[Narrator] Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...
- [Rick] Heads up.
- [Terry] We've broken through
- into the solution channel.
- That's what we're looking for.
[Marzia] The three churches
have exactly the same
stellar alignment of Lot 5.
This could be
a tunnel shaft entrance.
-Maybe it's just right under
here. -[Rick] A piece of wood?
[Marty] What's wood
doing down that deep?
Maybe this wood came
from the original Money Pit.
[Craig] If there's wood
at the top, maybe there's gold
- at the bottom.
- Possibly treasure on deck.
Ooh, hoo-hoo,
what have we got here?
[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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- [Craig] Hello, down there.
- [Fiona] Hi.
- Hi, Fiona.
- Oh, wow, Fiona.
- You've gotten so much done.
- Wow.
This must look
a little different from before.
- [Alex] Yeah.
- [Narrator] A new day
on Oak Island
brings the team fresh hope
for a breakthrough discovery
as Rick, Craig
and members of the team
investigate the cradle-shaped
feature of stones
on Lot 8.
I can't wait to show you
h-how this is progressing
and what I'm seeing in here.
It's, uh, it's-it's been
changing as I've gone along.
Oh, yeah.
So, once we removed
that-that third layer of rocks,
we came across a substance
which was like mortar.
Like, a cement-like material.
So, it makes me feel like
they did this in a way
that they wanted these rocks
to stay in place
for some reason.
And what I've discovered,
this morning,
as I've been
digging around this,
this particular area here.
As I've been
removing the rocks...
they were extremely
hard to get out...
but I've got enough
of the smaller rocks out now
that I think
that maybe you should see
if you could get that moved.
[Alex] I have gloves on.
- Want me to give it a try?
- I think you guys,
any of you would be welcome.
You'll notice there's still
some of what I call
-these pinner rocks
holding this in place. -Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna try
to just step right down
so I don't
move anything, hopefully.
Oh, it's pretty sturdy.
All right.
Oh, yeah, that's in there.
That's true.
[Narrator] After revealing
this formation
beneath a 40,000-pound boulder,
the team has discovered
handworked blue clay
and a mortar-like cement
which were used to seal
the stones together.
And after scientifically
examining the soils
within the feature, they have
found traces of silver and lead.
This suggests evidence
of another possible structure
containing something
of great value
may be buried deeper below.
- [Alex] Got it.
- [Fiona] Did you get it?
-Yep. No problem. That's no
problem. -Oh, I'm amazed.
Okay. Where do you want me
to throw this? Over there?
-Well, how about right here?
That's fine for now. -Okay.
[Fiona] I'm actually keeping
all of these rocks,
because I just want
to get an idea
of how many
we've taken out in total.
It does look like
there's some dark organic
underneath it there.
[Jack] Mm-hmm.
[Fiona] The mortar-like material
was done very well,
and we had three types of it.
We found a very, very fine one,
which was down here.
And if I were to put it
on my trowel,
you can see how fine it is.
A very fine powder material,
which is actually
similar to what you're seeing
on the outskirts of this.
And we've taken samples
to see if we can compare them.
Then we had
a very blue-like clay sample,
if you can kind of
see some of it in here.
- [Jack] Mm-hmm.
- But this blue,
blue-gray clay, um,
had some very similarities,
according to Dr. Spooner,
to what we think the puddling
clay is at the Money Pit.
So, we've taken samples
to compare
against the clay that we found
at the Money Pit,
just in case it matches.
And then you have
this third mortar material,
which is what you see
at this north end.
Very cement-like.
What I'm wondering is
if any of those have materials
that are not from here.
You know,
sourced from somewhere else,
then-then, it's proof positive
that it's deliberate.
We're also gonna compare it
to the mortar material
that we found on Lot 5.
-Mm-hmm. -And we think
Lot 5's pretty old.
But if we do get matches,
then that could be information
- for both sites as well.
- [Jack] Based upon
the analysis of the mortars,
we'll be able to pin down
- when this was built.
- Yeah.
You know, to me,
it's... i-it's so amazing,
but what is it?
What does it mean?
I mean, at this point in time,
we have no idea.
No idea. So...
This could be
a tunnel shaft entrance.
Maybe it's just
right under here.
Yeah. Well, it definitely
goes deeper.
[Rick] Some of us
want to dig below the cradle
with heavy equipment.
And I know that
the archaeologists,
especially Fiona,
have an intense desire to do it
in a very disciplined fashion.
I think all parties agree that,
if something's underneath it,
we want to know
what that something is.
We just have to be patient.
What are you gonna do?
You're gonna bisect it there?
The plan is to do a bisection
on-on this left side here.
- [Alex] Mm-hmm.
- We'll take it right down,
look at exactly
how they constructed it.
And I think,
as we're removing these rocks,
I would like to get samples
of the soil underneath.
Okey doke.
We'll let you get-get after it.
[Jack] Great job.
- [Alex] Thank you, Fiona.
- [Fiona] Thanks, guys.
[Narrator] Later
that afternoon...
- [Alex] Guys. How's it going?
- [Gary] Hello, Alex.
- Hey, Alex. How you doing?
- [Narrator] ...Alex and Jack
arrive in the Money Pit area
where the excavation
of the TPF Shaft
has nearly breached
the solution channel,
and in an area
where soil testing
during their
core-drilling operation
detected high traces of silver
more than 200 feet deep.
- Where are we at?
- We're below 167.
-Okay. -And we're into
something very hard.
We're cutting into it.
They've got some good recovery.
We can see little bits of gypsum
if we're really close
to the ledge that overhangs
the solution channel.
[Narrator] Previous drilling
that reached
the solution channel
has made the team aware
of a thick ledge or layer
of bedrock
between 150 and 170 feet deep
that acts as a ceiling
for the large natural cavity.
- Hey. -[Jack] Hey, Rick.
- [Terry] Hey, Rick.
- How you doing?
- Good. Do you see how much smoke
is coming off there, the kind
of heat that's being generated?
-[Terry] There's a lot of heat
buildup on that thing. -Yep.
That's been chewing
into bedrock.
-You can see the caked gypsum
on the side of it. -[Gary] Wow.
[Gary] And we're so close,
really tantalizing,
but this material that comes up,
we've got a really good chance
of actually finding
some top-pocket finds.
- Yep.
- [Rick] Absolutely.
There's no give-up
around the table, so...
- Get after it.
- [Alex] Sounds good.
[Narrator] As the teams
from SBC and ROC
work to drill through
the bedrock ledge...
[Marty] Gentlemen,
it is data and analysis time.
Always a good time,
uh, always interesting.
[Narrator] ...Rick, Marty, Craig
and other members of the team
have gathered in the w*r room.
We have an...
a bona fide expert
in laser ablation,
Dr. Chris McFarlane.
He's been
in this w*r room before.
Let's get him on the screen.
Here we go.
- [Marty] Dr. McFarlane.
- Hello, fellas.
[Narrator] The team is meeting
with Dr. Chris McFarlane,
a professor of geochemistry at
the University of New Brunswick.
It is one of the leading
testing facilities
in North America for the study
of historical artifacts.
We're gonna discuss
the decorative lead piece
found by you, right, Gary?
- Yeah. Charles and I.
- Yeah.
[Narrator] Dr. McFarlane
has analyzed a lead artifact
found earlier this year
in spoils removed
from the round feature on Lot 5.
[Marty] So,
what did your ablation
and isotope analysis
say about that?
Yeah, just pulling it up here.
[Narrator] Laser ablation
is a process
of removing microscopic samples
from lead objects
using a high-powered laser.
The isotopic values
of the samples
are then analyzed
to potentially identify
not only when
the object was made
but also the geographic region
where it originated.
The decorative lead piece,
the encrustation on it
is quite sodium-rich,
which suggests, you know,
that it's been there a while.
The silver content
- is, uh, actually quite high.
- Wow.
And it's sort of anomalous
compared to
modern lead.
- Okay.
- The actual fabrication
is probably preindustrial,
and predates
anything happening
in North America
in the turn of the last century,
more or less.
Oh, wow. Okay.
Quite typical
of a Central European source.
And by Central European, I mean
U.K., France and Germany,
sort of
in that part of the world.
- [Rick] Really?
- [Jack] Wow.
- [chuckles]
- [Chris] I do have
a-another piece of information
- for you, though.
- Good.
It also bears
some similarity
with the scalloped artifact
from Lot 5
that we previously analyzed.
Isotopically, it matches this
decorative lead piece, right?
Correct. Yeah.
- Wow.
- [Doug] And we think that's from
- medieval times.
- [laughter]
[Gary] That's really,
really cool.
Isotopically, it matches
this decorative lead piece,
- right?
- Correct. Yeah.
- Wow.
- [Doug] And we think that's from
- medieval times.
- [laughter]
[Gary] That's really,
really cool.
[Narrator] In the w*r room,
Dr. Chris McFarlane
has just informed the team
that the lead artifact
found in the spoils
of the round feature on Lot 5
has a similar composition
to the potentially
that was also found there
in 2022.
[Chris] It came from a deposit
of a similar age,
somewhere across Central Europe.
[Marty] Interesting.
That's pretty neat.
[soft laughter]
Okay, and we can also infer
that it doesn't fit
the mining profile
of North America?
Yeah.
[Marty] And that's probably
what we can garner
from this, correct?
Yeah. Those are all
true statements, I would say.
[Marty] Okay, well, good. So,
this, this fits with the bulk
of the artifacts from that area.
[Narrator] In addition
to this lead piece
and the scalloped disc,
the team has found numerous
artifacts in the Lot 5 feature
that predate the discovery
of the Money Pit in 1795
and originated in Europe.
These include a button
made of arsenical bronze
that may be
at least 700 years old,
two decorative buttons
and several glass beads
that may date
to the 17th century
and two glass gemstones
that may have
originated in France
during the mid-18th century.
[Rick] We now have artifacts
on Lot 5 that...
on a bell-shaped curve,
on the far end,
you have the Roman coins.
On the other end,
you have pottery and glass
and other artifacts
that indicate
people were there
in the early 1800s.
My belief, it speaks to, again,
that this effort here
on Oak Island long ago
was done multigenerationally.
Okay. Dr. McFarlane,
thank you very much.
Always interested in finding out
what you have learned,
and we appreciate it.
- Always a pleasure.
- Thank you. -Thank you.
[Rick] Okay doke, I think
we all have a lot to do,
so let's go.
[Narrator] The next morning...
- [Carmen] Well, look here, guys.
- [Doug] Hey, Carmen.
- [Emma] Hi.
- [Carmen] How you doing?
- Good to see you.
- [Narrator] ...Doug Crowell
and other members of the team
meet with Carmen Legge
in the Oak Island lab.
You got some more stuff
to show me?
We've got a couple pieces
of chain here
- that look pretty old.
- [Carmen] I'll have a look.
[Narrator] Carmen is examining
two hand-forged sections
of chain
that were found in the spoils
of the Karma-1 shaft.
The shaft excavated
one week ago,
less than ten feet
from where the team
is currently digging
in the Money Pit area.
[Doug] This has
made its way down
into solution channel depths.
And that's what
we're hoping to see,
for signs of a collapse
of the Money Pit.
[Carmen] Oh, I see.
Well, they're both similar.
They have a-a big,
elongated link on the end.
A lot of times, these was used
to create sort of a basket
for lowering and raising items.
Right.
You picture a treasure chest
wrapped in chains, right?
- It's possible.
- Yeah.
[Narrator] If Carmen is correct,
is it possible that the team
has recovered chains
that may have been used
to lower something
into the original Money Pit?
Carmen, is there anything
about that chain that you see
that may indicate
where it may have been made?
Uh, I'm gonna have
to say no, Scott, because...
this is a generic chain style,
chain design,
made over many, many years.
I do notice that this one here
has a bend in the middle
of the long link.
And that reinforces my idea
that it had to fit
going through and then lock in.
And some stress or force onto it
bent that link a little.
This one was made by a
blacksmith that knew his stuff.
This one here, however, wasn't.
Yeah, I'm gonna say
that these were made
- by two different blacksmiths.
- [Doug] Emma,
I'm curious about the dates.
Based on the metallurgy,
I would give these, um,
late 1600s to mid-1700s,
and typical
of some European regions.
Wow. I kind of like
Emma's date range
because I'm kind of partial
to Duc d'Anville's expedition.
I mean, that was 1746.
Is that from, uh, his efforts?
That would be a perfect fit
for the date range,
and you did say Europe
for a point of origin.
[Narrator] Could Doug Crowell
be correct
that these chains may provide
another potential link
to the Duc d'Anville?
A French admiral with ties
to the Knights Templar,
the Duc d'Anville
is believed to have ordered
treasure to be buried
on a wooded island
in this area back in 1746.
This is corroborated
by part of a ship's log
that Doug found
in the Nova Scotia Archives.
[Rick] The chains that were
found in the Karma 1 spoils,
one artifact does not
substantiate a theory
in its totality,
but it does give you a clue.
We're in the same area with
the Top Pocket Find location,
and hopefully,
it will yield results.
It's very exciting.
I mean, finding something
that old from deeper
than the deepest shaft
in the Money Pit
is a reason to keep going.
Fingers crossed
we find some more.
And I'm sure there is more.
-[Doug] Thanks, Carmen. Thanks,
Emma. -[Scott] Thanks, Carmen.
- [Scott] Thanks, Emma.
- [Emma] Thank you.
[Narrator] Meanwhile...
[Mikayla] I'm ready to find
something in this feature
that's gonna tell us something
truly significant about it.
[Tansy] I can get behind that.
[Narrator] ...Laird Niven
and other members of the team
are back on Lot 5,
investigating
the rounded stone foundation.
[Mikayla] After I get
this bucket filled,
maybe I'll do
a little bit more closer.
I hope we find more artifacts.
[Narrator] After
the scientific report
on the mysterious lead artifact,
the team is eager to search
for additional clues.
[Rick] Obviously,
humans created this.
But why is it here?
What's its purpose?
Who did it? When did they do it?
You see it as it sits
in front of you,
and all the work that's been
done by Laird and his team.
But because of
multigenerational activities,
we still struggle
with who was here first.
[Tansy] It would be great if
you could find a bead right now.
[Mikayla] There's a high
potential to find even more.
[Tansy] All right.
We can do that.
Oh. I found something.
- Hey, Laird.
- Yo.
I've got something here.
What a great start.
Hey, Laird.
I've got something here.
Cool.
It's metal.
Oh, it's got
a little pattern to it.
[Narrator] In the rounded
feature on Lot 5,
Tansy Rudnicki
has just discovered
a curious artifact.
[Laird] It's got
a finished edge,
which is kind of neat.
A bit of a design.
That looks like
the rim of a button, perhaps?
It's got a definite edge,
which is good.
- It's tiny.
- [Tansy] It's thin
- for a button, isn't it?
- It is.
But last year, there was
a button found right in here
that turned out to be made
of recycled arsenical bronze,
uh, from the medieval period,
which is pretty interesting.
[Narrator] Is it possible
that Tansy has just found
another clue
that may date to the same period
as the believed medieval button?
And perhaps the scalloped disc
and lead artifact
that were also uncovered here?
If so, could it be more evidence
that this feature
was originally constructed
more than 700 years ago?
[Laird] The occupation
of the round feature on Lot 5
is undocumented,
so we turn
to the archaeological evidence,
and it's telling us that
the last occupation on Lot 5
was the end of the 1700s.
But what's really significant
are the earlier artifacts
we're finding,
the ones that date
from before 1750,
showing two occupations.
But we've got
lots of work left to do,
so hopefully,
we're gonna find even more.
We found some nice stuff, right?
Beads and buttons
just in this area.
- Yeah.
- And that's why we're expanding
this way, um,
to see what else is there.
Right? This is the main yard.
So, there's just a lot
going on here.
High activity
means they lose things,
and they obviously have,
which is cool.
It makes me want to just
keep expanding. [chuckles]
- Same.
- [both laugh]
I mean, that's a great find,
so I'm gonna take it back
to the lab
and we'll see what it's made of.
- Whoo!
- I'll let you know. All right.
- Keep digging.
- [Tansy] All right. See you.
[Narrator] As the investigation
of Lot 5 continues...
later that afternoon...
[Marty] Top Pocket Find.
- Let's hope it's named properly.
- [Rick] Yep.
[Narrator] ...Rick, Marty
and Craig arrive
in the Money Pit area
where the TPF Shaft
has finally broken through
the bedrock ledge
and reached
the solution channel.
- Hey, guys.
- Marty, how you doing?
[Marty] Good.
Okay, Terry, how deep are we?
They're pushing me
over just a little
ahead of the casing
at this time,
so they're at about 175.
-Okay. -Oh,
so we're just about there.
Exactly, because we're
into the void beneath the ledge.
That's what we're looking for.
And that's exactly what we're
looking for, Marty. For sure.
Looks like we're switching
to the hammer grab there.
[Terry] There we go.
[Narrator] Because the team
has now breached
the solution channel,
they are now replacing
the auger cutting tool
with a hammer grab
and dig bucket
to safely retrieve the spoils,
and hopefully,
evidence of treasure.
[Gary] He's just dumped
another load, mate.
- So, let's do some beeping.
- [Terry] For sure.
[Gary] All right, let's find
some good stuff, Rick.
[Marty] We know we've broken
into the solution channel.
If the treasure
or a piece of the treasure
is down there,
it should be around this depth.
Now it's getting exciting.
I want to see
what's in those drill buckets.
[Rick] I thought
I saw a piece of wood.
That's it.
Is that wood?
[Alex] Yeah. A piece of wood.
[Craig] Yeah.
I'm gonna go check
on that piece of wood,
just in case it's something.
- Okay.
- Rick,
- I'll take that piece of wood.
- Right there.
- I'll grab it.
- [detector beeping]
[Marty] What's wood
doing down that deep?
It's been a long, long time
since the last wood that we saw
coming out of the hole.
This is not, like, a tree
that fell into a sinkhole
or something.
- That's a clear cut.
- [Alex] Yeah.
So, it's been, you know,
shaped or utilized by somebody.
[Alex] Well, I guess
it's possible that it pulled up
just shy of the bottom
of the Chappell Shaft.
-Yeah. -I mean,
we could be at the edge.
[Narrator] Could the team
be correct
that they may have encountered
evidence of the Chappell Shaft,
the shaft built in 1931
in an unsuccessful attempt
to recover a believed
seven-foot-tall treasure vault?
- I'll see if it floats or sinks.
- [Gary] Yeah.
If it sinks, that's a hell
of a sign. Isn't it, Rick?
- That's what Dan always thought.
- Yeah.
[Craig] You know,
one thing that Dan Blankenship
had always said,
when he brought up wood,
he'd always test it
by putting it in a bucket.
His experience was,
if it sank, it was old wood.
If it was...
if it tended to float,
it was more modern,
s-searcher wood.
So, we always do
that test right away.
It goes down like a rock.
And seeing
it sink right then, well,
it's also telling me
that this isn't searcher wood.
There shouldn't be wood
this deep.
[Alex] It sinks like a rock.
So, if that's the case,
then maybe this wood
came from
the original Money Pit.
Well, that's pretty cool.
We're looking for a collapse.
This virtually proves it.
-[Gary] Yeah. -[Narrator] Could
Marty's notion be correct?
Is it possible
this wood is not
from a searcher shaft
but perhaps
the original Money Pit?
[Marty] Bits of wood
are extremely important,
because this
is the first indications
that-that the collapse, in fact,
occurred and that we're near it.
And maybe the treasure, too.
I mean,
this is where we detected
a whole bunch of silver.
[Adam E.] We're into that
end of the day.
[Marty] Okay, so,
how deep are we?
We are about 186, 187.
I mean, things are moving,
things are still turning.
I think we're gonna
call it a day for today.
[Rick] We're not gonna give up
until we figure out
what that hole has to tell us.
And we need to keep going.
We need to keep looking.
Tomorrow, you know,
we're gonna go to the bottom
of the solution channel and
we're gonna see what's there.
Period. And if everybody crosses
their fingers,
-we'll find something. -[Craig]
If there's wood's at the top,
-maybe there's gold
at the bottom. -[Gary] Exactly.
[Marty] But we got
to get there, Adam,
so we want
to make hole tomorrow.
-[Adam E.] Yep.
We're working on it. -All right.
[Rick] Okey doke.
We'll pick it up tomorrow.
Thank you, Adam.
Thank you, Quinton.
[Terry] That's great.
Thanks, guys.
See you in the morning.
[Quinton] How we looking,
my man?
[Josh] We're getting there.
[Terry] We're in the solution
channel right now,
so time is gonna tell.
[Narrator] As a new morning
dawns on Oak Island...
All right, chaps.
Possibility of treasure on deck.
[Narrator] ...members
of the team carefully search
through the spoils being
unearthed from the TPF Shaft.
[detector beeping]
- [sustained beep]
- [Gary] We got a signal.
And I don't think
it's in that slop,
I think it's underneath it.
[Craig] Okay.
♪ ♪
Ooh. Uh, let me, let me have
a pinpoint, mate,
because you might've got it out.
Let's see what this is.
[high-pitched beeping]
- Got it in my hand.
- [sustained beep]
Now this has got potential.
I don't know what that is,
but it's a little bit different.
With the black around it,
you never know what it could be.
[Craig] Yeah.
But it's been there a while.
- [Gary] Yeah, it's been there.
- Yeah.
[Gary] There's a probability
it could be iron.
Yeah. You got the depth?
The bottom of that hole we just
pulled it out of, 193 feet deep.
- Okay.
- Okay.
[Gary] I love me chunky iron.
When you find an old artifact
encrusted in the clay,
you know it's been there
a very long time.
What a heck of a start
to the day.
- All right, guys. Good morning.
- [Gary] Good morning!
What have we got
for exciting finds?
- Anything this morning?
- Yep. We have got a good find.
We just pulled it out
of the clay,
and this has got
a lot of potential, mate,
because of the color
and the tone it gave me.
This is more than likely
gonna be iron.
- [Alex] Hmm.
- [Marty] Wow.
- [Gary] It's got potential.
- [Marty] Yeah,
this is definitely dense.
Wow, this is old.
We didn't... this is...
- It-it looks old.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- [Marty] How deep?
Well, that's way, way, way,
way, way below any searcher.
- Yeah, and actually...
- God, I hope this
- is something neat.
- Going through the, uh...
going through
the bedrock plateau above it,
if there was a collapse
into this region,
which that seems to indicate,
then that could be signs
of the original Money Pit.
-Yeah. -[Alex] The only reason
we could be finding
stuff like this below
where searchers have been before
is either the original works
or evidence of the collapse
of the original Money Pit.
And that would be
a great, great indication
that we're in the right place
and that there's really
something going on here.
[horn honks]
- Billy's waving to us.
- Let's take a look.
[Craig] What you seeing, Billy?
[Billy] See, Craig,
it looks like a piece of wood
in dark ground,
but more interesting, it's...
it's in dry material.
Yeah. Yeah, that whole side
looks like it was up against
a different material.
Yeah, exactly.
- Good eye.
- [Terry] We're near the bottom
of the TPF-1.
We found what I feel
is solid material
adjacent to loose,
slushy material.
It's a good indication
that you might have
an open void nearby
where treasure could fall into
in the solution channel.
- Are we doing any good?
- [Terry] Hey,
we're dropping like
gangbusters here, and we just
- pulled up wood.
- [Craig] Look how on this side,
it's all got a...
more of a drier,
sandy, compared to the muck
-that they're bringing up
everywhere else. -[Terry] Yeah.
So, I think we could be adjacent
to an actual open void.
-[Craig] Yeah. -That's what
I think we're seeing here,
and that wood
didn't get there itself.
No, no. That-that's
out of place at 195 feet.
- Wherever we're at, that's...
- [Terry] Absolutely.
- 195-ish. Yeah.
- Yeah.
-Let me see that piece of wood,
please, Alex. -[Alex] Yeah.
- It's heavy, dense.
- That's even better.
It's... that's a piece
of shaped wood.
Yeah. There's only
one explanation
that I can come up with
right now for why
-that's down there, and that is
the collapse. -[Craig] Yeah.
We're getting
another confirmation of it.
It's very, very interesting.
Good.
Let's bring it back to the lab.
[Gary] Is that
the deepest we've ever
retrieved wood?
Anything substantial, yeah.
[Marty] If you find something
in the solution channel,
well below
where any searcher ever was,
if that got there, then
the treasure could get there,
and we have solid indications
that there was a treasure here.
So, any artifact below
searcher depth is exciting.
- Hey, Quinton. -Hey, guys.
- Hey, Quinton, how you doing?
- What do we got?
- We're down to 206.5 feet.
- Okay.
- So, we are-are
right down to where you...
- are hoping to be or very close.
- Very close.
We're within ten feet of the
bottom. We almost have to be.
The bottom around here
is, uh, 215 to 217, 218,
so we're getting very close.
- Yeah.
- [Rick] I mean, this is where
it starts to get exciting,
because you're about
to reach the bottom
of the solution channel.
There's every hope that,
as this process continues
and the spoils
come up aboveground
and Gary metal detects,
he'll find it.
Billy just scooped out
another piece of wood.
[Rick] Every time you put
a can in the ground,
you're hoping
to find the one thing,
and there's all kinds of reasons
to believe that we will.
[Gary] That is some
Money Pit stew.
This is pretty soft...
I mean, look at that.
- [detector beeping]
- It's a good signal.
[sustained beep]
- [Alex] Right there?
- Just there, please.
Yep. And anywhere you like.
-[Alex] That's out. -It was
right in that chunk there.
It's a good signal.
Let's see what we got.
[high-pitched beeping]
-Ooh, hoo-hoo, what have
we got here? -[Terry] Oh, wow.
- [Alex] Whoa.
- [Gary] Oh! [laughs]
[Gary] Ooh, hoo-hoo,
what have we got here?
- [Alex] Whoa.
- Oh! I saw the roundness.
-[Alex] Yeah. -[Narrator]
While searching spoils
from nearly 210 feet deep
in the solution channel,
the team has just found
a metallic object.
[Rick] It's brass, isn't it?
Yeah. It looks like...
it's almost like a-a bearing?
Is that what it is?
[Gary] Only one way to tell,
and that's to...
ask Adam.
Adam's coming in now.
What is that?
[Adam E.] It's a button head.
That's what it's called.
- [Rick] It's off of your stuff?
- Not from ours, but more like
if you were running
a smaller diameter,
-and it would be
on your outside. -Yep.
- [Rick] A button bit.
- Little button bit.
I thought we had
a gold coin for a minute.
[Narrator] Unfortunately,
the button bit
is merely a cutting tool
that likely broke off the rim
of a smaller-diameter caisson
as it broke through bedrock
during one of the team's
previous dig operations
in this area.
-Okay, mate. I'll put it
in my pouch. -Thank you, Adam.
- [Gary] Thanks.
- [Alex] Thanks, Adam.
[Rick] It's disappointing,
because
it's not what we're
looking for, obviously.
But again, because it's not part
of this work currently
undertaken by SBC and ROC,
it has fallen from above,
and that proves once again
that heavy thing
migrates down through the soils
to the bottom
of the solution channel.
[Terry] Well, look who's here.
Hey, guys. How you doing?
Uh, we, uh,
we're on bottom with, uh,
the drill dig there,
so about 215.
- 215.
- It's all good.
We're at the bottom.
That's where we want to be.
- That's where we want to be.
- [Alex] Perfect. Thanks, guys.
-Yep. -[Craig] Still finding
quite a bit of wood
falling out of the bucket.
There was a collapse
into the solution channel.
- [Alex] Yeah.
- [Marty] Had to be. -Yeah.
[Marty] And we know
from the records
that the Money Pit
itself disappeared.
We just got to bloody find it.
-Look at that. Anything could
fall into that. -Let's go see
- if there's anything there.
- Yep.
[Marty] Everything we saw
in Top Pocket-1
indicates that our theory
is correct,
that the Money Pit collapsed
into the solution channel.
[Gary] That's it, mate.
We gave it a good shot.
[Marty] So, not only
is the theory correct,
I think we're getting close
to where it happened.
So, we're very excited
to keep going.
Now, we proved the theory,
but we didn't find the treasure,
and that is probably the sort of
elephant in the room
as we're deciding
where to go next.
We're searching areas that have
never been searched before.
You say it all the time:
a technical success.
- It is.
- Proof of concept.
- Yes.
- Things falling to the bottom
of the solution channel.
The one thing that, obviously,
we're missing
is Gary's top-pocket find.
I am not disillusioned at all.
The reality of it, it's
a bit disappointing, you know?
But you have to admit that,
because you got to climb
that mountain again, right?
[Marty] Keep going.
[Rick] I'm not about to quit.
There's still a lot to hope for,
but at the end of the day,
- we've got to move on.
- Yeah.
[Rick] We've got to pick
the next location.
And the next location
could be the location.
We've only just started
searching the solution channel.
[Rick] So, there is a lot
to look forward to.
[Narrator] The following
morning...
[Marty] Thanks for joining,
because this should be
a very exciting w*r room.
Thank you, Rick,
for having us again.
[Narrator] ...as the team
considers where their next dig
will be in the Money Pit area...
First, we'll get
the professor and Marzia,
we'll get them up on the screen.
[Narrator] ...they are
meeting once again
via videoconference
with archaeoastronomy expert
Professor Adriano Gaspani
and his interpreter
Marzia Sebastiani.
-Emiliano, I'll turn it over
to you. -Well, today,
we are going to present, uh,
an archaeoastronomical
analysis of,
of the churches
that Charlotte Wheatley
found to be aligned
with Oak Island.
[Charlotte] So,
we have three churches,
all on the west coast of France,
pointing towards the island.
-Hmm. -[Narrator] One week ago,
researcher Charlotte Wheatley
pointed out a reference to
the city of Talmont-sur-Gironde
in Southern France,
on Zena Halpern's map
of Oak Island,
which Zena believed
was created by members
of the Knights Templar
in the 14th century.
According to Charlotte,
three medieval churches
near Talmont-sur-Gironde
had ties to the Templar order
and sit on an east-to-west line
that points directly
toward Oak Island.
Now, after being given
the GPS coordinates
of several structures
across the island,
including the round feature
on Lot 5,
Professor Gaspani has analyzed
Charlotte's research...
[Narrator] ...and compared it
with his own study
of historical stellar alignments
between the churches
and specific features
on the island.
It is true. All the axes
of the three churches
would intersect with Oak Island.
Excellent confirmation.
[Marzia] We have an alignment
with the rising of Sirius.
And then on the opposite side,
we have a star alignment
with the Pleiades
and with Hamal.
And what is really interesting
is when it comes
to stellar alignment.
They are exactly
the same alignment
that you have in Lot 5.
That's stunning.
This is incredibly
thought-provoking.
- Yeah.
- So, the two datings
of the structures suggest
the same historical period.
And the elements that we have
seem to point in the direction
of the 13th century.
So, thanks to these
archaeoastronomical techniques,
we managed to have a date
for, uh, this structure,
for this stone in Lot 5.
[Marzia] A date, which is 1236.
[Marzia] We managed to have
a date for this structure,
for this stone in Lot 5,
which is 1236.
- [laughter]
- Very interesting.
[Narrator] In the w*r room,
Professor Adriano Gaspani
has informed the team
that, based on
historic stellar alignments,
he believes
that the round feature on Lot 5
may have been created by members
of the Knights Templar
in the early 13th century.
[Marzia] This structure
would be built
in the same period
where we assumed,
uh, that there was
a Templar presence
on Oak Island.
Which is pretty consistent with
the dating of Nolan's Cross.
Emiliano, I assume
all three of these churches
date to the same era,
then, the 1200s?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
[Emiliano] Roughly,
by the end of the 1100s
and the early 1200s.
Well, I'm having a hard time
rejecting this one.
- [laughter]
- Yeah.
[Doug] It seems like
somebody was here,
-let's say from France, from
the Talmont region... -Mm-hmm.
Of France, in the 1200s.
They established
a base of operations.
And then, when you consider
the Pitblado coin,
the latest date
it could be is from 1383.
So, Zena introduced us
to her Oak Island map
that mentioned Talmont, right?
And that was supposed
to represent a Templar journey
- to the island.
- Mm-hmm.
Here we see a lot of these
factors converging together.
All these areas
that were denoted as significant
on her map are proven
to be significant today.
-Yeah. -[Steve] And the latest
being the Lot 8 structure,
as well as
the December triangle.
December triangle. Yeah.
So, this could well be
a multigenerational endeavor,
because they established
their base of operations
and then moved something
of great value over time.
Yeah.
[Narrator] Could Doug
and Steve be correct
that this new research
has helped to validate
Zena Halpern's map
of Oak Island,
as well as her belief
that the Templar order
and their descendants
made repeated trips
to Oak Island
beginning nearly
eight centuries ago?
The 1200s, years ago,
would've been...
we'd have laughed at it.
And that, and that's
quite meaningful because
now there's a body
of evidence building
that it perhaps is
the point of beginning
of some endeavor here
on the island to do something.
So, again,
we want to thank you both
for your time today.
It's quite stunning information.
I-I think it's amazing.
- Thank you. Thank you.
- Grazie.
[Rick] And we need to use
everything we have
in our "toolbox,"
if you will, to prove it.
But we can't prove it without
continuing to do the work.
- So, let's get at it.
- [Alex] Mm-hmm.
- Sounds good.
- [Rick] Thanks, everybody.
[Narrator] The Money Pit's
long-held secret
remains elusive,
at least for now.
But once again,
by searching for clues
where none have thought
to look before,
Rick, Marty, Craig and the team
may be closing in on the truth
behind the world's
longest-running treasure hunt.
Could the origin
of this mystery be older
and more profound
than anyone thought possible?
Perhaps one more dig
in the solution channel
will reveal the answer.
Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...
[Craig] Here we go.
[Rick] Wait, wait, wait. Hey!
- Guess what?
- Well!
- [laughs] Brilliant.
- [Craig] Oh, wow.
[Fiona] Oh, look at that.
We're starting to get
this material.
[Ian] This is blowing me away
right now
because it's nothing
I have ever seen before.
- This is a covered well, right?
- [Gary] Yeah, it is.
Oh, this has got
potential, mate.
Ooh! Look at that.
It's premodern,
all the way back to medieval.
- [Jack] No way!
- [laughter]
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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.