The Curse of Oak Island: The One With the Lead Cross (Season 5) | History

A new day begins on Oak Island.
Rick Lagina and metal detection expert Gary Drayton are taking advantage of an all-too-rare moment of free time
to explore an area of Smith’s Cove.

So much work has been done down here between Dan,
Restalls, every company that came out tried to figure out what was going on with the saltwater in the money pit.
I mean, this is an ideal situation, Rick, because obviously it’s low tide.
We got these rock pools, and if anything got washed in and out of here,
it’s gonna get trapped in these rocks.

This is an ideal situation.
So you’re thinking, between the beach and the old copper dams, this is a perfect spot.
Let’s see if we can find something.

When Gary decides he wants to investigate in an area, I defer to him.
He has an incredible amount of experience, and beaches are fascinating.
The intertidal zone may be the ground in Smith’s Cove has been disturbed enough that maybe something has come close to the surface.

What we’ll do, we’ll go up and down in this little area, work our way towards the rock.
Okay, it’s good depth. It’s saying 10 inches.

Whoa!
I see so much.
Oh, Alicia moly!
All right, it’s a cross!
That’s a cross, square.
Oh yeah, right there!
It’s heavy too.
Oh my gosh!
I mean, that is an old, old cross.

A cross located in the same area where the team found French drains at Smith’s Cove.
But how did it get there, and how long did it lie buried?

Gary was extremely excited—more excited than anything he’s ever found on the island.
I mean, this year he’s found coins from the late 1600s,
but those finds pale in comparison to this one in terms of his excitement level.
So I’m excited because Gary’s excited, and that’s the truth of it.

It looks like it’s LED.
Oh, look at that.
Oh, my gosh, that is really old.
Oh, this is the type of thing I’d expect to find in Europe.
When I first saw it, I thought, that looks like a medieval cross.
I mean, you know, I mean, this is all—this is right, don’t ya hear your voice?

But I don’t know how old.
So I would say that it’s somewhere in between 1200 and 1600.

What makes you say that?
Because of just the cuteness of it and the style.
I mean, you don’t normally see this kind of style.

That cross turns out to be between 1200 and 1600.
I’ll become more convinced that something did happen here.
Something significant pre-money pit discovery.

So it’s a big deal for me.
Look, it’s very curious.
It’s singular. There’s no question about that.
It’s all the more reason to follow wherever the search leads,
wherever the information trail leads regarding that cross.

Everybody, but everybody came here looking for treasure.
You come, and you find something possibly even predating original depositors.
That makes it all the more imperative that we try to figure out what that is.

I think it makes it almost a foregone conclusion.
We have to get back out there.
Yeah, that’s right.
Wait a day. That was fantastic.