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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

There we go.

As soon as that drops in, you're 15 feet away from the void.

There's a shiny gold thing down there. David!

What? Drain the swamp!

Way to go!

We can finally start excavating in the swamp.

Oh, look at that. This is a piece of a Spanish galleon. Six people have lost

their lives trying to do what you may be able to do this afternoon. It's

definitely inside the cavity. There you go. The door is open.

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.

Well, how are you feeling, Rick?

V3 is done.

I'm disappointed, I will say that.

Yeah, I agree.

For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, their lifelong dream to solve the Oak

Island mystery has proved to be more elusive than they hoped.

It's definitely got wood.

Two years ago, while searching for the location of the so-called money pit.

Concrete and then wood.

That's the description.

They found what they believed to be evidence of a long-lost treasure vault.

First discovered by treasure hunters Frederick Blair and William Chappell.

in 1897.

You think you're on the vault?

But last week, after commissioning a massive dig at the same location known

as Valley 3, their hopes of finding the vault were crushed

when it was discovered that the wooden structure they located was in fact a

section of a searcher tunnel built by William Chappell's son in the 1930s.

Well, Rick.

Things here on Oak Island seem to be changing by the minute. What do you

think of that?

That would be a circular saw cutting.

If that really is a circular saw, then it's surely not 1600.

Correct.

There's the island.

Let's get back to digging.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Right.

Coming off of V3, I mean, it was such a roller coaster ride. From thinking we

were scraping at the top of a sacred vault of some sort to...

to breaking through and finding out it was a searcher tunnel.

I mean, it was just an emotional roller coaster.

Now we go on to C1, and as a team, we all think it's worth digging, and we're

going to dig it. And be prepared to be surprised.

The Oak Island team has now moved 20 feet northwest from their first borehole

to their second target in the money pit, known as C1.

It was at this location where last year Rick Lagina and Oak Island historian

Charles Barkhouse discovered what they believed to be a large cavern,

approximately 171 feet underground.

Still dropping? Huge cavern.

Here we go.

But even more incredible was what they found after they put a pipe inspection

camera down the hole.

What the hell is that?

It's your gold color, David.

A shiny golden object?

embedded in rock more than 170 feet underground?

Could it be a piece of the fabled Oak Island treasure, the one that people

have been searching for and dying for for more than two centuries?

I think what happened in the money pit is still in the money pit above the

bedrock. There's no question about it. Well, then it's still there. Nobody

recovered that because they couldn't have.

Exactly. All one is done.

All two begins anew.

Oak Island's doing its thing.

It's doing what it's done to people for 221 years.

But we're still hopeful.

Oak Island's a giant puzzle. Mom used to tell us all the time when we would be

making puzzles, she'd say, find the four corners, find the four corners, and then

you can build it.

Maybe we might have one, maybe two, but without the four corners, it's a tough

puzzle to put together, and I think that's where we're at.

Gentlemen? Here we are again. How you doing?

Good.

Good.

What those rocks over there? What's those rocks you tell me?

The rocks are getting bigger.

Really? No wood? Very little bit. Very little bits of wood.

Well, let's go look at the big rocks. Go look at the rock, yeah.

A lot of the areas we dug, it's been merely on hope, speculation, and theory.

Here we have an object, a hard object to go locate and retrieve.

I mean, that's what we're here for. Find something deep underground.

Lucky to get that one out.

Well, that would just barely be able to grab.

That guy's a granite boulder there.

Yeah. Not too sure what he is, but he's a big rock.

How deep are we? 85 feet right now with the Casey Ann excavation. The rock was

down about 73.

Did you have to mess with it for a while, or did... No, I think he just

loaded in and gripped onto it. He might have played around with it a little bit,

but came in and out in one.

If we're in undisturbed ground, undisturbed by searchers...

Hell, we could break into anything at any time. You're still on track, though,

right? I mean, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Maybe a little bit ahead of the curve.

We're gaining ground on this one right now. We'll see what happens when we hit

the bedrock.

But we're gaining ground.

Where do we expect that bedrock to be on this one, Charles? 150.

150. All right.

Although the team from Irving is currently drilling through softer

topsoil, once they reach the anhydrite bedrock at 150 feet, they will need to

take a more cautious approach in their attempt to enter the approximately 21

-foot-deep void.

Because the sections of steel caissons weigh an excess of 60 tons, they will

need to be anchored in bedrock at a depth of 160 feet so that they don't

collapse through the chamber.

From there, A 39-inch wide drill bit will be used to cut a hole in the top of

the cavity.

C1 is going swimmingly well.

It's going great. We'll be in that cavity in a day or two.

Look, I can't argue with any of that. It is going well.

As progress at borehole C1 continues at the money pit, Rick, Marty, and their

partners shift their attention to another project this season.

The Oak Island Swamp.

So you should straighten it out a little bit.

Why do we got all these hoses?

Okay, so I think Marty's set up. He's got to get that culvert that would get

across the road right away.

And then you guys are going to have to follow the beach here.

Then you can run up next to those birch trees on the other side and then just

keep heading towards the cave-in pit.

And that's it.

We'll make it happen.

Because environmental regulations prohibit dumping swamp water into the

ocean, the team will use a 63-horsepower pump and more than 1,200 feet of hose

to transfer thousands of gallons of brackish water to an area near Smith's

Cove known as the Cave-In Pit.

So named because it was formed after an old searcher tunnel collapsed deep

underground.

You got enough hose from here, Alex?

Yeah. I'll back it out.

Yep.

A few weeks ago, after a metal detector indicated the presence of a large metal

object at the southeastern edge of the swamp, Rick, Marty, and the team invited

area diver Tony Sampson to try and find it.

There's where the anomaly is, Tony. It's right over there. Two meters to the left

of that snake. It should be quite large. Fantastic.

But although Tony was unable to locate the metal object, he did make an

incredible discovery.

What is that?

Oh, wow. It's huge.

Looks like a piece of wood.

It's a large board.

Convinced that the swamp may be hiding important clues, Rick and Marty are more

determined than ever to drain it down to the bottom.

Something now possible because of an agreement the team reached with

landowner Fred Nolan shortly before his death earlier this year.

But with all of the activity now underway at the Money Pit, running

hundreds of feet of hose across the island landscape is not without its

challenges. These hoses can't interfere with the big project at the Money Pit.

There's going to be trucks in and out of there all the time. We can't just lay

that hose up to the swamp.

So we decided we needed to take an old pipe and ditch the road and stick this

old pipe in and pull the hose through it. Okay, that's good.

Yep.

Okay, guys, hey, let's pull this thing through. Let's see if it works. All

right. Enough of this.

So everything goes relatively smoothly, certainly by Oak Island standards. The

pipe's in.

We pull the hose through. By God, it fits.

We hook it up to the pump, and everything looks really good.

We now have what's called a dry prime pump. This thing can run dry, if you

will, for hours and hours and not harm the pump.

Well, that should be all right.

Thanks. We flip the switch. We start the pump.

It's a full go.

David!

What? drain the swamp

at

borehole c1

the massive stack of 40 inch wide steel caissons are only a few feet away from

reaching their target depth of 171 feet

Meanwhile, Rick, Marty, and the team are ready to begin their excavation of the

swamp, where just a few weeks ago, they discovered a mysterious 18-foot-long

wooden plank, making the team wonder if theories of a possible shipwreck buried

there could be true.

With water successfully diverted to the cave-in pit, the area is nearly 90% dry.

And for the first time in decades, excavation is finally possible.

Okay, I'm going to start digging.

Where's the exact dig point, or is there not one? It's the stake.

This is going to sound crazy because I hate the swamp. I don't like working in

it.

But I'm very excited to dig in the swamp.

I'm sitting up high and dry in an excavator, and I can't wait to stick

that scoop down in there and pull back.

some of the material and see what this is all about.

Oh, that actually worked pretty good.

It's actually not as wet as I thought it would be. No, it's right off the bat.

Per the permit, we have to isolate the organic material from the inorganic

material, i.e. the liquid mud and the peat has to be completely isolated and

separated from the hard clays, bits of rock material, because they have to go

back in the same order they came out.

Oh gosh, this smells rancid. You cannot mix the two materials. So basically

we've created two cattle pens for the material.

We can finally start excavating in the swamp. I think there's something in the

swamp. Is it at this point? I don't know, but this is a hard target and we

need to get to the bottom of it.

It's better. It's pretty solid.

Anything? Nothing.

You should have picked it up by now.

I'm not seeing anything.

How far did that thing read?

About a foot down.

i'm not getting anything all right tell you what it'd be best you need to pick

up that piece of plywood i'll reach back further okay okay put

on top of this jack because we'll need to get back over there yeah

Is that your foot?

Yeah, what's going on there? No.

It's kind of saying there's something the foot down. Yeah.

It doesn't ever actually hit and say this is the point though. I understand.

Just stay with it. Okay.

Nothing.

If there's something here, it shouldn't just be a ghost. It can do that

sometimes if something's deeper. It's just picking up the trail of its

magnetic field.

All right, I'm going to dig that out a little bit.

A metal target buried deep within the thick, rich mud of the Oak Island swamp?

Could it be connected in some way to the team's earlier discovery of a wooden

plank? Perhaps more evidence that a sailing ship could have been buried on

the island centuries ago.

As Rick, Marty, and the rest of the team continue to dig at the swamp, Oak Island

historian Charles Barkhouse travels to the port town of Lunenburg, 20 miles

southwest of the island.

They've arranged for us to go down to the Social Genealogical Society. With

him. is author and investigative journalist Randall Sullivan, who is

gathering research for a new book he is writing on the Oak Island mystery.

They have records of a lot of people that were on Oak Island.

Maybe we can find something that can add a little bit to the mystery, or take it

away from the mystery, I should say. I mean, even though we'll be looking at

dusty old records, it could be pretty thrilling to find certain names in

there, don't you think? You know what? I never mind looking at dusty old records.

Well, I share the same pleasure. So good.

If Randall can bring us back a few puzzle pieces, that would be fantastic.

X marks the spot would be... I guess I would be bringing all the puzzle pieces.

Yeah, exactly.

If he could bring all 400 in a box, that'd be good, too. Exactly.

Let's see where his investigative nose takes him.

Hello. Hi. How do you do today?

I'm Randall Sullivan.

Nice to meet you, Mr. Sullivan. Hi, Charles Marcos. Hello, Stephen Ernst.

Welcome to the Social Genealogical Society.

What can I help you with today?

Well, we're actually here to do a little research in the early families on Oak

Island. Okay, certainly. If you'd like to come this way.

In our card catalogs here, we have information on most of the families of

Lunenburg County, so if you wanted to take a look through some of these, it

should give you some information on it. Do you have any early maps of Oak Island

or that area?

Absolutely. Really? Yeah.

One moment.

This is what is known as the church map.

A.F. Church and Company was a firm out of Bedford that was authorized to do a

series of maps of Nova Scotia starting in 1864.

And if you'd like to come right over here.

The beauty of this map is not only does it tell you what everything is, but it

also names the heads of the households in each area.

When was this dating from?

This one is about 1883.

A very curious map.

Yeah, it's wonderful.

Oh, here, look. Yeah. Oh, wow, this says kids' treasure.

Oh, here, look. Yeah. That says kid's treasure.

At the South Shore Genealogy Center in the nearby town of Lunenburg, Charles

Barkhouse and investigative journalist Randall Sullivan may have just found an

important clue connecting the Oak Island mystery to the 17th century pirate

Captain William Kidd.

One of the things that was kind of curious on the map... is they list

Kidd's treasure. It was written in pen right there. Even back then, they

believed that Captain Kidd's treasure was buried on Oak Island.

It was obviously recognized as a treasure site by the mapmaker even.

During the late 17th century, Captain William Kidd became notorious for

attacking and looting merchant ships from the Caribbean Sea to the Indian

Ocean. In 1699, he was finally arrested and sent to England.

where he stood trial for piracy and was sentenced to death.

Despite a desperate plea for clemency by offering to trade his life in exchange

for a mysterious treasure which he claimed was buried somewhere east of

Boston, Kidd was hanged on May 23rd, 1701.

Is it possible that Captain William Kidd was really the man behind the Oak Island

mystery?

Are the countless legends connecting Oak Island to pirates and pirate gold really

true after all?

Very interesting how they put the property owners on here. You got a

bootlier, two McGinnises, and a Graves. So the McGinnises stayed on the island

until... Should we look at the card file? Yeah, absolutely.

Let's take a look.

You know, you're looking in the McGinnis file for Daniel McGinnis because, you

know, he's supposedly one of the original finders of the money pit.

Now, there's various spellings of McGinnis.

Here's the McGinnis. Oh, you got a McGinnis? Yeah.

It's a book.

Western Shore, Gold River, Martins Point, Communities.

Let's ask him. Yeah.

Genealogists tend to be people that only...

put in what they can find written down somewhere.

There's a listing of a book here.

Oh, wonderful. Yes, right over here. Okay.

They don't make something up. It's at least something solid to start with.

Thank you for giving me the book.

Is there an index, or how is it listed?

Page numbers?

Here we are.

There's a story of this ancient sailor, he's on his deathbed, and he's relating

this story of him being a member of Captain Kidd's crew. It was published on

December 20th, 1863, and subsequently by a member of the Oak Island Association.

who said that more than a century before an old man died in what was then known

as the british oh my god i didn't realize as the british colony of new

england who on his deathbed confessed to having been one of the crew of the

famous captain kidd and assured those who attended him in his last moments

that he had many years previously assisted that noted pirate and his

followers in burying over two millions in money beneath the soil of a secluded

island east of boston two million in buried treasure

In 1804, while digging in the money pit, searchers from the Onslow Company found

a large, smooth stone slab at a depth of 90 feet.

On it were strange carvings, which when later translated read, 40 feet below, 2

million pounds, are buried.

Could the markings on the so-called 90-foot stone be evidence that the old

sailor's deathbed confession was true?

Is Captain William Kidd's treasure really buried at the bottom of the Oak

Island money pit?

One of the problems with Oak Island, from a writer, researcher's point of

view, is that the historical record is scant. There are bits and pieces that

you can hold on to, but it's a process of putting pieces together and try to

find out whatever I can that would be worth all this work.

well i mean it's fascinating it's you know and i'm glad we made the trip but

it's like added one more layer of it's fascinating and it's aspirating at the

same time it is you know so i guess you got your work cut out for you i don't

have to solve it i just have to tell the story well

we need to see if we get a big hit

that's coming from below that bedrock yeah Let me just clean it out, but

you're going to need to jump right in there because it's coming in. I'm

already dirty. No, I didn't think you'd mind. No.

While metal detecting in the mud of the recently drained swamp, Jack Begley may

have located a target, where just a few weeks ago, he and other members of the

Oak Island team found a long wooden board, thought to be the planking of an

ancient shipwreck.

All right, I got this now.

So we pulled a few scoops, got Jack to metal detect that. He was getting all

kinds of hits. And then said, well, there's something there.

What is it? Any one of those could be it. It would be the fine that sets us on

fire.

Well,

now I'm not seeing anything.

So we're done digging.

Curiously. the metal detector is no longer picking up the signals.

Could it be that the target is simply much deeper than the team's equipment

can reach?

You know, if somebody buried something in this swamp, they picked a damn good

hiding place.

We might need to rethink this whole thing. Why? We haven't found anything.

That's why it's a treasure hunt.

Of all the places on Oak Island, the swamp has proven to be the most

difficult to explore.

Drilling through water and mud is virtually impossible, and draining the

swamp dry has proven to be both logistically challenging and hugely

expensive.

Nevertheless, the strange triangle shape of the swamp, coupled with recent

discoveries like the 17th century Spanish coin, have made the area one of

Rick and Marty Lagina's most intriguing, as well as frustrating, target sites.

it's disappointing you know we haven't found anything but the swamp still

intrigues me and i'm not done with it yet truth is we went with that em61

because for depth penetration maybe we bring the the more accurate one back for

a couple hours might be worth it okay that's what i think the decision is

either we we have somebody come out and look at this area again or we continue

with the process.

I think we should run another piece of gear for a couple hours.

Yeah, get them out here. Fine.

I'll call Gary Drayton, see if he can't come out. You should probably go in the

ocean. I'd love to get cleaned up. I can feel stuff crawling around on me.

Okay, let's go. Let's do it. Awesome.

I'll make the call.

As a new day begins on Oak Island... Morning.

morning andrew the team assembles at the money pit to get an update on the

excavation of borehole c1 see we're not making much headway are we right now

we're on something very very solid chisel's not advancing it the oscillator

is not advancing it nor is the hammer grab so what do you think it is it's

it's uh either a very very hard boulder like a granite boulder or it's it's

solid rock The boulder's big enough, if it is a boulder, that it's not going

inside the can, and we're not fortunate enough just to go down and pluck it out.

It's bigger than the can. Yeah.

We're going to go back over here, and we're going to start throwing drill rod

in. We'll see you in a bit. Yeah, okay.

All right. See you.

This hole is a lot different in terms of how we need to structure it than the

first one because we know the chamber, the ultimate objective here is in

bedrock. Hey, boss.

So... we can't just keep going because when it gets into that chamber there's

nothing to hold it it could just keep going so the plan right now is to stop

in the bedrock and then we'll drill out and get into the chamber that way

because the stacked caissons in c1 weigh in excess of 60 tons

the team from irving equipment limited must now cease drilling at a depth of

160 feet just shy of the 21-foot deep void they encountered last year.

Once firmly anchored in bedrock, a 39-inch drill bit will be used to grind

through the remaining 10 to 20 feet to create a stable entrance into the cavity

below and allow for safe human exploration.

There we go.

Okay, get after it.

Big dark two.

That's big stuff. I got it, man. I'm impressed with that.

It is huge.

Well, Charles, as soon as that drops in, you're 15 feet away from the boy. How do

you feel?

I just hope there's something there.

Hey, Andrew.

Gentlemen.

So we got 173 feet of string in the casing right now. We're going to lift

the lead up, hook it up.

And then you're ready to let the big dog eat?

Yeah, yeah.

The prospect of excavating borehole C1 to a diameter large enough for human

exploration has the team filled with both excitement and anticipation.

It is now just a matter of hours before they reach the strange void in the

bedrock, some 170 feet deep, to confirm what the gold-colored object might

really be.

You know, excavation has been removed, so we'd like you to go through those

piles as well. But here's the current condition of the swamp.

While the drilling operation at the money pit continues... Okay, let's get

you out there.

Rick and the team have brought metal detection expert Gary Drayton out to the

swamp. Wow, you weren't joking when you said it was dry.

It's dry.

It's dry. That's fantastic.

They are hoping...

that someone of gary's extensive experience will succeed in locating the

elusive metal object that jack's equipment was unable to reach i can't

speak highly enough about gary as an individual his skill set as a metal

detectorist he's back to try to locate something in the swamp and i know that

if there's something to be found in there gary can find it Rick, if we find

anything important, we'll give you a call right away. Perfect.

You might hear us scream, too, but... I don't care, scream or phone call, you

just make it happen. And you'll see me dancing.

That's my goal dance.

I love it.

Where at? I would put the boards over there, because obviously I've got to get

in there.

Okay.

No signals yet.

Come on, Gold, where are you?

I just want to try up in here, this way.

You're going everywhere where we're not flying, Gary. Yeah, I know, but I don't

want to walk away from here and leave these little nooks and crannies. No, be

thorough about it. This is one of the few chances we'll get.

Exactly. That's what I'm thinking.

Because draining the swamp has always been difficult, owing to the need to

obtain permissions from both landowner Fred Nolan and the Canadian government,

the fact that the swamp is now almost completely drained offers a rare but

time-sensitive opportunity.

The Laginas and their partners have only a few more weeks to search the swamp for

possible artifacts or clues that could help them solve the mystery.

It's always in the swamp.

Well, I'd like to agree, but we need more evidence if we want to continue

here.

Suddenly... Oh, now that's a good signal.

And it's under... Oh, it's underneath the board.

Thanks. That's what we're waiting for. Good signal.

Really?

I'll just dig a bunch of dirt. Yep, just dig it up. It's not that deep.

It says it's six, seven inches, so we should have it in one scoop.

Please be something good.

Okay, I'll give it a little test.

All right.

It's somewhere around there.

Oh,

yeah. Oh, look at that.

All right.

It's somewhere around there.

Oh,

look at that. That's nice.

While searching for a mysterious metal object in the Oak Island swamp, veteran

treasure hunter Gary Drayton has discovered something unusual buried in

the mud.

That is old. It's an unmade spike.

That's pretty good. Yeah. That is cool.

This type of nail was specifically made for putting decks down, thick decking

on the old boats.

You see the size of the head? That was so the planks couldn't come up.

Well, the board that Tony found in the south part of the swamp looked like

decking. It probably is. It was very long and didn't seem...

even close to thick enough to be a part of the outside of the ship, the hull.

If you guys have found some, like, wooden decking, this is exactly the type

of handmade nail that they would have put into decking to hold decking down.

Look at it. I mean, it's... Yeah. That's a beautiful thing.

Does this mean we actually found something in the swamp?

Yeah, I think this is an artifact for sure. I found exactly the same objects

as this off Spanish galleons from the late 1600s, early 1700s.

An artifact from a Spanish galleon?

Could it be connected in some way to the 18-foot-long plank found a few weeks

ago? It's a large board.

And which was thought to be part of the deck from an old sailing ship?

Veteran Oak Island researchers and treasure hunters like Fred Nolan have

long believed that the mysterious triangle-shaped swamp could have been

deliberately created centuries ago to hide an old shipwreck.

If so, who would have hidden it?

Spanish pirates?

Or might it be further evidence that supports Randall Sullivan and Charles

Barkhouse's research suggesting that Captain William Kidd really did bury a

valuable treasure on Oak Island?

For me, this is one of the coolest things we've found out here.

It's a fantastic find.

Yeah, it is. Hey, you found it. Gary's excitement. I mean, this guy has done

this. a lot and and one of the things that he looks for in florida are spanish

shipwrecks so he has found a lot of these pins and he was really excited

about this he seems to sincerely 100 believe that this is from an old ship

we're the first people to touch that in probably 300 years so that's pretty cool

well let's see let's do the spiral pattern around here and see if there's

any more okay that's sweet at least we found something that's cool

Bag it and tag it.

After a day full of hopeful anticipation at the money pit and a potentially

important breakthrough in the swamp.

Cheers, guys.

Rick, Marty, and other members of the Oak Island team have gathered at the

nearby Folk's Hill Tavern.

A well-deserved rest, if I do say so myself.

Well, a little bit of business, too.

Any results from Gary Drayton?

Yeah, I mean, look, they've made significant progress specifically in the

swamp. I think, Alex, you were there, Jack, you were there, so I know a little

bit about the finds, but you found one curious thing for certain?

Yeah, we found some cool stuff, Jack. You can kind of talk about it. The most

interesting was a spike.

It looked like a railroad tie at first, and my first assumption was looking

back. A railroad tie? You mean a railroad tie spike?

Yeah, a railroad tie spike.

Okay. Then Gary pointed out, hey, I've found hundreds of these before. This is

from a Spanish galleon, and it's used to pin the top decking down on their boats.

He said, you know, you can tell the differences because they're not like a

normal railroad spike because they're a lot shorter. And also...

On the very end, with a railroad spike, it has another spike sticking out from

it, yeah, to give another more grip, and this didn't have that.

Where was that fault?

It was towards the north end of the swamp.

It's bagged and tagged, as you say, so we can show it to you.

Here's what you need to do, then. Ask Gary. You must have sourced someone who

could say definitively this is from nailing the deck boards on an old ship.

I'm sure there's a, you know, a spike expert. Let's find this person. Weird

thing to find there, no matter what.

Yeah.

C1. Everything's going well?

So far, I'm hopefully going to find that shiny gold thing that David saw on the

monitor. Is it gold? That I have no idea, but it was a shiny gold thing

about, like, that tall.

Really, the real concern is, as we come through the cavity, what happens to the

ceiling, the roof?

Surely there's going to be some... Falling.

It's unavoidable. The last bit's going to, you know, cave in. So Andrew has

agreed that, generally speaking, they never do this. They never put the hammer

and grab well beyond the hole.

Well, he's agreed to do that because we think the bottom is 21 feet.

So, but he's willing to... So you just go down, whatever you knock to bottom,

you're going to go down and grab. Because if that object is in there and

that collapse happens... That's right, we definitely do.

We'll find it. Yeah.

Okay, well, here's to that. That's exciting. Let's drink to the gold shiny

thing. Shiny gold. Shiny gold thing. Shiny gold thing. I'll drink to that.

You, David? Definitely.

As a new day dawns on Oak Island, Rick Lagita and Charles Barkhouse are excited

to learn that the massive steel drill is just inches away from reaching its

target depth.

at borehole C1.

Gentlemen, how are you? Good.

This is the same place where just last summer the two spotted what appeared to

be a shiny golden object embedded in the walls of an underground cavern.

We're monitoring the weight on the bit right now. We've backed everything off,

so I expect that the bottom 12 inches or maybe a little more might just fall away

abruptly. It might go down about an inch or two. I don't anticipate it to be any

more than that.

That'll mean we've penetrated through something soft, very soft.

Whether you believe it or not, Gerald's going to test it. It's historically

significant, right, Gerald? It is. You pull something out of there, that's the

first thing that's come out of that money pit. I mean, you go down in

history. That is a major turning point in Oak Island.

Six people have lost their lives on this island trying to do what you may be able

to do this afternoon.

what we may be able to do this afternoon.

That's great. We. That's great. We. All right. I'll see you guys in a bit. Okay.

Today is a pretty exciting day on Oak Island. We're going to break through the

ceiling of C1 and finally be able to investigate it properly.

We can put a sonar down. We can put a camera down. We can airlift the void.

We can get a diver to go down. We've gone from putting a little tiny sewer

camera down to now possibly getting a man down holding.

we know that it can be explored key question is is there a tunnel is there a

connection to perhaps the original money pit that's the answer i want did it go

through they're lowering it right now there they go

That big chunk of gold it's having a hard time getting through Charles.

I hope you're right They

really torqued up on it. Yeah, I think it dropped a few inches right

there. Yeah, it did Look like it might have just broke through She dropped it,

it's gotta be through.

And smooth so it's definitely inside the cavity

There you go, the door's open.

I think we got a pretty clear, unobstructed hole the whole way through.

Okay, you're home.

Yeah.

After more than a decade of searching, and after spending millions of hard

-earned dollars, Rick, Marty, and their partners may be close to realizing yet

another incredible goal.

Charles, he just said the door's open.

How do you feel?

Excited.

The team has finally reached the 21-foot-deep void located some

170 feet below Oak Island.

But what will they find?

A golden treasure buried by pirates?

Priceless artifacts?

hidden centuries ago by the knights templar or could it be a key

one that will unlock the door to a mystery that was intended to remain

closed forever

next time on the curse of

oak island Oh! Is that a coin? That's a king jewel!

That's amazing.

This is a treasure on the stream.

That changes a lot.

They're not supposed to be here. The people who did this wanted it to be

found.

Take it slow.

The world hasn't seen this.

Hey, what's that gold shiny thing right there? Holy smokes.

That's amazing looking.

There we go. My hope as I'm watching is just show me one man-made object. What's

that? Wow.

That's amazing.