The Curse of Oak Island: Mysterious Digging Tool Exposes New Finds (Season 8) | History

What we got here, mate? Oh, a nice old pen. Look at that, that’s great. Yeah, that’s all while investigating the mysterious stone pathway in the southeastern corner of the Oak Island swamp.

Metal detection expert Gary Drayton and Jack Begley have just made a potentially significant discovery.

Does that have a hole in it?

Yes. Oh man, that is cool. It’s been punched through, that hasn’t been drilled, it’s been punched through because you see round on that side, an oval on that side. That is some kind of speciality tool. It’s like a… wow. Yeah, it’s like a plum bob. Yeah, because you’d have something like that if you were digging shafts, and I believe you’re talking 16th-1700s easy with that one.

A plum bob, and possibly four centuries old, dating back to the time of ancient Egypt, is a leveling tool used to ensure that structures, such as wooden shafts or stone buildings, are both vertically straight and properly centered during their construction.

Could it be that Gary and Jack have just found another key piece of evidence of man-made workings on Oak Island prior to the discovery of the money pit in 1795? If so, is it connected to the mysterious stone structure that the team has just uncovered, or something else hidden in the swamp that they have yet to find?

It is really, really cool. It’d be interesting to see what Carmen Legg thinks of this. Yeah, Rick’s gotta see this. Rick, come here, get your eyes on this, mate! Hang on, tell us what you think this is.

I wish I could tell you with any purpose. It was filled in when we first found it. I was thinking a really old spike. Oh, there it is! Oh, it’s heavy, mate, you feel that? Look at that hole, that’s been punched through the top, mate.

Yeah, and if that’s a plum bob, it’s more evidence that they were digging shafts and tunnels. Yeah, perfect plum bob. I agree with that, because you’d need a tool like that to be able to measure and not only just make sure your shaft was straight, but get a proper measurement of depth. Yeah, that’s very cool.

It’s crazy, who knows? You know, when you find a plum bob, there might be a shaft in this area or some kind of tunnel. It’s a window in the time. It is, it really is.

Carmen can put a use to it and maybe a date to it. You know, that’ll tell a tale. We need certainly to take a hard look at that. I mean, if you’re going to drive a shaft, you certainly need a plum bob. You know, it’s very plausible. It’s enticing. It’s interesting.

What it says is, there are answers in that swamp, and we need to get to the bottom of it. Whatever it is, it’s bloody… oh, this is beautiful.

I still think there’s something else in association with that, but we gotta find it. Okay, we gotta get to the bottom of it.

You gotta get to the bottom of it. Good job, good luck. Oh, we’ll find some more!