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Tonight, on the season premiere of The Curse of Oak Island.

Here comes the rig, Rick.

This summer, I want to dig in the money pit. It's time.

Woo! Out of the hole!

This Oak Island map seems to indicate that someone came here in 1347.

On the face of the stone, you can see the Cross of the Knights Templar.

There's this strange map. There's a description of a hatch. Might this be

the trapdoor back way in? There it is.

Holy smokes.

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

incredible treasure for more than 200 years.

So far, they have found bits of gold chain, a stone slab with strange symbols

carved into it, even a 17th 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.

Okay, big brother.

Here we are, heading back to Oak Island.

Where are we in the optimism chart?

You need to ask. Yes, I'd like to know.

Eleven. Eleven.

You're still in eleven.

Yes. Because there's a difference between belief and proof.

Yeah, there sure is. And I believe.

Okay.

In the ten years since brothers Rick and Marty Lagina have been actively trying

to solve the Oak Island mystery, definitely got wood they have

experienced both success you think you're on the ball and setbacks

good work

back to the drawing board but this year is different this is the year to come up

with something do we have to push the envelope i'm with you brother because

this is the year

when they and their partners have decided to invest more than $2 million

in a go-for-broke effort to find out if something of enormous value was buried

here centuries ago.

Hey, guys. We're back.

It's great to see you all.

Marty and I talked about coming over here. He wants to get down to it. I

think we all do. And to that end, we have to decide what we're going to do

this year.

Time for action.

I think it's time to dig in the money pit this year.

Who's on board with that?

I think we're all on board with that.

We're all on board with that. Perfect. We have consensus.

Yeah. Last year, they drilled a well, went into a chamber. 21 feet

tall. And the intriguing part is they ran a camera in it. You can't argue with

it. There's something gold-colored on the wall.

Last year.

Just before leaving Oak Island for the season, Rick Lagina drilled an

exploratory borehole at a place where Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse

was convinced the team could find the site of the original money pen.

After drilling down to a depth of 170 feet, they came upon a 21

-foot deep void.

Still dropping. Huge cap.

Here we go.

But even more astonishing was what they saw after placing a pipe inspection

camera into the hole.

What's that?

Shiny like metal. Yeah, it looks metallic.

How yellow that is.

It's your gold color. Yeah, it is, David.

Right there.

What the hell is that?

We don't know what it is, but it's definitely there.

Okay, swamp.

What do we want to do in the swamp?

Yeah, I mean, the key for the swamp is...

you know can we find evidence that either was man-made or was drained back

300 years ago some period of time look now that we have a deal with fred nolan

the the key to that is that we can finally drain the swamp completely when

we do that we can have full access physically on foot and then perhaps once

and for all we can fully explore the area good morning fred good morning last

year and after a decade of tense negotiations

Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team were finally able to reach an agreement

with fellow landowner and rival treasure hunter, Fred Nolan.

It signaled a new era of progress and mutual cooperation on the island.

Welcome to the team. Well, I don't want to be an obstacle anymore.

I'm too old for that now.

Okay, so we're going to get sub-bottom profile data. Yes. Okay, so that's

enough with the swamp.

Okay, so let's prioritize. And to that end, we have to decide how we're going

to do it, what we're going to do.

10x. 10x, which I think is not dead, but at least on life support.

While looking for a backdoor into the so-called money pit in the early 1970s,

Oak Island resident Dan Blankenship drilled the 27-inch-wide borehole known

as 10X down to a depth of 235 feet.

At the bottom, he saw what he believed to be man-made objects, including what

appeared to be a wooden box.

But when acclaimed deep-sea diver John Chatterden explored 10X last summer,

he reported the chamber, was a natural formation

yeah what what is that john and that the so-called wooden

box dan claimed he had seen was nothing more than a large square shaped rock

right about here i had a rock that i would estimate was

10 inches to 12 inches it was very angular had at least 190 degree

angle on it i picked it up I moved it. It was heavy.

To me, that was what gave you the sonar signal of the box.

Kennex specifically, I think we're across the board. Some of us are over

here. Some of us are over here.

Where are you?

I mean, Dad's seen too much down there.

And then Chatterson, I actually think you can't see.

Yeah.

No, I can't feel. I can't feel.

thing out today here he didn't find the square beam either he didn't find the

posts and other stuff that were supposed to be there so you know maybe david's

right he wasn't able to fully explore the cavity right i understand what

you're saying but why isn't there something more substantial there

what's all this about this came out of

10x that came out of 10x that came out of 10x and that came out of 10x What

more do you want, Marley? Chain, wire, and that low-carbon steel. It all tested

out as being made prior to 1750.

All of that came from the bottom of the damn hole. All of those things. All of

it came from the bottom of the hole.

No one has ever accused Dan Blankenship of being namby-pamby about anything. He

has strong convictions, he's a strong personality, and he is totally convinced

that 10X...

was dug into man-made features and dan is like rick he does not want to

write off 10x chatterton said he moved the so-called box right yeah

if it in fact has been moved then i think he picked up the box and it was a

rock i want to get brian back here right and rescan 10x because

If that box has been moved, then you know Chatterton did what he said. He

went over and picked it up and moved it. And I think it's explored then.

That's what I say.

So we have an unknown, so let's do it.

Let's go scan it. Yeah.

If that box is still there, I'm right with you guys.

So let's find that out. Okay, fine.

Okay, guys, it's been great. Good discussion.

We got a game plan for the whole summer.

There's 10X. Yeah.

Swamp. Yeah. And then there's the money pit.

Which is our first step. Yes.

It's time to get stuff done.

Let's go.

Here

comes the rig,

Rick. Yeah, let's go. Let's get in the vehicle and lead them up.

For now, Rick, Marty, and the team have resolved their differing opinions

concerning the fate of 10X.

They are firmly united when it comes to this year's primary target. I'm going to

move the backhoe, Rick.

The Oak Island money pit.

Let's bring it over to this one. But a large excavation of the money pit will

not be easy.

It's like old times.

Yeah, that's right.

You follow this track right here and back right in there.

When the last such attempt was made in 1965.

Come back.

The hole that was dug was plagued by constant flooding and cave-ins.

Let's grab that back hammer.

Before the team can begin their excavation of the money pit, they must

first remove old drill casings that had been left in the ground during their

previous explorations.

I mean, it's a really simple method. What they're doing is they blow a hole

in the pipe.

They stick a rod in there.

Then this hammer, which pounds upward, hooks onto that pin, and then they just

put compressed air on the hammer. It pounds up, literally pounding the casing

up. Once it loosens, he thinks that they'll be able to pull it up with just

the pressure off the rig.

But to get it started, they need that hammer.

Well, surely you have an idea of whether or not this is going to work. Oh, yeah,

he'll be on the one by the end of the day, I would hope.

Just one? Well, it depends, Jack.

He may hook onto that one and slip, come out just like snot.

And then he may spend all day beating on the thing and... And it hardly moves.

Yeah. Yeah.

It all depends on how Mother Nature wants to grab it.

All right, well, let's get the real fun going.

There we go.

Lock that baby up.

The Oak Island team's efforts to begin clearing obstructions from the money pit

have just experienced a serious setback.

One of the old drill casings refuses to budge.

not a good sign that no that ain't a good sign if driller arthur jefferson

can't remove the steel casing from what is known as the valley three borehole

rick marty and their partners may not be able to dig in that area the same area

where two years ago they found evidence of what could be a large wooden vault

buried some 143 feet deep underground

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

You could use a little luck, don't you think?

Yeah.

Excellent.

You got her.

If the casing shears off, we're in trouble because it's extremely difficult

to deal with large steel underground.

And if we move... We missed the target.

Finally, the steel casing begins to move.

The old casings are coming

out. They're coming out intact.

We're not leaving any pieces in the ground so far, but it's working.

We're encouraged.

Okay, well, let's go.

With the task of clearing obstructions from the money pit completed, Rick

Lagina and members of the Oak Island team gather in the war room.

Hey, guys.

Hey, work.

Hey, Rick. They are joined by researcher and area historian Doug Crowell.

and attending via videoconference are Rick's brother Marty and their partner

Craig Tester from their offices in Traverse City, Michigan.

Today, we have something that I think will astound you. And what little I

know, it's remarkable.

All right, I'm with you. To that end, I'll let Doug take over.

Gentlemen, hi, how are you? Hi, Doug. A couple of months ago...

i got introduced to this lady in new york who's been pursuing some templar

research for the last seven or eight years and she's actually followed the

templars out of the holy land into the new world in her research

among the many persistent theories about oak island is that as far

back as the 14th century members of the knights templar while escaping from

persecution in europe sailed across the north atlantic and buried an incredible

sacred treasure on the island in order to keep it from harm.

Although much circumstantial evidence exists, no one has yet been able to

prove that the Templars were ever in Nova Scotia, let alone buried treasure

there.

Who is this mysterious woman?

The lady's name is Zena Halpern.

Perhaps what we should do is introduce you to Zena herself.

Maybe we can get her in on a conference call.

Of all years.

Zena Halpert is a New York-based author and researcher who is currently

investigating what she believes is evidence of Knights Templar activity in

North America.

Hello. Hi, Zena. It's Doug.

Hi. So I'm with the folks on Oak Island.

Okay. And I just gave everyone here a little overview on what your research

involves and that you have some pretty interesting documents.

Okay.

We have the map that shows Nova Scotia.

We have a map of Oak Island.

And then we have the cipher.

There was a mention in the document dated 1178 to 1180

that the temple voyage to the northeastern part of America took place

and that the Templars had made landfall on an island.

One of her research assistants knew of the work I was doing, pursuing the

history of the 90-foot stone, and they thought I should see this cipher.

And I was immediately intrigued, because this appears to be using the very same

symbols that the cipher for the 90-foot stone uses.

Do you want to tell the guys how this cipher came into your possession?

two maps and a cipher that supposedly prove a templar journey to the new world

but if such a journey happened could additional evidence exist that they

brought treasure to oak island possibly sacred artifacts rescued from the holy

land during the crusades i've never seen another cipher that uses the

same symbol i mean when you look there You see more symbols than what was used

in the 90-foot stone cipher, but there's way more to this cipher as well.

The whole cipher doesn't seem to be here. It runs off the page. This seems

to be a fragment of a larger cipher, and I've been trying to decipher.

Okay. I started running it through the deciphering program that I have and

running it through various languages, and I started to get some hits in

Portuguese.

Each symbol is a character, a letter?

Right. The words I pulled out of it.

so far are greyware which is a term for pottery gold cephala

the site of the first portuguese fort and factory on the east coast of africa

in 1505 and joab a general in king david's army who spent a lot of time

in northern africa if i can interject here sure

Right. In one of the stories I was reading, it was mentioned that Joab was

pushing the Philistines back and he made it safe for the transport of the Ark.

The Ark?

Could the cipher Zena Halpern found be referring to the Ark of the Covenant,

the sacred golden chest built by the Israelites to house the Ten

Commandments?

According to the Bible, Joab was a commander in King David's army.

charged with protecting the king's most precious objects.

Is it possible the so-called La Formula cipher actually holds a coded message

connecting the fate of the Ark of the Covenant to the Oak Island mystery?

And when I look at this, I say, okay, we've got the same symbols in two

different ciphers, one that seems to pertain to Africa, and then one here

that pertained to the message on a stone here on Oak Island.

Does this suggest that there's an organization out there that was using

these symbols to encode messages, that we're doing something in Africa, and

somehow also we're here on Oak Island?

There's no doubt that Oak Island was known, it was visited.

In the war room.

Rick, Marty, and their partners are meeting with area historian Doug

Crowell. Joining them on the phone is Knights Templar researcher Zena Halpert,

who has just shared with them her recent discovery of two maps and a cipher,

which she believes could help solve the Oak Island mystery.

If you want to bring in the big Nova Scotia map, that alone is interesting.

The map that's dated in the upper right-hand corner.

seems to be dated 1179.

The

Rodon

part, to me, it suggests New Ross.

And I think most people here are familiar with the idea that Henry

Sinclair came over to Nova Scotia in 1398 and perhaps settled in the New Ross

area. The town of New Ross in Nova Scotia is believed by some to have been

the location of an ancient Templar fortress built in the late 1300s by

Scottish Templar knight Prince Henry Sinclair after his journey to Oak

Island.

But could it be that Sinclair's reported journey occurred more than 200 years

after the first Templars visited the area?

And if so, might there be a connection between New Ross and Templar activity on

Oak Island?

So we have your map that shows Nova Scotia, and we have a map that seems to

be a French map of Oak Island. Yes. This Oak Island map that you're showing us...

It seems to indicate that someone came here in 1347.

The hand

-drawn map is clearly Oak Island.

And then there are several things named in French which have been translated for

us. One is called the basin, translated from French. Well, that clearly

correlates to the swamp on the Nolan side of the island.

Also delineated is something called the marsh, and that would be the swamp

proper. And there is the reference to what's called the dam.

And it points to where Fred Nolan articulated to us last year that there

was a log wall.

Yeah, and then there's something on the map called the oak. Enter here, which

points right about to where the money pit is.

And then we have two or three things that we don't know anything about.

One's called the anchors, one's called the valve, and one's called the hatch.

Where it says the hatch, in the McGinnis family, there seems to be some stories

that... About this hatch.

Yeah, one of the uncles, he said...

Basically there's a hatch that you only have to sink a spade to find and that

once you do don't get lost down there.

Rick? What? I think we should try and find out some way of verifying these

documents. I mean Rick, don't you want to go dig up the hatch?

No question about it. Looking at these maps you have a series of things that

correlate perfectly.

with the island as we know it, and then you have things that we've never heard

of. So, of course, we want to search for them.

The story of this, I believe, is multilayered and very complex.

So I want to continue down this road, but there's a lot more work to be done

on. Yeah.

You know, I'm not sure that Zena's research is going to lead to answers,

but this whole place is all about rumor, conjecture, supposition.

hope, belief.

And so she has a theory which uniquely is backed up by documentation.

And I surely would regret not following up on this research.

Zena, we want to thank you for talking with us. Thank you, Zena. Bye-bye.

Bye-bye. Thanks.

It was very interesting. Doug, thank you very much.

One day after the team's incredible conference call with Oak Island

researcher Zena Halpert, Rick Lagina, Charles Barkhouse, and researcher Doug

Crowell traveled to the small town of New Ross, Nova Scotia, approximately 20

miles north of Oak Island.

Alessandra Nadevari, she's a fellow researcher and friend of mine. She and

her husband have bought this property now that was purported to be the site of

a castle.

perhaps built by the Knights Templar.

If that connection can be drawn, you couldn't ask for more than that.

Here we are, guys, right here on the left. Here?

Yes.

There's Tim and Alessandra right there.

Hello, Rick.

Gentlemen, I want to introduce you to Alexandra Natterfire.

Researcher and author Alessandra Nadudvari and her husband, Tim

Loncarich, recently purchased this property in 2016.

If you'd like, I'll show you what we've got.

Lead on. They believe it was occupied centuries ago by members of the Knights

Templar for the purpose of hiding something of either great historic

importance or incredible value.

Well, welcome to our backyard.

In the 1970s, one of the previous owners was digging in the backyard here for a

garden, and she started to uncover what she thought were foundation stones of an

ancient castle.

When author Joan Harris purchased the property in 1972, the only sign of prior

habitation was an old well.

intricately constructed of small boulders.

Over the years, she uncovered the remains of an entire foundation.

This is one of the stones that she uncovered. She called it the Hermstone,

and she felt that it could be a grave marker.

And then if you look more closely on the face, it looks like there could be

something carved on the face. It's very worn, as it would be if it was 700 or

800 years old.

I think that on the face of the stone, you can see a very faint outline of a

cross. It's a, in my opinion, what it looks like. It's a Christian cross and

no ordinary cross, but the cross of the Knights Templar.

It does resemble a cross. And to me, it looks like the cross of the Knights

Templar, specifically Portuguese Templars.

I would love for there to be a Templar connection.

I find that niche in history, the Templar years, if you want to call them

that, incredibly intriguing.

What makes it Portuguese Templar, if I can ask? The shape of it. I've seen

pictures of Portuguese Templar crosses on documents from the 1100s, and it's

exactly this shape.

It has that beautiful rounded shape, and it's oftentimes portrayed inside a

circle.

That's funny, I can see the impression of that. Yeah.

Could Rick Lagina and the others really be looking at a Portuguese Templar

cross?

I mean, to me, this cut line here is very distinctive.

What draws my attention really is what we're not seeing. If that is there, then

what could be below it?

There's a line, there's almost a cut mark here.

That's very intriguing.

Yes. Yeah.

Do you know how large the stone is, and have you looked at the base of the stone

for any carbon? Not yet. We haven't done any excavation.

That's one of the next steps for us is to lift the stone and see what's under

it. You've got to be a bit... Curious. More than a bit curious.

I mean, if you have a Templar cross, you know, you have to wonder what's down

below. Right, exactly.

Under the soil here, there are walls, ancient foundation walls, up to five

feet thick that cover this area.

And the apex of that structure is the well over there.

Let's take a look at the well.

This is what for a long time has been called the Holy Well. This water, for

some reason, was supposed to have curative powers.

We've been told that the walls are about four feet thick.

And there's stories that there's also chambers leading off of the well.

But we don't know for sure.

Well, we might be able to help you with that today because I brought some

equipment with me. We can drop a camera down in the well. That would be great.

There's always been this connection with Oak Island and New Ross.

And thus, you know, maybe we might be able to puzzle that connection out. I

don't know what we're going to find, but we may learn something today.

Okay, folks, I think we're geared up here.

Rick, I'm going to give you the monitor.

Okay. Charles, if you manage the cables for me. I will, yes.

Okay.

You got a picture there?

Yep. Okay.

Rick, you kind of tell me when you want me to advance, I guess. I'll go slow.

Any indication of shape stones or just natural?

No, just field rock.

Field rock.

Some ledge rock.

We're in the water now.

As it's dropping down, my initial thought was, this is extremely well

constructed. I've built a lot of stone, worked with a lot of stone in my life.

The walls hadn't caved in, they hadn't pushed in. It was absolutely perfect

construction.

No change in the stonework or the type of construct.

There's stories about archways. There are stories about a rock that's supposed

to have an X carved in it.

yes there's supposed to be something behind the arch like yeah if there's

even a chamber all right go lower yep it's very good clarity i mean it's

these stones are strange looking these stones have angular features

you know they're maybe cut maybe worked they're very smooth on actually on three

sides definitely you know they look like they've been shaped or at least split

Somebody went to a lot of trouble to build this.

We found bottom, guys.

I've come up against an obstruction at least.

So we're about 18 feet deep is what you're looking at right now. You can't

go any deeper.

When I let it down, I come up against something solid.

What could be causing Doug's camera to come to a halt at such a shallow depth?

There's something going on here.

It appears as though it's silting in behind.

I don't know if that's the obstruction he's hitting, but there's been no

evidence of collapse.

I don't know anything about well construction.

I mean, this might be the way wells were done long ago.

Wait, wait, wait.

What is that?

That looks like a floor.

I don't know.

But it's strange.

Look at what it looks like.

Flagstones.

Flagstone floor?

It's a strange, very strange bottom.

I've never heard of wells with flagstones.

In the town of New Ross, some 20 miles north of Oak Island, Rick Lagina,

Charles Barkhouse, and Doug Crowell continue to explore the inside walls of

an old well.

It is located on property that researchers believe was once the site of

a stone castle built more than 800 years ago.

by members of the Knights Templar.

Didn't they find flagstone at the first level in the money pit? They did. Two

feet down, they did find flagstone, which, oddly enough, they believe came

from the mouth of the Gold River. No way.

Oh, yeah.

That's true.

Flagstones from the Gold River?

The same river that also runs directly through the town of New Ross?

Could Rick and the team have found yet another possible connection?

between the ruins at this ancient site and oak island flagstones are not native

to oak island right so they believe that's where they came from it's a flat

bottom there are some markings in the floor if you will it looks like a

construct it looks like a laid floor if you laid the floor why would you lay a

floor at the bottom of a well unless you were to hide something beneath the floor

maybe it's a ceiling and there's another chamber beneath False floor. I mean, you

hate to go down that road, but very interesting.

I'm coming up.

So after visiting the site, is it interesting? Absolutely, because I love

the mystery. I love trying to plumb the depths of history to resurrect this

story. But there's still a lot of research to be done, and I very much

look forward to the application of hard science to try to determine if there is

indeed a connection from Oak Island to New Ross.

Look, there's so many similarities between what you intend to do and what

we are currently doing.

You believe there's a wonderful story here. We believe there's a story on Oak

Island. You know, who knows if there are ties to both stories?

There's this great mystery, and we've been captivated by it. We need to solve

it. And to that end, I just want to say, perhaps we can work together, you know?

We're helping you. I would like to stay in touch. Okay. We'll keep you posted.

Perfect. That's all we can ask. Thank you very much. Again, good luck. I wish

you nothing but the best.

Having found clues that give Cretans not only to a connection between Oak Island

and New Ross, but also to the strange map from researcher Zena Halpern, Rick

Lagina has reason to believe that he and the team may be on the verge of a major

breakthrough.

My biggest takeaway from the New Ross experience is that there are answers to

be found about Oak Island, perhaps, at New Ross.

I mean, that's what's intriguing.

Where are the answers?

You know, are they in an archive in Spain? Are they in a museum in Portugal?

Are they 17 miles away from us in New Ross?

That's what was interesting.

Well, I think the well is the first place you got to look.

Because God knows what you're going to find. And really, it's a question for

you. You're the researcher here. Well, that's one of our primary leads we

should follow.

After returning from their trip to New Ross, Rick Lagina and Charles Barkhouse

meet with other members of the Oak Island team at the Mug and Anchor Pub in

Mahone Bay.

It was a very interesting afternoon, no doubt about it. They are eager to share

their findings.

and also discuss next steps in their investigation of Zena Halpern's

incredible theory.

Zena gave us both La Formula and the French map, so I think we need to

investigate the French map. I want to look for that hatch. If it's there and

there's tunnels in the west side of the island... You'll not get a disagreement

from any of us about that.

You find a doorway, all bets are off.

Yes, but...

The hatch was pretty close to your backyard.

I say we devote some time to really hunting down this hatch.

I've got a couple of ideas on how we can find it. You look for a depression.

Dave, didn't you find a depression somewhere near your house? Yeah, that's

on lot 22. I'm just on the other side of my lot line.

I think I know exactly where it's at.

A depression?

In the same area where researcher Zena Halpern's strange map indicated that a

so-called hatch would be located?

Fred and Dan have always said that the workings underground here are extensive.

Would it be incredible that there's a hatch, a trapdoor, a back way in to the

underground workings? Of course it would be.

Well, maybe we take a better look at that depression.

I say we go with any clue we can and try to really find this hatch while we have

the chance to. It should be explored, yeah. Oh, absolutely.

So this is an anomaly you located. Yeah, yeah, I found it when we were looking

for a deer back here with no one fell in.

Really?

After obtaining what is reported to be a centuries-old map of Oak Island, Rick,

Marty, and their team are eager to investigate what Dave Blankenship has

just described as a strange depression in the ground near his property.

Again, it's chased down the clues, you know, and this is indeed a very

intriguing clue.

Would I love it to be a backdoor to the underground workings under Oak Island?

No. You think?

It'd be incredible.

I want to show you guys that we're in the general area of the supposed hatch.

Here, let me show you in the back of the Yukon. I can project it onto the French

map that Zena gave us. Okay, let's look.

the old French map that Zena gave us with new satellite imagery.

And so I blew up the old French map, and it's really close. And I want to show

you guys, you know, how close it is and how much it lines up. Let's see how bad

it's off.

At least the top end of it follows the coastline the same, parallel. Look at

the top of that. It follows it perfectly.

It's just offset.

Yeah, I mean, we don't know how much in... That was 1,300, how much is eroded

off the island.

This is probably as good as I'm going to get it for now.

The thing is, it is in this general area.

Right here. Right underneath it is where your driveway meets the main road.

And this little thing down here is your house.

But right about here is our search area.

There's this strange map.

There's a description of a hatch.

There's no GPS coordinates, mind you. It's just a general area.

Might this lead us somewhere? Might this be the described hatch on that little

piece of paper?

Maybe.

I don't think we have a very good description of what the hatch is even

supposed to look like, right? No, we don't. But that's where it ties in.

David found an anomaly. Yeah, a hole over here. Right about where it should

be. This hatch lands kind of where David said... The hole is. Yeah.

It's close enough. Let's go look at it. Let's go.

All right, well, we'll make sure I'm going the right direction.

Where should I go in at, David?

Go in here by the pole.

Right here? Yep.

With that thing, you got that right.

Okay, I think it's clear enough. We can get through here.

It is yeah, I think this is it here

Wow

Holy smokes

Could the Oak Island team have just

found the mysterious hatch that was indicated on Xena Halpern's 14th century

map if so What will it reveal?

A back door into the money pit?

Or perhaps a gateway that leads directly to an incredible treasure?

That's the oddest thing on this side of the island.

This season on The Curse of Oak Island.

I hear it.

It's a historic day. Yeah, here she be. Now it's time to dig in the money pit.

That's where it started.

That's where we need to make it end.

We're throwing everything we got at this thing. All right, all right, let's go.

Go on. It's go time.

Huge gears coming in. That's beautiful.

It's deeper than anyone's ever been in the money pit.

What do you got, Tony? I've got a triangle.

This thing's amazing. Now we have a bunch of targets there. Something there.

I've got something.

I can see the cross.

Don't blow.

Have you ever seen anything like this? No.

That's not natural.

What the hell?

That's the bone, isn't it?

Holy. We're poised on the ball. How prophetic is that?

We got wood. Wood. This is a structure. There's no doubt about that.

Oh, man, did we bingo that.

Yeah.