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00:00Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:03I got a signal.
00:04Aha!
00:06Oh, we got here.
00:07I recognize this seal, so it could date to the 1300s.
00:13That large boulder looks intriguing.
00:15We've uncovered a big void right there.
00:17What is underneath that boulder?
00:19We put cameras in VN 13.5.
00:22What we found suggests human origin.
00:25It really seems like it's a depositor.
00:27Wow.
00:30There is an island in the North Atlantic
00:34where people have been looking for an incredible treasure
00:38for more than 200 years.
00:41So far, they have found a stone slab
00:44with strange symbols carved into it.
00:47Man-made workings that date to medieval times
00:50and a lead cross whose origin may be connected
00:54to the Knights Templar.
00:56To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:02And, according to legend,
01:04one more will have to die
01:07before the treasure can be found.
01:10This is the critical intersection right here, guys.
01:24Yeah.
01:25What we should see beneath the peacock is loose material.
01:28Our targets are the possible void at 148 feet,
01:31and then the solution channel below that.
01:33Right.
01:33A new day on Oak Island brings fresh hope
01:37for Rick and Marty Lagina
01:39that their team is closing in
01:41on the answers to a 231-year-old treasure mystery.
01:46Really, the end goal is to get down to the solution channel
01:49and see if there's a potential treasure there.
01:50But I also believe that we're close to a chamber here.
01:53Right.
01:53In a location of the Money Pit area
01:57known as the Peacock,
02:00the team is drilling borehole DN-13,
02:03just a few feet northwest of borehole BN-13.5.
02:09Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
02:11It was there that one week ago,
02:14the drill entered a possible man-made cavern
02:16some 150 feet deep,
02:19which sets more than 20 feet above the solution channel.
02:23You can make it almost like a wall
02:25or something like that there.
02:25When you move away from it,
02:27we kind of go into more of an opening here.
02:29After inserting a camera,
02:31evidence was revealed of a possible artificial wall.
02:34Show me the money.
02:36And a potential opening to a larger cavity.
02:38We've got an opening.
02:39This made them wonder
02:40if an offset treasure chamber
02:42connected to the original Money Pit
02:45has been discovered.
02:50Now, while the team waits to view
02:52enhanced video images
02:53of the mysterious void,
02:55they hope to drill
02:56into the larger nearby cavity
02:58and confirm if it indeed
03:00is a man-made chamber.
03:02Oh, look.
03:03Yeah, something's going on over there.
03:04Yeah.
03:05Rods fell.
03:06They just dropped.
03:07That's really soft, man.
03:10Adam!
03:11Here he comes.
03:14Hey, Adam, how's it going?
03:15Good.
03:16Did something happen?
03:17The rods fell about 16 feet.
03:22Really?
03:23From 128.
03:25Wow.
03:26That's really interesting.
03:27Thanks a lot, Adam.
03:28All right.
03:29That means somewhere between 118 and 128,
03:32we went into the soft area.
03:33Right.
03:33Yeah.
03:34All the way to 144.
03:35Yeah.
03:36Wow.
03:37So in core of the peacock,
03:38I've always believed
03:38there's going to be a structure.
03:40Because of the loose soil,
03:42when we see those rods drop,
03:43that tells us maybe we're close to seeing the structure
03:45that we all hoped we're going to encounter.
03:48We're going to track that down
03:49into the solution channel.
03:50You know, there's plenty of places down there
03:51for a treasure to hide.
03:53No question.
03:54We'll move on to the more interesting levels.
03:57Yeah.
03:57As the core drilling pushes deeper
03:59in the money pit area.
04:02That mound's getting higher and higher.
04:04Tell me about it.
04:06Rick Lagina and other members of the team
04:08continue investigating the southwest corner
04:11of the triangle-shaped swamp.
04:13After this, I feel like we only have
04:15one little section left behind us.
04:18Yeah.
04:19In recent weeks,
04:21the team has been uncovering
04:23a mysterious stone road-like feature
04:25that may be connected to a similar structure
04:28that was found several yards to the north
04:30earlier this year.
04:33Curiously, eight-sided wooden survey sticks
04:36were found lining both of these features.
04:39And the team also recovered old ox shoes,
04:42suggesting the roads may have been used
04:45to move heavy cargo into the swamp.
04:50Get in there.
04:51Okay.
04:53Southwest corner is almost done.
04:55What we did learn is we have a possible path
04:58or a road to follow.
04:59And the hope is that there'll be some artifacts
05:02that can be dated.
05:03And then maybe we can figure out
05:06who made these features and why.
05:15You ready for me to go in, Billy?
05:17Yes.
05:18Tick to bottom there, Gary, maybe?
05:19Yep.
05:19It's getting quiet.
05:33It is.
05:34We haven't had a net in a while now.
05:37This might be the end of the line
05:39for this area, I think.
05:41Yeah, I think you're right, Billy.
05:43And we hammered it.
05:45Everywhere we turn in the swamp,
05:46we're finding stakes,
05:48and that must mean something.
05:49Yep.
05:50Pass through.
05:51And my question is,
05:52where are we going next?
05:53Because I know that there are
05:54other areas of interest.
05:56Yeah.
05:57Who are you,
05:57and what did you do with Peter Frenetti?
06:00Hey, this swamp is looking like a beach right now.
06:03Let's get back into it.
06:06You have three data points
06:08that seemingly line up.
06:09An unknown road, path,
06:12ox shoes.
06:13Then you have the stakes.
06:15And who knows what else is after that.
06:18If there's a road,
06:19where does it go?
06:21Right now, Steve has projected it
06:23to go toward the north end of the bog.
06:25So now it gives us some insight
06:27as to where to go next.
06:29And that's every bit as important
06:31as an artifact.
06:32Yeah.
06:32We've got to get back
06:33to do some homework.
06:35We need to talk to Tom Nolan
06:36about where to go next.
06:38So I say we head back.
06:39All right.
06:40All right.
06:41Thanks, Billy.
06:41Thanks, Billy.
06:42See you.
06:42See you, mate.
06:43As the team works on new plans
06:45for digging in the swamp
06:47later that day.
06:52I'm always grateful to come into the lab.
06:54I think we learn so many things here.
06:58And I'm impressed by these two finds
06:59from Lot 8.
07:01In the Oak Island lab,
07:03Rick and members of the team
07:04join Laird Niven and Emma Culligan
07:07to hear a scientific report
07:09on a possible iron knife handle
07:11and a lead bag seal
07:12that were found on Lot 8 one week ago.
07:16The iron is kind of more
07:17of the mysterious piece.
07:19So we'll start there.
07:21And you can see that wood-like grain structure on it.
07:24So it is hand forged.
07:25But what is interesting
07:26is the shape of it.
07:28So it came in as a possible knife handle.
07:31And it does have some features
07:34of it being like the scale of a knife handle.
07:37But it could also have been used as a multi-tool.
07:40Why the round hole at the base
07:42and the square hole above?
07:45So this could have been used as a fastener
07:47to hold something in place.
07:50A little pivot point.
07:51But this section right here,
07:54I can find components
07:56that are similar to other tools,
07:59but nothing like this.
08:01Okay.
08:02And the composition is clean.
08:03So it's post-medieval, pre-mid-1800s.
08:07So it does fit within the 1700s.
08:10Yep.
08:11It's very peculiar.
08:13You know, it's possible
08:14Carmen might have an idea
08:15as to what that represents.
08:17Yeah.
08:18But the next item,
08:20what does it tell us?
08:20It's a bag seal.
08:24Dating back to as early
08:26as the 13th century,
08:28lead bag seals were fasteners
08:30used to contain large quantities of goods
08:33in heavy cloth packages.
08:36I recognized an element of it right away,
08:40which was basically a suspended dead sheet.
08:45I found an existing example
08:47of this seal.
08:49and that is the only example
08:52we could find.
08:54So this is a city seal of Leeds
08:56in England.
08:59So...
08:59What a macabre design.
09:01I know.
09:02It's so grim.
09:04So this would have been a seal
09:05on a finished bale of fabric.
09:08Hmm.
09:08So that implies
09:10that it arrived on the island
09:12as a bale
09:13and that was taken off
09:15in Lot 8.
09:16Wow.
09:18Leeds in the 16th, 17th,
09:20and 18th century
09:21was, like,
09:22the wool manufacturing place
09:24in England.
09:26And basically,
09:27Britain was built around wool.
09:30Oh, really?
09:31Oh, really?
09:31Yeah.
09:32That begs the question,
09:33what time period?
09:34The Leeds wool industry
09:36goes back to the 1300s.
09:38So it could date earlier.
09:41The Leeds wool industry
09:51goes back to the 1300s.
09:53Wow.
09:55In the Oak Island lab,
09:57Laird has just confirmed
09:58that the lead back seal
10:00found on Lot 8
10:01originated in England
10:03and could be
10:04as much as 700 years old.
10:06When you say bale,
10:09I picture something
10:09of great quantity, though.
10:12Let's say the size of this,
10:14probably.
10:15That much?
10:16So big.
10:16That's like a hay bale.
10:18Yeah.
10:19Isn't that a lot of fabric
10:21for a singular household?
10:23That's the problem.
10:25A singular household,
10:26you're going to those people
10:27and buying your clothes.
10:29Why on the island?
10:31Here on the island,
10:31there was limited families.
10:33Yeah.
10:33Bag seals are not uncommon
10:35in North America,
10:35but they're usually
10:36associated with trade,
10:38like a fort.
10:39You're finding a lot of things
10:40because you're making uniforms,
10:42but you're also trading cloth.
10:45So this is our third bale seal.
10:48Now we have three
10:49from different areas,
10:51so why is it there?
10:55Previously,
10:56the team found a lead bag seal
10:58on Lot 5
10:59and another on Lot 32,
11:01just yards from the possible
11:03stone road
11:04that was recently uncovered
11:05in the southwest corner
11:07of the swamp.
11:09Astonishingly,
11:10that bag seal
11:11was scientifically matched
11:13to the 14th century
11:14lead cross,
11:15which is believed
11:16to be connected
11:17to the Knights Templar.
11:20There's enough going on
11:21in Lot 8
11:21that I'd like to look closer
11:23to take a good look
11:24at what's out there.
11:26Yeah.
11:27Could be something else
11:28that we're not aware of.
11:30So to that end,
11:32I think we need
11:32to get back out there.
11:33We have to get to work.
11:35You have to find things
11:36and I will help you dig.
11:38That sounds like a plan.
11:39That's it.
11:40That is a plan.
11:41All right.
11:42See you later.
11:43See you both.
11:49The next day,
11:51while drilling continues
11:53in the Money Pit area.
11:56You are a firm belief
11:57that there are answers
11:59to the Oak Island mystery
12:00that reside within the bog.
12:02How can you deny it?
12:03No matter how you look at it,
12:05somebody did an immense amount
12:07of work in that bog.
12:08Rick meets with fellow
12:11Oak Island landowner
12:12Tom Nolan
12:12and other members of the team
12:14in the research center
12:16to plan their next dig
12:17in the swamp.
12:20I think the north end
12:21of the bog
12:22in terms of the size
12:23and the amount of finds
12:26in a very confined space
12:28was quite exciting
12:29and incredibly interesting
12:30and incredibly confusing.
12:33The amount of stakes
12:35that we found,
12:36all of uniform size,
12:37uniform strike,
12:38in terms of making
12:39the sharpened end
12:41eight strokes
12:42and when you look at it
12:44as they're plotted,
12:46it's meaningful.
12:46Oh, very meaningful.
12:48Somebody was trying
12:49to leave a path.
12:52Mm-hmm.
12:53Mm-hmm.
12:53Yeah.
12:54Before uncovering
12:55the stone features
12:56in the western
12:57and southwestern areas
12:59of the swamp this year,
13:01working with Tom
13:02on his property
13:03in the northern region,
13:05the team previously discovered
13:07very similar stone structures
13:09and several eight-sided
13:11survey stakes,
13:12leading to an empty,
13:14vault-like structure.
13:16Yeah, the so-called vault
13:18was captivating
13:20in and of itself.
13:21I mean, we've found paths,
13:23roads,
13:24but that vault
13:25was quite singular
13:26and unique.
13:27Yeah.
13:29Now, Rick and Tom
13:30want to know
13:31if all of the stone structures
13:33they've uncovered
13:33across the swamp
13:35are connected
13:35and if other vaults
13:37that still contain
13:38something valuable
13:39are waiting
13:40to be found.
13:42The vault,
13:43to me,
13:44it was a hiding place.
13:45It's in the perfect place
13:47to hide it
13:47in amongst vegetation
13:48and stuff
13:49where people probably
13:49aren't going to go looking.
13:50Absolutely.
13:51If you are safeguarding something,
13:54if you have something
13:55really important,
13:56you're not going to put
13:57all your eggs
13:57in one basket.
13:58Right.
13:59And you're going to have
14:00one, two, three more.
14:03My hope is that
14:04there's a backup vault.
14:05Yep.
14:06We're ready to put
14:07the bucket in the ground
14:07and see what's under it.
14:09Well,
14:10there's no time
14:11like the present, right?
14:12Yeah.
14:12So I say we get out there.
14:14Let's go.
14:16Following the meeting
14:17in the research center,
14:18I think we should
14:20start here,
14:21take this apart,
14:22and then once we
14:23get across that,
14:25just keep going
14:25to the other part
14:26of the bog.
14:26Yep.
14:27The team begins
14:28searching for new clues
14:29in the northern region
14:30of the swamp.
14:32Gary, it's going to be
14:33up to you to find
14:33whatever artifacts
14:34are here.
14:35For real,
14:35we're going to find it.
14:36Okey-doke.
14:39You know,
14:40the swamp has been
14:41enigmatic because
14:42virtually every time
14:44we dig in there,
14:45we find something.
14:46And not just something,
14:47we find things
14:48that you wouldn't
14:50suspect would be
14:51in a swamp.
14:51We find things
14:52that could very well
14:53be related to the
14:56mystery of what
14:57happened here.
14:59We're close to the line
15:00where you found
15:01all the stakes.
15:01Yeah.
15:08There's your stake,
15:09right there.
15:10Probably right there.
15:20Aha!
15:23Probably right there.
15:28But is it eight-sided?
15:29Two, three, four, five,
15:37six, seven.
15:40There's one there.
15:41There's the third.
15:42Yeah.
15:43There's your eight sides.
15:44Wow.
15:46They drove that down deep
15:48for some reason.
15:50That's got to be really,
15:52really old.
15:52Last year,
15:57these eight-sided stakes
15:58led us to a vault.
16:00The stakes are a puzzle
16:02unto themselves.
16:04There's every belief
16:05that as the stakes
16:06continue to be found,
16:07at some point,
16:08we will have an explanation
16:10as to why.
16:11That's where it was,
16:12right there.
16:14Now we're going to have
16:14to get Steve out
16:15to pin it right now
16:16before we move it,
16:17unless you can dig
16:18around it, huh?
16:19Dig on this side
16:20maybe they can help
16:23explain the structures
16:25that have already
16:25been found.
16:29Hey, guys.
16:30Hey, Steve.
16:32What do we got?
16:33You're standing on it.
16:34I'm literally standing on it.
16:35You're literally
16:36standing on it.
16:37That's where it was.
16:39The hole is right there.
16:40Okay, the hole's
16:40what we want.
16:41Yep.
16:42And like everything else,
16:43we're a foot and a half
16:44above sea level.
16:45And actually,
16:46most stakes that we have
16:47found in the swamp
16:47have been a foot and a half
16:48above sea level.
16:49They've been very
16:50consistent,
16:51which to me means
16:51a lot of them
16:52have probably gone
16:52in the same time period.
16:53And that would be
16:54pretty interesting.
16:56Yeah.
16:57So, anyway,
16:59we'll keep going.
17:00Thanks, Steve.
17:00See you guys.
17:01Appreciate it.
17:02These stakes
17:03almost certainly
17:04represents that
17:05a group of individuals
17:06did the work
17:08implying a reason,
17:09implying planning.
17:11Maybe it is
17:11connected to the vault
17:13that we've discovered.
17:16I got a signal.
17:18I'm hoping that
17:19there are clues
17:20that will lead us
17:21to new discoveries.
17:24I've got a good signal
17:26in that last pile,
17:27wherever the last pile
17:28came from.
17:29It would have been
17:30on the bottom.
17:30He was scraping bottom
17:32for that last bucket.
17:33So it was down there.
17:35That's excellent.
17:35That's where we'd find
17:36the older artifacts.
17:37Yeah.
17:38Let me see
17:38if I can pinpoint it first.
17:39What have we got here?
17:49What have we got here?
17:50What is that?
17:52In the northern region
17:53of the swamp,
17:54Gary has just found
17:56an intriguing artifact.
17:57You know what that is?
17:59That's like a snake,
18:01a latch off a gate
18:03or a door.
18:05It would be inside
18:06an opening
18:07and you'd put your thumb
18:08on it
18:09and you'd open the gate.
18:11In England,
18:11we call it a gate snake.
18:13It's more than likely
18:15and forged.
18:17This looks really,
18:18really old.
18:20A possible gate latch
18:22found in the northern
18:23section of the swamp?
18:24It's a great thought.
18:26Your thumb fits
18:27in there perfectly.
18:28The latch springs up.
18:30Yeah.
18:30Because these fixtures
18:32have been in use
18:33as far back
18:33as the 13th century,
18:35just how old
18:36might this artifact be?
18:38And could it be related
18:40to a structure
18:41that might be buried
18:42in this area?
18:44Well, it's a great sign.
18:46An old piece of iron
18:47came from
18:48at the bottom
18:49of the dig.
18:50Yeah, that was down deep.
18:51Yeah.
18:52I'll put it in the bag.
18:53Yeah.
18:53Keep digging.
18:53That's a good find.
18:55Yeah.
18:58Okay.
18:59I'll have a rip, pal.
19:00I'll have a rip.
19:01Yeah.
19:01I'll have a rip.
19:02I'll have a rip.
19:02Yeah.
19:04I'll have a rip.
19:05What do you found, Tom?
19:30A piece of pottery, but it's green.
19:34Green and blue, you don't usually see that color.
19:37No.
19:38That decoration is unique, too.
19:41This area with green and the blue glazed pottery,
19:47it could match another area where the archaeologists have found it.
19:50I know it's been found before.
19:52Yeah?
19:53I think some green and blue came off the Lot 26 wall as well
19:57when the archaeologists were investigating,
20:00taking the wall apart.
20:03You have to find artifacts.
20:05Okay, get on that.
20:07In 2022, the team investigated a rock wall on Lot 26
20:13because it was much larger and wider than a number of others on the island
20:18that are known to have been built by farmers in the 19th century.
20:22Incredibly, in addition to pottery, charcoal was found in the wall
20:27that, when carbon dated, suggested it could be over 500 years old.
20:32And when Portuguese researcher Francisco Nogueira inspected it,
20:38he made a fascinating observation.
20:41This wall appears to be created in the world's Portuguese style
20:44of building rock fences.
20:46No way.
20:47Could this piece of pottery be the same kind that was found in the wall on Lot 26?
20:54If so, is it possible that the wall is somehow related to the man-made workings uncovered in the swamp?
21:01We have a suggestion by experts that some of the activities conducted here on the island can be associated with the Portuguese.
21:12The stone road in the swamp has Portuguese influence.
21:16The stone wall has influences.
21:19The Pobledo Portuguese Templar coin that was possibly found in the money pit,
21:24it's a worthy consideration that they all may have a connection to the mystery.
21:30And we'll get these finds back to the lab.
21:33I mean, we've had a great start to the dig in this area.
21:36Yep.
21:37It shows that there's things to be found here, right?
21:40Yeah.
21:41I agree.
21:42We just have to keep plugging away.
21:43Yeah.
21:44All right, Al.
21:45We'll take her down quite a bit more here.
21:47Perfect.
21:48No problem.
21:51Later that day...
21:54So this is what I wanted to show you.
21:56We've got this large boulder.
21:58Yep.
21:59Which is uncommon.
22:01After looking around the area on Lot 8, where the lead bag seal was found,
22:06Laird has made a potentially important discovery.
22:09We're not seeing it around here, a lot that size.
22:12But then I started seeing the number of stones that are around it, perhaps filling in something.
22:19Mm-hmm.
22:20Even at the berm over there, that could indicate digging.
22:23Yeah.
22:24It looks like someone was filling in a pit.
22:27And actually, if you look again, the rocks seem to go further off to the east.
22:32Mm-hmm.
22:33The more I look and the more I see.
22:35Yep.
22:36Could Laird be correct that someone deliberately filled in a pit around this massive boulder
22:44with soil and smaller rocks?
22:46But if so, who did it?
22:49And for what purpose?
22:51You know, it appears as though there's a ring of stones around the boulder.
22:57Yeah.
22:58It's not unusual to find a boulder on Oak Island.
23:02But even more interesting was the ground-level rock feature around it.
23:07My immediate thought was that this was a possible filled-in foundation that we're not aware of.
23:13I don't know the relationship between that large boulder and this stone formation just yet.
23:20Mm-hmm.
23:21But I think it's definitely worth exploring.
23:24It's interesting.
23:25There's no doubt about it.
23:27Yeah.
23:28A lot of it has intrigued me.
23:29But then you and Katja recently found the bag seal.
23:32Correct.
23:33Which is another really intriguing artifact.
23:35I know its function, but why is it here?
23:38And then we find this huge boulder and these rocks.
23:42It does make me think that we need to really analyze it.
23:46It's certainly unique.
23:48And like you said, you can see the raised areas everywhere, right?
23:51Yeah.
23:52Here, here, there.
23:53Yeah.
23:54This would have been quite an effort by someone if this really is a hand-built construction.
24:01Yeah.
24:02So I think what we'll do, we're going to clear it off, clear the whole area off to get a good idea of what it looks like.
24:10And then hopefully taking a section from it.
24:13Sure.
24:15This may provide a very unique opportunity to try to understand not only this lot, but the entire island.
24:21You know, not every stone on this island means something.
24:23Yes.
24:24But some of them do.
24:25Do, yeah.
24:26And this may be one of those times.
24:27Yeah.
24:28If it's been filled in, there might be something hidden that would break the story open.
24:33At this point, the archaeologists need to get to work.
24:36This is surely worth investigating.
24:39You laid out a very proper approach.
24:42I applaud you for, again, being observant.
24:45I think if there's any way we can help, we all would invest some time here.
24:51You're leading me into the dark side because I'm really intrigued by that stone.
24:55It does make me think that there's a lot more out there.
24:58Yeah.
24:59Welcome to the dark side.
25:01You got work to do.
25:02Let's go.
25:03At the start of a new day on Oak Island.
25:10We've got lots of work to do, guys.
25:12Yeah.
25:13Laird and members of the archaeology team investigate the possible man-made boulder and rock feature on Lot 8.
25:22There's a lot of rocks in here, Laird.
25:24Yep.
25:25I've never seen this many rocks underneath the top soil layer.
25:29It kind of looks like there was a cut, and at some point it got filled back in.
25:34I've got the edge here, I think.
25:36Oh.
25:37You may be coming to an edge.
25:38Well, I am getting the different soil here.
25:40But you should be coming to what we think may be the redeposited.
25:44Well, there's a nice big lump right behind Ethan.
25:47You're right, it's mounded.
25:48Yeah.
25:49That's a good sign.
25:50There was digging for whatever reason, and then it got filled in.
25:53You've got this huge rock in the middle.
25:55Like, I find that strange as well.
25:58I think we still have to at least define the edges as we go all the way around the boulder.
26:06Okay, good.
26:07Okay, so let's see how far back this goes.
26:10To me, this site is one of the strangest sites I've been on.
26:14It doesn't make any sense that someone would come and excavate and then fill it back full of rocks.
26:21It's brutal work.
26:23So I find it very unusual, and I can't wait to get the excavation deeper and hopefully answer some of these questions.
26:32Hey, look at this.
26:41A piece of wood.
26:42Does that look like that top's been cut before?
26:45I didn't do that.
26:47Sure does.
26:49Doesn't look like it got snapped off.
26:51No, that's what I'm thinking.
26:52I think that if that was cut, then that could have been cut by whoever created whatever this is.
26:59Yeah, I could see that.
27:00I mean, that was deep.
27:01That was underneath all these roots that I've been pulling up, so that is not something that was on the surface.
27:06Okay.
27:07If this was cut, that would have been years ago.
27:08Many years ago.
27:09That's what I'm thinking.
27:10The sticks that had cut marks on them.
27:13That's another evidence of cultural activity happening there.
27:16Okay, we better keep our eye out for stuff like that.
27:18Okay, cool.
27:19As the investigation continues on lot eight.
27:25Oh, yeah.
27:27Oh!
27:28In the money pit area.
27:33Looks like you guys are in bedrock.
27:35If he's driving it over, that would be his 20 feet through the solution channel.
27:39I guess we missed the void at 148 feet.
27:42Yeah.
27:43After finding no new evidence of the void that was discovered nearly 150 feet deep one week ago,
27:51the drilling operation in borehole DN13 has now reached the solution channel.
27:58Bottom's 208, rock 204.
28:00Bottom's 208.
28:01Rock is 204.
28:02Got it.
28:03At least we have intercepted the bottom of the solution channel in this hole.
28:07Here we go.
28:11She's a full-on anaconda, ladies and gentlemen.
28:14Here we go.
28:15Cut her up.
28:18DN13.
28:19This is the last gasp, I think, since we're on bedrock.
28:22Let's see what we've got here in front of us.
28:25This up here actually was a little bit loose.
28:28Actually, it got a little loose between 184 and 188, so...
28:33Yeah.
28:34I think we're ready for the pinpointer.
28:35Okay.
28:42This is the more promising upper portion, which is quite slushy.
28:46It's clear, gentlemen.
28:47Okay.
28:48Thank you, Charles.
28:49Well, it's not the ending we hoped for for DN13.
28:50We've had all kinds of success in this area, with metals being in all the water testing.
29:05So, we'll take a soil sample back to the lab.
29:07Yes.
29:08And maybe, just maybe, there'll be some hope with this wormhole yet.
29:12I can't believe we've missed an open void at 150-ish feet.
29:16If we can prove that there's metals in the soils here, and that's through testing through Dr. Spooner and testing in the lab with Emma,
29:22we can prove that this is potentially still a treasure location.
29:26We'll move on and we'll go back to the heart of the peacock.
29:28Then let's try to get back in that void.
29:29Very good.
29:30Very good.
29:31I'm in full agreement with that, Steve.
29:32Okay.
29:33Fair enough.
29:36Later that afternoon.
29:40Hey, guys.
29:41Hey, guys.
29:42Hey, guys.
29:43Hello.
29:44Hello.
29:45In the war room, Rick, Marty, and members of the team meet with video enhancement expert Bob Brown from ProHawk Technology Group.
29:54The reason for this meeting is, in being 13.5, we put the camera down and sonar.
30:01It showed a void.
30:03The thought was to give it to ProHawk to enhance the data that we've given them.
30:07So, having said that, Bob, welcome to the war room.
30:11Appreciate it.
30:12Thank you so much.
30:13Here's a little of the footage.
30:15ProHawk Technology Group has worked with the team several times in the past, using their proprietary software to clarify underwater video images collected from deep in the Money Pit area.
30:29This one was really interesting.
30:31Really, there were distinct things that we kind of noticed in the imagery.
30:36So, we found this to be quite interesting.
30:42As you can see here, this cluster of stake-like pointed objects, right?
30:48It just looked arranged and the shapes, the tapering, the alignment appears deliberate and would suggest Planck stakes, something, you know, of human origin.
31:04Rather than the natural environment.
31:09You know, I can see a layering effect in there that it does look man-made.
31:15Mm-hmm.
31:16We are all intrigued.
31:19It would defy logic that those could be represented geologically.
31:24It's different, unexplainable, really.
31:27I mean, you guys are dealing with cutting-edge technology here.
31:31Yeah.
31:32I still need to be convinced, but it makes the peacock area that much more interesting.
31:38And I think that's what we have to go off of.
31:41Then there were definitely these distinct square geometry patterns throughout many portions of the video.
31:49The edges, the uniformity of it, and you take it all together and it really begins to add up that there's something that's not organic.
32:02Another area we found, there is a bright, reflective rectangle.
32:07Right?
32:09It's got sharp edges.
32:11It's highly reflected.
32:13So that would lead us to believe that there's some type of metallic or polished quality that's causing reflection.
32:22A possible rectangular metal object?
32:27Has the team indeed found a man-made chamber some 150 feet underground in the peacock?
32:34Well, yeah. I mean, this is really keenly interesting.
32:37If so, could it contain the source of the precious metals that have been detected in water deep in the money pit area?
32:46Bob, if you were to say how likely at least one of these is a man-made object, what would you say?
32:52I'd put it over 90%.
32:55Wow.
33:05Bob, if you were to say how likely at least one of these is a man-made object, what would you say?
33:10I'd put it over 90%.
33:13Wow.
33:14In the Oak Island War Room, Rick, Marty, Craig, and members of the team are viewing enhanced video of a potentially man-made cavern some 150 feet deep in the money pit area.
33:28It really came down to geometry, precision, consistency, the arrangements, the materials.
33:35They strongly suggested man-made origins. It's just really compelling evidence.
33:42An open void is highly unlikely to be natural for the depth that we're looking at, right?
33:46Correct.
33:47Is there any geologic explanation for this? Because I can't really think of one.
33:52I would say this is my working premise, is that the peacock is the washout around a structure.
33:58And perhaps we're seeing into that structure from our actual borehole.
34:02I mean, it's deeper than any searchers, and if there are weird anomalous features that ProHawk's picking up, it really seems like it's a depositor.
34:12Yeah.
34:14I am taken aback by the number of things being represented in such a small, confined space.
34:20And I have no explanation for this reflective image. I can only insinuate that it has something to do with metals being underground.
34:39Perhaps there is a man-made reason for those highly unconsolidated soils in the peacock.
34:47This would strongly suggest that the offset chamber is a valid explanation, so this area is quite compelling.
34:55Bob, I mean, does this look like a jumble of stuff that could have collapsed?
34:59It could have collapsed, yes.
35:01Okay, we should jump up and down about this data, right, guys? I mean, we're seeing man-made objects are strong indications of it in an area where we don't have any indication of any searchers.
35:15This is the kind of thing that we set out to find. You know, for sure, we have to explore this further, but that's pretty dramatic.
35:23The peacock still has very elevated amounts of silver and some other metals in it. So here's the point. The source of these metals in the water is still there and hasn't been found.
35:39But maybe we just found it.
35:42Bob, we hope you've got a bullseye for us.
35:45Yeah, I hope so.
35:46Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
35:48You bet. Our pleasure and happy hunting, guys.
35:52Thanks, Bob.
35:53As the meeting concludes in the War Room.
35:57I'm just looking at these rocks here. What about if you started from the rock in there, out?
36:02Yeah.
36:03Archaeologist Fiona Steele and members of the team investigate the boulder feature on Lot 8.
36:10I'm really interested in what's happening down there.
36:13There's definitely evidence of the stones being deliberately placed around the outside and underneath this huge erratic boulder.
36:21Such a big rock could be something that was used for a marker. It could be something that you'd want to hide things under.
36:27So it's just so out of the ordinary that we need a little bit more evidence before we can make that full determination.
36:32Fiona?
36:33Yeah?
36:34Found a piece of wood.
36:35I don't know if it's cut, though.
36:36Look at that bottom.
36:37Yeah.
36:38That does not look like it's broken. I would say that's cut.
36:41It was wedged right in there in between the rocks.
36:42These are the type of things we need to look out for. It could tell us a lot about the age of this feature.
36:46Yeah.
36:47Oh.
36:48It goes down.
36:49Can you get your arm right in there?
36:50Yes, you can.
36:51Whoa, you're going deep.
36:52Yeah.
36:53It looks like a void down there.
36:54You've got a big void down there.
36:55You've got a big void down there. And you would not expect to see a big void like that right there.
36:56No, not with the size of the rocks.
36:57It was wedged right in there in between the rocks.
36:58These are the type of things we need to look out for. It could tell us a lot about the age of this feature.
37:03Yeah. Oh. It goes down.
37:08Can you get your arm right in there? Yes, you can. Whoa, you're going deep.
37:14Yeah. It looks like a void down there.
37:17You've got a big void down there. And you would not expect to see a big void like that right there.
37:23No, not with the size of the rock and how loose the soil was.
37:26Yeah, I would agree.
37:28This large boulder is getting more and more interesting because as we're going,
37:32we're seeing more and more spaces that are underneath the rock. And this really shouldn't be the case.
37:37That really speaks to what they were doing here.
37:39Yeah.
37:40So it's very evident that man has been involved with this boulder to some degree.
37:44It's just a matter of why they were there or whether they were doing something to hide something in that area.
37:51Well, that's a good indication of possible disturbance. I really think that Rick might be very interested in this.
37:56Yeah.
37:57This is really cool.
37:58Definitely.
37:59Well, looks a bit different.
38:08Hi. Yeah, we've been working hard.
38:10I see that.
38:11We've uncovered a fair bit more of it. You should see what we just discovered.
38:15Rick and Scott arrive on lot eight after being alerted that a mysterious void has been found beneath the massive boulder.
38:23We're seeing voids like that around other areas around the large rock as well.
38:27Yeah.
38:28It looked like it was going down quite far because the soil was falling in as I was excavating it.
38:31Mm-hmm.
38:32And it goes pretty far down.
38:37Yeah.
38:44It looked like it was at least three feet that goes down.
38:46So that's got our curiosity peak that it would be going that deep.
38:49You wouldn't expect to see that.
38:51I find that strange.
38:55See how this almost seems placed?
38:58Jammed up.
38:59This one almost seems placed.
39:01That's not a toss in.
39:03Look at that.
39:04That is almost fitted.
39:07As is that.
39:08As is that.
39:09You know, like a wedge.
39:13It is peculiar.
39:14Yeah.
39:15We've not found any other feature like this other than maybe the stone structures on lot five.
39:22Mm-hmm.
39:23Looking at the boulder more closely, I was significantly struck by the placement of smaller stones around it.
39:31They are equally spaced.
39:33They are artfully applied, if you will.
39:36But there is a stone, then a space, then a stone, then a space.
39:40Mother Nature wouldn't do that.
39:42So human beings were involved in doing some work in this area, specifically directed to this stone.
39:49This may have been completely unknown to previous searchers.
39:53It's exciting.
39:54We need to find out what is underneath that boulder.
39:58Boy, there's intention there, I think.
40:01I can't imagine how you could explain that other than they were placed there.
40:07I agree with you 100%.
40:08And now you have another reason to be inquisitive.
40:11Why is the void?
40:12That should be filled up.
40:13I would think so.
40:14I mean, if you wanted to hide something there, you move something like this in place, you position it.
40:19I mean, it's a unique stone.
40:20Just look at it.
40:21This could be a great mecker stone.
40:22I'm more excited about what could be under it.
40:24We're going to find out once we move the rocks.
40:26Oh, look, the three of you have done an exemplary job here.
40:30This is singularly unique, at least as of right now.
40:33Yeah.
40:34Yeah, we still have a lot more work to do, but we're feeling pretty good about how far we've come so far.
40:38Yeah.
40:39Well, a feature like this, the only one line that comes to my mind is leave no stone unturned.
40:43Touché.
40:44We're with you on that.
40:46Patience and persistence have taught Rick, Marty, and the team a priceless lesson.
40:53The ultimate truth behind the Oak Island mystery may be hiding in plain sight anywhere across these 140 acres.
41:03But as they uncover more clues under man-made features near the surface, in a muddy brackish swamp, and deep in the money pit area,
41:16will it lead to a vault that people have been seeking for 231 years?
41:22Or is the truth that Oak Island contains more buried treasure than anyone ever imagined?
41:35Next time, on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:38We're in a sweet area right here. There's metals in the water. High metals.
41:41We're looking for the one thing. This could be where it's coming from.
41:44Yeah, exactly.
41:45What are you seeing, Peter?
41:46Definitely a void that goes on for a long ways.
41:50We're gonna get to the bottom of this.
41:52There's a heck of a lot of bricks up here.
41:54Maybe it'll lead to a vault.
41:56We have evidence the Knights of Malta brought relics from the Holy Land to Oak Island.
42:02Wow.
42:05Everything remains passed.
42:07I mean, if that happens take a long and long line,
42:09we're going to beangle whoo right now.
42:10Thanks...
42:11See hyvin Tolkien.
42:13We should moveций up to about one thing...
42:18Let's get to the bottom of this.
42:31If that's all it is game, I should go.
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