10x07 - Norsing Around

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

- ALEX: Here we go.
- RICK: We are going to run

a geophysical
investigation in the swamp.

- Whoa. Yeah. Big hit.
- Big one?

Fantastic!

- [whoops]
- I see it!

I see it as well. Look.

Ooh. I mean, this is nice.

- TEDFORD: Whoa!
- The bottom dropped

- right out from under you?
- That’s right.

This is not a natural
cavity. That doesn’t happen.

We’d better get a
camera down there.

SCOTT: Here we go. Keep going.

- There’s the edge of something.
- Wait. No, stop.

Some sort of, like,
pedestal sticking out.

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.

♪ ♪

A new morning has
dawned on Oak Island.

But unlike others
in recent weeks,

it has begun with
an eerie stillness

surrounding the Garden
Shaft in the Money Pit area,

where one of the boldest
operations ever undertaken

in the hopes of solving a


has suddenly come to
an unexpected standstill.

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

RICK: Hey.

Good news, right?

- Bravo Tango.
- No.

All right.

RICK: We wanted to
bring you up to speed on

the Garden Shaft project.

We’ve ran into a
bit of a problem.

Okay.

Uh, Craig and Scott
were on the phone

with the people at Dumas,

so I’m gonna turn it over to
Craig and have him fill you in.

MARTY: That’d be great.

So what’s going on, Craig?

Well, Dumas needs
some more permits,

and, uh, they got a list of,

I don’t know, close
to 50 questions,

uh, from different
governmental agencies.

They’re going through
it and answering them,

but it is definitely a delay.

And, uh, it’s a slow
process. It’s not days.

It’s gonna be a while yet.

From my perspective,
no end in sight.

- Great.
- Yup.

Are they shut down
until this gets resolved?

Yeah. They left the site.

Is it safety issues? What is it?

The problem is, this
was a rehab of a shaft,

and that’s the way Dumas
approached this project,

but the government
side of it was,

"No, this is a
mining operation,"

so that’s where the
disconnect happened.

And the rules for mining
are a bit tighter than the rules

for what was considered to
be just a shaft rehabilitation.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Three weeks ago,

representatives from
Dumas Contracting Ltd.

Began the process of rebuilding

an old, dilapidated
wooden structure,

believed to be
nearly 80 feet deep,

known as the Garden Shaft.

Okay, that was big, probably
the outside wall there.

NARRATOR: First unearthed
by the team in 2017...

it was believed to simply be
a 19-century searcher structure.

However, recent scientific
analysis of wood samples

have been dated to the 1730s,

meaning that it could
actually be related

to the original Money Pit.

And even more
intriguing is the fact

that water testing
conducted inside the shaft

has produced high-trace
evidence of gold.

The Garden Shaft project,

to me, it’s the focal
point of the year,

and the hope was that it
would proceed seamlessly.

- That’s right.
- It’s just kind of frustrating.

- Yeah.
- Yep.

NARRATOR: The team’s plan is to
have Dumas clear out the muck and water

from the existing shaft, and
then build a new waterproof,

wooden structure down to
a depth of at least 80 feet.

Additionally, if
evidence of voids

or man-made workings are
detected during the process,

Dumas is also equipped
to construct lateral tunnels

away from the shaft
to allow members

of the Oak Island team
to personally investigate

for important clues and the
fabled Oak Island treasure.

I’m very concerned about this.

It always seems to be something.

I mean, time is not on our side.

Not at this point.

MARTY: It’s
disconcerting, because

if the Dumas effort
gets pushed off too far,

we’re not gonna be
able to utilize it this year.

Uh, we’re not gonna
be able to use it as a tool

to help resolve the mystery.

RICK: Nova Scotia has
really dedicated themselves

to keep the mining
operations exceedingly safe,

and we now are
under those regulations.

And we have to honor
them and respect them.

As soon as this is resolved,
they’ll start up the crane

and start mucking it
out and start retimbering.

- Great.
- RICK: So, now we can redirect our energies.

The drill program
has not been affected.

- Yep.
- So there’s a lot of work to do

that will help us move
the search agenda forward.

All right. Good. Thank
you for the update.

- I much appreciate it.
- Okey doke. That’s all we’ve got.

- MARTY: See you later.
- RICK: All right. See you.

CRAIG: Talk to you later.

NARRATOR: Later that day...

CHARLES: Well, we
got another core coming.



- 98? -Yup.
- Thank you, Brandon.

Members of the team
are eagerly proceeding

with the other
major search activity

in the Money Pit
area for this year.

The core-drilling operation
along their strategic grid,

is currently at a borehole
known as IJ-15.25.

Here, they are hoping to
once again intersect a tunnel

located some 103 feet deep,

which has been carbon-dated
to as early as the 17th century.

And what makes the feature
even more compelling to the team is

that a sonar operation conducted
six weeks ago determined that

it is heading in the
direction of the Garden Shaft.

TERRY: So, here we are at


from about 102 to about 107-ish.

Five foot-ish tunnels, often
times what we’re encountering.

We should be in
very close proximity

to the tunnel at this point.

We’re just above it with this.

PAUL: Hopefully, we
get a chunk of wood here

in the next run.

TERRY: Here we go. I’m
gonna help him with that.

- That’s our 108.
- This will be 108.

- 105, so...
- Yeah. This should be, uh,

There should be
something in here.

That’s the bottom
there, right at 108.

PAUL: Let’s see.

- STEVE G.: It looks soft, Terry.
- TERRY: Yeah.

Thank you.

TERRY: Okay.

Let’s see what it gives us.

♪ ♪

It does not look good.

CHARLES: Well, I’m
not seeing any wood.

TERRY: Ah, yeah.

PAUL: It doesn’t look
like there’s any splinters,

any nicks in here
at all, nothing.

No, it’s just...
It’s full of clay.

- Nothing.
- TERRY: Unfortunately,

we’ve-we’ve missed the tunnel.

♪ ♪

RICK: It’s unfortunate that
we did not discover the tunnel,

but there are still
other opportunities

to drill and define
that location.

Sadly, it’s a miss, but we
still have a lot of good data.

I’m gonna plot the data,

and we’re going to pick
the next most likely borehole

- to hit this tunnel.
- Right.

- Hopefully, we can pinpoint where that treasure is.
- Absolutely.

TERRY: Sempre avanti, gentlemen.

- Always forward.
- PAUL: Exactly.

NARRATOR: As members of
the team plot their next borehole

in the Money Pit area...

- GARY: This is gonna be a great day.
- JACK: Yeah.

Metal detection
expert Gary Drayton

and Jack Begley arrive at Lot 8,

located on the western
side of the island.

Lot 8 just keeps producing.

Every time we come back
here, we’re finding artifacts, mate.

- Yeah.
- There’s bound to be

some more in this area, mate.

- Let’s go have some fun.
- Let’s get stuck in, mate.

NARRATOR: Although it sets more
than half a mile from the Money Pit,

in recent years, the
team has made a number

of potentially important
discoveries on Lot 8.

These include a
semiprecious garnet gemstone

that some believe
could have come

from a ceremonial
masonic breastplate

related to sacred treasures
of the Knights Templar,

as well as a bunk hook

that may date back
more than four centuries

and which was designed
for lifting heavy cargo.

And just one week
ago, it was here

that Gary and Jack
unearthed a copper artifact

featuring strange,
handcrafted symbols.

It’s some sort of ornate
metallic cover to an object.

NARRATOR: An artifact that
archaeologist Dr. Edwin Barnhart

believes could possibly
be another significant clue.

It does have some
iconography on it,

so it could be some
sort of religious object.

Really?

- [beeping]
- [chuckles]

Little screamer.

- Just there, mate.
- That’s a sweet sound.

Yeah, it really is.

[beeping]

♪ ♪

- GARY: That’s a plug.
- [beeping]

And it’s still in the ground.

- Uh, either that, or we’re just missing it.
- Maybe.

Might be off to the side.

[high-pitched beeping]

Oh, it’s deeper.

- Let’s see if I can winkle it out.
- What is it?

- Ooh!
- Whoa!

GARY: Look at that.

- GARY: Ooh-hoo! Sweet.
- JACK: Whoa.

That is a part of a claw hammer.

NARRATOR: While
searching on Lot 8,

located northwest of
the Oak Island swamp,

Gary Drayton and Jack
Begley have just made

another potentially
important discovery.

I don’t know how old
it is, but I do remember

Pete and I finding
an old claw hammer...

I think it was Lot 14,
Lot 15, over there...

- And it was an oldie.
- Oh.

NARRATOR: A claw hammer?

One year ago,

while searching on
Lot 15 for evidence of

a mysterious stone pathway

running between the
swamp and the Money Pit...

Gary, along with
Rick and Marty’s nephew

Peter Fornetti, found
a nearly identical tool...

RICK: Hello, Dr. Brousseau.

CHRISTA: Hi,
everyone. How’s it going?

One that chemist
Dr. Christa Brosseau believed

could predate the
discovery of the Money Pit

by nearly three centuries.

CHRISTA: This type of hammerhead
has been known since the 1500s.

MARTY: Very interesting.

NARRATOR: But what made
this find particularly interesting is

that it potentially
dated to the same era

as the stone road
found two years ago

in the southeast
corner of the swamp.

The same stone road
that was nearly identical

to one Rick Lagina and
members of the team

were shown in
Portugal one year ago

where the Portuguese
sect of the Knights Templar

maintained a stronghold between
the 12the and 16th centuries.

GARY: The socket
would have been here.

It all has to do with
the socket shape.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
Gary and Jack have just found

another clue that could
connect the religious order

of the Knights Templar
to the Oak Island mystery?

You notice how small that is?

If you’re bringing
a tool kit ashore,

it’s all gonna
be portable stuff.

It might be a good
indication that we’re coming

- into an area that there was work done.
- Yeah.

Okay, mate. We’ll bag it.

Keep moving.

MARTY: Any place we find
anything on Oak Island, any of the lots,

could be the thing
that unlocks Oak Island.

Any item we find
on any of the lots.

Lot 8 is no different.

Lot 8 might be even better
for one simple reason:

it was never occupied.

There was never a house there.

So, if there’s something
that tells a story on Lot 8,

then that means something
else happened there.

And, uh, next flag, mate, is...

- There.
- Over there, yeah.

The guys in the lab
are gonna love that.

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

- MARTY: Hey, there he is!
- JEREMY: Hello.

MARTY: Jeremy, how are you?

I’m great. Good
to see all you guys.

..Marty Lagina along
with his son, Alex,

and Craig Tester are meeting

with geoscientists Jeremy
Church and Burton Cosgrove

in the Research Centre.

Due to the delay of the
Garden Shaft reconstruction,

and also in light of
the recent discoveries

made on the western
side of the island...

MARTY: Jeremy, you guys
brought some high-tech stuff

- that we’re gonna deploy on the island.
- Yeah.

The Oak Island team
has invited Jeremy

and Burton to conduct a
comprehensive geophysical scan

of all of Oak Island’s


So, the unit is known as EM31-8.

- Okay. Mm-hmm.
- It is a near production prototype.

But, uh, it’s based on,
uh, an older technology

that’s been around
for a few decades now.

It’s just kind of
a new riff on it.

What it measures
is conductivity,

and it’s gonna collect that
data down to a depth of 30 feet.

- Cool.
- JEREMY: So, you know,

wherever you’re gonna have
metallic objects on the island,

obviously, this thing’s
gonna pick it up real nice.

But you also could
be picking up things

like old foundations where
the soil has been disturbed,

or there’s large anomalies.

These are all gonna
be clues to the activity of,

you know, previous
occupants of the island.

- Sounds good.
- Yeah.

We were talking about, what
are we doing in the swamp?

That’s-that’s my
first suggestion.

MARTY: No, that’s spot-on, Alex,

’cause it’s warm right now,

- but the bugs aren’t out yet.
- Mm-hmm.

MARTY: That would be a
really good place to start.

And you could take it in
a boat, no problem, right?

Yeah. Definitely.

ALEX: Another reason for
starting with the swamp is

a couple years back you guys
had that ship-shaped anomaly, uh,

in the swamp, and
we tried to dig it.

Uh, we didn’t have
a lot of success,

but if this equipment can give
us another look at that area,

just to confirm,
and hopefully get

- more meaningful information that way.
- JEREMY: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

NARRATOR: It was during
a seismic scanning operation,

conducted in 2018

by Jeremy and his
colleagues from Eagle Canada

that identified a
massive anomaly

resembling the size and
shape of an ancient galleon ship

in the middle of the swamp.

Although the team has
been unable to verify

just what the feature is,

since then, they’ve
unearthed numerous pieces

of believed sailing vessels

dating from as late
as the 17th century,

to as early as the
third century AD.

Now it is the team’s hope
that Jeremy and Burton

can identify new clues,
not only on dry land

but also in the swamp,
that might help them obtain

new permits to drain it

and confirm just
what it may contain.

RICK: We’re here to try to
solve an incredible mystery.

Is there a swamp component
to solving that mystery?

I believe there is,

and I absolutely
want to pursue it.

If we can get data
from you early on

to incorporate in part of
the permit, that’d be great.

- Yeah.
- So, we’ll get you going.

- Thanks, guys.
- Seriously, guys. Go get it.

- BURTON: Thank you. Bye.
- MARTY: See ya. Appreciate it.

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...

- CRAIG: Jeremy.
- JEREMY: Gentlemen, hello.

- Good to see you.
- Hello, Craig.

- Tony, good to see you.
- Good to see you. Nice to see you.

Diver Tony Sampson
has joined Craig, Alex,

Jeremy Church
and Burton Cosgrove

at the swamp

as they prepare to begin
conducting their survey

using the EM31-8
scanning device.

So, how’s it going to work?

Really the key to all
this is getting good lines.

It’s all about the
grid that we do.

We need really a tight grid,

so we don’t miss
any small anomalies.

And that’s part of the
reason why Tony’s gonna be

in the water rather than rowing.

Yeah, but to get the
straightest, cleanest lines,

you can’t b*at human power.

NARRATOR: In order
to scan the swamp,

Tony will guide the
boat in straight grid lines.

The EM31-8 ground
conductivity device measures

the magnetic field
emitted by metallic objects,

or structures,
that may be buried

as much as 30 feet
deep underground.

Although the device can register
immediate preliminary results,

the data that it collects
will require several weeks

of post processing
in order to generate

a three-dimensional map of
potential man-made targets.

Okay, gentlemen, um...

I’m gonna go and
do some other things,

- but I’ll check back in every once in a while.
- Okay.

- Thanks.
- OTHERS: See you later, Craig.

Okay. What do we need to do?

All right, well, let’s
get this on the boat.

The first thing we need
to do in the swamp is

to determine actual targets.

- Yeah, we’re good.
- Nondestructive, noninvasive,

and if we come up with a
legitimate target, or targets...

Okay, so you guys
got it all set up?

I believe so.

Then we will begin that process

of applying for permits,

and, uh, try to
come up with a plan.

Here we go.

- Thank you, sir.
- Best of luck.

Thank you.

♪ ♪

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

JEREMY: Yeah, that’s a good one.

Yup, we’re online.

- TONY: Still good?
- JEREMY: Yeah.

[low, steady beeping]

- [rapid beeping]
- Whoa.

- Yeah, she’s going off.
- TONY: Big one?

Like off through the roof, yeah.

TONY: Fantastic!

- JEREMY: Whoa, yeah, she’s going off.
- TONY: Big one?

- Really?
- Like off through the roof. Yeah.

- [rapid beeping]
- Fantastic!

- Got a marker?
- JEREMY: Yeah.

NARRATOR: While scanning for
potential metallic objects and structures

in the Oak Island swamp...

TONY: I’m really happy we
got a hit right out of the gate.

-Yep. -...geoscientists

Jeremy Church and
Burton Cosgrove,

along with Tony
Sampson and Alex Lagina,

have detected a
potentially important clue.

What level was that at?

- It was all through them, so...
- Really?

Yeah. It was
basically sitting on top

of the-the seismic anomaly, too.

Could be some
metallic objects in there.

Wow.

NARRATOR:
Possible metal objects?

In the same location where
Jeremy Church detected

a 200-foot-long ship-shaped
anomaly four years ago?

Has the team potentially
found more evidence

that the swamp could contain

the wreck of a centuries-old
treasure galleon?

And if so, could it be
related to the stone road

as well as the other discoveries
made around the island

that may be
Portuguese in origin?

- Good to go, Tony.
- Good to go.

[steady beeping]

- [rapid beeping]
- JEREMY: Boom.

Something’s happening
right there. Yeah.

BURTON: Another hit there?

- Another hit there?
- JEREMY: Yeah.

MARTY: I have to admit that

every time we’ve
dug in the swamp,

we’ve found stuff that
seems to be significant.

We have all kinds of stuff
from the swamp that’s intriguing.

We have the enigmatic stone road

that anyone could tell
is a man-made feature

and doesn’t make any
sense to be in a swamp.

We have bits of wood that have

very peculiar dates on
them from the swamp.

So, in order to
finish this quest,

we have to finish the swamp.

You seeing anything?

It’s going really
well, and yes, we are.

- Any theories?
- JEREMY: Yeah, it does somewhat correlate

with the seismic anomaly
from a couple years back.

- Interesting. Yeah.
- Very interesting.

Tony, when you... when
you’re going across those areas

where they got the hits, are you
feeling anything with your feet?

I can feel the density
of the bottom change.

So, similar over
the last few years,

like when we found
the stone walkway

and the stone roadway down here.

Yeah. That’s-that’s
really exciting.

That many hits in
this... just this small area

of the swamp is really,
really encouraging.

- Excellent.
- So, I’ll stop wasting your time and let you get back to it,

’cause I know I and
the rest of the guys

are gonna be excited
to take a look at this.

Right on. Yeah.

- JEREMY: Thanks, Alex.
- ALEX: Thanks, guys.

- Thank you, Tony.
- TONY: Thanks, Alex.

We’ll see you later, buddy.

NARRATOR: As the geophysical
scan continues in the swamp,

later that afternoon...

TERRY: Looks fairly
maroon-ish, Charles.

- CHARLES: It would be great to tunnel in.
- TERRY: Yep.

In the Money Pit area,

geologist Terry Matheson
and other members of the team

are drilling a new
borehole known as L-15.

Located some 15 feet
south of their previous target,

here, they are hoping
to once again intersect

a five-foot-high
wood-cribbed tunnel

at a depth of 103 feet

believed to be heading
toward the Garden Shaft.

TERRY: As for right now,
we’re not into the tunnel,

but the next run we’re gonna
be right to the top of the tunnel.

- If it’s there, we’ll hit it.
- If it’s there, we’ll hit it.

TEDFORD: Oh, yeah, baby!

- BRANDON: Found it?
- TEDFORD: I think so.

Now he’s on the bottom.

- TEDFORD: Must have been a chunk of wood at the top.
- BRANDON: Yeah.

Hopefully. I don’t know...

[whirring]

CHARLES: 109?

- Yeah. Down at 109.
- That’s the bottom, 109.

We’re looking for
wood here, Charles.

TERRY: Hey, Mike.

- Right there. Look. Terry, right here.
- Yeah.

- Oh, yeah.
- CHARLES: There it is.

TERRY: We definitely hit
the tunnel. Let’s have a look.

Let’s see just
how much there is.

- There’s a fair good chunk.
- CHARLES: Here we go.

Okay. There it is, there.

So, that’s not anything
terribly substantial.

No.

What’s your read on this,
Mike? What do you think?

Well, with all of
this in the bottom?

- Yep.
- Shouldn’t be there

- if we’re in the tunnel.
- Yeah.

Look, bottom of the
tunnel should be right here,

and we’ve got good,
clean, bedded material, so...

We just nicked the side of it

- or the top of it or something, so...
- Yeah.

So, the tunnel is collapsed
over or shifted slightly,

and we’ve caught
a small portion of it.

CHARLES: Yeah.

TERRY: This is not gonna give us

the direction of the tunnel.

NARRATOR: Could Terry be correct

that they’ve
intersected the tunnel

they were hoping to find

but found evidence that it has,

in fact, collapsed
at this location?

If so, it means that,
unfortunately, Borehole L-15

will not provide any
more confirmation

that the tunnel is leading
toward the Garden Shaft.

TERRY: Okay, so
there you have it.

To me, that means that
there’s more exploration

- that has to be done.
- Absolutely.

We know so very little about

the underground
in the Money Pit.

And we have areas
of significant interest

within the Garden Shaft.

We would be remiss,
I think, at this point

not to drill deeper past
this collapsed feature

to provide a greater
understanding

of what this might be.

TERRY: We’re supposed
to carry on to about 145.

- Yeah.
- So, I think we should just carry on.

All right.

TERRY: It’s what lies beneath

is what we’re looking for.

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

RICK: Good afternoon, sir.

- Hey. -Hello, mate.
- Hello, guys.

Rick Lagina and other
members of the team

have gathered in the w*r room

for a follow-up meeting
via video conference

with renowned archaeologist
Dr. Edwin Barnhart,

regarding the
mysterious copper artifact

that was found one
week ago on Lot 8.

RICK: Well, we’re
very interested in

the reports that
were sent on to you

and what you make of them.

It was definitely illuminating.

NARRATOR: After
reviewing the metallurgy report

that was provided by team
archaeologist Emma Culligan,

and researching the
strange handcrafted symbols

embedded on the object,

Dr. Barnhart has prepared
his final analysis for the team.

EDWIN: The composition
of the metal shows that

it is definitely an alloy

that is copper, zinc,
and a tiny bit of lead.

Nothing in the Americas
was ever alloyed,

so I can 100% surely tell you

it was not created by
Indigenous American cultures.

ALEX: I’m glad to have 100%.

Yeah. When you can
eliminate things, definitively,

that’s, uh, very helpful.

Now, the elements do
tell us a little more, though.

You have 95% copper
and just five percent zinc

and about .5 lead,
says the report,

which means that it’s brass.

That’s interesting,
because most brass

comes from Europe.

And brass was really more common

in the 1500s.

- Really?
- Yep.

And, you know, the
region that y’all are in

was a true crossroads
of the world.

- There were a number of possibilities.
- Hmm.

I mean, the-the
Portuguese were up there

long before Plymouth Rock.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: Could
Dr. Barnhart’s speculation

that the object found on Lot 8

is potentially of
Portuguese origin be true?

If so, was it brought
here by an explorer?

A religious missionary?

Or might it offer more evidence

that could connect
the Portuguese sect

of the Knights Templar
to the Oak Island mystery?

The possibilities of
such an object coming

to your island really
increase starting in the 1500s,

but it could be

some sort of older object.

The other possibility
is the Vikings.

We know they came
over around 1,000.

And we know that they plated

a lot of things with brass.

♪ ♪

EDWIN: The Vikings came over

around 1,000,

and we know they were there.

And, interestingly enough,

they plated a lot
of things with brass.

NARRATOR: In the
Oak Island w*r room,

archaeologist Dr. Edwin Barnhart

has just given Rick Lagina
and members of the team

his stunning assessment
of the metal object

that was recently
found on Lot 8.

EDWIN: They used brass that was

part copper and part zinc.

NARRATOR: Based on
its elemental composition,

it may be as much
as ten centuries old,

and could be
related to the Vikings.

That kind of plating
around an object

being used for containers.

I would put it in the
running as a possibility.

NARRATOR: It is well documented

that between the eighth
and 11th centuries,

the Scandinavian people
known as the Vikings,

or Norse, were powerful
seafarers who traded with...

-[yells] -...and also pillaged,

many other cultures
throughout Europe,

North Africa, and
even parts of Asia.

By 985 AD,

Vikings began making voyages
across the Atlantic Ocean

and established settlements in
both Greenland and Newfoundland.

However, archaeological
evidence has suggested

that they may have also
visited modern-day Nova Scotia,

as well as areas
in the United States.

When you mention the
possibility of Viking or Norse,

obviously our ears perk up,

because there have been
some carbon-dated artifacts

that have come up, uh,

with dates that
are extremely old

- with high confidence.
- ALEX: Mm-hmm.

And there was a
coin found on Lot 5,

which the person who owned
it previously, Robert Young,

uh, felt that he had found an
old Norse coin on the island.

NARRATOR: In 1996,

the late Oak Island
landowner Robert Young

reportedly found
what he believed to be

a genuine
pre-12th-century Norse coin

while metal detecting
on his Lot 5 property.

Currently, these four
acres are off-limits

to the Laginas and their team.

But in 2020,

they made two curious
finds of their own

that are also among the
most ancient discoveries

ever made on Oak Island.

One was a Chinese
cash coin, found on Lot 15

between the swamp
and the Money Pit...

SANDY: It’s probably somewhere

from 400 BC to 900 AD.

Which numismatist
Sandy Campbell believes

to be 1,300 years
old or even older.

The second was a piece
of believed ship’s railing,

unearthed in the swamp
that was carbon-dated

to as early as the 7th century.

Is it possible that
these discoveries,

and the brass artifact
unearthed on Lot 8,

offer corroborating evidence
that Vikings may have been

the first Europeans
to visit Oak Island?

If so, then just what
were they doing here?

RICK: I think there
are very interesting

and very exciting clues
that lead one to believe

that there were early
voyages to the New World,

perhaps to bring something
here to Oak Island.

The real key is connecting
those data points.

It’s an island of "what
ifs" and possibilities.

- That’s what I’ve always said.
- For sure.

Your reference to possible
early Norse connections,

uh, we will certainly
use to look at,

uh, artifacts we find
from that perspective.

So we thank you
for that insight.

EDWIN: My pleasure.

The signature that it
seems that you’re getting

is a place that had
multiple episodes of contact.

I feel for you guys.

- You have a very churned-up context.
- Mm-hmm.

Context is everything to
archaeology, that’s why

if the island hadn’t
been so churned up

by varying processes,

you’d be able to put everything

in perspective.

Well, please don’t
feel sorry for us.

We’re treasure
hunting on Oak Island.

-[laughter] -Doesn’t
get any better than that.

Well, I think we
have another expert

that we have brought
into the Oak Island family.

Yep. You’re right. I’m in.

-[laughter] -Great.
Good to hear.

Thank you very
much for your time.

- Yeah, thanks. -We really appreciate it.
- Thanks, guys.

- RICK: See you later.
- EDWIN: Take care.

NARRATOR: Following
their meeting in the w*r room...

- [whirring]
- ALEX: Hey, Terry.

- TERRY: Hi, guys. How you doing?
- ALEX: Good.

Where are we at?

Oh, we’re just pulling a
sample from 139 to 149.

Alex Lagina and
surveyor Steve Guptill

join geologist Terry
Matheson in the Money Pit area

where the core-drilling
operation continues

in Borehole L-15.

We’re just pushing to
bedrock in the next run,

- and then we’ll see where we are.
- Got it.

NARRATOR: After drilling
through a collapsed portion

of a believed 17th-century
tunnel one day ago

that may be connected
to the Garden Shaft,

the team has
proceeded to drill deeper

in the hopes of
finding important clues

or potential valuables.

Here it comes.

TERRY: Okay.

- Hey, Mike. -TEDFORD: Hey, guys.
- TERRY: Mike, how you doing?

STEVE G.: What do you got there?

That’s... about 146.

- STEVE G.: 146.
- Yeah.

Okay. Excellent.



- Yeah.
- That’s...

- not enough core.
- No.

When I was going
down, right about 146,

it just, like, the bottom
dropped out of it.

The bottom dropped right
out from under you there?

Yeah. Almost like
there was nothing there.

Like a void.

TERRY: The bottom dropped
right out from under you there?

- TEDFORD: That’s right.
- TERRY: Wow.

Almost like there
was nothing there.

Like a void.

NARRATOR: It is a
curious and exciting moment

in the Money Pit area for
members of the Oak Island team.

How far did you drop, Mike?

- Ten feet.
- TERRY: Ten feet?

So you’re down to about 150.

- That’s right.
- Okay. Wow.

NARRATOR: Upon reaching
a depth of more than 145 feet

in Borehole L-15,

located some 65 feet
south of the Garden Shaft,

they have just encountered
a mysterious void.

Wow, this is something
we got to look into.

Mike, that’s really
interesting information.

So, bottom drops at,
one more time, 140...

- 146.
- TERRY: 146.

- Yeah. -That’s a big cavity.
- ALEX: That’s huge.

- Yeah.
- Did we know that there was a void there?

No, there, uh, there’s no voids
in this area that we know of.

So, this is not a
natural cavity, right?

I mean, that doesn’t happen.

- Does it?
- [chuckles] We haven’t seen it.

-[laughs] -Let’s
just put it that way.

- That’s fair.
- Very unusual.

So if we’re at 146
to a 150-something,

this is a different cavity we
don’t have any information on.

- Yeah.
- So this is a brand-new cavity.

Luckily, we have a
sonar and a camera here,

so the first thing we should
do is put a camera down

- and see if we can see an opening.
- Yes.

Yeah, I agree. I agree,

and I think Rick will probably
want to know about this,

so I’m gonna let him know,

and then we can
get the camera set up

- and-and take a look.
- TERRY: For sure.

Okay. Sounds good.

TERRY: Interesting
times. Good stuff.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

- STEVE G.: Hey, Rick.
- SCOTT: Hey, guys.

So, we’re set up.

Wow.

You guys are first-class.

Rick and Marty Lagina
join members of the team

in the Money Pit area
where they have just inserted

a high-definition camera
down Borehole L-15

to investigate the
mysterious void

located 146 feet underground.

SCOTT: Pretty clear so far.

By the way, I want to
name this thing, okay?

Yeah.

So I’m officially gonna
start calling this... Ready?

- Yup.
- Aladdin’s Cave.

Aladdin’s Cave?

Are we finding some
magic down here?

- Touch nothing.
- [laughter]

For me, this void,
cavity, is interesting.

Is there any
man-made association

with a treasure deposition?

This could be a
possible explanation for it.

We’re on a downward pull now.

SCOTT: So, when you
see the 150-mark come up,

let’s stop before that, and
we’ll just creep down slowly

- from there so we can see it coming out of the casing.
- STEVE G.: Yup.

PAUL: It’s coming up shortly.

SCOTT: Slow down. Slow down.

There’s 150.

- All right, so, there we go.
- MARTY: Okay. Careful.

PAUL: Start creeping from here.

Keep going. Keep going.

Keep going.

- SCOTT: There we go. Right there.
- STEVE G.: There it is.

You can see in the cavity?

SCOTT: We’re getting
a lot of reflection back

- from particulate.
- MARTY: You can see stuff

- that’s following you down.
- SCOTT: Yeah.

So, our next stop will
be 151, eight inches.

MARTY: Okay. Go real slow.

♪ ♪

SCOTT: There we go.

STEVE G.: Right now,
we’re looking into the cavity.

PAUL: There’s some
material or rocks.

MARTY: The cave is
very interesting to me,

because it’s hard to figure out

how that could be
a natural feature.

It doesn’t make sense.

It’s all by itself. There
are no others like it.

So we need to
figure that thing out.

You can’t be
very far off bottom.

You want to point it
straight down, Scott,

and lower it and just see
what’s directly beneath us?

SCOTT: Yeah.

- STEVE G.: Good.
- SCOTT: Here you go.

We should be looking
straight down there.

We’re pretty close to
the bottom, aren’t we?

Yep.

That’s very clear.

SCOTT: Let’s do a rotation

and see if there’s
anything else stands out.

PAUL: The hope is
that we scan around,

and we find a chunk
of wood somewhere.

Come on.

No. You can go down.

- STEVE G.: You got something?
- SCOTT: Something coming in.

Yeah, so let’s...

See how weird that is?

PAUL: Yeah, I can see that.

There’s the edge of something.

- STEVE G.: You got something?
- SCOTT: Something coming in.

See how weird that is?

PAUL: Yeah. I can see that.

There’s the edge of something.

SCOTT: This piece right here?

This piece right here.

NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,

while investigating
a mysterious void

some 146 feet deep
in Borehole L-15...

I wonder if I can zoom
in on that a little better

or focus on it a little better.

Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with other
members of the team,

may have just found a
potentially important clue.

That’s a weird way
for a rock to fracture.

Well, why don’t you
try and zoom out?

I’m just trying to... making
a rotation, a full circle.

Wait. No. Stop.

That’s pretty square.

Some sort of, like,
pedestal sticking out.

Wow.

RICK: Every expert has told us,

you see right angles,

whether they be above
ground or below ground,

that’s something that was
constructed by humans.

Anything constructed
by humans on Oak Island

is of interest to us.

And thus, the reason to
continue to investigate.

I think you’re seeing a pile of
jumble underneath the camera.

Maybe there’s been
a collapse down there.

NARRATOR: A possible
collapsed structure?

In a cavity nearly


If so, could it have been
built by treasure hunters

after the Money Pit’s
discovery in 1795?

Or was it created by someone

who came to Oak Island
much, much earlier?

And do you think you’re
seeing off the edge of a pile,

- right there?
- PAUL: That’s what

we’re looking at right
now, straight down.

And the hole came
down very close to

the wall of the
cave, we’ll call it.

And I think that’s
what we see whenever

we’re looking horizontally.

Okay, put it at 90
and take a loop.

Think that’s the wall?
The nearest wall?

SCOTT: I think that’s
what we’re seeing.

Some sort of structure
close to the hole.

I think it has the possibility
of not being natural.

I’d really love to explain
the cavernous area,

but I am, uh, I’m a
little lost on this thing.

I don’t see a mechanism,
a natural mechanism

to have been created.

So, it’s a long sh*t, but
this could be the chamber.

So we need to know
everything that’s inside this thing.

We can rotate it around,

then we can kind
of see into the abyss.

You can’t focus
on that any better?

Let’s try.

MARTY: I don’t see anything.

Okay. So, we have
a decision to make.

I need more data, if
we’re gonna explore this.

RICK: To me, it just simply says

we need the mapping sonar

if you’re ever gonna learn
anything at all about this.

Correct. If we have a sonar,

- a 3D sonar, I would run it.
- Okay.

RICK: It’s huge.
It’s remarkable.

I think that what we
need to do is understand

the size of this void,
the floor, the ceiling,

the orientation with the
other knowns in the area.

We need to get 3D mapping sonar

down into that hole
and map that entire void.

- We’re done here.
- Okay.

Spool it all up. On
to the next thing.

- Thank you, guys.
- STEVE G.: Thanks, guys.

NARRATOR: In spite
of a frustrating setback

with the Garden
Shaft excavation,

Rick, Marty, Craig
and their team continue

to forge ahead with possible
breakthrough discoveries

and potentially
history-changing revelations.

Could it be that the origins
of the Oak Island mystery

stretch back even further in
time than anyone ever imagined?

Perhaps that question
can only be answered

by locating the treasure
that has been detected

in the Money Pit.

And there is no force
powerful enough on Oak Island

that will stop this team
from trying to find it.

Next time on The
Curse of Oak Island...

- ALEX: Sonar’s set up.
- STEVE G.: Let’s get it down hole.

- PAUL: Yeah, there it is.
- SCOTT: It is a significant opening.

This could be the
off-set chamber.

Another anomaly was this one
in the northern tip of the swamp.

TOM: Awfully close to
the Eye of the Swamp.

Would a metal box give you that?

- Oh, for sure. Yeah.
- MARTY: Wow.

We have managed
to purchase Lot 5.

- [beeping]
- Oh. Ooh!

- Look at that!
- Wow.

That’s treasure, mate.