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00:04Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:07Here we go.
00:09Wait, wait, wait.
00:10Hey, guess what?
00:12Wow.
00:13Oh, wow.
00:14Brilliant.
00:15Oh, look at that.
00:17We're starting to get this material.
00:18This is slowing me away right now because it's nothing I've ever seen before.
00:22This isn't covered well, right?
00:23Yeah, it is.
00:24Oh, this has got potential, mate.
00:26Oh, look at that.
00:27It's pre-modern all the way back to medieval.
00:30No way.
00:34There is an island in the North Atlantic where people have been looking for an incredible treasure for more than
00:42200 years.
00:45So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it.
00:51Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:54And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knights Templar.
01:00To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:05And, according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:27Hey, Ed.
01:28Morning, Marty.
01:29Morning, gents.
01:30As their quest to solve the Oak Island mystery continues.
01:34You know, the gist of today, you know, we're done with Toppock and find one.
01:39And, you know, we found some interesting things, but we didn't find the one thing.
01:44No.
01:45Rick, Marty, and members of the team meet to plan their next large-scale dig in the Money Pit area.
01:52We're still looking for where the hell the massive collapse of the Money Pit went.
01:56And I was hoping we'd find it here.
01:58I really was.
01:59I mean, where the hell did it go?
02:00It's frustrating.
02:02Yep.
02:05In recent weeks, the teams from SB Canada and Rock Equipment have excavated two seven-foot diameter steel shafts,
02:14where high traces of silver were detected more than 200 feet deep in the Solution Channel,
02:21Karma 1, and Toppocket find.
02:25And while 17th and 18th century artifacts were recovered in both,
02:30which could be related to the Money Pit's collapse into the Solution Channel,
02:35no valuables were found.
02:38Well, let's talk about where we need to go, because time is pressing.
02:41Right.
02:42The years have been predicated upon getting down into the Solution Channel.
02:46So, you know, we're limited in terms of where we put caissons without encompassing previous work.
02:53Yep.
02:54We run the risk of collapse.
02:56Yeah.
02:57Because we're going through backfill material,
03:00it's going to stymie your caisson from going to the bottom.
03:03Absolutely.
03:07Stop!
03:09It's caving.
03:12There's material flopping in.
03:15During the recent dig of the TPF shaft, the surrounding earth began to collapse.
03:22This was caused by backfill related to previous digs that the team has conducted nearby.
03:28This has left the area unstable and would require several days or more of repair and regrading with tons of
03:35gravel.
03:36But with only a few weeks left before the harsh North Atlantic winter will force the team to halt their
03:43search operations,
03:44their time for a breakthrough discovery is running out.
03:49Steve, why don't you put the map up and let's get this figured out.
03:53Sure.
03:55What if we changed our minds and went up to the peacock right now?
03:59The peacock has never been explained.
04:01And the reason it could be there is because of a very deep, unknown metal, maybe an offset chamber.
04:08So I'm keenly interested in seeing that old Doug.
04:12Yeah.
04:13Over there, they could make good progress.
04:15It's virgin ground.
04:16Subsidance is probably not going to be so much of an issue like we've seen.
04:19They're not going down through backfill.
04:21They're going to make good time on it.
04:22Okay.
04:23That makes sense.
04:25Located over 40 feet northeast of the TPF shaft,
04:29the so-called peacock is an area where the team has also detected precious metals during past underground water tests.
04:38Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
04:40And this year, during their core drilling operation,
04:44they discovered a mysterious 10-foot void above the solution channel at a depth of 150 feet.
04:51We've got an opening.
04:53A void where an underwater camera recorded images of possible man-made artifacts.
05:00Including metallic objects.
05:03This has led the team to believe that they may have discovered an offset treasure chamber
05:08that was once connected to the original money pit.
05:12I vote to go to the peacock.
05:14Okay.
05:16There is evidence of man-made workings in the peacock area.
05:21And what if the reason this area of very loose material
05:25is really where some of the treasure was deposited in an offset chamber?
05:30This is as good a choice as any.
05:32Okay.
05:33So Alex is going to put that on the peacock.
05:37So let's be hopeful.
05:39Let's be upbeat.
05:39Let's get out there and do some work.
05:41Sounds good.
05:41Let's go.
05:42Thanks.
05:42All right.
05:43See ya.
05:44As Rick, Marty, and their team conclude the meeting in the war room.
05:50On lot 8, located on the western side of the island.
05:55Hey, Laird.
05:56Hey, Fiona.
05:57You know, what's new here?
05:59Well...
05:59I mean, it looks to me like a lot's new.
06:02Dr. Ian Spooner joins Laird and Fiona at the cradle-like stone feature.
06:08It's starting to change where we've got the smaller cobblestones up here
06:11and then the larger ones have presented themselves down here.
06:14We're starting to get this mortar-like material and we're getting it in different spots.
06:19Can you look at it?
06:19Absolutely a can.
06:21After recently exposing this formation of hand-placed rocks,
06:25which were covered by a 40,000-pound boulder,
06:29Fiona discovered blue clay and a mortar-like cement
06:32that was used to bind the stones together.
06:35It has made the team speculate that this was done
06:38to cover something buried deeper below.
06:41The deeper I'm going, it's really hard to dig through.
06:44Now, while Fiona and Laird slowly break up the mortar and remove the rocks,
06:49Dr. Spooner is collecting samples for ongoing lab testing
06:54in the hopes that he can determine when the feature was constructed.
06:59It's under every single rock and it's literally layered.
07:02This is kind of blowing me away right now
07:04because it's nothing I've ever seen before.
07:07You know, that kind of appearance, almost wall of rock.
07:12Yeah.
07:13I'd be perplexed if we'd just uncovered this archaeologically
07:17without a 40,000-pound boulder on top of it.
07:20Yeah.
07:21There's something very strange going on underneath the Lot 8 boulder.
07:26Metal readings, according to Dr. Spooner,
07:29who knows what he's talking about, are not natural.
07:32A couple of them have silver in them.
07:36If, in fact, there's a shaft directly under this cradle,
07:39it could lead to actual treasure on the table.
07:42Hey, the whole thing is wildly interesting,
07:44and I can't wait to get to the bottom of it.
07:47What I'd like to do is get some of that organic
07:49and then get back to my lab.
07:52It doesn't need to be a lot.
07:54That's good.
07:54That's enough.
07:54Oh, yeah, that's more enough.
07:56I'll take this back to the lab.
07:57I'll see what I see in this
07:59and get those results to you right away.
08:02Well, thank you.
08:03All right, thank you.
08:08Meanwhile...
08:08Billy, you'll see Peter and I put a stake in here
08:10so you could see it?
08:11Yep.
08:12Rick and other members of the team
08:14begin a new dig in the southwest corner of the swamp.
08:17We've got orange flagging a couple hundred feet north of us.
08:20We turn straight west, and we go all the way to the road.
08:23This is the new permitted area of the swamp.
08:25It's an extension of the southwest corner of the swamp,
08:29and I'm excited to see where the sand road might go.
08:32Earlier this year...
08:34The team uncovered two sections
08:35of a sand-covered cobblestone road in this area
08:39that were lined by several eight-sided survey stakes,
08:43which, according to new research,
08:45could be nearly 800 years old.
08:49So I'm looking for corroborative evidence
08:52that this is indeed a path or a road.
08:54Mm-hmm.
08:55While earlier permitting issues
08:57restricted the team's ability to search for more of the road
09:01and determine just where it may lead,
09:04they have now obtained government approval
09:06to continue the investigation.
09:07When you find something, give me a call,
09:10and I'll come back to survey it.
09:11Okay, here you go.
09:13We'd like to know why is it there and who did it?
09:15Why is it lined with the survey stakes?
09:18Might it lead to a treasure or a vault?
09:22These questions hopefully will be answered.
09:25Keep an eye out for stakes.
09:27Yep.
09:39Whoa.
09:41Hold on, Bill.
09:44Look at that.
09:46Wow.
09:51Whoa.
09:53Hold on, Bill.
09:55Look at that.
09:58Wow.
09:59There's your sand, Billy, right here.
10:01Yeah.
10:02In the southwest corner of the swamp,
10:05the Oak Island team has discovered more evidence
10:07of a sand-covered stone road.
10:10Makes that sand really old.
10:12Way back, right?
10:13Yep.
10:14We have the ability to go that way.
10:16Right.
10:16I'd like to know the width of it.
10:18That sand certainly does seem to be turning that way.
10:22Right.
10:22Here, this is well-defined.
10:25Yeah.
10:26There's no question that what Billy called the sand road
10:29is right in front of us.
10:31We're standing on it.
10:32That's exciting and interesting at the same time.
10:35As we continue this process,
10:37it may go to another area
10:39that we are currently completely unaware of.
10:41We think people were here at different periods of times
10:43for a significant amount of time, right?
10:46Yep.
10:46And we're finding manning evidence that they did.
10:49Yeah, right here.
10:52Okey-doke.
10:52All right.
10:53Let's see what we get.
11:15I'm going to run back to the research center.
11:17Hopefully there's artifacts in here,
11:19but stakes are just as important,
11:21so just keep an eye open.
11:23That's all.
11:23We'll let you know if you find anything.
11:24All right.
11:25See you, Billy.
11:26See you.
11:32Nothing yet.
11:41Hey, Peter, there might be a top of the stake there.
11:44Right here?
11:45Yeah.
11:46Oh, yeah.
11:47Might be.
11:51Big, if it is.
11:54Suspiciously straight.
11:55From here, it looks cut.
11:57Yeah.
11:58Cut, but not pointed.
12:01It's decayed in there, so it's hard to know.
12:03Yeah, but it was pretty deep.
12:05Yeah.
12:07Is it possible that the team has found the remains
12:10of another potentially ancient survey stake
12:13along the believed sand road?
12:15We'll put it to the side.
12:17Remember where it was for Steve.
12:19Keep on finding more.
12:21If there's something here, we'll find it.
12:22Yep.
12:26The following morning,
12:30as the teams from SB Canada and Rock Equipment
12:33make final preparations to begin excavating Peacock 1
12:37in the Money Pit area.
12:40All right, Gary, it's time.
12:42This is prime hunting ground here, right?
12:44Lots of good finds.
12:45We are between the structure on Lot 5 and the ocean.
12:50Marty and Gary arrive on Lot 5.
12:53This here isn't covered well, right?
12:54Yeah, it is.
12:55We don't know how old it is.
12:56So this would have been a busy area
12:58in between these features.
13:00So it stands to reason
13:01we should be able to find some artifacts here.
13:05Okay.
13:07One week ago,
13:08Italian archaeoastronomy professor Adriano Gaspani
13:11analyzed the location of the round feature on Lot 5,
13:16a feature that the lot's previous owner,
13:19the late Robert Young,
13:20believed was no older than the 20th century.
13:23But incredibly,
13:25based on its alignment with certain stars in the night sky,
13:29Professor Gaspani believes
13:30that the feature was originally constructed
13:33as far back as the early 13th century.
13:37Let's start here.
13:38Let's go around the well.
13:39Okay.
13:40Now,
13:41Gary and Marty
13:42want to search a stone well
13:44that sits a few yards away
13:46from the rounded feature
13:47for clues that could help validate
13:49Professor Gaspani's theory.
13:52Especially
13:53since they have previously found
13:55a bronze button
13:56and a spike in this area
13:58that had been scientifically dated
14:00to the 13th century.
14:02How about you get that
14:03and I get that
14:04and we flip this thing up
14:05and you can work this from the side?
14:07Yeah.
14:08When we bought Lot 5,
14:10the people who looked
14:12into Robert Young's data
14:14told me
14:15that this thing
14:16that was covered up in plywood,
14:18oh, look at that,
14:20was that this was just a modern well.
14:23but it's weird.
14:25I don't know why anyone
14:26would dig a water well
14:27so close to the ocean.
14:29If you don't mind,
14:30I'd like to get you down in there.
14:32I'll scamper down.
14:34You had to detect
14:35at the bottom of the well.
14:37It's an unswept area.
14:39That has not been searched yet.
14:41So,
14:42there could be artifacts under there.
14:44Let's get to the bottom of this.
14:49Thanks.
14:55Go around the edges.
14:58Nothing in that part.
15:00And you the shovel
15:01and then I'm going to
15:02crawl down in there.
15:03Okay.
15:05Thanks.
15:08Yeah, it's easy to get down here.
15:13Whoa!
15:15This thing's a little deeper.
15:17A little cheaper than I thought.
15:19but that's not even
15:20a good bottom right there.
15:23I mean,
15:23this floor is giving away
15:24as we stand here.
15:25Yeah.
15:26Yeah.
15:28We're nowhere near
15:28the bottom of this, Gary.
15:29No.
15:30It keeps on going.
15:31I'm standing on a bunch of leaves,
15:33that's all.
15:34You want to look again?
15:35Yeah.
15:35Let me get right on out of here.
15:43I'm surprised.
15:44I thought there'd be
15:45more in the walls.
15:46Thanks.
15:48That was crazy,
15:49wasn't it?
15:50Mm.
15:50Thanks.
15:52Okay,
15:52but we got to talk about this.
15:53Yeah.
15:54Just because we're not
15:55detecting any metals down there,
15:57don't mean so.
15:58We're not at the bottom.
15:59Yeah, exactly.
16:00And there could be
16:01pottery, glass.
16:02All kinds of stuff.
16:04Well, this is like
16:05metal detecting
16:06on a trampoline.
16:07The fact that there are
16:09several feet of leaves
16:11below our feet,
16:12we need to get
16:14the archaeologists
16:15and do some more
16:16exploring in this well.
16:18This looks promising to me.
16:19Yeah.
16:20I'm sure when all these
16:22leaves are taken out,
16:24there's a good chance
16:25of finding an artifact
16:27in the bottom of the well.
16:31That's a good signal.
16:34Sounds like there's a chance
16:35it could be non-ferrous
16:37and deep.
16:37Yeah.
16:38Stupid joke.
16:42This rock has to go,
16:43Gary, before it has.
16:45Yeah, I think so.
16:48You do the hard work
16:50and I'll take the glory.
16:51I will.
16:51Yeah.
16:53Oh!
16:59Oh, this has got potential, mate.
17:05Really?
17:06Right there.
17:08Woo-hoo!
17:12What have you got, mate?
17:14I can see it at the side.
17:19I can see it at the side.
17:20I can see something moving.
17:21There.
17:22If you do the honours, mate,
17:23you dug it out.
17:24You see, that's the tip of it.
17:26Just there.
17:26I can pick it up with my hand.
17:28Yep.
17:30You did all the hard work, mate.
17:33Let's see what we got.
17:36Ooh!
17:38Ooh!
17:40Ooh!
17:40It's a rock.
17:41Ooh-ooh!
17:43That's probably an old hook.
17:46And it makes sense if you think about it.
17:49Right next to a well.
17:50You're lowering something in there.
17:51Yeah.
17:52While searching the stone well
17:53near the rounded feature on lot five,
17:56Marty and Gary have just made
17:58an intriguing discovery.
18:00How about it?
18:01It's been a long time since that's been used.
18:03You know what, though?
18:04What?
18:04It's not a chain hook.
18:06It's a driven hook.
18:07Look.
18:07Yeah.
18:07Drove that in.
18:09Yeah.
18:09Pull something.
18:10Kind of like a pintle.
18:12It might be a pintle.
18:13Yeah.
18:14I kind of hope it's a pintle
18:16because we found a pintle
18:1820 yards away from that big boulder
18:20on lot eight
18:21and on lot 15.
18:23But if it's a pintle,
18:25I have a feeling
18:26this is going to be a real oldie as well.
18:29Think the metal's going to match?
18:30It could be a connection there.
18:32Lot five, lot eight, lot 15.
18:34Yeah.
18:35A pintle is a kind of pivot pin
18:38used for doors and gate hinges,
18:40allowing them to open and close.
18:42Curiously,
18:44the team unearthed
18:45two other possible pintles this year.
18:48One on lot 15,
18:50200 yards northeast
18:51of the Money Pit area
18:52and another near the boulder feature
18:55on lot eight.
18:56Both could predate 1795.
19:00If Marty and Gary had, indeed,
19:03found a third pintle,
19:04could Gary be correct
19:06that it might be a clue
19:07connecting all three areas
19:09of Oak Island?
19:11I would imagine
19:12we're the first ones
19:13ever metal detecting down here.
19:15This has not moved
19:16for a very long time.
19:18Yeah.
19:19Let's put her in the back.
19:21Whenever we found
19:22these pintles around Oak Island,
19:24they've always been associated
19:26with an old feature.
19:28I know this isn't a wishing well,
19:30but I'm wishing
19:30that we would have explored
19:32this well sooner.
19:34We are not at the bottom of this
19:36by any means.
19:37This is under-searched.
19:38Yeah, it really is.
19:40We need to get to the bottom of it.
19:42We've got to talk with the crew.
19:44Yeah.
19:45Blair should have a look at this.
19:47Yeah.
19:50Later that morning...
19:53Hey, guys.
19:54Looks like they're all set up
19:55on Peacock 1.
19:56The team prepares
19:57to break ground
19:58with their third
19:59seven-foot diameter shaft
20:01of the year
20:01in the Money Pit area.
20:04The Peacock has been an area
20:05where Dr. Spooner
20:06and Dr. Michael
20:07have indicated for years
20:09that the gold in the water
20:10is emanating from.
20:12Gold, silver
20:13is right where we're headed.
20:15Terry, what are our deaths?
20:16Death to bedrug
20:17in this area,
20:18end of the Peacock?
20:18It's a 211.
20:20And this is an area
20:21where the solution channel
20:22actually extends up
20:24to about 165 feet.
20:26That's the most likely origin
20:27of the metals in the water
20:28based on the testing.
20:29Yes, yep.
20:30We're looking for that structure
20:31that has eluded us,
20:33the structure that perhaps
20:33is emanating the gold,
20:35the structure that is perhaps
20:36the offset chamber.
20:37Right.
20:38Before we reach the bottom
20:39of the solution channel,
20:40we have to look at this area
20:42of really loose,
20:43what looks like disturbed soil
20:44underground
20:45that we call the Peacock.
20:46Because there were some voids
20:48left open down there.
20:49There could be
20:49an offset chamber.
20:51Everything starting
20:52from about 150 feet down
20:53and deeper
20:55we're going to go through
20:55because it has a chance
20:57of containing the treasure.
20:58People could have been
20:59chasing the money pit,
21:00but the reality is
21:01with the gold in the water
21:02and the other things
21:02that we found,
21:03maybe with this information
21:04proves that the treasure
21:05is up here somewhere.
21:06There is a lot
21:07that speaks to the Peacock
21:09as being the location
21:11of the money pit treasure,
21:12and we're going to find out
21:13with this case on, hopefully.
21:14So the more spoils
21:16we pull out of this can,
21:17the more chance
21:18we'll ever find in treasure.
21:20It's verging ground.
21:21Yep.
21:22Speaking of that,
21:23it looks like we have
21:23the first bucket
21:24from Peacock 1
21:25coming up now.
21:26So I'm going to grab
21:26some shovels
21:27and we can get going.
21:29Can't wait.
21:30As the dig proceeds,
21:33later that afternoon...
21:34Okay, we're here
21:35to analyze an object.
21:37Alex, Gary, and Marty
21:39join Laird and Emma
21:40in the lab
21:41to hear their analysis
21:42of the possible pintle
21:44found earlier today
21:45on Lot 5.
21:47It was found near
21:49the supposed well
21:50on Lot 5.
21:51Yeah, Robert Young
21:52refers to it
21:53as the 20th century well.
21:55Anyway, I'm sort of proud
21:56of that find
21:57because it was
21:57so difficult to get.
21:59So let's find out, Gary,
22:01shall we,
22:01what we know about it.
22:02We both thought
22:03it was either a pintle
22:05or an oak.
22:06And we're hoping
22:07it's old.
22:08Well, but here
22:09it is kind of cleaned up.
22:11We are leaning
22:12towards hook
22:13rather than pintle.
22:16Maybe driven
22:17into something
22:17to lower that bucket
22:18down the well.
22:20The iron's composition,
22:22so it is minimal impurities.
22:23This one is just
22:24really clean iron
22:25that makes it
22:26harder to locate.
22:28Well, that's interesting
22:29because most of your artifacts
22:30tend to point
22:31towards Britain,
22:32don't they?
22:33Yeah.
22:33Yeah, and here's
22:34one that doesn't.
22:36Yeah.
22:37It does have
22:37a higher chromium content
22:39and a copper content.
22:40I do see European regions
22:42with a higher
22:42copper impurity,
22:44so that could be
22:45kind of a region
22:46of interest
22:47to look into.
22:48There's no modern
22:49alloying elements,
22:50so that brings it
22:52before 1800s.
22:55There is a lack
22:57of potassium
22:58in its base metal.
23:00It does point
23:00towards mid-1700s
23:02is the most likelihood.
23:04Well, that fits
23:05with the bulk
23:05of your artifacts.
23:06Yes, it does.
23:07Well, except then
23:08they're way off
23:09on the age of the well.
23:10Yeah.
23:11But the takeaway
23:11is exciting
23:12because it implies
23:13that that well
23:13could potentially
23:14be older than
23:14we've thought.
23:18That would be
23:18very cool.
23:19Mm-hmm.
23:21It implies
23:22that that well
23:23could potentially
23:23be older than
23:24we've thought.
23:25Yeah.
23:25And it also says
23:26there's more to learn
23:27about Lot 5.
23:28Yeah.
23:28Yeah, I think so.
23:30In the Oak Island lab,
23:31the team has just
23:32been informed
23:33that an iron hook
23:34found near the well
23:35on Lot 5
23:37could predate
23:38the discovery
23:38of the money pit.
23:39The potential
23:40of what you can find
23:42at the bottom
23:42of a well
23:43is so great.
23:44Yeah.
23:44Yeah.
23:44So, Laird,
23:45my information
23:46is that Robert Young
23:47felt like that well
23:48was recent,
23:50but I'm wondering
23:51whether this
23:51could lead us
23:52to some action
23:54because just about
23:55everything Robert Young
23:56touched,
23:58God bless him,
23:59seems to be
24:00not what it seems.
24:01Mm-hmm.
24:02And you have looked
24:03at the surrounding
24:04areas of the well,
24:05obviously.
24:05That's where
24:05that came from.
24:06The well is circled
24:08with rocks,
24:09very similar
24:10to the original
24:12round feature.
24:13Yes.
24:15Here it is.
24:16Whoa.
24:17It's almost
24:17perfectly circular.
24:18When the team
24:19began investigating
24:20Lot 5 in 2022,
24:22after acquiring it
24:24from Robert Young's
24:25estate,
24:26what is now
24:27the large,
24:28rounded feature
24:28where artifacts
24:29that may date
24:31between the 13th
24:32and 17th centuries
24:33have been found,
24:34was mostly buried
24:36and surrounded
24:37by stones
24:37that Mr. Young
24:38had placed above it.
24:40Everybody drops
24:41artifacts down the well
24:42because you're
24:43leading over it,
24:44getting the water out.
24:46And they're used
24:46to hide things
24:47you don't want
24:47people to see.
24:48Could Laird
24:49be correct
24:50that the well,
24:51which was also
24:52reported to be
24:53a modern structure,
24:55is actually
24:56a much older formation.
24:58So I think,
24:59again,
24:59the well,
25:00it's worth putting
25:01a little bit
25:01of effort into it.
25:02Yeah.
25:03Just for the potential
25:04rewards at the bottom.
25:05It might be a lot
25:06deeper than you think.
25:07Well,
25:07that's a good thing.
25:08That's a great thing,
25:09yeah.
25:10Well,
25:10we're tied up
25:11to the end of the week
25:12with Lot 8,
25:13but we can go down
25:15and reevaluate.
25:16I really think you should.
25:17Yeah,
25:18I like the idea,
25:19too.
25:19It was puzzling.
25:20Yeah.
25:21Okay,
25:21let's get after it.
25:22Yep.
25:22All right.
25:23See you guys.
25:24See you.
25:28As a new morning
25:30breaks on Oak Island.
25:32Let's go, kid.
25:33Here we go.
25:34All right.
25:37What takes
25:37is one good find, Terry.
25:39I know.
25:40Rick and other
25:41members of the team
25:42are continuing
25:43their investigation
25:44of the possible
25:45sand road
25:46in the southwest
25:47region of the swamp.
25:48See how much deeper
25:49that is there?
25:50Right here.
25:52Yeah,
25:52well, like here,
25:53here we're on ground
25:54and look how it steps
25:55right off there.
25:56Yeah, just...
25:56Yeah.
25:58No sand.
25:59Not over there, no.
26:01I don't know
26:02if it's going that way,
26:03toward the center
26:04of the bog.
26:06It's early on
26:07in terms of trying
26:08to understand
26:09the proper orientation
26:11of the sand road.
26:12Does it have anything
26:13to do with the stakes?
26:14Is it going
26:15towards the money pit?
26:16There's no way
26:17to make that determination yet,
26:18but I intend
26:19to figure it out.
26:28Wait, wait, wait.
26:33Oh, Rick just found a stake.
26:37Okay.
26:37Let's go have a look.
26:41Yeah?
26:41Is it an eight-sided stake?
26:44Five.
26:44You can see
26:45it's been bounced.
26:46It's been cooked
26:47with an axe.
26:47You can see those bounces
26:48on that side there.
26:51Well, one thing's for sure.
26:52That's exactly
26:53where it was.
26:54Yep.
26:54Steve, to pin that.
26:55For sure.
26:56You know what?
26:57There's two of them.
26:58Two of them?
27:00That's eight-ish.
27:01And look at it.
27:02One, two, three, four.
27:04I'm here.
27:05I'm here.
27:05Five, six, seven,
27:06eight-sided.
27:07Good eye, mate.
27:09They're right there together.
27:11No clue what either of them mean.
27:14I struggle with this find
27:16being coincidental.
27:17To me, it's intentional.
27:19Five-sided stakes
27:20and eight-sided stakes,
27:21I think each is telling
27:22a different story.
27:23We've never seen
27:24a five and an eight together.
27:26No.
27:27One has to remember,
27:28dates in the bog
27:29indicate a multi-generational
27:32attempt to accomplish something
27:33as far back as the 13th century.
27:36So I think they represent
27:37two completely different timelines.
27:40The five-sided stakes
27:41could represent
27:42the later occupation.
27:45That's cool.
27:46Yeah.
27:47This is a good sign.
27:48Whenever we found stakes,
27:50we normally find
27:51some kind of a boulder
27:53or rock construction.
27:55We don't know
27:55if it's a platform
27:56or a path.
27:57That's why we find
27:58multiple stakes
27:59in different areas
28:00of different designs.
28:02The stakes represent
28:03multiple attempts
28:04to do things
28:05over an extended period
28:07of time.
28:07I think we need
28:08to do a lot more work
28:09to try to understand
28:10what they may mean.
28:12Sand is back.
28:14And it doesn't look
28:15very haphazard.
28:17It's so perfectly straight.
28:18Perfectly straight.
28:19The road's still here.
28:20Yeah.
28:20Or the path,
28:21whatever it is,
28:21whatever you want to call it,
28:22it's right here.
28:24Yeah.
28:30I found another snake.
28:32Good kind, Gary.
28:34The good kind.
28:37One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
28:41eight-sided stake.
28:43It snapped off.
28:46How the heck did we not see that?
28:48Yeah, just wedged in there.
28:51It was like this.
28:53It was kind of like that.
28:57The point was in.
28:59I saw the angles.
28:59There's a five-pointed one.
29:01Right next to him.
29:03And now you've pulled this up.
29:06It's just like the other one.
29:08Two.
29:09Yeah, five-sided next to an eight-sided.
29:12Look where these are, Rick,
29:13and then look behind you.
29:15Look.
29:15We're in a line with that other stake.
29:18If this is going to be lining up,
29:21we should find a couple more stakes
29:24just over there, same distance.
29:27Two stakes, different size.
29:29Two stakes, different size.
29:31If you're right about this alignment,
29:33then, as you said,
29:35there should be something right there.
29:37You know what?
29:38Let's pace it off.
29:40One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
29:4621 feet?
29:48Gary, can you keep me on track here?
29:51Yeah.
29:52One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
29:58Should be right here.
29:59It would be nice if it's some more stakes.
30:02Should be right here.
30:03Billy, why don't you just see
30:04if there's anything here?
30:05Yep, we'll check.
30:07I just find it impossible
30:09to believe that this is a coincidence,
30:12that two different people
30:13at two different times
30:14put the two stakes in
30:16to touch each other.
30:17Does it have anything to do
30:18with the sand road?
30:19Does it have anything to do
30:21with Professor Gaspani's
30:22archaeoastronomy work,
30:23that there are significant,
30:25accurate, stellar, solar,
30:28and lunar alignments
30:29associated with the positioning
30:30of the stakes in the swamp?
30:42Guess what?
30:43Hey!
30:45Come on over.
30:48Well.
30:52Hey!
30:53Come on over.
30:54You found one, Rick?
30:55Right where we said.
30:58Oh!
30:59Brilliant.
31:01While uncovering more
31:02of the sand road
31:03in the southwest part
31:05of the swamp,
31:06Oh!
31:08Rick has made another
31:09compelling discovery.
31:11That's the first time
31:12we've ever said,
31:13hey, there should be one there,
31:14and there was.
31:15I mean, Rick measured it out.
31:17Absolutely.
31:1721 feet in between them all,
31:19and...
31:19And there it is.
31:20There it is.
31:20Yes, getting all the more
31:21interesting, isn't it?
31:22Yeah, I mean,
31:23that's no coincidence, mate.
31:25Absolutely.
31:26Now we know there's an alignment.
31:27What the heck?
31:28Yep.
31:29It's the first time
31:30we've ever got excited
31:31about finding wood
31:32in the swamp.
31:34Because it's exciting.
31:36Yep.
31:36And you were spot on.
31:38You nailed that one up there,
31:40lined it up with that one,
31:42put me on the line,
31:43bingo, there it is.
31:44We've got a road,
31:46and it's leading to something.
31:47Seems to be the northwest
31:49end of the swamp.
31:51Are we interested?
31:52Oh, yep.
31:53I'm hoping to uncover
31:55a heck of a lot more
31:56of this sand road.
31:57Absolutely.
31:59Could the team be correct
32:00that the stakes they have found
32:02mean that the sand road
32:04is heading
32:05in a northwesterly direction?
32:07If so,
32:08just what might they find
32:09at the end of it?
32:11The relationship
32:12between the stakes,
32:13the sand road,
32:15all of this speaks
32:17to some effort
32:18to facilitate
32:20an operation in the bark.
32:21There is a trail
32:23to be followed here,
32:24and we have to proceed.
32:27We call it the swamp,
32:29but when you think about it,
32:30it's so much more
32:30because look at all
32:31the industrial purpose
32:33that it has.
32:33Everything just screams
32:34just a ton of activity.
32:36It's too much to ignore.
32:39This path,
32:40this road,
32:40it continues
32:41to be amazing.
32:42Yeah.
32:43Who knows
32:44what else is in as well?
32:46I think what we're uncovering
32:48is work pre-swamp,
32:50and when people
32:51could get out here
32:52and do all this work.
32:54There are strong hints here
32:55that the sand road
32:57is man-made,
32:58hopefully from long ago.
33:00My mind goes to
33:01Fred Nolan's belief
33:03that the swamp
33:04was an artificial creation,
33:07and that once you understand
33:08the totality
33:09of the work in the bark,
33:11then you can understand
33:12the mystery.
33:13Well, we've got to prove it.
33:16So, let's get to work.
33:18It's been a really good day.
33:20Yeah.
33:20You know,
33:21unfortunately,
33:21every day,
33:22there's an end of the day,
33:23but there's more to learn,
33:25and that means coming back.
33:27Oh, absolutely.
33:28I just need to figure out
33:29how to make the days longer.
33:30We'll be all set.
33:31You work on that tonight.
33:33It's just the days.
33:33All right, see you.
33:34Good digging, Mike.
33:35Okay, see you later.
33:36Kudos to everybody.
33:40Later that evening.
33:43So, ladies and gentlemen,
33:45what we have in front of us
33:47are two samples
33:48of a mortar-slash-cement-like substance
33:51that we believe
33:53is part of the matrix
33:54of what's underneath
33:55the Lottie boulder.
33:56Before another productive day
33:58comes to a close,
33:59the team gathers in the war room
34:01for a highly anticipated
34:03scientific report.
34:05So, I'm going to turn it over
34:06to Emma and Dr. Spooner
34:07and Fiona and Jillian
34:09to let us know
34:10what the results
34:11of their analysis is.
34:13I'm prepared to be astonished.
34:17Go ahead.
34:18So, I think I would have to ask
34:19which samples
34:20you've brought with us today.
34:22So, this is the blue-gray soil
34:24and this is the gray soil.
34:25Okay, great.
34:26Emma, would you call this a clay?
34:29I don't think I would call it a clay.
34:31I call it a nice sand-silk-clay mix.
34:34Okay.
34:35It's being manipulated
34:36to remove the sand,
34:38probably the gravel,
34:39as much as possible.
34:40Yeah.
34:41It is a mortar.
34:43It's not natural, though, right?
34:45It's natural in ingredients
34:47that you find in lot 8,
34:49but it isn't natural
34:51in its formation.
34:53Yeah.
34:54If we were just presented
34:55with this sediment,
34:57if you presented it to me
34:58and say,
34:59is that something
34:59we naturally find?
35:00I'd say no.
35:01Just think the people
35:03who did it
35:03just use materials at hand.
35:06It's quite gel-like
35:07and if you were doing
35:09strength testing of it,
35:10it's got a lot of elasticity to it
35:13that could be used
35:14to support rocks
35:15that you wanted to support it.
35:16Yep.
35:17Is there any way
35:19that we can date
35:20when this was made
35:21or when it was put down?
35:23There's certain things
35:24that I do look for
35:26to firmly date concrete
35:28or cement,
35:29which is this binder.
35:30Mm-hmm.
35:31And right off the bat,
35:32there is no modern binding.
35:34But I'm also not seeing
35:35any of the classic minerals
35:38that I would expect to find
35:39in, like, really old mortar,
35:41and it's not typical ingredients
35:43that I see
35:43in modern.
35:44Right.
35:45So I'm a little bit
35:46more bullish
35:47in the feature
35:48of being quite old.
35:50Like, what dates
35:51would you give
35:51to quite old?
35:53Well, everything I've seen
35:55lends itself
35:57to before mid-1700s.
36:00Then I would put it
36:02somewhere between
36:03pre-1800s,
36:04post-1200s.
36:07It's pre-modern
36:08and all the way
36:10back to medieval.
36:18I would put it
36:20somewhere between
36:20pre-1800s,
36:22post-1200s.
36:24It's pre-modern
36:26and all the way
36:27back to medieval.
36:29In the war room,
36:31Emma and Dr. Spooner
36:32have just revealed
36:33that the composition
36:34of the mortar-like material
36:36found on Lot 8
36:37suggests that the man-made
36:39boulder feature
36:40may be nearly 800 years old.
36:43We have features
36:44on the island
36:45that date back
36:46very old.
36:47We have good examples
36:49of the techniques
36:50that were used
36:51in the 1700s
36:52and 1800s,
36:53maybe even into
36:55the late to mid-1600s,
36:57and we don't see
36:58any construction
36:59like this,
36:59which to me
37:00is suggesting
37:01that this was done
37:02outside of those time periods.
37:03Probably earlier.
37:06With your XRF machine,
37:08you were picking up silver.
37:10Emma,
37:10are you still seeing
37:11traces of that silver?
37:12So I haven't made sense
37:14of it yet,
37:14but I am getting
37:16some low detection
37:18hits of silver.
37:19Lovely.
37:20Where do the traces
37:21of silver even come from?
37:22To be in the soil
37:24like that,
37:25it doesn't typically
37:26happen, right?
37:28No, I haven't seen it
37:29in organic matter.
37:31Okay, so my dad's theory,
37:33if this is a shaft
37:34for something deeper
37:35through which silver
37:36was taken at one point,
37:38could that have moved
37:39that silver signal
37:40up from deeper
37:41and then left it there
37:42as a residue?
37:43It could have
37:44with the organic matter.
37:45If you had an object
37:46that was laying
37:47even for a short period
37:48of time in the organic matter,
37:50an object that was silver
37:51like a candelabra
37:53or something like that,
37:54it would probably
37:55show the trace amounts
37:57we're seeing.
37:58We're not there yet.
37:59No.
37:59But the idea
38:00that this could be
38:01related to a deeper signal
38:02through maybe a shaft
38:04is still a valid idea.
38:07Yeah.
38:08The organic will
38:10soak up available metals.
38:11Could Marty and Alex
38:13be correct?
38:14Is it possible
38:16that the traces of silver
38:17detected in the soils
38:19beneath the Lott 8 feature
38:20might be related
38:22to a shaft
38:23that contains
38:24a cache of silver?
38:25If so,
38:26after nearly two decades
38:28of searching,
38:29has the team
38:30found where the truth
38:31behind the Oak Island mystery
38:33may lie buried?
38:35Fiona,
38:35it is a very weird
38:37archaeological site
38:39that has no artifacts.
38:40Is that not true?
38:42I think this is very special,
38:43and I think that the fact
38:44that we don't have
38:45any artifacts
38:46gives it a hint
38:47of being much older.
38:48If in fact
38:49that 40,000-pound boulder
38:51was placed,
38:51intentionally placed,
38:52with a cement mixture
38:54of some sort
38:54underneath it,
38:55it didn't happen
38:56in the 1900s.
38:57It didn't happen
38:58in the 1800s.
38:59It didn't happen
39:00in the 1700s
39:01by normal people,
39:05which means
39:06it's very, very old.
39:07I mean,
39:08medieval brings you back
39:09to the Templars
39:10and their descendants.
39:11It's difficult
39:12to overstate
39:13the importance of that.
39:15The dates
39:15that Emma mentioned,
39:16it's exciting.
39:19Xena's Templar map
39:20references this area,
39:22the so-called
39:23December Triangle.
39:24This lot does indeed
39:26hold mystery.
39:27Here's my next question,
39:29and it is the question.
39:31I want to know
39:32what's underneath it,
39:33like,
39:34all the way down
39:35underneath it.
39:37We're running out of time.
39:38Correct.
39:39We are on a treasure hunt.
39:41I want to know
39:41what's under that boulder.
39:42What are we doing next,
39:44and what is the prognosis?
39:46We've removed
39:47some very large rocks
39:48down at the bottom,
39:49and we're examining
39:50the soil that we're seeing
39:51under there,
39:52and it seems to go deeper,
39:54so we're actually
39:55at that point
39:56where we are going to
39:57continue going deeper
39:58and deeper,
39:58but we really don't
39:59want to miss anything,
40:00and I think it's really,
40:01really important
40:02that we continue
40:03the way that we are
40:05doing it now.
40:06Okay, well,
40:07I said I wanted
40:08to be astonished,
40:09and frankly,
40:10I am.
40:11The consistency
40:12amongst the experts
40:13that this thing
40:13is so significant
40:15astonishes me,
40:16but in a very good way.
40:20it's quite complex,
40:22good problem to have,
40:24fascinating problem to have.
40:27Usually it's time to dig.
40:29I would say this time
40:30it's time to keep
40:31trawling so that
40:33we can eventually dig,
40:34so let's go get it.
40:36Sounds good.
40:36Good.
40:36All right.
40:37That works.
40:38See ya.
40:40The road to answers
40:41on Oak Island
40:42has inspired long
40:43and trying journeys
40:45for generations
40:46of dedicated searchers.
40:48For many,
40:49it led to incredible evidence
40:51of buried treasure
40:52in the money pit.
40:53For others,
40:54it took disastrous
40:55and even deadly turns.
40:59But now,
41:00Rick, Marty, Craig,
41:02and their team
41:03have found
41:04that it may lead
41:04to valuables
41:05all across the island.
41:08As they forge ahead
41:09and dig deeper below,
41:12will their journey end
41:13with the ultimate rewards?
41:16Or will the island
41:18lead them to a curve
41:19that they won't
41:22be able to pass?
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