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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

We have a large metallic anomaly in the swamp.

Wow! That's great.

I believe there are answers in that swamp.

Yes! We're starting to dig.

The more we dig, the more we find.

Oh, my gosh!

What the heck is that?

Something's going on in that corner.

They hit something solid.

They couldn't drill through it.

That's where the gold signal's coming from.

There could be something there.

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,

manmade workings

that date to medieval times

and a lead cross whose origin

may be connected to the Knights Templar.

To date, six men have died

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,

one more will have to die

before the treasure can be found.

Hey, Paul.

Hey, how's it going?

Question is, how are you doing?

All right.

- Mind if we go and have a look? - Yeah.

Another promising day has begun on Oak Island

for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,

their partner Craig Tester and the rest of their team

as they investigate

the so-called Garden Shaft in the hopes

of finally solving a 228-year-old treasure mystery.

They're probe drilling straight down in the shaft.

How deep are we?

We're around 65 to 66 feet.

- In between there. - Okay.

Of all the large-scale excavations

the Oak Island team has performed

during the past decade,

they have a number of reasons to believe

that the Garden Shaft, which is now being reconstructed

by representatives from Dumas Contracting Limited,

may be the key to locating a legendary treasure vault.

After scientifically dating the shaft to 1735...

Meaning that it could be related to the original Money Pit...

The team conducted additional tests

on water samples within it,

as well as on wood fragments

collected from the walls of the structure

at depths of 55 and 58 feet.

Incredibly, both exercises yielded

high trace evidence of gold.

Really appreciate you grabbing these samples of the wood

as you're boring through there, cutting a hole.

'Cause, uh, you know, the gold we found up hole a little bit,

it's got us excited to see what's down here.

And if we can use that wood and trace the gold,

hopefully it can tell us where it's coming from.

- Exactly. - Yeah.

Now, given that the location

of the Garden Shaft is within 20 feet

of the so-called "treasure zone,"

where geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

and his colleague hydrogeologist Dr. Fred Michael

believe the Money Pit treasure vault

may be buried between 80 and 120 feet deep...

There's another augur on there now.

Dumas is conducting a probe drilling operation

within the structure

at a depth of approximately 65 feet,

in the hopes of finding more evidence

of the fabled riches.

Using a hydraulic earth drill,

the team is drilling three holes

through all four walls of the original shaft

which will reach as far as 20 feet

in every direction.

It's all about, at this point,

the probe drilling

and trying to use the information

derived from that program to further our understanding

of the relevance of the Garden Shaft

in terms of treasure recovery.

That seemed to be drilling awful easy.

Yeah.

It's exciting to think about the possibilities,

because, uh, now we have found gold values,

meaning that...

we might be close to a source location

for gold here.

Where are they at?

- In, uh, northeast corner. - Okay.

Something's going on in that corner.

Yeah. Still, it's looking like it's

- a softer corner, which... - Yeah.

Which all indications were from what we've seen.

We've been probe drilling in the northeast corner,

and the ground seems quite soft.

It's very interesting.

It's telling us something.

Are we gonna find tunnels? Are we gonna to find unknown shafts?

And we're real excited about it.

You know, if there's a tunnel there

or anything like that, it's gonna be really interesting.

We just got the information

and we'll start following the information.

That's right. Let the science do the work.

- Yeah. - Yep. - Yeah.

Okay, well, it's moving along.

- Okay. - Thank you very much.

We'll keep at it.

Let me know if you hit anything, for sure.

Okay, will do.

Later that afternoon...

All right. What we got going here today?

I want to pull this corner back,

because when we first dug,

I thought there were a couple three stones there.

On Lot 13,

over 400 feet north

of the triangle-shaped swamp...

I agree, it's possible

we could follow that out a little further.

Craig Tester joins Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with fellow landowner Tom Nolan,

and other members of the team to resume

investigating a mysterious site

known as the great quadrilateral.

First discovered more than 30 years ago

by Tom's late father, Fred Nolan,

the feature is a 32-foot-long formation of boulders,

which Fred believed might have been created

centuries ago.

Based on a diagram that he designed

back in the 1990s,

the team is currently excavating

the northeast portion of the quadrilateral

in the hopes of determining

who created it and just what they used it for.

And all this clay is out of place, is that correct?

It shouldn't be there?

Yeah, bottom line is, you found artifacts.

That tells us that somebody's dug that clay.

And we found that staple.

Yeah, we did, and that's the thing.

- If we can dig deeper... - Mm.

The artifacts should be older.

The more we dig, the more we find.

Hey, Rick? That's a bit of clay there.

Where have you seen that color before?

Money Pit.

One week ago,

after uncovering an artificial layer of blue clay,

which is a kind of water sealant

that was also found deep in the Money Pit

back in 1804,

- Ooh! A piece of metal. - The team discovered

a heavy iron staple.

A staple

that blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge

believed was part of a pulley system

designed to move heavy objects

and may actually date back to medieval times.

To me, this strongly

suggests the original work.

Now we have to figure out the why of this.

Is there a possibility that there's something

underground here that may be the one thing?

I'm-I'm hopeful. I am.

But we have to prove it.

Okay. Go hop in that machine and start finding.

- Yep. - All right, mate. I'll get ready as well.

As Billy Gerhardt excavates the feature,

metal detection expert Gary Drayton

will search the spoils for important clues

and signs of treasure.

The quadrilateral appears to be an area

of rather substantial impact.

The boulders, they were basically stacked in two tiers.

Doesn't look anything like an agricultural thing.

Farmers are extremely practical people.

They're not gonna waste effort.

And why would they dig down

eight, 12, 14 feet?

No, it's not farmers.

It's not agricultural.

So could it be somehow associated

with the whole mystery? Yeah.

That one weird, little tick like that.

Yeah, we can't ignore that.

Just there.

Is that a lump of coal on the side there?

On the side of that wall there?

A little charcoal?

That is definitely charcoal, mate, isn't it?

Yeah.

See the glint off of it?

Yeah, definitely part

of the quadrilateral story, for sure.

Yeah, good eye, Gary, because

- it was right there in the wall. - Yep.

Because charcoal can be carbon-dated...

I'll put this in the bag, Rick. This is cool.

Perhaps this discovery can offer

the team another clue as to when

this feature was created.

All right, let's get back at it.

The other burning question, where's the metal?

It seems to be

elongated. Oh.

It's there?

Still there?

Yep. It's just...

finding it.

I believe... got it.

That's it.

What the heck is this?

Oh, my gosh!

- Heavy? - Yeah, it's heavy.

Uh, don't know what it is.

- It's a curved piece of iron. - Yeah.

While excavating the mysterious formation

known as the great quadrilateral on Lot 13...

- What you got, Gary? - It looks like

some large piece of iron.

- Yep. - Billy Gerhardt

and Gary Drayton have just unearthed a potentially

important discovery.

- Was that in the clay? - Eh.

It's not in the clay, no.

- Show it to these guys. - Yeah.

That just seems strange to me.

A little heavy.

A little heavy. Watch yourself.

- It's weird, whatever it is. - Yeah.

It's a non-descript hunk of something.

Chunk of metal.

- That's heavy. - Yeah.

- That is rusty. - Yeah.

- But that's not 30 years of rusty. - No.

- It looks more than that. - Yeah. Yeah.

This goes well back into antiquity.

Right.

Well, that's not something

you find every day.

Nope.

Just on Oak Island.

Just on Oak Island.

Tell you, mate, when that chunk of iron

come out there, the way it's curved like that,

the size and the weight of it,

reminded me of a fragment of a cannonball.

I've found loads of them in the southeast United States.

I mean, we did find armament.

- We've found musket balls, obviously. - Yeah.

We've found Portuguese stone shot.

- Yeah. - If you start putting

puzzle pieces together,

then that becomes perhaps more relevant.

Yeah.

A possible fragment of a cannonball

found in the great quadrilateral?

And of a potentially ancient origin?

- Ready? - Yep.

I love it when we find stuff like this.

That is a bona fide artifact.

Over the past three years,

the team has found two stone cannonballs on Oak Island,

one of which was discovered deep in the Money Pit area.

Incredibly, those objects,

just like the stone road that was uncovered

in the triangle-shaped swamp

back in 2020

and the stone wall located on Lot 26,

are all believed to be 500 years old or more.

And potentially connected

to the Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar.

If it is indeed a cannonball frag,

then that becomes, perhaps, extremely relevant.

Yep, you got that right, mate.

Could Rick Lagina be correct

that this discovery may offer a critical clue

in identifying who created the so-called great quadrilateral?

I think we can say we got it, but I'll re-check the hole

- just in case. - Yep. Yep.

If so, the question

that grows all the more curious is,

just what was its purpose?

Yep, it's out.

All right.

It's all clear.

Billy, crank it up.

Geez!

I'd say we're getting into some boulders as well.

One there... one there.

I don't know if somebody wants to look,

but you got four rocks, all flat,

right there... you can see where the tops are scratched.

- Yeah. - You mean those four, four

- small ones there, Billy, sort of... - Yeah, it's just...

they're just kind of laid flatted out.

Worried about it, or pulling them out?

- No. Let's see what's under them. - Keep going.

This is definitely a disturbed area

where somebody excavated a bunch of stuff

and then put stuff back in that didn't belong there...

I'm coming down.

And maybe the boulders here

in this disturbed area might have been used

to seal something.

If treasure was

brought to Oak Island and deposited here,

this would be a great place for it.

Nothing in there.

What do you think?

So there's nothing really here?

No. Nothing.

I wouldn't go any further than that.

Yeah.

So now I think what we need to do is

sort of sequentially move towards the west.

I agree.

And we need artifacts.

Or something underneath this.

That's where I sit.

Yeah, something went on here.

Something was dug out and something was placed back in.

And we don't know why.

I think we all agree there's something

strangely unique about this.

Oh, yeah.

We're not done digging at the quadrilateral

is what the next steps are.

We need to dig the structure in its entirety.

I believe there is a chance

that there are additional boulders,

and hopefully find more artifacts.

And make our own assessment of what it might mean.

My usual MO is to say...

keep digging, so that's what I suggest we do.

Yep. This is going to take

- a few days. - Yeah.

But it's about the end of the day,

so let's call it a day.

- Okay. - We'll be back again.

- The following day... - Going up.

As the probe drilling operation continues

in the Garden Shaft...

Certainly, the Garden Shaft is the...

most important, uh, project that we have,

but the swamp also is important.

Rick, Marty and Craig

have gathered members of the team in the war room,

as well as on video conference, for an update

on another major investigation

they soon hope to begin

in order to help solve the Oak Island mystery.

The thing that is required, obviously, is a permit.

I just wanted to bring everybody up to date,

as to where we are. Laird has

put in for heritage research permits regarding

the southeast corner of the swamp.

How's that for a starting point, guys?

Yeah, that's a good one.

Earlier this year,

the team conducted new magnetometer scans

in the swamp with geophysical

experts Jeremy Church and Burton Cosgrove.

Whoa!

- Big one? - Yeah.

- Through the roof. - Fantastic!

Incredibly, they detected numerous

metallic anomalies in an area

just several yards from the possible

Portuguese stone road located in the brackish bog's

southeast corner.

And we've sent all information to the First Nations, right?

Correct. We have. Yes.

However,

due to the discovery

of 2,000-year-old fragments

of First Nations Mi'kmaw pottery

that archaeologist Laird Niven made

in the southeast corner of the swamp

back in 2021,

the Oak Island team has been delayed in obtaining

governmental permits to once again draw down,

or drain, the swamp and investigate

those potential targets.

I know things have gotten more complicated and

- we need that draw-down permit because... - Yeah.

We want to dig and Jeremy's

presentation and there's some things that,

in my mind, should be dug.

Right.

Billy, I'm going to turn it over to you because you've been

more intimately involved in that process than anyone.

So if you can fill everyone in, that'd be great.

So, the government, they've been very good

in communicating with us.

The good news is...

from what we understand...

they gave the approvals

- for a permit. - Perfect!

All the information has been relayed

to the proper governmental authorities

and all of the permit

application requirements have been met.

Well done, sir.

And I believe that we should shortly

have the permits in hand.

I think we're, uh, we're well on our way.

Hopefully it'll be all positive from here on in.

It's all good. We can't control it beyond this, so proceed.

All righty.

- See you, guys. - See you.

- Thanks. - Drain that swamp.

Two days after the Oak Island team's

meeting in the war room...

- Hey, Billy! - How you doing, guys?

Hey, Billy.

This is one heck of a big pump.

- Yeah, yeah. - Well, it's a big swamp.

They have officially received a permit

from the provincial government to drain the swamp

in order to investigate a number of potential metal targets

that were detected earlier this year.

So we cleaned out the sump, sump's all ready to go.

When we did this year one,

I don't remember what the flow rate was on those things.

- What-what's this thing? - Uh...

I think, I think this thing would probably seven

- or 800 gallons a minute, I imagine. - So that means,

couple three days, we'll have this thing drained?

Yeah, it'll go pretty quick, yeah.

Where are we running the outflow?

This line here, we have it strung over

on Lot 29. Up in the middle, there's

quite a rocky section in the woods.

As you know, we're pretty protective

- of any runoff, so... - Yeah.

- Let's get pumping. - Yeah.

In accordance with environmental regulations...

Hey, Tim!

Rather than pumping the brackish water out

of the swamp and into the nearby ocean,

the Oak Island team will transfer it all

to Lot 29, in the middle of the island.

Tim got tired of taking pumps apart and picking sticks out,

so he designed this little float for us.

Yeah. Ingenious idea.

The swamp definitely has a lot

of secrets that it's still hiding.

You know, it almost looks like

someone covered a stone pathway,

and other related features.

I got to say, Tim, I'm very impressed.

- Well done. - It makes you wonder,

was that done by the depositors?

Or was that done by early searchers?

Cool.

That is a hooked-up pump.

I think we're all ready.

Oh! Here goes.

All righty! See you, Bill.

- Yeah. - See you, guys.

The following day,

while the swamp continues to drain...

Want tightlining now?

Want to bring them down some nails?

And while the probe drilling operation proceeds

in the Garden Shaft at the Money Pit...

Okay, Billy.

- It's up you. - Okay.

Billy Gerhardt returns

to Lot 13,

along with Rick Lagina, Tom Nolan

and other members of the team

to continue excavating the great quadrilateral

for additional clues, as well as signs

of potential valuables.

What say me and you go behind there

- and sort through the spoils? - Yeah.

Having discovered several

potentially important artifacts

in the northeast portion of the feature,

the team is now excavating

its southern region.

My hope is that we can

somehow figure out the why of it.

Fred was unable to.

Why build such a structure?

It makes no sense.

To me, it might be associated

with a... what we call "original work," because...

I can't believe a farmer

would conduct such an activity.

Nothing.

Keep going, Bill.

You know what's interesting

about this is, I mean, Fred described it

as roughly paving,

and if you look at the sketch in the book,

they're mostly big rocks, but he actually

draws little rocks in between them

as though the top was meant to be paved.

In fact, I think even in the book

he calls it a paved area.

Well, now there's paved area in the swamp.

Paved area here.

Are they the same?

I don't know.

In 2019,

the team was astonished to uncover a vast area

of paving stones near the middle of the swamp.

Well, we got the date.

And so we just got them back yesterday.

But even more incredible

was that Dr. Ian Spooner was able

to date the feature to as early

as 1200 AD.

Medieval, baby!

Be nice to find

- another artifact or two. - Yeah.

Is it possible that the great quadrilateral,

which Fred Nolan discovered more than 30 years ago,

could actually date to the same time period?

If so, could this feature

be more evidence that the origin

of the Oak Island mystery goes further back in time

than anyone ever thought possible?

I believe there's one of the boulders that

formed part of the, part of the structure.

So if it is part of the structure,

it'd be fun to go over and look at it and see

- what-what its relationship... - Yeah.

Is to the sediment underneath.

If there's soil underneath the boulder,

then we know it's been moved, you know?

I think we should just come up and go over there

- and take a look at them. - Yeah.

There's three rocks in a line at a height

of where we found the other ones, but...

Does it kind of parallel the other side?

- Yes. I'd say, yeah. - So it could be something underneath?

- Could be. - That'd be interesting.

Yeah, so... like Tom,

you were saying, these boulders look embedded.

Oh, they are.

They were definitely

placed in a certain type

of order here and you can see it here, that they're

- stacked pretty tight. - Right.

Yeah, bottom line is, if we didn't have

rocks here and rocks there, or rocks in line,

that's a little unnatural, right?

But I want to see if we have any organic matter underneath it.

Yeah, so I think

we just need to pluck this.

Okey doke.

As we get below the layer of boulders, which my dad didn't,

it's deepening the mystery.

This site has been manipulated for a reason.

That's the question, now, we need to find out.

I'd like to metal detect that. We might get an Hail Mary find

- out of there. - That's right.

Yep.

Ooh, bit of pottery right on the top.

Can't really tell a lot about it, it's...

it's just a white glazed shard of pottery.

Right in that last bucket.

Take a look at this, Gary.

What do you got, mate?

Ooh.

Oh, wow that's old.

It looks old.

Yeah, that is an old piece of glass,

with it being that thin.

While searching the spoils

that have been excavated from a depth of more than ten feet

at the mysterious great quadrilateral...

Check that out, Tom.

That's old. Good eye, Rick.

Rick Lagina has uncovered

a potentially significant artifact.

That is terribly thin.

Yeah. That's how you know it's old... when it's thin.

That could easily be 1700s or older.

A piece of glass

potentially dating back earlier

than the 18th century and found more than ten feet deep

in the great quadrilateral?

That's a crackin' find, Rick. It really is.

Could that mean that it was left behind

by someone who previously investigated this feature?

Or was it left by someone who helped create it?

I think wherever that little piece

came from was right at the interface

- between the soil and the C horizon. - Yeah.

The C horizon refers

to the natural layer of earth below the topsoil,

which may have previously been disturbed by human activity.

I think,

all in here, we're down into C horizon.

We're probably out of the, uh... the quadrilateral now.

At this point,

it is Dr. Spooner's opinion

that they have reached the bottom of the feature.

- We're so far back now. - Too far?

Yeah, even at its longest point, it was 32 feet,

going north to south, and...

we'd be well past that here, so...

I think we're out of the original structure.

Yeah.

It does look like it's been disturbed.

Yeah. Quite a bit, right in here.

Well, bottom line is,

we may not uncover anything more than your father did.

I think the most important thing we've learned

about the quadrilateral to date

is that what Fred wrote about his observations were correct.

We have proven that there was a stacked stone feature.

It can only

have been put there by human beings.

To what end?

That's yet to be discovered.

We're absolutely certain

it's been manipulated. Somebody's dug it.

It's just who

and when they dug.

So, the quadrilateral still does remain a mystery.

Unfortunately, we didn't find any treasure.

But I think it had purpose.

Was it used here as some sort of a marker?

We just don't know.

But it just validates what my dad discovered

and the work he did here.

I-It's a great fulfillment in life for me.

Well, we gave it a go,

like your father did, but this

- probably defines the dig. - Yeah. - Yeah.

- I agree. Yep. - Let's call it a day.

- Sounds good. - Well done, guys.

The following day...

while representatives from Dumas continue searching

for clues just outside the Garden Shaft

and while the swamp continues to drain...

So, gentlemen, today's, uh, another data download day.

But it's about my favorite place on Oak Island,

the swamp.

Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with members of the team...

So, Billy, if you can get Marty and Jeremy up.

Are meeting via video conference in the war room

with geoscientist Jeremy Church.

- Hey, guys. - Hi, guys!

- Hey, Marty. Hey, Jeremy. - Hey!

So, Jeremy,

I hear you've got some analysis,

and I very much look forward to it.

There's some interesting stuff that's come out of it.

- Great. - Hey, I want to say this right now...

I've been telling Rick for years now

we should not quit on that swamp.

That's-that's-that's the way

I remember it.

That's not the way I remember it.

Now that we have indeed

the swamp permits, I had asked Jeremy

to further study the geophysical data.

And he believes he has some...

some targets, legitimate targets, in the swamp.

Jeremy, it's over to you.

All right, gentlemen.

Here's the data coverage of the swamp area.

So, jumping in,

first slice that we're gonna look at is

real close to the surface.

We have this "Anomaly SWa" up in...

north part of the swamp.

Hmm.

It was quite interesting 'cause there's something

under the surface when he was in-in the soft muck

that you can see it in the... In the acquisition line.

It's not metallic, either.

Hmm. Interesting.

But definitely

a very interesting anomaly.

The potential target

at the base of the Eye of the Swamp

means it probably is some sort of legitimate target

and we'll have to figure out a way to investigate it.

I believe there are answers in that swamp.

Okay. What else do you find?

All right.

About three feet down,

a couple new anomalies in here.

So, uh, I do believe this is your stone path

going along kind of the eastern edge,

with potential kind of extension out into more of the open water.

So, this is a slightly deeper slice.

Now we're at, like, just over three feet.

And I do believe this is your paved area

that has started to show up here,

just north of the peninsula.

And this is where things start getting

a little more interesting for us.

It all shallows up, of course,

as you get north of the peninsula here.

So, this is very bright conductivity.

Bright colors like yellows and-and then getting into reds

represents high conductivity anomalies, and...

the blues and purples are lower conductivity.

So, higher chance of some sort of metallic content.

Oh.

And just on the other side of the peninsula,

that really bright anomaly shows up there.

It's quite a major feature, for sure.

Why is it

so much darker red there?

The deeper the red, the higher the conductivity.

So it's very elevated there.

That's the strongest metallic response

in the swamp area.

All right.

That's great.

That's kind of the strongest metallic response

in the swamp area.

In the war room,

geoscientist Jeremy Church

has just presented the team with updated magnetometry data

indicating several metallic anomalies may lie buried

approximately three feet deep near the 800-year-old paved area

in the northeastern region of the Oak Island swamp.

And this anomaly does extend to deeper than...

this three-foot kind of level that we're at.

It's quite a major feature, for sure.

In that red zone,

have we ever dug for "Anomaly SWe," like,

around in that area at all?

You know, not to his targeted area.

There may be two feet of water on it right now.

That sounds like a good target,

but it's a tough one to get to.

When Jeremy shows the high conductivity values

in the swamp,

it's a difficult location to dig,

because it's too wet of an environment.

Yes, we were able to drain the swamp,

but the body of the swamp proper retains a lot of water.

We'll have to wait and see what it is.

That... what I'm calling "the paved area"...

Maybe this is another region to take another look at.

That's at least three feet deep.

So now we have reason to go back there.

In regards to conductivity

within the paved area of the swamp,

the first thought on everyone's mind is,

"This is diggable."

At that location,

you could probably dig 50 feet, maybe.

- Wow. Okay. - Billy could bring

an excavator in there and dig it to the proper depth.

I think everyone wants to know what it is

or what it might represent.

Conductivity in the paved area

could have telltale artifacts on it.

The swamp clearly has mysteries.

I think, Steve, you need to get

all these things on our map

and then it's time to dig.

Yeah. Yeah, that's easy.

So, yeah,

that's what I got for you right now,

but a bunch more exciting data

comes in daily and I'm working it,

so stay tuned.

Well, it's all interesting.

We'll have Steve overlay everything,

as Marty said,

and-and, uh, have a look.

- Yeah. - That's excellent, I think.

This data's good.

It means the swamp is full of secrets... that's what it means.

Jeremy, thank you very much.

There's a lot to do.

The only way to do it, as usual, it's not in this room...

It's out back, as Dan called it.

So, see you, guys.

Till the next time! Thank you!

- Thanks, Jeremy. - Goodbye. Thank you.

After the meeting in the war room...

- Hey, Paul! - Hey, how's it going?

Craig Tester and Scott Barlow

arrive in the Money Pit area.

Working at a depth of 65 feet

in the Garden Shaft,

the team from Dumas Contracting Limited

has nearly completed their probe drilling operation

at the current depth of the feature's reconstruction.

Where are they at?

So, uh, they got one hole 15 feet

and they hit solid.

15, did you say?

- 15. Yeah. - Okay.

An impenetrable obstruction

some 15 feet outside of the Garden Shaft

and at a depth of some 65 feet?

The questions that arise now are is it natural

or could it be man-made?

There could be a void.

There could be another shaft right beside this one.

Going down.

Down just below 58 feet, 60 feet.

Good.

It's-it's a bit baffling.

But it doesn't mean that it can't be significant,

because lots of places

in history where things...

operations like this have been done by the depositors,

they may dig down

but then tunnel off to the side in an offset chamber

or-or back up towards the surface

and that's where their-their cache of treasure is put.

- There's another augur on there now. - Yep.

We'll try to drill through it.

Okay.

All right.

We got something going.

They got something there.

Did we hit something, Daniel?

10-4.

Probably a rock or something.

After completing 12 20-foot boreholes

covering all four walls of the Garden Shaft,

unfortunately, no signs of valuables have been found

at the 65-foot level.

However, since the shaft extends down

to a total depth of 80 feet,

perhaps they simply need to proceed deeper

in order to locate the large source of gold

that has been detected in the area.

What about timing going forward from here?

How soon until you're mucking again?

Uh, so, after they're done,

they'll pull the drill out,

if we don't encounter any problems,

and then we'll work our way down and then we'll start grabbing.

Once the probe drill is removed from the structure,

the team from Dumas will prepare

to reconstruct the next eight-foot level, or set,

- of the Garden Shaft. - Let's get down

to the interesting depth, right?

I mean, the closer we get to the bottom,

the more curious it becomes.

Hopefully, that's where the gold signal's coming from,

- but we'll see. - Yeah.

Thanks, Paul.

- Appreciate it. - Yeah.

Later that afternoon...

Billy, you ready to start making a mess?

Well,

I hope so. I hope...

I hope it's a good mess.

Rick Lagina and Craig Tester,

along with other members of the team,

arrive at the triangle-shaped swamp.

This is it?

It would be on the eastern edge.

Okay. So, Bill, as usual,

when it comes to digging, it's up to you.

- Yep. - So, pull up.

Let's start here.

All right. Great.

Now that nearly three million gallons of brackish water

have been drained from the swamp,

the team is eager to begin investigating

a metallic anomaly that Jeremy Church identified

in the northeastern region

near the 800-year-old paved area.

Digging in the swamp is incredibly difficult.

But what is

exciting about it

is the possibilities that it presents.

Right there. Something hard.

There are some interesting finds yet to be made in the swamp

that may lead to "X marks the spot."

The bucket going across here

is hitting something solid.

You can hear it all the way.

- is that? - What is that?

I'm not sure.

While investigating the swamp,

where a believed metallic anomaly may be buried...

What is that?

The Oak Island team has just made

a potentially important discovery.

I'm not sure, but I think there's all rocks

underneath there. But I think they're coming...

They're sloping up.

Really?

You just see the white tops.

Yeah. That's a lot of cobble.

I am gonna take an elevation.

If I remember correctly,

I believe the paved area was about a foot

to a foot and a half below sea level,

but let me get-get an elevation check.

Okay. Sounds good.

And then just see if it's coming up at-at all.

Oh.

Yeah, there's a lot of cobble under here.

It's... I think it's cobble the whole way up, Steve, yeah.

Yeah.

So, we're a foot and a half below sea level here.

Do you think it's sloping up?

Yeah. It seems like it's coming up this way.

And maybe even side to side a little bit.

So we've come up a couple inches here, Billy.

Yeah.

So the grade starts to...

come up. So...

it could be a ramp.

Yeah.

The elevations are about a foot and a half below sea level,

which is very consistent to the paved area

that we found a few years ago.

Well, that's important, because if a ramp

is connected to the paved area,

it's gonna start at the same elevation.

A ramp made of stone?

And possibly connected to the 800-year-old paved area

that the team discovered back in 2017?

If so, could it be covering the metallic anomaly

that has recently been detected in this area?

Uh, do we want to go wider or...?

- Any thoughts, Laird? - I would've thought wider

if you think it's sloping up.

Yeah, I was gonna say, let's continue this way.

That's what I would do.

And then if it runs out,

it runs out, which is a good thing.

We definitely think we're in a paved area here.

Oh, yeah. No, there's no doubt.

I think we're all thinking

the same thing.

R-A-M-P. A ramp.

An inclined ramp.

We believe there was a construct

that possibly connected the paved area to the stone path.

And now we have a potential connection between the two.

Yeah, I'd keep going that way

and-and what... Uncover it from here...

- Yeah. - And-and if we end up having

- to reposition, we reposition. But... - Yeah.

Yeah. This gives us a good starting point,

and the ramp is as important as anything, I think.

So let's start here,

dig it up and see if there really is a ramp that connects

this paved area to the road.

I agree.

Okay, Bill, keep going.

Okay.

Let's see where this leads.

As another memorable week comes to a close on Oak Island,

Rick, Marty, Craig and their team are once again confronted

with a daunting realization.

The answers to this 228-year-old mystery

appear to be hidden

in a number of ingeniously concealed locations.

And while that suggests

that their quest will remain frustratingly complex,

it could also mean that following every potential clue

and finishing every arduous dig

will lead to many profound rewards.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

Oh, wow.

No matter what we're into in this area,

whether it's wood or water or soil,

we're getting gold.

- - Oh! - What have we got, mate?

That's awesome!

This comes from Sardinia.

Off the coast of Italy.

- Whoa. - It's the trail

- of the Templars. - This thing could have

a worldwide impact.

- Oh, definitely. It's a game changer. - Yeah.

The source of an astonishing revelation.

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