The Curse of Oak Island: DISCOVERED OAK BEAMS Connect to Money Pit (Season 7) | History

Hey, Rick, you ain’t
going to believe this.
What’s that?
Look how big that is.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
RICK: Wow.
That is huge.
And we find a wooden pegged–
got one here and one there.
That’s several.
Seen the size of that log?
[LAUGHS]
What’s it remind
of you of, though?
RICK: U-shaped structure.
MAN: Exactly.
RICK: Does it stop there?
MAN: Yeah, it stops there.
But you can see where
it’s been cooked.
I wonder if it’s just that.
If we go deeper, I’m
sure it’ll get more.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hey, how you doing?
MAN: Welcome, Terry.
Eric.
Hey.

So it looks like we’ve got
quite a bit of crib work here–
much more extensive
than we had thought.
Does it continue?
Or is it just in and
around the boulders?
We don’t know.
OK.
This is very strange.
You’ve got this massive log.
Then you’ve got this carry log.
And you’ve got a beam
coming across here.
Then you’ve got another beam
there and another carry log.
Wow.
RICK: That is massive.
That’s bigger than the
U-shaped structure log.
MAN: That is very old.
RICK: Steve said that elevation
was 7 feet below sea level.
This is another 3 feet beyond.
And we know that the
deeper you go, this log,
it is possible that this
is much older than this.
MAN: That looks old,
that bottom layer.
And all the rest
has been repurposed.
It’s been built up.
It’s been layered.
Upon visual
inspection only, we
can see that it’s saddle notch.
We can see it’s easily
every bit as large
as the U-shaped structure logs.
But we have to uncover it
because we need to know,
hopefully answer who,
hopefully answer when,
and maybe even possibly what.
[MUSIC PLAYING]

TERRY MATHESON: So
we’re not sure what
we’re looking at here yet.
Rick, what do you think it is?
RICK: I have no idea.

It’s not real sandy clay.
TERRY MATHESON: Yeah,
yeah, very sandy, silty.
It cakes together.
Almost appears as
though this is packed.
Yep.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
RICK: And this could be oak.
NARRATOR: Oak beams
packed with clay?
In 1804, one year before
treasure hunter Daniel McGinnis
and his partners
constructed shaft two,
they excavated
the original money
pit down to the 90-foot level.
At every 10-foot
interval, they discovered
a platform made of oak logs.
But starting at
the 40-foot level,
they found the logs were
packed with dense blue clay
which acted as water sealant.
Could the team have found
evidence that this massive log
structure at Smith Cove could
be connected to the construction
of the original money pit?
It’s certainly a
massive structure.
Whether it’s original
or searcher work,
it’s absolutely phenomenal.
This structure could
be the slipway.
At the very least, the
suspicion is growing
that it’s the slipway and then
the possibility of the wharf
being built on top of it.
I hate to say it,
but I wonder if we
shouldn’t leave this for Laird.
MAN: I was thinking
the same, Rick.
We have got a lot of it exposed.
But we could be missing
something an archaeologist
would spot straight away.
RICK: This is a success.