10x14 - Getting the Shaft

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NARRATOR: Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

[gasps] No way!

Look at that!

- [laughing]
- Yes!

- GARY: This is magnificent.
- RICK: It's incredible.

- We found a piece of treasure.
- It's amazing.

IAN:
Gold and silver, copper,

zinc, tin, lead, they are
all now metals of interest.

There is still a treasure
to be found here.

ALEX: This is as close as we've
gotten to an "X marks the spot."

RICK: We've got
to go down there.

SCOTT: We've waited a
long time for a moment like this.

RICK: This is astounding.

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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...

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 d*ed

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,
one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

♪ ♪

- JACK: Hey, Rick.
- RICK: Hey, Jack.

- Morning.
- Good morning.

That hammer grab's fun to watch.

RICK: Yeah.

Dumas seems to be

- moving along quite quickly.
- Good.

NARRATOR: As a new
day dawns on Oak Island,

for brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina

and the members of their team,

the hope that they may be

on the verge of solving a


has never been higher.

RICK: Good morning, Roger.

- ROGER: Good morning, Rick.
- How are you?

Good morning, how's it
going? Nice to see you guys.

- Yeah.
- What's the depth?

Oh, right now we're
at about 23 feet.

Uh, we're gonna be
mucking a little bit more,

go in that end, and then
we're gonna be installing

- another two sets.
- Okay.

NARRATOR: Although a
number of investigations

are currently being
conducted all across the island

to search for critical
clues and valuables,

their most promising
operation is underway

in the Money Pit area with
Dumas Contracting Ltd...

A mining company
that is reconstructing

the so-called Garden Shaft.

- The material is still just really mucky right now?
- Yeah, yeah.

So it's kind of... you can
tell that it's-it's backfilled clay.

- It's backfilled? Yeah.
- But you're right.

They kind of were careful as
to what they dumped in there.

Correct.

NARRATOR: Based on numerous

recent discoveries this year,

the team has good
reason to believe

that this 80-foot deep,
decayed wooden structure

may be connected to
the original Money Pit.

Wood samples from the shaft
have not only been dated to 1735

but water testing within
it has also revealed

high trace evidence of gold.

In addition, it is also located

in close proximity
to a potential void

or chamber that the team
drilled into earlier this year

at a depth of just 55 feet.

TERRY: This looks
like the continuation

of this tunnel that we
hit here out of DN 12.5.

NARRATOR: And it may also be connected
to a mysterious tunnel encountered

two weeks ago at
a depth of 95 feet,

which the team
discovered in a nearby area

known as the Blob...

an area where water
testing conducted by

geoscientist Dr. Ian
Spooner has found evidence

that a motherlode of
gold appears to lie buried

between a depth
of 80 and 120 feet.

MARTY: There are some
pretty concrete signs that say

this might be the
original Money Pit.

Or it could be right next to it.

It could have been
the original attempt,

one of the original attempts.

I really would like to see

what's at the
bottom of that shaft.

So the hope is that once
we get down 50, 60 feet,

we'll be able to drill
horizontally, vertically.

Yeah.

And hopefully we do find
a tunnel from this shaft.

At least in some direction.

Some of our better
water sample tests

have been from here that
had the gold and the silver.

Yeah.

We would love to
find original works.

So there's all
kinds of hopes here.

We just have to learn as much
as we can about this location.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Having already rebuilt

the first two sets...
Or 8-foot sections...

Of the Garden Shaft,

in the coming weeks,
Dumas will complete a new,

vertical structure
down to a total depth

of approximately 80 feet.

During the process,
they also have the ability

to probe outside the shaft
and even build lateral tunnels

in order to let
members of the team

search for evidence of treasure.

- [Rick exclaims]
- SCOTT: Heads up, guys.

♪ ♪

JACK: Here we go.

ROGER: Okay,
tightlining coming down.

Watch out.

NARRATOR: As the
team from Dumas continues

excavating and reconstructing
the Garden Shaft...

Yeah.

- That's pretty cool.
- Very cool.

NARRATOR: members of the team

will be able to
monitor the operation

using the Inuktun Spectrum


We are fortunate enough to be
able to put a camera down here,

with Roger's assistance.

So, I mean,
it's-it's a great tool

for us to be able to see
what's going on down there.

Yeah. It's amazing.

NARRATOR: The
device, which features

a lens that can pan 360 degrees,

is not only designed to
operate in low light conditions

but is also equipped
with a number of

visual enhancement capabilities

such as high-powered
zoom function.

SCOTT: Really gives you an
idea of how small an area it is.

Seeing those two
guys down there.

Yeah.

Do I believe that
there's treasure

at the bottom of
the Garden Shaft?

I'll be honest, I'm
hopeful. [chuckles]

But I just want to get
underground in the Money Pit.

Let's get underground

and exploit the opportunities

that the shaft represents.

I want to go down there.

- [both chuckling]
- Soon.

- RICK: All right. Take care.
- JACK: See you.

NARRATOR: While the excavation
of the Garden Shaft continues

in the Money Pit area...

later that morning...

- MARTY: Hey, guys.
- CRAIG: Hey, guys.

- ALEX: Hey, guys.
- IAN: How're you doing?

Hi there.

NARRATOR: Rick
and Marty meet with

geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

and other members of the team

for an important
video conference

with Craig Tester and
geohydrologist Dr. Fred Michel.

MARTY: Finally, we have new data

on the gold and the
metals in the water,

and as everybody here knows...

'cause I haven't
been shy about it...

This is what I've been
really looking forward to.

NARRATOR: After analyzing

new water samples
that were collected

two weeks ago from
previously drilled boreholes

in the so-called Blob area
near the Garden Shaft...

We've got seven slides.

NARRATOR: Dr.
Spooner and Michel

are ready to present
an updated report

on the believed
location of the gold

that has been detected
in the Money Pit area.

This to me is, is the search,

this to me is what
this year is all about,

so I'm gonna shut up now

and turn it over to Ian.

So, Ian, you want
to kick it off, then?

IAN: Yeah, yeah.

And Steve's gonna cue up
a PowerPoint presentation.

Just to recap,

that Blob was an
area of primarily gold.

- That's what I've been waiting for.
- IAN: Right.

But as you'll see,

some other metals
become very important, too.

So let's try the
next slide here.

So, what's the red?

Well, the red is what
we started to see

in the most recent
round of sampling...

Copper, zinc, and tin.

And this is highly anomalous.

What does "highly"
mean, in this case?

Almost many magnitudes higher.

And I think everybody
knows what you take

when you add copper and zinc.

That would be brass.

And when you add copper and tin,

you get bronze.

FRED: You have brass
and bronze and of course

you also have gold,
and you have silver.

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IAN: But the key thing is that
we don't think this is geological.

Mm.

FRED: So if it's not natural,

if it's man-deposited,

then a variety of objects

that are being buried

that contain those metals.

MARTY: Works for me.

[laughter]

I mean, this is what
we're hoping for.

Yeah.

Let's say we wanted
to find this area.

Well, that was a great
segue into the next slide.

MARTY: The new Blob!

Blob version 2.0.

- Baby Blob.
- IAN: Yeah, Bab...

Well, yeah, Baby Blob.

This is a very, very small area.

I think we have done
what we had hoped to do,

which is shrink the
size of the Blob down

to something maybe that's
manageable to explore.

Wh-What are the dimensions?

It's about 20 feet by 20 feet.

- Okay.
- And it's just outside of the Garden Shaft.

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MARTY: That's
really exciting stuff.

It's about 20 feet by 20 feet.

And it's just outside
of the Garden Shaft.

NARRATOR: It is
an incredible moment

in the Oak Island w*r room

as geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

and hydrogeologist
Dr. Fred Michel

have just presented
scientific evidence

to the Oak Island team

that a large deposit of
gold, silver, and other metals

appears to be located
within a 20 by 20 foot area

and between 80 and 120 feet
deep just west of the Garden Shaft,

an area the team has now
dubbed "The Baby Blob."

Gold and silver.

Copper, zinc, tin, lead.

They're all now, to
us, metals of interest.

Anyone who has found a
great treasure in the world,

you would find all those metals

in that great treasure.

So if, if we went

and we drilled
the Blob right now

what are the chances
that we'd come up

with the treasure?

It seems that we have a...

An isolated source

for those metals.

DOUG: Who knows how many

different types of
metals are mixed into

a potential treasure chest?

Gold alongside
brass. Trade tokens.

Sure. Of course.

We've always said treasure
is just a bunch of gold.

Well, in the things
that I've read,

treasure can be
many different things.

And I think of other relics

that may not have even been
what we call a precious metal.

But this is every bit as good.

MARTY: The results are excellent

in that they do indicate
some sort of large grouping

of metallic objects that
could be highly significant.

And these other metals,

they would almost
always be found

in conjunction
with gold and silver.

Any sort of treasure cache
that I would know about

would have these metals as well.

There's still a
lot of work to do.

- Yeah.
- RICK: So...

we have to make the right
choices moving forward.

CRAIG: Yeah, I'm eager to drill

and see what we come up with.

That's one of our next
targets we could move to.

- We'll move there tomorrow.
- Okay.

RICK: To have the
so-called treasure zone

in such close proximity to

probably the biggest endeavor
we have conducted this year,

i.e. rehabbing the Garden Shaft,

it's almost serendipitous.

It presents very
unique opportunities.

Whether it be
through vertical drilling,

horizontal drilling,

or maybe even tunneling
off the side of the shaft.

So what we need at this
point is to design a proper grid

and drill that and
hopefully find the one thing.

This was the most significant,
the most direct indication

that there is still a
treasure to be found here.

I want to put whatever
resource we can,

so let's go see what it
looks like on the ground.

Absolutely.

- Okay.
- CRAIG: See you, guys.

- ALEX: See you.
- IAN: Thank you.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

TERRY: We are in the center

of the new possible
treasure location.

- How deep are we?
- CRAIG: We're getting started.

TERRY: We're only
down about eight feet.

NARRATOR: Marty Lagina
joins his partner Craig Tester

and others members of the
team in the Money Pit area

where they have begun
drilling a new borehole

within the Baby
Blob, or treasure zone,

just several feet west
of the Garden Shaft.

- It's right there.
- MARTY: That one. Yeah, okay.

The treasure Blob.
This is excellent.

I'm very keenly interested
to where the metals are.

It's surprising,
that's for sure.

That somewhere in that
area is the origin, right?

TERRY: Oh, yeah,
we're a ways away

- from target horizon.
- Yeah. All right.

NARRATOR: As
the drilling operation

and the reconstruction of
the Garden Shaft continues

in the Money Pit area...

RICK: I see you've got
the pump all hooked up.

LAIRD: Yeah.

So it will, it will pump
down really quickly now.

NARRATOR: on Lot 26,

located on the western
side of the island

Rick Lagina

and Dr. Ian Spooner join
archaeologist Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

as they investigate a
mysterious stone well.

RICK: So, what's the plan?

I just want to see
what the bottom's like.

You know, we've got
that really old date, 1100,

or somewhere around there.

It's a really cool little well.

NARRATOR: The well has become
one of the island's most curious features

after Dr. Spooner not
only dated its construction

to as early as
the 11th century...

It was one of
our only silver hits

outside of the Money Pit.

But also conducted water testing

that yielded high
trace evidence of silver.

IAN: Boy, that
goes down quickly.

LAIRD: Yep. That
pump is doing the job.

You'll see that
it's a really nice,

nicely formed little well.

RICK: It's quite artfully done.

You have to know
what you're doing.

It's not just a simple
matter of just piling

- one stone on top of another.
- LAIRD: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

RICK: They kept that radius

- almost perfect all the way up.
- LAIRD: Yup.

RICK: When you
look at the construct

right here, you can
put your hand in it,

and it goes back, as
though that was intentional,

to put something in here.

There are a whole
bunch of crevices here.

RICK: I'm as mystified about
it now as the day we started.

To have found a
human-contrived edifice,

like a well,

where you might store
something important, it's huge.

But we have a lot of
work to do in terms of

the who, what,
when, where, why of it.

We're not there yet.

LAIRD: So that's bottom.

I think it's about, like, five,
five and a half feet deep.

Mm-hmm. So,
what's the next step?

I'm wondering if we shouldn't
excavate a little bit more.

I mean... I mean, in theory,

- something could be in it.
- Yep.

Somebody should
take a look at it.

- The construct.
- LAIRD: Yeah.

IAN: Would Terry Deveau
have a little bit of insight?

I think that's well worth doing.

To have an expert to
come and render an opinion,

I find it an incredibly
vital part of the search.

Terry Deveau has
years of experience

understanding the
history here in Nova Scotia.

So his perspective
will be interesting.

And I think his eyes,

we may find something
that previously

has been hidden from us.

I guess, Laird, I
guess the next step is

pull the outside rocks away.

Who knows,

- you might retrieve something.
- Yep. We can do that.

- Okay. Well, we'll let you do your work, then.
- Okay. All right.

- Thanks, Laird.
- See you later.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...

GARY: I love it when
it's raining, mate.

It doesn't get any
better than this.

- JACK: Yep.
- GARY: Here we are, mate.

Back on Lot 26 to dig
up some more flags.

NARRATOR: metal detection
expert Gary Drayton and Jack Begley

arrive on Lot 26,

less than 100 yards from
the mysterious stone well.

Let's get after it.

Let's see what this
one sounds like.

NARRATOR: While
the archaeological team

continues investigating
the feature itself...

GARY: Just there, mate.

NARRATOR: Rick,
Marty and Craig are hoping

that Gary and Jack might be
able to find clues in the nearby area

that might explain just who
may have constructed it.

All right, let's see
what we've got here.

[beeping]

[whew] That sounds great.

It's in the top of the
pile by the sound of it.

♪ ♪

Well, actually, it would
be the bottom of the pile.

Come on, I know you're
hiding in here somewhere.

- [whooping]
- Oh! Oh!

GARY: [whooping] That's nice.

What is it?

That is either a
spoon or a fork handle.

NARRATOR: On Lot 26,

located less than 100 yards

from the mysterious


GARY: It's got to
be old by the patina.

Gary Drayton and Jack Begley

have just unearthed

another potentially
important discovery.

GARY: It's copper
alloy by the look of it,

but could be silver
and we're not seeing it

because it's been
in the ground awhile.

Is there any idea on date
that you can... guesstimate?

I'd have to say definitely
period for the lot, late 1700s,

but I'm hoping that it's older.

JACK: No...

Just like all that fancy pottery
we find around the island...

They were a sign of opulence
and wealth back in the day.

And so was cutlery,
so this is nice, mate.

NARRATOR: Because
Lot 26 was inhabited

by several 18th and


could this spoon have
simply been left behind

by one of them?

However, since one of those
owners was Samuel Ball,

who became mysteriously
wealthy while living on Oak Island

after the American Revolution...

And we'll go to the next flag.

NARRATOR: could this
potentially silver spoon be a clue

that something of
even greater value

may lie hidden on Lot 26?

GARY: All right, mate, let's
see what this one sounds like.

[intermittent beeping]

Definitely something there.
It's kind of faint and choppy.

More than likely, it's iron.

[grunts]

All right. Let's
see if you moved it.

- JACK: There we go.
- GARY: We're on it.

Let's see what we've got.

- Ooh!
- JACK: Way better!

A flat button, mate.

- Look at that.
- That's a nice-looking button.

Yeah, it really is, mate.

I've got a feeling that
might be a pewter button...

But it's a single loop.

Or it might be silver-washed.

Well, that's got a sheen on it.

- You see that?
- JACK: Oh, yeah.

More than likely a
jacket button, mate.

Would have gone like that.

JACK: Do you have a best guess

- on time frame?
- Uh, yeah.

It's an older type of button.

Definitely period for the lot.

Late 1700s or even older, mate.

Wow!

NARRATOR: A button,

possibly made of silver

that may date back earlier
than the 18th century?

One week ago, the team
found a hand-forged iron nail

in the nearby stone well,

which was scientifically
dated to the mid-17th century.

Could Gary's suspicions

that this button may date
to the same time period

mean that the two
artifacts could be related?

If so, was it someone
who was searching for

something of value in the well?

Or was it someone who
actually made a deposit?

GARY: All right, mate.

I'll put it in a bag.

- JACK: Ah, a great find.
- Be really, really careful with it.

JACK: Well, let's keep
going, we're on a roll, Gary.

GARY: We are, mate.

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

- PAUL: Hey, how're you doing, Alex?
- SCOTT: Hey, Alex.

How's it going?

- Good.
- Great.

NARRATOR: Alex Lagina
arrives at the Money Pit area

TEDFORD: It's
gonna be a good one.

To check on the progress

of Borehole DN-9.5,

a borehole located several
feet west of the Garden Shaft

in the so-called Baby Blob,
where the team believes

the fabled Oak Island treasure

may lie buried between a
depth of 80 and 120 feet.

And where are we at, right now?

We've got, uh, ten feet away
from our target zone here.

- This next core...
- Okay.

Is actually gonna
be right on top of it.

ALEX: They've
been able to shrink

our area of interest
in the Money Pit

down to this much smaller area.

So this is as close
as we've gotten

to an "X marks the spot"

from any of the
efforts that we've done.

[whirring]

This is it here, guys.

This is the one.

- ALEX: Coming out of the core.
- Fingers crossed.

- What do we got?
- This is gonna be 95 feet.

SCOTT: 95 feet.

ALEX: 95. Thanks, Colten.

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Yeah, that's solid maroon till.

SCOTT: Man, oh, man.

PAUL: That's not
what we want to see.

Not at all.

Is there anything
in the end of that?

It's a little softer here at 95.

I think we might be close
to something right here.

'Cause, I mean, that's a
lot softer than it is up there.

PAUL: We don't know.

We could be on the
edge of something.

- Right.
- It all rides on this next core.

I mean, we're gonna see if
we have a void on the table,

- right in front of us.
- Yeah.

♪ ♪

What do we have there?

This is to 98 feet.

- PAUL: 98, so...
- ALEX: 98, okay. Thank you.

PAUL: Okay. Go ahead.

♪ ♪

Well, I do not see any wood.

PAUL: All right.

SCOTT: Ooh. It's
pretty soft in here.

It is really soft.
Like, really soft.

PAUL: Yeah, it is.

It's very soft. Saturated.

It has a lot of moisture
content in it right now.

SCOTT: We could be
very close to something.

When you get a
little bit loose like that,

it can mean a chamber or a
cavity of some sort down there.

PAUL: Whatever it is, we're
on the edge of something.

RICK: Loose soils do
indicate some sort of activity

was conducted in that zone.

If it's a chamber,

it's almost certainly
associated with treasure.

So this last run is
gonna be very important.

Yep.

This is gonna tell us
whether there's a void here,

it's a wood structure,

- or maybe gold coins.
- Yeah.

I'm saying my prayers
that this run is gonna tell us

something that we don't know.

Right.

♪ ♪

Looks like we got our
last few feet coming out.

PAUL: He's got
some material in there.

Which is a great thing.

NARRATOR: It is a
potentially exciting moment

in the Money Pit
area as the team

has just encountered
evidence of human activity

in Borehole DN-9.5
at a depth of 95 feet...

What do we have there?

- COLTON: This is to 109.
- ALEX: Okay.

NARRATOR: a borehole located

in a 20 by 20-foot zone
near the Garden Shaft

where scientific water tests

have suggested that
the Oak Island treasure

may be buried
between 80 and 120 feet.

SCOTT: Okay.

What do we see?

[Paul exhales]

It looks like graywacke
we got into there.

Very solid.

There's nothing
here but still stone.

SCOTT: Yeah.

PAUL: Cobbles.

- And till.
- SCOTT: Just tight till.

Unfortunately, we
didn't find any gold,

but there's still other areas
we can drill and plan to drill

- in this treasure area.
- Okay.

So there's still hope yet.

Yeah.

RICK: This is a process,

and we didn't find treasure,
but it gave us information.

The belief is that
there's something there.

So we will continue to
do the drilling program.

I think we're very early on.

One mustn't jump to conclusions.

This is a painstaking process.

I know we have to be patient.

And there's a lot of
gold that's in this area,

so everybody's excited
to get some answers.

So we move off and
we drill elsewhere.

- PAUL: Okay.
- ALEX: Sounds good.

- See you guys in a bit.
- SCOTT: Thanks, guys.

PAUL: All right.

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...

LAIRD: Hey, Rick. Doug.

- Laird, we've brought a guest.
- Hey, Terry.

- Hey, Laird.
- You know Terry.

- Always good to have you here.
- Thanks a lot.

NARRATOR: Rick
Lagina, Doug Crowell

and historical
researcher Terry Deveau

join archaeologist Laird Niven

on Lot 26 at the mysterious

900-year-old stone well.

TERRY: This is quite a
thing you've found here.

Beautiful well.

NARRATOR: Terry currently serves

as the president of the
New England Antiquities

Research Association

and has previously consulted
with the Oak Island team

on a number of
their discoveries,

including the stone road
uncovered in the swamp,

which Terry believes
is at least 500 years old

and of Portuguese origin.

TERRY: The stones are really
well-formed around the inside.

LAIRD: Yeah.

We're 98% sure that's the
very, very bottom of the well.

Can you infer anything, Terry?

At all? Your opinion?

TERRY: Well, I
mean, the thing is,

people have been building
wells with this kind of technique

for thousands of years,

and it's more or less universal
among cultures as well.

It's a traditional

technology that's been
around for so many millennia.

The well must have
been in use for a long time

because it's actually
really clean down there.

Not many artifacts.

RICK: The other wells
across the island...

I do not remember any of them

being constructed like this.

I mean, circular, yes.

But not like this.

This construct is unique.

You know, the well that
does look a lot similar to that

is the one at New Ross.

RICK: You think that one was

represented by this
type of construct?

Yeah. It does definitely
remind me of it.

That doesn't look
like soil, does it?

That is weird. Look
at this right here.

Very strange bottom.

NARRATOR: In 2016, Rick Lagina,

diver Tony Sampson

and members of the team

visited a mysterious,
historic site

located 20 miles
north of Oak Island

in the town of New
Ross, Nova Scotia.

A site containing
stone carvings,

a well,

and the foundational
ruins of a structure

that some researchers believe

were created by members
of the Knights Templar

more than 600 years ago.

TONY: Well,
that's kind of weird.

TEDFORD: What did
you find down there, Tony?

TONY: I've got what
could be a triangle.

NARRATOR: Incredibly,

while investigating the
stone well on the property,

Tony discovered what
appeared to be a triangle

with an eye in the center...

A Masonic and Templar symbol

that is eerily
reminiscent of the shape

and possible design of
the Oak Island swamp.

Could Terry Deveau be correct

that the well on Lot 26
matches the specific design

of the one in New Ross?

If so, might they have been
created by the same builders?

Well, when we went to
New Ross to look at that well,

the other interesting thing
we saw there was the stone.

And it seemed to
have that Portuguese

or Templar cross carved on it.

That was interesting because

this whole idea of the
possible Portuguese

- connection to the island.
- Yeah.

The possible Templar
connection to New Ross

goes way back.

So I-I think there's,
there's a lot of opportunity

to further that research

and come up with
a definitive answer.

That's what our hope is here.

We want to understand the truths

to be uncovered here just
as there are at New Ross.

Does the timeline allow

for the idea that there's
some Templar association

here at lot 26?

Certainly it does.

But that's not enough
to draw conclusions.

So I'm interested enough
to keep pursuing this.

Do you think this one
is earlier than that?

Well, it could easily be.

The construction technique
seems to be similar.

And the way the
stones are put together,

they intended this to be
here for a long period of time.



TERRY: Well, thanks
a lot for showing me.

I really appreciate it.

It's amazing.

Yeah. Very cool.

Yeah, it-it is. Hopefully
it will tell a story.

NARRATOR: As Rick, Terry
and the members of the team

continue their inspection
of the stone well...

GARY: All right, let's
see what's waiting for us

underneath this flag, mate.

NARRATOR: less
than 100 yards away...

- [intermittent beeping]
- GARY: Oh, that sounds great.

All right, mate, just there.

Almost there. Here we go.

NARRATOR: Gary Drayton
and Jack Begley set out once again

to search for additional
clues that might reveal

the true story of Lot 26.

GARY: All right.

I think you dug
deep enough, mate.

- Did I get it out?
- It sounds like it. Yeah.

- [beeping]
- GARY: Ooh.

- It is here.
- It's that thing?

- Yeah. Let's see what we got.
- Or is it in a clump?

It's in the clump.

- JACK: A musket ball?
- No.

- JACK: Whoa!
- GARY: Sweet baby Jesus.

- Look what we found.
- No way.

- Look at that!
- Oh, my...

What the heck is that, Gary?

Let's see.

- Oh!
- Oh, my...

GARY: Is it a brooch?

JACK: I think it might be.

That's a brooch or a buckle.

- [laughing]
- Yes!

NARRATOR: On Lot


from the ancient stone well

metal detection expert Gary
Drayton and Jack Begley

have just made a
potentially valuable discovery.

I think we've just found
a piece of jewelry, mate.

I mean, look. That is unusual.

- JACK: Can I hold it for a second?
- GARY: Yeah, of course, mate.

JACK: I just want to get a...

This looks really nice.

But that looks really,
really old, mate.

JACK: Oh, wow.

- Any idea on the date for this?
- [sighs]

I don't know, 'cause I
don't know what that red is.

- I have no idea, either.
- I don't know if it's some

kind of stone.

JACK: Yeah, but it
looks like there's glass.

GARY: Yeah, it's either glass

or some kind of crystal.

But it looks to be ornate.

I'd hate to damage it.

It's very, very, unusual.

I mean, look at
the patina, mate.

You know it's old.

JACK: I think this is one of

the coolest things
we've found around here.

And it could be
really, really old.

Yeah, but either way,
that is a real bobby-dazzler.

Talk about top-pocket
finds. That is one.

JACK: I think this
is an important find

to where we should
stop right now

and take it to the lab.

Ah, you're right, mate.
This is unbelievable.

I'm not gonna put it in
my pocket or anything.

We'll treat this
with kid gloves.

We'll give it the
respect it deserves.

Ooh! I can't wait
to see their faces.

♪ ♪

RICK: Hey, guys.

- Hey, guys.
- Hey.

- JACK: Good timing.
- GARY: Hey, chaps.

What's the excitement about?

The excitement is about
this. What's in the bag.

NARRATOR: After notifying
Rick Lagina and Craig Tester

of their discovery,

Gary and Jack join them

in the Oak Island
Interpretive Centre

along with Laird Niven,

archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

and Billy Gerhardt.

GARY: Jack and
I recovered this...

Well, how do we describe it?

Bobby-dazzler, top-pocket
find, all rolled into one...

- [chuckles]
- GARY: on Lot 26

at the side of that old wall.

And it is spectacular.

Check that out.

♪ ♪

RICK: What do you make of it?

GARY: Jack and I believe
it could be either a brooch

or a buckle.

I mean, whether
or not it's a brooch,

someone wore it
ornamentally or it was used

to decorate something.

GARY: And it's almost
Masonic-looking.

It's got that intricate design.

What does that
remind you of, Rick?

On Lot 8?

- The brooch.
- GARY: Yup.

That is beautiful.

NARRATOR: In 2017,

Rick and Gary
discovered a semiprecious

garnet gemstone on Lot 8
near the middle of the island...

A garnet gemstone
that is believed

to not only be 500
years old or older...

And I know you keep
referring to it as a brooch.

I have a different
possible interpretation.

NARRATOR: but according to


it may have been part
of a Masonic breastplate,

one linked to the
sacred missing treasures

of the Knights Templar.

CLARKE: The breastplate was
used in a specific Masonic ritual

meant to mimic the retrieval
of the Ark of the Covenant

from a secret vault underground.

Wow.

That is a strange piece.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Gary and Jack have found

a related artifact near the


And if so, could it
also be connected

to the silver that has
been detected in the water?

I'm intrigued enough to
put it in the CT scanner.

Mm-hmm.

- Right now.
- JACK: Yeah.

Okay, I can do that.

JACK: Let's see
what it looks like.

NARRATOR: In order
to examine the brooch,

Emma will use the
Skyscan 1273 CT scanner.

By emitting nondestructive
X-ray radiation,

the device can
penetrate corrosion

and encrusted
soil on the surface,

revealing a three-dimensional
computer image

that shows the
object's finer details.

♪ ♪

GARY: Here we go.

OK.

JACK: Ooh.

GARY: Oh, that's bloody
beautiful, isn't it, eh?

♪ ♪

RICK: Can you flip it, Emma?



♪ ♪

GARY: That is bloody gorgeous.

LAIRD: And
remember, this is just...

a snapshot.

GARY: Yeah, a
bloody nice snapshot.

LAIRD: It's definitely jewelry.

Yeah.

- RICK: It's quite intricate.
- GARY: Mm.

There's some craftsmanship
associated with that.

- CRAIG: It looks like a flower.
- JACK: Yeah.

- GARY: Yeah.
- RICK: There are one, two, three,

four, five leaves, aren't there?

GARY: Yeah, you're right, mate.

I'd love to know what
type of leaves they are,

'cause that should
speak to origin.

The question is, how old is it?

Yeah.

And what does that...

Does that design
reflect anything?

GARY: Yeah.

Mm. Got a lot going for this.

RICK: We need more information.

More of a CT scan,
XRF, maybe even XRD.

NARRATOR: To further analyze
the brooch for important clues,

Emma Culligan will need
to spend several days

scanning the artifact

with the team's additional
laboratory devices

which will hopefully
help her determine

its metallurgical composition,

the possible time
period it was created,

and perhaps the geographical
region where it originated.

RICK: Kudos to you guys.

It's a top-pocket find

- and a bobby-dazzler.
- Yeah.

RICK: There's no
question about it.

And, uh, hopefully
we'll learn something.

And we may have
found a piece of treasure.

JACK: Yep. GARY:
Two thumbs up from Rick.

RICK: Thank you all
very much. Great day.

- RICK: It's an exciting day.
- SCOTT: Yep.

- RICK: Roger.
- Hey! How's it going, guys?

- RICK: Good, how are you?
- Good, good, good, good.

NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,

Rick Lagina, along with

Oak Island Operations
manager Scott Barlow,

are about to experience a moment

that Rick has dreamed of

since he was just a boy

and first read about
the Oak Island mystery.

We have all kinds of emotions

running through us, you know.

Bottom line is, we're radically
changing the search agenda now.

We're gonna go looking for

what's underground
by being underground.

That's pretty cool.

Oh, I think so. I think so.

But it's kind of bittersweet.

Like I was telling him
just before we walked in,

this will be our only
first time underground

in the Money Pit, so
we better enjoy it, right?

- Oh, yeah, for sure.
- It's gonna be a moment

that we're gonna remember
the rest of our lives.

Yeah, absolutely.

- Okay.
- So, what do we have to do?

We'll get you suited up.

Also, I've got a
couple of coveralls

- for you guys here.
- Okay, cool.

I got another
one for you, Scott.

NARRATOR: Now
that the reconstruction

of the Garden Shaft has
reached a depth of 44 feet,

and after completing the
required safety training...

Perfect.

NARRATOR: Rick will have

his first opportunity ever

to personally go underground
in the Money Pit area.

ROGER: Okay, guys, we are gonna

head down there and we're
gonna go see what we can see.

- Sounds good?
- Yeah.

RICK: For the first time,

we are gonna go underground

in the Money Pit.

That in and of
itself is pretty cool.

But we're here to
solve the mystery.

- Go ahead, Roger.
- Thank you.

RICK: And the hope is that
when we go down in the shaft,

our senses will be more
attuned to the possibilities

of what the shaft
represents in terms of

furthering our understanding
in the Money Pit.

ROGER: There we go.

I'll go down and you guys
can follow me in there.

Let me know if you
have any questions

- on the way down, Rick.
- Yeah. -Okay.

RICK: It's intensely emotional

to be underground
in the Money Pit

where so many people

who have come before us
had that same experience.

And I think life is all
about shared experience

because I do believe
this is a wonderful story.

And we know the people
that have come before us,

their legacy now is

being carried by us.

Wow. [sighs] Beautiful.

I've believed in Oak Island
since I was a little boy.

As a little boy, I
dreamt of treasure,

and hidden wealth,
and booby traps,

and underground tunnels.

Wow.

Now that I'm
underground... [chuckles]

in the Money Pit, I'm in awe.

♪ ♪

- This is astounding.
- ROGER: Oh, yeah. Yeah.

- SCOTT: This is pretty amazing.
- ROGER: Yeah, it is, eh?

So what you see

below this set that we
are installing right now,

everything in there in
the bottom that you see

- is all original.
- RICK: Wow.

I mean, not just the
work you are doing,

which is quite amazing...

ROGER: Yeah.

RICK: but this is
what is astounding.

You're looking
at history, right?

To see how that wood has been
preserved is unbelievable, man.

- SCOTT: It's amazing.
- RICK: It's quite remarkable.

Yeah, it is, eh?

RICK: You look at
the shaft and you think

"My goodness, people long
ago, they didn't have cranes."

It's a testament to their will,

to their desire, to their belief

that where there's
a will, there's a way.

And there was certainly
a will to their enterprise.

Not only the searchers but
the original depositors as well.

So, Roger, now that we're
down near 50 feet here, I mean...

- Yeah.
- SCOTT: there's a lot of potential

for other works
to be in the area.

Offset chambers,

and the tunnel at
the 95-foot mark.

Oh, for sure.

There may be original
work beneath this.

You're right, and that's
one of the reasons why

we pound on that
timber all the time,

to see if there is
any void behind us.

But yeah, we're expecting

to get some answers as to
what happened here, why.

Boy, this is interesting
and it's quite phenomenal.

- ROGER: Oh, it is. It is.
- It really is.

It's been an amazing experience.

You stand here and you look up,

- and it's...
- Yeah.

SCOTT: I-I can't explain
how I feel right now.

- ROGER: Oh.
- RICK: Thank you.

This-this has been
very unique, right?

Yep.

Forever grateful
for this opportunity.

RICK: We really,
really, appreciate it.

ROGER: Glad you enjoyed it.

NARRATOR: After another
productive week on Oak Island,

Rick, Marty, Craig
and their team

have good reason to believe
that they are on the cusp

of a major breakthrough
in the 228-year-old mystery.

They have not only
found more incredible clues

that may soon reveal just who
created the Money Pit long ago,

but now, as they dig
deeper and deeper

into the Garden Shaft,

they may finally
unearth a fabled treasure

that could rewrite the
history of North America.

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

Whoa! I can feel the rods
break through something.

Whoa, we got lots of wood.

Wood all through this core.

TERRY: Oh, my gosh,
we are into something.

There are some quantities
of gold in the wood.

That's fantastic.

Now we have gold

in the wood and in the water.

This might lead us to
where the treasure may be.

Wow, look at that.
They found an old ladder.

SCOTT:
It's all handmade.

RICK:
This could be

the long-sought-after answer.