11x08 - A Void At All Costs

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

STEVE: We're coming
in to the cavity now.

- There's a linear feature right there.
- ALEX: Whoa!

It looks like a
hallway or a tunnel.

Wow.

MOYA: Helen, I think
I found something.

That indicates marine activity.

Yeah, it's really interesting.

Do you have any
idea what that is?

What?

ROGER: I tapped into a cavern

from the side of my shaft.

RICK: This could
be an offset chamber.

Yeah.

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.

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STEVE: Look at
the water coming in.

ROGER: Yeah, that's quite a bit.

MARTY: Here's the water.

NARRATOR: A new day
has arrived on Oak Island

for brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina

- and their team.
- Where's that coming from, Roger?

Right now, it's
coming from the walls,

so it's coming down
between our tight lining.

- MARTY: Is that the bottom?
- Yeah, and it's just referring

right back to the bottom.

NARRATOR: But unlike most

that begin with new
search activities in the hopes

of solving a 228-year-old
treasure mystery,

today, they must first contend
with a sobering setback

in the Money Pit area.

ROGER: We were all
talking about all this water.

Like, I know we had tons of
rain and-and it sure didn't help.

We just found it excessive.

- Yeah, I would be concerned about it.
- ROGER: Yeah.

NARRATOR: Following a
recent torrential rainstorm,

which battered the southern
region of Nova Scotia,

something that may not
be related to Mother Nature,

triggered a constant
flow of water

to enter the Garden Shaft
at a depth of some 66 feet.


didn't fall in that area.

-No. -Only ten inches did.

- That's right.
- Is that deep enough

to be the flood tunnel?

NARRATOR: Whether or
not the source of the water

is related to one of the
legendary flood tunnels

that have plagued searchers
for more than two centuries,

it has halted the
team's current operation

to deepen the Garden Shaft

beyond its current
depth of 87 feet,

down to a target
depth of nearly 100 feet.

It is there where the
team hopes to breach

a mysterious
seven-foot-high tunnel.

One that leads due west
toward the Baby Blob,

an area where high-trace
evidence of gold,

silver and other metals
have been detected

between 80 and


MARTY: Last year, almost no
water was coming into the shaft.

This year, it appears
to be pouring in.

We have to figure out what's
going on with the Garden Shaft.

Could this actually
be the flood tunnel

that's causing our
problems? I don't know.

That's what we're
here to find out

because we could be
that close to the treasure.

Are they pumping right
now? They're pumping it out?

ROGER: Yeah, that's
what they're doing right now.

They're lowering the
pump and we're going to see

where the sediment's at.

So, we started drilling a
bunch of holes in there.

Probe holes to see
if there's, you know,

is there anything out there
that we're not aware of?

And we did find some voids.

- Really?
- Oh, yeah. For sure.

STEVE: So, it could be a
flood tunnel. We don't know.

- Yeah.
- MARTY: Well, I'll tell you what.

We can sit here
and guess all day

where the water's coming
from, but let's stop it.

Yeah. My biggest concern
is stopping this water.

MARTY: Yeah.

You're going to do it
today? The urethane?

ROGER: Uh, it won't be today.

What we're going to do
right now is kind of define drill,

find out exactly where that
void is going, where it is.

And then we're
gonna probably look at

getting all these
cavities filled,

hopefully stopping
this water completely.

Okay.

NARRATOR: In an attempt to stop

the inflow of water,

representatives from
Dumas Contracting Limited

will use the exploratory
holes they have drilled

to fill the mysterious
voids outside of the shaft

with multi-urethane,

an industrial-grade compound

that expands in order
to seal off open spaces.

RICK: The goal is to
extend the Garden Shaft

to the top of the
previously unknown tunnel,

and with 700 gallons an
hour coming in on that shaft,

there is no way
that's going to happen.

This presents
some difficult issues,

and they have to be resolved.

We cannot accomplish
the goal unless

we stop the water from
intruding into the shaft.

ROGER: So, once we seal all this

and everything is
foamed up and solid,

then we get down there,
we start digging again.

Our number one focus
is get down in that shaft.

Good deal. Roger, look,
I'll be keenly interested

to see how that turns out.

Oh, I'll keep you posted.

- Please do.
- Absolutely.

MARTY: Okay. Carry on, Roger.

ROGER: Right on. Thanks, guys.

NARRATOR: As the team from Dumas

continues their work
in the Garden Shaft...

LAIRD: That's a lot of water.

PETER: Yeah, we had
a crazy amount of rain.

We had about nine
inches in 12 hours.

Yep.

NARRATOR: on Lot 5,

located on the western
side of the island...

LINDY: Hopefully,

once we get it pumped
out, it'll start to dry up.

Peter Fornetti, lead
archaeologist Laird Niven

and other members
of the team arrive

at the mysterious
circular structure

near the shoreline
to assess its condition

following the recent storm.

I think we'll be able
to still work up here.

JAMIE: I hope so, yeah.

All right. So, let's
take the tarp off.

Yeah. Works for me.

Let's do it.

NARRATOR: Although this feature

sits nearly a mile from
the Money Pit area,

it has yielded a number of clues

suggesting that it
may also be critical

to solving the Oak
Island mystery.

JAMIE: There we go.

NARRATOR: After finding
a lead barter token last year

near the outer rim,
and which may be

directly connected to the


that was found in


FIONA: Okay. What is this?

JACK: What is it?

- JAMIE: Oh, my God.
- FIONA: That looks like

the handle of something.

In recent weeks,

the team has discovered
three metal artifacts

within the structure that
have been scientifically linked

to the 17th-century English
politician and privateer

Sir William Phips,

a man who some believe
buried a vast cache

of Spanish gold and
silver in the Money Pit

back in 1687.

And curiously, after conducting

a magnetometry scan
of the immediate area,

the team found evidence
that a much larger,

and possibly older structure,

lies buried beneath it.

FIONA: Oh, boy.

JAMIE: A lot of debris

and stuff washed in,

but it could be
much, much worse.

LAIRD: All right.
Well, let's get started.

We need someone
to bring the pump over,

someone to bring
the generator over

and someone to
bring the hose over.

Yeah. Let's go.

MARTY: The team of
archaeologists are very excited

that this circular
feature is actually

very anomalously
large for the time period.

- LAIRD: That's good.
- MARTY: They're thinking

it could be an
important feature.

- LAIRD: There you go.
- MARTY: Maybe connected to

the Money Pit, and they aren't
even to the bottom of it yet.

I think it's going to be
dry enough by tomorrow.

I hope so. Yeah.

NARRATOR: While the
investigation of the stone feature

continues on Lot 5...

MARTY: Well, are
we about set up?

Should be ready to roll, Marty.

MARTY: Okay. I want to
see what this cave's all about.

Back in the Money Pit area,

Marty Lagina joins other
members of the team,

approximately 60 feet
southwest of the Garden Shaft,

where they are
preparing to conduct

a sonar scan of a
mysterious cavity

more than 150 feet deep

known as "Aladdin's Cave."

We've maxed out the settings,

so, hopefully, we can
get a really quick scan

of the ten-foot
void that we're into.

This is a good
data-gathering device.

Yeah.

MARTY: Okay, go real slow.

NARRATOR: Since
discovering this large cavity

during a core-drilling
operation one year ago,

the team has not only
obtained sonar data,

recorded on the western
side of the feature,

showing a possible
tunnel entrance,

but have also
detected trace evidence

of wood and precious metals

in collected water samples.

- Oh, whoa, whoa!
- Whoa!

CHARLES: What's that sitting

right on the end
of it, right there?

STEVE: It looks like a bolt.

NARRATOR: And,
just one week ago,

after inserting a camera

through a new borehole
in the center of the cavern,

the team saw more evidence

of possible man-made workings.

PAUL: We should be good to go.

We just have to
get it in the hole.

- Okay. Proceed.
- I'll do it.

NARRATOR: Now, using the
Echologger DASS710 sonar device

in the same borehole,

Marty and the team

are hoping to obtain a
more definitive 3D map

of "Aladdin's Cave" to determine

if it really could be
a man-made feature

that contains
something of great value.

You have to open up
your mind to the idea

that there are multiple
treasure cavities

in the Money Pit.

Aladdin's Cave and
the Garden Shaft

are legitimate targets
and areas of interest

to find the treasure.

So, we have to continue

to investigate this area,
and that's important.

I'm in the water.

PAUL: Okay. Still
have a little bit to go.

MARTY: Aladdin's Cave is unique.

Sonar will see through the silt.

That will see through
the opaque, muddy water.

Obviously, I'm hoping to see

something that looks man-made.

Uh, shelves or timbers

or chests.

STEVE: All right, so we're
coming in to the cavity now.

Okay, we're going
to start the scan

- in just a second here.
- Okay.

Okay, we are scanning.

TERRY: Something's
happening there.

PAUL: So, we're
getting a return now.

PAUL: Now we're getting
the perimeter of the cavern.

TERRY: There it is.

PAUL: It looks kind of,
uh, crescent moon-shaped.

Okay.

- Hey, guys.
- TERRY: Hey, guys.

- How are you doing?
- RICK: Hey.

TERRY: We've got the
image all set up here.

So, the image is very
clear and crisp at this time.

Rotate it a little more, Paul.

- TERRY: Now, look at that.
- CHARLES: Oh, now we're

starting to see-see
the sides form.

TERRY: Excellent.

CHARLES: Do you see any evidence

of a tunnel or an entrance or...

Maybe.

It's hard to say.

Whoa. What is this?

We seem to have
a sharp edge there.

Where are we looking?

RICK: The sides, right?

CHARLES: Yeah.
There's two straight lines.

PAUL: They certainly
don't look natural.

TERRY: Yeah.

CHARLES: There's two
straight lines. There's one there

and then there's
one there, right?

PAUL: Absolutely.

NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area

on Oak Island,

Rick, Marty and other
members of the team

have just obtained
new sonar data...

that indicates possible evidence

of man-made workings
some 150 feet deep

in a large cavern known
as "Aladdin's Cave."

PAUL: They certainly
don't look natural.

TERRY: Yeah.

We'll see those better

when Steve puts
them in the 3D model.

- Yep.
- The characterization

of this opening
is, I really think,

going to give us a lot
of information as to,

you know, how people
proceeded in the past to dig

and work below 106
in the Money Pit area.

Keep rotating it please, Paul.

Stop there.

TERRY: What I'm
seeing is the potential

that that slope
there might be sand.

And this slope

could be burying whatever
might be laying on the floor.

MARTY: There's a pretty
square wall along one side.

Very interesting.

You almost only could
come up with one explanation

why there would be
man-made anything in that cave.

It was some sort of
deposit of treasure.

We have a very good view here.

So, based on the
data we have today,

this is the western
part of the cave.

It's substantial in size.

But most importantly, we need
to see where it's coming from.

MARTY: Are you
seeing a potential way in?

I mean, we could go
over to that direction

and see if it continues on.

- Yes.
- TERRY: Yep.

RICK: I think you gotta
put a drill hole on it.

MARTY: That's what I would do.

RICK: I simply want to see

a way into Aladdin's Cave.

There's a possibility that
treasure does reside there.

But I think, all
things Oak Island,

everything is incremental.

We're seeing a little
bit of an echo here,

so maybe there is an opening.

RICK: Let's do
some more drilling.

Put a camera down into it.

Let's see what-what we learn

and then make a decision
on how to proceed.

So, I think everyone
here is quite adamant

that we need to make a
proper, sound assessment

of what this represents, right?

There are two ways to do it.

One is put another
drill hole down

and put it on a more detailed,

outward-looking scan, right?

- Sounds good.
- Let's do it. Set it up.

I think that's all we
can do today. Nice job.

- Okay.
- All right, guys.

ALEX: Thanks.

TERRY: Time's going to tell.

NARRATOR: The following morning,

as members of the team
begin drilling a new borehole...

Known as L13.5...

In order to collect more data
inside of Aladdin's Cave...

ROGER: Okay, it's all good.

NARRATOR: and while
representatives from Dumas

continue their effort

to stop the flow of water
into the Garden Shaft...

- CARMEN: Hello.
- CRAIG: Hey, Carmen.

PETER: Hey, Carmen.

- How you doing today?
- Good. -Welcome back.

Got some more stuff
for me, have you?

NARRATOR: Craig
Tester, Peter Fornetti,

Jack Begley,

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

meet with blacksmithing
expert Carmen Legge

in the Interpretive Centre.

- Who's gonna start?
- JACK: Me.

And these objects have
been found on Lot 5.

CARMEN: Oh, okay.

NARRATOR: Carmen
has been invited

to examine a metal strap

and a heavy fastener,

that were both
found one week ago

within the mysterious
circular depression on Lot 5.

JACK: What do you
think about this, Carmen?

CARMEN: Well, I would
have to see a scan on that

because I can't tell if that
has a hole into it or not.

There you go, Carmen.

NARRATOR: In preparation
for today's meeting,

Emma processed both objects

with two specialized
scanning devices.

The first,

known as the Skyscan


emits non-destructive radiation

that penetrates built-up
corrosion on objects

in order to reveal
their finer details.

The second, known as an
X-ray fluorescence spectrometer,

uses X-rays to
identify the elements

that the objects
are composed of.

EMMA: And it is
heavily corroded.

So, the red is the corrosion.

And the green is the base metal.

Yep. There's a
hole on both sides.

- EMMA: Right there.
- CARMEN: Yeah.

It would end right here.

CARMEN: It was very well done.

Oh, do you have
any idea what that is?

Yeah, that's a clasp
off a... a chest or a trunk.

- What?
- Yeah.

'Cause you can see this
part's sticking out here, right?

- JACK: Oh.
- CARMEN: So, then you, when you close the lid,

the clasp comes down
at the hinge part, right?

It comes down and then you
insert a, uh, a lock or a wedge.

Oh, okay.

A chest for what, typically?

Uh, this would be a small
chest. I would say 12 by 12.

Does the style of that
suggest a time period? Or...

CARMEN: It is old. You know,
early 1600s to the mid-1700s.

NARRATOR: A clasp

to a small chest or trunk

possibly dating back
to the 17th century?

And found in the
mysterious feature on Lot 5?

Could it be related to
other 17th-century artifacts,

which have been traced
to Sir William Phips?

The privateer who, some believe,

buried treasure from
the famed Spanish wreck

known as the Concepcion
on Oak Island in 1687?

If so, could they
also be connected

to the precious metals
that have been detected

across the Money Pit area?

JACK: Well, what's
the metallurgy of this?

Metallurgy, there are
no modern indicators.

Okay.

PETER: So, I'm curious
about this next piece.

JACK: All the iron pieces

were relatively found
in the same zone.

CARMEN: Oh,
definitely a nail, Jack.

Do we have a scan of
this one, so I can see it?

I do.

Can you flip the head
around a few times?

What I'm seeing here is a
nail that was made in a hurry

with no definitive head.

It's not a rose head
or anything like that.

It was just squished out.

So, it wasn't, uh,
made for anything

that was going to be
fancy or pretty or whatever.

So, typical structure nail.

Okay.

We have overwhelming evidence

that people were doing
something in this structure.

CARMEN: It's a very crude
nail for a very crude purpose.

JACK: What would be your
best guess for time frame?

Early 1600s up to 1700s.

Nice.

Um, I would lean towards the
older part of that time period.

CRAIG: Emma?

- Mm-hmm.
- What's the chemistry of that?

EMMA: From what I do see,

definitely pre-1800s,
could be 1600s,

but it does have a higher
aluminum-to-silicon ratio,

which is unusual,

but it is a signature
that I'm seeing

in William Phipps artifacts,

and I've been seeing it
on Oak Island artifacts.

I mean, it's good.

These two artifacts, we
have two different disciplines

suggesting the same
time frame, which is great.

CRAIG: Yep. Well,
thank you, Carmen.

I'm hoping we have
you back here very soon.

CARMEN: The sooner the better.

NARRATOR: As the team
concludes their meeting

with Carmen Legge at
the Interpretive Centre...

MOYA: Do you want
to go look through it?

HELEN: Okay.

NARRATOR: On Lot 5,

archaeologists Helen Sheldon

and Moya MacDonald continue

their excavation of
the mysterious feature,

now that the rain water has
been completely removed.

HELEN: So, what we're looking
for right now, really, is soil.

- Change in soil.
- Okay.

- MOYA: It's that clay stuff.
- HELEN: Yep.

MOYA: Oh.

Helen, I think I
found something.

That's interesting.

It's really interesting,
different from what we've seen.

HELEN: Oh, wow!

MOYA: Yeah.

Oh, wow. Very cool.

NARRATOR: While
meticulously investigating

a deeper layer of the mysterious
stone structure on Lot 5,

archaeologists Helen
Sheldon and Moya MacDonald

have just made a new

and potentially
significant discovery.

MOYA: What do you think that is?

That looks like a barrel strap.

Yeah, it's really interesting.

HELEN: It's got the
nail through there,

that it was fastened
to the barrel.

The nail almost looks like
a different type of metal.

- Would you agree?
- It's got a greenish hue to it.

- MOYA: Mm-hmm.
- HELEN: Which probably means it's copper...

- Mm-hmm.
- On an iron strap.

I came to do a check-in, but
I see I came at the right time.

- Yeah.
- Look.

- What did you find?
- HELEN: We've just found this.

Well, it's a piece
of a barrel strap.

And it has a nail in there,

and it had a greenish tint
to it, which means copper.

- JACK: Yeah.
- MOYA: Would that mean anything,

if it's two different types
of metal on a barrel strap?

Well, copper normally
indicates it's been to sea,

you know, because
they don't corrode.

But the strap
itself is still iron.

I mean, a lot of things
were imported in barrels,

like, that's how
they shipped things.

So, that's how you
transported things around.

We've also found barrel
hoops around the whole island.

Near the swamp and, well,

a bunch of different
places metal detecting.

Hey, guys. Check that out.

- Top of a keg.
- Wow!

NARRATOR: Three years
ago, while investigating

a stone pathway
connected to the stone road,

or ship's wharf, in the swamp,

Rick Lagina and members
of the team unearthed

pieces of wooden cargo barrels.

- So, that's a keg.
- Yep.

NARRATOR: Those
finds not only suggested

that an operation
to move heavy cargo

from a large sailing
vessel up to the Money Pit

took place when the swamp
may have been an open harbor...

This one is extremely old
because it's hand-made.

NARRATOR: but were also
believed, by blacksmithing expert

Carmen Legge, to date
back hundreds of years.

So, that could go right
straight back to the 1400s.

NARRATOR: Could
this barrel strap,

found in a deeper layer of
the mysterious feature on Lot 5,

be related to the barrel pieces
uncovered in the swamp?

And if so, could they
offer more evidence

to support the
team's speculation

that Lot 5 was used
as a staging ground

for whatever may be
buried in the Money Pit?

From our on-island finds,

it would seem that
Lot 5 is the place

that was the encampment

to build the Money Pit.

There might be enough
evidence around here to tell us

who did this and then we
can finally recover the treasure.

So, Moya will
put this in the bag.

And, at the end of the day,

we'll take it back to the lab

- and see what Emma can do with it.
- All right.

Great find. You mind
if I help sift for a while?

- Yeah, sure. Go ahead, Jack.
- We'll get back to work.

- Here, I'll take your bucket.
- Thank you.

JACK: Hopefully, we
can find some more.

NARRATOR: While Jack
helps Helen and Moya search

for additional clues on Lot 5...

- TERRY: We're getting close, Charles.
- CHARLES: Yep.

NARRATOR: In
the Money Pit area...

The next run should bring
us evidence of the cavern.

NARRATOR: Terry Matheson

and Oak Island historian
Charles Barkhouse

continue supervising
the drilling operation

in borehole L13.5.

A borehole positioned
to, once again,

penetrate the large cavity

located some 150
feet underground,

which the team has
optimistically dubbed

Aladdin's Cave.

Mike, what's up?

How's it going over there?

TEDFORD: So, I hit the cavern

- around 141.
- TERRY: Right.

It seemed like
there's only, like,

six feet of open space there,

and then I started
feeling a little muck.

We'll see when we
bring the core up.

- Yeah.
- Thanks a lot, Mike.

That's super news.

- CHARLES: Hey, Alex.
- Charles. Terry.

TERRY: Hey, Alex, how you doing?

What's the update? L-13.5.


out into the old Aladdin's Cave.

- Great. Awesome.
- TERRY: Oh, yeah.

Five feet of open space
before we hit bottom.

Then we're into
the grit and gravel

on the floor of the cavern.

Okay, that's excellent.

MARTY: This Aladdin's
Cave is very important to us.

It would be a game changer
if there's anything man-made

in that cave.

- Hey, Steve.
- Hey, guys.

We hit Aladdin's Cave.

- We're in the cavity for sure.
- That's perfect.

This couldn't have
been a better hole.

MARTY: We need to
try everything we can.

We have to figure out what this

Aladdin's Cave is,
and if it has something

to do with the treasure.

The next step is
to run the camera.

So, if you guys are
ready, I'd like to see

- what's down there.
- Absolutely. -Yeah.

ALEX: The
overwhelming likelihood

is that Aladdin's
Cave is not natural.

If it's not natural,
then somebody dug it.

It's either searcher
or depositor.

Where are we at?

We're just ready to put it down.

- Okay, great.
- Okay, let's get after it.

ALEX: If this cave is man-made,

there must be an entrance.

So, when we lower
the camera down,

we should be able to see
something, and, hopefully,

we can get as much
data as we can.

- TERRY: Here we go.
- All right, Steve.

NARRATOR: In order
to look for any signs

of a tunnel or
possible treasure...

TERRY: Down the hole we go.

NARRATOR: the team is using

the Inuktun Spectrum


A waterproof device
designed to operate

in low-light conditions,

and which features a lens
that can pan 360 degrees

for a full view of
its surroundings.

- TERRY: Few feet away. Oh. Boom.
- ALEX: Boom.

TERRY: We're into the water.

STEVE: Aladdin's Cave, to me,

is probably the most interesting
feature in the Money Pit.

It's a huge structure.
It's almost 30 feet wide.

It has gold and
silver in the water,

and it has wood organics.

So, to me, it's the
most promising location

for an offset chamber.

To me, this is a
potential treasure location.

PAUL: Okay, it's pretty
murky down there.

We're not seeing
too much right now.

Let's get into the cavity
and see what we can see.

Okay.

ALEX: There you go, it's
right under the lip of the casing.

TERRY: Okay.

ALEX: There you go.
You got something.

PAUL: Okay. Stop right
there. Stop right there.

CHARLES: Now it's
starting to clear up a little bit.

ALEX: Stop there!

It's not a bad
image, but what is it?

PAUL: Yeah, it
looks like the edge,

edge of something here.

ALEX: What do
you see there, Terry?

TERRY: I see broken edges.

Okay, now-now pan
around if you can.

CHARLES: Paul, stop
right there. Go back.

PAUL: Oh, okay. Yep.

Yeah, there's a linear feature,

but we've gone by it.

- It was up further.
- PAUL: Okay.

Let me try to get back up there.

Yeah, tilt it up
a little bit here.

TERRY: What's that?

There you go. There's...

- something there.
- STEVE: What do you see?

Looks like the edge
fracture of a wall right now.

Just want to take a quick look.

PAUL: We're just panning around

- to try to get the perimeter.
- CHARLES: Yeah.

So, you can see this bunch
of material here, Steve.

It's basically, like, an edge,

edge of a wall for the cavern.

Oh, yeah, that looks good.

What would you say that is?

That does look...

look like a tunnel.

STEVE: That does
look like a tunnel.

Oh, yeah, that looks good.

NARRATOR: It is a riveting
moment for Alex Lagina

and members of
the Oak Island team

in the Money Pit area.

PAUL: Clearly, we're stirring up
some silt with the camera motion.

NARRATOR: While
investigating the mysterious cavern

nearly 150 feet underground,

known as Aladdin's Cave,

they have just obtained
high-definition video

of a possible man-made entrance.

CHARLES: Yeah,
there it is right there.

PAUL: See, that looks
like an opening right there.

STEVE: Look, look.

Oh. It's hard to see now.

It's promising,

from what I can
see just for a second

before the water
got quite murky.

It did look like we could see
a potential hallway or a tunnel.

- So, that's promising.
- It is promising.

STEVE: I'll go get
Terry back in here.

Okay. Sounds good.

PAUL: Maybe this is man-made.

We're trying to get an
answer, a definitive answer.

But the question is, if
we keep following this,

are we going to see something?

- ALEX: Hey, Steve.
- Yes, sir.

Can you just lower
it about six inches?

ALEX: Perfect. That's good.

PAUL: Now we're able
to get a 360 a little bit.

ALEX: There.

- TERRY: That's kind of a sharp edge.
- Yeah.

But that's going to
be the open space.

CHARLES: Yeah,
that's open space there.

- If I keep going...
- It's pretty wide.

PAUL: Okay, yeah. So,
we have a clear, open area

between two
sidewalls, it looks like.

Charles, what do you see?

We're seeing,
like, a dark space,

like, between two
walls, and you can't see

the back of it at all.

Yeah. When I was in there,
that's what I could see, too.

It almost looks like a tunnel,
or an opening to a cave.

CHARLES: You know,
we're into an open space.

This could be a tunnel. It
could be an offset chamber.

Who knows?

And that's exciting.

We've got to investigate this

and see where it ends.

Maybe that will lead us
to where the Money Pit is.

- I'm just trying to look down.
- Yeah. Yeah.

- ALEX: You see anything?
- CHARLES: No.

- It's very murky.
- This image is so poor.

The sonar, I think is going
to give us a better idea.

NARRATOR: Because of the heavy
silt that has now obscured the team's

ability to visually investigate

the possibly man-made cavern,

in the coming days, they
will once again conduct

a sonar scan from this new
vantage point in order to better

define the dimensions of
the possible tunnel entrance,

and hopefully determine

just what this
feature may contain.

ALEX: Aladdin's Cave.

This really is the
most significant

underground cavity that
we've found in the Money Pit.

And that's why we need to
explore it as much as we can.

The sonar can see
through the dark,

and get us a really precise
measurement of this cave,

and help us try to
solve this mystery.

I think we've seen
everything we can see.

I think it's gonna come
down to the sonar.

CHARLES: I agree. Yeah.

ALEX: Thanks, guys.

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

as the team from Dumas
Contracting Limited

continues to look for
voids in the Garden Shaft...

FIONA: I've got a lot of
loose rocks here, and I think

I'm going to have
to take them out.

I expected that at the edge.

NARRATOR: Jack
Begley, Jamie Kouba,

Moya MacDonald and Fiona Steele

continue their careful
investigation to uncover

more layers of the mysterious
stone foundation near the shore

on Lot 5.

JAMIE: I will say, I'm finding

barely anything now that we're

in these big rocks, so that's
a good sign for it being a wall.

I think that this is the edge.

JACK: On Lot 5, it appears
that this is some sort of

habitation or structure

that predates the
Money Pit discovery.

So, is this our depositor?

Is this related to
the Money Pit?

Digging up these
features and recovering

all the artifacts could
tell us who this was,

and whether or not they are
related to the Money Pit story.

So, just kind of looking at
this structure, I'm struggling

to figure out how it all lines
up, and how big this might be.

What I expected to find
was a pretty much intact wall.

But I think it's
possible that it was

a taller wall, and it has
collapsed in on itself.

When you're looking
down on it, you can see

these rocks here look in situ.

- Like they weren't just stacked.
- Hmm.

And there is still
this straight line

that we have going through here.

It kind of makes me wonder
if we don't have both sides of

this rock wall, because

we know we have
sterile soil over here

on the south side of it.

And it looks like Moya
might be coming down

on sterile soil
here on the right.

So, it's entirely possible
that we got both sides of it.

NARRATOR: A stone wall?

Is it possible that the
team is in the process

of uncovering another section
of the mysterious feature?

And if so, just
what will they find

as they continue digging deeper

into the purposely
buried layer below?

I have a hunch that this
thing just fell in on itself.

That it was higher
than ground level,

and that it fell in on itself.

I'd like to get Laird out here
and have him take a look

and get his opinion on it.

I mean, at the very least,
we've definitely come down

on the rock feature
that we were looking for.

- MOYA: Absolutely.
- JACK: Yeah.

MOYA: It's really interesting.

JAMIE: This is
really exciting to see.

-LAIRD: Hello -JAMIE: Hello.

- Hey, Laird.
- What's happening?

We have an interesting puzzle.

- Yeah.
- Great.

NARRATOR: Near
the northern shore

of Lot 5 on Oak Island,

archaeologist Laird
Niven joins Jack Begley

and other members
of the team to inspect

a potentially
important discovery

that was just uncovered

inside the mysterious
stone foundation.

So, we might be coming
down on a wall feature.

- Mm-hmm.
- It's possible that this structure was

a little taller than we
originally anticipated,

and it has
collapsed in on itself.

That's possible.

The other thing I kind
of wanted to discuss

with you, since you're here.

As we started taking
back this historic fill,

we started hitting
the dark stuff.

And that's all the
same area that we're

finding the iron and stuff in.

- Yeah.
- Like, especially, like, the door pieces.

- Right.
- And we've also been finding

a lot of nails in that
area around the dark soil,

- so that would also maybe indicate a door, right?
- Yep.

Yeah.

The magnetometer data
is indicating that there

should be at least
intact base of a wall.

- Yeah. All four sides of it.
- Right?

Yeah, so, I mean, what we
have here is the outline of a fairly

large structure that for some
reason was abandoned and either

collapsed or was filled in,
or a combination of both.

- Yeah.
- So it's pretty exciting.

Oh, yeah. Very exciting.

NARRATOR: The confirmation
that this feature is much

larger than the
team previously knew

is an exciting development,

and underscores
the burning question

of why it may have
been deliberately buried.

Could the artifacts that the
team has found inside of it,

which have been directly
connected to Sir William Phips,

the 17th-century English
privateer who may have hidden

tons of Spanish
treasure in the Money Pit,

offer a potential answer?

This is huge if it's as
big as we think it is.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

- We'll just keep pulling this back...
- Yeah.

And seeing where
the large rocks end.

All right. I think
that's a plan.

You guys keep going.

- Okay, perfect.
- Yay.

We're making progress though.

- Yeah.
- All right, so I'm gonna go back

to the lab, and you guys
can get back to work.

- Yeah. Great.
- I'll see you again soon.

- Sure.
- Thanks.

JACK: It just gets
more interesting

the more we dig.

LAIRD: I agree.

NARRATOR: As the
archaeological work

continues on Lot 5...

- CRAIG: Hey, Scott.
- SCOTT: Hi, guys.

- What's up?
- How we doing?

Not so great.

We have some issues
here inside the shaft wall.

They were doing some drilling,

trying to find the source
of the water coming in.

Wow.

SCOTT: And the water's
coming in at quite a rate.

It was raising about a
foot an hour in the shaft.

- Really? -Wow.
- Yeah.

So, Roger, he's got
a camera down there.

He's definitely gonna get
some pictures and video.

And he's gonna
show us what he sees.

CRAIG: Good.

NARRATOR: Rick
Lagina and Craig Tester

join Scott Barlow in
the Money Pit area

where members of
Dumas Contracting Limited

are struggling to stop the
mysterious flow of water

that continues to
flood the Garden Shaft.

ROGER: Woah!

So they're going 65 feet down,
where the water's coming in.

And it seems to
be an isolated spot

because they've drilled
around it and it's dry.

- Hey, guys. -SCOTT: Hi, Roger.
- CRAIG: Hey.

- How did it go down there?
- [chuckles]

I got some pretty
weird things actually.

In there, there's
like a little cavern

and it's full of
timber in there.

- Whew.
- ROGER: It's really weird.

Actually, I've got a picture
maybe I can show you.

There's a long void in there.

So, you can see in here...

So that's inside the cavity.
See these planks up there?

They look like one-by-six
laid one on top of the other.

- CRAIG: Oh, wow.
- ROGER: It's weird.

It's just weird.

- And it's not connected to my shaft.
- Wow.

That makes this
very interesting.

ROGER: Yeah.

There's a long void in
there. It's kind of really weird.

And it's not
connected to the shaft.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: It is a
perplexing moment

for Rick Lagina, Craig
Tester and their team

in the Money Pit area

as workers from Dumas
Contracting Limited

were probe drilling in an effort

to find the source
of the water flow

that is currently flooding
the Garden Shaft.

They discovered a
mysterious cavern

just outside the structure

at a depth of 65 feet that
contains wooden timbers.

You'll see some
really good sh*ts.

ROGER: Wow, look at that.

- That's quite a cavity.
- It is.

Seeing the void or the cavity,

your first thought,
of course, is...

"You know, is this possibly
connected to an offset chamber

"or a previously unknown
void, cavity, tunnel?

And might it lead somewhere?"

- SCOTT: That's horizontal there.
- ROGER: That's right.

That cavity is certainly
interesting, you know?

Thought-provoking
at the very least.

ROGER: Oh, for sure.

RICK: But you've
got to get down there.

You've got to put
your eyes on it.

And if it happens to
turn out to be true, wow.

That would be amazing.

And I know I'm anxious

- to enlarge that hole if we can.
- Oh, for sure.

- And have a look in there.
- Yeah.

I think first thing's first.

- We need to deal with the water.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that a frustrating
setback for the team

has actually led to a potential
breakthrough discovery

that may help them solve
the Oak Island mystery?

Unfortunately,

they will have to first
stop the flow of water

into the Garden Shaft before
they can find out for sure.

It's pretty ironic, you know?
When you think about this,

we're 200-plus years after
the first shaft was dug here

and we're still dealing
with the same issues

- that the first people were.
- Yeah.

- Exactly.
- Water coming in.

RICK: But on some level,

that's what makes this
very interesting, right?

- Yeah.
- RICK: The bottom line is this...

You'll find a way

and the tunnel is
still down there, right?

ROGER: Yep.

And, and look, at
the end of the day,

you know, we'll all
put our heads together.

- ROGER: Yeah.
- And then collectively,

we can have a-a good
idea of how to proceed.

It's Charles who
says it all the time,

"If this were easy, it
would've been done long ago."

We're on Oak Island
for gosh sakes, right?

Yeah. [chuckles]



If we're gonna
let a little water

say to us, "Well, you
know what? We're done."

- "We're done."
- We're not!

We're not done. So,
let's just keep going.

- Agreed.
- We can solve this together.

- CRAIG: It's a plan.
- RICK: Thank you, Roger.

ROGER: Right
on. We'll get to it.

NARRATOR: Ever since the
discovery of the Money Pit in 1795,

the Oak Island mystery has
remained a complex puzzle

that is missing a
number of critical pieces.

Now, thanks to
the efforts of Rick,

Marty, Craig and their team,

the pieces needed
to complete the picture

of what happened here long ago

may finally be
falling into place.

But as they move
forward, determined

to reach those answers, perhaps

the ultimate question is,
will the island allow them

to be revealed?

Next time on The
Curse of Oak Island...

- MARTY: Time to drain the swamp.
- RICK: Do it.

RICK: The swamp holds
secrets to the mystery.

- Oh! Look!
- Oh!

JAMIE: That's interesting.

- MOYA: What do you got?
- JAMIE: Holy crap!

It seems like jewelry.

SCOTT: A symbol found
on Templar churches

pointing directly to Oak
Island and it is believed

- to represent the Holy Grail.
- Oh!

RICK: If there's gold in
that void, that'd be huge.

There's something there.