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00:01Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:03It's very possible a holy relic related to Jesus
00:06may have been concealed with a Templar treasure on Oak Island.
00:10Whoa.
00:10Wow.
00:12Got a hit in here.
00:13You do? Got some of it?
00:14Yeah.
00:15Exciting.
00:16Oh, wow.
00:17That's an amazing find.
00:19We've never seen this on an archeology site.
00:21Wow.
00:23The peak use was in the 14th and 15th century.
00:25These could have been dropped by the depositors.
00:27That's pretty exciting.
00:31There is an island in the North Atlantic
00:35where people have been looking for an incredible treasure
00:38for more than 200 years.
00:41So far, they have found a stone slab
00:44with strange symbols carved into it.
00:47Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:51And a lead cross whose origin may be connected
00:54to the Knights Templar.
00:56To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:02And according to legend, one more will have to die
01:07before the treasure can be found.
01:22The weather's changing pretty quick.
01:23Yeah.
01:24I mean, it's the same problem we face every year on the island,
01:26which is being at the mercy of the weather.
01:28Yeah.
01:29The bitter chill of fall has arrived on Oak Island.
01:33Well, hopefully, just down another six inches,
01:36we come to the top of a vault or something,
01:39and we get our questions answered.
01:43But for the Laginas and their team,
01:46the trail of clues that could solve a 231-year-old mystery
01:50has never been hotter,
01:52especially in the man-made boulder feature
01:55that they have been investigating on Lot 8.
01:58You know, we do feel this is something very special.
02:01It's certainly unique.
02:02It's been so purposeful and intentional.
02:04It definitely doesn't look like we're anywhere near the bottom yet.
02:07We have a lot of structures that date through
02:11potentially the 1600s, definitely the 1700s,
02:14definitely into the 1800s, and none of them are like this.
02:17No.
02:19We keep on coming to that potential 1200s time period.
02:24Yeah.
02:25One week ago, lab tests on cement-like mortar
02:29that were used to seal this cradle of stones together
02:32showed that the feature may be as much as 800 years old.
02:36Given the fact that the cradle of stones
02:39was covered by a 40,000-pound boulder,
02:42and high traces of silver have been detected in the ground soil,
02:46the team believes this feature
02:48may be one of the oldest ever found on Oak Island,
02:51and perhaps hiding something of great value.
02:55All right.
02:56I'm going to try a pry bar with this.
03:03Here we go.
03:05Good.
03:06I can grab that now.
03:07I have to say that this man-made boulder feature on Lot 8
03:11is certainly the top tier of amazingly unique things.
03:15The most likely explanation to me
03:18is that it was placed there to cover something.
03:21A shaft, a grave, treasure, something.
03:24This stuff is pretty cemented.
03:27I'm hitting a lot of slate here right now.
03:29Like, there's a couple of layers of it.
03:31Yeah.
03:33Hey, guys.
03:34Hello.
03:35Hello.
03:35Hey.
03:37Wow.
03:38Finally, we can get two of us in here.
03:40Took a while.
03:42Yeah, so we started working on the outside edges.
03:44Where Fiona is seems distinctly different than here.
03:50Even down to the rock formations,
03:52a lot of smaller rocks on this top path,
03:55whereas we had a lot of larger ones down below here.
03:58Even the soil is a little bit different.
04:01Yeah.
04:02So the plan moving forward then is,
04:04I would assume, dig down and dig out.
04:08Yeah, I think we should excavate here too,
04:10just to make sure.
04:11I mean, there's something there.
04:13Yeah.
04:14That's exactly it.
04:15Okay.
04:16We'll let you get back to work.
04:17Go ahead.
04:17We'll keep you posted.
04:18Okie doke. Thank you.
04:20All right. See you guys.
04:24Later that morning.
04:27Right, Rick.
04:29Today is the day.
04:31We're at treasure depth now.
04:33Rick arrives in the Money Pit area,
04:36where the excavation of the Peacock One shaft
04:39is approaching a depth of 150 feet.
04:43We're almost in that void area
04:45where Pro Orp saw some objects.
04:49I heard one of them was a shiny.
04:51Any object.
04:52And I can tell you now,
04:53all the ancient treasures look lovely
04:56in water and mud.
04:58Yeah.
05:00Peacock One is another target location
05:03where high traces of silver and gold
05:05were detected in underground water samples
05:08taken from some 200 feet deep
05:11in the solution channel.
05:14And during their core drilling operation this year,
05:17this is also where the team discovered
05:19a 10-foot void at a depth of some 150 feet.
05:24Really, there were interesting things
05:27that we kind of noticed in the imagery.
05:30A void where an underwater camera
05:32recorded enhanced video of potential man-made workings
05:36and metal artifacts.
05:40This has made the team suspect
05:41that they may have discovered
05:43an offset treasure chamber
05:45connected to the original Money Pit.
05:48What would we expect to see
05:50in terms of material pullback?
05:52We'll see some rounded washed boulders
05:55at this point.
05:56We see some wood,
05:57everybody's going to lose it.
05:58I mean,
05:59because that would mean we're breaking into a structure.
06:02Anyway, here we go.
06:13Okay, now we got something.
06:15All right, got a lot of cobbles like you said.
06:17Let's see if there's any treasure in those spoils.
06:20Okay? Sure.
06:21I think the most likely place
06:23for a treasure that's still there
06:24is in the solution channel
06:26or in an offset chamber.
06:29Some boulders.
06:30One of the sonic drilling wells in the Peacock
06:32hit some really interesting stuff.
06:34Maybe it has something to do
06:36with the offset chamber theory.
06:38I'm hoping it does.
06:40Look at how washed those boulders are.
06:41We're definitely into a relative open space.
06:46That's clear, Billy.
06:47Not in this one.
06:50That's the void we're looking for.
06:52What?
06:53There was nothing in there.
06:54We're into the slushy loose area.
06:56Things could have moved around.
06:57Perhaps things fell down into the sluice shaft.
07:00Could Terry be correct
07:03that the shaft has encountered the same void
07:06the team drilled into earlier this year?
07:09But the possible artifacts they saw
07:11in the underwater video
07:12may have fallen through the loose ground soil
07:15to somewhere much deeper below.
07:19The area of interest for me now
07:22is the bottom of the solution channel.
07:23Sure.
07:24Because it could have fallen anywhere.
07:27Yep.
07:28We have to have an expectation
07:29that in the money pit
07:30every scoop has a chance.
07:32Yeah.
07:33So we just have to find it.
07:35Yep.
07:36Treasures where you find it as well.
07:38When you least expect it.
07:42Next bucket.
07:43All right.
07:44While the dig continues in the money pit area.
07:50Later that afternoon.
07:53All right.
07:54Back in the swamp.
07:55I'm pretty excited because we were finding
07:58five and eight sided states.
08:00And my guess is they continue.
08:03Right.
08:04Gary and Peter join Billy Gerhardt
08:06on the western side of the triangle shaped swamp.
08:10Well we have a road.
08:11Yep.
08:11There was big cargo moving along these roads maybe.
08:14Yep.
08:15Hopefully we find some of that cargo today mate.
08:17All right.
08:19They are continuing to look for more sections
08:22of a mysterious sand covered cobblestone road.
08:26Which they have found lined with five
08:28and eight sided wooden survey stakes.
08:33Now the team is determined to find out
08:35just where this road will lead them.
08:38See all the rocks in the edge of the road Gary.
08:41Yeah.
08:42There's a lot of rocks here.
08:43That is for sure.
08:45That's crazy now it's uncovered.
08:47You can actually see the line of rocks
08:50that represent the edges of the road.
08:53The sand in the middle.
08:54It's definitely a continuation of the sand road.
08:57Right.
08:59The road signifies a major effort by somebody
09:02to do significant work in the body of the swamp.
09:05Look at what we found in the swamp.
09:06Yeah.
09:07You know as we have chased this so called sand road
09:11you ask yourself is there any association
09:14with all the known construction
09:16features in the swamp.
09:18No one knows why it's here.
09:20I believe that this road might represent
09:22some very early work
09:24and we need to understand it
09:25in terms of understanding the mystery.
09:30Hey Gary.
09:31Hi mate.
09:32Figured I'd come help you dig.
09:34Yeah good.
09:36Anything yet or not really?
09:38We can clearly see the sand road now.
09:43Yeah.
09:51Oh.
09:52What's that?
09:53Well that's interesting.
09:55I don't know.
09:56I don't know what to make of it.
10:01Yeah.
10:02I think this is an eight sided mistake.
10:04Same dimensions overall.
10:07Yeah.
10:08After discovering another section
10:10of the sand covered cobblestone road
10:12on the western side of the swamp.
10:14The team has just found another potentially important clue.
10:19It looks like there's sandy material on this
10:22which would make sense that it was running up against the sand road.
10:26Yeah I agree.
10:28They seem to be following the edge of the road
10:30just like the row of rocks does.
10:32Yeah.
10:40There's another one right here.
10:42Another one.
10:43It looks like eight.
10:44Oh that's good.
10:46They were clearly marking this road.
10:48Yeah.
10:49I'm gonna go ahead and I'll get more of it uncovered.
10:51Alright guys.
10:52I'm gonna go check on some other things right now.
10:55Let me know if we find anything.
10:57You got it.
11:02Check the rocks on the other side Alex.
11:04They had them laid along the road.
11:06Yeah.
11:06You can see both sides of the road.
11:08Yeah you can see both sides of the road pretty clear.
11:10Yeah cause right now it's right here.
11:13Yeah.
11:14And then on the other side.
11:15Seems like over there.
11:16Yep.
11:17You get rocks again over here.
11:18Right.
11:19I mean this is a road.
11:21Definitely.
11:22But it seems like this would have been built for Oxen.
11:25Yep.
11:25We know there was a lot of work done here.
11:27There has to be an infrastructure to support it right?
11:30Right.
11:30And you know your uncle Rick would want to see this mate.
11:33Yep.
11:33Maybe text him get it out of here.
11:34I will.
11:35I'll let him know.
11:36When I first saw the sand road I didn't think it was a sand road.
11:39And now digging where we are having followed this path of sand all the way here.
11:44This is unique.
11:45Okay.
11:46It's actually the only old road with a sand topping that we found on the island.
11:51And this could be something really important.
11:54You guys are making a mess.
11:56I hope.
11:57Found something.
11:58A lot of stakes.
11:59A series of stakes along the edge of the road.
12:01What we found that's interesting is we now have both sides of the road very clearly visible
12:06with rocks on both sides.
12:08Oh yeah here.
12:09Somebody put the sand over the top to make it smoother I think.
12:13But it's all that rock underneath there.
12:16I wonder if this is way back when.
12:18Where else did we see all hand sized cobbles?
12:21We called the Portuguese stone road out of the swamp.
12:25Just kind of standing where I am right now looking down the road.
12:27I mean it looks like it heads right for where it would intersect that old stone road in the southeast
12:33corner of the swamp.
12:34Be pretty spot on.
12:35Right.
12:37Could Billy and Alex be correct?
12:39Might this sand covered road connect with the believed Portuguese stone road.
12:44Which the team uncovered in the southeast corner of the swamp back in 2020.
12:51When I say we get Dr. Spooner and guide us through some cross cuts.
12:54And I think it needs to be more than one.
12:56We know the dog to make swamp calls.
12:59Yeah.
13:00We need to do a cross cut because then Dr. Spooner can look at the stratigraphy.
13:06Perhaps he can find a carbon datable organic specimen.
13:10The hope is that it will be very enlightening because we could find connections to the Portuguese stone road.
13:17Oh.
13:18Let's keep digging.
13:19See what's what.
13:20Yeah.
13:21Let's clean it up and then we can see how wide it is.
13:23Yeah.
13:29The following morning.
13:31Hey Scott.
13:32Good morning Scott.
13:33Hey Scott.
13:33Hey guys.
13:34Good morning.
13:35Welcome back to the war room.
13:36You brought a lot of thoughtful discussion to this table.
13:40Rick and members of the team meet once again with author, researcher and 32nd degree Freemason, Scott Clark.
13:49Scott Clark has done some research lately and he has additional clues to the idea, the concept that a sacred
13:56religious treasure has been buried on this island.
13:58So having said that Scott, we look forward to your presentation.
14:03Yeah.
14:04Thank you very much Rick.
14:04I've been presenting research with you guys quite a number of times.
14:08My presentation is titled From Nazareth to Nova Scotia.
14:12I have additional clues that I believe really strengthen the theory that Oak Island does conceal a sacred religious treasure.
14:22Two years ago, Scott presented a map of Mahone Bay featuring Oak Island, which was drawn in 1762 by Charles
14:32Morris.
14:32That same year, Morris, who is also the surveyor general for England and a high ranking Freemason, was responsible for
14:42dividing Oak Island into 32 four acre lots.
14:46So I quickly realized that the Masonic script A was pointing directly up to Oak Island 33 years before the
14:53discovery of the money pit.
14:55It was Scott's belief that Charles Morris purposely used a Masonic style A in the word Mahone on the map
15:02in order to point toward the location where priceless religious treasures of the Knights Templar were buried.
15:11So as you guys know, the Masonic script A with a V-shaped crossbar has definitely been used at times
15:17throughout history as much more than just a simple letter.
15:20It's been found on Templar churches throughout Europe, carvings by the Knights of Christ, and of course on the earliest
15:29map of Mahone Bay, which I've shown before.
15:32The A in Mahone has a V-shaped crossbar, which is very similar to a Masonic compass and square symbol.
15:40So I recently became aware of this really interesting artifact in Rome.
15:44It's in a church called the Basilica of the Holy Cross that houses several relics related to the Passion of
15:50Christ.
15:51These relics are believed to include a piece of the true cross, one of the nails that was believed to
15:57have been used.
15:57And one of the relics is actually called the Titulus Crucis.
16:03The Titulus Crucis, or title of the cross, was a wooden tablet that was placed above the head of Jesus
16:10Christ when he was crucified.
16:13It was reportedly inscribed with the words, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.
16:20So as soon as I saw the Titulus Crucis, I was immediately drawn to the letter A at the bottom
16:26there, the V-shaped crossbar, highlighted in red, in the name Nazarenes.
16:32The Templars did have a major presence in Rome.
16:36The holy relics that were housed in the Basilica also held immense significance for the Templars, who cherished and visited
16:44this important religious site.
16:46So below is just a comparison of the two.
16:49The Morris map from 1762 showing the two different A's.
16:52And of course the place name Nazarenes on the Titulus Crucis.
16:59So of course the big question is why?
17:01Why was this particular A carved with the V-shaped crossbar on the Titulus Crucis?
17:07Why is it on the 1762 Morris map of Mahone Bay?
17:12It seems to me fairly possible that this letter A with the V-shaped crossbar is connected to Jesus.
17:19So additional clues that I believe really strengthen the theory.
17:23On the map at the far right is the name St. Margaret's Bay.
17:28St. Margaret was known throughout history as having owned a piece of the actual true cross of Jesus.
17:36And Morris also incorporated three of the A's within the name St. Margaret's Bay.
17:41They have that same V-shaped crossbar.
17:44Whereas all the other A's on the map do not.
17:47And as I've shown before the last time in the war room.
17:51By utilizing those three small A's in the name St. Margaret's Bay.
17:54If you created a circle on the map using the exact arc created by the three Basonic script A's.
18:02The circle will not only pass directly through the compass rows of the map.
18:06But also directly over Oak Island.
18:09Yeah.
18:12So Jesus was venerated by the Catholic orders.
18:15The Knights Templar, the Knights of Christ, the Knights of Malta.
18:19Any of whom may have been responsible for depositing or incorporating crosses on Oak Island.
18:24I believe that it's very possible a piece of the actual true cross of Jesus may have been concealed
18:30as a Templar treasure on Oak Island.
18:35In the war room, 32nd degree Freemason Scott Clark is presenting clues found on an 18th century map of Mahone
18:44Bay.
18:44Which he believes offers more evidence that priceless religious artifacts may be buried on Oak Island.
18:52And here's another example.
18:54Cory Amol, he took the photo that's shown right here.
18:58He informed me that an A with a V-shaped crossbar was found at the Convent of Christ in Tomar,
19:05Portugal, which is a Templar church.
19:07That's right.
19:09Recently, the Convent of Christ displayed a number of Portuguese Templar gravestones, which have these pentacles engraved on them.
19:17And the pentacle, it's a pentagram within a circle, was adopted by Christians during medieval times as a symbol of
19:24Jesus and the five wounds that he suffered during the crucifixion.
19:29Every pentagram consists of five letter A's in varying positions.
19:34And as we can see, this includes the A with a V-shaped crossbar.
19:40So it's interesting that in all the world, the only country that incorporates the five wounds of Christ on its
19:46national flag and its early coinage, of course, is Portugal.
19:49And by association, the Azores.
19:53Both of their flags to this day still have the five blue shields arranged in the shape of a cross.
19:59And on each shield, we see the five dots, which are said to represent the five wounds of Jesus.
20:05The Azores are a Portuguese archipelago of nine islands, some 870 miles west of mainland Portugal.
20:13On the 15th and the 16th century, there is evidence of Portuguese presence on the Oak Island.
20:20In 2022, Portuguese researcher, Francisco Nogueira, met with a team as they were investigating a strange rock wall on Lot
20:3026 of Oak Island.
20:32The rock wall. This wall appears to be created in the world Portuguese style of building rock fences.
20:40No way.
20:43And curiously, Francisco not only affirmed that the wall appeared to be of Portuguese design, but matched similar rock walls
20:51found in the Azores.
20:54And with the discovery or the revelation of the Piplato coin this year, I think on a research note, we'd
21:01have to turn our attention back to Portugal.
21:03And the Azores as well.
21:04They would probably have the cross with the five, you know, wounds of Christ.
21:08That was normal for Portugal currency back then.
21:11It does have that.
21:13Is it possible that the 14th century silver coin, reportedly found in the original Money Pit by James Pit Blato,
21:22might be a corroborating clue to support Scott Clark's theory?
21:27I'm not the only researcher that's found a number of connections with early Christian relics and Oak Island.
21:33I believe that with this new information I presented regarding the day with the V-shaped crossbar, it is perhaps
21:39a clue that there is something on Oak Island directly connected to Jesus Christ.
21:46And these groups, the Templars, Knights of Christ.
21:48It does track fits with the history that we know.
21:52Oh, absolutely.
21:53Yep.
21:54Yep.
21:54It's something we can continue to investigate.
21:56It's what we're looking for if we can prove it out.
21:59The thing that connects the old world across the Atlantic to Oak Island.
22:02Right.
22:03Right.
22:04I think potentially going to the Azores is an excellent thought.
22:09So say thank you to you.
22:12Continue your excellent research because what you find may be critically important to us.
22:17Sounds good.
22:18Thanks very much, Rick.
22:19Really appreciate it.
22:20Thanks, Scott.
22:21Thank you, Scott.
22:24Later that morning.
22:27So we're going to do one trench.
22:29Dr. Spooner joins Rick and members of the team on the western side of the swamp.
22:34The idea is to do it across the road.
22:38And what we're hoping to do is see some kind of feature, wood, cut wood, underneath the sand.
22:47As Billy digs a trench or crosscut in the sand and cobblestone road, Dr. Ian Spooner will be looking for
22:55man-manipulated clues such as cut wood to submit for carbon dating.
23:00This could help him determine when the road was created.
23:09It's still sand.
23:11Yeah.
23:13There's a lot of material.
23:14Yeah.
23:17Was it a road and then the sand put on after?
23:19Yeah.
23:20That's the one thing we've got to take a look at.
23:21If there's rocks and dust and sand.
23:23Yeah.
23:24That's two generations then of construction.
23:27Right.
23:28So we're digging through the sand road and what we saw were these layers.
23:31Layer of sand on top.
23:33Organics.
23:34Below the sand.
23:35Then rocks under that that might have been used to reinforce the sides of this road.
23:41That caught you going.
23:42Yeah.
23:47Got a hit in here.
23:48You do?
23:49Yeah.
23:51It's iron.
23:55I think it's out.
24:02That's exciting.
24:08What in the?
24:12Or do you think we might have an old ox now?
24:19After digging into the sand and stone road on the western side of the swamp, Katya has just found a
24:25potentially important artifact.
24:27Yeah.
24:29And it definitely is square, which obviously isn't modern.
24:36And the ox would have been towing the carts with everything, right?
24:39An ox shoe nail?
24:41Could Billy be correct that the team has found evidence that heavy cargo was moved along this road long ago?
24:48If so, just what type of cargo was it?
24:52That's encouraging.
24:54An old nail makes me more confident that what we're standing on is something old.
24:58Who knows what we might find in the sand?
25:00Let's keep going.
25:01If we can make a determination that the road is old, then to me, it speaks eloquently to the fact
25:08that the road was constructed to gain access into a wetland and that heavy loads were transported across it.
25:19Yeah, that's another cut piece of wood there.
25:21Yeah.
25:28Right.
25:29As the teeth are going by here, I mean, there's a lot of rocks here.
25:32Yeah.
25:32Somebody lay them down as a base.
25:34Yeah, that's cut too.
25:35Yeah.
25:36So something like that is what we want to get a date from.
25:39Yeah.
25:40So we're digging through the sand road and what we see is cut wood above the stones and below the
25:46sand.
25:46Oh, look at this, Peter.
25:47That log's cut at the end too, which I think was put down to help stabilize the sand with the
25:55intent of actually supporting a fair bit of weight.
25:58What really stands out to me is some of the layering.
26:01It looks like brush that's been just piled down, piled on top.
26:06Yeah.
26:07I mean, it's pretty complex construction, but it's hastily done.
26:10The Portuguese stone road is made the same way.
26:13Hey, take a look at this.
26:15That's cut wood.
26:16Wow.
26:18In 2020, when the team uncovered the stone road in the southeast corner of the swamp, they found layers of
26:25hand-cut tree branches beneath the cobblestones that served as support bedding.
26:31Could these branches offer a clue that this sand road may indeed connect to the road in the southeast corner?
26:39But it's worth trying to figure out the timing of this.
26:43Mm-hmm.
26:44Because if it connects to the stone road, then maybe it's all of a certain design.
26:49That stick right there that's still embedded in the side.
26:52Yeah.
26:53I think that's going to be the one that's going to tell the tale, would it not?
26:56Yes.
26:56We might get a good date off that wood too.
26:59Mm-hmm.
26:59But what I'd like to do is move to another site, do another trench.
27:03If you can do that, Billy.
27:04Yep.
27:05Okay.
27:06Good luck.
27:07See you guys.
27:11The next morning.
27:14Morning.
27:15How's it going?
27:16We've already gone down another 20 feet.
27:18So at this point, the can is down to 170.
27:21That's great.
27:22In the Money Pit area, Rick and other members of the team monitor the excavation of the Peacock 1 caisson.
27:29Yeah, I noticed we're getting full buckets as well.
27:32Yeah.
27:32Which is good.
27:33The more spoils we go through, the more chance we got finding treasure.
27:37Everything points to getting down to 210.
27:39All right.
27:40Thanks, Ed.
27:41Thanks a lot, Ed.
27:41Appreciate it.
27:42Appreciate it.
27:43Keep your fingers crossed.
27:45Yeah.
27:47What do you got?
27:49And you're smiling.
27:51Look at that.
27:52That came out of Peacock 1.
27:54What the heck is that?
27:55That's cement.
27:56Let's have a look.
27:56Just kind of jumped out on the wash plant.
28:00Yeah, that is cement.
28:01Yeah.
28:03You know what that makes me think of?
28:05My mind went right to the vault, 1897.
28:08Yeah, the vault.
28:10The vault was encased in concrete.
28:13That's concrete.
28:14Not maybe.
28:15Wow.
28:18In 1897, treasure hunters Frederick Blair and William Chappell reported drilling into a seven-foot-high wooden vault
28:26that was encased in concrete at a depth of 153 feet.
28:31During this same incident, they claimed to have found traces of gold and a piece of parchment bearing the letters
28:38VI when they extracted their drill bit.
28:41Is it possible that this concrete could be evidence of the so-called chapel vault?
28:48That needs to go to the lab.
28:49Absolutely.
28:50I'm going to leave that with you.
28:52I've got to get back down to the wash plant.
28:54All right.
28:54See you guys.
28:55See ya.
28:56That's why the wash plant exists.
28:58Because drilling, the sinking of caissons, metal detecting, you need all the tools in the toolbox.
29:07Here we go.
29:08Let's see if we find something.
29:19Hey, Charles.
29:21Look out here.
29:25This is pretty peculiar.
29:28It's awfully round.
29:30You know what that looks like?
29:32At the wash plant, Derek Couch has just made a potentially important discovery.
29:39It looks like a Portuguese stone shot to me is the fact that it's coming out of this at 100
29:44-plus feet down.
29:45Okay.
29:46This is cool, man.
29:47We found one before in the money paper.
29:50A possible piece of stone shot found in the spoils removed from the Peacock 1 shaft?
29:57Dating as far back as the 12th century, hand-carved stone shot was a projectile that was discharged from both
30:04small cannons and early handheld firearms.
30:08Curiously, the team has found two stone shots in recent years, one on Lot 15 and the other deep in
30:17the Money Pit area.
30:18Incredibly, according to scientific testing, both of those may have originated in the Azores Islands of Portugal.
30:27We got to have Laird and Rick come down and take a look at this.
30:29Yeah, you better.
30:30Absolutely.
30:31I'm going to text them.
30:33All right.
30:33Have them come down.
30:35Is it possible that Derek and Charles have found another identical piece of stone shot?
30:41Way to go.
30:42Keep an eye.
30:43And if so, could it be another key clue to help identify just who was behind the Oak Island mystery?
30:51Charles.
30:51Hey, Laird.
30:53You get a smile on your face a mile long.
30:56Well, take a look at that.
31:01Wow.
31:01Look at that.
31:03What do you make of it?
31:04Well, it looks like a stone shot for sure.
31:08I don't see how that would occur naturally here.
31:10The Emma and the CT scan might tell us something.
31:13Right.
31:13See the chisel marks or whatever?
31:15Yeah.
31:15Hmm.
31:17It was found a hundred plus feet down.
31:20So it could come from the solution channel.
31:22It could come from a little bit higher.
31:24All I know is a hundred plus.
31:26I mean, either way, if it's a stone shot, it shouldn't be there.
31:29In 40 years, we've never seen this on an archeology site.
31:33As the appearance of the other ones.
31:35Yeah.
31:35There was a suggestion that it could have come from the azo.
31:38So we have to check into that.
31:40Very curious find.
31:42Cool.
31:43If Larry's correct in his assessment that it is a stone shot.
31:48Okay.
31:48Thanks, guys.
31:49I think it would be quite remarkable.
31:51It's amazing because now we have found three in different locations.
31:56And this one was found in an area where we've actually found traces of precious metals deep underground as well.
32:04Meanwhile, back in the Money Pit area.
32:07I think we're at bottom.
32:08The excavation of the Peacock One shaft has reached bedrock in the solution channel.
32:15So, how's it going?
32:16You saw how it was turning, but it really wasn't going anywhere?
32:19Yeah.
32:19They're on the bottom.
32:20Yeah.
32:21Teeth are on the bottom at 210.
32:22Just about where we thought.
32:23Nothing else has come up?
32:25Unfortunately, no.
32:26Most of the stuff we're pulling up is relatively loose.
32:29There's some gypsum from the bottom as well.
32:31Sadly, the structure that we thought or hoped for doesn't seem to have materialized.
32:37Unfortunately, we're done.
32:41Hey, guys.
32:42How we doing?
32:43You tell us.
32:44Yeah.
32:45Holes cleaned up.
32:46We definitely are in the layer of bedrock for sure.
32:50I'll say it.
32:51It's disappointing, especially given the clue we just found.
32:54Charles says it better than anyone, you know?
32:57Maybe he didn't find it yet, but it's down there.
33:00We collected samples of soil, we collected water samples, and they show precious metals, so we may be close to
33:08something.
33:09As everyone knows, we didn't find the treasure, but we're buoyed by the fact that, you know, we all stuck
33:16together in this, including you.
33:18And now we have a decision to make.
33:19Where do we go next?
33:21We're certainly not giving up.
33:23Awesome.
33:24All right.
33:24Thank you, guys.
33:25Thank you, guys.
33:26You know what?
33:27Okay, the treasure wasn't right here, but I'm confident we're going to find some treasure.
33:31You just keep moving forward.
33:33That's all it is.
33:34On to the next hole, right?
33:36I mean, at some point, this will get solved.
33:40There it is.
33:41On to the next.
33:47The following morning...
33:50Everybody knows why we're here.
33:52The find on the far end of the table here came from Peacock 1.
33:57Rick and other members of the team gather in the lab.
34:00Well, what's unique?
34:01I mean, to find one in the money pit, one on Lot 15, and now another one came from the
34:06money pit as well.
34:08They are eager to hear Emma's preliminary scientific analysis of the believed stone shot.
34:15Oh, wow.
34:16What do you see, Emma?
34:19So there's these two little divots from the cross section up on this end.
34:25There's a divot up here.
34:27So these are all wear marks or marks of being worked at.
34:31By humans, not nature, correct?
34:34I would assume so.
34:35Yeah.
34:35Yeah.
34:36This one's a little rough, which is a good thing because the original stone shots were made by stonemasons.
34:44Mm-hmm.
34:45The way they were created is you have a stonemason and basically just hitting it.
34:51And this one, you can clearly see the peck marks.
34:54Which does identify this as a stone shot.
34:57Mmm.
34:57We believe that some of these fit swivel guns in Portugal.
35:02We know that because we took them.
35:06During their trip to Portugal in 2021, Rick and members of the team visited the military museum in Lisbon.
35:14Oh, look at that.
35:16It's pretty close.
35:18So I would say that's a match to this.
35:20Where they were amazed to discover that both of the stone shots matched with a 15th century Portuguese cannon.
35:29Let's pin down a timeframe then, when these were used and when they went out of use.
35:34Yeah.
35:35I mean, the peak use of stone shot was in the 14th and the 15th century.
35:38And cast iron cannonball was introduced in 1450.
35:41So it replaced these pretty quickly.
35:43Oh, the 14th century.
35:47That fits into the same timeframe as the Portuguese coin that the Play-Doh found while drilling in the money
35:53pit.
35:53Yeah.
35:54An early day like that would be highly suggestive of that, absolutely.
35:58In the lab, the team has just learned that the object found in the Peacock 1 spoils is a potentially
36:04600-year-old stone shot.
36:08And if it is, then these could have been dropped by the depositors.
36:12Yeah.
36:13The timeline associated with the use of stone shot predates the accepted history of the discovery of the North American
36:20continent.
36:21This type of stone shot would have been used in the 13-1400s.
36:26We know that there's a strong connection, possibly, to the order of Christ and the mystery.
36:32And they had the ability to get to the new world.
36:36This could be an important clue.
36:38I don't know what your brother Marty would say.
36:41This is nice, but go out there and find some more.
36:44So let's give it a shot, Rick.
36:45Only if we get out there.
36:47All right.
36:48See you guys.
36:48Thanks, Larry.
36:51Later that afternoon...
36:54Hey, Marty.
36:55Hello, big brother.
36:56What's going on?
36:57A little bit of an update for you.
36:59I'm the Peacock.
37:00Okay.
37:00Rick meets via video conference with Marty, who is currently back in Michigan for business concerns.
37:08So we have reached the bottom of the solution channel.
37:11Yeah.
37:11And we weren't finding much of anything other than the proof of unconsolidated soils.
37:17Mm-hmm.
37:17But somewhere between 100 and 150 feet, this came up.
37:23I don't know if you can see it.
37:26Oh, yeah.
37:27I sure as heck can.
37:28Its appearance, obviously, is stone shot, right?
37:32Yeah.
37:33You remember Gary found the one at the surface on lot 15?
37:38Yeah.
37:38So we have the money pit find, we have the lot 15 find, and now we have this.
37:43That's pretty exciting because, Rick, that would imply that those stone shots are everywhere.
37:49Correct.
37:50And those things, are they not like, you know, they quit using them like in 15 something?
37:56Yeah.
37:57In the 1500s.
37:58Yeah.
38:00This stone shot means people were down there a long time ago.
38:04And, again, more evidence of activity long before anybody thought there were Europeans here.
38:12Probably the 1400s, maybe the 1300s.
38:15So it's hard to overstate the significance of this thing.
38:20Really boggles my mind.
38:22We can have Laird reach out to Dr. Rayside at Acadia.
38:26He did the previous analysis of the stone.
38:29We need to know what type of rock this is and where it might have come from.
38:33Okay.
38:34Well, we need to do that.
38:36What else you got for me?
38:37You know, we are coming to the end of the search year.
38:41Well, that leads me to ask you a question.
38:43How are you feeling about our efforts this year?
38:47The year has been very frustrating.
38:50We made very educated choices in the money pit, but it was less than we had hoped for at this
38:59point.
38:59Yeah.
39:01That's how I feel.
39:02How do you feel?
39:04The island is just the most frustrating thing I've ever been involved in.
39:08But we did, I think, prove that the solution channel played a huge role in this.
39:16So, you know, I still think there's a decent chance that what we seek is down in that solution channel.
39:22You just have to figure it out.
39:23All right.
39:24It's been disappointing because we have not solved the mystery.
39:28But it doesn't mean that you lack hope.
39:30It doesn't mean that you're not optimistic about the next, the next case on.
39:35Why don't we switch gears a little bit and ask Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michael.
39:39You know, they're intimately familiar with all the data.
39:42Let's ask them where they would dig.
39:43If they were treasure hunters.
39:45I think that's a very appropriate thing to do.
39:48We'll get right on that, ask them, but we need an X on the ground.
39:52Yeah.
39:52Soon.
39:53Okie doke.
39:54All right.
39:54Is that it?
39:55Then get back to work.
39:56That's all we got.
39:57We'll get back to work.
39:59Thanks, Rick.
40:00Appreciate it.
40:00See ya.
40:01Yep.
40:01Take care.
40:03For Rick, Marty, and their team, this week has underscored the need for perseverance
40:10in their quest to solve the Oak Island mystery.
40:14Because new finds and research suggest they could be closing in on a sacred treasure
40:22with extraordinary historic implications.
40:26So now, as time is running out for the year, how can they zero in on where X marks the
40:34spot?
40:38Do they rely on science or luck?
40:42Perhaps it will take both, along with their most precious asset, their faith.
40:52Next time, on The Curse of Oak Island.
40:55I want to find something that we can date.
40:58Exactly.
40:59There you go, Mike.
41:00Hello.
41:00Oh, what's under there?
41:02Wow.
41:03I want to see what's underneath here.
41:05Some of the highest silver and gold values will show up right in there.
41:08Hold on, Josh.
41:09Hold on.
41:09Whoa.
41:10Definitely into some hard stuff.
41:12Wow.
41:12Check that one out.
41:13That's a great find.
41:14That all adds up to a possible human presence here in the 1400s.
41:18That's really weird.
41:19It's amazing.
41:21.
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