[narrator] Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...
-I've got a signal! -Ah-ha!
What have we got here?
I recognized this seal.
So, it could date to the 1300s.
That large boulder looks intriguing.
[Fiona] We've uncovered a big void right there.
[Rick] What is underneath that boulder?
We put cameras in BN-13.5.
[Bob B.] What we found suggests
-human origin. -[Jack] It really seems like
-it's a depositor. -Wow.
[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.
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[Terry] This is the critical intersection
-right here, guys. -[Charles] Yeah.
What we should see beneath the Peacock is loose material.
Our targets are the possible void at 148 feet,
-and then the solution channel below that. -Right.
[narrator] A new day on Oak Island
brings fresh hope for Rick and Marty Lagina
that their team is closing in on the answers
to a 231-year-old treasure mystery.
[Steve] But really the end goal
is to get down in the solution channel and see
if there's a potential treasure there.
But I also believe that we're close to a chamber here.
Right.
[narrator] In a location
of the Money Pit area known as the Peacock,
the team is drilling borehole DN-13
just a few feet northwest of borehole BN-13.5.
[Adam M.] Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
[narrator] It was there that, one week ago,
the drill entered a possible man-made cavern
some 150 feet deep, which sets
more than 20 feet above the solution channel.
You can make out almost a wall or something there.
When you move away from it,
we kind of go more into an opening here.
[narrator] After inserting a camera,
evidence was revealed of a possible artificial wall...
-Show me the money. -[narrator] ...and a potential
-opening to a larger cavity. - We've got an opening.
[narrator] This made them wonder
if an offset treasure chamber connected
to the original Money Pit has been discovered.
Now, while the team waits to view enhanced video images
of the mysterious void,
they hope to drill into the larger nearby cavity
and confirm if it indeed is a man-made chamber.
[Terry] Oh, look.
Yeah, something's going on over there.
[Charles] Yeah. The rods fell.
They just dropped.
[Terry] That's really soft, man.
Adam!
[Charles] Here he comes.
[Terry] Hey, Adam.
-How's it going? -[Adam M.] Good.
Did something happen?
Uh, the rods fell about 16 feet.
-Really? -From 128.
-Wow. -Wow. That's really interesting.
-Thanks a lot, Adam. -All right.
That means somewhere between 118 and 128,
-we went into the soft area. -Right.
-Yeah. All the way to 144. -Yeah. Wow.
So, the core of the Peacock,
I've always believed, is going to be a structure.
Because of the loose soil, when we see
those rods drop, that tells us
maybe we're close to seeing the structure
that we all hoped we're going to encounter.
We're going to track that down into the solution channel.
You know, there's plenty of places down there
for a treasure to hide.
No question.
-We'll move on to the more interesting levels. -Yeah.
[narrator] As the core drilling pushes deeper
in the Money Pit area...
[Peter] That mound's getting higher and higher.
[Gary] Tell me about it.
[narrator] ...Rick Lagina
and other members of the team
continue investigating
the southwest corner of the triangle-shaped swamp.
After this, I feel like we only have one little section
-left behind us. -Yeah.
[narrator] In recent weeks,
the team has been uncovering a mysterious stone
road-like feature
that may be connected to a similar structure
that was found several yards to the north earlier this year.
Curiously, eight-sided wooden survey stakes were found
lining both of these features,
and the team also recovered old ox shoes,
suggesting the roads may have been used
to move heavy cargo into the swamp.
-Get in there. -[Gary] Okay.
[Rick] The southwest corner is almost done.
What we did learn is
we have a possible path or a road to follow.
And the hope is that there'll be some artifacts
that can be dated.
And then, maybe we can figure out
who made these features and why.
You ready for me to go in, Billy?
[Billy] Yes. Take the bottom there,
-Gary, maybe. -[Gary] Yup.
[rhythmic, mechanical beeping]
-It's getting quiet. -It is.
We hadn't had a hit in a while now.
[Billy] This might be the end of the line
for this area, I think.
[Gary] Yeah, I think you're right, Billy.
-And we hammered it. -[Peter] Everywhere we turn
in the swamp, we're finding stakes,
and that must mean something.
-[Rick] Yup. Has to. -[Peter] And my question is,
where are we going next? Because I know that there are
-other areas of interest. -[Gary] Yeah.
Who are you, and what did you do with Peter Fornetti?
Hey, the swamp is looking like a beach right now.
Let's get back into it.
[Rick laughs]
[Rick] You have three data points that
seemingly line up.
An unknown road/path,
ox shoes,
then you have the stakes.
And who knows what else is after that?
If there is a road, where does it go?
Right now, Steve has projected it to go towards
the north end of the bog.
So, now it gives us some insight as to where to go next.
And that's every bit as important as an artifact.
-Yeah. -[Rick] We've got to get back
to do some homework. We need to talk to Tom Nolan
about where to go next.
So, I say we head back.
-[Peter] Yeah. All right. -[Gary] Thanks, Billy.
[Gary and Peter] Thanks, Billy.
-[Rick] See you. -[Gary] See you, mate.
[narrator] As the team works on new plans
for digging in the swamp...
...later that day...
[Rick] I'm always grateful to come into the lab.
I think we learn so many things here.
And I'm impressed by these two finds from Lot 8.
[narrator] ...in the Oak Island lab,
Rick and members of the team
join Laird Niven and Emma Culligan
to hear a scientific report on a possible iron knife handle
and a lead bag seal that were found on Lot 8 one week ago.
The iron is kind of more of the mysterious piece,
so we'll start there.
And you can see that wood-like grain structure on it,
so, it is hand-forged.
But what is interesting is the shape of it.
So, it came in as a possible knife handle,
and it does have some features of it being, like,
the scale of a knife handle.
But it could have also been used as a multi-tool.
[Rick] But why
the round hole at the base and the square hole above?
[Emily] So this could have been used as a fastener
to hold something in place, a little pivot point.
But this section right here, I can find components
that are similar to other tools, but nothing like this.
-Okay. -[Emma] And the composition
is clean, so, it's post-medieval,
pre mid-1800s.
So, it does fit within the 1700s.
-Yup. -[Rick] It's very peculiar.
You know, it's possible
Carmen might have an idea as to what that represents.
-Yeah. -But the next item...
what does it tell us?
It's a bag seal.
[narrator] Dating back to as early as the 13th century,
lead bag seals were fasteners used to contain large quantities
of goods in heavy cloth packages.
I recognized an element of it right away, which was a...
I found an existing example of... of this seal.
And that is the only example we could find.
So this is the city seal of Leeds, in England.
So...
What a macabre design.
I know. It's so grim.
[Laird] So, this would have been a seal
-on a finished bale of fabric. -[Doug] Hmm.
So, that implies that it arrived on the island as a bale,
and that was taken off on Lot 8.
Wow.
Leeds in the 16th, 17th and 18th century was, like,
the wool manufacturing place in England.
And basically, Britain was built around wool.
-Oh, really? -Yeah.
That begs the question, what time period?
The Leeds wool industry goes back to the 1300s.
So, it could date earlier.
[Laird] The Leeds wool industry goes back to the 1300s.
Wow.
[narrator] In the Oak Island lab,
Laird has just confirmed
that the lead bag seal found on Lot 8 originated in England,
and could be as much as 700 years old.
When you say "bale," I picture something
-of great quantity, though? -[Laird] Let's say,
-the size of this, probably. -That much?
-So, big. Yeah. -That's a--
-Like a hay bale. -Yeah.
Isn't that a lot of fabric for a singular household?
That's the problem.
A singular household, you're going to those people
and buying your clothes.
[Doug] Why on the island?
-Here on the island, there were limited families. -[Laird] Yeah.
Bag seals are not uncommon in North America,
but they're usually associated with trade.
Like, a fort, you're finding a lot of these.
Because you're making uniforms, but you're also trading cloth.
This is our third bale seal.
Now we have three from different areas.
So, why is it there?
[narrator] Previously,
the team found a lead bag seal on Lot 5
and another on Lot 32,
just yards from the possible stone road
that was recently uncovered
in the southwest corner of the swamp.
Astonishingly, that bag seal was scientifically matched
to the 14th-century lead cross, which is believed
to be connected to the Knights Templar.
There's enough going on on Lot 8 that
I'd like to look closer, to take a good look
-at what's out there. -[Katya] Yeah.
[Laird] Could be something else that we're not aware of.
So, to that end, I think we need to get back out there.
-We have to get to work. -Yes.
You have to find things, and I will help you dig.
-That sounds like a plan. -That's a plan. That is a plan.
-All right. Thank you. -[overlapping chatter]
[Katya] Thanks, guys.
[narrator] The next day,
while drilling continues in the Money Pit area...
[Rick] You are of firm belief that
there are answers to the Oak Island mystery
-that reside within the bog. -How can you deny it?
No matter how you look at it,
somebody did an immense amount of work in that bog.
[narrator] ...Rick meets
with fellow Oak Island landowner Tom Nolan
and other members of the team in the research center
to plan their next dig in the swamp.
[Rick] I think the north end of the bog,
in terms of the size
and the amount of finds in a very confined space,
was quite exciting and incredibly interesting
and incredibly confusing.
The amount of stakes that we found,
all of uniform size,
uniform strikes in terms
of making the sharpened end, eight strokes.
And when you look at it,
as they're plotted, it's meaningful.
[Tom] Oh, really meaningful.
Somebody was trying to leave a path.
-Mm-hmm. -Mm-hmm. -Yup.
[narrator] Before uncovering the stone features
in the western and southwestern areas
of the swamp this year,
working with Tom on his property in the northern region,
the team previously discovered very similar stone structures
and several eight-sided survey stakes,
leading to an empty, vault-like structure.
Yeah. The so-called vault was captivating in and of itself.
I mean, we've found paths, roads,
but that vault was quite singular and unique.
Yeah.
[narrator] Now, Rick and Tom
want to know if all of the stone structures
they've uncovered across the swamp are connected,
and if other vaults
that still contain something valuable are waiting
to be found.
The vault-- to me, it was a hiding place.
It's in the perfect place to hide,
and in the most vegetation and stuff where people probably
-aren't gonna go looking. -Absolutely.
[Rick] If you are safeguarding something,
if you have something really important,
-you're not going to put all your eggs in one basket. -Right.
And you're going to have, you know, one, two, three, more.
-My hope is that there is a backup vault. -[Tom] Yup.
We're ready to put the bucket in the ground
-and see what's under it. -Well...
there's no time like the present, right?
-Yeah. Let's do it. -So, I say we get out there.
[Tom] Let's go.
[narrator] Following the meeting in the research center...
[Tom] I think we should start here,
take this apart, and then, once we get across that,
-just keep going to the other part of the bog. -Yup.
[narrator] ...the team begins searching for new clues
in the northern region of the swamp.
Gary, it's gonna be up to you
to find whatever artifacts are here.
-If they're here, we're going to find it. -[Rick] Okey doke.
[beeping]
[Marty] You know, the swamp has been enigmatic because
virtually every time we dig in there, we find something.
And not just something. We find things
that you wouldn't suspect would be in a swamp.
We find things that could very well be related
to the, uh, mystery of what happened here.
[Rick] We're close to the line where you found all the stakes.
[Tom] Yeah.
Is that-- Right there's your stake, right there.
[Rick] Probably right there.
Ah-ha!
[Rick] Probably right there.
But is it eight-sided?
Hmm. Two, three, four,
five, six, seven.
-There. -There's one there.
-And there's the start. -Yup.
-[Tom] There's your eight sides. -Wow.
They drilled that down deep for some reason.
[Gary] That's got to be really, really old.
[Rick] Last year, these eight-sided stakes
led us to a vault.
The stakes are a puzzle unto themselves.
There's every belief that as the stakes continue
to be found, at some point,
we will have an explanation as to why.
Yeah, that's where it was, right there.
Well, we're going to have to get Steve out to pin it
right now, before we move it.
Unless you can dig around it, Al?
Dig on this side and that side?
Maybe they can help explain the structures
that have already been found.
-Hey, guys. -[Tom] Hey, Steve.
What do we got?
-[Rick] You're standing on it. -I'm literally standing on it.
You're literally standing on it, and that's...
That's where it was. The hole is right there.
-Okay. The hole is what we want. -[Rick] Yup.
And like everything else,
we're a foot and a half above sea level.
And actually, most stakes that we have found
in the swamp have been a foot and a half above sea level.
They've been very consistent, which to me means
a lot of them were probably done in the same time period.
And that would be pretty interesting.
Yeah.
So, anyway, we'll keep going.
-Thanks, Steve. Appreciate it. -Thanks, guys.
[Rick] These stakes almost certainly represents
that a group of individuals did the work.
Implying a reason, implying planning.
Maybe it is connected to the vault that we've discovered.
-[beep] -I've got a signal!
[Rick] And I'm hoping that there are clues that will lead us to
new discoveries.
I've got a good signal in that last pile,
wherever the last pile came from.
Would have been on the bottom.
He was scraping bottom with that last bucket.
-So, it's... It was down there. -[Gary] That's excellent.
-That's where we'd find the older artifacts. -[Tom] Yeah.
Let me see if I can pinpoint it first.
[beeping]
[Gary] What do we got here?
-[Gary] What do we got here? -What is that?
[narrator] In the northern region of the swamp,
Gary has just found an intriguing artifact.
You know what that is?
That's like a sneck, a latch
off a gate or a door.
It would be inside an opening, and you'd put your thumb on it,
and you'd open the gate.
In England, we'd call it a gate sneck.
It's more than likely hand-forged.
This...
looks really, really old.
[narrator] A possible gate latch?
Found in the northern section of the swamp?
It's a great thought.
Your thumb fits in there perfectly.
-The latch springs up. -Yeah.
[narrator] Because these fixtures have been in use
as far back as the 13th century,
just how old might this artifact be?
And could it be related to a structure
that might be buried in this area?
Well, it's a great sign.
An old piece of iron came from the bottom of the dig.
-Yeah. That was down deep. -Mm.
I'll put it in the bag?
-Yeah. That's a good find. -Yup.
[Gary] Okay. Let her rip, Al.
-What have you found, Tom? -Piece of pottery.
But it's, uh... it's green.
Green and blue. You don't usually see that color.
[Gary] No.
-That decoration is unique, too. -[Tom] Yeah.
[Gary] This area
with the green and the blue glazed pottery,
it could match another area
where the archeologists have found it.
I know it's been found before.
-Yeah? -I think some green and blue
came off the Lot 26 wall, as well,
when the archeologists were investigating,
taking the wall apart.
We have to find artifacts.
-Okay. Get on that. -[laughs]
[narrator] In 2022,
the team investigated a rock wall on Lot 26
because it was much larger and wider
than a number of others on the island
that are known to have been built
by farmers in the 19th century.
Incredibly, in addition to pottery,
charcoal was found in the wall that, when carbon-dated,
suggested it could be over 500 years old.
And when Portuguese researcher
Francisco Nogueira inspected it, he made
a fascinating observation.
No way.
[narrator] Could this piece of pottery be the same kind
that was found in the wall on Lot 26?
If so, is it possible that the wall is somehow related
to the manmade workings uncovered in the swamp?
[Rick] We have a suggestion
by experts that some of the activities conducted here
on the island can be associated with the Portuguese.
The stone road, the swamp has Portuguese influence.
The stone wall has influences.
The Pitblado Portuguese Templar coin that was possibly found
in the Money Pit.
It's a worthy consideration
that they all may have a connection to the mystery.
[Gary] We'll get these finds back to the lab.
I mean, we've had a great start to the dig in this area.
-Yup. -[Rick] It shows
-there's things to be found here, right? -[Gary] Yeah.
-[Tom] I agree. -[Rick] We just have to keep
-plugging away. -Yeah.
All right, Al, we'll take her down quite a bit more here.
[Alan A.] Perfect. No problem.
[narrator] Later that day...
[Laird] So, this is what I wanted to show you.
-We've got this large boulder... -[Rick] Yup.
...which is uncommon.
[narrator] ...after looking around the area on Lot 8,
where the lead bag seal was found,
Laird has made a potentially important discovery.
[Laird] We're not seeing them around here a lot, that size.
But then I started seeing
the number of stones that are around it.
-Perhaps filling in something. -Mm-hmm.
Even the berm over there, that could indicate digging.
It looks like someone was filling in a pit.
And actually, if you look again,
the rocks seem to go further off to the east.
-Mm-hmm. -The more I look, the more I see.
Yup.
[narrator] Could Laird be correct
that someone deliberately filled in a pit
around this massive boulder with soil and smaller rocks?
But if so, who did it? And for what purpose?
You know, it appears as though there is a ring of stones
-around the boulder. -Mm-hmm. Yeah.
It's not unusual to find a boulder on Oak Island,
but even more interesting was the
ground-level rock feature around it.
My immediate thought was that this was
a possible filled-in foundation that we're not aware of.
I don't know the relationship between that large boulder
-and this stone formation just yet. -Mm-hmm.
But I think it's definitely worth exploring.
It's interesting. There's no doubt about it.
[Laird] Yeah. Lot 8 has intrigued me.
-But then you and Katya recently found the bag seal? -Correct.
Which is another really intriguing artifact.
I know its function, but why is it here?
-[Rick laughs] -And then,
we find this huge boulder and these rocks.
It does make me think
that we need to really analyze it.
It's certainly unique,
and, like you said, you can see
the raised areas everywhere, right?
-Yeah. Yeah. -Here, here. There.
-This would have been quite an effort by someone... -Mm-hmm.
...if this really is a hand-built construction.
[Laird] Yeah. So, I think what we'll do, we're going to
-clear it off, clear that whole area off... -Mm-hmm.
...to get a good idea of what it looks like.
And then, hopefully, taking a section from it.
Sure.
This may provide a very unique opportunity
to try to understand, not only this lot, but the entire island.
-[chuckles] -You know, not every stone
-on this island means something. -Yes.
-But some of them do. -Do. Yup.
-And this may be one of those times. -Yeah.
[Rick] If it's been filled in,
there might be something hidden that would break the story open.
At this point,
the archaeologists need to get to work.
This is surely worth investigating.
You've laid out a very proper approach.
I applaud you for, again, being observant.
Um, I-I think if there's any way we can help,
we all would invest some time here.
You're leading me into the dark side
because I'm really intrigued by that stone.
It does make me think that there's a lot more out there.
-Here. Welcome to the dark side. -[laughs]
-[Rick] We've got work to do. Let's go. -[Laird] All right.
[narrator] At the start of a new day on Oak Island...
-We got lots of work to do, guys. -Yeah.
[narrator] ...Laird and members of the archeology team
investigate the possible man-made boulder
and rock feature on Lot 8.
There's a lot of rocks in here, Laird.
-Yup. -I've never seen this many rocks
-underneath the topsoil layer. -[Laird] Yeah.
Kind of looks like there was a cut,
and at some point, it got filled back in.
I've got the edge here, I think.
-[Fiona] Oh. -You may be coming to an edge.
Well, I am getting to the different soil here.
But you should be coming to what we think may be the redeposited.
Well, there's a nice big lump right behind Ethan.
-You're right. It's mounded. -[Laird] Yeah.
That's a good sign. There was digging,
for whatever reason, and then it got filled in.
And then you got this huge rock in the middle.
Like, I find that strange, as well.
I think we still have to at least define the edges
as we go, all the way around
-the, uh... the boulder. -Yeah. Okay, good.
Okay, so let's... let's see how far back this goes.
[Laird] To me, this site is one
of the strangest sites I've been on.
It doesn't make any sense
that someone would come and excavate
and then fill it back full of rocks.
[Fiona] It's brutal work.
[Laird] So, I find it very unusual, and I can't wait
to get the excavation deeper, and, hopefully,
answer some of these questions.
[Fiona] Hey, look at this.
A piece of wood.
Does that look like that top's been cut before?
I didn't do that.
[Laird] Sure does.
Doesn't look like it got snapped off.
[Fiona] No. That's what I'm thinking.
I think that if that was cut,
then that could've been cut
by whoever created whatever this is.
-That's... -[Laird] Yeah. I could see that.
[Fiona] I mean, that was deep. That was... that was underneath
all these roots that I've been pulling up.
-So, that is not something that was on the surface. -Okay.
If this was cut, that would have been years ago.
-Many years ago. -That's what I'm thinking.
The sticks that had cut marks on them,
that's another evidence
of cultural activity happening there.
Okay. We better keep our eye out for stuff like that.
[Laird] Okay. Cool.
[narrator] As the investigation continues on Lot 8...
[loud mechanical whirring]
[Adam M.] Oh, yeah.
Pull!
[narrator] ...in the Money Pit area...
[Steve] Looks like you guys are in bedrock.
If he's driving it over,
that would be his 20 feet through the solution channel.
[Charles] I guess we missed
-the void at 148 feet. -Yeah.
[narrator] ...after finding no new evidence
of the void that was discovered
nearly 150 feet deep one week ago,
the drilling operation in borehole DN-13
has now reached
the solution channel.
[Adam M.] Bottom's 208, rock is 204.
[Charles] Bottom's 208. Rock is 204. Got it.
At least we have intercepted the bottom
of the solution channel in this hole.
There we go. [groans]
She's a full-on anaconda, ladies and gentlemen.
Here we go. Cut her up.
DN-13,
this is the last gasp, I think, since we're on bedrock.
Let's see what we got here in front of us.
This up here actually is a little bit loose.
Actually, it got a little loose between, uh, 184 and 188, so...
-Yeah. -...I think we're ready for the pin-pointer.
Okay.
[Terry] This is the more promising
-upper portion, which is a bit slushy. -Yup.
It's clear, gentlemen.
Okay. Thank you, Charles.
Well, it's not the ending we hoped for, for DN-13.
[Steve] We've had all kinds of success
in this area with metals being in all the water testing.
-So, we'll take a soil sample back to the lab. -Yeah.
And maybe, just maybe, there will be
some hope with this borehole yet.
[Steve] I can't believe we missed an open void
at 150-ish feet.
If we can prove that there's metals in the soils here,
and that's through testing through Dr. Spooner
and testing in the lab with Emma,
we can prove that this is potentially
still a treasure location.
We'll move on, and we'll go back to the heart of the Peacock.
And let's try to get back in that void.
Very good. I'm in full agreement with that, Steve.
[Charles] Okay, fair enough.
[narrator] Later that afternoon...
-[Peter] Hey, guys. -[Jack] Hey, guys.
[Rick] Hey, guys.
-Hello. -Hey.
[narrator] ...in the war room,
Rick, Marty and members of the team meet
with video enhancement expert Bob Brown
from Prohawk Technology Group.
[Rick] The reason for this meeting is
in BN-13.5, we put camera down and sonar.
It showed a void.
Uh, the thought was to give it to Prohawk
to enhance the data that we've given them, so,
having said that, Bob, welcome to the war room.
Appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Here's a little of the footage.
[narrator] Prohawk Technology Group
has worked with the team several times in the past,
using their proprietary software
to clarify underwater video images
collected from deep in the Money Pit area.
[Bob B.] This one was really interesting.
Really, there were
distinct things
that we kind of noticed in the imagery.
So, we found this to be quite interesting.
You can see here, this cluster of
stake-like pointed objects, right?
It just looked arranged, and the shapes,
the tapering, the alignment appears deliberate.
And would suggest planked stakes,
something, you know, of human origin...
...rather than the natural environment.
[Tom] You know, I can see
a layering effect in there, that it does look man-made.
Mm-hmm.
We are all intrigued.
It would defy logic
that those could be represented geologically.
It's different-- unexplainable, really.
I mean, you guys are dealing
with cutting-edge technology here.
Yeah.
[Rick] I still need to be convinced, but it makes
the Peacock area that much more interesting.
And I think that's what we have to go off of.
Then there were definitely these distinct, square
geometry patterns throughout many portions of the video.
The edges, the uniformity of it,
um, and you take it all together,
and it really begins to add up
that there's something that's not organic.
Another area we found,
there was a bright, reflective rectangle.
Right? It's got sharp edges. It's highly reflective.
So, that would lead us to believe that there's some type
of metallic or polished quality
that's causing the reflection.
[narrator] A possible rectangular metal object?
Has the team indeed found a man-made chamber
some 150 feet underground in the Peacock?
Well, yeah. I mean, this is really keenly interesting.
[narrator] If so, could it contain the source
of the precious metals that have been detected
in water deep in the Money Pit area?
[Marty] Bob, if you had to say how likely these,
at least one of these is a man-made object,
what would you say?
I'd put it over 90%.
Wow.
[Marty] Bob, if you had to say how likely
at least one of these is a man-made object,
what would you say?
I'd put it over 90%.
[Marty] Wow.
[narrator] In the Oak Island war room, Rick, Marty, Craig
and members of the team
are viewing enhanced video of a potentially man-made cavern
some 150 feet deep in the Money Pit area.
[Bob B.] It really came down to geometry, precision,
consistency, the arrangements, the materials.
They strongly suggested man-made origins.
It's just
really compelling evidence.
[Alex] An open void is highly unlikely to be natural
for the depth that we're looking at, right?
-Correct. -[Marty] Is there any geologic explanation for this?
'Cause I can't really think of one.
[Terry] I would say, this is my working premise,
is that the Peacock is the wash-out around a structure.
And perhaps we're seeing into that structure
from our actual borehole.
I mean, it's deeper than any searchers.
And if there are weird, anomalous features
that Prohawk's picking up, it really seems like
-it's a depositor. -[Marty] Yeah.
[Rick] I am taken aback by the number of things
being represented in such a small, confined space.
He saw several items that represented very linear,
90-degree angles
that we've been told many, many times
that that doesn't happen in nature.
And I have no explanation for this reflective image.
I can only insinuate that it has something
to do with metals being underground.
Perhaps there is a man-made reason
for those highly unconsolidated soils in the Peacock.
This would strongly suggest
that the offset chamber is a valid explanation.
So, this area is quite compelling.
[Marty] Bob, I mean, does this look like a jumble of stuff
that could've collapsed?
It-- It could have collapsed. Yes.
[Marty] Okay. We should jump
up and down about this data, right, guys?
I mean, we're seeing man-made objects--
or strong indications of it-- in an area where
we haven't had any indication of any searchers.
This is the kind of thing that we set out to find.
You know, for sure, we have to explore this further,
but that's pretty dramatic.
The Peacock still has very elevated amounts of silver
and some other metals in it, so,
here's the point.
The source of these metals in the water is still there
and hasn't been found.
But maybe we just found it.
Bob, we hope you got a bullseye for us.
Yeah, I hope so.
Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
[Bob B.] You bet.
Our pleasure and happy hunting, guys.
-[Alex] Thanks, Bob. -[Peter] Thank you.
[narrator] As the meeting concludes in the war room...
[Fiona] I'm just looking at these rocks here.
What about if you started from the rock in there, out?
Yeah.
[narrator] ...archeologist Fiona Steele
and members of the team
investigate the boulder feature on Lot 8.
[Fiona] I'm really interested in what's happening down there.
There's definitely evidence of the stones
being deliberately placed around the outside
and underneath this huge, erratic boulder.
Such a big rock could be something
that was used for a marker.
It could be something that...
that you'd want to hide things under.
So, it's just so out of the ordinary,
that we need a little bit more evidence
before we can make that full determination.
-[Isabelle] Fiona? -Yeah?
I found a piece of wood.
I don't know if it's cut, though.
-Look at that bottom. -Yeah.
[Fiona] That does not look like it's broken.
I would say that's cut.
[Isabelle] It was wedged right in there,
in between the rocks.
These are the type of things we need to look out for.
It could tell us a lot about the age of this feature.
[Isabelle] Yeah.
Oh, it-it goes down.
Can you get your arm right in there? Yes, you can.
-Whoa. You're going deep. -[Isabelle] Yeah. It looks
like a void down there.
You've got a big void down there.
And you would not expect to see a big void like that
-right there. -No.
Not with the size of the rock and how loose the soil was.
[Fiona] Yeah. I would agree.
This large boulder is getting more
and more interesting, because as we're going,
we're seeing more and more spaces
that are underneath the rock.
And this really shouldn't be the case.
That really speaks to what they were doing here.
-Yeah. -[Fiona] So, it's very evident
that man has been involved
with this boulder to some degree.
It's just a matter of why they were there.
Or whether they were doing something
to hide something in that area.
Well, that's a good indication of possible disturbance.
But I really think that Rick might be very interested
-in this. -Yeah.
[Fiona] This is really cool.
[Isabelle] Definitely.
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Well, looks a bit different.
Hi. Yeah, we've been working hard.
-[Rick] I see that. -We've uncovered
a-a fair bit more of it.
You should see what we just discovered.
[narrator] Rick and Scott arrive on Lot 8
after being alerted that a mysterious void
has been found beneath the massive boulder.
We're seeing voids like that around other areas
-around the large rock as well. -[Rick] Yeah, I see that.
-Yeah. -[Isabelle] It looked like it was going down quite far
because the soil was falling in as I was e-excavating it.
-Mm-hmm. -And it goes pretty far down.
[Rick] Yep.
It looked like it was at least three feet that goes down.
So, that's got our curiosity piqued--
that it would be going that deep.
Y-You wouldn't expect to see that.
I find that...
strange.
See how this almost seems placed?
-[Fiona] Jammed up? -This one almost seems placed.
[Rick] That's not a toss-in.
Look at that.
That is almost fitted.
As is that, as is that.
[Scott] Yeah. Like a wedge.
-[Rick] It is peculiar. -Yeah.
We've not found any other feature like this
other than maybe the stone structures on, uh, Lot 5.
-Mm-hmm. -Mm-hmm.
[Rick] Looking at the boulder more closely,
I was significantly struck
by the placement of smaller stones around it.
They are equally spaced.
They are artfully applied, if you will.
But there is a stone, then a space,
then a stone, then a space.
Mother Nature wouldn't do that.
So, human beings were involved
in doing some work in this area,
specifically directed to this stone.
This may have been completely unknown to previous searchers.
It's exciting.
We need to find out what is underneath that boulder.
Boy, there's intention there, I think.
I-I can't imagine...
how you could explain that
other than they were placed there.
I agree with you 100%.
[Rick] And now you have another reason to be inquisitive.
"Why is the void?
-That should be filled up." -[Scott] I would think so.
[Scott] I mean, if you wanted to hide something there,
you move something like this in place, y-you position it.
I mean, it's a unique stone, just look at it.
This could be a great marker stone.
But I'm more excited about what could be under it.
We're gonna find out once we move the rocks.
[Rick] Uh, look, the three of you
have done an exemplary job here, and this is singularly unique,
-at least as of right now. -Yeah.
[Fiona] Yeah, we still have a lot more work to do,
but, uh, we-we're feeling pretty good about...
-[Rick] -...how far we've come so far.
-Yeah. -[Scott] Well,
a feature like this, the one line that comes to my mind
-is "leave no stone unturned." -[laughter]
[Fiona] Touché. We're with you on that.
[narrator] Patience and persistence
have taught Rick, Marty and the team a priceless lesson:
the ultimate truth behind the Oak Island mystery
may be hiding in plain sight
anywhere across these 140 acres.
But as they uncover more clues
under man-made features near the surface,
in a muddy, brackish swamp,
and deep in the Money Pit area...
...will it lead to a vault that people have been seeking
for 231 years?
Or is the truth
that Oak Island contains more buried treasure
than anyone ever imagined?
Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...
[Charles] We're in a sweet area right here.
[Ian] There's metals in the water.
-High metals. -We're looking for the one thing.
This could be where it's coming from.
-Yeah. -Exactly.
-[Rick] What are you seeing, Peter? -Definitely a void
that goes on for a long ways.
[Rick] We're gonna get to the bottom of this.
There's a heck of a lot of bricks up here.
[Craig] Maybe it'll lead to a vault.
Wow.
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