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00:00Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:03This structure is very different.
00:05If it's a marker, then there's at least one other.
00:08What's pointed?
00:09Wait, look at this.
00:10Another marker, sir.
00:12What?
00:13This was found on lot 15.
00:16It's an engineering tool.
00:17And that may be the most sophisticated item
00:19that's shown up.
00:20We have the core, gentlemen.
00:21The core.
00:22Could be the core.
00:24Yeah, I got something right here.
00:25That is pretty much what we're looking for.
00:27Incredible.
00:30There is an island in the North Atlantic
00:34where people have been looking for an incredible treasure
00:38for more than 200 years.
00:41So far, they have found a stone slab
00:44with strange symbols carved into it.
00:47Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:50And a lead cross whose origin may be connected
00:54to the Knights Templar.
00:56To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:01And according to legend, one more will have to die
01:06before the treasure can be found.
01:22Okay, guys, I-9.5, here we are.
01:24We're looking to get to the deeper sections
01:27of the solution channel.
01:28That's right.
01:29As the sun rises high above the Money Pit area on Oak Island,
01:34Rick and Marty Lagina's team move forward in their quest
01:38to solve a 230-year-old mystery.
01:42We've picked up the points where it's deepest,
01:44and this is going to be one of them.
01:45Destination for this hole is 210 to 220.
01:48Right, Steve?
01:48Yeah, that's right.
01:49220, maybe even 230 feet deep.
01:51Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michael fully believe that those metal deposits
01:55are placed by man not natural in the waters themselves.
01:59Exactly so.
02:00Very exciting hole.
02:01Yep.
02:02Today, they are drilling a new borehole known as I-9.5,
02:07which is on target to reach an unexplored area of the solution channel.
02:12And based on new water tests that reveal gold, silver,
02:16and other metal objects may be in this area,
02:19the team has renewed hope that they are narrowing in
02:22on the elusive treasure.
02:25When we get down there, we should be looking for really soupy material.
02:29Yeah.
02:30Hopefully, we'll drill through some loose coins
02:33at the bottom of a very loose soupy area.
02:36Yeah, yeah.
02:37I am a little bit disappointed by the initial speed of drilling
02:41in the solution channel.
02:42But the significance of the precious metals and others
02:46dissolved in the waters has never been diminished.
02:50We have a core, gentlemen.
02:52There's lots of indications that there is a great treasure here still.
02:57168.
02:59Two.
03:02At this point, it looks like we've got fairly loose material,
03:06but it's not really as watery and washed out as we would like to see.
03:10Thanks, Adam.
03:12It's kind of what we want.
03:13It's loose, but there's just too much volume here.
03:15It wouldn't allow things to fall through them.
03:17It looks like we're into a little bit of gypsum now.
03:22It's not solid stuff.
03:23But if he starts out and starts getting into very firm material,
03:27he's probably into the bedrock plateau.
03:30I think that's kind of what we're hoping for,
03:32because so far, most of the collapses we've observed
03:36have been right on the edge of the bedrock plateau.
03:39That's true.
03:39So if we're looking for a cavity underneath
03:42that maybe remained open long enough to swallow up the money pit,
03:45then it should be right there.
03:46I think that bodes well, as you say.
03:49Now, let's hope that this is just the edge
03:51of the most distant protrusion out into the solution channel.
03:54We've just caught a little boulder.
03:56At this point, I would assume we would have tagged into something,
03:59but those metals still come back positive,
04:01and they give me a lot of hope that we are in the right spot,
04:04we just haven't tagged it yet.
04:05Every core could be the one that breaks through,
04:07and then we're into the solution channel and potential treasure depth.
04:10Absolutely.
04:11As the drilling operation continues,
04:15several hundred yards to the west on Lot 5.
04:20Hopefully, we find something cool soon.
04:22Yeah.
04:23Members of the team search for new clues in the Round Stone Foundation,
04:27one of several mysterious structures that have been uncovered on this lot
04:32and which could help identify just who occupied it
04:35before the discovery of the money pit.
04:38Oh, wow.
04:42We got more pearlware.
04:44Oh, nice.
04:46You can bag it up and clean it.
04:48What's satisfying for my job is when we find a piece of pottery like this,
04:53it proves to us that people were on Lot 5 doing work in the early 1700s.
04:59But things like the different buttons we're finding indicate that this feature
05:04could potentially be a lot older than we thought.
05:07So we're starting to perhaps build a picture of a very early occupation on Oak Island.
05:29Hey.
05:30They owned a bead.
05:32Oh, wow.
05:33Good eyes.
05:35Hey, Laird.
05:37Come check this bad boy out.
05:39All righty.
05:41What is it?
05:42It's little.
05:43Ooh.
05:46Oh, nice.
05:47It's a bead.
05:49And it's from Venice.
05:50It's from Murano.
05:51You can tell just from looking at it.
05:53Stylistically, and we've done analysis on the other ones.
05:56So how old would one like that be?
05:59Well, the tradition of bead making in Murano goes back like hundreds of years.
06:05But the beads could speak more to theories about the Knights of Malta having a presence on Oak Island.
06:13This is now the sixth Venetian bead that the team has found in this feature.
06:18And curiously, these ornate beads, which were also used as currency between the 12th and 19th centuries, have been potentially
06:28linked to a group known as the Knights of Malta.
06:31A religious order related to the Knights Templar, who established a stronghold just 15 miles south of Oak Island in
06:391632.
06:42It's got red and blue inserts.
06:44The base glass is white.
06:46It's great that we're finding this variety of beads.
06:49Three of the same type kind of makes you think.
06:51Someone's necklace broke.
06:53Yeah.
06:53And there's more out there.
06:56They were used for trade, but they were also worn by the people that brought them over.
07:02So that's pretty cool.
07:03I don't find a lot of beads, so I'm always excited when we get a bead.
07:07Cool.
07:09Like it a lot.
07:10Good job.
07:10Good eyes.
07:11Keep up the good work.
07:16Later that afternoon.
07:19So what you see before us, it's curious.
07:23I don't know what to make of it.
07:24Rick and Marty join other members of the team in the research center to discuss another curious discovery on Lot
07:315.
07:32A man-made stone marker found just three weeks ago.
07:36Gary was metal detecting, and we came across this, and we both went, well, that's strange.
07:43And to help their investigation, Laird has created a 3D model of the feature.
07:49I did a drone-based 3D model of the split stone feature.
07:54I fly the drone around at different angles, different heights, and take a lot of photographs.
08:00And then I bring all of those photographs back into the lab, and I have a program that will reconstruct
08:08everything.
08:08Very similar to the reconstruction of the CT scanner.
08:12And in the end, we have this beautiful 3D model, so we can show all angles and all heights, and
08:18get a really much better idea of what this split stone looks like.
08:22Laird, what can you tell us about it?
08:25Well, it was the stone sticking out that much from the ground.
08:30It looked like a standing stone.
08:33And then we found a much larger rock beside the standing stone.
08:40If we flip it up, you can see how the rock was sitting.
08:45Yeah, I don't see a natural way for that to happen.
08:47No.
08:48So, the hole was dug, it was placed in the hole, propped up, and then surrounded by rocks.
08:56I don't have the expertise to say that it was 100% placed.
09:00But the people who do have that expertise tell me that.
09:03So, the scientific finding is that that boulder was placed.
09:07Okay, to me, there's only two alternatives.
09:08It was placed to cover something up, or it was placed to be a marker of some sort.
09:13We need to figure out which of those it is.
09:15We did get this dark, organic soil underneath the rock.
09:19And as I was removing that, I got this lone piece of wood that is being sent for C-14.
09:27The dating on that would be important.
09:29It could be quite significant to figuring out who was on Lot 5.
09:33Because I went back through some of my old survey stuff last night.
09:36And this structure is very different.
09:38And so I had to go way, way back in time to find structures like this.
09:43This formation was typically used by the Romans or later by the Vikings.
09:47Really?
09:49Wow.
09:54This formation was typically used by the Romans or Vikings as a marker.
09:58Really?
09:59Yep.
10:00In the research center, Steve Guptill has revealed that the man-made stone formation near the middle of Lot 5
10:08could be an ancient survey marker of European design.
10:13This marker could go back hundreds if not thousands of years.
10:17And so it's used for two things.
10:19It's used as a marker stone to say you're on a, you know, like a Roman road.
10:23You're at 100 mile point.
10:24Or it's used to claim land.
10:26So they put it on an area of significance to say this is ours.
10:29Which one used it to claim their land?
10:31The Romans.
10:32The Vikings were more so we were here.
10:35Right.
10:35So it was purposeful.
10:37Yeah.
10:37Oh, 100%.
10:39What else has been found so far in that area?
10:42We've got six Roman coins within 250 foot radius of this.
10:46Yeah.
10:47You know, one thing we learned on our research trips, tracking Templar movement all over Europe.
10:52Oftentimes, Viking settlement sites had Roman coins associated in those settlement sites.
10:57Yeah.
10:59In 2023.
11:01There is a cave that I would like to show you.
11:03Absolutely.
11:04Members of the team traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland to investigate the theory that descendants of Vikings and members of the
11:12Knights Templar hid sacred treasures on Oak Island as early as the 12th century.
11:17As you can see, there is a cross with a circular top.
11:23Oh.
11:24Wow.
11:25We've seen that before.
11:26Oh, yeah.
11:27And while visiting sites where some believe the two groups traveled together, they saw not only a carving of a
11:34cross that matches the 14th century cross found at Smith's Cove.
11:40Do you know the years the coins were issued?
11:43Yeah.
11:43This is 4th century.
11:454th century.
11:46Yeah.
11:47Well, that's great.
11:47Yeah.
11:48But we're also shown a number of Roman coins found at the same site matching the six coins that were
11:54found on Lot 5.
11:57Is it possible that the stone marker, which Steve believes, has a connection to both the Romans and the Vikings,
12:03may be another clue that could support this theory?
12:08Is this oriented to north right now?
12:10Yes.
12:12It's just common knowledge, too.
12:14You would never put your next marker at a site.
12:17You have to see between the two.
12:18There should be another one.
12:19Exactly.
12:20Yeah.
12:20Yeah.
12:21I went out and surveyed the orientation of the six-foot diameter with the rock sitting in the center, and
12:28that's the orientation of the face on top.
12:30If you project that line, does it hit anything?
12:33Nothing as of yet.
12:34Okay.
12:35When we were out there on the site, you said, let's walk it.
12:37I think we should.
12:38Yeah.
12:38Yeah.
12:39There might be another one of these or something even more important.
12:43I know.
12:43Then that would really clinch it, wouldn't it?
12:45Yeah.
12:45It could be highly relevant to some of the early work that was done on this island.
12:50It might have some association to Nolan's Cross and to the Five Stone Cairns.
12:55But a more valuable aspect of this find is this.
12:59How many other structures like this have we walked past?
13:03How many other structures are there yet to be found?
13:06How many other things have we missed in our ongoing daily efforts to try to solve this mystery?
13:12I think we've got a little bit of work we can do.
13:15Let's walk that line and then follow where it leads.
13:18Yeah.
13:18And, of course, we'll bring Gary and we'll detect it.
13:22Okay.
13:23Let's go.
13:23All right.
13:24See you guys.
13:24See you later.
13:29The next day.
13:31All right.
13:33Back at the marker stone.
13:35So what I'd like to do is walk southeast.
13:38Okay.
13:38Steve and other members of the team prepare to find out if the possible stone marker on Lot 5 might
13:45point them to an even greater discovery.
13:49Because we're in pretty thick woods, what I'm going to do is I'm going to set my control point behind
13:53the stone.
13:55And we're going to run a line of sight until Ethan can't see us anymore.
13:58Then what we'll do is we'll move him to that location and we'll keep going on that line.
14:02And what is this station?
14:04What does it do?
14:04A total station, it does the exact same thing my GPS does.
14:07It just doesn't use satellites.
14:09Okay.
14:09It uses ground control and it's great for situations like this where you can't get a signal because of the
14:13trees.
14:13Okay, Moe.
14:14We'll get set up.
14:15Yeah.
14:15Yeah.
14:16You need this?
14:16Yeah, I do.
14:19You need to hold that, Ethan?
14:20Yeah.
14:20What I plan to do is use my total station, create a control line, we'll call it.
14:27I plan to move it every couple hundred yards so we can survey a perfectly straight line looking for another
14:32control point or marker stone.
14:35This is essentially a land version of my GPS.
14:39So this is the satellites, essentially, and this is my, what you'd see me run around with the GPS.
14:46And I've got to tell you, mate, I'm a little bit jealous.
14:48I've got my magic wand, but that looks better.
14:51All right, I'm ready to go when you guys are.
14:58Can you tell me where, Ethan?
15:00Yeah, more right.
15:01More right.
15:03There you go.
15:04Perfect.
15:06All right, Gary, here's our first location.
15:08Okay, mate.
15:09So, you know, we go a couple hundred yards, we've got Peter and I cutting line, we've got Gary metal
15:14detecting.
15:14And that's important because if this truly is a line of significance, anything he finds could really be a big
15:21clue of what this marker stone could have been or who could have walked this line.
15:27Pete, got a target over here, mate.
15:31We're not too far off the line.
15:33Let's go.
15:50Iron, right?
15:57A little piece of strap.
16:02You see that?
16:03Square roll in it.
16:05Well, it could be a barrel loop.
16:07Looks pretty thin.
16:08Yeah.
16:09I like this little piece of strap.
16:11We've had some amazing results from pieces of strap that we found around the island.
16:17And of course, if you're looking for treasure, and it's in a large barrel,
16:21they would have had iron straps around them.
16:24Just put it in my pouch.
16:26Sounds good.
16:26Let's go and back to the lab.
16:28Okay, mate.
16:29Keep following the line.
16:31All right, Gary.
16:31I'll keep moving.
16:32Okay, mate.
16:33As the team continues their search for clues...
16:38You know, the item in front of us, I think, could be highly informative.
16:42In the Oak Island lab, Rick and other members of the team meet with Laird and Emma
16:48regarding a possible compass found one week ago on Lot 15.
16:54Yeah, so this was found closer to the beach.
16:57So you found it up on the bank?
16:59Yeah.
16:59When we pulled it out, I mean, we originally thought it was a compass of some sort.
17:04You weren't wrong.
17:05Yeah.
17:05It's what we call a compass.
17:07Just like someone navigating on a map would use.
17:09Exactly.
17:10It's a tool either for navigating or it can be used in construction.
17:16Really?
17:18Dating back more than 2,000 years, a compass is an instrument used for measuring distances
17:25on maps and to design various kinds of structures on land, such as buildings and even megalithic
17:33formations.
17:35So these are images with all the corrosion also.
17:38What you're seeing is what's on the screen right now.
17:41The side views, back view.
17:45But this is what you can see in the interior.
17:50You see one arm, a pin.
17:54This is the other arm.
17:55So there's two components with one pin holding them together.
18:02But it's hand forged.
18:04And I got a fairly good comparable of this specific design.
18:10Oh, I see what you mean.
18:11Yeah.
18:12What data are you putting on this?
18:15So no signs of modern alloying elements.
18:19So it kind of takes it away from the mid-1800s onwards.
18:22Oh, wow.
18:24That's interesting.
18:25Pictures are fantastic.
18:27So 18th century or the 1700s, very comfortably fits within there.
18:32But I mean, there's nothing to say that it's not from mid to late 1600s, possibly older.
18:40That's interesting.
19:05You said it yourself, it's a construction tool.
19:09Lot 15 is in close proximity to the boulder of this beach and the stone cairns.
19:16To me, the stone cairns are made by the hand of man.
19:20The stone cairns were a formation of five pyramid-shaped mounds that Fred Nolan documented in the early 1960s on
19:29Lot 15 before they were destroyed by treasure hunting activities.
19:33In 2023, archaeoastronomy expert Professor Adriano Gaspani shared peer-reviewed research suggesting the cairns had been designed to perfectly align
19:46with stars in the night sky during the 13th century.
19:51And when the team visited a site in Bornholm, Denmark, possibly connected to the Knights Templar and descendants of Vikings.
19:59I have the picture here of the stone cairns.
20:01I'd say it's almost identical.
20:03They were stunned to find a petroglyph of the exact same formation.
20:08I think in order to create the stone cairns, which are just uphill from the find, you would need measuring
20:17devices.
20:18You would have to draw a map of what you intend to accomplish with distances, measurements, orientations, alignments.
20:29While this is a measuring device, a device such as this would have been needed to actually create these constructions.
20:37Here we have a construction on top of the hill that needed to be laid out rather precisely.
20:42And we have a tool that would have assisted in devising a plan to create these constructions.
20:48We've always seeked to connect the dots in terms of what's found here.
20:53So it's a great find.
20:56But I think I'd really like Carmen to take a look at that.
20:59Yeah.
21:00But at the end of the day, the search agenda continues.
21:04And thus, we have work to do, as do you in the lab.
21:06We do.
21:07So we really appreciate it.
21:08Thank you, guys.
21:09Thanks.
21:10Good luck.
21:10As Rick ends the meeting in the lab...
21:14Steve, look at this.
21:15What's that?
21:16This rock right here.
21:18Would it be any sort of marking?
21:20It could be.
21:22Near the bottom of Lot 8, Steve and the team continue searching for clues along a straight line from the
21:29possible marker stone on Lot 5.
21:32For me, there'd be some type of a mark on it because, again, we have so many boulders and stones
21:37on this island.
21:38And this doesn't have any.
21:39Okay.
21:40But over the next 20 or 30 feet, we're at the highest point.
21:43So if we're going to find a marker stone in line of sight, it could be somewhere in here.
21:48So good eyes, Peter.
21:49Keep going.
21:51Okay.
21:52Anytime I see a boulder, you have to take a double look because some of them have turned out to
21:55be substantial pieces of evidence left by somebody.
21:59So anytime that we come across something that looks like it's been placed by man, we have to investigate it.
22:05So we are now moving into, I would say, Lot 27.
22:09Keep your eye out through rocks.
22:17Okay, I'll turn around here.
22:19Wait, look at this.
22:21Oh, man, I just walked straight over that.
22:23That looks like a drilled stone.
22:25Yep.
22:26And they found drilled stones like this before in the money pit.
22:29A drilled stone found on Lot 27?
22:34In 1895, treasure hunter Frederick Blair found a drilled stone just north of the original money pit.
22:41Over four decades later, in 1937, Gilbert Hetton found another near Smith's Cove on a perfect east-west alignment from
22:53Blair's discovery.
22:56Steve, do you know anything about this, what looks like drilled stone?
23:00Actually, I do.
23:02So a few years ago, Rick and I were doing some work out here.
23:04He found it, came out and surveyed it, but we had nothing to tie it to.
23:08But now we do.
23:09Yeah.
23:11Is it possible that the team has just found a connection between the feature on Lot 5 and this drilled
23:18stone?
23:20Every time we found a marked stone or a drilled stone, it represents something.
23:24And it's a point of interest that usually is followed up by another point of interest, and they project to
23:30an area.
23:30Yeah.
23:31So this is a really important spot, but I suspect that we'll find an artifact or a marker stone anywhere
23:37between where we are now and just up over the hill.
23:39Perfect.
23:40Okay.
23:41All right, guys.
23:41All right.
23:41Follow me.
23:42We'll keep moving.
23:43Okay.
23:45This drilled stone connects to the Lot 5 marker feature.
23:49So it makes the marker feature way more important, and I'm excited to see where it might go.
23:57All right, guys.
23:57So I get us back online, and I can actually do with my GPS now that we're in the open.
24:01Okay.
24:02What lot are we on, Steve, now?
24:03We are currently staying on 28 on the western side of the island.
24:06Do we know any features in this area?
24:09Oh, absolutely.
24:10We're heading right towards Kingdom Stone.
24:12Okay.
24:13So Kingdom is part of the Tree of Life, and a lot of theorists work with the Tree of Life,
24:17and no one's crossed.
24:19Yeah.
24:19The Kingdom Stone?
24:21There is a codon map I found, and it will lead to the ultimate point X.
24:26In 2013, Norwegian Freemason and researcher Petter Amundsen proclaimed that the six megalithic boulders that form Nolan's Cross may actually
24:37be part of a larger feature that included four additional buried boulders, known as the Tree of Life.
24:45An ancient religious symbol comprised of ten points, or Sephiroth, that was highly revered by the Knights Templar.
24:54Yeah, this is it.
24:56Good.
24:56To prove his theory, Petter, along with Marty and Alex, uncovered the Sephiroth at the base of the formation, known
25:04as the Kingdom Stone.
25:06It was only half of a small boulder that appeared to have been precisely cut in two.
25:13And because it was such a potentially historic find, the team reburied it for preservation.
25:21I mean, as you can see, we've done a lot of work in this area over the years.
25:25Yeah.
25:29So, Kingdom Stone is buried here.
25:32Okay.
25:33So, you can see along our projection, it's pretty close.
25:35Actually, it's probably on the projection from the drilled stone.
25:39What we're seeing here is, if this lines up with Kingdom, it could have been a reference point for building
25:46out Nolan's Cross and the Tree of Life.
25:48Is that possible?
25:49Absolutely.
25:50Usually, when you can line two or three items up on a linear projection, it was done on purpose.
25:55Yeah.
25:56Okay.
25:57I'm going to get my uncle Rick to come meet us at that drilled stone.
26:00I think that's a good idea.
26:02I'm sure he's going to love it.
26:06Well, here comes Rick now.
26:08Yeah.
26:09You remember this, don't you, Rick?
26:10I do.
26:11On lot 27 of Oak Island, Rick joins the team to investigate a stone with a curious drilled hole, and
26:20which sets on a perfect southeast line from the stone marker on lot 5.
26:26So, the question then to you is, were you able to project any lines off other drilled stones or features
26:33in the area?
26:34Yes.
26:34If you project this line from lot 5 to here, we cut through Kingdom Stone.
26:40What?
26:41Yeah, isn't that crazy to think of?
26:42I mean, who would have thought the Kingdom Stone was connected to that monument marker there on lot 5?
26:49Huh.
26:49This drilled stone is near the middle of the island at one of the highest points.
26:57That's right.
26:58You want your survey points at high locations because it's line of sight.
27:02So, this becomes a piece that you pivot on.
27:06Maybe we project to Nolan's Cross.
27:08Maybe we project to the Cairns.
27:09Maybe we project to the drilled stones in the money pit and look for more clues.
27:13So, it becomes a big network for me to work with.
27:16Hmm.
27:17This line from the marker stone through the drilled stone, it hits Kingdom Stone.
27:21And that ties to Nolan's Cross, which could be part of a bigger network and something significant to figuring out
27:27where this treasure is.
27:28So, right now, it's pretty exciting.
27:31It's difficult to put your mind back and say men in white robes with red crosses emblazoned on their chests
27:37were here on this island.
27:38But the kind of planning information and network of infrastructure needed, it conjures up the idea that it was significantly
27:49important to whomever was designing it.
27:54Digging and drilling is part of the search agenda, but only part.
27:58We're building a body of evidence that someone went to a lot of planning, logistics, and effort to create possibly
28:05an island-wide map on the ground.
28:08It reaffirms my belief all these many years that digging and drilling alone will not solve the Oak Island mystery.
28:17Well, maybe the answers are in the ground.
28:19So, everything builds on something else, and sometimes the most innocent observation presents some stunning opportunities to learn more and
28:27to do more.
28:28Let's see what we find.
28:29See what we find, absolutely.
28:31Yep.
28:31Let's say we get going.
28:32All right, sounds good.
28:33Follow you.
28:39As another exciting day begins on Oak Island.
28:44How you doing, Rick?
28:46Where are we?
28:46I think we could see an open, washed area with effectively a void down below, and that's what we're looking
28:52for for sure.
28:53Right.
28:54Rick arrives at the money pit area, where borehole I-9.5 may be close to entering the solution channel.
29:03We have a core, gentlemen.
29:05The core.
29:06Could be the core.
29:07Let's hope it's the core.
29:09Good.
29:10He went from 185.5 to 209-ish.
29:14So, he's going to have probably about 20 feet in the core barrel.
29:17Okay.
29:18So, we've got an anaconda coming our way.
29:21Every time you open a core, what you're hoping is that you will find the one thing, given the fact
29:27that, you know, there are detectable levels of precious metals at the depth.
29:32Get that pinpointer ready, Charles.
29:35Right there.
29:37That's really what we're looking for.
29:39Really loose material.
29:41Do you like to see that?
29:42That's just falling out.
29:44Let's hope we get some gold in the mud.
29:47Okay, don't get off here.
29:49But what is most important is the soil, meaning would a treasure fall through the type of soils that we've
29:57encountered.
29:58That's the hope.
29:59So, it's an interesting location, but at the end of the day, something has to come up from the core.
30:10Which one do you want?
30:11You want that, Terry?
30:11You want that coming?
30:12Yes.
30:14So, that's 209, Terry.
30:17209.
30:17Let's be hopeful.
30:21That is pretty much what we're looking for.
30:24It is.
30:24Yeah, it's very loose.
30:26Very loose.
30:30If nothing else, this is proof that the soft material hangs out right under the ledges in the solution channel.
30:37Yep.
30:37Spread this apart for you, Charles, and then we'll let you get that with the pinpointer.
30:42And that's probably the start of our bedrock right there.
30:45Okay.
30:46Okay, I'm going to run the pinpointer over this.
31:05I got something right here, guys.
31:07You know, you get fooled sometimes by the screws in the table.
31:10Let's take it over.
31:11Yeah.
31:14Launch your dirt.
31:15Yep.
31:16Watch yourself.
31:18Good.
31:18Good.
31:21Nicely done.
31:22Here we go.
31:28Yeah, I got something right here.
31:30Oh, wow.
31:31Right here.
31:32Okay.
31:33Whoa.
31:36I have something right here.
31:38Oh, wow.
31:39Okay.
31:39While the team investigates a drilling core taken from 209 feet deep in borehole I-9.5,
31:48Charles is detecting a possible metal object.
31:53Right there.
31:55Whoa.
31:58Somewhere.
32:00It's gone.
32:02Just give this another sweep through.
32:06I-I got nothing.
32:07It is what it is.
32:10Well, you know, to be safe, we could have Katja come up and just run the manticore over here.
32:16Yep.
32:16And you know for certain.
32:17Absolutely.
32:17Let's do it.
32:19It's exciting in the moment.
32:21There's something here that is making the pinpointer react.
32:25But I don't understand how the signal disappeared.
32:29It's very curious.
32:30I don't know what it means.
32:32So we need to call in Katja and test the entire sample, the entire drill core.
32:39Hey, guys.
32:39Katja.
32:40Hey.
32:40Hey, Katja.
32:40Katja, how you doing?
32:41Good.
32:42What do we have here?
32:43Well, Katja, I was getting a hit, but then I got a harder signal right here, a more stronger
32:47signal.
32:47Mm-hmm.
32:48If you could go over it again just to confirm, see if there's something there.
32:52Sure.
32:52Yeah.
32:53Let's just lift it up and put it on the garbage cans.
33:01Start with the pinpointer.
33:10There we go.
33:10Wow.
33:11Here we are.
33:11If you want to start separating it out, you can use that.
33:16So there was something there.
33:21See, this is what happened to us.
33:23Yeah.
33:30It's just fine stuff in here that when you get big clumps of it and it's concentrated,
33:38it'll go crazy.
33:41We're looking for a little flecks of gold.
33:43Could that possibly be ground up in that?
33:45We found it in other samples.
33:47Yeah.
33:48This could definitely be something really interesting here.
33:51If there's gold dust in those bags, that could be part of the treasure.
33:56There you go.
33:56So that could also be an indicator that we're getting really close, if it's in there.
34:00Yep.
34:01Bingo.
34:02So it's all the more reason to send this off to the lab.
34:04Sure, yeah.
34:05I have a bag here, so we're going to get a sample and get it back to the lab.
34:09Okay.
34:09Is it possible that the team has recovered traces of precious metals in soils collected
34:15from the solution channel?
34:17If so, could that mean they may be closing in on the legendary treasure?
34:23There's no apparent gold coin or anything like that, but something of metallic nature
34:30is in that core.
34:32Hopefully, the lab can confirm if it is gold or silver.
34:37If this is some sort of metal, especially if it's fine flakes of gold or whatever it is,
34:44you'd put a caisson shot over this.
34:46Oh, yeah.
34:46No question about it.
34:47So there's reasons to be hopeful, but there's also reasons to give it your due diligence.
34:53Absolutely.
34:54Thank you, Katya.
34:55Of course.
34:56I'm hoping you guys have some success on this.
34:58Yeah, me too.
35:01Later that morning...
35:04Well, looky here.
35:05How you doing?
35:06Hey, Carmen.
35:07Found something else?
35:08Yes, sir, we did.
35:09In the Oak Island lab, members of the team meet with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legg.
35:15So this was found on lot 15.
35:18While they await soil test results on the money pit core, they have asked Carmen to examine
35:24the tool found on lot 15 to help determine just how old it could be.
35:30When I pulled it up, I thought it was like a compass navigation tool of sorts.
35:34I'll have a look.
35:40Well, it's not a compass.
35:43What it is is a divider.
35:45It's an engineering tool.
35:46So dividers were used a lot on planning structures or developing structures from maps or plans.
35:53Also, if you measure the diameter of something, you determine the circumference of whatever it is.
35:59So dividers, if I understand what you're saying, aren't really that much different from a compass.
36:03No, it's the same thing.
36:04Yeah.
36:05Yeah.
36:05The dividers were used a lot on determining how structures would fit together.
36:09I think you're describing ancient geometry too.
36:13Yes.
36:13Oh, yes.
36:14That's right.
36:14Yeah.
36:15I'm looking and it seems like it's double-sided, right?
36:19Mm-hmm.
36:20If you look, you can see there's two sides to it.
36:23And then there's also a metal that comes out with probably another two sides going this way.
36:27In other words, it simply wasn't this.
36:29Huh.
36:30Oh, yeah.
36:32Where it's double-sided, it's really a high-quality tool.
36:36It's quite thick and wide and robust.
36:39So again, that tells me that it's an engineering tool that was meant to last.
36:43I would suspect it was probably about that long in the beginning.
36:46Oh, wow.
36:47I was not expecting it to be that long.
36:49Mm-hmm.
36:50What is the earliest date that you put on it?
36:53I've seen some French ones that were 1620.
36:57They were double-sided as well.
36:59I remember seeing in a British journal, I believe, a set of dividers, same style, same
37:06design.
37:08It was 1543.
37:10Oh, wow.
37:11Oh, wow.
37:12There we go.
37:13Mm-hmm.
37:17I remember seeing in a British journal a set of dividers that was 1543.
37:23Oh, wow.
37:24Wow.
37:25In the Oak Island lab, Carmen has just informed the team that the divider tool found on lot
37:3115 could predate the discovery of the money pit by more than 250 years.
37:37Emma, you could probably determine what's in there for metal, age-wise.
37:42The composition really lines up with 1600s, but there is a huge chlorine content.
37:48And it's not just saltwater exposure.
37:50It's saltwater submersion for really long periods of time.
37:54I mean, you kind of see it now in the buildup of that kind of corrosion.
37:59Iron doesn't do well underwater, under seawater.
38:01No.
38:02And if the chlorine content is affecting other aspects of the composition, maybe a second
38:06look could, yeah, sway it towards the 1500s.
38:11But now to get chlorine in it.
38:12Yes.
38:13How did it go from being under saltwater for a long time to being where it was found?
38:17Well, it could have come from the flood tunnel.
38:21If the original depositors lost it in there, and then the searchers found it and brought
38:26it up to surface and...
38:27Or Dunfield.
38:29Yeah, there's records where the flood tunnel came crashing in at them.
38:33Maybe this came in and later on was brought to surface.
38:37There are Dunfield spoils all along lot 15, all along there.
38:42All right.
38:42Well, maybe we're getting somewhere.
38:43Yeah.
38:44But that makes it a depositor item, doesn't it?
38:46Depositor item.
38:47Or a flood tunnel construction item.
38:51Mm-hmm.
38:51Yeah.
38:53In 1965, treasure hunter Robert Dunfield excavated a massive 100-foot diameter hole in the Money
39:01Pit area and moved the spoils from his dig to nearby lots such as 15.
39:07But due to the inflow of seawater from an ingeniously designed man-made flood tunnel system that originated
39:14at Smith's Cove.
39:15The massive hole repeatedly caved in and the dig failed to reach any deeper than 140 feet.
39:24Is it possible that Mr. Dunfield may have unknowingly recovered this tool from the flooded depths of the original Money
39:31Pit 60 years ago?
39:33Wow.
39:35This is quite possibly the most sophisticated item that has shown up for metal detecting.
39:41This is a tool of an upper-level craftsman.
39:43Oh, it certainly is.
39:44Yeah.
39:44Very high quality and very expensive and valuable tool.
39:48Well, it kind of speaks to the fact that whoever was here with that did something of great significance.
39:56And whether that be an alignment of boulders or something in the Money Pit, they would need that.
40:02Yeah, I would think.
40:04The divider is a very interesting find because the original depositors work in the Money Pit took
40:11time and planning.
40:13So, there would have been a plan, probably on paper.
40:17This was an endeavor that was not done on a weekend.
40:20And everything that we have discovered, I think, can fit into that theory.
40:26And thus the reason to continue work like this.
40:30Next time you two find something equally interesting, but less inexplicable.
40:35Okay.
40:37This thing's so interesting, it's going to take a little bit more thought to figure it out.
40:42Always good to have your input, Carmen.
40:44Thank you, Emma.
40:45So, for now, let's get back out there.
40:47Sounds good.
40:49Let's go find some more.
40:50Okay.
40:51With the team's new discoveries and revelations, more questions arise.
40:57Is it possible that people visited Oak Island nearly 800 years ago with an elaborate plan
41:04to hide sacred treasures?
41:07And did others who knew of those secrets come centuries later to bury more?
41:14For the Laginas and their team, one thing appears to be certain.
41:20The more they peel back the layers of this 230-year-old mystery, the deeper it becomes.
41:34Next time, on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:37We have a core, gentlemen.
41:39This must be the solution channel.
41:41That has the ability to hide treasure.
41:42I got something right in here.
41:44Oh, there it is.
41:44Yeah, it's there.
41:47Ooh.
41:48Ho-ho!
41:49Oh, we got you!
41:50Well done, Mike.
41:52Oh, my gosh.
41:54Laird.
41:54Can you tell him this is a jewel?
41:56It is high-grade.
41:58Made in the old world?
41:59Yep.
42:00That takes us to a whole new level.
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