The Curse of Oak Island: A Significant Find at Site S6 | History

It is the start of another day on Oak Island.
Okay, to the center of pins.
I’m good.
I’m good.
Okay, hold it right there.
What do you got?
I got 20 feet. I’m 20 feet to the center, to the pin.
Okay, good.
And in spite of the harsh fall weather, Rick Lagina and members of the team are more determined than ever to locate the original money pit.
We’ll confirm the data is correct, and then we’re off to the races.

This site, dubbed S6, has been named after Shaft 6, the 19th-century searcher tunnel, which, if they can reach it, should lead directly to the original treasure vault.
This is what we’re looking at, folks.
If we’re right about this being the money pit, we’d expect a tunnel to come in from this direction, in this direction, and this way historically.
Right?
Right.
So that’s good.
This should intersect either this way or we’re going this way, which is good.
It’s a significant area of interest, and I hope that that can right there will provide us with answers.
Finally, I love everybody’s enthusiasm.
I love the fact that we all can—Kirk, let’s get after it.

Yeah.

Using a massive 220-ton crane, the team from Irving Equipment Limited will now move a 35-ton bridge into position over the S6 dig site.
Just a little bit.
Once in place, it will serve as a stabilizing platform for the rotating oscillator, which will drive a 60-inch wide steel case down to its target depth of approximately 118 feet deep underground.

We’re about to begin on probably the most important excavation on Oak Island this year.
To me, the archival record of Shaft 6, the tunnel, the idea of coming across, coming up underneath the money pit—that collapse, the men run for their lives—all of that, to me, reads real.
We think we’ve focused in on the most likely spot in the money pit to find some actual treasure.
I find myself strangely excited about today anyway.
You know, I just really want it to happen.
The answers are there, so just wait and see what comes up.

Yeah, Doug, take a look at this.
It’s a lot of wood, carry, and look, look, look, look at the flat surface there.
That’s more like something we’d be looking for.
Team, Hugh, once it’s nice and flat too, right?
But that’s definitely hand-axe-cut wood found at a depth of 110 feet in S6.
What does that mean?
Or beyond the funnel, could the team have already reached the bottom of the Shaft 6 tunnel?
Or could this be evidence of something much older?

So, more than coming up, one of those ones?
Yeah, that’s what I wanted to see.
Well, getting up very, very large chunks of tilled… and the boards are embedded within it.
Come over here, just take a look where you pulled it out of it.
See what I mean? It’s embedded in the clay, so it has structurally supporting something.
Put some big timbers. Those are some really big timbers.
Yeah, they’re singing it over this way.

Holy crap.
Yeah.
That’s a bulk. There’s no question about that.

Yeah.

When the original money pit was excavated more than two centuries ago, searchers reported finding nine platforms every 10 feet constructed of oak logs.
Could this timber found in S6 be part of the wood cribbing from the original money pit?
The original money pit was described as having found old timber, so we believe that some of this material is oak.
It’s the first time that we’ve ever seen it, and if these are oak, it’s very interesting.

You guys look like you’re trying to build a shaft.
What’s going on?
What’s that?
No, that’s definitely old.
Money pit collapsed in 1861, and a whole bunch of wood sort of went missing.
Well, the bottom of the money pit was never explored, so these massive oak timbers may be part of the original construct.
Then the other timbers we’re finding are part of the re-cruiting attempts to get to the treasure chamber.

So, what a shock.
The day ends, and we have another mystery.
Let’s call it a night for right now.
Get some rest and get back at it.

You.