833 So, what did you find out? 367 00:16:33,917 --> 00:16:37,208 We can look at the numbers here. 368 00:16:38,417 --> 00:16:41,167 So, if we talk about the second bore first, 369 00:16:41,292 --> 00:16:43,292 based on the number of rings that we could count, 370 00:16:43,417 --> 00:16:46,625 it ended up coming out at, uh, 240 years old. 371 00:16:49,792 --> 00:16:51,708 What's your plus and minus on that? 372 00:16:51,875 --> 00:16:54,208 My plus and minus could be 20 or 30 years. 373 00:16:54,375 --> 00:16:57,250 So, 260 years. But you have to remember, 374 00:16:57,375 --> 00:16:59,500 what's difficult with these 375 00:16:59,583 --> 00:17:02,333 were that once we get in a certain distance, 376 00:17:02,500 --> 00:17:05,500 the wood went rotten, in which case, there's no rings to count. 377 00:17:05,583 --> 00:17:08,000 The missing rings could be a lot older, a lot tighter, right? 378 00:17:08,125 --> 00:17:09,583 -A lot tighter, yeah. -Yeah. 379 00:17:09,708 --> 00:17:11,625 NARRATOR: Because the oak tree dates back 380 00:17:11,750 --> 00:17:14,250 240 years or more, 381 00:17:14,375 --> 00:17:18,875 could that possibly mean that the stone wall might be related 382 00:17:19,042 --> 00:17:22,500 to the nearby 900-year-old stone well? 383 00:17:22,625 --> 00:17:26,833 If so, what other clues or potential valuables 384 00:17:26,917 --> 00:17:29,250 does the wall contain that could help the team determine 385 00:17:29,375 --> 00:17:32,542 just who built them and why? 386 00:17:32,667 --> 00:17:35,833 So, it could be much older. 387 00:17:35,917 --> 00:17:37,500 -Right. -Yeah. -BILLY: Right. 388 00:17:37,625 --> 00:17:40,708 You'd have to add quite a number of years, in my opinion. 389 00:17:40,875 --> 00:17:43,167 So, the question is, what were they using the wall for? 390 00:17:43,333 --> 00:17:45,625 RICK: If the wall was constructed 391 00:17:45,750 --> 00:17:48,542 for a specific purpose, other than a boundary, 392 00:17:48,708 --> 00:17:51,042 which it just to me does not appear to be a boundary. 393 00:17:51,208 --> 00:17:54,000 It was used for some reason, in some capacity. 394 00:17:54,125 --> 00:17:55,750 Absolutely. 395 00:17:55,875 --> 00:17:58,583 RICK: It's now at this point, you have to look at it 396 00:17:58,708 --> 00:18:01,833 as an island-wide story, not just a Money Pit story. 397 00:18:01,958 --> 00:18:03,667 Something happened here long ago, 398 00:18:03,792 --> 00:18:05,500 and I continue to be intrigued. 399 00:18:05,667 --> 00:18:07,250 MARTY: It is pretty cool 400 00:18:07,375 --> 00:18:09,167 and interesting to look at those and think 401 00:18:09,333 --> 00:18:12,625 that that tree, at least, was growing in that wall 402 00:18:12,708 --> 00:18:14,208 when the Money Pit was first discovered. 403 00:18:14,333 --> 00:18:16,833 Anyway, great data, Peter. Thank you. 404 00:18:16,958 --> 00:18:17,917 -Thank you, Peter. -Appreciate it. 405 00:18:18,042 --> 00:18:19,833 ROMKEY: No problem. 406 00:18:19,958 --> 00:18:22,667 LAIRD: It's just odd. No artifacts. 407 00:18:22,792 --> 00:18:23,917 ALEX: Yeah. Nothing. 408 00:18:24,042 --> 00:18:25,708 We have to find artifacts. 409 00:18:25,833 --> 00:18:28,167 -Okay, get on that. -(laughs) 410 00:18:28,333 --> 00:18:30,292 NARRATOR: Later that afternoon, 411 00:18:30,417 --> 00:18:33,250 following Peter Romkey's report, Alex Lagina, 412 00:18:33,375 --> 00:18:37,125 along with archaeologists Laird Niven and Miriam Amirault 413 00:18:37,208 --> 00:18:39,917 return to Lot 26 414 00:18:40,042 --> 00:18:42,583 to continue investigating the stone wall. 415 00:18:44,208 --> 00:18:46,083 (Laird laughs) 416 00:18:46,208 --> 00:18:48,125 LAIRD: I think we'll get a good profile. 417 00:18:48,208 --> 00:18:49,667 -MIRIAM: Mm-hmm. -ALEX: Okay. 418 00:18:49,792 --> 00:18:50,750 MIRIAM: It's looking good. 419 00:18:55,875 --> 00:18:57,958 LAIRD: I think we're getting down to these bottom stones. 420 00:18:58,042 --> 00:18:59,583 ALEX: Mm-hmm. 421 00:18:59,708 --> 00:19:02,625 So I guess just, like, the question is, is this 422 00:19:02,708 --> 00:19:06,125 the bottom, or is this on top of something else? 423 00:19:06,208 --> 00:19:07,792 ALEX: Mm-hmm. 424 00:19:07,875 --> 00:19:09,333 LAIRD: That's a good question. 425 00:19:09,500 --> 00:19:12,333 I don't remember us encountering these base rocks. 426 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:14,417 Yeah. Those rocks are different. 427 00:19:14,542 --> 00:19:16,000 -LAIRD: Yeah. -ALEX: These are bigger. 428 00:19:16,125 --> 00:19:17,500 LAIRD: Yeah. 429 00:19:23,583 --> 00:19:25,292 LAIRD: Nice. 430 00:19:25,417 --> 00:19:29,250 -Wow. See that? -Oh, yeah. 431 00:19:29,375 --> 00:19:32,333 -This is exactly what Craig wants us to find. -All right! 432 00:19:32,458 --> 00:19:33,750 LAIRD: That's certainly intriguing. 433 00:19:33,875 --> 00:19:34,792 -MIRIAM: Yeah. -ALEX: Cool. 434 00:19:38,875 --> 00:19:40,167 -LAIRD: That's charcoal. -MIRIAM: That's a cool find. 435 00:19:40,292 --> 00:19:42,042 ALEX: That's pretty interesting. 436 00:19:42,167 --> 00:19:45,333 -We got a nice, uh, burnt twig basically. -ALEX: Nice. 437 00:19:45,458 --> 00:19:47,083 NARRATOR: While investigating 438 00:19:47,208 --> 00:19:49,833 the mysterious stone wall on Lot 26... 439 00:19:49,958 --> 00:19:52,833 -This is exactly what Craig wants us to find. -ALEX: Right. 440 00:19:52,917 --> 00:19:55,583 NARRATOR: ...archaeologist Laird Niven has just discovered 441 00:19:55,708 --> 00:19:57,667 an important clue. 442 00:19:57,792 --> 00:19:59,750 You think we can get, you know, a good date off of that? 443 00:19:59,875 --> 00:20:02,042 Well, I mean, if you can get a date off of that, you can 444 00:20:02,167 --> 00:20:04,292 -sort of try and date this wall. -Right. 445 00:20:04,417 --> 00:20:07,542 At least say, like, it was not here before this time. 446 00:20:07,708 --> 00:20:09,792 -Right. -Finding at the bottom here. 447 00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:12,583 -LAIRD: Yeah. -So, this is the bottom of the wall. 448 00:20:12,708 --> 00:20:14,667 Yup. 449 00:20:14,833 --> 00:20:16,583 ALEX: The great thing about charcoal is, 450 00:20:16,708 --> 00:20:17,958 it's not a root that grew under the wall. 451 00:20:18,042 --> 00:20:20,250 With charcoal, 452 00:20:20,375 --> 00:20:22,667 the only way for a piece of charcoal to be under the wall is 453 00:20:22,792 --> 00:20:24,833 if it was burned before the wall was built. 454 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Hey. 455 00:20:27,083 --> 00:20:29,250 -How's it going? -Good. -RICK: Hey, guys. 456 00:20:29,375 --> 00:20:32,333 -MIRIAM: Hi. -I see they brought in the heavy hitter. 457 00:20:32,458 --> 00:20:34,792 -Yeah. -So, have you figured it out? 458 00:20:34,917 --> 00:20:37,333 LAIRD: In this area, they had more of a... 459 00:20:37,458 --> 00:20:41,667 they're more... well, almost a series of flat rocks. 460 00:20:41,792 --> 00:20:44,375 But the good thing is, 461 00:20:44,542 --> 00:20:47,083 under the layer of rocks in here, 462 00:20:47,208 --> 00:20:49,708 we got a really nice charcoal sample. 463 00:20:49,875 --> 00:20:51,917 CRAIG: Oh, great. 464 00:20:52,042 --> 00:20:53,333 LAIRD: Like a little twig. 465 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:56,292 -Yeah. -RICK: Oh, okay. And you think 466 00:20:56,417 --> 00:20:58,375 that context, the... perhaps the beginning of this wall. 467 00:20:58,500 --> 00:20:59,917 -MIRIAM: Mm-hmm. -Oh, yeah. There's no doubt. 468 00:21:00,042 --> 00:21:01,333 Yeah. 469 00:21:01,458 --> 00:21:04,125 -I like that verbiage, no doubt. -Yes. Finally. 470 00:21:04,250 --> 00:21:06,167 -RICK: But no other artifacts? -Nothing. 471 00:21:06,292 --> 00:21:07,833 -But a good sample. -CRAID: Yet. 472 00:21:07,958 --> 00:21:09,083 -Yet. -LAIRD: Yet. 473 00:21:09,208 --> 00:21:11,333 What's your take on this? 474 00:21:11,458 --> 00:21:15,750 I still find that it's too strongly built. 475 00:21:15,875 --> 00:21:18,292 It was trying to support something higher. 476 00:21:18,375 --> 00:21:21,875 I mean, to me, it's very baffling what they used it for. 477 00:21:22,042 --> 00:21:24,625 And I'm curious what the date is on that... that charcoal. 478 00:21:24,750 --> 00:21:26,708 -Like, I think that will tell us a lot. -Yes, absolutely. 479 00:21:26,875 --> 00:21:32,125 I guess my-my brain is going to, "I hope it affirms my belief." 480 00:21:32,250 --> 00:21:34,625 Because my belief means this went... 481 00:21:34,708 --> 00:21:37,375 this is part of the original mystery. 482 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:39,000 -LAIRD: Yeah. -RICK: I think we should 483 00:21:39,125 --> 00:21:40,375 send it off ASAP. 484 00:21:40,542 --> 00:21:43,000 But what is the status here now then? 485 00:21:43,167 --> 00:21:44,458 What do you want to do? 486 00:21:44,542 --> 00:21:46,125 LAIRD: I think we have a little bit more to do. 487 00:21:46,208 --> 00:21:48,333 -We're on the sea horizon here, now. -Mm-hmm. 488 00:21:48,458 --> 00:21:51,083 We just need to follow that down. 489 00:21:51,208 --> 00:21:53,167 We'll look for more artifacts, obviously. 490 00:21:53,333 --> 00:21:54,833 -More would be better. -Sure. -Yeah. 491 00:21:54,958 --> 00:21:56,458 And find a coin under the next rock that you turn over. 492 00:21:56,542 --> 00:21:58,333 -LAIRD: Okay. I will. -Make it a lot easier. 493 00:21:58,458 --> 00:22:00,458 -(Laird laughing) -Okay. -RICK: All righty. 494 00:22:00,542 --> 00:22:02,333 -CRAIG: We'll let you finish up. -Yup. Take care. -LAIRD: Okay. 495 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:04,750 -ALEX: We'll keep looking. -CRAIG: Okay. 496 00:22:04,875 --> 00:22:06,458 -LAIRD: See you later. -MIRIAM: See you guys. -RICK: Good luck. 497 00:22:06,542 --> 00:22:08,333 NARRATOR: Later that afternoon... 498 00:22:08,458 --> 00:22:10,042 RICK: Bill, you ready? 499 00:22:10,208 --> 00:22:11,542 -BILLY: I'm ready. -RICK: Okeydoke. 500 00:22:13,375 --> 00:22:15,333 NARRATOR: ...Rick and Alex Lagina, 501 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:19,583 along with Billy Gerhardt, Gary Drayton and Tom Nolan 502 00:22:19,708 --> 00:22:22,333 begin a second excavation on Lot 11, 503 00:22:22,417 --> 00:22:25,167 just north of the swamp. 504 00:22:25,250 --> 00:22:26,792 GARY: Excellent. 505 00:22:26,917 --> 00:22:28,833 NARRATOR: Now with Tom's guidance, 506 00:22:28,958 --> 00:22:31,375 they hope to pinpoint the exact location 507 00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:33,208 of a mysterious stone well 508 00:22:33,333 --> 00:22:35,792 that Tom's father, Fred Nolan, 509 00:22:35,875 --> 00:22:38,750 first discovered more than four decades ago. 510 00:22:38,875 --> 00:22:41,625 There's nothing there, that's for sure. 511 00:22:41,750 --> 00:22:43,500 You want to go deeper here, or...? 512 00:22:43,667 --> 00:22:45,667 Yeah, we're just gonna have to keep scraping to find it. 513 00:22:45,750 --> 00:22:47,125 Yeah, that's what I think, and if we take a little more 514 00:22:47,250 --> 00:22:48,542 -on the other side... -TOM: Yup. 515 00:22:48,708 --> 00:22:50,333 ...that will maybe help us narrow it down. 516 00:22:50,458 --> 00:22:53,500 Okay, let's go. 517 00:22:53,667 --> 00:22:56,542 NARRATOR: Having uncovered the steel casings 518 00:22:56,708 --> 00:22:59,042 that Fred Nolan left behind when he conducted 519 00:22:59,167 --> 00:23:03,333 a drilling operation in the well a number of years ago, 520 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:05,292 the team is now confident 521 00:23:05,375 --> 00:23:07,917 that they will soon locate the stone feature, 522 00:23:08,042 --> 00:23:09,792 and hopefully, determine 523 00:23:09,875 --> 00:23:13,708 just how it may help them solve the Oak Island mystery. 524 00:23:15,875 --> 00:23:19,083 Ooh. I see a nice bit of pottery there, peeking out. 525 00:23:19,208 --> 00:23:21,292 Look at that. 526 00:23:21,417 --> 00:23:23,333 -Ooh. -Oh, yeah. 527 00:23:23,458 --> 00:23:24,833 That's nice. 528 00:23:24,958 --> 00:23:28,333 -That blue-glazed pottery. -Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. 529 00:23:28,417 --> 00:23:30,000 That is really nice. It's got to be old. 530 00:23:30,167 --> 00:23:31,667 It's thick, as well. 531 00:23:31,750 --> 00:23:33,542 -Show it to the guys. -Show it to the guys. 532 00:23:33,708 --> 00:23:35,792 -Okay. -RICK: What'd you find? 533 00:23:35,875 --> 00:23:39,208 GARY: A piece of pottery out of the last bucket load. 534 00:23:39,333 --> 00:23:40,667 You remember seeing anything like that, Tom? 535 00:23:40,792 --> 00:23:43,417 Ah. That looks very familiar, Gary. 536 00:23:43,542 --> 00:23:45,500 That is the type of thing that we were hauling out 537 00:23:45,625 --> 00:23:47,667 of the bottom of the well. 538 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,125 -RICK: A plate, it looks like. -Mm. 539 00:23:52,458 --> 00:23:54,500 TOM: Everything was about that size. 540 00:23:54,625 --> 00:23:56,667 That's definitely the pottery. 541 00:23:56,792 --> 00:23:58,125 RICK: The hope, of course, is to find artifacts. 542 00:23:58,208 --> 00:24:00,208 How old it is 543 00:24:00,333 --> 00:24:01,333 remains to be seen. 544 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:03,458 Okay, Bill. 545 00:24:03,583 --> 00:24:06,625 And that's why the archaeologists are involved, 546 00:24:06,708 --> 00:24:08,667 so I am hopeful that we will continue 547 00:24:08,792 --> 00:24:11,417 to find these artifacts, and they will tell a story. 548 00:24:12,458 --> 00:24:15,250 -Is there a stone there? -This is a stone. 549 00:24:15,375 --> 00:24:17,792 Yeah, but is there more stone over there? 550 00:24:17,875 --> 00:24:19,958 TOM: I think you're getting into it. 551 00:24:30,958 --> 00:24:32,417 (laughs) 552 00:24:32,542 --> 00:24:34,250 Not a stone to be found. 553 00:24:34,375 --> 00:24:37,042 Keep digging. It's here. 554 00:24:43,167 --> 00:24:45,292 I don't know, Gary. Why don't you come down 555 00:24:45,375 --> 00:24:47,167 -and see what you can do? -Yeah, of course. 556 00:24:49,542 --> 00:24:52,125 Come on, artifacts. 557 00:24:52,250 --> 00:24:53,833 (beeping) 558 00:24:55,542 --> 00:24:57,708 Seems to be in that area there. (sniffling) 559 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,458 Ooh. 560 00:25:09,042 --> 00:25:12,917 -See if it's out. -Yup. See if it's in. 561 00:25:14,042 --> 00:25:16,667 Yup. It's probably out. 562 00:25:16,792 --> 00:25:18,250 (beeping) 563 00:25:18,375 --> 00:25:20,375 Here we go. What have we got here? 564 00:25:20,542 --> 00:25:22,875 Fantastic! 565 00:25:26,625 --> 00:25:27,958 -GARY: Mm. Oh. -ALEX: What's that? 566 00:25:28,083 --> 00:25:29,625 It's made of iron. 567 00:25:29,708 --> 00:25:31,417 It's got a heck of a curve on it. 568 00:25:31,542 --> 00:25:32,667 NARRATOR: Near the northern border 569 00:25:32,792 --> 00:25:34,375 of the Oak Island swamp... 570 00:25:34,542 --> 00:25:36,583 Almost kind of like, digging tool-ish. 571 00:25:36,708 --> 00:25:38,708 Oh, yeah. Yeah. 572 00:25:38,833 --> 00:25:40,792 NARRATOR: ...while continuing their efforts to uncover 573 00:25:40,875 --> 00:25:44,875 a mysterious buried well, members of the Oak Island team 574 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,667 have made another curious discovery. 575 00:25:47,750 --> 00:25:49,167 TOM: Could that be part of a pick? 576 00:25:49,292 --> 00:25:50,500 -GARY: Yeah. -ALEX: Could be. 577 00:25:50,625 --> 00:25:51,500 TOM: That's what it reminds me of. 578 00:25:51,625 --> 00:25:53,500 Something you'd use to dig. 579 00:25:53,583 --> 00:25:55,500 -GARY: Yeah. -ALEX: Well, I think we have one right up here. 580 00:25:55,667 --> 00:25:57,917 -GARY: Yeah. -Right here. 581 00:26:00,542 --> 00:26:03,292 -TOM: Yup. -GARY: See the way it fans out. 582 00:26:03,375 --> 00:26:05,375 TOM: Well, if you're gonna dig a well, you need a pick. 583 00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:07,125 -ALEX: Mm-hmm. -GARY: Yeah. That's cool. 584 00:26:07,250 --> 00:26:08,583 You never know. It might be original people 585 00:26:08,708 --> 00:26:10,208 who built the well. 586 00:26:10,333 --> 00:26:12,083 RICK: I never anticipated 587 00:26:12,208 --> 00:26:15,875 finding the kinds of artifacts that have been recovered. 588 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,167 We came here 589 00:26:17,250 --> 00:26:18,458 simply for one purpose. 590 00:26:18,542 --> 00:26:20,250 Excavate the well 591 00:26:20,375 --> 00:26:23,750 and get a really good view of the construct. 592 00:26:23,875 --> 00:26:25,375 Where are we at then? 593 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:27,250 Is there stone there? 594 00:26:27,375 --> 00:26:28,333 TOM: I think you're getting into it. 595 00:26:28,458 --> 00:26:29,833 If you can get down in there, 596 00:26:29,958 --> 00:26:31,417 we'll dig a little bit and see what you think. 597 00:26:31,542 --> 00:26:34,000 RICK: I'm interested and excited 598 00:26:34,167 --> 00:26:36,833 to put eyes and boots on the target. 599 00:26:36,958 --> 00:26:38,833 Who knows what we'll find. 600 00:26:40,042 --> 00:26:43,833 -It's like being a little kid, playing in the mud. -(laughs) 601 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,250 TOM: But just, 602 00:26:46,375 --> 00:26:49,208 everywhere I hit this shovel, all I hit's rock. 603 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:54,750 RICK: There's certainly enough water being generated, right? 604 00:26:54,875 --> 00:26:58,167 -TOM: Well, you'd make a well here, no problem. -Mm-hmm. 605 00:26:58,333 --> 00:27:01,333 RICK: I need to probe it. 606 00:27:01,458 --> 00:27:03,625 Rock around there. 607 00:27:03,708 --> 00:27:05,333 I think the diameter is... 608 00:27:05,417 --> 00:27:07,208 I think it's like this. 609 00:27:07,375 --> 00:27:10,833 It goes around, around, around 610 00:27:10,958 --> 00:27:15,792 to that side, and then, it comes around here like this, 611 00:27:15,875 --> 00:27:18,875 and comes back to there. 612 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,583 And that's about the size I remember it as being. 613 00:27:23,042 --> 00:27:25,042 RICK: Look at the amount of water coming in. 614 00:27:25,167 --> 00:27:29,250 I don't think you're gonna expose it, like I'd like to. 615 00:27:29,375 --> 00:27:32,083 Really, what this would demand is a hydro-vac truck. 616 00:27:32,208 --> 00:27:35,083 I think you're right-- a hydro-vac truck. 617 00:27:35,208 --> 00:27:39,000 RICK: The next thing to do with the well is to hydro-vac it, 618 00:27:39,083 --> 00:27:41,500 and you literally vacuum up the material. 619 00:27:41,667 --> 00:27:43,500 And that will clean up the area. 620 00:27:43,667 --> 00:27:45,833 So, tomorrow, we'll be back at it, 621 00:27:45,958 --> 00:27:47,708 and then, continue the excavation. 622 00:27:47,833 --> 00:27:50,667 That's all we can do. So, you know what? 623 00:27:50,792 --> 00:27:52,917 -It's a good day. -It's a good day. 624 00:27:53,042 --> 00:27:55,958 -Now let's get out in one piece. -Yes. 625 00:27:56,083 --> 00:27:58,167 Let's get out of this hole. 626 00:28:02,583 --> 00:28:04,375 NARRATOR: The following morning... 627 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:06,000 ROB HATFIELD: Now the fun. 628 00:28:06,125 --> 00:28:07,708 NARRATOR: ...as representatives 629 00:28:07,875 --> 00:28:09,583 from Clean Earth Industrial Services 630 00:28:09,708 --> 00:28:12,417 arrive with a hydro-vac truck... 631 00:28:12,542 --> 00:28:14,250 I'll vac up some of this water first. 632 00:28:14,375 --> 00:28:16,833 NARRATOR: ...and begin clearing water and mud 633 00:28:16,958 --> 00:28:19,667 away from the buried stone well on Lot 11... 634 00:28:19,792 --> 00:28:22,042 GARY: Carmen, mate, 635 00:28:22,167 --> 00:28:23,833 -thanks for coming out. -No problem. 636 00:28:23,917 --> 00:28:26,000 NARRATOR: ...Gary Drayton and Billy Gerhardt 637 00:28:26,083 --> 00:28:28,625 meet with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge 638 00:28:28,750 --> 00:28:32,667 at the research center to get his analysis of the iron hook 639 00:28:32,750 --> 00:28:36,292 that was recovered from the area two days ago. 640 00:28:36,375 --> 00:28:39,292 We were excavating, uh, 641 00:28:39,375 --> 00:28:43,042 this area where there's an old well at the side of the swamp. 642 00:28:43,208 --> 00:28:47,250 This is one of the artifacts we found. It's a hook. 643 00:28:47,375 --> 00:28:51,125 But it's, like, unusual, the way it's long and closed in. 644 00:28:51,208 --> 00:28:55,208 And, hopefully, you can shed some like on that, mate. 645 00:28:56,375 --> 00:28:58,208 BILLY: It kind of reminded me of a block and tackle. 646 00:28:58,375 --> 00:28:59,917 -You know, it's a long... -Yes. Yes, that's right. 647 00:29:00,042 --> 00:29:03,375 You can see how it has a fairly long shank here. 648 00:29:03,542 --> 00:29:05,167 You're right, Billy-- this is from a block and tackle. 649 00:29:05,292 --> 00:29:08,208 The reason why they had a long shank is 'cause 650 00:29:08,333 --> 00:29:11,083 -it would hang naturally down from a block and tackle. -Yeah. 651 00:29:11,208 --> 00:29:13,167 NARRATOR: Originally invented 652 00:29:13,292 --> 00:29:17,583 by the Greek scientist Archimedes in 250 B.C., 653 00:29:17,708 --> 00:29:20,375 a block and tackle is a pulley device 654 00:29:20,542 --> 00:29:24,583 used to manually raise and lower large, heavy objects. 655 00:29:24,708 --> 00:29:29,000 This was made in such a way that it would come off easy 656 00:29:29,125 --> 00:29:31,917 and go on easy so it was a fast operation happening here. 657 00:29:32,042 --> 00:29:35,667 -Lowering and raising something. -GARY: Well, it is a well. 658 00:29:35,792 --> 00:29:39,000 Would it have been a hook for lowering a bucket into the well? 659 00:29:39,125 --> 00:29:41,833 -Up and down? -No, this was for something heavier. 660 00:29:41,958 --> 00:29:43,375 -This is much heavier. -GARY: Oh. 661 00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:45,250 No, yeah, you wouldn't use something like this. 662 00:29:45,375 --> 00:29:48,042 And I could sort of see how thin it is down at the bottom here, 663 00:29:48,167 --> 00:29:49,667 so that indicates it had a lot of use. 664 00:29:49,750 --> 00:29:51,000 -Yeah. -A lot of use. 665 00:29:51,125 --> 00:29:52,500 It might have drug something 666 00:29:52,583 --> 00:29:54,125 over the ground and then raised it and lowered it. 667 00:29:54,250 --> 00:29:56,667 Any idea on an age of this artifact? 668 00:29:56,792 --> 00:29:58,833 Ah, it-it is very old, Gary. 669 00:29:58,917 --> 00:30:00,667 Hooks in the later time period 670 00:30:00,792 --> 00:30:02,167 were more rounder, not elongated like that. 671 00:30:02,292 --> 00:30:04,667 -Yeah. -So a hook like that used 672 00:30:04,750 --> 00:30:06,333 in a block and tackle, we're talking about 673 00:30:06,458 --> 00:30:10,625 uh, 1650 to about 1690, no later than 1690. 674 00:30:10,708 --> 00:30:12,333 Wow, that's brilliant. 675 00:30:12,458 --> 00:30:15,958 NARRATOR: A hook used for lifting heavy cargo? 676 00:30:16,042 --> 00:30:18,375 And dating to more than a century prior 677 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:22,208 to the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795? 678 00:30:23,708 --> 00:30:25,458 GARY: Wow. That is massive. 679 00:30:25,542 --> 00:30:27,167 That's a big boulder. 680 00:30:27,292 --> 00:30:29,375 NARRATOR: Three years ago, 681 00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:31,500 while investigating a curious formation 682 00:30:31,583 --> 00:30:34,250 of boulders at the so-called "Eye of the Swamp," 683 00:30:34,375 --> 00:30:37,333 which is located less than 100 yards 684 00:30:37,458 --> 00:30:39,833 from the site of the reported buried well, 685 00:30:39,958 --> 00:30:43,250 the team uncovered back-filled organic materials 686 00:30:43,375 --> 00:30:46,917 that Dr. Ian Spooner dated to 1680. 687 00:30:47,042 --> 00:30:49,458 -GARY: Yeah, that's some history in that well. -CARMEN: Yep. 688 00:30:49,542 --> 00:30:52,208 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the well was built by 689 00:30:52,333 --> 00:30:55,167 the same people who were digging at the Eye of the Swamp? 690 00:30:55,333 --> 00:30:58,792 And if so, could this hook offer evidence 691 00:30:58,875 --> 00:31:00,917 that the well may have been used 692 00:31:01,042 --> 00:31:04,167 to hide cargo of great importance, or value? 693 00:31:05,250 --> 00:31:07,000 CARMEN: There was some activity that involved that well. 694 00:31:07,125 --> 00:31:10,792 And at one time, it was used in that well area. 695 00:31:10,917 --> 00:31:12,792 GARY: That's brilliant, isn't it? 696 00:31:12,917 --> 00:31:14,583 BILLY: Yeah, I know. That's great. 697 00:31:14,708 --> 00:31:16,458 Yeah. Talking about hooked, that's got me hooked up, mate. 698 00:31:16,542 --> 00:31:18,000 All right, mate. 699 00:31:18,083 --> 00:31:20,000 Thanks for coming out. We really appreciate it. 700 00:31:20,083 --> 00:31:22,333 CARMEN: Very good. See you later. 701 00:31:22,458 --> 00:31:24,125 -GARY: All right, mate. Cheers. -BILLY: Thanks, Carmen. 702 00:31:27,208 --> 00:31:29,208 NARRATOR: Later that afternoon... 703 00:31:29,333 --> 00:31:30,625 Oh, it's looking pretty good. 704 00:31:30,708 --> 00:31:32,125 I think they moved quite a bit. 705 00:31:32,250 --> 00:31:33,292 NARRATOR: ...while the reconstruction 706 00:31:33,375 --> 00:31:34,875 of the Garden Shaft continues 707 00:31:35,042 --> 00:31:36,417 in the Money Pit area... 708 00:31:37,833 --> 00:31:40,042 -TOM: Isn't this a nice way to dig a hole? -MARTY: Yeah. 709 00:31:40,208 --> 00:31:42,500 -Standing up here, yeah. -Yes. 710 00:31:42,667 --> 00:31:46,292 NARRATOR: ...Rick and Marty Lagina along with Tom Nolan 711 00:31:46,417 --> 00:31:49,667 and Billy Gerhardt arrive at the northern edge of the swamp 712 00:31:49,792 --> 00:31:53,167 as the hydro-vac operation to clear mud and water 713 00:31:53,292 --> 00:31:57,042 away from the mysterious stone well is nearly complete. 714 00:32:01,167 --> 00:32:03,167 I think what you're looking at there 715 00:32:03,292 --> 00:32:05,125 is definitely part of the well, 716 00:32:05,250 --> 00:32:07,292 that's the way it was constructed. 717 00:32:07,375 --> 00:32:09,000 You had big rocks 718 00:32:09,125 --> 00:32:10,500 and then your little ones putting it together. 719 00:32:10,667 --> 00:32:14,250 Almost every rock down there has a flat face. 720 00:32:14,375 --> 00:32:16,625 TOM: Yeah, I do see that. 721 00:32:16,708 --> 00:32:19,458 It seems like it's right there. 722 00:32:22,708 --> 00:32:25,083 You can see by the amount of rock right here, 723 00:32:25,208 --> 00:32:27,458 it's not natural. 724 00:32:30,333 --> 00:32:32,542 RICK: But what that does look like, 725 00:32:32,708 --> 00:32:35,875 it doesn't look like the other wells here. 726 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,333 The small stones. Irregular shape. 727 00:32:41,458 --> 00:32:43,625 HATFIELD: Can you see it, right here? 728 00:32:46,583 --> 00:32:49,625 It almost looks like it was stacked. 729 00:32:56,708 --> 00:33:01,083 I'm confident that that well is like the Lot 26 well. 730 00:33:01,208 --> 00:33:04,292 And those are the only two on the island like that. 731 00:33:04,375 --> 00:33:06,875 Yeah. You can certainly see the stacked stones. 732 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,542 -There. -Yeah. 733 00:33:08,667 --> 00:33:11,250 NARRATOR: On Lot 11, at the northern border 734 00:33:11,375 --> 00:33:13,958 of the triangle-shaped swamp, 735 00:33:14,042 --> 00:33:15,625 Rick Lagina and members of the team 736 00:33:15,750 --> 00:33:19,208 have just made a potentially historic discovery. 737 00:33:19,375 --> 00:33:22,125 -That's the side of it, right there. -RICK: Yeah. 738 00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:24,208 NARRATOR: They have uncovered a stone well 739 00:33:24,375 --> 00:33:27,833 that Tom Nolan's father first discovered in the 1970s. 740 00:33:27,958 --> 00:33:30,375 However, it is Rick's belief 741 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:32,125 that it could match the design 742 00:33:32,208 --> 00:33:34,833 of the well located on Lot 26. 743 00:33:34,958 --> 00:33:37,083 A well, which has been dated 744 00:33:37,208 --> 00:33:39,500 to as early as the 11th century 745 00:33:39,667 --> 00:33:42,958 and has yielded high-trace evidence of silver. 746 00:33:43,042 --> 00:33:45,750 There are enough remnants of it 747 00:33:45,875 --> 00:33:48,083 to indicate that the construct 748 00:33:48,208 --> 00:33:51,125 is exactly the same as the Lot 26 well. 749 00:33:51,208 --> 00:33:54,167 It's the same smaller stones, 750 00:33:54,250 --> 00:33:57,000 no large, round granite boulders. 751 00:33:57,083 --> 00:33:58,333 TOM: I think that's as much... 752 00:33:58,458 --> 00:34:01,000 No matter how much we suck out of this, 753 00:34:01,125 --> 00:34:02,625 I don't know if you're ever going to see 754 00:34:02,708 --> 00:34:03,833 a perfectly round well here. 755 00:34:03,958 --> 00:34:06,833 Okay, so what are we gonna do? 756 00:34:06,958 --> 00:34:09,375 Well, you can pull a foot off the top here with the excavator. 757 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:13,542 -Yep. -If you want to expose more, I'm fine with that. 758 00:34:13,708 --> 00:34:16,125 We could take a little out of the center of it. 759 00:34:16,250 --> 00:34:19,417 -Yep. -RICK: Right. -All right, let's do that. 760 00:34:19,542 --> 00:34:22,000 -So, you guys can come on out. -Yep. 761 00:34:22,083 --> 00:34:24,667 RICK: And just stand by, we're going to excavate. 762 00:34:24,792 --> 00:34:26,292 -Perfect. -All right. 763 00:34:28,208 --> 00:34:30,292 The eight other wells that we have found 764 00:34:30,417 --> 00:34:33,000 across the width and breadth of the island 765 00:34:33,125 --> 00:34:34,958 are 100% different. 766 00:34:35,083 --> 00:34:37,000 TOM: If you were looking for a well, 767 00:34:37,083 --> 00:34:39,417 to put it here, with the swamp right there, 768 00:34:39,542 --> 00:34:41,792 -you know you're going to get water. -Oh, yeah. 769 00:34:41,875 --> 00:34:44,667 RICK: The two wells that are of the same type of construct, 770 00:34:44,750 --> 00:34:46,542 it can't be a coincidence. 771 00:34:46,708 --> 00:34:51,958 It has to be relevant in some way, shape or form. 772 00:34:52,042 --> 00:34:53,667 There's your well. Right there, 773 00:34:53,833 --> 00:34:55,458 -you're on it. -MARTY: Yeah. 774 00:34:55,583 --> 00:34:57,042 TOM: I'm thinking you're outside of it. 775 00:34:57,208 --> 00:34:58,208 -MARTY: For sure. -TOM: Yeah. 776 00:34:58,333 --> 00:35:01,125 And then you throw into that mix 777 00:35:01,208 --> 00:35:04,375 that they are on opposite ends of the island, 778 00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:06,208 one's on the north, one's in the south. 779 00:35:06,333 --> 00:35:09,417 To me, they both are impactful 780 00:35:09,542 --> 00:35:12,333 in terms of the body of the work that was done, 781 00:35:12,417 --> 00:35:16,042 i.e., the treasure depositional work. 782 00:35:16,208 --> 00:35:20,708 For me, I-I think, I've seen enough to recognize 783 00:35:20,833 --> 00:35:24,667 the similarity between this construct and the one on 26. 784 00:35:24,750 --> 00:35:28,000 There's flat stone in there. Small stone in there. 785 00:35:28,083 --> 00:35:29,375 Irregular shaped stone. 786 00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:31,083 Exactly like the Lot 26 well. 787 00:35:31,208 --> 00:35:32,667 MARTY: Oh, yeah. 788 00:35:32,792 --> 00:35:34,583 NARRATOR: Could Rick Lagina be correct 789 00:35:34,708 --> 00:35:37,208 that this well at the northern border 790 00:35:37,333 --> 00:35:39,625 of the swamp may be related 791 00:35:39,708 --> 00:35:41,417 to the 900-year-old well 792 00:35:41,542 --> 00:35:45,208 located over a quarter mile away on Lot 26? 793 00:35:45,333 --> 00:35:49,000 If so, could it offer more physical evidence 794 00:35:49,167 --> 00:35:52,000 that the origins of the Oak Island mystery 795 00:35:52,125 --> 00:35:56,000 stretch further back in history than anyone ever knew? 796 00:35:56,125 --> 00:35:58,083 Okay. What are we gonna do here? 797 00:35:58,208 --> 00:36:00,708 I don't think you can get down there any more. 798 00:36:00,833 --> 00:36:02,792 The problem is, you're getting to the depth 799 00:36:02,875 --> 00:36:05,417 -where you're not allowed down there without permits. -Yep. 800 00:36:05,542 --> 00:36:07,208 Okay. 801 00:36:07,333 --> 00:36:11,208 NARRATOR: Although the team would like to continue excavating this area 802 00:36:11,333 --> 00:36:14,167 to see just how deep the well extends underground, 803 00:36:14,292 --> 00:36:17,375 and also determine just what it may contain, 804 00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:20,792 because of its close proximity to the swamp, 805 00:36:20,875 --> 00:36:24,708 additional permits will be required for them to proceed. 806 00:36:24,875 --> 00:36:28,542 MARTY: Getting permits to dig deeper right here in this area, 807 00:36:28,667 --> 00:36:30,375 that would be the next step. 808 00:36:30,542 --> 00:36:32,792 Actually seeing things is always the best data 809 00:36:32,917 --> 00:36:36,708 because the well on 26, which we think is very old, 810 00:36:36,875 --> 00:36:39,167 by comparison, we might say 811 00:36:39,250 --> 00:36:41,333 that this well is also of comparable age, 812 00:36:41,458 --> 00:36:42,917 which would mean that somebody was working 813 00:36:43,042 --> 00:36:46,042 right around the swamp a very, very long time ago. 814 00:36:46,167 --> 00:36:49,167 At the end of the day, I think we met the objective of it. 815 00:36:49,250 --> 00:36:51,125 Yeah. 816 00:36:51,250 --> 00:36:54,042 We came looking for the well. We found it. 817 00:36:54,167 --> 00:36:57,042 And we did find some pottery, which I thought we would. 818 00:36:57,167 --> 00:36:58,417 -We've made progress. -MARTY: Yep. 819 00:36:58,542 --> 00:37:00,292 TOM: So, I mean... 820 00:37:00,417 --> 00:37:01,875 at this point, I think that's all we can do with it. 821 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,625 -All right. -Okay. 822 00:37:04,750 --> 00:37:07,000 TOM: This is just our first peek into this. 823 00:37:07,125 --> 00:37:08,875 RICK: Yep. First peek. 824 00:37:10,667 --> 00:37:14,167 NARRATOR: Following his successful investigation on Lot 11... 825 00:37:14,292 --> 00:37:17,333 CRAIG: So, Laird, what do you have for us? 826 00:37:17,458 --> 00:37:20,500 We've got some results from wood 827 00:37:20,625 --> 00:37:22,500 -from the Garden Shaft. -CRAIG: Okay. 828 00:37:22,625 --> 00:37:24,500 NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina and Craig Tester 829 00:37:24,667 --> 00:37:26,583 arrive at the Interpretive Center 830 00:37:26,708 --> 00:37:29,833 where Laird Niven and Emma Culligan have just 831 00:37:29,958 --> 00:37:33,042 completed new scientific tests on wood samples 832 00:37:33,208 --> 00:37:36,833 that were collected from the Garden Shaft earlier this week. 833 00:37:36,917 --> 00:37:41,417 It's from 58 feet down but on the crane side. 834 00:37:41,542 --> 00:37:43,125 CRAIG: So, the opposite side of where 835 00:37:43,208 --> 00:37:44,750 the piece with the gold was on it. 836 00:37:44,875 --> 00:37:48,000 -LAIRD: Yep, yep. -Well, that'll be good to-to see. 837 00:37:48,125 --> 00:37:51,250 -I-I mean, we need more data. -Yeah. 838 00:37:51,375 --> 00:37:53,833 NARRATOR: The wood sample was scanned 839 00:37:53,917 --> 00:37:57,625 with an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, or XRF. 840 00:37:57,708 --> 00:38:01,708 The device emits gamma rays in order to detect elements 841 00:38:01,875 --> 00:38:05,500 or metal alloys that may be present on the wood's surface 842 00:38:05,625 --> 00:38:09,917 resulting from sustained contact with metal objects. 843 00:38:10,042 --> 00:38:14,500 One week ago, Emma performed an XRF scan on a wood sample 844 00:38:14,625 --> 00:38:17,708 taken from 55 feet deep within the Garden Shaft 845 00:38:17,875 --> 00:38:21,625 and detected high-trace evidence of gold. 846 00:38:21,708 --> 00:38:25,500 EMMA: Yeah, so, I do have some values. 847 00:38:25,583 --> 00:38:29,333 So, the... the first piece that I brought to you guys, 848 00:38:29,417 --> 00:38:32,167 that was from the opposite side of the crane. 849 00:38:32,250 --> 00:38:34,583 I was reading .13%. 850 00:38:34,708 --> 00:38:37,500 So when I scanned the crane side, 851 00:38:37,625 --> 00:38:41,417 the counts of gold are getting higher as you go deeper. 852 00:38:42,208 --> 00:38:44,792 RICK: That is incredible. 853 00:38:48,542 --> 00:38:49,833 EMMA: It's increasing, in quantities. 854 00:38:49,917 --> 00:38:52,208 There's definitely a fluctuating amount, 855 00:38:52,333 --> 00:38:53,667 or quantities, which is what we want to see. 856 00:38:53,792 --> 00:38:55,583 -Yeah. That's good. -EMMA: Yeah. 857 00:38:55,708 --> 00:38:57,750 NARRATOR: In the Oak Island Interpretive Center, 858 00:38:57,875 --> 00:39:00,500 archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan 859 00:39:00,625 --> 00:39:03,167 has just confirmed that a new wood sample, 860 00:39:03,250 --> 00:39:06,125 taken from a depth of 58 feet in the Garden Shaft, 861 00:39:06,250 --> 00:39:09,708 has yielded high-trace evidence of gold. 862 00:39:09,833 --> 00:39:12,542 How did these values compare again 863 00:39:12,708 --> 00:39:16,583 with the values from the 55-foot depth? 864 00:39:16,708 --> 00:39:18,000 It's more. 865 00:39:19,542 --> 00:39:21,833 -Great. -Oh, it's exciting. 866 00:39:21,958 --> 00:39:24,542 -Yeah. -Yeah. 867 00:39:24,667 --> 00:39:26,292 RICK: Here in front of us, this piece of wood 868 00:39:26,417 --> 00:39:29,333 is exhibiting gold values substantially higher 869 00:39:29,458 --> 00:39:32,083 as we go to a deeper depth. 870 00:39:32,208 --> 00:39:33,833 On the wood of a shaft 871 00:39:33,958 --> 00:39:37,125 in the location that we have high hopes and interest in. 872 00:39:37,208 --> 00:39:38,500 It's fantastic. 873 00:39:38,625 --> 00:39:41,167 This is highly informative, you know, 874 00:39:41,250 --> 00:39:43,833 and we'll see at different elevations what it turns into. 875 00:39:43,958 --> 00:39:46,625 We'll start comparing it to wells we've drilled 876 00:39:46,708 --> 00:39:48,542 and see, you know, where in the entire 877 00:39:48,667 --> 00:39:51,208 -Money Pit area, how the gold varies. -Mm-hmm. Yep. 878 00:39:51,333 --> 00:39:54,250 Hopefully, it's rich in the Garden Shaft area 879 00:39:54,375 --> 00:39:56,125 and-and minor in-in other areas. 880 00:39:56,250 --> 00:39:57,833 -So we know where to focus. -Mm-hmm. 881 00:39:57,917 --> 00:40:01,083 Yeah, so, Emma and I will work on a routine, 882 00:40:01,208 --> 00:40:03,292 -so we can have consistent results. -Mm-hmm. 883 00:40:03,375 --> 00:40:04,667 So we can have more rapid results. 884 00:40:04,792 --> 00:40:06,875 -That would be great. -LAIRD: Yeah. 885 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,333 MARTY: The gold is the most encouraging thing, I think, 886 00:40:09,458 --> 00:40:10,833 that has happened out here. 887 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,208 You know, scientists trained in this methodology 888 00:40:13,333 --> 00:40:15,083 tell me it's highly unusual. 889 00:40:15,208 --> 00:40:17,667 Well, that implies that there's a highly unusual 890 00:40:17,792 --> 00:40:19,833 source of gold here still. 891 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,125 That's exciting. 892 00:40:21,208 --> 00:40:22,958 So, I think, I think this is, uh, 893 00:40:23,042 --> 00:40:24,500 perhaps an indication that 894 00:40:24,583 --> 00:40:26,125 we're following the trail of the gold. 895 00:40:26,208 --> 00:40:28,375 -Mm-hmm. -RICK: I mean, that-that's good news. 896 00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:30,000 Right? But we need to do more work. 897 00:40:30,125 --> 00:40:33,375 Yep. We've got lots to do. 898 00:40:33,542 --> 00:40:34,667 Yeah. 899 00:40:34,833 --> 00:40:37,042 -RICK: Okay. -CRAIG: Let's get going. 900 00:40:38,708 --> 00:40:42,500 NARRATOR: As another week comes to an end on Oak Island, 901 00:40:42,625 --> 00:40:46,333 the hope for Rick, Marty, Craig and their team 902 00:40:46,458 --> 00:40:48,167 that they are closer than ever 903 00:40:48,292 --> 00:40:51,083 to solving a 228-year-old mystery 904 00:40:51,208 --> 00:40:53,625 has only grown stronger. 905 00:40:53,750 --> 00:40:56,750 While they proceed to scour the island 906 00:40:56,875 --> 00:40:59,667 for more critical clues that may soon reveal 907 00:40:59,792 --> 00:41:02,667 the true story of what happened here long ago, 908 00:41:02,792 --> 00:41:06,500 are they now also zeroing in on a treasure 909 00:41:06,583 --> 00:41:08,958 that will rewrite the history of the world? 910 00:41:09,042 --> 00:41:11,750 One thing is for sure. 911 00:41:11,875 --> 00:41:16,750 They will dig however deep it takes to find out. 912 00:41:18,833 --> 00:41:21,833 Next time on The Curse of Oak Island... 913 00:41:21,958 --> 00:41:24,833 The gold concentration is getting higher as we go down. 914 00:41:24,917 --> 00:41:26,917 -SCOTT: Oh, wow! -RODNEY: X marks the spot. 915 00:41:27,042 --> 00:41:29,667 RICK: We're going to dig the great quadrilateral. 916 00:41:29,833 --> 00:41:31,917 This clay should not be here. 917 00:41:32,042 --> 00:41:33,958 There's something at the bottom of that clay. 918 00:41:34,042 --> 00:41:36,500 -That's a big something. -GARY: Oh, wow! -ALEX: What is that? 919 00:41:36,583 --> 00:41:38,000 -GARY: That is sweet. -ALEX: Whoa. 920 00:41:38,167 --> 00:41:40,000 This is Portuguese. 921 00:41:40,125 --> 00:41:43,500 It's 1474 to 1638. 922 00:41:43,625 --> 00:41:45,292 -RICK: Wow. It's incredible. -No way. 923 00:41:45,417 --> 00:41:47,208 (laughter) 924 00:41:47,333 --> 00:41:49,125 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS