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Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

- Look at this.
- What is that?

There's something in there.

‐This could be it, man.
‐What's in that thing?

- Holy cow!
- Wow.

The artifacts are pre‐searcher.

Whoa.
‐What was going on here?

That is the question.

What the heck is that?

Wow. That is very badly burned

- ‐part of a ship.
- Wow.

He's getting close.

Look at that.
‐Whoa! Whoa!
‐Hey! Hey!

There's a big timber
running this way.

- Baby.
- That's fantastic!

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.

- Hello?
- Hey. Good morning.

Boy, this is early. What's up?

Actually,
it's pretty exciting news.

Bravo tango?
‐No. Not bravo...

‐Not bravo tango. No.
‐Damn.

As another hopeful
and exciting day begins

on Oak Island, Rick Lagina,

along with Oak Island historians
Doug Crowell

and Charles Barkhouse,

eagerly place a call to Rick's
brother Marty to update him

on a potentially significant
discovery made one day ago

in the man‐made,
triangle‐shaped swamp.

Yesterday, Billy and Doug
were digging in the swamp.

I'm going to let them
tell you what has been found

and the potential
of what today might mean.

- ‐Doug.
- Yo.

‐Lay it on me.
I'm quite excited,
actually.

We were nine to ten feet down
and we brought up

part of what looks like
a, I'll say ship's railing.

‐Really?
‐Yeah. A very finished piece
of wood. Rounded corners.

‐It‐It's...
‐No kidding?

Yeah. This has the potential
to be really old.

Also, Marty, when Billy
was excavating this hole,

he's riding on some wood.

And he doesn't know whether

it's a platform or‐or, you know,

‐long pieces of wood,
but there's something.
Right.

‐He's not down
to the bottom layer yet.
‐Wowzer.

Wowzer.

Although the Oak Island
team has made a number

of incredible discoveries
in the swamp this year,

including a massive stone road,

believed to have once been
part of a ship's wharf,

there is one tantalizing mystery

that has baffled them
for nearly three years now.

In 2018, the Oak Island team

conducted a seismic survey
across the swamp

using more
than 2,000 dynamite charges.

This produced astonishing data
that revealed

a 200‐foot‐long anomaly

buried in the center
of the brackish bog

that resembled the shape
of a galleon ship.

- ‐Look at that.
- Yeah.

‐What've you got?
‐It looks like a piece
of finished wood.

Is it possible that the believed
piece of ship's railing

and the large,
mysterious obstruction

that members
of the team discovered

some ten feet deep
in the swamp one day ago

might be key evidence
of just what that anomaly is?

So the plan today is, we're
going to expand the hole,

‐and hopefully
he can hook a piece of it up.
Look.

Is this classic or what?
I mean, come on.

‐Yup.
‐What is with this
bloody island? You know?

And the rain's closing in...

Geez!

Yeah. But...

we have a reprieve
from the weather.

Today is supposed
to be beautiful,

but we're going
to take our time.

We have to have
a real understanding

of what this might mean.

Wow. That is something.

I mean, this is big,
I think, so...

We'll give you an update
at the end of the day.

That'd be great. I'll,
I'll be on pins and needles.

- ‐Thank you.
- Okay. Thanks. Bye.

- See you guys. Bye.
- Bye.

Well, if it's
a piece of ship's railing,

you know, the mind jumps
to the old deal that the swamp

was used as a disembarkation
point for treasure or something.

Or a ship was blown
in there and wrecked.

But along comes a piece
of data that supports it,

and you get excited about it.

I'm excited that they were going
back to the same spot to dig,

and I'm real hopeful
that it'll show something.

- Hey, guys.
- Morning.

‐Billy draw that down
or did the pump do it?
‐It's been pumping.

Now that the harsh
fall winter has begun to set in,

bringing with it
a heavy rainstorm last night,

the team has installed a
six‐inch pump to drain the area

and allow the team
to continue digging

with the 30‐ton swamp excavator.

Well, Bill, what's the plan?

Well, the water's down some.

I guess, we've got
to bail it out and look at

every bucket that comes
out to see if there's

more pieces of the wood
from yesterday.

‐Right?
‐Right.

You know, we're at a depth
where it should be

sand and gravel,
but it's not sand and gravel.

Look.
If we found something amazing,

we should take our time.

Go slow. Gary, metal‐detect.

Steve, take all your elevations
and everything you need to do.

Charles and I will be
down here putting eyes on it.

Doug, if you want
to get up there, put your eyes

- ‐on the bucket.
- Sure.

‐Okay. Well, let's not
waste the beautiful day.
No.

They believe that
the bucket was sliding

across a massive
wooden something.

So the hope is we'll find
something else,

but you don't put the cart
before the horse.

You don't start
dreaming of artifacts

until you actually
hold them in your hand.

He should be able
to put the bucket down

‐and feel‐‐ if he feels here
what he felt over there.
‐Yeah.

You're pretty close to
the depth we were yesterday.

Yeah.
And now you can feel it.

There's wood on the bottom
there. I'm sure of it.

It's almost covered with water
now. That's the problem.

Is there any way to keep
that pump running, Scott?

No.
It's all porridge over here now.

You're just going to have to dig
it out and throw the slop out.

- Yeah.
- That's all.

Although the team is hopeful
that they may be close

to a major discovery,

the heavy rains from the
previous evening have made

the muck and mud
of the swamp a frustrating

challenge for Billy Gerhardt
and the excavator.

The water level
is higher than it was.

The water is boiling
in down here now.

‐You can just see it
swelling in.
‐Yeah?

‐It's coming in from
behind us there, right?
Yeah.

Okay. Well...

‐every minute we waste, the more
water's coming in, so...
Yep.

Let's find out
what it is.
Okay.

Look at that.

There's a... there's big timber
running this way!

I mean, look at that.
That whole side.

A possible wood timber?

I've got something!

‐What is that?
‐It's a large board.

Four years ago, while
exploring in this same area,

professional diver
Tony Sampson discovered

what is believed to be
a piece of deck planking

from a large ship that was
dated to as early as 1680.

Is it possible
that Billy has just made

an identical find,
or could he be on the verge

of a much larger
and more definitive discovery?

He's getting close.

‐This is undermined
very badly here now.
‐Yeah.

You can feel this whole thing.
You know?

Like Jell‐O.

Don't move for a second!

You can feel that.
You feel that?

Yeah.

I would take it quick because
we're going to lose this!

It's just not stable.

It's wet, it's liquid,

it's muddy, it's black,
it's thick, it's...

It's a nightmare.

That big piece
is going to go right now.

Look at that piece right there.
It's going to go.

There it goes.

‐Whoa! Whoa!
‐Hey! Hey!

That ain't good.

Well, keep digging.

It's all you can do.

Yep. We'll clean it out.

You guide us in.

In the Oak Island
swamp, Rick Lagina, along with

members of the team,
are trying to uncover

what they believe to be

a large, flat surface
more than ten feet deep

in an area where they recovered

a possible piece of a ship's
railing just one day ago.

What's the plan?

Start here?

Yeah.

Unfortunately,
the more Billy Gerhardt digs

with the swamp excavator,

the more the hole fills back in

with soppy mud and sludge.

I think we have to stay focused.

We have a piece of wood

that we believe
might be from a ship.

You're never going
to get a good look at this

with the amount
of water in the area

unless you pull it out.

That makes it all
the more important to come

to an understanding
of what this is.

It just caved in
over the top of it.

It's not even
draining out there now.

It's draining right into here.

Look at‐‐ look at that water
coming in right there.

Yeah.

Well, I'm not sure
it's worth continuing.

We need to fix this issue.
Otherwise, the water will

just keep recirculating
here, so...

Yeah. It wouldn't matter what
you did now, I don't think.

You're not getting any headway.

We can't advance through it.

What it tells me is,

putting in sheet
out there is a good idea.

Because the rain‐soaked mud
in the swamp keeps caving in

and also because
the weather is only expected

to get worse
as winter approaches,

the Oak Island team

will have to wait
until next spring

to continue this investigation,

when they will have time
to install a cofferdam system

similar to the one
they constructed at Smith's Cove

two years ago.

Using sheet piling,

which is hammered deep
into the mud and sediment,

the cofferdam will create
a watertight barrier

that will allow
for a complete excavation

of this area of the swamp.

You know, it's disappointing.

Again, it's the emotional
roller coaster ride

that is Oak Island.

But we still have chances

to answer questions
about this stone pathway.

To me, there's going
to be some answers there.

So, for the remainder
of the year,

that's our area of focus.

- ‐I think that we're done here.
- Yeah.

Yeah. I think we are.

Okay, Billy.

You're free to fill this in.

‐Okay. Yep.
‐All right? Okay.

We'll get out of your way.

You know, we'll see

what the rest of the day brings.

Later that day

on the western end
of the island...

This is a massive root cellar.

...Charles Barkhouse
and Scott Barlow

join archaeologists
Laird Niven and Liz Michels

at the 18th century
stone foundation

of the house that
once belonged to Samuel Ball,

a man who came
to Oak Island in 1787

as a simple cabbage farmer

but who mysteriously grew
to become one of Nova Scotia's

wealthiest landowners
by the early 19th century.

Is it too much
square footage just to store

root vegetables
and that type of thing?

That's a good question.

If he's just storing food,

- ‐this seems like a lot.
- Right.

- What do you got?
- Got a hinge.

A hinge and wood.

It's nice that
it's right by the stairs.
‐Yeah.

Yeah, the positioning
is pretty significant.

A metal hinge found
in the stone foundation

of Samuel Ball's home?

Was it perhaps simply part
of a door in the house?

Or might it have come
from some kind of container?

Or chest?

Looks like the fasteners
are still in it, as well.

We've got some wood
coming up here.

Ooh. It's delicate.

There's a crosspiece.

Wow.

So, this is the‐‐
kind of the working floor

right here.

- ‐So it's not floorboards?
- No.

No. This is just
a plain dirt floor.

The floorboards were up here.

- ‐Right.
- Yeah. So this‐‐

this would have come
from somewhere else.

Liz and I came upon some wood
that seemed to be intact.

They're vertical boards
and horizontal boards,

so it looked like a door.

I actually hadn't seen
anything like that before.

I'm curious about this.

If they're floorboards,

they obviously would've been
above this level.

They wouldn't have floorboards
in the root cellar.

No. Maybe cobbles.

‐Maybe rocks.
‐Okay.

That's great.

Now we know we have
more work to do.

While Charles and Scott
continue working

with Laird and Liz
at the Ball foundation...

So here's what we found.

Holy cow.

...near the eastern
edge of the swamp,

Rick Lagina, along with
geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

and members of the team,

are focusing their investigation

on the stone road and pathway,

looking for any more evidence
of a ship

or other clues
that could help solve

the Oak Island mystery.

Let's see how far
these stones go that way.

- ‐Yep.
- I'll grab a detector.

You have to have context

for these
anomalous features, i. e.,

the possibility
of making artifact finds

certainly are near the shore.

So we're going to investigate it

and hopefully
come up with some answers.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

That's a good depth
there, Billy.

Okay.

Look at that.

So we're getting more cribbing.

‐Something's going on here.
‐Yeah.

Wow.

Rick! Check this out!

‐What have you got, Gary?
‐That's unusual.

That came out
of that last bucket.

- That's one piece of wood.
- Yeah. That is strange.

- It's perfectly square.
- Yeah.

It was made that way,
by the look of it.
Yeah.

Aaron!

Check this out.
‐Hey, guys. What do you got?

We're hoping
you can tell us.
‐God.

- ‐Wow.
- It's got to be a tool.

Yeah. I was going
to say, like, something for...

- ‐architectural or...
- Yeah. Yeah.

‐Yeah. Like a little
carpenter's square.
‐Yeah.

A possible carpenter's square?

Found near the stone pathway on
the eastern border of the swamp?

Could it be an important clue,
like the wooden survey stakes

and wood pieces dating back
as far as the 15th century,

that might be connected
to the feature's construction?

And, if so, might it
also help identify

just who built it?

The interesting thing
about something like that,

you can actually date them.
It's wood.

‐Yeah.
‐So this is probably more
important than we think.

I will put this away.

- Well, good find.
- Yeah.

- ‐Thank you.
- Thanks, guys.

While Rick
and members of the team

continue their
investigation in the swamp...

...later that afternoon...

- Hi, guys.
- Hey, Marty.

Hey, Marty.
Thanks for coming down.

This is the item.

Well, that is cool.

After learning of the discovery

of the possible
carpenter's square,

Marty Lagina meets with Oak
Island historian Doug Crowell

and Gary Drayton
in the research center

to inspect the potentially
important clue.

At first I thought it was metal
because of the shape of it.

Yeah.

That is actually kind
of exquisite. Isn't it?

‐It's one piece.
This is not joined to this.
‐Yeah.

What do you think it is?

I've looked through
shipwright tools.

I've looked through
old carpenter tools.

It came up as
a stonemason's tool.

Bloody hell.

It was a stonemason's tool.

That's what it most
closely resembles.

In the research center,

Doug Crowell has just revealed

that the possible T square

may be an actual
stonemason's tool.

Well, obviously its use
is for right angles.

Isn't it? I mean...

That's the idea I ran with
'cause they say that‐that form

‐follows function, so...
‐Yeah.

If the team has actually found

a stonemason's T square
in the triangle‐shaped swamp,

could it be evidence tying
one particular organization

to the Oak Island mystery?

Ever since the discovery
of the Money Pit in 1795,

the secretive fraternity
of builders known as

the Freemasons,
who also descended

from the ancient order
of the Knights Templar,

have been closely linked
to Oak Island.

In addition to the fact
that several

prominent treasure hunters,
including Daniel McGinnis,

M.R. Chappell, and even a young

Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
were members,

numerous Masonic symbols,

such as the letter "G"
for "God" or "Grand Architect,"

crosses
and prominent triangles,

have been found
all across the island.

That is really cool.

This so‐called mason's tool,
it's nicely crafted,

which seems to have
sort of Masonic connections.

And, more to the point,
creates angles that are

very useful
in a practical sense.

30‐degree angles,
60‐degree angles,

90‐degree angles‐‐
those are very useful

in building
and laying out things.

So I want to get a date on it,

and I want
to find out what its use is.

Both those things are
very interesting to me.

It's amazing how
it's well preserved like that

'cause of the swamp.

That's a pretty cool find, Gary.

I'm gonna say two things.

One, which I've been
saying a lot lately,

let's put it in the line
for carbon dating.

Okay.
‐Yeah.

And what's the second thing
I always say?

That was nice,
but go out and find some more.

That's right. Sorry, Gary.
I hate to be so predictable.

All right, guys,
I'll let you carry on.

‐See you.
See you.
See you, Marty.

The following morning

on Lot 25...

Ha! Reinforcements!

Well, I brought
the person you need.

...Rick Lagina, Gary Drayton,

and Rick and Marty's nephew
David Fornetti

arrive at the foundation
of Samuel Ball's

18th century home
after being alerted

to another potentially
important discovery

by archaeologist Laird Niven

and other members of the team.

Laird, do you want to
tell them what we found?

Yeah. So, we were clearing out
the cellar floor.

‐
As we were working
along, we found

some wood that seems
to be in situ.

‐Perhaps a hatchway
or a doorway.
Wow!

A possible doorway?

Embedded in the floor
of the Ball foundation?

Just what might have been,
or could still be,

on the other side of it?

Would I love it to be a door

to an opening in the floor?
Absolutely.

Who knows what it is?

How much of the door is still
there? Is it intact, all of it?

We've got a good number
of boards here,

but, um, it's pretty partial.

Because the door is embedded
in the foundation,

Laird and Liz
will have to take their time

to carefully excavate around it

before they can remove it to
reveal whatever might lie below.

The wood appears to be
laid horizontally,

appears to be a door.

If this is an opening
in the floor,

that's a big find.

But, again, it's
the Oak Island roller coaster.

We want to make sure
that it's not explainable

in any other way.

We found a really nice hinge
that I want Gary to look at.

Yeah. I'd love to.

Wow! That's nice, mate.

It was found right here.

- ‐It's small.
- Might be too small

for a cellar door, though.
I'm thinking this would be

the type of strap hinge

you'd see on a chest or a box.

A strap hinge for a chest?

One year ago,
while conducting an excavation

near the stone foundation
on the Ball property...

It's starting to look,

like a chest hinge of some kind.

...artifact conservator
Kelly Bourassa

found a similar item.

If it was a chest or a box,

you would need
a bracket like this.

Is it possible that these
two discoveries are related?

And could they be further
evidence that Samuel Ball

may have hidden something
of great value on his property?

So many places to hide
something good in here.

Fantastic.
You've done really well, Laird.

- ‐Okeydoke.
- Yeah.

- Good luck.
- Thanks, Rick.

Thanks, Rick.

Later that afternoon,

Rick, Marty, Craig
and members of the team...

‐Hey, guys.
‐Gentlemen.
‐Hey, guys.

...have arranged
to meet with researcher

and Oak Island theorist
Philip Stephenson

via videoconference
in the war room.

Mr. Stephenson, welcome.

After the discovery
of the possible Masonic T square

one day ago in the swamp,

the team has invited
Mr. Stephenson,

who contacted them
earlier this year,

to share what he believes
to be important information

that could help solve
the Oak Island mystery.

So, Mr. Stephenson,
I'm looking forward

to what you have to tell us.

They sure do.

Wow.

In the war room,
researcher Philip Stephenson

has revealed a Masonic
cipher that he believes

is directly related
to the Oak Island mystery.

Wow.

So, this is amazing.

That's very interesting

and really mind‐boggling.

In 2016, late author

and researcher Zena Halpern
presented the Laginas

and their team with three
documents that she believed

had been created by members
of the Knights Templar.

Two of them contained maps,
which appeared to describe

journeys that the Templars
supposedly made to Oak Island

during the 12th century and
again in the mid‐14th century.

The third document,
also known as La Formule,

is a coded cipher containing
many of the same symbols

reportedly found on the
legendary 90 Foot Stone,

which was removed
from the Money Pit

when it was first excavated
to that depth in 1804.

Could the remarkable
similarities between La Formule

and the reported Masonic
cipher being presented

by Philip Stephenson
offer more evidence

tying both the Knights Templar

and the Freemasons
to the Oak Island mystery?

It certainly gets
your attention

when you come up
with a whole bunch

of correlative things:
the same symbols,

Masonic connections.

So it has credibility right
out‐‐ right out of the door.

Did you just figure
this out, you know, using

the substitution,
trial and error?

Is that how you got to these?

Okay. In other words,
once you figure out

the substitution,
this is what you get?

- ‐Yeah.
- Wow.

It gives great credence

- ‐to the La Formule cipher.
- Yeah.

Although no one
has been able to conclude

just what the megalithic
formation of six boulders,

that was discovered
by Fred Nolan in 1981,

actually represents,

many believe it symbolizes

that the Oak Island treasure
is of a religious nature

and may include
priceless relics such as

the Holy Grail
and the Ark of the Covenant.

It is for this reason
that many have suggested

a link to not only
the Freemasons

but also their predecessors,
the Knights Templar.

Wow.

This is excellent.

So, we have a survey from 1988.
It's the Barringer Survey.

It has four potential
nonferrous targets.

And your target "Z"
lands fairly close

to one of them, I believe.

It's definitely
a spot of interest

that we haven't explored.

Conducted across the area

from Smith's Cove
to the Money Pit in 1988

by Dan Blankenship
and his partner David Tobias,

the Barringer Survey was a
low‐velocity radio wave survey

that identified four
potential nonferrous targets,

meaning they could be composed
of silver or gold.

Although the team has not fully
explored the four target sites,

could Mr. Stephenson's research
not only corroborate

at least one of them
but also mark the location

of something people
have been trying to find

for more than two centuries?

I don't like
to rush to judgment.

But, boy, Phil's theory
is quite compelling.

There's an "X" on the ground.

He's suggesting that
it's only 40 feet down.

Let's just put a rig over
the site and drill it.

Very interesting stuff.

I mean, look.
I can tell you right now.

There's nobody on this screen
or in that room

‐who isn't going to want
to go dig there.
‐Yup.

- It's more than interesting.
- I mean, as I sit here,

my mind rebels
against the thought

that it's mere coincidence.

I agree.

There's a lot
pointing to the same place.

Let's get out there
and mark "Z"

‐and find out
what's down 40 feet.
I'm very hopeful.

Phil, thank you very much
for your presentation.

Okay. Every man to his duty.

The following morning...

- PS‐1. Here we go.
- This could be the day.

...on Lot 20,
near the Money Pit area...

That's it, we're looking
for a treasure chamber.

Okay.

‐You think Mike
can get us there?
‐I think so.

...members of the Oak Island
team begin drilling

at the location
provided by Philip Stephenson...

‐This could be
the one right here.
‐Yeah.

...where he believes they will
find something of great value

at a depth of 40 feet.

Well, let's peel this back
and see what's happening.

Pretty tight
looking stuff, Terry.

That is in place.

I don't see any evidence
of disturbance.

It's always a great thing
when a theorist will say,

"Here's your 'X,' dig here."

He's saying that his location
is about 40 feet down.

Well, it's a simple matter
of putting a rig over the site

and find out whether or not
there is a vault there.

What are we looking at?

- 29!
- 29.

Yeah. It's kind of
a sandy blue‐gray till.

This is actually the stuff that
you want over a treasure vault

if you're going
in from a tunnel, right?

‐Absolutely.
‐You want this hard stuff
over the top...

‐No question.
‐...to preserve whatever vault

‐or whatever treasure
you're burying, right?
‐Yeah.

This is exactly what we want
to see if we're looking for

‐a treasure trove at depth.
‐Yeah.

Our target horizon being

only ten feet away. It'll
be coming up in this next core.

Look! What is that?
There's something
in there.

What's in that thing?

On Lot 20...

There's something
interesting in there!

I'll go take a look.

...while core‐drilling
at a location east

of the Money Pit area,

members of the Oak Island team

have just recovered something
at a depth of 40 feet

where theorist Philip Stephenson

predicted a cache of treasure

- ‐would be found.
- One, two, three.

So, that's interesting.
What's that?

That looks to me
like a ground‐up

something or other.

And, in fact,
it is a ground‐up boulder.

So, 49 feet,
all the way back up to 39 feet.

This is the‐‐ pretty much
the fateful intersection.

This is what
we were looking for.

A ten‐foot boulder?

Found at the precise depth
where the team

was told they might find
something of great value?

Is it simply
a coincidence of nature?

Or like other massive boulders
that have been found

on the island's surface,

could it be a marker

placed there for some purpose?

There's all kinds
of possibilities,

and that's what's so
disconcerting, but you have

to follow
where the clues lead you.

It's typical Oak Island.

"Here's a little clue, guys.

"You may want
to take a look at it

and see if you want
to go somewhere else."

- All right.
- Unfortunately,

there's no treasure vault
right here.

Basically, that's where
we know where it isn't.

Every time you dig and
you don't get what you want,

you're discouraged,

but I think we're missing
something, though,

on Phil Stephenson's theory.

And that is, I'm not at all sure
we know where the altar is.

I think it's deciphered
brilliantly, but you have

to start at the altar.

That's the problem.

‐So, that's that.
‐Yeah. That's that.

They're going
to pull out of that hole

and, we'll update Rick.

‐But we'll let him
know the results.
‐Yep. Super.

Later that afternoon...

This is going
to be really soupy,

but we'll soon see.

...along the eastern border
of the swamp,

Gary Drayton and David Fornetti

continue scouring the area
near the stone pathway

for more important clues

and hopefully items of value.

‐
‐GARY: We have got

a signal here, mate.

It's an iron signal.

- All right.
- Just here, mate.

‐I'll get to the higher ground.
‐Okay.

It's a great area
to find something,

when you think about it.

We've got
all these old boulders.

- ‐See that?
- Yup.

What the heck? Rick!

‐Check this out.
‐I guess I don't have to ask

‐what you found.
‐No. I mean,

this is a really
old piece of iron, Rick.

Yeah. And huge.
‐Yeah.

That does look broken.

I mean, it's bent
in two directions, right?

Let's have a look.

It's broken all right.

If you could imagine

you complete the circle,
it would have gone closer to‐‐

‐that's what it looks like to
me. Some kind of...
‐There's a ringbolt.

Ringbolt. Ringbolt!

Hey!

A possible ringbolt?

Could it be connected to the
others the team has found

this year
along the stone pathway?

Ringbolts that dated back
to as early as the 17th century

and offered evidence
of cargo being offloaded

from a ship and onto Oak Island?

I mean, this has been
under some stress.

I mean, was it in a boulder?

I don't know what to make of it.

Look, we're‐we're speculating
a lot about what this might be.

‐David, why don't you take that
to Dr. Taylor?
‐Yeah.

- ‐And have him take a look at it.
- Yeah. Sounds good.

- ‐That's fantastic.
- That is.

It's an inch and a quarter
solid steel bar.

That took some force
to bend that.

But why, why, why?
I have no idea.

But that's why we try
to apply science to it,

and we also have people

to take a look at it

and try to give us a greater
understanding as to its purpose.

‐Hey.
‐Hey, Dave.
‐Hi.

‐What you got there?
‐We found something
in the swamp.

Wow. That is very heavy.

That's cool.

So, what are‐‐
what are your initial thoughts?

What I first notice is
how black your hands are.

Yeah.
And that's not
from swamp. That's charcoal.

And this thing has seen
intense burning.

- It's been burnt?
- Yeah. Very badly burned.

So much so that it's still
adhering to the iron.

So, I think it was part

of a wooden structure.

Maybe something to do with
some large timbers on a ship.

That's good.

The iron object severely burned

and potentially related
to the wooden timbers

of a sailing ship?

Could it be related to the
possible piece of ship's railing

that the team found
three days ago

near the southern border
of the swamp?

And possibly the massive
ship‐shaped anomaly

the team identified
with seismic scanning

two years ago?

All right. Well, we'll go take
this to the research center.

‐I'll come with you.
‐All right.

Thanks for showing that to us.

- Yeah. You bet.
- That's great.

Later that afternoon,

before the day
comes to a close...

‐Welcome to the war room.
‐...Rick and Marty Lagina

gather members of the team
in the war room

for a videoconference
with Craig Tester

to hear a highly anticipated
scientific report

on the possible mason's T square

found two days ago in the swamp.

Craig has the C‐14
results from the swamp.

And so, I very much
look forward to that.

Okay. All right.

So, Craig, I'm going
to turn it over to you.

Okay, we're gonna look at

the wood mason's tool.

This one was from

1632 to 1668.

- ‐Wow.
- Whoa!

In the Oak Island war room

Craig Tester has just revealed
carbon test results

indicating that
the possible Masonic T square,

found two days ago in the swamp,

could date as far back as 1632,

more than 160 years before
the discovery of the Money Pit.

What do you make of that, Aaron?
You're shaking your head.

A lot older than
I‐I thought it would be.

I wasn't optimistic
that it was pre‐searcher,

but I'm happily surprised.

Of course,
that mason's tool could

be in use for how many years?

Ten? 20?

Yes. For sure.

The followers of a group
of Scottish knights settled

in Nova Scotia
during the early 1600s.

They were

the Freemasons.

Three weeks ago,

author and Oak Island theorist
James McQuiston

shared information
on his incredible theory

that a 17th century
Scottish organization

with close ties
to both Freemasonry

and the Knights Templar,

known as the Knights Baronet,

were behind
the Oak Island mystery.

Unfortunately, the French
attacked Nova Scotia,

leaving the Scots ousted

in the spring of 1632,

and I believe they
took shelter in Mahone Bay

and buried
treasure on Oak Island.

It's quite remarkable.

Could the carbon dating test

on the possible Masonic tool

be corroborating evidence

that James McQuiston's
incredible theory is true?

I think we create this
timeline, and you're going

to see a grouping,
is what I think.

‐Yeah.
‐It happens to fit
with just about everything.

You know,
luckily, we're finding

evidence of pre‐Money Pit.

What is it about Oak Island

that made them choose to build
a huge stone path?

You know?

‐What was going on here?
‐That is the question.

‐Yeah.
‐I wish I knew.

I think the carbon dates
are exceedingly interesting.

Rounding to the mid‐1600s.

But the more important issue is:

that item had a purpose.

I want to know
what that purpose is,

and then the carbon dates
become even more interesting.

What is a wooden instrument

from the mid‐1600s

doing in our swamp
here on Oak Island?

All right. Well, that's
very cool and very old.
‐Yeah.

And, we just have
mountains of data

that‐that something significant
happened on Oak Island

prior to the discovery
of the Money Pit.

‐Yeah.
I think we can
all attest to that.

‐Yeah.
‐We have an agenda, right?

The southeast corner,
finding out

where "X" marks the spot,
where the pathway ends.

Yeah. I agree.

So, we're very hopeful, and...

I thank everyone for
continuing to puzzle over this.

- ‐So, I'm grateful to everyone.
- All right, then.

Let's get back to it.
Thanks to everybody.

- Bye, guys.
- Thanks, guys.

Take care.

The Laginas and their team

often remark in jest
that the Oak Island mystery

is a 1,000‐piece puzzle

missing several hundred pieces
required to complete it.

If they have proven anything
in their quest so far,

it is that the analogy
is no understatement.

Because despite
the daunting setbacks,

sometimes caused by nature

and others by perhaps
more mysterious sources...

...Rick, Marty,
Craig and the team

have found a trail
of puzzle pieces

suggesting that something
extraordinary happened

long ago on Oak Island.

And if they keep moving
forward down that trail,

they may soon uncover
the ultimate piece

that will complete the puzzle.

Next time
on The Curse of Oak Island...

This is typical
of something to do with ships

- ‐or parts of ships.
- Wow.

There's a couple of wharfs

on Samuel Ball's property.

Yes, Alex.
Right here's the second one.

We were 75 to 100 feet
from shore.

‐Yeah.
‐So that's a huge wharf.

‐Yeah.
Why do you need
such a massive wharf?

- Take a look at this.
- We found a coin.

- Look at that!
- I think that's gold.

It's stunning.

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