11x25 - Worth the Weight

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NARRATOR: Tonight, on
the thrilling season finale

of The Curse of Oak Island...

LAIRD: I think that's meant
to go through something

-like chain mail.
-That would make it old.

From the composition, pre-1600s.

HELEN: Remember the lead weight?

-Yes.
-I've just found two more.

What would they be measuring?

Gold.

-MARTY: All right, here we go.
-Fingers crossed?

-Yeah.
-RICK: I'm looking for a vault.

This one might tell the tale.

MARTY: We got a chance of
actually finding treasure with this one.

-RICK: X marks the spot.
-MARTY: That's the spot, man.

-I can feel it.
-I hope so.

MARTY: Come on, baby!

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 died

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,
one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

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MARTY: All right,
well, here we go, gents.

NARRATOR: With the
harsh North Atlantic winter

fast approaching,

the final week of
search activities this year

has begun on Oak island.

Well, can we get there?

-I want to find the metal.
-NARRATOR: However,

brothers Rick and Marty
Lagina and their team

believe that they still have
the necessary time needed

to make a discovery in
the fabled Money Pit area

that could finally solve

a 229-year-old treasure mystery.

This is that spot on
the map I gave you?

The spot you gave me
on the map? Right there.

STEVE: We're
only about eight feet

northwest off the Garden Shaft.

-CRAIG: Okay.
-RICK: You got to remember,

we're looking for a room.

we're looking for a vault.

This one might tell the tale.

MARTY: All right,
let's get out of the way

and let's let this
hole get drilled.

-Come on.
-Okay, good.

NARRATOR: Just over a month ago,

representatives from
Dumas Contracting Limited

were conducting a
probe-drilling operation

some 106 feet deep in the


to investigate a
partially dismantled

seven-foot-high tunnel.

A tunnel that leads directly

into a region dubbed
the Baby Blob,

where high-trace
evidence of precious metals

has been detected
through groundwater testing

between depths of 80
and 120 feet underground.

NARRATOR: However, saltwater

mysteriously rushed
into the shaft...

NARRATOR: ...forcing the
team to abandon the effort

and to speculate that one
of the legendary flood tunnels

had been triggered, which
have prevented searchers

from digging below 90
feet in the Money Pit area

for more than two centuries.

SCOTT: One last crack.

-Let's make it count.
-COLTEN: Will do.

Last one of the year.

NARRATOR: Now, after
geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

and his colleague
Dr. Fred Michel

conducted new water sampling
tests near the Garden Shaft,

they have marked a
new borehole location

known as E.5N-14.5,

where they believe the
source of the precious metals

may be located
some 100 feet below.

MARTY: We're gonna
take one big swing

and, you know, we got a
chance of actually finding

treasure with this one.

RICK: Dr. Spooner and
Dr. Michel have strongly stated

that, in this area,

there is a source of the
metals they're detecting

and they don't
believe it's natural.

Thus, this location,

maybe, uh, X marks the spot.

I'm calling this Bravo-Sierra.

That's the spot,
man. I can feel it.

-I hope so.
-This is the last hole,

and we might as well
drill till we can't drill.

TERRY: We got a lot
of secrets yet to unfold.

NARRATOR: As
Marty and Craig Tester

continue supervising
the core-drilling operation

in the Money Pit area...

...later that morning...

JACK: Hey, Rick. Hey, Doug.

DOUG: Hey, all.

-How are you?
-Very good.

-Yeah, we're excited, actually.
-NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina

and Oak Island
historian Doug Crowell

meet with Jack Begley,
lead archaeologist Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

in the Oak island lab.

I have a top-pocket find here,

one that we didn't find,
but that someone else did.

I think we're all gonna find

this artifact
extremely interesting.

We showed Ane at
the Viking museum.

Turns out, it's an arrowhead.

NARRATOR: During
the past three weeks...

-Oh, wow.
-NARRATOR: ...Rick,

Doug and members of the team

visited numerous
sites in Italy...

-Oh, is this it?
-Denmark...

-Wow.
-the Netherlands...

This contains information
about astronomy.

and Iceland

in order to investigate
an incredible theory:

that nearly eight centuries ago,

the Scandinavian culture
known as the Vikings

helped members of the
medieval Christian order

of the Knights Templar

transport priceless
religious treasures

to North America and
hide them on Oak island.

Wow.

This is very interesting to me.

NARRATOR: During
their journey, they brought

a picture of a metal artifact
which was discovered

on Oak Island in the


to the Ladby Viking Museum
in Kerteminde, Denmark.

There, curator Ane Jepsen Nyborg

gave the team a
stunning analysis.

This is very
quintessentially the way

that they made these
artifacts in the Viking age.

We couldn't wait
to come back here

because my hope,
o-of course, is that

you have some very
interesting results.

NARRATOR: Now,
Rick and Doug are eager

to have Laird and Emma
conduct a scientific examination

on the arrowhead to
hopefully determine

that it truly could
be a critical clue

that could help solve
the Oak Island mystery.

This is an interesting one.

M-My first observation
is th... how thin it is,

-how narrow it is.
-EMMA: Mm-hmm.

To me, that speaks
of piercing, not hunting.

The hunting arrows
would be broader.

I think that's meant to
go through something like

-chain mail.
-RICK: Hmm.

Wow. That would make it old.

LAIRD: It would make it old.
It also changes its function,

like, why is it here
for that purpose?

I see Emma smiling.

I bet you can't wait
to put that in the XRF.

Nervous and excited, yeah, yeah.

-Why don't you?
-Okay.

NARRATOR: Emma
is scanning the artifact

using an X-ray
fluorescence spectrometer.

The device emits
nondestructive radiation

in order to identify
the elements

that are present within objects

which can help in
determining their age.

So, the scans are ready,

and I think you
guys will be happy

-with the results.
-Okay.

EMMA: From the
composition, yeah, I can say

-that it's quite old.
-Hmm.

EMMA: I think these
levels would indicate,

like, pre, you know, 1600s.

-No way.
-LARID: As far as we know.

-Wow.
-Yeah.

-Wow.
-EMMA: The phosphorus and sulfur

is common in English iron.

So, comfortably, I would
put it in the English region.

-Hmm.
-LAIRD: Being English

doesn't preclude it being Norse.

So far, there's
nothing to say it isn't.

-That it isn't Viking?
-Yeah.

The Vikings pillaged
a lot of England.

Oh, and they also lived there.

DOUG: It may be supportive

of these other dates from
our other findings on the island

-Yeah.
-that we have in a medieval context.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

NARRATOR: In recent years,
the team has investigated

numerous structures
on the island

which experts have suggested

could date back as
early as 1200 AD.

These include a
stone well on Lot 26,

a massive paved
feature in the swamp

and the megalithic
formation of six boulders

known as Nolan's Cross.

Incredibly, they have also found

two lead artifacts and a pickax

that have been scientifically
linked to Scandinavia.

Could this arrowhead be
another critical piece of evidence

supporting the
theory that Vikings

may have helped
the Templar order

bury sacred treasures
on Oak island?

If so, could that also explain

the high-trace evidence
of precious metals

that the team has detected
in the Money Pit area?

If these are out there,

who knows what
else is out there?

So, let's keep looking into it.

-Okay?
-We will.

-RICK: Thank you.
-JACK: Thanks.

NARRATOR: As Rick and
Doug finish their meeting

with Laird and
Emma in the lab...

ALEX: All right, Gary.

-Yep.
-What do we have here?

Back at it, mate. Lots
of flags to dig today.

NARRATOR: ...Alex Lagina

and metal detection
expert Gary Drayton

arrive on Lot 10,

where Gary detected a number
of promising metal targets

earlier this morning.

It is gonna be a
cold one today, mate.

-This island tells you when it's time to leave.
-Yep.

So, uh, whatever we can get
out of the ground before it freezes,

-we got to get out.
-Okay, mate.

NARRATOR: Two
weeks ago, near this area,

Marty Lagina and
members of the team

lifted one of the six megalithic
boulders of Nolan's Cross

known as Cone E

in order to look for clues
that might help identify

just who created the feature.

MARTY: I mean, if that's cement,

then we found something.

NARRATOR: Incredibly,
Marty discovered

a strange
concrete-like substance

beneath Cone E that contained
animal hair of some kind,

and which the team
plans to further analyze

through DNA testing.

GARY: All right, let's
see what we got here.

NARRATOR: Now, after getting
permission from Laird Niven

to dig up the targets that
were marked earlier today,

Gary and Alex hope to find

additional important
or valuable clues.

That sounds good, mate.

It's right there.

ALEX: I'll see what I can do.

GARY: It is snowing now, mate.

-Hopefully, it's a bit of snowy treasure.
-Oh.

-I'll try pinpointing it.
-Okay.

There it is.

Oh, that is very interesting.

GARY: We'll see what we got.

Oh, very interesting.

Is it a pin or is it a chisel?

NARRATOR: On lot ten,
near the middle of Oak Island,

Alex Lagina and Gary Drayton

may have just uncovered
a potentially important clue.

To me, that looks like a tool.

You see, it looks like it's kind
of mushroomed on the top.

-Meaning it's been hammered.
-Yeah.

It's like a tool

you would use
to inscribe stones.

And that is part of
the story of Oak Island.

NARRATOR: A possible chisel?

Over the years,

several boulders
and large stones

have been reportedly
found on Oak Island

that featured curious
carved symbols.

One, known as the H+O stone,

was discovered on
the northern shore

and featured an H,

a cross surrounded by four dots

and a circle with
a dot in its center,

which some believe
signifies the presence of gold.

Another was the
legendary 90 Foot Stone,

which was found at that depth

in the original Money
Pit back in 1804.

-CORJAN: There is a four-dot cross here, like, you see?
-ALEX: Yeah, yeah.

NARRATOR: During their
recent trip across Europe...

On the other side here,

-circle and dot.
-ALEX: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
...Alex, his uncle Rick

and members of the team

visited numerous sites

connected to the Knights Templar

and others related
to the Vikings,

where they saw many structures

and even runestones
that featured

the same kinds of symbols.

RICK: Look at how
many of those runes

-match the 90 Foot Stone.
-ALEX: Oh, wow.

NARRATOR: Could it be
possible that Gary and Alex

have just unearthed a tool

in the area near Nolan's Cross

that may have played
a significant role

in the Oak Island mystery?

That is a cool find, mate.

-ALEX: Into the pouch.
-Yeah.

Good digging.

I think this is a
heck of a find, Alex.

ALEX: I agree.

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

COLTEN: Going back
down two more times.

NARRATOR: ...as the
core drilling operation

inches closer to target
depth in the Money Pit area,

on Lot 5, located on

the western side
of the island...

LAIRD: Might have to build

a shelter over this
thing for the winter.

...Archaeologists Laird Niven

and Helen Sheldon continue

investigating a rectangular
stone foundation.

Within this feature,

just like a larger,

more rounded structure
near the shoreline,

the team has unearthed
artificially manipulated soils

that match samples recovered
from the Money Pit area.

And curiously, in recent weeks,

Helen has helped uncover
not only an iron spike

that may date back
nearly nine centuries,

but also a lead weight,

which the team believes
might have been designed

for measuring
portions of valuables.

Now, with only a few more days

before winter forces
the team to suspend

all search operations
until next spring,

Laird and Helen are
hoping to find more clues

that could determine just
who created this feature

and for what purpose.

HELEN: Oh, what's
this coming out?

Huh. HELEN: Look at that...

HELEN: That's another one...

...of those lead weights.

-Like the other one that we found over there.
-Yeah.

Yeah, it looks the same.

Finding one is odd,

-finding two -Finding two.

is bizarre.

HELEN: And it's
all on this layer

just above this
really hard stuff.

Basically, what
we think is the floor.

-Yeah. Yeah.
-The very, very bottom.

The really interesting part
of this whole excavation

are things we didn't expect,

like the soils between Lot


-HELEN: It looks
almost identical -It does.

-to the other ones.
-It does.

There are so many
artifacts that we haven't

seen before. The
more we excavate,

the more we uncover
within this structure,

the more confusing it gets.

It's unlike anything
I've seen in the 38 years

I've been doing archaeology.

Oh, my heavens. Laird.

You're not gonna believe this.

LAIRD: Oh, not another one.

HELEN [chuckling]: Another one.

Same, shaved on the edges.

Here, look.

And, again, it's down here
in this very sandy layer.

LAIRD: Very bizarre.

Three of the same thing

-that we've never seen before.
-No.

Really weird.

But Marty would be pretty
interested to see those.

MARTY: One of the things
that was always missing

here on Oak Island was

if there was such a
massive undertaking,

where did they house
the people who did it?

Maybe that's what we're
uncovering on Lot 5.

If, in fact, we have
found the staging area

for whatever happened
originally at the Money Pit,

that would make sense. That
had to happen somewhere.

Maybe, finally, we're
gonna figure that out.

-MARTY: Laird.
-HELEN: Hi.

-MARTY: Helen.
-Ooh.

What'd you find there?

Yeah. Remember the lead weight?

-Yep. -Yes.
-Yeah, well,

I've just found two more.

-Oh! -Two more?

-Wow.
-Yeah.

MARTY: Are they identical?

LAIRD: One looks identical,
one looks a bit smaller.

MARTY: The other
one was almost exactly

.7 ounces, was it not?

-HELEN: Yeah.
-Yeah.

You don't have any way
to weigh them out here?

Uh, we do, actually.

MARTY: Helen's found two more

pieces of lead more
or less identical to

the first little
cylindrical lead piece.

That alone is interesting.

You start to believe

that they actually
are meaningful.

-So, there's number two.
-Number two.

-.69 -MARTY: .69.

That's pretty close.

That is pretty damn exact.

There's number three.

LAIRD: .69.

-That's amazing.
-LAIRD: I mean, that's just not coincidental.

No, that's not coincidental.
Not three of them.

-LAIRD: No.
-No.

JACK: Well, what
would they be measuring,

-do you think?
-Money.

Treasure?

Gold.

[laughs]

NARRATOR: Given that soils

found within this
feature on Lot 5

have been scientifically matched

to man-made workings
that were unearthed

deep in the Money Pit area,

could that mean that
these three lead weights

may be directly related

to the large amounts
of precious metals

that have been detected

within the so-called Baby Blob?

MARTY: I've become
more and more interested

in what's going on on Lot 5
because the archaeologists

are telling me that
this is not normal.

-Three weights, .69 ounces.
-LAIRD: Yeah.

MARTY: It's got something to
do, maybe, with the Money Pit.

That could be the piece
that's been missing forever.

Okay, you guys carry
on and keep digging.

Jack and I are gonna
go, and it's cool stuff.

-Let's go, Jack.
-JACK: Yeah.

LAIRD: See you later.

Okay, this next core could
have some good potential in it.

Good possibility where
the metals are coming from.

-Yep.
-Little something different, hopefully.

NARRATOR: It is
a critical moment

for Rick and Marty
Lagina and their team

in the Money Pit area...

Charles, you got
your fingers crossed?

Yeah.

NARRATOR: ...as the
core drilling operation

in borehole Bravo-Sierra

has finally reached a
depth of some 100 feet,

where vast amounts
of precious metals

were recently detected.

MARTY: We're
supposedly zeroing in

on the source of the metals
very near the Garden Shaft.

More so than any
other drilling this summer

or, really, any prior years,

I'm looking for this borehole

to penetrate a treasure vault.

CHARLES: We have
a core, gentlemen.

-This is it.
-TERRY: One of our last

best chances right here.

What do you have, Marvin?

-119.
-CHARLES: 119.

TERRY: Thank you.

Let's have a look.

MARTY: Come on, be something.

SCOTT: Sand,
sand, miserable sand.

TERRY: Yeah.

MARTY: Does not look promising.

TERRY: Unfortunately, it's
just in situ material, sadly.

MARTY: Hey, Ian.

-Yep.
-So, can we

conclude we're through
the zone of interest

-for the time being?
-IAN: Yeah, we're through

the area that we're
really focused on.

I mean, for us, the big deal
now is letting this whole place

rest a bit so we can see

if we can pick up
anything in the water.

TERRY: Absolutely.

NARRATOR: It is a profoundly

disappointing
moment for Rick, Marty,

Craig and their team.

The vast source
of precious metals

that have been repeatedly
detected in this area

remains elusive.

MARTY: Well, look,
I'm disappointed.

It's the end of the
season, and we don't have

the treasure or the
story in our hands.

And it doesn't make any sense.

The data strongly shows

that there is some mass of metal

that was put down
in the Money Pit.

So, once again, Oak
Island hands us a mystery.

The problem with this sand is

there's so much clay with it.

I mean, the sand might
transmit a lot of water

if it wasn't so
full of other stuff.

Yeah, not even really saturated.

MARTY: I mean, there's
nothing here that can

deliver the kind of
water that's going in

-the Garden Shaft.
-CRAIG: No, no.

MARTY: So, I mean,
the obvious, Ian, I mean,

what's staring us in the face is

this sand is incapable
of doing what happened

in the Garden Shaft,
then it kind of leads

credence to the
so-called flood tunnel.

Yep.

RICK: It's just hard to believe

that 479 gallons a
minute is being pushed

through the kinds of sands
that we're seeing on the table

to flood the Garden Shaft.

Then where's the
water coming from?

Perhaps a flood tunnel.

It's meaningful. There
is historical narrative.

Craig, what does it do for you?

I think there's an
external source.

So, a flood tunnel.

And I think, given this,

I totally agree with Craig.

MARTY: Yeah, me too.

NARRATOR: Although the
team is greatly disappointed

that they didn't
recover valuables,

could they be correct
that they have unearthed

compelling evidence
that a man-made tunnel

connected to the ocean

may have caused the
flooding that recently took place

some 100 feet deep
in the Garden Shaft?

Let's you two and me go and have

-a little confab here.
-Okay.

NARRATOR: If so,

could that offer more proof

that the treasure is in
fact somewhere nearby...

...and protected by
a genuine booby trap,

as many have believed
for more than two centuries?

MARTY: Well,
okay, guys, so, uh...

so ends another season,

-at least for drilling, right?
-Yeah.

I am...

sad that we didn't make
progress or solve it.

Uh, it's-it's disappointing.

But in the last five years,
each year, I'm thinking

that we better
do it pretty soon.

I mean, what are we
up to-- 600 wells now?

I-I don't know.

-I mean, we still have the metals in the water.
-Sure do.

And I do think what we just
learned down there is important.

That could not have
transmitted the kind of water

-that's in the Garden Shaft, right?
-MARTY: No.

I still think, though, the
metals are in the water

and we have two
really good scientists

that say it's meaningful.

It's not just some
sort of fluke.

We're still excited.

These metals in the water

still strongly suggest some
sort of treasure deposit.

There we go.

MARTY: I think we need
to take a deep breath

and we need to
look at what we did

and then try and figure out
what we need to do next year.

Look, you know what?

Tomorrow we're gonna
get the team together.

We're gonna have a lot
more on the table to talk about.

But I got to say, Rick,
it's nice to hear you

still very positive.

RICK: 100%.

If you believe in something,
you-you just persevere.

Sempre Avanti.

MARTY: Sempre Avanti.

♪ ♪

MARTY: Thanks for
everybody being here.

Want to have a little recap.

This is sort of the deal
where we make sure

-we're all on the same page.
-Right.

NARRATOR: A
bittersweet day has arrived

for Rick and Marty Lagina,
Craig Tester and their team.

With the harsh North Atlantic
winter fast approaching,

their search operations
on Oak island will have to be

suspended until next spring.

So let's get started.

We're talking about
what happened this year

and where everybody
wants to go next year.

NARRATOR: But before departing,

the team gathers for a
final time in the w*r room

to weigh the great progress

that has been
made in their quest

to solve a 229-year-old
treasure mystery.

Let's start with Lot


quite interesting last year
and continued this year.

And, of course, Laird,
you ran the investigation,

so why don't you comment
first and let us know

what your takeaways are

from all that
archaeological work?

Well, it became a
much larger project

and complex and
interesting project

than expected.

And it led to some interesting
and intriguing artifacts.

GARY: Yep.

NARRATOR: Since the
team acquired Lot 5 in 2022,

they have made
numerous discoveries there,

which suggests it may
have been occupied

by several different groups
over a number of centuries.

At the so-called round
feature near the shoreline...

...they have unearthed a


that may be connected to
the believed Templar cross

that was discovered
at Smith's Cove in 2017.

However, they have also found

potentially 16th-century
Venetian trade beads.

And several iron
tools that have been

scientifically connected
to Sir William Phips,

the 17th century
English nobleman

who some believe

hid a vast cache
of Spanish silver

in the Money Pit in 1687.

In the rectangular feature
located farther inland,

they not only found
the three lead weights

that were possibly designed

for measuring
quantities of treasure...

...but also an iron spike,

which Emma Culligan has dated
to as early as the 12th century.

And incredibly, all
of those discoveries

were eclipsed in age
by four Roman coins

that the team
uncovered on Lot 5,

which have been dated to between



So, given that soil samples

found in both of the
mysterious structures

have been matched
to others recovered

from deep in the Money Pit,

could that mean that Lot 5

may still hold secrets

that will prove critical

to solving the Oak
Island mystery?

LAIRD: The so-called
round structure

transitioned into...
I'm not sure what.

MARTY: Mm-hmm.

LAIRD: It's a structure.

And the size of the
rectangular structure

in the end, and the
artifacts that came from that

were also a big surprise to us.

-Yeah.
-JACK: And both the features were

completely buried
and covered over,

-I think, intentionally.
-LAIRD: Yeah.

We still contend that
the former circular feature

is older than the occupation
that's represented within it.

Yeah.

To me, the most
significant thing

that happened there this year
was this tie to the Money Pit.

Yeah.

The Money Pit might have
been built by whoever was

inhabiting the two
different structures.

MARTY: Right.

Maybe you can get the who

and you can even get a
why and, you know, you tie it

to the treasure hunt that way.

-Right.
-Yeah.

I'm quite impressed
by the potential of how

Lot 5 may improve
our understanding

of the mystery
and its totalities.

Right.

MARTY: Okay. That's Lot 5.

One of the other prime areas
of investigation this year--

-swamp.
-[all chuckling]

Uh, who wants to kick it off?

I guess, Billy, why don't you?

You did most of the digging.

Well, I know you like
the swamp, Marty.

I love it.

-[laughs] -BILLY: Every
time we dig in the swamp,

it's just another surprise,
I would say, really,

just one thing after the other.

CRAIG: We started
hitting rocks everywhere.

NARRATOR: The team's excavations

in the triangle-shaped
swamp this year revealed

even more stunning
evidence that it may be

an entirely man-made feature.

Near the previously
uncovered paved area

in the center of the swamp,

which Dr. Spooner has dated

to as early as 1200 AD,

they discovered a layer
of massive tree stumps

that were possibly cut down

over 600 years ago,

when that area was
potentially dry land.

In the southeast corner,

they uncovered a
wooden extension

to the believed


or ship's wharf

which may have been constructed
for unloading heavy cargo.

What stands out
to me is this stone

and this stone, this
stone and this stone,

all in a line--

I'm pretty confident it's
a human-made structure.

NARRATOR: And just several
yards north of the stone road,

they unearthed a
cobblestone pathway

leading to a massive
cone-shaped boulder

that is nearly identical

to the boulders that
form Nolan's Cross.

There's no question
that humans have

manipulated that environment.

-Right.
-JACK: Aside from the stumps, we had found

part of the stone pathway

kind of leads out to
one of the boulders

that looks about the
same size and shape

as some of the other
Nolan's Cross rocks.

And that one was sitting on a
considerable amount of sticks.

But did you get a date
or anything off of it?

Well, the sticks were old. I
think we got the dates back.

-CRAIG: Yes.
-MARTY: Craig has the C-14 results.

Is that what this is?

Yep. The date was



The second time period,



[laughing]

MARTY: Oh, my goodness.

CRAIG: The second
time period, 740 to 774 AD.

-So...
-JACK: The dates just keep going further

and further back.

NARRATOR: In the
Oak island w*r room,

Craig Tester has just presented

a stunning carbon 14 report

on organic materials
in the swamp...

suggesting that the
cobblestone pathway,

which leads to a massive
cone-shaped boulder

located several yards
north of the stone road,

could be more
than 1,200 years old.

CRAIG: The big
thing is, you know,

there's no natural process,

really, to push that
huge boulder there.

Could this be another
marking boulder?

Right? because somebody
put boulders in the swamp.

It matches the ship's railing,

and it wasn't found
all that far from here.

What do you got?

It looks like a piece
of finished wood.

NARRATOR: In 2020,

while digging just to the
west of the stone road

at the southern
border of the swamp,

members of the team
unearthed a finely crafted piece

of possible ship's
railing that, incredibly,

was also carbon-dated to
as early as the eighth century.

As I look around, I only
see one piece of wood

that kind of resembles
it. And that's up here

-along the bow.
-MARTIN: Yeah.

NARRATOR: One
week ago, while visiting

the Viking ship
museum in Denmark,

Doug Krohl, along
with Rick Lagina

and other members of the team,

noticed a strikingly
similar piece of deck railing

on a reconstructed Viking ship.

Although it is well
documented that members

of the Viking culture explored
and settled in Greenland

and areas of northern Canada

some 1,000 years ago,

Is it possible that the
team has now found

not only artifacts

but also structures on
Oak island that suggest

Vikings may have reached
as far south as Nova Scotia

and may indeed be connected

to the Oak Island mystery?

You know, one of the
key things this year was

this big European
trip that you took.

I came away with our
interaction in Europe

more convinced than ever
that Nolan's Cross was relevant.

So we've invited Emiliano
and Corjan to join us here.

Corjan, Emiliano, I appreciate
you guys being on board.

-Thank you.
-Thank you so much.

RICK: My objective
was irrefutable proof

that an old-world treasure

and an old-world
mystery could have

come to the new
world long, long ago.

My long, long ago is 1200s.

That was the hope: prove

east to west is possible
at those early dates.

And the Templars,
who had interactions

with the Norse/Vikings
from long ago,

made those voyages.
And something of value,

either information or treasure,

was brought to the New World.

I personally came
away with a belief in that.

I think we came away
from that trip having

proved what you just said. It
is possible that it happened.

EMILIANO: Well, I
mean, the voyage was

very informative.

We moved from
northern Italy to Iceland,

and Iceland is exactly
halfway through

this trip, from east to west,

from the old world
to the new one.

-Corjan?
-You know, the four-dot cross,

the symbol that was on the
H+O stone on Oak island.

You saw it in various
places where it was used

by the Knights Templar,

which shows

a very real connection there.

DOUG: The major
takeaway for me was

science of astronomy
was very important.

So, it makes it easy
for me to believe

that they would have
utilized that same science

here on Oak Island
in the 13th century

-to accomplish their goals here.
-RICK: Mm-hmm.

The information hunt
is incredibly important.

We would be remiss
in not following it.

At this point, it has
produced tangible results.

Emiliano and Corjan, thank
you for coming on the trip.

You've made it more
enlightening and more enjoyable.

Thank you very much.

-Ciao. Ciao.
-Thank you.

MARTY: We're on a treasure hunt,

and I think the most
significant thing to us

is probably the Money Pit.

-Yeah.
-MARTY: So let's get to it.

We have in front of
us a very fine exhibit.

I really like this.

-These are the canisters?
-STEVE: They are.

I guess, in my view,
there were two big things

this year that we
wanted to accomplish.

One was to find out where
those metals were coming from.

And the other is to see what

the Garden Shaft
itself could tell us.

We got down to 95-ish feet.

We start, just
about, to commence

our horizontal
drilling, which is one of

the purposes, and
we were flooded out.

And not just flooded
out, big time flooded out.

I mean, what's always
interested me about it is this tunnel

goes right into the
Baby Blob, right?

-Yes.
-And so I'm super interested

in what's happening
in that direction.

MARTY: Fred,

are the amount of
metals you see consistent

with a treasure that
was once there and gone,

-or not?
-Those metal anomalies that we've been seeing

are truly anomalous.

So, to answer your question,

in order to be getting those

anomalies, there still has
to be something present

in the subsurface.

-Yes!
-MARTY: That's for sure.

Yeah, you're damn right on that.

MATT: Like, my feeling is we are

not seeing residuals

from things that were
deposited and extracted

decades or hundreds
of years ago.

The area that I
think I would put

one would be just
north of the Blob.

And the reason
is is we... we know

the Blob is where we're
seeing the metal anomalies,

and we know the water flow
is coming from that direction.

Except that you don't
have enough sampling.

You have no sampling up there.

-None.
-IAN: No.

Guys, I have a thought that
hasn't been floated before.

MARTY: Guys, I have a thought

that hasn't been floated before.

I'm thinking what we
do is we take this pad,

we cut right back
here a long ways,

open this whole area up,

and we continue
our sonic drilling up,

and we can do some
more testing up here.

We don't know what's
going on up there.

Right now, our search
is leading us here.

NARRATOR: In the w*r room,

Marty Lagina has just made
a bold proposal for next year

that he hopes could
finally pinpoint the possible

buried treasure that
has been detected

between 80 and 120 feet

underground in
the Money Pit area.

His plan may necessitate
removing tons of earth

as well as the rock formation
that surrounds the Garden Shaft

to create a flat
surface that will allow

for the drilling of new
six-inch boreholes

and subsequent
water tests within them.

RICK: I think you have to.

In terms of the
science, you have to

continue to explore that.

MARTY: Dr. Fred Michel

is absolutely rock solid

that there's some
quantity of metal

that's giving off these
metals in the water.

We drilled the heck
out of the Baby Blob

and we didn't find anything.

So I want to dig to
the northeast between

the Baby Blob and
the Garden Shaft

until we get more data.

We can put some
potential caissons on here,

just so we all know
what is possible.

I'd be open to Aladdin's cave.

Yeah, that's been a
very interesting area,

from what I've been looking at.

SCOTT: One of
my areas of interest

is just outside of RF-1.

I mean, RF-1 is, to me,

the original Money Pit location.

Another area I'd like
to go back to is just

around H-8. I mean, clearly,
that was one of the more

interesting areas that we've
drilled into in the Money Pit.

With a caisson this size, we
can cover a lot more ground.

NARRATOR: In addition to the
regions surrounding the Garden Shaft,

the team has recovered
evidence in three other locations

that suggest there could
be numerous deposits

of treasure in the
Money Pit area.

One of these is known
as Aladdin's cave...

-MARTY: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
-Hold up.

...where the team
discovered a massive cavern

some 150 feet deep,

containing water
that has yielded

trace evidence of precious
metals and wooden structures.

Look at all the wood.

NARRATOR:
Another area of interest

is borehole RF-1, where in 2019,

the team was astounded to
discover massive wooden beams

more than 100 feet deep
that featured Roman numerals,

as well as the pickax,

which has been scientifically
linked to Scandinavia.

The other location is
known as borehole H-8,

which was excavated in 2017,

that the team not
only discovered

possible evidence of
the fabled Chappell Vault,

nearly 180 feet underground

but also pieces of parchment

and leather bookbinding.

MARTY: Rf-1 and H-8, we
thought, were the Money Pit.

It's exciting,

as it just shows how much
opportunity is still here.

I do want to say thanks to Rick

and the team that
put this together,

'cause I-I do think
this is very helpful.

I think we covered a
hell of a lot of ground

and I thank everybody
for their input.

What do you guys think?

Yeah, I think we
had a good year,

and I think we got a lot of
opportunity going forward.

Uh, I'll-I'll be honest.

I thought the other night about,

you know, when
I was a little kid

and, uh, do I still believe?

Is the little boy
still inside of me?

And...

I thought...

I thought long and
hard about that,

and, uh...

and what I came to
realize is, he's still...

he still is there.

But he's there
because of you guys.

And you ladies.

And, uh, I still
believe in the little boy

who's still cheering us on,

and I am extremely grateful
for each and every one of you.

And, uh...

that's all I have to say.

So, thank you all.

♪ ♪

Okay, so I've often said nobody
can follow a Rick Lagina speech.

So, with that, I think
we're done for the season.

After a speech like
that, to the longboats.

[laughing]

NARRATOR: What started as a
dream for two boys from Michigan

nearly 60 years ago

has become a real-life adventure

that fulfilled their
wildest imaginations.

Matt, good to see you.

NARRATOR: According
to determined research,

tireless effort
and hard science,

something of profound
value and importance

lies buried on Oak Island.

Thanks, guys, for
all the hard work.

NARRATOR: And when Rick,
Marty and the Fellowship of the Dig

return next spring,
it may finally spell

the end of a mystery

that has lasted for
more than two centuries.

MARTY: If you look
at the totality of the stuff

we have in front of us
right now, something

rather significant
happened here, so

it's time to find
treasure on this island.

But not today.

Not yet.

RICK:
I want an answer. [chuckles]

I want an answer because there's
a richness to the story,

and the story's not complete.

Who's gonna give up? Nobody.

The last pages aren't written.