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

All right! Here we go!
Let's do this.

We're going underground
in the Garden Shaft.

What in the hell
is going on here?

ROGER: It's crazy. We're
encountering a lot of water.

MARTY:
I don't like the sounds of that.

JAMIE:
Oh! Look at this.

-Oh, wow!
-It's pre-Money Pit discovery.

This could've been
used in the Money Pit.

PAUL:
Going in right now.

MARTY: We're gonna run
a camera in Aladdin's Cave.

ALL (shouting):
Whoa!

SCOTT:
Oh, my God. Look at that!

STEVE:
It could be man-made.

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: Okay.
Let's go see Roger.
-MARTY: Yep.

NARRATOR:
A new day of excitement

and anticipation for discoveries

that could help solve
a 228-year-old mystery...

Time to look underground.

...has begun on Oak Island.

Let's see what we got.

I want to see how the setup is.

I can't wait to go
down there, honestly.

-Roger.
-How's it going, guys?

-Today's the day.
-(laughs)

-Today is the day.
-Thank you for taking me up
on the offer.

That's good. That's good.
Nice to see you, Rick.

We're taking you
down on the offer.

Taking me down on the offer.
You're right, you're right.

Let's do it, let's do it.
We're ready.

NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina
are about to get

their first opportunity
of the year

to personally inspect
the ongoing renovations

that are being made
in a mid-18th century structure

known as the Garden Shaft.

Before we get dressed,
I just want to show you

a little something, when you go
down there, when I talk

about something,
you guys will have a good idea.

Okay. So...

towards the bottom of the shaft,
this is Set 16 here.

This is where we're seeing
that infiltration of water.

This is the bad area
where all the water--

You'll see
when we get down there.

Okay. That is very puzzling.

It is. It is.

And it's just this area.
You'll see as you go down.

-It's not undermining
your shaft, is it, Roger?
-No.

That's why I want to try to
stop it or at least contain it.

Anyways, we'll get
you guys dressed.

-You'll have a good idea...
-We have a great idea, yeah.

-Uh, this is yours.
-This is me?

Yeah, and this is--
Rick, this is for you.

Okay.

As we all know,

200 and some years,

water's always been the problem.

Well, now
we're encountering it ourselves

and we have to devise
a way to shut it down,

or at least diminish it.
The bottom of the Garden Shaft

could be incredibly important
to solving the mystery.

It needs to be dealt with.

All right.

I feel like Ghostbusters.

NARRATOR: Since returning
to the island three weeks ago,

representatives
from Dumas Contracting Limited

have extended the refurbished
82-foot-deep shaft

down to 87 feet,
with the ultimate goal

of reaching a total depth
of nearly 100 feet.

It is here that the Oak Island
team hopes to breach

a mysterious seven-foot-high
tunnel that they have discovered

during their strategic
core-drilling operation.

A tunnel that has
been carbon-dated

to as early as the 17th century

and which runs east to west
toward the so-called Baby Blob,

where high concentrations of
gold, silver and other metals

have been detected
in groundwater

between depths of
80 and 120 feet.

-All right! Here we go!
-ROGER: Let's go, guys.

RICK: Care needs to be taken
to try to understand

what's happening
inside of the shaft.

In a number of ways,

this, this water issue
has to be dealt with.

-So, this is 60?
-Oh, yeah.

So, starting from this set here,
this is where our water starts.

Right here. And then
it comes in along the side.

So, our plan today is we're
gonna go one set above this.

We're gonna punch
nine holes in here.

And we're gonna get
some urethane in there.

It should stop all this water
that we see coming in.

MARTY:
What they want to do

is use this
fast-setting urethane.

They're gonna grout it
and try and stop the water.

And you see those two 2x6's.
See the crack?

RICK: They use
a specialized compound--

expanding foam, if you will,
in layman's terms--

spray it under pressure,

and as it expands,
it will seal off

that intrusion of water,
possibly completely.

Okay. I've landed.

ROGER:
All right.

Okay. Roger,
I have lots of questions.

-Yeah.
-Where are we compared

to where we were
last year at the bottom?

-Are we below that depth?
-That's right.

So we're about
four or five feet lower

-in here. Yeah.
-We're well below.

So right now we're at
87 feet from the top.

So we've gone down
about four feet, roughly.

Right, but how far
is that down there?

Uh, it's not very much further.

I'll just open up this up,
this little hatch here,

so it'll give us a better idea.

MARTY:
Okay. So, we're looking at dirt

that nobody else have ever seen.

-Ever. Right?
-That's right. Right there.

-That's for sure.
-MARTY: I'll say this, Roger.

You're very close
to that tunnel that we hope is

just a few feet below here.

-Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'd say.
-Yeah. That's pretty cool.

It's a tunnel
we didn't know anything about.

-It's not described
in the narrative.
-Yeah.

-We got to get down there.
-And that's what I'm hoping,

like when we start
this probe drilling

and we start punching away.

Yeah.

Short of an artifact recovery,
gold, silver,

the most important relevance
of this shaft

is that horizontal drilling.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Depending on what the team finds

once they reach
the believed tunnel below,

Dumas will also be able
to use a probe-drilling device

to search for evidence
of valuables

up to 40 feet
in every direction.

Should any important clues be
discovered during this process

and the existing tunnel
is inaccessible,

Dumas can construct a new tunnel
in order to reach them.

If you're correct
and you can drill 40 feet

off of that face and this face,
we'll be able to literally

gain information
from an 80-foot cylinder.

-Yes.
-That's pretty amazing.

It's why we're here.
It's why you're here.

Oh, absolutely. Yeah.

MARTY: You know what, Rick, I
got to praise him and his guys.

I mean, fine, I can stand
down here and chitchat,

but this is
not a good workspace.

-(laughter)
-ROGER: No. No.

You've got it pouring down
on top of your head all day.

-MARTY: Eventually,
I'd get pretty weary. Yeah.
-Yeah. Yeah.

We got a conduit somewhere
that we're unaware of.

Oh, yes. If I get 50%
of this water stopped

on the guys,
I'll be a happy man.

All right. Should we get
out of here? Are we all set?

Sounds good. And then we can
get the boys down here...

Get the boys
down here and let's go!

-Let's go deep.
-ROGER: Absolutely.

NARRATOR: While the operation
in the Garden Shaft continues

in the Money Pit area...

...later that morning...

MARTY: Okay, gentlemen.

Today, we have
an important thing.

...Rick, Marty and Craig Tester
have gathered members

of the team
in the war room to receive

an updated report on water
testing that has been conducted

in the Money Pit area from
geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner,

chemist Dr. Matt Lukeman

and hydrogeologist
Dr. Fred Michel.

MARTY:
I've always said there's nothing
I like better than new data.

So, with no further ado,
over to you, Dr. Lukeman.

All right, so we've done
florescence testing

on all the water samples
that we've run so far this year,

as well as
all the ones last year.

We use fluorescence spectroscopy
on the water

to see evidence
of other things beyond metals,

such as traces of wood or other
organic material in the water,

that gives us evidence
of human activity.

Okay.

NARRATOR:
Fluorescence spectroscopy

is a process that uses

a high-powered beam
of ultraviolet light

to excite the molecules
of elemental compounds

in order to identify
unusual materials

that may be contained
within a specimen--

in this case, water samples
that have been collected

from previously drilled
boreholes

all across the Money Pit area.

So, you see, all the wells are
listed along the bottom there

and measurements
of organic matter in the water.

So all of the wells are showing

some amount of organic matter.

-Yeah.
-And so it's not unexpected

to see wood signals
down under there.

In particular, we have
one very interesting result

to present on L16 Deep,

which is believed to open up,
at the bottom of the well,

into a large void.

Oh, wow.

So just for reference,
that's into

what Marty calls
"Aladdin's Cave."

It's Aladdin's Cave.

NARRATOR: Some 60 feet southwest
of the Garden Shaft,

Rick, Marty, Craig and the team

are currently investigating

another feature
in the Money Pit area

that may also contain
critical clues

that could help solve
the Oak Island mystery:

a large cavern located
more than 150 feet underground

that has been dubbed
"Aladdin's Cave."

Within this mysterious cavern,

they have obtained
not only camera and sonar images

suggesting
that it could be man-made

but also,
through water testing,

high trace evidence of gold.

It's a lot deeper

than a lot of the other tunnels
and other workings.

For that particular water sample
taken from that depth,

we find very high
organic material,

which is indicative
of the water in that void

having come into contact
with organic material,

-such as wood.
-MARTY: Interesting.

MATT:
Yeah, which is very surprising,

because there's,
I believe, no known

human workings in that
particular area at that depth.

-Really?
-Yeah.
There's no natural way wood

would get in that environment.

MARTY:
That is the oddest thing.

IAN: There's no natural way wood
would get in that environment.

That is the oddest thing.

The wood is interesting.

That means something was there.

NARRATOR:
In the Oak Island war room...

I think what we're seeing there
is, I'd say, anomalously high.

...Drs Matt Lukeman,

Ian Spooner and Fred Michel
have just presented

new scientific evidence
that the large cavern

more than 150 feet deep
in the Money Pit area,

known as "Aladdin's Cave,"

may contain man-made workings.

If there were things introduced
into that cave by people,

it becomes
gigantically significant,

'cause it doesn't
make any sense.

It's a one of.

There's nothing else
above the bedrock.

STEVE: We put a camera
and a sonar into that.

The camera gave us a really good
visual and we couldn't see

-anything but rock and water.
-Right.

That makes the cave
even that much more important.

-I mean--
-Way more.

This just adds
to the mystery of that cave.

Okay. But the other thing is,
is there a tunnel

around that leads to that
or at least intersects it?

RICK: It invites
all kinds of questions.

Finding those organics
at that depth in a void.

We now have three
different technologies

strongly hinting
there's something there.

It's certainly more than worthy

of further
investigative processes.

The take-home is we need
to keep an eye on that well.

Uh, it's been showing
some interesting stuff,

the precious metals, as well.

Well, and we haven't crossed
off the option of treasure.

If anything,
this could be a clear indication

that it's still there
and no one ever recovered it.

This is exciting
and super interesting.

SCOTT:
We need to drill another hole

into this,
so we'll be in a different area.

SCOTT: So, our new hole
that we'll put in,

we'll move to the opposite end
of the cavity, basically,

where we feel
we have the most height.

Maybe we can put a camera
down in there again

and get a better image
of the area around that hole.

-Oh, that's great.
-And we may see wood.

-Yep.
-MARTY: I think
this is exciting.

This thing sits on the bedrock.

It is hard to come up with

a geological interpretation
of that cave.

So now we see
that there are sources

of plant material in there, and
the obvious one would be wood,

and that makes it
not natural at all.

The first thing we're gonna do

is we're gonna run a camera
down into Aladdin's Cave.

There's still something
worth pursuing here.

This is very exciting, um,

but the issues in front of us

are probably more complex
than any other year.

We need to move forward
aggressively, so

let's do what Mom said.

Sempre Avanti.
Let's keep moving forward.

Can't say any more than that.
Let's go do it.

MARTY:
Well done, guys.

NARRATOR:
Later that afternoon...

-Hey, Charles. How ya doing?
-Hey, Terry.

So we are in K/L-14.5.

Right.

...geologist Terry Matheson

joins Oak Island historian
Charles Barkhouse

in the Money Pit area

to oversee the drilling
of borehole KL-14.5.

A borehole located some ten feet
northwest of borehole L-16,

where the team hopes
to intersect

the center of Aladdin's Cave

over 150 feet underground.

Once they break open
into the cave,

-then we're gonna
put a camera down.
-Right.

Hopefully we can see,
you know, maybe a-a tunnel

or some kind of entrance
or egress in, into this cave.

MARTY:
Aladdin's Cave is 100% unique.

We've found lots of voids
at depth in the bedrock.

This one is
completely different.

-What do you got? 83?
-83.

-All right, well, let's crack
'em up and see what we got.
-Okay.

Oh! We're into some

tightly bedded clay beds.

CHARLES:
Yeah, you know what?

That would be
lovely stuff to tunnel in.

It'd be lovely
to tunnel in because

you wouldn't have
to worry about water, would ya?

No.

That would seal itself,
pretty much.

Nothing coming in
from above or below.

The fact that you're getting
organics of wood in there

obviously shows
that-that human beings

were doing something.

TERRY:
So this thing is...

is probably gonna be
a man-made structure.

I'm looking forward
to getting down there.

CHARLES: Absolutely.
We've got quite a ways to go.

NARRATOR: As the drilling
operation continues

in borehole KL-14.5...

-Hey, Carmen.
-Hello.

-Carmen.
-Hello, Carmen?

How's it going today?

...Craig Tester

and other members of the team

are meeting with blacksmithing
expert Carmen Legge

at the Oak Island
Interpretive Centre.

CARMEN:
Got some items to show me?

Yeah. We were digging around

on Lot 5 and there was

an area where
we found iron objects.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
While recently investigating

a mysterious circular
stone structure

near the shore of Lot 5 on
the western side of the island,

the team has not only obtained
sub-surface magnetometry data

showing that there is

a much larger feature
buried beneath it

but have also recovered
three metal artifacts

that may be connected to
the 17th-century politician

and privateer
Sir William Phips--

a man that some believe
sailed to Oak Island in 1687

to bury a large cache of silver
and gold in the Money Pit.

CARMEN:
I'll have a look, Jack.

NARRATOR: After Carmen
recently gave his assessment

that one of these artifacts
may have been used to lift

heavy cargo, the team is hoping
he can help them determine

what the other two objects
may have been used for

and how they may be related

to the 228-year-old
treasure mystery.

Well, you can see that
this is a, a handmade spike.

-JACK: Yeah.
-This is sort of like a brad

or a scupper nail, it's...

fairly big, flat,

so this was used to hold down

boards or decking, flush.

So this would kind of sunk
underneath the wood.

The wood would be
at the very top.

-Okay.
-That way when you go along

or you're walking onto it,
you don't hit the nail,

the head of the nail,

because it's under the wood,
and, so,

this would be like, uh,

typical that you
would find on a ship.

Mm-hmm.

NARRATOR:
Scupper nails,

named for their frequent use

to secure the scuppers or
drainage holes found on ships,

were shaped to have
broad, flat heads

and strong, stout shanks,
giving them the durability

to withstand multiple uses
in the repair

and building of sailing vessels.

CARMEN:
A rose head or any type of nail
like that would stick out.

This did not. It was

-below the surface of the wood.
-JACK: Okay.

That made it smooth.

Time period on it?

Early 16 to early 17 century.

So was it a shipwreck,

and they brought part of
the shipwreck inward

-and the nail came
with it or they...?
-Or just repurposed.

-Yeah.
-It was a common thing to take

shipwrecks and salvage
the wood and the metal.

PETER: That's interesting
with the William Phips

connection with the Concepción.

William Phips fits
into our time period.

JACK:
And we know he had a treasure.

And he's known to be
in Nova Scotia.

JACK:
Wow.

PETER: The 1600s, 1700s

fits with the Concepción.

And we know that William Phips

-was in Nova Scotia.
-CRAIG: Yeah.

NARRATOR: In the Oak Island
Interpretive Centre,

blacksmithing expert
Carmen Legge

has just given his assessment

that an iron nail,
found one week ago

near the mysterious
circular feature on Lot 5

and which may be connected

to the 17th-century privateer
Sir William Phips,

may have been repurposed
from the wreck of a ship.

Well, I believe this is
the one, Emma,

-that has chlorine in it. Right?
-Yeah.

Where would the chlorine
be from?

-Salt water.
-Yeah. It has a 0.2% throughout,

I'd say, on average, so there,

it has been exposed
to salt spray.

Geez. That sounds like it,
it really is a ship nail.

-Yeah.
-JACK: So...

Phips seems like
a plausible person

-to have buried treasure
on Oak Island.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR: In the fall of 1687,
Sir William Phips,

an English politician
and privateer,

worked with a high-ranking
Freemason named Andrew Belcher

from Nova Scotia

to conduct Phips's second
treasure salvaging operation

of the Concepción,

a famed Spanish galleon
which sank off the coast

of the Dominican Republic
in 1641.

Curiously, they delivered
less than two tons of valuables

to the English crown,
despite the fact

that more than 50 tons of gold,
silver and jewels

were known to be left
on the ship

according to its manifest.

And just two years ago,

32-degree Freemason Scott
Clarke shared his research

with the team, suggesting where

the missing valuables
may have ended up.

We know that Phips found
silver on the Concepción,

and I believe some of the
treasure from the Concepción

was secreted to Oak Island.

ALEX:
Very interesting.

-Okay.
-All right, next one.

-Well, thanks for that.
-PETER: Yeah.

PETER: Jack, was this found
in the same area?

JACK:
Yeah.

We thought it might be
some sort of, uh, a tool?

You can see there's a seam
running down the underside here.

Oh.

-Oh, okay.
-Hmm.

Do you have a scan of this?
'Cause I'd like to see whether

-or not there's
any holes in this.
-CRAIG: Yep.

-EMMA: The image?
-CRAIG: Yep.

-PETER: Oh, wow.
-CARMEN: Yeah.
You really see it there.

Yeah.

PETER:
Would this be William Phips'

-time frame?
-Yeah. Certainly.

The time period fits and
it could certainly be maritime.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the artifacts found

in the mysterious feature
on Lot 5,

which have been traced
to Sir William Phips,

offer clues
that he and Andrew Belcher

used Lot 5 as
a staging ground to hide

an unreported cache of Spanish
treasure on Oak Island?

If so, could that explain

who constructed the tunnel
beneath the Garden Shaft,

which has been dated
to as early as the late 1600s,

and also the high trace evidence
of gold and silver

that has been detected
in Aladdin's Cave

and all across
the Money Pit area?

The Phips possible connection,

uh, to Oak Island is
a very plausible theory.

We have some historical
objects that mimic

that Phips metallurgy.
I think it goes to what

Dr. Spooner has always said.
The larger your sample base,

the more definitive you can be.

Well, we do continue
to connect the dots.

We have different data points
that are all suggesting

mid-1600s to late 1700s

and that all predates
the Money Pit,

which for me
is always a big thing.

Oh, yes. This, this is
before the Money Pit.

Well, thank you. We're hoping
we can get you a lot more

-artifacts, that's for sure.
-I look forward to seeing them.

-CRAIG: See ya later.
Thanks, guys.
-CARMEN: See ya.

NARRATOR:
The following morning...

ROGER: If you're right there,
that's good.

-DARREN: Okay.
-...as Dumas continues

their work
on the Garden Shaft...

-MOYA: Hey, Terry.
-TERRY: Hi, Moya.

-Thanks for coming out.
-Yeah.

KL-14.5 we're down 138.

...nearly 60 feet
to the southwest

geologist Terry Matheson

and archaeologist Moya MacDonald

supervise the core-drilling
operation in borehole KL-14.5.

A borehole that is on target
to penetrate the center

of Aladdin's Cave
nearly 150 feet underground.

I think we hit the cave!

Let's get a measurement.

-TERRY: Aladdin's Cave.
-Yeah.

I think it's really
a geologic enigma.

I mean,
in soft sediments, imagine

you've got a, a cavern opened up

-that seems to stay open.
-Yeah.

That speaks to me of a structure
made by people.

Absolutely.

-COLTEN: It's nine.
-TEDFORD: 0.5?

COLTEN:
Yeah.

Hey, Mike.

Uh, okay, so, I hit it
at about 142 and a half.

-Okay.
-So I pushed down

through the void to 153.

So it's open almost ten feet.

I think we want to just
take the casing back up,

just above
the opening into the cavern.

Sounds good.

-Hi, guys.
-TERRY: Hey, Charles.

CHARLES:
So what did I miss?

Uh, well, the guys went
into the cavern

-at about 142.5.
-Right.

It was an open space
all the way to 153.

For right now,
we're gonna put a camera

down this hole
right here in front of us.

And then we'll get
a little better image

-from Aladdin's cavern.
-CHARLES: Get more information.

'Cause all data is good data.

TEDFORD:
Yeah.

CHARLES: Personally,
I think one of the things

that's most exciting about

this cavern or cave,
if you will,

is finding wood in the water.
I mean,

that doesn't
just magically appear.

This is a very
interesting area to all of us.

-PAUL: Hey, Scott.
-Hey, guys.

TERRY: How ya doing, Marty?

CHARLES: So we're gonna put the
Inuktun camera down in KL-14.5.

I think we're all hoping
to see some evidence

that men actually
excavated this cave.

What did we hit here?

Basically, we have ten feet

of open space
is what I'm understanding.

That's big. That's bigger
than anything we've seen.

We have never seen
anything like this.

Paul, let's get it in the hole
and see what we can see.

-Okay.
-MARTY: Please.

STEVE: Okay, Paul,
so line it up at the top.

Going into
the caisson right now.

NARRATOR:
The Inuktun Spectrum
120 high-definition camera

that the team is using
to investigate

the massive cavern
is not only designed

-to operate
in low light conditions...
-MARTY: There's the water.

...but is also able
to pan and tilt

for a 360-degree view
of its surroundings.

Okay. That's right at 142
at the top of the casing.

Yep.

We should be
inside the cave now.

STEVE:
You can see silt
kind of moving past there.

Paul, just take her down
incrementally.

'Kay.

-(all exclaiming)
-There it is. Right there.

SCOTT:
Oh, my God! Look at that.

TERRY:
What is that?

What's that sitting
right on the end of it?

Right there.

STEVE:
Goodness, it looks like a bolt.

NARRATOR: It is
a potentially critical moment

for Marty Lagina and other
members of the Oak Island team.

While investigating
the large cavern

some 150 feet deep
in the Money Pit area

known as Aladdin's Cave,

they have just obtained
high-definition camera images

of a possibly man-made artifact.

-It does kind of
look like a bolt.
-It looks more like a bolt

than anything.

CHARLES: It does have
that shape, uh, of a bolt.

Of the head of a bolt.

MARTY:
We see something
that looks square,

like a square-headed bolt,

which would clearly be
a man-made thing.

That's what we're looking for
in Aladdin's Cave.

We're looking for some evidence

that human beings
were inside it.

So, I guess it's possible, but
I would not call it definitive.

We need a miniature Gary to go
down there and metal-detect.

-Now I would have him lower.
-Now.

Take it down further, Paul!

SCOTT:
I think that was not the bottom.

I think that's potentially
a side wall.

I'm just trying to get
any kind of an indication

of where we are.

RICK:
If there's something,

i.e. a man-made something
underground,

that might have
significant importance

to what the island
is trying to tell us.

TERRY:
It almost has some kind
of a current or something

pulling sediment
across the lens.

-SCOTT: See kind
of a shadow there.
-TERRY: Mm.

It looks like something
through the mist there.

STEVE:
Oh, you can see stuff now.

(all exclaiming)

-Okay, that's interesting.
-SCOTT: Perfect.

STEVE:
Whew.

Trying to rotate around.

TERRY: Seems to be.

It looks wide-open,
but you can't see

through that silt to the wall.

STEVE:
Hmm.

I mean, if anything, we've
proven it's a wide-open cavity.

This is a good opportunity
for us to really map it

-with the sonar.
-TERRY: I agree.

STEVE:
We're in the cave,
and what we see

is very interesting.
I mean, it could be man-made.

And so, for us,
if this proved anything,

it's worth getting
the sonar into.

And so we're gonna do that
in a few days.

Sonar's gonna tell us
dimensions,

where it's coming from,
where it's going to.

We can look for openings,
and we can use this

to really map out
the underground of the cave.

And I'm really excited
about that,

because, to me, this is
potentially a treasure location.

MARTY:
Okay.

-I think we're done, don't you?
-Yeah.

Let's reconfigure.

SCOTT:
Good job, guys.

NARRATOR:
As operations continue
in the Money Pit area...

JACK:
Hey, everybody.

-Hi!
-Hey! How ya doing?

...over half a mile
to the west on Lot 5,

Jack Begley joins members
of the archaeology team

as they search
for more clues in and around

the mysterious stone structure.

JACK:
It looks like you've

dug a fair amount up
since I've last been here.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
After the results

of a magnetometer scan
conducted two weeks ago

revealed that a much larger
stone feature

lies beneath the circular
depression at the surface,

the team has expanded
their investigation

in an effort to determine
just how extensive

and old it may be.

And if you look, we kind of
scraped the wall there

a little bit, where it starts
to slope down.

JACK:
And that will be the tell-all--

is when we will get an outline
of what this wall looks like?

-Absolutely.
-That's exciting.

Let me get back on sifting duty
with Helen and...

Absolutely. I got a whole bucket
there for ya. (chuckles)

NARRATOR:
While Jamie and Fiona
continue to remove sediment

covering the feature,

Jack and Helen will sift
the collected spoils

in search of any clues
and possible valuables.

We're getting
a few pipestems coming out.

I remember looking for years
for a pipestem,

and now... (chuckles)

Lot 5 is where they were.

You know what we're not getting

is a lot of nails.

Hmm.

Which is an indication

it could've been a log cabin.

You only use a few, right?

Would that speak
to an earlier time?

Yeah. Most likely.

Ooh. Helen,
a nail like this, right?

Yeah. Yeah.
We have found a few of them,

but not as many
as you would expect.

Like, if this was
a frame building,

-you would get a lot more nails.
-Well...

-Yeah, a lot more nails.
-Yeah.

Emma and the CT scanner will...
(clicks tongue)

...look through it
and tell us what it is.

It looks square.

-So...
-JACK: Oh, okay.

There's too many artifacts
around this area to suggest

that it was just a domestic
household for a family.

Whether it was people here

depositing the treasure
in the Money Pit,

we don't know, but...

digging up these features
archaeologically

is how we should hopefully
figure out those answers.

Oh.

(exhales sharply)

Huh.

Oh!

Hey, guys?

You might want
to come take a look at this.

That's a weird shape.

JACK:
Oh, wow.

FIONA:
Good find.

-JACK: Oh, wow.
-FIONA: Good find.

It kind of reminds me
of, like, a strap

with, like, a metal fastener
through it?

I don't know.

HELEN:
Look at that.

NARRATOR:
While investigating

the mysterious stone structure
near the shore

on Lot 5 of Oak Island...

JAMIE: Very strange.

...archaeologist Jamie Kouba

has just unearthed another
potentially important clue.

(grunts) What are your thoughts?

Very different piece.

-JAMIE: It is.
-Wonder if it's, like, part

of a strap hinge.

Like on a door, right?

-Mm-hmm.
-JAMIE: Oh.

-Yeah.
-HELEN: So we just don't have

-the swinging part.
-Mm.
-JAMIE: Yeah.

HELEN: And you hammer the hinge
on a door.

JAMIE: That would make sense--
why you'd have

a flat metal plate with a metal
fastener driven through it.

JACK: Yep.

We're finding
really good artifacts

and a lot of things
that the archaeologists deem

to be important,

because we know
that both of these features

are old and predate
the Money Pit,

but we haven't gotten down
to the bottom of it yet.

So it's gonna take some time
to dig everything out,

and hopefully we can figure out

who was here, why and when

and is it related
to the overall treasure?

JAMIE (chuckles):
Oh!

Oddly enough,
I think there's more

-over here, too.
-HELEN: Oh, nice.

-JACK: Oh.
-HELEN: Oh, look at that.

JAMIE:
It's... it's fairly long.

Oh.

(singsongy):
It's free.

-Oh, it's a very nice,
old fastener.
-Oh, it's a large nail.

Well, it's just
a big old rose head.

JACK:
It is a rose head.

-Yeah. It looks like it.
-JAMIE: Nice.

-HELEN: These were handwrought.
-JACK: Mm-hmm.

HELEN:
And then the head was hammered
down on all four sides.

You can get them back
in the 1600s.

Yup.

-That's interesting.
-JACK: Yeah. That is.

It's really nice

to be finding
a whole bunch of extra metal

right next to where we found
that other piece of iron

that matched
the William Phips metals.

-Right. That ringbolt. Yeah.
-Yeah.

-Makes me think of it, too.
-Yeah.

JACK: The more evidence
keeps popping up to show

that there were people here

and they were here
in the proper time frame

to hide something
in the Money Pit.

And ever since we found that
piece of metal in the Lot 5 dig

that fits with the Phips idea
that he might've come here,

it's not out of
the realm of possibility

that Phips might've brought
some of the treasure ashore

right through Lot 5.

HELEN: We can take this back
to the lab to Emma,

and she can run
her analysis on it

-and see if the iron matches.
-Mm-hmm.

HELEN:
But often, like,
on sites like this,

if you get artifacts in situ

and if you get a lot of nails

-here and only here...
-Mm-hmm.

...it means, like,
there was a window here

-or the door was here.
You know, it's an indication...
-Yeah.

-...of what was going on
in the building.
-Yeah.

-Yeah.
-JACK: The dates are lining up

to possibly match when the
Money Pit might've been built.

-Yeah.
-It's pre-discovery.

So what was going on
during the time

that they were backfilling
this feature?

We don't know, but this

could've been used
directly in association

-with the Money Pit.
-True.

-Yeah.
-HELEN: The people

who were living here, maybe they

were associated
with the creation

-of the Money Pit.
-Yeah.

RICK: If you believe in
the scope and scale of the work

of the Money Pit
and the associated structures,

then, as Lot 5 is concerned,

I think that there's
a building body of evidence

that a structure of this size
could be a possible explanation

to a question that we have
posed since the beginning--

where were the people?

So, here, Jamie. We'll just put
that in the bag with the rest of

-the artifacts in there.
-Yes, ma'am, that's where
she lives now.

-Sweet find.
-Let's find some more.

-Heck yeah.
-Yeah. Let's keep going.

NARRATOR:
The following day...

...the southern region of
Nova Scotia is overwhelmed

by an unexpectedly
damaging storm,

causing power outages

and devastating flooding
throughout the region.

RICK:
The torrential rains
that have occurred here

in Nova Scotia has been
unrelenting.

I have never seen it like this
in ten years or more,

and in fact,
locals say it's unlike

anything
they've ever seen before.

The roads have been flooded,

literally, homes have been
removed from their foundations.

People's lives have
been interrupted,

and we are behind in our work,

and understand that we are not

the only ones who are
experiencing these problems.

NARRATOR:
One day later...

-MARTY: Here we are, guys.
-Hello, sir. Hey.

-Hey. How's it going, guys?
-Roger.

What in the hell
is going on here, Roger?

-Not too much.
-No?

Not too much, but I'll tell you,

it's unbelievable,
the damage from that-that storm.

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR: Marty Lagina,
Craig Tester

and Scott Barlow

arrive in the Money Pit area

after being alerted

that the Garden Shaft
has been flooded

with a massive amount
of standing water.

What I'm most concerned with,
what about this?

Yeah, so, we're encountering
a lot of water down there.

We're pumping, pumping.

How much water was in there
after this rain?

We had 30 feet of water
built up in the shaft.

-CRAIG: Mm-hmm.
-Now we're pumping every hour.

-Okay.
-It's a lot of water.

I don't like the sounds of that.

Oh, I don't like
the sound of it, either.

So, I was concerned
because the water is coming in

-from somewhere, obviously.
-Yeah.

MARTY: That's an interesting
thing, too, though,

because 30 feet of water
didn't fall in that area.

-No.
-Only ten inches did.

-That's right.
-So, it was driven by
that storm.

That means something,
doesn't it?

Yeah. But where's it
leaking from?

-I don't know.
-Exactly.

Is that deep enough
to be the flood tunnel?

ROGER:
We had 30 feet of water

built up in the shaft.

It's a lot of water.

Yeah. But where's it
leaking from? I don't' know.

-MARTY: I don't know.
-Exactly.

NARRATOR:
In the Money Pit area,

Roger Fortin of
Dumas Contracting Limited

has just informed Marty Lagina,

Craig Tester and
Scott Barlow that something

other than the recent
heavy storms in the area

have caused
the 87-foot-deep Garden Shaft

to be mysteriously flooded

with nearly 30 feet
of standing water.

Supposedly, in the Money Pit,
where they had it,

they were down to 90 feet.

Is that a flood tunnel?

That's what I'm curious
to find is where

does that water start?

Last year, I mean,

-this thing was dry.
You know yourself.
-Yeah.

We were down there...

Oh, yeah, yeah, I remember.
It was bone-dry.

NARRATOR:
Ever since members of

the Onslow Company encountered

a believed
booby-trapped flood tunnel

when they excavated
the original Money Pit

down to a depth
of 90 feet in 1804,

anyone who dug
in that immediate area

found their operations plagued
with disastrous results.

Is it possible
that the Oak Island team

has now also encountered
a booby trap

while trying to reach the
potential treasure tunnel

less than ten feet
below the Garden Shaft?

And if so, could it mean
that they are closer than ever

to what people have been
trying to find

since the first documented
search for valuables began

back in 1795?

RICK:
If there was something to hide,

or something
that needed protection,

certainly we know that the water

would prevent a recovery.

So, could it be another
cleverly designed system

to protect what's either
in the Garden Shaft

or in close proximity to it?

Sure. It could be.

We'll have to wait and see.

I'm concerned
that there's other voids

around the sides of these walls.
That's what I gotta identify.

Well, how many days' delay
is this going to add up to?

It's going to take us a while
to get in there and, again,

-I don't want to do nothing
without my people being...
-No, no, I understand.

You've got to have the engineers
look at this.

-Yeah.
-Absolutely. Absolutely.

This is so, so damn typical.

I mean,
it's maddeningly typical.

We got the best guys in
the world here digging a shaft.

We're facing
the same problem everybody else

had for the last 200 years.

We never, never expected
nothing like this.

Never. Not even close.

That's the frustrating part

is where do you start,
and what do you do?

It was a main intent
of this year's exploration

to get to the bottom
of the Garden Shaft.

It's frustrating to me,
because last year

that thing was
absolutely bone-dry.

What happened?

This is a surprise.

The bottom line is
it's already cost us delay,

and we can't afford that.

Okay, Roger.
We're gonna let you go,

so you can talk to HQ,
and we got other stuff to do.

-Let us know what happens.
-ROGER: I will.

I'll keep you posted.

NARRATOR: The forces of nature
have caused concerning setbacks

across the island for Rick,
Marty and their team.

However, it also appears

that the much more mysterious
forces of Oak Island

have intervened once again

to challenge their quest
to solve the mystery.

For 228 years now,

it has remained a losing battle

for determined searchers.

But now, as potentially critical

breakthroughs may be
within reach on Lot 5,

in a deep,
possibly man-made cave

and in the Garden Shaft,

is the tide about to turn?