"NARRATOR:" "Tonight,on The" "CurseofOakIsland..." "RICK:" "Someone'scomingto visit the island." "Her father and her brother died looking for the treasure." "LEE:" "Theyweretoo close." "ANDREW:" "Oh,God..." "LEE:" "I 'mjustafraidyou  might get stuck there." "DANH.:" "Thespiritofadead  priest had entered my body." "JENN:" "I feellikeI'm  constantly looking over my shoulder." "HAROLD:" "Likethere's something watching you from behind." "JENN:" "Yeah." "(beeping)" "RICK:" "Lookout!" "Go!" "NARRATOR:" "Theis an island in the North Atlantic where men have been digging for more than" "200 years." "So far, they have uncovered tunnels, booby-traps, and carved stones with strange symbols, suggesting that something incredible must lie below." "So far, six men have lost their lives trying to solve the mystery." "And according to legend, one more will have to die before the secret is revealed." "♪ ♪" "RICK:" "I guesswe 'reall agreed, then, that what we want to do is plan the agenda." "MARTY:" "Okay." "RICK:" "I thinkwe needto prioritize what we're gonna do, and then have a backup plan, 'cause everybody knows whatever can go awry goes awry here." "MARTY:" "Davidis in chargeof all the dangerous stuff, right?" "DAVE:" "No,that'sRick'sjob." "MARTY:" "That'sRick'sjob ?" "DAVE:" "I 'mjustgonnathrow rope on him." "(laughing)" "NARRATOR:" "Sixyearsago ," "Marty Lagina-- along with his brother Rick-- purchased most of Oak Island in an attempt to solve the mystery once and for all." "RICK:" "ThisstartedwhenIwas  a little boy at 11 and read the story of Oak Island." "All of these questions, you know, that you could puzzle out and think through... that was, that was very attractive." "MARTY:" "SothenthisOak" "Island thing became our thing that we always shared, which is how he's always done everything his whole life: he wants "us"" "to do it." "The classic Rick was... to never give up." "And usually sort of dragged me along with him, you know?" ""Come on, we can finish this." "We can finish this."" ""But Rick, it's midnight and we can't see anymore."" ""Doesn't matter." "Doesn't matter."" "RICK:" "So...so what?" "NARRATOR:" "Inthepastfew weeks, Rick, Marty and their partners have managed to find evidence of strange bits of metal embedded in rock... as deep down as 235 feet." "JACK:" "Whoa,whoa." "DANH.:" "Is thatthe-the mother lode, right there?" "That looks like it." "JACK:" "Yeah,yeah." "NARRATOR:" "Butthebig  discovery so far..." "DAVE:" "Yeah,thereitis." "NARRATOR:...isthata significant amount of coconut fiber was found more than 1,500 miles from the nearest coconut tree and dated to be more than" "600 years old." "It's believed that this coconut fiber was used as a kind of ancient filter, needed to keep sediment and debris out of the booby traps that flooded the" "Money Pit." "RICK:" "Okay." "I just want to bring everybody up to speed about the swamp." "MARTY:" "FredNolantellsus that there's some sort of plank thing in there." "Did you see that?" "DANB.:" "Well,there'sno question about that, because like I say, when I was walking through the mud with a wetsuit on, you know, I'd take my foot and feel on the outside, and I" "could feel the circumference of the tree." "I mean, they're pretty good size trees." "CRAIG:" "Here'stheswamp." "Where do you say in the swamp..." "DANB.:" "Thedeeppart 's right there." "Yeah." "CRAIG:" "Okay." "DANB.:" "Allofthis is shallow." "The water is only maybe maximum five feet." "NARRATOR:" "IfanyoneknowsOak" "Island like the back of his hand, it's Dan Blankenship." "Dan has been living on the island and looking for treasure here for nearly five decades." "Although he was never able to fully explore the swamp, he claims to have found metal stake markers, wooden posts and-- perhaps most intriguing-- the stumps of old oak trees." "Why is that significant?" "Oak trees cannot grow in water." "And if stumps are down there, it could prove the theory that the swamp is man-made." "MARTY:" "Doyouthink that swamp is man-made?" "DANB.:" "Ialwaysdid." "MARTY:" "Well,thereyou go." "If somebody created a swamp, they did it to hide something, right?" "I mean, you don't make a swamp for the hell of it." "So we want to see what's there." "CRAIG:" "Weshouldget asample of the tree trunks to get, um, tree dating on it to find out when they were cut down." "That would limit certain theories of who planted it there." "MARTY:" "Andwhenthe water got there." "CRAIG:" "Yep." "MARTY:" "Well,let'sget tothe bottom of it, then." "RICK:" "Absolutely." "NARRATOR:" "Accordingto some" "Oak Island theorists, the Money" "Pit never contained any treasure at all." "It was nothing more than a ruse... a decoy designed to throw would-be treasure hunters off the track." "They believe the real treasure vault lies buried much closer to the surface, and is hidden in plain sight." "Is it possible that the swamp has been the key to solving the" "Oak Island mystery all along?" "MARTY:" "Okay,guys,well, look." "It's us against this island." "This has thwarted 200 years' worth of people trying, but we're gonna..." "DAVE:" "Theisland's(bleep) winning." "(laughing)" "MARTY:" "No,we 'regonnawin ," "David." "DAVE:" "Yeah?" "MARTY:" "We'regonnawin ." "RICK:" "Thisis theyear." "This is the year." "MARTY:" "Allright." "Let's go." "Let's go do it." "♪ ♪" "RICK:" "Hey,everybodyout ." "We're gonna have a prelim meeting right here." "PETER:" "Okay." "RICK:" "Let'sfigureout what we're doing." "Okay, we're going back in there." "All of that stuff is coming out." "All of it." "This is the first one coming down." "DAVE:" "Allright,it'slaying that way." "Which way you want to drop it?" "RICK:" "I willdropitthat  way." "You watch and see." "DAVE:" "Well,my truckisthere and I don't want it on the... in the bed of the truck." "RICK:" "Don'tworryabout the truck." "Oh!" "ALEX:" "Kindof chilly?" "DANB.:" "It 'snotdeep,Rick ." "RICK:" "Oh..." "NARRATOR:" "Beforetheycan  begin draining the swamp, Rick" "Lagina and the boys need to clear trees and brush so that pumps can be brought in." "RICK:" "It'saveryinteresting bottom in here." "(other men laugh)" "It really is." "ALEX:" "Yeah?" "What'sitlike ?" "RICK:" "Like,flat." "Weird." "We have known anomalies in the swamp area." "There's several rock anomalies, flat, huge rocks." "There's a line of stones, which may or may not be oriented towards the Money Pit." "NARRATOR:" "Oneof thereasons the swamp has been so difficult and dangerous to explore is that it's known to contain pockets of deadly hydrogen sulfide, or H2S, gas." "Although colorless, it has a smell of rotten eggs, and naturally occurs when organic matter is broken down by bacteria." "It is also highly flammable, and can even be explosive when trapped in small areas." "RICK:" "Youknowthe only reason why I'm doing this, Dave, don't you?" "DAVE:" "Why?" "RICK:' Causethiswater stinks and I'm sitting in the front seat." "Sitting right next to you." "DAVE:" "No,youain 't!" "RICK:" "Right?" "As far as what's in the swamp, there are some theories that are beyond belief:" "The Ark of the" "Covenant, the Holy Grail, the" "Shakespearean Folios." "We don't know that these things are in the swamp." "If they are, would it be amazing?" "You bet it would be." "ALEX:" "Allright." "You guys got it?" "I'm getting..." "We gotta... we gotta be pumping." "PETER:" "Yep." "ALEX:" "I wouldjustput 'em ... just leave 'em there for now." "(bird cawing)" "RICK:" "Lookout!" "DAVE:" "Lookout!" "RICK:" "Go!" "RICK:" "Lookout!" "DAVE:" "Lookout!" "RICK:" "Go!" "Heads up." "You think you're in the clear, and you're not." "I mean, if the chainsaw's on, something's happening, and someone could get hurt." "And God forbid if-if it were you two." "I-I'd just, I-I'd leave this place." "Stay conscious at all times of what's going on around you." "NARRATOR:" "RickLaginahas a good reason to be concerned about safety on Oak Island." "The island has been known to be a dangerous, and at times, deadly place." "(birds cawing)" "Since the original Money Pit was discovered on the island in" "1795, six men have died violently while searching for treasure." "The first of the deaths occurred in 1861, when one treasure hunter-- who was trying to remove the ocean water from the booby-trapped pit using a steam engine-- was scalded to death in a bizarre accident." "His remains were never identified." "In 1897, the island claimed its second victim when a treasure hunter named Maynard Kaiser fell to his death into the Money Pit." "The island had now had its second taste of blood, and it wouldn't be long before it wanted more." "RICK:" "Okay,guys,initially, we're gonna go off of Fred's map." "This is Fred's survey map." "Here's the area we want to explore right here, the swamp." "NARRATOR:" "OncetheOak Island swamp is drained, Rick and the team will be searching the bottom for anything unusual." "Could they find additional rocks with strange carvings on them?" "Or perhaps a gateway into the original Money Pit?" "(ringtones play)" "ALEX:" "Soit lookslike,we're looking at this thing here?" "I mean, that's kind of..." "PETER:" "LeeLamb." "Uncle Rick, this must be for you." "RICK:" "Oh,wow." "Hello?" "RICK:" "Hi." "Howare you ?" "NARRATOR:" "Thewomancalling" "Rick is Lee Lamb." "She is the daughter and the sister of two more Oak Island victims." "Her father Robert Restall and her brother Robert Jr. were killed along with two others while working on Oak Island in" "August of 1965." "RICK:" "Mm-hmm." "Right." "RICK:" "Great,we verymuch look forward to you coming." "Okay, take care." "RICK:" "Well,thatwas Lee" "Lamb, the Restalls' eldest daughter." "You know, the anniversary of the tragedy's coming up, and you know, she has, you know, strong ties to the island, having lost her father and her older brother in the pit." "ALEX:" "Whenthathappened,you said they were pretty close to finding something, or they thought so." "DAVE:" "Theythoughtso." "RICK:" "Hopefully,shecan  assist us." "I believe she has information that is relevant to our present search, but, uh..." "ALEX:" "Great,betterget  cleaned up then, I guess." "PETER:" "Yeah,I'mexcited." "NARRATOR:" "ThearrivalofLee" "Lamb on Oak Island makes the notions of a deadly curse seem all the more real." "It was a Reader's Digeststory about the Restalls' search for treasure printed just a few months before the tragedy that attracted island treasure hunter" "Dan Blankenship." "It was this same article that fueled the childhood imagination of an 11-year-old boy named" "Rick Lagina." "A coincidence?" "Or could it be that the Oak" "Island curse identifies and then lures its victims... in advance?" "DAVE:" "Hello,Lee,Andrew." "ANDREW:" "Dave." "LEE:" "Oh,David!" "Hi!" "DAVE:" "Comeon in ." "LEE:" "Oh,Dan." "Excuseme." "(laughs)" "So good to see you." "DANB.:" "Goodtoseeyou,too." "LEE:" "Wonderfulto seeyou ." "ANDREW:" "Rick,nicetomeet  you, Rick." "LEE:" "Doyouknowthis guy?" "DANB.:" "Whatdoyousay," "Andrew?" "NARRATOR:" "LeeLambhas  brought with her Andrew DeMont, the only living survivor of the" "Restall tragedy." "He has never shared the details of what happened on that August day nearly 50 years ago." "ALEX:" "Pete,let'syou and I hop in the way back here." "LEE:" "Okay." "There's times when I've resented" "Oak Island, well, I've hated it for what it did, to take the men out of my life." "And then my husband died a couple of months later." "Oak Island started it all." "I had the most perfect life." "Nobody in my life had ever died before, before Oak Island." "The curse of Oak Island is that things go very wrong." "It's a strange place, it does strange things to people." "I certainly believe in the curse and that there's some malevolent spirit on Oak Island," "I really do." "So, is that the remains of" "Hedden's Wharf?" "DAVE:" "That'sit ." "LEE:" "It'sfunny." "My memory doesn't have that island so close." "NARRATOR:" "In1965,Lee Lamb was a young woman living with her husband in Ontario, Canada." "Although she was not on Oak" "Island when her father and brother were killed, she remains haunted by the tragedy to this day." "LEE:" "Haveyouseenthis ?" "This is what Dan..." "ANDREW:" "No,Ihaven't." "LEE:..." "DanBlankenshiphad  put up." "Where were you saying that the final pit was?" "ANDREW:" "Itwasclosetothis right here." "In that area right there." "NARRATOR:" "Lee'sfatherRobert and her mother Mildred Restall, worked together as motorcycle daredevils at county fairs and auto shows during the 1940s and '50s." "Their act featured the notorious" ""Globe of Death," where both reached speeds of 65 miles per hour, crisscrossing one another in a metal cage." "If their timing had been off by even a fraction of a second, the consequences could have been deadly." "With that kind of fearlessness, it's no wonder that Robert" "Restall was convinced he could solve the mystery of Oak Island." "His conviction later became an obsession." "In 1959, he, along with Mildred and their sons Robert Jr. and" "Ricky, began living on Oak" "Island while Robert and" "Bobby Jr. looked for treasure there." "But on August 17, 1965, just as they thought they were getting close to solving the mystery," "Robert stopped to check a 27- foot-deep treasure shaft when he was overcome by deadly H2S gas." "He then fell straight down into four feet of water." "His son and four other men jumped in to rescue him, but not before they, too, were overcome by the deadly gas that had filled the watery pit." "After a frantic rescue effort, only two men came out of the hole alive." "Oak Island had claimed four more souls, and Lee Lamb had lost both her father and her brother to the island's deadly curse." "ANDREW:" "Thememories,they are as plain as day." "I can still see it." "(sobbing)" "I heard cries." "And everybody, of course, run to the pit to help." "So, Cyril and I was together." "The gas was so strong, that once you got to it, you know there was no going back up." "It was like a pit, it was just nothing but a fog and an ugly stink and a smell and it was terrible." "So, uh, on the way down, probably five feet, there was a big timber there stretched across the pit." "Leonard Kaiser, somehow he got balanced just like this on a big timber so they got him right away." "And, uh, Cyril and I proceeded to go down." "(sobbing)" "Your brother had your father by the shoulders while he was yelling, he still had him by the shoulders out of the water." "The last I remember, I had your brother by the shoulder." "LEE:" "Mm-hmm." "ANDREW:" "And,uh ..." "LEE:" "Andpassedout ." "ANDREW:" "Oh,yeah,Iwasgone within seconds." "LEE:" "So,theywerestill alive when you passed out." "ANDREW:" "Justyourbrother." "Your brother held on well, too." "He must have been really strong because the gas..." "He was there way before we got there, right?" "LEE:" "Yeah." "ANDREW:" "Andhe stillhad your father out of the water." "I felt so bad 'cause we couldn't help." "(sobbing)" "Oh, God." "LEE:" "Okay." "For me to stand there and be told by Andrew... how much, uh... had gone on that day... and to see the emotion in him." "And he told me things that I didn't know." "So, I was glad to hear that." "I was glad to hear every piece of it." "RICK:" "I justwanttosay thank you, Andrew." "ANDREW:" "Oh,you'rewelcome." "It's great to meet you guys." "RICK:" "Thisisn'tjustabouta treasure hunt." "It's not just about finding something on Oak Island." "It's bigger than that." "Oak Island has reached its tentacles far beyond just Oak" "Island." "It has affected numerous people's families financially, emotionally." "Ruined lives." "The Restall story, one thing it tells is, look, you have to be careful on Oak Island." "There's danger here." "LEE:" "Okay." "Thank you." "RICK:" "Mm-hmm." "LEE:" "Oh,it 'slovelyout  here." "RICK:" "It'sbeautiful, isn't it?" "LEE:" "Nicebreeze." "NARRATOR:" "Followingher emotional visit to the scene of her father and brother's tragic deaths, Lee Lamb has asked Rick" "Lagina to meet with her one more time before she returns home." "LEE:" "I justwantedaminute alone with you." "I didn't want to make a big deal in front of people." "RICK:" "Sure,mm-hmm." "LEE:" "Thisis oneofBobby's maps." "NARRATOR:" "LeeLambhas spent the decades since her father and brother's deaths gathering information about the Restall tragedy, and sharing it with those who have dared to follow in their footsteps." "LEE:" "Nowwhenwewere onthe island and that article came out that so tantalized all of you." "(both laugh)" "RICK:" "Uh-huh,uh-huh." "LEE:" "Theywerejustburied in mail and requests and information..." "I mean, people ask how many feet it is to this, and whatever." "So, Bobby made this map up to scale." "This was helpful because an investor might, you know, find this helpful." "RICK:" "Sure,sure." "LEE:" "Now,there'sone other thing, and I hope you'll study them, but I must have them back." "This, this part is not a gift." "RICK:" "Uh,I'mcuriousnow,  obviously." "Log books?" "By... your father or Bobby?" "LEE:" "TheseareBobby's journals." "My father never wrote journals." "RICK:" "Oh,my goodness." "LEE:" "Bobby'stheonlyone." "So, in here..." "RICK:" "Howoldwas hehere ?" "LEE:" "Hewas18." "RICK:18." "LEE:" "Yeah." "RICK:" "Everyday,too ." "LEE:" "Everyday,everyday." "RICK:" "Wow." "It's like history coming alive." "BOBBY( dramatized):" Sunday," "November 6, 1960." "Mom found a small stone." "It has '1704' carved in it." "It was found on top of a pile of stones we tossed out of an area of paving on the pit to cave-in shaft line."" "NARRATOR:" "The1704stonehad been part of a buried man-made reservoir the Restalls uncovered at Smith's Cove that fed ocean water to the booby-trapped tunnels that flooded the Money" "Pit." "Could 1704 be the year the" "Money Pit was constructed and the treasure buried on Oak" "Island?" "RICK:" "Here'sSeptember22,  1960." "This is exactly what we were talking about." "BOBBY( dramatized):" Jack" "Adams located approximate position of his 'mystery box.'" "I started cutting wood necessary for a working platform."" "NARRATOR:" "Accordingto Bobby" "Restall's journals, he and his father believed they were close to finding a so-called "mystery box" or vault that Jack Adams, a former caretaker on the island in the 1930s, claimed was buried underneath the water and" "muck of the Oak Island swamp." "Of the numerous theories about" "Oak Island, many suggest that something of great value may have been buried on the island and then hidden at the bottom of a man-made swamp." "Could this "mystery box" be proof that those theories are true?" "LEE:" "I havepicturesof this, Rick." "There's pictures of them working in the swamp, like, leaning over the water and probing with this big long pole." "RICK:" "Youknowitwouldbe, would be immensely helpful because then we-we have a way to reference what we're looking at." "LEE:" "Okay,okay." "NARRATOR:" "Perhaps,oneofthe" "Restall expedition's greatest discoveries was made in the winter of 1962." "According to his journals, Bobby and his father had discovered a spiral-shaped tunnel in the" "Money Pit, one that wound downward in a clockwise direction, approximately 104 feet below the island's surface." "Could the "mystery box" in the swamp be somehow connected to this strange, corkscrew-like passageway?" "Perhaps as an entrance or gateway?" "For the next two and a half years, the Restalls worked day and night hoping to find a way into the strange tunnel and whatever might be hidden there." "They believed they were on the verge of solving the mystery of" "Oak Island." "Unfortunately, they would never live to prove it." "LEE:" "I wantyoutolook at this entry." "Monday, August 16." "BOBBY( dramatized):" Dozer got down to about 13 feet." "Water getting in from drill holes, beach pits."" "LEE:" "That'sCave-inPit , and he puts the day's date in for the next day, and that was the day they were killed." "RICK:" "Wow." "LEE:" "I justwanttogive you some advice." "I've been so impressed with how much you respect the island." "And, uh, uh, it's just that, that, I'm-I'm just afraid that you might get stuck there, you know." "It becomes difficult to go day after day." "RICK:" "I mean,areyou  suggesting that I stop working?" "LEE:" "No,no ...(stammers)" "I-I just have a little trouble letting go of things." "But I'm sorry, I-I know you'll understand." "RICK:" "Sure,sure." "You know what?" "I mean, we can't change this." "We can't do anything about it, but I hope, perhaps, on the end of this book, you and I can fill in here, excuse me, that we finish." "LEE:" "Yeah,finish the search." "RICK:" "Let'smakeapromise." "LEE:" "Okay." "RICK:" "Thankyou." "LEE:" "Oh,you'rewelcome." "RICK:" "Giveus onebig hug  before you go." "LEE:" "I 'vehadso manyhugs." "I'm so spoiled." "RICK:" "Allright,abighug." "I'm not much of a hugger, but you-you know..." "LEE:" "You'regettinggood." "RICK:" "I 'mgettinggood." "NARRATOR:" "LeeLambis convinced her father and brother were close to making a major discovery before the accident that took their lives." "Now that Rick Lagina and the other members of the Oak Island team are turning their attentions to the swamp, could history be repeating itself?" "And, if so, will the outcome be the same as it was on that" "August day in 1965?" "ALEX:" "Hey,guys." "What are we doing?" "RICK:" "Truckshouldbe behind us." "ALEX:" "Okay." "RICK:" "Pumpsaregonnaget offloaded down there." "We're running hose up to the uplands." "Flip the switch-- water, goes up there, swamp gets dried." "JACK:" "Allright." "RICK:" "Allthepermitsarein place." "Swamp, water, dry." "ALEX:" "Finally,Iget it." "(horn beeps)" "NARRATOR:" "Withallthe  government permits and permissions they need secured," "Rick, Dave and the boys begin the process of draining the swamp." "But it isn't going to be easy." "Covering an area close to four and a half acres, the swamp holds approximately 3 million gallons of brackish water." "Because of environmental laws, the team cannot simply pump the water into the nearby ocean, so they will have to move it from the swamp to another part of the island." "To do this, they are going to use two 95 horsepower pumps and five miles of hose." "RICK:" "Putfourrighthere ." "JACK:" "Four?" "RICK:" "Yup." "NARRATOR:" "It'san operation that will take several days and cost tens of thousands of dollars before the team will be able to find out what might have been buried there hundreds of years ago." "DAVE:" "Maleendtoward the pumps, female end away from the pump." "ALEX:" "Mm-hmm." "DAVE:" "Now,thisone is rolled perfect right, the right way so you plug it in and just unroll it." "JACK:" "Thisis themaleend,  smaller and has the grooves for the female end to clamp in on it." "DAVE:" "Makesureyou  got the rubber in it." "JACK:" "Yeah." "DAVE:" "Gotto havearubber." "ALEX:" "Yep." "DAVE:" "Wedon'twanta bunch of baby hoses running around." "(all laugh)" "RICK:" "We'lltakebothhoses about 30 feet up that road." "DAVE:" "Yeah,andthen take them that way." "RICK:" "Onewillgoover and one'll go across." "DANH.:" "Is thatgonna work or has it got a twist in it?" "DAVE:" "No,that'sright." "RICK:" "I 'mtoooldfor this." "ALEX:" "Well,lookslikeyou're gonna come up a little short." "DANH.:" "Do theyget heavy after about the 50th one or so?" "RICK:" "Yes,they'reheavy right now." "We've always wanted to drain the swamp for one simple reason." "It's never been done before." "DAVE:" "Therewe go ." "Now we've only got 98 more." "(all laugh)" "RICK:" "Asfaraswhat we expect to find, I don't know." "And that's what's so exciting." "The unknown is always exciting." "So, as soon as we start the draining of this swamp, then we'll find out the answer." "DAVE:" "Thinkshe's gonna work, Dan?" "DANH.:" "Youknow,it'll certainly fill the hoses with water, I mean..." "NARRATOR:" "A self-proclaimed hermit, Dan Henskee has been searching for treasure on Oak" "Island for nearly 50 years." "He is also firmly convinced that the island is haunted, and that the legends about a deadly curse are all too true." "(bird squawking)" "While helping Dan and Dave" "Blankenship dig Borehole 10-X back in the 1970s, Dan often complained of having a series of nightmares." "Nightmares that nearly scared him to death." "DANH.:" "Backin1973 ,an experience happened to me, which was quite strange." "It involved what appeared to be possession by a spirit of someone long dead." "I thought that the spirit of a dead priest had entered my body and that the priest had his throat cut." "I do remember falling down, feeling that I was experiencing the death of this person." "I don't actually know if what's happened to me on Oak Island was real or imaginary, there is this long-standing legend about pirates killing somebody in such a way that the spirit of the dead person would guard the" "treasure forever, or until the pirates came back and got it themselves." "NARRATOR:" "CouldDanHenskee's belief that his soul was possessed by a murdered priest simply be dismissed as a strange hallucination?" "Or is it possible that there really are dark forces on Oak" "Island?" "Forces that guard the secrets of the island and protect whatever it is that is buried there?" "Some say the first instance of something not quite right about the island was the evening in" "1795 when 18-year-old Daniel" "McGinnis spotted three strange green lights that eventually lured him and two of his friends across the bay to the area where they would discover the Money" "Pit." "Since then, other eerie encounters have been documented from sightings of the ghosts of 18th century British troops to those who believe the ravens on the island are actually possessed by the souls of the slaves who dug the treasure" "tunnels hundreds of years ago." "Before they drain the swamp," "Rick and Marty Lagina have invited a group of paranormal investigators to join them in an effort to find out if the Oak" "Island legends about ghosts and curses have any basis in fact." "CANDACE:" "We'vehadlotsof, uh, different experiences here." "Linda's brought some pictures for you guys to see." "RICK:" "Great." "LINDA:" "Thiswasthe  first one that I had taken at 10-X, and wasn't really sure what this was, so I zoomed in on it." "MARTY:" "Letme seethat." "(Rick chuckles)" "LINDA:" "Stillnotreallysure  what it is." "MARTY:" "Lookslikeaskull, doesn't it?" "(Candace laughs)" "CANDACE:" "Wetrytodebunkas much as we can." "Once we can't debunk it anymore, then it's just kind of left unexplained." "MARTY:" "Well,letmeaskyou a question: you do this all over the place, right?" "LINDA:" "Mm-hmm." "MARTY:" "Isthisplace different?" "LINDA:" "Yeah." "There's a mystery and an aura." "JENN:" "There'san energy to it." "LINDA:" "Yeah,thereis." "RICK:" "Someof youplaythe... the skeptic." "CANDACE:" "Harold'saskeptic." "(Harold chuckles)" "HAROLD:" "Yeah,andIdidhear what we thought were footsteps." "I was down by the swamp area." "Over to my right side, I could hear these footsteps." "And I was shining the light in the swamp, expecting to turn around and-and see somebody there, but there was nothing." "DAVE:" "Wegotabogeyman." "NARRATOR:" "Theinvestigators lead Marty, Rick and the team to the swamp... one of the places where many of them have experienced strange, unexplained phenomena." "JENN:" "Well,outofallthe spots on the island, this is the spot that I get creeped out the most in." "I actually don't even really like being down here." "RICK:" "Canyouarticulatewhy you don't like it here?" "JENN:" "It's...it 'sjustthe  energy that's down here." "Um, it's focused on these trees over here." "RICK:" "Weintendtodo extensive work here in the swamp, looking for clues to what happened." "Who knows what that activity will engage?" "JENN:" "Soyou'regoingtomake it creepier for me, is what you're saying." "(laughing)" "RICK:" "Yes,yes." "CANDACE:" "We'regoodtostart voice recorders." "Start at 8:00." "We have our K2s." "JENN:" "Oneof thelittle green lights light up, there's five little indicator lights on it." "RICK:" "Sowhatdoesthat read ?" "Electromagnetic?" "JENN:" "Yeah,anyenergyor power sources." "NARRATOR:" "Therearethosewho believe that if something really is buried on Oak Island, it is something best left undisturbed." "JENN:" "I feelvery,very creeped out and uncomfortable, like I'm constantly looking over my shoulder." "Um..." "HAROLD:" "Likethere's something watching." "Watching you from behind." "JENN:" "Yeah." "Yeah,exactly." "(beeping)" "Oh." "We got a hit on the K2." "That's a big hit." "HAROLD:" "Yeah,that'sabig one." "NARRATOR:" "Whatexactlyhave the researchers on Oak Island encountered?" "Could it be just a simple mechanical malfunction?" "Or is it something much more profound?" "JENN:" "Thatis an indication that there is something here trying to communicate with us." "RICK:" "Isthecursevalid?" "I don't know." "Do strange things happen on Oak" "Island?" "Yes, they do." "HAROLD:" "There'sanotherhit  there." "(beeping)" "MARTY:" "I 'mnotabig believer in curses." "You know, it seems like there's a pile of stuff that happens." "But no." "Honestly, in my heart, I don't believe it's the Oak Island curse." "CANDACE:" "Wewouldliketoget more gear." "But, you know..." "RICK:" "Wedon'twanttohinder the search progress, but I-I think we can cooperate." "LINDA:" "Soundsgreat." "NARRATOR:" "DidRickand Marty" "Lagina just experience one of the mysterious forces that are rumored to exist on Oak Island?" "Perhaps." "But that isn't enough to prevent them from trying to solve the" "200-year-old mystery." "They've invested too many years-- and too much money-- to stop now." "♪ ♪" "NARRATOR:" "Afterthestrange incident that happened at the swamp the night before, Rick," "Marty and the Oak Island team meet one last time before they begin their biggest and possibly most challenging operation so far: the draining of the swamp." "MARTY:" "I justwanttotalk  about..." "Okay, when we drain the swamp, what are we going to do?" "I mean, what are we looking for?" "How are we gonna look for it?" "RICK:" "Well,we 'relooking..." "If we start in this corner of the swamp..." "MARTY:" "That'swhereour pump is, basically, right?" "RICK:" "Right." "So we were probing in this general vicinity and we came upon..." "You can describe it." "DAVE:" "A smoothrock." "As smooth as this table with no silt on it, no nothing." "About three by eight feet." "That was two years ago." "We looked last year." "We couldn't find it." "Again." "RICK:" "Danalsoclaimedthere was a tunnel from the ocean to the swamp." "I mean, you're looking at the" "Money Pit." "Maybe there's a shaft." "They had to have a way to introduce air down to those lower depths." "NARRATOR:" "Smoothstone structures?" "Tunnels into the Money Pit from the ocean?" "Could these findings be connected to Bobby Restall's journal entries about a "mystery box" and strange, corkscrew-like tunnels?" "MARTY:" "Okay,whichbringsme to the last thing I have, then." "What about safety?" "We know there's poison gas on this island." "H2S will kill you very quickly, basically paralyzes you." "So..." "CRAIG:" "Right." "We're going to be pumping the swamp down, we're going to be in a low-lying area." "MARTY:" "Yes." "CRAIG:" "I mean,usuallythe  ocean breezes will keep the air moving, we should be fine, but..." "MARTY:" "Yeah,well..." "look, though, but it's dangerous." "DAVE:" "Howmuchconcentration are we going to get in... being in such a big area?" "MARTY:" "It..." "David,itcan... it can be really..." "It can behave really weirdly." "ALEX:" "Onacalmday, itcould  pool, right?" "MARTY:" "Yeah,it poolsup." "But that's just it." "I-I would like to see us have part per million detectors." "The reason we know about this is it's a common contaminant in natural gas." "And at concentrations that'll kill you so quickly you can't..." "One breath." "One breath and you're dead." "CRAIG:" "Itparalyzesyou ." "MARTY:" "Yeah,you're paralyzed." "And the other insidious thing about it is that at higher concentrations it-it deadens the olfactory cells in your nose." "So you're going along and you're saying, "Oh, man, that stinks, so there's gas but I'm still okay."" "Then all of a sudden you don't smell it again." "And then about ten seconds later, you're dead." "CRAIG:" "Youthinkyou 'regood." "(laughing)" "RICK:" "It'sveryimportant." "And it sounds insignificant, but no one goes in there alone." "Ever." "MARTY:" "I 'llacceptthat." "RICK:" "Davidcanspeakto that." "DAVE:" "Ifit 'sgoingtogo wrong, it's going to go wrong." "ALEX:" "Onthatnote..." "MARTY:" "Okay,let'sgo." "Let's call this meeting." "♪ ♪" "RICK:" "Allright,everybody out." "Let's get the hose in the water and get after it." "NARRATOR:" "IfRickand Marty can successfully drain the swamp, they could discover what might be the final piece in a" "200-year-old puzzle." "But will solving the Oak Island mystery really be the end of the story?" "Or only the beginning?" "RICK:" "Alltheprevious searchers, the early discoverers, the early explorers came with a sense of "I can solve what's unsolvable."" "More so than, I think, the singular pursuit of treasure." "I think that's what has driven a lot of people to this island." ""I can do what others have failed to do."" "MARTY:" "I 'mnot..." "I'mnot  thinking I'm the guy to do it, necessarily." "I'm thinking he's the guy to do it." "RICK:" "Well,Ihaveno intention of failing." "MARTY:" "See?" "JACK:" "Keepgoing,Rick." "We believe in you!" "MARTY:" "Howcoldisthat  water, by the way, big brother?" "RICK:" "It'snotfun ." "MARTY:" "No,I'llbet not ." "JACK:" "Allright." "RICK:" "Okay." "Start it up." "Let's go." "ALEX:" "Thereit goes." "MARTY:" "Yeah,Iwanttosee the discharge point." "Yeah-hey!" "High five!" "The swamp is actually being drained." "NARRATOR:" "Rick,Martyand the  other members of their team are within hours of finding out whether the Oak Island swamp hides the key to solving a" "200-year-old mystery." "Could it really be a gateway to a vast underground labyrinth of tunnels and treasure vaults?" "Or will it lead to a dead end?" "And what of the legend that seven must die in pursuit of the treasure before it can ever be found?" "So far, six men have lost their lives in pursuit of a dream." "A dream that became an obsession." "But was it the island that claimed these souls?" "Or was it their own blind desire to go farther and deeper than man was ever meant to go?" "And if so, who will be next?" "Who will be the next victim of the curse of Oak Island?" "NARRATOR:" "Nexttime,onThe" "CurseofOakIsland..." "Ifoundatreasuremap leading to Oak Island." "It is concealed in codes in the manuscripts of William" "Shakespeare." "And it also tells you what the treasure is." "RICK:" "Youbelievethatthe menorah from the Temple of" "Solomon could be buried on Oak" "Island?" "Yeah,basically." "I'mactuallygettingmultiple signals."