The Curse of Oak Island Season 13 Episode 5 Keep on Rockin’ (Dec 2, 2025) Full Episode HD

On the curse of Oak Island.
All right. Well, this is the neighborhood, guys. I mean, this is treasure

Initial conclusions, someone dug a hole, propped that rock up in it, and then filled it in with smaller rocks.
Well, Lar and Marty are joined by Rick and other members of the team to continue investigating the strange boulder and stone feature on lot five.

So, for some reason, they needed that showing.
And if you look at the rocks themselves, it’s that same kind of rubble that was in the wall in lot 26 that was dated to 1474 by charcoal.
Somebody went to some trouble.
Yeah.
What is the orientation really close east west?
Isn’t the lot five circular feature east west?
Yeah.
The long axis is if you know Templar Freemasonry, it’s always east west.
Everything is oriented east west.
The orientation of the building, the structure had importance to them on these trips to Europe and beyond.
Every building we’ve encountered, every structure that was Templar influenced, Templar built was oriented east west.
Larry is saying that this stone face is oriented east west.
I find that to be quite remarkable.
Exceedingly interesting.
Hey, Don.
Gotcha.
Terry, how are you?

Terry.
Oh, and he’s got his pick with him.
He’s got his hammer.
All right, Terry.
We got questions.
Number one is, what do you make of that?
Well, something’s going on here.
I would say that somebody piled those stones.
That’s pretty clear, right?
Pretty clear.
That was flipped up and then they ringed it with rocks, I would say.
Yeah.
They’ve put that up against the other.
We’ve got a stone structure here.
Did you take measurements here, L?
Yeah, it’s 6 ft in diameter.
Yeah.
6 ft is 72 in.
Right.
And we know the rule of 72.
Goes back into antiquity.
The woman’s cross is based on the rule of 72.
That’s true.
If we remember when John Edwards gave his presentation, he represented that the Templars used the rule of 72.
Yeah, the way to unlock no one’s calls is built into the cross itself.
In 2023, researcher John Edwards presented the team with a potential link between the Order of the Knights Templar and the design of Nola’s cross.
When you go and look at the two arms of the cross at 720, everything was divisible by 72.
Numbers used have to be of significance to whoever built Nolan’s cross.
And I’m suggesting it might be the Templars because they use the Latin rule of 72.
The Latin Rome, which is also known as specific behavior for the Templar Order, was written in the early 12th century by UP and Bernard of Clairvo, two of the founding members of the Templar Order.
The document contained a set of 72 directives that all Templar knights were sworn to live by.
And curiously, John Edward’s research revealed that the symbolic number of 72 was incorporated into the designs of numerous Templar related structures all across medieval Europe.
So, the fact that it is 6 ft in diameter might mean something.
It might be meaningful.
Could Rick be correct that this feature and the Nledge cross represent further evidence of a Templar connection to the Oak Island mystery?
There was a purpose here.
An intelligent design.
I’m also thinking how many more of these are around.
Imagine that.
Another puzzle.
Mhm.
Yeah.
I think what we’ll do is we’ll clean out this side a little more and then we’ll clean off the rest.
Right.
What we should do is have Steve come out, take a line.
I’m quite fascinated with the possibility of numerical relationships between this and other stone features on the island.
And to be honest, the only way to find out is to do it.
Correct.
Right.
Yep.
You know, we’ll get on to other things.
All right.
Later.

As Leair continues uncovering the new stone feature on lot five.
I brought a lot of back.
I’m expecting a good day for artifacts.
We’ll try to tell them.
Here we go.
Get stuck in over on the western edge of the swamp.
Gary, Billy, and Derek search for more clues.
[Music]
That’s a little surface nail.
Oh, it’s beginning to begin again.
[Music]
Rock right there.
You see the odd play in the rock?
Okay.
more into it.
It’s in there.
[Music]
That’s a little bit stronger.
[Music]
Just say, please.
[Music]
Here you go.
might give us some well
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
stuck between a rock and a hard place.
This looks like it’s deeper down there.
This has got a chance of being older still in there.
We’re about to witness a little bit of Oak Island history.
Derek try it.
What is that?
The heck is that [Music] coming up?
All right, G4.5 is about to tell us everything he’s got to say.
Who’s got the pinpointer?
I really like this.
I call it treasure central.
Absolutely.
The heck is it?
Yeah, it’s heavy.
While searching near the log roadway on the western side of the swamp, members of the Oak Island team have just found another mysterious artifact.
A lot of times when we find old iron like this and it’s really heavy for for its size, it turns out to be older iron.
I have no idea what it is, Billy.
You know, it doesn’t just look like a piece of slag metal either.
You know, you got the sharp angles cut there, right?
Like it’s a something.
Yeah.
It’s made on purpose like that.
That’s good.
We got some old iron coming up.
Yep.
Hopefully there’s some old gold and silver.
Yep.
We’ll put that in the bag.
Anytime you find an artifact on Oak Island, it always has more of a story to tell.
See, there’s anything else.
There’s a lot of iron around me.
And we’ve previously recovered really good artifacts in the swamp.
Hopefully, we can find some more.
[Music]
It’s long.
Yeah.
Talk about a new living place there.
[Music]
We ain’t missing nothing, Derek.
No, definitely not.
Yeah, I know.
It’s only a a little iron needle, but it could tell a story.
Put that in the bag.
Hey guys.
Hi traps.
What on earth are you guys doing here?
We are digging the heck out of this area and we’ve got a couple of interesting pieces of iron.
I’ll show you.
What do you think of them, Derek?
This one needled him a little bit.
Wow.
That is a needle, isn’t it?
Yeah.
Little iron needle.
Wait, let me see.
Look how little that is.
Boy, it shows again how good you are at finding stuff.
You got to be kidding.
I don’t know.
It almost looks it has a patina, too.
The other one I don’t know what to think about.
Now, this was great because it was deep down there.
We had to dig it out.
Mhm.
And it’s nice and heavy.
It is heavy.
That’s cool.
You generally have a Yeah.
You know what?
The more I look at it, to me it looks like an old iron buckle.
And that’s just one end of it.
That little area there could come out.
These two ends be a big buckle.
Yeah, be a big buckle.
Could be off boxes.
Could Gary be correct that he has found an iron buckle that may have once been attached to a large chest?
If so, was it possibly related to some kind of valuable cargo?
And could it also help explain why the nearby Corduroy Road was constructed?
Well, I’ve always been a swamp skeptic.
I said for years that one of the best ways to hide a treasure would be to flood it.
And flooding it in a, you know, swamplike condition would be ideal because there would be absolutely no trace if you did it.
Oh, yeah.
It’s possible that what we seek is in that swamp.
Absolutely possible.
Well, it has Emma written all over it, doesn’t it?
Oh, yeah.
Probably a really old piece of iron.
Yeah, you know what I’m going to say.
Yeah, that’s good.
But find some more.
Well, no stone unturned.
There you go.
As Gary, Billy, and Derek search for more evidence of treasure in the swamp.
Later that afternoon.
Okay, we got a core coming, guys.
Here we go.
It’s perfect timing cuz big brother just showed up.
Rick joins Marty and other members of the team in the money pit area.
Well, looks like a good recovery area.
Wouldn’t need that.
As the drilling operation in Warhol G 4.5 approaches the bottom of the solution shuttle, that’s 208, Terry.
208.
We hit the bottom at 206.
206 and 208’s the bottom.
All right.
All right, G4.5 is about to tell us everything it’s got to say.
There you go.
Unfortunately, it’s uh got quite a lot of solid material in amongst the water.
This is not the loose material we’re looking for.
Sadly, nothing to write home about in particular, I guess.
Who’s got the pinpointer inside the box there?
We’re going to have to get it on that table over.
Let’s go.
Okay, let’s pull it back.
[Music]
[Applause]
Nothing.
Nope.
Nope.
[Music]
We were hoping for a home run.
By that I mean we would come up with a coin or something and say, “Oh, there it is. There’s where the treasure is.
Anything?
No.
No luck.
Sorry, Rick.
No join, but I really like this.
I called it treasure central.
I I am disappointed here.
Yeah, I’m frustrated.
We were very hopeful that the core would retrieve something man-made from those steps.
It’s very troubling.
And I wonder if maybe it’s gone, maybe it’s lost forever.
I mean, uh, that’s possible at this point.
We don’t know.
The fact that we didn’t bullseye the target yet, is that disappointing?
Yes.
I don’t know where the next ones are.
They’re all still hidden around here, right?
Absolutely.
And I mean, we’re not done yet.
We have to find the void.
Nothing fell into this for right now.
That’s the general bottom of this area.
Okay.
On to the next one.
Okay, coming out.
It looks very similar to typical handkillers.
Would this be a possible 1200’s artifact?
Interesting.

At the start of a new day on Oak Island, members of the team begin drilling a new bore hole in the money pit area to continue exploring the murky depths of the solution channel.
As new ground is broken, Marty finds his brother more than 500 ft away at Smith’s Cove.
Hey.
Hey.
You’re looking a little pensive.
Yeah, a little bit.
I happen to come down to Smith’s Cove and I see Rick sitting there and kind of looking out over the water.
He’s looking discouraged.
We were hoping that we’d get a sliver of a coin or a fraction of a piece of gold or something that would absolutely pinpoint where we needed to go.
Well, we didn’t.
It’s nice to take a deep breath once in a while, isn’t it?
Mhm.
Are you disappointed a little bit about the um results so far and drilling in the solution channel?
Are you disappointed?
Yeah, I’m disappointed because I wanted to put, you know, some something of supreme monetary value on the table.
But I think the theory makes sense.
I think it really makes sense.
You know, the early guys find a fault at 90 ft.
Uh and then everything collapses down a little bit.
You know, all kinds of things happen.
Then we know that things fell again.
And we know the money pit collapsed violently.
So it would answer everything.
Yeah.
So I’m probably more hopeful than I’ve ever been because I got something in mind that would explain everything.
The big purpose of the of the deep drilling this year was really come up with a piece of treasure.
But the second part was to define the solution channel to figure out where it is big enough and open enough for this collapse to have occurred.
The second component is coming in nicely.
We’re defining that thing pretty well.
We have a theory that makes sense and is still supported completely by the science that there are precious metals still in the money pit area.
Couple those two things together and it’s still pretty exciting.
You know, I’ve always always believed in the story here certainly and uh I think every year we prove that it’s probably more complex and more difficult than we had imagined.
That’s for sure.
When you get depressed and don’t who gets through this who gets to take hold of a great treasure story and run with it.
Oh, absolutely.
Couple of yupers trying to do a kind of a cool thing.
Yeah, I’ll be honest.
Marty is right.
We are absolutely committed to defining the solution channel as best we can.
My hope is that something can be retrieved in the near term that say, you know, here here we are.
Come get us.
But for right now, I think we should be patient.
Man, we’ve been so blessed with the people we’ve met, the things we’ve experienced, the things we’ve done.
I mean, I could I couldn’t the last years I these last years I couldn’t have asked for anything better.
I really couldn’t.
It’s been a unbelievable quest to decipher what the hell happened.
Let’s go.
Going to find itself.

Later that morning.
[Music]
Good morning, Matthew.
Hello, sir.
Rick, Marty, and other members of the team meet via video conference with Maltese military historian Matthew Bzan to discuss the possible piece of a hand cannon recovered in the swamp.
We very much look forward to your analysis of the item that has been found here and I believe you have the report in front of you that we have done here on the island.
Yes.
Hey.
Hi.
How are you?

In 2024, Brit and members of the team met Matthew in Malta while researching potential ties between Templar related orders and the Oak Island mystery and were stunned by his assessment of a pickaxe that they found deep in the money pit area.
This was a point in Morton for centuries.
Wow.
Now can demonstrate preliminary analysis on the hand cannon.
The team wonders if Matthew can help them determine its origin.
The hand cannon emerged in the 1200s in European culture.
It was used in warfare mostly from the 13th to the 15th at most early 16th century.
Would this be a possible 1200s artifact?
Yes.
Wow.
What I find interesting and strange, however, is the fact that I don’t know exactly how that fits into your sight’s history.
[Music]
Would this be a possible 1200s artifact?
Yes.
that I find quite strange because I don’t know exactly how that fits into your side’s history.
In the war room, Maltese military historian Matthew Bals has just informed the team that the hand cannon found in the swamp could be as much as 800 years old.
It’s interesting, Matthew.
Extremely interesting.
I mean, the likelihood of finding a hand cannon on Oak Island.
It sure seems an unlikely thing to find here.
I will say that.
Exactly.
Do you know, Matthew, would the Portuguese be more likely to use this than the French or is there any sort of correlation there?
In the Italian region, it was used a lot.
France as well.
Spain being an empire used them as well.
So, it was widespread.
However, I did not encounter it in the same time frame in the Americas.
So, that’s what makes it quite curious.
Yeah.
We don’t know if we try to interpret this artifact in a different way.
It might have been used as some sort of um apparatus in order to direct the blast of a gunpowder in a particular way to break rock and mold.
We still use explosives to crack rock till this very day.
You wonder though in a in a confined space like say a tunnel would this be more useful?
It would probably be more efficient than just drilling a hole in the rock.
I’m guessing it’s the old repurposing thing too.
It’s like hey use that.
You know why not?
It’s way probably quicker.
Yeah.
The rock breaking thing is a little interesting to me just thinking of where we found it.
Right.
The swamp.
But when you think of the paved area, there’s so much broken pieces of rock that really have to be fitted and placed.
When we got in the paved area, I said, you know, you almost wanted a quarry somewhere nearby, but if you needed to get certainized rocks to make that perfectly level, you might come with that tool and try to start to blast some rocks up to build your platforms level, right?
Yeah.
Is it possible that the hand cannon was fired at large rocks to break them up for the creation of the potentially 800year-old paved area?
If so, might the hand cannon also be related to the other strange structures on the island, such as the wall on lot 26 or the rock formation that was recently uncovered on lot 5.
We’ve been surprised by just so many things to the swamp as being old.
And here’s another one now that stacks up being way before anything in our history that should be there, right?
So, yeah, it’s pre-Colus.
If this is true, then it shows that people were crossing the Atlantic much earlier than what we thought.
Look, you’ve come a long way and so is Peter.
So is Alex.
But this mounting evidence of something happening here very early.
Where where are you right now?
Me?
Yeah.
You can’t discard evidence that you find uncomfortable.
You can’t discard it.
And there it sits.
So, I think there’s starting to be quite a lot of data that strongly suggests there were Europeans here long before history would suggest they were here.
Yeah.
But it hasn’t been quite proven yet.
Is that fair?
Yeah.
We need the smoking gun.
Go fire.
Fire it.

When people think of a treasure hunt, they think that every day is successful.
Every day is an aha moment.
That’s not true.
But at some point, there will come a moment where you say to yourself, “Yes, it is worth it. And this is why.”
The complexity of the Oak Island story far and away exceeds my thoughts as a young boy when reading it.
This was, as always, really, really interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Matthew, we certainly uh appreciate your time.
Uh this was highly informative.
It’s really quite something.
A very unique find.
whatever I can help.
Thank you very much.
Many thanks.
Very nice to see you again.
Take care.
See you.
Well, we continue to work away then.
So, having said that, I think we all need to get back to work.
Hey, man.
A vast treasure may still lie deep below Oak Island, but once again, through faith and persistence, Rick, Marty, and their team have found new clues that suggest the incredible truth about this 230year-old mystery might be revealed much closer to the surface.
So, as they forge ahead in the murky depths of the Burning Pad, they must never stop looking for what could be hiding in plain sight.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
The metal we’re seeing in the water is in the solution channel.
There’s metal underground that isn’t natural.
We found gold.
We got a signal.
Yeah.
The heck am I doing here?
This right here is a key to navigation, but it might be a key for the alignment of No one’s Cross.
This road goes from the beach.
Just come to the bottom of those channel.
Where are you, little gold coin?
Do you see it?
Come on.
There you go.
[Music]
I’m going to help you
Heat.
Heat.

central.
There’s mounting evidence of something happening here long ago.
Hopefully, some old gold and silver. Look at that. We’ve got a stone structure here.
Somebody piled those stones. So, somebody put this here. Somebody went into some trouble. It could be a 1500’s hand cannon.
Right there. 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 and man-made workings that date to medieval times and a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knight’s Templar. To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery. And according to legis, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
[Applause] [Music] Jerry, bring me up to speed, buddy. Where are we? Okay, we’re on G4.5. Uh, right now we’re down 168 ft below grade. Seems you’re dropping in there quite well. Yeah. Okay.
A new day of excitement and exploration has begun on Oak Island for brothers Rick and Marty Lagginina and their team. As far as our activities in the solution channel, we’re just getting started. We got 168 all the way to 215 in this one.
Steve 212 maybe 212 out here. Yeah. Okay. Today, Lunar are drilling a new bore hole called G4.5 on their strategic grid in the money pit area. The team believes the treasure could have fallen deep below ground here into a water and mud fila known as the solution channel.
There was a great treasure in the money pit, and there still is a great treasure in the money pit. The clues are that there have been collapses in the past and it fell down into the solution channel. I am more optimistic than ever that we are going to find out. All right. Well, this is the neighborhood, guys.
If there was ever anything in the money pit, and I’m becoming a believer that there was with the pit play coin. Yeah.
The team was recently presented with a 14th century silver Portuguese coin possibly connected to a branch of the Knight’s Templar and reportedly found in the money pit by drilling foreman James Pit Plato in 1849.
Now the team hopes to find many more of these coins as they drill in this area.
We’ve made significant discoveries islandwide, but it’s the treasur component that has made this mystery endure for 230 years. We’re all here because we’re solely dedicated to following live stream that is Oak Island. I want to know that last page on the Readers Digest article. I want to know what happened here. What is the story? We’re on track right now to get down into the zone of interest.
Yeah. And how soupy is it so far? cuz you know what I’m looking for. Yeah, there’s now there’s density here.
Uh there’s a little bit of water, but basically there’s more rock and rubble than there is water. We can get into better stuff.
Oh, no question. But we’re just getting started. Okay. I want to find where it’s as unconsolidated as can be where something can easily you can picture it falling right in there. Yeah.
Well, from the human heart, hope springs eternal. And it’s springing right now for I mean this thing should open up. We’ll see this next one. Hopefully, we’ll hear that slushy zone.
Okay, now we wait. Treasure central right here.
As the drilling operation continues in the money pit area.
You know, I’m always happy to be back in the lab because we learned so much here, but particularly invested in this one because the item before us, Billy, Gary, and myself, we found that. And we found it in one of my most favorite places, the swamp.
Rick Lagena and other members of the team join Leard Nevin and Emma Culligan in the Oak Island Lab. We found the item before us in a very interesting place uh right across from the paved area. So, I look forward to uh learning more about it.
Emma and Larry have just finished analyzing a possible fragment of a firearm. found one week ago on the western side of the swamp just a few yards from a paved stone feature uncovered back in 2019 and that the team believes is up to 800 years old. When it first came out, I think it’s some kind of weight and then when it started drying out and you see the way it tapered down, I’m hoping it’s some kind of weapon. Well, it was presented to us as a hand cannon, I guess, which is a precursor to flint locks and match locks and wheel locks. That’s going to make it pretty old, is it not? It It could if that’s what it is, right?
[Music] Dating back to as early as the 12th century, the hand cannon or handgun was invented in China and is considered to be the world’s first true firearm.
By the 14th century, variations on the weapon were developed in the Middle East and Europe until they were replaced by flint lock and musketss and other firearms in the 15th century. [Music] Maybe we talk about the metallurgy first. Sure. Okay. So, it’s always hard to get a swamp artifacts base metal because of all the minerals that kind of really mold with or just embed itself with the um iron or the corrosion. But I did get a few good points. And from that composition, it’s looking fairly clean. Like I’m not seeing a wide range of impurities. I am seeing a natural spike in sulfur content. And that’s a good sign of, you know, 1700s or older because of the minimum impurities. Like it’s not forged and could be European in origin. Yeah. And we should add that by the 1500s those are going out of fashion. Well, is it possible that this hand cannon predates the discovery of the money pit by more than a century? If so, just how old could it be? And who left it here?
Is there a touch hole in them? So, I’ve done a CT scan. Mhm. This thing right here. Oh, that’s a touch hole. You talking about this little hole here? Exactly. A hand cannon had just a little touch hole where you would you would touch it to set off the gunpowder inside and then your projectile would fly out. So, it’s an unusual artifact found in a very unusual area. It’s gorgeous. I have never been so appreciative of the CT scanner as I am right now in this moment. Right.
That is really cool. What are they really? You were right, Gary.
This is something for a firearms expert to weigh in on. So, what other secrets are in the bog? I don’t know. But right now, we’re nowhere near done. I look forward to what else we can learn about. And I’m sure your brother’s going to be happy we’re spending more time in the swamp, especially now.
Oh, major find, Gary. Yeah, we should aim to find more Ring.
I’m gunning for it. [Music] All right, let’s find some treasure. Here we go. I’ll wait till you take a few scoops out. Okay. Following their meeting in the lab. Gary and Billy return to the western region of the swamp along with Derek Couch to search for additional clues. Looks as long, Derek.
One good time. 110.
[Music] Whenever we’ve searched in the swamp, we have come away with some really, really cool old artifacts. But one side of the swamp we haven’t investigated a lot is the western side.
Unfortunately, no, Derek. We’re going to have a really good scan around the area and hopefully we collect a good find today.
Come on, Billy. Bring me a bucket of treasure.
Hey, Gary. What you seeing, Billy? Look at that.
coming out. [Music] So, somebody put this here.
Oh, yeah. What is that? This is interesting. Everyone, what do you see, Billy? Just a snake or a stick? Uh, it looks like it could be a snake.
On the western side of the Oak Island swamp. Yeah, look. Uh, the team has just uncovered new evidence of man-made workings. Look, if there’s a log here. Yep. Can you pry it out?
Yeah. [Music] That’s in there indeed. Do you want to try scooping it? I tried straight back there a little bit, maybe. Cuz it’s in there.
[Music] That’s it. Look, there’s our piece. It was on top of the clay.
Yeah, it’s on top of the clay and it’s looks like it’s peeled, right? The bark is peeled off of it. The two ends are cut and the limbs are cut off of it. So, somebody might have laid it in there for something. Yep. It actually looks like it could be a road cuz there’s a lot of cut wood here and there’s a lot of rocks underneath it in the clay.
Yeah. Is it like a corduroy road? Yeah. A possible corduroy road first designed in Europe during the 11th century. A corduroy road consists of logs that are placed tightly together and used to transport wagons and heavy cargo across marshy environments.
We know that these logs were laid that way. So, someone is coming this way into the swamp. Right. If Gary is correct that this feature is a corduroy roads, just who constructed it when and what could they have been moving into the swamp? We found survey stakes. We found the stone road. We found part of the stone path on the edge of the bog. We have the so-called vault.
There’s more rocks here too, right? Yeah. Perhaps we should follow this new road. My hope is that there is another vault like structure.
Oh yeah. What was that?
Coal. Yeah, we found some coal. Now, this is interesting because the last time we found Cole, it was on that Portuguese stone road on the other side of the swamp.
I’m pretty sure you found some in the stone path, too. Yeah. Yeah. Is it possible that the team has found another clue that might be connected to the stone road uncovered in the southeastern corner of the swamp and which may be of Portuguese origin.
Rick is interested if we find some coal. cuz we’ve been duplicating what happened across the other side of the swamp. Okay. Yeah, it was just here. Let me see if I can find some more. That’s a big piece. Yep. We got some good samples, though.
Yeah, we got that right, mate. Interested to see if that’s cold or charcoal.
As the search in the swamp continues, [Music] several hundred yards to the west on lot five. What’s this exciting thing, Lar? Well, it’s kind of an unusual rock feature, and it appears initially to be circular. It is for sure.
Yeah. Marty joins other team members as they investigate a strange stone feature found one week ago. A feature located in the same area where six ancient Roman coins were discovered in recent years. It could be any number of things.
Yeah. Okay. Well, we’ve seen things like this turn into something very important.
Yeah. I hope this one does. Yeah. Well, I think the first order of business is to clean off the sod, delineate it a little bit more. All right. Well, let’s get after. Give me a trouble. Let’s go.
All right. There you go. Even though doing archaeology is not my strong suit, nor is it something I particularly enjoy. There you go. I’m starting to get a tree.
We have found Roman coins near it.
So, finding any construction where we found the Roman coins almost by definition is going to be interesting.
We have here a bunch of little rocks, pointy little rocks. What is that telling you?
To me, that’s not field clearing. If you’re a farmer, no, you’re not doing that. You’re not plowing that up.
Yeah, that’s way too angular. Yeah, we’ve got this cleaned off, so we’re ready to remove rocks. Excellent. It’s really amazing for me to think about when I first saw L 5 so many years ago and seeing what it’s evolved into right now. Not only how large and unusual the stone structure is, but how unusual a lot of the artifacts we’re finding are, like the beads and the buttons. It’s turned into something mysterious and amazing to us.
That’s all one rock. Yeah. That’s not moving by hand, is it?
No, not even close. And it needs to go. I think it’d be interesting. The soil’s covering it. I found odd. Okay. Well, I’ll go I’ll go grab the backo and see if I can find a way in here. Okay. Okay, good.
The rocks are fragmented. They look like they were put in there intentionally to keep this feature very stable.
It’s going to be a tight fit. When I first saw this feature, I found it very unusual because it was a split stone sitting upright.
[Music] It’s pretty big. It’s lifting the other one up. I haven’t seen anything like the the split stone anywhere else on the island.
So to me, the only explanation is that it’s for marking something or for reference.
It’s just adding another intriguing page to the uh the story of lot 5.
[Music] Okay, it’s out. We’ll have to come in with TRS and just clean it up. Well, these are jumbled up like the rocks. Yep. Yep. Like lot 26. Very similar to the wall, isn’t it? Yeah. Which is pretty cool. All very odd.
Hand cut rocks similar to those found in the rock wall on lot 26. It’s an intriguing observation for several reasons. First, the wall on lot 26, located several hundred yards to the southeast, is much larger than the numerous other stone walls across the island that were constructed by farmers and settlers after the discovery of the money pit.
Second, carbon dating of charcoal found in the wall on lodge 26 suggests it was constructed as early as the 15th century, the rope wall. And third, according to researcher Francisco Nugra, the wall may have a distinct European origin.
This wall appears to be created in the old Portuguese style of building rock fences.
No way. So, somebody put this here. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yep. Is it possible that the same people constructed these two features? It’s worth continuing with our little investigation. And I could have been put there for a reason. Yep. All right, let’s get back out again. Coming out 6 ft in diameter.
6 ft is 72 in. Nolan’s cross is based on the rule of 72. The Templars used the rule of 72. [Music] as a new morning begins on Oak Island.