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Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

This is the secret of secrets.

The message being
conveyed in code

is that the Ark of the
Covenant is on Oak Island.

- You can put X on the spot?
- Correct.

Holy cow.

- Wow.
- Is it truly silver?

It is silver. About 90%.

- Yes.
- In 40 years, I can’t remember

- a piece of silver I found.
- Is that it?

I see it, mate.
Underneath that boulder.

Look at that.

What the heck is that?

There is an
island in the North Atlantic

where people have
been looking for

an incredible treasure
for more than 200 years.

So far, they have
found a stone slab

with strange symbols
carved into it...

man-made workings
that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross whose
origin may be connected

to the Knights Templar.

To date, six men have died

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,
one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

I heard you
guys found something.

We found something.
That’s correct.

Come down here
and you can see it.

As a fresh
morning dawns on Oak Island

for brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina

-and their team... -Right there.

They are
braving the stench and muck

of the triangle-shaped swamp

in order to reveal a
man-made feature

that may help them solve
a 229-year-old mystery.

That’s probably
the southern wall,

- and that’s the eastern wall.
- We don’t know.

The only thing is, Gary
hasn’t found any fasteners,

and there’s evidence of dowels.

That speaks to being much older.

What’s happening, Billy?

We just got a little wood.

Just a few days ago...

Somebody’s dug
down in the swamp, and there...

We got a bunch of
horizontal and vertical boards.

I think we’re onto
something, mate.

Billy Gerhardt
and other members of the team

unearthed a wooden structure

embedded in the southern
border of the brackish bog.

Could this have
been some sort of

a loading and
unloading platform?

Curiously,

it was found in the same
area where, in the 1970s,

the late Fred Nolan
reported finding evidence

of a wooden dam...

A dam which Fred believed

offered proof that the
swamp was artificially created

in order to hide
something of great value.

Take some of this, too.

Now,

due to this feature’s
close proximity

to the potentially 500-year-old
stone road, or ship’s wharf,

they are hoping
to find more clues

that will help them
determine its true purpose,

when it was constructed
and just who created it.

Pottery.

- Look at that.
- Yeah.

Couple more pieces here.

- Man. Yeah, that’s nice.
- Here.

- Check this one out.
- Yeah. Wow.

That’s some high-end stuff.

Pottery can tell just as
an important story as a coin

And the more parts
you got, the better,

because then the
archaeologists will be able

to ID the artifact

and give it a time frame of
when people was in this area

Okay, so I’ll take these
back and get it C-14 tested.

But we’re just gonna try
to expose the structure,

the width and breadth of it.

Hey, I’m looking for gold, too.

There you go.

Gary, there’s a piece of wood

that’s really deep
in the bucket there.

Look.

- You see the edges on it?
- Yeah.

That’s a barrel
stave. It has to be.

100%. Yeah,
no, that’s a barrel stave.

- That was really deep, as well.
- It’s really deep.

A barrel stave,

or fragment of a
cargo container?

- So, that’s a keg. Lid to a keg?
- Yep.

In 2020,

while investigating a
cobblestone pathway

that was uncovered nearby,
just north of the stone road,

the team found pieces
of wooden barrels

which, incredibly, were dated

by blacksmithing
expert Carmen Legge

to as far back as
the 15th century.

Could this barrel stave
offer more evidence

that something of great value

may have been brought
to Oak Island long ago?

If so, might those valuables

have been hidden
in the Money Pit?

Or could they still
be here in the swamp

as Fred Nolan believed?

They’d put coins in a barrel.

Yeah, test it on the
inside of the stave

and see what wi... might
have been in the barrel, right?

- Yeah.
- What might have left a...

- All right, mate, I’ll put it to one side.
- Okay.

Good eye, Billy.

As the investigation

in the swamp continues...

- Paul.
- Hey. How’s it going, Marty?

Good, you old war horse, you.

- Yeah.
- You found something.

Yeah, it seems that way?

In the Money Pit area,

Marty Lagina arrives
at the Garden Shaft

for an update on another
potentially important discovery

that was recently
made by the team.

A lot of mystery to that.

Well, it’s kind of strange that,
there’s only the bottom.

- Yeah. Yeah, you think?
- Yeah.

I-I’m just wondering
where the other...

- sides and top went.
- The sides and the top.

- Yeah.
- Yeah, me, too.

Look at that.

- Right there.
- Wow.

Those are big beams.

Two weeks ago,

after more than a year

of tireless effort and
frustrating setbacks,

representatives from
Dumas Contracting Limited

finished extending the
18th-century structure,

known as the Garden Shaft

down to a depth
of some 100 feet,

where they reached a
mysterious wooden tunnel.

A tunnel that has not
only been carbon-dated

to as early as the 17th century

but which also runs westward
into the so-called Baby Blob.

It is in this region where
high-trace evidence

of gold, silver and other
metal have been detected

between 80 and 120
feet below ground.

We cannot find

any sign of walls or a ceiling.

However,
upon reaching the tunnel,

the team discovered that it
had either collapsed in that area

or had been partially dismantle

sometime in the past.

So, where are you right
now? Bring me up to speed.

So, right now,
we got one set in.

The guys lowered the landing
where it’s supposed to be.

Which is about 102 or so.

We’re going to 106.

And from then on, we’ll start

- drilling horizontal.
- Good.

- We got a plan.
- Yeah.

In the coming days,

Dumas will further
extend the Garden Shaft

to a total depth of 106 feet.

This will allow them to conduct

a manual
probe-drilling operation

to determine if other
sections of the tunnel

leading toward the
Baby Blob are still intact,

while also searching
for evidence

of the possible treasure that
has been detected in the area.

The horizontal drilling
will allow us to, hopefully,

find out what that’s all about.

Yeah. It’ll give you a
little bit more information.

- Yes. And may...
- Or more questions.

- -Yeah.
- Probably. Yeah.

All right, I’m-a let
you get back to work.

- Yeah. Later, man.
- Cheers. Thank you.

As the excavation
of the Garden Shaft continues..

I will say this.

We have found literally
hundreds if not thousands of nails,

but what you have
here in front of us,

it’s interesting,
right, Craig? I mean...

It’s unique. Yeah.

Rick Lagina and Craig Tester

are meeting with
archaeologist Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

in the Oak Island laboratory.

It’s very strange. I mean...

And to have found it on Lot 5...

In a, what I believe is
the rectangular feature...

Makes no sense.

- Correct.
- So, we’re hoping that you

will make sense of this.

One week
ago, as members of the team

were carefully excavating a
rectangular stone foundation

located near the
northern regio of Lot 5

on the western
side of the island...

Wow. I think
we got something here.

Archaeologist Helen Sheldon

found a hand-forged
iron nail in one of its walls

near the bottom
of the structure.

Because of previous
discoveries that have been made

in the upper layers
of this foundation,

such as 18th-century
pottery and clay pipe stems,

Helen believes that it
was deliberately backfilled,

or buried, by
someone in the 1780s,

but may have been
originally constructed

by someone else much earlier.

Now, it is Rick and Craig’s hop

that the metallurgy analysis
of this hand-forged spike,

which was conducted
by Emma Culligan,

might reveal not only its age

but perhaps also when
the original structure

may have been created.

No pressure, Emma.

No pressure.-

So, what I can tell you is that

it’s definitely hand-wrought...

Um, as can be
seen by the grain structure,

which is, like, that
wood-like grain structure.

Earlier today,
Emma scanned the artifact

with the SkyScan
1273 CT scanner,

a device which emits
nondestructive X-ray radiation

to penetrate corrosion
and reveal its finer details.

Additionally, she
also scanned it

with an X-ray fluorescence
spectrometer, or XRF device,

that can identify its
metallic composition.

And I did do an XRF on it,

which I think you guys
will be really happy about.

Okay.

So, there’s
a high sulfur content,

absolutely no manganese,

which would make it hot brittle.

- Really?
- Yes.

So, too much sulfur

in the iron can make it brittle,
or hard to work with, when hot,

which is not something
you want in your irons,

which is why we started
adding manganese.

So it could be 1500s, 1600s,

early 1700s.

Or it could be, like,

- really, really early.
- What is really, really early?

Like, 1100s to, like, 1300s.

- Wow.
- Yeah.

What is really, really early?

Like, 1100s to, like, 1300s.

- Really?
- Yes.

Why do you say that?

’Cause the iron is really clean.

There’s few impurities,
which is what you would

see a lot of in that time range.

In the Oak Island laboratory,

archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

has just presented
an astonishing report.

Quite remarkable.

The hand-wrought iron artifact

that was found one week ago

in the rectangular
feature on Lot 5

could date to as far
back as the 12th century.

So what is it?

I think we’ve decided it
doesn’t function as a fastener.

Why... And why not? Too thin?

Yeah.

And it’s not a file.

No.

So I’m as puzzled as anyone.

I mean, Lot 5 continues

to surprise and that’s for sure.

In addition to this spike

that was found in the
rectangular feature,

the team has made several
other ancient discoveries on Lot 5

since they purchased
it just one year ago.

These include three Roman
coins that have been dated

to between 1,500
and 2,000 years ago,

as well as a 14th-century
lead barter token

that was unearthed from another
structure closer to the shore

and which may be
connected to the lead cross

that the team discovered
at Smith’s Cove in 2017.

I mean, timelines are important

to solving any sort
of mystery like this.

There are a number of finds

from the early
to the late 1600s.

And now we find this.

People were here much
earlier than had been presumed.

That may impact
the search agenda.

That’s always the hope.

Hopefully, we’ll find something
even more interesting.

Agreed, yeah.

Someone will know
what that represents.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

- Thank you.
- Okay. Thank you, Emma.

- Thank you, Laird.
- All right, see ya later

The following morning...

Hey, chaps.

- I brought the expert.
- Hey, Gary. Wow.

Those are huge planks.

Rick Lagina returns

to the southern
edge of the swamp

with geoscientist
Dr. Ian Spooner

in order to have him inspect
the mysterious wooden feature

now that more of it
has been revealed.

It’s really, really deep

compared even to the stone road.

Like, to get those planks down

this low you would
have had to dewater

the swamp.

That’s the only way I
would see how to do it.

There is some sort of structure

but how did it play into the
work around the swamp?

Did it have relevance
to the stone road?

What is the relationship
between these discoveries?

So at this point we need

to try to collect as much
information as possible.

At this stage,

I-I can’t help
but think that it’s

some part of this road feature.

- Yeah.
- It just, like, kind of

aligns, like,
there’s a post there,

and then there probably
were posts that we...

- excavated here.
- Yeah.

They put stakes in everywhere

to shore up this
square structure.

- Yeah.
- Nicely adze cut

on this face and it’s rounded.

That’s shaped.

An adze
is a type of cutting tool

dating back to the
days of Ancient Egypt

that was generally replaced

by mechanized saws

beginning in the
late 18th century.

And, curiously, the
timbers that were recently

recovered from the tunnel
beneath the Garden Shaft

also featured cuts that
were made by an adze.

Is it possible that
the Oak Island team

has uncovered a
structure in the swamp

that might be connected to
the possible treasure tunnel

in the Money Pit area?

Right now, we should stand down.

And Steve can pin the corners,

so he can put it on the, grid.

Because
he believes this structure

could be of historic importance

and perhaps connected
to the Oak Island mystery,

Dr. Spooner would like
surveyor Steve Guptill

to fully document
it before the team

conducts any more
excavations around the feature.

We’ll wait for Steve.

- Yeah.
- I think that’s all we can do right now, right?

- Yeah.
- I think just leave it.

I say we’re done.

Good job, guys.

Later that afternoon...

We have...

sat around this war room table

and heard some very
interesting theories.

And today, we are
going to hear something

that I think will easily

match that metric and,

how it may impact the search,
this search year, in particular.

So let me introduce
John Edwards to you all.

John, welcome to the war room.

- Thank you, Rick.
- Thank you for coming.

Appreciate everyone
having me here.

Rick has invited

researcher John Edwards,

who he has been corresponding
with for several months,

to share new information
regarding the Oak Island myster

with Marty and other
members of the team.

I’ve spent
the past 30 years studying

symbols and icons, with
emphasis on that kind of

Knights Templar through
the Age of Exploration. So...

something that I think
is relevant to Oak Island.

Awesome.

For several decades,
a number of researchers have

presented theories
that the medieval order

of Christian monks known
as the Knights Templar,

who were persecuted
by the Catholic Church

in the early 14th century,

conspired with their
believed descendants

known as the Rosicrucians
and the Freemasons,

to hide and protect
sacred religious treasures

on Oak Island between
the 12th and 18th centuries.

While a number of clues
have been found on the island

that support this
incredible theory,

such as 12th-century structures

14th-century
religious artifacts,

and the fact that every
company that has ever looked

for the treasure has
included Freemasons,

it has yet to be proven.

Is it possible that
John Edward has finally

uncovered the
irrefutable evidence

that this theory is true?

You know, one of the things that

I’ve been doing is looking
at the Royal Arch Ode.

Masonic Odes are poems or hymns

that are sung or recited during
secret Masonic ceremonies.

And according to John
Edwards’ research,

they also contain encoded
information that only

high-ranking members of the
organization may understand

So, if we read it, "This
shall be the sacred mark

"which shall guide
us in the skies,

bearing like a holy ark."

So if you look at that, we have

a reference to a "holy ark."

Now, many people believe that

there are certain Jewish
artifacts that the Templars had.

Like the Ark of the Covenant.

Now, "Joy, the
secret vault is found

"full the sunbeam falls within,

pointing darkly underground,
to the treasure we would win."

And it makes reference to
"pointing darkly underground."

To like a vault. Okay?

Now, the question is,
where is that vault located?

So we have an early Masonic text

and you see someone
being lowered into a vault.

Looks like someone
recovering the ark to me.

Now, interestingly,

I’ve acquired

two ancient books that have

codes and maps
and things that I think

would be, relevant
to the Oak Island search.

One was

The Whole Genuine
Works of Flavius Josephus.

The publication date was 1812.

And he was a Jewish historian

from 37 CE to about
100 CE, Common Era.

And then the second book
has a publication date of 1763.

It’s in French and it
translates as Holy Week.

So I believe, possibly,

in the books could be
some Masonic ciphering.

I just did this one page here,

which has Masonic abbreviations.

- Okay.
- So...

"SS," which is
"sanctum sanctorum"

or "holy of holies."

"ME," "most eminent,
most excellent."

And then it was signed

with the number 137.

Now, 137 is
significant, because...

And what’s really
interesting is here,

when we look at this page,

there were symbols sketched.

And that looks like the
Ark of the Covenant to me.

Right.

And right here.

- Wow.
- It certainly looks like Oak Island.

Yes, and if
it’s referencing Oak Island,

what project would that be?

That is quite interesting.

Yeah.

So if all the clues are correct,

the message being conveyed

in code is that the Ark
of the Covenant is here.

The message being conveyed

is that the Ark of
the Covenant is here.

Awesome.

In the Oak Island war room,

researcher John
Edwards has just presented

what he believes to be secret
Masonic documents suggesting

that the Ark of the Covenant

might have been hidden
on Oak Island by members

of the Knights
Templar centuries ago.

But if I’m right, in
order to understand...

So...

The Tree of Life is an
ancient Hebrew and Christian symbol

comprised of ten
points, known as sephirot,

that represents divine
morals and principles

for a spiritual path to God.

It is a symbol that
was also revered

by the Knights Templar,

the Rosicrucians

and the Freemasons.

- This is Nolan’s Cross.
- Good.

In 2013,

Norwegian freemason and
filmmaker Petter Amundsen

presented Rick,
Marty and the team

with his research suggesting

that the six megalithic
boulder of Nolan’s Cross

were part of a larger,
ten-point formation

depicting the Tree of Life.

Is this it here?

- Yeah. This is it.
- Good.

And to help prove his theory,

he led Marty and Alex to Lot 28

in the middle of the island,

where he believed they
would find one of the sephirot,

known as Kingdom, buried
just below the surface.

- Yeah. Here it comes.
- There we go.

In 2017... -Wow.

Rick Lagina and his
nephews Alex and Peter

visited a 14th-century
prison in Domme, France,

that held members
of the Templar order

after their persecution by
the Catholic Church in 1307.

This way.

There, they were shown

a number of
carvings, including one

depicting the Tree of Life

and also another
of a sacred cross.

A cross that was an exact match

to the one that Rick and
Gary Drayton would find

just weeks later on Oak
Island at Smith’s Cove.

Could John Edwards be correct

that by investigating Nolan’s
Cross and the sephirot,

which together
make up the symbol

known as the Tree of Life,

he might be able
to find the location

where one of the most
sacred religious artifacts

ever known to mankind is buried

So, when you come back,
you can put X on the spot?

Is that what you’re saying?

Look, I’d like to
find something.

As far as I’m concerned,
you got free reign of the island.

- Tom, you all right with that?
- Absolutely.

Yeah.

It’s in the proof that the
picture resides, right?

Hopefully, you will come
back with an X or Xs,

and from then we
can have a discussion

about how to proceed.

You’re welcome, but you’ve
got some work to do, so...

off we go.

Thanks, guys.

As John
Edwards prepares to begin

his field research
of the island...

We’re making progress.

Let’s keep going.

All right.

On Lot 5,

archaeologists Jamie
Kouba and Fiona Steele

are investigating the
foundatio near the shoreline

where the team discovered

the 14th-century lead
barter token one year ago.

Hey.

I got another button.

That’s great.

Yeah. This one’s much bigger.

That is quite shiny.

Like, like, gold-plated.

- You sure it’s a button?
- I’m sure it’s a button,

- ’cause we got the loop on the back...
- I see the ring.

- But maybe it’s gold-plated.
- Yeah, I can see that now.

I don’t think we’ve
seen any of those yet.

I haven’t.

If this was military, it
would be an officer’s button

if it was gold-plated, so...

A gold-plated button?

Could Jamie Kouba be correct

that it belonged to a
high-ranking military officer

If so, could it have
been an officer

who took part in
hiding, or protecting,

something of great
value on Oak Island?

Very cool.

I can’t wait to see
what that turns out to be.

Right?

- Holy cow!
- What have you got?

Wow!

- What have you got?
- I’m not entirely sure,

but I think it’s a piece
of silverware handle.

Really?

Near the shoreline of Lot 5,

on the western
side of Oak Island...

- And I think it might actually be silver.
- Wow!

Archaeologist Jamie Kouba

has just found another
potentially valuable clue

in the mysterious foundation
that was discovered

below the circular stone
featur earlier this year.

It’s gorgeous.
Look at the designs on it.

I’ve never found a single
piece of precious metal,

much less a piece this big

of what could
potentially be silver.

This is a big deal.

We’re here on a treasure hunt,

so we’re hoping that
maybe we can analyze that,

and that would give us
the best possible chance

to get answers
on who built this.

- Hello.
- Whoa. Hello.

So, what do you have?

So, I don’t really
know where to start,

so I’m just gonna show you
the first one that I found today,

And we’ll work our way through those.

All righty.

- It’s a button.
- That looked like gold.

It’s a very cool button.

That’s cool, I can
almost imagine a design

- on the front, too.
- It’s hard to tell.

- What else did you find?
- You’re gonna flip. It’s so cool.

- That’s silver, isn’t it?
- Wow.

I’m-I’m pretty sure it’s silver.

It’s quite
decorative, though, at the top.

Yeah. Hand-decorated.

It’s so ornate. Yeah.

That’s really cool.

This is not just your
average domestic building.

And they were using soil

from deep in the Money Pit.

- And there’s that kind of treasure, as well.
- Yeah.

- So, what were they doing here?
- Yeah.

It reminds me of, like, a
crude mortar or cement.

Nearly one month ago,

Jamie uncovered a man-made

cement-like substance
in this feature

that has also been found
around the mysterious tunnel

below the Garden Shaft.

This has made the team
wonder if this feature on Lot 5

was connected to
an operation to hide

something of great value
deep in the Money Pit area.

I mean, finding
is the first step.

Take ’em to Emma and trying to get a date

- on ’em is step number two.
- Yeah. Exactly.

All right.

- It’s exciting, really.
- Yeah.

- We’ll find more stuff for you.
- Okay.

While the
investigations of the stone features

continue on Lot 5...

later that afternoon...

Let’s get diggy with it, Billy.

- Yep.
- In the southeast corner of the swamp,

now that Steve Guptill
has completed a survey

of the mysterious
wooden structure that sits

next to the stone road,

Jack Begley, along with Gary
Drayton and Billy Gerhardt

continue investigating
the feature for clues

and potential valuables.

We got a hit, Jack.

Great to hear,
Gary. I’m on my way.

A little scrappy one.

Should be right
underneath there.

- All right, mate. And I’ll see if you’ve moved it.
- Sure.

Come out, my little beauty.

What have we got here?

I think it’s some
kind of digging tool.

Not like any sort of modern
digging tool I’ve seen.

That’s old.

It’s-it’s almost like a trowel.

I think it’s unique, mate,

because of where it
came from, as well,

in between that wooden feature,

we have no idea what
it is at the moment,

and the stone road.

It could be even older.

Maybe this piece of
iron could be part of an old tool

left over from building
the stone roadway

or even this wood structure.

And hopefully, we
can put a date on it.

Yeah, we got
a signal here, Jack.

It seems to be right in front

of this big boulder here.

Just there, somewhere.

See if I moved it.

Let me see if I can
pinpoint it for you.

The old stick in the mud, here.

It’s actually still there.

It’s under there.

- All right.
- It’s got a good signal.

Is that
it? I see it, mate.

Look at that.

What the heck is that?

Look at that!

- That’s a big spike.
- Yeah.

Look, it’s still got wood on it.

At the southeastern
border of the Oak Island swamp,

Gary Drayton, Jack Begley

and Billy Gerhardt
have just made

a potentially critical discover

in the mysterious
wooden structure that was

recently uncovered
next to the stone road.

It looks hand-forged,

wrought iron,

and it’s still got wood on it,
so you know it was a fastener.

- Yeah.
- Look at the size of that.

- Yeah.
- Wow.

That’s gonna
come back old, mate.

Possibly,
yeah. I think so, too.

This is gorgeous, as well.
We’ve never found one like this.

- A
- hand-forged, iron spike?

Could Gary Drayton be correct

that it is different
from other spikes

that the team has
found in this area

and might be a
much older artifact?

All right, I’m gonna make
my way back down there.

Okay, mate. I’m gonna
put a bag over the wood

- and put it to one side.
- If so,

could it be a key clue

that will help the team
determine just when

this feature was constructed?

The question for us to answer is

why were these constructs made?

Perhaps they were intended to be hidden.

And there is every
hope that we will,

at some point, discover the
reason why they were built.

Hey, Billy. Look at this.

It looks like it’s axe-chopped.

There’s some type of

a piece of iron
that’s stuck into it.

And then this is
straight-cut along the top,

not circular saw.

From all the
artifacts that we have found

and getting a better
look at this wood,

I think it might connect with

the stone pathway
and the stone road.

It’s been a heck of a day, guys.

Great job today.

The following morning...

Three of us
were called out to Lot 5,

and Jamie came up
with these nice artifacts.

At the Oak Island laboratory

Rick Lagina, Craig
Tester and Jack Begley

meet with
archaeologist Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan to receive

Emma’s scientific analysis
of the gold-plated button

and the possible silver artifac

that were unearthed one day ago

in the large stone
foundation on Lot 5.

That is somewhat
self-explanatory, right?

- Yes, it’s a button.
- The key question is

composition. What is it?

It is a copper
alloy with about 3% gold

on the surface, so it is gilded.

Gilding, which dates
back to the times of ancient Egypt,

is a decorative technique

by which thin layers of gold

are applied to the
surface of an item.

What’s really revealing
of that age and providence

in the metallurgical
aspect is the phosphorus.

You got about 5%.

But that kind of button
composition you won’t see in

your regular old casual clothes.

I’d say it’s more
like naval military.

It had to have been, like,
an officer’s button then, right?

Yes. Officer or a gentleman.

Ayuh, I can
say that it’s most likely

English, 18th
century, naval military.

This naval button,
does it have something to say

about the activities on Lot 5?

Might it have been British

who came searching
for something?

But if you’re
doing original work,

you want to police your area.

I just hope we continue
to make finds of artifacts

that will hopefully
fill in the gaps

in this story on Lot 5.

You know, this one
appears to be silver,

but the question
is, is it truly silver?

Yes, it is silver.

Yes.

Um, at about 90%.

In 40 years,

I can’t remember a
piece of silver I’ve found.

If you remember the
treasure trove license, right?

The treasure trove license
would define that as treasure.

It is treasure.

The treasure trove licens

would define that as treasure.

It is treasure.

Yeah.

It’s precious metal.
That’s as far as

- we can go right now.
- Yes.

In the Oak Island laboratory,

archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

has just confirmed that

the metal artifact
found one day ago

in the mysterious stone
foundation on Lot 5

is composed almost
entirely of pure silver.

So, what is it?

If we look at it functionally,

we both believe,
this is its original form.

Yeah.

And here you can see the slits

on these sides, on the edges.

There’s some artistry there.

Yeah, I agree with that.

So, it could be

almost like the end of
a tassel, decoratively.

- Wow.
- A knife hilt,

you know, something like that.

It’s one of the cooler
artifacts we’ve found.

The initial excitement,

which you’ve
expressed, is it’s silver.

And why wouldn’t we
be excited about that?

But to go further,
I think we need

- more information.
- Yeah.

The idea of

there must be silver
from the Concepción.

If it were a
metallurgical match to

silver from the Concepción,

and it matches that? Bingo.

Then we would be onto something.

Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.

Since the
beginning of this year,

the team has found a
number of metal artifacts

in the large foundation
on Lot 5 that,

according to Emma’s
metallurgical analysis,

may be connected
to Sir William Phips,

the English naval
officer and privateer

who, in 1687,

salvaged more than
30 tons of silver and gold

from the Spanish wreck
known as the Concepción.

We know that Phips found
silver on the Concepción

and I believe some
of the treasure from

the Concepción was
secreted to Oak Island.

In 2021, 32nd
degree Freemason Scott Clarke

informed the team that
Phips worked closely

with a high-ranking
Freemason from Nova Scotia

named Captain Andrew Belcher

during his second salvage
operation of the Concepción.

And he believes that
much of the treasure

they recovered was
hidden on Oak Island.

Laird, you’ve spent a lifetime

- and you’ve not found it.
- I know, I know.

So, that-that certainly
is quite interesting.

I can’t remember a
piece of silver I’ve found.

Is it possible,
as Rick Lagina has speculated,

that the silver artifact
could offer more evidence

that Scott Clarke’s
theory may be true?

If so, might that
explain why the team

has found the same
man-made concrete-like material

in both the feature on Lot 5,

and around the tunnel
below the Garden Shaft?

And finally, could
these discoveries

also support John
Edwards’ theory

that members of Freemasonry

were part of a
generational conspiracy

to hide and protect
treasure vaults on Oak Island

that were originally
established by

the Knights Templar?

I think this
find is invigorating,

there’s no question about it.

What it does say, emphatically,

is that the Lot 5
feature is important.

I don’t think one
can dismiss the fact

that this find and the
concrete from Lot 5

strongly hint at a
connection to Phips,

but also, it speaks to a
connection to the Money Pit.

I think it only reinforces

that we might be
on to something.

We know we have
the Money pit material,

that was used in
that foundation.

They could have kept,
you know, some treasure

right on site, before
they moved it.

I can’t wait to see what other
friends pop up as we dig up

- the rest of the feature.
- There you go.

And so, I think we’ve got

- a lot to do.
- Yeah.

And, I, for one, am gonna start.

- Yep. Me, too.
- All right?

Thank you both.

- Great job.
- Yeah.

For Rick,
Marty, Craig and their team,

a week that began with the
hope for important discoveries

has been rewarded with
not only exciting new clues

but also actual
valuables that have

advanced their efforts to
solve the Oak Island mystery

And now, as they continue

digging in the Garden Shaft,

and investigating the
believed ancient landmarks

on the island’s
surface will it lead to

a profound and
history-changing breakthrough?

Perhaps it all depends

on whether or not
the curse of Oak Island

can finally be broken.

Next time on The
Curse of Oak Island...

The way to unlock Nolan’s Cross

is built into the cross itself.

If the Ark is here,

it would be found
using Nolan’s Cross.

Let’s dig there.

- Ooh, look at that.
- There’s a boulder.

Maybe this boulder
is marking the spot.

This is the copper artifact

found on Lot 8.

This could be
identified as Viking.

The water started
coming in faster and faster.

We may have hit a flood tunnel.

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