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Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island. Everything's closing in. We're running

out of time. It's the exciting season finale.

No record of this. No. Maybe there's something on the other side of it. Oh,

no, no!

The Rochefoucaulds shared the truth of Oak Island with their founding fathers.

They used the treasure to finance the Revolutionary War.

Holy smokes.

What's that symbol?

George Washington designed it. It matches it perfectly.

Holy shmoly. There's a wall here. Isn't that something? I mean, that's evidence.

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

What do you say, Marty? How are you, bud?

I thought you had a little sense in going home.

No, I'm here on Oak Island. Doesn't that tell you something?

It is an exciting moment for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina as they join Dave

Blankenship to share with Dave's father and their partner, veteran Oak Island

treasure hunter Dan Blankenship, the most significant breakthrough yet in

their team's quest to solve a 223-year-old mystery.

Daniel. We do have some information I think you're going to find interesting.

So in Smith's Cove, we cut the ends off those big logs on the U-shaped

structure. I tell the log.

Do you know what dendrochronology is? Do you know what that is?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay. We cut discs off them. Yeah.

And the slipway. And the slipway. The slipway. And we sent it to this guy at

the University of Saskatchewan, the world's expert in this area in

dendrochronology. And he got a date that he says, get this, is 99

.99% accurate to the year.

They believe what they're doing, obviously.

Exactly. The date they came up with was 1769, 25 years before the

money pit.

25 years before the money pit was discovered. Yes.

Okay, now they're starting to register.

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

Over the past several months, Rick, Marty, and their team have conducted the

most extensive investigation of Smith's Cove in the history of the Oak Island

treasure hunt.

Although their prime objective has been to locate the place where five stone box

drains, first discovered in 1850, converge into a single flood tunnel

which feeds ocean water into the money pit.

It's very strange.

This is totally undiscovered. They have unearthed a number of incredible and

mysterious man-made formations.

Some of these, such as a concrete wall, were never reported by previous

searchers.

Although, two others, known respectively as the L-shaped and U-shaped structures,

and which are both made of wood, were first discovered by Dan Blackenship when

he conducted his own large-scale investigation of Smith's Cove.

in the early 1970s.

Somebody was building something big in Smith's Cove.

I thought that was old, but I mean, I was never clear, Rick, on that

structure, whether it was original or not. Right, but what Marty just said are

the facts.

1769. I don't think I ever had anyone that come in and said they're 99%

sure of the date.

I have the written results right here, the dendrochronology results.

The main ones are here.

That is interesting.

Marty finds it incredibly interesting. I do. I thought everything we were finding

here was searcher, but not that.

Something was original there.

Yeah. Dan's life has seen all kinds of changes, and they've all centered around

Oak Island and the mystery.

So, you know, to give him these answers this year.

is important because he's always said, look, I just want answers, yay or nay.

Well, hopefully, maybe, this might provide him those answers.

You're up to speed now. We want to make sure you know what we know. So we're

going to get back to work.

All right?

I hear you.

Let's go.

Thanks for the time, partner.

We'll be back with more.

Following their meeting with Dan Blankenship.

Rick and Marty join other members of their team at Smith's Cove, where they

are continuing their massive excavation underneath the beach area in search of

the so-called flood tunnel convergence point.

Billy wants to figure out how far back we want to go to dig.

I want to dig right there. I want to dig right in the center of the U-shaped

structure as soon as you can. If we're going to get this, let's get it.

I just think whoever built it had information.

and put it there on purpose because it's relatively small, then there should be

something within the arms of it coming this way.

Right. I want you to dig there as soon as you can. All right, see you. Okay.

Although the team is more than encouraged by the dating analysis of the

U-shaped structure and slipway, they have less than a week left before they

must shut down operations for the winter.

We are absolutely running out of time. The weather's closing in. Our permit's

about to run out. We're very fatigued.

and we still haven't got back far enough to follow all these structures to where

they sort of converge i agree but we still have a window of time and i'm

hoping that we'll get some answers yet holy

crap

billy you get something here

What does that look like, Laird?

Well... It's clay. There's another board down there, but it's clay that's coming

out in chunks.

See, look here. There's another board here.

I think this one's pulled out a bit.

Right.

And then we have the third one.

They're not just loose boards, that's for sure. No, because there was clay on

both sides.

It's well packed with clay behind it. Yeah.

Yeah. Why put the clay in back?

Wooden boards packed with clay?

Could it have been put here by searchers in 1850, trying to block off the flood

tunnel that leads directly to the original money pit?

Or was it done even earlier, by those who constructed the flood tunnel?

and the Money Pit treasure shaft.

I have no idea what to make of it. There's such an incredible amount of

structures just in this one defined area where all the busy work has been done.

It's right here.

Well, I'd say dig the front of this, follow it, see what happens.

Got an upright.

Whoa.

That's a big one. Yeah.

That's one of the biggest ones we've seen yet.

Yeah. And it continues.

Which is confusing because the brace then behind means the force was coming

this way.

Yeah.

So were they looking for the converging point of the flood diamonds? And maybe

that's the reason for the heavy clays.

was to try to block it going back into the conversion point maybe i don't know

we've come to the belief that as we proceed the most interesting structures

will be in the in the upland you know that's bearing some fruit because we

found what we're calling the mystery wall and we certainly need to continue

digging well all we can do is track it back you've got a lot of work to do and

not a lot of time well what do you make of this at

smith's cove on the eastern end of Oak Island.

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with members of their team, are

continuing their investigation of a mysterious wooden wall found buried

beneath the edge of the beach.

A wall that sits right in the area where they are searching for evidence of a man

-made flood tunnel designed to feed seawater deep into the money pit.

Charles, from a historical perspective, no record of this. No.

No, no record at all.

I think the fact that we have these vertical cuts has to predate rest all,

so this goes back quite a ways.

Yeah. You can see they dug down at least this length into the sea level for some

reason. Well then if all that makes sense, back there ought to be the flood

tunnel, right?

That's what I'm wondering. And the water's coming from there.

But here's the curious thing, though. We marked down the middle U-shaped

structure, the Billy's Wall, that rock formation, this one and this one.

See those flags on the sheet?

Yes. All in one line right here. Great.

It's another mystery. Absolutely.

We keep finding structures.

The more we dig, the more chance we've got of finding something.

Yeah. Whenever you make an observation that one structure might be aligned with

another structure, your first thought is, well, there's some relationship

here. Some of these might be part of the work to introduce water into the money

pit.

Looks like there's a higher board up there.

Does it keep going there, guys?

Looks like it was all of a sudden gotten a lot more rocks.

Isn't that something?

That would be an effective sealant.

If that doesn't seal off water, nothing will.

I mean, you know what? Looks like there's clay packed behind here, too.

We're taking some right here, Billy.

More packed clay?

When the Money Pit was excavated to a 90-foot depth in 1804, in addition to

platforms of oak logs every 10 feet, they also discovered a large amount of

packed clay at the 40-foot level, likely placed there.

to protect the pit and whatever was buried below from groundwater.

Could the discovery of packed clay around the mysterious beach wall be more

evidence that Rick, Marty, Craig, and the team have discovered workings

connected to the original pit's construction?

What is that?

There's a wall here.

Oh, man.

Another day, another structure.

Yeah, it's coming at an angle.

I told you, the further you go digging, the more structures we'll find.

A second wooden wall?

Just five feet behind the first?

Could the team be close to finally uncovering the main flood tunnel?

Well, all we can do is track it back, see what happens.

After a long day of exploration at Smith's Cove, Rick,

Marty, and Craig, along with Charles Barkhouse, meet with representatives

from Eagle Canada to check on the progress of an operation which they hope

will identify any large objects or structures buried deep beneath the

mysterious triangle-shaped swamp.

We're ready to go. We got about 400 shots to shoot tonight.

So that's why we have actually eight shooters.

Where are we starting and where are we ending?

So we're going to start on the east side.

We should reach the peninsula tonight.

Here it comes. Steady up.

One week ago, the Laginas and their partners commissioned Eagle Canada to

begin an underground survey of the swamp area using a process known as seismic

testing. This technology involves creating sound waves below the Earth's

surface by detonating explosive charges, each containing 20 grams of dynamite.

As more than 2,000 total charges are remotely set off, the sound waves that

they generate will be measured by geophone recorders to create images of

any anomalies which could include man-made objects and structures.

So are we ready?

Yeah, let's get going.

Oh yeah, that was a splatter.

Due to sound interference created by heavy winds, which have grown more

frequent during the day as the winter season approaches,

the Eagle Canada team has chosen to continue their work at night when the

ambient noise above ground will be less likely to contaminate their results.

So when you shoot these lines tonight, are you a third done, quarter done?

Counting what you already have in the can, you should be about a half,

shouldn't you? Yeah, we would be, if we shot everything we had tonight, we'd be

close to half shot.

Yeah.

Would you see disturbed ground, like if a channel had been dug through the

middle of the swamp, would you see that? I'd likely see that. Yeah, we're hoping

and imagining pretty good at 20 feet.

than below.

So we believed in our science, we were confident, but now we're even more

confident that we'll get you something good.

Although seismic technology was originally developed to map features

located miles deep beneath the Earth's surface,

Eagle Canada has pioneered a technique that can obtain seismic data at much

shallower depths.

Eagle Canada is confident they can image even better than they did in the money

pit. If there is some kind of massive structure in the swamp, which Rick

believes is possible, I think we'll see it.

I'll make a prediction right now. Whatever you end up shooting out out

here, it'd probably be something we're not thinking about.

There'll be some strange stories about Oak Island tonight. Strange lights and

sounds.

If there's something here, we ought to find it.

As a new day begins on Oak Island. Greetings.

Hello, gentlemen.

How's everybody doing?

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with members of their team, have

welcomed treasure hunter Justin Kennedy and researcher Bruce Lindahl to the war

room.

Also joining them via video conference from his home in California is Bruce's

brother, Cort Lindahl.

Hi, Cort. Hello, Cort.

Hey, Cort.

As an author, researcher, and professional land surveyor, Cortlandall

has spent more than 40 years studying the history and archaeology of both

Europe and North America.

He believes he has made an important connection between the work of Rick's

friend, the late author Zena Halpern, and his own research, chronicling the

possible connections of America's founding fathers to the Knights Templar.

Zena Halpern did a great job exposing all of this.

And all of her research may well apply to what we're talking about in many

different ways.

Oh, so?

Well, you know, first of all, the map that Zena Halpern supplied you all.

Right. From examining the map itself, I think that map could serve as a bridge

that really does connect Oak Island to those French mysteries.

Hello? Two years ago.

Zena Halpern presented Rick and the team with what she believed to be a

transcription of an ancient French map showing possible treasure sites on Oak

Island. The 1347 map shows Oak Island with French words identifying

places.

Although the actual authorship of the map is unknown, it references the name

Rochefoucauld, a French noble family with direct links stretching back to the

days of the Knights Templar.

The Rochefoucauld family even has connections to the Duke Anvil and the

possible construction or visit to the Money Pit.

I found eight pages of a ship, what looks like a ship's log.

One year ago, Doug Krull found a transcript taken from an 18th century

ship's log.

Reportedly authored by a member of a 1746 naval expedition to Nova Scotia,

led by the French Admiral known... as the Duc d'Anville, and which described

the construction of a treasure shaft eerily similar to the original money

pit.

It has been agreed that a deep pit be dug, the pit to have a secret entrance

by a tunnel from the shore.

I mean, it fits in every aspect.

Interestingly enough, the Duc d'Anville, his real name was Jean-Baptiste Louis

Friedrich de Rochefoucauld.

Louis Alexander Rochefoucauld was the son of the Duke d'Anville that lost his

life on the d'Anville expedition.

And Alexander is a very interesting character because of his associations

with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

There is some degree of probability that Louis Alexander Rochefoucauld, in his

friendship with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, may have actually told

them of Oak Island or whatever secret was there.

Benjamin Franklin?

Thomas Jefferson?

Two of the founding fathers of the United States of America?

They could have had part of the treasure from Oak Island as a way to finance the

war.

and help, you know, establish the new country.

Holy smokes.

Wow.

They have been amazed by seeing all the connections between the first families

of Virginia, New England, and these French patriot families that all

assisted us in the Revolutionary War.

Throughout Thomas Jefferson's time in France, there's some chances that he was

even initiated into a form of Knights Templar in France.

that the Rochefoucaulds and others may have been members of at that time.

All these families were all involved in secret societies like the Templars, like

the Freemason.

We know Freemasons who were Knights Templar, that they had a hand in the

creation of the United States, and that also in turn links us back to George

Washington, who was a Freemason.

These French families who came to settle in Nova Scotia, actually corresponding

with George Washington prior to the war, to try to convince him that Nova Scotia

should be part of the American colonies.

And indeed, Nova Scotia may have even been planned to be the 13th colon.

That's interesting.

We know the number 13 in the colonies came up because they split Vermont and

New Hampshire in half to make that number possible.

That's remarkable.

Why was the number 13 so important to the founding fathers?

I believe the number 13 was important because it has kind of sacred overtones

that we do associate with Friday the 13th and the story of the dissolution of

the Knights Templar.

By the beginning of the 14th century, The military order of the Knights

Templar had grown incredibly powerful and wealthy, fighting to protect the

interests of Christians in Europe and the Middle East during the Crusades.

But after falling into great debt to the Templars, King Philip IV of France

conspired to have the order falsely charged with heresy and disbanded.

On Friday the 13th, 1307, thousands in the order were arrested, tortured,

and executed.

although a large number of survivors were known to have escaped to scotland

there are many who believe that they eventually set sail for the new world

with ships loaded up with treasure and sacred objects taken from their crusades

in the holy land is it possible that the templar treasure was eventually

deposited on oak island by members of the rochefoucauld family and if so could

a portion of this treasure have been offered to George Washington and the

founding fathers as a means of helping to finance the American Revolution.

Do you think there was a time when Washington actually may have come to

Nova Scotia and Oak Island?

I'm not so sure that George Washington ever came there, but we do know that, as

Doug was telling me about that appeal to heaven design, they might be on Oak

Island. I see. Is that what you're referring to right there? The pine tree

design? Yes.

Where does this appear and where does this come from? Appeal to heaven. It's

the belief in the right to revolt.

Although presented in various forms, the tree flag, or appeal to heaven flag, was

commissioned by General George Washington when he became commander-in

-chief of the Continental Army in October 1775.

and came to symbolize colonial resistance toward Great Britain during

the American Revolution.

Well, there is something like that.

It's in that stone that says Evan on it that's on the north side of the island.

I think it's towards the Boulderless Beach, but Charles could tell you

exactly where it is. Yeah, it's down on the shore, yeah.

Located on the northeastern shore of Oak Island, the so-called Evans Stone, he's

a large boulder upon which several words have been carved.

along with what appears to be a branch or tree.

But is it possible this crude symbol has a more profound meaning?

One connected to the United States' most famous founding father and first

president, George Washington.

So you guys want to go see this stone?

Okay. Yeah, I'd love to see it. Yeah.

Okay, let's go out in the field.

Following their meeting in the war room,

Marty Lagina and historian Doug Kroll, along with Justin Kennedy and Bruce

Lindahl, head to Lot 14, located on the northeast end of Oak Island.

Beautiful out here.

Stones down there. Watch your step. This stuff is slippery.

They are investigating if a carving found on the face of a large stone on

the island's northern shore may actually depict the appeal to heaven flag.

A battle flag commissioned by General George Washington during the American

Revolution.

There you go.

Wow.

That's it.

I don't know. This is really strange.

It does look like a tree, though, doesn't it?

It does look like a tree.

Yeah. Wow.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

Right.

That's crazy that it's got 13 just like the picture does.

Is this stone carving of a tree featuring 13 branches proof that Cort

Lindahl's incredible theory is true?

Could some of the United States' most prominent founders, such as Thomas

Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington be connected to the Oak

Island mystery?

Court Lindahl and Justin and Bruce think there may be some connection between Oak

Island and maybe the fledgling United States.

There's a symbol of a tree on the eastern end of the island that was

significant to George Washington.

That's a connection.

That opens up my thinking about what happened here.

Thank you for coming out. Appreciate it. It's been a pleasure. Yes, sir. It's

been a pleasure, man.

Later that afternoon, Rick and Marty Lagina head to the Oak Island Swamp,

where the team from Eagle Canada are completing their extensive seismic

survey of the entire area.

There they are.

Hey, how you doing? Good.

You got it pretty well worked up here. Good morning. Hey, Jared. Yeah, we shot

everything last night.

So how does the data quality look?

Well, we only see the raw data from here and the raw data looks really good. So

we'll see what the power of the stack does when we put everything together and

we send it to processing. How long before we might see something?

I'm guessing the processor is going to need about a month. And after that,

Jeremy is going to need about two weeks to actually give his report.

Okay.

Although Rick and Marty are excited by the news, that the team from Eagle

Canada has completed their seismic survey of the swamp, they will have to

wait until next year to act on the results.

All right, guys. Well, again, thank you very much. Yeah, well, thanks. It was a

pleasure. Safe travels.

As Rick and Marty conclude their meeting with the Eagle Canada team... We're

trying to go up this way.

At Smith's Cove... I'm going to just grab the shovel and dig away a bit.

Area archaeologist Laird Niven and heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt are

continuing to excavate the beach area in search of the main flood tunnel, which,

if found, could lead the team directly to the original money pit.

Holy crap.

Got it there.

What's that?

The wall.

That's the third one then, right?

Yeah.

There's this one here.

Yeah. and then but then there's the one outside then there's a parallel one

that's number three yeah it's definitely running parallel to this this one we

didn't know about no a third wall found just a few feet from the other walls

discovered just one day ago at smith's cove could the team have found evidence

of the main flood tunnel that feeds sea water into the money pit let's continue

to uncover it

See how deep it goes.

It's a box. There's a board on this end. I'll get something here.

All right, what do we got here?

Well, we're hoping you can maybe tell us.

All right, I will.

I'm coming down here to tell you what this is.

Okay, first tell me where we were yesterday. Here, right?

We saw the front of this wall yesterday.

So our logic was to dig behind it, you know, and profile it down. And then

there was another wall, which turns out to be a shaft.

Is it a shaft?

We assume so.

Yeah. Looks like a sluice box or something, doesn't it?

A sluice box?

Traditionally made of wood or metal.

A sluice box.

is a device designed to channel and regulate the flow of water could the

team have found a structure that was put here by previous searchers as a means of

attempting to redirect the flow of ocean water away from a flood tunnel guarding

the money pit or could it be much older and actually be a part of the booby

-trapped flooding system itself

I tell you what the problem is, you can't finish your dang job here because

you keep finding stuff. This is the trouble.

Yeah. This is the trouble.

Tell you what, Rick, whatever that is, it's beautifully done, isn't it?

Artfully done.

That could be paneling in your study.

Those boards are thicker than these, though. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

So you've got three structures in very close proximity.

Someone was endeavoring to do something substantial.

It needs more digging. And until that happens, I don't think we can...

assess properly what this may mean.

With another mysterious but also promising discovery, Rick, Marty, and

the team can only draw one conclusion.

Their investigation of Smith's Cove is far from over.

However, there is another unfortunate reality.

Their time to explore on the island this year has come to an end.

Guys, here's the unfortunate truth, and facts are stubborn.

We're out of time this season.

Everything's closing in. We're running out of permit time. We're running out of

weather. We're basically done. Let's get back to the war room and discuss this.

Let's assemble the guys.

Yep.

Let's go.

After another year of hard work, but also one filled with surprising new

discoveries and compelling revelations, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina.

gather with their partners and other members of the team in the war room for

their final meeting on Oak Island this year.

Also joining the fellowship via video conference from Muskegon, Michigan, is

Marty's son, Alex.

Well, gentlemen, it is that time again.

Winter is closing in. The weather is getting nasty.

We're running out of time.

The equipment has to go back.

So it's time that we all get together to talk about Smith's Cove and most

importantly, where in the heck are we going with it?

I think it's been a big success.

You've seen all the structures we've uncovered, sometimes on a daily basis.

Yeah. And you cannot look at this picture and say we weren't successful in

accomplishing what we wanted to do.

I mean, there it is, all laid out.

We ran into all kinds of heretofore unknown structures.

and what very much appears to be an intact box drain and a big slipway that

goes well out into the ocean and the so-called u-shaped structure clearly

massive structures clearly well engineered

And where we are right now is we just uncovered, as I believe everybody knows,

yet another structure in Smith's Cove.

A big structure, a massive structure.

And Craig, I think it was Craig who noticed, they're vertical cuts.

This is dimensional lumber, but they're not circular saw cuts. So this was done

perhaps by hand.

I feel like last year we found a lot of items, but we didn't have any

information about them. But this year, I mean, we have evidence that, you know,

something... unrecorded happened prior to the start of the search process you

know right in line with the theories that actually is my biggie for the year

absolutely yeah we had the wood samples tested and the results dated to 1769

25 to 30 years prior to the discovery of the money pit right i will say

this gentlemen before that revelation i was mulling this all over in my head and

i was thinking there's nothing here but searcher evidence and was ready to sort

of say i'm sorry nothing happened here except collective madness oh no i agree

the u-shaped structure i was kind of excited about it at the beginning of the

season assumed it was searcher right up until we got the dender result and then

it just reset everything to me yeah you know now we have a narrative we can we

have a place to start yeah well I have to say, something did happen here, very

significant. Yes. I have to. The data says that. So the obvious question is,

were the structures in Smith's Cove built by the depositors of this

treasure? Or was it an attempt to recover the treasure?

So it's 1769, sir. Are you here to make a deposit or a withdrawal?

My assumption would have been a deposit.

The evidence is there.

Dave, what about you?

They did not come to retrieve it. They came to put it.

Charles, I think I know but say it. I think it was depositors, not retrievers.

I am in agreement with you, Charles. Yeah, but wait a minute. Let me ask it

this way. If you had to bet, which way do you bet?

Is there still something here worth finding?

I would bet my life.

You would bet your life savings? No, I'd bet my life.

Based on what, Charles?

Based on a belief that it's there.

Okay. I would bet my life.

I would.

Absolutely. Absolutely, Marty. We'd definitely find something.

And I would bet my house and my car and everything like that. All right, okay.

How about you, David?

Yes, I think there's something there.

All right.

Gary, which side of the bet are you taking? I know there's something down

there. I mean, that's like when I watch the hammer grab going down there and

coming up, it reminds me of one of those arcade games where you're trying to get

a teddy bear. We've all done it, and we couldn't do it.

We just need that lucky one grab.

How about you, Alex?

The question isn't, is there treasure there? Because there's no way of knowing

one way or another until we're so lucky as to find it.

The question is, what do we have so far that says to us we need to keep looking?

That's kind of what I'm trying to get to.

1769 structure says that to me anyway.

Unless it was a withdrawal and not a deposit.

God bless us.

After finding strong evidence that a major operation was conducted on Oak

Island some 25 years prior to the first reported discovery of the money pit,

Rick, Marty, and their team are debating a critical question.

Was the construction at Smith's Cove the result of someone depositing something

of great value on Oak Island or evidence of their removing it?

If it was deposited here by the French, and the French were helping the

Americans in the American Revolutionary War, which they clearly were. Yeah.

So they say, they know rebellion's brewing. They say, you guys need money?

I can tell you where some is. So they come up, they dig it out.

They know the British are probably just two steps behind them. This is a British

colony. Sure it is.

They know that those guys are going to get swamped in the muck 40 feet below,

don't they? They know that for sure.

It could tie up an entire...

A couple British warships with people trying to dig up a treasure that is no

longer there.

But if they were withdrawing, wouldn't they have shut off the booby trap? Yes.

Yes. Of course. There's no question about it. If they took whatever's here,

you think they'd police the areas and cover everything up as good as they did?

Why? Why?

What's the point?

You just dig it up and you go. Oh, absolutely.

Right. You don't know for sure if it's a deposit or maybe it was taken or

whatever. But you could go on another island in Mahome Bay and I don't think

you'd find near the things that we found here. So I really believe that there's

definitely something in Oak Island.

If we had found nothing, I'd probably be done right now.

When we found them coins.

We found a good number of those.

The bones were older than any known searcher, and the parchment.

Yeah, what about the bookbinding that we found last year in H-8? I rest my case,

I'm not alone.

I agree completely.

The whole story, the whole quest started at the Money Pit. And after they, you

know, it flooded out, then they went to Smith's Cove, and then they felt there

was a flood tunnel. Well, we've proven that there was activity going on at

Smith's Cove. Yeah.

I don't know, Craig. I don't know. But it sounds like a very strong consensus

around this table. There's something still worth looking for.

I could easily land on the opposite side of that.

Marty, in my opinion, there's evidence that has come out where these people

have worked.

And I mean, when you can see it and hand it and put it in your hand, I mean,

that's evidence.

You can't take that away.

And I mean, if you want to ignore it, ignore it. But I mean, at your own

peril.

I mean, look, I think we have all respected what Dan's advice from a

couple of years ago. You know, let's take a deep breath. Let's sit back.

Let's think about what we've done. Think about what we might care to do in the

near future.

So there's a lot to look forward to in the near term and as we look outward.

Right.

Okay.

It's been a great year.

I certainly want to thank each and every person around this table for just a

tremendous effort and a job well done. I feel really good about what we did.

I feel really good about what Rick led us to do.

We accomplished the things we set out to accomplish. We explored where we needed

to explore.

So, Rick, do you have anything to add?

First and foremost, to look around the table, not only to see people in pursuit

of a common goal, but friends, family.

And I'm grateful that we're all here together.

And I also think that it's been a long, long...

year of discovery.

But to that end, I am not dismayed. I am very much looking forward to the

upcoming year.

And I would ask everybody to put their hand in.

So one in, all in, once in, forever in. Again, thank you very much.

Let's go.

For the Laginas

and their team,

It has been an extraordinary year.

Gary, you're the man.

Thanks, Mike. They not only conducted the most ambitious efforts in the

history of a 223-year search for treasure on Oak Island, but

they revealed more pieces to this complex puzzle than anyone before them.

And as the search for the clues that will complete the picture goes on,

one thing appears more certain than ever. Next year, the breakthrough.

Something profound happened centuries ago on this tiny North Atlantic island.

Take care, Dan.

Something that may have impacted the fate of the entire world.

All right, guys.

Let's roll.

There are significant questions which remain to be answered, but...

If there really is a connection to the American Revolution, it is indeed a

national treasure for the U.S. because it rewrites history. It is a national

treasure for Nova Scotia because the mystery is here.

Started out as a bit of a lark, didn't it? Hey, let's buy the island and let's

see if we can figure this out. And then all of a sudden it became pretty

intense. I've been kind of forced to pay attention because of the magnitude of

this thing.

I really believe we are the only searchers in 200 and whatever years that

have proved that something substantial happened here prior to the discovery of

the money pit. To me, I can't overstate how significant that is.