NARRATOR: Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island...
JACK: We haven't reached the edge yet.
It's quite a massive structure.
This could fit in with Zena's map.
This could be the hatch.
GARY: Come on, be something good.
Ooh... that's pretty big.
-Oh, that is sweet. -JACK: Whoa!
CHRIS: Isotopically,
it looks very similar to the cross.
-No way! -That's brilliant.
-SCOTT: Oh, wow. -There's something there.
It could possibly be an original depositor tunnel.
-MARTY: You've done did it. -I feel good now.
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.
♪ ♪
-ROGER: Hey, how's it going, guys? -SCOTT: Hey, good, Roger.
-How're you doing? -CHARLES: Hey, Roger.
Not bad. Not bad. I'm just having a look
and the guys are setting up.
He's getting ready and we're gonna start drilling away.
Yeah. Great.
NARRATOR: Every new morning on Oak Island
brings renewed optimism for brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina, and their team,
that they will make a historic and valuable discovery.
Guess I'd keep my fingers crossed
that we're gonna encounter something.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: However, as the fast-approaching
North Atlantic winter will soon force them to
halt their operations until next spring,
they are now in a race against time to find
whatever may lie below the Garden Shaft
in the Money Pit area,
and hopefully solve a 228-year-old treasure mystery.
-We're about 90 feet right now... -CHARLES: Okay.
-SCOTT: Excellent. -...with the casing.
So we're gonna go with that casing bit.
-We're gonna keep pumping away in there. -Yeah.
If we're lucky, in the next four or five feet,
we're gonna punch through something.
If you have a tunnel running
underneath there, I mean...
and that tunnel is potentially old, I mean,
it could possibly be, you know, an original depositor tunnel.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Although high-trace evidence of gold was
detected in both water and wood samples
that were taken while the early 18th century shaft
was being reconstructed over the past few months,
now that it has been completed at a depth
of nearly 82 feet, it did not contain
the riches that people have been looking for since 1795.
-Ready to go. -Fire it up.
NARRATOR: However, it may be sitting above a tunnel that does--
which the team discovered at a depth of some 95 feet
while drilling nearby in the so-called Baby Blob.
It is in this zone where they have obtained
the highest traces of gold and silver yet
in their entire search for the fabled Oak Island treasure.
Where we're set up is, is a very high probability
-that we're gonna hit something. I mean... -Yep.
All projections that we can come up with, you know,
really show it needs to run under the corner of that shaft.
That gives us a good inclination that there's something there.
CHARLES: Yeah.
NARRATOR: Now, representatives from
Dumas Contracting Limited
are conducting a probe drilling operation
from the bottom of the Garden Shaft,
in the hopes of confirming that the tunnel is there,
and to reach whatever it may contain.
MARTY: We think there's a tunnel under there
and this tunnel is especially
enigmatic because it appears to have
dissolved metals underneath the Garden Shaft.
The tunnel-- we're hoping-- leads to an offset chamber,
which is another name for a vault.
That's one very exciting and interesting thing.
We said it from day one,
-"Today's the day." -SCOTT: Today's the day.
(all laughing)
SCOTT: All right. Well, thanks for your time.
If anything else comes up, you've got my number.
-Call me. -ROGER: Absolutely.
-SCOTT: Thanks. -ROGER: Thank you.
NARRATOR: While the probe drilling operation gets underway
in the Garden Shaft...
-MARTY: Hello, guys. -OTHERS: Hey, guys.
-Benvenuti. -RICK: Benvenuti.
NARRATOR: ...Rick and Marty Lagina gather with
members of the team in the war room
to discuss the incredible journey that Rick, his nephews
Alex and Peter,
and Doug Crowell just made to various locations in Italy.
MARTY: Okay. So we have our team back from Italy.
We're all eager to hear, you know,
what all happened over there.
RICK: Well, it was a wonderful experience
and we learned a lot regarding
our pursuit of answers here on Oak Island.
ALEX: Yeah, I think it was, like, broadly
applicable to everything that we're doing here.
-RICK: It's huge. -ALEX: Wow. It keeps going.
NARRATOR: Over the last two weeks,
researcher Emiliano Sacchetti led Rick and the team
to numerous sites that were known
to have served as strongholds for members
of the medieval order of the Knights Templar.
Some also believe that the Templars used
these strongholds to hide
sacred religious treasures before smuggling them
to the New World between the 12th and 14th centuries.
-ALEX: Hey, Rick. -RICK: Hmm?
-Check this out. -PETER: That's cool.
ALEX: We have seen this symbol before
-on Oak Island. -RICK: H+O Stone.
PETER: Yeah.
NARRATOR: In addition to seeing
a number of Templar carvings
that have also been found
in the past on Oak Island...
-RICK: Wow. -EMILIANO: We have the left arm,
the right arm...
NARRATOR: ...they toured a cave system
in the ancient town of Camerano
that, incredibly, matched the design of
the 14th century lead cross that was unearthed
at Smith's Cove back in 2017.
PETER: Hey, guys. Come take a look at this.
NARRATOR: However,
perhaps the most profound discovery that they made
was at the Santa Maria Nuova church
in the town of Viterbo.
-Yeah. -Right there.
NARRATOR: There, Alex noticed symbols on a pillar
that he believed could have a direct connection
to a mysterious, carved boulder
that was discovered on Oak Island's northern shore
in the 1920s-- the so-called H+O Stone.
ALEX: This was just a theory I came up with
while we were there.
So we saw an inscription in the church that we were in.
"HIC," H-I-C, which is Latin for "here."
But I realized if you start with
H... I... C...
-here. -That means here.
And then you do this...
♪ ♪
...you have the H+O Stone.
Yep.
So then you have here is "Templar gold."
-Well, that's pretty cool. -(chuckling): Exactly.
NARRATOR: Could Alex Lagina be correct
that the carvings found on the H+O Stone
may actually suggest a sacred treasure
connected to the Knights Templar is buried on Oak Island?
If so, could it possibly explain the high-trace evidence of
silver and gold that has been detected in the Money Pit area?
When I'm by myself and think about this Templar theory,
everything in my body,
everything in my mind resists it.
It just seems so outlandish,
and yet... we have very ancient things here.
You can't say that theory seems ridiculous or outlandish
and then ignore evidence that it could actually be real.
RICK: To sum it up,
this is quite a puzzle.
It just got a little bit more interesting
and a little more complicated.
And so we all need to put our noses to the grindstone
and try to figure out the importance of
what today's discussion might mean for the future.
MARTY: Okay.
Great download from Italy.
All things Italian are always welcome,
but this is substantive.
We can all digest it while we're out working.
Let's go.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Following their meeting in the war room...
-SCOTT: Hey, Roger. -ROGER: Hey, Scott.
So that next rod that they're gonna push through,
-that'll bring us to 95 feet. -Gonna hit our tunnel.
Yeah. Oh, before that.
We're actually half a rod
-and we're gonna hit the tunnel. -That's what we want.
NARRATOR: ...while Scott Barlow returns to the Money Pit
to check on the progress
of the probe drilling operation in the Garden Shaft...
RICK: Wow.
-Impressive, huh? -Yup.
-It looks a lot different than before we left. -ALEX: Mm-hmm.
It's impressive.
NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina joins
other members of the team
at the triangle-shaped swamp for his first look
at the mysterious stone ramp
that was fully unearthed two weeks ago.
A ramp which connects the vast, 800-year-old stone paved area
to a cobblestone pathway that leads out of the brackish bog
and to somewhere on the island.
ALEX: Is any of this the original paved area
that we uncovered first?
BILLY: Uh, you see the plastic pipe of the hydro vac?
-ALEX: Yeah. -BILLY: We're right on the edge there.
So, this is kind of continuing the paved area?
It seems like they connect, yeah.
Dr. Spooner, what do you think?
IAN: Well, there's no doubt.
This ramp, especially when you get about halfway down it,
it has similar characteristics
with the cobble path,
in terms of stone size, that kind of thing,
that's definitive, right?
And we did find
underneath those rocks, organic matter, twigs...
So we've got material to get some ages.
RICK: I think the ramp looks quite spectacular.
The ramp obviously needs to be
thoroughly investigated to try to understand
what does the ramp signify in terms of the relationships
between the paved area and the so-called stone path,
and where does that stone path lead.
At least one of the things we know, that it's...
some sort of man-made construct,
the "why" of which we are yet to understand.
-MARTY: (chuckles) As usual. -Mm-hmm.
-Yeah. -MARTY: It's classic Oak Island.
It's just, you know, intriguing and unanswerable.
RICK: Exactly.
(phone ringing)
It's Scott.
Hey, Scott.
♪ ♪
(phone ringing)
-Hey, Scott. -SCOTT: Hey, Rick.
Just up here in the Money Pit with...
We found our tunnel.
-Really? -Oh. -What depth?
(laughs)
NARRATOR: While inspecting
the mysterious stone ramp
in the Oak Island swamp, Rick, Marty,
and other members of the team
have just been informed that the tunnel
believed to run below the Garden Shaft
in the Money Pit area may have just been found.
There's cause for celebration up here,
so you may as well join.
Well, that's pretty cool.
We'll be up in a moment.
MARTY: Okay, let's go.
♪ ♪
RICK: The Garden Shaft project is
the biggest project of the year.
-All the hard work has finally paid off. -Yeah.
RICK: Well, we have evidence.
Strong evidence of high gold values in the Garden Shaft.
-How solid is it? -Oh, it's solid.
RICK: And yet, we hadn't found treasure.
I think we were all a bit deflated by that.
But hope springs eternal, and so when Scott iterates that
there's something has developed as part of the activities,
of course you're excited.
You're interested.
There is some sort of structure underneath the shaft.
I figured you'd be down there in that tunnel by now, huh?
ROGER: Hey! How's it going, guys?
-Roger. -Hey.
-What happened? -We're waiting for you guys to come.
-Yeah. -To bask in all the excitement here.
-ROGER: Come on in. -MARTY: You've done did it, didn't you?
I feel good now.
MARTY: What is the latest? Bring us up to speed, Roger.
So we sent a probe rod down,
they probed down in the hole
and you can tell.
He said, "Ooh, that's not a rock.
That sounds like wood."
SCOTT: And we have a sewer camera
and we're gonna try and put a sewer camera down
and see if we can get eyes on the wood, just to give
another way to verify that it is the wood.
MARTY: You have a casing there, don't you?
Or just hole? Is it just hole?
Just hole. Just hole. No casing.
You could run casing right now though.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
MARTY: I think we should do that.
I'm fine with that.
NARRATOR: In order to investigate the believed tunnel
with a high-definition camera,
the team from Dumas will now insert PVC tubing
into the drill hole in order to ensure
that it does not collapse.
Come. Just hold there for a sec.
SCOTT: It's gonna take us a little bit of time to get set up anyways
to bore through there, so, I mean,
that could be time to put the casing in.
-Let's do it. -Let's do it.
MARTY: Let's do it. Let's go.
ROGER: Sounds good to me.
NARRATOR: As the team prepares to investigate
the possible tunnel beneath the Garden Shaft...
JACK: Hey... there's a little piece of charcoal.
I'll collect that.
NARRATOR: ...Jack Begley joins archaeologist
Laird Niven on Lot 5, located on the western side of the island.
-In here. -Okay.
NARRATOR: They are searching for clues
that might help determine the origin
of the circular stone structure--
a structure that is not only located near the area
where the team recently found a 1,600-year-old Roman coin,
as well as a possible lead barter token,
but also features a 13-foot diameter...
Ooh. Look at this, Laird.
...which matches the description of the original Money Pit
when it was discovered in 1795.
This looks to be some pottery and it's got that white stuff.
That's nice. That's a nice...
I think we call this a fine, red earthenware.
Yeah. I thought it looked unique.
What time period?
So this would have been going
out of style in the 1750s possibly.
Really?
NARRATOR: Redware, which is a kind of
earthenware pottery composed of fired clay,
was widely used throughout Europe and North America
between the 17th and 18th centuries.
But still, it's still pointing to something early going on.
JACK: Something happening here
-in the middle 1700s. -Yeah.
-Yeah.
NARRATOR: If this pottery predates the discovery
of the Money Pit, could it offer evidence
that this stone feature does as well?
That's really neat.
Great.
Yeah, I thought it looked
much different from the rest of the pottery
that I've seen so far.
♪ ♪
Oh, this is interesting, Jack.
What is it?
This is way down
in this loose soil.
But it looks like it's exactly the same as you found.
-Oh, like from the same vessel? -Yeah.
But why, why the change in elevation for deposit?
Well, that would suggest that this whole thing
was deposited at the same time.
I think it was built,
it was occupied,
then it was abandoned,
filled in with rocks, but filled in with rocks
-and this stuff. -Okay.
This is getting a lot more interesting.
I thought we were done for the season,
but I think we have to
expand that way.
This feature, we don't know who did it.
We don't know when they did it.
And we don't know why they did it.
The really exciting thing for us is that
we're getting examples of
some early pottery on Lot 5,
which means that there's a possibility
that this is one of the earliest occupations
on the island.
I feel like something like this, it'd make more sense
-over by the Money Pit. -Yeah.
We need to get an answer this year.
NARRATOR: As the investigation on Lot 5 continues...
SCOTT: Camera's on its way.
NARRATOR: ...back in the Money Pit area...
All right.
...Rick, Marty and other members of the team
are attempting to investigate the potential tunnel
located at a depth of some 91 feet
below the Garden Shaft.
I think he's got it.
-Have you got it there, Roger? -ROGER: Yeah. 10-4.
NARRATOR: A tunnel that is believed
to lead directly toward the Baby Blob
or possible treasure zone.
Here we go.
Copy that.
RICK: It seems like it's 100 miles down there.
Keep going,
just very slowly.
ROGER: Keep going very slowly.
SCOTT: Coming up on the bottom.
I think you can tell him to stop pretty quick.
Well...
RICK: It doesn't look like wood.
SCOTT: It's just some clay.
It's like mud.
Stop there.
ROGER: Whoa.
Is that wood there?
Right in there? It looks like wood right there.
MARTY: We can see some wood. That's good.
This is becoming extremely frustrating
because we could literally be inches,
literally inches
away from some real definitive data
that could be very helpful to our quest.
-We got to get through that. -Yeah.
Actually, I do like the idea of grinding into the wood.
-Do you just want to call it? -Yeah. Grind that pipe.
NARRATOR: Despite the sediment
and clay in the hole, the fact that the team
has now found visual evidence
of a possible wooden structure
could mean that they may very well have encountered
a man-made tunnel.
-Let's pull out. -RODNEY: Okay.
Up with the camera.
NARRATOR: Now, with less than two weeks
before the team will have to
halt search operations due to the onset of winter,
they must do what they can in order to find out
what it may contain.
RICK: There is a suspicion that there's a tunnel
beneath the Garden Shaft.
Right now, we know there are
anomalously high gold values on the wood outside of the shaft.
They need to drill into the ceiling of the tunnel
and see whether or not there's treasure
in close proximity and hopefully find it.
I think we'll... we'll urethane it
and then we'll resort to drilling.
Okay, these guys are lined out.
We're gonna urethane it
to hold it in place.
If we can get those threads to bite
a little bit, that should help.
And then we'll be back to drilling.
Sounds good.
NARRATOR: To prepare for the next phase
of the drilling operation
the team will spend the next two days coating the hole
with urethane, a crystalline compound
that will allow the drill bit to gain better traction
and hopefully penetrate the possible wooden tunnel.
Let's go, Rick.
We've got other things to do, bud.
-CHARLES: Catch you later. -RICK: See you.
NARRATOR: As a new day begins on Oak Island...
MARTY: Okay, archaeologists...
-(laughs) -What've you got?
Well... (sighs)
So I thought
-we were wrapping up. -Uh-huh.
I thought we were done.
NARRATOR: ...Rick, Marty and Alex
arrive on Lot 5
where archaeologist Laird Niven
and Jack Begley continue searching for
clues inside the mysterious, circular stone formation.
The rocks came down to a hard-packed level.
And I went through that and now I'm in a very loose soil,
still with artifacts in it.
ALEX: What the heck?
And you're not to the bottom of it yet?
I'm not to the bottom of it.
The issue is we think the edge is four feet out.
Sounds to me like the top feature's not just an apron--
-it's the limits of quite a massive structure. -Yeah.
What's driving me crazy is there has to be an edge to it.
There just has to be.
So if the edge is four feet that way
and if you extrapolate around,
-that's a big excavation. -Yes, it is.
If you do it big enough, if you dig a trench
six feet wide and just fill it with rubble,
you do have a good foundation.
-Sure. -A lot of stuff was built that way.
LAIRD: Yeah. Yeah, you just cap.
-That's the way castles were built. -MARTY: Exactly.
It's a fast way to make
-a very stable foundation. -Yeah.
LAIRD: But it looks a little too jumbled
for a foundation.
JACK: It could go deeper.
This could fit in with Zena's map.
This could be the hatch.
It's close to the approximate location
that we're looking for the hatch.
ZENA: When I found the map, which is dated 1347,
I began to put pieces together.
NARRATOR: In 2016,
the late author and researcher Zena Halpern
presented the team with a reported
14th century map of Oak Island that she believed
to have been created by members of the Knights Templar.
Numerous familiar locations were labeled on the document
in French, including what appeared to be the Money Pit,
the stone triangle and the swamp.
However, for the past several years,
the team has been searching for a site
noted on the western side of the island,
which was labeled as "The Hole Under the Hatch,"
believing it may refer to a shaft or tunnel entrance.
Could Jack be correct
that the circular stone structure on Lot 5,
which matches the diameter of the original Money Pit
may very well be The Hole Under the Hatch?
I believe in Zena Halpern's work.
I believe that the map represents
some features on the island.
Is it possible that this might be the hatch?
There are a lot of possibilities on this island.
Who knows what we might find
down at the bottom of that and where it might lead to?
So, orders, Laird?
You're in charge, what do you want us to do?
We can take the soils out by hand.
-Mm-hmm. -Yeah.
But those rocks down below,
we'll need some mechanical help.
MARTY (chuckling): Well...
-(Laird laughs) -...that's music to my ears.
-It's interesting enough to continue. -It is.
You know, you can speculate all day long.
Let's just get after it
-and get it done. -LAIRD: Yeah.
RICK: Let's keep going.
NARRATOR: As Laird Niven continues his investigation on Lot 5...
MARTY: Hello, gentlemen.
ALL: Hey, guys.
-Hey, guys. -Hello.
NARRATOR: ...Rick, Marty,
and other members of the team
have gathered in the war room
to meet via video conference
with Craig Tester,
along with Dr. Chris McFarlane,
a professor of geochemistry at the University of New Brunswick.
Okay. So, see this little item right here
in front of us, folks?
We've showed this thing to so many people.
NARRATOR: Dr. McFarlane
has just completed a scientific analysis
on the lead barter token,
which was found earlier this year on Lot 5
near the mysterious, circular stone feature.
Dr. McFarlane, I know you did ablation on this.
Uh, yeah.
NARRATOR: Laser ablation is the process of removing microscopic samples
from the surface of a lead artifact
using a high-powered laser.
These samples are then analyzed
to identify the exact isotope values contained in the lead,
which can then help determine
both the time period and geographic region
that the artifact originated from.
This was a pretty easy object to ablate because it was flat,
you know, which is good, but I shouldn't say
it was easy to analyze because
it has a very thick, altered crust on it.
It's been down there a while, I would say, without a doubt.
When you say a while, what is that?
-Can you ballpark? -You know, not tens of years.
You know, hundreds of years would be my guess.
You know? But the biggest result is that
isotopically, it looks very similar to...
...the cross.
No way!
GARY: That's brilliant!
NARRATOR: In the war room,
geochemist Dr. Chris McFarlane
has just shared
an astonishing report with the Oak Island team.
I wasn't expecting that.
No, not me either.
NARRATOR: According to laser ablation testing,
the lead isotope values contained in the barter token
that was found earlier this year on Lot 5,
match the lead cross that was found at Smith's Cove in 2017.
This means it was likely made in the 14th century,
and originated in Southern France.
I was expecting that.
(laughing)
GARY: Because of the context.
It was recovered on Lot 5,
not too far from shore,
and it was a good two feet down.
And when that came out,
I had no idea what it is
but it's got a really, really old feel about it.
CHRIS: Yeah.
I mean, I can also tell you that it does fit,
just like the cross with sources in Europe and...
it certainly fits still with a French source.
It's close in terms of the isotopic composition.
Like, the actual value is essentially identical.
To find a friend of the cross-- possibly--
right there on Lot 5, that's brilliant.
(laughs)
It was found on Lot 5,
right next to that odd stone feature
that we've been having the archaeologists dig around.
And they don't have a good explanation for it--
just that it was originally filled in,
in the early to mid-1700s.
And I'm glad you brought that up, Jack,
'cause that might have actually came out of that feature.
It could have been in the fill taken out of it.
That is a top-pocket find.
(laughing)
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Oak Island team
has now found two critical pieces of evidence
suggesting that someone of French origin
visited Oak Island in the 14th century?
If so, could the stone feature on Lot 5
also be related to them
and even help validate the map
that the late Zena Halpern believed
was created by members of the Knights Templar?
RICK: What's really intriguing too is
we've looked for representations of the cross
and we've only seen one
in a very early cave system in Osimo, Italy,
and one on the walls of Domme prison in France,
where the Templars were imprisoned.
Mm-hmm.
Now that this scalloped disc is a friend of the cross,
I mean, one could, on some level,
-associate the two. -Yeah.
MARTY: The lead in the disc apparently matches,
virtually identically with the lead from the lead cross.
That is a head scratcher.
And another very significant thing
that could tie the Templars here
is if we find the "why."
(chuckling) All those other W's are gonna fall right into place.
What do you think, Craig? Kind of interesting data.
Um, definitely, I mean, I guess the big thing is
I'm glad it's close to the cross.
I guess I just want more detail.
CHRIS: I mean, I could look into it
if you want some guidance for sure.
That would be great. Yes.
The good news is, thanks to Chris, we now have
a pathway forward.
So thanks for the info.
Appreciate the, the opportunity
to move this discovery process forward.
Really appreciate it.
No worries. Any time, guys.
MARTY: Good session. Appreciate it.
-Andiamo. -RICK: Andiamo.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
ALEX: Jack, looks like you've got a better view out here.
JACK: Oh, yeah.
-This is a great spot to watch. -ALEX: Perfect.
NARRATOR: ...Alex Lagina, Steve Guptill,
Gary Drayton, Jack Begley
and Billy Gerhardt return to
the triangle-shaped swamp to continue searching for clues
on the mysterious stone ramp.
MARTY: The swamp is complicated-- like everything else--
but now we have a ramp
that goes from the paved area up to the path.
So we're trying to get to the bottom of that.
The year's coming to a close
but we got a few days left.
We could have some breakthroughs.
We're looking for the edge of the ramp, yeah?
Yeah, Gary and I were watching from over here.
And we can clearly see the road continuing...
-Yeah, the path. -...but we're not sure
if we've reached the edge of the ramp.
It'd be great if we can find the edge, basically.
Where do you think the edge of it would be, Steve?
So we know it doesn't exist on the west side.
What we're looking for is the extension on the east side.
-Ooh. -(detector beeping)
-Ooh. -Jack!
-Yeah. -I got a signal, mate.
We are in business. Just there, mate.
That was the last scoop that came out.
JACK: See if I moved it.
It's still there?
GARY: Yep. Still there.
All right. Pinpointer time.
-(beeping) -Come on, be something good.
JACK: Ooh, that's pretty big.
-GARY: That is sweet. -JACK: Whoa.
NARRATOR: While investigating
the stone ramp in the triangle-shaped swamp,
metal detection expert Gary Drayton
has just made what could be a significant discovery.
-What you got, guys? -GARY: Eh, it's a...
-Looks like a brass door handle. -Interesting.
GARY: You know what?
This could be off like a ship's cabinet
or a door on a ship.
Yeah. Who knows?
NARRATOR: A possible handle?
And potentially from a large sailing vessel?
If so, could it be related
to the many other pieces of ships and cargo barrels
that the team has found in the swamp
over the past several years?
And perhaps offer more evidence that the stone ramp
and the 800-year-old paved area were used
to off-load something of great value onto Oak Island?
GARY: One thing for sure, it's an artifact, mate.
And I'm gonna bag it.
-Sweet find, Gary. -Good digging, mate.
ALEX: Okay, here we go.
See if we can find the other edge of the path.
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ALEX: We'd really like to find the edges of this ramp.
Not only does it indicate
more conclusively that it's man-made,
but it's also gonna help us figure out what the purpose was.
(clanking)
I think he might be hitting it there.
-The ramp? -ALEX: Maybe.
Yeah, you can hear him hit the side in that path.
We should go in there and poke around.
I agree.
ALEX: Hey, Billy.
We'll jump down in.
Yep.
JACK: Let's see what we got.
ALEX: Stone path still here.
I think there's a good chance
that the ramp continues here, too.
BILLY: The only sure way is
-to clean it off more carefully at this point. -ALEX: Yeah.
-So we'll just work our way this way. -JACK: Okay.
ALEX: And honestly, maybe it's best
to start over here and look for the edge.
-We were on to this edge already. -ALEX: Right foot?
-Yeah, okay. -No, I'll work around in here.
♪ ♪
There's rocks, as you can see,
-all right here... -Yeah.
...but where you're digging, well...
That there, that's where it stops, right there.
Oh. Oh, yeah. And then it just...
-It stops. -Because look.
Look in here... nothing.
Nothing. Nothing.
-Down to this subsoil level. -That's the C horizon.
Yeah.
I'm pretty comfortable with saying
the edge is right here.
ALEX: As we're scraping away dirt,
we can see an area where you've got dark soil,
and right next to it you've got the C horizon,
which is untouched by humans.
So it looks like it could be the edges of this ramp.
So we're probably there but...
Oh, great, this is actually wonderful news, right?
-Yes, it is. -ALEX: Yeah.
JACK: We found the edge of the ramp.
BILLY: Yeah, from my vantage point,
we found the edge of the paved area up there.
-ALEX: Uh-huh. -BILLY: This lines up with the end of the paved area, I mean,
it ties the ramp to the path and we're pretty sure
we have the ramp tied to the paved areas,
so now we have the paved area tied to a road.
-Right? -Yeah.
RICK: I believe there are
four large man-made constructs
either associated with the swamp
or in the body of the swamp proper.
They took a lot of work, a lot of effort.
We don't quite yet know their purpose
but human beings made those structures.
You want to leave it as is, and then go talk to the guys?
I think so, yeah, 'cause I--
This is the best we can hope to find, really.
Okay. Let's, uh, let's go tell the guys.
-JACK: Yeah. -ALEX: Perfect.
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NARRATOR: The following morning...
MARTY: Are we ready?
Hey, how's it going, guys? Yeah.
Guys are down there,
so the casing's in place and the geofoam.
How'd that go? It went well?
-Very well. -Went well, yeah.
NARRATOR: ...Rick, Marty,
and the members of the team
return to the Money Pit area
as representatives from Dumas Contracting Limited
begin their attempt to drill into the believed tunnel
some ten feet below the Garden Shaft.
Well, that's a good picture.
-SCOTT: We're ready to go and drill. -MARTY: Yeah.
NARRATOR: A tunnel that may lead
directly toward the "Baby Blob" or potential treasure zone.
Rodney felt that we may kind of be on the edge of the tunnel.
How does he know that?
When he was probing down there, he thought he felt wood
more on one side than the other side,
-something... -Oh.
Boy, we could drill through a bunch of wood, then.
SCOTT: We, we don't know.
ROGER: So right now we're at roughly 91, 92 feet.
We think we're sitting on some wood right now,
so we're gonna go down
-with the drill. -MARTY: Okay.
ROGER: Copy, go ahead.
Yes!
Absolutely.
Whenever you're ready.
Pump coming on.
MARTY: We've done all this work in the Garden Shaft
-to get to this point. -(whirring)
I want to see some precious metals in this shaft.
I really do, and I think there's a decent chance.
All right. Here we go!
-ROGER: Good to go, guys. -(whirring)
So the fact that this is an unknown tunnel, it's great
but an unknown tunnel that is right in the area
where the scientists say
anomalous amounts of precious metals are,
makes it very important.
And I know you're interested in that for the same reason.
Yep. For sure.
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-It's moving slowly. -Oh, yeah.
Copy. Go ahead.
Does it sound like he's grinding away
on something hard or is it...
ROGER: Does it sound like you're drilling on
something really hard?
MARTY: Oh, baby.
NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,
members of Dumas Contracting Limited
are currently attempting to drill into a believed tunnel
at a depth of some 92 feet,
located just below the bottom of the Garden Shaft.
-Pretty tough wood. -Yep.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: A tunnel that may head due west
into the so-called Baby Blob where the team has detected
their highest trace evidence of both silver and gold.
It's moving slowly.
Oh, yeah. Oh, it's unbelievable.
MARTY: Is she spinning?
No.
Copy. Go ahead.
Man, oh, man, oh, man, talk about being close
and not being able to get there.
CHARLES: Emotional roller coaster.
Yeah.
Yeah. There you go.
All right. Let's go through this.
ALEX: It moved a couple inches.
Did we just get two inches, really?
Oh, yeah. We made some headway.
Today's not the day.
We're not getting anywhere like this.
What do you think?
Why don't they just pull it up
as far as they can, see if anything comes out at all.
Yeah.
Copy, Rodney?
RODNEY: Yeah, go ahead.
ROGER: Can you pull up your rod,
see if there's anything coming out of the...
off the flighting?
RODNEY: Yeah. 10-4.
-I need a chunk of wood to come out of that hole. -Yeah.
RODNEY: I know I hit wood earlier. I know I did.
BRANDON V.: There's something on there.
-RODNEY: Oh. -BRANDON V.: There you go.
-There's something. -RODNEY: Yeah.
-They're looking for something. -ROGER: Yeah.
-BRANDON V.: Roger. -Yeah, go ahead.
BRANDON V.: There was wood on the drill.
I gave a piece to Dan to bring up there, he's gonna show you.
Oh. He's saying, they said
Dan is on his way up with a piece of wood.
MARTY: Perfect.
Why do we get this close and we don't have any time left?
Yeah.
Ooh. (chuckles)
Yeah, I'll show it to the guys, see what they have to say.
What've you got there, Roger?
It's not much, but I mean, it's not a big piece.
I wish it was a little bigger than that.
MARTY: Yeah. (chuckling)
ROGER: That piece of wood was from
just outside of the bit.
So, I mean, it's...
it's definitely not from our new timber.
It doesn't look like it's a young piece of wood.
Believe it or not, that's plenty to carbon date.
RICK: It's just a tiny, tiny, little piece of wood.
But it is a piece and at this point,
given that's the only sample, it's a data point.
We'll send it off for carbon dating.
You said you can drill tomorrow.
Yes.
So, what do we want to do?
I'd opt for a whole new hole.
SCOTT: I don't think we have time for a whole new hole.
If there is wood there
and you come down on the wood with a six-inch,
-it would advance down. -Yeah.
So I guess I'm with Scott, given the time constraints.
Yeah.
So, pull the casing and we'll drill the six-inch?
-Yeah. Yeah. -Whatever happens, happens.
Unfortunately, we have to be done.
Okay.
NARRATOR: Because the team is not able to
penetrate the possible tunnel with their current drill bit,
which measures just four inches in diameter,
they will need to pause the operation in order to obtain
a more powerful six-inch replacement.
MARTY: It looks like we are running out of time for this season and
literally, when we're inches away from something
that could be a big discovery.
We can't get through the wood with a four-inch drill bit,
so we're gonna try to get through it with a six-inch.
That's it. I think you can call it a day.
And then tomorrow morning, yes, please, get right on it
with your six-inch and we'll be back out here.
Okay.
-RICK: Thank you, Roger. -ROGER: Absolutely.
NARRATOR: After digging more than 90 feet deep in the Money Pit,
Rick, Marty, Craig and their team may now be
just inches from what people have been trying to find
for more than two centuries.
And given all of the incredible clues
that they have uncovered across the island,
and once again in Europe...
...it may be a treasure more valuable and historic
than anyone could have ever imagined.
So now, even as the harsh winter season closes in,
can anything stop them
from making the ultimate discovery?
Next time on the thrilling season finale of
The Curse of Oak Island...
LAIRD: I thought this was the bottom but...
-(soft thudding) -GARY: Oh, wow!
Does that sound solid to you?
No. This might be the hatch.
There's a massive treasure
within 15 feet of the Garden Shaft?
Yeah, we've narrowed down an area.
Something's close by.
MARTY: I want to go down that shaft.
We'll see what's down there, mate.
Ooh! That's a nonferrous target.
-MARTY: Really? -GARY: This could be gold.
MARTY: Yeah!
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