08x15 - Cask And You Shall Receive

[bunniefuu]

Yeah, look at that.

- The top of a keg.
- Ian: Wow.

Gary: Holy schmoly!

Marty: Well, how about that?

Rick, come look at this.

- We just found this.
- Wow.

It's the most significant
artifact we have.

- Hey, guys.
- What do we got, gentlemen?

Rick: That is incredible.

Debris field, baby.

It might actually
be the money pit.

Narrator: 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 d*ed
trying to solve the mystery.

And, according to legend,

one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

♪ ♪

gary: It's a good place to stop,
right here.

- Let's find some good stuff.
- Rick: I agree.

Narrator: For brothers
rick and marty lagina,

their friend and partner,
craig tester,

and members of their team,

another exciting
day of investigation

has begun on oak island.

And although they have made
numerous compelling discoveries

across the island this year,

in the triangle-shaped swamp,

they continue to
uncover and investigate

one of the most incredible
man-made features

ever unearthed during
the 225-year-long hunt

for a fabled treasure.

A stone road... or pathway...

Running along the eastern border

and somewhere into the uplands.

- Rick: Wow. - (laughter)

gary: Oh, wow indeed.

Narrator: Over
the past two weeks,

rick, marty,
craig and the team have found

not only an iron ringbolt

dating back as
much as 400 years,

believed to have been used

for docking large
sailing vessels...

That is a piece of
oak island history.

...But also evidence
that the pathway...

Which appears to possibly
be heading in the direction

of the original money
pit... May have been used

for hauling large cargo
away from the area.

(metal detector beeping)

yeah,
that's a little blippy one. Let's see.

It is reading nine inches.

So, it's probably trapped
between the big rocks.

(metal detector whining)

somewhere in there.

Gary: Fingers crossed
it's a good target.

Rick: A lot of stones in there.

(detector beeps)

let's see if you've moved it.

Maybe you've got it out.

- Let's see. - (beeping)

(beeping rapidly)

it's in here.

Oh.

Rick: Whatever it is,
it's pretty tiny.

Yeah, it's some kind of...

Oh, look at that.

- That...
- Craig: Head of a nail?

Yeah,
it's a square ox shoe nail.

- Hmm. - Yeah.

Sweet.

Rick: When gary
finds an ox nail,

that's some confirmation that
the path was used by oxen,

hauling things back and forth

and coming up the hill and
leading towards the money pit.

- Rick, are you headed back there?
- Yeah.

- Yeah.
- We better get you back over there.

Billy's got a lot of spoils.

All right,
we're going to hit the road.

- All right. - Rick: Let's go.

- (chuckling) - okay.

Come on. Let's
have another target.

Narrator: While gary drayton
continues to metal detect the pathway,

heavy equipment operator
billy gerhardt attempts

to uncover more of the feature

to hopefully determine just
what direction it is heading.

Aaron: So, in archaeology,
you always follow the feature.

And depending where it takes you,
how long it takes you,

and that's what we're doing.

We're using that
methodology on this stone path,

this stone road.

And...

What's incredible
about this feature is

it continues to
go and go and go.

- Anything, gary? - No, mate.

I checked it out.

Gave this another once-over.

- You're gonna have to go up there, though.
- Yeah, I am.

- Back to the spoils. - Okay.

- Notice anything, bill? - Yeah.

- It seems like it's rocky.
- Yeah.

- There's a big one there.
- Yeah.

Gary: It's crazy, isn't it?

Something this big.

It would have took a heck
of a long time to build this.

This is al-almost
ancient-looking.

The question is not trying
to explain what it is, it's...

- the question is, where is it going?
- Hmm.

We've still got the
same three options.

There,
straight ahead or up to the money pit.

- I guess we got to follow it to get the answers, right?
- Billy: Yeah, exactly.

- We just got to keep digging, right?
- Mm-hmm.

Well,
we know the line exists this way,

so I think the easiest thing
is to stay in this line for now.

I think I'll work
up a little bit

because I'd like to
be a little further in.

Okay.

Narrator: While rick, craig and
the team continue their investigation

of the stone pathway
in the swamp...

Steve g.: So,
I got a lot of good news.

...In the money pit area...

I got a map ready for us.

- Okay. - Charles: Okay.

...Surveyor steve guptill

along with geologist
terry matheson,

oak island historian
charles barkhouse

and project manager scott barlow

are about to begin a
new core-drilling program

in the hopes of
pinpointing the location

of the original treasure shaft.

Okay,
so based on this orientation,

we've used previous drill
holes from previous years

to go back and we
used your notes.

- Yeah.
- To help define this hole.

We also used c-1 and the
success that we had in c-1

to anchor our other point.

We created a
13-foot-diameter money pit.

- Okay.
- So, we know something's in here,

but we don't know what it is.

This is the diagram from 1898.

"a" is the tupper shaft.

The money pit

- is to the west. - Wow.

Narrator: One week ago,

oak island historian
doug crowell

discovered a
19th-century diagram,

created by previous searchers,

suggesting that the
original money pit

may actually be located
more than 20 feet west

from where the team
has currently been drilling.

Which would mean that
the money pit would be here.

The money pit's to the
west of the tupper shaft.

Rick: We have to go west.

You have to chase
the historical context.

Yes.

Narrator: Now,
having studied this new information,

and after surveying the area,

steve guptill has
created a new drilling grid

for rick, marty,
craig and the team to break ground on

and hopefully locate

the legendary money
pit treasure vault.

So, today,
we're gonna drill in c-5.

- Okay.
- So, we're taking a sh*t at the money pit.

So, it's the first time this
year we've taken a sh*t.

- Sounds good to me. - Okay.

- Let's pin it. - Okay.

Terry: Got get 'em.

Rick: The most
elusive thing of all

on this island is the money pit.

In terms of where we are,

uh,
with the drilling program in the money pit.

New information has caused
us to develop this new grid.

So, I'm hoping that this
is a huge breakthrough.

So, mike.

First time all year,

we're taking a sh*t
at the money pit.

All right.

So, we believe we have a
13-foot-diameter money pit

based in here.

Uh, we're going to take a
sh*t at roughly the center.

-Sounds good. -Okay. -Okay.

Getting awful close to c-1.

It's only, uh...

It's only five or
six feet off of c-1.

- You got it?
- Right there. C-5.

- All right.
- This is it, right here, right now.

Narrator: Although this new
search area is more than 20 feet

from where the team
has previously discovered

compelling evidence of
ancient man-made workings

deep underground,

it is in nearly the same
exact location as borehole c-1.

A borehole where five years ago,

upon the recommendation

of oak island historian
charles barkhouse,

the team discovered a large void

some 170 feet underground...

Here we go.

...Containing a mysterious
gold-colored object

embedded in the wall.

Charles: It looks metallic.

What the hell is that?

Is this another one?

I can see gold.

That's definitely a
gold object right there.

A gold-colored object,
that's for sure.

Narrator: And where
earlier this year

the team obtained video footage

of three more
possibly gold objects.

- There you go, mike.
- All right.

All the work we did this
year leads right here.

- Yeah. - The question is,

- can mike get in there? - Yeah.

I think with a little
bit of scrubbing,

we can... We can make that work.

- Okay. - Okay.

All right. Thanks, mike.

Narrator: While
the drilling operation

gets underway in borehole
c-5 at the money pit...

Rick: There's
certainly cobble here.

Billy: We got to clear
it off a little more.

Narrator: ...Rick lagina,
along with members of the team,

continue investigating the
mysterious stone pathway

running along the eastern
border of the swamp.

Aaron: I like this area,
right here.

It's got cobblestone
and big stone.

- It hasn't been disturbed yet.
- Mm-hmm.

So,
just keep a diligent eye on that.

Little, wee pieces can
give us a lot of information.

Yeah.

So,
we clear this and just keep following it

and see where it takes us to.

Miriam: Yeah.

Aaron: I think that's our...
Our best strategy right now.

Miriam: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

- Oh! - You got an artifact?

Look at this.

Wow.

The oak island swamp,

archaeologist miriam amirault

has just found a
potentially important clue

on the recently
uncovered stone pathway.

Miriam: I think the reason
why we're finding coal

is because this is
potentially a stone path.

I think people were
transporting coal

along this road.

It's a rough road,

things would have fallen off
a cart or something like that.

I think we'll definitely
have enough

for dr. Spooner
to send off to a lab,

and we can get some really
good dates and information on that.

Aaron: So, that's a good sign.

- Miriam: Yeah. - Nice find.

- Cool.
- Why don't you call rick over and...

- He might be interested.
- Miriam: Okay.

Rick?

Do you want to
come look at this?

Rick: What have you got?

We found a piece of coal.

Wow.

I'm happy to see that.

- Miriam: Yeah.
- So, now we have a connection

from there to here.

- Aaron: Yeah.
- Yeah, hopefully.

Narrator: Earlier this year,
the team investigated

a rock formation
on nearby lot 15

that they believe could be
a british m*llitary pine tar kiln

that not only could date
back to the 16th century

but could also be
connected to the construction

of the original money pit.

Because charcoal was
also discovered there,

could they have now
found evidence that links

these two features together?

What we came here for,

however many years
ago it seems now,

we came looking to
solve a treasure mystery

and find treasure.

And now,
we're excited about finding coal on a road

- we knew nothing about. - Yeah.

- Miriam, show gary the connective tissue.
- Yeah, yeah.

- We just found this...
- (gary laughs)

- ...Piece of coal.
- Bit of coal.

- Yeah. It was right here.
- That is an oldie.

Well,
it'll be interesting to see,

when we get this coal tested,
you know, where it comes from.

- Yeah.
- We can get a country of origin.

- Miriam: Yeah.
- We always say the most insignificant little find,

and there, miriam's holding

a little piece of charcoal that,
in my mind's eye,

connects this and the building
of this with the stone feature.

I mean,
it's almost incontrovertible evidence.

Aaron: It's very compelling.

- Rick: Just keep digging.
- Absolutely.

Narrator: While rick
and members of the team

continue working in the swamp...

Marty: Lead the way, gary.

Gary: All right, mate. Cone e.

Narrator: ...Metal detection
expert gary drayton

joins marty lagina
on nearby lot 10

for a follow-up investigation
of an area that they believe

may also be connected
to the mysterious features

uncovered this
year in the swamp.

Cone e is one of the
five cone-shaped boulders

that make up the
megalithic formation

known as nolan's cross,
which was first discovered

in 1981 by the late treasure
hunter and landowner fred nolan.

Cone e, reveal your secrets.

Although,
it looks like been quite a bit of digging

- around this particular cone.
- Gary: Yep.

Doug: Good pile
of rocks right there.

Rick: They're somewhat fitted.

Narrator: Earlier this year,

after oak island theorists
corjan mol and chris morford

suggested something
of great value

might be located near this area,

rick,
marty and members of the team

discovered a stone-paved
feature that appears eerily similar

in design to the pathway on
the swamp's eastern border.

Ian: The stone on the side,
some of it fitted together

exactly the same
as the paved area.

Perfect.

Narrator: Now, marty and gary

are hoping to see if any more
clues can be found in this area

that might not only
provide potential answers

about nolan's cross,

but also any possible
connections it could have

to the workings recently
unearthed in the swamp.

- What I'll do, I'll just go around the boulder.
- Yep.

(detector whining)

we got some iron in there.

What's the best way to do this?

Probably from up above.

- Like, right here?
- Yeah. It's a tough one.

I think you got it out,
but I... Yep.

Let's see if I can pinpoint it.

A little hand-forged
ox shoe nail.

- Yeah?
- It's an oldie. Handmade.

- Marty: That's pretty cool.
- Narrator: An ox shoe nail,

found at the base of a
boulder in nolan's cross?

Could it possibly be connected
to the other ox shoe nails

and ox shoes that the
team has recently discovered

on and near the massive
stone pathway in the swamp?

Look,
oxen would have been required

to move that beast right there.

- A team of them. - Yeah.

- So, that makes sense. - Yeah.

That's a good find. Keep going.

I'll spiral around.

I think I might have just
got a signal just here.

(beeping)

it's just there, mate.

And the easiest place to
put it is down here again.

How come every time you
put a shovel in the ground,

every time, you hit a rock?

(grunts)

eh, who needs oxes, right?

(strains): That's right.

Gary: All right,
mate. I'll try pinpointing.

All right.

No surprises what
we think this is.

- Ox shoe nail. - Yep.

Hmm.

I am quite surprised
by the plethora

of ox shoe nails that
we find around cone e.

It leads to the thought:

Why are so many oxen
throwing their shoes

and losing nails
around this giant rock?

Ox shoe nail.

- You are correct, sir. - Yes!

Another one bites the dust.

- That is a heck of a lot of ox shoe nails.
- That is a lot.

- I have to say. - Yeah.

- And not only that, not just in one place.
- Yeah.

If they were all right there,
you'd say,

"well,
maybe they re-shoed an animal there,"

- but over here, too, and there, too, and there, too.
- Yeah.

It goes back to if there
was a lot of oxen here,

an oxen team,
that's some serious bucks.

- Yeah. Yeah, that's true.
- That-that would have been a heck of a lot of money

back in the day.

- And some serious pulling power, which you would need.
- Yeah.

Yeah.

Narrator: Could the discovery
of these ox shoe nails

mean that gary and marty
have just found key evidence

that whoever made the massive
stone pathway in the swamp

might also have
constructed nolan's cross?

- (stammers) -I think you've nailed it,
marty.

Yes.

Gary: That was brutal,
wasn't it?

Marty: Yeah.

♪ ♪

narrator: The following morning

in the money pit area...

Steve g.: I think
we got rick coming.

...Rick lagina and
doug crowell arrive,

having been alerted to a
potentially important discovery

just made in borehole c-5.

- Hey, rick. - Hey.

Right over here.

Take-take a little
look over there.

Walk around,
gentlemen. Get over there.

Take a look at
the new discovery.

I can see it from here.

- Terry: Got to love it.
- That's exciting.

Terry: You got to love it.

What's the depth?

79 feet here.

Terry: 79.

So, 77.5.

Steve g.: Picked a good hole.

Yeah.

Narrator: Old wood?

Is it possible the team has
found not only more evidence

of ancient man-made
workings deep underground

but also perhaps evidence
that they are closer than ever

to the legendary treasure?

Scott: We don't know
what it is... if it's part

of the original money pit

or is it part of a tunnel?

Doug: Great questions.

Ow if it's part of the
original money pit

or is it part of the tunnel
that goes to the money pit.

We just caught the edge of it.

The drill was coming
down on an angle.

Narrator: In borehole
c-5 in the money pit area,

the oak island team
has just retrieved

a piece of timber some

77 and a half feet
deep that they believe

could be connected to
the original treasure shaft

first discovered in 1795.

Wood at this location,

it-it certainly raises
a lot of questions.

The wood was
pretty deteriorated,

pretty dark-looking.

It's exciting in the sense
that we don't know what it is.

So,
we-we have some more drilling to do.

- What do we got? - 84.

84?

84 to the bottom.

(indistinct chatter)

doug: Whatever it is, looks like

it was really old
and really rotten.

- Yeah. - Charles: Yeah.

Scott: I thought we'd
make an assessment around

100 feet.

I don't know how
deep you want to go.

Rick: I know one thing.

We're going to
one... At least 118.

And you know why.

Debris field, baby!

- Debris field.
- As gary would say.

- Debris field. Shaft six.
- (chuckling)

narrator: In the summer of 1861,

searchers from the
oak island association

constructed a shaft
known as shaft six

18 feet west of the money pit,

down to a depth of 118 feet.

From there,
they began tunneling eastward,

with the plan of avoiding
the legendary flood traps

and retrieving the fabled
treasure vault from below.

The effort was a
disastrous failure

that nearly cost
two men their lives

when the shaft six tunnel
caused the money pit to collapse

in a barrage of rushing
seawater and scattered debris.

No valuables were recovered.

However,
one of the lucky survivors

made it back to the surface with a large,
yellow piece of a cask,

or keg barrel,

believed to have contained
part of the treasure.

I truly believe,

of all the information regarding
the 225-year exhaustive search

in the money pit,

the one that reads real to me

is the description of the
collapse in shaft six, 1861.

I've always felt that
looking for that debris field

is the way to prove the
story of the money pit.

If you found the debris field

and you found the
collapsed feature,

then, of course,
it's certainly a reason to believe

that we may be close
to the original money pit.

Is there wood in that?

- Yeah. - Nice.

We got more wood, guys.

Doug: Oh, I see it.

Steve g.: We got wood in this.

- Charles: More wood.
- Oh. Okay.

Right there.

- 89? - Yep. Right here.

Oh, yeah. You see,
that's what I'm talking about right there.

That's the kind of...

More of a stacked timber type of thing,
yeah.

- Soft wood. - Yeah, definitely

- kind of piney or sprucy smell.
- Yeah.

Terry: I say you've got a beam.

That's potentially a
support structure right there.

So, could that be the money pit?

At this point,
all things are possible,

but that right there
is a nice sharp break,

and it looks like a
support for the top

that's holding this
in situ material back.

It might actually
be the money pit.

Scott: The only way
we're ever gonna say

with confidence
it's the money pit is

if we bring
treasure up out of it.

Doug: You find the one thing,

and we're gonna pass it
around like the stanley cup.

- That's what's gonna happen.
- (laughter)

(squeaks, thumps)

narrator: Just as the team
has recovered more wood

in borehole c-5...

- Whoa! Whoa!
- ...Something has happened

to the sonic drill rig.

- Scott: Did you blow a hose?
- Tedford: Yep.

Scott: All right. We're
done for the day.

- Right on.
- Pick up in the morning where we left off.

Cool, cool.

So,
the guys just blew a hose over there.

They're gonna just change that,
so, that's gonna finish our day.

- Rick: That's it then.
- Scott: Yeah.

Charles: That's
oak island for you.

Narrator: While the team

from choice drilling
makes necessary repairs

to their drill rig,
later that afternoon...

Ian: Yeah, that's perfect.

Narrator: ...Rick
lagina has joined

geoscientist dr. Ian spooner,

craig tester,
gary drayton and billy gerhardt

in an attempt to uncover more

of the mysterious stone pathway

and search for
potentially important clues.

Ian: We're getting down

to that layer that
the road was built on.

Every scoop, we're going back
another hundred years in time.

Rick: Yeah,
you're in the peat now.

Ian: Yeah. Now we're
into the same stuff

they built the road on.

What are you hoping
to find in terms of trying

to figure out what has...
What has gone on here?

Ian: I mean, really what
we're looking for is an artifact.

- Rick: Yep.
- And finding coal is a big deal.

It gives us an indication

- of time and purpose.
- Rick: Yeah.

- That's what I'm looking for.
- Ah.

Ian: What I would do is,
instead of digging it,

have gary detect this layer

and see if he sees
anything down.

That peat layer is
contemporaneous with the road.

So if there's anything,
it's right in here to me.

- You want to whistle gary over?
- Yeah.

- Gary?! - Gary: Yep.

Maybe we should
detect this whole surface.

I agree with that.

I'm coming over.

Ian: The underwater road has

age on it, and it also has

about 20 inches of
sediment on top of it.

So,
that speaks to it being a little older.

It's really exciting and,
as usual, you know,

you go in there thinking
you've kind of got it figured out,

and you find something that is
completely new to everybody.

Ooh!

Very squidgy down here.

(detector beeping softly)

not hardly any of metal.

I'll try over here.

Rick: Hey, look at that!

Right here.

Check that out.

Gary: This is really unusual.

Rick: Hey, look at that! Cask.

Gary: Oh, that's what that is,
mate... bottom of a keg.

Narrator: Near the
eastern border of the swamp

and the stone pathway,
rick lagina has just

found a piece of a wooden cask,
or keg barrel.

Rick: Hey, guys.

Check that out. Top of a keg.

Ian: Wow.

So that's a keg. Lid to a keg?

- Rick: Yep. - How far down?

- Right there. - Ian: Holy crow.

That's very important.

The lower one is important

because it's going
to frost heave.

And everything. That's right
at the cultural level, right?

- Like, right at the...
- Pretty much...

Like, look at the amount
of mud we have over this.

Gary: Because it wasn't just
gunpowder they put in kegs.

It was all treasure coins,
as well.

Narrator: Could this piece of
a keg barrel be more evidence

that the stone pathway was
once used to haul heavy cargo...

Or as gary drayton
is suggesting,

treasure... onto oak island?

And if so, could it be connected

to the piece of the keg barrel

recovered from the
money pit in 1861?

Right here.

- Yeah, there's another one.
- Yeah, another piece.

Ian: Does this...?
Do these go together?

- Craig: This looks too rounded.
- Yeah, they're different, uh...

Craig: Different radiuses.

Ian: This is very
important. It's...

'cause this is down at the
bottom of this mud layer.

I think as we move
more towards that road,

we're gonna find
more and more stuff.

And I'm hoping we come
up with some more coal.

Yeah.

Rick: Well,
we should get some answers

from these two pieces.

I think there's some information
to be gleaned from them.

Might they indicate
a-a certain type

of tool,
I.E. A certain type of cultural influence?

I think the thing
to do at this point is

not to speculate about the

why they're there or how
they came to be there.

I very much look forward
to whatever chemical

analysis could be done.

It's all about the
application of science.

We should get some
answers from these two pieces.

Should we bag this?

Because what if there is

- a chemical trace here? - Yeah.

Because it's not... Look
at how distinctly different...

Ian: Right.

Rick: Yeah,
why-why don't we do that?

Ian: I'll get a bag.

I mean, this-this little piece
could tell us some things.

Craig: Hopefully,
it tells a story.

Rick: Hopefully,
there's more in there

that'll tell a-a better story.

Craig: A better
story and quicker.

(rick laughs)

narrator: The following day,

some 50 miles north of
oak island at northville farm...

Doug: We found a
couple of what look like keg

or barrel tops in the swamp.

We're going to take
them up to carmen legge

to have him take a look
at them because we know,

as a blacksmith,
he often fashions

such things as barrel
hoops and whatnot.

So, he's gonna be familiar with these,
I think.

It's going to be interesting
to get his opinion, at least.

Hey, carmen.

Narrator: ...Doug crowell and
scott barlow arrive at the shop

of blacksmithing
expert carmen legge.

We do have a couple artifacts.

Doug: Can you venture to
put a date on "extremely old"?

Doug: Right.

Narrator: The keg
barrel found in the swamp

dating back as far as the 1400s?

Marty: What do we got?

Craig: 95% sure

this is what it is.

1492 to 1662.

- Medieval, baby! - (laughs)

narrator: Could it be related
to not only the keg barrel

found in the money pit in 1861,

but also the leather boot heel

discovered by the oak
island team in borehole 8-b,

which dated to as early as 1492?

If so,
then who brought it to oak island?

Where did they come from?

And just what did
they bring with them?

This was found on the
east bank of the swamp.

Scott: So, I mean if...

If they were transporting
things up or down that hillside,

you know,
it could have easily got pushed off

as time went on in the swamp.

Doug: But you think dry goods?

You know what else is dry? Gold.

- Doug: Yeah. - (laughs)

doug: That's true. That's true.

It doesn't come in liquid form.

Well,
that's really interesting because

if this is the same date
range... 1400 to 1720... I mean,

it corresponds with a lot
of the dates we're finding

on other parts of the island,
other artifacts.

The question is,
does it indicate

someone... One
period of activity

where someone came,
did what they had to do and left?

Or was there a
longer occupation?

Doug: Well,
that's all we have for you today,

but I know we're
gonna have more.

Doug: We'll be back. Thank you,
sir.

- Hey doug. Scott.
- Hey marty. -Hey marty.

Did you have a chance
to talk to carmen legge?

Doug: Yeah, we were out there

the other day, scott and I.

Uh, what'd you find out?

Let me get the pieces of wood,
and we'll tell you.

You're going to find it interesting,
I think.

Narrator: After
returning to oak island

from their trip
to northville farm,

doug crowell and
scott barlow meet up

with marty lagina in
the research center.

Doug: Well,
we showed the two cask tops to carmen.

He had two different
things to say about them.

- So, of these two pieces...
- Right.

He said they were
for different purposes.

Scott: This was for dry goods.

And he made that assessment based on,
you know,

the density of the wood,
the type of the wood...

- Marty: Mm-hmm.
- ...And the edge.

Yeah, okay, and, how old?

Potentially, he said,

- it could be 1400s. - Really?

Doug: Up into the mid-1700s.

The curious thing he said,
scott, was that this

isn't workmanship that would
have been done in nova scotia.

- Scott: Yeah. - Those dates.

Which means if we get

a definitive carbon
date range on this...

- Yeah, at least we can eliminate that, can't we? Yeah.
- Right.

And this piece,
he said we could get tested.

We could probably
find out what was in it.

Really?

The keg tops that came

out of the swamp are-are

extremely interesting to me.

It's way out of place.

According to carmen legge,
who knows his stuff,

is very, very old.

We'll have to see who might
be able to tell us the chemistry.

Marty: Cool. That's
good. I like this.

It's just something that I'm
interested in anyway, you know?

It's all part of trying
to pin down the activity

around the swamp
and on that stone road.

- All right, we'll get that taken care of.
- Okay, that's excellent work.

- See you, guys.
- Doug: Take care, marty.

Narrator: Later that afternoon

- in the money pit...
- Terry: We got to drill.

Drill, baby, drill.

...Despite the harsh
north atlantic storm front

that has just moved in,

geologist terry matheson,

scott barlow and
charles barkhouse

continue to oversee
the drilling operation

in borehole c-5,
where one day ago

they obtained evidence
of a possible tunnel

some 77 and a half feet deep.

We should have some
of that finely bedded,

dark charcoal stuff
somewhere up in there.

That's a pretty good section

from 83 to 89 right there.

We're definitely in situ here.

We're not...

This isn't backfill.

I would more or less trust that.

And that,
much less... Must less so.

It's been passed through
and then comes in,

and then as they go down,
they ring the exterior,

and you have the central portion

full of loose,
washed gravel and whatnot.

So, anyway, I trust this.

That's...

We've already seen that.

I'm surprised you guys
aren't blowing away

off in the woods somewhere.

- Well, we're at the windiest spot on oak island.
- Really.

So, what do we got here, guys?

Terry: Bit of a bit blocker.

It's in no way as dense
as till normally gets.

Narrator: Because the soil in
this core sample is less dense

than geologist terry matheson
believes it naturally should be,

it could be evidence that the
team has once again encountered

man-made workings.

The question now is whether
it's from past searchers,

or from someone
who came before them.

Let's see what this one shows.

So, we're starting to look
for the intersection point

of that tunnel.

This next intersection

will tell the tale: Are
we gonna hit that tunnel,

or are we gonna go off
to the left or right of it?

I got it. I got it.

You got it?

- 119. - Terry: Super.

Charles: I'm gonna run
the metal detector over this.

Terry: Very good.

Crumbly.

Terry: Some in situ
material undisturbed at depth.

Clear.

Rick: Okay, well,
I think the consensus,

you know, we got to 118,
our target depth.

This is quite obvious
that we're done

- in this hole and move to the next one.
- Okay.

Narrator: The team has completed

another productive borehole in c-5,
once again encountering

what they believe could
be an ancient tunnel

that is possibly connected
to the original money pit.

Perhaps the next hole
on their new drill grid

will finally lead to
the ultimate discovery

that people have
sought for 225 years.

- See ya. - See ya later.

Terry: I think we should call it a day,
charles.

Charles: Let's go
somewhere where it's warm.

Narrator: Before the close
of another day on oak island...

You know, I'm grateful

that everyone's around
the w*r room table...

...Rick and marty lagina,

along with members
of their team,

have gathered to hear an
important scientific report

from dr. Ian spooner.

We've all spent,
around this table,

we've all spent significant time

in the swamp,
and certainly this year,

the archaeologists,
in particular,

have spent a
considerable amount of time

in the swamp.

And so dr. Spooner
is going to give us

a breakdown of the analysis

and what he feels is, uh,

the important aspects
of the coal finds.

So, um...

I'll turn it over to you,
uh, dr. Spooner.

Yeah, yeah, I'm kind of...

I'm kind of excited
to talk about the coal.

I mean, we've all seen it,
and, um, most people here

have been part of
gathering some of it up.

I can't pass coal to
you folks out there,

but I'm gonna pass some

around here... So
just pass it around,

so everybody has a piece of this

as we go... Go through this.

I'm not sure if
everybody's handled it.

To me, it's the most significant
artifact we have on the road.

All right!

Oom,

dr. Ian spooner is presenting
his analysis of the coal

found along the stone pathway

on the eastern border
of the oak island swamp.

Ian: We found a lot of
neat things. A ringbolt.

Uh, we found some pottery.

But the coal is probably
the most significant find,

because it has the
potential to answer

some of the who and the why.

If I can take it apart

and figure out the
pollen and the spores

that are in there,
I can figure out

the age of it,

and I can also figure
out geographically

where it came from.

Doug: It's almost as good

- as a fingerprint.
- Well put. And so,

on the first slide...

What's critical here
is the sulfur content.

It's very low.

It's 1.12 as received.

And that is odd.

For instance, in nova scotia,
our coal generally averages

around three to four percent.

This is what we call low sulfur

subbituminous a coal.

We don't have a lot
of this in nova scotia.

So, next slide.

But you do get this kind
of low sulfur coal in europe.

These are the
european coal fields.

There's coal in Spain,
all through eastern europe,

czechoslovakia, bulgaria.

We also get it in England,

scotland...

And wales.

Wow.

Jack: This sounds like

this could be the
science to literally...

Put a stamp on who
built the road and who...

Who was doing work on
the island in the early 1700s.

Ian: Let's just say this
turns out to be spanish coal.

Does that mean the
spanish were here?

Not necessarily.

It could be the british who
bought the spanish coal

and used it here.

It could be the french
who bought spanish coal

and brought it here.

But we know who was
buying what coal at that time.

We have to go into
archives to figure that out.

So I think we really,
with this coal, have the ability

to say who built the road

and why they were bringing coal.

Right.

Where do we go from here?

Can you tee up
these spore studies?

- Pollen studies? - Absolutely.

Great. And what kind
of time for feedback

do you anticipate for that?

(exhales sharply) months.

Yeah, okay. I figured.

Ian: Yeah.

Craig: I'm looking
forward to the results

of a more detailed
analysis of the coal.

That'll be real interesting to
see where this coal came from,

and hopefully we can
narrow it down greatly.

But I understand sometimes
you just get large regions.

So we'll see what happens.

Yeah. Best we can do.

- Sounds good. - Ian: Okay.

That's an excellent

presentation,
ian. Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Rick: You know,
it's incremental, this...

This discovery process.

But we've learned over the years

that the only way to
solve oak island is to...

Wrap it in the
arms of real science

and real professionals and real academics,
and...

We thank you for your efforts,

because... Just that.

Look at,
look at what has come of just that.

- It's amazing. So... - Yeah.

I'm very grateful.

Marty: We've been
incrementally attacking this thing,

because it is apparent that

that's what's required.

We're putting more
money and resources

and time into the island,

and so, you know, um,
as long as it's prudent,

we're gonna keep at it,
and we'll keep upping the ante

until we get it done.

Time to go to work.

I agree. Billy's
got the right idea.

Narrator: Another week
has come to an end

on oak island.

But with it has also come

new promise for rick,
marty, craig and their team

that they are closer
than ever to solving

a 225-year-old treasure mystery.

♪ ♪

although some of
the answers they seek

will require them
to remain patient,

their will and determination to
keep moving forward every day,

no matter what
challenges they face,

may soon deliver the ultimate...

Reward.

Next time on the
curse of oak island...

Marty: Something
massive was occurring

well before the
discovery of the money pit.

That looks exactly
like an old roman road.

Hey, craig,
I found a piece of leather strap.

Ship's log or
something like that

- was made with a leather strap.
- Wow.

The money pit can only be here.

That is the only
place it can be.

This is the top of a
tunnel. Not maybe.

This wood was from 1648.

It seems like we
found our money pit.

Yeah!