05x04 - Close Call

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NARRATOR: Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island.

This is my brother,
Rick Restall.

-MARTY: He's coming back
to the island. -Welcome back.

RICK: The Restalls said
there was a spiral staircase.

Oh, there's something!

-What is it?
-It's the end of a g*n.

-TERRY: He's in a void.
-Could be the spiral tunnel.

MARTY: We're closing in.
We're close.

RICK:
And now we're at the cusp

of proving this story.

-(expl*si*n)
-Holy (bleep)!

-RICK: Somebody got hurt.
-You get close,

then all of a sudden
something happens.

Oak Island strikes back.

NARRATOR: There is an island
in the North Atlantic

where people have been looking
for an incredible treasure

for more than years.

So far, they have found
bits of gold chain,

a stone slab with strange
symbols carved into it...

even a th century
Spanish coin.

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.


After a week
that saw the Oak Island team

overcome a number
of frustrating obstacles...

"Metal detecting is acceptable

"as long as we are very clear
this does not include excavation

or removal of objects."

This is really bad.

This is shutting down

-the whole island.
-The whole island.

...the business
of trying to solve

a -year-old treasure mystery
has finally returned to normal.

Where are we?
Where are we, though?

Oh, right here.

Supposedly in the middle
of the Chappell Shaft.

Today, Rick Lagina,
along with Dave Blankenship

and island historian
Charles Barkhouse,

are overseeing
the team's progress

on their extensive search
to find the original Money Pit.

We go at it systematically like
we're doing, we can't miss it.

But I think
we stay the course and...

and work that area there.

To date, of some
six-inch-wide boreholes

have been drilled using what is
known as the Geotech method.

It is hoped that by drilling
a large number

of these
strategically placed holes

down to depths
of as much as feet,

the team will-- after carefully
sifting through the spoils

and then metal-detecting
the holes--

be able to find evidence of the
original Oak Island Money Pit.

We went through a section of...

the Chappell Shaft,

with the wood cribbing
on the side,

probably the south side,
I would guess.

Today the team is drilling down
to what they believe

is the site of what is known
as the Chappell Shaft,

a searcher shaft
dug in the s

by M.R. Chappell,

the son of famed
Oak Island treasure hunter

William Chappell.

By drilling into and then past
the Chappell Shaft,

the team believes they will
be able to find the location

of the so-called
"Chappell Vault,"

the mysterious
seven-foot-tall wooden box

that William Chappell
first discovered in .

A target object
that might contain anything

from pirate treasure

to priceless religious
and cultural artifacts.

RICK:
We find the original Money Pit,

and at that point,

we can unleash the hounds,
if you will--

expose the actual works of
a -year-old treasure hunt.

The Money Pit is nothing
but an educated guess.

-So we hit bedrock.
-Where are we at?

We're at .

Well, I don't know
if Terry wants information

down at bedrock--
let me just check.

-Terry? They're at bedrock.
- , Terry.

-Yeah.
- .

-Do you want to case down
to ? -That's pretty deep.

So that's well below
our to .

-Then you're advocating for...
to stop. -Stop.

It's a consensus
of opinion here.

Let me give Craig a call
and tell him.

NARRATOR: Because the drill bit
has struck bedrock at feet,

feet deeper
than the last known location

of the Chappell Vault,

further drilling in this hole
now seems pointless.

RICK:
We're fine, we're done.

But because the hole
had held such high promise,

I decided I'd call Craig
and get his confirmation

that we should, uh...
cease operations.

-Hello?
-Yeah, Craig,

we're in the second hole
in the Chappell Shaft.

-We hit...
-Uh-huh.

...we hit bedrock
at right around feet.

Terry's advocating maybe
we should cease on that hole.

Terry.

Ivan just warned me
that he hit a void.

-He's hit a void, for sure?
-For sure, yeah.

That would have to be me,

'cause I'm known to her.

-You know, she may...
-Okay.

-she may be disinclined,
then, at some point... -Rick.

Hang on. Terry's here.

Rick, we, uh,
Ivan says he went into a void.

At , he went into some rock,

and then at , about ,
he dropped into a void.

Yeah. That changes things.

It changes things quite a bit.

I just think we keep going here
on this one.

-Let's get him going, then.
-Yeah. Okay?

So, we'll, uh,
we'll leave it at that.

We'll just roll on that, okay?
See you later, Craig.

RICK:
Ivan tells Terry

that we've broken through
into a void.

And, of course... then game on.

NARRATOR: Encountering a void
below the bedrock

offers a significant
development

for the Oak Island team.

It could indicate the existence
of an underground cave,

possibly one that is man-made.

We've been in an open void
since, uh...

we had a minor void,
uh, to .

And then we went
into a second void of

-down to depth right now,
which is . -Wow.

How high is that void?

It's at least about feet.

NARRATOR:
A second void...

some feet tall

and more than feet
below ground?

Could the Oak Island team

really be dealing
with a natural formation,

or something quite different?

What is it?

Could it be that spiral tunnel
the Restalls believed was there?

Could we be hitting that?

-What else can it be?
-I don't know.

There's no other shaft
goes that deep.

No searcher shaft
that we know of.

Something's down there.

In , Robert Restall
and his wife Mildred,

a couple who had gained
international notoriety

as motorcycle daredevils,

decided to move
with their two young sons

to Oak Island, and there,
pursue Robert's dream

of finding
an enormous treasure.

I feel that the treasure is here
and that we can get it,

and we're going to stay here
until we do.

But the Oak Island of the s

was not the same one
seen today.

It was desolate and primitive.

There were no permanent
structures or homes

on the island.

There was no electricity.

No running water.

There was also no causeway

connecting the island
to the mainland.

All comings and goings
had to be by boat.

The wife has had
a little rough... time here.

Well, I don't think
it's been too rough, really.

It's been hard
to adjust to at first.

NARRATOR:
For six years,

the Restalls braved
these harsh conditions,

all the while doing extensive
investigations at Smith's Cove,

in the swamp,

and at the site
of the Money Pit,

where, in ,
Robert Restall reported

drilling through a series
of mysterious voids

separated by layers of bedrock.

This discovery led him
to the astonishing conclusion

that he was not drilling
through a natural formation,

but through a man-made,
spiral-shaped tunnel.

They got into a part of it.

They would drill, they'd go in,

they'd go out of it,
in and out of it.

That's why they believed
that there was a spiral one

that led down
into an offset treasure chamber.

That-that was their belief.

Unfortunately, Robert Restall
would never live long enough

to complete his investigation.

On August , ,

while exploring a flooded,
-foot-deep searcher shaft

at Smith's Cove,
Robert Restall,

along with his son, Bobby Jr.,

and two other men,

d*ed tragically after being
overcome by deadly H S gas.

The event sent shockwaves
throughout Nova Scotia

and fueled rumors
of a deadly curse.

Not surprisingly,
Robert Restall's wife, Mildred,

and the couple's
youngest son, Richard,

quickly left the island,
and rarely looked back.

CHARLES:
A piece of wood right there.

That's that cut again. Look.

Got that same beveled cut.

Do you think it's an a*?

I mean, it kind of looks
like a low-angle a*.

I mean, it's got
a nice cross-grain cut.

NARRATOR:
a*-cut wood?

Found buried
nearly feet underground?

-Let's find this.
-Yeah.

How's it going?

-Whoa.
-Holy (bleep).

RICK:
Somebody got hurt.

NARRATOR: It is a tense
and harrowing moment

at the Oak Island Money Pit

as Rick Lagina and members
of the Brewster Drilling team

rush to help
injured crewmember

Max Williamson
after an expl*si*n

at the drill rig.

-Okay, now, just stay
right there. -You okay?

-Geez, (bleep). -Lay down.
-Ah, just stay right there.

Just stay right there.

(groans)
My leg might be (bleep).

Calm down for a second.
We're gonna get you checked out.

-Yeah, you're really...
-Oh, my (bleep).

Just-just stay right here
for now.

Don't put any weight on that.

-Get out here.
-That's what we're doing.

-Oh! -Hold on, hold on.
-Can you bend it, or...?

RICK:
Running over there,

he's laying
in a prone position.

(groans)

His arm appears
to be at an awkward angle.

His pants are ripped.

Your first thought is, you know,
how badly is he injured?

KYLE:
He's got a broken wrist.

Bad contusion on his leg.

(groans)

TERRY:
Safety glasses saved your eyes.

(exhales)

(both laugh)

That's not the positive way
to look at it.

Man down.

DAVE:
There it is now.

CHARLES:
Oh, here it is. Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Fortunately, it is not long

before paramedics
arrive on site

to determine the extent
of Max's injuries.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Oh.

You're good. Whoa.

-You okay?
-Yeah, yeah.

NARRATOR:
Although it is their assessment

that his life
is not under thr*at,

the paramedics
will transport Max

to a nearby hospital
for further examination

and to monitor his condition.

The extreme nature

of both the incident
and Max's injuries

has prompted Rick
to call his brother, Marty,

who is away on business
in Michigan.

Uh, we had an accident
here on site.

Max got hurt.

Hose blew out,
blew off the coupling.

And, uh, hit him,

knocked him backwards.

He's got a large contusion
on his knee,

but he's somewhat mobile,
I believe.

But he may have
a fractured wrist, I think.

-So we called the ambulance.
-All right.

They came, got him.

Uh, we're certainly shut down

until we figure out
the mechanics

of what-what happened.

Right.

Right.

And that's why we need
to stay off the-the work area.

When you're going around it,

you walk around, not over them.

I mean, I can't tell you
how many times

all of us have stepped over
that same hose.

Yep. Okay.

Just wanted to let you know.

All right. See you.

RICK:
The seriousness of it

and what it might have been

has certainly made us
much more aware of the...

of the safety issues
involving this-this process.

It sobered us up, if you will.

The real lesson
is how do we deal

with that in the future?

Have to deal with it,
absolutely.

You know, maybe it was
an absolute worst-case scenario.

When she blew, she blew.

RICK: It was a violent,
violent scene.

You know, he went over there,

he probably bent down to-to...

pull the hose away, and boom.

Yeah, I can see a few changes

I want to make...
make here for sure

before we... before we
do anything else right now.

'Cause we don't want this
to happen again.

TERRY:
Absolutely.

(wind whistling)

That's how it...

that's how it ended up,
right there.

RICK:
We're now currently shut down,

and then we have the issue
of making sure

that this doesn't happen again.

May take several hours.
May take several days.

It doesn't matter.
It will get done.

NARRATOR:
The next day, while Rick Lagina

and the team
from Brewster Drilling

work to determine
the cause of the accident...

All right, let's just dig
some decent signals.

...Jack Begley,

along with Rick and Marty's
nephew Peter Fornetti

and metal detection expert
Gary Drayton,

are continuing their search
of the area

on the eastern tip
of Oak Island

known as Isaac's Point.

Still a bit dead.

NARRATOR: It is the same area
where just one week ago

the team found a curiously cut
th century Spanish coin.

(metal detector beeps)

That's a little,
small piece of iron.

If it was good iron,

-it would be, you know,
a stronger signal. -Yep.

Right. So, hopefully
this is a hot little area.

(metal detector beeping)

Oh, there's something.

Unfortunately,
it's not very deep.

(long, continuous beep)

-Do you want me to see
if you got it out? -Yeah.

-I didn't.
-(metal detector beeping)

Okay. (chuckles)

-What is it?
-It's the end of a g*n.

It's the end of a g*n.

But, like, a play g*n.

(chuckles)

Yeah, you're right.
It's a toy g*n.

It's the end of a toy g*n.
You're exactly right.

Well, that's a first.

All right, let me just check it.

-(metal detector beeping)
-JACK: There's more?

-Yeah.
-PETER: The rest of it.

Could have the, uh, the handle.

(metal detector beeping)

-(laughs)
-It is.

-We found a g*n, lads.
-(all laugh)

We found the handle of the g*n,

and I put the barrel up to it

and went, "Hey, look,
here's the whole thing."

-What make is it?
-Sure-sh*t.

NARRATOR: Coveted in the heyday
of TV westerns

like Hopalong Cassidy,

Roy Rogers and Wyatt Earp,

Hubley Sure-sh*t c g*ns
were hugely popular

among kids growing up
in the s and early s.

But as there were
virtually no children

living on Oak Island
during this period,

how did a toy g*n manage
to find its way

to this remote spot?

JACK:
This should go in the museum.

GARY: I wonder who lost it.
Some kiddie lost it.

You can imagine
probably Dave or Dan

running around
playing cowboys and Indians.

-Probably.
-That goes in my good pocket.

-I think it's... Yeah, I think
it's a good find. -(all laugh)

NARRATOR: Across the island,
in the w*r Room,

Rick Lagina and Charles
Barkhouse take advantage

of the break in drilling
operations to revisit

their Geotech grid strategy.

There's a little bit
of good news here.

I think we've got, certainly,
some stand-down time.

I think we laid it out,

but it was months ago
when we had laid that out.

And now we have some more
information,

we have a greater understanding
of the areas of interest.

NARRATOR:
Although decades of exploratory

drilling and excavation

had given the team
a pretty good understanding

of which searcher tunnels and
shafts exist belowground,

only the Geotech method
can help them pinpoint

their exact locations
and orientations.

So far, the spoils retrieved
from the Geotech boreholes

have suggested that a new
drilling strategy is in order,

as well as an increase
in the total number of holes

from targets
to more than .

Nevertheless,
there are limits,

both in time and,
of course, money.

Given the fact that based upon
some of the information

from the one-third of the grid
we've currently completed,

we have significant interest
in certain areas.

We can't just keep expanding
the grid exponentially.

As you can see, Hedden Shaft,
outlined here,

Chappell Shaft outlined here,

and we've got the drill
platform outlined here.

And yet this area, we have
very few holes designated there.

-Mm-hmm. -This area, I'd say,
from the G-line over...

-Right.
-down to GAL right here,

-Mm-hmm.
-and then over and across,

probably within
that -foot grid...

we have nothing.

And I intend to see...

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

-RICK: How you doing?
-Good, good.

So, I was out on Isaac's Point
with Gary and Peter,

and we found something, um...

it's odd, but kind of cool.

A toy p*stol.

RICK:
A toy g*n.

-That's... different.
-Gary believes

it's from probably
the s or ' s,

somewhere in that range,
based upon the make of the g*n.

You can see
the brand name on there.

You know, when you mention
the age, the period,

I mean, uh...

how can you not suspect that
this might be Ricky Restall's?

NARRATOR: The youngest son of
treasure hunter Robert Restall,

Richard Restall--
known at the time as Ricky--

was only nine years old

when his family moved
to Oak Island in .

Because he was too young

to assist his father
and older brother, Bobby Jr.,

in their search for treasure,
he spent much of his childhood

with his mother, Mildred,

helping with household chores
and playing by himself.

My thought immediately was:

I'll bet that had to do
with the Restalls.

RICK:
The youngest Restall, Ricky,

was a young boy at the time.

I can imagine him
playing out in the fields,

and he loses that p*stol.

"Sure-sh*t," it says.
Right there.

Mm-hmm.

Got a little star on it.

-It certainly would be amazing
if that was his. -Mm-hmm.

It's remarkable. Little piece
of history sitting there.

And you know how I feel
about the history of this place.

-Yeah. -Me, too.
-And here's the other thing.

I got a call from Lee Lamb
the other day.

She has expressed interest
in coming back to the island

to see the finished
Visitors' Center.

Oh, wow.
Be nice to see her again.

RICK:
Absolutely.

NARRATOR:
During the nearly six years

her parents and two brothers
spent living and working

on Oak Island,

Lee Lamb, the eldest of
the Restall's three children,

was already married and raising
a family of her own.

Although she was not present

on the day
her father and brother d*ed,

her life has been
forever shaped by the tragedy.

In ,
she wrote a book entitled

Oak Island Family: The Restall
Hunt for Buried Treasure.

Thank you.

She has also made regular trips
to Oak Island

to provide
important information

about her father
and brother's progress,

and to share
her father's stated belief

that he was on the verge
of a major breakthrough

just days before the accident
that claimed his life

and that of her brother
and two coworkers.

These are Bobby's journals.

Lee is the custodian,
if you will,

of all
of the Restall information

garnered over the years--
the maps, the photographs,

all of the information
that they gathered.

Maybe she'll remember
whether or not

-Ricky had that.
-Exactly. Absolutely.

-Thanks, Jack.
-Great find, man.

-Yeah, really.
-Great find.

NARRATOR: Two days
after the sudden expl*si*n

at the Geotech drill site,

Rick and Marty Lagina, along
with their friend and partner

Craig Tester,
are heading to the Money Pit

to meet with the team
from Brewster Drilling.

MARTY:
Well, it just underscores...

I mean, really,
it brings to mind

that Oak Island
is a dangerous place.

I mean, what we're doing
involves heavy equipment,

high pressures, cavities,
unknowns...

It's inherently dangerous.

NARRATOR:
They are eager to learn

what caused
the near-fatal accident...

Whoa!

...and to find out
about the condition

of driller Max Williamson.

(groans)

Marty and I were gone when the
accident happened at the rig.

So we're eager
to get out there,

find out how Max is doing
and then what went wrong

and lastly, what do we do
to correct that problem?

MARTY:
We need to kind of take

a deep breath and say,
"What does this teach us

about how we go forward," right?

-Absolutely.
-All right, well,

I hope Max is fine.

We'll find out right now.

I've been involved
in a lot of heavy industries

my whole career.

There's always the chance, when
you got people and materials

and heavy equipment,
for an injury.

So all these things
are going through my mind

when I come out here
to the island.

Not thinking
about anything else, really.

Not thinking about treasure,

not thinking about progress
on these holes.

Just thinking about getting
this safety issue behind us.

Nice to see you, Kyle.

-I want to know about Max first.
-Yeah.

How's he doing?

Well, they discharged him from
hospital : Friday night.

Radiologist called back
the next day,

said that there was
actually a small fracture

in his right wrist.

But none of the things that you
worry about, neck, head...

-No.
-What about his knee?

I mean, that was a huge
contusion on the knee.

KYLE: Yeah, he's
a little tender there.

Swelling came down on that,
though.

You know, when something goes
wrong, it goes wrong badly.

-(laughs) So....
-And quickly.

-And quickly.
-Exactly.

You know, it's Oak Island, too.

I mean, we-we were talking
about that on the way over here.

You know, what we're doing
here is, it's dangerous stuff.

Yeah.

So I'm relieved that no one
was k*lled.

No one was hurt
in a permanent sense.

I think there are things we can
do to prevent it in the future.

A whole bunch of things
occurred at once

to cause that line to fail.

And if it fails, it's going
to fail pretty dramatically.

NARRATOR: As each borehole
is drilled, high-pressure air

circulates what is known
as mixing mud:

a combination of water
and mud-making dry chemicals.

This stabilizes the pressure
in the drill rig

to force the cuttings,
or spoils it produces,

up to the surface where it is
separated out by hand.

However, if debris from these
spoils, such as wood or clay,

build up in the rig's
high-pressure hose,

it can explode
with bone-crushing force.

KYLE:
This plugged, that plugged.

It's a combination of things
that really led

to failing one
of the hoses, so...

Right.

RICK: When the hose separated
from the coupling,

that allowed this
to snake off the hose.

Yeah, this is a,
this is a safety, right?

-Yeah.
-The coupling, the coupling.

This is designed...
if the coupling releases,

this-this holds
the two couplings together?

-Right.
-Yeah, exactly.

But even without the coupling,
it should choke it.

Yeah, that-that should,
that should, you know,

if there's enough energy
in that hose and it lets go,

that should, that should snug up
against the hose.

And I mean in this, in this
scenario, it didn't.

-Mm-hmm.
-Mm.

MARTY: So, what are you going
to do different?

KYLE: Yeah, we're gonna,
we're gonna change over

to a different style
of-of restraint.

So that'll be a-a whip sock.

-So that-that's going
to act more like a... -Yeah.

Yeah, 'cause like you put that
there and just pull on that.

-Like a finger trap. -MARTY:
Just get, just gets tighter.

Just tighter and tighter.

You can't... the hose,
the hose has nowhere to go.

NARRATOR:
By using a stronger cable

to secure the connection
between hoses,

the Brewster Drilling team
will be able

to safely resume
Geotech operations.

In the funny way
the world works, then,

-we can count our blessings
on this. -Yeah.

And I'm really glad Max is, you
know, sounds like he'll be fine.

Yeah.

I think we move forward
more intelligently.

Our main priority and the
biggest part of our discussion

was about safety,
but once we got that behind us,

and new protocols in place,
and the paperwork filled out,

it's time to go to work.

So, how long
to make your changes,

Kyle, you know, to get this
to where you're happy with it

and we get back to drilling?

What are we looking at?

-I think a week, I would say.
-Oh, great.

KYLE: We'll be ready
to hit the ground running.

It's just... want to make sure
everything is in place

before we get started.

Okay, good. That was good.

-Thanks, guys.
-All right.

NARRATOR: As the drilling team
outfits their rig

with the new safety equipment,
Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with members
of the Oak Island team,

have gathered
to greet Lee Lamb,

the oldest child of legendary
Oak Island treasure hunters

Robert and Mildred Restall.

-Charles!
-Gentlemen.

NARRATOR:
But Lee is not alone.

Today, she has
brought with her

someone who has not been to the
island in more than years...

MARTY:
Hello, Lee. Hello.

Hi, how are you?

NARRATOR: ...someone
Rick and Marty Lagina

have been eager to meet.

I brought you a present.

Wow.

This is my brother,
Rick Restall.

CRAIG:
Oh. (laughs)

NARRATOR: This is a huge moment
in the history of Oak Island,

as brothers
Rick and Marty Lagina

and members of their team

meet face-to-face
with Richard Restall,

one of the only
living witnesses

to that fateful day in

that saw the tragic deaths
of both his father and brother

and two of the men
who tried to rescue them.

I'm Marty Lagina.
Nice to meet you.

Yes, sir. Rick's brother?

I've, uh, seen you
in some of the pictures.

MARTY: It was real interesting
to meet Ricky,

that's what we know him as,
Ricky Restall,

because in our minds' eye,
he's an, he's an eight-year old,

running around this island.

That's how we know him
from the literature.

So here comes a guy who's
actually a contemporary of ours.

And he is the real
Rick Restall, grown up.

Hi, Lee.

Hi, how are you?

Good. Nice to see you again.

NARRATOR: Although in recent
years Lee Lamb has become

a relatively regular visitor
to the island,

Richard Restall has returned
to Oak Island only once before,

during a memorial ceremony held

on the th anniversary
of the tragedy.

It's amazing
to have Ricky with me.

After the accident, he wouldn't
talk about Oak Island,

and so I respected that
and didn't press him for it.

And it's just nice
that he's got to the point

where he's ready to do this,

ready to be here.

I thought it might be time
to deal with, uh,

what-what came up when
my father and my brother d*ed,

and we left the island.

Uh, it was kind of a sudden
and unplanned departure,

so in some ways, uh,
I've never left the island.

Well, welcome back.

-Thank you.
-Yeah, you're welcome.

So, what we'd like to show you
is the museum.

Great. Wonderful.
I was hoping.

RICK:
We've got what we think is

a wonderful display
of the years of search, and

you know, the Restall era,
of course, we have paid

significant
and particular attention to.

And, uh, we're trying
to pay respect to the people

that have come before us.

The Restall family played

a very prominent role
in the history of the search.

And to welcome Lee
and her brother Ricky back...

They have
an intimate connection here.

-Why don't we go in and take a
look? -Let's have a look. -Yeah.

RICK:
No one suffered more.

-Uh...
-Sacrificed more.

Yeah, had put more of themselves
into this search.

Plus, whenever they come back,
we usually learn something.

Mm-hmm.

LEE:
Thank you.

Wow.

-Here you go.
-Some place.

Great.

NARRATOR:
Built by the Laginas

and their partners
two years ago,

The Oak Island
Interpretation Center

houses an ever-expanding
collection of artifacts

and evidence of treasure

discovered
by the Oak Island team

and their predecessors

throughout the centuries-long
treasure hunt.

It is a place where thousands
of visitors each year

can experience firsthand
the -year-old mystery

and the history
it has inspired.

RICK:
So, Lee and Rick,

there's one more area
in the museum that

we have singularly dedicated
to telling the Restall story,

-and that's right over here.
-Mm.

MARTY:
Let's go have a look.

LEE:
Great.

MARTY: This whole corner,
as you'll see,

-is the Restall corner.
-Yeah.

MARTY: It's a key part
of the museum, and your family's

-a key part
of the history. -Right.

LEE:
That's Bobby.

And there's a picture
of your mother holding

the stone, Lee.

LEE:
Yes, definitely. Well, and

-Ricky found it, so...
-Oh, you found that stone?

I was with my mother
when, uh... when the stone

-turned up in a pile
of washings. -MARTY: Oh, okay.

NARRATOR:
Although rarely involved

in his family's
treasure-hunting activities,

Richard Restall is credited,
along with his mother,

with making one of his family's
most significant discoveries--

a rounded stone found
at Smith's Cove,

on which the numbers
one, seven,

zero and four are carved,

indicating either a date,
or possibly a code.

This is Ricky

in your red shirt
and your bug gear.

-And that's Mom.
-RICKY: Yeah. Yeah.

You really picked
the right things, all of it.

That's fantastic.

I just want to say
that I'm really pleased that

-my brother's original maps
are on the walls here. -Yeah.

They'll be preserved here.

This will always be a part
of the Oak Island story, so...

LEE:
I'm amazed.

Fantastic job
you've done, really.

When we got to look around
in the museum,

and Rick pointed out
the Restall corner, I was just

thrilled to death that
my brother had hard evidence

in front of his eyes
of the respect that's being paid

to the Restall,
uh, work on the island.

Here's another little treasure
that we found.

We found this out
on Isaac's Point.

And the thought was, because you
were a young lad at the time,

everyone said, "Well, you know,
this might be Ricky's."

Might that mean anything to you?

-Wow.
-Yeah.

RICK: We found this out
on Isaac's Point.

Wow.

(sniffles)

Hmm.

It looks, uh...

Yup.

My friend.

(laughs)

My gosh, this...

This must be my g*n.

I know I lost it, and...

Well, looks like it's here again

after -odd years.

NARRATOR: While joining
his sister, Lee Lamb,

on what has been a rare

and momentous visit
to Oak Island, Richard Restall,

the youngest son of famed
Oak Island treasure hunters

Robert and Mildred Restall,

has just been presented
with an artifact

of great personal significance.

MARTY:
It's got to be a neat thing

that the last time you handled
that you were, what, ten?

-At the most, ten.
-Yeah, yeah.

And how much smaller my hands
must have been then.

-(laughter) -RICK: To me
it was interesting when

we showed Ricky
the-the... the cap g*n.

I think in that moment,
certainly,

it brought him back
to his youth,

and my hope in that moment
was that it--

they were good memories.

That that moment would be

a bit transformative,
if you will, for him.

That he could,

perhaps, let go of the past.

I remember arriving on the
island with all the stuff

that a city kid would have.

-Like a cowboy outfit...
-There you go.

...the hat, the holster,
the g*n.

And by the end of that summer,

I think most of that stuff

was somewhere else
on the island.

(laughter)

Actually seeing a g*n
from that era was a reminder

of what a carefree childhood
would be.

And it was a reminder
of my time...

My first summer on the island,
in other words,

was fun and childish games,

and mostly imagination.

It was like a paradise
in those days.

That's neat.

This trip was momentous for me

because it draws my brother
into his rightful place.

He's got a deep connection
with the island.

This was Ricky's moment.

Okay, well, listen,
we thank you

for your part of the story,

we thank you for cooperating
with us, we thank you

for all the information
you've given us,

and we thank you today
for this visit.

And it was just an absolute
pleasure meeting you, sir.

And, of course, this young lady,
always a pleasure.

Thank you very much.

NARRATOR: One week following
Lee Lamb and Richard Restall's

emotional return
to Oak Island,

Marty, Rick and the team

resume their Geo-Tech
drilling operation

at the Money Pit site.

You guys ready to make hole?

Ready to find the treasure.

I like that.

-I think we're ready.
-Drill.

NARRATOR:
Today also marks the return

of driller Max Williamson,

who has spent the past several
days recovering

from the worst of his injuries.

Yeah, I think that'll do.
That'll do.

So far, the score is
Money Pit ,

us... us?

-I'm giving us one...
-Zero!

-Zero.
-I'm giving us one.

NARRATOR: For Rick, Marty
and their partners,

the events of the past
two weeks have served

as a potent reminder

of just how dangerous
and deadly

the search for answers can be.

It also reminds them
that the bond they share

is a powerful one.

Not only with each other,

but with the hundreds
of Oak Island treasure hunters

who have come before them,

and whose lives have been
irrevocably changed

by the search.

Although the story of Robert
and Mildred Restall

is only one
in a growing number

involving Oak Island's
families,

the hardships they endured,
both physical and emotional,

have ensured them a special
place in the minds and hearts

of all who seek to join
on their incredible quest--

the quest to solve
a -year-old mystery

that has, so far,
claimed six lives.

And one whose legend insists
will claim one more

before all will be revealed.

NARRATOR: Next time
on The Curse of Oak Island...

They believed the Money Pit
was over here.

What we haven't got is what
direction they were drilling.

-We have to do more research.
-This is quite a document.

-Have you seen that before?
-No, I haven't.

Wow. I didn't expect there to be
"X" marks the spot.

He's in some sort of void,
but he hit something.

Hopefully, it's what
we're looking for.

-Okay, that's interesting.
-Wow.

We're getting pottery
at feet.

We have one more piece.
What is that?

My immediate reaction is
it's bone.