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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

Whoa, baby!

Really big, impressive timbers.

We're back in the old stuff.

Whoa, look at this! ‐We have got more markings.

‐ How about that? ‐ Wait, stop!

‐What's that? ‐ There's no doubt about this.

This is a man‐made tunnel.

‐Ooh, look at that! Oh, wow!

What kind of date are you putting on this?

‐Well, this could be from the original Money Pit. ‐Mm‐hmm.

It's getting tighter. Pressures are rising a little bit.

‐ Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa!

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.

The Curse of Oak Island Season 7 - EP 22 - Marks X the Spot

Subtitles Diego Moraes / Ewerton Henrique www.oakisland.tk

Whoa, baby!

Look at all this.

Just really big, impressive timbers.

We're back in the old stuff!

With less than two weeks

before the onset of another harsh North Atlantic winter

will force brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

to halt all major search operations for the year,

their hopes of making a breakthrough discovery

in the steel‐cased RF‐1 Shaft remain high.

All right, keep pieces like that separate.

You're right. That could be very old.

Put that one over there, probably.

Just moments ago,

while monitoring the spoils being excavated from the shaft,

which they believe to be on course to intercept

the original Money Pit, the team discovered

not only a potentially centuries‐old pickax,

but also, massive, hand‐cut timbers

from a depth of some 100 feet.

Even more intriguing was the fact that these timbers

appeared to be carved with Roman numerals,

just like those found on the U‐shaped structure

unearthed last year at Smith's Cove,

a structure which was scientifically proven

to have been built in 1769,

more than two decades before the discovery

of the original Money Pit in 1795.

The last couple of hammer grabs,

all this old stuff started coming out.

I mean, this is really nice.

What are we down for right now, do you know?

Uh, we're 108 at the dig.

But this is the zone of interest right here,

so it's all the more important to see this kind of stuff.

I'm going to get gloves. I'll be right back.

Look.

Can you stand this on edge?

Yeah.

We know it was placed like this,

because the drill went through it.

Gives us some construction details,

‐doesn't it? ‐Yeah.

‐ That was a heck of a good shot. ‐Yeah.

Whoa! Bingo.

Gary, look at this.

‐What? ‐It's a mark‐a‐palooza.

They're everywhere. They're everywhere.

Oh, well‐discovered, Terry.

That is fantastic.

Yeah. That is great.

Marty, we have got more markings.

‐ How about that? Gee.

‐ That might be a three. ‐I don't know if there's some muck on it or not.

It might be a three, yeah.

‐That is definitely a three. ‐ Yeah.

Construction technology coming to life.

Lost for these 200 years, and here it is, right now.

That's, uh, very anomalous, what occurred in that RF‐1,

with that Roman numeral.

Those timbers are not associated with the Hedden Shaft

and they're not associated with the Chappell Shaft.

That is for sure.

They're much older, they're much different.

We've not seen the like in the Money Pit.

That's important.

It might be associated with an original depositional work.

If you think about it, each and every one of these

‐is a hand‐made piece. ‐ Yes.

So, you have to mate the one to the one

‐below it and above it, right? ‐Oh, I think so. Yeah.

‐You know what I mean? ‐Yeah, I do know what you mean.

The slash marks go to the inside, so that...

‐Yeah. ‐...it fit together the way the guy on the surface made it.

‐Exactly so. Yeah. ‐Yeah.

Could Terry Matheson's notion be correct?

That the Roman numerals carved into the hand‐hewn timbers

served as an instruction guide for the original builders

of the Money Pit treasure shaft?

‐Hey, Vanessa. Douglas. ‐Hey.

I brought my personal bodyguard.

‐Yeah. I guess!

That's an interesting one right there.

Look at the marks on that one.

If this is the Money Pit,

I don't think anyone ever got deeper

in the Money Pit than 113, 114 feet.

‐We're close, aren't we, Vanessa? ‐We are. Yeah.

Anything below that gets really interesting

'cause that could be where we find something of real value.

The Money Pit mystery

is a thousand‐piece puzzle, and we're starting to get a

quite a number of pieces.

So, the puzzle pieces are indicating

that we're in close proximity to the original Money Pit.

But there's still some work to do.

There we go.

I'm gonna check these last spoil piles.

Okay. Good.

Just right over here.

Ooh, look at that.

I don't know what it is.

I don't know if it's a pin.

It actually was made that way.

Watch yourself. That end's sharp.

Wonder if it's like a...

You know? Pull things into place?

Yeah.

‐I don't know. ‐It looks like an oldie, doesn't it?

‐Yeah. H‐Handwrought. ‐You can feel it.

‐You can see the... ‐Yeah.

You can see the metal in there.

Take this to Carmen Legge, and also, get the metal checked out.

It looks old. I mean, it's really heavy

‐for the size. ‐Really heavy.

Maybe it's a really old crowbar

or prying tool.

Gary finds this

he called it a crowbar

so I think this is certainly something

that qualifies to bring to Carmen Legge.

It possibly ties you to the original work.

So, it's almost being able to walk backwards in time,

if that is correct, that this tool

is something that was used here long ago.

We're finding old stuff.

‐ Yeah. ‐I'll be interested to see what that is.

But this was a hell of a choice for a can.

This is good.

The following day...

Throw it in that pile or that pile.

...as Rick Lagina continues

to supervise the excavation of Borehole RF‐1...

...Alex Lagina and Craig Tester travel approximately 20 miles

north of Oak Island to the Ross Farm Museum,

located in New Ross, Nova Scotia.

Carmen. Oh, hello again.

They are eager for blacksmithing expert

Carmen Legge to examine the mysterious metal objects

recently recovered from the shaft.

Got a couple items from the Money Pit area.

Let's start with this one.

We were thinking, an old crowbar.

This was found at an area about 120 feet down.

‐Oh, yeah. Hmm.

Mm‐hmm.

Yeah.

Maybe this part was in the wall. This was out.

Not into timbers?

An anchor for a lantern or pulley,

found some 120 feet deep in the location the team believes

to be the original Money Pit?

Could it have been used in the construction

of the treasure shaft?

Or might it have been used

to place the treasure there itself?

What kind of date

are you putting on this?

Um...

Well, this could be from the original Money Pit.

Mm‐hmm.

Okay.

‐Good news! ‐Yep.

Thank you. We've got another item.

Because it's short,

we were wondering,

would that make a difference of working in a tunnel or...

‐Okay. ‐Yeah.

Mm‐hmm. ‐Okay. But an enclosure

could be a shaft itself, too? Okay.

Okay.

How about, uh, anything from the design

that can give you an idea of age?

Uh...

Okay.

‐Wow. ‐At the Ross Farm Museum

in New Ross, Nova Scotia,

blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge

has just given his professional opinion that the metal pickax

discovered in the RF‐1 Shaft could predate the discovery

of the original Money Pit in 1795

by at least three centuries.

Could that mean it was one of the actual tools

used during the construction of the treasure shaft?

Most of the searchers started in 1850 and this is...

Good chance, checking this metal, that it's prior to that.

So, it could be part of the original

Money Pit or working on the original Money Pit.

Right.

If we can say with certainty

that these artifacts are from the Money Pit,

then I think we've actually made

a concrete step closer to finding the treasure.

Then we know we're in the right spot.

And then it becomes a problem of

figuring out the best way to get down there

and recover what is there.

Thank you as always.

As Craig and Alex make their way back to Oak Island,

at the Money Pit drill site,

Rick, now joined by his brother Marty Lagina

and other members of their team,

are continuing to closely monitor the spoils

excavated from Borehole RF‐1

for critical clues or valuables.

Wow.

That was a good grab.

Maybe this will be the one.

In order to carefully search the massive amounts of material

being excavated by the 26‐ton hammer grab tool,

these spoils will be transported to the team's

custom‐built wash table,

where Jack Begley and Steve Guptill meticulously clean

and sort them by hand.

Hey, Jack.

How's it going, Steve?

Let's get to it. Go for it!

‐What did you find? ‐Coal?

I don't think. Just a rock. That's a rock.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, look at this!

‐What's that? What does it look like?

‐Looks like rope actually. Yeah. A little piece of rope.

Pretty cool.

Yeah. ‐And that's at depth?

It's at depth, too. ‐Because there's no contamination in this.

There's been a lot of oddities in this though.

‐Probably... ‐It's worth keeping.

Oh, yeah. Definitely.

Oh. Oh, wow.

Look at this, Steve.

Is this hair?

It looks like it.

That's a good eye if that is hair.

Or is it maybe coconut fiber?

Possible coconut fiber?

Could the team have obtained another key piece of evidence

that the RF‐1 Shaft has reached the original Money Pit?

Coconut fiber, which is not indigenous

to the North Atlantic,

was found both in the original Money Pit when it was

first excavated in 1804, as well as in 1850,

when massive amounts of it were discovered at Smith's Cove,

having been used as a filter to keep sand and debris

out of the booby‐trapped flooding system.

That's worth saving.

Yeah. It needs its own bag, too.

From the 120‐foot level,

there was a sizeable chunk of coconut fiber that I found

at the wash table.

It further adds to the whole story

of flood tunnels leading to the bottom of the Money Pit.

It's definitely not a question anymore of if there is,

but now it's become quite obvious.

And finding the coconut fiber

means that our team is moving in the right direction.

Oh, what have we got here?

How's it going, Henskee?

You want your tool, Dan?

Yeah.

This is just too good to resist, here.

‐I know. ‐I would say if there's a chance

of finding a coin, this stuff looks about as promising

as anything.

I can tell you guys wanted to search.

What's that?

What is that?

Do you know?

I call it a "no idea."

‐I have no idea what this is. ‐Oh, yeah, I don't either.

It's different.

It's probably some sort of human workings.

I‐I can tell there's a bit of concrete on this side.

Concrete?

In 1897, while drilling in the original Money Pit,

treasure hunters Frederick Blair and William Chappell

bored into a layer of concrete

and then a seven‐foot‐tall wooden box

at a depth of some 143 feet.

When they extracted their drill bit,

they were astonished to find traces of gold

and a piece of parchment with writing on it.

Could this concrete be an incredibly promising clue

that the team may be close to a major discovery?

‐It's worth bagging. ‐Sure. Yeah. We'll save it.

There is something very anomalous down deep

in RF‐1 and hopefully it's the Chappell Vault.

Very enigmatic.

I mean, just reeks of protecting something great.

It certainly would have the one thing in it.

‐ Numbers? Numbers!

We're at 160.

So, we're just at the start of that anomalous zone.

And this is the teardrop anomaly

‐that we're getting close to? ‐Yeah.

We'll be in the zone where all the interesting stuff

might have shifted in this direction if there was

any type of loose soil there.

All right. Here we go.

That's a fair amount of timber.

Careful, that one's got a nail in it.

Look at that nail right there.

Big bolt right there.

More big pieces for you, Doug.

Holy schmoly!

I think I'm gonna need a bigger metal detector.

‐What the heck is that?

Wow. Look at that!

It is an exciting moment

at the Money Pit dig site...

Look at that big piece of metal!

...as a large metal plate has just been removed from some

160 feet deep in the RF‐1 Shaft.

So, what is this?

That's definitely the shield.

Yeah.

The shield protected the men

from any dirt that might fall in.

So, how old is this?

1931.

‐That'd be Chappell Shaft? ‐Yeah.

The shield from the Chappell Shaft?

More than three decades after William Chappell

and his employer Frederick Blair

were unsuccessful in recovering the so‐called "Chappell Vault"

in 1931, he and his son Melbourne

constructed a 157‐foot‐deep shaft

in another bold attempt to retrieve it.

In order to protect the workers digging inside,

the shaft was braced with a four‐foot‐tall metal shield

at the bottom, to prevent flooding and cave‐ins

caused by the booby traps.

The effort was unsuccessful in finding the vault,

leaving the Chappells to believe

it must have fallen to a greater depth.

Could the discovery of the shield that they installed

at the bottom of their shaft mean that the Oak Island team

is now just mere feet away from the fabled treasure?

The real test will be after we pass the bottom

of the Chappell Shaft.

There's no more disturbed ground after that.

If we're still seeing disturbed, collapsed features,

that's a good sign.

Yeah, that'd be a real good sign.

Yeah.

The next 20 feet will be really telling.

Pressures are rising a little bit.

It's getting tighter.

Oh!

Stopper must've broke, huh?

The crane just shifted, like, six inches

and Jared almost got thrown off.

Broke the whole shear off.

Boy, it's disconcerting.

Because the pressure being exerted

by the rotating oscillator

was up to some 2,500 pounds per square inch

more than two times its normal operating pressure

one of the steel braces securing it

to the 220‐ton crane has suddenly broken off.

The obvious questions now are: how much of a setback

will this be to the team?

And what was the steel caisson grinding into that caused it?

All right. Well, that, um, that kind of

took a‐a toll on our equipment.

We‐we lost some teeth and the oscillator lost a bracket,

so we're gonna be doing some welding here

‐before we get going again. ‐Okay.

The pressure is gonna be directly proportional

to how much force it takes to turn that can, which means

that it's grinding on something.

Could that be that it's grinding on something

we might want to find?

Possibly.

We're gonna keep our eyes wide open for that.

After spending three hours

repairing the rotating oscillator and massive crane,

the teams from Irving Equipment Limited and ROC Equipment

are finally once again able

to resume excavating the RF‐1 Shaft.

However, the eight‐foot‐wide drilling caisson

has been unable to advance with ease...

That's it?

That's it. That's all we're getting.

...and not much of anything is being brought up

by the hammer grab tool.

Something is blocking its path.

How deep are we?

181. The grab's getting four inches an hour.

So we have a chance,

because we know there isn't going to be anything

unless it's in a void or a cavity.

It is good news.

I mean, you're not gonna find anything in solid rock.

So, the problem is how do we get that material out?

I have a super unconventional method that maybe we can try.

The grab weighs 50,000 pounds.

What if we pull the can back up five feet,

set the grab on top of it, with all of its weight,

and hopefully that weight and gravity pushes it out.

So we're not out of hope!

We got hope.

In order to push the mysterious object

lodged in the bottom of the RF‐1 Shaft free,

the Oak Island team has decided to rest

the 26‐ton hammer grab tool on top of it

something that could take up to several days.

It's always a good idea to just say, hey, you know what?

We've done as much as we can today.

Let's let nature do its thing.

Are we hopeful? Absolutely.

So, that's the reason for...

stand back, take a deep breath and figure out how to proceed.

All right, that's a plan.

Let's all go home and pray.

As a new day begins on Oak Island,

and with the digging operation

at Borehole RF‐1 temporarily halted...

Today's pretty momentous.

Oh, I'm... I'm extremely excited.

...Rick Lagina, Charles Barkhouse,

and archeologist Laird Niven head to Lot 25,

where they are eager to begin a new excavation at the site

where former American slave Samuel Ball

built his home in the late 18th century.

I‐I think we're all fascinated with Samuel Ball.

I mean, in every sense of the word

it was a rags‐to‐riches story.

It has long been a mystery how Ball

who came to Oak Island in 1786 as a simple cabbage farmer

wound up as one of the wealthiest landowners

in Nova Scotia.

This curious turn of fortune has led

many to speculate that Ball may have found something

of great value while living on the island.

We have two anomalies here which...

‐potentially could be walls. ‐Really?

Just four weeks ago,

the team ran ground‐penetrating radar scans

across the property

and identified several possible underground structures.

Based on that scientific data,

Laird has been able to obtain a government permit

to begin an archeological excavation

of the site which until now‐

has previously been off‐limits

to the team's search activities.

You'll see in here we have four posts set up to form a grid.

The GPR has given us some data

and it's intriguing.

It's worth exploring, for sure.

Oh. Right here.

‐I'm just going to photograph this... ‐ Okay.

‐...and then we can start taking the sod off. ‐Perfect.

In order to carefully

and thoroughly document the team's investigation

of the Ball Foundation,

Laird has set up a methodical search grid

which has been divided into

three‐foot by three‐foot sections

known as "test pits."

Samuel Ball, to all of us, is a mystery.

This conjecture

which continues to survive, if not gain momentum

is that Samuel...

learned something of the supposed treasure on the island,

if not indeed recovered some of that treasure.

That work at the Ball Foundation will do two things:

it will certainly tell a better story

about Ball's years here on the island,

but there may also be some aspect to that discovery process

that may help us in the field.

As conservator Kelly Bourassa

carefully removes and sifts the soil from the area,

Jack Begley and Gary Drayton will scan the property

using a metal detector for any important clues,

artifacts, or even evidence of treasure.

Hey, Kelly. Yes, sir.

‐Ooh, that's nice! Yeah. ‐All righty.

There's a piece of metal already.

So what do you think you found there, Kelly?

It's starting to look, uh, like a building

or a chest hinge of some kind.

A hinge? Possibly from a chest?

Could it be evidence of something of value

that Samuel Ball hid beneath his property for safekeeping?

And could it mean that there are still valuables

to be found in the area?

It's got the holes, you can see.

Yep. Square holes. That means it's older.

Yeah. There's holes right there and there.

Not sure what's going on here,

but once I pull it out, I'll find more.

Big hinge.

And there's a couple more pieces in here, too,

one of which is right on a corner.

‐Right? ‐ Yeah.

So it could still be part of the hinge mechanism.

‐I don't know for sure. ‐ Well, you'd need,

‐like, a corner bracket... ‐Right.

...if it was a chest or a box.

You would need a corner bracket like this.

Yeah. So, something was here.

So I've just barely scratched the surface.

Looking forward to seeing what else is underneath here.

As a new day begins...

‐Oh, hey, Laird. ‐There he is. Hey, Laird.

...and while Laird Niven

and members of the team continue their excavation

near the Ball Foundation...

Hey, Alex. Hey.

...Alex Lagina joins geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

and heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt

at the triangle‐shaped swamp.

We're using the water to rinse this...

what we call the paved area over here.

With the days growing shorter and colder

due to the fast approaching onset of winter,

the Laginas and their team remain focused

on investigating the massive stone paved feature

in the hopes of determining its possible origin.

The swamp was artificially created

and to what end, uh, to what purpose, I don't know.

It takes a lot of applied science

before we can make an absolute determination

about the age of things.

But with Dr. Spooner's help,

he may be able to provide some insight.

So you've got this woody layer.

And the key thing is me

‐getting some dates there. Where?

‐Woody layer, right in... ‐Down here?

Yeah. And it's all in situ. It hasn't been moved there.

And so what I'm gonna do is take a sample of it.

So what you're basically, what you're doing

is you're taking out a piece

that will give you a... a snapshot,

or a time period for what's above it.

‐What's above it. ‐Yeah.

When the swamp started.

What makes this sample particularly interesting to you?

‐It's in place. ‐Mm‐hmm.

It's perfect because there's this

organic layer right here, with a stone in it.

Really organic.

‐This is this is the soil... ‐Mm‐hmm.

...stones, and then this is the swamp, right there.

Got it.

And this is the tree that grew in the soil

that was killed by the swamp.

I'm dating the kill date of the tree,

which tells me the start of the swamp.

Got it.

That's beautiful.

It's so well‐preserved that we can probably identify it.

Using that sample of wood,

we can get some sort of analysis done

and if it dates to a time

that's consistent with the other dates we're getting back

from the creation of the swamp or anything else,

then it will probably explain

what's going on with the paved area.

I'm just gonna take a look over here.

Yep. Take a look. Let me know what you think.

As Dr. Spooner and Alex

continue their investigation

of the paved feature in the swamp,

back on Lot 25, at the site of the Ball Foundation...

What I have over here

is something we actually discussed before.

...archeologist Laird Niven,

Jack Begley, and Oak Island historian

Charles Barkhouse are about to begin digging

at the location where, four weeks ago,

GPR scanning detected a six‐foot‐deep structure,

possibly a tunnel, buried beneath the property.

So, we've done some work here.

Some exploratory work.

Based upon this dig site, where does the tunnel pass through?

'Cause I want to know where to concentrate my dig effort.

‐Like this. Right through the middle.

‐Yep. ‐Okay. ‐ The anomaly.

I can show you the GPR data if you want.

Sure, what does it look like?

So, this‐this is the tunnel here coming out.

‐ The anomaly. Yeah. ‐ Yeah.

‐Both at six feet. ‐We're right here, right now?

‐ Right here. Oh, right in the hot spot.

And the cellar entrance is right there.

Well, I bet we're gonna find something at the bottom of this.

‐ Well, get back to digging. ‐Yeah.

‐All right. ‐So can I just dig this out?

Yeah, but I want you to do the south end.

I don't want to destabilize the wall.

‐Okay. ‐Yeah.

There's gotta be some reason for the anomaly.

I've always had a feeling that

Samuel Ball was guarding something.

There's answers around here.

Well, I hope you're right, Jack.

This area,

it's still been unexplored.

It's a blank question mark area.

We don't know exactly what we're looking for,

or if this is a man‐made tunnel.

But if we're lucky, we should be able to hit it

and I'm hoping we hit it today

'cause that will be a big win for us.

What the...

Dirt is falling down in there, Jack.

Oh, yeah. It's an open cavity.

Do you want a trowel?

Oh. Sure.

There's another opening right there. Look.

Yes!

Jack?

It's like there's stacked stones in here!

We might have hit it.

Stacked stones?

Found buried beneath Samuel Ball's former property?

Has the team successfully located

a wall connected to some kind of structure?

‐Oh, look... ‐Come on, man, this isn't a shovel test!

‐ Look what he's... ‐ What happened?

‐ Look what he's got. ‐ Look. Look.

‐There's an opening here, Gary. ‐What is that?

‐Like a little tunnel? ‐(laughing): Yeah!

What better place to hide your treasure?

Hi, guys.

After hearing of

Laird, Jack and Charles' discovery

of a possible underground tunnel

on the property once owned by Samuel Ball,

Rick Lagina and Billy Gerhardt arrive to inspect

what could be a major find.

There's a, definitely, a void below these rocks.

It lines up exactly

with the anomaly, so it is the anomaly.

I mean, if this is a tunnel,

‐it's an aha moment. ‐Yeah.

Look, a tunnel here on the Ball Foundation is the one thing.

Did you just say this could be the one thing?

‐For the Ball Foundation. ‐Oh.

‐It'd be huge. ‐ It is huge.

It means that there might have been something

that Mr. Ball chose to keep secret.

Well, what could be more secret than some understanding

‐of‐of the mystery here? ‐Yeah.

How do you know this is Samuel Ball‐connected?

This might have been here a long time before.

‐I mean, look at the stuff we found. ‐Possibly.

We found tools that were used for tunneling.

Really old tools.

Look at that. That's...

‐Oh, look at the size of that. That's chunky.

Over the past year, the Oak Island team has discovered

a number of ancient tunneling tools,

including an iron chisel

and two swages, all of which have been estimated

to be over 600 years old.

Could these ancient tools be related in some way

to the possible tunnel the team has just uncovered?

And could it be a major clue that Samuel Ball did find

something of great value on Oak Island in the late 1700s

to account for his great wealth?

If so, what might still be here waiting to be found?

I mean, this looks like a hidey, cubbyhole to me.

This is where I'd hide my treasure.

I think Samuel Ball

might have chose this lot for a reason.

‐Can I lift them?

Yeah, yeah.

Ooh, look at this.

Ooh. Yeah.

That looks like a tunnel or a vault.

I mean, this is

incredibly interesting.

‐What do we do next? ‐ Excavate a little bit

in and around the anomaly and explore inside.

‐We'll assess and see how to move forward. ‐Yeah.

‐All righty. I think we'll call her a day. ‐All right.

‐See you guys. ‐ See you. ‐Congrats.

Great job, and look forward to tomorrow.

The next day on Oak Island...

It looks like some real work going on here.

Yeah. We're making slow progress.

...Rick Lagina returns to the Ball Foundation

with his brother Marty and nephew Alex

to inspect the possible tunnel now that Laird

and members of the team have exposed more of it.

So, we have the clear connection between this and the foundation.

It isn't completely dug out, but the snake goes through easily.

That's very interesting.

‐And you've never seen anything like it? ‐ No.

What about I mean, we're on a treasure hunt.

This man Samuel Ball was linked to it.

Can you think of a... arcane?

I can't.

‐No. ‐Not really.

You push a pouch of gold coins down there

and then y and who's ever the hell gonna find them in there?

Then you pull them back out with a string.

Well, there's only one way to find out.

The camera guy is on his way out here right now.

In order to get a better look at the inside of the structure

and any important clues it might contain,

Rick and Marty have arranged for Derek Hale, the owner

of a septic installation and repair company,

to run a pipe inspection camera through it.

Howdy.

‐You must be Derek. ‐Yes, I am.

We've got a little mystery here for you.

‐Okay. ‐I guess we want

to put the camera right down there.

We'll scope that and see where it goes.

We use this camera basically to scope sewer lines.

We'll get that fired up, and then hopefully,

we'll be able to make a decent video today.

Perfect. What can we do to help?

Everything's ready to go

once we get it over here.

All righty. Let's get after it.

I think there's a lot of secrets there.

Or at least, a lot of information.

So, if we can put a camera down into the tunnel

and find out what its purpose was, that would be great.

This is a process that continues

to unfold and unravel.

And if there are some answers associated with the tunnel,

there's your year, there's your aha,

there's maybe the one thing.

All right, you guys are good.

‐ Good. ‐ All right. Thank you.

As Derek feeds the camera into the tunnel

using a flexible, coaxial cabe

capable of extending up to 200 feet,

Rick, Marty and the team will monitor the operation

through a live video feed.

How big is your camera, Derek?

About an inch and five‐eighths diameter.

And that's the round impression of it, right?

Yes.

Oh...

We're getting stuck.

Derek, we're counting on you.

Wait. Stop.

What's that? ‐What is that? That's interesting.

That's a strange feature, isn't it?

On Lot 25,

right next to the site of the Ball Foundation,

the Laginas, members of their team

and underground camera operator Derek Hale

are exploring what appears to be a man‐made stone tunnel.

So, it looks like wood, but I'm pretty sure it's rock.

Well, I need to guide that. ‐ Yeah.

So, if you can get that to go under this rock here,

we might get some headway.

Tell me when to stop.

There you go.

There's not much room under that rock.

Not a whole lot.

Could you just bring it back real slowly

and have a look at what it is we see in this first?

Absolutely.

Yeah, just take it real slow.

Boy, that is really well‐built, isn't it?

Yeah.

It's a nice flat ceiling we're looking at there.

‐ It's beautiful. ‐Yeah.

It's the, uh, floor, which has suffered.

Yeah.

Derek, how far do you think you've gone?

Well, our screen is saying 14 and a half feet.

‐Should get to 20. ‐Let's keep going.

We're getting jammed right now.

You're stuck right there?

Yeah.

‐It's the height that's getting you now. ‐Yeah.

Can you try from the other end?

'Cause if it's against rock, you might push it out this way.

What on earth is up with this tunnel

from the Ball Foundation?

It's pretty extensive.

If it is a very intricate working to hide

a very significant treasure, that could be it.

That could be the whole thing.

We're gonna need to get under that obstruction.

Why don't we send the camera in and see what we're hitting?

Yeah, it's gonna be dark in a second.

All right. I'll have a look

and see if we can make any headway.

Look for a there's just a dead end,

and what the dead end is, and if it goes off

to one side or the other.

Okay, I'm seeing a lot of dirt.

‐Okay, hold up. ‐ Wait. Stop.

Is that a rock?

There's our problem.

Oh, here's the culprit right here.

A rock. A big rock, at that.

It's solid, there.

Yeah. I don't know if we're getting by that.

‐Yeah, it's kind of a dead end. ‐ Yeah.

Although the camera is now unable to advance

because of a large stone blocking its path,

it begs the question: was it placed there by nature

or by someone on purpose in order to keep something

inside of it from being discovered?

What's it feel like, Derek?

I can feel that it doesn't have a whole lot of resistance to it.

You think that continues?

I'm confident that this continues,

because that's disturbed soil.

'Cause otherwise, I don't think it would go in that easily.

That's something in and of itself.

Look, w it's a complete mystery, what this is,

but it can't be a tunnel to nowhere.

It just can't be. It just can't be.

‐Nobody would do that. ‐Right.

Maybe we hand‐excavate and then hand‐dig the bottom?

‐ Yeah. We'll keep on following it.

There's no doubt about this.

This is a man‐made something.

Some sort of tunnel, channel, something.

What was hidden there? What might still be there?

There are many reasons to continue this work.

If there was a treasure recovered by Samuel Ball,

maybe it still survives him,

and it's somewhere around that foundation.

All right, well, in any event,

I mean, we can let that all kick around in our brains,

but I think we're done here for today.

Sounds good to me.

All righty. Well, thank you.

Welcome to Oak Island.

Yes!

Typical Oak Island, you know?

I mean, it‐it never goes easily.

It has been another successful week,

full of unprecedented

and potentially historic discoveries

for the Lagina brothers and their Oak Island team.

From a secret tunnel

connected to the former home of Samuel Ball

to promising new evidence

that they have finally located the original Money Pit,

they may now be closer than ever

to recovering what people have faithfully sought

for more than 200 years.

But now, with time once again running out,

is the ultimate breakthrough finally within their grasp

or will Oak Island find a way

to keep a firm hold on its secrets?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

‐It's definitely a void. ‐We're gonna see right now if we get a full scoop.

We're hoping we'll find the Chappell Vault.

It's the exciting season finale.

The dates are rather extraordinary.

Wow. We have a definitive

date when the swamp was built.

‐It's a coin! ‐That's proof positive.

That tells quite a story.

That might be the find of the year.

We may have a real whodunit.

And we've got an artifact you can hold in your hand.

‐Medieval. ‐Medieval, baby.

Subtitled by Diego Moraes / Ewerton Henrique www.oakisland.tk