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Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.

Come on, baby! Now it's time to see what's in that hole. This is part of the

chapel vault.

We know there are significant clues in H.A. Charles, what's this? What do you

got? Looks like parchment to me.

Look at the red. That color was used in really old books. If you were in charge,

where do you look? I would look for an entrance that is now underwater, because

I think there is one.

Hey, Rick? Yeah? We found something. Oh, man.

What the hell could this be?

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.

Wow, that's a heck of a wall, isn't it? Yep.

It's very straight.

For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, the realization of a lifelong dream to solve

the 223-year-old Oak Island mystery may now be closer than ever as they continue

making incredible discoveries at Smith's Cove.

What do you make of it?

Somebody wanted something permanent.

So what's this mean?

At the end of the slipway.

Honk of concrete.

You tell me what it means.

Never seen anything like this before, Laird?

Not underwater.

Just moments ago, while unearthing what appears to be an ancient wooden shipping

dock or slipway, archaeologist Laird Niven made another stunning find.

A concrete wall buried approximately three feet.

below the ocean floor.

There's a way to date concrete.

Yeah. This stuff?

The Romans had concrete that would set underwater.

Really? This could easily be incredibly old.

Now, that's a good sign when you're not getting any metal in the actual concrete

wall. What the hell could this be?

Because the mysterious concrete wall is set under the low tide level and

contains no metal, it is the team's belief.

that it may have been built using engineering techniques first developed

by the ancient Romans as early as the 3rd century BC.

By mixing volcanic ash with other native minerals, they created a unique mixture

of concrete, which when poured underwater would harden and set.

There are many who have theorized that this same sophisticated knowledge would

have been necessary to construct the island's elaborate system of booby

-trapped flood tunnels, which are also believed to be similar in design to

Roman aqueducts.

You know, at this point, Smith's Cove has dealt us so many questions.

And now here we have another previously unknown wall in close proximity to the

other structures. So it's very possible that as this discovery process proceeds,

We may indeed find me once and for all, prove who, when, why.

That's why we're here in Smith's Cove.

Hey, Rick?

Yeah. Um, we found something for you to look at.

What is that?

Two plug pipes.

And they're not lead. They look metal to me. They're not lead, no.

This is almost rubbery consistency, right, Laird? Yeah, it is, isn't it?

Yeah.

And rubber might have been around for quite a while.

Well, I found rubber from the 1850s.

Rubber pipes?

Possibly from the mid-19th century?

Although natural rubber was known to, and used by, the indigenous peoples of

Mesoamerica as early as 1600 BC, it was not until the mid-19th century...

that chemist and engineer Charles Goodyear discovered a means for refining

the substance, which led to the widespread manufacturing of rubber goods

such as tires, shoes, and hoses.

Could the pipes found inside the concrete wall be the work of 19th

century searchers on Oak Island?

Or does it represent yet another baffling layer to a mystery the team

must still struggle to solve?

Dan, we have a mystery for you. Imagine that. Okay.

What is this?

And do you know anything about those pipes?

No.

I suppose the mystery is why would somebody build something like that and

then not mention it to anybody or have any record of it? Exactly.

Was it containing something? Was it holding something?

Was it supplying something?

Smith's ghost.

Thought it was going to be a straightforward dig, find artifacts,

figure out who and when.

It just keeps... Getting wonky.

Wonky is a good word, yeah.

Well, we've got some research to do.

Later that afternoon... Hey, guys.

Rick Lagina calls a meeting in the war room to update his brother Marty and

members of the Oak Island team on the puzzling developments at Smith's Cove.

Well, I think we would all agree that today has been a very weird day in

Smith's Cove, right?

Yep. Yeah.

I would bet that because we sent you those photographs, you are as confused

as we are.

That'd be a fair bet, Rick.

We went on the emotional rollercoaster ride of Oak Island, right? We tag into a

concrete structure as we're chasing the slipway.

And we're ecstatic. We're thinking, Marty, you know Roman history.

The Pantheon, the Colosseum, the underwater wharfs. They knew concrete

mixes backwards and forwards.

Yeah. It kind of remains even weirder because I...

I like to think I have a fertile imagination, and I can't come up with a

use for that thing.

Can you, Dave?

You know, you have more construction experience than any of us.

Do you have any idea why pipes through a concrete wall?

I have no idea why they would put two-inch pipes in it. Right next to each

other, too, right?

I got a complete blank.

We all do. Yeah.

Guys, this is kind of... Perhaps out of right field, but what's the chance that

the concrete wall is a lot older than the pipes that are sticking out of it?

In other words, somebody found it, drilled holes through it, put those

pipes in there. I mean, is there any evidence of that, or could that be?

Possible. Yeah.

It was in 1850 that searchers from the Truro Company first discovered the

fabled stone box drains at Smith's Cove by building an earthen cofferdam before

draining the area.

is it possible that nineteenth century oak island treasure hunters modified a

much more ancient structure in order to help them excavate smith's cove it has

been quite remarkable how many structures are in smith's cove that we

didn't know were there so we're always scratching our heads but it's important

to come to an understanding because

Hopefully, the understanding, the research, putting the puzzle pieces

together will lead us where we want to go. And where we want to go is to find

the original money pit.

You know, the one interesting thing in connection with this concrete structure

is, you know, we've paid greater attention to the slipway. Yeah.

When you look at that slipway, you see all the logs are worn on it. I think

it's basically a large ramp that goes all the way up to the money pit.

Do you think it's original?

I really do.

I believe that slipway is the glory road. That's where we're going to find

some stuff.

Yes. I would sure like to dig underneath it. Yeah, I think it'll be worth it. Oh

yeah, for sure.

And there might even be an older feature underneath it.

Exactly.

Here's what we can say for sure.

The more you dig in Smith's Cove, the more surprises you find.

I mean, look what we got. We got an unknown concrete wall. We got an L

-shaped structure that's turning into a giant structure.

We got a slipway that we thought was kind of incidental to everything, and it

actually might be key to everything.

So, you know, it's easy for us to say, but get back out there and figure it

out. Fair enough. There's a lot to do. No question about that. Yeah. We'll be

out soon to join you.

All right. See you guys.

See you later.

As the excavation of Smith's Cove continues, Rick Lagina and Dave

Blankenship arrive at the home of Dave's father, veteran Oak Island treasure

hunter Dan Blankenship.

How you doing, Dave?

They are hoping he can provide answers to key questions they have concerning

the mysterious concrete wall found earlier today.

So, we're hoping you can enlighten us. We're bringing you another puzzle.

In the more than five decades that Dan has spent living and searching for

treasure on Oak Island, he has collected a wealth of firsthand information.

In the early 1970s, he and his partner, David Tobias, constructed a massive

copper dam at Smith's Cove in the hopes of finding the remains of the legendary

stone box drains.

It was during this excavation that Dan made a number of surprising discoveries.

including two massive wooden structures, one laid out in the shape of an L and

the other, a U.

Discoveries that the Laginas and their team have recently unearthed.

Now, you know Smith's Cove as well as anyone, okay? So here's the sheet pile,

right? Yeah.

We uncovered the U-shaped structure, and then the L-shaped structure is out here,

And we were following this, trying to find where it ended.

And all of a sudden, right here, there's this thing.

It's your concrete wall.

Yep. Five inches thick, and it's three feet high, the concrete itself.

But there are pipes right at the bottom.

If you're asking me if I had seen any of this, the answer is obviously no.

Who could have done it?

It had to be before 1950.

Russ Stone never did any kind of work like that.

I saw what Russ Stone did in 65.

And all he did was what I call surface work.

But nothing like this?

No.

There was a lot of work done in Smith's Cove. Who did it? I don't know. I don't

have their records.

The one thing about, you know, our troubles with the archival record is

that most people were so entranced with the idea of treasure that

recording data was not an imperative. It was not the prime directive.

And so it might be original work. It might be a search of work undocumented.

We don't know, and that's the problem.

Right in front of that concrete wall. Right in front of it is that slipway,

the wharf, the old slipway. That's important, I mean, to try and just get a

couple pieces out of it and have it carbon dated.

See if you can put an age to that slipway. Yeah, there's no fasteners in

there. None.

So that was, I mean, my God, nails have been out for God knows how long, you

know? Gary Drayton came up with an idea that if you're unloading things off of a

ship and you build this slipway with logs, right? Right. If you don't fasten

them, you put something heavy on there, then you can roll it up the slipway.

These people were, they had to use ingenuity. There's no question about it.

Yep. We thought we were going to dig up Smith's Cove.

and get some answers, but... No, we come up with those questions.

They've been few and far between.

We've got some explaining to do, so we better go out there and get it done.

Back to the drawing board.

The next day, Marty

Lagina and his partner, Craig Tester, meet with Marty's brother, Rick, his

son, Alex.

and other members of their team at the Money Pit site.

Mike, have you calculated in the fall of the plug?

This morning, the plug was right at the bottom of the can.

Okay. And then we went down within a foot of the bottom, and we're up in the

can two feet. Okay. So technically, there's three feet of material.

Okay.

Charles. Marty. Greg.

The one thing is coming out right now.

Working with representatives from Irving Equipment Limited, the Laginas and their

partners are continuing the excavation of the HH shaft, a shaft that they

believe may have intersected the original money pit.

It was here last year that the team discovered incredible clues below a

depth of 160 feet, including bits of paper and leather bookbinding.

17th century human bones.

And even evidence of the seven-foot-high wooden box, first reported by treasure

hunters in 1897.

Unfortunately, when the team attempted to penetrate the mysterious object using

a 50-inch-wide drilling caisson, they believe it was actually pushed off to

the side and into a large, muddy void located at a depth of some 170 feet.

Something was in front of the can, and we were pushing it for a while, and it

was pushing all the clay out of the way. It's still in there, then.

Exactly.

Hello.

Hello. So are you doing five feet up and down a few times?

Okay. We're bringing it down five and then back up and down, kind of just

working it down the can.

John's up there monitoring to see if he feels something different on the tape,

if anything's coming in. Okay.

But we'll probably come down about, working up and down, come down about 15

feet, and then get a good measurement, see if anything is coming in, and then

continue the process.

Okay.

Yeah, I think once we get down, even if we don't measure anything, we'll go

ahead and take a couple hammer grabs, just in case something did fall in. Yep.

Because it pushed out somewhere, you know.

so we need whatever pushed out to come back so it is the

oak island team's hope that by lifting the steel caisson up several feet that

more valuable clues or perhaps the vault itself might move back into its path

which they can attempt to then retrieve using a three-ton hammer grab tool

we

are at 194 casing depth, and we have a two-foot plug.

Do you want us to go back up and try to get more?

Let's take a grab.

I mean, it wouldn't take that much stuff to have fallen under to be interesting.

Yeah, let's go ahead and do that. Let's take a grab, and then we might want to

come up and work it.

That's fine. Yeah, we'll get it up.

Look at how much wood is in there.

Tall wood.

That's amazing.

We got a bag here.

Some more right here. These are big chunks to be at this depth.

Well, what depth, though, Craig? Well, it's got to be below 168.

168. I thought we were too deep for the chapel vault, but I'm wondering if this

is part of the chapel vault.

Wood from the chapel vault?

Found more than 170 feet deep in H8?

Could the team have successfully located the legendary box believed to contain

the Oak Island treasure?

These are all puzzle pieces, clues.

Look, every clue is important, so to find it, especially in H8, which again

is confirmation that there's something going on here, is positive news.

The possibility that the team has located evidence of the chapel vault

offers more than an exciting prospect.

Yeah, there we go.

It now requires that every piece of spoils brought up from the H8 shaft be

more carefully examined than usual in an effort to see if they contain more

important clues or evidence of treasure.

Hey, Carl!

Yeah?

Whoo!

Wow.

Decisable piece.

Yeah, that is.

What about this wood, Charles?

It's not light like the other pieces, and it's not completely black either.

Let's save that.

Put that aside.

Hey, Charles, what's this?

What do you think?

I'm thinking it's definitely a fibrous material.

Yeah. It looks like the parchment to me.

While searching through the H8 spoils, Jack Begley and Charles Barkhouse have

just found a potentially important clue.

One that could prove that the team is closer than ever to finding the

mysterious Chapel Vault.

It looks like the parchment to me.

It's definitely, we definitely have to beg that. Yeah.

That just means that it was in the water for a long time.

Yeah. You got it? I think this is more parchment, but this definitely stands

out as not natural.

In 1897, after penetrating what they believed to be a seven-foot-tall wooden

vault during a drilling operation,

Treasure hunters William Chappell and Frederick Blair were astonished to see

not only traces of gold on their drill bed, but also a small piece of parchment

with the letters VI clearly visible.

That discovery led to a number of fascinating theories that suggested the

Oak Island treasure could be composed of more than objects of great monetary

value. Some believe the vault might contain everything from the lost

manuscripts of William Shakespeare, to important historical documents.

Documents that could directly connect the Oak Island mystery to the history of

the Knights Templar.

Let's put it in a bag, keep that certainly separate. Let's go show the

guys. Okay, sure.

Because I think they're going to be happy to hear that we found something

that's out of place. I think this is more parchment.

But it's a good indication that once we got that plug removed, we're going to

start finding all the things we thought we were going to find last year in H8. I

hope you're right, Jack.

I think I am, Charles.

Hey, Rick.

Look what Charles and I just found.

What is that?

It could be the leather, but it's definitely organic material.

Because you can see the fibers.

That was in both the leather and the parchment last year. This is what I was

finding in H8. Yeah.

Yeah, that needs to be bagged.

Absolutely. Coming up. Look out, guys.

The good news scenario is this might be leather and or parchment and it's at

great depth in the money pit.

And maybe at some point there might be better news, i.e. if we can recover

something more substantial than just a little bit.

I mean, this whole thing is about finding one irrefutable piece of

evidence.

Evidence is evidence.

So, more power to you. That's a great find.

Thanks. All right, we'll go back to work, Rick. Okay.

Looks good.

I think that pretty much did it.

Ah, boy. I have to look at everything.

Yep.

Wait.

This is some sort of paper. I don't know if it's old.

It is genuine paper.

It could be parchment, but it's really fragile. No writing, anyway.

Not that I can discern.

Different colors. One side different color from the other. Yeah.

All right, well, let's bag it.

I can't really tell if it's parchment or paper, or if it's old or new, but it's

worth saving.

You never know. Good luck, Jack.

Later that day.

Craig Tester and his stepson, Jack Begley, join island historians Paul

Troutman and Doug Kroll at the Oak Island Research Center to get a closer

look at their recent discoveries from the H8 shaft.

We brought over a couple of the things that we'd found in H8 that we talked

about. Let's go ahead and get it underneath the microscope.

These samples are all coming from that 160-foot level?

Yeah.

The first item up is leather.

Or at least we think.

I think that will be one to find out if it has any patterns or anything.

Using a Grobet digital microscope, the team will be able to magnify the samples

up to 2,000 times their actual size.

We're seeing some color in there. Is that a mineral or is that an ink of some

sort? That's what I've been flipping back and forth in my head, Craig, is

it's hard to tell.

When I collected this stuff last year from AJ, I was surprised to learn that

it was actually leather, a book binding.

This, to me, really looks like leather.

Another one for the experts.

Yeah, definitely.

Okay, now we're going with potential pieces of parchment.

Oh, look where it's folded. That looks very much like parchment.

Oh, no, that's interesting. Look at the red.

Yeah, what's that stuff on there?

The colored stuff? Is that just... Pigment, yeah. Yeah, something that's

been applied to it.

You have the yellow and you have this pink line.

Maybe there was something written on this piece of paper.

See, I find that really intriguing because I can picture that color being

used in really old books.

Okay. You know how when they start the paragraph, usually it was a big letter

and it would be in color? Mm-hmm. That's what that reminds me of.

As early as the 5th century AD, a large stylized initial, known as a drop cap,

was sometimes used to adorn the first letter in each paragraph or chapter of

manuscripts written throughout Europe and the Middle East.

But what makes the team's new finds even more potentially significant is the fact

that such decorative characters were most commonly found in religious texts

and important documents, often illustrated with elaborate artwork.

How linear it is. Does it run all the way through?

Yeah, it stops abruptly.

Let me turn it over just in case we get a different look from this side.

Oh, look.

You have the really fibrous material, like in here, but then this looks a lot

flatter. Like, the fibers are only on the opposite side, not on this side. No,

that's really intriguing.

Yeah, it is.

Yeah, definitely need to have an expert look at it, whether it's paper, what

type of paper. And I really think they can do stuff with these pigments.

And determining what pigments they are, they can determine time periods.

Yeah, and find out how similar or dissimilar it is to the first sample.

Yep.

Thanks, guys. We will be back with more things.

It is the beginning of a new day on Oak Island.

Come on, baby!

As brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, their partner Craig Tester, and other members

of their team continue their excavation of the HH shaft in the Money Pit area.

Nothing. Nothing in that grab.

Yeah.

Today also marks the return of a special guest to the island.

So the guys are over here.

There he is.

Hey, Randall. Hey, you guys.

For the past two decades, investigative journalist and author Randall Sullivan

has been researching and writing about the Oak Island mystery.

It is this research that has resulted in the completion of a brand new book about

the 223-year treasure hunt.

I do think I have a lot of information about that. I'm looking forward to

reading your book.

chance permits. I was hoping to deliver it to you myself.

That would be great.

So your book has now come to fruition.

You guys are getting the first copies.

All right.

And have you changed your thought about the who and when and the what and where?

Well, things that I had an interest in really became more convincing to me.

Really? I just found so much history, so much fact.

But that points here?

It points here.

We're keenly interested to find out about that.

Let's have a little powwow down in the war room. Okay, great. I get a chance to

give you those books.

Welcome back.

We know Randall Sullivan is a good researcher and a great writer.

Not only has he written another book about Oak Island, but he's done a very

proper job of research into the Oak Island mystery.

And prior to the discovery story, the hope is that some of the material will

help us or assist us as we move forward with our search.

So I see a couple books here. First two copies.

Thank you very much. It's fantastic.

Signed, I take it? Of course. Of course.

This is probably how it looks, you know.

That's what we're going to find out right there.

There's a lot more below ground.

Yes, there's no question about that.

You happy with it?

Of course I'm happy with it. I mean, I certainly think it's the most...

authoritative and entertaining history of Oak Island.

What I found, to my amazement, really confirms so much of the origin story. I

believe that the fundamental origin story, that the money pit was found by

three teenagers, John Smith, Anthony Vaughn, and Daniel McGuinness. I think

it's verifiable, actually.

Is there plausibility in totally misinterpreted nothing happened here?

Not to me.

I'm satisfied that the origin story is fundamentally accurate.

And I'm also, you know, that led to exploration of the early stories of the

search, which of course leads to the, you know, 90-foot stone and the initial

flood.

Yeah.

Where do you depart from the lore, don't you? So basically you're saying the

flood tunnels, the box drains. I think it's clear that the Truro Company did

find those things when they went to explore the beach and were overwhelmed

by them.

What is the most compelling piece of evidence for you?

I mean, can you single out a single most compelling piece of evidence?

I mean, it's the totality of the works is the single most compelling piece of

evidence. I mean, something, whatever was done was done on a scale that

required a labor and a commitment that I always had a hard time believing people

would do that just for a treasure of gold, no matter how large it was.

And when I began to look at the theories that come from that side and the

historical facts that support them, that's why I was so drawn to Francis

Bacon.

Of the many theories concerning Oak Island, one of the most compelling

suggests that the man behind the mystery was none other than Sir Francis Bacon,

the renowned 17th century philosopher, scientist, and nobleman.

Some researchers even believe that Bacon came to Oak Island with William

Shakespeare's original manuscripts and buried them in a lead box filled with

mercury.

Bacon was inheriting a wisdom, a tradition that went back, you know, even

deeper than Templar times.

There's so much historical evidence that supports it. I mean, not that it proves

it or establishes it for certain.

but it increases its plausibility because Bacon wrote that one of the best

ways to instruct people is to create a treasure hunt.

Oh, really?

That SOB. That's quite compelling.

If he is the architect of this, then, man, did he hit the bullseye with that

one. Yeah.

You may know this, Rick, that one of Bacon's works is about creating a

perpetual spring.

And the very first line of his instructions is, dig a pit upon the

seashore.

Shortly after the death of Sir Francis Bacon in 1626, his personal secretary,

William Raleigh, published a collection of Bacon's philosophical writings titled

Silva Silvarum.

Among the nearly 1,000 passages included in the text, one of them instructs the

reader to dig a pit upon the seashore, starting above the high water mark, and

then sink the shaft to a point below sea level.

Could it be that Randall Sullivan has uncovered evidence in Bacon's own hand

referring to the construction of the money pit?

There were lines like that that thought, that's just...

Too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence.

Right.

If you woke up tomorrow morning and you were in charge, but you had but one

swing, where do you look and how do you do it?

Oh. One swing at the bat.

Well, I would look for an entrance that is now underwater.

Wow.

Underwater?

Could Randall Sullivan have made a direct connection between the solution

to the Oak Island mystery and the team's recent discoveries at Smith's Cove?

Randall Sullivan is a proponent of the Baconian connection to Oak Island, which

I rather fancy myself.

That fits with what we're digging up out here in Smith's Cove. So it's really

quite interesting.

I'm certain that the real origins of the flood tunnel is, you know,

Way offshore, not the primary flood system.

You know, on the south side, it's not. At Smith's Cove.

Another flood tunnel system on the south shore?

In the winter of 1980, while conducting a pumping operation in the Money Pit,

veteran treasure hunter Dan Blankenship noticed four large holes in the frozen

bay off the island's southern shore.

It was his belief.

that these so-called ice holes, which appeared again in 1987, might be

evidence of a second flood tunnel feeding ocean water into the money pit.

Could it be that in order to retrieve the Oak Island treasure, the team must

shut off not one, but multiple booby-trapped flood systems?

There's a possibility that there's a tunnel associated with the South Shore,

right adjacent to the Stone Triangle. So it's interesting.

Because it's an area that we know very little about, it's worth investigating.

You guys got real work to do. You've got to start working on the updated version.

That's right.

We've got to get you some material.

That's right.

I've got a book to read.

You do indeed.

Let's get back to it.

Following their informative meeting in the war room, Rick, Marty, and Craig

returned to the Money Pit site, where Jack Begley, Charles Barkhouse, and Dan

Henske continued to sift through the spoils for potential clues excavated

from the HHF.

What's the word?

Well, gravity did our thing.

How much? 24 feet.

Yeah, so what naturally kind of came in was eight feet. And then as we brought

the can down, we gained another 16. So we're at 24 feet of plug in the can.

All right, let's keep digging.

If that material that disappeared reveals something inspiring that says

you need to get down here and look, then the game is really afoot because then we

go down and we retrieve whatever's down there.

Oh, look at what we have here.

I think it looks a lot like the parchment, except it's black.

It's really, really dark.

Could be.

Another piece of parchment?

Could this be more evidence that ancient books and documents are part of the Oak

Island treasure?

I'm going to bag it, Jack. Yeah, we need to save that. Yep. Just in case.

Oh, this is a nice old... Yeah.

What do you think of that?

It's got all kinds of grains. This does possibly look like something in a human

body. Oh, you think this could be a bone?

Bone? Could the team have found more evidence of human remains buried deep in

the money pit?

And if so, could it be related to one of the two 17th century individuals whose

bones were discovered in this same location last year?

Or... could it be the remains of someone else yet to be identified it is porous

yeah as somebody that you know knows more than we do have a look at it this

is a really good find dan some of the important things that came out of the

jake spoil so far were parchment and then a bone that seemed kind of foreign

fire it up dan we should be able to get some information back from that

and some understanding why these bones are so deep within the earth.

Hi, guys. Hey, how's it going?

Found some few interesting things.

Oh, really?

Jack thinks he may have found a piece of bone.

Given the striations in the back here, I don't know.

Or was that up against a piece of wood? I'm not sure.

Amazon's twisted, though.

Yeah.

Not sure what that is. What do you guys think? Well, we can take a picture of it

and send it off to Laird. Yeah.

Not too sure what to think of this one, whether it's bone or wood or twisted.

It's weird, I think. Yeah, the more I look at it, the more I think it is bone.

Because, I mean, if you look at the hollow center, it looks like that's

where the bone marrow should be. If it is bone...

that's really good news because then we have a third piece of bone to test maybe

it's a different individual and we can better pinpoint a time frame than where

they came from that'll help potentially determine who is here so okay well that

sounds good exciting at least we know that the oddities we found last year in

h8 weren't just from that drill hole there's more material down there and i

expect to find more you know The more we go through the spoils, the more stuff

that will come up. Absolutely.

There's something down there in the money pit, Rick.

I know that. Look, it's not about right or wrong.

It's about the search for the truth. But we are finding interesting clues. We are

trying to apply real science to a real mystery, real professional acumen. So

the hope is, as this year progresses, we'll find the one thing. That's my

hope.

for the laginas and their partners the idea that something of historical

significance happened on oak island is no longer a question but as they

continue to dig at smith's cove in the money pit and in other areas throughout

the island what will they find priceless historical manuscripts gold and

silver left here by the knights templar or

Will it be something much more valuable?

Something so precious it needed to be guarded with human lives.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

We'll find it. It should be in this area.

Start recording.

We're recording.

That thing might be man-made. It almost looks like an anchor.

Tell me what you think this is.

What was considered valuable enough to bury manuscripts at Fair Underground?

This is from a medieval book.

See how the ground's gone? It's caving. I think it's fixing to tip over. This is

a very dangerous place. The whole money picket collapsed.

All this work, all the research.

This is no good. We can't continue.