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00:01Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:03Oh, wow.
00:04What is that?
00:05That's exactly like the sticks we found near the vault.
00:08I truly believe there's still another vault there.
00:11Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:12There it is, the void.
00:13That's right.
00:13Is that natural, or is that an open cavern?
00:16Only a sonar could tell you that, really.
00:17All right, well, that's what we'll do.
00:18Hopefully, we'll find the one thing.
00:20Crush your fingers.
00:20We're in the cavity.
00:22Yeah, you're in.
00:22We'd love nothing better than to see a man-made cavern or vault.
00:26We've got an opening.
00:27This is not natural.
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.
01:21As a new day begins on Oak Island.
01:24Here we go.
01:26The N13.5.
01:28This is an area that we really haven't looked at very much and certainly haven't been to the bottom of
01:32the solution channel in very much.
01:33Rick and Marty Lagina and their team are shifting their strategy to look for treasure more than 200 feet deep
01:41in the Money Pit area.
01:43Right in the heart of the Peacock.
01:45Yep.
01:46The Peacock is a real phenomenon.
01:47It's a loose, slushy area leading down into the solution channel.
01:52Look.
01:54They are drilling a borehole known as BN13.5, located 45 feet northeast from recent drilling locations and in an
02:05area dubbed by Marty Lagina as the Peacock.
02:08So, right at 55 is like the bottom drop right out of her.
02:12It was here where three years ago, the team drilled through heavily slushy material between 55 and 150 feet deep
02:22before entering the solution channel at a depth of nearly 170 feet underground.
02:29Now, in order to explore another area of the solution channel, where new water tests have revealed more evidence of
02:37precious metals, the team is once again drilling down through the Peacock.
02:43The Peacock is almost like the solution channel sitting on top of the solution channel.
02:47It's a very low, dense area of what I'm going to call, Terry, a higher mud river.
02:54We never really drilled to the bottom as much as we should have, I believe.
02:59The Peacock is an area of significantly unconsolidated soils.
03:04Terry Matheson, a resident geologist, can explain how that can exist.
03:10There may be a tunnel or a shaft in close proximity, which has caused the soils to destabilize.
03:18But the historical record does not indicate anyone being in this area, i.e. searchers.
03:25So, what happened here?
03:27What is the story and where is the treasure?
03:30I think we're in a really good area here. I really do.
03:32There's probably multiple number of holes we could put here.
03:35I agree with that 100%.
03:36And you know, until we actually hold the treasure in our hand, I'm not willing to rule out any area
03:41as possible.
03:42I totally agree.
03:43While the core drilling operation continues in the Money Pit area.
03:49Wow.
03:51Made some good progress.
03:52Yeah.
03:54Katya Drayton and Derek Couch join Billy Gerhardt in the southwest corner of the swamp.
04:01All right.
04:01We'll open this up a little bit to give us room that maybe you can get down and detect around
04:05a little bit.
04:07We'll start over here.
04:08Yep.
04:09I'll see where you dump and then I'll move there.
04:12The team is searching for artifacts that might help identify who built a stone formation uncovered in this area three
04:19weeks ago.
04:21As well as a possibly related stone road that was unearthed several yards to the north.
04:28Both of which were lined by wooden survey stakes.
04:39What is that?
04:44Oh, wow.
04:46We just found another steak.
04:48Oh, good.
04:49That's quite something.
04:51In place as well.
04:52Oh, my gosh.
04:55How many sides?
04:58Four cuts.
05:00It looks like one side is unfinished, but this reminds me of the five sided steak we found earlier.
05:08This has been in here for a while.
05:10And what's most impressive of that one is that this steak was still standing at a very deep point in
05:16the swamp.
05:16So it's exactly where somebody put it.
05:19There's three feet of stuff on top of that, right?
05:22Yeah.
05:23It's cut with purpose.
05:24Yeah.
05:25And it's ax cut.
05:26Mm-hmm.
05:27You can see there now is a round pit down there, which is pretty hard to do with a square
05:31excavator bucket, so.
05:33As you were digging, it just kept falling in there.
05:35Right.
05:36It does give you the inclination there's something down there.
05:39Right.
05:40I just pushed my bucket and the stuff fell in, but now you can really see the shape of what
05:44it was when it was dug.
05:46So somebody dug a pit there and it wasn't me.
05:48Yeah.
05:49Maybe that steak marked why they dug there.
05:52You know who and why, right?
05:53Yeah.
05:54Could Billy be correct that someone previously dug in this area and then marked it with a wooden steak?
06:01If so, could this steak be an important sign of what else the team may uncover here?
06:08Rick told us to keep an eye out for these and we'll definitely have to get Steve out here to
06:14pin this.
06:15I think with the dating of the wood and the depth that we had it when Steve pins it that
06:19Dr. Spooner might be able to put a date on, but that steak has to go back a long time.
06:24Hopefully there's more there, but that is a great start.
06:27Maybe we can find an answer instead of a question.
06:30Yeah.
06:31So it would be nice to find some answers.
06:33We'll keep going.
06:34All right.
06:35As the dig in the swamp continues...
06:39Gary had done a complete scan of the Lot 5 spoil piles and lo and behold, this item was found.
06:45Rick and other members of the team join Laird Niven and Emma Culligan in the lab for a report on
06:52a folded copper coin, or token,
06:54found one week ago in spoils that were removed from the round feature on Lot 5.
07:01You were quite excited about that find.
07:04Yeah.
07:04When it came out, I'm thinking, oh, it's some kind of, like, folded coin I'm hoping.
07:11These are unusual.
07:13I have found these type of finds in England, metal detecting, and they're normally, like, talisman or good-look tokens.
07:22They're put out there, sometimes they ward off even bad luck, but it was good luck for us because we
07:28found it.
07:29Yeah.
07:30Does it cross cultural lines or religious lines, meaning one faith might be more accepting of it, maybe more...
07:38I mean, Catholicism for sure, I would think.
07:41It's interesting because this tradition, I think the first recorded one in England is, like, 1290.
07:48You fold a coin and pray to a saint for a miracle, and that's how this all started.
07:54Yeah.
07:57The team has found a number of potentially religious artifacts in the round feature, such as the 14th century lead
08:05barter token that may be linked to the Knights Templar.
08:08They have also found Phoenician trade beads and two ornate buttons that could be connected to the Knights of Malta,
08:16an order with known ties to the Templars, who built a stronghold in Nova Scotia back in 1632.
08:25We need to know from you what you think it is and what it represents and how old it might
08:30be.
08:31Okay.
08:33So, for the CT scan, I guess the main question that first needs answering is whether or not there's any
08:39reliefs or signs that it is a coin.
08:42Mm-hmm.
08:43And immediately, I'm going to say there's nothing that I can really see so far.
08:48Yeah.
08:49I mean, we can't definitively say it's a coin, but if we look at why coins are traditionally folded, it
08:58needs to have some value to give literal weight to the talisman.
09:05So, we can assume it was valuable to somebody at some point, and then the triple folding is quite unusual.
09:12Yeah.
09:13We thought it would be fairly straightforward.
09:15Yeah, we did.
09:16Yeah.
09:17What does the data tell you the age of this item is?
09:21So, based on the composition, it is a copper alloy with the zinc content, zinc being an alloying element.
09:27It's definitively post-medieval and pre-mid 1800s.
09:33There's the arsenic and lead content as an alloying element as well, which is from at least around the time
09:40of, like, industrial revolution of mid 1700s, potentially earlier.
09:44And then the arsenic could push it to late 1600s.
09:54The arsenic could push it to the 1600s, late 1600s.
09:58The fact that someone took all that time to fold it over three times.
10:04I mean, it is significant.
10:07It is a meaningful artifact.
10:11In the lab, Emma and Laird have just revealed that the folded copper artifact found in the Lot 5's oils
10:19may hold religious symbolism and date back to more than a century before the discovery of the money pit.
10:27And sometimes if it was disease, they'd put a bent over coin or token to ward off the disease.
10:36Yeah.
10:37Somebody went to some pains to do it then.
10:39Yeah.
10:40To me, it looks quite well done.
10:41Yeah.
10:43We're on an island, but it's a big province.
10:45Have you ever found anything like this on digs or know of any of our archaeological digs where they found
10:51these type of offerings?
10:53Not that I can remember specifically in Nova Scotia from an archaeological context.
11:00Of course, we're on an island.
11:02Sailors came to the island.
11:04They were all superstitious, especially in 1700s.
11:08True.
11:09Oh, there are a lot of possibilities.
11:11Obviously, the first one is just preparing for your voyage.
11:14Yeah.
11:15Yeah.
11:15Coming here from Europe was not an easy thing, right?
11:18Exactly.
11:19Yeah.
11:20My suspicion is that's intentional.
11:22It's folded perfectly.
11:24Yeah.
11:25And maybe, maybe three folds mean something different than two folds.
11:28Yeah.
11:29Our research hasn't gone that far yet.
11:31Given the enormity of finds, that date to the 1600s, there were buttons.
11:37Then you have the trade beats, right?
11:39And the dates you're implying are highly suggestive of the connection to the Knights of Malta.
11:45Their attempt to either create a colony here or to do something else.
11:53Given the potential symbolism of this artifact, could the team be correct that it might be related to the buttons
12:01and ornate trade beats that have been potentially linked to the order of the Knights of Malta?
12:07The folded coin is certainly the first of its kind on the island, but it's just a puzzle piece.
12:14How do you connect all of the artifacts in Lot 5 feature?
12:18It's starting to build a body of evidence, but I think in order to fully understand what happened on Lot
12:245, there's a lot more work to be done.
12:28But at some point, with enough puzzle pieces, then you can tell the complete story.
12:34Just love to know what's on the inside.
12:37And I'd like to see the puzzle completed.
12:41It's one of those little, innocuous-looking things that has a great story behind it.
12:46It was good luck that we found it.
12:48I think there's a lot of information that we can learn because of its uniqueness.
12:52And don't forget Sandy Campbell.
12:55That's a good thought.
12:56With Sandy, he's not just a numismatist, he's a historian.
13:03And he might know the history of these coins.
13:06Exactly.
13:07No.
13:07I look forward to what we uncover.
13:09Or what we unfold.
13:13Unintended.
13:15All right.
13:16See you. Thank you.
13:17Bye-bye.
13:20Keep your eyes peeled here.
13:22Meanwhile, in the southwest corner of the swamp, Katya, Derek, and Billy continue to search for more artifacts near the
13:30stone formation.
13:32Yeah, Katya, there's a funny piece in that last bucket.
13:35Oh, yeah.
13:37Oh, my gosh.
13:40That's a something there, yeah.
13:42Piece of planking.
13:43That's a strand.
13:45The top looks maybe cut, but it's wide and it comes to a point like a wedge.
13:50No, it does.
13:52Yeah, it's tapered.
13:54So, you know, somebody's spent some time to make it for a very special purpose, I would say.
13:58It's got a great groove right there.
14:01A bunch of little dents in it.
14:03I'm thinking it might be an aura paddle just because of the shape.
14:07Yeah.
14:08They're so close to the ship's rail, and maybe if you get it tested, it's some part of the same
14:13ship.
14:14If we find more pieces of the same one, that would be pretty telling to what actually went on in
14:19here.
14:19Yeah.
14:20A possible piece of an oar?
14:23Could Billy be correct that it may be related to the piece of a ship's railing found just a few
14:29yards to the east back in 2020,
14:32which was carbon dated to as early as the 7th century?
14:36If so, might all of the artifacts that the team is finding in this area be connected to the nearby
14:44stone feature?
14:45I think somebody will be able to look at that and look at the taper, whether it is an oar
14:49or a wedge or whatever it is, doesn't matter.
14:51Connect some dots.
14:53Yeah.
14:53We'll put this to the side.
14:55Definitely an interesting piece.
14:57Yep.
14:58It's what Marty says all the time, you know, facts are stubborn things, like the ship's railing going back into
15:03the 600 ADs.
15:05It's very confusing, and we have data across the board from literally from the 1200s right up through 1750.
15:14And the bogs with the types of constructions that have been followed.
15:19That looks like another stake.
15:21Billy, got another stake right under you.
15:26My hope is that as the work continues in the bog, the gaps in that information will be filled in.
15:34That is one of those big round ones.
15:38This is probably one of the biggest stakes I've ever seen.
15:41We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight sides.
15:51That reminds me exactly of the stakes we found near the vault.
15:55Definitely something going on here.
15:58The team has found dozens of wooden stakes across the swamp that have featured different numbers of cuts at their
16:05points.
16:06But when they uncovered the empty slate and brick vault in the northern region one year ago,
16:12it was after following a trail of eight sided cut stakes that lined a cobblestone path.
16:19Is it possible that this eight sided stake could be connected to that vault like feature?
16:25And could it mean another one that may still contain valuables is hidden in this area?
16:32It looked like it was about four feet down in that sand there.
16:35Yeah.
16:36The eight side ones are almost all that same, that really big circumference.
16:40The more sides that it has, based on the testing that we did in the island, the older that they
16:45tend to be.
16:46Yeah.
16:46Every bucket full now we're finding something.
16:48There was a ton of activity right here.
16:50I'm sure we'll have a bunch of stuff to take back to the lab for everybody to look at.
16:55Well, that's another good find.
16:57Well, I'll put it over there and then we'll keep going.
16:59Oh, good eye, Derek.
17:00That's cool.
17:04As the sun rises over Oak Island.
17:08You ready to rock, Charles?
17:10Yeah.
17:10Here we go.
17:12In the Money Pit area, Terry and Charles monitor the core drilling operation in borehole BN 13.5
17:20as it sinks deeper into the peacock area.
17:28Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
17:32We've never had this much fallout.
17:34No.
17:35Yeah, it's too hard to tell if it's a void or if it's just water graveled.
17:41Yeah.
17:42Okay, Charles, it looks like you lost the core.
17:45Gone out the end of the core barrel.
17:46Okay.
17:48Here's Adam now.
17:49Hey, Adam, you lost that, right?
17:51Yeah.
17:52And no recovery.
17:53No recovery, no.
17:54Oh, man.
17:54We pushed from 148 to 158 and the rods are sinking when I run the casing.
18:01They're sinking.
18:02We're in pretty loose material, obviously.
18:04It's loose.
18:04We're right in the heart of the peacock.
18:06Yeah.
18:06So you're just going to try and push to 168 to try and get something solid?
18:09Yeah.
18:10Excellent.
18:11Great stuff.
18:11Thanks a lot.
18:12Good.
18:12Appreciate it.
18:14Interesting to see what we come up with on this one.
18:16We're excited about this because we're in the area where we got gold and silver in the water.
18:23And, you know, as we're drilling down, the mud and the muck is very loose and sloppy.
18:29Oh, yeah.
18:30Is it loose because of high activity by humans?
18:34That looks promising.
18:36Yeah.
18:37Is it possible that this could be an opening that was man-made?
18:41If it is, if it's something we didn't know existed.
18:44Whatever was there, we got it.
18:46Right on.
18:47But it got hard at the bottom.
18:50Very sloppy at the top.
18:52Okay.
18:53All right.
18:54Let's carve this up.
18:55Okay.
18:56This is the firm bottom of this area of the peacock, right here.
19:00Yep.
19:01And the bottom here is limestone-rich material.
19:03It's really only 10 feet of recovery for a whole 20 feet drilled all the way from 148 to 168.
19:09Definitely, we've got an effective water-filled void from about 148 to 158.
19:15It'll all breathe.
19:16Yeah.
19:17A possible 10-foot void above the solution channel?
19:21It's a peacock.
19:22If so, is it simply a natural feature?
19:25Or could it be a man-made chamber?
19:28I gotta go.
19:29Okay.
19:30What is a surprise is when we encounter a relative void, I mean, you think human activity
19:35in that area, this is shaping up to be a really interesting hole.
19:40Hey, Terry.
19:40How you doing?
19:41How's it going?
19:41Uh, we're loose from between 148 and 158.
19:47Relatively loose, washed-out material like what you'd expect down inside a solution channel.
19:52Okay.
19:52Relatively high, but this is possibly a void.
19:56Now, is that natural or is that an open man-made chamber?
20:00We don't know.
20:01Yeah.
20:01We're also getting elevated results for precious metals, associated copper-lead-zinc type of things
20:08that are associated with the treasure in the peacock.
20:12So, yeah, for me, I've always been a believer that there's an offset chamber in the money pit,
20:15and if there is an offset chamber, it makes sense it would be in this area.
20:20Exactly.
20:22The Oak Island team has long suspected that whoever built the money pit
20:26may have not only buried treasure at the bottom of the shaft,
20:29but also constructed a tunnel away from the main shaft
20:33to hide a cache of treasure in an offset chamber.
20:37Is it possible that this theory could explain the potential 10-foot void
20:42that the team has just encountered 148 feet deep in the peacock?
20:49So, what we found was an area with possibly a water-filled void.
20:55That's a candidate for a sonar, don't you think?
20:57I think so.
20:59Adam!
21:03Quick question!
21:04What's up?
21:05We had a bit of an open area, which I think of as a void.
21:09Yep.
21:10Is it a void?
21:11Only a sonar could tell you that, really.
21:14Yeah.
21:14Right?
21:14All right.
21:15Well, that's what we'll do.
21:16Yep.
21:16All right.
21:16So, if this proves fruitful, I can see this being a case on location.
21:20Yeah.
21:20We're not done with the peacock.
21:22Yep.
21:23Absolutely.
21:24As the team arranges to look deeper into borehole BN 13.5.
21:30I want to thank you for coming down.
21:32This, when Gary found it, it was coin-like.
21:35Rick.
21:35In the research center, Rick and other members of the team meet with coin expert Sandy Campbell.
21:42It's very peculiar.
21:43Again, a one-off.
21:45Yeah.
21:46To have him examine the folded copper artifact that was found on Lot 5.
21:51I've never found another one of these on the island.
21:54So, I don't know.
21:55I'm hoping you can help us here.
21:57Okay.
22:00Yeah, this is extremely interesting.
22:09And it is a coin.
22:12Folded three times.
22:15You know, when they first started folding coins, it was early medieval times.
22:20It represents a ritual that's thousands of years old.
22:24Yeah.
22:25It was thought that when you folded a coin, you could trap, you know, the evil inside the coin.
22:33And at some point when that evil has passed, if you pass the coin on or if you buried it,
22:40there was no more risk to you from that evil.
22:43Hmm.
22:45And it relates to Christianity, the Crusades, you know, even the Knights Templar.
22:52However, because of the size of this coin, it's not likely medieval.
22:57And this is probably 16, 17 hundreds.
23:01Really?
23:02But I think it still has the same religious and spiritual meaning.
23:11Fascinating.
23:20It's an interesting piece.
23:27Yeah.
23:27In the research center, Sandy Campbell has confirmed that the folded artifact found near the round feature on Lot 5
23:35is indeed a coin.
23:37And maybe a 17th century religious symbol connected to the Knights Templar.
23:43Trapping evil.
23:44It seems like a strange ritual, right?
23:48It's a bizarre ritual, but, you know, copper was really a show of wealth.
23:54And it was also a show of strength to anybody in medieval times.
23:58Hmm.
23:59So the only folded coins you will see from that period, you're not going to see folded silver or gold.
24:05They're always going to be copper.
24:06Really?
24:07Yeah.
24:08Folding of coins was also a ritual to honor saints.
24:12Hmm.
24:13The Knights Templar, they worship both St. George and St. Bernard.
24:19Yeah.
24:19And there was a ritual with folded coins where you would fold the coin, trap the evil, toss it away
24:27as an homage to those saints.
24:29Hmm.
24:30So it's bizarre that you have this piece on the island.
24:35I guess that ritual continued into the 1600s.
24:41Really?
24:41Yeah.
24:42So you feel that this is probably 1600s?
24:47At the earliest.
24:49So my mind always goes to the Knights of Malta.
24:52Interesting.
24:54Which is one of our suspects on the island.
24:56That falls right in that time period.
24:58Mm-hmm.
25:00Is it possible that this folded copper coin might offer another key clue that sacred treasures of the Knights Templar
25:07and the religious order of the Knights of Malta may be connected to the Oak Island mystery?
25:15Sandy Campbell's statement that the Trifold goes back to medieval times during the time of the Templars.
25:22It's very curious.
25:24We have proven, in fact, that the Knights of Malta had interactions and even through families of great importance with
25:32the Templars.
25:33And there was a connection between the two.
25:36So there is a possible tie there.
25:39There's more research to be done.
25:42It's strange because there are some, I believe, Lord, correct me if I'm wrong, but that feature that you've uncovered.
25:48Mm-hmm.
25:49It's basically east to west, is it not?
25:51It's orientation.
25:52The long axis.
25:53We know from the churches we visited and the historical places when we went to Europe,
25:58all Templar-associated buildings and constructions were east-west orientation.
26:05It's interesting, different, and adds to the mystery.
26:10There's no way to unfold that coin, physically unfold it.
26:15My initial response is you folded it to capture evil.
26:19Yeah, so if you back it up.
26:21Yeah, you're on your own there.
26:25I don't know what's in there.
26:27No, it's unfortunate that we can't learn more about it.
26:31You know, the hope is as the work continues on Lot 5, because you're not done, we find others.
26:38And hopefully they'll be able to tell us something a little bit more than what's currently in front of us.
26:43Exactly.
26:43So we thank you very much for coming down.
26:46I appreciate it.
26:48After the meeting in the research center.
26:51I'm really expecting to find some good things in here.
26:54Then this really should be a potential for a high traffic area.
26:57While members of the team search for more clues in the round feature on Lot 5.
27:02We'll see what today brings.
27:03Yeah, let's see.
27:05Rick and Katya arrive on Lot 8, located on the western side of the island.
27:10Let's have at her.
27:11High five before we start.
27:14Two weeks ago.
27:15Perfect.
27:17All right, Gary, here's our first location.
27:18Okay, right.
27:19While the team searched for clues on a straight line that led away from a potential 12th century marker stone
27:25on Lot 5.
27:26Gary and Peter found part of a possible barrel on Lot 8.
27:32Now, Rick wants to see if that find might be related to something more valuable buried nearby.
27:38Oh.
27:41Oh.
27:43That's a hit.
27:47OK.
27:47Right there.
27:54Face.
28:03Looking to be iron.
28:08Let's see.
28:11There you go.
28:14Oh.
28:16Look at that.
28:19What is this?
28:22I don't know.
28:23Looks like two holes in it right there.
28:25Yeah.
28:27Not heavy enough to be a tool, though, is it?
28:30I think this might be a knife handle.
28:32Because there's another hole down here.
28:34Oh, really?
28:35Yeah, you'd possibly have, like, another side to this.
28:38And then you'd have the blade starting up there.
28:41You can really see how both of the holes are square on each side.
28:48Your father has always said that.
28:50Square holes imply a hole there.
28:53Yeah.
28:54Well, I know one thing.
28:55I'd like to see that on a CT scan, right?
28:57Mm-hmm.
28:58I would definitely agree with you.
29:01Well, we'll bag this.
29:02Yeah.
29:02Tag it.
29:03All right.
29:05There are all kinds of questions about Lot 8.
29:08In this particular location, there is no data or no record that people are in this area doing something following
29:16the discovery of the money pit.
29:18All right.
29:20It's a good start.
29:21So anything you find, almost literally anything, is an important clue in terms of who might have been there and
29:30when.
29:38That sounds good.
29:39Yeah?
29:39Yeah.
29:41Oh, yeah.
29:43Right here.
29:44Two-way repeatable.
29:45Right?
29:46Yep.
29:54That was a beautiful plug.
29:59Oh, yeah.
30:00Even I know that's a good one.
30:09Well, that is an interesting piece.
30:12What is that?
30:16I've never found one of these before.
30:19This is a lead bag seal.
30:22Bag seal, I agree.
30:24This is great.
30:25On Lot 8 of Oak Island, Rick and Katya have made what could be an important discovery.
30:32This could possibly be a tail coming out of it.
30:35Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.
30:36That would have been probably from the bag or whatever it was being attached to.
30:41Yeah, yeah.
30:42Yeah, yeah.
30:42Your dad is following other bag seals.
30:44One on 32.
30:46One on Lot 5, down by the ocean.
30:49And yet here we are, in the middle of nowhere.
30:53You find a bag seal?
30:56First developed in Europe in the 13th century, bag seals were fasteners used to secure large quantities of goods inside
31:04cloth packaging.
31:06The Oak Island team previously found one of these items on Lot 5 that was British and could date back
31:13to the 16th century.
31:15However, they uncovered another one near the shore on Lot 32 that was a scientific match to the 14th century
31:23lead cross, which may be connected to the Knights Templar.
31:28Is it possible that Rick and Katya have just found a similar artifact?
31:33To the best of my knowledge, I don't think there was a homestead here.
31:39I just, for the life of me, I can't understand why it's here.
31:43It just doesn't make sense to me.
31:45I cannot explain why this bag seal has been found almost in the middle of the lot, not in proximity
31:53to the open ocean.
31:56Everything prior to the causeway construction in 1965, things would have had to have come by the sea, by way
32:03of the sea.
32:04So why it was lost in the middle of the lot, I cannot explain it.
32:08Look, it's a great find.
32:10I'm more curious about this one than I am about bag seals found there and there.
32:14Really?
32:15Because if it had something to do with a work area, then whatever was inside would have been needed here.
32:21I'm really hoping that Emma and Laird can find a maker's mark or moniker on it and we could really
32:29trace this back to where it came from.
32:31Yeah, let's get it analyzed, see if there is a maker's mark or something.
32:36I agree.
32:37Yeah, good find.
32:38Yeah.
32:39Well, congratulations.
32:40You found something you always wanted to find.
32:41Well done.
32:42It's cool.
32:43Right?
32:44Let's keep looking.
32:45Yeah, let's do it.
32:52Let's find something.
32:53Yeah.
32:54Well, hey guys, how you doing?
32:55How's it going?
32:56Craig?
32:57You about ready?
32:58Yeah, just about.
32:59While they wait for analysis on the new find from lot 8, Rick, Craig and other members of the team
33:06meet with underwater imaging expert Ken DeBoer in the Money Pit area.
33:11To investigate the possible 10-foot void nearly 150 feet deep in borehole BN 13.5.
33:19We're going to try the camera first so we can see if we can get an image down there.
33:22Sure.
33:23Pull a little bit of the sonar down.
33:24Can you explain it, Terry?
33:25Can I explain it geologically?
33:27Not really.
33:27No, I mean, I'm looking for beams and posts here.
33:31That's what I'm going to look for in that pictures.
33:33That's what I'm going to look for in the sonar imaging as well.
33:35Cool.
33:35And perhaps a little chest over in the corner.
33:39Cross your fingers.
33:40Ken, it's up to you.
33:42No pressure.
33:42No pressure.
33:43No pressure.
33:44No pressure.
33:44All right.
33:46It's very interesting.
33:47I mean, we're in the area of high metal values.
33:50In my opinion, this would be an offset chamber.
33:52Potentially, yes.
33:53So it's quite interesting.
33:54So I'm ready to go.
33:56Let's have a look.
33:57All right.
33:57Set the camera down there, then.
33:58Okay.
33:58Let's get at it.
33:59Before running a sonar device down the borehole, the team will insert Ken's high-definition camera,
34:07capable of operating in low-light conditions, with a lens that he can rotate 360 degrees.
34:14We'll take it to 150 feet, so we're into the hole.
34:18Okay.
34:20And down.
34:30Touchdown, water.
34:31Water.
34:32We'd love nothing better than to see a man-made cave, cavern, vault.
34:37Anything man-made, really, at that depth, in that location.
34:41I don't know what to expect, but I'm very eager to find out what's down there.
34:47How deep are we, Charles?
34:48You're 32 feet right now.
34:5580 feet.
35:0090 feet.
35:02It's close to the top of the chamber.
35:04100.
35:05Any help?
35:10Okay.
35:10There's a silk log coming up from around, uh, looks like a boulder or something.
35:14Oh, that could be a beam.
35:16Wow.
35:17Oh, wow.
35:25There's something in there, isn't there?
35:27Steve, come up, like, about an inch or two.
35:29Okay.
35:35Oh, well, that's good.
35:40You can make it almost like a wall or something out there, but when you move away from it,
35:48we kind of go into more of an opening here.
35:50Really?
35:54Now, that's interesting.
35:59There's definitely some sort of opening there.
36:02Yeah, for sure.
36:04Yep.
36:06Right there.
36:07Right there.
36:08Just staring into the abyss.
36:09In the Money Pit area, the Oak Island team investigates a strange cavity some 150 feet underground.
36:19Steve, you want to just take us up slowly, kind of inch by inch?
36:22Yeah, I sure will.
36:25You tell me when to stop.
36:29Oh, oh.
36:31Did you see that?
36:33Turn that way.
36:37Hold it there for a second.
36:38Okay, I'm going to steady it.
36:42That looks like something.
36:47I mean, you see the potential of having boulders on top of one another, but I mean, just off
36:53to the left or right could be the original man-made structure holding those boulders out.
36:57Yeah.
36:59If there was a collapse off that chamber down there or a tunnel, I mean, we're going to
37:04see bare earth.
37:07But it looks like it has depth.
37:09That's interesting.
37:10Yeah.
37:11But we do see some potential boulder-on-boulder, but again, we're towards kind of the rock-facing
37:17wall, if you will, side of the borehole.
37:21Could Terry be correct that the team is looking into a man-made structure?
37:26If so, could it be connected to the precious metals that have been detected in this area?
37:32If we rotate around this way, you see we start opening up here, back into that cave.
37:40Cavity area right here.
37:42That's just very surprising.
37:46Is that what you're seeing, Ken?
37:48Yes.
37:51I'd put the sonar down and try to define the cavity.
37:54That's a great idea.
37:55Yeah.
37:57We can actually see some things, but it's difficult to understand scale.
38:03It's difficult to get in a real interpretation of what you're looking at.
38:09So the next step here is to introduce the sonar and see how open and how big, how wide, how
38:16long this area is.
38:19So what we have here is a scanning 360-degree sonar.
38:23Mm-hmm.
38:24The cable's marked, so we'll know where that 150 foot is.
38:27Okey-doke.
38:29Keep your fingers crossed.
38:33The Blue Robotics' ping 360 sonar device emits a sound wave that reflects off of objects and barriers.
38:43We're in water.
38:45We're in the water.
38:46This will produce full-scale images of the underground void or possible cavern.
38:52Show me the money.
38:53Yeah.
38:56So we're in the cavity as of right now.
38:59Oh, there's the opening.
38:59Yeah, you're in.
39:00You're in.
39:01Okay, okay, right there.
39:02Here we go.
39:04This darker red line is the opening.
39:06You can see how rough it is.
39:07And the yellow is lower density returns and backscatter caused by particles in the water.
39:13Right.
39:15You go down just a little more.
39:16Yep.
39:19Yeah, that popped out farther.
39:20Is that an opening now?
39:23Looks like around the hard return we've got an opening.
39:27Oh, two directions, too.
39:30Oh, yeah.
39:31Looks like it's open.
39:32Wow.
39:33To me, this looks very linear, like with an opening here.
39:37Interesting.
39:40So it's two feet from side to side right now.
39:44If this is not natural, it could have been a larger cavity that has collapsed around it.
39:49So, true.
39:49I mean, just out to the left or right, we mightn't encounter what we're hoping for.
39:53Yeah.
39:56This hole shouldn't be open.
39:58There's no reason for that.
40:00Geologically, there's no reason for that.
40:02We've found gold in the water in the area.
40:05Right.
40:06It's open down there.
40:08There's no reason for it to be open unless man was down there doing something.
40:14We have precious metals and high silver in the Peacock and greater depths in the solution channel.
40:23We've always speculated that there was more than, call it an offset chamber or multiple volts.
40:30Maybe we just found one of them.
40:33This is a priority target.
40:36Now that we have video, let's contact ProHawk, a company that enhances video, to have it analyzed.
40:43We will incrementally pursue this because we're trying to find the treasure, right?
40:48Yeah.
40:50There's every indication here that that could be in this specific area.
40:54Yeah.
40:54We have a few more holes of drill in this area.
40:56Good deal.
40:57Okay.
40:58Right on.
40:58Let's make it so.
41:00The more Rick, Marty, Craig, and their team dig, the deeper this 230-year-old mystery becomes.
41:09After making intriguing new discoveries on Lot 8 and in the swamp,
41:16has the team finally located a treasure vault 150 feet underground in the Money Pit area?
41:25But if so, is that the only place where Oak Island is hiding its most precious secrets?
41:35Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:38I got a signal.
41:39Aha!
41:40Whoa, we got here.
41:42I recognize this seal, so it could date to the 1300s.
41:47That large boulder looks century-y.
41:50We've uncovered the big void right there.
41:51What is underneath that boulder?
41:54We put cameras in VN 13.5.
41:57What we found suggests human origin.
42:00It really seems like it's a depositor.
42:02Wow.
42:03Wow.
42:06Wow.
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