The Curse of Oak Island: Gary Discovers Evidence of Secret Tunnel (Season 8) | History

This is going to be a fantastic day.
Metal detection expert Gary Drayton,
along with Rick and Marty’s nephew David,
Fernetti, hello, chips!

Hey guys, join geoscientist Dr.
Ian Spooner and archaeologists Dr. Aaron
Taylor and Miriam Amaralt near the eastern
border of the swamp to help them investigate the mysterious
stone pathways and possible cellar feature.

So as you can see, we’ve opened up some
more areas.
Yeah, and we have this trench here that
Billy dug.
Okay, and then we have spoil piles.
Yeah, we have this area here. Wow.
And finally, Miriam is down on
what we think might be a cellar feature.
So that’s very exciting. So
any artifact out of that is really
important because if that’s a cellar,
that means there was a structure there.
Yeah, yeah.

Okay mate, David and I’ll start
at the end of the trench. Beautiful. Okay,
fingers crossed.

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Oh, I see all the cobbles.
Here we go, David. I got a signal, I
believe.
I do believe it’s in that angle just sir.
It’s in that wall.
Let’s see if we got it. See if I can
pinpoint it.

Well, that’s way down there. You know what,
I should really call Aaron over there
and let Aaron dig this out with his
trail because if this is in situ, this
could be important.
Aaron, come and check this out, please.
David and I got a signal over here
and it looks to be in that area there.

Oh, that is a strong
signal. It’s there, right there, it’s right
there. What the
heck is this thing? Show me again.
Yeah, oh, it’s down. Little one. Wow, that’s a
screamer.
Yeah, that’s going to be something good,
whatever it is. I mean, this is fantastic.
Here we go, boys. Oh, you got it out!
Good work, Aaron. What are we dealing with?
It is very heavy. Oh, that’s a great sign.
The heavier it is, the older it should be.
I don’t know what it is. I know what it
is. It’s a caster.
It’s a caster wheel. If you think about
it, we’re on an island
with lots of tunnels, and you would need
a little dolly with casters on the
bottom.

That is… that’s a little wheel off a
caster, the type of
little trolley that you would need if
you’re running along
tunnels. And it makes sense if you think
about it— a wheel off a
little tunneling car because we found
tunneling picks not too far away from
here at the back of the swamp.
Designed for furniture as well as
trolley or mining carts,
casters are components that contain
wheels for the purpose of moving objects
with ease and in multiple directions.

Could Gary Drayton be correct?
That this caster might have been
utilized for a tunneling operation
on Oak Island? If so, could it be
connected to previous evidence
the team has discovered, such as the
tunneling tools,
also known as swages, found one year ago
on Lot 21, which could date to as early
as the 15th century?

So I think the question remains: Is this
from depositors, or is this from
searchers?
More than likely, depositor. Good job! I
think this was off a tunnel link.
This is fantastic. What a night.
Yeah, I’ll bag that and we’ll get that to the lab ASAP.

Excellent, that is fantastic. Get back to
work, Gary.