The Curse of Oak Island: Aladdin’s Cave Reveals Man-Made Workings (Season 11)

[Steve] There’s two straight
lines. One there, and one there.
-Right?
-[Paul] Absolutely.
[narrator] In the Money Pit
area on Oak Island,
Rick, Marty, and other members
of the team
have just obtained
new sonar data
that indicates
possible evidence
of man-made workings
some 150 feet deep
in a large cavern
known as Aladdin’s Cave.
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[Steve] They certainly
don’t look natural.
[Paul] Yeah.
We’ll see those better when
Steve puts them in the 3D model.
The characterization
of this opening
is, I really think,
gonna give us
a lot of information as to
how people proceeded
in the past to dig
and work below 106
in the Money Pit area.
Keep rotating it, please, Paul.
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[tense music playing]
Stop there.
[Terry] What I’m seeing
is the potential
that that slope there…
-[Paul] Yeah.
-…might be sand.
And this slope could be burying
whatever might be
on the floor there.
[Marty] There’s a pretty square
wall along one side.
Very interesting.
You almost only could come up
with one explanation
why there would be man-made
anything in that cave.
It was some sort of deposit
of treasure.
We have a very good view here.
So based on the data
we have today,
this is the western part
of the cave.
It’s substantial in size.
But most importantly,
we need to see where
it’s coming from.
[Marty] Are you seeing
a potential way in?
I mean, we could go over
to that direction
and see if it continues on, yes.
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[Marty] I think you’ve gotta
put a drill hole on it.
[Rick] That’s what I would do.
I simply wanna see
a way into Aladdin’s Cave.
There’s a possibility that
treasure does reside there.
But I think…
all things Oak Island,
everything is incremental.
We’re seeing a little bit
of an echo here
so maybe there is an opening.
[Rick] Let’s do
some more drilling,
put a camera down into it,
let’s see what we learn,
and then make a decision
on how to proceed.
So I think everyone here
is quite adamant
that we need to make
a proper, sound assessment
of what this represents, right?
-Yes.
-There are two ways to do it.
One is, put another
drill hole down
and put it on a more detailed,
outward-looking scan.
-Right?
-Sounds good.
Let’s do it. Set it up.
I think that’s all we can do
today. Nice job.
-All right, guys.
-Thanks.
[Terry] Time’s gonna tell.
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[narrator] The following morning…
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-[Craig] Hey, Scott.
-[Scott] Hi, guys.
-What’s up?
-How we doing?
Not so great.
We have some issues here
inside the shaft wall.
They were doing some drilling,
trying to find
the source
of the water coming in.
Wow.
And the water’s coming in
at quite a rate.
It was raising about
a foot an hour in the shaft.
-Really?
-Wow.
Yeah.
Roger, he’s got
a camera down there.
He’s definitely gonna get
some pictures and video.
-Gonna show us what he sees.
-[Craig] Good.
[narrator] Rick Lagina
and Craig Tester
join Scott Barlow
in the Money Pit area
where members of
Dumas Contracting Ltd.
are struggling to stop
the mysterious flow of water
that continues to flood
the Garden Shaft.
[Roger]
[man]
[Roger]
[man]
[Roger]
[man]
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[Roger] Whoa.
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-[man] Yeah.
-[Roger] Hm.
[man]
[Scott] So they’re about
65 feet down
where the water’s coming in.
And it seems to be
an isolated spot
because they’ve drilled
around it.
And it’s dry.
-Hey, guys.
-[Scott] Hey, Roger.
-How’d it go down there?
-[Roger laughs]
I got some, uh,
pretty weird things, actually.
In there, there’s a…
it’s like a little cavern
and it’s full of timber
in there.
-Oof.
-[Roger] It’s really weird.
Actually, I’ve got a picture.
Maybe I can show you.
‘Cause there’s a long void
in there.
You can see in here…
See, that’s inside the cavity.
See these planks
up there?
They look like 1×6
laid one on top of the other.
-[Craig] Oh, wow.
-[Roger] It’s weird.
It is weird.
[narrator] It is
a perplexing moment
for Rick Lagina,
Craig Tester,
and their team
in the Money Pit area.
As workers from
Dumas Contracting Ltd.
were probe drilling
in an effort
to find the source
of the water flow
that is currently flooding
the Garden Shaft,
they discovered
a mysterious cavern
just outside the structure
at a depth of 65 feet
that contains wooden timbers.
You’ll see some
really good shots.
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Wow, look.
It’s quite a cavity.
It is.
Seeing the void,
or the cavity,
your first thought,
of course, is,
“Is this possibly connected
to an offset chamber
or a previously unknown
void/cavity/tunnel?
And might it lead somewhere?”
-[Scott] That’s horizontal.
-[Roger] Right.
That cavity
is certainly interesting.
You know, thought-provoking
at the very least.
Oh, for sure.
[Rick] But you’ve gotta
get down there.
You’ve gotta put
your eyes on it.
And if it happens
to turn out to be true,
wow, that would be amazing.
I know I’m anxious to
enlarge that hole, if we can.
-Oh, for sure.
-And have a look in there.
First things first,
we need to deal with the water.
-Yeah.
-[narrator] Is it possible
that a frustrating setback
for the team
has actually led to a potential
breakthrough discovery
that may help them solve
the Oak Island mystery?
Unfortunately, they will have
to first stop the flow of water
into the Garden Shaft
before they can find out
for sure.
It’s pretty ironic, you know?
Think about this.
We’re 200-plus years after
the first shaft was dug here
and we’re still dealing with
the same issues
the first people were.
-Water coming in.
-[Rick] But on some level,
that’s what makes this
very interesting, right?
Bottom line is this:
you’ll find a way
and the tunnel
is still down there.
-Right?
-[Roger] Yep.
And look, at the end of the day,
we’ll all put our heads together
and then collectively,
we can have a good idea
of how to proceed.
It’s Charles who says it
all the time,
if this were easy, we’d have
been done long ago.
We’re on Oak Island,
for gosh sakes.
-Right? We’re…
-Yeah.
Two-hundred-twenty-eight-year
mystery.
If we’re gonna let a little
water say to us,
“Well, you know what?
We’re done.”
-“We’re done.”
-We’re not. We’re not done.
So let’s just keep going.
-Agreed.
-We can solve this together.
-[Craig] It’s a plan.
-[Rick] Thank you, Roger.
-[Roger] Right on.
-[Rick] We’ll get to it.