The Curse of Oak Island: NEW CLUE UNEARTHED NEAR SWAMP (Season 7) | History

It is an early morning on Oak Island. We left off right about here. Yeah, Peter Fornetti and metal detection expert Gary Drayton arrived at lot 32, located southwest of the Oak Island swamp.

“So I’ll go from a water’s edge up to the top and we’ll just do it down the middle. Hopefully, I’ll keep you busy.”

After making a series of compelling new discoveries in the swamp this year, including a possible paved Wharf, a mysterious circular rock formation at the so-called “I of the swamp,” and a 200-foot-long anomaly revealed by last year’s seismic scanning, Gary is convinced that while Rick and Marty wait for the necessary permits required to drain and excavate the swamp, the surrounding area may still yield a number of important clues.

“There’s something, no? Yeah, let’s go for this money. Okay, have no idea what it is… to hang, look at that, that’s a nice little surprise.”

“Yeah, it looks like, to me, with that lip.”

“This is a typical deck in spiked with the lip for trapping the ward. This is definitely 1700s, mate. This spike reminds me of the one that we found in the swamp. I mean, this is cool because we found a similar one in the area three years ago.”

While metal detecting in the swamp, Gary Drayton, along with Jack Begley and Alex Lagina, discovered a similar object. An object that was later identified by antiques expert Dr. Laurie Bertram as a decking spike from a 17th-century Spanish galleon.

“The spike has spoken volumes. The spike is called a burro taste title, which in Spanish just means iron bar, and a burro taste type spike would have been similar to a finishing nail on a Spanish galleon ship.”

Could this iron decking spike found near the swamp be further evidence to support the theory that the swamp was artificially created to hide a large sailing vessel along with the valuables it contained?

And if so, could it also be related to the massive ship-shaped anomaly revealed by seismic scanning earlier this year?

“This is what we want to be finding, ship spikes. That means there’s been some ships coming here. If a ship went down in this area, there’s probably some more.”

“Yeah, it could be. This is fantastic. This is what we want to be finding under the next one.”

But after a great stir…