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Tonight on the Curse of Oak Island.

28 feet of water, lads. These are targets that we've identified.

I don't think that's a rock.

What is it?

There it is. Finally, we've exposed the entire slipway structure. It's the

biggest mystery, isn't it? They want to keep things secret.

Look at that.

That looks like it's off a substantial treasure chest.

Hello. We're going to find out from a blacksmith how old the hinge is.

That is early 1600s. This could be pre-money pit.

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.

Let's get Craig on the phone.

It is the start of another day on Oak Island.

Hi, guys. Hey, Craig. As brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with other

members of their team, have arranged to meet with their partner, Craig Tester,

via video conference.

So we're wanting to talk about the dye test.

Here's what happened, okay? We pumped somewhere between maybe a quarter

million and half a million gallons.

The biggest surprise was we saw seepage down in Smith's Cove, which definitely

turned rusty colored.

Well.

One day ago, Rick, Marty, and the team conducted what is known as a dye test

in order to find out if the man-made flood tunnels believed to exist at

Smith's Cove could still be directly traced to the Money Pit treasure vault.

Let's do this.

After pumping thousands of gallons of seawater mixed with non-toxic red dye

into the C1 shaft... The dye has been cast.

Metal detection expert Gary Drayton spotted what appeared to be red-colored

water. If we're looking for red, guys, I'd say that's red.

Water, which when analyzed, tested positive for traces of the red dye.

11.98. That's a good positive indication.

Yeah!

All the rocks turned like an orangey-brown color wherever the water

flowed over the rocks. And it was never flowing like that before, and I never

saw that color in that area.

So that was interesting start to the pumping.

Well, it's consistent with a flood tunnel that's plugged, and maybe, you

know, pumping in caused them to silt up. Maybe there's something under the pad.

Structures or tunnels.

I think there is something under the crane pad.

In order to construct the massive 525 foot wide steel cofferdam that now

surrounds Smith's Cove, the Laginas and their partners hired the team from

Irving Equipment Limited to build a 6,000 square foot wooden pad capable of

supporting the weight and movement of a 300 ton crane.

But now, although the excavation efforts at Smith's Cove have been hugely

successful, the team must deal with an unintended consequence of their

operation. The crane pad is most likely built directly over the spot that Rick

and Marty have been most eager to find, the convergence point where the stone

box drains meet on their way to the original Oak Island bunny pit.

But you mess around with that crane pad and Irving's going to want to do it

because they're going to want it all done to their specs.

In Marty's point, we need to talk to them. The larger context is, what do we

do in Smith's Cove at this point? Do we dig at the crane pad, yes or no?

Craig, what do you want to do?

I really want to pursue it and try to get everything at Smith's Cove done this

year.

I really like going under the pad. I know it's a pain, but following that

water, follow it while we can, while we've got the copper dam in place.

The point is, we're not done in Smith's Cove.

I think we all will agree with that, Rick.

Although Rick, Marty and the team are eager to verify if they have found the

main flood tunnel that links to the Money Pit treasure vault, they must

first obtain additional environmental permits from the Canadian government to

expand their excavation efforts.

They will also need an extension on their existing permit to keep the

massive cofferdam in place.

In Smith's Cove.

You have to deal with all kinds of governmental oversight agencies,

Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Department of Environment.

And then we have long sought and worked laboriously to make certain that we have

respect for the environment.

We are going to figure out a way to move this crane pad and dig underneath it.

The more we dig, the more we discover.

So let's just continue digging and hopefully we get lucky.

So let's go make it so.

Following their morning meeting in the war room, Rick, Marty, and Dave arrive

at Smith's Cove.

We're going to go talk to Billy about the process here.

Although the team has made a number of significant discoveries at Smith's Cove

during the past eight weeks, the time to finish excavating the area is running

short.

Summer. is almost over, and the permits that Marty and Rick obtained from the

government in order to build the copper dam are set to expire.

Even if the team obtains the necessary permissions to dig up the crane pad,

they will have to move quickly if they intend to do a thorough search of the

area for important artifacts and clues.

We've certainly set out to uncover the secrets of Smith's Cove. Now it's time

to get to work to try to come to an understanding as to what these

structures represent.

Okay.

The first question is, what do you got to do here?

The objective is to get as close as we can to the slipway with the machine.

Right. And then clean it off by hand.

After building a massive 525-foot-wide cofferdam and draining a large area of

Smith's Cove, the Oak Island team has unearthed a number of mysterious...

and previously undocumented structures.

What is it? It's concrete.

In addition to a concrete wall, they have uncovered evidence of a stone box

drain and remnants of an ancient wharf or slipway, which was previously

discovered by treasure hunter Gilbert Hedden in 1936.

Let's stay focused on this. Billy thinks a couple of shovelers here helping Laird

dig this down and then blade this off.

get it nice and level okay great let's go the reason why i wanted to do

smith's cove in the first place was to answer the questions of who and when and

i think there are some clues hopefully that reside within this slipway

structure i got an ear jack

it's iron and it's reading four inches

Hang on, mate. I think I saw her.

No, not in there.

Ooh!

That's a beauty.

This looks... This looks old.

This freaking reminds me of some kind of, like, a spear point.

This looks like a projectile of some kind.

Like a spear tip?

Yeah, a spear tip.

A spear tip?

This is almost weapon-like. It was while metal detecting in this same area four

weeks ago that Gary discovered a nearly identical object, which was strikingly

similar to one found on the island's southern shore.

What it appears to be is Roman.

No way!

A possible Roman pilum, a spear point used by Roman soldiers as far back.

as the first century B.C.

I mean, we don't know. We don't know how all these structures are, who made them,

and possibly who protected them.

I mean, look at that. It looks like it was made like that on purpose.

I don't think this is no fastener, mate. I think these are potentially weapons.

Well, that wasn't fastened into anything.

Where?

Check this out, mate.

this was below where the bottom of this log would be all right so it's a

disturbed area yeah well why would anyone make something tapers down like

that i don't know i don't know why they'd create a weak point right there

it reminds me of like a projectile like a weapon of some kind this is a

really sweet fight

More and more, I'm starting to think the slipway is really old. And if there's

anything in Smith's Cove that's original from the depositors, it's the slipway.

Certainly hand-forged. I just don't think these are tools.

Yeah. But that looks really old. Yeah.

I think we've got something interesting going on in this area.

Right, yeah.

There's only one way to find out. Yeah, find some more.

while gary jack and the team continue to investigate the mysterious slipway at

smith's cove brothers rick and marty lagina along with dave blankenship head

to the money pit area to meet with representatives of irving equipment ltd

Put the false work in place, put the crane mats in place, get things bolted

up. I think we pushed H8 as far as we can safely.

We've got a lot of stuff done here. Exactly, exactly, yeah. We're obviously

antsy, but we know you've got to do it right.

I don't know what the heck that is. Oh, it's a pottery.

Two weeks ago, while excavating the borehole known as H8, the borehole that

Marty Lagina believed was most likely on the site of the original Money Pit

treasure shaft.

See how the ground's gone?

it's caving the ground surrounding the 50 inch wide drilling caisson began to

suddenly and mysteriously collapse although the team from irving equipment

limited was able to stabilize the massive sinkhole using a powerful vibro

hammer tool the site is now considered too unstable and too unsafe to continue

excavating it's full stop again frustrating because h8 was giving up

some data No, incredibly frustrating.

I mean, we may not be done with H-8, but we may be done this year.

Unfortunately, it's unsafe.

Doesn't mean we can't move forward. Doesn't mean we can't be successful.

Determined to continue, the Laginas and their partners have decided to return to

one of their earlier strategies.

They will attempt to reach the Money Pit treasure vault by means of an adjacent

tunnel, Shaft 6.

Well, I have high hopes for the first site.

Shaft 6 has always been important to me. I think I've somewhat convinced these

two. These certainly are going to be something there, which makes it...

You've set yourself a tough course. I know I have. And I think there's

anything to be found in the money pits in that shaft.

Uh-oh, that's wood.

Eleven weeks ago, while conducting an extensive core drilling operation in the

area... The team found evidence of a 19th century searcher tunnel that was

dug in a failed attempt to enter the original money pit from below.

I think we're right on target for that tunnel.

How specific do you need in terms of location?

How specific?

If we know approximately within a couple of feet at this point, just to get the

pad prepped.

All right, well, let's let him get to work.

Thank you. Have a good day, guys.

before another day ends on Oak Island.

Tony, welcome back to the war room. Thanks, Matty. Rick and Marty Lagina

join members of the team, along with professional diver Tony Sampson, in the

war room.

They are eager to follow up on data they retrieved during a recent investigation

of the island's southern shore that was conducted by the Center for Geographic

Sciences, otherwise known as COGS.

What we're going to do here today is we're going to go over the offshore data

that the COGS students obtained for us.

And they came up with some interesting stuff on the seafloor. So Jack and Alex

have the data in front of them. Why don't you show Tony what we got?

Yeah. So Tony, we've got the data on the screen there. Uh-huh.

There's a couple in particular that we're especially interested in.

Okay. Jack, if you can pull up the image of 12.

Got it.

Oh, my God, that's interesting.

Look at the shadow. Look at the jagged top to that thing. And it's very skinny.

I don't think that's a rock. Yeah.

I think that's something sticking out of the seafloor.

And anything sticking out of the seafloor near Oak Island is worth a

look. Yeah.

In addition to finding what could be evidence of a flood tunnel off the

island's southern shore... These two yellow columns are possible vent

locations. The scans also detected a number of possible man-made objects on

the ocean floor, including a mysterious triangle formation that appeared to

point directly towards the money pit.

That is clearly worth a dive.

Yeah.

While the team waits for the government permits they need in order to expand

their excavation of Smith's Cove, they will redirect their efforts in hopes of

locating what is believed to be a second flood tunnel system.

one that lies just off the island's southern shore.

I'm sure you've seen a lot of strange things on sea bottom, right?

Exactly, yeah.

It's clearly an anomaly.

You probably know this, but I'm just going to say it. Those boulders sitting

there are not going to be nice and clean. They're going to be stuff growing

all over them.

I mean, this feature I find interesting, and it's only because, to me, that looks

like it lines up.

The two rocks? Because you could say that the two features are the gun sight

and the rock is at the end of your barrel.

Yeah.

So let's go to the next one.

This is the possible anchor.

So that's very interesting.

And if you zoom in, you can see that there's a break in the shadow between

these two objects.

Whoa.

A boat anchor found off the island could be completely insignificant or it could

be very significant. It would matter whether it was a boat anchor from a

1900s boat or a late 1800s boat or let's say a 1600s boat.

And so we have to have a look. We want to see which of those it is.

If you find a feature, I'd like to know physical measurements, sizes.

Yeah. and really come up with an understanding of what these things look

like well take these guys with you okay they both are certified divers okay well

with that in mind what we'll do guys is with these anomalies we'll run a line

and then we can put an underwater compass on the bottoms you'll have hard

numbers as to where she is okay okay this is good we have a plan a plan we

have the perfect people to execute it so let's come back with some good data and

i'm happy let's go underwater

It's the start of another promising day on Oak Island, and as archaeologist

Laird Niven and members of the team continue their excavation of the

mysterious lipway in Smith's Cove.

Lock and load, buddy. Okay. Alex Lagina, Peter Fernetti, and Jack Begley, along

with professional diver Tony Sampson, prepare for an investigative dive

operation in the waters.

just off the southern shore.

28 feet of water, lads. 51 degrees.

The team's first target will be the mysterious triangle-shaped formation,

which appeared to point directly towards the Oak Island Money Pit, and which the

team believes may be associated with a second man-made flood tunnel system,

which in turn might lead directly to the Money Pit treasure vault.

Mark!

In previous years, looking for things offshore was not a primary goal for us

because we needed information to point us to an X marks the spot on the island.

But now, we need all the information we can get. And if it's offshore, it's

offshore. Point us to something. Where to dig?

Okay, so what we have here, guys, in the bag, we have the compass so we can get

Marty's point and his orientation towards the money pit or wherever else.

Okay. Got it? Yep.

Excellent.

Feel better? We're not just checking these things out for the sake of doing

it. The theories are numerous on the island, and many of them include

underwater features. So the hope, obviously, is to find some of these

features or something, and hopefully we'll have our next breakthrough.

Okay, the terminals are both hooked up. The containers back together.

Fantastic. While Tony Sampson and Alex Lagina perform their dive, Peter

Fernetti will maintain continuous communication with them from the boat

should either diver need assistance during the operation.

Jack Bagley, who is also a certified scuba diver, will be ready to enter the

water. All right, ready?

Surface to diver, over.

Topside.

Visibility's okay.

I've got to bend to 10 to 15 feet.

Yeah, it's not bad.

Despite the fact... that Alex and Tony have seen the anomaly on a sonar scan.

They may have great difficulty actually finding it due to the heavy vegetation

covering the ocean floor.

Although the team is permitted to search for and recover treasure on Oak Island,

provincial laws prohibit the removal of any artifacts from the surrounding

waters. Even so much as touching or disturbing one is against the law.

While Tony and Alex continue their search in the waters off the island's

southern shore, at the Oak Island Research Center, brothers Rick and Marty

Lagina, along with other members of the team, have arranged to meet with

professional surveyor Steve Guptill.

They are hoping that Steve, using maps and more than 100 years of notes and

surveys, can help them pinpoint the exact location and orientation of the

Shaft 6 tunnel.

Although Rick believes the team located it 11 weeks ago, I think he hit the

tunnel from Shaft 6.

he is concerned that if any new excavation is off, even by a few feet,

they will miss finding the Money Pit's underground treasure vault.

I'm not sure if Doug has filled you in at least a little bit about the basics.

We've got all of these data sent from the different decades of treasure

hunters and researchers, and Dan is really interested in the idea of

bringing them all together.

Yeah, it's all possible. I think you guys have some depths as well, right?

So what I can do is I can take these images over the years and I can lay them

each on a separate layer. And eventually when we get the data overlaid and it's

geo-referenced properly, we can make it so we can start putting the depths in

and we can see the drill paths.

Might you find out in this process that the surveys don't tie?

That happens.

It can still be done. We just have to find other. So what I would do from that

point, I'd look for trees, buildings, landmarks. Okay.

Yeah. I think it's going to be helpful as we carry it out into the field.

Yeah, I would love to find shaft number six.

Well, find six and we'll dig it.

The overlay will assist in determining the location of shaft six because the

early data is all about shafts numbered one through seven or one through eight.

But if you establish where eight, four, three, and two are, you'll know

exactly where six is.

It's doable, and that's the thing. You know, and I think it's going to bear

fruit. Yeah, it sounds interesting. Sounds fun. And we're on a treasure hunt

here. Let's go.

As Rick and Marty conclude their meeting with Steve Guptill... I think this might

be what we're looking for.

Alex Lagina and Tony Sampson believe they may have finally located the

mysterious triangular formation in the waters off the southern shore.

The fact that Alex and Tony have confirmed that the rock formation does

point in the direction of the money pit is significant.

It suggests that it might have been deliberately placed here as some sort of

marker, pointing the way to the Oak Island treasure vault.

Should we head back up?

Yep. Topside.

Diver's coming up. Over. Diver's coming up.

shortly after completing their search for the mysterious triangle-shaped

object in the waters just off the southern shore of oak island alex lagina

jack begley and peter fernetti along with diver tony sampson and his crew are

about to perform a second dive in an attempt to locate what they believe

might be a ship's anchor

Okay, guys. As you can see, the weather's turned to crap. So we're going

to liveboat this one now. We'll just walk straight off the bow and onto the

buoy right now.

Sounds good. Okay. Let's get up, guys.

Because the weather conditions have made it difficult to drop anchor, Captain

Ryan Mojer will strategically place the barge directly over the target area.

This will allow Tony and Alex to enter the water the safest way possible to

search for the mysterious object.

Y'all ready? Yep. All set. Good luck, but be safe.

A rock?

Is it possible that the object that appeared to be man-made is in reality

merely a natural formation?

Yeah, it's a couple of rocks.

I think if you were sensitive to disappointment, you would not be on Oak

Island. But it's not discouraging. We had a list to look at.

We got eyes on them.

But we still know more than we did this morning.

Good results, though?

Or... Just rocks. It was definitely a rock. It was not an anchor. Okay.

Well, it was kind of interesting. We had the bottom there to what we thought was

going to be the anchor, and we ended up coming across like two rocks, eh, Alex?

Yeah. Although Tony and Alex are momentarily disappointed by what they

found during their dive, their earlier discovery of a possible triangle-shaped

stone marker offers a compelling and potentially important clue, one which

could lead to the discovery.

of a second flood tunnel system designed to protect the original Money Pit

treasure vault.

There's more research that needs to be done on the stone marker because it

looks like it is actually pointing at the Money Pit.

That's kind of a success, but I want to see where exactly the compass bearing

leads us.

Great. Well, I'm going to get out of this and get warmed up a little bit.

Okay, mate. You do that. Okay. Hey, Ryan.

If you want to steam towards the buoy, buddy, we'll haul a...

The

next day... Look at that.

Pretty cool, eh?

Yeah, it is massive.

Marty Lagina and his business partner, Craig Tester, arrive at Smith's Cove.

Hey, guys, how are you?

Good, you both got it?

Pretty much.

Pretty much done.

So pretty quick we'll be able to remove this, and then we get over to that

stuff, and then we can excavate here, is that right? Yeah, exactly.

It's going to be interesting to get under it.

Now that the entire slipway is exposed, archaeologist Laird Niven will

photograph and meticulously record the details of the structure.

The team will then carefully disassemble it in order to search the area beneath

it for artifacts or possible clues.

You can see it on the other side?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. At low tide, it's visible.

Yeah. Wow. Yeah, it's pretty big for a slipway. It's certainly ones we're used

to for hauling. Just hauling up your little fishing boat, it's a lot larger.

Yeah. And the other thing is they're really too close.

To haul a ship up, you only need one every three or four feet.

Yeah, but a cart full of gold, you'd need them every, right? Just to

strengthen it? Yes.

Because the wheels would be way closer together and stuff.

I guess my question is what?

Why use a slipway as opposed to a wharf?

You know, there are some people who feel that they want to keep things secret.

So it's a low, almost no profile.

Is it possible that the slipway was actually a sort of secret wharf?

One used not for the docking of ships, but rather as a ramp to offload

something of value onto Oak Island?

And if so, what else might the team find buried underneath this mysterious

structure?

The slipway is clearly a rather massive structure. It appears to be quite old.

It doesn't have a lot of iron in it. It clearly looks like it was used to load

or unload something for this island.

Well, a whole bunch of somebodies thought this was really important.

It's pretty much the biggest mystery, isn't it? This massive undertaking down

here in hardly any detritus. And the majority of it is actually coming from

here. Right here, yeah. As Gary suspected.

Well, we'll be interesting to dig a little deeper here. Yeah, what you find?

No, absolutely All right. Well, let's keep going. All right, carry on man.

Talk to you later as Archaeologist Laird Niven begins to carefully dig beneath

the slipway area Metal detection expert Gary Drayton continues to search the

spoils for possible clues

Hmm, interesting.

That looks like an inch.

That looks like an oldie. What's an inch doing down there?

That looks like an oldie.

While searching through spoils recently taken from Smith's Cove, metal detection

expert Gary Drayton has just made what could be an important discovery.

It's not gold, but it's interesting.

That looks like an old, raw iron inch.

That is cool.

What do you make of the iron?

That's nice.

I don't know if it's off a door, a chest, or whatever, but that's a

substantial inch piece.

What I make of that is that it's old.

How many varies?

I can give you at least a couple of very, very old. It might even be very,

very, very old. Really?

An iron hinge, possibly from a chest, and found more than six feet deep

beneath the seabed?

Could it have been part of a container used to bring something of great value

onto Oak Island centuries ago?

You imagine the pin that went in there. I mean, that is cool.

It is.

Do you think that's a square hole?

It's tough to tell, isn't it, the way it's angled?

This looks broken off at the end here. Yeah.

So it had to be at least this long. I mean, that's a huge length to put on

even a chest.

Looks like there's a little more out there somewhere.

Yeah.

Something like this really opens the door to finding something else.

Yep.

One thing's for sure.

We can bring this to get compositional analysis done on it.

The hinge Gary found was very interesting. It did look very old.

I mean, the metal itself seemed to be hammered at some point in time in layers

like that.

So we can find experts that might tell us, you know, what it was used for, what

time period it was used. So we just got to follow up on that.

Oh man, I'll try and find whatever is associated with that. That's a pretty

cool hinge.

It is.

The following morning, while the careful investigation efforts at Smith's Cove

continue,

Marty Lagina and his son Alex, along with area historian Doug Kroll, head

some 20 miles north of Oak Island to the Ross Farm Museum, located in the nearby

town of New Ross, Nova Scotia.

They have arranged to meet with blacksmithing expert, Carmen Legg. All

right. Hello.

Hey there.

I'm Marty.

Hi, Carmen Lake. How are you? Hi, Carmen. Pleasure. I'm Alex. I've met you

before. Hey, Carmen.

How are you doing again? Good to see you. Yeah, very good. So we've got some

pieces of metal-worked items, and we're wondering if you can identify them or

shed some light on their time of manufacture. Well, I can do what I can

for you. Let's do it. Let's have a look. Very good. Come over here on this little

table and show me just like Christmas morning. Yeah.

Exactly what you got here for me.

Yeah,

this one is really interesting.

Oh, my God.

It's a half-inch rod tapered down to kind of like a chisel point into it. It

would have been for stogging things.

There were several. These were all found in Smith's Cove.

Well, that's a crib spike.

That's a crib spike.

Crib spike would be used for making whorls and derricks and platforms and

any place where it would.

They've been coming together like that. These little pins, pin them together. So

for a shaft, for sure, right? Yep, yep.

Well, that is just another crib spike.

Just a smaller, shorter crib spike.

How about age on that?

Any way to know?

This was beaten out, and you can see it's tapering on the very last one

there, so I'm going to say anywhere from 1650 to 1800.

Crib spikes?

dating back as early as the mid-1600s?

Could they have been used in the construction of the slipway that the

team has recently uncovered at Smith's Cove?

The funny thing about the crib spikes is that there were only a few of them.

I mean, if they were being used, say, in the slipway, they would have been used

en masse.

There would have been a lot of them.

But maybe there's a cribbing of some sort we haven't found yet.

This is a very old piece of iron.

It's weathered very well.

And by looking at that, I'm going to say that that is a hinge for a

very, very thick door.

This is the kind of thing you would use in like a house or something like that,

right? No, no. I would say it was more robust than that.

Why did you think it was real old?

Oh, just because it's iron.

And just the construction of it. This hole was not drilled. It was punched.

What time period?

Before 1800.

Before 1800. Before 1800.

I'd go back as far as early 1600s.

At the Ross Farm Museum in the town of New Ross, Nova Scotia, Marty Lagina, his

son Alex.

and historian Doug Kroll have just been informed that the large metal hinge

recently discovered at Smith's Cove could date back as early as the 17th

century, more than 100 years before the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795.

I'd go back as far as early 1600s on this. Wow. Yeah. Do you have any idea

what activity took place there?

we have no idea we know activity took place smith's cove i'll just tell you

flat out has just been a complete mystery the more we dig the more we

don't understand what happened there's a lot of stuff in there well you know that

it had something to do with hinges yeah oh

been closing this way or this way i'm gonna vote floodgate

possibly yeah yeah Is it possible that the team has found a piece of the fabled

booby-trapped flooding system, believed to be protecting whatever lies buried

deep in the Oak Island Money Pit?

Well, it's massive. The floodgates would have to be... There would have been

several of these, right?

Yes. Oh, yes. Yeah.

Carmen Legg thought the hinge was very old, and then he also thought the hinge

supported something very massive, could be evidence of, and perhaps lead us to

the flood tunnel. So that's exciting.

Carmen, this has been great. Thank you very much. We learned a lot.

We got some more. We'll be back. Yeah, we will be back. I'll be waiting. All

right.

Following his informative meeting with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legg. Hey,

guys. How you doing? Hey, Marty.

Marty Lagina has arranged to meet with his brother Rick and other members of

the Oak Island team at the Mug and Anchor Pub in the nearby town of Mahone

Bay.

Alex and I actually went to see a blacksmith, and the guy there is Carmen

Legg. Very, very knowledgeable. I love the guy right off the bat. I mean, he

was great.

Anyhow, a couple of those things you thought were weapons, he thought were

crib spikes.

What's a crib spike?

Well, if you get two pieces of log and you're trying to put them together like

this, you drive a crib spike right down through the corner.

Like making a tunnel.

Yeah. As far as date goes, it was old. You know, looking for that key date.

pre-1795, which is always what I'm focused on. I thought it could be pre

-Money Pit.

This, again, I thought wasn't much. You did, and so does he.

This is the famous hinge. Oh, the strap of the hinge, yeah.

He thought this was the oldest piece in the bunch and was willing to say this

could easily be, it could be pre-Money Pit.

And he thought it could be quite a ways pre-Money Pit.

Like how long did he hold it?

1795 is Money Pit. Right. Yeah.

He thought easily into the 1600s.

And he also said, look, this held something substantial.

And he said this was... As wide as it is. Yeah. And he said this held a two

-inch to two-and-a-half-inch piece of something. It was a... You know, and

when he heard it was in Smith's Cove, he said, well, it's hard to picture what...

sort of big door would be down in a cove. Yeah. Yeah, he was quite intrigued

with it. I'm quite excited about it because he thought that, wow, this could

be very, very, very old, this one.

We got some clues.

I wouldn't be surprised if he's a depositor.

This one for sure.

If it holds up and it really is that old, perhaps it could be original. And

it's exciting because I feel like we might be closing in on the information

hunt. I really do, with these dates and these things we need to look into, I

think we might figure out what happened here. What it tells me is not only are

we making, you know, really substantial finds, but it's all about the

information hunt. And when you source someone who really can give us, you

know, input, I think that's very, very important. We need to continue to

cultivate, you know, contacts like Carmen. Well, here's to the ancient and

venerable trade of blacksmithing.

Agreed on that. May it help us find the trover. Cheers to the blacksmith.

After a week that began with dead ends and potentially devastating setbacks,

half the Laginas and their partners finally found what they call the one

thing. The indisputable evidence of man-made activity on Oak Island prior to

the discovery of the money pit in 1795.

But could something as simple as a crib spike

or a hinge really be proof that the slipway and other wooden structures at

smith's cove were put there not by searchers but by depositors if so then

what was deposited a vast treasure of gold and silver precious jewels

priceless artifacts or was it something completely different

something so incredible that finding it will change history forever.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island. We have a dozen survey plans.

We now have an ability to overlay the surveys.

Shat 6 is right here.

Put your finger on the map, big brother. We focused in on the most likely spot in

the money pit to find some actual treasure. I think it's there. I really

do. Ooh, there's a coin. No way. This could be deposit.

Oh, there's some really big timbers. Yeah, there we go. And their oak, which

would be the only oak we've ever seen underground. We must be near the money

pit. That changes everything.