1 00:00:01,826 --> 00:00:03,076 NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island... 2 00:00:03,169 --> 00:00:04,753 - SCOTT: Whoa! - TERRY: Wow! 3 00:00:04,912 --> 00:00:07,589 If it's a shaft, it's a very large shaft. 4 00:00:07,674 --> 00:00:09,666 - (detector beeps) - What the heck is that? 5 00:00:09,759 --> 00:00:12,002 - To me, it looks like a chisel. - Wow! 6 00:00:12,086 --> 00:00:13,754 (chuckles): What the hell are these doing on Oak Island? 7 00:00:13,847 --> 00:00:15,514 The composition of the rocks are quite unusual. 8 00:00:15,673 --> 00:00:16,923 Whoa. Au. 9 00:00:17,017 --> 00:00:19,593 - That's gold. - (chuckles) 10 00:00:19,677 --> 00:00:23,188 CHRISTA: The really interesting part of this particular object 11 00:00:23,347 --> 00:00:25,774 is that there are several gold flakes on it. 12 00:00:25,933 --> 00:00:27,443 - Wow. - (chuckles softly) 13 00:00:31,439 --> 00:00:34,524 NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic 14 00:00:34,617 --> 00:00:37,027 where people have been looking for 15 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:41,031 an incredible treasure for more than 200 years. 16 00:00:41,115 --> 00:00:43,959 So far, they have found a stone slab 17 00:00:44,044 --> 00:00:45,878 with strange symbols carved into it... 18 00:00:47,297 --> 00:00:50,549 man-made workings that date to medieval times, 19 00:00:50,633 --> 00:00:54,961 and a lead cross whose origin may be connected 20 00:00:55,046 --> 00:00:56,138 to the Knights Templar. 21 00:00:56,297 --> 00:00:58,965 To date, six men have died 22 00:00:59,059 --> 00:01:01,885 trying to solve the mystery. 23 00:01:01,969 --> 00:01:07,057 And according to legend, one more will have to die 24 00:01:07,150 --> 00:01:09,401 before the treasure can be found. 25 00:01:14,074 --> 00:01:16,575 ♪ ♪ 26 00:01:21,081 --> 00:01:24,416 It is the start of a new day on Oak Island. 27 00:01:24,575 --> 00:01:26,919 - So, this is it, eh, Laird? - LAIRD: This is it. 28 00:01:27,003 --> 00:01:28,745 This is the scene of the problem. 29 00:01:28,830 --> 00:01:31,164 - Ground zero. - (chuckles): Ground zero. 30 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:35,010 NARRATOR: But unlike most others during the summer months, 31 00:01:35,095 --> 00:01:38,088 it is one that begins with an unusual absence 32 00:01:38,181 --> 00:01:39,765 of search activity in an area that 33 00:01:39,924 --> 00:01:42,843 brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team 34 00:01:42,936 --> 00:01:47,856 believe may be critical to solving a 226-year-old mystery: 35 00:01:48,015 --> 00:01:49,441 the triangle-shaped swamp. 36 00:01:50,944 --> 00:01:52,018 MARTY: Well... 37 00:01:52,103 --> 00:01:54,113 We were working. This is all under permit. 38 00:01:54,197 --> 00:01:55,614 - Mm-hmm. - Um... 39 00:01:55,698 --> 00:01:57,032 Looking to see what's here 40 00:01:57,191 --> 00:01:59,618 - in the southeast corner. - Yeah. 41 00:01:59,777 --> 00:02:02,779 - And I worked in this unit behind us. - MARTY: Mm-hmm. 42 00:02:02,864 --> 00:02:05,707 LAIRD: And we found Mi'kmaq pottery. 43 00:02:05,867 --> 00:02:07,284 - Indigenous stuff. - Indigenous stuff? 44 00:02:07,368 --> 00:02:08,627 - Yes. - Yeah. 45 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:10,954 LIZ: What you got? 46 00:02:11,047 --> 00:02:13,715 LAIRD: I have a piece of pottery 47 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,959 but I think it's really delicate. 48 00:02:16,052 --> 00:02:18,053 - Okay. - This is definitely Mi'kmaq. 49 00:02:18,212 --> 00:02:19,796 NARRATOR: One week ago, 50 00:02:19,881 --> 00:02:22,891 while investigating a newly unearthed stone feature 51 00:02:22,976 --> 00:02:24,476 in the southeast corner of the swamp, 52 00:02:24,635 --> 00:02:28,305 archaeologist Laird Niven discovered pottery 53 00:02:28,398 --> 00:02:30,473 that was made by Indigenous Mi'kmaq people 54 00:02:30,558 --> 00:02:34,227 between 500 and 2,500 years ago. 55 00:02:34,729 --> 00:02:37,981 Basically, Acadia First Nation got hold of 56 00:02:38,074 --> 00:02:40,483 Community, Culture and Heritage. 57 00:02:40,568 --> 00:02:42,411 NARRATOR: When Laird reported the finds 58 00:02:42,570 --> 00:02:45,581 to the provincial department of Community, Culture and Heritage, 59 00:02:45,740 --> 00:02:47,916 he was given a stunning mandate 60 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:51,170 to share with the Laginas and their partner, Craig Tester. 61 00:02:51,329 --> 00:02:53,922 The archeologists asked that we stop down. 62 00:02:54,007 --> 00:02:58,010 I.E. you must cease and desist immediately. 63 00:02:59,253 --> 00:03:02,589 NARRATOR: Now, until an assessment of both sites can be made 64 00:03:02,682 --> 00:03:05,684 by representatives of the Indigenous authorities, 65 00:03:05,768 --> 00:03:08,595 the Oak Island team has agreed to cease conducting 66 00:03:08,688 --> 00:03:11,773 any search activity along the eastern border of the swamp, 67 00:03:11,933 --> 00:03:14,776 also known as the buffer zones. 68 00:03:15,937 --> 00:03:18,947 And so, what we're constricted by is, 69 00:03:19,032 --> 00:03:21,533 we call this the center of the circle, the buffer. 70 00:03:21,692 --> 00:03:25,445 - If we go out 120 feet all around... - Mm. 71 00:03:25,538 --> 00:03:27,289 Is-is kind of the no-go zone. 72 00:03:27,373 --> 00:03:30,450 - Yes, exactly. - That's the center? 73 00:03:30,543 --> 00:03:33,378 - LAIRD: Yeah. - MARTY: What is this stone feature? 74 00:03:33,463 --> 00:03:36,798 Well, I think you can guess that there's human-placed rock here. 75 00:03:36,958 --> 00:03:39,209 - It looks like it. Not as clear as that, honestly. - IAN: Yeah. No. 76 00:03:39,293 --> 00:03:41,711 - LAIRD: No. - IAN: But I think it's again some kind of attempt to, 77 00:03:41,804 --> 00:03:44,723 in the interface between land and wetland, 78 00:03:44,807 --> 00:03:47,893 - produce a dry... a dry surface. - A platform of some sort? 79 00:03:48,052 --> 00:03:51,054 Platform or possibly even a continuation of a... 80 00:03:51,138 --> 00:03:53,899 To me, this looks like the pav-- The original paved area. 81 00:03:54,058 --> 00:03:56,726 - IAN: Yeah. - RICK: Quite irregular. - MARTY: Me, too. 82 00:03:56,819 --> 00:03:58,979 This was an incredibly active area. 83 00:03:59,072 --> 00:04:00,489 The stone road tells us that. 84 00:04:02,149 --> 00:04:05,735 NARRATOR: Of the sites affected by the new restrictions, 85 00:04:05,828 --> 00:04:07,904 perhaps the one that is the most critical 86 00:04:07,989 --> 00:04:09,990 to Rick and Marty's investigation is 87 00:04:10,083 --> 00:04:13,001 the mysterious stone road-- Or possible ship's wharf-- 88 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,087 First uncovered last year 89 00:04:15,246 --> 00:04:16,922 in the southeast corner of the swamp. 90 00:04:17,340 --> 00:04:19,249 This is one right here, too. 91 00:04:19,342 --> 00:04:21,001 GARY: I think we found a barrel here. 92 00:04:21,094 --> 00:04:23,595 NARRATOR: It was here, over the past three weeks, 93 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,764 that the team recovered not only evidence 94 00:04:25,923 --> 00:04:28,091 of a possible shipping operation, 95 00:04:28,184 --> 00:04:31,177 including parts of cargo barrels and tools 96 00:04:31,262 --> 00:04:33,939 used to construct wooden sailing vessels... 97 00:04:34,098 --> 00:04:36,275 That right there could be an outlet that heads 98 00:04:36,359 --> 00:04:38,026 - towards the Money Pit. - Yeah. 99 00:04:38,185 --> 00:04:40,520 But also a new stone feature 100 00:04:40,613 --> 00:04:43,106 which according to surveyor Steve Guptill 101 00:04:43,190 --> 00:04:44,866 may be part of a pathway 102 00:04:44,951 --> 00:04:47,035 heading directly toward the Money Pit. 103 00:04:47,870 --> 00:04:49,371 I'm not surprised to find evidence 104 00:04:49,455 --> 00:04:51,114 of the Mi'kmaq, uh, on Oak Island. 105 00:04:51,198 --> 00:04:54,868 But the stones are really puzzling to me. 106 00:04:54,961 --> 00:04:57,704 I think we can discount the Mi'kmaq from doing it. 107 00:04:57,797 --> 00:05:00,957 We have no record of them doing anything like that. 108 00:05:01,050 --> 00:05:03,209 However, we're not digging in there 109 00:05:03,294 --> 00:05:04,886 until we get clearance 110 00:05:04,971 --> 00:05:06,221 from the Mi'kmaq Rights Initiative 111 00:05:06,380 --> 00:05:07,964 and Community, Culture and Heritage. 112 00:05:08,049 --> 00:05:10,383 Okay, well, we're gonna do what's right. 113 00:05:10,468 --> 00:05:11,560 We're gonna continue to do what's right. 114 00:05:11,644 --> 00:05:13,395 But we have to look after our own rights, too. 115 00:05:13,554 --> 00:05:15,147 - Yeah. - So, this has, this has thrown 116 00:05:15,306 --> 00:05:17,399 a major complication into things, from my standpoint. 117 00:05:17,483 --> 00:05:19,151 Don't you agree? 118 00:05:19,235 --> 00:05:21,644 - Well, it certainly hampers the search. - Yeah. 119 00:05:21,738 --> 00:05:23,897 Especially when you're turning up all these... 120 00:05:23,990 --> 00:05:26,158 things that were relevant to us. 121 00:05:26,242 --> 00:05:28,660 We're starting to find some amazing things 122 00:05:28,819 --> 00:05:30,829 in the southeast corner of the swamp. 123 00:05:30,988 --> 00:05:33,165 And all of a sudden, now it's all shut down. 124 00:05:33,249 --> 00:05:36,585 We want to follow the law. We will follow the law. 125 00:05:36,669 --> 00:05:38,920 Being shut down in an area that hasn't yet 126 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,748 revealed all its secrets is frustrating. 127 00:05:41,841 --> 00:05:45,177 RICK: Because there are certain areas now that are off limits, 128 00:05:45,336 --> 00:05:47,921 I think we have to refocus and readjust 129 00:05:48,014 --> 00:05:52,768 and maybe look in areas that previously we dismissed. 130 00:05:52,927 --> 00:05:54,594 We'll just keep moving forward. 131 00:05:54,687 --> 00:05:57,439 There-There's no obstacle that cannot be overcome. 132 00:05:57,598 --> 00:05:59,608 Okay, well, we'll deal with it. 133 00:05:59,767 --> 00:06:01,184 - All right. - All right. 134 00:06:01,277 --> 00:06:03,520 - Let's get after it. - LAIRD: Yeah. 135 00:06:03,604 --> 00:06:06,365 NARRATOR: While Rick and Marty finish the meeting at the swamp... 136 00:06:06,524 --> 00:06:10,035 TERRY: Okay. Here we go. This is D-1. 137 00:06:11,371 --> 00:06:14,864 Less than a quarter mile to the east, on Lot 18... 138 00:06:14,949 --> 00:06:16,208 More coming in. 139 00:06:16,292 --> 00:06:18,210 What do you got? 140 00:06:18,369 --> 00:06:20,537 - 85. - 85? 141 00:06:20,621 --> 00:06:25,300 Geologist Terry Matheson and project manager Scott Barlow 142 00:06:25,385 --> 00:06:28,378 continue supervising the team's efforts to find 143 00:06:28,471 --> 00:06:31,631 what people have been looking for since 1795-- 144 00:06:31,715 --> 00:06:34,893 The fabled Money Pit treasure vault. 145 00:06:35,052 --> 00:06:37,887 - Is it fairly dense? - No. I've seen tighter. 146 00:06:37,972 --> 00:06:40,565 We're getting some of those little marker horizons. 147 00:06:43,060 --> 00:06:45,812 NARRATOR: Today, they are drilling a new six-inch-wide borehole 148 00:06:45,905 --> 00:06:47,656 known as D-1. 149 00:06:47,815 --> 00:06:49,983 A borehole located in an area 150 00:06:50,067 --> 00:06:52,744 that has been dubbed the C-1 cluster. 151 00:06:52,829 --> 00:06:56,248 It is here, near the four-foot-wide C-1 shaft, 152 00:06:56,332 --> 00:06:58,741 that the team has recently found not only evidence 153 00:06:58,826 --> 00:07:01,920 of man-made tunnels at a depth of nearly 90 feet 154 00:07:02,079 --> 00:07:04,673 but also-- Through water-sample testing-- 155 00:07:04,832 --> 00:07:07,884 Traces of both silver and gold. 156 00:07:09,086 --> 00:07:11,838 Pretty Mother Nature-ish. 157 00:07:11,931 --> 00:07:15,508 NARRATOR: As Terry, Scott and the team continue 158 00:07:15,593 --> 00:07:18,261 retrieving core samples at ten-foot intervals, 159 00:07:18,354 --> 00:07:21,181 if they obtain more compelling evidence 160 00:07:21,265 --> 00:07:22,691 of possible treasure, 161 00:07:22,850 --> 00:07:26,862 Rick, Marty and their partner Craig Tester intend to dig 162 00:07:27,021 --> 00:07:28,021 a number of ten-foot-wide 163 00:07:28,114 --> 00:07:30,523 steel-cased shafts across the area 164 00:07:30,608 --> 00:07:32,868 in order to retrieve it. 165 00:07:33,861 --> 00:07:36,446 TERRY: D-1, still no tunnels. 166 00:07:36,530 --> 00:07:39,449 Our next run still has the potential to hit, 167 00:07:39,542 --> 00:07:40,959 you know, uh, some wood from a tunnel. 168 00:07:41,118 --> 00:07:43,620 We chased that tunnel right across the north side of C-1. 169 00:07:43,713 --> 00:07:46,289 - Yep. - And, I mean, this is, this is our depth where we brought up 170 00:07:46,373 --> 00:07:48,041 the iron that contains gold. 171 00:07:48,125 --> 00:07:51,211 That's right. We're five feet away from D2. 172 00:07:51,795 --> 00:07:53,305 CHARLES: There's something in here. 173 00:07:53,464 --> 00:07:54,723 CRAIG: Oh, there's a piece of flat metal. 174 00:07:54,882 --> 00:07:56,132 CHARLES: Yeah, looks like it. 175 00:07:56,217 --> 00:07:57,884 NARRATOR: Two weeks ago, 176 00:07:57,968 --> 00:08:00,720 while drilling in nearby borehole D2, 177 00:08:00,804 --> 00:08:03,056 the team not only recovered a piece of metal 178 00:08:03,149 --> 00:08:05,475 from a depth of some 88 feet 179 00:08:05,568 --> 00:08:07,611 that contained a significant amount of gold... 180 00:08:08,821 --> 00:08:11,406 but also wood that was carbon-dated 181 00:08:11,491 --> 00:08:14,409 to as early as 1488. 182 00:08:14,568 --> 00:08:16,069 How deep did you get, Adam? 183 00:08:16,162 --> 00:08:18,738 - 99. - 99? Okay. 184 00:08:18,822 --> 00:08:20,749 More to come. 89 to 99. 185 00:08:20,833 --> 00:08:22,825 NARRATOR: Based on these discoveries, 186 00:08:22,919 --> 00:08:24,994 the team is hopeful that they may be close to 187 00:08:25,087 --> 00:08:27,830 not only pinpointing the original Money Pit 188 00:08:27,924 --> 00:08:30,175 but also the fabled treasure vault. 189 00:08:31,761 --> 00:08:35,922 - What is that? That's 89. - 89 feet. 190 00:08:36,006 --> 00:08:38,767 Just caught the edge of something, it looks like. 191 00:08:40,261 --> 00:08:42,178 SCOTT: Whoa! 192 00:08:42,271 --> 00:08:44,681 TERRY: Interesting all the sudden. Wow. 193 00:08:44,774 --> 00:08:46,849 SCOTT: We weren't expecting that. 194 00:08:46,943 --> 00:08:48,693 - That's more than one beam. - Yep. 195 00:08:48,852 --> 00:08:52,355 Just by the initial looks, I would say shaft. 196 00:08:52,439 --> 00:08:54,616 TERRY: It's a shaft or a tunnel, for sure. 197 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:57,277 We've hit a lot of tunnels in and around the 90-foot mark. 198 00:08:57,361 --> 00:08:59,037 NARRATOR: A possible tunnel? 199 00:08:59,196 --> 00:09:02,040 Or a shaft some 90 feet deep in the area 200 00:09:02,199 --> 00:09:04,450 where the team also recently found evidence 201 00:09:04,544 --> 00:09:05,961 of silver and gold? 202 00:09:07,380 --> 00:09:10,206 Has the team once again encountered an ancient tunnel 203 00:09:10,291 --> 00:09:12,875 that might be leading to the original Money Pit? 204 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,638 Or could it be the Money Pit itself? 205 00:09:16,722 --> 00:09:20,550 If it's a shaft, okay, it's a very large shaft. 206 00:09:20,634 --> 00:09:22,644 If it's a tunnel, 207 00:09:22,728 --> 00:09:25,388 it matches very well with our tunnel intersections 208 00:09:25,481 --> 00:09:28,057 - at 90 feet in the C-1 cluster. - Yeah. 209 00:09:28,150 --> 00:09:30,402 TERRY: Let's, uh, give Rick a call. 210 00:09:30,486 --> 00:09:31,903 SCOTT: Let's do it. 211 00:09:37,994 --> 00:09:39,986 NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area... 212 00:09:40,079 --> 00:09:41,404 (whirring) 213 00:09:41,497 --> 00:09:43,406 Hey, Rick. How're you doing? 214 00:09:43,499 --> 00:09:44,416 - Hey, how are you, Rick? - Hi, guys. 215 00:09:44,575 --> 00:09:45,992 So, you came just at the right time. 216 00:09:46,076 --> 00:09:48,503 - Good. - This hole just got very interesting. 217 00:09:48,588 --> 00:09:50,330 Yeah, I can see that. 218 00:09:50,423 --> 00:09:52,841 Rick Lagina has just arrived after being alerted 219 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,170 by geologist Terry Matheson and project manager Scott Barlow 220 00:09:57,254 --> 00:10:00,265 of a large amount of wood discovered at a depth 221 00:10:00,349 --> 00:10:03,935 of some 90 feet in borehole D-1. 222 00:10:04,020 --> 00:10:08,273 TERRY: We're thinking possibly intersection of a tunnel, 223 00:10:08,357 --> 00:10:10,191 but we're leaning shaft. 224 00:10:10,276 --> 00:10:12,352 You're now in an area where we had 225 00:10:12,436 --> 00:10:14,779 very little inclination that there may be something up here. 226 00:10:14,864 --> 00:10:16,939 - Yes. - Now we have empirical evidence 227 00:10:17,024 --> 00:10:18,116 - that there's something in this area. - Yeah. 228 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,526 - So, I think we have to continue. - Yeah. 229 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:24,280 We certainly have found man-made workings 230 00:10:24,365 --> 00:10:26,041 at the most northerly part of the Money Pit. 231 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:30,536 So, on that basis alone, it's significantly interesting. 232 00:10:30,621 --> 00:10:34,215 The hope, of course, is that it is original work 233 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:36,709 and, thus, the implication that we are near 234 00:10:36,794 --> 00:10:39,220 to a depositional target. 235 00:10:39,305 --> 00:10:41,139 We'll see where it goes. 236 00:10:42,466 --> 00:10:43,883 - TERRY: Follow the evidence. - RICK: Yep. 237 00:10:43,976 --> 00:10:45,810 Follow the evidence. 238 00:10:45,969 --> 00:10:47,303 NARRATOR: While the drilling operation 239 00:10:47,396 --> 00:10:49,439 in the Money Pit area continues... 240 00:10:50,974 --> 00:10:52,776 later that afternoon... 241 00:10:54,487 --> 00:10:56,738 Scott Barlow joins Oak Island historian 242 00:10:56,897 --> 00:10:58,239 Charles Barkhouse, 243 00:10:58,399 --> 00:11:02,911 and heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt on Lot 18 244 00:11:02,995 --> 00:11:06,331 at a location that just may be holding vital clues 245 00:11:06,415 --> 00:11:09,668 that could help solve the Oak Island mystery. 246 00:11:09,827 --> 00:11:11,494 - Hey, Bill. - Hey, Billy. - Hey, guys. 247 00:11:11,578 --> 00:11:13,171 Been a rainy day. 248 00:11:13,330 --> 00:11:15,507 - Washing the excavator, yep. - (chuckles) 249 00:11:15,591 --> 00:11:16,833 You know, as this pad was leveled off, 250 00:11:16,917 --> 00:11:18,927 all the spoils from Dunfield that were still... 251 00:11:19,011 --> 00:11:20,929 I mean, that's what the remains of these piles over here, 252 00:11:21,013 --> 00:11:22,088 this is all Dunfield's spoils. 253 00:11:22,172 --> 00:11:24,015 - CHARLES: Yeah. - Right. 254 00:11:24,174 --> 00:11:25,767 So, you dig this up and have Gary go over it. 255 00:11:25,926 --> 00:11:27,185 We-we may find something. 256 00:11:29,855 --> 00:11:33,349 NARRATOR: In November of 1965, 257 00:11:33,434 --> 00:11:35,110 geologist Robert Dunfield conducted 258 00:11:35,194 --> 00:11:38,438 the largest excavation ever in the Money Pit area 259 00:11:38,531 --> 00:11:42,867 by digging a 100-foot-wide by 140-foot-deep hole 260 00:11:42,952 --> 00:11:46,446 in a failed attempt to find the fabled treasure vault. 261 00:11:46,530 --> 00:11:49,290 Using a 70-ton digging crane 262 00:11:49,450 --> 00:11:52,127 with a massive clamshell bucket, 263 00:11:52,286 --> 00:11:55,955 Dunfield had his team feverishly pile tons of soil 264 00:11:56,048 --> 00:11:58,550 and remnants of old shafts off to the side. 265 00:11:59,969 --> 00:12:03,129 However, he never sorted through them for clues 266 00:12:03,222 --> 00:12:06,558 nor to verify if the large pieces of wooden beams 267 00:12:06,642 --> 00:12:09,894 were from past searchers or from much earlier works 268 00:12:10,053 --> 00:12:12,814 to deposit something of great value. 269 00:12:14,483 --> 00:12:18,644 MARTY: We could find Rick's fabled one thing in these spoil piles. 270 00:12:18,729 --> 00:12:20,071 We could find anything. 271 00:12:21,648 --> 00:12:23,992 NARRATOR: Now, because the team is currently 272 00:12:24,076 --> 00:12:25,827 unable to work in the swamp, 273 00:12:25,911 --> 00:12:28,913 it is Rick, Marty and Craig's hope 274 00:12:28,998 --> 00:12:31,416 that searching through the so-called Dunfield spoils 275 00:12:31,575 --> 00:12:34,327 will lead to the discovery of important clues 276 00:12:34,411 --> 00:12:37,756 and potentially objects of great value. 277 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:39,758 Hey, Charles. 278 00:12:39,917 --> 00:12:42,168 Joining the effort to scan and search 279 00:12:42,252 --> 00:12:44,929 through the spoils as Billy digs through them 280 00:12:45,088 --> 00:12:48,007 are Craig Tester's stepson Jack Begley 281 00:12:48,091 --> 00:12:50,760 and metal detection expert Gary Drayton. 282 00:12:50,844 --> 00:12:52,771 Billy, you want me over there doing the spoils? 283 00:12:52,855 --> 00:12:55,273 Yeah, I spread it thin all over there. 284 00:12:55,357 --> 00:12:57,275 So I'll let you go over that once, 285 00:12:57,434 --> 00:12:59,268 and then we'll start making some piles. 286 00:12:59,361 --> 00:13:01,863 Okay, mate. Let's find something good. 287 00:13:02,022 --> 00:13:03,689 - Hope so. - JACK: Go get 'er, Gar. - GARY: All right, mate. 288 00:13:03,774 --> 00:13:05,283 I'll be calling you. 289 00:13:08,037 --> 00:13:11,030 We're hoping to find an artifact that is an aha moment. 290 00:13:11,114 --> 00:13:12,373 I don't know what that would be. 291 00:13:12,533 --> 00:13:13,950 It may be some woodwork 292 00:13:14,034 --> 00:13:15,710 shaped by the hand of man 293 00:13:15,795 --> 00:13:17,962 that comes up with a very early date. 294 00:13:19,131 --> 00:13:21,132 (detector beeps) 295 00:13:25,295 --> 00:13:28,139 Hang on, Billy. I might have a signal here. 296 00:13:29,308 --> 00:13:31,976 - CHARLES: Something good, Gary? - (beeping) 297 00:13:34,563 --> 00:13:37,941 - (beeping) - What the heck is that? 298 00:13:39,568 --> 00:13:42,144 What'd you find, Gary? 299 00:13:42,229 --> 00:13:44,397 I think it's a chisel by the look of it. 300 00:13:44,481 --> 00:13:45,615 Here, come show us. 301 00:13:48,902 --> 00:13:49,828 GARY: It's got some heft to it. 302 00:13:49,912 --> 00:13:52,488 Um, to me, it looks like a chisel. 303 00:13:52,573 --> 00:13:54,749 I-I don't believe it's a spike. 304 00:13:54,908 --> 00:13:56,742 Feel how heavy that is. 305 00:13:56,836 --> 00:13:59,745 It's an oldie 'cause it's got some heft to it. 306 00:13:59,839 --> 00:14:01,339 CHARLES: Yeah. 307 00:14:01,423 --> 00:14:03,249 Well, what would you use a chisel like that for? 308 00:14:03,342 --> 00:14:06,928 It's hard to say, Jack, what they were using it for. 309 00:14:07,087 --> 00:14:10,339 Yeah. To me, a chisel like that is for doing the finer work. 310 00:14:10,424 --> 00:14:12,183 CHARLES: I agree with Bill on that. It's not to break rocks. 311 00:14:12,268 --> 00:14:13,593 It's for detail work. 312 00:14:13,677 --> 00:14:15,436 - Yeah. - This is a good candidate 313 00:14:15,521 --> 00:14:17,680 to be depositor-related. 314 00:14:17,773 --> 00:14:19,098 - Maybe. - You know the history 315 00:14:19,191 --> 00:14:22,861 - of the carved stones on Oak Island, mate. - Yes. 316 00:14:22,945 --> 00:14:27,699 NARRATOR: Ever since the Oak Island mystery began 226 years ago, 317 00:14:27,783 --> 00:14:31,286 searchers have found a number of mysterious carved stones 318 00:14:31,370 --> 00:14:35,039 both on the surface and buried deep below ground. 319 00:14:35,124 --> 00:14:37,450 Perhaps the most notable of those 320 00:14:37,534 --> 00:14:39,627 was the legendary 90 Foot Stone, 321 00:14:39,712 --> 00:14:43,956 discovered at that depth in the Money Pit back in 1804. 322 00:14:44,041 --> 00:14:47,051 The greenish-gray slab reportedly had a series 323 00:14:47,136 --> 00:14:49,545 of strange hieroglyphic symbols carved across it, 324 00:14:49,630 --> 00:14:51,389 which were translated to read: 325 00:14:51,473 --> 00:14:55,059 "Forty feet below, two million pounds are buried." 326 00:14:55,144 --> 00:14:58,888 Although the stone has been missing since the early 1900s, 327 00:14:58,972 --> 00:15:01,983 is it possible that the team may have discovered 328 00:15:02,067 --> 00:15:05,311 the tool that was used to carve its cryptic message 329 00:15:05,395 --> 00:15:08,397 in the spoils that were excavated from the Money Pit 330 00:15:08,482 --> 00:15:10,909 more than half a century ago? 331 00:15:11,068 --> 00:15:12,994 Well, we'll definitely get it checked out. 332 00:15:13,153 --> 00:15:14,987 - Yeah, for sure. - I mean, it's not written in stone what it is. 333 00:15:15,072 --> 00:15:17,415 - But it... it looks like... - (chuckles) No pun intended. 334 00:15:17,574 --> 00:15:19,992 - A hand point chisel to me. - Yeah. 335 00:15:20,077 --> 00:15:22,879 JACK: Good job, Gary. 336 00:15:26,926 --> 00:15:28,584 NARRATOR: The following morning, 337 00:15:28,669 --> 00:15:31,921 as the operations at the Money Pit area 338 00:15:32,005 --> 00:15:35,091 and the Dunfield spoils continue... 339 00:15:36,352 --> 00:15:41,189 GARY: We've recovered a nice top-pocket find on Lot 16. 340 00:15:41,348 --> 00:15:45,526 In the research center, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina 341 00:15:45,686 --> 00:15:48,020 and other members of the team 342 00:15:48,105 --> 00:15:52,533 have invited geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner to examine 343 00:15:52,693 --> 00:15:56,955 a potentially important artifact recently discovered on Lot 16. 344 00:15:58,123 --> 00:16:02,126 - What do you think? - Uh, it's not natural. 345 00:16:03,954 --> 00:16:05,621 I mean, I've been around Nova Scotia a lot, 346 00:16:05,706 --> 00:16:06,956 you know, looking at rocks. 347 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:11,970 This stone isn't what I've seen around here at all. 348 00:16:14,631 --> 00:16:17,800 I believe we have got another gun stone. 349 00:16:17,884 --> 00:16:19,969 - Well, it sure looks like it. - Oh, a gun stone? - GARY: Yep. 350 00:16:20,053 --> 00:16:21,896 Do you remember the one that Michael John found 351 00:16:21,981 --> 00:16:23,231 on the wash table? 352 00:16:23,315 --> 00:16:24,974 - It was similar size, wasn't it? - Yeah. 353 00:16:25,475 --> 00:16:27,059 Whoa, look at that! 354 00:16:27,144 --> 00:16:29,153 NARRATOR: Two weeks ago, 355 00:16:29,238 --> 00:16:31,489 while searching for evidence of a stone pathway 356 00:16:31,648 --> 00:16:34,066 between the swamp and the Money Pit, 357 00:16:34,159 --> 00:16:37,078 Rick and Gary discovered the stone artifact, 358 00:16:37,237 --> 00:16:40,581 which Gary believes could be a kind of ancient projectile 359 00:16:40,741 --> 00:16:42,333 fired from small canons. 360 00:16:44,327 --> 00:16:46,495 - Steve, look at this. - Yes. 361 00:16:46,580 --> 00:16:48,923 NARRATOR: Curiously, it was nearly identical 362 00:16:49,082 --> 00:16:52,835 to one discovered last year in the spoils of borehole E5.25 363 00:16:52,919 --> 00:16:58,016 that were excavated from the Money Pit area in 2019. 364 00:16:58,100 --> 00:17:01,102 MARTY: Lo and behold, they're virtually identical 365 00:17:01,261 --> 00:17:04,522 in terms of shape and density. 366 00:17:04,681 --> 00:17:06,932 These rocks are really interesting. 367 00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:08,768 They really are. 368 00:17:08,861 --> 00:17:10,269 Did you see the one Michael John found a few years ago? 369 00:17:10,362 --> 00:17:11,612 No. No, no, no. 370 00:17:11,772 --> 00:17:13,531 - We have it here, right? - Yeah, it's actually here. 371 00:17:17,360 --> 00:17:19,111 Oh, wow. 372 00:17:19,204 --> 00:17:22,206 MARTY: Very similar. Not-not in texture but in size. 373 00:17:22,365 --> 00:17:24,208 GARY: And if they are gun stones, 374 00:17:24,293 --> 00:17:26,702 roughly the same caliber by the look of it. 375 00:17:26,795 --> 00:17:29,714 The main thing to me is, that regardless of 376 00:17:29,873 --> 00:17:33,301 where they're from, they're not from-from here. 377 00:17:33,385 --> 00:17:36,212 That's-that's important. 378 00:17:36,296 --> 00:17:38,464 I know somebody I can take these to 379 00:17:38,548 --> 00:17:40,641 who will provide you with a lot more information than I can. 380 00:17:40,726 --> 00:17:42,727 This is his arena. 381 00:17:42,811 --> 00:17:46,472 - Yeah. - But this is very, very odd. 382 00:17:46,556 --> 00:17:48,983 Look, whenever you can find something like that 383 00:17:49,142 --> 00:17:51,811 and get an expert to weigh in on it, who knows what we'll learn. 384 00:17:51,895 --> 00:17:53,813 Well, that sounds like a great first step to me. 385 00:17:53,906 --> 00:17:55,648 - Yeah. - Good. 386 00:17:55,732 --> 00:17:57,325 Make it so. 387 00:17:57,409 --> 00:17:59,744 - IAN: Okay. - MARTY: Fantastic. 388 00:18:02,823 --> 00:18:04,916 (beeping) 389 00:18:07,252 --> 00:18:08,753 - Find anything? - I got a hit here, 390 00:18:08,837 --> 00:18:11,172 but I-I'm trying to determine whether it's a screw 391 00:18:11,256 --> 00:18:12,915 - in the table or... - Here, want me to lift it up? 392 00:18:12,999 --> 00:18:14,759 - Yeah. - Okay. 393 00:18:14,918 --> 00:18:17,095 (beeping) 394 00:18:17,254 --> 00:18:19,171 - Yeah, there's something in here. - Something there. 395 00:18:19,256 --> 00:18:20,848 CHARLES: Yep. 396 00:18:24,928 --> 00:18:26,345 (beeping) 397 00:18:26,438 --> 00:18:28,397 - There you go. - It's in this piece, whatever it is. 398 00:18:30,442 --> 00:18:32,268 A little piece of metal. 399 00:18:32,361 --> 00:18:35,780 What the heck that is... I don't know. 400 00:18:35,864 --> 00:18:38,440 NARRATOR: A metal object, 401 00:18:38,534 --> 00:18:40,776 also discovered with possible evidence of a wooden tunnel 402 00:18:40,861 --> 00:18:45,039 some 75 feet deep in borehole CD4.5? 403 00:18:45,124 --> 00:18:47,041 SCOTT: Great find, Charles. 404 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,286 CHARLES: We're very interested in the C-1 cluster area 405 00:18:50,379 --> 00:18:51,370 because we're getting a lot of wood hits, 406 00:18:51,463 --> 00:18:53,714 and we're finding pieces of metal. 407 00:18:53,874 --> 00:18:56,792 - Bag it, tag it, and have Kelly look at it. - Bag it, tag it. Yep. 408 00:18:56,885 --> 00:18:59,220 But what's even more interesting about it 409 00:18:59,379 --> 00:19:01,389 is we have no historical record 410 00:19:01,548 --> 00:19:04,058 of any work being done in this area. 411 00:19:05,894 --> 00:19:07,645 - Hey, Rick. - Hi, guys. 412 00:19:07,804 --> 00:19:09,230 NARRATOR: After being alerted of the new 413 00:19:09,314 --> 00:19:11,140 and potentially important discoveries, 414 00:19:11,224 --> 00:19:13,809 Rick Lagina arrives to inspect them 415 00:19:13,894 --> 00:19:15,987 and receive a detailed report. 416 00:19:16,071 --> 00:19:18,573 So, CD4.5, 417 00:19:18,732 --> 00:19:21,734 uh, we hit wood at about 74 and 75 feet. 418 00:19:21,818 --> 00:19:24,912 And we also found a chunk of metal. 419 00:19:25,071 --> 00:19:27,456 This was at 75 and a half feet. 420 00:19:30,577 --> 00:19:32,661 It's encrusted, so it's really hard to tell what it is, 421 00:19:32,754 --> 00:19:35,756 but it does have some weight to it. 422 00:19:35,841 --> 00:19:37,499 Yeah, it does, it does. Yeah. 423 00:19:37,593 --> 00:19:40,085 - It's hard to say what it is. - CHARLES: Yeah. 424 00:19:40,179 --> 00:19:42,471 - Certainly not from the rig. - No, no. No. - CHARLES: No. 425 00:19:44,174 --> 00:19:46,517 - RICK: Another mystery. - CHARLES: Yeah. 426 00:19:46,676 --> 00:19:50,596 NARRATOR: Although finding evidence of a tunnel, along with metal, 427 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,933 at a depth of 75 feet in the Money Pit area 428 00:19:54,017 --> 00:19:56,268 offers the team hope that they could be close 429 00:19:56,353 --> 00:19:57,603 to a major discovery, 430 00:19:57,696 --> 00:19:59,614 three weeks ago, 431 00:19:59,773 --> 00:20:02,024 while drilling in borehole D2 432 00:20:02,117 --> 00:20:04,610 just 13 and a half feet to the southwest, 433 00:20:04,703 --> 00:20:06,612 at a depth of some 90 feet, 434 00:20:06,705 --> 00:20:08,614 they also obtained evidence 435 00:20:08,698 --> 00:20:12,877 of another wooden tunnel that dated to as early as 1488, 436 00:20:13,036 --> 00:20:16,047 as well as a mysterious piece of metal 437 00:20:16,206 --> 00:20:19,300 that contained a significant amount of gold. 438 00:20:19,459 --> 00:20:22,553 Is it possible that both of these potential tunnels 439 00:20:22,638 --> 00:20:24,964 could be connected to the original Money Pit? 440 00:20:25,048 --> 00:20:27,132 I think, based on everything we've learned, 441 00:20:27,226 --> 00:20:30,302 the interesting metals in D2, 442 00:20:30,387 --> 00:20:32,805 - perhaps this will be a surprise as well. - Could be. 443 00:20:32,889 --> 00:20:35,900 - Okay. - So, I'm gonna take this on the archaeology trailer 444 00:20:36,059 --> 00:20:38,310 - and then put this under XRF. - Okay. - Great. 445 00:20:38,403 --> 00:20:39,561 - RICK: All right. Thank you, guys. - CHARLES: Yeah. 446 00:20:39,655 --> 00:20:41,155 - TERRY: See you, Rick. - RICK: Yep. 447 00:20:42,315 --> 00:20:44,900 NARRATOR: Later that afternoon, 448 00:20:44,993 --> 00:20:48,821 following their discovery at CD4.5... 449 00:20:48,914 --> 00:20:50,906 - MARTY: Hey! - Hey. 450 00:20:50,991 --> 00:20:53,575 Rick and Charles meet with Rick's brother Marty 451 00:20:53,669 --> 00:20:55,995 and professional conservator Kelly Bourassa 452 00:20:56,079 --> 00:20:57,663 at the archeology trailer. 453 00:20:57,756 --> 00:20:59,340 What do you guys got? 454 00:20:59,499 --> 00:21:00,841 I found another piece of metal. 455 00:21:00,926 --> 00:21:02,593 MARTY: This could be good. 456 00:21:02,678 --> 00:21:05,838 The unusual thing is 75 and a half feet 457 00:21:05,922 --> 00:21:08,766 because the tunnel horizon is 86 to 93. 458 00:21:08,925 --> 00:21:10,259 - Yeah. - So, what's that doing there? 459 00:21:10,343 --> 00:21:13,521 - Yeah. - Let's see it. 460 00:21:16,099 --> 00:21:17,775 Huh. 461 00:21:17,859 --> 00:21:20,361 KELLY: Looks cement-like on-on the surface. 462 00:21:20,445 --> 00:21:23,522 I don't think there's-- Much cleaning can be done. 463 00:21:23,615 --> 00:21:25,199 Nonetheless, we can still, uh, 464 00:21:25,284 --> 00:21:27,776 we can still test it with the XRF. 465 00:21:27,861 --> 00:21:30,696 - CHARLES: Okay. - MARTY: See what it says. - Absolutely. 466 00:21:30,780 --> 00:21:34,041 NARRATOR: Using an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, 467 00:21:34,126 --> 00:21:37,953 or XRF, Kelly will conduct a chemical analysis 468 00:21:38,038 --> 00:21:40,381 of the encrusted object. 469 00:21:40,465 --> 00:21:43,968 The device works by emitting nondestructive radiation, 470 00:21:44,052 --> 00:21:48,306 which can identify the elemental composition of metal objects. 471 00:21:48,890 --> 00:21:50,641 There we go. 472 00:21:52,218 --> 00:21:53,894 MARTY: Iron, that's not a shock. 473 00:21:53,979 --> 00:21:55,637 Yeah. 474 00:21:55,722 --> 00:21:57,898 MARTY: Whoa. 475 00:21:57,983 --> 00:22:00,901 Au. That's gold. 476 00:22:01,737 --> 00:22:03,395 (chuckles) 477 00:22:03,488 --> 00:22:05,740 MARTY: How 'bout that. 478 00:22:09,736 --> 00:22:11,070 MARTY: So, this piece has some gold 479 00:22:11,154 --> 00:22:11,987 NARRATOR: In the archaeology trailer... 480 00:22:12,072 --> 00:22:13,238 At 0.2 percent. 481 00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:14,999 Au. Auric. Gold. 482 00:22:15,158 --> 00:22:17,585 - CHARLES: That's exciting. - That's great. 483 00:22:17,744 --> 00:22:21,747 Rick, Marty and members of the team have just verified that 484 00:22:21,831 --> 00:22:23,758 the metal object unearthed earlier today 485 00:22:23,842 --> 00:22:26,251 from borehole CD4.5, 486 00:22:26,336 --> 00:22:28,170 which was discovered along with evidence 487 00:22:28,254 --> 00:22:30,431 of a tunnel some 75 feet deep 488 00:22:30,590 --> 00:22:33,100 may also be connected 489 00:22:33,185 --> 00:22:35,519 to the legendary Oak Island treasure. 490 00:22:35,604 --> 00:22:38,097 - RICK: I'm curious in the trace metals, right? - KELLY: Sure. 491 00:22:38,190 --> 00:22:41,609 Because it may be a clue as to how old the metal is itself. 492 00:22:41,693 --> 00:22:43,944 It's a very shallow depth, though, 75 and a half feet. 493 00:22:44,104 --> 00:22:46,030 - That's great. - Yeah. 494 00:22:46,114 --> 00:22:48,199 I've always felt the most logical solution 495 00:22:48,358 --> 00:22:50,025 to this whole thing is an offset chamber. 496 00:22:50,118 --> 00:22:51,860 I mean, how does a piece of iron 497 00:22:51,953 --> 00:22:54,455 from 75 feet down get gold on it? 498 00:22:54,614 --> 00:22:57,449 Maybe we're near it here. 499 00:22:57,534 --> 00:23:00,285 NARRATOR: Could Marty Lagina's notion be correct? 500 00:23:00,370 --> 00:23:04,123 Is it possible that the team has discovered a tunnel, 501 00:23:04,216 --> 00:23:06,717 connected to the original Money Pit shaft, 502 00:23:06,876 --> 00:23:08,969 which could serve as a secret entrance 503 00:23:09,054 --> 00:23:10,546 to a vast treasure chamber? 504 00:23:10,630 --> 00:23:13,549 If so, could that explain 505 00:23:13,633 --> 00:23:15,801 why the team has obtained trace evidence 506 00:23:15,894 --> 00:23:18,971 of silver and gold in a number of flooded boreholes 507 00:23:19,055 --> 00:23:22,316 across the area they have dubbed the C-1 cluster? 508 00:23:22,475 --> 00:23:26,311 - We need to bring that up to, uh, Dr. Brosseau for sure. - Mm-hmm. 509 00:23:26,396 --> 00:23:27,738 I-I want to do it yesterday. 510 00:23:27,897 --> 00:23:28,897 - (laughter) - (chuckles): Let's bring this... 511 00:23:28,982 --> 00:23:30,649 - Let's bring it up there. - Sure. 512 00:23:30,733 --> 00:23:33,986 I've always felt like the most likely reason 513 00:23:34,070 --> 00:23:36,997 for construction of the Money Pit was as a decoy 514 00:23:37,082 --> 00:23:40,075 to an offset chamber or as access to an offset chamber 515 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,161 that would be difficult to find from the surface. 516 00:23:42,245 --> 00:23:45,506 So, finding these pieces of metal with gold on them, 517 00:23:45,665 --> 00:23:48,834 away from the traditional Money Pit area, is very exciting. 518 00:23:48,927 --> 00:23:50,928 RICK: Charles and I will go to the drill table, 519 00:23:51,012 --> 00:23:52,671 and we will be back with more of this. 520 00:23:52,755 --> 00:23:55,433 MARTY: Good. Find some more. 521 00:23:55,592 --> 00:23:57,435 ♪ ♪ 522 00:24:01,514 --> 00:24:02,940 NARRATOR: The following morning, 523 00:24:03,024 --> 00:24:04,433 while the core-drilling operation 524 00:24:04,517 --> 00:24:06,360 at the Money Pit continues... 525 00:24:06,445 --> 00:24:08,020 MIKE: Going down! 526 00:24:08,104 --> 00:24:10,439 RICK: Hey, guys. 527 00:24:10,523 --> 00:24:12,608 - Gentlemen, hello. - Hello. 528 00:24:12,692 --> 00:24:15,035 Dr. Raeside, um, welcome to the war room. 529 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,447 Rick, Marty and members of the team are meeting 530 00:24:18,531 --> 00:24:21,366 via video conference with Dr. Robert Raeside, 531 00:24:21,451 --> 00:24:23,869 a professor of geology and Earth science 532 00:24:23,962 --> 00:24:27,047 at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. 533 00:24:27,132 --> 00:24:30,042 He has conducted compositional analysis 534 00:24:30,126 --> 00:24:31,627 of the two believed gun stones 535 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,054 recently discovered on Oak Island. 536 00:24:34,139 --> 00:24:37,057 One, which was found just two weeks ago 537 00:24:37,217 --> 00:24:38,976 along a possible pathway 538 00:24:39,135 --> 00:24:41,145 between the swamp and the Money Pit, 539 00:24:41,304 --> 00:24:43,805 and a second unearthed two years ago 540 00:24:43,890 --> 00:24:45,641 from the Money Pit itself. 541 00:24:45,734 --> 00:24:48,894 So, you looked at these two round, 542 00:24:48,987 --> 00:24:50,321 small-ish rocks. 543 00:24:50,405 --> 00:24:52,406 Um, what is, what is your opinion? 544 00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:54,158 Well, when I first saw the rocks 545 00:24:54,317 --> 00:24:55,734 I anticipated that they were probably 546 00:24:55,818 --> 00:24:57,578 something that had been picked up from a beach somewhere. 547 00:24:57,662 --> 00:24:59,154 But then, I got a chance to look at them 548 00:24:59,239 --> 00:25:00,322 with a hand lens. 549 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,992 If there are small green minerals in each one, 550 00:25:04,085 --> 00:25:05,577 um, my best guess is that 551 00:25:05,662 --> 00:25:07,829 these are actually olivine bearing rocks. 552 00:25:07,914 --> 00:25:10,082 And olivine gabbro and an olivine basalt. 553 00:25:10,175 --> 00:25:13,252 A basalt is a-a rock that erupted volcanically, 554 00:25:13,336 --> 00:25:14,762 and a gabbro is a rock that 555 00:25:14,846 --> 00:25:16,088 never quite made it to the surface. 556 00:25:16,172 --> 00:25:20,175 Would that be likely to be found on Oak Island? 557 00:25:20,268 --> 00:25:23,521 - Definitely not. - Ah, I like that. 558 00:25:23,605 --> 00:25:27,266 And the composition of the rocks are quite unusual 559 00:25:27,350 --> 00:25:29,193 for anything I would expect to see here in Nova Scotia. 560 00:25:29,277 --> 00:25:32,104 Where else in the world might they be? 561 00:25:32,188 --> 00:25:36,608 They form generally in, uh, hot spot volcanic island chains. 562 00:25:36,701 --> 00:25:40,204 So something like the Azores or the Canary Islands 563 00:25:40,363 --> 00:25:42,206 would be the obvious places, I would think. 564 00:25:42,365 --> 00:25:46,034 And those two islands, they're synonymous 565 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,964 with transatlantic adventurers, 566 00:25:50,048 --> 00:25:51,966 conquistadores. 567 00:25:52,050 --> 00:25:56,303 - Yeah. - Canary Islands, Spanish. Spain. 568 00:25:56,388 --> 00:25:58,380 Azores, Portugal. 569 00:25:58,473 --> 00:26:00,215 NARRATOR: The gun stones? 570 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:02,560 Possibly of Portuguese origin? 571 00:26:02,644 --> 00:26:05,229 Although Nova Scotia was known to have been visited 572 00:26:05,313 --> 00:26:08,640 by explorers representing numerous European nations 573 00:26:08,725 --> 00:26:12,644 between the 15th to late 18th centuries, 574 00:26:12,729 --> 00:26:15,314 numerous clues have been discovered on Oak Island 575 00:26:15,398 --> 00:26:18,066 that suggest both the Spanish and Portuguese 576 00:26:18,151 --> 00:26:19,910 may have been responsible for the construction 577 00:26:19,995 --> 00:26:22,329 of the Money Pit. 578 00:26:22,488 --> 00:26:25,741 Because both nations conquered the indigenous civilizations 579 00:26:25,825 --> 00:26:27,576 across Central and South America, 580 00:26:27,660 --> 00:26:29,995 and then shipped vast quantities of gold, 581 00:26:30,079 --> 00:26:32,089 silver and jewels 582 00:26:32,248 --> 00:26:34,508 back to their home countries in Europe, 583 00:26:34,667 --> 00:26:36,260 many treasure hunters, 584 00:26:36,419 --> 00:26:38,503 including Dan Blankenship and Fred Nolan, 585 00:26:38,588 --> 00:26:41,348 came to believe that rogue sea captains 586 00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:45,177 may have hidden a portion of their plunder on Oak Island. 587 00:26:45,261 --> 00:26:47,763 What I found just blew me away. 588 00:26:47,847 --> 00:26:49,273 Like, I was pretty much speechless. 589 00:26:49,357 --> 00:26:52,359 I've never seen anything of that magnitude in Nova Scotia. 590 00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:54,186 NARRATOR: Three weeks ago, 591 00:26:54,270 --> 00:26:57,856 environmental scientist and historian Terry Deveau, 592 00:26:57,940 --> 00:27:00,525 presented the team with detailed research 593 00:27:00,610 --> 00:27:02,694 about the massive stone wharf discovered 594 00:27:02,779 --> 00:27:04,279 one year ago in the swamp 595 00:27:04,364 --> 00:27:08,125 and his incredible theory about the origin of its builders. 596 00:27:08,209 --> 00:27:10,294 This is a type of road 597 00:27:10,378 --> 00:27:13,714 that was built in Europe in the 1500s. 598 00:27:13,798 --> 00:27:17,259 - CHARLES: Wow. - What comes to my mind is the Portuguese. 599 00:27:18,795 --> 00:27:21,713 NARRATOR: Is it possible that these gun stones, 600 00:27:21,806 --> 00:27:24,800 one of which was unearthed in the Money Pit area, 601 00:27:24,884 --> 00:27:28,303 represent more key clues that could help identify 602 00:27:28,388 --> 00:27:31,398 just who was behind the Oak Island mystery? 603 00:27:31,483 --> 00:27:33,567 So, look, uh, Doctor. 604 00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:35,736 - This is phenomenal from our standpoint. - Stunning. 605 00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:37,312 I mean, if you had to guess, uh, 606 00:27:37,397 --> 00:27:40,065 and pardon my sort of language here, 607 00:27:40,149 --> 00:27:42,910 but what the hell are these doing on Oak Island? 608 00:27:42,994 --> 00:27:45,746 A perfectly spherical chunk of these rocks 609 00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:47,739 transported somehow to Oak Island 610 00:27:47,832 --> 00:27:49,741 would be very unusual. 611 00:27:49,826 --> 00:27:53,078 I mean, it seems like one in a million that these are there. 612 00:27:53,162 --> 00:27:54,663 That one came from the ground in the Money Pit, 613 00:27:54,747 --> 00:27:55,923 - that's the crazy part of it. - MARTY: Yeah. 614 00:27:56,007 --> 00:27:57,424 Well, it came out of the caisson that was put down 615 00:27:57,583 --> 00:27:59,000 right next to C-1. 616 00:27:59,094 --> 00:28:00,678 RICK: These two stone shot, 617 00:28:00,837 --> 00:28:03,597 they are not native to Nova Scotia. 618 00:28:03,756 --> 00:28:09,010 These are from two geographic regions that are tightly aligned 619 00:28:09,095 --> 00:28:11,012 with Portuguese and Spain, 620 00:28:11,106 --> 00:28:13,598 and we now can say to ourselves, 621 00:28:13,683 --> 00:28:17,861 well, what theories align with possibly this stone shot 622 00:28:17,946 --> 00:28:20,280 originating from these-these areas. 623 00:28:20,365 --> 00:28:22,357 - That's phenomenal. Really. - Yeah. 624 00:28:22,450 --> 00:28:24,276 I mean, that is absolutely astounding. 625 00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:26,611 These two little cannonballs are 626 00:28:26,705 --> 00:28:28,706 one of the most significant things we've found 627 00:28:28,790 --> 00:28:32,200 on the island because they were phased out 628 00:28:32,285 --> 00:28:34,619 from use in the early 1600s. 629 00:28:34,704 --> 00:28:37,038 And so, we have a way-back-there date again. 630 00:28:37,123 --> 00:28:39,207 That was a great bit of data for us. 631 00:28:39,292 --> 00:28:41,126 And Dr. Raeside, I just want to say thank you 632 00:28:41,210 --> 00:28:42,636 on behalf of the whole crew here. 633 00:28:42,795 --> 00:28:45,213 Well, you're very welcome. I was glad to be able to help. 634 00:28:45,298 --> 00:28:46,515 - Thank you. - Thanks. - Take care. 635 00:28:47,642 --> 00:28:48,726 IAN: Thanks. 636 00:28:52,981 --> 00:28:55,649 NARRATOR: Following the team's meeting in the war room, 637 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:57,985 and while the core-drilling operation continues, 638 00:28:58,144 --> 00:29:00,070 in the C-1 cluster... 639 00:29:01,397 --> 00:29:03,741 GARY: Let's find some history, mate. 640 00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:06,485 Metal detection expert Gary Drayton... 641 00:29:06,569 --> 00:29:07,819 Winkle a good find. 642 00:29:07,904 --> 00:29:09,404 Along with Jack Begley 643 00:29:09,489 --> 00:29:12,491 and heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt 644 00:29:12,575 --> 00:29:15,002 continue searching through the nearby spoils 645 00:29:15,161 --> 00:29:19,590 excavated from the Money Pit by Robert Dunfield back in 1965. 646 00:29:25,013 --> 00:29:27,848 - (beeping) - See the little bits of wood there, though, 647 00:29:27,932 --> 00:29:29,090 - in that bucket, Jack? - JACK: Yeah. 648 00:29:29,184 --> 00:29:31,435 BILLY: It's consistently wood. 649 00:29:33,855 --> 00:29:35,764 And if you go a little further to your right in the di-- 650 00:29:35,848 --> 00:29:38,850 In the bucket, there's a real dark wood. 651 00:29:38,943 --> 00:29:41,269 - And it's right at the bottom? - It's right in those rocks. 652 00:29:41,362 --> 00:29:43,355 - Right? You saw me scraping the rocks. - Mixed with the rocks. Yeah. 653 00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:46,024 You see the wood, that is right at that layer. 654 00:29:46,117 --> 00:29:48,360 That cut looks intentional. Don't you think? 655 00:29:48,444 --> 00:29:50,529 Oh, yeah. No, it's cut. 656 00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:51,955 It's hand-hewn. 657 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,625 That's-- it's too thick for dimensional, too. Right? 658 00:29:54,709 --> 00:29:58,212 NARRATOR: A hand-hewn or manually cut timber? 659 00:29:58,296 --> 00:30:00,372 Because mechanized cutting tools-- 660 00:30:00,465 --> 00:30:03,875 Such as the circular saw-- Were not commonly used 661 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,137 in construction until the late 18th century, 662 00:30:07,222 --> 00:30:10,215 could this hand-cut wooden beam be potential evidence 663 00:30:10,299 --> 00:30:12,643 of the original Money Pit shaft? 664 00:30:12,727 --> 00:30:15,470 If so, what else might be waiting to be found 665 00:30:15,563 --> 00:30:18,482 in the so-called Dunfield spoils? 666 00:30:18,566 --> 00:30:21,485 You mind if I poke around down there a little bit? 667 00:30:21,569 --> 00:30:23,728 Just go around to the other end and walk down that slope, right. 668 00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:24,780 JACK: Okay. 669 00:30:28,159 --> 00:30:29,818 I'll come down there and detect. 670 00:30:29,902 --> 00:30:33,247 - 'Cause this is spoils just going all the way up. - BILLY: Yep. 671 00:30:33,331 --> 00:30:36,074 Right. Now, if we do find anything here... 672 00:30:36,167 --> 00:30:39,753 Yeah, a nail or anything would be good to find here, Gary. 673 00:30:39,838 --> 00:30:42,506 (detector beeping) 674 00:30:45,009 --> 00:30:48,512 - You're getting a hit already? - Yeah, it's in this. 675 00:30:51,257 --> 00:30:54,184 Is it that? Yep, it is. 676 00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:57,271 - JACK: Oh, wow. - GARY: It's a cribbing spike. 677 00:30:57,355 --> 00:30:59,764 - Cribbing spike's a... Yeah. - JACK: And that one's probably really old. 678 00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:02,851 I mean, anywhere where we've been at a good depth, 679 00:31:02,935 --> 00:31:04,853 we find these older cribbing spikes. 680 00:31:04,937 --> 00:31:07,439 And, of course, we can have it tested... 681 00:31:07,523 --> 00:31:09,441 Mm-hmm. 682 00:31:09,534 --> 00:31:13,361 To see if it's, you know, pre-1830s, 1840s. 683 00:31:13,446 --> 00:31:16,290 But it's got some heft to it as well. 684 00:31:16,449 --> 00:31:18,867 That's a good point. 685 00:31:18,951 --> 00:31:21,119 GARY: A cribbing spike is an iron fastener 686 00:31:21,212 --> 00:31:24,956 that was used to connect two pieces of wood together. 687 00:31:25,041 --> 00:31:28,886 Normally associated with tunnels or shafts. 688 00:31:28,970 --> 00:31:30,795 This cribbing spike could actually be 689 00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:34,975 part of the original construction of the Money Pit. 690 00:31:35,059 --> 00:31:38,219 All right, mate, I'll put this in my pouch and keep going. 691 00:31:38,304 --> 00:31:40,731 - All right, mate, let's see what else is down here. - JACK: Yeah. 692 00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:48,238 NARRATOR: Before another productive day comes to an end 693 00:31:48,397 --> 00:31:50,649 - on Oak Island... - (insects chirping) 694 00:31:50,733 --> 00:31:52,817 MARTY: Dr. Brosseau, welcome to the war room. 695 00:31:52,902 --> 00:31:54,244 My pleasure. Happy to be here. 696 00:31:54,403 --> 00:31:56,237 Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, 697 00:31:56,331 --> 00:31:58,239 their partner, Craig Tester, 698 00:31:58,324 --> 00:32:01,242 and members of the team meet in the war room 699 00:32:01,336 --> 00:32:03,170 with chemist Dr. Christa Brosseau, 700 00:32:03,254 --> 00:32:05,255 who has traveled down to the island 701 00:32:05,414 --> 00:32:08,833 from St. Mary's University in Halifax. 702 00:32:09,585 --> 00:32:13,180 She has come to present her scientific analysis 703 00:32:13,264 --> 00:32:16,841 on the mysterious metal artifact discovered one day ago 704 00:32:16,935 --> 00:32:21,346 at a depth of 75 feet in borehole CD4.5. 705 00:32:21,430 --> 00:32:25,266 It is rare for metal to come up in these cores. 706 00:32:25,351 --> 00:32:26,526 NARRATOR: It is the team's hope 707 00:32:26,611 --> 00:32:27,861 that she can not only verify 708 00:32:28,020 --> 00:32:29,437 their initial findings 709 00:32:29,522 --> 00:32:32,524 that the object contains a significant amount of gold 710 00:32:32,608 --> 00:32:35,285 but also identify its country of origin. 711 00:32:35,370 --> 00:32:37,371 MARTY: So, today you have some results. 712 00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:39,948 Yeah, I found it interesting. 713 00:32:40,032 --> 00:32:42,292 I think you will find it interesting as well. 714 00:32:42,451 --> 00:32:45,462 This is from CD4.5. It was found at 75 feet. 715 00:32:45,546 --> 00:32:49,299 It's this funky, little piece of metal. 716 00:32:49,384 --> 00:32:52,377 It's rare, and exceedingly rare, 717 00:32:52,470 --> 00:32:55,472 that we find any sort of metal object in any of the cores. 718 00:32:55,556 --> 00:32:58,308 If you find it interesting, certainly we will. 719 00:32:59,811 --> 00:33:03,555 So, yes, this is the breakdown of the metal itself. 720 00:33:03,648 --> 00:33:06,650 So, it's an iron object. 721 00:33:06,809 --> 00:33:10,145 It does contain manganese but just in one spot 722 00:33:10,229 --> 00:33:11,571 and in very high concentration, 723 00:33:11,656 --> 00:33:14,491 so, typically for me, that's an indication 724 00:33:14,575 --> 00:33:16,735 that the manganese is original to the ore body. 725 00:33:17,912 --> 00:33:21,665 But the really interesting part of this particular object is 726 00:33:21,824 --> 00:33:24,292 that there are several gold flakes on it. 727 00:33:25,837 --> 00:33:27,912 - Wow. - (chuckles) 728 00:33:28,006 --> 00:33:29,423 CHRISTA: So, there's about three or four large ones, 729 00:33:29,507 --> 00:33:31,925 and then there's a few smaller ones. 730 00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:35,012 And so, they're very obvious under the electron microscope. 731 00:33:35,096 --> 00:33:36,596 Um, so, of course, right away that was 732 00:33:36,756 --> 00:33:37,848 really interesting to me. 733 00:33:38,007 --> 00:33:39,591 - That's why it was, uh... - Yeah, I would say so. 734 00:33:39,675 --> 00:33:42,260 - But, um... - (laughter) 735 00:33:42,353 --> 00:33:45,522 And so, the composition of the gold flakes on this piece 736 00:33:45,681 --> 00:33:48,516 is very, very similar to the composition 737 00:33:48,601 --> 00:33:52,612 of the gold flake that you found on the object 738 00:33:52,697 --> 00:33:54,322 that had come out of D2. 739 00:33:58,527 --> 00:34:01,946 NARRATOR: The metal from borehole CD4.5, 740 00:34:02,031 --> 00:34:03,948 discovered 75 feet deep 741 00:34:04,042 --> 00:34:06,710 within a possible tunnel in the Money Pit area, 742 00:34:06,869 --> 00:34:09,963 a near match to the gold composition 743 00:34:10,048 --> 00:34:14,468 of that found in borehole D2, some 15 feet deeper? 744 00:34:14,627 --> 00:34:18,797 If so, could Rick, Marty and the team have found evidence 745 00:34:18,881 --> 00:34:20,891 that the actual design of the Money Pit 746 00:34:20,975 --> 00:34:24,227 is even more complex than anyone ever knew? 747 00:34:25,396 --> 00:34:27,147 For there to be a significant treasure 748 00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:29,149 where we've been drilling all these boreholes 749 00:34:29,233 --> 00:34:31,401 seems far-fetched at this point. 750 00:34:31,486 --> 00:34:33,320 But if it's in an offset chamber, 751 00:34:33,404 --> 00:34:35,405 which is what this is kind of suggesting, 752 00:34:35,490 --> 00:34:37,232 then it makes sense. 753 00:34:37,316 --> 00:34:39,234 I-It makes sense why it still might be there. 754 00:34:39,318 --> 00:34:42,320 It makes sense why our predecessors didn't find it. 755 00:34:42,413 --> 00:34:44,081 It's exciting. 756 00:34:44,165 --> 00:34:46,574 Do you know how they're adhered to it? 757 00:34:46,659 --> 00:34:49,086 - Are they stuck to it, or are they wedged? - Yeah. 758 00:34:49,245 --> 00:34:51,663 They're stuck into the-the metal itself. 759 00:34:51,747 --> 00:34:54,591 This, at some point, has been transferred onto the surface. 760 00:34:56,418 --> 00:34:58,086 The thing that I found even more interesting, 761 00:34:58,170 --> 00:35:00,430 because of course I can look at composition, 762 00:35:00,589 --> 00:35:04,017 that gold and this gold have essentially 763 00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:05,936 almost identical compositions. 764 00:35:08,272 --> 00:35:10,181 And so, historically, the only thing that I could find 765 00:35:10,266 --> 00:35:13,110 that was, uh, from antiquity, 766 00:35:13,194 --> 00:35:16,521 high copper content in gold artifacts, 767 00:35:16,605 --> 00:35:18,907 uh, is coming out of, actually, South America. 768 00:35:20,526 --> 00:35:25,288 Oh. 769 00:35:25,447 --> 00:35:26,790 Wow. 770 00:35:26,949 --> 00:35:28,700 NARRATOR: In the Oak Island war room, 771 00:35:28,784 --> 00:35:30,451 Dr. Christa Brosseau has just presented a scientific report 772 00:35:30,536 --> 00:35:32,879 that the metal objects unearthed 773 00:35:32,964 --> 00:35:37,709 from boreholes CD4.5 and D2 in the Money Pit area 774 00:35:37,793 --> 00:35:40,053 not only contain the same amount of gold 775 00:35:40,138 --> 00:35:42,889 but may also be of South American origin. 776 00:35:42,974 --> 00:35:45,884 CHRISTA: And so, the composition here 777 00:35:45,977 --> 00:35:48,720 would be consistent with a, like a 14 karat gold. 778 00:35:48,813 --> 00:35:51,731 It could be a rose gold. 779 00:35:51,891 --> 00:35:56,236 The high copper content is used to make gold jewelry stronger. 780 00:35:56,395 --> 00:35:59,823 Does that mean that gold is definitively worked by man? 781 00:35:59,907 --> 00:36:02,325 (stammers) It couldn't be naturally occurring? 782 00:36:03,652 --> 00:36:06,246 I would not think it's naturally occurring. 783 00:36:06,405 --> 00:36:10,000 MARTY: It's exciting that it showed up on two different pieces. 784 00:36:10,084 --> 00:36:12,577 I looked and reached out to these treasure hunters 785 00:36:12,661 --> 00:36:14,337 that are, um, looking for the Spanish gold. 786 00:36:14,422 --> 00:36:16,831 Uh, when the Spanish first arrived, 787 00:36:16,916 --> 00:36:19,083 they first started plundering the artifacts 788 00:36:19,168 --> 00:36:21,428 that the Indigenous people had, 789 00:36:21,512 --> 00:36:23,013 and they often had var-- 790 00:36:23,172 --> 00:36:24,848 Quite varying amounts of copper in them. 791 00:36:25,007 --> 00:36:26,591 So, they melted it all down and created 792 00:36:26,675 --> 00:36:29,102 what they called tumbaga bars. 793 00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:32,096 If they were mainly gold, they called them gold bars. 794 00:36:32,181 --> 00:36:34,682 - So that was actually really exciting. - Yeah. 795 00:36:34,767 --> 00:36:36,610 There is history of the Spanish Conquistadors 796 00:36:36,769 --> 00:36:40,447 - like, yeah... (stammers) making these tumbaga bars. - Yeah. 797 00:36:40,606 --> 00:36:43,700 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the metal object found 798 00:36:43,784 --> 00:36:46,536 in borehole CD4.5, 799 00:36:46,695 --> 00:36:49,289 as well as the one found in borehole D2, 800 00:36:49,448 --> 00:36:51,374 both contain tumbaga-- 801 00:36:51,533 --> 00:36:53,952 The ancient gold, copper and silver mixture, 802 00:36:54,036 --> 00:36:56,046 used by Spanish Conquistadors 803 00:36:56,130 --> 00:36:59,707 to create valuable artifacts as much as 500 years ago? 804 00:36:59,792 --> 00:37:01,709 MARTY: It turns out that 805 00:37:01,794 --> 00:37:04,295 South American Indigenous peoples 806 00:37:04,388 --> 00:37:07,807 used a lot of copper in their gold and silver. 807 00:37:07,967 --> 00:37:09,726 When you melted it all together, 808 00:37:09,810 --> 00:37:11,561 you'd get some sort of composition 809 00:37:11,646 --> 00:37:14,138 very like what we just found in the Money Pit. 810 00:37:14,223 --> 00:37:18,318 I find that incredibly exciting and relevant. 811 00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:22,563 NARRATOR: Could this mean that the Spanish were in fact 812 00:37:22,648 --> 00:37:24,491 behind the Oak Island mystery? 813 00:37:24,575 --> 00:37:27,911 But if so, what would explain the recent evidence 814 00:37:27,995 --> 00:37:32,490 that the team has found of possible Portuguese activity? 815 00:37:32,583 --> 00:37:34,167 Evidence that includes the believed stone wharf 816 00:37:34,252 --> 00:37:35,919 in the swamp... 817 00:37:37,338 --> 00:37:39,664 and the two gun stones-- 818 00:37:39,748 --> 00:37:42,583 One of which was recovered in the Money Pit? 819 00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:46,421 Could the fact that Portugal competed with Spain 820 00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:47,931 for control of South America 821 00:37:48,015 --> 00:37:51,009 between the 15th and 18th centuries 822 00:37:51,093 --> 00:37:54,429 mean that the treasure is of Spanish origin, 823 00:37:54,513 --> 00:37:57,432 but was perhaps stolen by Portuguese rivals 824 00:37:57,516 --> 00:38:00,110 and hidden on Oak Island? 825 00:38:02,438 --> 00:38:04,105 RICK: I find it instructive. 826 00:38:04,189 --> 00:38:07,692 Is it a-a cause for great hope and-and excitement 827 00:38:07,785 --> 00:38:10,787 and anticipation about what we are about to proceed to do, 828 00:38:10,871 --> 00:38:13,531 i.e. the caisson install? Absolutely. 829 00:38:13,615 --> 00:38:17,043 I mean, there couldn't be anything else better, 830 00:38:17,202 --> 00:38:21,715 short of a coin or-or something indicative of possible treasure. 831 00:38:21,799 --> 00:38:23,875 - Yeah. - MARTY: I would say that for sure. 832 00:38:23,968 --> 00:38:25,960 You know, it's-it's the thing that keeps you going. 833 00:38:26,045 --> 00:38:28,546 Okay, well, we all have several things to do. 834 00:38:28,630 --> 00:38:30,140 Thank you, Dr. Brosseau, and, uh, 835 00:38:30,299 --> 00:38:32,216 - we're gonna get back at it. - Sounds good. 836 00:38:33,144 --> 00:38:35,887 NARRATOR: For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina 837 00:38:35,971 --> 00:38:37,555 and their Oak Island team, 838 00:38:37,648 --> 00:38:40,975 a week that began with a frustrating setback, 839 00:38:41,068 --> 00:38:42,643 now ends with incredible evidence 840 00:38:42,728 --> 00:38:44,812 that they are closer than ever 841 00:38:44,897 --> 00:38:48,566 to solving the 226-year-old mystery. 842 00:38:48,650 --> 00:38:51,903 But as they continue drilling and digging 843 00:38:51,996 --> 00:38:55,323 in the Money Pit, just what will they ultimately find? 844 00:38:55,407 --> 00:38:59,744 A treasure vault full of Spanish gold and silver? 845 00:38:59,828 --> 00:39:02,413 Or will they find that the complex workings 846 00:39:02,506 --> 00:39:05,175 of the Money Pit contain numerous chambers, 847 00:39:05,334 --> 00:39:09,512 with not only millions or billions in treasure 848 00:39:09,671 --> 00:39:12,932 but also priceless artifacts as well? 849 00:39:13,017 --> 00:39:16,686 Whatever the case may actually be, 850 00:39:16,845 --> 00:39:19,272 the other burning question that remains 851 00:39:19,431 --> 00:39:24,527 is just how much longer can the island keep its secrets? 852 00:39:27,940 --> 00:39:30,858 Next time on The Curse of Oak Island... 853 00:39:30,943 --> 00:39:33,787 Let's have a look. Whoa, that looks like a beam. 854 00:39:33,871 --> 00:39:35,446 - SCOTT: That's pit saw. - TERRY: You got to like that. 855 00:39:35,531 --> 00:39:39,700 The map Zena Halpern had found says "le trou sous la trappe," 856 00:39:39,794 --> 00:39:42,954 - which means, "the hole under the hatch." - We will look there. 857 00:39:43,047 --> 00:39:45,298 COLIN: We conducted a magnetometer survey. 858 00:39:45,383 --> 00:39:47,801 This is a decent-size anomaly. 859 00:39:47,885 --> 00:39:51,888 That's near where the hatch from Zena's map could be. 860 00:39:51,972 --> 00:39:53,890 Okay, Billy. Let's find something. 861 00:39:55,142 --> 00:39:56,134 JACK: Whoa! Whoa! Wow!