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00:00On the curse of Oak Island.
00:02Oh, wow.
00:03What is that?
00:04That's exactly like the sticks we found near the vault.
00:06I truly believe there's still another vault there.
00:09Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:10There it is, without a void.
00:11That's right.
00:12Is that natural, or is that an open cavern?
00:14Only a sonar could tell you that, really.
00:16All right, well, that's what we'll do.
00:17Hopefully we'll find the one thing.
00:18Cross your fingers.
00:19We're in the cavity.
00:20Yeah, you're in.
00:21We'd love nothing better than to see a man-made cavern or vault.
00:24We've got an opening.
00:25This is not natural.
00:30There is an island in the North Atlantic where people have been looking for an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
00:40So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it.
00:46Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:50And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knights Templar.
00:55To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:00And, according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:08As a new day begins on Oak Island.
01:23Here we go.
01:25VN 13.5.
01:27This is an area that we really haven't looked at very much and certainly haven't been to the bottom of the solution channel in very much.
01:32Rick and Marty Lagina and their team are shifting their strategy to look for treasure more than 200 feet deep in the Money Pit area.
01:41Right in the heart of the Peacock.
01:43Yep.
01:44The Peacock is a real phenomenon.
01:46It's a loose, slushy area leading down into the solution channel.
01:50Good.
01:51They are drilling a borehole known as BN 13.5.
01:58Located 45 feet northeast from recent drilling locations.
02:03And in an area dubbed by Marty Lagina as the Peacock.
02:07So right at 55 is like the bottom dropped right out of her.
02:11It was here where three years ago the team drilled through heavily slushy material between 55 and 150 feet deep before entering the solution channel at a depth of nearly 170 feet underground.
02:27Now, in order to explore another area of the solution channel where new water tests have revealed more evidence of precious metals.
02:37The team is once again drilling down through the Peacock.
02:41The Peacock is almost like the solution channel sitting on top of the solution channel.
02:46It's a very low dense area of what I'm going to call Terry, a higher mud river.
02:53We never really drilled to the bottom as much as we should have, I believe.
02:58The Peacock is an area of significantly unconsolidated soils.
03:02Terry Matheson, a resident geologist, can explain how that can exist.
03:08There may be a tunnel or a shaft in close proximity which has caused the soils to destabilize.
03:16But the historical record does not indicate anyone being in this area, i.e. searchers.
03:23So, what happened here?
03:25What is the story and where is the treasure?
03:28I think we're in a really good area here. I really do.
03:31There's probably multiple number of holes that could put here.
03:34I agree with that 100%.
03:35And you know, until we actually hold the treasure in our hand, I'm not willing to rule out any area as possible.
03:40I totally agree.
03:41I totally agree.
03:42While the core drilling operation continues in the Money Pit area.
03:48Wow.
03:49Made some good progress.
03:51Yeah.
03:52Katya Drayton and Derek Couch join Billy Gerhardt in the southwest corner of the swamp.
03:59All right.
04:00We'll open this up a little bit to give us room that maybe you can get down and detect around a little bit.
04:05So, we'll start over here.
04:07Yep.
04:08We'll be where you dump and then I'll move there.
04:11The team is searching for artifacts that might help identify who built a stone formation uncovered in this area three weeks ago.
04:20As well as a possibly related stone road that was unearthed several yards to the north.
04:27Both of which were lined by wooden survey stakes.
04:38What is that?
04:39Oh, wow.
04:40We just found another steak.
04:41Oh, good.
04:42That's quite something.
04:43In place as well.
04:44Oh, my gosh.
04:45How many sides?
04:46Four cuts.
04:47It looks like one side is unfinished, but this reminds me of the five-sided steak we found earlier.
04:53This has been in here for a while.
04:54And what's most impressive of that one is that this steak was still standing at a very deep point in the swamp, so it's exactly where somebody put it.
05:06There's three feet of stuff on top of that, right?
05:07Yeah.
05:08It's cut with purpose.
05:09Yeah.
05:10And it's ax cut.
05:11Mm-hmm.
05:12You can see there now is a round pit down there, which is pretty hard to do with a square excavator bucket, so...
05:15As you were digging, it just kept falling in there.
05:16Right.
05:17So it does give you the inclination there's something down there.
05:18There's a round pit down there, which is pretty hard to do with a square excavator bucket, so...
05:20As you were digging, it just kept falling in there.
05:21Right.
05:22So it does give you the inclination.
05:23There's something down there.
05:24Right.
05:25I just pushed my bucket, and the stuff fell in, but now you can really see the shape of what
05:28it was when it was dug.
05:29So somebody dug a pit there, and it wasn't me.
05:30Yeah.
05:31Maybe that steak marked why they dug there.
05:32You know, who and why, right?
05:33Yeah.
05:34Yeah.
05:35Yeah.
05:36Yeah.
05:37Yeah.
05:38Yeah.
05:39Yeah.
05:40Yeah.
05:41Yeah.
05:42Yeah.
05:43Yeah.
05:44Yeah.
05:45Yeah.
05:46Yeah.
05:47Yeah.
05:48Yeah.
05:49Yeah.
05:50Yeah.
05:51Yeah.
05:52Yeah.
05:53Could Billy be correct that someone previously dug in this area and then marked it with a wooden
05:59stake?
06:00If so, could this stake be an important sign of what else the team may uncover here?
06:07Rick told us to keep an eye out for these, and we'll definitely have to get Steve out here
06:12to pin this.
06:13I think with the dating of the wood and the depth that we had it when Steve pins it, that
06:18Dr. Spooner might be able to put a date on, but that stake has to go back a long time.
06:22Hopefully there's more there, but that is a great start.
06:26Yeah.
06:27Maybe we could find an answer instead of a question.
06:29Yeah.
06:30So it would be nice to find some answers.
06:32We'll keep going.
06:33All right.
06:34As the dig in the swamp continues.
06:37Gary had done a complete scan of the Lot 5 spoil piles, and lo and behold, this item
06:43was found.
06:44Rick and other members of the team join Laird Niven and Emma Culligan in the lab for a report
06:51on a folded copper coin, or token, found one week ago in spoils that were removed from
06:57the round feature on Lot 5.
07:00You were quite excited about that.
07:02Yeah.
07:03When it came out, I'm thinking, oh, it's some kind of, like, folded coin I'm hoping.
07:10These are unusual.
07:11I have found these type of finds in England, metal detecting, and they're normally like talisman
07:18or good-look tokens that put out there.
07:22Sometimes they ward off even bad luck, but it was good luck for us because we found it.
07:28Yeah.
07:29Does it cross cultural lines or religious lines, meaning one faith might be more accepting
07:36of it, maybe more...
07:37I mean, Catholicism for sure, I would think.
07:40It's interesting because this tradition, I think the first recorded one in England is,
07:46like, 1290.
07:47You fold a coin and pray to a saint for a miracle, and that's how this all started.
07:53Yeah.
07:56The team has found a number of potentially religious artifacts in the round feature, such as the
08:0214th century lead barter token that may be linked to the Knights Templar.
08:07They have also found Phoenician trade beads and two ornate buttons that could be connected
08:13to the Knights of Malta, an order with known ties to the Templars, who built a stronghold
08:19in Nova Scotia back in 1632.
08:22We need to know from you what you think it is and what it represents and how old it might
08:29be.
08:30Okay.
08:31So, for the CT scan, I guess the main question that first needs answering is whether or not
08:38there's any reliefs or signs that it is a coin.
08:41Mm-hmm.
08:42And immediately, I'm going to say there's nothing that I can really see so far.
08:47Yeah.
08:48I mean, we can't definitively say it's a coin, but if we look at why coins are traditionally
08:55folded, it needs to have some value to give literal, like, weight to the talisman.
09:04So, we can assume it was valuable to somebody at some point.
09:08And then the triple folding is quite unusual.
09:11Yeah.
09:12We thought it would be fairly straightforward.
09:14Yeah, we did.
09:15Yeah.
09:16What does the data tell you the age of this item is?
09:20So, based on the composition, it is a copper alloy with a zinc content, zinc being an alloying
09:26element.
09:27It's definitively post-medieval and pre-mid 1800s.
09:32There's the arsenic and lead content as an alloying element as well, which is from at
09:37least around the time of, like, industrial revolution of mid-1700s, potentially earlier.
09:43And then the arsenic could push it to late 1600s.
09:52The arsenic could push it to the 1600s, late 1600s.
09:57The fact that someone took all that time to fold it over three times.
10:02I mean, it is significant.
10:04It is a meaningful artifact.
10:07In the lab, Emma and Laird have just revealed that the folded copper artifact found in the
10:16Lot 5 spoils may hold religious symbolism and date back to more than a century before the
10:22discovery of the money pit.
10:25And sometimes if it was disease, they'd put a bent over coin or token to ward off the disease.
10:33Yeah.
10:34Somebody went to some pains to do it then.
10:37Yeah.
10:38To me, it looks quite well done.
10:39Yeah.
10:40We're on an island, but it's a big province.
10:43Have you ever found anything like this on digs or know of any of our archaeological digs where
10:49they've found these type of offerings?
10:51Not that I can remember specifically in Nova Scotia from an archaeological context.
10:57Of course, we're on an island.
11:00Sailors came to the island.
11:02They were all superstitious, especially in the 1700s.
11:05True.
11:06Oh, there are a lot of possibilities.
11:08Obviously, the first one is just preparing for your voyage.
11:11Yeah.
11:12Yeah.
11:13Coming here from Europe was not an easy thing, right?
11:16Exactly.
11:17Yeah.
11:18My suspicion is that's intentional.
11:20It's folded perfectly.
11:22Yeah.
11:23And maybe three folds means something different than two folds.
11:26Yeah.
11:27Our research hasn't gone that far yet.
11:29Given the enormity of finds that date to the 1600s, there were buttons.
11:35Then you have the trade beats, right?
11:37And the dates you're implying are highly suggestive of the connection to the Knights of Malta.
11:44Their attempt to either create a colony here or to do something else.
11:50Given the potential symbolism of this artifact, could the team be correct that it might be related to the buttons and ornate trade beats that have been potentially linked to the order of the Knights of Malta?
12:05The folded coin is certainly the first of its kind on the island, but it's just a puzzle piece.
12:12How do you connect all of the artifacts in Lot 5 feature?
12:16It's starting to build a body of evidence, but I think in order to fully understand what happened on Lot 5, there's a lot more work to be done.
12:25But at some point, with enough puzzle pieces, then you can tell the complete story.
12:31Just love to know what's on the inside.
12:35And I'd like to see the puzzle completed.
12:38It's one of those little, innocuous-looking things that has a great story behind it.
12:43Mm-hmm.
12:44It was good luck that we found it.
12:46I think there's a lot of information that we can learn because of its uniqueness.
12:50Yeah.
12:51And don't forget Sandy Campbell.
12:52That's a good thought.
12:53Yeah.
12:54With Sandy, he's not just a numismatist, he's a historian.
13:00Yeah.
13:01And he might know the history of these coins.
13:03Exactly.
13:04So, I look forward to what we uncover.
13:07Or what we unfold.
13:08Pun intended.
13:11All right.
13:12See you.
13:14Bye.
13:15Bye-bye.
13:16Keep your eyes peeled here.
13:19Meanwhile, in the southwest corner of the swamp, Katya, Derek, and Billy continue to search for more artifacts near the stone formation.
13:29Yeah, Katya, there's a funny piece in that last bucket.
13:33Oh, yeah.
13:34Oh, my gosh.
13:36That's a something there, yeah.
13:39Piece of planking?
13:40That's a strand.
13:42The top looks maybe cut, but it's wide and it comes to a point like a wedge.
13:48No, it does.
13:49Yeah, it's tapered.
13:50Yeah.
13:51So, you know, somebody's spent some time to make it for a very special purpose, I would say.
13:56It's got a great groove right there, a bunch of little dents in it.
14:01I'm thinking it might be an oar or a paddle just because of the shape.
14:05Yeah.
14:06They're so close to the ship's rail, and maybe we get attest that it's some part of the same ship.
14:11If we find more pieces of the same one, that would be pretty telling to what actually went on in here.
14:17Yeah.
14:18A possible piece of an oar?
14:21Could Billy be correct that it may be related to the piece of a ship's railing found just a few yards to the east back in 2020,
14:30which was carbon dated to as early as the 7th century?
14:34If so, might all of the artifacts that the team is finding in this area be connected to the nearby stone feature?
14:43I think somebody will be able to look at that and look at the taper, whether it is an oar or a wedge or whatever it is, doesn't matter.
14:49Connect some dots.
14:50Yeah.
14:51We'll put this to the side.
14:52Definitely an interesting piece.
14:54Yep.
14:55It's what Marty says all the time, you know, facts are stubborn things, like the ship's railing, going back in the 600 ADs.
15:02It's very confusing, and we have data across the board from literally from the 1200s right up through 1750.
15:12In the bog with the types of constructions that have been found.
15:16That looks like another stake.
15:18Billy, got another stake right under you.
15:21My hope is that as the work continues in the bog, the gaps in that information will be filled in.
15:30That is one of those big round ones.
15:36This is probably one of the biggest stakes I've ever seen.
15:39We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
15:48Eight sides.
15:49That reminds me exactly of the stakes we found near the vault.
15:53Definitely something going on here.
15:56The team has found dozens of wooden stakes across the swamp that have featured different numbers of cuts at their points.
16:03But when they uncovered the empty slate and brick vault in the northern region one year ago, it was after following a trail of eight sided cut stakes that lined a cobblestone path.
16:17Is it possible that this eight sided stake could be connected to that vault like feature?
16:24And could it mean another one that may still contain valuables is hidden in this area?
16:30It looked like it was about four feet down in that sand there.
16:33Yeah.
16:34The eight side ones are almost all that same, that really big circumference.
16:38The more sides that it has, based on the testing that we did in the island, the older that they tend to be.
16:43Yeah.
16:44Every bucket full now, we're finding something.
16:46There was a ton of activity right here.
16:48I'm sure we'll have a bunch of stuff to take back to the lab for everybody to look at.
16:52Well, that's another good find.
16:54Well, I'll put it over there and then we'll keep going.
16:57Oh, good eye, Derek.
16:58That's cool.
16:59As the sun rises over Oak Island.
17:04You ready to rock, Charles?
17:06Yeah.
17:07Here we go.
17:08In the Money Pit area, Terry and Charles monitor the core drilling operation in borehole BN 13.5, as it sinks deeper into the Peacock area.
17:25Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
17:28We've never had this much fallout.
17:31No.
17:32Yeah, it's too hard to tell if it's a void or if it's just water gravels.
17:37Yeah.
17:38Okay, Charles, it looks like you lost the core.
17:41Gone out the end of the core barrel.
17:43Okay.
17:44Here's Adam now.
17:46Hey, Adam, you lost that, right?
17:48Yeah.
17:49And no recovery.
17:50No recovery, no.
17:51Oh, man.
17:52We've pushed from 148 to 158, and the rods are sinking when I run the casing.
17:58They're sinking.
17:59We're in pretty loose material, obviously.
18:00It's loose.
18:01We're right in the heart of the Peacock.
18:02Yeah.
18:03So you're just going to try and push to 168 to try and get something solid?
18:06Yeah.
18:07Excellent.
18:08Great stuff.
18:09Thanks a lot.
18:10Good.
18:11Appreciate it.
18:12Interesting to see what we come up with on this one.
18:14We're excited about this because we're in the area where we got gold and silver in the water.
18:20And, you know, as we're drilling down, the mud and the muck is very loose and sloppy.
18:26Oh, yeah.
18:27Is it loose because of high activity by humans?
18:31That looks promising.
18:33Yeah.
18:34Is it possible that this could be an opening that was man-made?
18:38If it is, it's something we didn't know existed.
18:41Whatever was there, we got it.
18:43Right on.
18:44But it got hard at the bottom.
18:46Very sloppy at the top.
18:49Okay.
18:50All right.
18:51Let's carve this up.
18:52Okay.
18:53This is the firm bottom of this area of the Peacock.
18:56Right here.
18:57Yeah.
18:58And the bottom here is limestone-rich material.
19:00It's really only 10 feet of recovery for a whole 20 feet drilled all the way from 148 to 168.
19:07Definitely, we've got an effective water-filled void from about 148 to 158.
19:12You feel a little grave.
19:13Yeah.
19:14A possible 10-foot void above the solution channel?
19:18Peacock.
19:19If so, is it simply a natural feature?
19:22Or could it be a man-made chamber?
19:25I gotta go.
19:26Okay.
19:27What is a surprise is when we encounter a relative void, I mean, you think human activity in that
19:32area, this is shaping up to be a really interesting hole.
19:36Hey, Terry.
19:37How you doing?
19:38How's it going?
19:39Uh, we're loose from between 148 and 158.
19:44Relatively loose, washed-out material like what you'd expect down inside a solution channel.
19:48Okay.
19:49Relatively high, but this is possibly a void.
19:53Now, is that natural or is that an open man-made chamber?
19:57We don't know.
19:58Yeah.
19:59Also, we're getting elevated results for precious metals, associated copper-lead-zinc type of
20:05things that are associated with a treasure in the peacock.
20:08So, yeah, for me, I've always been a believer that there's an offset chamber in the money pit,
20:12and if there is an offset chamber, it makes sense it would be in this area.
20:16Exactly.
20:19The Oak Island team has long suspected that whoever built the money pit may have not only buried
20:24treasure at the bottom of the shaft, but also constructed a tunnel away from the main shaft
20:30to hide a cache of treasure in an offset chamber.
20:34Is it possible that this theory could explain the potential 10-foot void that the team has just
20:40encountered 148 feet deep in the peacock?
20:47So, what we found was an area with possibly a water-filled void.
20:52That's a candidate for a sonar, don't you think?
20:54I think so.
20:56Adam!
21:00Quick question.
21:01What's up?
21:02We had a bit of an open area, which I think of as a void.
21:06Yep.
21:07Is it a void?
21:08Only a sonar could tell you that, really.
21:10Yeah.
21:11Right?
21:12All right.
21:13Well, that's what we'll do.
21:14Yep.
21:15All right.
21:16So, if this proves fruitful, I can see this being a case on location.
21:17Yeah.
21:18We're not done with the peacock.
21:19Yep.
21:20Absolutely.
21:21As the team arranges to look deeper into borehole BN 13.5.
21:25I want to thank you for coming down.
21:29This, when Gary found it, it was coin-like.
21:32In the research center, Rick and other members of the team meet with coin expert Sandy Campbell.
21:39It's very peculiar.
21:40Again, a one-off.
21:42Yeah.
21:43To have him examine the folded copper artifact that was found on lot five.
21:48Never found another one of these on the island.
21:51So, I don't know.
21:52I'm hoping you can help us here.
21:54Okay.
21:57Yeah, this is extremely interesting.
22:00And it is a coin.
22:09Fold it three times.
22:12You know, when they first started folding coins, it was early medieval times.
22:17It represents a ritual that's thousands of years old.
22:21Yeah.
22:22It was thought that when you folded a coin, you could trap, you know, the evil inside the coin.
22:29And at some point when that evil has passed, if you pass the coin on or if you buried it, there was no more risk to you from that evil.
22:41Hmm.
22:42And it relates to Christianity, the Crusades, you know, even the Knights Templar.
22:49However, because of the size of this coin, it's not likely medieval.
22:54And this is probably 16, 17 hundreds.
22:58Really?
22:59But I think it still has the same religious and spiritual meaning.
23:08Fascinating.
23:09It's an interesting piece.
23:10Yeah.
23:11In the research center, Sandy Campbell has confirmed that the folded artifact found near the round feature on Lot 5 is indeed a coin.
23:24And maybe a 17th century religious symbol connected to the Knights Templar.
23:39Trapping evil. It seems like a strange ritual, right?
23:43Right.
23:44It's a bizarre ritual, but, you know, copper was really a show of wealth.
23:50And it was also a show of strength to anybody in medieval times.
23:54Hmm.
23:55So the only folded coins you will see from that period, you're not going to see folded silver or gold.
24:00They're always going to be copper.
24:02Really?
24:03Yeah.
24:04Folding the coins was also a ritual to honor saints.
24:08Hmm.
24:09The Knights Templar, they worshiped both St. George and St. Bernard.
24:14Yeah.
24:15And there was a ritual with folded coins where you would fold the coin, trap the evil, toss it away as an homage to those saints.
24:25Hmm.
24:26So it's bizarre that you have this piece on the island.
24:31I guess that ritual continued into the 1600s.
24:37Really?
24:38Yeah.
24:39So you feel that this is probably 1600s?
24:42At the earliest.
24:44So my mind always goes to the Knights of Malta.
24:48Interesting.
24:49Which is one of our suspects on the island.
24:52That falls right in that time period.
24:54Hmm.
24:55Is it possible that this folded copper coin might offer another key clue that sacred treasures of the Knights Templar and the religious order of the Knights of Malta may be connected to the Oak Island mystery?
25:09Sandy Campbell's statement that the trifold goes back to medieval times during the time of the Templars.
25:18It's very curious.
25:19We have proven, in fact, that the Knights of Malta had interactions and even through families of great importance with the Templars.
25:29And there was a connection between the two.
25:32So there is a possible tie there.
25:35There's more research to be done.
25:37It's strange because there are some, I believe, Lord, correct me if I'm wrong, but that feature that you've uncovered.
25:44It's basically east to west, is it not its orientation?
25:47The long axis.
25:48We know from the churches we visited and the historical places when we went to Europe.
25:53All Templar-associated buildings and constructions were east-west orientation.
26:00It's interesting, different, and adds to the mystery.
26:06There's no way to unfold that coin, physically unfold it.
26:10My initial response is you folded it to capture evil.
26:15Yeah, so if you back it up.
26:17Yeah, you're on your own there.
26:20I don't know what's in there.
26:23No, it's unfortunate that we can't learn more about it.
26:27You know, the hope is, as the work continues on Lot 5, because you're not done, we find others.
26:33And hopefully they'll be able to tell us something a little bit more than what's currently in front of us.
26:39Exactly.
26:40So we thank you very much for coming down.
26:42I appreciate it.
26:43After the meeting in the research center.
26:46I'm really expecting to find some good things in here.
26:50Then this really should be a potential for a high traffic area.
26:53While members of the team search for more clues in the round feature on Lot 5.
26:58We'll see what today brings.
26:59Yeah, let's see.
27:00Rick and Katya arrive on Lot 8, located on the western side of the island.
27:06Let's have at her.
27:07High five before we start.
27:09Two weeks ago.
27:11Perfect.
27:12All right, Gary, here's our first location.
27:14Okay, Mike.
27:15While the team searched for clues on a straight line that led away from a potential 12th century marker stone on Lot 5.
27:22Gary and Peter found part of a possible barrel on Lot 8.
27:27Now, Rick wants to see if that find might be related to something more valuable buried nearby.
27:34Oh.
27:35That's a hit.
27:36Right there.
27:37Face.
27:38It's looking to be iron.
27:41Let's see.
27:42There you go.
27:43Oh.
27:44Look at that.
27:45Look at that.
27:46Look at that.
27:47It's looking to be iron.
28:03Let's see.
28:06There you go.
28:09Oh.
28:12Look at that.
28:14What is this?
28:17I don't know.
28:19Looks like two holes in it right there.
28:20Yeah.
28:23Not heavy enough to be a tool, though, is it?
28:25I think this might be a knife handle,
28:28because there's another hole down here.
28:30Oh, yeah.
28:31Yeah, you'd possibly have, like, another side to this.
28:34And then you'd have the blade starting up there.
28:37You can really see how both of the holes
28:40are square on each side.
28:44Your father has always said that.
28:46Square holes in playa over there.
28:47Mm-hmm.
28:48Yeah.
28:49Right?
28:50Well, I know one thing.
28:51I'd like to see that on a CT scan, right?
28:53Mm-hmm.
28:54I would definitely agree with you.
28:57Well, we'll bag this.
28:57Yeah.
28:58Tag it.
28:59Right?
29:01There are all kinds of questions about Lot 8.
29:04In this particular location, there is no data or no record
29:09that people are in this area doing something
29:11following the discovery of the Money Pit.
29:14All right.
29:14Take it out.
29:16It's a good start.
29:17So anything you find, almost literally anything,
29:21is an important clue in terms of who might have been there
29:25and when.
29:34That's one that's good.
29:35Yeah?
29:35Yeah.
29:36Oh, yeah.
29:39Right here.
29:40Two-way repeatable.
29:41Right?
29:42Yep.
29:43That was a beautiful bug.
29:55Oh, yeah.
29:56Even I know that's a good one.
30:04Now, that is an interesting piece.
30:08What is that?
30:09I've never found one of these before.
30:14This is a lead bag seal.
30:16Big seal, really.
30:19This is great.
30:20On Lot 8 of Oak Island, Rick and Katya
30:23have made what could be an important discovery.
30:26This could possibly be a tail coming out of it.
30:30Oh, okay.
30:30Yeah, yeah.
30:31That would have been probably from the bag
30:34or whatever it was being attached to.
30:36Yeah, yeah.
30:37Your dad is following other bag shoes.
30:39One on 32, one on Lot 5 down by the ocean.
30:44And yet, here we are in the middle of nowhere.
30:48You find a bag seal?
30:51First developed in Europe in the 13th century,
30:54bag seals were fasteners used to secure large quantities
30:58of goods inside cloth packaging.
31:01The Oak Island team previously found one of these items
31:04on Lot 5 that was British and could date back to the 16th century.
31:10However, they uncovered another one near the shore on Lot 32.
31:15That was a scientific match to the 14th century lead cross, which may be connected to the Knights Templar.
31:22Is it possible that Rick and Katya have just found a similar artifact?
31:28To the best of my knowledge, I don't think there was a homestead here.
31:33I just, for the life of me, I can't understand why it's here.
31:37It just doesn't make sense to me.
31:39I cannot explain why this bag seal has been found almost in the middle of the lot,
31:46not in proximity to the open ocean.
31:50Everything prior to the causeway construction in 1965,
31:54things would have had to have come by the sea, by way of the sea.
31:58So why it was lost in the middle of the lot, I cannot explain it.
32:02Look, it's a great find.
32:04I'm more curious about this one than I am about bag seals from there and there.
32:08Really?
32:09Because if they had something to do with a work area,
32:12then whatever was inside would have been needed here.
32:15I'm really hoping that Emma and Laird can find a maker's mark or moniker on it,
32:22and we could really trace this back to where it came from.
32:25Yeah, let's get it analyzed, see if there is a maker's mark or something.
32:30I agree.
32:31Yeah, good find.
32:32Yeah.
32:33Well, congratulations.
32:35You found something I always wanted to find.
32:36Well done.
32:37It's cool.
32:38Right?
32:39Let's keep looking.
32:40Yeah, let's do it.
32:44The following morning...
32:47Let's find something.
32:48Yeah.
32:49Oh, hey guys, how you doing?
32:50What is it?
32:51Craig?
32:52Craig?
32:53Yeah, just about.
32:54While they wait for analysis on the new find from Lot 8,
32:58Rick, Craig, and other members of the team
33:00meet with underwater imaging expert Ken DeBoer in the Money Pit area
33:05to investigate the possible 10-foot void nearly 150 feet deep
33:10in borehole BN 13.5.
33:13We're going to try the camera first so we can see if we can get an image down there.
33:16Sure.
33:17Pull the sonar down.
33:18Can you explain it, Terry?
33:19Can I explain it geologically?
33:20Not really.
33:21No, I mean, I'm looking for beams and posts here.
33:24That's what I'm going to look for in that pictures.
33:26That's what I'm going to look for in the sonar imaging as well.
33:28Cool.
33:29And perhaps a little chest over in the corner.
33:33Crush your fingers.
33:34Ken, it's up to you.
33:35No pressure.
33:36No pressure.
33:37No pressure.
33:38No pressure at all.
33:39No pressure.
33:40All right.
33:41It's very interesting.
33:42I mean, we're in the area of high metal values.
33:44In my opinion, this would be an offset chamber.
33:46Potentially, yes.
33:47Yes.
33:48So it's quite interesting.
33:49So I'm ready to go.
33:50Let's have a look.
33:51All right.
33:52Let's get the camera down there, then.
33:53Okay.
33:54Let's get at it.
33:55Before running a sonar device down the borehole, the team will insert Ken's high-definition
34:00camera, capable of operating in low-light conditions with a lens that he can rotate 360 degrees.
34:09We'll take it to 150 feet, so we're into the hole.
34:12Okay.
34:13And down.
34:14Touchdown and water.
34:15Water.
34:16We'd love nothing better than to see a man-made cave, cavern, vault.
34:32Anything man-made, really, at that depth, in that location.
34:36I don't know what to expect, but I'm very eager to find out what's down there.
34:41How deep are we, Charles?
34:42You're 32 feet right now.
34:4980 feet.
34:5490 feet.
34:56It's close to the top of the chamber.
34:58100.
35:00Can we help?
35:01100 feet.
35:04Let's see.
35:06Oooo.
35:07Okay.
35:08There's a silk cod coming up from around a… looks like a boulder or something.
35:09Oh!
35:10Ooh!
35:11That could be a bean.
35:12Wow.
35:14There's something there, isn't there?
35:22Steve, come up like about an inch or two.
35:24Okay.
35:30Whoa, whoa, that's good.
35:35You can make it almost like a wall or something like that there, but when you move away from it,
35:38we kind of go into more of an opening here.
35:45Really?
35:49Now that's interesting.
35:53There's definitely some sort of opening there.
35:56Yeah, for sure.
35:58Yep.
36:00Right there.
36:01Right there.
36:01In the money pit area, the Oak Island team investigates a strange cavity.
36:08Some 150 feet underground.
36:13Steve, you want to just take us up slowly, kind of inch by inch?
36:16Yes, I sure will.
36:18You tell me when to stop.
36:23Oh, oh.
36:25Did you see that?
36:27Turn that way.
36:30Hold it there for a second.
36:31Okay, I'm going to steady it.
36:36That looks like something.
36:38I mean, you see the potential of having boulders on top of one another, but I mean, just off to the left or right could be the original man-made structure holding those boulders out.
36:51Yeah.
36:51If there was a collapsed off that chamber down there or a tunnel, I mean, we're going to see bare earth.
37:00But it looks like it has depth.
37:02That's interesting.
37:03Yeah.
37:03But we do see some potential boulder-on-boulder, but again, we're towards kind of the rock-facing wall, if you will, the side of the borehole.
37:14Could Terry be correct that the team is looking into a man-made structure?
37:19If so, could it be connected to the precious metals that have been detected in this area?
37:26If we rotate around this way, you see we start opening up here, back into that cavity area right here.
37:35That's just very surprising.
37:37Is that what you're seeing, Ken?
37:42Yes.
37:45I'd put the sonar down and try to define the cavity.
37:48That's a great idea.
37:49Yep.
37:49We can actually see some things, but it's difficult to understand scale.
37:57It's difficult to get a real interpretation of what you're looking at.
38:03So the next step here is to introduce the sonar and see how open and how big, how wide, how long this area is.
38:13So what we have here is a scanning 360-degree sonar.
38:17Mm-hmm.
38:17The cable's marked, so we'll know where that 150-foot is.
38:21Okey-doke.
38:22Keep your fingers crossed.
38:27The Blue Robotics Ping 360 sonar device emits a sound wave that reflects off of objects and barriers.
38:37We're in water.
38:38We're in the water.
38:39This will produce full-scale images of the underground void or possible cavern.
38:46Show me the money.
38:47Yeah.
38:47So we're in the cavity as of right now.
38:52Oh, there's the opening.
38:53Yeah, you're in.
38:54You're in.
38:54Okay, okay, right there.
38:55Here we go.
38:57This darker red line is the opening.
39:00You can see how rough it is.
39:01And the yellow is lower density returns and backscatter caused by particles in the water.
39:07Right.
39:09Go down just a little more.
39:10Yep.
39:10Yeah, that popped out farther.
39:14Is that an opening now?
39:15It's like around the hard return we've got an opening.
39:20Oh, two directions, too.
39:24Oh, yeah.
39:24Looks like it's open.
39:25Wow.
39:26To me, this looks very linear, like with an opening here.
39:30Interesting.
39:31So it's two feet from side to side right now.
39:37If this is not natural, it could have been a larger cavity that has collapsed around it.
39:42So, true.
39:43I mean, just out to the left or right, we mightn't encounter what we're hoping for.
39:47Yeah.
39:49This hole shouldn't be open.
39:51There's no reason for that.
39:54Geologically, there's no reason for that.
39:56We found gold in the water in the area.
39:59Right.
40:00It's open down there.
40:02There's no reason for it to be open unless man was down there doing something.
40:07We have precious metals and high silver in the Peacock and greater depths in the solution channel.
40:17We've always speculated that there was more than, call it an offset chamber or multiple volts.
40:24Maybe we just found one of them.
40:27This is a priority target.
40:29Now that we have video, let's contact ProHawk, a company that enhances video, to have it analyzed.
40:37We will incrementally pursue this because we're trying to find the treasure, right?
40:42Yeah.
40:43There's every indication here that that could be in this specific area.
40:47Yeah.
40:48We have a few more holes to drill in this area.
40:50Good deal.
40:51Okay.
40:51Right on.
40:52Let's make it so.
40:54The more Rick, Marty, Craig, and their team dig,
40:58the deeper this 230-year-old mystery becomes.
41:02After making intriguing new discoveries on Lot 8 and in the swamp,
41:10has the team finally located a treasure vault 150 feet underground in the Money Pit area?
41:17But if so, is that the only place where Oak Island is hiding its most precious secrets?
41:28Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:31We got a signal.
41:32Aha!
41:34Oh, we got here.
41:35I recognized this seal, so it could date to the 1300s.
41:41And that large boulder looks sentry me.
41:43We've uncovered the big void right there.
41:45What is underneath that boulder?
41:47We put cameras in BN 13.5.
41:50What we found suggests human origin.
41:53It really seems like it's a depositor.
41:55Wow.
41:56That's what we found.
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