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00:01Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.
00:03All right, well, this is the neighborhood, guys.
00:05I mean, this is Treasure Central.
00:07There's mounting evidence of something happening here long ago.
00:12Hopefully, there's some old gold and silver.
00:15Look at that!
00:17We've got a stone structure here.
00:19Somebody piled those stones.
00:20So somebody put this here.
00:21Somebody went into some trouble.
00:23It could be a 1500s hand cannon.
00:27We're right, Gary.
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.
00:51And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to 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.
01:10Terry, bring me up to speed, buddy.
01:26Where are we?
01:27Okay, we're on G4.5.
01:29Right now, we're down 168 feet below break.
01:32Seems like you're dropping in there quite well.
01:34Yeah, okay.
01:36A new day of excitement and exploration
01:39has begun on Oak Island
01:41for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team.
01:46For as far as our activities in the solution channel,
01:48we're just getting started.
01:49We got 168 all the way to 215 in this one, Steve.
01:54212, maybe?
01:55212 to bottom out here?
01:56Yeah, okay.
01:56Today, they are drilling a new borehole called G4.5
02:02on their strategic grid in the Money Pit area.
02:06The team believes the treasure
02:08could have fallen deep below ground here
02:10into a water and mud-filled cavern
02:13known as the Solution Channel.
02:16There was great treasure in the Money Pit,
02:19and there still is a great treasure in the Money Pit.
02:21The clues are that there have been collapses in the past,
02:25and it fell down into the Solution Channel.
02:28I am more optimistic than ever
02:30that we are going to find it.
02:33All right, well, this is the neighborhood, guys.
02:35Yeah.
02:36If there was ever anything in the Money Pit,
02:39and I'm becoming a believer that there was,
02:41with the Pit Blado coin, yeah.
02:45The team was recently presented
02:47with a 14th-century silver Portuguese coin
02:50possibly connected to a branch of the Knights Templar
02:53and reportedly found in the Money Pit
02:57by drilling foreman James Pitt Blado in 1849.
03:03Now the team hopes to find many more of these coins
03:06as they drill in this area.
03:10We've made significant discoveries island-wide,
03:14but it's the treasure component
03:15that has made this mystery endure for 230 years.
03:20We're all here because we're solely dedicated
03:23to solving the mystery of that is Oak Island.
03:25I want to know that last page
03:28on the Reader's Digest article.
03:29I want to know what happened here.
03:31What is the story?
03:33We're on track right now
03:35to get down into the zone of interest.
03:37Yeah.
03:38And how soupy is it so far?
03:40Because you know what I'm looking for.
03:41Yeah.
03:41There's density here.
03:43There's a little bit of water,
03:45but basically there's more rock and rubble
03:47than there is water.
03:48It could get into better stuff.
03:50Oh, no question.
03:51But we're just getting started.
03:52Okay.
03:53I want to find where it's
03:55as unconsolidated as can be
03:58where something can easily,
03:59you can picture it falling right in there.
04:01Yeah.
04:01Well, from the human heart,
04:04hope spring's eternal.
04:05And it's springing right now from mine.
04:07I mean, this thing should open up.
04:10We'll see in this next one.
04:11Hopefully we'll get into that slushy zone.
04:13Okay.
04:14Now we wait.
04:16Treasure Central right here.
04:17As the drilling operation continues
04:21in the Money Pit area.
04:24You know, I'm always happy to be back in the lab
04:26because we learned so much here.
04:28But particularly invested in this one
04:31because the item before us,
04:34Billy, Gary, and myself,
04:36we found that.
04:37And we found it in one of my most favorite places,
04:40the swamp.
04:40Rick Lagina and other members of the team
04:45join Laird Niven and Emma Culligan
04:48in the Oak Island lab.
04:50We found the item before us
04:51in a very interesting place
04:54right across from the paved area.
04:57So I look forward to learning more about it.
05:01Emma and Laird have just finished analyzing
05:04a possible fragment of a firearm
05:06found one week ago
05:08on the western side of the swamp.
05:11Just a few yards
05:12from a paved stone feature
05:14uncovered back in 2019
05:16and that the team believes
05:18is up to 800 years old.
05:22When it first came out,
05:23I'm thinking some kind of weight.
05:25And then when it started drying out
05:27and you see the way it tapered down,
05:30I'm hoping it's some kind of weapon.
05:33Well, it was presented to us
05:35as a hand cannon, I guess,
05:37which is a precursor to flintlocks
05:40and matchlocks and wheel locks.
05:42That's going to make it pretty old,
05:43is it not?
05:44It could if that's what it is.
05:46Right.
05:46Dating back to as early as the 12th century,
05:53the hand cannon, or handgon,
05:56was invented in China
05:58and is considered to be
05:59the world's first true firearm.
06:03By the 14th century,
06:06variations on the weapon
06:07were developed in the Middle East
06:08and Europe
06:09until they were replaced
06:11by flintlock hand muskets
06:12and other firearms
06:14in the 15th century.
06:18Well, maybe we talk about
06:19the metallurgy first.
06:21Sure.
06:22Okay.
06:22So it's always hard
06:24to get a swamp artifact's base metal
06:26because of all the minerals
06:27that kind of really mold with
06:28or just embed itself
06:30with the iron or the corrosion.
06:33But I did get a few good points
06:36and from that composition,
06:38it's looking fairly clean.
06:40Like, I'm not seeing
06:41the wide range of impurities.
06:43I am seeing a natural spike
06:45in sulfur content.
06:47And that's a good sign of,
06:49you know, 1700s or older.
06:51Because of the minimum impurities,
06:53like, it's not forged
06:54in a modern blast furnace
06:56and could be European in origin.
07:00Yeah.
07:01And we should add that
07:02by the 1500s,
07:04those are going out of fashion.
07:06Wow.
07:08Is it possible
07:09that this hand cannon
07:10predates the discovery
07:12of the money pit
07:13by more than a century?
07:15If so,
07:16just how old could it be?
07:19And who left it here?
07:22Is there a touch hole in that?
07:24So I've done a CT scan.
07:26Mm-hmm.
07:27This thing right here.
07:29Oh, it...
07:30That's a touch-o.
07:31You talking about
07:32this little hole here?
07:33Exactly.
07:34A hand cannon
07:35had just a little touch hole
07:37where you would...
07:38you would touch it
07:40to set off
07:40the gunpowder inside
07:42and then your projectile
07:43would fly out.
07:46So it's an unusual artifact
07:48found in a very unusual area.
07:51It's gorgeous.
07:52I tell you,
07:54I've never been so appreciative
07:55of the CT scanner
07:56as I am right now
07:57in this moment.
07:58Yeah, right.
08:00That is really cool.
08:01I don't think you've got a list,
08:02isn't it?
08:02You were right, Gary.
08:05This is something
08:06for a firearms expert
08:07to weigh in on.
08:09So what other secrets
08:10are in the bog?
08:11I don't know.
08:12But right now,
08:13we're nowhere near done.
08:15I look forward
08:16to what else
08:18we can learn about it.
08:19And I'm sure
08:19your brother's gonna be happy
08:21with spending more time
08:22in the swamp,
08:23especially now.
08:25Oh, major find, Gary.
08:26Yep.
08:27We should aim
08:28to find Loring.
08:30I'm gunning for it.
08:37All right, Gary,
08:38let's find some treasure.
08:39Here we go.
08:41I'll wait until you
08:42take a few scoops out.
08:44Okay.
08:46Following their meeting
08:47in the lab,
08:48Gary and Billy
08:49return to the western region
08:51of the swamp
08:52along with Derek Couch
08:54to search
08:55for additional clues.
08:57What takes
08:58is one good find, Derek.
09:00One good find.
09:02One thing.
09:04Yeah.
09:10Whenever we've
09:12searched in the swamp,
09:13we have come away
09:14with some really,
09:16really cool
09:16old artifacts.
09:18But one side
09:19of the swamp,
09:19we haven't investigated
09:21a lot.
09:22is the western side.
09:25Unfortunately,
09:25no hits there, Derek.
09:27Darn.
09:29We're going to
09:30have a really good
09:31scan around the area
09:33and hopefully
09:33Winkle Air
09:34a good find today.
09:38You're a big rock.
09:41Come on, Billy.
09:42Bring me a bucket of treasure.
09:44Hey, Gary.
09:49What have you seen, Billy?
09:53Look at that!
09:58What have you seen, Billy?
09:59Just a stake or a stick?
10:02Uh, looks like it could be a stake.
10:04On the western side
10:06of the Oak Island swamp,
10:07there you go.
10:09Yeah.
10:10The team
10:10has just uncovered
10:11new evidence
10:13of man-made workings.
10:14Look, there's a log here.
10:16Yep.
10:17Can you pry that out?
10:18Yeah.
10:19That's in there deep.
10:28Do you want to
10:28try scooping it?
10:30I'll try to scrape back
10:31there a little bit, maybe.
10:31Because it's in there.
10:45That's it, look.
10:48There's our piece.
10:49Look, it was on top
10:51of the clay.
10:52Yeah, it's on top
10:53of the clay
10:53and it looks like
10:54it's peeled, right?
10:56The bark is peeled off of it.
10:57The two ends are cut
10:58and the limbs
10:59are cut off of it
11:01so somebody might
11:01have laid it in there
11:02for something.
11:03Yep.
11:04It actually looks like
11:05it could be a road
11:06because there's a lot
11:08of cut wood here
11:08and there's a lot of rocks
11:10underneath it
11:11in the clay.
11:12Yeah.
11:13This is like
11:13a corduroy road.
11:15Yeah.
11:16A possible corduroy road?
11:19First designed in Europe
11:20during the 11th century,
11:22a corduroy road
11:23consists of logs
11:25that are placed
11:25tightly together
11:26and used
11:27to transport wagons
11:29and heavy cargo
11:30across marshy environments.
11:33We know
11:34that these logs
11:36were laid that way
11:37so someone is coming
11:39this way
11:40into the swamp.
11:41Right.
11:42If Gary is correct
11:44that this feature
11:45is a corduroy road,
11:47just who constructed it,
11:50when,
11:50and what could they
11:51have been moving
11:52into the swamp?
11:53We found survey stakes,
11:55we found the stone road,
11:57we found part of the stone path
11:59on the edge of the bog.
12:00We have the so-called vault.
12:04There's more rocks
12:05here too, right?
12:06Yeah.
12:07Perhaps we should
12:08follow this new road.
12:10My hope is that
12:11there's another
12:11vault-like structure.
12:13Oh, yeah,
12:19what is that?
12:23Coal.
12:24Yeah,
12:25we found some coal.
12:27Now,
12:28this is interesting
12:29because the last time
12:30we found coal,
12:32it was on that
12:32Portuguese stone road
12:34on the other side
12:35of the swamp.
12:36I'm pretty sure
12:37we found some
12:37of the stone path too,
12:38yeah.
12:38Yeah.
12:38Is it possible
12:41that the team
12:42has found another clue
12:43that might be connected
12:45to the stone road
12:46uncovered in the
12:48southeastern corner
12:49of the swamp
12:49and which may be
12:51of Portuguese origin?
12:54Rick was interested
12:55if we find some coal
12:57because we'd be
12:58duplicating
12:59what happened
13:00across the other side
13:01of the swamp.
13:01Okay.
13:02Yeah.
13:03It was just here.
13:04Let me see
13:05if I can find some more.
13:07That's a big piece.
13:08Yep.
13:09We got some good samples.
13:11Yeah.
13:12We got that right, mate.
13:14Interest to see
13:14if that's coal
13:15or charcoal.
13:17As the search
13:18in the swamp continues,
13:21several hundred yards
13:23to the west
13:23on lot five.
13:26What's this exciting thing,
13:27Laird?
13:28Well,
13:28it's kind of
13:29an unusual
13:30rock feature
13:31and it appears
13:33initially
13:33to be circular.
13:35Yeah,
13:35it is for sure.
13:36Yeah.
13:36Marty joins
13:38other team members
13:39as they investigate
13:40a strange stone feature
13:42found one week ago.
13:44A feature
13:45located in the same area
13:47where six ancient Roman coins
13:50were discovered
13:50in recent years.
13:53It could be
13:54any number of things.
13:55Yeah.
13:56Okay,
13:57well,
13:57we've seen
13:57things like this
13:59turn into something
14:00very important.
14:01Yeah.
14:01I hope this one does.
14:03Yeah.
14:04Well,
14:04I think
14:04the first order of business
14:05is to clean off the sod
14:07and delineate it
14:09a little bit more.
14:10All right,
14:10well,
14:10let's get after it.
14:11Give me a troll.
14:12Let's go.
14:14All right.
14:15There you go.
14:16Even though
14:16doing archaeology
14:18is not my strong suit,
14:20nor is it something
14:21I particularly enjoy,
14:23there you go.
14:24Okay.
14:25I'm starting
14:25to get intrigued.
14:26We have found
14:28Roman coins
14:29near it.
14:33So finding
14:34any construction
14:35where we found
14:36the Roman coins
14:36almost by definition
14:38is going to be interesting.
14:41We have here
14:42a bunch of little rocks,
14:44pointy little rocks.
14:45What is that telling you?
14:46To me,
14:47that's not field clearing.
14:49If you're a farmer,
14:50no,
14:50you're not doing that.
14:51They're not plowing
14:52that up.
14:53Yeah.
14:53That's way too angular.
14:54Yeah.
14:54We've got this
14:56cleaned off,
14:57so we're ready
14:58to remove rocks.
15:00Excellent.
15:02It's really amazing
15:04for me to think
15:05about when I first
15:06saw Lot 5
15:06so many years ago
15:07and seeing what
15:08it's evolved into
15:09right now.
15:10Not only how large
15:11and unusual
15:12the stone structure is,
15:14but how unusual
15:15a lot of the artifacts
15:17we're finding are,
15:18like the beads
15:19and the buttons.
15:20It's turned into
15:21something mysterious
15:22and amazing to us.
15:23That's all one rock?
15:28Yeah.
15:30That's not moving
15:31by hand, is it?
15:32No, not even close.
15:34And it needs to go?
15:35I think it'd be interesting.
15:37This oil's covering it
15:38I found odd.
15:39Okay, well,
15:39I'll go grab the backhoe
15:40and see if I can
15:41find a way in here.
15:42Okay.
15:42Okay, good.
15:44The rocks are fragmented.
15:46They look like
15:46they were put in there
15:47intentionally
15:48to keep this feature
15:50very stable.
15:52It's going to be
15:52a tight fit.
15:56When I first saw
15:57this feature
15:58I found it very unusual
15:59because it was a split stone
16:01sitting upright.
16:02It's pretty big.
16:13It's lifting
16:14the other one up.
16:16I haven't seen
16:17anything like
16:18the split stone
16:19anywhere else
16:20on the island
16:20so to me
16:21the only explanation
16:22is that it's
16:23for marking something
16:24or for reference.
16:27And it's just adding
16:28another intriguing page
16:30to the story
16:31of Lot 5.
16:38Okay, it's out.
16:40We'll have to come in
16:40with trowels
16:41and just clean it up.
16:42Boy, these are
16:43jumbled up
16:44pointy rocks.
16:45Yep, yep.
16:46Like Lot 26.
16:49Very similar
16:50to the wall,
16:51isn't it?
16:51Yeah.
16:52Which is pretty cool.
16:54All very odd.
16:57Hand-cut rocks
16:58similar to those
16:59found in the rock wall
17:01on Lot 26?
17:03It's an intriguing
17:04observation
17:05for several reasons.
17:07First,
17:08the wall on Lot 26
17:10located several hundred yards
17:12to the southeast
17:13is much larger
17:15than the numerous
17:16other stone walls
17:17across the island
17:18that were constructed
17:19by farmers
17:20and settlers
17:20after the discovery
17:22of the money pit.
17:24Second,
17:25carbon dating
17:26of charcoal
17:26found in the wall
17:27on Lot 26
17:29suggests
17:30it was constructed
17:31as early
17:32as the 15th century.
17:34The rock wall.
17:37And third,
17:38according to researcher
17:39Francisco Nogueira,
17:41the wall
17:41may have
17:42a distinct
17:43European origin.
17:44This wall appears
17:45to be created
17:46in the world
17:47Portuguese style
17:48of building
17:49rock fences.
17:51No way.
17:54So somebody
17:54put this here.
17:55Oh, yeah.
17:56Yeah.
17:57Yeah.
17:57Is it possible
17:58that the same people
18:00constructed
18:01these two features?
18:03It's worth
18:03continuing
18:04with our little
18:04investigation
18:05and it could have been
18:06put there
18:07for a reason.
18:08Yep.
18:09All right,
18:09let's get back after it.
18:10Okay.
18:14As a new morning
18:17begins
18:17on Oak Island.
18:20Initial conclusions,
18:22someone dug a hole,
18:24propped that rock
18:24up in it,
18:26and then filled it in
18:28with smaller rocks.
18:29Wow.
18:30Laird and Marty
18:31are joined by Rick
18:32and other members
18:33of the team
18:34to continue investigating
18:36the strange boulder
18:37and stone feature
18:38on Lot 5.
18:39So for some reason
18:41they needed
18:42that showing.
18:44Hmm.
18:44If you look
18:45at the rocks themselves,
18:46it's that same
18:47kind of rubble
18:48that was in the wall
18:49in Lot 26
18:50that was dated
18:51to 1474
18:52by charcoal.
18:54Somebody went
18:54to some trouble.
18:55Yeah.
18:56What is the orientation?
18:58Really close
18:58to East-West.
18:59Isn't the Lot 5
19:00circular feature
19:02East-West?
19:03Yeah.
19:04The long axis is,
19:05yeah.
19:05And if you know
19:06Templar
19:07Freemasonry,
19:08it's always East-West.
19:10Everything is oriented
19:11to East-West.
19:12The orientation
19:13of the building
19:15a structure
19:15had importance
19:16to them.
19:18On these trips
19:19to Europe
19:20and beyond,
19:22every building
19:23we've encountered,
19:25every structure
19:26that was Templar
19:27influenced,
19:30Templar built,
19:32was oriented
19:33East-West.
19:37And Laird
19:37is saying that
19:38this stone-faced
19:39is oriented
19:40East-West.
19:42I find that
19:43to be quite remarkable,
19:45exceedingly interesting.
19:48Hey, guys.
19:49Hey.
19:49Gotcha.
19:50Terry, how are you?
19:51Terry.
19:52Oh, and he's got
19:53his pick with him.
19:54He's got his hammer.
19:55All right, Terry.
19:57We got questions.
19:58Number one is,
19:58what do you make of that?
20:00Well, something's going on here.
20:02I would say that
20:03somebody piled those stones.
20:04That's pretty clear, right?
20:04Pretty clear.
20:06That was flipped up,
20:07and then they ringed it
20:08with rocks.
20:10I would say, yeah,
20:11in that they've put that
20:12up against the other.
20:13We've got a stone structure here.
20:16Did you take measurements
20:17here, Laird?
20:17Yeah.
20:18It's six feet in diameter.
20:20Yeah.
20:21Six feet is 72 inches.
20:23Right.
20:24And we know
20:24the rule of 72
20:26goes back
20:27into antiquity.
20:29Nolan's cross
20:30is based on
20:30the rule of 72.
20:32That's true.
20:33If we remember
20:34when John Edwards
20:35gave his presentation,
20:36he represented
20:37that the Templars
20:39used the rule of 72.
20:41Yeah.
20:43The way to unlock
20:45Nolan's cross
20:45is built into
20:46the cross itself.
20:47In 2023,
20:49researcher John Edwards
20:51presented the team
20:53with a potential link
20:54between the Order
20:55of the Knights Templar
20:56and the design
20:57of Nolan's cross.
20:59When you go
20:59and look at
21:00the two arms
21:01of the cross,
21:01it's 720.
21:03Everything was divisible
21:04by 72.
21:06Numbers used
21:06have to be
21:07of significance
21:08to whoever
21:09built Nolan's cross.
21:11And I'm suggesting
21:12it might be
21:13the Templars
21:14because they used
21:15the Latin rule of 72.
21:16The Latin rule,
21:17which is also known
21:19as specific behavior
21:20for the Templar order,
21:22was written
21:23in the early 12th century
21:24by Hugues de Pan
21:26and Bernard of Clairvaux,
21:28two of the founding members
21:30of the Templar order.
21:32The document contained
21:33a set of 72 directives
21:35that all Templar knights
21:37were sworn to live by.
21:39And curiously,
21:41John Edwards' research
21:42revealed
21:43that the symbolic number
21:45of 72
21:45was incorporated
21:47into the designs
21:49of numerous Templar-related
21:50structures
21:51all across medieval Europe.
21:53So the fact
21:55that it is
21:56six feet
21:57in diameter...
21:58It might mean something.
21:59It might be meaningful.
22:01Could Rick be correct
22:02that this feature
22:03and Nolan's cross
22:05represent
22:05further evidence
22:07of a Templar connection
22:08to the Oak Island mystery?
22:11There was a purpose here,
22:12an intelligent design.
22:14I'm also thinking,
22:15how many more
22:15of these are around?
22:17Imagine that,
22:17another puzzle.
22:18Yeah, I think
22:20what we'll do
22:20is we'll clean out
22:21this side
22:22a little more
22:23and then we'll
22:24clean off the rest.
22:25Right on.
22:26What we should do
22:27is have Steve come out,
22:28take a line.
22:30I'm quite fascinated
22:30with the possibility
22:32of numerical relationships
22:33between this
22:34and other stone features
22:36on the island.
22:37And to be honest,
22:38the only way to find out
22:39is to do it.
22:40Correct.
22:40Right.
22:40So...
22:41Okey-doke.
22:42We'll get on to other things.
22:44All right.
22:44See you later.
22:44As Laird continues
22:46uncovering the new
22:47stone feature
22:48on Lot 5...
22:50I brought a lot of bags, mate.
22:52I'm expecting
22:52a good day for artifacts.
22:54We'll try to fill them.
22:55Here we go.
22:55Get stuck in.
22:57Over on the western
22:58edge of the swamp,
23:00Gary, Billy,
23:01and Derek
23:02search for more clues.
23:10That's a little
23:10surface nail.
23:13Oh.
23:13Let's begin
23:14to begin again.
23:22That rock
23:23right there.
23:24I can see
23:25the hard clay
23:26in the rocks.
23:28Okay.
23:30I'm going to
23:30detect.
23:34It's in there.
23:38That's a little
23:39bit stronger.
23:43Just there, please.
23:44Just there, please.
23:57There you go, mate.
23:58Give it some welly.
23:58Stuck between a rock
24:08and a hard place.
24:10This looks like
24:11it's deeper down, Derek.
24:12This has got a chance
24:13of being older.
24:15Come.
24:17Still in there.
24:20Are about to witness
24:21a little bit of
24:22Oak Island history, Derek.
24:23I'll try and pin point it.
24:34It is that.
24:37The heck is that?
24:40The heck is it?
24:50Yeah, it's heavy.
24:52While searching
24:53near the log roadway
24:54on the western side
24:56of the swamp,
24:57members of the
24:58Oak Island team
24:58have just found
25:00another mysterious
25:01artifact.
25:02A lot of times
25:04when we find
25:05old iron like this
25:06and it's really heavy
25:08for its size,
25:10it turns out
25:10to be older iron.
25:12I have no idea
25:13what it is, Billy.
25:14You know,
25:14it doesn't just look
25:15like a piece of
25:16slag metal either.
25:17You know,
25:17you've got the
25:18sharp angles cut there,
25:19right?
25:19Like, it's a something.
25:20Yeah.
25:21It's made on purpose
25:22like that.
25:23That's good.
25:24We've got some
25:24old iron coming up.
25:26Yep.
25:26Hopefully,
25:27there's some old
25:27gold and silver.
25:29Yep.
25:30We'll put that
25:31in the bag.
25:32Anytime you find
25:34an artifact
25:34on Oak Island,
25:36it always has
25:37more of a story
25:38to tell.
25:39See,
25:40if there's
25:40anything else,
25:42there's a lot
25:43of iron around it.
25:44And we've
25:45previously recovered
25:47really good artifacts
25:48in the swamp.
25:49Hopefully,
25:50we can find
25:51some more.
26:00something small.
26:02Yeah.
26:08Talk about
26:09a needle
26:09in a clay stack.
26:15We ain't
26:16missing nothing,
26:17Derek.
26:17No,
26:18definitely not.
26:18Yeah.
26:20I know
26:20it's only
26:20a little
26:21iron needle,
26:23but it can
26:23tell a story.
26:26Put that
26:26in the bag.
26:27Hey, guys.
26:30All right,
26:30chaps.
26:31What on earth
26:32are you guys
26:32doing here?
26:33We are
26:34digging the heck
26:35out of this area.
26:36And?
26:36We've got
26:37a couple
26:37of interesting
26:38pieces of iron.
26:40I'll show you.
26:42What'd you
26:42think of them,
26:43Derek?
26:45This one
26:46needled him
26:46a little bit.
26:47Wow.
26:48It is a needle,
26:49isn't it?
26:49Yeah.
26:51Little iron
26:52needle.
26:53Wait,
26:53let me see it.
26:53Look how little
26:54that is.
26:57Boy,
26:59it shows again
27:00how good
27:00you are
27:00at finding
27:01stuff.
27:02You've got
27:03to be kidding.
27:04I don't know.
27:05It almost looks
27:05like it has
27:05a patina to you.
27:07The other one,
27:07I don't know
27:08what to think
27:08about.
27:09Now,
27:09this was great
27:11because it was
27:12deep down there.
27:13We had to dig
27:13it out.
27:14Mm-hmm.
27:15And it's nice
27:15and heavy.
27:16Mm-hmm.
27:18It is heavy.
27:19That's cool.
27:20You generally
27:20have an idea.
27:21You know what?
27:22The more I look
27:23at it,
27:23to me,
27:23it looks like
27:24an old iron buckle
27:25and that's just
27:26one end of it.
27:28That little area
27:29there could come
27:30out these two ends.
27:32That'd be a big
27:33buckle.
27:34Yeah,
27:34it'd be a big
27:34buckle.
27:35Could be off
27:36boxes.
27:38Could Gary
27:38be correct
27:39that he has
27:40found an iron
27:41buckle that may
27:42have once been
27:42attached to
27:43a large chest?
27:45If so,
27:46was it possibly
27:47related to some
27:48kind of valuable
27:49cargo?
27:49And could it
27:51also help
27:51explain why
27:52the nearby
27:53Corduroy Road
27:54was constructed?
27:56Well,
27:56I've always
27:56been a swamp
27:57skeptic.
27:58I've said
27:58for years
27:59that one
27:59of the best
28:00ways to hide
28:01a treasure
28:01would be
28:03to flood it.
28:04And flooding
28:05it in a,
28:06you know,
28:07swamp-like
28:07condition would
28:08be ideal
28:09because there
28:10would be
28:10absolutely
28:11no trace
28:12if you did it.
28:12So,
28:13yeah,
28:13it's possible
28:14that what we
28:14seek is in
28:15that swamp.
28:15Absolutely
28:16possible.
28:17Well,
28:17that has Emma
28:18written all over it,
28:19doesn't it?
28:19Oh, yeah.
28:20Probably a really
28:21old piece of iron.
28:22Yeah,
28:22you know what
28:23I'm going to say.
28:24Yeah,
28:24that's good,
28:24but find some more.
28:28Well,
28:28keep going.
28:29Leave no stone
28:30unturned.
28:31There you go.
28:32As Gary,
28:33Billy,
28:33and Derek
28:34search for more
28:35evidence of treasure
28:36in the swamp
28:37later that afternoon.
28:43Okay,
28:43we got a core
28:44coming,
28:44guys.
28:44Here we go.
28:45It's perfect timing
28:46because Big Brother
28:47just showed up.
28:48Rick
28:49joins Marty
28:50and other members
28:51of the team
28:51in the Money Pit
28:52area.
28:56Well,
28:56it looks like
28:56he got good recovery
28:57or he wouldn't
28:58need that.
28:59As the drilling
29:00operation
29:01in borehole
29:02G 4.5
29:03approaches the bottom
29:05of the solution
29:06channel.
29:09That's 208,
29:11Terry.
29:12208?
29:12We hit the bottom
29:13at 206.
29:14206 and 208's
29:16the bottom.
29:17All right.
29:21All right.
29:23G 4.5
29:24is about to tell us
29:26everything he's got
29:26to say.
29:31There you go.
29:32Unfortunately,
29:35it's got quite a lot
29:37of solid material
29:38in amongst the water.
29:40This is not the loose
29:41material we're looking
29:42for.
29:43Sadly,
29:44nothing to write home
29:45about in particular,
29:46I guess.
29:48Who's got the pinpointer?
29:49Inside the box there.
29:51We're going to have
29:52to get it on that table.
29:53Boom over.
29:54Let's go.
29:55Okay,
29:56let's pull her back.
29:56Nothing.
30:05Nope.
30:05Nope.
30:08We were hoping
30:09for a home run.
30:11By that,
30:11I mean we would
30:12come up with a coin
30:13or something
30:13and say,
30:14oh, there it is.
30:14There's where
30:15the treasure is.
30:18Anything?
30:20No.
30:20No luck.
30:22Sorry, Rick.
30:24No joy.
30:26But I really like this.
30:31I called it
30:32Treasure Central.
30:33I am disappointed here.
30:35Yeah.
30:37I'm frustrated.
30:39We were very hopeful
30:40that the Corps
30:41would retrieve
30:42something man-made
30:43from those depths.
30:44It's very troubling
30:45and I wonder
30:47if maybe it's gone,
30:48maybe it's lost forever.
30:51I mean,
30:52that's possible.
30:55At this point,
30:55we don't know.
30:56The fact that we
30:57didn't bullseye
30:58the target yet,
30:59is that disappointing?
31:01Yes.
31:02I don't know
31:02what the next ones are.
31:03They're all still
31:04in and around here, aren't they?
31:05Right, absolutely.
31:06And I mean,
31:06we're not done yet.
31:07We have to find the void.
31:09Nothing fell into this.
31:11For right now,
31:11that's the general bottom
31:13in this area.
31:14Okay.
31:15On to the next one.
31:16Okay.
31:16At the start of a new day
31:22on Oak Island,
31:23members of the team
31:25begin drilling
31:26a new borehole
31:27in the Money Pit area
31:28to continue exploring
31:30the murky depths
31:31of the Solution Channel.
31:34As new ground
31:35is broken,
31:37Marty finds his brother
31:38more than 500 feet away
31:40at Smith's Cove.
31:41Hey.
31:42Hey.
31:43You're looking
31:44a little pensive.
31:45Yeah, a little bit.
31:47I happen to come down
31:48to Smith's Cove
31:49and I see Rick sitting there
31:50kind of looking
31:50out over the water.
31:51He's looking discouraged.
31:53We were hoping
31:54that we'd get
31:55a sliver of a coin
31:56or a fraction
31:57of a piece of gold
31:58or something
31:58that would absolutely
31:59pinpoint
32:00where we needed to go.
32:03Well, we didn't.
32:05It's nice to take
32:06a deep breath
32:06once in a while,
32:07isn't it?
32:07Mm-hmm.
32:08Are you disappointed
32:10a little bit
32:10about the results
32:12so far
32:13and the drilling
32:15in the Solution Channel?
32:16Are you disappointed?
32:17Yeah, I'm disappointed
32:18because I wanted
32:20to put, you know,
32:21something of supreme
32:23monetary value
32:24on the table.
32:25But I think
32:26the theory makes sense.
32:27I think it really
32:28makes sense.
32:29You know,
32:30the early guys
32:31find a vault
32:31at 90 feet
32:32and then everything
32:34collapses down
32:35a little bit,
32:35you know,
32:36all kinds of things
32:36happen.
32:37And we know
32:37that things fell again.
32:40And we know
32:40the money pit
32:40collapsed violently
32:41so it would
32:42answer everything.
32:44Yeah.
32:44So I'm probably
32:45more hopeful
32:46than I've ever been
32:47because I got
32:47something in mind
32:48that would explain
32:49everything.
32:51The purpose
32:51of the deep drilling
32:53this year
32:54was really
32:55come up with
32:56a piece of treasure.
32:57But the second part
32:58was to define
32:59this solution channel
32:59to figure out
33:00where it is
33:02big enough
33:03and open enough
33:04for this collapse
33:06to have occurred.
33:06The second component
33:07is coming in nicely.
33:08We're defining
33:09that thing pretty well.
33:10We have a theory
33:11that makes sense
33:12and is still
33:13supported completely
33:15by the science
33:16that there are
33:17precious metals
33:18still in the money pit
33:19area.
33:20Couple those two things
33:21together
33:22and it's still
33:23pretty exciting.
33:24You know,
33:25I've always,
33:26always believed
33:27in a story here,
33:28certainly.
33:29And I think
33:31every year
33:32we prove
33:33that it's probably
33:34more complex
33:35and more difficult
33:36than we had imagined.
33:37That's for sure.
33:39When you get depressed
33:40and down,
33:41you'd have to say,
33:41who gets to do this?
33:43Exactly.
33:44Who gets to take hold
33:45of a great treasure story
33:46and run with it?
33:47Oh, absolutely.
33:48A couple of youpers
33:49trying to do
33:50kind of a cool thing.
33:51Yeah.
33:52I'll be honest,
33:53Marty is right.
33:54We are absolutely
33:55committed to
33:56defining the solution
33:57channel
33:58as best we can.
33:59My hope is that
34:00something can be
34:01retrieved
34:02in the near term
34:03that say,
34:06you know,
34:06here we are,
34:08come get us.
34:09But for right now,
34:11I think we should
34:12be patient.
34:14Man,
34:14we've been so
34:15blessed
34:16with the people
34:18we've met,
34:19the things
34:19we've experienced,
34:20the things
34:21we've done.
34:22I mean,
34:22I couldn't,
34:23the last years,
34:24these last years,
34:25I couldn't have
34:26asked for anything
34:26better.
34:27I really couldn't have.
34:27It's been an
34:28unbelievable quest
34:31to decipher
34:32what the hell
34:32happened here.
34:35Sempre avanti.
34:36Let's go.
34:37Ain't gonna find itself.
34:42Later that morning...
34:45Good morning,
34:46Matthew.
34:47Hi.
34:47Hello, sir.
34:48Rick, Marty,
34:49and other members
34:49of the team
34:50meet via videoconference
34:52with Maltese
34:53military historian
34:54Matthew Balzad
34:55to discuss
34:57the possible piece
34:58of a hand cannon
34:59recovered in the swamp.
35:01We very much
35:02look forward
35:02to your analysis
35:03of the item
35:04that has been found here
35:06and I believe
35:07you have the report
35:08in front of you
35:08that we have done
35:09here on the island.
35:10Yes.
35:12Hey, Matthew.
35:12Hi.
35:13How are you?
35:13Good.
35:14In 2024,
35:17Rick and members
35:18of the team
35:18met Matthew
35:20in Malta
35:20while researching
35:22potential ties
35:23between Templar
35:23related orders
35:24and the Oak Island mystery
35:26and were stunned
35:28by his assessment
35:29of a pickaxe
35:30that they found
35:30deep in the money pit area.
35:34This was employed
35:34in Malta
35:35for centuries.
35:38Wow.
35:40Now,
35:41given Laird
35:42and Emma's
35:42preliminary analysis
35:44on the hand cannon,
35:45the team wonders
35:46if Matthew
35:47can help them
35:48determine its origin.
35:49The hand cannon
35:51emerged
35:52in the 1200s.
35:53In European culture,
35:55it was used
35:56in warfare
35:56mostly
35:57from the 13th
35:59to the 15th
36:00at most
36:02early 16th century.
36:04Would this be
36:05a possible
36:051200s artifact?
36:07Yes.
36:08Wow.
36:09What I find
36:09interesting
36:10and strange,
36:12however,
36:13is the fact
36:14that
36:15I don't
36:16know exactly
36:17how that fits
36:18into your site's history.
36:28Would this be
36:29a possible
36:301200s artifact?
36:32Yes.
36:33That I find
36:34quite strange
36:35because I don't
36:36know exactly
36:36how that fits
36:37into your site's history.
36:39In the war room,
36:41Maltese military historian
36:43Matthew Balzad
36:44has just informed
36:45the team
36:46that the hand cannon
36:47found in the swamp
36:49could be
36:50as much
36:50as 800 years old.
36:53It's interesting,
36:55Matthew,
36:55extremely interesting.
36:56I mean,
36:56the likelihood
36:57of finding
36:57a hand cannon
36:58on Oak Island.
37:00It sure seems
37:01an unlikely thing
37:02to find here,
37:03I will say that.
37:04Exactly.
37:05Do you know,
37:06Matthew,
37:07would the Portuguese
37:07be more likely
37:08to use this
37:09than the French
37:10or is there
37:10any sort
37:11correlation there?
37:12In the Italian
37:13legion,
37:14it was used
37:14a lot.
37:15France as well.
37:18Spain being
37:19an empire
37:19used them as well,
37:20so it was widespread.
37:22Mm.
37:23However,
37:24I did not
37:24encounter it
37:25in the same time frame
37:26in the Americas.
37:28So that's what
37:29makes it
37:30quite curious.
37:31Yeah.
37:32We don't know.
37:33if we try
37:35to interpret
37:36this artifact
37:37in a different way,
37:38it might have been
37:39used as some
37:41sort of apparatus
37:43in order to direct
37:44the blast
37:45of a gunpowder
37:46in a particular way
37:47to break
37:48the hard bedrock.
37:50Mm.
37:51In Malta,
37:53we still use explosives
37:54to crack rock
37:55till this very day.
37:57You wonder,
37:58though,
37:58in a confined space,
38:00like, say,
38:00a tunnel,
38:01would this be
38:02more useful?
38:03It would probably
38:04be more efficient
38:05than just drilling
38:05a hole in the rock,
38:06I'm guessing.
38:07Well, it's the old
38:08repurposing thing, too.
38:10It's like, hey,
38:10use that.
38:11You know,
38:11why not?
38:12It's probably quicker.
38:14Yeah.
38:15The rock breaking thing
38:16is a little interesting
38:17to me just thinking
38:18of where we found it,
38:18right?
38:19The swamp.
38:20But when you think
38:20of the paved area,
38:22there's so much
38:22broken pieces of rock
38:24that really have
38:25to be fitted and placed.
38:26When we got
38:26in the paved area,
38:27I said, you know,
38:27you almost wanted
38:28a quarry somewhere nearby,
38:29but if you needed
38:30to get certain sized rocks
38:31to make that
38:32perfectly level,
38:32you might come
38:33with that toll
38:34and try to start
38:34to blast some rocks up
38:35to build your platforms
38:36level, right?
38:37Yeah.
38:40Is it possible
38:41that the hand cannon
38:42was fired at large rocks
38:44to break them up
38:45for the creation
38:46of the potentially
38:47800-year-old paved area?
38:50If so,
38:51might the hand cannon
38:52also be related
38:54to the other strange
38:55structures on the island,
38:56such as the wall
38:57on lot 26
38:59or the rock formation
39:01that was recently
39:02uncovered on lot 5?
39:04We've been surprised
39:07by just so many things
39:07in the swamp
39:08as being old
39:08and here's another one
39:09now that stacks up
39:10being way before
39:11anything in our history
39:13that should be there,
39:13right, sir?
39:14Yeah, it's pre-Columbus.
39:15If this is true,
39:17then it shows
39:18that people were
39:19crossing the Atlantic
39:19much earlier
39:20than what we thought.
39:22Look, you've come
39:23a long way
39:23and so has Peter,
39:24so has Alex.
39:25But there's mounting evidence
39:27of something happening
39:29here very early.
39:30Where are you right now?
39:32Me?
39:33Yeah.
39:34You can't discard evidence
39:37that you find uncomfortable.
39:39You can't discard it
39:40and there it sits.
39:41So I think there's starting
39:43to be quite a lot of data
39:46that strongly suggests
39:48there were Europeans here
39:49long before history
39:51would suggest they were here.
39:53Yeah.
39:53But it hasn't been
39:54quite proven yet.
39:56Hmm?
39:57Is that fair?
39:58Yeah.
39:59We need the smoking gun.
40:01Got one.
40:02Fire it.
40:03Fire it.
40:05When people think
40:06of a treasure hunt,
40:07they think that every day
40:08is successful.
40:09Every day is an aha moment.
40:12That's not true.
40:14But at some point,
40:15there will come a moment
40:16where you say to yourself,
40:18yes, it is worth it.
40:20And this is why.
40:22The complexity
40:23of the Oak Island story
40:24far and away exceeds
40:26my thoughts
40:27as a young boy
40:28when reading it.
40:29This was, as always,
40:30really, really interesting.
40:32Yeah.
40:32Yeah.
40:33Matthew, we certainly
40:35appreciate your time.
40:36This was highly informative.
40:39It's really quite something.
40:40A very unique find.
40:42Whatever I can help.
40:43Thank you very much.
40:44Many thanks.
40:45Many thanks.
40:46Very nice to see you again.
40:46Take care.
40:47See you.
40:48Well, we continue
40:50to work away then.
40:52So, having said that,
40:53I think we all need
40:54to get back to work.
40:54Yeah, you can.
40:55Amen.
40:58A vast treasure
41:00may still lie deep
41:01below Oak Island.
41:03But once again,
41:05through faith
41:06and persistence,
41:08Rick, Marty,
41:09and their team
41:09have found new clues
41:11that suggest
41:12the incredible truth
41:13about this 230-year-old mystery
41:16might be revealed
41:18much closer
41:19to the surface.
41:21So,
41:22as they forge ahead
41:23in the murky depths
41:25of the money pit,
41:26they must never stop looking
41:28for what could be hiding
41:30in plain sight.
41:35Next time
41:36on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:38The metal we're seeing
41:39in the water
41:39is in the solution channel.
41:41Absolutely.
41:42There's metal underground
41:43that isn't natural.
41:44We found gold.
41:45We got a signal.
41:47Oh, it's in.
41:48What do you got?
41:48What the heck
41:49is that doing here?
41:50This right here
41:51is a key to navigation,
41:52but it might be a key
41:53for the alignment
41:54of Nolan's cross.
41:55This road goes
41:56from the beach
41:57to the money pit.
41:58We're just under
41:58the bottom
41:59of the solution channel.
42:00Where are you,
42:00little gold coin?
42:01Do you see it?
42:02Come on.
42:02There you go.
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