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NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

-Can you go deeper, Billy? -Definitely.

-GARY: Ooh! -RICK: Oh!

JACK: There's a structure!

These are massive.

A piece of Oak Island history.

Whoa!

-I hit the void at 183. -That's what we want.

Do you think we hit the anomaly?

What we have here is a void that encapsulates

-the Chappell Vault. -Yeah!

That's the treasure of the Money Pit

that was never recovered.

NARRATOR: 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...

...man-made workings that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross whose origin may be connected

to 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.

♪ ♪

-RICK: Morning, Bill. -BILLY: Morning.

Should say good morning, right?

We're gonna find something today, right?

Well, we're pretty excited on this area.

The closer we get to the stone road,

the more exciting it's gonna get.

NARRATOR: As a new morning dawns on Oak Island

for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team,

the quest for answers

to a 229-year-old treasure mystery continues

in one of the most intriguing

and inhospitable locations on these 140 acres:

the triangle-shaped swamp.

-Gary, you're up. -All right, mate.

I'm ready to get stuck in.

-Hopefully, it's not literally. -(Rick laughs)

This looks old.

-That does. Yeah. -Yeah.

NARRATOR: One week ago, while excavating the potentially

500-year-old stone road, or ship's wharf,

that was first uncovered in the southeast corner

of the brackish bog back in 2020,

the team found a large hand-wrought chain and hook,

which, according to blacksmithing expert

Carmen Legge, was not only used to lift heavy cargo

but may also date back to the 16th century.

I'll start down there at the bottom

-and work my way back. -Okay.

NARRATOR: Now the team is digging further into the southern shore

that borders the swamp

in the hopes of uncovering more of the stone road

and also clues that could prove whether or not

the swamp was artificially created

in order to hide something of great value on Oak Island.

Is that a stick there, mate?

On this side of the hole?

Yeah.

RICK: Yeah. There.

-It's axe-cut. -GARY: Oh, yeah?

-That's worth bagging. -Okay.

-I'll put it in the bag. -Okay.

This is almost peaty, though, here.

-Yeah. That does. -BILLY: It's a little bit of peat,

and then it goes to a mud.

And it's the only layer in here

that's kind of like that.

RICK: What it tells me is, we need to know

-what's under this dirt. -Right.

We should have Dr. Spooner come down.

GARY: Yeah.

-I'll send him a text. -Yeah.

RICK: The axe-cut wood is interesting because

it represents older type of wood construct,

and this material is coming up in the peat.

It's quite layered there. There's sand, peat, sand, peat.

I would say that it's not natural.

So, what is going on here?

-Hey, Billy. -Hi.

We don't know what to make of the possible

connection between here and the stone road.

What do you make of the peat, the gray sand,

-the raw sand? -That's kind of odd.

Yeah. The peat shouldn't be over the sand.

If this beach is moving landward with time,

then the sand should be over the peat.

I mean, this is, to me, really important because

it tells us this feature extended out this way.

So, why doesn't that feature, the way it exists there in front

of our eyes, why doesn't that extend here?

I think it was beach.

They pulled the boat up on the beach,

but you can't just have a big

26-foot boat sitting on a beach.

You're trying to unload it.

And they needed a platform to haul it on,

so I think they placed peat over the sand.

And that's what it looks like to me.

NARRATOR: Could Dr. Spooner be correct that the swamp

and surrounding area was artificially manipulated

in order to construct the stone road

for the purpose of moving something of great value

from a ship onto Oak Island?

I think you need to go three or four feet deeper.

-Oh, okay. -Good.

So, I think we should get back at it, right?

-Yeah. -Yeah. Okay. Good.

Yeah. I-I think so. Thank you.

I hope there is something below here.

IAN: I hope so, too.

NARRATOR: As the investigation of the stone road

continues in the swamp...

-MARTY: Hey, guys. -CRAIG: Hey, Roger.

-Hey, how's it going, guys? -Hey, Roger.

NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina

and Craig Tester

arrive in the Money Pit area

to meet with Roger Fortin of Dumas Contracting Limited.

These are the guys that are going to help us get these voids

filled in the shaft itself.

NARRATOR: Along with Ryan Hooker and Clint Molyneaux

of Minova Global, a company that specializes

in large underground construction operations.

We got to get down to that 95-plus feet.

-Yep. -And this is going to allow us to do it?

-You're pretty sure, right? -Oh, absolutely.

-Yeah. -Once we get this geofoam in place,

-I'm very confident that we're going to get down there. -Okay.

NARRATOR: For the past four weeks,

the 18th century, 87-foot-deep structure

known as the Garden Shaft

has been continuously flooded after a number of voids formed

just outside of the remodeled feature.

This has made Rick, Marty and Craig wonder if the cause

is related to one of the legendary

man-made flood tunnels

because it has stopped them and Dumas

from extending the shaft down to a target depth

of 95 feet, where a seven-foot-high tunnel

has been discovered.

A tunnel which runs directly toward an area

known as the Baby Blob,

where numerous groundwater tests have yielded

high-trace evidence of gold, silver and other metals

between depths of 80 and 120 feet.

Okay. Tell us what we're going to do.

Well, we're gonna pump some foam in there and try

to get your voids filled up.

-All right, well, this is just a pump, right? -Yep.

NARRATOR: Ryan and Clint will use an industrial-grade material

known as geofoam, which is specifically designed

for use in mining and construction projects.

Once injected into the open cavities,

it will expand to fill those voids,

seal out the inflow of water,

and stabilize the Garden Shaft so that Dumas can extend it

down into the possible treasure tunnel.

-All right. -Well, gentlemen, good luck.

-We'll let you get to your work. -Thank you. Nice to meet you.

Pleasure to meet you guys.

ROGER: All right, thanks, guys.

NARRATOR: As the process begins in the Garden Shaft,

-just 60 feet to the southwest... -So, where are we?

-We are down 88 feet below grade. -Awesome.

...geologist Terry Matheson,

Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse,

and Alex Lagina are supervising

a new core-drilling operation in a borehole known as K-06.

A borehole that might actually be on track

to encounter another potential cache of buried valuables

some 180 feet deep, near a site that the team

previously investigated six years ago.

Okay, so K-6, drilling for

-the muon low-density anomaly. -Exactly.

-Also could be where the H-8 plug ended up. -TERRY: That's right.

We're only about seven or eight feet away

from the actual H-8 caisson,

which makes it doubly interesting.

So what we're seeing is a high-density anomaly

southwest of the Garden Shaft.

It's significant.

NARRATOR: Several weeks ago, representatives

from Ideon Technology, utilizing a process known as

muon tomography, presented the team

with a subsurface scan of the Money Pit area

that revealed numerous low-density targets,

such as voids and possible buried containers.

One of the most compelling was identified

at a depth of nearly 180 feet.

MARTY: Come on, baby, let's make hole!

NARRATOR: It was in the same area where, in 2017,

the team excavated with a five-foot-diameter

steel caisson known as H-8 while they were attempting

to locate the fabled Chappell Vault.

A seven-foot-high chest

reportedly encountered by Frederick Blair

and William Chappell during a drilling operation in 1897

that uncovered trace evidence of gold,

along with pieces of parchment

bearing the letters "VI."

After Rick, Marty, Craig and the team discovered

their own pieces of parchment and leather book binding

in H-8, they were stunned

when the caisson encountered a large object

at a depth of 170 feet.

However, as the team extended the caisson deeper

in the hopes of penetrating the object,

the plug, or spoils inside of the caisson,

fell from the bottom and pushed the mysterious object deeper

and somewhere off to the side.

Is it possible that the muon target

that was detected at that same depth

might be a void that now contains the missing plug

from H-8 as well as the fabled Chappell Vault?

They hit a cobble there.

At least they got-- I think they got the cobble.

Hey, Colten.

-That's going to be to 118. -118.

We just pushed a rock for 20 feet, so it's gonna be 118.

TERRY: Yeah. It's in there, I believe.

That's a core barrel blocker, for sure.

How often do we hit cobble around 100 feet?

Uh...

I would say, "Not very often."

I'm just wondering, the flood tunnel's description

is un-cribbed...

-Yeah. -...stacked rocks, right?

-Yeah. -That's exactly the size

of a rock you'd put in a flood tunnel.

-TERRY: That's interesting. -CHARLES: Yep. Very interesting.

ALEX: That's exactly the size of a rock

you'd put in a flood tunnel.

In my head, it could be

a tunnel or something, right?

TERRY: Yeah, you raise a pretty good point.

NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,

while drilling borehole K-6,

where something of great value is potentially buried

at a depth of approximately 170 feet,

Alex Lagina and members of the team

may have just made an important discovery

at a depth of just 118 feet.

ALEX: I think it would at least

be worth recording.

On this one, say, on your log...

-TERRY: Okay. -...just make a mark

saying we hit a cobble at 118.

-Okay. -TERRY: Sure.

'Cause I'm just wondering if...

if maybe there's a pattern there.

TERRY: Yeah. And that's actually

an interesting premise.

-Maybe we should look into that. -Yeah.

ALEX: And as we're drilling,

I'm thinking,

the stories of the flood tunnels are that they're full of stones,

so we wouldn't have an open cavity if it was a flood tunnel.

Maybe we're actually pushing

the topmost cobble through the flood tunnel,

through the bottom.

NARRATOR: In 1897, the same year

that Frederick Blair and his team encountered

the so-called Chappell Vault,

they also reported discovering a man-made flood tunnel

which halted their efforts at a depth of 111 feet.

It was described as measuring

nearly three feet wide by four feet high

and was packed with large cobblestones.

Is it possible that the team

has now also found evidence of a flood tunnel?

If so, could that mean

that they are on target to encounter

what it was designed to protect?

ALEX: The flood tunnels were said

to be full of stones, small stones,

about the size of what we're seeing in the drill bit.

TERRY: The breaks don't seem to be very fresh or new.

ALEX: It could be evidence of depositor activity.

TERRY: So, this is all very, very interesting ground.

We're gonna cover it today.

The most important thing is the muon target at depth.

-ALEX: Yeah, I agree. -CHARLES: Yeah.

NARRATOR: As operations continue

in the Money Pit area, on Lot 5,

located on the western side of the island...

-Hey, Laird, archaeological team. -Marty.

-HELEN: Hey, Marty. -I'm checking up on you.

...Marty Lagina joins lead archaeologist

Laird Niven, Jack Begley, and other members of the team

as they continue their investigation

of a mysterious stone foundation.

So, what is this? Any more insight?

-This is definitely something going on. -Mm-hmm.

The soil is darker, it's looser, we got larger artifacts in it.

Here it's tighter packed, like they've been walked on

-a lot more. -Okay.

NARRATOR: Curiously, the Oak Island team

has discovered evidence on Lot 5

that suggests that a number of secretive operations

took place in this area long ago.

For instance, near the middle of the lot,

they have found a rectangular feature

which Helen Sheldon believes was purposely buried,

containing pottery and other artifacts

suggesting that it may date back to the same time period

as the early 18th century Garden Shaft in the Money Pit area.

And near the shoreline, they are also investigating

this circular feature that not only sets above

a much larger foundation, but which has produced artifacts

that have been dated to between the 14th and 18th centuries.

MARTY: Okay, is there anything I can do for you, Laird?

Yeah.

-Over here. -Okay.

-Um... -What you got?

LAIRD: Where Jack and Fiona are,

we need the rocks to go,

-including that big rock, if possible. -Mm-hmm.

And then we're expanding to the west.

So we need half of the circle, those rocks, taken out as well.

-Okay, I'll go get the backhoe. -Okay.

♪ ♪

What started as a circular feature

is turning into a rectangular feature.

(beeping)

The archaeologists themselves

are quite amazed at what they're finding.

Let me nudge that one, Jack.

We've always been looking for some sort of encampment.

This is clearly very important.

-Oh, that's got it. Yeah. -Yeah.

JACK: Perfect, Marty.

My gosh, we'll have room to work.

-Well done. -NARRATOR: While the investigation

of the mysterious structure proceeds on Lot 5...

GARY: We are right at the end of the stone road, mate.

This should be good.

I know the archaeologists found a lot of pottery

but hardly any metals.

-They're gonna be here. -(chuckles): Okay.

NARRATOR: ...along the southern edge of the swamp,

Rick Lagina, Gary Drayton

and Billy Gerhardt continue their efforts

to uncover another section

of the possibly 500-year-old stone road

and, hopefully, valuable clues.

I think that's the end of the road right there,

'cause there's stacked rocks, right?

RICK: That's what I would say.

If that's the end of the road, though, then...

if you're transitioning from one form

of transportation to another,

-this is where the stuff should be. -Yeah.

GARY: Yeah. Exactly.

I'm gonna go check that pile.

(device beeping)

What have we got here?

Look, we have got a signal.

Right in the corner, so that would've come out

of that last scoop.

All right, Rick, dig that sucker up.

It's gonna be an artifact.

Might have come from the road, right?

GARY: Yep.

I'll try pinpointing it

and then grabbing it out of there.

(device beeping)

RICK: Boy, it's tiny, whatever it is.

GARY: I'm not bothered, as long as it's old.

(device beeping)

(whispers): Let's see what we got.

Come on, baby. Be something good.

I think it's that.

It is this.

That was a lot of noise for what looks like some kind of tack.

That looks like it's, uh,

either a round or triangular shank.

Some kind of small fastener.

I think it's too long for boots and too thin

to be an oxshoe nail or an horseshoe nail.

Yet to be determined. That is definitely

a candidate for the XRF machine.

RICK: Bag it.

-Dang. -There's got to be something more than that.

GARY: Yeah. Into the bag it goes.

-We'll get more. Just got to go deeper. -Yeah.

Okay. Can you go deeper, Billy?

Oh, definitely.

-Okay. -Okay. Dig deeper. Let's go.

GARY: Oh, see that, Rick?

Look. What's that he's dragging?

-GARY: Ooh! -RICK: Oh!

Whoa, whoa. Whoa.

Whoa, whoa. Whoa.

GARY: Oh, see that, Rick? Look.

-GARY: Ooh! -RICK: Oh!

-Look at that. -Whoa, whoa. Whoa.

-Got a nice piece of pottery. -Whoa, whoa.

NARRATOR: While digging near the massive stone road

in the southern region of the Oak Island swamp...

Look how deep it was.

...Rick Lagina, Gary Drayton

and Billy Gerhardt have just unearthed

several potentially important clues.

Oh, that's gorgeous.

Look at that.

Hopefully, it's got some decoration, mate.

If it's gonna be anywhere, it'd be on that base.

-RICK: Here's another one. -Ooh.

GARY: That's a big chunk of pottery, isn't it?

-Mm-hmm. -It's some kind of bowl

or a dish.

There's so much of it.

RICK: There might be more.

-We should hand-dig this now. -Yeah.

Talk about finding something in situ,

as the archaeologists say.

That's gorgeous. Do you see any marks on any pieces?

RICK: Not yet. Nope.

Ooh, look at that.

-GARY: What have you got, Rick? -A handle.

Look at that. That's nice.

GARY: Yeah, that's gorgeous. Look at that.

Someone would have had money.

I'm telling you, mate,

wherever there's muck, there's money.

-This is great. -RICK: But they--

the archaeologists can put that together and clean it up.

-Maybe there's a maker's mark. -Yeah.

NARRATOR: If Rick's hope that this pottery, which was found

near the potentially 500-year-old stone road,

might bear a maker's mark proves to be true,

could it help verify the revelations

the team made two years ago and nearly 3,000 miles away?

-ALEX: It should be just up here. -NARRATOR: In 2022,

while visiting Alqueidão da Serra in Portugal,

a town known to have been a stronghold

for the Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar

between the 12th and 16th centuries...

Whoa, look at, look at how beautifully constructed--

I mean, rough and raw, but look at the curvature.

Look at-- the degree of slope remains constant.

-It's beautiful. -...Rick,

his nephews Alex and Peter, as well as Doug Crowell,

were shown a stone road that was nearly identical

to the stone road in the swamp.

ALEX: If there is a Portuguese connection to the construction

of the road in the swamp, maybe this is the blueprint.

RICK: Okay, now we got to really keep our eyes peeled, all right?

NARRATOR: Could Rick, Gary, and Billy have just gotten one step closer

to proving whether or not that potential connection is true?

There's pottery there, Gary.

GARY: Oh, yeah. No mistaking that.

What is it, Rick?

The thin stuff, I think.

Yeah. It's the thin stuff,

and this looks like it's a plate.

That's a plate rim, by the look of it.

There's got to be some maker's marks on some of this stuff.

Good eye, mate.

-Check this out. -Oh.

It's coming up. Look at that.

That's a beautiful piece of pottery.

That could be old.

Yeah, this could be old, mate.

That is really, really fancy.

-Look. -That's pretty.

Almost like a leaf design on it.

I haven't seen that before,

so that makes it interesting.

Here you go. Another one.

-Excellent. -Oh, one more.

GARY: Oh, man. That's sweet, isn't it?

RICK: Mm-hmm.

GARY: Yeah, glazed on one side.

It's got to be...

This is lovely, mate.

Good eye. That's some sweet pottery.

And I believe that this pottery

is older than that dish or a bowl we found.

RICK: Yep. I would agree.

GARY: I think the pottery is getting older,

the deeper we're going.

RICK: Yep.

We found a number of different types of pottery,

one or two vessels where they can possibly be reconstructed,

and it was quite localized.

Nice finds, Rick.

RICK: But what does that say?

Perhaps Laird can

make sense of it.

I know we're running out of daylight, mate,

but we've got to come back and dig some more,

because there really could be anything anywhere in this sand.

Well, then what you need to do is ask Billy

if we want to keep digging.

Guess what his answer's gonna be.

-Yeah. Hell yeah! -(Rick chuckles)

BILLY: Exactly. Yeah.

RICK: All right. Good job.

GARY: Love it.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: The following morning...

RICK: I don't think they have to go any deeper, do you?

Take that little square out of there.

Yep.

NARRATOR: ...as Rick leads the efforts

in the swamp...

So it is expanding and filling that void up.

That's great. That's what we want to see.

Absolutely.

...and while the geofoam application

proceeds in the Garden Shaft...

MIKE ST. LOUIS: Oh, there she goes. There she goes.

-ALEX: Hey, Charles. Terry. -TERRY: Hey, how you doing, Alex?

I hear we're close to target depth.

-We are. -Okay.

...Alex Lagina returns

to the Money Pit area...

TEDFORD: Oh, yeah. Lovely.

NARRATOR: ...to check on the core-drilling operation in borehole K-6--

a borehole which the team hopes

will encounter man-made workings or valuables

between the depths of 170 and 180 feet.

They haven't brought anything up for quite a while.

-We got to cross our fingers this could be it. Yeah. -Yeah.

ALEX: This is it, eh?

There it is. There's the core barrel.

This is a big one.

They got to put it in the Bobcat bucket.

Hey, Mike. What's up?

TEDFORD: I hit the void at, uh, 183.

TEDFORD: I hit the void at, uh, 183.

TERRY: Wow.

ALEX: That could be it.

I mean, that could be what we're looking for here.

TERRY: Yeah.

TEDFORD: I hit the void at, uh, 183.

ALEX: All right.

So let's see what we got.

NARRATOR: It is a potentially important moment

in the Money Pit area

for members of the Oak Island team.

CHARLES: Here we go.

If we're looking for something

that slipped out of the H-8 caisson...

-That could be it right there. -Yeah.

NARRATOR: After encountering a void

in borehole K-6

at a depth of 183 feet,

where a highly specialized muon tomography scan

identified possible man-made workings earlier this year...

Thank you, Mike.

TEDFORD: No prob.

Let's carve this bad boy up

and see what we got here, gentlemen.

...they are examining

a freshly unearthed core sample that will hopefully

reveal clues

as to what the void contains.

TERRY: We have ten feet of real bedded material.

For the most part, it seems relatively natural and normal.

Except here. Right under the bedrock.

TERRY: Yeah.

That potentially is low density material there.

And it looks like it might be disturbed.

If the plug slipped out of H-8, settled anywhere,

it's gonna be mixed up like this.

TERRY: Absolutely.

I think, you know, we have the potential

to have a portion or an aspect

-of the H-8 plug. -Okay. -CHARLES: Yeah.

Chances are, we just may be close to the Chappell Vault.

Yeah.

So we're close, I guess, is-is the optimistic take.

Yeah.

H-8 was a very interesting caisson.

That's the caisson where a 12-foot plug

just dropped overnight

and went somewhere down into a void.

So if we can locate where that plug is,

it could indicate that we're near the Chappell Vault.

NARRATOR: Possible evidence of the spoils, or plug,

that the team believes

may have pushed the Chappell Vault

to a deeper location in the Money Pit area?

If they have found the missing plug

from H-8 in this mysterious void,

is it possible that they are close

to locating the fabled Chappell Vault as well?

And we find it just in under the lip

of an actual large bedrock overhang,

so it's possible the depositors

were able to work to this point and get in under there.

So, possibly this was an open area.

Right, but K-6, 183 to 187, looks good.

-It could answer a lot of questions for us. -ALEX AND CHARLES: Yeah.

ALEX: So we might be close to finding something.

-TERRY: We should let Rick know. -ALEX: Sounds good.

NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...

RICK: So, gentlemen,

the K-6 hole

was meant to find and determine the Ideon anomaly.

NARRATOR: ...Alex, Terry and Charles

meet with Rick Lagina

and other members of the team

in the war room to report their potentially

important discovery that was made

in borehole K-6.

RICK: What did the hole do?

Do you think we hit the anomaly?

I think it's important to show where it is in relation to H-8.

Can you plot the K-6? Can we see it up on the screen?

K-6 is right there.

TERRY: I definitely think we hit some loose material

and probably disturbed, uh,

at about 183 to 187 or 188.

Given the low-density anomaly

seems to jibe with the levels

at which we lost the plug to the H-8 caisson,

I really think we hit a piece of that plug from H-8.

STEVE: And so the void that Terry is talking about,

so I brought up the data from Ideon.

Our borehole K-6 would have gone through here.

This is the anomaly

they're talking about. You're not wrong.

The H-8 caisson would have gone through,

and this potentially could be the area where we lost the plug.

I think the Ideon low-density anomaly is

potentially the void that encapsulates the Chappell Vault.

Great.

-Yeah. -Exactly.

JACK: In my mind, that's where

the treasure of the Money Pit that was

never recovered has been slowly falling

deeper and deeper.

RICK: The K-6 drilling

has significantly

upped the ante, if you will,

in terms of the interest in this area.

It's eminently possible that the Chappell Vault fell

to a greater depth into areas that have been

not explored or investigated.

So this could lead to possible

treasure recovery or something of great importance.

Well, bottom line is, there's potential for caisson work.

Everyone should weigh in on where the drill program goes.

Agreed.

If the question is, "Where do we drill?"

I'd want to put one more borehole

through that H-8 plug.

-Yeah. -I don't see how you can walk away from it.

Okay.

NARRATOR: If the team is able to discover more definitive evidence

of man-made workings or valuables

in the area around borehole K-6 and H-8,

they could, as they have done in the past,

install a much larger diameter steel caisson

in order to retrieve it.

Over the next coming days, we'll reposition

and try to hit the anomaly of the void.

That'd be great.

Lot of work to do. Let's go.

ALEX: Okay.

NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...

-ALEX: Lindy, Helen, Moya. -LINDY: Hello.

-HELEN: Hey, Alex. -ALEX: How's it going? So...

this looks like the dig has expanded yet again

since the last time I was here.

-Yes. -MOYA: Yes.

NARRATOR: ...Alex Lagina joins Helen Sheldon

and other members of the archaeology team

on Lot 5 as they continue

their investigation of the mysterious stone foundation.

Are you still getting artifacts?

HELEN: A few. We got a really interesting one.

It's called a strike-a-light.

It's a piece of European flint

that they would have used to hit on the metal

to make a spark to start a fire.

-See all those bits that have chipped off it? -ALEX: Yeah, right there.

-HELEN: Yeah. -ALEX: And this is how you identify it?

This kind of worn edge?

HELEN: Yeah. There were quite a few worn bits on it.

-ALEX: How do you know it's European? -HELEN: Just by the color.

And they used to bring it

-over to North America as a ballast on ships. -ALEX: Mm-hmm.

And it's unusual to find them.

NARRATOR: A piece of flint?

Of possible European origin?

And discovered in the foundation

that was buried beneath the circular structure on Lot 5?

Is it possible that it was left here by someone

who secretly inhabited this area long ago?

If so, might there be more clues in the feature

that will help the team better understand

how it could be related to the Oak Island mystery?

All right. Well, thank you for the update,

and then I'll stick around and make myself useful.

-Sounds good. -Sounds good.

ALEX: All the indicators are

that something happened on Lot 5

long before people started looking for treasure here.

Anything that happened on the island

prior to the discovery

of the Money Pit is possibly connected

with any kind of deposit that might have been made.

Hey, Helen.

What do you make of these?

Ooh.

ALEX: What do you make of these?

-HELEN: Oh, my heavens. -NARRATOR: On Lot 5, located on

the western side of Oak Island...

ALEX: It's copper, I think.

HELEN: Yeah. Definitely copper, 'cause of the greenness of it all.

...Alex Lagina has just made what

could be an important discovery

in the spoils that have been excavated

from the mysterious stone foundation.

HELEN: I would say decorative rather than functional

-just because of the fragility of it. -ALEX: Mm-hmm.

It's not the first copper we've found on the island like this.

Peter and David, a few years ago,

-found copper sheeting... -Oh, wow.

...on the high side of the beach.

HELEN: Very cool.

NARRATOR: Two years ago...

GARY: Wow, this is fantastic.

...while investigating the shoreline of nearby Lot 4...

GARY: Old piece of copper sheeting.

...Gary Drayton, along with brothers Peter

and David Fornetti, found a very similar artifact.

Well, I'll have a look.

NARRATOR: An artifact that blacksmithing expert

Carmen Legge believed might be one of the most

significant clues ever found by the team.

CARMEN: So, it'd be used, like, on a box.

Were there certain boxes that would consistently

have that type of sheeting on it?

Only for valuables.

-Treasure. -(laughs) Right.

CARMEN: Well, it's very old.

When you say "very old," how old do you mean?

Oh, this could go all the way back to the 1100s.

Wow. That's pretty old. (laughs)

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Alex has just found evidence

of an ancient container

designed to hold something of value

in the mysterious foundation on Lot 5?

If so, what happened to the contents?

And could they be buried deeper

within this feature, or perhaps somewhere deep

in the Money Pit area?

I think this is going to be

a good candidate for the lab here.

Right. We should put it all carefully together,

so it doesn't get crushed by anything else.

Okay. I'll do that.

Thanks.

NARRATOR Later that afternoon...

GARY: A scoop full of opportunities.

JACK: Oh, look at that piece of lumber.

GARY: Yep. I saw that.

NARRATOR: ...in the swamp, Gary Drayton, Jack Begley

and Billy Gerhardt

continue unearthing new potential clues

just to the south of the possibly

500-year-old stone road, or ship's wharf.

What is it, Jack?

It's an old, cut piece of wood.

-There we go. -GARY: It could be a roller.

Something that was used on top

of the stone roadway, and you'd roll cargo up on it.

BILLY: Sure. And it's in the right area right by the road, right?

We got wedges, rollers and the chain hoist to pull.

-Yep. -BILLY: Right? So...

NARRATOR: Could Gary and Billy be correct

that this cut wooden log

might have been used along with the large chain

that was found one week ago in this area,

and which Carmen Legge believed

was designed to lift heavy cargo

in order to transport something of great value

along the stone road long ago?

So, we'll set it aside and get it tested.

Okay, mate.

NARRATOR: If so, could that suggest

the clues that the team has found

in the swamp and on Lot 5

have revealed more evidence

that there could be multiple treasures

buried in the Money Pit area?

Ooh. I see wood.

Ooh, look at this.

That looks like a bit of decking or a bit of planking.

Oh, you might be right.

-It's dimensional. -GARY: Yeah.

And I'm saying that it could be

a piece of decking or planking,

but it could be a bit of railing.

I like how you keep thinking ship

-'cause definitely there's ship pieces in here. -Yeah.

GARY: To me, the most important recoveries

we've got out of this dig is the wood.

Because we can have the wood C-14'ed.

You can see it's been worked,

and I'm hoping that when this is tested,

we get those same ancient date ranges.

That would be fantastic.

All right, well, keep an eye out for more wood.

I'll keep an eye out, mate.

And I'll go put it up with the other wood we found.

-Thanks, mate. -Good find, Gary.

-All right. So, back to the search. -Yep.

JACK: Look, is that...?

When you pull that bucket away,

can you see the difference between the swamp muck

-and the gravel there? -Yeah, there's a line.

Oh, nice. Look at that, Gary.

-GARY: Ooh. -JACK: There's a structure under there, Billy.

GARY: Look at that.

h.

Hey, Billy.

-Can you see that wood? -Yeah.

NARRATOR: While excavating the earthen barrier

between the Oak Island swamp

and the waters of Mahone Bay,

Billy Gerhardt, Jack Begley and Gary Drayton

have just uncovered another compelling find.

Could that be a piece of the wall that Fred Nolan found?

I think that's it.

Yeah. I mean, if we found the wall in the swamp,

-that would be a major discovery. -Yeah.

Rick would be as happy as a pig in the proverbial.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Fred Nolan's wall?

After partially draining the swamp in 1969,

the late Oak Island landowner Fred Nolan

reportedly discovered evidence

of what he believed to be timbered walls, or dams,

buried along both the northern and southern borders

of the brackish bog.

This led Fred to theorize

that the entire feature

had been artificially created centuries ago

in order to hide something of great value.

That looks like two pieces of wood

and they've been cut to fit like that.

-There's definitely two pieces there. -Right.

NARRATOR: Is it possible the Oak Island team

has found corroborating evidence

that Fred's theory was true?

-I think this is the wall. -Mm-hmm.

-Maybe we can wash it down a little bit. -JACK: All right.

But I think we should call Rick to come and see.

Yeah. I agree with that, mate.

BILLY: All right.

GARY: There are so many things

connected with Oak Island that no one

has seen for a very long time.

Fred Nolan's wall is one of them.

-RICK: Hey, guys. -Hey, Rick.

It could be true.

I don't see a treasure chest.

No, but we got news for you.

We just wanted to wait for your input

before we went any further.

That.

RICK: Wow.

JACK: We were thinking this might be the wall

that Fred Nolan had found.

It's possible.

And those two pieces of wood there look like they was cut,

and the angles look like they fitted together.

Does it look broken? Or, I mean, I got to go over there.

Between the two, they certainly look like they were cut-fitted,

-but that somebody fit 'em together. -Yeah.

JACK: Hope you don't mind having wet feet.

RICK: It's a big piece of wood. There's no doubt about that.

-Like you said, cut, angled, cut there. -GARY: Yeah.

Certainly, we have the live edge on the backside

-if we wanted to C-14 it. -JACK: Mm-hmm.

It would be interesting to expose the top of that.

-RICK: Yeah. -BILLY: It certainly looks like

it could be pretty important.

Well, yeah. I would dig that

-to see if it extends. -Yeah.

But I think we need to understand what this may

represent and perhaps its association with that.

GARY: And that's exactly why we stood down, mate.

We figured this could be important.

-JACK: Yeah. -RICK: Right.

We want to understand this in its totality, right?

And the only way to do that is be very specific

about how we approach exposing it.

It's all good news.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

RICK: I so desperately want this to be the wall

that Fred had stated

was there, so I'm very hopeful.

Because if you found such a structure

in the face of the swamp,

I would go on record as saying

it had to be closely associated with the original work.

There's a real story here, and we are all endeavoring

to come up with an answer.

And that's why we're doing the work.

Okay. Well, you know, guys, great job.

It was a long day in the hot sun.

I know, you know, unfortunately, every day

there's an end of the day, but I see no reason

why we can't continue. Pretty good day.

Amazing day of discoveries and recoveries.

RICK: Oh, absolutely.

Okey doke, guys.

NARRATOR: After another week of digging and drilling

into the 229-year-old Oak Island mystery,

Rick, Marty and their faithful team

have discovered more incredible evidence

suggesting that people went to great lengths

to keep secrets that were never meant to be revealed.

But now, as the team works

to overcome the odds that have defeated

all who came before them in search of the truth,

are the days that those secrets will remain buried

finally coming to an end?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

What the hell have you got there?

A big chunk of steel.

MARTY: That could be the drill that found

the famous Chappell Vault.

A small jewelry chest or something.

ALEX: Which means it could have been

part of any treasure that was here.

Look at that. A coin.

-What?! -ALEX: Cool. -(laughs)

-LINDY: Wow. -There's a boulder.

-GARY: It looks similar to the stone roadway. -BILLY: Yeah.

This could be very important.

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