The Curse of Oak Island

Tonight on the curse of oak island...

Ooh, look at that.

Fantastic, mate! This is old.

Often the detail is really cryptic.

The only people who would do that would be templars.

There has got to be more out there.! What's that?

Sweet.

- Wow. - We took the samples - to analyze

for silver, and we got a spike.

There is every reason to believe down in those holes

- there's treasure. - Baby!

No way!

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,

mysterious fragments of human bone,

and a lead cross whose origin may stretch back

to the days of 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.

It is brisk up here.

Cross your fingers, dude.

It's only supposed to get up to ten today.

It is the beginning of the final week

that rick and Marty lagina,

along with their team, have to conduct major search operations

this year on oak island.

Now that the harsh north Atlantic winter is setting in,

they are nearly out of time, at least for now,

to attempt to solve the 226-year-old treasure mystery.

However, in a year

that has seen more progress than any before it,

they intend to use every precious second they have left

to locate the fabled treasure vault

believed to lie buried deep in the original money pit.

The 1706 wood is right here, inside of oc-1.

Yep.

And a lot of the early drilling we were doing

- for Craig was chasing that. - Yeah.

So, based on our discussion last night, we've come up with

- this location, c-11.5. - Yep.

We still need a second, intersection point so we can

get some linear fashion to that 1706 structure.

Well, let's go to 118, see if we're chasing

anything at all, and then make the call then.

- Okay. - All righty.

- Bingo! - We've got wood!

During their core drilling program this year,

the team has found numerous compelling clues

spanning an area of more than 50 feet wide

between boreholes c-1 and oc-1

that include evidence of wood tunnels

nearly 90 feet deep that all pre-date

the discovery of the money pit by as much as 150 years.

Hey, jack. Check this out.

Whoa. Good find, mike.

However, it was in the spoils of oc-1

that the team discovered a hand-forged rose head spike

encrusted with man-made concrete.

It was this kind of material

that surrounded a seven-foot-high wooden vault

that treasure hunters Frederick Blair and William chappell

reportedly drilled into back in 1897.

Where is the money pit?

Right now, we have two areas that

we're significantly interested in, one around c-1

and one around oc-1.

We are finding shafts and possible tunnels

that are not delineated from any historical context.

Again, you have to stay focused.

And so, we'll take our time to develop

the x marks the spot for the vault.

So, we got our marching orders. We go to 118,

unless we see something, then we go deeper

- until we are out of it. Okay. - Yep.

- Okay, let's get after it. - Yeah.

While the drilling operation in the money pit area continues.

- Later that morning... - Hey, guys!

- Hello! - Marty lagina,

his partner Craig tester and jack begley

have gathered in the war room

for a meeting via video conference

with rick and geoscientist dr. Ian spooner.

Dr. Spooner, I understand you have a concept for us that

may help us with our sort of quest in the money pit.

So far, the drilling has been great, but it

hasn't found us what we are looking for.

Yeah, basically what we want to do is help you guys

- put an x on the map. - Okay.

So, the idea is

to look at water, down drill holes that exist

because the water in those wells should reflect

the chemistry of the ground that they interact with.

And so, I talked to dr. Matt lukeman at Arcadia.

He's an excellent chemist.

And Matt and I thought, you know,

well, how would we identify

whether or not there was treasure?

How would we help you with that?

And so, the bottom line is

silver in the day was by and large things other than silver.

It had copper, zinc in it, and silver itself does corrode.

So, the idea is

to basically to do a pathfinder study and look

for those elements in the water.

Great.

As metals such as copper, zinc, and silver

lie submerged in water for long periods of time,

they will corrode,

and their particles will gradually leach out

into plumes that become less and less concentrated

as they migrate through open space.

If these types of metals do in fact lie deep

in the ground of the money pit area,

dr. Spooner's pathfinder water test of the flooded boreholes

as well as the man-made tunnels,

should be able to detect them.

I absolutely love this idea of dr. Spooner's.

If there's a massive amount of metal down there somewhere,

it should be leaching into the waters.

Let's test it for the very things which we seek.

So what I'm suggesting is just to take a look at 12 wells,

in the money pit area to see what we get.

Dr. Spooner, you said it... it can find silver,

but can it test for gold?

No, gold doesn't corrode. It doesn't end up in water.

So that's why the idea was... even silver is hard.

If we find any silver, I'll be quite amazed, really.

If you find silver, it is a treasure hunt.

Well, what is associated with silver in a treasure hunt? Gold.

So, I guess what I'm saying is don't worry about that.

Let's-let's do what the science is capable of doing.

- Yep. - -We'll do the rest later.

Well, rick, you're firmly on board with this, aren't you?

This sounds like a great idea to me.

No question. Science.

- Okay. Well, let's do it! - That's great. I'll get

dr. Lukeman down here because he'll also run

the fluorescents on it, and we'll see what we come up with.

Okay, good. Well, as rick often says, "let's make it so."

Let's make it so. Okay. Okay.

While rick, Marty and Craig

wrap up the meeting in the war room.

Near the southwest corner of the swamp...

Ready for a great day at the beach?

Yeah, we got perfect weather, don't we?

Metal detection expert Gary drayton

along with rick and marty's nephew, David fornetti,

arrive at the shoreline of lot 32.

This is a good place to start, mate.

Anything we find in this area

is going to be interesting

if it connects to a wharf.

Great. Well, I'll let you do your thing.

Okay, mate.

- Look at that. - What do you got?

It looks like a piece of finished wood.

Two weeks ago the team unearthed a possible piece

of wooden railing from a large sailing vessel

and encountered a massive obstruction

while excavating near the southern border of the swamp.

However, because the weather has now made it too difficult

to dig any more this year within the muddy bog,

it is rick, Marty and craig's hope

that Gary can locate more valuable clues

along the man-made beach

that could help solve the oak island mystery.

- Very quiet, isn't it? - Yeah.

All right, mate. I don't want to go too far away

from this area, so the next line up,

let's take this line,

we'll bypass these two rows of seaweed,

and we'll take these rocks along here.

Sounds good.

Signal here, David.

Just there, mate.

Yeah, you got it out.

Nice one, David.

Is that it?

Let's see what we've got here.

My gosh!

There it is, it's brilliant!

Can you see what this is, mate?

That is a trigger guard

off either an old musket

or a pistol.

And that would date from

probably 1650 to 1750.

On lot 32

near the southwestern border of the swamp,

Gary drayton and David fornetti

have just found what could be an important clue.

The trigger guard from a firearm

that could date back as much as 150 years

before the discovery of the money pit.