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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

It's the actual start of this money pit dig.

The story of Oak Island revolves around this spot. You're a part of history now.

So these are the interesting targets in the swamp.

Let's get out there and get some answers.

The easiest thing is to put a diver back in there.

I got something!

What is it?

Oh wow, it's huge.

What is this?

What does that look like? Looks like an X with a hook.

Is that symbol the Templars?

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.

It is a day of profound change and sadness on Oak Island. Hi guys. Hey. Hey

guys.

Well, so how'd it go, guys?

It was a very nice service.

About 100 people there.

Rick Lagina, along with Dave Blankenship and island historian Charles Barkhouse,

have just returned from the funeral of Fred Nolan, a man who, like Dave's

father, Dan Blankenship, was considered to be one of the most important figures

in the 221-year effort.

to solve the oak island mystery there's a nice thing on the back here it's some

kind of tribute to surveyors so i'll read it in honor of fred how's that fine

the surveyor he thrives on patterns his marks and monuments transform a

wilderness and by his carefully tagged and numbered squares he clothes

uncertainty in geometrical designs man's ancient rights

He scans the skies, reading some far-off star by which he plots meridians and

makes his maps, stitching a newfound world into a patchwork quilt, a net of

meets and bounds so lands may know their own and live in peace.

As one of the most prolific land surveyors in Nova Scotia, Fred Nolan

first came to Oak Island in 1958 and was later invited to survey the island in

1961.

by landowner M.R. Chappell.

After locating what he believed to be a number of ancient stone markers and

monuments, Fred became convinced that the key to solving the Oak Island

mystery was to search above ground rather than below it.

But perhaps his most incredible discovery came in 1981 when he

identified five cone-shaped boulders on his property.

that form a perfectly symmetrical pattern, later known as Nolan's Cross.

Fred, first of all, I just want to say thanks for coming to the war room.

Last year, after a long period of bitter rivalry between Fred Nolan and fellow

Oak Island landowner and treasure hunter Dan Blankenship, Rick, Marty, and Craig

successfully persuaded Fred to join forces with the Oak Island team.

and begin sharing valuable information.

How many years' work does this map represent?

40, 50 years.

Wow.

He brought something to the island, the search, that no one else in the 221

years prior to him brought.

And that is a hard science, a discipline.

And to work with him was incredible.

Rick. He certainly knew him better than I did. So Fred's passing was quite

upsetting to Rick because to Rick, he was a legend.

And you know what? God bless my brother because Rick is a guy who believes

completely in heroes.

So lands may know their own and live in peace.

And now it denotes an inflection point. There's everything before Fred Nolan,

and now there's going to be everything after. And it'll be different.

So...

You know, I know it's a somber thing for you, Rick.

And you know, you admire determination.

I mean, the guy was fierce.

Yeah. Oh, no question.

Well, it's been a sad couple of days for me, but look, I'll speak for myself. And

I, you know, maybe if everybody wants to confirm it, I'm more dedicated than

ever. The quest goes on.

Yeah.

As you correctly say, we have the objective and the quest.

to continue, so do we have any understanding of how this might affect

us? In the immediate, as we look out, I'm a bit troubled because I had

outlined what I thought was a fairly serious agenda working in the swamp with

Fred. There's no question that Fred's passing could easily have a negative

impact on moving forward in the swamp. You can't put a puzzle together if part

of the pieces are missing.

I'll go out on a limb here and say I think with a high confidence, but not

exact, that we can still do anything in the swamp.

My understanding is the treasure trove license, it would pass with his estate,

which would mean our deal with him would also be valid.

I think we have the rights to continue.

Yep.

Yep. So with that said, let's switch topics here for a second. So we have the

money pit looming large.

We do have contractors, and they are coming out, I believe.

Yep. These are the companies that would have the ability to push a caisson down

deep enough so we can get a human being down in the Money Pit area. Good. Which

is pretty cool.

So, that's what's going to happen. And beyond that, Rick?

Well, look, here's the thing for me. It's been a long day.

It's a sobering reminder that time waits for no one.

And we're all getting older.

So let's get out there and get some answers.

Hear, hear. Hear, hear.

On the morning after

Fred Nolan's funeral, Rick, Marty, and their partners have turned their

attention once again to this year's most ambitious and costly operation, the

excavation. of two target sites at the money pit to accomplish this

they have brought in a team from brycon construction who will first create a new

access road leading to the site then they will move tons of earth in order to

create a completely flat surface this will allow the team to bring in the

massive cranes and steel caissons that will be driven more than 140 feet deep

into the ground.

I don't even want to look.

As the work continues, Rick Lagina and island historian

Charles Barkhouse arrive at the money pit to see how much progress has been

made so far.

I was shocked to see what they had done.

We're that much closer to the objective, i.e. getting to the bottom of the money

pit.

They're all about getting the job done as efficiently as possible, as

aggressively as possible.

I mean, if this is a sample of what's to come, I mean, of course you're

optimistic.

It's amazing.

It's going to take us two months.

Look, Rick.

Look at the pile of timber here. Lots of timber here.

What do you make of it?

That's some pretty big timbers, eh?

I mean, it's all through here. I mean, just wherever you walk, you can see it.

I'm looking around 360 and I can see it everywhere.

As the earthwork project proceeded, I mean, we knew the layout of the quote

-unquote Dunfield spoil piles when he dug this large excavation down into the

money pit. We knew there might be some artifacts, if you will, but to find

them, a large amount of wood, I mean, of course it's exciting.

In 1965,

Oak Island treasure hunter Robert Dunfield began an ambitious and

extensive excavation of the Money Pit area in a desperate attempt to reach the

mysterious wooden treasure vault that was reportedly discovered by William

Chappell in 1897.

Over a period of four months, Dunfield and members of his team, which included

Dan Blankenship, dug a massive 100-foot wide, 140-foot deep hole.

In the process, they pulled up and discarded more than a century of

searcher tunnels and other debris that had been buried in the area.

Unfortunately, heavy winter rains and massive flooding, possibly from

underground booby traps, caused the giant hole to collapse before Dunfield

could ever reach his target.

I mean, look, there's another piece over here. Look, it's everywhere.

Hey, look.

Pottery.

Pottery? Yeah.

Look. Pottery.

That is pottery.

While examining a mound of dirt created by the preliminary excavations being

conducted at the money pit.

Rick Lagina and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse have just made a

potentially important discovery.

You can see the glazing in there. See that right there? The little lines?

You know, I mean, that might be worth testing. Yeah. You know, I mean, you can

see the... Hey, look.

What? You got another piece?

Wow. It's a plate.

Yes, look, you can see the...

Because the area around the money pit has been the focus of treasure hunting

activity for more than 200 years.

It is difficult for Rick and Charles to determine whether the bits of pottery

were left there by previous treasure hunters or by visitors to the island

before the money pit was first discovered in 1795.

You know, somebody can look at that from the design.

Yeah. Maybe a pottery expert, someone who is familiar with designs from long

ago. Could it be original? Could it be searchers? I have no idea.

I mean, it just proves that this whole area is spoils.

The question is, what else is here?

Because Dunfield did not go through it.

Finding the two samples of pottery.

I mean, those are small tokens of what might be in the money pit.

What might become of this excavation?

How many answers? To what extent?

I mean, it's rather exciting.

Hey, Rick, what is this?

What do you got?

I don't know. It looks like tile.

It's kind of curious.

What is it?

Strange looking.

It is strange. Look at the back.

Then you look at how flat it is on the face.

You'd think this face would be dimpled like this, but it's not.

You're right.

I was intrigued because Charles' verbiage was, hey, I found a piece of

tile.

Tile, really?

In the money pit.

Let's wash it off and take a look at it.

We've found pottery up there, but what's a piece of tile doing up there?

What do you got, Rick?

Is it any clearer?

No, it could be nothing, and it could be something.

Really?

We got an aha moment?

Maybe. Really?

I'm not going to tell you what I see. Okay.

You tell me what you see.

Now, this could be nothing, okay?

Look at this.

Looks like an X to me.

What does that look like?

You can see that indent there. Huh?

What that looks like is an X with a hook is what it looks like. Isn't that

amazing? A piece of tile featuring a carved X with a hook?

In recent years, a growing number of researchers and scholars Most notably,

forensic geologist Scott Walter have suggested that the symbol of a so-called

hooked X is based on an ancient rune symbol that was adopted by the Knights

Templar and used to mark their path during their exploration of North

America as far back as the 14th century.

Two weeks ago, during a conference call with New York-based author and

researcher Zena Halpern, The Oak Island team was presented with two maps and

what was alleged to be a copy of an ancient document with markings similar

to those carved on the stone slab found in the money pit in 1804.

Basically, I have a temple document that is dated 1178 to

1180, backing up that the Templars had made landfall on an island

of oaks.

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

1178 according to the temple report.

Is it possible that what Rick and Charles are looking at is proof that

Zena Halpern's theory is correct?

Could this really be an important clue linking the Templars to what lies buried

on Oak Island?

That is an X with a hook. That in and of itself is interesting.

What would be more interesting is to have the geologists look at this and

see, is this a creation of man? Is it rock?

What is it?

And then perhaps it can be dated. Yes.

Maybe it's not even indigenous to the North Atlantic.

I'd be curious what type of stone this is too, hey? Look at that. It's very

strange. It is very strange. But it's definitely stone.

Very odd.

It's not the complete X. So what it's saying is you're close keep going And if

it's an omen, it's a good one. Yep.

Let's go Rick as The operation took clear and prep

the money pit area continues Hey Matt, how you doing?

Nice to meet you Matt.

Nice seeing you guys again. Good seeing you again The Laginas and their partners

meet with metal detection expert Matt Savelle from Canadian Seabed Research

Limited.

Okay, I think everybody knows Matt Savelle, Canadian Seabed Research.

Matt came in, they re-ran some of the same points that we did last winter.

Different methodologies, different equipment.

And now the data's back, and you're going to get us back in the swamp, I

take it, right?

I'll try. Don't try too hard. Yeah, that's right.

I guess we'll look at the EM61 data first.

So the EM data is mainly we're going to be looking at metal. Ferrous or non

-ferrous? Yeah. Okay.

Earlier this year, the Oak Island team invited Matt to run an EM61 metal

detection device over the mysterious triangle-shaped swamp.

Make sure you cover the area where Tony pulled the stump from.

Okay.

Equipped with highly sensitive transmitter and receiver coils, the EM61

can detect metal objects as deep as 30 feet below ground.

Hey, Rick, we got a big hit over here.

Where to?

Same spot where the stump's at.

After extensive processing of the collected data, Matt Savelle has

produced a comprehensive map that shows metal objects at the northern tip of the

swamp, as well as near the swamp's southwestern border.

So we ran a lot of lines.

That's the short story of it.

But I basically narrowed it down to the lines that we should really focus on.

So this area over here where we have the yellow targets is basically the back

pond. This is the pond we couldn't drain.

When we drained the swamp, it retained its water. Yeah.

It's pretty obvious that there's something here, right?

There's two hits over there.

That's the big hit back there. This is the smaller hit.

It's safe to say that it's less than a meter below the actual stump when we

kept hitting it. Is that where the stump is, Rick? Yeah.

It's a big stump. And the hit is beneath it?

I believe beneath it, or I mean it could be just on the outside or below it.

Well, the significance, I think, is that if it's under the stump, that makes it

very, very old.

Yeah. All right. We'll move on to the West Swamp.

This target is, I believe, lying flat.

And it has some length to it, just based on these targets.

It's a big thing. Yeah, it's bigger than what I've shown you in the last two

hits.

Can you produce all these with GPS coordinates?

Yeah. This whole thing's on a grid, easting, northing, lat, long, but I'll

give you exact positions.

Okay, great.

These are obvious targets, right, in a sense that a handheld will pick them up,

will it not? A handheld underwater?

Underwater, yeah, it would help. Does that mean Tony Sampson goes in and uses

dive gear and mucks about?

Yes, that's what it means. I think it's well worth doing, that's for sure.

Just as long as I don't have to go in there.

So, back to the swamp.

Back to the swamp.

Just where you want to be.

Look, I'm geeked about the swamp all of a sudden. I know it's weird. It's deja

vu all over again.

It's three years running, but I'd like to put an X through things. There's much

work to do before that happens.

Here's where I'm at. We found a coin in the swamp.

We found an ancient coin.

Three years ago, while searching in the swamp with a metal detector, Rick,

Marty, and their team discovered a small metal coin buried in the mud.

When the coin was later cleaned and examined, it was revealed to be a 17th

-century Spanish meraville, making it the oldest and possibly the most

important object found on Oak Island to date.

It also validated the many stories and legends concerning the island that claim

Spanish explorers and even pirates came here centuries ago to bury a priceless

treasure.

So now we have a bunch of targets where an expert says with a high degree of

certainty they're real, and I think we need to fish them out of there. Yeah,

there's something there.

We have several targets we want to investigate.

So the best way to proceed is with a diver.

So we call Tony Sampson. He's done work with us before. He's a tough guy and an

accomplished diver.

The bandito is here.

Good to see you, buddy. Good to see you.

We're going to put him in on the first target, which is the back pond.

There's something very significant right there.

You might actually be able to swim.

It's actually like a meter and a half deep there.

Fantastic. And then there's something about a half a meter down, so you're

going to have to dig through that mud.

But what we want to try first, Tony, you know back in that pond that we could

never drain? Uh-huh. There's a stump there for sure, and underneath the stump

is a target, which the stump was carbon dated to pre-1600.

So whatever's under there could be very old indeed.

fantastic diver tony sampson has been exploring the waters around oak island

for more than a decade last summer he helped the team identify several strange

triangle-shaped boulders located just 100 yards off the island's southwestern

coast it was also tony who while exploring the oak island swamp two years

ago found the stump of a large oak tree What the hell is that?

It's a big tree stump.

Well, that's weird. What's that doing out in the middle of nowhere?

Because oak trees cannot grow in water, Tony's discovery provided an important

piece of evidence to support the theory that the Oak Island Swamp was man-made.

Let's get out and find the targets, okay? Excellent. Let's do it.

The obstacle for Tony is twofold. One is low visibility or zero visibility.

And the other issue, of course, is can he move the material sufficient to

actually find the target and perhaps retrieve it?

All right.

Put your backs into it.

First, he has to locate the stump.

Then he finds it with a metal detector and he gets a hit.

He pinpoints it with this.

And he comes up with it. Dig it up.

The stinky swamp.

I've never missed smell.

No, me either. Are you on the stump?

I'm off the stump, Brick. Right here.

Yeah. Good.

The anomaly should be on this front side.

It should be right over there somewhere.

Getting a good hit here.

Find it.

Retrieve it. Don't find it. Get it.

I've got something.

Whatever it is, it's right under that root system.

You want the pinpointer. You might as well bring the boat over there.

All right.

Well, that's encouraging.

It's like in the stump.

Really?

Do you get a sense that the stump is rooted?

It's not placed there. It feels like it's rooted so it was growing here, eh?

The anomaly is right close or underneath that big main one that comes through.

I'm getting good sound off it, but I'm hoping to get this right in there. Okay,

cool. Let us know if you want the shovel.

Why are there stumps in this swamp?

Big stumps.

Well, this is something intriguing. Yeah.

Still getting hits?

I'm getting a hit right in the stump with this damn thing. Good.

Get that shovel, mate.

All right.

Whoa. I got something.

Yeah, really.

While looking for metal objects buried beneath the Oak Island swamp, local

diver Tony Sampson has just made what he and the team hopes is an important

discovery. If it really is under the stump, doesn't it have to be ancient to

think? Yeah.

The stump is at least, what, 400 years, 450 years old.

Oh, yes.

That would be a Fred Nolan survey marker.

Yep. He was marking the stump, probably. Let's see if there's anything else,

Tony, with that out of there, please.

That's for sure one of his markers, isn't it?

It should say on it.

Well, I can go in the museum.

Obviously, Fred had marked the stump.

How he found it would be curious.

Why he felt it was significant to the point where he marked it, I don't know.

Just a few more questions, really, that arose from that discovery.

Oak Island landowner and treasure hunter Fred Nolan

that one of the keys to solving the mystery was located beneath the surface

of the swamp when he first drained the swamp in 1969 fred located a

number of man-made metal and wooden objects including what he believed to be

a spar or boom from an ancient sailing vessel this led him to the belief that

oak island was at one time not one island but two and that the swamp itself

was man-made according to nolan's theory a treasure ship could have been sailed

into an area between the two islands then surrounded by a giant cofferdam was

deliberately submerged beneath thousands of gallons of water thus creating a

swamp that would hide both the ship and its precious cargo but fred nolan

was not alone in believing that the key to solving the oak island mystery lies

buried at the bottom of the strange triangle-shaped swamp.

Two years ago, Oak Island researchers Alan Butler and Kathleen McGowan told

Rick, Marty, and the team that they believed a vast treasure could be found

by digging in the area of the swamp he called the Enochian Chamber.

If it's ever possible to say that X marks the spot, what you're looking for

is 996 feet.

due west of the Money Pit.

The prophecies about the New Jerusalem say that the New Jerusalem will be built

on an island of swamp.

Other theories have suggested that the swamp is hiding everything from the lost

folios of William Shakespeare to a vault containing sacred religious objects.

But one fact is certain.

Getting to what may lie buried in the muddy, marshy waters of the swamp would

require an engineering feat even more complicated and costly than digging in

the money pit it's kind of interesting that we're out here and

pulling up red stuff maybe he's cluing us in yeah keep looking guys don't give

up the sad

news is i'm not getting anything oh you're not getting any hits now no

Nothing underneath that big root?

No.

Well,

we found our bits of metal.

So that's disappointing in a sense, except that it verifies that our data is

good, and it's a significant piece of metal.

So it's a bust in the sense that it doesn't really add anything to the

search, but it verifies the data.

On to the next target.

Look, you solved the mini mystery, but there's plenty more to do if you're up

to it.

There's that one big anomaly. I think that's where we should go next.

Guys, I hate to make you do this, but we're going to have to slog our way back

to the next target.

But it's in the open water. It'll be easier once we get there, so let's get

going. All right.

There's where the anomaly is, Tony. It should be quite large.

Fantastic. You're going to find this one, no problem.

I hope it's not a survey snake.

Find something intriguing.

Yeah, let's go get it.

There's something here, that's for sure.

Bring up a coin.

Anything.

How deep was this target supposed to be, Rick? About a foot.

Okay, here we go.

What is that?

Oh wow, it's huge.

What is that? Looks like a piece of wood.

It's a large board.

Are there nails in it?

I don't see nails.

They're knots, aren't they?

They're knots, yeah.

Jack can haul it to shore and maybe you can keep looking around.

I got a hit off it, so it could be something underneath it.

That's why I'm not moving.

I'm sure there's something down here. Absolutely.

When Tony came up with a big long plank, my first thought was, oh, crap.

there's the anomaly because if it was full of bolts or nails that would

explain all those hits i'm not seeing any nails tony sampson pulled up this

really long board and we didn't know exactly what it was i'm normally

the person that handles the metal detector and so i was hopeful that there

might be some evidence for anything metal or anything like that maybe nails

Nothing. I'm not getting any hits, guys.

Okay, good.

Okay, well then, two things. Either we're way off on our location, or it's

deep.

You know, I'm finally starting to think this

through, and I'm thinking, now wait a minute.

If he comes up with something, it's going to be shallow. It's going to be

insignificant.

I'd prefer it to be deep.

The anomalies, whatever they are, are still down there.

Hey, Tony, we're calling today. Unless you got enough something real good.

Okay, buddy.

Yeah, thank you.

Okay, let's go look at that border.

There's only one possible way to analyze that. Tony couldn't find the largest

anomaly in the swamp, and that is that it's deeper.

then his equipment can look.

That means that because it's such impenetrable ground on that end of the

swamp, almost certainly somebody put it down there.

By the way, you did a great job.

I mean, Rick and I sitting in the boat and you and Jack out there working.

Sorry, but somebody had to do it.

So...

It's definitely not our target, but it's interesting.

It's longish for dimensional lumber.

It's probably 18 feet long, which is an odd dimension.

I'm thinking plank, either deck planking or side of the ship planking, because it

was obvious it was very long.

A section of planking, possibly from an old wooden ship?

How could something like this find its way to the bottom of the Oak Island

swamp?

Could it be proof?

that the incredible theory of a treasure ship buried here is true?

If it costs nothing to carbon date it, let's do it. Yeah.

What's curious to me is the fact that the bottom of that part of the swamp,

the western side of the swamp, is almost impenetrable bottom.

So it had to have been put there. It's incredibly exciting.

And it's a diggable target, a legitimate diggable target.

No stone unturned.

Or bored.

Or bored.

You mean no swamp on drain.

Yeah, let's drain the swamp again.

I'm settling for draining a beer.

I like that a lot, Tony. Nice job today.

While

Rick,

Marty, and the team await lab analysis of their recent find at the Oak Island

Swamp. Good morning. Hi, Phil. How are you doing, guys? Craig Tester.

Rick Lagina and Craig Tester have brought geologist Phil Fink to the

island to inspect another and perhaps equally compelling find.

If I can ask Phil, what is your area of expertise?

I have several specialties, but the one that would be most appropriate to you

folks would be the glacial geology and the modern processes, things that would

have happened in the last thousands of years.

Well, we've got a few rocks. We'd like you to take a quick look here. Right,

sure.

Stones have played a significant role in the telling of the story of Oak Island.

And to have someone in a professional capacity come and look at the stone and

perhaps render an opinion.

Look, no one will know better than a geologist.

But here's what we want you to take a look at.

A stone like that is quite unusual.

I've not seen anything like that. Have you, Craig?

No, not really.

It was found at surface, but after the surface had been removed probably six,

eight feet or so, just laying there on top of the soil.

It's a sedimentary rock.

but it's also metamorphosed, cooked, pressed.

It is some sort of a sandstone.

The surface does have a number of very fine scratches on it.

Those are glacial striations that form when a slurry of rock and ice has

another rock, and it drags it across the surface of this one. It acts like a

tool. They would look very fresh when they were first done, but over time they

weather and darken.

But these other markings on this stone, they appear to be a man-made feature

that was scratched onto the rock.

A man-made feature?

Could the carved stone that Rick Lagina and the team found near the money pit

bearing a hooked axe really be a clue as to what might be buried on Oak Island?

And will it prove a connection between Oak Island and the activities of the

Knights Templar in North America?

Perhaps the answer lies buried deep beneath the surface of the money pit, or

possibly with a plank of wood recently recovered from the Oak Island swamp.

As the task of clearing Leveling and preparing the money pit for excavation

enters its second week.

Rick, Marty, and their partners gather in the war room.

They are eager to learn the results of the tests that were conducted on the

large wooden plank found in the Oak Island swamp.

OK. We're going to get Craig on the screen.

Yeah. Got him right here.

Hopefully it's good news.

Hey, Craig. Hi, Craig.

Hey, Craig.

Hi, guys.

How's it going? Good.

Looking for the results on the carbon testing on that plank that Tony pulled

out of the swamp. Talk to us about it.

Make it good, Craig.

Okay. Well, I got the results back from Beta Analytic.

It's coming in a range, and this again is a 95 percentile, anywhere from 1680

to 1735.

Wow. It's positive data in that some of the dating, you know, can fit with some

of the theories.

Yeah, we're in an area where it could be the original people from 1680 to 1735.

Well, look, if it was 1680 to 1735 for sure, that would be exciting because

that means there are people here. They were here doing stuff.

Could Rick, Marty, and the team really have found evidence linking the large

wooden plank they found to theories?

that an ancient ship carried treasure to Oak Island and was then deliberately

sunk and hidden in a man-made swamp.

If you remember, Fred found parts of a ship, there's parts of a spire he found

in there, and also a section of a ship called a scuppers. True.

So is there any chance that pirates or some other ships may be unrelated to the

search?

crashed or they left some sort of wood in the swamp.

Those things had two inch, three inch, four inch planks on them. I mean, they

were, they were, they were ocean liners of their time.

Unless it was a top deck. Well, yeah, I mean, there would be, of course, there'd

be ceiling boards and floorboards and all kinds of stuff. But look, as far as

I'm concerned, I think there's something in the swamp.

It's the fact that Tony Sampson didn't find anything that makes me want to dig

in the swamp because we have the M61 thing that senses very deep and it

senses something metallic.

And then Tony sweeps the bottom. He doesn't get anything. Well, that means

that there's something deeper, something that must be dug.

So let's go dig it.

We have a hard target. We have our best target. We have the equipment. We have

the permits.

We're going to go dig it up.

It's going to be gratifying. I never thought I'd say it, but I want to dig in

the swamp. He's happy to be back.

Happy to be back in the swamp.

Who would have guessed it?

We're still faced with the most significant thing we found has been in

the swamp.

I mean, it has.

The coin is the most significant thing. The coconut fiber in the Smith's Coke.

All right, well, I'll take David's position on that.

So we drain.

You do your dig. Could be a perfect year. Yep.

Okay. Well, let's call this one quits. Thanks for the data, Craig. It helps us

move forward.

And let's go move forward.

Sounds good.

All right. Thanks, Craig.

Bye, guys.

See you, Craig. See you, Craig.

For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, their lifelong dream of solving the Oak

Island mystery seems closer to being realized than ever before.

so far this year they have discovered numerous clues maps and carvings

that point to activity on the island hundreds of years ago and they have only

just scratched the surface in their excavation of the money pit the place

where everything started but if their efforts are successful what will they

find pirate treasure sacred religious artifacts

or could it be something so incredible it will forever change everything we

think we know about our history one thing is certain whatever it is

will only be discovered when the island is ready to reveal it

next time on the curse of oak island we've found the

location of the ninety-foot stone the stone That was brought up from the money

pit with an inscription on it. This is it, right straight ahead. It's like a

maze down here. Yeah, geez, look at this place. Come take a look at this. What

you got here? It's a big stone.

Well, look at that.

Here they come.

Today is when it begins.

We're going to dig a big hole in the money pit and find out what's there.

Right, brother?

Absolutely. It's go time.

Here we go. Let's make hole.