1 00:00:02,125 --> 00:00:03,292 [narrator] Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island... 2 00:00:03,458 --> 00:00:05,333 [Steve] This structure is very different. 3 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:08,000 If it's a marker, then there's at least one other one. 4 00:00:08,208 --> 00:00:10,167 -[Marty] Well, let's find it. -Wait, look at this. 5 00:00:10,333 --> 00:00:13,000 -[Gary] Another marker stone. -What? 6 00:00:13,125 --> 00:00:14,917 [Katya] This was found on Lot 15. 7 00:00:15,083 --> 00:00:17,042 [Carmen] It's an engineering tool. 8 00:00:17,208 --> 00:00:18,667 And that may be the most sophisticated item 9 00:00:18,833 --> 00:00:21,167 -that has shown up. -[Charles] We have a core, gentlemen. 10 00:00:21,375 --> 00:00:23,375 -The core? -Could be the core. 11 00:00:23,542 --> 00:00:25,458 -[rapid beeping] -Yeah, I got something right here. 12 00:00:25,625 --> 00:00:27,667 -That is pretty much what we're looking for. -[Rick] Incredible. 13 00:00:30,792 --> 00:00:34,208 [narrator] There is an island in the North Atlantic 14 00:00:34,375 --> 00:00:36,542 where people have been looking for 15 00:00:36,708 --> 00:00:40,750 an incredible treasure for more than 200 years. 16 00:00:40,917 --> 00:00:43,750 So far, they have found a stone slab 17 00:00:43,917 --> 00:00:45,667 with strange symbols carved into it, 18 00:00:45,875 --> 00:00:50,458 man-made workings that date to medieval times, 19 00:00:50,583 --> 00:00:53,542 and a lead cross whose origin may be connected 20 00:00:53,750 --> 00:00:55,917 to the Knights Templar. 21 00:00:56,083 --> 00:00:58,833 To date, six men have died 22 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,583 trying to solve the mystery. 23 00:01:01,708 --> 00:01:06,875 And according to legend, one more will have to die 24 00:01:07,042 --> 00:01:09,417 before the treasure can be found. 25 00:01:14,708 --> 00:01:17,042 ♪ ♪ 26 00:01:21,042 --> 00:01:22,208 [Terry] Okay, guys. 27 00:01:22,333 --> 00:01:23,958 I-9.5. Here we are. 28 00:01:24,125 --> 00:01:26,917 We're looking to get to the deeper sections 29 00:01:27,083 --> 00:01:29,125 -of the solution channel. -That's right. 30 00:01:29,292 --> 00:01:33,042 [narrator] As the sun rises high above the Money Pit area 31 00:01:33,208 --> 00:01:36,417 on Oak Island, Rick and Marty Lagina's team 32 00:01:36,583 --> 00:01:41,958 move forward in their quest to solve a 230-year-old mystery. 33 00:01:42,083 --> 00:01:43,875 We've picked up the points where it's deepest, 34 00:01:44,042 --> 00:01:45,542 and this is gonna be one of them. 35 00:01:45,708 --> 00:01:47,958 Destination for this hole is 210 to 220. Right, Steve? 36 00:01:48,125 --> 00:01:49,583 [Steve] Yeah, that's right. 220, 37 00:01:49,708 --> 00:01:51,167 maybe even 230 feet deep. 38 00:01:51,375 --> 00:01:54,083 Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michel fully believe 39 00:01:54,292 --> 00:01:56,458 that those metal deposits are placed by man, 40 00:01:56,625 --> 00:01:58,042 not natural, 41 00:01:58,250 --> 00:01:59,833 -in the waters themselves. -[Terry] Exactly so. 42 00:02:00,042 --> 00:02:01,708 -A very exciting hole. -Yeah. 43 00:02:01,875 --> 00:02:04,792 [narrator] Today, they are drilling a new borehole 44 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,167 known as I-9.5, 45 00:02:07,333 --> 00:02:10,083 which is on target to reach an unexplored area 46 00:02:10,250 --> 00:02:12,167 of the solution channel. 47 00:02:12,333 --> 00:02:15,333 And based on new water tests that reveal gold, 48 00:02:15,542 --> 00:02:19,250 silver, and other metal objects may be in this area, 49 00:02:19,417 --> 00:02:22,208 the team has renewed hope that they are narrowing in 50 00:02:22,375 --> 00:02:24,250 on the elusive treasure. 51 00:02:24,458 --> 00:02:26,625 [Alex] When we get down there, 52 00:02:26,792 --> 00:02:29,083 we should be looking for really soupy material. 53 00:02:29,250 --> 00:02:31,542 Yeah. Hopefully we'll drill through 54 00:02:31,708 --> 00:02:36,042 some loose coins at the bottom of a very loose and soupy area. 55 00:02:36,250 --> 00:02:38,750 -Yeah. -[Marty] I am a little bit disappointed 56 00:02:38,917 --> 00:02:42,042 by the initial speed of drilling in the solution channel, 57 00:02:42,208 --> 00:02:44,500 but the significance 58 00:02:44,583 --> 00:02:47,042 of the precious metals and others dissolved in the waters 59 00:02:47,208 --> 00:02:48,542 has never been diminished. 60 00:02:48,708 --> 00:02:51,500 -[whirring] -We have a core, gentlemen. 61 00:02:51,667 --> 00:02:53,458 [Marty] There's lots of indications that 62 00:02:53,625 --> 00:02:55,875 there is a great treasure here still. 63 00:02:56,042 --> 00:02:58,000 168. 64 00:02:58,125 --> 00:02:59,625 Thank you. 65 00:03:01,208 --> 00:03:03,208 At this point, 66 00:03:03,375 --> 00:03:06,167 it looks like we've got fairly loose material, 67 00:03:06,333 --> 00:03:07,833 but it's not as really as watery 68 00:03:07,958 --> 00:03:09,042 and washed-out as we would like to see. 69 00:03:09,208 --> 00:03:11,417 [Charles] Thanks, Adam. 70 00:03:11,583 --> 00:03:13,500 It's kind of what we wanted. It's loose. 71 00:03:13,667 --> 00:03:15,083 But there's just too much volume here. 72 00:03:15,292 --> 00:03:17,000 It wouldn't allow things to fall through. 73 00:03:17,125 --> 00:03:19,125 It looks like we're into, uh... 74 00:03:19,292 --> 00:03:21,208 a little bit of gypsum now. 75 00:03:21,375 --> 00:03:24,333 It's not solid stuff. But if he starts out 76 00:03:24,542 --> 00:03:27,167 and it starts getting into very firm material, 77 00:03:27,333 --> 00:03:29,167 he's probably into the bedrock plateau. 78 00:03:30,375 --> 00:03:31,792 [Alex] I think that's kind of what we're hoping for, 79 00:03:31,958 --> 00:03:36,292 because, so far, most of the collapses we've observed 80 00:03:36,417 --> 00:03:38,333 have been right on the edge of the bedrock plateau. 81 00:03:38,542 --> 00:03:41,750 So if we're looking for a-a cavity underneath 82 00:03:41,917 --> 00:03:43,750 that-that maybe remained open long enough 83 00:03:43,917 --> 00:03:45,125 to swallow up the Money Pit, 84 00:03:45,292 --> 00:03:46,500 then it should be right there. 85 00:03:46,625 --> 00:03:48,125 I think that bodes well, as you say. 86 00:03:48,292 --> 00:03:50,708 Now, let's hope that this is just the edge 87 00:03:50,875 --> 00:03:54,083 of the most distant protrusion out into the solution channel 88 00:03:54,250 --> 00:03:55,708 and we've just caught a little boulder. 89 00:03:55,833 --> 00:03:57,375 [Steve] At this point, 90 00:03:57,542 --> 00:03:58,667 I would've assumed it would've tagged into something. 91 00:03:58,875 --> 00:04:00,667 But those metals still come back positive, 92 00:04:00,875 --> 00:04:03,250 and they give me a lot of hope that we're in the right spot. 93 00:04:03,417 --> 00:04:04,792 We just haven't tagged it yet. 94 00:04:04,958 --> 00:04:06,583 Every core could be the one that breaks through. 95 00:04:06,708 --> 00:04:08,333 And then we're into the solution channel 96 00:04:08,458 --> 00:04:09,875 and potential treasure depth. 97 00:04:10,083 --> 00:04:11,625 [Terry] Absolutely. 98 00:04:11,750 --> 00:04:14,500 [narrator] As the drilling operation continues... 99 00:04:15,542 --> 00:04:18,792 ...several hundred yards to the west on Lot 5... 100 00:04:19,833 --> 00:04:22,417 -[Tansy] Hopefully we find something cool soon. -Yeah. 101 00:04:22,583 --> 00:04:25,125 ...members of the team search for new clues 102 00:04:25,292 --> 00:04:27,500 in the round stone foundation, 103 00:04:27,625 --> 00:04:29,333 one of several mysterious structures 104 00:04:29,542 --> 00:04:31,667 that have been uncovered on this lot 105 00:04:31,875 --> 00:04:35,250 and which could help identify just who occupied it 106 00:04:35,458 --> 00:04:37,458 before the discovery of the Money Pit. 107 00:04:38,333 --> 00:04:39,833 [Tansy] Oh, wow. 108 00:04:41,792 --> 00:04:44,333 We got more pearlware. 109 00:04:44,542 --> 00:04:47,667 Oh, nice. You can bag it up and clean it. 110 00:04:47,875 --> 00:04:50,333 [Laird] What's satisfying for my job 111 00:04:50,542 --> 00:04:53,000 is when we find a piece of pottery like this, 112 00:04:53,167 --> 00:04:54,750 it proves to us 113 00:04:54,958 --> 00:04:58,875 that people were on Lot 5 doing work in the early 1700s. 114 00:04:59,042 --> 00:05:03,167 But things like the different buttons we're finding indicate 115 00:05:03,375 --> 00:05:05,833 that this feature could potentially be 116 00:05:06,042 --> 00:05:07,583 a lot older than we thought. 117 00:05:07,750 --> 00:05:11,750 So we're starting to perhaps build a picture of... 118 00:05:11,875 --> 00:05:14,958 a very early occupation on Oak Island. 119 00:05:29,125 --> 00:05:31,750 Hey. Found a bead. 120 00:05:31,917 --> 00:05:34,292 Oh, wow. Good eyes. 121 00:05:34,458 --> 00:05:36,458 Hey, Laird. 122 00:05:36,625 --> 00:05:39,000 Come check this bad boy out. 123 00:05:39,167 --> 00:05:40,292 [Laird] All righty. 124 00:05:40,458 --> 00:05:42,083 What is it? 125 00:05:42,208 --> 00:05:44,292 -[singsongy] It's little. -Ooh. 126 00:05:46,208 --> 00:05:48,333 -Oh, nice. -It's a bead. 127 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:49,917 [Laird] And it's from Venice. 128 00:05:50,083 --> 00:05:51,333 -It's from Murano. -You can tell 129 00:05:51,542 --> 00:05:53,000 -just from looking at it? -Yeah. 130 00:05:53,167 --> 00:05:56,167 Stylistically and we've done analysis on the other ones. 131 00:05:56,333 --> 00:05:57,500 [Tansy] So how old 132 00:05:57,708 --> 00:05:59,583 -would one like that be? -Well, 133 00:05:59,750 --> 00:06:03,250 th-the tradition of beadmaking in Murano goes back, like, 134 00:06:03,375 --> 00:06:05,083 hundreds of years. 135 00:06:05,292 --> 00:06:08,500 But the beads could speak more to theories 136 00:06:08,625 --> 00:06:11,875 about the Knights of Malta having a presence on Oak Island. 137 00:06:13,750 --> 00:06:15,917 [narrator] This is now the sixth Venetian bead 138 00:06:16,083 --> 00:06:18,500 that the team has found in this feature. 139 00:06:18,708 --> 00:06:21,292 And, curiously, these ornate beads, 140 00:06:21,417 --> 00:06:23,208 which were also used as currency 141 00:06:23,375 --> 00:06:26,333 between the 12th and 19th centuries, 142 00:06:26,542 --> 00:06:29,333 have been potentially linked to a group known 143 00:06:29,542 --> 00:06:31,083 as the Knights of Malta, 144 00:06:31,250 --> 00:06:34,417 a religious order related to the Knights Templar 145 00:06:34,583 --> 00:06:36,917 who established a stronghold 146 00:06:37,083 --> 00:06:40,750 just 15 miles south of Oak Island in 1632. 147 00:06:42,292 --> 00:06:44,042 It's got red and blue inserts. 148 00:06:44,208 --> 00:06:45,833 The base glass is, uh, white. 149 00:06:46,042 --> 00:06:48,833 It's great that we're finding this variety of beads. 150 00:06:49,042 --> 00:06:51,500 Three of the same type kind of makes you think... 151 00:06:51,583 --> 00:06:53,458 -Someone's necklace broke. [laughs] -Yeah. 152 00:06:53,625 --> 00:06:55,000 And there's more out there. 153 00:06:55,125 --> 00:06:57,417 They were used for trade, 154 00:06:57,583 --> 00:06:59,125 but-but they were also worn by the people 155 00:06:59,292 --> 00:07:01,208 that, uh, brought them over. 156 00:07:01,375 --> 00:07:03,417 So that's pretty cool. 157 00:07:03,542 --> 00:07:05,500 I don't find a lot of beads, so I'm always excited 158 00:07:05,708 --> 00:07:07,125 -when we get a bead. -[laughs] 159 00:07:07,208 --> 00:07:08,500 Cool. 160 00:07:08,708 --> 00:07:11,042 Like it a lot. Good job and good eyes. 161 00:07:11,167 --> 00:07:13,167 Keep up the good work. 162 00:07:15,542 --> 00:07:18,000 [narrator] Later that afternoon... 163 00:07:19,583 --> 00:07:21,625 [Rick] So, what you see before us, 164 00:07:21,750 --> 00:07:23,667 it's curious. I don't know what to make of it. 165 00:07:23,792 --> 00:07:26,583 ...Rick and Marty join other members of the team 166 00:07:26,708 --> 00:07:29,167 in the research center to discuss 167 00:07:29,375 --> 00:07:32,250 another curious discovery on Lot 5-- 168 00:07:32,417 --> 00:07:34,167 a man-made stone marker 169 00:07:34,333 --> 00:07:36,292 found just three weeks ago. 170 00:07:36,458 --> 00:07:38,375 Gary was metal detecting, uh, 171 00:07:38,542 --> 00:07:41,167 and we came across this and we both went, 172 00:07:41,333 --> 00:07:42,792 "Well, that's strange." 173 00:07:42,958 --> 00:07:45,125 [narrator] And to help their investigation, 174 00:07:45,208 --> 00:07:48,833 Laird has created a 3D model of the feature. 175 00:07:48,958 --> 00:07:52,333 [Laird] I did a drone-based 3D model 176 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:53,958 of the split stone feature. 177 00:07:54,083 --> 00:07:56,750 I fly the drone around at different angles, 178 00:07:56,917 --> 00:08:00,542 different heights, and take a lot of photographs. 179 00:08:00,708 --> 00:08:03,792 And then I bring all of those photographs back into the lab, 180 00:08:03,875 --> 00:08:07,958 and I have a program that will reconstruct everything. 181 00:08:08,167 --> 00:08:11,500 Very similar to the reconstruction of a CT scanner. 182 00:08:11,708 --> 00:08:14,375 And in the end, we have this beautiful 3D model, 183 00:08:14,542 --> 00:08:18,500 so we can show all angles and all heights and get a really 184 00:08:18,583 --> 00:08:21,667 much better idea of what this split stone looks like. 185 00:08:21,833 --> 00:08:24,458 Laird, what can you tell us about it? 186 00:08:24,583 --> 00:08:27,458 Well, it was... the stone sticking out, 187 00:08:27,583 --> 00:08:29,792 like, that much from the ground. 188 00:08:29,958 --> 00:08:32,458 Looked like a standing stone. 189 00:08:33,542 --> 00:08:37,000 And then we found a much larger rock 190 00:08:37,083 --> 00:08:38,792 beside the standing stone. 191 00:08:40,292 --> 00:08:42,875 If we flip it up, you can see how the rock was sitting. 192 00:08:43,042 --> 00:08:44,500 [Steve] Mm-hmm. 193 00:08:44,708 --> 00:08:46,208 [Marty] Yeah, I don't see a natural way 194 00:08:46,417 --> 00:08:48,708 -for that to happen. -No. -No. 195 00:08:48,875 --> 00:08:50,792 [Laird] So, a hole was dug. 196 00:08:50,958 --> 00:08:52,750 It was placed in the hole, propped up, 197 00:08:52,917 --> 00:08:54,875 and then surrounded by rocks. 198 00:08:56,125 --> 00:08:58,333 [Marty] I don't have the expertise to say 199 00:08:58,542 --> 00:09:00,208 that it was 100% placed, 200 00:09:00,375 --> 00:09:03,250 but the people who do have that expertise tell me that. 201 00:09:03,417 --> 00:09:06,333 So the scientific finding is that that boulder was placed. 202 00:09:06,458 --> 00:09:07,833 Okay, to me, there's only two alternatives. 203 00:09:08,042 --> 00:09:09,667 It was placed to cover something up 204 00:09:09,875 --> 00:09:12,500 or it was placed to be a marker of some sort. 205 00:09:12,625 --> 00:09:15,250 We need to figure out which of those it is. 206 00:09:15,417 --> 00:09:19,500 We did get this dark organic soil underneath the rock. 207 00:09:19,667 --> 00:09:21,375 And as I was removing that, 208 00:09:21,583 --> 00:09:24,167 we got this lone piece of wood 209 00:09:24,333 --> 00:09:26,542 that is being sent for C-14. 210 00:09:27,542 --> 00:09:29,042 [Steve] The dating on that will be important. 211 00:09:29,208 --> 00:09:32,333 Could be quite significant to figuring out who was on Lot 5. 212 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:34,333 Because I went back through 213 00:09:34,542 --> 00:09:35,667 some of my old survey stuff last night, 214 00:09:35,833 --> 00:09:38,000 and this structure is very different. 215 00:09:38,208 --> 00:09:40,292 And so I had to go way, way back in time 216 00:09:40,417 --> 00:09:41,792 to find structures like this. 217 00:09:42,917 --> 00:09:45,042 This formation was typically used by the Romans 218 00:09:45,208 --> 00:09:48,250 -or later by the Vikings. -[Marty] Really? 219 00:09:49,417 --> 00:09:50,708 [Rick] Wow. 220 00:09:55,042 --> 00:09:56,750 This formation was typically used by the Romans or Vikings 221 00:09:56,875 --> 00:09:58,833 -as a marker. -Really? 222 00:09:58,958 --> 00:10:01,833 -Yeah. -[narrator] In the research center, 223 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,875 Steve Guptill has revealed 224 00:10:04,042 --> 00:10:06,250 that the man-made stone formation 225 00:10:06,375 --> 00:10:08,167 near the middle of Lot 5 226 00:10:08,333 --> 00:10:12,667 could be an ancient surveying marker of European design. 227 00:10:13,250 --> 00:10:15,125 [Steve] This marker could go back hundreds, 228 00:10:15,250 --> 00:10:16,792 if not thousands of years. 229 00:10:16,958 --> 00:10:18,667 And so it's used for two things. 230 00:10:18,833 --> 00:10:20,625 It's used as a marker stone to say 231 00:10:20,708 --> 00:10:22,500 you're on a, you know, like, a Roman road. 232 00:10:22,625 --> 00:10:24,542 You're at 100-mile point. 233 00:10:24,708 --> 00:10:26,750 Or it's used to claim land. So they put it 234 00:10:26,917 --> 00:10:28,458 on an area of significance to say, 235 00:10:28,583 --> 00:10:30,500 -"This is ours." -[Scott] Which one used it to claim their land? 236 00:10:30,667 --> 00:10:32,875 The Romans. 237 00:10:33,042 --> 00:10:34,583 The Vikings were more so "We were here." 238 00:10:34,750 --> 00:10:36,500 [Marty] Right. So it was purposeful? 239 00:10:36,708 --> 00:10:38,917 Yeah. Oh. 100%. 240 00:10:39,083 --> 00:10:42,125 What else has been found so far in that area? 241 00:10:42,208 --> 00:10:45,958 We've got six Roman coins within a 250-foot radius of this. 242 00:10:46,083 --> 00:10:47,500 -Yeah. -[Doug] You know, one thing we learned 243 00:10:47,708 --> 00:10:48,875 on our research trips, 244 00:10:49,042 --> 00:10:51,208 tracking Templar movement all over Europe, 245 00:10:51,375 --> 00:10:53,750 oftentimes Viking settlement sites 246 00:10:53,917 --> 00:10:55,667 had Roman coins associated 247 00:10:55,833 --> 00:10:57,667 -in those settlement sites. -Yeah. 248 00:10:58,875 --> 00:11:00,750 [narrator] In 2023... 249 00:11:00,917 --> 00:11:02,667 [Roberto] There is a cave that I would like to show you. 250 00:11:02,833 --> 00:11:04,250 -[Alex] Great. -[Rick] Absolutely. 251 00:11:04,375 --> 00:11:07,417 ...members of the team traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland, 252 00:11:07,542 --> 00:11:09,167 to investigate the theory 253 00:11:09,375 --> 00:11:12,667 that descendants of Vikings and members of the Knights Templar 254 00:11:12,833 --> 00:11:15,417 hid sacred treasures on Oak Island 255 00:11:15,583 --> 00:11:17,833 as early as the 12th century. 256 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,542 As you can see, there is a cross with a circular top. 257 00:11:22,750 --> 00:11:24,667 -[Doug] Oh. -[Rick] Wow. 258 00:11:24,833 --> 00:11:26,875 -We've seen that before. -[Alex] Oh, yeah. 259 00:11:27,625 --> 00:11:29,292 [narrator] And while visiting sites 260 00:11:29,417 --> 00:11:32,458 where some believe the two groups traveled together, 261 00:11:32,625 --> 00:11:35,375 they saw not only a carving of a cross 262 00:11:35,542 --> 00:11:40,042 that matches the 14th century cross found at Smith's Cove... 263 00:11:40,250 --> 00:11:42,500 [Doug] Do you know the years the coins were issued? 264 00:11:42,667 --> 00:11:44,667 Yeah, this is fourth century. 265 00:11:44,833 --> 00:11:47,875 -Fourth century? Yeah. -Yeah. -Well, that's great. 266 00:11:48,042 --> 00:11:50,667 ...but were also shown a number of Roman coins 267 00:11:50,833 --> 00:11:53,750 found at the same site matching the six coins 268 00:11:53,958 --> 00:11:56,208 that were found on Lot 5. 269 00:11:56,333 --> 00:11:59,125 Is it possible that the stone marker, 270 00:11:59,208 --> 00:12:02,500 which Steve believes has a connection to both the Romans 271 00:12:02,667 --> 00:12:04,792 and the Vikings, may be another clue 272 00:12:04,917 --> 00:12:06,958 that could support this theory? 273 00:12:07,042 --> 00:12:08,958 [Marty] Is this oriented 274 00:12:09,083 --> 00:12:11,375 -to north right now? -[Steve] Yes. 275 00:12:12,667 --> 00:12:14,208 It's just common knowledge, too. 276 00:12:14,417 --> 00:12:16,833 You would never put your next marker out of sight. 277 00:12:16,917 --> 00:12:18,458 You have to see between the two. 278 00:12:18,625 --> 00:12:20,167 -There should be another one? Yeah. -Exactly. Yeah. 279 00:12:20,375 --> 00:12:23,667 [Steve] I went out and surveyed the orientation of... 280 00:12:24,708 --> 00:12:27,167 ...the six-foot diameter with the rocks sitting in the center, 281 00:12:27,375 --> 00:12:29,625 um, and that's the orientation of the face on top. 282 00:12:29,792 --> 00:12:31,208 [Marty] If you project that line, 283 00:12:31,375 --> 00:12:34,500 -does it hit anything? Okay. -Nothing as of yet. 284 00:12:34,625 --> 00:12:37,042 When we were out there on the site, you said, "Let's walk it." 285 00:12:37,208 --> 00:12:38,917 -I think we should. -Yeah. -[Steve] Yeah, yeah. 286 00:12:39,083 --> 00:12:40,958 -[Laird] Yeah. -There might be another one of these 287 00:12:41,125 --> 00:12:43,208 -or something even more important. -I know. 288 00:12:43,375 --> 00:12:45,000 And then that would really clinch it, wouldn't it? Yeah. 289 00:12:45,125 --> 00:12:47,167 [Rick] It could be highly relevant to... 290 00:12:47,292 --> 00:12:50,250 some of the early work that was done on this island. 291 00:12:50,417 --> 00:12:52,958 It might have some association to Nolan's Cross 292 00:12:53,125 --> 00:12:54,750 and to the five stone cairns. 293 00:12:54,875 --> 00:12:58,250 But a more valuable aspect of this find 294 00:12:58,458 --> 00:13:00,125 is this-- 295 00:13:00,250 --> 00:13:03,083 how many other structures like this have we walked past? 296 00:13:03,208 --> 00:13:05,958 How many other structures are there yet to be found? 297 00:13:06,125 --> 00:13:08,000 How many other things have we missed 298 00:13:08,208 --> 00:13:11,833 in our ongoing daily efforts to try to solve this mystery? 299 00:13:12,042 --> 00:13:14,333 Think we've got a little bit of work we can do. 300 00:13:14,458 --> 00:13:15,708 Let's walk that line 301 00:13:15,875 --> 00:13:18,000 and then follow where it leads. 302 00:13:18,208 --> 00:13:21,500 -Yeah. -And of course we'll bring Gary and we'll detect it. 303 00:13:21,708 --> 00:13:23,083 -Okay. Let's go. -[Laird] All right. 304 00:13:23,250 --> 00:13:24,333 -See you later. -[Doug] See you, guys. 305 00:13:24,542 --> 00:13:26,083 [Tom] See you. 306 00:13:28,875 --> 00:13:30,708 [narrator] The next day... 307 00:13:30,875 --> 00:13:32,917 [Steve] All right. 308 00:13:33,083 --> 00:13:35,833 Back at the marker stone. So, what I'd like 309 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,625 -to do is walk southeast. -[Peter/Gary] Okay. 310 00:13:38,750 --> 00:13:40,500 ...Steve and other members of the team 311 00:13:40,667 --> 00:13:44,792 prepare to find out if the possible stone marker on Lot 5 312 00:13:44,917 --> 00:13:48,167 might point them to an even greater discovery. 313 00:13:48,333 --> 00:13:50,750 [Steve] Because we're in pretty thick woods, 314 00:13:50,917 --> 00:13:53,208 what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna set my control point 315 00:13:53,375 --> 00:13:55,667 behind this stone and we're gonna run a line of sight 316 00:13:55,833 --> 00:13:58,000 until Ethan can't see us anymore. 317 00:13:58,167 --> 00:14:00,292 Then what we'll do is we'll move him to that location 318 00:14:00,417 --> 00:14:02,083 and we'll keep going on that line. 319 00:14:02,250 --> 00:14:04,750 [Gary] And what is this station? What does it do? 320 00:14:04,958 --> 00:14:06,958 Total station. It does the exact same thing my GPS does. 321 00:14:07,083 --> 00:14:09,000 -It just doesn't use satellites. -Okay. 322 00:14:09,125 --> 00:14:10,375 It uses ground control, and it's great 323 00:14:10,542 --> 00:14:12,250 for situations like this, where you can't get 324 00:14:12,417 --> 00:14:14,000 -a signal because of the trees. -Okay, mate. 325 00:14:14,125 --> 00:14:15,292 -[Steve] We'll get set up. -Yep. -[Peter] Okay. 326 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:17,375 -You need this, I assume? -Yep. I do. 327 00:14:18,750 --> 00:14:20,208 I need you to hold that, Ethan. 328 00:14:20,417 --> 00:14:22,625 What I plan to do is use my total station, 329 00:14:22,792 --> 00:14:25,000 create a-a control line, we'll call it. 330 00:14:26,708 --> 00:14:29,917 I plan to move it every couple hundred yards so we can survey 331 00:14:30,083 --> 00:14:31,833 a perfectly straight line, looking for 332 00:14:32,042 --> 00:14:34,458 another control point or marker stone. 333 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:39,167 This is essentially a land version of my GPS. 334 00:14:39,292 --> 00:14:42,375 So this is the satellite, essentially. 335 00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:44,042 And this is my... 336 00:14:44,208 --> 00:14:46,000 what you'd see me run around with the GPS. 337 00:14:46,167 --> 00:14:47,708 And I got to tell you, mate-- I'm a little bit jealous. 338 00:14:47,875 --> 00:14:49,083 I've got my magic wand, 339 00:14:49,208 --> 00:14:51,500 -but that looks better. -[laughter] 340 00:14:51,708 --> 00:14:53,542 -All right. I'm ready to go when you guys are. -Let's do it. 341 00:14:58,875 --> 00:15:00,083 You tell me where, Ethan. 342 00:15:00,250 --> 00:15:02,542 Yeah, more right. More right. 343 00:15:02,708 --> 00:15:04,250 There you go. 344 00:15:04,458 --> 00:15:06,083 Perfect. 345 00:15:06,208 --> 00:15:08,417 -[Steve] All right, Gary. Here's our first location. -Okay, mate. 346 00:15:09,458 --> 00:15:11,667 [Steve] So, you know, we go a couple hundred yards. 347 00:15:11,792 --> 00:15:13,125 We've got Peter and I cutting line. 348 00:15:13,250 --> 00:15:14,583 We got Gary metal detecting. 349 00:15:14,708 --> 00:15:17,500 And that's important because if this truly is 350 00:15:17,667 --> 00:15:20,083 a line of significance, anything he finds 351 00:15:20,250 --> 00:15:21,792 could really be a big clue 352 00:15:21,958 --> 00:15:23,333 of what this marker stone could've been 353 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:26,167 -or who could've walked this line. -[beeping] 354 00:15:26,292 --> 00:15:28,458 [Gary] Pete, got a target over here, mate. 355 00:15:30,250 --> 00:15:33,208 We're not too far off the line. 356 00:15:46,583 --> 00:15:48,542 [beeping] 357 00:15:48,708 --> 00:15:50,958 -[Gary mutters] -Iron, right? 358 00:15:51,167 --> 00:15:52,958 -Yeah. -[high-pitched beeping] 359 00:15:55,917 --> 00:15:57,500 A little... 360 00:15:59,542 --> 00:16:01,500 ...little piece of strap. 361 00:16:01,583 --> 00:16:02,875 -Mm-hmm. -You see that? 362 00:16:03,042 --> 00:16:04,500 Square hole in it. 363 00:16:04,625 --> 00:16:06,125 -Whoa. -It could be 364 00:16:06,292 --> 00:16:07,500 -a barrel loop. -It looks pretty thin. 365 00:16:07,708 --> 00:16:09,083 [Gary] Yeah. 366 00:16:09,208 --> 00:16:11,000 I like this little piece of strap. 367 00:16:11,208 --> 00:16:14,583 We've had some amazing results from pieces of strap 368 00:16:14,792 --> 00:16:16,333 that we found around the island. 369 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:19,000 And, of course, if you're looking for treasure 370 00:16:19,083 --> 00:16:21,167 and it's in a large barrel, 371 00:16:21,292 --> 00:16:24,167 they would've had iron straps around 'em. 372 00:16:24,333 --> 00:16:26,500 -Just put it in my pouch. -Sounds good. 373 00:16:26,625 --> 00:16:28,042 It's going back to the lab. 374 00:16:28,208 --> 00:16:30,833 Okay, mate. We'll keep following the line. 375 00:16:30,958 --> 00:16:32,000 [Steve] All right, Gary. I'll keep moving. 376 00:16:32,208 --> 00:16:33,750 [Gary] Okay, mate. 377 00:16:33,917 --> 00:16:36,750 [narrator] As the team continues their search for clues... 378 00:16:37,792 --> 00:16:40,167 [Rick] You know, the item in front of us, I think, 379 00:16:40,333 --> 00:16:42,708 could be highly informative. 380 00:16:42,875 --> 00:16:46,667 ...in the Oak Island Lab, Rick and other members of the team 381 00:16:46,875 --> 00:16:50,167 meet with Laird and Emma regarding a possible compass 382 00:16:50,375 --> 00:16:53,333 found one week ago on Lot 15. 383 00:16:54,333 --> 00:16:57,292 -Yeah. So, this was found closer to the beach. -Mm-hmm. 384 00:16:57,458 --> 00:16:59,167 -[Doug] So you found it up on the bank? -Yeah. 385 00:16:59,333 --> 00:17:01,083 When we pulled it out, I mean, 386 00:17:01,250 --> 00:17:03,792 we originally thought it was a compass of some sort. 387 00:17:03,958 --> 00:17:05,125 -You weren't wrong. -Yeah. 388 00:17:05,250 --> 00:17:06,917 It's what we'd call a compass. 389 00:17:07,042 --> 00:17:09,042 Just like someone navigating on a map would use. 390 00:17:09,208 --> 00:17:13,917 Exactly. It's a-a tool either for navigating. 391 00:17:14,083 --> 00:17:17,417 -It-it can be used in construction. -[Rick] Really? 392 00:17:18,750 --> 00:17:21,500 [narrator] Dating back more than 2,000 years, 393 00:17:21,708 --> 00:17:26,292 a compass is an instrument used for measuring distances on maps 394 00:17:26,458 --> 00:17:30,167 and to design various kinds of structures on land 395 00:17:30,333 --> 00:17:34,292 such as buildings and even megalithic formations. 396 00:17:35,750 --> 00:17:37,208 [Emma] So these are images 397 00:17:37,375 --> 00:17:38,750 with all the corrosion on. So what you're seeing 398 00:17:38,917 --> 00:17:41,000 is what's on the screen right now. 399 00:17:41,083 --> 00:17:43,000 The side views. 400 00:17:43,167 --> 00:17:45,000 The back view. 401 00:17:45,167 --> 00:17:47,208 But this is what you can see in the interior. 402 00:17:49,875 --> 00:17:52,458 You see one arm. A pin. 403 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 This is the other arm. 404 00:17:56,208 --> 00:17:58,333 So there's two components 405 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:01,458 with one pin holding them together. 406 00:18:02,833 --> 00:18:04,042 But it's hand-forged. 407 00:18:04,208 --> 00:18:07,000 And I got a fairly good comparable 408 00:18:07,208 --> 00:18:09,208 of this specific design. 409 00:18:09,375 --> 00:18:12,083 -[Katya] Oh. -[Doug] Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah. 410 00:18:12,250 --> 00:18:14,167 What date are you putting on this? 411 00:18:14,375 --> 00:18:16,833 [Emma] So, no signs 412 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,542 of modern alloying elements, 413 00:18:18,750 --> 00:18:21,417 so it kind of takes it away from the mid-1800s onwards. 414 00:18:21,625 --> 00:18:23,083 -Oh, wow. -[Katya chuckling] 415 00:18:23,250 --> 00:18:25,125 That's interesting. 416 00:18:25,292 --> 00:18:27,125 [Rick] Pictures are fantastic. 417 00:18:27,250 --> 00:18:29,958 [Emma] So 18th century or the 1700s. 418 00:18:30,125 --> 00:18:32,667 Very comfortably fits within there. 419 00:18:32,792 --> 00:18:34,792 But, I mean, there's nothing to say that it's not from 420 00:18:34,958 --> 00:18:36,625 mid to late 1600s. 421 00:18:37,542 --> 00:18:38,750 Possibly older. 422 00:18:39,958 --> 00:18:41,458 [Doug] That's interesting. 423 00:18:45,625 --> 00:18:47,000 [Emma] I mean, there's nothing to say that it's not from 424 00:18:47,167 --> 00:18:48,833 mid to late 1600s. 425 00:18:49,042 --> 00:18:51,417 -Possibly older. -Wow. 426 00:18:51,583 --> 00:18:53,292 [narrator] In the Oak Island Lab, 427 00:18:53,458 --> 00:18:56,083 Laird and Emma are revealing 428 00:18:56,250 --> 00:18:58,875 that the compass found on Lot 15 could date back 429 00:18:59,042 --> 00:19:02,667 more than a century before the discovery of the Money Pit. 430 00:19:02,833 --> 00:19:06,250 -[Doug] That's interesting. -[Rick] Yeah, very interesting. 431 00:19:06,417 --> 00:19:08,500 You said yourself it's a construction tool. 432 00:19:08,667 --> 00:19:12,125 -Yeah. -Lot 15 is in close proximity 433 00:19:12,250 --> 00:19:15,708 to the Boulderless Beach and the stone cairns. 434 00:19:15,875 --> 00:19:17,583 To me, the stone cairns 435 00:19:17,708 --> 00:19:19,417 -are made by the hand of man. -[Laird] Mm-hmm. 436 00:19:20,792 --> 00:19:23,000 [narrator] The stone cairns were a formation 437 00:19:23,208 --> 00:19:25,333 of five pyramid-shaped mounds 438 00:19:25,542 --> 00:19:29,583 that Fred Nolan documented in the early 1960s on Lot 15 439 00:19:29,708 --> 00:19:33,500 before they were destroyed by treasure hunting activities. 440 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:40,292 In 2023, archaeoastronomy expert Professor Adriano Gaspani 441 00:19:40,417 --> 00:19:44,042 shared peer-reviewed research suggesting the cairns 442 00:19:44,208 --> 00:19:46,333 had been designed to perfectly align 443 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:50,958 with stars in the night sky during the 13th century. 444 00:19:51,375 --> 00:19:54,500 And when the team visited a site in Bornholm, Denmark, 445 00:19:54,708 --> 00:19:57,250 possibly connected to the Knights Templar 446 00:19:57,417 --> 00:19:59,000 and descendants of Vikings... 447 00:19:59,208 --> 00:20:00,958 I have the picture here of the stone cairns. 448 00:20:01,125 --> 00:20:02,750 I'd say it's almost identical. 449 00:20:02,917 --> 00:20:05,417 ...they were stunned to find a petroglyph 450 00:20:05,542 --> 00:20:07,875 of the exact same formation. 451 00:20:08,917 --> 00:20:12,167 [Rick] I think in order to create the stone cairns, 452 00:20:12,333 --> 00:20:15,375 which are just uphill from the find, 453 00:20:15,542 --> 00:20:17,708 you would need measuring devices. 454 00:20:17,875 --> 00:20:21,083 You would have to draw a map 455 00:20:21,250 --> 00:20:23,833 of what you intend to-to accomplish 456 00:20:24,042 --> 00:20:28,583 with distances, measurements, orientations, alignments. 457 00:20:28,708 --> 00:20:30,667 Well, this is a measuring device. 458 00:20:30,792 --> 00:20:33,000 A device such as this would have been needed 459 00:20:33,208 --> 00:20:36,250 to actually create these constructions. 460 00:20:36,458 --> 00:20:38,708 Here we have a construction on top 461 00:20:38,875 --> 00:20:42,000 of the hill that needed to be laid out rather precisely. 462 00:20:42,125 --> 00:20:46,292 And we have a tool that would've assisted in devising a plan 463 00:20:46,458 --> 00:20:48,167 to create these constructions. 464 00:20:48,333 --> 00:20:50,875 We always seek to connect the dots 465 00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:53,167 in terms of what's found here. 466 00:20:53,333 --> 00:20:55,458 So it's a great find. 467 00:20:55,583 --> 00:20:58,667 But I think I'd really like Carmen to take 468 00:20:58,875 --> 00:21:02,000 -a look at that. But at the end of the day... -Yeah. 469 00:21:02,167 --> 00:21:04,292 ...the search agenda continues. 470 00:21:04,417 --> 00:21:06,167 And thus we have work to do, as do you in the lab. 471 00:21:06,375 --> 00:21:08,625 -We do. -So we really appreciate it. -Thank you, guys. 472 00:21:08,750 --> 00:21:10,542 -[overlapping chatter] -[Laird] Good luck. 473 00:21:10,708 --> 00:21:13,333 [narrator] As Rick ends the meeting in the lab... 474 00:21:13,542 --> 00:21:15,917 -[Peter] Steve, look at this. -[Steve] What's that? 475 00:21:16,042 --> 00:21:17,833 This rock right here. 476 00:21:17,958 --> 00:21:19,833 Would it be any sort of marking? 477 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,417 It could be. 478 00:21:21,542 --> 00:21:23,500 [narrator] ...near the bottom of Lot 8, 479 00:21:23,667 --> 00:21:26,500 Steve and the team continue searching for clues 480 00:21:26,708 --> 00:21:29,625 along a straight line from the possible marker stone 481 00:21:29,708 --> 00:21:31,542 on Lot 5. 482 00:21:32,542 --> 00:21:33,875 For me, there'd be some type of mark on it, 483 00:21:34,083 --> 00:21:35,250 because, again, we have so many 484 00:21:35,417 --> 00:21:37,625 boulders and stones on this island, 485 00:21:37,833 --> 00:21:40,125 -and this doesn't have any. -Okay. 486 00:21:40,292 --> 00:21:41,875 But, uh, over the next 20 or 30 feet, 487 00:21:42,042 --> 00:21:44,625 we're at the highest point, so if we're gonna find 488 00:21:44,833 --> 00:21:47,292 a marker stone in line of sight, it could be somewhere in here. 489 00:21:47,458 --> 00:21:49,208 -Wow. -So, good eyes, Peter. 490 00:21:49,375 --> 00:21:51,417 -Let's keep going. -Okay. 491 00:21:51,583 --> 00:21:53,458 [Steve] Any time I see a boulder, you have to take 492 00:21:53,667 --> 00:21:55,500 a double look, because some of them have turned out to be 493 00:21:55,667 --> 00:21:58,917 substantial pieces of evidence left by somebody. 494 00:21:59,083 --> 00:22:00,833 So, anytime that we come across something 495 00:22:00,958 --> 00:22:02,875 that looks like it's been placed by man, 496 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,500 we have to investigate it. 497 00:22:04,667 --> 00:22:08,292 So, we are now moving into, I would say, Lot 27. 498 00:22:08,458 --> 00:22:10,875 [Peter] Keep your eye out for rocks. 499 00:22:16,542 --> 00:22:18,125 Okay, I'll turn around here. 500 00:22:18,250 --> 00:22:20,000 Wait. Look at this. 501 00:22:20,167 --> 00:22:22,333 [Gary laughs] Oh, man. I just walked straight over that. 502 00:22:22,458 --> 00:22:23,833 [Peter] That looks like a drilled stone. 503 00:22:24,042 --> 00:22:25,500 [Gary] Yep. 504 00:22:25,667 --> 00:22:27,917 And they found drilled stones like this before, 505 00:22:28,083 --> 00:22:29,708 in the Money Pit. 506 00:22:29,875 --> 00:22:33,458 [narrator] A drilled stone found on Lot 27? 507 00:22:33,667 --> 00:22:37,500 In 1895, treasure hunter Frederick Blair 508 00:22:37,625 --> 00:22:41,833 found a drilled stone just north of the original Money Pit. 509 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,917 Over four decades later, in 1937, 510 00:22:46,042 --> 00:22:49,208 Gilbert Hedden found another near Smith's Cove 511 00:22:49,375 --> 00:22:54,625 on a perfect east-west alignment from Blair's discovery. 512 00:22:55,667 --> 00:22:57,167 [Peter] Steve, do you know anything 513 00:22:57,375 --> 00:23:00,208 about this, what looks like drilled stone? 514 00:23:00,375 --> 00:23:02,333 Actually, I do. So, a few years ago, 515 00:23:02,458 --> 00:23:03,667 Rick and I were doing some work out here. 516 00:23:03,875 --> 00:23:05,667 He found it, came out and surveyed it, 517 00:23:05,833 --> 00:23:07,833 but we had nothing to tie it to. 518 00:23:08,042 --> 00:23:10,250 -But now we do. -Yeah. 519 00:23:10,417 --> 00:23:12,333 [narrator] Is it possible 520 00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:14,667 that the team has just found a connection 521 00:23:14,875 --> 00:23:19,292 between the feature on Lot 5 and this drilled stone? 522 00:23:19,417 --> 00:23:21,500 [Steve] Every time we've found a marked stone, 523 00:23:21,667 --> 00:23:23,708 or a drilled stone, it represents something. 524 00:23:23,875 --> 00:23:27,292 And it's a point of interest that usually is followed up 525 00:23:27,458 --> 00:23:28,667 by another point of interest, 526 00:23:28,792 --> 00:23:30,583 -and they project to an area. -Yeah. 527 00:23:30,708 --> 00:23:32,458 So, this is a really important spot, 528 00:23:32,625 --> 00:23:35,417 but I suspect that we'll find an artifact 529 00:23:35,583 --> 00:23:37,208 or a marker stone anywhere between 530 00:23:37,375 --> 00:23:39,250 where we are now and just up over the hill. 531 00:23:39,375 --> 00:23:41,458 -Perfect. All right. -[Gary] Okay. -[Steve] All right, guys. 532 00:23:41,542 --> 00:23:43,417 -Follow me and we'll keep moving. -Okay. -Okay. 533 00:23:44,417 --> 00:23:46,458 [Peter] This drilled stone connects 534 00:23:46,625 --> 00:23:48,792 to the Lot 5 marker feature. 535 00:23:48,917 --> 00:23:51,208 So, it makes the marker feature 536 00:23:51,375 --> 00:23:53,292 way more important, 537 00:23:53,417 --> 00:23:55,750 and I'm excited to see where it might go. 538 00:23:56,792 --> 00:23:58,333 [Steve] All right, guys. So, I got us back on line, 539 00:23:58,542 --> 00:23:59,750 and I can actually do it with my GPS 540 00:23:59,917 --> 00:24:01,667 -now that we're in the open. -Okay. 541 00:24:01,833 --> 00:24:03,792 -[Gary] What lot are we on, Steve, now? -We-we are currently 542 00:24:03,917 --> 00:24:06,417 standing on 28, on the western side of the island. 543 00:24:06,542 --> 00:24:08,833 And do we know any features in this area? 544 00:24:09,042 --> 00:24:10,375 Oh, absolutely. 545 00:24:10,542 --> 00:24:12,167 We're heading right towards Kingdom Stone. 546 00:24:12,292 --> 00:24:14,708 -Okay. -So, Kingdom is part of the Tree of Life, 547 00:24:14,875 --> 00:24:17,542 and a lot of theorists work with the Tree of Life 548 00:24:17,708 --> 00:24:19,333 -and Nolan's Cross. -Yeah. 549 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:20,833 [narrator] The Kingdom Stone? 550 00:24:21,042 --> 00:24:22,875 [Petter] There is a coded map I found, 551 00:24:23,042 --> 00:24:26,375 and it will lead you to the ultimate point X. 552 00:24:26,542 --> 00:24:28,208 [narrator] In 2013, 553 00:24:28,333 --> 00:24:31,042 Norwegian Freemason and researcher Petter Amundsen 554 00:24:31,167 --> 00:24:34,333 proclaimed that the six megalithic boulders 555 00:24:34,542 --> 00:24:36,458 that form Nolan's Cross 556 00:24:36,583 --> 00:24:39,000 may actually be part of a larger feature 557 00:24:39,208 --> 00:24:42,625 that included four additional buried boulders 558 00:24:42,792 --> 00:24:45,000 known as the Tree of Life, 559 00:24:45,167 --> 00:24:46,750 an ancient religious symbol 560 00:24:46,917 --> 00:24:49,958 comprised of ten points, or sefirot, 561 00:24:50,125 --> 00:24:53,500 that was highly revered by the Knights Templar. 562 00:24:54,417 --> 00:24:56,375 Yeah. This is it. Good. 563 00:24:56,542 --> 00:24:57,708 [narrator] To prove his theory, 564 00:24:57,875 --> 00:25:00,792 Petter, along with Marty and Alex, 565 00:25:00,917 --> 00:25:04,083 uncovered the sefirot at the base of the formation 566 00:25:04,250 --> 00:25:06,208 known as the Kingdom Stone. 567 00:25:06,375 --> 00:25:09,167 It was only half of a small boulder 568 00:25:09,292 --> 00:25:12,917 that appeared to have been precisely cut in two. 569 00:25:13,083 --> 00:25:17,333 And because it was such a potentially historic find, 570 00:25:17,458 --> 00:25:19,875 the team reburied it for preservation. 571 00:25:20,042 --> 00:25:22,625 [Steve] I mean, as you can see here, we've done a lot of work 572 00:25:22,792 --> 00:25:25,667 -in this area over the years. -Yeah. 573 00:25:29,250 --> 00:25:31,750 So, Kingdom Stone is buried here. 574 00:25:31,875 --> 00:25:33,292 -Okay. -So, you can see along our projection, 575 00:25:33,417 --> 00:25:34,667 it's pretty close. 576 00:25:34,875 --> 00:25:36,583 -Actually, it's probably... -Probably... 577 00:25:36,750 --> 00:25:38,708 -...on the projection from the drilled stone. -Mm-hmm. 578 00:25:38,875 --> 00:25:42,458 What we're seeing here is, if this lines up with Kingdom, 579 00:25:42,583 --> 00:25:44,042 it could've been a reference point 580 00:25:44,208 --> 00:25:47,500 for building out Nolan's Cross and the Tree of Life. 581 00:25:47,667 --> 00:25:49,792 -Is that possible? -Absolutely. 582 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,042 Usually, when you can line two or three items up 583 00:25:52,208 --> 00:25:55,125 on a linear projection, it was done on purpose. 584 00:25:55,250 --> 00:25:56,625 -Yeah. -[Peter] Okay. 585 00:25:56,833 --> 00:25:58,500 I'm gonna get my Uncle Rick to come meet us 586 00:25:58,708 --> 00:26:00,958 -at that drilled stone. -I think that's a good idea. 587 00:26:01,042 --> 00:26:03,083 Gary] I'm sure he's gonna love it. 588 00:26:07,333 --> 00:26:09,083 -[Steve] Oh, here comes Rick now. -[Peter] Yeah. 589 00:26:09,208 --> 00:26:10,917 -You remember this, don't you, Rick? -I do. 590 00:26:11,042 --> 00:26:14,333 [narrator] On Lot 27 of Oak Island, 591 00:26:14,542 --> 00:26:16,708 Rick joins the team to investigate 592 00:26:16,875 --> 00:26:19,917 a stone with a curious drilled hole 593 00:26:20,125 --> 00:26:23,167 and which sets on a perfect southeast line 594 00:26:23,375 --> 00:26:25,792 from the stone marker on Lot 5. 595 00:26:25,958 --> 00:26:28,000 [Rick] So, the question, then, to you is, 596 00:26:28,167 --> 00:26:30,875 were you able to project any lines off 597 00:26:31,042 --> 00:26:33,292 other drilled stones or features in the area? 598 00:26:33,417 --> 00:26:35,917 Yes. If you project this line 599 00:26:36,083 --> 00:26:38,667 from Lot 5 to here, we cut through Kingdom Stone. 600 00:26:39,708 --> 00:26:42,083 -What? -Yeah, isn't that crazy to think of? 601 00:26:42,250 --> 00:26:44,667 [Gary] I mean, who would have thought the Kingdom Stone 602 00:26:44,875 --> 00:26:48,667 was connected to that monument marker there on Lot 5? 603 00:26:48,833 --> 00:26:51,000 -Huh. -[Peter] This drilled stone 604 00:26:51,208 --> 00:26:55,250 is near the middle of the island, 605 00:26:55,417 --> 00:26:57,500 -at one of the highest points. -[Steve] That's right. 606 00:26:57,667 --> 00:27:01,125 You want your survey points at high locations, 607 00:27:01,333 --> 00:27:02,500 because it's line of sight. 608 00:27:02,667 --> 00:27:04,458 -Mm-hmm. -So, this becomes a piece 609 00:27:04,583 --> 00:27:06,292 that you pivot on. 610 00:27:06,458 --> 00:27:07,542 Maybe we project to Nolan's Cross, 611 00:27:07,708 --> 00:27:09,000 maybe we project to the cairns, 612 00:27:09,208 --> 00:27:10,667 maybe we project to the drilled stones 613 00:27:10,875 --> 00:27:13,667 in the Money Pit and look for more clues. 614 00:27:13,833 --> 00:27:15,833 So, it becomes a big network for me to work with. 615 00:27:16,042 --> 00:27:17,792 -Mm-hmm. -[Steve] This line 616 00:27:17,958 --> 00:27:19,333 from the marker stone, through the drilled stone, 617 00:27:19,458 --> 00:27:20,667 it hits Kingdom Stone. 618 00:27:20,833 --> 00:27:23,208 That ties to Nolan's Cross, 619 00:27:23,375 --> 00:27:25,167 which could be part of a bigger network 620 00:27:25,333 --> 00:27:26,708 and something significant to figuring out 621 00:27:26,875 --> 00:27:28,458 where this treasure is. 622 00:27:28,667 --> 00:27:30,375 So, right now, it's pretty exciting. 623 00:27:30,542 --> 00:27:33,625 [Rick] It's difficult to put your mind back and say 624 00:27:33,792 --> 00:27:35,542 men in white robes with red crosses 625 00:27:35,708 --> 00:27:37,875 emblazoned on their chests were here on this island, 626 00:27:38,042 --> 00:27:41,792 but the kind of planning, information 627 00:27:41,958 --> 00:27:45,000 and network of infrastructure needed, 628 00:27:45,167 --> 00:27:47,875 it conjures up the idea that it was 629 00:27:48,042 --> 00:27:52,042 significantly important to whomever was designing it. 630 00:27:52,208 --> 00:27:54,125 -Mm-hmm. -[Rick] Digging and drilling 631 00:27:54,292 --> 00:27:57,250 is part of the search agenda, but only part. 632 00:27:57,417 --> 00:27:59,333 We're building a body of evidence that someone 633 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:04,167 went to a lot of planning, logistics and effort to create, 634 00:28:04,292 --> 00:28:08,375 possibly, an island-wide map on the ground. 635 00:28:08,542 --> 00:28:10,667 It reaffirms my belief, 636 00:28:10,875 --> 00:28:12,250 all these many years, 637 00:28:12,417 --> 00:28:14,500 that digging and drilling alone 638 00:28:14,625 --> 00:28:16,792 will not solve the Oak Island mystery. 639 00:28:16,917 --> 00:28:18,833 Maybe the answers are in the ground. 640 00:28:19,833 --> 00:28:21,333 [Rick] Everything builds on something else, 641 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:24,167 and sometimes, the most innocent observation presents 642 00:28:24,333 --> 00:28:27,833 some stunning opportunities to learn more and to do more. 643 00:28:28,042 --> 00:28:29,375 Let's see what we find. 644 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:30,833 -Let's see what we find. Absolutely. -[Peter] Yep. 645 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,875 -I say we get going. -All right. Sounds good. 646 00:28:33,042 --> 00:28:34,792 [Steve] I'll follow you. 647 00:28:40,083 --> 00:28:43,208 [narrator] As another exciting day begins on Oak Island... 648 00:28:44,542 --> 00:28:46,500 -[Terry] How you doing, Rick? -[Rick] Where are we? 649 00:28:46,667 --> 00:28:49,167 I think we could see an open, washed area 650 00:28:49,333 --> 00:28:51,208 with, effectively, a void down below. 651 00:28:51,375 --> 00:28:53,958 -And that's what we're looking for, for sure. -Right. 652 00:28:54,125 --> 00:28:56,625 [narrator] ...Rick arrives at the Money Pit area 653 00:28:56,792 --> 00:28:59,833 where Borehole I-9.5 654 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,708 may be close to entering the solution channel. 655 00:29:02,875 --> 00:29:04,833 We have a core, gentlemen. 656 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,417 -The core? -Could be the core. 657 00:29:07,542 --> 00:29:09,458 -Let's hope it's the core. -Okay. 658 00:29:10,667 --> 00:29:14,583 [Terry] He went from 185.5 to 209ish, 659 00:29:14,708 --> 00:29:16,333 so he's gonna have probably about 20 feet 660 00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:17,875 in the core barrel. 661 00:29:18,042 --> 00:29:20,500 So, we got an anaconda coming our way. 662 00:29:20,708 --> 00:29:22,500 [Rick] Every time you open a core, 663 00:29:22,667 --> 00:29:25,667 what you're hoping is that you will find the one thing, 664 00:29:25,875 --> 00:29:28,125 given the fact that, you know, 665 00:29:28,292 --> 00:29:32,000 there are detectable levels of precious metals at the depth. 666 00:29:32,125 --> 00:29:34,500 Get that pinpointer ready, Charles. 667 00:29:34,667 --> 00:29:36,417 Right there. 668 00:29:37,458 --> 00:29:39,292 [Steve] And that's really what we're looking for. 669 00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:41,042 Really loose material. 670 00:29:41,250 --> 00:29:43,917 You like to see that. That's just falling out. 671 00:29:44,083 --> 00:29:46,042 [Terry] Let's hope we get some gold in the mud. 672 00:29:47,042 --> 00:29:48,917 [Adam M.] Okay, choke it off here. 673 00:29:49,042 --> 00:29:51,667 [Rick] But what is most important is the soil. 674 00:29:51,750 --> 00:29:55,167 Meaning, would a treasure fall through 675 00:29:55,375 --> 00:29:57,500 the type of soils that we've encountered? 676 00:29:57,708 --> 00:30:00,333 That's the hope. So... 677 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:03,125 It's an interesting location, but at the end of the day, 678 00:30:03,292 --> 00:30:06,917 something has to come up from the core. 679 00:30:09,208 --> 00:30:10,417 Which one do you want? You want that, Terry, 680 00:30:10,625 --> 00:30:11,708 -or do you want that to come to me? -This is the top? 681 00:30:11,875 --> 00:30:13,333 [Steve] Yes. 682 00:30:14,833 --> 00:30:16,417 So, that's 209, Terry. 683 00:30:16,625 --> 00:30:18,458 209. Let's be hopeful. 684 00:30:21,958 --> 00:30:23,750 That is pretty much what we're looking for. 685 00:30:23,917 --> 00:30:25,500 It is, yeah. It's very loose. 686 00:30:26,542 --> 00:30:28,000 Very loose. 687 00:30:30,042 --> 00:30:32,458 If, uh, if nothing else, this is proof 688 00:30:32,583 --> 00:30:34,917 that the soft material hangs out right under the ledges 689 00:30:35,125 --> 00:30:36,833 -in the solution channel. -[Rick] Yep. 690 00:30:37,042 --> 00:30:38,875 I'll spread this apart for you, Charles, 691 00:30:39,083 --> 00:30:42,167 and then we'll let you get at it with the... the pinpointer. 692 00:30:42,333 --> 00:30:45,333 Now, that's probably the start of our bedrock right there. 693 00:30:45,542 --> 00:30:47,500 Okay. Okay, I'm gonna run the pinpointer over this. 694 00:30:47,708 --> 00:30:49,167 Okay. 695 00:31:02,958 --> 00:31:04,750 [pinpointer beeps] 696 00:31:04,875 --> 00:31:06,125 I got something right here, guys. 697 00:31:06,333 --> 00:31:07,667 You know, you get fooled sometimes 698 00:31:07,792 --> 00:31:09,875 by the-the screws in the table. 699 00:31:10,042 --> 00:31:11,667 -[Steve] Let's take it over. -Yeah. 700 00:31:11,875 --> 00:31:13,625 [Terry] Here we go. 701 00:31:13,792 --> 00:31:15,708 -Watch it, Terry. -Yep. 702 00:31:15,875 --> 00:31:17,667 [Alex] Watch yourself. 703 00:31:17,833 --> 00:31:19,875 Good? Good? 704 00:31:21,917 --> 00:31:23,625 -Nicely done. -[Terry] Here we go. 705 00:31:26,042 --> 00:31:27,917 [pinpointer beeping rapidly] 706 00:31:28,083 --> 00:31:29,958 [Charles] Yeah, I got something right here. 707 00:31:30,083 --> 00:31:31,542 -[Steve] Oh, wow. -Right here. 708 00:31:31,750 --> 00:31:33,083 [Terry] Okay. Whoa. 709 00:31:37,208 --> 00:31:38,500 -[pinpointer beeping rapidly] -I have something right here. 710 00:31:38,708 --> 00:31:40,292 -[Steve] Oh, wow. -[Terry] Okay. 711 00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:42,125 [narrator] While the team investigates a drilling core 712 00:31:42,292 --> 00:31:47,500 taken from 209 feet deep in Borehole I-9.5, 713 00:31:47,667 --> 00:31:51,167 Charles is detecting a possible metal object. 714 00:31:52,458 --> 00:31:53,667 [pinpointer beeping] 715 00:31:53,792 --> 00:31:56,042 -Right there. -[Terry] Whoa. 716 00:31:58,208 --> 00:32:00,292 [Charles] Somewhere. 717 00:32:00,417 --> 00:32:01,625 It's gone. 718 00:32:02,833 --> 00:32:04,667 Just give this another sweep through. 719 00:32:06,042 --> 00:32:07,458 I-I got nothing. 720 00:32:07,625 --> 00:32:09,292 [Terry] It is what it is. 721 00:32:09,417 --> 00:32:11,167 [Rick] Well, you know, to be safe, 722 00:32:11,292 --> 00:32:13,083 we could have Katya come up and... 723 00:32:13,250 --> 00:32:14,917 -Yeah. -...just run the Manticore over here. 724 00:32:15,042 --> 00:32:16,333 -Yep. -[Rick] And you know for certain. 725 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:18,375 Absolutely. Let's do it. 726 00:32:18,583 --> 00:32:20,542 [Rick] It's exciting in the moment. 727 00:32:20,750 --> 00:32:22,875 There's something here that is 728 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,000 making the pinpointer react, 729 00:32:25,083 --> 00:32:28,875 but I don't understand how the signal disappeared. 730 00:32:29,042 --> 00:32:31,625 It's very curious. I don't know what it means, 731 00:32:31,792 --> 00:32:33,958 so we need to call in Katya 732 00:32:34,125 --> 00:32:36,625 and test the entire sample. 733 00:32:36,792 --> 00:32:38,333 The entire drill core. 734 00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:40,083 -[Katya] Hi, guys. -[Alex] Hey, Katya. -[Rick] Hey. 735 00:32:40,208 --> 00:32:41,042 -[Charles] Hey, Katya. -[Terry] Katya, how you doing? 736 00:32:41,208 --> 00:32:42,542 Good. What do we have here? 737 00:32:42,708 --> 00:32:45,208 Well, Katya, I was getting a hit, but then I got 738 00:32:45,375 --> 00:32:47,250 a harder signal right here, a more stronger signal. 739 00:32:47,375 --> 00:32:50,375 -Mm-hmm. -If you could go over it again, just to confirm? 740 00:32:50,542 --> 00:32:52,542 -See if there's something there? -Sure. Yeah. 741 00:32:52,708 --> 00:32:56,167 [Rick] Let's just lift it up and put it on the garbage cans. 742 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,875 Let's start with the pinpointer. 743 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,500 [pinpointer beeps] 744 00:33:07,417 --> 00:33:09,750 [beeping rapidly] 745 00:33:09,917 --> 00:33:11,292 -There we go. -Wow. -There we are. 746 00:33:11,458 --> 00:33:12,833 [Alex] If you want to start 747 00:33:12,958 --> 00:33:14,083 separating it out, you can use that. 748 00:33:14,292 --> 00:33:16,000 [beeping continues] 749 00:33:16,208 --> 00:33:18,042 [Charles] So, there was something there. 750 00:33:21,583 --> 00:33:23,917 -See, this is what happened to us. -Yeah. 751 00:33:24,125 --> 00:33:26,250 [pinpointer beeping rapidly] 752 00:33:30,667 --> 00:33:32,875 It's just fine stuff in here, 753 00:33:33,042 --> 00:33:35,833 that when you get big clumps of it 754 00:33:35,958 --> 00:33:37,333 and it's concentrated... 755 00:33:37,542 --> 00:33:39,417 -[Alex] Mm-hmm. -...it'll go crazy. 756 00:33:41,167 --> 00:33:42,958 We're looking for little flecks of gold. 757 00:33:43,042 --> 00:33:45,292 Could that possibly be ground up in that? 758 00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:47,458 -We've found it in other samples. -Yeah. 759 00:33:47,625 --> 00:33:48,917 This could definitely be something 760 00:33:49,042 --> 00:33:51,167 really interesting here. 761 00:33:51,375 --> 00:33:53,083 [Alex] If there's gold dust in those bags, 762 00:33:53,292 --> 00:33:55,625 that could be part of the treasure. 763 00:33:55,708 --> 00:33:57,583 -There you go. -So, that could also be an indicator 764 00:33:57,750 --> 00:33:59,875 that we're getting really close, if it's in there. 765 00:34:00,042 --> 00:34:01,667 -Yep. -[Terry] Bingo. 766 00:34:01,833 --> 00:34:04,042 So, it's all the more reason to send this off to the lab. 767 00:34:04,208 --> 00:34:06,333 -Sure, yeah. -I have a bag here, 768 00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:08,500 so we're gonna get a sample and get it back to the lab. 769 00:34:08,708 --> 00:34:10,500 -[Alex] Okay. -[narrator] Is it possible 770 00:34:10,708 --> 00:34:14,000 that the team has recovered traces of precious metals 771 00:34:14,208 --> 00:34:17,125 in soils collected from the solution channel? 772 00:34:17,292 --> 00:34:20,583 If so, could that mean they may be closing in 773 00:34:20,792 --> 00:34:22,667 on the legendary treasure? 774 00:34:22,875 --> 00:34:27,167 [Rick] There's no apparent gold coin or anything like that, 775 00:34:27,333 --> 00:34:31,333 but something of metallic nature is in that core. 776 00:34:31,542 --> 00:34:33,792 Hopefully, the lab can confirm 777 00:34:33,917 --> 00:34:36,667 if it is gold or silver. 778 00:34:36,833 --> 00:34:39,500 If this is some sort of metal, 779 00:34:39,667 --> 00:34:44,000 especially if it's fine flakes of gold or whatever it is, 780 00:34:44,208 --> 00:34:45,625 you'd put a caisson shaft over this. 781 00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:47,125 -Oh, yeah. -No question about it. -[Charles] Yeah. 782 00:34:47,292 --> 00:34:49,708 So, there's reasons to be hopeful, 783 00:34:49,917 --> 00:34:52,500 but there's also reasons to give it your due diligence. 784 00:34:52,708 --> 00:34:54,000 [Terry] Absolutely. 785 00:34:54,208 --> 00:34:55,500 -[Rick] Thank you, Katya. -[Katya] Of course. 786 00:34:55,667 --> 00:34:57,125 I'm hoping you guys have some success on this. 787 00:34:57,208 --> 00:34:58,708 [Alex] Yeah, me, too. 788 00:35:01,250 --> 00:35:03,375 [narrator] Later that morning... 789 00:35:04,333 --> 00:35:05,667 [Carmen] Well, look here. How you doing? 790 00:35:05,833 --> 00:35:07,667 -[Craig] Hey, Carmen. -Found something else? 791 00:35:07,833 --> 00:35:09,208 Yes, sir, we did. 792 00:35:09,375 --> 00:35:11,292 [narrator] ...in the Oak Island Lab, 793 00:35:11,417 --> 00:35:13,000 members of the team meet with blacksmithing expert 794 00:35:13,208 --> 00:35:15,125 Carmen Legge. 795 00:35:15,292 --> 00:35:18,333 So, this was found on Lot 15. 796 00:35:18,542 --> 00:35:20,333 [narrator] While they await soil test results 797 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:23,375 on the Money Pit core, they have asked Carmen 798 00:35:23,542 --> 00:35:26,292 to examine the tool found on Lot 15 799 00:35:26,458 --> 00:35:29,667 to help determine just how old it could be. 800 00:35:29,833 --> 00:35:31,375 And when I pulled it up, I thought it was, like, 801 00:35:31,542 --> 00:35:34,000 a compass, a navigation tool of sorts. 802 00:35:34,167 --> 00:35:36,208 I'll have a look. 803 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,125 Well, it's not a compass. 804 00:35:43,042 --> 00:35:44,375 What it is is a divider. 805 00:35:44,542 --> 00:35:46,000 It's an engineering tool. 806 00:35:46,167 --> 00:35:47,958 Dividers were used a lot on planning 807 00:35:48,083 --> 00:35:50,792 structures or developing structures 808 00:35:50,958 --> 00:35:52,792 from maps or plans. 809 00:35:52,917 --> 00:35:55,250 Also, if you measure the diameter of something, 810 00:35:55,458 --> 00:35:58,167 you determine the circumference of whatever it is. 811 00:35:58,375 --> 00:36:00,167 [Marty] So, a divider is, if I understand 812 00:36:00,375 --> 00:36:01,917 what you're saying, aren't really that much different 813 00:36:02,083 --> 00:36:04,375 -from a compass. It's the same principle, yeah. -No, it's... 814 00:36:04,542 --> 00:36:07,417 [Carmen] Yes. Dividers were used a lot on determining 815 00:36:07,542 --> 00:36:10,667 -how structures would fit together. -Mm-hmm. 816 00:36:10,833 --> 00:36:12,792 I think you're describing ancient geometry, too. 817 00:36:12,958 --> 00:36:15,167 Yes. Yeah, yeah. That's right. Yep. 818 00:36:15,375 --> 00:36:18,500 I'm looking, and it seems like it's double-sided, right? 819 00:36:18,708 --> 00:36:21,208 -[Marty] Mm-hmm. -If you look, you can see 820 00:36:21,333 --> 00:36:23,292 there's two sides to it and there's also a middle 821 00:36:23,458 --> 00:36:24,833 that comes out with probably 822 00:36:24,958 --> 00:36:27,208 another two sides going this way. 823 00:36:27,375 --> 00:36:29,375 In other words, it simply wasn't this. 824 00:36:29,583 --> 00:36:31,042 -Huh. -[Craig] Oh, yeah. 825 00:36:31,167 --> 00:36:33,000 [Carmen] Where it's double-sided, 826 00:36:33,125 --> 00:36:35,500 it's really a high-quality tool. 827 00:36:35,708 --> 00:36:38,333 It's quite thick and wide and robust, 828 00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:40,167 so, again, that tells me that it's 829 00:36:40,375 --> 00:36:42,458 an engineering tool that was meant to last. 830 00:36:42,625 --> 00:36:44,417 I would suspect it was probably about 831 00:36:44,542 --> 00:36:46,000 that long in the beginning. 832 00:36:46,208 --> 00:36:47,500 -Oh, wow. -Wow. 833 00:36:47,667 --> 00:36:48,917 -I was not expecting it to be that long. -Mm-hmm. 834 00:36:49,125 --> 00:36:50,667 [Emma] What is the earliest date 835 00:36:50,833 --> 00:36:52,542 that you'd put on it? 836 00:36:52,708 --> 00:36:56,500 I've seen some French ones that were 1620. 837 00:36:56,667 --> 00:36:58,792 -Hmm. -They were double-sided as well. 838 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,125 [Carmen] I remember seeing 839 00:37:01,292 --> 00:37:03,667 in a British journal, I believe, 840 00:37:03,875 --> 00:37:07,208 a set of dividers-- same style, same design... 841 00:37:08,167 --> 00:37:10,083 ...it was 1543. 842 00:37:10,250 --> 00:37:12,667 -Oh, wow. -Oh, wow. There we go. 843 00:37:12,833 --> 00:37:13,875 [laughter] 844 00:37:18,292 --> 00:37:20,833 [Carmen] I remember seeing in a British journal 845 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,042 a set of dividers that was 1543. 846 00:37:23,208 --> 00:37:24,417 -Oh, wow. -[Craig] Oh, wow. 847 00:37:24,542 --> 00:37:26,333 [narrator] In the Oak Island Lab, 848 00:37:26,542 --> 00:37:28,667 Carmen has just informed the team 849 00:37:28,833 --> 00:37:32,125 that the divider tool found on Lot 15 850 00:37:32,333 --> 00:37:34,208 could predate the discovery of the Money Pit 851 00:37:34,375 --> 00:37:37,250 by more than 250 years. 852 00:37:37,417 --> 00:37:38,500 Emma, you could probably determine 853 00:37:38,708 --> 00:37:41,458 what's in there for metal, age-wise. 854 00:37:41,625 --> 00:37:45,208 [Emma] Um, the composition really lines up with 1600s. 855 00:37:45,333 --> 00:37:47,917 But there's a huge chlorine content, 856 00:37:48,042 --> 00:37:50,125 and it's not just saltwater exposure, 857 00:37:50,250 --> 00:37:51,833 it's saltwater submersion, 858 00:37:51,958 --> 00:37:53,958 for really long periods of time. 859 00:37:54,125 --> 00:37:55,458 I mean, you kind of see it now 860 00:37:55,667 --> 00:37:58,500 in the-the buildup of that kind of corrosion. 861 00:37:58,708 --> 00:38:00,125 Iron doesn't do well underwater. 862 00:38:00,292 --> 00:38:01,500 -[Emma] No. -Under seawater. 863 00:38:01,667 --> 00:38:03,167 And if the chlorine content 864 00:38:03,375 --> 00:38:05,708 is affecting other aspects of the composition, 865 00:38:05,833 --> 00:38:10,292 maybe a second look could, yeah, sway it towards the 1500s. 866 00:38:10,417 --> 00:38:12,167 [Marty] But how'd it get chlorine in it? 867 00:38:12,375 --> 00:38:13,625 [Carmen] Yes. How did it go 868 00:38:13,792 --> 00:38:15,833 from being under saltwater for a long time 869 00:38:15,958 --> 00:38:17,333 to being where it was found? 870 00:38:17,542 --> 00:38:19,208 [Craig] Well, it could've come from 871 00:38:19,375 --> 00:38:21,167 the flood tunnel. 872 00:38:21,375 --> 00:38:23,417 If the original depositors lost it in there 873 00:38:23,583 --> 00:38:25,375 and then the searchers found it 874 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:28,333 -and brought it up to surface and... -Or Dunfield. 875 00:38:28,458 --> 00:38:30,333 [Craig] Yeah, there's records where 876 00:38:30,542 --> 00:38:32,542 the flood tunnel came crashing in at him. 877 00:38:32,708 --> 00:38:36,708 Maybe this came in and later on was brought to surface? 878 00:38:36,875 --> 00:38:38,958 [Peter] There are Dunfield spoils 879 00:38:39,125 --> 00:38:41,500 all along Lot 15, all along there. 880 00:38:41,667 --> 00:38:43,292 All right, well, maybe we're getting somewhere. 881 00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:46,458 -Yeah. -But that makes it a depositor item, doesn't it? 882 00:38:46,625 --> 00:38:48,958 -Depositor item. -Or a flood tunnel 883 00:38:49,083 --> 00:38:51,333 construction item. 884 00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:54,542 [narrator] In 1965, 885 00:38:54,708 --> 00:38:56,417 treasure hunter Robert Dunfield 886 00:38:56,583 --> 00:39:00,000 excavated a massive 100-foot diameter hole 887 00:39:00,167 --> 00:39:01,750 in the Money Pit area, 888 00:39:01,958 --> 00:39:03,875 and moved the spoils from his dig 889 00:39:04,083 --> 00:39:06,542 to nearby lots such as 15. 890 00:39:06,708 --> 00:39:09,000 But due to the inflow of seawater 891 00:39:09,167 --> 00:39:12,917 from an ingeniously designed man-made flood tunnel system 892 00:39:13,083 --> 00:39:15,208 that originated at Smith's Cove, 893 00:39:15,375 --> 00:39:18,500 the massive hole repeatedly caved in 894 00:39:18,708 --> 00:39:23,083 and the dig failed to reach any deeper than 140 feet. 895 00:39:23,250 --> 00:39:25,958 Is it possible that Mr. Dunfield 896 00:39:26,125 --> 00:39:28,750 may have unknowingly recovered this tool 897 00:39:28,875 --> 00:39:31,167 from the flooded depths of the original Money Pit 898 00:39:31,333 --> 00:39:34,333 60 years ago? 899 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:37,250 This is quite possibly the most sophisticated item 900 00:39:37,417 --> 00:39:40,708 that has shown up from metal detecting. 901 00:39:40,875 --> 00:39:42,833 This is a tool of an upper-level craftsman. 902 00:39:43,042 --> 00:39:44,792 -[Carmen] Oh, it certainly is. Yeah. -Yeah. 903 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,833 Very high-quality. A very expensive and valuable tool. 904 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,958 Well, it kind of speaks to the fact that 905 00:39:50,125 --> 00:39:52,833 whoever was here with that, 906 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,250 did something of great significance. 907 00:39:56,417 --> 00:39:58,583 And whether that be an alignment of boulders 908 00:39:58,792 --> 00:40:02,250 or something in the Money Pit, they would need that. 909 00:40:02,417 --> 00:40:04,000 Yeah, I would think. 910 00:40:04,125 --> 00:40:07,417 [Rick] The divider is a very interesting find 911 00:40:07,625 --> 00:40:10,542 because the original depositors' work in the Money Pit 912 00:40:10,708 --> 00:40:12,958 took time and planning. 913 00:40:13,083 --> 00:40:16,667 So, there would've been a plan, probably on paper. 914 00:40:16,833 --> 00:40:20,208 This was an endeavor that was not done on a weekend. 915 00:40:20,375 --> 00:40:22,542 And everything that we have discovered, 916 00:40:22,667 --> 00:40:25,542 I think, can fit into that theory. 917 00:40:25,708 --> 00:40:29,167 And thus, the reason to continue work like this. 918 00:40:29,333 --> 00:40:32,958 Next time, you two, find something equally interesting 919 00:40:33,125 --> 00:40:34,500 but less inexplicable, 920 00:40:34,625 --> 00:40:36,833 -okay? -[laughter] 921 00:40:36,958 --> 00:40:38,875 [Marty] This thing's so interesting. 922 00:40:39,042 --> 00:40:41,458 It's gonna take a little bit more thought to figure it out. 923 00:40:41,667 --> 00:40:43,917 Always good to have your input, Carmen. 924 00:40:44,042 --> 00:40:45,417 Thank you, Emma. 925 00:40:45,625 --> 00:40:46,917 So, for now, let's get back out there. 926 00:40:47,042 --> 00:40:48,792 -Okay. -Sounds good. 927 00:40:48,917 --> 00:40:50,833 -[Marty] Let's go find some more. -[Peter] Okay. 928 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,167 [narrator] With the team's new discoveries and revelations, 929 00:40:54,375 --> 00:40:56,667 more questions arise. 930 00:40:57,875 --> 00:41:00,500 Is it possible that people visited Oak Island 931 00:41:00,708 --> 00:41:02,125 nearly 800 years ago 932 00:41:02,292 --> 00:41:04,292 with an elaborate plan 933 00:41:04,458 --> 00:41:06,958 to hide sacred treasures? 934 00:41:08,208 --> 00:41:10,958 And did others, who knew of those secrets, 935 00:41:11,125 --> 00:41:14,167 come centuries later to bury more? 936 00:41:15,250 --> 00:41:20,042 For the Laginas and their team, one thing appears to be certain. 937 00:41:20,167 --> 00:41:22,000 The more they peel back the layers 938 00:41:22,167 --> 00:41:24,500 of this 230-year-old mystery, 939 00:41:24,708 --> 00:41:29,833 the deeper it becomes. 940 00:41:34,625 --> 00:41:37,458 Next time, on The Curse of Oak Island... 941 00:41:37,625 --> 00:41:38,833 [Charles] We have a core, gentlemen. 942 00:41:38,958 --> 00:41:40,833 [Terry] This must be the solution channel. 943 00:41:41,042 --> 00:41:42,333 [Scott] That has the ability to hide treasure. 944 00:41:42,542 --> 00:41:43,708 [Charles] I've got something right in here. 945 00:41:43,875 --> 00:41:45,708 -[Terry] Oh, there it is. -Yeah, it's there. 946 00:41:45,875 --> 00:41:47,583 -[pinpointer beeping] -Ooh. 947 00:41:47,708 --> 00:41:50,167 Ho-ho! What do we got here? 948 00:41:50,375 --> 00:41:51,583 Well done, mate. 949 00:41:51,750 --> 00:41:53,500 [Isabelle] Oh, my gosh. 950 00:41:53,708 --> 00:41:56,333 Laird. Can you tell if this is a jewel? 951 00:41:56,500 --> 00:41:57,667 It is high-grade. 952 00:41:57,875 --> 00:41:59,708 -Made in the Old World? -Yep. 953 00:41:59,875 --> 00:42:01,500 [Laird] That takes us to a whole new level. 954 00:42:02,958 --> 00:42:04,917 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS