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(Transcrito por TurboScribe.ai. Atualize para Ilimitado para remover esta mensagem.) Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.

It's designed to hide something.

I want to pick it up and see what's under there.

Well, this could get interesting.

Oh, yeah, that's great.

Somebody was in here doing this.

It looks like a road towards where the vault is.

Yeah.

We got something in here.

Like, it's all through it.

This is very, very important.

Maybe the thing.

We processed these deep samples from the Money Pit area

and found something interesting.

We could be closer than we've ever been.

Amen.

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.

Hey, guys.

Wow.

Hi.

How are we all doing?

We're doing great.

It looks like the booby trap

in the Indiana Jones movies, doesn't it?

As a bright new morning begins on Oak Island,

Rick and Marty Lagina and their partner Craig Tester

join other members of the team on Lot 8

to continue investigating a potentially breakthrough discovery,

a massive boulder that sits above a series

of smaller, evenly spaced stones

that strongly suggest it is not a natural formation.

There's this trench that they've excavated

that goes well below the bottom of the boulder

that was filled with rubble that's all over there.

You dug all that out from under there?

Yes.

Wow.

Yep.

This was a huge effort for somebody to do this.

We just don't know when, why, and who.

Okay.

Yeah.

There's actually voids underneath the rock.

We had a camera in there, and you could see spaces.

Okay.

In recent weeks, the team has found links of a chain

that could be 500 years old,

as well as a potentially 700-year-old English bag seal

near this feature.

I'll show you. There's a really good spot.

All right.

And after feeding a snake camera into a small void

that was discovered below the boulder,

they've seen not only a possible iron spike,

but perhaps evidence of treasure.

It looks like there's a pearl.

Yeah.

One of the key things here is that the trench you see,

it's a trench that was made by somebody.

Sure.

So somebody was trying to get,

and probably did get, underneath the rock with excavation.

Okay.

What about it's a plug?

It's a plug. It's designed to hide something.

I think it is covering something,

some sort of cavity where something was placed.

Yes.

Something's under there, in my opinion.

That's more exciting.

I mean, somebody tunneling underneath it

could have just been a searcher.

Somebody plugging something wasn't a searcher.

And it really doesn't appear to be modern.

You can see the soil stains on the bottom

of those two big rocks there.

That's an indication that these rocks have been

sitting in that soil for a long period of time.

Right.

Possibly before the money pit was discovered.

The Lot 8 boulder is the thing we weren't anticipating,

and it's very exciting because 100% of the archaeologists

and the scientists who've looked at it

said it was moved there.

We are quite sure nobody in the searcher record

ever said anything about this boulder.

This is our find, and we get to figure out what it is.

Is it possible that those rocks could be

excavated rocks from a tunnel, say?

Could be, right?

Okay, here's the next question.

What are the rules at this point, Laird?

What's the archaeological rules?

I mean, I just come right out and say it.

I want to pick it up and see what's underneath it.

We heard that.

Yeah, no, for sure.

I mean, and nothing I've seen here makes me not want to.

We are on a treasure hunt, and we have limited time.

I think our job is to determine significance.

Yeah, I'm with you.

But what would be wrong with plopping,

picking that straight up, and then seeing what's under there?

Is there any reason we cannot?

Let's say there is something significant.

Let's say.

The most effective way, unfortunately,

is to excavate it by hand.

I'd prefer to go to where Fiona is and work along that edge.

Well, you can do that with it over there.

Seriously.

You have to remember, you know,

archaeological context is important here.

If we do this in haste and we do some harm,

we cannot put it back.

I would prefer the archaeologists do as much work

as they deem necessary,

and only then we engage in the possibility of a lift.

When would you call it done?

I think safely we can only take one other side down,

I would think.

And then we'd have to look at some way to dig underneath.

Yeah, exactly.

One thing that's limiting us are these three boulders.

Yeah.

Well, then we should at least make a road in here for a backhoe,

because you're not going to move those without one, are you?

To continue this safely, those have to go so we can have more room.

But you're fine with us bringing an excavator in

and moving these bigger boulders out?

Yeah, of course.

Don't let my impatience give you the wrong message,

because I am impatient, but this is exciting.

This is really cool.

Yeah.

So anyway, the sooner you guys can get back to work,

the sooner we can do all of this.

So get back to work.

Get busy, eh?

What did you guys say?

As the investigation of the large boulder on Lot 8 continues.

Looks like we have a cord, gentlemen.

Thanks, Lee.

No problem.

Okay.

Hey, guys, here it is, H.5-9, 168 to 178.

Hand me a cutter.

In the Money Pit area, Terry Matheson, Charles Barkhouse,

and Steve Guptill are overseeing a new cord drilling operation

in borehole H.5-9.

Yeah, this is just gypsum, gentlemen.

Solid gypsum all the way down to 178.

Yep.

Right into the bedrock plateau.

Yeah.

As we drill down,

oftentimes we will intersect the bedrock plateau,

which is a gypsum ledge,

and then we'll push below it into loose, slushy areas,

which we hope the treasure has fallen into.

What lies beneath is the most important thing anyway.

We're in the solution channel, I would say, in about a foot or two.

Yep.

After drilling several boreholes some 50 feet northeast

in the so-called Peacock

and collecting soil samples to be tested for evidence of precious metals,

the team is returning to an area where previous water testing

has yielded high traces of silver and gold

over 200 feet deep in the solution channel.

I have high hopes for this one

because it's very close to where we were before, H.5-8.5,

where we found that piece of a drill right from the 1850s.

Just merely 2 feet from this location.

Yeah.

While waiting for results of the soil tests from the Peacock,

the team is once again drilling in an area

where several weeks ago they recovered pieces of an iron drill rod

that may be connected to a critical searcher operation from 1849,

one in which a drilling foreman named James Pitblato

reportedly unearthed a 14th century silver coin

related to the Order of Christ,

a Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar.

Looks like we have a core, Jerry.

We got it coming now.

The scientists tell us some big source of precious and other metals

is still in the Money Pit.

It's consistent with the Pitblato discovery.

Thanks, Lee.

No problem.

Some guys, they pushed all the way from 178 down through to 210 here.

They pushed into relatively soft material.

Let's see just how soft.

Let's carve it up.

Yeah, this is nicely soft.

That's very loose material at the top.

We haven't hit bedrock yet,

so we know we're in one of the deeper portions

of the solution channel here.

Yeah.

Charles, I think you can have that if you like.

Unfortunately, gentlemen, not in this,

but it could be the next one.

I know you got to leave, Steve,

but we'll go through the core

and hopefully get some more results for you.

Thank you, fellas.

See you later, Steve.

Yeah, see you, Steve.

Here it comes.

What do you got, Leighton?

210 to 218.

210 to 218.

Thank you.

Not a problem.

This is the bottom.

Looks like they got well into the bedrock.

Yeah.

So when you're down that deep, you're over 200 feet,

anywhere where you might encounter the treasure,

that's where we have to keep our eyes peeled.

Thank you, Leighton, fellas.

But as far as I'm concerned, this year,

we're as close as we're ever going to be to reaching down,

touching that treasure beyond all imagining,

deep in the heart of the money pit.

It's a little more promising,

but not the open, washed-out slurry that we hoped for.

No.

I'm going to go over this.

Something might get driven down, you know.

There we go.

Okay.

Oh.

Whoa.

We got something in here.

I'm getting a metal head in here, Jerry.

Excellent.

Wow.

Interesting, Charles.

We got something in here.

Okay, you want to take it over to the table?

Yeah, let's.

Let's do that.

In the money pit area,

relatively precious cargo.

Here we go.

After reaching a depth of 218 feet near an area

where the team has previously detected silver and gold

in the solution channel...

Terry, wouldn't it be nice to get a silver coin

or something here?

Yeah.

The one thing?

They have recovered a fresh drilling core

that might contain something made of metal.

That was ringing clear as a bell, Charles.

Now nothing.

Isn't that odd?

That is frustrating.

Doesn't make any sense.

You know, I think we should give Katia a call,

come out and go over it with a big metal detector.

Maybe there's a detector.

Yeah.

We could be where Pippolato discovered a silver coin

on the pod auger after it was brought up to the surface.

So when Katia comes up,

maybe she'll find something substantial in this core

that I missed.

Get her all on the table.

Here we go.

Go that way.

Pull tight, pull tight, pull tight.

There we go.

What do we have?

How you doing, Katia?

Well, I initially got a hit, right?

We bring it over to this table,

and I don't get the hit anymore.

So it's all yours.

Oh.

What are those chirps?

I'm not seeing what it is.

I'm going to try and pinpoint it as well.

Okay.

Because I really like to see what you're seeing

with the pinpoint.

Well, where we got the hit was right in this one,

but we want you to check everything,

but it was right there.

Right there?

Found it, and then we're having that.

What the heck?

Could it be little flecks of silver or little...

It could very well be.

Yeah.

I wasn't even getting that when I brought it over.

No.

I wouldn't be able to tell you what it is

just with how small it is.

It's not being, you know, fully registered by the detector.

But there's metal in here.

This is loose material at the bottom of the solution channel.

We're definitely going to take it back to the lab,

but, I mean, Charles, that's great.

Is it possible that the metal traces

could be related to the evidence of silver and gold

that the team has already recovered

in this area of the solution channel?

Oh, look at that.

You're getting it again right there.

Wow.

To find out for sure,

the team will take the core sample back to the lab

for a thorough analysis.

I'm excited.

Yeah.

Thanks for inviting me over, guys.

Thanks for coming in.

The following day on Lot 8...

Here they come.

Marty prepares to move several large stones

away from the massive boulder

to help the archaeological team dig by hand underneath it.

Nice.

You go with the big one first?

Yeah.

Okay.

It's not only tricky, I want to make sure

that whatever I do, I don't dislodge them

so they roll down in the hole.

That's good.

And so I got to make sure I keep control of this situation.

Oh, look at that.

Ooh, nice.

You know, my biggest hope is that we do find

something significant under the boulder,

but I'm hoping at least we find some sort of artifact

to tell us who was there.

Nice job.

Done.

What's your plan from here?

Yeah, from here, I think the plan really is

that we're going to kind of remove some of these rocks here

because we know there's some voids

between that large rock there.

We want to explore those because that'll determine

whether that large rock was placed there

or whether that was already in situ.

But that really helped clear that out.

And now we can clear up more material

from underneath the boulder,

so we've got a way better chance

of getting the camera underneath it again.

I think we need to investigate that a little further.

Good. That's all you need for right now?

Yeah, that was perfect.

This whole thing has been a conundrum.

It's exceptionally odd.

Well, this is Oak Island, you know.

It's the island that keeps on giving.

It's normal.

You guys carry on.

Thank you.

Later that morning...

Let's find some treasure, boys.

Gary and Peter join Tom Nolan and Alan Andrews

on Tom's property in the northernmost region of the swamp.

They are following a cobblestone pathway north

that is lined with eight-sided wooden survey sticks,

which just one year ago led to the discovery

of an empty brick and slate vault

several yards to the south.

Last year, we found that mysterious vault

and stone pathway that leads to the north end of the swamp.

But I'm hoping that we can discover another vault

this year along the same line.

But this time, I hope it's full of treasure.

Okay.

Coming in.

When you're down there, Gary,

I think that's a brick right there.

I'll check it out.

There, is that a brick or a rock?

This?

No, no.

Right there.

Oh, there.

Yeah, that's a brick.

That's way down there as well, isn't it?

Yeah.

And it's a smaller, thinner brick.

What would that be doing way down there?

Yeah.

Hmm.

Looks old.

It does look old.

But we should put it to one side

because we are testing all the bricks.

Shouldn't have been any structures open.

It's part of the swamp.

And I see other little flaky pieces in the wall.

So there's probably other pieces of brick in the area.

Yeah, well, we'll get more answers at the lab.

Put this aside and keep digging.

Yep.

And hopefully we can find a piece of metal

that tells us how old this brick is.

That would be great.

We are noticing more rocks and more cobble.

Well, I'm hoping this leads us to another vault.

We're in for a great day.

What are you seeing, Tom?

Tom, what are you seeing?

Well, I thought I was seeing this cobble again.

And it is.

Mm-hmm.

But there's brick in with it.

Every time we see the cobble, it's like, is it natural?

Is it not?

But when you can pull a piece of brick

out from inside the cobble, somebody was working the cobble.

There's no other way.

It's just interesting with cobble here, cobble here,

cobble right behind us.

I'm pretty sure we're on a perfect line

going over towards the other side where the vault is.

It's really looking that way.

Maybe we'll discover another vault in this area.

We're on a perfect line going over towards the other side

where the vault is.

While excavating in the northernmost region

of the Oak Island Swamp.

It's just interesting with cobble here, cobble here,

cobble right behind us.

Members of the team have just uncovered

another possible section of the cobblestone pathway.

You want to see if there are any metal detects in it?

Yeah.

That'd be a good idea.

Coming over.

OK.

All right.

See if there's any metals down there.

OK.

The more time we spend in the swamp

and the more mysterious features we uncover,

I'm beginning to think that the swamp is a much bigger part

of the Oak Island treasure story.

Where is all the metal?

No metals.

Whenever we run across a cobble area, no metals.

It's an head scratcher all right, isn't it?

I'm just getting a different vantage point.

We're right in line with the other cobble.

It's right along the stakes that we're finding.

We found another really tightly packed cobble platform

probably about six feet around, and it's right

on the other side of us.

Mm-hmm.

You know, we found wood chips in it.

We found cut wood, and now you've got some brick.

Yeah.

It's nice to see something you know, man,

put in the cobble because it puts a nail in the coffin

that somebody was in here doing this.

So we have four cobble areas that line up.

It looks like a road or a path, I think.

It really does.

I'm excited to see what that ties into

because I'm sure it ties into something

on the other side of the swamp.

Is it possible that the team has found

a stone road in the center of the swamp

that is related to the other stone structures

uncovered earlier this year along the western

and southwestern regions of the Brackish Bog?

If so, could it lead the team to a major breakthrough

in the 231-year-old treasure mystery?

The constructions in the swamp are too numerous

for there not to be a relationship between them.

The hope is they are treasure-related

and connected to the Money Pit,

perhaps even the Lot 8 feature

because there is an intent there.

There is an intelligent design, if you will.

I think it would be really good to have Steve

pin that far extent of the cobble

just to see if it lines up.

Yeah, I'll just take a little bit off

till I feel the cobble, and that's all I'll do.

Yeah, perfect.

And we'll have to keep the twin optical scanners out

because artifacts can tell a story.

Could find anything in here.

Keep digging, see if we can find a little more of it.

While the investigation continues in the swamp...

Watch the set.

...Craig and other members of the team

continue their careful excavation

beneath and around the massive boulder on Lot 8.

Laird, I wanted you to see this because, look,

I've identified where the actual cut was

into the subsoil itself.

You can see it.

It kind of comes down in a nice slope,

a very, very clean cut that comes at an angle like this.

You guys find anything more over there?

Yeah.

I think what we have to look at is,

did they excavate that with this in place,

or did they create, like, a cradle?

Like a cradle trench type of thing, yeah.

Yeah, and as impossible as I think it is,

did they create that cradle and then put that rock on top?

Boy, that would be an awful lot of effort.

I know, I know.

I think we can say to a degree

that we know this was worked by man,

not worked by machine.

Why?

Wow.

Deconstructing this is really helping give us the information

that we'll need to finally make an informed decision about it all.

So we just need to keep getting after it.

Yeah.

Okay?

I got some more buckets to sift through.

Hey, Laird.

What do you think of this?

I don't know if that has any meaning to it or not,

but it definitely has some material or something.

Mm-hmm.

The red part looks like cloth of some sort.

I mean, it all looks shredded, but...

Like a textile.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you think the whole thing is a textile of some sort?

It sure looks like it.

The red material, is that a dye?

Can we determine the type of dye potentially?

It is a dye.

The red is definitely a dye.

If it's older, it's a natural dye.

I think we have to get that under the microscope.

It's quite possible the XRF may be able to do that.

Okay.

Yeah.

I see this material, and quickly in my mind,

I see somebody trying to move these boulders,

and it scrapes and takes apart of their shirt or jacket or whatever,

and it's just a little piece left on that larger rock.

If we determine it's old, that's pretty significant.

Okay.

We should be able to tell if it's a natural fiber or not.

Okay.

Given the lack of artifacts, I think it's worth bagging that.

Okay.

We know it was under one of the boulders that Marty had just removed,

so it was probably 18 inches below the normal surface

and below a boulder,

and it may tell us who was here and when they were here,

so I'm excited to see what the results are.

Even if a mouse buried this,

the mouse would have gone into this rock structure after it was made.

Correct.

So this is going to be younger than the rock structure.

Pretty cool.

We know this had to be in place before.

It really did.

And that could help date it.

Yep. It'll be exciting.

All right.

Can I bag her?

Yep.

Okay. Well, we'll get her tested.

All right.

As a new morning shines bright on Oak Island.

Okay. I don't know too much about this.

Craig, why don't you give us some background?

Yeah.

So, you know, I was sifting through the materials, and I found that.

You moved the boulder. It was underneath that.

Really?

Yeah.

Members of the team meet in the lab

where Emma is analyzing the piece of fabric

that was uncovered near the large boulder on Lot 8.

It's the only thing that I know of that's been found on the site so far.

Mm-hmm.

So, yeah. What can you tell us about it?

Yeah. So I did do a CT scan on it, XRF, the whole shebang.

But the CT scan actually gave great imaging.

You can kind of see the design of the knitting

for the loops to go inward and then outward.

Mm-hmm.

So we're seeing a style of weft knitting.

Mm-hmm.

So weft knitting is knitting by interlocking strands of loops or rows of loops.

Okay.

Yeah.

And whether or not it's handmade or early machine-made,

first glance from the visuals, I'm not 100% sure.

It's kind of hard to narrow down.

Yeah.

Yeah.

As for the material used, I would like to do a simple burn test.

Really?

Yeah, to determine what kind of material was made

because depending on how it was burnt, how it melts or kind of turns into ash,

we can discern quickly what kind of material it was.

Like, what are we looking for? If it's what, it's what?

If it's polyester, well, it burns really quickly,

and then it kind of turns into a liquid form.

If it's more cotton or linen, it's more ashy of a burn.

If it's silk, as soon as you move it away from the fire, it snuffs the fire out,

so it doesn't burn.

It just kind of disintegrates.

Wool should kind of clump up into like an ashy or kind of burnt texture,

and then you can crush it.

Okay.

So who would like to be my assistant?

Peter.

I will.

Even though burning a fabric is a bit of a destructive method,

it's one of those telling methods that can identify or actually cancel out

what kind of material that fabric is,

and that could help determine whether the material is modern or not.

Okay.

You are just going to light a little fire.

Okay.

Whoa.

That's it?

Yeah.

And then I'm going to let it cool,

and then we can crush it.

And that is wool.

Really?

Yeah.

Amazing.

That's interesting because not far away from where that wool was found,

Katja found the bag seal.

Wow.

Okay.

Which has a very distinctive sheepskin symbol on it,

and that is associated with the city of Leeds in England.

Leeds is a major manufacturer of wool products,

dating back to the 1300s.

And this makes it all the more interesting.

Yeah.

Could Laird be correct that this piece of wool fabric may be related

to the potentially 700-year-old bag seal

that was found just yards from the massive boulder?

If so, might it be the first key clue that could help identify

who created the feature?

What about the red dye?

I know they can date dyes if there's, you know,

enough material for you to look at there.

Yeah, so I was looking at the dye,

and there's no modern, like, 20th century dyes

or chemicals that I'm detecting.

So that's a good sign.

The red dye is interesting because it was desirable,

but it was very difficult to make.

Yeah.

An average person would not have red material?

Except the British military, because they were the redcoats.

The French military had it.

I guess it was relatively more expensive,

but it was still widely, widely used.

Okay. Yeah.

What are the next steps?

I think getting an expert into knitting patterns

and then with dye mechanics and recipes

will point towards something more accurate.

Yeah, well, that makes sense. Yeah.

Okay, extremely interesting.

Maybe it's the tip of the iceberg

in terms of what we might find under that boulder.

And actually what we might find under the boulder itself

might shed a little light on that.

We've got to dig deeper,

as carefully as possible, under your guidance.

Yeah, absolutely.

Good job, as always.

Enigmatic, as always.

More things to do, as always.

Let's do them.

That was good. Thank you.

As the meeting concludes in the lab,

in the Money Pit area...

So J.5, 7.5, this is well underway here.

It's at the southern end of the actual opening,

which is the solution channel,

and that's where the deeper areas are.

Yeah.

The team is drilling a new borehole,

known as J.5, 7.5.

It is located less than 20 feet southwest

of their previous borehole,

where traces of metal were detected in soils

brought up from nearly 220 feet deep

in the solution channel.

Coming up now, we've hit the actual bedrock plateau

at about 160 below grade.

We're going to punch through that

and go under the ledge that is formed.

We should pop out, you know, in another 10 or 15 feet

and into the open solution channel.

Yeah.