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00:00Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.
00:03This is the perfect size for a treasure chest.
00:05There's something there.
00:06We'll find it.
00:08We found something already.
00:10The presence of arsenic could push the date back to the 1600s.
00:14Wow.
00:15It got loose halfway through that run.
00:17Can we be in a void?
00:18Yeah.
00:19That's tantalizing.
00:20We could be heading through a treasure zone right now.
00:22Absolutely.
00:23I'm gonna propose we put a caisson right there.
00:26Let the caissons roll in.
00:27Proceed.
00:28Let's go.
00:31There is an island in the North Atlantic where people have been looking for an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
00:41So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it.
00:47Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:51And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knights Templar.
00:56To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:01And according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:09Okay, here we go.
01:22Let's hope it's a good one.
01:24A new day of energized optimism has dawned on Oak Island for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team.
01:32So Charles, based on the success of the previous hole, you know, we've got a whole lot of more work to do in this area.
01:38Yeah.
01:39After more than a decade of searching for the answers to a 230-year-old mystery, they may finally be on the verge of a breakthrough discovery in the fabled Money Pit area.
01:51Intersected wood at about 153 feet below grade.
01:55That's incredible.
01:56It didn't put itself there.
01:57No.
01:58It didn't get there on its own.
02:00Oh, Charles, we got wood.
02:02Just last week, while drilling a borehole known as H.5-10.5 in search of the original Money Pit.
02:10I'm seeing some serious chunks and slivers of wood.
02:13Yeah.
02:14The team was stunned when they obtained evidence of a wooden structure some 150 feet deep.
02:21Near the same depth were back in 1897, treasure hunters Frederick Blair and William Chappell reportedly drilled into a seven-foot-high wooden chest and recovered shavings of gold.
02:35To bolster the team's spirits even more, their latest discovery was made in the same area where recent groundwater tests have identified a large source of precious metals more than 100 feet below the surface.
02:50Hey, guys.
02:51Hey, Alex.
02:52How are you doing?
02:53It's going great.
02:54Where are we?
02:55This could be a really, really important hole.
02:57Now, they are drilling borehole H.25-10.75, less than three feet to the northeast, where they hope to once again encounter this structure and hopefully confirm that it is the legendary Chapel Vault.
03:15If successful, they will install a large diameter steel caisson in order to retrieve it.
03:20My thoughts as we approach the target depth were that this so elusive Chapel Vault may have been an encounter.
03:27We got gold and silver in the water, so here we go.
03:31Everything's adding up.
03:33But this could be it.
03:34God, I hope so.
03:35I mean, the idea that we caught the edge of something, that's tantalizing.
03:40With some shreds of wood and out of place material, well, what's the rest of this potential treasure chamber look like?
03:48No, this is good.
03:49Well, I'm looking forward to get to the bottom of this.
03:52Absolutely.
03:53As the core drilling operation continues in the Money Pit area on lot four, located on the western side of the island.
04:02Back to these spoils.
04:04All righty.
04:05You know what, mate?
04:06There's only one way to find out what is in the spoils, and that's to get the old magic wand struck up.
04:11Peter Vernetti and metal detection expert Gary Drayden are continuing to search through a large pile of spoils that were recently removed from a mysterious rounded stone foundation located nearby on lot five.
04:26A foundation near the shoreline where the team has uncovered a number of potentially critical clues.
04:33These include valuable 17th century Phoenician trade beads, a mortar-like material that matches soils that have been recovered from over 100 feet deep in the Money Pit area.
04:46And iron tools that have been scientifically linked to the birthplace of Sir William Phipps, the 17th century English politician and naval officer who some believe buried a massive hoard of Spanish silver on Oak Island back in 1687.
05:04Keep back on the line, I was going this direction.
05:07Yep.
05:08Lot five could be an absolute integral part of telling the story in Oak Island.
05:13That's a great signal.
05:15Sounds good.
05:16And it is just there.
05:17Right there.
05:18We have a lot of artifacts that support that.
05:22And that is why we continue to look.
05:27Let me try a pinpoint.
05:28Okay.
05:31Sounds great.
05:34Let's see.
05:42It's this.
05:44Ooh, what we got here?
05:45It's copper.
05:46Yeah, it's copper, right?
05:47Yeah.
05:48That's what it looks like, mate.
05:49A piece of copper.
05:53You can see, for some reason or other, it got broke.
05:56It snapped, yeah.
05:58Oh, look at that.
06:00You see those rivets on the back?
06:01Yeah.
06:03Yeah, this is, I believe, some kind of belt plate.
06:08Hmm.
06:09Now, it could have been off a bag, a satchel.
06:13It could have been on a soldier, a sailor's uniform.
06:16Mm-hmm.
06:17Back in the day, a lot of military forces, they used to have a lot of decorations on the uniform.
06:25Mm-hmm.
06:26And especially on the bags that they used to carry.
06:28Okay.
06:29A possible decorative military plate?
06:33If so, could it be connected to the iron tools that the team has found in the nearby foundation on Lot 5?
06:41And potentially offer the team more evidence of who created the feature, and perhaps very valuables in the money pit?
06:52There's a really good chance that there could be some military insignia or regimental numbers on this.
06:59Okay, mate.
07:00We'll put it in the bag, and we'll find those answers out back at the lab.
07:03I know that we found other military buttons and things in and around the feature itself.
07:10So if that ties in and we're able to get a regiment number, it might tell us who was there.
07:15Yeah.
07:16Okay, mate.
07:17That's in the bag.
07:18And I'm looking forward to seeing what Emma tells us about this.
07:22Perfect.
07:23All right, let's keep grinding and finding.
07:25Okay.
07:26As Gary and Peter continue searching the spoils from the round feature on Lot 5.
07:32I would love to dig inside of it.
07:34Dig even deeper?
07:35Mm-hmm.
07:36Since I've seen this, the only thing I've wanted to do is go inside.
07:40Okay.
07:41In the northern region of the triangle-shaped swamp, Craig Tester, Billy Gerhardt, and Gary Drayton's daughter, Katya,
07:49are searching deeper into one of the most extraordinary structures that the team has ever uncovered on Oak Island.
07:55A brick and slate, vault-like container that was hidden beneath the brackish water and muck.
08:02Okay, here's something.
08:04Last week, shortly after uncovering the feature, Rick Lagina and members of the team discovered three iron artifacts inside of it.
08:13A hook.
08:14One of which may have been used to lower and raise heavy objects.
08:18Okay.
08:19This has made the team believe that the structure may have been created to keep something of great value hidden.
08:26Now, they are draining the remaining water from it in order to look for more clues that could solve the Oak Island mystery.
08:34This square-shaped box, we'll call it, built out of slate and brick.
08:40I believe it was built for hiding something, and hopefully we'll find something more definitive.
08:45Maybe even the one thing.
08:47Hello.
08:48Hey, guys.
08:49Looks really good.
08:50Yeah.
08:51It's cleaned up nicely.
08:52There are two things apparent here, to me.
09:05One is, this is someplace that you would put something possibly valuable because it's hidden.
09:11And the other thing is that we have a very mysterious individual possibly associated with this, given the fact that Anthony Graves' house was very proximal to this, right?
09:23Yeah.
09:24If you are watching over something that you think is valuable, you're going to make certain that nobody comes snooping.
09:30Well, Anthony's house is there.
09:32This is here.
09:33In 1857, a farmer named Anthony Graves purchased most of Oak Island and built his home near Jodry's Cove, just north of the swamp.
09:46While little is known about Graves, curiously, after living on the island for several years, he reportedly began buying goods on the mainland using Spanish silver coins.
09:58Could Rick's notion be correct that this vault-like structure may be connected to Anthony Graves' and his mysterious good fortune?
10:08If so, might he have created it in order to hide a cache of treasure?
10:13Or could this be where he found it?
10:16So I could get in there.
10:22There's definitely something super shallow in here.
10:25Do you want to get in there?
10:28Oh, I'll get in there.
10:30It's the fun part.
10:33There's something there.
10:34We'll find it.
10:41Here we go.
10:43Non-Ferris hits.
10:44Non-Ferris is good.
10:47I think we found something already.
10:49We're ready.
10:54What is it, Laird?
10:56It's lead.
10:57Lead?
10:58Definitely lead.
10:59It's heavy.
11:00While investigating the mysterious vault-like feature in the northern region of the Oak Island swamp, Katya Drayton has just made a possibly important discovery.
11:11It's almost like the end of a lead weight.
11:16Like a long counterweight.
11:18It's got a hole right there.
11:19Yeah.
11:20It's a strange thing to be in what I certainly think is a place where treasure was kept.
11:26Right?
11:27Is it a lead counterweight found inside of a potential vault in the swamp?
11:34In 2020, the team discovered a lead trade weight just 50 yards from this area, which was designed for measuring amounts of coins.
11:44You're great.
11:45Is it possible that the team has found another type of lead weight that may have been used for a similar purpose?
11:52If so, could it be connected to the Spanish coins that Anthony Graves was rumored to have found on Oak Island?
12:00Yeah, that big signal is going, I think we got it.
12:03Is there any reason to think that something might be deeper or not?
12:07My professional opinion is that that bottom is not the actual bottom.
12:13So I still would love to dig it.
12:16What do you think of that, Lord?
12:19Yeah, that's fine with me.
12:21Craig, what do you think?
12:23I am fine with doing it.
12:25It's not going to be easy.
12:29What a find.
12:30While Rick Lagina and members of the team look deeper into the possible vault in the swamp over a quarter mile to the west on Lot 5.
12:40Well, share me timbers.
12:42What on earth do you got going now, Fiona?
12:45Well, this is actually looking pretty interesting with the soils here.
12:48Marty Lagina joins archaeologist Fiona Steele and Todd Langseth at the Rounded Stone Foundation near the shoreline.
12:56Even an amateur such as myself can see that that's ash, isn't it?
13:01Yeah, this has got charcoal in it.
13:04We actually just found a clinker in it.
13:06And a clinker is evidence of very high heat.
13:09Right.
13:11There was a fire here.
13:13There are folklores of people seeing lights, you know, from Chester.
13:16Could that have been the fire that was happening here?
13:19Could be.
13:21In 1795, when a young man named Daniel McGinnis discovered the money pit with his two friends Anthony Vaughn and John Smith.
13:31It was reported that what lured them to the island were local legends about mysterious nighttime fires that had been seen from the mainland more than a century earlier.
13:42Is it possible that the team has found evidence of those reported fires in the rounded feature on Lot 5?
13:51And if so, could it be another clue that whoever constructed this feature may have also created the money pit?
13:58Well, I'll tell you what, Fiona, I wouldn't mind helping out a little bit if you've got something you need to work on.
14:05Actually, I do.
14:07This does need to be cleaned out because we've been trying to define the wall a little bit more.
14:10This side of the wall or that side of the wall?
14:12Well, it's probably easier if you access it from this side.
14:14Mm-hmm. And...
14:15When you try to dig out the soil between the rocks?
14:17Yeah. We've got buckets over there if you want to do that.
14:20I'm on it.
14:21This feature could be an absolutely crucial, essential part to the whole Oak Island mystery.
14:29We need to keep digging. We only have so much time, but that's where we'll get the real answers.
14:35Hey, Fiona?
14:36Yeah?
14:38I think there might be a big charcoal sample right here.
14:41See that?
14:43Oh, that is a good chunk.
14:44I think that is a good chunk.
14:45Mm-hmm.
14:47That's evidence of a really high heat source.
14:49This actually could give us really good information and some proper dates with this.
14:53Mm-hmm.
14:54Even as to the construct of the building.
14:56Yeah.
14:57You know, that would be a great way to hide this when you're done, right?
15:00If you never wanted anybody to see it, you'd burn it down.
15:03There appears to be quite a widespread area outside of the structure or the foundation of the structure of charcoal.
15:11Burnt stuff.
15:13And that could be very old and it could be instructive and it could be why it might be there.
15:17It needs to go back to the lab and get Emma to have a look at it.
15:21You know, you probably could get a bit more.
15:23Okay, I'm a charcoal digging fiend.
15:27Let me at it.
15:29While Marty and the archaeology team continue the investigation of the round feature on Lot 5...
15:35Look what we got.
15:38Whoa, we got wood.
15:39Yep.
15:40In the Money Pit area, Alex Lagina, along with geologist Terry Matheson and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse, have just encountered more evidence of a man-made structure some 130 feet deep in borehole H.25, 10.75.
15:58We could be heading through a treasure zone right now.
16:02As we suspected.
16:03Exactly.
16:05The question now is, could it be the legendary Chapel Vault, which may contain not only a vast cache of gold, but also the long-sought answers to the Oak Island mystery?
16:17In the next core, we should be into what we saw, hopefully, in H.5, 10.5.
16:24We're hot on its heels here.
16:26Next core is going to tell us.
16:27Yeah.
16:28We have a core.
16:30We're approaching target depth, and I'm pretty excited.
16:34Hopefully, this borehole is the one that brings up treasure from the original Money Pit.
16:40Well, there's 139 there.
16:43Oh, wow.
16:47All right.
16:48Get a look at this.
16:52Getting into cobble and gravel here.
16:54All right.
16:56Look at this.
16:58More wood.
16:59Oh, wow.
17:00More of that wood.
17:01Absolutely.
17:02Yeah.
17:03Let's have a look here.
17:04That's very much in situ.
17:07But this is basically the broken run right at the bottom.
17:10It's not very much recovery.
17:12So that is kind of odd, too.
17:14I mean, I'm very surprised to see that.
17:17I think maybe we should have Mike talk to us about that.
17:20Yeah.
17:22Mike!
17:24When we lose a stretch of the core, that's very interesting to us, because there's a few possibilities.
17:28It's either an open void or a soft area that's indicative of a structure, a tunnel, something that was excavated, which is exactly what we want.
17:36It could be related to a treasure deposit.
17:40Hey.
17:41Hey, Mike.
17:42What do you make of this?
17:44The bottom of this fell out.
17:47That's why you have a short run here.
17:49Oh, okay.
17:50I see.
17:51It got very loose probably, you know, halfway through that run.
17:57Can we be in a void?
17:59Oh, yeah.
18:00Yeah.
18:01Wow.
18:03That's awesome.
18:07Can we be in a void?
18:08Yeah.
18:09It got very loose halfway through that run.
18:12That's what we want, right?
18:14Yeah.
18:15It is an exciting moment for the Oak Island team in the Money Pit area.
18:19Great stuff.
18:20At a depth of some 140 feet in borehole H.25, 10.75, they have just drilled into a possible void and in the same area where they may have encountered the legendary chapel vault just one week ago.
18:37So, can you case the borehole to 149 before you pull out?
18:41I could do that, yeah.
18:43We want recovery rather than pushing through?
18:46Right.
18:47If there's wood in there at all, we'll be pretty excited.
18:49Yeah.
18:50All right.
18:51Thanks.
18:52Recovery is critical.
18:54We're in a potential void.
18:57There could be material in here indicative of a structure, but also there's a chance that this core is going to bring up treasure.
19:05So, with all that said, we're not going to know one way or the other what's here until we finish this borehole.
19:12Here it comes.
19:14Hope for material.
19:18Thanks, Leighton.
19:19163.
19:23Go ahead.
19:28Look at this, Terry.
19:31Oh, wow.
19:34That's deep.
19:36Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
19:38What do you got, more?
19:41There's another chunk there.
19:45Is this material loose in situ or is this loose disturbed?
19:49This looks disturbed right here.
19:52This is really interesting.
19:54We might have nicked it again.
19:55Could Charles Barkhouse be correct that the coring drill may have once again just cut through another edge of the fabled chapel vault?
20:05This is probably meaningful enough that I should give my Uncle Rick a call.
20:09Yeah.
20:10Tend to agree.
20:11We're so close to the activity of previous searchers, but this is unexplored ground in an area that many qualified people believe to be the location of the original money pit.
20:22If it's not anything that we know of that searcher, then there's a much higher chance it's original works, and that would be very exciting.
20:28Hey, Rick.
20:29Hi, Rick. How you doing?
20:30A little bit of excitement up here.
20:31Come on over.
20:32Mike advanced his casing down, and the bottom of that fell out.
20:37If there was an empty space down there, it's now full of stuff like this.
20:42My gosh, if you hit a void.
20:44Yeah.
20:45It makes this area, again, just based on this alone, an area for a possible case zone.
20:52This could be where we find it.
20:55I'd like to go back to the previous searchers' notes, because they denoted roughly where they were drilling.
21:01Mm-hmm.
21:02Yeah.
21:03It's all good news.
21:04And we have wood to test.
21:05Yeah.
21:06Really good.
21:07Kudos to everyone.
21:08Great job.
21:09Let's see what tomorrow brings.
21:14The following morning...
21:17Casey's at 149.
21:18Great.
21:19That's perfect.
21:20Let's see what happens.
21:21...as the team plots their next move in the money pit area.
21:27Want to take over?
21:28Sure.
21:29Rick and Craig Tester lead the effort to reach the bottom of the mysterious vault-like structure in the northern region of the swamp.
21:36There's some serious rock down here, eh?
21:43Yes.
21:44We've reached the bottom.
21:45I don't see much falling through that.
21:46No.
21:47I think maybe, Kudji, you want to come down and have a scan.
21:49Give her one last try.
21:50Can I always try?
21:52I can say...
21:53That there...
21:54...to find the lead within the coffin that brought her on to the rescue side.
21:58There's some signs on the road, right?
21:59You're going to be able to walk loose, right?
22:00So, let's see what she's getting on.
22:01I think it's coming out here.
22:02I think it's coming out here.
22:03It's going to be a bit roughly here.
22:04I just want to go outside.
22:05I can always try.
22:18I can say that there are no more signals.
22:24All I know is the perfect size
22:26for a nice little treasure chest.
22:29But unfortunately, it appears as though
22:30we came a little bit too late.
22:31Yep, it's gone.
22:33This is a curious thing.
22:34Oh, yeah.
22:35Let me think about it, right?
22:36Look at what we found within, what, 100-foot radius?
22:42The eye, log platform, the cobbled path,
22:46and this storage site.
22:49I mean, what else is another 100-foot radius away?
22:54In addition to the vault-like structure,
22:56the team has also discovered several other man-made features
23:00in this area, including a platform of logs,
23:04a cobblestone pathway that is still yet to be fully uncovered,
23:09and the so-called Eye of the Swamp, a circular feature that
23:13bears an eerie resemblance to the Masonic symbol known
23:16as the all-seeing eye, and which geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner
23:22believes was created in the late 17th century.
23:26I would like to track back to the cobbled path, see where it's heading,
23:30because my suspicion is there are two or three of these around somewhere.
23:34I would agree, if you don't have a bank, you would spread it over multiple spots
23:38for fear that, because if somebody found your cash, you would be in big trouble, right?
23:44Yep.
23:45Maybe we find another one 20 feet away.
23:47That is still full.
23:49Yep.
23:50Could Rick Lagina be correct that if the team continues to uncover more
23:55of the cobblestone path, it could lead them to other vault-like structures
24:00in the swamp, where hidden valuables are still waiting to be uncovered.
24:04It's pretty big that something this huge could stay hidden for so long,
24:09so it begs the question, what else is here?
24:12Yep.
24:13But in order to find that out, we've got to get going.
24:15Right, Bill?
24:16That's right.
24:17Let's call our quits here and move on to the stone path.
24:20Yep.
24:22Later that morning...
24:26Hey, Carmen.
24:27Welcome to the lab.
24:28Welcome back.
24:29What do you get?
24:30Gary?
24:31All right, mate.
24:33In the Oak Island lab, Craig and other members of the team
24:37meet with blacksmithing expert, Carmen Legg.
24:40He has come to examine the mysterious copper plate
24:43that was found one day ago in the spoils
24:46from the round feature on lot five.
24:49To me, this copper one looks like it's a belt plate.
24:54What can you tell us about that?
24:55Well, it is copper.
24:59You can see it has two little rivets on there.
25:03Yep.
25:04It doesn't look like a uniform curve, so it could have got bent in later years.
25:08It looks like a nameplate to me, riveted nameplate.
25:12Have you scanned this one, Emma?
25:14Um, yeah.
25:16Earlier this morning, Emma Culligan analyzed the artifact with the Skyscan 1273 CT scanner,
25:25a device that emits non-destructive X-ray radiation in order to reveal an object's finer details.
25:32She also scanned it using the X-ray fluorescence spectrometer to identify the elements in its composition,
25:39which can help determine when it was created.
25:42So it is a copper alloy.
25:45It's a copper alloy of copper, zinc, some iron, lead, arsenic is also in there.
25:52The metallurgy indicates dates.
25:58That arsenic does make it older.
26:02So the presence of arsenic as an alloying element could push the date back to the 1600s.
26:09Wow.
26:11So the presence of arsenic could push the date back to the 1600s.
26:18I'm not 100% on that.
26:20However, it is in the realm of possibility because it is a metal that starts to fade out throughout the later 1700s.
26:28That's great.
26:30It is a potentially historic moment for the Oak Island team.
26:34According to the composition of the copper plate that was unearthed in the rounded feature on Lot 5,
26:40archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan believes that it may predate the discovery of the Money Pit by more than a century.
26:47I mean, if we are saying that that is late 1600s,
26:51does it not fit in with the possibility that Phipps was on Lot 5 doing something?
26:57Phipps had discovered the Concepcion, which was a sunken treasure ship.
27:02Yeah.
27:03Seems like you're finding more artifacts to lend to that theory.
27:07Yeah, there is definitely plausibility for it.
27:10How many people are actually familiar with William Phipps' discovery of the Concepcion back in 1687?
27:16We know that Phipps found silver on the Concepcion,
27:19and I believe some of the treasure from the Concepcion was secreted to Oak Island.
27:24Thanks to the research of 32nd degree Freemason Scott Clark,
27:29the Oak Island team has found a prime suspect
27:32for who may have been behind the 230-year-old mystery,
27:36Sir William Phipps.
27:39In 1687, the English politician and naval captain
27:44made two successful salvages of the famed Spanish treasure egg known as the Concepcion,
27:50which sank off the coast of the Dominican Republic in 1641,
27:54while carrying more than 100 tons of silver, gold, and jewels.
28:00However,
28:01after recovering more than 34 tons of the valuables during his first mission,
28:07when he returned to the wreck with the help of a Freemason named Captain Andrew Belcher,
28:12Phipps delivered less than five additional tons of treasure to the English crown.
28:18I strongly believe that Belcher and his comrades were actually transferring treasure from the Concepcion
28:22to the Oak Island area.
28:24That is remarkable.
28:25Yeah.
28:25If he was here in the late 1600s,
28:29that's not out of the range of possibility for construction of the feature.
28:34The construction style seems hurried, and it also seems like an older style build.
28:40If the team can prove that Sir William Phipps and Andrew Belcher
28:44are connected to the rounded feature on Lot 5,
28:49could that also explain who constructed the vault in the swamp
28:53where former landowner Anthony Graves may have discovered a cache of Spanish silver?
28:59And if so,
29:00might that also reveal who created the Eye of the Swamp as a secret calling card?
29:07You know, to me, if this treasure is associated with Phipps,
29:12it's an odd story that's going on in Lot 5 and in the swamp.
29:17Mm-hmm. Absolutely.
29:18To have all these significant clues, or important clues,
29:22it certainly encompasses the Sir William Phipps expeditions.
29:26But there's no smoking gun here.
29:29We don't have that yet.
29:30But finding more vaults in the swamp or on Lot 5 could be proof.
29:36There's certainly more work to be done,
29:38and that in and of itself is a little bit of the treasure.
29:41Carmen, thank you very much.
29:44Thanks, everybody.
29:45And let's get back after it.
29:46Yep.
29:46Yeah, let's go.
29:48Thanks.
29:48Thanks, Emma.
29:49Thanks, Carmen.
29:53Later that afternoon...
29:55Hey, guys, you need help with anything?
29:59Yep.
29:59Peter Frenetti joins Billy Gerhardt and Katja Drayton
30:03in the northern region of the swamp,
30:06approximately 20 feet from an empty, vault-like structure,
30:10and to just several yards south
30:12from where 19th-century Oak Island landowner Anthony Graves
30:15built his homestead.
30:18We have a lot more to do.
30:19Where are you digging from?
30:20Gonna do somewhere you are there.
30:23It is their hope to find an extension
30:25of the cobblestone pathway,
30:27as well as more man-made structures
30:29that hopefully contain hidden valuables.
30:32We may have found an empty vault,
30:35so hopefully we can find more of a pathway,
30:39and then there might be a vault either in the area
30:42or nearby that has treasure in it.
30:50That's a big piece of pottery.
30:51Oh, yeah.
30:58It was beautifully designed.
31:00Yeah.
31:01This is a piece of pottery,
31:04but I think this is a print and not hand-painted.
31:10There's a pile over here, if you want to come.
31:12There's a pile over here, if you want to come.
31:14Oh, my God.
31:19These are...
31:22Got some blue glaze.
31:25This is what Laird called yellowware.
31:27I mean, this is near the area of Anthony Graves' home.
31:31Anthony Graves was here in the 1800s.
31:34As we go deeper, we might be able to find earlier stuff.
31:37Could Peter be correct
31:38that this pottery is connected
31:40to 19th-century Oak Island landowner Anthony Graves?
31:44Yeah.
31:45If so, might that also be a sign
31:47that other buried structures containing valuables
31:50are hidden in this area?
31:53Let's move on.
31:54Okay.
31:55We found some clues that strongly hint
31:58that Anthony Graves was doing something in this area,
32:02and we hope to find some clues
32:05that might lead us to a location
32:07of his supposed silver.
32:09So I think we just need to continue
32:12to follow this cobble path through to the end.
32:15There's more work that needs to be done.
32:17Send it over to the archaeologist.
32:18Okay.
32:19As soon as we can.
32:20Keep all metal attacks.
32:21Let's do it.
32:26While I'm on good body,
32:28we'll scrape the sod off here like Rick wanted.
32:30Okay.
32:31While the search for clues and valuables
32:33continues in the Oak Island Swamp.
32:36Gentlemen, we are approaching the real treasure hunt.
32:41We set out the beginning of this year
32:43with the idea being that we're trying to locate a treasure.
32:47Rick and Marty Lagina, Craig Tester,
32:50and other members of the team
32:52gather in the war room for a critical meeting
32:55regarding their search
32:56for the legendary Money Pit treasure vault.
32:59It's time to decide whether we have enough data
33:02to bring in the caissons
33:04and try and unearth this thing
33:06that's been eluding us and everybody else
33:08for 230 years,
33:10or whether we don't.
33:12So with that,
33:13I'll just turn it over to whoever wants to start.
33:15Well, I think it's worth doing.
33:18There are areas where the drills
33:19just can't provide you with the information.
33:22Okay.
33:22Dr. Fred, same question.
33:25I think so.
33:27You're getting a larger sample
33:29and we're getting a better idea
33:33of what's there geologically.
33:35Okay.
33:36Sounds good.
33:37In order to conduct
33:39the proposed large-scale excavation
33:41in the Money Pit area,
33:42which would cost millions of dollars,
33:45a massive machine
33:47known as an oscillator
33:49would be used
33:50to grind steel caissons
33:51with diameters
33:52of seven feet
33:53into the ground,
33:55reaching more than 200 feet
33:57below the surface.
33:59An 18-and-a-half-ton tool
34:01known as a hammer grab
34:02would then be used
34:04to remove tons of earth
34:05and hopefully
34:06the legendary treasure
34:07that people have sought
34:09for 230 years.
34:11We know ideally
34:13we'd like to do
34:14five or six caissons.
34:16And then, of course,
34:16the next question,
34:17the obvious question,
34:18if so, where?
34:21If it's metal underground,
34:22it's got to be
34:22in a shaft or a tunnel.
34:23It's not just sitting
34:24in the dirt.
34:26So what we're interested in,
34:28I think, at this point is
34:29where did that metal come from?
34:32Is there a connection
34:33to the shafts that we know,
34:35the chapel, the head?
34:36Okay.
34:37Let's talk about
34:38the drill prong, Scott.
34:39Let's talk about
34:40possible targets.
34:41Yeah, we have done
34:42some exploratory drilling
34:43in around here
34:44and we did have
34:45a few interesting results.
34:47One of the big discoveries
34:48is potentially tunnels,
34:51which is what you're looking for.
34:52We have some good areas.
34:53So let's zoom in
34:54the area of interest.
34:56Those two red circles
34:57are the soil samples
34:58that Moya and Emma did
34:59very early in the year,
35:01which matched the soils
35:02on lot five.
35:04Really close to
35:05one of the most successful
35:06holes in this area
35:06is E.75-5.6.
35:10I believe we have wood
35:11at vault depth.
35:12In that 156 feet,
35:14did we not hit wood?
35:15We went all the way
35:16down to 159 with wood.
35:19So no treasure yet,
35:21but potential vault location.
35:25Oh, yeah.
35:26This is a lot of wood.
35:28We could be catching
35:29the edge of a tunnel.
35:30In recent weeks,
35:32while drilling boreholes
35:33in the region
35:34of the Money Pit area,
35:35where Dr. Spooner
35:37and Dr. Michael
35:38believe a large source
35:39of precious metals
35:40are buried deep underground,
35:43the team has made
35:44a series of promising discoveries.
35:46This could be the bottom
35:47of our tunnel right there.
35:49One is a previously
35:50undocumented tunnel
35:51located some 109 feet deep.
35:56And on several occasions,
35:58including just one day ago,
36:00at a depth of nearly 150 feet,
36:02they have repeatedly
36:04recovered possible evidence
36:05of the legendary Chapel Vault.
36:09All right.
36:09So based on everything
36:10we've done,
36:12so the yellow circle
36:13is where I'm going to propose
36:14we put a case on?
36:15Okay.
36:17Is it possible
36:18that the team
36:19has now identified
36:20one or more locations
36:22where the answers
36:23and reward
36:24that they have sought
36:25for over a decade
36:26will finally be recovered?
36:28It's not just
36:30the soil samples, though.
36:31And I can come back
36:32to the highest anomalous goal
36:34we ever had
36:34that I'm aware of
36:35where this spot sits.
36:37Absolutely.
36:38All right.
36:39So I happen to have
36:41in my hand here
36:42a Canadian $2 coin,
36:46and it is about
36:47the right diameter
36:48for a 7-foot case on.
36:50So would you place
36:50your first one, please?
36:52I'd like to see
36:53where it fits on this.
36:54All right.
36:55So I'm going to take
36:55the best shot
36:56at the treasure
36:57being at depth
36:57anywhere between
36:58100 and 160 feet.
37:01Right there.
37:02So there we are.
37:03I think that's potentially
37:04that's worth the case on then.
37:05Yep.
37:06All right.
37:07Well, we've heard a lot here.
37:08Here's what I heard
37:09is I think there's
37:10quite a lot of enthusiasm
37:12to bring in the case ons.
37:14Absolutely.
37:15Yep.
37:15I agree that we should do this.
37:17There is real enthusiasm
37:19around the table,
37:20and so heartfelt appreciation
37:22to everybody
37:22for the teamwork
37:23and the ability
37:25to focus on
37:25the greater good,
37:27the greater good being
37:28trying to solve this mystery.
37:30Okay.
37:30Well, then,
37:31do you agree
37:31with bringing in
37:32the canisters,
37:33and do you agree
37:34with this
37:35as at least
37:35a primary location?
37:39You know,
37:40we do tend
37:41to look at things differently.
37:43Mm-hmm.
37:43This case on
37:44is the right application.
37:45In all honesty,
37:46I would tunnel my way
37:48around the money pit
37:49ad nauseam.
37:50But we're limited by reality.
38:09In the Oak Island war room,
38:12Rick and Marty Lagina,
38:14their partner Craig Tester,
38:15and their team
38:16are debating
38:17how best to explore
38:19deep in the money pit
38:20to finally recover
38:21a vast and fabled treasure.
38:25But at the end of the day,
38:26we've put X's on the ground,
38:28and now it's time
38:29to get this started.
38:30Okay.
38:31We'll do it.
38:32Yep.
38:34It was a good year drilling.
38:35We've collected
38:35a lot of good data,
38:37not only the samples
38:38we've brought up,
38:39but all the water monitoring
38:41we've done.
38:41We're constantly going back
38:43over the historical records
38:45to tie into the new wells.
38:47We've got a lot of information.
38:49Now we need to take
38:50the next step,
38:50big caissons.
38:52This has come
38:54as a result of 230 years
38:56of hard-won,
38:57hard-wrought search.
38:59We have built upon
39:01all the previous searchers.
39:03Onslow, Truro,
39:05Grestal's.
39:06This is a puzzle here
39:08in front of us.
39:09It's eloquent.
39:10It's beautiful.
39:11It speaks to 230 years
39:13of raw emotion.
39:15And so my hope is that
39:17as we apply the science
39:18and technology,
39:20we have real respect,
39:21not only for the history
39:23of Oak Island,
39:23but for each and every one
39:25of our participation in this
39:26because it has cost us
39:28all something.
39:31And yet we persevere.
39:33And that is emblematic
39:35and emphatically states
39:38how important this is to us.
39:39And I am grateful for each
39:41and every one of you
39:42sitting around the table
39:43because in order to complete
39:45this puzzle,
39:46we'll all have to be
39:48at our best.
39:51Do I want to find the treasure?
39:53Yes.
39:54But I want the story told.
39:56And if the treasure helps us
39:57do that,
39:58then let's get to it.
40:00Let's get the caissons down there
40:01and find this thing.
40:03We've talked about the one thing,
40:06Rick's favorite expression
40:07for 12 years now.
40:09I want to find it.
40:11I want it for Rick.
40:12I want it for me.
40:13I want it for everybody
40:13on this quest.
40:14I want it for the fellowship.
40:16Maybe finally,
40:17after all these years,
40:18we'll solve this mystery.
40:20You know,
40:21from the human heart,
40:22hope springs eternally.
40:24We're a part of something
40:25that will endure forever.
40:27We are a part of something
40:28that hopefully speaks
40:30to something about history
40:31that we currently
40:32don't understand.
40:34So,
40:35let the caissons roll in,
40:36let's get after it.
40:37Let's get it done.
40:38All right.
40:38So, we're doing
40:39something important.
40:40Absolutely.
40:40It sure feels like it.
40:41Okay.
40:42I love it.
40:43Proceed.
40:44All right.
40:44Let's go.
40:45Let's go.
40:47As boys growing up
40:48in northern Michigan,
40:50Rick and Marty Lagina
40:51were tantalized
40:53by the tales
40:53of all the people
40:55who tried to unearth
40:56a vast treasure
40:57in the Oak Island money pit.
40:59And now,
41:00after more than a decade
41:02of building on the progress
41:03of those brave men
41:05and women,
41:07can the Laginas
41:07and their team
41:08overcome
41:09the mysterious forces
41:10that have guarded
41:11the island's secrets
41:12for more than
41:13two centuries?
41:16They are about
41:17to conduct
41:17the biggest
41:18and most strategic
41:20dig ever.
41:22in order
41:23to find out.
41:28Next time
41:29on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:31Come here.
41:32Look at this.
41:33Oh, my gosh.
41:34There's something here.
41:35Could this be
41:36a continuation
41:37of the stone path?
41:38This is the
41:39Blair treasure map.
41:40From what we can gather,
41:42there were three
41:42separate treasure caches.
41:44I say we get after it.
41:45Yeah.
41:46Look at this.
41:47This has got to be
41:48this stone.
41:49There's an X here.
41:50Ringing loud and clear.
41:52Oh, got it.
41:54Wow.
41:54Oh, come see this.
41:56Come see this.
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