NARRATOR: Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...
All right! Here we
go! Let's do this.
We're going underground
in the Garden Shaft.
What in the hell
is going on here?
ROGER: It's crazy. We're
encountering a lot of water.
MARTY: I don't like
the sounds of that.
JAMIE: Oh! Look at this.
- Oh, wow!
- It's pre-Money Pit discovery.
This could've been
used in the Money Pit.
PAUL: Going in right now.
MARTY: We're gonna run
a camera in Aladdin's Cave.
ALL [shouting]: Whoa!
SCOTT: Oh, my God. Look at that!
STEVE: It could be man-made.
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: Okay. Let's go see Roger.
- MARTY: Yep.
NARRATOR: A new
day of excitement
and anticipation for discoveries
that could help solve a
Time to look underground.
Has begun on Oak Island.
Let's see what we got.
I want to see how the setup is.
I can't wait to go
down there, honestly.
- Roger.
- How's it going, guys?
- Today's the day.
- [laughs]
- Today is the day.
- Thank you for taking me up on the offer.
That's good. That's good.
Nice to see you, Rick.
We're taking you
down on the offer.
Taking me down on the
offer. You're right, you're right.
Let's do it, let's
do it. We're ready.
NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,
brothers Rick and Marty
Lagina are about to get
their first opportunity
of the year
to personally inspect
the ongoing renovations
that are being made in a
mid-18th century structure
known as the Garden Shaft.
Before we get dressed,
I just want to show you
a little something, when
you go down there, when I talk
about something, you
guys will have a good idea.
Okay. So...
towards the bottom of the
shaft, this is Set 16 here.
This is where we're seeing
that infiltration of water.
This is the bad area
where all the water...
You'll see when
we get down there.
Okay. That is very puzzling.
It is. It is.
And it's just this area.
You'll see as you go down.
- It's not undermining your shaft, is it, Roger?
- No.
That's why I want to try to
stop it or at least contain it.
Anyways, we'll get
you guys dressed.
- You'll have a good idea...
- We have a great idea, yeah.
- Uh, this is yours.
- This is me?
Yeah, and this is...
Rick, this is for you.
Okay.
As we all know,
water's always been the problem.
Well, now we're
encountering it ourselves
and we have to devise
a way to shut it down,
or at least diminish it. The
bottom of the Garden Shaft
could be incredibly important
to solving the mystery.
It needs to be dealt with.
All right.
I feel like Ghostbusters.
NARRATOR: Since returning
to the island three weeks ago,
representatives from
Dumas Contracting Limited
have extended the
refurbished 82-foot-deep shaft
down to 87 feet,
with the ultimate goal
of reaching a total
depth of nearly 100 feet.
It is here that the Oak
Island team hopes to breach
a mysterious seven-foot-high
tunnel that they have discovered
during their strategic
core-drilling operation.
A tunnel that has
been carbon-dated
to as early as the 17th century
and which runs east to west
toward the so-called Baby Blob,
where high concentrations
of gold, silver and other metals
have been detected
in groundwater
between depths
of 80 and 120 feet.
- All right! Here we go!
- ROGER: Let's go, guys.
RICK: Care needs to be
taken to try to understand
what's happening
inside of the shaft.
In a number of ways,
this, this water issue
has to be dealt with.
- So, this is 60?
- Oh, yeah.
So, starting from this set here,
this is where our water starts.
Right here. And then it
comes in along the side.
So, our plan today is we're
gonna go one set above this.
We're gonna punch
nine holes in here.
And we're gonna get
some urethane in there.
It should stop all this
water that we see coming in.
MARTY: What they want to do
is use this
fast-setting urethane.
They're gonna grout it
and try and stop the water.
And you see those two
RICK: They use a
specialized compound...
Expanding foam, if you
will, in layman's terms...
Spray it under pressure,
and as it expands,
it will seal off
that intrusion of water,
possibly completely.
Okay. I've landed.
ROGER: All right.
Okay. Roger, I have
lots of questions.
- Yeah.
- Where are we compared
to where we were
last year at the bottom?
- Are we below that depth?
- That's right.
So we're about
four or five feet lower
- in here. Yeah.
- We're well below.
So right now we're
at 87 feet from the top.
So we've gone down
about four feet, roughly.
Right, but how far
is that down there?
Uh, it's not very much further.
I'll just open up this
up, this little hatch here,
so it'll give us a better idea.
MARTY: Okay. So,
we're looking at dirt
that nobody else have ever seen.
- Ever. Right?
- That's right. Right there.
- That's for sure.
- MARTY: I'll say this, Roger.
You're very close to
that tunnel that we hope is
just a few feet below here.
- Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'd say.
- Yeah. That's pretty cool.
It's a tunnel we didn't
know anything about.
- It's not described in the narrative.
- Yeah.
- We got to get down there.
- And that's what I'm hoping,
like when we start
this probe drilling
and we start punching away.
Yeah.
Short of an artifact
recovery, gold, silver,
the most important
relevance of this shaft
is that horizontal drilling.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Depending
on what the team finds
once they reach the
believed tunnel below,
Dumas will also be able to
use a probe-drilling device
to search for
evidence of valuables
up to 40 feet in
every direction.
Should any important clues be
discovered during this process
and the existing
tunnel is inaccessible,
Dumas can construct a new
tunnel in order to reach them.
If you're correct and
you can drill 40 feet
off of that face and this
face, we'll be able to literally
gain information from
an 80-foot cylinder.
- Yes.
- That's pretty amazing.
It's why we're here.
It's why you're here.
Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
MARTY: You know what, Rick,
I got to praise him and his guys.
I mean, fine, I can stand
down here and chitchat,
but this is not a
good workspace.
- [laughter]
- ROGER: No. No.
You've got it pouring down
on top of your head all day.
- MARTY: Eventually, I'd get pretty weary. Yeah.
- Yeah. Yeah.
We got a conduit somewhere
that we're unaware of.
Oh, yes. If I get 50%
of this water stopped
on the guys, I'll
be a happy man.
All right. Should we get
out of here? Are we all set?
Sounds good. And then we
can get the boys down here...
Get the boys down
here and let's go!
- Let's go deep.
- ROGER: Absolutely.
NARRATOR: While the operation
in the Garden Shaft continues
in the Money Pit area...
later that morning...
MARTY: Okay, gentlemen.
Today, we have
an important thing.
Rick, Marty and Craig
Tester have gathered members
of the team in the
w*r room to receive
an updated report on water
testing that has been conducted
in the Money Pit area from
geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner,
chemist Dr. Matt Lukeman
and hydrogeologist
Dr. Fred Michel.
MARTY: I've always said there's
nothing I like better than new data.
So, with no further ado,
over to you, Dr. Lukeman.
All right, so we've
done florescence testing
on all the water samples
that we've run so far this year,
as well as all the
ones last year.
We use fluorescence
spectroscopy on the water
to see evidence of other
things beyond metals,
such as traces of wood or other
organic material in the water,
that gives us evidence
of human activity.
Okay.
NARRATOR:
Fluorescence spectroscopy
is a process that uses
a high-powered
beam of ultraviolet light
to excite the molecules
of elemental compounds
in order to identify
unusual materials
that may be contained
within a specimen...
In this case, water samples
that have been collected
from previously
drilled boreholes
all across the Money Pit area.
So, you see, all the wells are
listed along the bottom there
and measurements of
organic matter in the water.
So all of the wells are showing
some amount of organic matter.
- Yeah.
- And so it's not unexpected
to see wood signals
down under there.
In particular, we have
one very interesting result
to present on L16 Deep,
which is believed to open
up, at the bottom of the well,
into a large void.
Oh, wow.
So just for
reference, that's into
what Marty calls
"Aladdin's Cave."
It's Aladdin's Cave.
NARRATOR: Some 60 feet
southwest of the Garden Shaft,
Rick, Marty, Craig and the team
are currently investigating
another feature in
the Money Pit area
that may also
contain critical clues
that could help solve
the Oak Island mystery:
a large cavern located more
than 150 feet underground
that has been dubbed
"Aladdin's Cave."
Within this mysterious cavern,
they have obtained not only
camera and sonar images
suggesting that it
could be man-made
but also, through water testing,
high trace evidence of gold.
It's a lot deeper
than a lot of the other
tunnels and other workings.
For that particular water
sample taken from that depth,
we find very high
organic material,
which is indicative of
the water in that void
having come into contact
with organic material,
- such as wood.
- MARTY: Interesting.
MATT: Yeah, which
is very surprising,
because there's, I
believe, no known
human workings in that
particular area at that depth.
- Really?
- Yeah. There's no natural way wood
would get in that environment.
MARTY: That is the oddest thing.
IAN: There's no natural way
wood would get in that environment.
That is the oddest thing.
The wood is interesting.
That means something was there.
NARRATOR: In the
Oak Island w*r room...
I think what we're seeing there
is, I'd say, anomalously high.
Drs Matt Lukeman,
Ian Spooner and Fred
Michel have just presented
new scientific evidence
that the large cavern
more than 150 feet deep
in the Money Pit area,
known as "Aladdin's Cave,"
may contain man-made workings.
If there were things introduced
into that cave by people,
it becomes
gigantically significant,
'cause it doesn't
make any sense.
It's a one of.
There's nothing else
above the bedrock.
STEVE: We put a camera
and a sonar into that.
The camera gave us a really
good visual and we couldn't see
- anything but rock and water.
- Right.
That makes the cave even
that much more important.
- I mean...
- Way more.
This just adds to the
mystery of that cave.
Okay. But the other
thing is, is there a tunnel
around that leads to that
or at least intersects it?
RICK: It invites all
kinds of questions.
Finding those organics
at that depth in a void.
We now have three
different technologies
strongly hinting
there's something there.
It's certainly more than worthy
of further investigative
processes.
The take-home is we need
to keep an eye on that well.
Uh, it's been showing
some interesting stuff,
the precious metals, as well.
Well, and we haven't crossed
off the option of treasure.
If anything, this could
be a clear indication
that it's still there and
no one ever recovered it.
This is exciting and
super interesting.
SCOTT: We need
to drill another hole
into this, so we'll
be in a different area.
SCOTT: So, our new
hole that we'll put in,
we'll move to the opposite
end of the cavity, basically,
where we feel we
have the most height.
Maybe we can put a
camera down in there again
and get a better image of
the area around that hole.
- Oh, that's great.
- And we may see wood.
- Yep.
- MARTY: I think this is exciting.
This thing sits on the bedrock.
It is hard to come up with
a geological
interpretation of that cave.
So now we see that
there are sources
of plant material in there, and
the obvious one would be wood,
and that makes
it not natural at all.
The first thing we're gonna do
is we're gonna run a camera
down into Aladdin's Cave.
There's still something
worth pursuing here.
This is very exciting, um,
but the issues in front of us
are probably more
complex than any other year.
We need to move
forward aggressively, so
let's do what Mom said.
Sempre Avanti. Let's
keep moving forward.
Can't say any more
than that. Let's go do it.
MARTY: Well done, guys.
NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...
- Hey, Charles. How ya doing?
- Hey, Terry.
So we are in K/L-14.5.
Right.
Geologist Terry Matheson
joins Oak Island historian
Charles Barkhouse
in the Money Pit area
to oversee the drilling
of borehole KL-14.5.
A borehole located some ten
feet northwest of borehole L-16,
where the team
hopes to intersect
the center of Aladdin's Cave
over 150 feet underground.
Once they break
open into the cave,
- then we're gonna put a camera down.
- Right.
Hopefully we can see,
you know, maybe a-a tunnel
or some kind of entrance
or egress in, into this cave.
MARTY: Aladdin's
Cave is 100% unique.
We've found lots of voids
at depth in the bedrock.
This one is
completely different.
- What do you got? 83?
- 83.
- All right, well, let's cr*ck 'em up and see what we got.
- Okay.
Oh! We're into some
tightly bedded clay beds.
CHARLES: Yeah, you know what?
That would be lovely
stuff to tunnel in.
It'd be lovely to
tunnel in because
you wouldn't have to worry
about water, would ya?
No.
That would seal
itself, pretty much.
Nothing coming in
from above or below.
The fact that you're getting
organics of wood in there
obviously shows
that-that human beings
were doing something.
TERRY: So this thing is...
is probably gonna be
a man-made structure.
I'm looking forward
to getting down there.
CHARLES: Absolutely.
We've got quite a ways to go.
NARRATOR: As the
drilling operation continues
in borehole KL-14.5...
- Hey, Carmen.
- Hello.
- Carmen.
- Hello, Carmen?
How's it going today?
Craig Tester
and other members of the team
are meeting with blacksmithing
expert Carmen Legge
at the Oak Island
Interpretive Centre.
CARMEN: Got some
items to show me?
Yeah. We were digging around
on Lot 5 and there was
an area where we
found iron objects.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: While
recently investigating
a mysterious circular
stone structure
near the shore of Lot 5 on
the western side of the island,
the team has not only obtained
sub-surface magnetometry data
showing that there is
a much larger feature
buried beneath it
but have also recovered
three metal artifacts
that may be connected to
the 17th-century politician
and privateer Sir
William Phips...
A man that some believe
sailed to Oak Island in 1687
to bury a large cache of
silver and gold in the Money Pit.
CARMEN: I'll have a look, Jack.
NARRATOR: After Carmen
recently gave his assessment
that one of these artifacts
may have been used to lift
heavy cargo, the team is hoping
he can help them determine
what the other two objects
may have been used for
and how they may be related
to the 228-year-old
treasure mystery.
Well, you can see that
this is a, a handmade spike.
- JACK: Yeah.
- This is sort of like a brad
or a scupper nail, it's...
fairly big, flat,
so this was used to hold down
boards or decking, flush.
So this would kind of
sunk underneath the wood.
The wood would
be at the very top.
- Okay.
- That way when you go along
or you're walking onto
it, you don't hit the nail,
the head of the nail,
because it's under
the wood, and, so,
this would be like, uh,
typical that you
would find on a ship.
Mm-hmm.
NARRATOR: Scupper nails,
named for their frequent use
to secure the scuppers or
drainage holes found on ships,
were shaped to
have broad, flat heads
and strong, stout shanks,
giving them the durability
to withstand multiple
uses in the repair
and building of sailing vessels.
CARMEN: A rose head or any
type of nail like that would stick out.
This did not. It was
- below the surface of the wood.
- JACK: Okay.
That made it smooth.
Time period on it?
Early 16 to early 17 century.
So was it a shipwreck,
and they brought part
of the shipwreck inward
- and the nail came with it or they...?
- Or just repurposed.
- Yeah.
- It was a common thing to take
shipwrecks and salvage
the wood and the metal.
PETER: That's interesting
with the William Phips
connection with the Concepción.
William Phips fits
into our time period.
JACK: And we know
he had a treasure.
And he's known to
be in Nova Scotia.
JACK: Wow.
PETER: The 1600s, 1700s
fits with the Concepción.
And we know that William Phips
- was in Nova Scotia.
- CRAIG: Yeah.
NARRATOR: In the Oak
Island Interpretive Centre,
blacksmithing
expert Carmen Legge
has just given his assessment
that an iron nail,
found one week ago
near the mysterious
circular feature on Lot 5
and which may be connected
to the 17th-century
privateer Sir William Phips,
may have been repurposed
from the wreck of a ship.
Well, I believe this
is the one, Emma,
- that has chlorine in it. Right?
- Yeah.
Where would the
chlorine be from?
- Salt water.
- Yeah. It has a 0.2% throughout,
I'd say, on average, so there,
it has been exposed
to salt spray.
Geez. That sounds like
it, it really is a ship nail.
- Yeah.
- JACK: So...
Phips seems like
a plausible person
- to have buried treasure on Oak Island.
- Yeah.
NARRATOR: In the fall
of 1687, Sir William Phips,
an English politician
and privateer,
worked with a high-ranking
Freemason named Andrew Belcher
from Nova Scotia
to conduct Phips's second
treasure salvaging operation
of the Concepción,
a famed Spanish galleon
which sank off the coast
of the Dominican
Republic in 1641.
Curiously, they delivered
less than two tons of valuables
to the English
crown, despite the fact
that more than 50 tons
of gold, silver and jewels
were known to
be left on the ship
according to its manifest.
And just two years ago,
Clarke shared his research
with the team, suggesting where
the missing valuables
may have ended up.
We know that Phips found
silver on the Concepción,
and I believe some of the
treasure from the Concepción
was secreted to Oak Island.
ALEX: Very interesting.
- Okay.
- All right, next one.
- Well, thanks for that.
- PETER: Yeah.
PETER: Jack, was this
found in the same area?
JACK: Yeah.
We thought it might be
some sort of, uh, a tool?
You can see there's a seam
running down the underside here.
Oh.
- Oh, okay.
- Hmm.
Do you have a scan of this?
'Cause I'd like to see whether
- or not there's any holes in this.
- CRAIG: Yep.
- EMMA: The image?
- CRAIG: Yep.
- PETER: Oh, wow.
- CARMEN: Yeah. You really see it there.
Yeah.
PETER: Would this
be William Phips'
- time frame?
- Yeah. Certainly.
The time period fits and it
could certainly be maritime.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the artifacts found
in the mysterious
feature on Lot 5,
which have been traced
to Sir William Phips,
offer clues that he
and Andrew Belcher
used Lot 5 as a
staging ground to hide
an unreported cache of
Spanish treasure on Oak Island?
If so, could that explain
who constructed the tunnel
beneath the Garden Shaft,
which has been dated to
as early as the late 1600s,
and also the high trace
evidence of gold and silver
that has been detected
in Aladdin's Cave
and all across the
Money Pit area?
The Phips possible connection,
uh, to Oak Island is a
very plausible theory.
We have some historical
objects that mimic
that Phips metallurgy.
I think it goes to what
Dr. Spooner has always said.
The larger your sample base,
the more definitive you can be.
Well, we do continue
to connect the dots.
We have different data
points that are all suggesting
mid-1600s to late 1700s
and that all predates
the Money Pit,
which for me is
always a big thing.
Oh, yes. This, this is
before the Money Pit.
Well, thank you. We're hoping
we can get you a lot more
- artifacts, that's for sure.
- I look forward to seeing them.
- CRAIG: See ya later. Thanks, guys.
- CARMEN: See ya.
NARRATOR: The
following morning...
ROGER: If you're
right there, that's good.
- DARREN: Okay.
- As Dumas continues
their work on the
Garden Shaft...
- MOYA: Hey, Terry.
- TERRY: Hi, Moya.
- Thanks for coming out.
- Yeah.
KL-14.5 we're down 138.
Nearly 60 feet to the southwest
geologist Terry Matheson
and archaeologist Moya MacDonald
supervise the core-drilling
operation in borehole KL-14.5.
A borehole that is on
target to penetrate the center
of Aladdin's Cave nearly
I think we hit the cave!
Let's get a measurement.
- TERRY: Aladdin's Cave.
- Yeah.
I think it's really a
geologic enigma.
I mean, in soft
sediments, imagine
you've got a, a cavern opened up
- that seems to stay open.
- Yeah.
That speaks to me of a
structure made by people.
Absolutely.
- COLTEN: It's nine.
- TEDFORD: 0.5?
COLTEN: Yeah.
Hey, Mike.
Uh, okay, so, I hit it
at about 142 and a half.
- Okay.
- So I pushed down
through the void to 153.
So it's open almost ten feet.
I think we want to just
take the casing back up,
just above the
opening into the cavern.
Sounds good.
- Hi, guys.
- TERRY: Hey, Charles.
CHARLES: So what did I miss?
Uh, well, the guys
went into the cavern
- at about 142.5.
- Right.
It was an open space
all the way to 153.
For right now, we're
gonna put a camera
down this hole right
here in front of us.
And then we'll get
a little better image
- from Aladdin's cavern.
- CHARLES: Get more information.
'Cause all data is good data.
TEDFORD: Yeah.
CHARLES: Personally,
I think one of the things
that's most exciting about
this cavern or
cave, if you will,
is finding wood in
the water. I mean,
that doesn't just
magically appear.
This is a very interesting
area to all of us.
- PAUL: Hey, Scott.
- Hey, guys.
TERRY: How ya doing, Marty?
CHARLES: So we're gonna put
the Inuktun camera down in KL-14.5.
I think we're all hoping
to see some evidence
that men actually
excavated this cave.
What did we hit here?
Basically, we have ten feet
of open space is what
I'm understanding.
That's big. That's bigger
than anything we've seen.
We have never seen
anything like this.
Paul, let's get it in the hole
and see what we can see.
- Okay.
- MARTY: Please.
STEVE: Okay, Paul,
so line it up at the top.
Going into the
caisson right now.
NARRATOR: The Inuktun
Spectrum 120 high-definition camera
that the team is
using to investigate
the massive cavern
is not only designed
- to operate in low light conditions...
- MARTY: There's the water.
But is also able to pan and tilt
for a 360-degree view
of its surroundings.
Okay. That's right at 142
at the top of the casing.
Yep.
We should be
inside the cave now.
STEVE: You can see silt
kind of moving past there.
Paul, just take her
down incrementally.
'Kay.
- [all exclaiming]
- There it is. Right there.
SCOTT: Oh, my God! Look at that.
TERRY: What is that?
What's that sitting
right on the end of it?
Right there.
STEVE: Goodness,
it looks like a bolt.
NARRATOR: It is a
potentially critical moment
for Marty Lagina and other
members of the Oak Island team.
While investigating
the large cavern
some 150 feet deep
in the Money Pit area
known as Aladdin's Cave,
they have just obtained
high-definition camera images
of a possibly man-made artifact.
- It does kind of look like a bolt.
- It looks more like a bolt
than anything.
CHARLES: It does have
that shape, uh, of a bolt.
Of the head of a bolt.
MARTY: We see
something that looks square,
like a square-headed bolt,
which would clearly
be a man-made thing.
That's what we're looking
for in Aladdin's Cave.
We're looking for some evidence
that human beings
were inside it.
So, I guess it's possible,
but I would not call it definitive.
We need a miniature Gary to
go down there and metal-detect.
- Now I would have him lower.
- Now.
Take it down further, Paul!
SCOTT: I think that
was not the bottom.
I think that's
potentially a side wall.
I'm just trying to get
any kind of an indication
of where we are.
RICK: If there's something,
i.e. a man-made
something underground,
that might have
significant importance
to what the island
is trying to tell us.
TERRY: It almost has some
kind of a current or something
pulling sediment
across the lens.
- SCOTT: See kind of a shadow there.
- TERRY: Mm.
It looks like something
through the mist there.
STEVE: Oh, you
can see stuff now.
[all exclaiming]
- Okay, that's interesting.
- SCOTT: Perfect.
STEVE: Whew.
Trying to rotate around.
TERRY: Seems to be.
It looks wide-open,
but you can't see
through that silt to the wall.
STEVE: Hmm.
I mean, if anything, we've
proven it's a wide-open cavity.
This is a good opportunity
for us to really map it
- with the sonar.
- TERRY: I agree.
STEVE: We're in the
cave, and what we see
is very interesting. I mean,
it could be man-made.
And so, for us, if
this proved anything,
it's worth getting
the sonar into.
And so we're gonna
do that in a few days.
Sonar's gonna
tell us dimensions,
where it's coming
from, where it's going to.
We can look for openings,
and we can use this
to really map out the
underground of the cave.
And I'm really
excited about that,
because, to me, this is
potentially a treasure location.
MARTY: Okay.
- I think we're done, don't you?
- Yeah.
Let's reconfigure.
SCOTT: Good job, guys.
NARRATOR: As operations
continue in the Money Pit area...
JACK: Hey, everybody.
-Hi! -Hey! How ya doing?
Over half a mile
to the west on Lot 5,
Jack Begley joins members
of the archaeology team
as they search for
more clues in and around
the mysterious stone structure.
JACK: It looks like you've
dug a fair amount up
since I've last been here.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: After the results
of a magnetometer scan
conducted two weeks ago
revealed that a much
larger stone feature
lies beneath the circular
depression at the surface,
the team has expanded
their investigation
in an effort to determine
just how extensive
and old it may be.
And if you look, we kind
of scraped the wall there
a little bit, where it
starts to slope down.
JACK: And that
will be the tell-all...
Is when we will get an outline
of what this wall looks like?
- Absolutely.
- That's exciting.
Let me get back on sifting
duty with Helen and...
Absolutely. I got a whole
bucket there for ya. [chuckles]
NARRATOR: While Jamie and
Fiona continue to remove sediment
covering the feature,
Jack and Helen will
sift the collected spoils
in search of any clues
and possible valuables.
We're getting a few
pipestems coming out.
I remember looking
for years for a pipestem,
and now... [chuckles]
Lot 5 is where they were.
You know what we're not getting
is a lot of nails.
Hmm.
Which is an indication
it could've been a log cabin.
You only use a few, right?
Would that speak
to an earlier time?
Yeah. Most likely.
Ooh. Helen, a
nail like this, right?
Yeah. Yeah. We have
found a few of them,
but not as many as
you would expect.
Like, if this was
a frame building,
- you would get a lot more nails.
- Well...
- Yeah, a lot more nails.
- Yeah.
Emma and the CT
scanner will... [clicks tongue]
look through it
and tell us what it is.
It looks square.
- So...
- JACK: Oh, okay.
There's too many artifacts
around this area to suggest
that it was just a domestic
household for a family.
Whether it was people here
depositing the treasure
in the Money Pit,
we don't know, but...
digging up these
features archaeologically
is how we should hopefully
figure out those answers.
Oh.
[exhales sharply]
Huh.
Oh!
Hey, guys?
You might want to
come take a look at this.
That's a weird shape.
JACK: Oh, wow.
FIONA: Good find.
- JACK: Oh, wow.
- FIONA: Good find.
It kind of reminds
me of, like, a strap
with, like, a metal
fastener through it?
I don't know.
HELEN: Look at that.
NARRATOR: While investigating
the mysterious stone
structure near the shore
on Lot 5 of Oak Island...
JAMIE: Very strange.
Archaeologist Jamie Kouba
has just unearthed another
potentially important clue.
[grunts] What are your thoughts?
Very different piece.
- JAMIE: It is.
- Wonder if it's, like, part
of a strap hinge.
Like on a door, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- JAMIE: Oh.
- Yeah.
- HELEN: So we just don't have
- the swinging part.
- Mm. -JAMIE: Yeah.
HELEN: And you hammer
the hinge on a door.
JAMIE: That would make
sense... why you'd have
a flat metal plate with a
metal fastener driven through it.
JACK: Yep.
We're finding
really good artifacts
and a lot of things that
the archaeologists deem
to be important,
because we know that
both of these features
are old and predate
the Money Pit,
but we haven't gotten
down to the bottom of it yet.
So it's gonna take some
time to dig everything out,
and hopefully we can figure out
who was here, why and when
and is it related to
the overall treasure?
JAMIE [chuckles]: Oh!
Oddly enough, I
think there's more
- over here, too.
- HELEN: Oh, nice.
- JACK: Oh.
- HELEN: Oh, look at that.
JAMIE: It's... it's fairly long.
Oh.
[singsongy]: It's free.
- Oh, it's a very nice, old fastener.
- Oh, it's a large nail.
Well, it's just a
big old rose head.
JACK: It is a rose head.
- Yeah. It looks like it.
- JAMIE: Nice.
- HELEN: These were handwrought.
- JACK: Mm-hmm.
HELEN: And then the head was
hammered down on all four sides.
You can get them
back in the 1600s.
Yup.
- That's interesting.
- JACK: Yeah. That is.
It's really nice
to be finding a whole
bunch of extra metal
right next to where we
found that other piece of iron
that matched the
William Phips metals.
- Right. That ringbolt. Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Makes me think of it, too.
- Yeah.
JACK: The more evidence
keeps popping up to show
that there were people here
and they were here in
the proper time frame
to hide something
in the Money Pit.
And ever since we found that
piece of metal in the Lot 5 dig
that fits with the Phips idea
that he might've come here,
it's not out of the
realm of possibility
that Phips might've brought
some of the treasure ashore
right through Lot 5.
HELEN: We can take this
back to the lab to Emma,
and she can run
her analysis on it
- and see if the iron matches.
- Mm-hmm.
HELEN: But often,
like, on sites like this,
if you get artifacts in situ
and if you get a lot of nails
- here and only here...
- Mm-hmm.
It means, like, there
was a window here
- or the door was here. You know, it's an indication...
- Yeah.
- Of what was going on in the building.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- JACK: The dates are lining up
to possibly match when the
Money Pit might've been built.
- Yeah.
- It's pre-discovery.
So what was going
on during the time
that they were
backfilling this feature?
We don't know, but this
could've been used
directly in association
- with the Money Pit.
- True.
- Yeah.
- HELEN: The people
who were living here, maybe they
were associated
with the creation
- of the Money Pit.
- Yeah.
RICK: If you believe in the
scope and scale of the work
of the Money Pit and
the associated structures,
then, as Lot 5 is concerned,
I think that there's a
building body of evidence
that a structure of this size
could be a possible explanation
to a question that we have
posed since the beginning...
Where were the people?
So, here, Jamie. We'll just put
that in the bag with the rest of
- the artifacts in there.
- Yes, ma'am, that's where she lives now.
- Sweet find.
- Let's find some more.
- Heck yeah.
- Yeah. Let's keep going.
NARRATOR: The following day...
the southern region of
Nova Scotia is overwhelmed
by an unexpectedly
damaging storm,
causing power outages
and devastating flooding
throughout the region.
RICK: The torrential rains
that have occurred here
in Nova Scotia has
been unrelenting.
I have never seen it like
this in ten years or more,
and in fact, locals
say it's unlike
anything they've
ever seen before.
The roads have been flooded,
literally, homes have been
removed from their foundations.
People's lives have
been interrupted,
and we are behind in our work,
and understand that we are not
the only ones who are
experiencing these problems.
NARRATOR: One day later...
- MARTY: Here we are, guys.
- Hello, sir. Hey.
- Hey. How's it going, guys?
- Roger.
What in the hell is
going on here, Roger?
- Not too much.
- No?
Not too much, but I'll tell you,
it's unbelievable, the
damage from that-that storm.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
NARRATOR: Marty
Lagina, Craig Tester
and Scott Barlow
arrive in the Money Pit area
after being alerted
that the Garden
Shaft has been flooded
with a massive amount
of standing water.
What I'm most concerned
with, what about this?
Yeah, so, we're encountering
a lot of water down there.
We're pumping, pumping.
How much water was
in there after this rain?
We had 30 feet of
water built up in the shaft.
- CRAIG: Mm-hmm.
- Now we're pumping every hour.
- Okay.
- It's a lot of water.
I don't like the sounds of that.
Oh, I don't like the
sound of it, either.
So, I was concerned
because the water is coming in
- from somewhere, obviously.
- Yeah.
MARTY: That's an
interesting thing, too, though,
because 30 feet of water
didn't fall in that area.
-No. -Only ten inches did.
- That's right.
- So, it was driven by that storm.
That means
something, doesn't it?
Yeah. But where's
it leaking from?
- I don't know.
- Exactly.
Is that deep enough
to be the flood tunnel?
ROGER: We had 30 feet of water
built up in the shaft.
It's a lot of water.
Yeah. But where's it
leaking from? I don't' know.
- MARTY: I don't know.
- Exactly.
NARRATOR: In the Money Pit area,
Roger Fortin of Dumas
Contracting Limited
has just informed Marty Lagina,
Craig Tester and Scott
Barlow that something
other than the recent
heavy storms in the area
have caused the
to be mysteriously flooded
with nearly 30 feet
of standing water.
Supposedly, in the Money
Pit, where they had it,
they were down to 90 feet.
Is that a flood tunnel?
That's what I'm
curious to find is where
does that water start?
Last year, I mean,
- this thing was dry. You know yourself.
- Yeah.
We were down there...
Oh, yeah, yeah, I
remember. It was bone-dry.
NARRATOR: Ever since members of
the Onslow Company encountered
a believed
booby-trapped flood tunnel
when they excavated
the original Money Pit
down to a depth
of 90 feet in 1804,
anyone who dug in
that immediate area
found their operations
plagued with disastrous results.
Is it possible that
the Oak Island team
has now also
encountered a booby trap
while trying to reach the
potential treasure tunnel
less than ten feet
below the Garden Shaft?
And if so, could it mean
that they are closer than ever
to what people have
been trying to find
since the first documented
search for valuables began
back in 1795?
RICK: If there was
something to hide,
or something that
needed protection,
certainly we know that the water
would prevent a recovery.
So, could it be another
cleverly designed system
to protect what's either
in the Garden Shaft
or in close proximity to it?
Sure. It could be.
We'll have to wait and see.
I'm concerned that
there's other voids
around the sides of these
walls. That's what I gotta identify.
Well, how many days' delay
is this going to add up to?
It's going to take us a while
to get in there and, again,
- I don't want to do nothing without my people being...
- No, no, I understand.
You've got to have the
engineers look at this.
- Yeah.
- Absolutely. Absolutely.
This is so, so damn typical.
I mean, it's
maddeningly typical.
We got the best guys in the
world here digging a shaft.
We're facing the same
problem everybody else
had for the last 200 years.
We never, never
expected nothing like this.
Never. Not even close.
That's the frustrating part
is where do you start,
and what do you do?
It was a main intent of
this year's exploration
to get to the bottom
of the Garden Shaft.
It's frustrating to
me, because last year
that thing was
absolutely bone-dry.
What happened?
This is a surprise.
The bottom line is it's
already cost us delay,
and we can't afford that.
Okay, Roger. We're
gonna let you go,
so you can talk to HQ,
and we got other stuff to do.
- Let us know what happens.
- ROGER: I will.
I'll keep you posted.
NARRATOR: The forces of nature
have caused concerning setbacks
across the island for
Rick, Marty and their team.
However, it also appears
that the much more
mysterious forces of Oak Island
have intervened once again
to challenge their quest
to solve the mystery.
For 228 years now,
it has remained a losing battle
for determined searchers.
But now, as potentially critical
breakthroughs may be
within reach on Lot 5,
in a deep,
possibly man-made cave
and in the Garden Shaft,
is the tide about to turn?
11x07 - The Great Flood
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Follows brothers Marty and Rick as they search for the infamous treasure on Oak Island.
Follows brothers Marty and Rick as they search for the infamous treasure on Oak Island.