Curse of Oak Island: BREAKTHROUGH DISCOVERY at Smith’s Cove (Season 7) | History

Started digging, and damned
if we didn’t hit the tunnel.

NARRATOR: One day after
finding a possible tunnel
in the uplands area
of Smith’s Cove,
Marty Lagina is eager to
show his brother, Rick,
and archaeologist Laird
Niven what he believes might
be a breakthrough discovery.

Where is it?
Kind of in line with the wall
we found last year and a little
bit askew of the cave-in pit.
It looks like it’s
well-constructed.
But no record of–
No.
He’ll have to take a look.
It’s right over there.

Hey, guys.

• Hey, Marty.
  MARTY LAGINA: How’s it going?
  Looks good.
  We’re having a good day.
  We’ve got a big timber across
  there and a big round timber
  coming there.
  There’s one main beam
  there, Laird, a big thing.
  A notched piece
  came out of here.
  Kind of in there.

GARY DRAYTON: And that
notched one came when
we took the last scoop out.
LAIRD NIVEN:
Interesting, for sure.
And then, Gary, you said you
saw a cross member back here.

GARY DRAYTON: Yeah, and
it’s a different kind.
It’s more like a
log, kind of similar
to the U-shaped structure lugs.

NARRATOR: A log?
Similar to the
ones used to build
the massive U-shaped structure
uncovered at Smith’s Cove
last year, and which was
scientifically proven to have
been built in 1769, over two
decades before the discovery
of the Money Pit?

Those logs and
the construction
method could be original.
But why speculate?
I think we need to keep digging.
[electronic beeping]
Let’s go.
The timbers are
interesting, for sure.

MARTY LAGINA: It is
suspicious that there’s so
many massive pieces right here.
LAIRD NIVEN: Yeah.
I mean, where did
they come from?
MARTY LAGINA: Where’d
they come from?

Ho!
CHARLES BARKHOUSE: Billy!
Ho!
Halt!

MARTY LAGINA: You got
a big chunk of it.
CHARLES BARKHOUSE:
Yeah, you got a chunk
of it right there, Bill.
LAIRD NIVEN: Yeah.
RICK LAGINA: That’s a big log.
LAIRD NIVEN: That is.
RICK LAGINA: There you go.
Yeah, that’s good.
Just come out.
RICK LAGINA: This
thing is gigantic.

MARTY LAGINA: Hey, Billy?
You can get rid of
that stuff there.
This stuff here?
MARTY LAGINA: There you go.

Smith’s Cove has offered
up a whole bunch of stuff
that we didn’t expect–
structures all over the place.
We’re finding out about
all kinds of things
that we didn’t know were there.

That’s big.
That must be the biggest piece
of wood we’ve seen down here.

MARTY LAGINA: Oh, yeah.
ALEX LAGINA: Other
than the U shape.
MARTY LAGINA: And I think
this is a notch right here.

There’s a lot of data
adding up to support
that a flood tunnel
really exists, and did
exist, here on Oak Island.
And it’s going to be well
worth digging in and around
those to see what we can find.

There’s no doubt about this.
This is a massive project.
We’ll dig that big one
up and see what happens.