The Curse of Oak Island: Drilling Down (2016–…): Season 4, Episode 1 - Nothing Will Stop Them - full transcript
Matty Blake treks to Oak Island to take a look at the team's latest and most epic operation yet, as well as get new insight from brothers Rick and Marty Lagina on the many highlights from the first five years of their quest.
MATTY BLAKE:
We are just one hour away
from the season six premiere
of The Curse of Oak Island.
What are Rick and Marty Lagina
going to do
to finally solve this incredible
223-year-old mystery?
I’m about to take you
on a deep dive
into their latest
and most epic operation yet.
This is Drilling Down.
♪ ♪
MARTY:
Come on, baby.
Good day to find treasure.
MATTY: Last year,
The Curse of Oak Island
presented the world with
the most amazing chapter yet
in what has become
a 223-year treasure mystery.
JACK:
What do you make of that?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
MATTY:
Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with their team,
made a number
of incredible discoveries...
-GARY: Look at this, Rick.
That’s gorgeous.
GARY:
We just found a jewel.
MATTY: ...including
a semi-precious jewel
that may date back
to the 1600s.
SCIENTIST:
It’s interesting-looking.
What does that mean?
It’s bone.
-It’s bone.
MATTY: Ancient human bones
of European
and Middle Eastern origins,
from more than 160 feet deep
in the Money Pit.
GARY:
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Holy schmoly, all right.
RICK: It’s a cross.
-MATTY: And then,
the most incredible find
of all: a lead cross,
with possible connections
to the Knights Templar.
They are part of
a growing collection
of incredible puzzle pieces
that may unlock the secrets
to discovering
a priceless treasure.
-MARTY: Hey, Matty Blake.
-DAVE: Hey, Matty.
How are you?
-MATTY: Hey, guys.
Welcome to the war room.
Your number one acorn
has arrived.
Yes.
Well, it’s great to be here,
and it’s great to be back
for another season, season six.
You know, I feel the energy.
I feel the renewed optimism.
So many incredible finds
last season.
I mean,
the parchment paper,
leather book binding,
the pottery, human bones,
the lead cross.
It’s an impressive list.
It’s an impressive group
of items.
Looking forward, though,
to this season,
should we be as optimistic
coming off of that season
going into this season?
No.
(laughter)
We should be more optimistic.
Why would we only be
just as optimistic?
ALEX:
I think this year we have more
to start on than ever before.
We kind of know more of what
we’re investigating
just to begin with this year,
and, you know,
who knows where the year
will take us?
But we have more than ever
to start from.
And I know the fans are really
eager for some new information.
Where might be some areas
of interest,
season six, that we’re
gonna focus on?
MARTY: Well, the Money Pit,
I thought, last year
we were gonna-- That was my
mantra last year:
"We’re gonna get to
the bottom of it."
Well, you know, hopefully,
this year, we do.
We’re gonna really throw some
resources at the Money Pit.
So, you know, as of right now,
we plan to do
a rather massive investigation
in the Money Pit.
Is there new technology?
One of the tools
we’re gonna bring to bear
is called seismic,
which is a surface
investigative tool.
And maybe try and fine tune
where we go next in
the Money Pit
and what might
have happened in H-8.
So seismic, I’m only familiar
with that in terms
of earthquakes.
What-what does that mean?
Well, we use it in the oil
and gas industry all the time
to help look
for structures underneath.
And we’ll use it to try to look
for tunnels and shafts.
I’m picturing you guys
sending rumbles down
into the ground or something.
I-I-I want to see that.
Is there anywhere else that
we haven’t hit on yet?
The swamp.
I know, you know,
Marty has a distinct
aversion to it,
but I still believe there are
some answers in there,
and the way to figure that out
is really
to apply science
to that endeavor.
So we’re looking at various
methodologies
that we can, perhaps, introduce.
Maybe a potential excavation,
but we have areas of interest
and I’m committed
to figuring out a way
to find a hard target.
So, guys, all these potential
targets we’ve talked about,
I want to circle back a little
bit to Smith’s Cove,
where this guy found
what is arguably
the biggest find
on this island,
certainly in
the last five years.
What other potential does
Smith’s Cove provide us?
We’ve done a lot of work,
from the engineering phase,
the planning phase,
and now, finally,
we’ve enclosed Smith’s Cove
with a sheet pile system.
We should be watertight,
if you will.
Wow.
You’re gonna be impressed.
Okay, this is a dramatic
operation.
It is working.
It’s holding back the ocean.
It is truly impressive.
And, honestly, it’s kind of fun
digging behind a wall that you
know is holding back the sea.
Which is exactly what
we got going on.
It’s one big, giant sandbox
with things to be found.
This sounds massive, actually.
It sounds incredible.
We’ll take you out there
and let you assess for yourself
What it looks like.
Let’s go.
I agree.
Let’s go.
Right?
It’s time.
Good enough.
-MATTY: Oh, before we go,
bring it in.
Sure.
Really.
Absolutely.
-We’ve come this far, buddies
-Everybody in, everybody in.
Rick, lead us, as always.
-One in, all in, once in...
-ALL: Forever in!
Yes!
MATTY: Smith’s Cove,
the picturesque inlet
on the eastern point
of Oak Island.
It’s believed to conceal
an elaborate man-made system
of stone box drains
leading to a flood tunnel
that draws seawater
into the Money Pit.
I see something.
MATTY: It is also
the location of the team’s
most significant find to date.
Holy...
MATTY:
The mysterious lead cross.
It’s heavy, too.
Oh, my gosh, I mean,
that is an old, old cross.
Oak Island fans,
get ready to be amazed.
I’m at Smith’s Cove,
a place I’ve been
many, many times before,
but I’ve never seen it look
anything like this.
-Guys...
damn!
(laughter)
Good word, Matty, ’cause that’s
what we’ve got here,
a very elaborate dam
to hold back the sea
so we can meet our goals
here in Smith’s Cove.
MATTY: All right, talk to me
about what I’m actually seeing.
I didn’t expect anything
like this.
I mean, this is just incredible.
Those sheets of metal that
you see go 25 feet down
into the seabed.
You know,
we’re real proud of this.
Whatever the secrets are
that are hiding here,
we’re gonna find ’em,
because now we can.
As far as dams go,
you guys look like
there’s nothing that’s gonna
hold you back right now.
You must be excited for what
you might be able to find now.
Absolutely.
I mean, one thing
that we’ve noticed
that was a concern
in the beginning was how dry
would it be, and could we get
the big equipment around?
Or is it gonna sink in the mud,
like we were finding last year?
And it seems to be drying up
very well.
We seem to be able
to get the equipment
anywhere we want to.
So that’s a big plus so far.
MATTY: Working with a process
known as "sheet piling,"
the team used a powerful
hydraulic hammer to drive
nearly 120 interlocking steel
sheets into the seabed,
creating a 525-foot-long
coffer dam
that fully encloses
Smith’s Cove.
What was the motivation
to do this?
The find of the cross
was stunning.
I mean, absolutely stunning.
And for each of us
for different reasons.
You know, once the cross
showed up,
it was an absolute
mandatory idea
to come out here
and do this.
There could be more here.
Yeah.
An-And it’s just too, it’s just
too crazily significant,
crazily out of place, so we-we
have to follow that.
I mean, if there was ever any
doubt that we would throw
this kind of resource at it,
the cross erased it.
It’s time to come out here
and look.
So, another thing
I was wondering--
I’m sorry, I’m a little
distracted because I see
Gary Drayton down there
already working.
Yep.
Gary.
-How’s it going, mate?
-Good, mate.
Found anything yet?
-Uh, you know what?
Let me answer that
for him, okay?
He has found some stuff,
of course,
and he continues to,
but we had him bring along one
that we found earlier
this season.
So come on, let’s have a look.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Gary...
-Hey, mate.
How’s it going?
-Good, mate.
You look happy.
Happy as a pig
in the proverbial, mate.
This whole beach has been
torn apart,
and what I’m trying to do is
winkle out some good finds
in between the iron, because
there is a lot of iron
on the beach still.
But we don’t want
to miss anything.
And you guys alluded up there
to something that
he might have got?
Yeah, he’s been doing
some winkling, all right.
-Right, Gary?
(laughter)
What do you got, Gary?
Come on.
-You know where it is, mate.
in that pocket.
Yep, in the top pocket.
Oh, whoa!
What is this?
MARTY: We’re not sure.
We’re sure it’s lead.
It’s lead?
But the significance is...
Like the cross.
-Well, like the cross,
but not shaped.
But more significant is
Laird Niven looked at it,
and he said this is very common.
He called it the duct tape
of 17th-century ships.
GARY:
Oh, that looks like it...
What’s that Right there?
Aluminum?
-Look, right there.
-Here, guys.
Wow.
this is good.
is that a piece of lead?
-Yeah, a piece of cut lead.
Huh.
Lead was kind of
a ubiquitous thing.
It was almost like duct tape.
That’s it, just basically
a lead patch, isn’t it?
Yeah.
this type of stuff was used
below the water line
on Spanish galleons.
They would use sheets
of lead like that
in order to patch leaks
because it was easily--
it was malleable,
they could hammer it into
the cracks of the ship
where it was leaking
and stuff, so...
Wow.
That’s What it was used for
at the time.
Now, you know, that is a classic
Oak Island find,
and it could mean
absolutely nothing.
Correct.
could be highly significant.
Again, just like the cross,
this is a small item
when compared to the totality
of surface area we have here.
How are you guys
going through these spoils?
You can’t be doing it here.
I mean, there’s no place I see
that you could do it.
Good observation, Matty, it’s
impossible to do this all here.
And, again, we spent a lot of
time thinking about that.
Rick was able to find
this gargantuan machine,
which is-- it has to be seen
to understand.
But you’re right.
We have a machine to do it.
Jack couldn’t possibly
do it all himself.
So we have some work
to do down here,
-But, Gary, can you
bring him up there?
Yeah.
I think Jack’s up there.
-Yeah, I’ll show him...
You’ll see.
You’ll see with your own eyes...
-Thanks, buddy.
-...how we do that.
Thanks for showing me this, too.
You’re welcome
-Thanks, buddy.
Back in the top pocket.
Back in the top pocket.
-We’ll see you later, Matty.
-Thanks, guys.
Don’t MATTY:where.
Check it out.
A massive new machine has made
its way onto Oak Island,
and it’s going
to change the way
the team searches for treasure.
But just how exactly
are they going to sort
through the huge amount
of spoils from the search?
Here to show me--
Jack Bagley and Gary Drayton.
Yeah, Jack, I mean,
what am I looking at here?
Is this the machine version
of what you’ve done
for previous seasons
by yourself?
This should really expedite, you
know, our process and finding
a lot of really cool finds.
GARY: Yeah.
-So, yeah.
-This is an 11 out of ten.
Yes.
Makes our job easier.
JACK: It’s certainly
an upgrade based upon
you know, washing styles
of previous seasons,
And It’s a massive upgrade.
Yeah.
(whooshing)
JACK:
I mean, we were spending
so much time
in previous seasons
washing through material
by hand or
with a hose,
or a big fire hose,
you know, as of last year.
I won’t be as exhausted
washing through the spoils.
I can spend my time
just focusing on any oddities.
Well guys,
it all sounds incredible,
but, you know, I like action,
so can we actually fire it up?
-Yeah!
-Yeah, sure.
Yeah?
All right,
fire up the wash plant!
JACK: All the spoils from
Smith’s Cove get brought up
and deposited
up by that excavator.
The excavator loads the spoils
onto the hopper,
and there’s some grizzly bars
that will take any
of the large boulders
and drop them off the side.
And then anything
that goes into that hopper--
it goes down,
and then back up a belt, and
they go through the shaker,
the washer,
and it washes off all the rest
of the material.
The larger objects are gonna be
deposited off the edge there,
but then there’s two different
levels of division
for the medium-sized stuff
and the really fine stuff.
As you can see, it does
a really good job separating
based upon size
and washing away the clay.
MATTY:
Absolutely.
So guys,
with all these different piles,
where would you guess
you’ll be spending most
of your time and effort?
Well, actually, this belt.
Right here?
-JACK: Based upon our tests,
you know, we really want to find
coins or small artifacts.
I want to get my hands in
this pile.
Can we actually...?
Can you show me, guys,
how you’d search this?
GARY: Yeah.
Yeah.
I’ll turn it off real quick.
All right, let’s turn it off
and let’s do that.
GARY: You see here,
this is a perfect example
of material separation.
Absolutely.
Walk me through this, guys.
Well, first,
I rake the pile out.
GARY:
We’re always looking for stuff
because we could eyeball
something good in there.
All right, I’ll be looking, too.
And like Jack told you,
if we’re gonna find
coin-sized objects,
they’re gonna be in this pile.
ALL right.
-All right, so, Jack rakes it.
And then, I go over it
with the metal detector.
(beeping)
Ooh.
Well, that’s a good,
two-way repeatable signal.
-From a, uh...
No kidding.
Not too deep, which is great.
It’s saying six inches.
We don’t want deep targets,
’cause they could be
in the deck.
Mm-hmm.
And that...
And That’s telling You
it’s not too deep?
that sounds good.
-No, and-and that sounds
Like a really Good target.
Yeah.
If I may quote you,
Woo, woo, woo!
I’d rather have
an holy schmoly find in here.
All right, I’ll chamber
that one.
Wow.
All right,
let’s see what this is.
I’m gonna pinpoint.
-JACK: Can I shovel it out?!
No.
-MATTY: Oh, you want it.
Both chomping at the bit.
-JACK: Ah!
MATTY:
You got to keep us back.
Um...
(beeping)
That’s a Good sound.
-So, I’m on it.
It’s nonferrous.
It’s in your hand.
-Oh, it’s in your hand, Gary.
(beeping)
What is it?
-Yeah, it’s welding.
JACK: a piece of welding.
MATTY: Oh.
I think it’s welding slag.
That’s probably off the...
JACK: the cofferdam.
GARY: Yeah.
MATTY: right.
So, in building the Cofferdam,
all the welding and the metal
that was being used...
-GARY: Yeah.
All the residue,
all the junk left
from the welding.
MATTY: Sure.
Sure.
We call it slag.
It’s welding slag.
MATTY: Got it.
-All right, well,
you know what it’s not.
Yup.
-It ain’t gold, it ain’t a coin.
Mm-hmm.
-So let’s eliminate it, right?
Yup.
But as you can see,
we’re being very thorough...
Absolutely.
Just see if
there’s any other targets.
(soft beep)
Come on, baby.
Let’s keep our streak going.
(beeping)
Oh.
Really?
Ooh.
Ooh.
Yeah, it might be in the deck.
Let me just see how deep it is.
(beeping)
Perhaps not.
Ooh.
Ooh.
-I’ve got like a six,
seven-inch reading.
ALL right.
(soft beep)
(digging)
Something round.
It looks gold-colored.
Encrustation.
It could be just
encrusted through the years.
Who knows how long
this has been in here?
What do you think to this?
Is this what I think it is?
Turn it on edge.
see that?
Yeah.
-Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Whoa.
I didn’t...
Whoa.
Yeah.
Button or a coin.
Hopefully, a coin.
And what...?
You never know what’s gonna
come up from the depths.
Guys.
Holy... schmoly.
GARY: That’s a heck of a find,
isn’t it, mate?
Aha.
-We, uh...
One more look.
Uh.
You’ll
see it when It’s cleaned off.
ALL right.
Because I’m sure the guys
want to get this tested.
You know what occurs to me,
is, like,
this gigantic search comes down
to something that small,
and yet, something that small
is bigger than all of this.
I mean, this year--
it’s indescribable.
Yeah.
-Some of the stuff we’ve found--
I mean, you’re gonna be amazed.
And we’ve only
really just begun.
Guys, congratulations already!
This is awesome, mate.
Awesome!
MATTY: We’re drilling down
becaus to season six back,
of The Curse of Oak Island.
Now I’m standing on the spot
where this treasure mystery
first began back in 1795:
the Money Pit area.
Come on, baby!
MATTY: Over the past
five seasons, we’ve seen Rick,
Marty and their partners
drill...
Let’s get her going,
see what’s down there.
Hopefully, it’s what
we’re looking for.
-MATTY: ...dig...
-Okay, let’s go see
X marks the spot.
Excellent.
That’s good.
-MATTY: ...and dive,
looking for the fabled
Chappell vault
some 145 feet deep underground.
MAN:
What are you seeing?
MATTY: This year,
they’ll be employing
a radically new application
of what is known
as seismic testing,
a process that uses
explosive charges
to create sonic waves in order
to make an accurate map
of what lies deep underground.
Usually, large
explosive charges are used
to explore areas
that are miles underground.
But a Canadian company known
as "Eagle Canada"
has modified the process
in a way
that will help the Oak Island
team see what lies
in their target area
of the Money Pit,
some 200 feet
below the ground.
With me here to talk about it--
Rick, Craig, Marty, Alex,
and Clint from Eagle Canada.
Guys, thanks for being here.
Thanks.
Thank you.
-All right, so, let’s
talk about this revolutionary
new search technique.
Craig, you must be chomping
at the bit.
This is
right up your alley-- science
applied to treasure hunting.
This is what
you guys have been doing.
Absolutely.
I mean,
we’ve been thinking about it
for a number of years now, but
applying it
to such a shallow depth.
I mean, we’ve got a lot
of potential problems here.
We’re in the Money Pit area
where there’s been a bunch
of shafts,
been a bunch of tunnels.
There was a massive dig
thrown back in.
So, are we looking
at virgin ground around here?
Absolutely not, and that can
interfere with the signals.
Rick, you always use the term
boots on the ground.
In a sense, is this a way
of getting boots underground?
A look at what’s under there?
I mean, that’s the key to-to
unraveling the Money Pit, right?
Look underground.
We’ve never been able to do it.
And you know,
what has been really gratifying
about working
with Eagle Canada is
they were unafraid
to try to evolve what...
a new application
of their science.
right.
-So, yes.
Bringing boots to bear
in the Money Pit area
with a new technology-- sure.
-So, Rick, let’s talk targets.
RICK: Mm-hmm.
You know, from C-1, which had
a very intriguing find,
to H-8, which had many
intriguing finds,
where are We targeting this?
-RICK: We’re targeting,
you know, the area around H-8.
I mean,
think about what we’ve found.
You know, the bones,
the parchment,
the book-binding leather,
the pottery
at beyond searcher depth.
MATTY: In addition to those
monumental discoveries,
when the Oak Island team
attempted to excavate
the borehole known as H-8,
they also encountered
what they believe
to be the fabled
Chappell vault--
a seven-foot-tall
wooden treasure chest
first reported
by William Chappell
and Frederick Blair in 1897.
But when Rick, Marty
and the team attempted
to reach the vault
with a 60-inch-wide
drilling caisson,
they were stunned to discover
that it had been pushed
further down--
to a depth of some 170 feet--
and somewhere off to the side.
It’s still in there, then.
There’s a chance...
Just pushed to the side.
I mean, all of that begs
further search.
MATTY: So, Alex and Clint,
tell me how how it works
in a normal application?
What are you doing?
So, normally, 90% of our
business is in oil and gas.
When we started talking
to those guys,
we did some testing
and actually were able to find
some small objects
by putting the charge,
the energy source,
closer together
and r-redesigning the program,
and I think we’re about
to discover that we can
see under the ground,
what those guys have been,
you know, looking for.
MATTY: So, Clint,
when I hear you say "charges,"
we’re talking...
Dynamite.
Wow.
H-Help me understand how
dynamite can create an image.
Essentially, it’s loaded into
the ground at the various depths
based on the parameters
and the depth we’re looking at,
same as the size of the charge,
we’ll send energy down
in the ground,
and essentially, we get
what we call reflectors back
off the subsurface layers
into our geophones.
Based on the timing,
the geophysicist can determine
what the subsurface
ground composition is
at the various layers.
It is sort of the geologic
equivalent of an ultrasound.
Ah.
-Basically, it’s the same,
same technology,
only large, and you’re
listening to the echoes
and then taking computing power
to develop an image.
So if we can see
as well as they can tell
the sex of a baby nowadays,
Can You do that for us?
(laughter)
I’ll give you the sex
of the treasure.
that is perfect.
Okay.
We’ll take it.
Can we do this?
Can we fire one up?
Yeah.
We want You to see...
-Yeah, absolutely.
We want you to see
a bit of the process.
They have, uh, graciously agreed
to give you a little demo here.
And so, we’ll see, you’ll see
exactly how this is gonna work.
It’s kind of, i-it’s impressive.
You’ll see.
We’ll all, uh,
go to a safe distance,
and we’ll set off some dynamite.
-All right, let’s do it.
Let’s do that.
Ready to go?
Roger.
In this case, you’re gonna let
Matty say "fire in the hole,"
aren’t you?
-Sure, absolutely.
-I mean, I have to, right?
I think You have to say some...
You Got to call it.
You got to call it.
ALL right.
So, he’s ready to go
whenever you guys are.
ALL right.
Everyone ready?
-Call it, Matty.
Fire in the hole!
Here it comes.
-Oh!
(laughter)
MATTY:
Yeah.
(whoops) that was a Good one.
MARTY: that was a Good one.
this is fun.
RICK: Yeah.
This is addictive.
(Matty whoops)
-Well, that was pretty cool.
Yeah.
So, I don’t know if you were
expecting a bigger explosion,
but the charge are specific
to this program.
Guys, this was so fun,
but also an incredible testament
to you guys
and your openness
to new technology
and how to adapt it
to try to solve this mystery.
I wish you luck
using this technology
to get to the bottom
and find the Money Pit.
MARTY: Sounds good, Matty.
We’re
gonna try everything we can.
MATTY:
Thank you, guys.
♪ ♪
MATTY:
Over the past two centuries,
searchers have focused
their efforts
on the eastern end
of Oak Island
and the Money Pit,
trying to solve the incredible
treasure mystery.
But last year,
Rick Lagina and Gary Drayton
made a huge find
on the western drumlin.
GARY: That was weird.
Look at this, Rick.
MATTY:
A brooch with a gemstone
that could date back
to the 1600s.
It was a find that convinced
the Oak Island team
that this previously unexplored
part of the island could yield
the ultimate answers.
I mean, look at this.
Wow.
You Can see this place
has been cleared out.
MATTY: Yeah,
you’ve cleared out a path here.
-Where you’re walking, Matty?
Yeah?
Not many people have walked
for a very long time.
Before, you wouldn’t
have even been able
to walk through this.
JACK: Yeah.
It was heavily, heavily wooded.
-We’re on Lot 21, is that right?
Yeah.
Have you been able to work
your magic in here at all?
I have.
That’s why we’re back.
We’ve been over the area.
We’ve established
that there is some great finds
in this area.
We’ve already established that.
Hold on.
What does that mean?
You’ve established there are
some great finds in this area.
What does that mean exactly?
that means...
JACK: Can We tell him?
-No, no.
No.
But there’s been
some top pocket finds
And a spectacular
bobby-dazzler.
Yeah.
GARY:
All will be revealed, mate.
It’s worth waiting for.
It’ll be good.
Yeah.
We’ve established
where the hot spot is
and now got
the small search coil on.
We’ll see if we can find
anything else.
JACK: see if You Can find
any more of this, Gary.
Let’s go.
Hold it, mate.
You’re proficient now
with this thing.
Oh.
Let’s see How You do it.
Yeah?
Thanks.
Thanks, mate.
-Now remember,
low and slow now.
Yeah.
Low And slow.
Keep that search coil as close
to the deck as possible.
Got it.
That’s it, mate.
Go a little bit slower.
Overlap your sweeps.
(metal detector beeps)
-Whoa!
(beeps twice)
You really have Got the luck
of the Irish.
(laughter)
That’s a good...
-MATTY: Now, hold on now.
-That can’t be my boot, right?
I stepped back.
GARY: No.
Oh, man, that-that’s a good
two-way repeatable signal.
That’s What We’re looking for.
-Okay, so...
so when you say that, that means
there’s a target there
and I’m hitting, I’m hitting
on either side of it,
basically?
Every time
the middle of the coil
-goes over the target, it beeps.
You’re gonna get a...
GARY:
Yeah.
-That’s fantastic, mate.
Yeah.
Well, we know he can detect,
but can you dig?
Can you dig it, mate?
Oh, I thought Jack
wanted to do that.
So, I want to come in...
-Just a little bit away, yeah.
-It’s right here,
But You want to dig a plug.
GARY: right.
You want to angle the shovel
So It’s almost straight down.
Yep.
Yep.
And then dig a circle
around it.
MATTY: Got it.
So if that is potentially
a really good find,
we don’t damage it.
MATTY:
Oh, yeah.
All right, now we’ll see
how lucky you are, Matty.
-MATTY: All right, buddy.
GARY: And then
what you have to do
is you have to see
if it’s still in the hole
or in the spoil pile.
MATTY: Got it.
(metal detector beeping)
that still down there?
So that means
it’s deeper, yeah.
MATTY: ALL right.
It’s another
five inches deeper.
Let’s go again.
-I knew I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t
get away that easy.
No.
You know, I’m trying
to stay cool, guys,
but, uh, since you found
something big in this area,
I got to tell you, my heart
is racing right now,
and I’m really hopeful
that this is something big
and that can match
your other find.
Well, it had better
be good, Matty,
because the other find
is hard to match.
ALL right.
That’s How special it is.
-Yeah, it is.
MATTY: ALL right.
All right.
JACK: Got to keep digging.
-And then, actually,
what might help you
is using a pinpointer.
Root around.
I’ve seen you do this.
Yeah.
I’d give it a little broggle
and see what’s in there, mate.
a broggle?
-Yeah, a broggle.
That’s a new one.
I haven’t heard that yet.
(pinpointer beeping)
-GARY: So, it should be
underneath there.
MATTY:
This thing’s going crazy.
That’s the beauty
of this hobby, mate.
You never know what you’re gonna
pull out the ground.
I’m dripping sweat now.
Now we know we’re
on Oak Island, baby.
Now we know we’re on Oak Island.
(laughter)
I got it.
I got it.
You Got it?
I Got it.
it is round.
It is round.
It has a, it’s a...
there’s a hole right here.
JACK: All right, don’t try
and force it out.
MATTY: I won’t.
I won’t.
JACK: dig around with it.
MATTY:
I’m gonna dig around it.
I’m getting the very tail end
of whatever this is.
Look how excited
he’s getting, Jack.
-JACK: Oh, there it goes.
-MATTY: Do you want me to, uh,
show You What this
is right now?
There it goes.
Hold on.
MATTY: See, there’s a hole
right here.
It’s circular.
see that?
-GARY: Yeah, look at that.
That’s nice.
it looks really old.
Yeah, look, it’s got a nice
patina on it, as well.
That’s been in there a while.
JACK:
It looks like a barrel.
GARY:
Yeah, that looks like a barrel
and that would be the diameter
of a musket barrel.
Oh, yeah.
Was just gonna say
that’s a big caliber.
MATTY: No way.
JACK: this could be
a really good find, Matty.
MATTY: Right.
At this point,
I don’t want to be responsible
for damaging it, so...
Let’s make sure we keep
our sights on it.
GARY: You’re making history
on Oak Island.
(laughs)
-All right, I think you can
-take it from there, Matty.
ALL right.
It’s long.
It’s long.
GARY: That’s an even
better sign.
nice.
Yup.
Guys.
It’s getting longer.
JACK: You might have
to dig more of the hole out.
Oh.
-Oh.
-GARY: Come on, baby,
be a gun barrel.
What is it, Matty?
Is this a sight?
Or no, it’s just crushed.
It’s just crushed.
I thought that was...
Yeah.
Look, I see drill holes.
Shoot.
-No, that’s just...
-No, I don’t think that’s a...
I think it’s a piece of pipe.
This would’ve been
another lug on here.
this probably...
-MATTY: Yeah, yeah.
...it looks
like a piece of railing.
I thought that was a sight.
-I was-- yeah, me, too.
-Me, too.
a gun sight.
GARY: I believe this is
some kind of handle.
MATTY: Okay.
Yeah.
Well, guys, that was... (laughs)
...that was exciting.
I’m crushed for you, mate.
I really am.
I was hoping that was gonna be
a gun barrel for you.
Gary, honestly,
I’m not disappointed, mate.
I’m thrilled and I’m sure
the audience is, too,
based on the fact
that you guys said
you made a gigantic find here
and in just a couple minutes
we pull something else out.
Um, who knows what you guys
are gonna find here?
We’re hoping that that
spectacular bobby-dazzler
we teased you about,
has Got Some more friends.
MATTY: Awesome.
-Let’s fill this back up, huh?
Yup.
Coming up, I’ll be checking
in with Dan Blankenship
♪ ♪
Earlier, we got to see
the massive cofferdam
and dig operation going on
at Smith’s Cove.
But right now,
I want to get an inside take
from one of the major
inspirations for this new dig,
a man who conducted his own
investigation of the cove
way back in the early 1970s
and made some huge finds--
Oak Island living legend
Dan Blankenship.
DAN B.:
Come on in.
Dan.
-Oh, what do you say, Matty?
How You been?
How are you?
So great to see You again.
good.
I understand that, uh,
happy birthday’s in order.
-You just celebrated your 95th.
Yeah.
So they tell me.
(laughter)
You Look fantastic.
I was just down at Smith’s Cove
and the incredible work
they’ve done there with that
setup for that cofferdam.
How did you build a cofferdam
in the early ’70s?
How did You do What You did?
the hard way.
As they say up here
in Nova Scotia, it wasn’t easy.
it wasn’t easy?
No.
MATTY: In 1970, four years
after arriving on Oak Island,
Dan Blankenship built
an earth-filled cofferdam
for the purpose of draining
Smith’s Cove
to search it more thoroughly
and expose
any original workings,
including the infamous
box drains.
While bigger than any
previous dam built at the site,
it nevertheless suffered
several washouts
due to severe storms
and was eventually abandoned.
I have photos that were taken
at the time in here.
And, uh...
-Oh, wow.
that-that-that is One photo
that was taken at Smith’s Cove.
Yeah.
Look at that.
That looks like a massive
operation and a lot of work.
Oh, it was.
It took
one whole summer.
You really see
how much work was done.
DAN B.: Well, you can see
how massive it was.
-In other words, it-it-it
covered the whole beach.
Yeah.
Could that be you right there,
possibly?
Yeah, I-I think so.
And then I think I see
what the team refers to now
as "the U-shaped structure"
that you found.
is that it there?
-Yeah.
Yeah, that’s in there.
U-shaped center, what I called
the U-shape was this way.
MATTY:
During his incredible operation
to reveal the legendary
stone box drains,
Dan made another
astonishing discovery:
a massive, U-shaped,
wooden structure.
It measured some 65 feet long,
with notched posts
that featured a series
of carved Roman numerals.
When you first saw
that U-shaped structure,
was there anything
about its design
that told you anything about it?
DAN B.: Well,
the timbers were-were notched,
and-and all
of these upright timbers
that were laying there
i-initially,
they had Roman numerals in ’em.
You could still read
the Roman numerals in ’em.
By the texture of the wood
and everything,
it-it appeared to be made
a long time prior
to me finding it.
Dan, what do you think
you found in Smith’s Cove?
Do you think you found evidence
of original works pre-Money Pit?
Well, we did at the time,
and-and I have no reason
to doubt that we did.
(stammers)
Oh.
Also, in-in Smith’s Cove,
we found those--
that pair of scissors there.
Oh.
These are the, uh,
Spanish scissors.
What was referred to me as
Spanish s-style of-of scissors.
Now, that’s interesting.
I know you’ve always, perhaps,
been partial to the--
to some Spanish activity here
on the island, correct?
So, this becomes
very interesting.
No, just additional evidence
that-that somebody was here,
uh, early on, you know.
Because we did
have ’em checked with--
uh, with Smithsonian Institute,
and they’re the ones
who came up and said they’re
a Spanish style of scissors.
In fact, they put an age on ’em
sometime in early 1600s
or earlier.
Wow.
Yeah.
They’ve come a long way.
Yeah, they’ve come a long ways.
So, Dan, let’s talk about what
the team is doing now.
Um, do you think
that they’ll be able to...
build upon what you did
with that new design they have
and maybe figure out
what that U-shaped structure is?
I mean, they-they--
doubtless, they are gonna find
the same thing that I had found.
But w-- if they find anything
in addition to that,
it’s because
they’re-they’re running
a-a little bit different
operation than what I did.
Did you ever find any evidence
of these famed box drains
in Smith’s Cove?
-Oh, yeah.
Up in this-this end
of Smith’s Cove,
actually out-outside of the--
of this here,
the box drains that I found.
Do you think that parts of those
box drains would still be there?
Well, you have to remember,
I don’t have a clue
how many times this has been
worked on in Smith’s Cove.
I don’t have a clue.
Because others before me,
they didn’t keep records...
(stammers)
...sufficiently, I mean.
Everyone thought they were gonna
be successful on Oak Island.
Well, Dan, I think
you were wildly successful.
And I really appreciate
every time you talk
with me,
your wisdom and your knowledge.
Well, you’re quite welcome.
MATTY: I really appreciate it.
Yeah.
Well, there you have it,
from the man himself.
MATTY: We’re just minutes away
from the earth-breaking
season six premiere
of The Curse of Oak Island.
But before I go,
I’m drilling down one last time
with the two men
leading this incredible
treasure hunt,
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina.
Hi, Matty.
I’m gonna just guess
you probably
still have some questions.
I definitely still
have some questions.
Here we sit again, guys,
about to go into a new season.
I’m excited,
I know the fans are excited.
What are you guys excited about
this season?
This season is like last season,
only squared.
I thought, last year,
we would be able
to "X" off the Money Pit.
Well, the Money Pit
got the better of us.
So, we’re gonna do a lot
of stuff up there.
More massive than last year.
How about you, Rick?
As we sit here,
right before season six,
what are you excited about?
You know, we’ve been here a
decade now, more than a decade.
-Yeah, we have.
And We’ve never had
a hard target.
It has always been, you know,
Here, in Smith’s Cove,
the U-shaped structure is there.
And we know exactly where it is.
Maybe, if that structure
has something
to do with original deposition,
there might be some cultural
influences out there,
and then, we would
be able to answer,
to some degree of certainty,
who,
and-- some degree of certainty--
when.
To me, that’s what’s exciting
about this year.
I want those questions answered.
You know, we talk about this
massive undertaking behind us
and I was thinking that all
the searchers trying to stop
the water here,
to stop the floodwaters
up there at the Money Pit,
trying to find out
what’s in the Money Pit,
look at what you guys have done.
I mean, is there a potential
that the mystery could be solved
right here?
I don’t think the whole mystery
can be solved here.
You know, last year,
the biggest find,
and one of the biggest
surprises, really,
was the lead cross.
What Gary calls
the friends of the cross,
they reside out there,
and we’re hopeful to find them.
I mean, I’m-I’m seeing things
here just sitting here
with my naked eye
that look very interesting.
Are we already
starting to see things?
Oh.
yeah.
Very much so, yes.
Some of the things anticipated,
and of course, as always,
some unanticipated.
And that’s all I’m gonna say.
And extraordinary things
are coming?
I said,
that’s all I’m gonna say.
(laughter)
ALL right.
He might say more.
No, I’m not saying more.
I would say less, probably.
All right, well, I want to get
into the cross in a minute,
but before we do,
we asked the fans out there
to send us some questions,
so if you’ll indulge me...
Oh, these are always way more
intelligent than we are.
This is always, uh, a problem.
They’ve though it through
just as much as we have.
They’re always better
than my questions.
Hank Sampson asks, uh,
Hank is at the very root
of the problem.
He’s also at
the very root of why
so much activity
occurred here by searchers.
It’s a circular thing,
it’s like,
something extraordinary
happened here
and a bunch of work
happened here, and why?
Well, whatever the why is,
it must be really valuable.
It’s always about the why, when
it comes to any human endeavor.
What motivated you to do this?
But, as of yet,
we don’t have that answer.
And then, there’s a slight
downside to his question, too.
Maybe they did
come back for it, you know?
Uh, we don’t know that.
We don’t think so.
To exclude that would be folly.
Craig Crandall writes,
in trying to solve
the Oak Island mystery?"
I think you’re sitting on it,
and I don’t mean that chair.
It’s the island.
It’s the
composition of this island.
It’s probably both
the reason that something
could be done here
and the reason that
it’s so hard to decipher it
is ’cause of the geology here.
It is extremely difficult
from an imaging standpoint.
-Boy, did we learn that.
RICK: Absolutely.
MATTY:
And finally, Maria Stoltz asks,
I’m gonna toss that to Rick.
There are five or six that I
couldn’t pick one above another.
I really couldn’t.
And that’s what’s so fascinating
about this island, it’s...
it’s an island of what ifs
and possibilities.
Yeah, I’ll tell you-- and he’s
gonna shoot me for this--
but of the five or six credible
theories Rick has,
you have to have the seventh,
which he never adds,
which is that maybe nothing
happened here.
You’re right.
Stand up,
I will shoot you.
(laughter)
When I’m working on this
and thinking about the island,
I think very little
about the actual treasure,
and I’m always thinking about
the story and the mystery,
and you guys have already done
an incredible amount of work
in helping to try to start
to solve that story.
Yeah, we’d like to find
the treasure, too, Matty.
Let’s not get
carried away here, all right?
come on.
No doubt.
Some gold coins
in the pan would be nice.
Well, I’ll become infinitely
more interested in it
if I’m cut into it.
is He not in?
I thought He was.
Oh, all right.
(laughter)
All right, gentlemen, it’s time.
But before we throw to
the premiere, I got to ask you,
is there anything you can
tell me about that cross
that we might see in season six?
Yes.
MATTY:
And...?
We did some hard science,
with irrefutable results,
and it’s really,
really compelling
and really intriguing
and that’s all we’re gonna say.
It’s very dramatic,
and I suggest you be sitting
when you hear the news.
Yeah.
Stay tuned.
ALL right.
-Guys, thank you so much, again.
Matty.
-Thank you, Matty.
I always appreciate
your thoughts and the access.
Our pleasure.
Well, you heard it
from the brothers themselves.
You best be seated.
The season six premiere of The
Curse of Oak Island starts now.
NARRATOR: This season
on The Curse of Oak Island...
We’re trying our best to make
this island give up her secrets.
RICK: We only have one shot
for such a massive undertaking.
It’s gonna make
last year’s operations
almost insignificant.
Here it comes.
RICK:
For the first item, we can look
underground in the Money Pit.
This is definitely
the confident structure.
the chamber?
Yeah.
RICK:
We have multiple targets.
We clipped the edge of a tunnel.
RICK:
If there’s anything here,
the answer is in that tunnel.
Oh, look at this.
I think we’ve got something.
-This is the 90-foot stone.
Doug believes He has Found it.
Those are letters inscribed
into the stone.
RICK:
What in the world is that?
It’s concrete.
MARTY: this is a previously
unknown ancient structure
on Oak Island.
It appears to be Roman.
Wow.
-No way!
This gem, it’s super ancient.
DAVE: Now We’re cooking.
if it is an anchor...
Should be in this area.
We’ll find it.
-Look at that,
I can see gold color.
-MARTY: Yeah, me, too.
I would say it’s pure gold.
Unbelievable.
MARTY:
We have found our first gold...
Amen.
-...on Oak Island.
Watch it!
Subtitled by
Diego Moraes / Ewerton Henrique
We are just one hour away
from the season six premiere
of The Curse of Oak Island.
What are Rick and Marty Lagina
going to do
to finally solve this incredible
223-year-old mystery?
I’m about to take you
on a deep dive
into their latest
and most epic operation yet.
This is Drilling Down.
♪ ♪
MARTY:
Come on, baby.
Good day to find treasure.
MATTY: Last year,
The Curse of Oak Island
presented the world with
the most amazing chapter yet
in what has become
a 223-year treasure mystery.
JACK:
What do you make of that?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
MATTY:
Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with their team,
made a number
of incredible discoveries...
-GARY: Look at this, Rick.
That’s gorgeous.
GARY:
We just found a jewel.
MATTY: ...including
a semi-precious jewel
that may date back
to the 1600s.
SCIENTIST:
It’s interesting-looking.
What does that mean?
It’s bone.
-It’s bone.
MATTY: Ancient human bones
of European
and Middle Eastern origins,
from more than 160 feet deep
in the Money Pit.
GARY:
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Holy schmoly, all right.
RICK: It’s a cross.
-MATTY: And then,
the most incredible find
of all: a lead cross,
with possible connections
to the Knights Templar.
They are part of
a growing collection
of incredible puzzle pieces
that may unlock the secrets
to discovering
a priceless treasure.
-MARTY: Hey, Matty Blake.
-DAVE: Hey, Matty.
How are you?
-MATTY: Hey, guys.
Welcome to the war room.
Your number one acorn
has arrived.
Yes.
Well, it’s great to be here,
and it’s great to be back
for another season, season six.
You know, I feel the energy.
I feel the renewed optimism.
So many incredible finds
last season.
I mean,
the parchment paper,
leather book binding,
the pottery, human bones,
the lead cross.
It’s an impressive list.
It’s an impressive group
of items.
Looking forward, though,
to this season,
should we be as optimistic
coming off of that season
going into this season?
No.
(laughter)
We should be more optimistic.
Why would we only be
just as optimistic?
ALEX:
I think this year we have more
to start on than ever before.
We kind of know more of what
we’re investigating
just to begin with this year,
and, you know,
who knows where the year
will take us?
But we have more than ever
to start from.
And I know the fans are really
eager for some new information.
Where might be some areas
of interest,
season six, that we’re
gonna focus on?
MARTY: Well, the Money Pit,
I thought, last year
we were gonna-- That was my
mantra last year:
"We’re gonna get to
the bottom of it."
Well, you know, hopefully,
this year, we do.
We’re gonna really throw some
resources at the Money Pit.
So, you know, as of right now,
we plan to do
a rather massive investigation
in the Money Pit.
Is there new technology?
One of the tools
we’re gonna bring to bear
is called seismic,
which is a surface
investigative tool.
And maybe try and fine tune
where we go next in
the Money Pit
and what might
have happened in H-8.
So seismic, I’m only familiar
with that in terms
of earthquakes.
What-what does that mean?
Well, we use it in the oil
and gas industry all the time
to help look
for structures underneath.
And we’ll use it to try to look
for tunnels and shafts.
I’m picturing you guys
sending rumbles down
into the ground or something.
I-I-I want to see that.
Is there anywhere else that
we haven’t hit on yet?
The swamp.
I know, you know,
Marty has a distinct
aversion to it,
but I still believe there are
some answers in there,
and the way to figure that out
is really
to apply science
to that endeavor.
So we’re looking at various
methodologies
that we can, perhaps, introduce.
Maybe a potential excavation,
but we have areas of interest
and I’m committed
to figuring out a way
to find a hard target.
So, guys, all these potential
targets we’ve talked about,
I want to circle back a little
bit to Smith’s Cove,
where this guy found
what is arguably
the biggest find
on this island,
certainly in
the last five years.
What other potential does
Smith’s Cove provide us?
We’ve done a lot of work,
from the engineering phase,
the planning phase,
and now, finally,
we’ve enclosed Smith’s Cove
with a sheet pile system.
We should be watertight,
if you will.
Wow.
You’re gonna be impressed.
Okay, this is a dramatic
operation.
It is working.
It’s holding back the ocean.
It is truly impressive.
And, honestly, it’s kind of fun
digging behind a wall that you
know is holding back the sea.
Which is exactly what
we got going on.
It’s one big, giant sandbox
with things to be found.
This sounds massive, actually.
It sounds incredible.
We’ll take you out there
and let you assess for yourself
What it looks like.
Let’s go.
I agree.
Let’s go.
Right?
It’s time.
Good enough.
-MATTY: Oh, before we go,
bring it in.
Sure.
Really.
Absolutely.
-We’ve come this far, buddies
-Everybody in, everybody in.
Rick, lead us, as always.
-One in, all in, once in...
-ALL: Forever in!
Yes!
MATTY: Smith’s Cove,
the picturesque inlet
on the eastern point
of Oak Island.
It’s believed to conceal
an elaborate man-made system
of stone box drains
leading to a flood tunnel
that draws seawater
into the Money Pit.
I see something.
MATTY: It is also
the location of the team’s
most significant find to date.
Holy...
MATTY:
The mysterious lead cross.
It’s heavy, too.
Oh, my gosh, I mean,
that is an old, old cross.
Oak Island fans,
get ready to be amazed.
I’m at Smith’s Cove,
a place I’ve been
many, many times before,
but I’ve never seen it look
anything like this.
-Guys...
damn!
(laughter)
Good word, Matty, ’cause that’s
what we’ve got here,
a very elaborate dam
to hold back the sea
so we can meet our goals
here in Smith’s Cove.
MATTY: All right, talk to me
about what I’m actually seeing.
I didn’t expect anything
like this.
I mean, this is just incredible.
Those sheets of metal that
you see go 25 feet down
into the seabed.
You know,
we’re real proud of this.
Whatever the secrets are
that are hiding here,
we’re gonna find ’em,
because now we can.
As far as dams go,
you guys look like
there’s nothing that’s gonna
hold you back right now.
You must be excited for what
you might be able to find now.
Absolutely.
I mean, one thing
that we’ve noticed
that was a concern
in the beginning was how dry
would it be, and could we get
the big equipment around?
Or is it gonna sink in the mud,
like we were finding last year?
And it seems to be drying up
very well.
We seem to be able
to get the equipment
anywhere we want to.
So that’s a big plus so far.
MATTY: Working with a process
known as "sheet piling,"
the team used a powerful
hydraulic hammer to drive
nearly 120 interlocking steel
sheets into the seabed,
creating a 525-foot-long
coffer dam
that fully encloses
Smith’s Cove.
What was the motivation
to do this?
The find of the cross
was stunning.
I mean, absolutely stunning.
And for each of us
for different reasons.
You know, once the cross
showed up,
it was an absolute
mandatory idea
to come out here
and do this.
There could be more here.
Yeah.
An-And it’s just too, it’s just
too crazily significant,
crazily out of place, so we-we
have to follow that.
I mean, if there was ever any
doubt that we would throw
this kind of resource at it,
the cross erased it.
It’s time to come out here
and look.
So, another thing
I was wondering--
I’m sorry, I’m a little
distracted because I see
Gary Drayton down there
already working.
Yep.
Gary.
-How’s it going, mate?
-Good, mate.
Found anything yet?
-Uh, you know what?
Let me answer that
for him, okay?
He has found some stuff,
of course,
and he continues to,
but we had him bring along one
that we found earlier
this season.
So come on, let’s have a look.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Gary...
-Hey, mate.
How’s it going?
-Good, mate.
You look happy.
Happy as a pig
in the proverbial, mate.
This whole beach has been
torn apart,
and what I’m trying to do is
winkle out some good finds
in between the iron, because
there is a lot of iron
on the beach still.
But we don’t want
to miss anything.
And you guys alluded up there
to something that
he might have got?
Yeah, he’s been doing
some winkling, all right.
-Right, Gary?
(laughter)
What do you got, Gary?
Come on.
-You know where it is, mate.
in that pocket.
Yep, in the top pocket.
Oh, whoa!
What is this?
MARTY: We’re not sure.
We’re sure it’s lead.
It’s lead?
But the significance is...
Like the cross.
-Well, like the cross,
but not shaped.
But more significant is
Laird Niven looked at it,
and he said this is very common.
He called it the duct tape
of 17th-century ships.
GARY:
Oh, that looks like it...
What’s that Right there?
Aluminum?
-Look, right there.
-Here, guys.
Wow.
this is good.
is that a piece of lead?
-Yeah, a piece of cut lead.
Huh.
Lead was kind of
a ubiquitous thing.
It was almost like duct tape.
That’s it, just basically
a lead patch, isn’t it?
Yeah.
this type of stuff was used
below the water line
on Spanish galleons.
They would use sheets
of lead like that
in order to patch leaks
because it was easily--
it was malleable,
they could hammer it into
the cracks of the ship
where it was leaking
and stuff, so...
Wow.
That’s What it was used for
at the time.
Now, you know, that is a classic
Oak Island find,
and it could mean
absolutely nothing.
Correct.
could be highly significant.
Again, just like the cross,
this is a small item
when compared to the totality
of surface area we have here.
How are you guys
going through these spoils?
You can’t be doing it here.
I mean, there’s no place I see
that you could do it.
Good observation, Matty, it’s
impossible to do this all here.
And, again, we spent a lot of
time thinking about that.
Rick was able to find
this gargantuan machine,
which is-- it has to be seen
to understand.
But you’re right.
We have a machine to do it.
Jack couldn’t possibly
do it all himself.
So we have some work
to do down here,
-But, Gary, can you
bring him up there?
Yeah.
I think Jack’s up there.
-Yeah, I’ll show him...
You’ll see.
You’ll see with your own eyes...
-Thanks, buddy.
-...how we do that.
Thanks for showing me this, too.
You’re welcome
-Thanks, buddy.
Back in the top pocket.
Back in the top pocket.
-We’ll see you later, Matty.
-Thanks, guys.
Don’t MATTY:where.
Check it out.
A massive new machine has made
its way onto Oak Island,
and it’s going
to change the way
the team searches for treasure.
But just how exactly
are they going to sort
through the huge amount
of spoils from the search?
Here to show me--
Jack Bagley and Gary Drayton.
Yeah, Jack, I mean,
what am I looking at here?
Is this the machine version
of what you’ve done
for previous seasons
by yourself?
This should really expedite, you
know, our process and finding
a lot of really cool finds.
GARY: Yeah.
-So, yeah.
-This is an 11 out of ten.
Yes.
Makes our job easier.
JACK: It’s certainly
an upgrade based upon
you know, washing styles
of previous seasons,
And It’s a massive upgrade.
Yeah.
(whooshing)
JACK:
I mean, we were spending
so much time
in previous seasons
washing through material
by hand or
with a hose,
or a big fire hose,
you know, as of last year.
I won’t be as exhausted
washing through the spoils.
I can spend my time
just focusing on any oddities.
Well guys,
it all sounds incredible,
but, you know, I like action,
so can we actually fire it up?
-Yeah!
-Yeah, sure.
Yeah?
All right,
fire up the wash plant!
JACK: All the spoils from
Smith’s Cove get brought up
and deposited
up by that excavator.
The excavator loads the spoils
onto the hopper,
and there’s some grizzly bars
that will take any
of the large boulders
and drop them off the side.
And then anything
that goes into that hopper--
it goes down,
and then back up a belt, and
they go through the shaker,
the washer,
and it washes off all the rest
of the material.
The larger objects are gonna be
deposited off the edge there,
but then there’s two different
levels of division
for the medium-sized stuff
and the really fine stuff.
As you can see, it does
a really good job separating
based upon size
and washing away the clay.
MATTY:
Absolutely.
So guys,
with all these different piles,
where would you guess
you’ll be spending most
of your time and effort?
Well, actually, this belt.
Right here?
-JACK: Based upon our tests,
you know, we really want to find
coins or small artifacts.
I want to get my hands in
this pile.
Can we actually...?
Can you show me, guys,
how you’d search this?
GARY: Yeah.
Yeah.
I’ll turn it off real quick.
All right, let’s turn it off
and let’s do that.
GARY: You see here,
this is a perfect example
of material separation.
Absolutely.
Walk me through this, guys.
Well, first,
I rake the pile out.
GARY:
We’re always looking for stuff
because we could eyeball
something good in there.
All right, I’ll be looking, too.
And like Jack told you,
if we’re gonna find
coin-sized objects,
they’re gonna be in this pile.
ALL right.
-All right, so, Jack rakes it.
And then, I go over it
with the metal detector.
(beeping)
Ooh.
Well, that’s a good,
two-way repeatable signal.
-From a, uh...
No kidding.
Not too deep, which is great.
It’s saying six inches.
We don’t want deep targets,
’cause they could be
in the deck.
Mm-hmm.
And that...
And That’s telling You
it’s not too deep?
that sounds good.
-No, and-and that sounds
Like a really Good target.
Yeah.
If I may quote you,
Woo, woo, woo!
I’d rather have
an holy schmoly find in here.
All right, I’ll chamber
that one.
Wow.
All right,
let’s see what this is.
I’m gonna pinpoint.
-JACK: Can I shovel it out?!
No.
-MATTY: Oh, you want it.
Both chomping at the bit.
-JACK: Ah!
MATTY:
You got to keep us back.
Um...
(beeping)
That’s a Good sound.
-So, I’m on it.
It’s nonferrous.
It’s in your hand.
-Oh, it’s in your hand, Gary.
(beeping)
What is it?
-Yeah, it’s welding.
JACK: a piece of welding.
MATTY: Oh.
I think it’s welding slag.
That’s probably off the...
JACK: the cofferdam.
GARY: Yeah.
MATTY: right.
So, in building the Cofferdam,
all the welding and the metal
that was being used...
-GARY: Yeah.
All the residue,
all the junk left
from the welding.
MATTY: Sure.
Sure.
We call it slag.
It’s welding slag.
MATTY: Got it.
-All right, well,
you know what it’s not.
Yup.
-It ain’t gold, it ain’t a coin.
Mm-hmm.
-So let’s eliminate it, right?
Yup.
But as you can see,
we’re being very thorough...
Absolutely.
Just see if
there’s any other targets.
(soft beep)
Come on, baby.
Let’s keep our streak going.
(beeping)
Oh.
Really?
Ooh.
Ooh.
Yeah, it might be in the deck.
Let me just see how deep it is.
(beeping)
Perhaps not.
Ooh.
Ooh.
-I’ve got like a six,
seven-inch reading.
ALL right.
(soft beep)
(digging)
Something round.
It looks gold-colored.
Encrustation.
It could be just
encrusted through the years.
Who knows how long
this has been in here?
What do you think to this?
Is this what I think it is?
Turn it on edge.
see that?
Yeah.
-Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Whoa.
I didn’t...
Whoa.
Yeah.
Button or a coin.
Hopefully, a coin.
And what...?
You never know what’s gonna
come up from the depths.
Guys.
Holy... schmoly.
GARY: That’s a heck of a find,
isn’t it, mate?
Aha.
-We, uh...
One more look.
Uh.
You’ll
see it when It’s cleaned off.
ALL right.
Because I’m sure the guys
want to get this tested.
You know what occurs to me,
is, like,
this gigantic search comes down
to something that small,
and yet, something that small
is bigger than all of this.
I mean, this year--
it’s indescribable.
Yeah.
-Some of the stuff we’ve found--
I mean, you’re gonna be amazed.
And we’ve only
really just begun.
Guys, congratulations already!
This is awesome, mate.
Awesome!
MATTY: We’re drilling down
becaus to season six back,
of The Curse of Oak Island.
Now I’m standing on the spot
where this treasure mystery
first began back in 1795:
the Money Pit area.
Come on, baby!
MATTY: Over the past
five seasons, we’ve seen Rick,
Marty and their partners
drill...
Let’s get her going,
see what’s down there.
Hopefully, it’s what
we’re looking for.
-MATTY: ...dig...
-Okay, let’s go see
X marks the spot.
Excellent.
That’s good.
-MATTY: ...and dive,
looking for the fabled
Chappell vault
some 145 feet deep underground.
MAN:
What are you seeing?
MATTY: This year,
they’ll be employing
a radically new application
of what is known
as seismic testing,
a process that uses
explosive charges
to create sonic waves in order
to make an accurate map
of what lies deep underground.
Usually, large
explosive charges are used
to explore areas
that are miles underground.
But a Canadian company known
as "Eagle Canada"
has modified the process
in a way
that will help the Oak Island
team see what lies
in their target area
of the Money Pit,
some 200 feet
below the ground.
With me here to talk about it--
Rick, Craig, Marty, Alex,
and Clint from Eagle Canada.
Guys, thanks for being here.
Thanks.
Thank you.
-All right, so, let’s
talk about this revolutionary
new search technique.
Craig, you must be chomping
at the bit.
This is
right up your alley-- science
applied to treasure hunting.
This is what
you guys have been doing.
Absolutely.
I mean,
we’ve been thinking about it
for a number of years now, but
applying it
to such a shallow depth.
I mean, we’ve got a lot
of potential problems here.
We’re in the Money Pit area
where there’s been a bunch
of shafts,
been a bunch of tunnels.
There was a massive dig
thrown back in.
So, are we looking
at virgin ground around here?
Absolutely not, and that can
interfere with the signals.
Rick, you always use the term
boots on the ground.
In a sense, is this a way
of getting boots underground?
A look at what’s under there?
I mean, that’s the key to-to
unraveling the Money Pit, right?
Look underground.
We’ve never been able to do it.
And you know,
what has been really gratifying
about working
with Eagle Canada is
they were unafraid
to try to evolve what...
a new application
of their science.
right.
-So, yes.
Bringing boots to bear
in the Money Pit area
with a new technology-- sure.
-So, Rick, let’s talk targets.
RICK: Mm-hmm.
You know, from C-1, which had
a very intriguing find,
to H-8, which had many
intriguing finds,
where are We targeting this?
-RICK: We’re targeting,
you know, the area around H-8.
I mean,
think about what we’ve found.
You know, the bones,
the parchment,
the book-binding leather,
the pottery
at beyond searcher depth.
MATTY: In addition to those
monumental discoveries,
when the Oak Island team
attempted to excavate
the borehole known as H-8,
they also encountered
what they believe
to be the fabled
Chappell vault--
a seven-foot-tall
wooden treasure chest
first reported
by William Chappell
and Frederick Blair in 1897.
But when Rick, Marty
and the team attempted
to reach the vault
with a 60-inch-wide
drilling caisson,
they were stunned to discover
that it had been pushed
further down--
to a depth of some 170 feet--
and somewhere off to the side.
It’s still in there, then.
There’s a chance...
Just pushed to the side.
I mean, all of that begs
further search.
MATTY: So, Alex and Clint,
tell me how how it works
in a normal application?
What are you doing?
So, normally, 90% of our
business is in oil and gas.
When we started talking
to those guys,
we did some testing
and actually were able to find
some small objects
by putting the charge,
the energy source,
closer together
and r-redesigning the program,
and I think we’re about
to discover that we can
see under the ground,
what those guys have been,
you know, looking for.
MATTY: So, Clint,
when I hear you say "charges,"
we’re talking...
Dynamite.
Wow.
H-Help me understand how
dynamite can create an image.
Essentially, it’s loaded into
the ground at the various depths
based on the parameters
and the depth we’re looking at,
same as the size of the charge,
we’ll send energy down
in the ground,
and essentially, we get
what we call reflectors back
off the subsurface layers
into our geophones.
Based on the timing,
the geophysicist can determine
what the subsurface
ground composition is
at the various layers.
It is sort of the geologic
equivalent of an ultrasound.
Ah.
-Basically, it’s the same,
same technology,
only large, and you’re
listening to the echoes
and then taking computing power
to develop an image.
So if we can see
as well as they can tell
the sex of a baby nowadays,
Can You do that for us?
(laughter)
I’ll give you the sex
of the treasure.
that is perfect.
Okay.
We’ll take it.
Can we do this?
Can we fire one up?
Yeah.
We want You to see...
-Yeah, absolutely.
We want you to see
a bit of the process.
They have, uh, graciously agreed
to give you a little demo here.
And so, we’ll see, you’ll see
exactly how this is gonna work.
It’s kind of, i-it’s impressive.
You’ll see.
We’ll all, uh,
go to a safe distance,
and we’ll set off some dynamite.
-All right, let’s do it.
Let’s do that.
Ready to go?
Roger.
In this case, you’re gonna let
Matty say "fire in the hole,"
aren’t you?
-Sure, absolutely.
-I mean, I have to, right?
I think You have to say some...
You Got to call it.
You got to call it.
ALL right.
So, he’s ready to go
whenever you guys are.
ALL right.
Everyone ready?
-Call it, Matty.
Fire in the hole!
Here it comes.
-Oh!
(laughter)
MATTY:
Yeah.
(whoops) that was a Good one.
MARTY: that was a Good one.
this is fun.
RICK: Yeah.
This is addictive.
(Matty whoops)
-Well, that was pretty cool.
Yeah.
So, I don’t know if you were
expecting a bigger explosion,
but the charge are specific
to this program.
Guys, this was so fun,
but also an incredible testament
to you guys
and your openness
to new technology
and how to adapt it
to try to solve this mystery.
I wish you luck
using this technology
to get to the bottom
and find the Money Pit.
MARTY: Sounds good, Matty.
We’re
gonna try everything we can.
MATTY:
Thank you, guys.
♪ ♪
MATTY:
Over the past two centuries,
searchers have focused
their efforts
on the eastern end
of Oak Island
and the Money Pit,
trying to solve the incredible
treasure mystery.
But last year,
Rick Lagina and Gary Drayton
made a huge find
on the western drumlin.
GARY: That was weird.
Look at this, Rick.
MATTY:
A brooch with a gemstone
that could date back
to the 1600s.
It was a find that convinced
the Oak Island team
that this previously unexplored
part of the island could yield
the ultimate answers.
I mean, look at this.
Wow.
You Can see this place
has been cleared out.
MATTY: Yeah,
you’ve cleared out a path here.
-Where you’re walking, Matty?
Yeah?
Not many people have walked
for a very long time.
Before, you wouldn’t
have even been able
to walk through this.
JACK: Yeah.
It was heavily, heavily wooded.
-We’re on Lot 21, is that right?
Yeah.
Have you been able to work
your magic in here at all?
I have.
That’s why we’re back.
We’ve been over the area.
We’ve established
that there is some great finds
in this area.
We’ve already established that.
Hold on.
What does that mean?
You’ve established there are
some great finds in this area.
What does that mean exactly?
that means...
JACK: Can We tell him?
-No, no.
No.
But there’s been
some top pocket finds
And a spectacular
bobby-dazzler.
Yeah.
GARY:
All will be revealed, mate.
It’s worth waiting for.
It’ll be good.
Yeah.
We’ve established
where the hot spot is
and now got
the small search coil on.
We’ll see if we can find
anything else.
JACK: see if You Can find
any more of this, Gary.
Let’s go.
Hold it, mate.
You’re proficient now
with this thing.
Oh.
Let’s see How You do it.
Yeah?
Thanks.
Thanks, mate.
-Now remember,
low and slow now.
Yeah.
Low And slow.
Keep that search coil as close
to the deck as possible.
Got it.
That’s it, mate.
Go a little bit slower.
Overlap your sweeps.
(metal detector beeps)
-Whoa!
(beeps twice)
You really have Got the luck
of the Irish.
(laughter)
That’s a good...
-MATTY: Now, hold on now.
-That can’t be my boot, right?
I stepped back.
GARY: No.
Oh, man, that-that’s a good
two-way repeatable signal.
That’s What We’re looking for.
-Okay, so...
so when you say that, that means
there’s a target there
and I’m hitting, I’m hitting
on either side of it,
basically?
Every time
the middle of the coil
-goes over the target, it beeps.
You’re gonna get a...
GARY:
Yeah.
-That’s fantastic, mate.
Yeah.
Well, we know he can detect,
but can you dig?
Can you dig it, mate?
Oh, I thought Jack
wanted to do that.
So, I want to come in...
-Just a little bit away, yeah.
-It’s right here,
But You want to dig a plug.
GARY: right.
You want to angle the shovel
So It’s almost straight down.
Yep.
Yep.
And then dig a circle
around it.
MATTY: Got it.
So if that is potentially
a really good find,
we don’t damage it.
MATTY:
Oh, yeah.
All right, now we’ll see
how lucky you are, Matty.
-MATTY: All right, buddy.
GARY: And then
what you have to do
is you have to see
if it’s still in the hole
or in the spoil pile.
MATTY: Got it.
(metal detector beeping)
that still down there?
So that means
it’s deeper, yeah.
MATTY: ALL right.
It’s another
five inches deeper.
Let’s go again.
-I knew I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t
get away that easy.
No.
You know, I’m trying
to stay cool, guys,
but, uh, since you found
something big in this area,
I got to tell you, my heart
is racing right now,
and I’m really hopeful
that this is something big
and that can match
your other find.
Well, it had better
be good, Matty,
because the other find
is hard to match.
ALL right.
That’s How special it is.
-Yeah, it is.
MATTY: ALL right.
All right.
JACK: Got to keep digging.
-And then, actually,
what might help you
is using a pinpointer.
Root around.
I’ve seen you do this.
Yeah.
I’d give it a little broggle
and see what’s in there, mate.
a broggle?
-Yeah, a broggle.
That’s a new one.
I haven’t heard that yet.
(pinpointer beeping)
-GARY: So, it should be
underneath there.
MATTY:
This thing’s going crazy.
That’s the beauty
of this hobby, mate.
You never know what you’re gonna
pull out the ground.
I’m dripping sweat now.
Now we know we’re
on Oak Island, baby.
Now we know we’re on Oak Island.
(laughter)
I got it.
I got it.
You Got it?
I Got it.
it is round.
It is round.
It has a, it’s a...
there’s a hole right here.
JACK: All right, don’t try
and force it out.
MATTY: I won’t.
I won’t.
JACK: dig around with it.
MATTY:
I’m gonna dig around it.
I’m getting the very tail end
of whatever this is.
Look how excited
he’s getting, Jack.
-JACK: Oh, there it goes.
-MATTY: Do you want me to, uh,
show You What this
is right now?
There it goes.
Hold on.
MATTY: See, there’s a hole
right here.
It’s circular.
see that?
-GARY: Yeah, look at that.
That’s nice.
it looks really old.
Yeah, look, it’s got a nice
patina on it, as well.
That’s been in there a while.
JACK:
It looks like a barrel.
GARY:
Yeah, that looks like a barrel
and that would be the diameter
of a musket barrel.
Oh, yeah.
Was just gonna say
that’s a big caliber.
MATTY: No way.
JACK: this could be
a really good find, Matty.
MATTY: Right.
At this point,
I don’t want to be responsible
for damaging it, so...
Let’s make sure we keep
our sights on it.
GARY: You’re making history
on Oak Island.
(laughs)
-All right, I think you can
-take it from there, Matty.
ALL right.
It’s long.
It’s long.
GARY: That’s an even
better sign.
nice.
Yup.
Guys.
It’s getting longer.
JACK: You might have
to dig more of the hole out.
Oh.
-Oh.
-GARY: Come on, baby,
be a gun barrel.
What is it, Matty?
Is this a sight?
Or no, it’s just crushed.
It’s just crushed.
I thought that was...
Yeah.
Look, I see drill holes.
Shoot.
-No, that’s just...
-No, I don’t think that’s a...
I think it’s a piece of pipe.
This would’ve been
another lug on here.
this probably...
-MATTY: Yeah, yeah.
...it looks
like a piece of railing.
I thought that was a sight.
-I was-- yeah, me, too.
-Me, too.
a gun sight.
GARY: I believe this is
some kind of handle.
MATTY: Okay.
Yeah.
Well, guys, that was... (laughs)
...that was exciting.
I’m crushed for you, mate.
I really am.
I was hoping that was gonna be
a gun barrel for you.
Gary, honestly,
I’m not disappointed, mate.
I’m thrilled and I’m sure
the audience is, too,
based on the fact
that you guys said
you made a gigantic find here
and in just a couple minutes
we pull something else out.
Um, who knows what you guys
are gonna find here?
We’re hoping that that
spectacular bobby-dazzler
we teased you about,
has Got Some more friends.
MATTY: Awesome.
-Let’s fill this back up, huh?
Yup.
Coming up, I’ll be checking
in with Dan Blankenship
♪ ♪
Earlier, we got to see
the massive cofferdam
and dig operation going on
at Smith’s Cove.
But right now,
I want to get an inside take
from one of the major
inspirations for this new dig,
a man who conducted his own
investigation of the cove
way back in the early 1970s
and made some huge finds--
Oak Island living legend
Dan Blankenship.
DAN B.:
Come on in.
Dan.
-Oh, what do you say, Matty?
How You been?
How are you?
So great to see You again.
good.
I understand that, uh,
happy birthday’s in order.
-You just celebrated your 95th.
Yeah.
So they tell me.
(laughter)
You Look fantastic.
I was just down at Smith’s Cove
and the incredible work
they’ve done there with that
setup for that cofferdam.
How did you build a cofferdam
in the early ’70s?
How did You do What You did?
the hard way.
As they say up here
in Nova Scotia, it wasn’t easy.
it wasn’t easy?
No.
MATTY: In 1970, four years
after arriving on Oak Island,
Dan Blankenship built
an earth-filled cofferdam
for the purpose of draining
Smith’s Cove
to search it more thoroughly
and expose
any original workings,
including the infamous
box drains.
While bigger than any
previous dam built at the site,
it nevertheless suffered
several washouts
due to severe storms
and was eventually abandoned.
I have photos that were taken
at the time in here.
And, uh...
-Oh, wow.
that-that-that is One photo
that was taken at Smith’s Cove.
Yeah.
Look at that.
That looks like a massive
operation and a lot of work.
Oh, it was.
It took
one whole summer.
You really see
how much work was done.
DAN B.: Well, you can see
how massive it was.
-In other words, it-it-it
covered the whole beach.
Yeah.
Could that be you right there,
possibly?
Yeah, I-I think so.
And then I think I see
what the team refers to now
as "the U-shaped structure"
that you found.
is that it there?
-Yeah.
Yeah, that’s in there.
U-shaped center, what I called
the U-shape was this way.
MATTY:
During his incredible operation
to reveal the legendary
stone box drains,
Dan made another
astonishing discovery:
a massive, U-shaped,
wooden structure.
It measured some 65 feet long,
with notched posts
that featured a series
of carved Roman numerals.
When you first saw
that U-shaped structure,
was there anything
about its design
that told you anything about it?
DAN B.: Well,
the timbers were-were notched,
and-and all
of these upright timbers
that were laying there
i-initially,
they had Roman numerals in ’em.
You could still read
the Roman numerals in ’em.
By the texture of the wood
and everything,
it-it appeared to be made
a long time prior
to me finding it.
Dan, what do you think
you found in Smith’s Cove?
Do you think you found evidence
of original works pre-Money Pit?
Well, we did at the time,
and-and I have no reason
to doubt that we did.
(stammers)
Oh.
Also, in-in Smith’s Cove,
we found those--
that pair of scissors there.
Oh.
These are the, uh,
Spanish scissors.
What was referred to me as
Spanish s-style of-of scissors.
Now, that’s interesting.
I know you’ve always, perhaps,
been partial to the--
to some Spanish activity here
on the island, correct?
So, this becomes
very interesting.
No, just additional evidence
that-that somebody was here,
uh, early on, you know.
Because we did
have ’em checked with--
uh, with Smithsonian Institute,
and they’re the ones
who came up and said they’re
a Spanish style of scissors.
In fact, they put an age on ’em
sometime in early 1600s
or earlier.
Wow.
Yeah.
They’ve come a long way.
Yeah, they’ve come a long ways.
So, Dan, let’s talk about what
the team is doing now.
Um, do you think
that they’ll be able to...
build upon what you did
with that new design they have
and maybe figure out
what that U-shaped structure is?
I mean, they-they--
doubtless, they are gonna find
the same thing that I had found.
But w-- if they find anything
in addition to that,
it’s because
they’re-they’re running
a-a little bit different
operation than what I did.
Did you ever find any evidence
of these famed box drains
in Smith’s Cove?
-Oh, yeah.
Up in this-this end
of Smith’s Cove,
actually out-outside of the--
of this here,
the box drains that I found.
Do you think that parts of those
box drains would still be there?
Well, you have to remember,
I don’t have a clue
how many times this has been
worked on in Smith’s Cove.
I don’t have a clue.
Because others before me,
they didn’t keep records...
(stammers)
...sufficiently, I mean.
Everyone thought they were gonna
be successful on Oak Island.
Well, Dan, I think
you were wildly successful.
And I really appreciate
every time you talk
with me,
your wisdom and your knowledge.
Well, you’re quite welcome.
MATTY: I really appreciate it.
Yeah.
Well, there you have it,
from the man himself.
MATTY: We’re just minutes away
from the earth-breaking
season six premiere
of The Curse of Oak Island.
But before I go,
I’m drilling down one last time
with the two men
leading this incredible
treasure hunt,
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina.
Hi, Matty.
I’m gonna just guess
you probably
still have some questions.
I definitely still
have some questions.
Here we sit again, guys,
about to go into a new season.
I’m excited,
I know the fans are excited.
What are you guys excited about
this season?
This season is like last season,
only squared.
I thought, last year,
we would be able
to "X" off the Money Pit.
Well, the Money Pit
got the better of us.
So, we’re gonna do a lot
of stuff up there.
More massive than last year.
How about you, Rick?
As we sit here,
right before season six,
what are you excited about?
You know, we’ve been here a
decade now, more than a decade.
-Yeah, we have.
And We’ve never had
a hard target.
It has always been, you know,
Here, in Smith’s Cove,
the U-shaped structure is there.
And we know exactly where it is.
Maybe, if that structure
has something
to do with original deposition,
there might be some cultural
influences out there,
and then, we would
be able to answer,
to some degree of certainty,
who,
and-- some degree of certainty--
when.
To me, that’s what’s exciting
about this year.
I want those questions answered.
You know, we talk about this
massive undertaking behind us
and I was thinking that all
the searchers trying to stop
the water here,
to stop the floodwaters
up there at the Money Pit,
trying to find out
what’s in the Money Pit,
look at what you guys have done.
I mean, is there a potential
that the mystery could be solved
right here?
I don’t think the whole mystery
can be solved here.
You know, last year,
the biggest find,
and one of the biggest
surprises, really,
was the lead cross.
What Gary calls
the friends of the cross,
they reside out there,
and we’re hopeful to find them.
I mean, I’m-I’m seeing things
here just sitting here
with my naked eye
that look very interesting.
Are we already
starting to see things?
Oh.
yeah.
Very much so, yes.
Some of the things anticipated,
and of course, as always,
some unanticipated.
And that’s all I’m gonna say.
And extraordinary things
are coming?
I said,
that’s all I’m gonna say.
(laughter)
ALL right.
He might say more.
No, I’m not saying more.
I would say less, probably.
All right, well, I want to get
into the cross in a minute,
but before we do,
we asked the fans out there
to send us some questions,
so if you’ll indulge me...
Oh, these are always way more
intelligent than we are.
This is always, uh, a problem.
They’ve though it through
just as much as we have.
They’re always better
than my questions.
Hank Sampson asks, uh,
Hank is at the very root
of the problem.
He’s also at
the very root of why
so much activity
occurred here by searchers.
It’s a circular thing,
it’s like,
something extraordinary
happened here
and a bunch of work
happened here, and why?
Well, whatever the why is,
it must be really valuable.
It’s always about the why, when
it comes to any human endeavor.
What motivated you to do this?
But, as of yet,
we don’t have that answer.
And then, there’s a slight
downside to his question, too.
Maybe they did
come back for it, you know?
Uh, we don’t know that.
We don’t think so.
To exclude that would be folly.
Craig Crandall writes,
in trying to solve
the Oak Island mystery?"
I think you’re sitting on it,
and I don’t mean that chair.
It’s the island.
It’s the
composition of this island.
It’s probably both
the reason that something
could be done here
and the reason that
it’s so hard to decipher it
is ’cause of the geology here.
It is extremely difficult
from an imaging standpoint.
-Boy, did we learn that.
RICK: Absolutely.
MATTY:
And finally, Maria Stoltz asks,
I’m gonna toss that to Rick.
There are five or six that I
couldn’t pick one above another.
I really couldn’t.
And that’s what’s so fascinating
about this island, it’s...
it’s an island of what ifs
and possibilities.
Yeah, I’ll tell you-- and he’s
gonna shoot me for this--
but of the five or six credible
theories Rick has,
you have to have the seventh,
which he never adds,
which is that maybe nothing
happened here.
You’re right.
Stand up,
I will shoot you.
(laughter)
When I’m working on this
and thinking about the island,
I think very little
about the actual treasure,
and I’m always thinking about
the story and the mystery,
and you guys have already done
an incredible amount of work
in helping to try to start
to solve that story.
Yeah, we’d like to find
the treasure, too, Matty.
Let’s not get
carried away here, all right?
come on.
No doubt.
Some gold coins
in the pan would be nice.
Well, I’ll become infinitely
more interested in it
if I’m cut into it.
is He not in?
I thought He was.
Oh, all right.
(laughter)
All right, gentlemen, it’s time.
But before we throw to
the premiere, I got to ask you,
is there anything you can
tell me about that cross
that we might see in season six?
Yes.
MATTY:
And...?
We did some hard science,
with irrefutable results,
and it’s really,
really compelling
and really intriguing
and that’s all we’re gonna say.
It’s very dramatic,
and I suggest you be sitting
when you hear the news.
Yeah.
Stay tuned.
ALL right.
-Guys, thank you so much, again.
Matty.
-Thank you, Matty.
I always appreciate
your thoughts and the access.
Our pleasure.
Well, you heard it
from the brothers themselves.
You best be seated.
The season six premiere of The
Curse of Oak Island starts now.
NARRATOR: This season
on The Curse of Oak Island...
We’re trying our best to make
this island give up her secrets.
RICK: We only have one shot
for such a massive undertaking.
It’s gonna make
last year’s operations
almost insignificant.
Here it comes.
RICK:
For the first item, we can look
underground in the Money Pit.
This is definitely
the confident structure.
the chamber?
Yeah.
RICK:
We have multiple targets.
We clipped the edge of a tunnel.
RICK:
If there’s anything here,
the answer is in that tunnel.
Oh, look at this.
I think we’ve got something.
-This is the 90-foot stone.
Doug believes He has Found it.
Those are letters inscribed
into the stone.
RICK:
What in the world is that?
It’s concrete.
MARTY: this is a previously
unknown ancient structure
on Oak Island.
It appears to be Roman.
Wow.
-No way!
This gem, it’s super ancient.
DAVE: Now We’re cooking.
if it is an anchor...
Should be in this area.
We’ll find it.
-Look at that,
I can see gold color.
-MARTY: Yeah, me, too.
I would say it’s pure gold.
Unbelievable.
MARTY:
We have found our first gold...
Amen.
-...on Oak Island.
Watch it!
Subtitled by
Diego Moraes / Ewerton Henrique