11x05 - Muon The Horizon

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

MAX: We're excited
to present the results

from the muon tomography.
So, what we're seeing is

high-density anomaly below
the surface of the Money Pit.

We think it's Aladdin's Cave.

It could lead to the treasure.

-I think I've hit a void.
-The plot thickens.

Oh! It's here. Look at that.

RICK:
This is really something.

-There are letters stamped on.
-MARTY: Whoa!

-It could be very old.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR: There is an
island in the North Atlantic

where people have
been looking for

an incredible treasure
for more than 200 years.

So far, they have
found a stone slab

with strange symbols
carved into it...

...man-made workings
that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross whose
origin may be connected

to the Knights Templar.

To date, six men have d*ed

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,
one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

♪ ♪

-RICK: Morning, Paul.
-COTE: Morning, Rick.

I see you're set up,
ready to rock and roll.

Yeah. Roger got
us all, uh, moved in.

-Okay.
-And he started

-pumping some water.
-Right.

How many hours a
day are you pumping?

-Six hours, maybe. Yeah.
-Oh, really?

NARRATOR: A new
day of abounding hope

has begun on Oak Island for
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and their team as the
operation to deepen

the mid-18th-century
Garden Shaft

has finally gotten underway.

Is the system gonna
be the same, then,

for, like, extracting
the material?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No,
it's pretty much the same.

So, we're, uh,
we've got a little bit

-of hammer-grabbing to do.
-Okay.

Taking out the old
spoils and the slime

-from the bottom.
-Okay.

And then we'll start
adding sets, wood sets.

Right.

NARRATOR: Once representatives

from Dumas Contracting Limited

finish draining water
that has flooded

the 82-foot-deep shaft,

they will use a
three-ton digging tool,

known as a hammer grab,

to excavate the earth below it

and construct new
eight-foot wooden levels,

or sets, in the hope of
breaching a mysterious tunnel,

a tunnel that has not
only yielded water samples

containing evidence of gold,

but which heads west into
the so-called Baby Blob,

where the team has
detected the highest traces

of precious metals
in the Money Pit area.

There's a lot of hope

regarding this shaft
extension work.

We can use the Garden
Shaft to drill horizontally

at various elevations,
as much as 40 feet out.

So, you're talking about

an 80-foot
investigative program.

RICK: I think that
we're gonna know

with some certainty
what's out there,

and that's important
information.

NARRATOR: If high-valued targets

are encountered during
the lateral drilling process

and are not reachable
within the mysterious tunnel,

Dumas can construct a new tunnel

in order to allow the
team to retrieve them

and hopefully solve the


Well, like last year, I
know it's a futile offer, but

if you need an extra body,
I'd be happy to go down.

-Sure. Sure.
-[both laugh]

-Saves me the work.
-And there you go.

-[laughs]
-It's a deal.

-Okay.
-All right.

And if we're not
around the next day,

that means we got
the treasure. [laughing]

We'll chase you.

NARRATOR: As the team
from Dumas Contracting Limited

continues their work
in the Garden Shaft,

later that morning...

RICK: Welcome,
everybody, to the w*r room.

The importance of this
meeting can't be overstated.

NARRATOR: Rick, along with

his brother Marty,

their partner Craig Tester,

hydrogeologist Dr. Fred Michel,

and other members of the team

meet with representatives

from Ideon Technologies

for a highly anticipated

scientific report.

So, uh, gentlemen, I'm gonna
turn it over to you because, uh,

you certainly have
a lot more insight into

the possibilities of what

muon technology
will help us with

-as we move forward this year.
-Yeah.

We appreciate your time
today, uh, from this big group.

Um, and we're excited
to present the results,

uh, from the Money Pit.

-Absolutely.
-MAX: Great.

So, as you all know,
we've deployed



in the Money Pit at
depths ranging from


below the surface.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: In 2021,

a team from Ideon was contracted

to place several
subsurface devices

deep within five
previously drilled boreholes

across the Money Pit area.

These devices detected
subatomic particles

which constantly
pass through the Earth,

known as muons,

in order to search for
evidence of potential voids,

tunnels, and large objects.

It was an intricate process

that needed nearly two
full years to complete.

The primary targets
we were looking for

were tunnels that
crosscut the Money Pit,

vaults or voids,

and of course, um, any
high-density anomalies

that could reflect treasure.

Those are the ones
I'm interested in.

[laughter]

MAX: I figured.

So, let's move underground.

-Do you want to?
-Sure.

DOUG S.: So, if we take
all of the detector data

from these months
of imaging time,

and we combine them all and
run our tomography reconstruction,

you can already see
some interesting structures

in the data.

MAX: So, what you're
looking at right now

are slices through the 3-D
density model of the Money Pit.

Uh, the yellow background

represents kind of the
neutral baseline density

of the Money Pit.

Low-density
anomalies are in blue

and higher-density
anomalies are in orange to red.

CRAIG: Our preference
is always the high-density

'cause that may mean treasure,

but a low-density
could be a tunnel

or the water portion of a vault.

Do you see anything over
by the, uh, Garden Shaft?

And it would be looking more
at around the 100-foot level.

Do you see anything over there?

So, this is...

where my mouse is,

this is approximately the
area of the Garden Shaft.

That blue and gray
column is the Garden Shaft.

There is a high-density anomaly

to the west of the Garden Shaft.

At what depth?

MAX: 65 feet

below the surface
of the Money Pit.

And that's a high-density?

MARTY: And then a low-density
anomaly directly underneath.

MAX: Correct.

And what depth would
that be, the deeper one?


surface of the Money Pit.

Well, Dr. Fred there,
those anomalies

over at the Garden Shaft
is what we're looking for.

FRED: I would
agree with-with Marty.

I mean, there's definitely
a high-density area

to the west of the Garden Shaft

in the area of the Blob.

You know, which is
where we have the highest

concentrations of gold
and silver in the water.

So, I'm-I'm encouraged by that

because it backs up what
we've been seeing in the water.

But we can't drill these with
Dumas in the Garden Shaft.

Correct.

RICK: Well, the target
near the Garden Shaft,

I think presents the option
certainly of tunneling to it.

But Dumas is working in close
proximity to the Garden Shaft.

We have to give them
area to do their work.

So, have you
detected anything else?

MAX: So, we'll
take a look at a key

high-density anomaly
that we picked out.

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

sitting approximately


of the Garden Shaft,

about 230 feet below the
surface of The Money Pit.

It's significant.

DOUG S.: So, this is
looking at that anomaly

in a little more detail.

MARTY: Wow. Is it
consistent with, say,

a six-by-six-by-six
metal-lined box?

It could be a
treasure of some sort.

It's almost got to be something.

But at that depth?

Below the depth

that known searchers
have explored.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: A high-density target?

Some 230 feet deep
in the Money Pit area?

Could that mean there are
potentially multiple treasures

buried on Oak Island?

RICK: When they explain
about the high-density target

at 230 feet deep in the bedrock,

it makes one pause and think,
"Could it have been done?"

-We got to drill it.
-I agree with that.

RICK: The proof will
come from some sort of very

disciplined drill program.

But I think we have
to investigate it.

Another interesting
thing is this

kind of unaccounted
for low-density anomaly.

In fact, you've already
found something there.

This low-density
anomaly perfectly overlaps

the void that you guys
call Aladdin's Cave.

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

So, wait. Now, stop.

MARTY: That's pretty square.

Some sort of, like,
pedestal sticking out.

NARRATOR: One year ago,

after drilling a
borehole known as L-15,

the team discovered
a large cavern

to the southwest
of the Garden Shaft,

which Marty Lagina
dubbed "Aladdin's Cave."

Incredibly,

the team recorded video images

of potential man-made
features within it,

and during a
subsequent sonar scan...

-SCOTT: Whoa!
-STEVE: Oh, that's a good opening.

NARRATOR: ...determined
that it was nearly 30 feet long

and 12 feet wide.

-It's not some simple kind of cave.
-Right.

It's kind of a
tendril going out.

It kind of extends out.

RICK: That tendril going out,

how long is just that?

It's in the 20 feet range,



So, Dr. Michel, what
was the results of

the water associated
with L-16, Aladdin's Cave?

We have been getting,
fairly consistently,

some elevated metal
concentrations with that one.

So, we are seeing gold in

the cavity, or Aladdin's Cave.

-RICK: That's stunning.
-CRAIG: Absolutely. Yeah.

Wow.

It seems a bit too much
to be a coincidence.

NARRATOR: In the w*r room,

Rick, Marty, Craig,
and other members

of the team have
just been informed

that muon tomography scans
deep below the Money Pit area

have detected potentially

important clues in a large
void known as "Aladdin's Cave,"

a previously
discovered cavern some


where, one year ago,

water tests revealed high
trace evidence of gold.

And if you wanted to kind
of figure out what was there,

you would drill right in
the middle of the structure.

Yeah.

So, we have a
bunch of targets now.

MARTY: Yeah. This is exciting.

This is what we
were looking for.

And the fact that you can image

what we call "Aladdin's Cave,"

that's very gratifying.

So, I say, "Let's go drill it."

-Yeah.
-MARTY: One of the things we

were concerned about last
year about Aladdin's Cave

is it didn't appear

to have an obvious
inlet or outlet to it,

but the Ideon data
suggests that it does.

We should drill
through the muon target.

It's at the right depth
to be some sort of vault.

It's at the right
depth to have been

protected by a flood tunnel.

It's, uh, it's clearly
an offset chamber.

Uh... It could be it.

ALEX: Another piece
of good news is that

it's not anywhere
near the Garden Shaft,

-which means we can drill it.
-Yes.

Which is good for us
because I like the cave, right?

Yes.

MARTY: Yeah. I think

we should head for it, Rick.

This is, by far and away,

the most compelling
data we've ever had.

Every anomaly that Max and
Doug have presented are interesting.

-There's no question about that.
-Yep.

This is all really exciting

because it's always been
suggested that the Money Pit,

perhaps there were multiple
treasure cache locations.

And now, we are finding that

the muon detected evidence of it

and suggestions of work

at various elevations
all around the Money Pit.

Does it strongly
suggest the possibility

that there are more than
one location in the Money Pit?

Yes. In my opinion,
it does suggest that.

Well, for me,

we've always believed
that it's only by introducing

new technologies that this
will ultimately get solved.

And it's by working together

that, ultimately, we
might be able to solve

a 228-year-old mystery.

I think I speak for everyone.

-Thank you both very much.
-Our pleasure.

So, I think we
better get after it.

-Fantastic. Great.
-Thank you, everybody.

MARTY: Talk to you
all later. Goodbye.

NARRATOR: The following morning,

as representatives from
Dumas continue excavating spoils

from underneath
the Garden Shaft...

-STEVE: So, we're currently set up on L-14.
-TERRY: Yeah.

We're gonna put some of
these areas to either rest

or we're gonna find
what we're looking for.

Exactly so. All right.

NARRATOR: ...and while
drilling begins in a new borehole

known as L-14,
where Aladdin's Cave

sets some 160
feet underground...

-PETER: Seems you made a lot of progress.
-HELEN: Yeah.

As you can see, we're
getting deeper down into it.

PETER: Yeah. Okay.

NARRATOR: ...Peter
Fornetti and Jack Begley

join archaeologist Helen Sheldon

and other members
of the team on Lot 5.

They are continuing
their investigation

of a mysterious
stone foundation,

a feature which has been dated

to the same era as
the Garden Shaft,

and which appears to have
been deliberately buried.

Whatever this
was, the fill indicates

that it was buried

mid to late 1700s.

-Yeah.
-JACK: But that means that someone buried this

around the discovery
time of the Money Pit or

maybe even just before.

Well, see, the
interesting thing is,

like, as we get into the
middle of it, the rubble fill

in the middle is obviously
post-construction.

That's, like, abandonment
of whatever this feature is.

So, the feature itself
is earlier than that.

-Yeah.
-Right?

So, we need to get
down to the bottom

and see if there's anything
remaining on the bottom

-under there.
-Mm-hmm.

So, Helen, what would be
the best use of Jack and I?

Um, Jack's really
good at screening.

-I love it. Yeah.
-Yep.

You can do that. Um,

-you join Lindy in that unit.
-Yep.

And just start troweling
away, and we'll find something.

-Okay. Sounds good.
-Yep.

-Let's get to it.
-Okay.

NARRATOR: While
Peter, Moya, and Lindy

carefully remove
earth and sediments

from the bottom of the feature,

Jack will sift through
them with a screen

to search for any
important clues or artifacts.

Wow.

-Hey, Moya.
-MOYA: Yeah?

I found a bit of metal.

Oh, wow. Thank you.

JACK: I think it's like
a staple or something.

MOYA: Yeah. To me,
it kind of almost looks

like a chain link.

JACK: Oh.

I don't know. What
do you think, Helen?

It's kind of...

Let me see it. [grunts]

Yeah, it is more like chain
link that's been fused together.

NARRATOR: A piece of chain link?

Found in the rectangular
stone feature on Lot 5?

Could it be a clue
that a heavy object

was once hauled away
from or into this structure?

HELEN: We can CT
this back in the lab

and see if that's an
actual link-linkage in there

under all the corrosion.

MOYA: And get it cleaned off

to see what it looks like.

-Thanks, Jack. Good find.
-JACK: Oh, for sure.

I'm really hoping, right
at the bottom layer,

we find something cool
that really helps show

this wasn't a domestic
site but m*llitary

-or something like that.
-Yeah. Yeah.

PETER: Well, there's
only one way to find out,

-and that's for us to keep digging.
-HELEN: Keep digging.

NARRATOR: As the
investigation on Lot 5 continues...

GARY: Where there's
muck, there's money.

[Charles laughs]

NARRATOR: ...back
in the Money Pit area,

metal detection
expert Gary Drayton

and Oak Island historian
Charles Barkhouse

prepare to search
through the spoils that have

recently been removed
from below the Garden Shaft.

I wasn't joking, mate,
when I said we was

gonna get stuck in.

Oh, we are gonna get stuck in.

And it smells like treasure.

You know, Gary, I've got to
be honest, I was hoping treasure

would smell a little
different than this.

Oh, it will smell good, mate,

when we're holding
it in our hands.

But seriously, mate,

this is the material
that I'm interested in

because, last year,
we got those hits...

-Yeah.
-...at the bottom of the Garden Shaft,

those nonferrous hits.

All right.

Oh, that's the best
sounding target.

That's a nonferrous, yeah.

-Really?
-Yep.

NARRATOR: Just before
the team was forced to halt

their search
operations last winter,

Gary, Rick, and Marty
obtained evidence

of possible precious
metals in the mud

several feet below
the Garden Shaft.

If we're in here, mate, we
are gonna pull them out today.

-So, let's get at it.
-Yeah.

All right. Let's see
what we've got in here.

NARRATOR: Now, it is
Gary and Charles' hope

that they will make
an important discovery

that appeared to be
just out of reach last year.

Even though I know
it's iron, it's coming out.

-It's coming out. Okay.
-Yeah.

I'll try pinpointing it, mate.

Want me to dig it?

I'm nearly there, mate.

Ooh, what's this?

Big chunk.

It's here.

NARRATOR: While searching
through the spoils unearthed

from the bottom of
the Garden Shaft...

Some kind of, like, metal wedge?

NARRATOR: ...Gary Drayton
and Charles Barkhouse have

just found a potentially
important clue.

GARY: What do you think?

CHARLES: You know what that
reminds me of? You know that,

when you put an axe handle
into a wooden staff, right?

They put a wedge in the
top to drive it in to kind of

-lock it in?
-Yeah.

NARRATOR: A possible
metal wedge from an axe

found more than 80 feet deep

near the bottom of
the Garden Shaft?

CHARLES: Yeah.
That's pretty cool.

NARRATOR: Could it
have been left behind

by those who built the structure

as early as 1735?

If so, might it be
an important clue

that may help determine
just who they were?

All right. That's
going in the pouch.

All of this stuff will go
back to Emma in the lab.

There might be a little
diamond in the rough.

Literally in the rough.

CHARLES: If we could find
something like that, that'd be great.

GARY: I think we're done, mate.

We'll wait for this to dry out

and then see if there's anything
hiding right at the bottom.

CHARLES: Sounds like a plan.

GARY: All right,
mate. Good digging.

NARRATOR: While Gary and
Charles take their discovery back

to the Oak Island
laboratory for analysis,

just to the west,

in the Money Pit area...

TERRY: Hopefully, we'll
get down into the cavern.

The cave could turn into
something very interesting.

NARRATOR: ...other
members of the team

continue drilling borehole L-14,

several feet southwest
of the Garden Shaft.

So, we're gonna have a new hole,

new location in the cavity.

NARRATOR: A
borehole where they hope

to encounter a possible
treasure chamber


known as "Aladdin's Cave."

SCOTT: We may see something
that we didn't see before.

Yeah, it was a relatively
large, man-sized cavern.

But this hole's
gonna tell the tale.

-A big void?
-Oh, yeah.

STEVE: We have Mike coming over.

TERRY: Hey, Mike.

So, I'm at, uh...
I'm at 142 and half,

and I think I've hit a
void or something soft.

-Do you want me to keep pushing deeper?
-Yeah.

Let's get an idea
of where it's open.

-All right.
-Okay?

-The plot thickens.
-The plot thickens.

NARRATOR: A void at
a depth of just 142 feet?

Having previously encountered
evidence of Aladdin's Cave

at 160 feet, is it possible

that the top of the cavern--

where the team has detected
trace evidence of gold--

sits at a much higher elevation
than previously thought?

TERRY: Uh, look,
that's interesting.

The roof could be a
little higher in this area.

SCOTT: Yeah. I mean,
when you look at the 3D

model of it, it's not a
regular shape around that.

So, I mean, I'm not
surprised to find it higher.

Yeah.

MARTY: Aladdin's Cave remains
very interesting to me because

I can't think of a
geologic reason it's there.

And yet, it is there.

I think it's plausible

that Aladdin's Cave

could either have been
an original repository,

or it could be where
the Money Pit collapsed.

Either way, there could be
something valuable in that cave.

So, I'm down to 148, and
there's nothing in there.

-Open space?
-Open space.

-TERRY: All right.
-STEVE: That's what we want.

TERRY: Thank you.

SCOTT: I think this
hole was a great success.

We wanted to get down
into that cavity and, uh,

find some space there where
we could use the camera

and this new sonar that we have.

Our sonar is still a week away,

so it's kind of why we
want to drill this hole now.

Give it time to settle out, and
it can give us a clearer image.

NARRATOR: In the coming days,

the Oak Island team will
further investigate Aladdin's Cave

with both a
high-definition camera

and a three-dimensional
sonar device

after the clouds of silt and
sediment have been given time

to settle at the bottom of the
potentially man-made cavern.

We are not leaving
this island this year

without having a go
at this Aladdin's Cave.

We know that there
are precious metals

dissolved in the water that
came out of Aladdin's Cave.

Well, geez, I mean, if
you add those things up,

it sounds like a cavity
that has treasure in it.

Step one was a success.

TERRY: Yeah. L-14 is going

to yield up some
secrets very shortly.

SCOTT: Now, it's just a
matter of ground-truthing it.

TERRY: Exactly.

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

ROGER: There we
go. Looking good.

NARRATOR: ...as representatives
from Dumas Contracting Limited

continue their work
in the Garden Shaft...

-RICK: More flags I see, Gary.
-GARY: Yeah, mate.

-This is the coin zone, mate.
-This is the treasure zone.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina

and Gary Drayton
arrive on Lot 5,

located on the western
side of the island.

They are returning
to search the area

where they have previously
discovered five ancient coins,

three of which are
of Roman origin

and have been determined to
be approximately 2,000 years old.

And I've got to be honest.

A couple of these flags
sound like they could be coins.

-That would be fantastic.
-[laughs]

-Here you go.
-All right. See what we've got.

-All right, first one up.
-[beeping]

-RICK: That ain't bad.
-Good sounding target, mate.

Just there.

[groans]

[grunts]

Well, that's not what
we're looking for.

Nope. Not unless it's on
top of a treasure chest.

All right, let's see.

[beeping]

-Ooh. Still in the hole.
-Yeah.

-RICK: It's iron though, isn't it?
-Nope.

-RICK: There she be.
-Yup.

It's in my hand.

Now, we both know
that was down there.

That's deep target.

What's that?

GARY: What the heck is this?

-RICK: What's that?
-GARY: I like the shape of it.

NARRATOR: Near the middle

of Lot 5 on Oak Island...

GARY: See that edge there, mate?

RICK: Can't be a button.

NARRATOR: ...Rick
Lagina and Gary Drayton

have just made a
curious discovery.

What've we got, mate, is
that a bit of ancientness in that.

GARY: Oh!

Ooh! It's here. Old coin.

It looks like a
really old coin, mate.

Look at that. Oh!

-RICK: That is thick.
-Ooh!

Yeah, that is thick, mate.

-GARY: Oh!
-That is beautiful.

Wow. Look at that.
There's no mistaking that.

-Yeah.
-That ain't no button.

NARRATOR: Could
Gary and Rick be correct

that they have found
another potentially ancient coin

on Lot 5?

If so, could it offer
more evidence

that this area may
be directly connected

to the 228-year-old
treasure mystery?

We know, mate, when we
pulled those ancient coins out

in this area before,

they've just got that
look and feel about them.

Let me... Let me feel

-how heavy it is.
-Here you go, mate.

-Ooh, it's heavy.
-Yeah, that is.

And that baby was down there.

You know, what the heck
happened here, Gary?

Yeah. I mean, there's some
secrets still in this area here.

RICK: As the work on
Lot 5 continues to evolve,

I continue to be puzzled by it.

We have always sought
to find connective tissue

between the lots and the
original depositional work.

And so, I think that's
the hope on Lot 5.

Once all of the
artifacts are analyzed,

then you will be able to say
with some sort of clarity that,

"Yes, this presents an answer."

-That goes back to the lab.
-Yeah.

That goes back to the lab, mate.

So, we have got to
put this in the bag.

RICK: That's cool. Very cool.

GARY: Bloody fantastic.

NARRATOR: The following
morning as operations continue

in both the Garden
Shaft and Aladdin's Cave

in the Money Pit area...

RICK: So, Gary and I
happened to be out on Lot 5 up

into the areas where we had
found the Roman coins, right?

-Mm-hmm. Good area.
-Well,

we came across this.

NARRATOR: ...Rick joins Marty

in the Interpretive Centre

for a meeting with
archaeologist Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan,

who have both
had the opportunity

to examine the artifact
discovered one day ago on Lot 5.

We were ecstatic when...
when this came out of the ground.

We thought, "Wow.
This is really something."

MARTY: I mean, Laird,
what do you think it is?

When I first saw it, I knew...

-It's lead, right?
-Mm-hmm.

LAIRD: So, I discounted coin.

My best guess was
that it was a bag seal.

-Oh. Another one of those.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR: Dating back to
as early as the 13th century,

lead bag seals were
fasteners used across Europe

to package large quantities

of both industrial
and m*llitary goods.

Three years ago, the team
discovered a lead bag seal

just west of the
swamp on Lot 32.

Incredibly, lead
isotope testing indicated

it was a compositional match

not only to the 14th-century
lead barter token

found one year ago on Lot 5

but also the


that was unearthed at
Smith's Cove in 2017.

RICK: So, what made you come

to a bag seal assessment?

Um, it was that little...
the little, cut section there.

Because bag seals are two
lead circles brought together

and then stamped.

MARTY: Well, I'm guessing

we have results from
the machines over here

-and our own Emma.
-I do.

NARRATOR: Earlier this morning,

Emma analyzed the new
discovery made on Lot 5

using the X-ray
fluorescence spectrometer,

a device that emits
non-destructive radiation

in order to determine

the elemental
composition of objects.

So, this is the scanning XRF.

EMMA: So, it is lead. It has

very little impurities,
but it does have

some iron impurities
and a little bit of copper.

And I did get a report on
another bale seal or bag seal

-that you guys found.
-Mm-hmm.

And it doesn't match with that.

So, I can say that it's not
exactly the same composition.

But the most interesting
part is the image

on the front surface there.

-RICK: Definitely letters, that's for sure.
-LAIRD: Yeah.

And the first letter that was
obvious to us was the "K."

MARTY: Oh, those letters.

-"E" is it? I see an "E."
-LAIRD: Yup.

This should be "K-E-R."

And we were having a
hard time tracking down

what "C-K-E-R" Was.

But we were able to
find an exact match.

The is the example I found.

And it says "I.
Lloyd" on the top,

and the "I" is actually "J."

"I. Lloyd Packers,"

-and on the bottom, it says, "London."
-MARTY: Oh.

So, this is a
cloth packer's seal

from the 1700s.

They were the people--
they got the cloth

and literally packed
them into the bales.

-Oh. -And then sealed them.

The bale it was sealing
was about half a ton.

-Wow.
-MARTY: So, half ton.

I mean, would the
m*llitary use such a thing?

If you had a bunch of
soldiers, they need cloth.

LAIRD: Yeah, and ironically,

this company was
listed as army packers.

-Oh.
-So, there's a direct connection with the m*llitary.

Wow.

I haven't been able
to find a great date

for the, uh... for the company.

We found one entry
from 1808, giving

their address in London,
but I think it's previous.

MARTY: Why do
you think it's older?

It was the use of
"I" instead of "J."

It's "I. Lodge," and
the "I" is for "John."

So, that usage
went out of fashion?

Yeah. Js came into
use in, like, 1524.

So, it's an older use.

It's an artifact in itself.

Then that would imply
that it could be very old.

-Much older.
-MARTY: Still potentially means

anytime between 1500,
and let's say, 1800,

this bag seal arrived
on Oak Island.

-Is that fair?
-Yes.

NARRATOR: A bag seal
designed for packaging

large quantities of goods
for the British m*llitary?

Dating to as early as the 1500s?

And found on Lot 5?

Because the team has
found artifacts and structures

on Lot 5 that date back
as much as 2,000 years,

could this bag seal
have been left by people

who hid something of
great value on Oak Island

prior to 1795?

Or was it left by
someone who came here

in order to search for
the fabled treasure?

Look, is this interesting? Yes.

Does it provide pathways
to-to learn more? Sure.

Find out about that company.

Well, and there's a lot
of stuff, Rick, adding up

to saying something dramatically
different than homesteading.

-It does. And then, the m*llitary component.
-MARTY: Okay.

Rick, go grab Gary and
find some more stuff.

-[laughs] -Let's
figure this thing out.

RICK: I agree.

JAMIE: How are you guys doing?

-BOTH: Good.
-Everything's been great.

-We're, uh, we're about halfway through here.
-Okay.

-We're starting to get close to our round feature, so...
-Mm-hmm.

We'll keep walking
the transects and

gather some more data.

NARRATOR: At the northern region

of Lot 5 on Oak Island...

LAIRD: These instruments
are really important for us.

NARRATOR: ...Craig
Tester joins Laird Niven

and Jamie Kouba, where
they have just begun

a new underground
scanning operation

near the mysterious
circular feature.

This electro-magnetic
induction instrument actually

forces a field into the ground,
which then reacts off of things.

All right. Okay.

NARRATOR: Following
the recent discoveries within

and near the stone depression,

which have been dated to
between the 14th and 18th centuries,

the Oak Island team
has obtained a device

known as Geonics EM38B
from the anthropology department

of St. Mary's University
in the city of Halifax.

Things like, say, fire can
change the geochemical

properties of the ground

-and actually make it more magnetic.
-Okay.

So, yeah, I'm hoping to
find some areas of interest.

Okay.

NARRATOR: By emitting
magnetic pulses into the ground,

the EM-38B can detect not
only buried metal artifacts,

as well as wooden
or stone structures,

but also so-called
"susceptible" qualities,

such as changes
in layers of soil

that were created
by human activity.

Once you collect the data,

we'll get it sent out
to St. Mary's, right?

-And get it finally processing?
-Yes.

-Absolutely.
-Okay. Well, why don't you run it.

-Perfect.
-If you find anything,

-let us know. Okay.
-I will.

CRAIG: We've been
exploring the circular feature,

trying to determine
what that is.

But we need to keep
gathering information.

What else is in the
area under the ground?

And so, we're looking
for structures, artifacts,

and hopefully,

they can determine

who built it, and-and what for.

-[beeping]
-Huh.

That's... that's actually
kind of interesting.

Hey, guys.

-Hey.
-Okay. So, what'd you find?

So, I just paused it
here because I didn't

want to keep moving
on, but check this out.

Notice what's happening
with those lines?

Yeah. Separating more.

There's definitely
something happening with

both the conductivity
and the susceptibility, so...

-Okay.
-It's in an interesting location.

It really is. Yeah. This
close to that round feature.

LAIRD: It could be a structure.
This is what we're looking for.

I'm actually excited about
the anomaly, particularly given

its proximity to
the round feature.

I think it's related
to the round feature.

I think it's something
that would have been used

at the same time
as the round feature.

So, people settled on Lot 5

at a time that we have
no record of anyone else

being on the island.

Yeah, running several
more lines will give me

an idea on how wide it is.

LAIRD: But the data has

to go and get processed

before we can actually get
a visual idea of what's there.

Each of the lines are set up
at about 50 centimeters apart.

If we're seeing
something here, it'll tell us.

Are we seeing
it on the next line

and the next line?

And that'll let us know how big

this potential anomaly is,

and where exactly it's located.

LAIRDD: That's
what I'm waiting for.

Because we'll be able to
pinpoint where to excavate.

-Yeah.
-CRAIG: Okay.

-We'll, keep after it.
-That sounds good.

-Okay.
-All right. Thank you.

Bye, guys. See you later.

CRAIG: Well, good start.

LAIRD: Yeah. I think it's great.

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

-RICK: Morning, Craig.
-CRAIG: Hey, guys.

NARRATOR: ...Craig
Tester joins Rick Lagina

and other members of the
team via video conference

for an important
meeting in the w*r room.

Getting reports like this
carbon dating is kind of exciting.

You know, it's something
we look forward to

because we were hoping,

and maybe these
reports will differentiate

between searcher
work and perhaps

original, depositional work.

NARRATOR: Craig
has just received

a carbon-dating report

on a wood sample
collected one week ago

from a depth of some 100 feet

in borehole C5N-27.

A borehole where the team
encountered a mysterious tunnel

believed to run below
the Garden Shaft

and into the Baby Blob.

Why don't you, uh, give
us the results, please?

CRAIG: Sure thing.

We had a wood chip.

We sent it out to get
a carbon date on it.

And the, uh,

specific brackets are 53.2%:







And 16.7%:



There's a high
probability this wood's

the outer edge of a tree.

-Right.
-So, I tend to think these dates I'm giving you

are fairly close

to the time it was chopped down.

So, to me, you know,
the results from C.5N-27

mean it-it really

puts it into pre-searcher.

I just think this could indicate

that it's a, uh, original work.

-RICK: Wowza.
-JACK: Whoa.

This could indicate
that it's a original work.

Wowza. [laughs]

Well, that's good to hear.

[laughter]

NARRATOR: In the
Oak Island w*r room,

Craig Tester has just revealed

carbon-dating results
which offer more evidence

that the tunnel they have been
tracking below the Garden Shaft

may very well be related
to the original Money Pit.

Those dates line up
with the other dates

we found on what we
deemed to be the same tunnel.

D.5N26.5, they were
all 1600 to 1700s as well.

Yes. And none of those
make sense for searcher.

STEVE: I mean, it's
very exciting because

it's starting to confirm
that this is probably all

-one continuous tunnel.
-Yep.

So, I recall that in
the Garden Shaft,

we found a piece of
wood that dated to 1735.

Yeah. And the Money
Pit seems to have been,

at least from this
data and other data,

built sometime in what,
the late 1600, early 1700s?

There must be some sort
of a connection to the tunnel.

-Yeah. I- I would agree.
-Yeah.

I think the dating of
those wood chips, though,

paints a compelling
picture for staying the course

as far as deepening
the Garden Shaft goes.

Because once we deepen
the Garden Shaft, and hopefully

break into this tunnel, we
might have an open tunnel there.

-Sure. Absolutely.
-JACK: Yeah.

If it is original works
and a depositor tunnel,

it could lead to
a new discovery,

-or the treasure.
-RICK: Exactly.

These new C-14 results

certainly raise the level of
anticipation in the w*r room.

I mean, we are engaged
in a process that will

get us to that elevation
where this tunnel exists.

Can we put our eyes and
our boots on original work?

And this may represent
that opportunity.

I'm quite pleased by
all of the efforts to date

for one simple reason: I
came here wanting to prove

to all of us, to myself
and to the world, literally,

that Oak Island was real.

And now, perhaps,
we are on the cusp

of the answers, right?

We've got a lot of work to do.

We need to get after it. So,
thanks, Craig, for the data.

-See you guys.
-See you, Craig.

JACK: Thanks for the info.

NARRATOR: For
more than 200 years,

Oak Island has defied
all who faithfully worked

to unearth something of
great value in the Money Pit.

Their only certainty was that

someone went to great lengths

to ensure that it
would never be found.

But now, through their
equally determined efforts

and disciplined
applications of science,

Rick, Marty, Craig and
their team have made it

all but certain that there
are multiple locations

where treasure may lie buried.

And nothing, not
even a deadly curse,

can defy their will

to solve the mystery.

Next time, on The
Curse of Oak Island...

FIONA: What is
this? Oh, look at that.

-Oh, my God!
-That looks like the handle of something.

We suspect that
it's from the 1700s.

Even earlier.

-Really?
-Absolutely.

MARTY: We have an
opening into this cavern.

Yeah. It looks man-made.

It's amazing.

Okay, going in.

MARTY: We're all eager to see

-Aladdin's Cave.
-ALEX: Stop!

STEVE:
What is that? Wow.

This is different.

This is way different
than anything we've seen.