The Curse of Oak Island: EVIDENCE OF TRAPS REVEALED AT SMITH’S COVE (Season 7) | History

NARRATOR: One day after construction of the cofferdam bump-out was completed, Rick Lagina, Craig Tester, and archaeologist Laird Niven are eager to investigate the recently discovered wooden structure at Smith’s Cove.

The problem with this large structure that we found in Smith’s Cove is simply this. Is it a very simple explanation, or is it much more complex? Either way, we have a lot of work to do to try to uncover what it is and why it was put there.

Hey, guys.
How you doing, Craig?
We got this structure right here.
OK.
He was just starting to uncover it a little bit.
So I want to check for metal.
OK.
We’ll see if there’s any metal in here.
OK.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
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Hang on.
What is that?
It looks like tar paper, doesn’t it?

NARRATOR: Tar paper is a heavy-duty waterproofing material which was widely used in construction in the 19th century. Does it mean that the structure at Smith’s Cove was built by treasure hunters and not the original depositors?

Do I see anything?
Is there, like, a bunch of cobble?
It’s quite distinctive, isn’t it?
You see piles of rocks all over the place.
They look like they’ve been stacked.
Yeah.
If you were going to build a reservoir to feed your finger drains, you’d throw a whole bunch of rocks in the hole, right?
And they would hold water.
Is this part of the flood tunnel system?
It’s possible.

NARRATOR: Stacked rocks found alongside the mysterious log structure, and in an area where no previously documented search has taken place? Could the team have just found evidence connecting this log and stone structure to the legendary booby traps that lead seawater into the Money Pit?
See that?

That’s a substantial amount of water coming through there.
Wow.
See that water coming out?
Yeah.
It’s coming out from underneath.
I think this is the flood tunnel system, the finger drain that they’ve recorded, that everyone talked about.
Yeah.
Could be, couldn’t it?
We have to keep digging to find out.
Exactly.
I think what we do is have Billy continue, see if that feature continues this way or that way.
If we find that there, I would tend to agree with Jack.

If this is part of the flood tunnel system, then we have intercepted the hydraulic connection to the Money Pit.
That’s huge.
If all that existed to conceal something of immense value, then these theories immediately ratchet up to more credible. Theories that something indeed happened here long ago, which may or may not change history as we know it.

Another day, another structure.
We got off to a good start.
Let’s see if we can find anything else.
There you go.

NARRATOR: For Rick, Marty, and their team, the important clues they need in order to solve the 224-year-old Oak Island mystery are getting closer every day. But as they continue their ambitious operations at Smith’s Cove, in the triangle-shaped swamp, and at the fabled Money Pit, will they find the answers they have been looking for? Or will they only discover those answers they’ve been allowed to find by those who buried something deep on Oak Island more than two centuries ago?

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