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Rrator: Tonight on the curse of oak island...

Marty: We're out of quarantine. We're headed to the island.

There's a lot of new things to explore.

It truly feels like the fellowship's

getting back together now that you're here.

Gary: I like the look of this, jack.

What the...?

- I think it's leather. -Wow.

Steve g.: See, this is what we're looking for.

This is an awesome find.

David: Not only is it man-made,

this goes all the way back to 1500.

It could've been used for construction of the money pit.

Wow.

Narrator: There is an island in the north atlantic

where people have been lookig 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.

it is the start of another new day on oak island.

Another sweaty day in quarantine.

-Got to keep the legs moving. -Alex: Yep.

-What day is it? -Day eight!

Narrator: But for brothers rick and marty lagina,

it marks the start of their second week

in a 14-day mandatory quarantine...

Rick: Okay. Perfect.

-50 more to go. -Peter: Perfect.

Rick: And then we'll plant them.

Narrator: ...One that is required of anyone

granted special permission to enter canada

from the united states during the global pandemic

that has swept the globe since earlier this year.

Alex: All right. We got my dad set up on a, bike trainer.

marty: Passing them like they're standing still, baby.

Narrator: And sharing the tie with rick and marty

is their nephew peter fornetti

along with marty's son alex lagina.

That's how we're killing time.

Waiting to get on the island.

Marty: I'm growing a beard, too.

-Yeah. -But I will shave it

on the day we are free.

Narrator: Although rick and marty are each staying in houses

on the mainland, across mahone bay from oak island,

they are not allowed to leave their respective properties.

They are also prohibited from having personal contact

with any third parties, or even visiting oak island.

It's a little frustrating, being in quarantine,

um, because, I'm used to freedom,

you know, to go about my business.

Normally, we immediately, without stopping or passing g,

we go directly to oak island, because we want to see

what's happened since we were here last.

Alex: It looks pretty good, actually. I'm impressed.

- We're gonna stay on this piece of property... -Alex:

-...Until we get the all clear. -Right. And...

Then we're gonna go to oak island

and we're gonna unleash a firestorm of activity.

Narrator: Fortunately, even with the laginas stuck in quarantine,

treasure-hunting activities on oak island

have been able to make progress.

Aaron: So, I'm gonna continue to excavate this unit here

and hopefully get to the bottom of this today.

David: Absolutely.

-We want to date when it started. -Laird: Yeah.

Narrator: On lot 15, for example,

archaeologists laird niven,

aaron taylor and david macinnes,

a direct descendant of the first oak island treasure hunter,

daniel mcginnis, continue their careful investigation

of the remains of a stone structure,

one which they believe could be connected

to the construction of the original oak island money pi.

It was also in this same area

that veteran surveyor and treasure hunter fred noln

noted the existence of a possible tunnel entrance

on a recently discovered map.

A tunnel entrance which fred believed could lead directly

to the fabled oak island treasure vault.

If we turn over rocks here and we got organics under it,

that will date the beginning of whatever this is.

All right. Let's get digging.

Rick: As far as the lot 15 feature is concerned,

and the proximity of that structure to the money pit,

is there a possible connection there?

I think it's too early, but I'm very interested

now that the project is underway

to see what they come up with.

Aaron:

Laird and david, come take a look at this.

I'm coming down on this really flat stone

with a really interesting edge on it.

David: That's been beveled.

Aaron: Yeah. Possibly.

-Look at how flat that is. -Laird: Yeah.

It's kind of not like anything else, is it?

Aaron: That looks interesting.

It looks like, possibly, a drilled hole in here.

Laird: Wow. That looks pretty cool.

-Aaron: That's-that's handmade. -Laird: Yeah.

-It doesn't look natural, does it? -No.

Aaron: You've got a drilled hole

and a possibly beveled edge, like it might have been cut

-to fit into another stone. -It's cool.

Narrator: A drilled stone?

Found in the mysterious structure on lot 15?

In 1895,

treasure hunter frederick blair located a drilled stone

just northeast of what he believed to be the money pit.

More than four decades later, in 1937,

fellow treasure hunter gilbert hedden found another

near smith's cove, and on a perfect east-west line

from blair's discovery.

Since then, a number of surveyors and treasure huntes

including the late fred nolan,

have found similar surface markers across the island

believed to be part of an elaborate treasure map

leading to where the legenday vault lies buried.

Could this drilled stone on lot 15

be another important piece of that puzzle?

It certainly looks like it's been manipulated

by people, right?

- Aaron: -You know who

who would be interested in this is steve guptill.

So, I'm gonna give him a call.

-steve g.: Hello? -Hey, steve. It's laird.

-Hey, laird. How you doing? - Good. We've got,

a pretty unusual-looking, partially drilled stone here

- I thought you might want to take a look at. -Yeah.

I mean, that's pretty interesting. I'll be right u.

All right. See you in a bit.

So, this is a-a potentially important stone,

and perhaps if we can get a clue

of what it's sitting on or what it functioned as.

If it was placed intentionally,

we know that, it was brought from somewhere else

and put there for a specific purpose.

I'm pretty excited about what it potentially could be.

So, steve, I was just

excavating this unit here.

And I came down on this.

Steve g.: Wow.

I mean, the fact that this is buried is a huge clue.

So, this is really, really important for us.

So, what I think we should do is we should get rick

and maybe the guys on the phone.

-Okay. -And we should show them this,

and I think they'd be pretty interested.

- All right.

hey, guys.

-Hey, laird. -Hello, laird.

How are you?

-Good. -Hanging in there.

Excellent. We've, found something interesting on lot 15.

I just uploaded some photos for you to look at.

It's actually pretty intriguing.

So, we're digging on the edge of our feature here.

And, aaron uncovered this rock,

which doesn't look like much

until-- david, do you want to point out the hole?

- Yeah. -Yeah.

Laird: There we have a drilled hole.

And, as well, there's a flake on there.

And lo-- almost a beveled edge on that side.

-Hey, guys. -Do you want to explain to them?

Sure. To me, they look like an old survey mark.

Surveyors would have done that years ago.

So, this could've been used in conjunction

with others on the island as a directional piece

or a survey control piece.

It would be tied to something.

Because if they were all done in the same time period,

they should all match.

We know there have been a number

of drilled stones that... Some of which have been lost

over the hundreds of years of discovery.

If there was a master plan

to what was originally done here,

you would need some sort of surveying apparatus

or, the ability to lay down a grid.

So, this location was important enough

to put a site line there.

So, that's-that's very, very good,

but we need to be brought up to speed in person.

So, it may have been here when the people arrived here

and they just left it there on the ground.

So, if this stone predated the structure,

then it has some other meaning.

The key is getting to the bottom of it

and then we can speculate.

You know, and rick, you-you got to go look at that.

I know you're dying to go look at that right now,

because you're the rock-meister.

I am singularly intrigued with the drilled stone.

You always fall back to personal experience, righ?

And I've built thousands of feet of stone wall.

So, my suspicion is that

the drilled stone has nothing to do with this feature.

It was just an asset.

So, I'm very interested

in proceeding.

-Absolutely. -Marty: Yeah.

Great, great discovery, you guys.

Um, you know, curiouser and curiouser.

So, pursue it and take us where it goes.

That's what I would say.

Um, the only thing I'm concerned about is this proliferation

of archaeologists on this island.

you're-you're gonna be surrounded soon, so...

I know! I know! I'm surround-- I know!

But it's a good thing.

It means we keep finding, you know, important things.

So, stay at it, guys,

and let us know what it means. Thank you.

-Yeah. -Thank you. Take care, stay safe.

Laird: We'll get back to work.

Narrator: It's a new day on oak island,

-and at smith's cove... -Steve g.: All right.

Let's go find them.

...Oak island historian doug crowell

and surveyor steve guptill continue their efforts

to retrace the so-called barringer survey,

a large-scale scanning and survey operation

conducted in 1988

by dan blankenship and his partner david tobias.

It was this barringer survey that identified the location

of a number of possible tunnels leading from lot 15

towards both the swamp and the money pit.

It also indicated four targets that might contain quantities

of nonferrous metals, like gold and silver,

located some 100 feet below ground.

-Doug: You lead me to it. -Steve g.: Sure.

Right here, doug,

is where that tunnel enters the cave-in pit.

-Okay. We're gonna use red for that tunnel. Right? -Yep.

That's the end of the tunnel going into the cave-in pit.

Let's head back and put the junction point in

-for the two tunnels. -Okay.

-The intersection point should be right out here. -Okay.

Doug, this is where I leave you.

So, this is the start of the other tunnel.

You know what's interesting about this point?

This is where gary found the cross.

- Really? - Yeah.

Narrator: A possible tunnel...

Holy schmoly, all right.

-Rick: It's a cross. -Gary: That's a cross.

Narrator: ...100 feet below ground

near the same spot where rick lagina

and gary drayton made one of the most important finds

in oak island history?

Let's go up and see where this nonferrous target sits

-in relation to all that. -Sure.

-Let's go stake out some gold. -Sure.

-Steve g.: We're here. -That it?

-Yep. -I'll tell you what.

You took the hit on getting wet, on the last one.

I'll give you the honor of driving in

the nonferrous target stake.

- Doug: You know what's striking me? -

Doug: This is south of the work we did last year.

-Steve g.: Yep. -It's hard to believe

that we were in this whole zone,

digging with that long-reach excavator, down to...

What was that capable of? 50 feet in depth?

-50 feet. -Yep. We just couldn't go deep enough with it.

This-this... We were in the right zone,

according to the barringer survey.

We just didn't know it.

Marty: That looks like a big hole.

narrator: Last year, while the team was digging

in the uplands area of smith's cove...

Marty: It looks like a tunnel to me,

going that way.

Narrator: ...At a depth of some 50 fee,

heavy equipment operator billy gerhardt

discovered what they all believed to be part

of the fabled booby-trapped flood tunnel system,

designed to protect

the original money pit treasure vault.

Unfortunately, the muddy, soaked ground surrounding the pit

proved to be too unstable to continue digging,

and the oak island team wee forced to abandon their searc.

Is it possible that they were actually digging their way

toward not just a tunnel but something of great value?

Something that was a mere 50 feet deeper below?

I think some of this I-is so incredible

in how it aligns that I think

maybe we should call rick and just fill him in on it.

-I think it's a good idea. -All right.

Doug: All right.

Let's see if we can bring him up on facetime.

Rick: Hello?

-Doug: Hi. Hi, rick. -Hey, doug.

- Hey, guys. What are you doing? -Doug: Hi, marty.

we're out, staking out the, barringer survey

as it lays on the land below the cave-in pit.

Marty: And any surprises or does it all fit?

Well, it-it fits amazingly well.

-Where's the nonferrous target? -Marty: Yeah.

I was just about to say the same thing.

All right, guys. You ready for this?

This yellow stake right here with steve,

that's our nonferrous metal target.

This is the one between the cave-in pit and smith's cove,

so that is the old crane pad behind steve.

We're only in about, 15, 20 feet from that.

Wow.

I mean, can you get any more classic than that?

Out of the archives of-- in someone's basement,

you find a map, and it's a treasure map.

Well, the barringer survey is sort of like that.

It says here are four nonferrous targets.

Well, nonferrous at depth on oak island... What?

Do-- people weren't burying aluminum cans.

So, what does that suggest? Gold and silver.

Rick: Okay, give me something

to orient off of.

We are not far from dynamite hole number three.

-Rick: Okay. -That is somewhat to the west,

but not-not far.

Marty: That's got to be pretty close

to where we dug that great, big, deep hole then, isn't it?

Steve g.: It would have been

on the outer edge of the great, big hole.

Right where billy would've been sitting.

Billy was sitting on the money.

marty: So, billy was right on the money.

Well, he'll never live that down.

All right. So, the obvious thing,

what we say every year:

We're gonna need a bigger excavator.

--yes.

All right. Good.

Well, that's good enough for me guys.

-Thanks a lot. -Rick: Well-well done, guys.

-Take care. -Marty: Bye-bye.

-Stay safe. -Talk to you later.

-Doug: Good work, steve. -Yeah.

Narrator: Later that afternoon...

-Jack: How about we start here? -Gary: Yep. Good place.

Narrator: ...Jack begley and metal detection expert

-gary drayton... -I like the look of this, jack.

...Arrive at isaac's point

on the far eastern end of oak island.

This is an area where spoils removed

from various excavations in the money pit

have, over the years, been used as landfill.

They are hoping that after years of soil erosion

due to a number of harsh winter storms,

any valuable objects or artifacts are now closer

to the surface and thus easier to detect and retriev.

Anything that's been flushed in and out of the winter storms,

they're now spread out around the end of isaac's point.

It's a great opportunity, mate.

Let's grab the gear and get stuck in.

Gary: Ooh, I like it.

The best way of searching the area is to zigzag along

from the tree line down to the big boulders.

There could be anything anywhere.

I've got the large coil on.

I know this can get small targets.

Anything that seems like it could be older iron

or, you know,

a good size, I say we dig, 'cause I'd like to recover it.

All right, mate. Let's go recover a bit of history.

We'll go all the way to the end here, just in case.

what'd you find there, gary?

Gary: That is definitely not iron. It's just there.

-Definitely. Yep. -Jack: Just right there?

I would bet your last dollar that this is not iron.

Let's see if you got it out.

-What the heck is that? -That?

A pewter spoon-bowl.

That's what that looks like.

It's got that right shape,

and it would've been elongated spoon-bowl, like that.

It would've gone t-towards, like, a rounded front.

If it's pewter, that's your typical mid-1700s, mate.

So, that could've been a depositor, maybe, or even,

a-a searcher in the money pit,

-yeah. -...That was eating using that spoon.

Gary: Yeah. If it is a pewter spoon-bowl, mate,

that was the poor man's silver of the day.

- Nice little find. -Jack:

It's not exactly a "super bowl," but it is nice.

All right, let's recheck the hole,

see if there's any more parts to it.

Maybe we broke a piece off.

Possibly.

- We've got more. -Ooh.

Solid signal, as well.

Let me see if...

- I think it's still there. -Yeah.

I got down to...

--it's right in the side.

All right. I'm-I'm gonna...

What the...?

It's a pickax.

Narrator: On the far east end of oak island at isaac's point..

Jack: That is really cool.

This is what I was hoping for, an old tool.

Narrator: ...Jack begley and metal detection expert

gary drayton have just made another exciting discovery.

Gary: Yep. Broken a long time ago.

No-no recent break.

Look at the shape, mate.

It's broken here.

This ain't no heavy-duty pickax.

-This is a tunneling pick. -Yes, it is.

And look at how short it is.

Narrator: A tunneling pick,

found amongst spoils from the money pit?

Narrator: Last year,

while inspecting spoils from the rf-1 caisson...

...The same caisson that recovered wooden beams

believed to date back to the construction

of the original money pit shaft,

the team found a pick

that blacksmith carmen legge suggested could predate

the money pit by over two centuries.

Is it possible this pickax head could have been used

for the construction of the money pit

well over 200 years ago?

All those years ago, it was lost at the money pit,

and then ends up being dumped here,

and then we retrieve it.

It's a fantastic artifact from oak island.

Doesn't get any better than that, mate.

It's what we're searching for,

and that's what we're finding, mate.

Okay, mate. Let's keep following this lin.

We're doing good so far.

Narrator: Later that day, near smith's cove...

Show me the money.

Narrator: ...Steve guptill is joined by

gerhardt property improvement employees

josh ballard and michael john

at the wash table.

They've come to oak island to assist the team

in sorting through spoils from caisson 8-a...

...Where last year the lagina brothers and their team

discovered possible evidence of debris

from the money pit's collapse in 1861

after searcher tunnels had destabilized the earth

beneath the vault.

By carefully sifting through the remaining content,

the team hopes to find further evidence

of the money pit collapse,

and hopefully the treasure itself.

Here we go.

-Steve g.: You find something? -Yeah.

-That's a button. -Yeah.

It's awful light.

I believe it's probably searcher-related.

It's not overly old.

We knew there was human activity in there,

and that, perhaps, is the collapsed area.

So we know we're in the right area.

We should keep on looking, and then we'll move on

to the next table.

We should bag it.

Hey, guys, look. Steve?

What do you think about this piece?

Wow.

I think it's leather or something.

That's thick. That is a piece of leather.

Wow. And that's really thick.

Wow. It's got a... An edge here...

-And almost like the binding you'd have on a book. -Yeah.

-So you hold it and you flip it. -Yeah.

See, this is what we're looking for.

That's incredible.

We're in the shaft six tunnel area.

So the vault collapsed, and potentially,

some of that vault rushed into the shaft six tunnel.

And that piece right there could prove that.

I think that is possibly depositor-related.

This is an awesome find.

Narrator: Leather found in the spoils from caisson 8-a?

Over the years, the drilling operations

in the money pit area have turned up

various leather artifacts,

including just last year, when bits of what appeared to be

leather bookbinding were discovered

in this very same caisson.

Along with pieces of paper recovered from other shafts

dug in the money pit area,

these pieces of leather bookbinding support

a number of ongoing theories that the oak island treasure

might not only consist of god or priceless artifacts,

but equally priceless historical documents.

Well done, mike.

Cheers. Thanks.

I think we should call laird.

-hey, steve, how are you? -Good.

Laird, we're up here, we're looking through spoils

-from last year. -Right.

And we found something pretty interesting.

I'd like you to come in and take a look.

-Okay, I can do that. -All right.

-We'll see you in a minute. -Okay.

Bye.

When michael hands me the leather I think, "okay, wow."

it's like no leather we've seen.

And it's a lot thicker than the, than the stuff that,

you know, I found in the past.

I mean, I'm not an archaeologist, but to me,

it looks like a book, or an old bookbinding.

-Hey, laird. -What do we have?

We have something to show you.

I don't want to spoil the surprise,

so I'll let you take a look.

-Okay. -And here we go.

-Thank you. -You're welcome.

All right, um... It's a piece of leather.

It's not bonded leather.

-So it's older. -Yeah.

But I'd say it's probably a piece of footwear.

-You think? We thought bookbinding. -Yes, right.

Laird: It-it could. I mean,

it's worth taking a closer look at.

- To me it looked promising. -Right?

-It's something. It's unusual, right? -That's right.

-It's big. It's in good shape. -Yep. It's in really good shape.

-All right, thank you, laird. -All right.

Really well done. Great find, guys.

Let's keep on looking.

Narrator: The day rick, marty

and their oak island team have been waiting for

has finally arrived.

Marty: Well, it's gonna be a little bit weird

seeing rick and peter.

Alex: I know.

Marty: Sort of the lack of human contact is strange.

Narrator: After the mandatory 14-day quarantine period has ended,

and with no evidence or symptoms

of the dreaded coronavirus...

Marty: Here we come.

Alex: See if they're excited to get back to the island.

Narrator: ...The laginas are free to exit their homes

and join their fellow treasue hunters on oak island.

-Rick: They're here? -Yep, they're here.

Marty: There they are, coming right out.

Alex: Waiting for us.

Marty: Well, what do you make of this?

-you ready? -Where are your shovels?

- In the back.

how does it feel?

-I'm nervous and excited to get over there. -Yeah.

-Rick: I'm not nervous. I'm excited. -Cool.

So let's get to the island.

There's all kinds of stuff I want to talk about,

all kinds of stuff I want to see.

We're out of quarantine.

We're done. We're heading to the island,

and it's like a new beginning.

And we have that little flutter of excitement

to see what the island looks like

and what it feels like,

and observe for ourselves what's going on.

Rick: I think we're all ready to get back to the island.

The other guys have been doing the heavy lifting,

so it's time for us to share the load.

The amazing thing is, against all odds,

how much is new this year.

You'd think that newness would be gone,

but there's a lot of new things to explore.

I want to see all this stuff with my own eyes.

Some of it has got to pay out.

Rick: There's a lot of interesting things happening.

I guess I'd say that if I had to put a poker bet down...

-Really? -...I'd be all in.

-wow. -Wow. -Here's the deal, rick.

You are putting a poker bet down.

This whole thing is one giant poker bet.

I think this is gonna be a good year.

-Wow. Who is that back there? -Peter.

He is excited to be out of quarantine.

Marty: All right, here we come.

Rick: I wonder how the road held u.

That was all just woods

when you and I came across 20 years ago, right?

Remember that feeling, rick?

-The trepidation? -Yep.

Marty: All right, to the research center.

Now, looky, looky.

-Gentlemen. -Hey, guys.

-Hey, hey. -Hello. -There's a pair to draw to.

-Good to have you here. -It truly feels like the fellowship's

getting back together now that you're here.

you guys have held up your end. More than your end.

And now we're here to-to help.

So we can take time off now or what?

-Rick: No. -No?

Not even a little bit.

You've got something to show us, I hear. Right?

-A lot to show you, actually. -We got a lot to show you.

-Let's go. -Doug: All right.

-Let's go look at stuff. -Peter and I will hang out here

-for you guys to get back. -Okay. Yeah.

Marty: First thing on the agenda is this feature on lot 15.

doug: You're gonna be amazed with lot 15 I think.

-How you guys doing? -Good morning, everyone.

Marty: We're back. Pseudo handshake.

-Hey, guys. Nice to see you. -Nice to meet you.

Marty: We got three archaeologists here,

so where we at? Bring us up to speed.

- I can start wherever you like. -Well, you know what,

-first thing I'd like to do is just peer down in here. -Yeah, have a look.

-Have a look. -It looks a lot different than it does on the tube.

Rick: Look at the way it's built.

Marty: It kind of looks like a tunnel entrance.

Narrator: Although rick and marty had each kept

close tabs on the work that had been going on

during the past several week, they believe

there is nothing quite like examining the various

search sites and artifacts firsthand.

That's glacial till right there.

That soil's been there since the last ice age,

14, 15,000 years ago.

-There could be a tunnel underneath it. -Yeah.

But if there's a tunnel, it's deeper. It's way down deep.

I'm evaluating what this thing is.

So what is this thing?

It's not just a natural pile of stone, or it's not

just a pile of stone, you're sure?

-Something was intentionally

-built on this. -You're sure?

-Absolutely. That's 100%. -We're positive with that.

That doesn't happen very often on oak island.

Aaron: So now we know it's man-made.

I think if you look at the evidence,

you've got a continual burning event,

you've got liquid...

You've got pooling areas.

When you add up everything...

This is why david and I are so certain

that it is a pine tar kiln.

Will this produce tar in sufficient quantities

to actually use it?

-Seems like a very small operation. -That's a good question.

So this goes all the way back to-to 1500,

when early european fishermen first started being here.

You can't buy pine tar.

You either got to bring it with you, if you're here,

or you got to manufacture it on-site.

So this is historically important.

Wow.

Narrator: Although tar may have been made on oak island

for the purpose of waterproofing ships,

it has been speculated that the unique placement

of a pine tar kiln on lot 15

was most likely for the purpose of waterproofing

some kind of underground tunnel or shaft.

The most important artifact on this site is charcoal.

Charcoal is throughout this whole site.

That can only be produced at a site where you have

repetitive burning.

We always assumed that this was used for marine purposes,

but it could have been used for construction of the money pit.

What first brought the people to look at the money pit

was a light at night, right?

Perhaps someone was making tar at night.

-Wow. -Really?

Ator: During the 18th century,

reports and bonfires lights

in the dead of night on oak island

created an unsettling curiosity for those

living on the mainland.

In 1795, after witnessing this phenomenon,

daniel mcginnis and his two friends,

john smith and anthony vaughn,

traveled to oak island to investigate.

Although by the time they arrived on the island,

all traces of the strange lights had vanished,

it wasn't long before they found

a large circular indentation on the ground--

right near the base of an old oak tree.

An indentation which later revealed itself to be

the entrance to what is now known

as the oak island money pit.

Rick: If it is a pine tar kiln and it--

by their own description, the archeologists--

it's a rudimentary one, seemingly fashioned hurriedly,

might there have been a singular use

as relates to the original depositional work

in the money pit?

That-that's exhilarating. That's-that's exciting.

Marty: If you're digging the money pit and we know water is an issue,

they might've needed pine tar to seal that up, too.

It could've been a, a quick mission

to make pine tar to dig the money pit.

David: Whenever we dig,

we almost find a new question.

And we find enigmas wrapped up in questions.

-We want answers. -Laird: Yeah.

There's only one way to find answers

and that's to, get back to work.

I'm gonna go with you guys to the war room.

There's some artifacts we'd like you to look at,

as well as the drilled stone.

-Okay. Let's do that. -All right.

So, I'll see you guys back in a bit.

-Thank you very much. -See you later.

Narrator: Meanwhile, some 50 miles norh

of oak island, in nova scotia...

-Okay. -I hope carmen's still inside.

Narrator: ...Alex lagina and jack begley arrive

at northville farm where they have arranged to meet

with blacksmithing expert carmen legge.

Hey, carmen.

Yeah. We're back again.

Pretty good.

-You? -Smells so nice...

Not too bad, not too bad.

-I just moved. -New place.

Very nice-- just doing a little blacksmithing here.

All right.

We do.

Yeah. It's always good news

when we have to bring stuff to you,

because we've found something interesting

that needs proper assessment.

After the storms of the past couple years,

isaac's point has really washed away a bunch.

And we were given permission to reinforce it with rocks.

And so we went and metal detected the point

and we brought you today what we found.

And I think it's kind of obvious what it is.

But...

Yeah.

Narrator: A pickax dating back to the mid to late 1700s?

Could this be one of the tools

used to dig one of the mysterious tunnels

that are rumored to run through the money pit area?

Or could it have been used

to dig the money pit itself?

-Um...

-Jack: Thanks for all the help and info, carmen. -Alex: Thank you.

Marty: It is great to be back on oak island.

Narrator: Later that afternoon,

shortly after alex and jack return

from their visit with carmen legge,

rick and marty lagina convene this year's

first official meeting in the war room.

There are a couple guys standing by in the research center.

-Can you...? -I'll get them up, mate.

-Hey, guys. -Gentlemen.

-Hey, guys. -All right. Hey, jack.

I'm over here, too, but I'm keeping my distance

-over to the side. -Marty: Good, perfect.

Gary, you teased us big-time the other day,

and now we're here to see the unveiling.

Jack has to be held accountable, too.

Yeah, jack's involved in this-- that's correct.

Narrator: Last week, while metal detecting

near the mysterious structure on lot 15,

gary drayton and jack begley

made two potentially significant discoveries.

That's an ax!

Narrator: An ax-head believed

to be used for ship maintenance...

No way!

Narrator: ...And what appeared to be an ancient coin of unknown origi.

That is an old coin!

Wow! Let's see it!

And it was this intriguing find

that gary promised to share only when rick and marty

returned in person to oak island.

This is worth waiting for, guys.

When you get out of quarantine,

this will lift your spirits, mate.

You're really not gonna show this to us?

- Um, no. - What?!

so what was in your top pocket?

That'll come last, mate.

-I'll keep teasing a little bit longer. -Marty: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Gary: Jack and I

found a nice, chunky piece of iron,

which I believe

is an ax.

You can see where the socket was broken there.

-And just the shape of that,

the way it comes down like this,

which would put it to the early 1700s.

1720s...

1740 era.

It's definitely a ship's rigging ax.

Feel that, rick.

Feel how heavy that is.

You know that's an old piece of iron, mate.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, that's a really substantial piece of iron.

Marty: No. That's a good find, gary. That's a real good find.

-And-and, laird, do you concur about early 1700s? -Yeah.

-It fits in place there. -Okay.

Good find. Now, I know this wasn't in your top pocket.

-No. Definitely not. -Because you,

you weren't tilting to one side.

-No. -He tried to put it in there.

Marty: Did he?

Jack: Yeah.

That's not the only thing we've got to show.

-Yeah? -I know

you said that's the biggest find,

but, you know, size doesn't always matter, laird.

there you go, mate.

Pass that around.

Alex: Is that a coin, gary?

Yeah. It's a coin.

It's a coin with a square hole in it.

Gary: But the thing about this is, it's got some

heft to it. It's got that...

Thickness to it. And if you look at it

closely you can see some kind of symbols on it.

You can see embossing almost up,

-up along here. -Yeah.

Do you have an idea what it's made out of, gary?

Yeah. Copper.

-It is copper? -Gary: Yeah.

To me, when you find a-a coin

with a square hole in it like that,

it's an old colonial-era coin that the locals

decided to deface it.

I think this was in someone's pocket.

Think about the coins that we've found in that area.

Who's to say this isn't

from 16, early 1700s, or even older?

Jack: I think we're getting down to an early

date that there was activity on the island.

-Gary: That is good. -Rick: If there's any

remnants of a design on there, that will be very helpful.

Marty: Well, let's do it.

Let's find out what the thing wants to tell us.

That is a great find, gary. That's a great find.

- - This is all pre-money pit, original story.

Yeah.

We have all kinds of dates

in the early 1700s now, late 1600s,

and, of course, some going back even farther.

The real question that perennially pops up, to me,

is was that when treasure was placed here,

or something entirely different?

Artifacts tell a story.

It's remarkable this place-- I mean,

we've got a french connectio, we've got british military.

You know, that aligns with a significant amount of find.

But we need more experts or technologies to weigh in.

There's plenty of evidence that something

super significant happened here.

Yeah.

Marty: All right, well,

this island has teased us long enough.

-Let's this year find it, shall we? -Both: Yeah.

Marty: All right, let's get you back out there.

Narrator: For the laginas and their tea,

a year that has brought forth great obstacles

is already offering the promise of great breakthrough.

Breakthroughs that have only made rick and marty

more determined to repeat

as they struggle to make up for both lost time

and lost lives.

Narrator: Next time on the curse of oak island...

I say we get those rocks out.

Marty: Okay, let's do it.

This feature was known

as a tunnel entrance, and then ignored.

It does have a little bit of an edge there, yeah.

- Now that tells me that's a coin. -

-And also chinese. -Alex: Cool.

Gary: We got to dig this.

It's been there a long time.

-Whoa, whoa, whoa! -What is that?

Marty: This could have been a deep harbor at one time?

It's not probably could have, it probably was.

Wow.

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