12x24 - Into the Void

[bunniefuu]

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

- Into the solution channel we go.
- Into the void.

ALEX: Our best guess
is that the treasure is


that spot right there.

- GARY: Ooh, look at that.
- STEVE: The vault connects

the swamp, potentially,
to the Knights of Malta.

- What is that?
- That might be depositor.

The only time I see
primitive tools this size

was from the 1500s.

- Way before the Money Pit.
- TERRY: Here we go.

- We're into the solution channel.
- We're just coming into it.

- MARTY: Oh, baby!
- RICK: Check that out.

MARTY: Reveal your secrets.

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.

♪

JOHN L.: Yeah.

NARRATOR: A brisk but bright
fall day has begun on Oak Island

for brothers Rick and
Marty Lagina and their team.

Morning, John. Morning, Adam.

- Morning, Alex. How you doing?
- Good. Good to see you guys.

- Morning.
- Good to see you, too. - So, uh,

- how's it coming?
- JOHN L.: Everything's going really smooth.

Uh, nothing crazy.

- Uh, pressure's been doing fine. So...
- Good.

This one's going deep. This is--

- this is our shot.
- Yeah. We're going down there.

Yeah, this is the guy.

NARRATOR: And in
the fabled Money Pit area,

they have just broken ground

on a new
seven-foot-diameter steel shaft

in the hopes of finally
solving a 230-year-old mystery.

Our best guess is that
the treasure ended up


that spot right there

- and-- - Which kind
of lines up with TB-1.

- Yeah, very much so.
- Yeah. - Yeah.

NARRATOR: Over
the past two months,

the team has excavated four
identical shafts in this area...

...where previous groundwater
testing has revealed

high traces of gold and
silver deep underground.

These include one that
was affectionately dubbed

True Believer or TB-1...

...where they unearthed
potential evidence

of the legendary
Chappell Vault...

...a seven-foot-high,
concrete-covered box

that was first reported
by Frederick Blair

and his drill operator
William Chappell back in 1897.

[clanking]

Hey. Stop! It's caving.

NARRATOR: However, as
TB-1 reached a depth of 160 feet,

the earth beneath and around
the shaft suddenly caved in.

This has led the team to believe

that more than 100 cubic yards
of earth and the possible vault

fell deeper into the
so-called solution channel,

a naturally occurring
void in the bedrock

more than 200 feet underground.

You guys think
we'll make it in time?

I know we're
running out of time.

Yeah, we're in good
shape where we are now.

- Good.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: Now,

after making repairs to
stabilize the Money Pit area,

representatives from ROC
Equipment and SB Canada

are digging The
One Thing, or TOT-1,

less than ten feet
to the south of TB-1.

In the next few days,

they hope to enter
the solution channel

and retrieve the valuables

before the oncoming
winter forces the team

to suspend their search
operations until next spring.

The solution channel
itself is a massive feature.

I mean, plenty big
enough to have accepted

whatever fell out
of the Money Pit.

It's plenty big enough to have
swallowed up any treasure.

So TOT-1 is
designed to dig deeper,

where this treasure
might have fallen to,

and we're very excited about it.

RICK: We're running out of time.

This will be the last
can in the Money Pit.

I think everybody is crossing
their fingers and their toes.

We're, uh, very
hopeful for this one.

We just got to get down there.

I'm gonna step out
and let you guys get to it.

- Awesome. Thanks.
- Sounds good. - Thanks again.

- All right, man.
- See you later.

- Give her hell.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: As the excavation of
TOT-1 proceeds in the Money Pit area,

on Lot 5,

located on the western
side of the island...

Hey, Ethan, Helen.

- PETER: Hey, guys.
- Hi. How you doing? - Hey, Alex, Peter.

...Alex and his
cousin Peter Fornetti

join other members of the team

as they investigate the
large stone foundation

near the shoreline...

...a foundation

that archaeologist
Laird Niven believes

may not only be connected

to activity in the
original Money Pit

but might have been
used as a campsite

by numerous
groups prior to 1795.

We're excited about this button

that was found here
on Lot 5. I mean,

- we were just in Malta. We saw some carvings.
- Yeah.

We were investigating
a prison on Gozo.

And in that prison, we saw
carved on the wall a-a symbol

- that's similar.
- HELEN: Mm-hmm.

And we're excited about
this potential connection.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Two weeks ago, Alex,

his uncle Rick, and other
members of the team

traveled to Malta in order
to research the theory

that the medieval order
of the Knights Templar

and a related group known
as the Knights of Malta

were connected to
the Oak Island mystery.

There they saw numerous carvings

that match symbols which
have been found over the years

on Oak Island...

...including one that nearly
matched the design of a button

recently unearthed
in this feature on Lot 5.

Any troweling that
needs to be done

- or soil that needs to be sifted, we're...
- Yeah. Yeah.

- We will help. - ...we're standing by.
- HELEN: Yeah.

- Okay.
- Perfect.

- Okay.
- Yeah.

MARTY: The artifacts,
directly and indirectly,

connect Lot 5 to
the Knights Templar

and the Knights of Malta.

Why?

That's what we're
trying to find out.

ETHAN: Oh, nice.

- FIONA: Hmm.
- Here's a nail.

We like nails.

It looks square as well.

ALEX: Yeah, it looks
like a square nail.

FIONA: Totally square.
You can't see the top.

ALEX: And it's straight, too.

- FIONA: Yeah.
- ETHAN: Yeah.

ALEX: How old could that be?

FIONA: Well,

if it's a square nail, it
looks like it's precut.

And if this is colonial
iron, it could be

late 1600s to
early to mid-1700s.

NARRATOR: A square nail

possibly dating as far
back as the 17th century?

Is it possible that Ethan Green
has just found another clue

that could help prove
just who may be connected

- to this feature?
- FIONA: Sometimes

the older nails actually
preserve a little bit better.

- Well, let's send it to Emma.
- FIONA: So, yeah.

- It's just a nail, but it's going to Emma.
- [Alex chuckles]

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...

MARTY: Well, as we close
in on the end of the season,

I see we have a very
good group here. We got...

almost all the main players.

...Rick, Marty and their
business partner Craig Tester

are meeting with
members of the team

in the museum regarding
another potentially key location

that may hold answers
to the treasure mystery,

the triangle-shaped swamp.

We've done a
lot of work in the--

in the swamp over the years.

And, you know, how do you
connect this spot to that spot?

What features might be
associated with other features?

And I just wanted to
try to see if there was

any connective tissue.

NARRATOR: In recent
years, the Oak Island team

has discovered numerous man-made
structures throughout the swamp

such as a massive
stone-paved feature

that geoscientist
Dr. Ian Spooner

has carbon-dated to
approximately 1200 AD;

the so-called Eye of the Swamp,

which may date to 1680;

and a stone road in
the southeast corner

that may have also been
created in the 17th century.

However, this year, the team

has uncovered
wooden survey stakes

that lined sections of a
mysterious cobblestone pathway

all through the brackish bog

and an empty brick and
slate vault-like feature

in the northern region,

a vault which matched an
image in a 19th century book

that researcher John
Edwards believes

may offer evidence that
both the Knights Templar

and the Knights of Malta

buried priceless religious
artifacts on Oak Island

between the 12th
and 17th centuries.

I had to task Steve
with all the C-14 tests

so we can sit around and have
a comprehensive understanding

of what's been done
in the swamp to date.

NARRATOR: Now,
surveyor Steve Guptill

has compiled the
scientific test results

from wood and organic
materials in these features

in an effort to help determine
when they were made

and just who may
have created them.

The way I'm gonna start
this, I have lots of printouts.

So I went through all
the C-14, the dendro.

I added as many as I could.

IAN: When we look at
things like the cobble path,

we found really definitive
context, like a pile of stones

and a cut stake underneath it.

And so we know

that that cut stake was a survey
stake that was used to make

the structure, and then we
have 13 of those that we dated.

STEVE: Let's start
at the cobble path.

We've got 600
feet of cobble path

with multiple survey stakes.

Dates are 1650,
maybe into the 1700.

Multiple dates, overlapping.

We have the Eye,

which is in the north
end of the swamp.

That also dates 1630 to 1680.

And now the north end of
the swamp, we have the vault.

It goes back to as far as
the late 1600 time period.

PETER: Those dates fit
with the Knights of Malta.

We know that they
were here in the 1630s.

- Is that correct?
- Correct.

MARTY: Wow. Those dates are

very surprising.

RICK: That's stunning.

We can connect the
work in the swamp

potentially to the
Knights of Malta.

I think that's
comfortably in-in range.

NARRATOR: In the
Oak Island Museum,

surveyor Steve Guptill

and geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

have just presented
scientific data suggesting

that numerous structures
in the swamp were created

in the 17th century

and may support the theory

that the Knights of Malta buried
sacred treasures on Oak Island.

JACK: Maybe the Money Pit

was originally built by
the Knights Templar.

I'm wondering if maybe
in the 1600 to early 1700s,

the Knights of Malta
were finishing up

some of the work that
the Templars had started.

Or following up.

JACK: And it's not

out of the range
of possibilities.

- No, it's not. - No.
- STEVE: So Rick asked me

to do one final thing and
that was to try and figure out

the big boulders that are
out there in the north end

- of the swamp.
- Yeah.

JACK: Oh!

There's even more big
boulders down there.

NARRATOR: Four weeks
ago, after uncovering

more sections of the
cobblestone pathway

in the northernmost
region of the swamp...

...here, here, here, here...

...Rick and members
of the team discovered

a possibly man-made
formation of large boulders.

STEVE: I think
you have a seawall.

This is how you'd
close this swamp off.

NARRATOR: A feature that
may be related to a timbered wall

that the late treasure hunter
Fred Nolan reportedly uncovered

in the late 1960s

and believed was used
to create the swamp.

PETER: It's
potentially 14 feet long.

RICK: And that's
what your father said.

[laughing]: Roughly
four-fourteen feet long.

NARRATOR: And, curiously,

while using ground-penetrating
radar in this area,

the team was astonished
to find an anomaly

that matched Fred's description.

Mixed within those
smaller boulders,

we had the survey stakes,

or the support stakes.

We dated some of the stakes.

It dates very consistently--

late 1600, early 1700s.

MOYA: We did a few scans

north of that seawall that
Steve was talking about.

So if you look up
on the screen...

...there's that blue
anomaly that's elongated.

I think it could be a really
interesting potential hit.

It would be nice
if it's Fred's wall.

RICK: I think if that is a wall,

it will represent original work.

- It's worth digging.
- Now, that

I can't agree with more.

It's... [chuckles]
...always time to dig.

If this wall clearly
had a purpose

and if that purpose was
manipulating the swamp

to protect something,

that would be a
incredible piece of data.

There are things yet to dig
in the north end of the swamp.

Maybe there are more of these
subterranean swamp vaults.

Nobody would like more than me

to dig up something
really significant.

And I always want to dig, so...

let's go.

ALEX: All right.

♪

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

JARED: We're still
bringing out good grabs.

JOHN L.: Yeah.

...as the excavation of TOT-1

continues in the
Money Pit area...

PETER: So, Steve
and I marked our spot

right in the middle
of what we think

may be the wall,
based on the OKM data.

- Okay.
- ...Rick, Craig,

and other members of the team

prepare to unearth the potential


in the northernmost
region of the swamp.

Can you tell how deep it is?

- It's roughly four to five feet.
- Okay.

PETER: If it's there,
we're gonna find it.

[beeping]

RICK: I have

very simple hopes

for digging at this anomaly.

I want to find the wall.

And I would love nothing better

to find wood in the
ground at this location.

What's that thing, right...

right... there?

ALEX: It might be a
plank. Do you see that?

- I'll just take a little bit off right there.
- Yeah.

There's wood.

NARRATOR: Wood?

Uncovered where
the team detected

a possible buried structure?

If so, could it be
part of the wall

that Fred Nolan
believed is buried here?

RICK: My thought would be

to dig this hole deeper

and see what we find.

- Over this way?
- Yeah.

Okay.

- RICK: Okey doke?
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: As the investigation
in the swamp continues...

TERRY: Here's some
more information for us.

How you doing, John?

Got the solid
numbers there, do ya?

- We're at 142.
- TERRY: 142.

- 142.
- Okay.

...Jack Begley

and geologist Terry Matheson

are monitoring the
dig in the TOT-1 shaft

as it heads deeper
towards the solution channel

and hopefully valuables
over 200 feet underground.

And so I'll take another
measurement in about an hour

and see what we're
gaining per hour.

Great. Thanks a lot, John.

- All right. Thanks, guys.
- Gettin' close.

JACK: There's a lot of wood
coming up out of the hole.

TERRY: There's a
ton of it, my friend.

We're chewing through the
side of the Chappell Shaft.

NARRATOR: In 1931,

Melbourne Chappell,
along with his father William

and treasure hunter
Frederick Blair,

constructed a 157-foot
shaft in the Money Pit

in a bold but
unsuccessful attempt

to retrieve the believed vault

that William and Frederick
had discovered in 1897.

If we have to push it
or chase it to, uh, 215,

we've got all the
caisson material here

we need to do that.

NARRATOR: The fact
that the team believes

they're digging through
the Chappell Shaft

is an encouraging sign.

But now the burning question is,

once TOT-1 descends
below 200 feet,

will it encounter
the legendary vault?

TERRY: Hey, Marty.
How you doing?

- Hey, Marty.
- MARTY: Are we out

- of the wood?
- TERRY: Oh, no.

We won't be out
of the wood for--

until another 25 or 30 feet.

Okay.

I'm gonna have a look
at some of this wood.

TERRY: Let me show you a couple.

So there's this.

You can see that has a kind
of a wedge cut into it at the end.

- At that end.
- Yeah.

- TERRY: See the wedge cut into that one?
- Oh, yeah, yeah.

Let me see the end of this.

Yeah, that doesn't
look the same at all.

- TERRY: No.
- Actually, some of this wood looks, uh,

- non-Chappell Shaft-ish to me.
- I don't think so.

- That piece right there.
- That doesn't, either.

TERRY: A little
rougher work, eh?

MARTY: Yeah.

TERRY: Check this out.

See that?

Oh, yeah.

TERRY: There's a dowel.

So that's old construction.

MARTY: Yeah, sure is.

Consistent with it being
the original Money Pit.

TERRY: Here's a dowel.
So that's old construction.

- I mean...
- Yeah, sure is.

NARRATOR: Upon reaching
a depth of over 140 feet

in the TOT-1 shaft,

the Oak Island team
may have just discovered

an important clue...

- TERRY: You can see that there's clearly some adze work here.
- Yeah.

...a wooden dowel
bearing adze markings,

which was a kind of
pre-18th century cutting tool.

Could that mean that this dowel

was part of the
original Money Pit?

And if so, does it suggest

that the team could be on target

to locate the legendary
Chappell Vault

more than 50 feet deeper below?

MARTY: I see

some round stuff up there, too.

I don't know. You
know, let's have a look.

- MARTY: Careful, man.
- I will be.

What do you think?

MARTY: I don't know. This
is just an odd piece of wood.

It feels a lot harder.

Some of the wood
that's coming out

from TOT-1 looks older in
the sense that it's pegged

with a dowel rather than
using metal fasteners.

And that's an older technique.

So that's a good sign.

Well, we can set
it aside if you like.

- Set it aside.
- Sure.

Right over there.

MARTY: Keep digging.

NARRATOR: As
Marty, Jack, and Terry

continue to monitor the progress

of TOT-1 in the
Money Pit area...

...in the northernmost
region of the swamp...

ALEX: So if it's
anywhere, it's here.

Al!

- Hold up.
- ...Rick Lagina,

Craig Tester, and other
members of the team

continue searching
for a possible structure

that they detected using
ground-penetrating radar,

a structure that may be
part of a wall built long ago

to create the swamp

and which that the late Fred
Nolan claimed to have found

in this area more
than 50 years ago.

RICK: So, dig this down

a couple more buckets.

Let the water come in

and then dig this.

Okay.

MARTY: This search

for "Fred's wall"
has been ongoing

and a big deal to my
brother for 15 years.

Watch yourself.

It's undercut there.

- MARTY: It could
be some sort of gate

or maybe a dam or
something like that

that would have caused
the whole swamp.

But we are, as usual,
running out of time.

So we're keen to
figure out if it's here.

That all looks like
virgin ground to me.

ALEX: It's not a wall.

That's about my reach there.

- CRAIG: Yeah.
- RICK: Yeah.

You don't see anything, do you,

- Al, from that perspective?
- No. No.

It's not here, that's for sure.

- So, Al, I think we're done.
- Okay.

It's unfortunate. I
really had a lot of belief

and hope, I guess, that
there was a wall here.

- Yes.
- To me, it would've represented

original work.

I still believe that
Fred saw something.

Yeah.

RICK: 100%,

I believe that
Fred's wall is there.

I think I go back
to what Fred said:

if there are answers to
the Oak Island mystery,

they are in the bog.

GARY: We found stuff that Fred

had no idea was here,
like this cobble path.

- Mm-hmm.
- ALEX: But we got plenty

of original--
potentially original work

in the swamp we can investigate.

RICK: We're not
finished with the bog,

not by any stretch
of the imagination.

We probably have explored, uh,

less than 30% of
the bog in its entirety.

And when you think

of all the things that
have been found in 30%,

what remains to be
found in the other 70%?

The year is closing in,
the weather's closing in.

We're not done, but we've
got other work on the island,

so let's go finish that.

- Got it.
- Yeah.

GARY: We gave it
a bloody good shot.

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...

GARY: Ooh, that's
some big chunks of wood.

Let's get the good stuff.

...Alex and Gary
join Marty Lagina

and other members of the
team as the TOT-1 caisson

has reached a depth of more
than 150 feet underground.

Look at this!

Look, there's a
bolt right there.

This looks like a
piece of the shoe.

All right.

- Look what I found, Marty.
- MARTY: What you got, big guy?

Looks like a chunk of the shoe.

That right there, that's
the metal plate, I think.

- MARTY: There we go.
- ALEX: So, that's the bottom

of Chappell, it has to be.

NARRATOR: A large metal plate?

While attempting to
retrieve the treasure in 1931,

Melbourne Chappell
braced the bottom

of the so-called Chappell Shaft

with a four-foot-tall
metal shoe, or shield,

to prevent flooding
and cave-ins.

Now that the team
has reached the bottom

of the 1931 searcher shaft,

and because they
will advance TOT-1

more than 200 feet deep
into the solution channel,

any new materials that
they bring to the surface

could be related to
the original Money Pit.

You dream of that coming
out with a half-broken chest.

- Yeah, absolutely.
- [chuckles]

- Me, too.
- Every time.

Every time.

We know the Money Pit collapsed.

We know it went somewhere.

And in the case of Chappell,

we know they
believed their own story.

They drilled into the famous
so-called Chappell Vault.

- I'm gonna go find something with Gary.
- All righty.

MARTY: It's very,
very possible that

the one thing-- if that
one thing is treasure--

it should be somewhere
below the Chappell Shaft.

Maybe we're on the verge
of finding the treasure.

[device beeping]

Got a signal here.

[high-pitched beep]

- Right under the center of the search coil.
- MARTY: I told... I told Alex

- I'm gonna find something right now.
- Yep.

This is it, Marty.
Anywhere you like.

- MARTY: It's in this one.
- Yep.

[device beeping]

You were right.

You got it out, Marty.

Fingers crossed.

Come on, be something good!

[high-pitched beeping]

What is that?

Well, how about that?

- MARTY: What is that?
- GARY: This looks like it's part

- of a tool.
- Is it?

- GARY: Yeah.
- NARRATOR: It is an exciting moment

for the Oak Island team
in the Money Pit area.

- GARY: That could be a really old tool, mate.
- MARTY: Yeah.

NARRATOR: After reaching a depth

of more than 160
feet in the TOT-1 shaft,

which is deeper than any
previous treasure hunters

have ever explored,

Marty Lagina

and metal detection
expert Gary Drayton

have just made a potentially
important discovery.

You could see
the striations in it.

Look at that. That's
some old iron there.

MARTY: Yeah, it is.

'Cause we're below
the Chappell Shaft.

Yeah. Exactly.

- This is good.
- Yeah. That could be

a really old tool, mate.

I bet that's like an old pickax.

A tip of a pickax, maybe?

- Do you see how it comes down?
- Yeah.

- There's a bit of a curve like that.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: A possible
fragment of a handwrought pickax?

Found at a depth of
over 160 feet in TOT-1?

GARY: What a sweet find.

NARRATOR: In 2019,

while excavating a shaft

less than five feet
to the northeast

known as RF-1...

GARY: It's an old
pickax. A broken pickax.

...the Oak Island team

recovered part
of a similar pickax.

TERRY: That's something, man.

NARRATOR: And
just two weeks ago,

while visiting Malta...

It's just absolutely incredible.

...where the team was
shown a vast network

of 16th century
underground tunnels

with features that matched
the reported original design

of the Money Pit...

DOUG: This was found below



...historian Matthew Balzan

suggested that these
exact kinds of tools

were used by the
Knights of Malta.

This is the beginning.

Yeah, I'll just
finish this little area.

- Yeah! Something.
- Yep.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Marty and Gary

have just discovered
another ancient tunneling tool

that may help the team identify

who was behind the
Oak Island mystery?

That is a very old piece
of a tool of some sort.

It's all wrought iron.

ALEX: Yep.

MARTY: Perhaps the most
significant thing from TOT-1,

so far, is this...

big chunk of metal
that Gary and I find.

We're well out of any
searcher area at that point,

so what is this metal
artifact doing that deep?

GARY: You feel
how heavy that is?

- Yeah.
- Yeah, that's-that's older.

MARTY: So this
thing could tell a story.

It might not be the one
thing we were looking for,

but it could be a sort of
one thing that really matters.

Here comes big brother.

- I see you guys had all the fun.
- We got one thing

worth talking about.

We believe we're below
the Chappell Shaft a little bit.

Considering we're in a
relatively modern shaft,

this looks way out of place.

Look at the
handwrought nature of it.

Oh, yeah.

GARY: I know me old iron,
mate. That might be depositor.

- Really?
- TERRY: Could be.

- RICK: That's cool.
- GARY: So, that's an oldie there.

Can't wait to see
what Carmen Legge

says about that as well.

MARTY: It makes you
think we're on the right track.

SCOTT: Absolutely.

- Adam. - Adam.
- ADAM: Hi, everybody.

- How's everybody doing?
- Hey, Billy. - Hey.

Well, I'll give you
a bit of an update.

I think we're gonna
call 'er for the day here.

- Yeah, that makes sense.
- We're at about



So, that's where
we wanted to be.

- Great.
- MARTY: Tomorrow could be the day.

ADAM: Yeah. So we'll see
everybody in the morning,

- bright and early.
- MARTY: Yeah, I imagine.

TERRY: Bright and early.

- Thanks, guys.
- Thanks, Adam. - See you.

Into the solution channel we go.

- Into the void.
- Into the void.

RICK: I have every expectation,

based on this location
and all the history,

all the narrative,

all the things that have
been found to date.

- We should be hopeful.
- MARTY: The quicker we can go to bed,

the quicker we can
get up and finish this.

- Let's go.
- All right.

GARY: We got a really
good chance tomorrow.

TERRY: Sounds good to me.

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

- Here we go.
- ...as the TOT-1 shaft

proceeds deeper toward
the solution channel

more than 200
feet underground...

- CARMEN: Well, look it here. H-How is everybody?
- SCOTT: Hey, Carmen.

- Hey, Carmen. - Good. How are you?
- CARMEN: How you doing?

NARRATOR: ...Rick and
other members of the team

welcome blacksmithing
expert Carmen Legge

to the Oak Island lab.

RICK: This came out
of what we're calling

The One Thing.

NARRATOR: They are
eager to have him examine

the believed pickax that
was found one day ago

in the TOT-1 spoils.

We have sought to
find irrefutable proof

of men working in
the Money Pit at depth,

and lo and behold,
this item comes out.

GARY: The
interesting thing about

this artifact is the depth.

It was really deep.

Okay.

Well, it's a fairly,
uh, chunky, uh, piece.

- RICK: Mm-hmm.
- Broken off from some other piece

that extended this way.

A-Also, if you look at
it, you'll see the grains,

and the grains are starting
to fold on the end here.

And when you beat
onto it repeatedly,

they do start to fold
up in a nice pattern-like.

So this was repeatedly
banged onto something.

RICK: That something,
could you infer

that it was stone
versus metal, or not?

Oh, yes, it was
definitely stone.

- Definitely stone.
- Rocks. Hard ground, whatever.

Emma, do you
have a scan on this?

Yeah.

So, this is actually
a cross section

of that iron piece.

So, there was, like, a crack.

CARMEN: Okay.

So, it is a tool.

It could be part of a pickax.

A very heavy, old pickax.

There would have been
something coming out this way,

'cause it broke off.

The only time I see
primitive mining tools

that were this
shape and this size...

was from the 1500s.

- Get in there.
- [laughs]

CARMEN: The only
time I see primitive

mining tools that were
this shape and this size

was from the 1500s.

Maybe early 1600s but not

- any more modern than that.
- GARY: So, it was a tool

- that was used for tunneling?
- Yeah,

- getting rid of rocks or smashing rocks up.
- Yeah.

It's a digging tool.

NARRATOR: In the
Oak Island laboratory,

blacksmithing
expert Carmen Legge

has just shared his
assessment that the pickax

recovered from more
than 160 feet deep

in the TOT-1 shaft

could predate the
discovery of the Money Pit

by nearly three centuries.

EMMA: So, based
on the composition,

we got potassium,

we got phosphorous,
sulfur, magnesium.

So, based on the
impurities I'm seeing here,

these are indicative of,
I'd say, between 1500s

and 1700s as well.

Wow. So, it's way
before the story

of the Money Pit.



Absolutely.

This represents
something very early,

a tool such as this
having been used in rock.

The dates seem to line
up with the Knights of Malta

having a presence
in Nova Scotia.

It's all possibly
confirming that this location

for the TOT-1 caisson is
an area of original work.

This could be a very
important connection

that needs to be followed up on.

I think we may be

close to treasure.

NARRATOR: Has the team
found a tool that was used

in an operation to hide
something of great value

in the original Money Pit?

If so, might it represent
another critical clue

that may connect
the Knights of Malta

and priceless
religious treasures

to the Oak Island mystery?

I mean, my big takeaway
from that is the amount of work,

the amount of
abuse that that took.

So, that really speaks
to how much labor it took

to do whatever it is
they were doing, so...

- A long, long time ago.
- Yes.

RICK: Carmen, this is,

uh, is quite revealing.

I love the fact that your
approach, your perspective

and Emma's perspective
and Laird's perspective

has come together.

It's gonna take all of us
to do that, so, Carmen,

we thank you for
your participation.

- Very good.
- Thank you,

uh, but, again, we need
to get back to work, so...

- Yeah.
- Thanks, everybody.

- See you later. - Very good.
- See you later, mate.

NARRATOR: After the
encouraging meeting in the lab...

RICK: They can't be advancing.

So, they got a heavy-heavy
plug giving them high pressure.

NARRATOR: ...Rick and Gary
return to the Money Pit area.

RICK: They'll never get to 211

- like that.
- ALEX: Yeah.

MARTY: Yeah, the grab is slow.

- Not a lot of finds yet.
- Okay.

NARRATOR: However,
a concerning situation

is developing in
the TOT-1 shaft.

So, baddish news is,

it's very slow progression.

- Right.
- Stuff's binding up inside the casing a bit and holding,

so it's a bit harder to dig.

- Yes.
- We're monitoring it closely.

I mean, we're advancing.

Well, let's see what happens.

You-- as you say,
you're-you're monitoring it.

- Yeah.
- Let's see if we can get a little more advance out of it.

- All right. Thanks, guys. We'll get back on it.
- MARTY: Thank you.

Thanks, Adam.

We're now very deep in TOT-1.

We're below any
searcher depth, for sure.

What becomes apparent
as soon as we start

trying to advance the
casing into the bedrock

is that it's stuck
there, it can't advance.

So...

that's a problem.

[metal thudding]

LEE: Damn.

It's hard down there.

My biggest hope is
that right around now,

where the teeth are, we
get into the solution channel

and everything opens
up and it gets a lot easier.

Yeah. Yeah.

- LEE: Oh, [bleep].
- JARED: Stop.

JARED: It's caving.

It's caving all the way back.

It's going all the way around.

We've got a collapse here.

We know, as you
approach this natural cavity,

we have to face the
danger of collapse.

We almost got into a danger zone

on some of the other canisters.

- LEE: We're almost there.
- ADAM: Got 'er, buddy.

MARTY: These
things can get very bad.

It can destroy equipment, it
can be dangerous to people.

So we can't have that happen.

LEE: Go back, go back, go back.

There we go. I like that.

- Sitting up nice.
- JARED: Beautiful!

- LEE: Perfect.
- ADAM: All good. Get to work.

GARY: All right,
we're back in business.

Another hammer grab.

Yep.

Come on, be a good bucket.

JARED: Come on,
come on, come on.

LEE: Here's something.

- That was good.
- ADAM: Yeah.

- Good, huh?
- It's-it's going.

No big worries
on collapsing or...

We're not challenging the
integrity of the crane pad.

- Cool.
- You see we're advancing well and...

- Yeah-- oh, yeah.
- TERRY: Which is good.

We're coming up on 180.

- Yeah.
- If we measured right now,

I'm sure we'd be over 180.

Yes. Yep.

I'm just wondering
if you can tell

if we're into the
solution channel yet.

I'm-- the way I picture it,
it's a lot of loose material.

We're just coming into it.
Did you see his last load?

- Yeah. Yeah.
- His bucket was heaping.

That tells me you're
getting into that channel.

- ALEX: That's a good sign.
- ADAM: Yes.

- ADAM: Did you see his last load?
- ALEX: Yeah.

- ADAM: His bucket was heaping.
- Yeah.

That tells me we're getting

- into that channel.
- Cool.

And the casing depth

- is only 183 and a half.
- Okay.

NARRATOR: It is
a critical moment

in the fabled Money Pit area
for Rick and Marty Lagina

and the Oak Island team.

At a depth of more than


the TOT-1 shaft appears
to have finally breached

the so-called solution channel,

a massive natural
void in the bedrock

where the team hopes to recover
a vast cache of untold riches.

ALEX: Another really good grab.

Yeah, I'm gonna go
look at this with Terry.

ALEX: Okay.

That's quite the grab, eh?

Right in the center of it
is a big chunk of gypsum.

- MARTY: What's that?
- There you go.

That is a chunk of wood.

NARRATOR: Wood? Found at a depth

of more than 180 feet?

And potentially from
within the solution channel?

Let's see if it sinks.

NARRATOR: If so,
could it be related

to the original Money Pit
and the legendary treasure?

Went straight to
bottom. That's pretty cool.

Alex!

When we have a
significant piece of wood,

we test it by seeing
if it sinks in a bucket.

The fact that the wood
sinks when we test it

means that wood
could be very old.

It's what we're looking for.

We're looking for evidence
of collapse of the Money Pit,

down deeper than
any searcher was.

And-and we're finding it.

Hey, Rick.

This just came out of
that last hammer grab.

Here's the significance:

it just came from
probably 185 feet.

RICK: There is no evidence
that people were working

at this level long ago. None.

And I believe that
we are in the area

of the original Money Pit.

The ability, maybe, finally,
to really circle the wagons

in a much tighter
circle is real.

And I think we're close.

TERRY: It looks like
she's slowing down, eh?

Yeah.

- Hey, fellas.
- Hey.

How's things going here?

ALEX: Slowly.

It doesn't want to go down.

They're having a
big problem right now.

We could or might be
chewing into some ledges.

- LEE: How you doing?
- ADAM: Hey, guys.

- Hi.
- All right, so,

for final measurements
for the day:

our depth of hole is
at 192 and a half feet.

The casing is not advancing.
We're not going anywhere.

What do you think?

MARTY: Basically,
what we have here

is a natural cavity down
there-- it's effectively a cave.

- That's right.
- But the holes that go down into it

are probably not uniform.

They're not, like,
a perfect hole,

they don't match that canister.

So we're hung up on that.

- TERRY: Hung up on a ledge, I think.
- Yeah.

So, beneath this
ledge, we're gonna have

some potential collapse material
and some potential treasure.

Exactly.

So, let's cross our fingers.

NARRATOR: Could
Terry and Marty be correct

that the TOT-1 shaft has
encountered a rocky ledge

near the top of the
solution channel?

A ledge that is
stopping the caissons

from reaching the
bottom of the cavity

and whatever it may contain?

- I think you've got to switch methodologies.
- Right.

MARTY: What I would
like to do or consider doing,

is going with the airlift.

I think that's a-a good plan.

ADAM: That's gonna cost us

- a day to set up. - Yeah.
- MARTY: I know that.

NARRATOR: The airlifting
process will blast high volumes

of compressed air
down the TOT-1 shaft

and into the solution channel
more than 200 feet underground.

This will force tons of water,

sediment and possible
objects up to the surface.

That's our cave, that's
our repository, potentially.

That's what we got to do.
You guys got to do that.

Start airlifting.

RICK: We believe we
can scour the bottom

and whatever's down
there will come to surface.

At this point in time,

we are singularly
focused on one thing:

retrieval of treasure.

Well, I mean, we're-we're close.

- Yeah, we are close.
- I mean...

It's maddeningly
close, isn't it?

- Yes, it's... It is.
- Okay.

- TERRY: All right.
- That's the plan.

- I'm-I'm ready.
- We got a plan.

Three words, right?

"Patience" and "thank you."

Tomorrow might be the day, Gar.

- Bloody well will be.
- There you go. - There you go.

Let's go home, get some rest.

- MARTY: Okay. Perfect.
- Tomorrow's a big day.

TERRY: Big day tomorrow.

- Thank you.
- LEE: Thank you.

- SCOTT: All right. There we go.
- TERRY: Let's motivate this.

NARRATOR: For Rick,
Marty, Craig and their team,

potentially priceless secrets

that might have come from
halfway across the globe

and which now lie more
than 200 feet underground

could soon be
within their reach.

And though precious
little time remains

before the harsh North
Atlantic winter sets in,

the Fellowship of the Dig
has never been more uplifted.

Because time may
also be running out...

...for the Oak Island mystery.

Next time on the
thrilling season finale

- of The Curse of Oak Island...
- MARTY: Here we go.

- ALEX: Airlift time.
- JACK: Today's the day

we find Rick's one thing.

MARC: Let's find some gold.

- Whoa, baby.
- JACK: Whoa-oh.

You can see that it's hollow.
It keeps going in there.

And then there's something
down at the bottom of that rock.

JACK: Oh, no way!

- It's remarkable.
- GARY: Ooh!

- That's a nonferrous hit.
- FIONA: Ha ha!

- Look at that.
- Ka-ching!

The arsenical copper indicates
the medieval times.

- Medieval, baby!
- [laughter]