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The Curse Of Oak Island S13E20
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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.
15:00And you, the shovel, and then I'm going to crawl down in there.
15:03Okay.
15:05Thanks.
15:08Yeah, it's easy to get down here.
15:14Whoa!
15:15This thing's a little deeper than I thought.
15:17A little cheaper than I thought.
15:19That's not even a good bottom right there.
15:23I mean, this floor is giving away as we stand here.
15:26Yeah.
15:28We're nowhere near the bottom of this, Gary.
15:29No.
15:30It keeps on going.
15:32I'm standing on a bunch of leaves, that's all.
15:34You want to look again?
15:35Yeah.
15:35Let me get right on out of here.
15:42Well, I'm surprised.
15:44I thought there'd be more in the walls.
15:46Thanks.
15:48That was crazy, wasn't it?
15:50Mm.
15:50Thanks.
15:51Okay, but we got to talk about this.
15:54Yeah.
15:54Just because we're not detecting any metals down there, don't mean it's sake.
15:58We're not at the bottom.
15:59Yeah, exactly.
16:00And there could be pottery, glass.
16:02All kinds of stuff.
16:04Well, this is like metal detecting on a trampoline.
16:08The fact that there are several feet of leaves below our feet, we need to get the archaeologists
16:15and do some more exploring in this well.
16:18This looks promising to me.
16:19Yeah.
16:20I'm sure when all these leaves are taken out, there's a good chance of finding an artifact
16:27in the bottom of the well.
16:31That's a good signal.
16:34Sounds like there's a chance it could be non-ferrous and deep.
16:37Yeah.
16:38Stupid show.
16:42This rock has to go, Gary, before that.
16:45Yeah, I think so.
16:48You do the hard work and I'll take the glory.
16:51I will.
16:51Yeah.
16:56Oh.
17:03This has got potential, mate.
17:05Really?
17:06Right there.
17:08Woo-hoo!
17:12What have you got, mate?
17:14I could see it at the side.
17:16Mm-hmm.
17:19I could see something moving.
17:21There.
17:22If you do the honors, mate, you dug it out.
17:24You see, that's the tip of it, just there.
17:26I can pick it up with my hand.
17:30You did all the hard work, mate.
17:33See what we got.
17:40It's a rock.
17:41It's a rock.
17:42Ooh.
17:43That's probably an old hook, and it makes sense if you think about it, right next to a well.
17:50You're lowering something in it, eh?
17:51Yeah.
18:20Yep.
18:21And on lot 15, but if it's a pintle, and I have a feeling this is going to be a
18:27real oldie as well.
18:29Think the metal's going to match?
18:30It could be a connection there, lot 5, lot 8, lot 15.
18:34Yeah.
18:35A pintle is a kind of pivot pin used for doors and gate hinges, allowing them to open and close.
18:43Curiously, the team unearthed two other possible pintles this year.
18:48One on lot 15, 200 yards northeast of the Money Pit area, and another near the boulder feature on lot
18:568.
18:56Both could predate 1795.
19:00If Marty and Gary have, indeed, found a third pintle, could Gary be correct that it might be a clue
19:07connecting all three areas of Oak Island?
19:11I would imagine we're the first ones ever metal detecting down here.
19:15This has not moved for a very long time.
19:18Yeah.
19:19Let's put her in the back.
19:20Whenever we found these pintles around Oak Island, they've always been associated with an old feature.
19:27I know this isn't a wishing well, but I'm wishing that we would have explored this well sooner.
19:35We are not at the bottom of this by any means.
19:37This is under-searched.
19:39Yeah, it really is.
19:40We need to get to the bottom of it.
19:42We've got to talk with the crew.
19:44Yeah.
19:45Laird should have a look at this.
19:47Yeah.
19:50Later that morning...
19:53Hey, guys.
19:54Looks like they're all set up on Peacock 1.
19:56The team prepares to break ground with their third 7-foot diameter shaft of the year in the Money Pit
20:03area.
20:04The Peacock has been an area where Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michael have indicated for years that the gold in
20:10the water is emanating from.
20:12Gold, silver is right where we're headed.
20:15Terry, what are our depths?
20:16Depth of bedrock in this area, the end of the Peacock, it's about 211.
20:20And this is an area where the solution channel actually extends up to about 165 feet.
20:26That's the most likely origin of the metals in the water, based on the testing.
20:29Yes, yep.
20:30We're looking for that structure that has eluded us, the structure that perhaps is emanating the gold, the structure that
20:35is perhaps the offset chamber.
20:37Right.
20:37Before we reach the bottom of the solution channel, we have to look at this area of really loose, what
20:43looks like disturbed soil underground that we call the Peacock, because there were some voids left open down there.
20:49There could be an offset chamber.
20:51Everything starting from about 150 feet down and deeper, we're going to go through because it has a chance of
20:57containing the treasure.
20:58People could have been chasing the money pit, but the reality is with the gold and the water and the
21:02other things that we found, maybe with this information proves that the treasure is up here somewhere.
21:06There is a lot that speaks to the Peacock as being the location of the money pit treasure, and we're
21:13going to find out what this case is on, hopefully.
21:15So the more spoils we pull out of this can, the more chance we ever find in treasure.
21:20It's verging ground.
21:21Yep.
21:22Speaking of that, it looks like we have the first bucket from Peacock 1 coming up now.
21:25So I'm going to grab some shovels, and we can get going.
21:29Can't wait.
21:31As the dig proceeds, later that afternoon...
21:35Okay, we're here to analyze an object.
21:37Alex, Gary, and Marty join Laird and Emma in the lab to hear their analysis of the possible pintle found
21:45earlier today on Lot 5.
21:47It was found near the supposed well on Lot 5.
21:51Yeah, Robert Young refers to it as the 20th century well.
21:54Anyway, I'm sort of proud of that find because it was so difficult to get.
21:59So let's find out, Gary, shall we, what we know about it.
22:02We both thought it was either a pintle or an hook, and we're hoping it's old.
22:08Well, but here it is kind of cleaned up.
22:11We are leaning towards hook rather than pintle.
22:16Maybe driven into something to lower that bucket down the well.
22:20The iron's composition, so it is minimal impurities.
22:23This one is just really clean iron that makes it harder to locate.
22:28Well, that's interesting because most of your artifacts tend to point towards Britain, don't they?
22:33Yeah.
22:33Yeah, and here's one that doesn't.
22:36It does have a higher chromium content.
22:39And a copper content.
22:40I do see European regions with a higher copper impurity, so that could be kind of a region of interest
22:47to look into.
22:48There's no modern alloying elements, so that brings it before 1800s.
22:55There is a lack of potassium in its base metal.
23:00It does point towards mid-1700s is the most likelihood.
23:04Well, that fits with the bulk of your artifacts.
23:06Yeah, it does.
23:07Well, except then they're way off on the age of the well.
23:10Yeah.
23:11But the takeaway is exciting because it implies that that well could potentially be older than we've thought.
23:18That would be very cool.
23:21It implies that that well could potentially be older than we've thought.
23:25Yeah.
23:25And it also says there's more to learn about Lot 5.
23:28Yeah.
23:29Yeah.
23:29I think so.
23:30In the Oak Island lab, the team has just been informed that an iron hook found near the well on
23:36Lot 5 could predate the discovery of the money pit.
23:39The potential of what you can find at the bottom of a well is so great.
23:44Yeah.
23:44Yeah.
23:44So, Laird, my information is that Robert Young felt like that well was recent.
23:50But I'm wondering whether this could lead us to some action because just about everything Robert Young touched, God bless
23:58him, seems to be not what it seems.
24:02And you have looked at the surrounding areas of the well, obviously.
24:05That's where that came from.
24:06The well is circled with rocks, very similar to the original round feature.
24:13Yes.
24:15Here it is.
24:16Whoa.
24:17It's almost perfectly circular.
24:18When the team began investigating Lot 5 in 2022 after acquiring it from Robert Young's estate,
24:26What is now the large, rounded feature where artifacts that may date between the 13th and 17th centuries have been
24:34found was mostly buried and surrounded by stones that Mr. Young had placed above it.
24:40Everybody drops artifacts down the well because you're leaning over it.
24:44Yeah.
24:45Hitting the water out.
24:46And they're used to hide things you don't want people to see.
24:48Could Laird be correct that the well, which was also reported to be a modern structure, is actually a much
24:56older formation?
24:58So I think, again, the well, it's worth putting a little bit of effort into it.
25:02Yeah.
25:03Just for the potential rewards at the bottom.
25:05It might be a lot deeper than you think.
25:07Well, that's a good thing.
25:08That's a great thing.
25:09Yeah.
25:10Well, we're tied up to the end of the week with Lot 8, but we can go down and re
25:15-evaluate.
25:16I really think you should.
25:17Yeah, I like the idea, too.
25:19It was puzzling.
25:20Yeah.
25:21Okay, let's get after it.
25:22Yep.
25:22All right.
25:23See you guys.
25:24See you.
25:28As a new morning breaks on Oak Island.
25:32Let's go, kid.
25:33Here we go.
25:34All right.
25:37What takes is one good find, Terry?
25:39I know.
25:40Rick and other members of the team are continuing their investigation of the possible sand road
25:46in the southwest region of the swamp.
25:48See how much deeper that is there?
25:50Right here.
25:52Yeah, well, like here we're on ground, and look how it steps right off there.
25:56Yeah, just...
25:57Yeah.
25:58No sand.
25:59Not over there, no.
26:01I don't know if it's going that way, toward the center of the bog.
26:06It's early on in terms of trying to understand the proper orientation of the sand road.
26:12Does it have anything to do with the stakes?
26:14Is it going towards the money pit?
26:16There's no way to make that determination yet, but I intend to figure it out.
26:28Wait, wait, wait.
26:33Oh, Rick just found a stake.
26:35Whoa.
26:36Okay.
26:37Let's go have a look.
26:41Yeah?
26:42Is it an eight-sided stake?
26:44Five.
26:44You can see it's been bounced.
26:46It's been cut with an axe.
26:47You can see those bounces on that side there.
26:51Well, one thing's for sure.
26:52That's exactly where it was.
26:54Yep.
26:54You need Steve 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, eight-sided.
27:07Good eye, mate.
27:09They're right there, together.
27:11No clue what either of them do.
27:12No.
27:14I struggle with this find being coincidental.
27:17To me, it's intentional.
27:19Five-sided stakes and eight-sided stakes,
27:21I think each is telling a different story.
27:23We've never seen a five and an eight together.
27:26No.
27:27One has to remember, dates in the bog indicate a multi-generational attempt to accomplish something
27:33as far back as the 13th century.
27:35So I think they represent two completely different timelines.
27:39The five-sided stakes could represent the later occupation.
27:45That's cool.
27:46Yeah.
27:47This is a good sign.
27:49Whenever we found stakes, we normally find some kind of a boulder or rock construction.
27:55We don't know if it's a platform or a path.
27:57That's why we find multiple stakes in different areas of different designs.
28:02The stakes represent multiple attempts to do things over an extended period of time.
28:07And I think we need to do a lot more work to try to understand what they may mean.
28:12The sand is back.
28:13Mm-hmm.
28:15And it doesn't look very haphazard.
28:17It's so perfectly straight.
28:18Perfectly straight.
28:19The road's still here.
28:20Yeah.
28:20Or the path, whatever it is, whatever you want to call it, it's right here.
28:24Yeah.
28:29I found another stake.
28:32Good kind, Gary.
28:34The good kind.
28:37One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight-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 angle.
29:00There'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, and 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, we should find a couple more stakes just over there.
29:25Same distance.
29:27Two stakes, different size.
29:29Two stakes, different size.
29:31If you're right about this alignment, then, as you said, there should be something right there.
29:37And you know what?
29:38Let's pace it off.
29:40One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
29:47Twenty-one feet?
29:49Gary, can you keep me on track here?
29:51Yeah.
29:51One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
29:58It should be right here.
29:59It would be nice if it's the most stakes.
30:02It should be right here.
30:03Billy, why don't you just see if there's anything here?
30:04Yep, we'll check.
30:07I just find it impossible to believe that this is a coincidence, that two different people
30:13at two different times put the two stakes in to touch each other.
30:17Does it have anything to do with the sand road?
30:19Does it have anything to do with Professor Gaspani's archaeoastronomy work, that there
30:24are significant, accurate, stellar solar and lunar alignments associated with 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?
30:56Right where we said.
30:58Oh, brilliant.
31:01While uncovering more of the sand road in the southwest part of the swamp, Rick has made
31:08another compelling discovery.
31:11That's the first time we've ever said, hey, there should be one there, and there was.
31:15I mean, Rick measured it out.
31:17Absolutely.
31:1721 feet in between them all.
31:19And there it is.
31:20There it is.
31:20Yeah, it's getting all the more interesting, isn't it?
31:22Yeah, I mean, that's no coincidence, mate.
31:25Absolutely.
31:26Now we know there's an alignment.
31:28What the heck?
31:28Yep.
31:29It's the first time we've ever got excited about finding wood in the swamp.
31:34That's true.
31:35It's exciting.
31:36Yep.
31:37And you were spot on.
31:38You nailed that one up there, lined it up with that one, put me on the line.
31:43Bingo.
31:44There it is.
31:44We've got a road, and it's leading to something.
31:47Seems to be the northwest end of the swamp.
31:51Are we interested?
31:52Uh, yeah.
31:53I'm open to uncover a heck of a lot more of this sand road.
31:58Absolutely.
31:59Could the team be correct that the stakes they have found mean that the sand road is heading
32:05in a northwesterly direction?
32:07If so, just what might they find at the end of it?
32:10The relationship between the stakes, the sand road, all of this speaks to some effort
32:18to facilitate an operation in the bog.
32:21There is a trail to be followed here, and we have to proceed.
32:27We call it the swamp, but when you think about it, it's so much more, because look at
32:31all the industrial purpose that it has.
32:33Yeah.
32:34Everything just screams just a ton of activity.
32:36It's too much to ignore.
32:38This path, this road, it continues to be amazing.
32:42Yeah.
32:43Who knows what else is in as well?
32:46I think what we're uncovering is work pre-swamp, and where people could get out here and do
32:52all this work.
32:54There are strong hints here that the sand road is man-made, hopefully from long ago.
33:00My mind goes to Fred Nolan's belief that the swamp was an artificial creation, and that
33:07wants to understand the totality of the work in the bog.
33:11Then you can understand the mystery.
33:13Well, we've got to prove it.
33:15So, let's get to work.
33:18It's been a really good day.
33:20Yeah.
33:20You know, unfortunately, every day, there's an end of the day.
33:24But there's more to learn, and that means coming back.
33:27Oh, absolutely.
33:28We just need to figure out how to make the days longer.
33:30We'll be all set.
33:31You work on that tonight, Jeff.
33:33It's just the days.
33:33All right, see you.
33:34Good digging, bud.
33:35Okay, see you later.
33:36Kudos to everybody.
33:40Later that evening.
33:43So, ladies and gentlemen, what we have in front of us are two samples of the mortar-slash-cement-like
33:51substance that we believe is part of the matrix of what's underneath the Lottie boulder.
33:56Before another productive day comes to a close, the team gathers in the war room for a highly
34:02anticipated scientific report.
34:04All right, so I'm going to turn it over to Emma and Dr. Spooner and Fiona and Jillian
34:09to let us know what the results of their analysis is.
34:13I'm prepared to be astonished.
34:17Go ahead.
34:18So, I think I would have to ask which samples you brought with us today.
34:22So, this is the blue-gray soil, and 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-silt clay mix.
34:34Okay.
34:35It's being manipulated to remove the sand, probably the gravel, as much as possible.
34:40Yeah.
34:41It is a mortar.
34:43It's not natural, though, right?
34:45It's natural in ingredients that you find in Lottie, but it isn't natural in its formation.
34:53Yeah.
34:54If we were just presented with this sediment, if you presented it to me and say, is that
34:59something we naturally find, I'd say no.
35:01Just think the people who did it just use materials at hand.
35:05It's quite gel-like.
35:08And if you were doing strength testing of it, it's got a lot of elasticity to it that could
35:13be used to support rocks that you wanted to support it.
35:16Yep.
35:18Is there any way that we can date when this was made or when it was put down?
35:23There are certain things that I do look for to firmly date concrete or cement, which is
35:30this binder.
35:31Mm-hmm.
35:31And right off the bat, there is no modern binding.
35:34But I'm also not seeing any of the classic minerals that I would expect to find in, like,
35:40really old mortar.
35:41And it's not typical ingredients that I see in modern.
35:44Right.
35:45So I'm a little bit more bullish in the feature, being quite old.
35:50Like, what dates would you give to quite old?
35:53Well, everything I've seen lends itself to before mid-1700s.
36:00Then I would put it somewhere between pre-1800s, post-1200s.
36:07It's pre-modern and all the way back to medieval.
36:28In the war room, Emma and Dr. Spooner have just revealed that the composition of the mortar-like
36:35material found on Lot 8 suggests that the man-made boulder feature may be nearly 800 years old.
36:43We have features on the island that date back very old.
36:47We have good examples of the techniques that were used in the 1700s and 1800s, maybe even
36:54into the late to mid-1600s.
36:57And we don't see any construction like this, which to me is suggesting that this was done
37:02outside of those time periods.
37:04Probably earlier.
37:06With your XRF machine, you were picking up silver.
37:10Emma, are you still seeing traces of that silver?
37:13So I haven't made sense of it yet, but I am getting some low detection hits of silver.
37:19Lovely.
37:20Where did the traces of silver even come from?
37:22To be in the soil like that, it doesn't typically happen, right?
37:28No, I haven't seen it in organic matter.
37:31Okay, so my dad's theory, if this is a shaft or something deeper through which silver was
37:36taken at one point, could that have moved that silver signal up from deeper and then
37:41left it there as a residue?
37:43It could have with the organic matter.
37:45If you had an object that was laying, even for a short period of time in the organic matter,
37:50an object that was silver, like a candelabra or something like that, it would probably show
37:56the trace amounts we're seeing.
37:58We're not there yet.
37:59No.
37:59But the idea that this could be related to a deeper signal through maybe a shaft is still
38:05a valid idea.
38:07Yeah.
38:09Inorganic will soak up available metals.
38:12Could Marty and Alex be correct?
38:15Is it possible that the traces of silver detected in the soils beneath the Lott 8 feature might
38:21be related to a shaft that contains a cache of silver?
38:25If so, after nearly two decades of searching, has the team found where the truth behind the
38:32Oak Island mystery may lie buried?
38:35Fiona, it is a very weird archaeological site that has no artifacts.
38:40Is that not true?
38:42I think this is very special.
38:43And I think that the fact that we don't have any artifacts gives it a hint of being much
38:47older.
38:48If in fact that 40,000 pound boulder was placed, intentionally placed, with a cement mixture
38:54of some sort underneath it, it didn't happen in the 1900s.
38:57It didn't happen in the 1800s.
38:59It didn't happen in the 1700s by normal people, which means it's very, very old.
39:07I mean, medieval brings you back to the Templars and their descendants.
39:11It's difficult to overstate the importance of that.
39:15The dates that Emma mentioned, it's exciting.
39:18The Zena's Templar map references this area, the so-called December Triangle.
39:24This lot does indeed hold mystery.
39:27Here's my next question, and it is the question.
39:31I want to know what's underneath it, like, all the way down underneath it.
39:37We're running out of time.
39:38Correct.
39:39We are on a treasure hunt.
39:41I want to know what's under that boulder.
39:42What are we doing next, and what is the prognosis?
39:46We've removed some very large rocks down at the bottom, and we're examining the soil that
39:51we're seeing under there, and it seems to go deeper.
39:54So we're actually at that point where we are going to continue going deeper and deeper,
39:58but we really don't want to miss anything.
40:00And I think it's really, really important that we continue the way that we are doing it now.
40:06Okay, well, I said I wanted to be astonished, and frankly, I am.
40:11The consistency amongst the experts that this thing is so significant astonishes me, but
40:16in 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.
40:28I would say this time it's time to keep trawling so that we can eventually dig.
40:34So let's go get it.
40:35Sounds good.
40:36Good.
40:37All right.
40:37That works.
40:38See ya.
40:40The road to answers on Oak Island has inspired long and trying journeys for generations of
40:46dedicated searchers.
40:48For many, it led to incredible evidence of buried treasure in the money pit.
40:53For others, it took disastrous and even deadly turns.
40:59But now, Rick, Marty, Craig, and their team have found that it may lead to valuables all across
41:06the island.
41:08As they forge ahead and dig deeper below, will their journey end with the ultimate rewards?
41:16Or will the island lead them to a curve that they won't be able to pass?
41:24Well, thank you.
41:30Thank you, Michael.
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