The Curse of Oak Island: BEST SWAMP FINDS: Spanish Galleon Spike (Season 1) | History

Oh right, somewhere around there.
Oh, look at that nice while searching for
a mysterious metal object in the Oak
Island swamp, veteran treasure hunter
Gary Drayton has discovered something
unusual buried in the mud. That’s all.
It’s an unmade spike. That’s pretty good.
Yeah, is, yeah. This type of nail was
specifically made for supporting decks
down thick decking on the old boats.
You see the size of the head? That was so the
planks couldn’t come up.

Well, the board then Tony found in the south part of the
swamp looked like deck. It probably is. It
was very long and didn’t seem even close
to thick enough to be a part of the
outside of the ship’s hull. A few guys
have found something like wooden decking.
This is exactly the type of unmade nail
that they would have put in to deck into
whole decking down.

Look at it! I mean, it’s yeah, that’s a beautiful thing.
Does this mean we actually found something in
this one? Yeah, I think this is an
artifact for sure.

I found exactly the same objects as this on off Spanish
galleons from the late sixteen hundreds,
early 1700s.

An artifact from a Spanish galleon?
Could it be connected in some way to the
18-foot long plank found a few weeks ago?
That’s for sure and which was thought to be
part of the deck from an old sailing
ship.

Veteran Oak Island researchers and
treasure hunters like Fred Nolan have
long believed that the mysterious
triangle-shaped swamp could have been
deliberately created centuries ago to
hide an old shipwreck.

If so, who would have hidden it? Spanish
pirates, or might it be further evidence
that supports Randall Sullivan and
Charles Barkhouse’s research suggesting
that Captain William Kidd really did
bury a valuable treasure on Oak Island?

For me, this is one of the coolest things
we’ve found out here. It’s a fantastic find.
Gary’s excitement—I mean, this guy has
done this a lot, and one of the
things that he looks for in Florida bar
Spanish shipwrecks—so he has found a lot
of these pins and he was really excited
about this. He seems to sincerely 100%
believe that this is from an old ship.

We’re the first people to touch it in
probably three hundred years, so it’s
pretty cool.

Well, let’s see. Let’s do the
spiral pattern around it and see if
there’s any more.

Okay, a sweet at least we found something.
That’s cool. They’re getting tagged it.

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