"Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island..." "Everything's going in that dumpster." "There's something that comes from below, we'll find it." "I think there's something in the airlift." "Look at that." "That's a bone!" "Dan believes that there is a body down there." "Back on the hunt, in 10-X." "We know that FDR was interested in the treasure hunt here on Oak Island." "I was able to find the president's personal file." "Guess what I found in that folder?" "Whoa... that's remarkable." "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." "How much water you got?" "You're at two foot, nine inches." "Okay." "Down just a bit more." "It is the beginning of another momentous day on Oak Island..." "I think that's good." "As Rick Lagina, along with other members of the Oak Island team, begin pumping thousands of cubic feet of air into borehole 10-X in an effort to flush what they hope will be important artifacts up to the surface." "Everything's going in that dumpster." "There's something that comes from below, we'll find it." "Well, that's for sure." "The airlift works by inserting a pipe some 230 feet to the bottom of 10-X." "Then a large volume of compressed air is pumped down to force water, sediment, and any objects back up through the pipe to the surface." "The sediment, otherwise known as "spoils", is then deposited into a container and searched for potentially important artifacts." "Airlifting 10-X is the right thing to do." "I think the massive size of this equipment and the air we're gonna put to it, we're gonna bring up anything that's in that chamber that's worth seeing." "I really believe that." "Let's crack some more air." "Try giving it just a little bit more." "That's good!" "You're sucking dirt now." "How'd you like to have some of this equipment when you and I was working?" "I wouldn't know what to do with it all." "First drilled by Oak Island treasure-hunter," "Dan Blankenship in the early 1970s, 10-X was intended to be something of a" ""back door" into the so-called Money Pit." "Although Dan hit a booby-trapped flood tunnel at a depth of 60 feet, he kept drilling and digging, ultimately making 10-X the deepest borehole on the island, at a staggering depth of 235 feet." "How's the water in the hole?" "The water line is good." "You know Dan, I've been mesmerized by 10-X since I first saw those photographs." "I wonder if in half an hour we'll actually hold in our hands what you saw long ago;" "That's our hope." "Well... mine, too." "Mine too." "Yup." "When Dan put a camera down 10-X, he discovered what he maintains is evidence of human activity, including wooden posts, a large chest, antique tools and possibly human remains." "I..." "I'm on record saying there's a corpse down there." " Right." " Just watch out for bones." "Well, hopefully today we'll get some answers." "Unfortunately, in the 1980s," "Dan ran out of money to explore 10-X, until partnering with the Laginas ten years ago." "And it has taken him until now to try and prove that what he first discovered was not merely the product of his wishful imagination." "What's all this about?" "This came out of 10-X." "That came out of 10-X." "That came out of 10-X, and that came out of 10-X." "What more do you want, Marty?" "Chain, wire, and that low carbon steel." "It all tested out as being made prior to 1750." "All of that came from the bottom of the damn hole!" "All of those things?" "All of it came from the bottom of the hole." "I have a long history with 10-X." "I've always said, in order to put, at my brother calls, an "X" through 10-X, we need to find something." "Last year, Rick, Marty and the team arranged for professional diver," "John Chatterton, to successfully reach the bottom of borehole 10-X." "Due to dense layers of clay and sediment, visibility in the underground cavern was virtually zero." "What is that, John?" "Even more disappointing was the report John Chatterton issued after making the harrowing dive." "I had a rock that I would estimate was 10 inches to 12 inches." "I picked it up, I moved it, it was... it was heavy." "To me, that was what gave you the sonar signal of the box." "Because the data retrieved from the dive conflicted with other data," "Rick, Marty and the team are hoping that today's efforts to airlift 10-X will give them a reason to continue investing both time and money at this site." "Right now, everything seems to be working well." "This scares the out of me, if you know what I mean." "You're afraid the cavity might collapse, or...?" "I'm afraid of..." "I'm afraid that area between 212 and 214 may collapse." "You remember, I told you, there's a fissure around 212?" "Right." "During one of his dives into 10-X in the 1970s..." "Dan Blankenship noticed a large and potentially dangerous fissure in the anhydrite bedrock, starting at a depth of approximately 212 feet." "If the enormous pressure caused by the airlift process triggers a collapse, the result would be catastrophic, as far as any further ability to explore 10-X is concerned." "Watch the hose, there!" "Just see if you can help Michel out with that other pump, there." "Suddenly, something appears to have caused the airlift to stop working." "Shut her down." "Okay, you turn yours off." "I think there's something in the airlift... it's thumping." "Let's lift it up, check if we got a clog." "Let's try that." "You only gotta come up 10 or 15 feet." "I don't know why they pulled up." "Probably what I had feared, that that damn roof caved in." "If you feel the hose, it's pounding." "It's like there's something caught in it." " We got a plug in there." " Yeah." "Is it possible that a large object has clogged the airlift?" "If so, what could it be?" "A large rock?" "Or perhaps one of the objects Dan Blankenship claims he saw some 40 years ago?" "So, where are we, what's your plan here?" "So, right now our water flow wasn't there, so we think we had a plug up inside." "We're going to try it again." "I think the plug is cleared out of the airlift." "So, we'll give it another kick and see what happens." "All right." "Leave it open." "That's perfect." "All right, we're seeing some activity here." "Hear the dirt?" "There it is." "Working well, now." "With the adjustment having been made by the team from Irving Equipment Ltd., the airlift process resumes." "We just want to get our water flowing properly here, and once we get that going, we want to lift for maybe another 20, 30 minutes, and then we'll drain that out and see what's in there for sediment." "It's going to be interesting." " It's hard to say." " Hope we find something." "I hope so, too." "As we move forward with the airlift in 10-X, it's exciting." "We've worked out the kinks in the system and now the airlift should be able to proceed uninterrupted." "The whole idea, of course, is to get the material off the floor in 10-X." "And I think, at this point, we'll be successful." "Let's shut down and we'll drain that out." "Close it." "Whatever materials are on the bottom of 10-X should now be in that dumpster." "After draining the water from the inside of the metal container, the Oak Island team can now begin their inspection of the 10-X spoils." "I don't know what to say about it;" " I was expecting a lot more." " Yeah." "Rick, Charles and Jack will first empty the contents of the container into the 21.5-ton front-end loader." "From there, the spoils can be deposited at a neutral location to be meticulously searched for artifacts, or potentially valuable clues." "Jack!" "Right here." "Jack, that looks interesting." "I'll bag it." "This..." "I think this is..." "I don't know what that is." "It's not steel." "Jack, you got another bag?" "Several pieces came up out of the hole." "Incredibly blackened, I don't think it's wood," "I have no idea what it is." "Rick!" "Come here!" "Look at that." "That's a bone." "A bone?" "Found in the mud and sediment that Rick and the team just pumped out of borehole 10-X?" "Can kind of still feel the marrow in there..." "Jack, come here!" "You got a baggie, Jack?" "We got a bone here." "You gotta come see it." " All right." " You got a baggie?" "Could Charles Barkhouse have just found evidence of human remains?" "Whoa!" "Perhaps validating what Dan Blankenship claims he saw four decades ago?" "It's black." "Charles found a bone." "At that point, is it human or animal?" "Human or animal?" "If it's a human bone, wow, what does this mean?" "That needs to go to a forensic pathologist." "Exactly." "We're gonna, pretty much have to sift through here." " Absolutely." " Yeah." "It's gotta go through a fine-tooth comb, no question." "And get every bone we find tested." "Everything." "Every wood fragment." "If any of them turn up to be human," " that will be big." " That would be big." "It will prove that there was a body down there." "You're right." "We bag and tag everything." "But, let's get this cleared out for now." " Well, that's our plan, then." " That's our plan." "Jack's gonna be in charge." "He'll build a screen, put the sediment on a little bit at a time, wash the material and then visually inspect it." "It's gonna be very tedious, but Jack's up to the task and he's excited about doing it." "After spending the last several days collecting and sifting through the spoils from the bottom of 10-X..." " Ready?" " Is the hose powered on, still?" "Yep." "Jack Begley along with his stepfather, Craig Tester, are nearly finished searching them for valuable artifacts." "Alright, this is the last load of 10-X." " Hopefully there's a..." " A coin?" "A coin in here, yeah." "We have this diamond mesh trough that we pour the spoils out onto, and then spray 'em down with a hose to get the clay off quicker, and hopefully reveal as much man-made stuff as we can." "I'll get this out of the way." "I do about half, and I just kind of let... yeah." "Beat it on the side a little bit." "That's probably good." "There's a chunk of wood." "Did you find anything this big before?" "No." "Here, let me clean that off." "Now, is this the dimension that was in Dan's films?" "It's so hard to tell, because there's no good, you know, focus on, or how far away it was." "You can definitely see it's cut here..." "But it doesn't look like a circular saw." "No, by no means." "No, this is..." "Older, then." " Hopefully." " Yeah." "This wood looks like some of the wood that I saw on Dan Blankenship's film back when he originally went down in 10-X." "It looks really old, and you can see the handsaw marks on it." "I think it's some great information." "Look at this." "Black wood with that-that tar stuff." " That tar stuff?" " Yeah..." "I mean, does this look like pitch to you?" "Could be." "I know they used to use pitch blend as a sealant on ships and other places." "Original people here, because they came in ships, they would have had access to it." "The use of pitch, also known as resin, dates as far back as the third millennium BC, to ancient Egypt, where it served as caulking between the wooden deck planks of sailing vessels." "It was later used as a sealant for waterproofing wooden chests." " That same material." " Yeah." " Maybe the same material." " I think it's the same." "Based upon what" "Craig and I found in the 10-X spoils, it's encouraging." "Not only is it stuck onto rocks and other things," " but onto that wood." " Onto that wood, which is..." "Because we could date that, yeah." "Yep." "There's several items that seem that they could be from original people, and we're gonna have to show this stuff to Dan Blankenship and to the rest of the group, 'cause there's a lot of stuff" "in here that could prove whether or not 10-X is worthwhile." " We got a bunch of bags full." " Yep, definitely." "Think this'll do it." "Okay, well let's take a few of the more interesting things and show 'em to the guys." "Sounds good." "The agenda is what we've done at 10-X... and, everyone knows that we tried to airlift." "After nearly a week of sifting through the hundreds of pounds of sediment that the airlift brought up from the bottom of borehole the Oak Island team has gathered in the War Room to assess their most interesting finds." "I mean, as the process was going on, we could hear the material rattling through that pipe, and we shoveled it out." "Jack, I don't know, you've gone through it." "You and Craig have gone through it." "What'd you come up with?" "Um... pieces of wood." "Would these have been anything that you dropped into the hole?" "Hell, no, because this is deteriorated so much." "That's older than I am." "'Cause, I had wondered if this is possibly original." "That's old!" "There's no question about that." "But in the same token, that's the first man-made wood that I've seen come out of 10-X." "And you can see the cuts, too!" "There's no question that was cut with a handsaw." "But you know that you didn't put or use any wood like that around 10-X?" "I know I didn't!" "I wouldn't have a saw that would make that cut." "Well, that's not... that's not all we found, though." "We also found wood with some sort of black substance." "I found it on a couple different items that were brought up." "Could the original people have used this for some purpose in 10-X?" "I don't know." "Did you use anything like that when you were working in 10-X?" "Hell, no." "No, I know that's not from mine..." " No." "Jack, we drilled." " Why are we throwing in?" "Dan was sitting right there and he said," ""we didn't put these in there."" "He couldn't think of anything he would have put in." "I took him to mean the entire hole." "Let me see that." "In other words, nothing like that could have fallen in there, even." " Okay, let's get it dated." " Absolutely." "We have to do that." "Yeah, for sure." "Without a question, this is not something that was dropped in the hole by..." " Us." " Well, then that's great news." "I am very satisfied with what we did in 10-X." "We've got a bunch of things to run tests on, and if they come back, you know, as an "a-ha!" moment, then yeah, then 10-X is right back on the list." "Okay, so there's not quite an "X" in 10-X, that's what we're saying here." "Right." " You agree to that?" " I'll agree to that." " Not quite." " Okay." "All right." "One day after the team's decision to maintain their search operation at borehole 10-X," "Rick, Marty and the team are about to begin another major operation at Smith's Cove." "They are hoping to discover one or more of the box drains, which are believed to fill the booby-trapped flood tunnels in the Money Pit with ocean water." "If successful, they might be able to turn off the water before they begin digging their third major exploration shaft in the area." "Okay guys, here's the guy who's going to be in charge of the layout of the bladder," " Jeremy." " Morning!" " He's our boss this morning." " Okay." "All right, what's gonna happen here is we're going to go out and survey the water just to make sure there's no shar-sharp objects or stuff." "Anything that's going to interfere..." "I thought you were going to say sharks." "I did, too." "But, then we're going to roll out our first dam, and we'll fill it up, so we're gonna get fairly wet." "So not only is this a practical application of your product, but... history in the making." " Sounds great." " Okay." "Let's do this!" "It was at Smith's Cove in 1850, that treasure-hunters from the Truro Company reportedly uncovered five intricately constructed stone box drains, which seemed to converge into a single tunnel." "The drains were covered by layers of coconut fiber and eelgrass, which acted as a filter to keep out sand and debris." "It was this system that was believed to be feeding ocean water into the booby-trapped flood tunnels that had thwarted efforts to dig in the Oak Island Money Pit." "The temporary cofferdam will be composed of four 100-foot inflatable bladder sections, which will be connected to form an arc around Smith's Cove." "Once the cofferdam is installed, Rick, Marty," "Craig and the team will be able to pump water out of the enclosed area, in order to do a safe and thorough search for any portions of the original box drains that may still be intact." "So, the middle of that would correspond pretty much to where we want the main excavation." "Around this here." "Okay." "Dan Henskee located the area of interest, and Dan believes, and I believe in Dan, that there is a small undisturbed section of the box drains, or the booby-trap system, or the drain system, however you want to define it." "I think it still exists." "So, we'll start with the 50-footer right here, work our way down to the bank, and we'll get to Marty and the excavator situated just over here so that he can swing them out as we need them." "So, I'll pick up this first one and go plunk it in the water." " Yes." " Okay." "I think the Smith's Cove work is every bit as exciting as the Money Pit work." "And, the Smith's Cove work, deals with the original story." "Where do you want it?" "Right there, we'll float it around." "We just gotta turn it around." "Whoa!" "That could've hurt!" "Are there really box drains in Smith's Cove?" "We know there's coconut fiber." "Dated very early." "But there are no photographs of the box drains." "So, if we find a box drain, it's surely historically significant." "And for that to happen, for us, at this time frame, it's very important." "Watch yourselves." "We're already half-way done." "Or almost." "Okay, that's good for now, guys." "Let's get one person on the other side of this tube here." "Just gonna fold it back." "Look, it's unrolling itself." "I'm very anxious, and very hopeful about the work we're about to conduct in Smith's Cove." "Answers, I think, are waiting for us behind that cofferdam." "If that drain system is still there, it proves, or goes a long way to prove, that Oak Island is real, to the most hardened skeptic." "The pumps are working and water's coming in." "We've already got a little bit of growth in the dam down here." "This one won't take that long to fill, because it's all on the slope, right?" "Using a pump, each section of the bladder will be inflated with 120,000 gallons of seawater, ultimately forming an 8-foot high barrier." "It's probably almost full by now." "Yeah." "I guess we'll know once and for all if the flood tunnels or box drains are really here." "Yeah." "That could be before the end of this week." " Yeah, could be." " We're due for a success." "No!" "It burst!" " We got a big leak." " Whoa!" "You're losing water!" "It's pouring out over there!" "We got a rupture!" "That is not good." "Why would that happen?" "At Smith's Cove, the water-filled cofferdam that Rick, Marty and the team are installing has inexplicably split wide open." "What happened, do you know?" "She ruptured." "It's a gaping hole like that!" "The sudden failure of the cofferdam, which is made of highly durable, layered polypropylene plastic, deals a devastating blow to contractor, Jeremy Frizzell." "In fact, after witnessing more than 100 successful prior installations, he has never seen anything like it before." " You think it was... damaged?" " It's stretched." "Yeah, you can feel that." " It's stretched." " Yeah, you can feel..." "It's unusual." "Must have been..." "I don't know what it..." "It's hard to say..." "She blew out with considerable force." "Yeah, she did." "I've never, ever, seen that before." "There have been multiple, multiple equipment failures on this island, things that just should not go wrong, go wrong." "Over the past two centuries, treasure hunters on Oak Island have been plagued by countless equipment failures and hundreds of bizarre, sometimes fatal, freak accidents." "Such was the case on March 26th, 1897, when a pulley system at the Money Pit suddenly broke loose, causing a worker named Maynard Kaiser to fall more than" "100 feet to his death." "Shortly afterwards, rumors of a deadly curse began to circulate, including one which states that seven men must die in active pursuit of the treasure before the Oak Island mystery can be solved." "It could be weeks before I get a replacement." "We'll get her done." "You may be not used to this, but we're used to it." " Yeah." " Yeah, I'm definitely not used to it, so..." " We'll keep moving forward." " Okay." "Although this latest setback will cost." "Rick, Marty and the team both in time and money, they are committed to making this year the most successful one yet, as far as their efforts to solve the mystery are concerned." "There's lots of what ifs and who knows going on at this point, but, we are a community of people, committed to one single endeavor, and that is to solve the Oak Island mystery." "We will lock arms and get that done." "So, I think everyone knows..." "Doug, and Paul, of course." "The next day, as the team awaits news concerning their prospects of replacing the ruptured cofferdam," "Rick Lagina has invited researchers Doug Crowell and Paul Troutman to the War Room." "Paul is the son of James Troutman, who worked on the island for Robert Dunfield in 1965." "That's strange, look at these rocks right here, look at the heat coming off these rocks." "That is incredible." "Like his father, he is also committed to helping solve the Oak Island mystery." "Paul, you've done some interesting work, so I'll let you dive right in, and let's see what you've got." "Well thank you, Rick." "I've found some very interesting material." "Through some certain circumstances," "I actually found a letter that actually was for FDR, from, Duncan Harris was his name." "He was a personal friend of the Roosevelt's." "Yep, and he apparently was the point man for FDR, on Oak Island, and a secretary for him." "Of the hundreds of people over the past two centuries who have searched for treasure on Oak Island, one of the most intriguing is none other than." "U.S. President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt." "As a young man, FDR was a member of the Old Gold Salvage and Wrecking Company that launched a major search operation on the island in 1909, under the leadership of Captain Henry L. Bowdoin." "Although Roosevelt later went on to become President of the United States, he never lost his interest in the search for treasure on Oak Island." "I went through the archives and I actually pulled his folder from the president's personal file." "And guess what I found in that folder." "Lots of Oak Island information and letters." "There's a letter from Gilbert Hedden in there." "That's a picture of Bowdoin, and a salvage operation." "Now this one will be of personal interest to you, Charles." "This actually confirms that FDR was a masonic member, actually." "Yes, so was Erwin Hamilton, so was Gilbert Hedden." "The list goes on and on." "This is a folder called "Knights Templar,"" "and the masonic people were actually writing to him as "his excellency."" "There are many who believe that the mysterious order of warrior monks known as the Knights Templar took possession of priceless religious objects during the Crusades and hid them away, perhaps on Oak Island, sometime around the 14th century." "It is also believed that, in recent years, the society known as Freemasons continue to maintain many of the Templar traditions and sacred responsibilities." "Could Paul Troutman be on the verge of a major discovery linking the Oak Island treasure to the 32nd President of the United States?" "So, this whole archive is filled with letters, photographs..." "You ran across a treasure trove of documents, in its own right." "I did." "There is a lot of material to look through, which I'd love to show you." "Would you be interested in joining me in going to the archives?" " No." " I'm in." " Of course, we would!" " Okay, okay." "I figured you might be." "FDR's involvement is well documented on Oak Island, his belief in it, even in his latter years." "There's probably documents in the library." "Is it a place that I would like to go?" "I'm sure we all would like to go." "This is an information hunt every bit as much as a treasure hunt." " You've always said that, Rick." " I've always said that." "Let's go, and let's get this done." "You'll not get a "no" from any of us." " Let's go." " Let's do it." "NToday, it really is, like I've always said, an information hunt." "While awaiting the arrival of the new cofferdam system at Smith's Cove," "Rick Lagina and his nephew Alex have traveled nearly 700 miles, on their way to join researcher Paul Troutman at the FDR presidential library in Hyde Park, New York." "I don't think people, possibly no one has ever gone there before us, looking for Oak Island research in the museum." "It would be interesting to see, you know, who FDR was communicating with about Oak Island, and maybe other subjects as well." "That would be cool." "Any more evidence is great that you know you can count on, as you know, there's thousands of theories." " No shortage of theories." " No shortage of theories." "So, you can start plugging in to stuff, the info that you trust, and eliminating some of those theories, and I guess you can make progress that way." "The hope is, you know, we'll find some sort of documents, or, and/or pictures that will help us in the search." "As the 32nd President of the United States," "Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented four terms in office, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945." "An avid collector and historian in his own right," "Roosevelt strongly believed that the records he had amassed over his life, both as a private citizen and as a public official, belonged to the American people." "It was in this spirit that he donated nearly 16 acres of his family's property on the Hudson River so that the first presidential library could be built there." "The FDR library houses approximately 17 million documents pertaining to everything from Roosevelt's personal correspondence with the public... to private letters and records from his work as a New York attorney." "Paul Troutman has done very credible preliminary research and has indicated that there may be some answers at the FDR museum and, thus the need to go there and help with that undertaking." "Let me get the door for ya." "I love the information hunt." "It's-it's every bit as important as digging and drilling, in my opinion." " Hello!" " Hi." "Welcome to the FDR Presidential Library and Museum." "Thank you, appreciate that." " Hi." "Alex." " Hey, Alex." "My name's Cliff Laube, I'm the public affairs officer here at the FDR Presidential Library." "Perhaps you can clue us in, we're looking for an associate of ours, a researcher by the name of Paul Troutman?" "Yeah, right, he's in our research room," " I can take you there now." " Perfect." "It's a beautiful, beautiful building." "I was thoroughly impressed by the FDR complex, if you will." "It housed not only the FDR Museum, not only the-the research facility, but the original home, the original residence." "And, what it spoke to me was, what other knowledge, what other information will be garnered from this trip?" "Will we glean some nugget of information about his involvement with Oak Island?" " Right this way." " Thank you, Cliff." "Paul." " Hey, Rick." " Good to see ya." " How are ya?" " Thanks for coming." "Thank you." "Researcher, Paul Troutman, has spent the last several days scouring the library for any new information that might explain what drove FDR, an acknowledged member of the Freemasons, to devote so much of his life to the search for treasure on Oak Island." "Of all the persons and personalities that were involved in Oak Island, surely FDR is probably the premier persona, if you will, that became engaged in that process, so..." "He's a central figure, no doubt." "For me it's the "why" of FDR's involvement." "What made him commit to this endeavor?" "What kept him fascinated by the Oak Island story?" "We need to get to the bottom of it." "So, the reason why I pulled these boxes, specifically, is because these are his personal files." "If there's any reference or lead," "I would think they would be in his personal letter collection." "There's a lot of information here." "17 million pages, and out of all those 17 million, they've only scanned 10%." " Really?" " So, there's quite a few things to find." "So, Alex, what do you think?" "Obviously, there's a lot of stuff to go through here yet." "I mean, looks like we've got our work cut out for us." "What do you say we get to it?" "On those computers over there, you can access the database." "So that may be worth a look, too." " Yeah." " You wanna take over here?" " Yeah." " Okay." "While visiting the presidential library of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York," "Rick Lagina, his nephew Alex, and researcher Paul Troutman, are searching for information that could explain just why America's 32nd President remained interested in the search for treasure on Oak Island throughout his adult life." "There were 17 million sheaths of documents there." "Most of which have not yet been digitized, so it's-it's a difficult research agenda." "Just to give you a sense of what this collection is, it's called a president's secretary's file, and these are the documents that were so secret, personal or confidential that they were kept in FDR's secretary's office" "rather than sent down to the White House filing room." "Interesting." "Very interesting." " Yeah." " I was hoping to find something from around the time when we know he made a trip to Oak Island." "You know, between looking through the archives here, trying to track down the 90-foot stone, and even just sifting through the spoils piles..." "Okay, why don't we set you up at one of the tables over here?" "Sure." "We're not going to find what we're looking for quickly." "It's going to take a lot of work." " Take a look." " Great, thanks." "Going through the documents, it's a very tedious process, and my hat's off to every researcher anywhere, researching anything." "You have to comb through volumes of information to get one little treasure." "All right, let me see what I've got here." "I was able to find this reference in the database:" "It was called "Vertical Folder." "Oak Island, Nova Scotia."" "But, I was able to find some photographs and some other documentation, which we'll see here." "Okay, this letter right here, it actually does mention Oak Island in it." "There's a man named Richard Perkins, from Inglewood, California, who writes to the President to confirm that there was an actual expedition, and right here, the secretary, M.A. LeHand, is confirming that this was 1909" "and that there might have been more than one expedition." "At least two." ""It is true that the president visited" ""in search for this often-sought treasure about 1909." ""There have been two other expeditions, also," ""but the President understands the treasure has never been found."" "Wow!" "That's my first understanding of that, I've never heard of that." "That is kind of amazing." "The only one I had heard about was 1909." "And so, these, you know, this is kinda the first anybody is really seeing these." "Although Franklin Delano Roosevelt did help finance, and also took part in the search for treasure on Oak Island in 1909, his family's involvement with the mystery goes back much further." "In 1849, Warren Delano, FDR's grandfather, had been an adventurous entrepreneur whose investments in goods such as tea and the opium trade with China made his family among the wealthiest in the world." "That year, his interest turned to treasure hunting, and Delano became one of several investors in the Truro Company, the same organization that not only discovered the box drains at Smith's Cove in 1850, but also small bits of gold chain" "while drilling in the Money Pit." "I've always been curious of the why, the why of the whole Oak Island story, but in particular, why did FDR choose to engage in it, why was he so enthralled of the Oak Island story?" "Well, I might have the answer to that in the next folder." " Right here?" " Yeah, great." " Absolutely." " Scoot in here, Alex." "This right here, this is a biographer named Joseph P. Lash." "He wrote a book, two books, on FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt." "One of the interviews is with Duncan Harris." "The one that we-we found the Oak Island material on." "He went to Harvard, as well as FDR." "It says, "Franklin and I"" "went after the Oak Island treasure together."" "He went to Oak Island together, with FDR." "So, there is a distinct possibility that he's actually in the famous photograph." "Now, of course, here is FDR." "I'm not sure who Duncan Harris is, but apparently, he's in this photograph." "Either on top or on bottom, but I think he'd be in the front here, considering how close of a friend he was." "And in this statement, he actually says," ""It all started off for us," ""on the treasure hunting business," "Franklin..." which is F, "always interested in that." ""He thought they were the lost jewels of Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette."" "So, these were the lost crown jewels of France." "So, he thought it was Louis the 16th?" "That's remarkable!" "Well, there's my "why" of it." "Marie Antoinette?" "The crown jewels of France?" "Of all the various theories, perhaps none is as audacious, or compelling, as the one suggesting that precious jewels could be buried on Oak Island." "Or the claim that there isn't only one treasure hidden there, but several." "And that one of the guardians of that information might well have been one of America's most popular, and powerful, Presidents." "Next time on The Curse of Oak Island..." "They're saying that the Marie Antoinette jewels were buried in Canada." "There's more than just an interesting treasure." "FDR found answers." "I think we're into something, Rick!" "If there's a box drain, it leads to the flood tunnel." "It's proof that the original story is true." "Whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait!" "Rick, look at this." "That doesn't look natural to me." "If this is the shaft they found the gold," "I think we should dig right here." "X marks the spot."