The Curse of Oak Island

Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

Ooh! Big chunk.

-Oh. -Check that out.

This might tell us who built this stone road.

-Right there. -Oh, yeah.

It's Latin.

These are very old.

They were a precious commodity.

The first hole.

Finally, we're drilling

under the Garden Shaft.

Talk to me. What do you got?

We found it.

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.

Okay, gentlemen.

Money and time are getting more precious.

-Absolutely. -Time especially.

As a new day begins on Oak Island

for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and members of their team...

Mother Nature and some other things got us

in the Garden Shaft.

...they have gathered in the war room to discuss

the most ambitious and challenging operations

that they are conducting in the hopes of solving

a 229-year-old mystery.

The excavation and drilling programs

in the fabled Money Pit area.

After much deliberation, Rick and I, Craig,

with input from a lot of you, actually,

we have decided that we don't feel

we have the requisite targets

for canisters at this time, for caissons.

So, we're going to just put it off

until next year, as far as the canisters go.

We thought there would be

targets out there that we could say,

"Okay, we need a can here,

we need a can here, we need a can here."

And, unfortunately, we don't have that at this point.

It's a timing issue. We can't get

the Garden Shaft done in the time it would take

for caisson work on additional targets.

So, we're not going to put cans down.

Are they pumping right now? They're pumping it out?

Yeah, that's what they're doing right now.

They're lowering the pump and we're going to see

where the sediment's at.

It was Rick, Marty and Craig's hope

that by now, representatives from Dumas Contracting Limited

would have been able to complete the reconstruction

and extension of the mid-18th-century Garden Shaft

down to a target depth of 95 feet

where it is expected to breach

a seven-foot-high tunnel.

A tunnel that leads directly west

into the so-called "Baby Blob,"

where water testing in previously drilled boreholes

has identified a massive source

of gold, silver and other metals

between 80 and 120 feet underground.

This is where our water starts, right here.

And then it comes in along the side.

However, several weeks ago

after salt water began flowing into the Garden Shaft

at a depth of nearly 67 feet,

Dumas has been working tirelessly

to seal any leaks and stabilize the structure.

And now, even though they are finally able to

continue the efforts to reach

the potential treasure tunnel below the shaft,

the workspace that Dumas requires to safely operate

in the Money Pit area will prevent Rick, Marty,

Craig and the team from conducting what they hoped

would be a second major operation this year.

The installation of several ten-foot-diameter

steel caissons at other locations

in the Money Pit area,

where evidence of not only man-made workings,

but also precious metals,

have been recovered between depths of

150 and 180 feet underground.

So, then what are we going to do in the Money Pit instead?

Well, to address everyone's concerns,

what're we going to do?

Currently, the sonic rig is still there.

There's a lot of unique opportunities left

to come up with high-value targets.

-Yep. -Yep.

So, we're gonna get more data.

We will continue with the vertical drilling

with the sonic rig, which will allow us

to be most efficient when

we finally do mobilize the oscillator next year.

-Yep. -And don't forget, guys,

the Garden Shaft isn't finished, there's still

a lot of work to do there yet.

They're gonna come down on this tunnel.

When they get close, we're gonna start drilling.

And then, as they come down through that,

we're going to see how this tunnel lies.

We're going to see how it was built.

We're going to see where it goes.

That tunnel is going in the direction of

where our precious metals are coming from...

-Right. -...which is very exciting to me.

Dumas suggested they could get

40 feet out. Well, you're talking an 80-foot diameter.

From an informational perspective,

it is literally a big dig.

Yep.

As Dumas continues

extending the Garden Shaft to a total depth of 95 feet,

where they hope to breach a mysterious tunnel,

in the coming days, once they have reached

a depth of 90 feet,

they will use a lateral probe drilling device

capable of reaching up to 40 feet

outside of the Garden Shaft.

This will allow the team

to not only collect samples of the tunnel

in order to determine just who may have built it,

but also, hopefully,

pinpoint the source of all the precious metals

that have been detected in the area.

I know that there's been some setbacks,

but when I look around the war room table

and I look in the eyes of the guys,

I don't see any sense of being done.

I see enthusiasm,

I see some really smart people

all focused on a singular agenda:

Trying to solve the mystery.

So, I know we're making progress.

You know, there's every reason to believe that

as we move out in the year,

that we are really gonna use this opportunity

-and turn it into a positive. -Yep.

Okay, let's get back to the things we can do.

Yep. Agreed.

Later that afternoon,

as the team from Dumas Contracting Limited

continues the extension of the Garden Shaft

in the Money Pit area...

-Artifact time. -Hope so.

God, I love this place.

...Rick Lagina and Craig Tester

join metal detection expert Gary Drayton

and Billy Gerhardt near the southern edge

of the triangle-shaped swamp.

Got that stone roadway, we're close to shore.

Imagine how many people landed on this beach

back in the day, came ashore.

Ooh, look at that.

Kind of looks similar to the rocks

-on the stone roadway. -Yeah.

One week ago, while excavating

near the massive cobblestone road

in the southeast corner of the swamp,

Marty Lagina, Billy and Gary

uncovered yet another possible section

of the mysterious construct.

This is a type of road

that was built in Europe in the 1500s.

Since the team's discovery of the stone road

in 2020, experts, such as historian Terry Deveau,

have speculated that it could be as much as

500 years old.

The stone path looks exactly like this.

And incredibly, in 2021,

while visiting Alqueidão da Serra, Portugal,

a location that served as a stronghold

for the Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar

from the 12th to the 16th centuries,

Rick and members of the team

were shown a nearly identical feature.

The bottom there is different.

Way more rockier and bigger rocks.

I guess we've got to dig,

-right? -Yeah.

-Gotta dig. -Yeah.

Craig?

There's a rock here.

And there's one in the ground here.

And there's one here.

And there's one here.

Four in a row?

Four or five there, at least. Yeah.

And it's all very uniform.