The Curse of Oak Island: Mysterious Origins of Ancient Ring Confirmed (Season 8) | History

Why don’t we just walk up here, Tom?
I think we can go right over this way,
on lot 13, near the eastern border of the
swamp.
Rick Laguna and members of the team are
joined by fellow Oak Island landowner
Tom Nolan,
the son of the late Fred Nolan. Take a
look.
Wow, it should be interesting, this
revelation, if you will, that this large
stone next to the
old apple tree on the Nolan property
actually has the long sought after ring
bolt. The point of this
is to bring Tom in to look at it and
have him
decide once and for all: Is that the ring
bolt that you saw as a young boy?
And I hope he’ll say yes. Gee, that’s
interesting.
That is one of the original ring bolt
rocks. It is, yep.
Wow, uh, Dad removed the top,
and that’s what’s in the pictures, right?
You can see the original spring bolt was
a little bit thicker. These things have
taken some
you know, time, and weather’s beaten them
down a bit, but that’s one of the
original ones right there. Wow.
With Tom Nolan’s confirmation that they
have discovered the remains of another
iron ring bolt,
first located some 50 years ago by his
father, Fred Nolan,
Rick, Marty, and the team may very well
have confirmed
that not only does the stone pathway
feature extend further into the uplands
of the island,
but that it could be leading them
directly to a major
breakthrough discovery. It’s just, it’s, to
me, very interesting because I can’t even
imagine the amount of work
the original depositor put in and to
what end.
To what end to support something either
high or heavy?
Perfect spot for it, though, you know, if
it is a wrinkle to get you up the hill,
right?
You know, it’ll be a very logical place
for with a block and tackle,
right? If you were tying something up
around here, if this is some sort of a
you know, a loading or an unloading area.
If what you’re doing here, you don’t want
anybody to see,
you bring it all the way in here to the
center of the island.
Who’s going to see it? If they were
digging here, they have a ready source of
cobble.
They could continue the road. Actually, I
think the road is right over there.
Over there, yeah. All the cobbles either
it’s
a turn around to go up here, or it’s some
kind of Y.
I think it’s very preliminary, but Dr.
Spooner does advocate,
perhaps strongly, that the orientation of
the path
is now leading up in this direction,
towards the money pit.
Now you have a ring bolt. Tom has asserted
that is indeed the ring bolt
that he remembers. We need something more
substantial,
but we also need to focus our energies
in a specific area,
and there are enough clues here, small
clues,
that tell us that this is an area worthy
of investigation.
It really seems like if somebody wanted
to put in a road, that then would be
easily hitting.
Well, that’s an eye-opener. That sounds
like clandestine
activity. The question is: Where does it
go?
It is a direct indicator of substantial
human effort here on this island, well
before the money pit.
Well, in order to get to a certainty,
we just have to keep plugging away. Yep.
Well, I should get down and continue.
I’ll head back down.
Head back down.
Great find. Oh yeah, the only thing that
seems certain at this point for Rick,
Marty, Craig, and the members of their
team
is that the more they dig into the Oak
Island mystery,
the more evidence they will find that
something profound happened here
long ago. But if it really does revolve
around
a vast treasure, what would have
justified such painstaking efforts
to hide it, a possible lethal force
to guard it, and a legendary curse
that has claimed six lives so far?
Perhaps the answers will come
by drilling and digging in the money pit,
or
by careful excavation, one cobblestone
at a time.