12x10 - Graves Concerns

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NARRATOR: Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

Look what we've got here.

This could be a piece
of the treasure.

Yes!

TERRY:
Oh, Charles, we have wood.

This is incredible.

We could be within feet
of our offset chamber.

Doesn't that look like

- a vault to you?
- LAIRD: I would expect

a lot of stuff down there.

It's giving off
metallic signals.

Oh. Whoa. Whoa.
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

Here's something.

- Wow.
- What the heck is going on!?

NARRATOR: 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.

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BILLY: You want to
take that corner out?

IAN: Sure.

NARRATOR: A week
of great excitement

has begun on Oak Island

for brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina,

their partner Craig
Tester and their team.

[laughs] Now that
looks like a stone road.

Why don't you do one more
right along here, but a little deeper?

Okay.

NARRATOR: And that is because

in the northern region of
the triangle-shaped swamp,

they have uncovered a new
pair of man-made features

that may be critical to solving a


One is a stone pathway.

The other is some kind
of small cellar or vault.

We're seeing absolutely
the same rock size.

- Yeah.
- IAN: No gravel.

Um, if this was natural,

you wouldn't have such a tight

- distribution of size.
- ALEX: Mm-hmm.

CRAIG: Gary, you want
to come metal-detect?

Yeah.

Coming over.

Let's see if there's
any metals in here.

Oh. Is this pottery?

- CRAIG: Really?
- Or not.

- Yeah, it's pottery. Yeah.
- CRAIG: All right.

ALEX: Wow. That was impressive.

GARY: That's definitely pottery.

Any ideas? Well, we got a
pottery expert here, Laird.

- Did I hear pottery?
- Yep. -IAN: Yep.

I predict that you'll have
a-an assessment of that,

just on the basis of the
pottery that I've seen so far.

I mean, it's a
refined earthenware.



Interesting, though.

So, this is, like, easily
Anthony Graves, right?

- Right.
- ALEX: Mm-hmm.

NARRATOR: In 1857, a
farmer named Anthony Graves

purchased a
majority of Oak Island

and built his home
just north of the swamp.

While he was never
an active participant

in the searches for
treasure that took place

in the Money Pit, curiously,

he was rumored to have found

a large cache of
Spanish silver coins

somewhere on his property.

That might be
Anthony Graves, too,

- the feature.
- ALEX: Yeah. I think we should take

this opportunity to
try to figure that out.

- Yeah.
- LAIRD: I agree.

- Okay, let's go for it, mate.
- All right.

NARRATOR: Given the fact
that the Laginas and their team

have uncovered numerous
man-made structures

over the past
decade in the swamp,

including a potentially


in the southeast corner

and a massive paved feature

that may date as far
back as 1200 AD...

GARY: Here we go.

NARRATOR: is it
possible that Anthony Graves

may have found a location
outside of the Money Pit area

where another cache
of treasure was hidden?

And if so, might this
brick and slate feature

be related to that discovery?

[device beeping]

That is a great
signal. Now, it's iron

and quite a decent size chunk.

It's in that area
where your hand is.

That's it.

Let me get down there.

- ALEX: You got it, Gary? Okay.
- GARY: Yeah.

Let's see.

When we went to the
north side of the swamp,

I didn't really
expect to see much.

And sure enough,
as-as the dig proceeds,

there's a square
vault-ish looking thing

that was submerged in the
swamp. Purpose unknown.

So was it a hiding place?

Did Anthony Graves
set it up himself

to hide his own stuff in?
That's what we hope to find out.

GARY: Ooh. [grunts]

It's coming out.

Is that it?

- And the big reveal.
- ALEX: What the heck?

- GARY: That's it.
- ALEX: What the hell is that?

- GARY: Yeah...
- [Laird laughs]

ALEX: That is certainly
not what I expected.

GARY: Look at that. It's
got something attached to it.

- That's a piece of brick, by the look of it.
- Yeah.

Any ideas, Laird?

- But it's been down there for a long time.
- GARY: Yeah, it has.

- LAIRD: I think we have to go clean it off, but...
- GARY: Yeah.

LAIRD: I mean, it's
a pipe of some sort.

ALEX: The question that
we want to know really is:

- how old is that thing?
- Yeah.

GARY: We don't know
what else is down there.

We've got to get
to the bottom of it.

- Yeah.
- That's the only way we're gonna find out.

Yep.

All right. I'm gonna
take that back to the lab.

- Okay, mate.
- LAIRD: I'll let you get on

- with your work over there.
- Works for me.

GARY: Okay, mate. Good work.

NARRATOR: While members of
the team continue to investigate

the mysterious
structure in the swamp...

later that afternoon...

RICK: You know, thank
everybody for coming.

So, we have results
today from Shaft Two.

The first shaft after the
discovery of the Money Pit.

NARRATOR: Rick Lagina gathers
with other members of the team

in the w*r room for a
meeting via videoconference

with Dr. Michael Pisaric,

a professor of earth
sciences at Brock University

in St. Catharines, Ontario.

If we could
definitively find Two...

Steve, you can tell us,

here's where the
Money Pit should be.

So, Shaft Two is-is, you know,

it's-it's the white
whale, if you will.

We're digging up the first ever
searcher shaft on Oak Island.

NARRATOR: Earlier this year,
the team unearthed a feature

in the Money Pit area

that they believed

to be a 110-foot-deep
searcher structure built

in 1805 that is
known as Shaft Two.

Located 14 feet southeast
of the original treasure shaft,

workers began tunneling
from the bottom of Shaft Two

toward the Money
Pit, hoping to bypass

the legendary flood tunnel

and retrieve the
believed treasure vault.

But, unfortunately, just
two feet shy of their target,

the tunnel was suddenly
breached by a rush of seawater,

forcing them to
abandon the operation.

Luckily, Mike Pisaric has

been able to join our group
and look at these, uh, samples.

NARRATOR: For the
past several weeks,

Professor Pisaric
has been analyzing

numerous wood
samples from the structure

using a testing method
known as dendrochronology,

a process by which the size
and growth patterns of tree rings

in wood can help determine
the approximate date

that it was cut for
use in construction.

It is the team's hope that
the results will help them

verify that they have,
indeed, located Shaft Two,

meaning that the
original Money Pit

would sit just 14
feet to the northwest.

So, with that, Mike, if
you can give the results,

we'd greatly appreciate it.

Sure. Thanks, Craig.

So, Shaft Two, I think

the results are fairly robust.

Now, uh, sample 0021.

I'm really, really
confident in the dates

on this particular sample.

I determined a date of 1784.

Wow.

Yep.

RICK: If the 1784
date is relevant,

that would be 21 years

before the date of the
construction of Shaft Two.

So, it may not be Shaft
Two. What does that mean?

What does that
say? I don't know,

but it's quite intriguing.

If this is not wood
from Shaft Two,

then what do we
think it's-it's from?

Logically, it almost suggests

that this shaft might be

some early depositor work.

It is important because

it may be reused wood.

Possibly.

NARRATOR: Could
Dr. Spooner be correct

that the wood unearthed by
the team in the Money Pit area

may have been repurposed
from a previously built structure

and used by searchers
to build Shaft Two in 1805?

RICK: 1784 date is
somewhat confusing,

and we can't say yay or nay

that it is Shaft Two.

On some level, that's both
discouraging and encouraging.

Encouraging because
there's still a lot to learn

about the Money Pit.

Discouraging because
there is still a lot to learn

about the Money Pit.

JACK: But from the position,

it would appear that
that is Shaft Two.

Right?

RICK: It has neither affirmed

nor denied that it is Shaft Two,

but it does represent
new areas for investigation,

and that's a very good thing.

So, let me just call it
"Shaft Two, question mark"

for the time being.

I think a question
mark is appropriate.

SCOTT: Well, I think
we start out with the drill,

- see what comes up.
- RICK: Yeah.

STEVE: So, if we are
gonna call this Shaft Two,

we can project 14 feet out.

And now, I project it
off the western wall.

You can see my anchor
point is right there.

It lands on the southeast
side of the Hedden Shaft.

STEVE: If we are gonna call
this Shaft Two, we can project



It lands on the southeast
side of the Hedden Shaft.

NARRATOR: In the w*r room,

after receiving data regarding

a searcher structure
built in 1805,

known as Shaft Two,

the Oak Island team is hopeful

they may have finally
located the original Money Pit.

So, if the Money Pit

is mainly in the Hedden Shaft,

then you're back
more to the traditional

- area of the Money Pit.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: In 1937,

New York-based treasure
hunter Gilbert Hedden

constructed a


down to a depth of 125 feet,

believing that he had found

the location of the
original Money Pit.

Unfortunately, he
was unable to recover

any evidence of valuables.

However, if the Oak Island
team has indeed found Shaft Two,

is it possible that
Gilbert Hedden

just missed the Money Pit,

but they now have it pinpointed?

STEVE: So, there's
a 13-foot diameter

proposed Money Pit location.

I'd suggest moving to
the southeast of Hedden

- and drilling there.
- IAN: Yeah.

That's really interesting
to us because,

if that's the location
for the Money Pit,

that's where we also
think the precious metals

might be coming from.

NARRATOR: In recent weeks,

geoscientist Dr. Ian
Spooner and his colleagues

revealed that new
groundwater testing data

indicated that a large
source of gold, silver,

and other metals may be
buried more than 100 feet deep

in the general area
of the Hedden Shaft.

We know from all our
work that there's so much

underground in the Money Pit
we don't know anything about.

NARRATOR: Could this
offer more proof that the team

has not only located Shaft Two,

but now also the
original Money Pit

and the hiding place for
the legendary treasure

that people have been
looking for since 1795?

RICK: If it really is Shaft Two,

that radii draws you to
where we think the Money Pit

should be, based on everything
we have come to understand.

So, this area needs
further investigation

with a hope that we will find
the one thing that will prove

all the efforts over the 230
years have been appropriate.

So, if there's
anything that helps,

we have a date range and
we have a good survey on

what we're calling Shaft
Two, or potentially Shaft Two.

So, now we know where to drill.

I agree. We've got
really good data.

So, thank you, Dr. Spooner.
Thank you, uh, Mike.

We really appreciate it,

- and thank you again. Appreciate it.
- CRAIG: Thank you, guys.

STEVE: See you.

NARRATOR: Following
their meeting in the w*r room...

- STEVE: We picked this borehole very strategically.
- TERRY: Right.

If that was Shaft Two,
this potentially makes it

- a Money Pit or vault location.
- CHARLES: Yes.

- So, we want to explore that.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: Steve Guptill
joins geologist Terry Matheson

and Oak Island historian
Charles Barkhouse

in the Money Pit
area to supervise

the drilling of
borehole H.5-10.5,

a borehole located
at the southern edge

of the shaft that Gilbert
Hedden constructed in 1937.

MARTY: We know this area is
where the high metals showed up,

which incidentally
would mean that Chappell

and Hedden and us,

we're basically
in the right spot.

One thing we've learned
here in the Money Pit area

- is that anything is possible.
- Yeah.

So, it's-it's quite possible

that we could be onto
something right here.

- Yeah.
- TERRY: Sounds good.

See what all this means.

NARRATOR: As
the drilling operation

continues in the
Money Pit area...

RICK: There it is, Tom.

- After you.
- Wow.

NARRATOR: Rick Lagina
leads fellow Oak Island landowner

Tom Nolan to the
mysterious vault-like structure

that was recently uncovered
in the northern region

of the triangle-shaped swamp.

ALEX: What do you think?

I-I don't know what
to say. I've never seen

- anything like this.
- Mm-hmm.

TOM: I mean, look at
that slate, it's perfectly cut.

Yeah.

I want to keep fishing.

So many brick in the bottom.

[grunts]

Piece of glass.

- TOM: And that's...
- See a date on that?

There's some marks
on it, but there's no date.

- Hello.
- RICK: Hey, Laird.

- We came up with that.
- LAIRD: Interesting.

RICK: It's sharp.

It's machine-made.
It would be a jar.

- Late 1800s.
- Hmm.

LAIRD: Yeah.

So, it would somewhat
fit with Anthony Graves?

Oh, I think it fits
quite well. Yeah.

NARRATOR: If Laird is correct

that this glass fragment
may be associated

with the 19th-century
landowner Anthony Graves,

could it offer evidence
that he created this feature

in order to hide
the Spanish silver

that he was rumored
to have possessed?

Or could it be a clue

that this is actually where
he discovered the riches?

What did you think of this?

It-it doesn't look like anything
we've ever found here.

I mean, there was nothing here

after Graves left,
that we know of.

Over the years, we-we've located

two wells on the property,

which we assumed were Graves'.

This is different.

It's square, it's not round.

It's slate and brick,
it's not beach stone.

I mean, it just, it doesn't fit.

Me, I'm gonna take the
treasure hunting component

and run with that.

I mean, Anthony Graves

was the real mystery
man of Oak Island, to me.

Doesn't that look
like a vault to you?

I mean, it's
constructed like a vault.

And I guess if you're
trying to hide something,

but you want to be
able to recover it,

rather than putting
it in an outhouse,

you'd put it at the bottom
of something like this.

- Easily... easily retrievable.
- LAIRD: Yeah. Yeah.

- RICK: Easily hidden.
- TOM: Well, hidden's a good word

because, I mean, we've
been taking this bog apart

since the '70s and never...
never found this, so...

LAIRD: I think the answers,

unfortunately, are
probably at the bottom.

RICK: Katya, you want to come in

and just swing your metal
detector in the bottom here?

KATYA: I can try my best.

Not getting anything.

Anything down
in the well itself?

KATYA: Maybe a little something.

[faint beeping]

There's little blips and beeps.

It's...

There's something in there.

RICK: I remain convinced
that this square-shaped box

is a place to store metal.

The bricks on top make it
appear as though there was

a wooden cover over it.

It's in close proximity to
Anthony Graves' home.

And you throw the
historical narrative into it

that he paid with Spanish coin.

To me, it just makes no sense

other than it's a structure
built to contain something,

and I believe to hide something.

There's a lot of
brick down here.

It's a very hard bottom.

Hmm. There's something.

What is that?

RICK: What is that?

May I see?

Oh.

That's odd.

NARRATOR: In the northern
region of the Oak Island swamp,

Rick Lagina and other
members of the team

have just found a
potentially important clue

inside of a mysterious
vault-like structure.

- I just can't place what it is.
- RICK: A handle?

A handle off a chest.

KATYA: What a cool find.

NARRATOR: Could Rick
Lagina be correct that the team

has recovered a
handle from a chest

inside of the
vault-like feature?

If so, might it be related
to the Spanish silver coins

that former landowner
Anthony Graves

reportedly discovered
on Oak Island

more than 150 years ago?

Question is, what
else is there to find?

This is such a weird structure.

It pulls up a lot of questions.

TOM: We need to excavate this
and see what is at the bottom of it.

So, uh, we should
do that right away.

RICK: Laird, why don't you
come up with a process...

- Okay.
- How we can proceed.

Define the areas. How
deep you want to dig.

- Yep.
- RICK: And let's get her done.

- TOM: Sounds good.
- RICK: Okey doke.

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

TERRY: Here we go.
Patient on the table.

We're into a solid
section of maroon till.

- Oh, yeah. Looky there.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: as search
efforts in the Money Pit area

and the swamp continue,

on Lot 5,

located on the western
side of Oak Island...

JACK: Wow. The rock wall's

really starting to pop.

It is. And you know, it's...
we're still pretty high up.

Mm-hmm.

NARRATOR: Jack Begley
has joined the archeology team

as they continue investigating

a large, rounded stone
foundation near the shoreline.

FIONA: So, it's-it's still

a little ambiguous as to
exactly where it's going.

NARRATOR: Since acquiring Lot 5

from the estate of the late
treasure hunter Robert Young

in 2022,

the Laginas, Craig
Tester, and their team

have been working
under provincial

archaeological guidelines
to fully uncover this structure.

And so far, they have
made numerous discoveries

that suggest it is connected
to the treasure mystery.

These include coins
and Venetian trade beads

dating back to the


handmade bricks
resembling those that make up

the vault-like
feature in the swamp,

and a mortar-like substance
that matches soil samples

collected from over 100 feet
deep in the Money Pit area.

I have a love-hate
relationship with Lot 5.

What I hate is the
pace of exploring it.

It drives me mad.

I mean, it is so slow,

but I love the fact that
it could help our search

by tying what happened
there to the Money Pit.

We're hoping that
something on Lot 5

helps us solve the
whole mystery here.

- Hey, Fiona.
- Yeah?

I'm coming down on something.

FIONA: Oh, that looks like
one of the Robert Young pegs.

- Is there a number on it?
- Yeah, there is.



FIONA: That's really cool.

Well, look at that, so it does.

- Hey, Jack.
- JACK: Yeah?

Look what we've got here.

NARRATOR: Between


Lot 5's previous
owner, Robert Young,

made a number of
discoveries across the property,

including iron tools and
even medieval coins.

He marked each
find with labeled pegs.

The question now is,
just what did he unearth

near the round feature?

FIONA: Laird actually
has access to the database

because every single
number is associated

with whatever he found.

Nice. I'll have to
give Laird a call.

FIONA: I think that's perfect.

I love that we can get
that instant information

just like that.

LAIRD [over phone]: Hey, Jack.

- JACK: How's it going, Laird?
- LAIRD: Good. How are you?

Um, actually, quite good.

I'm digging with
Fiona and Ethan, uh,

just to the north of
the circular feature,

and we came across
a Robert Young peg.

It has a number on it,

and I was wondering if you
could look up in the database

what Robert Young had found.



JACK: Yep.

Yes!

Wow! [laughs]

JACK: Thank you,
Laird. We'll give you a call

if we find anything else.

JACK: See you, Laird.

FIONA: Okay,
that's great because

that also makes me think
about Anthony Graves.

The fact that-that
there are stories

of him going into
one of the local stores

and spending Spanish reales.

- Definitely could fit in with that idea.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: Could
Fiona Steele be correct

that an 18th-century
Spanish real

discovered by Robert Young

in the round feature on Lot 5

might have been related
to the Spanish silver coins

that Anthony Graves was
rumored to have found?

If so, could that mean
that the round feature

is not only related to
the vault in the swamp,

but also a vast cache of
treasure that lies buried

deep in the Money Pit?

I'm super excited
about this because

this could be a
piece of the treasure.

Like, honestly.
[chuckles] That's shocking.

Yeah.

We have to dig deeper.

We've got to see
if there's more.

JACK: Definitely.

NARRATOR: While
the search for clues

and valuables
continues on Lot 5...

CHARLES: Here comes another one.

TERRY: Okay, here
comes another one.

Thank you.

Okay, here we are.

CHARLES: Let's
hope it's a good one.

NARRATOR: in
the Money Pit area,

Charles Barkhouse
and Terry Matheson

continue monitoring
the drilling operation

in borehole H.5-10.5,

a borehole that the team
hopes could be located

within the original Money Pit.

RICK: When you put
a drill over a location,

the number one hope is you'll

bravo tango
something, like a vault,

but at the very least, you're
always looking for information.

TERRY: Okay, Charles,
it's about 146 here.

Oh, Charles, we got
wood. Check this out.

This is incredible. I'm seeing
some serious chunks and slivers.

- The more you dig here, Charles, the more you get.
- CHARLES: Yeah.

That's one, two, three, four...

That's, like, five fairly large
chunks and slivers of wood.

- There's another one there. Okay.
- CHARLES: Yeah.

Okay, that's what
I'm talking about.

Wow.

You know, in the cores
we had above this,

between 124 and 139,

we didn't see any wood at all.

This is 22 feet below the
bottom of the Hedden Shaft.

TERRY: Oh, I know, I know.

In a place where
it should not be.

Question is, how the
heck did it get there?

CHARLES: That's a
very good question, Terry.

TERRY: I'm seeing some
serious chunks and slivers of wood.

So, this is what
we've been looking for.

CHARLES: Yeah.

Question is, how the
heck did it get there?

NARRATOR: While
drilling a borehole known as

H.5-10.5 in search of
the original Money Pit,

members of the Oak Island
team have just encountered

a mysterious wooden structure
nearly 150 feet below ground.

Wood at this
level is incredible.

I mean, no question. We're


and Hamilton hit wood

- below the bottom of...
- CHARLES: Yeah.

- The Hedden Shaft.
- TERRY: Exactly.

I think we may have hit what
Hamilton hit in the early '40s.

NARRATOR: In the summer
of 1940, New York University

professor and treasure
hunter Erwin Hamilton

constructed a
six-by-six-foot extension

onto the base of
the Hedden Shaft.

While conducting
a drilling operation

from within the so-called
"Hamilton Extension,"

he and his team were
stunned when they intercepted

a mysterious wooden
structure at a depth of 153 feet.

Was he looking for
the vault, you know?

- Something drew him here.
- TERRY: Yeah.

This is very, very loose
and almost disturbed.

There could be a treasure
vault left or right of this

exact point that we're
drilling in here right now.

The actual treasure vault

could be within a matter of
feet from this point right here.

It's certainly possible, Terry.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the Oak Island team

has now encountered
that same structure?

And, if so, could it be the
legendary Chappell Vault?

We're gonna carry
on below this point.

- 173, you said?
- Yeah.

CHARLES: What you got, Leighton?

- LEIGHTON: 173.
- 173.

That's pretty much in situ.

You can see beautiful
bedding there.

And that is what we
would expect to see.

That's over ten
feet of solid material.

This hole is over.

NARRATOR: Because
the coring drill is now

only recovering in situ...
or undisturbed... soils,

that means they have
found no more evidence

of man-made workings.

However, because
they did encounter

a mysterious wooden
structure at nearly 150 feet

that may be the
elusive Chappell Vault,

could that mean that
they are just mere feet

from recovering
the fabled treasure?

MARTY: Somebody was down
in that Money Pit well before 1795.

Maybe more than one somebody,

maybe somebodies;

depositors, prior searchers.

It means that something
really did happen.

We have been searching
for this for years.

RICK: This area needs
to be searched further.

We have to confirm, and then
we have to try to understand

what shaft or shafts,
what tunnel or tunnels

would've reached those depths

during what period
of possible search

and possible original work.

We do know that precious metals
are coming from somewhere.

It's a complex story
that's being woven here.

TERRY: We've drilled and drilled

and finally we've
contacted something.

Yeah.

TERRY: Let's
identify another target,

and then we'll move on.

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...

- TOM: Hey, guys. Wow.
- RICK: Hey, Tom.

- You can see it more today than yesterday.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: in the
northern region of the swamp,

Rick Lagina, his nephew Alex,

Craig Tester, and other members
of the team have uncovered more

of a mysterious brick
and slate container.

Over here, it seems to
be surrounded by rocks.

NARRATOR: A container
that may have been created

in order to hide
something of great value.

They're all seemingly
placed together deliberately.

[device beeping]

RICK: Katya, you want to come
over and do a little better scan?

NARRATOR: Now that the
feature has been partially drained

of water, it is the
team's hope that

metal detection
expert Katya Drayton

can find important
clues as to what

it was designed to contain,

and also, perhaps, help identify

just who created it.

That is...

about eight inches.

There's something
down eight inches?

It's looking like it.

And there's a short
signal right over here.

I definitely think there's
something in here.

Hmm.

KATYA: The brick inside,

it's giving off
metallic signals.

So, it just brings up a
whole new question of

- what's in there?
- ALEX: Mm-hmm. -Yeah.

It's odd.

KATYA: We won't know

- until we fully drain it.
- LAIRD: Yeah.

We'll get a Shop-Vac.

Get it drained out. Have a look.

Okay.

- You want to scoop this side out?
- Yep.

CRAIG: I'll get the Shop-Vac.

RICK: Certainly, I
always believed that

there were some
answers in the bog.

To find these features,

it affirms our belief that

there are answers here.

They just have
to be ferreted out

and try to understand
what they mean.

You want to get after it?

[Shop-Vac whirring]

It's probably full.

Oh, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa.

Yeah.

Okay, here's something.

TOM: What's that?

RICK: Okay, here's something.

What's that?

RICK: It was stuck
way under there.

A hook?

- Looks like wrought iron, maybe.
- CRAIG: Yeah.

NARRATOR: While
investigating the mysterious

vault-like structure

in the northern region

of the Oak Island swamp...

TOM: I don't
think it's a pry bar.

RICK: No.

You can see
the striations in it.

Yep.

NARRATOR: Rick
Lagina and other members

of the team have just discovered

a potentially important clue.

ALEX: What do you think of that?

CRAIG: Looks like a hook.

BILLY: It's a hook, yep.

TOM: Almost something
you could've used, sort of,

if you were raising or
lowering something in.

BILLY: Yeah, for
hoisting something out that

you want to leave down there,
right... Unless you're, you know,

retrieving something
that's down in there,

- right?
- TOM: Yeah.

NARRATOR: A possible hook?

Could Billy and Tom be correct

that this iron hook may
have been used to place

or retrieve something from
the brick and slate structure,

which was hidden beneath the
muck and water of the swamp?

You've got a rope on one
end, hook on the other.

- It's old, for sure.
- RICK: Yeah.

NARRATOR: If so, was it used

by 19th-century
landowner Anthony Graves

to hide a cache of
Spanish silver coins

that he reportedly
found on Oak Island?

Or could it have been left here

by someone many years earlier,

who created a vault

in order to hide
Spanish treasure

in the triangle-shaped swamp?

RICK: Want to start it up?

[Shop-Vac whirring]

The hook's quite interesting.

Certainly looks
like wrought iron,

meaning could be quite old.

Looks like something
could hang off of it.

But, certainly, Emma needs to
do a metallurgical analysis of it.

That's pretty much all
I can feel down there,

is that one metal
piece, and that's it.

The hope is that we can actually

really define what this

feature represents,
in terms of a timeline.

Was this was built
by Anthony Graves

to safeguard a subsurface
treasure that he found?

Or does it represent
something else?

Well, I mean, if
it is Graves' work,

and he did use it
as a hiding place,

it was a pretty good one.

You know, hope springs eternal,

but for this evening,
I think we're done.

Right.

RICK: We'll let
Emma do her work,

and... [stammers] it was
a great day, a dirty day.

And we all need to go clean
up and get ready for tomorrow.

- ALEX: Yep. Okay.
- KATYA: Let's do it. -RICK: Yeah.

NARRATOR: The
following afternoon...

RICK: I want to thank you, Emma
and Laird, for inviting us down.

Everyone knows my
fascination with the swamp,

and we did extensive work there

and found the three
items here in front of us.

NARRATOR: Rick Lagina
and members of the team

join archeologist Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

in the Oak Island laboratory.

RICK: What are these things?

The who, what, when,
where, why, and how?

Right.

NARRATOR: After
the recent discoveries

of a mysterious
metal pipe, a handle,

and a believed hook
inside of the possible vault

in the northern
region of the swamp,

Laird and Emma have completed

preliminary scientific
analysis on them.

So, yeah, I've done
XRFs on all three artifacts.

- RICK: Great.
- EMMA: So, with the handle,

it is encrusted,

so I did take a CT
scan just to make sure.

NARRATOR: Prior
to their meeting,

Emma scanned all three objects

using an X-ray fluorescence
spectrometer, or XRF.

This device works by emitting
non-destructive radiation

that can identify an
object's composition.

Additionally, she scanned
the handle-shaped artifact

using the Skyscan


which emits X-ray radiation

to produce magnified,
three-dimensional images

of artifacts and
their finer details.

EMMA: When you
look at the handle,

you do see the wood
grain-like structures,

which is wrought iron.

Let me go to the CT.

And you do see that grain-like
structure on the handle.

Right here, you
can see it as well.

LAIRD: The square
hole to me implies

you're-you're moving
something else.

- EMMA: Mm.
- LAIRD: Yeah.

I think it's a crank.

- CRAIG: Yeah, it is. I agree.
- EMMA: Yeah.

I mean, when you look at

this section over here,
you can see just where

the wood handle would've ended.

- CRAIG: Yeah.
- EMMA: Based on the metallurgy,

I can narrow down a
possible date range.

So, the hook in
the center there,

it does have a slight
manganese content.

So, that one kind
of fits more towards

the early to mid-1800s.

LAIRD: Yeah, so,
Anthony Graves was on

the property in the mid-1800s.

He died in 1888.

But the pipe

and the crank handle,

they're definitely late 1700s.

That's before we have a record

of Anthony Graves on that lot.

So, right now, we're looking at

a feature and
artifacts that pre-date

the recorded Anthony Graves

occupation of that lot.

- Interesting.
- Yeah.

LAIRD: The feature itself

is even earlier
than these artifacts.

And, you know, I'm
a treasure skeptic.

- Right.
- Is it a hiding place?

- You can't... certainly can't dismiss that.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: In the Oak
Island laboratory, Rick Lagina,

Craig Tester, and
members of the team

have just been informed by
Emma Culligan and Laird Niven

that a metal pipe and
handle that were found

in a possible vault at the
northern point of the swamp

could date back
to the late 1700s.

That means that
the believed vault

may have been created prior to
the discovery of the Money Pit.

You certainly have a
hint of some sort of secret.

- Right.
- RICK: It's curious enough.

I'm quite interested
in it because,

I've said many times, to me,

the mystery person of Oak
Island is Anthony Graves.

- Right.
- RICK: Pays with Spanish coin

and lives his life
rather secretively.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that the team has uncovered

a treasure vault in the swamp,

where former Oak Island
landowner Anthony Graves

reportedly discovered
Spanish silver coins

more than 150 years ago?

If so, then who created it?

And what else might be
buried deeper within it?

RICK: The strangest thing
of all is Anthony Graves.

EMMA: Mm-hmm.

He positions his house

in the lowest part
of the island, right?

And the only explanation is

he watched the open ocean
on two cardinal directions.

He protects the back
way to the Money Pit,

and he is close to, possibly,

where his treasure lies.

Which his children suspected.

Which his children,
indeed, suspected.

- Yeah.
- KATYA: I think that would've been the perfect spot,

and I think there was something
very important to him in that.

I'm hoping that it's,
uh, some sort of vault,

but I hope to
find a little more.

[laughs] We all would.

NARRATOR: If Rick and
the team's notion is correct

that the brick and slate
feature was a hiding place

used by Anthony
Graves to protect

his rumored Spanish treasure,

is it possible that it
could be connected

to the 1781 silver Spanish real

found by Robert Young on Lot 5?

There's a purpose
to this feature.

I think it has to do
with Anthony Graves.

I think it was his
safety deposit box.

We know there was a Spanish
coin that was found on Lot 5,

and then there's the
story of Anthony Graves

using Spanish coin

as his currency
to buy his goods.

So, I think we need to do
more work in the swamp.

So, there's all kinds
of reasons to try to

further our understanding
here, in my opinion.

And... what is it? Who built it?

When was it built?
Why was it built?

Right? I know you're not
a big fan of the bog, but...

I'm trying to find
this treasure.

Sometimes, you got to get dirty.

-[laughter] -I'm
willing to do it.

- It's in your blood now.
- RICK: Okay.

Mm-hmm.

All righty, well,
again, thank you.

- We'll go find you some more curiosities.
- LAIRD: Excellent.

RICK: Hopefully, next time,
we'll all have some answers.

- KATYA: Thank you. -CRAIG: Thanks.
- LAIRD: See you later.

NARRATOR: For 230 years,

people have been
trying to recover

a vault of untold
riches in the Money Pit.

And while the clues suggest

that something of great
value remains hidden there

deep below,

Rick, Marty, Craig,
and their team

have discovered evidence

that treasure may lie
hidden all across Oak Island.

Now, as the intrigue

of this mystery grows richer,

the Fellowship of the Dig

may be closing in on rewards

that will be greater
than they ever imagined.

NARRATOR: Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...

RICK: This is the perfect
size for a treasure chest.

KATYA: There's
something there, we'll find it.

[device beeping]

We found something already.

EMMA: The presence of arsenic

could push the date
back to the 1600s.

Wow.

TEDFORD: It got loose
halfway through that run.

- ALEX: Could we be in a void?
- Yeah.

That's tantalizing.

We could be heading
through a treasure zone

- right now.
- CHARLES: Absolutely.

STEVE: I'm gonna propose
we put a caisson right there.

Let the caissons roll out.

- Proceed.
- Let's go.