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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

If somebody was actually going to build this engineering marvel, it would be Sir

Francis Drake.

It's definitely not natural.

It's perfectly square.

Like a chest.

I say we dig it up.

Whatever it is, it's hard.

Wow, this is really interesting.

What is it? It's a piece of bookbinding.

What is bookbinding material doing at the Money Pit? Do you think it's

Shakespeare's manuscripts?

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 a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it,

17th century coins, even bits of human bone.

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 the start of another exciting day on Oak Island.

Hey, Rick. Welcome back to old friends.

Rick, how are you?

How are you doing, Andrew?

Dave, how are you? Oh, Andrew.

So, you must be out of money.

We're here to collect, and I brought the muscle.

I see that, yeah.

Let's walk over here and take a look-see. See, I've got some holes in

the ground. We do. Looks like a porcupine over here, doesn't it?

After drilling an impressive 44 six-inch wide boreholes to depths of up to 200

feet using a carefully plotted geotech grid,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with members of their team, are

convinced they are now closer than ever to solving the 222-year-old Oak Island

mystery.

So I assume one of these are the one that we're going to focus on? Right here

is H8.

Personally, I think we drilled down the old money pit right here. Okay. That's

what I think.

Excellent.

Let's go.

Last week... while running a dual induction metal detecting device down a

borehole known as H8. You getting readings?

Yeah. The team encountered a large metal anomaly at a depth of some 155 feet.

The same approximate depth where treasure hunters William Chappell and

Frederick Blair had reported finding evidence of a seven foot high wooden

vault back in 1897.

Picking something else up right here, which would put it very near the vault.

It was in this same hole that the team recovered 18th century pottery.

Wow, really?

And at a depth significantly deeper than previous searchers had ever been known

to explore.

Well, we get pottery at 190 feet.

What do you make of that? It was also in H8 that the team made their most

incredible and shocking discovery to date.

We now have results from the two bones.

Both came back as human. So those two different human bones.

I was more or less shocked that the results of the DNA analysis on that bone

revealed it to be human. It certainly brought HA to a higher degree of the

necessity of further investigation. I mean, it was an aha moment.

Because of these discoveries, the Laginas and their team have invited

representatives from Irving Equipment Limited back to Oak Island to help them

find out.

if H8 really is not only the location of the mysterious chapel vault, but also

the original money pit.

So H8, what is the target depth on that? 143 to 153.

There's a target depth, a range, where we have to be very, very careful.

And we need to be cognizant of what is there. Absolutely.

This is the critical area here that has to be as level as we can humanly make it

because that's where the crane sits and the oscillator sits. That correlates to

how straight your hole is at the end of the day.

In an effort to get to the bottom of H8, the team will widen the borehole to

approximately 50 inches using steel caissons and then drill down to a target

depth of some 200 feet.

This surface steel shouldn't be that much. This is pretty minor.

Cost is all relative. I mean, when you hit what you're going to hit here soon,

we're going to hit it.

And then the cost don't mean. That's right.

That's right.

Look, I think we've all got our marching orders, but look, we want to say thank

you. Thank you very much for allowing us to come back.

Yes, absolutely.

While preparations for the large-scale excavation of H-8 begin at the Money

Pit, Rick Lagina and members of the Oak Island team have arranged to meet with

area historian Paul Speed.

Upon hearing the news of last week's incredible discoveries in borehole H8,

Paul believes his research can help the Laginas identify not only what might be

buried in the money pit, but why human bones have been found there.

So, gentlemen, Mr. Paul Speed is here. He has developed the theory, and he

comes from the world of pirates and privateers.

and hey charles he can i believe shed some light on on perhaps the who what

when where why and how oak island and i very much look forward to your

presentation and welcome you to the war room well it's an absolute thrill to be

in the war room a number of years ago a good friend of mine and me were

discussing the oak island mystery and we thought if somebody was actually going

to build this engineering marvel who and how could they do it Was there somebody

that had the technique to do this between the 1500s and 1700s?

The Cornish miners in England were brought to mind.

They developed a way of mining under the ocean floor, so close to the ocean that

when there was a storm, they could actually hear the rocks and boulders

rolling over on top of that.

Along the coast of the Cornwall region of the United Kingdom, Miners looking

for tin and copper would dig intricate labyrinths of tunnels under the ocean

floor, using a method known as coastal mining.

According to historians, the practice dates back some 3,500 years and was only

recently banned, largely due to safety and environmental issues.

Is it possible that this technique was used to dig the money pit, as well as

the maze of flood tunnels on Oak Island?

not by digging straight down, but by digging sideways, either from Smith's

Cove or from another area of the island?

So, again, we're in the 1500s. Now I want to find myself a pirate, a

character who was from the Cornwall, Plymouth area.

And this is my guy.

Drake. Sir Francis Drake.

Sir Francis Drake?

The 16th century British nobleman and privateer who sailed the seas in search

of Spanish treasure during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I?

At that time, Francis Drake was raiding...

Spanish boats, but his big prize was a town called Nobre de Dios,

which was the town where all the gold from the Incas would go and be put

on boats.

So here's our opportunity, guys.

He's raided all this Spanish gold.

He didn't bring back all of it. There was too much for him to carry.

He can go back for it, and he can hide it. And where is he going to hide it?

Well, Canada.

I had always heard that it was merely speculative that Drake had come to this

part of the world. Drake's logs were never found. Is there any way through

records that can prove that Drake was up in the North Atlantic?

Is there documented evidence of that?

I'm thinking more of reverse engineering.

The fact that his records aren't there.

There was something very serious going on here at that time for the English,

and they wanted to keep the secret of Oak Island going for a while. They

absolutely could.

Do you think that if Drake did this construct here, did he do it

as a...

a bank if you will in other words was he going to continue to come back

absolutely i think it was a vault and i think that vault was used by numerous

people throughout history until a point that it wasn't needed and it fell from

use and and fell from memory it has long been speculated that oak island

was used as a secret repository for treasure dating as far back as the days

of the Knights Templar.

Could this information have been known to Sir Francis Drake and explain why he

might have come as far north as Nova Scotia in order to hide Spanish gold?

To me, though, the most interesting, compelling thing is that Drake, on his

last Caribbean raid, got dysentery and died in Cologne, Panama.

Here is a guy who was a national hero.

They put him in a lead coffin, and they filled it with mercury.

They've never found the coffin. They've looked for the coffin. And they're still

looking for it. And they're still looking for the coffin. And if Drake

truly did build Oak Island, then maybe Drake wanted himself interned, buried.

You think he's buried on Oak Island?

You think he's buried on Oak Island? I think when you hit metal, you might have

hit his coffin.

During a meeting with area historian and researcher Paul Speed, Rick Lagina and

members of the Oak Island team have just heard an incredible theory.

One that suggests that Sir Francis Drake, the 16th century privateer under

England's Queen Elizabeth, may not only have hidden treasure in the Oak Island

money pit, but might also have been buried there himself.

You know, they'd taken mercury out of the money pit many, many years ago.

Yeah.

Supposedly flasks were found impregnated with mercury. On the north side of the

island, Gilbert hadn't found it.

I think that he might possibly have asked to be put into this engineering

marvel.

Is it possible that Sir Francis Drake is buried on Oak Island?

And could this explain why fragments of bone, along with indications of a large

metal object, have recently been found in borehole H8?

Picking something else up right here.

There's definitely a drastic difference there from the surrounding. It went off

the chart.

There's some big chunk of metal there.

Yep. Okay.

We've entertained so many theories and theorists, so when Paul suggests that

Drake is buried on the island...

Is it possible?

Anything's possible.

Sir Francis Drake was an accomplished individual.

There are mysterious circumstances around his life and his death.

So we have to continue to keep an open mind and do our own research.

Well, look, Paul, you've certainly opened our minds to another unique

possibility in terms of what Oak Island is about. And we want to thank you very

much for your time. And we will certainly...

look into it you know with all earnestness it is it was an honor

pleasure to meet you guys and to be allowed in the war room and i i hope we

did a little justice absolutely

as rick lagina

concludes his meeting with paul speed all right i grabbed my shovel treasure

hunters jack begley charles barkhouse and metal detection expert gary drayton

resume their exploration of Lot 26, joining them as archaeologist Laird

Niven. So where are we, Charles?

We're going to go over here, guys. This is Lot 26.

It was at one time owned by Samuel Ball, but he actually bought it from Captain

Anderson. And this is a very interesting character.

He was like a double agent.

Yes.

Before Lot 26 was owned by former 18th century American slave Samuel Ball, It

belonged to privateer-turned-pirate Captain James Anderson.

Earlier this year, during a visit to the home of one of his descendants,

Alex Lagina, Charles Barkhouse, Peter Fernetti, and area historian Doug

Crowell were shown one of Anderson's original sea chests, along with a set of

four keys, only one of which could be used to open the antique chest.

Now all those keys he has in his hand...

That one opens that treasure chest.

Maybe some other ones could be... Could there have been more treasure chests on

the island?

That's what I wonder.

Could three of the remaining keys found with Captain James Anderson's chest

suggest that as many as three chests could be hidden on Oak Island?

Chests containing treasure collected by Anderson during his years as a pirate at

the time of the American Revolution?

Well, I say we start in the clearing there. Okay.

Let's go for it.

We're all really anxious to see if we're going to come up with a pirate chest or

something. I mean, it seems far-fetched, but at the same time, this is an old

pirate's lot.

I hear you passing up a lot of bleeps.

Yeah. Trying to find anything that sounds good.

It's definitely chirpy around here.

You think a lot of it's just trash that's blown up from, like, storms and

stuff, or? Yeah.

This is the thing. When you go to places like this, a lot of the activity took

place down by the water.

OK. So shall we go closer to the water, and we'll come back to this place?

You're the expert.

Lead on.

Let's go down this little clearing here. OK.

This is a little bit different.

So what's the deal with the wool? It looks different from the other ones.

It's flatter on the surface.

Yeah, it's almost like you could roll a ball down it, right? Yeah.

Did Captain Anderson build this wall?

It's quite possible. We know he had at least one ship.

Could he have pulled his boat right up to this and there was a dock in there?

Look, we know Anderson was a privateer.

Could he have been using this as kind of a staging area? I mean, a walkway or a

ramp that led right down to the ocean.

A walkway?

To the ocean?

Could the team really have discovered a stone ramp?

One that was used by Captain Anderson to load and unload goods and possible

treasure from his boat, the Betsy, when it was anchored just offshore.

I think it's time to go over the wall.

All right.

Yeah, let's go down in this clearing. Okay.

We'll follow you, Gary.

Yeah, it's thick back here.

I don't think we've detected back here before.

Wow.

This is interesting.

What do you think of this?

Almost looks like it's been cut out on purpose.

Yeah, it's a well-defined rectangle. It's obvious. It's definitely not

natural, in my opinion.

I mean, it's a really good size for a chest.

While metal detecting on Oak Island property once owned by the infamous 18th

century pirate, Captain James Anderson, Jack Begley, Charles Barkhouse, and Gary

Drayton, along with area archaeologist Laird Niven, have just discovered a

mysterious man-made depression in the ground.

It's a really good size for a chest.

It sunk out of nowhere.

You can see it's like...

Nice 90-degree angle edges.

You know, you start thinking, gosh, there's probably something there. It

could be Captain Anderson's treasure, because this is his lot.

Could the strange depression in the ground really be an indication of

something buried beneath the surface?

Perhaps one of Captain Anderson's missing treasure chests?

So it wasn't something that was heavy sitting down here.

No one's dug here recently and, like, backfilled it.

It doesn't make sense.

A ship could have been parked nearby.

I mean, it's all hypothetical.

Why couldn't this be someplace where something was deposited?

I guess the only thing you would do is that you'd have to dig it to see exactly

what it is.

I say we hand-dig it. You'd have to hand-dig it.

It's a separate permit.

So that would require a permit to dig this? Yeah.

Because the land on Lot 26 was once owned by the former 18th century

American slave, Samuel Ball, it is considered a protected site.

For this reason, in order to excavate whatever lies buried below the strange

square-shaped indentation, the team will need to wait, at least until they secure

the necessary permissions from the Canadian government.

Oh well, let's keep looking.

Let's keep going down this way, guys.

While the team continues to search lot 26 for more clues,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with their partner Craig Tester,

have returned to St. Mary's University, some 50 miles northeast of Oak Island.

They have come to meet once again with Dr. Krista Brousseau and her associate,

Dr. Sean Yang, to find out if the small bits of fibrous material found in

borehole H8 could be some sort of paper, similar to the small piece of parchment

found in the chapel vault in 1897.

But it kind of looks like it could be some old parchment. I think we need to

have this tested.

All right, so this is a little tiny sample.

Using a high-powered scanning electron microscope, Doctors Brousseau and Yang

will be able to examine the object and magnify it as many as tens of thousands

of times its actual size.

They will also be able to analyze its chemical composition.

So you can see the elements popping up there.

There's nothing really surprising there. Do you see some nitrogen?

I think so.

Yeah.

And the hint of nitrogen indicates it. I mean, I'm keenly interested in if this

is really a piece of parchment. It throws a whole wrinkle in this search.

So you can see all of the fibers.

And so, you know, the question now is what are the fibers made of? So

parchment would have been animal skin, so collagen fibers.

So the fact that we see fibers is encouraging.

Dating back over two millennia, the use of animal skin as parchment was largely

replaced by cheaper and more available milled paper during the advent of the

printing press in the late 15th century.

In the centuries that followed, parchment was used only for special

documents, such as correspondences between kings, and for rare or one-of-a

-kind legal declarations, such as the American Declaration of Independence.

The fact that Dr. Brousseau has identified the sample as parchment and

not plant-based paper is a potentially significant development.

It suggests... that whatever the document was, it was considered

important. It also suggests that its location, some 150 feet below the

surface of Oak Island, was probably deliberate.

Dr. Brousseau's analysis of that little scrap that Jack and Dan Henske found is

very, very exciting to me, very interesting.

It looked like a piece of vellum or parchment, you know, to the eye.

I didn't expect it to stand up to scientific scrutiny that it really was

some sort of animal fiber piece of parchment.

Very intriguing.

OK, so this is the piece of black leather.

Also discovered in the H8 spoils was a tiny piece of what appeared to be

leather, possibly from a shoe.

But if so, what would shoe leather or any leather be doing some 150 feet

beneath the surface of Oak Island.

This is the underside, but it's dimpled and looks like leather.

And the other side we'll look at next.

Oh, this is really interesting.

Oh, so?

See, if you look at the end here, you can almost see the...

The fiber bundles that have been then bundled together to create a textile.

So if you imagine you're spinning wool or whatever, you're going to spin many

strands together to create a fiber. So it's almost like the leather and the

textile were bound together for some reason.

Traditionally, one reason would have been to create a book binding.

Book binding?

Could the small pieces of parchment, along with the fragment of leather

binding, really be evidence of an ancient book buried deep within the Oak

Island money pit?

This is the other side of the same piece. So you can see it's dimpled.

You can see the two sides are totally different.

Very much so.

Look at the edge a little bit to see how thick that... Well, there you go.

There's the fibers. There's a little piece right there.

Yeah, so there's the fibers on the bottom, on the other side, sticking out.

Bookbinding.

That's really strange.

Yeah, one of the theories that's been out there for a long time is that it's

Shakespeare's manuscripts that could be buried at Oak Island.

That's pretty cool.

Now you're showing what could be a bookbinding. I guess we would jump to

that theory right away.

That jumps to Bacon.

Bacon.

Sir Francis Bacon?

The 17th century British scientist, explorer, and nobleman? Of the many Oak

Island theories, one of the most persistent suggests that Bacon, a close

friend of acclaimed Elizabethan poet and playwright William Shakespeare, not only

financed the printing of the first edition of the Bard's plays, but also

planted numerous clues in the pages, hinting that an incredible treasure lies

buried on a remote island in the North Atlantic.

These clues not only suggest that Shakespeare's original manuscripts are

buried somewhere deep within the money pit, but that profound connections exist

linking Oak Island to sacred treasures rescued by the Knights Templar from the

Temple of King Solomon during the Crusades.

But what was Francis Bacon doing on Oak Island?

And did he learn of the island and its secrets from his good friend Sir Francis

Drake sometime before Drake's death?

in 1596.

I've always said, or always believed, that what's here on Oak Island is not

just temporal wealth, that there's something other than that here.

And, you know, is it ancient knowledge? Is it the Shakespearean folios? I mean,

I don't know, but what is bookbinding material doing at those depths in the

money pit? I mean, I find that to be more than intriguing. It's fascinating.

And I think... I'm hopeful that there are documents down there.

It's in what I think to be the money pit.

We need to try and date it.

And like you suggest, Chris, to have somebody who knows what book bindings

are supposed to look like. Yeah, or someone who works with textiles. We need

to pursue this one. That's what I'm saying.

I think of all the artifacts or items we brought to Dr. Brousseau, the results

are very positive.

Most of them would indicate that there's something...

Significant about H8. Highly significant.

I think it verifies my concept that we're in the original money pit with

that hole.

Okay. Well, that's great. Thank you. Thank you again.

that fragments of ancient books and manuscripts have been found in the Oak

Island money pit. All right, Jack, show us where this depression is.

Marty Lagina and his son Alex, along with Jack Begley. It's just right over

here. Metal detection expert Gary Drayton and archaeologist Laird Niven

head to Lot 26 to resume their exploration of the mysterious square

-shaped indentation in the ground they discovered one week earlier.

Yeah, here it is.

What do you think of this, Marty?

It is peculiar.

I give you that.

It is perfectly square.

Yeah. Like a chest.

Just a bit like that. We did find a chest and a ring of keys, one of which

opened one chest, but there's chests presumably still missing.

This is so cool.

Ah!

That one opens that treasure chest.

could there have been more treasure chests on the islands that's what i

wonder so he could have buried something here or someone could

have definitely made my toes tingle talking about treasure chests and then

seeing the depression right well look we have an odd feature on the ground we're

on oak island we have equipment we have people i say we dig it up

and we're okay to dig it up right yes i think we get tobacco in here pretty easy

because there's only little trees right through this slot here so i'll get the

chainsaw if i can get you guys to pull the stuff out of the way so let's do

that cool jack found a depression in the ground and this is in this continuum of

what's worth doing out here i mean maybe it's a subsidence maybe it could

be a place where somebody buried something but it's worth doing because

the reward could be huge and the risk or the effort is minor that's good guys you

want to try this i think so yeah did you want me to metal detect an area so we

can dump the spoils yeah i'm thinking if i put the spoils right here i should be

able to swing into here dig put the spoils there so yes why don't you metal

detect that area not even getting any iron

Well, that's good. We've got a clean area. So hopefully all the good signals

come out of the depression.

Here comes the backhoe.

That's good.

He could peel a banana with this thing.

There you go.

You ready? I'll scan it. Yep.

Anything? No, no signals whatsoever.

Quiet as a church mouse.

Come on, Captain Anderson. How deep did you dig this thing?

No, not yet, guys.

All right.

Hold up, I think there's concrete down there.

Yeah, we saw something there. It looked like a big chunk of cement.

Concrete?

Could Marty and the team have just found evidence of man-made workings at the

bottom of the mysterious depression on Lot 26?

The lot that once belonged to the notorious pirate and privateer, Captain

James Anderson.

As I'm digging, all of a sudden Alex says, whoa, stop.

And, you know, you get a little jolt of excitement.

These sorts of things happen, and you can't help but get excited.

Not a piece of cement, is it? I think it's a piece of slate.

The fact that the object is slate indicates that it is part of a natural

formation, as opposed to man-made concrete as the team first suspected.

But then...

Why does the indentation appear so perfectly square-shaped?

Could it have been placed on top of something?

Buried even deeper below ground?

We'll go right down the middle there. All right.

Whatever it is, it's there.

I think that might be bedrock, Jack. Close enough, I'd say.

Guys, we got us here a hole with nothing in it.

Yep. Now that the team has encountered bedrock, their search of the mysterious

depression in the ground has hit a disheartening dead end.

In the case of Captain Anderson, there are treasure chests missing.

Just because we didn't find it doesn't mean it's not there or possibly it was

moved previous to us getting there.

Could Marty be correct?

Could the square-shaped impression really be evidence?

Not of something buried here now, but of something buried and then later dug up

some time ago?

Perhaps by Samuel Ball?

After earning his freedom by fighting on the British side during the American

Revolution, Samuel Ball moved to Oak Island in 1786, where he began a new

life as a simple cabbage farmer.

But within the next five years, Samuel Ball began buying up land.

not only on Oak Island, but on the mainland as well.

So much so that when he died in 1846, he was one of the largest landowners and

wealthiest men in all of Nova Scotia.

Could it be that Samuel Ball discovered one of Captain Anderson's legendary

treasure chests?

Or did Captain Anderson reveal the whereabouts of his fabled treasure to

Samuel Ball?

shortly before Anderson died in 1796?

Perhaps the answer still lies buried somewhere deep beneath the ground on Oak

Island's Lot 26.

I am not disappointed.

What if I said all year, put an X through a few things. We can put an X

through the spot on the ground.

Okay. All right. Good job.

Two days after the team's exploration of Lot 26.

Good morning. Good morning. How are you?

Rick Lagina and Dave Blankenship have invited area archaeologist Laird Niven

to the war room.

They are there to receive the results of further DNA testing on the two pieces of

human bone recently recovered from borehole H8.

Let's get Marty on the phone.

Hey, you there?

Hey, guys.

Also joining them via video conference is Rick's brother, Marty, who has been

called away on important business.

I'll call up Dr.

Frazier.

Hello? Yes, Dr. Frazier, good morning. I have my brother here, Marty Lagina,

David Blankenship, and Laird Niven, who's our archaeologist that we're

working with on the island.

Okay. Dr. Timothy Frazier.

is an associate professor of biology at St. Mary's University.

He has recently performed more advanced DNA sequencing on the two bone samples

in hopes of learning the geographic and genetic origins of the humans who

presumably lie buried some 160 feet deep underground.

make sense and then the other bone comes from what's called group t which is a

group that has ancestry in the middle east middle east really

that

middle eastern thing is pretty eye-opening right interesting that is

extremely interesting The Middle Eastern thing clearly supports the Knights

Templar and things like that.

The Knights Templar?

Formed in the 12th century, the Knights Templar were a powerful religious

military order that traveled and settled across Western Europe and the Middle

East, guarding Christian pilgrims and fighting for control of the Holy Land.

They are believed to have amassed a vast collection of priceless religious

artifacts, like the Holy Grail.

the golden menorah of King Solomon, and even the Ark of the Covenant.

Could DNA evidence of a body from the Middle East add fuel to the notion that

the Templars came to Oak Island to bury the sacred treasures of the Holy Land

some eight centuries ago?

The treasures the Templars had supposedly came from the Mideast. It's

not a giant stretch to think one of their band might have come from the

Mideast too.

So, you know, the Mideast opens up all kinds of things that were maybe far

-fetched. We need to do further testing, but right now in this moment, it's an

amazing find.

Okay, I think we've come as far as we can with this. It's hugely interesting.

Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Sure, yeah, it's interesting.

Thank you, Dr. Frazier. We appreciate it. Thanks.

Wow.

Middle East.

Middle East. Really?

But knock me off my chair.

I believe he's come our way, or my way, for sure. Well, holy smokes, Rick, I'm a

data guy. I mean, you know, him saying European, I get that, but Middle Eastern

people hanging around here?

Wow. You know, I wasn't ready for that.

Exactly. It's classic Oak Island, isn't it? It's just classic Oak Island.

you know throws up something you couldn't have even envisioned you have

somebody of european descent somebody of middle eastern descent here on this

island way deep in the money pit below searcher depth so it just corroborates

and verifies and underscores that h8 is the place to dig and getting to the

bottom of it that's what's next guys that is really really exciting and super

super interesting all right guys thank you very much all right see ya take care

bye

On the heels of what has been a major breakthrough, Rick Lagina and Dave

Blankenship head to the money pit, where preparations to the dig site are now

complete. How you been doing? Good, you?

Andrew, how you doing? Billy, I'm David.

Joining them once again are representatives from Irving Equipment

Limited, who have come to give the final inspection of the area before the first

load of digging equipment arrives.

We got the pad prepped.

What do you think? Looks great.

Looks real good.

Just what we asked for. Just what you guys said you were going to do.

Where's all the equipment?

It's coming.

Five, six loads today.

Five, six loads tomorrow.

All in all, we're going to have about 35 this year.

We're very excited. We're hoping, hoping that this is going to be it.

We're standing on an answer.

Yeah. The shiny stuff.

Well, that's what we're here to find.

That's what we're here to find. And that's why you're here.

H8 is the place, and I think if we're going to find something, it's going to

be in that hole, and you're just about standing on it right now.

Good, good. X marks the spot. Yeah, that's good karma.

Let's get after it. All right. Glad to be here. Thanks, guys.

Here we go.

For Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team, borehole H8 has already proven

itself a worthy target in their quest to find the original money pit.

So far they have found bits of ancient pottery evidence of potentially

priceless books and manuscripts and the remains of two individuals whose

identities could help solve this 222 year old mystery once and for all

But now as an even wider hole is about to be done another series

of questions remains Will the laginas and their partners?

uncover an incredible treasure or evidence of an ancient

curse.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

Gentlemen, we're almost there. Dan's breakthrough.

Time to make history. This hole, it starts this day.

I'm dumbfounded. Those bones and now this dating. That fits with Knight's

template. Here we go, guys. Another signal.

Looks like a piece of ammunition, doesn't it? That's from a cannon.

Rochefoucauld. They're a prominent French family. This is a family of

crusader kings.

We now have a pathway from the Holy Land to college.