The Curse of Oak Island: 3 AMAZING Finds From Season 10!

• Here we go.
• Whoa.
• There’s a timber there.
• Yep.

[narrator]
Deep, underground structures…
Got to be close to a tunnel
or chamber.
Drill’s going in now.

[man 1]
Hold it.
They hit something at 11 feet.
That could be
where the treasure’s hiding.

[narrator]
…with mysterious origins…
This is a tunnel
and it goes by the garden shaft.
It’s a coin, mate!

[narrator]
…ancient artifacts
with priceless
historical value…

[man 2]
The style is definitely
from 300 B.C.
No way!

[narrator]
…and stunning evidence…
I detected… gold.

• Wow.
• This is huge.

[narrator]
…of a legendary treasure.
Well, there you go, guys.
[chuckles]
Well, acorns, believe it or not,
we are just days away
from the season 11 premiere
of The Curse of Oak Island.
And when that day dawns,
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina
and their team
will be back,
attempting to finally solve
the 228-year-old
treasure mystery.
Can they do it?
Well, based on what they’ve
unearthed during season 10,
I’d say their chances
are pretty golden.

So tonight, we’re reliving
the most compelling discoveries
made this past year
that seem to suggest
the ultimate answers
people have sought
for more than two centuries
may finally be within reach.

Number three:
The lot 5 barter token.

Hello, mate.
Ready to dig some history up?
[Jack] Always.

[narrator]
Several weeks after Rick and Gary
went “Roman” around lot 5,
Gary returned with Jack Begley
and conducted a search near
a mysterious stone depression
that, incredibly,
has a 13-foot diameter,
just like
the reported description
of the original money pit.

[dramatic music plays, fades]

• [Gary] Okay, mate.
• [detector beeping]
  [Jack] It’s still in there.
  [tense music playing]
  [Gary] Try and find it.
  [detector beeping]
  [rapid beeping]
  It’s in my hand.
  Let’s see what we got.
• [rapid beeping]
• [tense music playing]
• That looks like an old coin.
• Yeah, you see that?
  That nice and round shape?
  Please, please, please
  be a coin.
• I think it is.
• Gonna pull it out.
  Look how round it is.
  [whispers] Oh, wow.
  Oh!
  It’s lead!

[narrator]
A lead barter token,
to be exact.
But unlike the barter token
found earlier in the year
on lot 7,
this one could be submitted
for a specialized form
of lead analysis.

[Rick]
Dr. McFarlane.
I know you did, uh,
ablation on this.
Yeah, this was a pretty easy
object to ablate
’cause it was flat.
You know, which is good.

[narrator]
Chemist, Dr. Chris McFarlane,
conducted laser ablation
on the artifact.
This process begins
by using a high-powered laser
to collect microscopic samples
from lead objects.
These samples
are then analyzed
for isotope values
which can actually
help determine
not only the age
of the artifacts
but also the geographic region
where they originated.

The biggest result is that,
isotopically,
it looks very similar to…

[tense music playing]
…the cross.

No way!
Well, I wasn’t expecting that.
Uh, I was expecting that.
[laughs]

[narrator]
The lot 5 barter
token was a near match
to the lead cross
that was discovered
by Rick and Gary
as Smith’s Cove
back in 2017.
This means that both originated
during the 14th century
and in a region
of Southern France
that once served
as a stronghold
for the Knights Templar.

And incidentally,
that cross design
was also identical to
a man-made cave system
in Osimo, Italy
that Rick and members
of the team visited
in 2022.
Caves that were used by members
of the Knights Templar
between the 12th
and 14th centuries
and in a region that was
also once part
of the Roman Empire.

[Rick]
What’s really intriguing
too is,
we’ve looked for representations
of the cross
and we’ve only seen one in
a very early cave system
in Osimo, Italy,
and one on the walls
of Domme Prison in France
where the Templars
were imprisoned.
Mm-hm.

[Rick]
Now that this scalloped disc
is a friend of the cross,
I mean, one could,
on some level,
associate the two.
Yeah.

[Marty]
That is a head-scratcher.
And another
very significant thing
that could tie
the Templars here
is if we find the why,
all those other Ws
are gonna fall right into place.

[dramatic music playing]

[narrator]
Number two:
The tunnel
in the baby blob.

All right. This is gonna be 98.
More competent material there.

[Terry]
It’s firming up, eh?

• Hold on. We got wood.
• Wow.
  That’s inter–
  Wow, that’s incredible.
  We had firm, in place material
  above that point.
  Now we have structure.

[narrator]
Early in the year,
while drilling a bore hole
known as DN12.5
in the money pit area,
the team was amazed
when they encountered
a believed tunnel
some 95 feet deep
in the zone that would
later be identified
as the baby blob.
The question was,
just where did it lead?

Down to 99.
Okay.

[narrator]
After several more
weeks of exploratory drilling,
upon reaching that same depth
of 95 feet
in a bore hole called DN13.5…

We’ve got wood.

• Got the wood?
• Yep.

[narrator]
…they finally
found the answer.
Right here. Oh, look at that.
Same wood contact,
eight inches here.

[Terry]
Okay, wow. You got a
pretty good chunk of wood here.
Yeah, it’s fairly firm there.
And above…
uh, it’s relatively firm.
Undisturbed material
and relatively firm below.
This is where we are
at DN13.5.

[Terry]
This is
really, really interesting.
Uh, this looks like
the continuation
of this tunnel we had here,
at DN12.5.
Now we’re over here at DN13.5.
Five feet further to the west.
We’re starting to get a really
good east-west alignment
back towards the garden shaft.
Yeah, to me, this is the tunnel,
which it looks like,
and it goes by the garden shaft,
or under it.

• Yeah.
• [Rick] It’s exciting.
  It’s wood at an elevation
  that indicates human beings
  were at that level
  doing some enterprise.
  It’s not confirmation,
  but it certainly
  is somewhat supportive
  that it is indeed a tunnel.

[narrator]
The team had found
a previously unknown tunnel
that passed right through
the so-called treasure zone
which appeared to be heading
right toward the garden shaft.

Okay, that would be probably
the outside wall there

[narrator]
First uncovered in 2017
while the team was looking
for the original money pit,
Rick, Marty, and Craig Tester
believed this feature
was nothing more than
an abandoned
19th-century searcher shaft
due to the fact that it was
only 82 feet deep.

[Ian]
We’ve sampled wells
in the money pit area
and we do have some
chemistry back.
We did do a series of
measurements of water levels
near the garden shaft,
uh, heading south.
So we’re seeing
a general flow direction
that is sort of from
the north of the site
toward the south of the site.
We scooped up two samples
in the garden shaft,
sent those away,
and we found, uh,
gold in, uh,
the garden shaft.

[laughter]

[Marty]
It was everything
I hoped for.
It seems like we’re
on the right quest.
I think these analyses and
chasing this gold in the water
is gonna lead us
to the treasure.

[narrator]
However,
after Doctors Spooner
and Michel
announced
at the beginning of season 10
that gold had been detected in
the water flooding the shaft,
the team commissioned
representatives
from Dumas Contracting Ltd,
to reconstruct it
all the way down to the bottom
82 feet underground
so that they could personally
explore it themselves.

The quest is exciting
right now.
Things coalesce around
that garden shaft.
There’s some evidence
there’s a manmade structure
a hundred feet
below the surface right there.
Rehabbing the garden shaft
will be a big deal
in the story of Oak Island.
I’m hoping Dumas
is gonna get us underground,
and I think it could
yield answers.

[Rick]
For the first time,
we’re gonna go underground
to the money pit.
That, in and of itself,
is pretty cool.
But we’re here
to solve the mystery,
and the hope is that
when we go down in the shaft,
our senses will be more attuned
to the possibilities
of what the shaft represents
in terms of furthering our
understanding in the money pit.

[dramatic music playing]

[narrator]
Number one:
A treasured hit
in the garden shaft.

[Rick]
Something’s binding it up.

• [Scott] Oh yeah.
• Yeah.
  Wood would do that.

[narrator]
On their final day
of search operations
before the onset
of winter last year,
Rick, Marty, Craig,
and the team
found themselves on the verge
of a potentially historic
breakthrough discovery.

I’d like to pull the bits
and see what’s down there.
What do you guys think?
I’d do it before
we run outta time.

• Okay.
• Yeah, it’s a good idea.

[narrator]
While conducting
a probe drilling operation
at the bottom of the
82-foot-deep garden shaft,
representatives from
Dumas Contracting Ltd
encountered a wooden structure
some 92 feet deep
that they could not penetrate.

[Scott] 10-4.
Oak Island doesn’t give up
her secrets very easy.

• No.
• No, she does not.

[narrator]
The question now was,
could this be
the believed tunnel
that led straight
into the baby blob
where the highest traces
of gold had been detected
earlier in the season?

• Hello, gentlemen.
• Hey, Rodney.
• Whatcha got, Rodney?
• Bags of goods.
  Any sign of any wood in it?
  Nothing big.
  Let me ask. You were
  pretty sure you were on wood.
  Are you still pretty sure?
  I’m like 99.9% sure
  I hit wood on the north side.

[suspenseful music playing]

Rick, you and I
gotta go down there.
We haven’t explored the bottom
yet to see where the tunnel is.

• Mm-hm.
• So let’s get suited up.
  I wanna go down in that shaft.

[Rick]
We built the shaft
so we could investigate.
So of course Marty and I
are gonna go down.
Maybe, just maybe,
we’ll see something
that’s gone unnoticed.

[narrator]
Determined they were
not going to leave the island
without trying to figure out
what could be down there,
Rick and Marty
personally made their way
to the bottom of the shaft
to investigate.

[Rick]
You know,
this is where things would fall,
and all Gary always says,
“Things fall to
the lowest point,” right?
If there’s anything to be
found in this shaft,
it might be there,
I think it’s worth running
a metal detector.
Yes. But also, what if we’re
five feet above something?

• He might be able to detect it.
• Yeah.

With the literally
few moments we have left
is to get Gary to try
and metal detect.

• What do you think, Gary?
• [Gary] Oh-ho-ho, wow.
• Huh?
• What a ride.
  [laughter]

We could be close
to the actual treasure.

• We gotta move that board.
• I’m coming.
• Let’s you and I do that.
• After all the traces of gold
  that had been detected
  around the garden shaft,
  it was time for Gary Drayton
  to see what he could find
  directly underneath it.

[Marty]
There’s a hole.
It’s two feet deep.
Okay. Well, where there’s muck
there’s treasure, mate.
We’ll see what’s
down there, mate.
All right.
Extend it a little bit.

[dramatic music playing]

Right.
[detector beeping]
[beeping]
Woo!
That’s the best-soundin’ target!
That’s a non-ferrous, yeah.

• [Marty] Really?
• [Gary] Yep.
• Oh my goodness.
• You gotta be kidding me.

[Rick]
Screamin’ large hit,
isn’t it?
[Gary] Yeah.
That sounded really good.
We know where the hits are.
This is important.
The level of excitement when he
describes the non-ferrous hit,
it’s through the roof.
And that’s why
it’s so frustrating
not to go after this target,
but we’re at the end
of the year.
I wish there was more time.
Gary, you’re the man.
You’re the man.

[Gary]
Man!
That was so much fun.
Oh!
[chuckles]