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

MAX: We're excited
to present the results

from the muon tomography.
So, what we're seeing is

high-density anomaly below
the surface of the Money Pit.

We think it's Aladdin's Cave.

It could lead to the treasure.

-I think I've hit a void.
-The plot thickens.

Oh! It's here. Look at that.

RICK:
This is really something.

-There are letters stamped on.
-MARTY: Whoa!

-It could be very old.
-Yeah.

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: Morning, Paul.
-COTE: Morning, Rick.

I see you're set up,
ready to rock and roll.

Yeah. Roger got us all,
uh, moved in.

-Okay.
-And he started

-pumping some water.
-Right.

How many hours a day
are you pumping?

-Six hours, maybe. Yeah.
-Oh, really?

NARRATOR:
A new day of abounding hope

has begun on Oak Island for
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and their team
as the operation to deepen

the mid-18th-century
Garden Shaft

has finally gotten underway.

Is the system gonna be
the same, then,

for, like,
extracting the material?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
No, it's pretty much the same.

So, we're, uh,
we've got a little bit

-of hammer-grabbing to do.
-Okay.

Taking out the old spoils
and the slime

-from the bottom.
-Okay.

And then we'll start
adding sets, wood sets.

Right.

NARRATOR:
Once representatives

from Dumas Contracting Limited

finish draining water
that has flooded

the 82-foot-deep shaft,

they will use
a three-ton digging tool,

known as a hammer grab,

to excavate the earth below it

and construct new
eight-foot wooden levels,

or sets, in the hope of
breaching a mysterious tunnel,

a tunnel that has not only
yielded water samples

containing evidence of gold,

but which heads west
into the so-called Baby Blob,

where the team has detected
the highest traces

of precious metals
in the Money Pit area.

There's a lot of hope

regarding this
shaft extension work.

We can use the Garden Shaft
to drill horizontally

at various elevations,
as much as 40 feet out.

So, you're talking about

an 80-foot
investigative program.

RICK:
I think that we're gonna know

with some certainty
what's out there,

and that's
important information.

NARRATOR:
If high-valued targets

are encountered during
the lateral drilling process

and are not reachable
within the mysterious tunnel,

Dumas can construct a new tunnel

in order to allow the team
to retrieve them

and hopefully solve
the 228-year-old mystery.

Well, like last year,
I know it's a futile offer, but

if you need an extra body,
I'd be happy to go down.

-Sure. Sure.
-(both laugh)

-Saves me the work.
-And there you go.

-(laughs)
-It's a deal.

-Okay.
-All right.

And if we're not around
the next day,

that means we got
the treasure. (laughing)

We'll chase you.

NARRATOR:
As the team from
Dumas Contracting Limited

continues their work
in the Garden Shaft,

later that morning...

RICK: Welcome, everybody,
to the war room.

The importance of this meeting
can't be overstated.

NARRATOR:
Rick, along with

his brother Marty,

their partner Craig Tester,

hydrogeologist Dr. Fred Michel,

and other members of the team

meet with representatives

from Ideon Technologies

for a highly anticipated

scientific report.

So, uh, gentlemen, I'm gonna
turn it over to you because, uh,

you certainly have
a lot more insight into

the possibilities of what

muon technology
will help us with

-as we move forward this year.
-Yeah.

We appreciate your time today,
uh, from this big group.

Um, and we're excited
to present the results,

uh, from the Money Pit.

-Absolutely.
-MAX: Great.

So, as you all know,
we've deployed

14 sensors in five boreholes

in the Money Pit
at depths ranging from

80 to, uh, 250 feet
below the surface.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
In 2021,

a team from Ideon was contracted

to place several
subsurface devices

deep within five
previously drilled boreholes

across the Money Pit area.

These devices detected
subatomic particles

which constantly
pass through the Earth,

known as muons,

in order to search for evidence
of potential voids,

tunnels, and large objects.

It was an intricate process

that needed nearly
two full years to complete.

The primary targets
we were looking for

were tunnels that crosscut
the Money Pit,

vaults or voids,

and of course, um,
any high-density anomalies

that could reflect treasure.

Those are the ones
I'm interested in.

(laughter)

MAX:
I figured.

So, let's move underground.

-Do you want to?
-Sure.

DOUG S.:
So, if we take all
of the detector data

from these months
of imaging time,

and we combine them all and run
our tomography reconstruction,

you can already see
some interesting structures

in the data.

MAX:
So, what you're
looking at right now

are slices through the 3-D
density model of the Money Pit.

Uh, the yellow background

represents kind of
the neutral baseline density

of the Money Pit.

Low-density anomalies
are in blue

and higher-density anomalies
are in orange to red.

CRAIG:
Our preference is always
the high-density

'cause that may mean treasure,

but a low-density
could be a tunnel

or the water portion of a vault.

Do you see anything
over by the, uh, Garden Shaft?

And it would be looking more
at around the 100-foot level.

Do you see anything over there?

So, this is...

where my mouse is,

this is approximately the area
of the Garden Shaft.

That blue and gray column
is the Garden Shaft.

There is a high-density anomaly

to the west of the Garden Shaft.

At what depth?

MAX:
65 feet

below the surface
of the Money Pit.

And that's a high-density?

MARTY:
And then a low-density anomaly
directly underneath.

MAX:
Correct.

And what depth would
that be, the deeper one?

112-ish below the surface
of the Money Pit.

Well, Dr. Fred there,
those anomalies

over at the Garden Shaft
is what we're looking for.

FRED:
I would agree with-with Marty.

I mean, there's definitely
a high-density area

to the west of the Garden Shaft

in the area of the Blob.

You know, which is where
we have the highest

concentrations of gold
and silver in the water.

So, I'm-I'm encouraged by that

because it backs up what
we've been seeing in the water.

But we can't drill these
with Dumas in the Garden Shaft.

Correct.

RICK:
Well, the target
near the Garden Shaft,

I think presents the option
certainly of tunneling to it.

But Dumas is working in close
proximity to the Garden Shaft.

We have to give them area
to do their work.

So, have you
detected anything else?

MAX:
So, we'll take a look at a key

high-density anomaly
that we picked out.

So, what we're seeing is
a high-density anomaly

sitting approximately

85 feet southwest
of the Garden Shaft,

about 230 feet below
the surface of The Money Pit.

It's significant.

DOUG S.:
So, this is looking
at that anomaly

in a little more detail.

MARTY:
Wow. Is it consistent with, say,

a six-by-six-by-six
metal-lined box?

It could be a treasure
of some sort.

It's almost got to be something.

But at that depth?

Below the depth

that known searchers
have explored.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
A high-density target?

Some 230 feet deep
in the Money Pit area?

Could that mean there are
potentially multiple treasures

buried on Oak Island?

RICK:
When they explain about
the high-density target

at 230 feet deep in the bedrock,

it makes one pause and think,
"Could it have been done?"

-We got to drill it.
-I agree with that.

RICK:
The proof will come
from some sort of very

disciplined drill program.

But I think
we have to investigate it.

Another
interesting thing is this

kind of unaccounted for
low-density anomaly.

In fact, you've already
found something there.

This low-density anomaly
perfectly overlaps

the void that you guys
call Aladdin's Cave.

STEVE:
Right now, we're looking
into the cavity.

So, wait. Now, stop.

MARTY:
That's pretty square.

Some sort of, like,
pedestal sticking out.

NARRATOR:
One year ago,

after drilling a borehole
known as L-15,

the team discovered
a large cavern

to the southwest
of the Garden Shaft,

which Marty Lagina dubbed
"Aladdin's Cave."

Incredibly,

the team recorded video images

of potential man-made
features within it,

and during a subsequent
sonar scan...

-SCOTT: Whoa!
-STEVE: Oh, that's
a good opening.

NARRATOR:
...determined that it was
nearly 30 feet long

and 12 feet wide.

-It's not some simple
kind of cave.
-Right.

It's kind of a tendril
going out.

It kind of extends out.

RICK: That tendril going out,

how long is just that?

It's in the 20 feet range,

20, 30 feet.

So, Dr. Michel,
what was the results of

the water associated with L-16,
Aladdin's Cave?

We have been getting,
fairly consistently,

some elevated metal
concentrations with that one.

So, we are seeing gold in

the cavity, or Aladdin's Cave.

-RICK: That's stunning.
-CRAIG: Absolutely. Yeah.

Wow.

It seems a bit too much
to be a coincidence.

NARRATOR: In the war room,

Rick, Marty, Craig,
and other members

of the team have
just been informed

that muon tomography scans
deep below the Money Pit area

have detected potentially

important clues in a large void
known as "Aladdin's Cave,"

a previously discovered
cavern some

160 feet underground
where, one year ago,

water tests revealed
high trace evidence of gold.

And if you wanted to kind
of figure out what was there,

you would drill right in
the middle of the structure.

Yeah.

So, we have
a bunch of targets now.

MARTY: Yeah.
This is exciting.

This is what
we were looking for.

And the fact that you can image

what we call "Aladdin's Cave,"

that's very gratifying.

So, I say, "Let's go drill it."

-Yeah.
-MARTY: One of the things we

were concerned about last year
about Aladdin's Cave

is it didn't appear

to have an obvious inlet
or outlet to it,

but the Ideon data
suggests that it does.

We should drill
through the muon target.

It's at the right depth
to be some sort of vault.

It's at the right depth
to have been

protected by a flood tunnel.

It's, uh, it's clearly
an offset chamber.

Uh... It could be it.

ALEX:
Another piece
of good news is that

it's not anywhere near
the Garden Shaft,

-which means we can drill it.
-Yes.

Which is good for us because
I like the cave, right?

Yes.

MARTY:
Yeah. I think

we should head for it, Rick.

This is, by far and away,

the most compelling data
we've ever had.

Every anomaly that Max and Doug
have presented are interesting.

-There's no question about that.
-Yep.

This is all really exciting

because it's always been
suggested that the Money Pit,

perhaps there were multiple
treasure cache locations.

And now, we are finding that

the muon detected evidence of it

and suggestions of work

at various elevations
all around the Money Pit.

Does it strongly suggest
the possibility

that there are more than one
location in the Money Pit?

Yes. In my opinion,
it does suggest that.

Well, for me,

we've always believed that
it's only by introducing

new technologies that this
will ultimately get solved.

And it's by working together

that, ultimately,
we might be able to solve

a 228-year-old mystery.

I think I speak for everyone.

-Thank you both very much.
-Our pleasure.

So, I think
we better get after it.

-Fantastic. Great.
-Thank you, everybody.

MARTY:
Talk to you all later. Goodbye.

NARRATOR:
The following morning,

as representatives from Dumas
continue excavating spoils

from underneath
the Garden Shaft...

-STEVE: So, we're currently
set up on L-14.
-TERRY: Yeah.

We're gonna put some
of these areas to either rest

or we're gonna find
what we're looking for.

Exactly so. All right.

NARRATOR:
...and while drilling begins
in a new borehole

known as L-14,
where Aladdin's Cave

sets some 160 feet
underground...

-PETER: Seems you made
a lot of progress.
-HELEN: Yeah.

As you can see, we're getting
deeper down into it.

PETER:
Yeah. Okay.

NARRATOR:
...Peter Fornetti
and Jack Begley

join archaeologist Helen Sheldon

and other members
of the team on Lot 5.

They are continuing
their investigation

of a mysterious
stone foundation,

a feature which has been dated

to the same era
as the Garden Shaft,

and which appears to have been
deliberately buried.

Whatever this was,
the fill indicates

that it was buried

mid to late 1700s.

-Yeah.
-JACK: But that means
that someone buried this

around the discovery time
of the Money Pit or

maybe even just before.

Well, see,
the interesting thing is,

like, as we get into the
middle of it, the rubble fill

in the middle is obviously
post-construction.

That's, like, abandonment
of whatever this feature is.

So, the feature itself
is earlier than that.

-Yeah.
-Right?

So, we need to get down
to the bottom

and see if there's anything
remaining on the bottom

-under there.
-Mm-hmm.

So, Helen, what would be
the best use of Jack and I?

Um, Jack's really good
at screening.

-I love it. Yeah.
-Yep.

You can do that. Um,

-you join Lindy in that unit.
-Yep.

And just start troweling away,
and we'll find something.

-Okay. Sounds good.
-Yep.

-Let's get to it.
-Okay.

NARRATOR:
While Peter, Moya, and Lindy

carefully remove
earth and sediments

from the bottom of the feature,

Jack will sift through them
with a screen

to search for any
important clues or artifacts.

Wow.

-Hey, Moya.
-MOYA: Yeah?

I found a bit of metal.

Oh, wow. Thank you.

JACK:
I think it's like
a staple or something.

MOYA:
Yeah. To me,
it kind of almost looks

like a chain link.

JACK: Oh.

I don't know.
What do you think, Helen?

It's kind of...

Let me see it. (grunts)

Yeah, it is more like chain link
that's been fused together.

NARRATOR:
A piece of chain link?

Found in the rectangular
stone feature on Lot 5?

Could it be a clue
that a heavy object

was once hauled away from
or into this structure?

HELEN:
We can CT this back in the lab

and see if that's an actual
link-linkage in there

under all the corrosion.

MOYA:
And get it cleaned off

to see what it looks like.

-Thanks, Jack. Good find.
-JACK: Oh, for sure.

I'm really hoping,
right at the bottom layer,

we find something cool
that really helps show

this wasn't a domestic site
but military

-or something like that.
-Yeah. Yeah.

PETER:
Well, there's only
one way to find out,

-and that's for us
to keep digging.
-HELEN: Keep digging.

NARRATOR:
As the investigation
on Lot 5 continues...

GARY:
Where there's muck,
there's money.

(Charles laughs)

NARRATOR:
...back in the Money Pit area,

metal detection expert
Gary Drayton

and Oak Island historian
Charles Barkhouse

prepare to search through
the spoils that have

recently been removed
from below the Garden Shaft.

I wasn't joking, mate,
when I said we was

gonna get stuck in.

Oh, we are gonna get stuck in.

And it smells like treasure.

You know, Gary, I've got to
be honest, I was hoping treasure

would smell
a little different than this.

Oh, it will smell good, mate,

when we're holding it
in our hands.

But seriously, mate,

this is the material
that I'm interested in

because, last year,
we got those hits...

-Yeah.
-...at the bottom
of the Garden Shaft,

those nonferrous hits.

All right.

Oh, that's
the best sounding target.

That's a nonferrous, yeah.

-Really?
-Yep.

NARRATOR:
Just before the team
was forced to halt

their search operations
last winter,

Gary, Rick, and Marty
obtained evidence

of possible
precious metals in the mud

several feet below
the Garden Shaft.

If we're in here, mate, we are
gonna pull them out today.

-So, let's get at it.
-Yeah.

All right. Let's see
what we've got in here.

NARRATOR:
Now, it is Gary
and Charles' hope

that they will make
an important discovery

that appeared to be
just out of reach last year.

Even though I know it's iron,
it's coming out.

-It's coming out. Okay.
-Yeah.

I'll try pinpointing it, mate.

Want me to dig it?

I'm nearly there, mate.

Ooh, what's this?

Big chunk.

It's here.

NARRATOR:
While searching
through the spoils unearthed

from the bottom
of the Garden Shaft...

Some kind of, like, metal wedge?

NARRATOR: ...Gary Drayton
and Charles Barkhouse have

just found
a potentially important clue.

GARY:
What do you think?

CHARLES:
You know what that reminds
me of? You know that,

when you put an axe handle
into a wooden staff, right?

They put a wedge in the top
to drive it in to kind of

-lock it in?
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
A possible metal wedge
from an axe

found more than 80 feet deep

near the bottom
of the Garden Shaft?

CHARLES:
Yeah. That's pretty cool.

NARRATOR:
Could it have been left behind

by those who built the structure

as early as 1735?

If so, might it be
an important clue

that may help determine
just who they were?

All right.
That's going in the pouch.

All of this stuff will go back
to Emma in the lab.

There might be a little
diamond in the rough.

Literally in the rough.

CHARLES:
If we could find something
like that, that'd be great.

GARY:
I think we're done, mate.

We'll wait for this to dry out

and then see if there's anything
hiding right at the bottom.

CHARLES:
Sounds like a plan.

GARY:
All right, mate. Good digging.

NARRATOR:
While Gary and Charles
take their discovery back

to the Oak Island laboratory
for analysis,

just to the west,

in the Money Pit area...

TERRY: Hopefully, we'll get down
into the cavern.

The cave could turn into
something very interesting.

NARRATOR:
...other members of the team

continue drilling borehole L-14,

several feet southwest
of the Garden Shaft.

So, we're gonna have a new hole,

new location in the cavity.

NARRATOR:
A borehole where they hope

to encounter a possible
treasure chamber

160 feet underground
known as "Aladdin's Cave."

SCOTT: We may see something
that we didn't see before.

Yeah, it was a relatively large,
man-sized cavern.

But this hole's
gonna tell the tale.

-A big void?
-Oh, yeah.

STEVE:
We have Mike coming over.

TERRY:
Hey, Mike.

So, I'm at, uh...
I'm at 142 and half,

and I think I've hit a void
or something soft.

-Do you want me
to keep pushing deeper?
-Yeah.

Let's get an idea
of where it's open.

-All right.
-Okay?

-The plot thickens.
-The plot thickens.

NARRATOR:
A void at a depth
of just 142 feet?

Having previously encountered
evidence of Aladdin's Cave

at 160 feet, is it possible

that the top of the cavern--

where the team has detected
trace evidence of gold--

sits at a much higher elevation
than previously thought?

TERRY:
Uh, look, that's interesting.

The roof could be
a little higher in this area.

SCOTT:
Yeah. I mean,
when you look at the 3D

model of it, it's not
a regular shape around that.

So, I mean, I'm not surprised
to find it higher.

Yeah.

MARTY:
Aladdin's Cave remains
very interesting to me because

I can't think
of a geologic reason it's there.

And yet, it is there.

I think it's plausible

that Aladdin's Cave

could either have been
an original repository,

or it could be
where the Money Pit collapsed.

Either way, there could be
something valuable in that cave.

So, I'm down to 148,
and there's nothing in there.

-Open space?
-Open space.

-TERRY: All right.
-STEVE: That's what we want.

TERRY:
Thank you.

SCOTT: I think this hole
was a great success.

We wanted to get down
into that cavity and, uh,

find some space there
where we could use the camera

and this new sonar that we have.

Our sonar is still a week away,

so it's kind of why
we want to drill this hole now.

Give it time to settle out, and
it can give us a clearer image.

NARRATOR:
In the coming days,

the Oak Island team will further
investigate Aladdin's Cave

with both
a high-definition camera

and a three-dimensional
sonar device

after the clouds of silt and
sediment have been given time

to settle at the bottom of
the potentially man-made cavern.

We are not leaving
this island this year

without having a go
at this Aladdin's Cave.

We know
that there are precious metals

dissolved in the water
that came out of Aladdin's Cave.

Well, geez, I mean,
if you add those things up,

it sounds like a cavity
that has treasure in it.

Step one was a success.

TERRY:
Yeah. L-14 is going

to yield up some secrets
very shortly.

SCOTT:
Now, it's just a matter
of ground-truthing it.

TERRY:
Exactly.

NARRATOR:
The following morning...

ROGER:
There we go. Looking good.

NARRATOR:
...as representatives
from Dumas Contracting Limited

continue their work
in the Garden Shaft...

-RICK: More flags I see, Gary.
-GARY: Yeah, mate.

-This is the coin zone, mate.
-This is the treasure zone.

NARRATOR:
...Rick Lagina

and Gary Drayton
arrive on Lot 5,

located on the western side
of the island.

They are returning
to search the area

where they have previously
discovered five ancient coins,

three of which are
of Roman origin

and have been determined to be
approximately 2,000 years old.

And I've got to be honest.

A couple of these flags sound
like they could be coins.

-That would be fantastic.
-(laughs)

-Here you go.
-All right. See what we've got.

-All right, first one up.
-(beeping)

-RICK: That ain't bad.
-Good sounding target, mate.

Just there.

(groans)

(grunts)

Well, that's not
what we're looking for.

Nope. Not unless
it's on top of a treasure chest.

All right, let's see.

(beeping)

-Ooh. Still in the hole.
-Yeah.

-RICK:
It's iron though, isn't it?
-Nope.

-RICK: There she be.
-Yup.

It's in my hand.

Now, we both know
that was down there.

That's deep target.

What's that?

GARY:
What the heck is this?

-RICK: What's that?
-GARY: I like the shape of it.

NARRATOR:
Near the middle

of Lot 5 on Oak Island...

GARY:
See that edge there, mate?

RICK:
Can't be a button.

NARRATOR:
...Rick Lagina and Gary Drayton

have just made
a curious discovery.

What've we got, mate, is that
a bit of ancientness in that.

GARY: Oh!

Ooh! It's here. Old coin.

It looks like
a really old coin, mate.

Look at that. Oh!

-RICK: That is thick.
-Ooh!

Yeah, that is thick, mate.

-GARY: Oh!
-That is beautiful.

Wow. Look at that.
There's no mistaking that.

-Yeah.
-That ain't no button.

NARRATOR:
Could Gary and Rick be correct

that they have found
another potentially ancient coin

on Lot 5?

If so, could it offer
more evidence

that this area may be
directly connected

to the 228-year-old
treasure mystery?

We know, mate, when we pulled
those ancient coins out

in this area before,

they've just got that look
and feel about them.

Let me... Let me feel

-how heavy it is.
-Here you go, mate.

-Ooh, it's heavy.
-Yeah, that is.

And that baby was down there.

You know, what the heck
happened here, Gary?

Yeah. I mean, there's some
secrets still in this area here.

RICK:
As the work on Lot 5
continues to evolve,

I continue to be puzzled by it.

We have always sought
to find connective tissue

between the lots and
the original depositional work.

And so, I think
that's the hope on Lot 5.

Once all of the artifacts
are analyzed,

then you will be able to say
with some sort of clarity that,

"Yes, this presents an answer."

-That goes back to the lab.
-Yeah.

That goes back to the lab, mate.

So, we have got
to put this in the bag.

RICK:
That's cool. Very cool.

GARY:
Bloody fantastic.

NARRATOR:
The following morning
as operations continue

in both the Garden Shaft
and Aladdin's Cave

in the Money Pit area...

RICK: So, Gary and I happened
to be out on Lot 5 up

into the areas where we had
found the Roman coins, right?

-Mm-hmm. Good area.
-Well,

we came across this.

NARRATOR:
...Rick joins Marty

in the Interpretive Centre

for a meeting
with archaeologist Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan,

who have both had
the opportunity

to examine the artifact
discovered one day ago on Lot 5.

We were ecstatic when... when
this came out of the ground.

We thought, "Wow.
This is really something."

MARTY:
I mean, Laird,
what do you think it is?

When I first saw it, I knew...

-It's lead, right?
-Mm-hmm.

LAIRD:
So, I discounted coin.

My best guess was
that it was a bag seal.

-Oh. Another one of those.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Dating back to as early
as the 13th century,

lead bag seals were fasteners
used across Europe

to package large quantities

of both industrial
and military goods.

Three years ago, the team
discovered a lead bag seal

just west of the swamp
on Lot 32.

Incredibly, lead isotope
testing indicated

it was a compositional match

not only to the 14th-century
lead barter token

found one year ago on Lot 5

but also
the 14th-century lead cross

that was unearthed
at Smith's Cove in 2017.

RICK:
So, what made you come

to a bag seal assessment?

Um, it was that little...
the little, cut section there.

Because bag seals are two
lead circles brought together

and then stamped.

MARTY:
Well, I'm guessing

we have results
from the machines over here

-and our own Emma.
-I do.

NARRATOR:
Earlier this morning,

Emma analyzed the new discovery
made on Lot 5

using the X-ray
fluorescence spectrometer,

a device that emits
non-destructive radiation

in order to determine

the elemental composition
of objects.

So, this is the scanning XRF.

EMMA:
So, it is lead. It has

very little impurities,
but it does have

some iron impurities
and a little bit of copper.

And I did get a report
on another bale seal or bag seal

-that you guys found.
-Mm-hmm.

And it doesn't match with that.

So, I can say that it's not
exactly the same composition.

But the most interesting part
is the image

on the front surface there.

-RICK: Definitely letters,
that's for sure.
-LAIRD: Yeah.

And the first letter that was
obvious to us was the "K."

MARTY:
Oh, those letters.

-"E" is it? I see an "E."
-LAIRD: Yup.

This should be "K-E-R."

And we were having a hard time
tracking down

what "C-K-E-R" Was.

But we were able
to find an exact match.

The is the example I found.

And it says "I. Lloyd"
on the top,

and the "I" is actually "J."

"I. Lloyd Packers,"

-and on the bottom,
it says, "London."
-MARTY: Oh.

So, this is
a cloth packer's seal

from the 1700s.

They were the people--
they got the cloth

and literally packed them
into the bales.

-Oh.
-And then sealed them.

The bale it was sealing
was about half a ton.

-Wow.
-MARTY: So, half ton.

I mean, would the military
use such a thing?

If you had a bunch of soldiers,
they need cloth.

LAIRD:
Yeah, and ironically,

this company was listed
as army packers.

-Oh.
-So, there's a direct connection
with the military.

Wow.

I haven't been able
to find a great date

for the, uh... for the company.

We found one entry
from 1808, giving

their address in London,
but I think it's previous.

MARTY:
Why do you think it's older?

It was the use
of "I" instead of "J."

It's "I. Lodge,"
and the "I" is for "John."

So, that usage
went out of fashion?

Yeah. Js came into use
in, like, 1524.

So, it's an older use.

It's an artifact in itself.

Then that would imply
that it could be very old.

-Much older.
-MARTY: Still potentially means

anytime between 1500,
and let's say, 1800,

this bag seal arrived
on Oak Island.

-Is that fair?
-Yes.

NARRATOR:
A bag seal designed
for packaging

large quantities of goods
for the British military?

Dating to as early as the 1500s?

And found on Lot 5?

Because the team has found
artifacts and structures

on Lot 5 that date back
as much as 2,000 years,

could this bag seal have
been left by people

who hid something
of great value on Oak Island

prior to 1795?

Or was it left
by someone who came here

in order to search
for the fabled treasure?

Look, is this interesting? Yes.

Does it provide pathways
to-to learn more? Sure.

Find out about that company.

Well, and there's a lot
of stuff, Rick, adding up

to saying something dramatically
different than homesteading.

-It does. And then,
the military component.
-MARTY: Okay.

Rick, go grab Gary
and find some more stuff.

-(laughs)
-Let's figure this thing out.

RICK:
I agree.

JAMIE:
How are you guys doing?

-BOTH: Good.
-Everything's been great.

-We're, uh, we're about
halfway through here.
-Okay.

-We're starting to get close
to our round feature, so...
-Mm-hmm.

We'll keep walking
the transects and

gather some more data.

NARRATOR: At the northern region

of Lot 5 on Oak Island...

LAIRD:
These instruments
are really important for us.

NARRATOR: ...Craig Tester
joins Laird Niven

and Jamie Kouba,
where they have just begun

a new underground
scanning operation

near the mysterious
circular feature.

This electro-magnetic
induction instrument actually

forces a field into the ground,
which then reacts off of things.

All right. Okay.

NARRATOR:
Following the recent
discoveries within

and near the stone depression,

which have been dated to between
the 14th and 18th centuries,

the Oak Island team has
obtained a device

known as Geonics EM38B from
the anthropology department

of St. Mary's University
in the city of Halifax.

Things like, say, fire can
change the geochemical

properties of the ground

-and actually make it
more magnetic.
-Okay.

So, yeah, I'm hoping to
find some areas of interest.

Okay.

NARRATOR:
By emitting magnetic
pulses into the ground,

the EM-38B can detect not
only buried metal artifacts,

as well as wooden
or stone structures,

but also so-called
"susceptible" qualities,

such as changes
in layers of soil

that were created
by human activity.

Once you collect the data,

we'll get it sent
out to St. Mary's, right?

-And get it finally processing?
-Yes.

-Absolutely.
-Okay. Well,
why don't you run it.

-Perfect.
-If you find anything,

-let us know. Okay.
-I will.

CRAIG:
We've been exploring
the circular feature,

trying to determine
what that is.

But we need to keep
gathering information.

What else is in the area
under the ground?

And so, we're looking
for structures, artifacts,

and hopefully,

they can determine

who built it, and-and what for.

-(beeping)
-Huh.

That's... that's actually
kind of interesting.

Hey, guys.

-Hey.
-Okay. So, what'd you find?

So, I just paused it here
because I didn't

want to keep moving on,
but check this out.

Notice what's happening
with those lines?

Yeah. Separating more.

There's definitely
something happening with

both the conductivity
and the susceptibility, so...

-Okay.
-It's in an interesting
location.

It really is. Yeah. This close
to that round feature.

LAIRD:
It could be a structure.
This is what we're looking for.

I'm actually excited about
the anomaly, particularly given

its proximity
to the round feature.

I think it's related
to the round feature.

I think it's something
that would have been used

at the same time
as the round feature.

So, people settled on Lot 5

at a time that we have
no record of anyone else

being on the island.

Yeah, running several
more lines will give me

an idea on how wide it is.

LAIRD:
But the data has

to go and get processed

before we can actually get
a visual idea of what's there.

Each of the lines are set up
at about 50 centimeters apart.

If we're seeing something here,
it'll tell us.

Are we seeing it
on the next line

and the next line?

And that'll let us know how big

this potential anomaly is,

and where exactly it's located.

LAIRDD:
That's what I'm waiting for.

Because we'll be able
to pinpoint where to excavate.

-Yeah.
-CRAIG: Okay.

-We'll, keep after it.
-That sounds good.

-Okay.
-All right. Thank you.

Bye, guys. See you later.

CRAIG:
Well, good start.

LAIRD:
Yeah. I think it's great.

NARRATOR:
The following morning...

-RICK: Morning, Craig.
-CRAIG: Hey, guys.

NARRATOR:
...Craig Tester joins
Rick Lagina

and other members of the team
via video conference

for an important meeting
in the war room.

Getting reports like this carbon
dating is kind of exciting.

You know, it's something
we look forward to

because we were hoping,

and maybe these reports
will differentiate

between searcher work
and perhaps

original, depositional work.

NARRATOR:
Craig has just received

a carbon-dating report

on a wood sample
collected one week ago

from a depth of some 100 feet

in borehole C5N-27.

A borehole where the team
encountered a mysterious tunnel

believed to run
below the Garden Shaft

and into the Baby Blob.

Why don't you, uh, give us
the results, please?

CRAIG:
Sure thing.

We had a wood chip.

We sent it out to get
a carbon date on it.

And the, uh,

specific brackets are 53.2%:

1726 to 1811.

25.5%:

1644 to 1694.

And 16.7%:

1917 and 1950.

There's a high probability
this wood's

the outer edge of a tree.

-Right.
-So, I tend to think these dates
I'm giving you

are fairly close

to the time it was chopped down.

So, to me, you know,
the results from C.5N-27

mean it-it really

puts it into pre-searcher.

I just think this could indicate

that it's a, uh, original work.

-RICK: Wowza.
-JACK: Whoa.

This could indicate
that it's a original work.

Wowza. (laughs)

Well, that's good to hear.

(laughter)

NARRATOR:
In the Oak Island war room,

Craig Tester has just revealed

carbon-dating results
which offer more evidence

that the tunnel they have been
tracking below the Garden Shaft

may very well be related
to the original Money Pit.

Those dates line up
with the other dates

we found on what we deemed
to be the same tunnel.

D.5N26.5, they were
all 1600 to 1700s as well.

Yes. And none of those
make sense for searcher.

STEVE: I mean,
it's very exciting because

it's starting to confirm
that this is probably all

-one continuous tunnel.
-Yep.

So, I recall that
in the Garden Shaft,

we found a piece of wood
that dated to 1735.

Yeah. And the Money Pit seems
to have been,

at least from this data
and other data,

built sometime in what,
the late 1600, early 1700s?

There must be some sort
of a connection to the tunnel.

-Yeah. I- I would agree.
-Yeah.

I think the dating of
those wood chips, though,

paints a compelling picture
for staying the course

as far as deepening
the Garden Shaft goes.

Because once we deepen
the Garden Shaft, and hopefully

break into this tunnel, we might
have an open tunnel there.

-Sure. Absolutely.
-JACK: Yeah.

If it is original works
and a depositor tunnel,

it could lead
to a new discovery,

-or the treasure.
-RICK: Exactly.

These new C-14 results

certainly raise the level
of anticipation in the war room.

I mean, we are engaged
in a process that will

get us to that elevation
where this tunnel exists.

Can we put our eyes and
our boots on original work?

And this may represent
that opportunity.

I'm quite pleased by
all of the efforts to date

for one simple reason:
I came here wanting to prove

to all of us, to myself
and to the world, literally,

that Oak Island was real.

And now, perhaps,
we are on the cusp

of the answers, right?

We've got a lot of work to do.

We need to get after it.
So, thanks, Craig, for the data.

-See you guys.
-See you, Craig.

JACK:
Thanks for the info.

NARRATOR:
For more than 200 years,

Oak Island has defied all
who faithfully worked

to unearth something
of great value in the Money Pit.

Their only certainty was that

someone went to great lengths

to ensure that
it would never be found.

But now, through their
equally determined efforts

and disciplined
applications of science,

Rick, Marty, Craig
and their team have made it

all but certain that there
are multiple locations

where treasure may lie buried.

And nothing,
not even a deadly curse,

can defy their will

to solve the mystery.

Next time, on
The Curse of Oak Island...

FIONA: What is this?
Oh, look at that.

-Oh, my God!
-That looks like the handle
of something.

We suspect
that it's from the 1700s.

Even earlier.

-Really?
-Absolutely.

MARTY:
We have an opening
into this cavern.

Yeah. It looks man-made.

It's amazing.

Okay, going in.

MARTY:
We're all eager to see

-Aladdin's Cave.
-ALEX: Stop!

STEVE:
What is that? Wow.

This is different.

This is way different
than anything we've seen.

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