The Curse of Oak Island

Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

-Oh, wow, look at that. Oh, it is a timber!

It's a timber!

We don't have any structures like this on any of our maps.

This could be some of the early workings.

This painting was an instrument

to record a secret about Oak Island.

I would dig

where the shepherd points.

Wow! Lots of wood.

We're on a corner. The Money Pit's

-14 feet away. -That's stunning.

I mean, that's zeroing in.

The Money Pit may no longer be lost.

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.

That's a substantial amount of water coming through there.

Am I seeing things, or is there,

like, a bunch of cobble?

I do see a bunch of cobble, yeah.

Quite distinctive, isn't it?

Those rocks look like

they've been placed there.

-Yeah. -On purpose.

: Yeah. I think so, too.

Shortly after completing

this 6,000-square-foot extension

to the massive steel cofferdam at Smith's Cove,

Rick Lagina and members of the Oak Island team

have already found evidence of what could be

another breakthrough discovery.

There's a lot of cobble there and none here.

Like a rock wall.

This is a heck of a start, or what?

Just moments ago,

while excavating a mysterious square-shaped log structure--

one that was never reported by previous treasure hunters--

the team unearthed what they believe

could be part of one of the five stone box drains.

First discovered in 1850,

the box drains draw ocean water from the shore,

which is then used to fuel a booby-trapped flooding system

which prevents digging in the area known as the Money Pit.

-They look like they've been stacked. -Yeah.

I mean, look at how quickly the water runs out

from the structure.

It's still working today, you know?

Quite packed in there, Laird.

I'm not gonna make a statement,

but it's... well defined.

I only know one thing, right?

There's a preponderance of cobble,

but it seems to keep going that way and that way.

Hey, Billy, can you take a couple scoops of water,

and we can see it better?

Look at the sheer difference of, like, pure clay

to a mound of rocks.

There's definitely more rocks

going that way.

That pile is continuing.

Wow. Look at that.

So, this is the shaft?

We-we don't have any structures like this

on any of our maps, so this is a new original discovery.

Plus, you've got black organic material rotting away there.

That's another sign of it.

What's disturbing about this is that there is

no historical record.

Dan did not articulate having built anything like this.

I can't believe that Mr. Blankenship

would have built such a structure, so...

Certainly, uh, Restall or earlier,

but it begs the question:

how were they able to get out this far?

I think this,

more than anything else, it mimics Restall work.

These vertical timbers, they used that feature a lot.

The only problem I have is, for this to be Restall work,

this is... somebody said it's underwater.

-So how would they have gotten here? -Yeah.

Yeah.

Bill, you want to hop in and get this cleaned up?

Yep.

Just like old days.

It is pretty interesting. Yeah.

They look like they've been stacked.

Here comes the geologist. All right!

Oh, wow, look at that. What do you make of that?

Well, yeah, I would say people were there.

- : All right. -People piled those boulders up.

-So, the north end of this, Terry, -Right.

is the south end of the slipway.

Oh, we're not to far off there. I see. Okay.

One year ago,

near the same area of Smith's Cove...

There's a timber right there.

Wow.

...the team uncovered the remains

of a wooden slipway, which would have been used

for hauling boats in or out of water,

usually for the purpose of loading, unloading or repair.

When the wood used to make the slipway

was scientifically dated using dendrochronology,

it suggested that it may have been built

as early as 1769,

nearly three decades before the discovery of the Money Pit

in 1795.

Is it possible that this recently discovered

rock-and-log structure is related in some way?

But if so, how?

Is that rounded, or is that a piece of timber?

Let's have a quick look here.

I think it's another bit of, uh, wood.

Oh, it is a timber!

It's a timber! Oh, yeah, it is.

What do you think, Terry?

It means that it's part of a crib-work, I would say.

That's not natural.

This is the furthest structure

that we've ever found.

Yes. -You know, furthest away from the actual beach.

Well, who thinks they know what this is?

We have to keep digging to find out.

Exactly.

For now, it's been a long day. I think we're done.

Another day, another structure.

Following their productive search operation

at Smith's Cove,

Rick, Craig and other members of the team gather

in the war room.

They are eager to share

the news of today's findings

with Rick's brother Marty, who is away on business.

-Hey. How you doing? -Hey, Marty. -

Good. Whatcha got?

Well, Marty, I'm just following up,

those pictures that I sent you

-about the Smith Cove's work? -Yes.

Just wanted to explain the-the pictures, really.

Remember Mike Jardine showed us those box-like features

at surface?

Yeah, I sure do, before he even started.

-Yep, I do. -We've exposed them now.

The curious thing that is on the back side,

the seaward side of the box,

there's a tremendous amount of rockwork,

and that really is the most interesting feature to date.

We still have to decide if we want to dig inside the box.

Yeah, so, the rockwork

outside the box, do you think that's...

different time, or associated with it?

It appears as though it's extensive.

It was quite laborious.

But what it means and its relation to the box,

I don't think I can time-frame that.

-Not yet. -But it could have been

that they were digging down to-to find a way

to shut off the water, you know, the age-old thing.

Or it could be one of the...

-one of the last finger drain systems in Smith's Cove. -Yeah.

Entirely possible. Go dig 'em up.

This area, because it's outside Dan's cofferdam,

it's really interesting.

I know Dan... really liked this area.

He always thought it was leaking in this area,

the... from the flood tunnel or something.

There was water coming out

when he had his cofferdam in here, so...

hopefully, we can get down deeper

and get in these rocks and... and find out what it is.

Okay. Well, it was a good start.

At least you found something already unknown...

-hitherto unknown. -Yeah.

I really didn't think we'd discover

something as massive as what we found in the bump out.

When I see these timbers,

um, you know, these are substantial.

And Rick tells me that also there was

an enormous amount of rock associated with it, too,

that he took out by hand.

This is yet another, yet another structure

in Smith's Cove, so I'm impressed.

It's just the beginning of Smith's Cove,

and the hope is that it will reveal some things

that to this point are unknown.

I say dig, Craig, Rick,

Billy, Doug, dig!

Let's get to the bottom of it.

That's the hope, and-and, uh, we'll...

-dig away, as you say. -Yeah, Rick,