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00:01Tonight, on The Curse of Folk Island.
00:03Here we go.
00:05Oh.
00:05What was that?
00:06The caisson just hit something solid.
00:08Something really hard right there.
00:10Let's see what we got.
00:12It's like they've been around a treasure chest.
00:15Oh, my gosh.
00:16What is it?
00:16It's perfectly on the line of the grass.
00:19It's what we've been looking for.
00:21Ha-ha!
00:22This is cool, Rick.
00:24This is bigger than what we think.
00:25Wow.
00:26There could be treasure down there.
00:31There is an island in the North Atlantic where people have been looking for an incredible treasure for more than
00:39200 years.
00:41So far, they have found a stone slab with 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, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:23Hey, Jack.
01:24Fiona.
01:25Hey, Rick.
01:25Hi.
01:26Hey.
01:27Look at the progress we've made.
01:29I see that.
01:29Yeah.
01:30The quest for answers and treasure continues on Oak Island as Rick Lagina begins his day on Lot 8 with
01:38Fiona Steele and Jack Begley.
01:40I think it's interesting the way that the rocks are structured on this side, on the right side.
01:44Yep.
01:45And we're not getting the same thing on the other side at all.
01:47In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the only side that was actually hauling up the boulder.
01:51Mm-hmm.
01:53Here it goes.
01:54Here we go.
01:55After removing a 40,000-pound boulder from an artificially placed ring of small stones one week ago.
02:03Look at that.
02:04The team was surprised to find new evidence that the boulder was covering a back-filled man-made feature or
02:11possible shaft.
02:12Yeah, it looks like a filled hole.
02:15Exactly.
02:15Yeah.
02:17And when geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner scanned the soils with a handheld x-ray fluorescence device, he discovered evidence of
02:26possible treasure buried somewhere deeper below.
02:30It's showing something that I didn't see in the other sample.
02:33Oh.
02:34Which is some silver.
02:36Yeah.
02:36Yeah.
02:39We will remove the rest of the top layer of the soil.
02:42We'll go through the second layer and then the plan is really to start removing some of these rocks as
02:47well to really see what's underneath here.
02:49Mm-hmm.
02:49Because there could still very well be something underneath here that we just haven't seen yet.
02:53Yeah.
02:55You just have to be patient, right?
02:57That's all you can do.
02:58The two completely different sides of the hole is really quite interesting.
03:05Yeah.
03:05Why that side and not this side?
03:07I know.
03:08I can certainly say that I think it was done a long time ago.
03:12What's your long time ago?
03:14Well, I would say before the 1700s.
03:18So we have to just keep going forward and gathering the information and have a proper analysis of everything.
03:24Yeah.
03:24There's got to be something under that boulder.
03:26Yeah.
03:27But the only way to know is to continue to do the work you're doing.
03:30So.
03:31Alrighty.
03:33Alright.
03:33See you later.
03:34See you, Rick.
03:34See ya.
03:35With the Lot 8 feature, I feel absolutely intrigued.
03:39It's not like anything we see on Oak Island or anything in Nova Scotia, period.
03:44This is motivating us to look through the rocks, look through the structures.
03:47We've got to look at everything and make sure that we're not missing anything in this.
03:51There could be treasure down there.
03:57Look, check this out, Jack.
03:59What is that?
04:00Well, it's the first flattest rock that I'm seeing and it seems to be at the bottom.
04:05And if you look at all the other rocks, they're a little rounded and little and other than those big
04:10ones sticking out.
04:11But that could be hiding something.
04:13Oh.
04:14We're going to find out.
04:16Look, it keeps going.
04:18Mmm.
04:19Mmm.
04:21Mmm.
04:23It's a good thing we are going below this soil.
04:27It's the flattest rock that we've seen so far.
04:30As we've been uncovering some of the soil, we're starting to see a face of these flattened rocks.
04:35It just looks a little odd because it's so perfectly smooth and flat that I'm wondering if this is part
04:41of the feature itself.
04:43The fact that we're uncovering all of these rocks in a pattern, I wasn't expecting to see that at all.
04:49Yeah.
04:49And I don't think it would hurt to have Dr. Spooner take a look at this once it's all uncovered
04:53as well.
04:53He may be more familiar with this type of deposit.
04:56It seems not normal.
04:59Mm-hmm.
04:59So.
05:00Can this island get any stranger?
05:02It's the strangest island with the strangest things that are so unexplainable.
05:06As Fiona continues uncovering clues on Lot 8.
05:11Later that morning.
05:13It's a new day.
05:14Here we are in the karma.
05:16Oh, yeah.
05:17It's a hell of a thing.
05:18Jack joins Craig Tester and other members of the team in the Money Pit area, where digging proceeds in the
05:26seven-foot diameter shaft known as Karma 1.
05:30Did he say it went down road easy?
05:33He says going down like a hot knife through butter.
05:36The excavation is fast approaching a depth of 150 feet.
05:41Here we go, Terry.
05:44Meaning it could soon breach the solution channel, where the team hopes to find a massive source of precious metals
05:51that have previously been detected in this area through soil and water testing.
06:03Here we go.
06:04Let's find some gold and silver.
06:07Oh, it's sloppy.
06:10I believe we're proving that the solution channel gobbled up a bunch of stuff from the Money Pit.
06:16The karma would be that we can finally, in the end, solve the whole thing.
06:19That would be the karma I like.
06:22Morning, guys.
06:23Morning, Adam.
06:24Morning, Adam.
06:24See you all kind of watching the show?
06:26Yeah.
06:26What's the update?
06:28We're just starting to touch the 150 range on the dig.
06:31Okay.
06:32At 160, we'll probably hit the bedrock plateau on top of the solution channel, at which point we'll see how
06:37well we're cutting through it, right?
06:38Yeah, absolutely.
06:39So we're going to get almost to the top of the bedrock plateau with this one.
06:43Yeah.
06:43We're ready to go at it.
06:44Cool.
06:45Yeah.
06:45All right, guys.
06:46We'll keep you updated.
06:47Thanks.
06:49Once we get to 155, we should let the guys at the watch plan know we've got a lot of
06:56stuff that they could be looking for there.
06:58And they have already found a really cool, interesting find.
07:03Yeah.
07:04Definitely.
07:05As the digging operation continues in the Karma One shaft, some 500 feet to the east near Smith's Cove.
07:15That'd be limestone, the piece of pottery.
07:17Charles Barkhouse and other members of the team sift through the excavated spoils that are being processed at the wash
07:25plant.
07:27Installed by Billy Gerhardt and his team, the industrial grade machine moves truckloads of spoils through metal grates, known as
07:36grizzly bars, to remove larger rocks.
07:39The spoils then pass through a tool known as a chopper to break up and remove the thick clay.
07:47From there, they drop onto a shaker deck, where they are sprayed clean with water and then separated by size
07:54onto three conveyor belts, allowing the team to examine them by hand for important clues.
08:02Hey, Charles, look at that.
08:09That's really cool.
08:10That's a great find, Bailey.
08:12Let's put it in a bag, and I'm going to take it and show the guys.
08:15Awesome.
08:17This is a wash plant.
08:18You're looking for anything out of the ordinary, anything that catches your eye.
08:21You literally pull it off the belt because you don't know what it may mean.
08:25Hey, Jack.
08:27What do you think of that?
08:28Oh.
08:31Well, first glance, I see the smaller loops, and they're not uniform.
08:35No, they're not.
08:36You can see.
08:36I thought this could be quite old.
08:38Well, Jack, if that is hand wrought, then it could be 1850s and earlier.
08:43Wow.
08:44But it is pretty cool.
08:45Whenever I see links to chain, I often wondered what was it attached to.
08:48Yeah.
08:49Right?
08:50This could be a clue to the mystery.
08:52Yeah.
08:53I'll go take it back to the lab.
08:55Okay.
08:55We'll keep looking.
08:56Yeah.
08:59Meanwhile, back in the Money Pit area.
09:02Woo-hoo!
09:03I like this new piece of equipment.
09:05We're getting down there.
09:08That's some pretty good progress.
09:14I feel like I'm on something.
09:16I can't tell if that's the wood in there shaking them or if it's something hard.
09:23It's a piece of metal.
09:24That's maybe what I'm on.
09:28He's selling on something, too.
09:36Josh!
09:37Is it feeling hard now?
09:38I'm in the...
09:39I'm in the...
09:39I'm in the bottom.
09:40Something hard hanging me up there.
09:48Something's going on here.
09:53Hello, man.
09:54How's it going?
09:55Hey, guys.
09:56Hey, Quentin.
09:57How you doing?
09:57So we're hitting something hard again.
10:00We're not sure exactly what it is, if it's metal or if it's something else down there.
10:04Oh, wow.
10:05In the Money Pit area, the Karma 1 shaft has encountered a strangely hard material, or possible
10:12object at a depth of nearly 160 feet.
10:16Great stuff.
10:17All right.
10:17I'll keep you updated.
10:18Nice job, Quentin.
10:19Thank you very much.
10:19Appreciate it.
10:21It's kind of exciting to think there's some stronger obstacle down there that's stopping
10:26the equipment.
10:27Even the teeth and the tools that we brought out this year on this equipment is designed
10:31to chew through bedrock.
10:33And the fact that it is having a hard time going through it suggests maybe there's something
10:37else down there.
10:38Hi, buddy.
10:39How's it going?
10:40Hey.
10:40They did say that the caisson just hit something solid.
10:44According to Rock, caisson's at 155, digs a little bit past it.
10:48They felt the ground solidify.
10:51What's it looking like?
10:52Hard clay?
10:53Possibly metal.
10:54Good.
10:54I hope we get lucky.
10:56We well could.
10:57Absolutely.
10:59Here comes the bucket.
11:00Now the bucket, another chance, guys.
11:02Here it comes.
11:02Yep.
11:05That looks like solid material right at the bottom of the bucket.
11:10Okay, mate.
11:12Let's see if there's anything in this load.
11:23We've got a signal, Terry.
11:26Yep.
11:29Yeah.
11:30Just there.
11:39I think it's in the deck, Terry.
11:49Now we're in.
11:51It's a piece of metal plate.
11:53Or it could be part of a shoe from an old shaft.
11:59Interesting.
12:00Yep.
12:01There's something here.
12:02Be careful.
12:03It looks sharp.
12:04Yep.
12:05metal pieces, possibly from the bottom brace or shoe of an old shaft.
12:11I think I found a piece of shoe.
12:14It could be off the bottom of the chapel shaft.
12:16Well, we may be at the bottom.
12:18Yeah.
12:18Pretty close to the bottom of the chapel for sure.
12:22In 1897, treasure hunters Frederick Blair and William Chapel drilled into a believed seven-foot-high
12:29concrete-encased vault at a depth of 153 feet.
12:34In 1931, with the help of William's son, Melbourne, the three men constructed a nearly
12:41160-foot-deep shaft in an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve it.
12:46Is it possible that the team has recovered a clue suggesting they may be close to rediscovering
12:53the so-called chapel vault?
12:56We're thinking that treasure fell to the bottom of the solution channel.
13:00Hopefully today or maybe early tomorrow, we'll be down there.
13:03We're going to find out.
13:04Yeah.
13:04And this is the moment of truth.
13:06Oh, level load coming up.
13:08There it comes.
13:09Yeah.
13:11Yeah.
13:17That, my friends, is gypsum right there.
13:19Yeah.
13:20Yeah, that would mean we are probably into the bedrock plateau a little bit.
13:24Yeah.
13:25The bedrock plateau is the thick layer of gypsum, some 160 to 170 feet deep, that the team
13:35has previously encountered just above the solution channel.
13:38This means they have just a few more feet of digging before reaching their target zone where silver had been
13:45detected.
13:46We're getting to the heart of the matter now, guys.
13:48Here we go.
13:49We're going to be boring through the edge of the solution channel on the bedrock plateau, crunching down through.
13:55That's going to be tough cutting from here on in.
13:58We have done a lot of caissons around here, but very few of them have extended beyond the bedrock plateau.
14:03That is very difficult to drill through.
14:05And that causes an immense amount of difficulty for the drillers to try and carry on that hole and down
14:10into the actual solution channel itself.
14:18I think I'm on the rock.
14:23Guys, looks like a report coming in.
14:25We're in that kind of bad material to drill that we've seen.
14:28Oh, yeah.
14:29So we're going a little bit slower right now because we're pushing through some hard stuff.
14:33We're happy to report we're down to 171 feet with the casing.
14:36The quicker you break into the solution channel, I think the more likely you are to find what we seek.
14:42It's about time, right?
14:44That's right, Gary.
14:45Wouldn't that be karma?
14:46Karma, yes, absolutely.
14:48Very good.
14:49Thanks, guys.
14:50As the dig pushes deeper in the Money Pit area.
14:54Well, this is a pretty exciting spot.
14:56This is Cone D.
14:57We know it's part of the alignment for the cross.
15:01In the northwestern region of the swamp, Tom Nolan is leading a search on his property.
15:06near Cone D.
15:08One of six massive boulders that make up the megalithic feature known as Nolan's Cross.
15:15We're going to stay in the line of the cross and we're going to move towards the headstone.
15:20Because Spani has a theory about the cross.
15:23We could find some artifacts on this and maybe something even bigger than that.
15:27Okay.
15:28Let's do it.
15:29I am very enthusiastic about what we will learn today.
15:32One week ago, RQ astronomy expert Professor Adriano Gaspani presented his analysis that
15:40the eight-sided wooden survey stakes found in the swamp may have been put in place along
15:45with the boulders of Nolan's Cross in the 13th century by members of the Knights Templar.
15:51The two sets of stakes were dated.
15:58Now, because Cone D sets in the swamp near the stakes, Tom hopes to find more clues in
16:05the area that might help prove this incredible theory.
16:08I think I'm good for now.
16:11Lots of rocks.
16:13Now, what is this?
16:15What is this?
16:17Hmm.
16:18This looks, I mean, split.
16:21Yeah.
16:21It looks split and then it doesn't look natural, does it?
16:25No.
16:25But it's perfectly on the line of the cross.
16:32And the one leaning up here looks almost like it's been perfectly cut, doesn't it?
16:37Maybe we should give Rick a call.
16:39Just have a look at it.
16:40See what he thinks.
16:41Yeah.
16:41It's an idea.
16:41Okay.
16:42I'll text him to come down and have a look at this.
16:45Could Tom be correct that they have found an artificially split stone near Cone D?
16:51If so, who split it in two?
16:54And for what purpose?
16:57Hey, Tom.
16:58Hey, Rick.
16:59Might get you to have a look at this.
17:01The reason this stands out is because it is right on the line of the cross.
17:08Pretty substantial, too.
17:10An unnatural look to it, for sure.
17:12Yep.
17:13You know, every time my dad found a stone formation that fit with the line of the stakes,
17:18you know, he assumed that the original creators of this placed these stones.
17:23I mean, we know the boulders of the cross were placed, but to me, this might be part of the
17:28works.
17:28Maybe Al can just do a little dig here and see.
17:31Yeah, absolutely.
17:32See what's what.
17:40It's weird.
17:43Just a sec, Al.
17:45Look at this, Rick.
17:46Almost the coloration has totally changed in this one area.
17:51Oh, yeah.
17:52Very gray looking, eh?
17:53Yeah.
17:55The rocks are kind of grayish.
17:59The soil even looks grayish.
18:01Yeah.
18:02That's almost blue clay looking.
18:04Maybe it matches the lot five clay.
18:08Yeah.
18:09Lot five and the money pit as well.
18:17Maybe it matches the lot five clay.
18:20Yeah.
18:20Lot five and the money pit as well.
18:22Wow.
18:22That would be quite something.
18:25While digging near the cone-deep boulder of Nolan's Cross, Rick and other members of the
18:30team have just discovered a possible clue, potentially hand-worked blue clay, that has previously
18:38been uncovered in the rounded feature on Lot five, as well as during 19th century digging
18:44operations in the original money pit.
18:46It's concentrated right in this one spot.
18:50That's definitely different, though.
18:52You haven't seen that anywhere in that dig, have you?
18:55Nope.
18:56Follows that rock split.
18:58Well, we should bag more samples to that.
19:00Yeah.
19:01We know that blue clay, when used correctly, will seal a box, a treasure chest, a chamber
19:10from the penetration of water.
19:12We know it because they used blue clay on the shafts.
19:16And I hope this is the connection to the money pit.
19:19And I find that exceedingly interesting.
19:21I think what we might do, Al, is just do a side profile, just to see if we see that
19:27continuation
19:28going that way.
19:30Okay.
19:52What is it?
19:55I don't know.
19:56I don't know.
20:02steak oh my gosh was pounded right in alongside the rock right on the line of the cross if this
20:09is the line as you say then somebody wanted to make sure it was laid out perfectly this
20:14steak definitely ties to the line of the cross yeah let's see it tom if i can
20:25and your dad never used these right no he just used the factory cut ones
20:31axe cut yeah finding that here that that's that's quite something
20:377 500 feet from cone d oh it can only be an association with the layout of the cross what
20:43else could it be it makes sense to find one here because if they were laying out the cross
20:48they're staring right across the book you'd want to set a post here to make sure you were on the
20:53right line yeah given that the team has now found another survey stake located some 25 yards from one
21:01of the boulders of nolan's cross could it be connected to the others previously found nearby in the swamp
21:08and support professor gus bonnie's theory that the wooden stakes at nolan's cross are directly related
21:15it's stunning it's what five highly accredited astronomers and archaeo astronomers said they
21:22agree with the professor's calculations and conclusions it's what we've been looking for yeah
21:28the stakes found in close proximity to nolan's cross which was possibly built in the 1200s
21:36might be more concrete evidence that it was done at the same moment in time
21:42that needs to go to the lab and we've got more to take okie doke
21:49later that afternoon hey peter hi fiona hi what do you think of this wow
21:57dr ian spooner arrives on lot eight where fiona has now uncovered a tightly packed layer of stones
22:05that were hidden beneath backfilled soil and the massive boulder now i would like to know if you
22:11think i'm crazy because i don't feel like this is natural at all it's not natural first of all it
22:16just can't be because of the organic matter all around those stones i've never seen anything like this
22:21here and you can also see the cradle of rocks around the top quite nicely now yes it's wild i'm
22:27blown away well you can even see a circular formation of rocks right around the base here
22:32i'm going to be removing this soil shortly and i would like to see if that pattern continues right
22:37we're just wondering if there's something underneath right was there something intentionally buried
22:41yes you know we did some xrf uh portal xrf we got high lead and that's interesting to me why
22:47the high lead
22:47yeah three weeks ago after taking soil samples beneath the large boulder dr spooner found high
22:56traces of lead in the material this suggested evidence of burning fire underground which is a
23:03mining practice that was used centuries ago to circulate air in shafts and tunnels so what do you think it
23:10is the stone is either a marker or something to protect something yeah i agree is it possible
23:17that the team has revealed an artificial covering for a shaft or some kind of structure hidden below
23:24there's something about this makes me feel like it's ancient yeah and this it take an extraordinary
23:31amount of effort it would be with incredible purpose and intent that's why to me there should
23:36be something more here maybe there is yeah yeah gotta go deeper yeah yeah anyway i'd love to come back
23:43when it's further developed great thank you for your set of eyes i think it's really cool you're
23:48involved in one of the coolest things i've seen it is very cool yeah yeah uncle rick needs to take
23:54a look
23:54at this i agree as a new morning dawns on oak island this is cool rick well so they did
24:07make a cradle yeah
24:09rick arrives on lot eight with other members of the team for his first look at the stone formation
24:16that was covered by the 40 000 pound boulder it's like a mosaic yeah it's really quite well done yeah
24:24my mind's racing with a number of questions who did it why was it done what does it mean is
24:31it a totally
24:32different story than the the treasure story it exhibits a mosaic like appearance which is really
24:40quite unique to support a 40 000 pound boulder there is a reason why this was done so what do
24:48we think
24:49i think this is culturally significant yeah it's either here to cover something or it's here to mark
24:56something and we can't rule out a number of ideas for this at this point i mean it could have
25:01been
25:01ceremonial standing alone this doesn't make sense because for all intents and purposes it's in the
25:07middle of nowhere have you ever seen anything like this before no no i've worked with stone for a number
25:13of years i see it and i think how in the world would you do that why would you do
25:19that if you're not
25:20going to inter something underneath it and if there is something underneath it then it's going to be
25:25valuable to those persons this is done by somebody who has sufficient resources that they can pour
25:31everything into it in terms of manpower it's almost certainly european yeah that's what i would agree
25:37i think it's european as well this could be changing nova scotia in history i've done a lot of research
25:44on different megalithic structures and megaliths across north america and even in europe i believe
25:51strongly that what we're seeing is a european megalithic construction the indigenous people
25:57i don't think would have the technology to do it you'd need an intimate knowledge of physics and
26:01geometry nor would they bother to move a boulder like that so it has to be a european construct
26:08that makes the most sense to me well this is very interesting you all know that marty had a keen
26:15interest in this yeah we should show him what this feature is beginning to develop i think he'd like
26:21to be brought up to speed on that so i'll give him a phone call hey hey brother what's going
26:28on well
26:28we're about to show you you can guess where we are i would guess you're on lot eight you got
26:34that
26:35exactly correct i'm going to hand the phone to fiona and she can give you a visual of the work
26:40they've done
26:41okay oh marty i can't wait to show you this i'll turn it around yes okay you're looking at the
26:49rock
26:50lined cradled area underneath the boulder it's entirely rock lined absolutely man placed and
27:00extremely intentional it looks like the paved road in the swamp yeah that idea i certainly think it's
27:07absolutely intentional and purposeful could marty be correct that the stone feature on lot eight
27:14might have the same design as the stone road that was uncovered in the southeast corner of the swamp
27:20back in 2020 a road that may be at least 500 years old and of portuguese origin
27:29if so could both be connected to the 14th century silver portuguese coin
27:35believed to have been recovered from the money pit back in 1849 the boulder on lot eight doesn't
27:42appear to have been manipulated by any of the known earlier searchers there's nothing in the record
27:48which means we might be dealing with something that we know is untampered with we're the first people to
27:54look at this thing in a modern sense we found what might be the most significant thing it's just not
28:01anything you could make up i'm hoping there's a breakthrough do you have any idea what it is i
28:07mean sometimes you will have a rock lined um feature if you if you have a cache of something
28:12underneath it could be a marker of some sort but i think it's old i feel like it's probably european
28:18does everybody agree with that yeah i think we're we're all feeling the same with it this is the only
28:23thing i've ever been involved with that okay let's work every expert agrees no yeah it doesn't happen
28:29no artifacts yet that alone is also indicating that either somebody was really trying to hide
28:37what they did here or they really didn't have things to lose which is also giving us implications
28:42that this could be really really old i'll give this back to rick when you're finally done with
28:47the archaeological process i want to dig deep underneath it so once it's fully exposed we may
28:54have some more insight for you okay well look it's going the right way then you know what i'm going
28:59to
28:59say hey thank you very much b call me anytime when you have significant stuff like this and c get
29:05back to
29:05work okay bye bye okay so we just need to go around this in a very very careful way and
29:13not miss anything
29:14what are the next steps here we have to draw this cross section first very quickly and then take out
29:21the rest of the soils because the the rocks are quite dramatic we all want answers but i don't want
29:27to
29:28accelerate the process in a destructive or invasive way just to get an answer let's keep that this work
29:35so let's see what comes of it there might be a secret right there please continue thank you all right
29:44yeah later that morning
29:46i love the smell of money pit in the morning smells like victory yeah yeah in the money pit area
29:56members
29:57of the team are closely monitoring the excavation of the karma one caisson which has now reached the
30:04solution channel how you doing rick nothing yeah we've broken through the bedrock plateau down into the
30:10solution channel i mean exactly what we were looking for the teeth we're only in about 175 176. we've
30:16still got about 40-ish feet before we hit the very dead bottom 215 here i would say so yeah
30:2235 feet yeah
30:26all right terry hard time to shine off we go
30:40got a signal just said mate
30:47every metal detecting hit it's exciting now yeah
30:55something really hard right there let's see what we got wow
31:06there is it's in the club
31:11that's a part okay very good after reaching a depth of some 180 feet in the karma one shaft the
31:19oak island
31:19team has made a potentially significant discovery in the solution channel just some pieces of pipe
31:26that's right that's very deep does that look very old to you rick all i can tell you is dan
31:32never used
31:33that size okay so it's probably older back in the 1960s when dan blankenship was drilling in the money pit
31:42he was able to get down to 190 feet deeper than previous searcher efforts he used six-inch pipe but
31:51this appears to be much thinner than that i'm just curious why they went so deep yeah question is
31:58who was here there was another big chunk of pipe come up terry's got a little chunk there
32:05very heavy pipe boy she tore off though yeah she broke away yeah that's a little bit of searcher history
32:12that's what that is this seam up the side you see this seam in all of it and the threads
32:17really don't
32:18look finally machined i'm thinking that could be uh relatively old good the last time we found a
32:24drill bit you'll remember we're not far from this location emanated it to mid 1800s that actually
32:29could have been the drill rod that found the pit play-doh coin yeah possibly yeah there was a reason
32:34they were drilling here same reason we're drilling here we have enough evidence to believe that this
32:37is a prime location somebody before us thought the same thing yep what is that that looks like some
32:44steel to me earlier this year while core drilling in this area the team recovered pieces of an iron
32:52drill rod that were dated to the same period that the truro company drilled into the original money pit
32:58back in 1849 it was during that operation that drilling foreman james pitt blado reportedly found a
33:07silver 14th century portuguese coin from the end of his drill bit is it possible that the team has
33:15recovered another clue to suggest they're digging in the location of the original money pit and perhaps
33:22also mean they could be closing in on many more 14th century silver coins it's filled full of material
33:31yeah we can test all of that material let's see if it has any uh precious metals or associated
33:36base metals hey we'll set this aside we'll get back to the lab
33:43well guys i'm gonna head down to the wash plant see you later thank you
33:49if the treasure's found right here it would be good karma i mean after all this time and all the
33:55efforts by so many people over literally two centuries until that can gets down to the bottom
34:02of the solution channel you've got to cross your fingers a little bit so we're in a good space yeah
34:08we just keep pushing until you get to the very bottom i'm hoping as a medieval treasure we're going
34:13to be finding and it might be religious artifacts i think we've proven and we will continue to prove that
34:20the old world was in the new world long before columbus yeah for sure and maybe they worked hard for
34:27a
34:27special reason a special purpose to safeguard something special we have found some very interesting
34:35artifacts some of them were very old you know roman coins venetian glass beads hand cannon
34:44and then you have the so-called priblado coin and you have to wonder is there a connection i think
34:52something very early was undertaken here my hope is that as the work continues in karma one we will
34:59find artifacts that will solve the oak island mystery at large now you find one of those coins one of
35:08those
35:08so-called priblado coins we're off to the races right yeah maybe it'll be right over there yeah
35:16that's what we're in for coins mine there you go
35:21meanwhile at the wash plant near smith's cove steve and other members of the team search for clues in
35:28the cleaned and sorted spoils from the karma one shaft
35:32well over there
35:41see good check that out
35:46that's an old chain wow
35:49this is now the second chain we found cool that's a good find at this step
35:53yeah a second piece of chain found in the spoils of the karma one shaft
36:00how old could it be and just what was its purpose
36:05so what i'd like to do is i'm going to give gary a text and have him come down and
36:08take a look at
36:09it i want to hold that for a second sure wow
36:14when steve called me to go down at a wash plant that could only mean one thing they made a
36:20great find
36:21hey gary hi mate thanks for texting yeah so we had a cool find aaron found this
36:27another chain what do you think of that oh that's sweet oh look at that yeah this is old
36:35yeah it looks really old this is an old piece of chain i've found old chain like this in england
36:40maybe it's 1700 1600s but i'm hoping this could be older oh good yeah and you can see it looks
36:49like
36:49every link was individually made this is and forged and look you can see the striations
36:58what i like about this chain is the size because this isn't for all in anything the size of it
37:05is
37:05small yeah look at that big link there why would you need a big link here yeah i think this
37:12was the end
37:13of a securing chain okay and they were searching for treasure mate this is the type of chain that
37:19might have been around a treasure chest
37:25that's really really sweet
37:29i've found old chain like this in england yep this is the type of chain that might have been around
37:35a
37:35a treasure chest yep that's really really sweet at the wash plant members of the team examine a
37:43discovery that was unearthed nearly 180 feet deep in the karma one shaft the chain could have gone
37:51around a chest and been attached to there with a lock on it to stop somebody from opening it this
37:59owes hope that there's treasure below that's a good find then by aaron yeah really cool yeah that's got a
38:05lot of potential especially in the area where we're drilling yeah that's a really really nice find
38:11well done i appreciate it gary all right
38:17meanwhile back in the money pit area
38:24what was that
38:28just going slow real slow
38:38i haven't heard that all day so now the excavation in karma one has now reached a depth below 200
38:46feet in the solution channel
38:50my prices are higher
38:53then going down then going back up we're tightening up yeah all right
38:57i think we hit that hard bedrock hey guys hey so where are we so we are down to 212
39:06feet
39:06and we think we've hit the bottom okay we're gonna have jared pick up the can
39:10a foot or two for the night and let things settle 100 percent that auger's going all day
39:16spinning stuff up it suspends a lot of material if we let this settle overnight there's a good chance
39:22we can see 10 feet 15 feet of sediment there could be anything in there the massive auger has ground
39:29through sediment and hard clays causing the caisson that now sits on the bottom of the solution channel
39:35to become full of spoils and possible valuables now the team from sb canada will lift the case on
39:43several feet to let the materials settle overnight into a pile on the bedrock then they will use the dig
39:51bucket
39:51to remove the accumulated spoils and any possible treasure that may be contained within them
39:57i think of a as a giant mix master things get stirred around things might you know be held up
40:07higher
40:08in some of that clay and if we let it settle out overnight we can now actually search for what
40:15we believe has fallen to those depths whether it be one coin or a whole chest full of coins we
40:23know
40:24materials move around at the bottom just letting it settle will be good karma we want to know that we
40:32got every last bit out of it yeah yep so that's a good plan and clean the bottom and then
40:36let's let it
40:36settle up and see what happens tomorrow and then we'll count the coins right this could be monumental
40:43100 so if you guys are good we're good yeah we're good we'll uh start it back up in the
40:48morning
40:48yep that's great all right guys thank you see you guys thank you after digging deeper than any previous
40:56searcher on oak island could rick marty craig and the team finally be within reach of the precious metals
41:04they detected in the solution channel and if so does a discovery await them that will link the money
41:11pit the triangle-shaped swamp and the boulder feature on lot eight to priceless sacred treasures
41:20one thing is certain they will settle for nothing less than the truth behind this 231 year old mystery
41:34next time on the curse of oak island oh wow check that out that's a great find that could be
41:41really really old this was used to build a wooden vault or some sort of structure down below for
41:47safekeeping after researching the xenomap i came across three churches on the west coast of france
41:52these teachers are pointing towards their kind you've got something big on your hands it's absolutely
41:57intentional it matches slot five in the money bill they were trying to conceal it which makes it even
42:01more spectacular
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