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Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

is what we call Aladdin's cave.
All right,

- here we go.
-It's the genie
in the lamp,

and all your wishes
will be granted.

-It looks like
there's something here.
-Oh, wow.

Look at the head on that thing.

That could have easily
come out of a treasure chest.

These teeth are ready
to bite on some gold.

I love it.

I think we're breaking
through the cave.

- Agreed.
-We're hitting
something, right?

This could be the most important

hammer-grab in history.

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.

But in the fabled
Money Pit area,

a sobering sense of
stagnation has set in,

as more than 300 tons

of heavy digging equipment
sits idle.

Okay, everybody,

welcome to an impromptu
session of the war room.

Vanessa, you've
been here before,

both in person
and on the screen.

And of course,
on the screen right now

is Craig, participating
from Traverse City.

Here's the reason we're here:

The island, as usual,
has thrown us a few curveballs.

We obviously have suffered

a... an event, we'll call it,

with TB-1. We've lost
considerable amount of soils.

And there are legitimate
concerns about the caisson.

- Correct.
- Yeah.

brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina and their team

began excavating a
seven-foot-diameter steel shaft

known as TB-1.

A shaft located in an area

where they have not only
detected high trace evidence

of precious metals
in groundwater

below a depth of 100 feet,

but also where a recent
core-drilling operation

recovered possible evidence
of the legendary

Chappell Vault...

This looks like the vault.

that was reportedly encountered
at a depth of 153 feet

by treasure hunter
Frederick Blair

and his drilling operator
William Chappell back in 1897.

However, after additional
promising discoveries were made

in TB-1,
including possible evidence

of the original Money Pit

and concrete at a depth
of nearly 160 feet...

This collapse
is just not stopping.

I just don't know
where it's going,

but it's going somewhere.

and beneath the shaft
began to cave in.

This has caused
the team to believe

that more than
100 cubic yards of soil,

along with
the possible treasure,

may have fallen into
a so-called "solution channel,"

or naturally occurring cavern
in the bedrock,

some 200 feet underground.

It really looks like
the culprit for these collapses

is, so far,
the-the solution channel.

Mm-hmm.

The treasure
could easily have fallen

to 200 feet plus, and we haven't
really searched that area.

- Right.
-If you had
a chest of gold,

and it broke open,
it'd be in the last inch.

With that having been said, I...
I think we need

a very vigorous discussion
about what we do next

and an update
from both of you as to

what problems you've encountered
and how to deal with them.

Uh, my biggest concern

is I don't want to set up
on shafts we just drilled.

So where
we're drilling right now,

I do not want to put the crane

or the oscillator on, right?

'Cause we're going to already
have settling. We know that.

If the solution channel,
which we know is quite large,

can be swallowing 100 yards
of sand and gravel overnight,

or during the day,

uh, who knows
how bad this could get?

If we're facing, you know,

the back of the crane
over here now,

turning it over here
might get us away from that.

It'll probably become

more stable,
and we can come back close.

And I want to come back close.

We have a renewed determination

to get down
into that solution cavity.

Or at least I do.

Okay, well, let's talk about

where are we going next, and
what are the specifics about it?

So, I think our next target is

right there.

That's what we call
"Aladdin's cave."

That's one that we had decided,

as a group,
we'd like to do this year.

Okay.

curiously, the Laginas
and their team

have discovered evidence
that multiple treasures

could be buried
in the Money Pit area.

And one of those
additional targets

has been expectantly dubbed
"Aladdin's cave."

Okay. Go real slow.

flooded cavern
some 145 feet underground

back in 2022,

the team has not only collected

trace evidence
of precious metals

and organic materials
in the water...

Now we have
another image coming in.

-Whoa.
-Oh, that's
a good opening.

It is. You can see
the opening coming down here.

video and sonar evidence

that it could be
a man-made chamber

with tunnels that may connect
to the original Money Pit.

What is the dimensions
of that cave, once we do

- break through?
-So, you're about

20 feet by 20 feet,

so 20 feet north-south,
20 feet east-west.

You can see it here.

Right. And then deep,
as much as 12 feet.

If you want to do
Aladdin's cave,

I would say do that next.

I think there's enough room
back here for us to sit

and be on competent ground.

Hmm. Okay.

Yeah.

Craig, you're
fully on board, yes?

Absolutely.

Okay, great.

the dendrochronology,
the artifact recoveries,

and the water sample
testing program,

there is a very good logic

to there being
at least two treasures

in the so-called Money Pit area.

Aladdin's cave may be
one of those sites.

All right, look, I-I hear broad
consensus, I hear no "nays."

I hear everybody saying
let's go drill Aladdin's cave.

Let's find the lamp.

And touch nothing else.

Let's see what happens.

as representatives from
ROC Equipment and SB Canada...

Bring it straight back.

...prepare to excavate
the new shaft known as

Aladdin's cave-1
in the Money Pit area...

That looks better.

of the cobble towards the water.

We're heading north,

and see what we
find on this trail.

fellow Oak Island
landowner Tom Nolan,

and other members of the team

continue another
critical search for valuables

in the northern region
of the triangle-shaped swamp.

We laid out...

you see the red stakes?

That's the line-- we believe

we'll find more survey stakes
along that line.

If we find them out here,
it may be

purposeful in terms
of laying out this path.

What did we find on
the other side of the bog?

What did you find?

- The...
- The square structure.

Exactly, and I hope that,

at the end of this path,
there is another one.

Yes.

over the past several months,

the team has uncovered sections

of a believed man-made
cobblestone pathway

that has led to a number

of potentially
critical discoveries.

These include several
wood-planked structures

and even an empty
brick and slate vault,

which the team believes

may have once contained
something of great value.

Okay, Alan, you're up.

the possibility of
the continuation of this path

in the north, we need
to reassess and look at it

in its totality.

The hope is,
as this work proceeds,

we will find something

very definitive in terms of

why this end of
the bog was worked,

and weave the story
of what this represents.

Hopefully, there are full vaults

that we have yet to uncover.

Wait a minute. Hold up.

Oh.

Oh, wow. What do we have here?

I don't know.

These wouldn't
have been put here

by your dad would they, Tom?

With this amount of till

on top of it, I don't think.

of the cobblestone pathway
in the northern region

of the Oak Island swamp,

Rick Lagina and members
of the team have just made

a potentially
important discovery.

This looks exactly
like what we found

right by the square structure,

where we also found

- the big stakes.
- Yeah.

that this planked structure

might be related to
the one that the team found

four weeks ago, just
several yards to the south--

could she also be correct
that other important clues

or structures
might be buried nearby?

What's that there, Rick?

That's not a stake, is it?

Yep, that is a stake.
No question about that.

- We're kind of on the line.
-Mm.

on learning as much we can
about the north end of the bog

and the line of survey stakes
as we currently understand them.

And maybe this line relates
to another possible vault.

Let's see
how many more there are.

Okay.

- We'll take another
swipe there, Al.
- Yep.

Oh, this looks like
another stake right here.

Yep.

What were they trying
to stake out over here?

It seems to be leading away

from the end of
that cobblestone path.

We're deviating
way off the line.

Oh, you're right.

The line is here,

but these stakes are here.

Oh, they're off to the side.

Off, yep.

- Yep.
-The question is,

are we seeing two different
lines of survey stakes?

Could that mean that
there are additional sections

of the cobblestone pathway...

- Here's where we are.
- ...under the muck and mud

that lead
to different destinations?

And those are... over here.

that additional
vault-like structures

are waiting to be
discovered in the swamp?

It's deviating, right?

It's... this line is here,
this line is here.

It seems like
there's two different

directions going here.

two stakes side by side,

and I wonder
if that's where they diverge.

Where does it go? Who built it?

It's a complicated environment.

We have a lot of clues,

we have a lot of data,

and we just
have to sit patiently

and try to understand it.

Well, I think at this point,

what we should do is
have Steve come out...

- Yeah.
- ...take a line,

pin those two stakes,

pin the lay of that board,
and then,

I would pull the board,

have Alan dig
a little bit deeper,

see what we find.

...as the investigation
continues in the swamp...

Here we go.

...and the dig now proceeds
in the Money Pit area...

That's a full one.

...over on Lot 5,

located on the western side
of the island...

- Yeah, I'm just
coming down onto it.
-Okay.

members of
the archaeology team,

are excavating
a 15-by-15-foot test pit

just to the south

of a mysterious
rounded stone foundation.

I'm hoping that this area
gives us a better idea

of what this feature
was originally built

- and used for.
-Yeah.

the rounded feature in 2022,

they've unearthed numerous
sections and artifacts

that suggest it may have been
used as a campsite

by several different groups

between the 14th
and the 18th centuries.

And while numerous suspects
have been potentially

linked to the structure,

including the medieval order
of the Knights Templar,

several iron tools
have been found here

that were scientifically traced

to the birthplace
of Sir William Phips,

the 17th-century English
politician who some believe

buried a vast cache
of Spanish silver

on Oak Island back in 1687.

One cannot refute the fact

that the preponderance of
the evidence is indicating

some efforts on Lot 5 may be

associated with work
in the Money Pit area.

One cannot dispute that.

What it speaks to is
there are more clues

to be found on Lot 5.

Ooh.

What did you find, Fiona?

Well, I just pulled...

- Oh!
- ...this piece of brick out.

It's unusual
for us to get pieces

that have the glaze

on all sides,

so that's giving us
a really good indication

of the actual size of the brick.

Is there any way
that we could figure out

where those bricks
originated from?

Yeah, we've been
working on that, actually.

We've been building a database.

We're looking at
the clay itself,

trying to figure out
where the clay came from.

- Oh, really? Okay.
- Yeah.

So, we've actually
been finding brick

all over the island,
not just on Lot 5.

With the bricks that we find,

we do some specific
analysis on them.

We're looking at the composition

of the brick and trying
to actually trace where

some of the clay
may have come from,

whether that it took place
on Oak Island

or whether
it was somewhere nearby.

It may just be a brick,

but every little piece
can tell a part of a story.

- So...
- Oh, yes.
Every little piece helps.

And that's why
I'm gonna get back to sifting.

- Great job, Fiona.
- Thanks.

back on the eastern side
of the island,

in the Money Pit area...

Oh. A lot of wood.

...following the collapse of

their first
caisson target, TB-1,

Rick Lagina and other members
of the team

are anxiously monitoring
the excavation

of their next target,
called AC-1,

where a potentially important
discovery has been made

some 100 feet underground.

Look at that.

We hit the jackpot with wood.

That looks like an old timber.

There you go.

All right, we're
hitting something, right?

- Yeah.
- Okay. We're at 96 with the dig.

So, what's this wood telling us?

Looks like
we busted through a tunnel.

Yeah.

located nearly 100 feet deep?

That's impressive, isn't it?

Very impressive.

to encounter man-made workings

until they reached
the mysterious cave

at a depth of 145 feet.

-Can you give me a hand?
-Yep.

This raises
two critical questions.

Have they merely
discovered a structure

that was built
by previous searchers,

or have they found a tunnel

built by someone
who buried treasure

deep in the Money Pit area?

That looks hand-hewn,
doesn't it?

-Yeah. You can feel it.
- Yeah.

- These timbers look really old.
-Yeah.

And there's no iron fasteners
in them, which is interesting.

I think that's
an older construction.

-Yeah.
-Any ideas

- what tunnel this would be?
- No.

Not with wood exhibiting
those characteristics.

Yeah.

Ooh, look at
what we've got here.

This could be the most important

hammer-grab
in Nova Scotian history.

That is massive.

That's gonna be heavy.

but potentially
critical discovery

has just been
made in the Money Pit area.

Let me help you there, Rick.

I'm too excited.

or AC-1,

which the Oak Island team
hopes will encounter

a man-made cavern

at a depth of 145 feet,

a mysterious tunnel

has just been breached
at a depth

of some 100 feet.

- Nothing, eh?
- No metal hits, no.

Could be really old.

that was constructed
by someone in order

to hide something
of great value long ago?

And if so, could it be
related in some way

to Aladdin's cave?

More wood, Rick.

My gut feeling
and your gut feeling

says this is
some kind of old tunnel.

Sometimes you've got
to go with your gut,

and we're both hungry
for treasure.

Hopefully,
it's around this tunnel.

Maybe. Maybe.

indicating a possible
previously unknown tunnel.

It could be
critically important.

As Dr. Spooner says,

the treasure will not
materialize in solid soil.

There has to be
a structure associated with it.

Hey, Scott,
how are you doing?

Hey, guys.
We're just finishing up

our spoils down there
by the wash table,

and this beautiful spike

came out of those spoils.

Ooh, that's nice.

Look at the head on that thing.

- That's really, really old.
- That's nice.

If I was guessing,
I would say

1600s or even older.

- Wow.
-Yeah, definitely,

it goes back.

-That's beautiful.
-That's bloody gorgeous.

I would never expect them
to find that in the spoils

- coming out of that tunnel.
- No.

The tunnel wood,
it had no fasteners.

This must have come out of

something else.

Can you imagine that in the side

of a chest? Or a lid of a chest?

Sounds good to me.

might not only date back
to the 17th century or earlier,

but also be related

to a possible container?

If so, what else
might the team find

at the bottom of Aladdin's cave?

That's exciting, guys.

We've had real great
examples of wood before.

We've had
great artifacts before.

We've never been able
to tie the two together,

in the same hole,
same location, verified.

We've got great dendro samples,

and we now have a real
artifact that we can

scientifically analyze,

so there's wins
across the board here today.

Yeah.

what happened here long ago,

or at least answers
to what happened here long ago.

One of the Ws.
Who, what, when, where, why?

That's why this is

a very interesting,
if not a very exciting moment,

because we don't know

what might be down here.

-How we doing?
-Good, good.

- Just want
to give you an update.
- Okay.

- What do you got?
- My hole is at 115.

With the dig at 115,
that makes it about

30 feet from the top

- of where we're hoping
to intersect this thing.
- Okay.

Wonderful. I will stop
for the night,

and then I will see you all
in the morning.

- All right, thank you.
- Thank you, Vanessa.
Appreciate it.

Two things I look
forward to tomorrow:

One is what is at
the bottom of that cave?

But the second biggest thing is,

there has to be a way in there.

If we can confirm that,

it makes it all
the more exciting.

And remember, bring
your sunglasses tomorrow.

We're gonna see
some shiny stuff.

Hear, hear.

I hope you're right, Gary.

Keep our fingers crossed.

So, buckle up for tomorrow.

...as the excavation in AC-1

proceeds toward a target depth
of 145 feet...

You know, the bricks
have been a puzzle.

...Rick Lagina
and Scott Barlow

meet with archaeologists
Laird Niven

and Moya MacDonald,
and archaeometallurgist

Emma Culligan in
the Oak Island laboratory.

We've found bricks
literally from Smith's Cove

all the way to
the western side of the island.

Is there any
connective tissue here

that we can make some sort of...

a greater understanding
of their importance?

Yeah, so I brought
some bricks out that we had

done some sampling on.

We have two Lot 5 bricks.

This is a sample from

the eastern drumlin,
Smith's Cove area,

and then we have two bricks
from the swamp, the vault bricks

that you guys found
earlier this summer.

that have recently
been found across the island

utilizing an X-ray
diffraction device...

...a machine that uses
X-ray radiation to examine

the chemical composition
and physical properties

of objects in order
to help determine

the time period
that they were created.

We did two runs

of each through the machine,

just to really cover our bases.

The Lot 5 bricks and
the sample from Smith's Cove

were, compositionally,
very similar.

And I did find a really
interesting connection.

Both of them match,
compositionally,

with a Brick Hill sample.

It's a local
brick-making company.

It's a brick kiln,
and it's from the 1600s.

It's a brick kiln,
and it's from the 1600s.

So it's locally sourced,

which I find really interesting.

Moya MacDonald,

Emma Culligan and Laird Niven

have just made
a startling revelation

about the clay bricks that were
unearthed near Smith's Cove,

and inside of the rounded
stone foundation on Lot 5.

So, we have these
two samples from Lot 5...

and likely date to as far back
as the 17th century.

When you say 1600s,

where are we
in that 1600s timeline?

Is it early 16's,
mid 16's, late 16's?

Or is it just
a general framework of time?

It's just a general framework.

The Lot 5 bricks are coming from

the fill...

We haven't found
a brick feature...

- Right.
- ...exactly associated

with the Lot 5,
uh, circular feature.

So they're in the backfill.

They're in the backfill,

so it may be that there's
a brick feature close by,

and what we're finding
is just debris from that.

they're not ubiquitous.
They're not everywhere.

They're found
in very specific locations:

Smith's Cove, Lot 5.

Why were they found
in these areas

where a tremendous amount
of work was done?

If they do indeed
go back to the 1600s,

well, there is a connection
with the historical narrative.

It's corroborative evidence.

So, we have the vault brick

that you guys
found in the swamp.

It kind of fits more in
with other local

1800s bricks
that Helen and Laird

have also provided.

- Yeah.
-The brick from the vault,

you're suggesting, is younger

than the other items here

- in front of us.
-Yeah.

If this being
the one from the vault,

this is a newer brick,

that probably better suits

the Anthony Graves timeline
than before.

Given what we know about him

and going to town and buying
things with Spanish coins...

who purchased several lots
on Oak Island in 1857,

and built his homestead
just north of the swamp.

Although he never officially

took part in the searches
for treasure in the Money Pit,

several years after
he settled on the island,

rumors began to swirl

that he would often pay
for supplies on the mainland

using Spanish silver coins.

Curiously, the team
has found evidence

within the so-called
slate vault in the swamp

that suggests
it may have been constructed

in the 1700s or earlier.

However, could the bricks

that the team found
on the vault's top layer

offer a clue that
Anthony Graves discovered it

nearly two centuries ago,

and helped himself
to its contents?

I think your results

have squarely
placed this in the time

Anthony Graves
would've known about it.

- Yeah.
-And you know
what that also says is,

if you really had
something valuable,

would you put it
only in one place?

You don't keep
all your eggs in one basket.

Exactly. So on the other side

of the swamp, I would bet you,

there's another one of those.

Agreed.

We want to thank
the three of you.

The lab has given us

such a unique opportunity

to advance the ball.
So, again, thank you very much.

But, in order for you
to do the work in here,

we've got to go out
and find more things, right?

conclude their meeting
in the lab,

and as the excavation of AC-1

continues in
the Money Pit area...

I think we've got
several directions here

we could go in,

based on what we're
looking at out there.

Jack Begley,
Oak Island landowner Tom Nolan,

and metal detection
expert Gary Drayton

are continuing
to search for new sections

of the cobblestone pathway,

and additional structures
that may contain

hidden valuables.

You've also got the cobble here,

so, I mean,
this could be part of a,

could be part of
a continual path.

I'm hoping that

it's artifact central
waiting for us.

I think we'll fire up
the machine...

- Yep.
- ...and start digging.

Let's rock and roll.

Okay.

they kind of diverge
in two different directions.

Uh. Is that a rock?

So, as we follow
the lines of stakes,

we're gonna have
to search a wider area,

just to make sure
we don't miss any.

Yeah, definitely
more of that cobble.

Looks like it, doesn't it?

Well, that doesn't

cleanly converge with

this other cobble path.

This isn't leading to anywhere.

If this is more cobble,

say a path, it stops.

Is it possible they stopped

and they built
a platform to cross over

to the other pile of cobble?

It looks like
there's something here.

as Tom Nolan has suggested?

Gary, do you want to come over

and give this area a sweep?

- I sure do, mate. Coming over.
-Okay.

that was hidden beneath it?

Yeah, try and get your--

Oh.

Yep, there's a piece of iron
there, by the sound of it.

In that area, just there.

Let's see if you moved it.

Well, let me try
with my pinpointer.

- See the...
- See if it's in that side.

Maybe there.

Whatever it is, Jack,
it's just there.

Oh, that's pretty big.

-What is it?
-Some type
of metal object.

What is this?

It's got a head on it.

Here. You know best, Gary.

-Is it old, Gary?
-Yeah.

It's really, really light.

- You feel how light that is.
- Yeah.

Could that be some
sort of a wharf pin, Gary?

Yeah, it could be.
It's got mushrooming

on the other end, so you know

it's been wacked
into a something or other.

It just,

got a really, really
old feel about it.

- Predates your dad.
- Yeah.

came from Tom's late father,

the legendary surveyor
and treasure hunter Fred Nolan.

After draining
the swamp in 1969,

Fred discovered not only

numerous 16th-century
survey stakes

but also parts of
large sailing vessels.

These finds led him
to believe that Oak Island

had once been
two separate landmasses.

And that the swamp had been
created in order to hide

evidence of where treasure
had been unloaded long ago.

Could this possible wharf pin,

and the mysterious
wooden structure

that the team
has just uncovered,

be the remains of a dock

where valuables were offloaded
onto Oak Island?

Yeah, we'll set that aside.

Oh, yeah.
Everything we find in here

- is going back to the lab.
- Yep.

Good start.

You want to scrape
it down just a little bit more?

- Yeah, maybe one more scrape.
- Okay.

and hidden valuables continues
in the Oak Island swamp,

in the Money Pit area...

All right, John, where we at?

Pressures are spiking
a little bit, then it drops.

I think we're breaking
through the cave.

Agreed.

I'm gonna go let the guys know,
and you keep going.

Sounds good.

The AC-1 shaft
may have finally breached

its intended target
some 145 feet underground:

a large,
potentially man-made cavern

known as Aladdin's cave.

So there was no, like,

aha moment, like,
there's no pressure.

- No fall down.
- But...

while we were cutting
all the way down,

we were at 150 pressure.

The last five feet today
we've been at 120.

So that is a sign of
either a cavity or a cave.

Yeah. Right.

So, the hope here, to me,

would be,
if we can get a camera on that,

we can say definitively,
yay or nay, what might be there.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

That's great cause these teeth

are ready
to bite into some gold.

The hope is
to get proper visual,

introduce a camera or the
3D Sonar and see what we see.

This is about getting
as much information as possible

and using that information
to further the search agenda.

Proof that human beings
were in this void

where the treasure could be
and then recover it.

Water clarity obviously is
gonna be a problem here.

And I think
you earlier mentioned

- that you had a flocculent?
- Yeah.

You know,
to precipitate the water

and get it down
and get it clear.

That would be of immense help,

because the camera
certainly would need that.

Yeah.

that causes loose particles
in water

to clump together
and float to the surface,

thereby increasing
visual clarity.

There is a-a sense
that having eyes on a target

could well and truly break
this mystery wide open.

You know, my brother named it
Aladdin's cave, well,

think about what
Aladdin's cave means to you.

There's a genie in a bottle,
in a lamp,

and all your wishes
will be granted.

And I have but one wish,

find the one thing.

So we leave it overnight,

hope that the flocculant
does its work.

Hope that, you know,
just leaving it will help

clear it out
and then we are ready for

the camera tomorrow morning.

Okey doke.
Well, let's give it a try.

- Okay, let's do it.
- Keep your fingers crossed.

Yeah.

-We'll pick it up
tomorrow.
-Yep.

...as the team
from ROC Equipment begins

adding flocculant
to the interior

of the AC-1 Caisson...

between 90 and 110 feet,

lo and behold,
a spike was found.

In the war room,
Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with other members
of the team

are meeting once again
with Emma Culligan.

Emma is about to share

her scientific report
on the iron spike

that was recovered one day ago
inside a mysterious tunnel

during the excavation
of the AC-1 shaft.

Emma, I'll turn it over to you.

Okay, uh, well,

first off, the XRMs,
CT scans of the nail.

We see the wood-like
grain structure,

so it is wrought iron.

We see the striking
of the different angles

of the head, which-- it is does
indicate that it is a rosehead.

Cross section is square,
means it's hand-forged,

not machine cut.

And the composition,
it's really minimal.

We have a lot of sulfur
and phosphorous content,

which indicates more of
a likely English origin.

We see a potassium content
throughout which does indicate

that it's a charcoal-fueled
furnace and not coal.

So, all of these combined,

give it a most recent date
of mid-1700s.

And possibly earlier.

- Great.
- That's crazy.

- It's amazing.
- Yeah.

That's great.
What other data do we have?

Uh, we've got some data

from an old English
metal detectorist, Marty.

I don't know how trustworthy
that might be, but go ahead.

Emma, you said pre-1750s.

I'm saying 1750s,
but could be earlier, yeah.

I've found a lot of these.

When you see this,
this thick chunky spike

with that big rosehead
on that, that's an oldie.

You go anywhere in Europe,
you see this type of iron spike

in cabinets, doors,

- and chests.
- Mm-hmm.

That could have easily
come out of a treasure chest.

This is
your typical 1600s spike.

I like 1600s.

That has to be depositor.

- Yep.
- That is exciting.

That could have easily
come out of a treasure chest.

This is
your typical 1600s spike.

I like 1600s.

That is exciting.

- Wow.
-In the war room,

the Oak Island team has
just been informed

by archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

that the spike recovered
from some 110 feet

in the AC-1 shaft is
likely of English origin.

Well, this is unexpected.

And could date back
to as early as the 17th century.

This spike could
be an important

clue, uh, and it could be
either pointing to an early

recovery effort
or perhaps original deposit.

Yeah, I agree.

Yeah,
there are several theories

that fit that time frame,
1600s into 1750.

- Yeah.
- It could well be William Phips.

Right.

it fits the timeline
for Sir William Phips.

We've found
an incredible amount

of hard-to-refute evidence

suggesting Sir William Phips

had a presence within
the round feature on Lot 5.

People associated with Lot 5

may have been living
on the island

possibly for the original
construction of the Money Pit.

Well, now we may have evidence
of William Phips

depositing a treasure
on Oak Island in the Money Pit.

under the direction
of the English crown,

Captain William Phips located
the famed wreck

of the Concepción,
a Spanish treasure galleon

which sank off the coast

of the modern-day
Dominican Republic

in 1641,

along with 100 tons
of Spanish silver,

gold and jewels.

After recovering
34 tons of silver,

Phips was knighted
and ordered to return

for the remaining valuables.

However,
when he and his assistant,

a high-ranking Freemason
named Andrew Belcher,

completed the second
salvage operation,

they reported that locals
had looted the wreck

and that they recovered

only five additional tons
of treasure.

This is where
my first discovery comes in.

I found a 1688 letter

that shows
that Captain Andrew Belcher

was caught
with one of Phips's ships

in the Mahone Bay area

at the exact time
that Phips was coming back

from the second attempt,
where he officially

did not find as much silver.

of 32nd-degree Freemason
Scott Clarke,

Sir William Phips
and Captain Andrew Belcher

buried the missing Spanish
treasure on Oak Island,

based on their knowledge

of an existing vault
that had been deposited

in the Money Pit
centuries earlier

by members
of the Knights Templar.

Could this spike
that was recovered in AC-1,

along with the tools and bricks
unearthed on Lot 5,

not only help explain
why the team has found evidence

that multiple treasures could be
buried in the Money Pit area

but also suggest what might
await them in Aladdin's cave?

If it's from the 1600s,
then it fits a lot of stuff.

But none of that matters to me.

What matters to me
is that that spike

would indicate that somebody
was down deep in the Money Pit

well before the discovery
of the Money Pit.

That's the most
significant conclusion.

The treasure could be
below us yet, in the cave.

Mystery upon intrigue
upon mystery.

Yeah.

That is what makes this,

ladies and gentlemen,
a really beautiful...

story, mystery, treasure hunt.

Absolutely.

We're at the precipice

of opening the door
of that cave,

and everyone around this table
has high hopes,

uh, of what might lie within.

I-I think together, all of us

will do the best job possible
to see and retrieve

whatever might be
in Aladdin's cave.

Open sesame.

Let's get out there and find it.

Agreed.

Well said.

in the Money Pit area

has now led
to a series of surprising

and potentially
critical revelations

for Rick, Marty, Craig
and their team.

Is it possible
that after 223 years,

the murky truth
behind the Oak Island mystery

is on the verge
of coming into clear view?

Or could there be something
much darker lurking below

that will keep them at bay?

Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...

This may be that pathway.

This could be the connection
we've been looking for.

-Wow.
-I don't know
what that is.

This is very unusual.

Everything suggests
an earlier date,

1600s to 1700s.

Here we go. Look at this.

- That could easily be off
a box or a chest.
-I agree.

When are we gonna find
what fell out of those chests?

- Ready to go diving.
-Let's go diving.

Oh, my God.

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