The Curse of Oak Island (2014–…): Season 5, Episode 18 - Amazing Discoveries - full transcript

NARRATOR: Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island,

a special season finale.

GARY:
I took the gem

to a gemologist.

It's a 500-year-old stone.

-Get him in the water.
-Eyes and boots.

Yes!

RICK:
What is down there,

and can we get it out?

They found something, Rick.

Oak Island is for real.



A lot of this
looks spendable, David.

-I say we celebrate.

There's treasure on Oak Island.

JACK:
Yeah!

NARRATOR: 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 Knights Templar.

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.

With only a few days remaining

before they must shut down
operations for the year...

RICK: So, this is
an important war room meeting.

NARRATOR: ...brothers
Rick and Marty Lagina

have called a meeting
in the war room.

They are eager to follow up on

what could be one of
the most incredible discoveries

in the 223-year-old search
for treasure on Oak Island.

I think, Alex,
we need to dial up

-your father and Craig.
-All right, I'll get them up.

Hey, guys.

-Hey, guys.
-Hey, Marty.

-Hey.
-Hello.

You know of the find
that Gary made,

regarding the brooch
and the jewel.

-Yes. -Yes.
-RICK: Okay.

GARY: That was weird.
Look at this, Rick.

We've got it.

NARRATOR: Two days ago,
while searching on Lot 8

located near the middle
of the island,

Rick Lagina and metal detection
expert Gary Drayton

discovered a curious object.

-Look at that.
-Oh, man.

NARRATOR:
Upon further investigation,

it appeared they had found
an antique brooch,

a brooch which featured
a large, deep red stone.

Rick, we just found a jewel.

That's gorgeous.

Look at how many facets on that.

GARY:
That is a bobby dazzler.

Right, you're all sitting down,

-which is good 'cause you're...

you're in for a shock.

I took the gem-- jewel--

to a certified gemologist

in Halifax

and basically asked
what the stone was,

'cause we was all thinking ruby.

But the bad news is
it's not a ruby.

But the good news is
it's a rhodolite garnet.

It's a 400-
or 500-year-old stone.

400 to 500 years ago

-puts us into the 1500s
to 1600s. -Yep.

And that's before
any searchers, too.

-Yeah.
-That dates back to being

-probably from
the original depositors. -Yeah.

-The right era we want to be in.
-Yeah.

It's a rhodolite garnet.

NARRATOR: A rhodolite garnet
is a semiprecious gemstone

known for its rose pink
to deep red coloring.

Its use in jewelry
dates all the way back

to the days
of the Egyptian pharaohs,

who used them
for both decorative

and ceremonial purposes.

But how did such a unique stone
come to be found on Oak Island?

Could it be a piece of
some kind of pirate treasure

or one of the legendary
lost jewels

of Queen Marie Antoinette?

Honestly, I was shocked.

I was shocked when Gary said,

"Hey, that-that not only
is not glass,

"it is at least
a semiprecious stone.

And it could be very old."

I'm not totally shocked,

but again, it's that number.

400 to 500 years old, possibly.

That's-that's a huge number.

And, uh, that's surprising.

MARTY:
How does he date that?

How do you date a stone?

His opinion was
it was a really old cut.

Because remember
when we turned it over

-and you could see
the facets on it? -Yes, I...

Well, well, these were hand-cut.

These weren't maine-made,

and these were done
before the days

when people thought
about refraction

and light
going through the stones.

You know, where they used to do

all the fancy cuts,
more modern cuts.

This is a hand-cut gem.

-GARY: Yep. -Wow.

-There's one other thing.
-GARY: Yep.

It is a silver setting.

When people made silver jewelry
long ago,

it had an high percentage
of copper in the mix,

up to 73%.

And there wouldn't be
that amount of copper

in a modern silver jewelry mix.

-Yeah.
-And this copper color

is the copper leaching out.

-Oxidizing.
-GARY: Yeah, out of the silver.

And that's how
he was able to tell

that it was really old,
because of the patina on it.

-Wow. -Well, I'll pass
the gemstone around.

Look at that, Charles.

MARTY: David, I think,
I think you might be looking

at a spendable right there.

Yeah, I think so, too.

Gemstones on Oak Island. Yeah!

-Yeah, baby!

Yeah, baby.

We-we got to figure out
what it means

and bring it to the next expert
and all that.

I'm gonna do a little research
on rhodolite garnet.

I imagine
400 or 500 years ago,

there might only be
a certain amount of places

where such a gem
would come from.

-CRAIG: Yeah.
-Yeah, that's a...

You know, so that's great stuff.

Yeah.

MARTY:
Amazing.

A very significant find.

I'm-I'm very surprised.

The stone apparently is real

with a, with a cut
that has not been used

for a long, long time.

I mean,
it certainly is a "wow" find,

but what does it mean?

Okay, well, we'll move on, then.

Good stuff. Good stuff.

Carry on.
-RICK: All right.

-See you. -See you later.
-See you later.

Bye, guys.

NARRATOR: One day after
learning from Gary Drayton

that the deep red stone
they discovered

could be a genuine piece
of centuries-old jewelry,

Rick Lagina and members
of the Oak Island team

arrive at the Money Pit site

to meet with diver Mike Huntley
and his crew.

I'm just gonna spin the bow
of the van around

so we can see this can here.

NARRATOR:
Mike has been invited

to dive the 60-inch-wide
exploratory shaft

known as D.M.T.

If successful, he may be able
to determine the exact nature

of what is believed to be
a large object

that has been blocking
the team's efforts

to continue digging
at the site.

ALEX:
Here's Rick.

-Hey, Rick.

We're debating and we're hoping.

In the near term,
we're gonna get real answers

from a very significant
question--

i.e. what is down there,
and can we get it out?

There's an obstruction there.

We're good to go, guys.

NARRATOR:
Several weeks ago,

the Oak Island team
began digging

their second 60-inch-wide shaft
of the year,

which they had named D.M.T.

in honor of Craig Tester's
late son, Drake.

They were trying to locate
the Chappell Vault,

the mysterious
seven-foot-tall wooden box

that treasure hunters
William Chappell

and Frederick Blair
first discovered in 1897.

Although the team is convinced
that their first shaft, H-8,

was successful in reaching it
several weeks ago,

they believe
it may have been pushed aside

by the drilling caisson.

Unfortunately, two weeks ago,

while the team was drilling
the D.M.T. shaft,

their drilling caisson
encountered an obstruction

at a depth of 77 feet.

(rapid mechanical clicking,
thump)

DANNY:
It's strong enough to slow

that thing down on a free fall.
That's crazy.

And I think it's a plate
that we've encountered,

and it's not searcher.

It's most likely
from the original people,

'cause it seems inconceivable
that searchers would have put

such a big piece of metal
down there.

DOUG: I mean,
it's an unexplained anomaly...

at a depth
we didn't expect to hit it at.

-Yeah. -So you got to wonder
what's there

that's exerting that pressure.

JACK: What do we do
if it's a plate, Rick?

RICK:
That I don't know, Jack.

For me, it's just...
I'm not gonna multitask.

We know that that doesn't work.

He'll make
an initial assessment,

and that's as far as I care
to go on the first dive.

And then I think we have
to come up and then decide.

I mean, we put flocculant
in the hole.

It's fairly fast-acting.
Should get a really good look.

NARRATOR:
In order to provide

the best visibility possible
for the dive operation,

Rick and the team have already
treated the D.M.T. shaft

with a substance
known as flocculant,

a chemical that causes
particles or small debris

that could be floating in water
to clump together

and settle at the bottom
of their environment.

If it turns out to be a plate

and he can get around
the edge of it,

he could probably explore
a little bit under the plate.

You know, it might not even be
a steel plate.

It could be a box.

That'd be something,
if he put his hands down

along the edge
and it went down deeper

-than what he could get around
the edge of. -Exactly. Exactly.

-Yeah.
-There's something down there.

NARRATOR: Having invited
professional diver Mike Huntley

and his crew to Oak Island,

Rick Lagina
is hoping to find out

the exact nature
of the obstruction

that lies at the bottom
of the exploratory drill shaft

known as D.M.T.

RICK:
We're all very interested

in what may be down
in this hole.

You know,
steel plate at that depth?

That didn't grow
down there, so...

steel plate would indicate
something of value

might be below it.

DOUG:
Hey, Mike.

You gonna give us
some answers today?

Good to see you, man.

Okay, guys, come on over.

Okay, guys, we're gonna start
with our first dive for today.

For the most part, it's
gonna be an investigative dive

to see what's actually there.

It's 50 feet of water, so we got

about 75 minutes
without doing decompression.

There's no risk
of decompression illness

or any type of embolism.

NARRATOR:
Although the shallow depths

will not put Mike Huntley
and his team at risk

of deadly
decompression sickness--

otherwise known as the bends--

the Oak Island team

has nevertheless arranged
for paramedics to be on site

in case of any unforeseen
accidents or emergencies.

-Let's get wet.
-Let's get wet. Awesome.

RICK:
The dive's about to begin,

and I'm-I'm always nervous.

Every dive is dangerous,

or potentially dangerous.

Shallow water dives are
the most dangerous,

because you tend
to take things for granted.

So... everyone's head
needs to stay in the game.

I hear you loud and clear.

Eyes and boots.

-Eyes, boots and suits.
-Eyes, boots and suits.

NARRATOR:
Throughout the dive operation,

Rick Lagina and the team
will be able to maintain

constant audio contact
with Mike,

as well as monitor
a live video feed

of his activity
in the communications trailer.

-Main air is on.

He's good to go!

Hey, Craig.

Good, good.

NARRATOR:
Although Rick's brother Marty

is currently away on business,

their friend and partner,
Craig Tester,

is monitoring today's dive

from his office
in Traverse City, Michigan.

We're a few minutes away from...

getting Mike down hole.

75 minutes, bottom time.

Get him in the water!

To ensure a safe descent down
the approximately 27 feet to

the water in the D.M.T. shaft,
Mike Huntley will be lowered

with a device
known as a bosun's chair.

From there,
he will dive down some 50 feet

to investigate the obstruction

at a depth
of approximately 77 feet.

Faster. Go down faster.

MAX:
All stop.

Roger that.

Roger. Keep his hose tight!

NARRATOR:
Because the flocculent

that was poured earlier
into the D.M.T. shaft

has not been able to clear up
the large amount

of clay sediment and silt
that still clouds the water,

visibility is near zero.

We've lost
all visibility, Craig.

Mike will now have
to try and determine the nature

of the obstruction
with only his sense of touch.

What did he say?
Super...?

NARRATOR:
While attempting to dive

some 77 feet deep
in the D.M.T. shaft,

diver Mike Huntley has
encountered an unusual problem.

MAX:
Almost like spongy?

Is there a flocculent
in there already?

He can't...
can't stay on bottom.

The flocc would make a slurry.

ALEX:
Change in buoyancy?

Unfortunately, the flocculent

that the team poured
down the D.M.T. shaft

to aid Mike Huntley's
visibility has not only failed

to clear up the water,
but is now causing him

to float upward.

The flocculent has reacted

with the debris at the bottom
of the D.M.T. shaft

and created a thick cloud
of a gel-like substance

that Mike is unable
to sink through.

RICK: We introduced
a lot of flocculent.

Unfortunately,
now that's counterproductive

to what we want to do.

RICK:
Let's see...

let's see if he can address
this situation with weights.

He's not able
to stand on bottom.

And if he's not able
to stand on bottom,

because it is a tactile dive,
he's not gonna be able to feel

you know, what
this obstruction might be.

Okay. Roger.
Sending down the chair.

Craig, he's coming
out of the hole,

'cause he just can't get
to bottom.

Up on chair, up on umbilical!
He's coming out!

Just make sure
it's going down slow

so it doesn't hit him
on top of the head.

-Flocculent. No. -I never,
never anticipated this.

RICK:
Mike's been here before,

he's invested in the process,

he's committed,
and he wants answers.

I think we're in

an area that has significant...

potential for discovery.

Roger.

There you go.

Okay, I need some weight
in this thing.

Holy .

NARRATOR:
Mike Huntley's dive team

will now pack his dive suit
with 60 pounds of lead weights

to ensure his ability to reach
the bottom of the D.M.T. shaft

and to identify
what the obstruction

which is preventing
further excavation actually is.

I did a complete 360
with my feet.

I haven't felt anything yet.
On bottom.

That's when I'm thinking,
"Where the hell is it?"

But I can feel hard bottom,
that's the thing.

I can feel it. Like, boom,
boom, boom, just like that.

RICK:
I mean, there's so much

unknown about
the Money Pit area.

We just simply need to know,
what is this thing?

Roger. All stop!

Roger that.

MAX:
Roger that.

MAX: Yeah, we can't see
a whole lot up here.

TONY:
How much flocc

-I don't know, exactly.

But enough to grab
all the heavy stuff

and bring it down.

Perfect.

NARRATOR: Now that Mike
has reached the bottom,

some 77 feet deep
in the D.M.T. shaft,

he will begin
a tactile examination

to try to determine for sure
what the obstruction is.

You want me to get Jack?

Jack! Jack!

-They're getting him.
-Jack!

JACK:
Yeah?

Yes!

So, are you saying that
preemptively,

you're thinking
that it's a plate?

-Oh, man!

NARRATOR:
Could the obstruction

really be a steel plate,
as Mike Huntley suggests?

And if so,
what is it protecting?

RICK:
When he gives an opinion

that we are indeed
on a metal plate,

I mean, that's-that's
an aha moment.

Really? A metal plate
at this depth?

Again,
from a historical context,

there should not be
a metal plate there,

as part of searcher agenda.

So, if it's not searcher,
it's original.

How deep is it?

How deep is the material
that we have to go through?

NARRATOR: Because of
the near zero visibility

caused by the clay and sediment

stirred up
in the 60-inch shaft,

Mike Huntley must rely
only on his sense of touch

to examine
the size and orientation

of the believed plate.

You've got ten minutes.

Is there a way
he could grab a sample?

-If he can.

Is there any way for you
to quick get a sample?

We found something, Rick.

Roger that.
We'll get the chair sent down.

NARRATOR:
With Mike Huntley's dive time

in the D.M.T. shaft
running out,

it is the team's hope that,

by collecting samples
from the bottom

some 77 feet below ground,

Mike will obtain proof
of a believed steel plate

and perhaps whatever it might
have been put there to protect.

MIKE: That was one of the more
frustrating dives I've done.

-Yeah.
-I don't know what's there.

-I stuck that knife

one to 12 o'clock,
center to the edge.

In some spots,
I thought I hit a plate.

And the more I hit it,
it was hard.

RICK: When you're in the moment,
especially on

a tactile dive,
where you can't see anything,

you're groping about,
he comes to surface

and he says, "You're
certainly on something."

We need to go look
at those sample bags.

MIKE:
This is what I found.

I thought I had a hard bottom,
and I could find not a thing.

And the chisel
has hardened alloy steel on it,

-and it broke it apart.
-Yeah. -Yeah.

To do that, Mike, you're into
something very, very hard.

-What you have in that bag, no.
-Wouldn't do it.

-No. No.
-Yeah. No, totally.

RICK:
I think we go back down

and see-see what we find.

Okay. Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Because Mike has reached

his dive time safety limit
for the day,

backup diver Nick Perry will
now descend the D.M.T. shaft.

He will also be equipped with
a pinpointing metal detector

to determine whether or not
the obstruction is metal,

and, if possible, remove it.

All stop!

Roger that, Nick. You can
stand on bottom, correct?

How's it going down there?

MIKE: See if you can dig down
with your knife

or even your hand
and see if you can find it.

Just turn your pinpointer on
and, uh,

metal-detect
the whole hard area.

Peel your glove off, um,

and get a really good,
smooth feel with your hand.

Which doesn't make sense,
because why wouldn't

the oscillator
chew through rock?

Mm.

Uh, some of
the little stone chips,

they might be
in the near vicinity.

Just chuck 'em in your glove
and bring 'em up, just to...

It might be something
of interest.

RICK:
Nick has

felt the rock
underneath the can.

Roger that.

RICK:
And I think we've excluded

the possibility
that it's steel.

So, what do we do?
How do we proceed?

I'm dismayed.

NARRATOR: Because the massive
steel caisson was designed

to drill through
just about anything,

the fact that it couldn't
cut through a granite rock

is deeply confusing.

There is definitely a granite
rock there, 'cause I felt it.

Took the glove off.
You could feel the round edge.

-Rubbed it.
-That's granite.

Well, if it's a hard granite,

there's some granite
that's as hard as steel.

Both Nick and Mike,
uh, to their credit,

have stated forthrightly what
they have observed and/or felt,

and they believe it
to be a-a boulder.

And I think there was hope
all around

that this really was a find.

But it's not,
and-and thus we move on.

NARRATOR:
The following day,

Rick Lagina and members
of the Oak Island team

meet with the crew
from Irving Equipment, Limited,

at the Money Pit site.

Because the 60-inch-wide
drilling caisson

cannot break through
the granite obstruction

at the bottom
of the D.M.T. shaft,

they must accept
a bitter reality:

that further drilling
is out of the question,

at least for now.

They have run out of time
and are dangerously low

on the money they budgeted
for this year.

RICK: Look, it's a-a little
different feel right now

than when we saw you guys come
across the causeway, you know?

But-but I will say this:
it's been a pleasure

working with Irving Group
and with ROC.

It's been fantastic.
Uh, and, you know, you...

we don't walk away
with our heads hanging low.

I mean, there's-there's
something down there.

I really appreciate
being part of it

and hopefully we continue
to be part of it

and get to the bottom
of that hole.

I don't like to make promises
on Oak Island,

but we have every expectation
to see you guys back here.

We'll get to the bottom
of this thing.

It's not "good-bye."
It's "we'll see you soon."

To that end, we're not done.

Scott, thank you.

We've decided
to let Irving and ROC go.

The bitter part of it,
of course,

is that we didn't find
what we had hoped we would find,

some substantial one thing
in H-8

and locating the vault
in the second hole of D.M.T.

But we vigorously investigated

the supposed area
of the Money Pit.

We've got two cans--
large diameter cans--

that have
their structural integrity

and that we can possibly use
for further exploration.

So, we have moved the dial
on Oak Island.

Unfortunately, it still is...

it's still an island of
what ifs and possibilities.

NARRATOR: After a summer
that saw the discovery

of everything from
17th century human bones

to antique jewelry

and a cross
that could date back

to the days
of the Knights Templar,

Rick, Marty, and their team
may be closer than ever

to solving the mystery
of Oak Island.

But now, having invested
another hard year

and millions of dollars,

the time has arrived
for a critical decision.

Should they continue?

And if so, how?

NARRATOR: One day after making
the difficult decision

to end this year's
search operations

at the Money Pit site...

-Charles. Wow.
-Hi, guys.

-That's quite a jigsaw puzzle.
-Yeah.

...brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina

and other members
of the Oak Island team

meet in the war room
for what is likely to be

their final time this year.

Before we begin, I'd like
to get Craig up on the phone.

Looks like we got Craig.
Hey, Craig.

-Hey, Craig! -Hey!

Craig, we're looking at
a display of the year's finds.

We certainly have a mosaic here,

and we have yet
to put it together.

There's a lot of puzzle pieces.

Mom would tell us

get your straight edges here,
put your corner pieces there,

-put your colored pieces here,
-Yeah.

put the blue pieces here.

And that's what we've got
laid out before us.

And we have yet
to figure it out.

-I don't know.

I mean, I'd open it up
for a open table discussion.

-Yep.
-Yeah.

And then, you know, after
everyone's had their input,

uh, there's but one thing
to ask,

and that is:
where do we go from here?

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

Whatever conclusion you come to

is gonna have to be
predicated on...

-How much money we've got.
-Well, sure.

-I agree there. -DAVE:
There's a lot of stuff here

that cost a lot of money
to find.

We are not getting
our money back.

We still need more.
Give us your opinion.

And it doesn't work for us
on Oak Island.

Yeah, but-but wait a minute.
There is a certain weariness

right now
at the end of all this.

There's a certain excitement,
but there's a certain weariness.

So I think a good starting point
would be to make sure

we all understand
what's on the table here.

I mean, there's a lot of stuff.
So why don't you start, Gary?

Discuss what you consider the
highlights of what you found.

This crucifix cross, to me,
is the find of the season.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa!

Holy...

Holy schmoly, all right.

-It's a cross.
-Oh, my gosh.

I mean,
that is an old, old cross.

That is really, really old,

and that came
from somewhere else.

What did your analysis
come up with?

13th century or older, Dan,

-is what people are saying.
-Yeah.

Yeah, because this cross
is the type of thing

that's carved into prison walls
and church walls in Europe.

Is this solely
a Templar construct?

It is closely associated
with the crusading orders.

There's a carving in France

in a prison tower
where up to 70 Templar knights

were imprisoned after
they were rounded up in 1307.

1307. That's the tail end
of 'em.

Look at the legs, the head.

Everything's really similar.

RICK:
I think the cross is

a uniquely singular item

-worthy of far more research.
-Absolutely.

So, Charles, what do you think's
most significant on this table?

I think another one of the,
you know, significant finds,

you know, is-is the human bones
out of H-8.

To me, the Money Pit
with the human bones,

that's... you know, it's huge.

To the limits of science, we
know that two people's remains

-are in the Money Pit.
-Yeah.

We have two samples,
uh, both human,

and, uh, it's definitely
two different humans.

We've got Western European
and East Asian.

In carbon dating, 1600s.

Human bones from 162 feet,
below searcher depth.

That's a hell of a depth
to be burying somebody.

-Yeah.
-They take on significance

if they're below six feet.

I agree.

DOUG: What I find exciting
is that piece of parchment

that you found this year in H-8

that corroborates
what William Chappell found

in his drilling in 1897.

You know, you verify
what they found 120 years ago.

You've been able to bring
a piece of a document

up out of the ground.

You know, finding that myself,

I am a hundred percent positive

that there's something very
valuable in the Money Pit area.

RICK: I have always said
that what's here

may be "treasure," there may be
manuscripts or books,

ancient knowledge,
something, something that is

far more valuable
than temporal wealth,

and this substantiates
that belief.

GARY: And there's a couple of
finds we're forgetting about:

those two coins here
have got 1600 dates on them.

One's 1673, was it?

And the other's in the 1690s.

When was the Money Pit
discovered?

-1795.
-1795.

-Right.
-MARTY: That had to be deposited

well before the discovery
of the Money Pit,

-a hundred years before.
-Yeah.

LAIRD:
There's certainly a suggestion

of an earlier occupation.

Pre-Money Pit.

-Yep.
-Wow.

-And did you see the brooch,
the pendant? -I did, yes. Yeah.

-It's-it's so, uh,

it's so interesting.

It's obviously handmade.

It's kind of asymmetrical, too.

DAVE: You said Gary,
that that was all hand-cut;

-that's not machined.
-Yeah.

I remember when I first
picked it up,

and you turned it over, Rick,
you saw all the facets.

I thought this was glass.
It apparently is not glass.

It is a rhodolite garnet,
a semiprecious stone.

This is about what you picture
when you open a treasure chest.

-Mm-hmm. -The lock plate
came from not far off

where the jewel,
the brooch was found.

-MARTY: A key lock cover.
-GARY: Yeah.

I mean, I-I know I'm playing
junior archeologist here,

but I can't help
but draw the conclusion.

RICK: Dan, you brought
this collective,

if you will, together.

What do you think?

I don't know.

Far as I'm concerned,
everything you got

on the table
doesn't prove or disprove

whether there's treasure
on Oak Island.

I would say probably
75%, 80% of that

is all from the surface.

All that your surface finds
are doing

is giving you a known, anyway.

At sometime or another,

someone has spent a lot of time
on the surface of Oak Island.

It's very graphic as far as
looking at it is concerned,

but, I mean, in the same token,

it's time consuming
and expensive.

That's no BS.
That's fact.

MARTY:
Dan, let me ask you a question.

Should we keep going?

MARTY: Hey, Dan, let me ask you
a really tough question.

You want us to quit?

That's a hard question, Marty.
It really is.

It's a deep question
and it's hard.

NARRATOR: The Oak Island team
has gathered in the war room

for what could be their most
important decision to date:

whether to continue forward,

or put their entire operation
on hold indefinitely.

Dan, you have any thoughts?

How deep is your pockets?

It boils down to whether
it's worth it.

That's the key question though,
Dan. How do you evaluate that?

Whether it's worth it.
How do you evaluate that?

What should affect it is...

...the hard evidence
that has come out

is substantiating
up to a certain extent,

but I don't think you should put

too much undue influence
on this here.

DAVE: Question, Marty:
why are we grouping

all the coins together
with the, with the jewel now?

Well, if you opened a little box
and you found that,

you might say you found a bit

It kind of looks like a regular
mini treasure chest, doesn't it?

GARY:
Yup.

MARTY: Well, I will say this
from my own standpoint.

I entered
this whole quest thinking

that maybe nothing
of any consequence

really happened on this island
prior to 1790.

But as this year
draws to a close,

I have to say
I don't believe that anymore.

-There's too much here.
-Yep. -Yeah.

I now believe something
did happen here prior to 1790.

-Well, there you go. -DAVE:
It's quite obvious, Marty.

That's getting somewhere.

-You've come a long way.
-I have. I have.

We can't stop now.
I mean, look what we've found

-so far this year.
-Yeah. -Yeah.

Okay, I know
what you want to do.

Oh, yeah. I know where
I want to be next year.

I'm like a kid in a candy store.
I really am.

-I think you've got some of

the most convincing evidence
in the last 120 years.

All's I can tell you is,
if you continue,

I'm here to support you
in any way I can.

Well, Charles?

Let's put it this way:
I don't want you to quit.

Okay. All right. Fair enough.

Hey, Laird, I'd love to hear
what you have to say.

Well, the archaeologist,
we need, we need this stuff.

We need the hard evidence.

Is your excitement level
higher though? Are you...

Oh, yeah. No, absolutely.

Well, Dan what do you think?

First thought I have

is that you're pretty close
to the right location.

You wouldn't quit though,
would you?

Can't say I wouldn't.

Just that, uh,
I wouldn't want to.

All right, Dan.
Let's ask Craig.

You've been listening
to all this.

CRAIG: Well, the evidence
this year, Marty,

you know,
we didn't find the treasure,

but I think we had
a fantastic year.

-Yes.
-We got a number

of major things out
in Smith's Cove.

The U-shaped structure.

And could there be more things
like the lead cross,

that could tell us who did it?

Um, yeah, definitely.

-Jack, I think it's your turn.
-Yep.

I-I think that we still have
a lot of exploring left to do,

and this year proved it.

MARTY:
What say you, number one son?

Year one,
I was kind of thinking,

"Come on, what are we really
gonna find?"

This-this year, I'm thinking,

"Okay, there's a lot more
to be found."

-We moved you a long way.
-Oh, yeah.

You always thought
when I told you the story,

you always thought, "Oh,
there goes Uncle Rick on again."

-Yeah.
-I did. I did.

I won't lie.
I did think that.

-RICK: Mm-hmm.
-I don't think it anymore.

The preponderance
of evidence here,

I-I wouldn't drill this up
and then stop.

That's my opinion.

Depending upon how old you are.

I came here over 50 years ago,

and what attracted me
to Oak Island was the mystery.

-That's what attracted me.
-Okay.

Do you feel there's still
a mystery to solve here?

Well, the answer to that
would have to be yes.

Amen. And with that, I will see
what fearless leader says.

What do you want to do?

I-I think what we need to do,
given the amount

of significant material there,
I'm gonna fall back

on what Dan suggested to us
last year: take a step back.

Try to, uh, ascertain
what all of this may mean.

And, uh, for me, this puzzle is:

who, what, when, where,
why and how.

And this year in particular,
this little piece of parchment

might be the "what."

And this little item right here,

this might be a clue
to lead us to "who."

And the rest will fall into
place, but we have to follow.

We speak a lot
about family here,

and for Marty and I,
we always round back

-to Mom and Dad.
-Yeah.

So Mom would say, you know,

"Sempre avanti,
always forward.

Get the puzzle together."

But, for me, the only way to
really put this thing together

is for us to do it together.

One in, all in,
once in, forever in.

-Oh, yeah.
-Absolutely.

-Yeah, definitely.
-Yeah.

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

So, I say we celebrate.

-I say we declare victory.
-It's crown time.

It's crown time!

I say... to the fellowship.

-To the fellowship of the dig.
-All right.

NARRATOR: As another exciting
and emotional year

on Oak Island
comes to an end...

Well, guys, it's been
a good year, Dave.

-Well, take care.
-Thanks a lot.

-Dude. -Rick, yeah.
-We'll see you.

...brothers
Rick and Marty Lagina

leave the island
with no regrets.

-You've turned into
a regular man hugger. -Yeah.

-Rick.
-Hey.

NARRATOR:
Although they have, so far,

not found anything resembling
a fabled golden treasure...

I'm gonna miss you, Charles.

-Miss you, too, buddy.
-Dan.

...they have uncovered evidence

that could be
of even greater value...

See you, Laird.

...evidence that could change

not only the history
of North America,

but the world.

See you all, guys.

RICK:
We certainly made progress

and I think that, you know,
we certainly have a...

a substantial amount
of puzzle pieces.

And now it's getting time

where we start putting
some of these pieces together.

We need connective tissue.

MARTY:
To some extent,

it's like
a love-hate relationship.

This island is-- can be brutal.

And it can be rewarding,
and it's beautiful...

but it's mystical...

and it's all those things,
but it's time to take a break.

The search goes home
for a while.

-For now.
-Yeah.

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