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Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.
Let's get going. The objective is to dig up and see with our own eyes that U
-shaped structure. Hold on, Billy.
Is that a beam? Oh, wow. I always thought Tunnel 6 was the way to unravel
the money pit mystery. There's a piece of wood.
There is indeed a tunnel there. Look at that. Wow. Are those Roman numerals? Oh,
my gosh.
Look. I'd say that's a coin. Oh, look at that. It looks gold around the edges. It
certainly looks like gold. Oh, my goodness.
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,
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.
We're ready to go.
Right now, just scrape this off and start digging. Sounds good.
For Brothers Rick, and Marty Lagina and their Oak Island team.
The hopes of revealing the answers to a 223-year-old mystery have never been
higher.
After completing the construction of a massive 525-foot wide steel cofferdam
around Smith's Cove, they are finally excavating the nearly 12,000 square foot
area.
Look at that water coming in.
This is going to be a project, gentlemen.
Yeah. That's going to be digging, pumping, digging, pumping.
There's a log right there.
Billy, there's one right over there. I see it. Yeah.
Well, the old pictures show the U-shaped structure quite a ways this way. Yeah.
When Dan did his copper dam, there was wood along there.
There's some pictures I've seen that... Show the logs?
Definitely have some logs in it, yeah.
I would say that's what that is, the base of Dan's copper dam.
In the early 1970s, Oak Island treasure hunter Dan Blankenship conducted his own
large-scale investigation at Smith's Cove.
He was searching for evidence of the stone box drains that are believed to
feed seawater into the booby-trapped flood tunnels that run throughout the
money pit.
After constructing a large cofferdam out of earth and rocks, Dan was astonished
to uncover a 65-foot-long wooden structure shaped like the letter U at a
depth of nearly 10 feet.
Unfortunately, before he could fully expose the possibly ancient structure, a
powerful storm destroyed the cofferdam, forcing Dan to abandon his search.
I'm feeling sort of a childish excitement to see what we've only seen
in pictures, to dig up and see with our own eyes what that enigmatic and
peculiar U-shaped structure is. It's kind of nostalgic, i.e. Dan dug it in
71, and we are going to reveal it in its entirety and hopefully bring that data
to Dan and show him.
We're going to start over here for digging U-shaped structure, the base
log. We're going to dig parallel to it so that we don't compromise in any way.
Hopefully we can find the south arm of the corner.
Once we define the structure, we'll proceed to dig inside of it and see what
develops. That sounds like a great plan.
It's nice to have something concrete, something you can put your hands on.
After researching old photographs and surveys taken during Dan Blankenship's
excavation, the team has identified an area near the northwest end of the
cofferdam where they believe the U-shaped structure can be located.
I'll tell you this, there'll be some stuff in there for Gary to find. If it's
there, he'll find it. No doubt about that at all.
In order to fully and carefully... examine the massive amount of spoils
that will be excavated from Smith's Cove.
The team has recently acquired a large piece of mining equipment known as a
wash plant.
As each load of earth is fed into the machine, it will be funneled through an
industrial-sized grate to filter out large stones and debris.
The remaining material will then be transferred onto a massive shaker deck,
which will separate and sort the spoils according to size.
as a series of fixed spray nozzles cleans off soil and bits of sediment.
This will result in uniform piles that can be further searched for important
artifacts, clues, or possible treasure.
Oh, I see something.
There you go.
Bit of pottery.
That's a piece of pottery.
Oh, yeah. Right on the top.
All right.
The wash plant, because we have such a huge volume, is really just a mechanized
and scaled-up version of Jack Begley with washing it on a screen. It just
does it mechanically.
I think with that structure, there'll be a cultural influence, whether it's
instruction techniques, some association with, you know, its purpose.
There'll be some answers for who and some answers for when.
Yeah.
That'll be interesting.
Later that morning, as the team continues to excavate Smith's Cove, area
archaeologist Laird Niven makes his way to the research center. Oh, hey, Laird.
Hey. Where members of the Oak Island team are eager to show him what they
believe could be a game-changing discovery.
This is the stone. Yeah.
What do you think?
It was pretty cool. I mean, the story was quite amazing. It was kind of almost
hiding in plain sight, wasn't it?
Anything interesting, Jack? I'm headed back over towards you guys.
One week ago, while searching the basement of what was once Creighton and
Marshall's book bindery in the nearby city of Halifax, Doug, Jack, and Charles
found a large rock that they believe could be the legendary 90-foot stone.
Oh, look at that, guys.
Oh, look.
there's something curved there reportedly discovered in the money pit
at a depth of 90 feet by members of the onslow company in 1804 the stone
measured roughly two feet wide by one foot thick it was also described as
being greenish gray in color and featuring a number of mysterious carved
symbols which were later deciphered to read 40 feet below 2 million pounds are
buried
Have you seen a conglomeration of marks like this on stones before? No.
This actually looks like it's been carved by a knife.
So you think this is a worked stone?
Like it's got a flat surface here? Oh, I think the whole stone is worked, yeah.
Yeah. And this almost looks like it was polished.
There's no discernible pattern to it, but it's just covered with markings.
I mean, I only see the one little bit of carving right here, and it says LN.
Yeah, according to Bowden's account of seeing the 90-foot stone.
He said the only markings that were left legible on it were two initials. Wow.
In 1909, Oak Island treasure hunter Captain Henry Elbowden traveled to
Halifax after hearing reports that the so-called 90-foot stone was on display
in the window of a local bookstore.
He was shocked, however, to find that the mysterious symbols that were
reportedly carved into it had been worn away.
after years of it being used to beat and cut leather during the process of
bookbinding.
According to his account, the only characters he could identify on the
surface of the stone were the letters L and N, the same two letters that appear
on the stone Doug and the team recently brought back from Halifax.
We were looking at the design, Laird. Is there anything that you could use that
you know of that could bring the design out a little bit better, like a type of
material you can put over it or anything to just make it pop a little bit?
Well, I mean, you could try just that old-fashioned manual paintbrush and
white paint.
But the only problem with that is it doesn't necessarily make it discernible.
But if you could do it digitally, you can 3D model it.
yeah perhaps we could probably use lidar on the surface really yeah to bring out
the contours and the texture yeah commonly used in archaeological and
geographical surveys light detection and ranging or lidar is a scanning
technology that measures rapid laser pulses as they bounce off the surface of
an object the data collected is then used to produce a three-dimensional
model capable of revealing details as small as one millimeter in size.
Details that are undetectable to the naked eye.
Looking at it, it's really pretty cool.
I think you'll probably get some clues from it, for sure.
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
As always, more questions than answers.
That's Oak Island for you.
As efforts to unearth the U-shaped structure continue at Smith's Cove, Rick
Lagina, Dave Blankenship, Charles Barkhouse, and Doug Kroll head to the
Money Pit area, where the team from Choice Drilling has begun a new coring
operation.
It's exciting thinking about whether we're going to find a debris field
today. I'm pretty much absolutely convinced that it is a tunnel.
The tunnel leading from shaft six.
It's as good a chance as it's six as we've encountered up till now.
In an attempt to avoid the booby traps that thwarted efforts to dig deeper down
into the original money pit, in 1861, a team of treasure hunters dug a second
shaft some 18 feet west of it.
They hoped that by digging deep down in dry ground and then digging back toward
the money pit and under the treasure vault, they could successfully retrieve
whatever lies hidden there unfortunately at a depth of one hundred and eighteen
feet and just one foot shy of their target the tunnel known as shaft six
suddenly filled with seawater shortly thereafter a number of thunderous
crashes were heard deep underground leading the workers to speculate that
the tons of wood cribbing in the original money pit had collapsed and
that its treasure must now lay scattered across a massive, flooded debris field.
I always thought Tunnel 6 was the way to unravel the money pit mystery.
And I could be wrong, that there's something to be found in the tunnel.
And I think that thing will be the one thing. That will be the piece of
evidence that will prove the Oak Island mystery is real.
Three weeks ago, while searching for possible tunnels, The Oak Island team
made a discovery at a depth of 109 feet.
Uh-oh, that's wood. A discovery that suggested they had located shaft six.
That's the edge of your timber. Yeah.
We could possibly be in your debris field.
The tunnel going from shaft six to the money pit.
Good morning. Good morning. It should be a good morning. Yeah, let's hope.
If the team can verify that the wood they found came from shaft six, they may
be closer than ever to locating the original money pit. And hopefully, an
underground debris field littered with incredible artifacts and treasure.
What depth was this?
108.
So the ground is as yet unexplored, really.
So if we keep that line, we'll head down into dried territory, which is great.
Using a specialized sonic drilling rig, which generates powerful vibrations to
pulverize earth and other obstacles,
the team will extract core samples at intervals of 10 feet.
The spoils will then be collected into plastic sleeves to be carefully searched
for any important clues or valuable objects.
I'm really nervous. I mean, I want it to be six. You know, I want desperately to
be something.
That'd be the hope.
This next car will tell us something. Cross your fingers.
What are we at, 118?
Yeah.
118, Charles. 118.
This is the critical one right here.
Show me the money.
Doesn't look good. That don't look good.
Would be just dying to see something in here, but I don't see any wood.
It's not a good sign then.
The absence of wood or evidence of a tunnel in the core sample is a troubling
development for Rick Lagina and the Oak Island team.
Could it mean that they have missed their target?
Or could they have been wrong in their earlier assessment that they had
successfully located shaft six?
Yeah, Craig, it looks like we didn't hit it. So I personally don't see the need
to put plastic down. I mean, maybe it deviated well beyond the tunnel.
Kind of caught in a quandary, so... Yeah.
Well, we're at 118. I mean, there's no point in going deeper.
No.
That's a piece of wood.
There's a piece of wood.
Oh, it's somewhat vertical.
Ah.
Check that out.
That's what.
Hey, Rick.
Just a minute. Yeah.
Come take a look at this. Yeah, Craig. We'll call back later.
Well, I hope you got good news. Big piece of wood.
Vertical, too.
You know, we must have clipped the edge, just the edge of a tunnel.
Say, there's your tunnel.
Six. That's it. Six.
That's the saving grace of the hole.
If it is the tunnel six.
You only have one option. Go east.
Yep.
Finding what the team believes to be the westernmost edge of shaft six has
offered a much welcome breakthrough.
It suggests that by continuing to drill east of this site, they will be able to
follow the tunnel to the money pit's precise location, approximately 18 feet
away.
Today was a good day on Oak Island. It's obvious that it's the end of a beam.
So we're in a tunnel, and I'm very excited to exploit this find.
I'm happy we found evidence of a tunnel. Add a proper depth which correlates to
the previous hole, and now we have three data sets that indicate there is indeed
a tunnel there.
This needs to be investigated.
Which means we got to go back and scrutinize what geotech there is around
where this suggests the money pit would sit.
It supports further investigation.
So it was a good day.
Count this as a win today.
The next day, Doug Kroll joins Jack Bagley and Paul Troutman.
at the Oak Island Research Center.
Hi, guys. Hi. I'm Jack.
Rob Hyslop. Nice to meet you, Rob. They have arranged a meeting with Rob Hyslop
and Ryan LaVangie of Azimuth Consulting Limited, who have come to conduct a 3D
imaging scan on what the team believes could be the 90-foot stone.
This is the stone that Doug had found.
There's several markings on it.
But we feel there might be subsurface markings or things that are obscured.
Okay. So you guys had lidar.
Terrestrial lidar. It's on a tripod.
Oh, okay. Cool.
Yeah, a little more accurate.
But it should be able to do the job and get into all the fine spaces.
Absolutely. With the setups we'll do, we'll have millimeter accuracy over the
entire stone. That's really, really impressive.
Yeah. Gentlemen, we'll get out of the way and let you do your work. Sure.
Yeah.
Capable of collecting over 66,000 points of data per second, the Trimble CX
scanner is an advanced three-dimensional surveying device, which emits high-pulse
lasers to simultaneously measure 360 degrees of an object's surface.
This data can then be used to create a computer-generated model, also known as
a point cloud, allowing the image to be enhanced.
by removing any unnecessary details.
It is the team's hope that this process will reveal any man-made carvings that
may still exist on the surface of the suspected 90-foot stone.
I hold out hope that this might be the stone that came out of the pit in 1803.
This could be it. Right. And it stands as one of the earliest artifacts in the
whole mystery, and it represents a message from the original workers.
So this could get very interesting soon.
So it looks like she's about done now. Now we can check out that data and see
how it looks. Look forward to that.
We collected 40.5 million points.
There we have it. There's our stone. It's 3D. Wow.
That's amazing.
There we have it. There's our stone, the 3D.
That's amazing.
After conducting a laser scan of the suspected 90-foot stone, Jack Begley,
Doug Kroll, and Paul Troutman, along with representatives of Azimuth
Consulting Limited, are eager to see if the scan picked up trace evidence of the
original hieroglyphic-type carvings that were reportedly on the 90-foot stone
when it was first discovered in 1804.
This is an initial look at what we've got. This itself isn't powerful enough
to do any registration.
We'll come back at a later date once we've had some hours in the office to
make sure that our stone is exactly 3D. And we'll give a deliverable with that
data. Yeah, I'd love to see the final product.
I think we captured some good detail on the stone. Yeah, thank you.
Really appreciate you coming in.
You will look forward to your report.
Later that same day.
while the massive excavation project at Smith's Cove continues.
This is new to me. I've not seen it. I'm curious.
Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with archaeologist Laird Niven, arrive
at Lot 24, located on the western side of the island.
Oh, my. Wow.
So you can see by the large rock there where Gary was getting the ceramics.
Oh, a pottery, piece of pottery.
It was while searching this same area just one week ago that Alex Lagina,
Peter Fernetti, and metal detection expert Gary Trayton made a number of
unusual finds.
That's a freaking bone, isn't it? Yeah, it looks like it.
It was also at this site where Laird discovered signs of what could be a man
-made structure.
Could be a shaft or a tunnel that was filled in.
We're always looking for clues about underground work having been done on
this end of the island.
Now, after securing the necessary government permits that will allow them
to continue exploring the site, Rick, Marty, and Laird will work to unearth
what could be an important archaeological location.
So how do you intend to proceed here, Laird? Usually what we do is establish a
baseline. Okay.
It really often depends on what you're dealing with.
So I think the plan is to perhaps concentrate in here.
Okay, you guys set up the grid. I've got to go make some phone calls. Give me a
call. In order to accurately track the exact spot where any important artifacts
are uncovered, Marty and Laird will use a grid system to divide the area into
two sections, each measuring 2 feet by 20 feet.
We're just not sure at this point what this thing is, but it's very interesting
to watch how Laird proceeds and how he does things.
I find that fascinating, really.
We're in the honey hole now.
What do you got there?
Base of our pot.
How about that?
You'd expect to find that in a house.
Age?
Impossible, right?
Yeah.
Well, this archaeological stuff is more fun when you keep fishing stuff out of
there.
Here's a piece of a clay pipe stem.
Really? The old, who was the last person to touch this? It's kind of cool.
Any idea how old, Laird? Well, say 1750 to 1840. Oh, not before that? No,
not that one.
I think that we're looking at something that has to do with Mr. Samuel Ball.
That's what I think.
At the start of the American Revolution in 1776, Samuel Ball was an 11-year
-old slave who had escaped from a South Carolina plantation.
After winning his freedom by fighting on the side of the British, in 1786, he
moved to Nova Scotia, where he purchased one of Oak Island's four-acre lots and
began a new life.
as a cabbage farmer.
But by the time of his death in 1846,
Samuel Ball was revealed to be one of the wealthiest men in Nova Scotia.
In addition to owning a total of 36 acres on the island, including Lot 24,
he also owned several more acres on the mainland.
It was this change of fortune that suggested to many that Samuel Ball might
have found a portion of the Oak Island treasure.
Have we uncovered anything that makes you think what this is?
The larger stones could be structural.
It still has potential as a cellar. This is previously unknown, isn't it? Yep.
Wow.
Is it possible that this was a cellar built by Samuel Ball?
If so, what was it used for?
And could something of value still be hidden somewhere inside?
Well, there's only one way to find out, Derek. Yep.
Later that day, as Laird Niven continues to excavate the mysterious stone
formation on Lot 24,
Marty Lagina joins his brother Rick and other members of the Oak Island team at
Smith's Cove, where their massive excavation project is well underway.
Here you go, Gary.
All right, mate, I'll metal detect it.
Big old spoil pile.
I'm getting a signal here.
Hold on, Billy.
That sounds pretty good. Yeah, that sounds good.
Let me see if I can pinpoint it.
Yeah, it's just there.
see how it moved from there to there to there yep tricky little bugger yeah
see
what we got oh man now i'm seeing this nice old spike
this spike's nice got a nice old pin really yeah right there it's hand forged
it looks like it's been under some stress as well look at the bend on that
yeah i think we're probably into the 17s with that a hand
forged spike dating back to the 1700s could it have been used in the
construction of the u-shaped structure it's a unique design see there's a bevel
here and a bevel here but not here and there interesting
Suppose you want to keep digging, huh? Yeah.
Dig, dig, dig, dig.
My excitement really stems from the fact that it's metal.
There can be metallurgical analysis done, compositional analysis, and bring
all assets to bear, figure out what this may mean.
Nonferrous. I got a nonferrous here, Rick.
Where is it?
Just there.
How deep?
Um, I didn't see.
Hey, Rick, take a break.
Yeah, we want to see what's going on. I'll do it. I'll pinpoint it.
Is that it there?
Oh, man.
Oh, man, now I'm seeing.
You're seeing reals. Yeah, I'm seeing reals.
That must be out.
It's out in this lump. That sounds like a non-ferrous.
Yeah, it does. Yeah.
It is.
It's non-ferrous, whatever it is.
Uh-oh, Gary's happy.
I'll let you do the honors just in case.
Well, look at that. I can see gold color. Yeah, me too.
Well, look at that. I can see gold color. Yeah, me too.
While searching the spoils excavated from Smith's Cove... Is it heavy?
Pretty heavy.
...brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with metal detection expert Gary
Drayton, have just made a potentially significant find.
Yeah, you can see it here, look.
It looks gold-coloured.
Yeah, it looks gold-coloured.
I think it's got a milled edge, doesn't it? I'd say that's a coin.
Yeah, I think that's a coin.
A gold coin?
Could the team have found their first piece of actual treasure at Smith's
Cove? And this is just the beginning. I don't know about a milled edge, no. No,
I'm not so sure about a milled edge either.
I think you're... No, I don't think so.
Fat isn't a milled edge.
That's good. That's good. It means it's older.
During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, when coins in England
contained precious metals such as gold and silver, the royal mint faced a
nationwide problem of coin clipping.
This was a practice whereby metal would be cut off the edges so that the owner
could save the shavings and trade the coin for more than it's worth.
Eventually, the clipped coins became so damaged that they were virtually
unrecognizable, which in turn encouraged counterfeiting. In order to combat this
practice, Sir Isaac Newton, the famed scholar, physicist, and master of the
royal mint, designed coins with ridged or milled edges, giving them
identifiable marks that if shaved off would make the altered coins virtually
worthless.
If the gold-colored object is in fact a coin, the absence of milled edges is a
likely indication that it predates the discovery of the original money pit in
1795.
It's not copper either. It's like gold-plated.
Yeah, I can see sparkles.
It's going to be interesting to see what this is when it's cleaned up.
That's going in the top pocket.
Top pocket find.
All right, keep going.
Proceed. We need to fill this bucket up.
On the heels of their exciting discovery at Smith's Cove, Rick, Marty, and
Gary, along with Oak Island partner Craig Tester, head to the research
center.
They are eager to get a closer look at their latest find with the help of
island historian Paul Troutman.
Hello. Hey, Rick. Hey. Hey, Gary.
Hey, Paul. Brings you to the research center.
Hey, top pocket find.
Oh, another one.
Hoping you can try and find something out about this under the microscope
there. All right, let's take a look here.
Wow, that's a close-up.
Using a GroveAge digital microscope, Paul is able to magnify the gold-colored
object up to 2,000 times its actual size.
Gold wouldn't be encrusted, would it?
Not high-grade gold, but low-grade gold would be.
Can you stand it on edge?
I can tip it up a little bit if you want.
It's got like a shiny edge, a gold-colored edge.
See if I can get focus on that.
Oh, look at that. It looks gold around the edge. It's starting to look like
gold.
Could this coin found at Smith's Cove be another piece of actual golden treasure?
Oh my gosh!
It's another Bobby Dazzler! Look!
Two months ago, while searching on Lot 21, Rick Lagina and Gary Drayton made an
incredible discovery, an ornate gold brooch, which was later determined to be
more than 700 years old.
Hmm, it doesn't look serrated.
I'd put this, if it is an old coin, early 1700s.
it needs cleaning yeah it's actually quite beautiful just like that the blues
the yellows little crystals and it's probably got a lot of embossing on it
the more intricate design on it the more likely particles are going to attach to
it and then over time become even more encrusted the old encrusted object
of course it's it's it's you know interesting there's a All kinds of
possibilities associated with that could be valuable, spendable, but, you know,
it's too premature to make an assessment. We have to clean it before
we have the aha moment.
This might be a nice little surprise.
Well, let's get it tested. All right.
Onward, let's go.
After finding a possible gold coin at Smith's Cove, brothers Rick and Marty
Lagina, their partner Craig Tester, and members of their team continue to
excavate the beach area in search of the mysterious wooden U-shaped structure
first discovered by Dan Blankenship in 1971.
Pretty black nasty looking stuff.
I think we're going to run into this as we go along.
There's going to be locked pockets of water and we're going to expose it.
A lot of sticks not too far down.
Is that a beam?
Yeah, of some sort.
Billy! Hold up! Hold it!
Trying to find out.
There's a big log.
Is that a big log you stand on?
Well,
I wonder if it's the arm.
The arm of the U-shaped structure?
Could the team be moments away from finally uncovering their target?
Do you want a bucket for water, Rick, to help pour on it?
Oh, yeah. Somebody order a red bucket?
Coming at you.
So what structure is that, guys? Not sure.
What's to your left, Rick? Is there another one?
Right there, all that.
This is a big beam. Is it? Not thick.
You want to run around the other side, Jack, and start cleaning up that beam?
Walk right through there.
It all comes down to anticipation.
I mean, we've all read about the U-shaped structure. We know it's there.
And the hope, of course, is that we find the Roman numerals.
Not very indented. You should find a wooden peg in there, too, at some point.
Here's a peg right here. Is it?
A wooden peg? No, not.
This is cut right here.
This is cut here.
You got a Roman numeral?
Wait,
are those Roman numerals?
Yeah. If it is, it's a seven, V11.
Oh, wow.
Wow. The Roman numeral seven carved into a wooden post?
Has the team just found an important clue, something that might indicate when
the structure was made and by whom?
I find it absolutely astounding, amazing, how well preserved that log is.
You're talking about penknife sort of engraving.
If that's original depositors, it's several hundred years old.
You want to see if there's an eight right under your foot?
We'll give you the bucket.
Should be right about at the very end. This is all eaten away over here.
Is it?
Yeah.
Looks like the worms get into it.
It's definitely the end.
Yeah.
Think you could square up to that a little better, Billy, so that you come
right down the side of that? Yeah, just pull it this way and get this stuff out
of there.
Okay.
And was it marked number seven on the south arm?
No markings that I know from over there. The only one that Dan's describing is
the IV or the III.
But this is a new discovery. No one's ever uncovered this seven Roman numeral
before.
Not that I know of.
We've only just started, right?
Oh, yeah. When you look at the U-shaped structure and you see these Roman
numerals, there's a hope, at least on my part, that this is original. I think
it's rather exciting because perhaps it will provide us a clue to the purpose of
the U-shaped structure.
What we were hoping to find, we found.
At this point, I can go over there and hand dig, try to find another notch.
Yeah, yeah, right.
All right, let's keep digging.
Billy's going to come over and start digging that.
After finding a carved wooden beam buried at Smith's Cove, brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina, along with members of their Oak Island team, continue to
expose what they believe to be the fabled U-shaped structure.
Any ideas what this was used for?
Well, ideas, but they're all convex.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense, does it? No.
They are also eager to see if the markings that were first reported by
veteran Oak Island treasure hunter Dan Blankenship in 1971, including notched
posts, and the rumen numerals 3 and 4, can still be seen.
nothing yet the log down there log is there the corner is there there it is
there it is yeah not seeing any roman numerals offhand though
billy can you take a bucket of water and dump it on
that yep
works that's good really let me go down
find
any room in liberals on that Craig no but we haven't really looked back I'll
get that red bucket this might be you know my friend do the honors yeah I
think I see it
Another number? Yeah.
Yep, three.
You found a three?
Yes, yep.
Wow. Let's see if the famous four is cut in with four, you know what I mean?
Yeah, there's the four IV right there.
Wow, that's definitely chiseled in, eh?
Save it.
This is awesome.
Very impressive.
Is this searcher or depositor?
Trying to figure it out.
I think we should dig that out.
Dan never did.
Who knows what's in there? That's where your drains are going to be inside that.
Maybe.
Quite a structure, but what was it?
Okay, well, let's get after it. Back to the search.
for rick marty and their team the discovery of what could be an ancient
structure buried deep below smith's cove offers an important breakthrough if it
can be determined to have been built prior to seventeen ninety five it may
serve as an important piece in an enormous puzzle that could lead to a
century's old treasure
One with a curse that has claimed the lives of six men so far.
And awaits a sacrifice of still one more before its secrets will be
revealed.
Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
We're heading to Apple Island. Do you see what I see? We're dead on.
The star map theory could be correct.
Hold the phone, boys! The plot thickens. The Money Pit collapsed in 1861, and
we're in the debris field.
The stone was used as something in the past, and it has caused certain areas to
wear off completely.
Those are letters inscribed into the stone.
Without a doubt, this is the stone.
Whoa! This definitely isn't on any map. This is an undiscovered structure.
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