13x18 - Breaking the Seal

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Tonight on the curse of oak island...

Wow. Check that out.

That's a great find. That
could be really, really old.

This was used to build a wooden vault

or some sort of structure
down below for safe keeping.

You've got something big on your hands.

It's absolutely intentional.

It matches lot 5 and the money pit.

And they were trying to conceal it.

Which makes it even more spectacular.

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 died
trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,
one more will have to die

before the treasure can be found.

You know what time it is?

Treasure time.

A new day on oak island

begins with great excitement
for Rick, Marty, and their team

as they are digging to historic depths

in the money pit area.

We're right at the bottom of Karma.

We're in the solution channel.

That's where the treasure's gonna be.

Look, we've got as good a chance as any

to find it today.

And I hope it's gonna be right over there.

One day ago,

after excavating the
seven-foot-diameter shaft

known as Karma-1212 feet deep

to the bottom of the solution channel,

the team lifted the steel
caissons to allow loose soils

and debris to settle
overnight into a pile below.

They are now about to
retrieve those materials

with a dig bucket and
search them for evidence

of a large source of silver,

which has been detected through water

and soil testing in this area.

It is their hope that
the silver is connected

to the 14th-century Portuguese coin

reportedly retrieved from the money pit

by foreman James pitblado in 1849.

All right. Let the sluice loose.

Let's go take a look.

All kinds of man-made things

are in that solution channel.

We've proven it. We've brought them up.

So, I'm very hopeful that
we're gonna find some evidence

of the treasure that we think
fell into that collapsed area.

Nope. No hits.

Billy can get it all in the truck,

- get it down to the wash plant.
- Yeah.

- See what's in here.
- Okay.

As Rick, Gary, and Terry wait to search

more spoils in the money pit area,

some 500 feet to the
east, near Smith's cove...

- It's pretty muddy.
- Yeah, a little bit.

Charles barkhouse and
other members of the team

are at the wash plant, searching by hand

through spoils that
were previously removed

from the Karma-1 shaft and may contain

important evidence
or valuables not found

by Gary's metal detector.

This process has already
produced finds such as

a small, hand-forged iron chain.

It's a type of chain Gary
has previously found

while metal detecting in Europe,

and he believes could've been
used to lock a box or a chest.

Wow. Check that out.

Look what I found.

Looks like a rose head spike to me.

And it's hand-wrought,

to fasten different
pieces of wood together.

That could be really, really old.

Any time the team finds
something on the conveyor belt

at the wash plant, I mean, we're excited.

But finding that rose head
spike, you know, in Karma-1

could be the indicator
that we're looking for.

This could come from
the 1600s, or earlier.

This could be from the original workings

of the depositors of the treasure.

That's a great find. That's
gonna go to the lab, for sure.

Have Emma test that.

We'll keep looking.

Meanwhile, back in the money pit area...

All right. This is it.

Looks like the last material.

- Let's check it out.
- Let's give it

- one more go.
- Okay, mate.

Rick and the team
continue to search through

the final spoils retrieved from
the bottom of the Karma-1 shaft.

- Think we've gone as far as we can go.
- Are you done?

- Yeah.
- So,

got one more chance
down at the wash plant.

Yep.

- Wash plant it is.
- Yep.

- Hey, guys. -Hey, there.
- How you doing, Adam?

Are we on bottom?

We're on bottom, and we're cleaned up.

And bottom is?

- 212.
- Miss by an inch,

- miss by a mile.
- Yeah, well,

we're not gonna miss the next time.

- Nope.
- Nope.

We didn't find it.

We just move on to the next location.

- Yep.
- Literally, our top pocket location

- is the one we're about to move to.
- Right.

Yep.

Find some treasure, boys.

Two weeks ago, the
team began excavating

a shaft, known as top pocket find,

located less than ten
feet northeast of Karma-1.

This shaft was positioned
directly over an area

where water testing had
revealed a massive source of silver

deep underground,
making it their primary target

for exploration of the solution channel.

That doesn't sound very good.

But unfortunately,

at a depth of just 25 feet, the caissons

were stopped by gravel
back fill from a previous dig.

Now, using roc equipment's
powerful rotating oscillator,

the team from sb Canada
can resume digging

the tpf shaft down to
the solution channel.

On the one hand, Karma-1
is a little disappointing.

But you just keep moving forward.

The quicker we get started,
the quicker we get down.

- Yep.
- Right.

Thank you. Appreciate it.

While the dig proceeds
in the money pit area,

later that day...

- Hey, guys. - Hey.
- Hi.

Every time I look at this, I
don't know what to make of it.

It's getting incredible.

- It's really quite spectacular.
- Yeah.

Rick and Peter arrive on lot 8

to check on the investigation
of the cradle-like formation

of stones that were found
beneath a 40,000-pound Boulder.

How in the world was that made?

It's a 40,000-pound Boulder.

If you were to drag it
in, it would destroy this.

- Yeah.
- I'm not thinking about

how they did it as much as the why.

I mean, this was definitely purposeful.

We didn't remove any soil
from down here whatsoever.

It was filled with rocks.

After removing the Boulder revealed this

mosaic-like stone feature,
archaeologist Fiona Steele

has begun removing debris
and some of the stones

to determine what
purpose it might serve.

Especially since the
team has already detected

possible evidence of a shaft

and even silver in the soils below it.

I've worked with stone most of my life.

And the labor that you
see, in front of you, is...

It was quite laborious.

It meant something to
someone. I think we need

to do as much work as possible

what's underneath the Boulder?

We had a lot of smaller rocks,

the ones that are these
size, all in the center,

and they were very loose, so once

I started removing them,

I started seeing these
other rocks underneath,

and you can see the ones underneath

are a fair bit larger in size than the ones

that were actually on top.

And they extend all the way down here.

This is what's starting to

produce itself as we've
been excavating here.

I will say this, that one there,

when I look at that,
the way it's positioned...

Coming this way.

It-it's a very curious positioning of that.

Yeah. I still can't get it out of my head,

the shape of these boulders

that we had, which were very triangular.

We had this big one
down here, and we had

another big one there
and a big one there.

And it almost felt like there was a triangle

pointing down to this Boulder.

I mean, when you think about this area,

you think about zena's map
and the December triangle.

This could also be related to that.

In 2016, the late author
and researcher zena halpern

shared documents with the team

believed to have been created
by members of the knights templar.

One was a 12th-century
map of Nova Scotia

and the other was a map of oak island

possibly dating back to 1347.

Astonishingly, it featured

several locations written in French,

but when translated to English,

they marked known sites on the island,

such as the money pit, the swamp,

and a site called the December triangle.

Could the stone cradle and Boulder

align with a location on
a possible templar map?

I've puzzled about whether or not

this area could be referencing

the so-called December
triangle on zena's map.

I think we have to
have a really proper look

in the area in the vicinity of the stone

and see if there's more
information to be revealed.

That will help us
understand the relationship

between the drawing on zena's map

and this megalithic stone structure.

I came across this area
here of a blue-like Clay,

and you can clearly
see that there are chunks

of-of charcoal-like material
mixed in with this Clay.

I'm just not convinced that this

blue, gray Clay is natural to this area.

Clay like this could be very similar

to the Clay that we find at the money pit.

I'm absolutely mesmerized by this,

this blue Clay. I wonder
if this is very similar

to the Clay from the money pit.

On lot 8, after removing
some of the stones

from the cradle-like feature

that was covered by
the massive Boulder,

Fiona has made a
potentially important discovery.

If you look at the way the stones are...

now, I've removed a few...

but it-it really looks like this Clay material

had been used to mortar in
kind of a-a rounded section

in the front of it.

It's absolutely intentional and purposeful,

and they were trying to conceal it.

- And we did find some on lot 5.
- Yeah.

- Makes it even more interesting.
- Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, so if this
matches that, then, again,

more-more connections.

In 1804, the on slow company

carried out the first
large-scale excavation

of the money pit and encountered

wooden platforms every ten
feet down to the 90-foot level.

During the dig, they also reportedly found

a thick layer of hand-worked
blue Clay at the 40-foot level,

which they believed
was used as a sealant

to keep water out of the shaft

in order to protect something
buried deeper below.

Curiously, in recent years,

the team has discovered
hand-worked blue Clay

in the swamp, and in
the round feature on lot 5.

If Fiona is correct that she
has now found the same kind

of blue Clay material in
this stone feature on lot 8,

could it be more
evidence that this feature

was created to hide something?

This could be anything.

The reality is there are lead and silver

beyond baseline values
within the structure itself,

possibly in association
with a shaft or a tunnel.

So, we have to be patient at this point.

This has to be driven by
the archeological process.

Is there anything we
can do with the Clay?

Yeah.

We'll get a nice big chunk of that soil

and then take that back to the lab.

And then, we can run it through
the xrd and see if it matches

the lot 5 till or the money pit till.

- That's where it gets fun.
- That's where it gets fun.

All right. Let's get the sample done.

There, that's a good sample.

I'd like to give you this little bit here.

We'll need to get that to the lab

- as soon as we can.
- There's a "why" here,

and hopefully, we can
figure out what that is,

but I'm sure you'll get to the bottom of it.

But let's keep moving
this forward, because

we want to understand
it, what it may mean.

- Yeah. -Yeah.
- We've got a plan.

- Thank you. Appreciate it.
- All right, see you guys.

The next morning...

Is that the first can?

Yeah. Just started.

If we're gonna find
some top pocket finds,

it's got to be this can.

In the money pit area,

Rick joins other members of the team

as the tpf shaft is once
again being excavated

in a location where the
highest trace evidence of silver

has been detected
more than 200 feet deep

in the solution channel.

Our first 150 feet is gonna
be, you know, pretty benign.

But from there on, it's everyone on deck,

and everyone keep their eyes peeled.

Below 150 feet,
everything's open game here.

Because the solution channel

ranges between some


where the team believes
the treasure has fallen

after the collapse of
the original money pit,

it may take several days before the dig

reaches its target depth.

Yeah, we're gonna
have back fill out of here

down to about 150 feet.

We are in the area where there is

evidence of deep collapse.

The area where we have
retrieved significant items.

So I'm hoping, of course, that

this top pocket find location
will provide the answer.

We all look forward to getting
down to the bottom here.

- This is the one.
- I sure hope you're right, Gary.

The pitblado coin

strongly hints that
something is down there.

And at the end of the day, we can

make this happen, and we will.

We've just got to stay the course.

We're just gonna chew through it

until we get to the treasure.

- All right. I'll be back.
- You'll see it, mate.

- Thank you, guys.
- See you, Rick.

All right, mate.

Later that day...

- Morning, guys.
- Hey.

- Hi. -Morning.
- Morning.

So, we have Charlotte
wheatley here in the w*r room.

In the w*r room, Rick,

Craig, and other
members of the team are

meeting with researcher
Charlotte wheatley.

Charlotte, she has
some new information,

and I think today should
be exceedingly interesting.

So, having said that, Charlotte,
welcome to the w*r room.

Thank you very much.

In light of a possible connection

between the lot 8 feature

and zena halpern's believed


Charlotte, who is a
colleague of Emiliano,

judi, and corjan mol, has
been studying the map

to look for more clues that
may help verify its authenticity,

and how it may help
solve the treasure mystery.

I came across this information

after researching the zena map,

which I've done four years' research on.

I examined every name and
place recorded on the map.

And one of them I
found quite interesting.

I'd never heard it before,
was le lionceau de talmont,

which means "the lion cub of talmont."

What was interesting for me is how

could talmont connect to the island?

There is a place in France
called talmont-sur-gironde, so

talmont-sur-gironde is on
the west coast of France.

It is a small fishing port.

One of the nicest features
of talmont is a beautiful

medieval church, and it's dedicated to

a lesser-known female
Saint called radegund.

It's got a very simple interior,
typical of cistercian influence.

It was built in the 11th or 12th century

by benedictine monks.

The benedictines are a
catholic religious order

that was founded in the sixth century,

and adhered to what was
known as the rule of St. Benedict,

a moral code for leading a
faithful and productive life.

These writings inspired the formation

of an order of monks known
as the cistercians in 1098.

And one of their most noted leaders

was Bernard of clairvaux,

who co-founded the
knights templar in 1119.

The church was fortified.

So that actually meant that they used it

not only as a church
but also as a, as a fort,

which is not a common
thing on churches in France.

How is this connected
to oak island and why

the lionceau de talmont,
the lion cub of talmont?

Really interestingly, there
used to be a very intriguing

feature that resembled the sphinx

and was actually known
as the sphinx of talmont.

And as you can see, it
is a sphinx-like shape.

Sadly, it was destroyed
in the early 20th century.

So, there's nothing left today?

There is nothing left.

And the church itself
used to overlook the sphinx,

so it makes sense that
this could actually be the...

The lion cub of talmont.

So, what interested me
is that the church itself,

it actually used to be
pointing towards where

the sphinx was, at roughly
a 292.4-degree angle.

And when you follow
the line of the church,

going through the
front door and continue

on a straight line, and
you go across the Atlantic,

you end up on oak island.

If that was one coincidence,

that's fine. What gets
quite creepy is that,

about 60 kilometers away, I
come across another chapel,

which is located in a
place called courant,

and it is also dedicated to the
same Saint, Saint radegund.

The church itself is at
an angle of 292.1 degrees,

and when you follow that line
from the back of the church,

in a perfectly straight direction,

you arrive on oak island.

Whoa.

And again, this church
was built by the same people

who built the other church.

And in between both churches,

there is another radegund church.

And this is actually located

in a town of the same
name called Saint-radegonde.

And it's oriented at a


So, if you follow the axis

of the church in a
perfectly straight direction,

we arrive again on the island.

It's odd, for sure.

So, we have three churches
under the same patronage,

built by the same group of people,

located in a 60-kilometer radius

all on the west coast of France.

These three churches are
pointing towards the island.

It's interesting.

Are pointing towards the island. [Chs

so, three points,
dedicated to the same lady,

built by the same group of people.

In the w*r room, researcher
Charlotte wheatley

is presenting new information

about three potentially
templar-related churches

in the region of talmont, France

that she believes are
located on a east to west line

that leads directly to oak island.

It just can't be coincidence.

I have tested this theory
on lots of churches in France,

and this doesn't happen.

So, I've asked other
researchers to check

if the alignments seem correct,

and they all agree that
these three buildings

seem to be perfectly
aligned with the island.

Talking about, when was that built?

Same period. We're talking about 13th...

- 12th, 13th century. Yeah.
- Yeah, so...

- It's curious.
- It is.

The alignment Charlotte mentions,

that's incredibly curious.

Were the alignments with
the churches purposeful?

There, perhaps, are
alignments that we are currently

unaware of with other
features on the island.

Lot 5, lot 8, the bog, the money pit.

Is there a connection here?

So, I decided to take a look at the actual

patron of these
churches, Saint radegund.

She was born around the year 520.

And she actually
wanted to dedicate her life

to becoming a holy woman.

She made a monastery,
and she turned it into a sort of

place of learning, prayer, and pilgrimage.

Born into a royal family
in the German land

of thuringia, radegund
became a devout Christian nun

and emigrated to France,

where she founded the
catholic Abbey of the holy cross

in the city of poitiers in 552 ad...

a sacred site which
reportedly houses a piece

of the so-called "true cross"
on which Jesus was crucified.

And this is the thing that really got me,

is that, when I did
research on her, I noticed

that she's known to carry a book.

And she's known to carry
a book with a four-dot cross.

I've looked at lots of
iconography of saints.

This is the only Saint
I've found who's presented

with a book with a four-dot cross.

In recent years, the team has visited

numerous former strongholds
of the knights templar in France,

Italy, Denmark, and Portugal.

What'd you find, Pete?

I think something pretty interesting.

And in each location,

they have seen prominent
carvings of crosses surrounded

by four dots... We have
the four-dot cross there.

Wow.

That some experts
have interpreted to signify

where the templar order hid
sacred, religious treasures.

Curiously, that same symbol
was found by searchers

on the so-called h+o
stone in 1921 on oak island.

Has Charlotte found new
clues on zena halpern's map

that may help verify a true connection

to ancient templar-related
sites in Europe,

and suggest it may be a key
to locating where something

of great or sacred value
lies hidden on the island?

The, h+o stone that had
the, cross with the four dots,

I'm just wondering if
continued research on that end

can also tie those symbols
with those churches.

Yes. And I think maybe
that's worth looking into.

If the connection that you're
suggesting does exist...

then the map does have
a piece of information

that is connected, possibly, to oak island.

That's right, yeah. So, it is possible,

- and it needs further developments.
- Right.

It would be interesting to
have a look on the island.

Maybe there's another
h+o stone out there.

That's fair. Yeah.

But the question is,
what happened here?

I don't know. I'm gonna
say the biggest mystery

in the universe, isn't it, really?

I would like to think what happened here,

that this is a sacred
place, and it was chosen

for a reason, and I

obviously hope there's
something buried here.

And I hope you're gonna find out.

With your help, we will.

We say thank you.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

As a new morning dawns on oak island...

Here we go.

- We're moving on down.
- Yeah.

We got another load coming up.

In the money pit area,
Gary, Terry, and Jack

continue to monitor
the dig in the tpf shaft.

We're slowly nearing the zone of interest

in top pocket find 1,

and I'm very hopeful
that we're gonna find

clear evidence of the
collapse of the money pit

and find something really valuable

down in the solution channel.

What the...?

Stop.

It's caving.

Geez. There's material flopping in.

Because the ground has suddenly

begun to give way around the tpf shaft,

the team from sb Canada

and roc equipment will
need to move the oscillator

to find out if they can safely
continue the excavation.

Wow.

This is not good.

We felt the ground
shake, and you can see

that the ground around
the oscillator has given way.

There's been a collapse.

- Hey, guys.
- Hey, mate.

Holy cow. It looks like
we might've lost ground.

- Did we? - Yeah.
- We're losing stuff down below.

Wow.

We're losing stuff down below.

In the money pit area,

after reaching a depth of some 105 feet

in the tpf shaft,

the surrounding earth has
suddenly begun to cave in,

meaning a dangerous
collapse could follow.

Going at this depth,

it's a lot of wear and tear on everything.

Right.

There's a ton of friction,

there's a ton of stuff in the ground.

Like, we've seen settlement

on the outside of the casing.

We did see from the table

- the can was a little bit shaky.
- Yep.

It's more of settlement

from all the other work
that's been done around it,

and the lighter material goes down

as we agitate all the way
down with the oscillator.

It's dropping all that material through...

Yeah.

The bigger holes and slots.

I remember the last time

there was a collapse in this area.

It looks the same.

Last year, the collapse
went straight down

the side of the casing.

You know, it was running full depth.

- Hey.
- We got a problem?

We're having caving.

One year ago, the earth
surrounding the tb-1 caisson,

located less than 20
feet to the northwest,

suddenly began to
cave in, and for safety,

the team had to abandon
the excavation of the shaft.

Now, sb Canada and roc equipment

must act quickly to
prevent a larger collapse

and allow the team to keep digging

where they have found the most
compelling evidence of treasure

in the solution channel.

This is only about ten,


So, perfect time to build it back up.

- We're back filling.
- That will solve that?

Yep. Yep, that'll tighten it up.

You got large diameter, solid metal tubes

being driven down into the ground,

and we've got a lot of activity going on

where, basically, we have some cave-ins.

These types of things,
they create a lot of havoc.

There's material moving

in and out and away from
the actual caisson itself.

We have to, mitigate those,
we have to push material back

down into the hole because
it's collapsed down in

and around the caisson
as we're pushing it down.

Now we've got this stabilizing everything

from 108 all the way up.

So, I see we're gonna pack a little bit

around it right now and
then we move on, right?

Yeah. We're getting
ready to transition between

the bigger casing to the smaller casing.

- Okay. Good.
- So, it's telescoping time now.

Essentially, you know,
to avoid the problems,

we're splitting the hole in two, right?

- Right.
- Half the bigger casing

takes the top half out.



What's the reason for
changing to a smaller caisson?

See the material that
we're going through?

We're going through
hundreds of feet of this stuff.

So, it relieves all that tension.

Yeah, whatever it
takes to get down there.

- Whatever it takes to get down there.
- Yeah.

Once sb Canada fills
in the collapsed areas

around the eight-foot-diameter tpf shaft

with gravel back fill,

they will continue the dig
down to the solution channel

using smaller,
seven-foot-diameter steel caissons.

This will safely allow them to
dig below the collapsed region

and reach their target depth.

Anything and everything
to ensure that we're gonna

- get all the way down to 220.
- That's the goal.

- Whatever it takes, right?
- Yep. -Yep.

Get down there. Get deep.

- Find Gary's treasure.
- I love it.

See some of those top pocket finds.

When we get caissons down

very near the solution
channel, things start to collapse.

I've seen it. I've seen it
collapse and collapse again.

And every time, it
was when we got close,

when we got close to the bottom.

So, that's why I think

it's entirely possible that's
where a treasure fell to.

So, we absolutely have to get to at least



Yeah, it looks like they're almost done.

So, why don't we head back to the table?

- Yeah.
- Sounds good. Yeah.

- See you guys later.
- Thanks for the update.

- Absolutely.
- Rock on.

As the dig operation proceeds
in the money pit area...

Hey, Carmen.

Appreciate you stopping by.

- You got something to show me?
- We do.

In the oak island lab, Alex
and members of the team

are meeting with blacksmithing
expert Carmen legge.

They have invited him back
to examine the rose head spike

retrieved from the Karma-1
spoils two days ago.

Carmen, this spike was
found by the wash plant team

in the spoils of the Karma-1 caisson.

Emma, you have some
analysis of this spike?

Compositionally, it's
a kind of unique iron.

What's unique about it

is that it has an exceptionally
high phosphorous content.

So, I categorize it as cold-short.

Meaning it's brittle in colder climates.

Cold-short or cold
brittle, it's when an iron

has a high phosphorous content,

which affects its
strength in cold climates.

Cold-short iron is a great
indicator for an iron age

because now, in modern
times, we can control the effects

of phosphorus, as it's a
trait that we just don't want.

It does have some trace
amounts of manganese,

but even higher amounts of sulfur,

so it's a weird mixture
within a composition,

so the most likely date
is mid-1700s at least.

Wow.

So, Carmen, what can you tell us?

Well, it's a square-shanked spike.

I'm gonna say it was probably

five or six inches long originally.

It's hard to see the head on this,

but it looks like it was very crudely made,

it doesn't have any form to it.

What does it show on
the scan there, Emma?

It's just basically smushed down.

- Deformed.
- Mushroomed. Yeah.

But it's not formed. It
was driven straight down,

and the fibers are all
split out like a mushroom.

This is a piece of something larger,

and they took it and
drove it into something.

So, probably the reason they reused it

is 'cause it broke.

- So, an improvised spike.
- Yeah.

I think they reused it and
just smashed it into something.

And this came from where?

We do know for a fact it
came from below 167 feet.

So, to me, that means
that it's deeper than any

searchers have reached.

Especially in that area.

Which makes it very interesting.

Yeah.

These are typically used
for planking, you know,

not for the main structures of
anything, but often times when

they were making large boxes or vaults.

That leads me to think that this was used

to build a wooden vault or some sort of

structure down below for
safekeeping something.

This is something that you would see,

often times when they were
making large boxes or vaults

for something they wanted to, keep safe,

something valuable
they wanted to keep safe.

- That'd be good.
- That is what we're looking for.

In the oak island lab,
Carmen legge is examining

a potentially mid-18th-century spike

that was recovered
from nearly 170 feet deep

in the Karma-1 shaft.

If this is something that was reused...

You know, any effort here on the island

was obviously done in secret.

If there was a deposit made,

they had to use what they brought,

and this is sort of speaking to that.

Emma, is there enough
wiggle room in that early date

- to include 1746?
- Absolutely.

Well, that's interesting
because that, allows

for the possibility of the duc d'anville.

Because we're talking about one ship

- that got separated from the main fleet...
- Yeah.

Then decided it most prudent to

Bury what they were carrying

so it didn't fall into enemy hands.

So, they would've had
to work with what they had

on that one ship.

Could Doug be correct that

the team may have found a new clue

linking possible buried
treasure in the money pit

to the duc d'anville,

an 18th-century French
noble whose family had links

to the knights templar?

In 2017, Doug found part of a ship's log

in the Nova Scotia archives

that described the burial of treasure

in a deep pit on an island
in this area back in 1746.

The log was reportedly written

by a crew member under
the duc d'anville's command.

This little spike is maybe telling us that

our theory about the collapse is correct,

and that we're close

because we're picking
up traces of something

from the original money pit.

So, we would be then
looking at just remnants

of things that didn't make
it all the way down there

in a collapse.

So, even though we didn't
hit the treasure in Karma,

finding this spike tells
us that we were close.

- Yeah.
- The hope is,

if it is something from the money pit,

if it is something from a chest or a box,

to me, it speaks to the possibility that

other things will be found.

That could be the source
of the silver concentrations

that are indicated by the soil samples

and the water samples at this location.

And hopefully, there's
something down there

in top pocket find 1.

It's very interesting.

So, you know, thank
you both for your analysis.

I think it says we're on the right track,

and we need to keep going.

So, that said, we will
try to bring you guys

some more to look at.

Very good.

- Thank you.
- See you later.

Later that day...

while the excavation
of the tpf shaft continues

in the money pit area... How's it going?

Hey, Rick.

We just lifted a couple more rocks.

Right.

And under those rocks,
we're getting organics.

- I got to get down there.
- Go for it.

Rick joins Jack and the archeology team

as they continue excavating

the cradle-like formation
of stones on lot 8.

- No idea how deep? Yet?
- No, not yet.

No, but it's giving us a
reason to keep going.

So, we're gonna try to expose the base

and then work our way
up to see how it was built.

Do you think what you're
calling the second level,

is that natural?

Or are those placed as well?

No, I think they're-they're still all placed.

Right now, this seems
to be... firmly affixed.

- I can't get it out.
- We're all curious, you know.

I can give it a try. I'm not
saying I can do it, though.

- What's und... what's under it.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely.

You come this way. I'll go that way.

I'll disturb those.

No, that one's there.

There's no give to that.

That's amazing, they
are locked in there tight.

Lot 8 presents all kinds of possibilities.

One of which has to include that

zena's map may have
some relevance here.

Boy. That's in there.

Whether because this construction

was some sort of alignment,

or maybe there's something under there.

We need to figure out what
this construction represents.

Wow. That is definitely in there.

Yeah, I think that's in
there. I think that could be

redeposited and it's just...

- I think it is.
- It's embedded.

Now I really want it out.

- They're fixed in there quite tight.
- Yeah.

Scrape this stuff.

Yeah, it almost looks like
some sort of hard Clay.

Yeah, it's...

I would put a little chunk
like that in some water

and see what its consistency turns into.

- Yeah.
- We might be able to reconstitute it,

- as it was used.
- Yeah.

You have a little water there, Jack?

- Yeah.
- See if it turns into anything.

Okay. Thank you.

Is it turning into, like, a Clay?

More like a...

Almost like, almost a little bit like cement.

Yeah, no, that looks like cement.

- Cement.
- Yeah.

This is unbelievable.

- Now that looks like cement.
- Yep.

That's why this held. Right?

- Yep.
- And this is just all filled in.

- That's what you see here.
- Yeah.

On lot 8, Rick has just
discovered evidence

that the stones which were uncovered

below the massive Boulder

appear to have been set in place

with man-made mortar, or cement.

Once it dries, I bet that
adheres perfectly to that.

- Really gritty cement.
- Yep.

And you wouldn't think. When
you break it apart right now,

- it's just sand.
- Yeah.

I bet there's a lot of
calcium carbonate in here.

When you compare
this, elementally, to...

Cement through the ages,

I think you're gonna
get a fairly accurate date.

Like from Roman cement on forward.

Be interesting to see which
kind of cement this matches.

Yeah. That would be interesting.

- That would be crazy.
- Yep.

Because different types
of concrete mixtures

have been used throughout
the ages of human construction,

dating back as far as ancient Egypt,

could determining the
contents of this material

help the team approximate
when this feature was created?

I believe the mortar or
the cement-like material

might reveal a-a when.

And maybe even tell us

where does it come from? Is
there a cultural association?

Hopefully, there can be some answers

derived from this analysis.

That mixture might be quite revealing.

It resembles, on lot 5,

- on the semicircular feature...
- Yeah.

- Yeah.
- It looks a lot like

the Clay we found there.

What turned out to
correlate with the maroon till

- from the money pit. Yeah.
- Yeah. It'll be interesting

to see how it tests.

Yeah. Well, if it
corresponds to those two,

you've got something big on your hands.

Yep.

Look at that.

In addition to the blue Clay found on lot 5

and, reportedly, by earlier
searchers in the money pit,

the laginas and their
team have also discovered

a similar-looking mortar-like material

in the round feature on lot


from more than 100 feet
deep in the money pit area.

It's all smeared, all through here.

So, if the team can
match this cement material

on lot 8 to those structures,

could that mean all
three may have been built

by the same people?

To move a 40,000-pound rock

into a position on a
nicely crafted rock cradle,

I mean, you have to
come up with a theory

as to why somebody was
moved to move that Boulder.

And maybe they were trying to
hide something very important.

What in the heck went on on this island?

It just raises the mystery to new levels.

There was a reason for this,

and it wasn't just to support that Boulder.

- It could go deeper.
- It could. - Yeah.

- And the archeology will tell.
- Okay.

Well, you know what?
I'm gonna let you two

get back to work.

- All right.
- I have a feeling those rocks are gonna

need a little bit of persuasion
to come out of there.

Yeah. I'll do my best.

- Okey doke.
- All right.

- Thank you.
- Good luck.

By digging in the ground
and far back into history,

Rick, Marty, Craig, and their team

are finding mounting evidence

that people journeyed
to oak island long ago

to hide precious... and,
perhaps, sacred... secrets.

And through Patience and tireless effort,

they may have identified
not only structures

that those people inhabited,

but now, at least two other locations

where those secrets could lie buried.

So, as the team looks deeper,

have they uncovered the final barriers

between them and
the ultimate answers?

Or will they encounter

something much harder to break through

than bedrock and concrete?

Next time on the curse
of oak island... Heads up.

We've broken through
into the solution channel.

That's what we're looking for.

The three churches have
exactly the same stellar alignment

of lot 5.

This could be a tunnel shaft entrance.

Maybe it's just right under here.

- A piece of wood.
- What's wood doing down that deep?

Maybe this wood came
from the original money pit.

If there's wood at the top,

maybe there's gold at the bottom.

Possibly treasure on deck.

What have we got here?