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Previously on The Curse of Oak Island.

What the hell is that? It's a Spanish Marevedi.

There is some sort of a date.

1652.

We have an indication that we have a hard target. We can't get in there and

dig it. We're in a friggin' swamp.

You won't believe this.

The bill becomes law. The province would call dibs on some discoveries made at

Oak Island. So this could also impact your permits.

So, in the meantime, let's go and do a little exploration at the money pit.

There is an island in the North Atlantic where men have been looking for treasure

for more than 200 years.

So far, they have uncovered tunnels, booby traps,

carved stones with strange symbols, even a 17th century

pirate treasure coin.

Six men have even lost their lives trying to solve the mystery.

And, according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure

can be found.

It's interesting to know how deep they are.

The deeper they get before they hit a boulder, the better.

And it's the timbers I'm worried about. It starts bouncing, and we're in

trouble. As long as it's going down, it's going down.

It's all I care about.

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina are about to take on Oak Island's most difficult

and potentially costly challenge.

They have decided to locate and hopefully excavate the world's most

notorious treasure vault, the Money Pit.

That is, if they can find it.

We're trying to find a clue that leads us to the actual Money Pit. So we're

going to drill it and we're going to core it. We're going to have a look and

see if we can get some evidence.

Since its discovery in 1795, the Money Pit has been thought to be a hiding

place for everything from pirate treasure to the Ark of the Covenant and

even the Holy Grail.

It is protected by booby traps and a curse that warns seven men must die

in pursuit of the treasure before it can be found.

For the Laginas and their partners, finding the money pit will literally be

like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Although they know the general location of the original treasure shaft,

centuries of digging, drilling, and even dynamite have left the precise spot

virtually lost to time.

For this reason, they will have to drill a series of test holes using a rig

designed for this very purpose.

First, after reaching a target depth of approximately 140 feet, a steel casing

will be inserted into the hole to keep it from collapsing.

Then, a two-foot-long hollow coring bit will extract a sample of earth and any

other objects present.

If the coring pit can retrieve any wood planking or other artifacts that can be

dated to before 1795, then the Laginas and their team will have found the money

pit.

This is kind of a bad sign.

What the hell's the deal?

Hey guys.

How's it going?

Why the quiet?

We hit something down there.

Yeah. And our drill steel won't advance.

Yeah.

We spun for about 20 minutes on it, and it didn't budge. How deep are you?

That's 53 feet from that grade right there.

And it was good drilling, and then it just stopped.

There really isn't a decision here, right? You've got to come out. I can't

advance. I mean, that was 25 minutes there, and it didn't budge. Mm-hmm.

So, come on, yeah.

We'll take her out.

Typical of Oak Island experience.

It started off great.

We think we have the perfect spot, and then 53 feet, it plugs up. Don't know

what the problem is.

Typical Oak Island.

Why do people think that what lies buried on Oak Island can be found at a

depth of 140 feet?

In 1804...

Daniel McInnes, one of the three young men who had discovered the money pit

nine years earlier, was a part of the search team that was able to reach a

depth of 90 feet when they suddenly encountered a strange flat stone

embedded in oak planking.

Upon removing it, they noticed that the stone was etched with an elaborate

series of shapes and symbols.

Suddenly, the 90-foot shaft began to fill with seawater, as if some kind of

booby trap had been sprung.

Efforts to continue digging ground to a halt, and the search for treasure on Oak

Island was abandoned, at least for a while.

In the mid-1800s, area college professor James Leachty is reported to have used a

simple deciphering system to translate the markings found on the mysterious

stone slab.

It read, 40 feet below, 2 million pounds are buried.

But if translating the stone was relatively easy,

Reaching the bottom of the shaft has, so far, proved to be impossible.

She was chewing on something, though. Look at that. Pwn that out, Ken.

It's going in.

There you go.

I think you hit some wood.

She was packed in there pretty good. Packed in there, yeah.

Complicating Rick and Marty's efforts to find the location of the original money

pit. is the enormous amount of debris left behind by generations of past

treasure hunters.

All had tried to reach the underground treasure vault by digging a number of

wooden shafts and tunnels in hopes of avoiding the booby traps.

It didn't work.

There are 44 shafts dug in and around this area.

All of those were backfilled and you can picture the nails and the wood and

the... detritus from people digging so really it was sort of predictable we'd

have trouble there we go that's what got you you know i think it's a combination

of granite and wood and between the two of them it gums you up would it be

exciting that we hit wood it would be if we knew we were in the original bunny

pit shaft yes i think we give her another try ironically

Even if the Laginas and their partners do successfully locate the original

money pit, there's still no guarantee that anything of value actually lies

buried there.

Ever since the money pit was first discovered in 1795, only a 17th century

Spanish coin, fragments of what appeared to be a gold chain,

a tiny piece of paper, and a few antique tools have ever been documented as being

found at or near the so-called treasure site.

Oak Island has always been a financial risk-reward problem.

If we knew there was a dollar in the money pit, would we risk 50 cents to go

get it? Yes.

But we don't know there's a dollar in the money pit.

So why have the Laginas and their partners spent millions of dollars

chasing a dream?

And why are they willing to risk millions more to excavate the original

money pit?

In 1897, at a depth of approximately 140 feet, a team of men drilling

at the site found evidence of what appeared to be a cement-covered vault.

And in it is something described as loose metal pieces.

Could this have been the actual treasure vault?

The one which, according to the coded message, was filled with two million

pounds worth of gold?

Unfortunately, the treasure hunters never did find out.

While drilling another hole, seawater once again flooded the shaft.

And from that point on, reaching the mysterious concrete vault and avoiding

the booby traps has been long thought to be impossible.

Give her all she's got, Scotty.

She can't take no more, Captain.

But now, it is the Laginas' turn.

And they, and their partners, are determined to succeed.

Uh-oh.

Do you understand the meaning of that moving carriage back and forth?

Not at all.

It's pretty jumpy.

She won't advance.

Okay. That's the exact same spot? Exact same, yeah.

Great.

Rick, Marty, and their partner, Craig Tester, find themselves at a standstill

while trying to locate the original Oak Island money pit.

That's 53 below this grade.

The drill is stopped at 53 feet, unable to advance through the more than 200

years of debris left behind by past searches.

Dan's coming out. You want to go talk to him? Sure. See what he thinks?

Yeah.

Dan Blankenship has been living on Oak Island and searching for its treasure

for nearly half a century.

Daniel. He is, perhaps, the only man in the world who knows every inch of this

140-acre landmass. Here's what we were into.

Both above ground and below.

Hitting a lot of wood?

Yeah. That's what's coming up from the core barrel. The chapel shaft.

All you got to do is smell it.

Of all the abandoned treasure shafts dug since 1795, only two are believed to

have come closest to reaching the original money pit. The chapel shaft,

dug in 1931, and the hedon shaft, dug in 1937.

If the team has successfully located one of these long-abandoned shafts, it means

they could be very close to finding the original money pit.

You don't think it's a head and shaft?

Chapo's shaft.

That's spruce, and that's what Chapo was using was spruce.

You're hitting a lot of this.

There's no way of going through it.

In my opinion, you're not going to get nothing there.

That's for sure. As soon as I saw where he was drilling, I mean, I thought you

were going to put the hole in the northwest corner.

If you want to try and get in between the chapel shaft and the hidden shaft, I

would move back maybe four feet, and that way at least six feet.

Well, then I say we need to go with his experience rather than our calculations.

Yeah.

About time we brought the brains out here.

As far as Dan's participation in all this, we're fools, really, not to engage

with him at every step.

Because he has almost 50 years of experience, and sometimes we get so off

-focus that we go to books, we go to archival information, we've got a living

archive right in front of us, and sometimes we just plain forget.

With Dan Blankenship's help...

the team chooses its next drill site but it is not without risk hitting rocks

metal objects or other buried debris could severely damage their drilling

equipment and force a setback both in time and money okay

here we go again marty welcome to oak island

While drilling continues in the area of the money pit, Rick, Marty, and the team

assemble in what they call the war room.

Oh, good morning. We have a guest for the afternoon.

They are meeting with Paul Troutman, whose father, James, had worked

alongside Dan Blankenship in the mid-1960s.

Their employer was one of the most determined of all the Oak Island

treasure hunters,

Robert Dunfield.

So your father was a partner in the deal. My dad was here in 1965, and he

met you, as well as Robert Dunfield, as one-third partner in exploring Oak

Island. How did your father get interested in the island?

How he became interested was through an article, which most people have seen.

Reader's Digest. No, Reader's Digest.

Dan remembers that.

Sometimes I wish I never saw it.

This article is amazing because it has tied you, my father, and you, as well as

Dunfield, all to the island.

On January 29th, 1965, a few weeks after the publication of the article about

Oak Island in the Reader's Digest, treasure hunter Robert Restall published

an article in the Hamilton, Ontario Spectator.

entitled The Riddle of Oak Island, the 59-year-old motorcycle daredevil

indicated that he was just weeks away from solving the Oak Island mystery.

The article attracted the attention of Robert Dunfield, a California geologist

who was eager to invest $5,000 in Restall's activities.

But on August 17th, tragedy struck.

When Robert Restall, along with his son and two others, died after being

overcome by toxic H2S gas emanating from a treasure shaft.

Not willing to lose his investment, Robert Dunfield quickly took over the

Restall contract.

And during the next year, oversaw an aggressive series of drillings and

excavations.

We have a film.

That my dad took in 1965.

I'd like to show this to you. Not many people have seen this film.

Okay.

Oh, it's in color.

Yes, it is a color film.

Where are we?

Right here, we're near the money pit.

You can already see some of the destruction that happened.

Dirt being moved around everywhere.

Robert Dunfield's approach to getting to the bottom of the money pit would prove

to be the most controversial in the island's history.

He bulldozed Smith's Cove trying to cover the flood entrances.

He dug the money pit out to 100 feet wide and more than 100 feet deep.

In the process, many of Oak Island's landmarks, along with what are now

believed to be precious clues, were destroyed.

Watching Paul Chaltman's movie of his father's time on Oak Island, you're

watching history come alive.

It looks radically different than it looks right now.

Robert Dunfield's strategy not only proved to be destructive, it was also

hugely unsuccessful.

On January 1, 1966, the massive hole dug at the site of the money pit

collapsed due to flooding.

After running out of both money and time, the geologist-turned-treasure

hunter left the island in April 1966, never to return.

I can tell you this here, your dad would substantiate it.

Dunfield made a hell of a lot more enemies than he made friends.

Yes, he did. I get it. I can just see the mentality. It would be, I'm going to

find it doing this, so none of this stuff matters.

Well, then he didn't find it, and the clues mattered, but they were gone.

Yeah, exactly.

Everybody who's had possession of this island moves stuff around. He just came

in on a massive scale. I don't think there's any blame being associated. It

just doesn't make our job any easier.

Meeting with Paul Troutman and seeing his father's incredible home movies has

helped validate many of the stories Rick and Marty have heard about Oak Island.

This is my father, and he's actually going to be pointing at something, which

is kind of interesting.

Something that they had uncovered here, which you'll see here in a minute.

That little piece of wood, if your dad took a picture of it, the one, that one.

He did it for a reason.

I know he did, and he stood in front of the camera to point where it was.

They're pointing to things that we no longer have access to. They were holding

in their hands a wooden piece of a structure that had dovetails on both

ends that looked like it had numerals engraved in it.

What was it?

What was it used for?

Where was it found? At what depths?

So much information lost.

It's a new day on Oak Island. All right. And at the Money Pit area, Rick Lagina

and Craig Tester are still trying to locate the original 18th century

treasure shaft.

Hey, Ryan.

Hey. Morning.

Did the new bit arrive?

We got it this morning, yeah.

Is it on the end there? Yeah, I got to put it on here. Today, they're planning

to use a stronger drill bit, one designed to cut through layers of rocky

soil, roots, and other debris.

Got to eat it up.

If it doesn't, we're in trouble.

As one of Rick and Marty's business partners, Craig Tester brings to the

island decades of experience as an engineer in the energy business.

I think this will run through it without any problem. I'm more concerned about

being able to advance that casing any further.

I can strictly put down my smaller stuff.

Good. He is known to be highly successful at finding and retrieving

valuable minerals and other substances deep underground.

But even for him... Oak Island represents a daunting challenge.

We're drilling down to try to find a part of the original money pit.

We don't know exactly where it's at because over the years there's been

multiple shafts and they caved in on each other. That's very frustrating.

Hopefully this new bit will lead the way and we can get down to the 135, 140 foot

level and start bringing up samples.

Not samples, these samples. Bring up some gold.

We get 30 more feet, we should be in somewhat virgin ground, and then we

won't be dealing with these obstructions.

Ultimately, what we want to see is the vault or something man-made below 135

feet.

Meanwhile, at nearby Smith's Cove, Rick and Marty's nephew, Peter Fernetti,

Along with veteran Oak Island treasure hunter Dan Henske, join author and metal

detector expert Gary Drayton for a day of looking for potentially significant

artifacts. Do you think that's it?

I think we'll try this rocky area.

A professional treasure hunter for more than 20 years, Gary Drayton has been

invited to Oak Island to search for evidence of human activity that predates

the discovery of the money pit in 1795.

That's a wide signal.

Using the CTX 3030 metal detector, which can discriminate between ferrous and non

-ferrous metals.

Gary will try to identify not only metal artifacts, but who would have brought

them here, and what those persons might have been doing on Oak Island in the

first place.

That's a good target.

Gary is an impeccable hunter of coins.

He's highly respected in that field, and he's provided results.

Probably getting close.

There's an old saying that treasure runs from the seekers. Maybe these coins

travel a bit as well.

I like detecting near the water's edge.

Yeah.

That's a good signal.

Wow!

Is that a button?

I think so.

Looks like an old button as well. Yeah.

See this, Dan?

Wow, yeah, that's an old button. You know what that is? I can imagine that on

a uniform, maybe a soldier's uniform.

Yeah, it's a flat button. That's from the 1700s. Yeah. An old military button?

But what kind?

Some have speculated that the money pit was actually constructed in the late

1600s by the English captain Sir William Phipps.

to hide a vast cache of gold, silver, and Chinese porcelain from the wreck of

the Spanish treasure ship, the Concepcion.

Are you going to keep hold of that? Yeah.

Keep it safe. Fantastic.

That is sweet.

Hey, Ryan.

Nothing but good news, right?

Not the news that I like to carry. It's been spinning, and it's just not

proceeding. It's not advancing in. How deep did you get with the casing?

105 feet.

As the day wears on, Rick Lagina and Craig Tester have still not been able to

get a drill bit to reach the desired depth of 140 feet.

Every hole they drill costs thousands of dollars, and if they don't make progress

soon, they may be forced to abandon the project altogether.

Here's Martin.

Please, please, please.

Tell me some good news, Craig.

The sun is out. It's not raining.

That's good news.

Okay. Then we're out of good news after that. You got a core?

Nope. What do you mean, no?

Casing hung up at 105.

What are you stopping the drilling, you think?

It's debris.

Mixed debris.

If I had to diagnose the problem, I'd say this rig doesn't have enough pump

for rubble.

That's the only thing it can be. You're not getting the junk out of the hole.

And that's not your fault. It's just not enough pump.

That little coring rig is designed for a specific application, and if you don't

remove the material you're grinding up, you can't make progress. You're just

mulching it and remulching it, and I think that's what was happening.

Craig, we are not going to give up in our own field of expertise. I mean, I

understand, but you guys aren't going to make it with this rig, but god dang it,

let's get a bigger rig in here.

I'm getting tired of this island kicking our butt.

You know what? Let's bring in the horsepower and do it.

I'm getting irritated.

Although they are just 35 feet short of reaching their target depth, Rick and

Marty are forced to suspend the day's operation.

The drill rig they are using is just not powerful enough to cut through nearly

two centuries of rock, rotted wood, and man-made debris.

A new one will have to be brought in, but that could cause a delay of several

days. Once again, Oak Island has claimed a temporary victory over those who would

dare to discover its most highly guarded secrets.

Oh, I'd say I'm discouraged here today.

The old saying, you know, sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats

you. I'm feeling sort of like bear poop today.

But we're not going to give up. We're going to keep after this thing.

Yeah, this is an interesting area over here. We haven't tried that, so you want

to go in here? Sure.

Leaving Smith's Cove, Peter Fernetti, Dan Henske and Gary Drayton continue

their search for evidence in a wooded area, just a stone's throw from the

money pit site.

I had a good feeling about this because it's close to the money pit.

And if anyone's going to be working on the money pit, I'm sure they're going to

be camped out in this area.

If Gary's hunch is correct, then the team may be able to find a connection

between the items found at the site and the people who dug the elaborate shaft

more than 200 years ago.

I like that sound. Yeah, that's a big one.

What I'll do is I'll cut a plug and then make it easier.

Let me see.

One very deep on the gauge. Yeah.

Oh, wow. I think I can see it.

Oh, there it is.

Oh, wow.

It's crazy.

Looks a lot like penny size, doesn't it? Yeah, it's probably.

It's got some little squiggly. Yeah, it's...

Not a perfect circle, which is good. That might be a maravilli.

It's the size of a two maravilli.

That's a beauty.

It's an old Spanish copper coin.

If Gary Drayton is correct, the unearthing of another 17th century

Spanish coin would be a huge discovery.

Not only would it add even more convincing evidence that Spanish

explorers did, in fact, visit Oak Island in the 1600s, It would suggest that what

lies at the bottom of the Oak Island money pit may very well be a pirate

treasure.

So, gentlemen, you are the treasure force guys, right?

Welcome to Oak Island. Thank you for having us. After a long day of work and

exploration, Marty and Rick Lagina... gather their team at the Fauxel Tavern

in nearby Chester to review the day's findings.

And joining them are professional treasure hunters J. Hutton Pulitzer and

his cousin Aubrey Rayford.

They have been invited to share what they claim is evidence of yet another

incredible theory.

The world's longest treasure hunt. You're not part of it.

And of course, you've heard about the seven guys, right? They told you about

that, didn't they?

We drew straws. Did you? Who lost? I'm sorry.

Aubrey?

Good knowing you. Congratulations. Good knowing you. Thanks.

No, welcome.

We know you guys are kind of in the same business we are, but you bring some

stuff that maybe we don't have. We have. One of the things we've got Gary working

on is doing, he's a world-class metal detector.

He can run that gizmo over stuff and decide whether it's nails or something

better. So he's been scouring the island.

Yeah, we've had a pretty good start.

In fact, an amazing start for the first day.

We walk into the woods, and the first signal was this.

It's probably a two maravilli.

Wow.

I find that actually super significant because we were wondering about the

first one, but now you have two. I mean, you have to start thinking. In that same

area, yeah. Very neat.

Can we clean it up, you think? Yeah. You think we could get a date off? Oh, of

course, yeah.

And you can see the symbols. Typical symbols are some Roman numerals.

And then on the other side, there's normally a crown.

Wow.

Can you see it?

You're here for several days, right? Yeah. I'm expecting more.

So, you're sure that some of the things you've found predate the beginning of

the treasure hunt itself?

Yes.

We have located a symbol in Nova Scotia that we believe 100% has to

do with Oak Island.

More importantly, this symbol directly connects to

the transportation of what would have been coming out of King Solomon's

temple when it was sacked.

King Solomon's temple?

The original Hebrew temple built in Jerusalem nearly 3,000 years ago?

which housed a golden chest called the Ark of the Covenant that contained the

original Ten Commandments?

According to most scholars, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar invaded

Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple of Solomon sometime around 597 B.C.

But if, as Hutton Pulitzer suggests, precious objects from the temple were

rescued as early as the 5th century B.C., who could have done it?

And how did these objects find their way to a remote island in the North

Atlantic?

I'm going to show you a symbol that uniquely ties back to the Holy Land.

If the symbol is correct, along with this symbol will be a language that

should not exist in stone writing in Nova Scotia.

And it directly ties to the island.

That would be very exciting.

Something historically significant in a big way.

We want to unravel this thing. We want to unravel this mystery. So let's move

forward. Let's figure it out. Here's to figuring it out. Cheers, everybody.

To treasure.

As they wait for a new drill rig to arrive, Rick, Marty, and their partner,

Craig Tester.

have agreed to take a brief trip off island with J. Hutton Pulitzer and his

cousin, Aubrey Rayford. They are going to look at physical evidence that

supports Pulitzer's incredible theory that what lies on Oak Island may very

well connect to the legendary treasures of King Solomon's Temple.

We've heard rumors of a particular glyph carved in stone

that's right here not too far from Oak Island.

Now... You know that the native people here in Mi'kmaq, they consider it their

most ancient symbol, which they say this is the symbol for our people.

In 1983, strange stone carvings, or petroglyphs, were discovered at a rock

outcropping in the area known as the Bedford Barrens, some 40 miles northeast

of Oak Island, on land claimed by the native Mi'kmaq tribespeople.

As the first known native inhabitants of North America's northeastern region, the

Mi'kmaq people had their first recorded contact with Europeans in the 15th

century. But recent evidence suggests that significant contact with them may

have occurred hundreds and perhaps thousands of years earlier.

I think we're going to be able to tell you the who, the when,

and the where.

And because of what we have, we have a very strong indication as to the what.

Jeez, Rick, that's your big speech right there all the time. The who, the what,

the where, the when.

The why. The why and the how of what happened on Oak Island.

That's what drives me.

Does that sound like you?

Kind of.

Please, let's grab those cases. We'll need the laptop and the black case with

the silver scanner in it.

What do you have to do with it? We're going to take full-spectrum photography

of it, and then we're going to lift it off the rocks in 3D and model it.

If our understanding and research is right, we're all going to be

collectively looking for a symbol that should be about the size of a dinner

plate. Okay.

Let's go.

I try and go into everything with an open mind.

Obviously Hutton has done an enormous amount of research on the island. So I

went into the sort of little quest with an open mind.

You want to believe, but Oak Island's not that easy of a nut to crack.

Pardon the pun, you know, it's a pretty tough acorn. And I don't know that he

has all the answers, at least not yet.

There's something here.

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Give me the space cane. Hang on.

See that there? Yeah.

That's what we're looking for.

Okay? Hang on.

You can definitely tell it's circular.

Oh, man.

Are you serious?

Look at that.

Nothing like that on Oak Island, though.

Really?

I've not seen anything.

If we're right, and this is what we believe it is, and if it's tied to the

people we believe it is, I can connect every single dot here for you.

I was going to say a pentagram.

Looks like a pentagram, but we've got one, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight points round and center.

Gather me some...

Water real quick.

Can you give that a pump or two there?

Mr. Tester, let's go.

Spray it lightly all the way around and wet it down.

See how it starts to reveal?

There you go.

So you've got one, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

The Nikama...

In their culture, they claim this is their oldest petroglyph.

But it's interesting because this eight-sided star comes from

what used to be part of the Holy Land.

That's quite significant.

This eight-sided star comes from what used to be part of the Holy Land.

Author and professional treasure hunter J. Hutton Pulitzer has just shown Marty

and Rick a strange rock carving of an eight-pointed star.

Although it is believed to predate the indigenous Mi'kmaq people by centuries,

the design has also been found at various ancient sites throughout the

Middle East.

But if this unique symbol wasn't carved by a member of the Mi'kmaq nation, who

carved it and how long ago?

This is distinctly an ancient biblical land symbol.

Here's what's really interesting.

You've got cross, cross, cross, cross, cross, cross.

See it? Yeah.

What would make me impressed is that this wasn't carved by somebody 50 years

ago. No, sir. But we have to know that, right? Yes, sir. Yeah, okay.

Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to scan this and show you it in 3D.

Let's get one here.

What about maybe one here?

The 3D scanner works by projecting a coated light pattern onto the

petroglyph, which conforms to every groove and marking in the rock.

It then scans the pattern like a barcode, creating a real-time 3D model

of the scanned surface on a computer screen.

So what I'm doing here is this is actually scanning the rock face.

We're basically painting the rock.

Well, Hutton has the most interesting gizmos. What a great thing to be able to

scan an inscription and then turn it to the inverse and flip it around and

manipulate it.

Here's why we think this particular glyph is important to Oak Island.

Now think of the stone at 90 feet.

Seas, boxes, dots, angles.

The symbology, the language on the stone at 90 feet matches the origins of the

eight-sided star.

Look, if the symbols really are from an ancient language and that's verifiable,

yes, it'd be a monumental coincidence that somebody just picked them at

random. I can't believe that.

Could it be that the inscription on the mysterious stone slab wasn't in code at

all, but in an ancient language, as J. Hutton Pulitzer is suggesting?

And could that language, when translated, connect Oak Island to the

lost treasures of the Temple of King Solomon?

perhaps even the Ark of the Covenant.

Rick, impressed, not impressed?

Well, it's hard not to be impressed and digesting.

Going to the petroglyphs with Hutton was pretty impressive.

Our whole deal since we first came here was, look, we don't know everything, you

know? New research, new involvement, new ideas, always welcome.

We've got a few more things we want to wrap up. Send the data we collected

today. Let's send it back to our research team. Let's correlate it. And

then let me just present it to you in a linear fashion, point by point by point,

and we'll connect the dots. I love that idea.

Let's do it.

Let's go.

Hutton, he is kind of a mix of me and Rick. I mean, he's certainly got Rick's

passion and belief.

He's just convinced, as Rick is, that there's something historically

significant here.

And I guess he's like me in the sense that he wants to make sure we apply all

the science we can.

This week, Rick, Marty, and the other members of their team believe they have

made good progress.

In just the past few days, they found what they believe to be another 17th

century Spanish coin.

One that might validate ancient legends about pirates burying treasure on the

island.

They also have just seen an ancient carving, one that could connect Oak

Island to the lost treasures of King Solomon's Temple, possibly even the Ark

of the Covenant.

And regardless of the setbacks, the team is still determined to locate and

investigate the island's most carefully guarded secret, the money pit.

But when they find it, Will it contain precious religious objects?

17th century pirate treasure?

Or will it be something even more extraordinary?

For now, they are content with simply solving the mystery and avoiding the

curse that has so far claimed six lives.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

We're talking about a voyage traveling from the Holy Land to Nova Scotia. What

year? 596 BC.

We need to get down to the money pit. This rig will get down on us.

There are inherent dangers.

The pole that we're cutting is going to fall in on itself.

Damn it. This is a British coin, a 1771.

Bring this back tomorrow. That's gold, baby.

You're going to rewrite history.