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The Curse of Oak Island - Season 13 - Episode 20: The Sands of Time
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00:01Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.
00:03Here we go.
00:05Wait, wait, wait.
00:06Hey! Guess what?
00:08Whale!
00:10Oh, wow.
00:11Brilliant.
00:12Oh, look at that.
00:13We're starting to get this material.
00:14This is slowing me away right now
00:16because it's nothing I've ever seen before.
00:18This is a covered well, right?
00:19Yeah, it is.
00:20Oh, this has got potential, mate.
00:22Ooh, look at that!
00:24It's pre-modern all the way back to medieval.
00:26No way!
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
00:50and 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,
01:05one more will have to die
01:07before the treasure can be found.
01:23Hey, Ed.
01:24Marty, Marty.
01:25Morning, gents.
01:27As their quest to solve the Oak Island mystery continues...
01:31You know, the gist of today, you know,
01:33we're done with Tapaq and find one.
01:35And, you know, we found some interesting things,
01:38but we didn't find the one thing.
01:40No.
01:42Rick, Marty, and members of the team
01:44meet to plan their next large-scale dig
01:46in the Money Pit area.
01:48We're still looking for where the hell
01:50the massive collapse of the Money Pit went,
01:52and I was hoping we'd find it here.
01:54I really was.
01:55I mean, where the hell did it go?
01:56It's frustrating.
01:58Yep.
02:01In recent weeks,
02:03the teams from SB Canada
02:05and Rock Equipment
02:06have excavated two
02:08seven-foot-diameter steel shafts
02:10where high traces of silver
02:12were detected more than 200 feet deep
02:15in the solution channel,
02:18Karma One,
02:19and Top Pocket Find.
02:22And while 17th and 18th century artifacts
02:25were recovered in both,
02:27which could be related
02:28to the Money Pit's collapse
02:29into the solution channel,
02:31no valuables were found.
02:34Well, let's talk about where we need to go
02:36because time is pressing.
02:38Right.
02:38The years have been predicated
02:40upon getting down into the solution channel.
02:42So, you know, we're limited
02:44in terms of where we put caissons
02:46without encompassing previous work.
02:50Yep.
02:51We run the risk of collapse.
02:53Yeah.
02:54Because we're going through
02:55back-filled material
02:56that's going to stymie your caisson
02:58from going to the bottom.
02:59Absolutely.
03:03It's up.
03:05It's caving.
03:08Jeez.
03:09There's material flopping in.
03:11During the recent dig
03:12of the TPF shaft,
03:14the surrounding Earth began to collapse.
03:18This was caused by backfill
03:20related to previous digs
03:21that the team has conducted nearby.
03:24This has left the area unstable
03:26and would require several days
03:29or more of repair
03:30and re-grading with tons of gravel.
03:33But with only a few weeks left
03:35before the harsh North Atlantic winter
03:37will force the team
03:39to halt their search operations.
03:41Their time for a breakthrough discovery
03:43is running out.
03:45Steve, why don't you put the map up
03:47and let's get this figured out?
03:49Sure.
03:51What if we changed our minds
03:53and went up to the peacock right now?
03:55The peacock has never been explained
03:57and the reason it could be there
03:59is because of a very deep, unknown metal.
04:02Maybe an offset chamber.
04:04So I am keenly interested
04:06in seeing that hole dug.
04:08Yeah.
04:09Over there, they can make good progress.
04:11It's virgin ground.
04:13Subsidence is probably not going to be
04:14so much of an issue like we've seen.
04:15They're not going down through backfill.
04:17They're going to make good time on it.
04:18Okay.
04:19That makes sense.
04:22Located over 40 feet northeast
04:24of the TPF shaft,
04:25the so-called peacock is an area
04:28where the team has also detected precious metals
04:31during past underground water tests.
04:34Whoa, whoa, whoa.
04:36And this year,
04:37during their core drilling operation,
04:40they discovered a mysterious 10-foot void
04:43above the solution channel
04:45at a depth of 150 feet.
04:48We've got an opening.
04:49A void where an underwater camera
04:52recorded images of possible man-made artifacts,
04:56including metallic objects.
04:59This has led the team to believe
05:01that they may have discovered
05:03an offset treasure chamber
05:04that was once connected
05:06to the original money pit.
05:08I vote to go to the peacock.
05:10Okay.
05:12There is evidence of man-made workings
05:16in the peacock area.
05:18And what if the reason this area
05:20of very loose material
05:21is really where some of the treasure
05:23was deposited in an offset chamber?
05:26This is as good a choice as any.
05:28Okay.
05:30So Alex is going to put that on the peacock.
05:33So let's be hopeful.
05:35Let's be upbeat.
05:36Let's get out there and do some work.
05:37Sounds good.
05:38Let's go.
05:38Thanks.
05:39All right.
05:39See ya.
05:40As Rick, Marty, and their team
05:42conclude the meeting in the war room.
05:47On Lot 8, located on the western side of the island.
05:52Hey, Laird.
05:53Hey, Fiona.
05:53What's new here?
05:54Well.
05:56I mean, it looks to me like a lot's new.
05:59Dr. Ian Spooner joins Laird and Fiona
06:01at the cradle-like stone feature.
06:04It's starting to change
06:05where we've got the smaller cobblestones up here
06:08and then the larger ones
06:09have presented themselves down here.
06:10We're starting to get this mortar-like material
06:12and we're getting it in different spots.
06:15Can you look at it?
06:16Absolutely it can.
06:18After recently exposing this formation
06:20of hand-placed rocks,
06:22which were covered by a 40,000-pound boulder.
06:26Fiona discovered blue clay
06:27and a mortar-like cement
06:28that was used to bind the stones together.
06:31It has made the team speculate
06:33that this was done to cover something
06:36buried deeper below.
06:37The deeper I'm going,
06:39it's really hard to dig through.
06:41Now, while Fiona and Laird
06:43slowly break up the mortar
06:44and remove the rocks,
06:46Dr. Spooner is collecting samples
06:48for ongoing lab testing
06:50in the hopes that he can determine
06:52when the feature was constructed.
06:55It's under every single rock
06:57and it's literally layered.
06:59This is kind of blowing me away right now
07:01because it's nothing I've ever seen before.
07:03You know, that kind of appearance.
07:05Almost wall.
07:06Exactly.
07:07Of rock.
07:08Yeah.
07:09I'd be perplexed if we'd just uncovered this
07:12archaeologically without a 40,000-pound boulder
07:15on top of it.
07:16Yeah.
07:17There's something very strange
07:19going on underneath the Lot 8 boulder.
07:22Metal readings,
07:24according to Dr. Spooner,
07:26who knows what he's talking about,
07:27are not natural.
07:29A couple of them have silver in them.
07:32If, in fact, there is a shaft
07:34directly under this cradle,
07:36it could lead to actual treasure on the table.
07:39Hey, the whole thing is wildly interesting
07:41and I can't wait to get to the bottom of it.
07:44What I'd like to do is get some of that organic
07:46and then get back to my lab.
07:48Doesn't need to be a lot.
07:50That's good.
07:50I think that's enough.
07:50Oh, yeah, that's more enough.
07:53I'll take this back to the lab.
07:54I'll see what I see in this
07:56and get those results to you right away.
07:58Well, thank you.
07:59All right.
08:04Meanwhile...
08:04Billy, you'll see Peter and I put a stake in here
08:06so you could see it.
08:08Yep.
08:08Rick and other members of the team
08:10begin a new dig in the southwest corner of the swamp.
08:14We've got orange flagging a couple hundred feet north of us.
08:17We turn straight west and we go all the way to the road.
08:20This is the new permanent area of the swamp.
08:22It's an extension of the southwest corner of the swamp
08:25and I'm excited to see where the sand road might go.
08:28Earlier this year,
08:29the team uncovered two sections
08:32of a sand-covered cobblestone road in this area
08:36that were lined by several eight-sided survey stakes
08:39which, according to new research,
08:42could be nearly 800 years old.
08:45So I'm looking for corroborative evidence
08:48that this is indeed a path or a road.
08:50Mm-hmm.
08:52While earlier permitting issues
08:54restricted the team's ability
08:55to search for more of the road
08:57and determine just where it may lead,
09:00they have now obtained government approval
09:02to continue the investigation.
09:04When you find something, give me a call
09:06and I'll come back to survey it.
09:07Okay? Here you go.
09:09We'd like to know why is it there and who did it?
09:12Why is it aligned with the survey stakes?
09:15Might it lead to a treasure or a vault?
09:18These questions, hopefully, will be answered.
09:22Keep an eye out for stakes.
09:23Yep.
09:37Hold on, Bill.
09:40Look at that.
09:56There's your sand, Billy, right here.
09:58Yeah.
10:00In the southwest corner of the swamp,
10:02the Oak Island team has discovered more evidence
10:04of a sand-covered stone road.
10:07Makes that sand really old.
10:09That'll put it way back, right?
10:10Yep.
10:11We have the ability to go that way.
10:13Right.
10:13I'd like to know the width of it.
10:15That sand certainly does seem to be turning that way.
10:19Right.
10:20Here, this is well-defined.
10:22Yeah.
10:23There's no question that what Billy called the sand road
10:26is right in front of us.
10:28We're standing on it.
10:30That's exciting and interesting at the same time.
10:32As we continue this process, it may go to another area
10:36that we are currently completely unaware of.
10:39We think people were here at different periods of times
10:41for a significant amount of time, right?
10:44Yep.
10:44And we're finding many evidence that they did.
10:47Yeah, right here.
10:49Okie doke.
10:50All right.
10:50Let's see what we get.
11:12I'm gonna run back to the research center.
11:14Hopefully, there's artifacts in here,
11:16but stakes are just as important,
11:18so just keep an eye open.
11:20That's all.
11:20We'll let you know if you find anything.
11:22All right.
11:22See you, Billy.
11:23See ya.
11:29Nothing yet.
11:38Hey, Peter, there might be a top of the stake there.
11:42Right here?
11:42Yep.
11:43Oh, yeah.
11:45Oh, yeah.
11:45Might be.
11:49Big, if it is.
11:51Suspiciously straight.
11:53From here, it looks cut.
11:54Yeah.
11:55Cut.
11:56But not pointed.
11:58It's decayed in there, so it's hard to know.
12:00Yeah.
12:01But it was pretty deep.
12:02Yeah.
12:04Is it possible that the team has found the remains of another potentially ancient survey stake along the believed sand
12:12road?
12:12We'll put it to the side.
12:14Remember where it was for Steve.
12:16Keep on finding more.
12:18If there's something here, we'll find it.
12:20Yep.
12:23The following morning, as the teams from SB Canada and Rock Equipment make final preparations to begin excavating Peacock 1
12:34in the Money Pit area.
12:37All right, Gary, it's time.
12:39This is prime hunting down here, right?
12:42Lots of good finds.
12:43We are between the structure on Lot 5 and the ocean.
12:47Marty and Gary arrive on Lot 5.
12:50This here isn't covered well, right?
12:52Yeah, it is.
12:52We don't know how old it is.
12:54So this would have been a busy area in between these features.
12:57So it stands to reason we should be able to find some artifacts here.
13:02Okay.
13:04One week ago, Italian archaeoastronomy professor Adriano Gaspani analyzed the location of the round feature on Lot 5.
13:13A feature that the lot's previous owner, the late Robert Young, believed was no older than the 20th century.
13:20But incredibly, based on its alignment with certain stars in the night sky,
13:26Professor Gaspani believes that the feature was originally constructed as far back as the early 13th century.
13:34Let's start here. Let's go around the well.
13:37Okay.
13:38Now, Gary and Marty want to search a stone well that sits a few yards away from the rounded feature
13:44for clues that could help validate Professor Gaspani's theory.
13:50Especially since they have previously found a bronze button and a spike in this area that had been scientifically dated
13:57to the 13th century.
14:00Well, you get that and I get that and we flip this thing up and you can work this from
14:03the side.
14:04Yeah.
14:06When we bought Lot 5, the people who looked into Robert Young's data told me that this thing that was
14:14covered up in plywood.
14:15Oh, look at that.
14:17Was that this was just a modern well.
14:20Well, but it's weird.
14:22I don't know why anyone would dig a water well so close to the ocean.
14:26If you don't mind, I'd like to get you down in there.
14:29Oh, scamper down.
14:32If you had me, you'd detect at the bottom of the well.
14:35It's an unswept area.
14:37That has not been searched yet.
14:39So there could be artifacts under there.
14:42Let's get to the bottom of this.
14:46Thanks.
14:53Go around the edges.
14:55Nothing in that part.
14:58And you the shovel and then I'm going to crawl down in there.
15:00Okay.
15:03Thanks.
15:05Yeah, it's easy to get down here.
15:11Whoa.
15:13This thing's a little deeper.
15:14It's a little deeper than I thought.
15:17That's not even a good bottom right there.
15:20I mean, this floor is giving away as we stand here.
15:23Yeah.
15:24Yeah.
15:25We're nowhere near the bottom of this, Gary.
15:27No.
15:27It keeps on going.
15:29I'm standing on a bunch of leaves.
15:30That's all.
15:31You want to look again?
15:32Yeah.
15:33Let me get right on out of here.
15:39Oh.
15:40Well, I'm surprised.
15:41I thought there'd be more in the walls.
15:44Thanks.
15:46That was crazy, wasn't it?
15:47Mm.
15:48Thanks.
15:49Okay, but we got to talk about this.
15:51Yeah.
15:51Just because we're not detecting any metals down here.
15:54Don't mean so.
15:55We're not at the bottom.
15:56Yeah, exactly.
15:57And there could be pottery, glass.
16:00All kinds of stuff.
16:02Well, this is like metal detecting on a trampoline.
16:05The fact that there are several feet of leaves below our feet.
16:10We need to get the archaeologists and do some more exploring in this well.
16:15This looks promising to me.
16:17Yeah.
16:17I'm sure when all these leaves are taken out,
16:21there's a good chance of finding an artifact in the bottom of the well.
16:28That's a good signal.
16:31Sounds like there's a chance it could be non-ferrous and deep.
16:35Yeah.
16:35Stupid shovel.
16:39This rock has to go, Gary, before that.
16:42Yeah, I think so.
16:46You do the hard work and I'll take the glory.
16:48I will.
16:49Yeah.
16:50Ah!
16:54Oh, this has got potential, mate.
17:03Really?
17:03Right there.
17:06Woo-hoo!
17:10What have you got, mate?
17:11I could see it at the side.
17:16Ah!
17:17I could see something moving.
17:19There.
17:19You do the honors, mate.
17:21You dug it out.
17:22You see, that's the tip of it.
17:23Just there.
17:24I can pick it up with my hand.
17:25Yep.
17:28You did all the hard work, mate.
17:30Let's see what we got.
17:33Ooh!
17:37Ooh!
17:38Ooh!
17:39Ooh!
17:39Ooh!
17:40Ooh!
17:41Ooh!
17:41That's probably an old hook.
17:44And it makes sense if you think about it.
17:47Right next to a well.
17:48You're lowering something in there.
17:49Yeah.
17:50Yep.
17:50While searching the stone well near the rounded feature on Lot 5, Marty and Gary have just made
17:57an intriguing discovery.
17:59I bet it's been a long time since that's been used.
18:01You know what, though?
18:02What?
18:03It's not a chain hook.
18:04It's a driven hook.
18:05Look.
18:05Yeah.
18:06Drove that in.
18:07Yeah.
18:07Pull something.
18:08Kind of like a pintle.
18:10It might be a pintle.
18:12Yeah.
18:13I kind of hope it is a pintle because we found a pintle 20 yards away from that big boulder
18:19on Lot 8 and on Lot 15.
18:22But if it's a pintle, I have a feeling this is going to be a real oldie as well.
18:27Think the metal's going to match?
18:28It could be a connection there, Lot 5, Lot 8, Lot 15.
18:33Yeah.
18:33A pintle is a kind of pivot pin used for doors and gate hinges, allowing them to open and
18:40close.
18:41Curiously, the team unearthed two other possible pintles this year.
18:46One on Lot 15, 200 yards northeast of the Money Pit area.
18:51And another near the boulder feature on Lot 8.
18:55Both could predate 1795.
18:58If Marty and Gary had, indeed, found a third pintle, could Gary be correct that it might
19:05be a clue connecting all three areas of Oak Island?
19:09I would imagine we're the first ones ever metal detecting down here.
19:13This has not moved for a very long time.
19:16Yeah.
19:17Let's put her in the back.
19:19Whenever we found these pintles around Oak Island, they've always been associated with an old feature.
19:26I know this isn't a wishing well, but I'm wishing that we would have explored this well sooner.
19:33We are not at the bottom of this by any means.
19:35No.
19:35This is under searched.
19:37Yeah.
19:37It really is.
19:39Yeah.
19:39We need to get to the bottom of it.
19:41We've got to talk with the crew.
19:42Yeah.
19:43Blair should have a look at this.
19:45Yeah.
19:48Later that morning.
19:51Hey, guys.
19:52Looks like they're all set up on Peacock 1.
19:54The team prepares to break ground with their third seven-foot diameter shaft of the year
20:00in the Money Pit area.
20:02The Peacock has been an area where Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michael have indicated for years that the gold in
20:08the water is emanating from.
20:10Gold, silver is right where we're headed.
20:13Terry, what are our depths?
20:15The depth of bedrock in this area of the Peacock, it's about 211.
20:18And this is an area where the solution channel actually extends up to about 165 feet.
20:24That's the most likely origin of the metals in the water, based on the testing.
20:28Yeah, in this area.
20:30The structure that has eluded us, the structure that perhaps is emanating the gold, the structure that is perhaps the
20:35offset chamber.
20:36Right.
20:36Before we reach the bottom of the solution channel, we have to look at this area of really loose, what
20:41looks like disturbed soil underground,
20:43that we call the Peacock, because there were some voids left open down there.
20:47There could be an offset chamber.
20:49Everything starting from about 150 feet down and deeper, we're going to go through because it has a chance of
20:55containing the treasure.
20:57People could have been chasing the money pit, but the reality is with the gold in the water and the
21:00other things that we found,
21:01maybe with this information proves that the treasure is up here somewhere.
21:05There is a lot that speaks to the Peacock as being the location of the money pit treasure.
21:11And we're going to find out with this caisson, hopefully.
21:13So the more spoils we pull out of this can, the more chance we ever find in treasure.
21:18It's verging ground.
21:19Yep.
21:20Speaking of that, it looks like we have the first bucket from Peacock 1 coming up now.
21:24So I'm going to grab some shovels and we can get going.
21:27Can't wait.
21:28As the dig proceeds, later that afternoon...
21:33Okay, we're here to analyze an object.
21:35Alex, Gary, and Marty join Laird and Emma in the lab to hear their analysis of the possible pintle found
21:43earlier today on Lot 5.
21:46It was found near the supposed well on Lot 5.
21:50Yeah, Robert Young refers to it as the 20th century well.
21:53Anyway, I'm sort of proud of that find because it was so difficult to get.
21:58So let's find out, Gary, shall we, what we know about it.
22:01We both thought it was either a pintle or an hook.
22:05And we're hoping it's old.
22:07Well, but here it is kind of cleaned up.
22:10We are leaning towards hook rather than pintle.
22:14Maybe driven into something to lower that bucket down the well.
22:18The iron's composition, so it is minimal impurities.
22:21This one is just really clean iron that makes it harder to locate.
22:27Well, that's interesting because most of your artifacts tend to point towards Britain, don't they?
22:31Yeah.
22:32Yeah.
22:32And here's one that doesn't.
22:34Yeah.
22:35It does have a higher chromium content.
22:37And a copper content.
22:38I do see European regions with a higher copper impurity.
22:42So that could be kind of a region of interest to look into.
22:47There's no modern alloying elements, so that brings it before 1800s.
22:53There is a lack of potassium in its base metal.
22:58It does point towards mid-1700s is the most likelihood.
23:02Oh, wow.
23:03Well, that fits with the bulk of your artifacts.
23:05Yeah, it does.
23:06Well, except then they're way off on the age of the weld.
23:08Yeah.
23:09But the takeaway is exciting because it implies that that well could potentially be older than we've thought.
23:16That would be very cool.
23:17Mm-hmm.
23:21It implies that that well could potentially be older than we've thought.
23:24Yeah.
23:25And it also says there's more to learn about Lot 5.
23:27Yeah.
23:28Yeah.
23:28I think so.
23:29In the Oak Island lab, the team has just been informed that an iron hook found near the well on
23:35Lot 5 could predate the discovery of the money pit.
23:39The potential of what you can find at the bottom of a well is so great.
23:43Yeah.
23:43Yeah.
23:44So, Laird, my information is that Robert Young felt like that well was recent.
23:49But I'm wondering whether this could lead us to some action because just about everything Robert Young touched, God bless
23:58him, seems to be not what it seems.
24:01Mm-hmm.
24:01And you have looked at the surrounding areas of the well, obviously.
24:05Yeah.
24:05That's where that came from.
24:06The well is circled with rocks, very similar to the original round feature.
24:12Yes.
24:14Here it is.
24:15Whoa.
24:16It's almost perfectly circular.
24:17When the team began investigating Lot 5 in 2022 after acquiring it from Robert Young's estate, what is now the
24:27large rounded feature were artifacts that may date between the 13th and 17th centuries have been found.
24:33It was mostly buried and surrounded by stones that Mr. Young had placed above it.
24:40Everybody drops artifacts down the well because you're leading over it.
24:44Yeah.
24:44Hitting the water out.
24:45And they're used to hide things you don't want people to see.
24:47Mm-hmm.
24:48Could Laird be correct that the well, which was also reported to be a modern structure, is actually a much
24:56older formation?
24:57So I think, again, the well, it's worth putting a little bit of effort into it.
25:01Yeah.
25:02Just for the potential rewards at the bottom.
25:05It might be a lot deeper than you think.
25:07Well, that's a good thing.
25:08That's a great thing.
25:09Yeah.
25:09Well, we're tied up to the end of the week with Lot 8, but we can go down and reevaluate.
25:16I really think you should.
25:17Yeah.
25:17I like the idea, too.
25:18It was puzzling.
25:19Yeah.
25:20Okay, let's get after it.
25:21Yep.
25:22All right.
25:22See you guys.
25:24See you.
25:24Yeah.
25:28As a new morning breaks on Oak Island.
25:32Let's go, kid.
25:33Here we go.
25:33All right.
25:36Who takes this one good find, Terry?
25:38I know.
25:39Rick and other members of the team are continuing their investigation of the possible sand road in the southwest region
25:47of the swamp.
25:48See how much deeper that is there?
25:50Right here.
25:51Yeah.
25:52Well, like, here we're on ground, and look how it steps right off there.
25:55Yeah.
25:56Yeah.
25:57No sand.
25:58Not over there, no.
26:01I just don't know if it's going that way, toward the center of the bog.
26:05It's early on in terms of trying to understand the proper orientation of the sand road.
26:12Does it have anything to do with the stakes?
26:14Is it going towards the money pit?
26:16There's no way to make that determination yet, but I intend to figure it out.
26:27One side of the bog.
26:28Wait, wait, wait.
26:29Wait, wait.
26:32Ooh, Rick just found a stake.
26:34Whoa, okay.
26:37Let's go have a look.
26:40Yeah?
26:41Is it an eight-sided stake?
26:43All right, you can see it's been bounced. It's been cut with an axe. You can see those bounces on
26:48that side that
26:50One thing's for sure. That's exactly where it was. Yeah, Steve dependent for sure
26:56You know what two of them two of them?
26:59That's eight ish. I'm looking at the one because I'm right here four
27:03I'm here. I mean five six seven eight side is good. I know they're right there together
27:10No clue what either of them know
27:13I struggle with this fine being coincidental to me. It's intentional five-sided steaks and eight-sided steaks
27:21I think each is telling a different story. We've never seen a five and an eight together. No
27:26one has to remember dates in the bog indicate a
27:31Multigenerational attempt to accomplish something as far back as the 13th century
27:35So I think they represent two completely different timelines the five-sided
27:40Steaks could represent the later occupation
27:44That's cool. Yeah, this is a good sign whenever we found steaks we normally find some kind of a boulder
27:52or rock
27:53Construction we don't know if it's a platform or a path
27:56That's why we find multiple steaks in different areas of different designs the steaks represent multiple attempts to do things
28:04Over an extended period of time, and I think we need to do a lot more work to try to
28:09understand what they may mean
28:13And it doesn't look very haphazard it's so perfectly straight straight straight the roads still here
28:19Yeah, or the path whatever it is whatever you want to call it. It's right here
28:22Yeah
28:23I found another state
28:33The good guy
28:36One two three four five six seven eight sided state
28:42It snapped off
28:45How the heck did we not see that yeah, just just wedged in there was like this
28:52It was kind of like that
28:56The point was in I saw the answers up. There's a five pointed one right next to it and now
29:03you pull this up
29:05It's just like the other one
29:07To yeah, five sided next to an eight sided look where these are Rick and then look behind it
29:15We're in the line with that other stake if this is going to be
29:20Lining up we should find a couple more stakes
29:24Just over there same distance
29:26Two stakes different size two stakes different size
29:30If you're right about this alignment, then as you said there should be something right there
29:36You know what? Let's face it off
29:40One two three four five six seven twenty-one feet
29:48Gary, can you keep me on track here?
29:50Yeah
29:51One two three four five six seven
29:58Should be right here. It'd be nice if it's the most stakes
30:01Uh should be right here billy. Why don't you just see if there's anything here. Yep. We'll check
30:06I just find it impossible to believe that this is a coincidence that two different people at two different times
30:14Put the two stakes in the touch each other
30:16Does it have anything to do with the sand road? Does it have anything to do with professor?
30:21Gaspani's Archeoastronomy work that there are significant
30:25Accurate stellar solar and lunar alignments associated with positioning of the stakes in the swamp
30:41Guess what? Hey!
30:45Come on over
30:47Well
30:52Hey! Come on over
30:54You found one rig?
30:56Right where we said
30:58Oh
30:59Oh
31:00Brilliant
31:01While uncovering more of the sand road in the southwest part of the swamp
31:06Oh wow
31:07Rick has made another compelling discovery
31:12That's the first time we've ever said hey there should be one there and there was
31:15I mean Rick measured it out
31:17Absolutely
31:1721 feet in between them all and
31:19Absolutely
31:19And there it is
31:20There it is
31:21Yes getting all the more interesting isn't it
31:23Yeah I mean that's no coincidence mate
31:25Absolutely
31:26Now we know there's an alignment what the heck
31:29Yep
31:29It's the first time we've ever got excited about finding wood in the swamp
31:35That's true
31:35It's exciting
31:36Yep
31:37And you were spot on
31:38You nailed that one up there
31:40Lined it up with that one
31:42Put me on the line
31:43Bingo
31:44There it is
31:45We've got a road and it's leading to something
31:47Seems to be the northwest end of the swamp
31:51Are we interested?
31:53Yep
31:53I'm open to uncover a heck of a lot more of this sand road
31:58Absolutely
31:59Could the team be correct that the stakes they have found mean that the sand road
32:04Is heading in a northwesterly direction?
32:07If so, just what might they find at the end of it?
32:11The relationship between the stakes, the sand road, all of this speaks to some effort
32:19To facilitate an operation in the barn
32:21There is a trail to be followed here and we have to proceed
32:28We call it the swamp, but when you think about it, it's so much more
32:31Because look at all the industrial purpose that it has
32:34Yeah
32:34Everything just screams just a ton of activity
32:36There's too much to ignore
32:38Yeah
32:39This path, this road, it continues to be amazing
32:42Yeah
32:44Who knows what else is in as well?
32:47I think what we're uncovering is work pre-swamp
32:50Hmm
32:50And when people could get out here and do all this work
32:53There are strong hints here that this sand road is man-made hopefully from long ago
33:00My mind goes to Fred Nolan's belief that the swamp was an artificial creation
33:07And that wants to understand the totality of the work in the bog
33:11Then you can understand the mystery
33:13Well, we've got to prove it
33:16So, let's get to work
33:18It's been a really good day
33:20Yeah
33:20You know, unfortunately every day there's an end of the day
33:24But there's more to learn
33:25And that means coming back
33:27Oh, absolutely
33:28We just need to figure out how to make the days longer
33:30We'll be all set
33:32You work on that tonight
33:33Just the days
33:34All right, see ya
33:35Good digging, man
33:36Okay, see you later
33:37Kudos to everybody
33:40Later that evening
33:43So, ladies and gentlemen
33:45What we have in front of us are two samples of the mortar slash cement-like substance
33:52That we believe is part of the matrix of what's underneath the Lot 8 boulder
33:56Before another productive day comes to a close
34:00The team gathers in the war room for a highly anticipated scientific report
34:05So, I'm gonna turn it over to Emma and Dr. Spooner and Fiona and Jillian
34:09To let us know what the results of their analysis is
34:13I'm prepared to be astonished
34:17Go ahead
34:18So, I think I would have to ask which samples you brought with us today
34:22So, this is the blue-gray soil and this is the gray soil
34:25Okay, great
34:26Emma, would you call this a clay?
34:30I don't think I would call it a clay
34:31I call it a nice sand-silt clay mix
34:34Okay
34:35It's being manipulated to remove the sand
34:38Probably the gravel as much as possible
34:40Yeah
34:42It is a mortar
34:43It's not natural though, right?
34:46It's natural in ingredients that you find in Lot 8
34:49But it isn't natural in its formation
34:53Yeah
34:54If we were just presented with this sediment
34:57If you presented it to me and say
34:59Is that something we naturally find?
35:01I'd say no
35:01Just think the people who did it just use materials at hand
35:06It's quite gel-like
35:09And if you were doing strength testing of it
35:11It's got a lot of elasticity to it
35:13That could be used to support rocks that you wanted to support it
35:16Yep
35:18Is there any way that we can date when this was made or when it was put down?
35:24There's certain things that I do look for to firmly date concrete or cement which is this binder
35:31Mm-hmm
35:31And right off the bat there is no modern binding
35:35But I'm also not seeing any of the classic minerals that I would expect to find in like really old
35:41mortar
35:41And it's not typical ingredients that I see in modern
35:44Right
35:46So I'm a little bit more bullish in the feature being quite old
35:49Like what dates would you give to quite old?
35:53Well, everything I've seen lends itself to before mid-1700s
36:01Then I would put it somewhere between pre-1800s, post-1200s
36:07It's pre-modern and all the way back to medieval
36:30In the war room, Emma and Dr. Spooner have just revealed that the composition of the mortar-like material found
36:38on Lot 8
36:39Suggests that the man-made boulder feature may be nearly 800 years old
36:45We have features on the island that date back very old
36:48We have good examples of the techniques that were used in the 1700s and 1800s
36:55Maybe even into the late to mid 1600s
36:58And we don't see any construction like this
37:01Which to me is suggesting that this was done outside of those time periods
37:05Probably earlier
37:08With your XRF machine, you were picking up silver
37:11Emma, are you still seeing traces of that silver?
37:14So I haven't made sense of it yet
37:16But I am getting some low detection hits of silver
37:20Lovely
37:21Where do the traces of silver even come from?
37:24To be in the soil like that
37:27It doesn't typically happen, right?
37:30No, I haven't seen it in organic matter
37:32Okay, so my dad's theory
37:34If this is a shaft for something deeper through which silver was taken at one point
37:40Could that have moved that silver signal up from deeper and then left it there as a residue?
37:44It could have with the organic matter
37:46If you had an object that was laying even for a short period of time in the organic matter
37:51If you had an object that was silver, like a candelabra or something like that
37:55It would probably show the trace amounts we're seeing
37:59We're not there yet
38:00No
38:01But the idea that this could be related to a deeper signal through maybe a shaft is still a valid
38:06idea
38:08Yeah
38:09Yeah
38:10The organic will soak up available metals
38:13Mm-hmm
38:13Could Marty and Alex be correct?
38:16Is it possible that the traces of silver detected in the soils beneath the Lott 8 feature
38:22Might be related to a shaft that contains a cache of silver?
38:26If so, after nearly two decades of searching
38:30Has the team found where the truth behind the Oak Island mystery may lie buried?
38:36John, it is a very weird archaeological site that has no artifacts
38:42Is that not true?
38:43I think this is very special
38:45And I think that the fact that we don't have any artifacts gives it a hint of being much older
38:49If in fact that 40,000 pound boulder was placed, intentionally placed, with a cement mixture of some sort underneath
38:56it
38:56It didn't happen in the 1900s
38:59It didn't happen in the 1800s
39:01It didn't happen in the 1700s
39:04By normal people
39:06Which means it's very, very old
39:09I mean, medieval brings you back to the Templars and their descendants
39:13It's difficult to overstate the importance of that
39:16The dates that Emma mentioned, it's exciting
39:20Xena's Templar map references this area
39:23The so-called December Triangle
39:25This lot does indeed hold mystery
39:29Here's my next question, and it is the question
39:32I want to know what's underneath it
39:34Like, all the way down underneath it
39:38We're running out of time
39:39Correct
39:40We are on a treasure hunt
39:42I want to know what's under that boulder
39:44What are we doing next, and what is the prognosis?
39:48We've removed some very large rocks down at the bottom
39:50And we're examining the soil that we're seeing under there
39:53And it seems to go deeper
39:55So we're actually at that point where we are going to continue going deeper and deeper
40:00But we really don't want to miss anything
40:02And I think it's really, really important that we continue the way that we are doing it now
40:08Okay, well, I said I wanted to be astonished, and frankly, I am
40:12The consistency amongst the experts that this thing is so significant
40:16Astonishes me, but in a very good way
40:22It's quite complex
40:24Good problem to have
40:26Fascinating problem to have
40:28Usually it's time to dig
40:30I would say this time
40:31It's time to keep trawling
40:33So that we can eventually dig
40:35So let's go get it
40:37Sounds good
40:38Good, all right
40:38It works
40:39See ya
40:41The road to answers on Oak Island
40:44Has inspired long and trying journeys
40:46For generations of dedicated searchers
40:49For many, it led to incredible evidence of buried treasure in the money pit
40:54For others, it took disastrous and even deadly turns
41:01But now, Rick, Marty, Craig and their team
41:04Have found that it may lead to valuables all across the island
41:09As they forge ahead and dig deeper below
41:13Will their journey end with the ultimate rewards?
41:18Or will the island lead them to a curve that they won't?
41:24Be able to pass
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