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

That is part of a larger
human-made structure.

A rock like this
came from an excavation.

Nolan's Cross was created
to locate

the treasure in the Money Pit.

This drilled stone is
perfectly half the distance

to Nolan's Cross.

Things are starting

to line up. It makes sense.

-RON: You ready?
-COTE: There you go.

MARTY:
Yeah, baby!

RICK: That's like
the original Money Pit.

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, Ian,
this is one of the reasons

why we asked you to come down.

-Sure.
-It's this relationship,

if there is one, between
the stone and that little,

-uh, stone walkway,
we'll call it.
-Mm-hmm.

NARRATOR: As another day
begins on Oak Island

for brothers Rick

and Marty Lagina and their team,
they are hoping

that a recently
unearthed discovery

in the triangle-shaped swamp

might offer new critical clues

that will help them solve
a 229-year-old mystery.

So what are your thoughts
upon initial observation?

Yeah. This feature that Bill's

uncovering, that...

is very suspicious to me,

especially
the angularity of the rocks.

Right.

Rick, there's something
curious about this boulder.

NARRATOR: One week ago,
while digging just north

of the potentially
500-year-old stone road--

or ship's wharf--
in the southeast corner

of the swamp, the team uncovered

what appeared to be
another stone walkway

leading to a massive boulder.

JACK: And this boulder
is about the size

of some of those
other Nolan's Cross rocks.

RICK:
Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Curiously, the boulder

at the end
of the believed walkway

bears a striking resemblance

to the five cone-shaped boulders

that were discovered in 1981

by the late Fred Nolan,

which form
a perfectly symmetrical,

megalithic cross.

I think what we should do
is get Billy to wash this.

-Mm-hmm. Okay.
-That would help us

understand
if this is human-made.

The why is gonna be
very difficult.

-JACK: Yeah.
-Billy, you're up.

Okay.

NARRATOR:
Now the team is hoping

that geoscientist
Dr. Ian Spooner

can determine
not only if this feature

was indeed constructed by man

but also when it may
have been created

and what sort of function
it might have served.

There is part of what I call
the book about Oak Island.

Some of those pages
are yet to be written

about what the swamp holds,

what the mysteries are within,

and why that work was done.

Good?

That should be fine.
Just let it drain.

Okay.

RICK:
I don't think you'll ever come

to a conclusive answer
to this mystery

without understanding
what happened in that bog.

What stands
out to me is this stone

and this stone,
this stone and this stone,

all in a line.

When there's nothing
over to the right-hand side.

-That's not natural.
-Mm-hmm.

I-I'm pretty confident
it's a human-made structure.

Hmm.

But what I do know is,

a rock like this
didn't come from the beach.

And my contention is,
a lot of the rocks

from this came from
an excavation, not from a beach.

From excavations, like
the digging of the Money Pit.

IAN:
Something like that.

NARRATOR: The rocks that
form the mysterious walkway?

A geological type
that would have come

from deep underground?

Could Jack's notion
that they were placed

in the swamp
by those who created

the original Money Pit
be correct?

Or, since the team
has found evidence

throughout the swamp
suggesting that it may be

an entirely
artificially made feature,

could these rocks have come
from a deep excavation

that was conducted
in order to hide something

of great value
right in this area?

RICK:
The more you dig,

the more you look in-in the body

of the swamp proper,
you find human constructs.

Why are they there?

They imply purpose, intent.

I do believe

that we can connect these dots.

-Hey, guys.
-IAN: Hey, Steve.

-BILLY: Hey, Tom.
-Good to see you.

So, what you see
is what you see, but...

I'll let the two of you
describe what you know.

Yeah. What we know is,
the stones are placed by people.

-Mm-hmm.
-Um...

It's kind of almost a little bit
like a mini stone road.

-Well, that's what I'm seeing.
The similarity.
-STEVE: Yeah.

You have a grade elevation, so

to me it looks like
at least a ramp of some sort.

I think the next steps
are to leave this.

And we haven't
gone to the other end.

We need to continue

-looking for features.
-RICK: Yeah.

For now, that shoreline
is the most important area.

-That's where people traveled.
-RICK: Mm-hmm.

Well, now let's just
take a look over there.

And we let Billy loose
and keep digging.

Sure.

JACK:
Let's keep digging.

I mean, who knows what else
we're gonna find around here?

NARRATOR:
While the investigation proceeds

in the triangle-shaped swamp...

CHARLES:
Hey, Scott.

SCOTT:
Hey, Charles.

CHARLES:
So where are we today?

So, as you can see here,

the boys are
just working on deepening

-the shaft here right now.
-CHARLES: Okay.

NARRATOR:
In the Money Pit area,

Scott Barlow
and Charles Barkhouse

are supervising
the operation to deepen

the mid-18th century structure
known as the Garden Shaft

down to a depth of some 95 feet.

-SCOTT:
That was a good grab there.
-CHARLES: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
An operation that may soon
lead the team to the valuables

that people
have been trying to find

since the treasure hunt began

in 1795.

They're probably
within a foot or two

above where the top
of the tunnel should be.

-Wow.
-So, they've been

making good progress.
They're excited today.

I can't wait to see it.

Yeah, you and I both.

NARRATOR:
In the coming days,

representatives
from Dumas Contracting Limited

will finish installing
the final set

in the Garden Shaft extension,

where they hope to breach
a seven-foot-high tunnel

that may not only be
as much as 400 years old

but which leads to an area
that has been dubbed

the Baby Blob.

It is in this region
where the team has obtained

water samples from
previously drilled boreholes

that indicate
a large cache of silver,

gold and other metal objects
could be buried

between depths
of 80 and 120 feet.

At this stage,
based on what we see,

it is quite possible
that this is

not a searcher tunnel, meaning

a depositor tunnel.

And we still have
the anomalous metals

in the water
near the Garden Shaft.

So we have to get
to the bottom of that.

CHARLES:
Shouldn't be too much longer

before they, uh, reach
that top of the tunnel.

SCOTT:
I'll see what they have to say.

Hey, Ronnie. Can you hear me?

SCOTT:
How is it down there?

Okay. Well, we'll let you
get back to work.

You're doing a great job.

SCOTT: We're really looking
forward to it, thanks.

NARRATOR:
As the search operations
continue on Oak Island...

...later that afternoon...

DOUG: These field trips are
usually quite rewarding.

SCOTT:
Absolutely.

This is the printshop.

...Scott Barlow

and Oak Island historian
Doug Crowell

have traveled
some 50 miles northeast

to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Hey, Joe.

-Hi.
-Good to see you again.

-Good to see you.
-NARRATOR: Here,

they have arranged to meet
with ancient documents

and leather expert Joe Landry
at Dawson Print Shop

to have him examine part

of a potentially ancient shoe
that was discovered

two weeks ago in the southeast
corner of the swamp.

So, we uncovered a stone road,
if you will, in the swamp.

-Sure.
-And this was found
just off to the side of it.

It was found by Rick and Gary

when they were out
there metal detecting.

DOUG:
It'll be curious to see what
Joe thinks of this shoe leather.

Hopefully,
he can confirm that that is

what it is and give us
an idea of the age of it.

Oh, yes.

Wow.

Well, this is hand-stitched.

I mean, it's very fine work.

This is a shoe or light boot,
by the looks of things.

-Okay.
-And it would have been
a gentleman's boot.

-Interesting.
-JOE: Yes.

DOUG: Does the leather
itself tell you anything?

Well, it appears to be
a vegetable tan leather.

When you say a vegetable tan,
that's just,

basically they were using
a vegetable to color it?

JOE: That's right.
That's one of the earliest

-forms of tannage.
-DOUG: Oh, really?
-SCOTT: Really?

-Yeah.
-DOUG: Can you tell anything

from the stitching what age
this shoe may have come from?

JOE:
Yeah.

You're talking late 1600s,

early, uh, 1700s.

-Oh, wow.
-That's great.

-Oh, wow.
-That's great.

SCOTT:
Absolutely.

s.

Well, as you can see,
this is amazing,

something like this still intact
after all those years.

-It is well preserved,
I'll say that.
-JOE: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
At the Dawson Print Shop
in Halifax, Nova Scotia...

That, uh, that's beautiful,
beautiful work.

...leather expert Joe Landry

has just given his assessment

that the piece
of a leather boot,

which was recently found
near the stone road

in the Oak Island swamp,

could date back
more than a century

before the discovery
of the Money Pit.

Who would have worn
a boot like this?

Well, it would have
been an officer...

...you know, who could afford
a fine boot like this,

rather than
a general crew member.

SCOTT:
Well, I find that
very interesting

because it speaks to somebody
who wasn't doing the work

but probably dictating the work.

DAN L.:
Yes. And this, it's,
uh, quite plain to see,

was, uh, was hand-stitched.

This would have been more likely
done in Europe and brought.

-DOUG: Oh, really?
-SCOTT: Really?

DAN L.:
Yes. Yeah.

It speaks to me of French work.

Although, you know,
it was practiced quite widely.

So, at this point, we can't
rule out the Portuguese,

the French, or the British.

-They all remain suspects.
-DAN L.: Or even the Spanish.

I mean, they did
fine leather work as well.

DOUG:
Joe's observations are pointing

to pre-discovery
of the Money Pit.

I mean, this is important
for the search

because we're always
trying to figure out

what to investigate further...

It's a possibility
that this was the toe.

DOUG:
...what needs further testing,

and this lines up with
so many of our artifacts.

NARRATOR:
Has the team found another
critical piece of evidence

that could help them
narrow in on the identity

of those who created
the stone road

and the recently
uncovered walkway

and boulder feature
in the swamp?

If so, could it also help reveal

who was responsible
for the high-trace evidence

of precious metals
that have been detected

in the Money Pit area?

DOUG:
We knew when it was leather

that you were the man
to come and see first.

SCOTT:
Yeah. We really appreciate
your input on this.

-Yeah, you're quite welcome.
-Until next time.

-That was interesting.
-Very.

NARRATOR:
As Doug and Scott
begin their return journey...

RICK:
Miners reporting for duty.

...back on Oak Island...

-(laughter)
-Oh, yeah.

RON (over radio):
Coming down.

The boys are calling you
the Silver Fox.

NARRATOR:
...Rick and Marty Lagina

are about to join the operation

to help Dumas reach
the potential treasure tunnel

located just below
the Garden Shaft.

What are we gonna do? Explain
to us what we're gonna do.

So, uh, we got to excavate
a little bit more.

We got to chip
some of that clay.

-Right.
-And then we can put
another set in.

-Okay.
-We're now at 90, 93 feet.

You've got to be within two feet
then, something like that.

-Yeah, somewhere
around there. Yeah.
-MARTY: Yeah.

Well, let's get suited up

and have a go at this,
big brother.

NARRATOR:
Before Dumas
can finish construction

on the final wooden set

that will extend the
Garden Shaft into the tunnel,

several feet of hard clay
must be removed.

It is a task that Rick and Marty

are more than eager
to help complete.

MARTY:
Well, it's gonna be exciting.

To go down in that shaft
and actually do some digging

and maybe be part of unearthing
an original tunnel

would be incredibly gratifying.

All kinds of thoughts
are streaming through my head.

I mean, you can't help it.
This is an exciting moment.

RICK:
Ready.

MARTY:
We're gonna go down deep

into the Garden Shaft,
big brother and I.

-COTE: All set.
-MARTY: Let's go.

My brother and I
are gonna be miners.

And our heritage is mining.

Our grandfather came here
in order to work

in the mines out of Michigan.

It's really an amazing thing
that's happening here.

A confluence of heritage.

COTE:
Very good.

MARTY:
That's right. Now we can begin.

Marty, that's gonna
be your corner over there.

-That's your baby over there.
-That corner over there? Okay.

RON:
Yours is called the Destroyer.

-Mine is?
-Yeah. Yours is the Destroyer.

-MARTY: All right.
-RON: You got Big Betsy.

-Cool.
-MARTY: Well, here's
the deal, Rick.

You could be standing
a couple feet above

the tunnel
we've been looking for

for at least two years.

-Right there.
-More than could. We are.

Okay. Well, let's get busy.
How do you work this thing?

RON:
Okay.

A little bit at a time?
Yeah. Okay.

-Pump going on.
-DAN (over radio): Pump on.

RON:
Silver Fox and his brother
are ready to go.

(laughter)

(hissing)

(clattering)

NARRATOR:
In order to break up
the hard clay below the shaft,

Rick and Marty are using
a pneumatic jackhammer.

Then, representatives
from Dumas Contracting Limited

will use the three-ton
hammer grab tool

to remove the materials.

-MARTY: Yeah, baby!
-COTE: There you go.

There you go.
You're getting the hang...

-(rattling)
-(indistinct shouting)

Work your way around.

This is no job for old men.

(laughter)

Jackhammers themselves
weigh 60 or 70 pounds.

They tend to get stuck
in the clay.

It is some of the hardest work
I've done in many years.

All right. Break time.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

RICK:
In the moment,

I'm an eyes and boots guy.
I'm down there.

I want to get that clay
out of the hole.

I want to find the tunnel.

I, I didn't think of much else,
to be honest.

(rattling)

MARTY:
What do you think you hit?

The last spade bit,

I thought I hit
something different.

See that?

MARTY:
Oh, yeah.

Try digging right up there.

Look at that. It's nothing.

RICK:
It's really soft. Get me a bar.

-Do you have a bar down here?
-COTE: Yeah. Right there, Rick.

MARTY:
Right there by your hand.

COTE:
The other one's right there.

RICK:
I thought, at the bottom
of the spade bit,

that I was on top of something.

And I thought, "Wow, wow,
maybe, maybe I'm on a tunnel."

NARRATOR:
Could Rick Lagina's speculation

that he may have reached
the mysterious--

and potentially ancient--
tunnel be correct?

If so, the team may be
closer than ever

to the answers and reward
that they've worked

for more than a decade
to uncover.

Yeah. "Right there"
is a relative term,

though, isn't it,
with this stuff?

"Right there" is
a relative term.

All right, well, we got
it all loosened up for you.

So, now the hammer grab
is gonna come down?

-Yeah. We'll hammer grab.
We'll clean that hole.
-Yep.

Wood, uh, delineates
man-made things,

obviously,
when it's way underground.

So we need to keep going.

We could be closer
than we've ever been

to this actual treasure,
or to where it was deposited.

So, when we start
doing the tunnel,

you guys are gonna
come down for a day or what?

Yes! Yes.

-Try to keep us out.
-That's gonna be an experience.

That would be cool.

That would be cool.

We got to be really close.
We got to be.

COTE:
Yeah, we are.

NARRATOR: As a new day
begins on Oak Island...

ST. LOUIS:
One, two.

(grunting)

Beautiful.

NARRATOR:
...while representatives

from Dumas Contracting Limited

finish extending
the Garden Shaft

down to the believed treasure
tunnel in the Money Pit area...

RICK:
So, gentlemen,

I have no need

to introduce Chris Morford
to everyone here.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina
along with other members

of the team
meet once again

with author
and 32nd degree Freemason

Chris Morford in the war room.

In recent years,

Chris and his research partner
Corjan Mol

have assisted the team
both on the island

and in numerous
destinations across Europe

to investigate
the incredible theory

that the medieval order
of the Knights Templar,

and their believed descendants,
known as the Freemasons,

made repeated visits
to Oak Island

between the 12th
and 18th centuries

in order to hide items

of great historic
and monetary value.

I very much look forward
to the presentation.

I think it's going
to be informative

and-and quite interesting,
so please proceed.

Oh, thank you, Rick.
Thank you, everybody.

What I'd like to discuss today
is an alignment

that I found with Nolan's Cross.

NARRATOR: Now, in light
of the team's ongoing efforts

to locate the source of precious
metals that have been detected

in the Money Pit area...

CHRIS:
So, you can see here
Nolan's Cross.

...Chris has conducted
new research

that he believes
could help them pinpoint it

using the megalithic boulders
of Nolan's Cross.

CHRIS:
Now, who placed the stones there
as well as why

is a question that has been
nagging all of us for decades.

So, why go through the trouble

of moving these enormous stones

into such an arrangement?

I believe this structure
was built by the Templars.

And the Templars may have used
the alignment of Nolan's Cross

to guide us to the treasure.

Wow.

CHRIS:
This treasure is said to be no
less than the Holy Grail itself.

This goes back to the research
that Corjan and I have done.

I do believe that the original
Temple Menorah

was safeguarded here

to make way
for the new Jerusalem

and the new temple.

NARRATOR:
Between the 12th
and 14th centuries,

the military order
of the Knights Templar

fiercely battled
for Christian interests

in the Middle East and Europe

during the holy wars
known as the Crusades.

After building
their headquarters on the site

of the original Temple
of King Solomon in Jerusalem,

they accumulated vast riches

by establishing the world's
first banking system.

However, some believe
that their great treasure

also included priceless relics

that they discovered
during excavations

beneath the temple ruins,

including
King Solomon's golden menorah

and the Holy Grail.

In 1307, the order was disbanded

and persecuted by the Pope
and the king of France

over controversial
charges of heresy.

Many were imprisoned
and executed.

However, their
believed sacred treasures

have never been found.

Is it possible that
some of these relics

are buried on Oak Island,
as Chris Morford believes?

And could Nolan's Cross
hold the key

to locating where
they are buried?

CHRIS:
Now, I spent
a lot of time wondering

what clues would
these knights have left

for the future brothers

to locate the treasure

so that their enemies
or the uninitiated

would not be able to find it.

Nolan's Cross
could be the answer.

I needed a first step,

and the most obvious to me

was Stone C, up on the beach.

This would be the only stone
visible from a ship.

As you leave Cone C,

of course, you will hit Cone A.

They actually have
a nice sight line to each other,

and straight to the Money Pit.

But still you would need markers

to help you get from that point

to the Money Pit

because it's pretty easy
to wander off course.

I saw, on some updated maps
you have, that

there were two drilled stones.

Remarkably, they were
right on that line.

It seems to me
they were intentionally

put there as markers.

STEVE:
Yep. We had one on Lot 15

and the other one was
on the Nolan property.

Well, remember now,
there was another drilled stone

in the Money Pit area
that Frederick Blair found.

CHARLES:
Yes.

NARRATOR:
In 1895,

treasure hunter Frederick Blair

discovered a mysterious drilled
stone in the Money Pit area.

Although the stone was moved

during future
searcher excavations,

its original location
was marked on a survey

conducted by Charles Roper
in the 1930s.

More than three decades later,

Fred Nolan noted
two additional drilled stones

during surveys that he conducted

between the swamp
and the Money Pit.

Could Chris Morford be correct

that these drilled stones
were related to Nolan's Cross

and placed as markers
in order to help pinpoint

the location of
the fabled Oak Island treasure?

CHRIS:
So, when you get
to the Money Pit area,

I would think that
there was a marker there,

and then from there
you would know where to dig.

JACK:
We should get
proper measurements

and see if we can have it
align through the Money Pit.

'Cause what are
the chances we run into

these two drilled stones
right through Cone A and Cone C?

And maybe we can project

where the Money Pit was.

RICK:
That could be highly relevant.

Chris, do you believe
that Templars or descendants

or versions of the Templars

came and did the work here?

Either is plausible.

RICK:
It's so romantic to think

that the Templars come to this
tiny, nondescript island,

they do this
incredible amount of work,

and then Chris has taken that

to help put an "X" on
the ground on Oak Island.

It doesn't prove anything,

but the line created by Cone C,

the drilled stones, and Cone A

may ultimately
assist us in finding

the original Money Pit,
and that's the goal.

Chris, I certainly
believe that research is

a huge component to
figure out what happened here

on this island long ago.

So the debt of gratitude

lays on our heads
and our shoulders to you.

Thank you so much.

We should check that projection
of Nolan's Cross.

It's always important
to put eyes and boots.

It's always important
to put eyes and boots.

-Okay.
-RICK: Having said that,

-let's get back to work.
-ALEX: Thanks, Chris.

CHRIS:
Thank you.

RICK:
So, Tom,

I suppose you're wondering why

we asked you to
come out today, right?

Well, I know
roughly where we are here,

-as I look at that.
-RICK: Exactly.

-Cone C of Nolan's Cross.
-TOM: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Following their meeting

with 32nd degree Freemason
Chris Morford,

Rick Lagina and Steve Guptill

join fellow Oak Island
landowner Tom Nolan

on his property at Cone C,

the northernmost boulder
near the shoreline,

which marks the so-called
left arm of Nolan's Cross.

We had a theorist come.
Chris Morford.

-You're quite familiar with him.
-Yep.

RICK:
He made an association between

Cone C, Cone A,

drilled stones, and alignment

-to the Money Pit.
-Wow.

NARRATOR:
It is Rick's intention
to have Steve,

a professional surveyor,

track the line from Cone C

through several drilled stones,

as well as Cone A
of Nolan's Cross,

and, finally, to
the Money Pit area,

where Chris Morford believes

the precise location of
the fabled Oak Island treasure

may be buried deep underground.

-Okay. Let's go.
-Let's go.

RICK:
We're all excited.

We want to measure it ourselves,

we want to walk the line,

and hopefully we corroborate

what Chris has suggested.

We have to find out
where it goes,

specifically in the Money Pit.

STEVE:
All right, so this is

-our first drilled stone.
-RICK: Yep.

And for reference,
I'll tag it again.

Okey doke.

All right, let me
take you to Cone A.

-RICK: Okay.
-TOM: Okay.

STEVE:
So, I'm gonna do my best
to actually walk the line.

RICK:
As we walk that line,

we know the elevation
will change,

thus the reason
for the drilled stones.

The purpose is to draw

an alignment between Cone C

and perhaps
the location of a treasure.

STEVE:
All right, so, I mean,
we all know this is Cone A.

-RICK: Yep.
-STEVE: I'm gonna tag it

and then calculate
the next point.

RICK:
Okay.

Got it.

-Got it.
-Thank you.

All right, we've got it there.

-Follow me through.
-RICK: Okay.

TOM:
Okay.

STEVE:
So, I'm currently on the line.

-I guess we'll go through here.
-RICK: Yep.

RICK:
As we walk the line,

we're getting closer
to the Money Pit.

I'm excited to

see where it goes.

STEVE:
So, here's
the next drilled stone.

It's right on line.

RICK:
Can I just see that?

STEVE:
Sure can. I'm gonna
tag it while you're here.

RICK:
You see how they would have
turned the chisel?

TOM:
Yes, as they were...
Yeah, as they were going.

So, here's an observation.

This is the exact half point
from Cone C in the water...

-Mm-hmm.
-...to Lot 15,

and the next half
is the Money Pit,

so this is almost perfectly
half the distance.

Hmm.

What are the odds of that?

I don't know. For Chris
to make this observation

and then have
these measurements

lay out as they are?

-Right.
-Quite remarkable. Really is.

I'd be very curious

if it-- half again,
the measurement

-to the Money Pit.
-STEVE: Let's find out.

-Let's find out.
-STEVE: Follow me.

RICK:
It's quite remarkable that
the drilled stone on Lot 15

is exactly halfway
from Cone C to the Money Pit.

So, now, what we need to do

is walk the other half
to the Money Pit.

So, the next stop is
our end point,

so I'll take you
to the end point.

-RICK: Okay.
-TOM: Okay.

STEVE:
Watch your step here.

So, the final location
of the other half

of the distance
from Lot 15 is right here.

RICK:
Oh, my goodness.

STEVE:
As you can see,

it's not perfectly on the shaft,

but what it is on top of
is the tunnel.

Really?

-Yeah.
-Wow.

RICK:
The bingo point, if you will,

is almost exactly where

the tunnel under
the Garden Shaft is.

Now, that's quite remarkable.

-That's pretty close.
-That's pretty close.

TOM:
That's pretty darn close.

RICK: Remember, the reason
why we're there is

because of the high gold
and silver values,

but to have that line,

based on two of the stones
of Nolan's Cross

and two drilled stones,

land on that corner
of the Garden Shaft,

that's... dramatic.

Now we have
to expose the bottom of

the structure and
exploit that information.

We have to come to
a further understanding

of what this tunnel

-potentially represents.
-Yep.

-We're a ways from that yet.
-TOM: Yeah.

RICK:
But for right now,

there's a lot of work to do,
so let's get to it.

TOM:
Okay. Sounds good.

NARRATOR:
As the operation to deepen
the Garden Shaft continues

in the Money Pit area...

JACK:
I'm really interested
to see what we dig up

over here as we continue
digging along the stone path.

GARY:
Yeah.

NARRATOR: ...Jack Begley

along with Gary Drayton

and Billy Gerhardt
are proceeding with

their excavation to the north of

the newly uncovered
stone walkway or ramp...

JACK:
Let's go.

...where they hope to find

additional evidence
of man-made structures

and buried valuables.

GARY:
Yeah. Well,
let's get back, mate,

'cause we're
running out of room.

There we go. Look.

Whew. Look at the size of that.

That's a big stump.

JACK:
That's a big tree.

Makes you wonder
how big the trees used to be.

Yeah.

It would've took
a big fella to get this down.

This is giving me hope.

Every time I see a trunk
like that coming out,

that means the woods,
the forest,

there's more in there.

Like Dr. Spooner said,
this did not

-used to be a swamp.
-No.

It used to allow trees to grow.

GARY:
Exactly.

NARRATOR:
The stump of a tree,

unearthed from
the deepest area of the swamp?

Because trees cannot generally
grow in bodies of water,

the team has found
more evidence to support

Dr. Ian Spooner's belief
that the swamp was

at least a partially
man-made feature.

No. No metals.

We're metal-less.

But the wood more
than makes up for it.

It's about the context,
and the wood was found

at the very bottom of the swamp,

and it wasn't thrown in later.

This is, this is wood
from a very old source.

NARRATOR:
If Dr. Spooner can successfully

date this stump,
could it help the team confirm

when the swamp was
artificially created?

GARY:
Billy!

This was perfect timing, mate,

getting these interesting
pieces of wood out.

We know that that storm's
coming from down south,

-and we are gonna get drenched.
-BILLY: You can feel it.

-The air is changing.
-GARY: 'Cause, I mean,

the swamp's gonna
fill up for sure.

Those stumps are pretty unique.

We should get Rick down here
to take a look at 'em.

Oh, we will. Yeah.

Oh, we will. Yeah.

Yeah. Great work, Billy, mate.

-See you later, mate.
-JACK: See you, Bill.

GARY: Ah, what a glorious day
to be in the swamp, Rick, eh?

New day.

A fresh dig.

NARRATOR:
As another day dawns
on Oak Island

Rick Lagina has joined
Gary Drayton

and Billy Gerhardt
to continue their investigation

near the middle
of the triangle-shaped swamp.

There might be a story here
that we're standing on

and don't even know it.

Yeah. Right.

Let's find some good stuff.

NARRATOR:
Because a heavy
overnight rainstorm

has partially refilled
the brackish bog,

the team is now excavating
several feet to the north

of where they discovered
a large tree stump--

and possible evidence
of ancient human activity--

just one day ago.

GARY:
Pulling up another stump.

Billy, hey!

That layer there,

-that's a change.
-BILLY: Right.

A significant change.

How did it go
from forestland-- and when--

to a deepwater cove?

BILLY:
I think it might prove

when somebody did
something here.

Yeah.

RICK:
We know that,

according to Dr. Spooner,

and certainly the evidence
is there, that...

at one point,
the swamp was forested.

Well, now the key question is,
was that manipulated?

Hopefully, Dr. Spooner can
provide us with some answers.

RICK:
Oh, oh, oh.

BILLY:
Is that a trunk
and a notch there or not?

GARY:
It's all uneven,
like it was axe-cut.

BILLY:
If that broke off, the log
should be laying right there

beside it, I think.

-Oh, absolutely.
-BILLY: Right?

And it's not...

-RICK: It's not there.
-It's not there.

It's just not there.

Somebody took the logs...

-Yep.
-Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

...for something.
Maybe to build the Money Pit.

NARRATOR:
Could Billy Gerhardt be correct,

that long ago,

trees were removed from this
area when it was dry land...

in order to construct
the nine wooden platforms

of rounded logs that were
reportedly discovered

more than two centuries ago
in the original Money Pit?

Yeah, I don't know.

-We need Dr. Spooner
to weigh in...
-GARY: Yeah, for sure.

...to see if he can date
when that event happened.

Okay. For right now,
I've got to take off.

You guys are in charge.

Hopefully you'll find
some more things.

-Okay, mate.
-Thanks, Billy.

-BILLY: Yep.
-GARY: Good luck.

NARRATOR:
As Gary and Billy
continue their excavation

for answers in the swamp...

...later that afternoon...

COTE:
So, it seems like we hit
your target. Finally.

-You found her.
-COTE: Yeah.

(laughter)

NARRATOR:
...Rick Lagina,

Scott Barlow, and Craig Tester

have just received
long-awaited news.

After extending the Garden Shaft

to an approximate depth of
95 feet in the Money Pit area,

representatives
from Dumas Contracting Limited

have finally reached a believed
seven-foot-high tunnel

that leads toward the Baby Blob

and perhaps a vast cache
of buried treasure.

We can actually see wood.

-Okay.
-COTE: But it's either
collapsed or whatever.

-Who knows what the...?
-Yeah.

COTE:
Yeah, until we uncover
more of it.

-Okay. Get us dressed.
-Well.

-Let's get going.
-COTE: Okay.

RICK:
Hey, finally, we can actually

put eyes and boots
on the tunnel that was found

by the sonic drill program.

You get a little bit of chills.

Let's go take a peek.

It's been frustratingly slow
at times, but it's exciting.

-CRAIG: Good luck, guys.
-We'll take you a pic...

-We'll take you a picture.
-SCOTT: Thanks.

RICK:
If it was original,
it's our belief

that we're talking
hundreds of years ago.

(chuckles) Now, that's--
that raises the bar.

There's hope.
There's promise.

There's...
You might find the one thing.

So I think there are
some answers here.

There you go.

Okay.

Okay, so what are we
looking at here, Paul?

COTE:
So that's where we got
the sample out of the wood.

Do you feel anything?

RICK:
Ah...

Yeah. There's definitely
wood right here.

-I see your bar here.
-COTE: Yeah.

So, we drove that bar

-that was just, uh, for guiding.
-RICK: Yeah.

COTE:
So here's a round log, there.

-RICK: Oh, okay.
-COTE: Okay?

RICK:
Right here, that's wood?

-COTE: That's wood right there.
-RICK: Oh, really?

-See that?
-(laughs)

See, there's
some wood right there.

Yeah.

RICK:
But that's right here.
See that right there?

That looks like wood there, too.

Well, now it gets
exciting, right?

h.

NARRATOR:
It is a historic

and exciting moment

for Rick and Marty Lagina,

their partner Craig Tester,

and their entire team.

You got the crowbar
right there behind you.

NARRATOR: At the bottom
of the Garden Shaft

in the fabled Money Pit area,

a wooden tunnel that may lead

to a legendary cache
of buried treasure

has finally been reached
at a depth of some 95 feet.

RICK:
You know there's
something going on there.

RICK:
You hear that?

Doesn't that sound hollow?

Yeah.

RICK:
Listen to that.

That's, that's one of the beams.

This beam is not hollow
like that.

There's only so much you can see
between the clay, the water,

but it's real.

And that's the important part.

There's a wood
structure down there.

And at that point,
it becomes "Okay,

we can't stop now."

If you want to expose
more of it,

we can add one more section
and then go deeper,

-and that'll give us
another 32 inches.
-Yes.

You-you have to,
you have to go deeper.

-Absolutely.
-RICK: Because the board
this way,

if you pound on it,
sounds hollow to me,

like there's air
and empty space below that.

-SCOTT: Right.
-And that would be,

to me, that would be indicative

of the top of the tunnel.

We did probe the logs

that were in line
with the projection.

It seemed hollow underneath it.

Hit that.
Hit that one timber.

It sounds hollow to me.

SCOTT:
Yep.

RICK:
And the hope is
to extend the shaft

to explore this further.

COTE (over radio):
We'll excavate, squaring off,

and then keep digging.

SCOTT:
It's exciting seeing
round timbers down there

'cause, to me,
round timbers are

a great indication,
it's potentially old.

You, you have to go back
to the original story, right?

You know, logs every ten feet

in the Money Pit.

Logs.
That's the description.

It's an interesting
possible connection.

Round timbers associated
with the original construct

of the Money Pit
and a round timber here.

When I look back
and think about reading

the Reader's Digest article,

it does bring
your mind back to round logs

in the original Money Pit,
round logs in this feature.

And so, I don't have to believe

that we're making progress
at solving the mystery.

I know we are.

If we only saw square timbers
down there,

I'd think that we're more--
into more modern searcher times.

So we'll just square off
the-the excavation

-and we'll add
another section on top.
-Yeah.

And then we'll be ready
to dig for another three feet,

and we'll be right
on top of the structure.

MARTY:
I mean, you can't help
but let your mind go on this.

(chuckles)

After 15 years,

we may be just a few feet
above original works.

It could be it.
It could be the thing!

I am very excited

that this is going
to lead us to a treasure.

Yeah. It's gonna be, uh,

it's gonna be quite a day

when we set eyes
on it completely.

Let's get it done.

Let's figure out

what that tunnel
represents, right?

-COTE: Yeah.
-And where it's going.

SCOTT:
We're gonna find that out
in time.

You know, it's right below us.

RICK:
I think we need to get

-out of their way, Scott.
-SCOTT: I think so.

You guys stay safe
down here. Okay?

Yeah. Thanks for stopping by.

NARRATOR:
For Rick and Marty Lagina,

what began as a childhood dream

may soon be fulfilled
by a discovery

that could rewrite history
as we know it.

Do the ultimate answers
of just who and what was behind

the Oak Island mystery

lie at the end
of a mysterious tunnel

below the Garden Shaft?

Perhaps one more dig
is all it will take.

But as they proceed, they must
also prepare for the unknown,

for the unforeseen
and the unforgiving forces

that have guarded Oak Island's
secrets for hundreds of years.

Next time
on The Curse of Oak Island...

ALEX:
That's deep.

If it dates 1200 on those logs,

that's the same
as the paved area.

AARON SATKOSKI (on monitor):
The Money Pit samples are

the most interesting samples
that we have.

Where do you think
that sample comes from?

Southeast France.

Remarkable.

We're on it.
Oh, oh, oh,

I see something round, mate.

-Oh, it's got a design on it.
-It does.

RICK:
The hurricane is coming.

There's no denying it.

This could be the most
dangerous day on this island.

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