"Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island..." "Here we go." "As soon as that drops in you're fifteen feet away from the void." "There's a shiny gold thing down there." " David!" " What?" "Drain the swamp!" "Way to go!" "We can finally start excavating in the swamp." "Look at that!" "This is a piece of the Spanish Galleon." "Six people have lost their lives trying to do what you may be able to do this afternoon." "It's definitely inside the cavity." "Here you go." "The door's open." "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 bits of gold chain... a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it... even a 17th century Spanish coin." "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." "Well, how you feeling, Rick?" "V-3 is done." "I'm disappointed, I will say that." "Yeah." "I agree." "For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, their life-long dream to solve the Oak Island mystery has proved to be more elusive than they hoped." "Definitely got wood." "Two years ago, while searching for the location of the so-called Money Pit..." "Concrete and then wood." "That's the description." "They found what they believed to be evidence of a long-lost treasure vault, first discovered by treasure hunters Frederick Blair and William Chappell in 1897." "You think you're on the vault?" "But last week, after commissioning a massive dig at the same location, known as Valley Three..." "Got wood." "Their hopes of finding the vault were crushed when it was discovered that the wooden structure they located was in fact, a section of a searcher tunnel built by William Chappell's son in the 1930s." "Well, Rick, things here on Oak Island seem to be changing by the minute." "What do you think of that?" "That would be a circular saw cutting." "If that really is a circular saw, then it's truly not 1600." "Correct." "There's the island." "Let's get back to digging." "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." "Right." "Coming off of V-3, I mean it is such a roller coaster ride from thinking we were scraping at the top of a sacred vault of some sort to, to breaking through and finding out it was a searcher tunnel." "I mean, it was just an emotional roller coaster." "Now we go onto C-1 and as a team, we all think it's worth digging and we're gonna dig it, and be prepared to be surprised." "The Oak Island team has now moved 20 feet northwest from their first borehole to their second target in the Money Pit, known as C-1." "It was at this location where last year," "Rick Lagina and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse discovered what they believed to be a large cavern approximately 171 feet underground." " Still dropping?" " Huge cavern!" "Here we go." "But even more incredible was what they found after they put a pipe inspection camera down the hole." "What the hell is that?" "It's your gold color, David." "A shiny, golden object?" "Embedded in rock more than 170 feet underground?" "Could it be a piece of the fabled Oak Island treasure?" "The one that people have been searching for, and dying for, for more than two centuries?" "I think what happened in the Money Pit is still in the Money Pit, above the bedrock." "There's so question about it." "Well, then it's still there." "Nobody recovered that because they couldn't have." " Exactly." " Hole one is done." "Hole two begins anew." "Oak Island is doing its thing." "It's doing what it's done to people for 221 years." "But we're still hopeful." "Oak Island's a giant puzzle." "Mom used to tell us all the time when we would be making puzzles, she'd say, "Find the four corners." "Find the four corners, and then you can build it."" "Maybe, we might have one, maybe two." "But without the four corners, it's a tough puzzle to put together." "And I think that's where we're at." " Gentlemen." " Here we are again." "How you doing?" "Ed." "What are those rocks over there?" "What's those rocks?" "You tell me." "The rocks are gettin' bigger." "Really?" "No wood?" "Very little bit, very little bits of wood." "Well, let's go look at the big rocks." "Go look at the rock, yeah." "A lot of the areas we've dug, it's been merely on hope, speculation and theory." "Here we have an object, a hard object to go locate and retrieve." "I mean, that's what we're here for, find something deep underground." "Wow." "We're lucky to get that one out." "Well, that one is just barely be able to grab." "That guy's a granite boulder there." "Yeah." "Not too sure what he is, but he's a big rock." " How deep are we?" " 85 feet right now with casing and excavation." "The rock was down about 73." "Did you have to mess with it for a while, or did..." "No." "I think he just lowered down and gripped onto it." "He might have played around with it a little bit, but came in and out in one." "If we're in undisturbed ground, undisturbed by searchers, hell, we could break into anything at any time." "You're still on track though, right?" "I mean..." "Yeah." "Maybe a little bit ahead of the curve?" "We're gaining ground on this one right now." "We'll see what happens when we hit the bedrock." "But we're gaining ground." "Where do we expect that bedrock to be on this one, Charles?" " 150." " 150." "All right." "Although the team from Irving is currently drilling through softer topsoil, once they reach the anhydrite bedrock at 150 feet, they will need to take a more cautious approach in their attempt to enter the approximately" "21 foot deep void." "Because the sections of steel caissons weigh in access of 60 tons, they will need to be anchored in bedrock at a depth of 160 feet, so that they don't collapse through the chamber." "From there, a 39-inch wide drill bit will be used to cut a hole in the top of the cavity." "C-1 is going swimmingly well." "It's going great." "We'll be in that cavity in a day or two." "Look, I can't argue with any of that." "It is going well." "As progress at borehole C-1 continues at the Money Pit," "Rick, Marty, and their partners, shift their attention to another project this season:" "The Oak Island swamp." "So you should straighten it out a little bit." "Why do we got all these hoses?" "Okay, so I think Marty's set up, he's gotta get that culvert, so we can get across the road right away." "And then you guys are just gonna have to follow the beach here." "Then you can run up next to those birch trees on the other side and then just keep heading towards the Cave-In Pit..." " and that's it." " Got it." "All right, we'll make it happen." "Because environmental regulations prohibit dumping swamp water into the ocean, the team will use a 63 horsepower pump and more than" "1200 feet of hose to transfer thousands of gallons of brackish water to an area near Smith's Cove known as "The Cave-in Pit,"" "so named because it was formed after an old searcher tunnel collapsed deep underground." "You got enough hose from here, Alex?" " Yeah." " I'll back it out?" "Yep." "A few weeks ago, after a metal detector indicated the presence of a large metal object at the southeastern edge of the swamp," "Rick, Marty and the team invited area diver, Tony Sampson, to try and find it." "There's where the anomaly is, Tony." "Right over there." "Two meters to the left of that stake." "It should be quite large." "Fantastic." "But although Tony was unable to locate the metal object, he did make an incredible discovery." " What is that?" " Wow." "It's huge." "Looks like a piece of wood." "It's a large board." "Convinced that the swamp may be hiding important clues," "Rick and Marty are more determined than ever to drain it down to the botto, something now possible because of an agreement the team reached with landowner Fred Nolan, shortly before his death earlier this year." "But with all of the activity now underway at The Money Pit, running hundreds of feet of hose across the island landscape is not without its challenges." "These hoses can't interfere with the big project at the Money Pit." "There's gonna be trucks in and out of there all the time, we can't just lay that hose up to the swamp." "So we decided we needed to take an old pipe and ditch the road and stick this old pipe in and pull the hose through it." "Okay that's good." "It looks good." " Yep." " Okay, guys, hey!" "Let's pull this thing through." "Let's see if it works." " All right." " Enough of this." "All right!" " Yeah, man!" " Yay!" "So everything goes relatively smoothly, certainly by Oak Island standards." "Pipe's in." "We pull the hose through." "By God, it fits." "We hook it up to the pump and everything looks really good." "We now have what's called a dry prime pump." "This thing can run "dry", if you will, for hours and hours and not harm the pump." "Now that should be, that should be all right." "Well, thanks." "We flip the switch." "We start the pump." "It's a full go." " David!" " What?" "Drain the swamp!" "At borehole C-1, the massive Coming stack of 40-inch wide steel caissons are only a few feet away from reaching their target depth of 171 feet." "Meanwhile, Rick, Marty and the team are ready to begin their excavation of the swamp, where just a few weeks ago, they discovered a mysterious 18-foot long wooden plank, making the team wonder if theories of a possible shipwreck buried there could be true." "With water successfully diverted to the Cave-in Pit, the area is nearly 90% dry, and, for the first time in decades, excavation is finally possibl." "Okay, I'm gonna start digging." "Where's the exact dig point?" "Or is there not one?" "It's the stake." "This is going to sound crazy, 'cause I hate the swamp." "I don't like working in it." "But I'm very excited to dig in the swamp." "I'm sitting up high and dry in an excavator and I can't wait to stick that scoop down in there and pull back some of the material and see what this is all about." "That actually worked pretty good." "It's actually not as wet as I thought it would be." "No, it's dried off a bit." "Per the permit we have to isolate the organic material from the inorganic material, i.e. the, the liquid mud and the peat has to be completely isolated and separated from the hard clays, bits of rock material," "because they have to go back in the same order they came out." "Gosh!" "This smells rancid." "You cannot mix the two materials so basically we've created two cattle pens for the material." "We can finally start excavating in the swamp." "I think there's something in the swamp." "Is it at this point?" "I don't know but this is a hard target and we need to, we need to get to the bottom of it." "It's better." "It's pretty solid." " Anything?" " Nothing." "We should have picked it up by now." "I'm not seeing anything." "How far does that thing read?" "About a foot down." " I'm not getting anything." " All right," "I'll tell you what would be best:" "You need to pick up that piece of plywood," "I'll reach back further." " Okay." " Okay." "Put it on top of this, Jack, just..." " Need to get back over there." " Yeah." "Is that your foot?" " Yeah, what's going on there?" " No." "It's kinda saying there's something a foot down." "Okay." "It doesn't ever actually hit and say this is the point, though." "I understand." "Just stay with it." "Okay." "Nothing." "If there's something here, it shouldn't just be a ghost hit." "It can do that sometimes if something's deeper." "That's what I'm wondering." "Like it's just picking up the trail of it's magnetic field." "All right." "I'm going to dig that out a little bit." "A metal target, buried deep within the thick, rich mud of the Oak Island swamp?" "Could it be connected in some way to the team's earlier discovery of a wooden plank, perhaps more evidence that a sailing ship could have been buried on the island, centuries ago?" "As Rick, Marty and the rest of the team continue to dig at the swamp," "Oak Island historian, Charles Barkhouse, travels to the port town of Lunenburg" "20 miles southwest of the island." "I've arranged for us to go down to the." "South Shore Genealogical Society." "With him is author and investigative journalist," "Randall Sullivan, who is gathering research for a new book he is writing on the Oak Island mystery." "They have records of a lot of people that were on Oak Island;" "Maybe we can find something that can add a little bit to the mystery, or take it away from the mystery, I should say." "I mean, even though we'll be looking at dusty old records, it could be pretty thrilling to find certain names in there, don't you think?" "You know what, I never mind looking at dusty old records." "Well, I share the same pleasure." "So, good." "If Randall can bring us back a few puzzle pieces, that would be fantastic." "X marks the spot would be..." "I guess that would be bringing all the puzzle pieces." "Exactly." "He can bring all 400 in a box, that'd be good, too." "Exactly." "Let's see where his investigative nose takes him." "Hello!" "How do you do today?" "I'm Randall Sullivan." " Nice to meet you, Mr. Sullivan." " Hi, Charles Barkhouse." "Hello." "Stephen Ernst." "Welcome to the South Shore Genealogical Society." "What can I help you with today?" "Well, we're actually here to do a little research on the early families on Oak Island." "Okay, certainly." "Yeah, if you'd like to come this way." "Our card catalog's here, we have information on most of the families of Lunenberg County." "So if you want to take a look through some of these, it should give you some information on..." " Okay." " Do you have any early maps of Oak Island, or that area?" " Absolutely." " Really?" "Yeah." "One moment." "This is what is known as the Church map." "A.F. Church and Company was a firm out of Bedford that was authorized to do a series of maps of Nova Scotia, starting in 1864." "And if you'd like to come right over here." "The beauty of this map is not only does it tell you what everything is, but it also names the heads of the eholds in each area." "So when was this dating from?" "This one is about 1883." " A very curious map." " Yeah, it's wonderful." " Here." "Look." " Yeah." "Wow, this says "Kidd's Treasure."" "Here, look." "NARRATOR-Yeah. ng up..." "That says "Kidd's Treasure."" "At the South Shore Genealogy Center in the nearby town of Lunenburg," "Charles Barkhouse and investigative journalist," "Randall Sullivan, may have just found an important clue connecting the Oak Island mystery to the 17th century pirate, Captain William Kidd." "One of the things that was kind of curious on the map is they list Kidd's Treasure." "It was written in pen, right there." "Even back then, they believed that." "Captain Kidd's treasure was buried on Oak Island." "It was obviously recognized as a treasure site by the mapmaker, even." "During the late 17th century," "Captain William Kidd became notorious for attacking and looting merchant ships, from the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean." "In 1699, he was finally arrested and sent to England where he stood trial for piracy, and was sentenced to death." "Despite a desperate plea for clemency, by offering to trade his life in exchange for a mysterious treasure whih he claimed was buried somewhere east of Boston," "Kidd was hanged on May 23rd, 1701." "Is it possible that Captain William Kidd was really the man behind the Oak Island mystery?" "Are the countless legends connecting Oak Island to pirates and pirate gold really true after all?" "Very interesting how they put, put the property owners on here." "Got a Boutilier, two McGinnis' and a Graves." "So the McGinnis' stayed on the island until..." "Should we take a look at the card file?" "Yeah." "Absolutely." "Let's take a look." "You know, we were looking in the McGinnis file for Daniel McGinnis because, you know, he's supposedly one of the original finders of the Money Pit." "Now there's various spellings of McGinnis." "Here's the McGinnis." " Here's the McGinnis." " You got a McGinnis?" "Yeah." "It's a book:" "Western Shore, Gold River, Martins Point Communities." "Let's ask him if we can take a look at that." "Yeah, I'll go up and ask him." "Genealogists tend to be people that only put in what they can find written, written down somewhere." "There's a listing of a book here." "Wonderful." "Yes, right over here." "Okay." "They don't make something up." "It's at least something solid to start with." "Well thank you, giving me the book." "Is there a, index..." "or how is it listed?" "Pages numbers, or..." "Here we are." "There's a story of a, this ancient sailor, he's on his deathbed." "And he's relating this story of him being a member of Captain Kidd's crew." "It's published on December 20th, 1863, and subsequently by a member of the Oak Island association, who said that, more than a century before, an old man died in what was then known as the British..." "My god, I didn't realize... as the British Colony of New England, who on his death bed confessed to having been one of the crew of the famous Captain Kidd, and assured those who attended him" "in his last moments that he had many years previously assisted that noted pirate and his followers in burying over two millions in money beneath the soil of a secluded island east of Boston." "Two million?" "In buried treasure?" "In 1804, while digging in the Money Pit, searchers from the Onslow company found a large, smooth stone slab at a depth of 90 feet." "On it were strange carvings which, when later translated, read:" ""Forty Feet Below, Two Million Pounds Are Buried."" "Could the markings on the so-called 90 Foot Stone be evidence that the old sailor's deathbed confession was true?" "Is Captain William Kidd's treasure really buried at the bottom of the Oak Island Money Pit?" "One of the problems with Oak Island from a writer, researcher's point of view, is that the historical record is scant." "There are bits and pieces that you can hold on to, but it's a process of putting pieces together and try to find out whatever I can that'll be worth all this work." "Well, I mean it's fascinating." "It's, you know, and I'm glad we made the trip, but it's like added one more layer of what if, maybe." "It's fascinating and exasperating at the same time." " Yeah, It is." " You know, so." "I guess you got your work cut out for you." "I don't have to solve it." "I just have to tell the story." "We need to see if we get a big hit that's coming from below that bedrock." " Yeah." " Well let me just clean it out but you're going to need to jump right in there 'cause it's coming..." " I'm already dirty." " Yeah, I didn't think" " you'd mind." " No." "While metal detecting in the mud of the recently drained swamp," "Jack Begley may have located a target, where, just a few weeks ago, he and other members of the Oak Island team found a long wooden board, thought to be the planking of an ancient shipwreck." "All right, I got this now." "So we pulled a few scoops, got Jack to metal detect that, he was getting all kinds of hits, and it's like, well there's something there." "What is it?" "Any one of those could be it, could be the find that sets us on fire." "Well now, I'm not seeing anything." "So we're done digging." "Curiously, the metal detector is no longer picking up the signals." "Could it be that the target is simply much deeper than the team's equipment can reac?" "You know, if somebody buried something in this swamp, they picked a damn good hiding place." "We might need to rethink this whole thing." " Why?" " We haven't found anything." "That's why it's a treasure hunt." "Of all the places on Oak Island, the swamp has proven to be the most difficult to explore." "Drilling through water and mud is virtually impossible, and draining the swamp dry has proven to be both logistically challenging and hugely expensive." "Nevertheless, the strange, triangle-shape of the swamp, coupled with recent discoveries like the 17th century Spanish coin, have made the area one of Rick and Marty Lagina's most intriguing, as well as frustrating, target sites." "It's disappointing, you know, we haven't found anything." "But the swamp still intrigues me and I'm not done with it yet." "The truth is, we went with that EM-61 because, for depth penetration." "Maybe we bring the more accurate one back for a couple hours." "It may be worth it." "Okay, that's where I think the decision is." "Either we, we have somebody come out and look at this area again, or we continue with the process." "I think, I think we should, we should run another piece of gear for a couple hours." " Yeah, get 'em out here." " Fine." "I'll call" "Gary Drayton and see if he can't come out tonight." "You should probably go out in the ocean." "I'd love to get cleaned up." "I can feel stuff crawling around on me." " Okay." "Let's go, let's do it." " Awesome." "I'll..." "I'll make the call." "As a new day begins NAR on Oak Island..." " Morning!" " Morning, Andrew." "The team assembles at the Money Pit to get an update on the excavation of borehole C-." "We're not making much headway, are we?" "Right now we're on something very, very solid." "Chisels not advancing it." "The oscillators not advancing it, nor is the hammer grab." " So..." " What do you think it is?" "It's, it's, either a very, very hard boulder, like a granite boulder, or it's solid rock." "The boulder's big enough, if it is a boulder, that it's not going inside the can." " Yeah." " And we're not fortunate enough to just go in and pluck it out." " So..." " It's bigger than the can." "Yeah." "I'm gonna go back over here and we're gonna start throwing drill rod in and we'll sees you in a bit." " Yeah, okay." " Thanks for the update." "See you, guys." "This hole is a lot different in terms of how we need to structure it than the first one because, we know the chamber, the ultimate objective here, is in bedrock." "Hey, boss!" "So we can't just keep going because when it gets into that chamber, there's nothing to hold it." "It could just keep going." "So the plan right now is to stop in the bedrock and then we'll drill out and get into the chamber that way." "Because the stacked caissons in C-1, weigh in excess of 60 tons, the team from Irving Equipment Limited must now cease drilling at a depth of 160 feet, just shy of the 21-foot deep void they encountered last year." "Once firmly anchored in bedrock, a 39-inch drill bit will be used to grind through the remaining" "10 to 20 feet to create a stable entrance into the cavity below and allow for safe, human exploration." "Here we go." "Okay, get after it." " Big dog two." " Yeah." "That's big stuff." "I gotta admit, I'm impressed with that." "It is huge." "So Charles, as soon as that drops in, you're 15 feet away from the void." "How do you feel?" "I just hope there's something there." " Hey, Andrew." " Gentlemen." "So we got 173 feet of string in the casing right now." "We're going to lift the lead up, hook it up." "And then you're ready to let the big dog eat." "Yep." "Yep." "The prospect of excavating borehole C-1 to a diameter large enough for human exploration, has the team filled with both excitement and anticipation." "It is now just a matter of hours before they reach the strange void in the bedrock some 170 feet deep to confirm what the gold-colored object might really be." "Excavation has been removed so we'd like you to go through those spoils piles as well, but here's the current condition of the swamp." "While the drilling operation at the Money Pit continues..." "Okay, let's get you out there." "Rick and the team have brought metal detection expert, Gary Drayton, out to the swamp." "Wow, you weren't joking when you said it was dry." " It's dry." "It's dry." " That's fantastic." "They are hoping that someone of Gary's extensive experience will succeed in locating the elusive metal object that." "Jack's equipment was unable to reach." "I can't speak highly enough about Gary as an individual, and his skill set as a metal detectorist." "He's back to try to locate something in the swamp and I know that if there's something to be found in there Gary can find it." "Rick, if we find anything important we'll give you a call right away." " Perfect." " Well, you might hear a scream too but..." "I don't care, scream or phone call, you just make it happen." "And you'll see me dancing." "That's my gold dance." "I love it." "Where, where at?" "I would put the boards over there." "Because obviously I've got to get in there." "Okay." "No signals yet." "Come on gold, where are you?" "I just want to try up in here, this..." "You're going everywhere where we're not plying, Gary." "Yeah, I know." "But I don't want to walk away from here and leave these little nooks and crannies." "No, be thorough about it." "This is one of the few chances we'll get." "Exactly, that's what I'm thinking." "Because draining the swamp has always been difficult, owing to the need to obtain permissions from both landowner Fred Nolan and the Canadian government, the fact that the swamp is now almost completely drained offers a rare, but time sensitive, opportunity." "The Laginas and their partners have only a few more weeks to search the swamp for possible artifacts or clues that could help them solve the mystery." "It's always in the swamp." "Well, I'd like to agree, but we need more evidence if we want to continue here." "Suddenly..." "Oooh!" "Now that's a good signal." "And it's under..." "It's underneath the board." " Here." " Thanks." "That's what we're waiting for." " Good signal." " Really?" "I'll just dig a bunch of dirt." "Yeah, just..." "Yep, just dig it up." "It's not that deep." "It says it's 6-7 inches so we should have it in one scoop." "Please be something good." "Okay, I'll give it a little test." " All right!" " It's somewhere around there." "So we got it out of there." " Yeah." " Look at that!" "All right!" "It's somewhere around there." " Yeah." " Look at that, that's nice!" "While searching for a mysterious metal object in the Oak Island swamp, veteran treasure hunter," "Gary Drayton has discovered something unusual buried in the mud." "That is old." "It's a handmade spike." "That's pretty good." "Yeah!" "That is cool!" "This type of nail was specifically made for, for putting decks down, thick decking, on the old boats." "You see the size of the head?" "That was so the planks couldn't come up." "Well, the board that Tony found in the south part of the swamp looked like decking." "It probably is." "It was very long and didn't seem even close to thick enough to be a part of of the outside of the ship, the hull." "If you guys have found some, like, wooden decking, this is exactly the type of handmade nail that they would have put into decking to hold decking down." "Look at it, I mean it's..." " Yeah." " That's a beautiful thing." "So does this mean we actually found something in the swamp?" "Yeah, I think this is an artifact, for sure." "I found exactly the same objects as this on, off Spanish galleons from the late 1600s, early 1700s." "An artifact from a Spanish Galleon?" "Could it be connected in some way to the 18 foot long plank found a few weeks ago..." "It's a large board." "And which was thought to be part of the deck from an old sailing ship?" "Veteran Oak Island researchers and treasure hunters like Fred Nolan have long believed that the mysterious triangle-shaped swamp could have been deliberately created centuries ago to hide an old shipwreck." "If so, who would have hidden it?" "Spanish Pirates?" "Or might it be further evidence that supports Randall Sullivan and Charles Barkhouse's research suggesting that Captain William Kidd really did bury a valuable treasure on Oak Island?" "For me, this is one of the coolest things we've found out here." "It's a fantastic find." " Yeah, it is." " And there's probably..." "Hey, and you found it!" "Gary's excitement, I mean, this guy has done this a lot, and one of the things that he looks for in Florida are Spanish shipwrecks." "So, he has found a lot of these pins, and he was really excited about this." "He seems to sincerely, 100% believe that this is from an old ship." "We're the first people to touch that in probably 300 years." " That's pretty cool." " What?" "!" "Well, let's see, let's do a spiral pattern around here and see if there's anymore." " Okay." " That's sweet." "At least we found something." "That's cool." "Bag it and tag it." "After a day full of hopeful anticipation at the Money Pit, and a potentially important breakthrough in the swamp..." " Cheers, guys." " Cheers." "Rick, Marty and other members of the Oak Island team have gathered at the nearby Fo'c'sle Tavern." "A well deserved rest, if I do say so myself." "Well, a little bit of business, too." "Any results from Gary Drayton?" "Yeah, I mean look, they, they've made significant progress, specifically in the Swamp;" "I think Alex, you were there, and Jack, you were there, so..." "I know a little bit about the finds but you found one curious thing for certain." "Yeah, we found some cool stuff." "Jack, you can kind of talk about it." "The most interesting was a spike." "It looked like a railroad tie at first and my first assumption was looking back..." "A railroad tie, you mean a railroad tie spike?" " Yeah, a railroad tie spike." " Okay." "Then Gary pointed out, "Hey"," "I've found hundreds of these before." "This is from a Spanish Galleon and it's used to pin..." " Really?" " The top decking down on their boats." He said, you know you can tell the differences cause they're not like a normal railroad spike because they're a lot shorter and also, on the very end, with a railroad spike," "it has another spike sticking out from it." "Yeah, to get another, more grip." "And this didn't have that." "Where was that found?" "It was towards the north end of the Swamp." "It's bagged and tagged, as you say." " Yeah." " So, we can show it to you." "Ask Gary." "He must have sourced someone who could say definitively this is from nailing the deck boards on an old ship." "I'm sure there's a, you know, spike expert." "Let's find this person." "Look it's a weird thing to find there no matter what." "Yeah." "C-1, everything's going well?" "So far." "I hope we're going to find that shiny gold thing that David saw on the monitor." "Is it gold?" "I had, that I have no idea but it was a shiny gold thing about like that, that tall." "The only, the real concern is as we come through the cavity, what happens to the ceiling, the roof?" "Surely there's going to be some fall." " So..." " That's unavoidable." "The last bit's gonna, you know, cave in." " The bit is very heavy." " So Andrew has agreed that, generally speaking, they never do this;" "They never put the hammer grab well beyond the hole." "Well, he's agreed to do that cause we think the bottom's 21 feet." " So, but he's willing..." " So you just go down, whatever you knocked to bottom you go down and grab." "Exactly, because if that object is in there" " and that collapse happens..." " We want it." " That's right!" "We definitely do." " Yeah." " We'll find it." " Yep." "Okay, well here's to that." "That's exciting." "Let's drink to the gold shiny thing." "Shiny gold thing." "Shiny gold thing." "I'll drink to that, you David?" "Definitely." "As a new day dawns on Oak Island," "Rick Lagina and Charles Barkhouse are excited to learn that the massive steel drill is just inches away from reaching its target depth at borehole C-1." " Gentlemen, how are ya?" " Good." " Good, how are you?" " Good, good." "This is the same place where, just last summer, the two spotted what appeared to be a shiny golden object embedded in the walls of an underground cavern." "We're monitoring the weight on the bit right now." "We've backed everything off, so I expect that the bottom twelve inches or maybe a little more, might just fall away abruptly." "Might go down about an inch or two," "I don't anticipate that it'll be any more than that." "That'll mean we've penetrated through something soft, very soft." "Whether you believe it or not, Charles can attest, it's historically significant, right, Charles?" "It is." "You pull something out of there, that's the, that's the first thing that's come out of that Money Pit." "I mean, you'd go down in history." "That is a major turning point in Oak Island." "Six people have lost their lives on this island, trying to do what you may be able to do this afternoon." "What we may be able to do this afternoon." "That's great." " Yeah, we." "We." " That's great." "All right." "I'll see you guys in a bit." " Thanks, Andrew." " Okay." "Today is a pretty exciting day on Oak Island." "We're going to break through the ceiling of C-1 and finally be able to investigate it properly." "We can put a sonar down." "We can put a camera down." "We can airlift the void." "We can get a diver to go down." "We've gone from putting a little tiny sewer camera down to now possibly getting a man down hole." "We know that it can be explored." "Key question is, is there a tunnel?" "Is there a connection to perhaps the original Money Pit?" "That's the answer I want." "Did it go through?" "They're lowering it right now, there they go." "There it goes." "Boy, she's rocking." "Jumping around now." "Jumping." "That big chunk of gold, she's having a hard time getting through, Charles." "I hope you're right." " Whoa, there she is locking up." " Whoa, whoa." "Really torque up on it." "Yeah, I think it dropped a few inches right there." "Yeah, yeah, it did." "Yeah, it looked like it might have just broke through." "She dropped, it's gotta be through." "And smooth, so it's definitely inside the cavity." "Here you go, the door's open!" "I think we got a pretty clear unobstructed hole, the whole way through." " Okay, we're home." " Yeah." "After more than a decade of searching, and after spending millions of hard-earned dollars," "Rick, Marty and their partners may be close to realizing yet another incredible goal." "Charles, he just said, the door's open." " How do you feel?" " Excited." " Anxious." " Then here, here's the thing is, whatever that object was, it's now resting on the bottom." "I mean we're within a, you know, 192 feet of grabbing it." "The team has finally reached the 21-foot deep void located some 170 feet deep below Oak Island." "But what will they find?" "A golden treasure buried by pirates?" "Priceless artifacts, hidden centuries ago by the Knights Templar?" "Or could it be a key... one that will unlock the door to a mystery that was intended to remain closed... forever?" "Next time on The Curse of Oak Island..." " Ho-ho!" " Is that a coin?" " That's a king jewel." " That's amazing." "This is a treasure hunter's dream." "That changes a lot." "They're not supposed to be here." "The people who did this wanted it to be found." " Take it slow." " The world hasn't seen this." "Hey, what's that gold shiny thing right there?" "Holy smokes." "That's amazing looking." "Here we go." "My hope as I'm watching, is just show me one man made object." " What's that?" " Wow!" "That's amazing."