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00:01Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:03Heads up.
00:05We've broken through into the solution channel.
00:07That's what we're looking for.
00:08The three churches have exactly the same stellar alignment of lock five.
00:14This could be a tunnel shaft entrance.
00:16Maybe it's just right under here.
00:17A piece of wood.
00:18What's wood doing down that day?
00:20Maybe this wood came from the original money pit.
00:22If there's wood at the top, maybe there's gold at the bottom.
00:24Possibly treasure on deck.
00:26Woo-hoo-hoo! What do we got here?
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.
01:23Hello down there.
01:25Hi.
01:26Oh, wow, Fiona. You've gotten so much done.
01:29Wow.
01:30This must look a little different from before.
01:31Yeah.
01:33A new day on Oak Island brings the team fresh hope for a breakthrough discovery.
01:39As Rick, Craig and members of the team investigate the cradle-shaped feature of stones on Lot 8.
01:47I can't wait to show you how this is progressing and what I'm seeing in here.
01:51It's been changing as I've gone along.
01:54Oh, yeah.
01:56So once we removed that third layer of rocks, we came across a substance which was like mortar, like a
02:01cement-like material.
02:02So it makes me feel like they did this in a way that they wanted these rocks to stay in
02:07place for some reason.
02:08And what I've discovered this morning as I've been digging around this, this particular area here, as I've been removing
02:15the rocks, they were extremely hard to get out.
02:18But I've got enough of the smaller rocks out now that I think that maybe you should see if you
02:23could get that moved.
02:24I have gloves on.
02:25Want me to give it a try?
02:26I think you guys, any of you would be welcome.
02:29You'll notice there's still some of what I call these pinner rocks holding this in place.
02:35Yeah, I'm going to try to just step right down so I don't move anything, hopefully.
02:38Oh, it's pretty sturdy.
02:41All right.
02:42Oh, yeah, that's it.
02:43That's true.
02:45After revealing this formation beneath a 40,000-pound boulder, the team has discovered hand-worked blue clay and a
02:54mortar-like cement which were used to seal the stones together.
02:59And after scientifically examining the soils within the feature, they have found traces of silver and lead.
03:07This suggests evidence of another possible structure containing something of great value may be buried deeper below.
03:19Got it.
03:20Did you get it?
03:20Yep.
03:21No problem.
03:22Oh, I'm amazed.
03:23No problem.
03:23Okay, where do you want me to throw this?
03:24Over there?
03:25Well, how about right here?
03:25That's fine for now.
03:26Okay.
03:27I'm actually keeping all of these rocks because I just want to get an idea of how many we've taken
03:31out in total.
03:32It does look like there's some dark organic underneath it there.
03:35Mm-hmm.
03:36The mortar-like material was done very well, and we had three types of it.
03:40We found a very, very fine one, which is down here, and if I were to put it on my
03:46trowel, you can see how fine it is.
03:49A very fine powder material, which is actually similar to what you're seeing on the outskirts of this, and we've
03:54taken samples to see if we can compare them.
03:57Then we had a very blue-like clay sample, if you can kind of see some of it in here.
04:05But this blue-gray clay had some very similarities, according to Dr. Spooner, to what we think the puddling clay
04:12is at the Money Pit.
04:14So we've taken samples to compare against the clay that we found at the Money Pit, just in case it
04:18matches.
04:20And then you have this third mortar material, which is what you see at this north end, very cement-like.
04:26What I'm wondering is if any of those have materials that are not from here, you know, sourced from somewhere
04:33else, then it's proof positive that it's deliberate.
04:35We're also going to compare it to the mortar material that we found on Lot 5, and we think Lot
04:415's pretty old.
04:42But if we do get matches, then that could be information for both sites as well.
04:46Based upon the analysis of the mortars, we'll be able to pin down when this was built.
04:53Yeah.
04:54You know, to me, it's so amazing, but what is it? What does it mean?
04:59I mean, at this point in time, we have no idea. No idea. So...
05:05This could be a tunnel-shaft entrance.
05:08Maybe it's just right under here.
05:11Yeah. Well, it definitely goes deeper.
05:15Some of us want to dig below the cradle with heavy equipment, and I know that the archaeologists, especially Fiona,
05:23have an intense desire to do it in a very disciplined fashion.
05:28I think all parties agree that if something's underneath it, we want to know what that something is. We just
05:34have to be patient.
05:36What are you going to do? You're going to bisect it there?
05:39The plan is to do a bisection on this left side here. We'll take it right down, look at exactly
05:45how they constructed it.
05:47And I think as we're removing these rocks, I would like to get samples of the soil underneath.
05:52Okey-doke. We'll let you get after it.
05:54Great job.
05:55Thank you, Fiona.
05:57Thanks, guys.
06:00Later that afternoon...
06:03Guys.
06:04Hello, Alex.
06:05How's it going?
06:05Hey, Alex. How you doing?
06:06Alex and Jack arrive in the Money Pit area, where the excavation of the TPF shaft has nearly breached the
06:14solution channel.
06:15And in an area where soil testing during their core drilling operation detected high traces of silver more than 200
06:24feet deep.
06:26Where are we at?
06:27Where are we at?
06:27We're below 167.
06:29Okay.
06:29We're going to do something very hard.
06:30We're cutting into it.
06:31They've got some good recovery.
06:32We could see little bits of gypsum if we're really close to the ledge that overhangs the solution channel.
06:40Previous drilling that reached the solution channel has made the team aware of a thick ledge or layer of bedrock
06:47between 150 and 170 feet deep that acts as a ceiling for the large natural cavity.
06:56Whoa!
07:06Hey, Rick.
07:06Hey, Rick.
07:07Hey, Rick.
07:07How you doing?
07:08Good.
07:08Can you see how much smoke is coming off there?
07:10The kind of heat that's being generated.
07:12There's a lot of heat built up on that thing.
07:14Yeah.
07:15That's been chewing into the bedrock.
07:17You see the cake gypsum on the side of it.
07:19Wow.
07:21It was so close.
07:22Really tantalizing.
07:24But this material that comes up, we've got a really good chance of actually finding some top pocket finds.
07:31Yup.
07:31Absolutely.
07:32There's no give up around the table.
07:34So, get after it.
07:36Sounds good.
07:37As the teams from SBC and Rock work to drill through the bedrock ledge.
07:44Gentlemen, it is data and analysis time.
07:48Always a good time.
07:49Always interesting.
07:50Rick, Marty, Craig and other members of the team have gathered in the war room.
07:56We have a bonafide expert in laser ablation, Dr. Chris McFarlane.
08:01He's been in this war room before.
08:03Let's get him on the screen.
08:05Him?
08:07Dr. McFarlane.
08:09Hello, fellas.
08:11The team is meeting with Dr. Chris McFarlane, a professor of geochemistry at the University of New Brunswick.
08:18It is one of the leading testing facilities in North America for the study of historical artifacts.
08:25We're going to discuss the decorative lead piece found by you, right, Gary?
08:29Yeah, Charles and I.
08:30Yeah.
08:32Dr. McFarlane has analyzed a lead artifact found earlier this year in spoils removed from the round feature on Lot
08:405.
08:42So what did your ablation and isotope analysis say about that?
08:47Yeah, just pulling it up here.
08:51Laser ablation is a process of removing microscopic samples from lead objects using a high-powered laser.
08:59The isotopic values of the samples are then analyzed to potentially identify not only when the object was made, but
09:08also the geographic region where it originated.
09:13The decorative lead piece, the encrustation on it is quite sodium rich, which suggests, you know, that it's been there
09:22a while.
09:23The silver content is actually quite high.
09:27Wow.
09:28And sort of anomalous compared to modern lead.
09:32Okay.
09:33The actual fabrication is probably pre-industrial and predates anything happening in North America in the turn of the last
09:43century, more or less.
09:44Oh, wow.
09:45Okay.
09:46Quite typical of a central European source.
09:50And by central European, I mean UK, France, and Germany, sort of in that part of the world.
09:56Really?
09:57Wow.
09:58I do have another piece of information for you, though.
10:03Good.
10:04It also bears some similarity with the scalloped artifact from Lot 5 that we previously analyzed.
10:16Isotopically, it matches this decorative lead piece, right?
10:20Correct, yeah.
10:22Wow.
10:23And we think that's from medieval times.
10:29That's really, really cool.
10:44In the War Room, Dr. Chris McFarlane has just informed the team that the lead artifact found in the spoils
10:54of the round feature on Lot 5 has a similar composition to the potentially 14th-century scalloped disc that was
11:02also found in Lot 5.
11:06It came from a deposit of a similar age somewhere across Central Europe.
11:13Interesting.
11:14That's pretty neat.
11:16Okay.
11:17And we can also infer that it doesn't fit the mining profile of North America.
11:23Yeah.
11:25And that's probably what we can garner from this, correct?
11:28Yeah.
11:29Those are all true statements, I would say.
11:32Okay.
11:33Well, good.
11:33So, this fits with the bulk of the artifacts from that area.
11:37In addition to this lead piece and the scalloped disc, the team has found numerous artifacts in the Lot 5
11:45feature that predate the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795 and originated in Europe.
11:51These include a button made of arsenical bronze that may be at least 700 years old.
11:58Two decorative buttons and several glass beads that may date to the 17th century.
12:04And two glass gemstones that may have originated in France during the mid-18th century.
12:13Okay.
12:13We now have artifacts on Lot 5 that, on a bell-shaped curve, on the far end you have the
12:19Roman coins.
12:20On the other end you have pottery and glass and other artifacts that indicate people were there in the early
12:271800s.
12:28I believe that speaks to, again, that this effort here on Oak Island long ago was done multi-generationally.
12:38Okay.
12:38Dr. McFarland, thank you very much.
12:40Always interested in finding out what you have learned and we appreciate it.
12:45It was a pleasure.
12:48Okie doke.
12:48I think we all have a lot to do.
12:50So, let's go.
12:55The next morning...
12:58Good looking here, guys.
12:59Hey, Carmen.
13:00Hey.
13:00How you doing?
13:01Good, how are you?
13:02Doug Kroll and other members of the team meet with Carmen Legg in the Oak Island lab.
13:08You got some more stuff to show me?
13:09We've got a couple of pieces of chain here that look pretty old.
13:13Well, have a look.
13:15Carmen is examining two hand-forged sections of chain that were found in the spoils of the Karma-1 shaft.
13:23The shaft excavated one week ago, less than 10 feet from where the team is currently digging in the Money
13:30Pit area.
13:31This was made its way down into solution channel depths.
13:35And that's what we're hoping to see for signs of a collapse of the Money Pit.
13:39Oh, I see.
13:40Well, they're both similar.
13:42Mm-hmm.
13:46They have a big elongated link on the end.
13:50A lot of times, these were used to create sort of a basket for lowering and raising items.
13:57Right.
13:58Picture a treasure chest wrapped in chains, right?
14:00It's possible, isn't it?
14:03If Carmen is correct, is it possible that the team has recovered chains that may have been used to lower
14:10something into the original Money Pit?
14:13Carmen, is there anything about that chain that you see that may indicate where it may have been made?
14:19I'm going to have to say no, Scott, because this is a generic chain style, chain design made over many,
14:27many years.
14:28I do notice that this one here has a bend in the middle of the long link.
14:33And that reinforces my idea that it had to fit going through and then locked in and some stress or
14:40force onto it bent that link a little bit.
14:44This one was made by a blacksmith that knew his stuff. This one here, however, wasn't.
14:50And I'm going to say that these were made by two different blacksmiths.
14:54Emma, I'm curious about the dates.
14:57Based on the metallurgy, I would give these late 1600s to mid 1700s and typical of some European regions.
15:05Wow.
15:05I kind of like Emma's date range because I'm kind of partial to the Duke d'Anvil's expedition.
15:11I mean, that was 1746.
15:13Is that from his efforts?
15:16That would be a perfect fit for the date range.
15:18And you did say Europe for a point of origin.
15:22Could Doug Kroll be correct that these chains may provide another potential link to the Duke d'Anvil, a French
15:29admiral with ties to the Knights Templar?
15:32The Duke d'Anvil is believed to have ordered treasure to be buried on a wooded island in this area
15:38back in 1746.
15:41This is corroborated by part of a ship's log that Doug found in the Nova Scotia archives.
15:48The chains that were found in the Karma 1 spoils.
15:52One artifact does not substantiate a theory in its totality, but it does give you a clue.
15:57We're in the same area with the top pocket find location and hopefully it will yield results.
16:03It's very exciting.
16:04I mean, finding something that old from deeper than the deepest shaft in the money pit is a reason to
16:09keep going.
16:11Fingers crossed we find some more.
16:12And I'm sure there is more.
16:14Thanks, Carmen.
16:15Thanks, Emma.
16:15Thanks, Emma.
16:18Meanwhile.
16:19I'm ready to find something in this feature that's going to tell us something truly significant about it.
16:24I can get behind that.
16:26Laird Niven and other members of the team are back on lot five investigating the rounded stone foundation.
16:34After I get this bucket filled, maybe I'll do a little bit more closer.
16:38I hope we find more artifacts.
16:41After the scientific report on the mysterious lead artifact, the team is eager to search for additional clues.
16:49Obviously, humans created this, but why is it here?
16:54What's its purpose?
16:55Who did it?
16:56When did they do it?
16:57You see it as it sits in front of you and all the work that's been done by Laird and
17:01his team.
17:02But because of multi-generational activities, we still struggle with who was here first.
17:12It would be great if you could find a bead right now.
17:16There's a high potential to find even more.
17:18All right.
17:19We can do that.
17:25Oh, I found something.
17:31Hey, Laird.
17:32Yep.
17:34I've got something here.
17:37What a great start.
17:43Hey, Laird.
17:45I've got something here.
17:49Cool.
17:51It's metal.
17:53Oh, let's get a little powder into it.
17:57In the rounded feature on Lot 5, Tansy Rudnicki has just discovered a curious artifact.
18:04It's got a finished edge, which is kind of neat.
18:07Bit of a design.
18:10That looks like the rim of a button, perhaps.
18:15It's got a definite edge, which is good.
18:18It's tiny.
18:19It's thin for a button, isn't it?
18:22It is.
18:23The last year there was a button found right in here that turned out to be made of recycled
18:30arsenical bronze from the medieval period, which is pretty interesting.
18:34Is it possible that Tansy has just found another clue that may date to the same period as the believed
18:42medieval button, and perhaps the scalloped disc and lead artifact that were also uncovered here?
18:49If so, could it be more evidence that this feature was originally constructed more than 700 years ago?
18:57Wow.
18:58The occupation of the round feature on Lot 5 is undocumented.
19:02So we turn to the archaeological evidence, and it's telling us that the last occupation on Lot 5 was the
19:08end of the 1700s.
19:09But what's really significant are the earlier artifacts we're finding, the ones that date from before 1750, showing two occupations.
19:20But we've got lots of work left to do, so hopefully we're going to find even more.
19:24We've found some nice stuff, right?
19:26Beads and buttons just in this area.
19:29And that's why we're expanding this way to see what else is there.
19:34This is the main yard, so there's just a lot going on here.
19:38High activity means they lose things, and they obviously have, which is cool.
19:42It makes you want to just keep expanding.
19:46Same.
19:48I mean, that's a great find, so I'm going to take it back to the lab, and we'll see what
19:52it's made of.
19:53I'll let you know.
19:54All right, keep digging.
19:56All right, see ya.
19:57As the investigation of Lot 5 continues...
20:02Later that afternoon...
20:05Top pocket find. Let's hope it's named properly.
20:08Yep.
20:10Rick, Marty, and Craig arrive in the Money Pit area, where the TPF shaft has finally broken through the bedrock
20:17ledge and reached the solution channel.
20:21Hey, guys.
20:22Marty, how you doing?
20:23Good.
20:24Okay, Terry, how deep are we?
20:26They're pushing the auger just a little ahead of the casing at this time.
20:30So they're at about 175.
20:32Okay.
20:32Oh, so we're just about there.
20:34Exactly, because we're into the void beneath the ledge.
20:36That's what we're looking for.
20:38And that's exactly what we're looking for, Marty, for sure.
20:41Looks like we're switching to the hammer grab there.
20:43There we go.
20:45Because the team has now breached the solution channel, they are now replacing the auger cutting tool with a hammer
20:53grab and a dig bucket to safely retrieve the spoils and, hopefully, evidence of treasure.
21:01Just dumped another load, mate, so let's do some beeping.
21:04For sure.
21:07All right, let's find some good stuff, Rick.
21:09We know we've broken into the solution channel.
21:12If the treasure or a piece of the treasure is down there, it should be around this depth.
21:17Now it's getting exciting.
21:18I want to see what's in those straw buckets.
21:20I thought they saw a piece of wood.
21:24That's it.
21:33Is that wood?
21:35Yeah.
21:36Piece of wood.
21:37Yeah.
21:38I'm going to go check on that piece of wood, just in case it's something.
21:42Okay.
21:44Rick, I'll take that piece of wood.
21:46Right there.
21:47I'll grab it.
21:56What's wood doing down that deep?
21:58It's been a long, long time since the last wood that we saw coming out of the hole.
22:05This is not like a tree that fell into a sinkhole or something.
22:08That's a clear cut.
22:09Yeah.
22:10That's been, you know, shaped or utilized by somebody.
22:14I guess it's possible that it pulled out just shy of the bottom of the chapel shaft.
22:18Yeah.
22:19I mean, we could be at the edge.
22:21Could the team be correct that they may have encountered evidence of the chapel shaft?
22:27The shaft built in 1931 in an unsuccessful attempt to recover a, believe, seven-foot-tall treasure vault.
22:37I'll see if it floats or sinks.
22:39If it sinks, that's a hell of a sign, isn't it, Rick?
22:42That's what Dan always thought.
22:44Yeah.
22:45You know, one thing that Dan Blankenship had always said, when he brought up wood, he'd always test it by
22:50putting it in a bucket.
22:52Yeah.
22:52His experience was, if it sank, it was old wood.
22:57If it was, if it tended to float, it was more modern searcher wood.
23:01So we always do that test right away.
23:03It goes down like a rock.
23:05And seeing it sink right then, well, it's also telling me that this isn't a searcher wood.
23:11There shouldn't be wood this deep.
23:13It sinks like a rock.
23:14So if that's the case, then maybe this wood came from the original money pit.
23:18Well, that's pretty cool.
23:20We're looking for a collapse.
23:21Yeah.
23:22Virtually bruise it.
23:23Yeah.
23:24Could Marty's notion be correct?
23:26Is it possible this wood is not from a searcher shaft, but perhaps the original money pit?
23:33Bits of wood are extremely important because this is the first indications that the collapse, in fact, occurred, and that
23:41we're near it.
23:42And maybe the treasure too.
23:44I mean, this is where we detected a whole bunch of silver.
23:47We're into that end of the day.
23:49Okay.
23:50So how deep are we?
23:51We are about 186, 187.
23:54I mean, things are moving.
23:56Things are still turning.
23:57And we're going to call it a day for today.
23:58We're not going to give up until we figure out what that hole has to tell us.
24:02And we need to keep going.
24:03We need to keep looking.
24:04Tomorrow, you know, we're going to go to the bottom of the solution channel.
24:07We're going to see what's there.
24:08Period.
24:08And if everybody crosses their fingers, we'll find something.
24:11If there's wood at the top, maybe there's gold at the bottom.
24:14Exactly.
24:15But we've got to get there, Adam.
24:17So we want to make a hole tomorrow.
24:19Yep.
24:19We're working on it.
24:21Okie doke.
24:21We'll pick it up tomorrow.
24:23Thank you, Adam.
24:24Thanks, guys.
24:25See you in the morning.
24:30How we looking, my man?
24:32We're getting there.
24:33We're in the solution channel right now.
24:35So time's going to tell.
24:37As a new morning dawns on Oak Island.
24:40All right, chaps.
24:41Possibility treasure on deck.
24:43Members of the team carefully search through the spoils being unearthed from the TPF shaft.
24:53We've got a signal.
24:56I don't think it's in that slop.
24:57I think it's underneath it.
25:07Ooh!
25:08Let me have a pinpoint, mate, because you might have got it here.
25:12Let's see what this is.
25:20Got it in my hand.
25:22Now this has got potential.
25:26I don't know what that is, but it's a little bit different.
25:30With the black around it, you never know what it could be.
25:33Yeah.
25:34But it's been there a while.
25:36Yeah, it's been there.
25:37Yeah.
25:37It's a probability it could be iron.
25:39Yeah.
25:41You got the depth?
25:42Bottom of that hole, we just pulled it out of.
25:46193 feet deep.
25:47Okay.
25:48Okay.
25:49I love me chunky iron.
25:51When you find an old artifact encrusted in the clay, you know it's been there a very long time.
25:59What a heck of a start to the day.
26:02All right, guys.
26:03Good morning.
26:04What have we got for exciting finds?
26:06Anything this morning?
26:07Yep.
26:08We have got a good find.
26:09We just pulled it out of the clay.
26:11And this has got a lot of potential, mate, because of the color and the tone it gave me.
26:18This is more than likely going to be iron.
26:20Wow.
26:21It's got potential.
26:23Yeah.
26:23This is definitely dense.
26:25Wow.
26:25This is old.
26:26We didn't...
26:27This is...
26:27It looks old.
26:28Yeah.
26:29How deep?
26:30193.
26:31Well, that's way, way, way, way, way below any searcher.
26:36Yeah, and actually...
26:37God, I hope this is something neat.
26:38Going through the bedrock plateau above it, if there was a collapse into this region, which
26:43that seems to indicate, then that could be signs of the original money pit.
26:48Yeah.
26:49The only reason we could be finding stuff like this below where searchers have been
26:53before is either the original works or evidence of the collapse of the original money pit.
26:58And that would be a great, great indication that we're in the right place and that there's
27:02really something going on here.
27:13Billy's waving to us.
27:14Let's take a look.
27:18Hey, Billy.
27:19See, Craig, it looks like a piece of wood in dark ground, but more interesting, it's
27:22in dry material.
27:26Yeah.
27:27Yeah, that whole side looks like it was up against a different material.
27:31Yeah, exactly.
27:32Good eye.
27:33Near the bottom of the TPF1, we found what I feel is solid material adjacent to loose slushy
27:40material.
27:40It's a good indication that you might have an open void nearby where a treasure could
27:45fall into in the solution channel.
27:47Are you doing any good?
27:48Hey.
27:48We're dropping like gangbusters here.
27:50We just pulled up wood.
27:51Look on this side.
27:53It's all got a more of a drier sandy compared to the muck that they're bringing up everywhere
27:59else.
28:00Yeah.
28:00Well, I think we could be adjacent to an actual open void.
28:03Yeah.
28:04That's what I think we're seeing here.
28:05And that wood didn't get there itself.
28:07No.
28:08No.
28:08That's out of place at 195 feet, whatever we're at.
28:11Absolutely.
28:12195-ish.
28:13Yeah.
28:13Let me see that piece of wood, please, Alex.
28:15Yeah.
28:17It's heavy.
28:18Dense.
28:19It's even better.
28:20It's pizza-shaped wood.
28:21Yeah.
28:22There's only one explanation that I can come up with right now for why that's down there,
28:25and that is the collapse.
28:27Yeah.
28:27We're getting another confirmation of it.
28:29It's very, very interesting.
28:31Good.
28:33Let's bring it back to the lab.
28:34Is that the deepest we've ever retrieved wood?
28:37Anything substantial, yeah.
28:39If you find something in the solution channel well below where any searcher ever was, if
28:44that got there, then the treasure could get there.
28:46And we have solid indications that there was a treasure here.
28:49So any artifact below searcher depth is exciting.
28:53Hey.
28:54Hey, Quentin.
28:55Yes?
28:55Hey, Quentin, how you doing?
28:56What do we got?
28:56We're down to 206.5 feet.
28:59Okay.
29:00So we are right down to where you are hoping to be.
29:04Very close.
29:05We're within 10 feet of the bottom.
29:06We almost have to be.
29:08The bottom around here is 215 to 217, 218, so we're getting very close.
29:12Yeah.
29:13I mean, this is where it starts to get exciting because you're about to reach the bottom of
29:19the solution channel.
29:21There's every hope that as this process continues and the spoils come up above ground and Gary
29:27metal detects, you'll find it.
29:29Billy just scooped out another piece of wood.
29:31Every time you put a can in the ground, you're hoping to find the one thing.
29:35And there's all kinds of reasons to believe that, we will.
29:38That is the money pit stew.
29:40This is pretty solid.
29:42I mean, look at that.
29:43It's a good signal.
29:50Right there?
29:51Yep.
29:52In any way you like.
30:01What's up?
30:04It's a good signal.
30:06Let's see what we got.
30:10What have we got here?
30:12Oh, wow.
30:12Whoa.
30:17What have we got here?
30:19Whoa.
30:20I saw the roundness.
30:22Yeah.
30:23While searching spoils from nearly 210 feet deep in the solution channel, the team has
30:29just found a metallic object.
30:32Brass, isn't it?
30:33Yeah, it looks like it's almost like a bearing.
30:36Yeah, it is.
30:38Any one way to tell, and that's to ask Adam.
30:43Adam's coming in now.
30:45What is that?
30:50It's a button head, that's what it's called.
30:52It's not for your stuff?
30:53Not for Mars, but it's more like if you're running a smaller diameter and it'd be on your
30:57outside.
30:58Button bit.
30:58Button bit.
30:59I thought we had a gold coin for a minute.
31:01Yeah.
31:03Unfortunately, the button bit is merely a cutting tool that likely broke off the rim of a smaller
31:09diameter caisson as it broke through bedrock during one of the team's previous dig operations
31:14in this area.
31:17Okay, I'll put it in my pouch.
31:18Thank you, Adam.
31:19Thanks.
31:19Thanks, Adam.
31:20It's disappointing because it's not what we're looking for, obviously.
31:24But again, because it's not part of this work currently undertaken by SBC and ROC, it
31:31has fallen from above.
31:33And that proves once again that heavy things migrate down through the soils to the bottom
31:41of the solution channel.
31:43Oh, look who's here.
31:45Well, well.
31:46Hey, guys.
31:46How you doing?
31:47We're on bottom with the drill dig there, so about 215.
31:53215.
31:54So good.
31:55Written the bottom.
31:56That's where we want to be.
31:57Yeah.
31:58Perfect.
31:59Thanks, guys.
31:59Yep.
32:00Still finding quite a bit of wood falling out of the bucket.
32:03There was a collapse into the solution channel.
32:06Yeah.
32:06It had to be.
32:07Yeah.
32:08And we know the records that the money pit itself disappeared.
32:11We've just got to bloody find it.
32:16Look at that.
32:17Anything could fall into that.
32:19Let's go see if there's anything there.
32:20Yep.
32:22Everything we saw in Top Pocket 1 indicates that our theory is correct.
32:28That the money pit collapsed into the solution channel.
32:31That's it, mate.
32:33Give it a good shot.
32:34Yep.
32:34So not only is the theory correct, I think we're getting close to where it happened.
32:40So we're very excited to keep going.
32:42We proved the theory, but we didn't find the treasure.
32:44And that is probably the sort of elephant in the room as we're deciding where to go next.
32:50We're searching areas that have never been searched before.
32:53You say it all the time.
32:54A technical success.
32:56It is.
32:56A proof of concept.
32:57Yes.
32:58Things falling to the bottom of the solution channel.
33:00The one thing that obviously we're missing is Gary's Top Pocket find.
33:05I am not disillusioned at all.
33:07The reality of it is a bit disappointing.
33:09You know?
33:11But you have to admit that because you've got to climb that mountain again.
33:15Right?
33:16Keep going.
33:18I'm not about to quit.
33:19There's still a lot to hope for, but at the end of the day, we've got to move on.
33:24Yeah.
33:24And we've got to pick the next location.
33:26And the next location could be the location.
33:28We've only just started searching the solution channel.
33:31Yeah.
33:32So there is a lot to look forward to.
33:39The following morning.
33:42Thanks for joining because this should be a very exciting war room.
33:46Thank you, Rick, for having us again.
33:49As the team considers where their next dig will be in the Money Pit area.
33:53First, we'll get the professor and Marzia.
33:56We'll get them up on the screen.
33:58They are meeting once again via video conference with archaeoastronomy expert Professor Adriano
34:04Gaspani and his interpreter, Marzia Sebastiani.
34:09And Emiliano, I'll turn it over to you.
34:10Well, today, we are going to present an archaeological analysis of the churches that Charlotte Wheatley found to be aligned
34:21with Oak Island.
34:21So we have three churches all on the west coast of France pointing towards the island.
34:28One week ago, researcher Charlotte Wheatley pointed out a reference to the city of Taumont-sur-Gironde in southern France
34:36on Zena Halpern's map of Oak Island, which Zena believed was created by members of the Knights Templar in the
34:4414th century.
34:46According to Charlotte, three medieval churches near Taumont-sur-Gironde had ties to the Templar order and sit on an
34:54east to west line that points directly toward Oak Island.
34:58Now, after being given the GPS coordinates of several structures across the island, including the round feature on Lot 5,
35:07Professor Gaspani has analyzed Charlotte's research.
35:13And compared it with his own study of historical stellar alignments between the churches and specific features on the island.
35:34It is true. All the axis of the three churches would intersect with Oak Island.
35:43Excellent confirmation.
35:54We have an alignment with the rising observers.
35:58And then on the opposite side, we have a star alignment with the Pleiades and with Hamal.
36:30And what is really interesting is when it comes to space.
36:34We have a stellar alignment with the stellar alignment.
36:36They are exactly the same alignment that you have in Lot 5.
36:42That's stunning.
36:43This is incredibly thought-provoking.
36:46Yeah.
36:48So the two datings of the structures suggest the same historical period.
36:53And the elements that we have seem to point in the direction of the 13th century.
37:03So thanks to these archaeoastronomical techniques, we managed to have a date for this structure, for this stone in Lot
37:145.
37:21Which is 1236.
37:33We managed to have a date for this structure, for this stone in Lot 5, which is 1236.
37:45Very interesting.
37:46In the War Room, Professor Adriano Gaspani has informed the team that based on historic stellar alignments, he believes that
37:55the round feature on Lot 5 may have been created by members of the Knights Templar in the early 13th
38:02century.
38:02In Again, one of the ancestors'
38:32This structure would be built in the same period where we assumed that there was a Templar
38:40present on Oak Island, which is pretty consistent with the dating of Nolan's cross.
38:49Emiliano, I assume all three of these churches date to the same era then, the 1200s?
38:53Yeah.
38:54Okay.
38:55Roughly by the end of the 1100s and the early 1200s.
39:02Well, I'm having a hard time rejecting this one.
39:05Yeah.
39:06It seems like somebody was here, let's say from France, from the Talmont region of France.
39:12In the 1200s, they established a base of operations.
39:17And then when you consider the Piplato coin, the latest date it could be is from 1383.
39:23So Zina introduced us to her Oak Island map that mentioned Talmont, right?
39:29That was supposed to represent a Templar journey to the island.
39:33Here we see a lot of these factors converging together.
39:36All these areas that were denoted as significant on her map are proven to be significant today.
39:42Yeah.
39:43And the latest being the Lot 8 structure as well is the December Triangle.
39:46December Triangle.
39:47Yeah.
39:48So this could well be a multi-generational endeavor because they established their base of operations
39:54and then move something of great value over time.
39:58Yeah.
39:59Could Doug and Steve be correct that this new research has helped to validate Zina Halpern's
40:05map of Oak Island, as well as her belief that the Templar order and their descendants
40:11made repeated trips to Oak Island beginning nearly eight centuries ago.
40:17The 1200s years ago would have been, we'd laughed at it.
40:23And that, and that's quite meaningful because now there's a body of evidence building that
40:30it perhaps is the point of beginning of some endeavor here on the island to do something.
40:36So again, we want to thank you both for your time today.
40:40It's quite stunning information.
40:42I think it's amazing.
40:46And we need to use everything we have in our toolbox, if you will, to prove it.
40:51But we can't prove it without continuing to do the work.
40:54So let's get at it.
40:56Sounds good.
40:57Thanks, everybody.
40:58The Money Pit's long-held secret remains elusive, at least for now.
41:03But once again, by searching for clues where none have thought to look before, Rick, Marty,
41:10Craig, and the team may be closing in on the truth behind the world's longest-running treasure
41:16hunt.
41:17Could the origin of this mystery be older and more profound than anyone thought possible?
41:25Perhaps one more dig in the Solution Channel will reveal the answer.
41:34Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:37Here we go.
41:39Wait, wait, wait.
41:40Hey!
41:41Guess what?
41:42Whale!
41:43Oh, wow.
41:44Brilliant.
41:45Oh, look at that.
41:47We're starting to get this material.
41:48This is slowing me away right now because it's nothing I've ever seen before.
41:52This is a covered well, right?
41:53Yeah, it is.
41:54Oh, this has got potential, mate.
41:56Oh, look at that!
41:57It's pre-modern all the way back to medieval.
42:00No way!
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