1 00:00:01,918 --> 00:00:03,085 NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island... 2 00:00:03,244 --> 00:00:04,494 TERRY: Let's have a look. 3 00:00:04,587 --> 00:00:06,171 Whoa, that looks like a beam. 4 00:00:06,256 --> 00:00:07,914 - SCOTT: That's pit saw. - TERRY: You got to like that. 5 00:00:08,008 --> 00:00:10,167 The map Zena Halpern had found 6 00:00:10,260 --> 00:00:12,261 says, "Le trou sous la trappe," 7 00:00:12,420 --> 00:00:15,347 - which means "the hole under the hatch." - We will look there. 8 00:00:15,432 --> 00:00:17,674 COLIN: We conducted a magnetometer survey. 9 00:00:17,767 --> 00:00:20,185 This is a decent-size anomaly. 10 00:00:20,270 --> 00:00:24,347 That's near where the hatch from Zena's map could be. 11 00:00:24,441 --> 00:00:26,767 Okay, Billy. Let's find something. 12 00:00:26,860 --> 00:00:28,527 JACK: Whoa, whoa, wow. 13 00:00:31,606 --> 00:00:34,524 NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic 14 00:00:34,617 --> 00:00:37,110 where people have been looking for 15 00:00:37,203 --> 00:00:41,114 an incredible treasure for more than 200 years. 16 00:00:41,199 --> 00:00:44,117 So far, they have found a stone slab 17 00:00:44,210 --> 00:00:46,128 with strange symbols carved into it... 18 00:00:47,622 --> 00:00:50,632 man-made workings that date to medieval times, 19 00:00:50,717 --> 00:00:55,045 and a lead cross whose origin may be connected 20 00:00:55,129 --> 00:00:56,296 to the Knights Templar. 21 00:00:56,380 --> 00:00:59,132 To date, six men have died 22 00:00:59,225 --> 00:01:02,052 trying to solve the mystery. 23 00:01:02,136 --> 00:01:07,057 And according to legend, one more will have to die 24 00:01:07,150 --> 00:01:09,526 before the treasure can be found. 25 00:01:14,574 --> 00:01:17,076 ♪ ♪ 26 00:01:19,904 --> 00:01:22,081 ♪ ♪ 27 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,333 TERRY: Charles, here we are. 28 00:01:24,492 --> 00:01:28,411 About 20 feet away from C-1. 29 00:01:28,505 --> 00:01:30,497 This is all new territory. 30 00:01:30,590 --> 00:01:33,416 This is undiscovered as far as we're concerned, right? 31 00:01:33,510 --> 00:01:35,844 - Exactly. - That goes out there somewhere, 32 00:01:36,003 --> 00:01:38,347 - and we just haven't found it yet. - That's right. 33 00:01:38,506 --> 00:01:41,600 NARRATOR: Another exciting day has begun on Oak Island, 34 00:01:41,684 --> 00:01:44,845 as brothers Rick and Marty Lagina 35 00:01:44,938 --> 00:01:48,181 and their team continue a strategic drilling operation 36 00:01:48,266 --> 00:01:49,775 at the fabled Money pit. 37 00:01:49,859 --> 00:01:51,852 - We got another core coming out. - Yep. 38 00:01:51,945 --> 00:01:54,530 NARRATOR: An operation based on a grid 39 00:01:54,689 --> 00:01:56,698 of more than 20 boreholes 40 00:01:56,783 --> 00:01:59,526 designed for the purpose of locating the treasure vault 41 00:01:59,619 --> 00:02:03,622 that people have been looking for since 1795. 42 00:02:06,284 --> 00:02:08,451 And as the effort 43 00:02:08,545 --> 00:02:10,787 to pinpoint the believed treasure continues... 44 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,965 - How you doing? - Welcome back, David. 45 00:02:13,049 --> 00:02:14,708 Good to be back. 46 00:02:14,801 --> 00:02:16,718 - We've got everybody inside. - Awesome. Let's get at it. 47 00:02:17,804 --> 00:02:19,304 at the war room, 48 00:02:19,463 --> 00:02:22,299 Rick Lagina and his partner Craig Tester 49 00:02:22,383 --> 00:02:23,642 welcome David Irving, 50 00:02:23,726 --> 00:02:26,136 the owner of Irving Equipment Limited. 51 00:02:26,220 --> 00:02:29,055 He has traveled more than 300 miles 52 00:02:29,149 --> 00:02:31,808 from his company headquarters in New Brunswick 53 00:02:31,893 --> 00:02:33,727 to help the team formulate 54 00:02:33,820 --> 00:02:36,730 a much more extensive plan to excavate the Money Pit area. 55 00:02:36,823 --> 00:02:38,481 - There they are. - CRAIG: Hello. 56 00:02:38,566 --> 00:02:41,076 Hey, guys. Lady. 57 00:02:41,161 --> 00:02:43,820 NARRATOR: Joining the meeting via videoconference 58 00:02:43,913 --> 00:02:46,740 are Marty Lagina along with representatives 59 00:02:46,824 --> 00:02:50,493 from both Irving Equipment Limited and ROC Equipment. 60 00:02:50,587 --> 00:02:52,579 RICK: So, welcome, everybody. 61 00:02:52,663 --> 00:02:54,080 Uh, I think everybody knows why we're here. 62 00:02:54,165 --> 00:02:57,259 We're interested in advancing the ball on this, uh, 63 00:02:57,418 --> 00:03:00,512 somewhat unique situation here, ten-foot cans this year. 64 00:03:00,597 --> 00:03:04,424 - Yes. - MARTY: So, we are reenergized about the whole thing. 65 00:03:04,517 --> 00:03:07,427 This is substantially more. It's almost double. 66 00:03:07,511 --> 00:03:09,771 IRVING: Bill, why don't you, uh, kick your things off here 67 00:03:09,856 --> 00:03:11,940 - and let 'em know what our game plan is. - Yeah, sure. 68 00:03:12,025 --> 00:03:13,934 So, we've been working really closely here 69 00:03:14,027 --> 00:03:15,602 with, uh, Vanessa over at ROC 70 00:03:15,695 --> 00:03:18,688 to make sure that we've got all the equipment lined up 71 00:03:18,781 --> 00:03:20,273 and, uh, make sure we've got the crane, 72 00:03:20,358 --> 00:03:21,867 the, uh, the oscillator 73 00:03:22,026 --> 00:03:24,110 as well as anything else required to get us down 74 00:03:24,204 --> 00:03:25,704 into the bottom of that pit. 75 00:03:25,788 --> 00:03:27,623 NARRATOR: Over the past month, 76 00:03:27,782 --> 00:03:31,210 the Oak Island team has made astonishing discoveries 77 00:03:31,369 --> 00:03:33,712 in a number of boreholes across their grid system 78 00:03:33,871 --> 00:03:37,457 near the four-foot-wide shaft known as C-1, 79 00:03:37,541 --> 00:03:42,879 which was first dug to a depth of 171 feet six years ago. 80 00:03:42,972 --> 00:03:45,807 These finds include water samples 81 00:03:45,967 --> 00:03:49,144 containing trace evidence of both silver and gold, 82 00:03:49,303 --> 00:03:54,316 and at a depth of some 90 feet, metal fragments containing gold. 83 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,985 As well as evidence of wooden tunnels 84 00:03:57,144 --> 00:04:01,147 that have been carbon-dated to as early as 1488. 85 00:04:01,241 --> 00:04:04,660 Now, as Rick, Marty, Craig and the team 86 00:04:04,819 --> 00:04:06,987 conclude the final weeks 87 00:04:07,071 --> 00:04:09,572 of their drilling program in the Money Pit, 88 00:04:09,657 --> 00:04:12,826 they are ready to begin planning phase two of this year's quest, 89 00:04:12,910 --> 00:04:16,505 which entails digging a number of ten-foot-wide steel shafts 90 00:04:16,664 --> 00:04:19,916 to depths of as much as 170 feet 91 00:04:20,001 --> 00:04:24,763 and hopefully solve the Oak Island mystery once and for all. 92 00:04:24,922 --> 00:04:27,599 We're gonna put in several ten-foot cans, 93 00:04:27,758 --> 00:04:31,436 each of which is gonna be bigger than 10-X. 94 00:04:31,595 --> 00:04:36,516 Dan Blankenship, Dan Henskee Dave Blankenship 95 00:04:36,609 --> 00:04:40,445 worked for ten years to get one of those down. 96 00:04:40,604 --> 00:04:42,197 We're gonna do several of them this year, 97 00:04:42,356 --> 00:04:44,274 and they're each gonna be bigger. 98 00:04:44,367 --> 00:04:46,785 As far as rate of digging, using a larger can, 99 00:04:46,944 --> 00:04:48,528 is there a larger hammer grab, or we'll be using 100 00:04:48,612 --> 00:04:50,613 the same hammer grab that we used last time? 101 00:04:50,707 --> 00:04:52,791 Uh, we will use a larger hammer grab. 102 00:04:52,875 --> 00:04:54,701 I believe it's a 2710 hammer grab. 103 00:04:54,794 --> 00:04:56,703 Okay, so we'll have more volume coming up 104 00:04:56,787 --> 00:04:58,547 - with each grab as well. - CRAIG: Yep. 105 00:04:58,631 --> 00:05:01,207 It's a lot of material put through the wash plant. 106 00:05:01,292 --> 00:05:03,376 It's a lot more water coming on location 107 00:05:03,461 --> 00:05:04,720 that we need to handle. 108 00:05:04,879 --> 00:05:07,222 - Good. - MARTY: By the way, 109 00:05:07,307 --> 00:05:10,133 we would like to do this as nondestructive as possible 110 00:05:10,217 --> 00:05:11,893 because, boy, this is, this is something. 111 00:05:11,978 --> 00:05:16,806 We did detect, uh, actual gold 112 00:05:16,891 --> 00:05:19,234 in a certain part of the Money Pit. 113 00:05:19,393 --> 00:05:20,560 Okay, what about timing? 114 00:05:20,644 --> 00:05:22,812 When-when is this all gonna happen? 115 00:05:22,897 --> 00:05:24,147 Tell me when you want us. 116 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,649 If we had to put big cans down today, we'd have... 117 00:05:26,743 --> 00:05:28,902 - We'd be making guesstimates. - Mm-hmm. 118 00:05:28,995 --> 00:05:30,653 And we want to be more precise than that, 119 00:05:30,738 --> 00:05:32,322 especially given the significance 120 00:05:32,415 --> 00:05:35,417 of the gold and silver trace elements. 121 00:05:35,501 --> 00:05:37,419 We want to allow the drill program 122 00:05:37,503 --> 00:05:39,921 to get us as much information as possible. 123 00:05:40,006 --> 00:05:42,924 So the idea was four to six weeks. 124 00:05:43,084 --> 00:05:44,751 That's excellent. That's great. 125 00:05:44,835 --> 00:05:47,087 I think we'll be, We'll be, uh, ready for that. 126 00:05:47,171 --> 00:05:49,681 But let me ask you a question there, big brother. 127 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:52,184 Can you and Craig say, "Okay, we're gonna do 128 00:05:52,343 --> 00:05:54,844 one caisson for sure" or "two for sure"? 129 00:05:54,937 --> 00:05:58,523 We've picked four. Uh, we think that's reasonable. 130 00:05:58,608 --> 00:06:00,942 MARTY: So, we're gonna do four ten-foot cans, 131 00:06:01,102 --> 00:06:02,769 and you believe we're gonna have 132 00:06:02,853 --> 00:06:05,688 four good places to do it? Right? 133 00:06:05,773 --> 00:06:07,699 It's a great problem, right? 134 00:06:07,784 --> 00:06:10,702 I mean... (chuckles) first can we put down, 135 00:06:10,787 --> 00:06:14,697 bingo, who cares if we put three more down, right? 136 00:06:14,791 --> 00:06:16,958 Oh, okay, I agree with that. Yes, yes. 137 00:06:17,043 --> 00:06:18,710 And if we only put one down, 138 00:06:18,869 --> 00:06:21,204 we might be able to pay them in doubloons, right? 139 00:06:21,288 --> 00:06:22,881 - You guys would take that, wouldn't you? - (laughter) 140 00:06:24,291 --> 00:06:26,876 It feels like things are coming together, 141 00:06:26,961 --> 00:06:29,388 and I'm very hopeful. 142 00:06:29,547 --> 00:06:32,048 So let's launch it all, and let's-let's do this. 143 00:06:32,133 --> 00:06:34,976 - Full speed ahead. - Full speed ahead. 144 00:06:35,061 --> 00:06:36,636 Okay, well, thank you, everybody. 145 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,222 I think we all have a lot of work to do. 146 00:06:39,315 --> 00:06:41,141 It should be an exciting year. 147 00:06:41,225 --> 00:06:42,976 - Thank you. - Goodbye. 148 00:06:43,060 --> 00:06:44,903 - RICK: Take care. - CRAIG: Bye, guys. 149 00:06:46,647 --> 00:06:48,740 NARRATOR: Following his meeting in the war room... 150 00:06:48,825 --> 00:06:50,984 RICK: Okay, Billy, let's find something. 151 00:06:51,068 --> 00:06:52,411 BILLY: All right? 152 00:06:52,570 --> 00:06:55,238 Rick Lagina joins heavy equipment operator 153 00:06:55,322 --> 00:06:59,159 Billy Gerhardt, metal detection expert Gary Drayton 154 00:06:59,252 --> 00:07:03,171 and Jack Begley just east of the Money Pit on Lot 18. 155 00:07:03,330 --> 00:07:06,499 They are continuing to search through the mounds of earth 156 00:07:06,584 --> 00:07:08,835 known simply as the Dunfield Spoils. 157 00:07:08,919 --> 00:07:11,012 Let's find some good stuff. 158 00:07:11,172 --> 00:07:13,840 NARRATOR: Back in 1965, 159 00:07:13,924 --> 00:07:16,184 when Robert Dunfield dug 160 00:07:16,269 --> 00:07:19,855 a massive 100-foot-wide by 140-foot-deep hole 161 00:07:20,014 --> 00:07:21,940 in a failed attempt to recover 162 00:07:22,099 --> 00:07:24,025 the legendary Money Pit treasure vault, 163 00:07:24,110 --> 00:07:26,186 he left behind tons of earth 164 00:07:26,270 --> 00:07:30,690 that was never searched for possible clues or valuables. 165 00:07:30,774 --> 00:07:32,442 JACK: What'd you find, Gary? 166 00:07:32,535 --> 00:07:34,870 GARY: I think it's a chisel, by the look of it. 167 00:07:35,029 --> 00:07:36,946 NARRATOR: One week ago, 168 00:07:37,031 --> 00:07:38,623 Gary Drayton recovered 169 00:07:38,708 --> 00:07:41,126 a potentially ancient metal artifact within them. 170 00:07:42,870 --> 00:07:46,256 - Can you pull that level off back? - BILLY: Yeah. 171 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,635 NARRATOR: Now, as the team continues looking for 172 00:07:50,794 --> 00:07:53,630 any valuables that may have been left behind, 173 00:07:53,714 --> 00:07:55,891 they are also hoping to discover key evidence 174 00:07:56,050 --> 00:07:58,968 that could help them decide where to dig one or more 175 00:07:59,053 --> 00:08:01,146 of their own ten-foot-wide shafts 176 00:08:01,230 --> 00:08:04,224 later this year in the Money Pit. 177 00:08:04,317 --> 00:08:07,569 Mr. Dunfield did not go through his stuff very closely. 178 00:08:07,653 --> 00:08:10,655 He didn't have all these people looking at every thing 179 00:08:10,740 --> 00:08:12,815 that we're looking at, so it's a fruitful operation 180 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:16,286 to go through these spoil piles, and it's a must-do. 181 00:08:18,072 --> 00:08:20,740 You see that near the bottom, see the wood? 182 00:08:20,824 --> 00:08:22,492 There's some right there in the bank. 183 00:08:22,585 --> 00:08:24,169 - BILLY: Yeah. - JACK: Whoa. 184 00:08:25,338 --> 00:08:27,464 There's definitely bits of wood. 185 00:08:28,758 --> 00:08:30,667 GARY: You found something, Rick? 186 00:08:30,751 --> 00:08:32,252 RICK: I don't know. 187 00:08:32,345 --> 00:08:33,678 You can come down if you want 188 00:08:33,837 --> 00:08:36,806 - and metal-detect it. - Okay, on my way down. 189 00:08:38,676 --> 00:08:40,352 Okay, mate. 190 00:08:40,436 --> 00:08:42,845 Let's see if there's anything here. 191 00:08:42,930 --> 00:08:45,348 Nope. Nothing at the moment. 192 00:08:45,432 --> 00:08:47,934 I'll do that little area. 193 00:08:48,027 --> 00:08:50,529 (metal detector beeping) 194 00:08:50,688 --> 00:08:53,031 Yeah, there's plenty of iron just there. 195 00:08:53,115 --> 00:08:55,534 In fact, there's plenty of iron all in that layer. 196 00:08:55,693 --> 00:08:57,035 - (metal detector beeping) - I'll try pinpointing it. 197 00:08:57,119 --> 00:08:58,870 What's in there? 198 00:08:59,029 --> 00:09:01,623 (beeping) 199 00:09:03,033 --> 00:09:04,960 - JACK: That's a big spike. - Yeah. 200 00:09:05,119 --> 00:09:08,037 And it's-it's very, very heavy. 201 00:09:08,130 --> 00:09:09,464 Here, feel how heavy it is, Jack. 202 00:09:09,549 --> 00:09:11,967 - That's heavy, isn't it? - Mm-hmm. Heavy metal. 203 00:09:12,126 --> 00:09:15,971 - With it being so heavy, you'd have to assume that is old. - Yep. 204 00:09:16,130 --> 00:09:17,964 - See if there's anything else there. - GARY: Okay. 205 00:09:18,057 --> 00:09:19,975 - I'll recheck the hole. Yeah. - Maybe another piece of it. 206 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:23,469 (steady beeping) 207 00:09:23,563 --> 00:09:26,231 GARY: It's just so chirpy all over the place. 208 00:09:26,315 --> 00:09:27,899 - (beeping intensifies) - That's more substantial there. 209 00:09:28,058 --> 00:09:30,902 - It's there. Yeah. - I'll go at a bit of an angle. 210 00:09:34,991 --> 00:09:36,491 RICK: Iron, though, right? 211 00:09:36,650 --> 00:09:39,402 Yeah, it's iron, at the moment. 212 00:09:39,486 --> 00:09:41,413 (beeping) 213 00:09:41,572 --> 00:09:44,249 - It's there. It's there, yeah. - It's that thing? 214 00:09:47,086 --> 00:09:50,005 JACK: There's wood that's jammed on top of it now. 215 00:09:53,751 --> 00:09:55,093 Whoa, whoa. 216 00:09:55,177 --> 00:09:56,886 GARY: Wow. 217 00:10:00,924 --> 00:10:02,842 - JACK: Whoa, whoa. - GARY: It's a big timber. 218 00:10:02,935 --> 00:10:06,104 - That's a big timber. - That's a massive timber. 219 00:10:06,188 --> 00:10:07,930 So, that'll be a massive fastener. 220 00:10:08,015 --> 00:10:09,774 NARRATOR: On Lot 18, 221 00:10:09,859 --> 00:10:13,111 Rick Lagina and members of the team have just made 222 00:10:13,270 --> 00:10:15,021 what could be an important discovery 223 00:10:15,105 --> 00:10:17,198 in spoils excavated from the Money Pit 224 00:10:17,358 --> 00:10:19,692 more than 50 years ago. 225 00:10:19,785 --> 00:10:21,786 (device beeping) 226 00:10:21,871 --> 00:10:24,530 - (beeping intensifies) - GARY: I'm detecting it's there. 227 00:10:24,624 --> 00:10:26,625 That's a screamer, mate. 228 00:10:28,285 --> 00:10:29,544 And it's still in the timber, 229 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:31,788 so we'd be able to date that timber 230 00:10:31,881 --> 00:10:33,465 - by the fastener. - JACK: Yep. 231 00:10:33,624 --> 00:10:35,792 GARY: That's a big timber, isn't it? 232 00:10:35,876 --> 00:10:38,470 - RICK: Let's see that shovel, Jack. - Oh, sure. 233 00:10:38,554 --> 00:10:41,139 - (device beeps) - (Jack grunts) 234 00:10:48,138 --> 00:10:51,224 RICK: We know this came from somewhere in the Money Pit, 235 00:10:51,317 --> 00:10:54,069 so now we can, as you said, chase it backwards 236 00:10:54,153 --> 00:10:56,655 - maybe in time. - Exactly. 237 00:10:58,315 --> 00:11:00,149 NARRATOR: Could this large wooden timber be a critical clue 238 00:11:00,234 --> 00:11:01,734 for the Oak Island team? 239 00:11:01,819 --> 00:11:03,745 Perhaps even evidence 240 00:11:03,829 --> 00:11:06,081 of the original treasure shaft itself? 241 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:10,326 If so, is it possible that Robert Dunfield pinpointed 242 00:11:10,419 --> 00:11:12,078 where the vault lies buried 243 00:11:12,171 --> 00:11:16,174 back in 1965 but just couldn't reach it? 244 00:11:17,501 --> 00:11:19,836 One more scoop. Then we'll take a look. 245 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:21,930 Pull it back, Bill. Let's see, let's see what shows. 246 00:11:22,014 --> 00:11:23,473 - Keep going this way? - RICK: Yep. 247 00:11:25,434 --> 00:11:27,427 RICK: These things from long ago, 248 00:11:27,511 --> 00:11:29,354 and I do believe they're from long ago, 249 00:11:29,513 --> 00:11:31,356 that's exactly what you should be seeing. 250 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,182 It confirms, in my mind, 251 00:11:33,267 --> 00:11:36,269 that we are indeed in original Money Pit spoils. 252 00:11:36,362 --> 00:11:39,114 But what is it? Why is it there? Who built it? 253 00:11:39,273 --> 00:11:41,866 Keep an eye on that timber, Jack, so it doesn't move. 254 00:11:43,110 --> 00:11:44,536 I am. Yeah. 255 00:11:48,541 --> 00:11:52,293 It's so stuck into the clay that it didn't budget all. 256 00:11:52,378 --> 00:11:55,213 Hold on, Billy, let me, let me see what-- 257 00:11:55,372 --> 00:11:57,382 This might be the end of it right here. 258 00:11:58,551 --> 00:11:59,718 Let's see. 259 00:12:03,472 --> 00:12:04,973 Oh, oh, it's moving a little bit. 260 00:12:05,057 --> 00:12:06,391 - Yep. - JACK: Yeah. 261 00:12:08,310 --> 00:12:09,811 What if you split it? 262 00:12:09,895 --> 00:12:11,896 ♪ ♪ 263 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:15,734 Look at that. 264 00:12:15,818 --> 00:12:17,894 Oh, wow, look at that. 265 00:12:17,987 --> 00:12:21,406 That's a big mama jama. Look at that. 266 00:12:23,734 --> 00:12:25,577 (beeping) 267 00:12:27,654 --> 00:12:29,906 - GARY: It's here. - (beeping intensifies) 268 00:12:29,990 --> 00:12:31,750 And there. 269 00:12:33,827 --> 00:12:35,086 So, that's great. 270 00:12:35,245 --> 00:12:36,755 We got a nice little piece of wood 271 00:12:36,839 --> 00:12:38,923 to test and two fasteners. 272 00:12:40,843 --> 00:12:41,926 We made a rather significant find. 273 00:12:42,011 --> 00:12:44,345 - Yep. - Let's get that tested, 274 00:12:44,430 --> 00:12:47,932 - but we need to go deeper, so we'll get out of your way. - GARY: Okay, mate. 275 00:12:48,017 --> 00:12:50,435 - Let's get back to the spoils. - JACK: Let's get after it. 276 00:12:52,855 --> 00:12:54,272 NARRATOR: Later that afternoon... 277 00:12:56,350 --> 00:12:58,109 - CARMEN: Well, lookee here now. - MARTY: Carmen. 278 00:12:58,194 --> 00:13:00,853 - Welcome to the research center, sir. - Oh, thank you. 279 00:13:00,938 --> 00:13:03,773 Marty Lagina, along with Gary Drayton 280 00:13:03,866 --> 00:13:05,942 and Oak Island historian Doug Crowell, 281 00:13:06,035 --> 00:13:07,777 meet in the research center 282 00:13:07,861 --> 00:13:10,705 with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge. 283 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:12,615 We have a piece we'd like to show you. 284 00:13:12,699 --> 00:13:15,368 - Doug, you've got it, don't you? - Actually, I do, Marty, right here. 285 00:13:15,452 --> 00:13:17,620 NARRATOR: While the team is arranging for the metal spike 286 00:13:17,704 --> 00:13:19,956 found earlier today in the Dunfield Spoils 287 00:13:20,049 --> 00:13:22,217 to be scientifically tested 288 00:13:22,301 --> 00:13:24,544 to determine its chemical composition, 289 00:13:24,628 --> 00:13:27,472 they are hoping that Carmen can identify 290 00:13:27,556 --> 00:13:30,383 the purpose and possible age of the object 291 00:13:30,476 --> 00:13:33,812 that Gary found in the same area one week ago. 292 00:13:35,138 --> 00:13:39,150 This artifact came from the Money Pit spoils, 293 00:13:39,235 --> 00:13:41,727 and so, there's a mishmash of everything in there, 294 00:13:41,812 --> 00:13:44,897 but this one artifact really stood out. 295 00:13:44,990 --> 00:13:47,909 It was more corroded. It's been cleaned now. 296 00:13:47,993 --> 00:13:49,160 CARMEN: Oh, yes. 297 00:13:50,821 --> 00:13:52,163 You see it's got the coarse grain there? 298 00:13:52,248 --> 00:13:53,489 CARMEN: Yes, it is. Yeah. 299 00:13:53,582 --> 00:13:56,409 You can see the, uh, grains 300 00:13:56,493 --> 00:13:59,087 or the fibers of the iron, so it's, uh, it's old. 301 00:13:59,246 --> 00:14:03,758 - I would say this would be, uh, mid-1700s. - MARTY: Whoa. 302 00:14:03,843 --> 00:14:07,679 Uh, this is not a chisel or a, uh, any type of tool. 303 00:14:07,763 --> 00:14:09,839 It's a cribbing spike. 304 00:14:09,923 --> 00:14:11,933 -Oh, cribbing spike. Yeah. -All it is, is a crib spike. Yeah. 305 00:14:12,017 --> 00:14:16,020 Crib spike, meaning it's holding big pieces of timber together? 306 00:14:16,179 --> 00:14:18,523 Yep, it's-it's cribbing, so possibility, uh, 307 00:14:18,607 --> 00:14:19,932 you know, a mine shaft 308 00:14:20,017 --> 00:14:22,602 or it could be a wharf or any-any type of thing. 309 00:14:22,686 --> 00:14:27,023 NARRATOR: A cribbing spike found in the Dunfield Spoils, 310 00:14:27,107 --> 00:14:30,201 and possibly dating back as much as half a century 311 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,528 before the discovery of the Money Pit? 312 00:14:32,621 --> 00:14:36,699 Could that mean it's connected to the original treasure shaft 313 00:14:36,783 --> 00:14:39,460 as well as the traces of silver and gold 314 00:14:39,545 --> 00:14:41,704 that the team has found this year? 315 00:14:41,788 --> 00:14:43,706 My-my ear caught mid-1700s, 316 00:14:43,799 --> 00:14:46,050 - so that's what I heard. - GARY: Yeah. 317 00:14:46,135 --> 00:14:48,127 So, it could be depositor related. 318 00:14:48,220 --> 00:14:50,880 Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very confident on that. 319 00:14:52,466 --> 00:14:55,476 MARTY: There's getting to be a whole bunch of dates from the 1700s, 320 00:14:55,561 --> 00:14:58,387 and evidence of tunnels and shafts previously unknown. 321 00:14:58,472 --> 00:15:01,316 So we have to make sense of all that. 322 00:15:01,475 --> 00:15:03,401 But anything pre-1795 323 00:15:03,485 --> 00:15:04,977 rings my bell. 324 00:15:05,070 --> 00:15:08,230 Carmen, thank you for the insightful analysis. 325 00:15:08,315 --> 00:15:10,066 Doug, make some notes, please, to put in 326 00:15:10,159 --> 00:15:12,151 - with the artifact. - Will do. 327 00:15:12,235 --> 00:15:13,828 - And let's us get back out to the island. - All right. 328 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:15,413 - Very good. - DOUG: See you, gentlemen. 329 00:15:18,075 --> 00:15:22,078 NARRATOR: The following morning in the Money Pit area... 330 00:15:22,162 --> 00:15:24,080 - Hi, Rick. How you doing? - I got your text. 331 00:15:24,173 --> 00:15:26,832 - Where are you? - 74 feet. 332 00:15:26,926 --> 00:15:30,595 Rick Lagina checks in with geologist Terry Matheson 333 00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:33,765 and members of the team as they continue drilling 334 00:15:33,924 --> 00:15:36,676 the next borehole on their strategic grid. 335 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,354 A borehole known as E-1.5, 336 00:15:39,438 --> 00:15:41,764 which is not only located just 11 feet 337 00:15:41,848 --> 00:15:44,433 southwest of the C-1 shaft 338 00:15:44,518 --> 00:15:46,861 but is also in the area where the team believes 339 00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:48,780 Robert Dunfield searched for 340 00:15:48,939 --> 00:15:52,108 the Money Pit treasure vault in 1965. 341 00:15:52,192 --> 00:15:55,703 We got, uh, in situ material above, 342 00:15:55,788 --> 00:15:57,705 and then we hit this, 343 00:15:57,790 --> 00:16:01,283 which is starting to look like... 344 00:16:01,368 --> 00:16:04,379 it might be an undermined area of Dunfield backfill, 345 00:16:04,463 --> 00:16:07,456 unfortunately, but initially we thought 346 00:16:07,549 --> 00:16:09,625 it might be something good. 347 00:16:09,710 --> 00:16:12,553 Nothing wrong with that. It confirms our beliefs, right? 348 00:16:12,638 --> 00:16:14,630 - Yeah. - There's always information. 349 00:16:14,715 --> 00:16:16,891 The next core is really the one we're interested in. 350 00:16:17,050 --> 00:16:18,134 TERRY: That's right. 351 00:16:18,227 --> 00:16:22,388 Anywhere from 78 to 95 or 100, 352 00:16:22,472 --> 00:16:24,557 we could intersect that tunnel. 353 00:16:24,641 --> 00:16:25,942 Or a shaft, for that matter. 354 00:16:27,569 --> 00:16:29,311 - What do you got? - 89, Terry. 355 00:16:29,396 --> 00:16:30,905 - TERRY: What's that? - 89. 356 00:16:31,064 --> 00:16:33,566 -TERRY: Let's have a look. Excuse me. -SCOTT: Yeah. 357 00:16:33,650 --> 00:16:35,568 - Thank you. - It's a lot of wood. 358 00:16:35,661 --> 00:16:38,663 TERRY: A lot of... a lot of little chunks of wood. 359 00:16:38,822 --> 00:16:41,323 Whoa, no, that looks like a beam. 360 00:16:41,408 --> 00:16:43,751 That looks like a beam. 361 00:16:43,836 --> 00:16:45,327 SCOTT: Definitely. That's pit saw. 362 00:16:45,412 --> 00:16:46,504 TERRY: Yeah. 363 00:16:46,588 --> 00:16:47,913 Scott, what's a pit saw? 364 00:16:47,998 --> 00:16:49,415 So, they would have saw pits, 365 00:16:49,499 --> 00:16:51,000 basically, where they would lay their logs 366 00:16:51,093 --> 00:16:52,251 over top of a hole in the ground. 367 00:16:52,335 --> 00:16:53,753 And you'd have a man above and a man below, 368 00:16:53,837 --> 00:16:55,847 and they would be working that saw up and down, 369 00:16:55,931 --> 00:16:57,348 cutting these logs. 370 00:16:57,507 --> 00:16:59,267 And you can see how the-the striations on the wood, 371 00:16:59,351 --> 00:17:01,427 how it comes up and then it'll change. 372 00:17:01,511 --> 00:17:03,271 They'll tip it to-to cut again. 373 00:17:03,355 --> 00:17:04,939 That's why you'll see a line come up, 374 00:17:05,098 --> 00:17:07,025 and then it comes down on an angle, up and down on an angle. 375 00:17:08,777 --> 00:17:11,437 NARRATOR: Wood cut from a saw pit? 376 00:17:11,521 --> 00:17:13,856 Although this method of construction 377 00:17:13,940 --> 00:17:17,368 dates back more than 2,000 years, 378 00:17:17,527 --> 00:17:19,787 during the time of the Roman Empire, 379 00:17:19,946 --> 00:17:23,541 pit sawing began to be adopted by other European cultures 380 00:17:23,625 --> 00:17:25,701 in the 15th century. 381 00:17:25,786 --> 00:17:29,130 Is it possible that the team has found more evidence 382 00:17:29,214 --> 00:17:33,042 of ancient man-made workings at a depth of 90 feet? 383 00:17:33,126 --> 00:17:35,636 The same depth where they've also encountered 384 00:17:35,721 --> 00:17:39,799 a possible tunnel that could date back as far as 1488? 385 00:17:39,883 --> 00:17:42,060 RICK: This depth where they're finding 386 00:17:42,144 --> 00:17:44,386 multiple hits of wood indicating a tunnel, 387 00:17:44,471 --> 00:17:47,890 again, means the possibility exists that 388 00:17:47,974 --> 00:17:49,734 it is original work and it's closely associated 389 00:17:49,893 --> 00:17:51,894 with a possible treasure deposition. 390 00:17:51,987 --> 00:17:55,156 There's wood and-and quite a bit of it. 391 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,316 But right now we should continue to... 392 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,152 to see what happens with this. 393 00:18:00,237 --> 00:18:01,496 So, I'll see you guys later. 394 00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:03,539 Okay, Rick. Talk to you later. 395 00:18:05,084 --> 00:18:07,409 NARRATOR: As drilling in the Money Pit continues, 396 00:18:07,494 --> 00:18:10,421 just to the west on Lot 18... 397 00:18:10,580 --> 00:18:13,249 Jack, I think I'm gonna start placing dirt down 398 00:18:13,333 --> 00:18:15,343 in that pad that hasn't been metal-detected yet. 399 00:18:15,502 --> 00:18:17,011 Sounds like a plan. 400 00:18:17,096 --> 00:18:19,680 Billy Gerhardt and Jack Begley 401 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:23,684 continue their investigation of the Dunfield Spoils. 402 00:18:23,769 --> 00:18:26,262 (steady beeping) 403 00:18:26,346 --> 00:18:28,231 Hey, Billy. 404 00:18:30,684 --> 00:18:35,696 I'm having a pretty big hit right through here. 405 00:18:35,781 --> 00:18:37,949 So, I-I don't know exactly what it is, 406 00:18:38,108 --> 00:18:39,367 but why don't you try digging it up, 407 00:18:39,451 --> 00:18:41,285 - 'cause it seems quite large. - Sure. 408 00:18:41,444 --> 00:18:42,954 ♪ ♪ 409 00:18:46,125 --> 00:18:48,251 (whirring) 410 00:18:50,129 --> 00:18:51,629 JACK: Oh, oh, wow! 411 00:18:53,132 --> 00:18:55,466 Just like before: a big timber with big spikes in. 412 00:18:55,625 --> 00:18:56,959 It could be. 413 00:18:57,043 --> 00:18:59,637 Yeah, I'm not seeing any spikes, though. 414 00:19:01,131 --> 00:19:02,140 (beeps) 415 00:19:06,562 --> 00:19:09,647 Yeah, no hits on this. Oh, oh, hey. 416 00:19:09,731 --> 00:19:10,940 Look, there's dowel holes. 417 00:19:12,309 --> 00:19:14,819 This might actually be quite old. 418 00:19:18,824 --> 00:19:21,325 JACK: This big timber might actually be quite old. 419 00:19:21,484 --> 00:19:23,661 Oh, that is a big one. Really old-looking. 420 00:19:23,745 --> 00:19:26,664 NARRATOR: Just west of the Money Pit on Lot 18, 421 00:19:26,823 --> 00:19:30,326 Jack Begley and Billy Gerhardt have just made 422 00:19:30,410 --> 00:19:31,752 another potentially important discovery 423 00:19:31,912 --> 00:19:34,413 in the Dunfield Spoils. 424 00:19:34,497 --> 00:19:36,248 Yeah, look. (grunts softly) 425 00:19:36,333 --> 00:19:39,752 You can see it's notched out, 426 00:19:39,845 --> 00:19:45,183 and then you got this hole for the dowel right there. 427 00:19:45,267 --> 00:19:49,645 NARRATOR: A wood timber featuring dowel holes? 428 00:19:51,023 --> 00:19:54,275 Dating as far back as the seventh century in Japan, 429 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,277 and utilized in the construction 430 00:19:56,436 --> 00:19:58,354 of buildings and sailing vessels, 431 00:19:58,447 --> 00:20:01,273 wooden dowels began to be widely used 432 00:20:01,358 --> 00:20:04,202 during the 15th century across Europe 433 00:20:04,361 --> 00:20:07,205 and were favored over iron spikes or nails 434 00:20:07,289 --> 00:20:10,699 which were prone to rust after long exposure to water. 435 00:20:10,784 --> 00:20:12,960 Could this timber be more evidence 436 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:14,787 that Robert Dunfield was digging 437 00:20:14,871 --> 00:20:17,131 at the location of the original Money Pit 438 00:20:17,290 --> 00:20:19,133 more than half a century ago? 439 00:20:20,460 --> 00:20:23,045 Yeah, I'm-I'm not getting any fasteners on this. 440 00:20:23,129 --> 00:20:24,546 This wasn't the hit, Billy. 441 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,967 If there's no metal fasteners in this timber, 442 00:20:28,060 --> 00:20:30,052 and it's just dowels, 443 00:20:30,145 --> 00:20:33,889 - then we're talking about a-a really old shaft. - Yeah, exactly. 444 00:20:33,974 --> 00:20:36,817 - I'll take another scoop. - Let me get this out of the way, though. 445 00:20:44,067 --> 00:20:45,993 ♪ ♪ 446 00:20:49,906 --> 00:20:50,998 (beeping) 447 00:21:00,333 --> 00:21:03,502 Hmm. Hey. 448 00:21:03,595 --> 00:21:05,921 - I think we found ourselves a big spike. - Yeah. 449 00:21:06,006 --> 00:21:08,674 That's in a different league altogether. 450 00:21:08,758 --> 00:21:10,851 RICK: What my hope is that this spike 451 00:21:11,011 --> 00:21:13,771 and wood, in particular, say: 452 00:21:13,855 --> 00:21:18,359 you can perhaps create some sort of connective tissue. 453 00:21:18,443 --> 00:21:20,611 This is one heck of a fastener. 454 00:21:20,770 --> 00:21:23,105 RICK: If it is part of a structure, 455 00:21:23,189 --> 00:21:25,357 then you've really found something. 456 00:21:25,442 --> 00:21:27,609 I'd be anxious to get some dates that are older 457 00:21:27,703 --> 00:21:31,622 than 1795 off from these spikes and these timbers. 458 00:21:31,781 --> 00:21:34,292 But anything that gives us more information 459 00:21:34,376 --> 00:21:36,702 on the Money Pit is really good information, right? 460 00:21:36,786 --> 00:21:39,121 Yeah. All right, well, we'll continue on. 461 00:21:39,205 --> 00:21:41,123 I'm gonna go to put it up with the other irons. 462 00:21:41,207 --> 00:21:43,134 This might be a really old piece. 463 00:21:43,293 --> 00:21:44,877 BILLY: Yeah. 464 00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:46,887 ♪ ♪ 465 00:21:48,974 --> 00:21:51,967 NARRATOR: Later that afternoon, 466 00:21:52,052 --> 00:21:55,062 while the drilling operation at the Money Pit continues... 467 00:21:56,815 --> 00:21:59,066 - MARTY: Hello, Matt. - Hello. 468 00:21:59,151 --> 00:22:01,310 - Welcome to the war room. - Thank you. 469 00:22:01,394 --> 00:22:03,645 Jack Begley and Billy Gerhardt 470 00:22:03,730 --> 00:22:05,731 join Rick, Marty and other members 471 00:22:05,824 --> 00:22:08,400 of the team in the war room. 472 00:22:08,485 --> 00:22:10,745 They are meeting with mechanical engineer 473 00:22:10,829 --> 00:22:13,331 and Oak Island theorist, Matt Sandt, 474 00:22:13,415 --> 00:22:15,833 who recently contacted Marty with new research 475 00:22:15,917 --> 00:22:18,410 he has conducted related to the previous work 476 00:22:18,503 --> 00:22:22,757 of the team's late friend and author Zena Halpern. 477 00:22:22,841 --> 00:22:25,509 So, Matt, uh, you wrote me the letter 478 00:22:25,668 --> 00:22:27,762 basically saying we were misinterpreting 479 00:22:27,846 --> 00:22:29,680 some aspects of the Zena Halpern map. 480 00:22:29,765 --> 00:22:31,932 MATT: Yeah. 481 00:22:32,017 --> 00:22:34,426 What I have in front of us right now is 482 00:22:34,511 --> 00:22:37,855 the, uh, map Zena Halpern had found some years back, 483 00:22:37,939 --> 00:22:40,107 and I thought it'd be real interesting to go back 484 00:22:40,266 --> 00:22:42,768 and take a fresh look at, uh, 485 00:22:42,852 --> 00:22:44,862 some of the original information that we had. 486 00:22:55,448 --> 00:22:57,041 NARRATOR: In 2016, 487 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,711 Zena presented the team with three documents 488 00:23:00,870 --> 00:23:02,704 that she believed to have been created 489 00:23:02,798 --> 00:23:05,466 by members of the Knights Templar. 490 00:23:05,550 --> 00:23:08,627 One of these documents was a map of Oak Island 491 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,889 that reportedly dated back to the 14th century 492 00:23:11,973 --> 00:23:15,017 and featured a number of locations labeled in French. 493 00:23:21,391 --> 00:23:24,235 Locations that, when translated to English, 494 00:23:24,394 --> 00:23:27,229 appeared to offer compelling clues. 495 00:23:27,322 --> 00:23:29,064 MARTY: One's called "the anchors," 496 00:23:29,149 --> 00:23:30,983 one's called "the valve," 497 00:23:31,067 --> 00:23:33,402 and one's called "the hatch." 498 00:23:33,486 --> 00:23:34,995 MARTY: I mean, Rick, 499 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,156 don't you want to go dig up the hatch? 500 00:23:37,249 --> 00:23:38,749 No question about it. 501 00:23:38,908 --> 00:23:41,076 - Let's go have a look. - Why don't we take a look? 502 00:23:41,161 --> 00:23:43,754 NARRATOR: Although the team searched the western side of the island 503 00:23:43,913 --> 00:23:46,331 for evidence of the so-called hatch 504 00:23:46,416 --> 00:23:48,592 or possible tunnel entrance, 505 00:23:48,677 --> 00:23:52,012 to date, nothing definitive has been found. 506 00:23:53,598 --> 00:23:57,342 MATT: I want to switch here to the English translation. 507 00:23:57,436 --> 00:24:00,020 And here we have something called "the hatch," 508 00:24:00,180 --> 00:24:02,514 "the hole under" and so forth. 509 00:24:02,607 --> 00:24:04,683 From each label, 510 00:24:04,767 --> 00:24:07,269 we have a line pointing to 511 00:24:07,353 --> 00:24:09,354 a general location on the island. 512 00:24:09,439 --> 00:24:11,106 It just says "the hole under," 513 00:24:11,191 --> 00:24:14,776 and it's pointing to a location, and then it says "the hatch," 514 00:24:14,861 --> 00:24:17,955 and they've got a line pointing somewhere else. 515 00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:19,957 - Mm-hmm. - MATT: I mean, a hatch can be a hatch, 516 00:24:20,041 --> 00:24:22,284 but they didn't know what "the hole under" refers to. 517 00:24:22,368 --> 00:24:24,044 That seemed to be kind of strange language. 518 00:24:25,455 --> 00:24:27,381 That made me want to go back and look at 519 00:24:27,540 --> 00:24:29,049 the French map again. 520 00:24:29,134 --> 00:24:32,461 Let me point out here these leader lines. 521 00:24:32,545 --> 00:24:36,131 You see that the draftsman, the guy that made this map, 522 00:24:36,224 --> 00:24:38,217 did it the same every single time. 523 00:24:38,301 --> 00:24:39,968 He puts a little squiggle, 524 00:24:40,061 --> 00:24:42,271 and then he draws a line to the right. 525 00:24:44,057 --> 00:24:46,975 If you look at the leader line that goes to "the hole under," 526 00:24:47,060 --> 00:24:50,488 it's got a little squiggle, and then it points to the text. 527 00:24:50,572 --> 00:24:53,232 The next one down has got kind of a big squiggle, 528 00:24:53,316 --> 00:24:54,992 and then it does the same thing. 529 00:24:55,076 --> 00:24:58,662 And what I found, which I thought was kind of an aha, 530 00:24:58,821 --> 00:25:01,665 is actually not a translating error. 531 00:25:01,750 --> 00:25:04,668 It's just a... an error when they made the English version, 532 00:25:04,753 --> 00:25:09,006 resulted from misinterpretation of these leader lines. 533 00:25:09,090 --> 00:25:12,334 And when I saw that the French here says, 534 00:25:12,418 --> 00:25:14,836 "le trou sous la trappe," 535 00:25:14,921 --> 00:25:17,089 which means, "the hole under the hatch." 536 00:25:17,182 --> 00:25:19,767 ♪ ♪ 537 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,854 That's one label right here. 538 00:25:23,939 --> 00:25:27,024 The label underneath it is a separate label. 539 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:32,029 If there is a-a leader line mistake, 540 00:25:32,188 --> 00:25:35,607 I just hope that maybe it's just one more opportunity 541 00:25:35,692 --> 00:25:37,701 to-to find some information. 542 00:25:37,786 --> 00:25:39,611 That is an excellent observation, 543 00:25:39,696 --> 00:25:41,613 'cause "the hole under the hatch" 544 00:25:41,698 --> 00:25:44,616 makes a lot more sense. 545 00:25:44,701 --> 00:25:46,702 (chuckles): That blew by all of us, did it, I guess? 546 00:25:46,795 --> 00:25:48,370 - RICK: Yes, it did. - It actually did. 547 00:25:48,463 --> 00:25:50,130 MATT: I have one other thing I'd like 548 00:25:50,215 --> 00:25:52,040 - to show you real quickly. - Sure. 549 00:25:52,125 --> 00:25:55,386 I took a satellite, uh, image and overlaid it onto the island, 550 00:25:55,545 --> 00:25:57,045 and, uh, just 'cause I wanted to know 551 00:25:57,130 --> 00:25:59,047 what the general area looked like, 552 00:25:59,132 --> 00:26:02,309 so where it points at "the hole under the hatch," 553 00:26:02,468 --> 00:26:04,144 as the map depicts it, 554 00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:06,388 it looks like it's a wooded area. 555 00:26:06,472 --> 00:26:08,732 - It looks like it's over on Lot 4. - Yes, it does. 556 00:26:10,902 --> 00:26:13,070 RICK: There's always been the curiosity 557 00:26:13,154 --> 00:26:17,575 with-with Zena's map and the general area of the hatch. 558 00:26:19,411 --> 00:26:22,988 If we can confirm but one of the items on the map, 559 00:26:23,081 --> 00:26:24,999 then it would compel us to do 560 00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:27,251 a much more thorough investigation 561 00:26:27,410 --> 00:26:29,578 of the other locations that are mentioned. 562 00:26:29,671 --> 00:26:32,006 If I were one of you guys, 563 00:26:32,090 --> 00:26:34,249 boy, I'd be up there with a shovel looking around. 564 00:26:34,334 --> 00:26:36,168 (laughter) 565 00:26:36,261 --> 00:26:38,512 RICK: We'll certainly put some boots on this. 566 00:26:38,671 --> 00:26:40,431 There's no question about that. 567 00:26:40,515 --> 00:26:43,592 Well, you can rest assured we will look there. 568 00:26:43,676 --> 00:26:46,261 Well, I certainly, uh, wish you the best of luck. 569 00:26:46,354 --> 00:26:47,605 MARTY: Cheers. Thanks a lot. 570 00:26:47,764 --> 00:26:48,522 - ALEX: Thank you. - RICK: Take care. 571 00:26:52,602 --> 00:26:54,278 NARRATOR: As another new day begins, 572 00:26:54,437 --> 00:26:56,855 on Lot 22, 573 00:26:56,939 --> 00:26:59,608 located on the western side of Oak Island... 574 00:26:59,701 --> 00:27:01,777 CRAIG: Here they come. 575 00:27:01,861 --> 00:27:05,205 Craig Tester and Doug Crowell are meeting 576 00:27:05,365 --> 00:27:09,627 with Daniel Boulay and Taylor Pierce from CSR GeoSurveys... 577 00:27:09,711 --> 00:27:11,453 Gentlemen. 578 00:27:11,537 --> 00:27:14,039 a geophysical company that specializes 579 00:27:14,132 --> 00:27:16,884 in detecting large underground objects and structures. 580 00:27:17,043 --> 00:27:20,721 - Uh, we want to start in this area of the island. - Mm-hmm. 581 00:27:20,805 --> 00:27:22,806 NARRATOR: It is the Oak Island team's hope 582 00:27:22,891 --> 00:27:25,133 that Daniel and Taylor can obtain evidence 583 00:27:25,218 --> 00:27:29,647 to verify a possible tunnel entrance or hatch 584 00:27:29,731 --> 00:27:32,974 that was depicted on the believed 14th century map 585 00:27:33,059 --> 00:27:36,737 belonging to the late author and researcher Zena Halpern. 586 00:27:36,821 --> 00:27:39,740 Um, this is the entire island, 587 00:27:39,824 --> 00:27:42,409 - and-and we're right in this area right here. - Mm-hmm. 588 00:27:42,494 --> 00:27:45,162 - This is what they considered the hatch. - Okay. 589 00:27:45,321 --> 00:27:47,247 And so, what is it? 590 00:27:47,332 --> 00:27:49,241 If there is a hatch, does it lead to a tunnel? 591 00:27:49,334 --> 00:27:52,002 So, there's a number of things from Zena's map 592 00:27:52,161 --> 00:27:54,746 that, you know, if we do an island-wide study, 593 00:27:54,831 --> 00:27:57,341 then we might find out where they're located. 594 00:27:57,500 --> 00:27:58,592 - Absolutely. Yeah. - And then all the stuff associated 595 00:27:58,677 --> 00:28:00,844 - with the Money Pit itself. - Yeah. 596 00:28:00,929 --> 00:28:03,672 So, we're really interested in the different tools 597 00:28:03,765 --> 00:28:05,849 you're gonna be running on the island this year. 598 00:28:06,008 --> 00:28:07,592 Of course, I'm gonna use the VLF method, 599 00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:11,772 which, um, is powerful radio signals from far away. 600 00:28:11,931 --> 00:28:14,015 - Okay. - They induce currents 601 00:28:14,109 --> 00:28:15,851 and conductive materials underground, 602 00:28:15,944 --> 00:28:17,352 which induce secondary magnetic fields 603 00:28:17,437 --> 00:28:18,603 which we measure at surface. 604 00:28:18,688 --> 00:28:20,439 - Okay. - DANIEL: Right on. 605 00:28:20,523 --> 00:28:22,941 You want to grab your equipment and we'll head on out to the... 606 00:28:23,034 --> 00:28:25,452 - "the hatch"? Okay. - Sure. Let's do this. 607 00:28:25,611 --> 00:28:30,699 NARRATOR: Starting with Lot 22, followed by the adjacent Lot 4, 608 00:28:30,783 --> 00:28:34,035 Daniel and Taylor will be conducting two different types 609 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:36,964 of geophysical surveys across the island. 610 00:28:37,123 --> 00:28:39,717 The first, known as VLF, 611 00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:42,803 or very low frequency radio wave scanning, 612 00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:46,056 is designed to identify anomalous underground features 613 00:28:46,215 --> 00:28:48,884 such as large objects, tunnels or shafts 614 00:28:48,968 --> 00:28:51,895 to depths of as much as 180 feet. 615 00:28:53,222 --> 00:28:55,974 The second will be a magnetometer survey 616 00:28:56,058 --> 00:28:57,818 which will identify ferrous metals, 617 00:28:57,902 --> 00:29:02,230 such as iron or steel, to depths of as much as 30 feet. 618 00:29:02,323 --> 00:29:05,826 CRAIG: The VLF looks for conductivity. 619 00:29:05,985 --> 00:29:08,078 A tunnel full of water is gonna 620 00:29:08,237 --> 00:29:11,415 conduct electricity much better than hard rock. 621 00:29:11,499 --> 00:29:14,835 -It's right in through here. I'll lead the way. -All right. 622 00:29:14,994 --> 00:29:18,079 CRAIG: The magnetometer, looking for iron is the key thing. 623 00:29:18,173 --> 00:29:20,081 So, hopefully these tools can help 624 00:29:20,166 --> 00:29:22,584 find that hatch 625 00:29:22,677 --> 00:29:24,586 and see what that hatch leads to. 626 00:29:24,670 --> 00:29:26,847 I've got to head out, head out back. 627 00:29:27,006 --> 00:29:28,924 Um, Doug knows some other sites 628 00:29:29,017 --> 00:29:30,926 that we want you to take a look at. 629 00:29:31,010 --> 00:29:33,178 Uh, but for now, why don't you guys get started here. 630 00:29:33,262 --> 00:29:36,356 DANIEL: Right on. Let's go to work. 631 00:29:37,942 --> 00:29:41,403 NARRATOR: As the geo-survey scans continue on Lot 22... 632 00:29:43,022 --> 00:29:45,199 - JACK: Maybe go a little bit deeper. - BILLY: Okay. 633 00:29:45,283 --> 00:29:48,452 Jack Begley and heavy equipment operator 634 00:29:48,536 --> 00:29:51,196 Billy Gerhardt continue excavating 635 00:29:51,289 --> 00:29:55,200 the Dunfield Spoils near the Money Pit on Lot 18. 636 00:29:55,293 --> 00:29:56,877 (steady beeping) 637 00:29:56,961 --> 00:29:58,787 Jack. 638 00:29:58,871 --> 00:30:00,214 Look in the hole. 639 00:30:00,373 --> 00:30:02,299 - This? - Uh, on the back edge. 640 00:30:02,383 --> 00:30:06,211 Oh, this. Oh, that's weird, Billy. 641 00:30:06,304 --> 00:30:07,629 This is the sod. 642 00:30:07,713 --> 00:30:09,548 This-this is the grass. 643 00:30:09,632 --> 00:30:12,226 I think I'm standing right on top 644 00:30:12,385 --> 00:30:14,311 - of the original ground. - BILLY: I agree. 645 00:30:14,395 --> 00:30:15,896 JACK: Let's see what's underneath. 646 00:30:15,980 --> 00:30:17,105 Yeah. 647 00:30:20,652 --> 00:30:23,478 (whirring) 648 00:30:23,563 --> 00:30:27,065 JACK: Hey, that doesn't seem like a glacial rock. 649 00:30:27,149 --> 00:30:28,650 It looks like it was split, 650 00:30:28,743 --> 00:30:30,151 and it looks like it was laid here. 651 00:30:30,245 --> 00:30:32,412 Yeah, right under the sod. 652 00:30:32,497 --> 00:30:34,331 That would make it pretty leveled. 653 00:30:34,415 --> 00:30:36,500 If you were making a flat road, we're go-- the hill is going up, 654 00:30:36,659 --> 00:30:39,002 - but the rocks are staying level. - Definitely. 655 00:30:39,161 --> 00:30:41,913 NARRATOR: A possible stone road 656 00:30:42,006 --> 00:30:45,417 revealed in the ground beneath the Dunfield Spoils? 657 00:30:45,501 --> 00:30:49,254 I did come across some imagery from the 1930s 658 00:30:49,347 --> 00:30:50,430 here in the Money Pit. 659 00:30:50,590 --> 00:30:52,257 NARRATOR: One month ago, 660 00:30:52,341 --> 00:30:55,594 environmental scientist and researcher Terry Deveau 661 00:30:55,678 --> 00:30:57,762 presented the team with an aerial photograph 662 00:30:57,856 --> 00:31:00,432 taken in 1931 663 00:31:00,525 --> 00:31:03,026 that showed the possible remains of a stone pathway 664 00:31:03,111 --> 00:31:06,029 between the swamp and the Money Pit area. 665 00:31:06,188 --> 00:31:08,940 It appears that it may be the remains of 666 00:31:09,025 --> 00:31:12,444 an ancient stone path, and it would align 667 00:31:12,537 --> 00:31:15,947 with the path in this direction. 668 00:31:16,032 --> 00:31:19,951 NARRATOR: Just two weeks ago, after the team discovered 669 00:31:20,044 --> 00:31:22,796 another stone feature near the massive stone wharf 670 00:31:22,881 --> 00:31:25,290 in the southeast corner of the swamp, 671 00:31:25,383 --> 00:31:27,709 surveyor Steve Guptill made a stunning assessment 672 00:31:27,793 --> 00:31:30,387 of its elevation and alignment. 673 00:31:30,471 --> 00:31:34,057 STEVE G.: This path, projected across the lots, 674 00:31:34,142 --> 00:31:35,642 it heads to the Money Pit. 675 00:31:35,801 --> 00:31:37,561 - This path? - This path here. 676 00:31:39,889 --> 00:31:42,733 I'd say this is definitely the ground level. 677 00:31:42,892 --> 00:31:45,402 We need to have Steve Guptill come and pin this. 678 00:31:46,812 --> 00:31:49,898 The hope is, is that this is the stone road 679 00:31:49,982 --> 00:31:51,650 that was leading to the Money Pit. 680 00:31:51,743 --> 00:31:53,994 And if we can follow that road, there might be 681 00:31:54,153 --> 00:31:56,496 some other artifacts that we can find that will lead us 682 00:31:56,581 --> 00:31:59,240 to dates and who, what, when, where, why. 683 00:31:59,325 --> 00:32:01,076 - Hey, Jack. - Hey, Steve. 684 00:32:01,169 --> 00:32:02,753 NARRATOR: In order to confirm 685 00:32:02,837 --> 00:32:04,412 if this feature could be connected 686 00:32:04,497 --> 00:32:06,498 to the stone path in the swamp, 687 00:32:06,582 --> 00:32:08,833 Jack and Billy have called Steve Guptill 688 00:32:08,918 --> 00:32:11,002 to document and assess it. 689 00:32:11,087 --> 00:32:14,089 JACK: This is a piece of the original sod 690 00:32:14,182 --> 00:32:16,174 - on the hillside. - Mm-hmm. 691 00:32:16,267 --> 00:32:18,843 - Yep. - Like the grass before the Money Pit spoils 692 00:32:18,928 --> 00:32:20,938 were poured on top of it. 693 00:32:21,022 --> 00:32:23,273 The problem is, it has all the characteristics 694 00:32:23,358 --> 00:32:26,276 in what we look for before in the road, right? 695 00:32:26,361 --> 00:32:29,187 You know, it has lots of rocks. They're all level. 696 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,857 Yes. This could be the road that we're looking for. 697 00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:34,943 It might be, actually. 698 00:32:35,027 --> 00:32:37,612 I'll just tag a few of these stones, 699 00:32:37,705 --> 00:32:38,872 - and I'll just see if it lines up. - Mm-hmm. 700 00:32:38,957 --> 00:32:42,209 ♪ ♪ 701 00:32:44,128 --> 00:32:46,630 Let me project the line. 702 00:32:46,714 --> 00:32:48,707 So, even though it's preliminary, 703 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,550 based on projecting the data I collected in the swamp, 704 00:32:50,635 --> 00:32:52,210 it ends up right here. 705 00:32:52,303 --> 00:32:54,471 - Oh, really? - Yeah. 706 00:32:54,555 --> 00:32:58,308 NARRATOR: If the team has indeed discovered a stone pathway, 707 00:32:58,467 --> 00:33:01,311 could it also be connected to the pieces 708 00:33:01,470 --> 00:33:05,223 of 15th century keg barrels, ox shoes, 709 00:33:05,307 --> 00:33:08,393 and iron ringbolts discovered last year, 710 00:33:08,477 --> 00:33:11,646 that all suggest something of great value 711 00:33:11,731 --> 00:33:13,991 was unloaded from a ship long ago 712 00:33:14,075 --> 00:33:16,159 and transported to the Money Pit? 713 00:33:16,244 --> 00:33:18,161 To know for sure, I am gonna run back 714 00:33:18,246 --> 00:33:20,497 to the research center, I'll plot it, 715 00:33:20,656 --> 00:33:22,416 I'll project it, but I'm pretty confident to say 716 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:25,252 that if it does extend through here, you found it. 717 00:33:25,411 --> 00:33:27,504 JACK: That's actually phenomenal. Great job, Billy. 718 00:33:31,584 --> 00:33:33,677 We should be sure that we cover all the ground 719 00:33:33,761 --> 00:33:36,755 - that no tunnel could pass by. - That's the whole idea. 720 00:33:36,839 --> 00:33:39,266 NARRATOR: While the core drilling operation continues 721 00:33:39,425 --> 00:33:40,934 in the Money Pit area, 722 00:33:41,093 --> 00:33:43,595 just to the west, on Lot 18... 723 00:33:43,679 --> 00:33:47,265 - MARTY: Okay, another pit. - (doors close) 724 00:33:47,349 --> 00:33:51,361 Rick, Marty and Alex Lagina, along with Craig Tester 725 00:33:51,446 --> 00:33:53,864 and geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner, 726 00:33:53,948 --> 00:33:57,200 have arrived to inspect the possible stone pathway 727 00:33:57,285 --> 00:34:00,612 just unearthed by Jack Begley and Billy Gerhardt. 728 00:34:00,696 --> 00:34:01,955 Hey, what's going on, guys? 729 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,199 RICK: Billy, you and Jack were... 730 00:34:04,283 --> 00:34:06,960 removed that, so maybe you should take over here. 731 00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:08,295 It is hard to see, 732 00:34:08,379 --> 00:34:11,039 but as you get to the bottom, 733 00:34:11,123 --> 00:34:14,134 there's a pretty solid section of ten-foot rock here, 734 00:34:14,218 --> 00:34:16,303 and then there's none at all to this side. 735 00:34:16,462 --> 00:34:18,221 - Mm-hmm. - So we're kind of thinking that 736 00:34:18,380 --> 00:34:20,131 somebody had a hand in putting it there, maybe. 737 00:34:20,224 --> 00:34:22,550 Yeah. I don't know what this is, 738 00:34:22,635 --> 00:34:24,561 but I-I think we'd have to dig more 739 00:34:24,645 --> 00:34:27,305 - to even make a guess. - Absolutely would, yep. 740 00:34:27,389 --> 00:34:28,890 MARTY: Well, let's do it. 741 00:34:28,983 --> 00:34:30,475 Why don't you put a trench right through here. 742 00:34:30,559 --> 00:34:31,651 Yep. 743 00:34:34,897 --> 00:34:37,240 RICK: Not every stone on Oak Island means something, 744 00:34:37,325 --> 00:34:41,402 but what they see is very suggestive of a road. 745 00:34:41,487 --> 00:34:43,997 But we've not cleaned the area up sufficiently 746 00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:45,907 to take a proper look at it. 747 00:34:45,991 --> 00:34:48,326 JACK: There. 748 00:34:48,410 --> 00:34:52,080 You can really start to see how many rocks are right there now. 749 00:34:52,164 --> 00:34:54,758 - MARTY: Hey, Billy. Hold off. - BILLY: Yeah. 750 00:34:56,418 --> 00:35:01,673 Well, this rock pile is kind of interesting. 751 00:35:01,757 --> 00:35:05,852 There's a grass-soil horizon right there. 752 00:35:06,011 --> 00:35:08,355 At this stage at least, there's some manipulation here, 753 00:35:08,439 --> 00:35:10,607 'cause it's all mixed up with all the organic. 754 00:35:10,691 --> 00:35:13,351 You know, even looking right here, 755 00:35:13,435 --> 00:35:15,529 stone, stone, stone, stone. 756 00:35:15,613 --> 00:35:17,188 - Yeah. - Whether it's deposit 757 00:35:17,273 --> 00:35:19,783 or whether somebody laid this down 200 years ago, 758 00:35:19,942 --> 00:35:21,693 I think there's a not-natural component 759 00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:24,204 of being moved around by people. 760 00:35:25,698 --> 00:35:27,457 This is what I'm interested in, 'cause it's actually got 761 00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:31,202 these rocks in that rock on rock on rock attitude, 762 00:35:31,295 --> 00:35:32,796 which can be natural. 763 00:35:32,955 --> 00:35:35,549 But when you have organics mixed around it, 764 00:35:35,633 --> 00:35:38,468 then you start to wonder a little bit. 765 00:35:38,553 --> 00:35:42,046 And it's not far dissimilar to what was in the photos. 766 00:35:42,131 --> 00:35:44,382 Aha. 767 00:35:44,466 --> 00:35:46,551 RICK: It's a start. 768 00:35:46,635 --> 00:35:47,811 I think we're at the beginning 769 00:35:47,970 --> 00:35:50,397 in terms of exploring the possibilities 770 00:35:50,481 --> 00:35:53,308 of this so-called path or road. 771 00:35:53,401 --> 00:35:56,728 It could be instrumental in helping us 772 00:35:56,821 --> 00:35:57,737 in the Money Pit. 773 00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:02,400 Okay, that-that looks more like a road. Right? 774 00:36:02,493 --> 00:36:04,569 MARTY: It could have all kinds of clues on it. 775 00:36:04,653 --> 00:36:05,987 Something happened here. 776 00:36:06,071 --> 00:36:08,907 Something rather major happened here. 777 00:36:08,991 --> 00:36:10,575 Good job, you guys, 778 00:36:10,659 --> 00:36:12,335 you know, sounding the alarm on it. 779 00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:15,079 We follow it, and there's some artifact that tells a story. 780 00:36:15,173 --> 00:36:17,081 - But there might be some info here. - For sure. 781 00:36:17,166 --> 00:36:19,250 MARTY: Let's get back to it. 782 00:36:19,335 --> 00:36:21,178 ♪ ♪ 783 00:36:25,090 --> 00:36:27,017 NARRATOR: Two days later... 784 00:36:27,176 --> 00:36:28,760 RICK: Gentlemen, I'm glad we're here. 785 00:36:28,844 --> 00:36:30,353 Craig has been working intimately 786 00:36:30,438 --> 00:36:32,606 with, uh, Canadian Seabed Research. 787 00:36:32,690 --> 00:36:36,768 Rick Lagina and Craig Tester gather in the war room 788 00:36:36,852 --> 00:36:39,437 with members of the team for a highly anticipated meeting 789 00:36:39,530 --> 00:36:43,783 with Colin Toole and Mitch Grace of CSR GeoSurveys Limited. 790 00:36:43,868 --> 00:36:46,536 Colin and Mitch have prepared a report 791 00:36:46,621 --> 00:36:49,122 regarding the magnetometry scan that was conducted 792 00:36:49,281 --> 00:36:52,033 across the island two days ago 793 00:36:52,117 --> 00:36:55,703 to locate possible underground metal objects and structures. 794 00:36:55,788 --> 00:36:57,631 Realizing there's a lot more out there 795 00:36:57,790 --> 00:36:59,883 than what we had thought, 796 00:36:59,967 --> 00:37:03,637 you know, we want to do a couple full-island surveys. 797 00:37:03,721 --> 00:37:08,549 A-And two of them are the magnetometer and the VLF. 798 00:37:08,643 --> 00:37:11,719 And the VLF takes more processing? 799 00:37:11,804 --> 00:37:13,146 Yeah, it's in the works. It's on its way. 800 00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:14,814 - Yeah. - Okay. then I think today 801 00:37:14,899 --> 00:37:16,975 you have the magnetometer results, right? 802 00:37:17,068 --> 00:37:18,476 - COLIN: Yep. - Okay. 803 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,228 Yeah, so we... we conducted 804 00:37:20,312 --> 00:37:23,573 a terrestrial, uh, magnetometer survey. 805 00:37:23,658 --> 00:37:26,243 These are our maps. 806 00:37:26,327 --> 00:37:30,413 The first map that, uh, we're gonna present is 807 00:37:30,572 --> 00:37:33,324 the total field magnetic intensity. 808 00:37:33,409 --> 00:37:35,994 Then you can really focus in on what we like to call anomalies. 809 00:37:36,087 --> 00:37:38,830 They could be blue, or they could be pink, 810 00:37:38,914 --> 00:37:41,082 which jump right out at you on the map. 811 00:37:41,166 --> 00:37:43,843 So, each one of these, you know, we would... 812 00:37:43,928 --> 00:37:45,753 we would classify as an anomaly, 813 00:37:45,838 --> 00:37:47,839 you know, for further investigation, really. 814 00:37:47,932 --> 00:37:51,259 Back by the main road on the western side, 815 00:37:51,343 --> 00:37:54,095 just up there on Lot 4... 816 00:37:54,188 --> 00:37:56,764 Yeah, the pink and then those red dots. 817 00:37:56,849 --> 00:37:58,349 Do you see that? 818 00:37:58,434 --> 00:38:01,102 I don't know any metal that's back there. 819 00:38:01,186 --> 00:38:03,363 - RICK: Hmm, no. - JACK: What about the pink? 820 00:38:03,522 --> 00:38:05,282 That's a pretty hard hit. 821 00:38:05,441 --> 00:38:07,951 COLIN: This is a decent-size anomaly. 822 00:38:08,110 --> 00:38:10,370 I mean, it's right next to the road. 823 00:38:10,454 --> 00:38:13,948 That's near where the hatch could be. 824 00:38:14,033 --> 00:38:16,251 The hatch from Zena's map. 825 00:38:17,870 --> 00:38:19,587 RICK: Interesting. 826 00:38:23,542 --> 00:38:26,386 That could be the hatch from Zena's map. 827 00:38:26,470 --> 00:38:29,380 - That's interesting. - NARRATOR: In the war room, 828 00:38:29,473 --> 00:38:32,550 Rick Lagina, Craig Tester and members of the team 829 00:38:32,634 --> 00:38:34,561 have just been presented with the results 830 00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:36,896 of a magnetometry survey 831 00:38:36,981 --> 00:38:40,317 that was conducted across Oak Island identifying 832 00:38:40,401 --> 00:38:43,394 a number of possible buried objects or structures. 833 00:38:43,487 --> 00:38:45,238 Incredibly, 834 00:38:45,323 --> 00:38:48,232 one of the most prominent targets matches the area 835 00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:50,818 where a believed patch or tunnel entrance 836 00:38:50,903 --> 00:38:54,080 was noted on a reported 14th century Templar map 837 00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:58,335 that belonged to the late author and researcher Zena Halpern. 838 00:38:58,419 --> 00:39:00,253 JACK: To me, that's probably one of the things 839 00:39:00,412 --> 00:39:02,330 that stands out the most. 840 00:39:02,414 --> 00:39:03,831 Well, that's a big hit. 841 00:39:03,916 --> 00:39:05,925 I mean, if it's not something obvious 842 00:39:06,010 --> 00:39:07,427 you guys know about right beside the road, 843 00:39:07,511 --> 00:39:09,929 then what is it? 844 00:39:10,089 --> 00:39:12,932 STEVE G.: I've calculated the position to the hatch 845 00:39:13,017 --> 00:39:15,093 the best I could based on Zena's map, 846 00:39:15,177 --> 00:39:16,353 and it's right there. 847 00:39:17,855 --> 00:39:19,939 It's plus or minus ten feet of the area, 848 00:39:20,024 --> 00:39:22,600 which makes it really interesting. 849 00:39:22,693 --> 00:39:25,028 Zena's map is of particular importance to me, 850 00:39:25,187 --> 00:39:26,529 but it demands a lot of ground truthing. 851 00:39:26,688 --> 00:39:31,192 But now we have a very focused location. 852 00:39:31,276 --> 00:39:33,027 Yeah, definitely. 853 00:39:33,112 --> 00:39:34,954 MARTY: There are various anomalies. 854 00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:37,540 Some of them seem to be coincident 855 00:39:37,625 --> 00:39:42,212 or close to the, um, things delineated on Zena's map. 856 00:39:42,296 --> 00:39:46,549 So it certainly merits more investigation. 857 00:39:46,634 --> 00:39:48,551 COLIN: I mean, as you can see, 858 00:39:48,636 --> 00:39:51,388 there's plenty of anomalies to chase down and identify. 859 00:39:51,547 --> 00:39:55,883 Take this map as a guide to help focus in 860 00:39:55,976 --> 00:39:58,061 on areas, and then from there, 861 00:39:58,220 --> 00:40:01,147 you can run a really tight space grid, right? 862 00:40:01,306 --> 00:40:04,058 Yeah, we need to look at everything in-in great detail. 863 00:40:04,143 --> 00:40:06,820 Hopefully, we can dig up some of these anomalies 864 00:40:06,979 --> 00:40:08,071 and give us some big clues. 865 00:40:08,230 --> 00:40:10,407 So, I think it's gonna be very exciting. 866 00:40:11,992 --> 00:40:15,829 There were a number of locations that should be investigated, 867 00:40:15,988 --> 00:40:17,655 that demand investigating. 868 00:40:17,739 --> 00:40:19,824 They were that significant. 869 00:40:19,908 --> 00:40:24,337 I think certainly the one in Lot 4 is the most intriguing, 870 00:40:24,422 --> 00:40:27,340 and it's easily investigated. 871 00:40:27,425 --> 00:40:30,427 We're trying to move the search agenda forward, 872 00:40:30,511 --> 00:40:32,512 and who knows what this find might tell us, 873 00:40:32,671 --> 00:40:34,764 so I look forward to it. 874 00:40:34,849 --> 00:40:38,092 The reason why we apply science and technology is 875 00:40:38,177 --> 00:40:42,272 to lead us further on the road to the answers. 876 00:40:42,431 --> 00:40:45,099 But we've got to just get out there, 877 00:40:45,192 --> 00:40:47,277 eyes and boots, get on the ground 878 00:40:47,436 --> 00:40:49,103 and figure out what this may mean. 879 00:40:49,188 --> 00:40:54,358 It's just opened up a-a whole new search agenda, literally. 880 00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:57,704 - So, thank you very much. - COLIN: Thank you. 881 00:40:57,788 --> 00:41:00,698 NARRATOR: For Rick, Marty and the Fellowship of the Dig, 882 00:41:00,782 --> 00:41:03,701 the path to solving a mystery 883 00:41:03,794 --> 00:41:06,212 that has captivated the world for two centuries 884 00:41:06,297 --> 00:41:09,707 appears more defined than ever. 885 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,377 With new clues being revealed across the island, 886 00:41:13,462 --> 00:41:15,972 and an ambitious plan 887 00:41:16,131 --> 00:41:18,558 to excavate the Money Pit taking shape, 888 00:41:18,717 --> 00:41:22,803 could this finally be the year of the ultimate discovery? 889 00:41:22,888 --> 00:41:28,226 Or will a legendary curse emerge once again 890 00:41:28,310 --> 00:41:31,905 and drastically alter their course? 891 00:41:35,150 --> 00:41:37,818 Next time on The Curse of Oak Island... 892 00:41:37,903 --> 00:41:40,330 - (beeping) - We have winkled that signal out, mate. 893 00:41:40,414 --> 00:41:41,664 Fingers crossed. 894 00:41:41,823 --> 00:41:43,491 - JACK: Yeah! - GARY: Look at that roundness! 895 00:41:43,575 --> 00:41:45,993 Zinc, lead, iron. 896 00:41:46,086 --> 00:41:48,246 - GARY: Gold, Jack. - No way. 897 00:41:48,330 --> 00:41:51,582 There's a large piece of wood that lines up with the road. 898 00:41:51,675 --> 00:41:54,093 This is almost exactly what we were looking for. 899 00:41:54,253 --> 00:41:55,169 It's more than we expected. 900 00:41:55,262 --> 00:41:56,763 ALEX: Hey, look at this. 901 00:41:56,922 --> 00:41:58,932 Bingo! This is Christmas. 902 00:41:59,016 --> 00:42:00,350 That would apply to a chamber, 903 00:42:00,509 --> 00:42:01,425 - wouldn't it? - It would apply to a chamber. 904 00:42:01,519 --> 00:42:03,019 MARTY: Holy smokes.