Rick Lagina: “We Made A Shocking DIscovery In The New Borehole”

If this is a tunnel and we confirm it with this today’s drilling, first thing I want to do is run a tape. Where’s the money pit? We got some wood here, Terry.
What’s the approximate depth? That’s 78. What do you want to call it? 75. Call it 75.

The ground on Oak Island has held its secrets tight for centuries. Now it’s starting to talk.
Rick, Lagina, and the team just made a shocking discovery in a new borehole, finding a strange man-made structure deep beneath the surface. Experts are buzzing, suggesting it could be medieval.
This changes everything, and a massive dig is already being planned down the rabbit hole.

You see, for years, decades, even centuries, people have been digging on Oak Island, searching for a treasure that’s become the stuff of legend. The Lagina brothers, Rick and Marty, have poured their lives and fortunes into this quest, following clues that have twisted and turned, leading them all over this mysterious little island in Nova Scotia.
But truth be told, nothing could have prepared them for what they just found.

The team decided to drill in a new location, a spot designated as borehole D05 and 27, right near the well-known garden shaft. Everyone was holding their breath as they always do.
Then at just 11 ft down, the drill hit something solid. It wasn’t rock. It was wood. Old waterlogged pieces of wood started coming up, which is always a sign that humans were here long ago.
“Hold the phone, boys. That looked like wood there. Now we got wood. If this comes up with all wood, it’s the long-sought-for, long-elusive six.”
Right.

But as the drill went deeper, a much stranger picture began to form. At the bottom, they found evidence of a bizarre rectangular structure. This wasn’t just a random post or a piece of a forgotten shed. This was something built with a purpose.

The air on the island grew thick with excitement—and a little bit of fear. Some of the early expert opinions floating around suggested the wood could be from as far back as the medieval period.
Can you believe that? Medieval.

Because of this one borehole, a massive full-scale excavation is now being planned for the area known as Lot Five. Every time they dig, a new piece of the puzzle clicks into place. And that’s what keeps Rick, Marty, and the entire crew going.

The biggest question on everyone’s mind is whether these clues will finally lead them to the legendary treasure tunnel.
But what they pulled from the depths of that hole was far more complex than just a few pieces of wood—and it pointed to something much, much bigger hiding just out of sight.

The team’s excitement was off the charts.
As the drilling at borehole D05 and 27 pushed deeper, more and more wood fragments were brought to the surface from different depths.
“Oh, goody. Wood, I think so. All right, take the bit right over. Bring it on over. That’s uh 83 or 93, sorry. 93. 93.”
Wow.

This wasn’t just a single layer. It was a repeated pattern—a sure sign of a significant man-made construction buried deep underground.

Rick Lagina, ever the thoughtful leader of the fellowship, couldn’t hide his intense focus. He firmly believed that finding this much wood at these depths could only mean one thing: they were on top of a tunnel or a collapsed structure built by human hands hundreds of years ago. You could see the hope in his eyes.
This was the kind of evidence he’d been dreaming of since he first read about the island as a boy.

His brother, Marty Lagina, who is often the more skeptical of the two, seemed genuinely thrilled by this development. He pointed out that these are the exact kinds of clues that bring them closer to understanding the real untold history of Oak Island.

Meanwhile, the team’s geologist, Dr. Ian Spooner, immediately got to work studying the wood samples. His job was critical: figure out how old the wood is and what type of trees it came from. This information could pinpoint a time period and maybe even a country of origin.

Seeing the potential, metal detection expert Gary Drayton urged them to widen the search area. He had a hunch that this structure was just one small part of a much larger hidden complex nearby.

For the team, this new discovery wasn’t just another find—it was a burst of renewed hope, a powerful sign that they were on the right path.
It felt like they were finally about to uncover the secret Oak Island has been guarding so fiercely for all these years.

The evidence was piling up, but to get to the truth, they knew they would have to change their entire approach to the dig.

This time, the preparations for digging on Oak Island felt different—more urgent. The focus was locked on the garden shaft area where they now suspected a tunnel lies about 100 ft below the surface.

And get this: many on the team believe this isn’t just any tunnel.
It could be the main artery leading directly to the treasure vault.

The Duma Mining Company, which has worked with the team before, was brought back in—but this time with better resources and all the necessary permissions to go deeper than ever before.
Their mission was crystal clear: excavate at least 98 ft down from the garden shaft to finally reach the tunnel that might explain the tantalizing metal signals Gary Drayton found way back in the first season.

The team was hoping this summer season would be their big break, a chance to make up for lost time after the harsh winter forced them to stop.
But here’s where things get really interesting.

They decided to change their digging method. Instead of just drilling straight down, the team is now planning to dig sideways—a technique called lateral tunneling.
The whole idea is to explore the area around and underneath the main shaft.

Why?
Because there might be a secret room or an offset chamber that previous searchers missed entirely.

Their ultimate target for this new sideways tunnel is a location they’ve named the Baby Blob—a spot where scientific data has shown a high likelihood of something big and possibly valuable is hidden.

Although it will take a few weeks to get the lateral dig started, just seeing the initial preparations made it obvious that the team’s enthusiasm was at an all-time high.

This wasn’t just digging anymore—it was a full-blown underground investigation.

And while the heavy machinery was being set up at the garden shaft, a parallel investigation over on Lot 5 was about to deliver another shocking twist to the story.