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Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

We're now gonna move
to the swamp.

- See this log here?
- Yeah.

Somebody built this
with purpose.

What in the heck is going on?

I think I found
something kind of cool.

No way, Moya.

We came across
a really interesting artifact.

It's Venetian.

So that feature is much older

- than we thought.
- Yeah.

- We got wood.
- Wow.

I think we have found
the Money Pit.

- That's amazing.
- It's all coming together.

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.

Here we go.

Let's do it.

You know, we've done
a lot of survey work out here.

We've done a lot
of drilling trying

to just figure out
what's going on underground.

This is one of the few
boreholes where we get to say

that there's a potential
for treasure coming up, uh,

- without it being an accident.
- Yep.

It is the start
of a potentially significant day

on Oak Island for brothers
Rick and Marty Lagina

and their team, as the answers

to a 230-year-old mystery,

as well as
a vast cache of treasure

may finally be
within their reach.

So today we've moved
a little north

of where we've been drilling,
uh, D.25-6.75.

And the goal today
is to hopefully slide

into the wall where-where
the original Money Pit was,

and go all the way down
to 150 feet

- where we're hoping
to find the vault.
-Okay.

And the tunnel that we hit
last time is at...

It is at 109 to 117.

We could be very, very
close to the original Money Pit.

drilled a borehole
known as E.75-5.6

in a region
of the fabled Money Pit area

where new groundwater tests have

identified high traces of gold

more than 100 feet deep.

This could be the bottom
of our tunnel right there.

Incredibly,
as the coring drill reached

a depth of 109 feet...

There's a core.

...it penetrated
what appeared to be

a mysterious
nine-foot-high tunnel.

Okay, we got
a little bit of wood here.

- Oh, we got wood!
- Huge wood.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa! Absolutely.
- We got a lot of wood.

reaching a depth
of over 150 feet,

they may have encountered
something that has remained

one of the greatest Oak Island
legends for more than a century.

It looks like
we have two small beams

sandwiching a very large beam.

To me, this sounds like

the Chappell Vault.

treasure hunters Frederick Blair
and William Chappell

drilled through a reported
seven-foot-high wooden chest

at a depth of 153 feet.

When they extracted
their drill bit,

they were astonished
to find it covered

with small flecks of gold,

as well as a tiny piece
of parchment

bearing the letters "VI."

Primary target today is a vault

at 155 plus or minus five feet.

Yeah.

the team is drilling
borehole D.25-6.75,

located just a few feet
to the northeast

to confirm the existence
of the mysterious tunnel

at 109 feet deep,

and the Chappell Vault below
that, some 155 feet underground.

If successful,

they will install
a massive steel caisson

in order to retrieve
the legendary treasure.

that there might be a vault

within this horizon, 150 to 160.

We have retrieved wood
from this depth,

so, there's every hope
that we will find a structure.

I think, the hope today,
Alex, is to...

to hit the vault,
pull up a coin, a jewel,

and then you can go
and put that in Rick's hand.

Fingers crossed on that.

So that's exciting.
Let's get going.

Here we go.

As the core
drilling operation proceeds

in the Money Pit...

It's a pleasure
to see a full war room.

Because lately, we've been
extremely busy, all of us,

doing a bunch
of different things.

Marty, Craig Tester

and other members of the team
in the war room

to discuss another
critical search operation

that they are about to begin.

We went scouting today
in the swamp, and

I don't know about anybody else,
but I smell swampish.

And I'm sure Marty misses that.

I'm certain of it.

- I do.
- So, at this point in time,

we're now going to move
the large-scale efforts

to the swamp,
because there's a lot

of opportunities there yet,
even after

all these years.

Rick, Marty and the team
have been investigating

the mysterious,
triangle-shaped swamp

based on the research
and past discoveries

of the late landowner and
treasure hunter Fred Nolan.

After unearthing potentially
ancient survey stakes

and pieces
of a large sailing vessel

in the brackish bog
back in the late 1960s,

Fred came to believe

that the swamp was
artificially made

in order to hide important clues

and possibly, valuables.

- This is really cool.
- It's impressive.

This is mondo cool, isn't it?

numerous artifacts
and structures in the swamp

that suggest
Fred may have been correct.

These discoveries include

a potentially
500-year-old stone road

in the southeast corner,

an adjacent cobblestone pathway

that leads up
toward the northern border

and a massive,
stone-paved feature

near the center of the swamp

that geoscientist
Dr. Ian Spooner

has carbon-dated
to approximately 1200 AD.

Let's start by getting Steve
to bring up the permitted areas

that we applied for this year.

So we started off this winter
making plans

of what we wanted
to accomplish this year.

We have come up with four areas.

Permit area one to four, and

- let's start in permit area one?
- Sure.

Down in the southeast corner,

we have the stone road.

We want to get back into that

and do some more work in there.

We go further up,

we have permit area two.

We have the paved area.

Hopefully, find an artifact
or something, and, you know,

get a real answer on
who may have built that feature.

Permit area three.

That includes the stone path,

which Rick is eager
to get back and do.

He loves being on his hands
and knees in the muck.

So, the fourth permitted area

is what we call the north bog.

That's on the north side
of Tom's road,

and I know
Tom is eager to get in there

- and see what he can find.
-Yeah. 100%.

So, we've been pumping
the swamp now

for about two weeks.

You know, we've managed
to dry up the...

the northernmost part of it.

Once we can get in there,

we can start taking off
some of the surface cover,

getting down
to what hasn't been seen before.

Yeah. There's a lot
of work to be done,

but I'm confident we can do it.

We'll-we'll get it done.

Since the most underexplored
area is in something

my big brother's
been wanting to do,

oh, forever,
is north of the road,

what about starting there
and then coming back to this?

'Cause what I hear

is everything is dry,
everything looks good.

- Yeah.
- I, for one, would be

most disappointed if we somehow
didn't get to that.

Mm-hmm. There might be
a real "aha" there.

To me, the northern end of
the bog contains some secrets.

It's something that we should
devote time and energy

and resources to, to see
if something is still there.

I mean, it's a big area.
It's gonna take a lot of work.

It's gonna take a lot
of eyes on the target.

Uh, I'd never thought
I'd say it, but I do want

to get out there
and see and feel and smell,

along with you guys.

So...

I think it's time to quit
talking and get after it, right?

When can we start?

As soon as we go outside,
we'll go at it.

Great!

Okay, I'm all excited
to get into the swamp.

I think she's going in.

...while
the core-drilling operation

continues in the Money Pit area...

There's got
to be something here.

We're really close to the shore

in an area
with a lot of history,

- and we know there's been
a lot of activity.
- Yeah.

metal detection expert
Gary Drayton

and Billy Gerhardt prepare

to begin excavating near the
mysterious, cobblestone pathway

in the northern region
of the swamp.

Which side are you going
to put the spoils on?

Probably over this way, I think.

Okay, mate.
We'll get ready for 'em

and count
all those silver coins.

All right,
get ready for the spoils.

Smells like treasure.

That's how you know
we haven't dug here before.

Yeah.

And there are some answers
in there. I truly believe that.

I mean, how do you deny
that there are some sort of

answers there
that will affirm the fact

that this may have been
a multigenerational attempt

to hide something on Oak Island?

What's that board there?

Is that an old plank, Rick?

It looks like it.

Yeah, it's been notched.

Notched out right here.

That does not have the look
of a new board.

Could Rick have merely uncovered
a piece of discarded lumber?

Or could it be part
of yet another

previously unknown structure

that was hidden long ago
in the swamp?

It's old.
It's not dimensional lumber.

You might want to haul that out
later and take a look at it.

Hold up, Bill!

See this log here?

Yeah.

And then there's

a couple more here
running this way.

Big ones.

ALEX/GARY:
Yeah.

So somebody was out here
doing something.

It's curious.

And these are some pretty big
logs to haul down here.

And even just
a couple inches down,

- that could last a long time.
- Yeah.

While investigating
the northern region

of the Oak Island swamp,

Rick Lagina has just uncovered
what appears to be

a large wooden structure.

Somebody was out here
doing something,

and they-they installed that

- right on the subsoil.
-Yeah.

- Well, let's keep looking.
- Yeah.

Yep.

There's a strong hint that
there are certainly some answers

or at least some clues
at the bottom of that bog.

And...

if it is associated

or can be associated
with original work,

it's incredibly important.

- See right there?
- Mm-hmm.

- There's a bunch of big logs
going this way.
- I see that log.

- Yeah.
- That we should reveal

and see if Tom remembers
his father building

- something like that.
- Yeah.

If he doesn't, then that makes
that all the more interesting.

Right.

- It's possible that it's
much older than we think.
- Yeah.

- This-this log structure
that we're uncovering here.
- Yeah.

There's the bottom.

Lot of rocks there.

Boulder under that wood there.

Stone in there,
in amongst the...

Yeah, I see that.

This is a lot like the cobbles
from the paved area.

- Same kind of rock.
- Yeah, same kind of rock.

Which you don't really see
on the beach.

Yeah, I don't know.

similar to the paved area
near the middle of the swamp

and which is believed to date
back to as early as 1200 AD?

If so, could the team
have just uncovered

another key clue
that could help them solve

the 230-year-old mystery?

That's right at the edge
of the swamp.

They may even have introduced
material there

to try to build a platform.

Yeah, no, this is...

curious.

Things are
built upon other things.

So did the cobble
represent an older path,

an older structure?

There's all kinds

of possible explanations
for these two things,

and we need to slow down and
take a real good look at them.

It might be a platform,
but that's...

Tom would have an idea
of what his father did

- or did not build out here.
-Right.

Small cobble rocks
are interesting because...

we have seen that
on the stone road.

We saw that on the stone path.

We need to try to understand

what that may
or may not represent.

It's quite
a collection of rock though.

- Yeah.
- What have we found?

Well, we don't know. There's
that log embedded north-south.

And then there's some
big timbers running east-west.

Appears to be on top of it.

Right, and then
also in the corner down there,

there's all those rocks
on top of each other.

No material in between 'em.

I remember when Dr. Spooner
looked at the paved area,

he said that's not common
in nature.

I mean, there's a lot
of questions here.

Let's stand down and figure out
a way to-to take advantage

of what-what we might be seeing.

But first we need to see
what Tom says.

So...

Okay.

Let's, uh, stand down for now.

Stand down for now.

- But there's other work to do.
-Yep.

...over near the shoreline
of Lot 5,

on the western side
of the island...

will you tell me?
'Cause I'm curious.

- Okay.
- ...archaeologist Fiona Steele,

Jack Begley
and other members of the team

continue their investigation
of a large stone foundation.

A foundation where they have
made compelling discoveries

that include
Venetian trade beads

that may date back
to the 16th century,

a mortar-like substance
that matches soil samples

collected from over 100 feet
deep in the Money Pit area,

and several iron artifacts

that have been scientifically
linked to Sir William Phips,

the 17th-century English
politician and treasure hunter

who some believe buried a large
cache of Spanish gold and silver

in the Money Pit back in 1687.

Well, it certainly is
the gravelly layer.

and the construction
over on Lot 5.

I want to find something
that really helps us explain

what went on here.

by whoever inhabited Lot 5

had something to do with...

perhaps the construction
of the Money Pit.

the whole mystery here.

Oh.

Hey, Helen, Jack,

I think I found
something kind of cool.

What is it?

- I think it's a bead.
-A bead?

- No way, Moya.
- Yeah.

And it's smaller
than the ones from last year.

Oh, my heavens, it's tiny.

-Yeah.
- Wow.

The red's a very stark color

- against the...
- Let me see it.

...dirt.

Look at it.

Do you think that could be

another Venetian bead?

We need to get it cleaned up

and have
a really good look at it.

Great find, Moya.

That's the third bead
that we've found

- on this lot.
- Yeah. And the other two
were white.

- Remember, they were the
Venetian glass with the stripes.
- With the red

- and the blue stripes, yeah.
- Yeah.

And this one is a solid red.

In 1470,

specialized glass bead jewelry
was created in Venice, Italy,

and soon became a highly
valuable form of barter currency

along trade routes
throughout Europe, Asia,

and ultimately North America.

In 2023,

the Oak Island team
was astonished

when they discovered
two Venetian beads

in the round feature on Lot 5.

Laird, want to come and see
what Moya's just found?

could it offer more evidence
that this feature was created

in order to hide valuables?

And if so,
just what else might they find

as they continue to dig?

Wow.

Yeah.

Looks like two colors, glass.

Yeah. Looks like

- there's, like,
a black ring on the inside.
-Yeah.

So it's either part
of the firing process

- or it's different glass
in the interior.
- Mm-hmm.

But that looks to be
a Venetian bead to me.

Yeah. The other two we found

weren't too far
from where we're at right now.

on Lot 5 can be
a really important find.

We're finding
enough artifacts that are...

enigmatic and intriguing.

Hopefully we'll find the answer
to what it was used for

and who was using it.

Perhaps the XRF will tell us

- and compare the beads.
- Mm-hmm.
-Yeah.

That'd be cool. Right?

- Good job.
-Thank you.

As a new day
begins on Oak Island...

in the Money Pit area...

-Hey, Billy.
- Hey.

I brought reinforcements.

Well, I think we need 'em,
by the looks of that.

...Rick Lagina
and fellow landowner Tom Nolan

join other members of the team

in the northern region
of the swamp.

That long beam is
the first thing we exposed.

the mysterious wood
and stone feature

that was uncovered
just one day ago.

It's at least 14 feet,
I would guess.

We never really found that end,

and we never really found
this end.

It's underneath
a substantial root structure.

I don't think

it was done by us,
uh, or my dad.

You know, to get
those size logs out here

is quite a-- quite a job.

You know, uh,

I can't imagine
how somebody really did.

-Mm-hmm.
-The other thing is

we got rocks in a row
underneath you here.

Yeah, that's
almost a perfect line.

Yeah.

If you're saying
that probably not your dad's

and that he didn't know of it,

then it makes it
certainly very interesting.

that his late father Fred Nolan
did not build this feature

during his extensive
investigations in the swamp,

the burning questions
that remain are who did,

why, and might it be
another critical discovery

that will help the team finally
solve the Oak Island mystery?

Want me to take a little off
this end

so you can try
to find the end, or...?

Okay, but let's be patient
with the dig.

If you see anything here

beyond what we're seeing here,
call me.

- I'll come back.
- Okey doke.

Good luck,
and we'll see you guys in a bit.

Thank you.

so we need to go slow,
approach it

from an investigative process

and an intellectual process,

meaning,
what is the purpose of it.

- You can hear clanging on rocks.
- Mm-hmm.

Right now, there's...

Just in this little area,
there's one,

two, three, four,
five, maybe six logs,

just from here to here.

- Half a dozen more over there.
-Yeah.

So, the hope is,

Billy just exposes it.

We may be able to see how long
and how big this thing is.

- Right, Billy?
- Yup.

we uncovered is that

it's well made.

Right here.

That's not a small log there.

What in the heck is going on?

There are two parts
of the construction.

There are what
I call the "carry logs."

They are the support
of the structure.

And then there are
what I call the "platform logs,"

which sit on top
of the carry logs.

And there are multiples
of those.

There's one here,
running this way,

and there's another one there,
running that way.

And it was Alex
who noticed the cobbles

at the bottom of the dig.

An intentional layer of cobble
laid down for some purpose.

I don't know its relevance

to furthering our understanding
of the mystery,

but it's definitely quite large.

- This is a mystery.
-Yeah.

-And its massive.
- Yeah.

I mean, this would carry

a tremendous amount of weight.

I think you're right.

What do you make of it, Laird?

It's odd.

That's not sufficient.

We have enough for Dr. Spooner

to make a pretty good
evaluation right now.

-Yeah.
-I think

we get Dr. Spooner in, and

he can take these organic
samples that we can date.

This is unique.

But Dr. Spooner can maybe tell
us exactly what happened here

and what progression of time.

So, we're done for the day.

It was a cool day, though.

- Interesting day.
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah.

A new discovery on Oak Island.

It's a great day.

We have a core!

Maybe this will be 99.

Is this the core of interest?

It is.

Steve Guptill
and Jillian Parsons

continue monitoring the drilling

of borehole D.25-6.75.

- What do you got, Steve?
- 99.

99. That's what I thought.

may be on course to pinpoint
the legendary Chappell Vault

and the source
of precious metals

that have been detected
below a depth of 100 feet.

I thought we had wood.
We do have wood.

How does it look?

- Oh, good.
- Yeah, we got wood.

I mean, we have wood here, here.

Yeah.

-There's a big piece
of wood there.
-Ooh.

These are some
of the biggest pieces

- we've found in this borehole.
-In this borehole,

and in particular, when we've
been looking for the Money Pit.

Yeah. I mean,
finding wood at this depth,

- in this hole, is amazing.
-Yup.

We're in the right depth for the
original level of the Money Pit.

Finding wood at this
depth, in this hole, is amazing.

Well, you know what?
We're in the right depth

for the original level
of the Money Pit.

and thrilling moment
in the Money Pit area

for members
of the Oak Island team.

That's a good sign.

a mysterious tunnel
at a depth of 109 feet

in borehole D.25-6.75,
they have just encountered

a different wooden structure
at a depth of just 100 feet.

You know what
that reminds me of?

- This borehole is close
to caisson T-1.
- Yeah.

There's a reason
we keep drilling around T-1,

which is an old caisson--
it's from 2016.

You know, it's some
of the oldest wood

- we've ever found
in the Money Pit.
- Yeah.

It dates back to the late 1600s.

Yeah.

X marks the spot.

T-1. Tester-1.

Marty, Craig and the team

installed a 40-inch-wide
steel caisson

that was located less than five
feet to the south, known as T-1.

Although no treasure vault
was ultimately found

during that excavation,
at a depth

of 102 feet, a massive,
hand-cut timber was unearthed,

which was carbon-dated
to as early as 1670.

What if this is part
of the Money Pit?

We should actually take
that back sooner than later

- and get Emma testing it.
-Yeah.

that the team has
once again found the same

potentially 17th-century structure,

which they believed could be
the original Money Pit,

less than five feet north
of T-1?

If so, could that mean

that they are now
finally on course

to pinpoint the legendary
treasure vault?

So, this is good news.

Very good news.

If this is the Money Pit,

then we got a good shot
at hitting the vault below.

Yeah.

- Hey, guys.
- Hey, guys.
- Hey.

So I'm wondering
if you want me to push it

to at least till 150, right?

Let's just keep on going.

- Okay.
- That's what we want, right?

That's the vault level,
so that's where we want to be.

Yeah. Okay.

is that the T-1 area is

the area
of the original Money Pit.

This one can go.

I think that the area
could be a possible

treasure location.

It's also the area
where the soils

from the Money Pit

have a significant match
to the clays found

in the Lot 5 feature.

So, for two reasons, this is
an area of significant interest.

So that wood that we were
holding in our hands--

that could have been part
of the original Money Pit?

Absolutely possible.

That's amazing.

We got another 50 feet,
and we're at target depth.

If there's a treasure
to be found, it's there.

in the Money Pit area...

We've been working down
on Lot 5,

and we actually came across

a really interesting artifact.

and other members of the team

meet in the Oak Island
laboratory,

regarding the small,
but potentially valuable bead

that was discovered
just one day ago

near the rounded foundation
on Lot 5.

How the heck did you find that?

I've been used
to finding, like, bricks

and red coarse earthenware,
so I kind of had an eye out

for, like, a red color,

- so I managed to find it.
- Mm-hmm.

But, yeah, it's tiny.

It's what we call a "seed bead,"
for obvious reasons.

- I can see why, yeah.
-Mm-hmm. Yeah.

-Are they pretty durable?
-Yes.

-They are?
-Mm-hmm. Yup.

They'll come out
of the ground looking like

- they just... they're brand-new.
- Mm-hmm.

So, it could have been around
for a long time?

Yeah.
We have the circular feature.

It was found
in the southwest exterior.

So this is coming from the yard.

- Hmm.
- Not from the fill.

So in terms of context,
this is coming

- from a much better context.
- Is it Venetian?

We did find two Venetian
glass beads last year

so I did run
a compositional comparison.

archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan

scanned the small glass bead

using the X-ray fluorescence
spectrometer, or XRF,

a device that uses
gamma ray radiation in order

to not only identify
the elements

that make up
an object's composition,

but potentially help determine
when it was created.

So, here are the Venetian

glass beads
that we found last year,

and it's in the same kind of
cluster, compositionally.

And that one is also matching
with the coloring

from last year's beads.

So, all in all,

it's coming
from a similar batch.

But it is, yes.
It's-it's Venetian.

So, for the red coloring.

So there's no selenium, no gold,

but there is copper,
and I think that is an indicator

that the red colorant is...

early 1700s and before that.

- Oh.
- So early 1700s

- into the 1600s.
- And pre. Yeah.

That's pretty interesting.

Oh, pre... pre-Money Pit.

- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.

Bingo.

That's fantastic.

and before that.

- Pre-Money Pit.
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.

Laird Niven and Emma Culligan
have just informed Rick Lagina

and other members of the team

that the glass bead found
one day ago

near the rounded
stone feature on Lot 5

is, in fact, the third piece
of Venetian jewelry

that they have discovered
in the area,

and may predate the discovery
of the Money Pit

by more than a century.

So how do we explain
that being there?

They could have been trading
from there.

This is another piece
of evidence

that dates from the mid-1700s
into the 1600s.

So it's kind of reinforcing
my gut feeling that we have

an earlier structure on-site

that was repurposed
at a later date.

And the 1600s date

- lines up with some of the wood
we found in the Money Pit.
-Yeah.

suggesting a connection
between the rounded feature

and the Money Pit?

Could that explain
why the team has uncovered

a mortar-like material
in the feature

that matches soils collected
from more than 100 feet deep

in the Money Pit area?

And if so, could that help
explain the wooden timbers

that were recovered
in the T-1 caisson back in 2016

that were dated to 1670?

Lot 5 is starting to play
a pretty significant role,

both in terms of the story
and perhaps the treasure

or the remnants of the treasure.

There's lots of evidence
of people being here

way before people from Europe
were supposed to be here.

So I want to keep investigating.

It surely gives us a clue

that corroborates your intuition
that that feature

is much older than the current
inventory of artifacts

- are telling. So...
- LAIRD/ALEX: Yeah.

Moya, congratulations.

- I would not have found that.
- Thank you.

-Thank you very much.
Very interesting.
-All right.

We have a core.

...back in the Money Pit area...

What do we got, Leighton?

That's 159.

...members of the team
anxiously monitor the progress

of the core-drilling operation
in borehole D.25-6.75,

which has now reached a depth
of nearly 160 feet,

the target depth where they
are hoping to encounter

more evidence
of the fabled Chappell Vault.

Here you are.

Great, thank you.

That's
a pretty stark transition.

Sand?

Yeah.

It's a lot of sand.

- Hey, Charles.
- Hey, Steve.

That's about as sandy as
you can get right there. Look.

You know, obviously
we have backfill here

- and we have it here.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah.

But I'm not seeing any wood.

No.

That's the depth
we expected to see something.

But we didn't hit the vault.
So we might be sliding back

into the old caisson.

Yeah.

This hole is ticking
all the boxes

that there's something
deep down there.

Unfortunately,
we hit caisson backfill.

It was just...

extremely disappointing for us.

Frustrating.

With this sonic drill,
we're getting pulled

- to the path
of least resistance.
- Yeah.

for a major breakthrough,

what they discovered instead
is gravel backfill

from one of their previously
excavated steel caissons.

This means that an obstruction,
such as a boulder,

diverted the coring drill
off course

and to the side
of its intended target,

which in this case may have been
the legendary treasure vault.

We didn't get
to where we wanted to be,

which was a straight hole

- all the way to 160.
- Yeah.

We are in the right location.

We are just pulled
in the wrong direction.

Right. 100%.

and all this data

that strongly hint
that this area is significant

but not having made
a proper discovery.

I have hopes that if there is
something to be found,

it is within this general area.

You don't give up.

You follow it to the end.

We've got to find a way
to get back into that vault

- without getting pulled
into a caisson.
- Yeah.

-Let's all head back
to the research center.
- Yeah.

Figure it out yet?

Almost.

Yeah. Okay.

I'm pretty sure it's
not supposed to look like this.

...while members of the team

plot the next course of action
in the Money Pit area,

Rick Lagina
and geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

join Rick's nephew Alex,

Gary Drayton, and Billy Gerhardt

in the northern region
of the swamp.

They are eager to have
Dr. Spooner assess

the recently uncovered
wooden structure

that sits atop
a layer of cobblestones.

You seen anything
like this before, Ian?

No. No, I haven't.

And, uh, I haven't seen
a platform like this.

I wonder how it extends back
towards land.

Well, these are
the platform logs.

But if you see here...

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

So there's this one

- and then there's that one.
- Yeah.

And it looks like it
keeps on going into land there.

It's almost like this is a...

- a ramp, right?
- Yes.

Yeah, this is a ramp.
I have no problem with that.

The-the amazing thing is

how big this structure is.

- Yeah.
- This was meant to carry
extremely heavy loads

or to be very stable
for something very, very heavy.

If you just wanted access
out here,

you're not doing this.

You know, for me, it's--
This is built with purpose.

But to what end?

There's a lot going on here.
I mean...

I think I'm more interested
in what's going on down lower

than up top. You know,

why is everybody so interested
to get out to this point?

There's something right here
that somebody was chasing.

- That's what I would say.
-Strangely,

it seems to point
towards the Eye of the Swamp.

Oh. Yeah.

We're only about 60 feet away
from the Eye.

- Yeah. Yeah.
- So...

I know the Eye is
a human-built feature.

Yeah.

It's entirely plausible

those same people built
this feature here.

The Eye's right there,
which we know was

a man-built feature.

It's entirely plausible

that this was part of that same
interest in this environment.

Right.

You just don't do
this kind of stuff.

In the northern region
of the Oak Island swamp,

geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner
has just suggested

that a newly uncovered
wooden structure

and cobblestone pathway...

I have no clue what this is.

...may be directly connected
to another man-made feature

known as the Eye of the Swamp.

It's the first thing
that we ever have found

that points directly
to the Eye in a structure.

And we have Dr. Spooner
that did work in that.

His cores show
industrial activity way back.

This is
a very puzzling feature here,

this Eye of the Swamp.

-Mm-hmm.
- The All-Seeing Eye.

investigated a mysterious
circular formation

in the triangle-shaped swamp

where vegetation
would never grow.

Wow. That is massive.

That's-that's a big boulder.

and discovering a man-made
formation of boulders,

they dubbed it
"the Eye of the Swamp"

due to its eerie resemblance
to the Masonic symbol

known as the All-Seeing Eye.

This is quite
a provocative site.

within the feature,

Dr. Spooner presented the team
with astonishing data

about when it was
likely created.

I'm very confident
we're looking at 1680 to 1700

that that disturbance
took place.

Really interesting.

I just want to take a look
at the stone,

at the bottom of it.

and cobblestone feature were
constructed at the same time

as the Eye of the Swamp?

But if so, by who
and for what purpose?

This kind of stuff
always intrigues me.

- See that rock?
-Mm-hmm.

This little rock here

was wedged between this piece
of wood here and that rock.

So if we date
that lowest piece of wood

that's sitting right
on the rocks,

we know that the rocks
were put there

before the age
of that piece of wood.

- Yeah.
- If this feature

is the same age
as the Eye of the Swamp,

that lines up
with the William Phips theory.

Right.

We know that Phips found silver
on the Concepción.

the team has been investigating
the theory

that the 17th-century
English treasure hunter

and politician Sir William Phips

and his Masonic associate
Captain Andrew Belcher

buried a vast cache of treasure
in the Money Pit.

In 1687,

at the direction
of the English crown,

Phips conducted two salvages

of the famed Spanish
treasure galleon

known as the Concepción...

...which sank in a hurricane
near the Dominican Republic

in 1641.

In a controversy
that bewildered many,

Phips delivered less than half

of the 100 tons
of silver and gold

that were recorded
on the ship's manifest.

Now, after previously finding
iron tools

in the round feature on Lot 5

that have been
scientifically matched

to the birthplace
of William Phips,

could the so-called
Eye of the Swamp

and perhaps these two additional
man-made features

offer more compelling evidence
that this theory is true?

I would just send these out
for dating.

- Oh, we're
absolutely gonna do that.
- Yeah.

And some of these logs are

- sufficient size
to facilitate that.
- ALEX/LAIRD: Yeah.

If you're moving through a bog,

you-you would have to have
a platform from which to work.

If it were 1680 dates
or thereabouts,

you know, certainly one
of the possible theories

might be a Phips connection.

So, we got a plan.

I think we just keep pulling
down this line.

Yeah. And we start finding
some metals

and some bobby-dazzlers
and top-pocket finds.

-Yes.
- Hopefully.

There are still answers
down there.

Yeah.

Whatever may lie
deep in the Money Pit,

perhaps within
a seven-foot-high vault,

remains elusive.

At least for now.

But as Rick, Marty, Craig, and
their team unearth more clues

all across Oak Island

and keep zeroing in
on the original treasure shaft,

just how much longer

can the answer
to this 230-year-old mystery...

...stay buried?

Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...

-What is it?
-These are bricks.

That's looking pretty
structure-like to me.

- What a perfect place
to hide something.
- Yeah.

Ooh!

That has got a good chance
of being gold.

We see the CT scan.

Oh, my gosh.

Imagine my surprise

when I saw that.

there's definitely
nothing solid there.

Like, totally open?

- Yeah.
- That sounds like a void.

It could be

the treasure chamber.

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