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00:01Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island...
00:03We found the cobble.
00:05It's headed towards the vault,
00:07and it's turning towards Lot 8.
00:09There has to be a reason for it.
00:11We analyzed underneath the boulder.
00:13It's one of the most interesting on the island ever.
00:17If there is a tunnel under there,
00:19I want to see what's under that rock.
00:20Yep.
00:21This is weird.
00:23I think you really need to see under here.
00:25It looks like gold.
00:26Yeah.
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,
00:51and 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.
01:22Hello, Vanessa. Hello, Adam.
01:24Hello, Vanessa. Hi, Adam.
01:25Hey, everybody.
01:25Hey, guys. How are you doing today?
01:26Thanks for joining us virtually here in the war room.
01:29Yeah.
01:29An energized morning has begun on Oak Island
01:33for Rick, Marty, Craig, and their team
01:36as they meet with Vanessa Lucido of Rock Equipment
01:39and Adam Ambleton of Solotanch Bashi Canada
01:43to plan a pivotal operation in the Money Pit area.
01:48We've asked you to join us because we are sure at this point
01:52that we want to put some canisters down.
01:55The key thing, though, is we want to bring in the equipment
02:00necessary to make sure that we get deep.
02:03We want to get to the bottom of the solution channel.
02:06We're ready to go. We got some ideas.
02:08Yeah. How deep are we going this year, Marty?
02:11Let's call it 230.
02:13And that could be every single hole.
02:16Wow.
02:18In the past three months,
02:21the team has drilled more than a dozen new boreholes
02:24down into the solution channel
02:25where they believe the legendary treasure
02:28from the original Money Pit has fallen.
02:31And after testing soil samples retrieved from them,
02:35two have now revealed fresh evidence
02:37that a massive source of silver is located nearby.
02:42And curiously, this is in the same area
02:45where the team retrieved an old piece of drill pipe
02:48that may be connected to an operation from 1849
02:53when a drilling foreman named James Pit Blado
02:56reportedly recovered a 14th century Portuguese coin
03:00that is related to the Knights Templar.
03:03You know, it's really important for us to get down to that depth,
03:06but it can be extremely tough material.
03:09In the solution channel itself, we get into some gyps
03:12and there's going to be ledges.
03:15So I'm wondering what extra equipment
03:17are you going to be bringing this year
03:19to ensure we get down there?
03:21I think knowing that your guys' goal is to get deep,
03:25we'll probably look at a telescoping method.
03:27So for the first 130 feet, you're going to be at a larger can,
03:32so a larger diameter.
03:33And then from 130 down to 230,
03:36we'll have a little smaller diameter
03:38so that we can get deeper and achieve your goal.
03:41So what's the diameter that we're going to have available
03:43for treasure finding?
03:45Yeah, we're looking at about eight and a half feet outside diameter
03:50up top and then around seven foot diameter
03:54going down all the way to the bottom of that channel.
03:56Okay.
03:57And also there is another tool that can break stuff up.
04:01It's basically a really big, expensive post hole logger,
04:04but it's about eight foot in diameter,
04:07five, six feet tall,
04:09big bullet teeth capable of penetrating.
04:11The hardest material we'll be getting into here.
04:13It works as a corkscrew or a big drill bit.
04:16And then we have some other drill tools,
04:18a drilling bucket with rock teeth on the bottom
04:21that's able to go down to the depth
04:23we're looking to achieve here.
04:25That sounds great.
04:26Yeah.
04:28During past large scale digs,
04:31Rock and SB Canada have used a powerful hydraulic oscillator
04:35to slowly grind the steel caissons into the ground.
04:39A hammer grab tool would then be used to extract the spoils.
04:44This year, they will mount a massive auger bit
04:48onto a 135 ton rotary drill rig.
04:52Once placed inside the steel caissons,
04:55it can grind down through soil and debris
04:58much faster toward the solution channel.
05:01Once it is reached,
05:02a giant dig bucket will replace the auger bit
05:05to safely remove spoils and hopefully the treasure.
05:10We're going to be well equipped to hopefully get through
05:13anything we encounter.
05:15No, that's really cool.
05:16We look forward to seeing it in action.
05:18Good.
05:20Treasure fell down into the solution channel
05:22and it's not going to dig itself out.
05:25So it's time to bring in the machinery to do it.
05:28If there's anhydride in the way or gypsum in the way,
05:30it doesn't matter.
05:31We have to go through it.
05:32I'm just a sucker for big new equipment.
05:35I really am.
05:36I love it.
05:36And this giant auger will be more efficient
05:39in removing the spoils from the hole as we go down,
05:43which will make things faster.
05:45You both have been here enough to know the history
05:47of what we call the Pit Blado incident, right?
05:50Right.
05:51So when you mention auger,
05:53it's kind of serendipitous
05:55knowing that we believe in the past
05:58that process has brought to the surface a coin
06:02and all of us who are on the table here
06:04have high confidence that more of those are in the money pit.
06:08So with your help,
06:09we believe those will come to the surface.
06:11Wonderful. Let's find them.
06:13Amen.
06:14Yeah.
06:15We're wanting to get going, say, in a week.
06:18We'd love to make this happen for you guys.
06:20I'll get with the boys
06:21and we'll start assembling the equipment and head your way.
06:24Sounds great.
06:24Brilliant.
06:25So we look forward to it.
06:28Hey.
06:29Thanks.
06:30Take care.
06:31Thanks, guys.
06:34Later that morning.
06:37Hey, folks.
06:39Dr. Spooner.
06:40Hey, good morning.
06:42How are you doing?
06:42I'm glad you came out.
06:43I'm always glad to be here
06:45because it's always a new mystery, you know?
06:48Dr. Ian Spooner joins members of the team on Lot 8
06:52as they continue to investigate a man-made boulder feature.
06:56Sure.
06:57So what did you guys find?
06:59So, uh, we just moved these rocks.
07:01We didn't want to do anything under them until you were able to see what was underneath.
07:05Sure.
07:06And to me, it looks like we still have disturbed soil underneath them.
07:09Yeah.
07:11I find that strange.
07:14After noticing that the several-ton boulder is surrounded by smaller, evenly spaced stones
07:20that are holding it in place.
07:21We've got a big void down there.
07:24Yeah.
07:24The archeological team discovered a backfilled void beneath it.
07:29Let's see what we can find.
07:31A void where the team has recently inserted a snake camera and obtained images of a possible iron stake
07:38at what could be valuables.
07:41Oh, my God.
07:42It looks like there's a pearl.
07:44Yeah.
07:46Do we yet know all the techniques we could employ to figure out the age of this feature?
07:51I think one of the key things here is get a sample of that soil underneath the rock.
07:58The core we get might give us a little bit of dating control.
08:02Yes.
08:02It might also tell us if there's metal in the vicinity.
08:05So there's some things we should probably look into.
08:08I agree.
08:09Everybody's on the same page.
08:10All right.
08:11I'll get this core.
08:12That'll take no time.
08:13Perfect.
08:14Great.
08:15Using the soil core, I'm looking to date when that boulder was manipulated.
08:20We have hints on this island of activity and occupation pre-1600s.
08:28Even older than that, this may be a part of that story.
08:33Okay.
08:33So we've got a bit of a core here.
08:36So we'll put this aside.
08:38But what I want to do is try this core as well and see what we get.
08:44If we could find elevated metals of interest, and that's gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, tin, that might give us
08:52a clue as to why it's there, what's happened there.
08:58Look how loose that is.
08:59Yeah.
09:00It's quite loose.
09:02But we'll keep that.
09:03I can't really do anything with that here.
09:05I need to take it back to the lab, but I'm most interested in the very end of it.
09:08Yeah.
09:10See you.
09:11Thanks for coming out.
09:12Yep.
09:12Appreciate it.
09:13While the investigation of the boulder continues.
09:18All right, Gary, what's on the agenda today?
09:20This plowed area.
09:21Yeah, Billy has plowed this area up.
09:24Metal detectors dream.
09:26Exactly, mate.
09:28Some 50 yards to the south, Billy Gerhardt has churned up the topsoil with a plow so that Marty and
09:36Gary can search for more clues that may be connected to the feature.
09:40So many great artifacts have come off of this lot, and we're going to keep that tradition alive today, mate.
09:48And hopefully we find some artifacts today that are connected to that boulder work.
09:54I was kind of excited when we walked up here, but now you've got me on edge, so let's go.
09:58All right, mate. Start over here.
10:01Recent searches of the area surrounding the boulder have not only uncovered part of a potentially 16th century chain,
10:10but also a lead bag seal that could be as much as 700 years old.
10:16When you find something as important as that big boulder on Lot 8,
10:20it certainly raises the bar in a sort of incentive way to really look for artifacts near it.
10:26Because if it's so significant, there should be some stuff near it that is also significant.
10:31And we're so interested that we've actually churned up the soil here to make sure we don't miss anything.
10:44Oh, good one.
10:46Banging little iron signal.
10:48Well, not so little, actually.
10:51Right in the area there.
10:52That is a screamer.
10:54Yeah.
10:54Yep.
11:02It's been ploughed.
11:04On the top?
11:05Where?
11:07A little bit of the old Morse code going there.
11:10Let's see what we've got.
11:19Oh, what you got, Gary?
11:20Oh, look at that.
11:22Oh, wait.
11:23Wait.
11:23Is that a knife?
11:25Yep.
11:25You are right, mate.
11:26That's a tang there.
11:28It's a small chopper.
11:30Mm-hmm.
11:31And they used to skin animals using this.
11:36I found a heck of a lot of knives metal detecting.
11:39And this is a little chopping knife.
11:41And it would have been the multi-tool of the 1700s.
11:45That means man was in this area.
11:48I can't wait to see what else we find.
11:51Well, the lab will have fun with that, won't they?
11:53Yeah.
11:54They will.
11:55Look.
11:56We'll put it in the bag.
11:57Bag it.
11:57Lab bag.
11:58Yep.
12:00And we'll keep grinding.
12:01Keep going.
12:07Okay.
12:08Oh, another strong signal.
12:12Right there.
12:13Right in that clump there.
12:14Yep.
12:20Try that.
12:22It seems like you've moved it.
12:26Oh, I see it on the top.
12:27You do?
12:28Yep.
12:29Where?
12:30Oh, no pinpointing needed.
12:32It's this.
12:33Oh, wow.
12:35The heck is that?
12:40No pinpointing needed.
12:41It's this.
12:43The heck is that?
12:45I really don't know what it is.
12:47Because that puts me off that little lucky thing at the end.
12:51While searching on lot eight,
12:53Marty and Gary have found a curious iron artifact
12:56just yards from the massive boulder feature.
12:59Yeah, isn't that a shoe?
13:01No.
13:02Because we wouldn't have that middle piece in it.
13:05I think it's kind of pintle-ish.
13:08Like a pintle hook.
13:10Something that goes into something to latch it.
13:12Yeah, it's like a gate or a door hanger,
13:15and it's pushed into the side of the wood,
13:17and then they hang a gate.
13:19Dating back to as early as 2000 BC,
13:23a pintle is a kind of pivot pin
13:25used for door and gate hinges,
13:28allowing them to open and close.
13:31Earlier this year,
13:32the team found a similar item on lot 15,
13:36just northwest of the Money Pit area.
13:38Yeah.
13:39You can tell it's unforgeable.
13:42One thing that really stands there
13:43is all this blistering on it.
13:45And if this is a really old piece of iron,
13:49that makes it interesting
13:51because of that big boulder behind us.
13:54You're right.
13:54Even more reason to get it to the lab.
13:57Yep.
13:58We are keenly interested in anything we find on lot eight
14:01because of this crazy giant boulder thing.
14:05Any piece of iron where we can get an explanation
14:09might help us figure out
14:10what in the heck happened with this big boulder.
14:13Good find.
14:14Okay.
14:15Let's keep going.
14:16Okay, mate.
14:17We're finding.
14:23The next morning...
14:25Hey, guys.
14:26Hello.
14:27Hey, guys.
14:27I see you've been digging.
14:29Yes.
14:30Rick joins Tom Nolan and members of the team
14:33as they continue digging on Tom's property
14:36in the northern region of the triangle-shaped swamp.
14:40We dug down until we found the cobble again.
14:44You see, here into the cobble?
14:45There seems to be a lot of rock here.
14:47Okay.
14:48Over the past month,
14:50the team has discovered several sections
14:52of a cobblestone pathway in this area
14:55that were marked by eight-sided survey stakes.
14:59And which they believe may be part of the same cobbled path
15:03that led them to an empty brick and slate vault
15:05more than 100 feet to the south in 2024.
15:11Now, after also finding a number of metal artifacts,
15:15loose bricks and pottery,
15:17which could date back to the 17th century,
15:20they hope that following the new sections of cobblestone
15:24might lead them to another vault that contains treasure.
15:28Just what I'm observing, the cobble ends there,
15:31and it ends here.
15:33I think these are two platforms.
15:35It's one possible explanation.
15:38Yeah.
15:39Well, if you're going to build a platform in here,
15:41and you're going to bring in cartloads of rock,
15:44you can't go through the muck too there.
15:47You need a roadway to get to where you're going to construct.
15:51What I find curious is we're following this stake line,
15:54and the stake line's headed towards the vault.
15:56We have rocks on the western side of the stakes.
16:00And right in this area, it's turning towards Lot 5 and Lot 8.
16:04So we just want to follow where this pathway might lead.
16:09Could Peter be correct that the team has uncovered evidence
16:14that the cobblestone path in the swamp may also lead west towards Lot 8 and 5?
16:20If so, might that suggest it is related to the boulder feature on Lot 8?
16:27Or perhaps the structures the team has found on Lot 5?
16:32Could this be a road?
16:33Absolutely.
16:34But in order to figure that out, I guess we've got to keep digging.
16:37Right, Al?
16:37Keep digging. See how far it goes.
16:39We're going.
16:41It's very curious.
16:42We have an excessive amount of cobble in a fairly defined space.
16:46Although we don't have a complete and competent understanding
16:49of what we have found to date,
16:51there might be a path between the two platforms,
16:54and it does appear to go up into the highland.
16:58Maybe we can see where it projects to.
17:01If it is a path or a road, it has to be going,
17:04it has to be coming from somewhere and going somewhere.
17:09There has to be a reason for it.
17:13You don't want to step in that stuff.
17:14Yep.
17:21Is that a piece of wood right next to that rock, do you think?
17:38This looks cut. What do you make of that?
17:40Yeah, it does look cut, doesn't it?
17:45Well, it's been ax cut.
17:46It's, you know, it's not an eight-sided cut like we've been finding in other places,
17:51but it's some sort of a stake for sure.
17:54It would have been sort of on the side of the cobble.
17:56Mm-hmm. Yep.
17:57Right next to that rock.
17:59So I'm just going to set it aside for now.
18:01Let's take another scoop, Al.
18:03Okay?
18:04There was significant work done here in the north end of the bog.
18:08There are a number of clues associated with a cobble path.
18:13It appears to go towards the direction of Lot 5.
18:17Whoever did it, someone or someone who did it,
18:20had a real reason to do it.
18:22And that reason may provide some real insight into what happened here on Oak Island.
18:35Oh, banging signal here, Rick.
18:38Did you dig it out or a pinpointer?
18:40I'll try pinpointing it.
18:42It's in the darker material that came from deeper down.
18:51I'm on it.
18:52Oh, look at this.
18:55What's that?
19:00Oh, look at this.
19:02That's a beauty.
19:04Check this out, Rick.
19:06In the northern region of the swamp,
19:08Gary has just made another potentially important discovery.
19:13That is an old piece of iron.
19:18Feel the weight of it.
19:19Oh, yeah?
19:20Yeah, you can see the striations, mate.
19:22That's hand forged.
19:24It could be an old iron tool,
19:27or it could be something like a hand chisel.
19:31Almost certainly broken, though.
19:33You'd think that might be the working end,
19:36and that's probably broken.
19:38Yeah.
19:39Yeah.
19:39Maybe it's seen some trauma,
19:42and it came from really, really deep down.
19:47In fact, same level as those cobbles.
19:50The problem is, why is it there?
19:53Yeah, well, all the heavy stuff sinks to the bottom, mate.
19:56Oh, that's true.
19:57Whoever did that work, who put those cobbles there,
20:00this could have been one of the workers who lost this.
20:03And we really don't know what it is,
20:05but this so reminds me of the old iron tool
20:10that we found at the bottom of TOT1 last year.
20:13Oh, that rectangular piece.
20:14Yeah.
20:15Now, that was the business end of a tool,
20:18and that could have gone into the 1500s.
20:22Yeah.
20:23What is that?
20:25Last year, as the eight-foot diameter caisson known as TOT1
20:30entered the solution channel at a depth of some 160 feet.
20:35Could be a really old tool, mate.
20:37Gary and Marty found a pickaxe fragment in the spoils
20:40that could predate the discovery of the money pit
20:43by more than two centuries.
20:46And curiously, it was unearthed in the same general area
20:50where the recent soil tests have revealed high levels of silver
20:54more than 200 feet deep.
20:57Could Gary be correct that the team may have found
21:00a potentially related iron artifact in the swamp?
21:03It's a cool find.
21:04Yeah.
21:05It really is.
21:06Especially if it's a tool.
21:07And as you say, found in close proximity to a work area.
21:10Which is what you're always saying.
21:12Yeah.
21:12Work area, people lose things.
21:14Yeah.
21:14Maybe it'll define that.
21:15Is it a road?
21:16Is it a path?
21:17Or is it a platform?
21:18Maybe that'll help.
21:19Tell us a tale.
21:21I think the work in the bog, at least currently,
21:25as we understand it, certainly has something to do
21:29with the efforts in the money pit.
21:30I don't know what that is as of yet.
21:33We need more of these finds to hopefully fill in those gaps
21:36and give us those answers.
21:39I say, put this in the bag here, and we take it back to the lab.
21:44Keep going.
21:45Okay.
21:49Two days later.
21:52Hello.
21:53Morning.
21:53Hey, guys.
21:54Hey, nice to see you.
21:55Dr. Spooner.
21:56He took some cores from the lot aid feature.
22:00Rick, Marty, and members of the team gather in the war room
22:04with Dr. Spooner, who has just completed preliminary testing
22:08for metal content in the soil samples that he collected
22:11beneath the large boulder.
22:14We're hoping that you will enlighten us to the point
22:16where we can collectively make a decision
22:18about how to move forward.
22:20I've taken a look at some of the sediment
22:23underneath the boulder, and then the samples we collected,
22:27we also analyzed in the lab very carefully
22:29to get a sense of what metals were in the organic matter,
22:33and to try to get some idea as to if there's sort of a,
22:38maybe a human, a signature in that sediment,
22:41a signature of activity or something like that.
22:45What we saw was very elevated lead, and this was very,
22:52very odd indeed.
22:5212 parts per million is what we've seen elsewhere.
22:57We're seeing as high as 140 parts per million lead
23:00in that organic matter underneath the boulder.
23:05How does it get there?
23:06It would be moving through ash that was burning.
23:10If you're burning a lot of coal or wood,
23:12you might have an increase in lead.
23:14And so that could mean something was happening
23:17in terms of burning or smelting,
23:20industrial activity basically.
23:22We do know that tunneling requires air shafts,
23:25and we know that the old miners from way back
23:28used burning to ventilate shafts.
23:31So Ian, what if this boulder covers a ventilation shaft, say?
23:36If we're burning, the smoke would be condensing
23:38as it came out.
23:39That could be a source of the lead, couldn't it?
23:42Um, it could possibly, yeah.
23:44That's a good point.
23:46Dating back to as early as ancient Greece,
23:48fire was actually used as a method
23:52for ventilating underground mining tunnels.
23:55Workers would set fires at the base of shafts
23:57to force smoke up and out
23:59while drawing fresh air down and into the body of the mine.
24:04Did you test the soils nearby
24:06just to see if it's a local phenomenon?
24:09It certainly did, yeah.
24:10And we didn't see really high lead,
24:12maybe a tiny bit elevated.
24:14So that's intriguing.
24:16I just wouldn't expect it in the normal organic duff
24:19that you would see around the site.
24:22So I think it's an indication of local activity
24:25of some sort.
24:26Yeah, I wouldn't think it came from anywhere
24:28but under the boulder.
24:30So I'm saying if there is a tunnel under there
24:33and somebody was burning stuff,
24:35that would make sense.
24:37This is highly relevant.
24:39That's right.
24:41Really exciting.
24:46If there's a tunnel under that boulder
24:49and somebody was burning stuff,
24:51which would be really exciting
24:52because we could pull a ventilation shaft
24:54down to whatever it was ventilating.
24:56In the war room,
24:57the team has heard an astonishing report
25:00that soil samples collected
25:02from beneath the massive boulder on Lot 8
25:04contain high, unnatural traces of lead.
25:08So whether that organic matter accumulated
25:12on its own or whether it was backfilled,
25:15the organic matter was very compact.
25:18It's compact probably because the boulder
25:20has settled on top of it through time,
25:22which to me indicates whatever happened there
25:24happened some time ago.
25:25Mm-hmm.
25:28I don't know what to make of it
25:30other than it certainly implies
25:32that there was some sort of activity
25:36underneath the boulder by humans.
25:39Is it explainable by perhaps an air shaft for a tunnel
25:43and you would burn coal to draw warm air
25:48and thus create enough air for people to work underground?
25:51That covers all the bases.
25:54It shows how lead could have accumulated.
25:57It suggests the possibility
25:59that this might lead to a tunnel,
26:01which may lead to something associated
26:03with working the money pit.
26:06I mean, to me,
26:09we've got indications of human activity.
26:11We have a mysterious void
26:13that just does not form naturally underneath it.
26:15Yeah.
26:16Absolutely.
26:17You'd never have that just naturally.
26:19Right.
26:20And there's other features as well.
26:22The rocks around the edge of it
26:24that are spaced at almost precisely four inches each.
26:27The fact that I think there's been activity
26:30around the side of it as well.
26:32All of this really conspires to produce,
26:36perhaps from my perspective,
26:38one of the most interesting rocks on the island ever.
26:44Well, that's the major significance of this.
26:46I mean, it would have been great,
26:47even if you came out with nuggets of gold,
26:49but the lead is just as anomalous.
26:55Regardless of what it is,
26:56at this point that boulder cannot be overlooked.
27:02So it's time to see what's under that rock, I think.
27:04I want to pick that thing up.
27:06Yeah, we're getting that feeling from you.
27:09Okay.
27:10Yeah, well, if I'm being subtle, let me know, okay?
27:13I think to do our job properly,
27:16we need to move the boulder, but just not yet.
27:21We're going to continue going around and exposing the wedge stones
27:24until we get to the other side, and then we'll be good to go.
27:28We are all hoping so much for a positive, discernible,
27:34credible clue underneath that boulder.
27:37If it was moved, it really, really makes you think
27:42that there's something important underneath it.
27:44So that's what we're hoping for.
27:46Historical, a map, perhaps some treasure itself,
27:51an old plug tunnel.
27:52Who knows what's under that boulder?
27:55We don't know how deep whatever it is it's covering might be.
27:59Well, I think everyone has articulated why the lead may be relevant here,
28:04but the macro view at this point given the discussion today
28:08is that the boulder has to be removed at some point.
28:12Yeah.
28:12And I know all of us are somewhat impatient
28:15from a treasure hunting, solving the mystery perspective.
28:19I mean, it's important, but it's important to do it right.
28:22Yeah.
28:23Yeah.
28:24Yep.
28:24So I think everyone is in agreement.
28:27For sure.
28:28That leads me to why don't you all guys get off
28:31sitting on your hands and get out there and do something.
28:33Okay.
28:34Okay.
28:35Fair enough.
28:38As a new day breaks on Oak Island.
28:42All ready for big finds today?
28:44Yep.
28:44Yep.
28:48In the northern region of the swamp,
28:50Rick, Tom, and members of the team
28:52work to uncover more sections of the cobblestone path
28:56to determine just where it will lead.
29:00What do you see?
29:02There's definitely cobble on the bottom,
29:04but there's bigger boulders on top of it.
29:08It doesn't make sense.
29:10Cobble down there.
29:11Yeah.
29:12I mean, why don't we expose a bit more?
29:15I would just ride the bucket on top of that cobble
29:18and just pull back and see if it goes that way or this way.
29:23Yeah.
29:23Good idea.
29:24Okey-doke.
29:25Okay.
29:25Drop her over here and we'll see what happens.
29:27All right.
29:32It's highly suggestive at this point that this path was created
29:36to allow people to work at that location.
29:41Does it lead to the area where something could be hidden?
29:44Or it was used to transport materials perhaps across the bog
29:49to another area of the island.
30:02Got a signal, Rick.
30:05Woo-hoo!
30:07That is non-ferrous.
30:09Hold on.
30:10Yeah, please.
30:12Let me see if you've moved it.
30:16Ooh!
30:16Now it's getting stronger.
30:19Banging signal!
30:20Artifact coming up, Rick.
30:25Whoa!
30:26Whoa!
30:27What have we got here?
30:30What is that?
30:32Some kind of a...
30:35ingot?
30:36I think it's lead.
30:38I have no idea what that is, Mike.
30:40I know it's really heavy for the size.
30:43Feel how heavy it is.
30:44I mean, that is spectacular.
30:47I don't know what it is.
30:48Never found one before.
30:53Where you at?
30:55No idea.
30:56That's what makes it interesting.
30:57You don't usually say that, Gary.
30:59No idea.
31:00Yeah.
31:00See those?
31:01Yeah.
31:02That modern?
31:03No.
31:03It just means it was made in a mold.
31:06Totally.
31:06Or it was decorated like that.
31:08I don't know.
31:10This could be some kind of lead weight.
31:13Why would you need a lead weight in this area?
31:16And you have to remember, too,
31:17we're on the side of the bog that wasn't farmed.
31:20Is there any possible connection to the stone path?
31:23Maybe they were dropped by the people who constructed it.
31:28Interesting find, though, for sure.
31:30Yeah.
31:30Well, we'll have to find answers at the lab on this one.
31:33All right.
31:34Back to work.
31:35Sounds good.
31:39Nice, solid ground.
31:50Ooh.
31:51Ooh.
31:51What have we got here?
31:55Oh, yeah.
31:59Ooh.
32:00What have we got here?
32:02Oh, yeah.
32:12Yeah.
32:13Yeah, this is either the top or the bottom of a keg.
32:45No mistaking that.
33:06Oh, yeah.
33:09Oh, yeah.
33:12Oh, yeah.
33:13Oh, yeah.
33:14Oh.
33:15Oh, yeah.
33:29Oh, yeah.
33:37And then the perhaps the English and the Spanish used to put treasure coins in kegs.
33:42And like, came from down at the bottom there.
33:45So there's a good chance this is old.
33:47I'm hoping we're on to another vault.
33:51Could Gary's notion be correct?
33:53Is it possible that the team has found part of a barrel
33:56that once stored something of great value?
34:00If so, could it be evidence that this section of the cobblestone path
34:05may be leading to another hidden vault in this region of the swamp?
34:10What is the stone road? Why was it put in? Where was it going?
34:13There's a lot of unique opportunities in the north end of the swamp.
34:18Who knows what else is out there?
34:20Yeah, great find. I'll put it to one side.
34:22Okay, well, let's keep digging.
34:26Yep.
34:29Later that afternoon...
34:32Hey, Laird.
34:33Hey, guys.
34:34Ed, archaeologist.
34:35Been any developments?
34:37Yeah, well, the reason we called you down is
34:40Fiona's done a lot of excavation.
34:42Yeah, I see that.
34:42It's exposed a lot,
34:44but our next step now is to reinsert the camera underneath.
34:48We thought you might want to see that.
34:49That sounds great.
34:50Do it.
34:51Gather around down there?
34:52Yeah.
34:53Alrighty.
34:54Yeah, you can see we just finished clearing out this area,
34:56so now we have access to the back area
34:59kind of underneath the boulder,
35:00so that's what we thought it was worth another look.
35:02Let's have a go.
35:03So let's get that, make sure it's clean.
35:06All right.
35:18Seen anything?
35:23One sec.
35:24I've got to go a little, little, little further.
35:39Oh, well, look at that.
35:42I would say we're probably a good two feet underneath right now.
35:45Mm-hmm.
35:46I think you really need to see what I'm seeing under here.
35:48Give me that.
35:49I think you better.
35:50You guys, you guys hold that while I hold this in place.
35:56I mean, this looks like a cave, okay?
35:58I mean, but I have no idea of scale.
35:59We shouldn't be having voids underneath the rock to this degree.
36:02No, this is a big, this is a big void.
36:04You gotta wonder if that void gets even bigger back there, don't you?
36:07Mm-hmm.
36:07It's very clear that there are voids all over under there.
36:10It's like a matrix of voids.
36:12So it's consistent with something significant underneath there.
36:16I think people went to a lot of work to try to deposit something that they valued
36:21and went to a lot of trouble to deposit it there and to protect it.
36:25I believe it will have an impact on trying to understand what happened here on the island.
36:30All right.
36:30Here we are.
36:31Let's keep going.
36:37Here we are.
36:57Okay.
37:04Okay.
37:05This is not what I was expecting to see.
37:08Whoa.
37:08I want to just pull back.
37:13Okay.
37:14This is really, really weird.
37:16This, I am seeing like lumps, lumps of looks like rock with golden yellowy colors in it that
37:24look like veins.
37:25Holy smokes.
37:28I swear if I didn't know any better, I would say this is gold.
37:32Give me that.
37:32Yeah, you better look at that.
37:34I don't want to get too excited.
37:38I might have to change the angle a bit.
37:40What if I pulled it back just ever so slightly?
37:43Okay.
37:43A little bit more.
37:44I'm going backwards now.
37:46Yeah.
37:46Stop right there.
37:48Some very shinies there.
37:52All right.
37:52I see what you're looking at.
37:54I mean, I got to admit, it looks like gold.
37:57It does.
37:58I know.
37:58It's crazy.
38:02I am really excited.
38:04Yeah.
38:04You're going to want to see this, guys.
38:06Right now, I'm seeing things that I wasn't expecting to see.
38:09Yeah.
38:10On lot eight of Oak Island, after removing more soils from under the huge boulder, the team
38:17is seeing stunning images of what may be buried beneath it.
38:22It's gold looking.
38:24It certainly is.
38:25It even has the right luster.
38:28Yeah.
38:29Do you really think that's gold?
38:31Well, yeah.
38:33I would say yeah.
38:35Well, it could be subsoil.
38:36My concern is that if usually you have to dig and move dirt to find subsoil, we haven't
38:42touched anything under the rock.
38:44Yeah.
38:45If it was a soil, you'd think it'd be less defined.
38:48Exactly.
38:49Yeah.
38:50If there was gold underneath there, this new thing that came out of the blue this year,
38:55this boulder on lot eight, could be the most substantial thing that's ever happened here.
38:59And maybe we will get a very substantial clue.
39:04As to where the treasure is and what happened here.
39:08Anybody know why that would be under a boulder here?
39:12Somebody wanted to hide it, perhaps.
39:14I guess.
39:15And if somebody thought that that was here, they probably would want to cover it up and
39:18they never came back.
39:20And you know what?
39:20That was one of my thoughts and that could be the marker.
39:23Yeah.
39:24There might be and hopefully there is an artifact around this boulder or underneath it that
39:29can tell us a date or a who.
39:31Yeah, exactly.
39:32Yeah.
39:32It looked like gold.
39:34It was interesting and exciting all in the same moment.
39:38All the more reason to get access to what is underneath that boulder.
39:43It potentially could raise the stakes here on the island, i.e. create a different understanding
39:50of history, literally.
39:51What's it going to do to convince you people that we need to pick this thing up?
39:54It's really up to the archaeologists.
39:56And if they're on board, then who am I to say no?
39:59Yeah.
40:00Yeah.
40:00We've gotten all the information we need from this area here that's giving us enough to
40:05make informed decisions.
40:06I think we've reached the limit of what we can do.
40:08Now, I think it's time to transition to the logistics of moving it safely and properly.
40:16You don't have to make the argument anymore.
40:20I'm extremely happy that the archaeologists have done their job properly, but it's now time
40:25to lift it.
40:27We have to do this safely, and that's going to take a big crane.
40:30This lifting of the Lottade boulder is a really close second place in terms of the most exciting
40:35things going on in the island this year, and everybody is excited to see what's under
40:39that boulder.
40:40Well, I'm keen to get it out of your way.
40:42I'm with you now.
40:43All right.
40:43Good.
40:44Somebody get this rock out of the way.
40:48This year, Rick, Marty, Craig, and their team have methodically searched for compelling
40:54clues to justify the most effective operation yet to try and solve the 231-year-old mystery.
41:04Incredibly, they have found those clues in multiple locations, one of which appears to have never
41:12been searched by anyone before them.
41:16Will the team finally recover the fabled gold and silver that has cost countless fortunes
41:22and even lives to pursue?
41:26There's only one way to know.
41:29It's time to dig.
41:35Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:39SBC and Rock are here.
41:41We want something found today.
41:44Find some treasure, boys!
41:46That thing looks unstoppable.
41:50Ooh!
41:51I think this is a key.
41:53Key?
41:53I want to get this one to the left.
41:55100%.
41:56It's very interesting that it's saying super early time period.
41:59No way!
42:00We're finally moving in a direction that could give us some answers.
42:08The Curse of Oak Island.
42:08The Curse of Oak Island.
42:08The Curse of Oak Island.
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