The Curse of Oak Island

Tonight on the curse of oak island...

That is part of a larger human-made structure.

A rock like this came from an excavation.

Nolan's cross was created to locate

the treasure in the money pit.

This drilled stone is perfectly half the distance

to Nolan's cross.

Things are starting to line up. It makes sense.

- You ready? - There you go.

Yeah, baby!

That's like the original money pit.

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.

So, Ian, this is one of the reasons

why we asked you to come down.

- Sure. - It's this relationship,

if there is one, between the stone and that little,

stone walkway, we'll call it.

As another day begins on oak island

for brothers Rick

and Marty lagina and their team, they are hoping

that a recently unearthed discovery

in the triangle-shaped swamp

might offer new critical clues

that will help them solve a 229-year-old mystery.

So what are your thoughts upon initial observation?

Yeah. This feature that bill's uncovering, that...

Is very suspicious to me,

especially the angularity of the rocks.

Right.

Rick, there's something curious about this Boulder.

One week ago, while digging just north

of the potentially 500-year-old stone road...

Or ship's wharf... in the southeast corner

of the swamp, the team uncovered

what appeared to be another stone walkway

leading to a massive Boulder.

And this Boulder is about the size

of some of those other Nolan's cross rocks.

Yeah.

Curiously, the Boulder

at the end of the believed walkway

bears a striking resemblance

to the five cone-shaped boulders

that were discovered in 1981

by the late Fred Nolan,

which form a perfectly symmetrical,

megalithic cross.

I think what we should do is get Billy to wash this.

- Okay. - That would help us

understand if this is human-made.

The why is gonna be very difficult.

- Yeah. - Billy, you're up.

Okay.

Now the team is hoping

that geoscientist Dr. Ian spooner

can determine not only if this feature

was indeed constructed by man

but also when it may have been created

and what sort of function it might have served.

There is part of what I call the book about oak island.

Some of those pages are yet to be written

about what the swamp holds,

what the mysteries are within,

and why that work was done.

Good?

That should be fine. Just let it drain.

Okay.

I don't think you'll ever come

to a conclusive answer to this mystery

without understanding what happened in that bog.

What stands out to me is this stone

and this stone, this stone and this stone,

all in a line.

When there's nothing over to the right-hand side.

That's not natural.

I-I'm pretty confident it's a human-made structure.

But what I do know is,

a rock like this didn't come from the beach.

And my contention is, a lot of the rocks

from this came from an excavation, not from a beach.

From excavations, like the digging of the money pit.

Something like that.

The rocks that form the mysterious walkway?

A geological type that would have come

from deep underground?

Could Jack's notion that they were placed

in the swamp by those who created

the original money pit be correct?

Or, since the team has found evidence

throughout the swamp suggesting that it may be

an entirely artificially made feature,

could these rocks have come from a deep excavation

that was conducted in order to hide something

of great value right in this area?

The more you dig, the more you look in-in the body

of the swamp proper, you find human constructs.

Why are they there?

They imply purpose, intent.

I do believe that we can connect these dots.

- Hey, guys. - Hey, Steve.

- Hey, Tom. - Good to see you.

So, what you see is what you see, but

I'll let the two of you describe what you know.

Yeah. What we know is, the stones are placed by people.

Um...

It's kind of almost a little bit like a mini stone road.

Well, that's what I'm seeing. The similarity. Yeah.

You have a grade elevation, so

to me it looks like at least a ramp of some sort.

I think the next steps are to leave this.

And we haven't gone to the other end.

We need to continue

- looking for features. - Yeah.

For now, that shoreline is the most important area.

That's where people traveled.

Well, now let's just take a look over there.

And we let Billy loose and keep digging.

Sure.

Let's keep digging.

I mean, who knows what else we're gonna find around here?

While the investigation proceeds

in the triangle-shaped swamp... Hey, Scott.

Hey, Charles.

So where are we today?

So, as you can see here,

the boys are just working on deepening

- the shaft here right now. - Okay.

In the money pit area,

Scott Barlow and Charles barkhouse

are supervising the operation to deepen

the mid-18th century structure known as the garden shaft

down to a depth of some 95 feet.

- That was a good grab there. - Yeah.

An operation that may soon lead the team to the valuables

that people have been trying to find

since the treasure hunt began in 1795.

They're probably within a foot or two

above where the top of the tunnel should be.

- Wow. - So, they've been

making good progress. They're excited today.

I can't wait to see it.

Yeah, you and I both.

In the coming days,

representatives from dumas contracting limited

will finish installing the final set

in the garden shaft extension,

where they hope to breach a seven-foot-high tunnel

that may not only be as much as 400 years old

but which leads to an area that has been dubbed

the baby blob.

It is in this region where the team has obtained

water samples from previously drilled boreholes

that indicate a large cache of silver,

gold and other metal objects could be buried

between depths of 80 and 120 feet.

At this stage, based on what we see,

it is quite possible that this is

not a searcher tunnel, meaning a depositor tunnel.

And we still have the anomalous metals

in the water near the garden shaft.

So we have to get to the bottom of that.

Shouldn't be too much longer

before they, reach that top of the tunnel.

I'll see what they have to say.

Hey, Ronnie. Can you hear me?

How is it down there?

Okay. Well, we'll let you get back to work.

You're doing a great job.

We're really looking forward to it, thanks.

As the search operations continue on oak island

later that afternoon...

These field trips are usually quite rewarding.

Absolutely.

This is the prints hop.

Scott Barlow

and oak island historian Doug crowell

have traveled some 50 miles northeast

to halifax, Nova Scotia.

Hey, Joe.

- Hi. - Good to see you again.

- Good to see you. - Here,

they have arranged to meet with ancient documents

and leather expert Joe Landry at Dawson print shop

to have him examine part

of a potentially ancient shoe that was discovered

two weeks ago in the southeast corner of the swamp.

So, we uncovered a stone road, if you will, in the swamp.

Sure.

And this was found just off to the side of it.