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Tonight on the curse of oak island...
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The way to unlock Nolan's
cross is built into the cross itself.
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If the ark is here, it will be
found using Nolan's cross.
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Let's dig there.
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Ooh, look at that.
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There's a Boulder.
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Maybe this Boulder is marking the spot.
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This is the copper artifact found on lot 8.
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This could be identified as viking.
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Water started coming
in faster and faster.
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We may have hit a flood tunnel.
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Whoa! Whoa! Hey!
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There is an island in the north Atlantic
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where people have been looking for
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an incredible treasure
for more than 200 years.
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So far, they have found a stone slab
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with strange symbols carved into it...
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Man-made workings that
date to medieval times,
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and a lead cross whose
origin may be connected
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to the knights templar.
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To date, six men have died
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trying to solve the mystery.
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And according to legend,
one more will have to die
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before the treasure can be found.
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Morning, Paul. Morning. Morning.
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So you've got the horizontal drills
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- right by the shaft.
- Yeah, yeah.
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I guess the next stop
is the shaft bottom?
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Shaft bottom.
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That's where we're going.
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We're getting ready
to lower the drill there.
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And start probe drilling
right at the bottom.
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- That's good.
- Yeah.
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It is the beginning
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of another hopeful day on oak island
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as Rick lagina and Scott Barlow
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arrive in the money pit area
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to oversee a new probe-drilling operation
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at the base of the garden
shaft that could help
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finally solve a 229-year-old
treasure mystery.
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The priority, in my opinion,
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- is to drill the tunnel.
- Right.
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Look at that, right there.
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Wow.
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Those are big beams.
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Three weeks ago,
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after extending the
18th-century garden shaft
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down to an approximate
depth of 100 feet,
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the team was elated
to reach a potentially
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17th-century wooden tunnel.
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A tunnel that a previous
core-drilling operation
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has tracked westward
into the so-called baby blob,
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where high traces of gold and silver
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have been detected by water testing
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between 80 and 120 feet below ground.
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We cannot find any
sign of walls or a ceiling.
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However, the team was stunned
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to discover that the section of tunnel
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that they uncovered
beneath the garden shaft
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had been partially dismantled
sometime in the past.
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- Big day here.
- Yeah.
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This horizontal drill program
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is gonna be, very important to us.
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Yeah.
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Now, having just finished
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extending the garden shaft
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down to a total depth of 106 feet,
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over the course of the next few days,
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representatives from
dumas contracting limited
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will conduct a probe-drilling
operation to look for sections
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of the tunnel that may still be intact
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and hopefully pinpoint the location
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of the possible treasure.
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Mystery number one.
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No tops and no sides of the tunnel.
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Did somebody remove 'em? Why?
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Did somebody do it intentionally,
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so the thing would collapse? Why?
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We're searching for
a great treasure here.
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I have said many times a collapse
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would be an excellent
way to hide something.
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The sooner we get to drilling,
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- the more information we get.
- That's right.
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If you encounter something and you say,
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"hey, this is unusual,"
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please let Scott or
myself or someone know.
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Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah.
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And maybe we have to readjust the plan.
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- Yeah.
- It's been a long
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and difficult road to
try to chase this tunnel.
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It's just an intensive process.
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The hope is that we're
nearing the end of it.
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The garden shaft has
been extended to the point
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where that work is over and done with.
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And now we begin the process of drilling.
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We all have great hope for that.
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When you drill into the tunnel itself,
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we would like to get samples
every ten feet of the tunnel.
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- Yeah.
- Accurate records, right?
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- Yeah.
- We want to know distances, elevations.
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Because that, those samples will go out
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- to the lab for carbon dating.
- Yeah.
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So I look forward to that.
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I've got this tingling in my toes.
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Or in my hands, whatever...
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Make sure we check his
pockets at the end of the day.
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I'll turn him upside-down and shake him.
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- Anyway, we'll let you get to it.
- Yeah, okay.
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- Thank you.
- See ya, Paul.
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As dumas prepares for
the probe-drilling operation
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in the garden shaft...
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What's the battle plan, Billy?
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I guess the battle plan is
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continue finding good
stuff over here on my right.
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Yeah, and this is the place to dig.
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This is the hot spot in the swamp.
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- Yeah.
- Yeah.
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In the southeast corner of the swamp,
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next to the potentially
500-year-old stone road,
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or ship's wharf... Jack
begley, Gary drayton
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and Billy gerhardt are excavating
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a mysterious wooden structure
that was first discovered
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three weeks ago.
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I think we're the first people to dig this up
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- since it was built.
- Right.
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And the more artifacts
that we have found,
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they tend to suggest
that this area could be
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from pre-money pit discovery.
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- Yeah. Same as the road.
- So... yeah.
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In the past week,
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while investigating this feature,
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the team has unearthed
hand-forged iron spikes,
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a possibly ancient metal tool,
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and a piece of a wooden barrel,
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offering evidence that this structure
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may be related to the
stone road and, possibly,
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an operation to offload cargo from a ship
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onto oak island.
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The questions that arise
are what kind of cargo
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could it have been?
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And just where is it now?
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You have to think that that road was built
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only because you had
something really important
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to go on here or off,
one or the other, right?
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Yeah, and it went just over the hill
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there in that money pit area.
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- Right.
- Well, let's go for some
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more of those old finds
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- and let's fill our pockets.
- I'm ready.
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Get the top pocket open, get ready.
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All right, mate, let's find some artifacts.
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We had hopes that the stone road would
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be our point of beginning, I.E. The route
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that may be heading
towards the money pit.
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And it did lead somewhere.
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It led to the stone path.
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Then we lost the trail.
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Where do we go from here?
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There's certainly
unexplainable discoveries
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in the body of the swamp.
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I believe they are associated
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with the mystery and we continue
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to try to uncover them.
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See the band of rocks on top of the
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on top of that bit of swamp.
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And it's all the same depth, right?
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That's weird.
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I don't know, Jack, but
that's looking suspiciously
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like a bit of a road over top of the swamp.
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- Like someone buried it on purpose.
- Right.
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They wanted to cover their tracks.
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This could be the road
we were looking for
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that leads to the money pit.
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In 2019,
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the team discovered
aerial photos of the island
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dating back to the 1930s,
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which revealed a stone pathway
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running between the
swamp and the money pit area
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that, unfortunately, was later
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destroyed by searcher
activities in the 1960s.
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However, could Jack begley be correct
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that Billy has uncovered
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a section of that same pathway
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next to the stone road
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in the southeast corner of the swamp?
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What we found here is really exciting,
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and we need to let all the guys know.
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And they have to come over
here and take a look at that,
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'cause it could be a new discovery.
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- Yeah.
- A new road that we didn't know existed.
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We might be really onto something.
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Agreed, mate. Let's
share the good news.
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This was a good dig.
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Later that afternoon...
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Welcome back, Carmen.
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Jack begley joins
archaeologist laird niven
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and archaeometallurgist Emma culligan
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for a meeting with blacksmithing expert
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Carmen legge in the
oak island laboratory.
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We have two different artifacts
we wanted to show you today.
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They were recovered from
a dig that we were doing
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in the southeast corner of the swamp.
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Carmen will be assessing the possible
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metal tool and iron spike that were found
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near the mysterious wooden structure
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just one week ago.
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So we're hoping some of these
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artifacts that we found
can help tell the story.
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Really?
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Wow.
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No way.
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This is French. From the early 1600s
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to no later than 1750, 1760.
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Wow, it speaks
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to hauling around the
southeast corner of the swamp.
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They were hauling something, yes.
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In the oak island laboratory,
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blacksmithing expert Carmen legge
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has just given his assessment
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that an iron backing bolt
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that was found near the
mysterious wooden structure
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and the stone road in the
swamp could be of French origin
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and date as far back as the 17th century.
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So this might be some
evidence to people doing
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a lot of hauling or
using oxen for that work.
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I tend to think they were.
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Oxen come down the road
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and pull a ship or a load up the slipway.
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I think that's a very
plausible explanation for it.
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Sometimes the simplest
explanation is the best.
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If that is real connective tissue
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to what happened here long ago,
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maybe that's a step
towards understanding
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the work on this island,
relative to the mystery.
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Our other object
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you can see remnants of the wood
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that's still on top of this piece of iron.
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So we didn't know if it was a fastener
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or if it was some type
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of a tool that had a wooden handle.
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What I'm looking at is probably
something 14 inches long.
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But why is it so thin down here?
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What's the, metallurgy on this?
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So it's too big for me
to pop it in for a full scan.
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So I did only get
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a section of it just to get a
good look at the cross section.
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To provide Carmen
with additional context,
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Emma has scanned the artifact
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using the X-ray
fluorescence spectrometer
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a device that emits
nondestructive radiation
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to reveal an object's
elemental composition.
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This one, with its high
manganese content,
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it's too high to be considered modern
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and it's jumping
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from different percentages
throughout the metal.
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I think it is early 1700s and before that.
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- Really?
- Yeah.
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Because how inconsistent
the manganese content is
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throughout the metal.
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I think it's Swedish metal.
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- I see.
- Because the Swedish had
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a natural manganese
content in their iron.
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Yeah. Well, that's what
we've been suspecting
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could've been there, was
a wharf that extended out.
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Yeah, it'd be a wooden wharf
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- that extended out from the beach.
- Correct. Yeah. Yeah.
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A wharf pin?
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Of Swedish origin that
could predate the 1700s?
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But if so, could Carmen legge's notion
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of a possible viking connection
have any basis in reality?
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Templars used vikings
for transportation to come
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to a promised land... North America.
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Two weeks ago,
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retired professor of
psychology Dr. Doug symons
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presented the oak island team
with his published research...
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While they're in Jerusalem,
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they interact with knights
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who would form the knights templar.
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Suggesting that members
of the viking culture may have
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conspired with the medieval
order of the knights templar
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to hide priceless religious artifacts
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on oak island more than 800 years ago.
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Is it possible that this wharf pin
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could offer evidence that
Dr. Symons' theory is true?
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And if so, could it also be related
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to other ancient discoveries
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that the team has made in the swamp,
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including the 800-year-old paved area
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that was uncovered in 2019,
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as well as a piece of ship's
railing that was found in 2020,
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and which was dated to
as early as the 8th century.
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It really appears like there
could have been a wharf here
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and that someone was hauling goods
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pre-money pit discovery
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in the southeast corner of the swamp.
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We know there was
an operation going on.,
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and hopefully we figure
out what they were hauling.
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Yes.
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Thank you, Carmen,
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for properly analyzing what these are.
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All right, very good.
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The following morning
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as the horizontal
probe-drilling operation gets
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underway in the garden shaft
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on lot 5, located near the shore
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on the western side of the island...
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Hey, everybody.
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- Hi.
- Hi, Jack.
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I guess it's all hands on deck today?
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- Yeah.
- Yes.
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Jack begley joins
archaeologists Helen Sheldon,
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moya MacDonald, Jamie
kouba and Fiona Steele
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as they continue investigating
a large stone foundation.
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Well, we're finally down at the floor level
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and it feels good to start
seeing things happening.
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After what you found recently,
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everyone else wants to get
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a bit of treasure for themselves.
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Since Rick, Marty and
Craig tester purchased
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lot 5 one year ago, the team has made
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a number of incredible
discoveries in this feature,
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including potentially
16th-century venetian beads,
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a cement-like substance
that has also been found
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around the tunnel
beneath the garden shaft
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and a 14th-century lead barter token,
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which, just like the lead
cross that was found
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in 2017 at Smith's cove,
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may be connected to the knights templar.
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And, just one week ago,
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Jamie kouba found a decorative artifact
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that was almost entirely
composed of silver.
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All right, well, can I sift
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- through your material?
- Would you, please?
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Yes, please.
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- Yeah, we would love it.
- All right. Let's get to it.
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Now, Jack will assist
the archaeology team
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by sifting through the materials
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they have just excavated
from the structure
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in order to look for additional clues
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and potential valuables.
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This feature on lot 5
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is beginning to shape up to...
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Suggest that people have
been here for a long time,
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perhaps pre-searcher era.
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But what that activity
is, what it represents,
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does it have anything to do
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with the treasure story or the mystery?
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We don't know yet.
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I have something interesting.
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It's like this really blue-ish fine Clay.
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Look at that!
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It's got a slight blue tint to it.
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So, Jack, do you want to
come and have a look at this?
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Yeah. What'd you find?
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I'm looking at the soils
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and I'm trying to, like, follow
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- this blue-ish Clay.
- Yeah.
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So, why is there Clay here?
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Because, like in other places
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we've dug around here,
you just get this Sandy,
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silt subsoil and it just keeps going.
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We don't actually hit Clay.
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That blue-gray Clay looks a lot like
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that deep down money pit Clay.
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I mean, it's not completely
out of the realm of possibility.
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Blue Clay?
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Found in the stone foundation on lot 5?
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In 1804, while excavating
the original money pit,
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members of the on slow
company discovered a packed layer
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of blue Clay at a depth of 40 feet,
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which they believed acted as a sealant
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to stop the legendary flood tunnel
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from feeding seawater
into the treasure shaft.
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So similar.
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Could this blue Clay be further evidence
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that this structure on lot 5
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may have a direct
connection to the money pit?
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I don't want to jump to
conclusions and say it is,
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but maybe we can test it,
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and see if it has similar
chemical signatures
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- as the money pit soils.
- Yeah.
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So, put that in bags.
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Very interesting. We're
gonna sample this.
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- Give it to Emma.
- Well, cool find, moya.
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- I hope it's a match.
- Me, too.
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As the probe-drilling operation continues
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more than 100 feet underground
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in the garden shaft...
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Welcome, lady and gentlemen,
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to what I think is gonna
be a very interesting
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and unique presentation.
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Rick and Marty lagina,
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along with other members
of the team, meet once again
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in the war room with
researcher John Edwards.
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Everyone is quite familiar
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with John Edwards's work to date.
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He promised, at the last meeting he had,
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that he would come
up with x marks the spot,
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which is what you're
always arguing for, right?
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Having said that, John,
I'll turn it over to you.
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Appreciate it.
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The last war room, I presented a theory
403
00:19:12,208 --> 00:19:14,375
that oak island may be
the possible resting place
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of the ark of the covenant.
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And there are spots on Nolan's cross
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that I think are relevant to the tree of life,
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and they could be the actual place to dig.
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In light of the numerous discoveries
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00:19:27,417 --> 00:19:30,292
made by the team on oak
island during recent years
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which have been dated
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to between the 12th and 18th centuries,
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and which also may be connected
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to the medieval order
of the knights templar
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I've spent the past 30 years
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studying symbols and icons.
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Last week, Rick lagina
invited John Edwards
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to present documents related
to the secretive fraternity
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known as the freemasons,
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who some believe descended
from the templar order.
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Now, interestingly,
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I have acquired some ancient books
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00:20:01,208 --> 00:20:03,500
that have codes and maps.
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00:20:03,625 --> 00:20:05,917
Within these documents,
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John found not only an image
of what appears to be oak island
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00:20:09,833 --> 00:20:13,667
but also what he believes
are encoded messages
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that suggest the templar order
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00:20:16,333 --> 00:20:18,167
buried sacred religious artifacts,
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00:20:18,333 --> 00:20:20,500
including the ark of the covenant,
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on oak island nearly 800 years ago.
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And since then, their descendants
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00:20:27,042 --> 00:20:29,208
in the masonic order have conspired
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to keep them from being discovered.
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00:20:31,917 --> 00:20:35,083
John also believes that the key to finding
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where these treasures may be buried
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00:20:37,458 --> 00:20:40,167
is the megalithic
formation of six boulders
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on the island's surface
known as Nolan's cross,
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00:20:43,917 --> 00:20:45,583
which, like other researchers,
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00:20:45,708 --> 00:20:48,417
John believes is part of a larger,
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00:20:48,583 --> 00:20:53,833
ten-point religious formation
referred to as the tree of life.
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The way to unlock Nolan's
cross is built into the cross itself.
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00:21:04,542 --> 00:21:07,375
Since John's first presentation,
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Rick, Marty and Craig allowed him
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to work with surveyor Steve guptill
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to investigate Nolan's cross
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and the believed locations
of the other markers
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on the tree of life, known as sefirot.
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And when you go and look
at the two arms of the cross,
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it's 720 feet.
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And on the spine of
Nolan's cross, you have 864.
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Everything was divisible by 72.
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John, what is the importance of 72?
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Written in the early 12th
century by hugues de payens
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and Bernard of clairvaux, who
founded the knights templar,
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the "Latin rule," also known
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as "specific behavior
of the templar order,"
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was a document
consisting of 72 directives
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that all templar knights
were trained to live by.
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Could John Edwards be correct
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that the number 72
was intentionally used
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in the construction of Nolan's cross,
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and that it may offer more evidence
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that the templar order is connected to
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the oak island mystery?
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If so, how might it help
pinpoint the location
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of priceless religious treasures?
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Okay.
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Where is the "x"
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on oak island?
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Now, if the ark is here,
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it will be found at either
the yesod, the da'ath,
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the tiferet on Nolan's cross.
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00:23:18,958 --> 00:23:21,667
According to many researchers,
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the templar order adopted imagery
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from the kabbalistic order of judaism
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that associated the tree of life
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with ten divine principles
known as sefirot.
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These attributes, such
as yesod, or "foundation"
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tiferet, or "beauty," and hod, or "humility"
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are believed to lead one
on a spiritual path to god.
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It's on Tom's land?
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- Yeah.
- This is all Tom's property.
482
00:24:56,917 --> 00:24:59,458
Maybe we should
take a machine in there.
483
00:24:59,625 --> 00:25:02,375
That was what I was
thinking, but it's not my land,
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00:25:02,542 --> 00:25:05,250
so I was waiting, I was
waiting for you to say it.
485
00:25:05,417 --> 00:25:06,726
- Yeah.
- But, yeah, that is curious.
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I think these are eminently diggable.
487
00:25:09,375 --> 00:25:13,083
I think it's a very elegant theory.
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00:25:13,208 --> 00:25:15,958
But as John and I have
had many discussions,
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00:25:16,125 --> 00:25:17,333
a theory is but a theory
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00:25:17,458 --> 00:25:18,938
till you hold the proof in your hand.
491
00:25:19,042 --> 00:25:22,333
We'll only know if it has
relevance when we dig.
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00:25:22,542 --> 00:25:24,000
- What say you all?
- Absolutely.
493
00:25:24,125 --> 00:25:25,167
- Sure.
- Yeah.
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00:25:26,583 --> 00:25:28,393
I'd say, I'd say yes, too.
495
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72 times, yes.
496
00:25:30,708 --> 00:25:32,917
There you have it.
497
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As a new day begins on oak island...
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00:25:39,667 --> 00:25:41,917
- Billy.
- Hey, Gary.
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00:25:42,083 --> 00:25:44,268
We've spent a lot of time at
the front of the swamp there.
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00:25:44,292 --> 00:25:45,393
It's nice to be at the back.
501
00:25:45,417 --> 00:25:47,042
This is exciting.
502
00:25:47,208 --> 00:25:49,792
This was a John Edwards spot?
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00:25:51,042 --> 00:25:52,917
Jack begley, Gary drayton
504
00:25:53,042 --> 00:25:55,625
and Billy gerhardt are about to begin
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00:25:55,792 --> 00:25:57,500
an excavation in the northern region of
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the triangle-shaped swamp.
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And at a location of one of the sefirot
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on the tree of life known as tiferet,
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00:26:06,083 --> 00:26:08,625
where researcher John
Edwards believes that
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priceless religious treasures
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may have been buried by
members of the knights templar
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some eight centuries ago.
513
00:26:15,625 --> 00:26:18,875
It's pretty rocky in here.
514
00:26:19,042 --> 00:26:21,000
It's a lot darker by
you than it is over here.
515
00:26:21,208 --> 00:26:24,042
That Boulder should
be on c horizon, right?
516
00:26:24,250 --> 00:26:25,583
I think it is.
517
00:26:33,708 --> 00:26:35,125
See, that's not c horizon, right?
518
00:26:35,292 --> 00:26:37,208
No, that's not c horizon.
519
00:26:37,375 --> 00:26:39,000
So that Boulder is...
520
00:26:39,208 --> 00:26:41,018
- That Boulder was put there.
- That Boulder was put there.
521
00:26:41,042 --> 00:26:43,792
- That-that's pretty awesome.
- Yeah.
522
00:26:43,917 --> 00:26:47,958
The c horizon is a geological term
523
00:26:48,125 --> 00:26:49,917
for the natural layer of ground soil
524
00:26:50,083 --> 00:26:52,000
that lies just above bedrock.
525
00:26:52,167 --> 00:26:54,000
Because Billy and Jack
526
00:26:54,167 --> 00:26:56,167
believe that the earth
beneath this large Boulder,
527
00:26:56,375 --> 00:26:58,500
where John Edwards marked the sefirot,
528
00:26:58,667 --> 00:27:00,125
known as tiferet,
529
00:27:00,250 --> 00:27:03,500
appears to have been
previously disturbed,
530
00:27:03,667 --> 00:27:06,000
could they be correct that the Boulder
531
00:27:06,208 --> 00:27:08,667
was placed here as a
marker in the swamp?
532
00:27:08,875 --> 00:27:12,167
If so, what might be
buried underneath it?
533
00:27:12,333 --> 00:27:15,167
I mean, why would you
go through the effort of
534
00:27:15,333 --> 00:27:19,417
pushing a Boulder around if
this position didn't mean anything?
535
00:27:19,542 --> 00:27:21,042
The Boulder could Mark
536
00:27:21,208 --> 00:27:22,833
- whatever's there, right?
- Yeah.
537
00:27:23,042 --> 00:27:26,125
I'm pretty excited that
we have a theorist's spot
538
00:27:26,250 --> 00:27:27,851
that looks like somebody
dug here before.
539
00:27:27,875 --> 00:27:29,167
I totally agree.
540
00:27:29,333 --> 00:27:32,250
And judging by the size,
541
00:27:32,417 --> 00:27:33,667
we still have a lot left to dig
542
00:27:33,833 --> 00:27:36,458
before we reach what might be a bottom.
543
00:27:36,625 --> 00:27:38,375
We need to get Rick and Marty over here
544
00:27:38,542 --> 00:27:40,750
to check this out, but
also we need Dr. Spooner
545
00:27:40,875 --> 00:27:42,667
- to come and see this.
- Yup.
546
00:27:42,833 --> 00:27:44,208
Good work, guys.
547
00:27:44,417 --> 00:27:45,583
Nice digging, Billy.
548
00:27:45,750 --> 00:27:47,042
We'll be back.
549
00:27:48,750 --> 00:27:50,792
Later that afternoon...
550
00:27:51,708 --> 00:27:53,292
All good?
551
00:27:53,417 --> 00:27:55,393
As the probe-drilling operation
552
00:27:55,417 --> 00:27:57,917
in the garden shaft continues...
553
00:27:59,208 --> 00:28:02,333
So, guys, this is a
rather unique war room.
554
00:28:02,542 --> 00:28:04,184
And I think this is a very unique piece.
555
00:28:04,208 --> 00:28:06,333
I would think that
everyone around this table
556
00:28:06,542 --> 00:28:08,018
would agree with that.
557
00:28:08,042 --> 00:28:09,833
Rick, Marty, Craig tester
558
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,833
and other members of the team
559
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,792
have assembled in the war room
560
00:28:13,958 --> 00:28:16,958
for a meeting regarding
new developments on a find
561
00:28:17,083 --> 00:28:19,958
that was made one
year ago on oak island.
562
00:28:21,083 --> 00:28:23,684
This is the copper artifact
that was found on lot 8
563
00:28:23,708 --> 00:28:25,375
by Gary and Jack.
564
00:28:26,708 --> 00:28:27,875
- It's that.
- Whoa.
565
00:28:28,083 --> 00:28:30,708
Yeah. This is fantastic.
566
00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:34,167
In 2022, while searching lot 8
567
00:28:34,333 --> 00:28:37,000
on the western side of the island,
568
00:28:37,167 --> 00:28:40,708
Gary and Jack
unearthed a copper artifact
569
00:28:40,917 --> 00:28:43,167
that was covered with
mysterious symbols.
570
00:28:43,333 --> 00:28:47,292
And when renowned
archaeologist Dr. Edwin barnhart
571
00:28:47,458 --> 00:28:50,083
examined the metallic
composition of the object,
572
00:28:50,208 --> 00:28:53,167
he presented the team
with a stunning assessment.
573
00:28:53,375 --> 00:28:55,875
It could be some sort of older object.
574
00:28:56,042 --> 00:28:59,208
The other possibility is the vikings.
575
00:28:59,417 --> 00:29:01,792
While Dr. Barnhart's speculation
576
00:29:01,958 --> 00:29:03,875
was intriguing at the time,
577
00:29:04,042 --> 00:29:05,833
after the recent discovery
578
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,333
of several more artifacts on the island
579
00:29:08,542 --> 00:29:11,583
which may have
originated in scandinavia,
580
00:29:11,708 --> 00:29:14,500
and the research of Dr. Doug symons
581
00:29:14,667 --> 00:29:18,417
suggesting that vikings
may have visited oak island
582
00:29:18,542 --> 00:29:20,958
more than 800 years ago,
583
00:29:21,083 --> 00:29:25,208
the team is eager to learn
more about this mysterious object
584
00:29:25,375 --> 00:29:28,167
and the ornate symbols on its surface.
585
00:29:28,333 --> 00:29:31,875
It's just a gorgeous
object, but it was folded.
586
00:29:32,042 --> 00:29:33,351
Remember, there were triple folds in this.
587
00:29:33,375 --> 00:29:37,000
Doug reached out to a
conservator in Canada.
588
00:29:37,167 --> 00:29:40,583
They were able to actually unfold it.
589
00:29:40,750 --> 00:29:43,851
And what we have here is the result
590
00:29:43,875 --> 00:29:46,833
of their effort, and it is spectacular.
591
00:29:47,042 --> 00:29:49,500
I think Marty and Craig,
you'll see a picture there.
592
00:29:49,625 --> 00:29:51,000
Yeah.
593
00:29:51,208 --> 00:29:52,667
It really, really is beautiful.
594
00:29:52,875 --> 00:29:54,125
It's spectacular.
595
00:29:54,292 --> 00:29:55,500
Well, laird, what is it?
596
00:29:57,958 --> 00:30:00,333
You know, the only thing I
can say definitively is that
597
00:30:00,458 --> 00:30:03,417
I'm virtually certain it's a decorated piece
598
00:30:03,583 --> 00:30:04,851
meant to go on top of something,
599
00:30:04,875 --> 00:30:06,542
so it's not an artifact in itself.
600
00:30:06,708 --> 00:30:09,458
It's meant to decorate something larger.
601
00:30:10,792 --> 00:30:13,000
We did some updating of the metallurgy.
602
00:30:13,167 --> 00:30:15,087
What we can say is that
the copper source for it
603
00:30:15,250 --> 00:30:18,583
- isn't local. It's not from...
- Wow... The area.
604
00:30:19,625 --> 00:30:21,226
Could that have been
hand-made, most likely?
605
00:30:21,250 --> 00:30:23,208
- Or hand designed?
- Well... yeah.
606
00:30:23,375 --> 00:30:25,958
As a matter of fact, they
said that they believe
607
00:30:26,125 --> 00:30:28,458
it was made by a
process called pressblech.
608
00:30:29,750 --> 00:30:31,590
And that's a technique
that's been around for,
609
00:30:31,625 --> 00:30:33,833
well, well over a thousand years.
610
00:30:37,750 --> 00:30:41,208
Dating as far back
as the fifth century ad,
611
00:30:41,375 --> 00:30:44,333
pressblech is a technique
by which metal workers
612
00:30:44,542 --> 00:30:48,375
would place a thin sheet
of gold, silver or copper alloy
613
00:30:48,542 --> 00:30:52,000
onto a patterned surface
and then carefully apply force
614
00:30:52,167 --> 00:30:55,333
in order to create a decorative
appearance in the material.
615
00:30:56,500 --> 00:31:00,625
The anglo-saxons, some
western European cultures used it.
616
00:31:00,792 --> 00:31:02,833
Even the norse used this technique.
617
00:31:03,875 --> 00:31:05,458
I'm gonna get Steve to bring up,
618
00:31:05,625 --> 00:31:07,583
some images here.
619
00:31:07,708 --> 00:31:09,292
So, this is the restored artifact.
620
00:31:09,458 --> 00:31:13,042
And if you look within
the borders of the design,
621
00:31:13,250 --> 00:31:15,708
you'll see what looks
like a fish or a ribbon,
622
00:31:15,875 --> 00:31:17,518
and then you have a circle above it.
623
00:31:17,542 --> 00:31:21,167
In our research so
far, we've only identified
624
00:31:21,333 --> 00:31:25,250
one instance where we found
the two symbols used together.
625
00:31:26,417 --> 00:31:29,125
But we made a recent, discovery.
626
00:31:30,167 --> 00:31:33,083
This here is an old
manuscript from Iceland
627
00:31:33,208 --> 00:31:36,083
that has to do with
astronomy and astrology.
628
00:31:36,208 --> 00:31:39,333
And if you see in the
lower, left-hand corner,
629
00:31:39,542 --> 00:31:42,667
you'll see two symbols that
look very similar together.
630
00:31:43,833 --> 00:31:47,167
And we found that there's a viking rune
631
00:31:47,333 --> 00:31:49,958
that's very similar to
that ribbon-like symbol,
632
00:31:50,125 --> 00:31:52,684
which looks like the
symbol on our copper piece.
633
00:31:52,708 --> 00:31:57,434
So, this artifact could
possibly be identified as viking.
634
00:31:57,458 --> 00:31:59,417
Wow.
635
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,200
This is actually from Iceland,
636
00:32:06,292 --> 00:32:07,476
and it's an old manuscript that has
637
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:09,417
to do with astronomy and astrology.
638
00:32:09,542 --> 00:32:12,083
There's a viking rune that's very similar
639
00:32:12,208 --> 00:32:14,184
to that ribbon-like symbol,
640
00:32:14,208 --> 00:32:16,250
which looks like the
symbol on our copper piece,
641
00:32:16,417 --> 00:32:21,042
so, this artifact could
possibly be identified as viking.
642
00:32:21,208 --> 00:32:25,167
In the war room, Doug
crowell has just presented
643
00:32:25,333 --> 00:32:27,958
an Icelandic document that suggests
644
00:32:28,125 --> 00:32:31,125
the copper artifact found one year ago
645
00:32:31,333 --> 00:32:34,792
on lot 8 bears astronomical symbols
646
00:32:34,917 --> 00:32:37,833
and may possibly be of viking origin.
647
00:32:37,958 --> 00:32:41,583
Just today, in our research, we found
648
00:32:41,708 --> 00:32:43,000
another artifact.
649
00:32:43,167 --> 00:32:46,667
This is a quadrant from an astrolabe
650
00:32:46,833 --> 00:32:48,500
that's from southern France.
651
00:32:48,667 --> 00:32:52,875
1291 to 1310 is the date
652
00:32:53,042 --> 00:32:54,833
they believe it was made in.
653
00:32:55,042 --> 00:32:57,250
An astrolabe is an instrument
654
00:32:57,417 --> 00:32:59,833
that was invented in ancient Greece
655
00:33:00,042 --> 00:33:02,083
in order to track the positions
656
00:33:02,208 --> 00:33:04,833
of the stars, planets
and the moon in the sky.
657
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,042
With over 1,000
historically-documented uses,
658
00:33:09,208 --> 00:33:13,667
astrolabes were critical tools
employed during medieval times
659
00:33:13,833 --> 00:33:16,500
throughout Europe,
the middle east and Asia,
660
00:33:16,625 --> 00:33:20,750
to build megalithic structures
and houses of worship.
661
00:33:20,917 --> 00:33:25,708
However, they were also used
as navigational guides on land,
662
00:33:25,875 --> 00:33:29,167
as well as the high seas.
663
00:33:29,333 --> 00:33:32,250
Steve, if you could go
to the next slide, please.
664
00:33:32,375 --> 00:33:35,250
There's our two
symbols we're evaluating.
665
00:33:35,375 --> 00:33:39,583
And within this medieval
astrolabe from the 13th century,
666
00:33:39,750 --> 00:33:43,059
you'll see the repeating
use of those two symbols.
667
00:33:43,083 --> 00:33:46,792
Here we have the lead
cross found on the island.
668
00:33:46,917 --> 00:33:48,833
It's from southern France.
669
00:33:48,958 --> 00:33:50,708
So, this is yet another device
670
00:33:50,875 --> 00:33:52,395
that may originate in southern France.
671
00:33:52,542 --> 00:33:55,167
Now this is kind of
exciting to me because
672
00:33:55,375 --> 00:33:57,518
we have professor gaspani
telling us about Nolan's cross
673
00:33:57,542 --> 00:34:00,292
possibly being created in the 1200s.
674
00:34:00,458 --> 00:34:03,667
There's six navigational stars
that Nolan's cross aligns with.
675
00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:06,667
And then we have another
artifact here on the island
676
00:34:06,833 --> 00:34:10,393
that could have, possibly,
a couple of symbols on it
677
00:34:10,417 --> 00:34:13,625
that relate to ancient navigation, as well.
678
00:34:21,792 --> 00:34:23,000
Wow.
679
00:34:23,125 --> 00:34:26,042
In the past year, Italian
archaeoastronomer
680
00:34:26,208 --> 00:34:28,500
professor adriano gaspani
681
00:34:28,667 --> 00:34:32,000
has made two presentations
regarding his belief
682
00:34:32,167 --> 00:34:35,042
that Nolan's cross was
created nearly 800 years ago
683
00:34:35,208 --> 00:34:38,333
by members of the knights templar,
684
00:34:38,542 --> 00:34:41,167
and that the six megalithic boulders
685
00:34:41,375 --> 00:34:44,750
in the formation were
placed on the island's surface
686
00:34:44,917 --> 00:34:48,917
according to alignments with
specific stars in the night sky.
687
00:34:49,125 --> 00:34:51,333
Could Doug's notion be correct
688
00:34:51,458 --> 00:34:55,167
that the copper artifact
was part of an astrolabe
689
00:34:55,333 --> 00:34:57,250
that members of the viking culture
690
00:34:57,417 --> 00:34:59,792
and the knights templar may have used
691
00:34:59,917 --> 00:35:03,417
for a journey to oak island
nearly 800 years ago,
692
00:35:03,625 --> 00:35:07,417
and also to create Nolan's cross?
693
00:35:09,583 --> 00:35:12,917
This is a most interesting object, and
694
00:35:13,042 --> 00:35:14,333
we have to run this to ground.
695
00:35:14,542 --> 00:35:17,250
I mean, what you found on the astrolabe
696
00:35:17,417 --> 00:35:19,000
could be incredibly significant.
697
00:35:19,167 --> 00:35:21,708
So, there's all kinds of clues.
698
00:35:21,875 --> 00:35:24,750
We just have to be observant
and pay attention to the details,
699
00:35:24,917 --> 00:35:27,000
and I think we're doing
that with this object.
700
00:35:27,208 --> 00:35:29,333
We have sent these images on
701
00:35:29,458 --> 00:35:31,875
to professor gaspani to evaluate,
702
00:35:32,083 --> 00:35:33,351
hoping that he might shed some light
703
00:35:33,375 --> 00:35:34,615
on how this would've been used.
704
00:35:34,708 --> 00:35:36,375
So that'd be good. I'm all for that.
705
00:35:36,542 --> 00:35:38,375
Yeah. I think our research
706
00:35:38,542 --> 00:35:40,833
tentacles are getting stretched out
707
00:35:40,958 --> 00:35:43,042
to broader areas in the world.
708
00:35:43,208 --> 00:35:45,101
I think we have an entire
island of mysteries to solve,
709
00:35:45,125 --> 00:35:46,417
so, let's get after it.
710
00:35:46,625 --> 00:35:48,125
Great. Thank you!
711
00:35:48,250 --> 00:35:51,375
- Let's go find some more stuff.
- Okeydoke.
712
00:35:51,583 --> 00:35:54,333
While Rick, Marty, Craig
and members of the team
713
00:35:54,542 --> 00:35:56,833
conclude their meeting in the war room...
714
00:35:56,958 --> 00:35:58,375
We ready to rock?
715
00:36:02,708 --> 00:36:04,375
In the money pit area,
716
00:36:04,542 --> 00:36:06,333
the probe-drilling operation continues
717
00:36:06,542 --> 00:36:11,167
more than 100 feet
underground in the garden shaft.
718
00:36:13,208 --> 00:36:14,417
This is exciting.
719
00:36:14,583 --> 00:36:16,917
Absolutely. Absolutely.
720
00:36:37,750 --> 00:36:40,208
- That's a lot of water.
- For sure.
721
00:36:50,458 --> 00:36:52,167
Okay, bring 'em up.
722
00:36:52,375 --> 00:36:54,208
Okay, Ronnie, come on up.
723
00:37:09,792 --> 00:37:11,125
- Hi, Roger.
- Hey, Rick.
724
00:37:11,292 --> 00:37:12,833
So is everyone out of the shaft?
725
00:37:13,042 --> 00:37:16,000
- Yes. Nobody hurt.
- That's great.
726
00:37:16,125 --> 00:37:17,667
It is a critical moment
727
00:37:17,833 --> 00:37:20,667
in the money pit area
for the oak island team.
728
00:37:20,875 --> 00:37:23,333
Water started coming
in faster and faster,
729
00:37:23,542 --> 00:37:25,768
come right out of the holes,
and it was coming out of the holes,
730
00:37:25,792 --> 00:37:28,542
like, just pouring out of
there. It's unbelievable.
731
00:37:28,708 --> 00:37:31,833
Just moments ago, as representatives
732
00:37:31,958 --> 00:37:34,333
from dumas contracting limited
733
00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:38,083
were conducting a horizontal
probe-drilling operation
734
00:37:38,250 --> 00:37:39,958
to explore the possible treasure tunnel
735
00:37:40,083 --> 00:37:43,625
beneath the garden shaft,
more than 100 feet underground,
736
00:37:43,792 --> 00:37:47,875
water began flooding into the structure.
737
00:37:48,042 --> 00:37:51,042
- Is the water still coming up?
- Yeah, absolutely.
738
00:37:51,208 --> 00:37:53,125
Where he says the water was coming in
739
00:37:53,292 --> 00:37:54,917
was around the 97-foot Mark.
740
00:37:55,083 --> 00:37:56,523
That's where we dug for that tunnel.
741
00:37:56,667 --> 00:37:58,833
Let me just give my brother a call.
742
00:38:02,708 --> 00:38:04,667
Hey.
743
00:38:04,833 --> 00:38:06,673
This is not the bravo
tango call you expected.
744
00:38:08,708 --> 00:38:12,167
Okay, so I'm up at the shaft right now,
745
00:38:12,333 --> 00:38:14,875
and I've got Roger here and Scott.
746
00:38:15,042 --> 00:38:16,708
I'm gonna turn you over to Roger.
747
00:38:16,875 --> 00:38:19,292
So, Roger, here you go.
748
00:38:19,458 --> 00:38:21,292
Hey, Marty, how's it going?
749
00:38:22,750 --> 00:38:25,167
All right.
750
00:38:25,333 --> 00:38:27,250
So, the guys drilled a couple of holes,
751
00:38:27,417 --> 00:38:29,500
and they seen the water and silt
752
00:38:29,708 --> 00:38:31,417
starting to come out through the lining
753
00:38:31,542 --> 00:38:34,375
around the 97-foot Mark,
which was pretty well
754
00:38:34,542 --> 00:38:36,417
where our tunnel was
if you remember, right?
755
00:38:37,708 --> 00:38:39,226
Then the water started
gushing out of the hole,
756
00:38:39,250 --> 00:38:42,250
and it started coming
in at a very quick pace.
757
00:38:42,417 --> 00:38:44,125
The two sets had been
completely covered,
758
00:38:44,292 --> 00:38:45,667
the drill was completely covered.
759
00:38:45,792 --> 00:38:47,708
That's how quick the water came in.
760
00:38:53,833 --> 00:38:55,513
It's a lot easier for us to drill that way
761
00:38:55,667 --> 00:38:57,708
and get as much
penetration with the drill.
762
00:39:06,708 --> 00:39:08,333
No walls or no roof in there.
763
00:39:09,292 --> 00:39:10,500
Sorry.
764
00:39:10,708 --> 00:39:12,268
I just drank a little bit of the water,
765
00:39:12,375 --> 00:39:13,833
and it's a little bit salty.
766
00:39:14,042 --> 00:39:15,625
Yup.
767
00:39:19,208 --> 00:39:23,167
Could Rick lagina be
correct that while drilling
768
00:39:23,333 --> 00:39:25,583
into a tunnel, which leads to an area
769
00:39:25,750 --> 00:39:27,750
where the team has detected high traces
770
00:39:27,875 --> 00:39:30,458
of precious metals deep underground,
771
00:39:30,625 --> 00:39:33,833
they may have breached one
of the legendary flood tunnels
772
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,125
that have thwarted treasure hunters
773
00:39:36,333 --> 00:39:38,625
for more than two centuries?
774
00:39:41,208 --> 00:39:42,458
Yeah.
775
00:39:44,375 --> 00:39:45,625
Yeah.
776
00:39:52,917 --> 00:39:54,208
Yeah.
777
00:39:54,375 --> 00:39:56,292
There's no way to overstate
778
00:39:56,458 --> 00:39:59,375
the potential problems that this presents.
779
00:39:59,542 --> 00:40:02,458
It could terminate the
work in the garden shaft.
780
00:40:02,667 --> 00:40:04,227
Everything seems to be coalescing here.
781
00:40:04,375 --> 00:40:06,059
We're probe drilling.
782
00:40:06,083 --> 00:40:07,792
We've got metals in the water.
783
00:40:07,917 --> 00:40:10,042
So it does seem like
we're coming together here,
784
00:40:10,208 --> 00:40:11,750
on one hand.
785
00:40:11,875 --> 00:40:13,500
On the other hand, we can't get to it.
786
00:40:13,667 --> 00:40:16,500
And I mean, what we're
experiencing now is so like
787
00:40:16,625 --> 00:40:19,667
what people experienced 220 years ago
788
00:40:19,792 --> 00:40:21,792
that it's downright chilling.
789
00:40:26,167 --> 00:40:27,417
Always something, yes.
790
00:40:29,167 --> 00:40:30,250
All right. Thanks, Marty.
791
00:40:30,375 --> 00:40:32,375
- All right. See ya. Bye.
- Yup. Bye.
792
00:40:32,542 --> 00:40:36,000
It's a bump in the road,
but we'll get some answers.
793
00:40:36,167 --> 00:40:37,893
- We'll pump her out.
- We'll see how big the bump is.
794
00:40:37,917 --> 00:40:41,500
- Yup.
- But we have the right people,
795
00:40:41,708 --> 00:40:43,208
the right attitude.
796
00:40:43,375 --> 00:40:44,708
We'll figure it out.
797
00:40:44,875 --> 00:40:46,351
- We'll get to the bottom of it.
- Yup.
798
00:40:46,375 --> 00:40:48,208
Okay, well, just got to keep moving.
799
00:40:48,375 --> 00:40:49,708
- For sure.
- Thank you, Roger.
800
00:40:49,875 --> 00:40:52,458
- Thanks for the update.
- Absolutely, Rick.
801
00:40:52,625 --> 00:40:55,000
Over the past two centuries,
802
00:40:55,167 --> 00:40:57,500
numerous searchers believed
803
00:40:57,667 --> 00:40:59,167
that they were on the verge
804
00:40:59,292 --> 00:41:01,750
of recovering a fabled
treasure in the money pit,
805
00:41:01,875 --> 00:41:07,458
when disaster suddenly struck
and shattered their dreams
806
00:41:07,625 --> 00:41:10,083
of solving the oak island mystery.
807
00:41:10,250 --> 00:41:16,042
Rick, Marty, Craig and
their team must now confront
808
00:41:16,208 --> 00:41:18,250
that daunting prospect.
809
00:41:18,417 --> 00:41:22,458
However, the historic clues
that they have uncovered
810
00:41:22,625 --> 00:41:26,583
and the physical evidence
that they have unearthed
811
00:41:26,750 --> 00:41:31,750
prove more than ever that
their dream is still worth...
812
00:41:31,917 --> 00:41:34,000
The pursuit.
813
00:41:36,042 --> 00:41:39,167
Next time on the curse of oak island...
814
00:41:39,375 --> 00:41:40,833
Wow! Look at this.
815
00:41:41,042 --> 00:41:42,242
- What do we have?
- Check out
816
00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:43,333
that circle of stones.
817
00:41:43,417 --> 00:41:46,333
Right at the spot where
John Edwards theorized
818
00:41:46,458 --> 00:41:48,667
we would find something.
819
00:41:48,833 --> 00:41:50,167
Here's the artifact.
820
00:41:50,333 --> 00:41:51,542
It was found on the island.
821
00:41:51,708 --> 00:41:53,333
If it is as old as we believe it is,
822
00:41:53,542 --> 00:41:55,917
it is quite remarkable.
823
00:41:56,083 --> 00:41:57,351
In a castle here in the Netherlands,
824
00:41:57,375 --> 00:41:58,792
I found some symbols
825
00:41:58,917 --> 00:42:00,542
that I recognize from the island.
826
00:42:00,750 --> 00:42:02,292
I think the trip is warranted.
827
00:42:02,458 --> 00:42:04,542
You're going to find
the answers in Europe.
828
00:42:04,750 --> 00:42:06,625
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