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00:00Aha!
00:01Whoa, we got here!
00:03I recognized this seal, so it could date to the 1300s.
00:08And that large boulder looks century-y.
00:11We've uncovered a big void right there.
00:13What is underneath that boulder?
00:15We put cameras in VN 13.5.
00:18What we found suggests human origin.
00:21It really seems like it's a depositor.
00:23Wow.
00:24There 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.
01:18This is the critical intersection right here, guys.
01:20Yeah.
01:21What we should see beneath the peacock is loose material.
01:24Our targets are the possible void at 148 feet.
01:26And then the solution channel below that.
01:28Right.
01:29A new day on Oak Island brings fresh hope for Rick and Marty Lagina that their team is closing in on the answers to a 231-year-old treasure mystery.
01:41Really, the end goal is to get down to the solution channel and see if there's a potential treasure there.
01:46But I also believe that we're close to a chamber here.
01:48Right.
01:49In a location of the money pit area known as the Peacock, the team is drilling borehole DN-13, just a few feet northwest of borehole BN-13.5.
02:03Whoa.
02:04Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
02:06It was there that one week ago, the drill entered a possible man-made cavern some 150 feet deep, which sets more than 20 feet above the solution channel.
02:18You can make it almost like a wall or something like that there.
02:21When you move away from it, we kind of go into more of an opening here.
02:24After inserting a camera, evidence was revealed of a possible artificial wall.
02:30Show me the money.
02:31And a potential opening to a larger cavity.
02:34We've got an opening.
02:35This made them wonder if an offset treasure chamber connected to the original money pit has been discovered.
02:45Now, while the team waits to view enhanced video images of the mysterious void, they hope to drill into the larger nearby cavity and confirm if it indeed is a man-made chamber.
02:58Oh, look.
02:59Yeah, something's going on over there.
03:00Yeah.
03:01Rods fell.
03:02They just dropped.
03:03That's really soft, man.
03:05Adam!
03:07Here he comes.
03:09Hey, Adam.
03:10How's it going?
03:11Good.
03:12Did something happen?
03:14The rods fell about 16 feet.
03:18Really?
03:19From 128.
03:21Wow.
03:22That's really interesting.
03:23Thanks a lot, Adam.
03:24All right.
03:25That means somewhere between 118 and 128, we went into the soft area.
03:29Yeah, all the way to 144.
03:30Yeah.
03:31Wow.
03:32So the core of the peacock, I've always believed there's going to be a structure.
03:35Because of the loose soil, when we see those rods drop, that tells us maybe we're close to seeing the structure that we all hope we're going to encounter.
03:42We're going to track that down into the solution channel.
03:45You know, there's plenty of places down there for a treasure to hide.
03:48No question.
03:50We'll move on to the more interesting levels.
03:52Yeah.
03:53As the core drilling pushes deeper in the money pit area.
03:57That mound's getting higher and higher.
03:59Tell me about it.
04:01Rick Lagina and other members of the team continue investigating the southwest corner of the triangle-shaped swamp.
04:09After this, I feel like we only have one little section left behind us.
04:13Yeah.
04:14In recent weeks, the team has been uncovering a mysterious stone road-like feature that may be connected to a similar structure that was found several yards to the north earlier this year.
04:27Curiously, eight-sided wooden survey sticks were found lining both of these features.
04:34And the team also recovered old ox shoes, suggesting the roads may have been used to move heavy cargo into the swamp.
04:45Get in there.
04:46Okay.
04:48The southwest corner is almost done.
04:50What we did learn is we have a possible path or a road to follow.
04:54And the hope is that there'll be some artifacts that can be dated.
04:59And then maybe we can figure out who made these features and why.
05:11Ready for me to go in, Billy?
05:12Yes.
05:13Tick to bottom there, Gary, maybe.
05:14Yep.
05:25It's getting quiet.
05:28It is.
05:29We ain't had a net in a while now.
05:33This might be the end of the line for this area, I think.
05:37Yeah, I think you're right, Billy.
05:38We hammered it.
05:40Everywhere we turn in the swamp, we're finding stakes, and that must mean something.
05:45Yep.
05:46Has to.
05:47My question is, where are we going next?
05:48Because I know that there are other areas of interest.
05:51Yeah.
05:52Who are you, and what did you do with Peter Frenetti?
05:55Hey, this swamp is looking like a beach right now.
05:59Let's get back into it.
06:01You have three data points that seemingly line up.
06:05An unknown road, path, ox shoes.
06:09Then you have the stakes.
06:11And who knows what else is after that.
06:13If there's a road, where does it go?
06:16Right now, Steve has projected it to go toward the north end of the bog.
06:21So now it gives us some insight as to where to go next.
06:24And that's every bit as important as an artifact.
06:27Yeah.
06:28We've got to get back to do some homework.
06:30We need to talk to Tom Nolan about where to go next.
06:33So I say we head back.
06:35All right.
06:36All right.
06:37Thanks, Billy.
06:38See you.
06:39See you, mate.
06:40As the team works on new plans for digging in the swamp,
06:44later that day...
06:47I'm always grateful to come into the lab.
06:50I think we learn so many things here.
06:53And I'm impressed by these two finds from Lot 8.
06:57In the Oak Island lab, Rick and members of the team
07:01join Laird Niven and Emma Culligan
07:02to hear a scientific report on a possible iron knife handle
07:06and a lead bag seal that were found on Lot 8 one week ago.
07:11The iron is kind of more of the mysterious piece.
07:14So we'll start there.
07:15And you can see that wood-like grain structure on it.
07:19So it is hand-forged.
07:21But what is interesting is the shape of it.
07:24So it came in as a possible knife handle.
07:27And it does have some features of it being like the scale of a knife handle.
07:32But it could also have been used as a multi-tool.
07:34Why the round hole at the base and the square hole above?
07:40So this could have been used as a fastener to hold something in place.
07:45A little pivot point.
07:47But this section right here,
07:50I can find components that are similar to other tools,
07:55but nothing like this.
07:57Okay.
07:58And the composition is clean.
07:59So it's post-medieval, pre-mid 1800s.
08:02So it does fit within the 1700s.
08:05Yep.
08:06It's very peculiar.
08:08You know, it's possible Carmen might have an idea as to what that represents.
08:13Yeah.
08:14But the next item, what does it tell us?
08:17It's a bag seal.
08:20Dating back to as early as the 13th century,
08:23lead back seals were fasteners used to contain large quantities of goods in heavy cloth packages.
08:32I recognized an element of it right away,
08:36which was basically a suspended dead sheep.
08:40I found an existing example of this seal,
08:45and that is the only example we could find.
08:49So this is the city seal of Leeds in England.
08:53So...
08:55What a macabre design.
08:57I know. It's so grim.
08:59So this would have been a seal on a finished bale of fabric.
09:04Hmm.
09:06So that implies that it arrived on the island as a bale,
09:09and that was taken off in Lot 8.
09:12Wow.
09:13Leeds in the 16th, 17th and 18th century was like the wool manufacturing place in England.
09:21And basically Britain was built around wool.
09:26Oh really? Yeah.
09:28That begs the question, what time period?
09:30The Leeds wool industry goes back to the 1300s.
09:34So it could date earlier.
09:44The Leeds wool industry goes back to the 1300s.
09:48Wow.
09:50In the Oak Island lab, Laird has just confirmed that the lead back seal found on Lot 8 originated in England,
09:58and could be as much as 700 years old.
10:02When you say bale, I picture something of great quantity though.
10:06Let's say the size of this, probably.
10:10That much?
10:11So big.
10:12Yeah.
10:13That's like a hay bale.
10:14Yeah.
10:15Isn't that a lot of fabric for a singular household?
10:19That's the problem.
10:21A singular household, you're going to those people and buying your clothes.
10:24Why on the island?
10:26Here on the island, there was limited families.
10:28Yeah.
10:29Bag seals are not uncommon in North America, but they're usually associated with trade.
10:33Like a fort, you're finding a lot of things because you're making uniforms, but you're also trading cloth.
10:40So this is our third bale seal.
10:44Now we have three from different areas, so why is it there?
10:49Previously, the team found a lead back seal on Lot 5 and another on Lot 32, just yards from the possible stone road that was recently uncovered in the southwest corner of the swamp.
11:03Astonishingly, that back seal was scientifically matched to the 14th century lead cross, which is believed to be connected to the Knights Templar.
11:13There's enough going on in Lot 8 that I'd like to look closer to take a good look at what's out there.
11:21Yeah.
11:22Could be something else that we're not aware of.
11:26So to that end, I think we need to get back out there.
11:29We have to get to work.
11:30Yes.
11:31You have to find things and I will help you dig.
11:33That sounds like a plan.
11:34That's it.
11:35That is a plan.
11:36All right.
11:38Thanks, guys.
11:44The next day, while drilling continues in the Money Pit area.
11:51You are a firm belief that there are answers to the oak island mystery that reside within the bog.
11:57How can you deny it?
11:58No matter how you look at it, somebody did an immense amount of work in that bog.
12:03Rick meets with fellow Oak Island landowner Tom Nolan and other members of the team in the research center to plan their next dig in the swamp.
12:15I think the north end of the bog in terms of the size and the amount of finds in a very confined space was quite exciting and incredibly interesting and incredibly confusing.
12:28The amount of stakes that we found, all of uniform size, uniform strikes in terms of making the sharpened end, eight strokes, and when you look at it as they're plotted, it's meaningful.
12:41It's meaningful.
12:42Oh, very meaningful.
12:43Oh, very meaningful.
12:44Somebody was trying to leave a path.
12:47Mm-hmm.
12:48Mm-hmm.
12:49Yeah.
12:50Before uncovering the stone features in the western and southwestern areas of the swamp this year, working with Tom on his property in the northern region, the team previously discovered very similar stone structures and several eight-sided survey stakes, leading to an empty, vault-like structure.
13:11Yeah, the so-called vault was captivating in and of itself.
13:16I mean, we found paths, roads, but that vault was quite singular and unique.
13:22Yeah.
13:23Yeah.
13:24Now, Rick and Tom want to know if all of the stone structures they've uncovered across the swamp are connected and if other vaults that still contain something valuable are waiting to be found.
13:38The vault, to me, it was a hiding place. It's in the perfect place to hide it in amongst vegetation and stuff where people probably aren't going to go looking.
13:45Absolutely.
13:46If you are safeguarding something, if you have something really important, you're not going to put all your eggs in one basket.
13:53Right.
13:54And you're going to have one, two, three more. My hope is that there's a backup vault.
14:00Yep. We're ready to put the bucket in the ground and see what's under it.
14:04Well, there's no time like the present, right?
14:07Yeah, let's do it.
14:08So I say we get out there.
14:09Let's go.
14:10Following the meeting in the research center...
14:13I think we should start here, take this apart, and then once we get across that, just keep going to the other part of the bog.
14:21Yep.
14:22The team begins searching for new clues in the northern region of the swamp.
14:26Gary, it's going to be up to you to find whatever artifacts are here.
14:30For real, we're going to find it.
14:31Okey-doke.
14:32You know, the swamp has been enigmatic because virtually every time we dig in there, we find something.
14:41And not just something, we find things that you wouldn't suspect would be in a swamp.
14:47We find things that could very well be related to the mystery of what happened here.
14:54We're close to the line where you found all the stakes.
14:56Yeah.
14:57There's a lot.
14:58There's your stake, right there.
14:59Probably right there.
15:00Aha!
15:01Probably right there.
15:02Probably right there.
15:03Probably right there.
15:04Probably right there.
15:09What is it eight sided?
15:10Hmm.
15:11Two, three, four, five, six, seven.
15:14There's one there.
15:15There's the third.
15:16Yeah.
15:17There's your eight sides.
15:18Wow.
15:19They drove that down deep for some reason.
15:25That's got to be really, really old.
15:26Last year, these eight sided stakes led us two out.
15:28Yeah.
15:29Two, three, four, five, six, seven.
15:32There's one there.
15:33There's the third.
15:34Yeah.
15:35There's your eight sides.
15:36Wow.
15:37They drove that down deep for some reason.
15:40That's got to be really, really old.
15:41Last year, these eight sided stakes led us to a vault.
15:55The stakes are a puzzle unto themselves.
15:58There's every belief that as the stakes continue to be found, at some point we will have an explanation
16:05as to why.
16:06That's where it was, right there.
16:08We're going to have to get Steve out to pin it right now before we move it.
16:12Unless you can dig around it, huh?
16:14Dig on this side and that side?
16:16Yeah.
16:17Maybe they can help explain the structures that have already been found.
16:24Hey, guys.
16:25Hey, Steve.
16:26What do we got?
16:28You're standing on it.
16:29I'm literally standing on it.
16:30You're literally standing on it.
16:32All right.
16:33That's where it was.
16:34The hole is right there.
16:35Okay.
16:36The hole's what we want.
16:37Yep.
16:38Like everything else, we're a foot and a half above sea level.
16:41And actually, most stakes that we have found in the swamp have been a foot and a half above
16:44sea level.
16:45They've been very consistent, which to me means a lot of them have probably gone in the same
16:48time period.
16:49And that would be pretty interesting.
16:51Yeah.
16:52And so, anyway, we'll keep going.
16:55Thanks, Steve.
16:56See you guys.
16:57Appreciate it.
16:58These stakes almost certainly represents that a group of individuals did the work, implying
17:04a reason, implying planning.
17:06Maybe it is connected to the vault that we've discovered.
17:09I got a signal.
17:13I'm hoping that there are clues that will lead us to new discoveries.
17:19I've got a good signal in that last pile, wherever the last pile came from.
17:24It would have been on the bottom.
17:26He was scraping bottom for that last bucket.
17:28So it was down there.
17:29That's excellent.
17:30That's where we'd find the older artifacts.
17:31Yep.
17:32Let me see if I can pinpoint it first.
17:35What have we got here?
17:40What have we got here?
17:45What have we got here?
17:46What is that?
17:47In the northern region of the swamp, Gary has just found an intriguing artifact.
17:53You know what that is?
17:54That's like a snake, a latch off a gate or a door.
18:00It would be inside an opening and you'd put your thumb on it and you'd open the gate.
18:06In England, we call it a gate snake.
18:08It's more than likely and forged.
18:12This looks really, really old.
18:15A possible gate latch found in the northern section of the swamp?
18:20It's a great thought.
18:22Your thumb fits in there perfectly, the latch springs up.
18:25Yeah.
18:26Because these fixtures have been in use as far back as the 13th century, just how old might this artifact be?
18:34And could it be related to a structure that might be buried in this area?
18:39Well, it's a great sign.
18:41An old piece of iron came from at the bottom of the dig.
18:45Yeah, that was down deep.
18:46Yeah.
18:47I'll put it in the bag.
18:48Yeah.
18:49Keep digging.
18:50That's a good find.
18:51Yep.
18:52Okay.
18:53Let it rip out.
18:54Okay.
18:55Let it rip out.
18:56Let it rip out.
18:57What have you found, Tom?
19:25A piece of pottery, but it's, uh, it's green, green and blue.
19:30You don't usually see that color.
19:32No.
19:34That decoration is unique, too.
19:36This area with the green and the blue glazed pottery,
19:42it could match another area where the archaeologists have found it.
19:46I know it's been found before.
19:47Yeah?
19:48I think some green and blue came off the Lot 26 wall as well
19:53when the archaeologists were investigating, taking the wall apart.
19:58You have to find artifacts.
20:00Okay, get on that.
20:01In 2022, the team investigated a rock wall on Lot 26
20:08because it was much larger and wider than a number of others on the island
20:13that are known to have been built by farmers in the 19th century.
20:18Incredibly, in addition to pottery, charcoal was found in the wall
20:23that, when carbon dated, suggested it could be over 500 years old.
20:29And when Portuguese researcher Francisco Nogueira inspected it,
20:34he made a fascinating observation.
20:37This wall appears to be created in the world's Portuguese style
20:40of building rock fences.
20:42No way.
20:43Could this piece of pottery be the same kind
20:47that was found in the wall on Lot 26?
20:50If so, is it possible that the wall is somehow related
20:54to the man-made workings uncovered in the swamp?
20:58We have a suggestion by experts
21:01that some of the activities conducted here on the island
21:05can be associated with the Portuguese.
21:08The stone road in the swamp has Portuguese influence.
21:11The stone wall has influences.
21:16The Poblado Portuguese Templar coin
21:17that was possibly found in the money pit,
21:20it's a worthy consideration
21:21that they all may have a connection to the mystery.
21:26And we'll get these finds back to the lab.
21:29I mean, we've had a great start to the dig in this area.
21:32Yep.
21:33It shows there's things to be found here, right?
21:35Yeah.
21:36I agree.
21:37We just have to keep plugging away.
21:39Yeah.
21:40All right, Al, we'll take her down.
21:41There's quite a bit more here.
21:43Perfect.
21:43No problem.
21:46Later that day...
21:47So this is what I wanted to show you.
21:52We've got this large boulder.
21:53Yep.
21:54Which is uncommon.
21:56After looking around the area on Lot 8,
21:59where the lead bag seal was found,
22:01Laird has made a potentially important discovery.
22:05We're not seeing it around here, a lot that size.
22:07But then I started seeing the number of stones that are around it,
22:12perhaps filling in something.
22:15Mm-hmm.
22:16Even at the berm over there, that could indicate digging.
22:19It looks like someone was filling in a pit.
22:23And actually, if you look again,
22:26the rocks seem to go further off to the east.
22:28Mm-hmm.
22:29The more I look, the more I see.
22:31Yep.
22:33Could Laird be correct
22:34that someone deliberately filled in a pit
22:38around this massive boulder
22:39with soil and smaller rocks?
22:42But if so, who did it?
22:44And for what purpose?
22:46You know, it appears as though
22:49there's a ring of stones around the boulder.
22:53Yeah.
22:54It's not unusual to find a boulder on Oak Island.
22:58But even more interesting was
22:59the ground-level rock feature around it.
23:03My immediate thought was that
23:04this was a possible filled-in foundation
23:06that we're not aware of.
23:09I don't know the relationship
23:10between that large boulder
23:12and this stone formation just yet.
23:15Mm-hmm.
23:16But I think it's definitely worth exploring.
23:20It's interesting.
23:21There's no doubt about it.
23:22Yeah.
23:23A lot of it has intrigued me.
23:25But then you and Katja recently found the bag seal.
23:27Correct.
23:28Which is another really intriguing artifact.
23:30I know its function, but why is it here?
23:33And then we find this huge boulder
23:36and these rocks.
23:38It does make me think
23:39that we need to really analyze it
23:41and it's certainly unique.
23:44And like you said,
23:45you can see the raised areas everywhere, right?
23:47Yeah.
23:47Here, here, there.
23:49This would have been quite an effort by someone
23:52if this really is a hand-built construction.
23:56Yeah.
23:57So I think what we'll do,
23:59we're going to clear it off,
24:00clear the whole area off
24:02to get a good idea of what it looks like
24:06and then hopefully taking a section from it.
24:09Sure.
24:09This may provide a very unique opportunity
24:13to try to understand not only this lot,
24:15but the entire island.
24:17You know, not every stone on this island means something.
24:19Yes.
24:19Some of them do.
24:20Do, yep.
24:21And this may be one of those times.
24:23Yeah.
24:24If it's been filled in,
24:25there might be something hidden
24:27that would break the story open.
24:29At this point,
24:30the archaeologists need to get to work.
24:32This is surely worth investigating.
24:35You laid out a very proper approach.
24:38I applaud you for, again, being observant.
24:42I think if there's any way we can help,
24:45we'd all would invest some time here.
24:47You're leading me to the dark side
24:48because I'm really intrigued by that stone.
24:50So it does make me think
24:52that there's a lot more out there.
24:54Yeah.
24:54Welcome to the dark side.
24:57You got work to do.
24:58Let's go.
24:58All right.
24:58At the start of a new day on Oak Island...
25:05We've got lots of work to do, guys.
25:07Yeah.
25:09Laird and members of the archaeology team
25:11investigate the possible man-made boulder
25:14and rock feature on Lot 8.
25:17There's a lot of rocks in here, Laird.
25:19Yep.
25:20I've never seen this many rocks
25:22underneath the topsoil layer.
25:24Yeah.
25:25It kind of looks like there was a cut
25:27and at some point it got filled back in.
25:30I've got the edge here, I think.
25:31Oh.
25:32You may be coming to an edge.
25:33Well, I am getting the different soil here.
25:35But you should be coming to
25:37what we think may be the redeposited.
25:40Well, there's a nice big lump right behind Ethan.
25:42You're right.
25:43It's mounded.
25:43Yeah.
25:44That's a good sign.
25:45There was digging for whatever reason
25:47and then it got filled in.
25:49You've got this huge rock in the middle.
25:51Like, I find that strange as well.
25:53I think we still have to at least define the edges
25:57as we go all the way around the boulder.
26:01Okay, good.
26:02Okay, so let's see how far back this goes.
26:06To me, this site is one of the strangest sites I've been on.
26:09It doesn't make any sense that someone would come
26:12and excavate and then fill it back full of rocks.
26:16It's brutal work.
26:17So I find it very unusual
26:21and I can't wait to get the excavation deeper
26:24and hopefully answer some of these questions.
26:26Hey, look at this.
26:37A piece of wood.
26:38Does that look like that top's been cut before?
26:40I didn't do that.
26:43It sure does.
26:45It doesn't look like it got snapped off.
26:47No, that's what I'm thinking.
26:48I think that if that was cut,
26:51then that could have been cut
26:52by whoever created whatever this is.
26:55Yeah, I could see that.
26:56I mean, that was deep.
26:57That was underneath all these roots
26:58that I've been pulling up.
26:59So that is not something that was on the surface.
27:02If this was cut, that would have been years ago.
27:04Many years ago.
27:05That's what I'm thinking.
27:06The ticks that had cut marks on them,
27:08that's another evidence
27:09of cultural activity happening there.
27:11Okay, we better keep our eye out for stuff like that.
27:13Okay, cool.
27:14As the investigation continues on Lot 8...
27:18Oh, yeah.
27:21In the Money Pit area...
27:29Looks like you guys are in bedrock.
27:31If he's driving it over,
27:32that would be his 20 feet through the solution channel.
27:35I guess we missed the void at 148 feet.
27:38Yeah.
27:39After finding no new evidence of the void
27:42that was discovered nearly 150 feet deep one week ago,
27:47the drilling operation in borehole DN-13
27:50has now reached the solution channel.
27:54Bottom's 208, rock 204.
27:55Bottom's 208, rock is 204.
27:57Got it.
27:59At least we have intercepted the bottom
28:01of the solution channel in this hole.
28:03Here we go.
28:07She's a full-on anaconda, ladies and gentlemen.
28:10Here we go.
28:11Cut her up.
28:14DN-13.
28:14This is the last gasp, I think,
28:16since we're on bedrock.
28:18Let's see what we got here in front of us.
28:21This up here actually was a little bit loose.
28:24Actually, it got a little loose
28:25between 184 and 188,
28:29so I think we're ready for the pinpointer.
28:31Okay.
28:31This is the more promising upper portion,
28:40which is quite slushy.
28:46It's clear, gentlemen.
28:48Okay.
28:49Thank you, Charles.
28:52Well, it's not the ending we hoped for for DN-13.
28:55We've had all kinds of success in this area
28:58with metals being in all the water testing,
29:01so we'll take a soil sample back to the lab,
29:03and maybe, just maybe,
29:05there'll be some hope with this poor hole yet.
29:07I can't believe we've missed an open void
29:09at 150-ish feet.
29:11If we can prove that there's metals in the soils here,
29:15and that's through testing through Dr. Spooner
29:16and testing in the lab with Emma,
29:18we can prove that this is potentially
29:20still a treasure location.
29:21We'll move on,
29:22and we'll go back to the heart of the peacock,
29:23and let's try to get back in that void.
29:25Very good.
29:26I'm in full agreement with that, Steve.
29:28Okay, fair enough.
29:31Later that afternoon...
29:35Hey, guys.
29:36Hey, guys.
29:37Hey, guys.
29:38Hey, guys.
29:39In the war room,
29:41Rick, Marty, and members of the team
29:43meet with video enhancement expert Bob Brown
29:47from ProHawk Technology Group.
29:49The reason for this meeting is
29:51in BN 13.5,
29:54we put the camera down and sonar.
29:57It showed a void.
29:58The thought was to give it to ProHawk
30:01to enhance the data that we've given them.
30:03And so, having said that,
30:05Bob, welcome to the war room.
30:07Appreciate it.
30:07Thank you so much.
30:09Here's a little of the footage.
30:12ProHawk Technology Group
30:13has worked with the team
30:15several times in the past,
30:16using their proprietary software
30:19to clarify underwater video images
30:22collected from deep in the Money Pit area.
30:24This one was really interesting.
30:27Really, there were distinct things
30:29that we kind of noticed in the imagery.
30:35So we found this to be quite interesting.
30:37As you can see here,
30:40this cluster of stake-like pointed objects, right?
30:44It just looked arranged,
30:47and the shapes, the tapering,
30:49the alignment appears deliberate
30:52and would suggest Planck stakes
30:56something, you know, of human origin
30:59rather than the natural environment.
31:05You know, I can see a layering effect in there
31:08that it does look man-made.
31:10Mm-hmm.
31:12We are all intrigued.
31:15It would defy logic
31:17that those could be represented geologically.
31:20It's different, unexplainable, really.
31:23I mean, you guys are dealing
31:24with cutting-edge technology here.
31:27Yeah.
31:28I still need to be convinced,
31:30but it makes the peacock area
31:32that much more interesting,
31:34and I think that's what we have to go off of.
31:37Then there were definitely
31:38these distinct square geometry patterns
31:41throughout many portions of the video.
31:44The edges, the uniformity of it,
31:48and you take it all together,
31:50and it really begins to add up
31:53that there's something that's not organic.
31:58Another area we found,
31:59there was a bright, reflective rectangle.
32:05Right?
32:05It's got sharp edges.
32:07It's highly reflected.
32:08So that would lead us to believe
32:12that there's some type of metallic
32:14or polished quality
32:15that's causing the reflection.
32:18A possible rectangular metal object?
32:22Has the team indeed found a man-made chamber
32:25some 150 feet underground in the peacock?
32:29Well, yeah, I mean,
32:30this is really keenly interesting.
32:32If so, could it contain the source
32:36of the precious metals
32:37that have been detected in water deep
32:40in the Money Pit area?
32:42Bob, if you were to say how likely
32:43at least one of these is a man-made object,
32:46what would you say?
32:48I'd put it over 90%.
32:50Wow.
33:00Bob, if you were to say
33:01how likely at least one of these
33:03is a man-made object,
33:04what would you say?
33:06I'd put it over 90%.
33:08Wow.
33:09In the Oak Island War Room,
33:12Rick, Marty, Craig,
33:13and members of the team
33:14are viewing enhanced video
33:17of a potentially man-made cavern
33:19some 150 feet deep
33:21in the Money Pit area.
33:23It really came down to geometry,
33:26precision, consistency,
33:28the arrangements, the materials.
33:30They strongly suggested man-made origins.
33:34It's just really compelling evidence.
33:37An open void is highly unlikely
33:39to be natural
33:40for the depth that we're looking at, right?
33:42Correct.
33:42Is there any geologic explanation for this?
33:45Because I can't really think of one.
33:48I would say this is my working premise,
33:50is that the peacock
33:51is the washout around a structure.
33:53And perhaps we're seeing into that structure
33:56from our actual borehole.
33:57I mean, it's deeper than any searchers,
34:00and if there are weird anomalous features
34:03that ProHawk's picking up,
34:05it really seems like it's a depositor.
34:07Yeah.
34:08I am taken aback
34:10by the number of things being represented
34:12in such a small, confined space.
34:16He saw several items
34:17that represented very linear 90-degree angles
34:21that we've been told many, many times
34:24that that doesn't happen in nature.
34:26And I have no explanation
34:28for this reflective image.
34:31I can only insinuate
34:32that it has something to do
34:34with metals being underground.
34:36Perhaps there is a man-made reason
34:39for those highly unconsolidated soils
34:41in the peacock.
34:43This would strongly suggest
34:45that the offset chamber
34:46is a valid explanation.
34:48So this area is quite compelling.
34:51Bob, I mean,
34:52does this look like a jumble of stuff
34:53that could have collapsed?
34:55It could have collapsed.
34:57Yes.
34:57Okay, we should jump up and down
35:00about this data, right, guys?
35:02I mean, we're seeing man-made objects
35:04are strong indications of it
35:05in an area where
35:07we don't have any indication
35:09of any searchers.
35:10This is the kind of thing
35:11that we set out to find.
35:13You know, for sure,
35:14we have to explore this further,
35:17but that's pretty dramatic.
35:20The peacock still has
35:21very elevated amounts of silver
35:23and some other metals in it.
35:25So here's the point.
35:27The source of these metals
35:28in the water
35:29is still there
35:31and hasn't been found.
35:34But maybe we just found it.
35:37Bob, we hope you've got
35:39a bullseye for us.
35:40Yeah, I hope so.
35:41Thank you very much.
35:42Appreciate it.
35:44You bet.
35:44Our pleasure
35:45and happy hunting, guys.
35:47Thanks, Bob.
35:48As the meeting concludes
35:50in the war room...
35:51I'm just looking at these rocks here.
35:54What about if you started
35:55from the rock in there, out?
35:57Yeah.
35:58Archaeologist Fiona Steele
36:00and members of the team
36:01investigate the boulder feature
36:03on lot eight.
36:05I'm really interested
36:06in what's happening down there.
36:08There's definitely evidence
36:10of the stones
36:11being deliberately placed
36:12around the outside
36:13and underneath
36:14this huge erratic boulder.
36:16Such a big rock
36:17could be something
36:18that was used for a marker.
36:19It could be something
36:20that you'd want
36:21to hide things under.
36:22So it's just so out
36:23of the ordinary
36:24that we need
36:25a little bit more evidence
36:26before we can make
36:27that full determination.
36:34Hey, Ona.
36:35Yeah.
36:37Found a piece of wood.
36:38I don't know
36:40if it's cut, though.
36:43Look at that bottom.
36:44Yeah.
36:46That does not look
36:47like it's broken.
36:48I would say that's cut.
36:50It was wedged right in there
36:52in between the rocks.
36:54These are the type of things
36:54we need to look out for.
36:56It could tell us a lot
36:57about the age of this feature.
36:59Yeah.
37:01Oh.
37:02It goes down.
37:05Can you get your arm
37:06right in there?
37:07Yes, you can.
37:08Whoa, you're going deep.
37:10Yeah.
37:10It looks like
37:11a void down there.
37:13You've got a big void
37:14down there.
37:14And you would not expect
37:15to see a big void
37:17like that right there.
37:19No, not with the size
37:20of the rock
37:20and how loose the soil was.
37:22Yeah, I would agree.
37:23This large boulder
37:24is getting more
37:25and more interesting
37:26because as we're going,
37:27we're seeing more
37:28and more spaces
37:29that are underneath the rock.
37:30And this really
37:31shouldn't be the case.
37:32That really speaks
37:33to what they were doing here.
37:35Yeah.
37:36So it's very evident
37:36that man has been involved
37:38with this boulder
37:39to some degree.
37:40It's just a matter
37:41of why they were there
37:42or whether they were
37:43doing something
37:44to hide something
37:45in that area.
37:46Well, that's a good indication
37:48of possible disturbance.
37:49I really think that Rick
37:51might be very interested
37:51in this.
37:52Yeah.
37:53This is really cool.
37:54Definitely.
37:55Well, it looks a bit different.
38:04Hi.
38:04Yeah, we've been working hard.
38:06I see that.
38:07We've uncovered
38:07a fair bit more of it.
38:09You should see
38:09what we just discovered.
38:11Rick and Scott
38:12arrive on Lot 8
38:13after being alerted
38:15that a mysterious void
38:16has been found
38:17beneath the massive boulder.
38:19We're seeing voids like that
38:20around other areas
38:21around the large rock as well.
38:23It looked like
38:23it was going down
38:24quite far
38:25because the soil
38:25was falling in
38:26as I was excavating it.
38:27And it goes
38:29pretty far down.
38:33Yeah.
38:39It looked like
38:40it was at least
38:40three feet
38:41that goes down.
38:42So that's got
38:43our curiosity piqued
38:44that it would be
38:44going that deep.
38:45You wouldn't expect
38:46to see that.
38:48I find that
38:49strange.
38:51See how this
38:52almost seems placed?
38:54Jammed up.
38:55This one
38:56almost seems placed.
38:57That's not a toss-in.
38:59Look at that.
39:01That is
39:02almost fitted.
39:04As is that.
39:05As is that.
39:08You know,
39:09like a wedge.
39:10It is peculiar.
39:11Yeah.
39:12We've not fallen
39:13to any other feature
39:14like this
39:15other than
39:15maybe the stone
39:16structures
39:17on Lot 5.
39:19Mm-hmm.
39:19Looking at the
39:21boulder more closely,
39:22I was significantly
39:24struck by the
39:25placement of
39:25smaller stones
39:26around it.
39:28They are equally
39:29spaced.
39:29They are artfully
39:30applied,
39:31if you will.
39:32But there is a stone,
39:33then a space,
39:34then a stone,
39:35then a space.
39:36Mother nature
39:37wouldn't do that.
39:38So human beings
39:39were involved
39:40in doing some work
39:41in this area
39:42specifically directed
39:44to this stone.
39:45this may have been
39:47completely unknown
39:48to previous
39:48searchers.
39:49It's exciting.
39:50We need to find out
39:51what is underneath
39:53that boulder.
39:55Boy, there's
39:55intention there,
39:56I think.
39:57I can't imagine
39:58how you could
40:01explain that
40:01other than
40:02they were placed there.
40:03I agree with you
40:04100%.
40:04And now you have
40:05another reason
40:06to be inquisitive.
40:07Why is the void?
40:08That should be
40:09filled up.
40:09I would think so.
40:10I mean,
40:11if you wanted to
40:11hide something there,
40:12move something like
40:13this in place,
40:14you position it.
40:15I mean,
40:15it's a unique stone.
40:16Just look at it.
40:17This could be
40:17a great macro stone.
40:18I'm more excited
40:19about what could be
40:20under it.
40:20We're going to find out
40:21once we move the rocks.
40:23Oh, look.
40:23The three of you
40:24have done an exemplary
40:25job here.
40:26This is singularly unique,
40:27at least as of right now.
40:29Yeah.
40:29Yeah, we still have
40:30a lot more work to do,
40:31but we're feeling pretty good
40:32about how far
40:33we've come so far.
40:34Well, a feature like this,
40:36the only one line
40:37that comes to my mind
40:37is leave no stone unturned.
40:40Touche.
40:40We're with you on that.
40:42Patience and persistence
40:43have taught Rick,
40:45Marty,
40:45and the team
40:46a priceless lesson.
40:48The ultimate truth
40:50behind the Oak Island mystery
40:51may be hiding
40:53in plain sight
40:54anywhere across
40:55these 140 acres.
40:59But as they uncover
41:01more clues
41:01under man-made features
41:03near the surface,
41:05in a muddy,
41:06brackish swamp,
41:07and deep
41:08in the money pit area,
41:10will it lead
41:12to a vault
41:12that people
41:13have been seeking
41:14for 231 years?
41:18Or is the truth
41:19that Oak Island
41:21contains more
41:22buried treasure
41:23than anyone
41:25ever imagined?
41:27next time
41:31on the curse
41:32of Oak Island.
41:33We're in a sweet area
41:34right here.
41:35There's metals in the water,
41:36high metals.
41:37Looking for the one thing.
41:38This could be
41:38where it's coming from.
41:40Yeah, exactly.
41:41What are you seeing, Peter?
41:42Definitely a void
41:43that goes on
41:43for a long ways.
41:46We're gonna get
41:46to the bottom of this.
41:47There's a heck
41:48of a lot of bricks up here.
41:49Maybe it'll lead
41:50to a vault.
41:51We have evidence
41:53the Knights of Malta
41:54brought relics
41:55from the Holy Land
41:56to Oak Island.
41:57Wow.
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