"This is packed with stones." "Isn't it the flood tunnels?" "It's the box drains." "This was what was done to protect the treasure in the Money Pit." "That's beginning to look interesting." "There's a chamber or tunnel system going from Oak Island to Little Mash island." "And in that chamber there are several hundred tons of gold bullion." "That is a big piece of wood." "That's hand chopped." "This is part of the original Money Pit." "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 the start of another day on Oak Island." "A day that, like the one before it, offers renewed optimism, and the possibility that an exciting new discovery could happen at any moment." "Looks like they've got the can about 80-feet to me." "It'll be interesting to see what their rate of advance is." "Yeah." "In an effort to pinpoint the exact location of the Oak Island Money Pit, the fabled treasure shaft first discovered by Daniel McGinnis and two friends back in 1795, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with their partners, agreed to dig two large," "40-inch wide holes at the two most promising locations." "The first of these was at the site known as V-3 or "Valley Three,"" "where Rick and Craig Tester discovered what they thought was evidence of a seven foot tall wooden vault first discovered by treasure hunters Frederick Blair and William Chappell back in 1897." "Concrete and then wood." "That's what they found in the top of the vault." "The second location, known as C-1..." "Here we go." "Was the site where one year ago," "Rick and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse discovered what appeared to be a mysterious metallic object..." "What's that?" "Embedded in the walls of a cavern some 170 feet deep beneath the surface of the island." "Look how yellow that is." "It's your gold color, David." "Yeah, there it is, David." "But after investing hundreds of hours and millions of dollars exploring the two sites, the results, though somewhat disappointing..." "We seeing saw marks on there?" "Convinced the team that the location of the original Money Pit lay within yards of where they had been digging." "The question is..." "in which direction?" "There is no proper reference material that can say here is X, dig here." "We have areas unexplored in the Money Pit where that vault might have ended up." "We only have one shot left." "So it's gonna have to be partially data and partially intuition." "Working from old maps and charts, recently discovered in Dan Blankenship's basement," "Craig Tester was invited to pick the location for what is now the team's third major excavation." "Where do you want to dig?" "Well I don't know." "I guess I'm pushing them towards this corner in here." "Nevertheless, the decision to continue operations at the Money Pit site was not an easy one." "In addition to this year's planned efforts in the swamp, at Smith's Cove, and at borehole 10-X, the Oak Island team began this year with only enough money to dig two holes at the Money Pit." "Only through careful management of their resources was the digging of this third hole even possible." "The stakes, both personally and financially, could not be higher." " Hey, guys." " Hey." " How's it going?" " How are you?" " So, what's the word?" " Right now the word is, we're 82 feet in the ground with the casing and" " 75 feet with the excavation." " Okay." "Going a little slower right now than you thought or..." "No, overall I think we're a little bit ahead of the game, but right now we had to add water 'cause we had a significant water drop." "The water went down to 65 feet below..." " Wow." " This, this grade." " Wow." " So there's no water coming in." "You're four feet away from V-3." " Yeah." " And there was tons" " of water there." " Yeah." "That's significant, but what it means, I don't know." "The absence of water in the T-1 shaft is indeed unusual." "Excavations at the Money Pit site usually strike water at a depth of 40-feet and are thought to the be consequence of hitting one of the booby-trapped flood tunnels that have plagued Oak Island treasure hunters for more than two centuries." "Is it possible that Rick," "Craig and the team have been successful at avoiding the flood tunnels?" "And, if so, how long might their luck hold out?" "We're going to start carting the spoils offsite, that's still the plan?" " Yep." " Okay." "So by the end of today, you're hoping to get to the hundred-foot level?" "By end of day today" "I absolutely want to get to the 100-foot mark." "Stuff like this is so hard to predict 'cause you don't know what's in the ground." "Sure, sure." "I, I wish you could predict what's in the ground." "I really wish you could." "'Cause if we're at the 100-foot level then it'd start being interesting what's coming out." "I want to say at the end of this season that we either found the treasure in the Money Pit or we're done with the Money Pit." "So I'm, I'm on board with going for broke and digging one more well." "We feel we're zeroed in, if you will, on this specific area, so considering the costs associated of doing it at a different moment in time doesn't make sense." " Right." " Do it now." "Could all the years of research, planning and hard work really be on the verge of paying off?" " Well, thank you." " Yes." "We're going to work over here for a bit." "Okay." "Are Rick, Craig and the team just a few feet away from finding the ultimate target:" "The original Money Pit treasure shaft?" "I can't wait until you get to that 100-foot level." " Thank you." " All right, take care." "See you guys." "Continues at the Money Pit, Rick Lagina, along with other members of the Oak Island team, have gathered in the War Room." "So, guys, I think today, all of us will find this very interesting." "Joining them is researcher Doug Crowell, who has offered to shed new light on a piece of evidence that further connects the activities of the Knights Templar to the Oak Island mystery." "Craig has reached out to a University of Southern California professor by the name of Kevin Knight, and he and his grad assistant Nada, they've done some work with the La Formule page." "Yep." "Well, let's dial 'em up and see what they have to say." "Hey Kevin, it's Craig." "How you doing?" "Hey Craig, how's it going?" "Dr. Kevin Knight is a Fellow at the Information Sciences Institute and professor of computer sciences at the University of Southern California." "You sent us, basically this drawing here, the Formule cipher." "He, along with his graduate student," "Nada Aldarrab, have been working to decode the mysterious La Formule cipher, the same one that New York- based writer and historian," "Zena Halpern believes is proof that members of the Knights Templar visited." "Oak Island as early as the 12th century." "You know, we've been very curious on this La Formule, you know, I've got some information that you've already sent me." " Yeah." " Can you give the people here a review of what you do?" "We do research in historical cryptography and we have some computer programs that we can apply to ciphers." "So, we've been working together on this kind of stuff." "Well then, we're talking to the right people, that's for sure." "The so-called La Formule cipher is composed of a number of symbols which curiously match those reported to have been on the so-called," ""90 foot stone" which was found in the Money Pit in 1804." "When the stone was first translated in 1862," ""Forty feet below, two million pounds are buried."" "But the translation was based on the assumption that the cypher was meant to be translated into English, and has opened the door to speculation that the actual code was more complex, and the translation even more profound." "Okay you want to go over how you deciphered this and what you came up with?" "Yeah, sure." "What we have to do is type into a computer readable format these cipher letters." "So, we did this and then Nada ran it through her computer algorithm." "And the computer said, "I searched through lots"" "and lots of potential languages that this might be a code for" ""and French came out at the top."" "And so French is the language behind the cipher, at least that's the computer's initial opinion." "French?" "Could this be an important clue, indicating the identity of the persons responsible for creating the Oak Island mystery?" "And, if so, does it mean that the 90 foot stone was incorrectly translated more than a century ago?" "And so then, what happens next?" "Then we proceed to do full decipherment of the text against French." "And it looks like there's a lot of words in there like "five," or "forty feet,"" "there's some kind of angle." "Those seem like the right kind of words that you want to see, so that's a good sign." "Okay." "I did take what you had done and to me it looks like we're missing quite a few words." "I've got, "Halt, do not hold up, dig at,"" "then "40 feet with an angle 40 'N-R' degree."" "The shaft is 500, 22 feet to enter the."" "Then after that, there's gaps in the sentence." "There's a word "reid or a,"" "and then a word that doesn't make any sense." "I thought we had come to the conclusion that it was one thousand, 'Un Mil.'" "Right." "Then, "five feet," and then at the bottom, "reach the field."" "So, it is a good interpretation, but it sounds to me like we're missing a lot of words at the ends or the beginnings of these sentences." "Yeah, especially at the end of the right part." "It says "Enter the" something and so, some word that starts with a "C," so I don't know, in French, what would you enter that would start with a "C,"" "like a cave or something like that?" "Professor, could that also be "chamber?"" "That's a good connection, 'cause in French, it's "chambre?"" "And then there was some hint that where you have "reid" and "gold", that may have been a spelling mistake and it actually says "corridor."" "Yeah, I wanted it so say "gold" so bad..." "Yeah, that part is going to require guessing." "Your guess sounds reasonable." "You know, this is always the case with these historical ciphers, they often include misspellings, often included are archaic usages." "Okay." "It does lead one to wonder what was supposed to happen when that 90 foot stone was encountered, you were supposed to not dig deeper;" "It was a warning." "You were supposed to dig off to the side somewhere." "The singular reference of 522 feet, it's 520 feet from Smith's Cove to the Money Pit." "If the actual treasure was buried much nearer the surface, from a shaft going out from the Money Pit, that has always made sense to me." "Could the La Formule cipher actually contain a message connecting Smith's Cove, where an elaborate flood tunnel system is believed to originate, and a golden treasure buried some 520 feet away in the Money Pit?" "Zena, some of your research suggested that this is part of a larger document?" "When writer and historian Zena Halpern first shared the La Formule cipher with the team several weeks ago, she indicated that it was only one piece of a much larger document." "Right." "It does fit like a puzzle, it's ripped into a puzzle piece, basically." "It seems to suggest seven pieces of the document." "Seven pieces, exactly." "Seven pieces?" "Could the number seven be a critical clue to understanding how to solve the Oak Island mystery?" "Throughout history and mythology, the number seven has played a significant role." "It not only corresponds to the number of days of the week, but also the number of days God reportedly took to create the universe." "Seven is the number of candelabrum in the Hebrew menorah." "And seven is the number of men who must die while actively looking for treasure in the so-called "Oak Island Curse."" "As we push this agenda forward, it's very necessary that we marshal forces to try to find the other six pieces of this puzzle." "I think that once all the seven puzzle pieces are put together, then it will become a, a true message, if you will." " Yeah." " Yeah." "Yeah." "Of the Tester-One shaft continues at the Money Pit, Rick Lagina, along with Jack Begley and Dan Henskee, have returned to Smith's Cove." "Well, it's much changed." "There's no question of that." "Yeah, a lot was done, yesterday." "They are hoping to find the remains of the five stone box drains that were reportedly discovered back in 1850." "If they can find evidence of even one of the finger-like drains, they may be able to locate the master flood tunnel it is connected to and trace it back to the original Money Pit." " Hi, Laird." " Hi, Rick." " How are you doing?" " Great." "How are you?" " Good." " Good to see you." "Joining the team is area archeologist Laird Niven." "He has been hired in order to insure that any ancient workings that may be discovered at Smith's Cove are excavated in the most careful way possible." "So, I think, Dan, it's a very simple question that I'll pose:" "What do you want to do, as far as a dig?" "Okay, I'm thinking about the, behind the machine from this angle, where the cofferdam takes a turn." "How deep do you think?" "I think it's gotta be found by experimentation." "So, when you start, you dig down several feet, maybe even five feet." "Dan, why don't we walk down, talk to Billy and get him up to speed about the dig." "Yes, it'll be dark before too many more hours." "Yup, yup, exactly." "If one of the original box drains is uncovered, it is imperative that it be done without causing it further damage." "So, part of what I'm going to enjoy about this, not only the hope that we find something but my brother thinks he's a skilled operator, but I suspect that you're skilled and he's a novice," "so I want to see what a skilled operator can do." "Well, let's see what we can find, yup." "Yup, we're getting out of your way." "Today in Smith's Cove, it's going to be another attempt to find the box drains." "My hope is that we will find something, something legitimate, something that pointedly says there was an artificial creation in Smith's Cove and that that's how the seawater was introduced into the Money Pit." "Water coming up." "What do you mean, the water's coming up?" "That." "Like it's bubbling up from the bottom?" "Well, not bubbling but flowing." "What does that mean, Dan?" "It just means we're not getting seepage from the ocean." "Could the water that has begun to pool inside the pit be coming from the outside of the cofferdam?" "Or could it be coming from somewhere inside the enclosure, perhaps from some kind of man-made drainage system?" "You can see it." "It is coming up." "In order to remove the rising water so that the team can continue digging in search of the box drains, Rick and the team hurry to lay out hoses connected to a four-inch pump." "Heads up." "All I can say is it looks like virgin ground." "That that's the right color, and you know..." "Is that, is that a layer of clay and then it goes to rocks?" "That's beginning to look interesting." "The team has suddenly uncovered a mysterious pattern of rocks beneath Smith's Cove." "But is it natural?" "Or, could it be man-made?" "Jack, do you see stones with space between them down there?" "Those are the ones I'm looking at." "Yeah." "I'm wondering if there's..." "Yeah, that!" "That..." "Isn't that stones, three, four stones touching?" "Yeah." "Careful." "Don't be digging that away." "That's a big rock there, isn't it?" "Watch it, watch it, watch it!" "Yeah..." "What do you make of it, Laird?" "I don't know what to make of it." "No, neither do I." "How about if you dig that out right there, see if we can't get a cleaner look at it." "Everybody clear?" "Yep." "Based upon other diggings around here, this is an anomaly." "It is an anomaly, yeah." "Yeah, based on what we've seen so far." "This is packed with stones right here and just next to it was, you know, virgin soil." "Isn't this the description of what happens right before they find the flood tunnels?" "Isn't it, like, layer of coconut fiber, layer of peat, a bunch of gravel and this stuff right above, like, the actual flood tunnels, right?" "Exactly, you're right, 'cause that seems to be, a layer." "It's unusual looking, I'll say that." "You think you think you could gently go deeper there, like right here, and just pull that away?" "That big rock is there and I think we'd undermine the cofferdam if we go any further." "Yup." "Yeah, I'm afraid that's gonna collapse." "The way she's bleeding through, all it would take is that thing to collapse." "I just feel like we might've gone into, you know, a "V" of these round stones." "Yeah, but at some point we have to be safe, too." "'Cause what if the flood tunnel drain is right here?" "And what if, what if that comes in on you and buries you?" "You're right." "If we lose this, then we lose the opportunity to continue the search, if we lose this..." "and we're dangerously close." "Although the team has made what could be a major discovery, it lies precariously close to the cofferdam." "If the dam is compromised, millions of gallons of water could rush into the cove." "If you undermine that big rock, we don't even know how big it is, right?" "And if you weaken that, the water will breach through underneath it and, you know..." " Then we've lost it." " We've lost it, yeah." "The team will have to wait until the area inside the cofferdam is dryer and more stable before they can return and continue digging." "At Smith's Cove, Rick Lagina and island historian Charles Barkhouse have arranged to meet with local property owner and fellow treasure hunter Gary Clayton." "Well Gary, first of all," "I want to say thank you for coming." "It's my honor to meet you." "No, no, my honor to meet you." "Having traveled from his home in Arizona," "Gary is the owner of Little Mash Island a small, one-acre landmass just a few hundred yards from Oak Island, and which Gary believes is directly connected to the Oak Island mystery." "So what have, what have you brought us here today?" "Well, friend, I brought you the key that unlocks the door to your dreams." "Well, I'm not being disrespectful here but many people have said that and truly believed that." "That's fine, but mine's not based on belief." "Mine's based upon an assessment of facts and a record." "After purchasing the tiny island in 1988," "Gary spent the next ten years conducting a series of surveys, drilling operations and excavations in an effort to prove a connection between Little Mash and the Oak Island mystery." "Like fellow treasure hunter Fred Nolan, he became convinced that answers could be found not only below ground, but also above it." "I thought we'd take the time to look at some targets under Little Mash." " Now this is Little Mash?" " That's Little Mash." "It's basically a fish-shaped island." "They did an assessment or a test trench across this area here." "At three feet, they ran into a solid strip of clay, 12 inches high, running 15 feet and squared off at the ends." "As they went down at four feet, they discovered a secondary topsoil underneath the first topsoil." "So that suggests to me this island was completely man-made." "A man-made island?" "Some 400 yards from Oak Island?" "But if so, who made it, and for what purpose?" "Oak Island, the whole thing, is covered with a labyrinth." "Fred... both Fred and Dan believe that." " Yes." " That's true." "There's a seal, a chamber or tunnel system, going from Oak Island to my island." "There are certain access points on both sides of the island." "And, they can be found by simple equipment and simple excursion time." "Low cost." "The only difference is, you have to understand what the surface is saying to you." "I can read the surface, and I can understand what's below it." "This is a stone foot." "It was dug up about 1993 and it was dug up right here." "It's about nine inches long." "There's an obvious arch underneath, as you'll see." "Now you're looking at the bottom of the foot." "Here, you can compare that to this." "You'll notice it's the same as this." "So the information on the surface was telling us exactly what was below." "What is above, is..." " Down below..." " is below." "So what are, what are these targets?" "This is a foot-shaped void." "That one is 63 feet across." "We drilled four holes, very close together, over in this area right here." "And we went down 231 feet." "A 63 foot-wide foot-shaped void?" "Located some 231 feet below ground?" "But, if so, how does it connect to the Oak Island mystery?" "And what, if anything, could it contain?" "As far as the story, the background, the history of this place, who might have done it?" "I think Lord Anson was involved in, in the structure." "He's an English admiral." "Lord George Anson was a decorated 18th century." "British naval commander." "He was reported to have been entrusted with a vast, priceless treasure by members the English Royal Society, a select group of Freemasons with ties to the Rosicruscians, as well as to the Knights Templar." "It is believed that members of the secret order revealed a coded map to Lord Anson that relied on constellations, and which was based on navigation calculations made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, under a commission by King Charles II in 1675." "According to Gary Clayton's theory," "Lord Anson used this map to set sail from England in 1740 and with orders to hide the treasure somewhere in the New World." " Ho ho!" " Is that a coin?" "That's a King George!" "Just a few weeks ago, metal detection expert Gary Drayton, found a number of 18th century British coins on the eastern end of the island." "We've got a button, we've got coins." "Maybe this is some kind of camp." "1700's, that changes a lot." "They're not supposed to be here." "No." "Could the coins Gary Drayton found on Oak Island offer important evidence that Gary Clayton's incredible theory is true?" "I think the tunnel system takes me to several different chambers, and some of these chambers have things, which are not even on the archeological scope." "In one chamber, there's a table and on it is a very shallow cup, and beside it there's a golden altar of incense." "That's in one." "In the other one are two calendars, the books of Mayans and some relics which we cannot identify yet." "On another one we have a tomb." "Then, on the bottom floor of the same chamber, we have a sealed door." "And that sealed door goes to a second level." "And in that chamber... several hundred tons of gold bouillon." " You have any questions?" " I have a question." "Wh..." " Ask away." " Why are you here?" "I'm here to give you an offer for-for a consultant contract." "15% of anything we find using my information for one year, and you get to keep the rest." "Secondly, I know how much is involved, and by the information here," "I think that I have a pretty good chance at being correct." "You sit across the table from a person who, who adamantly and fervently believes in what they're telling you, that they've done all their homework, they've, they've created this database of information and..." " It's catchy." " Yeah, it migrates across the table, you wanna reach out, you wanna grab onto it and latch onto it and say, yes, yes, I do, I, too, believe." "You know, Gary, this is a lot..." " It certainly is." " This is a lot to take in." "I need to talk to my brother and Craig and Dan and have a..." " That's fine." " And have a proper discussion" " about your generous offer." " Good." "And I will relay the information as best I can." " All right." " Appreciate it." "Appreciate it, and I'm glad to meet you." "Okay." "Continues at the exploration shaft known as T-1..." " Hey, guys." " Hey, Jack." "Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with members of their team, return to their search for the man-made box drains at Smith's Cove." "So, talk to us." "What do you got here?" "That feature right there." "Those are big!" "I mean that's a big rock right there." "But the rest aren't." "It's more like, you know, human sized..." "You know, I built many a rock wall as you well know and that, that looks somewhat fitted." "In the late 1980's I dug around, and I exposed what looked to me like a wall, and-and something cut at an angle, which reminded me of the diagram showing the flooding..." "That's what I see here." "That's the remnants of that?" "Yes." "You ought to come down and take a look." "You can see..." "Yeah, I will." "I'd like to." "Bring me the elevator, buddy." "What I'm looking at, I think it's legit." "Going down!" "You know, Marty and Craig may look at it and go," ""bunch of rocks." I don't know." "But I do know this:" "That Dan Henskee believes this is something real and I'm hoping that Marty and Craig will, too." "It is interesting, the gradation, right?" "You know, you got the smallest rocks at the bottom, then bigger, then big walloping great ones that seem to be holding it all in place." "Now, I don't know, is that natural or is it not?" "I mean, Rick, you think those look set, inset?" "I do." "I think that humans built that." "To what end, for what purpose," "I don't know, but this face here in particular..." "Continues." "It's this wide at least." " There's still stone there." " Yep." "Some of these stones are very much square." "You know, cut." "Is that a wall?" "What else could it be?" "When I first saw the rock wall," "I immediately thought, well, searchers wouldn't have been out there in the cove jumbling piles of rocks around." "I mean, it would have been pointless to do that." "I can't, I can't conger up a reason for that." "So if it is in fact man-made, it's probably the most likely thing we've seen with our own eyes that was original." "Well, let's dig it some more." " Okay." " I'm fine with that." "The Smith's Cove work is actually at least as exciting as the Money Pit work." "It's the box drains." "You reveal the box drains or a remnant of it, there's a lot of information that can come of that." "Yeah, Dan's here!" "Hi, Marty." " Hey, Daniel, how you doing?" " Don't fall in though." "No I won't." "What do you make of that, anything?" "The fact that there appears to be stone in there, and if that has a wall there and a wall here," "I think they call it a French Drain." "Yup." "A French Drain is a type of trench, which has been filled in with rocks for the purpose of redirecting and controlling water flow." "Although named after Henry Flagg French, a 19th century lawyer and Assistant US Treasury Secretary, their design and use is believed to date back many centuries." "Could the team have finally found a part of the original flood tunnel system, the one that featured the five box drains that were first discovered at Smith's Cove in 1850?" "I think it's continuing, Craig." "I mean, it keeps taking scoops out that are pretty much all rocks." "So it's headed back this way?" "That would mean that under the cofferdam would be the other part of it." "Billy!" "I would love to keep digging this way, but you can't dig outside the bladder, right?" "Can't." "No." "The rock structure, its close proximity to the bladder is disturbing because we cannot carry that discovery process in that area." "It's just not safe." "I mean, if we destabilize the bladder system, all is lost." "Although the team must end their search for the stone box drains, at least for the time being, they have made what they believe is an incredible discovery:" "An ancient man-made stone structure beneath Smith's Cove." "Laird, I'm going to put you on the spot now." "Man-made?" "It's definitely what we'd call "cultural", yeah." "Okay." "You mean you're saying based on your expertise with certainty, this is placed here?" "It's a man-made, something?" "I believe so, yeah." " Wow." " Yeah." "Um, because it's relatively localized." " Yeah..." " Right, so that kind of rules out anything geological, and the sorting of the rocks is unusual." "We've found something that we need to continue to look at." "It's truly a unique structure." "I believe it's original." "But I think we have to terminate at this point." "There is a closure date for the permit, when that bladder system has to be removed, and it's very, very near, so we have to arrange to get that bladder system out of Smith's Cove and stored properly" "for perhaps a dig next year." " We're done here..." " We're done here." "But we're not done with the search." "Billy, you wanna fill this in then?" " I will, for sure, yep." " Okay, thank you." "Thanks, Billy." "Later that afternoon, Rick Lagina and Craig Tester arrive at the T-1 excavation site for a final update on the day's progress." "Suddenly..." "There's a chunk of wood!" "That's vertical!" "That's hand chopped." " Yep." " Look at the ang..." "Do you want that down here, guys?" " Yeah." " Yeah" "Michel?" "Well, what the hell else could it be?" "Thank you." " Definitely hand cut." " That is a big piece of wood." "Yeah." "So the, the ends were sawed but the, this is definitely..." "That's, that's an axe there." "That's hand-hewn." "When the vertical timbers come up we were all excited immediately." "Now the curious thing is they're hand-hewn." "That is the first piece of wood from underground in the Money Pit that has been hand-hewn under our auspices," "First time ever!" "A hand-cut wooden timber?" "Retrieved from the T-1 shaft in the Money Pit area?" "Has the Oak Island team finally located their elusive target?" "While the team from Irving Equipment, Ltd." "Continues digging a third massive hole at the Money Pit site known as T-1..." "That's hand chopped." "Rick Lagina and Craig Tester have arrived just in time to witness a potentially momentous discovery." "I'm gonna look at that bucket drop." "Different type of wood now." "That almost looks like it was a vertical timber by the way it came up." "What depth do you have us at?" "102 Feet." "102, it could be a tunnel." "A lot of people when they went down next to the original Money Pit, the Money Pit's here, they came down next to it then they tunneled over to it." "I see." "Yep." "Maybe we're hitting parts of that tunnel." "Nearly five decades before the reported discovery of the Chappell vault in 1897, members of the Truro Company drilled through what they believed to be two stacked wooden chests at a depth of 96 feet." "According to reports, each were full of what was described as 22 inches of "metal pieces," or possibly gold coins." "In an attempt to retrieve the chests, and avoid the booby-trapped flood tunnels, the searchers dug an adjacent shaft ten feet from the Money Pit, and began constructing a lateral tunnel toward it." "Their hopes of solving the Oak Island mystery were quickly dashed however, as the tunnel collapsed from flooding just before they reached the mysterious chests." "We're hoping at this point in time maybe we'll find the shallow supposed treasure from this, this vault area." "Wow." " There you go." " Wow." "We just brought up a whole bunch more wood." "I'm gonna go look." "What the hell is that?" "I don't know what that is." "That is odd." "What if this is part of the Money Pit, the original Money Pit?" "A round piece of wood?" "Located at a depth of approximately 105 feet beneath the surface of the Money Pit site?" "When the Money Pit was first excavated more than two centuries ago, searchers reported finding nine wooden platforms made of rounded oak timbers located at ten foot intervals, at which point massive flooding halted further exploration." "Could the Oak Island team have just discovered evidence not only of the original Money Pit, but of a previously unknown tenth platform, ten feet deeper than where the 90 foot stone was discovered in 1804?" "If you read the records of them originally finding the Money Pit, you know, every ten feet or so they'd hit a platform." "They thought the vault was sitting on a platform and this, you know, three-inch diameter piece of wood to me could definitely have been one of those pieces of wood from the platform." "You know, can we date this?" "I mean, it seems much blacker to me than this." "This is a very dark gray but this seems black and if this comes back, you know, in the 1500s or something then..." " It's heavy." " Yeah, it is heavy." "You wanna just take a section of it?" "Yeah, we'll cut a little piece off and it'll tell you what time did this log get cut down." "All right, let's get this off, see what it comes back." "I don't know what to hope for, more wood, less wood, no wood?" "Wood that's in the form of a chest?" "Rick, Marty, Craig and the team appear to be on the verge of one of the most significant breakthroughs in their quest to solve the Oak Island mystery." "But as they continue to dig deeper, what will they find?" "Precious religious artifacts, wooden chests filled with gold coins, the priceless treasures of the ancient Maya, or will they come face to face with an ancient curse, one that threatens a deadly fate to those who dare try" "and solve the mystery?" "Perhaps the answer is now only a few precious inches away." "Next time on The Curse of Oak Island..." "The point of interest is the stones on Oak Island." "I believe these stones were transported." "My!" "I've never seen anything quite like this." "Come on, baby!" "Another round piece of wood there." "This might be part of the original dig." "This one tested from 1655 to 1695." "Right there, original Money Pit." "That's what this is implying, yes."