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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

We found the location of the 90-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.

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.

Here they come.

See the truck.

Once they pass that gate, it's begun.

It's an historic day.

Time to dig in the money pit.

For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, today marks the beginning of a

culmination of more than a decade of research, data collection, and

painstaking hard work.

Andrew. Morning, Marty. How are you? Welcome back to Oak Island. How do you

do, sir? This is Mike Turnbull. Mike, nice to meet you. I'm Marty. Good to see

you. Good to see you.

Got us some bits and pieces here, huh? Yes.

How many loads we got total?

today probably in and around 15. and then how many more loads 25.

so the site back there looks big now but it's going to get small real quick we're

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

we're going to do right brother absolutely today is when it begins

huge gears coming in on multiple low float rigs to get this process started

and It's very sobering because it's a commitment of our time, our money, and

our energy. We're focused on the money pit dig.

We are bringing high-tech gear for the sole purpose of trying to figure out the

mystery of Oak Island.

If there ever was the right spot to dig, I think we're digging it in the money

pit. So, you know, I mean, I can't wait. I can't wait for that big old pipe to

get down there.

there's no question about that now that the area leading to and around the

original oak island money pit is cleared and leveled it is time for the massive

drilling and digging equipment to be brought in we're going to actually dig

in the money pit we're throwing everything we got at this thing this

year we're going to know in terms of days not years Working from archival

maps and carefully calculated measurements, Rick, Marty, and their

partners have identified two target sites.

Places which they hope will lead them to the ultimate discovery.

The first, known as Valley 3, is the site of a possible treasure vault,

which Rick Lagina and Oak Island partner Craig Tester believe they located while

looking for the money pit site two years ago you think you're on the ball the

second target site named c1 here we go is the place where last summer rick and

oak island historian charles barkhouse discovered what appeared to be a shiny

golden object located in a large void some 170 feet deep underground

daniel

What do you think, Dan?

You prepared a hell of a big area here.

At the age of 93, Dan Blankenship has invested more than five decades of his

life to solving the Oak Island mystery and is still going strong.

So in all your years here, I mean, you ever see it coming to this?

No.

Good.

The old saying, Rick, is nothing ventured, nothing gained. Exactly. This

is a culmination for you and your brother of your belief in Oak Island.

Always have.

Tremendous amount of work went into this. There's no question about it.

Not going to leave a stone unturned or get half an answer. That's ridiculous.

After over 50 years, I'd like to have some.

positive answers one way or the other we hope for this year i hope so too

it's about time yeah about time look nobody

wants this to happen more than dan blankenship does committed his whole

adult life to this and now maybe we're within reach of getting him the answers

that i think he deserves for the laginas and their partners the anticipation

is intense as the promise of discovery becomes imminent the most ambitious and

expensive attempt to solve the oak island mystery is just days away the

essence of oak island is the money pit i mean that's what captivated me us as

little boys the money is there something in the money pit i absolutely believe

there is

Welcome to what we affectionately call our war room. Thank you. Appreciate

that.

While waiting for the final pieces of digging equipment to arrive, Rick Lagina

has invited Oak Island researchers Doug Crowell and Kel Hancock to report on

their ongoing investigation into the fate of one of Oak Island's biggest

mysteries.

The 90-foot stone, which was first discovered in the Money Pit and has been

missing for nearly 100 years.

So what have you got for us? Well, in 1864, a three-part account was published

in a local Nova Scotia paper about the hunt date.

The stone disappeared. That immediately caught the interest of the Halifax

Historical Society.

They wrote a letter and said, where is the stone now? Who can we talk to to see

it? We wanted to try to find that historical society's accounts.

of the stone the thing with historical societies is that they publish

proceedings and we're trying to find those proceedings there's a lot of

unknowns in the stories of the 90-foot stone when the money pit was first

excavated by the onslow company in 1804 a large olive colored stone was reported

to have had a number of strange symbols carved into it which when translated

read 40 feet below Two million pounds are buried.

In 1865, it was removed from Oak Island and taken to Halifax,

where it was reported to have been displayed in the window of the Creighton

and Marshalls bookstore in order to help raise money to find the Oak Island

treasure.

But when the bookstore closed in 1919, the stone disappeared and has never been

seen

Well, we decided to look at the accounts of it being in Halifax.

So Doug has our information here, and we'll share with you what our

investigation turned out.

Great. It would be highly meaningful to me if that stone actually showed up, the

real stone, and it could be verified as the real stone. Doug and Kel bring a

serious interest in Oak Island, and also they have a background, if you will, in

proper research.

The Oak Island story is all about looking backwards, researching things

that are oral tradition and pursuing that.

So where then does this lead us?

Well, gentlemen, we found the location of the stone.

The last known location of the stone.

At the Halifax Seed Company? At the Halifax Seed Company.

It certainly looks as if this was the building that was the book bindery from

the stories of the 90-foot stone. That's right. Creighton and Marshall Bookstore.

And it exists. It's not torn down. It's there. It's in Halifax. It's there.

It's standing today.

Now, in the stories, Creighton and Marshall closed down in 1919.

But the last time a searcher saw that stone, wasn't it Bowdoin?

1909. Correct.

In 1909, treasure hunter Captain Henry L. Boudouin, along with future U.S.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, led an attempt to solve the Oak Island mystery.

Boudouin traveled to Halifax to see the 90-foot stone at the bookstore, but

became horrified when he found out the stone was being used as a cutting board

for leather book jackets.

Convinced the symbols on the stone had been completely worn away,

Boudouin left Halifax disappointed.

And after it was last seen in 1919, the whereabouts of the stone have remained

unknown.

I can't believe that somebody hasn't taken a picture of this thing or even a

rubbing of it. Bull.

I refuse to believe that there is not something that exists somewhere in a

Bible in an attic.

Somewhere. Maybe the bloody thing's in the basement. You never know. Yeah.

Yeah. So.

What's the next step? The next step is to visit the location.

Perfect. We'll have a look and see if there's anything in the basement.

Okay. I say we appoint an ad hoc committee, and I know who I'd like to

appoint him for sure.

And Alex?

Yeah, I'll go with you. I'll sell them. Thank you very much for coming and

sharing all this with us. It's always interesting.

Great. All right.

Okay. Go get the stone.

It is the start of a new day on Oak Island.

One that sees the assembly of massive 100 and 300-ton cranes at the Money Pit

site.

So guys, right here, you see over to the right?

That's our target. That's it. Okay, cool.

This is also the day...

that Marty Lagina's son Alex and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse,

along with Doug Crowell and Kel Hancock, have traveled some 60 miles north to the

city of Halifax in search of Oak Island's most mysterious and important

artifact, the so-called 90-foot stone.

Yeah, so this is it, right straight ahead.

With the purple awning and everything? Yep, with the purple awning. So Doug has

a picture.

And if you look at this picture, you can see that that row of windows on the

second floor is identical.

And if you look just above the purple facade over there, you'll see where this

window, this window, and that vent hole have been bricked in or patched over,

and it matches identically.

Yeah, I mean, you can superimpose it perfectly. It looks almost the same.

This photo is the last known location of the 90-foot stone. This is it. And we're

looking at it. I can tell right now. Right there.

I've been looking for the 90-foot stone for years now, and we are going to be

able to generate some other leads, I think.

So this is most likely the window that the 90-foot stone would have been placed

on display.

Oh, that's pretty cool to think that it could have been right there. Yeah.

And we're standing here now kind of on the trail. Standing right here.

That's very cool.

Well, guys, Dr. Marble and Joe Landry are waiting for us inside, so let's go

in and see them. Great. After you. Right on.

Thanks, Doug.

Having identified the exact location of where the 90-foot stone was last seen in

1919, Doug and Kel have arranged to meet with Dr.

Alan Marble, the former president of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society,

along with building representative Joe Landry.

This is the area we're interested in, right? Yeah, this would be.

Now, of course, gentlemen, you know we're interested in the story of the 90

-foot stone and the fact that it was brought to a book bindery in Halifax to

be put on public display. Yeah.

We're pretty certain that this is the location.

Well, I've done a lot of reading on it over the years, and I knew the stone, of

course, when it was found and where it was in different eras, and I knew that

it had been here.

The first thing I noticed when I walked inside was how modern the inside of the

building was.

It had clearly been renovated.

It was not anything like what I imagined a book bindery to be.

Are there any areas of the building that have not been renovated or maybe fewer

times than this area?

It's to a large extent, pretty much.

Like it was. I mean, we've changed.

We've put linoleum on the floors and tiles on the ceiling, but apart from

that, very little has changed.

Is there a basement to this unit here?

Yes, the basement runs pretty well the whole length of the blocks.

Perhaps we should take a look at that now.

Okay, yes, we'll just head towards the back of the building here.

Excellent. I'll follow you.

Is it possible?

that clues regarding the current location of the 90 foot stone might

still be found at the old book bindery nearly 100 years after it was last

reported to be here mind your kids careful the debris on the floor yeah

geez look at this place uh-huh we've got a stone wall in here guys all right yeah

this is a little bit more like uh we were picturing i think yeah yeah this is

it this is the old stone foundations

Here's some granite.

Yeah. These look like they were put into repair at the wall.

We'll get a photo of this.

Oh, this is interesting.

Yeah.

Oh, look at this, Charles.

An archway. Yes.

Hey, guys.

What do we got?

I want to come take a look at this.

Oh, boarded-in archway.

I'm just wondering what this might have been.

Well, Halifax is riddled with tunnels, and the origin of them and the reason

why there's so many is for military security, military transportation.

Right.

Underground military tunnels?

Could this strange boarded-up archway really provide a clue as to how the 90

-foot stone seemed to vanish without a trace?

Why don't we head back upstairs and we can figure out our next move.

Agreed. Sounds good to me. After you, Cal.

I knew it was kind of a long shot. Maybe we'd find something down there, but it

was worth a look.

Different exit, eh, Joe?

Indeed.

This building's like a maze.

It is.

Well, guys, I think we're leaving here with some good information.

We can look into a little more of the owners of this building throughout

history.

We can look for anybody that may have taken a photo of the storefront when the

stone was on display.

But the other possibility that it may be closer than that, I've been told that

there was a member of the Halifax Club, which is just down here a short

distance. He was a member at least until 1982, and he told his son that, in fact,

there was a stone in the floor of the Halifax Club, which he thought was the

90-foot stone.

I don't know, but that's what he told his son. The Halifax Club is still in

operation? It is. It's just three blocks up Paula Street. And I can take you up

there if you'd like to take a look.

Another lead, yeah.

And you never know, the marshals and the cretins may have been members of the

Halifax Club, which you could possibly determine.

In 1919, when they realized they were closing up the shop, they may have

decided to donate it to the Halifax Club. It's a possibility. Seems pretty

plausible to me. Yeah, honestly.

It's worth tracking down anyway. Let's go look. Yeah. Yeah.

Joe, thank you for joining us. You're welcome.

Could Alex and the team actually be within reach of locating one of the key

clues in solving the Oak Island mystery?

All right, guys, let's go for a walk. Yeah.

While Alex Lagina and Charles Barkhouse continue their search for the 90-foot

stone in nearby Halifax.

Back on Oak Island, Craig Tester and his steps on Jack Begley begin a strategic

investigation at Smith's Cove.

Probably over by this pine tree right here if I start it right in there.

Okay. Working with ground-penetrating radar experts Matt Savelle and Luke

Melanson from Canadian Seabed Research Limited, Craig and Jack.

are hoping to locate evidence of possible underground flood tunnels.

The same flood tunnels that reportedly feed ocean water into the Money Pit, and

as a result, have thwarted treasure hunting efforts for more than 200 years.

Traditionally, there was a flood tunnel that went from Smith's Cove here up to

the Money Pit. So it cut right through here somewhere.

In 1850, searchers from the Truro Company working at Smith's Cove

unearthed evidence of five intricate box drains.

They were constructed of flat paving stones and covered by layers of coconut

fiber and eelgrass, which were intended to filter out sand and debris.

Unfortunately, generations of repeated excavations have destroyed important

evidence.

But if the Oak Island team can locate even one of the box drains, and trace it

back to the money pit, they may be able to shut off the booby-trapped flooding

system. They also may be able to determine just who constructed the box

drains in the first place.

I think the Smith's Cove work is going to be instrumental in understanding what

possibly happened on Oak Island.

You find the box drain. Box drains lead to the flood tunnel. Flood tunnel leads

to the money pit. It all begins in Smith's Cove.

When the finger drains came together, they formed a V, and that V would be

facing this way and came towards shore. So if we could find out where the V is

cut in through here, that'd be significant.

Okay. You ready?

Okay.

This is quite the mystery.

We want to see for ourselves that this flood system is here, and how much of it

is real, how much of it's just story that was expanded over the years.

As the ground-penetrating radar system is pulled back and forth in straight,

parallel lines, electromagnetic pulses are sent through the Earth.

If successful, Craig and the team might be able to detect underground structures

or tunnels that lie below the surface.

That's good. Yeah.

Any penetration? Nothing. Well, yeah, but...

There's nothing striking.

Okay.

You don't get an exact image of what's down there, but you'll get what they

call a parabola.

We're getting preliminary results.

Maybe it could be wave action from 200 years ago that cut into there, but it's

definitely something we need to pursue.

That was an interesting one.

It's got a very distinct U, and you can see the little Vs along the bottom of

it. Is it possible that Craig, Jack, and the team have just discovered evidence

of man-made construction at Smith's Cove?

We started getting good hits, and it really looked like we were seeing these

spiky responses from the ground-penetrating radar.

I felt it was very good reflections. It was definitely seeing some sort of gouge

being cut in there.

Just based on this, you know, I think I have an idea where I would like us to do

an excavation.

While Craig Tester and Jack Bengley wrap up their team's operations at Smith's

Cove, Alex Lagina and his team arrive at the Halifax Club,

where the mysterious 90-foot stone slab from the money pit was reportedly seen

back in 1982.

Now, this is a very classic building.

Beautiful building.

Oh, yeah. Here it is right here.

1862.

Built in 1862 by Scottish-born stonemason George Lagg, the Halifax Club

was an exclusive male-only fraternity whose members included the most

prominent and distinguished men of the city.

Its headquarters was also a meeting place where business could be conducted

in private.

Could the 90-foot stone really have ended up here, embedded in the floor?

And if so, who brought it here, and why?

Wow, it looks like they're doing some renovation.

They sure are, yes.

So the story you heard was that the stone was in the floor?

Yes, it was supposed to be seen in the floor.

But of course, we don't know which floor, whether it was here or in here or

up in the dining room or where it was.

No information was given.

I was picturing we'd be walking into this intact building and just be able to

go right to the stone and look at it. This is a wood floor.

But of course, it didn't work out that way.

Hey guys, what's up?

Oh, hey.

Alex, nice to meet you.

Shortly after their arrival...

Alex and the team are met by Ryan Burke and Zach Woodworth, who are members of

the Halifax Club's construction crew.

You'd probably look in the basement over a stone wall or something like that.

Right, okay. Well, let's just start in the basement. I mean, it seems like the

best bet. You can cross that one off. Absolutely.

A large stone, the size of the one that we're looking for, is very heavy.

So the logic is, if you're looking for somewhere that's going to support the

stone, you put it in the basement.

From this point on would be the old building before it was renovated.

Up that way is post-renovation. So that's all newer down there. Yes. Yeah,

we'd definitely be interested in this side then. All right.

Well, let's have a look this way. Yeah.

All right.

Yeah, the floor's all gutted out and everything. This is all pretty torn up.

Yeah. Yeah.

Same here. Oh, yeah. In here, it was just a wood floor, and we haven't

actually touched any of the dirt below it. We just tore up all the old wood. So

there was just dirt underneath wood.

Yeah.

There's some stone walls, though, like little foundation pieces.

I didn't see anything special on them. Okay.

There's a sub-basement.

Yeah. Yeah. Any idea how to get down there?

Absolutely. That's the next stop.

Alex. Yeah.

Come take a look at this. All right.

Where are you at?

Over this way. Over this way?

Yeah.

Watch your step there.

Get through here. In there.

All right. What you got here?

It's a big stone.

Well, look at that.

It's a big stone.

Well, look at that.

Approximately 60 miles from Oak Island, Alex Lagina and members of the Oak

Island team are investigating a location where the 90-foot stone slab from the

money pit was reportedly seen back in 1982.

Is it slate? I think it's limestone. It's also bigger than what we're looking

for in terms of the dimensions.

I think it's a bust.

We learned a lot today, even though we didn't find anything.

I think the first order of business is to get the real story about why the

stone is supposedly in the Halifax Club.

If we can get that story from the person who saw it or from their direct

descendant, we may have a better shot of finding it.

One thing I would suggest you do is talk to the historian of this building.

There should be a collection of photographs, and if there was something

as unique as a stone in the floor that had any symbolic representation on it.

Someone would have photographed it.

But for now, we didn't find what we were looking for, but I think we made some

progress. We've got some good leads to chase down.

Let's call it a day. Yeah. Okay.

While Alex Lagina and Charles Barkhouse make their way back to Oak Island...

So you need me to pull it? We'll pull it up to here and lock it all together.

Rick and Marty Lagina, along with Craig Tester, are removing a number of logs

from the Money Pit area.

okay in order to make room for their large-scale excavation okay heads up

we

got company we've got company

shut it down for a minute rick

come here

Welcome back. Welcome back.

Of all the lives that have been touched by the 221-year search for treasure on

Oak Island, perhaps none has been affected as personally or tragically as

that of Leigh Lamb.

Sure, if you met my brother, this is Marty. No, I've never met Marty. Oh, no,

we got a hug. We're Italian. You're not going to get away with that.

She has returned to Oak Island after an absence of three years.

And with her are her two children, Claire Bradfield and Brooke Helland.

Looks a little different, doesn't it, Lee?

Where am I?

You're at the money pit. You're at the money pit.

Oh, for goodness sake.

This is a fairly large-scale project this year.

It's amazing. I mean, fantastic.

What's going to happen here, Lee, is right in the money pit, right where we

think the old vault from years ago.

Okay. We're going to dig a 40-inch hole big enough for a person to get down. Oh,

really? All the way down to as deep as 200 feet.

Wow.

You know, I can't help but wonder what your father could have done if he'd had

that.

Yeah.

In 1959.

Lee's parents, Robert and Mildred Restall, along with their two brothers,

Bobby Jr.

and Ricky, moved to Oak Island in an effort to solve the mystery.

For six years, they braved the harsh weather of the North Atlantic while

doing extensive work in the swamp, at Smith's Cove, and at the Money Pit.

I feel that the treasure is here and that we can get it and we're going to

stay here until we do.

But on August 17, 1965, while investigating a flooded 27

-foot-deep shaft at Smith's Cove, Robert was overcome by deadly H2S gas

and fell into the water below.

Although Bobby Jr.

and four other men jumped in to help him, they too were quickly incapacitated

by the deadly gas.

Despite a frantic rescue effort, both Robert and Bobby Restall perished, along

with two others.

Soon afterwards, Lee Lamb's mother and brother left the island and never

returned.

So Lee, what brings you here?

Well, I brought something to show you that may please you.

I'd love to see it.

Absolutely. Okay, Brooke, maybe you could take it out.

You know, when Lee Lamb comes to the island, it's always a reminder embodied

within a living person of the rest of the years. Why don't we just bring that

over on the tail of the Yukon so we can have a look at it? That'd be great.

I don't think Oak Island would mean as much without the sacrifices that family

made. I mean, the price that family paid is incredible.

Shall I show you? Sure. Definitely.

So this was found on the beach.

It's the 1704 stone.

It's almost mythic, yeah.

In 1960, the so-called 1704 stone was discovered by Lee's mother,

Mildred, while Robert and Bobby Restall were looking for evidence of box drains

and flood tunnels at Smith's Cove.

Although it has never been determined just when the stone was carved or who

carved him, it has always been considered an intriguing piece of the

Oak Island puzzle.

You really should feel it. I'd love to. Like, feel the depth of the carving.

Feel the stone.

Somebody worked on that.

1704. And, of course, we don't know if it's a year or if it's a distance.

Looking at the 1704 stone.

I think about the sacrifices that others have made on this island, and it makes

us realize how serious a quest this has been and will be.

It's an intense moment because within that stone, that hardened surface is raw

emotion. Here in your hand, you hold a family's legacy painted in that stone

are the pictures of her mom.

her father, her brother.

So for Lee Lamb, that stone is the rest all treasure.

I mean, dad wrote in his letters, it came from three feet or deeper. Wow.

That it was down among the beach work that the pirates did.

I mean, I'm thinking we could actually go down to Smith's Cove because we'd

like to show you what we intend to do. Wonderful. Yeah.

This is the monument.

That's what Dan put up.

Oh, really?

It's really lovely.

When Leigh Lamb visited Oak Island three years ago... These are Bobby's journals.

She brought with her a series of journals written by her brother Bobby

shortly before his death.

In them were contained maps and other important information.

The journals also suggested... the restalls were just days away from making

a major discovery before lee's brother bobby and their father robert restall

along with two others cyril hilts and carl grazer died tragically at the

bottom of a treasure shaft we'd like to show you this area that we can point out

where we where we're going to do the work but then you might reference where

the stone is from show me the cofferdam

The one that you may be referring to is what the searchers put out there in like

1850 or 1860.

Yes, I am, but that's the only one there was then.

That would be, you can see the big boulder, then come this way, and then

there's a line of rocks that's sticking out of the water right now. Yeah. That

would have been the edge of that cofferdam.

The reason I was asking about the cofferdam is that the filter system

was... situated precisely in the middle of it so you could you if you can see it

then you know where the filter system was right and that's where that 1704

stone was found okay i think that everything lee lamb said down at smith's

cove makes sense with our understanding of what happened down there and where

her father was digging and where her father found the box drains i think

everything she said verifies that it's worth our while to have a look ourselves

to try and unearth one of those things This end of the cofferdam was

the little bedroom shack that Ricky and Bobby used, was right there.

And right beside that and back about three feet was the vertical shaft that

Dad found.

Okay. So that part got very dug up.

So you have a better chance of finding something pristine at that end. It's

fantastic, because that's what we want to look for. But he found a shaft over

here, your dad did? A vertical shaft. A vertical shaft.

Do you know where that is? It's on the maps, right, this shaft?

How come we never went to have a look at that?

Well, I'd be surprised if we could see anything, because when Robert Dunfield

left the island... Right, but if it's on the map, we could find it. Good luck

with that.

Within days of the tragedy that claimed the lives of Lee Lamb's father and

brother,

Robert Restall's business partner and fellow treasure hunter, Robert Dunfield,

took over operations on Oak Island and launched what many believe was an all

-out assault on the eastern end of the island.

In an effort to stop the booby-trapped flood tunnels believed to exist at

Smith's Cove, he bulldozed tons of earth over the entire area.

Even more invasive was Dunfield's excavation of the money pit, which

involved the digging of a massive 100-foot-wide, 140-foot-deep hole.

When it collapsed due to heavy rain and flooding, the hole was hastily filled

in, and several valuable clues that had been carefully documented during the

previous 150 years of treasure hunting were potentially lost forever.

Bring that fun in, load it down here, and I can clear it. Yeah, I know, David.

No, no, not quite like that. No.

Now, we'll have to go back and revisit the maps, her father's maps and Bobby

Jr.'s maps, to see if it is that easily locatable.

Look, I don't even want to say goodbye because, as you well know, you're always

welcome here, but we thank you graciously for coming, and every time

you come, we learn something.

Well, thanks, Rick.

You know, I'm just amazed at how welcoming you have been, all of you. All

I can say is drop in more often.

Okay.

Okay, well, let's get going.

Lee Lamb's surprise visit to Oak Island has brought even more hope of new

discoveries to Rick, Marty, and their partners.

And although much on the island has changed over the last 50 years, The

island's ability to stir the imagination and fuel obsession remains undiminished.

After more than a decade of exploration, research, and persistence, and

after an investment of millions of dollars,

No, there it is. There it is right there. Here it comes. Big gray truck.

The oscillator.

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina are about to witness the beginning of a lifelong

dream.

They are ready to begin the first excavation of the money pit in more than

half a century.

It's really exciting because we have the equipment and we can find the old vault

if it's there.

So high hopes that we're right on.

And we're going to bring up something very significant. We have the material,

the equipment, and the manpower to do it.

It's the money pit, for gosh sakes. And, you know, we're 140 feet away from

getting, finally, real answers from Oak Island.

You guys about ready?

Yeah, we're ready. Yes, absolutely.

So, we got the crane rigged up. It's going to take that first piece of can,

place it inside the oscillator.

At that point, we're going to need someone to turn this thing on.

We want Dan to do it. It'd be great if Dan, if his dad could be part of it,

would be great. Wonderful.

Let's do it.

Here we are right here.

All ready to go.

It's all geared up.

Now that the final piece of equipment, known as the oscillator, has arrived, it

will be used to slowly grind a number of massive, 60-foot-long steel caissons

into the ground above the team's first target.

a possible wooden box known as the chapel vault.

Once located some 140 feet deep underground, an eight-ton excavating

tool called a hammer grab will then remove the earth and hopefully treasure

from inside the 40-inch wide hole.

So right now they have the starter can suspended in the air. That can's about

30,000 pounds.

That's the escalating.

Yes, so there's the teeth on the bottom. That's going to go down and start

cutting the earth.

So you'll see the guys right now. They have the leads and they're just guiding

that can right in.

Looks like we're ready to go. You guys ready? Who wants to fire this bad boy

up? We were born ready.

Let's do it.

Time to let the big dog eat.

Come on, Dan. Show us your stuff.

Daniel, this is Kent. He's a big fan of yours. Mr. Blanket Ship.

What a pleasure.

What a pleasure, sir. What I do with big iron like this and to see a man do it

barehanded and with just his heart, it's pretty neat, brother. We didn't do it

barehanded. We had a pick and a shovel.

All right. Get ready.

Dan, if you can go ahead and turn that on for us, please, sir.

Beautiful. We've got the stage set, the gears set, the players are set. It's go

time. All at the same time. All at the same time. Here we go.

One, two, three.

Let's make holes.

There we go.

That's it.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Good day.

For Rick, Marty, and the team, the hope of a great discovery and possible

answers to the Oak Island mystery has never been higher.

All right, slamming camp.

But once they reach their targets deep underground, what will they find?

A chest full of untold riches and treasure? A vault filled with priceless

religious objects?

Or will it be something even more incredible and mysterious than anything?

they or anyone living could ever have imagined.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

Here we are digging in the money pit. Nothing like this has been done since

1801. Wait till we get something.

You better believe it.

The treasure of Tumbez is the biggest missing treasure of gold.

I think it's on Oak Island.

This could be the year, Dan.

We're poised on the vault. How prophetic is that? We're feet away from what we've

labored for for eight years. Come on, baby.

One, two, one.

All beat down.