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The Curse of Oak Island - Season 13 Episode 24 - Overseaing the Dig
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00:04tonight on the curse of oak island what's that it's similar to what we have on oak island this
00:11is from 2000 bc we're starting to find a hidden wall this would be an ideal place to deposit
00:18treasure that sounds great wow oh my gosh this is huge amazing this is very very very significant
00:27if that was part of the treasure the rest of it is still the money that absolutely
00:34there is an island in the north atlantic where people have been looking for an incredible
00:41treasure for more than 200 years so far they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into
00:50it man-made workings that date to medieval times and a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the
00:59knight's templar to date six men have died trying to solve the mystery and according to legend one
01:08more will have to die before the treasure can be found
01:26we're getting there trying to level it out right now as a new fall day begins on oak island they
01:33do
01:34the grind and we do to find it the team is currently repairing a section of unstable ground in order
01:41to begin the final massive dig of the year where unnaturally high traces of silver have been detected
01:47some 200 feet underground as the work proceeds over 2,000 miles to the southeast on the island of
01:59dr. seira in the portuguese azores welcome to nosa senora de conceiton our lady of the conception rick and
02:09members of the team along with local historian francisco nogaira arrive at a 15th century church connected to a
02:17sect of the Knights Templar known as the order of christ founded around 1474 by alvaro the omen this church
02:27is
02:27the crossroads of a number of great stories that might tell us what came from the holy land through
02:32the azores towards oak island no and i think it's wonderful so let's go perfect after discovering a
02:41number of believed portuguese medieval artifacts on oak island such as a hand cannon and stone shots
02:48along with structures such as a rock wall on lot 26 and a stone road in the swamp rick and
02:57members
02:58of the team have come to research the theory that the templars and their descendant organizations may
03:04have stored sacred treasures in the azores before taking them to oak island between the 13th and 17th
03:11centuries it is also their hope to find clues related to the 14th century silver portuguese coin that
03:19was reportedly extracted during a drilling operation in the original money pit by james pit plato back in
03:261849 at first glance this looks like an ordinary church a beautiful but ordinary church oh
03:39a few years ago we were underground in camerano italy looking at the altar which had this image here
03:49the goose paw i think you'll agree that it's at least very similar yeah the goose paw is a symbol
03:58that was
03:59created by the knights templar which they carved at locations of sacred importance throughout the
04:05middle east and europe between the 12th and 14th centuries the team saw a similar carving just one week
04:13ago ago at a nearby church known as the agracia de sao sebastiao and in recent years they've also seen
04:21goose paws carved at former templar sites in italy as well as in liverpool nova scotia less than 50 miles
04:30from oak island any treasure that was on this island would have been in the realm of this church
04:36could corian be correct that this goose paw carving is a clue that templar related treasures were once
04:45safeguarded in the azores if so might that also suggest that the goose paw found near oak island is evidence
04:53that those treasures were taken to that area at a later time the goose paw it was an interesting
05:02connection that he made what better place an isolated island in the middle of the open ocean
05:07to safeguard a treasure and then perhaps an attempt to move it even further west
05:14one thing i'm noticing just looking at this is we have the goose pup but then we also have an
05:19elongated
05:20cross using the the stem of the h it's elongated just like no one's cross yes the symbology is endless
05:29i do believe there is some religious component to what was done on oak island there's so much encoded
05:36information associated with templars and the knights of christ related to significant religious
05:43artifacts that we have found in europe and oak island this is incredibly intriguing and interesting as the
05:50whole story of oak island is it's very very cool it's all fascinating we should move to the next
05:57location that'd be great let's go as rick and the team continue their investigation in the azores
06:04back on oak island hey katya hey marty i hated to see you not have a digger so i am
06:12here marty lagina
06:14joins katya drayton several yards south of the money pit area on lot 18. i just wanted to go over
06:21these
06:21spoils oh the spoils from dunfield yeah i'm ready to dig if you find something let's find it okay
06:30in 1965 treasure hunter robert dunfield used a 70 ton crane to dig a 100 foot diameter crater in the
06:39money
06:39pit area unfortunately upon reaching a depth of 143 feet the ground around the hole collapsed as seawater
06:49rushed in and flooded it mr dunfield hastily filled the hole but left massive piles of spoils off to
06:57the side which were never searched for possible clues or valuables now because the team is about to
07:05sink a much deeper shaft in the area encompassed by dunfield's dig marty is curious to try the team's
07:12luck by metal detecting those old mounds of spoils oh that's different sounds really good
07:24right in there and it's small that's why it kind of sounded choppy okay that makes sense
07:31okay
07:38try that let's see you got it it's out
07:46that sounds great
07:55oh we got it it's in your hand oh my gosh yeah oh you know what katja i've seen this
08:04before
08:05oh really yeah hang on pretty sure i've seen this before it's shaped like the fleur-de-lis almost yeah
08:12you are dead on because you know what this looks exactly like i am positive your dad found something
08:19exactly like this and he was sure it was a french cat badge why is there a french cat badge
08:25in the
08:26money pit well here's the thing the short answer is we're not sure but here's the cool thing it was
08:34found on the complete opposite side of the island oh my gosh which implies a greater presence than we
08:41thought right i mean why over here and over there what is that that's got some designs on yeah that
08:49in 2018 while metal detecting on lot 21 located on the western side of the island this reminds me of
08:57like a cat badge a military cat badge gary jack and peter found an identical artifact fragment
09:06is it possible that marty and katya have discovered a directly related clue that was removed from the
09:13money pit more than 60 years ago there are several leading theories that involve the french in a very
09:20significant way the knights of malta isaac de rasly which had a settlement just down the coast here
09:27in the 1600s was apparently here associated with the french or under french orders
09:34in 1632 a french military officer named isaac de rasly established a fort in lahave nova scotia just 15
09:44miles south of oak island curiously de rasly was also a prominent member of the templar and order of
09:52christ related group known as the knights of malta and is believed by some researchers to have
09:58possibly visited oak island that is a great find boy the uh the drayton's strike
10:07we don't know exactly where these dunfield spoils came from but nobody's gone through them
10:13i would never have guessed this would show up over here and so i think this is evidence of human
10:18activity deep underground in the money pit area and potentially some of the depositors this is a
10:24great indicator that something's still down there look honestly it is so significant thank you of course
10:32i'll find you another great find i got a lot of passes till 8 but i probably got a couple
10:40nights work
10:40still while work continues in the money pit area
10:48he's dying to dig isn't he marty joins members of the team on lot five to dig for new clues
10:55several
10:56yards from the rounded stone foundation
11:00okay talk to me what what are we looking at right now well as we started uncovering this lovely ring
11:08of
11:08rocks and got a little further down there's something starting to present itself and it looks like a
11:15nicely stacked area of rocks which potentially could be another feature
11:22four weeks ago the team began investigating what they believed was a 20th century stone well
11:31however after finding an iron hook inside of it that may date back three centuries or more
11:38fiona and laird began to carefully excavate the feature
11:42and have found evidence that it may not only be older than they thought but is perhaps not a well
11:48at all
11:50okay so what do we want to do what's the next step why don't we take off that top layer
11:55where the rocks
11:56are on the outside scoop up that and it gives us a start on a test pit that we can
12:00do okay
12:04i love this excavator archaeology you can do some real metal detecting with this baby can you
12:14now fiona and laird want marty to dig a trench beside the feature
12:19so that they can carefully expose more of it and hopefully determine just what it actually is
12:26it's still too early to say what it is but it sure as heck wasn't a 20th century well
12:31the owner more or closer i think you could do another one in here i'd go for more
12:38it's necessary to find out what this is because it's lot five it's close to the activity
12:45it could be maybe associated with a round feature and is one of the things that probably happened a long
12:50time ago we need to do more investigation of it it hasn't really told its secret yet
12:57i think that's good marty that gives us a really nice trench zone i think that gives us
13:02a really good head start good yeah i think so all right and then just call when you need
13:06you know big yeah scoops taken your team is chomping at the bit over there see we turn them
13:14loose let's get after it thank you all right i'm gonna get this thing out of here all right
13:20as the archaeologists continue their investigation on lot five
13:27back on the island of tercera in the azores hey guys felix thank you for welcoming us nice to
13:36meet you appreciate it rick and other members of the team morning morning meet with historian dr felix
13:42rodriguez at grota tomato a site of mysterious megalithic stone features which are believed to
13:50have been built by someone before the portuguese settled the azores in 1439 for over 15 years professor
13:58rodriguez studied the place we're going today to date some of the features that are here we know that the
14:04uh portuguese arrived here officially in the early 1400s you we will see uh traces that someone in the
14:13middle ages was here and might have used the azores as a stepping stone to sail towards north america right
14:21which is basically the halfway point between the european mainland yeah and north america yeah you're
14:28always looking to incrementally build the database brick by brick by brick or stone by stone by stone by
14:35stone with felix's work we have to have an ability to get from east to west right that that possibility
14:46that there was a a group here prior to the conventionally accepted date is kind of the thing
14:54that i'd like to investigate while we're out here because that implies sort of a secret visit oh yeah
15:00yeah if this can support that data and i believe that is the intent of our trip here yeah gentlemen
15:07i've got some business take care of back in tandem so i'm going to excuse myself nice to meet you
15:11professor all right let's see you let's go let's go okay yeah i believe that the point of beginning
15:19on oak island was in the 1200s let's go find some data points because of the paved area in the
15:25swamp
15:25we'll get our exercise today oh yeah it significantly predates the discovery of the azores it's up there
15:33there is a belief that the templars in the order of christ knew of this place
15:40is there an early habitation here in the azores this is what we seek to find out
15:51this is exactly the way the lot eight boulders right a space and this and the space oh it is
15:58a rock formation similar to the boulder feature on lot eight which set above a series of evenly spaced
16:07stones come on down take a look at this could rick have found a stone structure built with the same
16:14kind
16:15of design look i just walking by i just noticed this it kind of similar to a rock that we
16:23have on the
16:23island and this wood is full of these marks very interesting does anybody have a photo of the lot
16:31eight feature i think i do here i'll show you so this is it's it's zoomed in but it's a
16:39giant boulder
16:40where there's a support rock and then a space and it looked very deliberate but that seems to be the
16:48same idea yeah incredible
16:55it's a giant boulder so this is it's it's zoomed in there's a support rock and then a space
17:01and then a support rock and in a space and it looked very deliberate and that seems to be
17:06the same idea. Yeah, we don't know why. At the megalithic complex known as Grota
17:12Dumaito in the Azores, the Oak Island team is examining a stone feature that
17:18is similar in design to placed rocks in the boulder formation on Lot 8. Felix,
17:24what is that? This is cut marks. The cut marks are always aligned with a specific
17:32sunset or sunrise. Astronomical, yeah. It's an astronomical orientation. Has an
17:39archaeoastronomer looked at this and been able to date it through the use of
17:43alignments? Yes, it's possible. What are the dates here? Do you know? 2000 BC. Really?
17:52Really. Okay, wow. Very exciting. And this is a specific orientation from Iron Age, Bronze
18:01Age orientations that appears in mainland in several places with the same age.
18:08That is compelling. What I noticed is the same thing I noticed in Lot 8. The spacing of the stones
18:15that
18:16surround the Lot 8 feature and the spacing of these cuts in this stone were so similar. We're trying to
18:25find real connections between the Azores and Oak Island. This structure represents that, that possible
18:33connection. It's very curious to see that here. It's quite interesting. But obviously this feature
18:40is very old. So was the work here on Oak Island done by descendants of the original people who occupied
18:47the Azores or something different. This is not the most important in this place. Really? Really. Then I
18:54would ask you to proceed because I'm very interested. Let's go up. More to see. Turns out that's just the
19:02beginning. Let's go to the basin. Yeah, let's go to the basin. We're only partway to the site that he
19:08deems to
19:09be important. Of course, we're all excited to go see it. Gorgeous. It's stunningly beautiful. These
19:19megalithic structures represent for us this belief that once this landmass was found, it was used over
19:28centuries as a stepping stone between the old world and the new world. Great spot. But I'm looking for a
19:36timeline, a date, constructions and clues that connects directly to Oak Island. Something that
19:43will perhaps change history as we have come to know it. Okay, this is the basin. Oh, look at that.
19:53This is a symbol of a settlement here. The people were living in the island and made some strange
20:02basins. Oh, is that hand carved or? Yes. So this is not a functional watering hole. It's probably
20:12ceremonial? Probably ceremonial. And inside, some material, organic material, is accumulated in the bottom
20:22of the basin. And because of that, it was possible to date it by carbon dating. And it was? At
20:32least
20:32thousand years ago. Oh, wow. Really? Yes. Pretty cool. So we're talking about the 1100s. This is the
20:40minimum age for that. What an amazing sight. Yeah. It does sort of put this in the Oak Island dating's
20:48wheelhouse. Isn't it? Yeah. Comparison here is to the lot 26 well, right? Yeah. Small diameter. Yeah. More
20:56than a few people on the island have mentioned that lot 26 well could be ceremonial. Oh, yeah. In 2022,
21:03the team began investigating a mysterious stone well, just yards from the believed Portuguese wall
21:10on lot 26. So this is the location. When Dr. Ian Spooner analyzed organic materials taken from the very
21:19bottom of the feature in order to date it, the team was stunned by the results. The date I got
21:25on the
21:26twig at the bottom was 1028 to 1172. Well, I mean, if this was used in 1100, it could have
21:36been a
21:36stopping ground before going to Oak Island. Yeah. I agree with you. They know travel in the Atlantic.
21:44If they want to go, they know how to do it. A hundred percent. And that is really so critically
21:50important. The 1100s is 300 years before the current understanding of when the Azores were discovered.
22:00Everything we have learned to date would indicate that these islands were known during the zenith
22:06of the power and influence of the Templars. It fits perfectly into what we believe could be a
22:12scenario under which a treasure would have been brought here to be safeguarded and then perhaps
22:19an attempt to move it even further west. So perhaps there is some association here with Oak Island.
22:27So it's checking off lots of the boxes as it pertains to Oak Island.
22:32We're getting closer. Great. So to both of you, we thank you for your efforts.
22:37Thank you. Thank you. I have a lot of things to see related to Oak Island. So let's go.
22:42Incredible. Amazing. Pretty cool.
22:49The following morning, back on Oak Island.
22:53Hi. Hello. This looks quite a bit different.
22:57Marty returns to Lot 5 for an update on the investigation of the mysterious stone structure.
23:04Well, you've got to check out this progress. Come and see. You've got a good angle over here.
23:10So am I. The rocks are really well stacked down below. They just look a little bit more jumbled
23:17on the top. Yeah. What we're seeing with the structure of the rocks and the direction that
23:21they're going, I do feel that this is a wall. It's a foundation wall. Yeah, like a foundation
23:25wall. Just be clear, yeah. Yeah, that's what I think. And it's quite thick as well. Yeah.
23:28That, to me, looks buried. It's not natural accumulation. Oh, on purpose. Yeah. Hidden.
23:34Exactly. It looks pretty substantial to me. Yeah. It hit me upside the head with a two
23:40by four, but this is looking identical to what went on over there. And the original round
23:44feature. I know. That's what we were saying. It does look almost exactly as the original
23:50round feature did. And then we have this rock filled structure. I mean, this whole business
23:55on Lot 5 started with the ring of modern placed rock surrounding a depression that turned out
24:01to be hiding something. And that turned into a very, very substantial archaeological feature.
24:07Well, this is a smaller version of the same thing. I mean, it's crying out for more exploration.
24:13Even the construct at first initial glance is very crude and very similar to what we have
24:19over there as well. Well, but over there, you suspected at least two occupations.
24:24Oh, definitely. Definitely. The later occupation was better built than the earlier. And this
24:28this matches the earlier. So far. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same era.
24:34It's like deja vu.
24:38But really good sign, Fiona.
24:41It does look almost exactly as the original round feature did when we first saw it.
24:46I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same era.
24:49On Lot 5, Fiona Steele has uncovered evidence suggesting that the stone feature, previously
24:56thought to be a 20th century well, is a much larger structure and may be related to the
25:02nearby rounded foundation.
25:05That's a strange thing to put a structure this close to the ocean, especially back then.
25:11You know, but I did question the proximity as well.
25:14This would be an ideal place to put something if you were doing some sort of activity that
25:18involved bringing things in from boats.
25:21Maybe.
25:22Lot 5 is a prime location in the sense that you could be hidden there.
25:26It's on the back end of the island, closer to the shore, and it hadn't been settled.
25:30So you could easily hide a ship.
25:32It's not that far from the money pit as well.
25:35I think that would be very enticing for anybody who's going to want to deposit treasure.
25:40Old Man Winner is breathing down our neck right now.
25:44We are running out of time.
25:46Yeah.
25:47You know, we want to know as much as we can.
25:50I agree.
25:51The fact that there could be another third feature on Lot 5, I think, is absolutely amazing.
25:55So, no, we're hungry to get at this.
25:57Okay.
25:57I know you're already working like, you know, dynamos, but go to Double Dynamo, okay?
26:02We're so excited about this.
26:04That was a pep talk.
26:05We're going to be aggressive.
26:06We're going to really go for it.
26:07All right.
26:08Curious, sir.
26:09Curious, sir.
26:10A lot of unknowns here.
26:11So we're going to let you get back to work before the weather closes in.
26:16All right.
26:17Let's go for it.
26:18As work continues on Oak Island, back on the island of Terceira in the Azores.
26:26Usually a discussion like this would happen in the war room on Oak Island.
26:30Alberto Silva from Porto is a numismatist, a world-class coin collector.
26:37Rick and members of the team meet with renowned Portuguese coin expert, Alberto Silva, at the Luis de Silva Ribeiro
26:45Public Library and Regional Archive.
26:48Alberto has kindly offered his services here to look at the so-called Pipledo coin.
26:53After previous analysis by coin expert Sandy Campbell suggested that the 14th century silver coin was extremely rare, worth thousands
27:03of dollars in today's value and connected to the order of Christ, the team is eager to hear Alberto's perspective.
27:12Alberto, what we have here to show you today is a coin that was passed down generation to generation, believing
27:20it came from the money pit on Oak Island.
27:22And this is that coin.
27:28Whoa.
27:31This coin is in very, very good condition.
27:34This was minted in Lisbon.
27:37We can see L above the shield.
27:40It is minted between 1369 and 1371.
27:47That right there helps us because so far we believe that it was minted somewhere between 1367 and 1383.
27:55Okay.
27:56So if it was minted no later than 1371, that shortens the window.
28:01Yeah, a lot.
28:02The time in which it was created.
28:03Yes.
28:04We know several different dyes from Ferdinand.
28:10Dating back more than 2,000 years, a dye is a metal tool used to stamp a specific design into
28:18a coin during the minting process.
28:20When damaged, coin dyes were often replaced with new, slightly different stamps in order to trace the manufacturing of a
28:29coin to a specific date and time.
28:31Are there many surviving examples of those coins?
28:39We have recorded there no more than 100.
28:42Wow.
28:43So we think that a large quantity of these coins were minted.
28:49Because this coin was minted by the Portuguese Ferdinand I in a period of war.
28:57In the wartime, Ferdinando, he needed to mint more coins.
29:03King Ferdinand I, who is reported to be a great supporter of the Order of Christ, ruled Portugal from 1367
29:12until his death in 1383.
29:16In 1372, attempting to expand his power, he declared war on the kingdom of Castile, which is now part of
29:25modern-day Spain.
29:26The effort was unsuccessful and led to a series of conflicts known as the Ferdinand Wars, which nearly bankrupted the
29:35royal treasury, caused instability across Portugal, and threatened the strongholds held by the Order of Christ.
29:43We assume that thousands of these coins were minted.
29:48You're telling us that there was a large number of these coins produced, and yet there's only about 100 known
29:55in the world.
29:56Yeah.
29:56Because there's so few of those, maybe there's a reason that they weren't circulated.
30:00Right.
30:00Because the bulk of them were somewhere else.
30:04Yes, it's possible.
30:05Okay.
30:06Here's the question that we have asked ourselves in search of answers to the Old Catalan Ministry, and that question
30:13is, where are the coins?
30:15Yep.
30:16If the treasure had been found, there would be more than 100 in circulation.
30:20That's almost a guarantee.
30:22Yeah, that would no longer be a rare coin.
30:24Exactly.
30:24Yeah.
30:25That means, if that was part of the treasure, it is still in the ground, right?
30:30Mm-hmm.
30:32The story that has been laid out here today, to me, is more impactful, because the whole point
30:39of the trip here is to try to understand, might the treasure be associated with the Order
30:43of Christ, and found its way to the Azores, and thus to Oak Island?
30:47So, either way, this is all good news.
30:52If coins of this type are that valuable, then why aren't they out in the real world?
30:59Why are there less than 100?
31:01Why?
31:02We still have a very significant source of silver expressed by the water sample testing in the
31:08money pit.
31:09To me, it says definitively that the treasure still remains in the depths and the confines
31:16of the money pit.
31:16It makes the trip back all that much more exciting, because we have another chance,
31:21with the last caisson, to perhaps find the very thing we presented to Alberto, a coin
31:28that might be that significant.
31:31The story corroborates the water testing, and the water testing corroborates the story.
31:35Correct.
31:36We still have a chance to find the very thing we're discussing, because the caisson work
31:41continues.
31:42Mm-hmm.
31:42And having said that, we do need to get back.
31:45Let's go find one of those for ourselves.
31:47Yeah.
31:47One.
31:49The experience we had in the Azores was amazing.
31:53It certainly has made an impact.
31:55And for that, we say, obrigado.
31:57Thank you, Alberto.
31:58Thank you very much.
31:59Thank you very much.
32:00Appreciate it.
32:01It is back to the island for us.
32:10Our wandering voyagers have returned.
32:13We want to download on your trip what you found, what was exciting, everything.
32:17Tell us everything.
32:18We went there looking for evidence that treasure passed through the Azores.
32:23Mm-hmm.
32:23And it was a logical place to keep something safe before sailing to North America.
32:28Right.
32:29There's a lot of connections there.
32:31It's a logical place that you would take something valuable.
32:34I 100% believe that.
32:37As part of our agenda, we wanted to get a look at structures constructed on Tercera because
32:41there were suggestions that the technique they used on the island was also used here
32:45on Oak Island.
32:46It wasn't hard to find stone walls.
32:48And so these are some walls.
32:50That's the name of the location, Serreta.
32:54There was rubble in the wall that absolutely mimicked Lot 26 walls.
33:00Really?
33:01The important thing is, though, it could go all the way back to the 1400s, perhaps earlier.
33:06But the next site here is one that could potentially support those early days in structures we have here on
33:12the island.
33:14Mm-hmm.
33:15The man-made basin dated to the late 12th century, late 1100s.
33:24It looked very similar to the Lot 26 well.
33:28Oh, no way.
33:29Again, it's just a similarity.
33:31There's no proof, but it's very curious.
33:36So people sailed to the Azores in at least the 1300s.
33:40At that time, they would have been capable of sailing to North America as well.
33:45It's possible that these people could have made it to Oak Island.
33:49We brought a lot of artifacts.
33:50Oh, okay.
33:51This artifact was maybe the biggest surprise.
33:53Which one?
33:54This, uh, the nail.
33:55Spike, the nail.
33:56Of all the things we brought, this was the one piece that I didn't think he equivocated about.
34:01It's a nautical-type nail that we found on Lot 5.
34:06That's the exact style of a Portuguese nail that would be used in a Caravelle ship.
34:11Yes.
34:11They became prominent in Portuguese seafaring in the 1300s.
34:17Mm-hmm.
34:17Exactly.
34:18Exactly.
34:18I like that.
34:19I like that a lot.
34:20I want to raise a point here because we talked to a coin expert from Portugal by the name
34:26of Alberto Silva, and we showed him the Portuguese coin.
34:31Alberto looked at that coin, and he said, there are less than 100 of these in the world.
34:38He also said, there's way more out there.
34:41There's a good indication that a lot of those were minted, and yet there's only 100 in collector's
34:48hands today.
34:48Oh, so the others are hidden away somewhere.
34:51Yeah.
34:51So to me, it speaks emphatically and almost definitively that the treasure still remains
34:57to be found in the money pit.
34:59I distinctly remember Sandy Campbell saying it's worth about $20,000.
35:05That's one coin.
35:06If this really is a Portuguese treasure, and it was something big enough to be worth the
35:13construction of the money pit, would there be 10 of them?
35:17No.
35:18100?
35:18No.
35:181,000, perhaps 100,000 coins.
35:21So, you know, I mean, the hope is we're digging for something worth billions.
35:27So the Order of Christ could have done the trip to Oak Island through the Azores.
35:33Well, look, I'm just going to say this, that I find myself very rarely on the more believer
35:38side than my brother.
35:39But I mean, it all makes sense to me.
35:41It sounds like a great expedition.
35:43Yep.
35:44All right.
35:44All right.
35:44We're eager to tell you what happened here on the island.
35:46We did a lot of digging.
35:47I had heard a lot about this so-called sand road in the swamp.
35:51This is not a modern road.
35:55This is not a modern road.
36:21The center road was the path up to the money pit.
36:24And if you project this road on farther across the swamp, it hits what we have now recently
36:29started calling the Portuguese road.
36:31Basically, Steve Wright, it hits right at the base of it.
36:33It does?
36:34Yep.
36:34So it's ridiculous, really.
36:36It's crazy.
36:37The other major thing, you know, you talk about walking by something for 15 years, the
36:43so-called modern well on Lot 5, but Laird does not think it's a well.
36:49Fiona thinks that it is a new discovery, but there's an extensive archaeological search going
36:56on there right now.
36:58Those are the big digs we did while you were gone.
37:00Yeah.
37:01It's a good week.
37:02Yeah, I think so.
37:03And they were getting ready to put in the last caisson up in the money pit, and it's
37:07about ready to go.
37:08It's good news.
37:09Yeah.
37:10Anyway, that's it.
37:10That's my report.
37:11So, to me, there's always been concern in this room that the treasure had been found.
37:20But you think about it.
37:22If this really is a treasure coin from the depths of the money pit, then where are they?
37:29The money pit.
37:31The money pit.
37:31In the money pit.
37:32In the money pit.
37:33That shows it, right?
37:35Well, let's go find something very special.
37:38So, the sky's the limit.
37:40Yeah.
37:41Let's go look.
37:45Let's get to work.
37:49Right in the heart of the money pit.
37:52Hey, Rick.
37:53Hey.
37:54Hey.
37:55New hole, fresh start.
37:56Fresh start.
37:57In the money pit area, Rick arrives as representatives from SB Canada and Rock Equipment are about
38:04to break ground on the team's final shaft of the year, money pit one.
38:10This last hole, money pit one, might be one of the best chances to get deep in an area where
38:16we haven't explored a depth.
38:18So, Steve, can you put us on the map?
38:20Yes.
38:20We're dead center between these three caissons.
38:23And that's where we've had all the success, the bottom of the solution channel, where it's
38:27showing signs of silver.
38:28And we're not far from those areas.
38:30Yeah.
38:32The MP1 shaft is located less than 10 feet from the Karma-1 and Top Pocket find shafts
38:40that were dug several weeks ago.
38:42During those excavations, where the highest traces of silver have been detected more than
38:48200 feet deep in the solution channel, artifacts and pieces of wood that may have been related
38:55to the original money pit were brought to the surface.
38:58This is a very good location.
39:00We have to stand every good chance to be successful.
39:04Yep.
39:04We don't want metal finds.
39:06We want to find treasure.
39:09Oh, yeah.
39:09It answers to the mystery.
39:12Brilliant.
39:13If we're going to find the treasure, to me, this is our best chance.
39:16I hope you got your boots on, Rick, because we're going to be knee deep in artifact.
39:21Everything we found this year, everything we found in all the previous years, indicates
39:25that this could be the spot where the treasure fell into the solution channel.
39:32This is our last caisson this year.
39:35But also the best shot.
39:38Let's see you guys.
39:39How are you doing?
39:39Just looking at a good spot.
39:40It looks like.
39:41I love it.
39:42I don't want to be anywhere else but right here, going through money pit spoils.
39:47You're having fun.
39:48Oh, it's brilliant.
39:50We have silver in the water.
39:52We have silver in the water.
39:52That is consistent with the 14th century Portuguese coin that almost certainly came from the money pit.
40:00I think we are building a very excellent case that old world treasure that is deemed to be at depth
40:09in the money pit is still there.
40:11And now, in MP1, we are on the cusp of proving it to the most, how shall we say, hardened
40:18skeptic.
40:19I really want to know what's way down deep.
40:22Here we go.
40:23Showtime.
40:26I've already said many times that the story of Oak Island started in the money pit and then will end
40:31it in the money pit.
40:31Why not name it money pit one?
40:34Let's find this.
40:35Oh, look at that material.
40:38Treasure on deck.
40:39Yep.
40:40Let's get stuck in.
40:41I'll go join them for luck.
40:43Okay.
40:44Keep your fingers crossed.
40:46So far this year, the team has unearthed discoveries on Oak Island and made revelations across the ocean that suggest
40:56a valuable and potentially sacred treasure was buried long ago in the money pit.
41:05Now, they are digging where all of this compelling evidence is pointing.
41:12Others have searched here only to be thwarted by forces that are perhaps beyond nature.
41:19But for the Laginas and their team, a different destiny may be waiting below.
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41:35end of our obligation that is gonna be an epidemic in our science tool. You're
41:36expanding on League 1st of Lexus and the third quest at least? It is
41:36going to be an Avengers today in development.
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