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00:04Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:07Here we go.
00:09Wait, wait, wait.
00:10Hey, guess what?
00:12Wow.
00:13Oh, wow.
00:14Brilliant.
00:15Oh, look at that.
00:17We're starting to get this material.
00:18This is blowing me away right now because it's nothing I've ever seen before.
00:22This is a covered well, right?
00:23Yeah, it is.
00:24Oh, this has got potential, mate.
00:26Oh, look at that.
00:27It's pre-modern all the way back to medieval.
00:30No way.
00:34There is an island in the North Atlantic where people have been looking for an incredible treasure for more than
00:42200 years.
00:45So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it.
00:51Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:54And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knights Templar.
01:00To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:05And, according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:27Hey, Ed.
01:28Morning, Marty.
01:29Morning, gents.
01:30As their quest to solve the Oak Island mystery continues.
01:34You know, the gist of today, you know, we're done with Toppock and find one.
01:39And, you know, we found some interesting things, but we didn't find the one thing.
01:44No.
01:45Rick, Marty, and members of the team meet to plan their next large-scale dig in the Money Pit area.
01:52We're still looking for where the hell the massive collapse of the Money Pit went.
01:56And I was hoping we'd find it here.
01:58There really was.
01:59I mean, where the hell did it go?
02:00It's frustrating.
02:02Yep.
02:05In recent weeks, the teams from SB Canada and Rock Equipment have excavated two seven-foot diameter steel shafts,
02:14where high traces of silver were detected more than 200 feet deep in the Solution Channel,
02:21Karma 1, and Toppocket find.
02:25And while 17th and 18th century artifacts were recovered in both,
02:30which could be related to the Money Pit's collapse into the Solution Channel,
02:35no valuables were found.
02:38Well, let's talk about where we need to go, because time is pressing.
02:41Right.
02:42The years have been predicated upon getting down into the Solution Channel.
02:46So, you know, we're limited in terms of where we put caissons without encompassing previous work.
02:53Yep.
02:54We run the risk of collapse.
02:57Yeah.
02:57Because we're going through backfill material,
03:00it's going to stymie your caisson from going to the bottom.
03:03Absolutely.
03:07Stop!
03:09It's caving.
03:12There's material flopping in.
03:14During the recent dig of the TPM shaft, the surrounding earth began to collapse.
03:22This was caused by backfill related to previous digs that the team has conducted nearby.
03:28This has left the area unstable and would require several days or more of repair and regrading with tons of
03:35gravel.
03:36But with only a few weeks left before the harsh North Atlantic winter will force the team to halt their
03:43search operations,
03:44their time for a breakthrough discovery is running out.
03:49Steve, why don't you put the map up and let's get this figured out?
03:53Sure.
03:55What if we changed our minds and went up to the peacock right now?
03:58The peacock has never been explained and the reason it could be there is because of a very deep, unknown
04:05metal, maybe an offset chamber.
04:08So I'm keenly interested in seeing that hole dug.
04:12Yeah.
04:13Over there they can make good progress.
04:15It's virgin ground.
04:16Subsidons is probably not going to be so much of an issue like we've seen.
04:19They're not going down through backfill.
04:21They're going to make good time on it.
04:22Okay.
04:23That makes sense.
04:25Located over 40 feet northeast of the TPF shaft, the so-called peacock is an area where the team has
04:33also detected precious metals during past underground water tests.
04:38Whoa, whoa, whoa.
04:40And this year, during their core drilling operation, they discovered a mysterious 10-foot void above the solution channel at
04:49a depth of 150 feet.
04:51We've got an opening.
04:53A void where an underwater camera recorded images of possible man-made artifacts, including metallic objects.
05:03This has led the team to believe that they may have discovered an offset treasure chamber that was once connected
05:10to the original money pit.
05:12I vote to go to the peacock.
05:14Okay.
05:16There is evidence of man-made workings in the peacock area.
05:21And what if the reason this area of very loose material is really where some of the treasure was deposited
05:28in an offset chamber?
05:30This is as good a choice as any.
05:32Okay.
05:33So Alex is going to put that on the peacock.
05:37So let's be hopeful.
05:39Let's be upbeat.
05:39Let's get out there and do some work.
05:41Sounds good.
05:42Let's go.
05:42Thanks.
05:43All right.
05:43See you.
05:44As Rick, Marty, and their team conclude the meeting in the war room.
05:51On lot 8, located on the western side of the island.
05:56Hey, Laird.
05:56Hey, Fiona.
05:57What's new here?
05:59I mean, it looks to me like a lot's new.
06:02Dr. Ian Spooner joins Laird and Fiona at the cradle-like stone feature.
06:08It's starting to change where we've got the smaller cobblestones up here, and then the larger ones have presented themselves
06:13down here.
06:14We're starting to get this mortar-like material, and we're getting it in different spots.
06:19Can you look at it?
06:19Absolutely, it can.
06:21After recently exposing this formation of hand-placed rocks, which were covered by a 40,000-pound boulder, Fiona discovered
06:30blue clay and a mortar-like cement that was used to bind the stones together.
06:35It has made the team speculate that this was done to cover something buried deeper below.
06:41The deeper I'm going, it's really hard to dig through.
06:44Now, while Fiona and Laird slowly break up the mortar and remove the rocks, Dr. Spooner is collecting samples for
06:53ongoing lab testing in the hopes that he can determine when the feature was constructed.
06:58It's under every single rock, and it's literally layered.
07:02This is kind of blowing me away right now because it's nothing I've ever seen before.
07:07You know, that kind of appearance, almost wall of rock.
07:12Yeah.
07:13I'd be perplexed if we'd just uncovered this archaeologically without a 40,000-pound boulder on top of it.
07:20Yeah.
07:21There's something very strange going on underneath the Lot 8 boulder.
07:26Metal readings, according to Dr. Spooner, who knows what he's talking about, are not natural.
07:32A couple of them have silver in them.
07:36If, in fact, there is a shaft directly under this cradle, it could lead to actual treasure on the table.
07:42Hey, the whole thing is wildly interesting, and I can't wait to get to the bottom of it.
07:47What I'd like to do is get some of that organic, and then get back to my lab.
07:52It doesn't need to be a lot.
07:53I think that's enough.
07:54Oh, yeah, that's more than enough.
07:56I'll take this back to the lab.
07:57I'll see what I see in this and get those results to you right away.
08:02Well, thank you.
08:03All right.
08:07Meanwhile.
08:08Billy, you'll see Peter and I put a stake in here so you could see it.
08:11Yeah.
08:12Rick and other members of the team begin a new dig in the southwest corner of the swamp.
08:18We've got orange flagging a couple hundred feet north of us.
08:20We turn straight west, and we go all the way to the road.
08:23This is the new permanent area of the swamp.
08:26It's an extension of the southwest corner of the swamp, and I'm excited to see where the sand road might
08:31go.
08:31Earlier this year, the team uncovered two sections or zoned.
08:37So I'm looking for corroborative evidence that this is indeed a path or a road.
08:42Mm-hmm.
08:44While earlier approval to continue the investigation.
08:47When you find something, give me a go, and I'll come back to survey it.
08:50Okay.
08:52We'd like to know why is it there, and who did it?
08:55Why is it lined with a viscer or a vault?
08:58These questions hopefully will be answered.
09:01Keep an eye out for a step.
09:14Hold up, Bill.
09:16Look at that.
09:19Wow.
09:24Whoa.
09:26Hold up, Bill.
09:28Look at that.
09:31Wow.
09:32There's your sand, Billy, right here.
09:34Yeah.
09:35In the southwest corner of the swamp, the Oak Island team has discovered more evidence of a sand-covered stone
09:42road.
09:43Makes that sand really old.
09:45Way back, right?
09:46Yep.
09:47We have the ability to go that way.
09:49Right.
09:49I'd like to know the width of it.
09:51That sand certainly does seem to be turning that way.
09:55Right.
09:55Here, this is well-defined.
09:58Yeah.
09:59There's no question that what Billy called the sand road is right in front of us.
10:04We're standing on it.
10:05That's exciting and interesting at the same time.
10:08As we continue this process, it may go to another area that we are currently completely unaware of.
10:14We think people were here at different periods of times for a significant amount of time, right?
10:19Yep.
10:20And we're finding manning evidence that they did.
10:23Yeah, right here.
10:25Okie doke.
10:26All right.
10:26Let's see what we get.
10:48I'm going to run back to the research center.
10:50Hopefully there's artifacts in here, but stakes are just as important, so just keep an eye open.
10:56That's all.
10:56We'll let you know if you find anything.
10:57All right.
10:58See you, Billy.
10:59See you.
11:05Nothing yet.
11:14Hey, Peter, there might be a top of the stake there.
11:17Right here?
11:18Yeah.
11:19Oh, yeah.
11:20Might be.
11:24Big, if it is.
11:27Suspiciously straight.
11:28From here, it looks cut.
11:30Yeah.
11:31Cut, but not pointed.
11:34It's decayed in there, so it's hard to know.
11:36Yeah.
11:36But it was pretty deep.
11:38Yeah.
11:40Is it possible that the team has found the remains of another, potentially ancient survey
11:45stake along the believed sand road?
11:48We'll put it to the side.
11:50Remember where it was for Steve.
11:52Keep on finding more.
11:54If there's something here, we'll find it.
11:55Yep.
11:59The following morning, as the teams from SB Canada and Rock Equipment make final preparations
12:08to begin excavating Peacock 1 in the Money Pit area.
12:13All right, Gary.
12:14It's time.
12:15This is prime hunting ground here, right?
12:17Lots of good finds.
12:19We are between the structure on Lot 5 and the ocean.
12:23Marty and Gary arrive on Lot 5.
12:26This here isn't covered well, right?
12:27Yeah, it is.
12:28We don't know how old it is.
12:29So this would have been a busy area in between these features.
12:33So it stands to reason we should be able to find some artifacts here.
12:38Okay.
12:39One week ago, Italian archaeoastronomy professor Adriano Gaspani analyzed the location of the
12:47round feature on Lot 5, a feature that the lot's previous owner, the late Robert Young,
12:53believed was no older than the 20th century.
12:56But incredibly, based on its alignment with certain stars in the night sky,
13:01Professor Gaspani believes that the feature was originally constructed as far back as the
13:08early 13th century.
13:10Let's start here.
13:11Let's go around the well.
13:12Okay.
13:13Now, Gary and Marty want to search a stone well that sits a few yards away from the rounded
13:20feature for clues that could help validate Professor Gaspani's theory.
13:26Especially since they have previously found a bronze button and a spike in this area that
13:32had been scientifically dated to the 13th century.
13:35Well, you get that and I get that and we flip this thing up and you can work this from
13:39the side.
13:40Yeah.
13:41When we bought Lot 5, the people who looked into Robert Young's data told me that this
13:49thing that was covered up in plywood, oh, look at that, was that this was just a modern
13:54well.
13:56But it's weird.
13:58I don't know why anyone would dig a water well so close to the ocean.
14:02If you don't mind, I'd like to get you down in there.
14:05I'll scamper down.
14:07You had the detect at the bottom of the well.
14:10It's an unswept area.
14:12That has not been searched yet.
14:14So, there could be artifacts under there.
14:17Let's get to the bottom of this.
14:22Thanks.
14:28Go around the edges.
14:31Nothing in that part.
14:33And you the shovel and then I'm going to crawl down in there.
14:36Okay.
14:38Thanks.
14:41Yeah, it's easy to get down here.
14:47Whoa.
14:48This thing's a little bit...
14:50A little cheaper than I thought.
14:53That's not even a good bottom right there.
14:56I mean, this floor is giving way as we stand here.
15:01We're nowhere near the bottom of this, Gary.
15:02No.
15:03It keeps on going.
15:04I'm standing on a bunch of leaves, that's all.
15:07You want to look again?
15:08Yeah.
15:09Let me get right on out of here.
15:15Well, I'm surprised.
15:17I thought there'd be more in the walls.
15:19Thanks.
15:21That was crazy.
15:22You want it?
15:23Mm.
15:23Thanks.
15:25Okay, but we got to talk about this.
15:26Yeah.
15:27Just because we're not detecting any metals down there, don't mean so.
15:31We're not at the bottom.
15:32Yeah, exactly.
15:33And there could be pottery, glass.
15:35All kinds of stuff.
15:37Well, this is like metal detecting on a trampoline.
15:41The fact that there are several feet of leaves below our feet, we need to get the archaeologists and do
15:48some more exploring in this well.
15:50This looks promising to me.
15:53Yeah.
15:53I'm sure when all these leaves are taken out, there's a good chance of finding an artifact in the bottom
16:01of the well.
16:04That's a good signal.
16:07Sounds like there's a chance it could be non-ferrous and deep.
16:10Yeah.
16:11Stupid show.
16:15This rock has to go, Gary, before that.
16:18Yeah, I think so.
16:21You do the hard work and I'll take the glory.
16:24I will.
16:35Oh, this has got potential, mate.
16:38Really?
16:39Right there.
16:41Woo-hoo!
16:45What have you got, mate?
16:47I could see it at the side.
16:52I could see something moving.
16:54There.
16:55You do the honours, mate.
16:57You dug it out.
16:58You see, that's the tip of it.
16:59Just there.
16:59I can pick it up with my hand.
17:01Yep.
17:03You did all the hard work, mate.
17:06See what we got.
17:09Ooh!
17:11Ooh!
17:13Ooh!
17:14It's a rock.
17:14Ooh-hoo!
17:16That's probably an old oak.
17:19And it makes sense if you think about it.
17:21Right next to a well.
17:23You're lowering something in there.
17:24Yeah.
17:25While searching the stone well near the rounded feature on lot five, Marty and Gary have just
17:31made an intriguing discovery.
17:33How about it's been a long time since that's been used?
17:36You know what, though?
17:37What?
17:37It's not a chain hook.
17:39It's a driven hook.
17:40Look.
17:40Yeah.
17:41Drove that in.
17:42Yeah.
17:42Pull something.
17:43Kind of like a pintle.
17:45It might be a pintle.
17:46Yeah.
17:47I kind of hope it's a pintle because we found a pintle 20 yards away from that big boulder
17:53on lot eight and on lot 15, but if it's a pintle, and I have a feeling this is going
18:00to be a real oldie as well.
18:02Do you think the metal's going to match?
18:03It could be a connection there.
18:05Lot five, lot eight, lot 15.
18:07Yeah.
18:07A pintle is a kind of pivot pin used for doors and gate hinges, allowing them to open and close.
18:16Curiously, the team unearthed two other possible pintles this year.
18:21One on lot 15, 200 yards northeast of the money pit area, and another near the boulder feature on lot
18:29eight.
18:29Both could predate 1795.
18:33If Marty and Gary had, indeed, found a third pintle, could Gary be correct that it might be a clue
18:40connecting all three areas of Oak Island?
18:44I would imagine we're the first ones ever metal detecting down here.
18:48This has not moved for a very long time.
18:51Yeah.
18:52Let's put her in the back.
18:53Whenever we found these pintles around Oak Island, they've always been associated with an old feature.
19:00I know this isn't a wishing well, but I'm wishing that we would have explored this well sooner.
19:08We are not at the bottom of this by any means.
19:10This is under searched.
19:12Yeah, it really is.
19:13We need to get to the bottom of it.
19:15We got to talk with the crew.
19:17Yeah.
19:18Laird should have a look at this.
19:20Yeah.
19:23Later that morning.
19:26Hey, guys.
19:27Looks like they're all set up on Peacock 1.
19:29The team prepares to break ground with their third seven-foot diameter shaft of the year in the Money Pit
19:36area.
19:37The Peacock has been an area where Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michael have indicated for years that the gold in
19:43the water is emanating from.
19:45Gold, silver is right where we're headed.
19:48Terry, what are our depths?
19:49Depth of bedrock in this area, the end of the Peacock, it's a 211.
19:53And this is an area where the solution channel actually extends up to about 165 feet.
19:59That's the most likely origin of the metals in the water, based on the testing.
20:03Yes, yep.
20:03We're looking for that structure that has eluded us, the structure that perhaps is emanating the gold, the structure that
20:08is perhaps the offset chamber.
20:10Right.
20:10Before we reach the bottom of the solution channel, we have to look at this area of really loose, what
20:16looks like disturbed soil underground that we call the Peacock, because there were some voids left open down there.
20:22There could be an offset chamber.
20:24Everything starting from about 150 feet down and deeper, we're going to go through because it has a chance of
20:30containing the treasure.
20:31People could have been chasing the money pit, but the reality is with the gold and the water and the
20:35other things that we found, maybe with this information proves that the treasure is up here somewhere.
20:39There is a lot that speaks to the Peacock as being the location of the money pit treasure, and we're
20:46going to find out what this case is on, hopefully.
20:48So the more spoils we pull out of this can, the more chance we ever find in treasure.
20:53It's verging ground.
20:54Yep.
20:55Speaking of that, it looks like we have the first bucket from Peacock 1 coming up now.
20:58So I'm going to grab some shovels, and we can get going.
21:02Can't wait.
21:04As the dig proceeds, later that afternoon...
21:08Okay, we're here to analyze an object.
21:10Alex, Gary, and Marty join Laird and Emma in the lab to hear their analysis of the possible pintle found
21:18earlier today on Lot 5.
21:20It was found near the supposed well on Lot 5.
21:24Yeah, Robert Young refers to it as the 20th century well.
21:27Anyway, I'm sort of proud of that find because it was so difficult to get.
21:32So let's find out, Gary, shall we, what we know about it.
21:35We both thought it was either a pintle or an hook, and we're hoping it's old.
21:41Well, but here it is kind of cleaned up.
21:44We are leaning towards hook rather than pintle.
21:49Maybe driven into something to lower that bucket down the well.
21:53The iron's composition, so it is minimal impurities.
21:56This one is just really clean iron that makes it harder to locate.
22:01Well, that's interesting because most of your artifacts tend to point towards Britain, don't they?
22:06Yeah.
22:06Yeah, and here's one that doesn't.
22:09It does have a higher chromium content.
22:12And a copper content.
22:13I do see European regions with a higher copper impurity, so that could be kind of a region of interest
22:20to look into.
22:21There's no modern alloying elements, so that brings it before 1800s.
22:28There is a lack of potassium in its base metal.
22:33It does point towards mid-1700s is the most likelihood.
22:37Well, that fits with the bulk of your artifacts.
22:39Yeah, it does.
22:41Well, except then they're way off on the age of the well.
22:43Yeah.
22:44But the takeaway is exciting because it implies that that well could potentially be older than we've thought.
22:51That would be very cool.
22:54It implies that that well could potentially be older than we've thought.
22:58Yeah.
22:58And it also says there's more to learn about Lot 5.
23:01Yeah.
23:02Yeah.
23:02I think so.
23:03In the Oak Island lab, the team has just been informed that an iron hook found near the well on
23:09Lot 5 could predate the discovery of the money pit.
23:12The potential of what you can find at the bottom of a well is so great.
23:17Yeah.
23:17Yeah.
23:17So, Laird, my information is that Robert Young felt like that well was recent.
23:23But I'm wondering whether this could lead us to some action because just about everything Robert Young touched, God bless
23:31him, seems to be not what it seems.
23:35And you have looked at the surrounding areas of the well, obviously.
23:38That's where that came from.
23:39The well is circled with rocks, very similar to the original round feature.
23:46Yes.
23:48Here it is.
23:49Whoa.
23:50It's almost perfectly circular.
23:52When the team began investigating Lot 5 in 2022 after acquiring it from Robert Young's estate, what is now the
24:00large, rounded feature where artifacts that may date between the 13th and 17th centuries have been found, was mostly buried
24:09and surrounded by stones that Mr. Young had placed above it.
24:13Everybody drops artifacts down the well because you're leading over it, getting the water out.
24:19And they're used to hide things you don't want people to see.
24:21Could Laird be correct that the well, which was also reported to be a modern structure, is actually a much
24:30older formation?
24:31So I think, again, the well, it's worth putting a little bit of effort into it.
24:35Yeah.
24:36Just for the potential rewards at the bottom.
24:38It might be a lot deeper than you think.
24:40Well, that's a good thing.
24:41That's a great thing, yeah.
24:43Well, we're tied up to the end of the week with Lot 8, but we can go down and reevaluate.
24:49I really think you should.
24:50Yeah, I like the idea, too.
24:52It was puzzling.
24:53Yeah.
24:54Okay, let's get after it.
24:55Yep.
24:55All right.
25:01As a new morning breaks on Oak Island.
25:05Let's go, kid.
25:06Here we go.
25:07All right.
25:10What takes is one good find, Terry?
25:12I know.
25:13Rick and other members of the team are continuing their investigation of the possible sand road in the southwest region
25:20of the swamp.
25:21See how much deeper that is there?
25:23Right here.
25:25Yeah, well, like here.
25:26Here we're on ground, and look how it steps right off there.
25:30Yeah.
25:30Yeah.
25:31No sand.
25:32Not over there, no.
25:35I don't know if it's going that way, toward the center of the bog.
25:39It's early on in terms of trying to understand the proper orientation of the sand road.
25:45Does it have anything to do with the stakes?
25:47Is it going towards the money pit?
25:49There's no way to make that determination yet, but I intend to figure it out.
26:01Wait, wait, wait, wait.
26:06Oh, Rick's just found a stake.
26:08Whoa.
26:10Okay.
26:10Let's try have a look.
26:14Yes.
26:15Is it an eight-sided stake?
26:17Five.
26:17You can see it's been bounced.
26:19It's been cut with an axe.
26:20you can see those bounces on that side there well one thing's for sure that's exactly where it was
26:27yeah steve to pin that for sure you know what there's two of them two of them that's eight-ish
26:34and look at the one three four i'm here i'm here five six seven eight sided good eye mate
26:42they're right there together no clue what either of them no
26:47i struggle with this fine being coincidental to me it's intentional five-sided stakes and
26:53eight-sided stakes i think each is telling a different story we've never seen a five and an
26:58eight together no one has to remember dates in the bog indicate a multi-generational attempt to
27:05accomplish something as far back as the 13th century so i think they represent two completely
27:11different timelines the five-sided stakes could represent the later occupation
27:18that's cool yeah this is a good sign whenever we found stakes we normally find some kind of a
27:25boulder or rock construction we don't know if it's a platform or a path that's why we find multiple
27:32stakes in different areas of different designs the stakes represent multiple attempts to do things
27:38over an extended period of time i think we need to do a lot more work to try to understand
27:43what they
27:44may mean and it doesn't look very haphazard it's so perfectly straight perfectly straight the road's
27:52still here yeah or the path whatever it is whatever you want to call it it's right here yeah
27:57i found another state okay the good guy one two three four five six seven eight-sided stake it snapped
28:17off
28:19how the heck did we not see that so yeah just just wedged in there it was like this
28:26it was kind of like that the point was in there's a five-pointed one right next to him and
28:36now you've
28:37pulled this up it's just like the other one two yeah five-sided next to an eight-sided look where
28:45these
28:46are rick and then look behind you look we're in the line we're out of a stake if this is
28:52going to be
28:53lining up we should find a couple more stakes just over there same distance two stakes different size
29:02if you're right about this alignment then as you said there should be something right there
29:09you know what let's pace it off one two three four five six seven twenty one thing
29:22gary can you keep me on track here yeah one two three four five six seven should be right here
29:32it'd be
29:33nicer for some more stakes uh should be right here billy why don't you just see if there's anything
29:37here yep we'll check i just find it impossible to believe that this is a coincidence that two
29:46different people at two different times put the two stakes in to touch each other does it have anything
29:51to do with the sand road does it have anything to do with professor gaspani's archaeoastronomy work that
29:57there are significant accurate stellar solar and lunar alignments associated with positioning of the stakes in the swamp
30:15that's what hey come on over
30:25hey come on over you found one rick right where we said
30:32oh brilliant while uncovering more of the sand road in the southwest part of the swamp
30:40rick has made another compelling discovery that's the first time we've ever said hey there should be
30:47one there and there was i mean rick measured it out 21 feet in between them all and and there
30:52it is
30:52there it is yes getting all the more interesting isn't it yeah i mean that's no coincidence mate
30:57absolutely now we know there's an alignment what the heck yep it's the first time we've ever got
31:03excited about finding wood in the swamp because it's exciting yep and you were spot on you nailed that
31:12one up there lined it up with that one put me on the line bingo there it is we've got
31:18a road and it's
31:19leading to something seems to be the northwest end of the swamp are we interested oh yeah i'm open to
31:27uncover a heck of a lot more of this sand road absolutely could the team be correct that the stakes
31:35they have found mean that the sand road is heading in a northwesterly direction if so just what might
31:42they find at the end of it the relationship between the stakes the sand road all of this speaks to
31:50some
31:51effort to facilitate an operation in the bar there is a trail to be followed here and we have to
31:58proceed
32:00we call it the swamp but when you think about it it's so much more because look at all the
32:05industrial
32:05purpose that it has everything just screams just a ton of activity it's too much to ignore this path this
32:13road it continues to be amazing yeah who knows what else is in as well i think what we're uncovering
32:21is work pre-swamp and when people could get out here and do all this work there are strong hints
32:28here that the sand road is man-made hopefully from long ago my mind goes to fred nolan's belief that
32:37the
32:37swamp was an artificial creation and that wants to understand the totality of the work in the bog
32:43then you can understand the mystery well we've got to prove it so let's get to work it's been a
32:51really good day yeah you know unfortunately every day there's an end of the day but there's more to
32:58learn and that means coming back oh absolutely i just need to figure out how to make the days longer
33:03we'll be all set you work on that tonight all right see you good digging okay see you later kudos
33:10to
33:10everybody later that evening so ladies and gentlemen what we have in front of us are two samples of
33:21the mortar slash cement like substance that we believe is part of the matrix of what's underneath
33:28the lot eight boulder before another productive day comes to a close the team gathers in the war room
33:34for a highly anticipated scientific report so i'm going to turn it over to emma and dr spooner and fiona
33:41and jillian to let us know what the results of their analysis is i'm prepared to be astonished
33:50go ahead so i think i would have to ask which samples you brought with us today
33:54so this is the blue gray soil and this is the gray soil okay great amma would you call this
34:01a clay
34:02i don't think i would call it a clay i call it a nice sand silt clay mix okay it's
34:08being manipulated
34:09to remove the sand probably the gravel as much as possible yeah it is a mortar it's not natural though
34:18right it's natural in ingredients that you find in lot eight but it isn't natural in its formation
34:26yeah if we were just presented with this sediment if you presented it to me and say is that something
34:32we naturally find i'd say no just think the the people who did it just use materials at hand
34:39it's quite gel like and if you were doing strength testing of it it's got a lot of elasticity to
34:45it
34:46that could be used to support rocks that you wanted supported yep is there any way that we can
34:52date when this was made or when it was put down there's certain things that i do look for to
35:00firmly date
35:01concrete or cement which is this binder and right off the bat there is no modern binding but i'm also
35:08not seeing any of the classic minerals that i would expect to find in like really old mortar and it's
35:14not typical ingredients that i see in modern right so i'm a little bit more bullish in the feature being
35:21quite old like what dates would you give to quite old well everything i've seen lends itself
35:30to before mid 1700s then i would put it somewhere between pre-1800s post 1200s
35:40it's pre-modern and all the way back to medieval
35:48excellent
35:52i would put it somewhere between pre-1800s post 1200s
35:58it's pre-modern and all the way back to medieval in the war room emma and dr spooner have just
36:06revealed that the composition of the mortar-like material found on lot eight suggests that the
36:12man-made boulder feature may be nearly 800 years old we have features on the island that date back
36:19very old we have good examples of the techniques that were used in the 1700s and 1800s maybe even
36:27into the late to mid 1600s and we don't see any construction like this which to me is suggesting
36:34that this was done outside of those time periods probably earlier with your xrf machine you were
36:42picking up silver emma are you still seeing traces of that silver so i haven't made sense of it yet
36:47but
36:47i am getting um some low detection hits of silver lovely where did the traces of silver even come from
36:55to be in the soil like that it doesn't typically happen right no i haven't seen it in organic matter
37:04okay so my dad's theory if this is a shaft for something deeper through which silver was taken
37:10at one point could that have moved that silver signal up from deeper and then left it there as a
37:15residue it could have with the organic matter if you had an object that was laying even for a short
37:21period of time in the organic matter an object that was silver like a candelabra or something
37:26you know something like that it would probably show the trace amounts we're seeing we're not there yet
37:32no but the idea that this could be related to a deeper signal through maybe a shaft is still a
37:38valid idea yeah the organic will soak up available metals could marty and alex be correct is it possible
37:49that the traces of silver detected in the soils beneath the lot eight feature might be related to a
37:55shaft that contains a cache of silver if so after nearly two decades of searching has the team
38:03found where the truth behind the oak island mystery may lie buried john it is a very weird
38:10archaeological site that has no artifacts is that not true i think this is very special and i think
38:17that the fact that we don't have any artifacts gives it a hint of being much older if in fact
38:22that
38:22a 40 000 pound boulder was placed intentionally placed with a cement mixture of some sort underneath
38:28it it didn't happen in the 1900s it didn't happen in the 1800s it didn't happen in the 1700s by
38:36normal people which means it's very very old i mean medieval brings you back to the templars and their
38:43descendants it's difficult to overstate the importance of that the dates that emma mentioned it's exciting
38:51the zenith templar map references this area the so-called december triangle this lot does indeed
38:59hold mystery here's my next question and it is the question i want to know what's underneath it
39:06like all the way down underneath it we're running out of time correct we are on a treasure hunt i
39:14want
39:14to know what's under that boulder what are we doing next and what is the prognosis
39:19we've removed some very large rocks down at the bottom and we're examining the soil that we're
39:24seeing under there and it seems to go deeper so we're actually at that point where we are going
39:30to continue going deeper and deeper but we really don't want to miss anything and i think it's really
39:34really important that we continue the way that we are doing it now okay well i said i wanted to
39:42be
39:42astonished and frankly i am the consistency amongst the experts that this thing is so significant
39:47astonishes me but in a very good way
39:53it's quite complex good problem to have fascinating problem to have usually it's time to dig i would say
40:02this time it's time to keep trolling so that we can eventually dig so let's go get it sounds good
40:09good all right it works see ya the road to answers on oak island has inspired long and trying journeys
40:18for generations of dedicated searchers for many it led to incredible evidence of buried treasure in the
40:25money pit for others it took disastrous and even deadly turns but now rick marty craig and their team
40:36have found that it may lead to valuables all across the island
40:41as they forge ahead and dig deeper below will their journey end with the ultimate rewards
40:49or will the island lead them to a curve that they won't be able to pass
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