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Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island. I found a description of the finger drains

in Smiths Cove. These drains were made by placing two stones on their edges.

This is new information for us. Look between those two rocks. There's an

opening there. There was a triangular shape. That could be a box drain.

It's just over here, guys.

We've never seen another stone like this on the island. Almost like Roman

numerals. It's mysterious, and it was found near the money pit.

Whoa! Looks like we have something there, Rick. That's some kind of a

structure.

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.

I'm just going to take some photos from this side.

What do you guys got?

Well, we got the base, more or less.

What does that mean?

Basically, they crudely tapered the boards, drove them into the sea horizon

until they kind of curled up and stopped.

For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, their massive excavation at Smith's Cove

has started to pay off, and in surprising ways.

How deep are they? So that's its farthest point of penetration, right

where you can see right there.

Thing still looks real sturdy, though.

Yeah, they drove these ones, most of them, fairly well.

Whoa! One day ago, just after the team unearthed the mysterious U-shaped

structure, which was first discovered by veteran treasure hunter Dan Blankenship

in 1971, they made an unexpected and exciting discovery.

Quite a significant wall.

That's well-built. Oh, yeah. It's pretty impressive. This is totally

undiscovered. Look at that.

It looks like stacked rocks.

They also unearthed further evidence of what appears to be a French drain, an

ancient system using various sizes of rocks to divert water from one location

to another.

A couple of years ago, we found what we described as a French drain system.

We're continuing to make assessments of what we're uncovering, but the hope is

to come to a complete understanding of what this represents.

Somebody dug on the shoreward side of this structure. And this also, it looks

like at the base of it and along the sides of it, to a certain level, they

tried to pack it with clay.

You think they packed clay on this side, the side you're standing on? You can see

it. That's all the same. We were pulling much larger clumps and chunks out of

this side.

but i believe that was the initial effort and perhaps that was what they

packed the initial slot that they keyed these into i don't know i think there's

two phases of work here smith's cove has been frustrating even by oak island

standards these walls don't appear to be consistent in material they don't appear

to be consistent in construction they don't give away at least in an obvious

sense what on earth their purpose was but We're still digging in Smith's Cove,

so the answers may still be down there.

Whoever dug the trench on this shoreward side of the wall here, they would have

piled some boulders there. Start with the cross-section of what we think,

or they must have thought, that something was probably going that way.

Let's see if they continue up that way.

Okay. Okay, we got our work done for us.

As Rick, Marty, and the team continue their work at Smith's Cove...

Alex Lagina, along with researchers Doug Kroll and Paul Troutman, travel some 10

miles northeast to the town of Chester.

Okay, guys, off to Chester, right? Yep, the Lord Lee House.

It's part of the Chester Historical Society's museum network. My

understanding is it's quite a large collection of documents.

I think there's several thousand documents there.

After learning... that the Chester Municipal Heritage Society may have

extensive Oak Island searcher records from the past 200 years.

Doug,

Paul, and Alex are hoping to find any that could contain important clues that

will help with the team's operations at Smith's Cove.

The excitement level is building because we're going to be able to see quite a

collection of materials and documents.

We want to help find that one thing. Hopefully the research will do that.

All right, we have some information.

Just some light reading. Early history right up to Triton documents.

Great. Yeah, we have some interesting photographs in here as well.

Hopefully there's something that pertains to the project at Smith's Cove

and the money pit.

Let's get through it.

All right.

Compared to some other trips that we've made, there's a lot more manageable

amount of information at the Lordley House, but it's still a lot to go

through. It's going to take Doug, Paul, and me a long time to get through all

this stuff.

Yeah, it's interesting right here, Alex.

Gilbert Hedden wrote a letter to R.V. Harris in 1936 here. He's talking about

finding a wood-shaped structure with the ends of two timbers protruding from the

rocks on Smith's Cove.

And he actually includes a diagram right here, too, of it. And it looks very

similar with the Roman numerals.

A diagram from the 1936 records of Gilbert Hedden showing a wood structure

featuring Roman numerals?

Could it be the same U-shaped structure that the team unearthed just last week

and that Dan Blankenship discovered in 1971?

So this is believed by Hedden to be made by the original workers, so this could

still be in there. So that's worth looking into. That's a good find.

I found a newspaper article that had a description of the finger drains at

Smith's Co.

Finger drains?

In 1850, while looking for the source of the ocean water that was flooding the

money pit, members of the Truro Company discovered five finger-like box drains

some 500 feet east at Smith's Cove.

Constructed of flat stones, which were supported by smaller rocks to form an

opening, these drains appeared to converge at the beach into a single

tunnel, heading due west toward the legendary treasure shaft.

Now listen to this. This is by far the most detailed description I've heard.

And this comes from an article written in the Yarmouth Herald in February of

1863. So I think this would stand as the most early account of the finger drains.

So it says five small drains were discovered on the shore due east of the

money pit.

These drains were each 66 feet long. The drains were 66 feet. Each drain was 66

feet long. The outer ends of the two outside drains were exactly 66 feet

apart, thus forming an equilateral triangle.

Those are measurements that seem like they could fit within the U-shaped

structure. So if that was indeed some kind of cofferdam, that leaves us with

two exciting possibilities.

One, that it was searcher-built to explore the drains.

or that it was original works to create the drains right either way we should be

close to the drains yeah and and confirming that part of the legend

anyway these drains were all built upon beach stones and were made by placing

two flat stones on their edges like this closed at the top yeah yeah so i'm

pitching a triangular structure and then it goes on to say that wherever there

was a joint in the stones one was laid across protecting the joint and the hole

was covered over with a foreign grass like the inside of a coconut husk.

The article describing the finger drains that were found in the 1860s, this seems

like the kind of thing that we would have found before, so I was quite

surprised. This is new information for us.

It's a good description of something that was found and something we should

be able to find, and, you know, solid numbers and measurements that we can

confirm with.

Don't you think? I think so. And you know what? I think we got to get this

information back to the guys. I agree.

Let's go.

Following their exciting discoveries at the archives of the Chester Municipal

Heritage Society.

Hey, guys.

Hey, guys.

Alex Lagina, Doug Kroll, and Paul Troutman have arranged to meet Marty,

Rick, and other members of the Oak Island team.

at the Mug and Anchor Pub in the nearby town of Mahone Bay.

What have you gentlemen been up to?

A little bit of a road trip today.

We were over to Lordley House in Chester.

They have archives over there. And we made kind of an exciting discovery. We

just were looking for anything that might help in Smith's Cove. And we did

find an article, I think from 1863.

discussing the excavations there and their discovery of the finger drains.

What was really interesting is there's a description.

It said that they uncovered five finger drains.

They were each 66 feet long, and the two outer drains were 66 feet apart.

They all converged back up the beach to within four feet of each other.

And then there was a collection system there that they found what they said was

a flood tunnel.

Has anyone measured the U-shaped structure yet? I measured it with Laird.

It is 20 meters across the leading edge.

65 and a half, yeah.

The U-shaped structure, measuring nearly the same width as the legendary stone

box drains?

Could the U-shaped structure have been built by searchers as a means of

disrupting the island's infamous network of flood tunnels?

Or... could it be much older perhaps built by the original depositors during

their construction of the flood tunnel system but it was even more detailed

because it said that each drain was big enough for a man to fit his arm in and

that the drains were made of two flat stones so they sit on edge closed at the

top and open at the bottom so i visualize that as a triangular shape

we could be just about to hit some of these box drains if they still exist.

I think you've got to keep your eye out for an abundance of flat-sided rocks,

flat on both sides.

If they're just here, there, and everywhere, maybe they tore the drains

apart.

All right, well, what's clear is we need to do more work there.

Exactly. Look, I come back to the same place I always land. If there is really

nothing and there never was anything here, Man, how crazy is what happened on

this island? It's almost the most crazy story of all.

And in this day and age, we still don't know what the U-shaped structure is.

We're gonna, though. Let's get back to work. Let's get back to work and uncover

and find something.

Let's go.

The following morning, Craig Tester arrives at the Money Pit site, where he

has arranged a meeting with Tory Martin.

an expert in the field of gyroscopic technology.

Hey, Torrey. Hey, Craig.

Torrey has been invited to examine the boreholes drilled during the team's

recent coring operations in an effort to determine just how plump or straight

they actually are.

This will help the team know for sure whether they are hitting their intended

targets or just missing them.

The key, we're looking for a tunnel at the 100, 100 and...

10 foot, maybe even a little less, but right around 100 foot.

The whole idea is back in the 1860s, they had this shaft and had a tunnel

going over to the money pit, and then there was a massive collapse in the

money pit.

In 1861, a team of treasure hunters began digging a large shaft some 18 feet

west of the original money pit in an attempt to bypass the booby traps that

had foiled previous search efforts.

It didn't work.

just one foot shy of their target the shaft known simply as shaft six began

flooding with sea water and eventually caved in soon after several loud crashes

were heard leading workers to speculate that the money pit had collapsed and

that any possible treasure it once contained now lay scattered among tons

of timber and debris uh oh that's wood five weeks ago While drilling

an exploratory borehole at a depth of 109 feet, Rick, Craig, and members of

the team found what they believe could be evidence of Shaft 6.

It is Shaft 6. Been long sought.

If the team can pinpoint the elusive shaft's exact location, they should be

able to use a 60-inch wide drilling caisson to excavate what they believe is

the Money Pit debris field.

and any treasure that may have been buried there.

So the whole idea is, you know, at 100-foot level is part of the treasure

left in place in this tunnel. And then depending on, you know, the ones that

hit the tunnel, how close they are, we'll probably put one of the big

caissons down there to try to intercept this tunnel. Sounds good. Okay.

Because drilling at great depths can often result in drill bits straying

several degrees from their intended targets,

Torrey will use a device known as a downhole gyroscope in order to gauge how

plumb or straight the borehole is from the surface.

As it descends, a specialized microchip sensor inside will measure how far and

in what direction each hole may have deviated from its starting position on

the surface.

When they're putting these shafts down, they do deviate quite a bit.

Wells deviate like crazy, and the smaller the pipe is, like they used many

years ago, the more it'll deviate. So it's confusing, and we need to just take

all the data and determine, you know, what is the best possibility for shaft

six. I got the results here if you want to take a look. Okay. So it went 8.7

feet east.

Wow. And four feet north.

And what do you have at 100 foot depths?

Yeah, so at 100 feet, it looks like it walked about 5.3 feet east and

2.5 feet north.

So quite a fair amount more than what we've seen in the previous holes.

At least we'll know the direction it was going, how far off it was at that point

in time. So that's what you're here for, is to find out where these are at?

and we'll make our decision based on that. Sounds good. And I'll move to the

second one.

Okay. Thanks, Craig. Talk to you later.

As Torrey Martin continues to survey the team's boreholes at the Money Pit

site... Oh, wow, the excavation's really coming along.

Yeah. Don Kroll and Charles Barkhouse head to Smith's Cove to drain the newly

excavated area surrounding the U-shaped structure, which has filled in

overnight.

You got to wonder what that's for, Charles.

To me, since there's no other structure around it, I think this was an attempt

to try to block off the drains.

Well, if this is the cofferdam to close in those five-finger drains, that's

almost dead center. I know.

I'm going to have to get that pump lower once it goes down a little bit. Well, I

got boots on here. I can get in.

Charles, you see that?

Look between those two rocks.

There's an opening there.

There is some water coming out of there. Well, that's what that 1863 Yarmouth

Herald article said. It said it was two flat rocks laid together like that,

almost like a triangle.

That's curious.

That is curious.

A triangle-shaped opening?

The same shape used to describe the stone box drains in 1863?

That looks like the apex of an opening right there to me. It does.

We get this down a little bit more. Maybe we get in here and take a look at

that. Why don't we give Rick a call and have him come down and have a look at

this? I think he'd be quite curious about this.

I agree.

Man, look at that water.

It's a steady trickle of water coming out.

Hello? Hey, Rick. It's Doug.

I've got Charles here with me. We're down in Smith's Cove.

We've got a couple of curious stones here that have an opening in them. We

thought maybe you should take a look at it.

Okay. Yeah, I'll be down.

The call from Doug was quite exciting because everyone has thought that the

box strange well and truly existed.

And for Doug to be excited to see that feature, obviously necessary to go down

and investigate.

Hey, Rick. Hey. Hey.

Over in this wall here, there's two stones.

Right there. See the opening?

Yeah.

Two flat rocks laid together like a triangle.

Hard to imagine Mother Nature laid those stones like that.

Have you seen water come out of there?

Yeah, there's been a steady trickle of water down through that whole area. See

it right here over on this side, coming right down the other side of that rock.

To me, it looks like it's a box straight.

Yeah.

It's hard not to get excited.

Absolutely.

That could be a box drain.

While investigating near the U-shaped structure at Smith's Cove.

Real curious as to whether that extends deeper and widens as it goes.

Rick Lagina, Charles Barkhouse, and Doug Kroll have just made what could be a

historic discovery.

Evidence of a possible stone box drain.

One of five.

believed to feed ocean water deep into the money pit as part of an elaborate

booby trap system definitely see a layer yeah then another layer

you haven't probed it or anything no if that's a flood drain what we might

find is signs that the rocks will work to make them fit yeah i think what we

need to do then is maybe slowly gently wash that but at least preliminary all

right

If this is a feature that was once constructed to allow water to pass from

Smith's Cove to the depths in the Money Pit, it'd be more than huge.

It'd be the aha moment.

Gentlemen. Hello, how you doing?

Good. Good morning.

Hey, Rick.

Between those two rocks there, guys, you see that there's an opening, like the

apex of a triangle?

That description of the old finger drains from 1863.

I thought maybe if we just wash it a little bit to try to get the

orientation.

Just curious to how far in that opening may go.

Yeah.

Of course the question.

Placed by people or nature?

Hey, what's this?

Doug, is this coconut fiber?

I just pulled it out of right here.

There's a whole bunch of it right in here.

Like a level of it.

Coconut fiber?

When the box drains were first discovered in 1850, treasure hunters

from the Truro Company reported finding the stone structure covered by layers of

coconut fiber, which served as a filter to prevent debris and sediment from

clogging the flood tunnels.

Because coconut fiber was also found in the various layers of the original money

pit, and considering that the nearest coconut tree is more than 1500 miles

from Nova Scotia, researchers have speculated that it was originally

brought to Oak Island as packing material in the cargo of the numerous

ships that made their way into Mahone Bay.

The story of the box trains, the story of the flood system in Smith's Cove, all

of it revolves around the central issue, i.e. coconut fiber.

Massive amounts of coconut fiber found in Smith's Cove. To find that in close

proximity to the wall may indicate original work.

That 1863 account, it said that The rocks that formed the drain were packed

in coconut fiber.

So if you're finding coconut fiber at that level, that's really curious too.

It is curious.

Lots of water.

Yeah, definitely coming out. Water coming out of that.

Does that alignment look natural to you, Laird?

No, it actually does look strange.

Yeah. And this certainly is not a glacial rock.

You could ask Terry, but...

In your opinion, all the work you've done, all the digging you've done in the

general locale, does this look normal to you?

It's a substantial conglomeration of boulders with very little matrix between

them. If somebody was trying to build a drain, this is the type of construction

you might see.

But, you know, the proof will be, you know, as we move back, as we follow it

back, it'll turn into something.

uh you know we should see a pattern then of that type of thing going up it

seems to be going this

way let's follow it not only do you have this description in the newspaper

which we now see in front of us but we have this gate which aligns with the u

-shaped structure which aligns with this construct the stone formation that can't

be a coincidence we have to proceed very cautiously very slowly very disciplined

because the last thing we need to do is to be highly disruptive in an area that

we now find so compelling and intriguing you got to figure they're moving in the

general direction of the money fit if they're what we think they are what we

think they are why don't we just turn this little mini around

One or two of us start shoveling the majority of that material away.

You know, I think you're right, Ray. Let's track it where we know it is.

Okay, Billy, you want to hop in, scrape that off, and then Laird can follow

behind us.

Later that day, and as the team continues to excavate the possible box

drain at Smith's Cove... There's just a stone by itself, and it looks like

there's some old etching on it. Down here?

Yeah. Rick Lagina, Craig Tester, and Dan Henske.

joined gyroscope operator Tory Martin.

He has just informed them of an unusual discovery he made while assembling his

equipment near the woods surrounding the money pit.

Yeah, so it's just over here, guys.

Yeah.

I wonder how long that's been there.

This is what caught my eyes, really.

This flat edge here, it seemed like this almost looked like it was cut.

That just doesn't seem natural to me anyway.

No.

I don't know if it's anything of interest, but just the way the light was

shining on it, I was like, that doesn't look normal.

Figured it'd be worth mentioning anyway. Absolutely.

I mean, thank you. I appreciate that, yeah.

You know, when Torrey Martin called and he mentioned that there was a strange

stone in close proximity to the money pit, well, that's an aha moment, right?

We had walked by that stone many times, and he had it took Torrey the...

a fellow from Reflex who was doing the inclinometer work in the money pit, to

notice it and to bring it to our attention.

It brings back what Dan Blankenship told us long ago, keep your eyes open on Oak

Island. Hard to tell right now, but if you put water on it, and even you run

your hands along it, but splash some water on it...

Definitely

not natural.

Spot some water on it.

While examining a mysterious stone found near the Money Pit site, Rick Lagina,

Craig Tester, and Dan Henske, along with gyroscope operator Tori Martin, have

just discovered what appear to be man-made carvings.

That just doesn't seem natural to me anyway.

No.

Definitely not natural.

Look at that, Craig.

There's these, these raised ridges.

Mm-hmm.

and then inside the raised ridges are these carvings see oh yeah there's a

carving raised ridge carving raised ridge and then there's definitely a

straight line as though it's see that line oh yeah it's not actual letters is

it no it's not in a writing that we would recognize but almost like

roman numerals roman numerals

The same kind of characters that are carved on the mysterious U-shaped

structure at Smith's Cove?

Could this strange stone found near the money pit and the U-shaped structure be

connected? When I first saw the characters on the stone below the money

pit, I thought they were Roman numerals. They're very linear carved features,

very straight lines, if you will. There's not much curvature to the

orientation of the characters.

You know, that's interesting, but not definitive.

Did you flip it over?

We just kind of leaned it like this.

No, there's nothing there.

But this is pretty clean cut here as though this went further.

Maybe this is a square here.

You know, or maybe it went like that.

Interesting. Yeah, definitely.

Somebody might be able to know what that is.

Yeah. Hopefully something comes of it.

I hope so, too. It'd be very interesting. Yeah.

I mean, thanks for being so observant.

Certainly worth a look.

After a day of exciting new discoveries, both at the Money Pit and at Smith's

Cove, Rick Lagina has asked his brother Marty, along with geologist Terry

Matheson, to join him at the Oak Island Research Center, where he has set up a

meeting with island historian... Paul Troutman.

Hi, Paul. How you doing?

Good. What you got here?

Good. Who's on your operating table here?

The new stone that was found near the money pit. I know nothing about this.

Somebody explain this to me.

Torrey told me about it, but I haven't seen it yet.

Torrey brought me down there and, you know, I was sitting by the old well

and just in plain sight and...

You know, first thing you notice is this flat feature, and then these ridged

areas. Looks like a metamorphosed greywacke.

And what is a greywacke? What's the composition?

It's basically the second most common boulder we found on the island. Most of

them are rounded granites. For Nova Scotia, there's all kinds of it.

But, you know, upon further inspection, we put some water on there, and you'll

see it looks like carvings.

Come down here and look and see them.

I thought there were two H's. There was an H there and an H there. I thought,

no, they're gone.

Well, right here, here, here, here, here, here, here.

Anything close to the money pit that is unexplained needs to be investigated.

And this is an unexplained rock with strange inscriptions on it, strange

characters found close to the money pit. Now, if those characters say something,

it could be a breakthrough.

Well, here's my question, Terry.

Do you think this could be natural?

Natural?

I mean, this one in particular looks like it's cut, and then that looks like

I would have thought maybe chiseled, and it seems like it might be a decorative

piece at the base of a building block.

It almost looks like it's underlined from this side.

And that is such an appearance of being patterned, or I just randomly, no, semi

-randomly struck, as in semi-decorative or decorative stone.

Got some kind of a relatively flattish surface here, which really gives me the

impression that it was worked.

Well, I don't know what it means, but it's odd.

It's fine.

Yeah, we should probably do a laser scanning of this, too. There's a 3D mesh

technology we could apply for this. Without question.

bring up possibly through raising up the letters, be able to make out any detail.

The exact same we did on the stone from the bookstore, right? Yeah.

But bottom line, not natural. Man-made, right?

Yes, I would say. On balance of evidence, it seems to be touched by man.

Okay. Well, here's the thing. Here's the summary.

It's odd, it's interesting, it's mysterious, and it was found near the

money pit, which means we've got to chase it.

which means you know let's find an expert in in languages languages carved

languages or ancient script ancient scripts things what are normally carved

on stone see what it might mean all right great guys very cool very cool

let's keep finding stuff let's uh let's get back out there and get to work

as

rick lagina and members of the team continue to uncover what they believe

could be a potentially ancient box drain at Smith's Cove.

This was found near the well.

Oak Island historians Doug Kroll and Paul Troutman gather at the research

center. It's really worn away.

That's where I hope the guys from Azimuth can apply their light air.

I know Rick's really intrigued by this stone. Hey, guys, come on in.

Hi. How are you? How you doing?

They are meeting once again with Rob Hyslop and Ryan Levanchi of Azimuth

Consulting Limited to have them examine the mysterious carved stone the team

located near the money pit.

Just two weeks ago, Rob and Ryan conducted a comprehensive laser scan of

an artifact the team believes could be the legendary 90-foot stone.

We collected 40.5 million points.

There we have it. There's our stone, the 3D.

That's amazing.

Using the data collected, Rob and Ryan were able to enhance the images taken of

the stone surface, revealing details not previously visible to the naked eye.

We've got another stone for you to look at. Very good. What do we have here?

There seems to be a pattern running right across here, but we can't make out

what it might be.

It's all vertical striations into the rock.

We're hoping your technology might help us.

figure out what that is absolutely well uh we'll make this our focus area then

that's our primary yep okay cool let's uh get set up with you guys here very

good we'll go and get our gear okay awesome using a tremble cx scanner rob

and ryan will now survey the stone for any hidden clues or markings by emitting

a series of rapid laser pulses and measuring the light as it reflects off

the object's surface the device will be able to simultaneously record

66,000 points of data per second.

These scans will then be used to generate a three-dimensional computer

model, allowing any fine details captured in the image to be digitally

enhanced.

It'll be easy to define these with the scanner, and we should be able to look

at it from a perspective that hopefully we can extract any kind of geometry from

this, see if they're letters or descriptions or what they are. So for

this, I'd like to put a little bit of powder on the surface, just of our area

of interest, just to brighten it up.

We'll try to put it across the entire face just to make sure we can gather as

much data as possible. By all means.

So the guys from Azimuth, they suggested that perhaps we use talcum powder on the

surface of the stone.

By lightly coating the surface of the stone with the talcum powder, it

increases the reflectivity and it gives a better image to the laser.

So I think that's good for coverage.

Start the scan.

Here you go, Paul. It's going across the stone now.

Oh, look at that.

Okay, so we're all finished.

Eager to see this, Doug.

Yeah,

I'm very excited. I mean, there's a lot of technology being brought to bear this

year, and I hope it gives us data that we're going to be able to data mine, if

you will, and apply to the hunt.

Now we're going to zoom in here and try to...

isolate the stone.

So there's our stone.

So what we're looking at right here is just kind of a preview of the points,

and as it gets rendered later, you'll have more detail?

Yes, but it looks here that we've got great coverage on the top of the stone.

Oh yeah, there's our markings right there.

Undulations all throughout the face.

Once we get this base data, we can manipulate it in many ways. We'd like to

extract this specific area and see if we can vertically exaggerate it, get more

detail out of it. Yeah, that'd be perfect. That's exactly what we need.

Now that Rob and Ryan have taken scans of the mysterious stone, they will need

to process the data before they can make any kind of determination of what the

characters carved on it may be.

Thank you very much, guys. We hope to see you soon. Thank you, Rob. Bye. Ryan?

see you soon as the team awaits the results of the

laser scan taken of the mysterious carved stone that triangle rock shape is

a tremendous find rick lagina and craig tester check on the progress of their

massive excavation at smith's cove you'll probably be interested since you

haven't been here you probably want to put eyes on the drains we're peeling off

a foot at a time

working our way northwest.

After discovering what they believe to be the remains of one of five stone box

drains, the Oak Island team is eager to continue their search in hopes of

finding a direct pathway between Smith's Cove and the original money pit.

So you can see here's where the points are.

So here's the.

convergence of the drains according to the rest holes okay and if you see

that's lying like this the wall

the gap oh the triangle yeah then this yeah

that is odd i can't figure with that wall so anyway the idea is

to keep excavating and slowly pull this way and there's a lot of material to go

yet but we'll dig down for sure and see if we find it just when we dig we've got

to be a little careful that's all okay

the

cover over the rocks and boulders seems to be fairly regular sand and then we

hit the black sand i'm thinking maybe that seems to be oh yeah that could be

some

maybe hit an organic layer because i don't know it's definitely different

though that's for sure looks like we have something there rick

yeah okay that's some kind of a structure

completely boulder it'd be interesting to see if it continues oh it's to here

to here sure that seems right up against some wood

Have Rick and the team just found another man-made structure buried

beneath Smith's Cove? If so, who built it and for what purpose?

But I've definitely hit wood here, so I think if you just start there. Pull

this. Yep.

you got it got a couple boards going this way well they're like this but

got three boards but here's here's the biggest one

it's a wedge bottom it is

see it oh yeah and then we're behind it and it's just saw blocks

yeah

Is that just a one-off or the boards go that way?

This is the last one I see right here.

Interesting to get a piece of wood, hopefully, to tie the whole thing

together in the same phase of work, perhaps.

The thing is, is that, you know, they're all roughly the same size stone. Is that

normal?

Look at this pile, right? I mean, they're all...

That size.

Yeah, it's a little tantalizing. They're all about easily manhandled.

Men and Mother Nature can do some similar things, but not everything.

Whoever did this went to a lot of work.

I'm wondering, as we expose it, was it an abortive attempt? Was it just too

much work for the result that they were attaining?

This is going to be a very interesting enterprise, trying to figure out what

the structure represents.

You want to go deeper just in that one spot?

I'd like to see if we hit that molten sea horizon.

Because then you know that there's nothing going on beneath it. When you

hit that and it's undisturbed, then you know nothing's happened beneath it.

For Rick, Marty, and their team, recent discoveries near the Money Pit site and

at Smith's Cove may soon provide significant clues.

But will they lead?

to an incredible treasure?

Or are they merely decoys intended to confound those who come searching for

it?

One thing is certain.

Marty and Rick Lagina are not giving up until the last piece of the puzzle is

found and fitted into place.

For them and their partners, the answer to the Oak Island mystery still lies

hidden.

Not only in the objects they've discovered, but in those that still lie

bearing, waiting to be found.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

Lookie here, David. Yep. The oscillator.

So boys, we're here. Make some hole.

There's some peculiar markings.

It's a runic language. This is the Viking. We're finding structure after

structure in Smith's Cove. That's the end of it right there. There's another

wall here.

Woo!

check this out this could be a friend of the cross is that guy he's got a design

on it okay are we ready the real treasure hunt actually begins again now

the hunt is on here we go