06x13 - The Paper Chase

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

Marty: Come on, baby! 'Now it's time to see

-What's in that hole. -This is part

do Chappell Vault.

-Wow! -Rick: We know that there

significant slopes in M-8.

JACK: Charles, what is it? -What's wrong with you?

It looks like as a scroll to me. -DOUG: Look for red.

This color was used on really old books.

RICK: If you were in charge,

Where do you look? -I would stay

for an entry that is now underwater.

Because I think there is one.

-LAIRD: Hey, Rick? -Yes?

-We found something. Oh man.

What the hell could this be?

Narrator: There is an island in the North Atlantic

where people were looking for an incredible treasure

for over 200 years.

So far, they found a stone slab

with strange symbols carved into it,

mysterious human bone fragments,

and a lead cross whose origin can go back

to the days of the Knights Templar.

So far, six men d*ed trying to solve the mystery.

And, according to legend,

another will have to die

before the treasure can be found.

GARY: Wow, that's a piece of a wall, is not it?

LAIRD: Yep.

RICK: It's very strange.

Narrator: For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,

performing of a dream lifelong

to solve the 223-year-old mystery of Oak Island

You can now be closer than ever,

as they continue to make incredible discoveries

in Smith's Cove.

RICK: What do you think?

Someone wanted something permanent.

'So what does that mean? - (n)

-Yes. -At the end of the launch pad ...

A piece of concrete.

You tell me what that means.

Have you ever seen anything like this before, Laird?

Underwater -No. - (laughing)

NARRATOR: a few moments,

while digging up what appears to be

an antique wooden shipping dock or launch ramp,

archaeologist Laird Niven made another surprising discovery:

a concrete wall buried approximately three feet

below the ocean floor.

I think there is a way to concrete date?

-Yes. This material? -The Romans had, uh,

concrete that would set underwater.

-Same? -This could be easily ...

incredibly old.

Now, that's a good sign

when you are not getting any metal

the actual concrete wall.

What the hell could this be?

NARRATOR: Why the mysterious concrete wall

is defined under high tide level and contains no metal,

It is the belief of the team that he may have been built

using engineering techniques

first developed by the ancient Romans

already in the third century BC

By mixing volcanic ash with other native minerals,

They created a single concrete mix,

that when poured underwater,

would harden and set.

There are many who have theorized

that even sophisticated knowledge

It would have been necessary to build

elaborate system of tunnels island trapped flood,

which are also believed to be similar in design

to Roman aqueducts.

RICK: You know, at this time, the Smith Creek in the treaties

So many questions,

and now here we have another wall previously unknown

in close proximity to other structures.

Therefore, it is very possible that,

This discovery process as a product,

we may indeed finally, once and for all,

prove who, when, why.

That's why we are here on Smith Creek.

Hey, Rick? -Yes?

Um, we find something for you to look.

What is it?

LAIRD: two connected tubes.

-And they do not take. -They do not look metal to me.

LAIRD: They are not leading, no.

RICK: This is almost a ...

rubbery consistency, right, Laird?

Yes, he is, is not it? -Yes.

And rubber could have been around for a long time.

LAIRD: Well, I found rubber 1850s.

rubber tubes SPEAKER?

Possibly from the mid-19th century?

Although the natural rubber was known

and used by the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica

as early as 1600 BC,

it was not until the mid-19th century

the chemist and engineer Charles Goodyear

He found a way to improve the substance,

which led to widespread manufacture of rubber products

such as tires, hoses, and footwear.

Could the tubes found inside the concrete wall

be the work of 19th century researchers in Oak Island?

Or is another confusing layer

a mystery team still has to struggle to solve?

RICK: Dan, we have a mystery to you.

-Imagine that. -OK.

What is it?

And you know anything about these tubes?

EH:. Hmm.

At the.

I suppose the mystery is: Why would anyone build

something and then not mention to anyone

-or have any record of it? -Exactly.

LAIRD: I was containg something?

He was holding something?

It was providing something?

Yes.

(Sighs): Yeah.

Smith Cove.

I thought it would be a simple excavation,

find artifacts, find out who and when.

You know, it just goes on ...

Getting wonkier.

"Wonkier" is a good word, yes.

RICK: Well, we have some research to do.

Narrator: In the late afternoon ...

(Ring) line

RICK: Hey, guys.

-Paul: Hey. Marty: Hello.

Marty. Craig.

... Rick Lagina calls a meeting

in the w*r room to update his brother Marty

and members of the Oak Island team

on the intriguing developments in Smith Cove.

RICK: Well, I think we all agree

today was a ...

a very strange day in Smith Creek, right?

-Yes. -Yes.

I would bet that because we sent him the photos,

you are as confused as we are.

That would be a fair bet, Rick. That would be a fair bet.

RICK: We were on an emotional roller coaster

Oak Island, right?

We checked in a concrete structure

how we are pursuing the launch pad.

And we're ecstatic.

We-we are thinking-- Marty, you know Roman history.

-Right. -Pantheon, the Colosseum,

the underwater pier.

They knew concrete mixes back and forth.

Yes. It's the kind of remains even stranger,

because I...

I like to think I have a vivid imagination,

(Laughs), and I can not come up with a use for this thing.

(Laughing)

You can, Dave?

You know, you have more experience in construction

than any of us.

Do you have any idea

by tubes through a concrete wall?

I have no idea why they would put

tubes -two inches it. -Right next to each other, too,

-right? -Yes.

I have a total blank.

-Dave: We all do. CHARLES: Yeah.

MARTY: Guys, this is a kind of, maybe,

out of right field, but what is the chance

that the concrete wall is much older

of the pipes that are sticking with it?

In other words, someone found it,

holes through it, put there tubes.

I mean, there is some evidence that,

-or could this be? -It's possible.

Yes.

Narrator: It was in 1850

researchers Company Truro

first discovered the drains of legendary stone box

in Smith Creek

by building a clay cofferdam

before draing area.

it's possible

that treasure hunters of the 19th century in Oak Island

modified a much older structure

in order to help them dig Cove Smith?

It has been quite remarkable

how many structures are in Cove Smith

I did not know were there.

So we're always scratching our head.

RICK: But it's important to reach an understanding,

because hope, understanding, research,

put the puzzle pieces together

will take us where we want to go.

And where we want to go is to find the original money pit.

You know, the interesting thing

in connection with this "concrete structure" it is,

you know, we pay more attention to the launch pad.

Yes.

GARY: When you look at it ...

slipway, you see all the logs are used in it.

I think it's basically

a large ramp that goes all the way to the Money Pit.

You think it's original.

I really do.

I believe launch ramp is the glory road.

That is where we will find some things.

MARTY: Yeah. I certainly like

to dig underneath it.

Yes, I think it will be worth it.

Oh, yeah, sure.

And there might even be an older ...

-feature underneath it. -Exactly.

MARTY: Here's what we can say for sure.

The more you dig in Smith's Cove,

the more surprises you find.

I mean, look what we have.

We have an unknown concrete wall.

We have an L-shaped structure

that is to be transformed into a giant structure.

We have a slipway which we thought was

type of accessory for all,

and it can actually be the key to everything.

So, you know, it's easy for us to say, but ...

go back and find out.

Fair. There is much to do.

-no question about it. Marty: Yeah.

We will soon join you.

-Rick: All right. Marty: I see you.

-Rick: See you. -LAIRD: See you later.

NARRATOR: As the excavation of the Smith Creek continues,

Rick Lagina and Dave Blankenship

get to the house Dave's father,

Veteran Oak Island treasure hunter, Dan Blankenship.

How are you doing, Dad? -Dan. B: Hi, Dave.

NARRATOR: They are hoping he can provide answers

for key issues that have

about the mysterious concrete wall

She found earlier today.

RICK: So ...

We are hoping that you can enlighten us.

We are-we are bringing you another puzzle.

Narrator: In more than five decades

Dan spent living

and search for treasure on Oak Island,

he gathered a wealth of first-hand information.

In the early 1970s,

he and his partner, David Tobias,

He constructed a massive cofferdam in Smith Creek

hoping to find the remains

the legendary stone box drains.

It was during this digging

Dan made a number of surprising discoveries,

including two massive wood structures,

one laid out in the form of an "L" and the other a "U"

discovered that the Laginas and his team

recently discovered.

Now, you know Smith Cove, as well as anyone.

Okay, so here's the sheet pile, right?

-Dan B: Yes. -Rick:. Like that.

We discovered the U-shaped structure

Then the U-shaped structure is outside.

And we were following this,

trying to figure out where it ended, and suddenly,

right here, there's this thing.

DAN B:. Is your concrete wall.

-Rick: Yep. -Dave. B: five inches thick,

and it is three feet tall, the concrete itself.

RICK: But there are pipes on the bottom right.

DAN B:. If you're asking me if I had seen any of it,

The answer is obviously no.

who could have done this?

It had to be before 1950.

Restall never done any work like that.

I saw what Restall did in '65,

and all he did was what I call surface work.

RICK: But nothing like this.

At the.

There was a lot of work done in Cove Smith.

Who made this? I do not know.

I do not have your records.

The only thing about, you know, our problems

with the file record is that

most people were so entranced

with the idea of ​​treasure

that recording data was not mandatory.

It was the first guideline.

And so, it may be an original work,

It can be a researcher working illegally.

We do not know, and that's the problem.

DAVE B:. Right in front of that concrete wall.

RICK: Right-right in front of him

is that slipway, pier,

-a old launch pad. -This is important.

I mean, to try and just get a couple of pieces out

-and have it carbon-dated. -Rick: Mm-hmm.

See if you can put an age to launching pad.

Yes, there are no catches there.

None.

So that was ... I mean, my God,

nails were out for God knows how long, you know?

RICK: Gary Drayton came

with an idea that

if you are downloading things off of a ship

and you build this launching pad to the records, right?

-Right. If you do not arrest them,

you put something heavy there,

then you can roll it up the launch pad.

These people were ... they had to use creativity.

-There is no doubt about it. -Yes.

We thought we were going to dig Cove Smith

and get some answers, but ...

Whatever you come up with is questions.

They have been few and far between.

We have some explaing to do, so it's best

-Go out there and do it -Yep.

DAN B:. Back to the drawing board.

(All laugh)

Narrator: The next day, Marty Lagina

and his partner Craig Tester meet

Marty brother Rick, his son Alex,

and other members of his team at the Money Pit site.

Mike, you calculated the plug fall?

This morning, the plug was right at the bottom of the can.

-OK. -E then went

down within a foot bottom,

and we can even in two feet.

-OK. -So we ... technically,

three feet of material.

-Charles. Marty. Craig.

The only thing that's coming out now.

NARRATOR: Working with representatives

Irving Equipment Limited, Laginas and its partners

continuing excavation axis H-8.

An axis that they believe

They may have crossed the original money pit.

It was here last year,

the team found amazing tracks

below a depth of 160 feet,

including pieces of paper and leather binding,

human bones from the 17th century,

and even wooden box of evidence to seven feet tall

first reported by treasure hunters in 1897.

Unfortunately, when the team tried

to penetrate the mysterious object

using a 50 inch wide drilling caisson,

they believe it was actually pushed aside

and a large empty, muddy

located at a depth of about 170 feet.

CRAIG: Something was in front of the can,

and we were pushing it for a while,

and he was pushing all the clay out of the way.

It is still there, then. -Exactly.

-Hello. -Hello.

So, uh, you're making five feet up and down a few times?

-OK. -Yes.

VANESSA: We are bringing to five,

and then back up and down,

and kind of just working down the can.

John -If there monitoring to see

if he feels something different in the making,

If nothing is coming -Craig: Ok ..

VANESSA: But we'll probably get off on, uh,

working up and down, down about 15 feet,

and then to obtain a good measurement,

see if anything is coming, and then continue the process.

OK.

Yes, I think once we get down,

even if they do not measure anything,

go ahead and take a couple of hammer win.

-Just in case something fell, but ... -For sure. Yes.

CRAIG: Why is pushed out somewhere, you know.

-Yes. Yes. 'So whatever we need

She pushed him out back, so ...

NARRATOR: It is the hope of the team Oak Island

that by raising the steel coffin to several feet

the most valuable clues, or perhaps the vault itself,

You can move back into his path,

they can try, then recover

using a claw hammer tool of three tons.

VANESSA: We are in depth casing 194,

and we have a plug-two feet.

-Two plug-foot? -You want us to go back up

and try to get more?

MARTY: Let's ... let's grab.

I mean, I mean, I would not take much material

have fallen under to be interesting.

Yes, we might as well. Yes, OK.

Let's go ahead and do it. Let's take a claw,

then we might want to come up and work it out.

-That's nice. -OK.

Yes, we can do this.

-Rick: What-what is it? -Craig: It's a little

the muddy side.

RICK: What's it?

CRAIG: The middle?

This is amazing.

I have a bag here.

RICK: Just over here.

CRAIG: These are great pieces to be at this depth.

Well, what depth, however, Craig?

-This ... Well, it has to be lower

1-7 ... ... 68 -1 -168.

I thought we were too deep for Chappell Vault,

but I'm wondering if this is part of Chappell Vault.

NARRATOR: Wood? Chappell's Vault?

Found more than 170 feet deep in H-8?

Could the team have successfully located

the legend box believed to contain

the treasure of Oak Island?

RICK: These are all pieces of the puzzle, clues.

Look, each track is important to find it,

especially H-8, which in turn is confirmation

that there is something going on here,

um, it is-is positive news.

NARRATOR: The possibility that the team

located evidence of Chappell Vault

It offers more than an exciting prospect.

Yes, here we go.

NARRATOR: It now requires that every piece of loot

We brought up from the axis H-8

be examined more closely than usual

in an effort to see if they contain important clues

or evidence of treasure.

Hey, Charles!

CHARLES: Ok.

Ufa.

That's a sizeable chunk.

Yes, this is.

What about this wood, Charles?

It is not as light as the other pieces.

And it's not completely black, either.

Let's save that, uh ... let it go.

Hey, Charles, what is it?

CHARLES: What do you think?

I'm thinking it's definitely a fibrous material.

CHARLES: Yep. JACK: Looks

the scroll to me.

JACK: Hey, Charles, what is it?

SPEAKER: While searching through M-8 spoils

Jack Begley and Charles Barkhouse

I have only found a potentially important clue,

one that could prove that the team

It is closer than ever to find the mysterious Vault Chappell.

JACK: It seems that the scroll to me.

It-it's definitely ... uh, we definitely

-have the bag. Yes. -It's just black. Yes.

This ... this means only that it was

in water for a long time.

JACK: Yes CHARLES:. Do you understand?

JACK: I think this is more parchment,

but this-this definitely stands out as unnatural.

Narrator: In 1897,

after penetrating what they believed to be

a dome wood seven feet in height during a drilling operation,

Treasure Hunters William Chappell and Frederick Blair

They were surprised to see not only traces of gold

in a drill

but also a small piece of parchment

with clearly visible letters VI.

This discovery led to a series of fascinating theories

who suggested that the treasure of Oak Island could be composed

more of great monetary value objects.

Some believe that the safe can contain all

of the lost manuscripts of William Shakespeare

the important historical documents,

documents that could connect directly

the mystery of Oak Island for history

of the Knights Templar.

CHARLES: Let's put it in a bag.

Keep this certainly separate.

Let's show the guys. -OK. Right.

Because I think they'll be happy to hear

we found something that is out of place.

I think this is more parchment,

but it is a good indication that once we have the plug removed,

we will start to find all things

we thought we were going to meet last year in H-8.

I hope you're right, Jack.

(Laughs) I think I am, Charles.

No, Rick.

Look what Charles and I just found.

What is it?

JACK: It could be the leather. CHARLES: It could be the leather.

But it is definitely-organic material,

because you can see the fibers.

This was in both the leather and parchment last year.

This is what I was finding

-em H-8. -Sim.

Yes, this needs to be bagged.

-Absolutely. -Yes.

Arriving. Look out, boys.

RICK: The good news scenario

It is this leather can be

and / or parchment, and it is deep in the Money Pit.

And and maybe at some point there may be better news,

that is, if we can recover something more substantial

than just a little.

I mean, the whole ... this whole thing

It is about finding an irrefutable piece of evidence.

Evidence is evidence.

-Yes. -Then more power to you.

It's a great find. -Thank you.

Alright, let's get back to work, Rick.

OK.

Looks good.

I think that pretty much does.

EH:. Oh, boy.

'You have to look at everything. -Yes.

Wait.

Is this some kind of paper. I do not know if it's old.

DAN H:. It is genuine paper.

It could be parchment, but it's really fragile.

Without the writing, anyway.

Not that I can discern.

DAN H:. Different colors?

A color different from the other side?

JACK: Yes.

All right, well, let's bag him.

I really can not say whether or parchment paper

or whether it is old or new, but ...

worth saving.

GARY: You never know. Good eye, Jack.

NARRATOR: Later that day,

Craig Tester and his stepson Jack Begley

join historians island Paul Troutman and Doug Crowell

Research in Oak Island Center

to get a closer look at their recent discoveries

from H-8 axis.

We brought along a couple of things

we had found in H-8, uh, we spoke.

Let's go ahead and and get it

-underneath the uh microscope. -Yes.

DOUG: These samples are all from

-than the level of 160 feet? JACK: Yes.

CRAIG: The first item up is leather.

OK.

JACK: Or at least we think.

PAUL: I think it will be, uh,

one to find out if he has any pattern or anything.

NARRATOR: Using a digital microscope Grobet,

the team will be able to expand the samples

up to 2,000 times its actual size.

CRAIG: We're seeing a little color there.

This is a mineral, or which is a paint of some kind?

That's what I've been flipping back and forth

in my head, Craig, because it is hard to say.

When I collected this material last year from H-8,

I was surprised to learn

it was really leather or binding.

CRAIG: That, to me,

really it looks like leather.

DOUG: Another one for the experts.

CRAIG: Yes, definitely.

Okay, now let's go with

the potential pieces of parchment.

DOUG: Oh, look where it is folded.

This looks a lot like the parchment.

Oh, now, that's interesting. Look for the red.

JACK: Yeah, what is that stuff there?

-Craig: The colored material? -Yes. Pigment?

DOUG: Yes, something has been applied to it.

JACK: You have yellow, and you have this pink line.

I mean, maybe there was something

written on this piece of paper.

DOUG: See, I think it really intriguing because ...

I can imagine the color to use

-in really old books. -Craig: Okay.

DOUG: You know how when they started

paragraph, usually it was ...

It was a great letter,

-and would be in color? -Mm-hmm.

That's what it reminds me.

Narrator: In the early fifth century AD,

a large, stylized initial known as a drop cap

It is sometimes used to adorn the first letter

in each paragraph or chapter of manuscripts

written across Europe and the Middle East.

But what makes new team's findings

further potentially significant

is the fact that such decorative characters

They were most commonly found in religious texts

and important documents

often illustrated with artwork prepared.

DOUG: Look how straight it is.

It does not run all the time.

Yes, it stops abruptly.

CRAIG: Let me turn it over

in case you get a different look from this side.

JACK: Oh look.

You have really fibrous material,

like here,

but then this seems a lot smoother.

As the fibers are only on the opposite side,

Not this side.

That's really intriguing. -Craig: Yes, it is.

Yes, definitely you need to have a look expert at it.

Whether it's paper ... What kind of role?

And I really think that they can do things with these pigments.

When determining which are the pigments that are,

they can determine periods of time,

-so ... -Paul: Yes, discover

or the like is not as

-for the first sample. -Yes.

CRAIG: Thanks, guys.

We'll be back with more.

NARRATOR: It is the beginning of a new day in Oak Island.

MARTY: Come on, baby!

NARRATOR: As brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,

your partner Craig Tester, and other members of your team

continuing excavation axis H-8

in Money Pit area ...

DAVE: Nothing.

Nothing to hold on.

Yes.

... Today also marks the return

a special guest to the island.

It seems that the guys are here.

There he is. Hey, Randall.

Hey you.

Narrator: For the past two decades,

investigative journalist and author Randall Sullivan

has been researching

and write about the mystery of Oak Island.

It is this research that resulted

at the conclusion of a brand new book sheet

on the treasure hunt 223 years.

I look forward to reading your book.

That would be good.

Thus, his book has now come to fruition.

-You guys are getting the first copy.

-All right!

And you changed your thinking

about what and when and what and where?

Well, the things I was interested in

actually became more convincing to me.

-Same? -RANDALL: I just found out

So much history, so much truth.

But pointing here?

He points here.

Well, we are deeply interested in learning more about it.

Let's have a little powwow in the w*r room.

Okay, great.

-I have a chance to give you the books.

Yes, welcome back.

-Welcome back. -Welcome back.

MARTY: We know Randall Sullivan

It is a good researcher and a great writer.

RICK: Not only he wrote another book

Oak Island, but he has done a very adequate job

research on the mystery of Oak Island

and before the story of the discovery.

The hope is that some of the material

will-will help us or help us

as we move forward with our research.

So I see some books here,

-Mr. Sullivan. Uh, you do. The first two ...

-first two copies. -Oh thank you very much.

MARTY: It's fantastic. Signed, II take it?

-Clear. -Clear.

This is probably how it looks, you know.

(Randall ri)

That's what we'll find out right there.

Yes, there is ... there is much more underground.

-Mm-hmm. Marty: Yes.

-There is no doubt about it. -Yes.

MARTY: Are you happy with that?

Of course I'm happy about it. I mean, when I ...

You know, II think it's certainly the most authoritative

and entertaining story of Oak Island.

What I discovered, to my surprise, really,

confirmed both the origin story.

I believe the fundamental story origin,

Pit the money was found for three teenagers--

John Smith, Anthony Vaughan

-and Daniel McGinnis ... Okay.

I think it's verifiable, actually.

there plausibility

in totally misunderstood anything happened here?

-Not for me. -Not.

I am pleased that the story of origin

-is fundamentally accurate. All right, continue.

-Mm-hmm. -E am, I am also ...

You know, that led to exploration

of the first stories of the research,

which of course leads to, you know, 90 Stone foot

and the initial flood.

-Mm-hmm. -Yes.

MARTY: Where you move away from the lore,

or not? So basically,

you are saying that the flood tunnels, drains the box ...

II think it's clear that that, uh,

Truro Company did find these things

when they went to explore the beach

-and they were crushed by them. -Mm-hmm.

What is the most compelling piece of evidence for you?

I mean, can you can highlight

single most compelling piece of evidence?

I mean, it all works

It is the most compelling piece of evidence.

I mean, something ...

Whatever was done it was done on a scale which required

a job and a commitment that I have always had a hard time

believing that people do it just for a golden treasure.

Mm-hmm.

No matter how big it was.

And when I started to look for theories

coming from this side

and the historical facts that support them,

that's why I was so attracted by Francis Bacon.

Mm-hmm.

(Bird cries)

NARRATOR: Of the many theories

Oak Island,

one of the most compelling suggests

the man behind the mystery

was none other than Sir Francis Bacon,

the renowned philosopher of the 17th century,

scientist and noble.

Some researchers even believe

Bacon came to Oak Island

with original manuscripts of William Shakespeare

and buried them in a filled with mercury lead box.

RANDALL: Bacon was inheriting one ...

a wisdom, a tradition that went back,

you know, even deeper than the times of the Knights Templar.

-Mm-hmm. -There are very

Historical evidence that supports it.

I mean, not-not that it proves that

or sets it for sure,

but increases its plausibility,

because Bacon wrote that

one of the best ways to educate people

It is to create a treasure hunt.

MARTY: Oh, really?

- (laughter) -This ... this SOB

This is quite convincing.

MARTY: Well, if he is the architect of this,

then the man, did he hit the bull's eye

-With this. -Yes.

You may know this, Rick, that that ...

one of the works of Bacon, uh, uh,

It is about creating a perpetual spring.

-Mm-hmm. Yes, and the first line of

their instructions is:

"Dig a hole in the sea."

NARRATOR: Shortly after the death

Sir Francis Bacon in 1626,

his personal secretary, William Rawley,

published a collection of philosophical writings of Bacon

tided forest growing.

Among the nearly 1,000 passages in the text,

one instructs the reader

to "dig a hole on the seashore"

starting above the high water mark,

and then to sink the axis to a point below the sea level.

Will Randall Sullivan discovered evidence

with his hand to Bacon

referring to the construction of the Pit money?

RANDALL: There were lines like that I thought

this is just too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence.

Right.

RICK: If you woke up tomorrow morning

and you were in charge, but you just had a swing,

where you look and what you do ... how do you do it?

Oh. -A swing at bat.

Well, I would look for an entry

which is now underwater.

Wow.

Underwater?

Could Randall Sullivan made a direct connection

between the solution to the mystery of Oak Island

and recent team discovered in Smith's Cove?

RICK: Randall Sullivan

is an advocate of Baconian connection to Oak Island,

I'd rather like me.

That fits with what we're digging here

in Smith Creek, so it's really very interesting.

RANDALL: I am, I am sure that the actual origins

flood tunnel is, you know, way offshore.

-Not the primary flood system. -Mm-hmm.

You know, on the south side. Not in Smith Cove.

NARRATOR: Another flood tunnel system

on the south coast?

In winter 1980, while conducting

a pumping operation in the Money Pit,

Hunter veteran treasure Dan Blankenship

noticed four large holes in the frozen bay

off shore south of the island.

It was his belief that the so-called "ice holes"

that appeared again in 1987,

It may be evidence of a second flood tunnel

feeding water from the ocean to the Money Pit.

Could it be that,

in order to recover the treasure of Oak Island,

the team must turn off not one,

but the b*mb multiple systems flood?

RICK: Is there a possibility

that there is an associated tunnel

to the south coast, right next to the stone triangle.

Therefore, it is interesting because it is in an area

we know very little about.

It is worth investigating.

I know you have real work to do.

MARTY: Yeah, we have things to do.

RANDALL: You have to get, you know,

working, you know, the updated version

-which will inevitably come. -That's right.

That's right. We have to get her some material.

That's right.

I have a book to read. -You-you do indeed.

MARTY: Let's go back to it.

Narrator: After his briefing

in the w*r room, Rick, and Marty Craig

return to the site of the Pit money,

where Jack Begley, Charles Barkhouse

and Dan Henskee continue to scour the spoils

for potential clues dug from the axis H-8.

CRAIG: What's the word?

Well, gravity did its thing.

How many?

-24 feet. -Same?

-Wow. Yeah, so, of course,

-type came was eight feet. -Right.

And then, as we brought the can,

who won another 16, so we are 24 feet fit in the can.

-All right. We will continue to dig. -Yes.

RICK: If this material disappeared

reveals inspiring something that says,

you need to get here and look,

then the game is actually happening because then we go down,

and retrieve what's down there.

Oh, look what we have here.

I think it's ... it seems like a lot

like parchment, except it's black.

It's very, very dark.

CHARLES: It could be.

NARRATOR: Another piece of parchment?

this could be further evidence

that books and old documents are part

Treasure Oak Island?

I'm going to sack him, Jack. Yes, we need to save it.

-Yes. -Just in case.

Oh, here's a nice little ... Yeah!

What do you think of that?

It has all kinds of grains.

He might look like, uh,

something in a human body or ...

Oh, you think this could be a bone?

NARRATOR: Bone?

the team could have found more evidence

of human remains buried in Pit money fund?

And if so, could be related

one of two individuals of the 17th century

whose bones were discovered in the same place last year?

Or it could be the remains

another person, yet to be identified?

It is porous.

Yes, to have someone who, you know, know more than us

have a look at it.

This really is a good find, Dan.

JACK: Some of the important things

that came out of the H-8 remains far

They were the scroll, and then, a bone

which seemed kind of strange.

Aquecê it, Dan!

We should be able to get some information back from that

and some understanding

why these bones are so deep within the earth.

-Hi guys. -Hi. How's it going?

-Whew! CHARLES: Found a few

-interesting things. -Seriously?

Jack thinks he may have found a piece of bone.

Given the grooves on the back here,

I do not know, or was against

a piece of wood? I'm not sure.

CRAIG: It seems almost twisted, though.

CHARLES: Yeah.

Not sure what that is.

JACK: What do you think?

Well, we can take a picture of it

-and send it to Laird. -Yes.

I do not know what to think of this one, it is ...

bone or wood or twisted. It's strange appearance.

-Yes. JACK: The more I look at it,

I think it's more bone because,

I mean, if you look at the hollow center,

it seems that this is where the bone marrow should be.

If it is bone, which is really good news,

Because then we have a third piece of bone to test.

It may be a different individual,

and we can better identify

a period of time and where they came from.

This will help determine who was potentially here, so ...

-Yes. Exciting. Okay, well, that sounds good.

Exciting.

At least we know the oddities found last year

H-8 were not just from this hole.

There's more stuff down there,

and hope to find more.

You know, the more we go through the spoils,

the more things that will come up.

-Absolutely. -There's something

there in the Money Pit, Rick.

II know it. Look, it's not about

-right or wrong. It's not ... No, no.

It's about the search for truth.

-Do you know? -Yes.

But we are finding interesting clues.

We are trying to apply real science

a real mystery with real business acumen.

CHARLES: Yeah. 'So the hope is,

as this year progresses, we will find the only thing.

That's my hope.

CHARLES: Yep.

Narrator: For Laginas and its partners,

the idea that something of historical importance

happened at Oak Island is no longer a question.

But as they continue to dig in Smith's Cove,

the Money Pit,

and other areas across the island,

what will they find?

historical manuscripts invaluable?

Gold and silver left here by the Knights Templar?

Or will it be something much more valuable?

Something so precious,

I needed to be saved with human lives?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island ...

JACK: We'll find him.

-It should be in this area. -Start recording.

We're recording. This thing can be done by man.

It almost seems an anchor.

Tell me what you think it is.

DOUG: What was considered valuable enough

to bury manuscripts so far underground?

This is a medieval book.

DANNY: See how the floor is gone?

It's caving. He is preparing to tip over.

MARTY: This is a very dangerous place.

All the money Pit can collapse.

RICK: All this work,

all the research.

MARTY: This is not good.

We can not continue.