10x25 - And the Hits Keep Coming
Posted: 04/17/24 08:22
♪ ♪
- ROGER: Hey, Scott.
- SCOTT: Hey, Roger.
What kind of progress
are they making today?
So right now they're
putting on the 6-inch
as you see, so we
can get a good angle.
SCOTT: So we'll go back
down with a 6-inch auger
and then we'll try and
get a sample of that tunnel.
That's right.
NARRATOR: After more
than a decade of tireless effort,
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,
their partner Craig Tester,
and a dedicated
fellowship of diverse experts
believe they may finally
be on the verge of solving
the 228-year-old
Oak Island mystery.
SCOTT: Here, we feel
we struck wood at 91 feet.
So that works for, you know,
on a four-foot-high tunnel.
- PAUL: Yes, it does.
- CHARLES: Yeah.
NARRATOR: In the
fabled Money Pit area,
representatives of
Dumas Contracting Limited
are about to begin a new
probe drilling operation
at a depth of some
of the newly
reconstructed Garden Shaft
in the hopes of penetrating
a believed wooden tunnel
located less than
ten feet deeper below.
A tunnel that is also believed
to run directly westward
toward the so-called Baby
Blob where water tests performed
in previously drilled
boreholes have detected
high-trace evidence
of both silver and gold.
Knowing that we found
something below this shaft,
- that's pretty exciting.
- Absolutely.
- We have to find out what that is.
- Yeah.
NARRATOR: One week ago,
the team made a first attempt to
drill into the possible tunnel
with a 4-inch diameter bit,
but unfortunately, they
were not successful.
There we go. I think
we're done down there.
We should be ready to go.
Yeah, looks like
they're ready to go.
NARRATOR: Now, the team
has obtained a much more powerful
they hope will not only
penetrate the tunnel but
also help them determine
just what it might contain.
As long as we're
steady and careful,
maybe we'll be able to
get a good, clean hole.
I hope so.
NARRATOR: Time has never been
a more precious
commodity for the team.
Because in less than a
week they will be forced to halt
all search activities
on the island
due to the fast-approaching
North Atlantic winter.
We're all quite excited
about the possibilities of
what this shaft represents.
But we have to move very
quickly and do everything we can,
apply as many
resources as possible
to try to come to
an understanding of
what answers lie either at
the bottom of the Garden Shaft
or in very close
proximity to it.
MARTY: It's a possibility
this tunnel is leading
to the offset chamber
and maybe we're
about to find out that it is.
I almost fantasize
that there's
something down there
that tells us exactly
what happened here.
PAUL: Yeah, so it's
hard drilling right now.
It should go a lot
faster than that.
They could be spinning on
some cobbles down there.
ROGER: Oh, yeah.
It looks like it's
gonna take some time
- before we get down there.
- ROGER: Yeah.
Yeah, I'm anxious for
them to get down there
and see what we can see.
NARRATOR: As the probe
drilling operation continues
in the Garden Shaft...
MARTY: Might as
well join in the fun.
NARRATOR: On Lot 5,
located on the western
side of the island...
That's a big one.
Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with Marty's
son Alex, Jack Begley
and archaeologist Laird Niven...
Man, that was
tricky right there.
..continue investigating
a circular depression
that is completely
lined with large stones.
Okay, heads up, guys.
NARRATOR: Of the numerous
potentially ancient structures
that the team has investigated
on the western
side of Oak Island,
this feature on Lot 5 is
among the most mysterious.
It is not only located in the
area where earlier this year
the team found a
as well as a lead token
that may be connected
to the 14th century lead cross.
- Hey, Gary.
- Lot 5, I hear an excavator.
- I'm here.
- Gary's here.
[laughing]
NARRATOR: But
perhaps even more curious
is the fact that it has a
just like the
original Money Pit.
This has made Rick,
Marty and the team wonder
if it could be the so-called
"hole under the hatch"...
A feature that appears on
a reported 14th century map
of Oak Island.
A map that the late author
and researcher Zena Halpern
believed was created by
members of the Knights Templar.
GARY: All right.
Gonna have a scan.
See what we're looking at.
It's a strange feature
on Lot 5 where
more than several unique
finds have been made.
-[detector beeping] -GARY: Oh,
that doesn't sound too bad, though.
That sounds good.
ALEX: That's very close.
RICK: I think the
archaeologists,
at some point, will
be able to tell us
what it well and
truly represents.
Right now, it could be anything.
GARY: Got it?
- JACK: Is that a nail?
- Yeah.
GARY: Is it a
square-shanked nail?
It's hard to say.
LAIRD: It looks...
- GARY: It looks old.
- LAIRD: Yeah.
It's good because
we were wondering
- if there was a building over this.
- GARY: Yeah.
Each nail we find
is evidence of that.
NARRATOR: Could Laird be
correct that they are finding evidence of
some kind of structure
that once covered this
mysterious depression?
- That'll CT scan well.
- Yeah.
NARRATOR: If so, just
what might the team find
deeper inside the feature as
they continue to investigate?
That deposit I'm in
down there, it's deep.
- Oh, it still goes deeper?
- Yeah.
RICK: Want to dig that one?
My problem is it's... I'm
worried it's gonna collapse.
Yeah, I think I'd
rather excavate that soil
by hand, back down
to the rock level.
The key is to
expand, find the edge.
It may help us extrapolate
the total size of the building.
- Yeah.
- LAIRD: Whatever it is,
this is massive, I think.
It's curious enough to find out.
And you will learn what this is.
And we do it in a few days.
Hopefully, yes.
Because that's
all we have, yeah.
MARTY: All right,
let's get after it.
LAIRD: Yeah.
NARRATOR: Later that morning...
MARTY: Gentlemen.
Today we're gonna have
some data on the swamp.
NARRATOR: Rick, Marty and
Craig Tester gather in the w*r room
with other members of the team.
MARTY: Okay. We
have two samples here...
I'm looking at them... that
came from the ramp area.
You were involved in both,
so why don't you give
us a little background
and then you have carbon
dating results, correct?
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Over
the past several weeks,
the team has uncovered
what appears to be
a man-made stone ramp
in the northeastern region
of the triangle-shaped swamp.
A ramp that connects the
massive 800-year-old paved area
with a stone pathway
that may possibly lead
towards the Money Pit.
CRAIG: The ramp
itself... Dr. Spooner felt
it was definitely man-made.
We found a couple sticks
under the first layer of rocks.
And then we also found a stick
under a second layer of rock.
So we felt we got
a good representation right in
that immediate area, at least.
MARTY: What are
the brackets, Craig?
You know, the
confidence intervals?
The deepest piece, which
was under the second rock,
it could have been
there, you know,
as they were building it.
It was dated...
to 1656.
MARTY: Whoa!
[all laughing]
MARTY: That is amazing.
CRAIG: The deepest piece,
which was under the ramp itself
was 1495
to 1656.
NARRATOR: In the
w*r room, Craig Tester
has just informed Rick, Marty,
and the team that the stone ramp
that was recently
unearthed in the swamp
and which connects
the massive paved area
with a cobblestone pathway
could date back to as early
as the late 15th century.
And the big picture
is, it's indicating
the ramp was put in place
the same time as the stone
road and the stone path.
Like the stakes we
found along the edge.
NARRATOR: The stone ramp,
potentially dating to the same period
as the stone road that
the team uncovered
in the southeast corner of
the swamp two years ago?
What makes this revelation
significant in terms of
possibly helping to solve
the Oak Island mystery
is that Rick and
members of the team
saw an identical stone road
in Alqueidão da Serra,
Portugal, in 2021.
A city that between the
served as a stronghold
for the Knights Templar.
MARTY: So, you're
saying all the data says that
the stone road, the path,
the ramp were all made
at the same time, but the
paved area is way older?
Does that make sense to you?
That's what the data
is showing so far.
I just think if you're
trying to reconcile
the two time periods...
- I am.
- 1200s to 1600s?
I am.
DOUG: So the ramp
could have been
built down to an
existing structure
for the purpose of whatever
they were doing at the time.
It just continued to be
re-enforced with rocks to ensure
there was a nice
stable work area,
a ramp and a path.
And it probably somehow
connects to the Money Pit.
They knew and probably
used that... the paved area.
RICK: The ramp is
coming from the paved area,
which dates to 1200.
And the ramp leading
from it is 1495 to 1656.
So, does that mean
there were successive
attempts to construct something,
to conduct some enterprise,
and that it was
done over centuries?
Right now that's the
only plausible explanation.
There's still answers to find.
Yes, and we're not
gonna find them this year.
We're running
out of time, again.
And as much as I'd hope
the swamp would be done,
it's clearly not.
RICK: Unfortunately,
again we're under
the difficulties of dealing
with time and weather.
So... we've made great strides,
but the swamp
isn't going anywhere
and we'll be back
to find answers
- as soon as possible.
- MARTY: Okay.
This meeting's over... let's get
back to doing what we're doing.
Craig, thank you,
appreciate all the information
and we'll keep you posted.
ALL: See you, Craig.
CRAIG: Okay. Talk
to you guys later.
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NARRATOR: The following day...
Copy, Rodney.
Does it look like you're on
something or what
does it feel like?
ROGER: Just give me some
heads-up when you get there.
RODNEY: 10-4.
NARRATOR: As the probe
drilling operation continues
in the Garden Shaft...
MARTY: Hey, folks.
- Archaeologists.
- MIRIAM: Hey.
How are you?
We're ready for an update.
We're deeper. [chuckles]
MARTY: Yeah,
you are. I see that.
NARRATOR: Marty and
Alex Lagina return to Lot 5
where archaeologists
Laird Niven, Miriam Amirault
and Helen Sheldon
are investigating
the mysterious stone
feature for additional clues,
and evidence of valuables.
MARTY: What can you tell us?
I thought we were
getting the bottom,
- but we still have a ways to go.
- Okay.
We have some big rocks
that we need removed.
MARTY: Okay. I'll tell you
what, I'll jump in and work on that.
Here we go.
This circular feature,
it's inexplicable.
[chuckles] It appears
to be very old.
[starts engine]
And there could be
something deeper.
If there's something
below there,
then it could get
really interesting.
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ALEX: You got it.
RICK: Hey, guys.
LAIRD: Hey, Rick.
- Hey.
- Hey.
ALEX: Have a look.
LAIRD: I thought
this was the bottom,
but we have
a little more
structure possibly.
- Does that sound solid to you?
- No.
But you think that this
is more rubble-filled?
- Yes.
- MARTY: You know, Rick, if you come over here,
on this side and look back...
From here, I can see the rubble.
It almost does look
stuffed with rubble.
Yeah. Oh, I agree.
Like on the Lot 26 wall,
that's done for stability.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: The stone depression?
Possibly made with a
similar style as the rock wall
located nearly half a
mile away on Lot 26?
Curiously, the wall,
which researcher Francisco
Nogueira speculated
may be of Portuguese origin
contained charcoal that
was scientifically dated
to as far back as
the 15th century.
- I mean, you're not to the bottom of it yet.
- No.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
Rick and Marty could be correct
that these features
may be related?
And if so,
might they have been created by
the same people who
constructed the stone ramp
and the stone road in the swamp?
From a discovery perspective,
what do you intend to do
the rest of the year?
We want to come
down to this, this level.
That's a lot.
Except we are almost
completely out of time.
Frustrating.
Yeah.
MARTY: Oak Island
has beat it into me
that things aren't
easy to figure out here.
Next year, Lot 5,
clearly, is going to be
a place where we are going
to allocate more resources.
We have to.
Yeah, so, Alex, if you
want to work in there
- with Miriam?
- ALEX: Okay.
We'll get started.
MARTY: Carry on.
NARRATOR: Later that morning...
MARTY: Well,
you're clearly drilling.
- Yes.
- I can hear it.
Absolutely.
Rick and Marty Lagina
arrive at the Money Pit area
to check on the progress of
the probe drilling operation
within the Garden Shaft.
RICK: How deep are they?
SCOTT: They're at
depth, down to 93 feet.
Well, then they should be
right at the point where
there's supposedly wood.
- They should be right on wood.
- SCOTT: Yes.
NARRATOR: Having reached
the approximate depth of
the believed tunnel that
may lead directly westward
into the possible treasure zone,
the burning questions are,
can they locate the structure,
and if so, can they breach it
to see what it may contain?
Today is the last day.
There's no question about it.
Dumas have to pack up.
We have, really, only half a
day of real active search agenda.
- Somethings binding it up.
- Oh, yeah.
Wood would do that.
Wood would do
that, or even if he was
coming down the side
of it and hooked into it.
Okay.
That's it. Pull it up.
Here it comes.
PAUL: Just unbelievable.
MARTY: Something's
binding it up.
- ROGER: Oh, yeah.
- CHARLES: Yeah.
Wood would do that.
NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,
Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with members
of the team...
Oh, some material that
was moving around there.
Off to the side.
NARRATOR: believe that
their probe drilling operation
has reached a possible
tunnel below the Garden Shaft
at a depth of some 93 feet deep.
You can see it over on
the edge of the auger.
NARRATOR: A tunnel
which may lead directly
to the Money Pit treasure vault.
I'm curious what's
in the drill bit.
- It should be on or into it now.
- ROGER: Oh, yeah.
Oh, absolutely.
I'd like to pull the bits
and see what's down there.
What do you guys think?
I'd do it before
we run out of time.
- Okay.
- Yeah, that's a good idea.
ROGER: Copy, Rodney.
RODNEY: Go ahead, Roger.
Yeah, the guys would like
you to stop drilling right now.
Let's pull the rods out.
Let's clean out the filings,
make sure everything
goes in a bag
and see what we can see.
RODNEY: 10-4.
Oak Island doesn't give
up her secrets very easy.
No, she does not.
MARTY: This is it.
We're gonna have to get
whatever information we can get
and hopefully figure
out what this wood is
at the base of the Garden Shaft.
So I'm hoping Rodney has
found something significant.
- Hello, gentlemen.
- Hey, Rodney.
MARTY: What you got, Rodney?
Bags of goods. Any
sign of any wood in it?
Nothing big.
Let me just ask you this.
You were pretty sure
you were on wood.
Are you still pretty sure?
I'm like 99.9% sure I hit
wood on the north side.
SCOTT: Unfortunately,
we didn't get a direct
hit and able to get
into the tunnel, but...
we may have come down beside it.
I think so, yes.
If we just came down
on the edge of
it, we can use that
to project the
line of the tunnel.
Rick, you and I got
to go down there.
We haven't explored the bottom
yet to see where the tunnel is.
So let's go get suited up. I
want to go down in that shaft.
RICK: We built the shaft
so we could investigate.
So of course, Marty
and I are gonna go down.
As the project
terminates for now,
certainly it warrants one
last look around and maybe,
just maybe we'll see something
that has gone unnoticed.
- Let's go find it.
- Okay.
- MARTY: Lead on, Roger.
- ROGER: Sounds good.
RICK: Ten years ago,
or longer,
we never would've
anticipated this moment
where Marty and I
get to go down together
underground in the Money Pit.
Well, Rick, uh,
it all started here,
and so we're going
down there together, right?
So it's gonna be pretty unique,
it'll be interesting to see
what our takeaways are.
Now let's go down
the damn shaft.
- Okay. Let's go.
- MARTY: Roger, are you leading
- or am I leading?
- ROGER: Yeah.
I'll lead you guys down there.
- We're ready to rock.
- MARTY: Yeah.
We're gonna figure it all out.
ROGER: Yeah, yeah.
It's like a childhood
fantasy, isn't it?
I mean, Rick and
I, 60 years later,
are going way underground
in the Money Pit area.
And we're in a position that
other people were in over,
literally, hundreds of years
trying to find this treasure.
And I'm there with Rick
who has been enamored of
this thing since he was ten.
And you know, here we are
doing it together as brothers.
All right, big brother.
I know this is really
quite awe-inspiring.
RICK: Yeah. It really is
quite a trip back in time.
- It's pretty amazing.
- ROGER: Oh, absolutely.
MARTY: Okay, we're
running out of time this year,
but this thing is
not going anywhere.
ROGER: Oh, no. Oh, no.
You know, this is where things
would fall and Gary always says,
"Things fall to the
lowest point," right?
If there's anything to
be found in this shaft,
it might be there.
- I think it's worth running a metal detector.
- MARTY: Yes.
But also, what if we're
five feet above something?
- He might be able to detect it.
- That's a great idea.
RICK: And the other thing is,
the coil he's got on there
you can immerse it in water.
- Yes.
- So he could stand on the edge
- and put the coil down in there.
- MARTY: Yeah.
Yeah, I'm gonna
give them a call.
Hey, guys.
Hey, Roger, this is Scott.
ROGER: Hey, Scott.
Yeah, we're down here
wondering if you guys can get
Gary to come over here?
Copy that. We'll get Gary
and get him geared
up to go down the hole.
- Works.
- Yeah, yeah.
With the literally few
moments we have left
is to get Gary to
try and metal detect.
Ah, finally.
We could be close
to the actual treasure.
GARY: All right,
mate, coming down.
MARTY: Well, what
do you think, Gary?
GARY: Oh, wow!
- Huh?
- GARY: What a ride.
[all laughing]
Oh, my God. This is fantastic.
I have a chance
to be the first person
metal detecting
down in the Money Pit.
- MARTY: Okay, detector coming down.
- Okay, keep it coming.
GARY: This is it.
Standing next to Rick and Marty
on these thick planks
and knowing that
there's all this mud
and water below me.
Got it.
GARY: This feels fantastic.
And the whole scene around me
looks like it's medieval.
Almost like I'm in a
dungeon in a castle
back in Templar days.
Just so you know, there's
gonna be a lot of modern nails
- and wire down, down there.
- Yeah, no...
No worries, mate.
That's why I'm
using my CTX-3030,
you got the discrimination,
- bells and whistles, with this.
- That's what we need, Gary.
Okay, we're looking
at two different things...
Rick's idea is that we are
at the base of the old shaft,
and if those guys
dropped anything, it's here.
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah, and then, the other thing is,
what if we're close to
some... something big?
- You know, you and I...
- [laughing]
Look at his smile.
There's that,
too. So... all right.
We got to move that board.
Rick, let's you and I do that.
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- MARTY: Over here.
- RICK: Let it go.
Okay.
There's a hole,
it's two feet deep.
GARY: Okay.
Well, where there's muck,
there's treasure, mate.
Yeah. [chuckles]
GARY: We'll see
what's down there, mate.
MARTY: All right.
GARY: Extend it a little bit.
All right.
[detector beeping]
Ooh, that's the
best sounding target.
That's a nonferrous, yeah.
- MARTY: Really?
- GARY: Yeah.
MARTY: Oh, my goodness.
RICK: You got to be kidding me.
GARY: Ooh! That's
the best sounding target.
- MARTY: Seriously?
- That's a nonferrous. Yeah.
- MARTY: Really?
- GARY: Yeah.
MARTY: Well, no kidding.
NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,
metal detection
expert Gary Drayton
has just detected possible
evidence of precious metals
more than 82 feet deep,
below the bottom
of the Garden Shaft.
MARTY: I mean, that's
a screaming large hit,
- isn't it?
- GARY: Yeah.
That sounded really good.
- We know where the hits are.
- MARTY: Yeah.
GARY: Just as important.
This is a nonferrous target.
This could be gold.
It could be silver.
It could be copper.
Either way, it's a
great sounding signal.
Gary, you're the
man. You're the man.
- That was so much fun!
- [laughing]
[groans]
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Gary has detected evidence
of the fabled Oak Island
treasure in the muddy soil
just a few feet below
the bottom level
of the Garden Shaft?
Or, could the signals be
coming from the believed tunnel
some ten feet below,
which runs westward
toward the Baby Blob?
You guys are grinning
from ear to ear.
NARRATOR: As
exciting as this moment is,
it is also bittersweet
because at this
point in the year,
Dumas does not
have the legal permits
to extend the shaft any deeper.
And Rick and Marty cannot
risk the future of the project,
nor the safety of their
team, by attempting to breach
the bottom of the shaft
to explore what could be
dangerously unstable
ground below.
RICK: The level of
excitement when he describes
a nonferrous hit,
it's through the roof.
That's why it's so frustrating
not to go after this target,
but we're at the
end of the year.
I wish there was more time.
MARTY: All right,
here's the deal.
We're done for today.
Everybody's cold.
Put this ladder back
up. Let's get out of here.
RICK: Tomorrow, we will
have the final w*r room.
GARY: Yep.
NARRATOR: The
following morning...
MARTY: Gentlemen, ladies.
We've got the whole team here.
Either in this room physically
or on the screen up there.
Peter was unavailable,
but I think otherwise
we have the whole team.
This is our "coming to the
end of the season" meeting...
Lots to cover.
NARRATOR: Rick, Marty
and Craig gather in the w*r room
with the other members
of their fellowship.
I will start by saying what
a difference a day makes.
Yesterday, we were almost
in the bottom of the Money Pit.
Yeah.
Gary Drayton here was
getting nonferrous hits.
Feeling emotional about
the fact that we were down
where those who
came before us were.
Way underground.
And yet, today, we're
here to sit around
this table, talk about
what we've done
and where we're gonna go.
NARRATOR: After
months of tireless searching,
they not only may have come to
within mere feet
of what lies hidden
on Oak Island but
have also amassed
many more clues to help answer
who was behind this
mystery and just when
it may have begun.
I see all this
stuff laid out here,
and I knew it was gonna be here.
And as I walked in,
I thought to myself,
what do a clipped Roman
coin and a scalloped disc
and a horseshoe,
what do those things
have in common?
And I was certain that
the answer was "nothing."
[laughing]
Except that they're
found here on Oak Island.
Yeah.
This year is over 800.
- Wow. So I've been slacking.
- [all laughing]
- Yeah. Get busy.
- [laughs]
Before us sits a
year's worth of work.
- Yeah.
- RICK: You're trying to put
all of these disparate facts,
all of these
strange discoveries,
all the things
that don't seem to
tell a story, somehow
they are and they will
to a mystery that has
endured for 228 years.
But there are clues here.
- There are puzzle pieces.
- GARY: Yeah.
MARTY: So let's talk first
about the Money Pit area.
The Garden Shaft.
The metals in the water.
What we've done,
what we've seen
and what we have yet to do.
If we didn't still have
these elevated metals
in the water, I would
say we were done.
We've drilled... how many wells?
Somebody tell me
how many wells. Steve...
how many wells have we drilled
in the Money Pit area?
We've drilled about
and just over 20 caissons.
MARTY: Yeah. I mean, if
someone had told me ten years ago
when this big adventure
began that you could put down
would you've expected
that you would either
find it or it wasn't there,
I would have said yes.
- Yeah.
- IAN: Yeah.
But we've found tunnels
we didn't know existed.
- Well...
- TERRY: Exactly so.
The east-west tunnel we find
that runs beneath
the Garden Shaft,
that's an incredible find.
MARTY: Yeah.
It's pretty amazing.
So, Ian, if you could
bring us up to speed.
There's some new stuff here
as we have our
final gettogether?
Yeah. Yeah.
And I'd like to hear it.
Yeah, and Dr. Fred
Michel can't be here as well,
and he did the heavy lifting
with the latest water testing.
Everything that we have
seen supports what we saw
when we took the
sample in the Garden Shaft
and that was amongst
the highest gold values
of any that we
had on the island.
The most recent data is
pointing towards there being
something significant
within, I would say,
about a 15-foot radius
of that Garden Shaft.
- Wow.
- MARTY: Wow.
Isn't that something?
[all laughing]
GARY: That's as good as it gets.
There is something significant
within about a 15-foot radius
of the Garden Shaft.
- Wow.
- MARTY: Wow.
Geez. Within 15 feet, you
said, of the Garden Shaft?
- Right.
- That's as good as it gets.
[all laughing]
NARRATOR: As the Oak Island
team meets for the final time
this year in the w*r room...
MARTY: 15 feet?
That's not that big.
That's a 30-foot diameter.
- Yeah.
- We can dig that out.
Absolutely. Yeah.
NARRATOR: geoscientist
Dr. Ian Spooner
has just reported
that new water-sampling data
obtained from boreholes
in the Money Pit area
indicates that the fabled
treasure could lie anywhere
between a 15-foot radius
below the Garden Shaft.
Okay, so...
what do you want to do next
year in the Money Pit area?
I can't believe anyone would say
we don't want to
deepen the Garden Shaft.
We want to gain
access to that tunnel.
See the implications of it.
- Yep.
- RICK: And then,
you would want to be able
to transition immediately to
a tunneling option from the
bottom of the Garden Shaft.
TOM: Yeah. 30-foot
diameter around that shaft.
I do think within that 30 feet
we're gonna find something.
RICK: Okay. Well, I think
all options are on the table...
Caissons, tunneling,
extending the shaft,
maybe even introducing a
new shaft into the Money Pit.
CRAIG: Oh, yeah.
Hopefully we can
determine where the tunnels are,
and the shafts are, and
where the treasure is.
I agree. Okay.
RICK: The next area of
interest, certainly has been
the surprises on Lot 26.
Absolutely.
RICK: We do have
a very legitimate date
for the wall on Lot 26, 1464.
You know,
that's exceedingly interesting.
But it's the well that we
really find quite remarkable.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Earlier this year,
before investigating
the possible 15th
century wall on Lot 26...
IAN: So lift it up.
NARRATOR: the team
investigated a mysterious well
less than 100 feet away.
IAN: That's a pretty good core.
NARRATOR: A well
that not only yielded
trace evidence of silver
during water testing...
The date I got on the twig at
the bottom was 1028 to 1172.
Great.
NARRATOR: but
which also contained
organic materials
that revealed the
feature was constructed
as much as 900 years ago
or approximately the same era
as the paved area in the swamp.
I love the way you
can fit things together...
What's paved area,
well...
So these are the
clues to occupation.
- Right.
- IAN: So...
there is some more
we can do with the well.
- Absolutely. -MARTY: Yeah.
- RICK: Well, then we come to,
obviously, Marty's favorite
place on the entire island.
And that is the swamp.
[all laughing]
- Here we go again.
- RICK: Yeah, well,
you know the swamp's
not gonna run away.
And I think we do
believe, all of us,
Tom has probably made the
most definitive statement of all.
- What do you always say?
- The answers are in the swamp.
There you go.
You know, there's one
thing we know for sure.
The ramp is amazing
and if we can find
where the pathways went,
I think we would have
a really good shot at
knowing where the
treasure's hidden.
Yeah, and the ramp I think
is extremely important.
And Craig's got some carbon
dates that came in for that.
CRAIG: Yeah. I mean we had
samples that we took
associated with the ramp.
So, uh, you know, 1495 to 1656.
- Isn't that something.
- CRAIG: It sure seems like
a very good time period.
IAN: Yeah.
So the ramp is about the
same age as the stone path.
- And those are definitive.
- RICK: Right.
- That's pretty amazing.
- Yeah.
I think the swamp is every bit
as interesting as the Money Pit.
It begs of answers.
- Yep.
- MARTY: So that takes care of...
In my mind anyway...
A-a full discussion
and setting up what
needs to be done yet
about things on the island.
But, Rick, you
did a bunch of stuff
in the information
hunt, off-island,
so let's have a
summation of that.
In terms of the field trip
we made, we went to Italy.
And it has yielded some
very interesting connections.
Absolutely.
EMILIANO: Hey,
guys, welcome to Italy.
- Emiliano.
- Emiliano.
- Ciao. Good to see you.
- So good to see you.
NARRATOR: Of all the journeys
that members of
the team have made
to Europe over the past decade,
none have been more
compelling than the one that Rick,
his nephews Alex and Peter,
and Doug Crowell made less
than one month ago to Italy.
- Look at this.
- Oh.
Right there. Hey, Rick.
-Mm? -ALEX: Check this out.
PETER: That's cool.
ALEX: We have seen
this symbol before.
- RICK: H+O Stone.
- PETER: Yeah.
ALEX: That's a direct
tie to Oak Island.
NARRATOR: There, while visiting
a medieval church in Viterbo,
where the Templars
held a stronghold
between the 12th
and 14th centuries...
- Rick.
- RICK: Mm?
NARRATOR: the team
saw numerous carved symbols
that have also been found
over the years on Oak Island.
- Yeah.
- Right there.
Hmm.
H-I-C.
If you do this...
you get the H+O Stone.
If you put it all together,
I mean, there's
the possibility that
the H+O Stone represents
"Here, Templar gold."
NARRATOR: They met
with archaeoastronomer
Professor Adriano
Gaspani, who presented
historic star alignments
that suggested the
megalithic formation
on Oak Island, known
as Nolan's Cross,
might have been created
approximately 800 years ago.
Wow.
That's crazy.
NARRATOR: And in the
ancient town of Camerano,
they explored a cave
system with direct Templar ties
that, incredibly, was
designed in the exact shape
as the 14th century lead cross
that was found on Oak
Island back in 2017.
I believe something was
learned of or possessed long ago
that was handed down,
and the whole point of
the exercise was to keep it
protected generationally,
for a long, long, long time.
I believe that a
possible explanation
for Oak Island is this...
♪ ♪
You have these 1200
dates, 1400, 1500, 1600s.
There's representation
of infrastructure.
Logistics, meaning the swamp.
You have to have
a way to come in,
be very secretive about
what you're going to do.
And it takes a long time.
And we're only
beginning to understand
the importance of that hunt.
It's quite a, quite
a remarkable story
and it continues to
evolve and develop.
That's very true.
Absolutely.
And our research trip to Italy
just put an exclamation point
on this whole endeavor.
That was very
enlightening to me.
ALEX: Yeah, and I think
there's more to do
but it was, you know,
in terms of kind of opening
the door and investigating...
Okay,
let's add a little bit
more background
to this possible
Templar connection.
I think it went a long way.
JACK: Those
older dates allude to
people being here
pre-Money Pit discovery
doing a lot of work.
We're showing that the
amount of works there,
so the plausibility behind
there being a treasure hunt
seems to be more
prevalent than ever.
Yeah, you know, when
I look at this table now,
I honestly think
it was one of our,
maybe one of our
best years ever.
Does everybody feel
we're closer than ever?
[overlapping agreements]
We're narrowing it down.
I think we're moving
in the right direction.
How could you stop
after finding a Roman coin
or all the other stuff here?
And he's found an
absurd number of artifacts.
Yeah, it's not just the story
of the Money Pit anymore.
We could find treasure
on any one of these lots.
What I see in front
of this table, to me is...
makes me more enthusiastic
and more committed
to continuing the work
that we have all done.
And I am proud of
each and every one of us
sitting around this
table and remotely.
It's not just this table.
You could put 30 tables
in here and fill them up.
It occurs to me, honestly,
ladies and gentlemen, that,
I don't have to go around
the room and ask, you
know, "Are you guys in?"
or "Are you ladies in?" I
already know the answer.
I think we're coming back
to do some more work here.
[overlapping agreements]
Absolutely.
- Good.
- To me,
I'm not gonna get real eloquent
and everybody knows
that I'm pretty shy, but I...
I do want to say
that, you know...
every journey is
a shared experience
and we have been on
a decade's long journey,
together, all of us, and
that's quite remarkable.
Look how eclectic this
group is. How different we are.
How we bring
different skill sets,
different perspectives,
different understandings,
different logic
to what is an
incredible mystery.
And remember where
the journey started.
That little five pages.
That's where the
journey started.
And this is decades
in the making.
And then think of all the others
that have come before us.
It's-it's incredible.
It's absolutely incredible.
Just give yourself
a moment in time
and say, "You know what?
I was part of something that
was much bigger than myself."
I just want to say that,
you guys know I get a
little bit emotional, but...
I appreciate each
and every one of you.
I really think that we
have done something
together that is
quite remarkable.
I'm glad my brother's
been with me.
And my nephew, and
Peter, and David as well.
And everybody, you
know, the whole family
has really been involved
in this, as has Tom's.
And so I-I'm...
I am really grateful
for the experience.
- We're not done yet.
- RICK: We're not done yet.
No.
We're grateful you
brought us for the ride.
- Absolutely.
- Oh, what a ride.
[laughing]
MARTY: Look, Rick, you
say you're not eloquent.
I would say you're
quite eloquent,
and I think that is a
perfect ending to this year.
I will just thank
everybody again.
I know everybody here
does live and breathe all this.
- But for now, I think we're done.
- GARY: Yep.
And we haven't seen nothing yet.
That's right, Gary.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: For Rick, Marty,
Craig and their fellowship,
the quest to solve
the world's greatest
treasure mystery continues.
- Well, Gary, until next year.
- GARY: Yep.
MARTY: We seem to be closing in
on the one piece of
data that is irrefutable,
and that is the
metals in the water,
in the vicinity of
the Garden Shaft.
Another great year.
- Partner. [chuckles]
- Partner. Partner!
I think we did move
the dial towards finding
where the treasure is.
See you, guys.
NARRATOR: Although
the fabled treasure
that people have sought
for 228 years was not found,
this team has obtained
more compelling evidence
that it is a reality
and still waiting
to be recovered
from somewhere
deep in the Money Pit.
RICK: I remember reading
the Reader's Digest article,
turning the last page and
being a little disappointed
because the story ended.
And there was still room for
more verbiage, more answers.
And I thought, "Well,
that's disappointing.
What happened?"
NARRATOR: As they prepare for
the next great chapter of
this adventure next spring,
will Rick,
Marty and the team
finally be able to answer
the ultimate questions and
shatter the curse of Oak Island?
It's been a good year and,
I mean,
maybe next year
we uncork this bloody thing.
- Right?
- Yep.
RICK:
I still want
the "What happened?"
I still want
those last few paragraphs.
And I think we're
on the cusp of writing that.
- ROGER: Hey, Scott.
- SCOTT: Hey, Roger.
What kind of progress
are they making today?
So right now they're
putting on the 6-inch
as you see, so we
can get a good angle.
SCOTT: So we'll go back
down with a 6-inch auger
and then we'll try and
get a sample of that tunnel.
That's right.
NARRATOR: After more
than a decade of tireless effort,
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,
their partner Craig Tester,
and a dedicated
fellowship of diverse experts
believe they may finally
be on the verge of solving
the 228-year-old
Oak Island mystery.
SCOTT: Here, we feel
we struck wood at 91 feet.
So that works for, you know,
on a four-foot-high tunnel.
- PAUL: Yes, it does.
- CHARLES: Yeah.
NARRATOR: In the
fabled Money Pit area,
representatives of
Dumas Contracting Limited
are about to begin a new
probe drilling operation
at a depth of some
of the newly
reconstructed Garden Shaft
in the hopes of penetrating
a believed wooden tunnel
located less than
ten feet deeper below.
A tunnel that is also believed
to run directly westward
toward the so-called Baby
Blob where water tests performed
in previously drilled
boreholes have detected
high-trace evidence
of both silver and gold.
Knowing that we found
something below this shaft,
- that's pretty exciting.
- Absolutely.
- We have to find out what that is.
- Yeah.
NARRATOR: One week ago,
the team made a first attempt to
drill into the possible tunnel
with a 4-inch diameter bit,
but unfortunately, they
were not successful.
There we go. I think
we're done down there.
We should be ready to go.
Yeah, looks like
they're ready to go.
NARRATOR: Now, the team
has obtained a much more powerful
they hope will not only
penetrate the tunnel but
also help them determine
just what it might contain.
As long as we're
steady and careful,
maybe we'll be able to
get a good, clean hole.
I hope so.
NARRATOR: Time has never been
a more precious
commodity for the team.
Because in less than a
week they will be forced to halt
all search activities
on the island
due to the fast-approaching
North Atlantic winter.
We're all quite excited
about the possibilities of
what this shaft represents.
But we have to move very
quickly and do everything we can,
apply as many
resources as possible
to try to come to
an understanding of
what answers lie either at
the bottom of the Garden Shaft
or in very close
proximity to it.
MARTY: It's a possibility
this tunnel is leading
to the offset chamber
and maybe we're
about to find out that it is.
I almost fantasize
that there's
something down there
that tells us exactly
what happened here.
PAUL: Yeah, so it's
hard drilling right now.
It should go a lot
faster than that.
They could be spinning on
some cobbles down there.
ROGER: Oh, yeah.
It looks like it's
gonna take some time
- before we get down there.
- ROGER: Yeah.
Yeah, I'm anxious for
them to get down there
and see what we can see.
NARRATOR: As the probe
drilling operation continues
in the Garden Shaft...
MARTY: Might as
well join in the fun.
NARRATOR: On Lot 5,
located on the western
side of the island...
That's a big one.
Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with Marty's
son Alex, Jack Begley
and archaeologist Laird Niven...
Man, that was
tricky right there.
..continue investigating
a circular depression
that is completely
lined with large stones.
Okay, heads up, guys.
NARRATOR: Of the numerous
potentially ancient structures
that the team has investigated
on the western
side of Oak Island,
this feature on Lot 5 is
among the most mysterious.
It is not only located in the
area where earlier this year
the team found a
as well as a lead token
that may be connected
to the 14th century lead cross.
- Hey, Gary.
- Lot 5, I hear an excavator.
- I'm here.
- Gary's here.
[laughing]
NARRATOR: But
perhaps even more curious
is the fact that it has a
just like the
original Money Pit.
This has made Rick,
Marty and the team wonder
if it could be the so-called
"hole under the hatch"...
A feature that appears on
a reported 14th century map
of Oak Island.
A map that the late author
and researcher Zena Halpern
believed was created by
members of the Knights Templar.
GARY: All right.
Gonna have a scan.
See what we're looking at.
It's a strange feature
on Lot 5 where
more than several unique
finds have been made.
-[detector beeping] -GARY: Oh,
that doesn't sound too bad, though.
That sounds good.
ALEX: That's very close.
RICK: I think the
archaeologists,
at some point, will
be able to tell us
what it well and
truly represents.
Right now, it could be anything.
GARY: Got it?
- JACK: Is that a nail?
- Yeah.
GARY: Is it a
square-shanked nail?
It's hard to say.
LAIRD: It looks...
- GARY: It looks old.
- LAIRD: Yeah.
It's good because
we were wondering
- if there was a building over this.
- GARY: Yeah.
Each nail we find
is evidence of that.
NARRATOR: Could Laird be
correct that they are finding evidence of
some kind of structure
that once covered this
mysterious depression?
- That'll CT scan well.
- Yeah.
NARRATOR: If so, just
what might the team find
deeper inside the feature as
they continue to investigate?
That deposit I'm in
down there, it's deep.
- Oh, it still goes deeper?
- Yeah.
RICK: Want to dig that one?
My problem is it's... I'm
worried it's gonna collapse.
Yeah, I think I'd
rather excavate that soil
by hand, back down
to the rock level.
The key is to
expand, find the edge.
It may help us extrapolate
the total size of the building.
- Yeah.
- LAIRD: Whatever it is,
this is massive, I think.
It's curious enough to find out.
And you will learn what this is.
And we do it in a few days.
Hopefully, yes.
Because that's
all we have, yeah.
MARTY: All right,
let's get after it.
LAIRD: Yeah.
NARRATOR: Later that morning...
MARTY: Gentlemen.
Today we're gonna have
some data on the swamp.
NARRATOR: Rick, Marty and
Craig Tester gather in the w*r room
with other members of the team.
MARTY: Okay. We
have two samples here...
I'm looking at them... that
came from the ramp area.
You were involved in both,
so why don't you give
us a little background
and then you have carbon
dating results, correct?
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Over
the past several weeks,
the team has uncovered
what appears to be
a man-made stone ramp
in the northeastern region
of the triangle-shaped swamp.
A ramp that connects the
massive 800-year-old paved area
with a stone pathway
that may possibly lead
towards the Money Pit.
CRAIG: The ramp
itself... Dr. Spooner felt
it was definitely man-made.
We found a couple sticks
under the first layer of rocks.
And then we also found a stick
under a second layer of rock.
So we felt we got
a good representation right in
that immediate area, at least.
MARTY: What are
the brackets, Craig?
You know, the
confidence intervals?
The deepest piece, which
was under the second rock,
it could have been
there, you know,
as they were building it.
It was dated...
to 1656.
MARTY: Whoa!
[all laughing]
MARTY: That is amazing.
CRAIG: The deepest piece,
which was under the ramp itself
was 1495
to 1656.
NARRATOR: In the
w*r room, Craig Tester
has just informed Rick, Marty,
and the team that the stone ramp
that was recently
unearthed in the swamp
and which connects
the massive paved area
with a cobblestone pathway
could date back to as early
as the late 15th century.
And the big picture
is, it's indicating
the ramp was put in place
the same time as the stone
road and the stone path.
Like the stakes we
found along the edge.
NARRATOR: The stone ramp,
potentially dating to the same period
as the stone road that
the team uncovered
in the southeast corner of
the swamp two years ago?
What makes this revelation
significant in terms of
possibly helping to solve
the Oak Island mystery
is that Rick and
members of the team
saw an identical stone road
in Alqueidão da Serra,
Portugal, in 2021.
A city that between the
served as a stronghold
for the Knights Templar.
MARTY: So, you're
saying all the data says that
the stone road, the path,
the ramp were all made
at the same time, but the
paved area is way older?
Does that make sense to you?
That's what the data
is showing so far.
I just think if you're
trying to reconcile
the two time periods...
- I am.
- 1200s to 1600s?
I am.
DOUG: So the ramp
could have been
built down to an
existing structure
for the purpose of whatever
they were doing at the time.
It just continued to be
re-enforced with rocks to ensure
there was a nice
stable work area,
a ramp and a path.
And it probably somehow
connects to the Money Pit.
They knew and probably
used that... the paved area.
RICK: The ramp is
coming from the paved area,
which dates to 1200.
And the ramp leading
from it is 1495 to 1656.
So, does that mean
there were successive
attempts to construct something,
to conduct some enterprise,
and that it was
done over centuries?
Right now that's the
only plausible explanation.
There's still answers to find.
Yes, and we're not
gonna find them this year.
We're running
out of time, again.
And as much as I'd hope
the swamp would be done,
it's clearly not.
RICK: Unfortunately,
again we're under
the difficulties of dealing
with time and weather.
So... we've made great strides,
but the swamp
isn't going anywhere
and we'll be back
to find answers
- as soon as possible.
- MARTY: Okay.
This meeting's over... let's get
back to doing what we're doing.
Craig, thank you,
appreciate all the information
and we'll keep you posted.
ALL: See you, Craig.
CRAIG: Okay. Talk
to you guys later.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: The following day...
Copy, Rodney.
Does it look like you're on
something or what
does it feel like?
ROGER: Just give me some
heads-up when you get there.
RODNEY: 10-4.
NARRATOR: As the probe
drilling operation continues
in the Garden Shaft...
MARTY: Hey, folks.
- Archaeologists.
- MIRIAM: Hey.
How are you?
We're ready for an update.
We're deeper. [chuckles]
MARTY: Yeah,
you are. I see that.
NARRATOR: Marty and
Alex Lagina return to Lot 5
where archaeologists
Laird Niven, Miriam Amirault
and Helen Sheldon
are investigating
the mysterious stone
feature for additional clues,
and evidence of valuables.
MARTY: What can you tell us?
I thought we were
getting the bottom,
- but we still have a ways to go.
- Okay.
We have some big rocks
that we need removed.
MARTY: Okay. I'll tell you
what, I'll jump in and work on that.
Here we go.
This circular feature,
it's inexplicable.
[chuckles] It appears
to be very old.
[starts engine]
And there could be
something deeper.
If there's something
below there,
then it could get
really interesting.
♪ ♪
ALEX: You got it.
RICK: Hey, guys.
LAIRD: Hey, Rick.
- Hey.
- Hey.
ALEX: Have a look.
LAIRD: I thought
this was the bottom,
but we have
a little more
structure possibly.
- Does that sound solid to you?
- No.
But you think that this
is more rubble-filled?
- Yes.
- MARTY: You know, Rick, if you come over here,
on this side and look back...
From here, I can see the rubble.
It almost does look
stuffed with rubble.
Yeah. Oh, I agree.
Like on the Lot 26 wall,
that's done for stability.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: The stone depression?
Possibly made with a
similar style as the rock wall
located nearly half a
mile away on Lot 26?
Curiously, the wall,
which researcher Francisco
Nogueira speculated
may be of Portuguese origin
contained charcoal that
was scientifically dated
to as far back as
the 15th century.
- I mean, you're not to the bottom of it yet.
- No.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
Rick and Marty could be correct
that these features
may be related?
And if so,
might they have been created by
the same people who
constructed the stone ramp
and the stone road in the swamp?
From a discovery perspective,
what do you intend to do
the rest of the year?
We want to come
down to this, this level.
That's a lot.
Except we are almost
completely out of time.
Frustrating.
Yeah.
MARTY: Oak Island
has beat it into me
that things aren't
easy to figure out here.
Next year, Lot 5,
clearly, is going to be
a place where we are going
to allocate more resources.
We have to.
Yeah, so, Alex, if you
want to work in there
- with Miriam?
- ALEX: Okay.
We'll get started.
MARTY: Carry on.
NARRATOR: Later that morning...
MARTY: Well,
you're clearly drilling.
- Yes.
- I can hear it.
Absolutely.
Rick and Marty Lagina
arrive at the Money Pit area
to check on the progress of
the probe drilling operation
within the Garden Shaft.
RICK: How deep are they?
SCOTT: They're at
depth, down to 93 feet.
Well, then they should be
right at the point where
there's supposedly wood.
- They should be right on wood.
- SCOTT: Yes.
NARRATOR: Having reached
the approximate depth of
the believed tunnel that
may lead directly westward
into the possible treasure zone,
the burning questions are,
can they locate the structure,
and if so, can they breach it
to see what it may contain?
Today is the last day.
There's no question about it.
Dumas have to pack up.
We have, really, only half a
day of real active search agenda.
- Somethings binding it up.
- Oh, yeah.
Wood would do that.
Wood would do
that, or even if he was
coming down the side
of it and hooked into it.
Okay.
That's it. Pull it up.
Here it comes.
PAUL: Just unbelievable.
MARTY: Something's
binding it up.
- ROGER: Oh, yeah.
- CHARLES: Yeah.
Wood would do that.
NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,
Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with members
of the team...
Oh, some material that
was moving around there.
Off to the side.
NARRATOR: believe that
their probe drilling operation
has reached a possible
tunnel below the Garden Shaft
at a depth of some 93 feet deep.
You can see it over on
the edge of the auger.
NARRATOR: A tunnel
which may lead directly
to the Money Pit treasure vault.
I'm curious what's
in the drill bit.
- It should be on or into it now.
- ROGER: Oh, yeah.
Oh, absolutely.
I'd like to pull the bits
and see what's down there.
What do you guys think?
I'd do it before
we run out of time.
- Okay.
- Yeah, that's a good idea.
ROGER: Copy, Rodney.
RODNEY: Go ahead, Roger.
Yeah, the guys would like
you to stop drilling right now.
Let's pull the rods out.
Let's clean out the filings,
make sure everything
goes in a bag
and see what we can see.
RODNEY: 10-4.
Oak Island doesn't give
up her secrets very easy.
No, she does not.
MARTY: This is it.
We're gonna have to get
whatever information we can get
and hopefully figure
out what this wood is
at the base of the Garden Shaft.
So I'm hoping Rodney has
found something significant.
- Hello, gentlemen.
- Hey, Rodney.
MARTY: What you got, Rodney?
Bags of goods. Any
sign of any wood in it?
Nothing big.
Let me just ask you this.
You were pretty sure
you were on wood.
Are you still pretty sure?
I'm like 99.9% sure I hit
wood on the north side.
SCOTT: Unfortunately,
we didn't get a direct
hit and able to get
into the tunnel, but...
we may have come down beside it.
I think so, yes.
If we just came down
on the edge of
it, we can use that
to project the
line of the tunnel.
Rick, you and I got
to go down there.
We haven't explored the bottom
yet to see where the tunnel is.
So let's go get suited up. I
want to go down in that shaft.
RICK: We built the shaft
so we could investigate.
So of course, Marty
and I are gonna go down.
As the project
terminates for now,
certainly it warrants one
last look around and maybe,
just maybe we'll see something
that has gone unnoticed.
- Let's go find it.
- Okay.
- MARTY: Lead on, Roger.
- ROGER: Sounds good.
RICK: Ten years ago,
or longer,
we never would've
anticipated this moment
where Marty and I
get to go down together
underground in the Money Pit.
Well, Rick, uh,
it all started here,
and so we're going
down there together, right?
So it's gonna be pretty unique,
it'll be interesting to see
what our takeaways are.
Now let's go down
the damn shaft.
- Okay. Let's go.
- MARTY: Roger, are you leading
- or am I leading?
- ROGER: Yeah.
I'll lead you guys down there.
- We're ready to rock.
- MARTY: Yeah.
We're gonna figure it all out.
ROGER: Yeah, yeah.
It's like a childhood
fantasy, isn't it?
I mean, Rick and
I, 60 years later,
are going way underground
in the Money Pit area.
And we're in a position that
other people were in over,
literally, hundreds of years
trying to find this treasure.
And I'm there with Rick
who has been enamored of
this thing since he was ten.
And you know, here we are
doing it together as brothers.
All right, big brother.
I know this is really
quite awe-inspiring.
RICK: Yeah. It really is
quite a trip back in time.
- It's pretty amazing.
- ROGER: Oh, absolutely.
MARTY: Okay, we're
running out of time this year,
but this thing is
not going anywhere.
ROGER: Oh, no. Oh, no.
You know, this is where things
would fall and Gary always says,
"Things fall to the
lowest point," right?
If there's anything to
be found in this shaft,
it might be there.
- I think it's worth running a metal detector.
- MARTY: Yes.
But also, what if we're
five feet above something?
- He might be able to detect it.
- That's a great idea.
RICK: And the other thing is,
the coil he's got on there
you can immerse it in water.
- Yes.
- So he could stand on the edge
- and put the coil down in there.
- MARTY: Yeah.
Yeah, I'm gonna
give them a call.
Hey, guys.
Hey, Roger, this is Scott.
ROGER: Hey, Scott.
Yeah, we're down here
wondering if you guys can get
Gary to come over here?
Copy that. We'll get Gary
and get him geared
up to go down the hole.
- Works.
- Yeah, yeah.
With the literally few
moments we have left
is to get Gary to
try and metal detect.
Ah, finally.
We could be close
to the actual treasure.
GARY: All right,
mate, coming down.
MARTY: Well, what
do you think, Gary?
GARY: Oh, wow!
- Huh?
- GARY: What a ride.
[all laughing]
Oh, my God. This is fantastic.
I have a chance
to be the first person
metal detecting
down in the Money Pit.
- MARTY: Okay, detector coming down.
- Okay, keep it coming.
GARY: This is it.
Standing next to Rick and Marty
on these thick planks
and knowing that
there's all this mud
and water below me.
Got it.
GARY: This feels fantastic.
And the whole scene around me
looks like it's medieval.
Almost like I'm in a
dungeon in a castle
back in Templar days.
Just so you know, there's
gonna be a lot of modern nails
- and wire down, down there.
- Yeah, no...
No worries, mate.
That's why I'm
using my CTX-3030,
you got the discrimination,
- bells and whistles, with this.
- That's what we need, Gary.
Okay, we're looking
at two different things...
Rick's idea is that we are
at the base of the old shaft,
and if those guys
dropped anything, it's here.
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah, and then, the other thing is,
what if we're close to
some... something big?
- You know, you and I...
- [laughing]
Look at his smile.
There's that,
too. So... all right.
We got to move that board.
Rick, let's you and I do that.
♪ ♪
- MARTY: Over here.
- RICK: Let it go.
Okay.
There's a hole,
it's two feet deep.
GARY: Okay.
Well, where there's muck,
there's treasure, mate.
Yeah. [chuckles]
GARY: We'll see
what's down there, mate.
MARTY: All right.
GARY: Extend it a little bit.
All right.
[detector beeping]
Ooh, that's the
best sounding target.
That's a nonferrous, yeah.
- MARTY: Really?
- GARY: Yeah.
MARTY: Oh, my goodness.
RICK: You got to be kidding me.
GARY: Ooh! That's
the best sounding target.
- MARTY: Seriously?
- That's a nonferrous. Yeah.
- MARTY: Really?
- GARY: Yeah.
MARTY: Well, no kidding.
NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,
metal detection
expert Gary Drayton
has just detected possible
evidence of precious metals
more than 82 feet deep,
below the bottom
of the Garden Shaft.
MARTY: I mean, that's
a screaming large hit,
- isn't it?
- GARY: Yeah.
That sounded really good.
- We know where the hits are.
- MARTY: Yeah.
GARY: Just as important.
This is a nonferrous target.
This could be gold.
It could be silver.
It could be copper.
Either way, it's a
great sounding signal.
Gary, you're the
man. You're the man.
- That was so much fun!
- [laughing]
[groans]
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Gary has detected evidence
of the fabled Oak Island
treasure in the muddy soil
just a few feet below
the bottom level
of the Garden Shaft?
Or, could the signals be
coming from the believed tunnel
some ten feet below,
which runs westward
toward the Baby Blob?
You guys are grinning
from ear to ear.
NARRATOR: As
exciting as this moment is,
it is also bittersweet
because at this
point in the year,
Dumas does not
have the legal permits
to extend the shaft any deeper.
And Rick and Marty cannot
risk the future of the project,
nor the safety of their
team, by attempting to breach
the bottom of the shaft
to explore what could be
dangerously unstable
ground below.
RICK: The level of
excitement when he describes
a nonferrous hit,
it's through the roof.
That's why it's so frustrating
not to go after this target,
but we're at the
end of the year.
I wish there was more time.
MARTY: All right,
here's the deal.
We're done for today.
Everybody's cold.
Put this ladder back
up. Let's get out of here.
RICK: Tomorrow, we will
have the final w*r room.
GARY: Yep.
NARRATOR: The
following morning...
MARTY: Gentlemen, ladies.
We've got the whole team here.
Either in this room physically
or on the screen up there.
Peter was unavailable,
but I think otherwise
we have the whole team.
This is our "coming to the
end of the season" meeting...
Lots to cover.
NARRATOR: Rick, Marty
and Craig gather in the w*r room
with the other members
of their fellowship.
I will start by saying what
a difference a day makes.
Yesterday, we were almost
in the bottom of the Money Pit.
Yeah.
Gary Drayton here was
getting nonferrous hits.
Feeling emotional about
the fact that we were down
where those who
came before us were.
Way underground.
And yet, today, we're
here to sit around
this table, talk about
what we've done
and where we're gonna go.
NARRATOR: After
months of tireless searching,
they not only may have come to
within mere feet
of what lies hidden
on Oak Island but
have also amassed
many more clues to help answer
who was behind this
mystery and just when
it may have begun.
I see all this
stuff laid out here,
and I knew it was gonna be here.
And as I walked in,
I thought to myself,
what do a clipped Roman
coin and a scalloped disc
and a horseshoe,
what do those things
have in common?
And I was certain that
the answer was "nothing."
[laughing]
Except that they're
found here on Oak Island.
Yeah.
This year is over 800.
- Wow. So I've been slacking.
- [all laughing]
- Yeah. Get busy.
- [laughs]
Before us sits a
year's worth of work.
- Yeah.
- RICK: You're trying to put
all of these disparate facts,
all of these
strange discoveries,
all the things
that don't seem to
tell a story, somehow
they are and they will
to a mystery that has
endured for 228 years.
But there are clues here.
- There are puzzle pieces.
- GARY: Yeah.
MARTY: So let's talk first
about the Money Pit area.
The Garden Shaft.
The metals in the water.
What we've done,
what we've seen
and what we have yet to do.
If we didn't still have
these elevated metals
in the water, I would
say we were done.
We've drilled... how many wells?
Somebody tell me
how many wells. Steve...
how many wells have we drilled
in the Money Pit area?
We've drilled about
and just over 20 caissons.
MARTY: Yeah. I mean, if
someone had told me ten years ago
when this big adventure
began that you could put down
would you've expected
that you would either
find it or it wasn't there,
I would have said yes.
- Yeah.
- IAN: Yeah.
But we've found tunnels
we didn't know existed.
- Well...
- TERRY: Exactly so.
The east-west tunnel we find
that runs beneath
the Garden Shaft,
that's an incredible find.
MARTY: Yeah.
It's pretty amazing.
So, Ian, if you could
bring us up to speed.
There's some new stuff here
as we have our
final gettogether?
Yeah. Yeah.
And I'd like to hear it.
Yeah, and Dr. Fred
Michel can't be here as well,
and he did the heavy lifting
with the latest water testing.
Everything that we have
seen supports what we saw
when we took the
sample in the Garden Shaft
and that was amongst
the highest gold values
of any that we
had on the island.
The most recent data is
pointing towards there being
something significant
within, I would say,
about a 15-foot radius
of that Garden Shaft.
- Wow.
- MARTY: Wow.
Isn't that something?
[all laughing]
GARY: That's as good as it gets.
There is something significant
within about a 15-foot radius
of the Garden Shaft.
- Wow.
- MARTY: Wow.
Geez. Within 15 feet, you
said, of the Garden Shaft?
- Right.
- That's as good as it gets.
[all laughing]
NARRATOR: As the Oak Island
team meets for the final time
this year in the w*r room...
MARTY: 15 feet?
That's not that big.
That's a 30-foot diameter.
- Yeah.
- We can dig that out.
Absolutely. Yeah.
NARRATOR: geoscientist
Dr. Ian Spooner
has just reported
that new water-sampling data
obtained from boreholes
in the Money Pit area
indicates that the fabled
treasure could lie anywhere
between a 15-foot radius
below the Garden Shaft.
Okay, so...
what do you want to do next
year in the Money Pit area?
I can't believe anyone would say
we don't want to
deepen the Garden Shaft.
We want to gain
access to that tunnel.
See the implications of it.
- Yep.
- RICK: And then,
you would want to be able
to transition immediately to
a tunneling option from the
bottom of the Garden Shaft.
TOM: Yeah. 30-foot
diameter around that shaft.
I do think within that 30 feet
we're gonna find something.
RICK: Okay. Well, I think
all options are on the table...
Caissons, tunneling,
extending the shaft,
maybe even introducing a
new shaft into the Money Pit.
CRAIG: Oh, yeah.
Hopefully we can
determine where the tunnels are,
and the shafts are, and
where the treasure is.
I agree. Okay.
RICK: The next area of
interest, certainly has been
the surprises on Lot 26.
Absolutely.
RICK: We do have
a very legitimate date
for the wall on Lot 26, 1464.
You know,
that's exceedingly interesting.
But it's the well that we
really find quite remarkable.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Earlier this year,
before investigating
the possible 15th
century wall on Lot 26...
IAN: So lift it up.
NARRATOR: the team
investigated a mysterious well
less than 100 feet away.
IAN: That's a pretty good core.
NARRATOR: A well
that not only yielded
trace evidence of silver
during water testing...
The date I got on the twig at
the bottom was 1028 to 1172.
Great.
NARRATOR: but
which also contained
organic materials
that revealed the
feature was constructed
as much as 900 years ago
or approximately the same era
as the paved area in the swamp.
I love the way you
can fit things together...
What's paved area,
well...
So these are the
clues to occupation.
- Right.
- IAN: So...
there is some more
we can do with the well.
- Absolutely. -MARTY: Yeah.
- RICK: Well, then we come to,
obviously, Marty's favorite
place on the entire island.
And that is the swamp.
[all laughing]
- Here we go again.
- RICK: Yeah, well,
you know the swamp's
not gonna run away.
And I think we do
believe, all of us,
Tom has probably made the
most definitive statement of all.
- What do you always say?
- The answers are in the swamp.
There you go.
You know, there's one
thing we know for sure.
The ramp is amazing
and if we can find
where the pathways went,
I think we would have
a really good shot at
knowing where the
treasure's hidden.
Yeah, and the ramp I think
is extremely important.
And Craig's got some carbon
dates that came in for that.
CRAIG: Yeah. I mean we had
samples that we took
associated with the ramp.
So, uh, you know, 1495 to 1656.
- Isn't that something.
- CRAIG: It sure seems like
a very good time period.
IAN: Yeah.
So the ramp is about the
same age as the stone path.
- And those are definitive.
- RICK: Right.
- That's pretty amazing.
- Yeah.
I think the swamp is every bit
as interesting as the Money Pit.
It begs of answers.
- Yep.
- MARTY: So that takes care of...
In my mind anyway...
A-a full discussion
and setting up what
needs to be done yet
about things on the island.
But, Rick, you
did a bunch of stuff
in the information
hunt, off-island,
so let's have a
summation of that.
In terms of the field trip
we made, we went to Italy.
And it has yielded some
very interesting connections.
Absolutely.
EMILIANO: Hey,
guys, welcome to Italy.
- Emiliano.
- Emiliano.
- Ciao. Good to see you.
- So good to see you.
NARRATOR: Of all the journeys
that members of
the team have made
to Europe over the past decade,
none have been more
compelling than the one that Rick,
his nephews Alex and Peter,
and Doug Crowell made less
than one month ago to Italy.
- Look at this.
- Oh.
Right there. Hey, Rick.
-Mm? -ALEX: Check this out.
PETER: That's cool.
ALEX: We have seen
this symbol before.
- RICK: H+O Stone.
- PETER: Yeah.
ALEX: That's a direct
tie to Oak Island.
NARRATOR: There, while visiting
a medieval church in Viterbo,
where the Templars
held a stronghold
between the 12th
and 14th centuries...
- Rick.
- RICK: Mm?
NARRATOR: the team
saw numerous carved symbols
that have also been found
over the years on Oak Island.
- Yeah.
- Right there.
Hmm.
H-I-C.
If you do this...
you get the H+O Stone.
If you put it all together,
I mean, there's
the possibility that
the H+O Stone represents
"Here, Templar gold."
NARRATOR: They met
with archaeoastronomer
Professor Adriano
Gaspani, who presented
historic star alignments
that suggested the
megalithic formation
on Oak Island, known
as Nolan's Cross,
might have been created
approximately 800 years ago.
Wow.
That's crazy.
NARRATOR: And in the
ancient town of Camerano,
they explored a cave
system with direct Templar ties
that, incredibly, was
designed in the exact shape
as the 14th century lead cross
that was found on Oak
Island back in 2017.
I believe something was
learned of or possessed long ago
that was handed down,
and the whole point of
the exercise was to keep it
protected generationally,
for a long, long, long time.
I believe that a
possible explanation
for Oak Island is this...
♪ ♪
You have these 1200
dates, 1400, 1500, 1600s.
There's representation
of infrastructure.
Logistics, meaning the swamp.
You have to have
a way to come in,
be very secretive about
what you're going to do.
And it takes a long time.
And we're only
beginning to understand
the importance of that hunt.
It's quite a, quite
a remarkable story
and it continues to
evolve and develop.
That's very true.
Absolutely.
And our research trip to Italy
just put an exclamation point
on this whole endeavor.
That was very
enlightening to me.
ALEX: Yeah, and I think
there's more to do
but it was, you know,
in terms of kind of opening
the door and investigating...
Okay,
let's add a little bit
more background
to this possible
Templar connection.
I think it went a long way.
JACK: Those
older dates allude to
people being here
pre-Money Pit discovery
doing a lot of work.
We're showing that the
amount of works there,
so the plausibility behind
there being a treasure hunt
seems to be more
prevalent than ever.
Yeah, you know, when
I look at this table now,
I honestly think
it was one of our,
maybe one of our
best years ever.
Does everybody feel
we're closer than ever?
[overlapping agreements]
We're narrowing it down.
I think we're moving
in the right direction.
How could you stop
after finding a Roman coin
or all the other stuff here?
And he's found an
absurd number of artifacts.
Yeah, it's not just the story
of the Money Pit anymore.
We could find treasure
on any one of these lots.
What I see in front
of this table, to me is...
makes me more enthusiastic
and more committed
to continuing the work
that we have all done.
And I am proud of
each and every one of us
sitting around this
table and remotely.
It's not just this table.
You could put 30 tables
in here and fill them up.
It occurs to me, honestly,
ladies and gentlemen, that,
I don't have to go around
the room and ask, you
know, "Are you guys in?"
or "Are you ladies in?" I
already know the answer.
I think we're coming back
to do some more work here.
[overlapping agreements]
Absolutely.
- Good.
- To me,
I'm not gonna get real eloquent
and everybody knows
that I'm pretty shy, but I...
I do want to say
that, you know...
every journey is
a shared experience
and we have been on
a decade's long journey,
together, all of us, and
that's quite remarkable.
Look how eclectic this
group is. How different we are.
How we bring
different skill sets,
different perspectives,
different understandings,
different logic
to what is an
incredible mystery.
And remember where
the journey started.
That little five pages.
That's where the
journey started.
And this is decades
in the making.
And then think of all the others
that have come before us.
It's-it's incredible.
It's absolutely incredible.
Just give yourself
a moment in time
and say, "You know what?
I was part of something that
was much bigger than myself."
I just want to say that,
you guys know I get a
little bit emotional, but...
I appreciate each
and every one of you.
I really think that we
have done something
together that is
quite remarkable.
I'm glad my brother's
been with me.
And my nephew, and
Peter, and David as well.
And everybody, you
know, the whole family
has really been involved
in this, as has Tom's.
And so I-I'm...
I am really grateful
for the experience.
- We're not done yet.
- RICK: We're not done yet.
No.
We're grateful you
brought us for the ride.
- Absolutely.
- Oh, what a ride.
[laughing]
MARTY: Look, Rick, you
say you're not eloquent.
I would say you're
quite eloquent,
and I think that is a
perfect ending to this year.
I will just thank
everybody again.
I know everybody here
does live and breathe all this.
- But for now, I think we're done.
- GARY: Yep.
And we haven't seen nothing yet.
That's right, Gary.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: For Rick, Marty,
Craig and their fellowship,
the quest to solve
the world's greatest
treasure mystery continues.
- Well, Gary, until next year.
- GARY: Yep.
MARTY: We seem to be closing in
on the one piece of
data that is irrefutable,
and that is the
metals in the water,
in the vicinity of
the Garden Shaft.
Another great year.
- Partner. [chuckles]
- Partner. Partner!
I think we did move
the dial towards finding
where the treasure is.
See you, guys.
NARRATOR: Although
the fabled treasure
that people have sought
for 228 years was not found,
this team has obtained
more compelling evidence
that it is a reality
and still waiting
to be recovered
from somewhere
deep in the Money Pit.
RICK: I remember reading
the Reader's Digest article,
turning the last page and
being a little disappointed
because the story ended.
And there was still room for
more verbiage, more answers.
And I thought, "Well,
that's disappointing.
What happened?"
NARRATOR: As they prepare for
the next great chapter of
this adventure next spring,
will Rick,
Marty and the team
finally be able to answer
the ultimate questions and
shatter the curse of Oak Island?
It's been a good year and,
I mean,
maybe next year
we uncork this bloody thing.
- Right?
- Yep.
RICK:
I still want
the "What happened?"
I still want
those last few paragraphs.
And I think we're
on the cusp of writing that.