07x20 - Springing the Trap

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

GARY:
What the heck is that?

Same size as the cribbing spikes

that we found in Smith's Cove.

‐Wow.
‐VANESSA:
We're cutting through something.

‐Wow!
‐Oh! Look at the wood.

‐There you go.
‐Wow! Look at the size of that.

‐Yeah!
‐This piece is hand‐hewn,
as well, look.

This should be the money tunnel.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Look at this.

This could be a hinge
to a chest.

That's freakin' awesome!

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,

mysterious fragments
of human bone,

and a lead cross
whose origin may stretch back

to the days
of the Knights Templar.

To date, six men have d*ed
trying to solve the mystery.

And, according to legend,

one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

♪ ♪

‐Okay, guys, talk to me,
talk to me.
‐Hey, Marty.

What's going on‐‐ any finds, any
news, any anything, anything?

‐Nothing but good news.
‐How close are we?

Somewhere between 70 and 75
would be my guess right now.

I‐I think we're in undisturbed
area, which is good,

'cause we want to come
down on top of a tunnel.

‐On top of the tunnel
that was, yeah.
‐Yeah.

NARRATOR:
With only a few precious weeks
left before the start

of another bitter‐cold
Nova Scotia winter,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina
and members of their team

watch closely
as an eight‐foot‐wide

steel‐cased shaft is
driven deeper and deeper

into the ground
at a site known as 8‐A.

If successful, this exploratory
borehole should

intercept a 19th century
searcher tunnel known

as Shaft Six,

which according
to archival records,

directly connects
to the original Money Pit.

RICK:
There's no question I'm
excited, because I have always

believed the answer is at the
end of the Shaft Six tunnel.

I truly, truly believe that
at the end of that tunnel,

there is the one thing.

MARTY:
Do I like the Shaft Six
location?

Yes, it's logical.
I think this will prove

that the search
for the Money Pit is accurate.

We're excited about it.

‐Hey, Vanessa! How are you?
‐Snuck in here on me.

‐Nice to see you.
‐Good to see you.

‐Got everything working, eh?
‐Yeah.

I'm getting ready for
the good stuff to begin.

These guys tell me we're close.

VANESSA:
We are, so our casing is

probably about at 78, 78 feet.

And then we've got
a pretty good plug in there

right now that we're
trying to break out.

We've been pulling out
quite a few boulders.

The objective on this one
is a tunnel,

so we wouldn't want
to be coming down a shaft,

and boulders and stuff
sounds like... normal stuff.

Yep, yep, for sure.

Yeah, we've very,
very minimal wood.

Like, compared to years
past drilling up here...

‐Oh, yeah.
‐...very, very minimal.

JACK:
The crane's the same size,
but the grab and the cans

‐are a whole lot bigger.
‐VANESSA: Yeah.

So, that grab right there weighs

about 52,000 pounds.

That's twice the size
of the grab we had last year.

NARRATOR:
This year, in an effort
to explore

and excavate as wide
an area as possible,

Rick, Marty, Craig and the team
have increased the size

of the steel‐drilling caissons

from five to eight feet
in diameter.

This also required them to hae

not only a larger
rotating oscillator

but also a much larger
hammer grab.

MARTY:
Don't want to ride
the roller coaster,

but every time you come here

and every time we sink
one of these I think,

"This is it.
This has got to be it."

‐I'm on that roller coaster
with you.
‐Am I right, Charles?

‐Absolutely.
‐You're right there, too?
‐I'm right there with you.

We're gonna find something
in this hole, though, Marty.

Good.

This is the most promising hole
we've ever dug on the island

to date, and not
to mention it's,

it's where some treasure
should have collapsed to.

MARTY:
Well, maybe this is it, gents.

JACK:
We're getting close.

NARRATOR:
As the excavation
of Borehole 8‐A

continues
in the Money Pit area...

ALEX:
Hey, guys.

RICK:
Hey, Alex.

ALEX:
Is that all from

‐digging in the eye?
‐Oh, yeah.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina
and his nephew Alex,

along with metal detection
expert Gary Drayton

and heavy equipment operator

‐Billy Gerhardt...
‐Come down here.

...are continuing
their investigation

at the area known
as the Eye of the Swamp.

So what are we doing
today, though?

You guys are gonna dig this,

dig these trenches,
metal‐detect...

finish the artifact recovery.

That would be great, because
we've got the paved area there,

we've got the Eye of the Swamp
just here,

and the land,
I mean, there's got

‐to be something in this area.
‐Yep.

NARRATOR: Over the course
of the past nine weeks,

the Oak Island team has
unearthed a number

of incredible stone structures

in the northern area
of the swamp, structures

which geoscientist
Dr. Ian Spooner,

as well as archaeologists
Laird Niven

and Aaron Taylor,

have identified
as man‐made workings.

Okay, you guys persevere.

‐There's your tool.
‐All right, mate.

‐Thanks.
‐Give us a ring
if you find anything.

‐Yeah.
‐Will do.

We'll give you a call
when we find something.

When we find something.
When you find something.

Yeah.

You know, the interesting thing

about the... so‐called eye is

this area is significantly
geologically different.

But is there some sort of

human interaction
that made it so?

So the enterprise today will e

to dig the area
and have Gary metal‐detect,

and hopefully come up
with some artifacts.

GARY:
They ain't joking when they say

we're working
in the trenches today.

No.

(scraping)

GARY:
Oh, no.

‐Look, Alex.
‐What?

Is that a paved area?

ALEX:
You mean the rocks

just sitting on the clay
right there?

Yeah, because we‐we're
down at the level.

Those rocks all look similar
sizes, sitting in the clay.

This could be more of it.

NARRATOR:
Did the team just discover

another section
of the stone‐paved structure?

But if so,
what was its purpose?

Who built it?

‐And when?
‐Billy!

I'm seeing more rocks set in
clay here, like the paved area.

You're gonna be taking
this out anyway, aren't you?

We're gonna go, we're gonna go

one more bucket‐width wide
where you're standing, yeah.

Okay, we'll see if this
extends into that area then.

‐Okay.
‐I will test

and see if there's
anything in here‐‐ metals.

(beeping)

‐Got something?
‐Yep.

(high‐pitched whirring)

Seems to be all over here.

Just here, mate.

ALEX: It seems like it's
just right on top.

Oh, maybe that was it.

Just see if it's...

(beeping)

This is the first one out.

Oh, look at that.

What is it?

‐Oh, that's it?
‐Yeah.

You know what this is?

That's like a cribbing spike!

ALEX:
Yeah, it is.

GARY:
Same size as the cribbing spikes

that we found in Smith's Cove.

Yes, it is,
and long enough, too.

ALEX:
It looks like it.

Yeah.

These cribbing spikes were used

‐for building shafts
and tunnels.
‐Mm‐hmm.

That's interesting,
'cause at the back of the swamp,

Jack and I found
this tunneling pick.

NARRATOR:
A cribbing spike?

Used in the construction
of a shaft or tunnel?

And found near
the Eye of the Swamp?

Now look at that!

That is a really old pick!

NARRATOR: Seven weeks ago,
while metal‐detecting near

this same area, Gary Drayton
and Jack Begley discovered

part of an iron pickax,
which blacksmithing expert

Carmen Legge dated back
to as early as the mid‐1700s.

Could these cribbing spikes
be further evidence

that a secret shaft or tunnel,

pre‐dating the discovery
of the Money Pit,

lies hidden somewhere
in this area of the swamp?

All right, let's get
that other target.

Okay.

(beeping and blipping)

(high‐pitched whirring)

"X" marks the spot, mate.

Okay.

GARY:
You're having fun.

‐That's what you're doing.
‐Yeah.

I think I'm missing it.

‐(rapid blipping)
‐There it is.

Another one, yeah..

‐Yeah, it's iron.
‐Is it?

Yeah, I can tell
by my, uh, pin‐pointer.

ALEX:
Hmm.

‐Been in here a long time.
‐Yeah.

Similar to that other one,
so now we've got two of these.

‐Mm‐hmm.
‐Signs of shafts or tunneling,

‐that's what we've got
in our hands.
‐Yeah.

When we go to see Carmen Legge
the next time...

‐Mm‐hmm.
‐...we'll have him
look at these,

check these out,

because I'm not sure
of the date on these.

There is a chance that these

two similar cribbing spikes

‐come from the 1700s.
‐Yeah.

‐Definitely got some
good stuff to test.
‐ALEX: Mm‐hmm.

Let's keep going.

Let's see if there's
anything else in the area.

NARRATOR:
While the teams from both
Irving Equipment Limited

and ROC Equipment
continue to excavate

the 8‐A shaft
at the Money Pit...

(beeping)

GARY:
Definitely got a target here.

If you could throw

‐the spoils here, please.
‐Okay.

NARRATOR: ...Alex Lagina, metal
detection expert Gary Drayton,

and heavy equipment operator
Billy Gerhardt

are investigating
a newly‐exposed section

of the paved‐stone feature

recently uncovered near the
so‐called Eye of the Swamp.

It's a bucket handle.

Oh, yeah.

‐Bloody bucket handle.
‐Hmm.

‐I remember moving
a bucket this morning.
‐Yeah.

Yeah, that was off that white
bucket that was here earlier.

Dang.

Actually, Gary...

What's that?

‐(detector beeping)
‐What you seeing?

‐Piece of wood?
‐Is that cut? And b*rned?

Yeah. It does look like it's cut
with an a* by the look of it.

Yeah. That's definitely cut.

‐Interesting.
‐Mm‐hmm.

NARRATOR:
Burnt wood?

And possibly cut by hand
using an a*?

Oh, look.

NARRATOR: After discovering
a mysterious hinge‐like object

six weeks ago in the swamp,

the team was stunned
by expert blacksmith

Carmen Legge's analysis of it.

‐Yes.
‐MARTY: Really?

A burnt ship in the swamp, Gary.

Yeah. And that's how
you hide a ship.

You burn it.

NARRATOR:
Carmen Legge's identification

of an object
from an old sailing ship

was a particularly
exciting one,

as the seismic scanning data
collected last year

identified the presence
of a 200‐foot‐long anomaly

in the swamp which eerily
resembled the size and shape

of a centuries‐old
Spanish galleon.

We'll keep these two pieces
of wood for Dr. Spooner.

‐BILLY: Yeah.
‐I'm thinking if it's cut
and we carbon‐date it,

at least we know
when it was cut.

‐Right.
‐GARY: Think you should
call your dad

‐and get Rick over here
and check this out.
‐ALEX: Yeah.

RICK:
Whenever you get a call,
you know, your mind's racing.

What did they find?
Is it another brooch?

Is it something else?

Is it a jewel?

How very, very, very old is i?

You know, you better pick up
and get going.

Hey, guys.

‐Hey.
‐MARTY: Okay.

Somebody tell me
what's going on here.

Well, we dug though basically
everything on this side

of Eye of the Swamp.

And we got a couple
of interesting finds.

MARTY:
Let's see.

Finds that we haven't found
in this area.

‐MARTY: That's a crib spike.
Isn't it?
‐GARY: Yeah.

‐It's a cribbing spike.
‐MARTY: That one is for sure.

‐I recognize that.
‐GARY: Yeah.

‐And they were found here?
‐Yeah.

And they were found just here.

But it is interesting,

these being cribbing spikes

and the only other place we've
found these size cribbing spikes

was in the bump‐out this year
in Smith's Cove.

‐Those really shouldn't be
in the swamp.
‐GARY: No.

MARTY:
This most recent find of Gary's

starts to cast a suspicion
that something happened here.

There's more
to the swamp than...

There's more to the swamp
than meets the eye.

‐There's more to...
‐How is that?

There's more to be learned
from the swamp.

ALEX:
A couple other interesting
things we found...

There were two
a*‐cut wood chips

up there by the crib spikes.

‐GARY: And they were burnt.
‐That was the same hole,

‐actually.
‐Yeah.

But what does it mean?!

RICK:
There's the problem with
the swamp at this point.

You know, and I've always
believed that there were

some answers here, and it turns
out there's more questions here.

But at least we didn't
get skunked; we found

‐a couple of pieces of iron.
‐Yeah. Enough to make you

want to come back and excavate
the whole bloody swamp?

You've got that right, mate.

‐We ain't finished here yet.
‐(laughter)

‐Geez, Gary.
‐I ain't finished.

All right. Okay.

‐Well, I'm finished for today.
‐GARY: Yeah.

MARTY:
All right. Good, guys.

RICK:
Okay. Thanks, Billy.

‐BILLY: Yep.
‐GARY: See you, mate.

NARRATOR:
The following morning...

Looks like the boys are back
in town.

MARTY:
Morning, Mike.

Morning, gentlemen.

NARRATOR: ...Rick and Marty,
along with veteran

treasure hunter Dan Henskee,

join other members of the team
at the Money Pit site

to check in on the excavation
of Borehole 8‐A.

How deep are we, Vanessa?

Right now we're about
at 101 with the casing

and about 96
with the drill excavations.

Where are we expecting it
from this level?

Well, we don't know
exactly how high.

We think it's three foot by
four foot, so it'd be at 108.

That's the ballpark range.

The hope is you'll encounter

‐the tunnel from Six.
‐Okay.

NARRATOR: Although Shaft Six
was reportedly dug to a depth

of some 118 feet back in 1861,

more than two centuries
of digging

by numerous treasure‐hunting
expeditions

has lowered the elevation
of the entire Money Pit area

by an estimated ten feet.

This means that what the team
is looking for

might be at a slightly
shallower depth.

All right, guys.

I'm gonna go over with Danny
and watch the pressures,

but I'll let you know
if anything comes up.

Thank you.
Thank you, Vanessa.

Hopefully we're ten or 15 feet
away from an explanation.

It'd be nice.

Yeah.

Hola.

So, Dan, I just talked
with Rick and Marty,

and they're thinking that we're
going to hit, like,

a wooden lid or plate‐‐
the top of the tunnel.

‐DANNY: Okay.
‐So, you just watch pressures,
if something changes.

DANNY:
Of course.

Nothing but rocks and mud.

I want to start seeing some wood
in there.

(creaking)

(low rumbling)

(metallic screeching)

RICK:
That ain't good.

VANESSA:
Everything okay?

We're about two grand
going forward.

‐VANESSA: Yeah.
‐And we're 2,300 going backward.

When it cuts, it's not‐‐

it's not dropping
after it comes and cuts again.

‐It's staying there.
‐VANESSA: Right.

Do you think it's higher
because we're hitting something

or higher because we're so deep?

To me, that's acting like wood.

I don't believe it'll stop us
for too long.

It'll just hold us up
on that pressure.

VANESSA:
Now we're up to 2,500.

NARRATOR:
The use of 2,500 pounds
per square inch of pressure

in order to operate
the oscillator‐‐

almost double the amount
normally needed

to drive a massive steel shaft
into the earth‐‐

is a potentially significant
development.

It means
that the eight‐foot‐wide

drilling caisson has now
encountered some kind

of hard object, or structure,

some 103 feet deep undergroun.

VANESSA:
Well, when you cut through this

next couple feet, let me know

if we start then seeing
lower pressures.

DANNY:
All right.

‐I'll be back.
‐All right.

NARRATOR:
Could the moment the team
has been waiting for

have finally arrived?

Are they about to penetrate
Shaft Six,

which directly connects
to the original Money Pit?

VANESSA:
Hello, hello.

RICK:
How deep?

So, we're at 101
with the casing teeth.

We are seeing the pressures
build, right from 100 to 101.

What's the matter?

So, I was just giving them
an update.

Nothing the matter.
It might be good.

‐MARTY: What happened?
‐What we're noticing is, when we

turn the can, it's building up
higher pressure.

Danny's kind of thinking
that maybe we're cutting

through something, but I told
him that it sounds like if

you are cutting through
this top, to go ahead

and cut through and then see
if the pressures change

if we're more into a void.

So, um, he's gonna try
to advance through

whatever it is right now.

Yeah.

You know, we've been
to this point before.

‐We have.
‐My advi‐‐ mine‐mine
would be, keep going.

The Money Pit collapsed
into Shaft Six,

so if we can find Shaft Six,
we can find the tunnel,

we can find what was
in the Money Pit.

I would be
"jump up and down" happy

if the one thing comes out
of this hole,

because my brother will
be happy, I'll be happy,

the Fellowship will be happy,

and this has got a good sh*t.

♪ ♪

MARTY:
Here we go!

GARY:
Wow.

MARTY:
There you go!

DANNY:
Yeah!

‐Whee!
‐Yeah.

DANNY:
Told you! I told you!

I told you!

‐You knew it was wood.
‐I knew it!

I knew it!

‐RICK: Wow!
‐MARTY: Whoa!

GARY:
That is a lot of wood coming out
of the hammer grab.

Here we go.

This looks like old wood.

There we go.
This piece is hand‐hewn as well.

Look. Like it's been chopped.

Yeah. That's been cut
with an a*.

MARTY:
That's a good one.

NARRATOR:
a*‐cut wood? Found at a depth

where the team is hoping
to intercept

the Shaft Six tunnel?

Although it is a very
encouraging development,

the team knows they must be
cautiously optimistic

until more evidence is brought
to the surface.

DAVE:
I say we broke into some tunnel.

JARDINE:
I think so, too.

DOUG:
Hey, guys.

RICK:
Hey, guys.

DOUG:
Oh! Look at the wood.

RICK:
Oh, yeah.

GARY:
And what we need
to see next is wood

‐and then treasure.
‐Yeah.

GARY:
Old wood and old treasure.

Well, we'll find out here
shortly.

A couple, three more grabs.

DOUG:
The next timbers you should see

should be the ones you've been
waiting a long time to see.

‐Yeah.
‐We've been waiting
a long time to see.

DAN H.:
Yeah.

(beeping)

MARTY:
Come on, baby.
Be something good.

‐SCOTT: There we go.
‐GARY: Oh, look at
the wood in that!

‐You're right, Scott.
There's wood in there.
‐We got it!

DAVE:
More wood!

‐GARY: Yeah.
‐There you go.

Isn't that something?

DOUG:
This should be
the money tunnel.

RICK:
Exactly.

DOUG:
That's looking good, gentlemen.

The tunnel's there.

Now we just have to see
what's in it.

NARRATOR:
At the Money Pit dig site,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagin,

along with members
of their team,

are excited by news
that the drilling team

may have just intercepted
an old searcher tunnel

known as Shaft Six.

This is where the pay dirt
should be.

Yeah. That's got to be the roof.

Yep.

Feels good to find a tunnel

where there's supposed
to be one, though.

‐Absolutely.
‐Yeah.

GARY:
Wow.

‐That's a lot of wood in there.
‐DOUG: Yeah, baby!

GARY:
Yeah.

Going in.

Go get 'em, Gary.

We believe, in the moment,

that we've encountered
the tunnel from Shaft Six.

I mean, that's exciting
in and of itself,

but the process worked.

We went to the historical
records, we retrieved the data,

we did the analysis,
computer‐modeled it.

So the process worked.
We're in the tunnel.

NARRATOR: The team will now
meticulously search the spoils

retrieved from the shaft
by hand

after they are first scanned
with a metal detector

by Gary Drayton.

JACK:
It's easier to see things
when they're wet.

STEVE G.:
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Look at this.

What do we have here?
That looks like leather.

Or is that bark?

JACK:
I‐I think that might be
a piece of leather, Steve.

‐That looks like leather.
‐Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Leather?

Could it be connected to
the other fragments of leather

that the team has found deep
in the Money Pit area

over the past two years?

Additional bits
of bookbinding, perhaps?

JACK:
Of course, no gold coins yet.

STEVE G.:
But that's okay.

The lighter stuff
might have collapsed to the side

as they were getting close.

You never know,
there could be one in that pile

‐over there, too.
‐Yeah.

There are little bits
of this leather everywhere.

‐STEVE G.: That's a good find.
‐It's tiny.

‐You notice how they're
all the same thickness.
‐Yeah.

We'll have to have it tested to
see if it's leather, possibly,

left down there from the workers
that were digging the tunnel,

or if this is a bit
of that manuscript binding

that we found in H8...

‐I mean, we're close to H8.
‐...what, two years ago?

Yeah, we are.

NARRATOR:
Two years ago,

the Oak Island team excavated
one of their most intriguing

exploratory shafts to date:
Borehole H8.

It was here
that they discovered

not only leather bookbinding
but also pieces of parchment,

17th century human bones,

and evidence of the
seven‐foot‐tall wooden vault

that was reported back in 1897
by Oak Island treasure hunters

William Chappell
and Frederick Blair.

All this scattered leather,

roughly in the same depth,
but in the last two or three...

This hole was all virgin
material, except for the tunnel.

‐That's right.
‐So anything that's in here

‐should be directly
from that tunnel.
‐Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Could these pieces of leather
found in the spoils

of Borehole 8‐A be evidence
of a connection

between the Shaft Six tunnel
and Borehole H8,

located some ten feet away?

And, if so, might it also
support the notion

that the H8 shaft intercepted
part of the original Money Pit,

as Marty Lagina
has long suspected?

RICK:
Shaft Six might end up
in close proximity to H8.

If it points in that direction,

then‐then maybe
my brother was right.

He said long ago, he said,
"You found the Money Pit in H8."

It's certainly pointing
in that area.

VANESSA:
Just letting you know
this next grab

coming out is from 114.

GARY:
Wow, look at the size of that.

‐(whistles)
‐MARTY: Wow.

‐That's something.
‐That is impressive.

‐Is that oak? That's oak.
‐But is it, is it hand‐hewn?

‐I don't know. Let's go wash it.
‐Let's go wash it off.

‐Looks that way.
‐Certainly looks like it.

DOUG:
Oh. Well, yeah.

Corner of an old shaft.

NARRATOR:
When the original Money Pit

was first excavated
more than two centuries ago,

Daniel McGinnis and members
of the Onslow Company reported

finding platforms made
of oak logs every ten feet

down to the 90‐foot level.

Does finding evidence of an ok
platform mean that the team hs

just found part of the original
Money Pit treasure shaft?

And, if so,
what might they find next?

(metal detector beeping)

‐Got something?
‐GARY: Yeah.

I got a target.

‐I've narrowed it down for you.
‐Huh?

I've narrowed it down.
It's in that chunk there.

Iron?

I don't know what
it is yet, mate.

‐This is some thick stuff.
‐Yeah.

‐(metal detector beeping)
‐Yeah. You got it out.

Ah. That was it?

Talk about finding a needle
in an haystack.

Actually, it does look like one,
doesn't it?

Like a little sailcloth needle.

What the hell's
that doing in there?

I don't know. That was a heck
of a lot of noise.

Normally, if I get a good signal
off a piece of iron,

it normally means
it's an older piece of iron.

That's a needle in a clay‐stack.

(laughter)

Yeah. We're get...

We're getting a hodgepodge
of stuff.

RICK:
I have no idea

‐(laughs): what that is.
‐GARY: No.

MARTY:
Needle.

It's not‐‐ Yeah,
it's not a nail.

It's more needle‐like.

‐Well, let's get...
‐That's what it reminded me of.

Like a sailcloth needle.

Gary found a strange object.

Perhaps it was
a sailcloth needle.

RICK:
It's a curious item,

and hopefully we can come
to an understanding

as to its purpose.

You know, when you look at all
the stuff we're seeing here,

I think we found evidence
of a collapse.

We're close.
This is a collapsed feature

of the original Money Pit, and,

you know, I mean, I hate
to use the word "excited,"

but that's what we're looking
for, a collapsed feature.

That's an indication that maybe
we're in the Money Pit.

MARTY:
Well, stuff from the Money Pit.

What do you think?

From the Money Pit.

RICK:
Between that,

the s‐‐ different kinds of wood,

the disturbed soils,
we've got to be close.

‐I think we hit what we were
supposed to hit.
‐Yeah.

Now we'll see if there's
any treasure in that tunnel.

‐RICK: Might be deeper.
‐MARTY: Might be deeper.

I want something good.

NARRATOR: As a new day begins
on Oak Island,

and while Rick Lagina continues
to oversee the excavation

of Borehole 8‐A
at the Money Pit...

MARTY:
Here we are at Ross Farms

‐about to get some answers.
‐GARY: Yeah.

NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina
and his son Alex,

along with metal detection
expert Gary Drayton,

travel once again
to the Ross Farm Museum,

located in the nearby town
of New Ross, Nova Scotia.

‐(metal pinging)
‐Here we are. Back again.

‐Yeah. I love this place.
‐Me, too.

GARY:
Hey, Carmen.

‐How you doing, mate?
‐MARTY: Carmen.

‐ALEX: Back with more.
‐Wonderful.

We got these out
of the swamp excavation

near a place we call
the Eye of the Swamp.

And both of these came out
of the same area,

‐a couple of feet apart.
‐CARMEN: Hmm.

GARY:
They are.

When I first pulled them up,
I was thinking they were similar

to the crib spikes that
we showed you from Smith's Cove.

MARTY:
Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Commonly used by sailors

beginning in the early
17th century,

a marlinespike was
a metal tool used to splice

and untie rope lines on a shi.

as well as for attaching ropes
to a sail.

But why would a marlinespike
be found

near the so‐called
Eye of the Swamp?

Could it be even more evidence
that a large ship

may have been sailed
between what was once

two separate islands,
then sunk, scavenged, b*rned,

and then hidden
under thousands of gallons

of brackish swamp water?

MARTY:
Here we go. Right?
Bits and bobs.

Bits and bobs
of ship in the swamp.

We know Fred discovered
pieces of the ship.

We have spikes that other
experts have identified

as being from a ship.

Well, if somebody brought
a ship in there,

and it is‐‐ the evidence
is starting to stack up

that that was once
an open harbor, not a swamp.

So that could all add up.

I'm just happy
I'm wrong on these.

I naturally assume these little
things are cribbing spikes,

but this is more signs
of ship‐related materials

in the swamp.

Well, prepare to be baffled
again then, because...

GARY:
Yeah. This came from over
100 feet below the ground.

MARTY:
Mm‐hmm.

(laughter)

Wow.

GARY: Kind of reminded me
of a sailcloth needle

when I first saw it.

‐Hmm.
‐(laughs): Wow.

Wowzer, huh?

‐Interesting.
Extremely interesting.
‐GARY: Yeah.

‐I did not expect that.
‐No.
‐No.

NARRATOR:
A spike?

From a booby trap?

And found some 114 feet deep
in the Money Pit area?

Dating back literally
thousands of years,

so‐called booby traps have been
used by hunters

to catch their prey.

They have also been used
effectively in warfare

and as a means of protecting
everything from tombs

and vaults to other locations
which contain sacred objects

or priceless valuables.

Spookier and spookier.

GARY: Yeah. That doesn't
make sense, does it?

ALEX:
Mm‐hmm.

Mm‐hmm.

Yeah. It sure would
if you stepped on that.

In what period in history?
I mean...

Wow. A second booby trap
on Oak Island?

What we were aware of
was a flood tunnel.

Maybe there were other traps

because we don't know much
about the original excavation

of the Money Pit,
so maybe Carmen Legge is right.

Maybe there were other obstacles
they got through

and they just didn't note them.

That's really quite amazing.

You know, I'd‐‐
I had not envisioned that.

‐I would not have
thought that, no.
‐No.

But he's seen all kinds of stuff

and‐and doesn't see
another use for that.

And it's clearly made that way.

I mean, it‐it didn't corrode
that way.

MARTY:
No. Even to my eye, you can look

at the end
and see that it's shaved.

It's made to be pointy. Yeah.

It didn't corrode like that.

Yeah.

‐Yeah. That is shocking.
Isn't it?
‐ALEX: Yeah.

Every time I leave here, Carmen,

I got to digest
what you told me. (laughs)

I have to think about it, 'cause
I‐I imagine you do, too, though.

Right?

‐Good finds, Gary.
‐ALEX: Yeah.

‐Well, hey, as always,
thank you.
‐Mm‐hmm.

More questions.

‐Oh, no, mate.
‐MARTY: You know what, though?

It's always good, Carmen.

It's always a pleasure talking
to you, really,

because the wealth of knowledge
you have is great.

I guarantee we'll be back.

‐CARMEN: All right.
‐MARTY: Cheers. Thank you.

NARRATOR:
Following their meeting

with blacksmithing expert
Carmen Legge...

GARY:
Here we go.

Another bucket of fun.

NARRATOR:
...Marty and Gary have joined
Rick Lagina

and other members of the team

back at the Money Pit,

as they continue to
meticulously search the spoils

excavated from the 8‐A shaft.

GARY (whistles):
Hell of a lot of clay.

Now we'll see if there's
any treasure in that tunnel.

Not feeling any love yet.

I ain't detecting any metal.

RICK:
About how deep are we?

Top of that can is 155.

This is it, mate.

I want to see some gold
coming out of there.

We didn't find the one thing
in the, in the zone

of 110 to 120,

but the next zone of interest
is well below that‐‐

140 to 160, I would say.

I do believe we've hit
the Shaft Six tunnel,

or are in close proximity
to it.

So I hope the data

continues to pile up.

We're still in business.

GARY:
Nope. That's clean.

RICK:
Yeah. You got to go another,

you got to go another ten feet.

We've got to keep digging.

NARRATOR:
Meanwhile, near Smith's Cove...

Jack Begley and Steve Guptill
are also

carefully examining spoils
from 8‐A

using the screen‐mesh
wash table.

STEVE G.:
Get something?

Shiny rock.

♪ ♪

STEVE G.:
Oh, what's that? Take a look.

Anything?

Oh, that's good.

‐That's good.
‐What is that?

JACK:
It looks like old metal.

‐STEVE G.: It's old metal.
‐This looks hand‐forged.

It looks like a hinge, maybe.

That's freakin' awesome, Steve!

STEVE G.:
That would be awesome.

‐Hi, guys. How are you?
‐STEVE G.: Hey, Laird.

‐JACK: Hey, Laird.
‐STEVE G.: We found something
here on this table.

JACK:
Give us your opinion, Laird.

What do you think that could be?

Ooh. It's tiny.

Good eyes.

‐Yeah.
‐He found it.

Yeah.

Could be part of a strap hinge.

‐JACK: There we go. Yeah.
‐There you go.
‐LAIRD: Yeah.

STEVE G.:
It is in good shape.

JACK:
It looked handwrought

‐to me. Yup.
‐Yeah, I think so.

It's been under the ground
for a long time without oxygen.

‐Mm‐hmm.
‐That's why it's in
such good shape.

JACK:
Yeah. We're going through
the spoils

from the Shaft Six tunnel.

Would that be something that

someone tunneling
would have on them,

or would it possibly be
something more found on a chest,

a smaller size chest?

Nothing mining‐related.

NARRATOR:
An iron hinge,
possibly from a chest?

And found in
the 8‐A target zone,

where the team suspects
treasure was scattered

across an underground
debris field?

Could this have once been
a piece of a treasure chest

that was crushed and broken up
when the Money Pit collapsed

in 1861?

It's intriguing, isn't it?

Find some more.

JACK:
Yeah. Let's keep going.

NARRATOR:
At the Oak Island Money Pit,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagin,

along with members
of their team,

are continuing
to search the spoils

excavated from Borehole 8‐A

for evidence of treasure.

Nothing in that one.

NARRATOR: But now,
as yet another Oak Island day

grows shorter,

Marty and Rick
are becoming anxious

that after hours of digging,

they may be close
to reaching another dead end.

Let's find something.

Not much coming up
in the hammer grab.

VANESSA:
No. Starting, uh,
about four grabs ago,

he started not being able
to get full buckets.

TERRY:
That petered out.

‐Yeah.
‐All that wood
petered out eventually.

‐And then what?
‐We got into clastic sediments,

then into limestone sediments.

And now we're into

huge dumps of water

and almost nothing else.

GARY:
Look how wet it is.

This is how it's been coming up.

NARRATOR:
Although the team still has

a large amount
of earth and sediment

from the 8‐A shaft
to sift through

for valuable clues,

the absence of any more
hand‐cut wood timbers

or other clear evidence
of the original Money Pit

and what
it is believed to contain

is a devastating development.

Yeah.

More of the same.

DAN H.:
I'm not sure
what the advantage is

in going deeper.

GARY:
Nope.

I think we'll call it.

All right. Well,
I think we're done here.

We didn't find

enough of the collapse zone.

Enough of it. I think we found
evidence of a collapse zone,

but we didn't find enough
to have located

what was originally
in the Money Pit.

If there is something
in the tunnel from Shaft Six,

I just don't think we were
close enough to the Money Pit.

We did not find what we sought,
but we learned something.

And I've always said
if you're humble enough

and smart enough,
you learn from every decision.

We'll learn from this
and move on.

We didn't find anything today,

but we could find something
tomorrow.

That's why
we all love you, Gary.

Got to be optimistic, mate.

Perpetual optimism.

NARRATOR:
Despite a week

that saw the team
make exciting discoveries

both at the swamp

and deep within
the Money Pit area,

the Laginas and their partners
have reached a dead end

in their excavation
of Borehole 8‐A.

But as decades of dreaming

and years of backbreaking
hard work have proven,

the two brothers from Michigan

won't give up easily.

Theirs is a determination

as formidable and unyielding

as the island itself.

For more than 225 years,

men have come to Oak Island

to solve a mystery.

Marty and Rick Lagina
are not the first,

but they are determined

to be the last.

Next time
on The Curse of Oak Island...

We're gonna put "X"
on the ground now, are you?

JEREMY:
There is this major anomaly
right in the core

‐of the Money Pit.
‐That's incredible.

MARTY:
There it goes!

‐VANESSA: You're digging
on Oak Island.
‐Wow.

‐(metal detector beeps)
‐GARY: Oh, that's fantastic!

‐This is an old digging tool.
‐TERRY: Wow.

‐MARTY: Look at all the wood.
‐TERRY: Whoa!

‐GARY: Wow, that is spectacular.
‐MARTY: That looks

carved in there, doesn't it?

‐GARY: Roman numerals.
‐TERRY: Absolutely.

This is like
nothing we've seen before.

‐MARTY: That's old.
‐This could be original work.