NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...
TERRY: Let's have a look.
Whoa, that looks like a beam.
- SCOTT: That's pit saw. - TERRY: You got to like that.
The map Zena Halpern had found
says, "Le trou sous la trappe,"
- which means "the hole under the hatch." - We will look there.
COLIN: We conducted a magnetometer survey.
This is a decent-size anomaly.
That's near where the hatch from Zena's map could be.
Okay, Billy. Let's find something.
JACK: Whoa, whoa, wow.
NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic
where people have been looking for
an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
So far, they have found a stone slab
with strange symbols carved into it...
man-made workings that date to medieval times,
and a lead cross whose origin may be connected
to the Knights Templar.
To date, six men have died
trying to solve the mystery.
And according to legend, one more will have to die
before the treasure can be found.
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TERRY: Charles, here we are.
About 20 feet away from C-1.
This is all new territory.
This is undiscovered as far as we're concerned, right?
- Exactly. - That goes out there somewhere,
- and we just haven't found it yet. - That's right.
NARRATOR: Another exciting day has begun on Oak Island,
as brothers Rick and Marty Lagina
and their team continue a strategic drilling operation
at the fabled Money pit.
- We got another core coming out. - Yep.
NARRATOR: An operation based on a grid
of more than 20 boreholes
designed for the purpose of locating the treasure vault
that people have been looking for since 1795.
And as the effort
to pinpoint the believed treasure continues...
- How you doing? - Welcome back, David.
Good to be back.
- We've got everybody inside. - Awesome. Let's get at it.
at the war room,
Rick Lagina and his partner Craig Tester
welcome David Irving,
the owner of Irving Equipment Limited.
He has traveled more than 300 miles
from his company headquarters in New Brunswick
to help the team formulate
a much more extensive plan to excavate the Money Pit area.
- There they are. - CRAIG: Hello.
Hey, guys. Lady.
NARRATOR: Joining the meeting via videoconference
are Marty Lagina along with representatives
from both Irving Equipment Limited and ROC Equipment.
RICK: So, welcome, everybody.
Uh, I think everybody knows why we're here.
We're interested in advancing the ball on this, uh,
somewhat unique situation here, ten-foot cans this year.
- Yes. - MARTY: So, we are reenergized about the whole thing.
This is substantially more. It's almost double.
IRVING: Bill, why don't you, uh, kick your things off here
- and let 'em know what our game plan is. - Yeah, sure.
So, we've been working really closely here
with, uh, Vanessa over at ROC
to make sure that we've got all the equipment lined up
and, uh, make sure we've got the crane,
the, uh, the oscillator
as well as anything else required to get us down
into the bottom of that pit.
NARRATOR: Over the past month,
the Oak Island team has made astonishing discoveries
in a number of boreholes across their grid system
near the four-foot-wide shaft known as C-1,
which was first dug to a depth of 171 feet six years ago.
These finds include water samples
containing trace evidence of both silver and gold,
and at a depth of some 90 feet, metal fragments containing gold.
As well as evidence of wooden tunnels
that have been carbon-dated to as early as 1488.
Now, as Rick, Marty, Craig and the team
conclude the final weeks
of their drilling program in the Money Pit,
they are ready to begin planning phase two of this year's quest,
which entails digging a number of ten-foot-wide steel shafts
to depths of as much as 170 feet
and hopefully solve the Oak Island mystery once and for all.
We're gonna put in several ten-foot cans,
each of which is gonna be bigger than 10-X.
Dan Blankenship, Dan Henskee Dave Blankenship
worked for ten years to get one of those down.
We're gonna do several of them this year,
and they're each gonna be bigger.
As far as rate of digging, using a larger can,
is there a larger hammer grab, or we'll be using
the same hammer grab that we used last time?
Uh, we will use a larger hammer grab.
I believe it's a 2710 hammer grab.
Okay, so we'll have more volume coming up
- with each grab as well. - CRAIG: Yep.
It's a lot of material put through the wash plant.
It's a lot more water coming on location
that we need to handle.
- Good. - MARTY: By the way,
we would like to do this as nondestructive as possible
because, boy, this is, this is something.
We did detect, uh, actual gold
in a certain part of the Money Pit.
Okay, what about timing?
When-when is this all gonna happen?
Tell me when you want us.
If we had to put big cans down today, we'd have...
- We'd be making guesstimates. - Mm-hmm.
And we want to be more precise than that,
especially given the significance
of the gold and silver trace elements.
We want to allow the drill program
to get us as much information as possible.
So the idea was four to six weeks.
That's excellent. That's great.
I think we'll be, We'll be, uh, ready for that.
But let me ask you a question there, big brother.
Can you and Craig say, "Okay, we're gonna do
one caisson for sure" or "two for sure"?
We've picked four. Uh, we think that's reasonable.
MARTY: So, we're gonna do four ten-foot cans,
and you believe we're gonna have
four good places to do it? Right?
It's a great problem, right?
I mean... (chuckles) first can we put down,
bingo, who cares if we put three more down, right?
Oh, okay, I agree with that. Yes, yes.
And if we only put one down,
we might be able to pay them in doubloons, right?
- You guys would take that, wouldn't you? - (laughter)
It feels like things are coming together,
and I'm very hopeful.
So let's launch it all, and let's-let's do this.
- Full speed ahead. - Full speed ahead.
Okay, well, thank you, everybody.
I think we all have a lot of work to do.
It should be an exciting year.
- Thank you. - Goodbye.
- RICK: Take care. - CRAIG: Bye, guys.
NARRATOR: Following his meeting in the war room...
RICK: Okay, Billy, let's find something.
BILLY: All right?
Rick Lagina joins heavy equipment operator
Billy Gerhardt, metal detection expert Gary Drayton
and Jack Begley just east of the Money Pit on Lot 18.
They are continuing to search through the mounds of earth
known simply as the Dunfield Spoils.
Let's find some good stuff.
NARRATOR: Back in 1965,
when Robert Dunfield dug
a massive 100-foot-wide by 140-foot-deep hole
in a failed attempt to recover
the legendary Money Pit treasure vault,
he left behind tons of earth
that was never searched for possible clues or valuables.
JACK: What'd you find, Gary?
GARY: I think it's a chisel, by the look of it.
NARRATOR: One week ago,
Gary Drayton recovered
a potentially ancient metal artifact within them.
- Can you pull that level off back? - BILLY: Yeah.
NARRATOR: Now, as the team continues looking for
any valuables that may have been left behind,
they are also hoping to discover key evidence
that could help them decide where to dig one or more
of their own ten-foot-wide shafts
later this year in the Money Pit.
Mr. Dunfield did not go through his stuff very closely.
He didn't have all these people looking at every thing
that we're looking at, so it's a fruitful operation
to go through these spoil piles, and it's a must-do.
You see that near the bottom, see the wood?
There's some right there in the bank.
- BILLY: Yeah. - JACK: Whoa.
There's definitely bits of wood.
GARY: You found something, Rick?
RICK: I don't know.
You can come down if you want
- and metal-detect it. - Okay, on my way down.
Okay, mate.
Let's see if there's anything here.
Nope. Nothing at the moment.
I'll do that little area.
(metal detector beeping)
Yeah, there's plenty of iron just there.
In fact, there's plenty of iron all in that layer.
- (metal detector beeping) - I'll try pinpointing it.
What's in there?
(beeping)
- JACK: That's a big spike. - Yeah.
And it's-it's very, very heavy.
Here, feel how heavy it is, Jack.
- That's heavy, isn't it? - Mm-hmm. Heavy metal.
- With it being so heavy, you'd have to assume that is old. - Yep.
- See if there's anything else there. - GARY: Okay.
- I'll recheck the hole. Yeah. - Maybe another piece of it.
(steady beeping)
GARY: It's just so chirpy all over the place.
- (beeping intensifies) - That's more substantial there.
- It's there. Yeah. - I'll go at a bit of an angle.
RICK: Iron, though, right?
Yeah, it's iron, at the moment.
(beeping)
- It's there. It's there, yeah. - It's that thing?
JACK: There's wood that's jammed on top of it now.
Whoa, whoa.
GARY: Wow.
- JACK: Whoa, whoa. - GARY: It's a big timber.
- That's a big timber. - That's a massive timber.
So, that'll be a massive fastener.
NARRATOR: On Lot 18,
Rick Lagina and members of the team have just made
what could be an important discovery
in spoils excavated from the Money Pit
more than 50 years ago.
(device beeping)
- (beeping intensifies) - GARY: I'm detecting it's there.
That's a screamer, mate.
And it's still in the timber,
so we'd be able to date that timber
- by the fastener. - JACK: Yep.
GARY: That's a big timber, isn't it?
- RICK: Let's see that shovel, Jack. - Oh, sure.
- (device beeps) - (Jack grunts)
RICK: We know this came from somewhere in the Money Pit,
so now we can, as you said, chase it backwards
- maybe in time. - Exactly.
NARRATOR: Could this large wooden timber be a critical clue
for the Oak Island team?
Perhaps even evidence
of the original treasure shaft itself?
If so, is it possible that Robert Dunfield pinpointed
where the vault lies buried
back in 1965 but just couldn't reach it?
One more scoop. Then we'll take a look.
Pull it back, Bill. Let's see, let's see what shows.
- Keep going this way? - RICK: Yep.
RICK: These things from long ago,
and I do believe they're from long ago,
that's exactly what you should be seeing.
It confirms, in my mind,
that we are indeed in original Money Pit spoils.
But what is it? Why is it there? Who built it?
Keep an eye on that timber, Jack, so it doesn't move.
I am. Yeah.
It's so stuck into the clay that it didn't budget all.
Hold on, Billy, let me, let me see what--
This might be the end of it right here.
Let's see.
Oh, oh, it's moving a little bit.
- Yep. - JACK: Yeah.
What if you split it?
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Look at that.
Oh, wow, look at that.
That's a big mama jama. Look at that.
(beeping)
- GARY: It's here. - (beeping intensifies)
And there.
So, that's great.
We got a nice little piece of wood
to test and two fasteners.
We made a rather significant find.
- Yep. - Let's get that tested,
- but we need to go deeper, so we'll get out of your way. - GARY: Okay, mate.
- Let's get back to the spoils. - JACK: Let's get after it.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
- CARMEN: Well, lookee here now. - MARTY: Carmen.
- Welcome to the research center, sir. - Oh, thank you.
Marty Lagina, along with Gary Drayton
and Oak Island historian Doug Crowell,
meet in the research center
with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge.
We have a piece we'd like to show you.
- Doug, you've got it, don't you? - Actually, I do, Marty, right here.
NARRATOR: While the team is arranging for the metal spike
found earlier today in the Dunfield Spoils
to be scientifically tested
to determine its chemical composition,
they are hoping that Carmen can identify
the purpose and possible age of the object
that Gary found in the same area one week ago.
This artifact came from the Money Pit spoils,
and so, there's a mishmash of everything in there,
but this one artifact really stood out.
It was more corroded. It's been cleaned now.
CARMEN: Oh, yes.
You see it's got the coarse grain there?
CARMEN: Yes, it is. Yeah.
You can see the, uh, grains
or the fibers of the iron, so it's, uh, it's old.
- I would say this would be, uh, mid-1700s. - MARTY: Whoa.
Uh, this is not a chisel or a, uh, any type of tool.
It's a cribbing spike.
-Oh, cribbing spike. Yeah. -All it is, is a crib spike. Yeah.
Crib spike, meaning it's holding big pieces of timber together?
Yep, it's-it's cribbing, so possibility, uh,
you know, a mine shaft
or it could be a wharf or any-any type of thing.
NARRATOR: A cribbing spike found in the Dunfield Spoils,
and possibly dating back as much as half a century
before the discovery of the Money Pit?
Could that mean it's connected to the original treasure shaft
as well as the traces of silver and gold
that the team has found this year?
My-my ear caught mid-1700s,
- so that's what I heard. - GARY: Yeah.
So, it could be depositor related.
Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very confident on that.
MARTY: There's getting to be a whole bunch of dates from the 1700s,
and evidence of tunnels and shafts previously unknown.
So we have to make sense of all that.
But anything pre-1795
rings my bell.
Carmen, thank you for the insightful analysis.
Doug, make some notes, please, to put in
- with the artifact. - Will do.
- And let's us get back out to the island. - All right.
- Very good. - DOUG: See you, gentlemen.
NARRATOR: The following morning in the Money Pit area...
- Hi, Rick. How you doing? - I got your text.
- Where are you? - 74 feet.
Rick Lagina checks in with geologist Terry Matheson
and members of the team as they continue drilling
the next borehole on their strategic grid.
A borehole known as E-1.5,
which is not only located just 11 feet
southwest of the C-1 shaft
but is also in the area where the team believes
Robert Dunfield searched for
the Money Pit treasure vault in 1965.
We got, uh, in situ material above,
and then we hit this,
which is starting to look like...
it might be an undermined area of Dunfield backfill,
unfortunately, but initially we thought
it might be something good.
Nothing wrong with that. It confirms our beliefs, right?
- Yeah. - There's always information.
The next core is really the one we're interested in.
TERRY: That's right.
Anywhere from 78 to 95 or 100,
we could intersect that tunnel.
Or a shaft, for that matter.
- What do you got? - 89, Terry.
- TERRY: What's that? - 89.
-TERRY: Let's have a look. Excuse me. -SCOTT: Yeah.
- Thank you. - It's a lot of wood.
TERRY: A lot of... a lot of little chunks of wood.
Whoa, no, that looks like a beam.
That looks like a beam.
SCOTT: Definitely. That's pit saw.
TERRY: Yeah.
Scott, what's a pit saw?
So, they would have saw pits,
basically, where they would lay their logs
over top of a hole in the ground.
And you'd have a man above and a man below,
and they would be working that saw up and down,
cutting these logs.
And you can see how the-the striations on the wood,
how it comes up and then it'll change.
They'll tip it to-to cut again.
That's why you'll see a line come up,
and then it comes down on an angle, up and down on an angle.
NARRATOR: Wood cut from a saw pit?
Although this method of construction
dates back more than 2,000 years,
during the time of the Roman Empire,
pit sawing began to be adopted by other European cultures
in the 15th century.
Is it possible that the team has found more evidence
of ancient man-made workings at a depth of 90 feet?
The same depth where they've also encountered
a possible tunnel that could date back as far as 1488?
RICK: This depth where they're finding
multiple hits of wood indicating a tunnel,
again, means the possibility exists that
it is original work and it's closely associated
with a possible treasure deposition.
There's wood and-and quite a bit of it.
But right now we should continue to...
to see what happens with this.
So, I'll see you guys later.
Okay, Rick. Talk to you later.
NARRATOR: As drilling in the Money Pit continues,
just to the west on Lot 18...
Jack, I think I'm gonna start placing dirt down
in that pad that hasn't been metal-detected yet.
Sounds like a plan.
Billy Gerhardt and Jack Begley
continue their investigation of the Dunfield Spoils.
(steady beeping)
Hey, Billy.
I'm having a pretty big hit right through here.
So, I-I don't know exactly what it is,
but why don't you try digging it up,
- 'cause it seems quite large. - Sure.
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(whirring)
JACK: Oh, oh, wow!
Just like before: a big timber with big spikes in.
It could be.
Yeah, I'm not seeing any spikes, though.
(beeps)
Yeah, no hits on this. Oh, oh, hey.
Look, there's dowel holes.
This might actually be quite old.
JACK: This big timber might actually be quite old.
Oh, that is a big one. Really old-looking.
NARRATOR: Just west of the Money Pit on Lot 18,
Jack Begley and Billy Gerhardt have just made
another potentially important discovery
in the Dunfield Spoils.
Yeah, look. (grunts softly)
You can see it's notched out,
and then you got this hole for the dowel right there.
NARRATOR: A wood timber featuring dowel holes?
Dating as far back as the seventh century in Japan,
and utilized in the construction
of buildings and sailing vessels,
wooden dowels began to be widely used
during the 15th century across Europe
and were favored over iron spikes or nails
which were prone to rust after long exposure to water.
Could this timber be more evidence
that Robert Dunfield was digging
at the location of the original Money Pit
more than half a century ago?
Yeah, I'm-I'm not getting any fasteners on this.
This wasn't the hit, Billy.
If there's no metal fasteners in this timber,
and it's just dowels,
- then we're talking about a-a really old shaft. - Yeah, exactly.
- I'll take another scoop. - Let me get this out of the way, though.
♪ ♪
(beeping)
Hmm. Hey.
- I think we found ourselves a big spike. - Yeah.
That's in a different league altogether.
RICK: What my hope is that this spike
and wood, in particular, say:
you can perhaps create some sort of connective tissue.
This is one heck of a fastener.
RICK: If it is part of a structure,
then you've really found something.
I'd be anxious to get some dates that are older
than 1795 off from these spikes and these timbers.
But anything that gives us more information
on the Money Pit is really good information, right?
Yeah. All right, well, we'll continue on.
I'm gonna go to put it up with the other irons.
This might be a really old piece.
BILLY: Yeah.
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NARRATOR: Later that afternoon,
while the drilling operation at the Money Pit continues...
- MARTY: Hello, Matt. - Hello.
- Welcome to the war room. - Thank you.
Jack Begley and Billy Gerhardt
join Rick, Marty and other members
of the team in the war room.
They are meeting with mechanical engineer
and Oak Island theorist, Matt Sandt,
who recently contacted Marty with new research
he has conducted related to the previous work
of the team's late friend and author Zena Halpern.
So, Matt, uh, you wrote me the letter
basically saying we were misinterpreting
some aspects of the Zena Halpern map.
MATT: Yeah.
What I have in front of us right now is
the, uh, map Zena Halpern had found some years back,
and I thought it'd be real interesting to go back
and take a fresh look at, uh,
some of the original information that we had.
NARRATOR: In 2016,
Zena presented the team with three documents
that she believed to have been created
by members of the Knights Templar.
One of these documents was a map of Oak Island
that reportedly dated back to the 14th century
and featured a number of locations labeled in French.
Locations that, when translated to English,
appeared to offer compelling clues.
MARTY: One's called "the anchors,"
one's called "the valve,"
and one's called "the hatch."
MARTY: I mean, Rick,
don't you want to go dig up the hatch?
No question about it.
- Let's go have a look. - Why don't we take a look?
NARRATOR: Although the team searched the western side of the island
for evidence of the so-called hatch
or possible tunnel entrance,
to date, nothing definitive has been found.
MATT: I want to switch here to the English translation.
And here we have something called "the hatch,"
"the hole under" and so forth.
From each label,
we have a line pointing to
a general location on the island.
It just says "the hole under,"
and it's pointing to a location, and then it says "the hatch,"
and they've got a line pointing somewhere else.
- Mm-hmm. - MATT: I mean, a hatch can be a hatch,
but they didn't know what "the hole under" refers to.
That seemed to be kind of strange language.
That made me want to go back and look at
the French map again.
Let me point out here these leader lines.
You see that the draftsman, the guy that made this map,
did it the same every single time.
He puts a little squiggle,
and then he draws a line to the right.
If you look at the leader line that goes to "the hole under,"
it's got a little squiggle, and then it points to the text.
The next one down has got kind of a big squiggle,
and then it does the same thing.
And what I found, which I thought was kind of an aha,
is actually not a translating error.
It's just a... an error when they made the English version,
resulted from misinterpretation of these leader lines.
And when I saw that the French here says,
"le trou sous la trappe,"
which means, "the hole under the hatch."
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That's one label right here.
The label underneath it is a separate label.
If there is a-a leader line mistake,
I just hope that maybe it's just one more opportunity
to-to find some information.
That is an excellent observation,
'cause "the hole under the hatch"
makes a lot more sense.
(chuckles): That blew by all of us, did it, I guess?
- RICK: Yes, it did. - It actually did.
MATT: I have one other thing I'd like
- to show you real quickly. - Sure.
I took a satellite, uh, image and overlaid it onto the island,
and, uh, just 'cause I wanted to know
what the general area looked like,
so where it points at "the hole under the hatch,"
as the map depicts it,
it looks like it's a wooded area.
- It looks like it's over on Lot 4. - Yes, it does.
RICK: There's always been the curiosity
with-with Zena's map and the general area of the hatch.
If we can confirm but one of the items on the map,
then it would compel us to do
a much more thorough investigation
of the other locations that are mentioned.
If I were one of you guys,
boy, I'd be up there with a shovel looking around.
(laughter)
RICK: We'll certainly put some boots on this.
There's no question about that.
Well, you can rest assured we will look there.
Well, I certainly, uh, wish you the best of luck.
MARTY: Cheers. Thanks a lot.
- ALEX: Thank you. - RICK: Take care.
NARRATOR: As another new day begins,
on Lot 22,
located on the western side of Oak Island...
CRAIG: Here they come.
Craig Tester and Doug Crowell are meeting
with Daniel Boulay and Taylor Pierce from CSR GeoSurveys...
Gentlemen.
a geophysical company that specializes
in detecting large underground objects and structures.
- Uh, we want to start in this area of the island. - Mm-hmm.
NARRATOR: It is the Oak Island team's hope
that Daniel and Taylor can obtain evidence
to verify a possible tunnel entrance or hatch
that was depicted on the believed 14th century map
belonging to the late author and researcher Zena Halpern.
Um, this is the entire island,
- and-and we're right in this area right here. - Mm-hmm.
- This is what they considered the hatch. - Okay.
And so, what is it?
If there is a hatch, does it lead to a tunnel?
So, there's a number of things from Zena's map
that, you know, if we do an island-wide study,
then we might find out where they're located.
- Absolutely. Yeah. - And then all the stuff associated
- with the Money Pit itself. - Yeah.
So, we're really interested in the different tools
you're gonna be running on the island this year.
Of course, I'm gonna use the VLF method,
which, um, is powerful radio signals from far away.
- Okay. - They induce currents
and conductive materials underground,
which induce secondary magnetic fields
which we measure at surface.
- Okay. - DANIEL: Right on.
You want to grab your equipment and we'll head on out to the...
- "the hatch"? Okay. - Sure. Let's do this.
NARRATOR: Starting with Lot 22, followed by the adjacent Lot 4,
Daniel and Taylor will be conducting two different types
of geophysical surveys across the island.
The first, known as VLF,
or very low frequency radio wave scanning,
is designed to identify anomalous underground features
such as large objects, tunnels or shafts
to depths of as much as 180 feet.
The second will be a magnetometer survey
which will identify ferrous metals,
such as iron or steel, to depths of as much as 30 feet.
CRAIG: The VLF looks for conductivity.
A tunnel full of water is gonna
conduct electricity much better than hard rock.
-It's right in through here. I'll lead the way. -All right.
CRAIG: The magnetometer, looking for iron is the key thing.
So, hopefully these tools can help
find that hatch
and see what that hatch leads to.
I've got to head out, head out back.
Um, Doug knows some other sites
that we want you to take a look at.
Uh, but for now, why don't you guys get started here.
DANIEL: Right on. Let's go to work.
NARRATOR: As the geo-survey scans continue on Lot 22...
- JACK: Maybe go a little bit deeper. - BILLY: Okay.
Jack Begley and heavy equipment operator
Billy Gerhardt continue excavating
the Dunfield Spoils near the Money Pit on Lot 18.
(steady beeping)
Jack.
Look in the hole.
- This? - Uh, on the back edge.
Oh, this. Oh, that's weird, Billy.
This is the sod.
This-this is the grass.
I think I'm standing right on top
- of the original ground. - BILLY: I agree.
JACK: Let's see what's underneath.
Yeah.
(whirring)
JACK: Hey, that doesn't seem like a glacial rock.
It looks like it was split,
and it looks like it was laid here.
Yeah, right under the sod.
That would make it pretty leveled.
If you were making a flat road, we're go-- the hill is going up,
- but the rocks are staying level. - Definitely.
NARRATOR: A possible stone road
revealed in the ground beneath the Dunfield Spoils?
I did come across some imagery from the 1930s
here in the Money Pit.
NARRATOR: One month ago,
environmental scientist and researcher Terry Deveau
presented the team with an aerial photograph
taken in 1931
that showed the possible remains of a stone pathway
between the swamp and the Money Pit area.
It appears that it may be the remains of
an ancient stone path, and it would align
with the path in this direction.
NARRATOR: Just two weeks ago, after the team discovered
another stone feature near the massive stone wharf
in the southeast corner of the swamp,
surveyor Steve Guptill made a stunning assessment
of its elevation and alignment.
STEVE G.: This path, projected across the lots,
it heads to the Money Pit.
- This path? - This path here.
I'd say this is definitely the ground level.
We need to have Steve Guptill come and pin this.
The hope is, is that this is the stone road
that was leading to the Money Pit.
And if we can follow that road, there might be
some other artifacts that we can find that will lead us
to dates and who, what, when, where, why.
- Hey, Jack. - Hey, Steve.
NARRATOR: In order to confirm
if this feature could be connected
to the stone path in the swamp,
Jack and Billy have called Steve Guptill
to document and assess it.
JACK: This is a piece of the original sod
- on the hillside. - Mm-hmm.
- Yep. - Like the grass before the Money Pit spoils
were poured on top of it.
The problem is, it has all the characteristics
in what we look for before in the road, right?
You know, it has lots of rocks. They're all level.
Yes. This could be the road that we're looking for.
It might be, actually.
I'll just tag a few of these stones,
- and I'll just see if it lines up. - Mm-hmm.
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Let me project the line.
So, even though it's preliminary,
based on projecting the data I collected in the swamp,
it ends up right here.
- Oh, really? - Yeah.
NARRATOR: If the team has indeed discovered a stone pathway,
could it also be connected to the pieces
of 15th century keg barrels, ox shoes,
and iron ringbolts discovered last year,
that all suggest something of great value
was unloaded from a ship long ago
and transported to the Money Pit?
To know for sure, I am gonna run back
to the research center, I'll plot it,
I'll project it, but I'm pretty confident to say
that if it does extend through here, you found it.
JACK: That's actually phenomenal. Great job, Billy.
We should be sure that we cover all the ground
- that no tunnel could pass by. - That's the whole idea.
NARRATOR: While the core drilling operation continues
in the Money Pit area,
just to the west, on Lot 18...
- MARTY: Okay, another pit. - (doors close)
Rick, Marty and Alex Lagina, along with Craig Tester
and geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner,
have arrived to inspect the possible stone pathway
just unearthed by Jack Begley and Billy Gerhardt.
Hey, what's going on, guys?
RICK: Billy, you and Jack were...
removed that, so maybe you should take over here.
It is hard to see,
but as you get to the bottom,
there's a pretty solid section of ten-foot rock here,
and then there's none at all to this side.
- Mm-hmm. - So we're kind of thinking that
somebody had a hand in putting it there, maybe.
Yeah. I don't know what this is,
but I-I think we'd have to dig more
- to even make a guess. - Absolutely would, yep.
MARTY: Well, let's do it.
Why don't you put a trench right through here.
Yep.
RICK: Not every stone on Oak Island means something,
but what they see is very suggestive of a road.
But we've not cleaned the area up sufficiently
to take a proper look at it.
JACK: There.
You can really start to see how many rocks are right there now.
- MARTY: Hey, Billy. Hold off. - BILLY: Yeah.
Well, this rock pile is kind of interesting.
There's a grass-soil horizon right there.
At this stage at least, there's some manipulation here,
'cause it's all mixed up with all the organic.
You know, even looking right here,
stone, stone, stone, stone.
- Yeah. - Whether it's deposit
or whether somebody laid this down 200 years ago,
I think there's a not-natural component
of being moved around by people.
This is what I'm interested in, 'cause it's actually got
these rocks in that rock on rock on rock attitude,
which can be natural.
But when you have organics mixed around it,
then you start to wonder a little bit.
And it's not far dissimilar to what was in the photos.
Aha.
RICK: It's a start.
I think we're at the beginning
in terms of exploring the possibilities
of this so-called path or road.
It could be instrumental in helping us
in the Money Pit.
Okay, that-that looks more like a road. Right?
MARTY: It could have all kinds of clues on it.
Something happened here.
Something rather major happened here.
Good job, you guys,
you know, sounding the alarm on it.
We follow it, and there's some artifact that tells a story.
- But there might be some info here. - For sure.
MARTY: Let's get back to it.
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NARRATOR: Two days later...
RICK: Gentlemen, I'm glad we're here.
Craig has been working intimately
with, uh, Canadian Seabed Research.
Rick Lagina and Craig Tester gather in the war room
with members of the team for a highly anticipated meeting
with Colin Toole and Mitch Grace of CSR GeoSurveys Limited.
Colin and Mitch have prepared a report
regarding the magnetometry scan that was conducted
across the island two days ago
to locate possible underground metal objects and structures.
Realizing there's a lot more out there
than what we had thought,
you know, we want to do a couple full-island surveys.
A-And two of them are the magnetometer and the VLF.
And the VLF takes more processing?
Yeah, it's in the works. It's on its way.
- Yeah. - Okay. then I think today
you have the magnetometer results, right?
- COLIN: Yep. - Okay.
Yeah, so we... we conducted
a terrestrial, uh, magnetometer survey.
These are our maps.
The first map that, uh, we're gonna present is
the total field magnetic intensity.
Then you can really focus in on what we like to call anomalies.
They could be blue, or they could be pink,
which jump right out at you on the map.
So, each one of these, you know, we would...
we would classify as an anomaly,
you know, for further investigation, really.
Back by the main road on the western side,
just up there on Lot 4...
Yeah, the pink and then those red dots.
Do you see that?
I don't know any metal that's back there.
- RICK: Hmm, no. - JACK: What about the pink?
That's a pretty hard hit.
COLIN: This is a decent-size anomaly.
I mean, it's right next to the road.
That's near where the hatch could be.
The hatch from Zena's map.
RICK: Interesting.
That could be the hatch from Zena's map.
- That's interesting. - NARRATOR: In the war room,
Rick Lagina, Craig Tester and members of the team
have just been presented with the results
of a magnetometry survey
that was conducted across Oak Island identifying
a number of possible buried objects or structures.
Incredibly,
one of the most prominent targets matches the area
where a believed patch or tunnel entrance
was noted on a reported 14th century Templar map
that belonged to the late author and researcher Zena Halpern.
JACK: To me, that's probably one of the things
that stands out the most.
Well, that's a big hit.
I mean, if it's not something obvious
you guys know about right beside the road,
then what is it?
STEVE G.: I've calculated the position to the hatch
the best I could based on Zena's map,
and it's right there.
It's plus or minus ten feet of the area,
which makes it really interesting.
Zena's map is of particular importance to me,
but it demands a lot of ground truthing.
But now we have a very focused location.
Yeah, definitely.
MARTY: There are various anomalies.
Some of them seem to be coincident
or close to the, um, things delineated on Zena's map.
So it certainly merits more investigation.
COLIN: I mean, as you can see,
there's plenty of anomalies to chase down and identify.
Take this map as a guide to help focus in
on areas, and then from there,
you can run a really tight space grid, right?
Yeah, we need to look at everything in-in great detail.
Hopefully, we can dig up some of these anomalies
and give us some big clues.
So, I think it's gonna be very exciting.
There were a number of locations that should be investigated,
that demand investigating.
They were that significant.
I think certainly the one in Lot 4 is the most intriguing,
and it's easily investigated.
We're trying to move the search agenda forward,
and who knows what this find might tell us,
so I look forward to it.
The reason why we apply science and technology is
to lead us further on the road to the answers.
But we've got to just get out there,
eyes and boots, get on the ground
and figure out what this may mean.
It's just opened up a-a whole new search agenda, literally.
- So, thank you very much. - COLIN: Thank you.
NARRATOR: For Rick, Marty and the Fellowship of the Dig,
the path to solving a mystery
that has captivated the world for two centuries
appears more defined than ever.
With new clues being revealed across the island,
and an ambitious plan
to excavate the Money Pit taking shape,
could this finally be the year of the ultimate discovery?
Or will a legendary curse emerge once again
and drastically alter their course?
Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...
- (beeping) - We have winkled that signal out, mate.
Fingers crossed.
- JACK: Yeah! - GARY: Look at that roundness!
Zinc, lead, iron.
- GARY: Gold, Jack. - No way.
There's a large piece of wood that lines up with the road.
This is almost exactly what we were looking for.
It's more than we expected.
ALEX: Hey, look at this.
Bingo! This is Christmas.
That would apply to a chamber,
- wouldn't it? - It would apply to a chamber.
MARTY: Holy smokes.