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00:00Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:03The metal we're seeing in the water is in the solution channel.
00:06Absolutely.
00:07There's metal underground that isn't natural.
00:09We found gold.
00:11Got a signal.
00:12Oh, it's hit.
00:13What do you got?
00:14The heck is that doing here?
00:15This right here is a key to navigation,
00:17but it might be a key for the alignment of Nolan's Cross.
00:20This road goes from the beach to the money pit.
00:23We're just under the bottom of the solution channel.
00:25Where are you, little gold coin?
00:26You see it?
00:27Come on.
00:28There you go.
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.
01:01And, according to legend, one more will have to die
01:07before the treasure can be found.
01:10John, John, it looks like we just touched the bottom of the solution channel here.
01:28While a new morning is still fresh on Oak Island.
01:31Now, he'll go to back down, make another run after this just to make sure.
01:34In the money pit area, the team's drilling operation may be getting closer
01:40to the answers of a 230-year-old mystery.
01:45All right.
01:46We are 178 to 208.
01:47We hit bedrock at 205.
01:49So, everything in this bore becomes highly interesting to us.
01:53Yeah.
01:54The current borehole, known as F8.5,
01:58is located in an area where previous underground water tests
02:02revealed evidence of gold and silver objects.
02:07Okay, let's have a look.
02:09And now, the team has collected a 30-foot core of loose materials
02:14in the solution channel.
02:16You getting deep?
02:16Here, pick her right up.
02:18Could be in that, too.
02:21Come on, baby.
02:25Where are you, little gold coin?
02:28Come on.
02:31Oh, you got something there.
02:33Well, I think that is something in there.
02:35Let's see.
02:39Right there?
02:44Where the hell did it go?
02:46Leave it.
02:47We can get Gary to come up with this big detector.
02:50Might as well.
02:51Let's get this.
02:52Bring this in, Doc.
02:54Let's grab this.
02:56When the pinpointer goes off in the core,
02:59that is from the solution channel,
03:01I'm very excited.
03:02Very, very excited.
03:05Here's your go-to guy.
03:07I want you up there.
03:08All right, Gary.
03:09Hey, Gary.
03:09We had a phantom hit here.
03:12Okay.
03:13And so we're wondering if you might see if it was really phantom or not.
03:17Okay.
03:17There's no nails in this table, so.
03:19Okay, great.
03:22We are so intense in that moment, wanting there to be something there.
03:27I just hope it's hiding what we believe it's hiding.
03:29Eh, it sounds...
03:33It's clean, eh?
03:34Clean as a whistle.
03:36All right.
03:37What the hell happened to it?
03:39Regardless, we'll take that section and bag it.
03:43Yeah.
03:44So I want to send that sample in and see what's in there.
03:47That's a good idea.
03:48We got these pinpointer hits right where we thought the metals should have fallen to, right?
03:54And that's frustrating.
03:56So I think it's right to test the soils for precious metals to see if the pinpointer hit was real.
04:02We're very close to two sites.
04:04We had amongst the highest gold values in water.
04:06Yep.
04:07We had outrageous silver numbers.
04:09Maybe one of the things that's down here that's creating our gold and silver anomaly is gold dust.
04:14It isn't natural.
04:15Gary, if there was gold dust in there and it was in a little spot, and I get a hit, and then I start moving it around, would it go away?
04:23Or would you have picked it up?
04:24I wouldn't have picked it up with this, even though I'm in the prospecting mode on the manticore right now.
04:30I wouldn't have detected it.
04:32Okay.
04:33All right, well, maybe there's some actual gold in that bag.
04:36Yep.
04:36Is it possible that trace amounts of gold from a buried treasure have not only spread into the water deep in the money pit,
04:45but also the soils in the solution channel?
04:49All those soil tests could take several weeks to complete.
04:52If Dr. Spooner gets positive results, it will offer additional confirmation that the treasure may be in this area.
05:01If those results indicate or confirm precious metals or for high metal values in the soils, it would almost necessitate, demand a big dig.
05:15Whatever was above, we now believe that it easily could have fallen to these depths.
05:21So, look, we've just got to keep going.
05:24Okay.
05:26All right, well, let's get on to the next one.
05:31Later that morning...
05:33Ladies and gentlemen, we are here today to feel the heat.
05:38And what I mean by that is I had requested Steve, working with Emma and Jillian, to prepare a heat map.
05:45Rick, Marty, and Craig meet with other members of the team in the war room.
05:50They were charged with looking at all the artifacts that have been found over the island over the years, and that is, of course, a lot.
05:58Yeah.
05:59And then put them on the map of the island by how likely they are old.
06:05Yep.
06:06In recent years, the team has found numerous artifacts that predate the discovery of the money pit in 1795.
06:14These include six Roman coins found on Lot 5 that are as much as 2,000 years old.
06:23And just this year, they were shown a 14th century Portuguese silver coin, one reportedly found in the money pit back in 1849.
06:34Marking the team's oldest discoveries on a grid or heat map of the island suggests where even more important clues may be found next.
06:43So, we've prepared a legend.
06:46So, I'm going to throw a few out so you can take a look so you know what colors you're looking at.
06:50So, you'll see pink, blue, orange, and green.
06:54Pink represents the possibility of a deposit because it's 1725 and older.
06:59And blue, which is 1800s to now, which means it's searcher.
07:03Okay.
07:04Everything else, like the 1730s, 40s, and 50s, that orange color starts to appear.
07:09All right.
07:09Okay.
07:10So, right now, the two hot areas where depositors could have been is Lot 5 of the archaeologists.
07:17Yeah.
07:18And the money pit.
07:20We're obviously still searching those areas, but we have found very old artifacts in other places as well.
07:26What about the odd pink dots over there on the head of the elephant?
07:30That's Lot 15.
07:32Even in the orange colors, you're going back to the mid-1700s.
07:37That could be depositor.
07:39Yep.
07:40When you see those older ones up there on Lot 15, I think there's a lot more work to do there.
07:47Yeah.
07:48I agree.
07:49Yeah, we've got to get Geary out there.
07:50Yep.
07:50Located some 200 yards northwest of the money pit area, Lot 15 has produced some of the team's most intriguing artifacts,
08:02including burned charcoal that could date back to the 14th century,
08:07a Chinese coin that could be more than 1,000 years old,
08:12and a piece, a pre-17th century canon stone shot that originated in the Azores Islands of Portugal.
08:21Seeing this cluster of finds grouped on the heat map makes Lot 15 a prime target for fresh investigation.
08:29Because I look at the dots in Lot 15 and, you know, we barely touch the surface, right?
08:34Yeah.
08:35It makes sense to concentrate there.
08:37Yeah, well, you ain't seen nothing yet.
08:39We're going to change these colors to gold and silver.
08:42We are now convinced that mystery is island-wide.
08:48You go back to where you have been successful before.
08:51So I think it's highly appropriate to start on Lot 15.
08:56Okay.
08:57Thank you very much.
08:58Yep.
08:59I say we get back at it.
09:01I agree.
09:03Following their meeting...
09:06I'm going to metal detect over the top of this plowed area,
09:10and we have a chance of finding some great artifacts on this hillside.
09:15I'm excited to see what you'll find today.
09:16Rick, Gary, and Steve begin searching on Lot 15.
09:20I'm expecting a good day.
09:21Yeah.
09:22Having said that, I say we get going.
09:24Yep.
09:25Okay, mate.
09:25Let's get stuck in.
09:27Okie doke.
09:27Before their arrival, Billy used a two-and-a-half-ton tractor
09:33to pull a three-bottom plow across the surface
09:36to help them search for artifacts.
09:39This idea of plowing high-value areas on Oak Island,
09:43this comes from my experience metal detecting on farmland in England.
09:48The farmers turn over the fields by plowing,
09:53and they bring older artifacts closer to the surface
09:57and make them more detectable.
10:07Check this out.
10:11Here.
10:13Is that coal?
10:15It's really light, eh?
10:19Yeah.
10:19If that's coal, that would be well out of place.
10:22Looks like it could be.
10:23What do you think, Rick?
10:24One way to tell.
10:34There it is.
10:35I'd say so.
10:36Yep.
10:36Hmm.
10:37What the heck is that doing here?
10:39Yeah.
10:39Very out of place.
10:40Mm-hmm.
10:41It might be that kind of coal that was found on the stone road.
10:45Yep.
10:47Because the team found pieces of coal
10:49when they uncovered the believed Portuguese stone road in the swamp...
10:54I'm going to put this in the bag.
10:55I would.
10:56And give it to Emma.
10:58Is it possible that this discovery,
11:01made where they have also found Portuguese stone shot,
11:04could suggest a connection between the swamp and Lot 15?
11:09Good find, Gary.
11:10Good find, Gary.
11:11Yep.
11:11Just on the top here.
11:13Right.
11:13I'll keep trucking in.
11:14Let's find something.
11:24There you go.
11:25Yeah.
11:25That sounds good.
11:26Yeah.
11:27It's right in there, Rick.
11:28Please?
11:34Let me see if I can pinpoint it.
11:39What have we got here?
11:42Oh, look at that.
11:43Wow.
11:47Oh!
11:48What have we got here?
11:52See those facets?
11:55While metal detecting on Lot 15,
11:57the team has just made a curious find.
12:01I wonder if that was a rose-ed spike.
12:04Could well be.
12:05Could be.
12:05They went back all the way to the 1500s.
12:08Wow.
12:09And we did find some in the money pit.
12:11Yeah.
12:12Mm-hmm.
12:14First made during the 16th century in Europe,
12:18rose-ed spikes are hand-forged iron fasteners
12:21with hammered heads,
12:23resembling the petals of a flower.
12:26They were commonly used up through the 18th century,
12:29before machine-made nails replaced them.
12:32And the team has found a number of rose-ed spikes,
12:37both near the surface on Oak Island
12:39and more than 150 feet deep in the money pit area
12:43that have all been dated to before 1750.
12:48That's brilliant.
12:49There you go.
12:50We'll bag it.
12:51Okay.
12:51And this, I have no doubt,
12:55will be going on your eat, man.
12:56It will be.
12:57I hope so, anyway.
12:59We have seen rose-ed spikes many times on Oak Island,
13:04especially connected to old features and old areas.
13:09These are valuable finds.
13:11We could have a connection here
13:13between Lot 15 and the money pit.
13:20That's diggable.
13:21Just there, mate.
13:24Center right there?
13:25Yep.
13:44Let me see if I can pinpoint.
13:45Oh, what have we got here?
13:56I believe this is called a pintle.
14:00That's cool.
14:01It is?
14:02Yeah.
14:02A pintle was used for,
14:04as a gate or a door hanger,
14:06and it could have easily been used to hang a lantern,
14:10or even in the mines
14:12when they were digging the shafts for the money pit.
14:16You need some light.
14:18This one does, indeed, need to go to the lab.
14:21It could be meaningful.
14:23I think this is a really cool find
14:25that could go way back.
14:27All right.
14:28We'll put it in the bag and put a flag in it.
14:31Good find, Gary.
14:32Mm-hmm.
14:33Interesting to see where this iron comes from.
14:36Ready?
14:37Yep.
14:38Okay.
14:43The next morning...
14:46We're going to keep our eyes peeled.
14:49We're going deep.
14:50Fire below.
14:50We're taking it to the bedrock.
14:52Yep.
14:53As a new borehole is drilled in the money pit area,
14:56and the team waits for their soil test results.
14:59A big part of the year is the swamp work.
15:02Yeah.
15:03And you look at this map,
15:05and you realize why that is so...
15:07Having received new permits
15:09for exploration in the swamp,
15:11Rick meets with Steve and Billy
15:13in the research center
15:14to plan their next phase of digging
15:16in the triangle-shaped feature.
15:18Everything we've found
15:20continues to amaze us
15:22and hope is that the new permitted areas
15:25will help explain
15:26some of the questions we have in the bog.
15:28We've already completed
15:29the so-called West Hill location.
15:32Steve, if you want to bring that up.
15:34Sure will.
15:35During recent excavations
15:37at the western border of the swamp...
15:39There's another one.
15:41Jeez, they're coming up.
15:42What in the world is happening?
15:44The team uncovered
15:45a series of hand-cut wooden survey stakes
15:48lining what they believe
15:49to be a log road,
15:51as well as a strange feature
15:54made of cobblestones.
15:56On the edge,
15:57it looks very similar
15:58to the stone road.
16:00It looks very similar.
16:03But the most compelling find
16:05was a hand cannon
16:06of European origin
16:08that could date back
16:09to the 13th century.
16:11And we picked that area
16:13because maybe the depositors
16:15potentially would have pushed
16:17and had a path
16:18through the swamp itself
16:18because the road
16:19that we use around the swamp
16:20didn't exist at that point in time.
16:22Now, having fully searched
16:24that location,
16:26the team must decide
16:27where to move next.
16:29I think finding
16:30the cobble platform
16:31and finding the stakes
16:32in what appears to be a road
16:34but not finding it north
16:36makes it that much more important
16:37that we've moved south now
16:39or southwest.
16:41And we've done very little work
16:43with the southwest.
16:44You can see it called
16:45Permanent Area 25-1.
16:47Mm-hmm.
16:49Well, and in drier times,
16:50people would have walked
16:52through there, right?
16:53Mm-hmm.
16:54Surely it should be
16:55a pretty good spot
16:56for people traffic.
16:57You would think.
16:58We've done nothing through there.
17:00So there's a whole big area
17:01that we, you know,
17:02maybe don't know much about,
17:03but we're going to learn more
17:04in the next corner, right?
17:05Yeah.
17:05There are very selected areas
17:07in the bog
17:08where people long ago did work.
17:11As we moved our way north,
17:13we didn't encounter stone.
17:16The hope is that
17:17as we continue to move
17:18towards the southwest corner,
17:21we will find artifacts
17:22and or stakes
17:23that may help provide
17:25an explanation
17:26as to the purpose
17:27of these features.
17:28It's a big open area
17:30that we need to take a look at.
17:32But in order to do that,
17:33you've got to get
17:34in the excavator.
17:35Exactly.
17:35That was good.
17:37All right.
17:38And your rubber boots.
17:39And your rubber boots.
17:40Exactly.
17:41All right.
17:41Thanks, Steve.
17:44Following the meeting...
17:45Hey, Billy.
17:47Morning.
17:47Hi, Mike.
17:48Ready to jump in?
17:49Oh, yeah.
17:50The team gets to work
17:51in the southwest corner
17:53of the swamp.
17:54We've got quite a large area here.
17:57It's going to be
17:57one of our bigger permit areas
17:59we've ever done.
18:00You can see all the stakes.
18:01We start here.
18:02We hit a couple hundred feet
18:03north along the bank.
18:04Yeah.
18:05You know, closer to the trees
18:06might be the most artifacts.
18:07Yep.
18:08Okay.
18:08Let's get to it then.
18:09Yep.
18:10Let's get stuck in.
18:20All right, guys.
18:21I've got a little bit of work to do,
18:22so I will be back.
18:23Okay, Mike.
18:23Sounds good.
18:23Obviously, the swamp has provided
18:28some really unique discoveries,
18:31and we have very little understanding
18:34of what they represent
18:35in terms of is there any association
18:38with the money pit mystery.
18:41With the southwest corner,
18:43I feel very hopeful for answers.
18:46A lot of rocks.
18:50Yeah.
19:01It really does look like
19:03a line of rocks along here.
19:06Not just big rocks.
19:08It's mixed in with, yeah,
19:09gravelly stuff, right?
19:10All those rocks here.
19:23Yeah.
19:28What do you make of all the rocks, Billy?
19:31Peter, I'm surprised to see,
19:32you know, very road-like.
19:34Yeah.
19:34They wouldn't normally,
19:35you know, occur together,
19:36so it seems like
19:38somebody might have
19:38threw them in there.
19:39Yeah.
19:40I want to get my Uncle Rick up here.
19:44Absolutely fantastic.
19:49Hey.
19:50Hello.
19:51Eric.
19:51Eric.
19:52Wow.
19:53Rock.
19:54A lot of rocks.
19:55In the southwest corner of the swamp,
19:58Rick joins the team
19:59after being alerted
20:01to a potential new discovery.
20:03Is this how a bog would develop?
20:05Well, how do you explain
20:07the amount of rock in here?
20:09When you look at the cobbles,
20:11it is all the makings
20:11of what we're looking for.
20:13But that rock really shouldn't be
20:15up in the till like that.
20:16It should be deeper.
20:17So you're thinking
20:19some sort of effort
20:21because they're sitting on top of the...
20:23Yeah.
20:24It just seems like
20:24it's possibly land clearing or road.
20:27I don't think that all these rocks
20:28got put in here
20:30other than by hand of people.
20:31Yeah.
20:31This area reminds me
20:35of where we were digging
20:36and where we found
20:38that potential of cannon.
20:40There's a heck of a lot
20:41of rocks here.
20:43This might be a way
20:44to get from the beach
20:46to the upland, right?
20:48Yeah.
20:49If you're coming
20:50around the island
20:51on a ship,
20:53then you're going to come
20:54in this area here.
20:55So I am expecting
20:56to find some great finds here.
21:00It'd be really summing
21:01if we found
21:02another Portuguese-style road
21:04on this side of the swamp.
21:07Yeah.
21:08When the team
21:09first uncovered
21:10the believed Portuguese stone road
21:12in the southeast corner,
21:14it was speculated
21:16that it may have been part
21:17of a ship's warp
21:18used to unload cargo
21:20onto the island.
21:21Is it possible
21:25that the team
21:26has just found
21:27a similar structure
21:28in the southwest corner?
21:30We couldn't get
21:31a nicer day,
21:32so we might as well
21:32put it to good use.
21:34Let's keep going.
21:35Yep.
21:36I'll give you
21:36the chance of that effect.
21:38There you go.
21:39While the dig
21:40continues in the swamp,
21:42later that afternoon...
21:45Hey, Charles, Terry.
21:47Hey, Ian.
21:48Dr. Ian Spooner
21:49joins members of the team
21:50in the Money Pit area.
21:53Water samples.
21:53I've got to take
21:54some water samples.
21:55So I could use a hand.
21:57No problems at all.
21:57Let's get at her.
21:58Okay.
21:59After a disappointing few weeks
22:01in which the team
22:02has been unable
22:03to find hard evidence
22:04of treasure
22:05while drilling
22:05in the solution channel,
22:08Dr. Spooner
22:08will collect
22:09and test
22:10new water samples
22:11to look for signs
22:13that the team
22:13is drilling
22:14in the right place.
22:15We did get
22:17some samples
22:18last year
22:19and they were
22:19high in metals
22:20and so we've got
22:21to get more water samples
22:22and send them in
22:23and see what they show us now.
22:24Absolutely.
22:25So I'm going to start
22:27right with B.5
22:28and 11.
22:29I think that's
22:30a good idea.
22:30Great.
22:37Yep, B.5, 11
22:38right here.
22:40So if we have
22:41high metals
22:41in these samples
22:42that we've been taking,
22:43it could mean
22:44that the metal
22:45that we're seeing
22:46in the water
22:46is in the solution channel.
22:48Yeah.
22:48So it follows
22:49that the solution channel
22:51may be moving
22:52metal from the money pit.
22:54It's a conduit,
22:55absolutely.
22:55It's a conduit,
22:56it's a pathway, yeah.
22:57A lot of water
22:58moving down there.
22:58Yep.
23:00Because the massive
23:01underground solution channel
23:02is full of moving water,
23:05Dr. Spooner
23:05will take water samples
23:07from previously
23:08drilled boreholes
23:09where precious metals
23:10have been detected
23:11in the past.
23:13I'm going to get you
23:14to hold that.
23:16Depending on the test results,
23:18he may be able
23:19to determine
23:20where water
23:21with the highest trace
23:22evidence of gold
23:22and silver
23:23is flowing
23:24from deep underground
23:25and help the team
23:26pick new drilling locations
23:28in this area
23:29to search for the treasure.
23:31I'm going to go down
23:32to 110 feet.
23:34There's 105 right there.
23:36Yeah, and I'm just
23:36going to let this
23:37fall on the ground.
23:37Okay.
23:38To collect the water samples,
23:40Dr. Spooner
23:42is dropping
23:42a single-valve baler
23:44into the borehole.
23:45As it descends,
23:47an open valve
23:48allows water
23:49to flow through it.
23:50Once the desired depth
23:52is reached,
23:53a metal ball
23:53drops into place,
23:55securing the sample.
23:57There are metals
23:58in the water
23:58that the scientists
24:00say those metals
24:01are not natural.
24:03That's still there.
24:04And that's what keeps us
24:06going to find it.
24:06Hopefully,
24:08the water testing
24:09will tell us
24:10where to actually
24:11find the treasure.
24:13Hey, look at that.
24:14Oh, my gosh.
24:15There's the die.
24:17That's pretty amazing.
24:18Yeah.
24:19That's the die
24:19we put in last year
24:21in the money pit.
24:23Yeah.
24:24In 2024,
24:27Dr. Spooner
24:28and members of the team
24:29conducted a series
24:31of tests
24:32to locate the source
24:33of gold and silver
24:34in the money pit area.
24:37This involved
24:38pumping red die
24:39some 200 feet deep
24:41into the solution channel
24:43through several boreholes.
24:45Dr. Spooner
24:46then re-sampled water
24:48in other boreholes
24:49across the area,
24:51looking for remnants
24:51of the die
24:52to track the direction
24:54of water flow
24:55underground.
24:56Be very interested
24:57to see what metals
24:58this has in it.
24:59Now that Dr. Spooner
25:01has just recovered
25:02water with red die
25:04from just 105 feet
25:06deep.
25:07Could that mean
25:08that the water
25:09in the solution channel
25:11is flowing upwards
25:12and into other locations
25:14in the money pit area?
25:16And that's all we need.
25:18Yep.
25:18So that's one down?
25:20That's one down,
25:20and we'll send them in today
25:22and see what we got.
25:23Yep.
25:24Compared to soil testing,
25:26which is time-consuming,
25:28the new water samples
25:29can be analyzed
25:31for signs of precious metals
25:32in just a matter of days.
25:35Okay, let's take this back
25:37and we'll go get another sample.
25:38Yep.
25:40As Dr. Spooner and Terry
25:42continue gathering samples
25:43in the money pit area.
25:46I really like this lot.
25:48Me too.
25:48Katya Drayton and Peter
25:50continue searching
25:51for clues
25:52on lot 15.
26:00Ooh.
26:02Sounds good, no?
26:03Yeah.
26:04Anything in front of me
26:09is okay.
26:12Ooh.
26:13Out.
26:14Oh, my gosh.
26:25What do you got?
26:29Um,
26:29I think we found ourselves a button.
26:32Well, that's certainly a button.
26:34Looks to be green,
26:36so it might be copper.
26:38What kind of button
26:38do you think it is?
26:40But it's pretty big.
26:41It's pretty big.
26:42I think this would be
26:42more of a shirt button.
26:43Yeah.
26:44Is it possible
26:45that Peter and Katya
26:46found a clue
26:48that will help identify
26:49who left the artifacts
26:51previously found
26:52by the team
26:52on lot 15?
26:54You don't see a design,
26:56but there could be
26:56a design there.
26:57Mm-hmm.
26:57Well, I'm excited
26:58to get this one
26:59back to the lab.
27:00Yeah.
27:01And your dad always says
27:02people who had buttons
27:03had pockets,
27:03and people who had pockets
27:04had coins.
27:06Exactly.
27:07All right, let's bag tag it.
27:08Keep going.
27:09Yeah, good start.
27:09It's a little chippy,
27:17but it's two-way,
27:18and it could be something
27:19just really deep
27:20and on edge.
27:21We're here to dig it.
27:22Let's do it.
27:23Let's try it.
27:24Yeah, it's up.
27:39What do you got?
27:39I'm not sure.
27:47What do you got?
27:50I'm not sure.
27:52On lot 15,
27:53Katya and Peter
27:54have just unearthed
27:56an intriguing metal artifact.
27:59Do you know
27:59what this looks like?
28:01What do you think?
28:03This looks like
28:04a pin on a compass, almost.
28:07Oh, I could see that.
28:09What do you think?
28:11Yeah, here's the top of it.
28:13Might even,
28:14might have both pieces
28:16for the navigation tool.
28:18Mm-hmm.
28:18Like this.
28:20That is so cool.
28:22A possible compass
28:23found on lot 15?
28:27Dating back to the times
28:28of ancient Greece,
28:30a compass is a drawing instrument
28:32used to measure distances
28:34on maps
28:34and for designing the layout
28:37of structures on land.
28:38For centuries,
28:40it was a standard tool
28:41of architects,
28:43navigators,
28:44craftsmen,
28:45and astronomers.
28:48And it makes sense.
28:49Yeah.
28:49Where we are.
28:50We have this beach
28:51just down here.
28:52Mm-hmm.
28:52obviously at some point
28:54boats came ashore.
28:56And that could be used
28:57on a boat
28:58or on land.
29:00Mm-hmm.
29:01Whenever my Uncle Rick's talking
29:03and we're talking
29:04about Nolan's cross,
29:06Mm-hmm.
29:06they're very precisely
29:08put in place
29:10and they're put in place
29:11due to the stars.
29:12Yeah.
29:13Which is the same way
29:14that people long ago
29:16would travel across the sea.
29:18So, to your point,
29:20this could be nautical,
29:22but it also could have been
29:23for the alignment
29:23of Nolan's cross.
29:25Mm-hmm.
29:26If this is a compass,
29:29could Peter be correct
29:30that it may have been
29:31the kind of tool
29:32needed to create
29:33some of the megalithic structures
29:34that have been found
29:35on Oak Island,
29:37such as Nolan's cross,
29:39a feature
29:40that some scientific experts believe
29:42could date back
29:43to the 13th century?
29:44That's amazing.
29:48We have sought mightily
29:49to create a timeline
29:51of human activity
29:53in the Oak Island mystery
29:54where people work.
29:56They drop things,
29:57lose things.
29:58And in order to figure out
30:00who, what, when, where,
30:03why, and how,
30:04it begins with finding artifacts
30:06that tell a story.
30:08This right here
30:09is a key to navigation,
30:11but it might be a key
30:12to Oak Island as well.
30:13I know we don't find
30:14many nautical things
30:16on the island,
30:16so this is something
30:17I really want to take
30:18back to the lab.
30:20All right.
30:21Okay.
30:22Keep going.
30:22Keep going.
30:26As another exciting day
30:27dawns on Oak Island...
30:29Find some artifacts.
30:33Get going.
30:35Alex and Peter
30:36join Billy and Gary
30:38in the swamp
30:38as they continue
30:40to search
30:40the southwest corner.
30:43Going in.
30:44We think we are seeing
30:48signs of a structure
30:50or a road
30:51on the west side
30:52of the swamp
30:52along the edge.
30:54Wow.
30:55There's nothing in here.
30:56This is quiet.
30:58But like everything,
30:59we need to investigate it
31:01further
31:01and look for artifacts
31:02to see if we can prove
31:04one way or the other
31:05what's going on here.
31:06we're getting rockier.
31:13That's the sand.
31:15There's this really dark
31:16stuff.
31:17Can't tell where it's
31:18coming from.
31:22There.
31:22Organic stuff?
31:28There's some organics
31:29in that.
31:30There's a layer of rocks
31:31that's more than
31:32one rock thick
31:33and in between
31:34those rocks
31:35is swamp material,
31:37sort of decaying
31:38plant matter.
31:39In my head,
31:40the only way
31:40that could be there
31:41is if the rocks
31:42were added to the swamp
31:43after the fact
31:44deliberately.
31:45In my opinion,
31:47there's a chance
31:47that it's not natural.
31:49It definitely looks
31:50out of place.
31:51And if it is man-made,
31:53the artifacts
31:53are going to help
31:54us date it.
31:54Yep.
31:55So what we've got to do
31:56is find the artifacts.
31:57Yep.
31:58All right.
31:59Coming in, Billy.
32:08There's a signal.
32:09Got a signal.
32:12It's a good,
32:13strong iron signal.
32:14Fairly shallow.
32:15Yeah, it's just
32:16in that area.
32:24All right.
32:24Let's see if I can
32:25pinpoint it.
32:28Oh!
32:28Oh, look at that!
32:31Ho-ho!
32:32Oxen!
32:33Oh, yeah.
32:34Look how unusual it is.
32:36Look how long
32:37that body is.
32:38Mm-hmm.
32:39But, I mean,
32:39I wouldn't imagine
32:40you'd have oxen
32:41in the middle of a swamp.
32:42So I think this is telling us
32:43that either there's
32:44a road here
32:44or at this time
32:46this was passable.
32:48Yeah.
32:49We find a lot of
32:50French and English ox shoes
32:51on the island,
32:53but this is
32:54totally different
32:56to any of those ox shoes.
32:58We were very close
32:59to this road,
33:01if it is a road,
33:02and finding an ox shoe here
33:03kind of reinforces that.
33:05That's where
33:06the draft animals
33:08would be walking
33:09and, you know,
33:10dragging the load.
33:10So hopefully
33:11we can find out
33:12when it would have been used,
33:13why it might have been used,
33:15and who might have been using it.
33:17So, yeah,
33:18well, we'll put it in the bag.
33:19Yeah.
33:20And we'll find answers
33:21at the lab.
33:22That's right.
33:23Nice.
33:24If it's a road,
33:24there should be more,
33:25but that right there
33:26is a little bit of proof
33:27that there is a road here.
33:29Let's leave it at this.
33:30Indications that
33:31it could be man-made.
33:32Dr. Spooner needs
33:33to take a look.
33:33Yep.
33:35Nice work.
33:36Good start.
33:40Hi, Dr. Spooner.
33:42Hey, Ian.
33:43We've got another
33:44red scratcher for you.
33:45Hmm.
33:47Now that the team
33:48has unearthed
33:49more of the strange rock feature
33:50in the southwest corner
33:52of the swamp,
33:53Dr. Ian Spooner arrives
33:55to examine it
33:56for signs of human construction.
33:59You look at this area now,
34:01the more we're digging,
34:02the more we're uncovering,
34:04the more rocks and boulders,
34:06and they all seem to be
34:07in like a linear feature,
34:10like a road.
34:11I agree.
34:13This is manipulated.
34:15You know, it's pretty obvious.
34:16It's what we call
34:17in geology, it's open work.
34:20The airspace around those boulders
34:21means that those boulders
34:22aren't naturally in place.
34:24There's no till
34:25in between the boulders.
34:27So they're moved.
34:28It's not perfectly smooth
34:29like you would expect it
34:30to see if
34:31it was done
34:31with more modern machinery.
34:33Right.
34:33One thing to look at
34:35is that this area here
34:36is elevated
34:37somewhat above
34:38that side
34:39and that side.
34:41So it has the look
34:43of a very crude
34:44beginning of something.
34:46The key thing
34:47is the age.
34:48Any artifacts?
34:50We did find one ox shoe
34:51on the far end there.
34:52Yeah.
34:53Okay.
34:53But it was actually
34:54amongst the rocks.
34:56Oh, really?
34:56Okay.
34:57Yeah.
34:58Do you think
34:59all these rocks
35:00and boulders
35:01could have been
35:01the start of the road
35:02like the foundation
35:03before they put
35:04the cobbles on?
35:06Yeah, possibly.
35:07Maybe they were
35:08pushing stuff,
35:09maybe they were
35:09using oxen,
35:10I don't know.
35:11The reoccurring theme here
35:12is people are here
35:13with purpose.
35:14It has a purpose,
35:15we just don't know
35:16quite yet
35:17what that purpose is.
35:18Yeah.
35:19If Dr. Spooner
35:20is correct
35:21that this stone feature
35:23may have been used
35:24to move heavy cargo,
35:25just what kind
35:26of cargo was it
35:27and where
35:28did it end up?
35:30At this stage,
35:30what we need to do
35:31is just excavate
35:32the length of it
35:33and see if what we've got
35:34is some beginning
35:35of something.
35:36There are answers
35:37in the swamp,
35:39but we only have
35:40a limited understanding
35:41of the possible interactions
35:43between the work
35:44in the bog
35:45and the work conducted
35:46in the money pit.
35:47The money pit,
35:49it was an attempt
35:49to hide something.
35:51What was the bog work about?
35:53I don't think
35:54we have that story
35:56close to being written
35:58or understood.
36:00The good news is
36:01we've got two directions
36:02to go.
36:02Okay, good.
36:03I'm going to head
36:04back to the lab.
36:05Okay, we'll start digging.
36:10The following afternoon.
36:13Ian, I understand
36:14you've done some work
36:15on the water samples.
36:17And you have some results
36:18you want to talk to us about.
36:19Yeah.
36:20While the results
36:21of the soil tests
36:22are being completed,
36:24Rick, Marty,
36:25and members of the team
36:26meet with Dr. Spooner
36:27in the war room
36:28for an update
36:29on the water samples
36:31he recently collected
36:32in the money pit area.
36:33I think we've shown
36:36at least to our satisfaction
36:38that there's metal underground
36:40that isn't natural.
36:42And then, of course,
36:44we found gold.
36:46Yep.
36:47The problem's being where.
36:48Yeah.
36:49So, we've got
36:51some monitoring wells.
36:52These samples
36:53are from the west side
36:54from your area
36:55that you're drilling
36:56right now.
36:57What's that one?
36:58Over here,
36:59we've got the east side,
37:00sort of near
37:01the garden shaft.
37:03Mm-hmm.
37:03Oh, this is the dye.
37:04And it's dye.
37:05Yeah, I see.
37:06It's a rhodamine dye.
37:08And last year,
37:09we did a bunch
37:10of dye tests.
37:11We put the dye
37:12in at depth
37:12in the solution channel area
37:14or in the
37:15judicial money pit area.
37:16Mm-hmm.
37:16And now,
37:17it comes up in wells
37:19near the garden shaft.
37:21So, it just tells us
37:23that water can move
37:24that direction.
37:25There's precious metals
37:27in these samples.
37:28Yeah.
37:29So, where are the metals
37:30coming from?
37:32And what the dye
37:33has told us
37:34in this little collection
37:35of wells
37:36is that there's
37:37every possibility
37:38it's coming from the south,
37:40from the solution channel.
37:42Through that conduit
37:43that the dye traveled
37:44very rapidly.
37:47Dr. Spooner's
37:49new test results
37:49suggest
37:50that the traces
37:51of precious metals
37:52are indeed
37:53coming from
37:54the solution channel.
37:56You're saying
37:57that water
37:59is moving
37:59south to north?
38:01Yeah.
38:02So, the way
38:03that the water
38:04is moving
38:04from deep down,
38:05solution channel,
38:06uphill, basically,
38:07is all the work
38:08we're doing.
38:08With all the drilling,
38:10we're pushing down
38:11in one area,
38:12and that's pushing
38:13water up
38:13in another area,
38:15and that's why
38:15we're getting water
38:16moving uphill.
38:17Almost as if
38:18there was a pipe
38:19just connecting the two,
38:21you know?
38:21So, you know,
38:21you're flushing water
38:22and it's, bam,
38:23pushing it down,
38:24forcing it out,
38:25drawing it back.
38:26Yeah.
38:26It's a giant plunger,
38:27right?
38:27Exactly.
38:28It's a plunger
38:28in a toilet, yeah.
38:30It's validating
38:31that they're looking
38:32for the treasure
38:33in the right area.
38:34That's amazing.
38:35You think at this point,
38:41given all the data,
38:42that the source
38:43of the metals are deep
38:44down in the solution channel?
38:46Yeah.
38:46It's validating
38:47that you're looking
38:48for the treasure
38:49in the right area.
38:51Rick, Marty,
38:52and the Oak Island team
38:53have just received
38:55encouraging news
38:56from Dr. Ian Spooner
38:57after testing
38:59new water samples
39:00collected from boreholes
39:02all across the Money Pit area.
39:05He has found evidence
39:06that the water
39:07deep underground,
39:08which contains
39:09the highest amounts
39:10of precious metals,
39:12is likely originating
39:13in the solution channel.
39:16Well, here's what I heard.
39:18I heard that
39:18your cumulative data
39:20is consistent
39:21with our prevailing theory
39:22this year.
39:22Mm-hmm.
39:23If, in fact,
39:24a great treasure,
39:25even a minor treasure,
39:26fell down
39:27into the solution channel,
39:28it explains everything.
39:31Yeah.
39:31It explains what happened,
39:32it explains why people
39:33didn't find it,
39:34it explains the metals
39:35in the water.
39:36Yeah.
39:37Where you're looking
39:37is a good place?
39:38Yeah.
39:39That's really good to hear.
39:40Yeah.
39:41What Dr. Spooner related
39:43substantiates our belief,
39:45currently,
39:45that the treasure
39:46had fallen
39:47to greater depth.
39:48An area like the Money Pit
39:50has been so investigated
39:51for 230 years
39:52to still have
39:53under-investigated areas
39:55where the treasure
39:56or treasurers
39:57may still lie
39:58is really quite interesting.
39:59and that's where
40:00we're going to focus
40:01our efforts,
40:03justifiably.
40:05The solution channel
40:06is the number one thing
40:07that makes sense
40:07with regards to where
40:09the treasure might
40:10still be.
40:12Everything I've heard
40:13this year makes me
40:14want to get back out there
40:15and implement our plan.
40:17Sounds like we're doing
40:17the right thing
40:18and I hope we do
40:19focus in and really
40:20do the right thing
40:21and actually solve
40:22this thing.
40:23Mm-hmm.
40:23I think we got a chance.
40:26Let's define that
40:27solution cavity
40:27quantitatively
40:29and qualitatively.
40:30We have to find
40:32the place
40:32in the solution channel
40:33very in the
40:34conventional Money Pit area
40:35where it's wide open
40:36enough to accept
40:38something dropping
40:39from above.
40:40That's what this has
40:42told us today
40:43that we are
40:43on the correct path.
40:45Let's just keep
40:46moving forward
40:47and I appreciate
40:48the effort.
40:49Well, we'll keep
40:50we'll keep on.
40:51And I'm calling
40:52the end of the meeting
40:53right there.
40:53OK, let's move on.
40:55Well done, Ian.
40:56OK, thank you.
40:59The true history
41:00of Oak Island
41:01remains a tantalizing
41:02secret.
41:04But with every dig
41:05and each scientific test,
41:09Rick, Marty, Craig
41:11and their team
41:12find evidence
41:13that something
41:14extraordinary
41:15was buried here
41:16long ago.
41:18So as they peel back
41:19new layers
41:20of this mystery,
41:21just how much deeper
41:23must they look
41:24for the answers
41:25and finally
41:27break the curse
41:28belief
41:29to protect them.
41:32for all
41:39of their
41:39self-reweed
41:40and
41:40sı
41:41and
41:41i
41:42was
41:42to be
41:43ah
41:44useless
41:44in the
41:45way
41:45that represented
41:46them.
41:47chin
41:50seems like
41:50several
41:51the
41:51can
41:51see
41:52coming
41:53in the
41:54hospital
41:54even
41:55nothing
41:55in it an
41:56tutorial
41:57?
41:57Now
41:58you
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