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00:00That's exactly like the sticks we found near the vault.
00:03I truly believe there's still another vault there.
00:06Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:07There it is, the void.
00:08That's right.
00:09Is that natural or is that an open cavern?
00:11Only a sonar could tell you that, really.
00:13All right, well, that's what we'll do.
00:14Hopefully we'll find the one thing.
00:15Cross your fingers.
00:16We're in the cavity.
00:17Yeah, you're in.
00:18We'd love nothing better than to see a man-made cavern or vault.
00:21We've got an opening.
00:22This is not natural.
00:23There is an island in the North Atlantic where people have been looking for an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
00:36So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it.
00:42Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:46And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knights Templar.
00:52To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
00:57And according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:16As a new day begins on Oak Island.
01:19Here we go.
01:21VN 13.5.
01:23This 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.
01:28Rick and Marty Lagina and their team are shifting their strategy to look for treasure more than 200 feet deep in the money pit area.
01:38Right in the heart of the peacock.
01:40Yep.
01:41The peacock is a real phenomenon.
01:42It's a loose, slushy area leading down into the solution channel.
01:46Good.
01:47They are drilling a borehole known as BN 13.5, located 45 feet northeast from recent drilling locations and in an area dubbed by Marty Lagina as the peacock.
02:03So right at 55 is like the bottom dropped right out of her.
02:08It 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.
02:23Now, in order to explore another area of the solution channel where new water tests have revealed more evidence of precious metals, the team is once again drilling down through the peacock.
02:38The peacock is almost like the solution channel sitting on top of the solution channel.
02:43It's a very low, dense area of what I'm going to call, Terry, a higher mud river.
02:49We never really drilled to the bottom as much as we should have, I believe.
02:54The peacock is an area of significantly unconsolidated soils.
02:59Terry Matheson, a resident geologist, can't explain how that can exist.
03:04There may be a tunnel or a shaft in close proximity, which has caused the soils to destabilize.
03:13But the historical record does not indicate anyone being in this area, i.e. searchers.
03:20So, what happened here?
03:22What is the story and where is the treasure?
03:24I think we're in a really good area here. I really do.
03:27There's probably multiple number of holes I could put here.
03:30I agree with that 100%. And, you know, until we actually hold the treasure in our hand, I'm not willing to rule out any area as possible.
03:37I totally agree.
03:39While the core drilling operation continues in the Money Pit area.
03:44Wow. Made some good progress.
03:48Yeah.
03:49Katya Drayton, as Derek Couch, joined Billy Gerhardt in the southwest corner of the swamp.
03:55All right. We'll open this up a little bit to give us room that maybe you can get down and detect around a little bit.
04:02We'll start over here.
04:04Yep. I'll see where you dump and then I'll move there.
04:07The team is searching for artifacts that might help identify who built a stone formation uncovered in this area three weeks ago.
04:16As well as a possibly related stone road that was unearthed several yards to the north.
04:22Both of which were lined by wooden survey stakes.
04:26What is that?
04:36Oh, wow.
04:41We just found another steak.
04:43Oh, good.
04:44That's quite something.
04:46In place as well.
04:47Oh, my gosh.
04:50How many sides?
04:53Four cuts.
04:55It looks like one side is unfinished.
04:58But this reminds me of the five-sided steak we found earlier.
05:03This has been in here for a while.
05:05And what's most impressive of that one is that this steak was still standing at a very deep point in the swamp.
05:11So it's exactly where somebody put it.
05:14There's three feet of stuff on top of that, right?
05:17Yeah.
05:18It's cut with purpose.
05:19Yeah.
05:20And it's ax cut.
05:21You can see there now is a round pit down there, which is pretty hard to do with a square excavator bucket.
05:27So.
05:28As you were digging, it just kept falling in there.
05:30Right.
05:31It does give you the inclination there's something down there.
05:34Right.
05:35I just pushed my bucket and the stuff fell in.
05:37But now you can really see the shape of what it was when it was dug.
05:41So somebody dug a pit there and it wasn't me.
05:44Yeah.
05:45Maybe that steak marked why they dug there.
05:47You know who and why, right?
05:48Yeah.
05:49Could Billy be correct that someone previously dug in this area and then marked it with a wooden stake?
05:56If so, could this stake be an important sign of what else the team may uncover here?
06:03Rick told us to keep an eye out for these and we'll definitely have to get Steve out here to pin this.
06:10I think with the dating of the wood and the depth that we had it when Steve pins it that Dr. Spooner might be able to put a date on, but that stake has to go back a long time.
06:19Hopefully there's more there, but that is a great start.
06:23Maybe we can find an answer instead of a question.
06:25Yeah.
06:26So it'd be nice to find some answers.
06:28We'll keep going.
06:29All right.
06:30As the dig in the swamp continues.
06:33Gary had done a complete scan of the lot five spoil piles and lo and behold, this item was found.
06:40Rick and other members of the team join Laird Niven and Emma Culligan in the lab for a report on a folded copper coin or token found one week ago in spoils that were removed from the round feature on lot five.
06:56You were quite excited about that.
06:59Yeah.
07:00When it came out, I'm thinking, oh, it's some kind of like folded coin.
07:06I'm open.
07:07These are unusual.
07:08I have found these type of finds in England metal detecting.
07:12And they're normally like talisman or good look tokens to put out there.
07:19Sometimes they ward off even bad luck, but it was good luck for us because we found it.
07:25Yeah.
07:26Does it cross cultural lines or religious lines, meaning one faith might be more accepting of it, maybe more?
07:33I mean, Catholicism for sure, I would think.
07:36It's interesting because this tradition, I think the first recorded one in England is like 1290.
07:43You fold a coin and pray to a saint for a miracle, and that's how this all started.
07:49Yeah.
07:50The team has found a number of potentially religious artifacts in the round feature, such as the 14th century lead barter token that may be linked to the Knights Templar.
08:03They have also found Phoenician trade beads and two ornate buttons that could be connected to the Knights of Malta, an order with known ties to the Templars, who built a stronghold in Nova Scotia back in 1632.
08:20We need to know from you what you think it is and what it represents and how old it might be.
08:26Okay.
08:27So for the CT scan, I guess the main question that first needs answering is whether or not there's any reliefs or signs that it is a coin.
08:37Mm-hmm.
08:38And immediately, I'm going to say there's nothing that I can really see so far.
08:43Yeah.
08:44I mean, we can't definitively say it's a coin, but if we look at why coins are traditionally folded, it needs to have some value to give literal weight to the talisman.
09:00So we can assume it was valuable to somebody at some point, and then the triple folding is quite unusual.
09:07Yeah.
09:08We thought it would be fairly straightforward.
09:10Yeah, we did.
09:11Yeah.
09:12What does the data tell you the age of this item is?
09:16So based on the composition, it is a copper alloy with the zinc content, zinc being an alloying element.
09:23It's definitively post-medieval and pre-mid 1800s.
09:28There's the arsenic and lead content as an alloying element as well, which is from at least around the time of like industrial revolution of mid 1700s, potentially earlier.
09:39And then the arsenic could push it to late 1600s.
09:49The arsenic could push it to the 1600s, late 1600s.
09:54The fact that someone took all that time to fold it over three times.
09:59I mean, it is significant.
10:01It is a meaningful artifact.
10:04In the lab, Emma and Laird have just revealed that the folded copper artifact found in the Lot 5 spoils may hold religious symbolism and date back to more than a century before the discovery of the money pit.
10:21And sometimes if it was disease, they'd put a bent over coin or token to ward off the disease.
10:31Yeah.
10:32Somebody went to some pains to do it then.
10:34Yeah.
10:35To me it looks quite well done.
10:36Yeah.
10:37We're on an island, but it's a big province.
10:40Have you ever found anything like this on digs or know of any of our archaeological digs where they found these type of offerings?
10:48Not that I can remember specifically in Nova Scotia from an archaeological context.
10:55Of course, we're on an island.
10:58Sailors came to the island.
10:59They were all superstitious, especially in the 1700s or 1600s.
11:03True.
11:04Oh, there are a lot of possibilities.
11:06Obviously the first one is just preparing for your voyage.
11:09Yeah.
11:10Yeah.
11:11Coming here from Europe was not an easy thing, right?
11:13Exactly.
11:14Yeah.
11:15My suspicion is that's intentional.
11:17It's folded perfectly.
11:19Yeah.
11:20And maybe, maybe three folds means something different than two folds.
11:23Yeah.
11:24Our research hasn't gone that far yet.
11:26Given the enormity of fines, that date to the 1600s, there were buttons.
11:32Then you have the trade beads, right?
11:34And the dates you're implying are highly suggestive of the connection to the Knights of Malta.
11:41Their attempt to either create a colony here or to do something else.
11:47Something else.
11:49Given the potential symbolism of this artifact, could the team be correct that it might be related to the buttons and ornate trade beads that have been potentially linked to the order of the Knights of Malta?
12:03The folded coin is certainly the first of its kind on the island, but it's just a puzzle piece.
12:10How do you connect all of the artifacts in Lot 5 feature?
12:14It'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.
12:23But at some point, with enough puzzle pieces, then you can tell the complete story.
12:29I just love to know what's on the inside.
12:33And I'd like to see the puzzle completed.
12:36It's one of those little, innocuous-looking things that has a great story behind it.
12:42It was good luck that we found it.
12:43I think there's a lot of information that we can learn because of its uniqueness.
12:48Yeah, and don't forget Sandy Campbell.
12:50That's a good thought.
12:52With Sandy, he's not just a numismatist, he's a historian.
12:57Yeah.
12:58And he might know the history of these coins.
13:01Exactly.
13:02So, I look forward to what we uncover.
13:05Or what we unfold.
13:08Pun intended.
13:09All right.
13:10All right.
13:11See you.
13:13Bye.
13:14Bye-bye.
13:16Keep your eyes peeled here.
13:18Meanwhile, in the southwest corner of the swamp, Katya, Derek, and Billy continue to search for more artifacts near the stone formation.
13:27Yeah, Katya, there's a funny piece in that last bucket.
13:30Oh, yeah.
13:32Oh, my gosh.
13:35That's a something there, yeah.
13:37Piece of planking?
13:38That's a strand.
13:41The top looks maybe cut, but it's wide and it comes to a point like a wedge.
13:46No, it does.
13:48Yeah, it's tapered.
13:49So, you know, somebody's spent some time to make it for a very special purpose, I would say.
13:54It's got a great groove right there.
13:57A bunch of little dents in it.
13:59I'm thinking it might be an oar or a paddle just because of the shape.
14:03Yeah.
14:04They're so close to the ship's rail and maybe we get attest that it's some part of the same ship.
14:09If we find more pieces of the same one, that would be pretty telling to what actually went on in here.
14:15Yeah.
14:16A possible piece of an oar?
14:18Could 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, which was carbon dated to as early as the 7th century?
14:31If so, might all of the artifacts that the team is finding in this area be connected to the nearby stone feature?
14:40I 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.
14:47Connect some dots.
14:48Yeah.
14:49We'll put this to the side.
14:50Definitely an interesting piece.
14:52Yep.
14:53It's what Marty says all the time, you know, facts are stubborn things, like the ship's railing going back into the 600 ADs.
15:00It's very confusing and we have data across the board from literally from the 1200s right up through 1750.
15:10And the bogs with the types of constructions that have been found.
15:14That looks like another stake.
15:16Billy, got another stake right under you.
15:19My hope is that as the work continues in the bog, the gaps in that information will be filled in.
15:28That is one of those big round ones.
15:31This is probably one of the biggest stakes I've ever seen.
15:36We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
15:45Eight, eight sides.
15:47That reminds me exactly of the stakes we found near the vault.
15:51Definitely something going on here.
15:54The team has found dozens of wooden stakes across the swamp that have featured different numbers of cuts at their points.
16:01But when they uncovered the empty slate and brick vault in the northern region one year ago,
16:07it was after following a trail of eight sided cut stakes that lined a cobblestone path.
16:13Is it possible that this eight sided stake could be connected to that vault like feature?
16:20And could it mean another one that may still contain valuables is hidden in this area?
16:27It looked like it was about four feet down in that sand there.
16:30Yeah.
16:31The eight side ones are almost all that same, that really big circumference.
16:36The more sides that it has, based on the testing that we did in the island, the older that they tend to be.
16:41Yeah.
16:42Every bucket full now we're finding something.
16:44There was a ton of activity right here.
16:46I'm sure we'll have a bunch of stuff to take back to the lab for everybody to look at.
16:50Well, that's another good find.
16:52Well, I'll put it over there and then we'll keep going.
16:54Oh, good eye, Derek.
16:56That's cool.
17:00As the sun rises over Oak Island.
17:03You ready to rock, Charles?
17:05Yeah.
17:06Here we go.
17:07In the Money Pit area, Terry and Charles monitor the core drilling operation in borehole BN 13.5,
17:15as it sinks deeper into the Peacock area.
17:24Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
17:27We've never had this much fallout.
17:29No.
17:30Yeah, it's too hard to tell if it's a void or if it's just water gravel.
17:36Yeah.
17:37Okay, Charles, it looks like you lost the core.
17:39Gone out the end of the core barrel.
17:41Okay.
17:42Here's Adam now.
17:45Hey, Adam, you lost that, right?
17:46Yeah.
17:47And no recovery.
17:48No recovery, no.
17:49Oh, man.
17:50We pushed from 148 to 158, and the rods are sinking when I run the casing.
17:56They're sinking.
17:57We're in pretty loose material, obviously.
17:59It's loose.
18:00We're right in the heart of the Peacock.
18:01Yeah.
18:02So you're just going to try and push to 168 to try and get something solid?
18:05Yeah.
18:06Excellent.
18:07Great stuff.
18:08Thanks a lot.
18:09Good.
18:10What we come up with on this one.
18:12We're excited about this because we're in the area where we got gold and silver in the water.
18:18And, you know, as we're drilling down, the mud and the muck is very loose and sloppy.
18:24Oh, yeah.
18:25Yeah.
18:26Is it loose because of high activity by humans?
18:29That looks promising.
18:30Yeah.
18:31Is it possible that this could be an opening that was man-made?
18:36If it is, if it's something we didn't know existed.
18:39Whatever was there, we got it.
18:41Right on.
18:42But it got hard at the bottom.
18:45Very sloppy at the top.
18:47Okay.
18:48All right.
18:49Let's carve this up.
18:51Okay.
18:52This is the firm bottom of this area of the Peacock.
18:55Right here.
18:56Yeah.
18:57Here is limestone-rich material.
18:58It's really only 10 feet of recovery for a whole 20 feet drilled all the way from 148 to 168.
19:05Definitely, we've got an effective water-filled void from about 148 to 158.
19:10Below grade.
19:11Yeah.
19:12A possible 10-foot void above the solution channel?
19:16Peacock.
19:17If so, is it simply a natural feature?
19:21Or could it be a man-made chamber?
19:24I gotta go.
19:25Okay.
19:26What is a surprise is when we encounter a relative void, I mean, you think human activity
19:31in that area.
19:32This is shaping up to be a really interesting hole.
19:35Hey, Terry.
19:36How you doing?
19:37How's it going?
19:38Uh, we're loose from between 148 and 158.
19:43Relatively loose, washed-out material like what you'd expect down inside a solution channel.
19:47Okay.
19:48Relatively high, but this is possibly a void.
19:52Now, is that natural, or is that an open man-made chamber?
19:55We don't know.
19:56Yeah.
19:57Also, we're getting elevated results for precious metals, associated copper-lead-zinc type
20:03of things that are associated with a treasure in the Peacock.
20:07So yeah, for me, I've always been a believer that there's an offset chamber in the money pit,
20:11and if there is an offset chamber, it makes sense it would be in this area.
20:15Exactly.
20:18The Oak Island team has long suspected that whoever built the money pit
20:22may have not only buried treasure at the bottom of the shaft,
20:25but also constructed a tunnel away from the main shaft to hide a cache of treasure in an offset chamber.
20:32Is it possible that this theory could explain the potential 10-foot void that the team has just encountered
20:39148 feet deep in the Peacock?
20:45So, what we found was an area with possibly a water-filled void.
20:50That's a candidate for a sonar, don't you think?
20:52I think so.
20:53Adam!
20:55Quick question!
21:00What's up?
21:01We had a bit of an open area, which I think it was a void.
21:05Yep.
21:06Is it a void?
21:07Only a sonar could tell you that, really.
21:09Yeah.
21:10Right?
21:11All right, well that's what we'll do.
21:12Yep.
21:13All right.
21:14So, if this proves fruitful, I can see this being a case on location.
21:15Yeah.
21:16We're not done with the Peacock.
21:17Yep.
21:18Absolutely.
21:19As the team arranges to look deeper into borehole BN 13.5.
21:26I want to thank you for coming down.
21:28This, when Gary found it, it was coin-like.
21:31In the research center, Rick and other members of the team meet with coin expert Sandy Campbell.
21:37It's very peculiar.
21:39Again, a one-off.
21:40Yeah.
21:41To have him examine the folded copper artifact that was found on Lot 5.
21:46He never found another one of these on the island.
21:49So, I don't know.
21:50I'm hoping you can help us here.
21:52Okay.
21:55Yeah, this is extremely interesting.
22:04And it is a coin.
22:07Fold it three times.
22:09You know, when they first started folding coins was early medieval times.
22:14It represents a ritual that's thousands of years old.
22:19Yeah.
22:20It was thought that when you folded a coin, you could trap, you know, the evil inside the coin.
22:28And 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.
22:38Hmm.
22:39And it relates to Christianity, the Crusades, you know, even the Knights Templar.
22:48However, because of the size of this coin, it's not likely medieval.
22:53And this is probably 16, 17 hundreds.
22:56Really?
22:57Really?
22:58But I think it still has the same religious and spiritual meaning.
23:07Fascinating.
23:08It's an interesting piece.
23:09Yeah.
23:10In the research center, Sandy Campbell has confirmed that the folded artifact found near the round feature on Lot 5 is indeed a coin.
23:20And maybe a 17th century religious symbol connected to the Knights Templar.
23:38Trapping evil.
23:39It seems like a strange ritual, right?
23:42It's a bizarre ritual.
23:43Right.
23:44It's a bizarre ritual.
23:45But, you know, copper was really a show of wealth.
23:49And it was also a show of strength to anybody in medieval times.
23:53Hmm.
23:54So 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.
24:01Really?
24:02Yeah.
24:03Folding of coins was also a ritual to honor saints.
24:08Hmm.
24:09The Knights Templar, they worship 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.
24:36Really?
24:37Yeah.
24:38So you feel that this is probably 1600s.
24:42At the earliest.
24:43So my mind always goes to the Knights of Malta.
24:48Interesting.
24:49Which is one of our suspects on the island.
24:51That falls right in that time period.
24:53Mm-hmm.
24:54Is it possible that this folded copper coin might offer another key clue that sacred treasures of the Knights Templar
25:03and the religious order of the Knights of Malta may be connected to the Oak Island mystery?
25:10Sandy 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.
25:28And there was a connection between the two.
25:31So 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, it's basically east to west.
25:46Is 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, all Templar-associated buildings and constructions were east-west orientation.
26:00It's interesting, different, and adds to the mystery.
26:05There's no way to unfold that coin, physically unfold it.
26:10My initial response is you've folded it to capture your 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.
26:26You 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.
26:38Exactly.
26:39So, we thank you very much for coming down.
26:41I appreciate it.
26:42After the meeting in the research center.
26:46I'm really expecting to find some good things in here.
26:49Then this really should be a potential for a high traffic area.
26:52While members of the team search for more clues in the round feature on Lot 5.
26:57We'll see what today brings.
26:58Yeah, let's see.
27:00Rick and Katya arrive on Lot 8, located on the western side of the island.
27:05Let's have at her.
27:06High five before we start.
27:08Two weeks ago.
27:10Perfect.
27:11All right, Gary, here's our first location.
27:13Okay.
27:14While 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.
27:39Let's see.
27:40There you go.
27:41Oh.
27:42Right there?
27:49Face.
27:59It'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.
28:18Looks like two holes in it right there.
28:20Yeah.
28:22Not heavy enough to be a tool, though, is it?
28:25I think this might be a knife handle,
28:27because there's another hole down here.
28:29Oh, really?
28:30Yeah, you'd possibly have, like, another side to this.
28:33Mm-hmm.
28:34And then you'd have the blade starting up there.
28:37You can really see how both of the holes
28:39are square on each side.
28:44Your father has always said that.
28:45Square holes imply a hole 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.
28:56Well, we'll bag this.
28:57Yeah.
28:58Tag it.
28:59Right?
29:00There are all kinds of questions about Lot 8.
29:03In this particular location,
29:05there is no data or no record
29:08that people are in this area doing something
29:11following the discovery of the Money Pit.
29:13All right.
29:15It's a good start.
29:17So anything you find,
29:18almost literally anything,
29:20is an important clue
29:22in terms of who might have been there and when.
29:26I'm in.
29:33That's one looks good.
29:34Yeah?
29:35Yeah.
29:36Oh, yeah.
29:39Right here.
29:40Two-way repeatable.
29:41Right?
29:42Yep.
29:50That was a beautiful plug.
29:52Oh, yeah.
29:53Even I know that's a good one.
29:55Oh, yeah.
29:56Even I know that's a good one.
30:04Oh, that is an interesting piece.
30:07What is that?
30:11I've never found one of these before.
30:14This is a lead bag stool.
30:16Bag stool, really?
30:17This is great.
30:20On lot eight of Oak Island,
30:22Rick and Katya have made what could be
30:25an important discovery.
30:27This could possibly be a tail coming out of it.
30:30Oh, okay.
30:31Yeah, yeah.
30:32That would have been probably from the bag
30:34or whatever it was being attached to.
30:36Mm-hmm.
30:37Yeah, yeah.
30:38Your dad is following other bags.
30:39It was one on 32.
30:41Mm-hmm.
30:42One on lot five down by the ocean.
30:45And yet here we are in the middle of nowhere.
30:48Mm-hmm.
30:49You find a bag seal?
30:52First developed in Europe in the 13th century,
30:55bag seals were fasteners used to secure large quantities of goods
30:59inside cloth packaging.
31:01The Oak Island team previously found one of these items on lot five
31:06that was British and could date back to the 16th century.
31:11However, they uncovered another one near the shore on lot 32
31:16that was a scientific match to the 14th century lead cross,
31:20which may be connected to the Knights Templar.
31:22Is it possible that Rick and Katya have just found a similar artifact?
31:29To the best of my knowledge, I don't think there was a homestead here.
31:34Mm-hmm.
31:35I just, for the life of me, I can't understand why it's here.
31:39It just doesn't make sense to me.
31:41I cannot explain why this bag seal has been found almost in the middle of the lot,
31:47not in proximity to the open ocean.
31:51Everything prior to the causeway construction in 1965,
31:56things would have had to have come by the sea, by way of the sea.
31:59So why it was lost in the middle of the lot, I cannot explain it.
32:03Look, it's a great find.
32:05I'm more curious about this one than I am about bag seals found there and there.
32:09Really?
32:10Because if it had something to do with a work area,
32:13then whatever was inside would have been needed here.
32:16Mm-hmm.
32:17I'm really hoping that Emma and Laird can find a maker's mark or moniker on it,
32:23and we could really trace this back to where it came from.
32:26Yeah, let's get it analyzed, see if there is a maker's mark or something.
32:31I agree.
32:32Yeah, good find.
32:33Yeah.
32:34Well, congratulations.
32:36You found something I always wanted to find.
32:37Well done.
32:38It's cool.
32:39Right?
32:40Let's keep looking.
32:41Yeah, let's do it.
32:42The following morning.
32:47Let's find something.
32:48Yeah.
32:49Well, hey, guys.
32:50How you doing?
32:51What is it?
32:52Craig?
32:53You about ready?
32:54Yeah, just about.
32:55While they wait for analysis on the new find from Lot 8,
32:59Rick, Craig, and other members of the team meet with underwater imaging expert Ken DeBoer in the Money Pit area
33:06to investigate the possible 10-foot void nearly 150 feet deep in borehole BN 13.5.
33:15We're going to try the camera first so we can see if we can get an image down there.
33:18Sure.
33:19So we'll put the sonar down.
33:20Can you explain it, Terry?
33:21Can I explain it geologically?
33:22Not really.
33:23No, I mean, I'm looking for beams and posts here.
33:26That's what I'm going to look for in that pictures.
33:28That's what I'm going to look for in the sonar imaging as well.
33:31And perhaps a little chest over in the corner.
33:34Cross your fingers.
33:36Ken, it's up to you.
33:37No pressure.
33:38No pressure.
33:39No pressure at all.
33:40No pressure.
33:41All right.
33:42It's very interesting.
33:43I mean, we're in the area of high metal values.
33:45In my opinion, this would be an offset chamber.
33:47Potentially, yes.
33:48So it's quite interesting.
33:50So I'm ready to go.
33:51Let's have a look.
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 camera
34:02capable of operating in low light conditions with a lens that he can rotate 360 degrees.
34:09We'll take it to 150 feet.
34:11So we're into the hole.
34:12Okay.
34:13Going down.
34:14Touchdown, water.
34:15Water.
34:16We'd love nothing better than to see a man-made cave, cavern, vault.
34:33Anything 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?
34:43You're 32 feet right now.
34:4680 feet.
34:5190 feet.
34:56It's close to the top of the chamber.
34:59100.
35:00Any help?
35:01Any help?
35:02Okay, there's a silk cloud coming up from around a, looks like a boulder or something.
35:10Oh, that could be a bean.
35:11Wow.
35:12Oh, wow.
35:13There's something there, isn't there?
35:18Steve, come up, like, about an inch or two.
35:19Okay.
35:20Oh, that's good.
35:21You can make it almost like a wall or something out there, but when you move away from it,
35:25we kind of go into more of an opening here.
35:30Really?
35:31Oh, wow.
35:32You can make it almost like a wall or something out there, but when you move away from it, we
35:43kind of go into more of an opening here.
35:46Oh, that's interesting.
35:47There's definitely some sort of opening there.
35:48Yeah, for sure.
35:49Yep.
35:50Right there.
35:51Right there in the abyss.
35:52In the Money Pit area, the Oak Island team investigates a strange cavity some 150 feet underground.
36:13Steve, you want to just take us up slowly, kind of inch by inch?
36:17Yeah, I sure will.
36:18You tell me when to stop.
36:20Oh, oh.
36:21Did you see that?
36:22Turn that way.
36:23Hold it there for a second.
36:24Okay.
36:25I'm going to steady it.
36:26That looks like something.
36:27I mean, you see the potential of having boulders on top of one another, but I mean, just off
36:32to the left or right could be the original man-made structure holding those boulders out.
36:38Yeah.
36:39If there was a collapse off that chamber down there or a tunnel, I mean, we're going to
36:45see bare earth.
36:46But it looks like it has depth.
36:47That's interesting.
36:48Yeah.
36:49But we do see some potential boulder on boulder gain.
36:51We're towards kind of the rock-facing wall, if you will, side of the borehole.
36:52Could Terry be correct that the team is looking into a man-made structure?
36:53Yeah.
36:54We're going to see some potential boulder on boulder gain.
36:56We're towards kind of the rock-facing wall, if you will, side of the borehole.
36:58Could Terry be correct that the team is looking into a man-made structure?
37:12If so, could it be connected to the precious metals that have been detected in this area?
37:27If we rotate around this way, you see we start opening up here, back into that cavity area
37:35right here.
37:36That's just very surprising.
37:38Is that what you're seeing, Ken?
37:43Yes.
37:44I'd put the sonar down and try to define the cavity.
37:49That's a great idea.
37:50Yeah.
37:51We can actually see some things, but it's difficult.
37:56It's difficult to understand scale.
37:59It's difficult to get a real interpretation of what you're looking at.
38:04So 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.
38:18Mm-hmm.
38:19The cable's marked, so we'll know where that 150 foot is.
38:22Okie doke.
38:23Keep your fingers crossed.
38:25The blue robotics ping 360 sonar device emits a sound wave that reflects off of objects and barriers.
38:36We're in water.
38:37We're in the water.
38:38This will produce full-scale images of the underground void or possible cavern.
38:46Show me the money.
38:47Yeah.
38:48So we're in the cavity as of right now.
38:49Oh, there's the opening.
38:50Yeah, you're in.
38:51You're in.
38:52Okay, okay, right there.
38:53Here we go.
38:54This darker red line is the opening.
38:55You can see how rough it is.
38:56And the yellow is lower density returns and backscatter caused by particles in the water.
38:59Right.
39:00Go down just a little more.
39:01Yep.
39:02Yeah, that popped out farther.
39:03Is that an opening now?
39:04It's like around the hard return, we've got an opening.
39:05Oh, two directions, too.
39:06Oh, yeah.
39:07Looks like it's open.
39:08Wow.
39:09To me, this looks very low.
39:10It looks like it's open.
39:11Wow.
39:12To me, this looks very low.
39:13It looks like it's open.
39:14Wow.
39:15To me, this looks very low.
39:16It's very low.
39:17The darker red line is the opening.
39:18The darker red line is the opening.
39:19You can see how rough it is.
39:20And the yellow is lower density returns and backscatter caused by particles in the water.
39:23Right.
39:24Go down just a little more.
39:25Yep.
39:26Yeah.
39:27That popped out farther.
39:28To me, this looks very linear, like with an opening here.
39:32Interesting.
39:35So, it's two feet from side to side right now.
39:39If this is not natural, it could have been a larger cavity that has collapsed around it.
39:44True.
39:45I mean, just out to the left or right, we mightn't encounter what we're hoping for.
39:49Yeah.
39:51This hole shouldn't be open.
39:53There's no reason for that.
39:55Geologically, there's no reason for that.
39:57We found gold in the water in the area.
40:00Right.
40:01It's open down there.
40:03There's no reason for it to be open unless man was down there doing something.
40:08We have precious metals and high silver in the Peacock and greater depths in the solution channel.
40:19We've always speculated that there was more than call it an offset chamber or multiple volts.
40:25Maybe we just found one of them.
40:28This is a priority target.
40:30Now that we have video, let's contact ProHawk, a company that enhances video, to have it analyzed.
40:38We will incrementally pursue this because we're trying to find the treasure, right?
40:43Yeah.
40:44There's every indication here that that could be in this specific area.
40:49Yeah.
40:50We have a few more holes of drill in this area.
40:51Good deal.
40:52Okay.
40:53Right on.
40:54So, the more Rick, Marty, Craig, and their team dig, the deeper this 230-year-old mystery becomes.
41:05After making intriguing new discoveries on Lot 8 and in the swamp, has the team finally located a treasure vault 150 feet underground in the Money Pit area?
41:19But if so, is that the only place where Oak Island is hiding its most precious secrets?
41:30Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:33I got a signal.
41:34Aha!
41:35Whoa, we got here.
41:37I recognized this seal, so it could date to the 1300s.
41:42And that large boulder looks intriguing.
41:45We've uncovered a big void right there.
41:47What is underneath that boulder?
41:49We put cameras in BN13.5.
41:52What we found suggests human origin.
41:55It really seems like it's a depositor.
41:57Wow.
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