The Curse of Oak Island

Wow.

-Check that out. -There. Look at that.

-That's the floor. We got a shaft

-and we got a tunnel coming off it to the west. Oh, yeah.

That is one heck of a log, isn't it?

That's massive. Puzzle pieces are getting bigger.

Picture's getting smaller.

If you would draw the lines to find the center, this is the

dead center of the pentagram.

Right on the eye of the swamp.

The swamp dates at around 1220 AD.

-This is Templar, baby. -

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.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Look at this. Wow. Oh, my.

That's a box joint, right there.

After finding what they believe to be the location

of Oak Island's first and oldest searcher shaft,

Shaft Two, which was dug

by treasure hunter Daniel McGinnis

and his partners in hopes

of finding a back door into the fabled Money Pit,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and members of their team

are convinced that years of scanning, testing,

and drilling are finally paying off.

We found the first searcher shaft

in close proximity to the original Money Pit.

It doesn't get any better than that,

other than if the core had come up

with a piece of treasure in it.

Nothing could be better at this point.

We have to take advantage of it.

Well, here's the deal, guys.

We found Shaft Two, we believe. Right, Steve? Rick?

-We do. Yep.

So, what do we do next?

I would assume that the way you're looking at Shaft Two,

sitting here, from our current drill program.

We're all pretty comfortable, including yourself,

was that's the orientation of Shaft Two.

Now we just need to get the orientation of the tunnel.

Shaft Two is a better reference point than Shaft Nine.

Yeah.

That will lead us to the Money Pit.

The tunnel's the better target.

The lore that's been passed down to us

was that it was 14 feet away.

They dug over 12,

and then the water broke in and chased them out.

-Yeah. -What a shock.

They never actually fully reached the Money Pit proper.

-Well, it reached it for 'em. -Yeah. It came to them.

So there could be treasure in that tunnel.

It's possible.

-There could be. -Yeah.

You have to go after the tunnel.

So I think we should drill

a bunch more holes or several more

and try and delineate that tunnel.

Yeah.

Look, I-I think all of this l-lends itself

to making one simple statement, and that is:

looking backwards in time is gonna facilitate us

being much more efficient

in terms of where we dig the eight-foot can.

We now have two significant reference points

in terms of finding and delineating

where the Money Pit might be,

so it'd be foolish not to chase this tunnel,

and hopefully we get an "X marks the spot."

Well, Steve, if you have time right now,

let's go out and pin a couple holes.

-Sure. -'Cause you've got these marked right where we can

relocate them and we can see where we want to go.

Let's go do it.

Following their meeting in the war room,

historian Doug Crowell and surveyor Steve Guptill

head to the Money Pit site.

Doug, you wouldn't grab me a spike and a hammer?

I got a spike and I got a hatchet.

Is this our recent one?

-Yeah. -Well, we're just two straight feet north of it.

So we should be in here somewhere.

Using the GPS data collected from their previous boreholes,

Steve Guptill will now mark the new drilling site

where the team should encounter the Shaft Two tunnel

at a depth of some 110 feet.

If the archival data is correct,

this tunnel, although never completed,

should lead the Laginas and their partners

directly to the original Money Pit treasure shaft.

Now the critical piece of missing information is:

what is the orientation of the tunnel?

Does it go west by southwest, or does it go west by northwest?

Where does it lie?

Right there, Doug.

Good to go?

Yep. -All right.

Here's hoping, I mean, hopefully,

this is the one, right? Like, hopefully, this is our tunnel.

That's good. Well, here's hoping.

Here we go. F-14 here we come.

As the team from Choice Drilling positions

the sonic drill rig over the borehole known as F-14...

Ready for action.

All right, let's get to it.

...metal detection expert Gary Drayton and Peter Fornetti

join Billy Gerhardt at Smith's Cove.

They're eager to find artifacts that could provide

important information, not only

about when the Oak Island treasure was buried,

but also who buried it.

Can we get through here, Billy?

Yeah, I think if you

come here and then follow those rocks, it'd be okay.

They got a few spots there for you to check.

All right, mate.

One week ago,

the Oak Island team unearthed a mysterious

and previously undocumented log shaft...

Is this part of the flood tunnel system?

...sitting above what could be

one of the five stone box drains

that feed seawater into the Money Pit.

I don't think there's an urgent need to do this.

But after realizing that continued excavation

of the structure might cut off their access

to the rest of the recently constructed "bump out" site,

the team has decided to explore the area

beyond the slipway first.

There's just a lot of curiosities

about, uh, what might be in this area.

If ships were offloading items that,

at the end of the slipway, items may have been dropped.

So if there's anything to be found,

it's at the end of that slipway. Well, hopefully we'll find it.

Gonna have a little investigate around here.

-Looks like he's scraped this area off. -Yeah.

So we just zigzag along, hopefully get lucky.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to turn around here, Pete.

-Too close to the wall. -Too close to the wall?

- -This doesn't sound too bad.

First signal here, mate.

I'd like some gold coins to go, please.

I'll use my pin-pointer.

Wow.

What the heck is that? Yeah, it just...

Is that it?

Yeah. It could be anything.

There's something metal in here.

-It's tough to tell what it is. -Yeah.

Probably iron.

-Might be a goodie hidden inside. -Could be.

-All right, mate, we'll put it to one side. -Over there.

Peter.

What's up?

Right where I'm digging,

there was all rocks, and I didn't know if it's, like,

the rocks we saw on the other side.

-I-I didn't know if you could just... -The flat rocks?

What's he seeing, Pete?

-It's the same flat rocks. It's a thin, flat rock,

and it's quite rocky underneath, so I'm laying a bunch

of flat ones aside.

If we don't have them on this beach here,

they should be all brown, right?

Even the varying descriptions of the flood tunnels

all involve, you know, a flat rock of some sort, so we always

got to be watchful of them, but...

Yeah, those flat rocks

could be part of the French drains.

Yeah.

A French drain?

Is it possible that the team has uncovered

another part of the island's legendary

booby-trapped flooding system?

Let's go a little more. See what we get.

Ooh! Look at that.

Hey, Billy, you got a bit of timber there.

Oh, yeah. There it is. Wow.

This is fantastic, mate.

After being alerted to Billy, Peter and Gary'sIt does look more like a pier to me.

potentially important discovery at Smith's Cove,

Rick Lagina and geologist Terry Matheson

have come to the area to check it out firsthand.

-What do you got, Billy? -Hey, Terry.

Hey, Rick.

So we're-we're peeling this off.

-Right. -And it's quite rocky