11x19 - Hi Ho Silver

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NARRATOR: Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...[/font]

This is the secret of secrets.[/font]

The message being
conveyed in code[/font]

is that the Ark of the
Covenant is on Oak Island.[/font]

- You can put X on the spot?
- Correct.[/font]

JAMIE: Holy cow.[/font]

- Wow.
- Is it truly silver?[/font]

It is silver. About 90%.[/font]

- [laughs]: Yes.
- LAIRD: In 40 years, I can’t remember[/font]

- a piece of silver I found.
- GARY: Is that it?[/font]

I see it, mate.
Underneath that boulder.[/font]

- Look at that.
- Oh.[/font]

What the heck is that?[/font]

NARRATOR: There is an
island in the North Atlantic[/font]

where people have
been looking for[/font]

an incredible treasure
for more than 200 years.[/font]

So far, they have
found a stone slab[/font]

with strange symbols
carved into it...[/font]

man-made workings
that date to medieval times,[/font]

and a lead cross whose
origin may be connected[/font]

to the Knights Templar.[/font]

To date, six men have d*ed[/font]

trying to solve the mystery.[/font]

And according to legend,
one more will have to die[/font]

before the treasure
can be found.[/font]

♪ ♪[/font]

JACK: I heard you
guys found something.[/font]

We found something.
That’s correct.[/font]

Come down here
and you can see it.[/font]

NARRATOR: As a fresh
morning dawns on Oak Island[/font]

for brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina[/font]

-and their team... -Right there.[/font]

NARRATOR: they are
braving the stench and muck[/font]

of the triangle-shaped swamp[/font]

in order to reveal a
man-made feature[/font]

that may help them solve
a 229-year-old mystery.[/font]

That’s probably
the southern wall,[/font]

- and that’s the eastern wall.
- RICK: We don’t know.[/font]

The only thing is, Gary
hasn’t found any fasteners,[/font]

and there’s evidence of dowels.[/font]

JACK: That speaks
to being much older.[/font]

GARY: What’s happening, Billy?[/font]

BILLY: We just
got a little wood.[/font]

NARRATOR: Just a few days ago...[/font]

BILLY: Somebody’s dug
down in the swamp, and there...[/font]

We got a bunch of
horizontal and vertical boards.[/font]

I think we’re onto
something, mate.[/font]

NARRATOR: Billy Gerhardt
and other members of the team[/font]

unearthed a wooden structure[/font]

embedded in the southern
border of the brackish bog.[/font]

Could this have
been some sort of[/font]

a loading and
unloading platform?[/font]

NARRATOR: Curiously,[/font]

it was found in the same
area where, in the 1970s,[/font]

the late Fred Nolan
reported finding evidence[/font]

of a wooden dam...[/font]

A dam which Fred believed[/font]

offered proof that the
swamp was artificially created[/font]

in order to hide
something of great value.[/font]

Take some of this, too.[/font]

-Yeah. -NARRATOR: Now,[/font]

due to this feature’s
close proximity[/font]

to the potentially 500-year-old
stone road, or ship’s wharf,[/font]

they are hoping
to find more clues[/font]

that will help them
determine its true purpose,[/font]

when it was constructed
and just who created it.[/font]

Pottery.[/font]

- Look at that.
- Yeah.[/font]

Couple more pieces here.[/font]

- GARY [laughs]: Oh, man. Yeah, that’s nice.
- RICK: Here.[/font]

- Check this one out.
- Yeah. Wow.[/font]

That’s some high-end stuff.[/font]

Pottery can tell just as
an important story as a coin[/font]

And the more parts
you got, the better,[/font]

because then the
archaeologists will be able[/font]

to ID the artifact[/font]

and give it a time frame of
when people was in this area[/font]

Okay, so I’ll take these
back and get it C-14 tested.[/font]

But we’re just gonna try
to expose the structure,[/font]

the width and breadth of it.[/font]

Hey, I’m looking for gold, too.[/font]

- There you go.
- [chuckles][/font]

BILLY: Gary, there’s
a piece of wood[/font]

that’s really deep
in the bucket there.[/font]

Oh, look.[/font]

- You see the edges on it?
- Oh, yeah.[/font]

GARY: That’s a barrel
stave. It has to be.[/font]

BILLY: Oh, 100%. Yeah,
no, that’s a barrel stave.[/font]

- That was really deep, as well.
- It’s really deep.[/font]

NARRATOR: A barrel stave,[/font]

or fragment of a
cargo container?[/font]

- IAN: So, that’s a keg. Lid to a keg?
- RICK: Yep.[/font]

NARRATOR: In 2020,[/font]

while investigating a
cobblestone pathway[/font]

that was uncovered nearby,
just north of the stone road,[/font]

the team found pieces
of wooden barrels[/font]

which, incredibly, were dated[/font]

by blacksmithing
expert Carmen Legge[/font]

to as far back as
the 15th century.[/font]

Could this barrel stave
offer more evidence[/font]

that something of great value[/font]

may have been brought
to Oak Island long ago?[/font]

If so, might those valuables[/font]

have been hidden
in the Money Pit?[/font]

Or could they still
be here in the swamp[/font]

as Fred Nolan believed?[/font]

They’d put coins in a barrel.[/font]

Yeah, test it on the
inside of the stave[/font]

and see what wi... might
have been in the barrel, right?[/font]

- Yeah.
- What might have left a...[/font]

- All right, mate, I’ll put it to one side.
- Okay.[/font]

GARY: Good eye, Billy.[/font]

NARRATOR: As the investigation[/font]

in the swamp continues...[/font]

- MARTY: Paul.
- COTE: Hey. How’s it going, Marty?[/font]

- Good, you old w*r horse, you.
- [both laugh][/font]

- Yeah.
- You found something.[/font]

COTE: Yeah, it
seems that way, eh?[/font]

NARRATOR: in
the Money Pit area,[/font]

Marty Lagina arrives
at the Garden Shaft[/font]

for an update on another
potentially important discovery[/font]

that was recently
made by the team.[/font]

A lot of mystery to that.[/font]

Well, it’s kind of strange that,
uh, there’s only the bottom.[/font]

- Yeah. Yeah, you think?
- Yeah.[/font]

I-I’m just wondering
where the other...[/font]

- sides and top went.
- The sides and the top.[/font]

- Yeah.
- Yeah, me, too.[/font]

SCOTT: Look at that.[/font]

- Right there.
- MARTY: Wow.[/font]

MARTY: Those are big beams.[/font]

NARRATOR: Two weeks ago,[/font]

after more than a year[/font]

of tireless effort and
frustrating setbacks,[/font]

representatives from
Dumas Contracting Limited[/font]

finished extending the


known as the Garden Shaft[/font]

down to a depth
of some 100 feet,[/font]

where they reached a
mysterious wooden tunnel.[/font]

A tunnel that has not
only been carbon-dated[/font]

to as early as the 17th century[/font]

but which also runs westward
into the so-called Baby Blob.[/font]

It is in this region where
high-trace evidence[/font]

of gold, silver and other
metal have been detected[/font]

between 80 and 120
feet below ground.[/font]

SCOTT: We cannot find[/font]

any sign of walls or a ceiling.[/font]

NARRATOR: However,
upon reaching the tunnel,[/font]

the team discovered that it
had either collapsed in that area[/font]

or had been partially dismantle[/font]

sometime in the past.[/font]

So, where are you right
now? Bring me up to speed.[/font]

So, right now,
we got one set in.[/font]

The guys lowered the landing
where it’s supposed to be.[/font]

- Which is about 102 or so.
- Mm-hmm.[/font]

We’re going to 106.[/font]

And from then
on, uh, we’ll start[/font]

- drilling horizontal.
- Good.[/font]

- We got a plan.
- Yeah.[/font]

NARRATOR: In the coming days,[/font]

Dumas will further
extend the Garden Shaft[/font]

to a total depth of 106 feet.[/font]

This will allow them to conduct[/font]

a manual
probe-drilling operation[/font]

to determine if other
sections of the tunnel[/font]

leading toward the
Baby Blob are still intact,[/font]

while also searching
for evidence[/font]

of the possible treasure that
has been detected in the area.[/font]

The horizontal drilling
will allow us to, hopefully,[/font]

find out what that’s all about.[/font]

Yeah. It’ll give you a
little bit more information.[/font]

- Yes. And may...
- Or more questions.[/font]

-[chuckles] -Yeah.
Probably. Yeah.[/font]

All right, I’m-a let
you get back to work.[/font]

- Yeah. Later, man.
- Cheers. Thank you.[/font]

NARRATOR: As the excavation
of the Garden Shaft continues..[/font]

RICK: I will say this.[/font]

We have found literally
hundreds if not thousands of nails,[/font]

but what you have
here in front of us,[/font]

it’s interesting,
right, Craig? I mean...[/font]

CRAIG: It’s unique. Yeah.[/font]

NARRATOR: Rick
Lagina and Craig Tester[/font]

are meeting with
archaeologist Laird Niven[/font]

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan[/font]

in the Oak Island laboratory.[/font]

- It’s very strange. I mean...
- Mm-hmm.[/font]

And to have found it on Lot 5...[/font]

In a, what I believe is
the rectangular feature...[/font]

Makes no sense.[/font]

- Correct.
- So, we’re hoping that you[/font]

- will make sense of this.
- Mm-hmm.[/font]

NARRATOR: One week
ago, as members of the team[/font]

were carefully excavating a
rectangular stone foundation[/font]

located near the
northern regio of Lot 5[/font]

on the western
side of the island...[/font]

HELEN: Oh, wow. I think
we got something here.[/font]

NARRATOR:
archaeologist Helen Sheldon[/font]

found a hand-forged
iron nail in one of its walls[/font]

near the bottom
of the structure.[/font]

Because of previous
discoveries that have been made[/font]

in the upper layers
of this foundation,[/font]

such as 18th-century
pottery and clay pipe stems,[/font]

Helen believes that it
was deliberately backfilled,[/font]

or buried, by
someone in the 1780s,[/font]

but may have been
originally constructed[/font]

by someone else much earlier.[/font]

Now, it is Rick and Craig’s hop[/font]

that the metallurgy analysis
of this hand-forged spike,[/font]

which was conducted
by Emma Culligan,[/font]

might reveal not only its age[/font]

but perhaps also when
the original structure[/font]

may have been created.[/font]

No pressure, Emma.[/font]

-No pressure.
[chuckles] -[clears throat][/font]

So, what I can tell you is that[/font]

- it’s definitely hand-wrought...
- Mm-hmm.[/font]

EMMA: um, as can be
seen by the grain structure,[/font]

- which is, like, that wood-like grain structure.
- RICK: Mm-hmm.[/font]

NARRATOR: Earlier today,
Emma scanned the artifact[/font]

with the SkyScan


a device which emits
nondestructive X-ray radiation[/font]

to penetrate corrosion
and reveal its finer details.[/font]

Additionally, she
also scanned it[/font]

with an X-ray fluorescence
spectrometer, or XRF device,[/font]

that can identify its
metallic composition.[/font]

And I did do an XRF on it,[/font]

which I think you guys
will be really happy about.[/font]

Okay.[/font]

EMMA: So, there’s
a high sulfur content,[/font]

absolutely no manganese,[/font]

which would make it hot brittle.[/font]

- Oh, really?
- EMMA: Yes.[/font]

So, too much sulfur[/font]

in the iron can make it brittle,
or hard to work with, when hot,[/font]

which is not something
you want in your irons,[/font]

which is why we started
adding manganese.[/font]

- Mm-hmm.
- So it could be 1500s, 1600s,[/font]

early 1700s.[/font]

Or it could be, like,[/font]

- really, really early.
- What is really, really early?[/font]

Like, 1100s to, like, 1300s.[/font]

- RICK: Wow.
- LAIRD: Yeah.[/font]

RICK: What is
really, really early?[/font]

Like, 1100s to, like, 1300s.[/font]

- Really?
- EMMA: Yes.[/font]

RICK: Why do you say that?[/font]

’Cause the iron is really clean.[/font]

There’s few impurities,
which is what you would[/font]

see a lot of in that time range.[/font]

NARRATOR: In the
Oak Island laboratory,[/font]

archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan[/font]

has just presented
an astonishing report.[/font]

Quite remarkable.[/font]

NARRATOR: The
hand-wrought iron artifact[/font]

that was found one week ago[/font]

in the rectangular
feature on Lot 5[/font]

could date to as far
back as the 12th century.[/font]

So what is it?[/font]

I think we’ve decided it
doesn’t function as a fastener.[/font]

Why... And why not? Too thin?[/font]

Yeah.[/font]

And it’s not a file.[/font]

RICK: No.[/font]

So I’m as puzzled as anyone.[/font]

- EMMA: Mm-hmm.
- RICK: I mean, Lot 5 continues[/font]

to surprise and that’s for sure.[/font]

NARRATOR: In
addition to this spike[/font]

that was found in the
rectangular feature,[/font]

the team has made several
other ancient discoveries on Lot 5[/font]

since they purchased
it just one year ago.[/font]

These include three Roman
coins that have been dated[/font]

to between 1,500
and 2,000 years ago,[/font]

as well as a 14th-century
lead barter token[/font]

that was unearthed from another
structure closer to the shore[/font]

and which may be
connected to the lead cross[/font]

that the team discovered
at Smith’s Cove in 2017.[/font]

I mean, timelines are important[/font]

to solving any sort
of mystery like this.[/font]

There are a number of finds[/font]

from the early
to the late 1600s.[/font]

And now we find this.[/font]

People were here much
earlier than had been presumed.[/font]

That may impact
the search agenda.[/font]

That’s always the hope.[/font]

Hopefully, we’ll find something
even more interesting.[/font]

LAIRD: Agreed, yeah.[/font]

Someone will know
what that represents.[/font]

- Yeah.
- Yeah.[/font]

- CRAIG: Thank you.
- RICK: Okay. Thank you, Emma.[/font]

- Thank you, Laird.
- LAIRD: All right, see ya later[/font]

NARRATOR: The
following morning...[/font]

Hey, chaps.[/font]

- I brought the expert.
- Hey, Gary. Wow.[/font]

Those are huge planks.[/font]

NARRATOR: Rick Lagina returns[/font]

to the southern
edge of the swamp[/font]

with geoscientist
Dr. Ian Spooner[/font]

in order to have him inspect
the mysterious wooden feature[/font]

now that more of it
has been revealed.[/font]

It’s really, really deep[/font]

compared even to the stone road.[/font]

Like, to get those planks down[/font]

this low you would
have had to dewater[/font]

the swamp.[/font]

That’s the only way I
would see how to do it.[/font]

Mm.[/font]

RICK: There is
some sort of structure[/font]

but how did it play into the
work around the swamp?[/font]

Did it have relevance
to the stone road?[/font]

What is the relationship
between these discoveries?[/font]

So at this point we need[/font]

to try to collect as much
information as possible.[/font]

IAN: At this stage,[/font]

I-I can’t help
but think that it’s[/font]

some part of this road feature.[/font]

- Yeah.
- It just, like, kind of[/font]

aligns, like,
there’s a post there,[/font]

and then there probably
were posts that we...[/font]

- excavated here.
- RICK: Yeah.[/font]

They put stakes in everywhere[/font]

to shore up this
square structure.[/font]

- Yeah.
- Nicely adze cut[/font]

on this face and it’s rounded.[/font]

RICK: That’s shaped.[/font]

NARRATOR: An adze
is a type of cutting tool[/font]

dating back to the
days of Ancient Egypt[/font]

that was generally replaced[/font]

by mechanized saws[/font]

beginning in the
late 18th century.[/font]

And, curiously, the
timbers that were recently[/font]

recovered from the tunnel
beneath the Garden Shaft[/font]

also featured cuts that
were made by an adze.[/font]

Is it possible that
the Oak Island team[/font]

has uncovered a
structure in the swamp[/font]

that might be connected to
the possible treasure tunnel[/font]

in the Money Pit area?[/font]

Right now, we should stand down.[/font]

And Steve can pin the corners,[/font]

- so he can put it on the, uh, grid.
- RICK: Mm-hmm.[/font]

NARRATOR: Because
he believes this structure[/font]

could be of historic importance[/font]

and perhaps connected
to the Oak Island mystery,[/font]

Dr. Spooner would like
surveyor Steve Guptill[/font]

to fully document
it before the team[/font]

conducts any more
excavations around the feature.[/font]

RICK: We’ll wait for Steve.[/font]

- BILLY: Yeah.
- I think that’s all we can do right now, right?[/font]

- Yeah.
- I think just leave it.[/font]

I say we’re done.[/font]

Good job, guys.[/font]

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...[/font]

RICK: We have...[/font]

sat around this w*r room table[/font]

and heard some very
interesting theories.[/font]

And today, we are
going to hear something[/font]

that I think will easily[/font]

match that metric and, uh,[/font]

how it may impact the search,
this search year, in particular.[/font]

So let me introduce
John Edwards to you all.[/font]

John, welcome to the w*r room.[/font]

- Thank you, Rick.
- Thank you for coming.[/font]

Appreciate everyone
having me here.[/font]

NARRATOR: Rick has invited[/font]

researcher John Edwards,[/font]

who he has been corresponding
with for several months,[/font]

to share new information
regarding the Oak Island myster[/font]

with Marty and other
members of the team.[/font]

EDWARDS: I’ve spent
the past 30 years studying[/font]

symbols and icons, with
emphasis on that kind of[/font]

Knights Templar through
the Age of Exploration. So...[/font]

something that I think
is relevant to Oak Island.[/font]

Awesome.[/font]

NARRATOR: For several decades,
a number of researchers have[/font]

presented theories
that the medieval order[/font]

of Christian monks known
as the Knights Templar,[/font]

who were persecuted
by the Catholic Church[/font]

in the early 14th century,[/font]

conspired with their
believed descendants[/font]

known as the Rosicrucians
and the Freemasons,[/font]

to hide and protect
sacred religious treasures[/font]

on Oak Island between
the 12th and 18th centuries.[/font]

While a number of clues
have been found on the island[/font]

that support this
incredible theory,[/font]

such as 12th-century structures[/font]

14th-century
religious artifacts,[/font]

and the fact that every
company that has ever looked[/font]

for the treasure has
included Freemasons,[/font]

it has yet to be proven.[/font]

Is it possible that
John Edward has finally[/font]

uncovered the
irrefutable evidence[/font]

that this theory is true?[/font]

EDWARDS: You know,
one of the things that[/font]

I’ve been doing is looking
at the Royal Arch Ode.[/font]

NARRATOR: Masonic
Odes are poems or hymns[/font]

that are sung or recited during
secret Masonic ceremonies.[/font]

And according to John
Edwards’ research,[/font]

they also contain encoded
information that only[/font]

high-ranking members of the
organization may understand[/font]

So, if we read it, "This
shall be the sacred mark[/font]

"which shall guide
us in the skies,[/font]

bearing like a holy ark."[/font]

So if you look at that, we have[/font]

a reference to a "holy ark."[/font]

Now, many people believe that[/font]

there are certain Jewish
artifacts that the Templars had.[/font]

Like the Ark of the Covenant.[/font]

Now, "Joy, the
secret vault is found[/font]

"full the sunbeam falls within,[/font]

pointing darkly underground,
to the treasure we would win."[/font]

And it makes reference to
"pointing darkly underground."[/font]

To like a vault. Okay?[/font]

Now, the question is,
where is that vault located?[/font]

So we have an early Masonic text[/font]

and you see someone
being lowered into a vault.[/font]

Looks like someone
recovering the ark to me.[/font]

Hmm.[/font]

Now, interestingly,[/font]

I’ve acquired[/font]

two ancient books that have[/font]

codes and maps
and things that I think[/font]

would be, uh, relevant
to the Oak Island search.[/font]

- Mm-hmm.
- EDWARDS: One was[/font]

The Whole Genuine
Works of Flavius Josephus.[/font]

The publication date was 1812.[/font]

And he was a Jewish historian[/font]

from 37 CE to about


And then the second book
has a publication date of 1763.[/font]

It’s in French and it
translates as Holy Week.[/font]

So I believe, possibly,[/font]

in the books could be
some Masonic ciphering.[/font]

I just did this one page here,[/font]

which has Masonic abbreviations.[/font]

- Okay.
- EDWARDS: So...[/font]

"SS," which is
"sanctum sanctorum"[/font]

or "holy of holies."[/font]

"ME," "most eminent,
most excellent."[/font]

And then it was signed[/font]

with the number 137.[/font]

Now, 137 is
significant, because...[/font]

And what’s really
interesting is here,[/font]

when we look at this page,[/font]

there were symbols sketched.[/font]

And that looks like the
Ark of the Covenant to me.[/font]

ALEX: Right.[/font]

EDWARDS: And right here.[/font]

- Wow.
- It certainly looks like Oak Island.[/font]

EDWARDS: Yes, and if
it’s referencing Oak Island,[/font]

what project would that be?[/font]

That is quite interesting.[/font]

Yeah.[/font]

EDWARDS: So if all
the clues are correct,[/font]

the message being conveyed[/font]

in code is that the Ark
of the Covenant is here.[/font]

EDWARDS: The
message being conveyed[/font]

is that the Ark of
the Covenant is here.[/font]

Awesome.[/font]

NARRATOR: In the
Oak Island w*r room,[/font]

researcher John
Edwards has just presented[/font]

what he believes to be secret
Masonic documents suggesting[/font]

that the Ark of the Covenant[/font]

might have been hidden
on Oak Island by members[/font]

of the Knights
Templar centuries ago.[/font]

But if I’m right, in
order to understand...[/font]

So...[/font]

NARRATOR: The Tree of Life is an
ancient Hebrew and Christian symbol[/font]

comprised of ten
points, known as sephirot,[/font]

that represents divine
morals and principles[/font]

for a spiritual path to God.[/font]

It is a symbol that
was also revered[/font]

by the Knights Templar,[/font]

the Rosicrucians[/font]

and the Freemasons.[/font]

- PETTER: This is Nolan’s Cross.
- MARTY: Good.[/font]

NARRATOR: In 2013,[/font]

Norwegian freemason and
filmmaker Petter Amundsen[/font]

presented Rick,
Marty and the team[/font]

with his research suggesting[/font]

that the six megalithic
boulder of Nolan’s Cross[/font]

were part of a larger,
ten-point formation[/font]

depicting the Tree of Life.[/font]

Is this it here?[/font]

- Yeah. This is it.
- ALEX: Good.[/font]

NARRATOR: And to
help prove his theory,[/font]

he led Marty and Alex to Lot 28[/font]

in the middle of the island,[/font]

where he believed they
would find one of the sephirot,[/font]

known as Kingdom, buried
just below the surface.[/font]

- Yeah. Here it comes. Oh.
- There we go.[/font]

-NARRATOR: In 2017... -Oh, wow.[/font]

Rick Lagina and his
nephews Alex and Peter[/font]

visited a 14th-century
prison in Domme, France,[/font]

that held members
of the Templar order[/font]

after their persecution by
the Catholic Church in 1307.[/font]

This way.[/font]

NARRATOR: There, they were shown[/font]

a number of
carvings, including one[/font]

depicting the Tree of Life[/font]

and also another
of a sacred cross.[/font]

A cross that was an exact match[/font]

to the one that Rick and
Gary Drayton would find[/font]

just weeks later on Oak
Island at Smith’s Cove.[/font]

NARRATOR: Could
John Edwards be correct[/font]

that by investigating Nolan’s
Cross and the sephirot,[/font]

which together
make up the symbol[/font]

known as the Tree of Life,[/font]

he might be able
to find the location[/font]

where one of the most
sacred religious artifacts[/font]

ever known to mankind is buried[/font]

So, when you come back,
you can put X on the spot?[/font]

Is that what you’re saying?[/font]

Look, I’d like to
find something.[/font]

As far as I’m concerned,
you got free reign of the island.[/font]

- Tom, you all right with that?
- Oh, absolutely.[/font]

MARTY: Yeah.[/font]

It’s in the proof that the
picture resides, right?[/font]

Hopefully, you will come
back with an X or Xs,[/font]

and from then we
can have a discussion[/font]

about how to proceed.[/font]

You’re welcome, but you’ve
got some work to do, so...[/font]

off we go.[/font]

EDWARDS: Thanks, guys.[/font]

NARRATOR: As John
Edwards prepares to begin[/font]

his field research
of the island...[/font]

FIONA: We’re making progress.[/font]

JAMIE: Let’s keep going.[/font]

FIONA: All right.[/font]

NARRATOR: on Lot 5,[/font]

archaeologists Jamie
Kouba and Fiona Steele[/font]

are investigating the
foundatio near the shoreline[/font]

where the team discovered[/font]

the 14th-century lead
barter token one year ago.[/font]

Oh, hey.[/font]

I got another button.[/font]

FIONA: Oh, that’s great.[/font]

Yeah. This one’s much bigger.[/font]

Oh, that is quite shiny.[/font]

Like, like, gold-plated.[/font]

- You sure it’s a button?
- Oh, I’m sure it’s a button,[/font]

- ’cause we got the loop on the back...
- Oh, I see the ring.[/font]

- But maybe it’s gold-plated.
- Yeah, I can see that now.[/font]

I don’t think we’ve
seen any of those yet.[/font]

I haven’t.[/font]

If this was m*llitary, it
would be an officer’s button[/font]

- if it was gold-plated, so...
- Hmm.[/font]

NARRATOR: A gold-plated button?[/font]

Could Jamie Kouba be correct[/font]

that it belonged to a
high-ranking m*llitary officer[/font]

If so, could it have
been an officer[/font]

who took part in
hiding, or protecting,[/font]

something of great
value on Oak Island?[/font]

Very cool.[/font]

Oh, I can’t wait to see
what that turns out to be.[/font]

JAMIE: Right?[/font]

♪ ♪[/font]

- Holy cow!
- What have you got?[/font]

Wow![/font]

- FIONA: What have you got?
- I’m not entirely sure,[/font]

but I think it’s a piece
of silverware handle.[/font]

FIONA: Really?[/font]

NARRATOR: Near
the shoreline of Lot 5,[/font]

on the western
side of Oak Island...[/font]

- JAMIE: And I think it might actually be silver.
- FIONA: Wow![/font]

Archaeologist Jamie Kouba[/font]

has just found another
potentially valuable clue[/font]

in the mysterious foundation
that was discovered[/font]

below the circular stone
featur earlier this year.[/font]

Oh, it’s gorgeous.
Look at the designs on it.[/font]

I’ve never found a single
piece of precious metal,[/font]

much less a piece this big[/font]

of what could
potentially be silver.[/font]

This is a big deal.[/font]

We’re here on a treasure hunt,[/font]

so we’re hoping that
maybe we can analyze that,[/font]

and that would give us
the best possible chance[/font]

to get answers
on who built this.[/font]

- LAIRD: Hello.
- JACK: Whoa. -JAMIE: Hello.[/font]

So, what do you have?[/font]

So, I don’t really
know where to start,[/font]

so I’m just gonna show you
the first one that I found today,[/font]

- And we’ll work our way through those.
- LAIRD: Oh.[/font]

LAIRD: All righty.[/font]

- It’s a button.
- That looked like gold.[/font]

It’s a very cool button.[/font]

LAIRD: That’s cool, I can
almost imagine a design[/font]

- on the front, too.
- JAMIE: It’s hard to tell.[/font]

- JACK: What else did you find?
- You’re gonna flip. It’s so cool.[/font]

Oh![/font]

- That’s silver, isn’t it?
- CRAIG: Wow.[/font]

I’m-I’m pretty sure it’s silver.[/font]

FIONA: It’s quite
decorative, though, at the top.[/font]

LAIRD: Yeah. Hand-decorated.[/font]

It’s so ornate. Yeah.[/font]

That’s really cool.[/font]

JACK: This is not just your
average domestic building.[/font]

And they were using soil[/font]

- from deep in the Money Pit.
- [laughs][/font]

- And there’s that kind of treasure, as well.
- JACK: Yeah.[/font]

- So, what were they doing here?
- Yeah.[/font]

It reminds me of, like, a
crude mortar or cement.[/font]

NARRATOR: Nearly one month ago,[/font]

Jamie uncovered a man-made[/font]

cement-like substance
in this feature[/font]

that has also been found
around the mysterious tunnel[/font]

below the Garden Shaft.[/font]

This has made the team
wonder if this feature on Lot 5[/font]

was connected to
an operation to hide[/font]

something of great value
deep in the Money Pit area.[/font]

I mean, finding
is the first step.[/font]

- JAMIE: Mm-hmm.
- Take ’em to Emma and trying to get a date[/font]

- on ’em is step number two.
- LAIRD: Yeah. Exactly.[/font]

All right.[/font]

- LAIRD: It’s exciting, really.
- Yeah.[/font]

- We’ll find more stuff for you.
- CRAIG: Okay.[/font]

NARRATOR: While the
investigations of the stone features[/font]

continue on Lot 5...[/font]

later that afternoon...[/font]

GARY: Let’s get
diggy with it, Billy.[/font]

- BILLY: Yep.
- In the southeast corner of the swamp,[/font]

now that Steve Guptill
has completed a survey[/font]

of the mysterious
wooden structure that sits[/font]

next to the stone road,[/font]

Jack Begley, along with Gary
Drayton and Billy Gerhardt[/font]

continue investigating
the feature for clues[/font]

and potential valuables.[/font]

♪ ♪[/font]

We got a hit, Jack.[/font]

Great to hear,
Gary. I’m on my way.[/font]

A little scrappy one.[/font]

[metal detector beeping][/font]

Should be right
underneath there.[/font]

- All right, mate. And I’ll see if you’ve moved it.
- Sure.[/font]

Come out, my little beauty.[/font]

What have we got here?[/font]

I think it’s some
kind of digging tool.[/font]

Not like any sort of modern
digging tool I’ve seen.[/font]

That’s old.[/font]

GARY: It’s-it’s
almost like a trowel.[/font]

I think it’s unique, mate,[/font]

because of where it
came from, as well,[/font]

in between that wooden feature,[/font]

we have no idea what
it is at the moment,[/font]

and the stone road.[/font]

It could be even older.[/font]

GARY: Maybe this piece of
iron could be part of an old tool[/font]

left over from building
the stone roadway[/font]

or even this wood structure.[/font]

And hopefully, we
can put a date on it.[/font]

[beeps][/font]

GARY: Yeah, we got
a signal here, Jack.[/font]

It seems to be right in front[/font]

of this big boulder here.[/font]

Just there, somewhere.[/font]

See if I moved it.[/font]

Let me see if I can
pinpoint it for you.[/font]

The old stick in the mud, here.[/font]

It’s actually still there.[/font]

It’s under there.[/font]

- All right.
- It’s got a good signal.[/font]

GARY: Is that
it? I see it, mate.[/font]

- Look at that.
- [Jack gasps][/font]

GARY: What the heck is that?[/font]

- GARY: Look at that!
- [Jack gasps][/font]

- That’s a big spike.
- Yeah.[/font]

Look, it’s still got wood on it.[/font]

NARRATOR: At the southeastern
border of the Oak Island swamp,[/font]

Gary Drayton, Jack Begley[/font]

and Billy Gerhardt
have just made[/font]

a potentially critical discover[/font]

in the mysterious
wooden structure that was[/font]

recently uncovered
next to the stone road.[/font]

It looks hand-forged,[/font]

wrought iron,[/font]

and it’s still got wood on it,
so you know it was a fastener.[/font]

- Yeah.
- Look at the size of that.[/font]

- Yeah.
- Wow.[/font]

GARY: That’s gonna
come back old, mate.[/font]

JACK: Possibly,
yeah. I think so, too.[/font]

This is gorgeous, as well.
We’ve never found one like this.[/font]

NARRATOR: A
hand-forged, iron spike?[/font]

Could Gary Drayton be correct[/font]

that it is different
from other spikes[/font]

that the team has
found in this area[/font]

and might be a
much older artifact?[/font]

All right, I’m gonna make
my way back down there.[/font]

Okay, mate. I’m gonna
put a bag over the wood[/font]

- and put it to one side.
- NARRATOR: If so,[/font]

could it be a key clue[/font]

that will help the team
determine just when[/font]

this feature was constructed?[/font]

RICK: The question
for us to answer is[/font]

why were these constructs made?[/font]

- Perhaps they were intended to be hidden.
- Oh.[/font]

And there is every
hope that we will,[/font]

at some point, discover the
reason why they were built.[/font]

JACK: Hey, Billy. Look at this.[/font]

It looks like it’s axe-chopped.[/font]

There’s some type of[/font]

a piece of iron
that’s stuck into it.[/font]

And then this is
straight-cut along the top,[/font]

not circular saw.[/font]

JACK: From all the
artifacts that we have found[/font]

and getting a better
look at this wood,[/font]

I think it might connect with[/font]

the stone pathway
and the stone road.[/font]

It’s been a heck of a day, guys.[/font]

JACK: Great job today.[/font]

NARRATOR: The
following morning...[/font]

CRAIG: Three of us
were called out to Lot 5,[/font]

and Jamie came up
with these nice artifacts.[/font]

NARRATOR: at the
Oak Island laboratory[/font]

Rick Lagina, Craig
Tester and Jack Begley[/font]

meet with
archaeologist Laird Niven[/font]

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan to receive[/font]

Emma’s scientific analysis
of the gold-plated button[/font]

and the possible silver artifac[/font]

that were unearthed one day ago[/font]

in the large stone
foundation on Lot 5.[/font]

That is somewhat
self-explanatory, right?[/font]

- Yes, it’s a button.
- The key question is[/font]

composition. What is it?[/font]

EMMA: It is a copper
alloy with about 3% gold[/font]

on the surface, so it is gilded.[/font]

NARRATOR: Gilding, which dates
back to the times of ancient Egypt,[/font]

is a decorative technique[/font]

by which thin layers of gold[/font]

are applied to the
surface of an item.[/font]

What’s really revealing
of that age and providence[/font]

in the metallurgical
aspect is the phosphorus.[/font]

You got about 5%.[/font]

But that kind of button
composition you won’t see in[/font]

your regular old casual clothes.[/font]

I’d say it’s more
like naval m*llitary.[/font]

It had to have been, like,
an officer’s button then, right?[/font]

Yes. Officer or a gentleman.[/font]

EMMA: Ayuh, I can
say that it’s most likely[/font]

English, 18th
century, naval m*llitary.[/font]

RICK: This naval button,
does it have something to say[/font]

about the activities on Lot 5?[/font]

Might it have been British[/font]

who came searching
for something?[/font]

But if you’re
doing original work,[/font]

you want to police your area.[/font]

I just hope we continue
to make finds of artifacts[/font]

that will hopefully
fill in the gaps[/font]

in this story on Lot 5.[/font]

You know, this one
appears to be silver,[/font]

but the question
is, is it truly silver?[/font]

Yes, it is silver.[/font]

Yes.[/font]

EMMA: Um, at about 90%.[/font]

LAIRD: In 40 years,[/font]

I can’t remember a
piece of silver I’ve found.[/font]

If you remember the
treasure trove license, right?[/font]

The treasure trove license
would define that as treasure.[/font]

JACK: It is treasure.[/font]

RICK: The treasure trove licens[/font]

would define that as treasure.[/font]

JACK: It is treasure.[/font]

Yeah.[/font]

It’s precious metal.
That’s as far as[/font]

- we can go right now.
- LAIRD: Yes.[/font]

NARRATOR: In the
Oak Island laboratory,[/font]

archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan[/font]

has just confirmed that[/font]

the metal artifact
found one day ago[/font]

in the mysterious stone
foundation on Lot 5[/font]

is composed almost
entirely of pure silver.[/font]

So, what is it?[/font]

If we look at it functionally,[/font]

we both believe,
this is its original form.[/font]

-Oh. -EMMA: Yeah.[/font]

And here you can see the slits[/font]

on these sides, on the edges.[/font]

There’s some artistry there.[/font]

LAIRD: Yeah, I agree with that.[/font]

So, it could be[/font]

almost like the end of
a tassel, decoratively.[/font]

- Oh, wow.
- A Kn*fe hilt,[/font]

you know, something like that.[/font]

It’s one of the cooler
artifacts we’ve found.[/font]

RICK: The initial excitement,[/font]

which you’ve
expressed, is it’s silver.[/font]

And why wouldn’t we
be excited about that?[/font]

But to go further,
I think we need[/font]

- more information.
- Yeah.[/font]

RICK: The idea of[/font]

there must be silver
from the Concepción.[/font]

If it were a
metallurgical match to[/font]

silver from the Concepción,[/font]

and it matches that? Bingo.[/font]

Then we would be onto something.[/font]

Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.[/font]

NARRATOR: Since the
beginning of this year,[/font]

the team has found a
number of metal artifacts[/font]

in the large foundation
on Lot 5 that,[/font]

according to Emma’s
metallurgical analysis,[/font]

may be connected
to Sir William Phips,[/font]

the English naval
officer and privateer[/font]

who, in 1687,[/font]

salvaged more than


from the Spanish wreck
known as the Concepción.[/font]

We know that Phips found
silver on the Concepción[/font]

and I believe some
of the treasure from[/font]

the Concepción was
secreted to Oak Island.[/font]

NARRATOR: In 2021, 32nd
degree Freemason Scott Clarke[/font]

informed the team that
Phips worked closely[/font]

with a high-ranking
Freemason from Nova Scotia[/font]

named Captain Andrew Belcher[/font]

during his second salvage
operation of the Concepción.[/font]

And he believes that
much of the treasure[/font]

they recovered was
hidden on Oak Island.[/font]

Laird, you’ve spent a lifetime[/font]

- and you’ve not found it.
- I know, I know.[/font]

So, that-that certainly
is quite interesting.[/font]

I can’t remember a
piece of silver I’ve found.[/font]

NARRATOR: Is it possible,
as Rick Lagina has speculated,[/font]

that the silver artifact
could offer more evidence[/font]

that Scott Clarke’s
theory may be true?[/font]

If so, might that
explain why the team[/font]

has found the same
man-made concrete-like material[/font]

in both the feature on Lot 5,[/font]

and around the tunnel
below the Garden Shaft?[/font]

And finally, could
these discoveries[/font]

also support John
Edwards’ theory[/font]

that members of Freemasonry[/font]

were part of a
generational conspiracy[/font]

to hide and protect
treasure vaults on Oak Island[/font]

that were originally
established by[/font]

the Knights Templar?[/font]

RICK: I think this
find is invigorating,[/font]

there’s no question about it.[/font]

What it does say, emphatically,[/font]

is that the Lot 5
feature is important.[/font]

I don’t think one
can dismiss the fact[/font]

that this find and the
concrete from Lot 5[/font]

strongly hint at a
connection to Phips,[/font]

but also, it speaks to a
connection to the Money Pit.[/font]

I think it only reinforces[/font]

that we might be
on to something.[/font]

JACK: We know we have
the Money pit material,[/font]

that was used in
that foundation.[/font]

They could have kept,
you know, some treasure[/font]

right on site, before
they moved it.[/font]

I can’t wait to see what other
friends pop up as we dig up[/font]

- the rest of the feature.
- There you go.[/font]

And so, I think we’ve got[/font]

- a lot to do.
- Yeah.[/font]

And, uh, I, for one,
am gonna start.[/font]

- CRAIG: Yep. Me, too.
- All right?[/font]

RICK: Thank you both.[/font]

- JACK: Great job.
- LAIRD: Oh, yeah.[/font]

NARRATOR: For Rick,
Marty, Craig and their team,[/font]

a week that began with the
hope for important discoveries[/font]

has been rewarded with
not only exciting new clues[/font]

but also actual
valuables that have[/font]

advanced their efforts to
solve the Oak Island mystery[/font]

And now, as they continue[/font]

digging in the Garden Shaft,[/font]

and investigating the
believed ancient landmarks[/font]

on the island’s
surface will it lead to[/font]

a profound and
history-changing breakthrough?[/font]

Perhaps it all depends[/font]

on whether or not
the curse of Oak Island[/font]

can finally be broken.[/font]

Next time on The
Curse of Oak Island...[/font]

The way to unlock Nolan’s Cross[/font]

is built into the cross itself.[/font]

If the Ark is here,[/font]

it would be found
using Nolan’s Cross.[/font]

Let’s dig there.[/font]

- GARY: Ooh, look at that.
- BILLY: There’s a boulder.[/font]

Maybe this boulder
is marking the spot.[/font]

RICK: This is
the copper artifact[/font]

found on Lot 8.[/font]

This could be
identified as Viking.[/font]

ROGER: The water started
coming in faster and faster.[/font]

RICK: We may have
hit a flood tunnel.[/font]

[men shouting][/font]