The Curse of Oak Island: Gary Uncovers a HISTORIC FIND on Lot 8 (Season 9)

There we are mate, metal detection expert Gary Drayton and treasure hunter Michael John arrive on Lot 8 located on the western Drumlin of Oak Island.

Once you find a large group of potentially good finds like this, it’s like, “What are they doing here?” So this is like a Central Area.

Yeah, that’s right. Exactly, yeah.

In addition to The Money Pit and the swamp, Lot 8 has now become a potentially critical zone of interest for the team due to a number of recent discoveries and developments.

These include a large metallic anomaly detected by ground-penetrating radar some 20 feet deep, just a big layer of rocks right across this whole area.

This looks clearly man-made: a mysterious stone-paved feature and large boulder proving to represent evidence of previous human activity, and a semi-precious Garnet gemstone. A gemstone that 32nd-degree Freemason Scott Clark believes could be connected to the Knights Templar and one of the most sought-after missing holy relics in human history—the Ark of the Covenant.

Okay mate, you ready?

Yep, let’s get stuck in.

Now, while Rick, Marty, and Craig await a government permit to conduct a large-scale excavation to determine just what the mysterious buried anomaly could be, Gary and Michael are hoping to find any clues to help verify if Scott Clark’s incredible theory could be true.

It might. This is the first target. Let’s see what this baby sounds like.

Oh, look, that sounds fantastic, mate. That’s what I like to hear, mate. That is the sound of history being uncovered in a few minutes. Alrighty.

Foreign [Music]

That looks like an old oval chain link. Yeah, the old chain links were always oval; the newer chain links are round. And if you notice the irregularity of it, yeah, it’s a very crude chain link. Definitely not factory-made.

Oh no. Whenever you need a chain, that means you’ve been hauling something. And you never know, maybe there was a chain around a chest or an old box.

Could Gary Drayton be correct that this piece of chain may have once been used to transport a large chest? If so, who left it on Lot 8? And could it be connected to the large metallic anomaly that the team hopes to excavate as soon as they can obtain a permit?

This is fantastic. What was the chain doing out in the middle of nowhere? Because this is that and the bonus even for Oak Island. Yeah.

Alright mate, put that flag back in. Let’s keep rolling, mate. A good sign that we’re in an area where people were. There’s got to be other stuff in the area. But no doubt, the next flag is down here, mate.

Let’s see what this one sounds like. Bit jumpy. I suspect this is iron.

Okay, well, definitely a biggish target. Nice and deep. Yeah, just—yeah.

There we go, there we go! Another excellent sign, mate. Yeah, a big old horseshoe.

Just by looking at it like that, what I can tell you, mate, is it’s kind of out of place just here, out in the middle of nowhere, mate, and I don’t believe this was farmland. I don’t think it’s right. I don’t know. And I’m happy that we’ve found an option in this area.

Me too. They were definitely hauling something here because we got the options, we got the oval chain. That’s the mystery, isn’t it? Yep.

A large oxen shoe discovered near a piece of chain where the team has also detected a large metal anomaly buried some 20 feet underground.

Wow, this ox shoe was very deep, and it’s in great condition. Whoever was hauling in this area was hauling something big, because this ox shoe was on a big beast of burden.

Over the past two years, the Oak Island team has discovered numerous ancient stone pathways along with ox shoes and other evidence suggesting large operations to haul cargo onto and across the island.

Previously, the most compelling of these was found between the triangle-shaped swamp and The Money Pit.

Have Gary and Michael now found more evidence of a similar operation on Lot 8? And if so, could it possibly support Scott Clark’s theory that the Knights Templar hid priceless religious artifacts on Oak Island centuries ago?

What are those artifacts doing out here in the middle of nowhere? We’re right in the middle of the island.

I’m telling you, mate, we are onto something here. All signs lead to activity, and something happened here, you know? Exactly. In this area.

Someone spent a lot of time out here. Now, whether they were passing through from one shore to the other shore, the artifacts tell the story of the site.

Yeah, this might be the missing link telling us that we’re on to treasure in this area.

Yeah. Okay, mate, let’s keep rolling.