The Curse of Oak Island: Puzzling Find Unearthed in the Swamp (Season 7) | History

RICK LAGINA: That’s a puzzle.
NARRATOR: One day after successfully exposing part of the paved stone feature at the swamp, Rick Lagina and geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner return to the site to see what else may have been revealed now that even more water has been removed.

My issue is, if this was just dumped by a glacier or something like that, it would be piles. It would be a little less horizontal. You’d see these undulate a bit, but it’s straight across. You have to have somebody to do it. In my mind, somebody created a surface. You know, I– I truly want to send my brother some photographs of this, and then I’m– I’ll give him a call. I’m sure he’s going to ask your opinion. I’m certain of that.

RICK LAGINA: Hey, morning. I have Dr. Spooner here, and we’re looking at the so-called paved area. I sent you some photographs, which I think you have. I’ll be honest. My eyes and boots perspective, it’s man-made. There’s these layers of stone above the till that have no clay around them, and yet have swamp sediment around them. It has to be manipulated. I can’t find a natural process that would have led to this. It’s a manipulated site.

I’ve worked in these environments and in a similar environment, but it’s nothing like this. To me, it’s like somebody came in and put the small rocks on the bottom, just like building a road, and then put the bigger rocks on top of that, so that, I think, precise.

He said he has no explanation, other than it’s man-made.

RICK LAGINA: I don’t know. Well, if you go seaward, we’re on a line. Like, if you have the eye as an excavated site, if you have this paved area as a filled in site, maybe trying to make a platform, something solid, and then if you go seaward, you have the deepest portion of the swamp where it was actually an inlet. It all lines up with the peninsula cutting through it.

And so was this some kind of work surface if people brought boats in?

NARRATOR: A work surface like a dock, possibly used for boats or ships, and located in the middle of the Oak Island swamp? Could the team have finally unearthed definitive proof that the swamp was artificially created centuries ago and that a ship or sailing vessel was offloaded here and then sunk in such a way as to hide all evidence?

MARTY LAGINA: This is not what I expected to see in how clear the interface is and how orderly the stones look, as if they’re placed.

I have always thought the swamp held some sort of information, maybe not everything, but something. I mean, it’s just very strange. It shouldn’t be there.

RICK LAGINA: Oh yeah, we can, yeah. All right, take care. Bye.

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