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Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.

Lookie here, David. Here. The oscillator.

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

There's some peculiar markings.

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

structure in Smith's Code. 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.

It's okay. It'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.

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

Try taking those boulders out. I think it ends right here. It seems to end.

Yeah. It is an exciting time on Oak Island. That's the end of it right

there. As Rick Lagina, Craig Tester, and geologist Terry Matheson continue to

unearth new and possibly important wooden structures at Smith's Cove.

Structures that might help them solve a 223-year-old treasure mystery once and

for all.

Think that's the bottom of it?

No.

This one here, these ones go much deeper. Do you see how it's laid back,

though? Yeah. It's all tilted this way.

Do you see that?

Right there. See the opening?

Yeah. Two days ago, the team uncovered what could be a piece of a stone box

drain, one of five that are believed to feed seawater into the money pit, thus

protecting it from would-be treasure hunters.

But today, while continuing their careful excavation of the area, Rick and

the team were stunned to find yet another mysterious wooden structure.

Looks like we have something there, Rick.

No idea how deep that is, huh?

Got no feel for it yet.

I mean, you wouldn't think it'd just be one single wall. Either there's another

wall here, or there's one over there.

It had a structure like that, didn't it? Yeah, more like an L.

An L, so is that probably... This wall, and then headed straight for the U

-shaped structure.

Yeah.

This is the L-shaped structure here, right like that.

The L-shaped structure?

In the early 1970s, while conducting his own extensive investigation of Smith's

Cove, veteran treasure hunter Dan Blankenship...

built a four hundred foot wide cofferdam made of earth and large boulders after

pumping the cove dry and beginning to excavate it dan uncovered not only a

massive u-shaped wooden structure but also a second formation running parallel

to it made of wood and small stones the unusual fifty foot long feature appeared

to be laid out in the shape of an l however Before Dan could fully expose

the so-called L-shaped structure, a massive storm washed the cofferdam away,

forcing the operation to be halted indefinitely.

Could the wooden structure the team has just unearthed be connected to the L

-shaped structure in some way?

Does anybody have a clue on the use of the L-shaped structure or what it might

have been?

No. We're not sure? Not at all.

Just another structure we know nothing about.

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

L-shaped structure represents.

Oh, look at that.

Oh, look like it might be packed, doesn't it?

A lot of clay up against it, it looks like.

It looks like they might have packed clay.

Look at that.

It's not the good stuff, though.

It's quite granular.

Yeah.

Yeah, look, there's a lot of rock in it, too.

They might have just used what they had on hand.

I don't know if they drove it into the sand and then took rocks up against it.

It sure seems that way because, I mean, it's an inordinate amount of rock.

Looks like they tried to pack it.

Similar construction.

That is a lot of clay.

It's definitely a clay-rich till.

You know, if one of the searchers felt they were outside of the old cofferdam

and it was mainly sand, they drove it into sand a little bit, then started...

But to what end, Craig?

It's an open-ended structure.

It's not connected to anything.

If this is some sort of water prevention system or water infiltration prevention,

then why couldn't the water have just come around that end or this one?

I don't know. I agree.

The more work we put into this, the more and more questions there are.

U-shaped structure, Billy's Wall, now we have this.

We were hoping to get answers down here. I was.

Welcome to Oak Island. Let's keep digging.

After a day of promising new discoveries at Smith's Cove, Rick Lagina and members

of the team gather in the war room for what promises to be an exciting meeting.

The thing that I find exciting about this stone is twofold.

One is the fact that there are indeed carvings on that stone, but the other

thing is it appears as though there's another piece to this stone.

Joining them... is gyro survey expert Tory Martin, along with Rob Hyslop and

Ryan LaVangie of Azimuth Consulting Limited.

Two days ago, Tory Martin found a strange stone lying in the woods

near the Money Pit site.

That just doesn't seem natural to me anyway.

No. Definitely not natural.

Look at that, Greg. Upon closer inspection, the team noticed what

appeared to be an inscription carved into the face of the rock.

It's not in a writing that we would recognize.

After performing a specialized laser scan of the rock surface,

Rob and Ryan have returned to present an enhanced three-dimensional computer

analysis to the Oak Island team.

Rob, enlighten us. What are we looking at? So I'll explain what we did. Please.

So we started with three individual scans.

And then we unified those scans into a model of the entire stone.

So from there, two things stood out.

First thing is this flat area was an area that we did a little bit of

analysis on and found that it was perfectly flat, too straight to be

natural, which leads us to believe that potentially this was carved out and

cleaved at one point.

We've done our best.

Zoom in and...

create some kind of a pattern out of these marks that go perpendicular to

that flat area.

They have a relatively linear spacing.

We didn't notice any cross features that indicate English letters, but there's

definitely some peculiar markings along that face.

Doug, what do you think?

A friend of mine introduced me to Futark one time. It's a runic language,

and that's what I kind of see in what Rob and Ryan have brought out on that.

is that type of runic language.

Runic carvings on Oak Island?

Dating back as early as the 1st century AD, the runic language known as Futhark

was a primitive alphabet used by the Germanic tribes of Northern Europe, as

well as in ancient Scandinavia.

Consisting of etched characters called runes, the purpose of these inscriptions

range from everyday uses to religious and superstitious reasons, such as a

prayer or curse.

Could the mysterious carvings found near the money pit on Lot 16 really be a

runic inscription, one dating back hundreds of years?

The results are quite dramatic.

They do indeed appear to be some sort of runes, runic symbolism, if you will.

The hope is that we'll see these characters in a new way and hopefully

enhance them to the point where we can have an expert look at them.

You know, they have a runic stone in the Yarmouth Museum.

It used to be in the library, but now it's in the museum in Yarmouth. And have

they come to an understanding of who might have done it?

Yeah, they said the Vikings did it.

Vikings?

Is it possible that Vikings could somehow be connected to the Oak Island

mystery?

From the 8th to 11th century AD, the seafaring warriors known as the Vikings

were active throughout the seas of medieval Europe.

Famed for their sailing and navigation abilities, there is evidence to suggest

their activities also spread as far west as North America, beginning with the

Norse explorer Leif Erikson, who is believed to have made landfall in Canada

sometime around 1000 AD.

We know because of the archaeological community's work in the Maritimes that

there are Viking settlements up and down the length of Newfoundland and even in

Nova Scotia.

So the possibility that Vikings were here is not a stretch.

We've never seen another stone like this on the island. It opens now the door of

possibility to another entity being involved here, you know, Vikings, which

we have never really explored.

Anyway, Rob, Ryan, we thank you very much. And if you'd be kind enough to

leave us the information, I think we'll follow up in a multitude of ways.

Absolutely. Yeah. I'd appreciate it if this was sent to the experts and we get

something valuable back. You'll have an answer. I guarantee you. And a bunch

more questions. And a bunch more questions.

Morning, Gary.

Morning, mate.

as a new day begins on Oak Island.

Any luck yet?

No, nothing yet.

Metal detection expert Gary Drayton joins geologist Terry Matheson and

archaeologist Laird Niven as they resume their investigation of the mysterious

wooden structures at Smith's Cove.

Those are more than two by eight, aren't they?

Yeah, they're not quite as thick.

Interesting. Yeah, it's a little more extensive than we thought.

At least a little, maybe a lot more extensive.

Well, as Craig pointed out, it's kind of paralleling the U-shaped structure, too.

Yeah. I guess we'll just continue to uncover it. And that seems to make

sense.

As Terry and Laird work to carefully expose more of the mysterious structure,

Gary will scan a recently excavated area nearby in hopes of finding important

artifacts or possible treasure.

Slow line.

Small iron.

Oh, that sounds good.

Wow, nice bit of curved lead.

Lead. Yep. Check this out.

Piece of lead?

Really? Not a surprise to find lead around here, but... No.

That really reminds me of like a bracelet.

Any ideas, Len? No.

No. It looks like it's worked.

It looks like it's got sloped edges and a flat back, like it was made on purpose

like that.

Has that got... It's got a design on it!

At the end there. It has the worked edges, right? Look, you see that? It

looks like a design, unless I'm seeing things on the end there. It looks like

scrolly design down there. Yeah.

I get excited when I find lead around here, because this is where I found the

cross. Oh, yeah.

A lead bracelet, and found in the same area where Rick Lagina and Gary Drayton

discovered a medieval cross last year?

Is it possible that these two artifacts are somehow connected?

Yeah, it's nice. It's different. Anyway, it's an unusual find. You know that this

came from deep down. Oh, yeah.

Maybe this is the money area.

Yeah.

As soon as I inspect the piece of lead, I can see it's in the shape of a

bracelet. I don't know if this is an Oli Shamoli find just yet, but this could be

a friend of the cross.

So many decorated pieces of lead.

And the fact that it came out of this area near the U-shaped and the L-shaped

structure, we could be onto something, though.

It could be significant, that's true.

I'll have a little check around, see if I can find any more of it.

Later that same day, Rick and Marty Lagina gather with members of their

team in the war room.

In light of their exciting discoveries at Smith's Cove, they are hoping they

will soon make similar progress at the Money Pit site.

So as you know, the point of this discussion is ultimately to make a

decision moving forward. What are we going to do in the Money Pit? Because to

greater or lesser degrees, we all know what has transpired over the last

several weeks.

So what's the target depth?

So I'll go to at least 185 and maybe deeper.

So far this year, the Oak Island team has conducted a series of core drilling

operations at the site in an effort to locate the notorious Shaft 6, a 19th

century searcher tunnel that was dug in order to provide a kind of back door

into the fabled treasure vault.

So that's definitely the whole piece.

Six weeks ago, at a depth of 109 feet, Rick, Craig, and the team believed they

found their target i think he hit the tunnel from shaft six but finding shaft

six and pinpointing the exact location of the original money pit are not the

same thing the team will still need to drill several holes around the shaft six

site before they will be certain they have finally found the elusive treasure

shaft what looms large in the near future is putting down a large can and

or several small cans to investigate these areas?

Oh, absolutely.

Craig, what would you do? Would you target one singular area, or would you

take a shot at a couple, three?

I'd do multiple cans.

Right.

I'd like the shaft six tunnel following that.

Finding shaft six could really help us zero in on the money pit.

Well, you'd at least know the tunnel. It has to be within that spot, so I'm okay

with that.

The way to uncorkscrew the money pit is we're finding the tunnel six.

Yep.

Everybody's on board with Rick that we got to look for where the tunnel from

shaft six entered the money pit.

So we've done as much as we can do to come to a consensus as to where to pin

this tunnel, this location.

It's time to dig.

So, brother?

Yeah, where are you going?

Well, you know what I want to do. I want to dig right here.

Well, I know you started with very focused on H8.

I want to have a re-go at H8 and see if that stuff we pushed away comes back in.

I don't know why it wouldn't. It should.

And then we can try and find the stuff we missed last time.

Yeah.

H8 still remains the primary, if you will. I mean, we just found too many

things to let that go.

Last year, Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team made a number of incredible

discoveries while searching through the ancient spoils, including 18th century

pottery.

Oh, a bit of pottery, look. Really?

They also unearthed fragments of parchment, leather bookbinding, and even

human bones, which when tested were identified to be the 17th century

remains of two different individuals.

one from Europe, and one from the Middle East.

We drilled the little H8 and found all kinds of stuff.

I, for sure, think we're in the original money pit with H8.

And then we put in the big canister and didn't really get much of anything.

So we think we need to try and find what was missing from last year.

So that's mission number one.

We now have a battle plan, surely, or an outline as to what we want to do. Now we

need to get back to Irving and Rock and see if we can't make this happen.

Yeah. Okay, good. Well, let's quit jawing and start doing something.

That's right. I'm with you 100%. Okay.

Let's go. Let's go.

It is the start of another exciting day on Oak Island.

Lucky here, David. As brothers Rick and Marty Lagina.

Welcome back representatives from Rock Equipment, the same company that has

been working with them for the past two years. How you doing?

Good to see you. Hello, Vanessa.

Hey, man. Welcome back.

Good to see you. How do you do, sir? I'm Marty. Hi, John. Nice to meet you.

You bring that big oscillator thing?

Yeah, we brought a parade.

I don't know if you noticed this, but... Today, in addition to bringing their

first load of digging equipment...

The ROC team has once again brought their 50,000 pound rotating oscillator

to Oak Island.

Capable of applying some 3 million pounds of torque, this powerful machine

will allow the Oak Island team to both drive down and lift up the massive 50

and 60 inch wide steel drilling caissons.

ROC, R-O-C, let's bring it in the oscillator.

And that's exciting because we've put a tremendous amount of resources, time,

money, everything into gathering all the data we can.

And now using that data, we know where to dig. The treasure hunt resumes.

The hunt is on.

So boys, we're here. I'm about ready to break my crew loose to go get their

safety gear on, start unloading those trucks. But what's the plan for this

year? Let's go over there and take a look.

You're gonna have to make the decision where we start really because you know,

we all have interest in h8 We collectively were never able to explain

what happened there Yeah, that was you know rather frustrating for us as well

last year. That's it right there We know that the money pit collapsed

so this could be the vault Last year in addition to finding human bones in

h8 the Oak Island team located what they believed to be the legendary Chapel

vault, the seven-foot-tall wooden box first discovered by treasure hunters

William Chapel and Frederick Blair in 1897.

We're 170 piping the ground right now. We're definitely sitting on something

that we haven't cut before since we've been on this job.

Unfortunately, when the team attempted to penetrate the object, With a 50-inch

-wide drilling caisson, the elusive wooden chest was pushed down deeper into

what they believed to be a mud-filled void, located at a depth of some 170

feet.

It's still in there, then.

Let's push to the side.

So the hatch we dug through has been pushed to the side? Exactly.

H-8 was a big enigma last year. We had some peculiar things happen.

We think maybe the plug that's supposed to come up in the canister got pushed

away into a void.

So we're going to start manipulating H8 somewhat. Pick it up, maybe go back

down, try and get whatever got pushed away to come back in so we can grab it.

Do you have a depth that we're thinking of pulling up to?

I would first hammer grab inside there. We don't know what might have come in,

right? So I'd first hammer grab it right to bottom.

Then I would pull it up eight feet.

10 feet maybe see what might reverse in right okay because we lost we know we

lost it that would push the plug somewhere yeah yeah the sort of image i

have is it went like that in order to retrieve any important clues or possible

treasure they may have missed during last year's h8 excavation the yoke

island team will raise the 50 inch wide h8 caisson up to a depth of

approximately 170 feet it is their hope that this will create a kind of

underground vacuum which if successful will cause whatever might have been

pushed aside to fall back into the path of the massive shaft so i think

the idea is to grab whatever might come into that pipe from the vicinity all up

and down the hole without spending the rest of the year here

So it's all about finding the one thing proving the Elk Island story real, you

know I think we all want that all of us.

Let's get back to work then

As

the team from rock equipment begins to set up the massive oscillator at the

money pit site Alex Lagina and researcher Paul Troutman travel some 140

miles southwest of Oak Island to the town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

They have arranged a meeting at the local museum in an effort to find out

more about the mysterious stone, which Paul believes contains evidence of runic

symbols.

Apparently, that runic stone is one of three other stones that have been found

in the area with runic inscriptions on them. But this is the most famous one.

Cool. Great.

Okay, looks like they have it here on the left.

Well, the potential runestone that we found on Oak Island is not the first

stone with runes carved into it that's been found in Nova Scotia.

Something called the Yarmouth Runic Stone, which Paul and I are going to go

take a look at today.

If we can compare it to the stone that we found, and there's a similarity,

obviously that's going to really help us.

Oh, wow.

There it is.

Yeah.

That's pretty cool.

It's similar to what we found on Oak Island. Yeah.

Wow, look at that. It's cut really deep into the rock there. Right.

Discovered in 1812 by a local doctor, the so-called Yarmouth runic stone has

been the subject of controversial speculation for over two centuries.

Although experts have attempted to translate the carvings on the stone into

numerous ancient languages, including Greek, Norse, Basque, and Japanese,

its meaning and true origin remains a mystery.

It'll be interesting to find out what type of language that they think this is

compared to ours, whether they're Basque or Futark or another type of runic

language that we're unaware of compared to ours.

Hi. Right.

Hi. How are you? Good, thanks. How are you? I'm Nadine.

Oh, nice to meet you. I'm Paul. I'm the director for the museum. Welcome to the

Armageddon Museum.

So you're interested in the runic stone?

Yes, we're very interested, yeah.

The reason we're so interested in this, on Oak Island, we found a somewhat

similar stone, actually.

And it looks similar to this. It's got a flat surface.

What may be an inscription here, we actually put it through some LIDAR

software, and we came up with something that looks a lot like that.

Very similar.

Mm-hmm.

We'd like to hear a little bit more about the language and the translation.

Is there at least a few languages that it's been narrowed down to, the

possibilities for your stone?

Norse, yeah.

Norse is probably the one that's the most common. That's what we thought.

Yeah, for sure. Well, the translation, I think, at first was roughly, leave to

Eric.

Eric the Red, of course. So that would lead you to the Viking and that they had

visited this area.

Although little is known about the possible activities of Vikings in North

America, historians and scholars now believe they visited the continent

sometime during the early 11th century.

But if the Yarmouth Runic Stone offers evidence that Vikings once visited this

area of Nova Scotia, could the stone that the team found near the Money Pit

similarly suggest that they also visited oak island we're looking at basque and

futark as being a possible interpretation of it but it seems to be

slightly different from the one that's actually on your stone which is a little

bit more curvaceous than the ones that are on our stone looking at the yarmouth

runic stone there's some similarities to the stone that we found but the

characters on the yarmouth runic stone are a lot more complex

They seem to kind of be much more angular. So it is kind of frustrating to

have what could be a really exciting find in front of you and not really be

able to prove it or get any answers out of it.

All right.

Well, this has been really helpful. Thank you for your help. Thanks for

letting us come down here and take a look at the stone. You're very welcome.

Best of luck. Thank you. Thank you very much. Nice to meet you. Thanks so much.

Following his visit to the Yarmouth County Museum, Alex Lagina joins his

father Marty at the Money Pit area to greet representatives from Irving

Equipment Limited.

Is it the same crane as last year too? No, it's a different crane. It's a

Liebherr 895, 220 ton. This is a service crane. Duty cycle crane.

Cool, so this means we're on the verge of getting started down here, right?

Yes, we are.

Once the 170-ton crane is assembled, it will be used to lower a three-ton

digging tool known as a hammer grab down the HH shaft to retrieve any spoils and

hopefully treasure trapped inside the 50-inch hole.

Between what we got last year and then a whole bunch of research and a bunch more

data, at least from Rick's standpoint, he thinks he's zeroed in on it. Not this

HH. Very, very good. I am fairly convinced.

more than fairly convinced quite convinced yeah quite convinced that h8

is the original money pit area you know where the original digs uh occurred so

we are very eager to start hammer grabbing in h8 all right see you guys

all right as the team from irving equipment limited begins building the

massive 170 ton crane at the money pit site

Get the pump started down here and get it dewatered. Looks like they might be

already gone.

Alex Lagina joins his uncle Rick at Smith's Cove, where efforts to expose

the newly discovered L-shaped structure are well underway.

As we proceed to uncovering the L-shaped structure, we're hopeful that we'll come

to an understanding of what it represents, why it was put in place.

But right now, we know nothing about it.

The U-shaped structure, I still have copper dam in my mind. Copper dam. Yeah.

What about the question of age?

I mean, is there anything other than, you know, obviously we can do a couple

things with the wood. Yes.

Is there any other way to figure out how old this thing is?

You know, this construction technique is unique.

You know, the use of pegs, perhaps that gives us a clue.

You know, the lack of iron fasteners is... It's weird. It's really weird. I

would have thought they'd be all over there.

So this, I mean, really what you're saying, though, is that this is unique.

This is not something you'd find anywhere else.

Yeah. No, archaeologically, I don't think anyone in Nova Scotia has seen

this. No.

You know, we're finding structure after structure in Smith's Cove.

Archaeological significance.

I was very glad to hear Laird say that.

this one appears to have some uniqueness about it could be significant could be

highly significant so we need to investigate and that's exactly what

we're doing

if

it's original and i don't think you're you're not at that point right you don't

think this is original you know i thought based on the u-shaped structure

it was probably searcher

until we hit the L-shaped structure or expanded the L-shaped structure, and now

I'm on the fence.

Really? Yeah.

We're going to let him just kind of peel this away, and then we'll hopefully

expose it to some degree.

Hold up.

Billy, there's a timber right there.

The timber right there.

While continuing to unearth the mysterious L-shaped structure at Smith's

Cove... Wow.

Rick Lagina, his nephew Alex, and other members of the Oak Island team have just

made another incredible discovery.

You wanna dig that down a little bit then, Bill?

There's another beam right there.

Right here?

That's odd. There's another piece. There is another piece there? Yeah.

These are notched. Yeah.

Notched beams?

Have Rick and the team just found another possibly ancient man-made

formation buried beneath Smith's Cove?

Look at all of those logs.

Quite different from what we've encountered down there.

The logs are basically rollers, if you will. It's like a slipway.

Kind of signifies there's quite a load, or quite a load expected.

This could be the Hedden Wharf.

In 1936, Oak Island treasure hunter Gilbert Hedden constructed a wharf at

Smith's Cove.

in anticipation of the massive excavation he would soon begin at the

Money Pit.

Because the causeway that connects Oak Island to the mainland had not yet been

built, Hedden needed a place for boats to safely dock and offload their cargo.

While working at low tide, Hedden and his team were shocked to discover two

large timbers protruding from the rocks, held together by large wooden pegs.

Upon closer inspection, he also noticed what appeared to be strange markings on

the logs, leading Hedden to conclude that the structure had once been used as

an ancient boat slip.

Unfortunately, because Hedden lacked the resources to dig below the low tide

mark, he was forced to abandon his investigation.

As a result, the so-called slipway hasn't been seen since.

Look at that thing. It's huge.

Oh, yeah. That's quite intriguing.

Well, according to Laird, construction techniques are best shot at dating this,

right?

I don't know. That's very strange.

No fasteners, I suppose. They may have rotted away.

There's a break right here, and then it picks up again right there.

That seems deliberate.

When Hedden put his wharf in, he obviously found something.

He did.

Historically, Haddon built his wharf on top of something that he found.

And this is where that was?

Yes. But he never sought to determine what he was building on.

So are we standing on his construct, something he built on?

From that perspective, we know very little. Yeah.

Could the team have just found the slipway?

First reported by Gilbert Hedden in 1936.

And if so, who might have built it? And for what purpose?

You know, we're confused again because there are no fasteners associated with

the horizontal members of the slipway. And it's the same thing with the U

-shaped structure.

No metal fasteners. The slipway at this point becomes an area of significant

interest.

But this is kind of right where the L-shaped structure should continue to,

right?

So aren't we on the path at least to intercept it?

Again, we don't know where it comes in. I mean, I would say we probably call the

engineers and see if we can't dig this right to the sheet pile to see where

this goes.

And as this goes, see if we intercept the L-shaped structure.

You know, if this is at the same elevation as this U-shaped structure.

wouldn't that imply they were built contemporaneously it would certainly

build a strong argument for that yeah but they're both on this the sea horizon

that to me implies the same time as well so then all we're left with is when was

that built this structure is heavy it's well built built with

large dimension lumber and surely meant for a specific purpose What that is, we

don't have an understanding of that as of yet.

There may still be cross pieces that he's sitting on, so... Right.

Well, you have no choice but to keep peeling this off.

Yeah, we'll just take, like, an inch at a time if we can.

for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina.

Hello. Hey, Vanessa.

Today marks the start of the Oak Island team's most ambitious effort ever to

locate and excavate the original money pit.

OK, are we ready?

We're ready.

To aid them in their search, they are using a 50-inch wide drilling caisson to

excavate the site where nearly one year ago they discovered ancient pottery.

17th century human bones, and possible evidence of the legendary Chapel Vault,

the seven-foot-high wooden structure that is thought to contain the Oak

Island treasure.

Have any serious concerns about that can being in the ground for a year?

Yes, I do.

Okay. Serious concerns, but I'm confident.

It's going to be slow at first because we're going to be twisting right at the

top of the can, and that's going to take a while to get it translating to the

bottom of the can. So it's going to be short, short strokes.

probably upheave up and down a little bit to try to break that suction, and

then just keep dancing it out of there.

Piece of cake.

Piece of cake.

You run a tape in there to see where bottom was?

Yep.

183.

Is that 183?

That's quite a bit higher, right?

Yep.

Where were we? We have about a 33-foot plug, so 33 feet of material up in the

can. Last year when we left it, we left 15 feet of material in the can.

Something came in there. Yeah.

It was sealed up pretty good, though. Yeah, well, where'd it come from, then?

Well, I know, but... It was below grade level, so a lot of rainwater and muck

and stuff could have gone in there.

Well, let's try and empty it.

Okay.

Before their excavation efforts can fully begin, the team must first remove

over 30 feet of silt and debris that over the long winter months has settled

and solidified at the bottom of the HHF.

Once cleared of debris, the massive steel caisson, will be lifted to a depth

of approximately 170 feet so that the three-ton hammer grab tool can be used

to recover any important artifacts or possible treasure that may have been

pushed off to the side during last year's excavation the real hunt begins

in h8 the h8 was quite an enigma it was the emotional roller coaster of oak

island you know the disappearance of the plug possibility that there's a void and

or

some sort of cave cavern tunnel associated with the drop of the plug

it's imperative that we that we do this work and retrieve whatever it

is down below in its entirety this is silt right a lot of clay in it

that doesn't look like it came in from the top yeah the top would have

everything in it

That, don't you think, would have to come from the bottom? Yeah.

I don't think that poured in from the top.

Well, maybe not.

Squishing it through the bottom is the only thing I can think.

Coming through a little crack in the bottom? It's a tiny, tiny crack. I'm

pushing it all the way up through the stuff.

We built a giant clay purifying apparatus inadvertently.

Treasure of a different sort.

It'd be really nice if we get what we missed last year. That's the whole

purpose here, right, gentlemen?

It's not just what we missed, it's what we found.

What we missed from the first hole.

Oh, yeah, the six-inch hole.

Yeah.

We were hoping we'd get this, that, and the other. All we got was a mystery.

So the idea is to find it this year.

In a very real sense, the treasure hunt has been an advance here on Oak Island

for a good part of this summer. We've been doing the data search and the

information hunt.

Are we closer to maybe figuring out what happened here because of our efforts

this year?

Yes, very much.

All we need to do is find one thing.

Yeah.

Come on, baby.

After a week that saw the discovery of new and mysterious structures at Smith's

Cove, the Laginas and their partners are more convinced than ever that a 223-year

-old mystery may soon be solved but as they now begin a new exploration in the

money pit what will they find a fortune in pirate gold

priceless religious relics hidden away by the knights templar

or could it be evidence of a vast underground structure built by ancient

vikings one thing is certain Rick Marty and their partners have found

too much evidence to walk away empty-handed

Next time on the curse of Oak Island. Oh Look at that tip.

This is almost weapon like Wow We have to have a look at h8. So we're gonna run

so hard on it. See that now That is a clear right angle. Is it possible that

you're at the side of a rather large cabin? Yeah It's a coin!

There's no design I've ever seen. We found a previously unrecorded structure.

It could be. It's incredibly old. It's concrete. Romans, I thought.