Transcripts - Forever Dreaming

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

Oh.

It's bone with some soft tissue
on it and hairs.

Is it human?

-Are you getting readings?
-MIKE: Yeah.

CRAIG: Picking something else
up right here.

MIKE: There's a pretty good
upswing there.

MARTY:
What do you make of that?

In H- there is definitely
an anomaly.

I think we found the Money Pit.

-(both laughing)
-Yes!

We now have results
from the two bones.

Both came back as human.

NARRATOR: There is an island
in the North Atlantic

where people have been looking
for an incredible treasure

for more than years.

So far, they have found
bits of gold chain,

a stone slab with strange
symbols carved into it...

even a th century
Spanish coin.

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.

In the years since
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

began their search for treasure
on Oak Island,

they may now be closer
than ever

to solving
a -year-old mystery.

-Morning, Terry.
-TERRY: Hi.

-Where are we right now? -Uh,
we're down to, uh, to .

. Is it going
a little quicker?

A little bit.

I would say the-the rain
slowed things down.

NARRATOR:
Last week, in their quest

to locate the site
of the original Money Pit,

the team found a mysterious
object at a depth of feet

in a borehole labeled "H- ."

RICK:
Glazed pottery.

-DAVE: Pottery?
-RICK: Yeah, yeah.

How did we get pottery
at feet?

That's confounding.

NARRATOR: But, in addition
to the fragments of pottery,

they also discovered evidence

of something even more
confounding.

What is that?

NARRATOR:
Something that, if true,

could change their exploration
in the Money Pit

in a profound way.

My immediate reaction
is it's bone.

MARTY:
Holy smokes.

NARRATOR:
Now, as the team continues

to drill at the H- site...

JACK: This is gonna take
a little while.

DAN H.:
Let's find something important.

...treasure hunters
Jack Begley and Dan Henskee

continue to carefully sift
through the spoils

in hopes of turning up
even more remarkable evidence

of human activity.

Well, I can't compin that
you're not checking in detail.

JACK: Well, hopefully
we can find more pottery,

which we have found already and
anything else that stands out.

Yeah.

If I'm able to discover anything

that can be properly analyzed,

it's gonna make going through

this massive spoil pile
well worth it.

But it's one bucket at a time,
we got to go through all of it.

There's a piece of anhydrite,
I bet.

Yeah, nice one, actually.

NARRATOR: With the possible
exception of Dan Blankenship,

Dan Henskee knows more
about Oak Island

than anyone else in the world.

After helping Dan
and his son, Dave,

dig Borehole -X in the s,

he has continued to make
the search for treasure

his lifelong quest
and, in so doing,

brings a wealth of experience
to the team.

That one more piece there,
I'm thinking.

JACK: This? Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, that's...

-Anyway, I'll sit this down.
-You have better eyes then I do.

-Oh, not really.
-Yeah.

It's all in looking
at the right place.

JACK:
Yes.

Dan, come here.

I think I found
a piece of pottery.

DAN H.:
I have a pottery bag.

JACK: You know, this is
enough of a design,

I wonder if it's identifiable.

I think an expert will be able
to tell, though.

That does actually look
pretty significant.

There you go.

Maybe we'll get more today,
I don't know.

-Yeah. -I'll put it
with the other stuff.

All right, I'll keep looking.

All right, here's
what kind of confuses me.

What do you make
of that piece of wood?

Oh, kindling?

Yeah, that-that pattern
is very strange.

It's random and yet
it looks manufactured.

You know it looks artificial.

I just don't know what
it's supposed to be.

JACK: Well, let's put this
in a special bag then.

DAN H.:
All right.

-Hey, guys.
-JACK: Oh, hey.

Dan and I have some stuff
to show you

that we found
from the H- spoils.

Okay. I will say this,

you guys look almost as washed
as your specimens.

(laughs)
Right back at you.

Whatever you've got to show,
let-let's get dry,

and let's get in the museum
and take a look at it.

-All right. I got to grab
the other bags, okay? -Okay.

RICK: Jack and Dan have done
a very proper job

of creating a wash table and
washing these spoils from H- .

It's been a long process,
it's taken them a lot of time,

and they've spent a lot
of hours going through them.

So, I give Jack and Dan
a lot of credit

for taking the initiative
to wash these things

and spend the amount of time,
the hours going through them,

and it's been painstaking work.

And where do I start? Um...

You guys found it,
you guys looked at it,

you tell us which one
you find intriguing.

JACK:
Tell me what you think of this.

CHARLES:
That's very interesting.

RICK: That was the only piece
you found like that?

JACK:
So far, yeah.

RICK: That looks
significantly different

than any pattern
we've found to date.

Now, Laird might be able
to give us an opinion,

but I would definitely
get that one tested.

-JACK: Yeah, never seen that
artwork before. -Never. Never.

Yeah.

RICK:
It's an interesting find

because lots of pottery has been
found over the years,

lots of pottery and ceramic.

This is distinctly
and decidedly different.

It might be old.

CHARLES:
So, what else you got, Jack?

-Okay, next is, um, mystery
object. -Mystery... Yeah, yeah.

JACK: We don't know
exactly what this is.

I-I think it's a piece of wood,
but I'm not exactly sure.

Yeah, it's a very unusual
pattern on that.

-CHARLES: Got some weight to it,
don't it? -DAN H.: Yeah.

It is unlike any other piece
of wood that was seen...

DAN H.:
I've never seen anything...

yeah, I've never seen anything
that had that odd pattern to it.

CHARLES: It is weird,
there's no question about that.

But it does look
like bark to me.

RICK:
I have no idea what that is.

CHARLES:
That is, that is very strange.

-It almost looks artificial.
-DAN H.: Yeah.

Yeah, it looks like artwork,
not n-nature's work.

RICK: But then the back
looks like it has grain.

-See that?
-Let me see.

Yeah, it does have
some grain to it.

That is very intriguing, Jack.

Great find, guys.

RICK: It's the perfect thing
that needs to be run

through the scanning
electron microscope.

JACK:
Exactly.

And we should bring that
to Dr. Brosseau and Dr. Yang

at-at St. Mary's.

Awesome, well, I-I'd also like

to go through some
of the other spoil piles.

No question about it,
given-given what you've found,

we'd be foolish not to avail
ourselves of that process.

-Look, kudos to you guys...
-Yeah.

...for making these finds,
but at the end of the day,

-we need some testing done.
So... -Mm-hmm. -Yeah.

-RICK: Good job.
-JACK: Thanks.

-RICK: All right. Very good day.
-CHARLES: Let's go.

NARRATOR: One day after finding
additional evidence

of man-made materials
in Borehole H- ,

Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with their partner,
Craig Tester,

have traveled
some miles northeast

to St. Mary's University
in the city of Halifax.

They are eager to get the
results of laboratory testing

on the object that
archaeologist Laird Niven

identified as bone,

along with the strange piece
of wood

that was found in Borehole H- .

-Good to see you again.
-Welcome back.

What did you bring today?

We've got some
interesting stuff.

-Nice to see you again.
-Nice seeing you.

NARRATOR:
Dr. Christa Brosseau

is an associate professor
of chemistry

and an expert
in the compositional makeup

of both metals
and organic materials.

These samples, actually,

are all from a-a hole
we find very interesting.

-And this item came from
to feet down. -Okay.

Which is interesting
because we really thought

that this would be
totally undisturbed,

-you know, in situ stuff.
-Right.

And for this to come out
is really odd,

so we'd like to look at that.

We don't know what it is.

Uh, there's conjecture

that it's a real dense wood,
Lignum vitae.

I don't think so. There's
conjecture that it's bone.

The thing is we've pulled up
lots and lots of wood.

Nothing like that has ever
come to surface.

-So, this is our highest
priority. -Okay.

MARTY: What was the other thing
here, though, before,

we had two things here, right?

That also is H- .

We have no idea what it is.

RICK:
The grain effect on that piece.

CHRISTA: Yeah, that's kind of
interesting, right?

Has an interesting pattern
on it.

Okay.

Wood versus bone should be easy
to figure out today.

Okay, so these samples
are ready.

So, we can head downstairs.

Is this odd thing
bone or is it wood?

Either one, actually,
is of interest.

Hello, Dr. Yang.
How are you doing?

NARRATOR: Working with her
colleague, Dr. Xiang Yang,

Dr. Brosseau will examine
the two specimens

with the help of a high-powered

scanning electron microscope,
or SEM.

The SEM works
by scanning an object

with a focused beam
of electrons.

When the electron beam
interacts

with the atoms of a specimen,
the energy lost by the process

produces signals that can
magnify images of the specimen

by an estimated
, times larger

than those created
by a traditional microscope.

It can also provide a detailed
compositional analysis.

So, the first thing we'll do
is elemental analysis

to figure out
what the hard substance is.

You had thought it might be wood
or possibly bone,

so that will be easy to tell
by elemental analysis.

What does that mean?

-XIANG: It's bone.
-It's bone.

Really?

-Yes.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
At St. Mary's University

in Halifax, Nova Scotia,

Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with Craig Tester,

have just received confirmation

that the mysterious object
found one week ago

in Borehole H- is, in fact,
a piece of bone.

Are you certain?

A piece of bone. Yes.

RICK:
That's absolutely definitive.

CHRISTA:
That looks like bone, yeah.

NARRATOR: Because the powerful
scanning electron microscope

detected the presence
of calcium phosphate,

instead of lignin
or carbohydrates,

Doctors Brosseau and Yang
are confident

that the specimen
the Oak Island team found

in Borehole H-
is unquestionably bone.

But whether the bone is from
an animal-- or a human--

will require DNA analysis.

A piece of bone comes out
of a hole feet underground.

What is it? A mastodon?

(laughter)

All right.

Next sample.

So, this is a piece
of the hard sample.

Where did this piece come from?

Same hole.

CHRISTA: So you can see
the elements popping up there.

So, here we see calcium
phosphate pop up right away.

So this is a piece of bone.

NARRATOR:
A second bone?

But if another piece of bone

has also been found
in Borehole H- ,

why do the two samples appear
so different?

CHRISTA:
It's interesting looking.

NARRATOR: Could they be
from two different animals?

Or two different human beings?

CHRISTA:
I see layers on the surface,

so piece of bone with some
soft tissue on it, still.

I also see hairs
in the soft material.

-And hair?
-And hair.

NARRATOR:
Tissue and hair?

But could tissue and hair
still be attached to bone,

after decades
deep below ground?

And, if so, will
they reveal anything

about what-- or whom--
lies buried

in the area
of the Oak Island Money Pit?

To me, the hair looks like

they're a fair distance apart
from each other.

-Yeah.
-More likely you'd think

of skin, as opposed to animal.

That's weird,
but this has skin on it.

Well, some kind of tissue;
could be fat.

Yeah, it's quite gross.

The little piece of bone
with the skin on it is creepy.

RICK:
To see the hair follicles.

Yeah, ugh.

You know, right now,
it's just weird.

If it turns out to be human,

I guess we've got
another mystery to solve.

RICK:
If it really is skin,

surely they could extract DNA,
you would think.

It wouldn't be degraded enough
for that not to be possible.

Yeah.

You can carbon-date bone,
I think you can, perhaps,

genetically test bone.

Who knows where that trail
of information leads?

This is an odd search.

NARRATOR:
As Rick, Marty and Craig

conclude today's search
for answers

at St. Mary's University...

JACK:
Well, let's get started.

...Jack Begley
and Dan Henskee continue

their painstaking search
of the Borehole H- spoils

for more evidence.

-Oh, I need your eyes, Dan.
-Yeah.

Well, I got them today.

From everything that I found

going through
the H- spoil pile,

I didn't think I was gonna
be this successful.

I'm really happy
at the results.

And it's only proof to me
and the rest of the team

that there's more clues
to be found.

Oh. What do you think this is?

I don't know.

Yeah.

It, uh, seems to be cut here.

JACK: Mm-hmm.
So, it's not natural, I'd say.

DAN H.:
Yeah.

It's about the right thickness,
uh, for shoe leather actually.

It's got an interesting
surface pattern there.

Does that look like the residue
from an eyelet, actually?

It looks just
the right size, uh,

-for an eyelet for a shoelace.
-Yeah. Yeah, it does.

-Yeah.
-You can still see the imprint.

NARRATOR:
Leather? From a shoe?

Could it have come from someone

who was looking for treasure
on the island?

Or from someone
who buried it there?

-Oh, this is cool.
-Yeah.

It looks like this
would then be the top,

if it has lace holes.

Well I think
it's a cool enough find,

because it-- you know,
first of all,

we weren't expecting
to find a piece of leather.

-Mm-hmm.
-Maybe from a shoe.

I think we need to, you know,
have this tested.

Does look like it's got
some kind of history.

Anyway, I'll put it in the bag.

*

What is this?

DAN H.:
From this distance,

that looks a little different

from some of this stuff.

It is.

What do you think that is, Dan?

Looks like more
plastic to me, but...

No, it's not plastic,
it's almost paper-like.

It doesn't resemble the piece
of parchment that we have.

-Mm-hmm.
-But it kind of looks

like it could be
some old parchment.

NARRATOR:
In June ,

treasure hunters William
Chappell and Frederick Blair

drilled into
what they believed to be

a seven-foot-tall wooden vault

encased in concrete
at a depth of nearly feet.

When they checked their drill
bit, they were amazed to find

not only traces of gold, but
also a small piece of parchment

with the letters V-I
written on it.

But when trying to dig a hole

wide enough to retrieve
the mysterious box,

the shaft flooded,
taking everything in it,

including the Chappell Vault,

further beneath the surface
of Oak Island.

Could Jack Begley and Dan
Henskee have found evidence

that the team
has finally rediscovered

the so-called Chappell Vault?

JACK:
All right, well,

there's still a lot
to go through.

Yeah, that's before
it gets dark on us.

JACK:
Yes, exactly.

NARRATOR: As a new day dawns
on Oak Island,

Marty Lagina, Craig Tester
and Charles Barkhouse

return to the Money Pit
operation,

excited by the team's recent
discoveries in Borehole H- .

Where are we?

So, we're on I- .

Just getting back at it
this morning,

biting hard into some wood here.

Bizarrest, bizarrest thing ever.

MARTY: Why are we in all wood
way up there, Craig?

I think it walked over here.

There's a shaft right there.

-We were on it right
from ten feet. -What shaft?

The Hedden Shaft. .

NARRATOR: To date, the team
from Brewster Drilling

has completed of
planned boreholes.

And the Oak Island team
is more eager than ever

to see what drilling the rest
of the grid might reveal.

Here's Mike.

-Hey, Mike.
-Hey, guys.

NARRATOR: But there is also
another reason

why today is so exciting.

The team has scheduled
geophysicist Mike West

from GEMTEC Limited
to run a dual induction device

down the recently drilled
boreholes

to see if he can find evidence
that a massive treasure vault

could be buried
in its vicinity.

TERRY: So you're gonna
help us out here today?

Yeah. Yeah, actually, we got
to go through the, uh, the logs

and kind of see where we want to
start, based on what you found,

and, you know, probably try
to find some, some hard objects,

some conductive--
something that we know,

that, you know, some metal.

So we want to concentrate
more on this area.

You know, that F- would be,
would be a good one in my mind.

This-- there's a debris field
we're looking for.

-Yeah. -And then,
we're looking for a vault

that's down around feet.

MARTY:
Let's rig up on that one.

-Okay.
-Okay. Let's go.

Let's get some results.

NARRATOR: To conduct
the dual induction process,

Mike will first lower
a probe down to the bottom

of each of the six-inch wide
PVC-lined boreholes.

As he then slowly raises it
back up to the surface,

it emits an electromagnetic
field, two feet in diameter,

that will scan the ground
surrounding the borehole.

Taking readings
every two inches,

the electromagnetic field
will register a hit

whenever it comes
into contact with

or senses
a nearby conductive object.

MARTY: The dual induction log
is an inferential tool.

It doesn't identify
gold doubloons;

it identifies conductivity.

But if there's a vault,

and if there were metal
in pieces in there,

the graph would spike outwards.

Are we going to do it today?

We gonna, we gonna get
out of the wood today?

-That's the main thing.
-Yeah. I agree.

Where's Rick at?

NARRATOR: The fact that
Rick Lagina is absent

from today's search efforts
is highly unusual

and draws
the immediate attention

of the Oak Island team.

-I'm gonna go give him a call.
Okay? -Okay.

NARRATOR: The dual induction
test is something

he had been especially
looking forward to,

and the fact that Marty
hasn't heard from him

is a cause for concern.

(static, inaudible dialogue)

Rick?

What is going on with you?

Yeah?

You know what, though?
I'm telling you what.

That sounds like maybe you
should get... I'm serious.

Maybe you should go
to the emergency room.

That's enough of an emergency.

You should not mess with this.

Rick fights all the time about,
you know, he hardly...

that guy has hardly ever been
to the doctor in his life.

He's like one of those
kind of guys.

Rick doesn't let much get
him down. He's pretty tough.

I mean, you know,
this is serious.

Yeah, but if you can't get
a doctor's appointment,

I think you go off
to the hospital.

I mean, this could be really
serious, you-you know, I...

You still have the pounding
headache, yes?

Oh, boy. All right.
I'm coming over.

See you. Bye.

So, how's big brother?

He's sick.

Um, little bit worried
about him, actually.

I mean, he's usually
so indestructible, but he's...

if he doesn't...
if he's not here, he's not well.

Anyway, I'm gonna go see him.

-Absolutely.
-All right. -Go ahead.

NARRATOR: It is a tense
and suspense-filled moment

on Oak Island.

The news
of Rick's sudden illness

has serious implications
for everyone on the team.

But for Rick's younger brother,
Marty,

the situation
is much more personal.

MARTY:
I'm concerned.

This is just
really disconcerting.

The seriousness
of what Rick's suffering from

was underscored, obviously,

because he's not going
to stay away from Oak Island

while exploration efforts
are underway.

It's gonna take getting,
you know,

figuratively hit by a truck
to keep him off here.

-Rick.
-Hey.

So, what is going on?

I'm doing research
since I can't be...

No, no, I'm not talking
about that-- you.

I mean, I know you're sick
because you don't,

you'd be on the island.

-You got a rash?
-Yeah, take a look.

Come on over here.
Come on over here in the light.

He does not look good.

You know, he just,
just his whole presence,

he's got no spark,

and I could tell that the pain
from his headache was,

you know, almost unbearable.

Right now? Even now,
pounding headache?

-Yeah, right now.
-Oh, yeah.

-You see it?
-Yeah.

Ew. I mean, I don't know,

but that looks like Lyme disease
or shingles to me.

NARRATOR: Lyme disease
is a bacterial infection

transmitted by the Ixodes tick,

known more commonly
as a deer tick.

It is often identified
by a telltale rash,

resembling a bull's-eye.

All right, got it.

NARRATOR: Although not
usually life-threatening,

if not detected early,
it can result in severe damage

to the brain, muscles,
heart and nervous system.

I know, I know
this is serious, Rick,

because there's no way
you weren't on Oak Island.

I mean, let's get you
to a doctor.

Let's go. Come on.

It's difficult for me to see
Rick clearly very, very ill.

He's been his whole life,
more or less, indestructible.

Come on, let's go. Let's go.

You know I have an aversion
with doctors, right?

Yeah, I know, well,
y-y-you're about to be...

RICK: I haven't been to a doctor
in years.

MARTY:
It doesn't matter.

We're going to a doctor.
Let's go.

He has a very high tolerance
for pain.

I can tell you that for sure.

And he will motor through,
carry on,

finish the job in virtually
any circumstances,

so I know this is serious.

So, it, you know,
I mean, you know,

he's my brother, I love him.

I-I hate to see him
sick like that.

Let's go.

NARRATOR: One hour after being
taken by his brother Marty

to a local doctor, Rick Lagina
has just been diagnosed

with a debilitating condition
called Lyme disease.

Tell you what, though,
I-I really, I would've not...

had it not been for the rash...

No, you wouldn't think. You'd
think you just got something,

-you know, a bug.
-Yep.

I know, it's-it's scary.

-Scary considering what it can
turn into. -But I'm glad you,

I'm glad you, I'm glad you
brought awareness, though,

because now I'm going
to be paranoid.

I was completely unaware that
I had gotten Lyme disease.

Had it not been
for the bull's-eye,

I would've paid no attention.

And there's a lot of serious
complications that arise

if you don't catch it early.

NARRATOR: Luckily,
Rick's case of Lyme disease

was caught early.

He will only require
a regimen of antibiotics

for the next days.

But he will also have to submit
to his doctor's orders,

something the fiercely healthy
treasure hunter

will have difficulty
getting used to.

The worst thing for me
is now-- is, you know,

because of the side effects
of the pills,

I have to stay out of the sun,
and you know me, I hate that.

Oh, yeah, Rick, but come on.
(laughs)

Oh, look, you have to do what
you have to do. I get that.

But you're just lucky you got me

to come out here
and take care of you.

That's all I can say.

Go home. Go home and lay down.

You know, give it a day,
at least.

Yes.

All right, big brother,
go lay down.


I am. My head's pulling apart
as we speak.

-See you, Rick.
-All right, see you, thanks.

Yeah.

That slowed him down.

Rick is the spiritual leader
of this group.

While he's gone,

you know, things don't quite
have the same intensity

or, you know, uh, spirit.

Uh, we need him here.

NARRATOR: While Rick Lagina
gets some much needed rest,

Craig Tester and Jack Begley,

along with geophysicist,
Mike West,

are back at the Money Pit.

-MIKE: Am I good?
-CRAIG: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
They are continuing to scan

the previously drilled
Geotech holes

for traces of metal
and possible treasure.

So far, they have searched
a total of eight boreholes

but have yet to register
any significant results.

Okay, H- , this is
the important one.

Okay, just run her down.

NARRATOR:
But now,

the team is about to scan
Borehole H- ,

where they have not only found
two fragments of bone

but also bits of paper--

similar to the one found
in the so-called Chappell Vault

more than a century ago.

Is this your favorite so far
of the drilled holes?

It probably is, with the china
being as deep as it was

and below the clay.

That's proof that it's part
of the old Money Pit,

-and then it collapsed down,
or...? -It could be.

That's my thinking. So...

CRAIG:
Marty.

(chuckles)

MARTY:
Hi, guys.

-Hey.
-Hi, Marty.

-We got-- just got down
to the bottom of H- . -Oh, good.

-This is depth here?
-In meters.

-MARTY: This hole is deep.
-MIKE: To the bottom of the...

Oh, yeah, of course.

'Cause this is
and some odd feet, right?

-Yup.
-MIKE: Get started?

NARRATOR:
As the dual induction probe

is raised from the bottom
of Borehole H- ,

it will emit
an electromagnetic field

through the surrounding earth.

The team is hoping
for significant readings

in two areas of interest.

Okay, that's
kind of interesting.

One at feet,
where they recovered bits

of th century pottery...

Wow.

Ivan said he's in some sort
of void, but he hit something.

...and another
at a depth of feet,

where the drill encountered
a mysterious object.

The stand-out well
in our Geotech grid is H- .

I'm really intrigued by it.

We have pottery way too deep

for any searchers
to have placed it there.

We have odd bones
that came out of that hole.

And now we need
to see what's there.

-You getting readings?
-Yeah.

(beeping)

CRAIG: Picking
something else up right here.

MARTY:
What do you make of that?

NARRATOR: While running
a metal detection device

down Borehole H- ,

Marty Lagina-- along with
Craig Tester, Jack Begley

and geophysicist Mike West--

have just received

some potentially exciting
information.

Let's see where it finishes.

There's a pretty good upswing
there, pretty quick.

That's at feet, where it
first even started picking up.

-Yeah.
-The actual anomaly is probably

-a little higher.
-Kicks out, yeah.

NARRATOR:
The spike on the graph

registering above
the -foot mark

indicates the likelihood

of a large metal anomaly
near Borehole H- .

But now a bigger question
remains: what does it mean?

Could it be
that the team has located

the fabled Chappell Vault?

Or might it be evidence
of something

even more significant?

Which would put it
very near the vault.

You mean that-that this hit

corresponds with where
the vault's supposed to be at?

Very close, yeah, and in,
you know, historically

how accurate is everything,
so...

Yeah, it kind of went off scale

and now it's,
now it's coming back down to...

to kind of what
you typically see.

-That's a little odd.
-And that's, yeah,

a little discreet
little blip there, as well.

I understand
what this thing's reading,

but that looked pretty
significant to me. Is it to you?

It matters whether it is to you.

Yeah, you know, most of
the changes we were seeing

were, uh,
much more subtle than that.

The response was fairly rapid

and then it decayed off,
and if that's...

At about feet,
as I understand it.

-Yeah, yup.
-Yep.

MARTY: Well, it is
the Chappell Vault, isn't it?

I mean, I don't know that
that's the Chappell Vault,

but that's where it should be.

That's the depth range
it should be in,

-sure is.
-Well, heigh-ho!

So in one hole we got evidence

of something at
the Chappell Vault level,

we got pottery
where it can't be...

Too-- way too deep, yeah.

And we got oddball stuff.

Odd wood.

It's the Money Pit.

NARRATOR:
The Money Pit?

The original treasure shaft,

first discovered in

and then lost after a cave-in
more than years ago?

What I'm trying to say is this
just went to target number one,

if we dig a big hole, I think.

-Yeah, in my eyes.
-MARTY: Yeah.

Are you sure enough for me
to say this is for real?

Oh, it's a for real target
right there.

Yeah, that's what I mean,

it's not a glitch in
the machinery or something?

No, no, there's...
it's, there's definitely a,

a drastic difference there
from-from the surroundings.

It went off the chart.

MARTY: There's some big
chunk of metal there.

There's... there's definitely
something out of the ordinary.

I have liked H-
as our target well anyway,

because of that pottery found
at feet and the bone.

There's just no way
to explain that

other than that is
the Money Pit,

and having a chance
at piercing the vault, too,

at as we go on down
is doubly exciting.

NARRATOR:
Can the Chappell Vault

and the Oak Island treasure
be one and the same?

And have the Laginas
and their partners

finally found it at last?

Well, I'm gonna go tell Rick.

-Okay, sounds good. -Yep.
-I'll see how he is, too.

-All right, thanks a lot, guys,
that's great. -Okay. -Yeah.

NARRATOR: Although Rick Lagina
is still recovering

from the debilitating symptoms
of Lyme disease,

the news he is about to hear

from his younger brother Marty

may very well provide
the perfect cure.

Well, what's going on?

-How you feeling?
-I feel better.

Rick, I know you don't.
You know why?

Because you weren't
on the island.

You know, everybody's, you know,
missing your presence

and everybody said
they-they miss you.

Well, I was gonna,
I wanted to be there

-because you guys ran H- today,
right? -I know.

-Yes.
-And...?

In, um, H- ,

there is definitely an anomaly

at about meters.

Right where Ivan said he thought
he was going past something,

right where
the chamber should be,

right where Chappell
would have drilled it.

So, that's pretty exciting
because a lot of the other wells

aren't showing
anything like that.

If we had to sink
a large caisson right now,

you'd, you'd pick H- .

That's where I would dig
for this year.

Yeah, to me, Rick...

I think we found the Money Pit.

That's where it is.

Coming from you,
that's a pretty...

Well,
there was a Money Pit, Rick.

I never doubted
there was a Money Pit.

RICK:
When I hear

from my brother saying,
"We found the Money Pit..."

I mean, he describes himself
as the skeptic-in-chief,

and the skeptic-in-chief
has just pronounced

that we found the Money Pit.

Look, I'm not going
to come this far and quit.

"They found the Money Pit
for sure and then they quit."

(both laughing)

You know, we've spent years
together doing this,

and, you know, our families
are involved, our nephews,

uh, you know,
his son, Craig's sons.

In that moment, my thoughts go

to all the people
that have come before us.

-(laughs) Yes!
-All right.

All right. So that's it.
That's your report.

-Okay.
-So get well.

-Yeah, thanks.
-We'll see you.

See you in the morning. H- .

-H- it is.
-Let's do it.

We found the Money Pit.

*

NARRATOR: Three days
after a metal detection device

confirmed the presence
of a large metallic anomaly

near Borehole H- ,

Rick Lagina has
sufficiently recovered

from his battle
with Lyme disease

to return to
the Oak Island w*r room

with some exciting information
he has just received

from St. Mary's University

concerning the bone fragments

found at the Money Pit
drill site.

RICK: Well, guys, I've got
some really...

I think you're going to find

almost to the point of being
incredible information here.

We need to get Marty
on the line.

I think we all
need to hear this.

-Very interesting.
-CHARLES: Sounds serious.

Well, it's important,

-it's very important.
-Okay.

So, let's get my brother
on the line.

NARRATOR:
Although he had to fly home

to Michigan
on important business,

Marty Lagina is able
to join the meeting

via video conference.

MARTY:
Hey, guys, I'm on.

What do you got?

Okay, I have here in my hand
some very...

I hate the word "interesting,"

but some very interesting
results.

Uh, you know, we sent the bones
off to be tested.

Yeah.

And I'm going to read
this verbatim, okay?

MARTY:
Okay. Yes?

It says, "We now have results
from the two bones.

"Both sequenced successfully,

and both came back as human."

-Wow.
-RICK: Just a second.

Just one minute.

"They appear to be different."

Okay.

I'm just reading it verbatim.

"I will do some more work
trying to see what we can learn

"about these sequences,
i.e. if it is possible to infer

something about
region of origin."

What?

"It should just take
a few days for that."

MARTY:
Wow.

I didn't even think to ask that.

-Yep. I know.
-(laughs)

Fantastic.

Quite remarkable.

NARRATOR:
Human bones?

From two different sources?

Could they be the bones
of past treasure hunters?

Or could they be those of the
men who buried treasure there,

more than two centuries ago?

Perhaps further testing
will reveal at last

the origins--
and possibly the identities--

of the perpetrators of one of
the world's greatest mysteries.

So, that's two different human
bones in the Money Pit?

You know, Rick,

when you were talking about
finding the one thing,

could it have been something
different than this, please?

(laughter)

-Yeah.
-DAVE: What's going to happen

when we notify
the government a this?

Well, I think... I think
our next step is carbon dating.

We have a window of time
to notify the authorities.

If they carbon-date
long, long ago--

I think, Charles, the rules
are years or something?

Something like that.
I'm not sure, but there is a...

So, if there is... much, much
older, hundreds of years,

we-we... there's no
notification processes

that we have to follow.

So we're going
to immediately start down

that road of carbon dating.

I think we should send it off

to have another entity
look into it.

Well, this is serious
and significant,

so, yeah, I agree, let's look
at it from every which way,

but wow!

-RICK: Yep.
-Wow!

Human bones in the Money Pit.

Unaccounted for.

I told you H- is the place
to dig, I told you.

-Well done.
-(Dave chuckles)

-Well done.
-Yes, thank you. Thank you.

My hope is that they can infer
something about origin.

Ethnicity, if you will.

That would be spectacular.

MARTY: I tell you
what's going to be interesting

when we dig that big hole
right at that depth, oh, boy!

(laughs)

Okay, Rick, that's great.

Fantastic news.

Really, really interesting.

Yup, it is.
No question about it.

MARTY:
All right.

Let us know as soon
as you find out more.

Well, you know that's the case.

I just want to get
down there now.

Let's get down there.

-Okay, we're off.
-All right.

You know,
you couldn't have guessed it

or you couldn't
have predicted it,

but it...
I guess it's Rick's one thing.

He wanted to find one thing

out of those holes,
and up pops this.

We couldn't have predicted it.

It's not the one thing
that I had hoped for, but...

but it's... it's certainly...

it's certainly close,
if not... if not it.

Well, look, it's high time
we have a breakthrough

-and maybe this is
a breakthrough. -Yeah.

So, let's get it done.

NARRATOR: For brothers
Rick and Marty Lagina,

their decades-long quest
to solve the Oak Island mystery

has just achieved
an important breakthrough.

But once they begin
a further exploration

of the area around Borehole
H- , what will they find?

A treasure vault filled with
gold and priceless artifacts?

Precious manuscripts
written on parchment?

Or a tomb containing
ancient human remains?

Perhaps the answers lie
in two pieces of bone

and in man-made objects

found some feet below
the island's surface--

more than feet deeper

than anyone has ever been known
to go before.

Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...

MAN: If somebody was
actually going to build

this engineering marvel,

it would be Sir Francis Drake.

It's definitely not natural.

And it's perfectly square.
Like a chest.

I say we dig it up.

*

Whatever it is, it's hard.

Wow, this is really interesting.

-What is it?
-It's a piece of book binding.

What is book-binding material
doing at the Money Pit?

Do you think
it's Shakespeare's manuscripts?