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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.
03:58Here we go.
03:59Here we go.
04:00Is it possible that Anthony Graves may have found a location
04:03outside of the money pit area where another cache of treasure
04:07was hidden?
04:08And if so, might this brick and slate feature be related to that discovery?
04:14That is a great signal.
04:20Now it's iron and quite a decent-sized chunk.
04:25It's in that area where your hand is.
04:32That's it.
04:34Let me get down there.
04:36You got it, Gary?
04:37Yeah.
04:38Let's see.
04:40When 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, vaultish-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.
05:03Oh!
05:04It's coming out.
05:06Is that it?
05:07It had a big reveal.
05:09What the heck?
05:10I think that's it.
05:11The 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.
05:21That'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.
05:49Okay, mate.
05:50I'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.
06:03You know, I thank everybody for coming.
06:08It's a way of results today from shaft to the first shaft after the discovery of the
06:14money pit.
06:15Rick Lagina gathers with other members of the team in the war room for a meeting via
06:20videoconference with Dr. Michael Pazarek, a professor of earth sciences at Brock University
06:26in St. Catharines, Ontario.
06:28If we could definitively find two, Steve, you can tell us, here's where the money pit
06:37should 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
06:53to be a 110 foot deep searcher structure built in 1805 that is known as shaft two.
07:01Located 14 feet southeast of the original treasure shaft, workers began tunneling from
07:07the bottom of shaft two toward the money pit, hoping to bypass the legendary flood tunnel and
07:13retrieve the believed treasure vault.
07:16But unfortunately, just two feet shy of their target, the tunnel was suddenly breached by
07:23a 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
07:42the structure using a testing method known as dendrochronology, a process by which the
07:50size and growth patterns of tree rings and wood can help determine the approximate date
07:55that 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
08:04shaft two, meaning that the original money pit would sit just 14 feet to the northwest.
08:11So with that, Mike, if you can give them the results, we'd greatly appreciate it.
08:17Sure.
08:18Thanks, Craig.
08:19So shaft two, I think the results are fairly robust.
08:24Now, sample 0021, I'm really, really confident in the dates on this particular sample.
08:34I determined a date of 1784.
08:37Wow.
08:38Yeah.
08:39If a 1784 date is relevant, that would be 21 years before the date of the construction
08:48of shaft two, so it may not be shaft two.
08:51What does that mean?
08:52What does that say?
08:53I don't know.
08:54But it's quite intriguing.
08:55If this is not wood from shaft two, then what do we think it's from?
09:00Logically, it almost suggests that the shaft might be some early depositor work.
09:09The date is important because it may be reused wood.
09:14Possibly.
09:15Could Dr. Spooner be correct that the wood, unearthed by the team in the money pit area,
09:22may have been repurposed from a previously built structure and used by searchers to build
09:27shaft two in 1805?
09:291784 date is somewhat confusing, and we can't say yay or nay that it is shaft two.
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 two, right?
09:55It has neither affirmed nor denied that it is shaft two.
09:59But it does represent new areas for investigation, and that's a very good thing.
10:05So let me just call it shaft two question mark for the time being.
10:08I think a question mark is appropriate.
10:11Well, I think we start out with the drill.
10:13Yeah.
10:14See what comes up.
10:18So if we are going to call this shaft two, 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.
10:34If we are going to call this shaft two, we can project 14 feet out.
10:43It lands on the southeast side of the head and shaft.
10:47In the war room, after receiving data regarding a searcher structure built in 1805 known as shaft two,
10:56the Oak Island team is hopeful they may have finally located the original money pit.
11:02So if the money pit is mainly in the head and shaft, then you're back more to the traditional area of the money pit.
11:11Yeah.
11:12In 1937, New York based treasure hunter Gilbert Hetton 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 two, is it possible that Gilbert Hetton just missed the money pit?
11:43But they now have it pinpointed.
11:47So there's a 13 foot diameter proposed money pit location.
11:52I'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.
12:04Yeah.
12:05In recent weeks, geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner and his colleagues revealed that new groundwater testing data
12:13indicated that a large source of gold, silver, and other metals may be buried more than 100 feet deep in 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 we don't know anything about.
12:29Could this offer more proof that the team has not only located shaft two, but now also the original money pit
12:37and the hiding place for the legendary treasure that people have been looking for since 1795.
12:44If it really is shaft two, that radio draws you to where we think the money pit should be based on everything we have come to understand.
12:54So this area needs further investigation with a hope that we will find the one thing that will prove all the efforts over the 230 years have been appropriate.
13:05So if there's anything that helps, we have a date range and we have a good survey on what we're calling shaft two or potentially shaft two.
13:12So now we know where to drill.
13:14I agree.
13:15We've got really good data.
13:17So thank you, Dr. Spooner.
13:20Thank you, Mike.
13:22We really appreciate it.
13:23Thank you again.
13:24Thank you, guys.
13:25Appreciate it.
13:26See ya.
13:27Following their meeting in the war room.
13:29We picked this borehole very strategically.
13:31Right.
13:32If that was shaft two, this potentially makes it a money pit or vault location.
13:36Yes.
13:37So we want to explore that?
13:38Yeah.
13:39Steve Guptill joins geologist Terry Matheson and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse in the money pit area to supervise the drilling of borehole H.5-10.5,
13:52a borehole located at the southern edge of the shaft that Gilbert had constructed in 1937.
14:00We 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.
14:11One thing we've learned here in the money pit area is that anything is possible.
14:16Yeah.
14:17So it's quite possible that we could be on to something right here.
14:20Yeah.
14:21Sounds good.
14:22See what all this means.
14:23As the drilling operation continues in the money pit area.
14:27There it is, Tom.
14:29After you.
14:30Wow.
14:31Rick 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.
14:44What do you think?
14:45I don't know what to say.
14:47I've never seen anything like this.
14:49Mm-hmm.
14:50I mean, look at that slate.
14:52It's perfectly cut.
14:53Yeah.
14:54I don't want to keep fishing.
14:57There's so much brick in the bottom.
15:00Piece of glass.
15:07And that's...
15:10See a date on that?
15:11There's some marks on it, but there's no date.
15:14Hello.
15:15Hello.
15:16Hey there.
15:17We came up with that.
15:19Interesting.
15:20It's sharp.
15:21Okay.
15:22It's machine made.
15:23It would be a...
15:25Jar?
15:26The late 1800s.
15:28Mm-hmm.
15:29Yeah.
15:30So 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?
15:58What 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 on the property, which we assume were Graves.
16:12This is different.
16:13It's square.
16:14It's not round.
16:15It's slate and brick.
16:16It's not beatstone.
16:17I mean, it just...
16:18It doesn't fit.
16:19Yeah, I'm gonna take the treasure hunting component and run with that.
16:26I mean, Anthony Graves was the real mystery man of Oak Island to me.
16:32Doesn'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?
17:04Try my best.
17:16Not getting anything.
17:18Anything down in the well itself?
17:22A little something.
17:30There's little blips and beeps.
17:32It's...
17:37There's something in there.
17:39I remain convinced that this square-shaped box is a place to store metal.
17:47The 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, and you throw the historical narrative into it that he paid with Spanish coin.
18:00To me, it just makes no sense, other than it's a structure built to contain something, and I believe to hide something.
18:13There's a lot of brick down here.
18:15It's a very hard bottom.
18:27Ooh, there's something.
18:30What is that?
18:35What 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?
18:59The handle of the chest.
19:01What a cool find.
19:03Could 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.
19:31So, uh, 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.
19:41Yep.
19:42And let's get it done.
19:43Sounds good.
19:44Okie doke.
19:48The following morning.
19:51Here we go.
19:52Patient on the table.
19:54We'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.
20:10Wow.
20:11The 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.
20:27So, it's still a little ambiguous as to exactly where it's going.
20:33Since 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.
20:48And so far, they've made numerous discoveries that suggest it is connected to the treasure mystery.
20:55These include coins and Venetian trade beads dating back to the 17th century or earlier.
21:02Handmade bricks, resembling those that make up the vault-like feature in the swamp.
21:08And 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.
21:18What I hate is the pace of exploring it.
21:22It drives me mad.
21:24I 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.
21:33We're hoping that something on Lot 5 helps us solve the whole mystery here.
21:36Hey, Fiona.
21:37Yeah?
21:38You're coming down on something.
21:40Oh, that looks like one of the Robert Young pegs.
21:43Is there a number on it?
21:44Yeah, there is.
21:455025.
21:46That's really cool.
21:47Well, look at that.
21:48So it does.
21:49Hey, Jack.
21:50Yeah?
21:51Look what we've got here.
21:53Between 1996 and his death in 2020, Lot 5's previous owner, Robert Young, made a number of discoveries across the property, including iron tools and even medieval coins.
22:09He marked each find with labeled pegs.
22:14The question now is, just what did he unearth near the round feature?
22:20Laird 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.
22:29I think that's perfect.
22:30I 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, and we came across a Robert Young peg.
22:51It has a number on it, and 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.
23:20Thank 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 reals.
23:37Definitely could fit in with that idea.
23:40Yeah.
23:41Could Fiona Steele be correct that an 18th century Spanish real, discovered by Robert Young in the round feature on Lot 5, might have been related to the Spanish silver coins that Anthony Graves was rumored to have found?
23:56If so, could that mean that the round feature is not only related to the vault in the swamp, but 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.
24:14Like, honestly, that's shocking.
24:16Yeah.
24:18We 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.
24:26Here comes another one.
24:27Okay, 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 operation 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, like a fault.
24:59But, at the very least, you're always looking for information.
25:04Okay, Charles, it's about 1.46 here.
25:07Oh, Charles, we got wood.
25:09Check this out.
25:11This is incredible.
25:13I'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.
25:24There's another one there.
25:25Yeah.
25:26Right there.
25:27Okay, 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.
25:37This 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?
25:48That'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.
25:57Yeah.
25:58The question is, how the heck did it get there?
26:00Where the heck did it get there?
26:01While drilling a borehole known as H.5-10.5 in search of the original money pit, members
26:08of 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.
26:21And Hamilton hit wood below the bottom of the head and shaft.
26:26Exactly.
26:28I 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,
26:40constructed 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
26:52when they intercepted a mysterious wooden structure at a depth of 153 feet.
26:59Was 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.
27:19Is it possible that the Oak Island team has now encountered that same structure?
27:24And if so, could it be the legendary chapel vault?
27:29We're going to carry on below this point.
27:37173, you said?
27:38Yeah.
27:40What do you got, Lee?
27:42173.
27:43173.
27:52That's pretty much in situ. You 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.
28:01Because the coring drill is now only recovering in situ or undisturbed soils, that means they have found no more evidence of man-made workings.
28:14However, 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?
28:29Somebody was down in that money pit well before 1795.
28:33Maybe more than one somebody, maybe somebodies. Depositors, prior searchers.
28:38It means that something really did happen.
28:42We have been searching for this for years.
28:45This 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.
29:00We do know that precious metals are coming from somewhere.
29:05It'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.
29:27Yeah.
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.
30:10And also, perhaps, help identify just who created it.
30:18That 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.
30:33Hmm.
30:34The brick inside, it's giving off metallic signals, so it just brings up a whole new question of 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 shop vac.
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 shop vac.
31:03Certainly.
31:04I 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?
31:26Good.
31:36Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
31:39What the hell?
31:41Okay, here's some.
31:45What's that?
31:50Okay, here's some.
31:54What's that?
31:56They're stuck way under the hook.
32:01Looks like wrought iron, maybe.
32:03Yeah.
32:04While investigating the mysterious vault-like structure
32:07in the northern region of the Oak Island Swamp...
32:10I don't think it's a pry bar.
32:13No.
32:14I can see the striations in it.
32:16Yeah.
32:17Rick Lagina and other members of the team
32:19have just discovered a potentially important clue.
32:24What do you think of that?
32:26Is that a hook?
32:27It's a hook, yeah.
32:29Almost something you could have used, sort of,
32:30if you were raising or lowering something in.
32:33Yeah, for hoisting something out
32:34that you want to leave down there, right?
32:36Unless you're, you know, retrieving something
32:38that's down in there, right?
32:39Yeah.
32:41A possible hook?
32:43Could Billy and Tom be correct
32:45that this iron hook may have been used to place
32:48or retrieve something from the brick and slate structure
32:51which was hidden beneath the muck and water of the swamp?
32:54If you've got a rope on one end, rope on the other,
32:58it's old, for sure.
33:01Yeah.
33:02If so, was it used by 19th-century landowner Anthony Graves
33:07to hide a cache of Spanish silver coins
33:09that he reportedly found on Oak Island?
33:12Or could it have been left here by someone many years earlier
33:16who created a vault
33:17in order to hide Spanish treasure
33:19in the triangle-shaped swamp?
33:22Let's start it up.
33:25The hook's quite interesting.
33:27Certainly it looks like wrought iron,
33:29meaning it could be quite old.
33:31It looks like something could hang off of it.
33:34But certainly Emma needs to do
33:36a metallurgical analysis of it.
33:38That's pretty much all I can feel on there
33:41is that one little piece, and that's it.
33:44The hope is that we can actually really define
33:47what this feature represents in terms of a timeline.
33:51Was this built by Anthony Graves
33:53to safeguard subsurface treasure that he found,
33:57or does it represent something else?
34:00Well, I mean, if it is Graves' work
34:03and he did use it as a hiding place,
34:05it was a pretty good one.
34:07You know, hope springs eternal,
34:10but for this evening, I think we're done.
34:13Yeah.
34:13Right.
34:14We'll let Emma do her work.
34:15Yeah.
34:16It was a great day, a dirty day,
34:18and we all need to go clean up
34:19and get ready for tomorrow.
34:21Yep.
34:21Let's do it.
34:26The following afternoon...
34:29I want to thank you, Emma and Lerick,
34:31for inviting us down.
34:33Everyone knows my fascination with the swamp.
34:35Mm-hmm.
34:36You know, we did extensive work there
34:38and found the three items here in front of us.
34:42Rick Lagina and members of the team
34:44join archaeologist Laird Niven
34:46and archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan
34:48in the Oak Island Laboratory.
34:50What are these things?
34:53The who, what, when, where, why, and how.
34:54Mm-hmm.
34:55Right.
34:56After the recent discoveries
34:58of a mysterious metal pipe,
35:00a handle, and a believed hook
35:02inside of the possible vault
35:04in the northern region of the swamp,
35:07Laird and Emma have completed
35:08preliminary scientific analysis on them.
35:11So, yeah, I've done XRS on all three artifacts.
35:16Three.
35:16So, with the handle, it is encrusted.
35:20So, I did take a CT scan just to make sure.
35:25Prior to their meeting,
35:27Emma scanned all three objects
35:29using an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, or XRF.
35:33This device works by emitting
35:35non-destructive radiation
35:36that can identify an object's composition.
35:40Additionally, she scanned the handle-shaped artifact
35:43using the SkyScan 1273 CT scanner,
35:47which emits X-ray radiation
35:49to produce magnified,
35:51three-dimensional images of artifacts
35:52and their finer details.
35:55When you look at the handle,
35:58you do see the wood grain-like structures,
36:00which is run iron.
36:02Let me go to the CT.
36:04And you do see that grain-like structure
36:07on the handle.
36:09Right here, you can see it as well.
36:11The square hole, to me,
36:13implies you're moving something else.
36:15Mm-hmm.
36:16Yeah.
36:17I think it's a crank.
36:18Yeah, it is.
36:19Yeah.
36:19I agree.
36:20I mean, when you look at this section over here,
36:23you can see just where the wood handle
36:25would have ended.
36:26Yeah.
36:27Based on the metallurgy,
36:28I can narrow down a possible date range.
36:31So, the hook in the center there,
36:34it does have a slight manganese content.
36:37So, that one kind of fits more towards
36:39the early to mid-1800s.
36:42Yeah, so, Anthony Graves was on the property
36:45in the mid-1800s.
36:48He died in 1888.
36:50But, the pipe and the crank handle,
36:55they're definitely late 1700s.
36:58That's before we have a record
37:02of Anthony Graves on that lot.
37:05So, right now, we're looking at a feature
37:07and artifacts that predate
37:09the recorded Anthony Graves' occupation
37:12of that lot.
37:14Interesting.
37:15Yeah.
37:15The feature itself is even earlier
37:23than these artifacts.
37:26And, you know, I'm a treasure skeptic.
37:28Right?
37:29If it's a hiding place,
37:30you certainly can't dismiss that.
37:32Yeah.
37:33In the Oak Island Laboratory,
37:36Rick Lagina, crank tester,
37:37and members of the team
37:39have just been informed by Emma Culligan
37:41and Laird Niven
37:42that a metal pipe and handle
37:44that were found in a possible vault
37:47at the northern point of the swamp
37:49could date back to the late 1700s.
37:52That means that the believed vault
37:54may have been created
37:55prior to the discovery of the money pit.
37:58You certainly have a hint
38:01of some sort of secret.
38:03Right.
38:04It's curious enough.
38:05I'm quite interested in it
38:07because I've said many times,
38:10to me, the mystery person of Oak Island
38:12is Anthony Graves.
38:14Right.
38:15Pays a Spanish coin
38:16and lives his life rather secretively.
38:20Yeah.
38:21Is it possible that the team
38:23has uncovered a treasure vault
38:25in the swamp
38:26where former Oak Island landowner
38:28Anthony Graves
38:29reportedly discovered
38:30Spanish silver coins
38:32more than 150 years ago?
38:35If so, then who created it?
38:38And what else might be buried
38:39deeper within it?
38:42The strangest thing of all
38:44is Anthony Graves.
38:45Mm-hmm.
38:46He positions his house
38:48in the lowest part of the island,
38:50right?
38:50And the only explanation is
38:53he watched the open ocean
38:56on two cardinal directions.
38:59He protects the back way
39:00to the money pit,
39:01and he is close to possibly
39:04where his treasure lies.
39:07Which his children suspected.
39:10Which his children indeed suspected.
39:12Yeah.
39:13I think that would have been
39:13the perfect spot,
39:15and I think there was something
39:16very important to him in that.
39:17I'm hoping that it's
39:19some sort of vault,
39:21but I hope to find
39:22a little more.
39:23We all would.
39:25If Rick and the team's notion
39:27is correct,
39:28that the brick and slate feature
39:30was a hiding place
39:31used by Anthony Graves
39:33to protect his rumored
39:34Spanish treasure,
39:36is it possible
39:37that it could be connected
39:39to the 1781
39:40silver Spanish real
39:42found by Robert Young
39:43on Lot 5?
39:44There's a purpose
39:47to this feature.
39:48I think it has to do
39:49with Anthony Graves.
39:51I think it was
39:52his safety deposit box.
39:54We know there was
39:54a Spanish coin
39:55that was found
39:56on Lot 5,
39:57and then there's
39:59the story of Anthony Graves
40:00using Spanish coin
40:02as his currency
40:04to buy his goods.
40:06So I think we need
40:07to do more work
40:09in the swamp.
40:09So there's all kinds
40:12of reasons
40:13to try to further
40:14our understanding here,
40:16in my opinion,
40:16and what is it?
40:18Who built it?
40:19When was it built?
40:19Why was it built?
40:20Right?
40:21I know you're not
40:22a big fan of the bog,
40:23but...
40:24I'm trying to find
40:25this treasure.
40:25Sometimes you've got
40:26to get dirty.
40:27I'm willing to do it.
40:28It's in your blood now.
40:30Mm-hmm.
40:31All righty.
40:31Well, again, thank you.
40:33We'll go find you
40:34some more curiosities.
40:36Excellent.
40:36So hopefully next time
40:38we'll all have some answers.
40:40See you later.
40:43For 230 years,
40:46people have been trying
40:47to recover a vault
40:48of untold riches
40:49in the money pit.
40:51And while the clues suggest
40:53that something of great value
40:55remains hidden there
40:56deep below,
40:59Rick, Marty, Craig,
41:01and their team
41:02have discovered evidence
41:04that treasure may lie hidden
41:06all across Oak Island.
41:10Now, as the intrigue
41:12of this mystery
41:13grows richer,
41:14the fellowship
41:15of the dig
41:16may be closing in
41:18on rewards
41:19that will be greater
41:20than they ever imagined.
41:25Next time
41:26on The Curse of Oak Island...
41:28This is the perfect size
41:29for a treasure chest.
41:30There's something there.
41:31We'll find it.
41:33We found something already.
41:34The presence of arsenic
41:36could push the date
41:37back to the 1600s.
41:39Wow.
41:40It got loose
41:41halfway through that run.
41:42Can we be in a void?
41:43Yeah.
41:43That's tantalizing.
41:44We could be heading
41:45through a treasure zone
41:46right now.
41:47Absolutely.
41:48I'm going to propose
41:49we put a caisson
41:50right there.
41:51Let the caissons roll in.
41:52Proceed.
41:52Let's go.
41:53To be continued...
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