Tonight on the curse of oak island...
There's even more big boulders down there.
Here. Here.
Could that be Fred's wall?
- Ooh! - What?
That's the find of the day!
There was a button found on lot 5,
similar on a knight of Malta uniform.
There's a chance the knights of Malta
- made it to oak island. - Wow.
Cross your fingers, gentlemen.
Where are we most likely to bring up a piece of treasure?
Baby!
Shaft six.
That's a grab.
There is an island in the north Atlantic
where people have been looking for
an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
So far, they have found a stone slab
with strange symbols carved into it,
man-made workings that date to medieval times,
and a lead cross whose origin may be connected
to the knights templar.
To date, six men have died
trying to solve the mystery.
And according to legend, one more will have to die
before the treasure can be found.
Hey, guys.
Hey, Alex.
Just checking in. How'd it go today?
It's going really good.
Yep.
A chilly fall morning has begun on oak island
for brothers Rick and Marty lagina and their team.
It's quite different than the last two holes
and we're just coming off it on a bit of an angle.
However, with a new excavation
well underway in the fabled money pit area,
they may be hot on the trail of the answers
to a 230-year-old treasure mystery.
Yeah, we were talking about the last casing that we did.
We ran out of the wood approximately 117 feet.
Okay.
Today, working with representatives
from roc equipment and sb Canada,
the team is digging
a seven-foot-diameter steel shaft
known as rp-3 which sets just north
of two recently dug, identical shafts
labeled rp-2 and rp-1.
The previous, holes were over shaft six.
And now we've moved just outside of it.
So we're hoping to see undisturbed material
'cause our target's a tunnel. Is that what you've seen?
- Yes. Absolutely. - Perfect.
In 1861, treasure hunters reportedly drilled
through two stacked wooden chests
at a depth of some 110 feet in the original money pit,
containing what were described as "metal in pieces."
Believing a mother lode of coins
and other possible riches had been located,
but fearing that they were protected
by a believed man-made flood tunnel,
workers dug an adjacent shaft, known as shaft six,
18 feet to the west down to a depth of 118 feet.
From there, they began tunneling toward the pit,
hoping to safely recover the treasure
from below the flood trap.
It didn't work.
Just before reaching their target,
seawater rushed in.
This caused tons of wood cribbing
in the money pit to collapse
crushing the chests and leaving
a believed debris field of broken timbers
and scattered treasure in the flooded shaft six tunnel.
So I'm thinking, as soon as the teeth hit 100 feet,
- we should be ready for anything. - Awesome.
Now, after rp-1 and rp-2 both produced
pieces of timber that may have come
from the original money pit
and several mid-18th-century artifacts
such as French pottery and a Clay pipe stem,
the team is hoping that rp-3 will make direct contact
with the shaft six tunnel
and the fabled treasure it is believed to contain.
The priority we're using to set caissons is very simple.
Where are we most likely to bring up a piece of treasure?
Rick has a real high interest in and around shaft six.
And given what we found
in rp-1 and rp-2, that may mean
that we're closing in on the treasure.
I don't know if I can walk away from shaft six.
It might contain the one thing. I still believe it's there.
So, last measurement, we have,
67 feet for depth of hole.
We're looking really good tomorrow to hopefully finish.
We should be set up for our target zone tomorrow.
Yep.
Okay, guys, I'll leave you to it
so we can get started first thing tomorrow.
- Yep. All right. Sounds good. Thank you. - Thanks again.
- All right, Alex, we'll see you. - See you.
As the excavation of rp-3 proceeds
in the money pit area.
I know one thing.
Winter's not far behind.
It's a little bit nippy out here today.
It's lovely.
Rick lagina,
Jack begley, and metal detection expert Gary drayton
are braving the elements
to search for additional clues... and valuables
in the northernmost region of the swamp.
The agenda today is cut this across,
look for artifacts, stakes,
- whatever we can find. - Okay, mate.
- All right. - Let's find something!
- Yep. Good luck. - Good luck, Gary.
Let's go, al!
The team was stunned several years ago
when they uncovered a massive stone road,
or ship's wharf,
in the southeast corner of the swamp
that may be as much as 500 years old,
as well as a vast paved feature near its center
that has been dated to as early as 1200 ad.
But this year, they have uncovered numerous sections
of a cobblestone pathway
that was lined with wooden survey stakes
and which led them to an empty
brick and slate vault-like structure
in the northern region.
All of these finds have given support to the theory
of the late oak island landowner Fred Nolan,
who believed that the swamp was created long ago
to hide numerous caches of buried valuables.
Now, after already finding more evidence of the pathway
in the northernmost region of the bog,
they are hoping to prove that Fred was right
and uncover additional vaults
that still contain hidden riches.
That looks like c horizon,
but then there's the organic layer underneath?
Almost like it's been dug before.
You want to come over, gar?
On my way.
We need to pay attention to the soils.
Is it in situ, I.E. Undisturbed?
Or has it been disturbed?
We may have found evidence of human activity
that something was done to hide something
for a lengthy period of time.
Someone's been digging in this area.
- There's a mixture of materials. - Yep.
Got some iron around here.
Best guesstimate is just in there.
- Wow. - That's some tough digging, innit?
- That it right there? - Wood.
So it's a piece of wood, with, more than likely...
Ooh! Look at that!
If you're looking for a wharf pin,
that looks like a wharf pin.
Man. Look at that.
That's magnificent.
Evidence of a wooden structure and possible wharf pin?
Yeah.
Has the team found evidence of a second ship's wharf,
located some four feet deep
in the northern region of the swamp?
If so, was it connected to the cobblestone pathway?
And perhaps a buried vault,
like the one uncovered earlier this year
just several yards to the south?
Take a little more out 'cause we're still in the organic.
No reason not to do another pull across there.
Got a good signal here, Rick and Jack!
I'll try pinpointing it first.
Look at that!
- Yeah! - Ooh!
Wow! Brilliant!
That is the real McCoy.
Yeah, this is an oldie.
1700s or older.
- What makes you think that's old? - Number one, the weight.
And the fact that you can see the striations going down it.
Now, we've been referring to them as wharf pins.
It could be a wharf. It could be off a gate.
It could be for a wall.
Could that be a piece of Fred's wall?
Maybe.
That's a bloody good find.
After partially draining the swamp
in the late 1960s,
Fred Nolan claimed to have discovered evidence
of a wooden wall, or dam, buried
near the northern boundary of the brackish bog.
And incredibly, Fred's account of this structure matches
a feature labeled "the dam"
on a reported 14th-century map of oak island
that was given to the team in 2016
by the late zena halpern.
A map that zena believed was
created by the Christian military order
known as the knights templar.
Nice one.
Okay, al.
Is it possible that the wood
and the heavy iron pins the team has found
were not from a wharf but perhaps the wall
that Fred Nolan claimed to have found more than 50 years ago?
- Wait. - What's that?
That's awesome.
I don't know if this is a, a board or a log.
The dimension of that is roughly what Fred described.
It could be evidence that we're getting close
- to finding the wall. - Could be.
Want it out of there?
Yeah, we might as well take it out.
We'll take a look at it.
While investigating the northernmost region
of the oak island swamp,
Rick lagina and other members of the team have just
unearthed a large, potentially man-made timber.
That's roughly what he described:
10, 12 inches wide.
A timber that may be part
of a wall, or dam, that the late treasure hunter
Fred Nolan believed was built long ago
in order to artificially create the swamp.
You think that might be a piece of the wall?
I don't know.
Clean it up a little, al, and we'll take a look.
All right.
Based upon everything
that we've found in our excavations
in the northern part of the swamp,
it keeps leading to more and more strange work.
Is that a really big rock down there?
A big rock.
It makes me think more and more that there is a wall
and that somebody dammed off
to make sure that they formed
into a swamp to hide the work that they dug.
Maybe this could be a clue.
Ho-ho, wow.
There's even more big boulders down there.
- Yep. - Something tells me
all these boulders were put in place,
and not by mother nature.
There was the piece of timber,
and now to find three boulders in a line,
it does appear as though these boulders were placed
in a way that would be reflective of purpose,
some sort of intent.
There's lots of wood here.
Yeah, a bunch of wood.
I think we found something, Rick.
Hopefully.
Yeah, because we have
one right here that ties these two together.
So there's one here, here, here, here,
here, here, here, here, here.
So it's just kind of like a wall.
- It's a clue. - Yep.
A wall of boulders?
Could it be connected to the evidence
of a man-made dam that Fred Nolan reportedly
uncovered in this area of the swamp
back in the late 1960s?
It's still not making too much sense yet.
Not yet.
And if so, was it built to conceal
numerous caches of treasure, as Fred also believed?
The swamp was heavily manipulated,
in all kinds of ways.
Roads, paths, ramps, paved areas, stone roads.
The next big domino to fall
would certainly be if there is a wall
associated with that manipulation
on the north end of the bog.
We're hoping that if Tom's father was correct
and there is a wall,
this could lead to answers to the mystery.
It makes me feel like we're hot on the trail of this wall.
Right.
Maybe, maybe we'll find out. Okay, al.
- Let's keep going. - All right.
Later that afternoon...
Yeah, keep going.
As the excavation of rp-3 continues
in the money pit area...
Research is an important component
of trying to find the treasure, solve the mystery.
Rick and Marty lagina meet
with members of the team
in the oak island museum to hear a report
from judi rudebusch, who was also
the research partner of the late zena halpern.
Judi has taken upon herself
to look into John Edward's books.
Contained within those books are
encryptions and codes
which we believe tie directly back to the island.
It's the most fascinating thing I've ever worked with.
So we started to do a deep dive in the books.
The clues all seem to point directly to oak island.
Six weeks ago,
researcher John Edwards, along with author
and 32-degree freemason Scott Clarke,
shared excerpts from a series
of five 18th- and 19th-century books
which they believe contained masonic clues
linking the medieval order of the knights templar
and a related group known as the knights of Malta
to the oak island mystery.
Curiously, one of the books featured
a hand-drawn map of oak island and depicted a square structure
in the northern region of the swamp
that was eerily similar
to the brick and slate vault
that the team discovered earlier this year.
We definitely believe that the books show,
it is a multigenerational endeavor
linking biblical treasures to oak island.
Judi, it's all yours.
Okay.
So we have the knights of Malta.
They traveled side by side with the templars.
They fought with the templars.
They started out as the hospitallers in Jerusalem.
As time went by and as they moved through
to the different islands, the knights took on the name
knights of rhodes, knights of Malta.
These are all names of the same group.
Next step.
It starts in Jerusalem.
They were a hospital group.
And they were taking care of all the crusaders
and people coming to the holy land.
In 1119,
the military order of monks known as the knights templar
was formed by the catholic church and tasked
with protecting christians and securing territories
in the holy land during the crusades.
For nearly two centuries, they amassed great power
and established strongholds
throughout the middle east and Europe
with the support of the knights hospitaller.
However, they also accumulated great wealth
by establishing an elaborate banking system
and were rumored
to have taken possession of priceless religious treasures
such as the holy grail,
the golden menorah that once stood in king Solomon's temple
and the ark of the covenant
treasures that some researchers believe
the templars began safeguarding across the ocean
on oak island.
But in 1307, the templars were suddenly
persecuted by the pope and the king of France
on controversial charges of heresy.
Many templar knights were imprisoned,
but much of their known treasures
and the rumored religious artifacts
they may have possessed have never been found.
Now, after 1312, everything that the templars had
went to the hospitallers.
And that meant the money they collected,
the artifacts, the treasures, everything went to them.
They would have carried along
the same secrets, the same knowledge.
And they started moving.
So they go from Cyprus, and then they go to rhodes.
And then, they go to Malta in the 1550s.
But while they're on Malta, what are they doing?
They are digging fortifications in the underground.
They are making tunnels. They've got caves.
They're going into the limestone.
Not real different than what you see in the money pit.
They knew how to dig in that soil.
So you got to keep thinking in your head
that they maybe came over here.
And they could have been depositors, too.
- That'd be fantastic. - Yeah.
They knew how to dig in that soil.
You got to keep thinking in your head
that they maybe came over here
and that they could have been depositors, too.
In the oak island museum,
judi rudebusch is presenting
astonishing new research that could potentially link
a secretive fraternity
connected to the knights templar
known as the knights of Malta
to the oak island mystery.
Okay. Now we're coming into our side of the world.
This is Isaac de razilly.
He was a direct descendant, through his mother,
of the de villiers.
The de villiers were the grand masters of Malta.
He was also a knight of Malta.
Isaac de razilly came to Nova Scotia
and settled his capital in the la have river,
just around the corner from oak island.
That was 1632, 1633.
Yeah, there's a chance Isaac de razilly
and the knights of Malta made it
all the way up to oak island.
And we have found that there could be
a lot of connective tissue going on at lot 5.
After acquiring lot 5 in 2022,
the laginas and their team were stunned to uncover
a rounded stone foundation near the shoreline
that archaeologist laird niven believes
may have been inhabited and modified
by several different groups
prior to the 18th century.
Within and near this feature,
they have found a mortar-like material
that matches soil samples
from more than 100 feet deep in the money pit area.
And they have also uncovered stunning artifacts
such as a believed 14th-century lead barter token
that, just like the lead cross discovered at Smith's cove
in 2017, may be related to the knights templar.
However, they have also found
numerous pieces of pottery and buttons
that have yet to be identified.
There was an item found on lot 5,
which is on the table.
You're gonna see a button.
What's unique about this button
is that the rays going out aren't clockwise.
They're counterclockwise.
And then there was
this button here on a knight of Malta uniform.
This button also goes the opposite way around.
And it was Emiliano who spotted
the backwards turning sun rays.
Pretty odd that we've got a button very similar to that.
This might be the find that could prove
the knights of Malta were on oak island.
That's quite remarkable.
- Yeah. - Look, you know, judi is the first person
that's come up with anything resembling
that star burst button.
This is first I've seen anything that looks like it.
- Yeah. - Now, on the table, you're gonna see
some beads that were found on lot 5.
Here is a chart, says venice.
And you've got some pretty close matches
but who was in that area?
Who was by Italy?
It could have been the knights of Malta.
They were doing trade.
They had every, every chance to have a bead like this.
It's a clue.
So it could be part of the same story
that judi's following.
Did they come into some information
that the templars had deposited something
on this side of the Atlantic?
Based on the various discoveries
that the team has made in recent years,
Rick lagina has come to suspect
that the 230-year-old mystery involved
different but related groups who may have hidden valuables
on oak island over a number of centuries.
Could that explain the mysterious structure
and artifacts found on lot 5,
as well as the numerous man-made stone structures
including a vault-like feature in the swamp?
And, if so, have judi rudebusch,
along with her late friend
and templar researcher zena halpern,
potentially identified
two of the groups who may have buried
incredible treasures in the money pit?
So if the templars had something to do with this,
I'd say this presentation says
the knights of Malta knew about it.
Treasure, secrets, all kinds of stuff.
You know, there's no stronger bond than brothers in arms.
I don't have all the answers to this story.
But I'm still gonna work on it.
- I do believe... - I've always believed
that things were done on the island,
regarding this mystery, incrementally.
And you've shown how incrementally
the knights of Malta evolved in terms of their presence,
in terms of their efforts, in terms of their travels,
and where their influences led them.
There could be lots of information in Malta.
And I think we should consider having a look.
I would agree.
It's gonna take a lot of homework to validate a trip.
And,
we need to wrap our heads around it collectively.
So let's get after it.
All right. Good deal.
The following morning...
Keep going, al.
As the investigation
in the northern region of the swamp continues...
Take another chunk out of there.
Hey, Adam.
- Hi again. How's it going? - Good.
We're about 90 feet, 92 feet on the dig.
Okay.
And the excavation
of rp-3 proceeds in the money pit area, on lot 5,
located on the western side of the island...
Are you finding anything good, Ethan?
Yeah, I found some, blue bottle glass.
Moya MacDonald, Ethan green and other members
of the archaeology team are continuing their investigation
of the round feature near the shoreline.
We found blue bottle glass just in test pit 28, over there.
- So... - Okay.
That's great. It might mend together.
- That'd be pretty cool. - That would be awesome.
But we're just starting.
- Decent find. Yeah. - Yeah.
Hopefully we'll find some more
- or something different. - Yeah. Let's do it.
All of the archaeologists who've worked on lot 5
have said that the bulk of the artifacts they're finding
could support multiple occupations here.
So I have a certain, sort of, excited curiosity
to find out if they can identify who was in there first.
What? What?
No way.
- Another one. - What?
Another what? Bead?
- Yeah. - No way!
- Seriously? - Yeah way. Yeah.
While investigating the large stone foundation
near the shoreline on lot 5,
archaeologist moya MacDonald has
just made a potentially important discovery.
Is it pink like the other one or a pinky brown?
- Yeah. - Really?
It's broken in half, though.
- It's so little. - Now where was the other one?
The other one was over there.
Yeah. There you go, Helen.
My god, they're strung out all over the place.
Look at that. Look. It's tiny.
- It is tiny. - Wow.
So that's two now.
And they look like they are the same.
It's the same color
from what I can remember from the other one.
Yeah.
Over the past year,
the team has found several venetian trade beads
in this feature.
And several weeks ago, moya unearthed a bead
that is identical to the one she just uncovered.
The red colorant is early 1700s and before that.
Upon conducting
scientific analysis on all of them,
archaeometallurgist Emma culligan determined
that they could date back to as early as the 17th century.
That's the find of the day!
Is it possible that moya has now found
a fourth venetian bead?
Beads that, according to the research of judi rudebusch,
could support the theory that members of the knights of Malta
may have visited oak island?
Nice.
Yeah, so, from what I remember
from Emma's analysis is
the red coloring on the bead comes from copper content,
- which she found through the xrf. - Okay.
Very good. Excellent eyes. Wow.
- Thanks, Helen. - That's twice now.
- Yeah. - That she's done it.
And that one is smaller, 'cause it's half of one.
It's half of one.
- So... - Okay, we're down onto the bead layer.
Bead layer.
As the archaeology team continues
to search for clues on lot 5...
Another big Boulder, right alongside, Rick.
- Really? - Yeah.
That's a pretty straight line.
- Same elevations, too. - Yeah.
Rick lagina is joined
in the northern region of the swamp
by fellow oak island landowner and son of Fred Nolan,
Tom Nolan.
Maybe the wall's over here?
Obviously, if this is where the work took place,
this is where you're gonna put your wall.
Yeah.
Al, can you take another scoop there?
- Sorta in... - Between those two rocks?
- Yeah. - Okay.
They are eager to uncover more of the possible
man-made feature of boulders and determine if it could be
part of the believed wall that Fred reportedly found
more than a half century ago.
Somebody did a tremendous amount of work
in this swamp, and there's more swamp
we haven't taken apart yet.
It's very interesting, because
it leaves a big question of who did this work?
There's something here.
I see it.
Yeah, it looks like a bit of a log.
Unless it went through the rock?
It's right here.
It's just kind of pinned against the rock.
Seems to be cut there.
Yeah. Yeah. That's cut, right there.
For sure.
Axe cut, too, that's no chain saw.
We should save that, because if we reveal this
- and this looks like something... - Yeah.
Then that would be
a perfect test subject because it's in the structure.
Yeah. Let's set it aside and just see
- where this is going. - Yeah.
- I'll scrape the top off it. - Okay.
The bog has some story to tell.
Fred spent a lot of his time
trying to uncover secrets in the bog.
And I firmly believe
that when Fred volunteered this information
about a wall in the north end of the bog,
I believe him.
And I hope that we find that wall.
Looks to me like we've got an alignment here.
Yeah.
And I'd like to find another one alongside this.
But between this and whatever
that bigger boulders is there, it-it seems like something,
something went on here.
But what is that?
Is that to keep that from intruding on the workspace?
- Yeah. - Or this is to prevent water
from coming in till the wall is built?
And then you can control the water in and out.
Yeah.
But it's all speculation till you find the wall.
- Yeah. - I still believe
there's a wooden wall in here somewhere.
- Yeah. - Maybe there's a tie-in somehow.
Yeah, definitely.
I still believe there's a wooden wall
in here somewhere. But what is that?
Is that just to prevent water from coming in
till the wall is built
and then you can control the water?
Maybe there's a tie-in somehow.
Yeah, definitely.
In the northern region of the oak island swamp,
Rick lagina and Tom Nolan are working to uncover
a potentially man-made feature of boulders.
Has anything changed?
Are you seeing something here, Gary?
The question is, could it be part of the wall,
or dam, that Tom's father, Fred Nolan,
believed he discovered back in the late 1960s?
I know from the top of the spoil pile
it really stands out.
A line of big boulders that come here
and then you've got
like a little offshoot of boulders here.
Seeing it's like some kind of, like, wall or...
No idea what it is.
That's why Steve should come out and pin all of these.
Pin the orientation. Pin the elevation.
Take a look at it.
So I'll-I'll just text Steve, tell him to come down.
Yeah.
All right. I got to go,
but I think we got a plan here.
- Yep. - All right.
We can't be dismissive of anything found
in the north end of the bog,
albeit the real objective here is to find the wall.
Steve can do a survey
and you might see a relationship between some other constructs
across the width and breadth of the swamp.
- Hey, guys. - Hey, Steve.
How you doing? What do you got?
No one's looked at the plans more than you have,
but you see this line?
Yep.
And we have one, two, three,
- and we don't know what's beyond. - Yep.
I think you have a seawall.
This is how you'd close this swamp off.
Built to shelter the coastline from ocean waves,
tides and storms,
seawalls are often constructed out of boulders,
concrete or wood to protect
man-made structures such as wharfs or docks.
You guys have done a great job of uncovering it.
If Steve is correct
that this feature is a kind of seawall, or dam,
could it be part of the so-called wall
that Fred Nolan discovered?
It wouldn't take long with a bunch of boulders this size
to build up enough material to block this off...
To build a swamp.
And if it was indeed used
as a dam to create the swamp,
could it also be the same feature
on the believed 14th-century templar map
that zena halpern shared with the team back in 2016?
I wish I knew if there was a relationship
between these boulders and the wall.
It's possible.
The one thing that came to mind
when Fred first spoke of this wall was
the reference to zena's map
and the reference to a barrage, which is a dam or a barrier.
It would be wonderful to prove that.
To me, it speaks to the fact
that Fred saw something there
and it affirms that the map is legitimate.
I think you have to plot all of them together
- and see if it makes sense. - I will.
It's just a very unique alignment, right?
And it would be hard to say it's a nothing.
This is a something.
If this really is some sort of seawall,
between all of us, we can figure out
what this may or may not mean.
- All right? - Okay. Sounds good. Thanks, Rick.
Thank you.
Cross our fingers.
Later that afternoon...
- Afternoon, guys. - How deep are we, man?
We're about 110
with the, the dig.
Okey doke.
- We're right there. - Yep.
Rick and Marty return to the money pit area
as the rp-3 shaft approaches its target depth
of 118 feet and a tunnel
that may contain a vast cache of untold valuables.
Hit any wood?
I feel like I may be hitting it right now,
the pressure's spiked up a bit.
I was about 120. Now it's going to 140ish.
So I think I'm just right at the top of the wood right now.
All right, well, let's get over to the table, Rick,
see what's coming up.
Well, some of this stuff it's exciting times, though.
The stakes are high.
We're about to get into the tunnel
that led from shaft six to the money pit
where the collapsed occurred.
And we're about to dig into that very zone.
We're getting close, yeah?
I'm getting impatient.
- Let's see some coinage. - Yeah.
The bar has been raised significantly
due to everyone's efforts.
And now it's, where is the treasure?
Where is the treasure?
Anything short of something irrefutable,
it'll be a little difficult to take, to be honest.
Some evidence that there once was something.
Okay, here we go.
Kind of spiking up on you?
Yeah.
- Look at that. - Ooh, baby!
- Holy crap, man. - That's the most wood
that we've pulled out so far, just like that.
Never seen that before.
That's a grab!
- That's a grab. - Wow.
It's loaded.
Look at that old beam.
Yeah, that looks like old wood.
Why don't you put your bucket over here
- and I'll just toss it in? - Yeah.
In the money pit area,
an intense and potentially historic situation is unfolding
for brothers Rick
and Marty lagina and the oak island team.
- You guys got it? - Yeah.
- It's got some weight to it. - Yeah.
At a depth of some 115 feet in the rp-3 shaft...
Put it right here.
They are now recovering evidence
of what they believe could be
the shaft six tunnel.
Look at that. That's old wood, innit? Yeah.
But the burning question now is,
will they also recover
the treasure that legend claims
the tunnel contains?
That's a lot of wood.
We're coming close to the bottom of the tunnel.
Yeah.
- Hey, guys. - Hey, Adam.
What do you got there, Adam?
116 feet on the nose on the dig.
- 116 for the dig. - Yeah.
That makes sense.
- We picked 118. - Yep.
We got two more feet of hope.
That's the bottom, that's where everything would be.
We're getting close to the tunnel floor on rp-3.
It's a three and two count.
The pitcher's gonna pitch the ball, and you're either
gonna hit it out of the park or you're gonna strike out.
I hope it's not a strikeout.
It should be in the scoop right here.
Nothing.
Because the hammer grab tool is
no longer bringing up wood but instead
packed Clay and soil,
it means that rp-3 has gone through the remains
of the shaft six tunnel,
and just like rp-1 and rp-2,
failed to produce evidence of valuables.
You have to think, if there was something,
you'd see it here.
- I was expecting something. - Yes, I know you are.
And you're probably disappointed, right?
Very much so.
We had high hopes,
but you have to say to yourself,
"well, you know, it's not here."
They ask how difficult it is
to search for treasure on oak island.
You just have to say,
"230 years people have been looking
for a long-lost fabled treasure."
230 years to try to solve a mystery.
That's how difficult it is to look for treasure
on oak island.
Nope, nothing else.
Right now, I feel like you're having
a little crisis of faith and I'm not.
Isn't that weird?
Because...?
'Cause I-I think it all makes sense that it went deep
into the solution channel.
There's way too much material
- to fill up that tunnel. - Right.
Several weeks ago,
while excavating a shaft known as tb-1
where the team believed
they were digging through the original money pit
upon reaching a depth of some 160 feet,
the earth surrounding and below the shaft
suddenly collapsed and fell deeper.
- That ain't good. - Hey. Stop.
It's caving.
This has made the team believe
that a massive natural cavity, or solution channel,
exists in the bedrock more than 200 feet underground.
I really had high hopes.
- I really did. I did. - I know.
Everything seemed to make sense.
It did make sense. It still makes sense.
Because the shaft six tunnel was
connected to the original money pit,
could Marty be correct that much of its contents
including the treasure it was believed to contain,
has now fallen into the so-called solution channel?
We proved that the tunnel that goes from shaft six
is headed to the money pit.
We've proven that a collapse occurred.
We've accomplished quite a lot.
I think the reason why is
because it fell down into the solution channel.
We have to get down into that solution channel
because we've never really explored it.
- Hey, guys. - Hey, Adam.
Hey, Adam. How you doing?
- What do you got? - Well, 120 and a half,
we picked up some material, cleaned it all out.
It's all out?
- It's all out. - Well, then, I think we're done. Rick?
We tried.
Well, we probably have enough time for perhaps
two shallow or one deep caisson and that's probably it, right?
That's what we talked about.
But, we got to talk, right? So...
- It's still down there, Adam. - Yep.
The treasure could have fallen into this solution channel.
So on to the next thing.
On to the next.
All right, well, we need to assemble the crew
and figure this out, get you some instructions.
Yep. Perfect, and we'll get to, back filling.
Thank you, Adam.
I'll be honest, I'm a little disappointed, you know.
I thought it would really be here.
But we've faced days like today before.
So there's no hanging our heads here, we just move on.
So sempre avanti.
- Yes, sir. - So let's get going.
- Right on. - All right, let's go.
For more than two centuries,
the tireless digging by faithful searchers has
produced compelling evidence
that a vast treasure is buried on oak island.
But have Rick, Marty and their team discovered
that the island has taken those valuables
to a much deeper, darker and foreboding place?
One thing is certain.
To find out, they will not be deterred
by the challenge they now face,
because if they can succeed,
they will not only reap a potentially priceless reward
they could rewrite the history of North America.
Next time on the curse of oak island...
There is something four feet down
and 14 feet long.
Ooh! What the heck is that?
- Check out what I just found. - What?
This is definitely prediscovery of the money pit.
That's treasure.
And that's the only one of its kind.
This could be medieval times.
That's right in the era of the templars.
Did the knights of Malta come to oak island?
We could get an answer if we go to Malta.
Then let's go!
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