The Curse of Oak Island: A Big Find Points to the Money Pit (Season 5) | History

As a new day dawns on Oak Island, the team is about to scan for hole A,
where they have not only found two fragments of bone but also bits of paper,
similar to the one found in the so-called Chappell vault more than a century ago.
The team is scheduled for geophysicist Mike Quest from Gem Tech Limited
to run a dual induction device down the recently drilled bore holes
to see if he can find evidence that a massive treasure vault could be buried in its vicinity.

This is a debris field we’re looking for.
Yep, and then we’re looking for a vault.
It’s down around 150 feet. Let’s rig up now to conduct the dual induction process.

Mike will first lower a probe down to the bottom of each of the six-inch wide PVC lined bore holes.
As he then slowly raises it back up to the surface, it emits an electromagnetic field two feet in diameter
that will scan the ground surrounding the borehole, taking readings every two inches.
The electromagnetic field will register a hit whenever it comes into contact with or senses a nearby conductive object.

The dual induction log is an inferential tool. It doesn’t identify gold doubloons;
it identifies conductivity. But if there’s a vault, and if there were metal and pieces in there,
the graph would spike outwards.

God, just got down to the bottom of H8.
Oh, good. This is depth here in meters to the bottom of the course because this is 200.
Yep, get started. They stand out well, and our geotech grid is H8.
I’m really intrigued by it.
We have pottery way too deep for any searchers to have placed it there.
We have odd bones that came out of that hole, and now we need to see what’s there.

Ian, reading?
Yeah, picking something else up right here.
What do you make of that? See where it finishes.
It’s a pretty good upswing. They’re pretty quick.

That’s at 160 feet where we first even started picking up the actual anomalies.
Probably the spike on the graph registering above the 160-foot mark
indicates the likelihood of a large metal anomaly near borehole H8,
which would put it very near the vault.

You mean that this hit corresponds with where the vault’s supposed to be at?
Very close, yeah.
Well, it is the Chappell vault, isn’t it?
I mean, I don’t know that’s the Chappell vault, but that’s where it should be,
at the depth range it should be in.

Well, I hope so. In one hole, we got evidence of something at the Chappell vault level.
We got pottery where it can’t be—way too deep.
Yep, and we got oddball stuff, dad, wood.

It’s the money pit.
The money pit.
The original treasure shaft, first discovered in 1795 and then lost after a cave-in more than 100 years ago.
What I’m trying to say is this just went to target number one.
If we dig a bigger hole, yeah, my eyes, there’s some big chunk of metal there.
There’s definitely something out of the ordinary.

Can the Chappell vault and the Oak Island treasure be one and the same?
And how did Guinness and their partners finally find it at last?

Well, I’m gonna go tell Rick.
Okay, good. In H8, there is definitely an anomaly at about 44 meters,
right where Ivan said he thought he was going past something.
Right where the chamber should be. Right where Chappell would have drilled it.
So that’s pretty exciting because why do the other ones aren’t showing anything like that?

If we had to sink a large case on right now, you’d pick H8.
That’s where I would dig too, this year.
Yeah.
Me, Rick, I think we found the money pit.
That’s where it is coming from.
You?

That’s a pretty—
I know there was a money pit, Rick.
I never doubted there was a money pit.
When I hear from my brother saying we found the money pit,
I mean, he describes himself as the skeptic in chief, and the skeptic in chief is just pronounced that we found the money pit.

Look, I’m not gonna come this far and quit.
They found the money pit for sure, and then they quit.
You know, we’ve spent years together doing this, and you know, our families are involved.
Our nephews, you know, his son Craig’s sons in that moment,
and my thoughts go to all the people that have come in for us all.

All right, so that’s it. That’s your report.
Okay, so…
Get well.
Yeah, thank you. See you in the morning, H8.
H8 it is. We found the money pit.