10x19 - Ramping Up

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

We have a large metallic anomaly
in the swamp.

MARTY:
Wow! That's great.

I believe there are
answers in that swamp.

JACK:
Yes! We're starting to dig.

The more we dig,
the more we find.

Oh, my gosh!

What the heck is that?

PAUL: Something's going on
in that corner.

They hit something solid.

They couldn't drill through it.

That's where
the gold signal's coming from.

There could be something there.

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,

manmade 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.

Hey, Paul.

Hey, how's it going?

Question is, how are you doing?

All right.

- Mind if we go and have a look?
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: Another promising
day has begun on Oak Island

for brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina,

their partner Craig Tester
and the rest of their team

as they investigate

the so-called Garden
Shaft in the hopes

of finally solving a


COTE: They're probe drilling
straight down in the shaft.

CRAIG: How deep are we?

We're around 65 to 66 feet.

- In between there.
- Okay.

NARRATOR: Of all the
large-scale excavations

the Oak Island
team has performed

during the past decade,

they have a number
of reasons to believe

that the Garden Shaft, which
is now being reconstructed

by representatives from
Dumas Contracting Limited,

may be the key to locating
a legendary treasure vault.

After scientifically
dating the shaft to 1735...

Meaning that it could be
related to the original Money Pit...

The team conducted
additional tests

on water samples within it,

as well as on wood fragments

collected from the
walls of the structure

at depths of 55 and 58 feet.

Incredibly, both
exercises yielded

high trace evidence of gold.

Really appreciate you grabbing
these samples of the wood

as you're boring through
there, cutting a hole.

'Cause, uh, you know, the
gold we found up hole a little bit,

it's got us excited to
see what's down here.

And if we can use that
wood and trace the gold,

hopefully it can tell us
where it's coming from.

- Exactly.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: Now,
given that the location

of the Garden
Shaft is within 20 feet

of the so-called
"treasure zone,"

where geoscientist
Dr. Ian Spooner

and his colleague
hydrogeologist Dr. Fred Michael

believe the Money
Pit treasure vault

may be buried between


There's another
augur on there now.

Dumas is conducting a
probe drilling operation

within the structure

at a depth of
approximately 65 feet,

in the hopes of
finding more evidence

of the fabled riches.

Using a hydraulic earth drill,

the team is drilling three holes

through all four walls
of the original shaft

which will reach
as far as 20 feet

in every direction.

RICK: It's all
about, at this point,

the probe drilling

and trying to use
the information

derived from that program
to further our understanding

of the relevance
of the Garden Shaft

in terms of treasure recovery.

CRAIG: That seemed
to be drilling awful easy.

Yeah.

RICK: It's exciting to
think about the possibilities,

because, uh, now we
have found gold values,

meaning that...

we might be close
to a source location

for gold here.

CRAIG: Where are they at?

- COTE: In, uh, northeast corner.
- Okay.

COTE: Something's
going on in that corner.

Yeah. Still, it's
looking like it's

- a softer corner, which...
- Yeah.

Which all indications
were from what we've seen.

We've been probe drilling
in the northeast corner,

and the ground seems quite soft.

It's very interesting.

It's telling us something.

Are we gonna find tunnels? Are
we gonna to find unknown shafts?

And we're real excited about it.

SCOTT: You know, if
there's a tunnel there

or anything like that, it's
gonna be really interesting.

We just got the information

and we'll start
following the information.

That's right. Let the
science do the work.

- Yeah. - Yep.
- Yeah.

CRAIG: Okay, well,
it's moving along.

- Okay.
- Thank you very much.

We'll keep at it.

CRAIG: Let me know if
you hit anything, for sure.

COTE: Okay, will do.

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...

MARTY: All right. What
we got going here today?

I want to pull this corner back,

because when we first dug,

I thought there were a
couple three stones there.

NARRATOR: On Lot 13,

over 400 feet north

of the triangle-shaped swamp...

I agree, it's possible

we could follow that
out a little further.

Craig Tester joins
Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with fellow
landowner Tom Nolan,

and other members
of the team to resume

investigating a mysterious site

known as the
great quadrilateral.

First discovered more
than 30 years ago

by Tom's late
father, Fred Nolan,

the feature is a 32-foot-long
formation of boulders,

which Fred believed
might have been created

centuries ago.

Based on a diagram
that he designed

back in the 1990s,

the team is currently excavating

the northeast portion
of the quadrilateral

in the hopes of determining

who created it and just
what they used it for.

MARTY: And all this clay is
out of place, is that correct?

It shouldn't be there?

Yeah, bottom line
is, you found artifacts.

That tells us that
somebody's dug that clay.

And we found that staple.

Yeah, we did,
and that's the thing.

- If we can dig deeper...
- Mm.

The artifacts should be older.

The more we dig,
the more we find.

Hey, Rick? That's
a bit of clay there.

Where have you
seen that color before?

RICK: Money Pit.

NARRATOR: One week ago,

after uncovering an
artificial layer of blue clay,

which is a kind of water sealant

that was also found
deep in the Money Pit

back in 1804,

- Ooh! A piece of metal.
- The team discovered

a heavy iron staple.

A staple

that blacksmithing
expert Carmen Legge

believed was part
of a pulley system

designed to move heavy objects

and may actually date
back to medieval times.

To me, this strongly

suggests the original work.

Now we have to figure
out the why of this.

Is there a possibility
that there's something

underground here that
may be the one thing?

I'm-I'm hopeful. I am.

But we have to prove it.

Okay. Go hop in that
machine and start finding.

-Yep.
-All right, mate. I'll get ready as well.

NARRATOR: As Billy
Gerhardt excavates the feature,

metal detection
expert Gary Drayton

will search the spoils
for important clues

and signs of treasure.

The quadrilateral
appears to be an area

of rather substantial impact.

The boulders, they were
basically stacked in two tiers.

Doesn't look anything
like an agricultural thing.

Farmers are extremely
practical people.

They're not gonna waste effort.

And why would they dig down

eight, 12, 14 feet?

No, it's not farmers.

It's not agricultural.

So could it be
somehow associated

with the whole mystery? Yeah.

[beeping]

That one weird,
little tick like that.

[beeping]

Yeah, we can't ignore that.

Just there.

Is that a lump of coal
on the side there?

On the side of that wall there?

A little charcoal?

[Rick blows]

GARY: That is definitely
charcoal, mate, isn't it?

RICK: Yeah.

See the glint off of it?

Yeah, definitely part

of the quadrilateral
story, for sure.

RICK: Yeah, good
eye, Gary, because

- it was right there in the wall.
- Yep.

NARRATOR: Because
charcoal can be carbon-dated...

I'll put this in the
bag, Rick. This is cool.

Perhaps this discovery can offer

the team another clue as to when

this feature was created.

All right, let's get back at it.

The other burning
question, where's the metal?

It seems to be

elongated. Oh.

It's there?

Still there?

Yep. It's just...

finding it.

[beeping]

I believe... got it.

That's it.

What the heck is this?

Oh, my gosh!

- Heavy?
- Yeah, it's heavy.

Uh, don't know what it is.

- It's a curved piece of iron.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: While excavating
the mysterious formation

known as the great
quadrilateral on Lot 13...

- What you got, Gary?
- GARY: It looks like

some large piece of iron.

- Yep. - Billy Gerhardt

and Gary Drayton have
just unearthed a potentially

important discovery.

- Was that in the clay?
- Eh.

It's not in the clay, no.

- Show it to these guys.
- GARY: Yeah.

That just seems strange to me.

A little heavy.

A little heavy. Watch yourself.

- RICK: It's weird, whatever it is.
- GARY: Yeah.

It's a non-descript
hunk of something.

Chunk of metal.

- That's heavy.
- TOM: Yeah.

- MARTY: That is rusty.
- TOM: Yeah.

- But that's not 30 years of rusty.
- MARTY: No.

- It looks more than that.
- TOM: Yeah. Yeah.

This goes well
back into antiquity.

Right.

Well, that's not something

you find every day.

Nope.

Just on Oak Island.

MARTY: Just on Oak Island.

Tell you, mate, when
that chunk of iron

come out there, the
way it's curved like that,

the size and the weight of it,

reminded me of a
fragment of a cannonball.

I've found loads of them in
the southeast United States.

I mean, we did find armament.

- We've found musket balls, obviously.
- Yeah.

We've found
Portuguese stone sh*t.

- Yeah.
- If you start putting

puzzle pieces together,

then that becomes
perhaps more relevant.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: A possible
fragment of a cannonball

found in the great
quadrilateral?

And of a potentially
ancient origin?

- Ready?
- Yep.

I love it when we
find stuff like this.

That is a bona fide artifact.

NARRATOR: Over
the past three years,

the team has found two stone
cannonballs on Oak Island,

one of which was discovered
deep in the Money Pit area.

Incredibly, those objects,

just like the stone
road that was uncovered

in the triangle-shaped swamp

back in 2020

and the stone wall
located on Lot 26,

are all believed to be


And potentially connected

to the Portuguese sect
of the Knights Templar.

If it is indeed a
cannonball frag,

then that becomes,
perhaps, extremely relevant.

Yep, you got that right, mate.

NARRATOR: Could
Rick Lagina be correct

that this discovery
may offer a critical clue

in identifying who created the
so-called great quadrilateral?

I think we can say we got
it, but I'll re-check the hole

- just in case.
- Yep. Yep.

NARRATOR: If so, the question

that grows all the
more curious is,

just what was its purpose?

GARY: Yep, it's out.

All right.

It's all clear.

Billy, crank it up.

- [dirt grinding]
- IAN: Geez!

GARY: I'd say we're getting
into some boulders as well.

One there... one there.

BILLY: I don't know if
somebody wants to look,

but you got four
rocks, all flat,

right there... you can see
where the tops are scratched.

- CRAIG: Yeah.
- TOM: You mean those four, four

- small ones there, Billy, sort of...
- BILLY: Yeah, it's just...

they're just kind
of laid flatted out.

Worried about it,
or pulling them out?

-No. Let's see what's under them.
-Keep going.

This is definitely
a disturbed area

where somebody
excavated a bunch of stuff

and then put stuff back in
that didn't belong there...

I'm coming down.

And maybe the boulders here

in this disturbed area
might have been used

to seal something.

If treasure was

brought to Oak Island
and deposited here,

this would be a
great place for it.

GARY: Nothing in there.

RICK: What do you think?

IAN: So there's
nothing really here?

MARTY: No. Nothing.

I wouldn't go any
further than that.

Yeah.

So now I think what
we need to do is

sort of sequentially
move towards the west.

I agree.

And we need artifacts.

Or something underneath this.

That's where I sit.

MARTY: Yeah,
something went on here.

Something was dug out and
something was placed back in.

And we don't know why.

I think we all agree
there's something

strangely unique about this.

Oh, yeah.

RICK: We're not done
digging at the quadrilateral

is what the next steps are.

We need to dig the
structure in its entirety.

I believe there is a chance

that there are
additional boulders,

and hopefully
find more artifacts.

And make our own assessment
of what it might mean.

My usual MO is
to say... [chuckles]

keep digging, so that's
what I suggest we do.

IAN: Yep. This is going to take

- a few days.
- RICK: Yeah.

But it's about the
end of the day,

so let's call it a day.

- TOM: Okay.
- MARTY: We'll be back again.

- NARRATOR: The following day...
- Going up.

As the probe drilling
operation continues

in the Garden Shaft...

RICK: Certainly, the
Garden Shaft is the...

most important, uh,
project that we have,

but the swamp also is important.

NARRATOR: Rick, Marty and Craig

have gathered members
of the team in the w*r room,

as well as on video
conference, for an update

on another major investigation

they soon hope to begin

in order to help solve
the Oak Island mystery.

The thing that is required,
obviously, is a permit.

I just wanted to bring
everybody up to date,

as to where we are. Laird has

put in for heritage
research permits regarding

the southeast
corner of the swamp.

TONY: How's that for
a starting point, guys?

JEREMY: Yeah, that's a good one.

NARRATOR: Earlier this year,

the team conducted
new magnetometer scans

in the swamp with geophysical

experts Jeremy Church
and Burton Cosgrove.

JEREMY: Whoa!

- TONY: Big one?
- Yeah.

- Through the roof.
- Fantastic!

NARRATOR: Incredibly,
they detected numerous

metallic anomalies in an area

just several yards
from the possible

Portuguese stone road
located in the brackish bog's

southeast corner.

And we've sent all information
to the First Nations, right?

Correct. We have. Yes.

NARRATOR: However,

due to the discovery

of 2,000-year-old fragments

of First Nations Mi'kmaw pottery

that archaeologist
Laird Niven made

in the southeast
corner of the swamp

back in 2021,

the Oak Island team has
been delayed in obtaining

governmental permits
to once again draw down,

or drain, the swamp
and investigate

those potential targets.

I know things have gotten
more complicated and

- we need that draw-down permit because...
- Yeah.

We want to dig and Jeremy's

presentation and
there's some things that,

in my mind, should be dug.

Right.

Billy, I'm going to turn it over
to you because you've been

more intimately involved
in that process than anyone.

So if you can fill
everyone in, that'd be great.

So, the government,
they've been very good

in communicating with us.

The good news is...

from what we understand...

they gave the approvals

- for a permit. - Perfect!

[laughter]

RICK: All the information
has been relayed

to the proper
governmental authorities

and all of the permit

application requirements
have been met.

Well done, sir.

And I believe that
we should shortly

have the permits in hand.

I think we're, uh,
we're well on our way.

Hopefully it'll be all
positive from here on in.

It's all good. We can't control
it beyond this, so proceed.

All righty.

- ALEX: See you, guys.
- See you.

- SCOTT: Thanks.
- MARTY: Drain that swamp.

NARRATOR: Two days
after the Oak Island team's

meeting in the w*r room...

- ALEX: Hey, Billy!
- BILLY: How you doing, guys?

JACK: Hey, Billy.

This is one heck of a big pump.

- ALEX: Yeah, yeah.
- BILLY: Well, it's a big swamp.

NARRATOR: they have
officially received a permit

from the provincial
government to drain the swamp

in order to investigate a
number of potential metal targets

that were detected
earlier this year.

So we cleaned out the
sump, sump's all ready to go.

ALEX: When we did this year one,

I don't remember what the
flow rate was on those things.

- What-what's this thing?
- Uh...

I think, I think this thing
would probably seven

- or 800 gallons a minute, I imagine.
- ALEX: So that means,

couple three days, we'll
have this thing drained?

Yeah, it'll go
pretty quick, yeah.

Where are we
running the outflow?

This line here, we
have it strung over

on Lot 29. Up in
the middle, there's

quite a rocky
section in the woods.

As you know, we're
pretty protective

- of any runoff, so...
- ALEX: Yeah.

- Let's get pumping.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: In accordance
with environmental regulations...

Hey, Tim!

Rather than pumping
the brackish water out

of the swamp and
into the nearby ocean,

the Oak Island
team will transfer it all

to Lot 29, in the
middle of the island.

Tim got tired of taking pumps
apart and picking sticks out,

so he designed
this little float for us.

Yeah. Ingenious idea.

The swamp definitely has a lot

of secrets that
it's still hiding.

You know, it almost looks like

someone covered a stone pathway,

and other related features.

I got to say, Tim,
I'm very impressed.

- Well done.
- JACK: It makes you wonder,

was that done by the depositors?

Or was that done
by early searchers?

Cool.

That is a hooked-up pump.

I think we're all ready.

Oh! Here goes.

All righty! See you, Bill.

- Yeah.
- Jack: See you, guys.

NARRATOR: The following day,

while the swamp
continues to drain...

COTE: Want tightlining now?

Want to bring them
down some nails?

And while the probe
drilling operation proceeds

in the Garden Shaft
at the Money Pit...

RICK: Okay, Billy.

- It's up you.
- BILLY: Okay.

Billy Gerhardt returns

to Lot 13,

along with Rick
Lagina, Tom Nolan

and other members of the team

to continue excavating
the great quadrilateral

for additional clues,
as well as signs

of potential valuables.

What say me and
you go behind there

- and sort through the spoils?
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: Having
discovered several

potentially important artifacts

in the northeast
portion of the feature,

the team is now excavating

its southern region.

RICK: My hope is that we can

somehow figure
out the why of it.

Fred was unable to.

Why build such a structure?

It makes no sense.

To me, it might be associated

with a... what we call
"original work," because...

I can't believe a farmer

would conduct such an activity.

GARY: Nothing.

Keep going, Bill.

You know what's interesting

about this is, I mean,
Fred described it

as roughly paving,

and if you look at
the sketch in the book,

they're mostly big
rocks, but he actually

draws little rocks
in between them

as though the top
was meant to be paved.

In fact, I think
even in the book

he calls it a paved area.

Well, now there's
paved area in the swamp.

Paved area here.

Are they the same?

I don't know.

NARRATOR: In 2019,

the team was astonished
to uncover a vast area

of paving stones near
the middle of the swamp.

IAN: Well, we got the date.

And so we just got
them back yesterday.

NARRATOR: But
even more incredible

was that Dr. Ian
Spooner was able

to date the feature to as early

as 1200 AD.

- Medieval, baby!
- [laughter]

RICK: Be nice to find

- another artifact or two.
- GARY: Yeah.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the great quadrilateral,

which Fred Nolan discovered
more than 30 years ago,

could actually date to
the same time period?

If so, could this feature

be more evidence that the origin

of the Oak Island mystery
goes further back in time

than anyone ever
thought possible?

TOM: I believe there's
one of the boulders that

formed part of the,
part of the structure.

IAN: So if it is part
of the structure,

it'd be fun to go over
and look at it and see

- what-what its relationship...
- TOM: Yeah.

Is to the sediment underneath.

If there's soil
underneath the boulder,

then we know it's
been moved, you know?

I think we should just
come up and go over there

- and take a look at them.
- CRAIG: Yeah.

BILLY: There's three
rocks in a line at a height

of where we found
the other ones, but...

Does it kind of
parallel the other side?

- Yes. I'd say, yeah.
- So it could be something underneath?

- Could be.
- RICK: That'd be interesting.

Yeah, so... like Tom,

you were saying, these
boulders look embedded.

Oh, they are.

They were definitely

placed in a certain type

of order here and you
can see it here, that they're

- stacked pretty tight.
- IAN: Right.

Yeah, bottom line
is, if we didn't have

rocks here and rocks
there, or rocks in line,

that's a little
unnatural, right?

But I want to see if we have
any organic matter underneath it.

Yeah, so I think

we just need to pluck this.

Okey doke.

As we get below the layer of
boulders, which my dad didn't,

it's deepening the mystery.

This site has been
manipulated for a reason.

That's the question,
now, we need to find out.

I'd like to metal detect that.
We might get an Hail Mary find

- out of there.
- That's right.

Yep.

Ooh, bit of pottery
right on the top.

Can't really tell a
lot about it, it's...

it's just a white
glazed shard of pottery.

Right in that last bucket.

RICK: Take a look at this, Gary.

What do you got, mate?

Ooh.

Oh, wow that's old.

GARY: It looks old.

Yeah, that is an
old piece of glass,

with it being that thin.

NARRATOR: While
searching the spoils

that have been excavated from
a depth of more than ten feet

at the mysterious
great quadrilateral...

Check that out, Tom.

That's old. Good eye, Rick.

Rick Lagina has uncovered

a potentially
significant artifact.

That is terribly thin.

GARY: Yeah. That's how you
know it's old... when it's thin.

That could easily
be 1700s or older.

NARRATOR: A piece of glass

potentially dating back earlier

than the 18th century and
found more than ten feet deep

in the great quadrilateral?

That's a crackin'
find, Rick. It really is.

NARRATOR: Could that
mean that it was left behind

by someone who previously
investigated this feature?

Or was it left by someone
who helped create it?

IAN: I think wherever
that little piece

came from was
right at the interface

- between the soil and the C horizon.
- GARY: Yeah.

NARRATOR: The C horizon refers

to the natural layer of
earth below the topsoil,

which may have previously
been disturbed by human activity.

IAN: I think,

all in here, we're
down into C horizon.

We're probably out of the,
uh... the quadrilateral now.

NARRATOR: At this point,

it is Dr. Spooner's opinion

that they have reached
the bottom of the feature.

- We're so far back now.
- RICK: Too far?

Yeah, even at its longest
point, it was 32 feet,

going north to south, and...

we'd be well past
that here, so...

I think we're out of
the original structure.

Yeah.

It does look like
it's been disturbed.

IAN: Yeah. Quite
a bit, right in here.

RICK: Well, bottom line is,

we may not uncover anything
more than your father did.

I think the most important
thing we've learned

about the quadrilateral to date

is that what Fred wrote about
his observations were correct.

We have proven that there
was a stacked stone feature.

It can only

have been put there
by human beings.

To what end?

That's yet to be discovered.

IAN: We're absolutely certain

it's been manipulated.
Somebody's dug it.

It's just who

and when they dug.

So, the quadrilateral still
does remain a mystery.

Unfortunately, we
didn't find any treasure.

But I think it had purpose.

Was it used here as
some sort of a marker?

We just don't know.

But it just validates
what my dad discovered

and the work he did here.

I-It's a great
fulfillment in life for me.

Well, we gave it a go,

like your father did, but this

- probably defines the dig.
- Yeah. - Yeah.

- IAN: I agree. - BILLY: Yep.
- RICK: Let's call it a day.

- TOM: Sounds good.
- RICK: Well done, guys.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: The following day...

while representatives from
Dumas continue searching

for clues just outside
the Garden Shaft

and while the swamp
continues to drain...

RICK: So, gentlemen, today's,
uh, another data download day.

But it's about my favorite
place on Oak Island,

the swamp.

Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with members
of the team...

So, Billy, if you can get
Marty and Jeremy up.

Are meeting via video
conference in the w*r room

with geoscientist Jeremy Church.

- JEREMY: Hey, guys.
- Hi, guys!

- Hey, Marty. Hey, Jeremy.
- Hey!

RICK: So, Jeremy,

I hear you've got some analysis,

and I very much
look forward to it.

There's some interesting
stuff that's come out of it.

- Great.
- MARTY: Hey, I want to say this right now...

I've been telling
Rick for years now

we should not
quit on that swamp.

- [chuckles] -
That's-that's-that's the way

I remember it.

That's not the
way I remember it.

- [chuckling] - RICK:
Now that we have indeed

the swamp permits,
I had asked Jeremy

to further study the
geophysical data.

And he believes he has some...

some targets, legitimate
targets, in the swamp.

Jeremy, it's over to you.

JEREMY: All right, gentlemen.

Here's the data coverage
of the swamp area.

So, jumping in,

first slice that we're
gonna look at is

real close to the surface.

We have this
"Anomaly SWa" up in...

north part of the swamp.

Hmm.

It was quite interesting
'cause there's something

under the surface when
he was in-in the soft muck

that you can see it in
the... In the acquisition line.

It's not metallic, either.

Hmm. Interesting.

But definitely

a very interesting anomaly.

RICK: The potential target

at the base of the
Eye of the Swamp

means it probably is some
sort of legitimate target

and we'll have to figure
out a way to investigate it.

I believe there are
answers in that swamp.

Okay. What else do you find?

All right.

About three feet down,

a couple new anomalies in here.

So, uh, I do believe
this is your stone path

going along kind
of the eastern edge,

with potential kind of extension
out into more of the open water.

So, this is a
slightly deeper slice.

Now we're at, like,
just over three feet.

And I do believe this
is your paved area

that has started
to show up here,

just north of the peninsula.

And this is where
things start getting

a little more
interesting for us.

It all shallows up, of course,

as you get north of
the peninsula here.

So, this is very
bright conductivity.

Bright colors like yellows
and-and then getting into reds

represents high
conductivity anomalies, and...

the blues and purples
are lower conductivity.

So, higher chance of
some sort of metallic content.

Oh.

And just on the other
side of the peninsula,

that really bright
anomaly shows up there.

It's quite a major
feature, for sure.

JACK: Why is it

so much darker red there?

The deeper the red, the
higher the conductivity.

So it's very elevated there.

That's the strongest
metallic response

in the swamp area.

JACK: All right.

RICK: That's great.

JEREMY: That's kind of the
strongest metallic response

in the swamp area.

NARRATOR: In the w*r room,

geoscientist Jeremy Church

has just presented the team
with updated magnetometry data

indicating several metallic
anomalies may lie buried

approximately three feet deep
near the 800-year-old paved area

in the northeastern region
of the Oak Island swamp.

And this anomaly does
extend to deeper than...

this three-foot kind
of level that we're at.

It's quite a major
feature, for sure.

In that red zone,

have we ever dug for
"Anomaly SWe," like,

around in that area at all?

You know, not to
his targeted area.

There may be two feet
of water on it right now.

MARTY: That sounds
like a good target,

but it's a tough one to get to.

RICK: When Jeremy shows
the high conductivity values

in the swamp,

it's a difficult
location to dig,

because it's too wet
of an environment.

Yes, we were able
to drain the swamp,

but the body of the swamp
proper retains a lot of water.

We'll have to wait
and see what it is.

JEREMY: That... what I'm
calling "the paved area"...

Maybe this is another
region to take another look at.

That's at least three feet deep.

So now we have
reason to go back there.

RICK: In regards to conductivity

within the paved
area of the swamp,

the first thought on
everyone's mind is,

"This is diggable."

At that location,

you could probably
dig 50 feet, maybe.

- Wow. Okay.
- RICK: Billy could bring

an excavator in there and
dig it to the proper depth.

I think everyone
wants to know what it is

or what it might represent.

MARTY: Conductivity
in the paved area

could have telltale
artifacts on it.

The swamp clearly has mysteries.

I think, Steve, you need to get

all these things on our map

and then it's time to dig.

Yeah. Yeah, that's easy.

JEREMY: So, yeah,

that's what I got
for you right now,

but a bunch more exciting data

comes in daily
and I'm working it,

so stay tuned.

Well, it's all interesting.

We'll have Steve
overlay everything,

as Marty said,

and-and, uh, have a look.

- Yeah.
- MARTY: That's excellent, I think.

This data's good.

It means the swamp is full of
secrets... that's what it means.

[chuckling]

Jeremy, thank you very much.

There's a lot to do.

The only way to do it, as
usual, it's not in this room...

It's out back, as Dan called it.

So, see you, guys.

Till the next time! Thank you!

- Thanks, Jeremy.
- JEREMY: Goodbye. Thank you.

NARRATOR: After the
meeting in the w*r room...

- SCOTT: Hey, Paul!
- COTE: Hey, how's it going?

Craig Tester and Scott Barlow

arrive in the Money Pit area.

Working at a depth of 65 feet

in the Garden Shaft,

the team from Dumas
Contracting Limited

has nearly completed
their probe drilling operation

at the current depth of
the feature's reconstruction.

CRAIG: Where are they at?

So, uh, they got
one hole 15 feet

and they hit solid.

CRAIG: 15, did you say?

- 15. Yeah.
- Okay.

NARRATOR: An
impenetrable obstruction

some 15 feet outside
of the Garden Shaft

and at a depth of some 65 feet?

The questions that
arise now are is it natural

or could it be man-made?

SCOTT: There could be a void.

There could be another
shaft right beside this one.

- [walkie beeps] -
AURELE: Going down.

SCOTT: Down just
below 58 feet, 60 feet.

- [walkie beeps]
- Good.

SCOTT: It's-it's a bit baffling.

But it doesn't mean
that it can't be significant,

because lots of places

in history where things...

operations like this have
been done by the depositors,

they may dig down

but then tunnel off to the
side in an offset chamber

or-or back up
towards the surface

and that's where their-their
cache of treasure is put.

- There's another augur on there now.
- CRAIG: Yep.

We'll try to drill through it.

Okay.

[clanking]

All right.

We got something going.

They got something there.

- Did we hit something, Daniel?
- [beep]



Probably a rock or something.

NARRATOR: After
completing 12 20-foot boreholes

covering all four walls
of the Garden Shaft,

unfortunately, no signs of
valuables have been found

at the 65-foot level.

However, since the
shaft extends down

to a total depth of 80 feet,

perhaps they simply
need to proceed deeper

in order to locate the
large source of gold

that has been
detected in the area.

What about timing
going forward from here?

How soon until
you're mucking again?

Uh, so, after they're done,

they'll pull the drill out,

if we don't encounter
any problems,

and then we'll work our way
down and then we'll start grabbing.

NARRATOR: Once the probe
drill is removed from the structure,

the team from Dumas will prepare

to reconstruct the next
eight-foot level, or set,

- of the Garden Shaft.
- SCOTT: Let's get down

to the interesting depth, right?

I mean, the closer
we get to the bottom,

the more curious it becomes.

Hopefully, that's where the
gold signal's coming from,

- but we'll see.
- COTE: Yeah.

SCOTT: Thanks, Paul.

- CRAIG: Appreciate it.
- COTE: Yeah.

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...

RICK: Billy, you ready
to start making a mess?

BILLY: Well,

- I hope so. I hope...
- [chuckles]

I hope it's a good mess.

Rick Lagina and Craig Tester,

along with other
members of the team,

arrive at the
triangle-shaped swamp.

This is it?

It would be on the eastern edge.

Okay. So, Bill, as usual,

when it comes to
digging, it's up to you.

- Yep.
- So, pull up.

Let's start here.

All right. Great.

NARRATOR: Now that nearly
three million gallons of brackish water

have been drained
from the swamp,

the team is eager
to begin investigating

a metallic anomaly that
Jeremy Church identified

in the northeastern region

near the 800-year-old
paved area.

RICK: Digging in the
swamp is incredibly difficult.

But what is

exciting about it

is the possibilities
that it presents.

-[clanging] -RICK: Right
there. Something hard.

There are some interesting
finds yet to be made in the swamp

that may lead to
"X marks the spot."

CRAIG: The bucket
going across here

is hitting something solid.

You can hear it all the way.

- [clanging] is that?
- RICK: What is that?

BILLY: I'm not sure.

NARRATOR: While
investigating the swamp,

where a believed metallic
anomaly may be buried...

[clanging continues]

JACK: What is that?

The Oak Island
team has just made

a potentially
important discovery.

BILLY: I'm not sure, but
I think there's all rocks

underneath there. But
I think they're coming...

They're sloping up.

Really?

LAIRD: You just
see the white tops.

STEVE: Yeah.
That's a lot of cobble.

I am gonna take an elevation.

If I remember correctly,

I believe the paved
area was about a foot

to a foot and a
half below sea level,

but let me get-get
an elevation check.

CRAIG: Okay. Sounds good.

And then just see if
it's coming up at-at all.

Oh.

Yeah, there's a lot
of cobble under here.

It's... I think it's cobble the
whole way up, Steve, yeah.

Yeah.

So, we're a foot and a
half below sea level here.

Do you think it's sloping up?

BILLY: Yeah. It seems
like it's coming up this way.

And maybe even
side to side a little bit.

So we've come up a
couple inches here, Billy.

Yeah.

STEVE: So the grade starts to...

come up. So...

it could be a ramp.

Yeah.

STEVE: The elevations are about
a foot and a half below sea level,

which is very consistent
to the paved area

that we found a few years ago.

Well, that's important,
because if a ramp

is connected to the paved area,

it's gonna start at
the same elevation.

NARRATOR: A ramp made of stone?

And possibly connected to
the 800-year-old paved area

that the team
discovered back in 2017?

If so, could it be covering
the metallic anomaly

that has recently been
detected in this area?

Uh, do we want
to go wider or...?

- Any thoughts, Laird?
- I would've thought wider

if you think it's sloping up.

Yeah, I was gonna say,
let's continue this way.

That's what I would do.

And then if it runs out,

it runs out, which
is a good thing.

We definitely think we're
in a paved area here.

Oh, yeah. No, there's no doubt.

RICK: I think we're all thinking

the same thing.

R-A-M-P. A ramp.

An inclined ramp.

We believe there was a construct

that possibly connected the
paved area to the stone path.

And now we have a potential
connection between the two.

Yeah, I'd keep going that way

and-and what...
Uncover it from here...

- Yeah.
- And-and if we end up having

- to reposition, we reposition. But...
- Yeah.

Yeah. This gives us
a good starting point,

and the ramp is as
important as anything, I think.

JACK: So let's start here,

dig it up and see if there
really is a ramp that connects

this paved area to the road.

I agree.

Okay, Bill, keep going.

Okay.

RICK: Let's see
where this leads.

NARRATOR: As another memorable
week comes to a close on Oak Island,

Rick, Marty, Craig and their
team are once again confronted

with a daunting realization.

The answers to this


appear to be hidden

in a number of ingeniously
concealed locations.

And while that suggests

that their quest will remain
frustratingly complex,

it could also mean that
following every potential clue

and finishing every arduous dig

will lead to many
profound rewards.

Next time on The
Curse of Oak Island...

SCOTT: Oh, wow.

No matter what
we're into in this area,

whether it's wood
or water or soil,

- we're getting gold.
- [rapid beeping]

- [gasps, laughs] - Oh!
What have we got, mate?

JACK: That's awesome!

EMMA: This comes from Sardinia.

Off the coast of Italy.

- MARTY: Whoa.
- RICK: It's the trail

- of the Templars.
- This thing could have

a worldwide impact.

-Oh, definitely. It's a game changer.
-Yeah.

The source of an
astonishing revelation.

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