4 Bombshell Discoveries | The Curse of Oak Island

NARRATOR: Rick Lagina, Dave Blankenship, Charles Barkhouse, and Doug Crowell head to the Money Pit area where the team from Choice Drilling has begun a new coring operation.

It’s exciting thinking about whether we’re going to find a debris field today.

RICK: You know, I’m pretty much absolutely convinced that it is a tunnel.

CHARLES: The tunnel leading from Shaft Six?

RICK: It’s as good a chance at Six as we’ve encountered up until now.

NARRATOR: In an attempt to avoid the booby traps that thwarted efforts to dig deeper down into the original Money Pit, in 1861, a team of treasure hunters dug a second shaft some 18 feet west of it.

They hoped that by digging deep down in dry ground and then digging back toward the Money Pit and under the treasure vault, they could successfully retrieve whatever lies hidden there.

Unfortunately, at a depth of 118 feet, and just one foot shy of their target, the tunnel, known as Shaft Six, suddenly filled with seawater.

Shortly thereafter, a number of thunderous crashes were heard deep underground, leading the workers to speculate that the tons of wood cribbing in the original Money Pit had collapsed and that its treasure must now lay scattered across a massive flooded debris field.

Three weeks ago, while searching for possible tunnels, the Oak Island team made a discovery at a depth of 109 feet—

TERRY: That’s wood.

NARRATOR: —a discovery that suggested they had located Shaft Six.

CHARLES: That’s the edge of your timber.

RICK: Yeah. Good morning.

CHARLES: Morning.

RICK: And it should be a good morning.

CHARLES: Yeah, let’s hope, for sure.

NARRATOR: If the team can verify that the wood they found came from Shaft Six, they may be closer than ever to locating the original Money Pit—and hopefully an underground debris field littered with incredible artifacts and treasure.

Using a specialized sonic drilling rig which generates powerful vibrations to pulverize earth and other obstacles, the team will extract core samples at intervals of 10 feet.

The spoils will then be collected into plastic sleeves to be carefully searched for any important clues or valuable objects.

CHARLES: What are we at, 118?

DOUG: Yeah, 118, Charles.

CHARLES: 118. This is the critical one right here.

RICK: Show me the money.

CHARLES: That’s a piece of wood.

DOUG: There’s a piece of wood.

TERRY: Oh. It’s somewhat vertical.

RICK: Ah. Check that out. That’s wood.

CHARLES: Hey, Rick?

RICK: Yeah?

CHARLES: Come take a look at this.

RICK: Well? I hope you got good news.

DOUG: A big piece of wood. Vertical too.

CHARLES: We’ve must have clipped the edge—just the edge of a tunnel.

RICK: Say, there’s your tunnel. Six.

CHARLES: That’s it, Six.

TERRY: That’s the saving grace of the hole.

RICK: Yeah.

NARRATOR: Finding what the team believes to be the western-most edge of Shaft Six has offered a much-welcome breakthrough.

It suggests that by continuing to drill east of the site, they will be able to follow the tunnel to the Money Pit’s precise location approximately 18 feet away.

RICK: Today was a good day on Oak Island. It’s obvious that it’s the end of a beam. So we’re in a tunnel, and I’m very excited to exploit this find.

I’m happy we found evidence of a tunnel at a proper depth, which correlates to the previous hole.

DOUG: Well, now we have three data sets that indicate there is indeed a tunnel there.

RICK: This needs to be investigated.

Which means we got to go back and scrutinize what geotech there is around where this suggests the Money Pit would sit.

It supports further investigation. So it was a good day.

CHARLES: This was a win today.