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

JAMIE:
Look at this.

-FIONA: Oh.
-JACK: Wow.

-JAMIE: Oh, that's so cool.
-This is an important artifact.

Yeah.

Ooh, is that it? Oh!

-That's gorgeous.
-Oh.

Whoa.

Here is the cave.

You can see
some sort of opening.

MARTY:
That's a pretty clean
right angle.

And that's not natural,
then, right?

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:
So, here's the thing, guys.

You know, the Dumas people
have sent us an email

regarding the agenda
moving forward.

The timeline they proposed

for the completion
of the Garden Shaft,

I think we were, uh,

-surprised by it.
-Right.

-Yep.
-NARRATOR: As a new morning

begins on Oak Island,
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with their partner
Craig Tester,

have called an urgent meeting
in the war room

regarding the ongoing
difficulties

of deepening the Garden Shaft
in the Money Pit area.

The new timeline is,
of course, part of it,

is the issue with the weather.

There's a lot of voids
behind the shaft.

There's all kinds
of ancillary issues.

-It's a bit troubling.
-Yeah.

Yeah, this is a disconcerting
piece of news, Rick, Craig,

because, uh,
I mean, the Garden Shaft

was probably
one of the big things this year

that we wanted to get done,
but the bottom line is,

the date they now have for
completion of just the deepening

has moved way off into the fall.

NARRATOR:
For the past three weeks,

representatives from
Dumas Contracting Limited

have been working tirelessly
to halt

a mysterious inflow of water
into the structure

which has a current depth
of 87 feet.

While the team is uncertain
whether or not the water flow

is associated with
the legendary flood traps

that have plagued treasure
hunters in the Money Pit area

for more than two centuries,

it has delayed their efforts
to extend the Garden Shaft

down to a final depth
of some 95 feet.

It is here where the team
is on course

to breach a seven-foot-high
wooden tunnel.

A tunnel that leads due west
into the so-called "Baby Blob,"

where high-trace evidence
of gold, silver and other metals

have been detected
through water testing

between depths
of 80 and 120 feet.

Now, Rick, Marty, Craig
and the team

must find another way
to reach the valuables

that they have all but proven
to be buried deep

in the Money Pit area.

Let's call up our partners
and let's talk to them.

-Hello, guys.
Welcome back to the war room.
-RICK: Hey, guys.

-Hello.
-Hello, Marty.

Well, w-we're in receipt
of your email, Cameron, Tony,

you know, about
the-the anticipated completion

of the Garden Shaft,
and, you know, clearly,

we're disappointed,
but we have to deal with it.

And so, we want to do
damage control.

So that's point one.

CAMERON:
Yeah, understood, Marty.

You know, we have tried
to-to mitigate, you know,

that-that water ingress
as much as possible,

but it has delayed us
from, uh, achieving

where we had hoped to be
at this point.

-Right.
-So, you know,
our focus has been on

making sure
that that shaft is sustainable

moving forward.

RICK:
We would like to continue

the work extending the shaft.

We would like to go to 95 feet,

so we can absolutely determine
whether or not

it's original depositional work.

As of right now, we're not
gonna deviate from that.

-MARTY: Yeah.
-CRAIG: We want
to go deep enough

to be able to put
that drill downhole

and go horizontal
at those depths.

And I guess the other
question is, though,

will the equipment
that's gonna be here

be able to plug those wells
after we're drilling

without water issues continuing?

Yeah, so, we've got
the Minova fellas coming in

and-and they're gonna
give us a hand

with Geofoam filling,
and that will fill the voids

in behind the shaft
and stabilize it again.

-That will be another week
from now.
-Okay.

NARRATOR:
If Dumas can safely extend

the Garden Shaft
into the tunnel below,

the team can use a probe drill
capable of reaching

up to 40 feet
outside of the structure

to potentially pinpoint
the location

of the precious metals
that have been detected.

But first,
representatives from Dumas

will utilize Geofoam,
an industrial-grade material

that can expand
up to 40 times its size

to fill voids in the walls
of the structure

which will stabilize the shaft

and, hopefully,
stop the current flooding.

MARTY:
It remains extremely important
to be able to utilize

the Garden Shaft
for horizontal drilling.

We want to find this treasure
if it exists,

and the Garden Shaft
remains highly valuable

in that exercise.

If we can get
the 40-plus feet out,

uh, we can find out

what's outside
in an 80-foot diameter circle.

CAMERON:
Yeah, and we are going
to work together

to solve the challenges, always.

-Fair enough.
-Love to hear it.

MARTY:
Okay. Gentlemen, appreciate it.

Let's make a shaft. Thank you.

-CRAIG: Thanks, guys.
-Take care guys. Thank you.

Take care. Bye-bye.

Okay.

All right, well, we are on
the same page with those guys.

-So, that's good.
-Yeah, I think, at this point,

the possibility
of doing caisson work

-is looming large, but where?
-Where?

I would like to pump
Aladdin's cave,

and if the metals hold up,
I'd vote for that.

You could maybe
put a can over it.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Nearly 60 feet southwest

of the Garden Shaft
and the Baby Blob,

the Oak Island team
has also been investigating

another spot
in the Money Pit area

where something of great value
could be buried:

a large cavern located
some 150 feet deep

that Marty has dubbed
"Aladdin's cave,"

due to the evidence
of wooden structures and gold

that have been detected there
through water sample testing.

CHARLES:
What's that sitting

right on the end of it,
right there?

STEVE:
It looks like a bolt.

NARRATOR:
In addition,
the team has obtained

compelling sonar
and underwater images

inside of Aladdin's cave,

suggesting that it could be
a man-made chamber.

If they can recover
definitive evidence

that it contains treasure...

the team has the option to dig
a large diameter steel caisson,

as they have done in the past,
in the hopes of retrieving it.

MARTY:
I've been a proponent

of Aladdin's cave
ever since we found it.

I'm saying, "This needs
to be investigated."

What is clear is we need to get

a better image
of the whole thing.

So we need to drill
another hole.

And we need to think about
putting a caisson

down into this thing.

Well, I mean, I'm-I'm game

for looking into caissons,
I think it's a great idea.

There's a lot of work
to do there, so...

-let's head on out.
-All right, okay.

MARTY:
Well said.

NARRATOR:
Later that afternoon...

RICK:
So, Bill, pull that back
a little bit,

-if you would.
-BILLY: Yep.

NARRATOR:
...in the southeast corner
of the swamp,

Rick Lagina,
along with his nephew Alex,

Gary Drayton
and Billy Gerhardt

continue searching
for important clues

near the potentially
500-year-old stone road.

Keep Gary busy.
(chuckles)

NARRATOR:
Since first uncovering
this massive feature in 2020,

the team has found
critical clues nearby,

such as ancient pieces
of wooden barrels

and a stone pathway,

suggesting that it may have
been used long ago

to unload valuable cargo
onto Oak Island.

Now the team hopes to find
more of the stone road,

and any valuable clues
that may help solve

the 229-year-old mystery.

ALEX:
There's more chain.

GARY:
Oh, look at that chain, yeah?

More chain.

Good eye.

Yep. Look, that's all connected.

-And this looks old.
-That does, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, this is definitely
not factory-made. This is crude.

Hey, Uncle Rick!

You might want
to come look at this.

Seems like the larger one
would be maybe to anchor that,

and then the smaller ones would
be for whatever you're doing.

GARY:
Yep.

-It's hard to tell
because of all the crusty stuff.
-Yeah.

-Hi, Gary.
-There you go, mate.

If we're looking for signs
of loading and unloading,

you'd need
some chains like this.

RICK:
Wow.

Yeah, that's very cool.

You know what that reminds me of
is a multipoint.

-BILLY: Yeah.
-You know what I mean?

You have this ring
and then you have

your three points off,
and there are four points.

-That's what that is.
-BILLY: Yeah.
-Yeah.

RICK:
You have a three-point hitch,

it's gonna be able
to pull across

even something like a beach.

-Right?
-Yeah.

It's gonna keep it level.

That's a great find,

but there is more here
to be found, so...

-Yep.
-Yeah.

RICK:
I've got a few other things
to check in on.

-You know, good luck...
-ALEX: Okay.

...and, uh, good hunting.

-We'll take it from here.
-Okay, mate.

-See you soon.
-See you.

See you, mate.

-Okay.
-ALEX: Okay,
let's go through some more.

(detector beeping)

GARY:
I got a hit.

I think that could be
in that wood.

On it. It's in there.

-That's it?
-It's on top.

GARY:
Look at that. That's gorgeous.

-GARY: Look at that.
That's gorgeous.
-ALEX: Yeah?

-It's a piece of wood.
-NARRATOR: While excavating

near the stone road

in the southeast corner
of the swamp,

metal detection expert
Gary Drayton,

Alex Lagina and Billy Gerhardt

have just found
a potentially important clue.

GARY:
Yep, there's definitely
some iron here.

You can see it.

-Iron oxide.
-ALEX: Yeah.

Might be the top of the spike.

-I'll set this aside, too.
-Yeah, please.

-ALEX: Well, let's see
what else we can get out.
-Yeah.

(detector beeping)

Yeah, we still got
another hit in here.

Thought there might be.

See if it's there.

(detector beeping)

Let's see.

(pinpointer beeping)

Oh, we got some...

Oh, ho, ho, ho. Look.

ALEX:
Oh.

GARY:
That's the pointy end
of the spike.

Look at the black spike
in the wood.

This is one of those
old rosehead spikes,

by the look of the top,
that bevel on it.

ALEX:
And that would make it
pretty old, right?

GARY:
Oh, yeah, yeah. This is old.

Yeah, a spike like that
looks like it's from

-the 1700s or older.
-Great.

GARY:
This actually might be
a smaller ship spike

-or wharf pin.
-BILLY: This corner
of the swamp,

-it's the one
that just keeps on giving.
-Yeah.

It might indicate
that it was part of a structure.

-Yeah, it's-- it'll help us
with our database.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
An iron spike embedded in wood?

Could Billy Gerhardt be correct

that they offer evidence
of a buried structure?

Before his passing in 2016,

legendary Oak Island
treasure hunter Fred Nolan

reported to Rick Lagina
that he had once found evidence

of a dam feature
in this same area.

A dam that may have been used

to artificially create
the swamp.

Could the team
have just found evidence

of what Fred believed is hidden
beneath the south shore road?

ALEX:
This is gonna mean a lot
to my Uncle Rick.

So, I want to see
what we keep digging up.

Well, that was a heck
of a dig, mate.

-We got a shipload of finds.
-(laughs)

We're gonna be taking a lot
of artifacts back to the lab.

-ALEX: Absolutely.
-BILLY: Yeah.

GARY:
All right, mate,
ready for the next scoop.

ALEX:
Okay.

NARRATOR:
As operations continue
in the swamp

and in the Money Pit area...

MARTY:
As we're all keenly aware,

this structure on Lot 5
has turned into

into a much bigger
rectangular structure.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: ...Rick has joined
his brother Marty,

Jack Begley,
archaeologist Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

in the Interpretive Centre.

If it's literally as big

as we think it is,
then, it's a big deal.

-Yeah. And...
-It's a large structure.

And we're starting
to find more artifacts.

-LAIRD: Mm-hmm.
-NARRATOR: Emma and Laird

have conducted scientific
analysis on an iron artifact

as well as a carved stone

that were found one week ago
in the large foundation

that was recently discovered

below the circular
stone depression on Lot 5,

located on the western side
of the island.

LAIRD:
This is what Jamie called
the "carved stone."

-Mm-hmm.
-I have an idea of what it is.

-So, what is this?
-It's a whetstone.

-MARTY: Oh, is it a whetstone?
-Oh, there you go.

LAIRD:
For sharpening tools.

I would expect knives.

-JACK: Yeah?
-You can see the grooves.

-LAIRD: Right? Yeah.
-RICK: Yeah.

That's a technique
that hasn't changed in forever.

LAIRD:
No, exactly.

NARRATOR:
Although the practice
of sharpening tools

dates back thousands of years,

whetstones, commonly made
from sandstone or slate,

have been used
since the first century AD.

LAIRD:
I'd say that
is the working side.

But the real tell...

I got Emma to XRF it.

Okay, so we get
to know composition?

Uh, even better than that.

NARRATOR:
Earlier this morning,

Emma analyzed the artifacts

using two devices: an X-ray
fluorescence spectrometer

that uses X-rays
to identify the elements

that make up
an object's composition,

and the SkyScan 1273 CT scanner

which emits
nondestructive radiation

to penetrate built-up corrosion,

revealing finer
physical details.

EMMA:
With the XRF,

we can actually see
the iron content where...

-RICK: To know where...
-...they sharpened the-- yeah--

they sharpened
their tools or knives.

MARTY:
That makes it
basically definitive.

-Yeah.
-This was a sharpening tool.

Exactly.

Okay, well, I am curious
about the next one.

LAIRD:
Jamie called this
a decorative piece of iron.

JACK:
And she thought it was

ornately decorating a box.

-And there might have been
a design on it, too.
-LAIRD: Yeah.

MARTY:
Looks like a crochet hook.

The CT scan does show us

-it used to be straight.
-Oh, okay.

EMMA:
So, that's with
its current iron state.

So the red
is the oxidized irons.

And the original iron remaining
is actually this blue color.

There's not a lot left.

-No.
-I don't see any decoration.

We have singularly unique pieces

found in association
with that feature.

And we should compare
that metallurgical analysis

with others found at the site.

Let me just run a comparison,
real quick.

If it matches,
that would be meaningful.

EMMA:
Its aluminum-to-silicon ratio

matches 17th-century English.

Just looking at the spectrum,
the composition,

I'd say it's similar to Phips,
it's just not 100%.

I like that.

NARRATOR:
So far this year,

the team has unearthed
several metal artifacts

in the mysterious foundation
on Lot 5

that have been
scientifically connected

to the 17th-century
English politician

and privateer Sir William Phips.

A man who is believed by some
to have buried up to 50 tons

of Spanish silver and gold
in the Money Pit back in 1687.

LAIRD:
You can see

the two, uh,
structural failures.

NARRATOR:
Could the team have found

another critical clue
to identify

who constructed
the mysterious feature on Lot 5?

If so, might that also explain

the high-trace evidence
of precious metals

that have been detected
in the Baby Blob

or in Aladdin's cave?

RICK:
We have a match
between metallurgy of items

found on the Lot 5 feature

with artifacts from
the Phips residence in Maine.

You can't throw out

this Sir William Phips
connection to Oak Island.

I think it was buried
for a reason.

LAIRD:
I think the key lies

beneath the rocks
at the very bottom.

-Yeah.
-RICK: These things

in front of us indicate

it's important to keep going on,
but in order to do that,

-we got to get out back.
-Let's do it.

So, Laird, thank you.
Emma, thank you.

-Okay. Take care.
-See you.

-MARTY: Let's do it.
-RICK: Let's go.

NARRATOR:
The following morning...

TERRY:
15-ish more feet to go,
gentlemen,

-and we're away to the races.
-ALEX: All right.

...in the Money Pit area,
Alex Lagina

and other members of the team
are overseeing

the drilling of Borehole KL-15.

A borehole where they hope
to breach a mysterious cavern

known as Aladdin's cave,

located some 150 feet
below ground.

MARTY:
This is the most unique feature

we've found underground
in the Money Pit area.

If we see something in there
worth recovering,

we'll get in it.

COLTEN:
This is gonna be 148.

-148? Okay.
-Yep. 20 per run.

Well, I don't know.

Let's carve it up
and have a look.

CHARLES:
Yeah.

ALEX:
That is bizarre.

TERRY:
We seem to have a line

of demarcation right here

between this very,
very fine material

and that relatively
coarse material.

But we should've went
into the open cavern.

Yeah.

TERRY:
Hey, Mike. How you doing?

-Not too good of news.
-ALEX: Uh-oh.

-Really?
-TEDFORD: Yeah.

-So, we didn't hit it, eh?
-Ah, we did.

-Oh, You did hit it?
-Yeah. Probably about 147.

-What?
-Yeah, and if you look
at this stuff, it's...

like, this is what's
getting pulled into my casing,

-ALEX: Yeah.
-That sandy...

-It's full of slush.
-I think so, yeah.

Our worst-case scenario here
is things have collapsed

-from above.
-Yeah.

So, I'm a little worried
that we had

a collapse down there.
Is that what you think?

Yeah.

ALEX:
I think I'd better
give Rick a call

-and explain
the situation to him.
-Sure.

-RICK: Hey, guys.
-ALEX: Hey.

MARTY:
Hey.

So, we don't have real good news

-regarding the cave.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR: After being alerted
of a potentially devastating

development in the large cavern
known as Aladdin's cave

in the Money Pit area...

I guess
the short explanation is,

there is reason to believe
that the cavity

-may have collapsed.
-What?

NARRATOR:
...Rick Lagina has gathered
members of the team

in the war room
to discuss the situation

with Marty Lagina
and Craig Tester,

who join them
via video conference.

So, here's what happened.

We drilled down
to about 146-ish feet.

And we got some infill.

Obviously, if it collapsed,

the material
had to come from somewhere.

MARTY:
I think that cave is important.

So, I'd be disappointed
if the whole roof fell in.

-Yep.
-Yep.

MARTY:
A plausible location
for some sort

of treasure would be
in Aladdin's cave

because of the fact that
there are high concentrations

of precious metals,
dissolved in the water,

and high amounts
of organic material,

which indicate, perhaps,
wood in the water.

We're not gonna give up
on Aladdin's cave.

ALEX:
It's possible it wasn't, like,
a total collapse of the feature.

Maybe one of the walls gave way
and there was a bit of a slump.

RICK:
Having said that,

we have a lot of data

and I think we need to find
a way to assimilate it all.

Between the camera, the sonar,

let's get a very
competent understanding

of what we have currently

and then decide
how to move forward.

MARTY:
I agree with Rick.

Let's get, I don't know,
maybe Paul and maybe Steve

to just look at all the data
and see what we got.

RICK:
Given what our current
understanding of the cave is,

if a collapse has happened
or a partial collapse,

then we need
to understand it completely

and figure out, you know,
what we can do moving forward.

So it's imperative to gather
all the information we have

about Aladdin's cave,
and from there,

we may be able to try
to learn more about it.

There's a bit of a bright spot
actually which is that

the other hole was one where
we got another vantage point

in the cave
for the, uh, 3D sonar.

And when we put the data
together maybe we'll be able

-to say exactly
what's down there.
-MARTY: We'll see.

All right, guys,
thanks for the update.

Let's just see
what the data suggests.

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

RICK:
All right. See ya.

-ALEX: Talk to you later.
-RICK and CRAIG: Bye.

NARRATOR:
Later that afternoon...

LAIRD: We're gonna
remove these stones.

-Ideally, we want
to see a nice wall.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
...Jack Begley has joined

archaeologist Laird Niven
and other members of the team

as they continue investigating

the mysterious foundation
located on Lot 5

for not only more clues

that might explain
why it was built

but also to determine

if it contains
something of value.

We still don't know
exactly what this is.

One way to find out.

Let's keep digging and
figure out what it is. Yeah.

NARRATOR:
While Laird, Jack, Fiona,

Moya and Lindy
clear soil and debris

away from the stones to expose

more of the structure,
Jamie and Helen will sift

the collected spoils
for artifacts and clues.

Hey, so Laird, we've got this
piece of ceramic from up there.

There's no glaze on it.

It could be white salt glazed.
I think it's stoneware.

Which is mid-16s to mid-1700s.

(chuckling)
I like that.

-Find the rest of it,
please. Thanks.
-Yeah, will do. Okay.

LAIRD:
We're finding a lot of evidence

that this feature,
it could well be

related to William Phips.

But why was it there?

And the obvious connection
would be with the Money Pit.

If you, uh, accept
the assumption that

that was
a large-scale operation.

I'm hoping as we get deeper,

we're gonna find even more
evidence to who built it.

Hey, Jamie.

So, as I'm in here,

I'm noticing that I'm not
finding any more rocks

out here, so it almost
looks like the wall,

maybe it's ending here.

JAMIE:
Hey, Laird.

Kind of getting
interesting over here.

FIONA:
If you look at the angle,

perpendicular
to the possible wall there.

It... could it be
the entrance to a cellar?

-Maybe?
-LAIRD: It could.

Could be a staircase?

LAIRD:
That's interesting.

NARRATOR:
A possible staircase?

If it really does lead

to yet another buried level

of the mysterious structure,
then just what might it contain?

It's starting
to look like something.

-I'll jump back in there.
-JAMIE: All righty.

JAMIE:
Stone structures
and features like that are

really interesting for us
because they can tell us

a-a bigger picture story.

We have some indications
that there's actually

more below-ground features
that we haven't seen yet.

♪ ♪

Holy cow!

JACK:
What is that?

JAMIE:
Look at this!

JACK:
Oh, wow.

JAMIE:
Look at this!

-Oh, wow.
-You have got to see this.

-FIONA: Oh, my goodness.
-JAMIE: Isn't that gorgeous?
-LAIRD: How nice.

NARRATOR:
While investigating
a possible staircase

that may lead to another
hidden level

of the stone structure
on Lot 5...

FIONA:
Oh, wow. That's really neat.

NARRATOR:
...archaeologist
Jamie Kouba has just made

a potentially
important discovery.

It's a gorgeous, decorated bead.

Oh, wow.
What would that be made out of?

-Glass.
-JAMIE: That's
what it looks like.

-You think it's Venetian glass?
-LAIRD: I don't know yet.

JACK: What would be
the tell-tale sign

that it is Venetian?

Size, technique,
uh, the chemistry.

-It's actually relatively rare.
-JACK: Whoa.

NARRATOR:
Decorative glass beads
have been traded among cultures

dating back thousands of years
to the times of Ancient Egypt.

However, in 1470 AD,

glassmakers in Venice, Italy

developed a new technique
for mass-producing glass beads

that became renowned
throughout Europe and Asia

as they were not only used

to adorn clothing
and religious relics

but were also exchanged as
a high-valued form of currency.

So we can get a rather
definitive date off of this?

LAIRD:
That's what we're hoping.

This is an important artifact.

And I think it's gonna pull
the date back a bit.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the team

has found a potentially
500-year-old Venetian bead

in the stone foundation
on Lot 5?

If so, could it offer evidence
that the feature is

even older than the team
previously thought possible?

JACK:
The surprising thing is

the amount of different
types of artifacts

that are popping up.

It means that this was
a heavily occupied area

for quite some time.

So, why has it remained
hidden for so long?

This is the first bead
we've found.

JACK:
I hope we find more.

JAMIE:
Yeah. Absolutely.

NARRATOR:
Later that afternoon...

GARY:
I like the look
of this material.

NARRATOR:
...in the southeast
corner of the swamp...

That's good stuff.

NARRATOR:
...Jack Begley has joined

metal detection expert
Gary Drayton

and Billy Gerhardt

to continue searching
for additional clues

and evidence
of buried structures

near the massive stone road.

That is worth digging.

(detector beeping)

I think it's out.

It's a little bit
of some scrappy signal

but see what we've got.

(pinpointer beeping)

It's coming out.

-There it is.
-Oh, wow!

And we've got something
really, really cool.

-Yeah.
-Look at the size of that.

I believe that
that is some kind of fastener.

-Yeah!
-And that looks like
it's wrought iron.

You know, we're talking
1700s or older with this.

Brilliant.

NARRATOR:
A potentially
ancient iron fastener?

Could it be related
to the stone road,

which may have once been part
of a ship's wharf?

Or could it be more evidence
of the buried dam feature

that Fred Nolan claimed
to have found in this area

more than three decades ago?

I can't wait until
it's cleaned up in the lab...

-GARY: Yeah.
-...and we can see
what it really is.

That is a beauty.
Come here, my little beauty.

Oh.

All right, we'll bag it
and keep scanning.

JACK:
Sweet find, Gary.

NARRATOR:
The following morning...

MARTY:
Hey, Carmen.

CARMEN: Good day. Good day.
How are you?

NARRATOR:
...Rick, Craig
and members of the team

meet with blacksmithing expert

Carmen Legge
in the Interpretive Centre

to get his assessment
of several artifacts

that have been
recovered this week

near the stone road
in the swamp.

Where would you like to start?

JACK:
This fastener
that's inside the wood.

CARMEN:
I'm looking at it

and I see one, two
handmade nails inserted along

-inside the bigger item.
-JACK: Any idea on what

it might have been used for,
just based on that?

A lot of times, uh,
things were driven

into walls where you needed

to hang lanterns for light
in tight spaces,

like underground,
to illuminate the space.

NARRATOR:
Could Carmen Legge be correct
that this fastener

may have been used to aid
in the building of a structure

in the southeast corner
of the swamp?

If so, could it be more evidence
that the brackish bog

was artificially made,
as Fred Nolan believed?

JACK:
It makes the next finds
we're gonna show you

even more interesting.

This is a big piece of iron.

Okay.

This is not a-a spike.
It's a tool.

-CRAIG: Oh.
-RICK: So, is it a chisel?

-What is it?
-No. Its-it's...

Yep. Yep.

Might set planking
in a ship, perhaps.

In the timber
construction of a ship.

-Yes.
-What date would you give

-something like this?
-Oh.

Um...

I'm gonna say
1600 to late 1700s.

RICK:
There's always been
the speculation

that a ship
foundered in the swamp

and that it was covered up.

So, why were they there?

And are there any artifacts
at a greater depth?

Maybe Craig, you can help me
sort of straighten this out.

Oh, okay.

This hook is very old.

And why is that?

Because the hooks made
in the later time periods

had a curve in the shank.

This has a straight shaft
coming down and, um,

a heavy curl on the end here.

So I would say that is
definitely not past 1650.

Whoa.

RICK:
Wow.

CARMEN: That is definitely
not past 1650.

And I would even go back
to the 1500s on that.

-Whoa.
-RICK: Wow.

NARRATOR: In the Oak Island
Interpretive Centre,

blacksmithing expert
Carmen Legge

has just given
his expert opinion

that the large hook found one
day ago in the southeast corner

of the swamp could be
more than 500 years old.

The design or the...
stylistically?

The design and the weight of it.

The chain itself...

from here to the ring is also

the same time period
as the hook.

Wow.

Now, each one of these links
are handmade.

However, the three chains
on the end here

-are all machine-made.
-Mm-hmm.

RICK:
Really? So...

basically what you are
saying then, this was, you know,

cannibalized together,
if you will.

And an older piece was
attached to a modern piece.

What would--?
Let's forget this chain.

What would that
have been used for?

A setup like this with
three chains fastened

to a central link was used
to lift or drag things.

A lot of times they would
hang from a boom to load

a cargo onto a harbor.

Like, a chest or a trunk.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the original use of this hook,

and at least part of the chain
connected to it,

were used to move valuable cargo

from a ship onto the stone road

and then to somewhere
on Oak Island

as much as five centuries ago?

If so, who modified
the chain at a later time?

And was it repurposed
in order to hide

something else
of value here, as well?

I think at this point,
given the amount of artifacts

that have been recovered
at the swamp's edge,

that might be related
to ship activities,

there is reason to believe that
there was an old wharf there.

So if you found such
a structure, it had to be

closely associated
with the original work.

We may find more,
and we may find something

that helps us connect the dots.

Carmen, we thank you
very much for your insight.

-You haven't heard
the last of us.
-Well, very good.

-RICK: Thank you.
-CRAIG: Take care.
-JACK: See you, Carmen.

-RICK: That's interesting.
-CRAIG: Yeah, it is.

NARRATOR:
Later that afternoon...

MARTY: Guys, this is going
to be really interesting.

We're gonna talk about
the fabled Aladdin's cave.

NARRATOR:
...in the war room, Rick, Marty

and Craig have gathered
members of the team

for a follow-up meeting
regarding

the mysterious cavern located
some 150 feet deep

in the Money Pit area
known as Aladdin's cave.

These gentlemen have done
a deep dive into it.

And we eagerly await
your findings.

Okay, so we did
several sonar scans

and video scans
for this cave anomaly.

We tagged into it in
a couple different boreholes.

NARRATOR: Because the team
fears that part of the cave

may have collapsed
earlier this week,

Paul Troutman,
surveyor Steve Guptill

and geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

have further processed
all of the visual

and water sampling data that
was previously collected inside

the feature in order
to determine not only

if it could be man-made,
but, also,

if it might contain
something of great value.

So I think I'm gonna jump
into the videos.

On the left is what we recorded.

On the right
is Pro-Hawk's version.

Geez.

NARRATOR: The video files,
which were originally

recorded earlier this year,
have been refined

by Pro-Hawk Technology Group,

a company that specializes
in the enhancement of images

that were originally captured in
harsh or low-lit environments.

STEVE: Yeah, so this is
what everybody noticed.

-MARTY: The bolt.
-STEVE: Yeah.

It's something that looked
completely different

from anything else we'd seen.

MARTY: There is a little
flat area around it, too,

-which is different
than the rest.
-JACK: Oh.

Does that make more sense
that it's human-made?

Why would a bolt be there?

MARTY:
Well, it could be stuck in
a piece of wood like we find.

So let's keep going.

STEVE: I think there is
a feature that you want to see.

There.

You were looking
for right angles,

there's a right angle
we could find.

CRAIG:
Hmm.

That's a pretty
clean right angle.

JACK:
Yeah. That's pretty clean.

MARTY:
What is this?

You wouldn't get
that right angle naturally.

It's been dug out before.

I wonder if this is the opening

that we're looking for.

that we're looking for.

MARTY:
Wow.

-STEVE: You wouldn't get
that right angle naturally.
-Right.

I wonder if this is the opening
that we're looking for.

MARTY:
Wow.

CRAIG:
The flat surface and the corner.

To me, could be
potentially man-made.

That might be.

NARRATOR:
In the Oak Island war room,

Rick, Marty, Craig

and members of the team
have just seen

enhanced video evidence
of a potentially

man-made entrance connected

to the large cavern
known as Aladdin's cave,

located approximately
150 feet deep

in the Money Pit area.

MARTY:
We do see some right angles.

Right angles generally
don't exist in nature.

But it could be
partially collapsed.

The magnitude of it
is yet to be determined.

-There's more. Right?
-There is.

There you go.

So this here is what we deem

to be a possible opening
heading westward.

And so I will show you the sonar

-and it sort of confirms that.
-Okay.

STEVE:
So what you're looking at here

is a bird's-eye view
of the cave.

-North is up,
just for reference. Okay.
-MARTY: Mm-hmm.

So, when we were westward,

-and you can see that opening.
-CRAIG: Yeah.

STEVE: I'm gonna change some
color here, too, and jump down.

So the opening is right here.

Okay.

The sonar images are
quite beautiful and

it certainly suggested
a possible way in.

That's important.

If you can't get in,
nothing can be in there.

STEVE: So, when we look
down at the cavity,

we've got a few different
things to show.

So from this point
to this point is about 25 feet.

North/south is about 15.

And the deepest
portion of the cavity,

-right here,
is about ten feet deep.
-Okay.

And you can see that the cave
sits nicely at 150 feet.

And you can see somewhat
of an opening heading east,

somewhat of an opening
heading west.

-MARTY: Right.
-Perfect.

Okay, so, Ian,
what does that tell you?

To me, I see this connected
to some man-made features.

But the bottom line is,
it's collecting gold

and silver values
in that cavity.

-And the wood.
-Yeah.

-So either the wood's in there.
-MARTY: Right.

Or is it connected
to a structure

-where wood is?
-Right.

And is that where
the metals are coming from, too?

Right. Yep.

And when you guys are ready,
we've got one more video.

Okey doke.

-Go for it.
-So last video.

We're looking
into the cave here.

So we're
just coming down into it.

So, this is in
the southern edge of the cave.

And there's a look at the floor.

Looks like it might be
sort of collapsed

around the debris
that's all fallen in.

MARTY: I'd say this thing
has collapsed over time.

-Yeah.
-Maybe...

it hides the evidence
of what you're looking for.

-Right? If they...
-Mm-hmm.

JACK:
I'd really like to put a caisson

in that because I want to bring
some of that material up

and wash through it.

'Cause if there is bits of wood,

or anything in there,

you know, then it could lead on
to more discoveries.

MARTY:
Yeah. I agree with that.

-Yeah, let's do that.
-CRAIG: Right.

-I would say so. Yeah.
-MARTY: You would?

Okay.

RICK:
Aladdin's cave

continues to provide
tantalizing clues.

The levels of metals
and the levels of organics

suggest strongly the presence
of something there.

The clues strongly suggest
there's a reason

to put a caisson in that area.

MARTY: We don't see
what we hoped to see,

that being man-made objects.

But a collapse would hide what
could've been on the floor.

I don't know
when we're going to get

back to it, but it is
certainly on the list.

I think everybody in this room
still believes

that there's a very intriguing,
compelling mystery here.

And that is a good thing.

MARTY: All right, I think
we're done here for today.

-Good job, gentlemen.
-Thank you.

Thank you very much.

-Okay. Let's go.
-Fair enough.

NARRATOR: At the end of
another week on Oak Island,

Rick, Marty, Craig
and their team are facing

the most daunting challenges
they have ever encountered

in their quest to solve
a 229-year-old mystery.

However, the clues

and evidence of hidden valuables

that they continue to unearth
all across the island

suggest that the answers
they seek

are well worth the pursuit.

And perhaps
it's just a matter of time

before the ultimate reward,

which could rewrite
North American history,

will finally be theirs.

Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...

-GARY: Can you go deeper, Billy?
-Definitely.

GARY:
Whoa!

JACK:
There's a structure.

These are massive.

A piece of Oak Island history.

Whoa!

I hit the void at 183.

That's what we want.

Do you think we hit the anomaly?

What we have here is
a void that encapsulates

-the Chappell structure.
-Yeah!

That's the treasure
of the Money Pit

that was never recovered.

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