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00:00Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:03I got a signal.
00:04Aha!
00:06Whoa, we got here.
00:07I recognize this seal, so it could date to the 1300s.
00:13That large boulder looks intriguing.
00:15We've uncovered a big void right there.
00:17What is underneath that boulder?
00:19We put cameras in VN 13.5.
00:22What we found suggests human origin.
00:25It really seems like it's a depositor.
00:27Wow.
00:31There is an island in the North Atlantic where people have been looking for an incredible treasure for more than
00:39200 years.
00:41So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it.
00:47Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:51And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knights Templar.
00:56To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:02And, according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:22This is the critical intersection right here, guys.
01:24Yeah.
01:25What we should see beneath the peacock is loose material.
01:28Our targets are the possible void at 148 feet.
01:31And then the solution channel below that.
01:33Right.
01:33A new day on Oak Island brings fresh hope for Rick and Marty Lagina that their team is closing in
01:41on the answers to a 231-year-old treasure mystery.
01:46Really, the end goal is to get down to the solution channel and see if there's a potential treasure there.
01:50But I also believe that we're close to a chamber here.
01:53Right.
01:55In a location of the Money Pit area, known as the Peacock, the team is drilling borehole DN-13, just
02:03a few feet northwest of borehole BN-13.5.
02:09Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
02:11It was there that one week ago, the drill entered a possible man-made cavern some 150 feet deep, which
02:20sets more than 20 feet above the solution channel.
02:23You can make it almost like a wall or something out there.
02:26When you move away from it, we kind of go into more of an opening here.
02:29After inserting a camera, evidence was revealed of a possible artificial wall.
02:34Show me the money.
02:36And a potential opening to a larger cavity.
02:38We've got an opening.
02:39This made them wonder if an offset treasure chamber connected to the original Money Pit has been discovered.
02:50Now, while the team waits to view enhanced video images of the mysterious void,
02:55they hope to drill into the larger nearby cavity and confirm if it indeed is a man-made chamber.
03:02Oh, look.
03:03Yeah, something's going on over there.
03:05Yeah.
03:05Rod's fell.
03:06They just dropped.
03:07That's really soft, man.
03:09Adam!
03:11Here he comes.
03:14Hey, Adam, how's it going?
03:15Good.
03:16Did something happen?
03:18The rods fell about 16 feet.
03:22Really?
03:23From 128.
03:25Wow.
03:26Well, that's really interesting.
03:27Thanks a lot, Adam.
03:28All right.
03:29That means somewhere between 118 and 128, we went into the soft area.
03:33Right.
03:33Yeah.
03:34All the way to 144.
03:35Yeah.
03:36Wow.
03:36So in core of the peacock, I've always believed there's going to be a structure.
03:40Because of the loose soil, when we see those rods drop, that tells us maybe we're close to seeing the
03:45structure that we all hope we're going to encounter.
03:48We're going to track that down into the solution channel.
03:50You know, there's plenty of places down there for a treasure to hide.
03:53No question.
03:54We'll move on to the more interesting levels.
03:57Yeah.
03:57As the core drilling pushes deeper in the money pit area.
04:02That mound's getting higher and higher.
04:04Tell me about it.
04:06Rick Lagina and other members of the team continue investigating the southwest corner of the triangle-shaped swamp.
04:14After this, I feel like we only have one little section left behind us.
04:18Yeah.
04:19In recent weeks, the team has been uncovering a mysterious stone road-like feature that may be connected to a
04:27similar structure that was found several yards to the north earlier this year.
04:33Curiously, eight-sided wooden survey sticks were found lining both of these features.
04:39And the team also recovered old ox shoes, suggesting the roads may have been used to move heavy cargo into
04:47the swamp.
04:50Get in there.
04:51Okay.
04:53The southwest corner is almost done.
04:55What we did learn is we have a possible path or a road to follow.
04:59And the hope is that there will be some artifacts that can be dated.
05:04And then maybe we can figure out who made these features and why.
05:15Ready for me to go in, Billy?
05:17Yes.
05:17Tick to the bottom there, Gary, maybe.
05:19Yep.
05:31It's getting quiet.
05:33It is.
05:34We ain't had a net in a while now.
05:38This might be the end of the line for this area, I think.
05:41Yeah, I think you're right, Billy.
05:43And we hammered it.
05:45Everywhere we turn in the swamp, we're finding stakes, and that must mean something.
05:49Yep.
05:50It has to.
05:51And my question is, where are we going next?
05:53Because I know that there are other areas of interest.
05:56Yeah.
05:57Who are you, and what did you do with Peter Frenetti?
06:00Hey, this swamp is looking like a beach right now.
06:03Let's get back into it.
06:06You have three data points that seemingly line up.
06:09An unknown road, path, ox shoes.
06:13Then you have the stakes.
06:15And who knows what else is after that?
06:17If there's a road, where does it go?
06:20Right now, Steve has projected it to go toward the north end of the bog.
06:25So now it gives us some insight as to where to go next.
06:29And that's every bit as important as an artifact.
06:32Yeah.
06:32We've got to get back to do some homework.
06:34We need to talk to Tom Nolan about where to go next.
06:38So I say we head back.
06:39All right.
06:40All right.
06:41Thanks, Billy.
06:41All right, Billy.
06:42See you.
06:42See you, Mike.
06:51I'm always grateful to come into the lab.
06:54I think we learn so many things here.
06:57And I'm impressed by these two finds from Lot 8.
07:01In the Oak Island lab, Rick and members of the team join Laird Niven and Emma Culligan
07:07to hear a scientific report on a possible iron knife handle and a lead bag seal.
07:13That were found on Lot 8 one week ago.
07:16The iron is kind of more of the mysterious piece.
07:19So we'll start there.
07:21And you can see that wood-like grain structure on it.
07:24So it is hand forged.
07:25But what is interesting is the shape of it.
07:28So it came in as a possible knife handle.
07:31And it does have some features of it being like the scale of a knife handle.
07:37But it could also have been used as a multi-tool.
07:40Well, why the round hole at the base and the square hole above?
07:45So this could have been used as a fastener to hold something in place.
07:49A little pivot point.
07:52But this section right here, I can find components that are similar to other tools, but nothing
08:00like this.
08:01Okay.
08:01And the composition is clean.
08:03So it's post-medieval, pre-mid-1800s.
08:07So it does fit within the 1700s.
08:10Yep.
08:11It's very peculiar.
08:12You know, it's possible Carmen might have an idea as to what that represents.
08:17Yeah.
08:17But the next item, what does it tell us?
08:21It's a bag seal.
08:24Dating back to as early as the 13th century, lead bag seals were fasteners used to contain
08:31large quantities of goods in heavy cloth packages.
08:36I recognized an element of it right away, which was basically a suspended dead sheep.
08:44I found an existing example of this seal, and that is the only example we could find.
08:53So this is the city seal of Leeds in England.
08:58So what a macabre design.
09:01I know.
09:02It's so grim.
09:04So this would have been a seal on a finished bale of fabric.
09:08Hmm.
09:09So that implies that it arrived on the island as a bale, and that was taken off in Lot 8.
09:16Wow.
09:18Leeds in the 16th, 17th, and 18th century was, like, the wool manufacturing place in England.
09:26And basically, Britain was built around wool.
09:30Oh, really?
09:31Yeah.
09:32That begs the question, what time period?
09:34The Leeds wool industry goes back to the 1300s.
09:38So it could date earlier.
09:49The Leeds wool industry goes back to the 1300s.
09:53Wow.
09:55In the Oak Island lab, Laird has just confirmed that the lead back seal found on Lot 8 originated
10:02in England and could be as much as 700 years old.
10:07When you say bale, I picture something of great quantity, though.
10:12Let's say the size of this, probably.
10:15That much?
10:16So big.
10:16Yeah.
10:17That's like a hay bale.
10:18Yeah.
10:19Isn't that a lot of fabric for a singular household?
10:23That's the problem.
10:25A singular household, you're going to those people and buying your clothes.
10:29Why on the island?
10:31Here on the island, there was limited families.
10:33Yeah.
10:33Bag seals are not uncommon in North America, but they're usually associated with trade.
10:38Like a fort.
10:39You're finding a lot of things because you're making uniforms, but you're also trading cloth.
10:44So this is our third bale seal.
10:48Now we have three from different areas.
10:51So why is it there?
10:55Previously, the team found a lead bag seal on Lot 5 and another on Lot 32, just yards from
11:03the possible stone road that was recently uncovered in the southwest corner of the swamp.
11:09Astonishingly, that bag seal was scientifically matched to the 14th century lead cross, which
11:16is believed to be connected to the Knights Templar.
11:20There's enough going on in Lot 8 that I'd like to look closer to, take a good look at what's
11:26out there.
11:26Yeah.
11:27Could be something else that we're not aware of.
11:30So to that end, I think we need to get back out there.
11:33We have to get to work.
11:35Yes.
11:35You have to find things and I will help you dig.
11:38That sounds like a plan.
11:39That's a plan.
11:40That is a plan.
11:41All right.
11:42Thanks, guys.
11:49The next day, while drilling continues in the Money Pit area.
11:56You are a firm belief that there are answers to the Oak Island mystery that reside within
12:01the bog.
12:02How can you deny it?
12:03No matter how you look at it, somebody did an immense amount of work in that bog.
12:09Rick meets with fellow Oak Island landowner Tom Nolan.
12:13And other members of the team in the research center to plan their next dig in the swamp.
12:20I think the north end of the bog in terms of the size and the amount of finds in a
12:26very
12:27confined space was quite exciting and incredibly interesting and incredibly confusing.
12:33The amount of stakes that we found, all of uniform size, uniform strikes in terms of making
12:39the sharpened end, eight strokes, and when you look at it as they're plotted, it's meaningful.
12:46Oh, very meaningful.
12:48Somebody was trying to leave a path.
12:52Mm-hmm.
12:53Mm-hmm.
12:53Yeah.
12:53Before uncovering the stone features in the western and southwestern areas of the swamp
13:00this year, working with Tom on his property in the northern region, the team previously
13:06discovered very similar stone structures and several eight-sided survey stakes, leading
13:13to an empty vault-like structure.
13:16Yeah, the so-called vault was captivating in and of itself.
13:21I mean, we found paths, roads, but that vault was quite singular and unique.
13:27Yeah.
13:28Now, Rick and Tom want to know if all of the stone structures they've uncovered across
13:34the swamp are connected, and if other vaults that still contain something valuable are waiting
13:40to be found.
13:42The vault, to me, it was a hiding place.
13:45It's in the perfect place to hide it in amongst vegetation and stuff, where people probably
13:49aren't going to go looking.
13:50Absolutely.
13:51If you are safeguarding something, if you have something really important, you're not
13:57going to put all your eggs in one basket.
13:58Right.
13:59And you're going to have one, two, three more.
14:03My hope is that there's a backup vault.
14:05Yep.
14:06We're ready to put the bucket in the ground and see what's under it.
14:09Well, there's no time like the present, right?
14:12Yeah.
14:13So, do I say we get out there?
14:14Let's go.
14:16Following the meeting in the research center...
14:20I think we should start here, take this apart, and then once we get across that, just keep
14:25going to the other part of the bog.
14:26Yep.
14:27The team begins searching for new clues in the northern region of the swamp.
14:32Gary, it's going to be up to you to find whatever artifacts are here.
14:35For real, we're going to find it.
14:36Okey-doke.
14:39You know, the swamp has been enigmatic because virtually every time we dig in there, we find
14:45something, and not just something, we find things that you wouldn't suspect would be
14:51in a swamp.
14:52We find things that could very well be related to the mystery of what happened here.
14:59We're close to the line where you found all the stakes.
15:08There's your stake right there.
15:18Probably right there.
15:20Aha!
15:23Probably right there.
15:28What is it?
15:29Eight-sided.
15:32Two, three, four, five, six, seven.
15:40There's one there.
15:41There's the third.
15:42Yeah.
15:43There's your eight sides.
15:44Wow.
15:46They drove that down deep for some reason.
15:50That's got to be really, really old.
15:55Last year, these eight-sided stakes led us to a vault.
16:00The stakes are a puzzle unto themselves.
16:03There's every belief that as the stakes continue to be found, at some point, we will have an
16:09explanation as to why.
16:11That's where it was, right there.
16:14We're going to have to get Steve out to pin it right now before we move it.
16:17Unless you can dig around it, huh?
16:19Dig on this side and that side?
16:22Maybe they can help explain the structures that have already been found.
16:29Hey, guys.
16:30Hey, Steve.
16:32What do we got?
16:33You're standing on it.
16:34I'm literally standing on it.
16:35You're literally standing on it.
16:37All right.
16:38That's where it was.
16:39The hole is right there.
16:40Okay.
16:40The hole's what we want.
16:41Yep.
16:42And like everything else, we're a foot and a half above sea level.
16:45And actually, most stakes that we have found in the swamp have been a foot and a half above
16:49sea level.
16:49They've been very consistent, which to me means a lot of them have probably gone in the
16:52same time period.
16:53And that would be pretty interesting.
16:56Yeah.
16:58So, anyway, we'll keep going.
17:00Thanks, Steve.
17:00See you guys.
17:01Appreciate it.
17:02These stakes almost certainly represents that a group of individuals did the work,
17:08implying a reason, implying planning.
17:11Maybe it is connected to the vault that we've discovered.
17:16I got a signal.
17:18I'm hoping that there are clues that will lead us to new discoveries.
17:24I got a good signal in that last pile, wherever the last pile came from.
17:29It would have been on the bottom.
17:30He was scraping bottom for that last bucket.
17:33So, it was down there.
17:35That's excellent.
17:35That's where we'd find the older artifacts.
17:37Yep.
17:38Let me see if I can pinpoint it first.
17:43What have we got here?
17:48What have we got here?
17:50What is that?
17:52In the northern region of the swamp, Gary has just found an intriguing artifact.
17:58You know what that is?
17:59That's like a snake, a latch off a gate or a door.
18:04It would be inside an opening, and you'd put your thumb on it, and you'd open the gate.
18:10In England, we call it a gate snake.
18:13In England, we call it a gate snake.
18:13It's more than likely, and forged.
18:16This looks really, really old.
18:20A possible gate latch found in the northern section of the swamp?
18:24It's a great thought.
18:26It's a great thought.
18:26Your thumb fits in there perfectly.
18:28The latch springs up.
18:30Yeah.
18:31Yeah.
18:31Because these fixtures have been in use as far back as the 13th century, just how old might
18:37this artifact be?
18:38And could it be related to a structure that might be buried in this area?
18:44Well, it's a great sign.
18:46An old piece of iron came from at the bottom of the dig.
18:50Yeah, that was down deep.
18:51Yeah.
18:52I'll put it in the bag.
18:53Yeah.
18:53Keep digging.
18:54That's a good find.
18:55Yep.
18:58Okay.
18:59Better rip, pal.
19:00Better rip, pal.
19:30What have you found, Tom?
19:31A piece of pottery.
19:33But it's green.
19:34Green and blue.
19:35You don't usually see that color.
19:37No.
19:39That decoration is unique, too.
19:41This area with green and the blue glazed pottery, it could match another area where the
19:49archaeologists have found it.
19:50I know it's been found before.
19:52Yeah?
19:53I think some green and blue came off the lot 26 wall as well when the archaeologists
19:59were investigating, taking the wall apart.
20:03You have to find artifacts.
20:05Okay.
20:05Get on that.
20:08In 2022, the team investigated a rock wall on lot 26 because it was much larger and wider
20:16than a number of others on the island that are known to have been built by farmers in
20:21the 19th century.
20:23Incredibly, in addition to pottery, charcoal was found in the wall that, when carbon dated,
20:29suggested it could be over 500 years old.
20:33And when Portuguese researcher, Francisco Nogueira, inspected it, he made a fascinating observation.
20:42This wall appears to be created in the world Portuguese style of building rock fences.
20:47No way.
20:49Could this piece of pottery be the same kind that was found in the wall on lot 26?
20:54If so, is it possible that the wall is somehow related to the man-made workings uncovered in
21:02the swamp?
21:02We have a suggestion by experts that some of the activities conducted here on the island
21:10can be associated with the Portuguese.
21:12The stone road, the swamp, has Portuguese influence.
21:17The stone wall has influences.
21:20The Pobledo Portuguese Templar coin that was possibly found in the money pit, it's a worthy
21:26consideration that they all may have a connection to the mystery.
21:31And we'll get these finds back to the level.
21:34I mean, we've had a great start to the dig in this area.
21:37Yep.
21:38It shows there's things to be found here, right?
21:40Yeah.
21:41I agree.
21:42We just have to keep plugging away.
21:43Yeah.
21:45All right, Al, we'll take her down quite a bit more here.
21:47Perfect.
21:48No problem.
21:51Later that day...
21:54So this is what I wanted to show you.
21:56We've got this large boulder.
21:58Yep.
21:59Which is uncommon.
22:01After looking around the area on Lot 8, where the lead bag seal was found, Laird has made
22:07a potentially important discovery.
22:09We're not seeing it around here, a lot that size.
22:12But then I started seeing the number of stones that are around it, perhaps filling in something.
22:20Even the berm over there that could indicate digging, it looks like someone was filling
22:26in a pit.
22:28And actually, if you look again, the rocks seem to go further off to the east.
22:33The more I look at, the more I see.
22:36Yep.
22:38Could Laird be correct that someone deliberately filled in a pit around this massive boulder
22:44with soil and smaller rocks?
22:52You know, it appears as though there's a ring of stones around the boulder.
22:57Yeah.
22:59It's not unusual to find a boulder on Oak Island, but even more interesting was the ground-level
23:06rock feature around it.
23:08My immediate thought was that this was a possible filled-in foundation that we're not aware of.
23:14I don't know the relationship between that large boulder and this stone formation just
23:20yet.
23:21But I think it's definitely worth exploring.
23:25It's interesting.
23:26There's no doubt about it.
23:27Yeah.
23:28A lot of it has intrigued me.
23:29But then you and Katja recently found the bag seal.
23:32Correct.
23:33Which is another really intriguing artifact.
23:35I know its function, but why is it here?
23:38And then we find this huge boulder and these rocks.
23:43It does make me think that we need to really analyze it.
23:47It's certainly unique.
23:48And like you said, you can see the raised areas everywhere, right?
23:52Yeah.
23:52Here, here, there.
23:54This would have been quite an effort by someone if this really is a hand-built construction.
24:01Yeah.
24:02So I think what we'll do, we're going to clear it off, clear the whole area off.
24:08Mm-hmm.
24:08To get a good idea of what it looks like.
24:11And then hopefully taking a section from it.
24:14Sure.
24:15This may provide a very unique opportunity to try to understand not only this lot, but
24:20the entire island.
24:21You know, not every stone on this island means something.
24:24Yes.
24:24But some of them do.
24:25Do, yep.
24:26And this may be one of those times.
24:28Yeah.
24:29If it's been filled in, there might be something hidden that would break the story open.
24:34At this point, the archaeologists need to get to work.
24:36This is surely worth investigating.
24:39You laid out a very proper approach.
24:43I applaud you for, again, being observant.
24:46Um, I think if there's any way we can help, we'd all, would invest some time here.
24:52You're leading me to the dark side because I'm really intrigued by that stone.
24:55It does make me think that there's a lot more out there.
24:59Yeah.
24:59Welcome to the dark side.
25:02You got work to do.
25:03Let's go.
25:07At the start of a new day on Oak Island.
25:11We've got lots of work to do, guys.
25:12Yeah.
25:14Laird and members of the archaeology team investigate the possible man-made boulder and rock feature on Lot 8.
25:22There's a lot of rocks in here, Laird.
25:24Yep.
25:25I've never seen this many rocks underneath the topsoil layer.
25:29Yeah.
25:30It kind of looks like there was a cut.
25:32And at some point, it got filled back in.
25:34I've got the edge here, I think.
25:36Oh.
25:37You may be coming to an edge.
25:38Well, I am getting the different soil here.
25:40But you should be coming to what we think may be the redeposited.
25:44Well, there's a nice big lump right behind Ethan.
25:47You're right, it's mounded.
25:48Yeah.
25:49That's a good sign.
25:50There was digging for whatever reason, and then it got filled in.
25:53And then you've got this huge rock in the middle.
25:56Like, I find that strange as well.
25:58I think we still have to at least define the edges as we go all the way around the boulder.
26:06Okay, good.
26:07Okay, so let's see how far back this goes.
26:10To me, this site is one of the strangest sites I've been on.
26:14It doesn't make any sense that someone would come and excavate and then fill it back full of rocks.
26:21It's brutal work.
26:23So I find it very unusual, and I can't wait to get the excavation deeper and hopefully answer some of
26:31these questions.
26:40Hey, look at this.
26:42A piece of wood.
26:43Does that look like that top's been cut before?
26:45I didn't do that.
26:48Sure does.
26:50It doesn't look like it got snapped off.
26:52No, that's what I'm thinking.
26:53I think that if that was cut, then that could have been cut by whoever created whatever this is.
27:00Yeah, I could see that.
27:01I mean, that was deep.
27:02That was underneath all these roots that I've been pulling up.
27:04So that is not something that was on the surface.
27:06If this was cut, that would have been years ago.
27:09Many years ago.
27:10That's what I'm thinking.
27:11The sticks that had cut marks on them, that's another evidence of cultural activity happening there.
27:16Okay, we better keep our eye out for stuff like that.
27:18Okay, cool.
27:19As the investigation continues on lot eight.
27:26Oh, yeah.
27:28Oh!
27:32In the money pit area.
27:34Looks like you guys are in bedrock.
27:35If he's driving it over, that would be his 20 feet through the solution channel.
27:40I guess we missed the void at 148 feet.
27:43Yeah.
27:44After finding no new evidence of the void that was discovered nearly 150 feet deep one week ago,
27:52the drilling operation in borehole DN-13 has now reached the solution channel.
27:59Bottom's 208, rock is 204.
28:00Bottom's 208, rock is 204.
28:02Got it.
28:04At least we have intercepted the bottom of the solution channel in this hole.
28:07Here we go.
28:12She's a full-on anaconda, ladies and gentlemen.
28:15Here we go.
28:16Cut her up.
28:18DN-13.
28:19This is the last gasp, I think, since we're on bedrock.
28:23Let's see what we got here in front of us.
28:26This up here actually was a little bit loose.
28:28Actually, it got a little loose between 184 and 188, so I think we're ready for the pinpointer.
28:36Okay.
28:43This is the more promising upper portion, which is quite slushy.
28:51It's clear, gentlemen.
28:53Okay.
28:54Thank you, Charles.
28:57Well, it's not the ending we hoped for for DN-13.
29:00We've had all kinds of success in this area with metals being in all the water testing.
29:06So we'll take a soil sample back to the lab.
29:08And maybe, just maybe, there'll be some hope with this poor hole yet.
29:12I can't believe we've missed an open void at 150-ish feet.
29:16If we can prove that there's metals in the soils here, and that's through testing through Dr. Spooner and testing
29:22in the lab with Emma,
29:23we can prove that this is potentially still a treasure location.
29:26We'll move on and we'll go back to the heart of the peacock.
29:29And let's try to get back in that void.
29:30Very good.
29:31I'm full agreement with that, Steve.
29:33Okay, fair enough.
29:36Later that afternoon...
29:40Hey, guys.
29:41Hey, guys.
29:42Hey, guys.
29:43Hello.
29:44Good.
29:45In the war room, Rick, Marty, and members of the team meet with video enhancement expert Bob Brown from ProHawk
29:53Technology Group.
29:54The reason for this meeting is in being 13.5, we put the camera down and sonar.
30:01It showed a void.
30:03The thought was to give it to ProHawk to enhance the data that we've given them.
30:08So, having said that, Bob, welcome to the war room.
30:12Appreciate it.
30:12Thank you so much.
30:14Here's a little of the footage.
30:17ProHawk Technology Group has worked with the team several times in the past,
30:21using their proprietary software to clarify underwater video images collected from deep in the money pit area.
30:29This one was really interesting.
30:32Really, there were distinct things that we kind of noticed in the imagery.
30:40So, we found this to be quite interesting, as you can see here, this cluster of stake-like pointed objects,
30:48right?
30:48It just looked arranged, and the shapes, the tapering, the alignment appears deliberate.
30:58And would suggest Planck stakes something, you know, of human origin, rather than the natural environment.
31:10You know, I can see a layering effect in there, but it does look man-made.
31:15Mm-hmm.
31:17We are all intrigued.
31:20It would defy logic that those could be represented geologically.
31:25It's different, unexplainable, really.
31:28I mean, you guys are dealing with cutting-edge technology here.
31:31Yeah.
31:33I still need to be convinced, but it makes the peacock area that much more interesting.
31:38And I think that's what we have to go off of.
31:41Then there were definitely these distinct square geometry patterns throughout many portions of the video.
31:50The edges, the uniformity of it, and you take it all together, and it really begins to add up.
31:58There's something that's not organic.
32:03Another area we found, there was a bright, reflective rectangle.
32:09Right?
32:10It's got sharp edges.
32:11It's highly reflected.
32:15So that would lead us to believe that there's some type of metallic or polished quality that's causing the reflection.
32:23A possible rectangular metal object?
32:27Has the team indeed found a man-made chamber some 150 feet underground in the peacock?
32:34Well, yeah.
32:35I mean, this is really keenly interesting.
32:38If so, could it contain the source of the precious metals that have been detected in water deep in the
32:45money pit area?
32:46Bob, if you were to say how likely these, at least one of these, is a man-made object, what
32:51would you say?
32:55Bob, if you were to say how likely at least one of these is a man-made object, what would
33:09you say?
33:10I put it over 90%.
33:13Wow.
33:14In the Oak Island War Room, Rick, Marty, Craig, and members of the team are viewing enhanced video
33:22of a potentially man-made cavern some 150 feet deep in the money pit area.
33:28It really came down to geometry, precision, consistency, the arrangements, the materials.
33:36They strongly suggested man-made origins.
33:38It's just really compelling evidence.
33:42An open void is highly unlikely to be natural for the depth that we're looking at, right?
33:47Correct.
33:47Is there any geologic explanation for this?
33:50Because I can't really think of one.
33:52I would say this is my working premise, is that the peacock is the washout around a structure.
33:58And perhaps we're seeing into that structure from our actual borehole.
34:03I mean, it's deeper than any searchers.
34:05And if there are weird anomalous features that ProHawk's picking up, it really seems like it's a depositor.
34:12Yeah.
34:13I am taken aback by the number of things being represented in such a small, confined space.
34:20He saw several items that represented very linear 90-degree angles that we've been told many, many times
34:29that that doesn't happen in nature.
34:31And I have no explanation for this reflective image.
34:35I can only insinuate that it has something to do with metals being underground.
34:41Perhaps there is a man-made reason for those highly unconsolidated soils in the peacock.
34:47This would strongly suggest that the offset chamber is a valid explanation.
34:53So this area is quite compelling.
34:56But, I mean, does this look like a jumble of stuff that could have collapsed?
34:59It could have collapsed.
35:01Yes.
35:03Okay, we should jump up and down about this data, right, guys?
35:07I mean, we're seeing man-made objects are strong indications of it in an area where we don't have any
35:13indication of any searchers.
35:15This is the kind of thing that we set out to find.
35:17You know, for sure, we have to explore this further.
35:22But that's pretty dramatic.
35:25The peacock still has very elevated amounts of silver and some other metals in it.
35:30So here's the point.
35:32The source of these metals in the water is still there and hasn't been found.
35:39But maybe we just found it.
35:42Bob, we hope you've got a bullseye for us.
35:45Yeah, I hope so.
35:46Thank you very much.
35:47Appreciate it.
35:48You bet.
35:49Our pleasure and happy hunting, guys.
35:52Thanks, Bob.
35:53As the meeting concludes in the War Room.
35:57I'm just looking at these rocks here.
35:59What about if you started from the rock in there, out?
36:02Yeah.
36:03Archaeologist Fiona Steele and members of the team investigate the boulder feature on Lot 8.
36:10I'm really interested in what's happening down there.
36:13There's definitely evidence of the stones being deliberately placed around the outside and underneath this huge erratic boulder.
36:21Such a big rock could be something that was used for a marker.
36:24It could be something that you'd want to hide things under.
36:27So it's just so out of the ordinary that we need a little bit more evidence before we can make
36:32that full determination.
36:39Fiona?
36:40Yeah.
36:42Found a piece of wood.
36:44I don't know if it's cut, though.
36:48Look at that bottom.
36:49Yeah.
36:51That does not look like it's broken.
36:53I would say that's cut.
36:55It was wedged right in there in between the rocks.
36:58These are the type of things we need to look out for.
37:01It could tell us a lot about the age of this feature.
37:03Yeah.
37:05Oh.
37:06It goes down.
37:10Can you get your arm right in there?
37:12Yes, you can.
37:13Whoa, you're going deep.
37:15Yeah.
37:15It looks like a void down there.
37:18It's got a big void down there.
37:19And you would not expect to see a big void like that right there?
37:23No.
37:24Not with the size of the rock and how loose the soil was.
37:27Yeah, I would agree.
37:28This large boulder is getting more and more interesting
37:31because as we're going, we're seeing more and more spaces
37:34that are underneath the rock.
37:35And this really shouldn't be the case.
37:37That really speaks to what they were doing here.
37:40Yeah.
37:41So it's very evident that man has been involved
37:43with this boulder to some degree.
37:45It's just a matter of why they were there
37:47or whether they were doing something
37:49to hide something in that area.
37:51Well, that's a good indication of possible disturbance.
37:54I really think that Rick might be very interested in this.
37:57Yeah.
37:58This is really cool.
37:59Definitely.
38:07Well, it looks a bit different.
38:09Hi.
38:09Yeah, we've been working hard.
38:11I see that.
38:11We've uncovered a fair bit more of it.
38:14You should see what we just discovered.
38:16Rick and Scott arrive on Lot 8
38:18after being alerted that a mysterious void
38:21has been found beneath the massive boulder.
38:24We're seeing voids like that around other areas
38:26around the large rock as well.
38:28Yeah.
38:28It looked like it was going down quite far
38:29because the soil was falling in as I was excavating it.
38:32Mm-hmm.
38:33And it goes pretty far down.
38:38Yeah.
38:44It looked like it was at least three feet that goes down.
38:47So that's got our curiosity peak
38:49that it would be going that deep.
38:50You wouldn't expect to see that.
38:52I find that strange.
38:56See how this almost seems placed?
38:59Jammed up.
39:00This one almost seems placed.
39:02That's not a toss-in.
39:04Look at that.
39:06That is almost fitted.
39:09As is that.
39:10As is that.
39:12Yeah.
39:14Like a wedge.
39:15It is peculiar.
39:16Yeah.
39:17We've not found any other feature like this
39:20other than maybe the stone structures on lot 5.
39:24Mm-hmm.
39:24Mm-hmm.
39:25Looking at the boulder more closely,
39:27I was significantly struck by the placement
39:30of smaller stones around it.
39:32They are equally spaced.
39:34They are artfully applied, if you will.
39:37But there is a stone, then a space,
39:39then a stone, then a space.
39:41Mother Nature wouldn't do that.
39:43So human beings were involved in doing some work
39:46in this area, specifically directed to this stone.
39:50This may have been completely unknown
39:52to previous searchers.
39:54It's exciting.
39:55We need to find out what is underneath that boulder.
39:59Boy, there's intention there, I think.
40:02I can't imagine how you could explain that
40:06other than they were placed there.
40:08I agree with you 100%.
40:09And now you have another reason to be inquisitive.
40:12Why is the void?
40:13That should be filled up.
40:14I would think so.
40:15I mean, if you wanted to hide something there,
40:17you move something like this in place,
40:19you position it.
40:20I mean, it's a unique stone.
40:21Just look at it.
40:21This could be a great macro stone.
40:23I'm more excited about what could be under it.
40:25We're going to find out once we move the rocks.
40:27Oh, look.
40:28The three of you have done an exemplary job here.
40:31This is singularly unique, at least as of right now.
40:34Yeah.
40:34Yeah, we still have a lot more work to do,
40:36but we're feeling pretty good about how far we've come so far.
40:39Well, a feature like this,
40:41the only one line that comes to my mind is,
40:42leave no stone unturned.
40:44Touché.
40:45We're with you on that.
40:47Patience and persistence have taught Rick, Marty, and the team a priceless lesson.
40:53The ultimate truth behind the Oak Island mystery
40:56may be hiding in plain sight anywhere across these 140 acres.
41:04But as they uncover more clues under man-made features near the surface,
41:10in a muddy, brackish swamp,
41:12and deep in the money pit area,
41:16will it lead to a vault that people have been seeking for 231 years?
41:22Or is the truth
41:25that Oak Island contains more buried treasure
41:29than anyone
41:31ever imagined?
41:35Next time, on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:38We're in a sweet area right here.
41:40There's metals in the water.
41:41High metals.
41:42We're looking for the one thing.
41:43This could be where it's coming from.
41:44Yeah.
41:45Exactly.
41:46What are you seeing, Peter?
41:47Definitely a void that goes on for a long ways.
41:50We're going to get to the bottom of this.
41:52There's a heck of a lot of bricks up here.
41:54Maybe it'll lead to a vault.
41:57We have evidence the Knights of Malta
41:59brought relics from the Holy Land to Oak Island.
42:02Wow.
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