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00:00This could be a piece of the treasure.
00:02Yes!
00:03Oh, Charles, we got wood.
00:05This is incredible.
00:07We could be within feet of our offset chamber.
00:10Doesn't that look like a vault to you?
00:12I would expect a lot of stuff down there.
00:14It's giving off metallic signals.
00:17Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:20There's something.
00:21Wow.
00:22What the heck is going on?
00:26There is an island in the North Atlantic
00:29where people have been looking for an incredible treasure
00:33for more than 200 years.
00:36So far, they have found a stone slab
00:39with strange symbols carved into it.
00:42Man-made workings that date to medieval times
00:45and a lead cross whose origin
00:48may be connected to the Knights Templar.
00:51To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
00:56And according to legend,
00:59one more will have to die
01:02before the treasure can be found.
01:05You want to take that corner out?
01:18Sure.
01:19A week of great excitement has begun on Oak Island
01:23for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,
01:25their partner Craig Tester, and their team.
01:31That looks like a stone road.
01:34Why don't you do one more right along here,
01:37but a little deeper?
01:38Okay.
01:39And that is because in the northern region
01:42of the triangle-shaped swamp,
01:44they have uncovered a new pair of man-made features
01:47that may be critical to solving a 230-year-old treasure mystery.
01:53One is a stone pathway.
01:56The other is some kind of small cellar or vault.
02:00We're seeing absolutely the same rock size.
02:03Yep.
02:04No gravel.
02:06If this were natural,
02:08we wouldn't have such a tight distribution of size.
02:10Mm-hmm.
02:11Gary, you want to come metal detect?
02:13Yeah.
02:14Coming over.
02:17Well, let's see if there's any metals in here.
02:20Oh!
02:21Is this pottery?
02:22Really?
02:23Or not?
02:24Yeah, it's pottery.
02:26All right.
02:27Yeah.
02:28Wow, that was impressive.
02:30That's definitely pottery.
02:32Any ideas?
02:33Well, we've got a pottery expert here, Lerd.
02:36Did I hear pottery?
02:38Yep.
02:39Yep.
02:40I predict that you'll have an assessment of that
02:43just on the basis of the pottery that I've seen so far.
02:49I mean, it's a refined earthenware.
02:521860, 70?
02:53Yeah.
02:54Interesting, though.
02:56So this is, like, easily Anthony Graves, right?
02:59Right.
03:03In 1857, a farmer named Anthony Graves
03:07purchased a majority of Oak Island
03:09and built his home just north of the swamp.
03:12While he was never an active participant
03:14in the searches for treasure that took place in the money pit,
03:18curiously, he was rumored to have found a large cache
03:21of Spanish silver coins somewhere on his property.
03:26That might be Anthony Graves, too, the feature.
03:30Yeah.
03:31I think we should take this opportunity to try to figure that out.
03:34Yeah.
03:35I agree.
03:36Okay, let's go for it, mate.
03:37All right.
03:38Here we go.
03:39Here we go.
03:40Is it possible that Anthony Graves may have found a location
03:43outside of the money pit area where another cache of treasure
03:45was hidden?
03:46And if so, might this brick and slate feature be related to that discovery?
03:51That is a great signal.
03:52Now it's iron.
03:53Here we go.
03:54That is a great signal.
03:55Now it's iron and quite a decent sized chunk.
03:58And it's not as far back as 1200 AD.
04:00Here we go.
04:01Is it possible that Anthony Graves may have found a location outside of the money pit area
04:06where another cache of treasure was hidden?
04:08And if so, might this brick and slate feature be related to that discovery?
04:14That is a great signal.
04:15Now it's iron and quite a decent sized chunk.
04:28It's in that area where your hand is.
04:32That's it.
04:35Let me get down there.
04:37You got it, Gary?
04:38Yeah.
04:39Let's see.
04:41When we went to the north side of the swamp, I didn't really expect to see much.
04:46And sure enough, as the dig proceeds, there's a square, faultish looking thing
04:52that was submerged in the swamp.
04:54Purpose unknown.
04:55So was it a hiding place?
04:57Did Anthony Graves set it up himself to hide his own stuff in?
05:01And that's what we hope to find out.
05:03It's coming out.
05:06Is that it?
05:08That's a big reveal.
05:09What the heck?
05:10I think that's it.
05:12The hell is that?
05:13Yeah.
05:14That is certainly not what I expected.
05:17Look at that.
05:18It's got something attached to it.
05:20That's a piece of brick, but a look of it.
05:23Yeah.
05:24Any ideas, Liv?
05:27But it's been down there for a long time.
05:29Yeah, it has.
05:30I think we have to go clean it off, but...
05:32Yeah.
05:33I mean, it's a pipe of some sort.
05:34The question that we want to know really is, how old is that thing?
05:37Yeah.
05:38We don't know what else is down there.
05:41We've got to get to the bottom of it.
05:42Yeah.
05:43That's the only way we're going to find out.
05:45Yep.
05:46All right.
05:47I'm going to take that back to the lab.
05:48Okay, mate.
05:49I'll let you get on with your work over there.
05:51Works for me.
05:53Okay, mate.
05:54Good work.
05:55While members of the team continue to investigate the mysterious structure in the swamp.
06:02Later that afternoon...
06:04You know, I thank everybody for coming.
06:08So we have results today from shaft to the first shaft after the discovery of the Money Pit.
06:14Rick Lagina gathers with other members of the team in the war room for a meeting via videoconference with Dr. Michael Pazarek, a professor of earth sciences at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.
06:29If we could definitively find two, Steve, you can tell us, here's where the Money Pit should be.
06:38So shaft two is, you know, it's the white whale, if you will.
06:44We're digging up the first ever searcher shaft on Oak Island.
06:47Earlier this year, the team unearthed a feature in the Money Pit area that they believed to be a 110-foot deep searcher structure built in 1805 that is known as Shaft 2.
07:01Located 14 feet southeast of the original treasure shaft, workers began tunneling from the bottom of Shaft 2 toward the Money Pit, hoping to bypass the legendary flood tunnel and retrieve the believed treasure vault.
07:16But unfortunately, just two feet shy of their target, the tunnel was suddenly breached by a rush of seawater, forcing them to abandon the operation.
07:29Luckily, Mike Pazarek has been able to join our group and look at these samples.
07:35For the past several weeks, Professor Pazarek has been analyzing numerous wood samples from the structure using a testing method known as dendrochronology.
07:46A process by which the size and growth patterns of tree rings and wood can help determine the approximate date that it was cut for use in construction.
07:58It is the team's hope that the results will help them verify that they have indeed located Shaft 2, meaning that the original Money Pit would sit just 14 feet to the northwest.
08:10So with that, Mike, if you can give them the results, we'd greatly appreciate it.
08:17Sure. Thanks, Craig.
08:19And so Shaft 2, I think the results are fairly robust.
08:23Now, sample 0021, I'm really, really confident in the dates on this particular sample.
08:34I determined a date of 1784.
08:37Wow.
08:39Yeah.
08:41If a 1784 date is relevant, that would be 21 years before the date of the construction of Shaft 2.
08:48So it may not be Shaft 2.
08:51What does that mean?
08:52What does that say?
08:53I don't know.
08:54But it's quite intriguing.
08:56If this is not wood from Shaft 2, then what do we think it's from?
09:02Logically, it almost suggests that this shaft might be some early depositor work.
09:10The date is important because it may be reused wood.
09:15Possibly.
09:16Could Dr. Spooner be correct that the wood unearthed by the team in the Money Pit area may have been repurposed from a previously built structure and used by searchers to build Shaft 2 in 1805?
09:301784 date is somewhat confusing.
09:33And we can't say yay or nay that it is Shaft 2.
09:36On some level that's both discouraging and encouraging.
09:41Encouraging because there's still a lot to learn about the Money Pit.
09:45Discouraging because there is still a lot to learn about the Money Pit.
09:48But from the position, it would appear that that is Shaft 2, right?
09:55It has neither affirmed nor denied that it is Shaft 2.
09:59But it does represent new areas for investigation and that's a very good thing.
10:05So let me just call it Shaft 2 question mark for the time being.
10:09I think a question mark is appropriate.
10:11Well, I think we start out with the drill.
10:13Yeah.
10:14See what comes up.
10:15So if we are going to call this Shaft 2, we can project 14 feet out.
10:24And now I project it off the western wall.
10:26So you can see my anchor point is right there.
10:29It lands on the southeast side of the head and shaft.
10:38If we are going to call this Shaft 2, we can project 14 feet out.
10:43It lands on the southeast side of the head and shaft.
10:48In the war room, after receiving data regarding a searcher structure built in 1805 known as Shaft 2,
10:57the Oak Island team is hopeful they may have finally located the original Money Pit.
11:03So if the Money Pit is mainly in the head and shaft,
11:08then you're back more to the traditional area of the Money Pit.
11:13In 1937, New York-based treasure hunter Gilbert Hedden constructed a 12-by-24-foot shaft down to a depth of 125 feet,
11:24believing that he had found the location of the original Money Pit.
11:28Unfortunately, he was unable to recover any evidence of valuables.
11:33However, if the Oak Island team has indeed found Shaft 2,
11:39is it possible that Gilbert Hedden just missed the Money Pit?
11:43But they now have it pinpointed.
11:45So there's a 13-foot diameter proposed Money Pit location.
11:51I'd suggest to move into the southeast ahead and drilling there.
11:55Yeah, that's really interesting to us because that's the location for the Money Pit.
12:00That's where we also think the precious metals might be coming from.
12:03Yeah.
12:05In recent weeks, geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner and his colleagues revealed that new groundwater testing data
12:14indicated that a large source of gold, silver, and other metals may be buried more than 100 feet deep
12:20in the general area of the head and shaft.
12:24We know from all our work that there's so much underground in the Money Pit,
12:28we don't know anything about.
12:30Could this offer more proof that the team has not only located Shaft 2,
12:35but now also the original Money Pit and the hiding place for the legendary treasure
12:41that people have been looking for since 1795?
12:44If it really is Shaft 2, that radii draws you to where we think the Money Pit should be
12:52based on everything we have come to understand.
12:55So this area needs further investigation with the hope that we will find the one thing
13:01that will prove all the efforts over the 230 years have been appropriate.
13:06So if there's anything that helps, we have a date range and we have a good survey
13:09on what we're calling Shaft 2, potentially Shaft 2.
13:12So now we know we're in a drill.
13:15I agree. We've got really good data.
13:18So thank you, Dr. Spooner. Thank you, Mike. We really appreciate it.
13:23Thank you again.
13:24Thank you, guys. Appreciate it.
13:25See ya.
13:27Following their meeting in the war room...
13:29We picked this borehole very strategically.
13:32Right.
13:33If that was Shaft 2, this potentially makes it a Money Pit or vault location.
13:37Yes.
13:38So we want to explore that?
13:39Yeah.
13:40Steve Guptill joins geologist Terry Matheson
13:43and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse in the Money Pit area
13:48to supervise the drilling of borehole H.5-10.5,
13:53a borehole located at the southern edge of the shaft that Gilbert hadn't constructed in 1937.
13:59We know this area is where the high metal showed up, which incidentally would mean that chapel and head and us were basically in the right spot.
14:12One thing we've learned here in the Money Pit area is that anything is possible.
14:16Yep.
14:17So it's quite possible that we could be onto something right here.
14:20Yep.
14:21Sounds good.
14:22See what all this means.
14:24As the drilling operation continues in the Money Pit area...
14:28There it is, Tom.
14:30After you.
14:31Wow.
14:32Rick Lagina leads fellow Oak Island landowner Tom Nolan to the mysterious vault-like structure that was recently uncovered in the northern region of the triangle-shaped swamp.
14:42What do you think?
14:45I don't know what to say.
14:46I've never seen anything like this.
14:49Mm-hmm.
14:50I mean, look at that slate. It's perfectly cut.
14:52Yeah.
14:54I don't want to keep fishing.
14:57There's so much brick in the bottom.
15:06Piece of glass.
15:09And that's...
15:10Do you see a date on that?
15:12There's some marks on it, but there's no date.
15:15Hello.
15:16Hello.
15:17Hey, Laird.
15:18We came up with that.
15:19Interesting.
15:20It's sharp.
15:21Okay.
15:22It's machine-made.
15:24It would be a...
15:25Jar?
15:27Late 1800s.
15:28Mm-hmm.
15:29Yeah.
15:31So it somewhat fit with Anthony Graves.
15:33Oh, I think it fits quite well.
15:35Yeah.
15:36If Laird is correct that this glass fragment may be associated with the 19th century landowner Anthony Graves, could it offer evidence that he created this feature in order to hide the Spanish silver that he was rumored to have possessed?
15:52Or could it be a clue that this is actually where he discovered the riches?
15:57What did you think of this?
15:59It doesn't look like anything we've ever found here.
16:03I mean, there was nothing here after Graves left that we know of.
16:07Over the years, we've located two wells in the property, which we assume were Graves.
16:12This is different.
16:14It's square.
16:15It's not round.
16:16It's slate and brick.
16:18It's not beech stone.
16:19I mean, it just...
16:20It doesn't fit.
16:22Yeah, I'm gonna take the treasure hunting component and run with that.
16:27I mean, Anthony Graves was the real mystery man of Oak Island to me.
16:31Doesn't that look like a vault to you?
16:34I mean, it's constructed like a vault.
16:36And I guess if you're trying to hide something, but you want to be able to recover it, rather than putting it in an outhouse, you'd put it at the bottom of something like this.
16:46Easily retrievable?
16:47Yeah.
16:48Yeah.
16:49Easily hidden?
16:50Well, hidden's a good word because, I mean, we've been taking this bog apart since the 70s and never found this, so...
16:57I think the answers, unfortunately, are probably at the bottom.
17:00Katya, you want to come in and just swing a metal detector in the bottom here?
17:05Try my best.
17:16I'm not getting anything.
17:18Anything down in the well itself?
17:22A little something.
17:30There's little blips and beeps.
17:32It's...
17:35There's something in there.
17:38I remain convinced that this square-shaped box is a place to store metal.
17:46The bricks on top make it appear as though there was a wooden cover over it.
17:52It's in close proximity to Anthony Graves' home.
17:55And you throw the historical narrative into it that he paid with Spanish coin.
17:59To me, it just makes no sense, other than it's a structure built to contain something, and I believe to hide something.
18:09There's a lot of brick down here.
18:10It's a very hard bottom.
18:11Ooh, there's something.
18:12What is that?
18:13There's a lot of brick down here.
18:22That's a very hard bottom.
18:26Ooh, there's something.
18:30What is that?
18:34What is that?
18:36I see.
18:40Well, that's odd.
18:42In the northern region of the Oak Island Swamp, Rick Lagina and other members of the team have just found a potentially important clue inside of a mysterious vault-like structure.
18:55I just can't place what it is.
18:57Handle?
18:58The handle of the chest.
19:00What a cool find.
19:02Could Rick Lagina be correct that the team has recovered a handle from a chest inside of the vault-like feature?
19:09If so, might it be related to the Spanish silver coins that former landowner Anthony Graves reportedly discovered on Oak Island more than 150 years ago?
19:21Geez.
19:22The question is, what else is there to find?
19:24This is such a weird structure.
19:26It poses a lot of questions.
19:29We need to excavate this and see what is at the bottom of it.
19:32So, we should do that right away.
19:34Laird, why don't you come up with a process.
19:36Okay.
19:37How we can proceed.
19:38Define the areas.
19:39How deep you want to dig.
19:40Yep.
19:41And let's get it done.
19:42Sounds good.
19:43Okie doke.
19:44The following morning.
19:49Here we go.
19:51Patient on the table.
19:53We're in with a solid section of maroon tilled.
19:57Oh, yeah.
19:58Look at that.
19:59Yeah.
20:00As search efforts in the Money Pit area and the swamp continue on Lot 5, located on the western side of Oak Island.
20:09Wow.
20:10The rock wall is really starting to pop.
20:14It is.
20:15And you know, we're still pretty high up.
20:17Mm-hmm.
20:18Jack Begley has joined the archaeology team as they continue investigating a large rounded stone foundation near the shoreline.
20:26So, it's still a little ambiguous as to exactly where it's going.
20:32Since acquiring Lot 5 from the estate of the late treasure hunter Robert Young in 2022, the Laginas, Craig Tester, and their team have been working under provincial archaeological guidelines to fully uncover this structure.
20:47And so far, they've made numerous discoveries that suggest it is connected to the treasure mystery.
20:54These include coins and Venetian trade beads dating back to the 17th century or earlier.
21:01Handmade bricks resembling those that make up the vault-like feature in the swamp.
21:07And a mortar-like substance that matches soil samples collected from over 100 feet deep in the Money Pit area.
21:14I have a love-hate relationship with Lot 5.
21:17What I hate is the pace of exploring it.
21:21It drives me mad.
21:23I mean, it is so slow.
21:26But I love the fact that it could help our search by tying what happened there to the Money Pit.
21:32We're hoping that something on Lot 5 helps us solve the whole mystery here.
21:39Hey, Fiona.
21:40Yeah?
21:41You're coming down on something.
21:42Oh, that looks like one of the Robert Young pegs.
21:45Is there a number on it?
21:46Is there a number on it?
21:47Yeah, there is.
21:485025.
21:49That's really cool.
21:51Well, look at that.
21:53So it does.
21:54Hey, Jack.
21:55Yeah?
21:56Look what we've got here.
21:57Between 1996 and his death in 2020, Lot 5's previous owner, Robert Young, made a number of discoveries across the property,
22:08including iron tools and even medieval coins.
22:12He marked each find with labeled pegs.
22:15The question now is, just what did he unearth near the round feature?
22:21Laird actually has access to the database because every single number is associated with whatever he found.
22:27Nice.
22:28I'll have to give Laird a call.
22:30I think that's perfect.
22:32I love that we can get that instrument of information just like that.
22:36Hey, Jack.
22:37How's it going, Laird?
22:38Good.
22:39How are you?
22:40Actually, quite good.
22:42Well, I'm digging with Fiona and Ethan just to the north of the circular feature.
22:47And we came across a Robert Young peg.
22:51It has a number on it.
22:53And I was wondering if you could look up in the database what Robert Young had found.
22:58Yeah.
22:59Okay.
23:00What's the number?
23:015025.
23:02Okay.
23:03Just give me a second.
23:05Yep.
23:06Ah, so it matches the 1781 Spanish half-real for silver.
23:13Yes.
23:14Wow.
23:15It was the only Spanish coin he found, which is significant.
23:19Thank you, Laird.
23:21We'll give you a call if we find anything else.
23:23All right, Jack.
23:24Great.
23:25See you, Laird.
23:26That's great because that also makes me think about Anthony Graves.
23:31The fact that there are stories of him going into one of the local stores and spending Spanish
23:37reals.
23:38Definitely could fit in with that idea.
23:41Yeah.
23:42Could Fiona Steele be correct that an 18th century Spanish real discovered by Robert Young
23:48in the round feature on Lot 5 might have been related to the Spanish silver coins that Anthony
23:54Graves was rumored to have found?
23:57If so, could that mean that the round feature is not only related to the vault in the swamp,
24:03but also a vast cache of treasure that lies buried deep in the money pit?
24:09I'm super excited about this because this could be a piece of treasure.
24:13Like, honestly, that's shocking.
24:16Yeah.
24:17We have to dig deeper.
24:19We've got to see if there's more.
24:20Definitely.
24:21While the search for clues and valuables continues on Lot 5.
24:25Here comes another one.
24:28Okay, here goes another one.
24:31Okay, here we are.
24:32Let's hope it's a good one.
24:34In the money pit area, Charles Barkhouse and Terry Matheson continue monitoring the drilling
24:40operation in borehole H.5-10.5, a borehole that the team hopes could be located within the original money pit.
24:50When you put a drill over a location, the number one hope is you'll Bravo tangle something.
24:58It's like a fault, but at the very least, you're always looking for information.
25:03Okay, Charles, it's about 1.46 here.
25:07Oh, Charles, we got wood.
25:09Check this out.
25:11This is incredible.
25:12I'm seeing some serious chunks and slivers.
25:15The more you dig here, Charles, the more you get.
25:17Yeah.
25:18That's one, two, three, four.
25:20That's like five fairly large chunks and slivers of wood.
25:23There's another one there.
25:24Yeah.
25:25Right there.
25:26Okay, that's what I'm talking about.
25:29Wow.
25:30You know, in the cores we had above this, between 124 and 139, we didn't see any wood at all.
25:36This is 22 feet below the bottom of the head and shaft.
25:40Oh, I know, I know.
25:41In a place where it should not be, the question is how the heck did it get there?
25:46That's a very good question, Terry.
25:50I'm seeing some serious chunks and slivers of wood.
25:55So this is what we've been looking for.
25:58Yeah.
25:59The question is how the heck did it get there?
26:01While drilling a borehole known as H.5-10.5 in search of the original money pit,
26:08members of the Oak Island team have just encountered a mysterious wooden structure nearly 150 feet below ground.
26:15Wood at this level is incredible.
26:18I mean, no question, we're 20 feet below the head and shaft and Hamilton hit wood below the bottom of...
26:25The head and shaft.
26:26Exactly.
26:27I think we may have hit what Hamilton hit in the early 40s.
26:33In the summer of 1940, New York University professor and treasure hunter Erwin Hamilton constructed a six-by-six-foot extension onto the base of the head and shaft.
26:44While conducting a drilling operation from within the so-called Hamilton extension, he and his team were stunned when they intercepted a mysterious wooden structure at a depth of 153 feet.
26:58Was he looking for the vault? You know, something drew him here.
27:03Yeah.
27:04This is very, very loose and almost disturbed.
27:06It could be a treasure vault left or right at this exact point that we're drilling in here right now.
27:10The actual treasure vault could be within a matter of feet from this point right here.
27:16It's certainly possible, Terry.
27:18Is it possible that the Oak Island team has now encountered that same structure?
27:23And if so, could it be the legendary chapel vault?
27:28We're going to carry on below this point.
27:37173, you said?
27:38Yeah.
27:41What you got, Lee?
27:42173.
27:43173.
27:52That's pretty much in situ.
27:53You can see beautiful bedding there.
27:54And that is what we would expect to see.
27:57That's over 10 feet of solid material.
28:00This hole is over.
28:03Because the coring drill is now only recovering in situ or undisturbed soils, that means they have found no more evidence of man-made workings.
28:13However, because they did encounter a mysterious wooden structure at nearly 150 feet that may be the elusive chapel vault, could that mean that they are just mere feet from recovering the fabled treasure?
28:28Somebody was down in that money pit well before 1795.
28:33Maybe more than one somebody.
28:35Maybe somebodies.
28:37Depositors, prior searchers.
28:39It means that something really did happen.
28:42We have been searching for this for years.
28:44This area needs to be searched further.
28:47We have to confirm it.
28:49And then we have to try to understand what shaft or shafts, what tunnel or tunnels would have reached those depths during what period of possible search and possible original work.
29:01We do know that precious metals are coming from somewhere.
29:04It's a complex story that's being woven here.
29:08We've drilled and drilled and finally we've contacted something.
29:12Let's identify another target and then we'll move on.
29:19Later that afternoon.
29:23Hey guys.
29:24Hey Tom.
29:25Wow.
29:26You can see it more today than yesterday.
29:28Yeah.
29:29In the northern region of the swamp, Rick Lagina, his nephew Alex, Craig Tester and other members of the team have uncovered more of a mysterious brick and slate container.
29:40Over here, it seems to be surrounded by rocks.
29:43A container that may have been created in order to hide something of great value.
29:48Those are all seemingly placed together deliberately.
29:50Katja, you want to come over and do a little better scan?
29:59Now that the feature has been partially drained of water, it is the team's hope that metal detection expert Katja Drayden can find important clues as to what it was designed to contain.
30:11And also, perhaps, help identify just who created it.
30:15That is about eight inches.
30:22There's something down eight inches?
30:25It's looking like it.
30:28Then there's a short signal right over here.
30:32I definitely think there's something in here.
30:37The brick inside, it's giving off metallic signals.
30:41So it just brings up a whole new question and what's in there?
30:44Mm-hmm.
30:45Yeah.
30:47It's odd.
30:49We don't know until we fully drain it.
30:51Yeah.
30:52We'll get a shot back.
30:53Get it drained out.
30:54Have a look.
30:55Okay.
30:56You want to scoop this side out?
30:57Yep.
31:01I'll get the shot back.
31:02Certainly.
31:03I always believed that there were some answers in the bog.
31:08To find these features, it affirms our belief that there are answers here.
31:15They just have to be ferreted out and try to understand what they mean.
31:20You want to get after it?
31:21We'll be flying.
31:22Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
31:40What the hell?
31:42Okay, here's something.
31:46What's that?
31:47okay here's something
31:51what's that they're stuck way under the hook
31:59looks like wrought iron maybe yeah while investigating the mysterious vault-like
32:07structure in the northern region of the oak island swamp i don't think it's a pry bar
32:12no i can see the striations in it yeah rick lagina and other members of the team have just discovered
32:21a potentially important clue what do you think of that is that a hook it's a hook yeah almost
32:29something you could have used sort of if you were raising or lowering something in yeah for hoisting
32:34something out that you want to leave down there right unless you're you know retrieving something
32:38that's down in there right yeah a possible hook could billy and tom be correct that this iron
32:46hook may have been used to place or retrieve something from the brick and slate structure
32:51which was hidden beneath the muck and water of the swamp you've got a rope on one end
32:56open the other it's old for sure yeah
33:01if so was it used by 19th century landowner anthony graves to hide a cache of spanish silver coins
33:09that he reportedly found on oak island or could it have been left here by someone many years earlier
33:16who created a vault in order to hide spanish treasure in the triangle-shaped swamp
33:21i started up
33:23the hook's quite interesting certainly it looks like wrought iron meaning could be quite old
33:30it looks like something could hang off of it but certainly emma needs to do a metallurgical analysis
33:37of it that's pretty much all i can feel on there is that one little piece and that's it
33:43the hope is that we can actually really define what this feature represents in terms of a timeline
33:50was this built by anthony graves to safeguard subsurface treasure that he found or does it
33:58represent something else well i mean if it is graves work and he did use it as a hiding place
34:05it was pretty good one you know hope springs eternal but for this evening i think we're done
34:12yeah right we'll let emma do her work it was a great day a dirty day we all need to go clean up
34:19get ready for tomorrow yep let's do it
34:22the following afternoon i want to thank you emma and laird for inviting us down everyone knows my
34:34fascination with the swamp you know we did extensive work there and found the three items
34:40here in front of us rick lagina and members of the team join archaeologist laird niven and
34:46archaeometallurgist emma culligan in the oak island laboratory what are these things the who what when
34:54we're why and how right after the recent discoveries of a mysterious metal pipe a handle and a believed
35:02hook inside of the possible vault in the northern region of the swamp laird and emma have completed
35:08preliminary scientific analysis on them so yeah i've done xrs on all three artifacts great so with
35:18the handle it is encrusted so i did take a ct scan just to make sure prior to their meeting emma scanned
35:28all three objects using an x-ray fluorescence spectrometer or xrf this device works by emitting
35:35non-destructive radiation that can identify an object's composition additionally she scanned the
35:42handle shape artifact using the sky scan 1273 ct scanner which emits x-ray radiation to produce
35:50magnified three-dimensional images of artifacts and their finer details when you look at the handle you
35:58do see the good grain like structures which is run iron let me go to the ct and you do see that grain
36:06like structure on the handle right here you can see it as well the square hole to me implies you're
36:13you're moving something else yeah i think it's a crank yeah it is yeah i agree i mean when you look at
36:21this section over here you can see just where the wood handle would have ended yeah based on a
36:27analogy i can narrow down a possible date range so the hook in the center there it does have a slight
36:35manganese content so that one kind of fits more towards the early to mid 1800s yeah so anthony grace
36:44was on the property in the mid 1800s he died in 1888 but the pipe and the crank handle they're definitely
36:56late 1700s that's before we have a record of anthony graves on that lot so right now we're looking at a
37:07feature and artifacts that predate the recorded anthony graves occupation of that lot interesting yeah
37:21the feature itself is even earlier than these artifacts and you know i'm a treasure skeptic right
37:29if it's a hiding place you can't certainly can't dismiss that yeah in the oak island laboratory rick
37:36lagina crank tester and members of the team have just been informed by emma culligan and laird niven
37:43that a metal pipe and handle that were found in a possible vault at the northern point of the swamp
37:49could date back to the late 1700s that means that the believed vault may have been created prior to the
37:56discovery of the money pit you certainly have a hint with some sort of secret right it's curious enough
38:05i'm quite interested in it because i've said many times to me the mystery person of oak island is anthony
38:13graves right pays a spanish coin and lives his life rather secretively yeah is it possible that the team
38:23has uncovered has uncovered a treasure vault in the swamp where former oak island landowner anthony graves
38:29reportedly discovered spanish silver coins more than 150 years ago if so then who created it and what
38:38else might be buried deeper within it the strangest thing of all is anthony graves he positions his house
38:48in the lowest part of the island right and the only explanation is he watched the open ocean on two
38:57cardinal directions he protects the back way to the money pit and he is close to possibly where his
39:06treasure lies which his children suspected which his children indeed suspected yeah i think that would
39:13have been the perfect spot and i think there was something very important to him in that i'm hoping
39:18that it's a some sort of vault but i hope to find a little more we all would if rick and the team's
39:27notion is correct that the brick and slate feature was a hiding place used by anthony graves to protect
39:34his rumored spanish treasure is it possible that it could be connected to the 1781 silver spanish real
39:42found by robert young on lot five there's a purpose to this feature i think it has to do with anthony graves
39:50i think it was his safety deposit box we know there was a spanish coin that was found on lot five
39:58and then there's the story of anthony graves using spanish coin as his currency to buy his goods
40:06so i think we need to do more work in the swamp so there's all kinds of reasons to try to further our
40:15understanding here in my opinion and what is it who built it when was it built why was it built right
40:21i know you're not a big fan of the bog but i'm trying to find this treasure sometimes you've got
40:26to get dirty i'm willing to do it it's in your blood now all righty well again thank you we'll go find
40:34you some more curiosities excellent hopefully next time we'll all have some answers thank you see you later
40:40for 230 years people have been trying to recover a vault of untold riches in the money pit and while
40:52the clues suggest that something of great value remains hidden there deep below rick marty craig and
41:01their team have discovered evidence that treasure may lie hidden all across oak island
41:08now as the intrigue of this mystery grows richer the fellowship of the dig may be closing in on
41:18rewards that will be greater than they ever imagined next time on the curse of oak island
41:28the perfect size for a treasure chest there's something there we'll find it
41:32we found something already the presence of arsenic could push the date back to the 1600s wow it got
41:40loose halfway through that run can we be in a void yeah that's tantalizing we could be heading through
41:45a treasure zone right now absolutely i'm gonna propose we put a case on right there let the caissons roll
41:51and proceed let's go
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