The Curse of Oak Island

Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

- Can you go deeper, Billy? - Definitely.

Ooh!

There's a structure!

These are massive.

A piece of Oak Island history.

Whoa!

- I hit the void at 183. - That's what we want.

Do you think we hit the anomaly?

What we have here is a void that encapsulates

- the Chappell Vault. - Yeah!

That's the treasure of the Money Pit

that was never recovered.

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.

- Morning, Bill. - Morning.

Should say good morning, right?

We're gonna find something today, right?

Well, we're pretty excited on this area.

The closer we get to the stone road,

the more exciting it's gonna get.

As a new morning dawns on Oak Island

for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team,

the quest for answers

to a 229-year-old treasure mystery continues

in one of the most intriguing

and inhospitable locations on these 140 acres:

The triangle-shaped swamp.

- Gary, you're up. - All right, mate.

I'm ready to get stuck in.

Hopefully, it's not literally.

This looks old.

- That does. Yeah. - Yeah.

One week ago, while excavating the potentially

500-year-old stone road, or ship's wharf,

that was first uncovered in the southeast corner

of the brackish bog back in 2020,

the team found a large hand-wrought chain and hook,

which, according to blacksmithing expert

Carmen Legge, was not only used to lift heavy cargo

but may also date back to the 16th century.

I'll start down there at the bottom

- and work my way back. - Okay.

Now the team is digging further into the southern shore

that borders the swamp

in the hopes of uncovering more of the stone road

and also clues that could prove whether or not

the swamp was artificially created

in order to hide something of great value on Oak Island.

Is that a stick there, mate?

On this side of the hole?

Yeah.

Yeah. There.

- It's axe-cut. - Yeah?

- That's worth bagging. - Okay.

- I'll put it in the bag. - Okay.

This is almost peaty, though, here.

- Yeah. That does. - It's a little bit of peat,

and then it goes to a mud.

And it's the only layer in here

that's kind of like that.

What it tells me is, we need to know

- what's under this dirt. - Right.

We should have Dr. Spooner come down.

Yeah.

- I'll send him a text. - Yeah.

The axe-cut wood is interesting because

it represents older type of wood construct,

and this material is coming up in the peat.

It's quite layered there. There's sand, peat, sand, peat.

I would say that it's not natural.

So, what is going on here?

- Hey, Billy. - Hi.

We don't know what to make of the possible

connection between here and the stone road.

What do you make of the peat, the gray sand,

- the raw sand? - That's kind of odd.

Yeah. The peat shouldn't be over the sand.

If this beach is moving landward with time,

then the sand should be over the peat.

I mean, this is, to me, really important because

it tells us this feature extended out this way.

So, why doesn't that feature, the way it exists there in front

of our eyes, why doesn't that extend here?

I think it was beach.

They pulled the boat up on the beach,

but you can't just have a big

26-foot boat sitting on a beach.

You're trying to unload it.

And they needed a platform to haul it on,

so I think they placed peat over the sand.

And that's what it looks like to me.

Could Dr. Spooner be correct that the swamp

and surrounding area was artificially manipulated

in order to construct the stone road

for the purpose of moving something of great value

from a ship onto Oak Island?

I think you need to go three or four feet deeper.

- Okay. - Good.

So, I think we should get back at it, right?

- Yeah. - Yeah. Okay. Good.

Yeah. I-I think so. Thank you.

I hope there is something below here.

I hope so, too.

As the investigation of the stone road

continues in the swamp...

- Hey, guys. - Hey, Roger.

- Hey, how's it going, guys? - Hey, Roger.

Marty Lagina

and Craig Tester

arrive in the Money Pit area

to meet with Roger Fortin of Dumas Contracting Limited.

These are the guys that are going to help us get these voids

filled in the shaft itself.

Along with Ryan Hooker and Clint Molyneaux

of Minova Global, a company that specializes

in large underground construction operations.

We got to get down to that 95-plus feet.

- Yep. - And this is going to allow us to do it?

- You're pretty sure, right? - Absolutely.

- Yeah. - Once we get this geofoam in place,

- I'm very confident that we're going to get down there. - Okay.

For the past four weeks,

the 18th century, 87-foot-deep structure

known as the Garden Shaft

has been continuously flooded after a number of voids formed

just outside of the remodeled feature.

This has made Rick, Marty and Craig wonder if the cause

is related to one of the legendary

man-made flood tunnels

because it has stopped them and Dumas

from extending the shaft down to a target depth

of 95 feet, where a seven-foot-high tunnel

has been discovered.

A tunnel which runs directly toward an area

known as the Baby Blob,

where numerous groundwater tests have yielded

high-trace evidence of gold, silver and other metals

between depths of 80 and 120 feet.

Okay. Tell us what we're going to do.

Well, we're gonna pump some foam in there and try

to get your voids filled up.

- All right, well, this is just a pump, right? - Yep.

Ryan and Clint will use an industrial-grade material

known as geofoam, which is specifically designed

for use in mining and construction projects.

Once injected into the open cavities,

it will expand to fill those voids,

seal out the inflow of water,

and stabilize the Garden Shaft so that Dumas can extend it

down into the possible treasure tunnel.

- All right. - Well, gentlemen, good luck.

- We'll let you get to your work. - Thank you. Nice to meet you.

Pleasure to meet you guys.

All right, thanks, guys.

As the process begins in the Garden Shaft,

- just 60 feet to the southwest... - So, where are we?

- We are down 88 feet below grade. - Awesome.

Geologist Terry Matheson,

Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse,

and Alex Lagina are supervising

a new core-drilling operation in a borehole known as K-06.

A borehole that might actually be on track

to encounter another potential cache of buried valuables

some 180 feet deep, near a site that the team

previously investigated six years ago.

Okay, so K-6, drilling for

- the muon low-density anomaly. - Exactly.

- Also could be where the H-8 plug ended up. - That's right.

We're only about seven or eight feet away

from the actual H-8 caisson,

which makes it doubly interesting.

So what we're seeing is a high-density anomaly

southwest of the Garden Shaft.

It's significant.

Several weeks ago, representatives

from Ideon Technology, utilizing a process known as

muon tomography, presented the team

with a subsurface scan of the Money Pit area

that revealed numerous low-density targets,

such as voids and possible buried containers.

One of the most compelling was identified

at a depth of nearly 180 feet.

Come on, baby, let's make hole!

It was in the same area where, in 2017,

the team excavated with a five-foot-diameter

steel caisson known as H-8 while they were attempting

to locate the fabled Chappell Vault.

A seven-foot-high chest

reportedly encountered by Frederick Blair