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00:00These are bricks.
00:01It's looking pretty structured to me.
00:02What a perfect place to hide something.
00:04Yeah.
00:06Oh, that has got a good chance to be in gold.
00:09You see the CT scan.
00:11Oh, my gosh.
00:13Imagine my surprise when I saw that.
00:16As I was going down, there's definitely nothing solid there.
00:18Like, totally open.
00:19Yeah.
00:20That sounds like a void.
00:21It could be the treasure chamber.
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,
00:46and a lead cross whose origin may be connected
00:49to the Knights Templar.
00:51To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
00:57And, according to legend, one more
01:00will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:16Ready to rock?
01:17Here we go.
01:19Hey, Rick.
01:20Hey, Steve.
01:21Where are we?
01:23We're down to about 35 feet in T.25, 8.25.
01:28It's a place where we don't have any information on,
01:31so let's gather that information in right now.
01:33A new day of hope and excitement has begun on Oak Island
01:38for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team.
01:41That is undisturbed material.
01:44That's within the range of normal.
01:46As they explore the fabled money pit area
01:49in search of the answers to a 230-year-old treasure mystery.
01:54If we're really near the money pit,
01:56what should we expect to see as we go down?
01:59We're really close to areas where Dr. Spooner
02:01and Dr. Michael have tested for precious metals in the water.
02:04But we don't have a lot of information in this area,
02:06so I don't know what we're going to see.
02:07Well, we're hoping for a structure in around 150.
02:12After high traces of gold and silver
02:14were detected through recent groundwater testing
02:17in this area over the past three weeks...
02:20Whoa, whoa.
02:21We got a lot of wood.
02:23The Oak Island team has drilled through
02:25a mysterious nine-foot-high tunnel
02:27some 109 feet deep on multiple occasions.
02:31We're seeing wood, a middle section,
02:34then wood again, and concrete after that.
02:38This looks like the vault.
02:39Interesting.
02:41However, at a depth of some 150 feet,
02:45they also recovered compelling evidence
02:47of the legendary Chapel Vault,
02:50a seven-foot-high wooden chest encased in concrete
02:54that was first reported by treasure hunters Frederick Blair
02:57and William Chapel back in 1897.
03:02You know, every time a drill bar goes down,
03:05you know, you're hoping for the one thing.
03:07Right.
03:08Yeah.
03:09Now, the team is drilling borehole
03:12D.25, 8.25,
03:15just a few feet to the northeast.
03:17If the location of a possible treasure vault can be verified,
03:21they will install a massive steel caisson
03:24in order to retrieve it.
03:26Let's hope we continue to gather information
03:28all the way down.
03:29Or something more than information.
03:30Exactly.
03:31Treasure.
03:32Treasure, treasure, treasure.
03:34What I'm hoping for is a breakthrough.
03:37I'm hoping for the,
03:38what Rick always calls the a-ha moment,
03:40and finally bring this treasure to the surface.
03:43I always say, you know, cross your fingers.
03:47Well, now maybe you might want to cross your toes, too.
03:49Yeah.
03:51Let's see what happens.
03:52Let's see what happens.
03:54Let's see what happens.
03:55While the core drilling operation proceeds in the Money Pit area.
04:00Later that morning,
04:02on Lot 5, located on the western side of the island.
04:07This test pit area has been a conundrum to us.
04:11We really felt that there was something that we were going to discover
04:14at this level, and we haven't yet.
04:16Rick Lagina and metal detection expert Gary Drayton
04:20join archaeologist Fiona Steele and other members of the team
04:24to assist with the investigation of a mysterious stone foundation.
04:28We haven't totally given up on this,
04:30so we would really like to see if you wouldn't mind doing a check, too.
04:34All right.
04:36In fact, Gary, you can wander everywhere just in case.
04:39Yeah.
04:40Yeah.
04:41Over the past two years,
04:43this stone structure has yielded numerous clues
04:46that suggest it may be directly connected to the Oak Island mystery.
04:51In the wall?
04:54Yeah.
04:55In the wall.
04:56You've got some iron there.
04:57Okay.
04:58These discoveries include 17th-century trade beads,
05:01a mortar-like material
05:03that matches soil samples from more than 100 feet deep
05:07in the Money Pit area,
05:09and iron tools that have been scientifically linked
05:12to Sir William Phipps,
05:15the 17th-century English politician,
05:17who some believe conspired with a high-ranking Freemason
05:21named Andrew Belcher to bury a vast cache of Spanish silver
05:26and gold on Oak Island back in 1687.
05:31We're coming over, Moya.
05:32To do a scan of your pit.
05:34Okay.
05:35Now, since the feature has been deemed a special place
05:38by the government of Nova Scotia,
05:40Gary is allowed to detect potential metal targets.
05:44However, the archeological team must then slowly
05:48and methodically work to uncover them.
05:51The Lot 5 feature, though it has expanded two to three times
05:56its original appearance, it's still not completely exposed.
06:01And to do it properly, you have to have a lot of patience,
06:04and that's fine.
06:06That's the process.
06:07Yeah.
06:09I'm getting iron.
06:11I'll get out of the way.
06:13Bigger piece of iron there.
06:17Iron.
06:18There's iron all over in this one.
06:23Iron.
06:25Oh, blimey.
06:26You guys are going to be busy.
06:27You guys are going to be busy.
06:29That's different.
06:32Non-ferrous!
06:33Yeah, that is non-ferrous.
06:34Oh.
06:35Okay, we'll remember that.
06:36There's a good chance that's a coin.
06:46A non-ferrous target?
06:48Indicating that something potentially composed of precious metals
06:52is buried in the feature?
06:54If so, could it mean that this structure
06:57was used to hide something of great value?
07:00I'm telling you now,
07:02there's only three metals that really make that sound.
07:05It's going to be copper, lead, or gold.
07:08You've got some great things waiting for you there.
07:11Well, we'll keep excavating,
07:13and maybe when we get further into it
07:14and have this pit almost complete,
07:16we can call you back for that again.
07:17We'll find it.
07:18We'll call you.
07:19You have to come down to your gold fence.
07:21Okay, we'll do that.
07:23Can't wait to see what you dig up.
07:25Yep, let's hope for the gold.
07:26While the search for answers and valuables
07:29continues on lot five,
07:33several hundred yards to the east,
07:35in the northern region of the triangle-shaped swamp.
07:38Hey, Craig.
07:39So how we doing?
07:40Well, over in the corner there,
07:42we found this huge pile of logs.
07:45Okay.
07:46And there's stones underneath it.
07:47Yeah.
07:48It's definitely path-like.
07:49Okay.
07:50Gary Drayton joins Craig Tester,
07:53Alex Lagina,
07:54and Billy Gerhardt
07:56as they investigate
07:57a recently unearthed cobblestone feature.
08:00kind of leading towards the eye of the swamp.
08:02Okay.
08:03That's another reason we thought it might be something.
08:04Mm-hmm.
08:05Because we feel that the eye might also be something.
08:07Yeah.
08:08We already have dates from that.
08:10I mean, there are several theories
08:11that fall into that interval.
08:12That's early enough to fit Phipps,
08:14but we need to prove it.
08:16I saw it.
08:17Yeah, that's a good one.
08:18That's a good one.
08:19In 2019, the Oak Island team
08:22began investigating
08:23a mysterious circular feature
08:25near the apex of the swamp
08:27that resembled a well-known symbol of Freemasonry
08:31known as the all-seeing eye.
08:34Wow.
08:35That is massive.
08:36That's a big boulder.
08:38Incredibly,
08:39after draining and excavating the area,
08:42the team discovered
08:43that the so-called eye of the swamp
08:45was a man-made feature.
08:48I'm very confident we're looking at 1680 to 1700.
08:52Really interesting.
08:53And when geoscientist Dr. Spooner
08:56carbon-dated organic materials within it,
08:59he determined it was created in approximately 1680,
09:04the same time period that Sir William Phipps
09:07and his Masonic partner, Captain Andrew Belcher,
09:10are believed to have hidden Spanish silver on Oak Island.
09:15The plan now is to just keep going here,
09:17and then we'll dig.
09:18Then work our way over?
09:19Closer in here as well as we go.
09:21Okay.
09:22Okay.
09:23Now, the team hopes to uncover
09:25more of the possible cobblestone pathway
09:28to determine if it may actually lead
09:30to the eye of the swamp
09:32or perhaps other man-made structures.
09:34I have to be honest about the whole swamp.
09:37I never thought we'd find anything.
09:39Just keep going, right?
09:40Continue on.
09:41And yet, every time we dig there, we find something.
09:43Maybe one of these days, it'll all fit together perfectly
09:46and answer the Oak Island riddle.
09:51Seems like a lot of rocks toward the surface right through here.
09:55Let's find out.
09:56This is definitely higher up than what you've been digging over there.
10:01Yes.
10:02So far, I'd say they're sitting on other rocks.
10:05Seems to be quite a few more rocks at least right in through here.
10:10Yeah, those are placed in there by someone.
10:15Another potentially man-made feature?
10:19If so, could it contain clues that will help identify
10:23who made the cobblestone pathway
10:25and perhaps the eye of the swamp?
10:27Yeah, there's a piece of cut slate there too, see?
10:30Oh, yeah.
10:31Oh, that's a bigger piece than a full.
10:35How big is that piece of slate?
10:37It's at least six inches deep in there.
10:47Ah.
10:50What is it?
10:51That's a brick.
10:52Oh, look at that.
10:54That's getting layered out here.
10:58That's a brick.
10:59There's several in a row.
11:01In the northern end of the Oak Island swamp,
11:04Craig Tester and other members of the team
11:07have just uncovered yet another man-made feature.
11:11They do look fairly crudely made.
11:13They do.
11:14Not like modern bricks, no.
11:15No.
11:16Yeah, actually, you can see where it was molded
11:18and it slumped a bit right there.
11:20Oh, yeah.
11:21And at least three or four lined up in a row?
11:24Yeah, there's no way a bulldozer would push those back in like that.
11:27No, not a nice flat line.
11:29No.
11:30And we're not very far from the eye of the swamp.
11:32Yeah.
11:33A brick structure buried beneath muck and mud
11:37and just 50 yards from the so-called eye of the swamp?
11:41Is it possible that the team has found a related feature?
11:45If so, could it prove to be the secret
11:48that the eye was created to signify?
11:51Yeah, let's put it back and let's get Laird out here
11:55to take a quick look.
11:56I don't know what it means, but maybe Laird will.
11:58Yeah, okay.
11:59I'll give him a call.
12:01I haven't found bricks in the swamp before.
12:05It was definitely put there by man, but why?
12:09Hey, guys.
12:10Hey, Laird.
12:11Why put something in the swamp that didn't make any sense?
12:14There's something really interesting happening.
12:17There we go.
12:19Now, the middle brick right there, Alex pulled that one up.
12:23Okay.
12:24And then once we saw there was multiple bricks,
12:26he put it back in place, but...
12:27You can tell right away they're not modern.
12:29Right.
12:30You can see it's almost like they're still as they were placed,
12:33even though that's broken.
12:34Yeah.
12:35These are handmade, probably locally fired.
12:38Mm-hmm.
12:39I'm wondering if this is all part of...
12:42I mean, Anthony Graves' house was here.
12:45I wonder if it's part of that.
12:48He was known to have bought items from local merchants
12:51with ancient coins.
12:53Spanish coins, wasn't it?
12:54Spanish, yeah.
12:56In 1857, a man by the name of Anthony Graves purchased
13:01a majority of Oak Island from the family of the late John Smith,
13:05one of the three young men who originally discovered
13:08the Money Pit in 1795.
13:13However, rather than living on Lot 18 as John Smith did
13:17and where the Money Pit is located,
13:19Graves established his homestead just north of the swamp
13:23at Jodhry's Cove.
13:25And curiously, after living on Oak Island for some time,
13:29he reportedly began paying for goods on the mainland
13:33with Spanish silver coins.
13:36Is it possible that the team has found a structure
13:40that is somehow connected to Anthony Graves,
13:43and perhaps the Spanish treasure that he is rumored
13:46to have possessed while living on Oak Island?
13:50I mean, the Spanish silver coin legend is good enough, isn't it?
13:53Yeah.
13:54You add me at silver.
13:55There's got to be some more artifacts here.
13:57So we got to go ahead to keep going here, though?
13:59Yeah. Oh, yeah.
14:00Cool.
14:01We're going to keep exposing this
14:02and see if there's a path leading to it,
14:04if there's more structure around it.
14:06If it does have something to do with Anthony Graves,
14:09it could be pretty significant.
14:11Maybe it's related to the treasure mystery,
14:13so we need to confirm what the heck this thing is.
14:16All right, I'll take this back.
14:17Perfect. Thanks, Eric.
14:18Okay, well, thank you.
14:20We'll keep going.
14:21If anything changes, we'll call you back.
14:23See you later.
14:29The following morning...
14:32How did you get, Leighton?
14:33109.
14:34109.
14:35Thank you, Leighton.
14:36In the Money Pit area,
14:38Alex Lagina joins his Uncle Rick
14:41and other members of the team
14:43where they continue to monitor the progress
14:45of borehole D.25, 8.25.
14:49This looks really soft, but...
14:54So this is very loose,
14:56and I'm...
14:57I'm seeing something here that interests,
14:59I think, everybody.
15:00Yeah, I see some here, too.
15:03We've got wood.
15:06Holy...
15:09That's a big old chunk of wood.
15:12Big old chunk of wood.
15:13You said it, my friend.
15:14Yes, sir.
15:15Yeah, that's a shaped piece of lumber there.
15:17Yep.
15:18Definitely.
15:19We've got one more.
15:25Oh, yeah.
15:26We've got some wood, guys.
15:28Does it look like a tunnel or shaft, Harry?
15:31I don't know, Steve.
15:32This is a vertical piece,
15:35and they sheared it off that way,
15:37so we could have some type of a support.
15:39And another piece here, look.
15:41And there seems to be a pretty darn good fit right there.
15:45It could be a tunnel.
15:47More evidence of a wooden tunnel
15:50at a depth of 109 feet?
15:53Could that mean that the team has once again
15:56drilled into the previously unknown
15:58nine-foot-tall tunnel?
16:00If so, could it be a critical sign
16:03that they are getting closer
16:04to finding the original money pit?
16:08What you got, Leighton?
16:10119 there, Frank.
16:12See what we've got next.
16:18This is all in situ,
16:19and it's just the way you might expect to encounter it.
16:24I would say we're beneath our tunnel.
16:28We have to hit 150 feet
16:29and see what we find there.
16:31So here we are.
16:32We're in a tunnel.
16:34This, again, is hugely significant
16:36because it's in the conventional money pit area.
16:39Gentlemen.
16:40Hello. How you doing, Craig?
16:41Hey, Craig.
16:42Hey, Craig.
16:43Did you see that wood?
16:44Hello.
16:45So the next thing we'll be looking for,
16:47I would think,
16:48is somewhere around 150 feet,
16:50where this so elusive chapel vault was encountered.
16:53And we have lots of information
16:55that says treasure is still there.
16:58Craig, I'm close.
17:01When you put a drill hole down in the money pit,
17:04you know, there's every hope
17:05that you'll come up with a treasure.
17:07Everyone's very excited around the drill table.
17:10We have these anomalously high values
17:13of precious metals, gold and silver, in this area.
17:16So as the dig proceeds,
17:18we just have to keep eyes on target
17:20because we have to remember the goal this year
17:23is to put X's on the ground for the case on work,
17:27to actually find the treasure.
17:29We have another core, gentlemen.
17:31Hey, guys.
17:32158.
17:33158.
17:34158.
17:35158.
17:36158.
17:37158.
17:38161.
17:39JIVMINE
17:44158.
17:45119.
17:46111.
17:47147.
17:48159.
17:50159.
17:51149.
17:52157.
17:53159.
17:54158.
17:55159.
17:56157.
17:57158.
17:58159.
17:59209.
18:00149.
18:02after all the anticipation for a major discovery this borehole has unfortunately failed to reveal
18:09any more signs of the legendary treasure vault however given the other evidence of man-made
18:16workings and water test results that indicate a large source of gold and silver is buried in
18:22this area could the team have just missed their target we need to put a few more holes in this
18:30area hopefully to find this previously unknown tunnel or the chapel vault we're going to chase
18:36this to the end there might be a locatable source for these high values of gold and silver in the
18:44water the hope is that as we proceed further there will be something there i think we just move south
18:52of this location and see what we come up with yep the more information the better yep hey guys
19:00thank you we'll keep you in touch sounds good
19:05so if we find buried treasure do we get a bonus or what
19:08as a new core drilling operation gets underway in the money pit area that's a lot of bricks in a row
19:16that's looking pretty structured like to me yeah in the northern region of the triangle-shaped swamp
19:22craig tester archaeologist laird niven and other members of the team continue to investigate a
19:30mysterious brick feature that was recently uncovered beneath the brackish water and mud the bigger thing
19:37is that it it's these bricks are all sitting on this rock here that is so many that's so many
19:42interesting interesting you wouldn't waste bricks and slate for a walkway or you know that's all
19:48reusable pretty good material bricks not a great walkway material it looks as if it's been dug out
19:55and there could be some artifacts in the bottom of it is it feasible to determine the age of the bricks
20:02they're not factory made they're handmade laid down in terms of their fabric they come pretty close to lot
20:14five well that's super cool a structure composed of slate and handmade bricks that resemble those found
20:21one year ago in the rounded foundation on lot five because the team has also unearthed iron tools in
20:29the lot five feature that have been scientifically linked to sir william phipps who is believed to
20:34have buried a cache of spanish silver and gold on oak island back in 1687 could this structure in the
20:42swamp be another critical clue that could help prove that theory if so just what might the team find
20:50when they get to the bottom this is a board yep there's a couple boards then through here there's
20:55actually why not it looks like it broke oh maybe the same board right oh yeah yeah they went across
21:02someone put some work into this a lot i can work on it for a bit okay okay and we'll go ahead and
21:09we'll get back on that that cobbled area over there all right okay see in a bit
21:14my first impression is obviously deliberately stacked pieces of slate with some brick uh outlining
21:30the top very unusual looking but very well made as i explored a little bit more i can see that the
21:37slate was actually forming a square structure which i found extremely unusual the really perplexing
21:44thing about this structure is that i haven't seen anything like it before wow yeah cleaning it off
21:52it's a whole different thing yeah yeah completely why use slate and bricks i mean any kind of structure
21:59we're looking at almost always is just built out of stone especially in the swamp it wasn't your
22:06ordinary farmer use there was something special about this this new square structure yeah would it
22:15be normal for them just to put the bricks without any mortar or i wouldn't have thought unless something
22:22was sitting on top yeah i don't know if that wood could have been part of a frame
22:26that they put it in the superstructure yeah yeah i think dr schooner here take a look at it help date
22:35this yeah you need to keep following it while members of the team continue to uncover the brick and
22:42slate feature in the swamp later that afternoon i like to just kind of push it around back on lot
22:52five located on the western side of the island craig tester and laird niven have joined jack begley
23:00and other members of the team as they continue investigating the rounded foundation and nearby
23:06test pit where gary drayton identified a non-ferrous target just one day ago
23:15oh i think i found it the metal head yeah
23:23oh yeah looking like a button
23:28pretty big eye on there yeah sure does doesn't have designs on it definitely it's odd it's kind of like
23:36a rim yeah that is a weird looking button oh geez laird i bet you there's something on the on the face of that
23:45you definitely see some sort of design there
23:53almost floral
23:56from first glance with that green it's copper alloy have you ever seen a button that looked like that
24:01honestly no i haven't wow an ornate copper button could it be another important clue that might help
24:11determine who created this feature as well as the brick structure in the swamp and perhaps even the
24:18money pit but the beauty of having the ct and even the xrf if that's a design emma can bring it out
24:25it's certainly corroded enough to be fairly old well good find that's for sure with it being so unique
24:33i'm hoping there's a real deep story in just who might have made it and how it made its way to the
24:40island yeah for sure fingers crossed well we will get back after it all right while the investigation
24:46proceeds on lot five now we should start seeing something in the money pit area because our target
24:54depth is here all the way to 159. alex lagina has joined other members of the team to monitor the
25:01drilling of borehole d.75 6.6 which is located just a few feet from borehole d.25 8.25 where they hope to
25:12obtain more evidence of the legendary chapel vault more than 150 feet below ground right now we're
25:19treasure hunting and looking for caisson locations we're due for a win that's true so i really like
25:26this borehole because it's in an area where we have had a lot of success we have multiple water
25:32testing boreholes around that suggest there's gold and silver in the water and so ideally today we'd love
25:39to tap into the treasure vault and bring up some coins that core looks like it's not backfilled no
25:47it does not potentially what do you got layton let's have a look got 119 119 thank you 119 let's open up
25:55we're into a lot of shreds of wood okay this could be the bottom of some type of a structure
26:13there's some wood and grainy material in there this could be clipping the very end of some other structure
26:25okay this could be the bottom of some type of structure there's some wood and grainy material in there
26:34that's good news right there guys that's really good terry i'm going to pinpoint that absolutely
26:40in the money pit area while drilling borehole d.75 6.6 where the team hopes to encounter evidence of the so-called chapel vault some 155 feet underground
26:53it's clear curiously they have just recovered part of an unknown structure at a depth of just 120 feet
27:02we're down 129 not too much to write home about here gentlemen backfill i don't see any wood chips or
27:09chunks included among this so that's disappointing when we get to about 154 we hope to intersect what
27:15we thought was the treasure chamber the edge of the treasure chamber yep so that's what i'm talking about
27:21we got to really hope that the uh oak island gods are on our side here oh we will see time's going to tell
27:29our target depth is basically 155 feet if our interpretation of the core is correct
27:36then we have drilled into and directly through an unknown structure of some kind so
27:43it's kind of an exciting possibility here and it's also exciting to know that whatever we hit down
27:47there at 155 feet could be the original hole what we care about the most is 155 to 159 okay cross your
27:56fingers hopefully we get some structure here
28:01there's definitely nothing there
28:13hey mike how you doing good so you know as i was going down there's definitely nothing solid there at 157.
28:21it feels like there's nothing there like totally open that's what it felt like
28:27that sounds like a possible void doesn't it absolutely there was nothing in my core
28:32break and then we took another measurement and there was material right at the bottom of my case
28:38so you lost material into a potential void that's the only thing i can come up with
28:43we passed through a relative void or an open space a void at 157 feet but no signs of the concrete encased
28:53container known as the chapel vault could that mean that the team may have once again missed their
29:00intended target but perhaps penetrated a man-made chamber that contains it okay you were you were
29:06thinking where in here here or here mike comes over and tells us he's gotten very little recovery i was in
29:12a void this is where the treasure is most likely to be found that's amazing you know adding this
29:20evidence to the rest it's just another reason that we should consider this as a case on location
29:24i mean that's the depth we expected to see something that we didn't see a wooden structure
29:28but we saw an open void absolutely finish this up and bring back the news sounds good thanks guys nice work
29:42i can't even imagine how many times we've come into the lab here to talk about an artifact from lot
29:50five and that little button is quite unique rick lagina craig tester and other members of the team
29:59join laird niven and archaeometallurgist emma culligan in the oak island lab laird you certainly have to
30:05speak to it they are eager to hear emma's scientific analysis of the mysterious button that was unearthed
30:12just one day ago near the rounded stone foundation on lot five so when i uncovered the button i thought
30:19it was just a plain button back until emma showed me something quite different and i think quite unique
30:26all right come on let's see so first off the ct scan earlier today emma examined the button in the
30:34sky scan 1273 ct scanner a device that uses concentrated x-ray radiation to produce three
30:42dimensional images of artifacts and their finer details so there will be some image distortion but
30:50not a lot this is the first thing i saw when i went oh so imagine my surprise when i saw that
30:57wow yeah that is a dandy button all right so there is a design on it there's a lot of copper
31:04especially buttons do have some lead in it so it's a copper alloy does have a little bit of zinc
31:10some lead there's a little bit of iron but that's about it so these two rivet like things
31:19i've never seen before in a button and that's holding that other level yes you have two you have at
31:24least two layers of metal it's a multi-component button it's a two-piece button that's really unique
31:31at least a two-piece button that's quite ornate yeah yeah you have the eye and then the boss is
31:36what's holding the eye in place it's almost like a dome it's wow really big is there anything specific
31:42about the design well we weren't really happy with the resolution on the ct so emma did an xrf map scan
31:51x-ray fluorescence mapping uses highly concentrated x-ray radiation to assign colors to the individual
31:58elements on the surface of artifacts the process creates a two-dimensional image that further
32:04highlights and objects finer details but can also help to determine when it may have been created
32:10oh my gosh that is one fancy button what is that design can you tell is that a flower it's a flower
32:24and there's an intricate flower inside so you see these little different petals oh wow it's got an
32:29englishy feel to it it looks like it could be an english button yeah you see the the little petals and how
32:36yeah they're formed there that's a really pretty button yeah it sure is so what are the speculative
32:45dates safe bet would be 1700s and then possibly yeah earlier
32:52i think there's a good chance this button could go into late 1600s by the look of it
32:57yeah
33:03it's an odd story that's going on in lot five
33:09they could go into late 1600s by the look of it
33:13wow in the oak island laboratory rick lagina and other members of the team are examining an ornate
33:20button that was found near the round stone feature on lot five and which may date back to more than a
33:27century before the discovery of the money pit it's the multi-component part that has me confused yeah
33:35i haven't seen that what do you think this button would have been where would it have been worn
33:41it's relatively small so we say it's not from a coat mm-hmm what do you think gary i think it's too
33:47big to be a cuff button i think it's a jacket button fancy jacket button as well to me it looks like
33:53there's a design on the outer ring that that's what i was noticing as well yeah it's really warm in it
33:59it's super ornate yeah if this button dates to the 1600s that fits really well with sir william phipps
34:07in 1687 king james ii of england ordered sir william phipps to conduct two salvage operations
34:18of the sunken spanish treasure galleon known as the concepcion near the modern-day dominican republic
34:25however phipps and his assistant captain andrew belcher delivered less than half of the silver and
34:32gold treasure that was recorded on the ship's manifest no we know that phipps found silver on
34:38the conception and i believe some of the treasure from the conception was secreted to oak island
34:44according to the theory of 32nd degree freemason scott clark phipps and belcher who was also a high
34:51ranking freemason hid much of their actual recovered valuables on oak island i think
34:58there's something about this button that might tell us if it's william phipps yeah could jack be
35:04correct that this button might prove to be another clue that supports this theory just like the iron
35:11tools found in the round feature that have been scientifically linked to william phipps
35:17laird and the team have spoke often of how you believe that the feature might be considerably older
35:24than we first thought this may be one of those points to support that yeah well i mean i'm really
35:31excited what we have so far sure is amazing so love the flower design yeah it's a blooming lovely find
35:40just gotta button this one up
35:45so having said that we need to go find more and we'll leave the both of you to try to come to a
35:52further understanding of what that represents great great work thank you thank you thanks laird
36:00later that afternoon
36:04hey laird hey craig hey geoscientist dr ian spooner joins craig tester and other members of the oak island
36:13team in the northern region of the swamp holy cow after uncovering more of the mysterious brick and
36:20slate feature or container that was discovered one day ago they are hoping that dr spooner might be
36:28able to help determine just how old it may be yeah so there's a whole bunch of things going on to me
36:34it seems to be in actually pretty nice shape you know i wonder what's inside it because you can always
36:40get a core inside and you know maybe get the bottom of it so to speak when it was abandoned yeah that kind
36:45of thing but there looks to be a fair bit of sediment that you're standing on i'm standing on too that's
36:50a graded over it because this was not visible not at all no and it takes time for that swamp material to
36:57build up over it and we have to kind of suspend the reality of today that none of this muck would have
37:02been there it would have been just sort of a little bit of a meadow and i'm just looking at those bricks and
37:08there probably knows they look handmade they're handmade hopefully we can section one get better
37:15looking what's kind of interesting to me is they've got the slate to build the form and it's very
37:23different from anything i've ever seen well you know we can get steve to pin the corners and he'll get
37:28the elevation or see how far it is above sea level or the swamp over the time i just wonder how deep it
37:34is because they of course would have had to excavate out i'm almost certain there'll be something down
37:40within this yeah i'm just going to grab my tools so we can get these samples we need to get rick out
37:48here hey guys hey rick okay so this is obviously new yep in the northern region of the oak island
37:59swamp what's going on it's hard to tell at this point rick lagina has joined craig tester dr ian
38:07spooner and other members of the team as they work to determine the age and purpose of a mysterious
38:14brick and slate container-like feature rick why don't i show you this down over here i mean it looks like
38:22the bricks were probably on top of the slate they are on that far piece you know the whole thing was
38:28covered we didn't see it until we took off the top layer which is a strange strange thing yeah so
38:35the best thing i can do here for you guys today is just survey the location of this okay so top
38:39elevation matches the cobble path if that means anything i don't know it's completely unknown i know
38:44nothing of this it's yeah it's another mystery yeah well do you know anthony graves lived right there
38:56yeah a hundred maybe a hundred yards away the family tore the house apart looking for what he had
39:02what a perfect place to hide something right yeah after the death of anthony graves in 1888 his family
39:11reportedly searched his home just north of the swamp for a cache of spanish silver coins that he was
39:18rumored to have discovered on oak island unfortunately for them nothing was found but could that be
39:27because the treasure was located in a secret vault buried in the swamp if so what might the team find
39:35as they dig deeper into this feature to me it just looks like a little tiny safety deposit box in the
39:42middle of the box and the suspicion of where anthony graves acquired his wealth would be that he
39:49found something on the island your mind goes to sir william phipps salvage of the concepcion there was a
39:56tremendous amount of silver recovered from that as the story goes not all of it made its way back to england
40:03i can only but think that this is a place where he stored valuables maybe multiple vaults could still
40:12exist in the swamp i think this is certainly a turn of events you know it's cool it's very cool you know
40:22i think we should get on artifact recovery at asap okay maybe removing soils from around and see how deep
40:29it goes yeah every time we dig in the swamp we find something new from a long time ago this is
40:36fantastic this is totally unique totally different we're here now now is the time to investigate okay
40:46week by week day by day rick marty craig and their team are peeling back the layers of the 230 year old
40:57oak island mystery as clues continue to mount which may soon identify just who may have buried a vast
41:05horde of riches here have they finally unearthed a feature that contains a portion of that treasure
41:14and if so could it merely be a sampling of what awaits them much deeper at the bottom of the money pit
41:23next time on the curse of oak island look what we've got here this could be a piece of the treasure
41:32yes oh charles we got wood this is incredible we could be within feet of our offset chamber
41:40doesn't that look like a vault to you i would expect a lot of stuff down there it's giving off
41:45metallic signals oh whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa here's something wow the heck is going on
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