The Curse of Oak Island: NEW CLUE UNEARTHED NEAR SWAMP (Season 7) | History

It is an early morning on Oak Island. We
left off right about here, yeah. Peter
Fornetti and metal detection expert Gary
Drayton arrived at Lot 32, located
southwest of the Oak Island swamp. So
I’ll go from the water’s edge up to the
top, and we’ll just do it down the middle.
Hopefully, I’ll keep you busy. After
making a series of compelling new
discoveries in the swamp this year,
including a possible paved wharf, a
mysterious circular rock formation at
the so-called “I” of the swamp, and a 200
foot long anomaly revealed by last
year’s seismic scanning, Gary is
convinced that while Rick and Marty wait
for the necessary permits required to
drain and excavate the swamp, the
surrounding area may still yield a
number of important clues.
“There’s something, no… yeah, let’s go for
this money. Okay, have no idea what it is
to hang. Look at that, that’s a nice
little surprise.”
Yeah, it looks like to me with that lip.
“This is a typical deck in spiked with
the lip for trapping the ward. This is
definitely seventeen hundreds, mate.”
This spike reminds me of the one that we found
in the swamp. I mean, this is cool because
we found a similar one in the area three
years ago while metal detecting in the
swamp. Gary Drayton, along with Jack
Begley and Alex Lagina, discovered a
similar object, an object that was later
identified by antiques expert Dr. Laurie
Bertram as a decking spike from a 17th
century Spanish galleon. The spike has
spoken volumes. The spike is called a
burro taste title, which in Spanish just
means iron bar. And a burro taste type
spike would have been similar to a
finishing nail on a Spanish galleon ship.
Could this iron decking spike found near
the swamp be further evidence to support
the theory that the swamp was
artificially created to hide a large
sailing vessel along with the valuables
it contained?
And if so, could it also be related to
the massive ship-shaped anomaly revealed
by seismic scanning earlier this year?
“This is what we want to be finding, ship
spikes. That means there’s been some
ships coming here. If a ship went down in
this area, there’s probably some more.”
“Yeah, it could be. This is fantastic. Nice,
this is what we want to be finding under
the next one.”
But after a great stir…