Original subtitles

Now we've got the largest can possible.

-So it's a little bit bigger this year. -Yeah, much bigger. Wow.

The cores show high lead and mercury at the base.

The eye was excavated to extract clay.

We have two anomalies here.

It's like treasure chest anomaly.

We got five different experts saying this is man-made.

-Wow. - We're gonna start slamming can.

- It's time to dig! -Here we go.

Does this one come with a guarantee?

Oh, 100% treasure guaranteed, yep.

Okay!

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,

mysterious fragments of human bone,

and a lead cross whose origin may stretch back

to the days of 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.

The Curse of Oak Island Season 7 - EP 18 - The Turning Point

Subtitles Diego Moraes / Ewerton Henrique www.oakisland.tk

Trucks are on their way, guys.

Good.

As a new day begins on oak island

for brothers rick and marty lagina and their team,

they are about to begin their most ambitious

and expensive operation yet,

in the hopes of finally locating the fabled money pit

treasure shaft and solving

a 225-year-old mystery.

There she is!

-Hi! - Howdy, howdy!

Hey, guys.

Hello, vanessa and team.

-Hey, guys. -How are ya?

Today, the team

from irving equipment limited,

along with roc equipment,

are delivering a number of massive steel

caissons, each measuring

eight-feet-wide by 26-feet-long,

as well as the heavy equipment needed to drive and stack them

into the earth down to depths of more than 200 feet.

I don't know if you guys can see that our can's a little

-bit bigger this year. It's a little bit bigger.

We've got a lot of washing to do.

You've got a lot of washing to do.

Unlike the 60-inch-wide shafts

that the oak island team has put down in recent years,

these larger caissons will allow them to excavate

and search through more than twice the amount of earth

or spoils for any evidence of the fabled chappell vault

first reported by searchers in 1897,

at a depth of more than 150 feet underground.

We've pushed the envelope here.

The-the thing that has been so difficult about the money pit,

is you don't know if you miss it by a centimeter

or a millimeter or five feet.

Well, now we've got the largest can possible

to try to encompass as large an area as possible.

How much can is here?

We brought up 210 feet.

-That should do. -Yeah.

So we'll need to leave, you know,

six to eight feet through the oscillator,

so we'll be able to get down to 202 for you.

Do you think you'll get to 202?

We'll see we brought up a different set of teeth,

and it's placed a little bit different, and we

did our starter can as a two-inch wall,

the entire thing versus just the cutting shoe,

so, you know, and we got a lot, a lot more weight this year.

So the starter can last year only weighed 30,000 pounds.

This year's starter can weighs 54,000.

-Wow. -So almost twice.

This project is completely different

than any other project we do.

But I've been pulled on this adventure.

And as-as rick says, I'm invested.

So we were very excited to be able to come back up

and have another shot to help them find

and discover and get their answers.

You got a location this year?

We got a pretty good target down deep,

-which would explain a lot. - We've done a lot

of research and we really believe

we've located what we believe to be the money pit.

Earlier this year,

rick, marty, craig and members of the team

conducted an extensive core-drilling operation

in the money pit area.

This led to the discovery

of numerous compelling clues..

Whoa! This is hand-cut.

This is cut with an axe.

That is quite remarkable.

...Including axe-cut wood

from a mysterious wooden structure

at a depth of some 106 feet

in a borehole known as fg-12.

A wooden structure that when carbon tested,

proved to date back more than a century

before the discovery of the original money pit

in 1795.

We spent most of the summer getting ready, really, to dig.

We haven't done a lot of true exploration till,

till you guys arrived, so we're ready now.

-Now it's time to dig. Yeah. -It's time to dig!

While the teams from irving equipment limited

and roc equipment

begin their extensive preparations

at the money pit dig site...

Hey, guys.

...Rick lagina heads over to

the triangle-shaped swamp where other members of the team,

along with geoscientist, dr. Ian spooner,

are continuing to investigate a mysterious formation

of boulders and other stones near the northernmost point.

Also known as the "eye of the swamp,"

the team believes this strange area,

where no vegetation seems to grow,

may represent the "all-seeing eye,"

a symbol whose origins date back to the ancient egyptians.

The symbol was also adopted and made sacred

by the order of medieval warrior monks

known as the knights templar,

as well as their descendants, the freemasons.

It is also where oak island theorists chris morford

and corjan mol believe could mark the location

of a vast treasure vault.

you look a bit exasperated.

Well, uh...

This material, I'm almost, you know, 95

to 98% certain I think gary's

got a sample of it up there.

There's a piece here.

-You see the organic matter here? -Mm-hmm.

-Yep. -We got this organic material, then into the gray material.

In the surface, it's obviously been heavily compacted.

So the only way you can really

get that in my books is to have the rock...

Come in later.

Yeah.

The theorists presented

a very compelling case

that the stone is bang on to the theory.

You know, we looked at some samples

we took before from here.

And so in the bottom of the core,

we get this high mercury and high, high, um, lead.

The cores in it show high lead and mercury at the base

and some really interesting things

that speak more specifically to human activity.

High levels of mercury?

And found at the eye of the swamp?

It's not what we see

in all the other environments we have.

Something was going on here, but it's anomalous.

I don't know.

I am trying to figure it out.

Certainly one of the most stunning aspects

of the test results was that

it contained a high level of mercury.

Well, you take that little bit of information and you round

to, certainly, the baconian connection.

Uh, francis bacon had developed a process

by which documents could be preserved with mercury.

The 17th century english philosopher, politician,

and scientist, sir francis bacon

was not only a highly respected member

of queen elizabeth's court,

he was also believed to be the leader of the rosicrucians,

a secret society of intellectuals,

who many believe are responsible for the burial

of a vast treasure on oak island

that included a number of sacred artifacts

connected to the knights templar,

as well as volumes of ancient knowledge.

In his scientific work,

novum organum, published in 1620,

bacon detailed a method for preserving documents

by placing them in sealed containers filled with mercury.

Has the team actually found hard scientific evidence

that supports this incredible theory?

-If you're correct and they, this was dug... -Mm-hmm.

-I'd like to know how deep. -Sure, if you go down

to refusal, then we can see a nice face there.

-Yes. -Yeah.

I think we go back and we lay it out

and see if we see some sort of connection.

But for right now, it's all about, you know, eyes and boots.

So for me, this area was critical

because it shows human activity

that was significant.

That's what we know right now.

We gonna move those rocks over there?

Yep.

This is where they excavated.

And if there's any artifact, I think it'd be

-in here. -If we're gonna find

anything to tell us... Who and when,

or even what,

it's gonna be in this material.

We'll keep working along.

As another day begins on oak island,

and while rick lagina

supervises the teams from irving and roc

as they continue preparations

for a large-scale dig in the money pit area...

Okay, guys.

Here we are. Ian, how are you, sir?

Good to see you back on the island.

-Happy to be here. -Yeah, you know...

...Marty lagina, his son alex,

and archeologist laird niven, along with

fellow oak island landowner tom nolan, meet

once again with geoscientist dr. Ian spooner

at the triangle-shaped swamp.

This is, uh, aaron, aaron taylor.

-Hi, aaron. I'm marty. -Hi, nice to meet you.

Joining them is dr. Spooner's colleague,

archaeologist aaron taylor.

Well, we're really glad you're here.

We have some interesting things

we've dug up in the swamp here.

We're trying to make heads or tails of them.

We seriously welcome your input.

Hopefully, I can help

-in some small way. -Great, let's go.

As a professor of archeology at st. Mary's university

in nearby halifax, aaron has spent

nearly a decade studying historical sites

in both coastal and wetland areas

across nova scotia.

Today, he has been invited to examine

the mysterious stone formations that the team has recently

uncovered in the area,

including at the so-called eye of the swamp,

and the massive stone-paved feature,

or possible ship's wharf, unearthed earlier this year.

This is the so-called paved area.

Yeah, it's a puzzling thing. What do you see here?

-Can I go down a little closer? -You can do whatever you want.

Some of that sediment is from back

this is the low point.

He probably talked about the eye of the swamp.

So, if this was all natural, where why no stumps?

Why no soil? Why no nothing?

Yeah, well, it didn't arrive when the glaciers

in my opinion when the glaciers came through here

and deposited this.

Just because there wouldn't be such a pronounced interface

between the stones and the clay.

I don't mind the first layer of stones.

Like this? This is fine. That's embedded.

But the stones above it, I can't figure it out.

It's incredibly level. There's no stumps.

There's-there's no other place in the swamp like it.

In archaeology, we have an expression:

When in doubt, excavate.

So if we can take a section, excavate it,

that would be interesting, just to see the boundary of it.

Hey, billy, how long would it take to bail that down

so you can see the interface?

Just a couple minutes. Doesn't take long.

-Can you hop in there? -Yeah.

Tom, what are you thinking?

You and the swamp go back a long ways.

We do, marty.

I mean, we were never into it like this

and finding this stuff.

But you don't run into something like this in a bog.

-It's-it's just it's not natural.

That's great.

Like, look at this, and then compare it to over there.

Yeah, totally different.

Yeah. Yeah, that was perfect.

'cause now we see the difference between here and there.

And the till is here. Right there.

And it's lower there, and yet it's a flat surface.

And so, I just don't get it. Other than...

Yeah, that's not 10,000 years old.

No, it isn't.

Aaron, if you had to guess,

-what is this? -I don't know what it is,

but I believe that it was intentionally made.

-Man-made? -Man-made.

So it's just it's too level, in my opinion,

to be a-a naturally occurring thing.

For what it's worth, I'll just tell you.

We have one other spot I'd love to show you, aaron.

-Great. I'd love to see it. -I mean, I think

I think we've puzzled you enough with this one.

Yeah, this is... This is fun.

Let's go look.

I think something like five or six experts

have looked at this, and they're all quite certain

it's a man-made structure of some sort.

So I have to go with that.

And I'm happy that perhaps rick is right;

that the swamp has answers,

that the swamp is a key to this whole thing.

This is the so-called "eye,"

which has the rocks all the way around it.

And then, dr. Spooner believes it was excavated.

And I guess down there in the bottom,

which I can't see right now, it's all nice, smooth clay.

In addition to the large boulders the team has found

at the so-called eye of the swamp,

over the past few weeks, the team has made

a number of equally curious discoveries in the area,

such as blue clay, similar to the kind

reportedly found by daniel mcginnis

and members of the onslow company in 1804

while excavating the original money pit.

The laginas and their team also discovered

a number of tree stumps surrounding the site,

which is unusual, considering the fact that trees

do not commonly grow in wetland environments.

This evidence has given further credence

to the analysis presented earlier this year

by dr. Spooner, suggesting that significant human activity

took place in this area during the late 17th century,

more than 100 years prior to the discovery of the money pit

in 1795.

The deal here was when we cored it, we got a nice record

of sediment that we know goes back about 300 years.

And then, underneath that, we had clay,

and that clay that was disturbed had wood in it.

We dated that 1680.

So, where I'm going with this now is I think the eye,

it was excavated to extract clay.

It was a clay mine. That's what I believe it was.

-If they're mining clay here... -Yeah.

...And there's a substantial amount of clay here...

-And you got to remember this clay would have weighed a lot. -Right.

How would they get the clay out of here?

So what I'm thinking is if that was intentionally leveled,

which we believe it is, why would they do it?

They probably leveled it so that they could get

horse and carts in here.

So I can see them putting it in barrels,

and taking it out.

If dr. Spooner and aaron taylor's theories are correct,

the team might be able to find a direct link between

the blue clay found in the swamp,

and that used in the construction

of the original money pit.

If so, they might be able to determine not only a date

when the treasure shaft was originally built,

but also the identities of those who constructed it.

This concept of dr. Spooner and professor taylor that the eye

was used as a clay mine, that's interesting stuff.

You couple that with the paved area being man-made.

That, to me, would indicate that there was significant

industrial-like activity on the island

long before we thought anything should have happened here.

So... The intrigue of the mystery

has actually intensified.

-Aaron: I think it's man-made. - Okay.

I think here I agree with ian that

-right here they were mining clay. -Okay.

And there's quite possible a connection to

the leveling area and this area.

This is probably the most complex site I've ever been to.

I don't know. It's a mystery.

All right, well, let's all let that rattle around

in our brains for a while, and maybe we can

come up with something.

As usual, we've got more questions than answers,

but you know, you certainly, uh, verified that it looks like

somebody did something in here, so I don't know.

-Thank you very much, aaron. Thank you, dr. Spooner. -Aaron: Yeah, thank you.

- Yep. - Let's go.

Following the day's activities in the swamp...

Hey, guys. Hey, guys. - There they are.

...Marty and alex head to the mug & anchor pub

in nearby mahone bay

to share their findings with rick lagina

and other members of the team.

Just a real brief preamble,

and then I'm gonna let turn it over to alex.

We met with yet another archaeologist

his name is aaron taylor

to check out the man-made question in the swamp,

and tell 'em what tell 'em what happened, alex.

I mean, we basically just took him through the landmarks.

First, we took him to the paved area.

And we also took him to the eye of the swamp.

And he thinks, actually, having seen the clay

that's around there, and having thought about it a while,

he speculated that it could have actually been a clay mine.

And he said, in conjunction with the paved area,

it does make sense that,

if you are mining something like clay, which is very heavy,

you're gonna need a place to get it out of the swamp.

Of all the clays I've seen on oak island,

that was the most pure.

But clay is extremely useful.

I mean, you'd make vessels out of it, too, right?

I mean, pottery.

It was probably used for some works on oak island,

whether it was searcher or depositor.

You know, when experts say 100%, I perk up.

You go to the paved area, we got five

different experts from four different disciplines

saying this is man-made.

It could be two distinctly different things going on:

The money pit treasure story and the swamp story.

So, I hate to say this,

and I know you probably won't even raise your glass, but...

-I may not.

...I'll say just three words.

To the swamp.

-All: To the swamp. -We'll drink to this.

One day after new information was revealed to the team

that could connect man-made activity in the swamp

to the construction of the money pit...

Look at the size of that spherical grab, rick.

- I know. That's huge.

...Rick lagina, oak island historian doug crowell

and surveyor steve guptill jon vanessa lucido and mike jardie

at the money pit area... At the drill site

that the team has dubbed "oc-1."

so you really did bring the big equipment.

Hey, you said let's go bigger this year.

-I think that was my brother. -I wasn't afraid.

He said, "go big or go home." that's what he said.

-Morning. -Morning.

-Morning, vanessa. -Vanessa, good to see you again. -Morning.

Are we on schedule is the real key.

Yeah, I think so.

Hopefully tomorrow we'll be putting the can in the ground.

As the team from irving equipment limited

finishes building the massive frame bridge

around the oc-1 dig site,

a 60-ton rotating oscillator arrives on the island.

Custom-built in south korea, it will be used to drill

the massive eight-foot-wide digging caissons

down into the ground at the money pit area

in search of the original oak island treasure vault.

Well, it's an exciting day today because the oscillator

is coming to the island.

Up till now, the historical research, all the analytics,

all the data acquisition has given us a spot.

But the spot doesn't mean anything

if we can't get underground.

That oscillator is gonna do the trick.

All right, well, it looks like the equipment's getting here.

- Yep. -The oscillator's just pulling up.

So it's a little bit bigger this year.

Yeah, much bigger. Yeah.

-Yeah? -How heavy?

Uh, 110,000 pounds.

-And the other one was? -64,000 pounds.

-Wow. Double. -This is almost double.

But it's no different, right, than the other one you brought?

So, it-it is.

But this is a crane-mount oscillator,

so it's going to attach right to the crane.

As the oscillator drives the sections of steel caissons

down to depths of some 200 feet,

a 26-ton hammer grab tool will be used to excavate

the tons of earth, as well as any objects, artifacts

and hopefully treasure contained inside.

Does this one come with a guarantee?

Like, we are gonna find something this hole?

-Oh, 100% treasure guarantee.

-yep. Yeah, they stamp that right on the side. -Okay.

-Okay, uh, everybody heard that.

everybody heard that.

Danny: We're gonna start unchaining it?

-Yeah. Let's go, boys. -Let's do it.

We're gonna clear this area

so we can fly the oscillator over

and we're gonna start slamming can.

Okay.

Let's make this happen. Let's find this thing.

As the team works to position

the massive oscillator using a 220-ton crane,

later that day,

rick joins jack begley, metal detection expert gary drayton

and heavy equipment operator billy gerhardt at the swamp.

In light of the new evidence connecting the paved area

to the eye of the swamp,

rick is eager to attempt to uncover and explore

more of the massive stone-paved feature

to see just how big it might e

and also, if any important clues

as to its true origin can be discovered.

We're barely down to the paved area right now.

We should be about to that depth, you'd think.

I don't think so. We're way down over there.

We're close, but we're not there yet.

Nothing, gary?

No, nothing yet.

Well, water's rushing in quite fast from over there,

from right under here.

Yeah, I see that, right there.

Although the team has spent

thousands of hours draining and drying the swamp,

it is believed that the area is littered with everything

from underground springs to the flood tunnels

that were constructed to booby-trap the money pit.

And it's coming in underneath us, too.

You can see, along the edges, it's bubbling up.

You wouldn't think you'd get a water flow that shallow.

-Of that volume, right? -Yeah.

We haven't seen that much water flowing in in the swamp so far.

Nope. But what does it mean?

Look, you can see the rocks

where the water is shooting in on this side.

Yep. It looks like we kind of hit the paved area.

You see the layer of rocks that the water's running in?

A layer of rocks?

Could rick and the team have found another section

of the paved-stone structure?

Billy, you noticed the rocks, and now,

since you've uncovered this side more,

you can see the water's running in from that layer.

I think it could be the proper depth for the paved area.

But y it's filling in so fast with water,

I haven't been able to get a good view of it again.

It's very simple, right? You pile rocks,

and water will flow through, certainly.

Was it a way to conduct water from one area to another?

I-it's possible.

It'd be great if it were a french drain

or part of the, uh, flood tunnel system.

But, uh, as of yet, we have not been able

to ascertain its purpose.

It'd be interesting if we could get

a water sample from the different sources.

I mean, that one appears to be coming from that direction.

Could it be the sea or not?

They're both a little foamy, though.

-Mm. -Which would tend to be salt water, potentially.

You got a bucket? You got a bottle?

I guess we can see how long it flows for, too.

How long can we keep bailing this? 'cause...

-Yeah. -...If it's just the water table,

it's gonna stop eventually, right?

Yep.

Oh...

- Little bit salty.

-What? -It's a little salty.

-Little salty? -Brackish, for sure.

That easily could be...

Just one bed going through there.

-We grabbed the middle, now it's just draining from both sides. -We disrupted it. Yeah.

Yeah, but there's another one over there.

Yeah.

It's quite a bit of water.

Hey, terry.

What kind of structure do we have here?

We know there's a the so-called paved area over there.

You do see a rim of rock.

I-I think we would like, certainly, all of us,

to come to an understanding.

Is this a natural feature, is it man-made?

If it's man-made,

can we associate it with something else?

The paved area, maybe, possibly work in the money pit?

I-I don't know. I'm, I am confused.

Craig? What-what do you, what do you see?

Um, I mean, I don't know.

I-I agree.

I think we see it come from a couple different directions.

-Mainly because we cut it in half. -It's been cut off, yes.

Somebody came here a long time ago, hid something

extremely valuable, and then protected it

by extraordinary means.

What we were aware of was a flood tunnel.

Maybe there were other traps.

So, some sort of heretofore unknown booby trap

fits perfectly with the whole concept

of this island.

Thought it might be some sort of

freshwater spring, but it's definitely salty.

It'd be interesting, now that it's been down,

a couple spots have been leaking over there,

to see if they've slowed up at all.

-'cause those have been going on for weeks. -Yeah. Yep.

I wonder if we just stand down,

put a pump in there, when dr. Spooner comes,

let him take a look at it.

put a couple pumps.

As a new day begins on oak island,

and while waiting for the permits needed to continue

excavating the mcginnis foundation on lot 21...

Gentlemen. Good to see you.

...Oak island historians

doug crowell and charles barkhouse,

along with archaeologist laird niven,

meet with ground-penetrating radar experts

steve watson and don johnston to begin what they hope

will be an exciting search operation on lot 25,

the site of the home built by former american slave

turned cabbage farmer samuel ball.

We have very little information about samuel ball,

his house and his property, and so,

-that's where you guys come in. -Right.

Although he was born into slavery

on a south carolina planation in 1765,

at the age of 11, samuel ball escaped captivity

and made his way north where he would eventually earn

his freedom by joining the british military

during the american revolutio.

After the war's end, ball fled north to nova scotia,

and in 1786, purchased four acres

on lot 25, where he established a small cabbage farm.

Over the next three decades,

samuel ball purchased more and more land.

Not only on oak island, but also on the mainland,

so that, by the time of his death in 1846,

he was one of the richest

and most successful landowners in nova scotia.

So rich, in fact, that there are many who began

to speculate that ball may actually have found a portion

of the oak island treasure.

Although samuel ball's home fell into disrepair

and was removed many years ag,

the surviving foundation has been made

a protected heritage site by the canadian government,

which in the past has prohibited

any search activity within 200 feet.

However, laird niven has obtained a special permit

to allow a gpr scan of the site.

I mean, I'm very curious to take a look at this

because samuel ball is the mystery man of oak island,

as charles describes him.

And there has been this connection,

perhaps that samuel had found something, I.E., treasure.

Enigmatic, interesting fellow.

There could be secrets hidden there.

If we can investigate it properly,

we might find the clues we want in there.

So, what's the game plan, here?

So, what we do is we collect data across the area...

-Right. -...And then what we are able to do is take that data,

knit it all together and make a 3d model

of what's going on in the ground.

We're gonna try and stay within the

for the clearing area for this grid.

ground-penetrating radar, or gpr,

emits electromagnetic pulses into the earth

to identify any large objects, structures or voids

buried as much as 15 feet belowground.

Samuel ball had a huge area, didn't he?

Hopefully this is the beginning of our interpretation

of what his land was actually like.

Who knows what he might have found here on the island.

And I would think you'd tend

to bring that stuff back to your home.

Yeah. Anyway...

-We'll let you get to it. - Okay. We'll get at it.

Excellent. Thank you.

As steve watson and don johnston

begin their scan around the ball foundation...

...Rick lagina returns to the swamp

with geoscientist dr. Ian spooner

to show him the mysterious rock feature unearthed one day ago.

So what we're doing here is trying to determine

-the, uh, boundaries of the paved area. -Right.

We have a full crew of witnesses here.

We were digging the shaft because fred was never

forthcoming in terms of what his aspirations were,

-what his goals were. -Right.

So, the idea was just dig below

that to see what might be there.

But then, we noticed a-a rock feature there.

Well, initially, we saw a lot of water, but then it exposed

itself to a deeper it looked like a deeper paved area.

Like, multiple rocks?

Yeah. A stacking of rocks.

Yeah, well, I'd really like to see this.

We can show that to you.

-Bill, why don't you start... Bailing -yeah, yeah.

-And we'll take a look. -Yep.

We've not revealed the paved area in its entirety,

but at this point, we're all surprised.

Think about it, 225 years, here, in the swamp,

the most enigmatic place on the entire island.

This structure was not known till just lately.

And yet it's highly suggestive of the fact

that it holds clues or information.

- They s think it's that-that way.

-This way. Right in here. -No, it's-it's all, all this way, all the way around

-okay. Right. -And it stops about here.

Can you see that, how it's bubbling up?

Yup, yup.

But as we get down to it,

you'll see the water starts coming in at such a fast rate.

If this paved area continued here and he hit it,

the water would've gone... Right in.

Because it's open work. It's... There's rock on rock.

It's just it would be like a natural aquifer.

Yeah, I-it was uncontrollable.

Yeah.

Like, I can see...

Look at it coming in, right over there.

Yes.

Yep.

It's not what we see anywhere else out here

except the paved area.

- See the sticks and the rocks? - Yep. Yep.

That, to me, looks very, very similar.

I mean, I would say it's the same.

This... Yeah.

There is a direct connection to the paved area.

But it still doesn't answer the question

as to the why of things.

And it rounds back to the who, why and how of it.

Something happened here.

The paved area has gone way up in terms of interest.

I just want to say thank you for coming out.

I mean... You know, just like that is a puzzle,

this is a even, somewhat even bigger puzzle,

because we had no expectation that this were here.

Right. I-it's getting to be a real conundrum.

Absolutely.

Okay, now go down.

Go down.

-Now go back. - While rick lagina and dr. Ian spooner

continue their investigation in the oak island swamp...

So, I'm pretty excited to see

what they come up with in this area.

...Archaeologist laird niven,

along with oak island historians

doug crowell and charles barkhouse,

-continue to oversee the gpr scan

at the site of samuel ball's 18th-century home.

-well, we got something here.

Uh, laird, laird, you might want to see this.

All right.

What do we have?

-So, this is a plan of what we're collecting. - Right.

-And this is the side view, so think of that

-as a slice through the ground. - Oh, I see what you mean.

-Uh, we have two anomalies here, - Yeah.

Which potentially could be walls.

-Really? Wow... - Walls?

Beneath the ground near the ball foundation?

Could it be evidence of a secret structure or tunnel

buried beneath the property?

And if so, was it built by samuel ball himself

for some reason?

Or could it have been something he found

and covered up in order to keep it a secret?

There could be some kind of an outside entrance.

-Yeah. Wow.

It's approximately...

-It's almost, like, six feet... Yep. - Okay. Wow.

That's great. That's exactly what we're looking for.

That allows you to get things in there and...

Larger items, obviously... -Mm-hmm.

...That you would be putting in there, right?

Yeah.

And if it's six feet wide, that's a big entrance, too.

They're not normally that big.

It's, like, treasure chest wide.

You know, I had my suspicions,

but to prove it I'd have to excavate.

It's that kind of data that we take back and say,

"we'd like to excavate here because we see this anomaly,

-and it may be this." right? -Right. -Yeah.

-So, now we're gonna extend the grid to the east. -Yeah...

I'm excited. All right. We'll let you get back to it.

-Excellent, thank you. -Okay. We'll get at it. All right.

According to steve watson,

the gpr expert,

-there's something there.

something that looks like it could be a wall.

I'm keenly interested in it.

I'm excited about them because, whether they'll have

anything to do with the money pit or not,

that's interesting stuff.

So, we're-we're all on about

wanting to see what that's about.

well, that's it for the day.

-We're wrapping up. -All done?

-We're wrapping up. -Excellent. Excellent.

So what we've got is the full grid that we've just completed

-in the tree area. -Right. Trees. Yeah.

And we have an anomaly in this area.

That's one and a half feet deep.

- That darker orange grid? - Y-yes.

The orange is where the anomaly is.

Yeah.

And blue is our consistent ground.

So, the little orange spots, could those...

They could be something as well.

-They could turn into something. -Yes.

-So, this, again, a preliminary process. -Mm-hmm.

-This is just very quick that the system does, -yeah.

But it gives us some, some ideas.

- No, that's great. Yeah. - Yeah.

Yeah, I'm pretty excited about this whole process,

about everything you guys have done.

Yeah, I think we have enough data right now

to start a new application for a new permit

to do some test excavations in here.

Excellent. Well, that's very good.

With any luck, the team may be one permit away

from having the opportunity to uncover key answers

that could help solve the oak island mystery.

Unfortunately, they must now be patient

while laird niven files the proper request,

which may take several weeks to be granted, if at all.

Now we have an anomaly worthy of investigation.

So, it would certainly, uh, be the connective tissue

to this long-held belief by a lot of people

that samuel found something, uh, related to the treasure.

-All right. Thanks, guys. -Can't thank you enough for coming out.

-oh, thank you. -Thank you.

It's all coming together.

- This is the start of it. -Dan h.: Yeah.

It's exciting. I mean...

My hope is that after all the hard work over 225 years,

that there really is something to this story,

this mystery, and that there really is

something to retrieve at that great depth in the money pit.

Yeah. Hopefully it pays off, rick.

Everybody's here.

If we can just find that one thing,

a little piece of gold is gonna at least be big enough

to start to prove that something is hidden

somewhere down deep in the money pit area.

-It's got to be. -It's down there, jack.

We haven't found it yet, that's all.

Yeah, well, with the size of these cans,

we'll find whatever's down there.

The day that brothers rick and marty lagina,

along with their team, have worked and waited for

has finally arrived.

-Oh! - Now look at that!

That is a really old pick.

After a summer filled with amazing discoveries,

from ancient tunneling tools dating back

as early as the 15th century..

-Wow. -...To lead artifacts whose origins,

much like the medieval cross,

may connect to the knights templar...

And absolute proof that the swamp was man-made

as much as eight centuries ago...

The oak island team is now more hopeful than ever

that they could make an equally incredible and historic find

in borehole oc-1.

So, we're ready to go.

I'm only gonna say a few words and that is that, you know,

I want to thank everybody for all the hard work this year.

Um, I think it would be appropriate,

and I hope everyone would agree,

that I think david and dan should do the honors.

-you ready, bud? of course, I'm always ready.

You're gonna oscillate.

I just thought it was very apropos, if you will,

to have david blankenship and dan henskee

initiate the process

because they now are the two titans of oak island.

David working with his father all those years,

and dan henskee having what I always say

lived, breathed and bled oak island

for, well, most of his adult life.

I think it's apropos.

You guys have been here

longer than the rest of us put together.

What are you here, 50, 40-some years?

-Yeah, 40-some-odd. Yeah. -Dan? Oh, how many years?

About 47 years, uh, actively.

I think between all of us, there's...

-We're pushing 150 years of interest in this mystery... -Oh, yeah.

And it's about time, right?

Not only for ourselves, but...

No. It is past time.

It is past time. Well said, dave.

-Everybody's thinking good thoughts, let's do this. -I like it. Let's do it.

-And make a wish before you press the button. -Exactly, both of you.

-oh, boy.

All right, dan. Why don't you do the duty?

Okay. -Go ahead and turn that on for us.

Okay. Here we go.

Yep, there you go. It clicked.

Dan h.: There it is. It's on.

-Do it, dave. -Do it. Do it!

Here we go!

-Yeah! -Now let it up.

Push it back. There you go.

Makin' hole.

-Are you thinking of your dad right now? - Yeah, well,

he pushed it last year.

-He did. - He did. -Yeah. So...

I truly believe, dan,

there's-there's something down there.

I really do.

It's about time to get to it.

As the massive steel caissons

advance deeper into the earth

at the money pit dig site,

the anticipation for a historic breakthrough discovery

has never been greater for brothers rick and marty lagina

and their oak island team.

It is a sentiment made stronger by the bonds they share,

not only with one another,

but also with the generations of men and women

who came before them.

Especially those who gave their lives

attempting to reveal the island's secrets.

But if rick, marty and the team can finally reach

what's at the bottom of the legendary money pit,

just what will be revealed?

Priceless artifacts of an ancient culture?

Sacred religious treasures?

One thing seems certain.

Whatever it is will likely change history as we know it.

Next time, on the curse of oak island...

- Coming up. -This is the money pit area.

All right, so we have a chance at the treasure.

We're on the right spot.

I can't wait to see what comes out of that hole.

You're certain that's bone?

It's big. It's probably a human bone.

-It's the bottom of a barrel. -What would a barrel be doing down there?

That's a component of the original treasure cache.

Oh, my gosh! It's a ring! This is a ring, mate!

Charles lewton-brain: It appears to have been chiseled

prior to 1730s.

Possibly spanish.

We're back in business!

Subtitled by Diego Moraes / Ewerton Henrique www.oakisland.tk