The Curse of Oak Island: REMARKABLE EVIDENCE of Money Pit Treasure Shaft (Season 7) | History

I’ll grab the next one, this is 98. Marty Lagina joins members of the Oak Island team at the money pit area to check on the progress of the drilling operation at the end of the shank to tungsten. Everyone knows that they must work quickly as a powerful category five hurricane is making its way up the Atlantic coast toward Oak Island. A hurricane that, depending on how hard it hits, could destroy months of progress if not shut down operations altogether.

“Hey, Marty, talk to me, guys. What did we find?”

“That’s at seventy-four feet. Some chunk of wood, straight saw mark. So, he needs to be straight on both. Straight is okay. Same as we saw in shaft Ooh. That’s good news. That could be quite old.”

“How deep are we now?”

“We’re down to 104.”

“104, yeah. Through one more lay in there. Do we get that one?”

“I pull it in.”

“Okay, y’all go grab it.”

“We’re down is around 106 and that’s bedded sediment. Look at this. About that. This is hand cut. This is cut with an axe. Okay, so this right here, can you see the reflection on the axe cut? You see that?”

“Yeah, I do.”

“It looks like it’s such a lot older than the head and shaft. Wow.”

“That’s very well axe cut wood found at a depth of 106 feet near the suspected end of the shaft to tunnel. Could it be part of that structure or could it actually be part of the original money pit? There’s a cut from this side as well, so somebody’s been at this with an axe. That’s really interesting. We haven’t seen that in any of the timbers from any of our intersections in any form of shaft 2.”

“Yeah, and we know Heddon used a circular saw. He had one on site. Any of the stuff that came out when you knew you were in the Heddon shaft, did any of it look that dark and old?”

“No, the key thing is the relatively thin means. Heddon is very uniform in six by six. This feels so confident. Makes me think maybe we’re just skimming down the other side of the potential money pit shaft. Wow, it’s the money pits.”

“Yeah, everything’s lining up for this to be the original money pit area. That is quite remarkable.”

“I think we almost have to certainly c14.”

“Absolutely. For Marty Lagina and the Oak Island team, finding what could be hand-cut wood from the original money pit treasure shaft, the location of which has been lost for over a century, would be nothing short of a historic development. One that makes them both excited, but also cautious, until they can prove it.”

“This wood doesn’t look like shaft 2 and doesn’t look like any of the more modern shafts. Heddon, Chappell, any of those. You know, we want to believe that perhaps it’s wood from the original money pit and see if we can find out what that is because that could be original works. Hopefully, we can get proper samples and submit them for scientific analysis and come up with a definitive date because it could be original. It’s possible we’re deeper than any shaft or tunnel that we can’t in that era. Deeper than the shaft 2 tunnel. Deeper than shaft 2.”

“This is good news, stay with it. That’s pretty cool.”