The Curse of Oak Island

Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

Here we go.

There's wood. We got it.

There it is, guys.

-Wow. -We must be close to some type of a structure.

There could be some treasure just below us.

-Hey, Laird. -Yeah?

This is definitely the largest artifact we've found here.

-What? -Come on. Be something.

Look at that. It's old.

Emma, what have we learned?

So, right now, I am finding

something that I was not expecting.

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.

Here we go!

Core is up. All right.

-Here we go. -60.

Thank you.

-That's pretty firm stuff there. -Yep.

There is a lot of room yet

-for something to show itself. Yep.

It is the start of a new day on Oak Island

for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team.

One that begins with renewed optimism

that they are finally on the verge

of solving a 228-year-old mystery.

I think it has the possibility to intersect

the Garden Shaft tunnel,

-leading to or seeking -Yeah.

-the treasure chamber. -Yeah.

It may put some answers to that tunnel down there.

We don't have enough information in the area.

We don't have a start point,

-we don't have an end point. -No. That's right.

We as a group have not explored much up here.

-This is a plausible location. -Yes.

Currently, the team is drilling

a borehole on their strategic grid known as D.5N-26.5.

Located several feet east

of the mid-18th century structure

known as "the Garden Shaft,"

it is their hope that this new borehole

will encounter a mysterious tunnel

that they previously discovered

at a depth of 95 feet.

A tunnel which is believed to run directly west

beneath the Garden Shaft and into an area

that has been dubbed "the Baby Blob,"

where water tests conducted one year ago

revealed high-trace evidence

of silver, gold and other metals

between 80 and 120 feet below ground.

Last year we were able to concentrate

and be very confident in the Baby Blob area.

That's right.

However, when the team met

with geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

and his colleague,

hydrogeologist Dr. Fred Michel last week,

the two presented their updated testing analysis,

which suggested that the fabled treasure

could actually lie buried anywhere

within a 20-foot radius of the feature.

Nothing is dissuading us from our opinion

that there's an area around the Garden Shaft

where something's been deposited.

Well, that I consider very good news.

Yeah.

Now, while the team awaits a new permit

to deepen the Garden Shaft by approximately 20 feet,

which will also allow them to construct lateral tunnels

in order to reach potential targets,

Rick, Marty and the team

are looking for any evidence of valuables

more than 100 feet underground

that might be located to the east of the shaft.

The tunnel that goes under the Garden Shaft

doesn't appear in the literature anywhere,

doesn't appear in the records,

so that's the one I'm most interested in.

So, we need to keep going.

That, perhaps, could go off to a chamber.

Meaning, there could be some actual treasure just below us.

And we're gonna find that out this year.

Hey, Mike. What do we got?

-78. -78.

78.

Anyone got a knife?

I love this hole.

We are in the middle of all

of the very, very soft material.

And this to my eye is relatively soft.

What do you think, Scott?

There is a lot going on in this area,

I mean, that we really don't know about.

-There's a lot of possibilities. -Absolutely.

Yeah, we've seen that whenever we're near a structure.

-Yeah. -We could be coming down on the intersection

-of the tunnel here. -For sure.

Time is going to tell.

We are going to do the work that's gonna find that out.

While the drilling operation continues

in the Money Pit area, on Lot 5,

located on the western side of the island...

Here he comes. Oh, yeah.

...Marty Lagina joins Jack Begley,

archaeologist Laird Niven,

Jamie Kouba

and their assistant Fiona Steele

as they continue investigating

a strange, circular feature.

Okay, Laird. What's the mission?

All right.

We're going to do the big rocks in the interior.

Show me.

-Oh, yeah. There are some big rocks in there. -Yeah.

You want all that out, right? Yeah.

I-I don't know why it's filled with rocks.

But underneath all those,

we think there's that intact layer

that we want to get to.

-That will help tell us exactly what this feature is. -Yeah. Yeah.

Interesting.

Just keeps getting more interesting.

-Yeah. Okay. -Okay, I can do that.

Since the Laginas' and their partners' purchase

of Lot 5 one year ago,

Laird and his colleagues have been mystified

by the unique construction

of this stone-lined, circular depression,

especially when it was determined

to have a 13-foot diameter,

which matched the description

of the original Money Pit

when it was first discovered in 1795.

However, one week ago,

the team discovered a piece of pottery

that could date back to as early as the 17th century,

along with an iron latch.

A latch that when analyzed

by archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan,

was determined to have the exact same composition

as other artifacts directly connected

to Sir William Phips,

the 17th century English politician and privateer

who is believed by some

to have buried treasure in the Money Pit

around 1687.

We have a big rock here, right in the wall.

Maybe if you can tickle it out a bit.

Oh, I'm sure I can.

Yes. Nice.

We've got a very mysterious,

very old round rock structure

which is still being excavated,

but it's full of artifacts,

with no record of human habitation.

Then Laird lets me know that

I can do something I am fond of,

which is to pull the big rocks, at least, off

with the backhoe.

Well, that really helps.

And that is going to get

the ball rolling really fast

and so I'm eager to do it.

Yeah, that's it, right?

Yep. That's good. -Okay.

We're starting to see a wall. Maybe?

There should be another 90-degree corner

-somewhere over there? -That's the hope.

So, ideally, we'd find the base of a nice structure here.

It's pretty kind of hard to believe.

I mean, this is massive and yet not...

not any reference to it.

-Yeah. -It, yeah, it's very odd.

It was quite an occupation for the time. Isn't it?

Yeah, it was a substantial structure.

People weren't here for just a month, were they?

No. -No.

I mean, we really don't know what

this structure was used for at all.

Not at the moment, no.

Because there could have been some feature here

-that was older. -Yeah.

That's why we need to get rid of this stuff

and come down on the good stuff.

I think, Jamie, the first thing you work on

is to the right where the rock came out of.

Yeah, absolutely.