1 00:00:02,125 --> 00:00:03,250 NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island... 2 00:00:03,375 --> 00:00:05,333 All right! Here we go! Let's do this. 3 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:08,000 We're going underground in the Garden Shaft. 4 00:00:08,167 --> 00:00:10,042 What in the hell is going on here? 5 00:00:10,208 --> 00:00:12,250 ROGER: It's crazy. We're encountering a lot of water. 6 00:00:12,417 --> 00:00:13,792 MARTY: I don't like the sounds of that. 7 00:00:13,958 --> 00:00:15,250 JAMIE: Oh! Look at this. 8 00:00:15,417 --> 00:00:18,833 -Oh, wow! -It's pre-Money Pit discovery. 9 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,833 This could've been used in the Money Pit. 10 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,417 PAUL: Going in right now. 11 00:00:22,583 --> 00:00:23,875 MARTY: We're gonna run a camera in Aladdin's Cave. 12 00:00:24,042 --> 00:00:25,292 ALL (shouting): Whoa! 13 00:00:25,458 --> 00:00:26,833 SCOTT: Oh, my God. Look at that! 14 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,667 STEVE: It could be man-made. 15 00:00:31,250 --> 00:00:34,333 NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic 16 00:00:34,500 --> 00:00:37,000 where people have been looking for an incredible treasure 17 00:00:37,208 --> 00:00:41,042 for more than 200 years. 18 00:00:41,208 --> 00:00:44,000 So far they have found a stone slab 19 00:00:44,208 --> 00:00:47,208 with strange symbols carved into it, 20 00:00:47,333 --> 00:00:50,125 man-made workings that date to medieval times, 21 00:00:50,250 --> 00:00:52,958 and a lead cross whose origin 22 00:00:53,125 --> 00:00:56,208 may be connected to the Knights Templar. 23 00:00:56,375 --> 00:01:01,167 To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery. 24 00:01:01,333 --> 00:01:03,792 And, according to legend, 25 00:01:03,917 --> 00:01:07,292 one more will have to die 26 00:01:07,458 --> 00:01:10,667 before the treasure can be found. 27 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:27,583 -RICK: Okay. Let's go see Roger. -MARTY: Yep. 28 00:01:29,042 --> 00:01:31,042 NARRATOR: A new day of excitement 29 00:01:31,208 --> 00:01:33,125 and anticipation for discoveries 30 00:01:33,292 --> 00:01:36,583 that could help solve a 228-year-old mystery... 31 00:01:36,792 --> 00:01:38,083 Time to look underground. 32 00:01:38,250 --> 00:01:39,875 ...has begun on Oak Island. 33 00:01:40,042 --> 00:01:41,083 Let's see what we got. 34 00:01:41,250 --> 00:01:43,333 I want to see how the setup is. 35 00:01:43,542 --> 00:01:45,667 I can't wait to go down there, honestly. 36 00:01:45,875 --> 00:01:46,875 -Roger. -How's it going, guys? 37 00:01:47,042 --> 00:01:48,833 -Today's the day. -(laughs) 38 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,333 -Today is the day. -Thank you for taking me up on the offer. 39 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:51,792 That's good. That's good. Nice to see you, Rick. 40 00:01:51,875 --> 00:01:53,500 We're taking you down on the offer. 41 00:01:53,667 --> 00:01:54,833 Taking me down on the offer. You're right, you're right. 42 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,750 Let's do it, let's do it. We're ready. 43 00:01:56,875 --> 00:01:59,000 NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area, 44 00:01:59,208 --> 00:02:01,583 brothers Rick and Marty Lagina are about to get 45 00:02:01,708 --> 00:02:03,667 their first opportunity of the year 46 00:02:03,833 --> 00:02:07,167 to personally inspect the ongoing renovations 47 00:02:07,375 --> 00:02:10,875 that are being made in a mid-18th century structure 48 00:02:11,042 --> 00:02:13,250 known as the Garden Shaft. 49 00:02:13,375 --> 00:02:15,042 Before we get dressed, I just want to show you 50 00:02:15,208 --> 00:02:16,500 a little something, when you go down there, when I talk 51 00:02:16,708 --> 00:02:17,708 about something, you guys will have a good idea. 52 00:02:17,875 --> 00:02:19,292 Okay. So... 53 00:02:19,458 --> 00:02:21,458 towards the bottom of the shaft, this is Set 16 here. 54 00:02:21,667 --> 00:02:24,042 This is where we're seeing that infiltration of water. 55 00:02:24,208 --> 00:02:25,917 This is the bad area where all the water-- 56 00:02:26,042 --> 00:02:27,250 You'll see when we get down there. 57 00:02:27,458 --> 00:02:29,875 Okay. That is very puzzling. 58 00:02:30,042 --> 00:02:31,667 It is. It is. 59 00:02:31,792 --> 00:02:33,500 And it's just this area. You'll see as you go down. 60 00:02:33,667 --> 00:02:35,750 -It's not undermining your shaft, is it, Roger? -No. 61 00:02:35,917 --> 00:02:38,167 That's why I want to try to stop it or at least contain it. 62 00:02:38,333 --> 00:02:40,333 Anyways, we'll get you guys dressed. 63 00:02:40,458 --> 00:02:42,250 -You'll have a good idea... -We have a great idea, yeah. 64 00:02:42,417 --> 00:02:44,417 -Uh, this is yours. -This is me? 65 00:02:44,542 --> 00:02:45,958 Yeah, and this is-- Rick, this is for you. 66 00:02:46,083 --> 00:02:47,000 Okay. 67 00:02:47,167 --> 00:02:48,708 As we all know, 68 00:02:48,917 --> 00:02:50,000 200 and some years, 69 00:02:50,167 --> 00:02:51,333 water's always been the problem. 70 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:53,583 Well, now we're encountering it ourselves 71 00:02:53,792 --> 00:02:56,750 and we have to devise a way to shut it down, 72 00:02:56,917 --> 00:02:59,500 or at least diminish it. The bottom of the Garden Shaft 73 00:02:59,708 --> 00:03:02,542 could be incredibly important to solving the mystery. 74 00:03:02,750 --> 00:03:03,958 It needs to be dealt with. 75 00:03:04,125 --> 00:03:05,833 All right. 76 00:03:05,958 --> 00:03:07,542 I feel like Ghostbusters. 77 00:03:08,750 --> 00:03:12,167 NARRATOR: Since returning to the island three weeks ago, 78 00:03:12,333 --> 00:03:15,167 representatives from Dumas Contracting Limited 79 00:03:15,333 --> 00:03:18,500 have extended the refurbished 82-foot-deep shaft 80 00:03:18,625 --> 00:03:21,833 down to 87 feet, with the ultimate goal 81 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,750 of reaching a total depth of nearly 100 feet. 82 00:03:25,875 --> 00:03:29,625 It is here that the Oak Island team hopes to breach 83 00:03:29,792 --> 00:03:33,458 a mysterious seven-foot-high tunnel that they have discovered 84 00:03:33,625 --> 00:03:36,458 during their strategic core-drilling operation. 85 00:03:36,583 --> 00:03:38,833 A tunnel that has been carbon-dated 86 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,583 to as early as the 17th century 87 00:03:41,792 --> 00:03:46,958 and which runs east to west toward the so-called Baby Blob, 88 00:03:47,125 --> 00:03:51,417 where high concentrations of gold, silver and other metals 89 00:03:51,583 --> 00:03:53,667 have been detected in groundwater 90 00:03:53,792 --> 00:03:57,750 between depths of 80 and 120 feet. 91 00:03:58,875 --> 00:04:01,750 -All right! Here we go! -ROGER: Let's go, guys. 92 00:04:03,583 --> 00:04:05,625 RICK: Care needs to be taken to try to understand 93 00:04:05,750 --> 00:04:08,167 what's happening inside of the shaft. 94 00:04:08,333 --> 00:04:09,667 In a number of ways, 95 00:04:09,833 --> 00:04:12,458 this, this water issue has to be dealt with. 96 00:04:13,875 --> 00:04:16,583 -So, this is 60? -Oh, yeah. 97 00:04:16,792 --> 00:04:19,875 So, starting from this set here, this is where our water starts. 98 00:04:20,042 --> 00:04:22,500 Right here. And then it comes in along the side. 99 00:04:22,667 --> 00:04:26,167 So, our plan today is we're gonna go one set above this. 100 00:04:26,250 --> 00:04:28,333 We're gonna punch nine holes in here. 101 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:30,500 And we're gonna get some urethane in there. 102 00:04:30,708 --> 00:04:33,375 It should stop all this water that we see coming in. 103 00:04:33,542 --> 00:04:35,208 MARTY: What they want to do 104 00:04:35,417 --> 00:04:37,500 is use this fast-setting urethane. 105 00:04:37,667 --> 00:04:39,625 They're gonna grout it and try and stop the water. 106 00:04:39,750 --> 00:04:42,458 And you see those two 2x6's. See the crack? 107 00:04:42,625 --> 00:04:44,833 RICK: They use a specialized compound-- 108 00:04:45,042 --> 00:04:48,042 expanding foam, if you will, in layman's terms-- 109 00:04:48,208 --> 00:04:50,500 spray it under pressure, 110 00:04:50,667 --> 00:04:53,333 and as it expands, it will seal off 111 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:56,542 that intrusion of water, possibly completely. 112 00:05:00,208 --> 00:05:03,000 Okay. I've landed. 113 00:05:03,208 --> 00:05:04,833 ROGER: All right. 114 00:05:08,958 --> 00:05:10,500 Okay. Roger, I have lots of questions. 115 00:05:10,708 --> 00:05:12,375 -Yeah. -Where are we compared 116 00:05:12,583 --> 00:05:14,583 to where we were last year at the bottom? 117 00:05:14,708 --> 00:05:16,042 -Are we below that depth? -That's right. 118 00:05:16,208 --> 00:05:17,458 So we're about four or five feet lower 119 00:05:17,625 --> 00:05:18,917 -in here. Yeah. -We're well below. 120 00:05:19,083 --> 00:05:21,333 So right now we're at 87 feet from the top. 121 00:05:21,458 --> 00:05:23,500 So we've gone down about four feet, roughly. 122 00:05:23,708 --> 00:05:25,542 Right, but how far is that down there? 123 00:05:25,667 --> 00:05:27,750 Uh, it's not very much further. 124 00:05:27,875 --> 00:05:29,542 I'll just open up this up, this little hatch here, 125 00:05:29,708 --> 00:05:31,708 so it'll give us a better idea. 126 00:05:31,875 --> 00:05:33,458 MARTY: Okay. So, we're looking at dirt 127 00:05:33,625 --> 00:05:35,125 that nobody else have ever seen. 128 00:05:35,292 --> 00:05:37,333 -Ever. Right? -That's right. Right there. 129 00:05:37,542 --> 00:05:39,500 -That's for sure. -MARTY: I'll say this, Roger. 130 00:05:39,667 --> 00:05:42,250 You're very close to that tunnel that we hope is 131 00:05:42,417 --> 00:05:44,375 just a few feet below here. 132 00:05:44,542 --> 00:05:46,750 -Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'd say. -Yeah. That's pretty cool. 133 00:05:46,917 --> 00:05:49,667 It's a tunnel we didn't know anything about. 134 00:05:49,792 --> 00:05:51,792 -It's not described in the narrative. -Yeah. 135 00:05:51,958 --> 00:05:54,167 -We got to get down there. -And that's what I'm hoping, 136 00:05:54,333 --> 00:05:55,833 like when we start this probe drilling 137 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:56,875 and we start punching away. 138 00:05:57,042 --> 00:05:58,500 Yeah. 139 00:05:58,667 --> 00:06:01,667 Short of an artifact recovery, gold, silver, 140 00:06:01,875 --> 00:06:05,083 the most important relevance of this shaft 141 00:06:05,292 --> 00:06:06,833 is that horizontal drilling. 142 00:06:07,042 --> 00:06:08,625 Yeah. 143 00:06:08,750 --> 00:06:11,458 NARRATOR: Depending on what the team finds 144 00:06:11,583 --> 00:06:14,458 once they reach the believed tunnel below, 145 00:06:14,542 --> 00:06:17,792 Dumas will also be able to use a probe-drilling device 146 00:06:17,958 --> 00:06:20,625 to search for evidence of valuables 147 00:06:20,833 --> 00:06:23,792 up to 40 feet in every direction. 148 00:06:23,917 --> 00:06:27,792 Should any important clues be discovered during this process 149 00:06:27,917 --> 00:06:30,875 and the existing tunnel is inaccessible, 150 00:06:31,042 --> 00:06:35,583 Dumas can construct a new tunnel in order to reach them. 151 00:06:35,750 --> 00:06:38,875 If you're correct and you can drill 40 feet 152 00:06:39,042 --> 00:06:42,750 off of that face and this face, we'll be able to literally 153 00:06:42,875 --> 00:06:45,167 gain information from an 80-foot cylinder. 154 00:06:45,375 --> 00:06:47,167 -Yes. -That's pretty amazing. 155 00:06:47,375 --> 00:06:49,167 It's why we're here. It's why you're here. 156 00:06:49,333 --> 00:06:51,000 Oh, absolutely. Yeah. 157 00:06:51,208 --> 00:06:52,667 MARTY: You know what, Rick, I got to praise him and his guys. 158 00:06:52,875 --> 00:06:56,458 I mean, fine, I can stand down here and chitchat, 159 00:06:56,583 --> 00:06:58,292 but this is not a good workspace. 160 00:06:58,458 --> 00:07:00,000 -(laughter) -ROGER: No. No. 161 00:07:00,125 --> 00:07:02,042 You've got it pouring down on top of your head all day. 162 00:07:02,208 --> 00:07:03,833 -MARTY: Eventually, I'd get pretty weary. Yeah. -Yeah. Yeah. 163 00:07:04,042 --> 00:07:06,833 We got a conduit somewhere that we're unaware of. 164 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,292 Oh, yes. If I get 50% of this water stopped 165 00:07:09,458 --> 00:07:11,042 on the guys, I'll be a happy man. 166 00:07:11,208 --> 00:07:13,667 All right. Should we get out of here? Are we all set? 167 00:07:13,833 --> 00:07:15,542 Sounds good. And then we can get the boys down here... 168 00:07:15,708 --> 00:07:17,333 Get the boys down here and let's go! 169 00:07:17,500 --> 00:07:19,833 -Let's go deep. -ROGER: Absolutely. 170 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,875 NARRATOR: While the operation in the Garden Shaft continues 171 00:07:23,042 --> 00:07:25,208 in the Money Pit area... 172 00:07:27,208 --> 00:07:28,958 ...later that morning... 173 00:07:29,083 --> 00:07:31,500 MARTY: Okay, gentlemen. 174 00:07:31,625 --> 00:07:33,667 Today, we have an important thing. 175 00:07:33,792 --> 00:07:37,375 ...Rick, Marty and Craig Tester have gathered members 176 00:07:37,542 --> 00:07:39,583 of the team in the war room to receive 177 00:07:39,750 --> 00:07:43,667 an updated report on water testing that has been conducted 178 00:07:43,833 --> 00:07:48,125 in the Money Pit area from geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner, 179 00:07:48,208 --> 00:07:50,458 chemist Dr. Matt Lukeman 180 00:07:50,625 --> 00:07:54,167 and hydrogeologist Dr. Fred Michel. 181 00:07:54,333 --> 00:07:58,042 MARTY: I've always said there's nothing I like better than new data. 182 00:07:58,208 --> 00:08:01,333 So, with no further ado, over to you, Dr. Lukeman. 183 00:08:01,542 --> 00:08:04,042 All right, so we've done florescence testing 184 00:08:04,250 --> 00:08:06,417 on all the water samples that we've run so far this year, 185 00:08:06,542 --> 00:08:09,333 as well as all the ones last year. 186 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:11,000 We use fluorescence spectroscopy on the water 187 00:08:11,208 --> 00:08:14,667 to see evidence of other things beyond metals, 188 00:08:14,833 --> 00:08:18,917 such as traces of wood or other organic material in the water, 189 00:08:19,083 --> 00:08:22,125 that gives us evidence of human activity. 190 00:08:22,292 --> 00:08:23,667 Okay. 191 00:08:23,833 --> 00:08:26,000 NARRATOR: Fluorescence spectroscopy 192 00:08:26,208 --> 00:08:28,333 is a process that uses 193 00:08:28,500 --> 00:08:31,083 a high-powered beam of ultraviolet light 194 00:08:31,208 --> 00:08:34,750 to excite the molecules of elemental compounds 195 00:08:34,875 --> 00:08:37,792 in order to identify unusual materials 196 00:08:37,958 --> 00:08:40,792 that may be contained within a specimen-- 197 00:08:40,958 --> 00:08:44,667 in this case, water samples that have been collected 198 00:08:44,792 --> 00:08:46,625 from previously drilled boreholes 199 00:08:46,750 --> 00:08:49,583 all across the Money Pit area. 200 00:08:49,750 --> 00:08:53,083 So, you see, all the wells are listed along the bottom there 201 00:08:53,250 --> 00:08:55,542 and measurements of organic matter in the water. 202 00:08:55,708 --> 00:08:58,792 So all of the wells are showing 203 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,833 some amount of organic matter. 204 00:09:01,042 --> 00:09:02,792 -Yeah. -And so it's not unexpected 205 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,167 to see wood signals down under there. 206 00:09:06,333 --> 00:09:10,000 In particular, we have one very interesting result 207 00:09:10,208 --> 00:09:12,333 to present on L16 Deep, 208 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:15,167 which is believed to open up, at the bottom of the well, 209 00:09:15,333 --> 00:09:16,833 into a large void. 210 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,750 Oh, wow. 211 00:09:18,917 --> 00:09:20,333 So just for reference, that's into 212 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:22,000 what Marty calls "Aladdin's Cave." 213 00:09:22,208 --> 00:09:24,208 It's Aladdin's Cave. 214 00:09:25,250 --> 00:09:29,417 NARRATOR: Some 60 feet southwest of the Garden Shaft, 215 00:09:29,583 --> 00:09:31,833 Rick, Marty, Craig and the team 216 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,667 are currently investigating 217 00:09:33,833 --> 00:09:35,833 another feature in the Money Pit area 218 00:09:35,958 --> 00:09:38,500 that may also contain critical clues 219 00:09:38,667 --> 00:09:41,208 that could help solve the Oak Island mystery: 220 00:09:41,375 --> 00:09:45,750 a large cavern located more than 150 feet underground 221 00:09:45,917 --> 00:09:48,792 that has been dubbed "Aladdin's Cave." 222 00:09:48,958 --> 00:09:51,333 Within this mysterious cavern, 223 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:55,125 they have obtained not only camera and sonar images 224 00:09:55,250 --> 00:09:58,500 suggesting that it could be man-made 225 00:09:58,708 --> 00:10:00,750 but also, through water testing, 226 00:10:00,917 --> 00:10:03,250 high trace evidence of gold. 227 00:10:03,375 --> 00:10:05,667 It's a lot deeper 228 00:10:05,792 --> 00:10:07,958 than a lot of the other tunnels and other workings. 229 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,667 For that particular water sample taken from that depth, 230 00:10:11,875 --> 00:10:15,042 we find very high organic material, 231 00:10:15,250 --> 00:10:18,917 which is indicative of the water in that void 232 00:10:19,125 --> 00:10:21,333 having come into contact with organic material, 233 00:10:21,458 --> 00:10:23,500 -such as wood. -MARTY: Interesting. 234 00:10:23,667 --> 00:10:25,667 MATT: Yeah, which is very surprising, 235 00:10:25,833 --> 00:10:28,625 because there's, I believe, no known 236 00:10:28,750 --> 00:10:32,667 human workings in that particular area at that depth. 237 00:10:32,792 --> 00:10:35,292 -Really? -Yeah. There's no natural way wood 238 00:10:35,417 --> 00:10:37,125 would get in that environment. 239 00:10:38,208 --> 00:10:40,292 MARTY: That is the oddest thing. 240 00:10:44,208 --> 00:10:46,250 IAN: There's no natural way wood would get in that environment. 241 00:10:46,375 --> 00:10:47,667 That is the oddest thing. 242 00:10:47,875 --> 00:10:50,167 The wood is interesting. 243 00:10:51,292 --> 00:10:53,042 That means something was there. 244 00:10:53,208 --> 00:10:55,083 NARRATOR: In the Oak Island war room... 245 00:10:55,208 --> 00:10:58,125 I think what we're seeing there is, I'd say, anomalously high. 246 00:10:58,292 --> 00:11:00,083 ...Drs Matt Lukeman, 247 00:11:00,292 --> 00:11:03,708 Ian Spooner and Fred Michel have just presented 248 00:11:03,833 --> 00:11:06,833 new scientific evidence that the large cavern 249 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,917 more than 150 feet deep in the Money Pit area, 250 00:11:11,083 --> 00:11:12,708 known as "Aladdin's Cave," 251 00:11:12,917 --> 00:11:16,125 may contain man-made workings. 252 00:11:16,292 --> 00:11:21,500 If there were things introduced into that cave by people, 253 00:11:21,667 --> 00:11:24,333 it becomes gigantically significant, 254 00:11:24,458 --> 00:11:25,583 'cause it doesn't make any sense. 255 00:11:25,750 --> 00:11:27,042 It's a one of. 256 00:11:27,208 --> 00:11:29,167 There's nothing else above the bedrock. 257 00:11:29,333 --> 00:11:31,833 STEVE: We put a camera and a sonar into that. 258 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,167 The camera gave us a really good visual and we couldn't see 259 00:11:34,375 --> 00:11:36,875 -anything but rock and water. -Right. 260 00:11:37,042 --> 00:11:39,125 That makes the cave even that much more important. 261 00:11:39,292 --> 00:11:40,750 -I mean-- -Way more. 262 00:11:40,917 --> 00:11:43,375 This just adds to the mystery of that cave. 263 00:11:43,542 --> 00:11:46,250 Okay. But the other thing is, is there a tunnel 264 00:11:46,375 --> 00:11:49,125 around that leads to that or at least intersects it? 265 00:11:49,250 --> 00:11:51,250 RICK: It invites all kinds of questions. 266 00:11:51,375 --> 00:11:56,000 Finding those organics at that depth in a void. 267 00:11:56,208 --> 00:11:58,958 We now have three different technologies 268 00:11:59,125 --> 00:12:01,625 strongly hinting there's something there. 269 00:12:01,833 --> 00:12:03,833 It's certainly more than worthy 270 00:12:04,042 --> 00:12:06,083 of further investigative processes. 271 00:12:06,208 --> 00:12:09,000 The take-home is we need to keep an eye on that well. 272 00:12:09,167 --> 00:12:11,458 Uh, it's been showing some interesting stuff, 273 00:12:11,667 --> 00:12:14,167 the precious metals, as well. 274 00:12:14,333 --> 00:12:16,125 Well, and we haven't crossed off the option of treasure. 275 00:12:16,333 --> 00:12:18,792 If anything, this could be a clear indication 276 00:12:18,958 --> 00:12:20,833 that it's still there and no one ever recovered it. 277 00:12:21,042 --> 00:12:24,500 This is exciting and super interesting. 278 00:12:24,708 --> 00:12:26,708 SCOTT: We need to drill another hole 279 00:12:26,875 --> 00:12:28,708 into this, so we'll be in a different area. 280 00:12:28,875 --> 00:12:30,458 SCOTT: So, our new hole that we'll put in, 281 00:12:30,625 --> 00:12:32,750 we'll move to the opposite end of the cavity, basically, 282 00:12:32,917 --> 00:12:34,333 where we feel we have the most height. 283 00:12:34,458 --> 00:12:36,833 Maybe we can put a camera down in there again 284 00:12:37,042 --> 00:12:38,833 and get a better image of the area around that hole. 285 00:12:39,042 --> 00:12:40,917 -Oh, that's great. -And we may see wood. 286 00:12:41,042 --> 00:12:43,875 -Yep. -MARTY: I think this is exciting. 287 00:12:44,042 --> 00:12:45,583 This thing sits on the bedrock. 288 00:12:45,792 --> 00:12:47,083 It is hard to come up with 289 00:12:47,208 --> 00:12:49,000 a geological interpretation of that cave. 290 00:12:49,167 --> 00:12:52,292 So now we see that there are sources 291 00:12:52,417 --> 00:12:55,500 of plant material in there, and the obvious one would be wood, 292 00:12:55,708 --> 00:12:57,833 and that makes it not natural at all. 293 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,875 The first thing we're gonna do 294 00:13:00,042 --> 00:13:02,292 is we're gonna run a camera down into Aladdin's Cave. 295 00:13:02,458 --> 00:13:04,917 There's still something worth pursuing here. 296 00:13:05,083 --> 00:13:07,458 This is very exciting, um, 297 00:13:07,625 --> 00:13:09,500 but the issues in front of us 298 00:13:09,583 --> 00:13:12,000 are probably more complex than any other year. 299 00:13:12,208 --> 00:13:15,583 We need to move forward aggressively, so 300 00:13:15,708 --> 00:13:17,667 let's do what Mom said. 301 00:13:17,875 --> 00:13:19,792 Sempre Avanti. Let's keep moving forward. 302 00:13:21,250 --> 00:13:23,208 Can't say any more than that. Let's go do it. 303 00:13:25,208 --> 00:13:27,083 MARTY: Well done, guys. 304 00:13:28,083 --> 00:13:30,083 NARRATOR: Later that afternoon... 305 00:13:30,250 --> 00:13:32,667 -Hey, Charles. How ya doing? -Hey, Terry. 306 00:13:32,833 --> 00:13:37,000 So we are in K/L-14.5. 307 00:13:37,083 --> 00:13:37,958 Right. 308 00:13:38,125 --> 00:13:39,833 ...geologist Terry Matheson 309 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,500 joins Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse 310 00:13:42,667 --> 00:13:44,167 in the Money Pit area 311 00:13:44,375 --> 00:13:49,083 to oversee the drilling of borehole KL-14.5. 312 00:13:49,292 --> 00:13:54,792 A borehole located some ten feet northwest of borehole L-16, 313 00:13:54,958 --> 00:13:57,125 where the team hopes to intersect 314 00:13:57,292 --> 00:13:59,000 the center of Aladdin's Cave 315 00:13:59,167 --> 00:14:01,708 over 150 feet underground. 316 00:14:01,875 --> 00:14:03,833 Once they break open into the cave, 317 00:14:04,042 --> 00:14:06,833 -then we're gonna put a camera down. -Right. 318 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,208 Hopefully we can see, you know, maybe a-a tunnel 319 00:14:09,375 --> 00:14:12,333 or some kind of entrance or egress in, into this cave. 320 00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:15,750 MARTY: Aladdin's Cave is 100% unique. 321 00:14:15,917 --> 00:14:19,083 We've found lots of voids at depth in the bedrock. 322 00:14:19,208 --> 00:14:21,625 This one is completely different. 323 00:14:21,792 --> 00:14:24,042 -What do you got? 83? -83. 324 00:14:24,208 --> 00:14:26,875 -All right, well, let's crack 'em up and see what we got. -Okay. 325 00:14:30,375 --> 00:14:32,750 Oh! We're into some 326 00:14:32,875 --> 00:14:35,667 tightly bedded clay beds. 327 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:38,000 CHARLES: Yeah, you know what? 328 00:14:38,208 --> 00:14:40,042 That would be lovely stuff to tunnel in. 329 00:14:40,208 --> 00:14:41,750 It'd be lovely to tunnel in because 330 00:14:41,917 --> 00:14:43,208 you wouldn't have to worry about water, would ya? 331 00:14:43,375 --> 00:14:44,542 No. 332 00:14:44,708 --> 00:14:46,000 That would seal itself, pretty much. 333 00:14:46,167 --> 00:14:49,208 Nothing coming in from above or below. 334 00:14:49,375 --> 00:14:51,417 The fact that you're getting organics of wood in there 335 00:14:51,542 --> 00:14:54,083 obviously shows that-that human beings 336 00:14:54,208 --> 00:14:56,000 were doing something. 337 00:14:56,125 --> 00:14:57,958 TERRY: So this thing is... 338 00:14:58,083 --> 00:14:59,333 is probably gonna be a man-made structure. 339 00:14:59,542 --> 00:15:01,083 I'm looking forward to getting down there. 340 00:15:01,250 --> 00:15:03,833 CHARLES: Absolutely. We've got quite a ways to go. 341 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,000 NARRATOR: As the drilling operation continues 342 00:15:06,125 --> 00:15:09,250 in borehole KL-14.5... 343 00:15:11,875 --> 00:15:12,833 -Hey, Carmen. -Hello. 344 00:15:13,042 --> 00:15:13,917 -Carmen. -Hello, Carmen? 345 00:15:14,125 --> 00:15:15,250 How's it going today? 346 00:15:15,417 --> 00:15:16,792 ...Craig Tester 347 00:15:16,958 --> 00:15:18,917 and other members of the team 348 00:15:19,042 --> 00:15:21,250 are meeting with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge 349 00:15:21,417 --> 00:15:23,792 at the Oak Island Interpretive Centre. 350 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,542 CARMEN: Got some items to show me? 351 00:15:25,708 --> 00:15:27,333 Yeah. We were digging around 352 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:29,250 on Lot 5 and there was 353 00:15:29,417 --> 00:15:31,458 an area where we found iron objects. 354 00:15:31,625 --> 00:15:33,125 Yeah. 355 00:15:33,250 --> 00:15:35,000 NARRATOR: While recently investigating 356 00:15:35,167 --> 00:15:38,167 a mysterious circular stone structure 357 00:15:38,375 --> 00:15:41,583 near the shore of Lot 5 on the western side of the island, 358 00:15:41,750 --> 00:15:46,500 the team has not only obtained sub-surface magnetometry data 359 00:15:46,667 --> 00:15:48,083 showing that there is 360 00:15:48,208 --> 00:15:50,167 a much larger feature buried beneath it 361 00:15:50,375 --> 00:15:53,125 but have also recovered three metal artifacts 362 00:15:53,333 --> 00:15:56,833 that may be connected to the 17th-century politician 363 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,333 and privateer Sir William Phips-- 364 00:15:59,542 --> 00:16:04,458 a man that some believe sailed to Oak Island in 1687 365 00:16:04,625 --> 00:16:08,625 to bury a large cache of silver and gold in the Money Pit. 366 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,125 CARMEN: I'll have a look, Jack. 367 00:16:12,250 --> 00:16:15,167 NARRATOR: After Carmen recently gave his assessment 368 00:16:15,333 --> 00:16:18,500 that one of these artifacts may have been used to lift 369 00:16:18,708 --> 00:16:22,542 heavy cargo, the team is hoping he can help them determine 370 00:16:22,708 --> 00:16:25,583 what the other two objects may have been used for 371 00:16:25,750 --> 00:16:27,542 and how they may be related 372 00:16:27,708 --> 00:16:31,333 to the 228-year-old treasure mystery. 373 00:16:32,375 --> 00:16:36,458 Well, you can see that this is a, a handmade spike. 374 00:16:36,583 --> 00:16:39,208 -JACK: Yeah. -This is sort of like a brad 375 00:16:39,375 --> 00:16:41,875 or a scupper nail, it's... 376 00:16:42,083 --> 00:16:44,833 fairly big, flat, 377 00:16:45,042 --> 00:16:47,958 so this was used to hold down 378 00:16:48,125 --> 00:16:50,417 boards or decking, flush. 379 00:16:50,583 --> 00:16:52,417 So this would kind of sunk underneath the wood. 380 00:16:52,583 --> 00:16:54,875 The wood would be at the very top. 381 00:16:55,042 --> 00:16:57,583 -Okay. -That way when you go along 382 00:16:57,750 --> 00:17:00,375 or you're walking onto it, you don't hit the nail, 383 00:17:00,542 --> 00:17:02,083 the head of the nail, 384 00:17:02,250 --> 00:17:04,833 because it's under the wood, and, so, 385 00:17:04,958 --> 00:17:06,375 this would be like, uh, 386 00:17:06,542 --> 00:17:08,542 typical that you would find on a ship. 387 00:17:08,708 --> 00:17:10,042 Mm-hmm. 388 00:17:10,208 --> 00:17:11,833 NARRATOR: Scupper nails, 389 00:17:11,958 --> 00:17:13,667 named for their frequent use 390 00:17:13,833 --> 00:17:17,333 to secure the scuppers or drainage holes found on ships, 391 00:17:17,542 --> 00:17:20,583 were shaped to have broad, flat heads 392 00:17:20,750 --> 00:17:24,250 and strong, stout shanks, giving them the durability 393 00:17:24,417 --> 00:17:27,000 to withstand multiple uses in the repair 394 00:17:27,208 --> 00:17:29,417 and building of sailing vessels. 395 00:17:30,375 --> 00:17:33,125 CARMEN: A rose head or any type of nail like that would stick out. 396 00:17:33,250 --> 00:17:36,167 This did not. It was 397 00:17:36,250 --> 00:17:39,417 -below the surface of the wood. -JACK: Okay. 398 00:17:39,583 --> 00:17:41,083 That made it smooth. 399 00:17:41,208 --> 00:17:43,167 Time period on it? 400 00:17:43,292 --> 00:17:47,000 Early 16 to early 17 century. 401 00:17:47,167 --> 00:17:50,000 So was it a shipwreck, 402 00:17:50,167 --> 00:17:52,333 and they brought part of the shipwreck inward 403 00:17:52,542 --> 00:17:55,417 -and the nail came with it or they...? -Or just repurposed. 404 00:17:55,583 --> 00:17:58,000 -Yeah. -It was a common thing to take 405 00:17:58,208 --> 00:18:00,333 shipwrecks and salvage the wood and the metal. 406 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:03,125 PETER: That's interesting with the William Phips 407 00:18:03,292 --> 00:18:05,083 connection with the Concepción. 408 00:18:05,250 --> 00:18:08,333 William Phips fits into our time period. 409 00:18:08,458 --> 00:18:10,167 JACK: And we know he had a treasure. 410 00:18:10,375 --> 00:18:13,333 And he's known to be in Nova Scotia. 411 00:18:14,625 --> 00:18:16,333 JACK: Wow. 412 00:18:20,083 --> 00:18:21,583 PETER: The 1600s, 1700s 413 00:18:21,750 --> 00:18:23,167 fits with the Concepción. 414 00:18:23,333 --> 00:18:24,833 And we know that William Phips 415 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,417 -was in Nova Scotia. -CRAIG: Yeah. 416 00:18:27,625 --> 00:18:29,833 NARRATOR: In the Oak Island Interpretive Centre, 417 00:18:29,958 --> 00:18:33,125 blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge 418 00:18:33,292 --> 00:18:34,875 has just given his assessment 419 00:18:35,042 --> 00:18:37,042 that an iron nail, found one week ago 420 00:18:37,208 --> 00:18:40,750 near the mysterious circular feature on Lot 5 421 00:18:40,875 --> 00:18:42,542 and which may be connected 422 00:18:42,708 --> 00:18:46,375 to the 17th-century privateer Sir William Phips, 423 00:18:46,542 --> 00:18:49,833 may have been repurposed from the wreck of a ship. 424 00:18:49,958 --> 00:18:52,792 Well, I believe this is the one, Emma, 425 00:18:52,958 --> 00:18:55,333 -that has chlorine in it. Right? -Yeah. 426 00:18:55,500 --> 00:18:58,125 Where would the chlorine be from? 427 00:18:58,250 --> 00:19:01,083 -Salt water. -Yeah. It has a 0.2% throughout, 428 00:19:01,250 --> 00:19:03,167 I'd say, on average, so there, 429 00:19:03,250 --> 00:19:05,417 it has been exposed to salt spray. 430 00:19:05,542 --> 00:19:09,167 Geez. That sounds like it, it really is a ship nail. 431 00:19:09,375 --> 00:19:11,750 -Yeah. -JACK: So... 432 00:19:11,917 --> 00:19:13,625 Phips seems like a plausible person 433 00:19:13,750 --> 00:19:17,167 -to have buried treasure on Oak Island. -Yeah. 434 00:19:18,458 --> 00:19:22,375 NARRATOR: In the fall of 1687, Sir William Phips, 435 00:19:22,542 --> 00:19:25,458 an English politician and privateer, 436 00:19:25,625 --> 00:19:29,833 worked with a high-ranking Freemason named Andrew Belcher 437 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,667 from Nova Scotia 438 00:19:31,875 --> 00:19:34,667 to conduct Phips's second treasure salvaging operation 439 00:19:34,875 --> 00:19:36,708 of the Concepción, 440 00:19:36,917 --> 00:19:39,625 a famed Spanish galleon which sank off the coast 441 00:19:39,833 --> 00:19:42,667 of the Dominican Republic in 1641. 442 00:19:42,875 --> 00:19:47,042 Curiously, they delivered less than two tons of valuables 443 00:19:47,208 --> 00:19:50,625 to the English crown, despite the fact 444 00:19:50,750 --> 00:19:53,833 that more than 50 tons of gold, silver and jewels 445 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,292 were known to be left on the ship 446 00:19:56,500 --> 00:19:58,250 according to its manifest. 447 00:19:58,458 --> 00:20:01,250 And just two years ago, 448 00:20:01,458 --> 00:20:05,500 32-degree Freemason Scott Clarke shared his research 449 00:20:05,667 --> 00:20:08,000 with the team, suggesting where 450 00:20:08,208 --> 00:20:10,667 the missing valuables may have ended up. 451 00:20:10,875 --> 00:20:13,292 We know that Phips found silver on the Concepción, 452 00:20:13,458 --> 00:20:16,333 and I believe some of the treasure from the Concepción 453 00:20:16,458 --> 00:20:18,000 was secreted to Oak Island. 454 00:20:18,125 --> 00:20:19,792 ALEX: Very interesting. 455 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,458 -Okay. -All right, next one. 456 00:20:22,583 --> 00:20:24,292 -Well, thanks for that. -PETER: Yeah. 457 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:29,292 PETER: Jack, was this found in the same area? 458 00:20:29,458 --> 00:20:31,167 JACK: Yeah. 459 00:20:31,250 --> 00:20:34,958 We thought it might be some sort of, uh, a tool? 460 00:20:36,750 --> 00:20:39,750 You can see there's a seam running down the underside here. 461 00:20:49,708 --> 00:20:50,708 Oh. 462 00:20:54,750 --> 00:20:56,458 -Oh, okay. -Hmm. 463 00:20:56,542 --> 00:20:58,667 Do you have a scan of this? 'Cause I'd like to see whether 464 00:20:58,833 --> 00:21:00,000 -or not there's any holes in this. -CRAIG: Yep. 465 00:21:00,167 --> 00:21:01,375 -EMMA: The image? -CRAIG: Yep. 466 00:21:04,375 --> 00:21:06,792 -PETER: Oh, wow. -CARMEN: Yeah. You really see it there. 467 00:21:06,958 --> 00:21:08,292 Yeah. 468 00:21:08,375 --> 00:21:10,000 PETER: Would this be William Phips' 469 00:21:10,167 --> 00:21:12,333 -time frame? -Yeah. Certainly. 470 00:21:12,542 --> 00:21:16,417 The time period fits and it could certainly be maritime. 471 00:21:17,667 --> 00:21:20,667 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the artifacts found 472 00:21:20,833 --> 00:21:23,500 in the mysterious feature on Lot 5, 473 00:21:23,667 --> 00:21:26,667 which have been traced to Sir William Phips, 474 00:21:26,750 --> 00:21:29,833 offer clues that he and Andrew Belcher 475 00:21:30,042 --> 00:21:33,833 used Lot 5 as a staging ground to hide 476 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,250 an unreported cache of Spanish treasure on Oak Island? 477 00:21:38,417 --> 00:21:41,333 If so, could that explain 478 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:44,875 who constructed the tunnel beneath the Garden Shaft, 479 00:21:45,042 --> 00:21:49,000 which has been dated to as early as the late 1600s, 480 00:21:49,125 --> 00:21:53,042 and also the high trace evidence of gold and silver 481 00:21:53,208 --> 00:21:55,667 that has been detected in Aladdin's Cave 482 00:21:55,875 --> 00:21:58,500 and all across the Money Pit area? 483 00:21:58,667 --> 00:22:01,208 The Phips possible connection, 484 00:22:01,375 --> 00:22:04,833 uh, to Oak Island is a very plausible theory. 485 00:22:05,042 --> 00:22:08,750 We have some historical objects that mimic 486 00:22:08,917 --> 00:22:12,042 that Phips metallurgy. I think it goes to what 487 00:22:12,250 --> 00:22:15,500 Dr. Spooner has always said. The larger your sample base, 488 00:22:15,667 --> 00:22:17,250 the more definitive you can be. 489 00:22:17,417 --> 00:22:20,542 Well, we do continue to connect the dots. 490 00:22:20,708 --> 00:22:24,250 We have different data points that are all suggesting 491 00:22:24,375 --> 00:22:27,625 mid-1600s to late 1700s 492 00:22:27,750 --> 00:22:31,167 and that all predates the Money Pit, 493 00:22:31,292 --> 00:22:32,667 which for me is always a big thing. 494 00:22:32,833 --> 00:22:35,667 Oh, yes. This, this is before the Money Pit. 495 00:22:35,833 --> 00:22:37,958 Well, thank you. We're hoping we can get you a lot more 496 00:22:38,125 --> 00:22:40,333 -artifacts, that's for sure. -I look forward to seeing them. 497 00:22:40,542 --> 00:22:43,542 -CRAIG: See ya later. Thanks, guys. -CARMEN: See ya. 498 00:22:46,625 --> 00:22:48,250 NARRATOR: The following morning... 499 00:22:48,458 --> 00:22:50,625 ROGER: If you're right there, that's good. 500 00:22:50,750 --> 00:22:52,708 -DARREN: Okay. -...as Dumas continues 501 00:22:52,875 --> 00:22:54,833 their work on the Garden Shaft... 502 00:22:56,250 --> 00:22:57,667 -MOYA: Hey, Terry. -TERRY: Hi, Moya. 503 00:22:57,833 --> 00:22:59,208 -Thanks for coming out. -Yeah. 504 00:22:59,375 --> 00:23:02,500 KL-14.5 we're down 138. 505 00:23:02,708 --> 00:23:05,083 ...nearly 60 feet to the southwest 506 00:23:05,250 --> 00:23:07,500 geologist Terry Matheson 507 00:23:07,708 --> 00:23:11,708 and archaeologist Moya MacDonald 508 00:23:11,917 --> 00:23:17,500 supervise the core-drilling operation in borehole KL-14.5. 509 00:23:17,708 --> 00:23:21,083 A borehole that is on target to penetrate the center 510 00:23:21,208 --> 00:23:26,042 of Aladdin's Cave nearly 150 feet underground. 511 00:23:26,208 --> 00:23:28,333 I think we hit the cave! 512 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:29,583 Let's get a measurement. 513 00:23:29,750 --> 00:23:32,250 -TERRY: Aladdin's Cave. -Yeah. 514 00:23:32,458 --> 00:23:33,667 I think it's really a geologic enigma. 515 00:23:33,750 --> 00:23:35,667 I mean, in soft sediments, imagine 516 00:23:35,833 --> 00:23:37,417 you've got a, a cavern opened up 517 00:23:37,583 --> 00:23:39,542 -that seems to stay open. -Yeah. 518 00:23:39,667 --> 00:23:41,667 That speaks to me of a structure made by people. 519 00:23:41,875 --> 00:23:43,667 Absolutely. 520 00:23:45,375 --> 00:23:46,958 -COLTEN: It's nine. -TEDFORD: 0.5? 521 00:23:47,125 --> 00:23:48,667 COLTEN: Yeah. 522 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:52,458 Hey, Mike. 523 00:23:52,625 --> 00:23:55,500 Uh, okay, so, I hit it at about 142 and a half. 524 00:23:55,708 --> 00:23:57,208 -Okay. -So I pushed down 525 00:23:57,375 --> 00:24:00,750 through the void to 153. 526 00:24:00,917 --> 00:24:03,333 So it's open almost ten feet. 527 00:24:03,542 --> 00:24:06,333 I think we want to just take the casing back up, 528 00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:08,250 just above the opening into the cavern. 529 00:24:08,458 --> 00:24:09,583 Sounds good. 530 00:24:11,583 --> 00:24:13,000 -Hi, guys. -TERRY: Hey, Charles. 531 00:24:13,208 --> 00:24:14,667 CHARLES: So what did I miss? 532 00:24:14,792 --> 00:24:16,625 Uh, well, the guys went into the cavern 533 00:24:16,750 --> 00:24:19,333 -at about 142.5. -Right. 534 00:24:19,542 --> 00:24:22,167 It was an open space all the way to 153. 535 00:24:22,333 --> 00:24:24,333 For right now, we're gonna put a camera 536 00:24:24,542 --> 00:24:26,417 down this hole right here in front of us. 537 00:24:26,542 --> 00:24:28,833 And then we'll get a little better image 538 00:24:29,042 --> 00:24:31,292 -from Aladdin's cavern. -CHARLES: Get more information. 539 00:24:31,417 --> 00:24:32,833 'Cause all data is good data. 540 00:24:33,042 --> 00:24:34,500 TEDFORD: Yeah. 541 00:24:34,708 --> 00:24:36,167 CHARLES: Personally, I think one of the things 542 00:24:36,250 --> 00:24:37,583 that's most exciting about 543 00:24:37,792 --> 00:24:39,708 this cavern or cave, if you will, 544 00:24:39,875 --> 00:24:41,833 is finding wood in the water. I mean, 545 00:24:41,958 --> 00:24:44,625 that doesn't just magically appear. 546 00:24:44,750 --> 00:24:48,500 This is a very interesting area to all of us. 547 00:24:48,667 --> 00:24:50,208 -PAUL: Hey, Scott. -Hey, guys. 548 00:24:50,375 --> 00:24:52,167 TERRY: How ya doing, Marty? 549 00:24:52,375 --> 00:24:55,375 CHARLES: So we're gonna put the Inuktun camera down in KL-14.5. 550 00:24:55,542 --> 00:24:58,500 I think we're all hoping to see some evidence 551 00:24:58,625 --> 00:25:01,542 that men actually excavated this cave. 552 00:25:01,708 --> 00:25:03,500 What did we hit here? 553 00:25:03,625 --> 00:25:04,875 Basically, we have ten feet 554 00:25:05,083 --> 00:25:07,083 of open space is what I'm understanding. 555 00:25:07,250 --> 00:25:09,750 That's big. That's bigger than anything we've seen. 556 00:25:09,958 --> 00:25:12,000 We have never seen anything like this. 557 00:25:12,167 --> 00:25:15,125 Paul, let's get it in the hole and see what we can see. 558 00:25:15,292 --> 00:25:17,458 -Okay. -MARTY: Please. 559 00:25:17,625 --> 00:25:19,667 STEVE: Okay, Paul, so line it up at the top. 560 00:25:19,875 --> 00:25:22,000 Going into the caisson right now. 561 00:25:22,167 --> 00:25:26,667 NARRATOR: The Inuktun Spectrum 120 high-definition camera 562 00:25:26,875 --> 00:25:28,542 that the team is using to investigate 563 00:25:28,708 --> 00:25:31,458 the massive cavern is not only designed 564 00:25:31,625 --> 00:25:35,000 -to operate in low light conditions... -MARTY: There's the water. 565 00:25:35,167 --> 00:25:37,708 ...but is also able to pan and tilt 566 00:25:37,875 --> 00:25:42,750 for a 360-degree view of its surroundings. 567 00:25:43,875 --> 00:25:46,000 Okay. That's right at 142 at the top of the casing. 568 00:25:46,208 --> 00:25:47,417 Yep. 569 00:25:47,542 --> 00:25:49,667 We should be inside the cave now. 570 00:25:52,042 --> 00:25:55,125 STEVE: You can see silt kind of moving past there. 571 00:25:56,625 --> 00:25:59,167 Paul, just take her down incrementally. 572 00:25:59,250 --> 00:26:00,625 'Kay. 573 00:26:04,042 --> 00:26:07,208 -(all exclaiming) -There it is. Right there. 574 00:26:08,542 --> 00:26:09,708 SCOTT: Oh, my God! Look at that. 575 00:26:15,875 --> 00:26:17,500 TERRY: What is that? 576 00:26:17,667 --> 00:26:18,833 What's that sitting right on the end of it? 577 00:26:20,042 --> 00:26:21,583 Right there. 578 00:26:21,750 --> 00:26:23,583 STEVE: Goodness, it looks like a bolt. 579 00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:26,875 NARRATOR: It is a potentially critical moment 580 00:26:27,042 --> 00:26:30,833 for Marty Lagina and other members of the Oak Island team. 581 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,625 While investigating the large cavern 582 00:26:33,792 --> 00:26:36,625 some 150 feet deep in the Money Pit area 583 00:26:36,750 --> 00:26:39,792 known as Aladdin's Cave, 584 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,500 they have just obtained high-definition camera images 585 00:26:42,667 --> 00:26:45,292 of a possibly man-made artifact. 586 00:26:45,458 --> 00:26:47,375 -It does kind of look like a bolt. -It looks more like a bolt 587 00:26:47,542 --> 00:26:49,000 than anything. 588 00:26:49,208 --> 00:26:51,458 CHARLES: It does have that shape, uh, of a bolt. 589 00:26:51,667 --> 00:26:53,000 Of the head of a bolt. 590 00:26:54,167 --> 00:26:56,417 MARTY: We see something that looks square, 591 00:26:56,625 --> 00:26:58,000 like a square-headed bolt, 592 00:26:58,167 --> 00:27:00,875 which would clearly be a man-made thing. 593 00:27:01,042 --> 00:27:02,250 That's what we're looking for in Aladdin's Cave. 594 00:27:02,458 --> 00:27:03,500 We're looking for some evidence 595 00:27:03,708 --> 00:27:05,167 that human beings were inside it. 596 00:27:05,375 --> 00:27:09,333 So, I guess it's possible, but I would not call it definitive. 597 00:27:10,542 --> 00:27:13,750 We need a miniature Gary to go down there and metal-detect. 598 00:27:13,875 --> 00:27:15,208 -Now I would have him lower. -Now. 599 00:27:15,375 --> 00:27:16,708 Take it down further, Paul! 600 00:27:22,083 --> 00:27:24,000 SCOTT: I think that was not the bottom. 601 00:27:24,167 --> 00:27:26,167 I think that's potentially a side wall. 602 00:27:27,833 --> 00:27:30,167 I'm just trying to get any kind of an indication 603 00:27:30,375 --> 00:27:31,875 of where we are. 604 00:27:32,042 --> 00:27:33,750 RICK: If there's something, 605 00:27:33,875 --> 00:27:37,042 i.e. a man-made something underground, 606 00:27:37,208 --> 00:27:39,375 that might have significant importance 607 00:27:39,583 --> 00:27:41,833 to what the island is trying to tell us. 608 00:27:44,625 --> 00:27:46,542 TERRY: It almost has some kind of a current or something 609 00:27:46,708 --> 00:27:48,833 pulling sediment across the lens. 610 00:27:49,875 --> 00:27:52,500 -SCOTT: See kind of a shadow there. -TERRY: Mm. 611 00:27:52,667 --> 00:27:54,875 It looks like something through the mist there. 612 00:27:57,708 --> 00:27:59,917 STEVE: Oh, you can see stuff now. 613 00:28:02,167 --> 00:28:04,208 (all exclaiming) 614 00:28:08,042 --> 00:28:10,042 -Okay, that's interesting. -SCOTT: Perfect. 615 00:28:11,250 --> 00:28:12,083 STEVE: Whew. 616 00:28:12,208 --> 00:28:14,875 Trying to rotate around. 617 00:28:17,458 --> 00:28:18,750 TERRY: Seems to be. 618 00:28:18,917 --> 00:28:19,792 It looks wide-open, but you can't see 619 00:28:19,917 --> 00:28:21,917 through that silt to the wall. 620 00:28:22,833 --> 00:28:24,167 STEVE: Hmm. 621 00:28:25,958 --> 00:28:29,000 I mean, if anything, we've proven it's a wide-open cavity. 622 00:28:29,208 --> 00:28:31,292 This is a good opportunity for us to really map it 623 00:28:31,458 --> 00:28:33,333 -with the sonar. -TERRY: I agree. 624 00:28:34,542 --> 00:28:36,333 STEVE: We're in the cave, and what we see 625 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:39,667 is very interesting. I mean, it could be man-made. 626 00:28:39,833 --> 00:28:42,667 And so, for us, if this proved anything, 627 00:28:42,792 --> 00:28:44,667 it's worth getting the sonar into. 628 00:28:44,833 --> 00:28:47,500 And so we're gonna do that in a few days. 629 00:28:47,667 --> 00:28:49,667 Sonar's gonna tell us dimensions, 630 00:28:49,875 --> 00:28:51,292 where it's coming from, where it's going to. 631 00:28:51,417 --> 00:28:54,042 We can look for openings, and we can use this 632 00:28:54,167 --> 00:28:55,875 to really map out the underground of the cave. 633 00:28:56,042 --> 00:28:57,375 And I'm really excited about that, 634 00:28:57,583 --> 00:29:00,333 because, to me, this is potentially a treasure location. 635 00:29:00,542 --> 00:29:01,792 MARTY: Okay. 636 00:29:01,958 --> 00:29:03,125 -I think we're done, don't you? -Yeah. 637 00:29:03,250 --> 00:29:04,833 Let's reconfigure. 638 00:29:05,792 --> 00:29:07,000 SCOTT: Good job, guys. 639 00:29:11,292 --> 00:29:14,750 NARRATOR: As operations continue in the Money Pit area... 640 00:29:14,917 --> 00:29:15,833 JACK: Hey, everybody. 641 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,792 -Hi! -Hey! How ya doing? 642 00:29:17,958 --> 00:29:21,167 ...over half a mile to the west on Lot 5, 643 00:29:21,333 --> 00:29:24,667 Jack Begley joins members of the archaeology team 644 00:29:24,875 --> 00:29:28,708 as they search for more clues in and around 645 00:29:28,917 --> 00:29:30,417 the mysterious stone structure. 646 00:29:30,583 --> 00:29:32,042 JACK: It looks like you've 647 00:29:32,208 --> 00:29:34,125 dug a fair amount up since I've last been here. 648 00:29:34,208 --> 00:29:35,667 Yeah. 649 00:29:35,875 --> 00:29:37,208 NARRATOR: After the results 650 00:29:37,375 --> 00:29:40,958 of a magnetometer scan conducted two weeks ago 651 00:29:41,125 --> 00:29:43,833 revealed that a much larger stone feature 652 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,958 lies beneath the circular depression at the surface, 653 00:29:47,125 --> 00:29:50,833 the team has expanded their investigation 654 00:29:50,958 --> 00:29:53,667 in an effort to determine just how extensive 655 00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:56,250 and old it may be. 656 00:29:56,417 --> 00:29:58,333 And if you look, we kind of scraped the wall there 657 00:29:58,458 --> 00:30:00,708 a little bit, where it starts to slope down. 658 00:30:00,875 --> 00:30:03,250 JACK: And that will be the tell-all-- 659 00:30:03,375 --> 00:30:06,500 is when we will get an outline of what this wall looks like? 660 00:30:06,708 --> 00:30:08,167 -Absolutely. -That's exciting. 661 00:30:08,333 --> 00:30:10,250 Let me get back on sifting duty with Helen and... 662 00:30:10,375 --> 00:30:13,208 Absolutely. I got a whole bucket there for ya. (chuckles) 663 00:30:13,375 --> 00:30:17,000 NARRATOR: While Jamie and Fiona continue to remove sediment 664 00:30:17,167 --> 00:30:18,833 covering the feature, 665 00:30:19,042 --> 00:30:22,708 Jack and Helen will sift the collected spoils 666 00:30:22,875 --> 00:30:25,875 in search of any clues and possible valuables. 667 00:30:26,042 --> 00:30:28,375 We're getting a few pipestems coming out. 668 00:30:28,542 --> 00:30:30,875 I remember looking for years for a pipestem, 669 00:30:31,042 --> 00:30:32,375 and now... (chuckles) 670 00:30:32,542 --> 00:30:34,833 Lot 5 is where they were. 671 00:30:38,167 --> 00:30:40,167 You know what we're not getting 672 00:30:40,333 --> 00:30:41,417 is a lot of nails. 673 00:30:41,542 --> 00:30:42,500 Hmm. 674 00:30:42,667 --> 00:30:43,750 Which is an indication 675 00:30:43,917 --> 00:30:44,708 it could've been a log cabin. 676 00:30:44,875 --> 00:30:46,083 You only use a few, right? 677 00:30:46,250 --> 00:30:48,833 Would that speak to an earlier time? 678 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,292 Yeah. Most likely. 679 00:30:55,250 --> 00:30:58,167 Ooh. Helen, a nail like this, right? 680 00:30:58,333 --> 00:31:01,000 Yeah. Yeah. We have found a few of them, 681 00:31:01,208 --> 00:31:03,083 but not as many as you would expect. 682 00:31:03,250 --> 00:31:04,875 Like, if this was a frame building, 683 00:31:05,042 --> 00:31:06,583 -you would get a lot more nails. -Well... 684 00:31:06,750 --> 00:31:08,125 -Yeah, a lot more nails. -Yeah. 685 00:31:08,250 --> 00:31:10,333 Emma and the CT scanner will... (clicks tongue) 686 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:11,875 ...look through it and tell us what it is. 687 00:31:12,042 --> 00:31:13,667 It looks square. 688 00:31:13,833 --> 00:31:15,458 -So... -JACK: Oh, okay. 689 00:31:15,583 --> 00:31:17,958 There's too many artifacts around this area to suggest 690 00:31:18,125 --> 00:31:20,958 that it was just a domestic household for a family. 691 00:31:21,167 --> 00:31:22,958 Whether it was people here 692 00:31:23,167 --> 00:31:25,417 depositing the treasure in the Money Pit, 693 00:31:25,542 --> 00:31:27,208 we don't know, but... 694 00:31:27,375 --> 00:31:30,333 digging up these features archaeologically 695 00:31:30,542 --> 00:31:34,083 is how we should hopefully figure out those answers. 696 00:31:37,208 --> 00:31:38,500 Oh. 697 00:31:38,667 --> 00:31:40,083 (exhales sharply) 698 00:31:41,625 --> 00:31:42,667 Huh. 699 00:31:42,833 --> 00:31:44,167 Oh! 700 00:31:44,333 --> 00:31:45,667 Hey, guys? 701 00:31:45,875 --> 00:31:47,042 You might want to come take a look at this. 702 00:31:48,458 --> 00:31:49,500 That's a weird shape. 703 00:31:49,667 --> 00:31:51,292 JACK: Oh, wow. 704 00:31:51,500 --> 00:31:53,292 FIONA: Good find. 705 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,333 -JACK: Oh, wow. -FIONA: Good find. 706 00:31:58,542 --> 00:31:59,833 It kind of reminds me of, like, a strap 707 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,708 with, like, a metal fastener through it? 708 00:32:01,875 --> 00:32:02,875 I don't know. 709 00:32:03,042 --> 00:32:04,292 HELEN: Look at that. 710 00:32:04,417 --> 00:32:06,042 NARRATOR: While investigating 711 00:32:06,250 --> 00:32:09,000 the mysterious stone structure near the shore 712 00:32:09,167 --> 00:32:10,833 on Lot 5 of Oak Island... 713 00:32:11,042 --> 00:32:12,000 JAMIE: Very strange. 714 00:32:12,167 --> 00:32:14,750 ...archaeologist Jamie Kouba 715 00:32:14,958 --> 00:32:18,250 has just unearthed another potentially important clue. 716 00:32:18,417 --> 00:32:20,167 (grunts) What are your thoughts? 717 00:32:20,292 --> 00:32:21,833 Very different piece. 718 00:32:22,042 --> 00:32:23,750 -JAMIE: It is. -Wonder if it's, like, part 719 00:32:23,917 --> 00:32:24,708 of a strap hinge. 720 00:32:24,875 --> 00:32:26,333 Like on a door, right? 721 00:32:26,542 --> 00:32:27,833 -Mm-hmm. -JAMIE: Oh. 722 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,250 -Yeah. -HELEN: So we just don't have 723 00:32:29,417 --> 00:32:31,042 -the swinging part. -Mm. -JAMIE: Yeah. 724 00:32:31,208 --> 00:32:32,833 HELEN: And you hammer the hinge on a door. 725 00:32:32,958 --> 00:32:34,667 JAMIE: That would make sense-- why you'd have 726 00:32:34,833 --> 00:32:37,750 a flat metal plate with a metal fastener driven through it. 727 00:32:37,875 --> 00:32:39,250 JACK: Yep. 728 00:32:39,417 --> 00:32:41,583 We're finding really good artifacts 729 00:32:41,750 --> 00:32:44,750 and a lot of things that the archaeologists deem 730 00:32:44,917 --> 00:32:46,333 to be important, 731 00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:48,375 because we know that both of these features 732 00:32:48,542 --> 00:32:50,542 are old and predate the Money Pit, 733 00:32:50,708 --> 00:32:53,333 but we haven't gotten down to the bottom of it yet. 734 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:56,250 So it's gonna take some time to dig everything out, 735 00:32:56,375 --> 00:32:58,417 and hopefully we can figure out 736 00:32:58,583 --> 00:33:00,458 who was here, why and when 737 00:33:00,625 --> 00:33:03,083 and is it related to the overall treasure? 738 00:33:03,250 --> 00:33:04,917 JAMIE (chuckles): Oh! 739 00:33:05,083 --> 00:33:07,292 Oddly enough, I think there's more 740 00:33:07,458 --> 00:33:08,917 -over here, too. -HELEN: Oh, nice. 741 00:33:09,083 --> 00:33:11,000 -JACK: Oh. -HELEN: Oh, look at that. 742 00:33:11,125 --> 00:33:13,750 JAMIE: It's... it's fairly long. 743 00:33:13,917 --> 00:33:14,875 Oh. 744 00:33:15,042 --> 00:33:16,792 (singsongy): It's free. 745 00:33:16,958 --> 00:33:20,667 -Oh, it's a very nice, old fastener. -Oh, it's a large nail. 746 00:33:21,917 --> 00:33:24,667 Well, it's just a big old rose head. 747 00:33:24,792 --> 00:33:26,250 JACK: It is a rose head. 748 00:33:26,417 --> 00:33:28,333 -Yeah. It looks like it. -JAMIE: Nice. 749 00:33:28,542 --> 00:33:30,500 -HELEN: These were handwrought. -JACK: Mm-hmm. 750 00:33:30,583 --> 00:33:33,167 HELEN: And then the head was hammered down on all four sides. 751 00:33:33,375 --> 00:33:35,333 You can get them back in the 1600s. 752 00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:36,750 Yup. 753 00:33:36,958 --> 00:33:37,792 -That's interesting. -JACK: Yeah. That is. 754 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,417 It's really nice 755 00:33:39,583 --> 00:33:41,417 to be finding a whole bunch of extra metal 756 00:33:41,542 --> 00:33:44,000 right next to where we found that other piece of iron 757 00:33:44,208 --> 00:33:47,167 that matched the William Phips metals. 758 00:33:47,250 --> 00:33:49,083 -Right. That ringbolt. Yeah. -Yeah. 759 00:33:49,208 --> 00:33:51,458 -Makes me think of it, too. -Yeah. 760 00:33:51,667 --> 00:33:55,167 JACK: The more evidence keeps popping up to show 761 00:33:55,333 --> 00:33:56,917 that there were people here 762 00:33:57,042 --> 00:33:59,083 and they were here in the proper time frame 763 00:33:59,250 --> 00:34:01,292 to hide something in the Money Pit. 764 00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:05,375 And ever since we found that piece of metal in the Lot 5 dig 765 00:34:05,542 --> 00:34:10,333 that fits with the Phips idea that he might've come here, 766 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:13,667 it's not out of the realm of possibility 767 00:34:13,875 --> 00:34:17,500 that Phips might've brought some of the treasure ashore 768 00:34:17,708 --> 00:34:19,292 right through Lot 5. 769 00:34:21,292 --> 00:34:23,083 HELEN: We can take this back to the lab to Emma, 770 00:34:23,250 --> 00:34:25,042 and she can run her analysis on it 771 00:34:25,208 --> 00:34:28,333 -and see if the iron matches. -Mm-hmm. 772 00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:30,208 HELEN: But often, like, on sites like this, 773 00:34:30,375 --> 00:34:32,042 if you get artifacts in situ 774 00:34:32,167 --> 00:34:33,667 and if you get a lot of nails 775 00:34:33,875 --> 00:34:35,042 -here and only here... -Mm-hmm. 776 00:34:35,208 --> 00:34:37,167 ...it means, like, there was a window here 777 00:34:37,333 --> 00:34:39,125 -or the door was here. You know, it's an indication... -Yeah. 778 00:34:39,292 --> 00:34:40,833 -...of what was going on in the building. -Yeah. 779 00:34:40,958 --> 00:34:43,125 -Yeah. -JACK: The dates are lining up 780 00:34:43,292 --> 00:34:46,792 to possibly match when the Money Pit might've been built. 781 00:34:46,917 --> 00:34:49,292 -Yeah. -It's pre-discovery. 782 00:34:49,458 --> 00:34:52,375 So what was going on during the time 783 00:34:52,542 --> 00:34:54,500 that they were backfilling this feature? 784 00:34:54,667 --> 00:34:56,000 We don't know, but this 785 00:34:56,208 --> 00:34:58,333 could've been used directly in association 786 00:34:58,417 --> 00:34:59,792 -with the Money Pit. -True. 787 00:34:59,958 --> 00:35:01,000 -Yeah. -HELEN: The people 788 00:35:01,167 --> 00:35:02,417 who were living here, maybe they 789 00:35:02,542 --> 00:35:06,167 were associated with the creation 790 00:35:06,292 --> 00:35:08,708 -of the Money Pit. -Yeah. 791 00:35:08,875 --> 00:35:11,083 RICK: If you believe in the scope and scale of the work 792 00:35:11,250 --> 00:35:13,375 of the Money Pit and the associated structures, 793 00:35:13,583 --> 00:35:15,833 then, as Lot 5 is concerned, 794 00:35:15,917 --> 00:35:19,375 I think that there's a building body of evidence 795 00:35:19,583 --> 00:35:23,833 that a structure of this size could be a possible explanation 796 00:35:24,042 --> 00:35:27,833 to a question that we have posed since the beginning-- 797 00:35:28,042 --> 00:35:30,833 where were the people? 798 00:35:30,958 --> 00:35:32,875 So, here, Jamie. We'll just put that in the bag with the rest of 799 00:35:33,042 --> 00:35:35,125 -the artifacts in there. -Yes, ma'am, that's where she lives now. 800 00:35:35,292 --> 00:35:37,417 -Sweet find. -Let's find some more. 801 00:35:37,583 --> 00:35:40,417 -Heck yeah. -Yeah. Let's keep going. 802 00:35:43,458 --> 00:35:45,125 NARRATOR: The following day... 803 00:35:49,458 --> 00:35:52,958 ...the southern region of Nova Scotia is overwhelmed 804 00:35:53,125 --> 00:35:55,042 by an unexpectedly damaging storm, 805 00:35:55,208 --> 00:35:57,208 causing power outages 806 00:35:57,375 --> 00:36:00,500 and devastating flooding throughout the region. 807 00:36:00,708 --> 00:36:03,417 RICK: The torrential rains that have occurred here 808 00:36:03,583 --> 00:36:06,708 in Nova Scotia has been unrelenting. 809 00:36:06,875 --> 00:36:11,042 I have never seen it like this in ten years or more, 810 00:36:11,250 --> 00:36:13,083 and in fact, locals say it's unlike 811 00:36:13,292 --> 00:36:15,250 anything they've ever seen before. 812 00:36:15,417 --> 00:36:16,958 The roads have been flooded, 813 00:36:17,125 --> 00:36:20,125 literally, homes have been removed from their foundations. 814 00:36:20,250 --> 00:36:22,500 People's lives have been interrupted, 815 00:36:22,667 --> 00:36:24,792 and we are behind in our work, 816 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,500 and understand that we are not 817 00:36:27,625 --> 00:36:30,458 the only ones who are experiencing these problems. 818 00:36:33,875 --> 00:36:35,375 NARRATOR: One day later... 819 00:36:35,542 --> 00:36:38,250 -MARTY: Here we are, guys. -Hello, sir. Hey. 820 00:36:38,417 --> 00:36:39,958 -Hey. How's it going, guys? -Roger. 821 00:36:40,083 --> 00:36:41,792 What in the hell is going on here, Roger? 822 00:36:41,958 --> 00:36:43,083 -Not too much. -No? 823 00:36:43,250 --> 00:36:45,792 Not too much, but I'll tell you, 824 00:36:45,958 --> 00:36:48,792 it's unbelievable, the damage from that-that storm. 825 00:36:48,917 --> 00:36:50,500 -Yeah. -Yeah. 826 00:36:50,708 --> 00:36:52,625 NARRATOR: Marty Lagina, Craig Tester 827 00:36:52,792 --> 00:36:54,125 and Scott Barlow 828 00:36:54,292 --> 00:36:55,875 arrive in the Money Pit area 829 00:36:56,042 --> 00:36:57,625 after being alerted 830 00:36:57,792 --> 00:36:59,583 that the Garden Shaft has been flooded 831 00:36:59,708 --> 00:37:03,167 with a massive amount of standing water. 832 00:37:03,375 --> 00:37:06,208 What I'm most concerned with, what about this? 833 00:37:06,375 --> 00:37:08,667 Yeah, so, we're encountering a lot of water down there. 834 00:37:08,875 --> 00:37:10,208 We're pumping, pumping. 835 00:37:10,333 --> 00:37:13,000 How much water was in there after this rain? 836 00:37:13,208 --> 00:37:15,792 We had 30 feet of water built up in the shaft. 837 00:37:15,917 --> 00:37:18,042 -CRAIG: Mm-hmm. -Now we're pumping every hour. 838 00:37:18,167 --> 00:37:19,500 -Okay. -It's a lot of water. 839 00:37:19,667 --> 00:37:21,167 I don't like the sounds of that. 840 00:37:21,333 --> 00:37:22,792 Oh, I don't like the sound of it, either. 841 00:37:22,917 --> 00:37:24,167 So, I was concerned because the water is coming in 842 00:37:24,333 --> 00:37:26,292 -from somewhere, obviously. -Yeah. 843 00:37:26,500 --> 00:37:28,167 MARTY: That's an interesting thing, too, though, 844 00:37:28,375 --> 00:37:31,833 because 30 feet of water didn't fall in that area. 845 00:37:31,958 --> 00:37:33,500 -No. -Only ten inches did. 846 00:37:33,625 --> 00:37:36,667 -That's right. -So, it was driven by that storm. 847 00:37:37,583 --> 00:37:39,000 That means something, doesn't it? 848 00:37:39,208 --> 00:37:40,875 Yeah. But where's it leaking from? 849 00:37:41,042 --> 00:37:43,000 -I don't know. -Exactly. 850 00:37:43,208 --> 00:37:45,750 Is that deep enough to be the flood tunnel? 851 00:37:55,042 --> 00:37:56,000 ROGER: We had 30 feet of water 852 00:37:56,167 --> 00:37:57,292 built up in the shaft. 853 00:37:57,458 --> 00:37:59,000 It's a lot of water. 854 00:37:59,125 --> 00:38:01,000 Yeah. But where's it leaking from? I don't' know. 855 00:38:01,208 --> 00:38:03,125 -MARTY: I don't know. -Exactly. 856 00:38:03,292 --> 00:38:04,750 NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area, 857 00:38:04,917 --> 00:38:08,542 Roger Fortin of Dumas Contracting Limited 858 00:38:08,708 --> 00:38:11,292 has just informed Marty Lagina, 859 00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:14,750 Craig Tester and Scott Barlow that something 860 00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:17,792 other than the recent heavy storms in the area 861 00:38:17,917 --> 00:38:21,083 have caused the 87-foot-deep Garden Shaft 862 00:38:21,292 --> 00:38:22,750 to be mysteriously flooded 863 00:38:22,917 --> 00:38:26,333 with nearly 30 feet of standing water. 864 00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:28,375 Supposedly, in the Money Pit, where they had it, 865 00:38:28,542 --> 00:38:30,208 they were down to 90 feet. 866 00:38:30,375 --> 00:38:31,625 Is that a flood tunnel? 867 00:38:31,792 --> 00:38:32,833 That's what I'm curious to find is where 868 00:38:33,042 --> 00:38:34,083 does that water start? 869 00:38:34,208 --> 00:38:35,667 Last year, I mean, 870 00:38:35,875 --> 00:38:37,333 -this thing was dry. You know yourself. -Yeah. 871 00:38:37,542 --> 00:38:39,167 We were down there... 872 00:38:39,292 --> 00:38:40,958 Oh, yeah, yeah, I remember. It was bone-dry. 873 00:38:41,083 --> 00:38:42,333 NARRATOR: Ever since members of 874 00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:44,708 the Onslow Company encountered 875 00:38:44,875 --> 00:38:47,333 a believed booby-trapped flood tunnel 876 00:38:47,458 --> 00:38:49,583 when they excavated the original Money Pit 877 00:38:49,750 --> 00:38:54,042 down to a depth of 90 feet in 1804, 878 00:38:54,208 --> 00:38:56,750 anyone who dug in that immediate area 879 00:38:56,875 --> 00:39:00,792 found their operations plagued with disastrous results. 880 00:39:00,958 --> 00:39:03,750 Is it possible that the Oak Island team 881 00:39:03,917 --> 00:39:07,500 has now also encountered a booby trap 882 00:39:07,625 --> 00:39:10,333 while trying to reach the potential treasure tunnel 883 00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:13,000 less than ten feet below the Garden Shaft? 884 00:39:13,167 --> 00:39:17,542 And if so, could it mean that they are closer than ever 885 00:39:17,708 --> 00:39:19,667 to what people have been trying to find 886 00:39:19,875 --> 00:39:23,042 since the first documented search for valuables began 887 00:39:23,208 --> 00:39:25,667 back in 1795? 888 00:39:25,875 --> 00:39:28,333 RICK: If there was something to hide, 889 00:39:28,542 --> 00:39:30,417 or something that needed protection, 890 00:39:30,583 --> 00:39:33,042 certainly we know that the water 891 00:39:33,208 --> 00:39:34,667 would prevent a recovery. 892 00:39:34,875 --> 00:39:38,833 So, could it be another cleverly designed system 893 00:39:39,042 --> 00:39:42,042 to protect what's either in the Garden Shaft 894 00:39:42,208 --> 00:39:43,417 or in close proximity to it? 895 00:39:43,583 --> 00:39:44,875 Sure. It could be. 896 00:39:45,042 --> 00:39:46,333 We'll have to wait and see. 897 00:39:46,458 --> 00:39:48,792 I'm concerned that there's other voids 898 00:39:48,958 --> 00:39:52,375 around the sides of these walls. That's what I gotta identify. 899 00:39:54,625 --> 00:39:57,833 Well, how many days' delay is this going to add up to? 900 00:39:58,042 --> 00:40:00,250 It's going to take us a while to get in there and, again, 901 00:40:00,375 --> 00:40:02,333 -I don't want to do nothing without my people being... -No, no, I understand. 902 00:40:02,542 --> 00:40:04,125 You've got to have the engineers look at this. 903 00:40:04,250 --> 00:40:05,333 -Yeah. -Absolutely. Absolutely. 904 00:40:05,458 --> 00:40:07,500 This is so, so damn typical. 905 00:40:07,708 --> 00:40:11,375 I mean, it's maddeningly typical. 906 00:40:11,542 --> 00:40:14,833 We got the best guys in the world here digging a shaft. 907 00:40:15,042 --> 00:40:16,458 We're facing the same problem everybody else 908 00:40:16,625 --> 00:40:17,833 had for the last 200 years. 909 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,333 We never, never expected nothing like this. 910 00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:22,125 Never. Not even close. 911 00:40:22,333 --> 00:40:23,875 That's the frustrating part 912 00:40:24,042 --> 00:40:25,917 is where do you start, and what do you do? 913 00:40:26,125 --> 00:40:28,708 It was a main intent of this year's exploration 914 00:40:28,875 --> 00:40:31,000 to get to the bottom of the Garden Shaft. 915 00:40:31,208 --> 00:40:33,458 It's frustrating to me, because last year 916 00:40:33,542 --> 00:40:35,167 that thing was absolutely bone-dry. 917 00:40:35,333 --> 00:40:36,333 What happened? 918 00:40:36,458 --> 00:40:38,167 This is a surprise. 919 00:40:38,250 --> 00:40:41,292 The bottom line is it's already cost us delay, 920 00:40:41,375 --> 00:40:42,542 and we can't afford that. 921 00:40:42,750 --> 00:40:44,750 Okay, Roger. We're gonna let you go, 922 00:40:44,917 --> 00:40:46,792 so you can talk to HQ, and we got other stuff to do. 923 00:40:46,958 --> 00:40:49,000 -Let us know what happens. -ROGER: I will. 924 00:40:49,167 --> 00:40:50,792 I'll keep you posted. 925 00:40:50,958 --> 00:40:54,625 NARRATOR: The forces of nature have caused concerning setbacks 926 00:40:54,792 --> 00:40:58,042 across the island for Rick, Marty and their team. 927 00:40:58,208 --> 00:41:01,042 However, it also appears 928 00:41:01,250 --> 00:41:04,333 that the much more mysterious forces of Oak Island 929 00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:06,500 have intervened once again 930 00:41:06,708 --> 00:41:09,583 to challenge their quest to solve the mystery. 931 00:41:09,750 --> 00:41:13,500 For 228 years now, 932 00:41:13,667 --> 00:41:15,917 it has remained a losing battle 933 00:41:16,125 --> 00:41:18,042 for determined searchers. 934 00:41:18,208 --> 00:41:20,667 But now, as potentially critical 935 00:41:20,875 --> 00:41:24,208 breakthroughs may be within reach on Lot 5, 936 00:41:24,375 --> 00:41:27,333 in a deep, possibly man-made cave 937 00:41:27,542 --> 00:41:29,417 and in the Garden Shaft, 938 00:41:29,542 --> 00:41:33,625 is the tide about to turn?