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previously on the Curse of Oak Island.

Well, 170, we're definitely sitting on something.

The oscillator's on a flat, hard surface.

Could this be the vault?

I found the ship's log.

It has been agreed that a deep pit be dug and treasures securely buried. The

pit do have a secret entrance by a tunnel from the shore. There's a trail

now to follow.

Fits in every aspect.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Holy... I've seen that shape before in the Templar prison in France.

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 pieces 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 a moment of great anticipation in the oak island war room as rick and alex

lagina along with jack begley Charles Barkhouse and metal detection expert

Gary Drayton meet with archaeologist Laird Niven on the heels of what might

be their greatest breakthrough to date, one that may hold the key to solving a

222-year-old mystery.

Laird, we've got something to show you. I think you're going to be, I think Gary

would say you're going to be blown away.

We need to get your dad and Craig on the phone.

All right, I'll get them up.

OK?

Hey, guys.

Hey, guys.

Also joining them via video conference is Rick's brother Marty and their

partner Craig Tester, who have called in from their offices in Traverse City,

Michigan.

So we've invited Laird back.

I think we all understand why, because of Gary's unique find.

I don't know what words to put on it. Gary, why don't you show him this item?

Interesting find was found in Smith's Cove, mid-beach. Right.

We think it's going to knock your socks off.

There you go, Laird.

What do you think of that?

What's lead?

That's a cross.

Holy. Holy shmoly, all right.

Earlier today, while exploring the shore along Smith's Cove, Rick Lagina and

metal detection expert Gary Drayton discovered something incredible.

That's really old.

Old? I would say that it's somewhere in between 1200 and 1600.

I've seen that shape before. I saw a carving like that in the Templar prison

in Dome.

Even more astonishing was the fact that the cross was an almost exact match to

Templar carvings that Rick Lagina and two of his nephews had seen on the walls

of a 14th century prison in Dome, France just one week ago.

If it can be determined with a high degree of certainty that it's a...

Templar-associated figurine.

There's a piece of history missing, our history, and I think that is what really

captivates people about Oak Island.

What could this mystery be all about?

I haven't seen anything like that before.

That's a good thing for an archaeologist to say.

It's a little asymmetrical, right?

It's quite crude, pierced by a square nail. Yep.

I think this is a really unique find.

There's certainly nothing that I can see that would contradict that.

There's a story there. It seems like it wants to speak.

And I think you're surprised to see this, aren't you? Oh, absolutely, yeah.

Didn't expect that.

It's certainly quite remarkable when Laird gives us his opinion that he's not

seen anything like this. Here you have an archaeologist.

who's intimately involved with activities throughout the province of

Nova Scotia, and he's saying that he's not seen anything like this before.

Is there any way to estimate how long it was in the environment that you found it

in? I don't think too long because of the condition.

Lead is a soft metal, and you can see plenty of detail on this.

Yeah, usually there's a white patina if it's been exposed to air.

There doesn't seem to be much wear.

Well, the conjecture, Laird, is that we've kicked around anyway, is that we

might have unearthed it when we did our dig with you last year.

And then it got washed to the shore, you know, in that big storm.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

Last year, while working with Laird to uncover evidence of possible box drains

at Smith's Cove, the Oak Island team unearthed a curious rock formation known

as a French drain.

Laird? I'm going to put you on the spot now.

Man-made?

It's definitely what we call cultural, yeah. Okay.

You mean you're saying based on your expertise with certainty, this is placed

here. It's a man-made something.

I believe so, yeah. Wow. Yeah.

Could the mysterious lead cross be somehow connected to the construction of

the French drain, perhaps being accidentally lost at some point during

its construction?

Smith's Cove has come roaring back into the top tier of places that need more

investigation. You know, in the funny way that Oak Island seems to work,

perhaps all that excavating we tried to do may be unearthed that what could be

highly significant, that medieval-led cross.

I mean, we don't know there. We don't know how old or anything. But, you know,

preliminary research indicates that Gary, you know, many hundreds of years,

Is that not correct, gentlemen?

Yes, from preliminary, very preliminary research, and that's really where this

discussion needs to go, is what steps do we take next?

Where do we go? Art historians, religious antiquities experts, can we go

out of province for some expertise?

No, absolutely.

Yeah, there's no issue with taking it out of the province, out of the country.

Oh, really?

well yeah because i mean it could have come from europe for example so

approaching european archaeologists makes sense right i think we should find

a religious ancient religious artifacts expert and try and get this thing pinned

down where it came from how old is it yeah it could be i'd be very interested

to see the results of this one yeah good let's find out yeah we need to get to

work yeah

Two days after their incredible discovery at Smith's Cove.

Morning, guys.

How are we doing this morning?

Rick and Marty Lagina arrive at the Money Pit, eager to resume their massive

excavation of the H-8 drill site, a site which they believe is on the same spot

where an elusive seven-foot-tall wooden vault was first discovered by treasure

hunter William Chappell back in 1897.

So our game plan is... now is we're going to oscillate down five feet.

Pressures are staying steady.

Yeah so this is a fresh new cut and you can see we're at about 50.

Oh now we're creeped at about 75.

So yeah we'll get the can down about five more feet and then we'll let

Michelle start grabbing.

Three days ago while excavating H8 with a 60 inch wide drilling caisson the

process came to an abrupt halt.

when the team came upon what they believed to be a large flat wooden

platform at a depth of one hundred and seventy feet so he says his pressures

right now are up to one fifty and he feels like he's sitting on something

really we're hopeful that we're close to answers we spent an awful lot of effort

to bring in this massive equipment and dig in this one spot following a well

that produced all kinds of tantalizing clues So, yeah, we're hopeful. We're

getting to the depth where there should be answers.

As the team from Irving Equipment Limited now resumes drilling by using a

slightly smaller permanent case on, Marty Lagina joins Jack Bagley and

Charles Barkhouse as they continue their careful examination of the spoils

recently retrieved from the HH shaft.

Oh, bit of pottery. Look.

Really? No way.

Oh, my God. That's a nice piece.

That's a really nice piece. That might be one of the best pieces of pottery

we've found so far.

Pottery? At an approximate depth of 150 feet?

Could this piece be connected to the other intriguing artifacts found in H8?

Like parchment, fragments of leather bookbinding, and pieces of human

bone.

Is there a design on it, too? It's like a leaf.

It's also thin. It's raised, too, like you can see. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Wow. It's hard to picture workers down there with such a fine piece of

joint. Oh, yeah, we have found some nice pieces.

I'm hoping that maybe the original depositors used this, and when we get to

the lower level of it, we might find some ancient stuff.

That's the hope.

Clues.

As the 50-inch wide drilling caisson makes its way down the HH shaft.

Is he slipping?

I'm not sure what he's doing.

It seems to encounter no resistance, as if it is sinking under its own weight.

So our shaft's excavating without us.

Okay. Starting, we were at 162, and our shaft elevation without us even digging

is now at 172.

Wow.

From a journalist's perspective, we would say that's about a 10-foot void.

When we drop and we're filling up.

A 10-foot void located at a depth of 170 feet?

Could Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team have finally penetrated the

mysterious Chapel Vault?

At the Oak Island Money Pit,

The casing falling was one thing, but what this is doing now, unbelievable.

Craig Tester and Rick Lagina have just heard the shocking news that the H8

caisson has encountered a mysterious void at a depth of some 170 feet.

The same depth where they were resting on what they believed to be a large

wooden object just three days ago.

Okay, so the can is below the level of the solution channel.

Or that's where the teeth are anyway.

It is Terry's assessment that the team is now into some kind of cavern or

tunnel. But if so, what has become of the wooden obstruction?

Has the team from Irving drilled into it? Or could they have drilled past it?

You know, is there a void there now? And is it pushing something ahead of it?

There's all these issues, if you will, with H8.

There's no question about it. It's an emotional roller coaster.

Hey, Marty.

How's it going, Rick?

It's confusing right now. We're all confused.

Why?

Greg, tell them.

The can's down to like 185, but the plug inside has

moved down five or six feet.

That's great news.

It bodes well. It's certainly interesting.

We'll see.

What it means, I don't know. I'll tell you what it means. It means we're in the

money pit. We're in the collapse of the money pit. We're going to find what was

ever in there. That's what it means.

The Collapse of the Money Pit?

In 1861, treasure hunters attempted to reach the original treasure vault by

digging a shaft adjacent to it.

However, when they reached a depth of 118 feet, the shaft, known as Shaft 6,

began to flood and cave in.

Shortly thereafter, they heard a loud series of crashes, leading to

speculation that the Money Pit collapsed.

taking whatever possible treasure down with it.

Could this mysterious void really be a part of the money pit's collapse?

Any void before bedrock is very exciting to me because my pet theory is that the

money pit collapsed, that all those dimensions that were given years ago are

all inaccurate now because everything's sloughed down the hole, and we're

looking for where it could have landed. Well, if there is sort of a void it all

fell into...

Now we're approaching it.

While waiting for the team from Irving to drill down into the mysterious

chamber at the money pit, metal detection expert Gary Drayton and Rick

Lagina returned to Smith's Cove to continue their search of the same area

where they found a mysterious lead cross just days ago.

Where do you want to start first?

We'll pick up where we found the cross.

We'll do the areas around the rock pools, and then I think we should get in

the rock pools.

That cross can't be a singular item. No, I really don't think so.

There's no question that today in Smith's Cove, you know, holds high

promise. Simply for one fact, the cross intrigues all of us. It's an interesting

object. Whenever I hear Gary say that's very old, then it's very important to

get back in that area.

I like this little corridor, so I think we'll go up and down, up and down. Okay.

Iron?

No, that's definitely iron.

I know you know what you're doing. Yeah. That's why I was so impressed with the

cross, because you believe it's that old.

Yep, for sure.

If anyone could ever be given the moniker Treasure Hunter, it's Gary

Drayton.

There we go.

That sounded good. I found that by accident, slipping on the rock.

that's a great sounding target full term oh this is going to be something good

let me just see if i can pinpoint it which will be a bad sign but you never

know today so that means it's close

That looks like the arm of something.

It's an interesting shape. It's lead.

That's an interesting piece of lead, though.

A spoon, isn't it? Or a handle?

It could well be a spoon handle.

It's like an old shape.

A lead spoon found in the same area as a mysterious medieval cross?

Could these artifacts be in some way connected?

they would have cut the shape of it out of a piece of wood and poured the lead

into the mold that looks like it was made in the mold oh man i thought that

was something else yeah you know you were jumping yeah i've got crosses on

the mine now it's definitely interesting fine perhaps lardgen yeah

look at it we respect alert's opinion it's it's why he's we've welcomed them

as part of the team if you will and and uh i think we should reach out to him

and see if he can't assist us in some way and perhaps date it that was it

right let's see if there's anything else because the rest of it might be around

here

yeah

i don't think that's too far under the water

Straight in the middle mate.

I like it when you turn your shovel over and you can see what it is just sticking

out the top. Especially when it's a piece of silver or gold.

There it is. Looks like the fastenings were here. Some kind of decorative brass

piece. Maybe off the side of a bow.

while metal detecting in the area known as smith's cove there it is rick lagina

and gary drayton have just made a potentially significant find looks like

some kind of decorative brass piece maybe off the side of a boat a brass

piece from a boat could this have been part of an ancient ship one of many

theorized to have visited oak island

We're getting some big pieces of metal off this beach. And I've been over this

beach before, obviously previous years.

So it's either the storms bringing stuff in or pushing stuff off the banks.

Yeah, you would never have missed two big targets like that. Yeah, these are

too big to miss.

The interest in Smith's Cove is the fact that these are significant finds,

definitely. We need to pursue it further.

Later that day, Rick Lagina and Gary Drayton rejoin the rest of the Oak

Island team at the Money Pit drill site.

Our casing is at 196, and our depth in the hole is at 184.

Plug is 11-7?

11-7, yep.

Sweet.

Now that the oscillator has begun drilling deeper into the mysterious

void, it is the team's hope that the spoils brought to the surface might

contain artifacts or evidence of possible treasure.

I'm not seeing anything.

Yeah.

You guys ready to call it?

Yeah, I think. Is that leather?

I think I got a bit of leather here. Is that leather or bag?

That's probably leather.

I'd say that, yeah. I think there's a good possibility that's leather. Good

eye. Leather.

Could this be another piece of possible bookbinding, similar to the sample

recovered from H8 just a few weeks ago?

Well, from such a big pile, I mean, we're down to like nothing now.

I put a lot on this table, but there's not much left, is it? No.

Check this out.

Oh, wow.

Look at that. That's a bone.

No mistake in that.

Excellent flying, Gary.

And isn't it weird how all this good stuff's coming from... 162, right? Yeah,

this is 162.

A piece of bone found in spoils taken from a depth of some 160 feet

underground?

Oh, what's that jumping up at us?

Nearly the same depth where the team recovered human bones earlier this year?

What was the depth at which this was found?

That was between 160 and 165.

But if this new bone is also found to be human, to whom does it belong?

Could it be related to one of the two individuals whose bones were dated to

sometime in the 17th century?

Or could it be evidence of a third and as yet unidentified visitor to the

island?

Anything, guys?

Yeah. We got lucky.

What do you got?

A bone.

Oh, yes. What kind of bone is that?

I have no idea. It looks like a kind of knuckle bone, would you say?

The end of a joint. There's a joint. Yeah.

That'd be like an elbow.

It sounds macabre, but we're thinking a skeleton will come out of there,

literally. I mean, is it possible that we only find one little piece and not

skeletal remains?

Yeah, I mean, it just caught my eye straight away.

Some more of the 162 stuff? Yeah, 162.

The hope continues to be that we will find things of substance, things that

will definitively tell a story.

That's great.

Bag it and tag it.

I'm on it. We're only a skeleton crew, but we're finding bones.

That's fantastic.

It is the start of another day on Oak Island as brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

join members of their team at the HH drill site. Good morning.

Gentlemen.

How deep are we?

188, 189, something like that. We're only about four feet from where we found

the pottery. That's where I thought it all fell to. Yep.

Come on, baby.

Good day to find Templar treasure.

but despite early evidence that the original six inch wide hhf had located

the oak island money pit glazed pottery pottery now we get pottery to 190 feet

there is now a growing sense of frustration that except for a piece of

bone and some minor artifacts the much larger 50 inch wide hole is not turning

up more conclusive results the hopes and expectations for h8 were sky high

There's no question about that. We had found bookbinding material, parchment,

pottery at below searcher depth, bones.

I mean, expectations were off the charts.

But as the day progresses, we're not finding anything of interest.

And so, you know, it gets to be a bit tedious.

You guys are making some expensive gravel.

No metal in it, Gary?

No. Three small pieces of iron. Those little tiny welding scraps.

I'm just concerned we lost the material in the zone we're most interested in.

I'm going to go check on this one.

I feel confident we've explored this already.

You want to call it? Yeah, I think we should call it.

I can't explain in H8 how we got so many significant artifacts

out of a small borehole, 6-inch borehole, and then we run a great big

giant 6-foot caisson down there and we get really marginally more.

I don't know why.

Numbers.

We have a 14-foot plug right now.

We're stuck.

Oh, really?

Yeah. So we think it's just sitting on gypsum and seems to be some pretty big

anhydrite.

Digging-wise, it's going slow.

It is the Irving team's assessment that the casing has once again encountered

bedrock, indicating that there is likely nowhere else for the HH shaft to go.

It also means that their current efforts to locate the money pit must be

abandoned in favor of yet another plan.

How are you feeling now, Craig? I mean, I have to say I'm disappointed.

But I thought we'd find stuff all the way through here. Me too. We really

have. This hole has come up with less than the itty-bitty hole.

Yeah. How is that possible?

I'm just surprised. We didn't all of a sudden go through 10, 15 feet of mud at

least, you know. And none of it's been digging easy.

It's like it doesn't make sense.

On Oak Island, something doesn't make sense?

Unless it did, you know, something was in front of the can and we were pushing

it for a while and it was pushing all the clay out of the way until it hit

something hard and that's when the drilling got in. Oh, it's still in there

then.

Let's push to the side. So the hatch we dug through has been pushed to the side?

Exactly.

The failure to find the chapel vault has forced Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island

team to face a better reality.

Either the drilling caisson has brushed past it, or it was pushed even deeper

down and out of its path.

The roller coaster, the digging where H8, where you found all this stuff, it's

being pushed ahead somehow.

It's so classic Oak Island.

It just mystifies me. You find these intriguing clues which seem to indicate

there's something of substance down there, and yet we come up empty.

Well, I shouldn't say empty. A few tantalizing clues, more bone perhaps,

more bookbinding, leather, but not what we expected.

I'm severely disappointed, to be honest.

All right, well, are we sort of done for the day? Okay, sounds good.

After the disappointing realization that the operation at the H-8 drill site has

reached a dead end, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina have called members of

their team together for an important meeting in the war room.

Joining them is geophysicist Mike West of Gemtech Limited, who has come with

what he believes is important information that could help the team

plan their next move.

So we are kind of on pins and needles here. Show us what you got. Well, we

have something. If it's good, that's up to you.

Several weeks ago, Mike ran a dual induction device down each of the team's

44 six-inch wide exploratory boreholes drilled as a part of their geotech grid

system.

Emitting an electromagnetic field two feet in diameter, the dual induction

probe scanned the earth surrounding each borehole.

for evidence of conductive objects.

So this is just a plan view of the grid that we set out to investigate?

Now, Mike has created a 3D map representing each of the 44 boreholes,

which shows the direction and deviation of each shaft.

He has also incorporated the dual induction data to show the exact depth

and position of each metal object they detected.

The colors are going to represent the amplitude response.

It's going to go from dark blue to red. Red's obviously going to be your

strongest responses. You know, that would be your metals or, you know, when

you pass by casing.

They're diamond shapes because as you went down, wherever your amplitude

started to rise and fall, basically the longer the diamond shape, kind of the

longer the response.

I assume the silver things are the casings, the big casings. Yeah, they're

the big caissons.

So, I know we were interested in, like, you know, when we were logging these

holes, was H8.

Picking something else up right here.

When the team first ran the dual induction device down H8, they detected

the presence of a large metal object at a depth of some 155 feet.

Well, it is the chapel vault.

Now, the team is eager to see what the 3D model may reveal about the anomaly.

which they believe to be the so-called Chapel Vault.

I was really thinking I was going to come in here and stick a fork in this

thing, but we do have a couple fairly significant responses down here that

certainly stand out.

Once this 3D model really came together and all these anomalies started to line

up. Because that's a cluster of responses?

Yeah. What's the depth right there?

You're in the 150 to 160 range.

If you say H8 happens to be the center of the money pit, which I think it is,

and then you drew a seven-foot radius circle around it, which is what the

money pit would have been, you will effectively get all those anomalies,

right? Yeah.

If you say H8 happens to be the center of the money pit, you will effectively

get... All those anomalies, right? Yeah.

During a meeting in the Oak Island War Room, geophysicist Mike West is sharing

some incredible information as to why the team failed to turn up solid

evidence of the chapel vault during their excavation of Borehole H8. The

data supports that there's some very interesting things going on in a very

defined area.

I think we keep finding out that this is the money pit.

Right where it should be, really.

The results of the dual induction log testing in H8 indicate that there is a

significant anomaly about 150 feet.

Well, that's exactly, exactly where the chapel vault should be. So it's highly

significant. It's exciting.

You know, it's interesting, as we get to depth, look how little we really did it.

Yeah. Because, you know, we're falling out, hitting bedrock, stopping, but look

at that.

By the time we get to 200 feet, we got boreholes which show us where the gaps

are. Like I said, right there, there's big gaps right in there where there's

nothing. Right here and right here. Yeah.

Although the team completed a total of 44 carefully plotted boreholes, several

of them deviated in the course of drilling, meaning some areas remain

unexplored in the money pit, particularly around a depth of 200 feet.

We have come to learn, because of the gyro data and the dual induction system,

that there are undiscovered areas or areas that were not penetrated by the

pattern drilling program.

I mean, we have to investigate these areas. They're of significant size.

Something could be hiding there. The big positive we should have out of this is

that there is a target in the money pit where it's supposed to be.

Right? Yes, I think so.

Despite... All of the open area that we missed, we still got to hit where we

were looking for it at.

Yeah, the bad news is it's not in a five-foot circle. No. Yeah.

It's good news. I mean, there's all these theories about where the money pit

itself is, you know, the original excavation. I think we found it. I'm

convinced we found it.

So, yeah, it's a very, that's a huge bit of news, and it's probably, I mean, to

me, I think it means we're nearing the end of the hunt.

This is good. This is exactly what we wanted you to do. Thank you very much.

Here's what I read from your body language and your presentation and

everything that's gone on here today, said and unsaid. There's no way you'd

quit on this. No.

No, I still want to know, too. Yeah.

Okay. Well, we're going to put all the data we can to it, and then, you know,

the fates will do what the fates want to do.

So let's call this one wrapped.

One day after receiving important information indicating that the 50-inch

-wide drilling caisson may have literally pushed evidence of the chapel

vault farther down and then out of its way, Rick, Marty,

Craig, and members of their Oak Island team meet once again in the war room to

discuss their next course of action.

They have also invited geologist Terry Matheson and area historian Doug

Crowell. to offer their guidance and expertise.

Okay guys, this is a crucial meeting and it's got to happen quick and we have to

make some decisions.

As everyone's aware, we're finishing up H8. We have a little bit of money left,

but the contractor wants a decision, needs a decision.

It's either up or down, spend the money, dig one more hole, or give over for this

year. We have to make the decision tonight.

Terry, just want your input.

Stop and review.

Stop and review.

Spoken like a true scientist. Do you think there's something here to find?

I think there's possibly something buried there. A buried treasure, yes.

What I'm still saying, you know, against all hope, against all odds, I mean, that

that chapel vault is actually there. You think it's there, don't you? Of course.

Yeah, it's there. Do you?

I think it is.

Well, we didn't find it, and it's not hiding this way.

We have too much data that way.

So where do you approximate it to be, then?

If we had to move the ax away from the caisson, what direction should we?

So H8's sitting in right about here, right?

It's the Pelsinger Thinning Circle.

That's the big caisson right now.

To me, you've got to look up to 20 feet in this direction.

Somewhere right in here.

Am I reading this right, Craig? There is quite a lot missing data right there,

right? Yeah, I mean, we put a well here, we put a well here, we put a well here.

It's an unexplored area at the depth that the chamber is thought to be.

It is Doug's assessment that the chamber they are looking for, and along with it,

the vault, could lie in a nearly 10 by 20 foot area to the south of the chapel

and H8 shafts, where the team has not yet drilled.

You know, when you amalgamated all the data and put fresh eyes on it, there's

room for that chapel vault, possibly. It's an unsearched area.

We had, as part of our pattern drilling program, had a pretty good understanding

of the underground geology and the underground searcher work.

I mean, it's worth pursuing.

I make a motion we dig one more well yet this year right here. Do I have a

second?

I'm biased.

The more drilling you do, the more stuff you bring up, the more chance I've got

to find something.

Dig. Yeah. You're in dig camp. Yeah.

Charles, speak.

I'm abstaining.

It's your decision.

You three.

Not us.

Craig, what do you say at this point?

You know, well, it's up to you guys. It's up to you, Rick, more, and the

other guys around this table.

Because when I'm headed out of here, I'm probably...

Not coming back.

When

I'm

headed out of here, I'm probably not coming back.

While meeting in the war room, Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team have just

heard the shocking news that their partner, Craig Tester, will be leaving

the island.

It's up to you, Rick, more, and the other guys around this table, because,

you know, I don't want to say, hey, drill here and then not be here to

support you guys.

Earlier this year, Craig and his family suffered the loss of Craig's 16-year-old

son, Drake, who died of complications following an epileptic seizure.

Oak Island, for me, has helped.

It takes my focus off losing Drake.

I think of him every day. I think I'm always out here.

I wish he could be here helping us.

So...

It's been a tough year.

Time for me to head on home and help my wife who's struggling through this too.

And so I'm appreciative for all the guys and I'm appreciative for Oak Island for

everything it's done for me.

You'll always be here whether you're here or not.

Everybody understands that.

You won't be able to kick Jack out of here with a 10-foot pole, so he'll be

here. Yeah, yeah.

It's got to be bittersweet for Craig out here. I don't know what's going on

inside him. I can only guess.

I mean, it's painful stuff.

So Craig's suffering a lot, and he's grieving.

Look, whatever he wants, whatever Craig wants, whatever Craig feels is best for

him, and I'm not going to do anything but say I'll support whatever decision

you make.

I kind of want to finish this now.

Especially because you said you're not coming back.

And this is a chance to finish it.

You know... I don't know how to say it exactly, but... I kind of want to try

and finish this for Drake. There. I said it.

I don't know.

I'm...

Well...

I said it from the start, one and all and once and forever, and I've given it

everything I've gotten for the last 10 years.

You know me, I'm not a quitter. I was just about to say, so now you're going

to quit?

No, so let's find it for everyone.

What's the point of being here if we're not going to try everything within our

means to get an answer? We're here in the now.

Why would we not aggressively do this as best we can? And so what does that mean?

It means put another case on down.

There's no question in my mind we need to continue.

We dig another well approximately here to be fine-tuned between Rick and Doug

and Charles.

What? What were you going to say, Jack?

Can we name it after my brother, too? Of course you can.

Thank you.

We asked to name the hole after Drake. And so we decided to just use his

initials, DMT.

And it meant a lot to me.

Maybe this is the hole that finds it all.

But it's good to know that my brother's a part of this island forever now.

OK, good.

Let's dig one more hole while we're in on this, OK?

Enough of this.

In, in.

Charles. Charles. The brothers.

Let's do it. All right.

Good. For Rick, Marty, and the team, it has been a week of both incredible

discovery and heartbreaking disappointment.

But as one door closes on what began as a promising investigation at the HH

shaft, another may have opened.

in the form of a mysterious medieval cross.

A cross that could be not only the first tangible evidence that the Oak Island

treasure exists, but that finding it could mean riches that are measured in

something more substantial than mere dollars and cents.

A treasure that could be worth all the years of blood and sweat that went into

finding it.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

This is X marks the spot.

Yep. Let's get that can down hole and find this thing. We're good to go, guys.

I found very similar crosses from the 13th century. We can say quite securely

they were made before 1460.

It was one of the things Fred found on the island.

Is this the key to unlock the mystery? Is this the key to Nolan's cross?