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Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

Come on, baby!
- Now it's time to see

-what's in that hole.
-This is part
of the Chappell Vault.

- Whoa!
We know there are
significant clues in H-8.

Charles, what's this?
- What do you got?

- Looks like parchment to me.
- Look at the red.

That color was used
in really old books.

If you were in charge,

- where do you look?
- I would look

for an entrance
that's now underwater.

Because I think there is one.

Hey, Rick?
- Yeah?

- We found something.
- Oh, man.

What the hell could this be?

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.

Wow, that's
a heck of a wall, isn't it?

Yep.

It's very strange.

For brothers
Rick and Marty Lagina,

the realization
of a lifelong dream

to solve the 223-year-old
Oak Island mystery

may now be closer than ever,

as they continue making
incredible discoveries

at Smith's Cove.

What do you make of it?

Somebody wanted
something permanent.

- So what's this mean?

- Yeah.
- At the end of the slipway...

A hunk of concrete.

You tell me what it means.

You ever seen anything
like this before, Laird?

- Not underwater.

Just moments ago,

while unearthing
what appears to be

an ancient wooden
shipping dock, or slipway,

archaeologist Laird Niven
made another stunning find:

a concrete wall buried
approximately three feet

below the ocean floor.

Think there's a way
to date concrete?

- Yeah. This stuff?
- The Romans had, uh,

concrete that
would set underwater.

- Really?
- This could easily be...

incredibly old.

Now, that's a good sign

when you're not getting
any metal

in the actual concrete wall.

What the hell could this be?

Because the
mysterious concrete wall

is set under the low-tide level
and contains no metal,

it is the team's belief
that it may have been built

using engineering techniques

first developed
by the ancient Romans

as early
as the third century B.C.

By mixing volcanic ash
with other native minerals,

they created
a unique mixture of concrete,

which, when poured underwater,

would harden and set.

There are many
who have theorized

that this same
sophisticated knowledge

would have been necessary
to construct

the island's elaborate system
of booby-trapped flood tunnels,

which are also believed
to be similar in design

to Roman aqueducts.

You know, at this point,
Smith's Cove has dealt us

so many questions,

and now here we have
another previously unknown wall

in close proximity
to the other structures.

So it's very possible that,

as this discovery process
proceeds,

we may indeed finally,
once and for all,

prove who, when, why.

That's why we're here
in Smith's Cove.

- Hey, Rick?
- Yeah?

Um, we found something
for you to look at.

What is that?

Two plugged pipes.

- And they're not lead.
- They don't look metal to me.

They're not lead, no.

This is almost a...

rubbery consistency,
right, Laird?

- Yeah, it is, isn't it?
- Yeah.

And rubber might have been
around for quite a while.

Well, I've found
rubber from the 1850s.

Rubber pipes?

Possibly
from the mid-19th century?

Although natural rubber
was known to

and used by the indigenous
peoples of Mesoamerica

as early as 1600 B.C.,

it was not until
the mid-19th century

that chemist and engineer
Charles Goodyear

discovered a means
for refining the substance,

which led to the widespread
manufacturing of rubber goods

such as tires, shoes and hoses.

Could the pipes found
inside the concrete wall

be the work of 19th-century
searchers on Oak Island?

Or does it represent
yet another baffling layer

to a mystery the team
must still struggle to solve?

Dan, we have a mystery for you.

- Imagine that.
- Okay.

What is this?

And do you know anything
about those pipes?

Hmm.

No.

Why would somebody build

something like that and then
not mention it to anybody

- or have any record of it?
- Exactly.

Was it containing something?

Was it holding something?

Was it supplying something?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Smith's Cove.

Thought it was gonna be
a straightforward dig,

find artifacts,
figure out who and when.

You know, this just keeps...

Getting wonkier.

"Wonkier" is a good word, yeah.

Well, we've got
some research to do.

Later that afternoon...

Hey, guys.

- Hey.
- Hello.

Marty. Craig.

...Rick Lagina calls a meeting

in the war room
to update his brother Marty

and members
of the Oak Island team

on the puzzling developments
at Smith's Cove.

Well, I think we would all agree

that today has been a...

a very weird day
in Smith's Cove, right?

- Yep.
- Yeah.

I would bet that, because
we sent you those photographs,

you are as confused as we are.

That'd be a fair bet, Rick.
That'd be a fair bet.

We went on the
emotional roller coaster ride

of Oak Island, right?

We tagged
into a concrete structure

as we're chasing the slipway.

And we're ecstatic.

We-We're thinking...
Marty, you know Roman history.

- Sure.
- Pantheon, the Colosseum,

the underwater wharfs.

They knew concrete mixes
backwards and forwards.

Yeah. It kind of remains
even weirder,

because I...

like to think I have
a fertile imagination,

And I can't come up
with a use for that thing.

Can you, Dave?

You know, you have
more construction experience

than any of us.

Do you have any idea

why pipes
through a concrete wall?

I have no idea
why they would put

- two-inch pipes in it.
- Right next to each other, too,

- right?
- Yeah.

I got a complete blank.

- We all do.
- Yeah.

Guys, this is kind of perhaps

out of right field,
but what's the chance

that the concrete wall
is a lot older

than the pipes
that are sticking out of it?

In other words,
somebody found it,

drilled holes through it,
put those pipes in there.

I mean, is there
any evidence of that,

- or could that be?
- It's possible.

Yeah.

It was in 1850

that searchers
from the Truro Company

first discovered
the fabled stone box drains

at Smith's Cove

by building an earthen cofferdam

before draining the area.

Is it possible

that 19th-century
Oak Island treasure hunters

modified
a much more ancient structure

in order to help them
excavate Smith's Cove?

It has been quite remarkable

how many structures
are in Smith's Cove

that we didn't know were there.

So we're always
scratching our head.

But it's important
to come to an understanding,

because hopefully,
the understanding, the research,

putting the puzzle pieces
together

will lead us
to where we want to go.

And where we want to go is
to find the original Money Pit.

You know,
the one interesting thing

in connection with this
"concrete structure" is,

you know, we've paid greater
attention to the slipway.

Yeah.

When you look at that...

slipway, you see
all the logs are worn on it.

I think it's basically

a large ramp that goes
all the way up to the Money Pit.

You think it's original.

I really do.

I believe that slipway
is the glory road.

That's where we're
gonna find some stuff.

Yes. I would sure like

to dig underneath it.

Yeah, I think it'll be worth it.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

And there might even be
an older...

- feature underneath it.
- Exactly.

Here's what we can say for sure.

The more you dig
at Smith's Cove,

the more surprises you find.

I mean, look what we got.

We got an unknown concrete wall.

We got an L-shaped structure

that's turning into
a giant structure.

We got a slipway
that we thought was

kind of incidental
to everything,

and it actually
might be key to everything.

So, you know,
it's easy for us to say, but...

get back out there
and figure it out.

Fair enough.
There's a lot to do.

- No question about that.
- Yeah.

We'll be out soon to join you.

- All right.
- See you guys.

- See you.
- See you later.

As the excavation
of Smith's Cove continues,

Rick Lagina and Dave Blankenship

arrive at the home
of Dave's father,

veteran Oak Island treasure
hunter, Dan Blankenship.

- How you doing, Dad?
- Hi, Dave.

They are hoping
he can provide answers

to key questions they have

concerning the mysterious
concrete wall

found earlier today.

So...

We're hoping
you can enlighten us.

We're-we're bringing you
another puzzle.

In the more than five decades

that Dan has spent living

and searching for treasure
on Oak Island,

he has collected a wealth
of first-hand information.

In the early 1970s,

he and his partner,
David Tobias,

constructed a massive cofferdam
at Smith's Cove

in the hopes of finding
the remains

of the legendary
stone box drains.

It was during this excavation

that Dan made a number
of surprising discoveries,

including two massive
wooden structures,

one laid out in the shape
of an "L," and the other a "U,"

discoveries that the Laginas
and their team

have recently unearthed.

Now, you know Smith's Cove
as well as anyone.

Okay, so here's
the sheet pile, right?

- Yeah.
- Like that.

We uncovered
the U-shaped structure.

And then the L-shaped structure
is out here.

And we were following this,

trying to find where it ended,
and all of a sudden,

right here, there's this thing.

It's your concrete wall.

- Yep.
- Five inches thick,

and it's three feet high,
the concrete itself.

But there are pipes
right at the bottom.

If you're asking me
if I had seen any of this,

the answer is obviously no.

Who could have done it?

It had to be before 1950.

Restall never did
any kind of work like that.

I saw what Restall did in '65,

and all he did was
what I call surface work.

But nothing like this.

No.

There was a lot of work done
in Smith's Cove.

Who did it? I don't now.

I don't have their records.

The one thing about,
you know, our troubles

with the archival record is that

most people were so entranced

with the idea of treasure

that recording data
was not an imperative.

It was not the prime directive.

And so, might be original work,

might be a searcher work
undocumented.

We don't know,
and that's the problem.

Right in front
of that concrete wall.

Right-right in front of it

is that slipway, the wharf,

- the old slipway.
- That's important.

I mean, to try and just get
a couple of pieces out of it

- and have it carbon-dated.
- Mm-hmm.

See if you can put an age
to that slipway.

Yeah, there's no fasteners
in there.

None.

So that was... I mean, my God,

nails have been out for
God knows how long, you know?

Gary Drayton came up

with an idea that

if you're unloading things
off of a ship

and you build this slipway
with logs, right?

- Right.
- If you don't fasten them,

you put something heavy
on there,

then you can roll it
up the slipway.

These people were...
they had to use ingenuity.

- There's no question about it.
- Yep.

We thought we were gonna dig up
Smith's Cove

and get some answers, but...

All we've come up with
is questions.

They've been few
and far between.

We've got some explaining to do,
so we better

- go out there and get it done
- Yep.

Back to the drawing board.

The next day, Marty Lagina

and his partner
Craig Tester meet

with Marty's brother Rick,
his son Alex,

and other members of their team
at the Money Pit site.

Mike, have you calculated in
the fall of the plug?

This morning, the plug was right
at the bottom of the can.

- Okay.
- And then we went

down within a foot
of the bottom,

and we're up in the can
two feet.

- Okay.
- So we... technically,

there's three feet of material.

- Charles.
- Marty. Craig.

The one thing is coming out
right now.

Working with representatives

from Irving Equipment Limited,
the Laginas and their partners

are continuing the excavation
of the H-8 shaft.

A shaft that they believe

may have intersected
the original Money Pit.

It was here, last year,

that the team discovered
incredible clues

below a depth of 160 feet,

including bits of paper
and leather bookbinding,

17th-century human bones,

and even evidence of
the seven-foot-high wooden box

first reported
by treasure hunters in 1897.

Unfortunately,
when the team attempted

to penetrate
the mysterious object

using a 50-inch-wide
drilling caisson,

they believe it was actually
pushed off to the side

and into a large, muddy void

located at a depth
of some 170 feet.

Something was
in front of the can,

and we were pushing it
for a while,

and it was pushing all the clay
out of the way.

- It's still in there, then.
- Exactly.

- Hello.
- Hello.

So, uh, you're doing five feet
up and down a few times?

- Okay.
- Yeah.

We're bringing it down five,

and then back up and down,

and kind of just working it
down the can.

John's up there monitoring
to see

if he feels something different
on the take,

- if anything's coming in.
- Okay.

But we'll probably
come down about, uh,

working up and down,
come down about 15 feet,

and then get a good measurement,

see if anything is coming in,
and then continue the process.

Okay.

Yeah, I think once we get down,

even if we don't
measure anything,

we'll go ahead and take
a couple hammer grabs.

- Just in case something did fall
in, but... -For sure. Yeah.

Because it pushed out
somewhere, you know.

- Yeah. Yep.
- So we need whatever

pushed it out to come back,
so...

It is the Oak Island team's hope

that by lifting the steel
caisson up several feet

that more valuable clues,
or perhaps the vault itself,

might move back into its path,

which they can attempt
to then retrieve

using a three-ton
hammer grab tool.

We are at 194 casing depth,

and we have a two-foot plug.

-Two-foot plug?
-Do you want us to go back up
and try to get more?

Let's take a...
let's take a grab.

I mean, I mean, it wouldn't take
that much stuff

to have fallen under
to be interesting.

- Yeah, we might as well. Yeah.
- Okay.

- Let's go ahead and do that.
- Let's take a grab,

then we might want
to come up and work it.

- That's fine.
- Okay.

Yeah, we can do that.

What-what's that?
It's a little
on the muddy side.

What's that right there?

The middle one?

That's amazing.

I got a bag here.

There's some more right here.

These are big chunks
to be at this depth.

Well, what depth, though, Craig?

- This...
- Well, it's got to be below

- 1... 1-7... 68.
- 168.

I thought we were too deep
for the Chappell Vault,

but I'm wondering if this is
part of the Chappell Vault.

Wood? From the Chappell Vault?

Found more than 170 feet deep
in H-8?

Could the team
have successfully located

the legendary box
believed to contain

the Oak Island treasure?

These are all
puzzle pieces, clues.

Look, every clue is important,
so to find it,

especially in H-8,
which again is confirmation

that there's something
going on here,

um, is-is positive news.

The possibility that the team

has located evidence
of the Chappell Vault

offers more
than an exciting prospect.

Yeah, there we go.

It now requires
that every piece of spoils

brought up from the H-8 shaft

be more carefully examined
than usual

in an effort to see if they
contain more important clues

or evidence of treasure.

Hey, Charles!

Okay.

Whew.

That's a sizeable piece.

Yeah, that is.

What about this wood, Charles?

It's not, like, light like
the other pieces.

And it's not completely black,
either.

Let's save that, uh...
put that aside.

Hey, Charles, what's this?

What do you think?

I'm thinking it's definitely
a fibrous material.

Yep.
It looks like
the parchment to me.

Hey, Charles, what's this?

While searching
through the H-8 spoils,

Jack Begley
and Charles Barkhouse

have just found
a potentially important clue,

one that could prove
that the team

is closer than ever to finding
the mysterious Chappell Vault.

It looks like
the parchment to me.

It's-it's definitely...
uh, we definitely

- have to bag that. Yeah.
- It's just black. Yeah.

That... that just means
that it was

in the water for a long time.

- Yeah.
- You got it?

I think this is more parchment,

but this-this definitely
stands out as not natural.

In 1897,

after penetrating
what they believed to be

a seven-foot-tall wooden vault
during a drilling operation,

treasure hunters William
Chappell and Frederick Blair

were astonished to see
not only traces of gold

on their drill bit

but also a small piece
of parchment

with the letters V-I
clearly visible.

That discovery led to a number
of fascinating theories

that suggested the Oak Island
treasure could be composed

of more than objects
of great monetary value.

Some believe the vault
might contain everything

from the lost manuscripts
of William Shakespeare

to important
historical documents,

documents that could
directly connect

the Oak Island mystery
to the history

of the Knights Templar.

Let's put it in a bag.

Keep that certainly separate.

- Let's go show the guys.
- Okay. Sure.

'Cause I think
they're gonna be happy to hear

that we found something
that's out of place.

I think this is more parchment,

but it's a good indication that
once we got the plug removed,

we're gonna start finding
all the things

we thought we were gonna find
last year in H-8.

I hope you're right, Jack.

I think I am, Charles.

Hey, Rick.

Look what Charles and I
just found.

What is that?

- It could be the leather.
- Could be the leather.

But it's-it's definitely
organic material,

because you can see the fibers.

That was in both the leather
and the parchment last year.

This is what I was finding

- in H-8.
- Yeah.

Yeah, that needs to be bagged.

- Absolutely.
- Yeah.

Coming up. Look out, guys.

The good-news scenario

is this might be leather

and/or parchment, and it's
at great depth in the Money Pit.

And-and maybe at some point
there might be better news,

i.e., if we can recover
something more substantial

than just a little bit.

I mean, the whole...
this whole thing

is about finding one
irrefutable piece of evidence.

Evidence is evidence.

- Yeah.
- So more power to you.

- That's a great find.
- Thanks.

All right,
we'll go back to work, Rick.

Okay.

Looks good.

I think
that pretty much does it.

Ah, boy.

- You have to look at everything.
- Yep.

Wait.

This is some sort of paper.
I don't know if it's old.

It's genuine paper.

It could be parchment,
but it's really fragile.

No writing, anyway.

Not that I can discern.

Different colors?

One side different color
from the other?

Yeah.

All right, well, let's bag it.

I can't really tell
if it's parchment or paper

or if it's old or new, but...

it's worth saving.

You never know. Good eye, Jack.

Later that day,

Craig Tester
and his stepson Jack Begley

join island historians
Paul Troutman and Doug Crowell

at the Oak Island
Research Center

to get a closer look
at their recent discoveries

from the H-8 shaft.

We brought over a couple
of the things

that we'd found in H-8,
uh, that we talked about.

Let's go ahead and-and get it

- underneath the, uh, microscope.
- Yeah.

These samples are all coming

- from that 160-foot level?
- Yeah.

The first item up is leather.

Okay.

Or, at least, we think.

I think that will be, uh,

one to find out if it has
any patterns or anything.

Using a Grobet
digital microscope,

the team will be able
to magnify the samples

up to 2,000 times
their actual size.

We're seeing
some color in there.

Is that a mineral,
or is that an ink of some sort?

That's what I've been flipping
back and forth

in my head, Craig,
because it's hard to tell.

When I collected this stuff
last year from H-8,

I was surprised to learn

that it was actually leather
or bookbinding.

This, to me,

really looks like leather.

Another one for the experts.

Yeah, definitely.

Okay, now we're going with

the potential pieces
of parchment.

Oh, look where it's folded.

That looks very much like
the parchment.

Oh, now, that's interesting.
Look at the red.

Yeah, what's
that stuff on there?

The colored stuff?
- Yeah. Pigment?

Yeah, something
has been applied to it.

You have the yellow,
and you have this pink line.

I mean, maybe
there was something

written on this piece of paper.

See, I find that
really intriguing because...

I can picture
that color being used

- in really old books.
- Okay.

You know how when they started

the paragraph, usually it was...

it was a big letter,

- and it would be in color?
- Mm-hmm.

That's what that reminds me of.

As early as
the fifth century A.D.,

a large, stylized initial
known as a drop cap

was sometimes used
to adorn the first letter

in each paragraph or chapter
of manuscripts

written throughout Europe
and the Middle East.

But what makes
the team's new finds

even more
potentially significant

is the fact
that such decorative characters

were most commonly found
in religious texts

and important documents

often illustrated
with elaborate artwork.

Look how linear it is.

It doesn't run
all the way through.

Yeah, it stops abruptly.

Let me turn it over

just in case we get
a different look from this side.

Oh, look.

You have
the really fibrous material,

like, in here,

but then this looks
a lot flatter.

Like, the fibers
are only on the opposite side,

not on this side.

- That's really intriguing.
- Yeah, it is.

Yeah, definitely need to have
an expert look at it.

Whether it's paper...
What type of paper?

And I really think they can
do stuff with these pigments.

In determining
what pigments they are,

they can determine time periods,

- so...
- Yeah, find out

how similar or dissimilar it is

- to the first sample.
- Yeah.

Thanks, guys.

We will be back
with more things.

It is the beginning
of a new day on Oak Island.

Come on, baby!

As brothers
Rick and Marty Lagina,

their partner Craig Tester,
and other members of their team

continue their excavation
of the H-8 shaft

in the Money Pit area...

Nothing.

Nothing in that grab.

Yeah.

...today also marks the return

of a special guest
to the island.

Looks like the guys
are over here.

There he is. Hey, Randall.

Hey, you guys.

For the past two decades,

investigative journalist
and author Randall Sullivan

has been researching

and writing
about the Oak Island mystery.

It is this research
that has resulted

in the completion
of a brand-new book

about the 223-year
treasure hunt.

I'm looking forward
to reading your book.

That would be great.

So, your book
has now come to fruition.

-You guys are getting
the first copy.
-All right!

And have you changed
your thought

about the who and the when
and the what and where?

Well, things that I had
an interest in

really became
more convincing to me.

- Really?
- I just found

so much history, so much fact.

But that points here?

It points here.

Well, we're keenly interested
to find out about that.

-Let's have a little powwow
down in the war room.
-Okay, great.

-I get a chance
to give you those books.
-Yes, welcome back.

- Welcome back.
- Welcome back.

We know Randall Sullivan

is a good researcher
and a great writer.

Not only has he
written another book

about Oak Island,
but he's done a very proper job

of research
into the Oak Island mystery

and prior to
the discovery story.

The hope is that some
of the material

will-will help us or assist us

as we move forward
with our search.

So, I see a couple books here,

- Mr. Sullivan.
- Uh, you do. First two...

- first two copies.
- Oh, thank you very much.

It's fantastic.
Signed, I-I take it?

- Of course.
- Of course.

This is probably how it looks,
you know.

That's what we're gonna find out
right there.

Yeah, there's...
there's a lot more below ground.

- Mm-hmm.
- Yes.

- There's no question about that.
- Yeah.

You happy with it?

Of course I'm happy with it.
I mean, when I...

You know, I-I certainly think
it's the most authoritative

and entertaining history
of Oak Island.

What I found,
to my amazement, really,

confirmed so much
of the origin story.

I believe that
the fundamental origin story,

that the Money Pit was found
by three teenagers...

John Smith, Anthony Vaughan

- and Daniel McGinnis...
- Right.

I think it's verifiable,
actually.

Is there plausibility

in totally misinterpreted
nothing happened here?

- Not to me.
- No.

I'm satisfied
that the origin story

- is fundamentally accurate.
- Okay, keep going.

- Mm-hmm.
- And-and I'm-I'm also...

You know,
that led to exploration

of the early stories
of the search,

which, of course, leads
to the, you know, 90 Foot Stone

and the-the initial flood.

- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.

Where do you depart
from the lore,

or don't you? So, basically,

you're saying the flood tunnels,
the box drains...

I-I think it's clear
that-that, uh,

the Truro Company
did find those things

when they went
to explore the beach

- and were overwhelmed by them.
- Mm-hmm.

What is the most compelling
piece of evidence for you?

I mean, can-can you single out

a single most compelling
piece of evidence?

I mean, it's the totality
of the works

is the single most
compelling piece of evidence.

I mean, something...

Whatever was done was done
on a scale that required

a labor and a commitment
that I always had a hard time

believing people would do that
just for a treasure of gold.

Mm-hmm.

No matter how large it was.

And when I began to look
at the theories

that come from that side

and the historical facts
that support them,

that's why I was so drawn
to Francis Bacon.

Mm-hmm.

Of the many theories

concerning Oak Island,

one of most compelling suggests

that the man behind the mystery

was none other
than Sir Francis Bacon,

the renowned
17th-century philosopher,

scientist and nobleman.

Some researchers even believe

that Bacon came to Oak Island

with William Shakespeare's
original manuscripts

and buried them in a lead box
filled with mercury.

Bacon was inheriting a...

a wisdom, a tradition
that went back,

you know,
even deeper than Templar times.

- Mm-hmm.
- There's so much

historical evidence
that supports it.

I mean,
not-not that it proves it

or establishes it for certain,

but it increases
its plausibility,

because Bacon wrote that

one of the best ways
to instruct people

is to create a treasure hunt.

Oh, really?

...That... that S.O.B.

That's quite compelling.

Well, if he is
the architect of this,

then, man,
did he hit the bull's-eye

- with that one.
- Yeah.

You may know this, Rick,
that-that...

one of Bacon's works, uh, uh,

is about creating
a perpetual spring.

- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah, and the very first line

of his instructions is:

"Dig a pit upon the seashore."

Shortly after the death

of Sir Francis Bacon in 1626,

his personal secretary,
William Rawley,

published a collection of
Bacon's philosophical writings

titled Sylva Sylvarum.

Among the nearly 1,000 passages
included in the text,

one of them instructs the reader

to "dig a pit
upon the seashore,"

starting
above the high-water mark,

and then sink the shaft
to a point below sea level.

Could it be that Randall
Sullivan has uncovered evidence

in Bacon's own hand

referring to the construction
of the Money Pit?

There were lines
like that that I thought

that's just too much of a
coincidence to be a coincidence.

Right.

If you woke up tomorrow morning

and you were in charge,
but you had but one swing,

where do you look and
what do you... how do you do it?

- Oh.
- One swing at the bat.

Well, I would look
for an entrance

that is now underwater.

Wow.

Underwater?

Could Randall Sullivan
have made a direct connection

between the solution
to the Oak Island mystery

and the team's recent
discoveries at Smith's Cove?

Randall Sullivan

is a proponent of the Baconian
connection to Oak Island,

which I rather fancy myself.

That fits with what
we're digging up out here

in Smith's Cove, so it's really
quite interesting.

I'm-I'm certain
that the real origins

of the flood tunnel is,
you know, way offshore.

- Not the primary flood system.
- Mm-hmm.

You know, on the south side.
It's not at Smith's Cove.

Another flood tunnel system

on the south shore?

In the winter of 1980,
while conducting

a pumping operation
in the Money Pit,

veteran treasure hunter
Dan Blankenship

noticed four large holes
in the frozen bay

off the island's southern shore.

It was his belief that
these so-called "ice holes,"

which appeared again in 1987,

might be evidence
of a second flood tunnel

feeding ocean water
into the Money Pit.

Could it be that,

in order to retrieve
the Oak Island treasure,

the team must shut off not one,

but multiple
booby-trapped flood systems?

There's a possibility

that there's a tunnel associated

with the south shore, right
adjacent to the stone triangle.

So it's interesting,
because it's in an area

that we know very little about.

It's worth investigating.

I know you guys got
real work to do.

Yeah, we got stuff to do.

You've got to start, you know,

working on, you know,
the updated version

- that will inevitably come.
- That's right.

That's right.
We got to get you some material.

That's right.

- I got a book to read.
- You-you do indeed.

Let's get back to it.

Following their
informative meeting

in the war room,
Rick, Marty and Craig

return to the Money Pit site,

where Jack Begley,
Charles Barkhouse

and Dan Henskee continue
to sift through the spoils

for potential clues excavated
from the H-8 shaft.

What's the word?

Well, gravity did her thing.

How much?

- 24 feet.
- Really?

- Wow.
- Yeah, so what naturally

- kind of came in was eight feet.
- Right.

And then,
as we brought the can down,

we gained another 16, so we're
at 24 feet of plug in the can.

- All right. Let's keep digging.
- Yep.

If that material
that disappeared

reveals something inspiring
that says,

you need
to get down here and look,

then the game is really afoot
because then we go down,

and we retrieve
whatever is down there.

Oh, look at what we have here.

I think it's... it looks a lot

like the parchment,
except it's black.

It's really, really dark.

It could be.

Another piece of parchment?

Could this be more evidence

that ancient books
and documents are part

of the Oak Island treasure?

- I'm gonna bag it, Jack.
- Yeah, we need to save that.

- Yep.
- Just in case.

Oh, here's a nice little...
Yeah!

What do you think of that?

It's got all kinds of grains.

It does possibly look like, uh,

something in a human body or...

Oh, you think
this could be a bone?

Bone?

Could the team have found
more evidence

of human remains
buried deep in the Money Pit?

And if so, could it be related

to one of the two
17th-century individuals

whose bones were discovered in
this same location last year?

Or could it be the remains

of someone else,
yet to be identified?

It is porous.

Yeah, have somebody that,
you know, knows more than we do

have a look at it.

This is a really good find, Dan.

Some of the important things

that came out
of the H-8 spoils so far

were the parchment,
and then a bone

that seemed kind of foreign.

Fire it up, Dan!

We should be able to get
some information back from that

and some understanding

why these bones are so deep
within the earth.

- Hi, guys.
- Hi. How's it going?

- Whew!
- Found some few

- interesting things.
- Oh, really?

Jack thinks he may have found
a piece of bone.

Given the striations
in the back here,

I don't know,
or was that up against

a piece of wood?
I'm not sure.

It almost looks twisted, though.

Yeah.

Not sure what that is.

What do you guys think?

Well, we can
take a picture of it

- and send it off to Laird.
- Yeah.

Not too sure what to think
of this one, whether it's...

bone or wood or twisted.
It's weird-looking.

- Yeah.
- The more I look at it,

the more I think
it is bone, because,

I mean, if you look
at the hollow center,

it looks like that's where
the bone marrow should be.

If it is bone,
that's really good news,

'cause then we have
a third piece of bone to test.

Maybe
it's a different individual,

and we can better pinpoint

a time frame
and where they came from.

That'll help potentially
determine who was here, so...

- Yeah. Exciting.
- Okay, well, this sounds good.

Exciting.

At least we know that
the oddities we found last year

in H-8 weren't just
from that drill hole.

There's more material
down there,

and I expect to find more.

You know, the more
we go through the spoils,

the more stuff
that will come up.

- Absolutely.
- There's something

down there
in the Money Pit, Rick.

I-I know that.
Look, it's not about

- right or wrong. It's not...
- No, no.

It's about the search
for the truth.

- You know?
- Yeah.

But we are finding
interesting clues.

We are trying
to apply real science

to a real mystery
with real professional acumen.

Yeah.
- So, the hope is,

as this year progresses,
we'll find the one thing.

That's my hope.

Yep.

For the Laginas
and their partners,

the idea that something
of historical significance

happened on Oak Island
is no longer a question.

But as they continue
to dig at Smith's Cove,

in the Money Pit,

and in other areas
throughout the island,

what will they find?

Priceless
historical manuscripts?

Gold and silver left here
by the Knights Templar?

Or will it be something
much more valuable?

Something so precious,

it needed to be guarded
with human lives?

Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...

We'll find it.

- It should be in this area.
- Start recording.

We're recording.
That thing might be man-made.

That almost looks
like an anchor.

Tell me what you think this is.

What was considered
valuable enough

to bury manuscripts
that far underground?

This is from a medieval book.

See how the ground's gone?

It's caving.
It's fixing to tip over.

This is a very dangerous place.

The whole Money Pit
could collapse.

All this work,

all the research.

This is no good.

We can't continue.