The Curse of Oak Island: A Significant Wood Sample at Bore Hole K-5.5 (Season 6) | History

NARRATOR: It is the beginning of an exciting new year on Oak Island.
[music playing]
Rick Lagina, Dave Blankenship, Charles Barkhouse, and Doug Crowell head to the Money Pit site.
If this is a tunnel, we can confirm it with today’s drilling. First, I want to do is run it.
Where’s the money?
NARRATOR: They are ready to continue progress in search of their core drilling of a centuries-old tunnel, which they believe will lead them directly to the original Oak Island treasure shaft.
We do have some data to work with.
If we can confirm, we know that Shaft 6 is at the end of that tunnel. Then we might be on to something.
Yeah.
Uh-oh, that’s wood. That’s the edge of your timber.
NARRATOR: Four weeks ago, drilling at a depth of 90 feet, the Oak Island team discovered evidence of wood timbers, which they believe to be part of Shaft 6, whose location had been lost for over 100 years.
If it is Shaft 6, it’s been long sought after.
NARRATOR: The team has drilled two exploratory boreholes targeting the shaft in the hopes of pinpointing the tunnel’s exact position underground.
There’s a piece of wood.
We must have clipped just the edge of a tunnel.
That’s it.
There’s Brennan. Blake and Adam are on it. Let’s see how far they’ve gone.
NARRATOR: Working with a team from Choice Drilling, Rick Lagina’s crew is on their fourth hole, K, which will also intersect the long-lost searcher tunnel, allowing them to accurately pinpoint the direction of the Money Pit and possibly find a massive debris field of treasure.
Morning, guys.
Morning.
How are you?
Good.
OK, so where are we?
We are at 68 feet right now.
Just came out of top soil.
NARRATOR: Using a process known as sonic drilling, which employs high-frequency vibrations to pulverize through earth and other obstacles, a specialized core barrel will extract samples in intervals of up to 10 feet.
These core samples will be carefully sifted for not only evidence of the tunnel, but also any artifacts or possible treasure they might contain.
BRENNAN MCMAHON: As we get into the silts, hold the phone!
That looked like wood there now.
We got wood.
It’s wood. It’s the long-elusive Shaft 6.
Right.
RICK LAGINA: Well, here we are.
So this wood is somewhere between 118 and 120 feet.
You wanted wood, now we got wood.
It’s just a little bit clearer than what it’s supposed to be, but we got wood.
It’s five feet, approx.
NARRATOR: Five feet found at the same depth as Shaft 6—could this wood be evidence of the Money Pit’s collapse in 1861?
And if so, has the team located not only Shaft 6 but also some of the suspected debris?
The Money Pit collapsed in 1861, and a whole bunch of things went missing.
So we’re seeing that now.
One plausible theory is that we’re in the collapse zone.
Are we on the edge of the Money Pit?
I don’t know.
But at some point, it’s time to dig.
I think it strongly advocates for small cans at multiple levels.
This is as good as it gets.
Yeah.
Count this as a win for today, I think.