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00:00:04Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island...
00:00:07Here we go.
00:00:08The strategy is to figure out where that treasure went way deep.
00:00:12A special two-hour premiere.
00:00:15Oh, looks like we broke through the ledge into the solution channel.
00:00:18Oh yeah, that's it for sure.
00:00:19If we're gonna hit, this is the one that should pay.
00:00:21Woo-hoo!
00:00:22What's that?
00:00:22It could be a gold or a silver coin.
00:00:24In the original money pit.
00:00:25Found this item on the drill bit.
00:00:27In 1849.
00:00:28I believe this is your one thing, Rick.
00:00:30This may be what lies below.
00:00:32That's a game changer.
00:00:34Fiona just found this.
00:00:35No way.
00:00:36Early stuff.
00:00:37We're changing Nova Scotian history, really.
00:00:39Hit something hard, so I'm gonna pull it up.
00:00:41Please do.
00:00:41Could we hit a vault?
00:00:42We're hoping to find a coin, something.
00:00:44What is that?
00:00:45That's a chunk of metal.
00:00:46It's very thick.
00:00:46No, we may be onto something.
00:00:48See how shiny that is?
00:00:49Oh my god.
00:00:49I can confirm that it is silver.
00:00:51Likely from 1367 to 1383.
00:00:53Does that look like a Templar cross?
00:00:56Yeah.
00:00:56It looks.
00:00:56Yeah.
00:00:57It's real.
00:01:00There is an island in the North Atlantic where people have been looking for an incredible
00:01:07treasure for more than 200 years.
00:01:09So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it.
00:01:16Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:01:20And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knights Templar.
00:01:25To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
00:01:31And according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
00:01:52So, here we are again, on our way to Oak Island.
00:01:55How are y'all feeling?
00:01:57Well, it's exciting because I'm basically satisfied that something happened on Oak Island that's outside of recorded history.
00:02:05Yup.
00:02:06We're finding more things that say that the legend is true.
00:02:09Absolutely.
00:02:10For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, their partner Craig Tester, and the members of their team, a new chapter in
00:02:18the world's longest-running treasure hunt is about to begin on Oak Island.
00:02:23For me, I just want it solved.
00:02:27And I do believe there'll be success this year.
00:02:30Yeah.
00:02:32Beginning in 1795, when three young men first discovered an ingeniously designed shaft that reached more than 90 feet deep,
00:02:42known as the Money Pit,
00:02:45generations of treasure hunters have tried and failed to uncover a legendary fortune.
00:02:52And now, after spending more than a decade finding clues that suggest a vast treasure is indeed hiding deep below
00:03:01ground.
00:03:02Rick, Marty, Craig, and their team are determined to write the definitive chapter of the Oak Island Mystery.
00:03:09And away we go.
00:03:13We begin a new year with this mission statement.
00:03:17Let's solve it.
00:03:18Let's find the answers.
00:03:21We're here.
00:03:22Our hopes are as high as they've ever been.
00:03:25And I'm really and truthfully pretty excited about it.
00:03:28Hey, everybody!
00:03:30Hey!
00:03:31We're back!
00:03:32Hey, chaps!
00:03:34When you walk into the museum, everyone is smiling.
00:03:38There's a certain energy in the room.
00:03:40There's a sense of commitment.
00:03:42Hey, partner!
00:03:43Yeah!
00:03:43And I draw inspiration from them.
00:03:46Welcome, everybody.
00:03:48Back to the quest, right?
00:03:50Yep.
00:03:51So let's start with this.
00:03:53If you try and make sense out of everything other people have done and what we've done in the last
00:03:5812 years, what makes sense is that the treasure has gone even deeper than the Money Pit and is now
00:04:04in the solution channel.
00:04:34That's right.
00:04:35The treasure hunters dug more than a dozen adjacent shafts and tunnels.
00:04:39All in the hopes of bypassing the belief booby trap and recovering whatever had been so skillfully buried at the
00:04:47bottom of the Money Pit.
00:04:50Each one fell victim to flooding and cave-ins.
00:04:54This resulted in the ground across the Money Pit area becoming unstable and prone to collapse.
00:05:02One year ago, Rick, Marty, Craig, and the team believed that their efforts to solve the mystery would finally pay
00:05:10off.
00:05:10After groundwater testing pinpointed a large source of precious metals more than 100 feet underground, they began digging a series
00:05:21of seven-foot diameter steel shafts.
00:05:24What is that?
00:05:25But while recovering numerous artifacts, including digging tools that predated 1795.
00:05:32We found this concrete.
00:05:34And also obtaining possible evidence of a treasure vault nearly 160 feet deep.
00:05:41Stop.
00:05:43It's caving.
00:05:45It's caving all the way back.
00:05:47The Earth beneath two of the shafts, known as TB1 and TOT1, suddenly collapsed.
00:05:55This has led the team to suspect that the treasure has now fallen to more than 200 feet deep and
00:06:02now lies in a natural feature in the bedrock known as the solution channel.
00:06:07A geological term for a large cavity that forms over time due to limestone dissolving in groundwater.
00:06:15I am just really, really enthusiastic that it resides deeper.
00:06:19And with that, Scott, you've been doing a ton of work on that.
00:06:22Why don't you tell us the thoughts on that?
00:06:24So, as you know, we want to look in the solution channel to try to find the treasure.
00:06:28Yeah.
00:06:29So, Steve and I sat with Rick and we've came up with a drill program this year.
00:06:33So, Steve, you want to bring up the map there and we'll talk about the holes that we want to
00:06:36do?
00:06:37Okay.
00:06:38So, now we're looking at a map of the solution channel.
00:06:41The green is the solution channel.
00:06:44Yes.
00:06:44So, my understanding of the solution channel is between anywhere between 150 and 220 feet is a moving mud river
00:06:51with different depths.
00:06:53Yes.
00:06:54So, it's not a mud river, it's a gold river down there.
00:07:00Now, the total area in the solution channel is less than 5% that we've actually explored.
00:07:05So, Scott and I and Rick sat and discussed this.
00:07:08And this is what that map looks like.
00:07:11So, we're going to start the boreholes this year in around top one.
00:07:15Okay.
00:07:16Well, if these are the holes, Rick, you want to drill the green things?
00:07:19Yep.
00:07:20What I want to do is systematic drilling.
00:07:23We're going to drive the casing down around 210 feet because we want to explore the solution channel at depth.
00:07:31So, if we found something with the drilling program, we would then turn over to this gleeful planning of a
00:07:39recovery effort.
00:07:40Absolutely.
00:07:40That would be fabulous.
00:07:42Okay.
00:07:42So, that wraps up the first part of this discussion about the money pit.
00:07:45Now, I think that is the focus of treasure.
00:07:49But Fiona and Laird would say, wait a minute, there's a lot more to this story as far as what
00:07:55actually happened on this island.
00:07:57So, Laird, I'll kick it over to you and why don't you pick up and summarize all that.
00:08:02Yeah, we're really excited about getting back to Lot 5 given all of the artifacts we found.
00:08:07And we're starting to see that story on Lot 5 expand within itself.
00:08:12Yep.
00:08:13The soils from the round feature and feature 2, the rectangular feature, that matched the soils from the area of
00:08:22the money pit at depth.
00:08:24And to me, that's huge.
00:08:26Absolutely.
00:08:28After acquiring Lot 5 from the estate of Robert Young in 2022, the Oak Island team discovered a rounded stone
00:08:38foundation near the shoreline.
00:08:40And another rectangular feature several yards to the south.
00:08:45Both had been deliberately buried and have produced astonishing clues that suggest they were related to the money pit.
00:08:53And were used by multiple groups as base camps between the 14th and the 18th centuries.
00:08:59These finds include a mortar-like substance matching soil samples unearthed from more than 100 feet deep in the money
00:09:08pit area.
00:09:10A lead barter token, which just like the 14th century lead cross that was recovered at Smith's Cove in 2017,
00:09:18may be connected to the medieval order of the Knights Templar.
00:09:24Several Venetian trade beads as well as two garment buttons that have been matched to the kinds worn by members
00:09:31of the Knights of Malta.
00:09:33A group who descended from the Templar order and who are known to have inhabited parts of Nova Scotia as
00:09:40early as the 1630s.
00:09:43We haven't been able to find another feature in Nova Scotia that matches what's happening on Lot 5.
00:09:50Yeah.
00:09:50So this year we're hoping to expand our excavations around the round feature that will give us even more insights
00:09:59into the who, what, where and why on Lot 5.
00:10:04Right.
00:10:05Look, everybody knows that I think the research is an important facet of our work.
00:10:12So we have been actively engaged in following the clues we have come to learn of to date.
00:10:18That includes possible Templar connections, certainly the Knights of Malta connection.
00:10:23Yep.
00:10:25Ever since the Laginas and Craig Tester began their quest to solve the Oak Island mystery in 2006.
00:10:33They have been investigating the incredible theory that the order of the Knights Templar and related groups began transporting priceless
00:10:42religious treasures from Europe to Oak Island as much as 800 years ago.
00:10:48Oh, wow.
00:10:50And during the past several years, they have visited numerous former Templar strongholds in countries such as France, Scotland, Portugal,
00:11:02Italy, and Malta, where they have seen amazing evidence that it could be true.
00:11:08There's something there that you might recognize.
00:11:12Oh, yeah.
00:11:13Four dot cross.
00:11:14Evidence such as symbols meant to represent religious artifacts that have also been found over the years on Oak Island.
00:11:23It's just absolutely incredible.
00:11:26Tunnels that match the reported design of those found deep underground in the Money Pit area.
00:11:32The stone path looks exactly like this.
00:11:35And even a stone road in Portugal that is nearly identical to one they themselves unearthed in the Oak Island
00:11:41swamp back in 2020.
00:11:46So the research continues to evolve and I think there's a real chance that it will be highly enlightening.
00:11:54I love it.
00:11:56I'm very enthused because I think there is potentially an answer this year as to why we haven't found this
00:12:03treasure, at least in the Money Pit.
00:12:05I want to get to the bottom of that. So we got a lot to do. We got the team
00:12:08to do it.
00:12:09Yeah.
00:12:10Yep. So I'm eager to get started. Jack's eager to get started. He's got some stuff at home he's finishing
00:12:15up on.
00:12:16And I see a lot of eager faces.
00:12:18Yeah.
00:12:19For me, it's always about you guys. About the people. We can throw science at this. We can throw technology
00:12:25at this.
00:12:27But look at each other and realize that within each of us, that's where the real importance lies.
00:12:32Let's figure out who, what, when, where, why and how. Let's really commit ourselves to doing that.
00:12:37Well said.
00:12:38Yep.
00:12:39I do know one thing. The answers aren't in this room. Let's get going.
00:12:44You're here. Let's do it. Let's make it so.
00:12:51Hola. I see we're drilling.
00:12:55Following the team's meeting in the Interpretive Center, Rick Lagina and Craig Tester join other members of the team in
00:13:03the Money Pit area,
00:13:05as their first core drilling operation of the summer has begun in borehole J6.
00:13:11A borehole located just five feet south of the seven-foot diameter TOT-1 shaft, which was dug one year
00:13:20ago.
00:13:20It was at that location where the team recovered a pickaxe more than 160 feet deep that was dated to
00:13:29as early as the 16th century.
00:13:31And it was also where a massive cabin occurred at nearly 180 feet that caused tons of earth and possible
00:13:40valuables to fall into the solution channel more than 200 feet underground.
00:13:47We're down only about eight feet. Just the very first run. It's the beginning. But I mean, I think this
00:13:52is a really good bet that we're going to find some treasure in this solution channel.
00:13:55What you've got to do is find one thing. One thing.
00:13:59The strategy this year for the Money Pit is to figure out where that treasure went way deep.
00:14:06Where did it fall into the so-called solution channel?
00:14:10And what is also different from the other years is we are absolutely going deep with every one of them.
00:14:15200 feet. Maybe even more.
00:14:17If everything works out, we've got a good chance of finding something here.
00:14:20We're about to find artifacts and be searching at a level well below where any seeker has gone.
00:14:27All the more reason to keep a really close eye on these cores, because the slightest thing might be the
00:14:32most important thing.
00:14:35Time's going to tell as we get a little deeper.
00:14:38As the core drilling operation continues in the Money Pit area, later that afternoon...
00:14:45Hey. Hey. How are you?
00:14:48All right.
00:14:50Rick Lagina, his nephew Peter Fernetti, and metal detection expert Katya Drayton arrive on Lot 5,
00:14:58where archaeologist Laird Niven and Alex Lagina are investigating the mysterious rounded feature near the shoreline.
00:15:08We thought we'd come over and see if we can help.
00:15:11Yeah. The artifacts we found there are all concentrated on the west side between the rectangular feature and the round
00:15:18feature.
00:15:20So, I'd be really interested in having you go carefully over the east side.
00:15:25I'm excited to see what we can find here. Thank you, Laird.
00:15:28You're welcome.
00:15:28Appreciate it.
00:15:30There's always the hope that you will find some piece of the puzzle that will tell you the whole story
00:15:35of what happened,
00:15:36as to when this occupation occurred, who was here, and what were they doing.
00:15:45I would say that's one.
00:15:49I would say right in there.
00:16:07Let's try it with the pinpointer now that we're deeper.
00:16:12Come out, come out.
00:16:16There it is.
00:16:17I found it.
00:16:23I'm sure that's the last of it.
00:16:25Yeah.
00:16:26Up.
00:16:29Heavy.
00:16:31What do you think?
00:16:32Heavy?
00:16:35It's got some weight to it.
00:16:37It's not light.
00:16:38Some sort of fastener.
00:16:40It's not modern.
00:16:41No.
00:16:41No.
00:16:41It's interesting to be that far away, right?
00:16:44Because they're looking for clues as to what else might be here.
00:16:49Lot five is certainly interesting.
00:16:52This fastener.
00:16:54Is it possible that it's evidence of a structure or structures?
00:16:59Sure.
00:17:00The story of lot five continues to expand.
00:17:03I don't know that we're even close to having an answer yet.
00:17:07A possible iron fastener?
00:17:11Because the team has made similar discoveries in both of the nearby foundations,
00:17:16could Rick's notion that this may be evidence of another potential structure be correct?
00:17:22So that's a bag and tag for sure.
00:17:24And that's a CT scan object.
00:17:27Emma will tell us what that is.
00:17:29No question about it.
00:17:30Sounds great.
00:17:31Good finding.
00:17:31Right.
00:17:32Good digging.
00:17:35We can go see if there's anything else in there.
00:17:37As the investigation on lot five continues.
00:17:42Here we go.
00:17:43Down into the solution channel.
00:17:45And while the core drilling operation precedes Deaver in the Money Pit area.
00:17:50Over on the eastern end of the island at Smith's Cove.
00:17:54Let's go find something, guys.
00:17:56Billy.
00:17:57Billy's here.
00:17:58Marty Lagina, Craig Tester and metal detection expert Gary Drayton join Billy Gerhardt to further investigate the massive collection of
00:18:08spoils from last year's excavations in the Money Pit area.
00:18:13Billy, this whole pile came out of the caissons.
00:18:17What we know is, though, it came from deep in the Money Pit area.
00:18:20Yeah.
00:18:21And we found that old iron.
00:18:22I mean, that old iron went back to the 1600s.
00:18:25Yeah.
00:18:26What is that?
00:18:27It looks like it's part of a tool.
00:18:30After finding the potentially 16th century pickaxe during the excavation of TOT-1 at the end of last year's search.
00:18:38That could be a really old tool, mate.
00:18:40Yeah.
00:18:41The team began scouring through the Money Pit spoils that were deposited here at Smith's Cove.
00:18:47And incredibly, they found an iron chisel that was dated to the same approximate era.
00:18:54Whenever there's a lot of iron, there's a possibility of iron masking.
00:18:58There could be a gold or a silver coin waiting for us, mate.
00:19:01All right.
00:19:01Well, let's get going.
00:19:03Yeah.
00:19:05Now, the team is continuing to search the remaining spoils in the hopes of recovering more artifacts or evidence of
00:19:13treasure.
00:19:14This might be something.
00:19:23I can see it.
00:19:24Just can't pull it out.
00:19:26We're going to try and get it with that.
00:19:27Yeah.
00:19:27You can see it sticking out the hole.
00:19:29Where is it?
00:19:30Right there?
00:19:31Yep.
00:19:32Oh, yeah.
00:19:37Got him.
00:19:39There it is.
00:19:40What you got, Marty?
00:19:42What is it?
00:19:43What's that?
00:19:45Woo-hoo!
00:19:46Well, that's interesting.
00:19:51What you got, Marty?
00:19:53A pin.
00:19:54I don't know if it's old or a...
00:19:57Hey, Craig, that looks old.
00:19:58Yeah.
00:19:59At Smith's Cove, while searching spoils excavated for more than 180 feet deep in the Money Pit area last year,
00:20:08Marty Lagina and other members of the team have just uncovered another potentially important clue.
00:20:16Yeah, that's wrought iron, I think.
00:20:18Yeah.
00:20:19Yeah.
00:20:20It's old.
00:20:21I don't know.
00:20:22I wonder if it's a possible cribbing spike.
00:20:24Yeah, I think it is.
00:20:26Like when you're building cribbing, like cribbing for a shaft or something.
00:20:29Yeah.
00:20:30A possible cribbing spike?
00:20:33Potentially used to connect large beams of wood together?
00:20:37Because no previous searchers were known to have built shafts that deep underground.
00:20:43Could the team have found more evidence of the original Money Pit?
00:20:47If so, what else is still waiting to be discovered in these spoils?
00:20:53So this should be good.
00:20:55Yeah, I'll probably need this digging out.
00:20:57It might be on edge.
00:20:59We're all on edge.
00:21:01Right?
00:21:03Where is it?
00:21:04Right there.
00:21:07See that area there?
00:21:10Try pinpointing.
00:21:13Oh, it's there.
00:21:14That was a little bit off.
00:21:15Oh, here we go.
00:21:16That's more like it.
00:21:18Hm.
00:21:19That is a tool of some kind.
00:21:22Look at that.
00:21:23Yeah.
00:21:24Wow.
00:21:25That is unusual.
00:21:29That's got the look of being old as well.
00:21:32Yeah, it is.
00:21:33No question, it's not new.
00:21:35Definitely had some heft to it.
00:21:37I thought it was like a chisel when I first picked it up.
00:21:39It could be.
00:21:40Yeah, chiseling through the tunnels and...
00:21:42Yeah.
00:21:43I'm not surprised at all at what came out of that spoils pile.
00:21:47That could be very significant.
00:21:49Once again, possible proof that somebody other than searchers
00:21:52were way deep in the money pit.
00:21:54Still, we have to keep going through the spoils carefully
00:21:57because anything here could be something that could be very significant.
00:22:01And we picked up where we left off last year.
00:22:04We were finding great old tools, artifacts in these spoils,
00:22:09and we have just pulled up another one,
00:22:11which could potentially go back to 1600s or older.
00:22:15Yeah.
00:22:15Okay, I'll bag it.
00:22:17Nice one, Billy.
00:22:18Another good artifact.
00:22:19Good.
00:22:21Finally a decent fight.
00:22:23Not bad.
00:22:24Not bad.
00:22:25Not bad at all.
00:22:26Good digging, guys.
00:22:28Yeah.
00:22:29I mean, the gold's still in there, right?
00:22:31Oh, yeah, it is.
00:22:33That's the hope.
00:22:39The following day, while the drilling operation continues in the money pit area.
00:22:46There are moments around this table that have been really quite impactful in terms of our understanding of this mystery,
00:22:53and today is one of those days.
00:22:55In the war room, Doug Kroll has arranged for the Laginas and members of the team to meet with a
00:23:02man he has been corresponding with for several months, named Steve Solomon.
00:23:07Well, I'm really excited to say we have a really special guest with us today, Steve Solomon.
00:23:13Steve is prepared to present what Doug believes could be a major breakthrough in the 230-year-old treasure mystery.
00:23:22Well, Steve's got something to reveal to us today about the gentleman by the name of James Piblado and a
00:23:28really prominent Oak Island family, the Archibald family.
00:23:31Well, Steve is a member of that Archibald family.
00:23:35Interesting.
00:23:36Charles, you and I have talked about this so-called Piblado incident forever, right?
00:23:41Right.
00:23:42So tell everyone what the Piblado incident is about.
00:23:47Well, James Piblado was a foreman with the Truro Company, and they were here from about 1849 to 1851.
00:23:54And there was an incident that happened in the original money pit.
00:24:00In the summer of 1849, members of the Truro Company conducted the first major excavation of the money pit since
00:24:09it had flooded after the removal of the 90-foot stone back in 1804.
00:24:15After constructing a platform nearly 30 feet deep in the shaft, which was still flooded below,
00:24:22Company foreman James Piblado oversaw a drilling operation to find out what might be buried below the 90-foot level.
00:24:32Incredibly, at 98 feet, a hard wooden surface was penetrated before the auger bin passed through what was described as
00:24:41nearly two feet of loose metal pieces,
00:24:44another hard wooden surface, and then another two feet of loose metal.
00:24:49The workers excitedly suspected the two stacked treasure chests were buried some 100 feet deep in the money pit.
00:24:59Upon extracting the auger bin, James Piblado was seen removing a reported shiny object from its tip.
00:25:06But when confronted, he would not reveal what it was to anyone on the island.
00:25:13So Piblado approached a gentleman by the name of Charles Archibald, and they attempted to buy the eastern end of
00:25:21the island.
00:25:22So whatever was found on that auger enticed him to leave his job and attempt to purchase the eastern end
00:25:30of the island.
00:25:31So it had to be something really significant.
00:25:34Wow.
00:25:35Charles Dixon Archibald was a businessman from Londonderry, Nova Scotia,
00:25:40who served as the manager of a mining company named Acadian Ironworks.
00:25:46Curiously, members of his family had helped to finance an earlier search for treasure on Oak Island in 1804.
00:25:54After meeting with James Piblado, the two approached landowner John Smith,
00:25:59one of the three young men who originally discovered the money pit in 1795,
00:26:05and offered him a considerable sum to acquire the eastern end of Oak Island.
00:26:11The proposal was refused, and no one has ever confirmed what was found by James Piblado.
00:26:20After that incident, they went to the town of Lunenburg and put in an application,
00:26:24and this is an excerpt out of that application to dig on Oak Island.
00:26:29Having been represented to me that certain persons have discovered the situation of certain hidden treasure
00:26:34beneath the surface of the earth on Oak Island,
00:26:37and then it goes on with the legal stuff for the town person to sign it,
00:26:40and it's on this particular day, Charles Archibald.
00:26:43This was from 1849.
00:26:46Interesting.
00:26:47So I want to talk a little bit more about the family, but first,
00:26:50I would like to show you what contributed to this application,
00:26:54and I believe this is your one thing, Rick.
00:26:56I know you've been looking for this for years.
00:26:58Wow.
00:26:59I am on the edge of my seat.
00:27:01Oh!
00:27:03Hold it up so Marty can see it.
00:27:11This is a coin.
00:27:13This is a silver Portuguese coin.
00:27:16That's what came out of the hole?
00:27:18Yes.
00:27:19This was a coin that was passed on from the Archibald family.
00:27:22My mother-in-law was given this by great nana, Edith Archibald, and it was given to me from my
00:27:28own research.
00:27:29I believe it's from about 1367.
00:27:33I mean, that's incredible, right? Like in every sense of the word.
00:27:37Yes.
00:27:37In the war room, Steve Solomon, a man with historic family ties to the Oak Island treasure hunt, has just
00:27:46presented Rick, Marty, and the team with a potentially 14th century silver Portuguese coin, a coin that he believes was
00:27:55retrieved from some 100 feet deep in the money pit back in 1849.
00:28:01How big is that? What's the diameter say?
00:28:05A little bigger than a quarter.
00:28:06I mean, I was just wondering how such a thing would be carried out by the auger, but that easily
00:28:10could be.
00:28:11Yeah.
00:28:12Over the winter, Marty, we researched what a pod auger looked like, and its dimensions are more than enough to
00:28:19allow a coin to settle into the mouth of the bed.
00:28:22The coin is spectacular. It's quite beautiful, artfully made, hand struck.
00:28:30Well, that certainly raises an eyebrow, doesn't it? It's a very smallish coin. It's the kind of thing that would
00:28:36get stuck in a drill bed.
00:28:39We want to confirm what type of coin it is, of course, but the condition of that coin is quite
00:28:45remarkable for something that's been around since the late 1300s.
00:28:49Yeah.
00:28:50Thinking about the treasure being deposited way back, it's also, if it was in circulation, it would be all worn
00:28:55off, right? It just looks to be in really good shape.
00:28:58Yeah.
00:28:59The fact that it is in such good condition might represent that it came up out of, say, one of
00:29:04the sealed cases, where it's been sealed for many years and has not been subject to any of the water,
00:29:10dirt, elements.
00:29:11I mean, what caught my imagination was that this coin was Portuguese, right? And what theories have we been looking
00:29:17at that might involve the Portuguese?
00:29:20We're, of course, we're looking at the Templars finding sanctuary in Portugal.
00:29:25Knights of Christ.
00:29:26And involving into the Knights of Christ, yeah.
00:29:29Of course.
00:29:30The Catholic military order, known as the Knights Templar, were formed in the early 12th century to fight for Christian
00:29:39interests in the Holy Land during the Crusades.
00:29:42They amassed great wealth by establishing an elaborate banking system, but were also rumored to have discovered priceless religious artifacts,
00:29:52including the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant.
00:29:55In 1307, they were disbanded and persecuted by King Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V on charges of
00:30:05heresy.
00:30:06Many were arrested and executed, but much of their treasures were never found.
00:30:12The order rebranded themselves where they could find refuge in countries such as Portugal, where they were known as the
00:30:20Knights of Christ.
00:30:21In 2021, when Rick Lagina and other members of the team visited former Templar-related strongholds across Portugal.
00:30:30The circle and the dot in the center of the cross.
00:30:33That's one of our symbols on the HO stone.
00:30:36They were stunned to see numerous stone carvings matching symbols that have been found on Oak Island.
00:30:42Is it possible that after nearly two decades into their quest for answers, the team is finally looking at a
00:30:51genuine piece of the treasure that people have been seeking for 230 years?
00:30:57So, I think what happened was Pit Blado found this item on the drill bit, and he goes to Charles
00:31:04Dixon Archibald, who had the Acadian Mining Company at the time, and he says,
00:31:09Listen, there's treasure on that island, and here's the proof.
00:31:14And then we know by the paperwork that Steve has that it is Charles Dixon Archibald that was approached by
00:31:22Pit Blado.
00:31:24Pit Blado went to him and he showed him something so convincing that he took these steps to try and
00:31:29take over the treasure hunt on the island.
00:31:31Mm-hmm. Yep.
00:31:33And the only thing that got in their way was they were given the right to hunt for treasure on
00:31:37Oak Island on unoccupied lands.
00:31:40Well, we know the Truro Company maintained their license on the money pit.
00:31:43So, while they gained right to hunt on the island, they didn't gain right to hunt in the money pit.
00:31:47Mm-hmm.
00:31:49This is a really thrilling and exciting thing that's happened on Oak Island.
00:31:53And the story all makes sense. It really does.
00:31:56It's difficult to make up a story like the Pit Blado story itself.
00:32:02This coin is singularly unique in terms of its importance for one simple reason.
00:32:08There is a narrative associated with the coin.
00:32:11We have an artifact and we have a possible association with that famed incident, the Pit Blado incident.
00:32:19That's quite convincing.
00:32:22To give him obviously more credibility, the way this coin ended up in my possession is the direct line from
00:32:28the Archibald family.
00:32:30So, when Steve approached us, we wanted to see if the framework was truly there for this coin to have
00:32:36been passed down from Pit Blado to Steve's branch of the family.
00:32:40What you see in this chart, Charles Dixon maybe was left with that coin because he had to go to
00:32:48the government and secure a treasure trove license and all of that.
00:32:53Charles Dixon Archibald was related to Thomas Archibald.
00:32:57And when Charles Dixon Archibald kind of left the province pretty much for good in the 1850s and then he
00:33:03died in 1868, if he had left that coin behind with the members of the family that were still here
00:33:08in the province, then it's very plausible that it came down through Steve's family.
00:33:14And the Pit Blado family, members of that family were actually married into the Archibald's over time.
00:33:19They were, yeah.
00:33:20This is quite something.
00:33:24This coin has been with the family for three years.
00:33:27I think it came up in 1849.
00:33:30I do.
00:33:34And it's bent too.
00:33:36Yeah, it is slightly bent.
00:33:38My question is, can the heat that's generated by that auger, could this have been picked up and by a
00:33:43slight amount of heat potentially have curled?
00:33:46Having drilled a lot of stuff, anything powerful enough to drill through oak and a cask is powerful enough to
00:33:54bend the coin.
00:33:55Yeah.
00:33:56Yeah.
00:33:56It adds credence to the story.
00:33:58Yeah.
00:33:59I think this all makes sense and it has a high likelihood of being the object that was found.
00:34:05If anybody's head isn't reeling like mine as to what theory this fits.
00:34:11Yeah.
00:34:12I mean, come on.
00:34:13Yep.
00:34:15If it's true about the loose metal, there could be a coin in there from 1307, right after the Knights
00:34:22Templar disband.
00:34:23Or even earlier, the Crusade times, right?
00:34:25Yeah.
00:34:25Because there's nothing that precludes them from adding to their treasure cache over time.
00:34:30We know the work, the carbon dates here on the island, we call it a multi-generational attempt, but there
00:34:37might have been a series of operations needed to set this in motion.
00:34:42Mm-hmm.
00:34:43This could be part of a generational event.
00:34:46Correct.
00:34:46Yeah.
00:34:47Our modern minds think we can traverse half the globe in an afternoon.
00:34:52Back then, if there was a plan initiated to save or protect something, they understood that it was a transatlantic
00:35:02voyage.
00:35:03Months just in the sailing.
00:35:05Months again, if not years, in the final completion of the task.
00:35:11My biggest problem with it is I wish I had seen it come out of the drill bit.
00:35:14Of course.
00:35:15My favorite thing about it is that everything, if we just assume that all of it is true, then that
00:35:20really focuses our dig.
00:35:22We believe the area we're investigating this year.
00:35:25Mm-hmm.
00:35:25Could we bring it to the lab and have Emma do some metallurgy, look at it, and render an opinion?
00:35:32Of course.
00:35:33Is that coin 51% likely or better that that's the coin that Pit Blado found?
00:35:39I, on a jury, would vote yes.
00:35:42I think the data's compelling.
00:35:44Let's go aggressively look for this treasure down deep, because that's where it must have gone.
00:35:50I agree.
00:35:51Yep.
00:35:52If this coin were 100% known to be what came out of the money pit, it's the strongest thing
00:35:57we've ever found.
00:35:58And I think we're looking at, with a high degree of probability, the coin that was found that day so
00:36:05many years ago.
00:36:07To me, it's proof that something is at the bottom of the money pit.
00:36:12There's nothing like that moment.
00:36:16You see it.
00:36:17You hold it in your hand.
00:36:20You know how close you are to the one thing.
00:36:23It's a real reason to be hopeful.
00:36:26This, even though there's some blanks that have to be filled in, this very possibly is what lies at the
00:36:35depth of the money pit.
00:36:36And how many years have we spent talking about what lies below?
00:36:42This may be what lies below.
00:36:45Yeah.
00:36:46We can't say thank you enough.
00:36:48Big time.
00:36:49Yes.
00:36:50Very much so.
00:36:51Appreciate it.
00:36:52Yeah.
00:36:53Let's move forward.
00:36:57We hit the bedrock plateau at J6.
00:37:00We're down to 178 right now.
00:37:02We're still in bedrock.
00:37:03We haven't popped out into the open solution channel.
00:37:06Let's hope we're going to pop out short.
00:37:08Yeah.
00:37:09Yeah.
00:37:10After the incredible revelation of the 14th century Portuguese coin, in the money pit area,
00:37:16operations manager Scott Barlow, Charles Barkhouse, geologist Terry Matheson, and surveyor Steve Copptill eagerly monitor the progress of borehole J6.
00:37:29So we've hit the ledge.
00:37:30We're going to hopefully get down through the ledge, and we're going to get back down into the solution channel
00:37:35and look for that treasure.
00:37:37Hopefully we find something down below, because as we saw with DOT1, we found material made by man, deeper, absolutely.
00:37:44Because the drill has passed through the ground soil and is currently cutting through rock, it is Terry's belief that
00:37:53they're drilling through an outcropping, or ledge, of bedrock,
00:37:57and that the solution channel will hopefully be encountered several feet deeper below.
00:38:04We came into this year not so much looking to data collect anymore, but treasure hunting.
00:38:09Absolutely.
00:38:10Yeah.
00:38:11You know, Steve Solomon brought a Portuguese coin to the island, right?
00:38:15Yeah.
00:38:15I'm excited about that coin.
00:38:17I mean, if we find a coin deep in the solution channel, predating searchers, that's huge, right?
00:38:23Yeah, absolutely.
00:38:24If there's something down there, this is where we're going to find it.
00:38:27Yeah, we've got to cross our fingers.
00:38:32Oh, did we break through?
00:38:34I don't know.
00:38:40Looks like we broke through the ledge into the solution channel.
00:38:42The rods just started going down pretty quick there.
00:38:44Oh, yeah, that's it for sure.
00:38:46That's it.
00:38:48As the drill comes down and encounters a bedrock ledge, it really pushed through there.
00:38:53It fell down deeper.
00:38:54So we know the solution channel has got some hidden cavities in it on our ledges.
00:38:58We're waiting for that next core to come up, hopefully containing some treasure.
00:39:02So the rest of this should be very interesting.
00:39:04We'll see if there's any of that debris field that we're looking for, the falling treasure.
00:39:08Yeah.
00:39:09Okay, guys, I've got some other things I've got to go check on.
00:39:11So please keep me informed what's going to happen.
00:39:13I'm really excited about what may be down here.
00:39:15Of course.
00:39:16I think we're only in the infancy of trying to understand the solution channel.
00:39:21I don't know what's in there.
00:39:23I know what we found to date, and it is quite compelling.
00:39:27We have to have patience because we believe whatever was above fell to those depths.
00:39:35What's your problem?
00:39:35178.
00:39:36178.
00:39:44So here's the bedrock from 168 down to 178.
00:39:50And here's the little bit of mud where we opened up into the solution channel where we popped out.
00:39:56Let me go, Siappu.
00:40:00Every hole is a little mini treasure hunt in and of itself.
00:40:04What I would like to do is to find something, the one thing, and then immediately turn our resources to
00:40:12a large-scale recovery effort.
00:40:15Clear.
00:40:16Anyway, we're going to go another 20 feet now from 178 to probably finish at 198, and we'll see what
00:40:23we've got.
00:40:24Then we'll have an artifact of three.
00:40:25Could be the one thing Charles, you never know.
00:40:27Yeah.
00:40:29What we're really looking for is treasure that could be sitting in a pocket at the bottom of the solution
00:40:34channel in around 210 feet.
00:40:36So every sloppy mess we see in those cores becomes exciting.
00:40:44Wait.
00:40:50So...
00:40:50Yeah.
00:40:51It's soft, then I hit something hard.
00:40:54Yeah, this is the pay zone.
00:40:55We're really very hopeful about very good recovery in this zone.
00:40:58Okay.
00:40:58That's good.
00:40:59How deep?
00:41:00What's your depth?
00:41:01Kyle?
00:41:03188.
00:41:03188.
00:41:04Excellent.
00:41:11He's hung up right now on something hard at that 188 level.
00:41:15I mean, that's the whole reason we're drilling right here.
00:41:17Absolutely.
00:41:20The next core sample is going to tell the tale.
00:41:22It will.
00:41:23What I'd really like to see is a coin or an artifact that says treasure.
00:41:27That's what we need.
00:41:29Your mind goes to all kinds of possibilities that as we're drilling down in the money pit area, going to
00:41:35the solution channel, could we hit a vault?
00:41:38We're hoping to find a jewel, a coin, something that changes the ball game here completely.
00:41:44We have a core, gentlemen.
00:41:45Hopefully we get something here.
00:41:47Here's hoping.
00:41:50What do we got, Kyle?
00:41:51188.
00:41:52188.
00:41:55See what we got.
00:41:59As the drill goes down, if it hits something hard, the hope is that we will find the man-made
00:42:05obstruction, the actual vault or treasure.
00:42:07I mean, that's always the hope every single time.
00:42:11And I hope at some point it comes to fruition.
00:42:14It's a gypsum boulder here at about 185.
00:42:19It's pretty tight.
00:42:20Not likely what we might have run into.
00:42:24Gypsum is a naturally occurring rocky mineral that is often used in the production of plaster and cement.
00:42:30However, due to its relatively soft composition, it is geologist Terry Matheson's opinion that it would not explain the obstruction
00:42:40that the drill encountered.
00:42:46And now's the time we can find an artifact or two.
00:42:49Absolutely.
00:42:55Very loose material.
00:42:58If we're going to find an artifact, it's going to be in something like that.
00:43:01Absolutely.
00:43:02It's a little cakey, but anyway, okay.
00:43:05Thank you, fellas.
00:43:07Thanks a lot.
00:43:12Slush right there.
00:43:15So there's some debris that fell off of the wall.
00:43:18This is actually bedding, so that's not what we really want.
00:43:22We did something that was a little harder.
00:43:24It's hard to say what we might have run into.
00:43:26Perhaps the bit pushed it deeper.
00:43:29Because the team is not finding evidence of the obstruction,
00:43:33is it possible that the drill bit made contact with a hard object
00:43:38and perhaps pushed it deeper into the sludge and water-filled solution channel?
00:43:43If so, what was it?
00:43:45And might they encounter it again at a greater depth?
00:43:49We're only at 194, so we'll see what happens.
00:43:52We're planning on going at least to 210.
00:43:54Yeah, at least 210.
00:43:55Yeah.
00:43:56All right, guys, I'll get in your way.
00:43:59Normally, when we're drilling, if you hit something, you can still deflect off.
00:44:03But hopefully, the drill rod was able to keep its verticality.
00:44:07We're trying to go deep to the bottom of the solution channel.
00:44:10And if we can find something, then it's a whole different ballgame.
00:44:18Hey, guys.
00:44:19Charles, Terry.
00:44:21Welcome.
00:44:22Anything so far?
00:44:24No.
00:44:24Okay.
00:44:25We hit something solid at 190 feet down that may have pushed into the solution channel.
00:44:32We have a core.
00:44:35What's going on?
00:44:36How far did you get?
00:44:37213.
00:44:38213.
00:44:39Did you hit bedrock?
00:44:40Yes, sir.
00:44:41Wow.
00:44:42Okay, this is the whole enchilada, then.
00:44:46Okay.
00:44:49Okay.
00:44:52Let's cut this stuff right about here.
00:44:58It's a little firm.
00:45:02Yeah.
00:45:03More than I'd like.
00:45:10Just a little too dense.
00:45:11Yeah.
00:45:13That's nothing.
00:45:15I hope we don't have to drill every inch of that solution channel.
00:45:18I hope we find the one thing here shortly.
00:45:21But you have to cover the solution channel in its entirety.
00:45:25You just got to get after it.
00:45:27It's disappointing, but we're going to keep mapping out the bottom of that solution channel until we find what we
00:45:33hope we're going to find.
00:45:33Yep.
00:45:34And we'll move on to the next hole.
00:45:36That's right.
00:45:41A new day begins on Oak Island.
00:45:45And while the core drilling operation continues in the Money Pit area.
00:45:51Nearly half a mile to the west on Lot 5.
00:45:54These are the spoil piles from last year of the round feature, so I'm really excited to see what we
00:45:59can find here.
00:46:01Metal detection expert Gary Drayton and Peter Fernetti join the archaeology team as they continue to investigate the large stone
00:46:09foundation near the shoreline.
00:46:13They're using sifters, but sometimes some stuff can go through that quarter inch screen.
00:46:18Oh, give it one last shot.
00:46:21Today, Gary and Peter have been directed to search through a pile of spoils that were removed last year from
00:46:29the mysterious round feature for any clues that could help determine who occupied it, and most importantly, why.
00:46:41Yeah, this could be something, Pete.
00:46:44This sounds like it's non-ferrous.
00:46:49Well, I know the rules is we have to stand down for the archaeologists to dig these targets because we're
00:46:55in this special area.
00:46:57Let me call Fiona.
00:46:59Fiona!
00:47:00We got a target!
00:47:02Oh, great!
00:47:05Because the round feature was designated by the government of Nova Scotia as a special place in 2024.
00:47:14Gary and Peter must obtain permission from one of the team's accredited archaeologists before digging up any targets in this
00:47:22area.
00:47:24Yeah, we've got a target here, Fiona.
00:47:27You think it's non-ferrous?
00:47:29Hmm.
00:47:30Yeah, a little piece of non-ferrous there.
00:47:32It's ringing up loud and clear.
00:47:34Yeah.
00:47:35Just there, please.
00:47:36Come out.
00:47:43You know what?
00:47:44This, you can tell, this is in between the spoils piles, so this would be something probably more in situ.
00:47:50Well, it's looking like it so far.
00:47:51Let's see.
00:47:52An in situ target, meaning that it is not in the previously removed spoils, but rather in the ground near
00:47:59them?
00:48:01No.
00:48:02I'll try to pinpoint.
00:48:04See what we got.
00:48:07If so, could Gary have identified a new area outside the rounded feature that contains potential clues or evidence of
00:48:16treasure?
00:48:21Oh, look at this.
00:48:23Yeah, I had a feeling it was going to be a little bit of lead, tiny little bit of squash
00:48:27lead shot.
00:48:27A lead shot or bullet? Ever since acquiring Lot 5 three years ago, the Oak Island team has unearthed a
00:48:38number of gun-related artifacts, such as musket balls and a ramrod guide from a rifle that could all date
00:48:45as far back as the 17th century, more than 100 years before the discovery of the money pit.
00:48:53That probably created somebody's supper one day.
00:48:56Yep.
00:48:56Oh, yeah.
00:48:57Could the team have just found more evidence of people who may have used this site as a camp while
00:49:04possibly hiding valuables in the money pit?
00:49:07If so, who were they?
00:49:11If that had been a gold nugget now, we'd all be dancing.
00:49:14Should we flag this little area as well?
00:49:16Sure.
00:49:16Yeah. I mean, that was on the ground, so that's great.
00:49:19Okay.
00:49:19Are we allowed to search this?
00:49:21Yeah. No, absolutely.
00:49:22I think we're just going to try and stay away from any of the perimeter of the feature.
00:49:26Yeah.
00:49:26Because we're going to still dig there, but I think it really would be good to detect on this side,
00:49:30because realistically, most of the artifacts have all been kind of on the west side of the feature.
00:49:34I find it very strange that we're not finding as many artifacts right here.
00:49:38Let's find some treasure in this area.
00:49:41Go for it.
00:49:41No, this is perfect.
00:49:42So I'm going to get back over here.
00:49:44Anything we can do to help you guys.
00:49:46Awesome.
00:49:47Cheers.
00:49:55Got something?
00:49:56Yeah.
00:49:57It's iron.
00:49:59Let's take this out and see what we've got.
00:50:01Okay.
00:50:02Just there, please.
00:50:10Hopefully, it's a chunky old thing.
00:50:13I like me chunky old things, especially on lot five.
00:50:17Lot five is the lot that keeps on giving.
00:50:20We're finding artifacts that were here well before the discovery of the money pit.
00:50:25So we want to work together with the archaeologists to metal detect.
00:50:29And my number one objective for lot five is to get some answers to help the archaeologists tell the story
00:50:35about what's happening in the future and how that relates to the money pit.
00:50:46What was making all that noise?
00:50:50Oh, here it is.
00:50:51Oh, what the heck is that?
00:50:56That is something.
00:50:58I mean, look at the shape of it.
00:50:59Yeah.
00:51:00Yeah, look.
00:51:01You see it's got these bumps on it.
00:51:03I don't know if these are corrosion and it's just encrustation on it.
00:51:09Yeah.
00:51:10Well, no.
00:51:10Yeah.
00:51:11It looks like it has some sort of shape to it.
00:51:14Yeah.
00:51:15Like a design of sorts.
00:51:16My first thought was like door hinge almost, like the locking mechanism.
00:51:22A piece of a possible door hinge?
00:51:25If so, could it be related to the nearby rounded feature?
00:51:29This could still tell a story and help solve the mystery.
00:51:33Yeah, we're not too far from the round feature.
00:51:35The people on lot five would have had locks of some kind.
00:51:41They could have had chests and doors that needed locking.
00:51:45And I'm looking forward to seeing what the archaeologists dig up about this find.
00:51:59You got something?
00:52:02Yeah.
00:52:03A bigger piece of iron.
00:52:05Fiona, when you get a chance, can you come over here?
00:52:07Sure.
00:52:09Yeah, we're close to the round feature.
00:52:11I like your location over here.
00:52:13We haven't found a lot over at this side of this round feature.
00:52:17Well, I'm hoping this is something interesting.
00:52:20It's an iron, it, but it's substantial.
00:52:26Go for it.
00:52:33Oh, that's going to be tricky.
00:52:44Oh, well done.
00:52:46Wow.
00:52:46That's really deep.
00:52:47I wonder if I should grab my trowel just in case.
00:52:49I was thinking that.
00:52:50Yeah, okay.
00:52:50I'll be right back.
00:52:51Maybe it would be a good idea to trowel it out.
00:52:53Just to be safe.
00:52:53I mean, we're in worm tickler territory now.
00:52:58Okay.
00:52:59I'll pinpoint it for you, Fiona.
00:53:00Okay.
00:53:03Oh, it's a streamer.
00:53:05Right there.
00:53:06It's really deep.
00:53:08Yeah, it is.
00:53:09That's about ten inches.
00:53:12Yeah, I can see it right here.
00:53:14And it is a substantial size.
00:53:17I just don't want to break it, right?
00:53:20Here's a piece.
00:53:25If that looks like glass, that's glass.
00:53:28That's the older stuff.
00:53:31Then look at the colour of it.
00:53:33And that's pretty green.
00:53:35That's looking like older glass.
00:53:43You know what?
00:53:44There's all sorts of things down here.
00:53:46To be honest, I'm seeing some coarse earthenware now, too.
00:53:49So the fact that we've got coarse earthenware, you've got glass and a big piece of iron, I think we
00:53:56need to not dig this up right now.
00:53:59Yeah.
00:54:00I want to take out just a bit of the roots.
00:54:02I think we'll just make it a little bit bigger.
00:54:04This may just be a pile of something that got thrown here, but what if it's something else?
00:54:10Yeah.
00:54:10What if this is another part of a foundation?
00:54:13We are not that far away from this feature because we found the starburst button right over here, which is
00:54:18literally four feet away from us.
00:54:21We found the spiral button right over here.
00:54:23And that's really, really close to this.
00:54:26Oh, wow.
00:54:27This could potentially be part of whatever's going on over at this feature.
00:54:31Another potential section of the mysterious round feature on lot five, and mere feet from where the team uncovered two
00:54:40ornate buttons that may be connected to the 17th century order known as the Knights of Malta.
00:54:46A religious order who, just like the Portuguese Knights of Christ, descended from the Knights Templar.
00:54:54We're in total agreement, and a new knows what else is standing.
00:54:58Well, that's what I'm thinking, too.
00:55:00So we'll hold this for now, and if you're okay to keep going with the rest of it?
00:55:05For sure.
00:55:06Due to provincial regulations, because Fiona believes that Gary and Peter may have found another part of the rounded feature,
00:55:14she and the archaeology team must now perform further excavations of this site to locate the large metal object,
00:55:21and whatever else may be buried here.
00:55:24Now we've found this.
00:55:26Who knows what else is waiting for us over here?
00:55:29This is really encouraging.
00:55:34It's treasure time.
00:55:35Yep.
00:55:36As the investigations continue in the Money Pit area.
00:55:39This is just starting to hit gravel.
00:55:41And on lot five.
00:55:44Okay, everybody.
00:55:45This is the first of what are going to be hopefully a whole bunch of sessions in the lab.
00:55:50Yeah.
00:55:51Rick and Marty Lagina, along with other members of the team, meet with archaeologist Laird Niven and archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan
00:56:00in the Oak Island Laboratory.
00:56:02While Emma is still conducting scientific analysis of the 14th century silver coin, she has prepared a report on the
00:56:11chisel that was recently found in the Money Pit spoils from last year's large-scale excavations.
00:56:19What did you find out, Emma?
00:56:21All right.
00:56:21So the chisel did get a good strip of bare metal from this area right here.
00:56:26So I have the compositions up here.
00:56:28Earlier today, Emma scanned the iron artifact using an X-ray fluorescence or XRF device, a device that emits non
00:56:39-destructive radiation to identify an object's chemical composition, which can help determine when it may have been created.
00:56:48It lacks any modern alloying element like manganese or any other element that I would normally find, which indicate older.
00:56:57Brilliant.
00:56:58Yeah.
00:56:58This is definitively not modern.
00:57:02So we would comfortably put it in the 1700s.
00:57:05Sweet.
00:57:06Yeah.
00:57:06And it could potentially be older.
00:57:09Well, I love those days.
00:57:11Yeah.
00:57:11The chisel is actually very exciting.
00:57:13That's before the story of the first treasure hunt efforts on Oklahoma, so it could be part of an original
00:57:19deposit.
00:57:21I think it's interesting.
00:57:23It's a great find.
00:57:24To start off the year like this, you have an old tool found at depth in the money pit.
00:57:31This is not the one thing, but we're getting there.
00:57:34All right.
00:57:36I'm satisfied.
00:57:37Well done.
00:57:38We'll get you some more.
00:57:39There's gonna be some more finds coming.
00:57:41And I'm hoping it's made of gold and silver.
00:57:44Well, as Rick always says, we gotta go find it.
00:57:47Yep.
00:57:48See you later.
00:57:54The following morning.
00:57:58Hey, Terry.
00:57:59Charles.
00:58:00Hey, Alex.
00:58:00In the money pit area, Alex Lagina joins geologist Terry Matheson
00:58:06and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse
00:58:09as they continue monitoring the drilling operation in borehole H.5 8.5.
00:58:17What depths are we at?
00:58:19What they're gonna bring up in a second here is from 168 to 170.
00:58:22Okay.
00:58:22And anything so far, or?
00:58:24What's coming up right now should be a good clean run.
00:58:27There.
00:58:27Oh, here we go.
00:58:28Come here.
00:58:29Could be something in the barrel there.
00:58:30Something's sticking out, it looks like.
00:58:34What you got, Adam?
00:58:37What is that?
00:58:38That looks like some steel to me.
00:58:40Yeah, it does.
00:58:42That's a chunk of metal.
00:58:44Yeah?
00:58:46A large metal object extracted from nearly 180 feet deep in the solution channel.
00:58:54You know, finding this piece of metal, I mean, is very exciting because we're not sure what it is.
00:59:00Anything below 150 is a really interesting level for us to search
00:59:05because we don't know the exact location of the original money pit.
00:59:10I don't know.
00:59:11I don't know what that is.
00:59:13Hey, Scott.
00:59:14Check that out.
00:59:20It is really thick.
00:59:20Very thick.
00:59:21I agree it's really...
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