1 00:00:01,894 --> 00:00:03,076 NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island... 2 00:00:03,170 --> 00:00:05,395 - MARTY: So it begins! - VANESSA: Shaft number two. 3 00:00:05,489 --> 00:00:06,897 MARTY: Come on, be something good. 4 00:00:06,990 --> 00:00:09,341 - Oh, wow. - That's incredible that that's down there. 5 00:00:09,493 --> 00:00:11,493 Oh, wow. Wow. 6 00:00:11,587 --> 00:00:14,513 It looks like parchment, but it's got something shiny on it. 7 00:00:14,664 --> 00:00:16,590 JON: You can see those very, very bright spots? 8 00:00:16,742 --> 00:00:18,742 - Mm-hmm. - That could actually be some of the writing. 9 00:00:18,835 --> 00:00:21,854 Some of the older inks were made of iron-based ink. 10 00:00:22,081 --> 00:00:24,581 That is pre-1840s iron and has been known 11 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,175 - since the 1500s. - Well, how about that. 12 00:00:27,194 --> 00:00:28,318 (laughs) 13 00:00:31,590 --> 00:00:34,424 NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic 14 00:00:34,518 --> 00:00:36,943 where people have been looking for 15 00:00:37,038 --> 00:00:40,947 an incredible treasure for more than 200 years. 16 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:43,950 So far, they have found a stone slab 17 00:00:44,045 --> 00:00:45,936 with strange symbols carved into it... 18 00:00:47,122 --> 00:00:50,532 man-made workings that date to medieval times, 19 00:00:50,551 --> 00:00:54,945 and a lead cross whose origin may be connected 20 00:00:54,963 --> 00:00:56,129 to the Knights Templar. 21 00:00:56,282 --> 00:00:58,965 To date, six men have died 22 00:00:59,060 --> 00:01:01,952 trying to solve the mystery. 23 00:01:01,970 --> 00:01:06,957 And according to legend, one more will have to die 24 00:01:07,050 --> 00:01:09,359 before the treasure can be found. 25 00:01:13,741 --> 00:01:16,909 ♪ ♪ 26 00:01:23,158 --> 00:01:24,641 MARTY: Here we are, Dan. 27 00:01:24,660 --> 00:01:27,978 NARRATOR: A morning full of renewed hope has arrived 28 00:01:27,996 --> 00:01:31,239 on Oak Island for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, 29 00:01:31,333 --> 00:01:34,818 their partner Craig Tester and the rest of their team 30 00:01:34,837 --> 00:01:36,002 as they continue a quest 31 00:01:36,097 --> 00:01:39,348 to solve a 227-year-old treasure mystery. 32 00:01:41,660 --> 00:01:42,584 Front and center, young man. 33 00:01:42,678 --> 00:01:44,436 - DAN: Uh-oh. - Gentlemen! 34 00:01:44,663 --> 00:01:46,830 Quite a crowd here. 35 00:01:46,849 --> 00:01:48,941 - Hey! - Welcome! 36 00:01:49,092 --> 00:01:51,092 GARY: Dan, the man. Today is the day. 37 00:01:51,112 --> 00:01:52,111 MARTY: Today's always the day. 38 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,263 - Vanessa! - Hello! 39 00:01:55,357 --> 00:01:57,599 Ready for shaft number two? 40 00:01:57,693 --> 00:01:58,859 - Are you ready? - I'm ready. 41 00:01:58,953 --> 00:02:00,026 You know, we're here. 42 00:02:00,179 --> 00:02:01,603 We're gonna find some answers for you. 43 00:02:01,697 --> 00:02:03,455 So, we just want you to know 44 00:02:03,682 --> 00:02:07,775 that this is the elder statesman of Oak Island at this point. 45 00:02:07,870 --> 00:02:09,186 So, we all thought it was appropriate 46 00:02:09,279 --> 00:02:11,872 that not only should Dan press the button, 47 00:02:12,024 --> 00:02:14,191 but Dan should name the can. 48 00:02:14,284 --> 00:02:15,283 - All right, Dan. - DAN H.: That was the problem. 49 00:02:15,302 --> 00:02:18,545 I'm not much at naming. However, uh, 50 00:02:18,697 --> 00:02:20,472 I figured something optimistic might go. 51 00:02:21,867 --> 00:02:23,642 It's Early Christmas One. 52 00:02:23,793 --> 00:02:25,310 (cheering) 53 00:02:25,537 --> 00:02:27,295 NARRATOR: Today, 54 00:02:27,389 --> 00:02:29,130 the team will begin excavating 55 00:02:29,224 --> 00:02:30,798 their second 10-foot-wide shaft 56 00:02:30,818 --> 00:02:32,876 in an area where they have already made 57 00:02:32,895 --> 00:02:35,545 incredible discoveries this year. 58 00:02:35,564 --> 00:02:38,824 These include evidence of man-made wooden tunnels 59 00:02:39,051 --> 00:02:41,809 some 90 feet deep that were carbon-dated 60 00:02:41,904 --> 00:02:45,313 to between 1488 and 1650, 61 00:02:45,332 --> 00:02:49,317 as well as traces of both silver and gold. 62 00:02:49,819 --> 00:02:52,004 I think we are in the bedrock. 63 00:02:53,248 --> 00:02:55,399 I think this is gonna be as close to getting down there 64 00:02:55,492 --> 00:02:57,158 - as we're gonna get. - RICK: We're done. 65 00:02:57,252 --> 00:02:59,160 NARRATOR: One week ago, 66 00:02:59,180 --> 00:03:03,089 the team concluded their dig of a shaft, known as TF-1, 67 00:03:03,242 --> 00:03:07,260 after reaching bedrock at a depth of 152 feet. 68 00:03:07,413 --> 00:03:11,005 Despite the fact that they had also detected precious metals 69 00:03:11,099 --> 00:03:13,083 in that location earlier this year 70 00:03:13,176 --> 00:03:15,585 during their core-drilling program, 71 00:03:15,679 --> 00:03:18,088 they did not recover any valuables. 72 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:20,348 All of this broken stuff, 73 00:03:20,442 --> 00:03:23,093 - we know it's a shaft. - Yeah. 74 00:03:23,186 --> 00:03:26,263 However, they did find evidence of a shaft 75 00:03:26,281 --> 00:03:30,375 that was constructed in 1909 by the Old Gold Salvage Company, 76 00:03:30,602 --> 00:03:33,528 which was financed by future U.S. president, 77 00:03:33,622 --> 00:03:35,547 Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 78 00:03:35,958 --> 00:03:37,382 Look at that. Look at that. 79 00:03:37,534 --> 00:03:40,034 They also found possible evidence 80 00:03:40,128 --> 00:03:41,720 of the fabled Chappell Vault. 81 00:03:41,871 --> 00:03:44,038 - I'm liking more of that concrete stuff. - Yeah. 82 00:03:44,132 --> 00:03:45,373 That looks like concrete to me. 83 00:03:45,467 --> 00:03:48,018 JACK: We could be close to the actual vault. 84 00:03:49,230 --> 00:03:50,378 VANESSA: Okay, we're ready to slam some can. 85 00:03:50,397 --> 00:03:51,879 - MARTY: Make hole. - VANESSA: Let's do it. 86 00:03:51,899 --> 00:03:54,716 NARRATOR: Now, based on those discoveries, 87 00:03:54,810 --> 00:03:59,905 they are about to excavate EC-1 just eight feet to the east. 88 00:04:01,149 --> 00:04:02,241 -DAN: Okay. -VANESSA: All right. Go ahead and turn 89 00:04:02,468 --> 00:04:03,633 - the oscillator on right there. - DAN: All right. 90 00:04:03,652 --> 00:04:06,470 - Here we go. Yep. - Turn it to the right. 91 00:04:06,563 --> 00:04:07,895 (whirring) 92 00:04:07,990 --> 00:04:09,155 NARRATOR: With this effort, 93 00:04:09,250 --> 00:04:12,309 they are hoping to reach two potential targets, 94 00:04:12,327 --> 00:04:15,754 one being a tunnel some 118 feet deep 95 00:04:15,905 --> 00:04:18,740 containing a reported debris field of timbers 96 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:20,984 and scattered treasure from a collapse 97 00:04:21,077 --> 00:04:24,004 of the original Money Pit in 1861, 98 00:04:24,098 --> 00:04:27,749 and the other the legendary Chappell Vault itself, 99 00:04:27,843 --> 00:04:30,327 which is believed to lie buried 100 00:04:30,345 --> 00:04:34,831 at even greater depth of approximately 150 feet. 101 00:04:34,924 --> 00:04:37,609 So, you're gonna go ahead and move the cylinders. 102 00:04:37,836 --> 00:04:39,945 Pull it straight back to you. Keep pulling. 103 00:04:40,096 --> 00:04:42,355 - MARTY: There it goes. - DOUG: Yeah! 104 00:04:42,508 --> 00:04:46,100 RICK: With TF-1, we thought we were close to the original Money Pit. 105 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,196 But we don't want to be close, we want to be on it. 106 00:04:50,349 --> 00:04:53,350 It's tantalizing to think 107 00:04:53,368 --> 00:04:56,110 that we were... missed it by that much. 108 00:04:56,130 --> 00:04:58,613 Okay, fine. You missed it. Keep going. 109 00:04:58,632 --> 00:05:03,877 So, this area suggests gold and silver 110 00:05:03,971 --> 00:05:06,863 in close proximity to TF-1. 111 00:05:06,956 --> 00:05:09,049 So, this is going to be a location 112 00:05:09,201 --> 00:05:11,459 of significant interest. 113 00:05:11,478 --> 00:05:13,887 There you go. I've got another oscillator operator. 114 00:05:14,039 --> 00:05:16,056 - Let's have a round of applause. - ALEX: Yeah! 115 00:05:16,208 --> 00:05:19,042 -All right. Early Christmas. It's happening. -(laughter) 116 00:05:19,135 --> 00:05:21,378 MARTY: Dan hits the button, and the canister starts to move, 117 00:05:21,471 --> 00:05:23,380 and we're off to the races. 118 00:05:23,473 --> 00:05:26,158 This is it, this is the best spot, 119 00:05:26,385 --> 00:05:30,478 and we're hopeful that it is the spot. 120 00:05:30,572 --> 00:05:32,072 - Well done, Dan. - VANESSA: Nice job. 121 00:05:32,166 --> 00:05:33,740 - Great job. - CHARLES: Yep. 122 00:05:33,834 --> 00:05:34,908 MARTY: That was great, Dan. 123 00:05:35,002 --> 00:05:36,893 DAN: I'm getting better at it, I guess. 124 00:05:36,912 --> 00:05:38,745 - MARTY: Yeah, you are. - (Dan laughs) 125 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,898 NARRATOR: As the excavation of the EC-1 shaft proceeds 126 00:05:41,917 --> 00:05:43,249 in the Money Pit area, 127 00:05:43,402 --> 00:05:44,751 later that morning... 128 00:05:44,903 --> 00:05:46,661 - MARTY: Hello, Dr. Brosseau! - ALEX: Hi, Dr. Brosseau! 129 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:47,904 CHRISTA: Hi, everyone. How's it going? 130 00:05:47,997 --> 00:05:49,348 - Very fine, thank you. - Good, good. 131 00:05:49,575 --> 00:05:52,576 Rick, Marty, Craig, and members of the team 132 00:05:52,594 --> 00:05:55,336 gather in the war room for a meeting via video conference 133 00:05:55,356 --> 00:05:58,932 with Dr. Christa Brosseau, a professor of chemistry 134 00:05:59,026 --> 00:06:02,936 at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 135 00:06:03,088 --> 00:06:06,365 Gentlemen, we have a few artifacts here, 136 00:06:06,516 --> 00:06:08,608 which we had sent to Dr. Brosseau. 137 00:06:08,702 --> 00:06:10,369 What can you tell us? 138 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,872 These are some objects from, uh, what you call Lot 15. 139 00:06:14,099 --> 00:06:18,025 - Yep. - So, the first object was a spike, 140 00:06:18,045 --> 00:06:20,027 so, a wrought spike. 141 00:06:20,122 --> 00:06:23,273 - You think here? - Yeah, that's good. 142 00:06:23,366 --> 00:06:25,867 NARRATOR: Over the past two weeks, 143 00:06:25,961 --> 00:06:29,295 the team has been investigating a possible buried stone pathway 144 00:06:29,390 --> 00:06:32,206 running eastward from the swamp that was detected 145 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:36,136 approximately five feet deep using ground penetrating radar. 146 00:06:36,288 --> 00:06:38,546 - Go ahead and stop. - ALEX: Okay. 147 00:06:38,565 --> 00:06:39,956 MARTY: Yeah, see what it says. 148 00:06:39,975 --> 00:06:41,066 NARRATOR: However, 149 00:06:41,293 --> 00:06:43,143 because of a current government mandate 150 00:06:43,295 --> 00:06:44,961 restricting any large-scale digging 151 00:06:45,054 --> 00:06:47,647 outside the Money Pit area, 152 00:06:47,741 --> 00:06:49,983 the team needs to locate evidence of human activity 153 00:06:50,077 --> 00:06:53,078 predating 1795 154 00:06:53,229 --> 00:06:55,972 before they can obtain a permit to expose and track 155 00:06:56,065 --> 00:06:58,232 the feature to its final destination. 156 00:06:58,810 --> 00:07:02,479 There she blows. Wow, look at that! 157 00:07:02,497 --> 00:07:05,239 - Is that a spike? - Yeah, that's a big spike. 158 00:07:05,259 --> 00:07:08,427 NARRATOR: One week ago, while searching for important clues 159 00:07:08,654 --> 00:07:10,320 along the suspected path between the swamp 160 00:07:10,338 --> 00:07:13,673 - and the Money Pit on Lot 15... - GARY: Look at that! 161 00:07:13,825 --> 00:07:15,992 metal detection expert Gary Drayton, 162 00:07:16,085 --> 00:07:18,828 and Rick and Marty's nephew Peter Fornetti 163 00:07:18,847 --> 00:07:21,940 made two promising finds-- An iron spike 164 00:07:22,091 --> 00:07:25,669 and the head of a potentially ancient claw hammer. 165 00:07:26,855 --> 00:07:30,356 CHRISTA: The spike, it has a rose head at the top. 166 00:07:30,451 --> 00:07:33,359 It has a square shank. Um, it's well made. 167 00:07:33,512 --> 00:07:35,454 It does appear to be broken in half. 168 00:07:35,605 --> 00:07:39,106 So, when I did the analysis on-on this spike, 169 00:07:39,201 --> 00:07:40,775 the iron is coming back clean. 170 00:07:40,869 --> 00:07:42,777 The only thing I was able to detect-- 171 00:07:42,796 --> 00:07:45,522 Other than iron, obviously-- Was some phosphorous, 172 00:07:45,540 --> 00:07:48,191 so around 0.3 percent. 173 00:07:48,210 --> 00:07:51,595 And, so, this looks like it is a pre-1840s wrought iron. 174 00:07:52,789 --> 00:07:55,122 Any way to, you know, put brackets 175 00:07:55,217 --> 00:07:57,792 around how much before 1840? 176 00:07:57,886 --> 00:08:00,127 It's really hard to say. Um... 177 00:08:00,222 --> 00:08:01,813 The rose-head nature of it 178 00:08:01,965 --> 00:08:03,631 does mean that it's been handmade, 179 00:08:03,650 --> 00:08:06,151 so, likely, that can push the date back 180 00:08:06,302 --> 00:08:09,488 - to before 1790. - Perfect. 181 00:08:09,715 --> 00:08:11,731 - Yeah. - ALEX: That's good, because... 182 00:08:11,825 --> 00:08:13,383 to the best of our knowledge the treasure hunt started 183 00:08:13,401 --> 00:08:15,385 - in 1795. - Yep. 184 00:08:15,403 --> 00:08:17,721 NARRATOR: If Dr. Brosseau is correct 185 00:08:17,814 --> 00:08:20,832 that the iron spike predates 1790 186 00:08:21,059 --> 00:08:24,077 and the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795, 187 00:08:24,229 --> 00:08:26,062 could it offer evidence 188 00:08:26,081 --> 00:08:29,065 that the buried pathway does as well? 189 00:08:29,084 --> 00:08:31,843 All right. What do you have next for us? 190 00:08:31,995 --> 00:08:35,138 All right. Um, coming up next is the claw hammer head. 191 00:08:36,499 --> 00:08:38,165 So, when I looked at the claw hammer head, 192 00:08:38,260 --> 00:08:39,425 um, what I see is 193 00:08:39,578 --> 00:08:41,077 that the iron is clean. 194 00:08:41,170 --> 00:08:43,079 Again, I'm not detecting any manganese. 195 00:08:43,098 --> 00:08:45,190 Small amount of phosphorous is present, 196 00:08:45,417 --> 00:08:47,584 so very-- quite similar to the last object. 197 00:08:47,677 --> 00:08:51,196 So this is, again, a pre-1840s iron. 198 00:08:51,423 --> 00:08:54,607 - Okay. - Claw hammer heads have been known 199 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:56,201 for many hundreds of years. 200 00:08:56,352 --> 00:08:58,945 So, this type of hammer head has been known 201 00:08:59,039 --> 00:09:01,022 since the 1500s. 202 00:09:01,041 --> 00:09:03,357 - Great. There you go. - Well, that's a good thing. 203 00:09:03,451 --> 00:09:04,450 - CRAIG: Yeah. - MARTY: Mm hmm. Cool. 204 00:09:04,545 --> 00:09:06,119 Why is it so tiny? 205 00:09:06,213 --> 00:09:08,104 What was it used for? 206 00:09:08,197 --> 00:09:09,606 I'm not sure. Some of them can be 207 00:09:09,699 --> 00:09:11,716 - quite small. - MARTY: Very interesting. 208 00:09:11,868 --> 00:09:16,054 Yeah, this time period is what we see all the time 209 00:09:16,205 --> 00:09:18,557 for the stakes and all the wood that we're finding... 210 00:09:18,784 --> 00:09:20,374 - Yeah. - associated with the stone road 211 00:09:20,468 --> 00:09:23,210 - and the stone path. - Right. 212 00:09:23,230 --> 00:09:26,213 NARRATOR: The claw hammer dating back 213 00:09:26,308 --> 00:09:29,050 as early as the 16th century? 214 00:09:29,069 --> 00:09:31,644 Along with the potentially ancient iron spike, 215 00:09:31,797 --> 00:09:35,740 could Dr. Brosseau's analysis of these two artifacts 216 00:09:35,967 --> 00:09:38,059 help the team obtain the permit they need 217 00:09:38,153 --> 00:09:39,469 to unearth the stone path 218 00:09:39,562 --> 00:09:42,138 and find out just where it is leading? 219 00:09:43,232 --> 00:09:48,328 The fact that they're finding these, uh, artifacts 220 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,164 in the upland in close proximity 221 00:09:51,258 --> 00:09:55,985 to the so-called stone path is an interesting connection. 222 00:09:56,079 --> 00:10:00,006 What we have to do now is get a proper permit 223 00:10:00,158 --> 00:10:03,509 to do a hands-on investigation of any anomalous feature. 224 00:10:03,604 --> 00:10:05,437 So, the hope is that 225 00:10:05,588 --> 00:10:09,774 these artifacts can tell us something about the stone path 226 00:10:10,001 --> 00:10:12,168 and where, ultimately, does it lead us. 227 00:10:12,261 --> 00:10:15,096 Hopefully to an "X" marks the spot. 228 00:10:15,190 --> 00:10:18,174 All right. Well, thank you very much. 229 00:10:18,193 --> 00:10:21,511 Informative as always and always right on the money 230 00:10:21,604 --> 00:10:23,513 from a scientific standpoint. 231 00:10:23,531 --> 00:10:24,514 So, thank you, Christa. 232 00:10:24,532 --> 00:10:26,366 I'm sure we'll be in contact again. 233 00:10:26,518 --> 00:10:28,126 Sure, you're welcome. Good luck. 234 00:10:28,277 --> 00:10:30,111 - Thank you. - Thank you. - Until the next time. 235 00:10:30,130 --> 00:10:32,780 RICK: There's more things yet to find so we better get at it. 236 00:10:32,799 --> 00:10:33,923 MARTY: Yes. 237 00:10:37,954 --> 00:10:38,953 - GARY: Fingers crossed. - NARRATOR: Following the meeting 238 00:10:38,972 --> 00:10:41,531 - in the war room... - Full bucket. 239 00:10:41,549 --> 00:10:45,126 as the excavation of the EC-1 shaft continues 240 00:10:45,220 --> 00:10:46,794 in the Money Pit area... 241 00:10:46,813 --> 00:10:49,706 - PETER: So, is this TF-1? - ALEX: Yep. 242 00:10:49,724 --> 00:10:51,632 - ERIC: Still TF-1. - PETER: TF-1, okay. 243 00:10:51,652 --> 00:10:54,894 nearby, at the wash table next to Borehole 10-X 244 00:10:54,988 --> 00:10:58,381 Alex Lagina, his cousin Peter Fornetti, 245 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,717 and surveyor Eric Valois 246 00:11:00,735 --> 00:11:02,886 are sifting through the remaining spoils 247 00:11:02,979 --> 00:11:07,073 excavated one week ago from the now completed TF-1 shaft. 248 00:11:07,225 --> 00:11:09,316 How deep do you think this is? 249 00:11:09,336 --> 00:11:11,169 Because of this limestone, I'm thinking fairly deep. 250 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:12,896 - Yeah. - I mean, it's got a chance 251 00:11:12,914 --> 00:11:14,339 of having something from our depth of interest 252 00:11:14,490 --> 00:11:15,674 at like 70 to 90 feet. 253 00:11:15,825 --> 00:11:17,901 - Mm-hmm. - So, you know, basically we're looking for 254 00:11:17,919 --> 00:11:19,252 - anything that can be tested. - PETER: Yeah. 255 00:11:19,404 --> 00:11:21,421 - Let's get to it. - ALEX: Yep. 256 00:11:21,573 --> 00:11:24,240 NARRATOR: Despite the fact that the team did not recover 257 00:11:24,259 --> 00:11:26,851 the legendary treasure vault in TF-1, 258 00:11:27,078 --> 00:11:29,245 earlier this year, 259 00:11:29,264 --> 00:11:32,582 their core-drilling operation conducted in that same location 260 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,693 did unearth metal fragments containing gold 261 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,012 at a depth of approximately 90 feet. 262 00:11:38,031 --> 00:11:40,440 We know from experience how hard it is 263 00:11:40,592 --> 00:11:43,350 to find things in-in what we dig. 264 00:11:43,370 --> 00:11:47,205 So, all these spoils are gonna go to the wash table 265 00:11:47,356 --> 00:11:49,690 where we can really sift through in much greater detail 266 00:11:49,710 --> 00:11:52,769 and try to find much older artifacts, 267 00:11:52,787 --> 00:11:55,880 or maybe anything else that we might have missed. 268 00:11:56,032 --> 00:11:58,124 ERIC: Oh. 269 00:11:58,218 --> 00:12:00,610 ALEX: Oh, hey. 270 00:12:00,703 --> 00:12:02,111 That's just like that leather we found. 271 00:12:02,205 --> 00:12:04,964 - Yeah. You found that last one like that. - ALEX: Yeah. 272 00:12:05,116 --> 00:12:07,633 More of the same strap. 273 00:12:07,786 --> 00:12:09,853 We have any idea what it is? 274 00:12:10,972 --> 00:12:13,881 Theorizing maybe a strap off of a bag 275 00:12:13,900 --> 00:12:15,641 - or something, with a buckle. - Mm-hmm. 276 00:12:15,794 --> 00:12:17,627 NARRATOR: A leather strap? 277 00:12:17,645 --> 00:12:19,979 Found in the TF-1 spoils? 278 00:12:20,632 --> 00:12:22,890 Over the past four years, 279 00:12:22,909 --> 00:12:24,801 the Oak Island team has unearthed 280 00:12:24,819 --> 00:12:26,986 a number of compelling leather artifacts 281 00:12:27,138 --> 00:12:29,138 during their large-scale excavations 282 00:12:29,157 --> 00:12:31,140 across the Money Pit area. 283 00:12:31,159 --> 00:12:34,085 These include bits of leather bookbinding, 284 00:12:34,237 --> 00:12:36,570 discovered along with pieces of parchment paper 285 00:12:36,664 --> 00:12:40,407 in Borehole H-8 back in 2017, 286 00:12:40,502 --> 00:12:43,169 and a leather bootheel recovered 287 00:12:43,321 --> 00:12:46,322 from Borehole 8-B in 2019 288 00:12:46,341 --> 00:12:49,934 that was carbon-dated back to as early as 1492. 289 00:12:50,086 --> 00:12:53,104 Could this leather strap represent 290 00:12:53,256 --> 00:12:55,515 another important piece to the Oak Island puzzle, 291 00:12:55,667 --> 00:12:57,350 meaning that the team is getting closer 292 00:12:57,502 --> 00:12:59,852 to the ultimate discovery? 293 00:12:59,946 --> 00:13:02,614 The leather, I think, can be carbon-dated. 294 00:13:02,765 --> 00:13:04,598 - Yep. - ALEX: It's all about just getting the dates, 295 00:13:04,618 --> 00:13:06,100 and everything we learned this time's 296 00:13:06,119 --> 00:13:07,118 - gonna help us. So... - PETER: Yep. 297 00:13:07,270 --> 00:13:08,953 And if that is that connecting piece, 298 00:13:09,105 --> 00:13:10,680 that changes the game 299 00:13:10,773 --> 00:13:14,033 - for this next shaft that we're going. - ALEX: Yeah, I agree. 300 00:13:14,127 --> 00:13:15,685 -Anyway, great find. I'll bag it. -PETER: Yeah. 301 00:13:15,703 --> 00:13:16,777 - ERIC: Yeah. - Perfect. 302 00:13:16,871 --> 00:13:17,629 ALEX: Okay. Let's see 303 00:13:17,780 --> 00:13:18,963 if we can find anything else. 304 00:13:25,697 --> 00:13:28,865 NARRATOR: The following morning in the Money Pit area... 305 00:13:28,883 --> 00:13:30,383 - DANNY: Showtime. - Yeah. 306 00:13:30,477 --> 00:13:32,793 DANNY: Here comes the gold. 307 00:13:32,813 --> 00:13:35,129 NARRATOR: Craig Tester, along with members 308 00:13:35,223 --> 00:13:37,373 of the team, continue monitoring 309 00:13:37,392 --> 00:13:40,226 the dig of the EC-1 shaft. 310 00:13:40,378 --> 00:13:44,471 You know, we're somewhere between 76 and, uh, like, 85. 311 00:13:44,491 --> 00:13:45,806 Yeah. They're going down pretty quickly. 312 00:13:45,826 --> 00:13:46,974 CHARLES: They are going down quick, so... 313 00:13:47,068 --> 00:13:48,885 We're closing in. 314 00:13:48,978 --> 00:13:50,954 (thudding) 315 00:13:55,226 --> 00:13:56,334 CHARLES: We're hitting something. 316 00:13:56,485 --> 00:13:57,910 CRAIG: Could be just boulders or something. 317 00:13:58,004 --> 00:13:59,412 I don't know. 318 00:13:59,564 --> 00:14:00,505 It'll be interesting to see. 319 00:14:00,732 --> 00:14:02,248 Yep. 320 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,825 That could be wood. 321 00:14:04,845 --> 00:14:07,161 That's what's slowing it down, yeah? 322 00:14:07,180 --> 00:14:08,662 - DANNY: Yeah. - ANDREW: Makes sense, 323 00:14:08,682 --> 00:14:10,348 'cause, I mean, we're at probably 74, 324 00:14:10,499 --> 00:14:12,408 75 with the can. 325 00:14:12,427 --> 00:14:14,001 That would explain why it's cutting hard. 326 00:14:14,020 --> 00:14:15,912 DANNY: Exactly. 327 00:14:15,930 --> 00:14:18,931 PETER: We're close to that 75-foot mark. 328 00:14:19,025 --> 00:14:20,358 Excellent, mate. 329 00:14:22,921 --> 00:14:24,437 We could all do with an early Christmas present. 330 00:14:24,531 --> 00:14:26,364 Gold. Silver. 331 00:14:26,515 --> 00:14:29,108 Gonna happen one day. 332 00:14:29,260 --> 00:14:30,259 I'm gonna go in with these guys 333 00:14:30,278 --> 00:14:31,870 - and take a look at it. - All right. 334 00:14:33,098 --> 00:14:34,873 PETER: It's muddy. 335 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,119 Got to dig through the trash to get to the treasure, mate. 336 00:14:40,213 --> 00:14:43,289 I don't see any wood in there. 337 00:14:43,383 --> 00:14:45,108 Where's the wood? 338 00:14:45,126 --> 00:14:47,034 PETER: Oh, I didn't see any in that. 339 00:14:47,128 --> 00:14:48,970 GARY: We're good to go. 340 00:14:50,782 --> 00:14:52,390 Let's find some good stuff. 341 00:14:55,470 --> 00:14:58,062 Come on, I know you're hiding in here somewhere. 342 00:15:01,476 --> 00:15:03,318 Just dirt. 343 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:05,904 Look at that. 344 00:15:07,556 --> 00:15:09,741 What the heck is this? 345 00:15:09,968 --> 00:15:11,801 Just there. 346 00:15:11,819 --> 00:15:13,653 - CRAIG: Oh, wow. - PETER: What is it? 347 00:15:13,805 --> 00:15:14,996 CRAIG: A piece of slate. 348 00:15:20,403 --> 00:15:22,311 Tough call, Laird. 349 00:15:22,330 --> 00:15:24,172 In place? 350 00:15:27,410 --> 00:15:29,427 Big piece of slate. 351 00:15:31,765 --> 00:15:34,265 LAIRD: That's certainly intriguing. 352 00:15:34,492 --> 00:15:36,417 - Gentlemen. - LAIRD: How are you? 353 00:15:36,436 --> 00:15:38,770 - Good. How are you? - LAIRD: Good. 354 00:15:38,921 --> 00:15:39,829 Got a chunk of slate. 355 00:15:39,847 --> 00:15:40,897 IAN: Oh, wow. 356 00:15:43,259 --> 00:15:46,069 - Wonder what that would be doing down there. - CRAIG: Yeah. 357 00:15:47,263 --> 00:15:48,838 IAN: It's out of place. 358 00:15:48,856 --> 00:15:50,782 - Wouldn't expect that. - CRAIG: Yeah. 359 00:15:51,009 --> 00:15:54,360 NARRATOR: A curious geological fact about Oak Island 360 00:15:54,512 --> 00:15:56,179 is that it is composed 361 00:15:56,197 --> 00:15:59,182 of two very different types of bedrock. 362 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,685 The western drumlin is made up of hard slate, 363 00:16:02,704 --> 00:16:06,689 a very hard, fine-grained metamorphic solid. 364 00:16:06,782 --> 00:16:10,876 However, the eastern drumlin where the Money Pit is located 365 00:16:11,029 --> 00:16:14,288 features much softer anhydrite limestone. 366 00:16:14,307 --> 00:16:16,532 The question is 367 00:16:16,551 --> 00:16:19,368 just what would explain a large piece of slate 368 00:16:19,462 --> 00:16:21,628 being found more than 70 feet deep 369 00:16:21,648 --> 00:16:24,724 in this area of Oak Island? 370 00:16:24,818 --> 00:16:27,134 There shouldn't be slate at this level, though. 371 00:16:27,153 --> 00:16:29,153 - CRAIG: 400 feet, maybe, on this side. - CHARLES: Yeah. 372 00:16:29,305 --> 00:16:30,613 Not at this depth. 373 00:16:32,050 --> 00:16:33,899 IAN: It's not real common in the till, either, 374 00:16:33,994 --> 00:16:35,493 so it was brought here 375 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,737 by somebody and ended up down there. 376 00:16:37,831 --> 00:16:39,572 That's weird. 377 00:16:39,666 --> 00:16:41,724 Can't think of any reason to specifically get 378 00:16:41,817 --> 00:16:44,060 - this rock and bring it over here. - I know. 379 00:16:44,078 --> 00:16:45,336 If somebody was building something, 380 00:16:45,563 --> 00:16:47,413 they'd have little flagstones around 381 00:16:47,565 --> 00:16:49,398 and got knocked down, and... 382 00:16:49,417 --> 00:16:51,917 CRAIG: Well, the story on the original Money Pit 383 00:16:52,070 --> 00:16:54,237 was the boys dug down, and they came upon 384 00:16:54,330 --> 00:16:58,665 - flagstone that covered the entire Money Pit itself. - Yeah. 385 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,185 NARRATOR: In 1795, 386 00:17:01,412 --> 00:17:03,670 Daniel McGinnis and his two friends 387 00:17:03,765 --> 00:17:06,006 Anthony Vaughan and John Smith 388 00:17:06,026 --> 00:17:09,027 noticed a 13-foot-wide depression 389 00:17:09,178 --> 00:17:13,422 in the ground that proved to be the original Money Pit shaft. 390 00:17:13,441 --> 00:17:16,609 As they began to dig, their first discovery, 391 00:17:16,761 --> 00:17:18,761 at a depth of just two feet, 392 00:17:18,780 --> 00:17:21,947 was a uniform layer of slate flagstones. 393 00:17:22,100 --> 00:17:24,709 The three men dug through them, 394 00:17:24,936 --> 00:17:27,770 ultimately reaching a depth of some 90 feet 395 00:17:27,789 --> 00:17:29,772 before a believed man-made flood tunnel 396 00:17:29,791 --> 00:17:31,549 thwarted their efforts. 397 00:17:31,776 --> 00:17:34,719 Is it possible that Craig and the others 398 00:17:34,946 --> 00:17:37,797 have just found a piece of slate rock connected 399 00:17:37,891 --> 00:17:40,058 to the first excavation ever conducted 400 00:17:40,285 --> 00:17:41,967 in the Money Pit? 401 00:17:42,062 --> 00:17:44,729 If so, could it also mean that they are on course 402 00:17:44,956 --> 00:17:47,290 to find what McGinnis and his associates 403 00:17:47,308 --> 00:17:49,625 were unable to reach? 404 00:17:49,644 --> 00:17:52,052 That should be much deeper. 405 00:17:52,072 --> 00:17:55,981 Much deeper. That should be 400 feet down, not at... 406 00:17:56,076 --> 00:17:58,058 not at 80 feet or so. 407 00:17:58,152 --> 00:18:00,244 So, I don't know what it means. I mean, 408 00:18:00,396 --> 00:18:03,564 maybe it-it fell from, uh, part of the original Money Pit. 409 00:18:03,583 --> 00:18:05,583 - Right. - CRAIG: To really know 410 00:18:05,734 --> 00:18:09,253 - if we're in the right spot, we need to hit wood. - Yeah. 411 00:18:09,405 --> 00:18:11,089 - We shall see. - CHARLES: Yeah. 412 00:18:11,316 --> 00:18:12,406 CRAIG: So, I think we're gonna start 413 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:13,574 getting a lot of wood. 414 00:18:13,593 --> 00:18:14,908 CHARLES: And maybe something else. 415 00:18:14,928 --> 00:18:16,335 CRAIG: Yes. Hopefully a treasure. 416 00:18:16,429 --> 00:18:21,915 CHARLES: That's right. 417 00:18:22,009 --> 00:18:23,417 GARY: All right, mate. We're all ready to rock and roll. 418 00:18:23,511 --> 00:18:26,329 - Still no wood. - PETER: No. 419 00:18:26,422 --> 00:18:29,607 NARRATOR: While the excavation of the EC-1 shaft continues... 420 00:18:29,834 --> 00:18:31,943 - ALEX: Hey, guys. - RICK: Gentlemen. 421 00:18:32,094 --> 00:18:33,945 - JON: Hello! - How are you? - Welcome to Oak Island. 422 00:18:34,172 --> 00:18:36,505 NARRATOR: at the Interpretive Centre, 423 00:18:36,524 --> 00:18:38,765 Rick Lagina and his nephew Alex 424 00:18:38,860 --> 00:18:40,343 are meeting with Jon Giencke, 425 00:18:40,361 --> 00:18:41,861 David Sampson 426 00:18:42,013 --> 00:18:45,272 and Sid Pharasi of Bruker Corporation... 427 00:18:45,291 --> 00:18:47,291 - Let's head on in. - a science and research technology company 428 00:18:47,518 --> 00:18:50,795 located in Billerica, Massachusetts. 429 00:18:51,022 --> 00:18:53,113 - RICK: Gentlemen. - NARRATOR: They are here 430 00:18:53,133 --> 00:18:56,859 to install a SkyScan 1273 CT 431 00:18:56,878 --> 00:18:58,970 or computer tomography scanner. 432 00:18:59,121 --> 00:19:01,806 RICK: The CT scanner will be important 433 00:19:02,033 --> 00:19:05,868 because we wouldn't have to make inferences. 434 00:19:05,961 --> 00:19:07,370 Because some of these items we're finding 435 00:19:07,388 --> 00:19:10,055 have a lot of conglomerate or concretions on them, 436 00:19:10,208 --> 00:19:13,634 and you just can't tell what these things might be. 437 00:19:13,653 --> 00:19:16,970 So, we have reached out to Bruker Instruments 438 00:19:17,064 --> 00:19:20,232 to show us how to use the equipment. 439 00:19:20,385 --> 00:19:21,975 There's the machine. 440 00:19:21,995 --> 00:19:23,810 I'm ecstatic that you're here, 441 00:19:23,830 --> 00:19:25,496 and I can't wait to put the first object in that machine. 442 00:19:25,723 --> 00:19:27,056 - JON: Great. - ALEX: Well, I'm really excited 443 00:19:27,074 --> 00:19:28,482 to see what this device can do. 444 00:19:28,576 --> 00:19:31,652 - Right. - ALEX: So, we can put an artifact in there, 445 00:19:31,671 --> 00:19:32,819 and we can image it in what way? 446 00:19:32,839 --> 00:19:33,896 Well, Alex, what we call this 447 00:19:33,915 --> 00:19:36,823 is actually a 3D X-ray microscope. 448 00:19:36,843 --> 00:19:38,009 So, just like a normal microscope, 449 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:39,343 what we're doing is we're actually inspecting 450 00:19:39,495 --> 00:19:41,070 the sample itself. 451 00:19:41,088 --> 00:19:43,347 But unlike that conventional optical imaging 452 00:19:43,499 --> 00:19:44,682 where you're limited to just seeing the surface, 453 00:19:44,833 --> 00:19:46,075 we're using X-rays 454 00:19:46,093 --> 00:19:48,168 so we can actually see inside of the sample. 455 00:19:48,262 --> 00:19:49,687 So, if you had something like a coin 456 00:19:49,838 --> 00:19:51,747 that's heavily corroded, we're able 457 00:19:51,766 --> 00:19:54,417 to kind of digitally remove that corrosion, 458 00:19:54,510 --> 00:19:56,027 remove all the dirt and such 459 00:19:56,178 --> 00:19:57,678 and then leave that pristine artifact. 460 00:19:57,697 --> 00:20:00,272 SID: And the salient point is you can do this for your artifacts 461 00:20:00,425 --> 00:20:03,517 and objects in a nondestructive way. 462 00:20:03,536 --> 00:20:04,685 Oh, wow. 463 00:20:04,704 --> 00:20:08,113 NARRATOR: The SkyScan 1273 device 464 00:20:08,266 --> 00:20:10,857 emits nondestructive X-ray radiation 465 00:20:10,877 --> 00:20:13,786 that can penetrate heavily encrusted artifacts 466 00:20:13,938 --> 00:20:17,197 to produce a high-definition three-dimensional image 467 00:20:17,291 --> 00:20:19,291 of their original form. 468 00:20:19,444 --> 00:20:21,868 This process can not only help the team 469 00:20:21,963 --> 00:20:24,463 identify the true shapes of artifacts 470 00:20:24,557 --> 00:20:27,283 but also help determine the materials 471 00:20:27,301 --> 00:20:29,876 that make up their composition. 472 00:20:29,896 --> 00:20:32,897 MARTY: The CT scanner is an amazing device. 473 00:20:33,124 --> 00:20:35,291 It could allow us to be able to see 474 00:20:35,309 --> 00:20:38,294 what these things look like under the corrosion. 475 00:20:38,312 --> 00:20:40,312 And the ability to do it right here 476 00:20:40,465 --> 00:20:42,740 in our own lab, so to speak, 477 00:20:42,967 --> 00:20:45,317 uh, in a matter of hours and not have to wait 478 00:20:45,470 --> 00:20:49,413 for, you know, turnaround in some other lab is-is great. 479 00:20:50,566 --> 00:20:52,733 RICK: We have some work out back, 480 00:20:52,752 --> 00:20:55,235 so if you want to get started, and once you get the machine 481 00:20:55,329 --> 00:20:57,813 up and running, give us a call. 482 00:20:57,832 --> 00:21:00,499 I would love to put a item or items 483 00:21:00,651 --> 00:21:02,593 - in the machine before the end of the day. - Yeah. Yeah. 484 00:21:02,820 --> 00:21:04,745 Let's see it work. Let's see what it can do. 485 00:21:04,764 --> 00:21:06,264 - Sounds great. - We look forward to that. - All right. 486 00:21:06,491 --> 00:21:07,914 - RICK: Thank you. - ALEX: See you guys soon. 487 00:21:08,009 --> 00:21:12,161 NARRATOR: While Jon, Sid and David set up the CT scanner, 488 00:21:12,179 --> 00:21:14,772 later that afternoon... 489 00:21:14,923 --> 00:21:16,440 All right. 490 00:21:16,592 --> 00:21:18,000 Hey, Jack. What do we got? 491 00:21:18,019 --> 00:21:19,110 It's all just a jumble, 492 00:21:19,261 --> 00:21:21,186 but you never know what you're gonna find. 493 00:21:21,339 --> 00:21:23,263 NARRATOR: Alex Lagina arrives at the wash table 494 00:21:23,283 --> 00:21:25,766 to help Jack Begley continue 495 00:21:25,785 --> 00:21:27,434 searching through the remaining spoils 496 00:21:27,453 --> 00:21:30,705 recently excavated from the TF-1 shaft. 497 00:21:31,791 --> 00:21:33,940 ALEX: Have you found much pottery? 498 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,460 JACK: No. We're finding less stuff 499 00:21:36,687 --> 00:21:38,354 on the table because the wash plant's 500 00:21:38,447 --> 00:21:40,205 operating very effectively. 501 00:21:41,301 --> 00:21:43,859 There's actually a lot of possibilities 502 00:21:43,952 --> 00:21:46,637 for finding something really good in TF-1. 503 00:21:46,789 --> 00:21:49,198 So maybe if there is some sort of a treasure nearby, 504 00:21:49,216 --> 00:21:51,291 we can at least catch a piece of that 505 00:21:51,311 --> 00:21:53,886 and figure out what-what's causing 506 00:21:54,038 --> 00:21:56,555 the gold anomalies down in C-1 once and for all. 507 00:21:56,707 --> 00:21:58,983 Ooh. 508 00:22:01,212 --> 00:22:03,379 Wow. 509 00:22:03,397 --> 00:22:05,214 - Wow. Wow. - ALEX: What you got there? 510 00:22:05,307 --> 00:22:07,716 JACK: It looks like parchment, but it... 511 00:22:07,735 --> 00:22:09,577 it's got something shiny on it. 512 00:22:11,146 --> 00:22:13,480 - ALEX: Oh, yeah. - JACK: Do you see 513 00:22:13,499 --> 00:22:15,666 those silvery flecks? 514 00:22:15,818 --> 00:22:19,003 The parchment that I found with Henskee several years ago, 515 00:22:19,154 --> 00:22:22,898 it had that... the same fibers kind of around the side. 516 00:22:22,917 --> 00:22:25,158 ALEX: Yeah. That's interesting. 517 00:22:26,237 --> 00:22:27,828 There's that scrap of parchment or paper, 518 00:22:27,922 --> 00:22:29,329 uh, with the "V-I" on it. 519 00:22:29,349 --> 00:22:32,091 I mean, this could be related to that. It's possible. 520 00:22:32,185 --> 00:22:35,077 NARRATOR: A possible piece of parchment? 521 00:22:35,096 --> 00:22:37,913 Found in the spoils of the TF-1 caisson? 522 00:22:37,932 --> 00:22:40,173 In 1897, 523 00:22:40,193 --> 00:22:42,008 when treasure hunters Frederick Blair 524 00:22:42,028 --> 00:22:43,769 and William Chappell 525 00:22:43,921 --> 00:22:46,030 drilled into what they reported to be 526 00:22:46,181 --> 00:22:50,109 a seven-foot-tall wooden vault encased in concrete, 527 00:22:50,203 --> 00:22:52,536 they were astonished to recover gold shavings 528 00:22:52,763 --> 00:22:54,113 on their drill bit 529 00:22:54,207 --> 00:22:58,767 as well as a piece of parchment bearing the letters "V-I." 530 00:22:58,786 --> 00:23:00,119 Oh, look at that. 531 00:23:00,271 --> 00:23:02,195 - ALEX: Is that concrete? - JACK: Yeah. 532 00:23:02,289 --> 00:23:04,382 NARRATOR: One week ago, the team 533 00:23:04,533 --> 00:23:08,052 found bits of concrete in the TF-1 spoils, as well. 534 00:23:08,279 --> 00:23:10,370 Is it possible that they have discovered 535 00:23:10,464 --> 00:23:11,964 two pieces of evidence 536 00:23:12,058 --> 00:23:14,541 connected to the fabled Chappell Vault? 537 00:23:14,635 --> 00:23:16,952 If so, could that mean 538 00:23:16,971 --> 00:23:19,397 that they are now on course to recover the rest 539 00:23:19,548 --> 00:23:23,717 of the vault's contents within the EC-1 shaft? 540 00:23:23,736 --> 00:23:26,219 Just the color of it and the inconsistency 541 00:23:26,239 --> 00:23:27,813 -makes... -I-I'm really... I agree with you. 542 00:23:27,907 --> 00:23:30,149 The inconsistency of it is very interesting. 543 00:23:30,243 --> 00:23:31,409 I don't know. 544 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,652 I mean, I'm encouraged either way. If it's paper 545 00:23:33,746 --> 00:23:35,638 or if it's parchment, they're both datable. 546 00:23:35,656 --> 00:23:37,915 And it might be an indication that we're... 547 00:23:38,066 --> 00:23:40,325 - we're close to the real Money Pit. - Mm-hmm. 548 00:23:40,420 --> 00:23:42,645 Or somewhere within the-the collapsed debris zone. 549 00:23:42,663 --> 00:23:46,498 The odd thing about this possible piece of parchment 550 00:23:46,592 --> 00:23:49,835 is that on one side, it's shiny. 551 00:23:49,929 --> 00:23:54,247 It's got bits of what look to me like silver. 552 00:23:54,341 --> 00:23:56,675 In, like, medieval times, 553 00:23:56,769 --> 00:23:59,011 they'd take gold and silver leaf 554 00:23:59,105 --> 00:24:02,331 and apply it to parchment as a sort of accent, 555 00:24:02,349 --> 00:24:04,516 especially if the documents were... 556 00:24:04,669 --> 00:24:07,278 (chuckles) worthwhile. 557 00:24:07,429 --> 00:24:09,113 - MARTY: Alex, Jack. - ALEX: Hey, guys. - Hey, guys. 558 00:24:09,340 --> 00:24:10,263 We're checking on the wash table. 559 00:24:10,357 --> 00:24:11,097 ALEX: Well, you came at a good time. 560 00:24:11,192 --> 00:24:13,025 Guess what we think this is. 561 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:14,410 Here. Take a look at it. 562 00:24:15,604 --> 00:24:17,529 This is from TF-1. 563 00:24:17,682 --> 00:24:19,348 MARTY: Is it parchment? 564 00:24:19,366 --> 00:24:20,440 ALEX: I'm not sure. 565 00:24:20,460 --> 00:24:21,942 Jack and I have both looked at it. 566 00:24:21,961 --> 00:24:22,943 We can't tell if it's parchment 567 00:24:23,037 --> 00:24:24,128 or paper or what it is. 568 00:24:24,355 --> 00:24:26,464 JACK: And I think, if it's not parchment, 569 00:24:26,615 --> 00:24:29,708 it looks like an early type of paper. 570 00:24:29,802 --> 00:24:31,618 MARTY: This is definitely worth testing. 571 00:24:31,637 --> 00:24:33,119 ALEX: Yes. 572 00:24:33,139 --> 00:24:34,880 If it dates to the early 1600s, 573 00:24:35,032 --> 00:24:36,140 then we got something. 574 00:24:37,626 --> 00:24:39,868 It can't have been easy to pull that out of there. 575 00:24:39,887 --> 00:24:41,220 - (laughs) - I don't know how he saw it. 576 00:24:41,372 --> 00:24:43,296 - It's amazing. - MARTY: Good find. 577 00:24:43,316 --> 00:24:45,374 - Excellent. - JACK: Thanks. 578 00:24:45,392 --> 00:24:46,734 - JACK: We'll keep looking. - ALEX: We'll let you know. 579 00:24:50,823 --> 00:24:53,157 NARRATOR: While the ten-foot-wide 580 00:24:53,308 --> 00:24:57,477 EC-1 shaft continues its decent in the Money Pit area... 581 00:24:57,497 --> 00:24:59,163 That is one hell of an hammer grab. 582 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:02,741 CRAIG: We just found something 583 00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:05,060 at the Money Pit on the-the wash table. 584 00:25:05,079 --> 00:25:07,896 - Looks like a piece of parchment. - Okay. 585 00:25:07,915 --> 00:25:09,173 NARRATOR: in the Interpretive Centre, 586 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,825 Rick Lagina, along with Craig Tester 587 00:25:11,919 --> 00:25:14,178 and Laird Niven, 588 00:25:14,329 --> 00:25:18,924 are meeting with imaging experts Jon Giencke and David Sampson 589 00:25:19,076 --> 00:25:22,186 to have the possible parchment just found in the TF-1 spoils 590 00:25:22,413 --> 00:25:25,648 analyzed in the SkyScan 1273 device. 591 00:25:28,194 --> 00:25:29,418 DAVID S.: Now we're scanning. 592 00:25:29,436 --> 00:25:32,029 JON: Okay. So, the next step, 593 00:25:32,180 --> 00:25:34,865 once we have all of those different slices collected, 594 00:25:35,092 --> 00:25:38,518 is that we're gonna reconstruct the original sample. 595 00:25:38,538 --> 00:25:40,763 - LAIRD: Mm-hmm. - JON: Now, on the image i-itself, 596 00:25:40,781 --> 00:25:41,930 what you're seeing is these very straight lines 597 00:25:42,024 --> 00:25:43,432 on the top and the bottom. 598 00:25:43,525 --> 00:25:45,617 So that's the actual pieces of paper that we've inserted 599 00:25:45,770 --> 00:25:47,211 in order to hold the parchment in place. 600 00:25:47,438 --> 00:25:49,621 And the parchment's going down the center line. 601 00:25:49,774 --> 00:25:51,607 DAVID S.: I would expect 602 00:25:51,700 --> 00:25:53,384 to see some sort of fiber. 603 00:25:54,887 --> 00:25:56,962 CRAIG: Isn't that fibers you're seeing 604 00:25:57,114 --> 00:25:59,039 sticking out the sides, though, or not? 605 00:25:59,058 --> 00:26:01,183 JON: Yeah. I'm starting to see that same thing, Craig. 606 00:26:04,471 --> 00:26:06,046 -Especially up top there. Yeah, right there. -Yep. Yep. 607 00:26:06,065 --> 00:26:08,381 DAVID S.: Yeah. 608 00:26:08,475 --> 00:26:10,642 JON: Good news is iron, 609 00:26:10,795 --> 00:26:14,220 in particular, when it's hit with X-rays, it tends to glow. 610 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,240 It's a process called fluorescence. 611 00:26:16,391 --> 00:26:18,817 So, if we see a lot of those rays coming out from it... 612 00:26:18,911 --> 00:26:22,638 - RICK: Mm hmm. - JON: it could be indicative of iron. 613 00:26:22,656 --> 00:26:24,064 JON: So, as we're looking at that center line 614 00:26:24,083 --> 00:26:25,157 where we'd expect the parchment, 615 00:26:25,309 --> 00:26:27,400 you can see those very, very bright spots? 616 00:26:27,420 --> 00:26:29,044 That could actually be some of the writing. 617 00:26:32,091 --> 00:26:35,651 DAVID S.: Some of the older inks were made of gall. 618 00:26:35,669 --> 00:26:38,929 And so that is a metal. It's an iron-based ink. 619 00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:43,175 NARRATOR: Iron gall ink, 620 00:26:43,327 --> 00:26:45,677 also known as oak gall ink, 621 00:26:45,830 --> 00:26:48,680 is composed of iron salts and tannic acids 622 00:26:48,833 --> 00:26:51,091 from vegetable sources, 623 00:26:51,185 --> 00:26:55,404 and was developed in Europe during the fifth century AD. 624 00:26:57,283 --> 00:26:59,508 Ever since the discovery of parchment 625 00:26:59,526 --> 00:27:02,769 deep in the Money Pit back in 1897, 626 00:27:02,863 --> 00:27:06,531 many researchers have speculated that the treasure lying deep 627 00:27:06,684 --> 00:27:10,443 in the booby-trapped Money Pit is composed of not just gold, 628 00:27:10,537 --> 00:27:14,882 silver and jewels but also priceless documents. 629 00:27:16,527 --> 00:27:19,452 DAVID S: Even if the ink itself is no longer readable, 630 00:27:19,472 --> 00:27:22,714 that iron should be left behind and should be visible. 631 00:27:22,808 --> 00:27:24,308 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the team 632 00:27:24,535 --> 00:27:28,720 has found more evidence that this theory could be true? 633 00:27:28,873 --> 00:27:32,224 If so, what sort of documents would someone want to hide 634 00:27:32,376 --> 00:27:36,044 by such ingenious means? 635 00:27:36,063 --> 00:27:38,322 If we had actual proof that there were 636 00:27:38,473 --> 00:27:40,640 a-a book, a parchment, 637 00:27:40,660 --> 00:27:43,327 a-an old tome that depth in the Money Pit, 638 00:27:43,478 --> 00:27:45,737 it's all exciting. 639 00:27:45,890 --> 00:27:48,481 CRAIG: So, at this point in time, can you make a determination 640 00:27:48,575 --> 00:27:52,227 whether it's parchment or something completely else? 641 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,897 What we can say at this point is that 642 00:27:54,915 --> 00:27:57,007 we tend to see some lines which would be indicative 643 00:27:57,159 --> 00:28:00,010 of, say, a type of, uh, parchment. 644 00:28:00,162 --> 00:28:03,922 Generally when we've looked, though, at more modern fibers, 645 00:28:04,016 --> 00:28:07,000 that structure becomes very apparent very quickly. 646 00:28:07,019 --> 00:28:09,669 Here we're seeing more of a rudimentary style to it. 647 00:28:09,763 --> 00:28:11,004 - This? - The fibers seem to be a little bit larger. 648 00:28:11,023 --> 00:28:13,173 - This? - Yes. 649 00:28:13,192 --> 00:28:17,269 It likely wasn't placed there recently. 650 00:28:17,363 --> 00:28:20,422 That it has some historical context to it. 651 00:28:20,515 --> 00:28:22,274 So we are likely looking at something, you know, 652 00:28:22,426 --> 00:28:23,425 a little bit older. 653 00:28:23,444 --> 00:28:25,518 So, you know, my suggestion would be 654 00:28:25,538 --> 00:28:27,854 that we set up a little bit longer scan, 655 00:28:27,873 --> 00:28:29,856 get a little bit higher-resolution on this, 656 00:28:29,950 --> 00:28:32,525 and then we get back together maybe in the war room. 657 00:28:32,545 --> 00:28:34,119 I think that's the proper plan, right. 658 00:28:34,213 --> 00:28:36,696 Let's do the hi-res scan and see what happens. 659 00:28:36,790 --> 00:28:38,290 - Sounds good. - Yep. 660 00:28:38,442 --> 00:28:39,717 - JON: All right, we'll get that started. - RICK: Okey doke. 661 00:28:39,944 --> 00:28:41,460 RICK: Thank you. Thank you both. 662 00:28:41,612 --> 00:28:43,053 - CRAIG: Thank you. - JON: Yep. 663 00:28:49,228 --> 00:28:51,061 NARRATOR: The following morning... 664 00:28:51,213 --> 00:28:53,305 All right. Here we go. 665 00:28:53,399 --> 00:28:56,124 NARRATOR: Rick Lagina joins Craig Tester 666 00:28:56,143 --> 00:28:58,810 and other members of the team at the Money Pit to observe 667 00:28:58,963 --> 00:29:04,149 the continued progress on the excavation of the EC-1 shaft. 668 00:29:04,301 --> 00:29:05,317 - Morning, gentlemen. - CRAIG: Andrew. - RICK: Hey, Andrew. 669 00:29:05,469 --> 00:29:06,226 How are we doing this morning? 670 00:29:06,245 --> 00:29:07,986 - Good, how are you? - Good. 671 00:29:08,138 --> 00:29:09,638 So, right now this morning, uh, 672 00:29:09,731 --> 00:29:11,397 we're currently at 82 feet 673 00:29:11,492 --> 00:29:13,399 - with the excavation. - Okay. 674 00:29:13,494 --> 00:29:15,477 ANDREW: We definitely did cut through something 675 00:29:15,570 --> 00:29:16,736 that was acting like wood. 676 00:29:16,756 --> 00:29:18,830 We're not seeing high pressures at all, so... 677 00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:21,574 But we haven't seen any wood or anything, 678 00:29:21,668 --> 00:29:24,261 so whether we were just on the edge of it, I'm not sure. 679 00:29:24,488 --> 00:29:27,747 The truth is, we're, you know, we're not quite there yet. 680 00:29:27,767 --> 00:29:30,934 No, the 85-to-90-foot range is the... 681 00:29:31,161 --> 00:29:33,829 the 95 or so is the big stuff for me. 682 00:29:33,847 --> 00:29:35,272 - Right. - DANNY: Here it comes again. 683 00:29:38,669 --> 00:29:40,260 NARRATOR: Although the team is eager 684 00:29:40,279 --> 00:29:42,854 to reach a depth of 118 feet, 685 00:29:42,948 --> 00:29:46,858 where an abandoned searcher tunnel constructed in 1861 686 00:29:47,011 --> 00:29:48,677 is believed to contain 687 00:29:48,695 --> 00:29:51,288 a vast debris field of scattered treasure... 688 00:29:51,439 --> 00:29:54,699 All right, mate. Let's see what hammer-mammer's brought us. 689 00:29:54,852 --> 00:29:57,277 NARRATOR: earlier this year, Rick, Marty, 690 00:29:57,371 --> 00:29:59,688 Craig and the team also recovered 691 00:29:59,781 --> 00:30:05,193 trace evidence of gold between the depths of 85 to 95 feet 692 00:30:05,212 --> 00:30:08,305 during their initial core-drilling operation. 693 00:30:08,456 --> 00:30:10,474 Well, no metals. 694 00:30:18,150 --> 00:30:19,708 Got a piece of timber right there. 695 00:30:19,726 --> 00:30:21,109 Thank you. 696 00:30:23,547 --> 00:30:26,156 - You definitely see an axe cut right there. - Oh, yeah. 697 00:30:26,308 --> 00:30:28,233 - Definitely... - And we were at 82, 698 00:30:28,385 --> 00:30:30,218 - so this is probably about 84 feet. - Yeah. 699 00:30:30,312 --> 00:30:32,054 NARRATOR: Axe-cut timber, 700 00:30:32,072 --> 00:30:36,741 found more than 84 feet deep in the EC-1 caisson? 701 00:30:36,836 --> 00:30:39,728 Because it is not machine-worked wood, 702 00:30:39,746 --> 00:30:41,730 meaning it could be from human activity 703 00:30:41,748 --> 00:30:46,176 prior to the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795, 704 00:30:46,328 --> 00:30:49,662 could it offer more evidence that the team is on target 705 00:30:49,682 --> 00:30:52,683 to soon make a breakthrough discovery? 706 00:30:52,834 --> 00:30:56,094 RICK: It's always difficult, up in the Money Pit, 707 00:30:56,246 --> 00:30:58,080 to say definitively, 708 00:30:58,098 --> 00:31:01,358 "Are we perhaps in or near original work?" 709 00:31:01,509 --> 00:31:03,919 - Uh, 84 feet. - 84. 710 00:31:03,937 --> 00:31:05,529 We know there was a collapse long ago. 711 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:06,655 That's a certainty. 712 00:31:08,016 --> 00:31:10,016 The good news is, 713 00:31:10,035 --> 00:31:12,018 is that we're not to total depth. 714 00:31:12,037 --> 00:31:15,447 We've got a ways to go. You have to stay hopeful. 715 00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:19,784 The big zone is still coming up yet in the 85 to 90 foot range, 716 00:31:19,879 --> 00:31:22,796 so... who knows? 717 00:31:27,794 --> 00:31:29,778 NARRATOR: As the excavation of the EC-1 shaft proceeds 718 00:31:29,796 --> 00:31:31,388 in the Money Pit area... 719 00:31:31,615 --> 00:31:33,615 GARY: They're going really fast now. 720 00:31:33,708 --> 00:31:36,542 RICK: So, guys, today, 721 00:31:36,562 --> 00:31:38,544 we have the gentlemen from Bruker, Jon and David. 722 00:31:38,639 --> 00:31:39,804 BOTH: Hi, Marty. 723 00:31:39,899 --> 00:31:42,140 NARRATOR ...brothers Rick and Marty Lagina 724 00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:45,885 and members of their team are meeting in the war room 725 00:31:45,979 --> 00:31:48,888 with imaging experts David Sampson and Jon Giencke 726 00:31:48,982 --> 00:31:52,134 regarding the possible parchment discovered one day ago 727 00:31:52,227 --> 00:31:55,078 in the spoils from the TF-1 shaft. 728 00:31:55,230 --> 00:31:57,063 RICK: So, yesterday we gave them 729 00:31:57,082 --> 00:31:59,583 this-- the parchment that Jack found, 730 00:31:59,810 --> 00:32:02,827 and we got incomplete information yesterday. 731 00:32:02,922 --> 00:32:06,164 So these gentlemen were kind enough to-to rerun the sample 732 00:32:06,316 --> 00:32:08,483 at a higher res, and I believe 733 00:32:08,502 --> 00:32:10,335 this is the information they're going to present 734 00:32:10,429 --> 00:32:13,321 - to us today. - JON: Yeah, so, we looked at this piece 735 00:32:13,340 --> 00:32:15,098 of, uh, what we're calling parchment. 736 00:32:15,250 --> 00:32:17,993 And what we see is that there's some-some striations in it. 737 00:32:18,011 --> 00:32:19,511 So, if you look, you know, carefully, 738 00:32:19,663 --> 00:32:21,587 you can see that there's directionality. 739 00:32:21,607 --> 00:32:24,015 Now, when we think about indelible types of material 740 00:32:24,168 --> 00:32:25,850 that people would write on in the past, 741 00:32:25,945 --> 00:32:28,019 one thing you would generally find in that 742 00:32:28,172 --> 00:32:31,782 is not so much of the specific striation. 743 00:32:32,009 --> 00:32:33,858 - ALEX: Mm-hmm. - JON: Now, that being said, 744 00:32:33,953 --> 00:32:34,952 one nice thing about this technology, though, 745 00:32:35,103 --> 00:32:36,528 is that we can actually look deeper. 746 00:32:36,622 --> 00:32:40,198 So, uh, Dave, maybe if you could bring up a cross section. 747 00:32:40,350 --> 00:32:41,208 Sure. 748 00:32:43,778 --> 00:32:45,537 JON: As you see those little streaks coming off, 749 00:32:45,689 --> 00:32:47,872 that tends to come from materials like iron. 750 00:32:48,025 --> 00:32:50,208 So, iron glows when you hit it with X-rays. 751 00:32:50,302 --> 00:32:51,860 - Mm. - And that's what we're seeing here, 752 00:32:51,953 --> 00:32:53,470 just a little artifact from that glow. 753 00:32:53,621 --> 00:32:56,031 MARTY: I saw those shiny bits up at the table. 754 00:32:56,124 --> 00:32:57,549 Are you saying those are iron? 755 00:32:57,643 --> 00:33:00,368 What we can infer to it is it's high density, 756 00:33:00,387 --> 00:33:01,478 likely iron. 757 00:33:01,705 --> 00:33:03,146 Yeah. 758 00:33:03,373 --> 00:33:05,874 You also mentioned that older ink... 759 00:33:05,892 --> 00:33:07,967 - has a high iron content. - DAVID S.: Yeah. 760 00:33:07,987 --> 00:33:09,469 - JON: Yep. - DAVID S.: Wouldn't expect to see that 761 00:33:09,488 --> 00:33:10,712 as a big chunk of iron, though. 762 00:33:10,805 --> 00:33:12,656 - LAIRD: Right. - Rather, I'd more likely see that 763 00:33:12,883 --> 00:33:14,491 as some sort of streaking across the material. 764 00:33:14,642 --> 00:33:15,900 Yeah. Yeah. 765 00:33:16,053 --> 00:33:17,828 DAVID S.: This one is a little bit different-colored. 766 00:33:20,407 --> 00:33:22,833 JON: From this, what we can see now is relative densities. 767 00:33:22,984 --> 00:33:25,151 And as we look at the inner part, 768 00:33:25,245 --> 00:33:27,838 it tends to indicate that we're looking more at a paper. 769 00:33:27,989 --> 00:33:28,988 Probably a cellulose-type product, 770 00:33:29,082 --> 00:33:30,081 not necessarily an animal skin. 771 00:33:30,175 --> 00:33:33,176 - Oh. - ALEX: Right. 772 00:33:33,403 --> 00:33:36,905 What about the green and the blue blobs? 773 00:33:36,923 --> 00:33:38,590 -Very good question. So, blue now... -Yeah. 774 00:33:38,742 --> 00:33:42,093 that's your little chunks of the iron. 775 00:33:42,246 --> 00:33:44,246 The green, now what are we looking at there? 776 00:33:44,339 --> 00:33:45,747 Well, that's when we started thinking. 777 00:33:45,766 --> 00:33:47,340 We brought in a little bit of context 778 00:33:47,359 --> 00:33:49,842 from what could be present at the site, 779 00:33:49,862 --> 00:33:53,196 and one thought was this could be a coated paper product. 780 00:33:53,348 --> 00:33:54,680 Something very traditionally found 781 00:33:54,775 --> 00:33:55,757 maybe somewhere around here. 782 00:33:55,850 --> 00:33:57,034 Might be something coated with wax. 783 00:33:57,185 --> 00:33:58,426 ALEX: It held up. 784 00:33:58,445 --> 00:34:01,930 So, it'll hold up. It's resistant to moisture. 785 00:34:01,948 --> 00:34:03,431 In fact, it's so resistant to moisture 786 00:34:03,525 --> 00:34:06,101 it's typically used for, uh, 787 00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:08,545 for, say, wrapping, um... 788 00:34:10,049 --> 00:34:11,381 explosives. 789 00:34:14,702 --> 00:34:15,868 Is that what you think it is? 790 00:34:15,962 --> 00:34:16,869 - Yeah. - ALEX: Well, that definitely matches 791 00:34:16,889 --> 00:34:19,038 - the historical record. - Yeah. 792 00:34:19,058 --> 00:34:20,557 - Yes. - Mm-hmm. 793 00:34:20,784 --> 00:34:23,727 NARRATOR: In the fall of 1909, 794 00:34:23,878 --> 00:34:27,806 upon reaching a depth of nearly 100 feet in the Money Pit, 795 00:34:27,958 --> 00:34:31,217 workers of Franklin Roosevelt's Old Gold Salvage Company 796 00:34:31,311 --> 00:34:33,886 exploded dynamite in the shaft, 797 00:34:33,980 --> 00:34:37,982 hoping to not only clear the debris from the 1861 collapse, 798 00:34:38,077 --> 00:34:41,469 but also as an attempt to seal off the flow of seawater 799 00:34:41,488 --> 00:34:43,413 from the flood tunnel. 800 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,249 The effort failed on both counts, 801 00:34:46,476 --> 00:34:48,476 and the company would close down operations 802 00:34:48,495 --> 00:34:50,312 at the end of the year. 803 00:34:50,405 --> 00:34:53,406 Could the team have now determined 804 00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:56,075 why they discovered only small fragments of gold 805 00:34:56,169 --> 00:34:59,504 earlier this year during their core-drilling program? 806 00:34:59,598 --> 00:35:02,432 And if so, since they have also detected 807 00:35:02,659 --> 00:35:05,102 high concentrations of both silver and gold 808 00:35:05,329 --> 00:35:07,846 where they are currently digging EC-1... 809 00:35:07,940 --> 00:35:10,498 could that mean they are on course to locate 810 00:35:10,592 --> 00:35:12,183 the vast cache of treasure 811 00:35:12,277 --> 00:35:16,171 that people have been trying to find since 1795? 812 00:35:16,189 --> 00:35:20,508 If dynamite was dropped somewhere right near a treasure, 813 00:35:20,527 --> 00:35:23,178 you might tend to find small bits of metal with gold on them. 814 00:35:23,271 --> 00:35:25,196 And we did, so that's good. 815 00:35:25,290 --> 00:35:28,107 That's good stuff. Makes us keep looking. 816 00:35:28,201 --> 00:35:32,203 What's important is that we were able to discern what it was. 817 00:35:32,297 --> 00:35:35,540 It's about what the technology can tell us. 818 00:35:35,634 --> 00:35:39,970 How we can use that information to, perhaps, provide us 819 00:35:40,121 --> 00:35:42,213 with greater understanding of what happened out 820 00:35:42,366 --> 00:35:45,124 on this quite mysterious place. 821 00:35:45,218 --> 00:35:46,643 MARTY: All right. 822 00:35:46,870 --> 00:35:48,478 Very, very, very great presentation, 823 00:35:48,705 --> 00:35:51,148 and we're impressed, so let's go look 824 00:35:51,375 --> 00:35:52,983 - at some more stuff as soon as you're able. - DAVID S.: Yeah. All right. 825 00:35:53,134 --> 00:35:54,042 - MARTY: Thank you. - Thank you. 826 00:35:54,135 --> 00:35:55,318 - Thank you. - Let's go. 827 00:36:03,570 --> 00:36:06,496 - NARRATOR: Later that afternoon... - MARTY: Hey, guys. 828 00:36:06,648 --> 00:36:07,998 - LAIRD: Hey, Marty. - Hey, Rick. 829 00:36:08,225 --> 00:36:09,833 NARRATOR: Rick and Marty Lagina 830 00:36:10,060 --> 00:36:12,169 along with members of their team 831 00:36:12,396 --> 00:36:14,412 arrive in the Money Pit area to monitor 832 00:36:14,506 --> 00:36:17,990 the progress of the EC-1 shaft excavation. 833 00:36:18,084 --> 00:36:22,570 - Where are we at? - We're at 86. 834 00:36:22,589 --> 00:36:25,682 NARRATOR: They are hoping to soon find a massive amount of timbers 835 00:36:25,833 --> 00:36:29,186 and potential valuables related to a reported collapse 836 00:36:29,413 --> 00:36:33,415 of the original Money Pit in 1861. 837 00:36:33,433 --> 00:36:35,675 MARTY: Are we getting any wood or anything? 838 00:36:35,694 --> 00:36:39,029 Well, we did get a little bit up in around 84 feet. 839 00:36:39,256 --> 00:36:43,015 We did get a few little pieces there. 840 00:36:43,109 --> 00:36:45,944 The next-- what, Laird?-- Seven feet, give or take... 841 00:36:46,038 --> 00:36:48,279 - Yeah. - we should-- definitely should hit some wood. 842 00:36:48,432 --> 00:36:50,523 If I look back to 93, 843 00:36:50,542 --> 00:36:53,877 it's right at the level that there should be wood. 844 00:36:54,104 --> 00:36:57,196 Well, they're going fast. We should find out today. 845 00:36:57,290 --> 00:36:59,382 We're hoping to find something 846 00:36:59,609 --> 00:37:01,367 maybe around the 90 to 100-foot area, 847 00:37:01,461 --> 00:37:05,129 because that was where the drilling results found wood, 848 00:37:05,224 --> 00:37:08,374 heretofore undiscovered potential tunnels, 849 00:37:08,468 --> 00:37:11,043 all kinds of data that indicate there are things there 850 00:37:11,137 --> 00:37:12,287 we didn't know existed, 851 00:37:12,380 --> 00:37:15,457 including metal with gold on it. 852 00:37:15,475 --> 00:37:18,485 So, we're at about the right depth for something to occur. 853 00:37:22,056 --> 00:37:23,740 GARY: Ooh, look at that. 854 00:37:23,891 --> 00:37:26,317 That's an old timber hanging out of there, mate. 855 00:37:26,470 --> 00:37:28,328 MARTY: Here comes the goodies right now. 856 00:37:30,565 --> 00:37:32,398 LAIRD: There's your wood. 857 00:37:32,417 --> 00:37:33,416 So it begins. 858 00:37:40,742 --> 00:37:42,742 - LAIRD: There's your wood. - MARTY: Here comes the goodies right now. 859 00:37:42,761 --> 00:37:45,095 So it begins. 860 00:37:45,246 --> 00:37:47,597 NARRATOR: It is a potentially critical moment 861 00:37:47,749 --> 00:37:50,992 for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team. 862 00:37:51,085 --> 00:37:53,919 Oh, that's a big timber. Look at that. 863 00:37:53,939 --> 00:37:56,998 NARRATOR: At a depth of nearly 90 feet, 864 00:37:57,017 --> 00:37:59,776 massive amounts of timber, that is believed to be related 865 00:38:00,003 --> 00:38:01,761 to a collapse of the original Money Pit, 866 00:38:01,780 --> 00:38:04,948 is being unearthed from the EC-1 shaft. 867 00:38:11,456 --> 00:38:13,439 What do you see on it? 868 00:38:13,458 --> 00:38:15,183 RICK: It looks pretty square. 869 00:38:15,201 --> 00:38:16,868 See here? 870 00:38:16,962 --> 00:38:19,212 That is so perfect here. 871 00:38:21,691 --> 00:38:23,525 MARTY: I don't really see any saw cuts, Craig. 872 00:38:23,543 --> 00:38:25,635 - CRAIG: Yeah. - Is this the only one brought up? 873 00:38:27,697 --> 00:38:28,638 There's some more wood. 874 00:38:33,219 --> 00:38:35,562 That's interesting. 875 00:38:43,063 --> 00:38:45,780 MARTY: That looks very crudely done. 876 00:38:47,233 --> 00:38:49,717 This doesn't look modern. 877 00:38:49,736 --> 00:38:51,069 No. 878 00:38:51,163 --> 00:38:53,888 MARTY: That's incredible that that's down there. 879 00:38:53,981 --> 00:38:57,149 NARRATOR: Could the massive amounts of potentially ancient wood 880 00:38:57,169 --> 00:38:59,410 that is being unearthed offer evidence 881 00:38:59,504 --> 00:39:04,082 of the catastrophic collapse of the Money Pit in 1861? 882 00:39:04,176 --> 00:39:07,510 If so, could that also mean that the team is close 883 00:39:07,737 --> 00:39:10,572 to recovering something of great value? 884 00:39:10,665 --> 00:39:14,258 MARTY: This makes sense because we found the same thing in TF-1. 885 00:39:14,411 --> 00:39:17,020 We came down, we think, 886 00:39:17,247 --> 00:39:19,022 into a cribbed portion of the Money Pit. 887 00:39:19,249 --> 00:39:21,858 And most significantly, in the same vicinity 888 00:39:22,009 --> 00:39:26,529 as where we found the-the metal that maybe has gold on it. 889 00:39:26,756 --> 00:39:29,257 There's only one thing to do: follow it, 890 00:39:29,350 --> 00:39:31,701 see where it leads, keep digging. 891 00:39:34,039 --> 00:39:36,289 Another load up. 892 00:39:38,210 --> 00:39:40,768 - GARY: Man, there's a lot of wood in here now. - Ah, that's a lot of wood. 893 00:39:40,862 --> 00:39:43,104 RICK: To me, this looks older. 894 00:39:43,197 --> 00:39:46,290 It's not dimensional lumber like TF-1. 895 00:39:46,385 --> 00:39:47,609 PETER: Mm-hmm. 896 00:39:47,627 --> 00:39:49,469 GARY: Another load. 897 00:39:51,615 --> 00:39:54,039 RICK: Every time you put a shovel in the dirt, 898 00:39:54,134 --> 00:39:56,059 every time you drill a borehole, 899 00:39:56,210 --> 00:39:59,137 every time you drill a caisson, you're hopeful. 900 00:39:59,231 --> 00:40:02,473 You think that, you know, "We're gonna find it today." 901 00:40:02,626 --> 00:40:05,126 What are we kind of anticipating to see? 902 00:40:05,145 --> 00:40:07,237 A treasure vault. 903 00:40:07,464 --> 00:40:09,239 - GARY: I've got the other end. - PETER: Yeah. 904 00:40:09,390 --> 00:40:12,316 RICK: Based on the finding of this old wood, 905 00:40:12,469 --> 00:40:15,561 it could suggest that we're close to the original Money Pit. 906 00:40:15,580 --> 00:40:16,729 That is interesting. 907 00:40:16,748 --> 00:40:19,231 My takeaway in this moment is that, 908 00:40:19,325 --> 00:40:21,918 yes, I believe we're close. 909 00:40:22,069 --> 00:40:23,586 MARTY: Well, hey. Here's the deal. 910 00:40:23,813 --> 00:40:25,255 - It's something different. - CHARLES: Yeah. 911 00:40:25,406 --> 00:40:26,831 I mean, I'd about almost thrown in the towel, 912 00:40:26,925 --> 00:40:28,332 but it's something different. 913 00:40:28,485 --> 00:40:29,742 So that's the most exciting thing 914 00:40:29,836 --> 00:40:30,985 that's happened out here today. 915 00:40:31,004 --> 00:40:33,004 - That's true. - We're in a disturbed zone 916 00:40:33,098 --> 00:40:35,080 at this point in time, still. 917 00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:36,933 But they just want to get a few more feet here 918 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:38,935 and then they're gonna be putting the new can on. 919 00:40:39,162 --> 00:40:40,085 - That's cool. - RICK: You still want 920 00:40:40,105 --> 00:40:42,588 to go to 150? 921 00:40:42,682 --> 00:40:44,182 That's for sure. Need to keep on digging. 922 00:40:44,276 --> 00:40:45,591 I like it. 923 00:40:45,685 --> 00:40:47,669 There's still hope! 924 00:40:47,687 --> 00:40:50,447 NARRATOR: For 227 years, 925 00:40:50,674 --> 00:40:54,433 generations of determined and faithful searchers 926 00:40:54,527 --> 00:40:57,454 have tried in vain to solve the Oak Island mystery. 927 00:40:57,605 --> 00:41:02,350 However, as Rick, Marty, Craig, and their team 928 00:41:02,443 --> 00:41:04,702 diligently move forward in their own quest 929 00:41:04,796 --> 00:41:07,797 to solve the world's longest running treasure hunt, 930 00:41:08,024 --> 00:41:11,116 the efforts that those previous searchers made 931 00:41:11,211 --> 00:41:13,970 continue to offer helpful clues 932 00:41:14,197 --> 00:41:18,141 that may soon lead to the ultimate discovery. 933 00:41:18,368 --> 00:41:22,220 So now, as they utilize the latest technology, 934 00:41:22,314 --> 00:41:26,040 and keep digging with the most cutting-edge machinery, 935 00:41:26,059 --> 00:41:28,392 the dream that they all have shared 936 00:41:28,545 --> 00:41:30,987 may soon be fulfilled. 937 00:41:34,884 --> 00:41:37,885 Next time on The Curse of Oak Island... 938 00:41:37,904 --> 00:41:40,221 GARY: Ready to find some good stuff out of these spoils? 939 00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:41,572 - RICK: Whoa. - What have you got there, Rick? 940 00:41:41,725 --> 00:41:43,741 - Look at this. - Ooh, that's nice. 941 00:41:43,835 --> 00:41:46,561 Wow. This is old. 942 00:41:46,654 --> 00:41:48,838 JOE: This came out of the medieval period, 943 00:41:49,065 --> 00:41:51,082 - from about 1235. - CHARLES: It's amazing. 944 00:41:51,176 --> 00:41:52,066 (soft laughter) 945 00:41:52,085 --> 00:41:53,901 GARY: I'm hoping we smash 946 00:41:53,995 --> 00:41:55,494 straight through the Chappell Vault 947 00:41:55,588 --> 00:41:57,238 and come up with some treasure. 948 00:41:57,257 --> 00:41:59,665 - This should be it. - GARY: Wow. Big timbers. 949 00:41:59,684 --> 00:42:01,576 Chappell Vault, here we come. 950 00:42:01,669 --> 00:42:03,077 (laughter) 951 00:42:03,170 --> 00:42:04,854 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS