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Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.

We're going to get a look at the seismic results.

This is definitely the largest anomaly, but is a competent structure, whatever

it is. Is that consistent with a chamber?

Yeah, it is.

Now we have a target, so we need to drill it right away, find out what it

is. Wow, look at that.

This is a lot of wood here.

Maybe it is the old money pit.

Look at this! This is old. We're talking like 10 plus old.

there is an island in the north atlantic where people have been looking for an

incredible treasure for more than two hundred years so far they have found a

stone slab with strange symbols carved into it mysterious fragments of human

bone and a lead cross whose origin may stretch back to the days of the knights

templar to date Six men have died trying to solve the mystery.

And, according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure

can be found.

It is a day of great anticipation for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and the

other members of their Oak Island team.

Looked like a wide road until we got on it. Yeah.

Because today marks the first day in the construction of an enormous 525-foot

-long cofferdam at Smith's Cove, one of the most intriguing and mysterious

places on the island.

It looks like a really sturdy pad.

It'll just gradually start coming together over the next couple of days.

When completed, the cofferdam will effectively wall off ocean water to the

cove we have quite a reach with this crane we've got quite a reach but it

takes every bit of that crane to reach what we need to do all right using a

powerful hydraulic hammer approximately 120 interlocking steel sheets will be

driven some 25 feet into the ground this will allow the water to be drained and

then the entire area searched for important clues clues that might help

the Laginas solve a 223-year-old treasure mystery.

It may also help them locate an elaborate system of booby-trapped flood

tunnels that have warned its searchers from exploring the so-called money pit,

located some 170 yards away.

Every time Smith's Cove has been searched in the past, it's been just an

earthen cofferdam, more or less similar to the bladder system we used last year,

and there's so much seepage under there.

through the sands and the gravel and whatever underneath there that was

working in constant flooding.

So this time we're going to drive sheet piling down 23 feet and interlock it.

That should stop the bulk of the water.

What is realistically the closest time frame to when we start being able to dig

and excavate in Smith's Cove this year?

We're anticipating about three weeks' work from the time we started today

until we can probably turn it over to you folks. Right on schedule, basically.

And then we can get started and see if there's anything else hiding down in

Smith's Cove. Yes, absolutely.

As the team from Irvine Equipment Limited continues with their operation

at Smith's Cove... This should be a good day, absolutely.

...Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with Craig Tester... dave blackenship

and charles barkhouse are traveling some 2300 miles west of oak island to the

city of calgary in alberta canada size mode here we go i'm looking

forward to it that's for sure you should give us some good targets yeah they are

on their way to the headquarters of eagle canada a geophysical exploration

company which over the past two weeks has conducted a major seismic imaging

scan of the money pit site this revolutionary process

involves the detonation of literally hundreds of explosive dynamite charges

these charges send powerful shock waves down into the earth which are then

measured and recorded allowing for the creation of a virtual three-dimensional

map which in turn could reveal the precise location of everything from old

searcher tunnels and booby traps to underground treasure vaults.

I'm excited.

This is the first opportunity that people can look underground.

Yeah, and the Megaben should be in an area with excellent data.

Where is that?

That's the Triton shaft where Dan, you know, felt he hit the tunnel and they

brought him wood.

Also included in the seismic scanning operation was another search area known

as the Mega Bin, located some 600 feet north of the Money Pit site.

It was here in the early 1970s that veteran treasure hunter Dan Blankenship

and his company, the Triton Alliance, drilled some 40 exploratory boreholes

searching for tunnels that Dan believed were connected to the Money Pit.

We're going to get a look at the seismic results, which were very excited to see.

I do have high hopes for them being able to see vertical structures.

We each have our own little version of what that might be, you know, mental

image of what that might be.

But in any event, this is the first time we might get some scientific imaging of

what's going on underground, both at the Money Pit and over there on the hillside

by the Triton Shaft.

Morning, gentlemen. Hey, guys. Hey, good morning. Have a seat.

Welcome to Calgary. Welcome to Eagle.

So I'm glad you guys were able to make it.

We got some pretty exciting news today.

Great. So I'll let Jeremy talk about the results.

Okay. So let's jump into it. Here is the lay of the two 3Ds and the 2D line.

Mega bins up there to the north, and then the orthogonal down here to the

south over the money pit.

So here's the mega bin.

This map is built from an amplitude slice.

And the significance of the colors.

Reds usually represent reductions in density. Negative values are troughs.

Typically, reductions in density are usually the more interesting features.

So yeah, there's your megabit right there.

This is definitely the largest anomaly in this data set so far.

It's roughly 50 meters long, so you're in the 150 to 175 foot length.

What would the distance be between the top and the base?

7 to 12 feet.

Can you dimension that?

Yeah, I'll give you a cross-section.

So here it is.

We're around the 40-ish, 50-foot depth there.

So, like, the anomaly is this.

We've got a hard reflector on the top, hard reflector on the base.

What's interesting is...

things are draping on top of it so it is a competent structure whatever it is is

that consistent with a chamber with a roof and a floor yeah it is wow

a 175 foot chamber located at a depth of

approximately 50 feet could this discovery finally be the proof the

laginas and generations of other treasure hunters have been trying to

find for more than two centuries.

Proof that man-made structures really do exist beneath the surface of Oak Island.

Structures that might contain an incredible treasure.

It's astounding even what you've drawn right there already because Dan told

Rick and I years ago that he had drilled that well, the so-called latrine hole,

and he believed at the time that it was the relief area for an underground

chamber where people were working.

And he was quite sure. He was absolutely certain. And he kind of drew something

just like that. So it's just incredible.

I'm very excited to see that they've imaged what they hope is some sort of

chamber, and it's only at 50 feet.

For me personally, I've always wanted to give Dan his breakthrough.

And now we have a target, a defined target, not a hope and a poke scenario.

That, I can tell you for sure, that's going to figure in our exploration

plans. We're not going to walk away from that.

Okay, so we'll move on to the money pit. The money pit.

Yes. Yes.

So here's the first anomaly I want to show you from this area.

This is below any of the historical excavations.

It is also interesting how you have basically a large blue region of nothing

really happening, and then this emerges out of it.

So here's our limestone, consistent limestone marker.

Here's the anhydrite marker.

You have a hard roof with a void within the limestone.

There's C1 and then H8. Interestingly, he's kind of on the edge of it.

What depth are we here?

160 to 170 feet.

A large void located at a depth of 160 to 170 feet

and adjacent to the C1 and H8 boreholes that Rick and Marty dug in the money

pit?

That's where a lot of odd stuff came out of H-8.

We're definitely sitting on something. It feels like I'm on a whole bunch of

wood at once now.

Last year, while drilling borehole H-8, the Oak Island team found compelling

evidence of what they believed to be the so-called Chapel Vault, the seven-foot

-tall wooden box first discovered by William Chapel and Frederick Blair in

1897.

It was while searching the spoils from this same hole that the team also made a

number of incredible discoveries.

Okay, that's kind of interesting.

Including pottery, bits of parchment, and leather bookbinding, and even pieces

of human bones, which when tested were determined to be the remains of two

individuals, one from Europe and the other from the Middle East, and each

estimated to be more than 400 years old.

Unfortunately, when the team attempted to penetrate the suspected vault with a

60-inch wide drilling caisson, the object was pushed lower down into the

wet, muddy ground.

Could this large chamber, located near the HH shaft, be where the elusive

chapel vault is now located?

If it is real, it could answer a lot of stuff. It could explain where we pushed

that vault down to.

You know, if there's a... cavity over there that has been breached, then maybe

that's where the stuff went. Maybe it is the bottom of the old money pit.

You end up at H8 here being at the extremity of it, like all your caissons

are over there.

We missed it by this much.

It's touching the edge of that cavern or void.

It has a squared off shape. You just don't, nature doesn't tend to produce

such square features, you know, like that. Yeah, exactly.

That's obviously dramatic and it needs to be looked into.

There's no question about that.

And it gets better.

And it gets better.

Yeah. Okay.

While visiting the headquarters of Eagle Canada in Alberta, Canada.

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with members of the Oak Island team,

have just been given the startling information that seismic scanning has

revealed the existence of underground voids in the Money Pit area.

Voids that appear to surround the borehole known as H8.

This anomaly here, very interesting.

When you start seeing eyeball-type features, that's usually something

notable. So I grabbed a slice through that.

Here's C1, here's H8. This complex of linear features that kind of come

off of it, that carries on into what looks like a larger network around the

100 to 110-footish range.

Flood tunnel?

Could be. Wow.

A flood tunnel located at a depth of approximately 100 feet?

Certainly it's possible that it's a flood tunnel. It does beg for further

investigation.

All right, well, we're going to have to figure out what we do with this new data

here. My understanding is you would like to do some more number crunching. Yeah.

I'm very excited about this. So I want to explore this. I think there's enough

data right now for us to do something here.

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. You've given us reason to certainly move forward, you know.

Yeah. And we have intentions of drilling holes.

Yeah. I would like to see some more investigation of these two sites for

sure. And that's awesome.

All right. We thank you. We look forward to lots more work, lots more data. And

let's get out there and do something. Awesome.

We're done. Thank you very much. Thank you, guys.

While Rick, Marty, and members of the team eagerly make their way back to Oak

Island, Jack Begley, Gary Drayton, and area geophysicist Mike West

head to the beach on Lot 26.

located on the island's southwest shore.

They have come here in hopes of finding historical artifacts, like the gold

-covered brooch Gary and Rick Lagina discovered just one week ago and which

was estimated to be as much as 700 years old.

And we're going to be working in tandem.

Mike's got different metal detecting equipment to me, and he's going to be

looking for targets, hopefully deeper targets than I can detect.

Then I'm going to cross off any shallow surface finds with my surface metal

detector.

This looks like a point here, all the way down here with the boulders. This

could potentially be a landing spot.

And what the people do when they come up by boat, they lose stuff getting on and

off boats.

If anything, that almost makes more sense because this is Captain Anderson's

property. He was one of the original owners of Lot 26.

Yeah.

During the American Revolution in 1783, Captain James Anderson was a

privateer who pledged his allegiance to the United States.

However, after being given command of his own ship the bentsey he became a spy

for the british and fled the u s taking his ship and the valuable cargo it was

carrying with him facing charges of treason levied by then governor of

virginia thomas jefferson anderson escaped to nova scotia where he

purchased lot twenty six on oak island

If this is a natural beach or man-made, Mike West's metal detector should be

able to see deeper than what your detector can.

I mean, especially if they were possibly loading and unloading stuff.

Let's see what we can find. Maybe we'll get lucky.

All right, let's get her going.

All right, Mike, we'll follow you. Okay.

To assist them in their search, Mike will use a metal detecting device known

as the EM61.

Unlike conventional metal detectors, which are generally limited to an

average scanning depth of between 1 and 3 feet.

The EM61 is equipped with powerful transmitter and receiver coils, allowing

it to sense metal objects buried up to 20 feet deep underground.

It also features a GPS device, which will allow the team to record the exact

location of any targets too deep to be dug up by hand.

Come on, Mr. West, find us something good.

I'll find something.

Think he's got something?

Come get it. Yep, he found something.

Great. Is it a big or a little target?

Real hard to tell.

Oh, you see it?

Oh, it's square.

Oh, yeah, no, that's an old one. Yeah, that looks old to me. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a nice old one.

That's a 1700s spike.

Purely because it's square.

Yeah, it's square, and then with the round flathead, like, that's textbook

1700s. Might even be older.

If this was a wharf or a landing or a boat slip, this is exactly the type of

thing you would expect to find in the area.

A spike?

from a shipping wharf possibly dating back to the 1700s could it have been

part of a dock or boat slip once used by captain james anderson this was in this

area used for something i'm pretty certain but what pretty cool

all right i'll recheck it and see if there's anything else no

that was it I'm going to

turn off and let you bring that big bad boy in.

Find something, Mike?

Yeah, it's small, but I want to get a feel for what it could be.

Yeah, there's a little piece of iron here, but I'll look at it. All right,

Jack. Just here.

Let's see.

I'll try and expose it.

Look at that.

Wow. Oh!

What is that?

What is that?

Right, let's see.

Looks like a hook, doesn't it? Yeah.

Located on the southwestern beach of Oak Island, Jack Begley, along with metal

detection expert Gary Drayton and geophysicist Mike West, have just found

another potentially important artifact.

I mean, hooks were used for hooking sacks and lifting stuff off boats and

onto boats.

A hook used for unloading cargo from ships and found on land once owned by

the 18th century pirate Captain James Anderson?

Check this thing out.

Last year, members of the Oak Island team traveled to the home of Steve

Atkinson, a direct descendant of James Anderson, where they were shown one of

the infamous Buccaneers' actual sea chests.

That one opens that treasure chest.

In addition to the chest was a ring of four mysterious keys.

Could there have been more treasure chests on the islands? That's what I

wonder.

Could the hook that the team has just found on Lot 26 The evidence that at

least one of the legends concerning Captain James Anderson is true.

That he offloaded his ship filled with treasure and then placed it in each of

four chests.

Chests which he later buried at various locations around Oak Island.

All right, that's good, that's good. Okay, you got it?

Off to a good start.

So I'll turn this off and wait for your next target.

As another sun sets on Oak Island, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

have called a meeting in the war room.

They are eager to share with their team the incredible results of the seismic

testing that they received earlier that day from the technicians at Eagle Canada

in Calgary.

Hey, Craig.

Hey, guys. Hey, Craig.

Hey, guys. I've got the seismic maps here.

Rick and Craig and I have seen these results.

You others haven't yet.

So this is the mega bin. Here's the train shaft, Dan. Oh, yeah.

This is what they believe is a cavity of some sort. This is only 50 feet deep.

So that would be above sea level years ago.

Yes.

Over the years, there have been many Oak Island theorists who believe that the

Money Pit was constructed as a decoy.

designed to thwart the efforts of would-be searchers and keep them from

finding the actual treasure vault.

It was their belief that after the money pit was dug and then booby-trapped with

seawater, another, more secret tunnel was constructed, which branched off from

the fabled shaft and then led to a treasure vault located safely above sea

level. I have always felt that the theory proposed by others that the money

pit was dug as deep as could be dug at the time and then there is a a tunnel

that goes off from it somewhere and at a relatively shallow depth that created a

chamber underground and that makes so much sense because there would be

absolutely no way to find that with 300 year old technology unless you knew

where it was could the shallow anomaly as indicated on the 3d seismic map and

located some 600 feet north of the money pit be evidence that this incredible

theory is true it's away from searchers excavations pretty much guaranteed isn't

it yes nobody ever really did much there right um

this is h8 and then c1 oh what's this spot right there i think that's another

chamber this is so dramatically different than the rest of the stuff

What's this one taking at, Craig? It roughly corresponds to 160?

Yes, about there.

That's really the area that I'm expecting serious originators to work.

It's below 160 feet in the limestone.

We also have the other map that kind of shows potential tunnels around 100 feet.

So we have a rather simple task today. We're going to pick where we're going to

do the corals. I think we should pick the locations, and then I think we

should prioritize that. I agree.

So that is an obvious target. There's one core hole for sure.

I can pick a couple locations that can hit both the tunnel at 100 feet and this

deeper chamber, you know, in the Money Pit area.

Okay. So I got two locations potentially.

I would like to go here first.

I agree.

Okay.

Based on these results, this will very accurately, precisely, locate a core

hole location, and we'll try and core this anomaly.

I mean, it's a simple strategy, right?

Find something in the money pit.

I just can't wait to put the real world test to their interpretations.

Yes. All right. I think we're done here.

This is great.

It's going to be real interesting.

And so thanks, Craig. I think we're all set.

See you, Craig. See you, guys. See you.

The next morning.

as the team waits for drilling equipment to arrive on Oak Island.

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina head to Smith's Cove, where the team from Irving

Equipment Limited has now begun the construction of the massive steel

cofferdam.

It's actually up in the air.

It's a good day, Rick.

Look at all that sheet piling stacked up there.

Look at that.

Wow.

Yeah. Michelle.

Yeah. How are you doing? How are you doing? Good, good. You? This year,

right? Oh, yeah, this year.

Quite impressive.

How long do you think it would take to do that section right there?

If everything goes good, I think we'll be done. We have the sheets in a couple

days. Oh, really?

It's going to be a massive undertaking for us to dig behind it. Yeah, exactly.

We believe there's something in the money pit, but here we know there's

something. That U-shaped structure is definitely there, and we want to expose

it. Yeah.

We have our target.

And maybe some artifacts.

And maybe some artifacts.

In the early 1970s, Oak Island treasure hunter Dan Blankenship made his own

attempt to excavate Smith's Cove and locate the flood tunnels, which he

hoped... would lead him directly to the fabled treasure vault like the laginas

he constructed a large cofferdam around smith's cove made of large boulders

packed with earth unfortunately harsh weather plagued his efforts and before

he could locate the flood tunnels dan's cofferdam was washed away but not before

he made an amazing discovery located just offshore and some 10 feet

underground

Dan found the remains of an elaborate wooden structure.

Because of its unique shape, Dan dubbed it the U-shaped structure.

Although its intended purpose, as well as the identities of those who

constructed it, have remained a mystery.

The hope is that because of the type of construction, we can get it quite dry.

That's the only way to do a very disciplined dig and to expose the u

-shaped structure in its entirety and if we track one of the french drains back

we find the flood funnel system we find exactly where the money pit is all right

well i don't want to hold these guys up let's get her done it's going to be

interesting

Later that day, as work continues at Smith's Cove, Rick Lagina, along with

his nephew Peter Fernetti, Craig Tester, and other members of their team, gather

at the Oak Island Visitor Center.

Hi, are you Brennan?

I'm Brennan. Craig Tester.

Nice to meet you.

They have scheduled a meeting with representatives of Choice Drilling, a

company that specializes in a process known as sonic drilling.

So that's the rig. This is the rig.

Unlike regular air or mud rotary drilling, which uses powerful drill bits

to literally grind beneath the ground, sonic drilling uses vibrations to create

a high-frequency sound which can literally pulverize obstacles.

A coring barrel is then used to extract samples of earth and objects from areas

as much as 500 feet deep.

I think we all are quite curious how this...

This rig works. We've never seen one before.

Should be a treat for you. Well, we got some real targets for you. We'll see.

Well, I'm eager for the challenge.

It is Oak Island.

It is. Let's head on back so you guys get set up. Sounds good. Good luck.

I've always been against just guessing.

I mean, the whole point of the seismic program was to...

find anomalous features underground in the money pit. Well, they've targeted an

area that's worth investigating, and thus we're going to drill there.

You can't get excited about that.

It's time to go home.

What we're going to just do is we're going to take that water truck and I'll

just park it over here.

Assisting the team with their drilling operation is area geologist Terry

Matheson. Okay, so the surveyor's put in the D-line, D2 to D6.

So there's our spot.

So it's halfway between D and E, right on line 6.

So DE6.

DE6 it is.

Using last year's geotech grid as a reference, the team has decided to dig

their first hole at a location known as DE6.

Here, they hope to find not only a possible system of tunnels some 100 feet

deep, but also...

a 30-foot-wide chamber at a depth of approximately 170 feet.

It is also in this chamber that the team hopes it will locate the mysterious

chapel vault, in which bits of gold and a piece of parchment were recovered more

than a century ago, shortly before it sank further beneath the ground.

So what's the target depth on this one?

Seismic anomaly, he's sinking 100 feet to 185, so...

So I'll go to at least 185 and maybe deeper. All right, let's find out. This

could be the one.

After coring and collecting samples at intervals of up to 10 feet, the samples

will then be transferred into plastic sleeves for thorough inspection of any

potential artifacts or treasure.

What depth did you get to?

75.

So it looks like we're at 75 feet at the bottom of the last sample.

Target depth is about 90 or 100, I think. The elevation's changed so much

with all the digging, we want to start looking early.

I'd say about 90. Sure, so we've got to start, you know, looking very closely at

all this stuff.

There it goes.

Is it true?

Yeah, it went real fast.

Excellent.

Well, who knows what this is?

Oh, goody.

Wood? I think so.

All right.

Take the bit right over.

And it comes out.

Bring it on over.

That's 83.

Or 93, sorry.

93. 93.

Wow. That's interesting.

And the way it's cut. I love it. It was laying this way.

Yeah. Not standing up. It's laying like this. So it could be the top of a

tunnel.

Could be the top of a tunnel.

Wow. While examining spoils excavated from borehole DE6 at the Money Pit, Oak

Island partner Craig Tester and geologist Terry Matheson.

have just made what they believe could be an important discovery.

Definitely more wood.

Certainly very interesting.

Yeah, I like the fact that it's laying horizontal, so it looks to me like a

tunnel. Yeah.

Wood? From a tunnel?

But from what period?

Could it be little more than the remains of a searcher tunnel, one of the dozens

that have been dug on the island over the years?

Or... Could it be physical evidence from an original underground structure, one

that may have been put there centuries ago by the people who came to the island

looking to hide an incredible treasure?

We're looking for open tunnels, and to me, what's at the bottom of that tunnel?

Is there something down there that man left there that we can identify and say,

hey, this is the original tunnel?

A potential, for sure.

So let's see what's on the bottom of that tunnel.

or vault or vault here's hoping yeah

what's

it up with this mike uh 96 96.

so okay so we've got some we've got quite some serious minced up wood there

yeah it's pretty interesting it is gentleman

hey guys hi

Wow. This is what we came into at 93 feet.

This was the very top of it here.

And it was all nice and horizontal.

You can see where the bit was cutting right through like that.

We came right out of the material into a horizontal beam.

So it sure looks like it's a tunnel.

But then when they drilled, they only drilled three more feet.

And the last foot is back into solid clay. So there's a very limited interval

where true wood came from that almost has to be collapsed a collapsed tunnel

yeah with you would think collapse yeah craig does this match up with the

seismic anomaly that we saw yeah this is the heart of that anomaly right where

we're drilling we're there a tunnel could be there it

could have been one of the other tunnels coming up the money pit we've

encountered a what we believe to be a tunnel in an area where we have a target

based on the seismic data.

But we don't know what that means.

It could be original work. We don't know. And that's what we're trying to

decipher.

It's exciting. It can't be just a coincidence.

Definitely get this carbon dated and comes back really, really old. Then we

know it's original people.

Exactly. Yeah.

The discovery of a possible tunnel directly connected to the Money Pit

offers exciting news for the Laginas and members of their team.

It means that the seismic data they received from Eagle Canada was able to

accurately pinpoint the existence of a structure located some 93 feet below

ground.

It also means that as they continue to drill down deeper, the team may also be

successful at finding another critically important chamber the one which they

believe might contain the legendary chapel vault

this interesting absolutely you know it mandates that we continue

and we're going to continue to process get down to where the anomaly is

featured yeah exactly as the sonic drilling operation continues in the

money pit area jack begley Gary Drayton and Mike West return to Lot

26, property that was once owned by the 18th century pirate and privateer,

Captain James Anderson.

I think Mike's got another signal.

Any idea of the size of it? Yeah, something here. It's quite small, but in

this area here where I just kicked off a little bit.

Yeah, I'm getting it.

It's only reading four or five inches.

What? All right, that makes it easy.

You want to check?

Yep.

Oh, it's out right there. I see it, yep, I see it.

What is it?

Hey, look at that.

A welding rod?

No, look at this.

Tip on the end. Oh, shoot.

That is unbelievable.

While searching for artifacts on Lot 26, located on the island's southwest shore,

Jack Begley, Mike West, and metal detection expert Gary Drayton have just

made a curious discovery.

That looks like a bleeding bolt.

Wow. That looks like a crossbow.

Totally. A crossbow bolt?

On Oak Island?

But how did such an unusual object come to be in Nova Scotia? And perhaps even

more important, who brought it here?

That is sweet.

I mean, this is old. We're talking like Templar old.

No. Yeah, that's when they used them. That could be anywhere from 1,000 to 1

,500.

Dating back to as early as the 7th century BC.

The crossbow was a powerful long-ranged weapon favored for its accuracy and

ability to pierce through heavy armor.

They were also widely used by individuals of high status throughout

the militaries of medieval Europe until they were replaced in the 16th century

by gunpowder-based firearms.

Could what Gary has identified as a possible crossbow bolt really be

evidence that members of the Knights Templar visited Oak Island centuries

ago.

Let's give Rick a call.

He's gonna be excited.

He's gonna flip out when he sees.

If this is a crossbow bolt, which it looks like it is, this was a weapon.

And by the time people started colonizing Nova Scotia, crossbows had,

like, really gotten out of use. People were using muskets and other firearms.

So an object...

This out of place on Oak Island could be a really, really big find.

Hey, Gary.

I will show you what we've been up to.

What is that?

A weapon or a crossbow. Yep, exactly.

Crossbow or arrow, but I think that's a crossbow.

And if that's a crossbow, that is very, very, very old.

And something like this would have been used for piercing chain mail.

Templar, baby.

I'm using the T word.

I think we were all blown away by the potential crossbow bolt. Gary is saying

it's very, very, very old. And this type of crossbow bolt was meant to penetrate

chain mail. Well, chain mail is medieval.

So it's possible that it might go back perhaps to the 12 or 1300s, perhaps even

earlier. So it's an exciting find. There's no question about it. I mean,

that is fantastic.

Crossbow, you guys are smiling now.

We knew you would like this. That is cool. That is cool. This shape might be

culture influenced or some way to define where it came from.

Laird and or Kelly Brassa would know something about this.

But you're right, that's fine right there.

It's exciting.

It is. Well, I don't know which is more exciting, this or what yet remains to be

found in the money pit. But it's all about now continuing to search and do

research. I feel like we just scratched the surface in this area.

I can't say anything but thanks for your efforts. Great day, you know, great day.

following a week of intriguing revelations and exciting new discoveries

rick marty and the oak island team are convinced that they are closer than ever

to solving this two hundred and twenty three year old mystery but as they

continue to drill deeper towards what they hope is a centuries old treasure

vault what will they find millions in gold and jewels stolen by pirates on the

high seas

priceless religious artifacts?

Or will they discover that the Oak Island treasure is so well protected

that the price they will be forced to pay in order to retrieve it will not be

measured in dollars, but in lives?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

We know we have a target, the money pit. Fingers crossed we hit the vault.

All it would take is one little obscure piece of paper and make it all worth it.

Here it is.

Oh.

I learned something really, really hard. Could this be the aha moment?

We have another sample for you. Let's have a look at it. We need to run

composition analysis on it. Okay.

Wow. It appears to be Roman.

Wow. No way.

Roman, baby.