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00:01Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:04Oh, wow.
00:05Check that out.
00:06That's a great find.
00:07That could be really, really old.
00:08This was used to build a wooden vault
00:11or some sort of structure down below for safekeeping.
00:13After researching the Xenomap,
00:15I came across three churches on the west coast of France.
00:18These three churches are pointing towards Oak Island.
00:20You've got something big on your hands.
00:22It's absolutely intentional.
00:23It matches slot five in the money bill.
00:25They were trying to conceal it.
00:26Which makes it even more spectacular.
00:31There is an island in the North Atlantic
00:35where 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
00:54to the Knights Templar.
00:56To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:02And, according to legend,
01:05one more will have to die
01:07before the treasure can be found.
01:21Do you know what time it is?
01:23Treasure time.
01:25A new day on Oak Island begins with great excitement
01:29for Rick, Marty and their team
01:32as they are digging to historic depths in the Money Pit area.
01:36We're right at the bottom of Karma.
01:39We're in the solution channel.
01:41That's where the treasure's gonna be.
01:43Look, we've got as good a chance as any to find it today.
01:47And I hope it's gonna be right over there.
01:50One day ago, after excavating the seven-foot diameter shaft known as Karma 1,
01:58212 feet deep to the bottom of the solution channel,
02:01the team lifted the steel caissons to allow loose soils and debris
02:07to settle overnight into a pile below.
02:10They are now about to retrieve those materials with a dig bucket
02:14and search them for evidence of a large source of silver,
02:18which has been detected through water and soil testing in this area.
02:23It is their hope that the silver is connected
02:26to the 14th century Portuguese coin
02:29reportedly retrieved from the Money Pit
02:31by foreman James Pitt Blato in 1849.
02:36Look, let the sluice loose.
02:40Let's go take a look.
02:43All kinds of man-made things are in that solution channel.
02:47We've proven it. We've brought them up.
02:49So I'm very hopeful that we're gonna find some evidence
02:52of the treasure that we think fell into that collapsed area.
02:56Nope. No hints.
02:58Billy can get it all in the truck, get it all in the wash plant,
03:00see what's in here.
03:01Okay.
03:02As Rick, Gary, and Terry wait to search more spoils
03:06in the Money Pit area.
03:08Some 500 feet to the east near Smith's Cove.
03:12It's pretty muddy.
03:14Yeah, a little bit.
03:16Charles Barkhouse and other members of the team
03:19are at the wash plant searching by hand through spoils
03:22that were previously removed from the Karma One shaft
03:25and may contain important evidence or valuables not found by Gary's metal detector.
03:32This process has already produced fines such as a small hand-forged iron chain.
03:38It's a type of chain Gary has previously found while metal detecting in Europe
03:44and he believes could have been used to lock a box or a chest.
03:52Oh, wow. Check that out. Look what I found.
03:57Looks like a rose head spike to me.
03:59And it's hand wrought to fasten different pieces of wood together.
04:03And that could be really, really old.
04:05Any time the team finds something on the conveyor belt at the wash plant,
04:08I mean, we're excited.
04:09But finding that rose head spike, you know, in Karma One,
04:13could be the indicator that we're looking for.
04:15This could come from the 1600s or earlier.
04:19This could be from the original workings of the depositors of the treasure.
04:24That's a great find.
04:25But that's going to go to the lab, for sure.
04:27And then the test side.
04:28We'll keep looking.
04:31Meanwhile, back in the money pit area.
04:34Right. This is it.
04:35Looks like the last material.
04:37Let's go check it out.
04:39Let's give it one more go.
04:40Okay.
04:41Rick and the team continue to search through the final spoils
04:45retrieved from the bottom of the Karma One shaft.
04:55I think we've gone as fast as we can get.
04:56Are you done?
04:57Yeah.
04:58So, got one more chance still in the wash plant.
05:01Yep.
05:03Wash plant it is.
05:04Yep.
05:09Hey, guys.
05:10Hey. Hey there.
05:10How you doing, Adam?
05:11Are we on bottom?
05:12We're on bottom and we're cleaned up.
05:14And bottom is?
05:15212.
05:17Miss by an inch, miss by a mile.
05:19Yeah, well, we're not going to miss the next time.
05:21No.
05:21No.
05:22We didn't find it.
05:23We just move on to the next location.
05:25Yep.
05:26Literally, our top pocket location was the one we're about to move to.
05:30Right.
05:30Yep.
05:33Find some treasure, boys!
05:36Two weeks ago, the team began excavating a shaft known as Top Pocket Find.
05:42Located less than 10 feet northeast of Karma One, this shaft was positioned directly over an area
05:49where water testing had revealed a massive source of silver deep underground, making it their primary target for exploration of
05:57the solution channel.
06:03That doesn't sound very good.
06:06But unfortunately, at a depth of just 25 feet, the caissons were stopped by gravel backfill from a previous dig.
06:16Now, using Rock Equipment's powerful rotating oscillator, the team from SB Canada can resume digging the TPF shaft down to
06:26the solution channel.
06:29On the one hand, Karma One is a little disappointing, but you just keep moving forward.
06:34The quicker we get started, the quicker we get down.
06:37Yep.
06:37All right.
06:39Appreciate it.
06:41While the dig proceeds in the Money Pit area.
06:46Later that day...
06:49Hey, guys.
06:50Hey.
06:51Every time I look at this, I don't know what to make of it.
06:53It's getting incredible.
06:55It's really quite spectacular.
06:57Yeah.
06:57Rick and Peter arrive on Lot 8 to check on the investigation of the cradle-like formation of stones that
07:05were found beneath a 40,000-pound boulder.
07:08How in the world was that made?
07:11It's a 40,000-pound boulder.
07:13If you were to drag it in, it would destroy this.
07:17I'm not thinking about how they did it as much as the why.
07:20I mean, this was definitely purposeful.
07:22We didn't remove any soil from down here whatsoever.
07:25It was filled with rocks.
07:28After removing the boulder revealed this mosaic-like stone feature,
07:33archaeologist Fiona Steele has begun removing debris and some of the stones to determine what purpose it might serve.
07:41Especially since the team has already detected possible evidence of a shaft and even silver in the soils below it.
07:50I've worked with stone most of my life, and the labor that you see in front of you is, it
07:58was quite laborious.
08:00It meant something to someone.
08:02I think we need to do as much work as possible to address one key question.
08:07What's underneath the boulder?
08:08We had a lot of smaller rocks, the ones that are these size, all in the center, and they were
08:13very loose.
08:13So once I started removing them, I started seeing these other rocks underneath.
08:17And you can see the ones underneath are a fair bit larger in size than the ones that were actually
08:23on top.
08:23And they extend all the way down here.
08:26This is what's starting to produce itself as we've been excavating here.
08:31I will say this, that one there.
08:34When I look at that, the way it's positioned.
08:36Coming this way.
08:38It's very curious positioning of that.
08:40Yeah.
08:41I still can't get out of my head the shape of these boulders that we had, which were very triangular.
08:45We had this big one down here, and we had another big one there, and a big one there.
08:49And it almost felt like there was a triangle pointing down to this boulder.
08:52I mean, when you think about this area, you think about Zena's map and the December triangle.
08:57This could also be related to that.
09:01In 2016, the late author and researcher Zena Halpern shared documents with the team, believed to have been created by
09:10members of the Knights Templar.
09:13One was a 12th century map of Nova Scotia, and the other was a map of Oak Island, possibly dating
09:20back to 1347.
09:24Astonishingly, it features several locations written in French.
09:27But when translated to English, they marked known sites on the island, such as the Money Pit, the swamp, and
09:35a site called the December triangle.
09:39Could the stone cradle and boulder align with the location on a possible Templar map?
09:46I've puzzled about whether or not this area could be referencing the so-called December triangle on Zena's map.
09:53I think we have to have a really proper look in the area in the vicinity of this stone and
10:00see if there's more information to be revealed that will help us understand the relationship between the drawing on Zena's
10:08map and this megalithic stone structure.
10:11I came across this area here of a blue light clay, and you can clearly see that there are chunks
10:17of charcoal-like material mixed in with this clay.
10:22I'm just not convinced that this blue-gray clay is natural to this area.
10:28Clay like this could be very similar to the clay that we find at the Money Pit.
10:36I'm absolutely mesmerized by this.
10:38This blue clay, I wonder if this is very similar to the clay from the Money Pit.
10:43On Lot 8, after removing some of the stones from the cradle-like feature that was covered by the massive
10:49boulder, Fiona has made a potentially important discovery.
10:54If you look at the way the stones are, now I've removed a few, but it really looks like this
10:59clay material had been used to mortar in kind of a rounded section in the front of it.
11:05It's absolutely intentional and purposeful, and they were trying to conceal it.
11:10And we did find some on Lot 5.
11:12Yeah.
11:13Makes it even more interesting.
11:15Yeah.
11:15Yeah.
11:15So if this matches that, then again, more connections.
11:21In 1804, the Onslow Company carried out the first large-scale excavation of the Money Pit
11:28and encountered wooden platforms every 10 feet, down to the 90-foot level.
11:34During the dig, they also reportedly found a thick layer of hand-worked blue clay at the 40-foot level,
11:40which they believed was used as a sealant to keep water out of the shaft in order to protect something
11:46buried deeper below.
11:49Curiously, in recent years, the team has discovered hand-worked blue clay in the swamp and in the round feature
11:56on Lot 5.
11:59If Fiona is correct that she has now found the same kind of blue clay material in this stone feature
12:05on Lot 8,
12:06could it be more evidence that this feature was created to hide something?
12:10This could be anything.
12:13The reality is there are lead and silver beyond baseline values within the structure itself,
12:20possibly in association with a shaft or a tunnel.
12:24So we have to be patient at this point.
12:27This has to be driven by the archaeological process.
12:30Is there anything we can do with the clay?
12:32Yeah.
12:33We'll get a nice big chunk of that soil and then take that back to the lab,
12:38and then we can run it through the XRD and see if it matches the Lot 5 till and the
12:44Money Pit till.
12:45That's where it gets fun.
12:46That's where it gets fun.
12:47All right.
12:48Let's get the sample done.
12:50There.
12:50That's a good sample.
12:53I'd like to give you this little bit here.
12:57We'll need to get that to the lab as soon as we can.
13:00There's a why here.
13:02Hopefully we can figure out what that is, but I'm sure you'll get to the bottom of it.
13:07But let's just keep moving this forward because we want to understand it.
13:11What it may mean.
13:12Okay.
13:13We've got a plan.
13:14All right.
13:15See you guys.
13:15Appreciate it.
13:19The next morning.
13:22Is that the first can?
13:24Yeah.
13:25They're started.
13:26If we're going to find some top pocket vines, it's got a bit as can.
13:30In the Money Pit area, Rick joins other members of the team as the TPF shaft is once again being
13:37excavated
13:37in a location where the highest trace evidence of silver has been detected more than 200 feet deep in the
13:45solution channel.
13:46Our first 150 feet is going to be, you know, pretty benign.
13:49From there on, it's everyone on deck and everyone keep their eyes peeled.
13:54Below 150 feet, everything's open game here.
13:57Because the solution channel ranges between some 150 to 220 feet deep, where the team believes the treasure has fallen
14:06after the collapse of the original Money Pit,
14:09it may take several days before the dig reaches its target depth.
14:14Yeah, we're going to backfill out of here down to about 150 feet.
14:16We are in the area where there is evidence of the collapse, the area where we have retrieved significant items.
14:24So I'm hoping, of course, that this top pocket find location will provide the answer.
14:30We all look forward to getting down to the bottom here.
14:34This is the wall. I sure hope you're right, Gary.
14:37The Pablado coin strongly hints that something is down there.
14:41But at the end of the day, if we can make this happen, and we will, we've just got to
14:47stay the course.
14:48We're just going to chew through it until we get to the treasure.
14:53You'll see it, mate.
14:54I'll be back. Thank you, guys.
14:55See you, Ray.
14:56All right.
14:59Later that day.
15:02Morning, guys.
15:03Hey.
15:03Hi.
15:04Morning.
15:04What?
15:05So we have Charlotte Wheatley here in the War Room.
15:07In the War Room, Rick, Craig, and other members of the team are meeting with researcher Charlotte Wheatley.
15:15Charlotte, she has some new information, and I think today should be exceedingly interesting.
15:20So having said that, Charlotte, welcome to the War Room.
15:23Thank you very much.
15:24In light of a possible connection between the Lot 8 feature and Xena Halpern's believed 14th century Templar map,
15:32Charlotte, who is a colleague of Emiliano, Judy, and Corian Maul, has been studying the map to look for more
15:39clues that may help verify its authenticity and how it may help solve the treasure mystery.
15:46And I came across this information after researching the Xena map, which I've done four years research on.
15:53I examined every name and place recorded on the map.
15:57And one of them I found quite interesting.
15:59I never heard it before was Le Lonceau de Talmont, which means the lion cub of Talmont.
16:05What was interesting for me is how could Talmont connect to the islands.
16:10There is a place in France called Talmont-sur-Gironde.
16:14So Talmont-sur-Gironde is on the west coast of France.
16:18It is a small fishing port.
16:20One of the nicest features of Talmont is a beautiful medieval church.
16:25And it's dedicated to a lesser known female saint called Radigonde.
16:29It's got a very simple interior, typical of Cistercian influence.
16:33It was built in the 11th to 12th century by Benedictine monks.
16:38The Benedictines are a Catholic religious order that was founded in the 6th century and adhered to what was known
16:46as the rule of Saint Benedict, a moral code for leading a faithful and productive life.
16:52These writings inspired the formation of an order of monks known as the Cistercians in 1098.
17:00And one of their most noted leaders was Bernard of Clairvaux, who co-founded the Knights Templar in 1119.
17:09The church was fortified, so that actually meant that they used it not only as a church, but also as
17:14a fort, which is not a common thing on churches in France.
17:19How does this connect to Oak Island and why the Le Lonceau de Talmont, the lion cub of Talmont?
17:25Really interestingly, there used to be a very intriguing feature that resembled the Sphinx and was actually known as the
17:34Sphinx of Talmont.
17:35And as you can see, it is a Sphinx-like shape.
17:39Sadly, it was destroyed in the early 20th century.
17:42So there is nothing left today?
17:44There is nothing left.
17:46And the church itself used to overlook the Sphinx, so it makes sense that this could actually be the lion
17:52cub of Talmont.
17:53Oh.
17:55So what interested me is that the church itself, it's actually, we used to be pointing towards where the Sphinx
18:02was at roughly a 292.4 degree angle.
18:06And when you follow the line of the church, going through the front door and continuing on a straight line,
18:12and you go across the Atlantic, you end up on Oak Island.
18:19If that was one coincidence, that's fine.
18:23I mean, what gets quite creepy is that about 60 kilometres away, I come across another chapel, which is located
18:30in a place called Courant, and it is also dedicated to the same saint, St. Radigan's.
18:37The church itself is at the angle of 292.1 degrees.
18:41And when you follow that line from the back of the church in a perfectly straight direction, you arrive on
18:47Oak Island.
18:49Whoa.
18:51And again, this church was built by the same people who built the other church.
18:55And in between both churches, there is another Radigan church.
19:00And this is actually located in a town of the same name, called St. Radigan, and it's orientated at a
19:07292.1 degree angle.
19:09So, if you follow the acts of the church in a perfectly straight direction, we arrive again on the islands.
19:16It's odd, for sure.
19:17So, we have three churches under the same patronage, built by the same group of people,
19:23located in the 60-kilometre radius, all on the west coast of France.
19:27These three churches are pointing towards the islands.
19:31It's interesting.
19:35These three churches are pointing towards the islands.
19:38So, three points, dedicated to the same lady, built by the same group of people.
19:44In the war room, researcher Charlotte Wheatley is presenting new information
19:49about three potentially Templar-related churches in the region of Talmont, France,
19:55that she believes are located on an east-to-west line that leads directly to Oak Island.
20:02It just can't be coincidence.
20:05I have tested this theory on lots of churches in France, and this doesn't happen.
20:12So, I've asked other researchers to check if the alignment seemed correct,
20:15and they all agree that these three buildings seem to be perfectly aligned with the islands.
20:20Talking about when was that built?
20:22Same period, we're talking about 13th, 12th, 13th century.
20:25Yeah. It's curious.
20:27It is.
20:29The alignment Charlotte mentions, that's incredibly curious.
20:33Were the alignments with the churches purposeful?
20:36There, perhaps, are alignments that we are currently unaware of
20:40with other features on the island.
20:43Lot five, lot eight, the bog, the money pit.
20:47Is there a connection here?
20:50So, I decided to take a look at the actual patron of these churches, St. Radigan's.
20:55She was born around the year 520, and she actually wanted to dedicate her life to becoming a holy woman.
21:04She made a monastery, and she turned it into a sort of place of learning, prayer, and pilgrimage.
21:11Born into a royal family in the German land of Thuringia,
21:16Radigund became a devout Christian nun and emigrated to France,
21:21where she founded the Catholic Abbey of the Holy Cross,
21:24in the city of Pontiers, in 552 A.D.
21:29A sacred site, which reportedly houses a piece of the so-called True Cross,
21:35on which Jesus was crucified.
21:39And this is the thing that really got me, is that when I did research on her,
21:42I noticed that she's known to carry a book,
21:47and she's known to carry a book with a four-dot cross.
21:55I've looked at lots of iconography of saints.
21:59This is the only saint I've found who's presented with a book with a four-dot cross.
22:06In recent years, the team has visited numerous former strongholds of the Knights Templar in France,
22:14Italy, Denmark, and Portugal.
22:18What did you find, Pete?
22:20I think something pretty interesting.
22:22Oh.
22:23And in each location, they have seen prominent carvings of crosses surrounded by four dots.
22:29We have a four-dot cross there in the corner.
22:32That some experts have interpreted to signify where the Templar order hid sacred religious treasures.
22:40Curiously, that same symbol was found by searchers on the so-called H.O. Stone in 1921 on Oak Island.
22:49Has Charlotte found new clues on Xena Halpern's map
22:53that may help verify a true connection to ancient Templar-related sites in Europe
22:59and suggest it may be a key to locating where something of great or sacred value lies hidden on the
23:07island?
23:08The H.O. Stone had had the cross with the four dots.
23:12I'm just wondering if continued research on that end can also tie those symbols with those churches.
23:19Yes, and I think maybe that's worth looking into.
23:22If the connection that you're suggesting does exist, then the map does have a piece of information that is connected
23:29possibly to Oak Island.
23:30That's right, yeah.
23:33So it is possible, and it needs further development.
23:35Right.
23:36It would be interesting to have a look on the island.
23:39Maybe there's another H.O. Stone out there.
23:41That's fair. Yeah.
23:43But the question is, what happened here?
23:46I don't know, I'm going to say the biggest mystery in the universe, isn't it really?
23:51I would like to think what happened here.
23:53That this is a sacred place, and that it was chosen for a reason.
23:56And I obviously hope there's something buried here.
23:59And I hope you're going to find out.
24:00With your help, we will.
24:03We say thank you.
24:04Thank you. Thank you.
24:05Thank you very much.
24:10As a new morning dawns on Oak Island.
24:15Here we go.
24:16We're moving on down.
24:17Yeah, we got another load coming up.
24:20In the Money Pit area, Gary, Terry, and Jack continue to monitor the dick in the TPF shaft.
24:28We're slowly nearing the zone of interest in Top Pocket Find 1.
24:32And I'm very hopeful that we're going to find clear evidence of the collapse of the Money Pit.
24:37And find something really valuable down in the solution channel.
24:48Oh, what the?
24:52It's caving.
24:54Jeez.
24:56There's material popping in.
24:58Because the ground has suddenly begun to give way around the TPF shaft, the team from SB Canada and Rock
25:06Equipment will need to move the oscillator to find out if they can safely continue the excavation.
25:14Wow.
25:16This is not good.
25:17We felt the ground shake and you can see that the ground around the oscillator has given way.
25:25There's been a collapse.
25:27Okay.
25:28Holy cow.
25:30It looks like we might have lost ground, did we?
25:32Yeah.
25:32We're losing stuff down below.
25:35Wow.
25:40We're losing stuff down below.
25:42In the Money Pit area, after reaching a depth of some 105 feet in the TPF shaft, the surrounding earth
25:50has suddenly begun to cave in, meaning a dangerous collapse could follow.
25:56Going at this depth, it's a lot of wear and tear on everything.
26:00There's a ton of friction.
26:01There's a ton of stuff in the ground.
26:02Like we've seen settlement on the outside of the casing.
26:04We did see from the table, the can was a little bit shaky.
26:08Yep.
26:08It's more of settlement from all the other work that's been done around it.
26:12And the lighter material goes down.
26:14As we agitate all the way down with the oscillator, it's dropping all the material through the bigger holes and
26:19slots.
26:20I remember the last time there was a collapse in this area.
26:23It looks the same.
26:24Last year, the collapse went straight down the side of the casing.
26:27You know, it was running full depth.
26:30Hey.
26:31You got a problem?
26:32We're having caving.
26:33One year ago, the earth surrounding the TB1 caisson, located less than 20 feet to the northwest, suddenly began to
26:41cave in.
26:42And for safety, the team had to abandon the excavation of the shaft.
26:48Now, SB Canada and ROC equipment must act quickly to prevent a larger collapse and allow the team to keep
26:56digging where they have found the most compelling evidence of treasure in the solution channel.
27:01This is only about 10, 12 feet up at the top, so it's a perfect time to build it back
27:06up.
27:06We're backfilling.
27:08That'll solve that.
27:09Yep.
27:09Yep, that'll tighten it up.
27:10You got large diameter, solid metal tubes being driven down into the ground, and we've got a lot of activity
27:17going on where basically we have some cave-ins.
27:20These types of things, they create a lot of havoc.
27:22There's material moving in and out and away from the actual caisson itself.
27:28We have to mitigate those.
27:30We have to push material back down into the hole because it's collapsed down in and around the caisson as
27:35we're pushing it down.
27:36Now we've got this stabilizing everything from 108 all the way up.
27:40So I see we're going to pack a little bit around it right now, and then we move on, right?
27:44Yep.
27:44We're getting ready to transition between the bigger casing to the smaller casing.
27:48Okay, good.
27:49So it's telescoping time now.
27:50Essentially, you know, avoid all the problems for splitting the hole in two, right?
27:54Right.
27:54Half the bigger casing takes the top half out.
27:5622 goes in, finishes it off.
27:58What's the reason for changing to a smaller caisson?
28:01See, the material that we're going through, we're going through hundreds of feet of this stuff.
28:05So it relieves all that tension.
28:07Whatever it takes to get down there.
28:09Whatever it takes to get down there.
28:12Once SB Canada fills in the collapsed areas around the eight-foot diameter TPF shaft with gravel backfill,
28:20they will continue the dig down to the solution channel using smaller, seven-foot diameter steel caissons.
28:27This will safely allow them to dig below the collapsed region and reach their target depth.
28:34Anything and everything to assure that we're going to get all the way down to 220.
28:37That's the goal.
28:38Whatever it takes, right?
28:38Yep.
28:39Get down there, get deep, find Gary's treasure.
28:41I love it.
28:42You can see some of those top pocket vines.
28:44When we get caissons down very near the solution channel, things start to collapse.
28:50I've seen it.
28:51I've seen it collapse and collapse again.
28:53And every time it was when we got close, when we got close to the bottom.
28:58So that's why I think it's entirely possible that's where a treasure fell to.
29:04So we absolutely have to get to at least 220 feet on all of these.
29:10Yeah.
29:11It looks like they're almost done.
29:12So why don't we head back to the table?
29:14Sounds good.
29:15Yep.
29:15See you guys later, guys.
29:16Thanks.
29:17Rock on.
29:18As the dig operation proceeds in the Money Pit area.
29:22Hey, Carmen.
29:24Appreciate you stopping by.
29:26You got something to show me?
29:27We do.
29:27In the Oak Island lab, Alex and members of the team are meeting with blacksmithing expert,
29:34Carmen Legg.
29:35They have invited him back to examine the rose head spike retrieved from the Karma 1 spoils
29:41two days ago.
29:43Carmen, this spike was found by the wash plant team in the spoils of the Karma 1 caisson.
29:49Emma, you have some analysis of this spike.
29:52Compositionally, it's a kind of unique iron.
29:54What's unique about it is that it has an exceptionally high phosphorus content.
29:59So it's categorized as cold short, meaning it's brittle in colder climates.
30:04Cold short or cold brittle is when an iron has a high phosphorus content, which affects
30:09its strength in cold climates.
30:11Cold short iron is a great indicator for an iron age because now, in modern times, we can
30:17control the effects of phosphorus as it's a trait that we just don't want.
30:21It does have some trace amounts of manganese, but even higher amounts of sulfur.
30:27So it's a weird mixture within a composition.
30:30So the most likely date is mid 1700s at least.
30:36Wow.
30:37So Carmen, what can you tell us?
30:40Well, it's a square shank spike.
30:43I'm going to say it was probably five or six inches long originally.
30:49It's hard to see the head on this, but it looks like it's very crudely made.
30:52It doesn't have any form to it.
30:54What does it show on the skin, Emma?
30:57Well, it's just basically smushed down.
31:00Yeah, mushroomed.
31:01Yeah.
31:01But it's not formed.
31:02It was driven straight down and the fibers are all split out like mushroom.
31:07This is a piece of something larger and they took it, drove it into something.
31:12Mm-hmm.
31:12So probably the reason they reused it is because it broke.
31:15So an improvised spike.
31:17Yeah.
31:17I think they reused it and just smashed it into something.
31:19And this came from where?
31:20We do know for a fact it came from below 167 feet.
31:24So to me, that means that it's deeper than any searchers have reached, especially in that area,
31:29which makes it very interesting.
31:30Yeah.
31:31These are typically used for planking, you know, not for the main structures or anything,
31:35but oftentimes when they were making large boxes or vaults, that leads me to think that
31:40this was used to build a wooden vault or some sort of structure down below for safekeeping
31:45something.
31:52This is something that you would see oftentimes when they were making large boxes or vaults
31:57or something they wanted to keep safe, something valuable they wanted to keep safe.
32:02That'd be good.
32:03That is what we're looking for.
32:05In the Oak Island lab, Carmen Legg is examining a potentially mid 18th century spike that was
32:12recovered from nearly 170 feet deep in the Karma One shaft.
32:18This is something that was reused.
32:20You know, any effort here on the island was obviously done in secret.
32:24If there was a deposit made, they had to use what they brought.
32:27And this is sort of speaking to that.
32:30Emma, is there enough wiggle room in that early date to include 1746?
32:35Absolutely.
32:36Well, that's interesting because that allows for the possibility of the Duke d'Anvil.
32:40Because we're talking about one ship that got separated from the main fleet that decided
32:45it was most prudent to bury what they were carrying so it didn't fall into enemy hands.
32:49So they would have had to work with what they had on that one ship.
32:52Could Doug be correct that the team may have found a new clue linking possible buried treasure
32:58in the money pit to the Duke d'Anvil, an 18th century French noble whose family had links
33:04to the Knights Templar.
33:07In 2017, Doug found part of a ship's log in the Nova Scotia archives that described
33:14the burial of treasure in a deep pit on an island in this area back in 1746.
33:21The log was reportedly written by a crew member under the Duke d'Anvil's command.
33:28This little spike is maybe telling us that our theory about the collapse is correct
33:32and that we're close because we're picking up traces of something from the original money pit.
33:37So we would be then looking at just remnants of things that didn't make it all the way down there
33:42and it collapsed.
33:43So even though we didn't hit the treasure in karma, finding this spike tells us that we were close.
33:48Yeah.
33:49The hope is, if it is something from the money pit, if it is something from a chest or a
33:55box,
33:56to me, it speaks to the possibility that other things will be found.
34:01That could be the source of the silver concentrations that are indicated by the soil samples and the water samples
34:07at this location and hopefully there's something down there in the top pocket find one.
34:13It's very interesting.
34:14So, you know, thank you both for your analysis.
34:17I think it says we're on the right track and we need to keep going.
34:20So that said, we will try to bring you guys some more to look at.
34:25Very good.
34:26See you later.
34:29Later that day, while the excavation of the TPF shaft continues in the money pit area.
34:39How's it going?
34:40Hey, Rick.
34:41We just lifted a couple more rocks.
34:43All right.
34:44And under those rocks, we're getting organics.
34:46I got to get down there.
34:48Go for it.
34:48Rick joins Jack and the archeology team as they continue excavating the cradle-like formation
34:55of stones on lot eight.
34:58No idea how deep.
35:00No, not yet.
35:01No, but it's giving us reason to keep going.
35:03So we're going to try to expose the base and then work our way up to see how it was
35:09built.
35:10Do you think what you're calling the second level, is that natural?
35:14Or are those placed as well?
35:16No.
35:16No, I think they're still all placed.
35:19Right now, this seems to be firmly affixed.
35:23I can't get it out.
35:25We're all curious, you know.
35:26I can give it a try.
35:27I'm not saying I can do it, though.
35:29Yeah, yeah, yeah.
35:29Absolutely.
35:31You come this way, I'll go that way.
35:35I'll disturb those.
35:42Oh, no.
35:43That one's there.
35:45Oh, there's no gift to that.
35:47That's amazing.
35:48They are locked in there tight.
35:51Lot eight, it presents all kinds of possibilities.
35:55One of which has to include that Zena's map may have some relevance here.
36:00Oh, boy, that's a map.
36:02Whether because this construction was some sort of alignment, or maybe there's something under there, we need to figure out
36:10what this construction represents.
36:14Oh, wow.
36:15That is definitely in there.
36:18Yeah, I think that's in there.
36:19I think that could be redeposited in this.
36:21I think it is.
36:22It's embedded.
36:23No, I really want it out.
36:25They're fixed in there.
36:26Quite tight.
36:27Yeah.
36:29Yeah.
36:29Scrape this stuff.
36:30Yeah, it almost looks like some sort of hard clay.
36:34Yeah.
36:35It's, uh...
36:37I would put a little chunk like that in some water and see what its consistency turns into.
36:42Hmm.
36:42It might be able to reconstitute it as it was used.
36:47Yeah.
36:47You have a little water there, Jack?
36:49Yeah.
36:50Let's see if it turns into anything.
36:53Okay.
37:00Is it turning into, like, a clay?
37:03Well, like a...
37:05Almost like...
37:06Almost a little bit like cement.
37:08Yeah, now that looks like cement.
37:10Yeah.
37:18That's why this held, right?
37:22Yeah.
37:23And this is just all filled in.
37:25Mm-hmm.
37:25That's what you see here.
37:26Oh, yeah.
37:27On Lot 8, Rick has just discovered evidence that the stones, which were uncovered below the
37:34massive boulder, appear to have been set in place with man-made mortar or cement.
37:42Once it dries, I'll bet that it adheres perfectly to that.
37:47Really gritty cement.
37:48Yep.
37:49And you wouldn't think.
37:50When you break it apart right now, it's just sand.
37:52Yeah.
37:53I bet there's a lot of calcium carbonate in here.
37:56Mm-hmm.
37:56Mm-hmm.
37:57When you compare this elementally to cement through the ages, I think you're gonna get
38:04a fairly accurate date, like, from Roman cement on forward.
38:09It'd be interesting to see which kind of cement this matches.
38:13Oh, yeah.
38:14That would be interesting.
38:15That would be crazy.
38:17Yeah.
38:18Because different types of concrete mixtures have been used throughout the ages of human
38:23construction, dating back as far as ancient Egypt.
38:27Could determining the contents of this material help the team approximate when this feature
38:33was created?
38:34I believe the mortar or the cement-like material might reveal a win, maybe even tell us.
38:42Where does it come from?
38:44Is there a cultural association?
38:46Hopefully, there can be some answers derived from this analysis.
38:50That mixture might be quite revealing.
38:53Exactly.
38:53It resembles, uh, on lot five on the semicircular feature.
38:57Yeah, yeah.
38:58It looks a lot like the clay we found there.
39:00Well, it turned out to correlate with the maroon tail from the money pit.
39:03Yeah.
39:04Yeah.
39:04It'll be interesting to see how it tests.
39:06Yeah, well, if it corresponds to those two, you've got something big on your hands.
39:11Yep.
39:12Oh, look at that.
39:14In addition to the blue clay found on lot five, and reportedly by earlier searchers in
39:20the money pit, the Laginas and their team have also discovered a similar looking mortar-like
39:26material in the round feature on lot five that matched soil samples for more than 100
39:32feet deep in the money pit area.
39:35It's all smeared all through here.
39:38So if the team can match this cement material on lot eight to those structures, could that
39:44mean all three may have been built by the same people?
39:48To move a 40,000 pound rock into a position on a nicely crafted rock cradle.
39:55I mean, you have to come up with a theory as to why somebody was moved to move that boulder.
40:01And maybe they were trying to hide something very important.
40:05What in the heck went on on this island?
40:07Uh, it just raises the mystery to new levels.
40:12There was a reason for this and it wasn't just to support that boulder.
40:16It could go deeper.
40:18It could.
40:19Yeah.
40:20And the archaeology will tell.
40:22Okay.
40:23Well, you know what?
40:24I'm going to let you two get back to work.
40:26All right.
40:26Great.
40:26I have a feeling those rocks are going to need a little bit of persuasion to come on there.
40:31Yeah.
40:32I'll do my best.
40:33Okay, okay.
40:34All right.
40:35Okay.
40:36By digging in the ground and far back into history, Rick, Marty, Craig, and their team
40:43are finding mounting evidence that people journeyed to Oak Island long ago to hide precious
40:50and perhaps sacred secrets.
40:52And through patience and tireless effort, they may have identified not only structures that
40:59those people inhabited, but now at least two other locations where those secrets could
41:07lie buried.
41:08So as the team looks deeper, have they uncovered the final barriers between them and the ultimate
41:16answers?
41:17Or will they encounter something much harder to break through than bedrock and concrete?
41:31Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:34Heads up.
41:35We broke it through into the solution channel.
41:38That's what we're looking for.
41:39The three churches have exactly the same stellar alignment of lock five.
41:44This could be a tunnel shaft entrance.
41:47Maybe it's just right under here.
41:48A piece of wood.
41:49What's wood doing down that day?
41:51Maybe this wood came from the original money pit.
41:53If there's wood at the top, maybe there's gold at the bottom.
41:55Possibly treasure on deck.
41:57Woo-hoo-hoo!
41:58What do we got here?
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