The Curse of Oak Island: Major Evidence of Metallic Anomaly on Lot 8 (Season 9)

Today’s the day right, I hope so mate.
Marty Laguna and Gary Drayton are investigating Lot 8 where CSR’s land-based magnetometry survey identified a large metallic anomaly earlier this year.
To wait in a more thorough search for clues, the team has recently cleared the area of large trees and foliage.
Interesting little area, I’m excited mate because I could never ever get in here. I mean, I’ve cleared it out, got some flags mate, and I think today is going to be a heck of a good day mate.

Um, what’d you find here?
The only thing that we found on this lot was that magnificent garnet brooch. Oh, back up there, yeah, look at that. Oh man.

In addition to the large metallic anomaly that was detected on Lot 8 earlier this year, Rick, we just found a jewel that’s gorgeous. That is a bobby dazzler.
It was in this very same area that four years ago, Gary and Rick unearthed a semi-precious garnet brooch, a garnet brooch that gemologist Charles Lewton Brain believed could be more than four centuries old.
That is a super ancient way of making wire.

I want to go back and search on Lot 8. We’ve run magnetometers on the island and there are various anomalies. So we’re going to go have another look because there could be other things there. And yeah, I want to see, and you never know what’s going to come out of that hole.

Alright, well let’s get after it. Let’s dig these things up.
Alright mate, let’s go for it, see what we got right mate here.
See what this sounds like, do it again so I can hear it.
Good two-way repeatable signal.
That’s just a, yeah…
Oh yeah.

Weird, it’s a lot of tree roots, a lot of forest stuff mixed in with a few rocks. Quite a thick layer. I can’t think of a single thing that’s easy on this island.
Everything’s difficult.
Hey, good things are worth working out for, Dre.
Alright, let’s see where it is.

Look at that!
Look at that, that’s a big chunk of iron.
Oh, you know what that is, Gary?
That’s an old chain, isn’t it?

While investigating Lot 8 on the western side of Oak Island, Marty Laguna and Gary Drayton have just made a potentially significant discovery.
It’s a chain of sorts, but it’s not just a series of links. This is one piece with two brackets. That’s unusual, very unusual.
I’ve never seen anything quite like that. I don’t know what it means. Can you shed some light on it? Have you seen anything like that?
Yeah, it kind of reminds me of that piece of chain that comes down to a horse’s bit. Maybe a piece off for bridle. What explains the angle too, actually?
Well, and it’s more significant being here because, like you observed, this was not farmed. It’s not possible. No, so why is a horse over here?

A possible piece of a horse’s bridle found on Lot 8.
Because the documented history of Oak Island, which dates back to the mid-18th century, only indicates that farmers utilized beasts of burden such as oxen to plow fields, mostly on the eastern end of the island.
If this object really is a horse’s bridle, then who could have brought it here?
And could it possibly be connected to the garnet brooch that the team found in this area four years ago?
Or perhaps the large metallic anomaly that they plan to excavate as soon as they are granted a permit.

That’s a first. I love it when we find unusual artifacts like this. We haven’t found a lot of horse stuff on the island, having all kinds of oxen.
I’m not quite sure what that means, but it makes it a little bit more unique.
Yeah, that’s why I went to, oh, that’s the bridal bit, I think it’s called.
Okay, I’ll bet you’re right, maybe. Yeah, I mean, horses are a little bit more upper class, you know, I guess, than oxen.
And that’s massive. I mean, it could have been one of those great big horses.

Conquistadors didn’t come ashore with a little.
If it’s for a big horse, those who are used for big reasons—either war horses or horses that pull big things.
Well, the very fact that it’s rare, we haven’t found such things on the island, makes one think that there’s something special about this area.
Nice fine gear, yeah, that is really, really cool.
I’ll find something else.
Yep, alright, next flag is just here.

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Oh, a little bit jumpy.
Best estimate it’s just there, mate.

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There’s rocks all under here, Gary.
That’s a good thing. These rocks are going to help us because I can’t imagine anything sinking very deep here.
Well, we’re not too far away.
Oh, still down there.
Can’t be far away from it if I…
What the heck is that? Uh-uh.

Big chunk of iron.
Well, see, look at the end, it’s beveled.
I don’t know if that’s on purpose or just corrosion.
What do you think?

Let me see what type of metal it is. If we get a rapid vibration, it’s iron.
Yeah, that’s iron. Yeah, a nice chunky isn’t it?
Some kind of tool, um, is that another bit of an adze? I mean, it could be if this whole bit is broken.
Yeah, here, that looks more like a broken end.

Another possible adze found on Lot 8.
And in the same area where the team’s recent magnetometry survey identified a large metallic anomaly.
An adze is a kind of ancient cutting tool that was specifically designed for shaping wooden parts of ships or structures.
Could it potentially be connected to the object or structure that appears to be buried here?
Yeah, I think you might be right, mate.
Could be an adze, could be a piece of a tool of some sort.

It speaks of activity in an area that was not inhabited. There was no house ever built that we know of, nobody ever lived on Lot 8, but there’s a lot of activity.
One next step in this area will be to go for a permit and go and start moving soil.
Will we be investigated?
Oh yeah, let’s bring it to the experts and see what they say.
Yeah, it’s a good find.
Yeah, that is fantastic mate, I love it. So we’ll just put it down and mark it like… yes.