The Curse of Oak Island Season 8 Episode 24 Apr 27, 2021 🔥 Silver Lining

it starts now tonight on the curse of folk island look at that fantastic mate this is all in the details we took the samples to analyze for silver and we got a spike there's every reason to believe down in those holes there's some treasure [Applause] baby 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 a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it mysterious fragments of human bone and a lead cross whose origin may stretch back to the days of the night's templar to date six men have died trying to solve the mystery [Applause] and according to legend one more will have to die before the treasure can be found [Applause] it is the beginning of the final week that rick and marty laguna along with their team have to conduct major search operations this year on oak island now that the harsh north atlantic winter is setting in they are nearly out of time at least for now to attempt to solve the 226 year old treasure mystery however in a year that has seen more progress than any before it they intend to use every precious second they have left to locate the fabled treasure vault believed to lie buried deep in the original money pit the 1706 foot is right here inside of oc-1 and a lot of the early drilling we were doing for craig was chasing that so based on our discussion last night we come up with this location c 11.5 yeah we still need a second uh intersection point so we can get some linear fashion to that uh 1706 structure well let's go to 118 see if we're chasing anything at all and then make the call then all right during their core drilling program this year the team has found numerous compelling clues spanning an area of more than 50 feet wide between boreholes c1 and oc-1 that include evidence of wood tunnels nearly 90 feet deep that all pre-date the discovery of the money pit by as much as 150 years hey jack say this though could find mike however it was in the spoils of oc-1 that the team discovered a hand-forged rose hit that surrounded a seven-foot high wooden vault that treasure hunter frederick blair and william reportedly drove into back in 1897. where is the money pit right now we have two areas that we're significantly interested in one around c1 and one around oc one we are finding shafts and possible tunnels that are not delineated from any historical context again you have to stay focused and so we'll take our time to develop the x marks the spot for the ball so we got our merging orders we go to 118 as we see something then we go deeper into where while the drilling operation in the money fed area continues [Music] later that morning hey guys hello marty laguerre his partner craig tester and jack begley have gathered in the war room for a meeting via video conference with rick and geoscientist dr ian spooner dr spooner i understand you have a concept for us that may help us with our sort of quest in the money so far the drilling has been great but it hasn't found us what we're looking for yeah basically what we want to do is help you guys put an x on the map okay so the idea is to look at water down drill holes that exist because the water in those wells should reflect the chemistry of the ground that they interact with and so i talked to dr matt luckman at acadia he's an excellent chemist and matt and i thought you know well how would we identify whether or not there was treasure how would we help you with that and so the bottom line is silver in the day was by and large things other than silver had copper zinc in it and silver itself does corrode so the idea is to basically do a pathfinder study and look for those elements in the water great as metals such as copper zinc and silver submerged in water for long periods of time they will corrode and their particles will gradually leach out into plumes that become less and less concentrated as they migrate through open space if these types of metals do in fact lie deep in the ground of the money pit area dr spooner's pathfinder water test of the flooded boreholes as well as the man-made tunnels should be able to detect them i absolutely love this idea of dr spooner's there's a massive amount of metal down there somewhere it should be leaching into the waters let's test it for the very things which we seek so what i'm suggesting is just take a look at 12 wells in the money pit area just see what we get dr spooner you said it it can find silver well can it test for gold no if we find any silver i'll be quite amazed really if you find silver it is a treasure hunt what's associated with silver and a treasure on gold well i guess what i'm saying is don't worry about that let's let's do what the science is capable of doing yeah we'll do the rest later well rick you're firmly on board with this are you this sounds like a great idea to me no question science okay well let's do it that's great i'll get dr lookman down here because he'll also run the fluorescence on it and we'll see what we come up with okay good well as rick often says let's make it so make it so okay okay while rick marty and craig wrap up the meeting in the wardrobe near the south corner of the swamp ready for a great day at the beach metal detection expert gary drayton along with rick and marty's nephew david fernetti arrived at the shoreline of lot 32. a good place to start mate anything we find in this area is going to be interesting if it connects to a wall great well i'll let you do your thing okay mate what you got it looks like a piece of finished wood two weeks ago the team unearthed a possible piece of wood railing from a large sailing vessel and encountered a massive obstruction while excavating near the southern border of the swamp however because the weather has now made it too difficult to take anymore this year within the muddy bog it is rick marty and craig's hope that gary can locate more valuable clues along the man-made beach that could help solve the oak island history very quiet isn't it yeah i don't want to go too far away from this area so the next line up let's take this line we'll bypass these two rows of seaweed and we'll take these rocks along here sounds good signaling david just said mike [Applause] hey hello nice one david [Music] [Applause] whoa that's interesting oh wow look at that oh there you go it's serious they're into something [Applause] [Music] on the history channel amazing brilliant can you see what this is mate that is a trigger guard or five or an old musket or e50 on line 32 near the southwestern border of the swamp gary dream and david fernetti have just found what could be an important clue the trigger guard from a firearm that could date back as much as 150 years before the discovery of the money pit i mean this is fantastic and this is only our like second line across here i'm gonna put this in my pouch recheck the hole and let's find some more artifacts that's good it's undeniable that there was substantial activity here in the late 1600s early 1700s what was that some military expedition that we're unaware of or was it the original depositors [Applause] [Music] [Applause] another good sounding signal is david [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] very oh wow look at that mate this is really really special this is old this is an old lead cloth bag seal a lead bag seal was used when an old sack was sealed they tied the sack and they put a seal on it this is a very important fight we've just struck gold with this piece of lead mine [Applause] dating back as much as 800 years lead back seals were generally rounded metal clamps used to secure goods inside textile packaging what makes this seal a potentially important discovery on oak island is that they are uniquely designed to identify qualities such as the manufacturer and also country of origin could this seal be connected to other ancient discoveries made in and near the swamp this year such as the pieces of 15th century keg barrels or the massive stone road believed to have been part of a ship's war this is an awesome leather effect this is a really old piece but just that type of artifact you want to be recovering in an area where you believe there's an old wolf bingo we have it gold on this one we won't know until this is cleaned up but this is very very important this is the first lead cloth bag seal that we found on the island i think this is so special we should take it to the reason we'll come back in i mean this is fantastic they showed the guys one with them let's go [Applause] [Music] later that afternoon hey guys hey just some tips we want to see gary and david join rick laguna and archaeologist laird niven at the research center to share their latest discoveries from lot 32 we've just had some fines catalog some metal detecting fines that we found a lot 32 on the beach so you guys should take a look at these oh interested are you here very interested mate um we found some spectacular finds there night okay and here's one of them [Applause] see what you think of that ring the trigger exactly my old trigger guard you can see that it's been broken a long time ago it's not a recent snap person they're decorative gym yeah little decorative piece that might help identify it it looks like a little pistol trigger guard or maybe a musket trick yeah but what do you make of the little decoration well i think that usually decoration means higher status right yeah you got that right there's books about everything whether it be a book about pistol guards trigger guards i mean the beauty about gun furniture is that it's very specifically sized yeah so you can often get the model down and perhaps the date even down yeah [Music] it's going to be a little challenging a little bit more of it some of these artifacts are just that they're artifacts it's a trigger guard of perhaps a wealthy individual's pistol because it is decorated but how does that connect is it curious yeah i mean we're on samuel balls a lot so is there a possible connection there i i don't know but it's history come alive and that's always fascinating we didn't just come in here with a trigger at night this is really interesting well we should have gloves on if we're going to handle it okay because it's made of lead okay thanks i will not plant any seeds in your mind i'm fairly confident i know what it is okay we'll see if you're in agreement [Music] [Applause] i know what it is yeah i haven't seen many of these so it's for oh a bale of cottonwood used to be caught now they're changing the sack or a bag yeah and uh the merchant would put these on or the excise tax people would put them on there's a corresponding piece like this here and it's put under folded around and and clamped on so that's why you have a round piece there so this little object this little bag seal would have been attached to a to a large bale of probably rough fabric like hemp or something like that but it wasn't meant for one person this was an industrial size bag that was going to be used for whatever purpose uh something we haven't figured out yet but it was for a large operation so this is adding more questions to the mystery and and giving us more work to do well that's got details on that mm-hmm you should get some information of that and it's just the type of fine that you want to be recovering in an area you think there's an old wharf right because it speaks to loading and unloading yeah when did these start coming into vogue if it were 1500 even before that my 1300s in england yeah again it's about connective tissue you find this bag seal in close proximity to this suspected war it's a great find and we know there was activity in the area we need to look into this further hopefully we can find a corresponding one and maybe we can find the merchants which should help a lot yeah i was just going to ask is there like a book or something that you can flip through where you can find some sort of example or yeah there are a lot of references a lot of references it just won't take a lot of searching like i i can't but agreeing hearing this is indeed a top pocket fine congrats to you for heading out there and especially i i think that you find something like this and it accelerates the need to do it another search agenda larry if you want to do the research i look forward to that the outcome of that yeah i'll start researching okay we have a plan okay let's move forward on coming up this pathway is leading to the money pit there was one more fine which i found interesting [Applause] as another critical day of search activity begins on oak island on lot 13 near the northeastern border of the swamp based on our limited time i think it's really important that we get the direction of this road or path archaeologist dr aaron taylor and miriam emerald work to uncover more of the mysterious cobblestone pathway a pathway that extends from the massive stone road border of the man-made bomb branching off further into the outlands if this is continuing the way it looks like it's continuing you know maybe this pathway is leading to the money pit yeah so i think we go over put in a unit investigate and see what's going on there all right well let's go string it up and get started yep we clearly have to follow the stone pathway all the way because it's interesting what's going on with this get rid of this debris that is a well-constructed hidden massive road the heavy things are being moved around on it which suggests something important hey hey how's it going ah we can use all the help we can get so um the path what's your thought just continue this way yeah um so we just tried to leapfrog a little bit it's coming diagonally through the unit we did so we're just going to try and pick it up here but there's a couple areas i'd like to investigate here's the thing the time and weather window's closing yeah so if you want to continue here i could go down there if you want to just focus me on where i should chore do the work sure that's a great idea with time running out the team has decided to split up and search two different areas while dr taylor and miriam search further uphill trying to uncover the next section of the cobblestone path rick will investigate along the path itself near the beginning of the applets in hopes of finding any clues that may shed light on who built this structure and how it may connect to the 226 year old mystery we are still struggling with an understanding of what the feature represents you know is this part of the money good story or is it or is it unique a swamp story you see where that stick is yep so everything above the stick can be taken off with a shovel okay and the only way to do that is to continue the archaeological pursuit and hopefully come up with an artifact or artifacts that will tell us why it's here now i really want to see what's going on here okay see those stones yep this is where all the artifacts are coming from it's an interesting area okay and show it if you see anything of interest if there's anything i will call you immediately thank you while the investigation continues near the swamp mike what do we have 48 48 thanks and while the core drilling operation in boar hall c 11.5 continues in the money pit area hey craig how's it going craig hester and dan henske along with dr ian spoener and his associates dr matt lukman corporation that dr spooner hopes might offer scientific evidence of buried treasure what we're trying to do i think right now is just sort of a pathfinder study okay so get a bunch of samples try to sort of circumference the perimeter of this area right here and that way get a good idea if maybe we're seeing an almost material it sounds great see so absolutely there's a high chance that we're going to see maybe some signals in there from more recent human activity that might complicate things a little bit which i think is why it's important that we get samples from multiple locations so it could help point us in the right direction okay i think we're going to start with c1 here but after that there's a lot of wells all over the place that you guys can sample are we ready we're ready so we'll get our equipment we'll head over and then we'll go and get our sample okay good first of all i love hard data it's hard to come by on oak island so now we have two phd scientists dr lukman and dr ian spooner it's exactly nine meters to the top space okay they're going to do a water analysis from many of the wells found over near the money cut so yeah it's exciting i mean let's say the scientists said look this is for sure there's a big chunk of precious metal down there well then we gotta find it we'll go as far as we can with the baler oh great and uh we'll get the sample to the very bottom is the open hole or yeah you can hear the ball in order to collect the water sample from the bottom of borehole c1 the team is using a dual valve sampling baler as the device descends down the well the force of the water on the ball valves inside it allows it to float through the baler once the baler reaches the desired depth the balls sink into place trapping the water sample inside the tube this will prevent contamination from other depths while the device is brought back to the surface [Applause] oh that's it [Music] like you add depth to it on at i have always believed that something of significance lies within the bowels of the money pit and this water sample testing done by dr lukman and dr spooner can provide some very interesting information they might be able to put x on the ground that i found exceedingly interesting and i look forward to their analysis good just hold that up there we'll keep that sample we'll keep that for sure okay wonderful let's do another sample okay as craig dr spooner and members of the uplands near the swamp eric hey rick lagina along with dr aaron taylor miriam emerald and alex lagana continue their own search for valuable clues along the stone pathway as this path appears to turn to the upland we're fighting an incredible amount of artifacts what's that so i don't know what to make of it is this the centralized location for the build of the stone path i don't know the more we look the more we fight that might be stone that's not no that's brick fragment this is nice that's a fragment of a pipe bowl clean it up maybe get a maker's mark on it and then we'll be able to tell where it was made and when it was good that's angular where that's the early stuff quite early 1760s okay i'll bag this up great i just gonna go check on those guys all right thanks rick okay working with aaron and miriam it's like a little mini mini treasure hunt you know you're scraping away with the trouble and all of a sudden there in front of you is a little surprise a little again a little piece of hopefully connective tissue so it's somewhat intoxicating and addictive well that's interesting [Applause] [Music] huge coming up [Applause] some interesting things came up so i i've got one question to ask do you think there's treasure [Music] [Applause] the history channel in the uplands near the northeastern border of the swamp that's interesting rick laguna has just made what he hopes could be an important discovery i'd like to see three people work hey rick any breakthroughs so here's what's down there there was one more find which i found [Applause] interesting sweet jesus [Music] it's really nice it's a base probably a plate there you go just looking at it now it looks like cream ware a creamware comes in in 1763 the british bring it in when they arrive it might be yellowwear which is a little later just because all the pieces we've been finding are from that period i think this is a cream ware first produced around the 1740s in staffordshire england creamware is a refined lead glazed earthenware named for its yellowish-white cream-like color could this discovery be an important clue to help identify who made the cobblestone pathway if so might it also be connected to the pine tar kelp located on nearby lot 15 which blacksmith expert carmen lake believes was a british design and which archaeologist laird niven believes may have been used for the continuous burning of materials in the construction of the original money pit well i've been waiting all summer for a sweet jesus moment and sweet jesus that is a nice base now let's find the rest of it but if that's cream where that that's a really nice early piece well i've got about that much of a shelf to do that's still a work in progress and as you see there's things keeps giving yeah i'll pick these up [Music] i shall return as rick and the team resumed their investigation in the uplands later that afternoon in the money pit area we got the 78 in the right hand we've got 68 in our right hand and okay surveyor steve guptill and geologist terry madison continued to monitor the core drilling operation in borehole c 11.5 just north of the oc-1 caisson that's kind of interesting yeah what's interesting this just looks like it might be a little bit of backfill or burnt material well that's good yeah possibly i don't know what it is i don't know why it has an unusual almost look like ashes or something on burnt backfilled materials found in borehole c 11.5 is it simply evidence of previous searcher activity or could the team be on the verge of a major discovery you know we're in backfield at 68 feet let's just suggest that we're inside or just outside of a shaft so again this is great information maybe the next quarter will tell us something next run in the money pit area we're finding all these works and all these tunnels and then we're finding stuff to the 1700s which is extremely encouraging yeah it used to be the one thing when rick and i were talking i used to say i will change my mind about everything if you show me concrete evidence of substantial works prior to 1795. well you know what he did it so we've already won that much now the objective is to actually you know find evidence of real treasure oh there you go i'm serious they're into something [Applause] is really difficult to interpret they're very cryptic he's into something interesting something going on we got a little soft right at 88 from 88 pond in the money pit area representatives from choice drilling have just encountered something out of the ordinary in borehole's 11.5 that might be our time six six 106. are you serious oh it's just dropped whoever's in there a drop of the drill rod of nearly 18 feet could it be a natural void of some kind or could it be evidence of the money picked treasurefall itself get this messy vote wow let's have a look all right [Music] it's pretty loose at the bottom yeah [Applause] did i get interesting not so much see here's what i think he was into right there this material here when he hits it it starts to slip because of all the clay in it so he finds that soft so this section here is the interglacial phase and you get a lot of really dark clay in there so when he hits it sometimes it slips through feels sometimes you might have broken through into an open tunnel or something but usually it's just this what about here look this is the last two feet is that re-drilled yeah that's a reason and then what are we getting into down there some more of this just tight again yeah so that's just more of the same just a lot of ground up field stone the tightness of it tells us that we're probably not close to a vertical structure which is disappointing not terribly interesting in terms of treasure hunting unfortunately for the team what appeared to be a possible large underground board where they hope to encounter the original money pit is simply a natural horizon of soft clay although frustrating especially given this late moment in the year is at least useful information to help inform their search moving forward so c 11.5 turned out to be nothing which is good information because it helps us really put an x through our money pick rating and we know that's an area really of non-interest for us right now so terry's analog information i'm going to plot it in our 3d model and we're going to move to the next goal seal 11.5 it's a bust kind of uh died with the whimper it was tight so we're not close to any instructors it doesn't look like they're very close now so we're done move on well members of the team regroup in the money pit area hey hey hey rick and alex lakina along with gary drayton and david fernetti meet with archaeologist lyric neman to receive his follow-up assessment of the bag seal found yesterday on lot 32. it's curious it's it's i was pretty excited to see it often the detail bale seals is really difficult to interpret they're very cryptic [Music] wow look it looks like an x on the bottom a double x double x yeah but we can just like do a little explanation of what we're seeing here this is actually the cloth makers what they call a privy seal these seals are family seals so they'd be passed down through the generations and apparently back in the day if you had a father and a son alive at the same time to avoid confusion you'd added the sun would add an element to his seal so they get more and more complicated over the years but this one if you look here has initials i think it's an f on the left hand side and perhaps an e on the right hand side if i pull it down [Applause] it's really faint but what you can't see is that that's actually the shape of a four oh yeah apparently that's an old symbol used for a long time and it's not actually a four they think it represents like the sign of the cross oh well what is the significance of the sign of the cross you wouldn't think to find that on a commercial enterprise right i don't think it derives from family crest because that that symbol is used by multiple families so this would have been something that's carried down through generations it's just most curious to have that religious and well on a commercial item i i find that to be very strange and the only people who would do that in my limited knowledge base would be tumblers [Applause] build a custom mobile workshop next give it a place yeah i just find it really evocative i find it really cool you know it's a it's a symbol that's old enough that the orcs have basically been forgotten could rick laguna be correct that the lead-back seal found near the swamp might be evidence connected to the knight templar although the theory of a possible link between the oak island mystery and this medieval order of warrior monks has persisted for generations rick marty and the team have made notable discoveries that potentially corroborated including pieces of cake barrels high endpoint chisel and tunneling tools that all date back to the 1400s or earlier however the discovery of the lead cross at smith's cove three years ago remains the most compelling due to the fact that a scientific test known as laser ablation helped prove that it's at least 700 years old and was made from lead originating in an area of southern france that was once a stronghold for the templars [Applause] critical theory i've got two words to say laser ablation we should get that tested [Music] [Applause] that's a good idea and maybe it matches up to all the lead signatures that were found on different ladder effects on the island right so you didn't mention a time period some of them some of them actually have dates on them but this one the broad date is 1300 to 1800 that's pretty broad yeah this bag seal in proximity to the wharf that's huge is there a possible templar connection maybe we need to come to an understanding what this represents here but it's the strangest thing i've seen on this island in a long long time that is very very cool yeah very cool i could have a top pocket fine for sure absolutely i actually agree [Music] welcome one of my favorite times we get to look at some i believe will be very interesting data two days later rick marti craig and members of the team gather in the war room for the highly anticipated report from dr ian spooner and his colleague dr matt lukman regarding the water tests they conducted earlier this week in the money pit area so i've got one question to ask do you think there's treasure in the money pit well i like that no you know i'm serious do i yeah small chance but i do i absolutely do i believe that what they drilled into in the 18

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Published: Tue Apr 27 2021