The Curse of Oak Island: MYSTERIOUS TUNNELS FOUND on Lot 15 (Season 8) | History

Hey guys, hey dog dog, I understand uh welcomes
are in order. You’re in Nova Scotia now, yes. The
eagles have landed. 14, but here one day after their
arrival in Nova Scotia. But while still prevented
from venturing out to district quarantine
measures, brothers Rick and Marty Laguna, along
with Alex Laguna and Peter Fernetti, call into
the Oak Island War Room for a meeting with other
members of their team. They are eager to discuss
several of the search and discovery operations
planned for the week ahead. Well, we uh we’ve
been kind of regrouping here after the C1 dive,

but uh Laird has some updates on the
work intended for Lot 15. That’d be great
to know about that. Yeah, actually, the lead
archaeologist is going to be David McGinnis, a
very experienced archaeologist. Name might sound
familiar—related to uh Daniel McGinnis. Wow,
direct descendant? A direct descendant, yeah. Yeah, he’s
agreed to uh do the investigations in Lot 15, and
he’ll be uh aided by Aaron Taylor. And we’re really
looking forward to what David’s going to come up
with with this uh mysterious feature that we have
up there. Boy, Laird the believer, I’ll tell you.
It is curious though—it’s two rock walls that just
lead into the side of the hill. Last spring, Doug
Crawl did a very thorough search of the documents
in Dan Blankenship’s basement, and he found two
old maps. One by Fred Nolan, who was a surveyor,
and one called the Behringer Survey from 1988.
Both indicated the possibility of a tunnel near
the feature on Lot 15, both of them coming from
the Money Pit, north of the swamp. The Behringer
Survey also indicated a possible tunnel near
C1 in the Money Pit. If these tunnels exist, could
they be connected? Could it be a possible back door
to the Money Pit? Who knows? It sounds like you
got a downright brain trust there, Laird. I mean,

uh let us know what it is. I will. Yeah, no, I’m
excited. I’ve got my fingers crossed it is some
kind of uh cavity or passage leading towards
the Money Pit area. That’s my hope. Is it
worth investigating? Absolutely. Let’s see what the
answers are. Another thing that’s uh taking shape,
guys, is furthering the exploration of the swamp,
and Dr. Spooner is ready to follow up on that with
some scans of the swamp. So yeah, just to fill in on
what I have planned in the swamp, what we’re doing
is we’re running a new kind of survey. It allows us
to pound down a ways into that swamp sediment and
to see if we can resolve that feature in the
swamp. So that’s what I’m up to in the next
week or two. Great. Oh, holy crow! This stick
will tell me when that stone was placed. You date
the stick, you know when that happened, because of
the incredible finds made in the Oak Island swamp
last year. I’m very confident we’re looking at 1680
to 1700, that that disturbance took place, including
evidence that significant human activity took
place in the area dubbed “Eye of the Swamp” during
the late 17th century, along with proof that
the massive pavestone area the team unearthed
was most likely constructed more than 800 years
ago. The Oak Island team is eager to continue their
investigation of the area, but now on a much
larger scale. One of the team’s first targets
is an anomaly that Dr. Ian Spooner first spotted
in a series of aerial photographs taken nearly
100 years ago and located on the southeastern
edge of the mysterious triangle-shaped swamp.

Great. I’m glad I’m in quarantine. I’m looking
forward to it personally. It’s intriguing,
because it’s only 10 feet down, and this is the one
location where if there are going to be artifacts,
this is the place where they will be. Yes, and
it’s in front of the paved area, so that’s
really I think as much my focus in terms of
trying to understand what’s going on there. Good.
And then Doug filled me in on the story of a shaft
in that location. Is that correct? Yeah, when Fred
drained the swamp, he spotted the remains of an
old shaft. He didn’t say exactly where, but this
spot that Ian has recognized, identified, may
be it. Yeah, Fred obviously saw something and
recorded it, and now this work will confirm or deny
it. Yeah, this song’s well worth doing. Sounds great.

All right, guys, that’s all we have from here
for now. We’ll uh we’ll see in two weeks.
We all knew it was going to be an
abbreviated year, but everybody stepped up.
Without them playing the groundwork for the year,
given the fact that we were late in being able to
come into the country, I think we would be
behind the eight ball. The guys did an incredible
job of setting the stage for the year’s effort.
If you need anything while you’re in isolation,
just uh call, okay? Oh, can we do that?
Figure it out while we’re gone, that’d be great.
We’ll be there with a bricks truck in 14 days.
Take care, guys.