"Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island..." "This, the actual start of this Money Pit dig." "The story of Oak Island revolves around this spot." "You're a part of history now." "So, these are the interesting targets in the swamp." "Let's get out there and get some answers!" "The easiest thing is to put a diver back in there." " I've got something!" " What is that?" "Wow, it's huge." "What is this?" " What does that look like?" " Looks like an "X" with a hook." "Is that symbol the Templars?" "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." "It is a day of profound change and sadness on Oak Island." " Hey, guys." "Hey!" " Hey, guys." " So?" "Well?" " How'd it go?" "So how'd it go, guys?" "It was a..." "it was a very nice service." "About 100 people there." "Rick Lagina..." "Along with Dave Blankenship and island historian Charles Barkhouse..." "Have just returned from the funeral of Fred Nolan, a man who, like Dave's father, Dan Blankenship, was considered to be one of the most important figures in the 221-year effort to solve the Oak Island mystery." "There's a nice thing on the back here." "It's some kind of tribute to surveyors." "So, I'll read it in honor of Fred." " How's that?" " Fine." ""The Surveyor." ""He thrives on patterns," ""his marks and monuments transform a wilderness," ""and by his carefully tagged and numbered squares" ""he clothes in certainty," ""in geometrical designs," ""man's ancient rights." ""He scans the skies, reading some far-off star" ""by which he plots meridians" ""and makes his maps, stitching a newfound world" ""into a patchwork quilt," ""a net of metes and bounds, so lands may know their own and live in peace."" "As one of the most prolific land surveyors in Nova Scotia," "Fred Nolan first came to Oak Island in 1958 and was later invited to survey the island in 1961 by landowner M.R. Chappell." "After locating what he believed to be a number of ancient stone markers and monuments," "Fred became convinced that the key to solving the Oak Island mystery was to search above ground rather than below it." "But perhaps his most incredible discovery came in 1981, when he identified five cone-shaped boulders on his property that form a perfectly symmetrical pattern, later known as Nolan's Cross." "Fred, first of all, I just want to say thanks for coming to the war room." "Last year, after a long period of bitter rivalry between Fred Nolan and fellow Oak Island landowner and treasure hunter Dan Blankenship," "Rick, Marty and Craig successfully persuaded Fred to join forces with the Oak Island team and begin sharing valuable information." "How many years' work does this map represent?" " 40, 50 years." " Wow." "He brought something to the island, the search, that no one else in the 221 years prior to him brought." "And that is a hard science, a discipline, and to work with him was incredible." "Rick certainly knew him better than I did." "So Fred's passing was quite upsetting to Rick because, to Rick, he was a legend." "And you know what?" "God bless my brother, because Rick is a guy who believes completely in heroes." ""So lands may know their own and live in peace."" "And now it denotes an inflection point." "There's everything before Fred Nolan, and now there's going to be everything after, and it'll be different." "So, you know, I know it's a somber thing for you," "Rick, um, and you know, you admire determination." " I mean, the guy was fierce." " Yep." "No question." "Well, it has been a sad couple of days for me, but look," "I'll speak for myself, and I... you know, maybe if everybody wants to confirm it." "I'm more dedicated than ever." "The quest goes on." "Yeah." "As you correctly say, we have the objective, and the quest, to continue." "So... do we have any understanding of how this might affect us?" "In the immediate, as we look out," "I'm a bit troubled, because I had outlined what I thought was a fairly serious agenda, working in the swamp with Fred." "There's no question that Fred's passing could easily have a negative impact on moving forward in the swamp." "You can't put a puzzle together if part of the pieces are missing." "I'll go out on a limb here and say," "I think, with a high confidence, but not exact, that we can still do anything in the swamp." "My understanding is the treasure trove license, it would pass with his estate, which would mean our deal with him would also be valid." "I think we have the rights to continue." "Yep." "Yep." "So, um, with that said, let's switch topics here for a second." "So, we have the Money Pit looming large." "We do have contractors, and they are coming out, I believe." " Yep." " These are the companies that would have the ability to push a caisson down deep enough so we can get a human being down in the Money Pit area." " Good." " Which is pretty cool." "So, that's what's gonna happen, and beyond that, Rick, um..." "Well, look, here's the thing for me:" "It's been a long day." "It's a sobering reminder that time waits for no one." "And we're all getting older." "So, let's get out there and get some answers." " Hear, hear!" " Hear, hear." "On the morning after Fred Nolan's funeral, Rick," "Marty and their partners have turned their attention once again to this year's most ambitious..." "And costly... operation:" "The excavation of two target sites at the Money Pit." "To accomplish this, they have brought in a team from Brycon Construction who will first create a new access road leading to the site." "Then, they will move tons of earth in order to create a completely flat surface." "This will allow the team to bring in the massive cranes and steel caissons that will be driven more than 140 feet deep into the ground." "I don't even want to look." " We're here?" " Yeah." "As the work continues," "Rick Lagina and island historian, Charles Barkhouse, arrive at the Money Pit to see how much progress has been made so far." "Wow!" "I was shocked to see what they had done." "We're that much closer to the objective, i.e." "getting to the bottom of the Money Pit." "They're all about getting the job done, as efficiently as possible, as aggressively as possible." "I mean, if this is a sample of what's to come." "I mean, of course you're optimistic." "It's amazing." "It would have taken us two months." "Look, Rick, look at the pile of timber here." "Lots of timber here." "Well, what do you make of it?" "That's some pretty big timbers," "I mean, it's all through here." "I mean, just wherever you walk you can see it." "I'm looking around three-sixty, and I can see it everywhere." "As the earthwork project proceeded, I mean, we knew, the layout of the quote-unquote," "Dunfield Spoil piles, when he dug this large excavation down into the Money Pit." "We knew there might be some artifacts, if you will, but to find them, a large amount of wood," "I mean, of course it's exciting." "In 1965, Oak Island treasure hunter," "Robert Dunfield began an ambitious and extensive excavation of the Money Pit area..." "In a desperate attempt to reach the mysterious wooden treasure vault that was reportedly discovered by William Chappell in 1897." "Over a period of four months," "Dunfield and members of his team, which included Dan Blankenship, dug a massive 100-foot wide," "140-foot deep hole." "In the process, they pulled up and discarded more than a century of searcher tunnels and other debris that had been buried in the area." "Unfortunately, heavy winter rains and massive flooding, possibly from underground booby traps, caused the giant hole to collapse before Dunfield could ever reach his target." "I mean, look, there's another piece over here." "Look." "It's everywhere." "Hey, look!" "Pottery." " Pottery?" " Yeah." " Well I don't know but..." " That is pottery." "Look!" "Pottery!" "That is pottery." "While examining a mound of dirt created by the preliminary excavations being conducted at the Money Pit," "Rick Lagina and Oak Island historian, Charles Barkhouse, have just made a potentially important discovery." "You can see the glazing in there." "See that right there, the little lines?" "Yeah." "You know, I mean, that might be worth testing." " Yeah." " You know, you can see the..." "The... hey, look." "What?" "You got another piece?" "Wow!" " It looks like a plate." " Yes, look you can see the..." "That's the..." "The rim." "." "Wait a minute." " What is that?" " Here, hold that." "Is that a design?" "Yeah, you can see it right there." "Some kind of glazing." "Some blue something." "Yeah." "I mean, you can see the rim on it, too." " Right there." "Look." " Yeah, that's a plate." "Yeah, it's a plate, exactly." "Because the area around the Money Pit has been the focus of treasure hunting activity for more than 200 years, it is difficult for Rick and Charles to determine whether the bits of pottery were left there by previous treasure hunters," "or by visitors to the island before the Money Pit was first discovered in 1795." "You know, somebody can look at that and from the design." " Yeah." " Maybe a pottery expert, someone who's familiar with designs from long ago." "Could it be original?" "Could it be searchers?" "I have no idea." "I mean, it just proves that this whole area is spoils." "Yep." "What else is here?" "'Cause Dunfield did not go through it." "Finding the two samples of pottery..." "I mean, those are small tokens of what might be in the Money Pit." "What might become of this excavation." "How many answers?" "To what extent?" "I mean, it's rather exciting." "Hey, Rick, what is this?" " What have you got?" " I don't know." "It looks like tile." "It's kind of curious." "What is it?" "Strange looking." "It is strange." "Look at the back... and then you look at how flat it is on the face." "You'd think this face would be dimpled like this, but it's not." "You're right." "I was intrigued cause Charles' verbiage was," ""Hey, I found a piece of tile."" "Tile?" "Really?" "In the Money Pit?" "Let's wash it off, and take a look at it." "We've found pottery up there." "But what's a piece of tile doing up there?" "What have you got, Rick?" "Is it any clearer?" "Now, it could be nothing, and it could be something." "Really?" "We got an "A-ha!" moment?" " Maybe!" " Really?" "I'm not going to tell you what I see." " Okay." " You tell me what you see." "Now this could be nothing, okay?" "Look at this." "It looks like an "X" to me." "Charles, what does that look like?" "You can see that indent that..." "You see that?" "What that looks like is a... is an an "X" with a hook," " is what that looks like." " Isn't that amazing?" "A piece of tile featuring a carved "X"... with a hook?" "In recent years, a growing number of researchers and scholars, most notably forensic geologist Scott Wolter, have suggested that the symbol of a so-called," ""hooked x" is based on an ancient rune symbol, that was adopted by the Knights Templar and used to mark their path during their exploration of North America as far back as the 14th century." "Two weeks ago, during a conference call with New York-based author and researcher, Zena Halpern, the Oak Island team was presented with two maps and what was alleged to be a copy of an ancient document with markings similar to those carved" "on the stone slab found in the Money Pit in 1804." "Is it possible that what Rick and Charles are looking at is proof that Zena Halpern's theory is correct?" "Could this really be an important clue, linking the Templars to what lies buried on Oak Island?" "That is an "X" with a hook." "That in and of itself is interesting." "What would be more interesting is to have the geologist look at this, and see, is this a creation of man?" "Is it rock, what is it?" "And then, perhaps, it can be dated." " Yes." " Maybe, it's not even indigenous" " to the North Atlantic." " Looking at the back," "I'd be curious as to what type of stone this is too?" " Look at that." " It's very strange." "It is very strange." "But it's definitely stone." "Very odd." "It's not the complete "X," though, what it's saying is, you're close, keep going." "And if it's an omen, it's a good omen." " Yep." " Let's go, Rick." "As the operation to clear and prep the Money Pit area continues..." " Hey, Matt." " How you doing?" " Hey." " Alex." "Nice to meet you, Matt." " Good seeing you guys again." " Good seeing you." "Good seeing you again." "The Laginas and their partners meet with." "Metal Detection Expert Matt Savelle from Canadian Seabed Research Limited." "Okay, I think everybody knows Matt Savelle;" "Canadian Seabed Research." "Matt came in." "They re-ran some of the same points that we did last winter, different methodologies, different equipment, and now the data is back, and you're going to get us back in the swamp I take it, right?" " I'll try." " Let's see what you got." " Don't try too hard." " Yeah, that's right." "I guess we'll look at the, the EM-61 data first." "So, the EM data, mainly we're going to be" " looking at metal." " Ferrous or non-ferrous." " Yeah." " Okay." "Earlier this year, the Oak Island team invited Matt to run an EM61 metal detection device over the mysterious, triangle-shaped swamp." "Make sure you cover the area where." " Tony pulled the stump from." " Okay." "Equipped with highly sensitive transmitter and receiver coils, the EM61 can detect metal objects as deep as thirty feet below ground." "Hey, Rick!" "We've got a big hit over here!" " Where to?" " Same spot where the stumps are." "After extensive processing of the collected data," "Matt Savelle has produced a comprehensive map that shows metal objects at the northern tip of the swamp as well as near the swamp's southwestern border." "So, we ran a lot of lines." "That's the short story of it." "But I basically narrowed it down to the lines that we should really focus on." "So this area over here where we have the yellow targets is basically, this is the back pond." "This is the pond we couldn't drain," " when we drained the swamp." " Right." "Yeah." " It's still wet back there." " It retained its water." "Yeah, it's pretty obvious that there's something here, right?" "There's two hits over there." "That's the big hit back there." "This is the smaller hit." "It's safe to say that it's less than a meter below the actual stump that we kept hitting it..." "Is that where the stump is, Rick?" "That you recollect?" " Yeah." " Yeah, it was a big stump." " And the hit is beneath it?" " I believe beneath it, or, I mean, it could be just on the outside, or below it." "Well, the significance, I think, is that, if it's under the stump that makes it very," " very old." " Yeah." "Alright, we'll move on to the west swamp." "This target is, I believe, lying flat... and it has some length to it, just based on these targets." " It's a big thing." " Yeah, it's bigger than what I've shown you in the last two hits, so." "Can you produce all these with GPS coordinates?" "Yep." "This whole thing is on a grid." "Easting, Northing, Lat., Long., but I'll give you exact positions." " Okay." "Great." " Yeah." "These are obvious targets, right?" "In the sense that a handheld will pick them up, will it not?" "A handheld, underwater?" " Underwater." " Yeah." " It would help." " Does that mean Tony Sampson goes in and use the dive gear and mucks about?" "Yes, yes." "That's what it means." "I think it's well worth doing, that's for sure." "Just as long as I don't have to go in there." " So, back to the swamp." " Yeah, back to the swamp." "Just where you want to be." "No, look, I'm geeked about the swamp all of a sudden." "I know, it's weird." "It's deja vu all over again." "It's three years running, but I'd like to put an X through things." "There's much work to do before that happens." "We found a coin in the swamp." "We found an ancient coin." "Three years ago, while searching in the swamp with a metal detector," "Rick, Marty and their team discovered a small metal coin buried in the mud." "When the coin was later cleaned and examined, it was revealed to be a 17th century Spanish Maravedi, making it the oldest and possibly the most important object found on Oak Island to date." "It also validated the many stories and legends concerning the island that claim Spanish explorers and even pirates came here centuries ago to bury a priceless treasure." "So now we have a bunch of targets where an expert says with a high degree of certainty they're real and I think we need to fish them out of there." "Yeah." "There's something there." "We have several targets we want to investigate, so the best way to proceed is with a diver." "So we call Tony Sampson, he's done work for us before, he's a tough guy, and an accomplished diver." "El bandito is here." " Good to see you, buddy." " Good to see you!" "We're gonna put him in on the first target which is the back pond." "There's something very significant right there." "You might actually be able to swim, it's actually like a meter and a half deep there." " Fantastic." " And then there's something about a half a meter down." "So you're going to have to dig through that muck." " The muck." " Yeah." "But what we want to try first, Tony, you know, back in that pond that we can never drain." " Aha." " There's a stump there, for sure, and underneath the stump is a target, which-which the stump was carbon dated to pre-1600." "So, whatever is under there could be very old indeed." "Fantastic." "Diver Tony Sampson has been exploring the waters around Oak Island for more than a decade." "Last summer, he helped the team identify several strange triangle-shaped boulders located just 100 yards off the island's southwestern coast." "It was also Tony, who, while exploring the Oak Island swamp two years ago, found the stump of a large oak tree." "What the hell is that?" " It's a big tree stump." " Well, that's weird." "What's that doing out in the middle of nowhere?" "Because Oak trees cannot grow in water," "Tony's discovery provided an important piece of evidence to support the theory that the Oak Island swamp was man-made." "Let's get out and find the targets, okay?" "Come on." "Excellent." "Let's do it." "The obstacle for Tony is two-fold." "One is low visibility or zero visibility, and the other issue of course is can he move the material sufficient to actually find the target and perhaps retrieve it." " Alright." " Put your backs into it." "First he has to locate the stump, then he finds it with the metal detector and he gets a hit, he pin-points it with this," " and then he tries to dig it up." " He comes up with it." "The stinky swamp." " I've never missed the smell." " No, me either." "Are you on the stump?" " Yeah." " Good." "The anomaly should be on this front side." "Should be right over there somewhere." "Find it." "Retrive it, don't find it." "Get it." "You want the pin-pointer?" " Alright." " Well, that's encouraging." "Really?" "Do you get a sense that the stump is rooted?" "It's not placed there?" "The anomaly is it right close or underneath that big main one that comes..." "Okay, cool." "Let us know if you want the shovel." "Why are there stumps in the swamp?" "Big stumps." "Obviously, something intrigues him." "Yeah." "Still getting hits?" "Good." "All right." "Whoa." " Yes." " Really?" "While looking for metal objects buried beneath the Oak Island swamp, local diver, Tony Sampson, has just made what he and the team hopes is an important discovery." "If it really is under the stump, doesn't it have to be ancient?" "You would think." "The stump is at least four, four hundred years, four hundred and fifty years old." " You got the!" " Yes!" "That would be a Fred Nolan survey marker." " Yep." " He was marking the stump probably..." "See if there's anything else," "Tony, with that out of there, please." "That's for sure one of his markers, isn't it?" "It should say on it." "Well, that can go in the museum." "Obviously, Fred had marked the stump;" "How he found it would be curious." "Why he felt it was significant to the point where he marked it," "I don't know." "Just a few more questions really that arose from that discovery." "Oak Island landowner and treasure hunter," "Fred Nolan, was convinced that one of the keys to solving the mystery was located beneath the surface of the Swamp." "When he first drained the swamp in 1969," "Fred located a number of man-made metal and wooden objects." "Including what he believed to be a spar, or boom, from an ancient sailing vessel." "This led him to the belief that Oak Island was, at one time, not one island, but two, and that the swamp itself was man-made." "According to Nolan's theory, a treasure ship could have been sailed into an area between the two islands." "Then, surrounded by a giant cofferdam, was deliberately submerged beneath thousands of gallons of water, thus creating a swamp that would hide both the ship and its precious cargo." "But Fred Nolan was not alone in believing that the key to solving the Oak Island mystery lies buried at the bottom of the strange, triangle-shaped swamp." "Two years ago, Oak Island researchers Alan Butler and Kathleen McGowan told Rick," "Marty and the team that they believed a vast treasure could be found by digging in the area of the swamp he called," ""The Enochian Chamber."" "If it's ever possible to say that "X marks the spot,"" "what you're looking for is 996 feet due west of the Money Pit." "The prophecies about the new Jerusalem say that the Jerusalem will be built on an island of swamp." "Other theories have suggested that the swamp is hiding everything from the lost folios of William Shakespeare... to a vault containing sacred religious objects." "But one fact is certain:" "Getting to what may lie buried in the muddy, marshy waters of the swamp would require an engineering feat even more complicated and costly than digging in the Money Pit." "It's kind of interesting that we're out here, and pulling up Fred's stuff." "Maybe he's clueing us in." "Yeah, keep looking, guys." "Don't give up." "You're not getting any hits now?" "Nothing underneath that big root?" "Well, we found our bits of metal." "So that's disappointing in a sense except that it verifies that our data's good and it's a significant piece of metal." "So, it's a bust in the sense that it doesn't really add anything to the search but it verifies the data." "On to the next target." "Look, you solved a mini-mystery, but there's plenty more to do, if you're up to it." " Yep, sure thing." " There's that one big anomaly, and I think that's where we should go next." "Yeah, that's next." "Well guys, I hate to make you do this, but we're going to have to slog our way over to the next target, but it's in the open water, it'll be easier once we get there, so let's get going." "All right." "There is where the anomaly is, Tony." " It should be quite large." " Fantastic." "Yep." "You're going to find this one, no problem." " I hope it's not a survey stake." " Find something intriguing." " Yeah." " Let's go get it!" "There's something here." "That's for sure." "Bring up a coin." "Anything." "How deep was this target supposed to be, Rick?" "About a foot." "Okay, here we go." " What is that?" " Wow." "It's huge." " What is that?" " Looks like a piece of wood." " A board." " It's a large board." " Are there nails in it?" " I don't see nails." "They're knots, aren't they?" "They're knots, yeah." "Jack can you haul it to shore, and maybe you can keep looking around?" "I got a hit off it so it could be something underneath it." "That's why I'm not moving." "I'm sure there's something down here." "Absolutely." "When Tony came up with a big long plank, my first thought was" crap, there's the anomaly."" "Because he said it was full of bolts or nails it would explain all those hits." "I'm not seeing any nails, though." "Tony Sampson, he pulled up this really long board, and we didn't know exactly what it was." "I'm normally the person that handles the metal detector, and so," "I was hopeful there might be some evidence for anything metal or anything like that;" "Maybe nails." "Nothin'." "I'm not getting any hits, guys!" " Okay, good!" " Okay." "Well then, two things;" "Either we're way off on our location, or it's deeper." "It's deep." "You know, I'm finally starting to think this through, and I'm thinking, now wait a minute, if he comes up with something, it's going to be shallow;" "It's going to be insignificant." "I'd prefer it to be deep." "The anomalies whatever they are, are still down there." "Hey, Tony!" "We'll call it a day unless you got onto something real good." "Yeah, thank you." "Okay, let's go look at that board, Rick." "There's only one possible way to analyze that." "Tony couldn't find the largest anomaly in the swamp." "And that is, that it's deeper than his equipment can look." "That means that, because it's such impenetrable ground on that end of the swamp, almost certainly somebody put it down there." "By the way, you did a great job." "I mean, here Rick and I sitting in the boat, and you and Jack out there working." "Sorry, but somebody had to do it." "So... it's definitely not our target but it's interesting." "It's longish for dimensional lumber." "It's probably eighteen feet long, which is an odd dimension." "I'm thinking, plank, either deck planking, or the side of the ship planking." "Because it was obvious, it was very long." "A section of planking?" "Possibly from an old wooden ship?" "How could something like this find its way to the bottom of the Oak Island swamp?" "Could it be proof that the incredible theory of a treasure ship buried here is true?" "If it costs nothing to carbon date it," " let's do it." " Yeah." "What's curious to me is the fact that the bottom of that part of the swamp, the western side of the swamp, is almost impenetrable bottom." "So, it had to have been put there." "It's incredibly exciting." "And it's a dig-able target, a legitimate dig-able target." "No stone unturned." " Or board." " Or board." " Okay, fine." " You mean, no swamp undrained." "Yeah, right, okay." "Let's drain the swamp again." "I'm settling for draining a beer." " Yeah." " I like that a lot, Tony." "Nice job." "Nice job, today." "While Rick, Marty and the team await lab analysis of their recent find at the Oak Island swamp..." " Good morning." " Hi Phil, Craig Tester." "How you doing, guys?" "Rick Lagina and Craig Tester have brought geologist Phil Finck to the island, to inspect another..." "And perhaps equally compelling find." "If I can ask, Phil, what is your area of expertise?" "I have several specialties." "But the one that would be most appropriate to you folks would be the glacial geology, and the modern processes, things that would have happened in the last thousands of years." "Well, we've got a few rocks we'd like you to" " take a quick look here." " Right." "Sure." "Stones have played a significant role in the telling of the story of Oak Island." "And to have someone in a professional capacity come and look at the stone, and perhaps render an opinion." "Look, no one will know better than a geologist." "Here's what we want you to take a look at." "Yep." "A stone like that is quite unusual." "I've not seen anything like that." " Have you, Craig?" " No." "Not really." "It was found at surface, but after the surface had been removed, probably 6-8 feet, or so?" "Just laying there on top of the soil." "It's a sedimentary rock." "It's also metamorphosed." "Cooked." "Crest." "It is some sort of a sandstone." "The surface does have a number of very fine scratches on it those are glacial striations that form when." "Silurian rock and ice has another rock, and it drags it across the surface of this one, and acts like tool and they would look very fresh when they were first done, but over time they weather and darken." "These other markings on the stone, they appear to be a man-made feature that was scratched onto the rock." "A man-made feature?" "Could the carved stone that Rick Lagina and the team found near the Money Pit bearing a "hooked X" really be a clue as to what might be buried on Oak Island?" "And will it prove a connection between Oak Island and the activities of the Knights Templar in North America?" "Perhaps the answer lies buried deep beneath the surface of the Money Pit, or possibly with a plank of wood recently recovered from the Oak Island swamp." "As the task of clearing, leveling and preparing the Money Pit for excavation enters its second week..." "Rick, Marty and their partners gather in the War Room." "They are eager to learn the results of the tests that were conducted on the large wooden plank found in the Oak Island swamp." "Okay, we're gonna get Craig on the screen?" "Yep." "Got him right here." "Hopefully it's good news." " Hi, Craig!" " Hey, Craig!" "Hi, Guys." "How's it going?" " Good!" " Good." "Looking for the results on the carbon testing on that plank that Tony pulled out of the swamp." " Talk to us about it." " Make it good, Craig." "Okay." "Well, I got results back from Beta Analytic." "It's coming in a range, and this again is a 95 percentile anywhere from 1680 to 1735." "Wow." "It's positive data in that some of the dating could fit with some of the theories." "Yeah, we're in an area where it could be the original people" " from 1680 to 1735." " Right." "Well, look if it was 1680 to 1735, for sure, that would be exciting, because that means there were people here." "They were here doing stuff." "Could Rick, Marty and the team really have found evidence linking the large wooden plank they found to theories that an ancient ship carried treasure to Oak Island, and was then deliberately sunk and hidden in a man-made swamp?" "If you remember, Fred found parts of a ship, there's parts of a spar he found in there, and also a section of a ship called a scuppers." "True." "So, is there any chance that pirates or some other ships, maybe unrelated to the search, crashed, or they left some sort of wood in the swamp?" "Those things have two-inch, three-inch four-inch planks on them." "I mean they were, they were ocean liners of their time." " Unless it was a top deck." " Well, yeah." "I mean, of course." "There'd be ceiling boards and floorboards, and all kinds of stuff." "Well look, as far as I'm concerned" "I think there's something in the swamp." "It's the fact that Tony Sampson didn't find anything that makes me wanna dig in the swamp, because we have the EM61 thing that senses very deep and it senses something metallic." "And then Tony sweeps the bottom and he doesn't get anything." "Well, that means that there's something deeper." "Something that must be dug." "So, let's go dig it." "We have a hard target." "We have our best target." "We have the equipment." "We have the permits." "We're gonna go dig it up." "So, it's going to be gratifying." "I never thought I'd say it, but I want to dig in the swamp." "He's happy to be back." "Happy to be back in the swamp." "Who would have guessed it?" "We're still faced with the most significant thing we found has been in the swamp, I mean it has." "The coin is the most significant thing." "Well, the coconut fiber in Smith's Cove." "Well, I'll take David's position on that." "So, we drain." "You do your dig." "Could be a perfect year." " Right." " Yup." "Okay." "Well, let's call this one quits." "Thanks for the data, Craig." "It helps us move forward, and let's go move forward." " Sounds good!" " Alright thanks, Craig." "Bye, guys." " See ya, Craig." " See ya, Craig!" "For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, their life-long dream of solving the Oak Island mystery seems closer to being realized than ever before." "So far this year, they have discovered numerous clues... maps... and carvings... that point to activity on the island..." "Hundreds of years ago." "And they have only just scratched the surface in their excavation of the Money Pit, the place where everything started." "But, if their efforts are successful, what will they find?" "Pirate treasure?" "Sacred religious artifacts?" "Or could it be something so incredible, it will forever change everything we think we know about our history?" "One thing is certain... whatever it is will only be discovered... when the island is ready to reveal it." "Next time on The Curse of Oak Island..." "We've found the location of the 90-foot stone." "The stone that was brought up from the." "Money Pit with an inscription on it." "This is it, right straight ahead." " It's like a maze down here." " Yeah, jeez, look at this place." "Come take a look at this." " Whatchya got here?" " It's a big stone." " Look at that." " Here they come!" "Today is when it begins." "We're going to dig a big hole in the Money Pit find out what's there." " Right, brother?" " Absolutely." "It's go time." " Here we go." " Make hole!"