The Curse of Oak Island: Secret Slipway Unearthed Near Money Pit (Season 8) | History

We may have discovered the top of a chef pee wow
while metal detecting in the southeast corner
of the swamp. Gary Drayton and Peter Fernetti
have just made what could be a major discovery.
Look at that, there’s even more here going on.
Here, definite cross timbers. What a day, mate.
Anytime you discover something new on Oak
Island, it’s a good day. I believe we’ve got a call.
Oh, yeah, maybe he might want to stand down.

Hello?
Hey, Lyd. Hey, Gary, how are you? Good, mate.
Pete and I are on the edge of the swamp
and we stopped to dig a piece of iron, and we’ve
discovered some kind of wooden structure feature.
We don’t know what it is, so we’re hoping
you can come over here, mate, and check it out.
Okay, I’ll see you in a bit.

Okay, Mike, I don’t think it’s a bad idea to call my uncle and
have him take a look.
Yeah, Rick would love this.
We don’t know what these pieces of timber are,
but hey, we may have discovered another feature.
But more importantly, this new feature is
not too far away from the money pit. Perhaps they’re both connected.

Oh, there it’s here.
Okay, good.
It does? What do you think?
I mean, it looks like a slipway, doesn’t it? I mean,
that’s a post.
Yeah, we never thought about that. We
were thinking shaft when we first saw it, but
you are right, that does look like a slipway.
Yeah, a possible slipway or ship’s
wharf protruding from the swamp.

Could Gary and Peter have found the first
visual evidence of the stone feature
that Rick Lagina and Dr. Spooner identified
in the swamp two weeks ago? What do you got?
What happened here? We got a couple of iron
items, and as we dug down, we started seeing
these timbers, and look, and they’re notched here.
Yeah, and there’s iron in here. There’s an
iron fastener here, and there’s one here. At
first, we were thinking it was the top of the shaft
lid. Well, you’ve seen this type of thing before
in Smith’s Cove. Yeah, the subway, yeah, slipway.
That is, this is a cut in here. Yep. Yeah, that’s
cut too. That’s a little strange. It’s short,
it’s almost a brace.

You know their
activities, their metal detecting
activities in the eastern corner of the swamp.
You know, that’s our area of focus. When I
laid eyes on it, you know, they used the
verbiage “slipway.” Does it look like a slipway?
Yeah, it does. It has two sides and cross members,
and this feature is certainly interesting.
I mean, this has grown above and below the
structure, so there’s some age to it. If
you’ve got a notch here and you’ve got a notch
here, but it’s cut here. It’s way out there. Yeah,
it is a significant discovery, is it not, Gary?
It is.

Is there metal in that too, the crosspiece?
Or is it… where is the metal?
Um, here it’s… yeah, it’s actually… I’ll show you.
So that would be a brace.
Oh, yeah.
The iron fasteners would
tell the story of this bet.
Definitely date it.

Well, that’s cool. I mean,
I think we should uncover it. Yeah, don’t you
agree?
I agree, definitely. Yeah, this should be
a little treasure trove in this area. Yeah, that
on the back, mate, you dug it out. Let’s see what
my dad thinks if I can get a hold of him. Sure.

Hello?
Hey, you’re on speaker, and I got Rick, Peter,
Gary, Laird. We’re standing in the southeast corner
of the swamp, and we’re all looking down on what we
think is a slipway.
Really? I’m all blind. Yep, this
is the edge of the swamp where boats would have
come and probably docked, and this is the type of
slipway, just a small one like this, that you would
need to take small cargo up on the ill. Wow. Uh, this
looks like an area where boats would pull in and
pull something up. This slipway, I’m hoping, treasure.

Wow, I don’t know what to say about that. Well,
we’ll keep looking at it, and we’ll keep you posted.
Well, cool discovery, guys. I’ll find some artifacts.
That’s what we’re hoping for.
See it? It’s a significant find.