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00:01Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:03It's designed to hide something.
00:05I want to pick it up and see what's under there.
00:07Well, this could get interesting.
00:09Oh, that's great.
00:10Somebody was in here doing this.
00:12It looks like a road towards where the vault is.
00:14Yeah.
00:15We got something in here.
00:16Look, it's all through it.
00:17This is very, very important.
00:19It may be the thing.
00:20We processed these deep samples from the Money Pit area
00:23and found something interesting.
00:25We could be closer than we've ever been.
00:27Amen.
00:31There 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.
01:02And, according to legend,
01:05one more will have to die
01:07before the treasure can be found.
01:23Hey, guys.
01:24Wow.
01:25Hi.
01:26How are we all doing?
01:27We're doing great.
01:28It looks like the booby trap in the Indiana Jones movies, doesn't it?
01:32As a bright new morning begins on Oak Island,
01:36Rick and Marty Lagina and their partner Craig Tester
01:40join other members of the team on Lot 8
01:43to continue investigating a potentially breakthrough discovery,
01:47a massive boulder that sets above a series of smaller,
01:51evenly spaced stones
01:52that strongly suggest it is not a natural formation.
01:57There's this trench that they've excavated
02:00that goes well below the bottom of the boulder
02:02that was filled with rubble that's all over there.
02:06You dug all that out from under there?
02:08Yes.
02:08Wow.
02:09Yep.
02:10This was a huge effort for somebody to do this.
02:13We just don't know when, why, and who.
02:16Okay.
02:17Yeah.
02:17There was actually voids underneath the rock.
02:20We had a camera in there, and you could see spaces.
02:22Okay.
02:24In recent weeks, the team has found links of a chain
02:28that could be 500 years old,
02:30as well as a potentially 700-year-old English bag seal
02:35near this feature.
02:37I'll show you there's a really good spot.
02:39All right.
02:40And after feeding a snake camera into a small void
02:43that was discovered below the boulder,
02:46they've seen not only a possible iron spike,
02:49but perhaps evidence of treasure.
02:53Oh, my God, that looks like there's a pearl.
02:54Yeah.
02:57One of the key things here is that the trench you see,
03:01it's a trench that was made by somebody.
03:03Sure.
03:04So somebody was trying to get,
03:06and probably did get, underneath the rock with excavation.
03:10Okay.
03:12What about it's a plug?
03:14It's a plug.
03:15It's designed to hide something.
03:17I think it is covering something,
03:19some sort of cavity where something was placed.
03:22Yes, something's under there, in my opinion.
03:25That's more exciting.
03:27I mean, somebody tunneling underneath it could have just been a searcher.
03:30Somebody plugging something wasn't a searcher.
03:34And it really doesn't appear to be modern.
03:36You can see the soil stains on the bottom of those two big rocks there.
03:40That's an indication that these rocks have been sitting in that soil for a long period of time.
03:44Right.
03:45Possibly before the money pit was discovered.
03:48The Lot 8 boulder is the thing we weren't anticipating.
03:52And it's very exciting because 100% of the archaeologists and the scientists who've looked at it said it was
04:00moved there.
04:01We are quite sure nobody in the searcher record ever said anything about this boulder.
04:08This is our find, and we get to figure out what it is.
04:12Is it possible that those rocks could be excavated rocks from a tunnel, say?
04:18Could be, right?
04:20Okay, here's the next question.
04:22What are the rules at this point, Laird?
04:24What's the archaeological rules?
04:25I mean, I'll just come right on and say it.
04:26I want to pick it up and see what's underneath it.
04:28We heard that.
04:29Yeah, no, for sure.
04:30I mean, and nothing I've seen here makes me not want to.
04:33We are on a treasure hunt, and we have limited time.
04:36I think our job is to determine significance.
04:39Yeah, I'm with you.
04:40But what would be wrong with plopping, picking that straight up, and then seeing what's under there?
04:46Is there any reason we cannot?
04:48Let's say there is something significant.
04:50Say.
04:52The most effective way, unfortunately, is to excavate it by hand.
04:57I'd prefer to go to where Fiona is and work along that edge.
05:01Well, you can do that with it out of there.
05:04Seriously.
05:06You have to remember, you know, archaeological context is important here.
05:10If we do this in haste and we do some harm, we cannot put it back.
05:16I would prefer the archaeologists to do as much work as they deem necessary, and only then we engage in
05:23the possibility of a lift.
05:25When would you call it done?
05:28I would, I think, safely, we can only take one other side down, I would think.
05:33And then we'd have to look at some way to dig underneath.
05:37Yeah, exactly.
05:39One thing that's limiting us are the, are these three boulders.
05:43Yeah.
05:44Well, then we should at least make a road in here for a backhoe, because you're not going to move
05:49those without one, are you?
05:50To continue this safely, those have to go so we can have more room.
05:55But you're fine with us bringing an excavator in and moving these bigger boulders out.
06:00Yeah, of course.
06:01Don't let my impatience give you the wrong message, because I am impatient, but this is exciting.
06:06This is really cool.
06:08Yeah.
06:09So anyway, the sooner you guys can get back to work, the sooner we can do all of this.
06:14So get back to work.
06:15Get busy, eh?
06:16What'd you guys say?
06:18As the investigation of the large boulder on lot 8 continues.
06:24Looks like we have a core, gentlemen.
06:27Thanks, Lee.
06:27No problem.
06:29Okay.
06:29Okay, guys, here it is.
06:31H.5-9, 168 to 178.
06:35Hand me a cutter.
06:36In the Money Pit area, Terry Matheson, Charles Barkhouse, and Steve Guptill are overseeing a new core drilling operation in
06:45borehole H.59.
06:47Yeah, this is just gypsum, gentlemen.
06:50Solid gypsum all the way down to 178.
06:52Yep.
06:53Right into the bedrock plateau.
06:54Yeah.
06:54As we drill down, off times, we will intersect the bedrock plateau, which is a gypsum ledge, and then we'll
07:02push below it into loose, slushy areas, which we hope the treasure has fallen into.
07:08What lies beneath is the most important thing anyway.
07:10We're going to be in the solution channel, I would say, in about a foot or two.
07:12Yep.
07:14After drilling several boreholes, some 50 feet northeast, in the so-called Peacock, and collecting soil samples to be tested
07:23for evidence of precious metals, the team is returning to an area where previous water testing has yielded high traces
07:30of silver and gold over 200 feet deep in the solution channel.
07:36I have high hopes for this one is because it's very close to where we were before, H.5-8
07:41.5, where we found that piece of a drill, right, from the 1850s.
07:45Just merely two feet from this location.
07:47Yeah.
07:48While waiting for results of the soil tests from the Peacock, the team is once again drilling in an area
07:55where several weeks ago they recovered pieces of an iron drill rod that may be connected to a critical searcher
08:02operation from 1849.
08:05One in which a drilling foreman named James Pitbladot reportedly unearthed a 14th-century silver coin related to the Order
08:14of Christ, a Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar.
08:18Looks like we have a core, Jerry.
08:20We got it coming now.
08:21The scientists tell us some big source of precious and other metals is still in the money pit.
08:27It's consistent with the Pitbladot discovery.
08:29Hey, Glee.
08:30No problem.
08:31So, guys, they pushed all the way from 178 down through to 210 here.
08:36They pushed into relatively soft material.
08:38Let's see just how soft.
08:39Let's carve it up.
08:41Yeah, this is nicely soft.
08:44That's very loose material at the top.
08:46We haven't hit bedrock yet, so we know we're in one of the deeper portions of the solution channel here.
08:50Yeah.
08:50Charles, I think you can have at it if you like.
08:56Unfortunately, gentlemen, not in this, but it could be the next one.
09:00I know you've got to leave, Steve, but we'll go through the core and hopefully get some more results for
09:05you.
09:05Thank you, fellas.
09:06See you later, Steve.
09:07Yeah, see you, Steve.
09:08Here it comes.
09:11What do you got, Layton?
09:12210 to 218.
09:13210 to 218.
09:15Not a problem.
09:19This is the bottom.
09:21Looks like they got well into the bedrock.
09:23Yep.
09:24So when you're down that deep, you're over 200 feet.
09:26Anywhere where you might encounter the treasure, that's where we have to keep our eyes peeled.
09:30Thank you, Layton, fellas.
09:31But as far as I'm concerned, this year we're as close as we're ever going to be to reaching down,
09:36touching that treasure beyond all imagining, deep in the heart of the money pit.
09:41It's a little more promising, but not the open, washed-out slurry that we hoped for.
09:47No.
09:49I'm going to go over this.
09:50Something might get driven down, you know.
09:54Here we go.
09:55Okay.
09:59Oh.
10:00Whoa.
10:00We got something in here.
10:06I'm getting a metal hit in here, Jerry.
10:08Excellent.
10:09Wow.
10:11Interesting, Charles.
10:15Oh.
10:16Whoa.
10:17We got something in here.
10:21Okay, you want to take it over to the table?
10:24Yeah, let's.
10:25Let's do that.
10:26In the money pit area...
10:28This is relatively precious cargo.
10:30Here we go.
10:31After reaching a depth of 218 feet near an area where the team has previously detected silver and gold in
10:38the solution channel,
10:40Jerry, wouldn't it be nice to get a silver coin or something here?
10:43Yeah.
10:43The one thing?
10:44They have recovered a fresh drilling core that might contain something made of metal.
10:49I mean, that was a ringing clear as a bell, Charles.
10:54Now nothing.
10:57Isn't that odd?
11:02That is frustrating.
11:03It doesn't make any sense.
11:05You know, I think we should give Katya a call and come out and go over it with a big
11:10metal detector.
11:11Maybe I'll just text her.
11:12Yeah.
11:13We could be where Piplato discovered that silver coin on the paw dogger after it was brought up to the
11:20surface.
11:21So when Katya comes up, maybe she'll find something substantial in this core that I missed.
11:28Get her all on the table.
11:29Here we go.
11:31Go that way.
11:32Pull tight.
11:33Pull tight.
11:33Pull tight.
11:35There we go.
11:36What do we have?
11:37How are you doing, Katya?
11:39Well, I initially got a hit, right?
11:41We bring it over to this table and I don't get the hit anymore.
11:45So it's all yours.
11:47Let's see.
11:56What are those chirps?
11:58I'm not seeing what it is.
12:02I'm going to try and pinpoint it as well.
12:05Okay.
12:05Because I really like to see what you're seeing with the pinpointer.
12:09Well, where we got the hit was right in this one, but we want you to check everything.
12:12But it was right there.
12:13Right there.
12:16And then we're having that.
12:18What the heck?
12:21Could it be a little flex of silver or a little?
12:24It could very well be.
12:26Yeah.
12:28I wasn't even getting that when I brought it over.
12:30No.
12:31I wouldn't be able to tell you what it is just with how small it is.
12:37It's not being, you know, fully registered by the detector.
12:42But there is metal in here.
12:44This is loose material at the bottom of the solution channel.
12:46We're definitely going to take it back to the lab.
12:48But I mean, Charles, that's great.
12:50Is it possible that the metal traces could be related to the evidence of silver and gold
12:56that the team has already recovered in this area of the solution channel?
13:01Oh, look at that.
13:02So you're getting it again right there.
13:04Wow.
13:05To find out for sure, the team will take the core sample back to the lab for a thorough analysis.
13:12I'm excited.
13:13Yeah.
13:13Thanks for inviting me over, guys.
13:15Thanks for coming in.
13:20The following day on Lot 8.
13:24Here they come.
13:26Marty prepares to move several large stones away from the massive boulder
13:30to help the archaeological team dig by hand underneath it.
13:37Nice.
13:39You go with the big one first?
13:42Yeah.
13:43Okay.
13:47Not only tricky, I want to make sure that whatever I do, I don't dislodge them so they roll down
13:51in the hole.
13:56That's good.
13:57And so I've got to make sure I keep control of this situation.
14:02Oh, look at that.
14:04Oh, nice.
14:05You know, my biggest hope is that we do find something significant under the boulder,
14:10but I'm hoping at least we find some sort of artifact to tell us that who was there.
14:17Nice job.
14:19Done.
14:22What's your plan from here?
14:23Yeah, from here, I think the plan really is that we're going to kind of remove some of these rocks
14:28here
14:28because we know there's some voids between that large rock there.
14:31We want to explore those because that'll determine whether that large rock was placed there
14:35or whether that was already in situ.
14:37But that really helped clear that out.
14:40And now we can clear out more material from underneath the boulder.
14:43So we've got a way better chance of getting the camera underneath it again.
14:47I think we need to investigate that a little further.
14:49Good.
14:50That's all you need for right now?
14:51Yeah, that was perfect.
14:53This whole thing has been a conundrum.
14:54It's exceptionally odd.
14:56Well, this is Oak Island, you know.
14:57It's the island that keeps on giving.
14:59It's normal.
15:00You guys carry on.
15:04Later that morning...
15:07Let's buy some treasure, boys.
15:09Gary and Peter join Tom Nolan and Alan Andrews
15:12on Tom's property in the northernmost region of the swamp.
15:17They are following a cobblestone pathway north
15:19that is lined with eight-sided wooden survey stakes,
15:23which just one year ago led to the discovery
15:26of an empty brick and slate vault several yards to the south.
15:30Last year, we found that mysterious vault
15:34and a stone pathway that leads to the north end of the swamp.
15:39But I'm hoping that we can discover another vault this year
15:43along the same line.
15:45But this time, I hope it's full of treasure.
15:48Okay.
15:50Coming in.
15:51When you're down there, Gary, I think that's a brick right there.
15:55I'll check it out.
15:59There.
15:59Is that a brick or a rock?
16:01Nope.
16:01Nope.
16:02Right there.
16:03Oh, there.
16:04Yeah, that's a brick.
16:06That's way down there as well, isn't it?
16:08Yeah?
16:08It's a smaller, thinner brick.
16:11What would that be doing way down there?
16:13Yeah.
16:14Hmm.
16:14Looks old.
16:15It does look old.
16:18But we should put it to one side
16:20because we are testing all the bricks.
16:23Shouldn't have been any structures open.
16:24It's part of the swamp.
16:26And I see other little flaky pieces in the wall.
16:30So there's probably other pieces of brick in the area.
16:33Okay.
16:33Well, we'll get more answers at the lab.
16:35Put this aside.
16:36Keep digging.
16:37And hopefully we can find a piece of metal
16:39that tells us how old this brick is.
16:42That would be great.
16:44We are noticing more rocks and more cobble.
16:49Well, I'm hoping this leads us to another vault.
16:53We're in for a great day.
16:59What are you seeing, Tom?
17:02Tom, what are you seeing?
17:04Well, I thought I was seeing this cobble again.
17:07And it is.
17:08Mm-hmm.
17:08But there's brick in with it.
17:11Every time we see the cobble, it's like, is it natural?
17:14Is it not?
17:15But when you can pull a piece of brick out from inside the cobble,
17:20somebody was working the cobble.
17:22There's no other way.
17:23It's just interesting with cobble here, cobble here, cobble right behind us.
17:28I'm pretty sure we're on a perfect line going over towards the other side where the vault is.
17:37It's really looking that way.
17:39Maybe we'll discover another vault in this area.
17:46We're on a perfect line going over towards the other side where the vault is.
17:51While excavating in the northernmost region of the Oak Island Swamp.
17:55It's just interesting with cobble here, cobble here, cobble right behind us.
18:00Members of the team have just uncovered another possible section of the cobblestone pathway.
18:07You want to see if Gary metal detects in it?
18:09Yeah.
18:09That'd be a good idea?
18:10Moving over.
18:11Yeah.
18:12All right.
18:13See if there's any metals down there.
18:15Okay.
18:16The more time we spend in the swamp and the more mysterious features we uncover,
18:22I'm beginning to think that the swamp is a much bigger part of the Oak Island treasure story.
18:29Where is all the metal?
18:33No metals.
18:34Whenever we run across the cobble area, no metals.
18:40It's an head scratcher, all right, isn't it?
18:44I'm just getting a different vantage point.
18:46We're right in line with the other cobble.
18:49It's right along the stakes that we're finding.
18:52We found another really tightly packed cobble platform, probably about six feet around, and
18:58it's right on the other side of this.
19:00Mm-hmm.
19:01You know, we found wood chips in it.
19:02We found cut wood.
19:04And now you've got some brick.
19:06Yeah.
19:06It's nice to see something you know man put in the cobble because it puts a nail in the coffin
19:10that somebody was in here doing this.
19:12So we have four cobble areas that line up.
19:17It looks like a road or a path, I think.
19:19It really does.
19:20I'm excited to see what that ties into because I'm sure it ties into something on the other
19:25side of the swamp.
19:26Is it possible that the team has found a stone road in the center of the swamp that is related
19:32to the other stone structures uncovered earlier this year along the western and southwestern
19:37regions of the brackish bog?
19:39If so, could it lead the team to a major breakthrough in the 231-year-old treasure mystery?
19:47The constructions in the swamp are too numerous for there not to be a relationship between them.
19:53The hope is they are treasure-related and connected to the money pit, perhaps even the lot eight
20:01feature because there is an intent there.
20:03There is an intelligent design, if you will.
20:06I think it would be really good to have Steve pin that far extent of the cobble just to see
20:11if it lines up.
20:12Yeah.
20:13I'll just take a little bit off until I feel the cobble and that's all I'll do.
20:17Yeah.
20:18Perfect.
20:19And we'll have to keep the twin optical scanners out because artifacts can tell a story.
20:24Could find anything in here.
20:26Keep digging, see if we can find a little more of it.
20:28While the investigation continues in the swamp, Craig and other members of the team continue
20:37their careful excavation beneath and around the massive boulder on lot eight.
20:43Laird, I wanted you to see this because look, I've identified where the actual cut was into
20:49the subsoil itself.
20:50You can see it.
20:52It kind of comes down in a nice slope, very, very clean cut that comes at an angle like
20:58this.
21:01You guys find anything more over there?
21:03Yeah.
21:04I think what we have to look at is, did they excavate that with this in place or did they
21:11create like a cradle?
21:13Like a cradle trench type of thing.
21:15Yeah.
21:15And as impossible as I think it is, did they create that cradle and then put that rock on
21:20top?
21:21Boy, that would be an awful lot of effort.
21:23I know.
21:23I know.
21:24I think we can say to a degree that we know this was worked by man, not worked by machine.
21:31Why?
21:33Wow.
21:34Deconstructing this is really helping give us the information that we'll need to finally
21:38make an informed decision about it all.
21:40So, uh, so we just need to keep getting after it.
21:42Yeah.
21:43Okay.
21:43I got some more buckets of stuff through.
22:05Hey, Laird.
22:07What you think of this?
22:08I don't know if that has any meaning to it or not, but definitely has some material or
22:14something.
22:15Mm-hmm.
22:17The red part looks like cloth of some sort.
22:19I mean, it all looks shredded, but.
22:21Like a textile.
22:22Yeah.
22:22Yeah.
22:23Do you think the whole thing is a textile of some sort or?
22:27Sure looks like it.
22:29The red material, is that a dye?
22:32Can we determine the type of dye potential?
22:34It is a dye.
22:35The red is definitely a dye.
22:38If it's older, it's a natural dye.
22:40Mm-hmm.
22:40I think we have to get that under the microscope.
22:45It's quite possible the XRF may be able to do that.
22:49Okay.
22:49Yeah.
22:50I see this material and quickly in my mind, I see somebody trying to move these boulders
22:55and it scrapes and takes a part of their shirt or jacket or whatever.
23:00And it's just a little piece left on that larger rock.
23:04If we determine it's old, that's pretty significant.
23:08Okay.
23:09We should be able to tell if it's a natural fiber or not.
23:11Okay.
23:12Given the lack of artifacts, I think it's worth bagging that.
23:16Okay.
23:17We know it was under one of the boulders that Marty had just removed.
23:22So it was probably 18 inches below the normal surface and below a boulder.
23:28And it may tell us who was here and when they were here.
23:31So I'm excited to see what the results are.
23:34Even if a mouse buried this, the mouse would have gone into this rock structure after it
23:40was made.
23:41Correct.
23:42So this is going to be younger than the rock structure.
23:47Pretty cool.
23:48We know this had to be in place before.
23:50Earlier.
23:51And that could help date it.
23:53Yep.
23:53It'd be exciting.
23:54All right.
23:55Can I bag her?
23:55Yep.
23:56Nope.
23:57Okay.
23:58Well, we'll get her tested.
23:59All right.
24:03As a new morning shines bright on Oak Island.
24:08Okay.
24:09I don't know too much about this.
24:10Craig, why don't you give us some background?
24:12Yeah.
24:13So, you know, I was sifting through the materials and I found that.
24:17You moved the boulder.
24:19It was underneath that.
24:20Really?
24:21Yep.
24:22Members of the team meet in the lab where Emma is analyzing
24:26the piece of fabric that was uncovered near the large boulder on lot eight.
24:30It's the only thing that I know of that's been found on the site so far.
24:35Mm-hmm.
24:35So, yeah.
24:36What can you tell us about it?
24:38Yeah.
24:39So, I did do a CT scan on it, XRF, the whole shebang.
24:44But the CT scan actually gave great imaging.
24:49You can kind of see the design of the knitting or the loops
24:53to go inward and then outward.
24:56Mm-hmm.
24:58So, we're seeing a style of weft knitting.
25:02Mm-hmm.
25:04So, weft knitting is knitting by interlocking strands of loops or rows of loops.
25:10Okay.
25:11Yeah.
25:12And whether or not it's handmade or early machine made, first glance from the visuals,
25:19I'm not 100% sure.
25:21It's kind of hard to narrow down.
25:23Yeah.
25:23Yeah.
25:24As for the material used, I would like to do a simple burn test.
25:29Really?
25:30Yeah.
25:31To determine what kind of material was made.
25:34Because depending on how it was burnt, how it melts or kind of turns into ash,
25:39we can discern quickly what kind of material it was.
25:43Like, what are we looking for?
25:44If it's what, it's what?
25:45If it's polyester, it burns really quickly and then it kind of turns into a liquid form.
25:50If it's more cotton or linen, it's more ashy of a burn.
25:56If it's silk, as soon as you move it away from the fire, it snuffs the fire out.
26:03So, it doesn't burn.
26:05It just kind of disintegrates.
26:08Wool should kind of clump up into like an ashy or kind of burnt texture and then you can crush
26:14it.
26:14Okay.
26:16So, who would like to be my assistant?
26:19Peter.
26:19I will.
26:20Even though burning a fabric is a bit of a destructive method,
26:25it's one of the most telling methods that could identify or actually cancel out what kind of material that fabric
26:33is.
26:33And that could help determine whether the material is modern or not.
26:40Okay.
26:41You are just going to light it on the fire.
26:43Okay.
26:50Whoa.
26:51That's it?
26:52Yeah.
26:53And then I'm going to let it cool.
26:56And then we can crush it.
27:00And that is wool.
27:01Really?
27:02Yeah.
27:04Amazing.
27:05That's interesting because not far away from where that wool was found, Katja found the bag seal.
27:13Wow.
27:14Okay.
27:15Which has a very distinctive sheepskin symbol on it.
27:17And that is associated with the city of Leeds in England.
27:22Leeds is a major manufacturer of wool products dating back to the 1300s.
27:28And this makes it all the more interesting.
27:30Yeah.
27:31Could Laird be correct that this piece of wool fabric may be related to the potentially 700-year-old bag
27:39seal that was found just yards from the massive boulder?
27:42If so, might it be the first key clue that could help identify who created the feature?
27:50What about the red dye?
27:52I know they can date dyes if there's, you know, enough material for you to look at there.
27:56Yeah.
27:57So I was looking at the dye and there's no modern, like, 20th century dyes or chemicals that I'm detecting.
28:04So that's a good sign.
28:05And the red dye is interesting because it was desirable, but it was very difficult to make.
28:11Yeah.
28:11An average person would not have red material.
28:15Except the British military.
28:16So they were the red coats.
28:18Mm-hmm.
28:18The French military had it.
28:20I guess it was relatively more expensive, but it was still widely, widely used.
28:26Okay.
28:26Yeah.
28:27What are the next steps?
28:29I think getting an expert into knitting patterns and then with dye mechanics and recipes will point towards something more
28:38accurate.
28:39Yeah, well, that makes sense.
28:40Yeah.
28:41Okay.
28:42Extremely interesting.
28:43I think maybe it's the tip of the iceberg in terms of what we might find under that boulder, right?
28:49Mm-hmm.
28:50And actually what we might find under the boulder itself might shed a little light on that.
29:22Yeah.
29:23That's where the deeper areas are.
29:25Yeah.
29:26Yeah.
29:26The team is drilling a new borehole known as J.5 7.5.
29:31It is located less than 20 feet southwest of their previous borehole, where traces of metal were detected in soils
29:39brought up from nearly 220 feet deep in the solution channel.
29:44Coming up now, we've hit the actual bedrock plateau at about 160 below grade.
29:49We're going to punch through that and go under the ledge that is formed.
29:53We should pop out, you know, in another 10 or 15 feet and into the open solution channel.
30:03We have a core, gentlemen.
30:05What have you got, Leighton?
30:06Uh, 158, 166.
30:09166.
30:21That's solid in there, isn't it?
30:23Yes.
30:24He's jammed it in there very tight because he's drilling in solid gypsum.
30:29It's a tough one, eh, Leighton?
30:31We're fighting with it.
30:32Yeah.
30:34Oftentimes when we're drilling it down, looking to get to the base of the solution channel, you have to drill
30:38through the ledge.
30:39But here's the thing.
30:41There could be any amount of treasure or artifacts laying underneath that ledge.
30:46And we're going to find it.
30:47Here we go.
30:47Let's open her up and see what we got.
30:52So we just have, uh, ground up gypsum.
30:55And this is the plug on top, full of a lot of sand.
30:58Yeah.
30:58You don't usually see that.
31:01Charles, I think you might as well do your due diligence there.
31:03Let's do it.
31:04I'm going to run the pinpointer over it.
31:07I know this is the ledge, but I'm going to do it anyway.
31:09Right?
31:10Never know what could have got pushed down.
31:18Nothing so far.
31:29I'm getting a hit right there.
31:31Okay, Terry, can you lift that up just to make sure?
31:35Right here.
31:36No, there's something there.
31:39Oh, wow.
31:43No, there's something there.
31:46Right in here.
31:48Why don't we take this one right over to there?
31:50Okay, let's take it over.
31:51Yep.
31:51In the Money Pit area, after reaching the solution channel at a depth of 166 feet in borehole J.5
32:00-7.5.
32:02Yeah, it's right in here.
32:04Right in there.
32:06The Oak Island team is detecting evidence of metal in a fresh drilling core.
32:12This is exciting, and it definitely has to go back to the lab.
32:15Yeah.
32:16Any sample that comes up from the sonic drilling that has indications of metals in it,
32:22we're going to send it out for more complex analysis
32:24in the hopes that they will reveal a very clear clue as to where the treasure is.
32:30Hey, guys, I'm going to run this back to the lab.
32:32Excellent.
32:33All right.
32:33See you, Scott.
32:33Keep it in the loop.
32:34Thanks, guys.
32:35And if we get positive results in the samples we took,
32:38I want to put down a caisson deep into the solution channel,
32:41and after all these years, we recover it.
32:45All right.
32:46Let's see what they've got for us, guys.
32:48Now we're down in the solution channel, so let's keep on going.
32:51All right, guys.
32:52I've got to run.
32:52I will be back, though.
32:54Great start.
32:55See you later, Steve.
32:55Yeah, see you, Steve.
32:59Okay, it won't be long now, Charles.
33:01J.5-7.5 is the moat to reveal its secrets.
33:05Hey, guys.
33:06Hey, Rick.
33:07What did you find?
33:08We're at 183, but we found interesting results up around 158 to 160.
33:13Right, Charles?
33:14Yeah, we had it on the table here, and I ran the pinpointer.
33:17I was getting a chirp.
33:18Oh.
33:18So little flakes of metal or something in it.
33:21Interesting elevation.
33:22Well, we'll know with this car whether something heavy could have fallen on through it.
33:27Yeah.
33:28You cannot dismiss the fact that this is very hopeful.
33:32Here we go.
33:33There's something metallic in the core.
33:35It could reflect precious metals.
33:39What's bottom?
33:40It's 183 to 207.
33:42Okay.
33:43The sonic drill program has been slow and arduous at times, but maybe we are on the cusp of
33:50finding the treasure.
33:53This is relatively loose.
33:55Yeah.
33:55It's a good sign, though.
33:58Things could move around down there.
34:00So right now, I think maybe it's just the pinpointer, right?
34:03Yep.
34:03Yeah.
34:04Okay.
34:10Terry, can you lift that up?
34:11Rick?
34:14Wow.
34:15Something in there.
34:17Very near the bottom.
34:18Yeah.
34:19I think we should take this whole thing over.
34:20Let me try to do that.
34:21Because previous underground water tests have already revealed evidence of silver and gold in this area.
34:29Could the repeated positive signs of metal from 160 to nearly 210 feet suggest that the team may be narrowing
34:39in on a vast cache of treasure?
34:42Right there.
34:42Right there.
34:46Everywhere.
34:48Look, it's all through it.
34:49This is very, very important.
34:51Maybe more than important, Terry.
34:52It may be the thing.
34:53This warrants taking the whole floor.
34:56Yeah, no question, Rick.
34:57Now we have metal detecting hits at the bottom of the Solution Channel.
35:00Does it represent actual treasure?
35:02I don't know.
35:03That's why it needs to go to the lab.
35:05For weeks, Dr. Spooner has done an analysis of the actual sediments we found at the base of the Solution
35:13Channel, including this area.
35:15Dr. Spooner is going to present those results very soon.
35:19So we're keen to know what that is.
35:22Is it exciting?
35:23Yeah.
35:23That's what we're looking for.
35:24I'm hoping that this will lead to some answers.
35:27This is the potential for sure.
35:29So let's bag it up.
35:30Yeah.
35:31Sounds like a plan.
35:36Two days later.
35:40So, ladies, gentlemen, we have Dr. Spooner, Emma, and Jillian here.
35:46They have results looking for precious metals from the sonic drill program this year.
35:52So we'll turn it over to Dr. Spooner, Emma, and Jillian.
35:56Great.
35:58So what we have done is we've taken samples from deep down in the Solution Channel and processed them for
36:06XRF analysis.
36:08Okay.
36:10Having collected soil samples over the past two months across the money pit area in boreholes that reached the Solution
36:17Channel.
36:18That does it?
36:19Yep.
36:20Dr. Spooner, Emma, and Jillian have conducted X-ray fluorescence testing, which can identify specific metallic elements that are not
36:29natural to the ground soils.
36:32So everyone can see the locations?
36:34Is it possible, Steve, to bring this up?
36:37Sure.
36:38Yep.
36:40Okay.
36:40The samples that we took were I9.5, J.5, A.5, K2.5, A.75, K9.5, and then
36:52we also did three samples in V3, one of the old caissons.
36:58The interesting information was that I9.5, which had hits with the pinpointer, that was written on the bag, and
37:09K9.5 had, on my XRF, silver.
37:16That's significant concentrations.
37:19Oh, really?
37:22Fantastic.
37:26So, I9.5 and K9.5 had silver at significant concentrations.
37:36Fantastic.
37:37In the war room, the team has learned that soil samples collected in at least two boreholes near where they
37:44are currently drilling in the Solution Channel contain high traces of silver.
37:49This could be an indication we are actually close to finding the treasure.
37:54Amen.
37:54That's very true, Jack.
37:56There should be some local source. We're not finding silver like this everywhere.
38:01Yep.
38:01It's down there deeper.
38:02Yep.
38:03Yep.
38:04And we know there has been collapses. And no one's really been this deep.
38:09Correct.
38:09It seems like we could be closer to finding it than we've ever been.
38:13Right.
38:14Yeah. So, you're talking about pieces of elemental silver, correct?
38:18It would be elemental silver, probably attached to clay particles.
38:23Right. But not dissolved?
38:25No. Absolutely. You're right.
38:27Yeah.
38:27Dr. Spooner does detect elements of silver. And it's not dissolved. It's exciting as heck. That's just amazing. I mean,
38:38it strongly implies to me that the source is not natural.
38:42Isn't K9.5 the deepest part of the Solution Channel 2?
38:46Yeah. 217, I believe, the end of that hole.
38:49Yeah.
38:50Okay.
38:51You know what's interesting about the silver, though, is the so-called Piplato coin. There was silver in that coin.
38:58Yeah.
38:58And another piece of data is we're really close to H.5-8.5. We're at about 174 feet. We
39:05found that piece of iron, possibly a drill rod.
39:08Emma dated that to the mid-1800s. And that date's really important because it dates to the time of Piplato.
39:14We're starting to piece these little bits together.
39:17Absolutely.
39:18Is it possible that the traces of silver may be connected to the 14th century Portuguese coin?
39:25If so, might it suggest that there were many more in the original Money Pit, which could have fallen to
39:32the bottom of the Solution Channel?
39:35Here's the deal from my standpoint. We came to the table with a theory this year that our great treasure
39:40fell down into this Solution Channel.
39:43You know, it seems to be working out.
39:46Born out.
39:47Yep.
39:47That's a victory.
39:48And I'll tell you what, Rick, there's enough here already to bring in SBC. So, Scott, let's set up a
39:54meeting with SBC.
39:55Sounds good.
39:56At the end of the day, this has always been directed towards finding something at depth in the Money Pit.
40:02That is the culmination of the year.
40:04Yeah.
40:05Yeah.
40:06Yeah.
40:06I'd ask you, I'd ask each of you to start thinking about that, where you would like the caissons to
40:09go.
40:10Yep.
40:10Because we're going so deep, deeper than any man has ever worked in the Money Pit on Oak Island.
40:15So, we're going to be pushing the envelope.
40:18We have plenty to indicate that we cannot abandon this hunt until we get down into the Solution Channel.
40:25And we're going to go much deeper this year. So, it's time to line up SB Canada and ROC to
40:34get back in here to place some canisters down in the Solution Channel.
40:39So, everyone needs to take a step back, take a deep breath, and be patient, clear-headed.
40:46It's up to us now to move this thing forward and try to understand what happened on this island.
40:51So, let's get outside and do it.
40:53Good stuff.
40:54See you, guys.
40:55Thanks, guys.
40:56Sempre avanti.
40:58After weeks of patient and determined searching, the team may be closer than ever to realizing a dream that Rick
41:07and Marty have shared
41:08since they were just boys.
41:11But as they planned their most ambitious dig yet, to find a legendary vault in the Money Pit,
41:18are they on the verge of uncovering other secrets as well?
41:23Secrets.
41:24No other treasure hunter ever knew that Oak Island was hiding.
41:34Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:37We found the cobble.
41:39It's headed towards the vault, and it's turning towards Lot 8.
41:43There has to be a reason for it.
41:45We analyzed underneath the boulder.
41:47It's one of the most interesting on the island ever.
41:51If there is a tunnel under there, I want to see what's under that rock.
41:54Yep.
41:55This is weird.
41:57I think you really need to see under here.
41:59It looks like gold.
42:00Yeah.
42:01Yeah.
42:04Yeah.
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