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The Curse of Oak Island - Season 13 Episode 9 -
So Close, Yet Sonar
So Close, Yet Sonar
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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.
00:13Alright, well that's what we'll do.
00:14Hopefully we'll find the one thing.
00:15Crush 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...
01:20Here we go.
01:21The N13.5.
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.
01:29Rick 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.
01:47They are drilling a borehole known as BN 13.5.
01:53Located 45 feet northeast from recent drilling locations and in an area dubbed by Marty Lagina as the Peacock.
02:04So, right at 55 is like the bottom dropped right out of her.
02:07It 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.
02:58Terry 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.
03:12But the historical record does not indicate anyone being in this area, i.e. searchers.
03:20So, what happened here? What 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 we 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.
03:56All 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.
04:03Yep. 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 the 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.
04:23Both of which were lined by wooden survey stakes.
04:27What is that?
04:36Oh, wow.
04:40We've just found another steak.
04:43Oh, good.
04:44That's quite something.
04:46In place as well.
04:47Oh, my gosh.
04:49How many sides?
04:50Four cuts.
04:51It looks like one side is unfinished, but this reminds me of the five-sided steak we found earlier.
05:04This has been in here for a while.
05:06And what's most impressive of that one is that this steak was still standing at a very deep point in the swamp.
05:12So it's exactly where somebody put it.
05:15There's three feet of stuff on top of that.
05:17Right?
05:18Yeah.
05:19It's cut with purpose.
05:20Yeah.
05:21And it's ax cut.
05:22Mm-hmm.
05:23You can see there now is a round pit down there, which is pretty hard to do with a square excavator bucket.
05:28So as you were digging, it just kept falling in there.
05:31Right.
05:32It does give you the inclination there's something down there.
05:35Right.
05:36I just pushed my bucket and the stuff fell in, but 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?
05:49Yeah.
05:50Could Billy be correct that someone previously dug in this area and then marked it with a wooden steak?
05:57If so, could this steak 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 steak 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 would be nice to find some answers.
06:28We'll keep going.
06:29All right.
06:30As the dig in the swamp continues...
06:32Gary had done a complete scan of the Lot 5 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 the screen.
06:54The round feature on Lot 5.
06:56You were quite excited about that.
06:58Yeah.
06:59When it came out, I'm thinking, oh, it's some kind of like folded coin I'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.
07:17They're put out there.
07:19Sometimes they ward off even bad luck.
07:21But it was good luck for us because we found it.
07:24Yeah.
07:25Does 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.
07:48And 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.
08:04They have also found Phoenician trade beads and two ornate buttons that could be connected to the Knights of Malta.
08:11An order with known ties to the Templars, who built a stronghold in Nova Scotia back in 1632.
08:19We 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.
08:38Mm-hmm.
08:39And immediately, I'm going to say there's nothing that I can really see so far.
08:44Yeah.
08:45I mean, we can't definitively say it's a coin, but if we look at why coins are traditionally folded,
08:54it needs to have some value to give literal, like, weight to the talisman.
09:00So, we can assume it was valuable to somebody at some point.
09:04And then the triple folding is quite unusual.
09:07Yeah.
09:08We thought it would be fairly straightforward.
09:11Yeah, we did.
09:12Yeah.
09:13What 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.
09:21Zinc being an alloying element, it'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.
09:42The 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.
10:02It is a meaningful artifact.
10:06In 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.
10:22And 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 other 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.
11:18It's folded perfectly.
11:19Yeah.
11:20And maybe, maybe three folds mean something different than two folds.
11:24Yeah.
11:25Our research hasn't gone that far yet.
11:27Given the enormity of finds 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.
11:46Something else.
11:47Given the potential symbolism of this artifact, could the team be correct that it might be related to the buttons and ornate trade beads that had been potentially linked to the order of the Knights of Malta?
12:01The 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.
12:32And 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.
12:41It was good luck that we found it.
12:43I think there's a lot of information that we can learn because of its uniqueness.
12:47Yeah, and don't forget, Sandy Campbell.
12:50That's a good thought.
12:51Yeah.
12:52With Sandy, he's not just a numismatist, he's a historian.
12:58Yeah.
12:59And 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.
13:10All right.
13:11All right.
13:12See you.
13:14Bye.
13:15Bye-bye.
13:16Keep your eyes peeled here.
13:17Meanwhile, in the southwest corner of the swamp, Katya, Derek, and Billy continue to search for more artifacts near the stone formation.
13:28Yeah, Katya, there's a funny piece in that last bucket.
13:31Oh, yeah.
13:32Oh, my gosh.
13:35That's a something there, yeah.
13:37A piece of planking?
13:38That's a strand.
13:39The top looks maybe cut, but it's wide and it comes to a point like a wedge.
13:46No, it does.
13:47Yeah, it's tapered.
13:48Yeah.
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, a bunch of little dents in it.
13:59I'm thinking it might be an aura 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.
14:14Yeah.
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,
14:27which 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.
14:46Connect 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 in the bog with the types of constructions that have been found.
15:14That looks like another steak.
15:16Billy, got another steak 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.
15:34This is probably one of the biggest steaks I've ever seen.
15:37We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight sides.
15:47That reminds me exactly of the steaks we found near the vault.
15:51Definitely something going on here.
15:53The team has found dozens of wooden steaks 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 steaks that lined a cobblestone path.
16:14Is it possible that this eight-sided steak could be connected to that vault-like feature?
16:21And could it mean another one that may still contain valuables is hidden in this area?
16:26It looked like it was about four feet down in that sand there.
16:30Yeah.
16:31The eight-sided ones are almost all that same, that really big circumference.
16:35The more sides that it has, based on the testing that we did in the island, the older that they tend to be.
16:40Yeah.
16:41Every bucketful now, we're finding something. There was a ton of activity right here.
16:45I'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.
16:55Oh, good eye, Derek.
16:56That's cool.
17:00As the sun rises over Oak Island...
17:04You ready to rock, Charles?
17:05Yeah. Here we go.
17:07In 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.
17:24Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
17:27We've never had this much fallout.
17:29No.
17:31Yeah, it's too hard to tell if it's a void or if it's just water and gravels.
17:36Yeah.
17:37Okay, Charles, it looks like you lost the core.
17:40Gone out the end of the core barrel, okay?
17:43Here'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. We're right in the heart of the Peacock.
18:01Yeah.
18:02We're going to try and push to 168 to try and get something solid?
18:05Yeah.
18:06Excellent.
18:07Great stuff. Thanks a lot.
18:08Good.
18:09Appreciate it.
18:10Interesting to see what 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.
18:25Is it loose because of high activity by humans?
18:29That looks promising.
18:31Yeah.
18:32Is 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.
18:40Right on.
18:41I thought it got hard at the bottom.
18:44Very sloppy at the top.
18:46Okay.
18:47All right.
18:48Let's carve this up.
18:50Okay.
18:51This is the firm bottom of this area of the Peacock, right here.
18:55Yep.
18:56And the bottom here 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.
19:04Definitely, we've got an effective water-filled void from about 148 to 158, below grade.
19:11Yeah.
19:12A possible 10-foot void above the solution channel?
19:16Peacock.
19:17If so, is it simply a natural feature?
19:20Or could it be a man-made chamber?
19:23I gotta go.
19:24Okay.
19:25What is a surprise is when we encounter a relative void, I mean, you think human activity in that area.
19:31This is shaping up to be a really interesting hole.
19:34Hey, Terry.
19:35How you doing?
19:36How's it going?
19:37We're loose from between 148 and 158.
19:42Relatively loose, washed-out material like what you'd expect down inside the solution channel.
19:47Okay.
19:48Relatively high, but this is possibly a void.
19:51Now, 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 of things that are associated with a treasure in the peacock.
20:07So, yeah.
20:08For 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.
20:16The Oak Island team has long suspected that whoever built the money pit may 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 148 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!
20:54Quick question!
20:55What's up?
20:56We had a bit of an open area, which I think of as a void.
20:57Yep.
20:58Is it a void?
20:59Only a sonar could tell you that, really.
21:00Yeah.
21:01Right?
21:02All right.
21:03Well, that's what we'll do.
21:04Yep.
21:05All right.
21:06So, if this proves fruitful, I can see this being a case on location.
21:07Yeah.
21:08We're not done with the peacock.
21:09Yep.
21:10Absolutely.
21:11As the team arranges to look deeper into borehole BN 13.5.
21:24I want to thank you for coming down.
21:27This, when Gary found it, it was coin-like.
21:30In 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.
21:46Never 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.
22:06Folded three times.
22:09You know, when they first started folding coins, it was early medieval times.
22:15It 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.
22:27And at some point when that evil has passed, if you passed the coin on or if you buried it, there was no more risk to you from that evil.
22:40And 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.
22:54Really?
22:55But I think it still has the same religious and spiritual meaning.
23:06It's an interesting piece.
23:07Yeah.
23:08Yeah.
23:09In the research center, Sandy Campbell has confirmed that the folded artifact found near the round feature on Lot 5 is indeed a coin.
23:21And maybe a 17th century religious symbol connected to the Knights Templar.
23:38Trapping evil.
23:39Trapping evil.
23:40It seems like a strange ritual, right?
23:43It's a bizarre ritual, but, you know, copper was really a show of wealth.
23:49And it was also a show of strength to anybody in medieval times.
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 the 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.
24:44So 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.
24:54Is 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?
25:10Sandy 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.
25:32So 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, it's basically east to west, is it not?
25:46It's 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 folded it to capture evil.
26:14Yeah, 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.
26:43After the meeting in the research center.
26:46I'm really expecting to find some good things in here, then 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.
26:57We'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.
27:05Let's have that. High five before we start.
27:08Two weeks ago.
27:11Perfect.
27:12All right, Gary, here's our first location.
27:14Okay, right.
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.
27:36What is it?
27:37Right there?
27:38Face.
27:39It's looking to be iron.
27:41Let's see.
27:42There you go.
27:43Oh.
27:44Oh.
27:45It's looking to be iron.
28:03Let's see.
28:06There you go.
28:09Oh.
28:11Look at that.
28:12What 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,
28:33and then you'd have the blade starting up there.
28:36You can really see how both of the holes are square on each side.
28:43Your father has always said that, square holes in playa over it.
28:47Mm-hmm.
28:48Yeah.
28:48Right?
28:49Well, I know one thing.
28:50I'd like to see that on a CT scan, right?
28:53Mm-hmm.
28:53I would definitely agree with you.
28:56Well, we'll bag this.
28:57Yeah.
28:57Tag it.
28:59Right?
28:59There are all kinds of questions about Lot 8.
29:03In this particular location, there is no data or no record
29:07that people are in this area doing something
29:10following the discovery of the money pit.
29:13All right.
29:14Okay-doke.
29:15It'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 and when.
29:26It doesn't look good.
29:34Yeah?
29:34Yeah.
29:36Oh, yeah.
29:38Right here.
29:39Two-way repeatable.
29:41Right?
29:41Yep.
29:43That was a beautiful plug.
29:51Oh, yeah.
29:55Even I know that's a good one.
30:04Now, that is an interesting piece.
30:07What is that?
30:11I've never found one of these before.
30:14This is a lead bag seal.
30:16Bag seal, I mean.
30:19This is great.
30:20On Lot 8 of Oak Island, Rick and Katya
30:23have made what could be an important discovery.
30:27This could possibly be a tail coming out of it.
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's phone, other bag seals,
30:39one on 32,
30:41one on 5,
30:43down by the ocean,
30:44and yet here we are
30:46in the middle of nowhere.
30:48You find a bag seal?
30:50First developed in Europe in the 13th century,
30:55bag seals were fasteners
30:57used to secure large quantities of goods
30:59inside cloth packaging.
31:01The Oak Island team
31:03previously found one of these items on Lot 5
31:06that was British
31:07and could date back to the 16th century.
31:09However, they uncovered another one near the shore on Lot 32
31:15that was a scientific match to the 14th century lead cross,
31:19which may be connected to the Knights Templar.
31:23Is it possible that Rick and Katya have just found a similar artifact?
31:27To the best of my knowledge,
31:30I don't think there was a homestead here.
31:34I just, for the life of me,
31:36I can't understand why it's here.
31:38It just doesn't make sense to me.
31:40I cannot explain why this bag seal has been found
31:44almost in the middle of the lot,
31:46not in proximity to the open ocean.
31:50Everything prior to the causeway construction in 1965,
31:56things would have had to have come by the sea,
31:58by way of the sea.
31:59So why it was lost in the middle of the lot,
32:01I cannot explain it.
32:03Look, it's a great find.
32:05I'm more curious about this one
32:06than I am about bag seals found there and there.
32:09Because if it had something to do with a work area,
32:13then whatever was inside would have been needed here.
32:16I'm really hoping that Emma and Laird
32:19can find a maker's mark or moniker on it
32:22and we could really trace this back to where it came from.
32:26Yeah, let's get it analyzed,
32:28see if there is a maker's mark or something.
32:31I agree.
32:32Yeah, good find.
32:33Yeah.
32:34Well, congratulations.
32:35You found something I always wanted to find.
32:36Well done.
32:38It's cool.
32:38Right?
32:39Let's keep looking.
32:40Yeah, let's do it.
32:45The following morning...
32:48Let's find something.
32:49Yeah.
32:49Oh, hey guys, how you doing?
32:50How is it?
32:51Craig?
32:52You about ready?
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
33:01meet with underwater imaging expert Ken DeBoer
33:04in the Money Pit area
33:05to investigate the possible 10-foot void
33:09nearly 150 feet deep in borehole BN 13.5.
33:15We're going to try the camera first
33:16so we can see if we can get an image down there.
33:17Sure.
33:18We'll put the sonar down.
33:19Can you explain it, Terry?
33:20Can I explain it geologically?
33:22Not really.
33:22No, 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.
33:30And perhaps a little chest over in the corner.
33:34Cross your fingers.
33:36Ken, it's up to you.
33:37No pressure.
33:37No pressure.
33:38No pressure at all.
33:39No pressure.
33:40All right.
33:40It's very interesting.
33:42I 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.
33:52All right.
33:52Let's get the camera down there, then.
33:53Okay.
33:53Let's get at it.
33:54Before running a sonar device down the borehole, the team will insert Ken's high-definition
34:01camera, capable of operating in low-light conditions with a lens that he can rotate 360 degrees.
34:10We'll take it to 150 feet, so we're into the hole.
34:13Okay.
34:15And down.
34:16Touchdown, water.
34:26Water.
34:27We'd love nothing better than to see a man-made cave, cavern, vault.
34:33Anything man-made, really, at that depth, in that location.
34:37I don't know what to expect, but I'm very eager to find out what's down there.
34:42How deep are we, Charles?
34:43You're 32 feet right now.
34:4680 feet.
34:5590 feet.
34:57It's close to the top of the chamber.
34:59100.
35:01Any help?
35:05Okay.
35:05There's a silk cloud coming up from around a...
35:08Looks like a boulder or something.
35:10Oh, that could be a beam.
35:12Wow.
35:12Oh, wow.
35:16There's something there, isn't there?
35:22Steve, come up, like, about an inch or two.
35:24Okay.
35:30Oh, whoa, that's good.
35:35You can make it almost like a wall or something out there, but when you move away from it...
35:39We go kind of go into more of an opening here.
35:45Really?
35:49Now, that's interesting.
35:55There's definitely some sort of opening there.
35:57Yeah, for sure.
35:59Yep.
36:00Right there.
36:02Right there.
36:03Just hearing in the abyss.
36:04In the Money Pit area, the Oak Island team investigates a strange cavity some 150 feet underground.
36:14Steve, you want to just take us up slowly, kind of inch by inch?
36:17Yeah, I sure will.
36:20You tell me when to stop.
36:21Oh, oh.
36:26Did you see that?
36:28Turn that way.
36:32Hold it there for a second.
36:33Okay, I'm going to steady it.
36:37That looks like something.
36:39I mean, you see the potential of having boulders on top of one another, but I mean, just off
36:48to the left or right could be the original man-made structure holding those boulders out.
36:52Yeah.
36:54If there was a collapse off that chamber down there or a tunnel, I mean, we're going to see
36:59bare earth.
37:02But it looks like it has depth.
37:04That's interesting.
37:05Yeah.
37:05But we do see some potential boulder on boulder, but again, we're towards kind of the rock
37:12facing wall, if you will, side of the borehole.
37:16Could Terry be correct that the team is looking into a man-made structure?
37:22If so, could it be connected to the precious metals that have been detected in this area?
37:28If we rotate around this way, you see we start opening up here, back into that cave.
37:35There's a cavity area right here.
37:37That's just very surprising.
37:41Is that what you're seeing, Ken?
37:43Yes.
37:46I'd put the sonar down and try to define the cavity.
37:49That's a great idea.
37:51Yeah.
37:51We can actually see some things, but it'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
38:11long this area is.
38:14So what we have here is a scanning 360-degree sonar.
38:19Mm-hmm.
38:19And the cable's marked, so we'll know where that 150 foot is.
38:23Okey-doke.
38:24Keep your fingers crossed.
38:29The Blue Robotics Ping 360 sonar device emits a sound wave that reflects off of objects and
38:36barriers.
38:38We're in water.
38:40We're in the water.
38:41This will produce full-scale images of the underground void or possible cavern.
38:47Show me the money.
38:48Yeah.
38:51So we're in the cavity as of right now.
38:54Oh, there's the opening.
38:55Yeah, you're in.
38:55You're in.
38:56Okay, okay, right there.
38:57Here we go.
38:59This darker red line is the opening.
39:01You can see how rough it is.
39:03And the yellow is lower density returns and backscatter caused by particles in the water.
39:08Right.
39:08You can go down just a little more.
39:11Yep.
39:14Yeah, that's popped out farther.
39:16Is that an opening now?
39:19It's like around the hard return we've got an opening.
39:23Oh, two directions, too.
39:25Oh, yeah.
39:26Looks like it's open.
39:27Wow.
39:28To me, this looks very linear, like with an opening here.
39:32Interesting.
39:32So 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.
39:49This 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.
40:01Right.
40:01It's open down there.
40:04There'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.
40:18We've always speculated that there was more than, call it an offset chamber or multiple volts.
40:25Maybe we just found one of them.
40:29This is a priority target.
40:31Now 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.
40:45There's every indication here that that could be in this specific area.
40:49Yeah.
40:49We have a few more holes to drill in this area.
40:51Good deal.
40:52Okay.
40:53Right on.
40:53Let's make it so.
40:54The 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,
41:11has the team finally located a treasure vault 150 feet underground in the Money Pit area?
41:18But 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.
41:42That large boulder looks intriguing.
41:45We've uncovered a big void right there.
41:47What is underneath that boulder?
41:49We put cameras in VN 13.5.
41:52What we found suggests human origin.
41:55It really seems like it's a depositor.
41:57Whoa.
41:57Whoa.
41:57Whoa.
41:57Whoa.
41:57Whoa.
41:58Whoa.
41:58Whoa.
41:59Whoa.
42:00Whoa.
42:00Whoa.
42:01Whoa.
42:02Whoa.
42:02Whoa.
42:03Whoa.
42:04Whoa.
42:05Whoa.
42:06Whoa.
42:07Whoa.
42:08Whoa.
42:09Whoa.
42:10Whoa.
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