The Curse of Oak Island: ON THE VERGE of a Big Discovery (Season 8) | History

With a couple precious hours of sunlight left,
Scott Barlow and geologist Terry Matheson
joined the team from Choice
Drilling in the Money Pit area,
where they have already broken ground in the
next borehole on the team’s grid borehole BC3.
It’s the first in a series of detail holes to
cover off the northwest side of C1. Well, you
see the pattern we did on the east side, yeah? So,
I mean, there’s still lots of places for things
to hide. Yeah, to me C1 is interesting, not just
because of the shiny gold thing, it’s because it,
when it was first put down, ran through a shaft.
The shaft, we’re not quite certain as to what it was.
There’s always been this thought that the
Money Pit was a decoy, that there was a shaft
well above that, maybe where the real treasure
lays. So, C1 is interesting on a couple of levels.
We got some more looks interesting to
me. What’s our footage here? 88 feet? Okay.
So, this is our 87 intersection again, I’m
loving it. It really corroborates other hits.
More wood found nearly 90 feet deep underground.
Could that mean the team has once again hit the
potentially 17th-century tunnel? Thanks, God! And if
so, could they be one step closer to the location
of the fabled treasure vault? Hi, Rick, how you
doing, guys? So, what’s up? Where are we right now?
I’ll show you on the plan. We’re now on BC3, so we’re on
the northwest side of C1, and I believe we’re about
the 89-foot mark right now. That’s 89 down there. From
here to here, Rick, we got two and a half feet of
solid wood. I mean, it’s almost a certainty
that that is connected to these other hits—
some sort of tunnel running through here. Yeah, it’s
going somewhere. I think the thing that buoys our
spirits regarding this current drill program
is we have reason to believe that we may be close
to the original Money Pit and hopefully
we’ll be able to discover what it may hold.
The question still remains: where is the Money
Pit? You’re running out of space. Yeah, exactly.
I am absolutely hopeful that what we’re doing
this year outside of our traditional exploration
area near the Money Pit may lead us to where it
really is. And explain to me why we haven’t found
it already? And you know what? We have to find it. We
have to be getting close. With all the data we have,
it can’t hide forever. We’re gonna get it. There
has to be a shaft somewhere around C1. Exactly.
We have to stay the course. You just have to.
The only way we know is you’ll keep drilling.
Every promising clue that Rick, Marty, Craig, and
their team not only validates the generations of
searchers who came before them, but also provides
compelling evidence that something of great value
may still lie buried on Oak Island. But just
what could it be? Pirate gold? Priceless documents?
Or religious artifacts? What would require a
deep pit with secret tunnels and a system of
ingeniously designed flood traps? Or an
artificial swamp with carefully hidden
pathways? And finally, what would carry with it a
deadly curse that has claimed six lives so far?