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Tonight on the Curse of Oak Island.

That famous stone, is it on the island?

It was in China Creek when I saw it. If these are part of a bigger puzzle, we've

got three new pieces.

Let's see what we found here. Do you think it's an R?

R-E. Look at that. You're right. These two pieces seem to be part of the same

stone. We could probably mash them right up.

What are we going to find when we drill these holes? The chambers where the real

treasures hit. He put an X on the spot. This was the work of the Aztec Empire.

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.

While the process of exploring 10X has been temporarily put on hold, Rick

Lagina has decided to focus his attention on the hundreds of strange

carvings that have been found all over the island.

Carvings that may provide information, not only as to where treasure could lie

buried, but who buried it, and perhaps even more important, what it is.

Yeah, Dad, see what he's up to.

Rick Lagina knows there is no better source of information about Oak Island

and its history than his friend and partner, Dan Blankenship. At 92...

Dan has spent more than 50 years determined to solve the 220-year-old

mystery.

Dan?

Dan? Hey!

Got a question for you.

Can I lie?

You can if you want. Okay.

But I'm going to catch you.

You know that stone, the famous HO stone?

Oh, yeah. Is it on the island? That's the first question.

Not that I know of, Rick. I remember it many years ago.

And it was on the island when I was doing drilling on that field.

And I don't know, maybe about 20 years or so, it just disappeared.

In 1921, a huge boulder covered with carved inscriptions was found on the

northern shore of Oak Island.

Believing it might have been placed there to mark the location of buried

treasure, searchers demolished it.

using dynamite, and dug underneath it.

Although nothing was found, in 1936, treasure hunter Gilbert Hedden saved

some of the larger fragments, including one which featured an H, a cross, and a

circle with a dot in the center.

I don't know what to make of all these inscribed stones.

Who found them, when they found them, none of that is well documented.

Correct. We don't know where they came from.

There's urban myths about them.

So, you know, we're going to leave no stone unturned.

Are you certain that it's gone?

I haven't seen it.

I've never seen it.

I've never seen it. So you don't know if someone took it so it could be still

there. Someone had to move it.

I mean, it didn't move by itself. They're big.

Yeah. And I asked Nolan if he had taken it. And he said, no, he didn't take it.

Just like he didn't take them big rocks, huh? What rocks are those, though?

The ones that are concreted into his floor.

Three. There's three in there.

Oh, and there's stones in the floor of the museum?

A land surveyor by trade, Fred Nolan came to Oak Island in 1961.

Working in cooperation with landowner M.R. Chappell and treasure hunter Robert

Restall, He helped survey virtually every inch of the 140-acre island.

In 1963, Nolan purchased a large number of acres near the island's north shore,

and in 1969, he built a small museum on the mainland, just across the causeway.

There, he displayed evidence he had accumulated for nearly a decade,

including artifacts, pictures, and news articles about the search for treasure

on Oak Island.

And in the center on the floor, he embedded several large stones in

concrete, stones he had removed from the island.

Although Nolan closed the museum in 1990 and later sold the property, he left the

stones still embedded in the floor.

Could one of them have been the mysterious HO Stone?

Fred put them stones and concrete over there in the middle of his floor.

Well, I only know of one that he did. I'm wondering if it has something to do

with the stone triangle since it was found close.

I would be surprised if it did not have something to do with the stone triangle.

In 1897, treasure hunter Frederick Blair discovered a mysterious triangle made of

round stones on Oak Island's south shore.

Each of the sides of the triangle measured 10 feet long.

and its apex pointed true north, directly toward the money pit.

Although it was destroyed by Robert Dunfield's extensive excavations, there

are many who believe that it and the numerous other carved stones on the

island offered important clues to solving the Oak Island mystery.

Dan, do you know who owns the property now? Yeah, by the name of Publicover.

We should go check it out. All right.

See if it's still there. Hey, it's one more piece of the puzzle. How many

times? How many pieces? I need 300 for a 300-piece puzzle.

Let's go see if we can make that happen.

Yeah, I think that's a good idea.

All righty.

We'll see you later, Dad.

Okay, Dave.

There's a story here, first and foremost. It's always been that way for

me when I was a little boy. I wanted to know those. I wanted the answers to

those questions.

As of yet, we haven't found them.

After placing a call to Barry and Karen Publicover, the owners of what was once

Fred Nolan's Oak Island Museum.

You ready to do this? I got a jackhammer, right?

Rick Lagina, along with Dave Blankenship and Jack Begley, head over to the place

where they believe important clues might lie cemented into the floor.

Karen. Karen, nice to meet you. They have made arrangements to remove the

stones and return them to the island.

That is, if they can pry them loose without causing any damage.

You bought the property from Fred, right? When you purchased it, did he?

relate to anything about it or where he found it, how it came to be?

Well, he told us they were very valuable to the Oak Island story and that he had

found them on the island and wanted to keep them where they would be safe

forever. So he mounted them in concrete in the middle of the building.

That'll keep them safe, no doubt about that. Yes, I do.

Might we see it? By all means.

When we bought the property, we're peeking in through the window, looking

at this, going, what? What can this be?

We think there are actually three here.

Are they laid out in any specific way?

He didn't indicate that.

But Fred is very, very into the way rocks point on his property.

And every rock on his property, he feels is pointing that direction for a reason.

So he may have done that. That wouldn't surprise me. That's why I asked.

So he may have laid them specifically to mean something to him, or maybe that's

how he found them.

I think Fred Nolan is an absolute true believer. He's as obsessed as anybody

else. But I think he has to fight internally in himself to release all

this stuff that he kept so private for so long. We're only guessing, all of us,

you know, other than the fact that you say that Fred felt they were important.

Oh, well, obviously he thought they were important. Obviously they were.

He didn't go to this kind of trouble if they were insignificant.

No.

There could be some markings on the underside that...

Well, if you were to grab that jackhammer, we could find out what's on

the underside of that.

All right. All right.

Like most things regarding Oak Island, nothing's easy.

Fred had put them in concrete, for God's sake. So, you know, now we have to

jackhammer them out. But it's interesting that he felt they were that

important to make certain they were preserved or not lost.

There you go. Now we're cooking.

Today it would be nice.

There you go. Now we're cooking.

On the mainland, just across the causeway from Oak Island, Rick Lagina,

Dave Lankenship, and Jack Begley are in the process of removing three large

stones embedded in concrete.

I'll give you a break.

All right.

Show me how it's done, Dave.

David and I are old men.

but you know what when jack relinquished the the jackhammer david stepped right

in as he always does i mean he's right there on the spot willing to do whatever

whenever i mean he was sweating bullets no disrespect to jack but you know kudos

to david okay david let's see what we found here if we found anything

ready let's just see if we got anything here

What are you seeing? Roman numeral I?

Yeah. Maybe an X. An X!

Look at that. You're right. Wow.

That's cool.

That's definitely carved.

Why the X?

You have a little bit of water left?

What are those?

Do you think this is an R?

P.

Could this stone be one of the fragments of the huge boulder that also included

the missing HO stone?

Just maybe it's part of the HO stone. And maybe if these are part of a bigger

puzzle, we've got three new pieces.

They're big and they're heavy.

Yeah, and they don't always fit together, but at least there's three

more.

I think what we need to do is find an expert.

Not only to look at the carvings themselves, but to get the carvings to

become more visible. We need somebody who knows what they're looking at.

After an exciting day on the mainland, Rick Lagina is once

again focused on what is perhaps the biggest clue of all, the money pit.

And to this end, he and Dave Blankenship... have brought underwater

visualization expert Brian Abbott back to the island.

So Brian, you know, we're obviously glad you're back. Okay, excellent.

Of course, the issue is Valley Threewell. All right.

Earlier this year, Brian Abbott used scanning sonar to confirm data

suggesting that a man-made chamber complete with wooden posts and possibly

human remains are lying at the bottom of borehole 10X.

Now, Brian has been invited back to put a similar device down a hole that lies

near the original money pit.

The same hole where Rick, Craig, and the team found evidence of the mysterious

wooden vault that was first discovered by treasure hunters Frederick Blair and

William Chappell back in 1897.

You think you're on the vault?

Rick is hoping.

that if brian can get images that prove there is a seven foot tall wooden vault

down near the bottom of the money pit he can convince marty and their partners to

dig it up using a relatively experimental method known as a freeze

ring a freeze ring is probably the technology we would utilize if we saw a

target in there It's not a new idea.

It was a study by some engineering students, actually.

McGill University?

Yeah, McGill. So we've known about it, but it's very, very expensive.

Because digging in the Money Pit area is likely to cause flooding at any depth

below 60 to 90 feet, the freeze-ring method would literally freeze any mud or

water that surrounds the excavated area and could cause it to collapse.

In the case of the wooden vault, a series of holes would be drilled in a

circular pattern approximately one hundred and fifty feet deep then a

cooling agent such as glycol would be pumped into each hole literally freezing

the ground solid and allowing for a safe excavation we've gone ahead

and got jordan Valley well drillers to come in because there is an obstruction

at about 141 all right, so we're gonna have him kind of swab out the hole and

Hopefully get that obstruction out of the way

We feel like the best opportunity is put the sonar back in immediately upon

Jordan pulling his tools out.

What's your thought on that? Well, we can give it a shot. You'll have to be

careful because if you create this vacuum or you create this flow of

sediment coming in, it could trap the sonar and pin it in there.

What's the little one cost?

Probably around $35,000, $40,000.

There she is.

Yeah, you got some toys up here, too. Yeah, a couple three. You want to drive

some? Sure, absolutely.

Have some fun.

Okay, let's all cross our fingers. Hope it's not plugged. That's all I can say.

In 1897, drilling master William Chappell, while working for treasure

hunter Frederick Blair, found what they believed to be a seven-foot-tall wooden

vault.

Since what the team has recently named the Tester Vault, was discovered 143

feet below ground.

Well driller Jordan Rogers has reamed, or cleared, the area just above the

vault with his drill.

Before we leave the hole, we could go to 180.

Well, let's figure out how much hole we got here. Hopefully we got some.

Jordan will next drop a measuring cable down the hole, making note of where it

lands. This will determine the amount of open space there is underground.

If we got five, six feet of open hole, is enough to image?

Yeah, that's right.

Come on, give me a good number.

148. Brian, you got about seven feet of open hole.

All right, sounds good. We got about seven drops that we can do that. Good

enough.

As it is lowered down the hole, the MS-1000 takes lateral scans in a

circular pattern, making a 3D image of the space around it.

I hate to jinx us, but the day's starting off good.

We'll get that thing in the hole. Let's go.

I'm ready to roll.

Come over.

They don't trip.

Okay, let's drop it in and see what happens.

Let me know when it hits water.

At the money pit.

Underwater visualization expert Brian Abbott is using a scanning sonar device

to verify the existence of a wooden treasure vault some 143 feet below the

island's surface.

Water. Okay.

Keep going?

Yeah.

We want to get the sonar down 145 feet underground and have it do its work.

there it is and come out with clear and concise imagery that says hey guys here

i am come get me so what do you want to do now okay go uh six inches in

okay seeing anything at all

just letting it scan all the way around and it's not showing me anything

it's like completely kind of closed off so let's go six inches more

Okay.

So we're roughly at 145-ish.

What do you got, anything?

Hang on a second.

Seeing anything at all?

No.

145-ish is where we should be seeing something.

That's where the core was.

Yeah. Six inches more?

Yep. Okay.

Nothing, Brian?

Hang on a second.

It's widening out a little bit.

We may have gone from a foot and a half to two feet.

Oh, you got a bigger void?

Two feet?

Yeah, two feet.

A bigger void?

Has Brian Abbott found the space he needs to get an image of the mysterious

underground cavity?

Where are we at? We're at six and a half feet in.

So you're close to tagging bottom.

So it's just got a fine little cavity going down.

You saw nothing angular, nothing. All I got is an outline of something.

So I think we're just kind of in another kind of straight shaft of unconsolidated

sediment. The Money Pit is the most difficult to excavate that it's ever

been in the 220 years since it was found. You have 44 shafts. So there's

probably voids underground because of those.

Very unstable.

It's a huge challenge.

Okay, well, here's where I'm at. I don't think this is going to work.

Yeah. I think we'll pull it. Yeah, slowly bring it out.

Although Rick, Brian, and the team could not get a clear image of the object in

the money pit, they do know, based on last year's discovery, that there is

something of interest down there.

Let's clear up the site.

Unfortunately... The hole that was drilled last year is simply too narrow

and too impacted with mud and sediment to get a good reading.

The only way to be certain what lies at the bottom is to dig a hole more than

143 feet straight down.

Before the sun sets on Oak Island, Rick Lagina is hoping that the day will not

be a total disappointment.

And to this end, He has invited stone structure expert and local historian

Terry Duvaux to meet him at the Oak Island Visitor Center, which also is the

site of the island's museum.

Terry, good to see you.

Welcome back.

My pleasure.

Rick is hoping that Terry can help evaluate the large carved stones that he

and the team recently retrieved from the small house on the other side of the

causeway. The ones formerly placed there by treasure hunter Fred Nolan.

Guys? Carl.

Hi. Good to see you.

Good to see you. How have you been? Good, good. Good to see you, Terry. How

are you? Good.

All right.

These are the points of interest, if you will. Oh, I've never seen this.

Oh, these are the actual inscribed stones.

Mr. Nolan found it interesting enough to actually remove it from the island and

to safeguard it.

He found that important, and I don't know why.

Terry, we'd like you to take a look at this.

Do you think if this is natural or is this, those marks man-made?

Definitely man-made up here. It's an R, E.

If you look here, Terry, you see this? There's a straight line. Yes. And then

you have this semicircle. Right.

Could that be the letter D? I think so.

It looks like a D to me. Yeah. And that whole edge looks like it kind of matches

the curvature of this edge, doesn't it? Okay.

These two pieces seem to be part of the same stone.

Two pieces of a puzzle. You could probably match them right up.

Two pieces of a puzzle?

Pieces that actually fit together?

Nice, like a glove. You got a match right there.

All right, so we have R, E, D, D, E,

and probably an N.

Could it be an H for Hedden?

That would explain a lot if it was, but... Hedden?

Could it be that the carvings on the stones are referencing Gilbert Hedden,

the man who searched for treasure on Oak Island back in the 1930s?

It seems like an R more than anything else.

Did Rick and the team just discover an important clue, one so important that

treasure hunter Fred Nolan believed he had to hide it and cement it into the

floor of a small building off the island?

We truly appreciate you coming. My pleasure. We learned a little bit.

As usual, not enough.

But we'll keep looking. That's all we can do.

At the start of another day of treasure hunting on Oak Island, Rick and Marty

Lagina have arranged to meet a man who has offered to tell them not only what

is buried on the island, but who buried it and how to retrieve it.

Oh, look who's here.

John O'Brien, this is my brother Marty. Hi, Marty. How are you doing? Pleased to

meet you, sir. Pleased to meet you.

Come on up. I think you're more or less familiar with this, right?

Oh, yeah. I pretty well know what's going on. All right.

Here's the thing, John. What we want to do is find out what's in the cavity at

235. I want to see that post.

I want to get a piece of it. I want the box. I want the box.

Let's get the boxes out.

Nobody does all this work to hide marbles.

We hope not.

But you know what? My understanding is you want to show us some stuff here or

you want to see some stuff. Do we want to take a little tour? What do you want

to do now? I would like to go down to the south shore.

All right, let's go down there. Okay.

Let's go.

With more than 35 years of experience in the mining industry, Author and Oak

Island historian John O'Brien is an expert at retrieving precious objects

from often impossible-to-reach locations.

He has also been obsessed with solving the mystery since first hearing about

the island and later visiting it as a young boy growing up in nearby Halifax.

I was just a young fella when I first came on the island.

Last week, at a meeting with Rick and members of the team, John O'Brien shared

the story of an amazing discovery his father made while visiting Oak Island in

the early 1960s. My father and one of his best friends, Charlie, they were on

the island, and they told me that they had found a rock, and it was shaped like

an ice cream cone.

The top was flat, they said, and the cone went like an arrow going down.

What they did was...

They uncovered all around, and there was hieroglyphs. It was carved in the rock.

So they used latex paint to get the images that were on the rock.

Charlie and Dad decided that they would send these to a university in the United

States to find out what kind of writing or hieroglyphs it was.

And I was there when a box came back.

and there was an envelope there and the latex things were inside and charles

read that these hieroglyphs that were written on there came from central

america a cone-shaped stone with hieroglyphs from central america

but before we try to find out what treasure is here we have to figure who

did the work on oak island i believe that this was the work of the aztec

empire

The Aztec Empire hiding treasure on Oak Island? Could such a fantastic theory

be even remotely true?

Thriving from 1428 to 1521, the Aztecs are thought to have been a

relatively advanced and culturally sophisticated civilization.

Their capital, Tenochtitlan, was an elaborately engineered city of pyramid

-shaped temples.

all decorated with gold, as well as an ingeniously designed water distribution

system.

In 1519, the Spanish, led by Hernando Cortes, began a ruthless

campaign to destroy the influence of the Aztec people in the region and thus seal

the fate of the empire.

But what remained a mystery to the Spanish?

was the fate of the Aztecs' vast stockpiles of gold and jewels. They were

thought to have simply vanished.

Could they really be on Oak Island?

I believe about 800 A.D. that it was the Mayan ship that came ashore, and

they discovered Pelagor's clay in the sediment.

To the Mesoamericans, that was worth more than gold.

Paligorskite clay, otherwise known as blue clay, was widely used by the

ancient Mayans to adorn their temples.

It is also known to have medicinal properties.

Although large deposits of Paligorskite clay are not known to exist in Mexico,

it is fairly common in areas of the southeastern United States.

In 2011, researcher Richard Thornton published his explosive findings

concerning what he believes to be Mayan ruins in northern Georgia, ruins which

are believed to date back 1,100 years.

Hey, Rick, is this the blue clay?

That is the blue clay, but... During an excavation just a few weeks ago, Rick,

Marty, and Jack Begley found a large quantity of blue clay while digging at a

spot where researcher Robert Marcus indicated the treasure might be found i

know that's amazing stuff could the proof that blue clay can be found on oak

island help validate john o'brien's theory the significance of the south

shore shaft was that was the first shaft put down to establish a mine here

The Aztecs found the blue clay that they wanted. They knew they could mine that.

They probably put a shaft in about eight foot round, and they would have hit

Pelagorskite clay at 50 feet.

So just simple, basic mining always.

300 feet was the extent of their ventilation.

There would have to be a ventilation shaft that's probably hidden. That's why

I figured there was another shaft up there, and all of a sudden I looked and

I went...

The money pit shaft.

And when the Aztecs came to hide the treasures, they knew there was an old

mine here. They remodeled it and made it into a trap. In fact, they made the

whole mine into a trap.

According to John O'Brien's theory, after the Aztec people buried their

sacred treasures on the island, they remodeled an abandoned Mayan mine shaft

to serve as a lure for would-be treasure seekers.

They also booby-trapped it with flood tunnels to thwart all who came looking

for their treasure.

According to Aztec beliefs, the souls of the dead had to pass through nine levels

to obtain eternal rest, or their ultimate reward.

In 1804, when the money pit was first excavated to 90 feet, nine levels of

oak platforms had been unearthed at 10-foot intervals.

And in the center of the ninth platform was an embedded stone with mysterious

carvings that, when removed, opened a supposed flood trap that has defeated

every major search since.

So, John, is there anything buried here in this area, this general vicinity?

I don't believe so. I believe that the Aztecs' treasure is not here.

It's just like a couple hundred yards over there.

While visiting Oak Island, mining expert and author John O'Brien has just made

one of the most amazing claims ever about the 220-year-old mystery.

That's it. Yes.

He believes that what is buried on Oak Island could very well be the priceless

treasures of the Aztec Empire.

Okay, what are we doing here?

This is the stone at the absolute bottom of Nolan's Cross.

After leaving the South Shore, O'Brien and the team have arrived at one of the

mysterious cone-shaped boulders that form a curious megalithic grouping known

as Nolan's Cross, first discovered by Oak Island landowner and treasure hunter

Fred Nolan in 1981.

Although many Oak Island theorists suggest that the so-called cross can be

linked to everything from the Knights Templar To the lost works of William

Shakespeare, no one has ever been able to determine its true purpose.

Would you believe you're standing on a cliff?

I believe if you took the topsoil off here, 30 feet down is a bedrock. But

just like a couple hundred feet over there, the bedrock is 180 feet down.

When the Aztecs came to hide the treasures, they wanted no sign of

anything going on above. They come up underneath a cliff, and they bring all

their goods, everything to fill the chambers.

Then they plug them. The entrance is way down deep.

Meanwhile, there's no evidence of anything going on, so that the top would

look undisturbed.

According to John O'Brien's theory, The Aztecs, who were skilled at building

canals and waterways, came to Oak Island sometime in the early 16th century.

Here, Aztec engineers built dams and artificial beaches on both sides of what

were once two separate islands.

They then dug shafts into cliff faces horizontally and then refilled the

dammed area with rocks and mud, creating one island.

O'Brien's research has also led him to believe that the huge, megalithic

boulders which form Nolan's Cross could provide the key to finding out where the

Aztec treasure chambers still remain hidden.

They planned on coming back to retrieve it.

I don't think that they would have gone in that lagoon and dig down there to

retrieve it. All they had to do was come here.

and find this cross.

Why the shape of a cross, John?

Why was that important to them? Every ancient civilization of the world had

the cross.

But to the Aztec Mayan, the cross was rejuvenation and revival.

It was like a tree growing up, and the cross beams were the branches.

Their civilization was going to be destroyed. They knew that.

but they planned there would be a revival, that their civilization would

rise again.

And where would you put the treasures that you wanted to keep that were

historic? You would put them at the roots.

This is the root of the cross, right here.

According to the Mesoamerican culture, the world was represented by a world

tree, with the heavens above it and the underworld below.

To the Aztecs, the tree symbolized both life and death with the arms and trunk

of the tree symbolizing the cardinal directions and their deities four

of the rocks of the cross are on the east side of the island only two were

on the west side the key rocks are on this side and they knew that's the spot

they would dig and it's exactly between that rock and the next rock over there

147 feet between them that's a ritual measurement of the aztecs and i

bet you that's where they hit it it's exact on this cross in 1986

archaeologists discovered that the number 147 was significant in the

ritual architecture of both the mayans and the aztecs according to john o'brien

the halfway mark between the bottom two boulders of nolan's cross is exactly

147 feet you're saying the place to dig if you were in

charge of this here expedition is halfway between this rock and the next

one on the cross yes right in the middle 147 each way below that and below

the bedrock are the chambers where the real treasures hidden on opel

Okay, John, what are we going to find when we drill these holes?

I believe there's two chambers there.

One is the historical religious artifacts of an empire of 16 million

people. And in the other is the tomb of the god King Montezuma.

And it's sitting there. It's been sitting there since about 1521.

I'll bet my hat on it.

I won't eat it, but I'll bet my hat on it. I'm wanting you to bet more than

your hat, though.

We have a plethora of wild theories out here.

Now, to add to that, we've got the treasure of the Aztecs.

Well, okay, that seems a stretch to me.

But what if he's right?

My goodness, what if he's right?

But even if John O'Brien's incredible theory is true, proving it...

will still remain a considerable challenge for Rick, Marty, and their

partners, because the marked location of the treasure cache is not on their land,

but on land owned by the man who discovered Nolan's cross, Fred Nolan.

So you're indicating to us that further search regarding your theory would have

to, of necessity, operate on Fred's property. So in order for this to

work... We'd have to reach out to Mr. Nolan.

Mr. Nolan would have to agree to work with us and agree to work with you in

terms of the development or the exploration of your theory, right?

Yes. You know what a landmine that is, right? Yes, I know all about it.

Although most of the 140 acres of Oak Island is either owned or controlled by

the Laginas and their partners,

20 acres are owned privately, and 16 of those are owned by Fred Nolan.

a man who has so far been reluctant to collaborate with them.

So, John, look, thank you very much for coming on the island. It's intriguing,

like a lot of things are out here.

Let us kick it around, and we will certainly get back with you and see what

the consensus is. So I want to thank you. One of the interesting things about

John O'Brien's theory was simply this. He put an X on the spot.

The unfortunate thing is the X is on Mr. Nolan's property.

Now, could we reach some sort of agreement?

Perhaps. But as of right now, we cannot proceed with John's theory.

We've got to talk to Dad and see if we can get Fred on board, too.

Yes, yes, that would be great. Cheers. Thanks a lot.

Okay, guys, we, I think, have reached the point where we've got to take a deep

breath.

And figure out what the hell we're doing. Decide exactly what we're going

to do. Right.

After an exciting week that has brought not only new clues, but an incredible

new theory, Rick and Marty Lagina have gathered with their partners in the war

room for an important meeting.

We need to deal with the New Orleans.

Fine. I have no problem doing that.

Just as Dan Blankenship has spent the past 50 years trying to solve the Oak

Island mystery,

Fred Nolan has been working toward the same goal for an even greater amount of

time.

For a while, the two men even worked together as partners until a series of

professional disagreements grew into a bitter rivalry that has lasted to this

day.

What was going on in this island was a feud.

In my opinion, it's about as strong as any you've ever heard about.

Although Dan and his former partner, David Tobias, and later Rick and Marty

Lagina, along with Craig Tester, controlled most of Oak Island, including

the Money Pit area and Smith's Cove, Fred Nolan controls much of the

mysterious triangle-shaped swamp.

He also owns the area where in 1981, he discovered a number of large megalithic

boulders. boulders, which when viewed from the air, form the shape of an

enormous cross.

You're not going to forgive and forget 40 years of very

contentious issues.

And it's left its wounds.

We can't do anything unless we have a re-up deal with the Nolans. And Rigg has

done a great job of calming down the tensions here.

Fred's got a lot of information on the swamp. He's probed it for years and

years, and I think there's a lot of information. Okay, let's go get a deal

with him.

We've made a working relationship offer, i.e., we fund several drill sites, he

puts X on the spot, and within that framework, that proposal, I think we can

add the swamp extension agreement, and then thus it works for everybody.

Okay. Okay, Rick will get it.

Are we done here, then?

Yeah. Yep. All right. Yay.

Let's spool this meeting up and go do something.

Will ending the feud also lead to a new beginning, a cooperative partnership

that could reveal important information and even more exciting discoveries?

Or could the wounds inflicted on the two men simply be too deep and too infected

by mistrust?

do ever have a chance to heal perhaps the answer lies buried somewhere on

oak island and deep beneath a patch of ground that has yet to be explored

next time on the curse of oak island deal with nolan

how does that strike you with mixed emotions it's time to quit the fighting

i don't want to be an obstacle anymore welcome to the team

We're ready to put it in the ground, Fred. We're right on your spot.

What does that look like to you?

Definitely man-made.

If there's a cavity in this slate, that would be the most important discovery on

Oak Island.

What's that right there?

That's definitely metal.