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(Transcrito por TurboScribe. Atualize para Ilimitado para remover esta mensagem.) Tonight, on the Curse of Pocahontas.

Here we go.

Oh, what was that?

The caisson just hit something solid.

Something really hard right there.

Let's see what we've got.

This might have been around a treasure chest.

Oh my gosh.

What is it?

It's perfectly on the line of the cross.

It's what we've been looking for.

This is cool, Rick.

This is bigger than what we think.

There could be treasure down there.

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, Jack. Fiona.

Hey, Rick.

Hi.

Look at the progress we've made.

I see that.

The quest for answers and treasure continues on Oak Island

as Rick Lagina begins his day on Lot 8

with Fiona Steele and Jack Begley.

I think it's interesting the way that the rocks

are structured on this side, on the right side.

Yep.

And we're not getting the same thing on the other side at all.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the only side

that was actually holding up the boulder.

Mm-hmm.

Here it goes.

Here we go.

After removing a 40,000-pound boulder

from an artificially placed ring of small stones one week ago...

Look at that.

...the team was surprised to find new evidence

that the boulder was covering a back-filled man-made feature

or possible shaft.

That looks like a drilled hole.

Exactly. Yeah.

And when geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner scanned the soils

with a handheld X-ray fluorescence device,

he discovered evidence of possible treasure

buried somewhere deeper below.

It's showing something that I didn't see in the other sample.

Oh.

Which is some silver.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We will remove the rest of the top layer of the soil.

We'll go through the second layer,

and then the plan is really to start removing

some of these rocks as well to really see what's underneath here

because there could still very well be something underneath here

that we just haven't seen yet.

Yeah.

You just have to be patient, right?

That's all you can do.

The two completely different sides of the hole

is really quite interesting.

Yeah.

Why that side and not this side?

I know.

I can certainly say that I think it was done a long time ago.

What's your long time ago?

Well, I would say before the 1700s.

So we have to just keep going forward and gathering the information

and have a proper analysis of everything.

Yeah.

There's got to be something under that boulder.

Yeah.

But the only way to know is to continue to do the work you're doing.

So, all righty.

Thank you.

All right.

See you later.

See you, Rick.

See you.

With the Lot 8 feature, I feel absolutely intrigued.

It's not like anything we see on Oak Island

or anything in Nova Scotia, period.

This is motivating us to look through the rocks,

look through the structures.

We've got to look at everything

and make sure that we're not missing anything in this.

There could be treasure down there.

Look, check this out, Jack.

What is that?

Well, it's the first slattish rock that I'm seeing,

and it seems to be at the bottom.

And if you look at all the other rocks, they're a little rounded and little

other than those big ones sticking out.

But that could be hiding something.

We're going to find out.

Look, it keeps going.

Hmm.

Ooh.

Hmm.

It's a good thing we are going below this soil.

It's the flattest rock that we've seen so far.

As we've been uncovering some of the soil,

I'm starting to see a face of these flattened rocks.

It just looks a little odd because it's so perfectly smooth and flat

that I'm wondering if this is part of the feature itself.

The fact that we're uncovering all of these rocks in a pattern,

I wasn't expecting to see that at all.

Yeah.

And I don't think it would hurt to have Dr. Spooner take a look at this

once it's all uncovered as well.

He may be more familiar with this type of deposit.

It seems not normal.

Mm-hmm.

So can this island get any stranger?

It's the strangest island with the strangest things that are so

unexplainable.

As Fiona continues uncovering clues on Lot 8,

later that morning...

It's a new day.

Here we are in the Karma.

Oh, yeah.

It's a hell of a thing.

Jack joins Craig Tester and other members of the team in the Money Pit area

where digging proceeds in the 7-foot diameter shaft known as Karma 1.

Did he say it went down real easy?

He says it's going down like a hot knife through butter.

The excavation is fast approaching the depth of 150 feet.

Here we go, Terry.

Meaning it could soon breach the solution channel,

where the team hopes to find a massive source of precious metals

that have previously been detected in this area through soil and water testing.

Here we go.

Let's find some gold and silver.

It's sloppy.

I believe we're proving that the solution channel

gobbled up a bunch of stuff from the Money Pit.

The Karma would be that we can finally, in the end, solve the whole thing.

That would be the Karma I like.

Morning, guys.

Morning, Adam.

See you all kind of watching the show.

Yeah.

What's the update?

We're just starting to touch the 150 range on the dig.

Okay.

At 160, we'll probably hit the bedrock plateau on top of the solution channel,

at which point we'll see how well we're cutting through it, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

So we're going to get almost to the top of the bedrock plateau with this one.

Yeah.

We're ready to go at it.

Cool.

All right, guys.

Keep you updated.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Once we get to 155, we should let the guys at the watch plan know

we've got a lot of stuff that they could be looking for there.

I may have already found really cool, interesting find.

Yeah, definitely.

As the digging operation continues in the Karma I shaft,

some 500 feet to the east near Smith's Cove.

That would be limestone.

It's a piece of pottery.

Charles Barkhouse and other members of the team

sift through the excavated spoils that are being processed at the wash plant.

Installed by Billy Gerhart and his team,

the industrial grade machine moves truckloads of spoils through metal grates,

known as grizzly bars, to remove larger rocks.

The spoils then pass through a tool known as a chopper

to break up and remove the thick clay.

From there, they drop onto a shaker deck

where they are sprayed clean with water

and then separated by size onto three conveyor belts,

allowing the team to examine them by hand for important clues.

Hey, Charles, look at that.

That's really cool. That's a great find, Bailey.

Let's put it in the bag, and I'm going to take it and show the guys.

Awesome.

They're looking for anything out of the ordinary,

anything that catches your eye.

Literally pull it off the belt because you don't know what it may mean.

Hey, Jack, what do you think of that?

Oh.

Well, at first glance, I see the smaller loops,

and they're not uniform.

No, they're not.

I bet this could be quite old.

Well, Jack, if that is hand wrought,

then it could be 1850s and earlier.

Wow.

But it is pretty cool.

Whenever I see links of chain, I often wondered, what was it attached to?

Yeah.

Right?

This could be a clue to the mystery.

Yeah.

I'll go take it back to the lab.

Okay.

I'll keep looking.

Yeah.

Meanwhile, back in the Monterrey area.

Woo-hoo!

I like this new piece of equipment.

We're getting down there.

That's some pretty good progress.

I feel like I'm on something.

I can't tell if that's the wood in there shaking.

I'm nervous.

Something hard.

Oh.

A piece of metal.

That's maybe what I'm on.

You saw it.

I saw it, too.

Josh, is it feeling hard now?

I'm hitting something at the bottom.

Something hard hanging me up there.

Something's going on here.

What's up, man?

How's it going?

Hey, guys.

Hey, Quintin.

How you doing?

So we're hitting something hard again.

We're not sure exactly what it is, if it's metal

or if it's something else down there.

Oh, wow.

In the Money Pit area, the Karma 1 shaft

has encountered a strangely hard material

or possible object at a depth of nearly 160 feet.

Great stuff.

All right.

I'll keep you updated.

Thanks a lot, Quintin.

Appreciate it.

It's kind of exciting to think there's some stronger

obstacle down there that's stopping the equipment.

Even the teeth and the tools that we brought out

this year on this equipment is designed

to chew through bedrock.

And the fact that it is having a hard time going through it

suggests maybe there's something else down there.

Hey, buddy.

How's it going?

Hey.

They did say that the caisson just hit something solid.

According to Rock, caisson's at 155,

digs a little bit past it.

They felt the ground solidify.

What's it look like?

Hard clay?

Possibly metal.

Good.

I hope we get lucky.

You well could.

Absolutely.

Here comes the bucket.

Another bucket, another chance, guys.

Here it comes.

Yep.

That looks like solid material right

at the bottom of the bucket.

OK, mate.

Let's see if there's anything in this one.

We've got a signal, Terry.

Yep.

Yeah, just there.

I think it's in the deck, Terry.

No, it isn't.

It's a piece of metal plate.

Or it could be part of a shoe from an old shaft.

Interesting.

Yep.

There's something here.

Be careful.

It looks sharp.

Yep.

Metal pieces, possibly from the bottom brace

or shoe of an old shaft?

I think I found a piece of shoe.

Could be off the bottom of the chapel shaft.

We may be at the bottom.

Yeah.

Getting close to the bottom of the chapel for sure.

In 1897, treasure hunters Frederick Blair

and William Chappell drilled into a believed

concrete-encased vault at a depth of 153 feet.

In 1931, with the help of William's son, Melbourne,

the three men constructed a nearly 160-foot-deep shaft

in an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve it.

Is it possible that the team has recovered

a clue suggesting they may be close to rediscovering

the so-called chapel vault?

We're thinking that treasure fell to the bottom

of the Solution Channel, hopefully today

or maybe early tomorrow.

We'll be down there.

We're going to find out.

Yeah.

And this is the moment of truth.

Oh, another load coming up.

Here it comes.

Yeah.

Look at that.

So that, my friends, is gypsum right there.

Yeah.

Yeah, that would mean we are probably

into the bedrock plateau a little bit.

The bedrock plateau is the thick layer of gypsum,

some 160 to 170 feet deep, that the team has previously

encountered just above the Solution Channel.

This means they have just a few more feet of digging

before reaching their target zone, where

silver has been detected.

We're getting to the heart of the matter now, guys.

Here we go.

We're going to be boring through the edge of the Solution

Channel on the bedrock plateau, crunching down through.

That's going to be tough cutting from here on in.

We have done a lot of caissons around here,

but very few of them have extended

beyond the bedrock plateau.

And that is very difficult to drill through.

And that causes an immense amount of difficulty

for the drillers to try and carry on that hole

and down into the actual Solution Channel itself.

You guys, looks like a report coming in.

We're in that kind of bad material,

the drill that we've seen.

Oh, yeah.

So we're going a little bit slower right now,

because we're pushing through some hard stuff.

We're happy to report we're down to 171 feet with the casing.

The quicker you break into the Solution Channel,

I think, the more likely we are to find what we seek.

It's about time, right?

That's right, Gary.

Wouldn't that be karma?

Karma, yes, absolutely.

Very good.

Thanks, guys.

As the dig pushes deeper in the Money Pit area.

Well, this is a pretty exciting spot.

This is Cone D.

We know it's part of the alignment for the cross.

In the northwestern region of the swamp,

Tom Nolan is leading a search on his property near Cone D,

one of six massive boulders that make up the megalithic feature

known as Nolan's Cross.

We're going to stay in the line of the cross,

and we're going to move towards the headstone.

Gaspani has a theory about the cross.

We could find some artifacts on this

and maybe something even bigger than that.

Okay.

Let's do it.

I am very enthusiastic about what we will learn today.

One week ago,

archaeoastronomy expert Professor Adriano Gaspani

presented his analysis that the eight-sided wooden survey stakes

found in the swamp may have been put in place,

along with the boulders of Nolan's Cross,

in the 13th century by members of the Knights Templar.

The two sets of stakes were dated.

Now, because Cone D sets in the swamp near the stakes,

Tom hopes to find more clues in the area

that might help prove this incredible theory.

I think I'm good for now.

Lots of rocks.

What is this?

Hmm.

This looks, I mean, split.

It looks split, and it doesn't look natural, does it?

No.

But it's perfectly on the line of the cross.

And the one leaning up here

looks almost like it's been perfectly cut, doesn't it?

Maybe we should give Rick a call.

Just have a look at it, see what he thinks.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Okay, I'll text him to come down and have a look at this.

Could Tom be correct that they have found

an artificially split stone near Cone D?

If so, who split it in two, and for what purpose?

Hey, Tom.

Hey, Rick.

Might get you to have a look at this.

The reason this stands out

is because it is right on the line of the cross.

Pretty substantial, too.

An unnatural look to it, for sure.

Yep.

You know, every time my dad found a stone formation

that fit with the line of the stakes, you know,

he assumed that the original creators of this

placed these stones.

I mean, we know the boulders of the cross were placed,

but to me, this might be part of the works.

Maybe Al can just do a little dig here and see.

Absolutely.

See what's what.

That's weird.

Just a sec, Al.

Look at this, Rick.

Almost the coloration has totally changed

in this one area.

Yeah.

Pretty gray looking, eh?

Yeah.

The rocks are kind of grayish.

The soil even looks grayish.

That's almost blue clay looking.

Maybe it matches the Lot 5 plan.

Yeah.

Lot 5 and the Money Pit as well.

That would be quite something.

While digging near the Cone D boulder of Nolan's Cross,

Rick and other members of the team

have just discovered a possible clue,

potentially hand-worked blue clay

that has previously been uncovered

in the rounded feature on Lot 5,

as well as during 19th-century England

in the original Money Pit.

It's concentrated right in this one spot.

That's definitely different, though.

You haven't seen that anywhere in that dig, have you?

No.

It follows that rock split.

Well, we should bag more samples for that stuff.

We know that blue clay, when used correctly,

will seal a box, a treasure chest,

a chamber from the penetration of water.

We know it because they used blue clay on the shafts,

and I hope this is the connection to the Money Pit.

And I find that exceedingly interesting.

What we might do, Al, is just do a side profile,

just to see if we see that continuation going that way.

Okay.

Yeah.

What is it?

I don't know.

It's a stake.

Oh, my gosh.

It was pounded right in alongside the rock,

right on the line of the cross.

If this is the line, as you say,

then somebody wanted to make sure it was laid out perfectly.

This stake, this is the one that was laid out perfectly.

Definitely ties to the line of the cross.

Yeah, let's see it, Tom, if I can.

Your dad never used these, right?

No, he just used the factory-cut ones.

Axe cut.

Yeah.

Finding that here, that's quite something.

Mm-hmm.

75, 100 feet from Cone D?

It can only be in association with the layout of the cross.

What else could it be?

It makes sense to find one here,

because if they were laying out the cross,

they're staring right across the bough,

you'd want to set a post here

to make sure you were on the right line.

Yeah.

Given that the team has now found another survey stake

located some 25 yards from one of the boulders of Nolan's Cross,

could it be connected to the others

previously found nearby in the swamp

and support Professor Gaspani's theory

that the wooden stakes at Nolan's Cross are directly related?

It's stunning.

It's what five highly accredited astronomers

and archaeoastronomers said.

They agree with the professors' calculations and conclusions.

It's what we've been looking for.

Yeah.

The stakes found in close proximity to Nolan's Cross,

which was possibly built in the 1200s,

might be more concrete evidence

that it was done at the same moment in time.

That needs to go to the lab, and we've got more to dig.

Off you go.

Later that afternoon...

Hey, Peter. Hi, Fiona.

Hi. What do you think of this?

Oh, wow.

Dr. Ian Spooner arrives on Lot 8,

where Fiona has now uncovered a tightly packed layer of stones

that were hidden beneath back-filled soil

and the massive boulder.

Now, I would like to know if you think I'm crazy,

because I don't feel like this is natural at all.

It's not natural, first of all.

It just can't be because of the organic matter

all around those stones.

I've never seen anything like this here.

And you can also see the cradle of rocks

around the top quite nicely now.

Yes.

It's wild. I'm blown away.

Well, you can even see a circular formation of rocks

right around the base here.

I'm going to be removing this soil shortly,

and I would like to see if that pattern continues.

Right.

We're just wondering if there's something underneath.

Was there something intentionally buried?

Yes.

You know, we did some XRF, portal XRF.

We got high lead, and that's interesting to me,

why the high lead.

Yeah.

Three weeks ago,

after taking soil samples beneath the large boulder,

Dr. Spooner found high traces of lead in the material.

This suggested evidence of burning fire underground,

which is a mining practice that was used centuries ago

to circulate air in shafts and tunnels.

So what do you think it is?

The stone is either a marker

or something to protect something.

Yeah, I agree.

Is it possible that the team has revealed

an artificial covering for a shaft

or some kind of structure hidden below?

There's something about this

that makes me feel like it's ancient.

Yeah, and this would take an extraordinary amount of effort.

It would be with incredible purpose and intent.

That's why, to me, there should be something more here.

Maybe there is.

Yeah, yeah.

Got to go deeper, yeah.

Yeah.

Anyway, I'd love to come back when it's further developed.

Great, thank you for your set of eyes upon us.

I think it's really cool you're involved

in one of the coolest things I've seen.

It is very cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uncle Rick needs to take a look at this.

I agree.

As a new morning dawns on Oak Island.

This is cool, Rick.

Well, so they did make a cradle.

Yeah.

Rick arrives on lot 8 with other members of the team

for his first look at the stone formation

that was covered by the 40,000-pound boulder.

It's like a mosaic.

Yeah.

It's really quite well done.

Yeah.

My mind's racing with a number of questions.

Who did it?

Why was it done?

What does it mean?

Is it a totally different story than the treasure story?

It exhibits a mosaic-like appearance,

which is really quite unique.

To support a 40,000-pound boulder,

there is a reason why this was done.

So what do we think?

I think this is culturally significant.

Yeah.

It's either here to cover something

or it's here to mark something,

and we can't rule out a number of ideas for this at this point.

I mean, it could have been ceremonial.

Standing alone, this doesn't make sense

because for all intents and purposes,

it's in the middle of nowhere.

Have you ever seen anything like this before?

No.

I've worked with stone for a number of years.

I see it, and I think, how in the world would you do that?

Why would you do that

if you're not going to inter something underneath it?

And if there is something underneath it,

then it's got to be valuable to those persons.

This is done by somebody who has sufficient resources

that they can pour everything into it in terms of manpower.

It's almost certainly European.

Yeah, that's what I would agree.

I think it's European as well.

This could be changing Nova Scotian history.

I've done a lot of research on different megalithic structures,

megaliths, across North America and even in Europe.

I believe strongly that what we're seeing

is a European megalithic construction.

The indigenous people, I don't think,

would have the technology to do it.

You'd need an intimate knowledge of physics and geometry,

nor would they bother to move a boulder like that.

So it has to be a European construct,

and that makes the most sense to me.

Well, this is very interesting.

You all know that Marty had a keen interest in this.

We should show him what this feature is beginning to develop.

I think he'd like to be brought up to speed on that,

so I'll give him a phone call.

Hey, Rick.

Hey, brother, what's going on?

Well, we're about to show you.

You can guess where we are.

I would guess you're on Lot A.

You got that exactly correct.

I'm going to hand the phone to Fiona,

and she can give you a visual of the work they've done.

Okay.

Well, Marty, I can't wait to show you this.

I'll turn it around.

Yes.

Okay.

What are you looking at?

You're looking at a rock-lined, cradled area underneath the boulder.

It's entirely rock-lined,

absolutely man-placed,

and extremely intentional.

It looks like the paved road in the swamp.

Yeah.

That idea, I certainly think it's absolutely intentional and purposeful.

Could Marty be correct

that the stone feature on Lot A

might have the same design as the stone road

that was uncovered in the southeast corner of the swamp

back in 2020,

a road that may be at least 500 years old

and of Portuguese origin?

If so,

could both be connected to the 14th-century silver Portuguese coin

believed to have been recovered from the money pit back in 1849?

The boulder on Lot A

doesn't appear to have been manipulated by any of the known earlier searchers.

There's nothing in the record,

which means we might be dealing with something

that we know is untampered with.

We're the first people to look at this thing in a modern sense.

We found what might be the most significant thing.

It's just not anything you could make up.

I'm hoping there's a breakthrough.

Do you have any idea what it is?

I mean, sometimes you will have a rock-lined feature

if you have a cache of something underneath.

It could be a marker of some sort.

But I think it's old.

I feel like it's probably European.

Does everybody agree with that?

Yeah, I think we're all feeling the same with it.

This is the only thing I've ever been involved with at Oak Island.

Every expert agrees.

No, yeah.

No artifacts yet.

That alone is also indicating

that either somebody was really trying to hide what they did here,

or they really didn't have things to lose,

which is also giving us implications

that this could be really, really old.

I'll give this back to Rick.

When you're finally done with the archaeological process,

I want to dig deep underneath it.

Once it's fully exposed, we may have some more insight for you.

Okay, well, look, it's going the right way then.

You know what I'm going to say?

A, thank you very much.

B, call me anytime when you have significant stuff like this.

And C, get back to work.

Bye. Bye.

Okay.

So we just need to go around this in a very, very careful way

and not miss anything.

What are the next steps here?

We have to draw this cross-section first, very quickly,

and then take out the rest of the soils

because the rocks are quite dramatic.

We all want answers,

but I don't want to accelerate the process

in a destructive or invasive way just to get an answer.

Let's keep at this work.

So let's see what comes of it.

There might be a secret right there.

Please continue.

Thank you.

All righty.

Later that morning...

I love the smell of money pit dirt in the morning.

Smells like victory, eh, Gary?

Yeah.

In the money pit area,

members of the team are coming together