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Previously on The Curse of Oak Island. There it is. Is this the spot where they

died? Several generations at risk, life and limb, and died looking for something

here on Oak Island. Here we are.

Borble 10X.

My brother and I want to see just what is down there.

Stop! There's something here. Look at the films we took.

That could be the top of the tunnel.

We need to try and bring up all the stuff that's down in that cavity.

Wait, that's metal, Rick. Inside a rock. Very peculiar.

It all started in 1795, when three young men discovered a strange indentation in

the soil, which when excavated, revealed bits of gold chain.

A small piece of paper with writing on it.

Even a large stone slab with curious codes and symbols carved into it.

Dubbed the Money Pit, the strange hole was eventually excavated by treasure

hunters to a depth of 90 feet when one of them hit a booby trap which flooded

the shaft with seawater.

What was down there?

Nobody knows.

But three things are certain.

The island becomes an obsession for all of those who try and solve the mystery.

six men have lost their lives in the process and according to legend

one more will have to die before the treasure can be found

So is this where you remember this anomaly to be? No, over there.

Rick Lagina has been obsessed with solving the mystery of Oak Island since

he was 11 years old.

When I was growing up, I would read adventure books, Treasure Island books,

the Hardy Boys mysteries, because they're meant to fire your imagination,

your interest, your passion, your willingness to explore.

And that's why I've always been fascinated by Oak Island. We're almost

over there.

His younger brother, Marty, is a successful engineer in the energy

business. He has spent millions of dollars of his own money in an effort to

finance his brother's dream.

It has its roots in our boyhood.

We followed it together.

It was a thing that was exciting to us at a period that you want to kind of

recreate, right? Everybody wants to go back and have that excitement you have

when you're a kid.

So here's a chance to do that.

Together. They represent what is probably the best and possibly the last

chance the Oak Island mystery has of getting solved.

Wait. Now that, that's metal, Rick. After finding a strange metal object in

one of the island's many abandoned treasure shafts, Rick, Marty, and

Marty's son Alex are now investigating Smith's Cove.

Located just 500 feet away from the original money pit, Smith's Cove has

long been thought to be connected to the Oak Island mystery.

Years ago, it was discovered that the cove was man-made.

And that at one time, there were five stone box drains jutting out to the

ocean.

Box drains that may have fed water to a tunnel that flooded the money pit back

in the 1800s.

Coming down.

Okay, guys, let's go and look at some maps. Let's do it. Show us where we're

at. Maybe go and find some treasure.

Joining the Laginas is Tony Sampson, an area resident and professional dive

master. So right here at the moment, we're in on Oak Island here.

Tony has been exploring these waters for years and is eager to share the results

of one of his recent dives near Smith's Cove when he found what appeared to

be... a series of man-made stone markers and if we flip over here

what do you make of this there's so much weird stuff in here you could start up

with myths and conjecture forever yeah we've got this anomaly down here which

we thought may be a shipwreck but because of the depth of the silt in this

area we're not going to pick up anything there without using a magnetometer so

what we're going to focus on today is this anomaly up here

a square rectangle sort of shape that comes in off the shore there.

They possibly are boulders. So you can see if you look to the shore, you pretty

much line her up with that flat boulder and that fallen down tree that's on the

shore there at the moment.

So basically we're going to start here at 31 feet, work our way in through

here. What you're expecting to see down there is the rock, bearing in mind it's

been there for God knows how long, or if there is any little crevices, any little

holes.

you know don't go sticking your hand in there thinking you're going to come out

with spanish gold there we're going to be swimming like this okay so what we're

going to do get kitted up on the back there run through our gear make sure

everything works then we're going to splash let's go look at this okay let's

get ready let's get suited up while marty and alex prepare to dive off

smith's cove their fellow treasure hunters dave blankenship Dan Henske and

Jack Begley arrive at the 10X shaft.

That's not a bad thing. Nice and light, good seasoned wood here.

What do you think we're going to find, David?

Dirt, rocks.

You want to set it up over here?

While efforts to pump water out of 10X continue, Dave, Jack, and Dan Henske

begin sifting the debris that has been brought to the surface.

Debris that may contain artifacts

that haven't seen the light of day for hundreds of years.

If

it

can be determined that the bits of wood found in 10X are from oak trees,

then it might be a significant piece of the Oak Island puzzle.

are not indigenous to the region, although they were once plentiful on Oak

Island. How did they get here?

It has long been speculated that Henry Sinclair, whose family assumed

leadership of the Knights Templar, came to the island from Scotland in 1398.

He is believed to have hidden the treasure and then planted oak trees to

serve as a beacon for other Templar members who would follow.

The wooden planks that were found at 10-foot intervals during excavation of

the original money pit in the 1800s were also made of oak.

If the wooden shards found in 10X are similar to the oak planks that were used

to create the money pit, then Dave, Jack, and Dan Henske may be close to

discovering another important clue.

It may be proof.

that the legends describing a vast network of underground mines and

treasure tunnels, all using oak beams in their construction, are true.

Does this look like brass or metal to you?

Is it magnetic?

Check and see if that is. I think it will be. It feels like it's more steel

than anything else.

It jumped two inches. I guess it's magnetic. But do you think it's rust?

no no you can see the actual color of the steel if you get it clean and look

at it at the right angle what do you think this steel's from there's a

tendency to drop tools obviously when you're working over the hole oh oh wait

wait wait wait oh my gosh what does that look like to you

looks like a bone

small bone yeah

Oh, oh, oh.

Another bone.

Here's what I'm wondering. If there is the possibility that these are actually

human bones.

Human bones?

Down at the bottom of 10X?

If so, how did they get there?

It could be a grave down there.

What'd your dad see on film that one time? It's in a hand.

When Dave Blankenship's father, Dan, recorded video images at the bottom of

10X back in the 1970s, he was convinced they revealed ancient tools,

treasure chests, and also the headless torso of a man half

buried in silt, remarkably preserved by the cold salt water of the North

Atlantic. Is it possible that what Jack found are bones from that mysterious

dead body?

If so, could it mean that the island legends about slaves being used to dig

the tunnels, then left to die, are true?

That looks a lot like a bone drill. Oh my gosh.

That's a nice one. It's got some distinct markings on it, so I wonder if

there's someone who can analyze it and figure out if it's human?

Yep.

Possible. I'm going to go package at least these up that I found.

All right, you guys keep looking.

Maybe a little bit tighter.

Back at Smith's Co., Marty and Alex prepare to dive.

There's an anomaly underwater that's supposed to be pretty much right

underneath us. We want to get down there. We want to get eyes on it.

How's your mask?

Suck in? The anomaly's supposed to be some kind of a square formation

underwater there, but I don't know. I don't know what it's going to turn out

to be.

Alex, okay, hand on your rig, hand on the mask, then just roll backwards.

How you feeling? How you looking, Marty?

I'm ready to go in.

I'm really looking forward to scuba diving. This will be the first time I

actually dived with an intent to discover something.

It's exciting.

Unlike his brother, Marty has always been somewhat skeptical about Oak

Island. Before he commits the millions of dollars needed to re-excavate the

money pit, he needs proof of man-made activity that dates before 1795,

the year the money pit was first discovered.

Marty, Alex, and Tony begin their descent into the frigid waters of the

North Atlantic.

Reaching a depth of 25 feet, they begin scouring the ocean floor, searching for

evidence of the mysterious stone anomalies Tony claims he found during a

previous dive.

We're looking for perpendicular structures, things that don't seem to be

natural. But the dive conditions out there are tough.

It's a very silty bottom. It's very cold.

Visibility is low.

Those are all problems.

Suddenly, Marty sees a large rectangular stone.

It's covered in dense undersea vegetation.

Is this one of the anomalies Tony was referring to?

Or could it be evidence of one of the five ancient box drains?

Moments later...

another rectangular stone is found.

Slightly smaller than the first.

Is it a coincidence?

Or were they placed here deliberately?

And if so, for what purpose?

Guy, do you feel anything on that line?

Marty and Alex are down there. I mean, it's all I see is I see the cable.

I have no clue where he is.

I know they're certified divers. They've done this before, but if there's any

trouble down there, I'll be the first one in the water just like they would be

for me.

I believe, yes, he's coming up.

He's coming up.

I'm also hopeful that they'll actually get data back on the boat. That's what

we're doing it for.

I'm a little worried right now because Alex, my nephew, was buddied with his

father, Marty, and... Oh, there they are.

Okay, he made the okay signal, so everything's fine. You got on that line,

Marty. You're almost there, buddy.

No problem.

Beautiful thing, man. Three go out, three come back. My day's good.

What did you see?

You know, everything's covered in.

flat matter and stuff right i was able to see two rectangular rock structures

one was larger than the other and then the dive master saw a third one and

apparently they all line up kind of point towards the island which way is it

going large out there smaller small it lines perfectly up with that flat rock

that's just coming out of the water there now and if you go up the hill from

there towards the money pit if you draw a line on the map it's almost perfect

really yeah Three rectangular-shaped stones lying off the coast of Smith's

Cove and pointed directly at the money pit?

A coincidence of nature?

Or could it be a link to another, earlier discovery found here?

In 1967, Oak Island treasure hunter Dan Blankenship discovered a large stone

with the letter G carved inside of a rectangle, similar to the Masonic symbol

for God.

Could it have been a key piece of evidence that the Freemasons played an

important role in the Oak Island mystery?

Or, as many historians believe, could it prove to be an important link between

the modern Freemasons and the Knights Templar of the 14th century?

It's very interesting that it lines up with that rock because everything of

significance on the island seems to relate to rocks.

When I got out of the water, I really was sort of shrugging my shoulders

because I thought, okay, so why would anybody make structures underwater?

But if you want to hide a pointer, it would actually work really well. Well,

that's interesting because these are flat.

What do you think?

A lot more exploration needs to be done.

Okay, so let's wrap up. Let's get on in.

Fantastic. No, don't worry. All right. Thanks so much, man. Thank you.

At the nearby Fauxel Tavern, Rick, Marty, and their fellow treasure hunters

have gotten together to review the day's progress and strategize their next

moves. The thing that we really found out that was relevant, and I think the

dive master explained it to you, was that there were four of these anomalies

in a line, and what we need to do, what we should do, is snap a buoy.

out on one of them and connect that line to any known anomalies on land.

Look, I'm willing to go down that road a certain amount, Rick, but I don't get

it. I don't know. Let's say they line up perfectly.

How would ancient peoples have even known, you know?

If I had that answer, we wouldn't be doing this.

All right, what else?

Started Jack on the sediment. So what's your perception of where that sits and

where we're gonna go it took us a little bit to get going but very quickly we

Discovered something and I actually brought in here if you guys want to see

it might brighten up your day Marty Yeah, would you do that? Please? Yeah,

we go ahead and brighten up my day Here's what looks like metal kind

of like what you had found earlier

I know metal is difficult to date. Yeah, but it's real easy to date bones.

But we can see if they're actually human bones opposed to some sort of animals.

How many animals could have fallen down there?

Well, you said you had a couple cats, but... Yeah, I've lost kittens down 10x.

You did?

Yeah, the kittens get there and they go, what's this? And they don't have any

sense of height because they're just little kittens. They jump in there? Down

they go.

I made a special net device for fishing the dead ones out.

We tried to keep the thing covered, but they get in there. Well, there's a

source of some bones.

Yes, I say. Well, I think I got them all out.

I know Dan can speak to this. There's supposedly a body down in that cavern in

10X. That's completely true.

Basically, Dan Blankenship saw the hand, and Dan always said that at that

particular time, the water wasn't particularly murky and they had a good

image. David actually believes that, right, David?

Yeah, well, I believe what Dad said.

Leave no bone unturned. I mean, if you... Any bone you find, yeah, collect

it. And you give it to a scientist who specializes in such things and it's a

human bone, my excitement goes way up again because it would be a game

changer.

But, you know, it is somewhat disappointing because what I wanted you

to put on that napkin is shards of gold.

Me too.

There's a camaraderie that I think always develops on a quest.

Charles and Dan Henske and the Blankenships. We had a bunch of family

members come out here, and it's like a platoon all on a common quest, and

that's a neat thing.

All right, do we have anything else?

With Dan Henske's help, we're going to search for coconut fiber in Smith's Cove

tomorrow. Okay, good.

Anybody else? Anybody else got anything?

Okay. Can we get down to serious drinking here, David?

All right, guys.

I think this meeting is concluded to success.

Drinking time.

Back at Smith's Cove, Jack Bagley and Dan Henske begin looking for coconut

fiber.

You ready for a coconut fiber hunt today? You bet.

You think we're going to find anything?

I hope so.

You've found this coconut fiber before, right? Dan is convinced that he found

coconut fiber several years ago during an earlier search at Smith's Cove.

Yeah, I was exploring a magnetic anomaly and found a trench.

And in checking that out, I found this little swatch of...

apparent coconut fiber, and it looks exactly like the picture in the book.

Apparently, coconut fiber was used for stabilizing cargoes and ships for many

years. But just why is finding coconut fiber on Oak Island so important?

When workers in the 1850s discovered that the water that flooded the money

pit was rising and falling with the tide, it was thought that Smith's Cove

might be the source.

Digging into the sand.

They found evidence of five stone box drains covered with several layers of

coconut fiber, each converging on a point leading to the money pit.

The coconut fiber acted as a sieve to allow water in while keeping the drains

from becoming clogged with sand and other debris.

But how did such a large amount of coconut fiber end up on the shore of Oak

Island? when the nearest coconut trees are located some 1500 miles away was

it really brought here to help in the construction of an elaborate booby trap

if so who built it and perhaps even more important what was it designed

to protect let's get started here how far till i

tell you to stop i hope this works that looks good there the way you got that

steak

Once again, ocean water is proving to be the single biggest obstacle the Oak

Island team faces in trying to solve the mystery.

This is the spot that I want to mark.

This could very well be the spot where I was digging, but we also have to beat

the tide coming in, so we'd better get working fast from here on in. Let's get

to digging.

and see if we can find anything other than more stones, gravel, and mud.

Jack Begley and Dan Henske are in a race against the tide.

Dan is convinced they are getting close to finding a mass of coconut fiber he

remembers seeing at Smith's Cove 20 years ago.

Finding it could be an important step in proving to Rick and Marty Lagina that at

least one of the many Oak Island legends is true.

But a lot has changed over the years, and Dan only has his memory to rely on.

Heard you guys needed some help?

Yeah! You guys good at digging rocks?

Good as you can get at that, I guess.

We're slowly trying to drain this down so we can get at where the coconut

fibers are.

Where do you think they are?

Kind of right by that big rock, just in the water past it.

All right.

We only have maybe two or three hours because the tide's coming back in.

So we're under the gun. We're digging like crazy, and we're trying to get the

water to drain. And we know after we do that, we still have to dig a big pit and

look for coconut fiber.

Is this what you guys expected coming out here?

You think you'll be doing this all summer?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, I love the way the water is clearing up.

Well, I just don't think we have much time to do this.

By the time we get done, we'll start filling back in.

The coconut fiber should be in this general area, which, and if I'm right on

the measurements, this line right here and probably right about here where I'm

finding all this sand.

So we know this is the spot now. It's definitely the area, and this is very

much where we should be digging. We're making progress here. Let's keep doing

this, B. Yeah.

The tide left a lot of small tidal pools in the area that we were trying to dig.

Basically, we built these little cofferdams when we started bailing water

on our own.

Dan Henske's digging a pit where he thinks the coconut fiber is.

We're really just hoping that we find anything.

Dan, what exactly does coconut fiber look like?

Well, if you can find a supermarket that has coconuts which are not quite as

completely peeled, that's the fiber that you find on coconuts.

so we're looking for the outside of a coconut yeah that's the same obviously

the same color the same type of fiber pretty much like somebody's brown hair

dan henske has been searching for treasure on oak island for more than

four decades along with dave blankenship he helped dave's father dan blankenship

dig 10x to a depth of more than 235 feet to

this day

he insists he's seen ghosts, demons, and other strange occurrences on Oak Island.

One time, several years ago, he became so frightened he stripped off his

clothes and swam naked back to the mainland.

All he took with him was a globe of the Earth, a textbook on advanced calculus,

and a copy of Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley.

Guys, the tide's getting close. We've got to hurry.

Dan and the boys have cleared enough water away so they can finally dig and

see if Dan's plan to find coconut fiber will actually work.

Oh, what's that?

Let's see if we can get this down a little farther.

Don't hold your breath, though. This will go fine.

Right there, right?

Coconut fiber on Oak Island?

Could it really still be here?

Buried in the ocean sand and rocks after all these years?

And just a few hundred feet from the money pit?

Guys, the tide's getting close. We got to hurry. I mean, we got maybe 10

minutes tops.

Well, as long as everybody keeps doing what they're doing.

This looks like more right there. Right there.

Check that out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, let's find out.

That's the same. Is it? Then this must be too.

That's what I was looking for. It looks like heavy brown hair.

I was really excited to find the coconut fiber.

I was really surprised to see it there. I couldn't believe it.

Well, the water is rapidly arriving.

We can count the seconds now until we get flooded out.

Wow, it's coming in quick.

Now, you suppose that anybody can walk in here and not see that if they're

looking for it?

Uh, yeah.

Hey, guys?

All right, guys, get over here.

I got to say, as the skeptic, I didn't think we'd find anything, but I can't

believe we found what we did.

So, I mean, I would say this was a success, guys.

We got to go tell Uncle Rick. I mean, he won't believe this. He's going to be

ecstatic. Let's go tell him. Let's go.

You got it? You got everything? Yeah. Okay.

I can't believe it.

Okay, nothing but good news, right? We got good news and we got bad news.

I'll take the bad news first.

We were having some trouble with the tide.

We didn't have a lot of time.

Even with it cleared out and draining, you've got water seeping out of the

ground. If we want to look there again, we should get some kind of a pump to

make it easier to drain. We're going to get a three-inch pump tomorrow.

And the good news?

You guys actually found coconut fiber?

It was in the same spot as Dan thought.

That's incredible.

How deep?

We had to dig about two feet down.

It's beautiful stuff.

I didn't think we'd find anything.

Always keep your eyes open on Oak Island.

You'll never know when the island gives you a clue.

There's a story here. I believed it when I was 11 years old, and I believe it

now. And for me, it's not just retrieval of whatever's been buried on Oak Island.

The end game is to solve the mystery.

We got proof.

Yeah. Cool.

Yes! That is great.

That is great.

You, sir, are going to give that to your dad and make him eat it. The first words

out of his mouth are going to be, are you sure it's coconut fiber? I guarantee

it.

That's cool. I mean, I'm proud of all of you. It's a great job. Wonderful day.

We're not giving up. If you give up, you know you're not going to succeed. I

guarantee you we're not giving up.

Tomorrow's another day. Let's have Adder and get it done.

After finding what they believed to be coconut fiber at Smith's Cove, Alex,

Jack, Peter, and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse head to nearby Acadia

University to get the samples tested.

Oak Island is like a thousand-piece puzzle with 400 pieces missing. Yeah.

And this is just one piece that we can put into the puzzle. Right. If the

samples they found do in fact turn out to be coconut fiber, then the stories of

ancient box drains are very likely true.

It could be the first step in proving that there were visitors on Oak Island.

prior to 1795 visitors who might have buried something of great value there

so let's go through our top theories for this thing okay one of the more popular

theories is the knights templar so theory one yeah knights temple nice

temple on friday the 13th of october 1307

several members of the order of the temple of solomon or the knights templar

are about to be put to death.

It seems the Templars have grown too rich and too powerful after centuries of

fighting in the Crusades.

They are believed to have captured millions in gold and precious religious

artifacts.

Now the Templar are seen as a threat, particularly by Philip IV of France.

And with the blessing of Pope Clement V,

they are rounded up tortured and

burned at the stake but not before jacques de molay

the grand master of the order of the knights templar issues a curse on the

heads of both philip and the pope within a year both philip and the pope are dead

and to this day no one has ever found the hiding-place of the vast Templar

treasure.

In 1307, when the Templars were arrested in France and throughout Europe, we know

at least 12 to 14 treasure ships left La Rochelle, France.

And where those treasure ships went, we have no idea. They might have gone to

Scotland first, and then from Scotland they might have come to the New World.

That's one of the theories that could be on Oak Island.

Okay, what's theory number two?

It's a Spanish ship ended up in Mahone Bay.

possibly from a storm, did repairs on Oak Island, and then buried some of

their treasure there.

That's Dan's theory. It's some kind of a conspiracy between Spanish captains to

siphon off.

All right, this looks like it.

427, here we go.

Hey, how's it going? Good.

Hi, I'm Roger. I'm Alex. Nice to meet you, Roger.

Dr. Roger Evans is a biologist at Acadia University who specializes in the

physical characteristics of plants and how they reproduce.

And so I hear you have some fibers. We do. Of all things, coconut fiber. Yes.

The members of the Oak Island team are hoping that he can verify that the

samples they found buried in the beach at Smith's Cove are, in fact, coconut

fiber. If they are.

it will be the first time coconut fibers have been discovered since rick and

marty purchased most of oak island six years ago an important sign that stories

of priceless treasure being hidden on this island might very well be true

Here's everything that we've found in here, and then this is some that was

confirmed to be coconut fiber. Okay. This was looked at, and we thought it'd

be easy to compare the two that we found now with that one.

These look good and dry.

Fibers are really just normal cells, and then what happens is this chemical

lignin enters that cell wall material, and it makes it like steel.

Only bacteria and fungi...

can break down lignin so that's what makes it so strong and that's what makes

it last hundreds of years okay this is what we've got here this is wet

excellent choose a sample out of there yeah this also feels like hair because i

know what the anatomy of the end of a coconut fiber looks like we can take

some of the specimens and look at them with a scanning electron microscope and

look at the end of them to see if we can see the straw within a straw in the two

samples. And so I'll show you on the chalkboard what I mean by a straw within

a straw. Okay. All right.

Great.

So we have a bunch of fibers, right? And they essentially look like that. And so

if you were to take one of these and look at it end on, we'll magnify it.

Each individual fiber is made up.

of a number of other fibers.

And we'll see if we can see this pattern in the fibers that you guys brought with

you. Great. Can't wait for that. Let's go take a look. All right. Let's go.

Forward to it. All right.

Weave the way.

This is the pre-screen stuff that came from down below, right?

While waiting for the results of the coconut fiber test, Rick and Dave go

back to sifting the debris that has been collected from 10X.

What are you looking for, Rick?

You know what we're looking for. I mean, stuff like that. You know, we can get...

Rust. Yeah, but who knows where it came from? Come off the steel that's fallen

into the water. You think that. You don't know that.

No, I know it. No, you don't. Yes, I do. No, you don't.

Look, we're putting all the spines over here.

No, you don't know it. How would you know it?

You don't know what rust looks like.

There, look at that.

Chicken bone.

Somebody can look at that and say, you know what? It's a bottle of whiskey.

You're wasting your money.

Well, I'll come with you. Everything is, you know, it ain't, it ain't, it ain't,

it ain't.

Because it ain't.

That ain't true.

You going to save all this or what? Yes, we are. I'm saving all of it. Not only

that, but here's the thing.

I'm going to go back to the barn and try to come up with an idea. Something that

can sift this through en masse.

This is not going to work, scale-wise.

Come see me two hours later, and I'll have something figured out that's better

than this system, I guarantee you.

So you design it, and I'm going for a drink.

Go. Off you go. Right.

Back at the lab, Alex, Jack, Peter, and Charles are eager to find out if what

they found at Smith's Cove really is coconut fiber.

First, they look at a sample of known coconut fiber.

okay there it is it's in focus now we can increase the magnification that is

so cool wow yeah yeah and so the the magnification is now 650.

oh wow okay way better you can see it eh yeah so remember this is the one that

was confirmed as coconut fiber you can see the individual cells and those

bundled together so now the real test is yeah let's go down to the wet one

And I would say, without a word of a doubt, that's coconut fiber. Absolutely.

That's how we found it.

Genuine coconut fiber, and found at Smith's Cove.

If it could be dated to before 1795, the Oak Island team may have found their

first important clue, one that could ultimately help them solve this 200-year

-old mystery.

This will be a story to tell the students in my second year course when

they ask me why they need to know botany. That's pretty cool.

All right, so let's get some pictures.

You guys can take them back to your skeptics. You can take them back to your

museum. And you can show the world that you found coconut fiber on Oak Island.

Awesome.

Hello? Hey, Rick. Yeah, Alex. What's up? Calling with some news for you.

Okay. What do you got?

Well, we checked those coconut fiber samples out under a scanning electron

microscope. Yeah?

They're confirmed to be the same, man.

Really? He told you that? That's what he said? He confirmed it? He actually

confirmed it? You're not kidding me, right?

Nope. This is for real.

Wow. That's great news. I'm proud of you guys.

I was proud of you the day you found it, and we hit a home run today.

Yeah. And maybe, just maybe, the tightest term. Maybe we caught a break.

Do you want to tell my dad or should I?

You make the call.

Okay. Hurry up and get back, okay?

Sounds good. We'll talk later.

All right. See you. Hurry back.

It was a tremendous moment. I could hear the rest of the boys going, yeah!

So it was a great, great moment because there's skepticism with my brother. One

of our agendas was, hey, let's find something, one thing.

Yes!

Finding coconut fiber at Smith's Cove.

could be the first real breakthrough for rick marty and their fellow treasure

hunters it might also be the tangible proof marty needs if he is going to pump

more time and money into his brother's dream but three big questions remain how

old is it who brought it here and for what purpose

Shortly after getting the lab results, which proved that the dark, fibrous

substance found at Smith's Cove was, in fact, coconut fiber, Marty and Rick sent

the sample to Marty's business partner, Craig Tester, back in Michigan.

All right, guys.

Craig has some results, so he's agreed to share those with us.

Craig! Hey, Craig!

How you doing?

Doing real well, doing real well.

Craig has been conducting further tests to see if the fiber can be dated to

before 1795, the year when the original money pit was discovered on Oak Island,

and the 200-year search for treasure began.

Make us happy.

Okay, got test results in on coconut fiber found in the beach.

They're dating it between 1260 and 1400 AD.

So it's old, old, old stuff.

That's what I figured.

Did they give you like a degree of accuracy?

A 95 percentile, 95 percent.

I hope you write that down. I'm writing it down.

In big letters.

Big letters.

Well, now here it is in your face.

This is real coconut fibers. What do you think about that? Just a minute. I'm

digesting it.

That is very, very interesting.

There's no denying this now.

I don't care how great my brother's skepticism is. He has to come around at

this point.

That's great news, Greg. That's wonderful. Because if it was 1920, we're

all going to be hanging our heads in here.

The coconut fiber revelation was exciting.

Makes you say, maybe there's some validity to all this.

And that's fun because what drives me, really, when I think about it is I'd

like to have some fun. I mean, if this quits being fun,

you know, I'm going to try and talk Big Brother into getting out of it. I'll

make sure it's fun. Yeah.

Look, Craig, thanks a lot. We'll keep stuff coming your way. We'll keep you

informed. We'll talk to you later.

See you. Take care. Thanks, Craig.

Okay, let's go. We've got stuff to do back in the field, right?

Yep. For Rick and Marty Lagina, finding coconut fiber on Oak Island is a big

event.

But getting lab results which date that fiber to between 1260 to 1400 is even

more exciting.

It means that the substance was most likely brought here nearly 400 years

before the money pit was discovered.

Does this evidence validate the stories of Spanish pirates?

and possibly the knights templar frequenting the island back in the

thirteen and fourteen hundreds but why would they or anyone bring coconut fiber

and massive amounts of it all the way to oak island was it to build the box

drains that would feed flood tunnels flood tunnels that would serve as booby

traps for anyone who dared to dig here and what was so valuable or so dangerous

that it needed to be protected in such an elaborate way.

Those are the questions that Rick and Marty Lagina, along with their fellow

treasure hunters, are determined to find out.

Questions that have obsessed those who have dared try and

defy the curse of Oak Island.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

Someone's coming to visit the island.

Her father and her brother died looking for the treasure.

They were too close. Oh, God.

I'm just afraid you might get stuck there.

The spirit of a dead priest had entered my body.

I feel like I'm constantly looking over my shoulder. Like there's something

watching you from behind.