All language subtitles for The Curse of Oak Island - S09E05

Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

Let's have a look.

Whoa, that looks like a beam.

- That's pit saw.
- 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.

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.

Whoa, whoa, wow.

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.

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.

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.

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.
- Hello.

Hey, guys. Lady.

Joining the meeting
via videoconference

are Marty Lagina
along with representatives

from both Irving Equipment
Limited and ROC Equipment.

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.
- So, we are reenergized about the whole thing.

This is substantially more.
It's almost double.

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.

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.
- 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.
- 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.

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...
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?

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.

- Take care.
- Bye, guys.

Following
his meeting in the war room...

Okay, Billy,
let's find something.

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.

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.

What'd you find, Gary?

I think it's a chisel,
by the look of it.

One week ago,

Gary Drayton recovered

a potentially ancient metal
artifact within them.

- Can you pull that level off back?
- Yeah.

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.

- Yeah.
- Whoa.

There's definitely bits of wood.

You found something, 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.

Yeah, there's plenty of iron
just there.

In fact, there's plenty of iron
all in that layer.

I'll try pinpointing it.

What's in there?

- 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.
- Okay.

- I'll recheck the hole. Yeah.
- Maybe another piece of it.

It's just so
chirpy all over the place.

That's more substantial there.

- It's there. Yeah.
- I'll go at a bit of an angle.

Iron, though, right?

Yeah, it's iron, at the moment.

- It's there. It's there, yeah.
- It's that thing?

There's wood that's
jammed on top of it now.

Whoa, whoa.

Wow.

- Whoa, whoa.
- It's a big timber.

- That's a big timber.
- That's a massive timber.

So, that'll be
a massive fastener.

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.

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.
- Yep.

That's a big timber, isn't it?

- Let's see that shovel, Jack.
- Oh, sure.

We know this came from
somewhere in the Money Pit,

so now we can, as you said,
chase it backwards

- maybe in time.
- Exactly.

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?
- Yep.

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.
- Yeah.

What if you split it?

Look at that.

Oh, wow, look at that.

That's a big mama jama.
Look at that.

It's here.

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.
- Okay, mate.

- Let's get back to the spoils.
- Let's get after it.

Later that afternoon...

- Well, lookee here now.
- 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.

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.

Oh, yes.

You see it's got
the coarse grain there?

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.
- 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.

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.
- Yeah.

So, it could be
depositor related.

Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very confident on that.

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.
- See you, gentlemen.

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.

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.

- What's that?
- 89.

- Let's have a look. Excuse me.
- Yeah.

- Thank you.
- It's a lot of wood.

A lot of... a lot
of little chunks of wood.

Whoa, no,
that looks like a beam.

That looks like a beam.

Definitely. That's pit saw.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Oh, oh, wow!

A big timber with big spikes in.

It could be.

Yeah, I'm not seeing
any spikes, though.

Yeah, no hits on this.
Oh, oh, hey.

Look, there's dowel holes.

This might actually be
quite old.

This big timber
might actually be quite old.

Oh, that is a big one.
Really old-looking.

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.

You can see it's notched out,

and then you got this hole
for the dowel right there.

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.

Hmm. Hey.

- I think we found ourselves a big spike.
- Yeah.

That's in a different league
altogether.

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.

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.

Yeah.

Later that afternoon,

while the drilling operation
at the Money Pit continues...

- 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.

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.

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.

One's called "the anchors,"

one's called "the valve,"

and one's called "the hatch."

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?

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.

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.
- 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."

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.

That blew
by all of us, did it, I guess?

- Yes, it did.
- It actually did.

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.

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.

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.

Cheers. Thanks a lot.

- Thank you.
- Take care.

As another new day begins,

on Lot 22,

located on the western side
of Oak Island...

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.

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.
- Right on.

You want to grab your equipment
and we'll head on out to the...

- "the hatch"? Okay.
- Sure. Let's do this.

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.

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.

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.

Right on. Let's go to work.

As the geo-survey
scans continue on Lot 22...

- Maybe go a little bit deeper.
- Okay.

Jack Begley and
heavy equipment operator

Billy Gerhardt
continue excavating

the Dunfield Spoils
near the Money Pit on Lot 18.

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.
- I agree.

Let's see what's underneath.

Yeah.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

While the core
drilling operation continues

in the Money Pit area,

just to the west, on Lot 18...

Okay, another pit.

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?

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.

Well, let's do it.

Why don't you put a trench
right through here.

Yep.

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.

There.

You can really start to see how
many rocks are right there now.

- Hey, Billy. Hold off.
- 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.

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?

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.

Let's get back to it.

Two days later...

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?

- 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.

- Hmm, no.
- What about the pink?

That's a pretty hard hit.

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.

Interesting.

That could be the hatch
from Zena's map.

- That's interesting.
- 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.

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?

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.

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.

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.
- Thank you.

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...

We have
winkled that signal out, mate.

Fingers crossed.

- Yeah!
- Look at that roundness!

Zinc, lead, iron.

- 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.

Hey, look at this.

Bingo! This is Christmas.

That would apply to a chamber,

- wouldn't it?
- It would apply to a chamber.

Holy smokes.

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