"Tonight, on the season premiere of The Curse of Oak Island..." "Here comes the rig, Rick." "This summer I want to dig in the Money Pit." "It's time." "Out of the hole!" "ThisOakIsland map seems to indicate that someone came here in 1347." "On the face of the stone, you can see the cross of the Knights Templar." "There's a strange map, there's a description of a hatch." "Might this be the trap door, a back way in?" "There it is." "Holy smokes." "Thereisan 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." "Okay, big brother." "Here we are, heading back to Oak Island." "Where are we in the optimism chart?" "You need to ask?" "Yes, I'd like to know." "Eleven." "Eleven." "You're still an eleven?" "Yes because there's a difference between belief and proof." "Yeah, there sure is." "And, I believe." "Okay." "Inthetenyearssince brothers Rick and Marty Lagina have been actively trying to solve the Oak Island mystery..." "Definitely got wood." "...theyhave experienced both success..." "You think you're on the vault?" "...and setbacks." "Whoa." "Whoa!" "It didn't work." "Back to the drawing board." "But this year is different." "This is the year to come up with something." "We have to push the envelope." "I'm with you, brother." "Because this is the year when they and their partners have decided to invest more than $2 million in a go-for-broke effort to find out if something of enormous value was buried here centuries ago." "Hey, guys, we're back." "It's great to see you all." "Marty and I talked about coming over here." "He wants to get down to it." "I think we all do." "And to that end we have to decide what we're gonna do this year." "Time for action!" "I think it's time to dig in the Money Pit." "This year." " Who's on board with that?" " Yeah." "I think we're all on board with that." "We're all on board with that." "Perfect, we have consensus." " Yeah." " Last year, they... drilled a well," "went into a chamber..." "21 feet tall." "And the intriguing part is they ran a camera in it." "You can't argue with it, there's something gold-colored on the wall." "Last year, just before leaving Oak Island for the season," "Rick Lagina drilled an exploratory borehole at a place where Oak Island's historian, Charles Barkhouse, was convinced the team could find the site of the original Money Pit." " After drilling down to a depth of 170 feet, they came upon a 21-foot deep void." "Buteven more astonishing was what they saw after placing a pipe inspection camera into the hole." " What's that?" " It's a little shiny-like metal." "Yeah, it looks, it looks metallic." "Look at how yellow that is." "It's your gold color, David." "Yeah, there it is, David." "Right there." "What the hell is that?" "We don't know what it is, but it's definitely there." "Okay, the swamp, what do we want to do in the swamp?" "Yeah, I mean the key for the swamp is, you know, can we find evidence that, either it was man-made or it was drained back 300 years ago, some period of time?" "Look, now that we have a deal with Fred Nolan, the-the key to that is that we can finally drain the swamp completely." "When we do that, we can have full access physically, on foot." "And then perhaps, once and for all, we can fully explore the area." "Good morning, Fred." "Good morning." "Last year, and after a decade of tense negotiations, Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team were finally able to reach an agreement with fellow landowner and rival treasure hunter," "Fred Nolan." "It signaled a new era of progress and mutual cooperation on the island." "Welcome to the team." "Well, I don't want to be an obstacle anymore." "I'm too old for that now." "Okay, so, we're gonna get sub-bottom profile data." "Yes." "Okay, so that's enough with the swamp." "Okay, so let's prioritize and to that end we have to decide" "how we're going to do it, what we're going to do... -10-X!" " Yup." " 10-X, which I think is not dead, but at least on life support." "While looking for a back door into the so-called Money Pit in the early 1970s," "Oak Island resident, Dan Blankenship, drilled the 27-inch wide borehole known as "10-X,"" "down to a depth of 235 feet." "At the bottom, he saw what he believed to be man-made objects, including what appeared to be a wooden box." "But when acclaimed deep-sea diver, John Chatterton, explored 10-X last summer he reported the chamber was a natural formation." "Yeah, what-what is that, John?" "Andthat the so-called wooden box" "Dan claimed he had seen, was nothing more than a large, square-shaped rock." "Right about here," "I had a rock that I would estimate was ten inches to 12 inches, it was very angular, it had at least one 90-degree angle on it." "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." "10-X specifically, I think, we're across the board-- some of us are over here, some of us are over here." "Where are you?" "I mean, Dad's seen too much down there." "And then Chatterton, I actually think, you can't see." "Yeah." "No, I can't feel-I can't feel a thing out there." "There ain't all here." "He didn't find the square beam either." "He didn't find the posts and other stuff that were supposed to be there." "So, you know, maybe David's right." "He wasn't able to fully explore the cavity." "I understand what you're saying, but why isn't there something more substantial there?" "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." "We tested that, right?" "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." "Noonehasever accused Dan Blankenship of being namby-pamby about anything." "He has strong convictions, he's a strong personality, and he is totally convinced that 10-X was dug into man-made features." "And Dan is like Rick, he does not want to write off 10-X." "Chatterton said he moved the so-called box, right?" "Yeah." "If it, in fact, has been moved then I think he picked up the box and it was a rock." "I want to get Brian back here, right, and rescan 10-X" "All right. -because if that box has been moved, then you know Chatterton did what he said, he went over and picked it up and moved it." "And I think it's explored then." "That's what I say." "So, we have an unknown, so let's do it." "Let's go scan it." "Yeah." "If that box is still there I'm right with you guys." "So let's find that out." "Okay, fine." "Okay, guys, this has been great." "Good discussion." "We got a game plan for the whole summer." "There's 10-X." "Yeah." "The swamp." "Yeah." "And then there's the Money Pit, which is our first step." "Yes." "It's time to get stuff done." "Let's go." "Here comes the rig, Rick." "Yeah, let's go, let's get in the vehicle and lead them up." "Fornow,Rick,Marty and the team have resolved their differing opinions concerning the fate of 10-X." "They are firmly united when it comes to this year's primary target..." "I'm gonna move the backhoe, Rick." "...the Oak Island Money Pit." "Let's bring it over to this one." "But a large excavation of the Money Pit will not be easy." "Just like old times." "Yup, that's right." "Follow this track right here, and back right in there." "When the last such attempt was made in 1965..." "Come back." "...the hole that was dug was plagued by constant flooding and cave-ins." "Let's grab that back hammer." "Before the team can begin their excavation of the Money Pit, they must first remove old drill casings that had been left in the ground during their previous explorations." "Imean,it 'sareally simple method." "What they're doing is, they blow a hole in the pipe." "They stick a rod in there." "Then this hammer which pounds upward hooks onto that pin, and then they just put compressed air on the hammer." "It pounds up, literally, pounding the casing up." "Once it loosens, he thinks that they'll be able to-to pull it up with just the pressure off the rig, but to get it started, they need that hammer." "We'll surely have an idea of whether or not" " this is gonna work." " No, yeah, he'll be on to one by the end of the day," " I would hope." " Just one?" "Well, it depends, Jack." "He may hook onto that one, and slick, it'll come out just like snot, and then he may spend all day beating on the thing, and..." "And it hardly moves." "Yeah." "Yeah." "It all depends on how Mother Nature wants to grab it." "All right, well, let's get the real fun going." "There we go." "Walk that baby up!" "That ain't coming too good." "That ain't coming at all." "On the hand-drawn map, there's something called the hatch." "Rick!" "Don't you want to go dig up the hatch?" "Right about here is our search area." "Wow." "I think this is it." "TheOakIslandteam's efforts to begin clearing obstructions from the Money Pit have just experienced a serious setback." "One of the old drill casings refuses to budge." "If driller Arthur Jefferson can't remove the steel casing from what is known as the Valley Three borehole," "Rick, Marty, and their partners may not be able to dig in that area-- the same area where, two years ago, they found evidence of what could be a large, wooden vault buried some 143 feet deep underground." "That's what they found in the top of the vault." "We could use a little luck, don't you think?" "Yeah." "If the casing shears off, we're in trouble, because it's extremely difficult to deal with large steel underground, and if we move, we miss the target." "Finally,thesteel casing begins to move." "The old casings are coming out." "They're coming out intact." "We're not leaving any pieces in the ground so far." "It's working." "We're encouraged." "Okay, well..." "Let's go." "Withthetask of clearing obstructions from the Money Pit completed," "Rick Lagina and members of the Oak Island team gather in the war room." " Hey, guys." "Hey." " Hey, Rick." "They are joined by researcher and area historian Doug Crowell." "And attending via videoconference are Rick's brother Marty and their partner, Craig Tester, from their offices in Traverse City, Michigan." "Today, we have something that I think will astound you, and what little I know, it's remarkable." "All right, I'm with you." "To that end, I'll let Doug take over." "Gentlemen, hi." " How are you?" " Hi, Doug." "A couple of months ago," "I got introduced to this lady in New York who's been pursuing some Templar research for the last seven or eight years." "And she's actually followed the Templars out of the Holy Land and to the New World in her research." "Amongthemany persistent theories about Oak Island is that as far back as the 14th century, members of the Knights Templar-- while escaping from persecution in Europe-- sailed across the North Atlantic and buried an incredible sacred treasure on the island" "in order to keep it from harm." "Although much circumstantial evidence exists, no one has yet been able to prove that the Templars were ever in Nova Scotia, let alone buried treasure there." "Who is this mysterious woman?" "The lady's name is Zena Halpern." "Perhaps what we should do is introduce you to Zena herself." "Maybe we can get her in" "on a conference call." "I'm all ears." "ZenaHalpern is a New York-based author and researcher" " who is currently investigating what she believes is evidence of Knights Templar activity in North America." " Hello?" " Hi, Zena." " It's Doug." " Hi." "So, I'm with the folks on Oak Island." "And I just gave everyone here a little overview on what your research involves, and that you have some pretty interesting documents." "We have a map that shows Nova Scotia... we have a map of Oak Island... and then we have the cipher." "One of her research assistants knew of the work I was doing pursuing the history of the 90-foot stone and so they thought I should see this cipher." "And I was immediately intrigued, because this appears to be using the very same symbols that the cipher for the 90-foot stone uses." "Do you want to tell the guys how this cipher came into your possession?" "Two maps and a cipher that supposedly prove a Templar journey to the New World?" "But if such a journey happened, could additional evidence exist that they brought treasure to Oak Island, possibly sacred artifacts rescued from the Holy Land during the Crusades?" "I've never seen another cipher that uses the same symbols." "I mean, when you look there, you see more symbols than what was used in the 90-foot stone cipher, but there's way more to this cipher, as well." "The whole cipher doesn't seem to be here, it runs off the page." "This seems to be a fragment of a larger cipher," "and I've been trying to decipher." "Okay." "I started running it through the deciphering program that I have and running it through various languages and I started to get some hits in Portuguese." "Each symbol is a character," " each a-a letter?" " Right." "The words I've pulled out of it so far are "greyware," which is a term for pottery," ""gold,"" ""Cephala"-- the site of the first Portuguese fort and factory on the east coast of Africa in 1505-- and "Joab," a general in King David's army who spent a lot of time in northern Africa." "Sure." "Right." "In one of the stories I was reading, it was mentioned that Joab was pushing the Philistines back and he made it safe for the transport of the ark." "The ark?" "Could the cipher Zena Halpern found be referring to the ark of the covenant, the sacred golden chest built by the Israelites to house the Ten Commandments?" "According to the Bible," "Joab was a commander in King David's army charged with protecting the king's most precious objects." "Is it possible the so-called La Formule cipher actually holds a coded message connecting the fate of the ark of the covenant to the Oak Island mystery?" "And when I look at this, I say, okay, we've got the same symbols in two different ciphers, one that seems to pertain to Africa and then one that pertain to a message on a stone here on Oak Island." "Does this suggest that there's an organization out there that was using these symbols to encode messages?" "That were doing something in Africa and somehow, also, were here on Oak Island?" "A friend of mine bought this property that was built by the Knights Templar." "On the face of the stone, you can see the cross of the Knights Templar." "In the war room," "Rick, Marty, and their partners are meeting with area historian" "Doug Crowell." "Joining them on the phone is Knights Templar researcher Zena Halpern, who has just shared with them her recent discovery of two maps and a cipher, which she believes could help solve the Oak Island mystery." "The map that's dated in the upper right-hand corner seems to be dated 1179." "The Rhodon part... to me, it suggests New Ross." "And I think most people here are familiar with the idea that Henry Sinclair came over to Nova Scotia in 1398 and perhaps settled in the New Ross area." "Thetownof NewRoss in Nova Scotia is believed by some to have been the location of an ancient Templar fortress built in the late 1300s by Scottish Templar Knight Prince Henry Sinclair after his journey to Oak Island." "But could it be that Sinclair's reported journey occurred more than 200 years after the first Templars visited the area?" "And if so, might there be a connection between New Ross and Templar activity on Oak Island?" "So we have your map that shows Nova Scotia, and we have a map that seems to be a French map of Oak Island." "This Oak Island map that you're showing us, it seems to indicate that that someone came here in 1347." "Thehand-drawnmap is clearly Oak Island." "And then there are several things named in French, which have been translated for us." "One is called "the basin," translated from French." "Well, that clearly correlates to the swamp on the Nolan side of the island." "Also delineated is something called "the marsh,"" "and that would be the swamp proper." "And there is the reference to what's called "the dam."" "And it points to where Fred Nolan articulated to us last year that there was a log wall." "And then there's something on the map called" ""the oak enter here,"" "which points right about to where the Money Pit is." "And then we have two or three things that we don't know anything about." "One's called "the anchors," one's called "the valve,"" "and one's called "the hatch."" "Where it says "the hatch," in the McGinnis family, there seems to be some stories that..." "About this hatch." "Yeah." "One of the uncles, he said, basically, there's a hatch that you only have to sink a spade to find, and that, once you do, don't get lost down there." "Rick." "What?" "I think we should try and find out some way of verifying these documents." "I mean, Rick, don't you want to go dig up the hatch?" "No question about it." "Looking at these maps, you have a series of things that correlate perfectly with the island as we know it, and then you have things that we've never heard of." "So, of course, we want to search for them." "The story of this, I-I believe is multi-layered and very complex, so I want to continue down this road." "But there's a lot more work to be done on it." "Yeah." "Youknow,I'mnot sure that Zena's research is gonna lead to answers, but this whole place is all about rumor, conjecture, supposition, hope, belief." "And so she has a theory, which, uniquely, is backed up by documentation." "And I surely would regret not following up on this research." "Zena, we want to thank you for talking with us." "Thank you, Zena." "Thank you, Zena." "Bye-bye." " Bye." "Thanks." "It was very interesting." " Doug, thank you very much." " Yup." "Onedayafter the team's incredible conference call with Oak Island researcher" "Zena Halpern," "Rick Lagina, Charles Barkhouse, and researcher Doug Crowell travel to the small town of New Ross, Nova Scotia, approximately 20 miles north of Oak Island." "Alessandra Nadudvari, she's a fellow researcher and a friend of mine-- she and her husband have bought this property now that was purported to be the site of a castle." "Perhaps built by the Knights Templar." "If that connection can be drawn-- you couldn't ask for more than that." "Here we are, guys." "Right here on the left." "Right here?" "Yes." "Okay." "New Ross castle." "And there's Tim and Alessandra right there." "Hey, Rick." "Hello." "Gentlemen, I want to introduce you to Alessandra Nandudvari." "Researcherandauthor Alessandra Nadudvari, and her husband, Tim Loncarich, recently purchased this property in 2016." "And if you'd like, I'll show you what we've got." "Absolutely." "Lead on." "Theybelieve it was occupied centuries ago by members of the Knights Templar for the purpose of hiding something of either great historic importance or incredible value." "Well, welcome to our backyard." "In the 1970s, one of the previous owners was digging in the backyard here for a garden, and she started to uncover what she thought were foundation stones of an ancient castle." "When author Joan Harris purchased the property in 1972, the only sign of prior habitation was an old well, intricately constructed of small boulders." "Over the years, she uncovered the remains of an entire foundation." "This is one of the stones that she uncovered." "She called it the Herm Stone, and she felt that it could be a grave marker." "And if you look more closely on the face, it looks like there could be something carved on the face." "It's very worn, as it would be if it was 700 or 800 years old." "I think that, on the face of the stone, you can see a very faint outline of a cross." "It's a... in my opinion, what it looks like, it's a Christian cross, and no ordinary cross, but the cross of the Knights Templar." "This is the holy well." "Let's get a good look at the bottom." "Does that look like a flagstone floor?" "It does resemble a cross, and to me looks like the cross of the Knights Templar." "Specifically, Portuguese Templars." "I would love for there to be a Templar connection." "I find that..." "that niche in history-- the Templar years, if you want to call them that-- incredibly intriguing." "What makes it Portuguese Templar, if I can ask?" "The shape of it." "I've seen pictures of Portuguese Templar crosses on documents from the 1100s, and it's exactly this shape." "It has that beautiful rounded shape." "And it's oftentimes portrayed inside a circle." "That's funny, I can see the impression of that." "Yeah, I can." "Yeah." "CouldRickLagina and the others really be looking at a Portuguese Templar Cross?" "I mean, to me, this cut line here is very distinctive." "What draws my attention, really, is what we're not seeing." "If that is there, then what could be below?" "This" " There's a line... there's almost a cut mark here that's very intriguing." "Yes." "Yeah." "Do you know how large the stone is?" "And have you looked at the base of the stone for any carvings?" "Not yet." "We haven't done any excavation." "That's one of the next steps for us is to lift the stone and see what's under it." "You've got to be a bit..." "Curious." "More than a bit curious." "Yeah." "Right." "I mean, if you have a Templar cross, you know, you have to wonder what's down below." "Right." "Exactly." "Under the soil here, there are walls-- ancient foundation walls up to five feet thick that cover this area." "And the apex of that structure is the well over there." "Let's take a look at the well." "This is what for a long time has been called the holy well." "This water, for some reason, is supposed to have curative powers." "We've been told that the walls are about four feet thick." "And there are stories that there are also chambers leading off of the well." "But we don't know for sure." "Well, we might be able to help you with that today because I brought some equipment with me." "We could drop a camera down in the well." "That would be great." "There's always been this connection with Oak Island and New Ross." "And thus, you know, maybe we might be able to puzzle that connection out." "I don't know what we're gonna find, but we may learn something today." "Okay, folks, I think we're geared up here." "Rick, I'm gonna give you the monitor." "Okay." "Charles, if you'd manage the cables for me." "I will." "Yes." "Okay..." "You get a picture there?" "Yep." "Okay." "Rick, you kind of tell me when you want me to advance," "I guess-- I'll go slow." "Any indication of shaped stones, or just natural?" "No, field-- field rock." "Field rock." "Some ledge rock." "We're in water now." "Asit'sdroppingdown, my initial thought was this is extremely well-constructed." "I've built a lot of stone-- worked with a lot of stone in my life." "The walls hadn't caved in, they hadn't pushed in." "It was absolutely perfect construction." "No change in the stonework or the type of construct." "There are stories about archways." "There are stories about a rock that's supposed to have an "X" carved in it." "Yes, there's supposed to be something behind the arch, like... a chamber, or a vault." "All right, wanna go lower?" "Yep." "It's very good clarity." "I mean, it's..." "These stones are strange-looking." "These stones have angular features." "You know, they're maybe cut, maybe worked." "They're very smooth, actually, on three sides, definitely." "Yeah, they look like they've been shaped, or at least split." "Somebody went to a lot of trouble to build this." "We've found bottom, guys." "Or have come up against an obstruction, at least." "So we're about 18 feet deep, is what you're looking at right now." "And you can't go any deeper?" "When I let it down, I come up against something solid." "Whatcouldbe  causing Doug's camera to come to a halt at such a shallow depth?" "There's some... something going on here." "Yeah." "It appears as though it's silting in behind." "I don't know if that's the obstruction he's hitting, but there has been no evidence of collapse." "Idon'tknowanything about well construction." "I mean, this might be the way wells were done long ago." "Wait, wait, wait, what is that?" "Does that look like floor?" "I don't know." "But it's strange." "It looks like flagstones." "Flagstone floor?" "I want to show you guys that we're in the area of the hatch." "Okay, well, let's go look at it!" "There it is." "Holy smokes." "That doesn't look like soil, does it?" " No." "No, it looks like flagstones." "That is weird." "Look at this right here." "It's a strange, very strange, bottom." "I've never heard of wells with flagstones." "Inthetown of New Ross, some 20 miles north of Oak Island," "Rick Lagina, Charles Barkhouse and Doug Crowell continue to explore the inside walls of an old well." "It is located on property that researchers believe was once the site of a stone castle built more than 800 years ago by members of the Knights Templar." "Now didn't they find flagstone" "at the first level in the Money Pit?" "Yeah, they did at two feet down they did find flagstones, yes." "Which, oddly enough, they believe came from" "the mouth of the Gold River." "Yeah, that's..." "No way." "Which is..." "I'm not kidding you." "Yeah, no." "That's true." "Flagstones from the Gold River?" "The same river that also runs directly through the town of New Ross?" "Could Rick and the team have found yet another possible connection between the ruins at this ancient site and Oak Island?" "Flagstones are not native to Oak Island, so they believe that's where they came from." "It's a flat bottom." "There ar e some... markings in the floor, if you will." "It looks like a construct." " It looks like a laid floor." " Yeah." "Now if you laid the floor, why would you lay a floor at the bottom of a well unless you were to hide something beneath the floor?" "Maybe it's a ceiling" " and there's another chamber beneath." " False floor?" "I mean, : you hate to go down that road, but..." "Very interesting." "Thanks." "I'm coming up." "So,aftervisiting the site, is it interesting?" "Absolutely, because I love the mystery," "I love trying to plumb the depths of history to resurrect this story." "But there's still a lot of research to be done, and I very much look forward to the application of hard science to try to determine if there is indeed a connection from Oak Island to New Ross." "Look, there are so many similarities between what you intend to do and what we are currently doing." "You believe there's a wonderful story here, we believe there's a story on Oak Island." "You know, who knows if there are ties" "to both stories?" "Well, there's this great mystery, and we've been captivated by it." "We-we need to solve it." "And to that end, I just want to say:" "perhaps we can work together." "You know, we helping you;" "I would like to stay in touch." "Okay." "We'll keep you posted." "Perfect." "That's all we can ask." "Thank you very much." "Again, good luck." "I wish you nothing but the best." "Havingfoundclues that give credence-- not only to a connection between Oak Island and New Ross-- but also to the strange map from researcher" "Zena Halpern, Rick Lagina has reason to believe that he and the team may be on the verge of a major breakthrough." "Mybiggesttakeaway from the New Ross experience, is that there are answers to be found about Oak Island perhaps at New Ross." "I mean, that's what's intriguing." "Where are the answers?" "You know, are they in an archive in Spain?" "Are they in a museum in Portugal?" "Are they 17 miles away from us in New Ross?" "That's what was interesting." "Well,I thinkthewell is the first place you got to look." "'Cause God knows what you're gonna find." "Really, it's a question for you." "You're the researcher here." "That's one of our primary leads we should follow." "NARRATOR After returning from their trip to New Ross," "Rick Lagina and Charles Barkhouse meet with other members of the Oak Island team at the Mug  Anchor Pub in Mahone Bay." "It was a very interesting afternoon, no doubt about it." "Theyareeager to share their findings, and also discuss next steps in their investigation of Zena Halpern's incredible theory." "Zena gave us both La Formule and the French map." "So, I think we need to investigate the French map." "I want to look for that hatch." "If it's there, and there's tunnels" "in the west side of the island..." "Look, you'll not be getting a disagreement from any of us about that." "You find a doorway," " all bets are off." " Yes, but... the hatch was pretty close to your backyard." "I say we devote some time to really hunting down this hatch." "I've got a couple ideas on how we can find it." "You look for a depression." "Dave, didn't you find a depression somewhere near your house?" "Yeah, that's on lot 22, just on the other side of my lot line." "I think I know exactly where it's at." "A depression?" "In the same area where researcher Zena Halpern's strange map indicated that a so-called "hatch" would be located?" "Fred and Dan have always said that the workings underground here are extensive, and would it be incredible that there's a hatch, a trap door, a back way in, to the underground workings?" "Of course it would be." "Well, maybe we take a better look at that depression, and..." "I say we go with any clue we can and try to really find this hatch while we have a chance to." " It should be explored, yeah?" " No, absolutely." "Sothisis an anomaly you located, David?" "Yeah, I found it when we were looking for a deer back here," " and I almost fell in it." " Really?" "Afterobtaining what is reported to be a centuries-old map of Oak Island," "Rick, Marty and their team are eager to investigate what Dave Blankenship has just described as a "strange depression" in the ground near his property." "Again,it'schasedown the clues, you know, and this is indeed a very intriguing clue." "Would I love it to be a back door to the underground workings under Oak Island?" "Well, I mean, that's..." "You think?" "It would be incredible." "I want to show you guys that we're in the general area of the supposed hatch." "Here, let me show you in the back of the Yukon." "I can project it onto the French map that Zena gave us." " Okay, let's look." " Look..." "The approach I took was to try to fit the old French map that Zena gave us with new satellite imagery." "And so I blew up the old French map, and it's really close, and I want to show you guys, you know, how close it is and how much it lines up." "See how bad it's off." "At least the top end of it is, follows the coast line the same." " You mean, like..." " It's parallel." "Look at the top of that." "It follows it perfectly." "It's just offset." "Yeah..." "And we don't know how much, and-- that was 1300s-- how much has eroded off the island." "This is probably as good as I'm going to get it," " for now." " That's good, Jack." "Um..." "The thing is, it is in this general area." "Right here, right underneath it is where your driveway meets the main road." "And this little thing down here is your house." "But right about here is our search area." "There's this strange map, there's a description of the hatch, there's no GPS coordinates, mind you, it's just a general area." "Might this lead us somewhere, might this be the described hatch on the... on that little piece of paper?" "Maybe." "I don't think we have a very good description of what the hatch is even supposed to look like, right?" "No, we don't." "But that's where" " it ties in." "David found an anomaly..." " Yeah." "A hole over here." "Yeah." "Right about where it should be." "This hatch lands kind of where David said..." " The hole is." " Yeah." "It's close enough, let's go look at it." "Let's go!" "All right, well... well, make sure I'm going the right direction." "Where should I go in at, David." "Go in here, by the pole." " Right here?" " Yup." "Give him a wide berth." "With that thing, you got that right." "Okay," "I think it's clear enough, we can get through here." "I think this is it here." "Wow." "Holy smokes!" "CouldtheOakIsland team have just found the mysterious "hatch"" "that was indicated on Zena Halpern's 14th century map?" "If so, what will it reveal?" "A back door into the Money Pit?" "Or perhaps... a gateway that leads directly to an incredible treasure?" "That's the oddest thing on this side of the island." "Thisseason,on  The Curse of Oak Island..." " I hear it." " It's a historic day." " Yeah, here she be." " Now it's time to dig in the Money Pit." "That's where it started... and that's where we need to make it end." "We're throwing everything we got at this thing." "All right, all right, let's go." "Come on!" "It's go time!" "Huge gear is coming in." "That's beautiful." "It's deeper than anyone's ever been in the Money Pit." " What do you got, Tony?" " I've got a triangle." "This thing's amazing." "Nowwehave a bunch of targets." "There is something there." "I found something!" " You can see the cross." " Templar." "Have you ever seen anything like this?" "No." "That's not natural." "What the hell's that?" "Do you see that?" "That's a bone, isn't it?" " Holy!" " We're poised on the vault." "How prophetic is that?" " We got wood!" " Wood!" "This is a structure." "There's no doubt about that." "Man, did we bingo that." "Yeah!"