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00:00Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:03Oh, wow.
00:04What is that?
00:05That's exactly like the sticks we found near the vault.
00:07I truly believe there's still another vault there.
00:10Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:11There it is.
00:12The void.
00:13That's right.
00:14Is that natural, or is that an open cavern?
00:15Only a sonar could tell you that, really.
00:17All right.
00:18Well, that's what we'll do.
00:19Hopefully, we'll find the one thing.
00:20Crush your fingers.
00:21We're in the cavity.
00:22Yeah, you're in.
00:23We'd love nothing better than to see a man-made cavern or vault.
00:26We've got an opening.
00:27This is not natural.
00:30There is an island in the North Atlantic
00:35where people have been looking for an incredible treasure
00:38for more than 200 years.
00:41So far, they have found a stone slab
00:45with strange symbols carved into it.
00:47Man-made workings that date to medieval times
00:51and a led cross whose origin may be connected
00:55to the Knights Templar.
00:57To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:02And according to legend, one more will have to die
01:08before the treasure can be found.
01:10As a new day begins on Oak Island.
01:25Here we go.
01:26The N13.5.
01:28This is an area that we really haven't looked at very much
01:31and certainly haven't been to the bottom of the solution channel
01:33in very much.
01:34Rick and Marty Lagina and their team are shifting their strategy
01:38to look for treasure more than 200 feet deep in the Money Pit area.
01:43Right in the heart of the Peacock.
01:45Yep.
01:46The Peacock is a real phenomenon.
01:47It's a loose, slushy area leading down into the solution channel.
01:52Good.
01:54They are drilling a borehole known as BN 13.5,
02:00located 45 feet northeast from recent drilling locations
02:04and in an area dubbed by Marty Lagina as the Peacock.
02:08So right at 55 is like the bottom dropped right out of her.
02:13It was here where three years ago,
02:16the team drilled through heavily slushy material
02:19between 55 and 150 feet deep
02:23before entering the solution channel
02:25at a depth of nearly 170 feet underground.
02:29Now, in order to explore another area of the solution channel
02:34where new water tests have revealed more evidence
02:37of precious metals,
02:39the team is once again drilling down through the Peacock.
02:43The Peacock is almost like the solution channel
02:46sitting on top of the solution channel.
02:48It's a very low, dense area of what I'm going to call, Terry,
02:53a higher mud river.
02:54We never really drilled to the bottom
02:56as much as we should have, I believe.
02:59The Peacock is an area of significantly unconsolidated soils.
03:03Terry Matheson, a resident geologist,
03:06can't explain how that can exist.
03:10There may be a tunnel or a shaft in close proximity
03:14which has caused the soils to destabilize.
03:18But the historical record does not indicate anyone
03:22being in this area, i.e. searchers.
03:25So what happened here?
03:27What is the story and where is the treasure?
03:30I think we're in a really good area here.
03:32I really do.
03:33There's probably multiple number of holes that can put here.
03:36I agree with that 100%.
03:37And you know, until we actually hold the treasure in our hand,
03:40I'm not willing to rule out any area as possible.
03:42I totally agree.
03:44While the core drilling operation continues
03:46in the Money Pit area...
03:49Wow.
03:51Made some good progress.
03:53Yeah.
03:54Katja Drayton and Derek Couch join Billy Gerhardt
03:57in the southwest corner of the swamp.
04:00All right.
04:01We'll open this up a little bit to give us room
04:03that maybe you can get down and detect around a little bit.
04:06We'll start over here.
04:08Yep.
04:09I'll see where you dump and then I'll move there.
04:11The team is searching for artifacts that might help identify
04:16who built the stone formation uncovered in this area three weeks ago,
04:21as well as a possibly related stone road
04:25that was unearthed several yards to the north,
04:28both of which were lined by wooden survey stakes.
04:32What is that?
04:44Oh, wow.
04:46We've just found another steak.
04:48Oh, good.
04:49That's quite something.
04:51In place as well.
04:52Oh, my gosh.
04:56How many sides?
04:58Four cuts.
05:00It looks like one side is unfinished,
05:03but this reminds me of the five-sided steak we found earlier.
05:08This has been in here for a while.
05:10And what's most impressive of that one is that this steak
05:14was still standing at a very deep point in the swamp,
05:16so it's exactly where somebody put it.
05:19There's three feet of stuff on top of that, right?
05:22Yeah.
05:23It's cut with purpose.
05:24Yeah, and it's ax cut.
05:26Mm-hmm.
05:27You can see there now is a round pit down there,
05:30which is pretty hard to do with a square excavator bucket, so...
05:33As you were digging, it just kept falling in there.
05:35Right.
05:36So it does give you the inclination there's something down there.
05:39Right.
05:40I just pushed my bucket, and the stuff fell in,
05:42but now you can really see the shape of what it was when it was dug.
05:46So somebody dug a pit there, and it wasn't me.
05:48Yeah.
05:49Maybe that steak marked why they dug there.
05:52You know who and why, right?
05:53Yeah.
05:54Could Billy be correct that someone previously dug in this area
05:59and then marked it with a wooden stake?
06:01If so, could this stake be an important sign
06:05of what else the team may uncover here?
06:08Rick told us to keep an eye out for these,
06:11and we'll definitely have to get Steve out here to pin this.
06:15I think with the dating of the wood and the depth that we had it
06:18when Steve pins it, that Dr. Spooner might be able to put a date on,
06:21but that stake has to go back a long time.
06:23Hopefully there's more there, but that is a great start.
06:27Maybe we can find an answer instead of a question.
06:30Yeah.
06:31So it would be nice to find some answers.
06:33We'll keep going.
06:34All right.
06:35As the dig in the swamp continues...
06:38Gary had done a complete scan of the Lot 5 spoil piles,
06:42and lo and behold, this item was found.
06:45Rick and other members of the team
06:48join Laird Niven and Emma Culligan in the lab
06:51for a report on a folded copper coin, or token,
06:55found one week ago in spoils that were removed
06:58from the round feature on Lot 5.
07:01You were quite excited about that.
07:03Yeah.
07:04When it came out, I'm thinking,
07:07oh, it's some kind of, like, folded coin I'm hoping.
07:11These are unusual.
07:12I have found these type of finds in England metal detecting,
07:17and they're normally, like, talisman or good-look tokens
07:22that are put out there.
07:23Sometimes they ward off even bad luck,
07:26but it was good luck for us because we found it.
07:29Yeah.
07:30Does it cross cultural lines or religious lines,
07:35meaning one faith might be more accepting of it?
07:38Maybe more...
07:39I mean, Catholicism for sure, I would think.
07:41It's interesting because this tradition,
07:44I think the first recorded one in England is, like, 1290.
07:49You fold a coin and pray to a saint for a miracle,
07:53and that's how this all started.
07:55Yeah.
07:56The team has found a number of potentially religious artifacts
08:01in the round feature,
08:03such as the 14th century lead barter token
08:06that may be linked to the Knights Templar.
08:09They have also found Phoenician trade beads
08:11and two ornate buttons
08:13that could be connected to the Knights of Malta,
08:16an order with known ties to the Templars,
08:19who built a stronghold in Nova Scotia back in 1632.
08:24We need to know from you what you think it is
08:28and what it represents and how old it might be.
08:31Okay.
08:33So, for the CT scan,
08:35I guess the main question that first needs answering
08:38is whether or not there's any reliefs
08:40or signs that it is a coin.
08:42Mm-hmm.
08:43And immediately I'm gonna say there's nothing
08:46that I can really see so far.
08:48Yeah.
08:49I mean, we can't definitively say it's a coin,
08:54but if we look at why coins are traditionally folded,
08:58it needs to have some value
09:01to give literal, like, weight to the talisman.
09:05So we can assume it was valuable to somebody at some point.
09:09And then the triple folding is quite unusual.
09:12Yeah.
09:13We thought it would be fairly straightforward.
09:15Yeah, we did.
09:16Yeah.
09:17What does the data tell you the age of this item is?
09:21So, based on the composition,
09:23it is a copper alloy with the zinc content,
09:26zinc being an alloying element.
09:28It's definitively post-medieval
09:30and pre-mid 1800s.
09:34There's the arsenic and lead content
09:36as an alloying element as well,
09:37which is from at least around the time of,
09:40like, industrial revolution of mid-1700s,
09:43potentially earlier,
09:44and then the arsenic could push it to late 1600s.
09:48The arsenic could push it to the 1600s, late 1600s.
09:59The fact that someone took all that time
10:02to fold it over three times.
10:04I mean, it is significant.
10:07It is a meaningful artifact.
10:10In the lab, Emma and Laird have just revealed
10:15that the folded copper artifact
10:17found in the Lot 5 spoils may hold religious symbolism
10:22and date back to more than a century
10:24before the discovery of the money pit.
10:28And sometimes if it was disease,
10:30they'd put a bent-over coin or token
10:34to ward off the disease.
10:36Yeah.
10:37Somebody went to some pains to do it then.
10:39Yeah.
10:40To me, it looks quite well done.
10:41Yeah.
10:42We're on an island, but it's a big province.
10:45Have you ever found anything like this on digs
10:48or know of any of our archaeological digs
10:51where they found these type of offerings?
10:53Not that I can remember specifically in Nova Scotia
10:57from an archaeological context.
10:59Of course, we're on an island.
11:02Sailors came to the island.
11:04They were all superstitious, especially in the 1700s.
11:08True.
11:09Oh, there are a lot of possibilities.
11:11Obviously, the first one is just preparing for your voyage.
11:14Yeah.
11:15Yeah.
11:16Coming here from Europe was not an easy thing, right?
11:18Exactly.
11:19Yeah.
11:20My suspicion is that's intentional.
11:22It's folded perfectly.
11:24Yeah.
11:25And maybe, maybe three-folds means something different
11:28than two-folds.
11:29Yeah.
11:30Our research hasn't gone that far yet.
11:32Given the enormity of finds that date to the 1600s,
11:36there were buttons.
11:37Then you have the trade beats, right?
11:39And the dates you're implying are highly suggestive
11:43of the connection to the Knights of Malta.
11:46Their attempt to either create a colony here
11:49or to do something else.
11:51Something else.
11:53Given the potential symbolism of this artifact,
11:57could the team be correct that it might be related
12:00to the buttons and ornate trade beats
12:03that have been potentially linked to the order
12:05of the Knights of Malta?
12:07The folded coin is certainly the first of its kind
12:11on the island, but it's just a puzzle piece.
12:14How do you connect all of the artifacts in Lot 5 feature?
12:19It's starting to build a body of evidence,
12:21but I think in order to fully understand what happened
12:24on Lot 5, there's a lot more work to be done.
12:28But at some point, with enough puzzle pieces,
12:31then you can tell the complete story.
12:34Just love to know what's on the inside.
12:36And I'd like to see the puzzle completed.
12:40It's one of those little innocuous-looking things
12:43that has a great story behind it.
12:46Mm-hmm.
12:47It's good luck that we found it.
12:48I think there's a lot of information that we can learn
12:50because of its uniqueness.
12:52Yeah.
12:53Yeah, and don't forget Sandy Campbell.
12:55That's a good thought.
12:56Yeah.
12:57With Sandy, he's not just a numismatist,
13:00he's a historian.
13:02Yeah.
13:03Yeah.
13:04And he might know the history of these coins.
13:06Exactly.
13:07So, I look forward to what we uncover.
13:10Or what we unfold.
13:14Pun intended.
13:15All right.
13:16All right.
13:17See you. Thank you.
13:18Bye.
13:19Bye-bye.
13:20Keep your eyes peeled here.
13:22Meanwhile, in the southwest corner of the swamp,
13:25Katya, Derek, and Billy continue to search for more artifacts
13:29near the stone formation.
13:31Yeah, Katya, there's a funny piece in that last bucket.
13:35Oh, yeah.
13:36Oh, my gosh.
13:38That's a something there, yeah.
13:41Piece of planking?
13:42That's a strand.
13:43The top looks maybe cut, but it's wide,
13:48and it comes to a point like a wedge.
13:50No, it does.
13:52Yeah, it's tapered.
13:53Yeah.
13:54So, you know, somebody's spent some time to make it
13:57for a very special purpose, I would say.
13:59It's got a great groove right there,
14:01a bunch of little dents in it.
14:03I'm thinking it might be an aura or a paddle
14:06just because of the shape.
14:08Yeah.
14:09They're so close to the ship's rail,
14:10and maybe if you get it tested,
14:12it's some part of the same ship.
14:14If we find more pieces of the same one,
14:16that would be pretty telling to what actually went on in here.
14:19Yeah.
14:20A possible piece of an oar?
14:23Could Billy be correct that it may be related
14:26to the piece of a ship's railing
14:28found just a few yards to the east back in 2020,
14:32which was carbon dated to as early as the 7th century?
14:36If so, might all of the artifacts
14:39that the team is finding in this area
14:41be connected to the nearby stone feature?
14:44I think somebody will be able to look at that
14:46and look at the taper, whether it is an oar or a wedge
14:49or whatever it is, doesn't matter.
14:51Connect some dots.
14:52Yeah.
14:53We'll put this to the side.
14:54Definitely an interesting piece.
14:56Yep.
14:57It's what Marty says all the time.
14:59You know, facts are stubborn things,
15:01like the ship's railing going back into the 600 ADs.
15:04It's very confusing,
15:06and we have data across the board
15:09from literally from the 1200s
15:11right up through 1750
15:14in the bogs with the types of constructions
15:17that have been found.
15:18That looks like another stake.
15:21Billy!
15:22Got another stake right under you.
15:27My hope is that as the work continues in the bog,
15:30the gaps in that information will be filled in.
15:35That is one of those big round ones.
15:39This is probably one of the biggest stakes I've ever seen.
15:41We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
15:50Eight sides.
15:51That reminds me exactly of the stakes we found near the vault.
15:55Definitely something going on here.
15:58The team has found dozens of wooden stakes across the swamp
16:02that have featured different numbers of cuts at their points.
16:06But when they uncovered the empty slate and brick vault
16:09in the northern region one year ago,
16:12it was after following a trail of eight-sided cut stakes
16:16that lined a cobblestone path.
16:19Is it possible that this eight-sided stake
16:22could be connected to that vault-like feature?
16:26And could it mean another one that may still contain valuables
16:30is hidden in this area?
16:32It looked like it was about four feet down in that sand there.
16:35Yeah.
16:36The eight-sided ones are almost all that same,
16:39that really big circumference.
16:40The more sides that it has,
16:42based on the testing that we did in the island,
16:44the older that they tend to be.
16:46Yeah.
16:47Every bucketful now we're finding something.
16:48There was a ton of activity right here.
16:50I'm sure we'll have a bunch of stuff to take back to the lab
16:53for everybody to look at.
16:55Well, that's another good find.
16:57Well, I'll put it over there and then we'll keep going.
16:59Oh, good eye, Derek.
17:00Good eye, Derek.
17:01That's cool.
17:05As the sun rises over Oak Island...
17:08You ready to rock, Charles?
17:10Yeah.
17:11Here we go.
17:12In the Money Pit area, Terry and Charles
17:15monitor the core drilling operation in borehole BN 13.5
17:20as it sinks deeper into the Peacock area.
17:27Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
17:30We've never had this much fallout.
17:33No.
17:34Yeah, it's too hard to tell if it's a void
17:37or if it's just water gravels.
17:40Yeah.
17:41Okay, Charles, it looks like you lost the core.
17:44Gone out the end of the core barrel, okay?
17:47Here's Adam now.
17:49Hey, Adam, you lost that, right?
17:51Yeah.
17:52And no recovery?
17:53No recovery, no.
17:54Oh, man.
17:55We pushed from 148 to 158,
17:58and the rods are sinking.
18:00When I run the casing, they're sinking.
18:02We're in pretty loose material, obviously.
18:04It's loose.
18:05We're right in the heart of the Peacock.
18:06Yeah.
18:07So you're just gonna try and push to 168
18:08to try and get something solid?
18:09Yeah.
18:10Excellent.
18:11Great stuff.
18:12Thanks a lot.
18:13Good.
18:14Appreciate it.
18:15Interesting to see what we come up with on this one.
18:17We're excited about this
18:19because we're in the area
18:20where we got gold and silver in the water.
18:23And, you know, as we're drilling down,
18:25the mud and the muck is very loose and sloppy.
18:29Oh, yeah.
18:30Is it loose because of high activity by humans?
18:34That looks promising.
18:36Yeah.
18:37Is it possible that this could be an opening that was man-made?
18:41If it is, it's something we didn't know existed.
18:44Whatever was there, we got it.
18:46Right on.
18:47But it got hard at the bottom.
18:50Very sloppy at the top.
18:52Okay.
18:53All right, let's carve this up.
18:55Okay, this is the firm bottom of this area of the Peacock,
18:59right here.
19:00Yeah.
19:01And the bottom here is limestone-rich material.
19:03It's really only 10 feet of recovery for a whole 20 feet drilled,
19:07all the way from 148 to 168.
19:10Definitely, we've got an effective water-filled void
19:13from about 148 to 158, below grade.
19:16Yeah.
19:17A possible 10-foot void above the solution channel?
19:21Peacock.
19:22If so, is it simply a natural feature?
19:26Or could it be a man-made chamber?
19:29I gotta go.
19:30Okay.
19:31What is a surprise is when we encounter a relative void,
19:34I mean, you think human activity in that area,
19:37this is shaping up to be a really interesting hole.
19:40Hey, Terry.
19:41How you doing?
19:42Uh, we're loose from between 148 and 158.
19:48Relatively loose, washed-out material,
19:49like what you'd expect down inside the solution channel.
19:52Okay.
19:53Relatively high, but this is possibly a void.
19:57Now, is that natural, or is that an open man-made chamber?
20:00We don't know.
20:01Yeah.
20:02Also, we're getting elevated results for precious metals,
20:06associated copper-lead-zinc type of things
20:09that are associated with the treasure in the peacock.
20:12So, yeah, for me, I've always been a believer
20:14that there's an offset chamber in the money pit,
20:16and if there is an offset chamber,
20:18it makes sense it would be in this area.
20:20Exactly.
20:23The Oak Island team has long suspected
20:25that whoever built the money pit
20:27may have not only buried treasure at the bottom of the shaft,
20:30but also constructed a tunnel away from the main shaft
20:34to hide a cache of treasure in an offset chamber.
20:38Is it possible that this theory could explain
20:41the potential 10-foot void
20:43that the team has just encountered
20:45148 feet deep in the peacock?
20:50So, what we found was an area
20:53with possibly a water-filled void.
20:55That's a candidate for a sonar, don't you think?
20:57I think so.
20:59Adam!
21:03Quick question.
21:04What's up?
21:05What's up?
21:06We had a bit of an open area,
21:08which I think of as a void.
21:09Yep.
21:10Is it a void?
21:11Only a sonar could tell you that, really.
21:13Yeah.
21:14Right?
21:15All right, well, that's what we'll do.
21:16Yep.
21:17All right.
21:18So, if this proves fruitful,
21:19I can see this being a case on location.
21:20Yeah.
21:21We're not done with the peacock.
21:22Yep, absolutely.
21:23Absolutely.
21:24As the team arranges to look deeper
21:26into borehole BN 13.5.
21:30I want to thank you for coming down.
21:32This, when Gary found it,
21:34it was coin-like.
21:36In the research center,
21:37Rick and other members of the team
21:39meet with coin expert Sandy Campbell.
21:42It's very peculiar.
21:43Again, a one-off.
21:45Yeah.
21:46To have him examine the folded copper artifact
21:49that was found on Lot 5.
21:51Never found another one of these on the island.
21:54So, I don't know.
21:55I'm hoping you can help us here.
21:57Okay.
22:00Yeah, this is extremely interesting.
22:09And it is a coin.
22:12Folded three times.
22:14You know, when they first started folding coins
22:17was early medieval times.
22:19It represents a ritual that's thousands of years old.
22:23Yeah.
22:25It was thought that when you folded a coin,
22:28you could trap, you know,
22:30the evil inside the coin.
22:33And at some point when that evil has passed,
22:37if you pass the coin on or if you buried it,
22:40there was no more risk to you from that evil.
22:43Hmm.
22:44And it relates to Christianity, the Crusades,
22:49you know, even the Knights Templar.
22:52However, because of the size of this coin,
22:55it's not likely medieval.
22:57And this is probably 16, 17 hundreds.
23:00Really?
23:02But I think it still has the same religious
23:05and spiritual meaning.
23:11Fascinating.
23:15This is probably 16, 17 hundreds.
23:18But I think it still has the same religious
23:22and spiritual meaning.
23:24It's an interesting piece.
23:26Yeah.
23:27In the research center,
23:29Sandy Campbell has confirmed
23:31that the folded artifact found near the round feature
23:34on lot five is indeed a coin
23:37and maybe a 17th century religious symbol
23:40connected to the Knights Templar.
23:43Trapping evil.
23:44It seems like a strange ritual, right?
23:47It's a bizarre ritual, but, you know,
23:51copper was really a show of wealth
23:54and it was also a show of strength
23:56to anybody in medieval times.
23:58Hmm.
23:59So the only folded coins you will see from that period,
24:02you're not going to see folded silver or gold.
24:04They're always going to be copper.
24:06Really?
24:07Yeah.
24:08Folding the coins was also a ritual to honor saints.
24:13Hmm.
24:14The Knights Templar,
24:15they worshiped both St. George and St. Bernard.
24:19Yeah.
24:20And there was a ritual with folded coins
24:23where you would fold the coin, trap the evil,
24:27toss it away as an homage to those saints.
24:30Hmm.
24:31So it's bizarre that you have this piece on the island.
24:36I guess that ritual continued into the 1600s.
24:41Really?
24:42Yeah.
24:43So you feel that this is probably 1600s?
24:47At the earliest.
24:49So my mind always goes to the Knights of Malta.
24:53Interesting.
24:54Which is one of our suspects on the island.
24:56That falls right in that time period.
24:58Mm-hmm.
25:00Is it possible that this folded copper coin
25:03might offer another key clue
25:05that sacred treasures of the Knights Templar
25:08and the religious order of the Knights of Malta
25:10may be connected to the Oak Island mystery?
25:14Sandy Campbell's statement that the trifold
25:18goes back to medieval times during the time of the Templars,
25:22it's very curious.
25:24We have proven, in fact, that the Knights of Malta had interactions
25:29and even through families of great importance with the Templars,
25:33and there was a connection between the two.
25:36So there is a possible tie there.
25:39There's more research to be done.
25:41It's strange because there are some, I believe, Lerd, correct me if I'm wrong,
25:46but that feature that you've uncovered, it's basically east-west.
25:51Is it not its orientation?
25:52The long axis.
25:53We know from the churches we visited and the historical places
25:57when we went to Europe, all Templar-associated buildings
26:01and constructions were east-west orientation.
26:05It's interesting, different, and adds to the mystery.
26:11There's no way to unfold that coin, physically unfold it.
26:15My initial response is you folded it to capture evil.
26:20Yeah, so if you back it up...
26:22Yeah, you're on your own there.
26:25I don't know what's in there.
26:28No, it's unfortunate that we can't learn more about it.
26:31You know, the hope is as the work continues on Lot 5,
26:34because you're not done, we find others.
26:37And hopefully they'll be able to tell us something
26:40a little bit more than what's currently in front of us.
26:43Exactly.
26:44So we thank you very much for coming down.
26:46I appreciate it.
26:47After the meeting in the research center...
26:51I'm really expecting to find some good things in here.
26:54Then this really should be a potential for a high-traffic area.
26:57While members of the team search for more clues
27:00in the round feature on Lot 5...
27:02We'll see what today brings.
27:03Yeah, let's see.
27:05Rick and Katya arrive on Lot 8,
27:07located on the western side of the island.
27:10Let's have that.
27:11High five before we start.
27:14Two weeks ago...
27:16Perfect.
27:17All right, Gary, here's our first location.
27:18Okay, mate.
27:19While the team search for clues on a straight line
27:22that led away from a potential 12th-century marker stone
27:25on Lot 5, Gary and Peter found part of a possible barrel
27:30on Lot 8.
27:32Now, Rick wants to see if that find might be related
27:36to something more valuable buried nearby.
27:38Oh.
27:39That's a hit.
27:40What is it?
27:41Right there?
27:42Nice.
27:43Nice.
27:44It's looking to be iron.
27:45Let's see.
27:46There you go.
27:47Oh.
27:48Oh.
27:49Oh.
27:50Oh.
27:51Oh.
27:52Oh.
27:53Oh.
27:54Oh.
27:55Oh.
27:56Oh.
27:57Oh.
27:58Oh.
27:59Oh.
28:00Oh.
28:01Oh.
28:02Oh.
28:03Oh.
28:04Oh.
28:05Oh.
28:06Oh.
28:07Oh.
28:08Oh.
28:09Oh.
28:10Oh.
28:11There you go.
28:12Oh.
28:14Look at that.
28:17What is this?
28:20I don't know.
28:21It looks like two holes in it right there.
28:23Yeah.
28:24Well, that's heavy enough to be a tool though, is it?
28:28I think this might be a knife handle,
28:29because there's another hole down here.
28:31Oh, really?
28:32Yeah, you'd possibly have like another side to this.
28:35Mm-hmm.
28:36And then you'd have the blades.
28:37side to this and then you have the blade starting up there you can really see how both of the holes
28:44are square on each side your father has always said that square holes imply over yeah well I
28:55know one thing I'd like to see that on a CT scan right I would definitely agree with you well we'll
29:01bag this yeah tag it right there are all kinds of questions about lot eight in this particular
29:09location there is no data or no record that people are in this area doing something following the
29:16discovery of the money pit all right look it up it's a good start so anything you find almost
29:24literally anything is an important clue in terms of who might have been there and when
29:31this one looks good yeah yeah oh yeah right here two-way repeatable right yep
29:47that was a beautiful plug
29:56oh yeah even I know that's a good one
30:01oh that is an interesting piece what is that
30:13I've never found one of these before this is a lead bag seal this is great on lot 8 of Oak Island
30:27Rick and Katya have made what could be an important discovery this could possibly be a tail coming out
30:35of it yeah yeah that would have been probably from the bag or whatever it was being attached to yeah yeah your dad's phone other bags is one on 32 mm-hmm one on
30:47five five down by the ocean and yet here we are in the middle of nowhere you find a bag still first developed in Europe in the 13th century bag
31:00seals where fasteners used to secure large quantities of goods inside cloth packaging
31:06the Oak Island team previously found one of these items on lot 5 that was British and could date back to the 16th century
31:14however they uncovered another one near the shore on lot 32 that was a scientific match to the 14th century lead cross which may be connected to the Knights Templar
31:27is it possible that Rick and Katya have just found a similar artifact to the best of my knowledge I don't think there was a homestead
31:39here I just for the life of me I can't understand why it's here it just doesn't make sense to me I cannot explain why this bag seal has been
31:48found almost in the middle of the lot not in proximity to the open ocean everything prior to the
31:58causeway construction in 1965 things would have had to have come by the sea by way of the sea so why it
32:05was lost in the middle of the lot I cannot explain it look it's a great find I'm more curious about this
32:11one then I am about bag seals on there and there because if it's something to do with a work area then
32:18whatever was inside would have been needed here I'm really hoping that Emma and Laird can find a maker's
32:26mark or moniker on it and we could really trace this back to where it came from yeah let's get it analyzed
32:33to see if there is a maker's mark or something I agree yeah good find yeah well congratulations
32:40you found something I always wanted to find well done it's cool right let's keep looking yeah let's do it
32:46the following morning let's find something yeah oh hey guys how you doing right right about ready
32:57yeah just about while they wait for analysis on the new find from lot 8 Rick Craig and other members
33:05of the team meet with underwater imaging expert Ken DeBoer in the money pit area to investigate the
33:12possible 10-foot void nearly 150 feet deep in borehole BN 13.5 we're gonna try the camera first so we
33:21see if we can get an image down there sure pull the persona down can you explain it Terry can I explain
33:26it geologically not really no I mean I'm looking for beams and posts here that's what I'm gonna
33:31look for in that pictures that's what I'm gonna look for in the sonar imaging as well yes and perhaps
33:36a little chest over in the corner cross your fingers Ken it's up to you no pressure no pressure
33:43no pressure at all all right it's very interesting I mean we're in the area of high metal values in my
33:50opinion this would be an offset chamber potentially yeah so it's quite interesting so I'm ready to go let's
33:56have a look all right here we're down there then okay let's get at it before running a sonar device
34:02down the borehole the team will insert Ken's high-definition camera capable of operating in
34:09low-light conditions with a lens that he can rotate 360 degrees we'll take it to 150 feet so we're into the
34:17here touchdown water water we'd love nothing better than to see a man-made cave cavern vault anything
34:38man-made really at that depth in that location I don't know what to expect but I'm very eager
34:44to find out what's down there how deep are we Charles you're 32 feet right now 80 feet 90 feet
35:01it's close to the top of the chamber 100 okay there's a silk cloud coming up from around a looks
35:13like a boulder or something oh that could be a beam Wow Wow
35:18there's something isn't there Steve come up like about an inch or two okay
35:30whoa whoa that's good
35:36you can make it almost like wall or something like there when you move away from it
35:44we'll kind of go into more of an opening here really now that's interesting
35:55there's definitely some sort of opening there yeah for sure yep right there right there in the abyss
36:08in the money pit area the oak island team investigates a strange cavity some 150 feet underground
36:17Steve you want to just take us up slowly kind of inch by inch yeah I sure will
36:23you tell me when to stop
36:26hold it there for a second okay I'm gonna steady it that looks like something I mean you see the
36:49potential of having boulders on top of one another but I mean just off to the left or right could be the
36:54original man-made structure holding those boulders out yeah if there was a collapse off that chamber down there or a tunnel I mean
37:03we're gonna see bare earth but it looks like it has depth that's interesting yeah but we do see some
37:12potential boulder on boulder but again we're towards kind of the the rock facing wall if you will
37:18the side of the borehole could Terry be correct that the team is looking into a man-made structure if so
37:27could it be connected to the precious metals that have been detected in this area if we rotate around this
37:34way you see we start opening up here back into that cavity area right here that's just very surprising
37:43is that what you're seeing Ken yes
37:52I'd put the sonar down and try to define the cavity that's a great idea yeah
37:55we can actually see some things but it's difficult to understand scale it's difficult to get in a real
38:06interpretation of what you're looking at so the next step here is to introduce the sonar and see
38:12how open and how big how wide how long this area is so we have here is a scanning 360 degree sonar
38:23mm-hmm the cables marked so we'll know where that 150 foot is okie doke keep your fingers crossed
38:30the blue robotics ping 360 sonar device emits a sound wave that reflects off of objects and barriers
38:41we're in water we're in the water this will produce full-scale images of the underground void or
38:50possible cavern show me the money yeah so we're in the cavity as of right now oh there's the open
38:59yeah you're in you're in okay okay right there here we go this darker red line is the opening you can
39:06see how rough it is and the yellow is lower density returns and backscatter caused by particles in the
39:12water right go down just a little more yep yeah that popped out further is that an opening now it's
39:24like around the hard return we've got an opening oh two directions too looks like it's open wow to me
39:34this looks very linear like with an opening here interesting so it's two feet from side to side right
39:43now if this is not natural it could have been a larger cavity that has collapsed around it so true
39:49I mean just out to the left or right we might encounter what we're hoping for yeah this hole shouldn't
39:57be open there's no reason for that geologically there's no reason for that we found gold in the
40:04water in the area right it's open down there there's no reason for it to be open unless man was down
40:12there doing something we have precious metals and high silver in the peacock and greater depths in the
40:21solution channel we've always speculated that there was more than call it an offset chamber or multiple
40:29vaults maybe we just found one of them this is a priority target now that we have video let's
40:38contact ProHawk a company that enhances video to have it analyzed we will incrementally pursue this
40:45because we're trying to find the treasure right yeah there's every indication here that that could be in
40:52this specific area yeah we have a few more holes of drill in this area good deal okay right let's make
40:58it so the more Rick Marty Craig and their team dig the deeper this 230 year old mystery becomes after
41:10making intriguing new discoveries on lot eight and in the swamp has the team finally located a treasure
41:19vault 150 feet underground in the money pit area but if so is that the only place where Oak Island is
41:29hiding it's most precious secrets next time on the curse of Oak Island
41:38I got a signal aha whoa we got here I recognized this seal so it could date to the 1300s
41:46and that large boulder looks century mean we've uncovered a big void right there what is underneath that
41:53folder we put cameras in vn 13.5 what we found suggests human origin it really seems like it's a depositor
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