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NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

Hey! Check this out.

-Wow. -That's big.

Oh, very cool.

-KATYA: Oh, my gosh! -Yeah!

-RICK: This is strange. -JACK: Do you think

that somebody carved that into the wood?

That's not natural.

VANESSA: Wow.

GARY: Oh, look at that!

Well, that's pretty cool.

Pretty bloody cool.

-This is real good. -TERRY: Absolutely.

We got some radiocarbon dates.

1725 to 1764.

-That's pre-searcher. -Yeah. -Wowza.

NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic

where people have been looking for

an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.

So far, they have found a stone slab

with strange symbols carved into it,

man-made workings that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross whose origin may be connected

to the Knights Templar.

To date, six men have died

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend, one more will have to die

before the treasure can be found.

♪ ♪

RICK: Well, we're at 82 feet.

GARY: We got more wood.

NARRATOR: A morning of unrivaled hope has begun

on Oak Island for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and their team...

So, they're taking out the north corner of Shaft Six.

That's probably the beams we're seeing.

NARRATOR: ...because as they unearth the remains

of a 19th-century searcher shaft

in the fabled Money Pit area,

they have compelling reasons

to believe that it will lead to the answers

of a 230-year-old mystery.

STEVE: So, at the bottom of this hole, we should catch

part of the tunnel going from Shaft Six to the Money Pit.

So we should see a lot of wood.

RICK: That would be the hope, but we're looking

for the... something that was in the tunnel or in the shaft.

-STEVE: Yeah. -Yeah. -One coin,

two coins, 100 coins.

Even part of an authentic chest.

-Anything. -Yeah.

NARRATOR: In the summer of 1861,

members of the Oak Island Association

reportedly drilled through two stacked treasure chests

at a depth of nearly 110 feet in the original Money Pit.

Believing that a man-made flood tunnel

would stop them from reaching the chests,

they dug an adjacent shaft 18 feet to the west--

known as Shaft Six--

down to a depth of 118 feet.

From there, they began tunneling toward the Money Pit,

hoping to recover the treasure

from safely below the deadly booby trap.

The colossal effort failed.

Just before reaching their target,

seawater rushed in.

The disaster

not only forced the searchers to abandon Shaft Six

but caused tons of lumber

and the believed chests in the Money Pit to collapse,

leaving a debris field

and the valuables entombed inside of the tunnel.

GARY: All that old wood's

still coming up.

NARRATOR: One week ago,

while excavating a seven-foot-diameter shaft

known as RP-1,

the team unearthed evidence of the Shaft Six tunnel:

iron straps potentially related to wooden containers,

and a pipe stem that was dated

to as early as the late 17th century,

more than 100 years prior to the discovery of the Money Pit.

Now the team is digging a second shaft, dubbed RP-2,

just northeast of RP-1

in the hopes that, this time,

they will recover the contents

of the two legendary treasure chests.

MARTY: The stakes are reasonably high.

Rick has always felt like Shaft Six is

where the treasure might be.

In RP-2, we're about to get

into the tunnel that led from Shaft Six to the Money Pit

when it collapsed.

So, this could be it.

I've got an hit here, mate.

Let me see if I can pinpoint it.

Oh, it's right there.

Look at that.

It's... What would you say that is?

A bit of strap?

RICK: Same stuff as we found the other day.

It's made of iron.

It was an iron hit.

Yeah, we'll see if these compare to those other pieces we found.

All right, mate. We'll take this back to the table.

-Yeah. -GARY: This is an old iron strap.

And back in the day, boxes and chests

would have had iron straps wrapped around 'em.

We're talking possibly treasure chest.

That's a really cool timber right there.

-I'm gonna go grab it. -Yeah.

MOYA: And I-I think I would expect it

to be a little bit denser.

-Oh, my God. -Rick, what do you think of that?

Yeah, wow.

That's a nice big piece.

STEVE: That'd be a corner piece, you would think.

RICK: We probably are tagging

the bottom of the shaft now.

Everything I see shows that a structure collapsed

in close proximity to Shaft Six.

And that if there was a treasure associated with it,

we're close.

We are somewhere in the vicinity of it.

At this point, we have to be a bit patient.

-Hello, sir. -Hello.

All right, we're about ready to stack another can.

The dig's at 87 feet.

And we're still above the horizon of interest?

118 feet.

GARY: We could find a lot of artifacts

when we get there or even treasure.

That's what we're here for.

Absolutely.

The Money Pit is treasure central.

(Vanessa and Rick chuckle)

VANESSA: All right. I'm gonna go get the boys going,

-stacking this can and get to that target zone. -RICK: Okey doke.

NARRATOR: As Rick and other members of the team

monitor the excavation of RP-2 in the Money Pit area...

JACK: Why would they do all this work?

If it does tie to the stone road, the stone path,

it had to be something significant.

...Craig Tester, Jack Begley,

and other members of the team are investigating

a mysterious man-made feature

in the northern region of the Oak Island swamp.

I don't really see this construction in the swamp

as being anything besides depositor work.

And there could be more artifacts just right over here.

Okay?

KATYA: All right, let's get started.

Let 'er rip, Al!

(starts engine)

NARRATOR: This year, the team has uncovered numerous sections

of a cobblestone pathway in this area of the swamp

that have been bordered by hand-cut wooden survey stakes.

And they have been especially intrigued

by another man-made structure

that they found next to the cobbled path--

an empty brick and slate vault

that could date back to the 1700s or earlier.

He's just gonna go into the ground a bit,

take the grass off.

NARRATOR: Now they are hoping to uncover more sections

of the cobblestone path in the hopes

that it might lead them to additional vault-like structures

that still contain hidden valuables.

KATYA: Hey, guys!

I found a...

...piece of cut wood.

-CRAIG: Oh, yeah. -I found that.

-It's got a nice... -Definitely cut.

...beautiful axe cut on it.

JACK: What's that?

-CRAIG: Is that a board, Jack? -Yeah.

NARRATOR: Axe-cut pieces of wood

and large boards in the northern region of the swamp?

Could the team be finding evidence

of a structure of some kind?

If so, who created it?

And more importantly, for what purpose?

JACK: It looks like

there's more wood popping up as we dig down deeper.

But what does that mean?

I don't know.

CRAIG: Digging on

the very, very north end of the swamp

on Tom's property, uh,

it's proved very productive.

You know, we came up with a lot of stakes

that started veering to the northwest.

What does that mean?

Is there something hiding down below?

This one's a big one.

CRAIG: We're not sure yet,

but we'll keep digging

until we find out for sure what happened here.

KATYA: Hey, Rick.

-Hey. -Hey, Rick.

Hey, Rick.

More swamp, huh?

Yeah.

We started finding some wood

in this depression here.

JACK: This has definitely been

previously dug.

Maybe Fred?

I mean, honestly,

Fred did a lot of work

-during his time here. -CRAIG: Yeah, he did.

Right.

NARRATOR: In 1969,

the late treasure hunter Fred Nolan drained the swamp

and was shocked to find pieces of large sailing vessels

and several uniform lines of wooden survey stakes

that were carbon-dated to the 16th century.

These discoveries made Fred speculate

that the swamp may have been artificially created

to hide multiple caches of valuables.

So, let's see if that stake line continues.

Hopefully there's something else to be found.

CRAIG: Okay.

NARRATOR: Could the nearby empty vault that the team recently found

offer evidence that Fred was correct?

If so, what else might be waiting for them

to uncover in the area?

-JACK: It's another stake. -Look at this. Look at that. -KATYA: Oh,

-my gosh! -Yeah!

Right there.

But the confusing thing is,

it doesn't line up with anything. (chuckles)

JACK: There's got to be good reason behind it.

Well, there might be more through here.

Let's keep pulling,

finding more information, and see

if we can't find a few more.

Okey doke, Al.

This stake was curious because it was out of place.

There's something going on here.

I just don't know what it is.

Maybe there's something else that we have as yet not noticed.

(beeping)

-(loud beep) -KATYA: Hey, guys.

JACK: What is it?

KATYA: What is that?

KATYA: We definitely got something in there.

-(beeping) -There's metal in the wood.

JACK: Oh!

NARRATOR: In the northern region

of the Oak Island swamp,

Rick Lagina, Craig Tester,

and other members of the Oak Island team

have just uncovered more evidence

of mysterious man-made workings.

RICK: How heavy is that?

Mm. About...

maybe 50.

RICK: This is strange.

KATYA: With the lines in it.

RICK: Yeah. That's something different.

Do you think that somebody carved that into the wood?

Or do you think it happened by a natural process?

RICK: That's not natural.

-Look at that. -JACK: Yeah.

Hey, Rick, I'll go ahead and text Ethan.

Have him come down and look at that wood.

RICK: This log is certainly strange and unique.

We have to call in Ethan,

a member of our archaeological team.

He can come down and hopefully render a educated opinion.

Hopefully there are some answers.

-Hey, team. -CRAIG: Hello!

-Hey, Ethan. -Hey.

RICK: So,

we have a very unusual piece.

Okay. Yeah, I'll have a look at it.

CRAIG: There you go.

ETHAN: Well, that is unique.

KATYA: Do you think

someone was trying to make something out of this

-with those lines? -In my opinion,

it looks man-made,

these engravings.

And it's got to have some kind of purpose,

but I would say for grip or something. Like...

Like tread on tires.

Moving something.

JACK: Like as a roller?

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Could Ethan's assessment be correct

that this log may have been used to transport heavy items

into the northern region of the swamp?

If so, what could it have been?

And where is it now?

RICK: It's strange.

There's no other way to put it.

CRAIG: Well, thanks for your input. I'm glad to hear

it's man-manipulated.

We got to figure out what it is yet.

You guys keep on going

and Rick and I got stuff to do and you can head back

-to archaeology, so... -Let's do it.

-RICK: Thank you, Ethan. -CRAIG: See you later. -KATYA: See you.

NARRATOR: Later that morning...

-LEE: Seven-foot plug. -VANESSA: Seven out?

'Kay.

...as the excavation

of RP-2 proceeds in the Money Pit area,

nearly half a mile to the west on Lot 5...

FIONA: This test pit has produced

-a lot of really interesting artifacts. -ETHAN: Yeah.

I'm gonna expose this.

ETHAN: Okay.

...Ethan Green has joined other members of the archaeology team

to continue investigating a mysterious round foundation.

It's an area of-of intrigue.

This should tell us a lot more.

NARRATOR: Located near the shoreline,

this structure has produced a number of fascinating clues

since the team first began uncovering it in 2022.

These include a 14th-century barter token

that may be connected to the Knights Templar,

iron tools, English coins,

and Venetian trade beads

that have been dated to the 17th century.

And even a mortar-like material

that matches soils that have been unearthed

from more than 100 feet deep in the Money Pit area.

These discoveries have led the team to speculate

that this structure may have been occupied

by multiple groups at different time periods

and possibly served as a staging ground

for operations to deposit valuables in the Money Pit.

Even though we still don't have a full explanation,

Lot 5 has yielded some very incredible artifacts.

Some of the materials found

inside the structure or structures on Lot 5 match

materials from at depth in the Money Pit.

Well, that's a pretty direct connection.

Hey!

Check this out.

That's a really nice nail.

ETHAN: That's a cool find.

FIONA: You can see--

it's reasonably corroded but...

not as fully encrusted

-as sometimes you see in the more modern iron. -Mm. Yeah.

FIONA: So that makes me think it's got a bit

of good age to it.

That's big.

That's a really good size.

I would probably put that date at mid-

-to late 1700s, for sure. Yeah. -Awesome.

But something that size, you probably wouldn't just use

for a normal structure. That almost looks like

something you would use for a-a wharf.

Oh, cool.

NARRATOR: A wharf pin?

Found at the round feature near the shoreline on Lot 5?

FIONA: I think we've got more work

-to do here. That's for sure. -Yeah, of course.

NARRATOR: Could it have been related

to the docking of a ship

that brought something of great value

to Oak Island long ago?

Ha. Speak of the devil.

Look at this.

ETHAN: Oh, wow.

(chuckles)

So, that is a piece of Astbury ware.

'Cause you can tell, see, with the combing lines on it

-and the really nice glaze. -Yeah. Wow.

This is probably amongst the older

-of the ceramics that we find in this area. -Wow.

It's in really good shape.

ETHAN: Wow, that is nice.

FIONA: This could give us dates

-of 1740. -Wow.

NARRATOR: Astbury ware is a kind of English-made pottery

that was produced between the 1720s and 1760s.

Could this fragment be another critical clue

of when this feature may have been used

by someone who hid valuables on Oak Island?

-That's a nice piece to find. -Yeah.

-FIONA: Let's find some more. -Perfect.

NARRATOR: As the team continues digging for clues on Lot 5...

CHARLES: That's a nice piece.

That's a handle.

...nearly 500 feet east of the Money Pit,

near Smith's Cove...

That's a cool find.

Great find, Blake.

...Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse

and other members of the team

are searching for artifacts

and potential valuables

in the freshly washed spoils

that have been removed from the RP-2 shaft.

Wow. That's really cool.

We're advancing the caissons.

The material that comes up in the hammer grab

is loaded into a dump truck and taken up to the wash plant.

The use of this machine allows us

to look at the material more effectively.

All eyes are on that conveyor belt,

because you never know what's coming up.

(loud whirring)

RICK: We have to take a look at the material

and go through it in very fine detail.

That's a little better.

So if there's anything in here

from inside the original Money Pit,

we'll find it.

Well, that's the first piece.

Really unique piece that we found.

See the glaze on the inside?

That could've been part of a handle, maybe.

Well, Laird has said

glazing only on one side is older.

-Yeah. -CHARLES: Yeah, it looks like

a piece got broken off of there.

RICK: But that's cool.

CHARLES: And then

this just came off the wash plant right now.

Yeah.

CHARLES: That's a higher status item.

That's pretty cool.

SCOTT: Almost looks like a fleur-de-lis.

Yeah. You're right.

NARRATOR: While examining spoils

that were removed from more than 80 feet deep

in the RP-2 shaft,

the Oak Island team has just recovered

another potentially important clue...

CHARLES: That's a higher status item, you think?

-You would think. -Yeah.

...a piece of pottery with what appears to be

a French symbol known as the fleur-de-lis.

We did find those-- that cap badge

-with the fleur-de-lis on it as well. -We did. Yeah.

You know, little pieces of artifacts tell a story.

We've learned that over and over again from the archeologists.

And this reminds me, with your reference

to the fleur-de-lis,

I think we all recall

in that ship's log,

they were waiting for the Duc d'Anville to arrive.

They reference the 12-foot-diameter shaft.

Oh, that's cool.

NARRATOR: In 2018,

the team found a believed 18th century French military badge

on Lot 21

bearing a fleur-de-lis.

I found eight pages

-of a ship's log. -NARRATOR: And just one year prior to that,

Doug Crowell discovered a portion

of an 18th-century French naval log

in the Nova Scotia Archives

that may help explain

how both the badge and this pottery from RP-2

wound up on Oak Island.

"It has been agreed that a deep pit be dug

and treasure securely buried."

In my mind, there's no doubt that they're

pointing right to Oak Island.

What troubles me is how perfect this is.

NARRATOR: In 1746,

France launched the largest armada to date

in an effort to reclaim Nova Scotia from England.

The fleet was led by the Duc d'Anville,

an admiral from the noble Rochefoucauld family

who had ties to the order of the Knights Templar

-dating back to the 12th century. -(horse neighs)

Unfortunately, due to violent storms

and a wave of disease,

the armada failed in its mission.

However, according to the log uncovered by Doug Crowell,

a second, secret mission to hide a vast treasure

on a wooded island just off the coast of Nova Scotia

reportedly succeeded.

They reference dedicating so many people to a dig,

a tunnel from the cove.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Could Rick's notion be correct?

Might this pottery offer further evidence

that the ship's log, which was connected

to the Duc d'Anville, was describing

a buried treasure in the Oak Island Money Pit?

If so, might the team

soon recover it in the RP-2 shaft?

There are clues and they...

sometimes the clues can be put together.

Maybe, just maybe this pottery

with a possible fleur-de-lis is an important clue

regarding the Duc D'Anville expedition.

I applaud everyone for finding that,

especially you, Charles, and Scott,

I really thank you, guys, for doing that.

You never know what you're gonna find on that,

on that belt, right?

I mean, it just goes to show you right there.

Kudos to you.

Let's take them back and see

if we can't get some idea of what they represent.

-Good job, Charles. -Okay.

CHARLES: Thanks, guys.

NARRATOR: Later that evening...

VANESSA: All right. So we're making progress.

And the dig is at 96.

96? We're getting there.

NARRATOR: ...as the sun begins its decent,

Rick, Marty and members of the team monitor

the excavation of the RP-2 shaft

as it continues towards a target depth of 118 feet.

VANESSA: Oh, wow.

This is more of what you're looking for here, Rick.

That's a hewn beam there.

MARTY: Let's go get it, Rick.

I got it.

-Where to? -Up by Terry.

♪ ♪

MARTY: Boy, that is nice work, eh? Look at that.

RICK: Beautiful workmanship.

MARTY: It doesn't necessarily look like spruce, either, does it?

RICK: It's heavy. I don't know.

MARTY: They look like pin knots, which is more like oak.

RICK: I wonder if that's from the original Money Pit.

Yeah, agreed.

NARRATOR: A hand-cut timber?

Possibly made of oak

and recovered at a depth of nearly 100 feet in RP-2?

When searchers excavated the original Money Pit

more than two centuries ago,

they reported finding platforms of oak logs

buried at ten-foot intervals

down to a depth of at least 90 feet.

Is it possible that the Oak Island team has

recovered part of the original Money Pit in RP-2?

If so, could that mean

that they are also close to breaching the Shaft Six tunnel

and finding the treasure that is believed

to now lie scattered inside of it?

The narrative said they were oak logs.

We don't see much oak in the rest of these spoils.

Is it possible that it is

indicative of the original story?

It's possible.

Surely, there must be something

in the original Money Pit that survives.

This may be that very proof.

We may be close.

-Hey, Vanessa. -All right, guys.

We are done for the day,

but the exciting news is

we are ending the day right before your target zone,

'cause I don't want to start that area

and then be stuck here in the dark.

So tomorrow morning we're gonna find treasure.

You're killing me now.

I'm sorry.

-Where are we? -Uh, we are at 100 with the dig

and 107 with the casing teeth.

RICK: Tomorrow's the day.

All right.

MARTY: It's frustrating that the day has come to a close.

But I'm excited for tomorrow.

You know, we always say,

"Tomorrow's the day, tomorrow's the day."

Tomorrow we almost certainly will be able

to deepen into the zone of interest

and maybe find some treasure.

So, it's, it's an exciting, anticipatory moment.

We saw wood, possibly, from a collapse above.

So the narrative fits.

The question that lingers, of course, is

was there something in that collapse?

Was there really treasure above them?

I believe there was

and I believe tomorrow we'll find it.

So thanks for making us wait tonight.

It's like Christmas morning.

-You guys are gonna be so excited. -Okay. All right.

MARTY: I'm gonna look at it that way.

-All right. See you tomorrow. -Thanks, Vanessa.

MARTY: Okay, Vanessa. Thanks.

NARRATOR: As a new day begins on Oak Island...

JARED: We're good.

NARRATOR: ...and as the excavation

of the RP-2 shaft closes in on a target depth

of 118 feet in the Money Pit area...

-JACK: Let her rip, Al! -Okay.

I'm gonna get out of his way.

NARRATOR: ...Tom Nolan and members of the team continue

looking for clues

where they have marked new possible sections

of the cobblestone pathway

with staked flags

in the northern region of the swamp.

Th stakes should still be in line.

There should be some right here, but not over there.

We're getting close to where

we just might take up a stake, so...

I agree.

NARRATOR: And joining them

for the last time this year

before she returns home to Florida

is Gary Drayton's daughter, Katya.

GARY: Katya, I told the guys

you were gonna come to Oak Island

and kick treasure hunting butt,

and that's exactly what you did.

Thank you for making your old dad proud.

Stake! Got a stake.

What?

Geez, look at that.

We got a stake.

JACK: Looks like eight cuts to me.

TOM: Yeah.

RICK: There is intelligent design here.

There was a reason these stakes were put in.

I think there is some possible association that they were part

of a construction of a path through a wetland area.

The treasure may have moved through this path.

So it's very interesting and quite exciting.

TOM: Where do you think it came from, Al?

Just over there where Jack is.

All right. This is where it's gonna live, then.

-Right here. -Good.

JACK: It feels right in line.

TOM: You know, if you look at the spacing

between these two,

and you look at the spacing between those two,

it's almost perfect.

JACK: It definitely was put here for a reason.

Yeah.

Why don't we take the distance

we've got from that one

to this one

and project it forward?

And just see if it gives us a, a target zone.

-That's a great idea. -TOM: Okay.

-JACK: Got a tape measure on you? -TOM: I do.

-Okay. -What's it read?

That is 14 feet. Bang on.

-Let's try these two. -Okay.

What's that distance?

-TOM: 14 feet exactly. -JACK: Again?

TOM: Yeah.

Okay, so should we measure back...

-Yeah, let's-- -...and try to extend the line?

TOM: Let's go ahead 14 feet and just see if we find one.

-Tell me when. -Keep going, keep going.

Going. Right there.

-Right here? -TOM: Yeah.

Al, this is where we think there might be a stake.

ANDREWS: Okay. We'll keep a watch for that.

TOM: The whole system of stakes

we've found in the swamp over the years

has all been based on measurement and positioning.

It shows a level of engineering, putting this together.

To that end,

I think we may be heading for something.

♪ ♪

-(detector beeps) -What's that?

What is it?

A piece of wood.

Could that be a pin to something?

TOM: It's hard to say.

-It's cut. -That's really strange.

I would say it is.

-How are you, Rick? -Hello, young lady. How are you?

-KATYA: Good. -Here. -RICK: Hey, guys.

Look at what Tom just found.

-RICK: That's very interesting. -It was pretty shallow.

I will say this, you've done a lot more work,

so what have you found?

-We found another stake. -RICK: Really?

Oh, right there.

Yeah. And when we took a measurement,

they were spaced

-exactly 14 feet. -RICK: Really?

-TOM: Yeah. -RICK: Very interesting.

Let's go see if we can't find another one.

Awesome.

Tom has said many times,

they did exhaustive work in the swamp

and these structures are coming up

that we had no clue about.

It speaks to the possibility

that there could be more hidden vaults

in the swamp, which we have yet to find.

But there's probably

at least as many things as we have discovered

that remain to be discovered.

Okay. Well, Katya, I know you have to leave.

I applaud, obviously, the work you've done.

It's incredibly interesting.

I mean, you think about it, right?

When you first started here,

none of this was done.

And so I speak for everybody, you've done a tremendous job.

We're grateful that you came and you're always welcome here.

Thank you.

KATYA: I've met

the most amazing people since I've gotten here

who have been nothing but welcoming,

and they've all really showed me the ropes.

And I cannot wait to come back and help find the treasure.

-I've got to run to the Money Pit. -Okay.

Keep pulling through here and see what you get.

That's where we're going.

RICK: All right. See you, guys.

-JACK: We're gonna miss you, Katya. -KATYA: Thank you.

NARRATOR: Before heading back to the Money Pit area...

RICK: Well, I'm glad some of us could gather here today

because C-14 test results are always very interesting.

NARRATOR: ...Rick has gathered members of the Oak Island team

in the war room.

We do have an artifact here.

We've all looked at it.

It's definitely a dowel, hand-shaped.

NARRATOR: They are eager to learn the results

of a C-14 test

that has just been completed on a wooden dowel

found one week ago at a depth of some 60 feet

in the RP-2 shaft.

Dr. Spooner is here to explain the results to us.

IAN: Yeah. Let's get right to the data.

I'm gonna pass this on.

We've got, uh, 44% 1725 to 1764.

The most probable time period is

right before discovery of the Money Pit.

RICK: Wow.

JACK: The most probable time period is

right before discovery of the Money Pit.

Yeah. I think this is a very important piece of wood.

NARRATOR: It is an exciting moment for the Oak Island team.

Might be an original piece of the Money Pit right there.

NARRATOR: According to carbon-14 testing,

the wooden dowel that was recently discovered

in the RP-2 shaft may have been part of the original Money Pit.

But more importantly, it could also mean

that the team is on-target to recover the treasure

that people have been seeking for more than two centuries.

To me, what's super cool about this is it's also

the same time we're getting for some

of the Lot 5 artifacts.

So that's very interesting.

All the theories are still in play.

I mean, maybe Duc D'Anville was here

and deposited something.

MARTY: These dates are interesting.

It could support the Duc D'Anville,

the French treasure.

We have a lot of dates around 1750,

let's just call it.

You add up all this data we've uncovered

and all the historical record

and that would have to be

somebody who deposited something here.

So we don't know yet, but we can find out.

To me, this mystery is

encapsulated within who, what, when, where, why and how.

There will be a moment

the who, what, when, where, why and how of it will be told.

So you've just got to be patient and, uh, stay the course.

We have more work to do, so I think we need

to get out of here and go do it.

-Thank you, Dr. Spooner. -IAN: Yep.

NARRATOR: Following the meeting in the war room...

-MARTY: Do we have some excitement level here? -ALEX: Hey.

-We are. We're ready. -It's coming. It's building.

Let's go.

NARRATOR:...Rick has joined his brother Marty

and other members of the Oak Island team

in the Money Pit area,

after receiving word

that the RP-2 caisson has reached a depth

of 105 feet below ground...

just 13 feet from where they hope

to intercept the Shaft Six tunnel.

I see no reason not to have a lot of hope today

because nothing we see suggests in any way, shape or form

that the narrative is not correct.

Okay. Who's in?

-I'm in. -I'm in.

-Got a shovel. -GARY: Yeah.

-TERRY: We're all in. -MARTY: Everybody's in.

RICK: We're getting close to the tunnel.

It's somewhere between 112 and 120, certainly.

GARY: Ooh, that looks like an old timber, doesn't it?

Some big pieces.

RICK: But for right now,

I'm short of that one thing that proves the treasure is real

and that one thing is everything to me.

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TERRY: Oh, wow. Look at that.

RICK: That's great.

MARTY: What's that? A big piece of wood?

It's adze-cut.

NARRATOR: Adze-cut wood?

An adze is an ancient cutting tool

that was long used in construction

until mechanized saws were invented

during the late 18th century.

If this timber was indeed shaped with an adze,

could it--

just like the previously found wooden dowel--

have come from the original Money Pit?

GARY: Oh, look at that.

Look at that.

-ALEX: Yeah. -See the line on the edge?

ALEX: Yeah. Like a barrel.

Think it might be a barrel?

-Yeah. -That is a barrel.

-ALEX: Yeah. -A barrel, a barrel stave.

-TERRY: That's a barrel. -GARY: Yeah.

TERRY: Rick, that looks like a barrel stave.

RICK: Yeah. Wow.

Wasn't there like a top of a keg

that they grabbed out of the original Money Pit?

-RICK: Yeah. -TERRY: Absolutely.

NARRATOR: During the catastrophic collapse

of the original Money Pit in 1861,

which is believed to have left a debris field of wood

and scattered treasure in the Shaft Six tunnel,

a worker recovered the top of a wooden keg,

or barrel, just before escaping with his life.

This has led many to speculate that,

in addition to the two stacked chests,

the Money Pit may have also contained barrels

full of possible valuables.

Well, that's pretty cool.

-TERRY: Absolutely. -Pretty bloody cool.

Yeah. That fits the narrative perfectly.

Yeah. It wasn't just food and water in barrels.

They used to put coins in barrels.

Yeah. This is good.

-Yeah. -This is real good.

NARRATOR: Could this barrel stave be a critical clue

that the team has once again reached the Shaft Six tunnel

and may soon make a historic, breakthrough discovery?

RICK: There's no question that kegs were used

in the Money Pit. Now, to what end?

It is a clue that we are close to finding the one thing.

LEE: Cutting through something hard.

JARED: You're in something hard?

LEE: It jumped from 130 to 160.

The pressures on the oscillators just changed.

We're about at 116 feet with the casing teeth.

Pressure is going up. What does that mean?

Well, they're cutting into something harder.

So it could be something we don't know anything about.

Yeah. Iron's hard. It could be an iron box

full of gold coins.

You never know.

It could be an iron box full of gold coins.

-You never know. -RICK: You never know.

It sure would be nice to hold something.

GARY: Yeah.

NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,

upon reaching a depth of some 116 feet

in the RP-2 shaft,

a hard object, or obstruction, has just been encountered

in the Shaft Six tunnel.

GARY: Here we go, Rick. Going in.

NARRATOR: The question now is,

could it be something of great importance or value?

MARTY: Well, that's looking like the bottom.

GARY: Yeah.

Wow, there's nothing in here, this is quiet.

Ugh.

GARY: I think we've come to the end of the line.

RICK: That stuff's so thick.

It's starting to get into... in situ stuff.

TERRY: Definitely there's more in situ.

No big chunks that you'd find laying on the bottom.

No.

Unfortunately, looks like we're getting out of her.

Where's the coinage?

Well, it's certainly not here.

No. It looks like it's petering out.

Forget me, it's all about Gary.

You know, if he's not finding it.

-Yep. -TERRY: As far as, uh, geology, yeah,

-we're getting into in situ. -RICK: Yeah.

-And we're done, I think. -TERRY: Yeah, we are.

NARRATOR: The recovery of "in situ" soils is a troubling development.

It likely means that the obstruction in RP-2 was

merely the bottom of the Shaft Six tunnel

and the team is now digging

through undisturbed earth below their target area.

VANESSA: I did tell Rick earlier

that we thought you were cutting through wood and your pressures,

and then you said the pressures changed again.

So, can you get him up to speed?

LEE: I was cutting about 120, 130,

-which is pretty low. -VANESSA: So, you think you're through the wood?

Yeah, I think we're through.

-This is just hard, hard material. -Yeah.

It's dry. It doesn't-- the teeth don't like that.

RICK: Yeah. I just think we're in situ soil at this point.

So I think we have to call it.

Yeah.

There's no question at this point that we're on Shaft Six.

Now, what we need to do is properly locate the next can

over the tunnel, and at that point,

there either is something or there isn't.

Okay. All right, so we got one more shot at this area.

Right. You can't give up.

-You just can't give up. -No. I'm not giving up.

-All righty. -Okay. All right.

Next one.

Thank you, John.

RICK: What we found in RP-1 convinced me,

certainly, and I think all of us,

that a significant collapse had happened.

In RP-2, we found evidence of different constructs.

It was impactful.

The keg, the barrel stave was found.

It raised the expectations through the roof.

Unfortunately, they weren't born out.

We have high hopes with the next can location.

You hitch up your boots, you get stuck in--

as Gary calls it-- and you move forward.

So I am the bearer of bad news, but I'm also the bearer

of potentially fantastic news.

Okay. You said fantastic news.

-TERRY: Yeah. -RICK: Fantastic news. -Okay.

-From my perspective. -Yeah. (laughs)

Okay.

The bad news is, unfortunately, we're done here.

But for me, we proved the narrative.

I don't see any way to argue that.

It's what you always say, right?

-Let's put an X through something. -Okay.

Let's put an X through Shaft Six.

So I'm gonna hazard a guess you want to have

-one more go at this? -I do.

I want us to set up over the tunnel.

-It's imperative. -Okay. Anybody disagree?

Nope.

We just missed it.

(laughing)

MARTY: The obvious conclusion is we're not done.

If RP-2 partway down the tunnel has evidence

of original Money Pit things, but no treasure,

perhaps if we get just one stage closer

between Shaft Six and the Money Pit,

we might find something.

And that's what Rick wants to do

and I'm completely on board.

-Hi, guys. -ALEX: Vanessa.

-TERRY: Hey, how you doing? -VANESSA: Good, good.

We'll get this caisson pulled back out of the ground

and get ready to drill the next one.

Thanks to the team for all the hard work, please.

I will. For sure.

-All right. Thank you, guys. -Thank you.

NARRATOR: Despite the crushing end

to their second attempt at recovering valuables

in the Shaft Six tunnel,

Rick, Marty, Craig and their fellowship have

multiple reasons to remain hopeful.

They found not only more compelling evidence

of the original Money Pit

but also the potential remains of a barrel

that may have once contained part

of the fabled Oak Island treasure.

So now, as they carefully calculate their next target,

perhaps one more dig will finally solve

this 230-year-old mystery.

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