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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 blowing me away right now because it's nothing I've ever seen before.
00:22This is a 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.
01:58There 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.
02:57Yeah.
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.
03:14During the recent dig of the TPM 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?
03:58The peacock has never been explained and the reason it could be there is because of a very deep, unknown
04:05metal, maybe an offset chamber.
04:08So I'm keenly interested in seeing that hole dug.
04:12Yeah.
04:13Over there, they could make good progress.
04:15It's virgin ground.
04:16Subsidians 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, the so-called peacock is an area where the team has
04:33also detected precious metals during past underground water tests.
04:38Whoa, whoa, whoa.
04:40And this year, during their core drilling operation, they discovered a mysterious 10-foot void above the solution channel at
04:49a depth of 150 feet.
04:51We've got an opening.
04:53A void where an underwater camera recorded images of possible man-made artifacts, including metallic objects.
05:03This has led the team to believe that they may have discovered an offset treasure chamber that was once connected
05:10to 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 is really where some of the treasure was deposited
05:28in 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.
05:43All right.
05:43See ya.
05:44As Rick, Marty, and their team conclude the meeting in the war room.
05:50On lot eight, located on the western side of the island.
05:55Hey, Laird.
05:56Hey, Fiona.
05:57What's new here?
05:58Well.
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, and then the larger ones have presented themselves
06:13down 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 it can.
06:21After recently exposing this formation of hand-placed rocks, which were covered by a 40,000-pound boulder, Fiona discovered
06:30blue clay and a mortar-like cement that was used to bind the stones together.
06:35It has made the team speculate that this was done to 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, Dr. Spooner is collecting samples for
06:53ongoing lab testing in 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 because it's nothing I've ever seen before.
07:07You know, that kind of appearance, almost wall.
07:10Exactly.
07:11Of rock.
07:12Yeah.
07:12I'd be perplexed if we'd just uncovered this archaeologically without 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, who 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, it could lead to actual treasure on the table.
07:42Hey, the whole thing is wildly interesting, and I can't wait to get to the bottom of it.
07:48What I'd like to do is get some of that organic, and then get back to my lab.
07:52It doesn't need to be a lot.
07:54I think that's enough.
07:54Oh, yeah.
07:55That's more than enough.
07:56I'll take this back to the lab.
07:57I'll see what I see in this, and get those results to you right away.
08:02Well, thank you.
08:03All right.
08:07Meanwhile, Bill, you'll see Peter and I put a stake in here so you could see it.
08:11Yeah.
08:12Rick and other members of the team begin 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 permanent area of the swamp.
08:26It's an extension of the southwest corner of the swamp, and I'm excited to see where the sand road might
08:31go.
08:32Earlier this year, the team uncovered two sections of a sand-covered cobblestone road in this area
08:39that were lined by several eight-sided survey stakes, which, according to new research, could be nearly 800 years old.
08:49So I'm looking for corroborative evidence that this is indeed a path or a road.
08:54Mm-hmm.
08:55While earlier permitting issues restricted the team's ability to search for more of the road
09:01and determine just where it may lead, they have now obtained government approval to continue the investigation.
09:08When you find something, give me a call, and I'll come back to survey it.
09:11Okay.
09:11Okay, thank you, Steve.
09:13We'd like to know why is it there and who did it?
09:15Why is it aligned 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.
09:27Yeah.
09:39Whoa.
09:41Hold on, Bill.
09:44Look at that.
09:46Wow.
09:59There's your sand, Billy, right here.
10:01Yeah.
10:02In the southwest corner of the swamp, the Oak Island team has discovered more evidence of a sand-covered stone
10:09road.
10:10Makes that sand really old.
10:12Way back, right?
10:13Yep.
10:13We have the ability to go that way.
10:15Right.
10:16I'd like to know the width of it.
10:18And sand certainly does seem to be turning that way.
10:22Right.
10:23Here, this is well-defined.
10:25Yeah.
10:26There's no question that what Billy called the sand road is 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, it may go to another area that we are currently completely unaware of.
10:41We think people were here at different periods of times for a significant amount of time, right?
10:46Yep.
10:47And we're finding manning evidence that they did.
10:49Yeah, right here.
10:52Okie 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, but stakes are just as important, so 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 ya.
11:40Hey, Peter, there might be a top of the stake there.
11:44Right here?
11:45Yeah.
11:46Oh, yeah.
11:47Might be.
11:52Big, if it is.
11:54Suspiciously straight from 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.
12:03But it was pretty deep.
12:05Yeah.
12:07Is it possible that the team has found the remains of another potentially ancient survey stake along the believed sand
12:14road?
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, as the teams from SB Canada and Rock Equipment make 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.
12:46We 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 in between these features.
13:00So it stands to reason we should be able to find some artifacts here.
13:06One week ago, Italian archaeoastronomy professor Adriano Gaspani analyzed the location of the round feature on Lot 5.
13:15A feature that the Lot's previous owner, the late Robert Young, believed was no older than the 20th century.
13:23But incredibly, based on its alignment with certain stars in the night sky, Professor Gaspani believes that the feature was
13:32originally constructed as far back as the early 13th century.
13:37Let's start here. Let's go around the well.
13:39Okay.
13:40Now, Gary and Marty want to search a stone well that sits a few yards away from the rounded feature
13:47for clues that could help validate Professor Gaspani's theory.
13:53Especially since they have previously found a bronze button and a spike in this area that had been scientifically dated
14:00to the 13th century.
14:02How about you get that and I get that and we flip this thing up and you can work this
14:06from the side?
14:07Yeah.
14:08When we bought Lot 5, the people who looked into Robert Young's data told me that this thing that was
14:17covered up in plywood...
14:18Oh, look at that.
14:20...was that this was just a modern well.
14:23But it's weird.
14:25I don't know why anyone would dig a water well so close to the ocean.
14:29If you don't mind, I'd like to get you down in there.
14:32Oh, scumper down.
14:34You had the detect at the bottom of the well.
14:37It's an unswept area.
14:39That has not been searched yet.
14:41So, there 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.
15:00Okay.
15:02Thanks.
15:05Yeah, it's easy to get down here.
15:10Whoa.
15:12This thing's a little deeper.
15:14A little deeper than I thought.
15:16That's not even a good bottom right there.
15:20I mean, this floor is giving away as we stand here.
15:23Yeah.
15:23Yeah.
15:25We're nowhere near the bottom of this, Gary.
15:26No.
15:27It keeps on going.
15:29I'm standing on a bunch of leaves.
15:30That's all.
15:31You want to look again?
15:32Yeah.
15:32Let me get right on out of here.
15:39Well, I'm surprised.
15:41I thought there'd be more in the walls.
15:43Thanks.
15:45That was crazy, wasn't it?
15:47Mm.
15:47Thanks.
15:49Okay, but we got to talk about this.
15:50Yeah.
15:51Just because we're not detecting any metals down here, don't we say.
15:55We're not at the bottom.
15:56Yeah, exactly.
15:57And there could be pottery, glass.
15:59All kinds of stuff.
16:01Well, this is like metal detecting on a trampoline.
16:05The fact that there are several feet of leaves below our feet, we need to get the archaeologists
16:12and do some more exploring in this well.
16:15This looks promising to me.
16:16Yeah.
16:17I'm sure when all these leaves are taken out, there's a good chance of finding an artifact
16:24in the bottom of the well.
16:28That's a good signal.
16:31Sounds like there's a chance it could be non-ferrous and deep.
16:34Yeah.
16:35Stupid show.
16:39This rock has to go, Gary, before that.
16:42Yeah, I think so.
16:45You do the hard work and I'll take the glory.
16:48I will.
16:50Ah!
16:51Why?
16:59Oh, this has got potential, mate.
17:02Really?
17:03Right there.
17:09What have you got, mate?
17:11I could see it at the side.
17:16I could see something moving.
17:19There.
17:19You do the honors, mate.
17:20You dug it out.
17:21You see, that's the tip of it.
17:23Just there.
17:23I can pick it up with my hand.
17:24Yep.
17:27You did all the hard work, mate.
17:30See what we got.
17:33Oh!
17:35Oh!
17:37Oh!
17:37It's a rock.
17:38Oh, oh!
17:40That's probably an old hook.
17:43And it makes sense if you think about it.
17:45Right next to a well.
17:47You're lowering something in there.
17:48Yeah.
17:49While searching the stone well near the rounded feature on lot 5, Marty and Gary have just made
17:55an intriguing discovery.
17:58I bet it's been a long time since that's been used.
18:00You know what, though?
18:01What?
18:01It's not a chain hook.
18:03It's a driven hook.
18:04Look.
18:04Yeah.
18:05It drove that in.
18:06Yeah.
18:06Pulled something.
18:07Kind of like a pintle.
18:09It might be a pintle.
18:10Yeah.
18:12I kind of hope it's a pintle because we found a pintle 20 yards away from that big boulder
18:17on lot 8 and on lot 15.
18:20But if it's a pintle, I have a feeling this is going to be a real oldie as well.
18:26Think the metal's going to match?
18:27It could be a connection there.
18:29Lot 5, lot 8, lot 15.
18:31Yeah.
18:32A pintle is a kind of pivot pin used for doors and gate hinges, allowing them to open and
18:39close.
18:40Curiously, the team unearthed two other possible pintles this year.
18:45One on lot 15, 200 yards northeast of the Money Pit area, and another near the boulder
18:52feature on lot 8.
18:53Both could predate 1795.
18:57If Marty and Gary had, indeed, found a third pintle, could Gary be correct that it might
19:03be a clue connecting all three areas of Oak Island?
19:08I would imagine we're the first ones ever metal detecting down here.
19:11This has not moved for a very long time.
19:15Yeah.
19:16Let's put her in the back.
19:18Whenever we found these pintles around Oak Island, they've always been associated with
19:23an old feature.
19:25I know this isn't a wishing well, but I'm wishing that we would have explored this well sooner.
19:31We are not at the bottom of this by any means.
19:34This is under searched.
19:36Yeah, it really is.
19:38We need to get to the bottom of it.
19:39We got to talk with the crew.
19:41Yeah.
19:42Laird should have a look at this.
19:44Yeah.
19:47Later that morning.
19:50Hey, guys.
19:51Looks like they're all set up on Peacock 1.
19:53The team prepares to break ground with their third 7-foot diameter shaft of the year in
19:59the Money Pit area.
20:01The Peacock has been an area where Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michael have indicated for years that
20:07the gold in the water is emanating from.
20:09Gold, silver is right where we're headed.
20:12Terry, what are our deaths?
20:13Death to bedrock in this area, end of the Peacock, it's a 211.
20:17And this is an area where the solution channel actually extends up to about 165 feet.
20:23That's the most likely origin of the metals in the water, based on the testing.
20:26Yes, yep.
20:27We're looking for that structure that has eluded us, the structure that perhaps is emanating
20:31the gold, the structure that is perhaps the offset chamber.
20:34Right.
20:35Before we reach the bottom of the solution channel, we have to look at this area of really loose,
20:40what looks like disturbed soil underground that we call the Peacock, because there were
20:44some voids left open down there.
20:46There could be an offset chamber.
20:48Everything starting from about 150 feet down and deeper, we're going to go through because
20:53it has a chance of containing the treasure.
20:55People could have been chasing the Money Pit, but the reality is with the gold in the water
20:59and the other things that we found, maybe with this information proves that the treasure
21:02is up here somewhere.
21:03There is a lot that speaks to the Peacock as being the location of the Money Pit treasure,
21:09and we're going to find out with this case on, hopefully.
21:12So the more spoils we pull out of this can, the more chance we have of finding treasure.
21:17It's verging ground.
21:18Yep.
21:19Speaking of that, it looks like we have the first bucket from Peacock 1 coming up now.
21:23So I'm going to grab some shovels and we can get going.
21:26Can't wait.
21:27As the dig proceeds, later that afternoon, Alex, Gary, and Marty join Laird and Emma
21:37in the lab to hear their analysis of the possible pintle found earlier today on Lot 5.
21:44It was found near the supposed well on Lot 5.
21:48Yeah, Robert Young refers to it as the 20th century well.
21:52Anyway, I'm sort of proud of that find because it was so difficult to get.
21:56So let's find out, Gary, shall we, what we know about it.
21:59We both thought it was either a pintle or an oak, and we're hoping it's old.
22:05Well, but here it is kind of cleaned up.
22:08We are leaning towards hook rather than pintle.
22:13Maybe driven into something to lower that bucket down the well.
22:17The iron's composition, so it is minimal impurities.
22:20This one is just really clean iron that makes it harder to locate.
22:25Well, that's interesting because most of your artifacts tend to point towards Britain, don't they?
22:30Yeah.
22:30Yeah, and here's one that doesn't.
22:33Yeah.
22:34It does have a higher chromium content and a copper content.
22:37I do see European regions with a higher copper impurity,
22:41so that could be kind of a region of interest to look into.
22:45There's no modern alloying elements, so that brings it before 1800s.
22:52There is a lack of potassium in its base metal.
22:57It does point towards mid-1700s is the most likelihood.
23:01Well, that fits with the bulk of your artifacts.
23:03Yeah, it does.
23:04Well, except then they're way off on the age of the well.
23:07Yeah.
23:07But the takeaway is exciting because it implies that that well could potentially be older than we've thought.
23:15That would be very cool.
23:16Mm-hmm.
23:18It implies that that well could potentially be older than we've thought.
23:22Yeah.
23:22And it also says there's more to learn about Lot 5.
23:25Yeah.
23:26Yeah, I think so.
23:26In the Oak Island lab, the team has just been informed that an iron hook found near the well on
23:33Lot 5
23:34could predate the discovery of the money pit.
23:36The potential of what you can find at the bottom of a well is so great.
23:41Yeah.
23:41Yeah.
23:42So, Laird, my information is that Robert Young felt like that well was recent.
23:47But I'm wondering whether this could lead us to some action,
23:51because just about everything Robert Young touched, God bless him,
23:56seems to be not what it seems.
23:58Mm-hmm.
23:59And you have looked at the surrounding areas of the well, obviously.
24:02That's where that came from.
24:03The well is circled with rocks, very similar to the original round feature.
24:10Yes.
24:12Here it is.
24:13Whoa.
24:14It's almost perfectly circular.
24:15When the team began investigating Lot 5 in 2022,
24:20after acquiring it from Robert Young's estate,
24:23what is now the large, rounded feature where artifacts
24:26that may date between the 13th and 17th centuries have been found
24:31was mostly buried and surrounded by stones that Mr. Young had placed above it.
24:37Everybody drops artifacts down the well because you're leading over it.
24:41Yeah.
24:42Getting the water out.
24:43And they're used to hide things you don't want people to see.
24:45Mm-hmm.
24:46Could Laird be correct that the well,
24:48which was also reported to be a modern structure,
24:52is actually a much older formation?
24:55So I think, again, the well, it's worth putting a little bit of effort into it.
24:59Yeah.
25:00Just for the potential rewards at the bottom.
25:02It might be a lot deeper than you think.
25:04Well, that's a good thing.
25:05That's a great thing, yeah.
25:07Well, we're tied up to the end of the week with Lot 8,
25:10but we can go down and reevaluate.
25:13I really think you should.
25:14Yeah, I like the idea, too.
25:16It was puzzling.
25:17Yeah.
25:18Okay, let's get after it.
25:19Yep.
25:19All right.
25:20See you guys.
25:21See you.
25:25As a new morning breaks on Oak Island.
25:29Let's get stuck in.
25:30Here we go.
25:31All right.
25:34What takes is one good find, Terry.
25:36I know.
25:37Rick and other members of the team are continuing their investigation
25:41of the possible sand road in the southwest region of the swamp.
25:45See how much deeper that is there?
25:47Right here.
25:49Yeah, well, like here we're on ground,
25:51and look how it steps right off there.
25:53Good.
25:53It's a good one.
25:54Yeah.
25:55No sand.
25:56Not over there, no.
25:58I don't know if it's going that way.
26:00Toward the center of the bog.
26:03It's early on in terms of trying to understand
26:06the proper orientation of the sand road.
26:09Does it have anything to do with the stakes?
26:11Is it going towards the money pit?
26:13There's no way to make that determination yet,
26:15but I intend to figure it out.
26:21Oh!
26:23Oh!
26:25Wait, wait, wait, wait.
26:30Oh, Rick just found a stake.
26:32Whoa!
26:34Okay.
26:34Let's go have a look.
26:35Okay.
26:35Let's go have a look.
26:38Yeah?
26:39Is it an eight-sided stake?
26:41Five.
26:42You can see it's been bounced.
26:43It's been cut with an axe.
26:44You can see those bounces on that side there.
26:48Well, one thing's for sure.
26:49That's exactly where it was.
26:51Yep.
26:51Steve, the pin that.
26:52For sure.
26:53You know what?
26:54There's two of them.
26:55Two of them?
26:57That's eight-ish.
26:58And look at it.
26:59One, two, three, four.
27:01How many, how many, five, six, seven, eight-sided?
27:04Good eye, mate.
27:06They're right there together.
27:08No clue what either of them mean.
27:11I struggle with this find being coincidental.
27:14To me, it's intentional.
27:16Five-sided stakes and eight-sided stakes,
27:18I think each is telling a different story.
27:20We've never seen a five and an eight together.
27:23No.
27:24One has to remember,
27:25dates in the bog indicate a multi-generational attempt
27:29to accomplish something.
27:30As far back as the 13th century.
27:33So, I think they represent
27:34two completely different timelines.
27:37The five-sided stakes
27:38could represent the later occupation.
27:42That's cool.
27:44Yeah.
27:44This is a good sign.
27:46Whenever we found stakes,
27:47we normally find some kind of a boulder or rock construction.
27:52We don't know if it's a platform or a path.
27:54That's why we find multiple stakes
27:56in different areas of different designs.
27:58The stakes represent multiple attempts to do things
28:02over an extended period of time.
28:04And I think we need to do a lot more work
28:06to try to understand what they may mean.
28:09This hand is back.
28:10Mm-hmm.
28:12And it doesn't look very haphazard.
28:13It's so perfectly straight.
28:15Perfectly straight.
28:15The road's still here.
28:17Yeah.
28:17The path, whatever it is,
28:18whatever you want to call it,
28:19it's right here.
28:20Yep.
28:27I found another stake.
28:29Good kind, Gary.
28:31The good kind.
28:34One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
28:38eight-sided stake.
28:40It snapped off.
28:43How the heck did we not see that?
28:45Yeah, it just wedged in there.
28:48It was like this.
28:50It was kind of like that.
28:54The point was in.
28:56I saw the angles.
28:57There's a five-pointed one.
28:58Right next to him.
29:00And now you've pulled this up.
29:03It's just like the other one.
29:05Two.
29:06Yeah, five-sided next to an eight-sided.
29:09Look where these are, Rick,
29:10and then look behind it.
29:12Look.
29:13We're in the line with that other stake.
29:15If this is going to be lining up,
29:18we should find a couple more stakes
29:21just over there, same distance.
29:24Two stakes, different size.
29:26Two stakes, different size.
29:28If you're right about this alignment,
29:31then, as you said,
29:32there should be something right there.
29:34You know what?
29:35Let's pace it off.
29:37One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
29:4421 feet.
29:46Gary, can you keep me on track here?
29:48Yeah.
29:49One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
29:55Should be right here.
29:56It would be nice if it's some more stakes.
29:59Should be right here.
30:00Billy, why don't you just see
30:01if there's anything here?
30:02Yep, we'll check.
30:04I just find it impossible to believe
30:07that this is a coincidence,
30:09that two different people at two different times
30:11put the two stakes in to touch each other.
30:14Does it have anything to do with the sand road?
30:16Does it have anything to do
30:18with Professor Gaspani's archaeoastronomy work,
30:20that there are significant, accurate,
30:24stellar, solar, and lunar alignments
30:26associated with positioning of the stakes in the swamp?
30:39Guess what?
30:40Hey!
30:42Come on over.
30:45Well.
30:49Hey!
30:50Come on over.
30:51You found one, Rick?
30:52Right where we said.
30:55Oh!
30:56Brilliant.
30:58While uncovering more of the sand road
31:00in the southwest part of the swamp,
31:03Oh!
31:04Rick has made another compelling discovery.
31:08That's the first time we've ever said,
31:10hey, there should be one there, and there was.
31:12I mean, Rick measured it out.
31:14Absolutely.
31:1421 feet in between them all, and...
31:16And there it is.
31:17There it is.
31:17Yes, getting all the more interesting, isn't it?
31:19Yeah, I mean, that's no coincidence, mate.
31:22Absolutely.
31:23Now we know there's an alignment.
31:25What the heck?
31:25Yep.
31:26It's the first time we've ever got excited
31:28about finding wood in the swamp.
31:31Because it is.
31:32It's exciting.
31:33Yep.
31:34And you were spot on.
31:35You nailed that one up there,
31:38lined it up with that one,
31:39put me on the line,
31:40bingo, there it is.
31:42We've got a road,
31:43and it's leading to something.
31:44Seems to be the northwest end of the swamp.
31:48Are we interested?
31:49Oh, yep.
31:50I'm open to uncover
31:52a heck of a lot more of this sand road.
31:55Absolutely.
31:56Could the team be correct
31:57that the stakes they have found
31:59mean that the sand road
32:01is heading in a northwesterly direction?
32:04If so,
32:05just what might they find at the end of it?
32:08The relationship between the stakes,
32:10the sand road,
32:11all of this speaks to some effort
32:15to facilitate an operation in the bark.
32:18There is a trail to be followed here,
32:21and we have to proceed.
32:24We call it the swamp,
32:26but when you think about it,
32:27it's so much more,
32:28because look at all the industrial purpose
32:30that it has.
32:30Yeah.
32:31Everything just screams
32:32just a ton of activity.
32:33It's too much to ignore.
32:36This path,
32:37this road,
32:37it continues to be amazing.
32:40Yeah.
32:40Who knows what else is in as well?
32:43I think what we're uncovering
32:45is work pre-swamp,
32:47and when people could get out here
32:49and do all this work.
32:51There are strong hints here
32:53that the sand road is man-made,
32:55hopefully from long ago.
32:57My mind goes to Fred Nolan's belief
33:00that the swamp was an artificial creation,
33:03and that wants to understand
33:05the totality of the work in the bog.
33:07then you can understand the mystery.
33:10Well, we've got to prove it.
33:13So, let's get to work.
33:15It's been a really good day.
33:17Yeah.
33:17You know, unfortunately,
33:18every day there's an end of the day,
33:21but there's more to learn,
33:22and that means coming back.
33:24Oh, absolutely.
33:25We just need to figure out
33:26how to make the days longer.
33:27We'll be all set.
33:28You work on that tonight.
33:30It's just the days.
33:30All right, see you.
33:31Good digging, man.
33:32Okay, see you later.
33:33Kudos to everybody.
33:37Later that evening.
33:40So, ladies and gentlemen,
33:42what we have in front of us
33:44are two samples
33:45of the mortar-slash-cement-like substance
33:48that we believe is part of the matrix
33:51of what's underneath the Lottie boulder.
33:53Before another productive day
33:55comes to a close,
33:56the team gathers in the war room
33:58for a highly anticipated scientific report.
34:02So, I'm going to turn it over to Emma
34:04and Dr. Spooner and Fiona and Jillian
34:06to let us know
34:07what the results of their analysis is.
34:10I'm prepared to be astonished.
34:14Go ahead.
34:15So, I think I would have to ask
34:17which samples you brought with us today.
34:19So, this is the blue-gray soil,
34:21and this is the gray soil.
34:22Okay, great.
34:23Emma, would you call this a clay?
34:26I don't think I would call it a clay.
34:28I'd call it a nice sand-silk-clay mix.
34:31Okay.
34:32It's being manipulated
34:33to remove the sand,
34:35probably the gravel,
34:36as much as possible.
34:37Yeah.
34:38It is a mortar.
34:40It's not natural, though, right?
34:42It's natural in ingredients
34:44that you find in Lot 8,
34:46but it isn't natural in its formation.
34:50Yeah.
34:51If we were just presented
34:52with this sediment,
34:54if you presented it to me and say,
34:56is that something we naturally find?
34:57I'd say no.
34:58Just think the people who did it
35:00just use materials at hand.
35:03It's quite gel-like,
35:05and if you were doing strength testing of it,
35:07it's got a lot of elasticity to it
35:10that could be used to support rocks
35:12that you wanted to support it.
35:13Yep.
35:15Is there any way that we can date
35:17when this was made
35:18or when it was put down?
35:21There are certain things
35:21that I do look for
35:23to firmly date concrete or cement,
35:26which is this binder.
35:28Mm-hmm.
35:28And right off the bat,
35:29there is no modern binding.
35:31But I'm also not seeing
35:32any of the classic minerals
35:35that I would expect to find
35:36in, like, really old mortar,
35:38and it's not typical ingredients
35:40that I see in modern.
35:41Right.
35:42So I'm a little bit more bullish
35:44in the feature being quite old.
35:47Like, what dates would you give
35:49to quite old?
35:50Well, everything I've seen
35:52lends itself to before mid-1700s.
35:57Then I would put it somewhere
35:59between pre-1800s, post-1200s.
36:04It's pre-modern
36:05and all the way back to medieval.
36:12Excellent.
36:15I would put it somewhere
36:17between pre-1800s, post-1200s.
36:21In the war room,
36:22Emma and Dr. Spooner
36:23have just revealed
36:24that the composition
36:25of the mortar-like material
36:27found on Lot 8
36:28suggests that the man-made boulder feature
36:31may be nearly 800 years old.
36:34We have features on the island
36:36that date back very old.
36:38We have good examples
36:40of the techniques that were used
36:42in the 1700s and 1800s,
36:44maybe even into the late to mid-1600s,
36:48and we don't see any construction like this,
36:50which to me is suggesting
36:52that this was done
36:53outside of those time periods.
36:55Probably earlier.
36:57With your XRF machine,
36:59you were picking up silver.
37:01Emma, are you still seeing
37:02traces of that silver?
37:03So I haven't made sense of it yet,
37:05but I am getting
37:07some low detection hits of silver.
37:10Lovely.
37:11Where do the traces of silver
37:12even come from?
37:14To be in the soil like that,
37:16it doesn't typically happen, right?
37:19No, I haven't seen it
37:20in organic matter.
37:22Okay, so my dad's theory,
37:24if this is a shaft
37:25or something deeper
37:26through which silver was taken
37:28at one point,
37:29could that have moved
37:30that silver signal up
37:31from deeper
37:32and then left it there
37:33as a residue?
37:34It could have
37:35with the organic matter.
37:36If you had an object
37:37that was laying
37:38even for a short period of time
37:40in the organic matter,
37:41an object that was silver
37:42like a candelabra
37:44or something like that,
37:45it would probably
37:46show the trace amounts
37:48we're seeing.
37:49We're not there yet.
37:50No.
37:50But the idea
37:51that this could be related
37:52to a deeper signal
37:53through maybe a shaft
37:55is still a valid idea.
37:58Yeah.
37:59The organic will soak up
38:01available metals.
38:03Could Marty and Alex
38:04be correct?
38:05Is it possible
38:07that the traces of silver
38:08detected in the soils
38:10beneath the Lott 8 feature
38:11might be related
38:13to a shaft
38:14that contains
38:15a cache of silver?
38:16If so,
38:18after nearly two decades
38:19of searching,
38:20has the team
38:21found where the truth
38:22behind the Oak Island mystery
38:24may lie buried.
38:26Fiona,
38:26it is a very weird
38:28archaeological site
38:30that has no artifacts.
38:31Is that not true?
38:33I think this is very special
38:34and I think that the fact
38:35that we don't have
38:36any artifacts
38:37gives it a hint
38:38of being much older.
38:39If in fact
38:40that 40,000 pound boulder
38:42was placed,
38:43intentionally placed,
38:44with a cement mixture
38:45of some sort
38:45underneath it,
38:46it didn't happen
38:47in the 1900s.
38:48It didn't happen
38:49in the 1800s.
38:50It didn't happen
38:51in the 1700s
38:52by normal people,
38:56which means
38:57it's very, very old.
38:58I mean,
38:59medieval brings you back
39:00to the Templars
39:01and their descendants.
39:02It's difficult
39:03to overstate
39:04the importance of that.
39:06The dates
39:07that Emma mentioned,
39:08it's exciting.
39:10Xena's Templar map
39:11references this area,
39:13the so-called
39:14December Triangle.
39:15This lot does indeed
39:17hold mystery.
39:18Here's my next question,
39:20and it is the question,
39:22I want to know
39:23what's underneath it,
39:25like all the way
39:26down underneath it.
39:28We're running out of time.
39:30Correct.
39:30We are on a treasure hunt.
39:32I want to know
39:32what's under that boulder.
39:33What are we doing next,
39:35and what is the prognosis?
39:37We've removed
39:38some very large rocks
39:39down at the bottom,
39:40and we're examining
39:41the soil that we're
39:42seeing under there,
39:43and it seems to go deeper.
39:45So we're actually
39:46at that point
39:47where we are going
39:48to continue going
39:48deeper and deeper,
39:49but we really don't
39:50want to miss anything,
39:51and I think it's really,
39:52really important
39:53that we continue
39:54the way that
39:56we are doing it now.
39:57Okay, well,
39:58I said I wanted
39:59to be astonished,
40:00and frankly, I am.
40:02The consistency
40:03amongst the experts
40:04that this thing
40:04is so significant
40:06astonishes me,
40:07but in a very good way.
40:11It's quite complex,
40:13good problem to have,
40:15fascinating problem to have.
40:18Usually it's time to dig.
40:19I would say this time
40:21it's time to keep trawling
40:22so that we can eventually dig.
40:25So let's go get it.
40:27Sounds good.
40:27Good.
40:28All right.
40:28That works.
40:29See ya.
40:30The road to answers
40:32on Oak Island
40:33has inspired long
40:35and trying journeys
40:36for generations
40:37of dedicated searchers.
40:39For many,
40:40it led to incredible evidence
40:42of buried treasure
40:43in the money pit.
40:44For others,
40:45it took disastrous
40:46and even deadly turns.
40:50But now,
40:51Rick, Marty, Craig,
40:53and their team
40:54have found
40:55that it may lead
40:55to valuables
40:56all across the island.
40:59As they forge ahead
41:00and dig deeper below,
41:03will their journey end
41:04with the ultimate rewards?
41:07Or will the island
41:09lead them to a curve
41:10that they won't
41:13be able to pass?
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