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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.
All right, well, this is the neighborhood, guys. I mean, this is
Central. There's multiple evidence of something happening here long ago.
Hopefully there's some old gold and silver.
Look at that.
We've got a stone structure here. Somebody piled those stones.
So somebody put this here. Somebody went into some trouble.
It could be a 1500 hand cannon.
You were right, Gary.
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
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.
Terry, bring me up to speed, buddy.
Where are we?
Okay, we're on G4 .5. Right now we're down 168 feet below break.
Seems he's dropping in there quite well.
Yeah, okay.
A new day of excitement and exploration has begun on Oak Island for brothers
Rick and Marty Lagina and their team.
As far as our activities in the solution channel, we're just getting started. We
got 168 all the way to 215 in this one, Steve? 212, maybe. 212 at the bottom of
here. Yeah, okay.
Today, they are drilling a new borehole called G4 .5 on their strategic grid in
the Money Pit area.
The team believes the treasure could have fallen deep below ground here into
water and mud -filled cavern known as the solution channel.
There was great treasure in the money pit, and there still is a great treasure
in the money pit.
The clues are that there have been collapses in the past, and it fell down
the solution channel.
I am more optimistic than ever that we are going to find it.
All right, well, this is the neighborhood, guys. Yeah.
If there was ever anything in the money pit, and I'm becoming a believer that
there was. With the Pit Blado coin.
Yeah.
The team was recently presented with a 14th century silver Portuguese coin,
possibly connected to a branch of the Knights Templar, and reportedly found in
the money pit by drilling foreman James Pitt Blato in 1849.
Now the team hopes to find many more of these coins as they drill in this area.
You've made significant discoveries island wide, but it's the treasure
that has made this mystery endure for 230 years.
We're all here because we're solely dedicated to solving the mystery of that
Oak Island.
I want to know that last page on the Reader's Digest article. I want to know
what happened here. What is the story?
We're on track right now to get down into the zone of interest.
Yeah. And how stoopy is it so far? Because you know what I'm looking for.
there's density here.
There's a little bit of water, but basically there's more rock and rubble
there is water.
We could get into better stuff.
Oh, no question about it. We're just getting started.
Okay. I want to find where it's as unconsolidated as can be, where
easily, you can picture it falling right in there.
Yeah. Well, from the human heart, hope springs eternal.
And it's springing right now for mine.
I mean, this thing should open up. We'll see in this next one. Hopefully we'll
get into that slushy zone.
Okay. Now we wait.
Treasure central right here.
As the drilling operation continues in the Money Pit area.
You know, I'm always happy to be back in the lab because we learn so much here.
But particularly invested in this one because the item before us, Billy, Gary,
and myself, we found that.
And we found it in one of my most favorite places, the swamp.
Rick Lagina and other members of the team join Laird Niven and Emma Culligan
the Oak Island lab.
We found the item before us in a very interesting place, right across from the
paved area.
So I look forward to learning more about it.
Emma and Laird have just finished analyzing a possible fragment of a
found one week ago on the western side of the swamp.
Just a few yards from a paved stone feature uncovered back in 2019, and that
team believes is up to 800 years old.
When it first came out, I'm thinking some kind of weight, and then when it
started drying out and you see the weight taper down, I'm hoping it's some
of weapon.
Well... It was presented to us as a hand cannon, I guess, which is a precursor
to flintlocks and matchlocks and wheel locks.
That's going to make it pretty old, is it not? It could if that's what it is.
Right.
Dating back to as early as the 12th century, the hand cannon, or hand gun,
invented in China and is considered to be the world's first true firearm.
By the 14th century, variations on the weapon were developed in the Middle East
and Europe until they were replaced by flintlock hand muskets and other
in the 15th century.
Maybe we talk about the metallurgy first.
Sure. Okay.
So it's always hard to get a swamp artifact -based metal because of all the
minerals that kind of really mold with or just embed itself with the iron or
corrosion.
But I did get a few good points.
And from that composition, it's looking fairly clean. Like, I'm not seeing a
wide range of impurities.
I am seeing a natural spike in sulfur content.
And that's a good sign of, you know, 1700s or older. Because of the minimum
impurities, like, it's not forged in a modern glass furnace. And could be
European in origin.
Yeah. And we should add that by the 1500s, those are going out of fashion.
Is it possible that this hand cannon predates the discovery of the money pit
more than a century?
If so, just how old could it be?
And who left it here?
Is there a touch hole in that?
So I've done a CT scan.
This thing right here.
Oh, that's a touch -o.
You're talking about this little hole here?
Yeah, exactly.
A hand cannon had just a little touch hole where you would touch it to set
off the gunpowder inside, and then your projectile would fly out.
So it's an unusual artifact found in a very unusual area.
That's gorgeous from there.
I'll tell you, I've never been so appreciative of the CT scanner as I am
now, in this moment. That is really cool.
You were right, Gary.
This is something for a firearms expert to weigh in on.
So what other secrets are in the bog? I don't know. But right now, we're nowhere
near done.
I look forward to what else we can learn about it.
And I'm sure your brother's going to be happy we're spending more time in the
swamp, especially now.
A major find, Gary.
Yep. We should aim to find more.
I'm gunning for it.
All right, Gary, let's find some treasure.
Here we go.
I'll wait until you take a few scoops out.
Okay.
Following their meeting in the lab, Gary and Billy return to the western region
of the swamp, along with Derek Couch, to search for additional clues.
It takes us one good find, Derek.
One good find.
One thing.
Whenever
we've
searched in the swamp...
We have come away with some really, really cool old artifacts, but one side
the swamp we haven't investigated a lot is the western side.
Unfortunately, no, it's dirt.
Darn.
We're going to have a really good scan around the area, and hopefully we can
clear a good find today.
I hear a big rock.
Come on, Billy. Bring me a bucket of treasure.
Hey, Gary.
What have you seen, Billy?
Look at that!
What have you seen, Billy?
Is this a steak or a stick?
It looks like it could be a steak.
On the western side of the Oak Island Swamp.
There you go.
The team has just uncovered new evidence of man -made workings.
Look, there's a log here.
Yeah. Can you try that?
Yeah.
That's in there deep.
Do you want to try scooping it? I'll try it straight back there a little bit,
maybe. Because it's in there.
That's it, look.
There's our piece.
It was on top of the clay.
Yeah, it's on top of the clay, and it looks like it's peeled, right?
The bark is peeled off of it. The two ends are cut, and the limbs are cut off
it, so somebody might have laid it in there for something.
Yep. It actually looks like it could be a road, because there's a lot of cut
wood here, and there's a lot of rocks underneath it in the clay.
Yeah. This is like a corduroy road.
Yeah. A possible corduroy road?
First designed in Europe during the 11th century, a corduroy road consists of
logs that are placed tightly together and used to transport wagons and heavy
cargo across marshy environments.
We know that these logs were laid that way, so someone is coming this
way into the swamp.
Right.
If Gary is correct that this feature is a corduroy road, just who constructed
it, when, and what could they have been moving into the swamp?
We found survey stakes.
We found the stone road. We found part of the stone path on the edge of the
We have the so -called vault.
There's more rocks here, too, right?
Yeah. Perhaps we should follow this new road. My hope is that there's another
vault. like structure.
Oh, yeah, what is that?
Coal.
Yeah, we found some coal.
Now, this is interesting because the last time we found coal, it was on that
Portuguese stone road on the other side of the swamp.
I'm pretty sure he found some in the stone path too, yeah.
Is it possible that the team has found another clue that might be connected to
the stone road uncovered in the southeastern corner of the swamp, and
be of Portuguese origin?
Rick was interested if we find some coal, because we'd be duplicating what
happened across the other side of the swamp.
Okay, yep. It was just here.
Let me see if I can find some more.
That's a big piece.
Yep. We got some good samples. Yeah.
We got that right, mate.
Be interested to see if that's coal or charcoal.
As the search in the swamp continues, several hundred yards to the west on Lot
5.
What's this exciting thing there? Well, it's kind of an unusual rock feature.
And it appears initially to be circular.
It is for sure. Yeah.
Marty joins other team members as they investigate a strange stone feature
one week ago.
A feature located in the same area where six ancient Roman coins were discovered
in recent years.
It could be any number of things.
Yeah. Okay, well, we've seen things like this turn into something very
important. Yeah. I hope this one does. Yeah. Well, I think the first order of
business is to... Clean off the sod and delineate it a little bit more.
All right, well, let's get after him. Give me a trowel. Let's go.
All right.
There you go.
Even though doing archaeology is not my strong suit, nor is it something I
particularly enjoy.
There you go.
I'm starting to get intrigued.
We have found Roman coins near it.
So finding any construction where we found the Roman coins, almost by
definition, is going to be interesting.
We have here a bunch of little rocks, pointy little rocks. What is that
you? To me, that's not field clearing.
If you're a farmer, you're not doing that.
They're not plowing that up.
That's way too angular. Yeah.
We've got this cleaned off, so we're ready to remove rocks.
Excellent.
It's really amazing for me to think about when I first saw Lot 5 so many
ago and seeing what it's evolved into right now. Not only how large and
the stone structure is, but how unusual a lot of the artifacts we're finding
are, like the beads and the buttons.
It's turned into something mysterious and amazing to us.
That's all one rock?
Yeah.
That's not moving by hand, is it? No, not even close.
And it needs to go?
I think it'd be interesting.
The soil's covering it, I found odd.
Okay, well, I'll go grab the backhoe and see if I can find a way in here. Okay.
Okay, good.
The rocks are fragmented. They look like they were put in there intentionally to
keep this feature very stable.
It's going to be a tight fit.
When I first saw this feature, I found it very unusual.
Because there's a split stone sitting upright.
It's pretty big. It's lifting the other one up.
I haven't seen anything like the split stone anywhere else on the island, so to
me the only explanation is that it's for marking something or for reference.
And it's just adding another intriguing page to the story of Lot 5.
Okay, and it's out.
We'll have to come in with trowels and just clean it up.
Boy, these are jumbled up, pointy rocks.
Yep, yep. Like Lot 26.
Very similar to the wall, isn't it? Yeah.
Which is pretty cool.
All very odd.
Hand -cut rocks, similar to those found in the rock wall on Lot 26?
It's an intriguing observation for several reasons.
First, the wall on Lot 26, located several hundred yards to the southeast,
much larger than the numerous other stone walls across the island that were
constructed by farmers and settlers after the discovery of the money pit.
Second, Carbon dating of charcoal found in the wall on Lodge 26 suggests it was
constructed as early as the 15th century.
The rock wall.
And third, according to researcher Francisco Nogueira, the wall may have a
distinct European origin.
This wall appears to be created in the old Portuguese style of building rock
fences.
No way.
So somebody put this here. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Is it possible that the same people constructed these two features?
It's worth continuing with our little investigation, and it could have been
there for a reason. Yep. All right, let's get back after it.
Okay.
As a new morning begins on Oak Island.
In this conclusion, someone dug a hole.
propped that rock up in it, and then filled it in with smaller rocks.
Well, Laird and Marty are joined by Rick and other members of the team to
continue investigating the strange boulder and stone feature on Lot 5.
So for some reason, they needed that showing.
If you look at the rocks themselves... It's that same kind of rubble that was
the wall in Lot 26 that was dated to 1474 by charcoal.
Somebody went to some trouble. Yeah.
What is the orientation?
Really close to east -west.
Isn't the Lot 5 circular feature east -west?
Yeah.
The long axis.
And if you know Templar Freemasonry, it's always east -west. Everything is
oriented east -west. The orientation of...
The building, the structure, had importance to them on these trips to
beyond.
Every building we've encountered, every structure that was Templar -influenced,
Templar -built, was oriented east -west.
And Laird is saying that this stone face is oriented east -west.
I find that to be quite remarkable, exceedingly interesting.
Hey, guys.
Hey. Gotcha.
Terry, how are you?
Oh,
and he's got his pick with him. He's got his hammer.
All right, Terry, we've got questions.
Number one is, what do you make of that?
Well, something's going on here. I would say that somebody piled those domes.
That's pretty clear, right? Pretty clear.
That was flipped up, and then they ringed it with rocks.
I would say, yeah.
They've put that up against the other. We've got a stone structure here.
Did you take measurements here, Larry?
Yeah, it's six feet in diameter.
Yeah. Six feet is 72 inches.
Right. And we know the rule of 72 goes back into antiquity.
Nolan's cross is based on the rule of 72.
That's true.
If we remember when John Edwards gave his presentation, he represented that...
The Templars used the rule of 72.
Yeah.
The way to unlock Nolan's cross is built into the cross itself.
In 2023,
researcher John Edwards presented the team with a potential link between the
order of the Knights Templar and the design of Nolan's cross.
When you go and look at the two arms of the cross, it's 720.
Everything was divisible by 70.
Numbers used have to be of significance to whoever built Nolan's Cross.
And I'm suggesting it might be the Templars because they used the Latin
72. The Latin rule, which is also known as specific behavior for the Templar
order, was written in the early 12th century by Hugues de Pan and Bernard of
Clairvaux, two of the founding members of the Templar order.
The document contained a set.
of 72 directives that all templar knights were sworn to live by and
john edwards research revealed that the symbolic number of 72 was incorporated
into the designs of numerous templar related structures all across medieval
europe so the fact that it is six feet in diameter it might mean something it
might be meaningful could rick be correct that this feature and nolan's
represent further evidence of a templar connection to the oak island mystery
there was a purpose here an intelligent design i'm also thinking how many more
of these are around imagine that another puzzle yeah i think what we'll do is
we'll clean out this side a little more and then we'll clean off the rest right
on What we should do is have Steve come out, take a line.
I'm quite fascinated with the possibility of numerical relationships
this and other stone features on the island.
And to be honest, the only way to find out is to do it. Correct. Right? Yep.
Okey -doke. We'll get on to other things. All right. See you later.
As Laird continues uncovering the new stone feature on Lot 5.
I brought a lot of bags, mate. I'm expecting a good day for our artifacts.
we go.
It's stuck in.
Over on the western edge of the swamp, Gary, Billy, and Derek search for more
clues.
That's a little surface nail.
Oh, it's beginning to begin again.
right there you can see the odd play in the rock okay
i'll have a detect it's in there
that's a little bit stronger
just there please
There you go, mate. Give it some welly.
Something between a rock and an hard place.
This looks like it's deeper down, Derek.
This has got a chance of being older.
He's still in there.
How about to witness a little bit of Oak Island history, Derek?
I'll try to pinpoint it.
It is that.
The heck is that?
The heck is it?
Yeah, it's heavy.
While searching near the log roadway on the western side of the swamp, members
of the Oak Island team have just found another mysterious artifact.
A lot of times when we find old iron like this, and it's really heavy for its
size, it turns out to be older iron.
I have no idea what it is, Billy.
You know, it doesn't just look like a piece of flag metal either. You know,
you've got the sharp angles cut there, right? Like, it's a something. Yeah,
made on purpose like that.
That's good. We've got some old iron coming up.
Yep. Hopefully there's some old...
Gold and silver.
Yep. I'll put that in the bag.
Anytime you find an artifact on Oak Island, it always has more of a story to
tell. See?
If there's anything else, there's a lot of iron around it. And we've previously
recovered really good artifacts in the swamp. Hopefully, we can find some more.
Some small.
Yeah.
Talk about a needle in a clay step.
We ain't missing nothing, Derek. No, definitely not. Yeah.
I know it's only a little iron needle, but it can tell a story.
Oh, put that in the bag?
See you guys.
All right, chaps.
What on earth are you guys doing here?
We are digging the heck out of this area.
And? We've got a couple of interesting pieces of iron.
I'll show you.
What do you think of them, Derek?
This one needled him a little bit. Wow.
That is a needle, isn't it? Yeah.
Little iron needle.
Wait a minute, let me see it. Look how little that is.
Boy, it shows again how good you are at finding stuff.
You've got to be kidding.
I don't know. It almost looks like it has a patina to it. The other one, I
know what to think about.
Now, this was great because it was deep down there. We had to dig it out, and
it's nice and heavy.
That is heavy.
That's cool. You generally have an idea.
You know what? The more I look at it, to me it looks like an old iron buckle,
and that's just one end of it.
That little area there could come out. These two ends.
That'd be a big buckle. Yeah, it'd be a big buckle. Could be of boxes.
Could Gary be correct that he has found an iron buckle that may have once been
attached to a large chest?
If so, was it possibly related to some kind of valuable cargo?
And could it also help explain why the nearby Corduroy Road was constructed?
Well, I've always been a swamp skeptic. I said for years that one of the best
ways to hide a treasure would be to flood it.
And flooding it in a, you know, swamp -like condition would be ideal because
there would be absolutely no trace if you did it. So, yeah, it's possible that
what we seek is in that swamp. Absolutely possible.
Well, it has Emma written all over it, doesn't it? Oh, yeah.
Probably a really old piece of iron. Yeah, you know what I'm going to say.
Yeah, that's good, but find some more.
Well, keep going. There's no stone unturned. There you go.
As Gary, Billy, and Derek search for more evidence of treasure in the swamp.
Later that afternoon.
Okay, we've got a court coming, guys. Here we go. It's perfect timing because
Big Brother just showed up.
Rick joins Marty and other members of the team in the Money Pit area.
Well, let's make a good recovery or he wouldn't need that.
At the drilling operation in borehole G4 .5 approaches the bottom of the
solution channel.
That's 208, Terry.
208? We hit the bottom at 206.
206 and 208 is the bottom. All right.
All right.
G4 .5 is about to tell us everything it's got to say.
There you go.
Unfortunately, it's got quite a lot of solid material in amongst the water.
This is not the loose material we're looking for.
Sadly, nothing to write home about in particular, I guess.
Who's got the pinpointer? Inside the box there.
We're going to have to get it on that table.
Pull it over. Let's go.
Pull it back.
Nothing. Nope. Nope.
We were hoping for a home run.
By that I mean we would come up with a coin or something and say, oh, there it
is. There's where the treasure is.
Anything?
No. No luck.
Sorry, Rick.
No joy.
But I really like this. I called it Treasure Central. I am disappointed
Yeah.
I'm frustrated.
We were very hopeful that the Corps would retrieve something man -made from
those steps.
It's very troubling, and I wonder if maybe it's gone, maybe it's...
lost forever.
I mean, that's possible.
At this point, we don't know. The fact that we didn't bullseye the target yet,
is that disappointing?
Yes. I don't know what the next ones are. They're all still in and around
Right, absolutely.
And I mean, we're not done yet. We have to find the void.
Nothing fell into this.
For right now, that's the general bottom in this area.
Okay, on to the next one. Okay.
At the start of a new day on Oak Island, members of the team begin drilling a
new borehole in the Money Pit area to continue exploring the murky depths of
Solution Channel.
As new ground is broken, Marty finds his brother more than 500 feet away at
Smith's Cove.
Hey, hey, you're looking a little pensive.
Yeah, a little bit.
I happened to come down to Smith's Cove, and I see Rick sitting there kind of
looking out over the water. He's looking discouraged.
We were hoping that we'd get a sliver of a coin or a fraction of a piece of gold
or something that would absolutely pinpoint where we needed to go.
Well, we didn't.
It's nice to take a deep breath once in a while, isn't it? Mm -hmm.
Are you disappointed a little bit about the results so far in the drilling in
the solution channel?
Were you disappointed? Yeah, I'm disappointed because I wanted to put,
something of supreme monetary value on the table. But I think the theory makes
sense. I think it really makes sense. You know, the early guys find a vault at
90 feet.
And then everything collapses down a little bit. You know, all kinds of
happen. Then we know that things fell again. And we know the money pit
violently. So it would answer everything.
Yeah. So I'm probably more hopeful than I've ever been because I got something
in mind that would explain everything.
The purpose of the deep drilling this year was really come up with a piece of
treasure. But the second part was to define the solution channel to figure
where it is big enough and open enough for this collapse to have occurred.
The second component is coming in nicely. We're defining that thing pretty
We have a theory that makes sense and is still supported completely by the
science that there are precious metals still in the money pit area.
Couple those two things together, and it's still pretty exciting.
You know, I've always believed in a story here, certainly.
And I think every year we prove that it's probably more complex and more
difficult than we had imagined. That's for sure.
When you get depressed.
Don't. You'd have to say, who gets to do this?
Exactly. Who gets to take hold of a great treasure story and run with it?
Oh, absolutely.
A couple of youpers trying to do kind of a cool thing. Yeah.
I'll be honest. Marty is right. We are absolutely committed to defining the
Solution Channel as best we can. My hope is that something can be retrieved in
the near term that, say, You know, here we are.
Come get us. But for right now, I think we should be patient.
Man, we've been so blessed with the people we've met, the things we've
experienced, the things we've done. I mean, I couldn't, the last years, these
last years, I couldn't have asked for anything better. I really couldn't have.
It's been an unbelievable quest to decipher what the hell happened here.
Sempre avanti.
Let's go. Ain't gonna find itself.
Later that morning... Good morning, Matthew.
Hello, sir.
Rick, Marty, and other members of the team meet via videoconference with
military historian Matthew Balzad to discuss the possible piece of a hand
recovered in the swamp.
We very much look forward to your analysis of the item that has been found
and I believe you have the report in front of you that we have done here on
island. Yes.
Hey, Matthew. Hi. How are you? Good.
In 2024,
Rick and members of the team met Matthew in Malta while researching potential
ties between Templar -related orders and the Oak Island mystery.
and were stunned by his assessment of a pickaxe that they found deep in the
Money Pit area.
This was employed in Malta for centuries.
Wow.
Now, given Laird and Emma's preliminary analysis on the hand cannon, the team
wonders if Matthew can help them determine its origin.
The hand cannon emerged in the 1200s. In European culture, it was used in
warfare mostly from the 13th to the 15th, at most early
16th century.
Would this be a possible 1200s artifact?
Yes. What I find interesting and strange, however, is
the fact that I don't know exactly how that fits into your site's history.
Would this be a possible 1 ,200 artifact?
Yes. That I find quite strange because I don't know exactly how that fits into
your site's history.
In the war room, Maltese military historian Matthew Balzad has just
team that the hand cannon found in the swamp could be as much as 800 years old.
It's interesting, Matthew, extremely interesting. I mean, the likelihood of
finding a hand cannon.
On Oak Island.
It sure seems an unlikely thing to find here, I will say that.
Exactly. Do you know, Matthew, would the Portuguese be more likely to use this
than the French, or is there any sort of correlation there?
In the Italian legion, it was used a lot.
France as well.
Spain, being an empire, used them as well, so it was widespread.
However, I did not encounter it in the same timeframe in the Americas.
So that's what makes it quite curious.
Yeah, we don't know.
If we try to interpret this artifact in a different way, it might have been used
as some sort of apparatus in order to direct the blast of a gunpowder in a
particular way to break the bedrock.
In Malta, we still use explosives to crack rock till this very day.
You wonder, though, in a confined space like, say, a tunnel, would this be more
useful?
It would probably be more efficient than just drilling a hole in the rock, I'm
guessing. Well, it's the old repurposing thing, too. It's like, hey, use that.
You know, why not? It's probably quicker.
Yeah.
The rock breaking thing is a little interesting to me, just thinking of
found it, right? The swamp.
But when you think of the paved area, there's so much broken...
pieces of rock that really have to be fitted in place. When we got in the
area, I said, you know, you almost wanted a quarry somewhere nearby. But if
needed to get certain size rocks to make that perfectly level, you might come
with that tool and try to start to blast some rocks up to build your platform's
level, right? Yeah.
Is it possible that the hand cannon was fired at large rocks to break them up
for the creation of the potentially 800 -year -old paved area?
If so, might the hand cannon... also be related to the other strange structures
on the island, such as the wall on Lot 26, or the rock formation that was
recently uncovered on Lot 5.
We've been surprised by just so many things in the swamp as being old, and
here's another one now that stacks up, being way before anything in our history
that should be there, right? Yeah, it's pre -Columbus. If this is true, then it
shows that people were crossing the Atlantic much earlier than what we
Look, you've come a long way, and so has Peter, so has Alex.
But there's mounting evidence of something happening here very early.
you right now? Me? Yeah.
You can't discard evidence that you find uncomfortable.
You can't discard it. And there it's at.
So I think there's starting to be quite a lot of data that strongly suggests
there were Europeans here.
Long before history would suggest they were here. Yeah. But it hasn't been
proven yet.
Hmm? Is that fair?
Yeah. We need the smoking gun.
No. Fire it. Fire it.
When people think of a treasure hunt, they think that every day is successful.
Every day is an aha moment.
That's not true.
But at some point, there will come a moment where you say to yourself, yes,
is worth it.
And this is why.
The complexity of the Oak Island story far and away exceeds my thoughts as a
young boy when reading it.
This was, as always, really, really interesting.
Yeah. Matthew, we certainly appreciate your time.
This was highly informative.
It's really quite something. A very unique find.
Whatever I can help.
Thank you very much. Many thanks. Very nice to see you again. Take care.
See you.
Well, we continue to work away then. So having said that, I think we all need to
get back to work. Amen.
A vast treasure may still lie deep below Oak Island.
But once again, through faith and persistence, Rick, Marty, and their team
have found new clues that suggest the incredible truth about this 230 -year
mystery might be revealed much closer.
to the surface so as they forge ahead in the murky depth of the money pit
they must never stop looking for what could be hiding in plain
sight next time on the curse of oak island the metal we're seeing in the
water is in the solution channel absolutely there's metal underground
natural we found gold signal
Oh, the cat!
What do you got?
What the heck is that doing here?
This right here is the key to navigation, but it might be a key for
alignment of Nolan's Croc. This road goes from the beach to the money pit.
just down to the bottom of the solution channel. Where are you, little gold
coin? Do you see it? Come on. There you go.
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