The Curse of Oak Island: Massive Underground Collapse Leads to GOLD?! (S12)

MARTY: Guys, I’ve asked us
to come here
because this is
kind of the crew that is
planning the well drilling.
And I would just like
to make sure we’re all
on the same page.

NARRATOR:
As a new day
in the quest to solve
a 229-year-old treasure mystery
begins on Oak Island…
Let’s get these
next holes decided.

NARRATOR: …brothers
Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with their partner,
Craig Tester, are meeting
with members of their team
in the Research Center
to discuss their current
search operations
in the legendary Money Pit area.

MARTY:
I’ve been focused very much
on these metals in the water.
After our recent go-around
with the scientists,
they seem to say that
that had the most potential
to be where the metals
are coming from, wasn’t it?
Yeah.

IAN:
The yellow, that’s Fred’s
sort of special
area of interest,
mainly because
that’s where we got
persistent high copper,
lead, zinc and tin.

NARRATOR:
And while their most
recent tests have suggested
that the treasure lies buried
inside of a 2,500-square-foot
region known as the Pie,
Dr. Michel believes
that it is most likely hidden
within a mere 30 by 15-foot
oval-shaped area.
We need a name
for this golden circle,
golden oval, golden ellipse.
All of those are too difficult.
Let’s call it the Golden Egg
from here on out, okay?
-Yep.
-And let’s hope that
that name is prophetic.
-Okay.

MARTY:
We have the Golden Egg,
where most likely
the metals are coming from.
So, we have to drill
a bunch of wells in there,
sufficient to evaluate it.
So, our first well, by the sound
of it, is gonna be EN-13.
So, 13 is covering
-the Baby Blob
and the Golden Egg.

MARTY:
Yep.
-Seems like a good idea.
–SCOTT: Yep.
This is what we need to do.

MARTY:
Okay. This is the year.
Let’s go back.
We’re looking for treasure.

SCOTT:
We’re not gonna find it in here.

MARTY: (laughs)
That’s a good point, Scott.
We’re not.

NARRATOR:
The following morning…

NARRATOR:
It is an intense moment
in the Money Pit area
for Rick Lagina
and members of
the Oak Island team.
We’ll have a good look here now.

NARRATOR:
While drilling borehole EN-13
in the possible treasure zone,
dubbed the Golden Egg…
What do you got, Adam?
-Ninety-nine.
-Ninety-nine feet. Thank you.
…evidence of a possible
structure has been encountered
at a depth of nearly 100 feet.

-How you doing?
-Good.
You felt like
you just caught something?
Well, it was really soft
at the top here.
Felt like it, anyway.
And then, got super stiff.
It is a little soft.
Let’s carve it up.
Most of the intersections
at about
this level get soft.
But it gets
relatively firm here.
But no wood.
And this is… this is
relatively soft material.
We’re in fertile territory.
This looks pretty good, Mike.
So, we could
be close to something.
We’re through
that zone of interest,
but that is
suggesting something–
something might be close.
We could go back.
I’d just move over here.
-TERRY: No problem.
-RICK: Right, and the next hole,
we’re five feet away.
-Yeah.
-So, if there’s
something there,
we should be able
to find it in that hole.

ALEX:
Any utility in
grabbing a sample of the water
for metal testing?

RICK:
I’d like to see
Dr. Spooner take a sample.
All right.
Good luck, guys.
-We’ll see you later, all right?
-TERRY: You bet.

NARRATOR:
Later that afternoon…

NARRATOR:
…Rick Lagina has
arrived in the Money Pit area
after being alerted to
a potentially major development
near the recently drilled
borehole known as EN-13
in the so-called Golden Egg.
A borehole where, one day ago,
the team believes
that they nearly drilled into
a possible man-made structure
approximately
100 feet underground.

IAN:
Right there,
that’s the drill hole EN-13.
And I just sampled FN-13,
in the yellow cone there,
-right under the yellow cone.
-RICK: Yep.
And I was bailing it,
and I thought there was thunder.
Boom, boom, boom.
And, uh, it was coming
out of the-the well.

RICK:
Really?
You’ve never heard
that underground before?
No! No, honest to God.
It was really
quite extraordinary.
It went on for about 30 seconds.

RICK:
What do you make of that?

IAN:
My thought is that when
they were drilling EN-13 there,
we know they were
in soft ground,
-that they’re near something.
-Mm-hmm.
And now it’s moving around
air within it.
The implication being there’s
something open down there?
Yes. This thing’s collapsing.
So, to collapse, it means
there has to be a void.
Dr. Spooner revealed
he heard some sort of collapse
underground.
I never heard anyone talk
of that before, so,
might there be a chance here
to-to discover the treasure
once and for all? Sure.
There’s all of these clues
that strongly suggest
this area holds
significant interest.
So, I think
something’s going on here.
-Something’s going on here.
-All the chemistry has
-kind of pointed to that.
-Yeah.
So, you know, here’s…
here’s one example.
If you hold it up to the sun,
you can see the discoloration
in it, the yellow color.
-Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
-Yeah, that wasn’t there
beforehand.
-You just took a sample?
-Yeah.
-After that?
-Yes.
The darker water can indicate
-we’re closer to, uh, wood,
a source of wood.
-Oh.
So, I’m very interested
’cause we have not seen this
-at this well before.
-Hmm.
And if that’s the case, then
we’ve moved something around.
There’s some, almost a direct
connection from something.
Yes.

IAN:
I think
the underground collapse
probably means that we’re in
and around an open chamber.
So, what we think is that
this event moved water
from a tunnel or a shaft,
and all of this is critical
to understanding where
the metals are coming from.
So, it’s a good place to have
a very strange event occur.

IAN:
Yes. Hopefully we’ll just…
we’ll drill there,
we’ll hit it,
and we’ll actually hit something
that can help us
explain the metals.

RICK:
Okay. Well,
thank you for the update.
-Yup.
-We need
to keep our wits about us.

IAN:
Yup.

NARRATOR:
The next morning…
Following the discovery
of another Roman coin–
which the team believes
may be connected
to descendants of Vikings–
Doug and Emiliano have a new
and potentially important
development to discuss.

We learned that by 875 AD,
the Norse had reached Iceland,
and by 985 AD,
they had reached Greenland.
But what’s more intriguing is,
the only known Viking settlement
on the North American continent,
the L’Anse aux Meadows site
in Newfoundland,
was, uh, active in 1021 AD.
Seems like
that’s our next destination.

NARRATOR:
Located in modern-day
Newfoundland, Canada,
approximately 625 miles
northeast of Oak Island,
L’Anse aux Meadows
is a Viking settlement
that was established
more than 1,000 years ago,
and has been designated
by the Canadian government
as a National Historic Site.
Today, it is the only
officially-recognized
Viking settlement
in North America.

RICK:
The descendants
of Vikings are very important
to understanding
how an old-world treasure
might have come to Oak Island.
I believe they were integral
to the ability
of someone or someones
to come across
the North Atlantic
to the Maritimes
and do this work on Oak Island.

Are we going to bring the things
that we suspect possibly
Are we going to bring the things
that we suspect possibly
could be related
to the Vikings’ descendants?
We-we can certainly
get permission to do that.
-What about the arrowhead?
-Absolutely.

MARTY:
Right. So,
when did they discover
L’Anse aux Meadows?
-In the 1960s.
-MARTY: Yeah. Okay.
-In the 1960s.
-MARTY: Yeah. Okay.
So, if that one was hidden
until 1960,
-why would it be the only one?
-EMILIANO: Yeah.
-Yeah.
-DOUG: Well, this is another
mystery, and this is why
I think maybe, since we have
found other things on the island
of possible Scandinavian origin,
this could be indications
of prolonged activity
-by descendants of the Vikings
or the Templars.
-Yeah.

DOUG:
Maybe they came down
from L’Anse aux Meadows
in Newfoundland
to hide something,
-and I think that’s what
brought ’em to Oak Island.
-Yeah.
-and I think that’s what
brought ’em to Oak Island.
-Yeah.

MARTY:
If something happened
in the 1200s here,
it almost has
to have a component
of the Vikings’ descendants.
Based on everything we know
right now, it almost has to.
Um, there weren’t
a lot of other people
who knew about this place then.
It’s entirely possible
that they could have brought
the Knights Templar
or anybody else to Oak Island
for purposes
of depositing something.
So, I want to just chase that.
I think
we should mount an expedition.
-I-I…
-I really do.
I want to go this time.
I totally agree. There’s…
There’s always something
to learn.
-Yes.

MARTY:
Yeah.
You know, we just found
another Roman coin on Lot 5.
My suggestion would be,
go to L’Anse aux Meadows
and see what you can find.
-Absolutely.
-RICK: I can stay,
hold down the fort here. I mean,
we’ll get a full lowdown
of what happens there,
and new perspective, new insight
is always a-a big thing.
-Yeah, I’m in.
-MARTY: I’m in!
We will give you a full report.
-Right, guys?
-EMILIANO: Yeah.
-Yeah.
-Yes. Okay. Let’s go.
-Yeah? I’m good.
-MARTY: Let’s make it happen.
-DOUG: See you, gentlemen.
RICK:
Bon voyage.