The Curse of Civil War Gold (2018–…): Season 2, Episode 10 - It Ain't Over 'Til It's Overboard - full transcript

-KEVIN: We're ready to go.
-Let's go find the gold.

NARRATOR:
A special season finale.

We're not done. This adventure
is just beginning.

-Yep.
-Get after it.

-Get back down there.
-(laughter)

KEVIN:
We're bringing in
the best divers.

You're right in the area
where the gold bars are.

This could be our very last
chance of finding that gold.

I told you there was gold
down there, didn't I?!

NARRATOR: In the Northern town
of Frankfort, Michigan...

-ALEX:
Welcome back to Frankfort.
-JOHN: Good to be back.



NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina
and his son Alex

have arrived at the local fire
station for a critical meeting

with treasure hunters
Kevin Dykstra,

his brother Al
and Frederick J. Monroe.

And joining them

is world-renowned diver
John Chatterton

and his dive partner
Howard Ehrenberg.

They have gathered in order
to determine whether or not

Kevin and his team
have made what could be

a history-changing discovery
at the bottom of Lake Michigan.

Well, I told these guys
you're gonna wow 'em.

-Are we?
-So, I'm gonna turn it
over to you now

-and see-see where
the wow comes in.
-Yep.

Get us up to speed.
What's going on?



Well, we're in an area
where we've been searching

for gold bars
on the bottom of Lake Michigan.

We wanted to get video
of the bottom of the lake,

so Al and I thought, you know,

let's see if we can bring in
a professional diver.

Okay.

NARRATOR:
One week ago,

while performing
a dive operation

with Kevin
and members of the team,

professional diver Mike Nelson

found numerous
rectangular objects

that appeared to be gold bars
strewn across the lake bottom.

NARRATOR:
The discovery could be proof
of an incredible story

told by a lighthouse keeper
on his deathbed

more than a century ago:

that a boxcar containing some
$140 million in gold bullion

was deliberately pushed off
the back of a ferry

near the coast of Frankfort.

According to his more
than eight years of research,

Kevin Dykstra believes
the gold was once part

of the Confederate treasury,

which was stolen by members
of the 4th Michigan Cavalry

when they arrested
Jefferson Davis

as he attempted
to flee the country

at the end
of the Civil War in 1865.

While Kevin and the team are
currently waiting for a permit

from the Army Corps of
Engineers to dig in the area,

they have recently found
possible sonar

and now video evidence
of what appears to be

both the boxcar
and the stolen gold.

I have the footage here.

-Do you want to see that?
-Absolutely.

KEVIN:
All right, guys.
This is the footage

that we got on this recent dive
with Mike helping us.

HOWARD:
That's interesting.

ALEX:
That sure looks like a bar

-of something, doesn't it?
-(Al chuckles)

That definitely looks
like a bar of something.

HOWARD:
Do we have approximate
dimensions

of these objects?

KEVIN:
Yes.

Mike described them
as being like this.

He couldn't touch it,
he couldn't pick it up,

-but he could certainly get
a basic idea of size.
-Yes.

KEVIN:
So, John and Howard,

in order for us
to verify what this is--

is this real gold?--

I think the metal detector
is the best way to do it.

-Mm-hmm.
-But-but we got

to get past the lake conditions
right now,

and believe me, every day, they
get worse and worse and worse.

Mm-hmm.

Well, according to the weather,
there's gale-force winds

and 14-foot waves out there
right now.

MARTY:
Wow.

JOHN:
You know, obviously,

(laughs):
it's windy out.

Um, it's not good.

No.

NARRATOR:
The greatest obstacles

that Kevin and his team
now face in their effort

to confirm their discoveries
on the bottom of the lake

are the increasingly harsh
fall weather conditions.

High winds and tall waves

have already caused frustrating
delays in dive operations

and made searching
both on and below the water

extremely dangerous.

Our window of opportunity
on the lake is small.

I mean,
it's diminishing every day.

You can have
everything prepared.

You can have your dive gear
all lined up.

You can have the best equipment
in the world

and the best people
to run it in the world.

It doesn't matter.
The lake can trump you, so...

you really don't want
to tempt fate and go out there.

Damned if it isn't so amazing
that we're this close,

(chuckles): and it's, like,
something is preventing us

-from getting
to the bottom of this.
-Yep.

We've been fighting this
for eight years.

We've got a lot accomplished
so far, but you know what?

I think we're at a point
where I think we need help.

MARTY:
Are you intrigued by this?

Oh, I-I'm especially
intrigued by this.

What do you have
for location information?

We have the numbers
that we parked on top of

when we sent Mike to the bottom
with the camera.

I feel, if we go right back
to the numbers,

you're probably gonna be
within 30 to 50 feet of it.

-If you can get us
within a hundred feet...
-Yep.

...we could find that.

If we find the objects,
we can hand-fan, we can examine,

we can try and get depth,

-we can measure,
but we can't touch?
-Yes.

To be able to dig on the bottom
of Lake Michigan,

we need two permits.

I have one.

The second permit comes from
the Army Corps of Engineers,

-and we're working
on that right now.
-Okay.

The best thing
that we came up with was

to try to go back there and run
a metal detector over it.

That lake out there
is-is brutal.

Those waves kick up, and-and...

Al and I just feel like
we could use some help.

Absolutely.

-Yeah.
-I think we can really

help you guys out.

HOWARD:
You're in the chamber,
is what you're saying?

NARRATOR:
In addition to his work
with Howard Ehrenberg

exploring numerous boreholes
on Oak Island

for Marty and Rick Lagina,

John Chatterton has explored
some of the deepest

and most dangerous shipwrecks
in the world,

including the Britannic,

the Lusitania,

the Andrea Doria,

and even the RMS Titanic.

MARTY:
Guys, you know, there's no
other way to frame this.

This is exciting.

I mean, you have found
gold objects

on the bottom of Lake Michigan.

This feels like
we're in the final chapter here.

We just need to prove it.
We got the right guys here.

-So let's go do it.
-All right.

ALEX:
Sounds good.

-NARRATOR: The following day...
-KEVIN: Look at the bay here.

-There's no white caps
on the bay.
-ALEX: Yeah, finally.

NARRATOR:
Kevin and his team,

along with John Chatterton
and Howard Ehrenberg,

arrive at the Frankfort marina.

Hey, Luke. Can we push off?

-Yeah. Absolutely.
-All right.

KEVIN:
Guys, we're underway.

Everybody in the whole team is
excited to get back out there.

We got just a big enough break

in the weather
that John and Howard

feel confident
that they can dive.

If anybody can find that gold
at the bottom of the lake,

it'd be John and Howard.

What do you think
the seas out there are?

The report said it was

four to sixes,
dropping to two to fours.

Later in the day,
it'll be eight-footers.

-So we got our work
cut out for us?
-Yeah.

Yeah, if it's building again,

-this might be our only window.
-Yeah.

KEVIN:
Hang on, guys.

It's gonna get rough.

HOWARD:
130, John.

-Gotcha.
-We're closing.

125.

-KEVIN: You're doing good, Luke.
-LUKE: Thank you.

Get us right over
that mark, please.

HOWARD:
20.

KEVIN:
Getting close.

HOWARD:
We're five feet from it.

This is where it is right here.

Go, go.

-There we go.
-Ball's in.

HOWARD:
We're clear.

But we're good.
We're on the gold.

Nice work, guys.

We're within five feet.

NARRATOR:
Equipped with heavy dry suits

that will keep them comfortable

in the near-freezing waters
of Lake Michigan,

John and Howard are also
wearing full masks

that will allow them to stay
in constant communication

with the team
during the dive operation.

They will also be using
a metal detector

capable of differentiating

between ferrous metals
such as iron

and non-ferrous such as gold.

-You're good, John.
-Yep.

-AL: Good to go?
-HOWARD (muffled): Good to go!

KEVIN:
You guys be careful in there.

These waves are getting bad.

AL:
Diver in.

Second diver in.

John, loud and clear.

Excellent. Be safe.

AL:
This'll be it.

treasure hunter Kevin Dykstra
and his team,

along with
world-renowned divers

John Chatterton
and Howard Ehrenberg

are beginning
an underwater operation

to explore an area
on the bottom of Lake Michigan,

-where just one week ago...
-Holy crap.

...they obtained video footage
of what appeared to be

a number of gold bars
laying on the lake bed.

What is that?

KEVIN:
Looks like they're right on

-the dive marker.
-AL: Yeah, this is good, Luke.

NARRATOR:
Because the team has
only a general idea

where the possible gold bars
were discovered,

John and Howard will need
to conduct what is known

as a circular search
of the area.

This is done by anchoring
a dive line to the lake bottom

with a lead weight and then
attaching another line

on a handheld spool in order to
create a circular search area.

By gradually unspooling
the line as they swim,

John and Howard will be able
to carefully and systematically

expand their search, examining
the lakebed for any clues

and hopefully
the possible bars of gold.

Things are looking better.
I mean,

bright sunshine, that means
a lot of light down there.

-They've got a lot
better visibility.
-Mm-hmm.

And they've already got the
search pattern started, so...

-This'll be it.
-I hope this is it.

Time check. 23 minutes down.

There's no rocks
where those bars are.

-That's what I don't...
-ALEX: Right.

KEVIN:
If they can get away
from them rocks

and get to a clear area where
it's just sand, if they can get

to that area,
that's gonna be a plus.

AL:
Anything with a lot
of rocks in it

is just what you
should be avoiding.

NARRATOR:
Since beginning dive operations

off the coast of Frankfort
several months ago,

Kevin and his team
have identified

a number of mysterious objects
more than a mile from shore

that they believe
could contain the remains

of the legendary boxcar,

including a square,
manmade structure,

as well as a large debris field
to the north

featuring numerous smaller
rectangular objects.

It was in this area last week
that diver Mike Nelson

discovered what appeared to be
actual gold bars

on the lake bottom.

Yes.

ALEX:
How long have they
been in there?

FREDERICK:
37 and a half minutes.

If they find those gold bars,

and John says he has to surface
because he doesn't have any air,

that would be disappointing.

Are you in an area
where there's no rocks?

KEVIN:
You're right in the area
we believe you should find it.

Copy that. That's where
that footage came

was where there was
less than three inches of sand

over the clay.

ALEX:
Get ready for some rollers.

KEVIN:
Hang on.

NARRATOR:
As the weather conditions

on the surface begin to worsen,

the visibility under water
is now beginning to diminish.

If conditions continue
to deteriorate,

Kevin and the team

may be forced to abort
today's dive operation.

Wow. These are some big ones.

You know, if these waves
don't die down,

it's gonna be tough to get
another dive in, but...

Let's just hope they find it.

ALEX:
Time, Fred?

45 minutes down.

KEVIN:
You know, we're wondering
at this point,

with how hard it is
to find these bars again,

if maybe the GPS coordinates
were just a little bit off

or maybe just
a little bit different.

I mean, we're more than likely
within a hundred feet

of where Mike got that footage,

but it's proving very elusive.

Oh, my God, this is gold!

-Yes, it's gold! It's gold!
-KEVIN: Hold on.

Tell us exactly
what you're seeing, please.

This is the spot.

(groans)

-AL: Don't do that to us.
-They're killing us here.

I need a defibrillator.

That looks like
a gold bar to me.

NARRATOR:
Although the team
obtained video

of what clearly appeared to be
gold just one week ago...

Holy cow.

...the increasingly harsh
weather and underwater currents

have altered the lake bottom,

leaving the mysterious objects

now most likely covered
by sand and silt.

Say, guys, how much bottom time
do you have left?

Be advised, it's getting
pretty choppy up here.

Waves are increasing.

Copy that.

FREDERICK:
Diver up.

I see him right there.

Not for a minute
would I have ever thought

that I could find gold one day
on the bottom of Lake Michigan

and not be able
to get right back to it.

So did-did you guys see anything

that looked like that clear sand
where those gold bars are?

Yes. W-We saw
several sandy areas.

We did a circle,

you know, 200 foot in diameter,

100 foot out,
but we saw a lot of clay.

So no gold?

-No gold.
-No gold.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Having searched an area
encompassing more than

31,000 square feet,
divers John Chatterton

and Howard Ehrenberg have been
forced to come up empty-handed.

Could it be that
the mysterious gold bars

are now once again lost,

covered by inches
of sand and debris?

JOHN:
Our problem right now is

we can't pinpoint the area
with-within 100 feet.

HOWARD:
Yeah.

KEVIN:
Right. We could search

all day long,
but if we're searching

slightly in the wrong area,
the result will be the same.

And these waves are building

enough to where I think we need
to head this thing back in.

John and Howard covered
a lot of area.

They did a huge radius
around what I felt

was the most likely spot.

To hear them say
that they have not found

these gold bars is frustrating.

I know I have to call Marty
and bring him up to speed

on what's going on, and I know
Marty's not gonna be excited

for the information
that I don't have.

NARRATOR:
After returning to shore,

Kevin Dykstra and the team
call Marty Lagina

to inform him
of their disappointing day

out on the lake.

(line ringing)

Hey. Uh, so I got
the whole crew here,

pretty much, from, uh... from
when you left the other day.

Uh, we're sitting on the boat.

MARTY: Fantastic! How's
the water? How are the waves?

What's going on?
Bring me up to speed.

Uh, well, uh, wh-what to say?

Uh, we-we did a...

a really thorough search pattern
on the bottom

looking for those gold bars,
and, unfortunately,

we were not successful
in tracking them down.

MARTY:
Oh...

ALEX:
We weren't in the right place.

ALEX:
We were going on the basis
of where Mike was swimming,

but we don't know exactly where
that was 'cause he doesn't have

a GPS, obviously,
that works underwater.

ALEX:
He knew the boat was above him,

but we don't have a marker
from the boat at that time.

KEVIN:
Let me... let me talk to him.

Here, let me... let me
hand you off to Kevin.

Hey, Marty, it's Kevin.
How are you?

You know, you got six guys
on the boat here

that share-share that feeling
with you.

You know, i-if it's a screwup,

I'll take the blame
for it, Marty.

We-we tried our very best.

(stammering):
Marty, this is John.

The bottom line is--
the accuracy of Mike's dive

to the actual GPS numbers

were just off,
and-and I don't think

we're off a-a whole lot,
but we couldn't nail it.

I am disappointed,
and there's no point in

beating around the bush--
I'm upset.

But people make mistakes.
I make mistakes.

This was a big one, I think.

More documentation.

Better logs, better tracks,
documenting dives.

All-all... all of the above.

ALEX:
Sorry we couldn't do it
this time.

All right, I'll see you soon.

Yep. Bye.

-Now, that was brutal.
-Almost seemed pissed.

Yeah, he was not happy.
And, you know, rightfully so.

KEVIN:
We need to find that gold.

According to the weather,
we've got one day left.

You know, if there was a way
you could extend your stay

just one more day, it-it would
mean a-a ton to this project.

This is it. The gale-force
warnings are coming in.

The boat's gonna have to go up
in storage.

This harbor's gonna
freeze over here very shortly.

It really becomes
a race against time.

You guys don't want to go home
empty-handed, either.

I-I can make
one more day happen.

Sounds good. Appreciate it.
The search goes on.

-We'll hit it early
and make it happen.
-Okay.

KEVIN:
See if we can't find that gold.

-This is it for us.
-We're comin

-AL: Say when.
-JOHN: Drop it.

...Kevin Dykstra,
his younger brother Al

-and Frederick J. Monroe...
-AL: Got it?

...along with professional
divers John Chatterton

and Howard Ehrenberg,
prepare for what may be

their final opportunity
this year

to confirm that a stolen
fortune in Confederate gold

lies at the bottom
of Lake Michigan.

Hey, Al, can you make sure
that Howard's got that camera?

Yeah.

-Got it? Okay, they're good.
-Here we go.

AL:
Dive, dive, dive.

-This is it.
-Yeah.

KEVIN:
We know this could be our very
last day to be out here diving.

There's a storm coming
across the lake as we speak.

So, to be out there trying,

knowing it could be your
last day, it's-it's intense.

I mean, we're pushing it
right to the end.

This is it for us.

-This is it.
-Golden turkey day.

-KEVIN: Do you want to get
your gear on, just in case?
-Sure.

NARRATOR: Because Kevin
has yet to receive the second

of two government permits which
would allow the team to examine

and retrieve objects of
interest from the lake bottom,

the team will only be able
to use a metal detector

to identify any metal
or gold objects.

KEVIN:
Today's the day.

Eight years' worth of searching.

-Can't wait.
-Time will tell.

What is the visibility today?

Excellent. Wonderful.

NARRATOR:
As before, John and Howard

will be utilizing what is known
as a circular search

in order to thoroughly scour
the lake bottom.

KEVIN:
You know, I think the plan
that John and Howard have

of methodically ruling out
areas makes a lot of sense.

We brought these men in
for their expertise.

-They're in that spot.
-They're in the spot.

Boy, we're coming right down
the wire on this.

Right down the wire.

Last dive, last few minutes.

NARRATOR:
Although they have found
an area

that looks identical
to where the mysterious

gold-colored objects
were located,

after 20 minutes of searching,

John and Howard have yet to see
any signs of them.

-Come on, guys,
find it, find it.
-I want to hear 'em say "gold."

-Sounds like they're
seeing something else.
-Yeah.

He said 20 feet off in the
distance he could see something.

We've gotta be
in the right area, though.

KEVIN:
See what what is?
Guys, this is topside.

Are you seeing gold bars?

-And it goes on.
-Mm-hmm.

KEVIN:
You know, I want
so badly to hear

that we have found
those gold bars again.

It's very nerve-racking.

NARRATOR:
Having reached the extent
of their search line,

John and Howard will have to
start their process

all over again
in an adjacent area.

The question now is:
Will they be able to complete

a second search
before their time runs out?

That sounds good.

They're seeing stuff.
Please let it be a gold bar.

He said "gold," I think.

Did you say you found some gold?
Did you say that?

They're there.

Guys, please confirm.

Have you found gold bars?
Yes or no?

-Yes! Hey!
-Bam. Bam.

I told you there was gold
down there, didn't I?

How many of those bars
are you seeing?

NARRATOR:
In Frankfort, Michigan...

Oh, man, we got there.

...treasure hunter
Kevin Dykstra and his team,

along with divers
John Chatterton

and Howard Ehrenberg,

may have found
what Kevin has been seeking

for more than eight years:

a possible fortune
in stolen Confederate gold

at the bottom
of Lake Michigan.

-Follow the gold trail!
-I-I can't believe it.

They got... they got there.

John and Howard,

how many of those bars
are you seeing?

-Multiple bars.
-No freaking way.

-KEVIN: Six gold bars.
-In just that area.

And that's what they can see.
There could be more buried.

-They're on them gold bars
right now.
-Yep.

-They are on those gold bars.
-They got 'em.

Man, I'm shaking.

All right, they're gonna be
putting a buoy up on those bars,

so why don't you go grab
the metal detector

-and get yourself ready
to get down there.
-Yep.

NARRATOR:
In order to pinpoint their
location on the lake bottom,

Howard Ehrenberg deploys
a marker buoy, or SMB,

which will enable the team
to mark the area's

exact GPS coordinates.

KEVIN:
We see the buoy.

We got to get down there
and verify it.

AL:
Eight freaking years,
and here we are.

KEVIN:
I want to know right now,
are we sitting on

millions of dollars worth of
gold on the bottom of the lake?

We need to Al down there
to confirm

that these are, in fact,

non-ferrous gold bars.

How close to those bars
are you, Al?

-Oh, cool!
-Get that metal detector on 'em.

NARRATOR:
Because the team is still
awaiting a government permit

that would allow them
to lawfully touch or move

objects on the lake bottom,

Al will scan the bars with
an underwater metal detector

capable of discriminating

between ferrous metals
such as iron

and non-ferrous metals
such as gold.

Al, do you copy?

KEVIN:
Al, you need to put
that metal detector

over something that's metal.

Just verify that it's working.

That makes no sense.

That metal detector
should be singing like crazy.

(metal detector beeps)

That's not right.
Something's definitely wrong.

NARRATOR:
Gold-colored bricks?

Not solid gold bars?

But if so, how did they get
on the bottom of Lake Michigan?

All right, Al, if that's
the case, come back up

and, uh,
we'll figure out a plan.

KEVIN:
When Al told me that
those bricks weren't metal,

all I could think of is:

What's going on here?

AL:
It's a red brick
painted with a gold paint,

because I could see the red
on the side of it.

-These were just square bricks.
-KEVIN: Just square bricks.

Just-just a red brick like
you'd see on a schoolhouse.

Who would make fake gold bars?
Who would do that?

I think we need to go up

to Traverse
and pay a visit to Marty

and review that footage
that you guys got.

And we'll get ahold of Marty and
let him know what's going on.

-AL: Yeah.
-Yeah.
-KEVIN: All right.

NARRATOR:
The following day...

ALEX:
Welcome to the Founder's Room.

-Welcome back
to the Founder's Room.
-Yep.

NARRATOR:
...Kevin, along with his team,

arrive at Mari Vineyards
in Traverse City

to share their
disappointing news

with Alex and Marty Lagina.

Well, guys, I am really
looking forward to this because

you left me hanging last time
with those gold bricks.

KEVIN:
Well, s-sorry about that.

MARTY:
I mean, literally cliffhanging,

and I-I want to know
what happened.

I vividly remember that phone
call we had where you told me

about the bricks, but you
weren't quite sure if you were

gonna be able to get back
to them. Then what happened?

Okay, I'm gonna show you
what-what the video is

-that they came up with here.
-Great.

AL:
So I get to the bottom and,

uh, it is basically
a field of gold bricks.

As far as you could see,

-they were sporadically
just all...
-Seriously?

-Uh-huh. All over the place.
-Like, dozens?

I was most excited
that I've ever been in my life.

(chuckling):
I believe it.

AL:
I could see them

when I was about 15 feet
off the bottom.

-I could look out
and just see them.
-ALEX: Wow.

AL:
John and Howard
had their lights on them,

and they were just glowing.

Okay, and then? Where are they?

John, he pointed me to this one

and, uh, I was hitting it
with the metal detector,

but I wasn't getting
any reading,

so we thought maybe something's
wrong with the metal detector,

so we checked it
on his dive knife,

and, obviously,
I was getting a reading on that,

but I was not getting ferrous
or non-ferrous,

-so that means...
-MARTY: So...

-So they're not gold bars?
-They're not metal?

-So they're not gold bars?
-They're not metal.

NARRATOR:
In Traverse City, Michigan,

treasure hunter Kevin Dykstra
and his team

have just revealed to
Marty Lagina and his son Alex

that what appeared
to be gold bars

on the bottom of Lake Michigan

are nothing more
than gold-painted bricks.

I just can't...
I can't even believe it

as I'm sitting here, honestly.

I mean, look,
this is very sobering.

-Yep.
-ALEX: I mean, what are they?

I mean, if it's not gold,
what do you think it is?

They're just red bricks
painted gold.

-So somebody's messing with you?
-Somebody's messing with us.

Who the hell is doing this?
I mean, who?

Somebody that's been chasing
you? Nipping at your tail, what?

There's so many questions.

Did somebody plant these
to lead us astray?

Maybe somebody knows
we're close.

That's a possibility.

MARTY:
Time out. Time out.

Did it look to you

like they're recent,
like it could...

I mean, did the paint
look recent?

I mean, I know this is
an impossible question,

but I don't care--
I'm asking it anyway.

I think, if those were
sitting down there

-for a hundred years...
-MARTY: Right.

...that gold paint
would've been wore off

by a hundred years
of sand washing over it.

-So you think somebody
just dumped these.
-I think it's recent.

-That's what I think.
-You think that?

Could sand wash over gold paint
for a hundred years

and still have the paint
still be there?

I doubt it, Al.
I think you're probably right.

I think it looks like
a pretty common-day brick...

-Mm-hmm.
-...with gold on it.

Who would have ever thought that
somebody would paint bricks gold

and throw them on the bottom
of the lake for us to find?

The thought
never crossed my mind.

So, is somebody trying
to throw us off the trail?

Does somebody know
that there's still gold

on the bottom of the lake, maybe
in a little different area,

and they're trying
to divert us away from it?

MARTY:
Or they took it already.

Or-or they've already
been there and got it.

You know,
there's so many questions.

Like I said,
we-we never were prepared

for something like this.

NARRATOR:
Could Kevin Dykstra's
suspicions be correct?

Could it be that someone
who believes

his incredible theory
to be true

is shadowing him and his team

in an effort to keep them
from locating

the stolen Confederate gold?

Or could it be that,

in his eight-year search
to find the gold,

Kevin has made a number
of possible enemies

by exposing evidence of a large
and still ongoing conspiracy?

One that dates all the way back
to the American Civil War.

KEVIN:
You know, we've been working
on this for eight years,

we've investigated
a lot of people--

the Freemasons, the Knights
of the Golden Circle,

some very powerful men
like Charles Hackley.

Maybe I should be
looking over my shoulder,

because there still
may be people today

who don't want this figured out,

who maybe don't want me
to find that gold.

We've got gold-painted bricks
at the bottom of Lake Michigan?

I could never have guessed,
anticipated, you know.

-No.
-Uh, that's just bizarre.

It's interesting, but...

you still have to say,
okay, we are where we are.

Prove your premise.

And I-I'm just gonna be candid.

It'd be really nice
if we could date those.

They could tell a story if we
could bring them to the surface,

but, you know, if we can't
get the permit, well,

then we aren't gonna be able to
get that thing off the bottom.

KEVIN:
Well, I do have some good news.

On the way over here,
I just found out

that the Army Corps of Engineers
approved our permit.

MARTY:
Really?

-ALEX: So you got it?
-KEVIN: We did.

Now we're able to remove things
from the bottom of the lake.

Well, okay, if-if you can get
one of those to the surface,

that's a...
that's a different story.

I'm actually kind of getting
sauced up here a little bit.

-(laughs)
-Let's figure out
what happened here.

There are some similarities

between this and Oak Island,

in the sense that it starts out
with kind of a simple premise--

something buried here, something
at the bottom of the lake here--

and then all of a sudden,
when you start

looking into it
and following the data,

pretty soon you're
running wild with it.

Here's what I know for sure:

Kevin's done a great job
of connecting dots,

but they're-they're not
all connected yet.

They're not done.
This isn't the end.

You know, there-there's still
something else out there, too,

because looking at this footage,
this is great footage,

-you can see very clearly
the edge of the brick.
-Mm-hmm.

It looks different
than the object

that we saw in the footage
from last year.

NARRATOR:
One year ago...

Jeff got some video
that we want to show you,

and I think
you'll be really impressed.

NARRATOR:
...while exploring a different
but nearby area

on the bottom of Lake Michigan,

Kevin, Al and Jeff Zehr

obtained footage of another
rectangular-shaped object,

one which appeared to be
a genuine gold bar.

Okay, then we come
into this area here.

Boom, right there.

Do you see what's in
the corner there?

We have what we believe
is a gold bar.

But that object is still out
there. We never found that.

-We never re-found
that one, yeah.
-ALEX: But it looks to me

like it's, uh,
maybe slightly smaller

-than the bricks
in the other footage.
-That's a good point.

-It's a totally different look.
-Right.

ALEX:
This is a totally
different location.

I can tell just
from the-the bottom.

-MARTY: Sure.
-KEVIN: Yeah.

Okay, guys, you know what?

Y-You came through.
You came through in spades.

Data's data.
You found what was down there.

But, I mean,
this is a mystery now.

I kind of... I guess I'm getting
kind of juiced up a little bit.

I don't know what the hell...
how that happened.

I'm still excited. I'm still
gonna follow the gold trail.

(laughter)

I don't feel like giving up.
I'm guessing you don't, either.

No. Not a... not a chance,
not a chance.

We're not done. We're not done.

This-this adventure
is just beginning.

-AL: Yeah, right.
-And I feel really good.

-Yeah. I agree.
-KEVIN: Yeah.

KEVIN:
You know, we may not have
found the gold just yet,

but we've uncovered
a lot of evidence

that supports my theory.

And after this year,
it's opened up

so many new areas to search.

There's caches of gold
to explore all over.

-We'll pick back up
in the spring, right?
-We will.

KEVIN:
There's no way
that I'm near the end

of the quest now. This is
really just the beginning.

Now that we have the permit,

there's no way that
any one of us are gonna

stop searching for this gold
until we find it.

You couldn't make us stop
looking for this gold.

Kevin, here's where we're going.
We're going forward, together.

That sounds great.
That sounds great.

NARRATOR:
For Kevin Dykstra and his team,

the search for a missing
fortune in Confederate gold

has become more
than a treasure hunt.

It has become a quest
to reveal the truth

behind what might be

one of the greatest
conspiracies in history.

One that began with the death
of an American President...

(gunshot)

...and stretched
from Georgia and Michigan

to Utah and beyond.

But now that evidence
of suspected sabotage

has been discovered,

is it possible
that the stolen gold

and the secrets
surrounding its history

are still being guarded?

If so, by whom?

And just how far
are they willing to go

in order to protect them?

(gunshot)

Subtitled by Diego Moraes
www.oakisland.tk