Original subtitles

Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.

That'll move some dirt, Rick. Ooh, baby.

That's a nice machine right there. It's time to dig, and you told me you know

where. 30 rods to there. Lands right on that line. X marks your spot.

Is that it?

Right there.

I claim this spot.

Ready, Rick?

We're digging on Oak Island.

At X marks the spot.

Hold up. I think I see something. Wait, what's that?

there is an island in the north atlantic where people have been looking for an

incredible treasure for more than two hundred years so far they have found

bits of gold chain a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it even a

seventeenth-century spanish coin 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.

It is another day in the quest to find treasure on Oak Island.

Here we be.

Look at all this stuff.

And it's on this day that Rick and Marty Lagina, along with their partners, have

traveled almost 60 miles from Oak Island to Halifax in search of large-scale

digging equipment.

Everybody decide what they want.

Still like that little cat there, Rick. One of each. Sounds good.

Hello? Hi, Scott Ferguson. Scott. Mike Harlow. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet

you. So you guys are here looking for some equipment?

Yes, sir. Hopefully.

Yeah, we got all excited driving in here, you know. I mean, that's like

pornography for us up there.

Yeah, it's just the right place to be. We're eager to see those big yellow

machines. I feel like a little kid in a candy store here.

We will be. Yeah, we'll take you out back, and we can go on a little bit of a

shopping spree, let you guys see some equipment.

We'll do it.

When we saw that equipment, I think there were smiles on all our faces. I

mean, we loved being there.

After spending 50 years of dreaming, decades of researching, and the past two

years actively identifying likely targets, the Oak Island team is now

ready to dig, and dig deeper than ever before.

So here's one machine we're looking at right here. Wow.

That looks like plenty of machine.

My brother needs to step up to the plate on that.

I can work this thing.

Marty,

you have all your remote monitoring.

These are the tracks, right? That's the controls, yeah. And then a joystick

control, a bucket curl on either side. Right.

Boom, lift on the right.

So this is the boom?

Yep, boom.

That'll be your curl.

Okay, I've got this. We'll take it.

No, this is fabulous. This will do everything we need to do and probably

more. Can't wait to get it to the island.

And we're going to use the big excavator to dig where we want to dig.

You want to sit in this one? Sure.

With the backhoe, we can do more fine-tuned digging where we might need

to do that.

That looks comfy.

It is. Hits him well.

Okay.

Yeah,

this is mine.

And then with the bulldozer, Rick is a good bulldozer operator.

That'll move some dirt, Rick.

Wow. And we can use that to scrape off or level or whatever we need. If we

needed to get into any sites for future drilling. Yeah. Which is our little

brother here.

The D4K.

These are beautiful machines.

Yeah, they are.

How do you boys get up there? Take a look-see.

Pete?

There you go.

What do you think, Peter?

I could get used to this.

Your grandpa Ted loved running a bulldozer. Yeah, he did. He was never

happier than when he was driving a bulldozer.

Well, get me started.

As Rick and Marty's youngest nephew, Peter Frenetti has been steeped in the

various legends and theories about Oak Island ever since he can remember.

He is widely considered by his family.

to be the one who most closely shares Uncle Rick's passion for solving the 220

-year-old mystery.

Okay. So what do you guys think?

Well, here's the deal. I've got strong opinions on the excavator backhoe side,

and he's kind of Mr. Dozer Man, so... Okay. I think we'll take that big

excavator, the backhoe, and that big dozer.

Excellent. Okay. Yep. Write it up. Deal.

We'll start moving some dirt around. Yeah.

Okay.

Okay, big brother.

Let's have a little fun.

As they await the delivery of the heavy digging equipment, Rick and Marty

Lagina, along with Craig Tester's stepson, Jack Begley, meet at the most

infamous location on Oak Island, the Money Pit.

Hey, Jack.

Hey, Marty. Hey, Rick.

All right. What we're going to do, we're going to look for the X marks the spot

from Robert Marcus. Let's go. All right.

Hey, Robert, good morning. How are you?

I'm Marty. Marty, pleasure.

Yeah, pleasure to finally have a seat. While back home in Trapper City,

Michigan, Marty Lagina and business partner Alan Kostrava arranged to meet

with Oak Island theorist Robert Marcus.

I want you to knock our socks off, okay? Because my brother, Alan, Craig, and I,

we really want to accomplish something this year. It's time to dig, and you

told me you're going to convince me that you know where.

Yes, sir. All right. Go for it.

Based on his years of studying books, maps, and historical records, it is

Marcus' belief that the lost treasures of King Solomon's temple, including the

Ark of the Covenant, were buried on Oak Island hundreds of years ago by the

Knights Templar.

But while that in itself is not a new theory, what makes Marcus' findings

unique is that he believes the treasure lies buried, not at the bottom of the

money pit.

or the Oak Island Swamp, but at a very different location.

You know the history of Oak Island. One of the characters is Gilbert Hedden. The

thing about Gilbert which I really found interesting is he actually had something

physical to look at, and it was a map.

And it was a map based out of a book written by Harold Wilkins back in 1935,

and it was called Captain Kidd and his Skeleton Island.

In 1937,

industrialist, politician, and Oak Island treasure hunter Gilbert Hedden

believed he had made a critical breakthrough when he saw a startling

treasure map in the fictionalized account of real-life 17th century

privateer Captain William Kidd.

This is the map that was in the book.

But as you can see, one of the things that's strange is the reference to

North, okay?

North is upside down.

The text and everything is right side up, but north is upside down.

And that's not the way we're taught to read a map.

The other thing is with the shape of the island itself.

This little peninsula of land that comes off. The elephant's nose.

The elephant's nose.

If you look at your Oak Island, there's your elephant's nose right there.

Right. And north is up.

So this would be like that if you're looking at the... Now all the text is

upside down.

Right. and north was up.

Gilbert Hetton was fascinated by the multiple similarities between the map

and Oak Island, such as the strange oblong shape, stone

markers, a swamp, and of course, a treasure site

indicated near the exact spot where the money pit was located.

Excited by his findings, heddon traveled to england to meet with the author of

the book harold wilkins but wilkins insisted that the map was nothing more

than a figment of his imagination disappointed and desperately short of

money heddon returned home and soon after abandoned his search for the

treasure when he was first confronted on this mr wilkins said this is a rendition

he had seen this map somewhere before

So the question is, what did he see?

I myself personally believe this map was actually created by the Zeno brothers

and Henry Sinclair.

I believe this map was actually created by the Zeno brothers and Henry Sinclair.

Oak Island theorist Robert Marcus has just informed Marty Lagina about the

existence of a treasure map that was reprinted in a book about Captain Kidd

back in the 1930s.

Although the identity and location of the island in the book is unknown, when

turned upside down, it bears striking similarities to Oak Island, similarities

which, according to Robert Marcus, are no coincidence.

It is his belief that the map was based upon one drawn by the 14th century

Scottish explorer Henry Sinclair, along with his companions, the Zeno brothers.

I know a little bit about this story. They're Italian navigators, right? Yes.

For centuries, there have been many who believe that the Zeno brothers, along

with Sinclair, traveling under the pseudonym Sicmini,

sailed as far west as Nova Scotia and as early as 1398, nearly 100 years

before Columbus.

According to legend, once there, they hid a vast religious treasure, possibly

the Ark of the Covenant, and the golden menorah from the Temple of King Solomon.

To ensure they would one day be able to find it again, they created a map which

was coded with a numeric key featuring the numbers 7, by eight by four

and i believe mr wilkins misinterpreted the seven

it should be one by eight by four okay and that is based on

a stone that was found in massachusetts this is called the boat stone

located in westford massachusetts the so-called boat stone

has left researchers and historians baffled since its discovery in 1932.

It is a round, two-foot-in-diameter stone on which can be found what are

believed to be 14th-century carvings of an ancient sailing vessel, an arrow,

and the numbers 1, 8, 4.

Could this map really be an important link between the boat stone and the 14th

century Scottish nobleman, Henry Sinclair?

This is the starting point. Okay.

The boat represents a coastal range.

Follow the coast.

The number, 184.

The unit of measure back then was called a league.

Now, 184 leagues north takes you to Overton, Nova Scotia.

When you get to there, you find the stone.

Within the stone right here, you have a depiction of the circle with the

Templars' cross in it. I believe the Templars had carved this.

Now, looking in the directions, you have a northeast quadrant.

From that stone to travel northeast takes you to the south end of Mahone

Bay.

And at that, you find this right here, this giant boulder.

And if you're looking at this stone, that's Mahone Bay, okay? Yeah.

so you're looking at my home base i mean something's great here what happened you

have an island to look for out of 300 islands find the one that's shaped like

the one that was in the book the one with the elephant's trunk here you come

across oak island what's the next thing you do the next thing down from one by

eight by four which is actually from one by eight by four the first thing you're

gonna do is find the tree The first tree that the McGinnis boys found in 1795,

the tree that was so obvious.

In 1795, after seeing strange lights coming from Oak Island, teenager

Daniel McGinnis, along with two companions, went to investigate.

What they found was an unusual circular impression in the ground under the

branch of an old oak tree.

believing the impression to be evidence of something buried below the boys began

to dig deeper and deeper until they came upon wooden planks and stones at ten

-foot intervals over the next few years they found bits of gold chain coconut

fiber and even a large stone slab etched with strange markings until the hole

became flooded with sea water

And the legend of the Oak Island money pit was born.

Looking at this right here, you have the money pit where the tree was.

Now if you do what it says, 14 north, and go opposite, you go

14 rods south.

The next thing you have to do is you have to go 30 rods, and it says

southwest, you have to go northeast.

30 rods to there lands right on that line.

X marks your spot.

Let me ask you something. If I said to you right now, you can have $5 million,

or I'll give you enough money to dig, you can have what's here, what would you

do?

I'd dig.

Okay, well, I like that answer. The interesting thing about Robert Marcus is

that a lot of people come and they have this theory and that theory, but he is

willing to put an X on the map. Right here.

40 feet down.

Why not dig the X marks the spot of where Marcus says it is?

Who knows what we might find?

I had Jack look for the spot via GPS.

Jack did it the modern way. You and I are going to do it the old-fashioned

way. And we're going to see if we end up at the same spot as him.

No problem.

This is going to be like an old-fashioned treasure hunt. We have an

X marks the spot. Wait a minute. This is an old-fashioned treasure hunt.

You know what? You are so right on that. Okay, let's find it. All right.

Though the exact location of the original money pit has been lost since

the 1860s due to repeated excavations Rick Marty and the team

believe they may have rediscovered it last year Definitely got wood when they

drilled into what could be a treasure vault first reported in 1897 that's what

they found at the top of the wall

Okay, so we want to go 339 feet due east from that point, and remember that we're

already 14 feet north, okay? Yeah. Okay.

What's the measurement? 200-something, right? We've got to get our easterlies.

Don't worry about the measurement.

We're going to find the spot using Marcus's coordinates.

He basically just gives an easterly and a northerly bearing to this X, but first

we have to find it.

Yeah, that stake has to go to the north, you know, that way.

Yeah, right there.

Just have this edge line up with that stake over there and slide it all the

way that way.

Does that look about right?

Yeah. In the UP, we do what we have to do in order to accomplish the task at

hand, and that's what we did.

We used a two-by-six, and we used a measuring tape. I mean, it doesn't get

more basic than that. That's you for engineering.

It surely is you for ingenuity.

Is that it?

Right there.

So we found, we believe, with a reasonable degree of accuracy, where

Robert Marcus would like us to dig.

I claim this spot for us.

There it is. X marks the spot, according to Mr.

Marcus. It's worth a dig. Let's dig it. It'll be fun. Yeah.

Tomorrow, we dig.

Here comes a truck.

Yeah, there we go.

That looks like capability right there.

Finally, after years of research, experimentation, and planning, it

is time to start digging.

That looks good. I like the looks of that.

And to find out once and for all if any of the myths and legends about a

mysterious buried treasure are true.

To see that stuff come across the causeway, it's like bringing in the

tanks when you're an infantryman. You know, I mean, oh yeah, we could use

that. Ooh, baby.

That's a nice machine right there.

Pretty good size excavator. I'm thinking of digging right in the middle of your

house, Dan.

I've heard there's treasure under there.

Yes. Mike, good to see you again. Welcome to Oak Island.

Thank you. Oak Island.

Nice to be here. Did you feel anything when you came across the causeway? Did

you get kind of a jitter or anything?

I did. A little scary feeling, you know? Okay, well. A lot of history. Here's the

guy I want to meet. Mr.

Blankenship. Mike Harlow.

Dan Blankenship. Pleasure to meet you, sir. You have a lot of history here.

Oak Island has, that's for sure.

Today represents a momentous day for Dan Blankenship.

At 92, he has spent more time searching for treasure on Oak Island than anyone

else in its history, more than half his life, in fact.

Say this equipment was being offloaded 40 years ago, what would you have done

with it?

Sainted.

What?

When Dan was out there watching that equipment, he mentioned something, you

know, geez, I wish I had had those types of resources when I was doing my work.

So it's a big boon to our efforts.

But now, seeing the big digging equipment represents a milestone that he

has been dreaming of for more than 40 years.

Because today, his determination to find treasure on the island seems closer than

ever to becoming a reality.

Let's try it. Give one of them a pull there, and away you go.

I'm very excited about actually doing something.

I mean, we've been frogging around out here with cameras and electronics and

resistivity and stuff. I mean, at some point you have to dig. I'm ready to dig.

I want to see the mystery solved. Would I like the Lagina name associated with

the Oak Island story? Yes, for my father. We asked him, Dad, if there's

treasure on Oak Island, what should we do?

And he didn't hesitate a moment. He said, do good with it.

But as excited as Rick, Marty, and the other members of the Oak Island team

feel, they are also aware that the island's long history offers as many

sobering realities as it does opportunities for success.

The last time really enormous equipment came across that causeway, there was

quite an excavation that went on out here. We have to be careful to not

repeat Robert Dunfield's issues.

He had good intent, but...

use big equipment, and we want to make sure we do this smart.

In 1965, just a few weeks after a tragic accident that claimed the lives of

Robert Restall, his son Bobby, and two of their co-workers, California

geologist Robert Dunfield took over all treasure hunting operations on Oak

Island. After constructing the causeway, which linked the island to the mainland,

He brought in a massive 70-ton digging crane, along with other large-scale

digging and drilling equipment.

But even after months of extensive excavations, Dunfield failed to uncover

any evidence of treasure.

Instead, he left much of Oak Island permanently scarred, and many of its

important stone markers and landmarks obliterated.

It is a legacy that Marty and Rick are determined not to repeat.

Okay, guys, I know we're all eager to dig dig dig but it's getting late I say

we call it a day crown time crown time for David glass of wine time for me

Tomorrow we hit it. Okay, let's go It

is

the start of a new day on Oak Island But in spite of the eerie gloom that has

enveloped the landscape

Rick, Marty, and Jack Bagley are determined to see if Robert Marcus'

incredible theory about a centuries-old map and a mysterious three-number code

could really pinpoint the exact location of a treasure that men have been looking

for and dying for for over 200 years.

Okay.

We found where Robert Marcus would like us to dig.

So we're going to dig as deep as we can with that big excavator we have.

It's time to dig.

While Marty operates the 40-ton excavator, which is capable of digging

up to two yards of earth per bucket, his brother Rick will stand ready with the

bulldozer, just in case they need to level off the ground.

In my mind, what we spend out here in terms of time and money has to do

with... risk reward ratio the reward is huge if any of

these theories are correct okay jack ready rick treasure baby treasure

Yeah, that's fine.

Following up on Robert Marcus's incredible theory that a 14th century

map created by Henry Sinclair provided numeric clues as to the exact location

of the Oak Island treasure, Rick and Marty Lagina, along with Jack Begley,

have started to dig.

We're digging on Oak Island.

That X marks the spot.

It's exciting.

How can it not be exciting?

If we hit something of a historical nature, that'd be great.

But look, nobody's hoping for treasure more than I am.

That is hard digging.

Let's see what I got here.

That is hard, hard, hard digging. See, you can always tell. See the teeth mark

in the sides?

Yeah. Imagine digging that by hand.

I can't imagine.

Makes me understand why the rest dolls were happy just to get two inches a day.

It is fun to actually dig on Oak Island. It is fun to have that big piece of

equipment and dig.

Why don't I just keep digging? I'll keep trying to dig deeper until I can't dig

deep.

And yes, each bucket that you bring up might have something in it. I mean, I

was hoping every time as we got deeper, something would pop out of there.

Is that a rock?

That's just a rock, right?

You sure?

No, it's not a rock.

It's a piece of wood.

It's timber.

I see it.

A wood timber?

Oh, it's a heavy piece of wood. At the exact spot where theorist Robert Marcus

told Marty a treasure vault lies buried?

Could it be that Rick, Marty, and Jack have found the entrance to an

underground vault or treasure tunnel?

Or could it simply be cribbing?

The wooden posts and boards used by miners and treasure hunters to reinforce

deep tunnels and keep them from caving in.

It doesn't look that old.

Yeah, no, he says if it's black and it's stinky, it's really old.

But it doesn't smell bad.

I don't know.

Although the strange piece of wood may have turned out to be a false alarm, one

supposedly dead end could lead to a crucial piece of evidence being found.

I think I see something.

No way.

What is it?

Hey, Rick!

Is this blue clay?

Blue clay?

Although the presence of blue clay appears disconnected from Rick and

Marty's search for an underground treasure vault, the existence of layers

of blue clay was first reported on the island by searchers digging in the money

pit in 1803.

It has also been a long-held belief by gold miners that the presence of blue

clay is a sign that gold or silver could very well be present underground.

Take a few more.

Okay.

That's some really nice lake.

There's some more of that blue clay. It's right in the bottom.

but as encouraging as the presence of blue clay is, it represents less a

welcome clue and more of an unwelcome obstacle.

Do you know what that is?

That baby's wet.

Pretty wet.

Yeah. Where's the water?

It looks wet right there. Can you see that?

Where? Right there. Yeah.

Oh, and now it's pouring in from this side.

You got a water course about eight feet down coming in this way.

It's coming quick too, Rick.

I wonder if we are close to something.

Have Marty and Rick simply hit groundwater?

Or might they have breached one of Oak Island's legendary flood tunnels?

If so, it could mean that they are close to finding something of great value.

Keep digging? Yeah.

You see how wet that was?

Been nice to see some cribbing or something. Yeah, that was my hope. You'd

see something.

You're only going to get one or two more scoops, and then it's going to full

-blown, you know, water.

You know, let me have a look. Jump down, take a look.

We could have missed, I suppose, but the water was already coming in.

You aren't going to dig in that particular area much deeper without it

flooding. That water table is consistent. There's nothing.

Stopping it.

Undisturbed. I wouldn't take another step. Look at that. It's breaking right

there. You hear the water coming in there.

Mm-hmm.

Although Rick, Marty, and Jack have been stopped from digging any deeper, they

refuse to give up on the notion that the place they are excavating might still be

an important treasure site.

I like that. What about the timber?

Yeah. I don't know what to make of that.

Yeah, it smells kind of new.

I guess, Jack, where I would be at is there should be more of it, and there's

not. Yeah, but it was connected to something, and I dug far enough away to

check that out. Yeah, you're right.

If the Laginas and their partners have learned anything during their years on

Oak Island, it's that nothing ever comes easily.

And no theory, no matter how far-fetched, should be dismissed without

a proper investigation.

I think for the time being, we'll fill it in. Let me paraphrase Churchill.

We're not done here, but we're done here for today.

I believe Robert Marcus's theory requires the treasure chamber to be in

the dry.

And so we were running out of room fast at that particular location.

Yeah, you know, we'll call him and see what he thinks. It doesn't mean we're

going to abandon it.

Let's fill this hole in. It's dangerous.

All right. Done.

long fabled money then let's see what we can

accomplish here okay gentlemen we're here to discuss recontouring this

when we're gonna need some heavy equipment to do it and we need to get

the water to run off this way or you want to check and see if we can make it

go that way see up there all right let's look after digging at the precise spot

where Oak Island researcher Robert Marcus indicated a vast treasure could

be located and finding only blue clay and water.

Today, Rick, Marty, and the team are turning their attention to the infamous

money pit.

It's really important, Dan, that you're here because you have the most knowledge

of what this looked like originally. We know the money pit was somewhere there.

We also know that... Robert Dunfield dug very close to this area, right?

Basically, it would have been this whole big area.

After months of extensive and arguably excessive excavations at the site by

treasure hunter Robert Dunfield in 1965,

the exact location of the original money pit was lost for nearly five decades.

Did we get a full barrel?

Yeah. That is, until last year, when Rick... Craig Tester and Dave

Blankenship drilled 140 feet down in an area that Craig had identified from a

series of antique maps and careful measurements.

That's a core.

The result was a core sample that revealed evidence of what could very

well have been a wooden vault, possibly the same one that was first discovered

by treasure hunter William Chappell back in 1897.

Definitely got wood.

That's definitely clay.

Concrete and then wood.

That's the description.

That's what they found in the top of the vault.

Last year we drilled into what seems to be one of the original vaults. But we

knew we were right on the edge.

We just didn't know whether we were on the outside edge or the inside edge or

the south edge or the north edge.

Although finding the fabled wooden vault suggest the partners are close to

finding the money pit.

They still can't be sure of its exact location.

What they are sure of is that finding the money pit and then excavating it

will take time, persistence, and an estimated $2 million.

More than the team can risk spending unless they find absolute evidence that

they have located the pit and that something of incredible value really

could be down there.

What other shafts might we uncover if we kept digging?

Here, probably the hidden shaft.

I'm thinking that this is almost exactly the corner.

And of course, if this is the end, it's rectangular, so the other end would be

down there.

In 1937, treasure hunter Gilbert Hedden constructed a 24 by 12 foot

wood crib vertical shaft.

that intersected the original money pit at its northwest corner approximately

125 feet deep underground although robert dunfield's massive excavations

obliterated numerous searcher shafts and tunnels dating back to 1795 the head and

shaft was supposedly left intact let's say we dug down we saw the entire

rectangle of the head and shaft Would that help us get to exactly where the

top of the money pit was?

It does. Yeah, bearing in mind that there's nothing undisturbed above 100

-foot depth. I mean, just right across the board. I mean, it's just been all

dug out. We could at least, with the best of our knowledge, if we had this

head and shaft excavated, we would have a much better idea where the original

money pit was. We couldn't be for sure, but we'd know. Yeah, it won't be far.

All right, Rick, what do you say to getting a good-sized excavator in here?

and seeing if we can locate this precisely, this head and shaft. What do

you say? I totally agree.

If we do this and we say this is it, here is where the original money pit

was, you know, the 12 foot diameter hole, then I'd like to put a hole right

down the middle of that thing.

Okay, so here's what we're thinking.

That we take this and we dig down about, not a very big area, just another three

feet. And we take this overburden off.

and we look for the location of the head and shaft, and then try and use that

information, and you could help us to figure out where the exact money pit

was. Until we see it, we don't know exactly where it is.

I'd like to see all four corners of it. Wouldn't you, Rick? I totally agree.

Yay! Totally agree.

Let's do this. Let's go.

Rick, Marty, and the team could be on the verge of the greatest breakthrough

they have ever experienced on Oak Island.

But finding the money pit is one thing digging a 150 foot deep hole to get to

it is quite another Especially since everyone who has tried has been quickly

thwarted by a network of flood tunnels and a maze of mysterious underground

booby traps

We're checking things off the list, big brother.

As a new day begins, so too does one of the most critical operations in Rick and

Marty Lagina's quest to solve the Oak Island mystery.

Okay. Because today will be the first time in almost 50 years that ground will

be broken in the area known as the Money Pit.

The Money Pit was lost.

Long ago, over 100 years ago, according to oral history and some documentation.

But they believed at that point that in connection with the head and shaft, the

money pit was very close.

Thus, if we can find the corners of the head and shaft, we can for ourselves

come up with that circle. In order to dig up the head and shaft, what I'd like

to see is bring in the small backhoe. You're good on both of them, so bring in

the smaller one. Find the corner. Okay.

Then we know where it is. All right, let's keep going.

Let's dig.

I wanted to do it. I wanted to see one of these shafts with my own eyes. I've

seen nothing but pictures of these things.

Maybe it just lifts your spirits a little or helps your enthusiasm if the

head and shaft verifies that that hole where we had the vault could be where

the original money pit was.

Good.

There's no proper job site without a guy leaning on a shovel.

As the excavation begins, Marty must dig carefully.

Anywhere in there. I'll get it. It was exciting to dig that big bucket into the

ground and start moving the earth, but it was a delicate operation, too. I

mean, that's a big piece of equipment, and I'm concerned that in the process of

investigation, we don't destroy what we're trying to find.

He will also need to rely on Dan Henske's memory.

of where the hidden shaft is located.

Penske is that about right?

Okay I think right about there is where you're going to find it.

Okay all right where the shadow is?

Yeah estimate 12 feet from there and you're right about here.

That's good then.

If he finds wood you'll tell the tale.

Hold up. Wait, what's that?

Wood, Rick, wood.

Hey, Rick, is that oak?

Yeah. I need to take that home.

Shovel, David.

Right in front of that rock, it's going that way. Okay, let me dig it this way.

We strike out so often on Oak Island where nothing pans out, so we're running

into wood. I wanted to get that scoop in there and dig that thing out.

I think it'd be easier with the excavator. That's a good idea. Let's get

some dirt moved.

Switching from the backhoe to the 40-ton excavator.

will allow them to strategically dig in a longer, trench-like fashion.

It's got to still be here in some way, shape, or form.

But until you get the pattern, you can't really tell much. But it can't be much

deeper.

Oh, they're hitting wood there.

That's something there looks odd, too.

Don't spend much time down there, Rick.

Looks like it's right here.

There's a beam.

A beam?

Did Marty, Rick, and the Oak Island team just find an important piece of

evidence? Is that a wall?

That could be the wall.

Yep, I think we found it.

Could it be that they found not only another oak timber, but the head and

shaft itself?

on oak island every new day could lead to a dead end or an incredible

breakthrough and every shovelful of earth could reveal the answer to one of

the world's most incredible mysteries

next time on the curse of oak

island isn't that a templar cross this cross is portuguese I do have evidence

that puts them at this location from 1500 to 1580.

We want to get to the bottom of 10X.

Going down.

How you making out?

I'm having a hard time with it.

This is not a routine dive.

I'll stop.

That looks like something.

Stop! There's a wall here. We're hoping it'll help us identify where the money

pit was.