NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...
All right! Here we go! Let's do this.
We're going underground in the Garden Shaft.
What in the hell is going on here?
ROGER: It's crazy. We're encountering a lot of water.
MARTY: I don't like the sounds of that.
JAMIE: Oh! Look at this.
-Oh, wow! -It's pre-Money Pit discovery.
This could've been used in the Money Pit.
PAUL: Going in right now.
MARTY: We're gonna run a camera in Aladdin's Cave.
ALL (shouting): Whoa!
SCOTT: Oh, my God. Look at that!
STEVE: It could be man-made.
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.
-RICK: Okay. Let's go see Roger. -MARTY: Yep.
NARRATOR: A new day of excitement
and anticipation for discoveries
that could help solve a 228-year-old mystery...
Time to look underground.
...has begun on Oak Island.
Let's see what we got.
I want to see how the setup is.
I can't wait to go down there, honestly.
-Roger. -How's it going, guys?
-Today's the day. -(laughs)
-Today is the day. -Thank you for taking me up on the offer.
That's good. That's good. Nice to see you, Rick.
We're taking you down on the offer.
Taking me down on the offer. You're right, you're right.
Let's do it, let's do it. We're ready.
NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina are about to get
their first opportunity of the year
to personally inspect the ongoing renovations
that are being made in a mid-18th century structure
known as the Garden Shaft.
Before we get dressed, I just want to show you
a little something, when you go down there, when I talk
about something, you guys will have a good idea.
Okay. So...
towards the bottom of the shaft, this is Set 16 here.
This is where we're seeing that infiltration of water.
This is the bad area where all the water--
You'll see when we get down there.
Okay. That is very puzzling.
It is. It is.
And it's just this area. You'll see as you go down.
-It's not undermining your shaft, is it, Roger? -No.
That's why I want to try to stop it or at least contain it.
Anyways, we'll get you guys dressed.
-You'll have a good idea... -We have a great idea, yeah.
-Uh, this is yours. -This is me?
Yeah, and this is-- Rick, this is for you.
Okay.
As we all know,
200 and some years,
water's always been the problem.
Well, now we're encountering it ourselves
and we have to devise a way to shut it down,
or at least diminish it. The bottom of the Garden Shaft
could be incredibly important to solving the mystery.
It needs to be dealt with.
All right.
I feel like Ghostbusters.
NARRATOR: Since returning to the island three weeks ago,
representatives from Dumas Contracting Limited
have extended the refurbished 82-foot-deep shaft
down to 87 feet, with the ultimate goal
of reaching a total depth of nearly 100 feet.
It is here that the Oak Island team hopes to breach
a mysterious seven-foot-high tunnel that they have discovered
during their strategic core-drilling operation.
A tunnel that has been carbon-dated
to as early as the 17th century
and which runs east to west toward the so-called Baby Blob,
where high concentrations of gold, silver and other metals
have been detected in groundwater
between depths of 80 and 120 feet.
-All right! Here we go! -ROGER: Let's go, guys.
RICK: Care needs to be taken to try to understand
what's happening inside of the shaft.
In a number of ways,
this, this water issue has to be dealt with.
-So, this is 60? -Oh, yeah.
So, starting from this set here, this is where our water starts.
Right here. And then it comes in along the side.
So, our plan today is we're gonna go one set above this.
We're gonna punch nine holes in here.
And we're gonna get some urethane in there.
It should stop all this water that we see coming in.
MARTY: What they want to do
is use this fast-setting urethane.
They're gonna grout it and try and stop the water.
And you see those two 2x6's. See the crack?
RICK: They use a specialized compound--
expanding foam, if you will, in layman's terms--
spray it under pressure,
and as it expands, it will seal off
that intrusion of water, possibly completely.
Okay. I've landed.
ROGER: All right.
Okay. Roger, I have lots of questions.
-Yeah. -Where are we compared
to where we were last year at the bottom?
-Are we below that depth? -That's right.
So we're about four or five feet lower
-in here. Yeah. -We're well below.
So right now we're at 87 feet from the top.
So we've gone down about four feet, roughly.
Right, but how far is that down there?
Uh, it's not very much further.
I'll just open up this up, this little hatch here,
so it'll give us a better idea.
MARTY: Okay. So, we're looking at dirt
that nobody else have ever seen.
-Ever. Right? -That's right. Right there.
-That's for sure. -MARTY: I'll say this, Roger.
You're very close to that tunnel that we hope is
just a few feet below here.
-Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'd say. -Yeah. That's pretty cool.
It's a tunnel we didn't know anything about.
-It's not described in the narrative. -Yeah.
-We got to get down there. -And that's what I'm hoping,
like when we start this probe drilling
and we start punching away.
Yeah.
Short of an artifact recovery, gold, silver,
the most important relevance of this shaft
is that horizontal drilling.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Depending on what the team finds
once they reach the believed tunnel below,
Dumas will also be able to use a probe-drilling device
to search for evidence of valuables
up to 40 feet in every direction.
Should any important clues be discovered during this process
and the existing tunnel is inaccessible,
Dumas can construct a new tunnel in order to reach them.
If you're correct and you can drill 40 feet
off of that face and this face, we'll be able to literally
gain information from an 80-foot cylinder.
-Yes. -That's pretty amazing.
It's why we're here. It's why you're here.
Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
MARTY: You know what, Rick, I got to praise him and his guys.
I mean, fine, I can stand down here and chitchat,
but this is not a good workspace.
-(laughter) -ROGER: No. No.
You've got it pouring down on top of your head all day.
-MARTY: Eventually, I'd get pretty weary. Yeah. -Yeah. Yeah.
We got a conduit somewhere that we're unaware of.
Oh, yes. If I get 50% of this water stopped
on the guys, I'll be a happy man.
All right. Should we get out of here? Are we all set?
Sounds good. And then we can get the boys down here...
Get the boys down here and let's go!
-Let's go deep. -ROGER: Absolutely.
NARRATOR: While the operation in the Garden Shaft continues
in the Money Pit area...
...later that morning...
MARTY: Okay, gentlemen.
Today, we have an important thing.
...Rick, Marty and Craig Tester have gathered members
of the team in the war room to receive
an updated report on water testing that has been conducted
in the Money Pit area from geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner,
chemist Dr. Matt Lukeman
and hydrogeologist Dr. Fred Michel.
MARTY: I've always said there's nothing I like better than new data.
So, with no further ado, over to you, Dr. Lukeman.
All right, so we've done florescence testing
on all the water samples that we've run so far this year,
as well as all the ones last year.
We use fluorescence spectroscopy on the water
to see evidence of other things beyond metals,
such as traces of wood or other organic material in the water,
that gives us evidence of human activity.
Okay.
NARRATOR: Fluorescence spectroscopy
is a process that uses
a high-powered beam of ultraviolet light
to excite the molecules of elemental compounds
in order to identify unusual materials
that may be contained within a specimen--
in this case, water samples that have been collected
from previously drilled boreholes
all across the Money Pit area.
So, you see, all the wells are listed along the bottom there
and measurements of organic matter in the water.
So all of the wells are showing
some amount of organic matter.
-Yeah. -And so it's not unexpected
to see wood signals down under there.
In particular, we have one very interesting result
to present on L16 Deep,
which is believed to open up, at the bottom of the well,
into a large void.
Oh, wow.
So just for reference, that's into
what Marty calls "Aladdin's Cave."
It's Aladdin's Cave.
NARRATOR: Some 60 feet southwest of the Garden Shaft,
Rick, Marty, Craig and the team
are currently investigating
another feature in the Money Pit area
that may also contain critical clues
that could help solve the Oak Island mystery:
a large cavern located more than 150 feet underground
that has been dubbed "Aladdin's Cave."
Within this mysterious cavern,
they have obtained not only camera and sonar images
suggesting that it could be man-made
but also, through water testing,
high trace evidence of gold.
It's a lot deeper
than a lot of the other tunnels and other workings.
For that particular water sample taken from that depth,
we find very high organic material,
which is indicative of the water in that void
having come into contact with organic material,
-such as wood. -MARTY: Interesting.
MATT: Yeah, which is very surprising,
because there's, I believe, no known
human workings in that particular area at that depth.
-Really? -Yeah. There's no natural way wood
would get in that environment.
MARTY: That is the oddest thing.
IAN: There's no natural way wood would get in that environment.
That is the oddest thing.
The wood is interesting.
That means something was there.
NARRATOR: In the Oak Island war room...
I think what we're seeing there is, I'd say, anomalously high.
...Drs Matt Lukeman,
Ian Spooner and Fred Michel have just presented
new scientific evidence that the large cavern
more than 150 feet deep in the Money Pit area,
known as "Aladdin's Cave,"
may contain man-made workings.
If there were things introduced into that cave by people,
it becomes gigantically significant,
'cause it doesn't make any sense.
It's a one of.
There's nothing else above the bedrock.
STEVE: We put a camera and a sonar into that.
The camera gave us a really good visual and we couldn't see
-anything but rock and water. -Right.
That makes the cave even that much more important.
-I mean-- -Way more.
This just adds to the mystery of that cave.
Okay. But the other thing is, is there a tunnel
around that leads to that or at least intersects it?
RICK: It invites all kinds of questions.
Finding those organics at that depth in a void.
We now have three different technologies
strongly hinting there's something there.
It's certainly more than worthy
of further investigative processes.
The take-home is we need to keep an eye on that well.
Uh, it's been showing some interesting stuff,
the precious metals, as well.
Well, and we haven't crossed off the option of treasure.
If anything, this could be a clear indication
that it's still there and no one ever recovered it.
This is exciting and super interesting.
SCOTT: We need to drill another hole
into this, so we'll be in a different area.
SCOTT: So, our new hole that we'll put in,
we'll move to the opposite end of the cavity, basically,
where we feel we have the most height.
Maybe we can put a camera down in there again
and get a better image of the area around that hole.
-Oh, that's great. -And we may see wood.
-Yep. -MARTY: I think this is exciting.
This thing sits on the bedrock.
It is hard to come up with
a geological interpretation of that cave.
So now we see that there are sources
of plant material in there, and the obvious one would be wood,
and that makes it not natural at all.
The first thing we're gonna do
is we're gonna run a camera down into Aladdin's Cave.
There's still something worth pursuing here.
This is very exciting, um,
but the issues in front of us
are probably more complex than any other year.
We need to move forward aggressively, so
let's do what Mom said.
Sempre Avanti. Let's keep moving forward.
Can't say any more than that. Let's go do it.
MARTY: Well done, guys.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
-Hey, Charles. How ya doing? -Hey, Terry.
So we are in K/L-14.5.
Right.
...geologist Terry Matheson
joins Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse
in the Money Pit area
to oversee the drilling of borehole KL-14.5.
A borehole located some ten feet northwest of borehole L-16,
where the team hopes to intersect
the center of Aladdin's Cave
over 150 feet underground.
Once they break open into the cave,
-then we're gonna put a camera down. -Right.
Hopefully we can see, you know, maybe a-a tunnel
or some kind of entrance or egress in, into this cave.
MARTY: Aladdin's Cave is 100% unique.
We've found lots of voids at depth in the bedrock.
This one is completely different.
-What do you got? 83? -83.
-All right, well, let's crack 'em up and see what we got. -Okay.
Oh! We're into some
tightly bedded clay beds.
CHARLES: Yeah, you know what?
That would be lovely stuff to tunnel in.
It'd be lovely to tunnel in because
you wouldn't have to worry about water, would ya?
No.
That would seal itself, pretty much.
Nothing coming in from above or below.
The fact that you're getting organics of wood in there
obviously shows that-that human beings
were doing something.
TERRY: So this thing is...
is probably gonna be a man-made structure.
I'm looking forward to getting down there.
CHARLES: Absolutely. We've got quite a ways to go.
NARRATOR: As the drilling operation continues
in borehole KL-14.5...
-Hey, Carmen. -Hello.
-Carmen. -Hello, Carmen?
How's it going today?
...Craig Tester
and other members of the team
are meeting with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge
at the Oak Island Interpretive Centre.
CARMEN: Got some items to show me?
Yeah. We were digging around
on Lot 5 and there was
an area where we found iron objects.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: While recently investigating
a mysterious circular stone structure
near the shore of Lot 5 on the western side of the island,
the team has not only obtained sub-surface magnetometry data
showing that there is
a much larger feature buried beneath it
but have also recovered three metal artifacts
that may be connected to the 17th-century politician
and privateer Sir William Phips--
a man that some believe sailed to Oak Island in 1687
to bury a large cache of silver and gold in the Money Pit.
CARMEN: I'll have a look, Jack.
NARRATOR: After Carmen recently gave his assessment
that one of these artifacts may have been used to lift
heavy cargo, the team is hoping he can help them determine
what the other two objects may have been used for
and how they may be related
to the 228-year-old treasure mystery.
Well, you can see that this is a, a handmade spike.
-JACK: Yeah. -This is sort of like a brad
or a scupper nail, it's...
fairly big, flat,
so this was used to hold down
boards or decking, flush.
So this would kind of sunk underneath the wood.
The wood would be at the very top.
-Okay. -That way when you go along
or you're walking onto it, you don't hit the nail,
the head of the nail,
because it's under the wood, and, so,
this would be like, uh,
typical that you would find on a ship.
Mm-hmm.
NARRATOR: Scupper nails,
named for their frequent use
to secure the scuppers or drainage holes found on ships,
were shaped to have broad, flat heads
and strong, stout shanks, giving them the durability
to withstand multiple uses in the repair
and building of sailing vessels.
CARMEN: A rose head or any type of nail like that would stick out.
This did not. It was
-below the surface of the wood. -JACK: Okay.
That made it smooth.
Time period on it?
Early 16 to early 17 century.
So was it a shipwreck,
and they brought part of the shipwreck inward
-and the nail came with it or they...? -Or just repurposed.
-Yeah. -It was a common thing to take
shipwrecks and salvage the wood and the metal.
PETER: That's interesting with the William Phips
connection with the Concepción.
William Phips fits into our time period.
JACK: And we know he had a treasure.
And he's known to be in Nova Scotia.
JACK: Wow.
PETER: The 1600s, 1700s
fits with the Concepción.
And we know that William Phips
-was in Nova Scotia. -CRAIG: Yeah.
NARRATOR: In the Oak Island Interpretive Centre,
blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge
has just given his assessment
that an iron nail, found one week ago
near the mysterious circular feature on Lot 5
and which may be connected
to the 17th-century privateer Sir William Phips,
may have been repurposed from the wreck of a ship.
Well, I believe this is the one, Emma,
-that has chlorine in it. Right? -Yeah.
Where would the chlorine be from?
-Salt water. -Yeah. It has a 0.2% throughout,
I'd say, on average, so there,
it has been exposed to salt spray.
Geez. That sounds like it, it really is a ship nail.
-Yeah. -JACK: So...
Phips seems like a plausible person
-to have buried treasure on Oak Island. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: In the fall of 1687, Sir William Phips,
an English politician and privateer,
worked with a high-ranking Freemason named Andrew Belcher
from Nova Scotia
to conduct Phips's second treasure salvaging operation
of the Concepción,
a famed Spanish galleon which sank off the coast
of the Dominican Republic in 1641.
Curiously, they delivered less than two tons of valuables
to the English crown, despite the fact
that more than 50 tons of gold, silver and jewels
were known to be left on the ship
according to its manifest.
And just two years ago,
32-degree Freemason Scott Clarke shared his research
with the team, suggesting where
the missing valuables may have ended up.
We know that Phips found silver on the Concepción,
and I believe some of the treasure from the Concepción
was secreted to Oak Island.
ALEX: Very interesting.
-Okay. -All right, next one.
-Well, thanks for that. -PETER: Yeah.
PETER: Jack, was this found in the same area?
JACK: Yeah.
We thought it might be some sort of, uh, a tool?
You can see there's a seam running down the underside here.
Oh.
-Oh, okay. -Hmm.
Do you have a scan of this? 'Cause I'd like to see whether
-or not there's any holes in this. -CRAIG: Yep.
-EMMA: The image? -CRAIG: Yep.
-PETER: Oh, wow. -CARMEN: Yeah. You really see it there.
Yeah.
PETER: Would this be William Phips'
-time frame? -Yeah. Certainly.
The time period fits and it could certainly be maritime.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the artifacts found
in the mysterious feature on Lot 5,
which have been traced to Sir William Phips,
offer clues that he and Andrew Belcher
used Lot 5 as a staging ground to hide
an unreported cache of Spanish treasure on Oak Island?
If so, could that explain
who constructed the tunnel beneath the Garden Shaft,
which has been dated to as early as the late 1600s,
and also the high trace evidence of gold and silver
that has been detected in Aladdin's Cave
and all across the Money Pit area?
The Phips possible connection,
uh, to Oak Island is a very plausible theory.
We have some historical objects that mimic
that Phips metallurgy. I think it goes to what
Dr. Spooner has always said. The larger your sample base,
the more definitive you can be.
Well, we do continue to connect the dots.
We have different data points that are all suggesting
mid-1600s to late 1700s
and that all predates the Money Pit,
which for me is always a big thing.
Oh, yes. This, this is before the Money Pit.
Well, thank you. We're hoping we can get you a lot more
-artifacts, that's for sure. -I look forward to seeing them.
-CRAIG: See ya later. Thanks, guys. -CARMEN: See ya.
NARRATOR: The following morning...
ROGER: If you're right there, that's good.
-DARREN: Okay. -...as Dumas continues
their work on the Garden Shaft...
-MOYA: Hey, Terry. -TERRY: Hi, Moya.
-Thanks for coming out. -Yeah.
KL-14.5 we're down 138.
...nearly 60 feet to the southwest
geologist Terry Matheson
and archaeologist Moya MacDonald
supervise the core-drilling operation in borehole KL-14.5.
A borehole that is on target to penetrate the center
of Aladdin's Cave nearly 150 feet underground.
I think we hit the cave!
Let's get a measurement.
-TERRY: Aladdin's Cave. -Yeah.
I think it's really a geologic enigma.
I mean, in soft sediments, imagine
you've got a, a cavern opened up
-that seems to stay open. -Yeah.
That speaks to me of a structure made by people.
Absolutely.
-COLTEN: It's nine. -TEDFORD: 0.5?
COLTEN: Yeah.
Hey, Mike.
Uh, okay, so, I hit it at about 142 and a half.
-Okay. -So I pushed down
through the void to 153.
So it's open almost ten feet.
I think we want to just take the casing back up,
just above the opening into the cavern.
Sounds good.
-Hi, guys. -TERRY: Hey, Charles.
CHARLES: So what did I miss?
Uh, well, the guys went into the cavern
-at about 142.5. -Right.
It was an open space all the way to 153.
For right now, we're gonna put a camera
down this hole right here in front of us.
And then we'll get a little better image
-from Aladdin's cavern. -CHARLES: Get more information.
'Cause all data is good data.
TEDFORD: Yeah.
CHARLES: Personally, I think one of the things
that's most exciting about
this cavern or cave, if you will,
is finding wood in the water. I mean,
that doesn't just magically appear.
This is a very interesting area to all of us.
-PAUL: Hey, Scott. -Hey, guys.
TERRY: How ya doing, Marty?
CHARLES: So we're gonna put the Inuktun camera down in KL-14.5.
I think we're all hoping to see some evidence
that men actually excavated this cave.
What did we hit here?
Basically, we have ten feet
of open space is what I'm understanding.
That's big. That's bigger than anything we've seen.
We have never seen anything like this.
Paul, let's get it in the hole and see what we can see.
-Okay. -MARTY: Please.
STEVE: Okay, Paul, so line it up at the top.
Going into the caisson right now.
NARRATOR: The Inuktun Spectrum 120 high-definition camera
that the team is using to investigate
the massive cavern is not only designed
-to operate in low light conditions... -MARTY: There's the water.
...but is also able to pan and tilt
for a 360-degree view of its surroundings.
Okay. That's right at 142 at the top of the casing.
Yep.
We should be inside the cave now.
STEVE: You can see silt kind of moving past there.
Paul, just take her down incrementally.
'Kay.
-(all exclaiming) -There it is. Right there.
SCOTT: Oh, my God! Look at that.
TERRY: What is that?
What's that sitting right on the end of it?
Right there.
STEVE: Goodness, it looks like a bolt.
NARRATOR: It is a potentially critical moment
for Marty Lagina and other members of the Oak Island team.
While investigating the large cavern
some 150 feet deep in the Money Pit area
known as Aladdin's Cave,
they have just obtained high-definition camera images
of a possibly man-made artifact.
-It does kind of look like a bolt. -It looks more like a bolt
than anything.
CHARLES: It does have that shape, uh, of a bolt.
Of the head of a bolt.
MARTY: We see something that looks square,
like a square-headed bolt,
which would clearly be a man-made thing.
That's what we're looking for in Aladdin's Cave.
We're looking for some evidence
that human beings were inside it.
So, I guess it's possible, but I would not call it definitive.
We need a miniature Gary to go down there and metal-detect.
-Now I would have him lower. -Now.
Take it down further, Paul!
SCOTT: I think that was not the bottom.
I think that's potentially a side wall.
I'm just trying to get any kind of an indication
of where we are.
RICK: If there's something,
i.e. a man-made something underground,
that might have significant importance
to what the island is trying to tell us.
TERRY: It almost has some kind of a current or something
pulling sediment across the lens.
-SCOTT: See kind of a shadow there. -TERRY: Mm.
It looks like something through the mist there.
STEVE: Oh, you can see stuff now.
(all exclaiming)
-Okay, that's interesting. -SCOTT: Perfect.
STEVE: Whew.
Trying to rotate around.
TERRY: Seems to be.
It looks wide-open, but you can't see
through that silt to the wall.
STEVE: Hmm.
I mean, if anything, we've proven it's a wide-open cavity.
This is a good opportunity for us to really map it
-with the sonar. -TERRY: I agree.
STEVE: We're in the cave, and what we see
is very interesting. I mean, it could be man-made.
And so, for us, if this proved anything,
it's worth getting the sonar into.
And so we're gonna do that in a few days.
Sonar's gonna tell us dimensions,
where it's coming from, where it's going to.
We can look for openings, and we can use this
to really map out the underground of the cave.
And I'm really excited about that,
because, to me, this is potentially a treasure location.
MARTY: Okay.
-I think we're done, don't you? -Yeah.
Let's reconfigure.
SCOTT: Good job, guys.
NARRATOR: As operations continue in the Money Pit area...
JACK: Hey, everybody.
-Hi! -Hey! How ya doing?
...over half a mile to the west on Lot 5,
Jack Begley joins members of the archaeology team
as they search for more clues in and around
the mysterious stone structure.
JACK: It looks like you've
dug a fair amount up since I've last been here.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: After the results
of a magnetometer scan conducted two weeks ago
revealed that a much larger stone feature
lies beneath the circular depression at the surface,
the team has expanded their investigation
in an effort to determine just how extensive
and old it may be.
And if you look, we kind of scraped the wall there
a little bit, where it starts to slope down.
JACK: And that will be the tell-all--
is when we will get an outline of what this wall looks like?
-Absolutely. -That's exciting.
Let me get back on sifting duty with Helen and...
Absolutely. I got a whole bucket there for ya. (chuckles)
NARRATOR: While Jamie and Fiona continue to remove sediment
covering the feature,
Jack and Helen will sift the collected spoils
in search of any clues and possible valuables.
We're getting a few pipestems coming out.
I remember looking for years for a pipestem,
and now... (chuckles)
Lot 5 is where they were.
You know what we're not getting
is a lot of nails.
Hmm.
Which is an indication
it could've been a log cabin.
You only use a few, right?
Would that speak to an earlier time?
Yeah. Most likely.
Ooh. Helen, a nail like this, right?
Yeah. Yeah. We have found a few of them,
but not as many as you would expect.
Like, if this was a frame building,
-you would get a lot more nails. -Well...
-Yeah, a lot more nails. -Yeah.
Emma and the CT scanner will... (clicks tongue)
...look through it and tell us what it is.
It looks square.
-So... -JACK: Oh, okay.
There's too many artifacts around this area to suggest
that it was just a domestic household for a family.
Whether it was people here
depositing the treasure in the Money Pit,
we don't know, but...
digging up these features archaeologically
is how we should hopefully figure out those answers.
Oh.
(exhales sharply)
Huh.
Oh!
Hey, guys?
You might want to come take a look at this.
That's a weird shape.
JACK: Oh, wow.
FIONA: Good find.
-JACK: Oh, wow. -FIONA: Good find.
It kind of reminds me of, like, a strap
with, like, a metal fastener through it?
I don't know.
HELEN: Look at that.
NARRATOR: While investigating
the mysterious stone structure near the shore
on Lot 5 of Oak Island...
JAMIE: Very strange.
...archaeologist Jamie Kouba
has just unearthed another potentially important clue.
(grunts) What are your thoughts?
Very different piece.
-JAMIE: It is. -Wonder if it's, like, part
of a strap hinge.
Like on a door, right?
-Mm-hmm. -JAMIE: Oh.
-Yeah. -HELEN: So we just don't have
-the swinging part. -Mm. -JAMIE: Yeah.
HELEN: And you hammer the hinge on a door.
JAMIE: That would make sense-- why you'd have
a flat metal plate with a metal fastener driven through it.
JACK: Yep.
We're finding really good artifacts
and a lot of things that the archaeologists deem
to be important,
because we know that both of these features
are old and predate the Money Pit,
but we haven't gotten down to the bottom of it yet.
So it's gonna take some time to dig everything out,
and hopefully we can figure out
who was here, why and when
and is it related to the overall treasure?
JAMIE (chuckles): Oh!
Oddly enough, I think there's more
-over here, too. -HELEN: Oh, nice.
-JACK: Oh. -HELEN: Oh, look at that.
JAMIE: It's... it's fairly long.
Oh.
(singsongy): It's free.
-Oh, it's a very nice, old fastener. -Oh, it's a large nail.
Well, it's just a big old rose head.
JACK: It is a rose head.
-Yeah. It looks like it. -JAMIE: Nice.
-HELEN: These were handwrought. -JACK: Mm-hmm.
HELEN: And then the head was hammered down on all four sides.
You can get them back in the 1600s.
Yup.
-That's interesting. -JACK: Yeah. That is.
It's really nice
to be finding a whole bunch of extra metal
right next to where we found that other piece of iron
that matched the William Phips metals.
-Right. That ringbolt. Yeah. -Yeah.
-Makes me think of it, too. -Yeah.
JACK: The more evidence keeps popping up to show
that there were people here
and they were here in the proper time frame
to hide something in the Money Pit.
And ever since we found that piece of metal in the Lot 5 dig
that fits with the Phips idea that he might've come here,
it's not out of the realm of possibility
that Phips might've brought some of the treasure ashore
right through Lot 5.
HELEN: We can take this back to the lab to Emma,
and she can run her analysis on it
-and see if the iron matches. -Mm-hmm.
HELEN: But often, like, on sites like this,
if you get artifacts in situ
and if you get a lot of nails
-here and only here... -Mm-hmm.
...it means, like, there was a window here
-or the door was here. You know, it's an indication... -Yeah.
-...of what was going on in the building. -Yeah.
-JACK: The dates are lining up
to possibly match when the Money Pit might've been built.
-Yeah. -It's pre-discovery.
So what was going on during the time
that they were backfilling this feature?
We don't know, but this
could've been used directly in association
-with the Money Pit. -True.
-Yeah. -HELEN: The people
who were living here, maybe they
were associated with the creation
-of the Money Pit. -Yeah.
RICK: If you believe in the scope and scale of the work
of the Money Pit and the associated structures,
then, as Lot 5 is concerned,
I think that there's a building body of evidence
that a structure of this size could be a possible explanation
to a question that we have posed since the beginning--
where were the people?
So, here, Jamie. We'll just put that in the bag with the rest of
-the artifacts in there. -Yes, ma'am, that's where she lives now.
-Sweet find. -Let's find some more.
-Heck yeah. -Yeah. Let's keep going.
NARRATOR: The following day...
...the southern region of Nova Scotia is overwhelmed
by an unexpectedly damaging storm,
causing power outages
and devastating flooding throughout the region.
RICK: The torrential rains that have occurred here
in Nova Scotia has been unrelenting.
I have never seen it like this in ten years or more,
and in fact, locals say it's unlike
anything they've ever seen before.
The roads have been flooded,
literally, homes have been removed from their foundations.
People's lives have been interrupted,
and we are behind in our work,
and understand that we are not
the only ones who are experiencing these problems.
NARRATOR: One day later...
-MARTY: Here we are, guys. -Hello, sir. Hey.
-Hey. How's it going, guys? -Roger.
What in the hell is going on here, Roger?
-Not too much. -No?
Not too much, but I'll tell you,
it's unbelievable, the damage from that-that storm.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: Marty Lagina, Craig Tester
and Scott Barlow
arrive in the Money Pit area
after being alerted
that the Garden Shaft has been flooded
with a massive amount of standing water.
What I'm most concerned with, what about this?
Yeah, so, we're encountering a lot of water down there.
We're pumping, pumping.
How much water was in there after this rain?
We had 30 feet of water built up in the shaft.
-CRAIG: Mm-hmm. -Now we're pumping every hour.
-Okay. -It's a lot of water.
I don't like the sounds of that.
Oh, I don't like the sound of it, either.
So, I was concerned because the water is coming in
-from somewhere, obviously. -Yeah.
MARTY: That's an interesting thing, too, though,
because 30 feet of water didn't fall in that area.
-No. -Only ten inches did.
-That's right. -So, it was driven by that storm.
That means something, doesn't it?
Yeah. But where's it leaking from?
-I don't know. -Exactly.
Is that deep enough to be the flood tunnel?
ROGER: We had 30 feet of water
built up in the shaft.
It's a lot of water.
Yeah. But where's it leaking from? I don't' know.
-MARTY: I don't know. -Exactly.
NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,
Roger Fortin of Dumas Contracting Limited
has just informed Marty Lagina,
Craig Tester and Scott Barlow that something
other than the recent heavy storms in the area
have caused the 87-foot-deep Garden Shaft
to be mysteriously flooded
with nearly 30 feet of standing water.
Supposedly, in the Money Pit, where they had it,
they were down to 90 feet.
Is that a flood tunnel?
That's what I'm curious to find is where
does that water start?
Last year, I mean,
-this thing was dry. You know yourself. -Yeah.
We were down there...
Oh, yeah, yeah, I remember. It was bone-dry.
NARRATOR: Ever since members of
the Onslow Company encountered
a believed booby-trapped flood tunnel
when they excavated the original Money Pit
down to a depth of 90 feet in 1804,
anyone who dug in that immediate area
found their operations plagued with disastrous results.
Is it possible that the Oak Island team
has now also encountered a booby trap
while trying to reach the potential treasure tunnel
less than ten feet below the Garden Shaft?
And if so, could it mean that they are closer than ever
to what people have been trying to find
since the first documented search for valuables began
back in 1795?
RICK: If there was something to hide,
or something that needed protection,
certainly we know that the water
would prevent a recovery.
So, could it be another cleverly designed system
to protect what's either in the Garden Shaft
or in close proximity to it?
Sure. It could be.
We'll have to wait and see.
I'm concerned that there's other voids
around the sides of these walls. That's what I gotta identify.
Well, how many days' delay is this going to add up to?
It's going to take us a while to get in there and, again,
-I don't want to do nothing without my people being... -No, no, I understand.
You've got to have the engineers look at this.
-Yeah. -Absolutely. Absolutely.
This is so, so damn typical.
I mean, it's maddeningly typical.
We got the best guys in the world here digging a shaft.
We're facing the same problem everybody else
had for the last 200 years.
We never, never expected nothing like this.
Never. Not even close.
That's the frustrating part
is where do you start, and what do you do?
It was a main intent of this year's exploration
to get to the bottom of the Garden Shaft.
It's frustrating to me, because last year
that thing was absolutely bone-dry.
What happened?
This is a surprise.
The bottom line is it's already cost us delay,
and we can't afford that.
Okay, Roger. We're gonna let you go,
so you can talk to HQ, and we got other stuff to do.
-Let us know what happens. -ROGER: I will.
I'll keep you posted.
NARRATOR: The forces of nature have caused concerning setbacks
across the island for Rick, Marty and their team.
However, it also appears
that the much more mysterious forces of Oak Island
have intervened once again
to challenge their quest to solve the mystery.
For 228 years now,
it has remained a losing battle
for determined searchers.
But now, as potentially critical
breakthroughs may be within reach on Lot 5,
in a deep, possibly man-made cave
and in the Garden Shaft,
is the tide about to turn?