11x11 - Plugged Up

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

- Can you go deeper, Billy?
- Definitely.

- GARY: Ooh!
- RICK: Oh!

JACK:
There's a structure!

These are massive.

A piece of Oak Island history.

Whoa!

- I hit the void at 183.
- That's what we want.

Do you think we hit the anomaly?

What we have here is
a void that encapsulates

- the Chappell Vault.
- Yeah!

That's the treasure
of the Money Pit

that was never recovered.

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.

♪ ♪

- RICK: Morning, Bill.
- BILLY: Morning.

Should say good morning, right?

We're gonna find
something today, right?

Well, we're pretty
excited on this area.

The closer we get
to the stone road,

the more exciting
it's gonna get.

NARRATOR: As a new
morning dawns on Oak Island

for brothers Rick and
Marty Lagina and their team,

the quest for answers

to a 229-year-old
treasure mystery continues

in one of the most intriguing

and inhospitable locations
on these 140 acres:

the triangle-shaped swamp.

- Gary, you're up.
- All right, mate.

I'm ready to get stuck in.

- Hopefully, it's not literally.
- [Rick laughs]

This looks old.

- That does. Yeah.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: One week ago,
while excavating the potentially


road, or ship's wharf,

that was first uncovered
in the southeast corner

of the brackish
bog back in 2020,

the team found a large
hand-wrought chain and hook,

which, according to
blacksmithing expert

Carmen Legge, was not
only used to lift heavy cargo

but may also date
back to the 16th century.

I'll start down
there at the bottom

- and work my way back.
- Okay.

NARRATOR: Now the team is
digging further into the southern shore

that borders the swamp

in the hopes of uncovering
more of the stone road

and also clues that
could prove whether or not

the swamp was
artificially created

in order to hide something
of great value on Oak Island.

Is that a stick there, mate?

On this side of the hole?

Yeah.

RICK: Yeah. There.

- It's axe-cut.
- GARY: Oh, yeah?

- That's worth bagging.
- Okay.

- I'll put it in the bag.
- Okay.

This is almost
peaty, though, here.

- Yeah. That does.
- BILLY: It's a little bit of peat,

and then it goes to a mud.

And it's the only layer in here

that's kind of like that.

RICK: What it tells
me is, we need to know

- what's under this dirt.
- Right.

We should have
Dr. Spooner come down.

GARY: Yeah.

- I'll send him a text.
- Yeah.

RICK: The axe-cut wood
is interesting because

it represents older
type of wood construct,

and this material is
coming up in the peat.

It's quite layered there.
There's sand, peat, sand, peat.

I would say that
it's not natural.

So, what is going on here?

- Hey, Billy.
- Hi.

We don't know what
to make of the possible

connection between
here and the stone road.

What do you make of
the peat, the gray sand,

- the raw sand?
- That's kind of odd.

Yeah. The peat
shouldn't be over the sand.

If this beach is moving
landward with time,

then the sand should
be over the peat.

I mean, this is, to me,
really important because

it tells us this feature
extended out this way.

So, why doesn't that feature,
the way it exists there in front

of our eyes, why
doesn't that extend here?

I think it was beach.

They pulled the
boat up on the beach,

but you can't just have a big



You're trying to unload it.

And they needed a
platform to haul it on,

so I think they placed
peat over the sand.

And that's what
it looks like to me.

NARRATOR: Could Dr. Spooner
be correct that the swamp

and surrounding area
was artificially manipulated

in order to construct
the stone road

for the purpose of moving
something of great value

from a ship onto Oak Island?

I think you need to go
three or four feet deeper.

- Oh, okay.
- Good.

So, I think we should
get back at it, right?

- Yeah.
- Yeah. Okay. Good.

Yeah. I-I think so. Thank you.

I hope there is
something below here.

IAN: I hope so, too.

NARRATOR: As the
investigation of the stone road

continues in the swamp...

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

- Hey, how's it going, guys?
- Hey, Roger.

NARRATOR: Marty Lagina

and Craig Tester

arrive in the Money Pit area

to meet with Roger Fortin of
Dumas Contracting Limited.

These are the guys that are
going to help us get these voids

filled in the shaft itself.

NARRATOR: Along with Ryan
Hooker and Clint Molyneaux

of Minova Global, a
company that specializes

in large underground
construction operations.

We got to get down
to that 95-plus feet.

- Yep.
- And this is going to allow us to do it?

- You're pretty sure, right?
- Oh, absolutely.

- Yeah.
- Once we get this geofoam in place,

- I'm very confident that we're going to get down there.
- Okay.

NARRATOR: For
the past four weeks,

the 18th century,


known as the Garden Shaft

has been continuously flooded
after a number of voids formed

just outside of the
remodeled feature.

This has made Rick, Marty
and Craig wonder if the cause

is related to one
of the legendary

man-made flood tunnels

because it has stopped
them and Dumas

from extending the shaft
down to a target depth

of 95 feet, where a
seven-foot-high tunnel

has been discovered.

A tunnel which runs
directly toward an area

known as the Baby Blob,

where numerous
groundwater tests have yielded

high-trace evidence of
gold, silver and other metals

between depths
of 80 and 120 feet.

Okay. Tell us what
we're going to do.

Well, we're gonna pump
some foam in there and try

to get your voids filled up.

- All right, well, this is just a pump, right?
- Yep.

NARRATOR: Ryan and Clint
will use an industrial-grade material

known as geofoam, which
is specifically designed

for use in mining and
construction projects.

Once injected into
the open cavities,

it will expand to
fill those voids,

seal out the inflow of water,

and stabilize the Garden Shaft
so that Dumas can extend it

down into the possible
treasure tunnel.

- All right.
- Well, gentlemen, good luck.

- We'll let you get to your work.
- Thank you. Nice to meet you.

Pleasure to meet you guys.

ROGER: All right, thanks, guys.

NARRATOR: As the process
begins in the Garden Shaft,

- just 60 feet to the southwest...
- So, where are we?

- We are down 88 feet below grade.
- Awesome.

Geologist Terry Matheson,

Oak Island historian
Charles Barkhouse,

and Alex Lagina are supervising

a new core-drilling operation
in a borehole known as K-06.

A borehole that might
actually be on track

to encounter another potential
cache of buried valuables

some 180 feet deep,
near a site that the team

previously investigated
six years ago.

Okay, so K-6, drilling for

- the muon low-density anomaly.
- Exactly.

- Also could be where the H-8 plug ended up.
- TERRY: That's right.

We're only about
seven or eight feet away

from the actual H-8 caisson,

which makes it
doubly interesting.

So what we're seeing is
a high-density anomaly

southwest of the Garden Shaft.

It's significant.

NARRATOR: Several
weeks ago, representatives

from Ideon Technology,
utilizing a process known as

muon tomography,
presented the team

with a subsurface scan
of the Money Pit area

that revealed numerous
low-density targets,

such as voids and
possible buried containers.

One of the most
compelling was identified

at a depth of nearly 180 feet.

MARTY: Come on,
baby, let's make hole!

NARRATOR: It was in the
same area where, in 2017,

the team excavated
with a five-foot-diameter

steel caisson known as H-8
while they were attempting

to locate the fabled
Chappell Vault.

A seven-foot-high chest

reportedly encountered
by Frederick Blair

and William Chappell during
a drilling operation in 1897

that uncovered trace
evidence of gold,

along with pieces of parchment

bearing the letters "VI."

After Rick, Marty, Craig
and the team discovered

their own pieces of parchment
and leather book binding

in H-8, they were stunned

when the caisson
encountered a large object

at a depth of 170 feet.

However, as the team
extended the caisson deeper

in the hopes of
penetrating the object,

the plug, or spoils
inside of the caisson,

fell from the bottom and pushed
the mysterious object deeper

and somewhere off to the side.

Is it possible that
the muon target

that was detected
at that same depth

might be a void that now
contains the missing plug

from H-8 as well as the
fabled Chappell Vault?

They hit a cobble there.

At least they got... I
think they got the cobble.

Hey, Colten.

- That's going to be to 118.
- 118.

We just pushed a rock for


TERRY: Yeah. It's
in there, I believe.

That's a core barrel
blocker, for sure.

How often do we hit
cobble around 100 feet?

Uh...

I would say, "Not very often."

I'm just wondering, the
flood tunnel's description

is un-cribbed...

- Yeah.
- Stacked rocks, right?

- Yeah.
- That's exactly the size

of a rock you'd put
in a flood tunnel.

- TERRY: That's interesting.
- CHARLES: Yep. Very interesting.

ALEX: That's exactly
the size of a rock

you'd put in a flood tunnel.

In my head, it could be

a tunnel or something, right?

TERRY: Yeah, you
raise a pretty good point.

NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,

while drilling borehole K-6,

where something of great
value is potentially buried

at a depth of
approximately 170 feet,

Alex Lagina and
members of the team

may have just made
an important discovery

at a depth of just 118 feet.

ALEX: I think it would at least

be worth recording.

On this one, say, on your log...

- TERRY: Okay.
- Just make a mark

saying we hit a cobble at 118.

- Okay.
- TERRY: Sure.

'Cause I'm just wondering if...

if maybe there's
a pattern there.

TERRY: Yeah. And that's actually

an interesting premise.

- Maybe we should look into that.
- Yeah.

ALEX: And as we're drilling,

I'm thinking,

the stories of the flood tunnels
are that they're full of stones,

so we wouldn't have an open
cavity if it was a flood tunnel.

Maybe we're actually pushing

the topmost cobble
through the flood tunnel,

through the bottom.

NARRATOR: In 1897, the same year

that Frederick Blair and
his team encountered

the so-called Chappell Vault,

they also reported discovering
a man-made flood tunnel

which halted their efforts
at a depth of 111 feet.

It was described as measuring

nearly three feet
wide by four feet high

and was packed with
large cobblestones.

Is it possible that the team

has now also found
evidence of a flood tunnel?

If so, could that mean

that they are on
target to encounter

what it was designed to protect?

ALEX: The flood
tunnels were said

to be full of stones,
small stones,

about the size of what
we're seeing in the drill bit.

TERRY: The breaks don't
seem to be very fresh or new.

ALEX: It could be evidence
of depositor activity.

TERRY: So, this is all
very, very interesting ground.

We're gonna cover it today.

The most important thing
is the muon target at depth.

- ALEX: Yeah, I agree.
- CHARLES: Yeah.

NARRATOR: As operations continue

in the Money Pit area, on Lot 5,

located on the western
side of the island...

- Hey, Laird, archaeological team.
- Marty.

- HELEN: Hey, Marty.
- I'm checking up on you.

Marty Lagina joins
lead archaeologist

Laird Niven, Jack Begley,
and other members of the team

as they continue
their investigation

of a mysterious
stone foundation.

So, what is this?
Any more insight?

- This is definitely something going on.
- Mm-hmm.

The soil is darker, it's looser,
we got larger artifacts in it.

Here it's tighter packed,
like they've been walked on

- a lot more.
- Okay.

NARRATOR: Curiously,
the Oak Island team

has discovered evidence on Lot 5

that suggests that a number
of secretive operations

took place in this
area long ago.

For instance, near
the middle of the lot,

they have found a
rectangular feature

which Helen Sheldon
believes was purposely buried,

containing pottery
and other artifacts

suggesting that it may date
back to the same time period

as the early 18th century Garden
Shaft in the Money Pit area.

And near the shoreline,
they are also investigating

this circular feature
that not only sets above

a much larger foundation, but
which has produced artifacts

that have been dated to between
the 14th and 18th centuries.

MARTY: Okay, is there
anything I can do for you, Laird?

Yeah.

- Over here.
- Okay.

- Um...
- What you got?

LAIRD: Where Jack and Fiona are,

we need the rocks to go,

- including that big rock, if possible.
- Mm-hmm.

And then we're
expanding to the west.

So we need half of the circle,
those rocks, taken out as well.

- Okay, I'll go get the backhoe.
- Okay.

♪ ♪

What started as
a circular feature

is turning into a
rectangular feature.

[beeping]

The archaeologists themselves

are quite amazed at
what they're finding.

Let me nudge that one, Jack.

We've always been looking
for some sort of encampment.

This is clearly very important.

- Oh, that's got it. Yeah.
- Yeah.

JACK: Perfect, Marty.

My gosh, we'll
have room to work.

- Well done.
- NARRATOR: While the investigation

of the mysterious structure
proceeds on Lot 5...

GARY: We are right at the
end of the stone road, mate.

This should be good.

I know the archaeologists
found a lot of pottery

but hardly any metals.

- They're gonna be here.
- [chuckles]: Okay.

NARRATOR: along the
southern edge of the swamp,

Rick Lagina, Gary Drayton

and Billy Gerhardt
continue their efforts

to uncover another section

of the possibly


and, hopefully, valuable clues.

I think that's the end
of the road right there,

'cause there's
stacked rocks, right?

RICK: That's what I would say.

If that's the end of the
road, though, then...

if you're transitioning
from one form

of transportation to another,

- this is where the stuff should be.
- Yeah.

GARY: Yeah. Exactly.

I'm gonna go check that pile.

[device beeping]

What have we got here?

Look, we have got a signal.

Right in the corner, so
that would've come out

of that last scoop.

All right, Rick,
dig that sucker up.

It's gonna be an artifact.

Might have come
from the road, right?

GARY: Yep.

I'll try pinpointing it

and then grabbing
it out of there.

[device beeping]

RICK: Boy, it's
tiny, whatever it is.

GARY: I'm not bothered,
as long as it's old.

[device beeping]

[whispers]: Let's
see what we got.

Come on, baby.
Be something good.

I think it's that.

It is this.

That was a lot of noise for
what looks like some kind of tack.

That looks like it's, uh,

either a round or
triangular shank.

Some kind of small fastener.

I think it's too long
for boots and too thin

to be an oxshoe nail
or an horseshoe nail.

Yet to be determined.
That is definitely

a candidate for the XRF machine.

RICK: Bag it.

- Dang.
- There's got to be something more than that.

GARY: Yeah. Into
the bag it goes.

- We'll get more. Just got to go deeper.
- Yeah.

Okay. Can you go deeper, Billy?

Oh, definitely.

- Okay.
- Okay. Dig deeper. Let's go.

GARY: Oh, see that, Rick?

Look. What's that he's dragging?

- GARY: Ooh!
- RICK: Oh!

Whoa, whoa. Whoa.

Whoa, whoa. Whoa.

GARY: Oh, see that, Rick? Look.

- GARY: Ooh!
- RICK: Oh!

- Look at that.
- Whoa, whoa. Whoa.

- Got a nice piece of pottery.
- Whoa, whoa.

NARRATOR: While digging
near the massive stone road

in the southern region of
the Oak Island swamp...

Look how deep it was.

Rick Lagina, Gary Drayton

and Billy Gerhardt
have just unearthed

several potentially
important clues.

Oh, that's gorgeous.

Look at that.

Hopefully, it's got
some decoration, mate.

If it's gonna be anywhere,
it'd be on that base.

- RICK: Here's another one.
- Ooh.

GARY: That's a big
chunk of pottery, isn't it?

- Mm-hmm.
- It's some kind of bowl

or a dish.

There's so much of it.

RICK: There might be more.

- We should hand-dig this now.
- Yeah.

Talk about finding
something in situ,

as the archaeologists say.

That's gorgeous. Do you
see any marks on any pieces?

RICK: Not yet. Nope.

Ooh, look at that.

- GARY: What have you got, Rick?
- A handle.

Look at that. That's nice.

GARY: Yeah, that's
gorgeous. Look at that.

Someone would have had money.

I'm telling you, mate,

wherever there's
muck, there's money.

- This is great.
- RICK: But they...

The archaeologists can put
that together and clean it up.

- Maybe there's a maker's mark.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: If Rick's hope
that this pottery, which was found

near the potentially


might bear a maker's
mark proves to be true,

could it help verify
the revelations

the team made two years ago
and nearly 3,000 miles away?

- ALEX: It should be just up here.
- NARRATOR: In 2022,

while visiting Alqueidão
da Serra in Portugal,

a town known to
have been a stronghold

for the Portuguese sect
of the Knights Templar

between the 12th
and 16th centuries...

Whoa, look at, look at
how beautifully constructed...

I mean, rough and raw,
but look at the curvature.

Look at... the degree of
slope remains constant.

- It's beautiful.
- Rick,

his nephews Alex and Peter,
as well as Doug Crowell,

were shown a stone road
that was nearly identical

to the stone road in the swamp.

ALEX: If there is a Portuguese
connection to the construction

of the road in the swamp,
maybe this is the blueprint.

RICK: Okay, now we got to really
keep our eyes peeled, all right?

NARRATOR: Could Rick, Gary, and
Billy have just gotten one step closer

to proving whether or not that
potential connection is true?

There's pottery there, Gary.

GARY: Oh, yeah.
No mistaking that.

What is it, Rick?

The thin stuff, I think.

Yeah. It's the thin stuff,

and this looks
like it's a plate.

That's a plate rim,
by the look of it.

There's got to be some maker's
marks on some of this stuff.

Good eye, mate.

- Check this out.
- Oh.

It's coming up. Look at that.

That's a beautiful
piece of pottery.

That could be old.

Yeah, this could be old, mate.

That is really, really fancy.

- Look.
- That's pretty.

Almost like a leaf design on it.

I haven't seen that before,

so that makes it interesting.

Here you go. Another one.

- Excellent.
- Oh, one more.

GARY: Oh, man.
That's sweet, isn't it?

RICK: Mm-hmm.

GARY: Yeah, glazed on one side.

It's got to be...

This is lovely, mate.

Good eye. That's
some sweet pottery.

And I believe that this pottery

is older than that dish
or a bowl we found.

RICK: Yep. I would agree.

GARY: I think the
pottery is getting older,

the deeper we're going.

RICK: Yep.

We found a number of
different types of pottery,

one or two vessels where they
can possibly be reconstructed,

and it was quite localized.

Nice finds, Rick.

RICK: But what does that say?

Perhaps Laird can

make sense of it.

I know we're running
out of daylight, mate,

but we've got to come
back and dig some more,

because there really could be
anything anywhere in this sand.

Well, then what you
need to do is ask Billy

if we want to keep digging.

Guess what his
answer's gonna be.

- Yeah. Hell yeah!
- [Rick chuckles]

BILLY: Exactly. Yeah.

RICK: All right. Good job.

GARY: Love it.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

RICK: I don't think they have
to go any deeper, do you?

Take that little
square out of there.

Yep.

NARRATOR: as
Rick leads the efforts

in the swamp...

So it is expanding
and filling that void up.

That's great. That's
what we want to see.

Absolutely.

And while the
geofoam application

proceeds in the Garden Shaft...

MIKE ST. LOUIS: Oh, there
she goes. There she goes.

- ALEX: Hey, Charles. Terry.
- TERRY: Hey, how you doing, Alex?

I hear we're close
to target depth.

- We are.
- Okay.

Alex Lagina returns

to the Money Pit area...

TEDFORD: Oh, yeah. Lovely.

NARRATOR: to check on the
core-drilling operation in borehole K-6...

A borehole which the team hopes

will encounter man-made
workings or valuables

between the depths
of 170 and 180 feet.

They haven't brought
anything up for quite a while.

- We got to cross our fingers this could be it. Yeah.
- Yeah.

ALEX: This is it, eh?

There it is. There's
the core barrel.

This is a big one.

They got to put it in
the Bobcat bucket.

Hey, Mike. What's up?

TEDFORD: I hit
the void at, uh, 183.

TEDFORD: I hit
the void at, uh, 183.

TERRY: Wow.

ALEX: That could be it.

I mean, that could be
what we're looking for here.

TERRY: Yeah.

TEDFORD: I hit
the void at, uh, 183.

ALEX: All right.

So let's see what we got.

NARRATOR: It is a
potentially important moment

in the Money Pit area

for members of the
Oak Island team.

CHARLES: Here we go.

If we're looking for something

that slipped out of
the H-8 caisson...

- That could be it right there.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: After
encountering a void

in borehole K-6

at a depth of 183 feet,

where a highly specialized
muon tomography scan

identified possible man-made
workings earlier this year...

Thank you, Mike.

TEDFORD: No prob.

Let's carve this bad boy up

and see what we
got here, gentlemen.

They are examining

a freshly unearthed core
sample that will hopefully

reveal clues

as to what the void contains.

TERRY: We have ten
feet of real bedded material.

For the most part, it seems
relatively natural and normal.

Except here. Right
under the bedrock.

TERRY: Yeah.

That potentially is low
density material there.

And it looks like it
might be disturbed.

If the plug slipped out
of H-8, settled anywhere,

it's gonna be
mixed up like this.

TERRY: Absolutely.

I think, you know,
we have the potential

to have a portion or an aspect

- of the H-8 plug. -Okay.
- CHARLES: Yeah.

Chances are, we just may
be close to the Chappell Vault.

Yeah.

So we're close, I guess,
is-is the optimistic take.

Yeah.

H-8 was a very
interesting caisson.

That's the caisson
where a 12-foot plug

just dropped overnight

and went somewhere
down into a void.

So if we can locate
where that plug is,

it could indicate that we're
near the Chappell Vault.

NARRATOR: Possible
evidence of the spoils, or plug,

that the team believes

may have pushed
the Chappell Vault

to a deeper location
in the Money Pit area?

If they have found
the missing plug

from H-8 in this
mysterious void,

is it possible that
they are close

to locating the fabled
Chappell Vault as well?

And we find it
just in under the lip

of an actual large
bedrock overhang,

so it's possible the depositors

were able to work to this
point and get in under there.

So, possibly this
was an open area.

Right, but K-6, 183
to 187, looks good.

- It could answer a lot of questions for us.
- ALEX AND CHARLES: Yeah.

ALEX: So we might be
close to finding something.

- TERRY: We should let Rick know.
- ALEX: Sounds good.

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...

RICK: So, gentlemen,

the K-6 hole

was meant to find and
determine the Ideon anomaly.

NARRATOR: Alex,
Terry and Charles

meet with Rick Lagina

and other members of the team

in the w*r room to
report their potentially

important discovery
that was made

in borehole K-6.

RICK: What did the hole do?

Do you think we hit the anomaly?

I think it's important to show
where it is in relation to H-8.

Can you plot the K-6? Can
we see it up on the screen?

K-6 is right there.

TERRY: I definitely think
we hit some loose material

and probably disturbed, uh,

at about 183 to 187 or 188.

Given the low-density anomaly

seems to jibe with the levels

at which we lost the
plug to the H-8 caisson,

I really think we hit a
piece of that plug from H-8.

STEVE: And so the void
that Terry is talking about,

so I brought up
the data from Ideon.

Our borehole K-6 would
have gone through here.

This is the anomaly

they're talking about.
You're not wrong.

The H-8 caisson would
have gone through,

and this potentially could be
the area where we lost the plug.

I think the Ideon
low-density anomaly is

potentially the void that
encapsulates the Chappell Vault.

Great.

- Yeah.
- Exactly.

JACK: In my mind, that's where

the treasure of the
Money Pit that was

never recovered has
been slowly falling

deeper and deeper.

RICK: The K-6 drilling

has significantly

upped the ante, if you will,

in terms of the
interest in this area.

It's eminently possible
that the Chappell Vault fell

to a greater depth into
areas that have been

not explored or investigated.

So this could lead to possible

treasure recovery or
something of great importance.

Well, bottom line is, there's
potential for caisson work.

Everyone should weigh in on
where the drill program goes.

Agreed.

If the question is,
"Where do we drill?"

I'd want to put
one more borehole

through that H-8 plug.

- Yeah.
- I don't see how you can walk away from it.

Okay.

NARRATOR: If the team is able
to discover more definitive evidence

of man-made
workings or valuables

in the area around
borehole K-6 and H-8,

they could, as they
have done in the past,

install a much larger
diameter steel caisson

in order to retrieve it.

Over the next coming
days, we'll reposition

and try to hit the
anomaly of the void.

That'd be great.

Lot of work to do. Let's go.

ALEX: Okay.

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...

- ALEX: Lindy, Helen, Moya.
- LINDY: Hello.

- HELEN: Hey, Alex.
- ALEX: How's it going? So...

this looks like the dig
has expanded yet again

since the last time I was here.

- Yes.
- MOYA: Yes.

NARRATOR: Alex
Lagina joins Helen Sheldon

and other members of
the archaeology team

on Lot 5 as they continue

their investigation of the
mysterious stone foundation.

Are you still getting artifacts?

HELEN: A few. We got
a really interesting one.

It's called a strike-a-light.

It's a piece of European flint

that they would have
used to hit on the metal

to make a spark to start a fire.

- See all those bits that have chipped off it?
- ALEX: Yeah, right there.

- HELEN: Yeah.
- ALEX: And this is how you identify it?

This kind of worn edge?

HELEN: Yeah. There were
quite a few worn bits on it.

- ALEX: How do you know it's European?
- HELEN: Just by the color.

And they used to bring it

- over to North America as a ballast on ships.
- ALEX: Mm-hmm.

And it's unusual to find them.

NARRATOR: A piece of flint?

Of possible European origin?

And discovered in the foundation

that was buried beneath
the circular structure on Lot 5?

Is it possible that it was
left here by someone

who secretly inhabited
this area long ago?

If so, might there be
more clues in the feature

that will help the
team better understand

how it could be related
to the Oak Island mystery?

All right. Well, thank
you for the update,

and then I'll stick around
and make myself useful.

- Sounds good.
- Sounds good.

ALEX: All the indicators are

that something happened on Lot 5

long before people started
looking for treasure here.

Anything that
happened on the island

prior to the discovery

of the Money Pit is
possibly connected

with any kind of deposit
that might have been made.

Hey, Helen.

What do you make of these?

Ooh.

ALEX: What do you make of these?

- HELEN: Oh, my heavens.
- NARRATOR: On Lot 5, located on

the western side
of Oak Island...

ALEX: It's copper, I think.

HELEN: Yeah. Definitely copper,
'cause of the greenness of it all.

Alex Lagina has just made what

could be an important discovery

in the spoils that
have been excavated

from the mysterious
stone foundation.

HELEN: I would say
decorative rather than functional

- just because of the fragility of it.
- ALEX: Mm-hmm.

It's not the first copper we've
found on the island like this.

Peter and David,
a few years ago,

- found copper sheeting...
- Oh, wow.

On the high side of the beach.

HELEN: Very cool.

NARRATOR: Two years ago...

GARY: Wow, this is fantastic.

While investigating the
shoreline of nearby Lot 4...

GARY: Old piece
of copper sheeting.

Gary Drayton, along
with brothers Peter

and David Fornetti,
found a very similar artifact.

Well, I'll have a look.

NARRATOR: An artifact
that blacksmithing expert

Carmen Legge believed
might be one of the most

significant clues ever
found by the team.

CARMEN: So, it'd be
used, like, on a box.

Were there certain boxes
that would consistently

have that type
of sheeting on it?

Only for valuables.

- Treasure.
- [laughs] Right.

CARMEN: Well, it's very old.

When you say "very old,"
how old do you mean?

Oh, this could go all the
way back to the 1100s.

Wow. That's pretty old. [laughs]

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Alex has just found evidence

of an ancient container

designed to hold
something of value

in the mysterious
foundation on Lot 5?

If so, what happened
to the contents?

And could they be buried deeper

within this feature, or
perhaps somewhere deep

in the Money Pit area?

I think this is going to be

a good candidate
for the lab here.

Right. We should put
it all carefully together,

so it doesn't get
crushed by anything else.

Okay. I'll do that.

Thanks.

NARRATOR Later that afternoon...

GARY: A scoop
full of opportunities.

JACK: Oh, look at
that piece of lumber.

GARY: Yep. I saw that.

NARRATOR: in the swamp,
Gary Drayton, Jack Begley

and Billy Gerhardt

continue unearthing
new potential clues

just to the south
of the possibly


road, or ship's wharf.

What is it, Jack?

It's an old, cut piece of wood.

- There we go.
- GARY: It could be a roller.

Something that was used on top

of the stone roadway,
and you'd roll cargo up on it.

BILLY: Sure. And it's in the
right area right by the road, right?

We got wedges, rollers
and the chain hoist to pull.

- Yep.
- BILLY: Right? So...

NARRATOR: Could
Gary and Billy be correct

that this cut wooden log

might have been used
along with the large chain

that was found one
week ago in this area,

and which Carmen Legge believed

was designed to lift heavy cargo

in order to transport
something of great value

along the stone road long ago?

So, we'll set it aside
and get it tested.

Okay, mate.

NARRATOR: If so,
could that suggest

the clues that the
team has found

in the swamp and on Lot 5

have revealed more evidence

that there could be
multiple treasures

buried in the Money Pit area?

Ooh. I see wood.

Ooh, look at this.

That looks like a bit of
decking or a bit of planking.

Oh, you might be right.

- It's dimensional.
- GARY: Yeah.

And I'm saying that it could be

a piece of decking or planking,

but it could be
a bit of railing.

I like how you
keep thinking ship

- 'cause definitely there's ship pieces in here.
- Yeah.

GARY: To me, the
most important recoveries

we've got out of
this dig is the wood.

Because we can
have the wood C-14'ed.

You can see it's been worked,

and I'm hoping that
when this is tested,

we get those same
ancient date ranges.

That would be fantastic.

All right, well, keep an
eye out for more wood.

I'll keep an eye out, mate.

And I'll go put it up with
the other wood we found.

- Thanks, mate.
- Good find, Gary.

- All right. So, back to the search.
- Yep.

JACK: Look, is that...?

When you pull that bucket away,

can you see the difference
between the swamp muck

- and the gravel there?
- Yeah, there's a line.

Oh, nice. Look at that, Gary.

- GARY: Ooh.
- JACK: There's a structure under there, Billy.

GARY: Look at that.

H.

Hey, Billy.

- Can you see that wood?
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: While
excavating the earthen barrier

between the Oak Island swamp

and the waters of Mahone Bay,

Billy Gerhardt, Jack
Begley and Gary Drayton

have just uncovered
another compelling find.

Could that be a piece of the
wall that Fred Nolan found?

I think that's it.

Yeah. I mean, if we found
the wall in the swamp,

- that would be a major discovery.
- Yeah.

Rick would be as happy
as a pig in the proverbial.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Fred Nolan's wall?

After partially draining
the swamp in 1969,

the late Oak Island
landowner Fred Nolan

reportedly discovered evidence

of what he believed to be
timbered walls, or dams,

buried along both the
northern and southern borders

of the brackish bog.

This led Fred to theorize

that the entire feature

had been artificially
created centuries ago

in order to hide
something of great value.

That looks like
two pieces of wood

and they've been
cut to fit like that.

- There's definitely two pieces there.
- Right.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
the Oak Island team

has found corroborating evidence

that Fred's theory was true?

- I think this is the wall.
- Mm-hmm.

- Maybe we can wash it down a little bit.
- JACK: All right.

But I think we should
call Rick to come and see.

Yeah. I agree with that, mate.

BILLY: All right.

GARY: There are so many things

connected with Oak
Island that no one

has seen for a very long time.

Fred Nolan's wall
is one of them.

- RICK: Hey, guys.
- Hey, Rick.

It could be true.

I don't see a treasure chest.

No, but we got news for you.

We just wanted to
wait for your input

before we went any further.

That.

RICK: Wow.

JACK: We were thinking
this might be the wall

that Fred Nolan had found.

It's possible.

And those two pieces of wood
there look like they was cut,

and the angles look
like they fitted together.

Does it look broken? Or, I
mean, I got to go over there.

Between the two, they certainly
look like they were cut-fitted,

- but that somebody fit 'em together.
- Yeah.

JACK: Hope you don't
mind having wet feet.

RICK: It's a big piece of wood.
There's no doubt about that.

- Like you said, cut, angled, cut there.
- GARY: Yeah.

Certainly, we have the
live edge on the backside

- if we wanted to C-14 it.
- JACK: Mm-hmm.

It would be interesting
to expose the top of that.

- RICK: Yeah.
- BILLY: It certainly looks like

it could be pretty important.

Well, yeah. I would dig that

- to see if it extends.
- Yeah.

But I think we need to
understand what this may

represent and perhaps
its association with that.

GARY: And that's exactly
why we stood down, mate.

We figured this
could be important.

- JACK: Yeah.
- RICK: Right.

We want to understand
this in its totality, right?

And the only way to do
that is be very specific

about how we
approach exposing it.

It's all good news.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

RICK: I so desperately
want this to be the wall

that Fred had stated

was there, so I'm very hopeful.

Because if you
found such a structure

in the face of the swamp,

I would go on record as saying

it had to be closely associated
with the original work.

There's a real story here,
and we are all endeavoring

to come up with an answer.

And that's why
we're doing the work.

Okay. Well, you
know, guys, great job.

It was a long
day in the hot sun.

I know, you know,
unfortunately, every day

there's an end of the
day, but I see no reason

why we can't continue.
Pretty good day.

Amazing day of
discoveries and recoveries.

RICK: Oh, absolutely.

Okey doke, guys.

NARRATOR: After another
week of digging and drilling

into the 229-year-old
Oak Island mystery,

Rick, Marty and
their faithful team

have discovered more
incredible evidence

suggesting that people
went to great lengths

to keep secrets that were
never meant to be revealed.

But now, as the team works

to overcome the odds
that have defeated

all who came before
them in search of the truth,

are the days that those
secrets will remain buried

finally coming to an end?

Next time on The
Curse of Oak Island...

What the hell
have you got there?

A big chunk of steel.

MARTY: That could
be the drill that found

the famous Chappell Vault.

A small jewelry
chest or something.

ALEX: Which means
it could have been

part of any treasure
that was here.

Look at that. A coin.

- What?! -ALEX: Cool.
- [laughs]

- LINDY: Wow.
- There's a boulder.

- GARY: It looks similar to the stone roadway.
- BILLY: Yeah.

This could be very important.