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00:00Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:03This structure is very different.
00:05If it's a marker, then there's at least one other.
00:08What's pointed?
00:09Wait, look at this.
00:10Another marker, sir.
00:12What?
00:13This was found on lot 15.
00:16It's an engineering tool.
00:17And that may be the most sophisticated item
00:19that's shown up.
00:20We have the core, gentlemen.
00:21The core.
00:22Could be the core.
00:24Yeah, I got something right here.
00:25That is pretty much what we're looking for.
00:27Incredible.
00:30There is an island in the North Atlantic
00:34where people have been looking for an incredible treasure
00:38for more than 200 years.
00:41So far, they have found a stone slab
00:44with strange symbols carved into it.
00:47Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:50And a lead cross whose origin may be connected
00:54to the Knights Templar.
00:56To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:01And according to legend, one more will have to die
01:06before the treasure can be found.
01:22Okay, guys, I-9.5, here we are.
01:24We're looking to get to the deeper sections
01:27of the solution channel.
01:28That's right.
01:29As the sun rises high above the Money Pit area on Oak Island,
01:34Rick and Marty Lagina's team move forward in their quest
01:38to solve a 230-year-old mystery.
01:42We've picked up the points where it's deepest,
01:44and this is going to be one of them.
01:45Destination for this hole is 210 to 220.
01:48Right, Steve?
01:48Yeah, that's right.
01:49220, maybe even 230 feet deep.
01:51Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michael fully believe that those metal deposits
01:55are placed by man not natural in the waters themselves.
01:59Exactly so.
02:00Very exciting hole.
02:01Yep.
02:02Today, they are drilling a new borehole known as I-9.5,
02:07which is on target to reach an unexplored area of the solution channel.
02:12And based on new water tests that reveal gold, silver,
02:16and other metal objects may be in this area,
02:19the team has renewed hope that they are narrowing in
02:22on the elusive treasure.
02:25When we get down there, we should be looking for really soupy material.
02:29Yeah.
02:30Hopefully, we'll drill through some loose coins
02:33at the bottom of a very loose soupy area.
02:36Yeah, yeah.
02:37I am a little bit disappointed by the initial speed of drilling
02:41in the solution channel.
02:42But the significance of the precious metals and others
02:46dissolved in the waters has never been diminished.
02:50We have a core, gentlemen.
02:52There's lots of indications that there is a great treasure here still.
02:57168.
02:59Two.
03:02At this point, it looks like we've got fairly loose material,
03:06but it's not really as watery and washed out as we would like to see.
03:10Thanks, Adam.
03:12It's kind of what we want.
03:13It's loose, but there's just too much volume here.
03:15It wouldn't allow things to fall through them.
03:17It looks like we're into a little bit of gypsum now.
03:22It's not solid stuff.
03:23But if he starts out and starts getting into very firm material,
03:27he's probably into the bedrock plateau.
03:30I think that's kind of what we're hoping for,
03:32because so far, most of the collapses we've observed
03:36have been right on the edge of the bedrock plateau.
03:39That's true.
03:39So if we're looking for a cavity underneath
03:42that maybe remained open long enough to swallow up the money pit,
03:45then it should be right there.
03:46I think that bodes well, as you say.
03:49Now, let's hope that this is just the edge
03:51of the most distant protrusion out into the solution channel.
03:54We've just caught a little boulder.
03:56At this point, I would assume we would have tagged into something,
03:59but those metals still come back positive,
04:01and they give me a lot of hope that we are in the right spot,
04:04we just haven't tagged it yet.
04:05Every core could be the one that breaks through,
04:07and then we're into the solution channel and potential treasure depth.
04:10Absolutely.
04:11As the drilling operation continues,
04:15several hundred yards to the west on Lot 5.
04:20Hopefully, we find something cool soon.
04:22Yeah.
04:23Members of the team search for new clues in the Round Stone Foundation,
04:27one of several mysterious structures that have been uncovered on this lot
04:32and which could help identify just who occupied it
04:35before the discovery of the money pit.
04:38Oh, wow.
04:42We got more pearlware.
04:44Oh, nice.
04:46You can bag it up and clean it.
04:48What's satisfying for my job is when we find a piece of pottery like this,
04:53it proves to us that people were on Lot 5 doing work in the early 1700s.
04:59But things like the different buttons we're finding indicate that this feature
05:04could potentially be a lot older than we thought.
05:07So we're starting to perhaps build a picture of a very early occupation on Oak Island.
05:29Hey.
05:30They owned a bead.
05:32Oh, wow.
05:33Good eyes.
05:35Hey, Laird.
05:37Come check this bad boy out.
05:39All righty.
05:41What is it?
05:42It's little.
05:43Ooh.
05:46Oh, nice.
05:47It's a bead.
05:49And it's from Venice.
05:50It's from Murano.
05:51You can tell just from looking at it.
05:53Stylistically, and we've done analysis on the other ones.
05:56So how old would one like that be?
05:59Well, the tradition of bead making in Murano goes back like hundreds of years.
06:05But the beads could speak more to theories about the Knights of Malta having a presence on Oak Island.
06:13This is now the sixth Venetian bead that the team has found in this feature.
06:18And curiously, these ornate beads, which were also used as currency between the 12th and 19th centuries, have been potentially
06:28linked to a group known as the Knights of Malta.
06:31A religious order related to the Knights Templar, who established a stronghold just 15 miles south of Oak Island in
06:391632.
06:42It's got red and blue inserts.
06:44The base glass is white.
06:46It's great that we're finding this variety of beads.
06:49Three of the same type kind of makes you think.
06:51Someone's necklace broke.
06:53Yeah.
06:53And there's more out there.
06:56They were used for trade, but they were also worn by the people that brought them over.
07:02So that's pretty cool.
07:03I don't find a lot of beads, so I'm always excited when we get a bead.
07:07Cool.
07:09Like it a lot.
07:10Good job.
07:10Good eyes.
07:11Keep up the good work.
07:16Later that afternoon.
07:19So what you see before us, it's curious.
07:23I don't know what to make of it.
07:24Rick and Marty join other members of the team in the research center to discuss another curious discovery on Lot
07:315.
07:32A man-made stone marker found just three weeks ago.
07:36Gary was metal detecting, and we came across this, and we both went, well, that's strange.
07:43And to help their investigation, Laird has created a 3D model of the feature.
07:49I did a drone-based 3D model of the split stone feature.
07:54I fly the drone around at different angles, different heights, and take a lot of photographs.
08:00And then I bring all of those photographs back into the lab, and I have a program that will reconstruct
08:08everything.
08:08Very similar to the reconstruction of the CT scanner.
08:12And in the end, we have this beautiful 3D model, so we can show all angles and all heights, and
08:18get a really much better idea of what this split stone looks like.
08:22Laird, what can you tell us about it?
08:25Well, it was the stone sticking out that much from the ground.
08:30It looked like a standing stone.
08:33And then we found a much larger rock beside the standing stone.
08:40If we flip it up, you can see how the rock was sitting.
08:45Yeah, I don't see a natural way for that to happen.
08:47No.
08:48So, the hole was dug, it was placed in the hole, propped up, and then surrounded by rocks.
08:56I don't have the expertise to say that it was 100% placed.
09:00But the people who do have that expertise tell me that.
09:03So, the scientific finding is that that boulder was placed.
09:07Okay, to me, there's only two alternatives.
09:08It was placed to cover something up, or it was placed to be a marker of some sort.
09:13We need to figure out which of those it is.
09:15We did get this dark, organic soil underneath the rock.
09:19And as I was removing that, I got this lone piece of wood that is being sent for C-14.
09:27The dating on that would be important.
09:29It could be quite significant to figuring out who was on Lot 5.
09:33Because I went back through some of my old survey stuff last night.
09:36And this structure is very different.
09:38And so I had to go way, way back in time to find structures like this.
09:43This formation was typically used by the Romans or later by the Vikings.
09:47Really?
09:49Wow.
09:54This formation was typically used by the Romans or Vikings as a marker.
09:58Really?
09:59Yep.
10:00In the research center, Steve Guptill has revealed that the man-made stone formation near the middle of Lot 5
10:08could be an ancient survey marker of European design.
10:13This marker could go back hundreds if not thousands of years.
10:17And so it's used for two things.
10:19It's used as a marker stone to say you're on a, you know, like a Roman road.
10:23You're at 100 mile point.
10:24Or it's used to claim land.
10:26So they put it on an area of significance to say this is ours.
10:29Which one used it to claim their land?
10:31The Romans.
10:32The Vikings were more so we were here.
10:35Right.
10:35So it was purposeful.
10:37Yeah.
10:37Oh, 100%.
10:39What else has been found so far in that area?
10:42We've got six Roman coins within 250 foot radius of this.
10:46Yeah.
10:47You know, one thing we learned on our research trips, tracking Templar movement all over Europe.
10:52Oftentimes, Viking settlement sites had Roman coins associated in those settlement sites.
10:57Yeah.
10:59In 2023.
11:01There is a cave that I would like to show you.
11:03Absolutely.
11:04Members of the team traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland to investigate the theory that descendants of Vikings and members of the
11:12Knights Templar hid sacred treasures on Oak Island as early as the 12th century.
11:17As you can see, there is a cross with a circular top.
11:23Oh.
11:24Wow.
11:25We've seen that before.
11:26Oh, yeah.
11:27And while visiting sites where some believe the two groups traveled together, they saw not only a carving of a
11:34cross that matches the 14th century cross found at Smith's Cove.
11:40Do you know the years the coins were issued?
11:43Yeah.
11:43This is 4th century.
11:454th century.
11:46Yeah.
11:47Well, that's great.
11:47Yeah.
11:48But we're also shown a number of Roman coins found at the same site matching the six coins that were
11:54found on Lot 5.
11:57Is it possible that the stone marker, which Steve believes, has a connection to both the Romans and the Vikings,
12:03may be another clue that could support this theory?
12:08Is this oriented to north right now?
12:10Yes.
12:12It's just common knowledge, too.
12:14You would never put your next marker at a site.
12:17You have to see between the two.
12:18There should be another one.
12:19Exactly.
12:20Yeah.
12:20Yeah.
12:21I went out and surveyed the orientation of the six-foot diameter with the rock sitting in the center, and
12:28that's the orientation of the face on top.
12:30If you project that line, does it hit anything?
12:33Nothing as of yet.
12:34Okay.
12:35When we were out there on the site, you said, let's walk it.
12:37I think we should.
12:38Yeah.
12:38Yeah.
12:39There might be another one of these or something even more important.
12:43I know.
12:43Then that would really clinch it, wouldn't it?
12:45Yeah.
12:45It could be highly relevant to some of the early work that was done on this island.
12:50It might have some association to Nolan's Cross and to the Five Stone Cairns.
12:55But a more valuable aspect of this find is this.
12:59How many other structures like this have we walked past?
13:03How many other structures are there yet to be found?
13:06How many other things have we missed in our ongoing daily efforts to try to solve this mystery?
13:12I think we've got a little bit of work we can do.
13:15Let's walk that line and then follow where it leads.
13:18Yeah.
13:18And, of course, we'll bring Gary and we'll detect it.
13:22Okay.
13:23Let's go.
13:23All right.
13:24See you guys.
13:24See you later.
13:29The next day.
13:31All right.
13:33Back at the marker stone.
13:35So what I'd like to do is walk southeast.
13:38Okay.
13:38Steve and other members of the team prepare to find out if the possible stone marker on Lot 5 might
13:45point them to an even greater discovery.
13:49Because we're in pretty thick woods, what I'm going to do is I'm going to set my control point behind
13:53the stone.
13:55And we're going to run a line of sight until Ethan can't see us anymore.
13:58Then what we'll do is we'll move him to that location and we'll keep going on that line.
14:02And what is this station?
14:04What does it do?
14:04A total station, it does the exact same thing my GPS does.
14:07It just doesn't use satellites.
14:09Okay.
14:09It uses ground control and it's great for situations like this where you can't get a signal because of the
14:13trees.
14:13Okay, Moe.
14:14We'll get set up.
14:15Yeah.
14:15Yeah.
14:16You need this?
14:16Yeah, I do.
14:19You need to hold that, Ethan?
14:20Yeah.
14:20What I plan to do is use my total station, create a control line, we'll call it.
14:27I plan to move it every couple hundred yards so we can survey a perfectly straight line looking for another
14:32control point or marker stone.
14:35This is essentially a land version of my GPS.
14:39So this is the satellites, essentially, and this is my, what you'd see me run around with the GPS.
14:46And I've got to tell you, mate, I'm a little bit jealous.
14:48I've got my magic wand, but that looks better.
14:51All right, I'm ready to go when you guys are.
14:58Can you tell me where, Ethan?
15:00Yeah, more right.
15:01More right.
15:03There you go.
15:04Perfect.
15:06All right, Gary, here's our first location.
15:08Okay, mate.
15:09So, you know, we go a couple hundred yards, we've got Peter and I cutting line, we've got Gary metal
15:14detecting.
15:14And that's important because if this truly is a line of significance, anything he finds could really be a big
15:21clue of what this marker stone could have been or who could have walked this line.
15:27Pete, got a target over here, mate.
15:31We're not too far off the line.
15:33I'm just kidding.
15:50Iron, right?
15:52Yeah.
15:57a little little piece of strap you see that square roll in it well it could be a barrel
16:06loop looks pretty thin yeah i like this little piece of strap we've had some amazing results
16:13from pieces of strap that we found around the island and of course if you're looking for
16:18treasure and it's in a large barrel they would have had iron straps around them just put in my pouch
16:25sounds good let's go back to the lab keep following the line all right gary i'll keep moving okay as
16:34the
16:34team continues their search for clues you know the item in front of us i think could be highly
16:41informative in the oak island lab rick and other members of the team meet with laird and emma
16:48regarding a possible compass found one week ago on lot 15. yeah so this was found closer to the beach
16:57so you found it up on the bank yeah when we pulled it out i mean we originally thought it
17:02was a compass
17:03of some sort you weren't wrong yeah it's what we call a compass just like someone navigating on a map
17:09would use exactly it's a tool either for navigating or it can be used in construction really
17:18dating back more than 2 000 years a compass is an instrument used for measuring distances on maps and
17:27to design various kinds of structures on land such as buildings and even megalithic formations
17:35so these are images with the all the corrosion also what you're seeing is what's on the screen right
17:40now the side views back view but this is what you can see in the interior
17:49you you see one arm a pin this is the other arm so there's two components with one pin holding
18:00them
18:01together but it's hand forged and i got a fairly good comparable of this specific design oh i see what
18:11you mean yeah what data are you putting on this so no signs of modern alloying elements so it kind
18:19of takes it away from the mid 1800s onwards oh wow that's interesting pictures are fantastic so 18th
18:28century or the 1700s very comfortably fits within there but i mean there's nothing to say that it's
18:34not from mid to late 1600s possibly older that's interesting i mean there's nothing to say that
18:46it's not from mid to late 1600s possibly older oh in the oak island lab laird and emma are revealing
18:55that the compass found on lot 15 could date back more than a century before the discovery of the money
19:02pit that's interesting it's very interesting you said yourself it's construction tool yep lot 15
19:10gives in close proximity to the boulder of this beach and the stone cairns to me the stone cairns are
19:18made by the hand of man the stone cairns were a formation of five pyramid-shaped mounds that fred nolan
19:26documented in the early 1960s on lot 15 before they were destroyed by treasure hunting activities
19:34in 2023 archaeoastronomy expert professor adriano gaspani shared peer-reviewed research suggesting the
19:43cairns had been designed to perfectly align with stars in the night sky during the 13th century
19:51and when the team visited a site in born home denmark possibly connected to the knights templar and
19:57descendants of vikings i have the picture here of the stone cairns i'd say it's almost identical they
20:03were stunned to find a petroglyph of the exact same formation i think in order to create the stone
20:12cairns which are just uphill from the find you would need measuring devices you would have to draw
20:20a map of what you intend to to accomplish with distances measurements orientations alignments
20:28well this is a measuring device a device such as this would have been needed to actually create these
20:35constructions here we have a construction on top of the hill that needed to be laid out rather precisely
20:42and we have a tool that would have assisted in devising a plan to create these constructions
20:48we've always seek to connect the dots in terms of what's found here so it's a great find
20:56but i think i'd really like carmen to take a look at that yeah but at the end of the
21:01day
21:02the search agenda continues and thus we have work to do as do you in the lab we do so
21:07we really
21:08appreciate it all right thank you thanks good luck as rick ends the meeting in the lab steve
21:15look at this what's that this rock right here would it be any sort of marking it could be
21:22near the bottom of lot eight steve and the team continue searching for clues along a straight line
21:28from the possible marker stone on lot five for me there'd be some type of a mark on it because
21:35again we have so many boulders and stones on this island and this doesn't have any okay but uh over
21:41the next 20 or 30 feet we're at the highest point so if we're going to find a marker stone
21:45in line of
21:47sight it could be somewhere in here so good eyes peter let's keep going okay anytime i see a boulder
21:53you have to take a double look because some of them have turned out to be substantial pieces of
21:57evidence left by somebody so anytime that we come across something that looks like it's been placed by
22:02man we have to investigate it so we are now moving into i would say lock 27 keep your eye
22:09out through rocks
22:17okay turn around here wait look at this oh man i just walked straight over that that looks like a
22:24drilled stone yep and they found drill stones like this before in the money pit
22:29a drilled stone found on lot 27 in 1895 treasure hunter frederick blair found a drilled stone just
22:40north of the original money pit over four decades later in 1937 gilbert hetton found another near smith's
22:49cove on a perfect east-west alignment from blair's discovery steve do you know anything about this
22:58what looks like drilled stone actually i do so a few years ago rick and i were doing some work
23:03out
23:04here he found it came out and surveyed it but we had nothing to tie it to but now we
23:08do yeah
23:11is it possible that the team has just found a connection between the feature on lot five and this
23:17drilled stone every time we found a marked stone or a drilled stone it represents something and it's a
23:24point of interest that usually is followed up by another point of interest and if they project to
23:30an area yeah so this is a really important spot but i suspect that we'll find an artifact or a
23:36marker
23:36stone anywhere between where we are now and just up over the hill perfect okay all right guys follow me
23:42we'll keep moving okay this drilled stone connects to the lot five marker feature so it makes the marker
23:50feature way more important and i'm excited to see where it might go all right guys so i get us
23:58back
23:58online and i can actually do with my gps now that we're in the open okay what lot are we
24:02on steve
24:03now we are currently staying on 28 on the western side of the island do we know any features in
24:08this
24:09area oh absolutely we're heading right towards kingdom stone okay so kingdom is part of the tree of life
24:15a lot of theorists work with the tree of life and no one's cross yeah the kingdom stone there is
24:22a
24:22codon map i found and it will lead to the ultimate point x in 2013 norwegian freemason and researcher
24:30petter amundsen proclaimed that the six megalithic boulders that form nolan's cross may actually be part
24:38of a larger feature that included four additional buried boulders known as the tree of life an ancient
24:46religious symbol comprised of 10 points or sephirat that was highly revered by the knight's templar
24:54yeah this is it good to prove his theory petter along with marty and alex uncovered the sephirat
25:02at the base of the formation known as the kingdom stone it was only half of a small boulder that
25:10appeared to have been precisely cut in two and because it was such a potentially historic find
25:17the team reburied it for preservation i mean as you can see we've done a lot of work in this
25:23area over
25:24years yeah so kingdom stone is buried here okay so you can see along our projection it's pretty close
25:34actually it's probably on the projection from the drilled stone what we're seeing here is if this lines
25:41up with kingdom it could have been a reference point for building out nolan's cross and the tree
25:47of life is that possible absolutely usually when you can line two or three items up on a linear
25:53projection it was done on purpose yeah okay i'm gonna get my uncle rick to come meet us at that
25:59drilled stone i think that's a good idea so he's gonna love it
26:06here comes ricknell yeah you remember this don't you rick i do on lot 27 of oak island rick joins
26:15the
26:16team to investigate a stone with a curious drilled hole and which sets on a perfect southeast
26:23line from the stone marker on lot five so the question then to you is were you able to project
26:30any lines off other drilled stones or features in the area yes if you project this line from lot
26:36five to here we cut through kingdom stone what yeah isn't that crazy to think of i mean who would
26:43have
26:44thought the kingdom stone was connected to that monument marker there on lot five
26:50this drilled stone is near the middle of the island at one of the highest points that's right
26:57you want your survey points at high locations because it's line of sight so this becomes a piece
27:05that you pivot on maybe we project to nolan's cross maybe we project to the cairns maybe we project to
27:10the
27:10drilled stones in the money pit and look for more clues so it becomes a big network for me to
27:15work
27:15with this line from the marker stone through the drilled stone it hits kingdom stone that ties to
27:22nolan's cross which could be part of a bigger network and something significant to figuring out
27:27where this treasure is so right now it's pretty exciting it's difficult to put your mind back and say
27:33men in white robes with red crosses and blazing on their chests were here on this island
27:39but the kind of planning information and network of infrastructure needed it conjures up the idea that
27:47it was significantly important to whomever was designing it digging and drilling is part of the search
27:56agenda but only part we're building a body of evidence that someone went to a lot of planning
28:03an effort to create possibly an island-wide map on the ground that reaffirms my belief all these
28:11many years that digging and drilling alone will not solve the oak island mystery well maybe the answers
28:18are in the ground everything builds on something else and sometimes it's the most innocent observation
28:24presents some stunning opportunities to learn more to do more let's see what we find see what we find
28:30absolutely yeah let's say we get going all right sounds good follow you
28:39as another exciting day begins on oak island how you doing rick where are we i think we could see
28:48an
28:48open washed area with effectively a void down below and that's what we're looking for for sure right
28:54rick arrives at the money pit area where borehole i9.5 may be close to entering the solution channel
29:03we have a core gentlemen the core could be the core let's hope it's the core okay
29:10he went from 185.5 to 209 ish so he's going to have probably about 20 feet in the core
29:17barrel
29:17okay so we got an anaconda coming our way every time you open a car what you're hoping is that
29:24you
29:24will find the one thing given the fact that you know there are detectable levels of precious metals at the
29:31depth with that pinpointer ready charles right there that's really what we're looking for really loose
29:40material do you like to see that that's just falling out let's hope we get some gold in the mud
29:47hey don't get off here but what is most important is the soil meaning would a treasure fall through
29:55the type of soils that we've encountered that's the hope so it's an interesting location but at the
30:03end of the day something has to come up from the core which one do you want you want that
30:11terry when
30:11they cut yes well that's 209 gary 209 let's be hopeful
30:21that is pretty much what we're looking for it is yeah it's very loose very loose
30:30if uh if nothing else this is proof that the soft material hangs out right under the ledges
30:35in the solution channel yep spread this apart for you charles and then we'll let you get that with the
30:41the pinpointer and that's probably the start of our bedrock right there okay okay i'm going to run
30:46the pinpointer over this i got something right here guys you know you get fooled sometimes by the
31:09the screws in the table let's take it over yeah here we go yeah i got something right here oh
31:30wow right
31:31here okay whoa
31:36i have something right here oh wow okay while the team investigates a drilling core taken from 209 feet
31:45deep in borehole i 9.5 charles is detecting a possible metal object
31:53right there whoa
32:00somewhere it's gone just give this another sweep through i got nothing it is what it is
32:10well you know to be safe we could have caught you come up and just run the manticore over here
32:15yep
32:16and you know for certain absolutely let's do it it's exciting in the moment there's something here
32:22that is making the pinpointer react but i don't understand how the signal disappeared it's very
32:30curious i don't know what it means so we need to call in katya and test the entire sample the
32:37entire
32:37drill core hey guys hey hey how you doing good what do we have here well katya i was getting
32:44a hit
32:44but then i got a harder signal right here more stronger signal if you could go over it again just
32:49to confirm see if there's something there sure yeah let's just lift it up and put it on the garbage
32:55cans
33:01start with the pinpointer
33:10there we go wow here we are if you want to start separating it out you can use that
33:16so there was something there see this is what happened to us yeah
33:30it's just fine stuff in here that when you get big clumps of it and it's concentrated it'll go crazy
33:41we're looking for a little flecks of gold could that possibly be ground up in that we found it in
33:46other samples yeah this could definitely be something really interesting here if there's gold
33:52dust in those bags that could be part of the treasure there you go so that could also be an
33:58indicator
33:58that we're getting really close if it's in there yep bingo so it's all the more reason to send this
34:04off to the left sure yeah i have a bag here so we're going to get a sample and get
34:08it back to the
34:08lab okay is it possible that the team has recovered traces of precious metals in soils collected from the
34:16solution channel if so could that mean they may be closing in on the legendary treasure there's no apparent
34:24gold coin or anything like that but something of metallic nature is in that core hopefully the lab can
34:33confirm if it is gold or silver if this is some sort of metal especially if it's fine flakes of
34:42gold or
34:42whatever it is you'd put a case on shot over this no question about it so there's reasons to be
34:49hopeful but there's also reasons to give it your due diligence absolutely thank you katya of course
34:55i'm hoping you guys have some success on this yeah me too
35:01later that morning well looky here how you doing hey carmen found something else yes sir we did in the
35:10oak island lab members of the team meet with black spitting expert carmen leg so this was found on lot
35:1715 while they await soil test results on the money pit core they have asked carmen to examine the tool
35:24found on lot 15 to help determine just how old it could be when i pulled it up i thought
35:31it was like a
35:32compass navigation tool of sorts i'll have a look well it's not a compass what it is is a divider
35:44it's
35:45an engineering tool dividers were used a lot on planning structures or developing structures from
35:51maps or plans also if you measure the diameter or something you determine the circumference of whatever
35:58it is so dividers if i understand what you're saying aren't really that much different from a compass
36:03it's the same principle yeah yes the dividers were used a lot on determining how structures would
36:09fit together i think you're describing ancient geometry too yes oh yeah that's right yeah i'm
36:16looking there it seems like it it's double-sided right if you look you can see there's two sides to
36:23it and there's also a middle that comes out with probably another two sides going this way
36:28in other words it simply wasn't this oh hell yeah where it's double-sided it's really a high
36:35quality tool it's quite thick and wide and robust so again that tells me that it's an engineering tool
36:41that was meant to last i would suspect it was probably about that long in the beginning oh wow
36:47i was not expecting it to be that long what is the earliest date that you put on it i've
36:53seen some
36:54french ones that were 16 20. they were double-sided as well i remember seeing in a british journal i
37:03believe a set of dividers same style same design was 1543. oh wow there we go
37:24in the oak island lab carmen has just informed the team that the divider tool found on lot 15 could
37:32predate the discovery of the money pit by more than 250 years emma you could probably determine
37:39what's in there for metal age-wise um the composition really lines up with 1600s but there's a huge chlorine
37:47content and it's not just salt water exposure it's salt water submersion for really long periods of time
37:54i mean you kind of see it now in the the build up of that kind of corrosion iron doesn't
38:00do well
38:00underwater no sea water and if the chlorine content is affecting other aspects of the composition maybe
38:06a second look could yeah sway it towards the 1500s but now to get chlorine in it yes how did
38:13it go from
38:14being under salt water for a long time to being where it was found well it could have come from
38:19the flood
38:20tunnel if the original depositors lost it in there and then the searchers found it and brought it up
38:26to surface and or dunfield yeah there's records where the flood tunnel came crashing in at them
38:33maybe this came in and later on was brought to surface there are dunfield spoils all along about 15
38:40all along there all right well maybe we're getting somewhere yeah but that makes it a depositor item
38:46doesn't it depositor item or a flood tunnel construction item in 1965 treasure hunter robert
38:56dunfield excavated a massive 100 foot diameter hole in the money pit area and moved the spoils from his dig
39:04to nearby lots such as 15. but due to the inflow of seawater from an ingeniously designed man-made flood
39:12tunnel system that originated at smith's code the massive hole repeatedly caved in and the dig failed
39:20to reach any deeper than 140 feet is it possible that mr dunfield may have unknowingly recovered this
39:29tool from the flooded depths of the original money pit 60 years ago this is quite possibly the most
39:37sophisticated item that has shown up from metal detecting this is a tool of an upper level
39:42craftsman oh it certainly is yeah very high quality and very expensive and valuable tool well it kind
39:48of speaks to the fact that whoever was here with that did something of great significance and whether
39:57that be an alignment of boulders or something in the money pit they would need that yeah i would think
40:04the divider is very interesting fine because the original depositors work in the money pit took time
40:11and planning so there would have been a plan probably on paper this was an endeavor that was not done
40:19on
40:19a weekend and everything that we have discovered i think can fit into that theory and thus the reason to
40:27continue work like this next time you two find something equally interesting but less inexplicable okay
40:37this thing's so interesting it's going to take a little bit more thought to figure it out always
40:42good to have your input carmen thank you emma so for now let's get back out there sounds good
40:48let's go find some more okay with the team's new discoveries and revelations more questions arise
40:58is it possible that people visited oak island nearly 800 years ago with an elaborate plan to hide sacred
41:06treasures and did others who knew of those secrets come centuries later to bury more
41:15for the laginas and their team one thing appears to be certain the more they peel back the layers
41:22of this 230 year old mystery the deeper it becomes
41:34next time on the curse of oak island you have a core gentlemen this must be the solution channel that
41:41has the ability to hide treasure i got something right in here there it is yeah it's there
41:49oh my gosh laird can you tell him this is a jewel it is high grade made in the old
41:59world yep that
42:00takes us to a whole new level
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