The Curse of Oak Island: STRANGE DISCOVERY LEADS TO MONEY PIT (Part 2) (Season 7) | History

Here we are. Ross Farms thought to get some answers. Yeah, Marty Lagina and his son Alex, along with metal detection expert Gary Drayton, travel once again to the Ross Farm Museum located in the nearby town of New Ross, Nova Scotia.

Here we are back again. Yeah, I love this place.

Me too.

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Back with more wonderful… What you got today?

This came from over 100 feet below the ground. You can see that it’s tapered on this end with a really sharp end of it that far down in the Money Pit.

No idea.

Wow.

No idea what it is or what it was doing there.

Trying to remind me of a sailcloth needle when the first floor.

No, because of the size of it. It has no practical purpose. But I do know that in some situations, very rare, these were replaced as booby traps.

Wowzers. Huh, interesting.

Yeah, extremely. I did not expect that.

No, a spike from a booby trap found 114 feet deep in the Money Pit area, dating back literally thousands of years.

So-called booby traps have been used by hunters to catch their prey. They’ve also been used effectively in warfare and as a means of protecting everything from tombs and vaults to other locations that contain sacred objects or priceless valuables.

Spook here, and so else would this be under the ground?

Yeah, no, it doesn’t make sense, does it? You know, because if you look right along this shoulder here, it looks like some sort of device was wrapped around that, and then this part was driven or inserted into a wooden structure. This was inserted up to here, so that these would stick.

Oh, maybe hundreds of them inserted into a plank or whatever sort of structure you want it in, so that it would cause a lot of damage to human flesh.

Yeah, sure. What if you stepped on that? In what period in history? I mean, this would be very old.

Yeah, I would probably say 15 to the middle 1700s.

Wow. A second booby trap on Oak Island. What we were aware of was a flood tunnel. Maybe there were other traps because we don’t know much about the original excavation of the Money Pit. So maybe Carmen Lake is right. Maybe there were other obstacles they got through, and they just didn’t know them.

That’s really quite amazing. You know, where I had not envisioned that, I would not have thought that.

No, but he’s seen all kinds of stuff and doesn’t see another use for that. And it’s clearly made that way. I mean, yes, it didn’t corrode that way.

Yeah, and this one here is very well preserved, just not really corroded.

No, even to my eye, you can look at the end and see that it’s shaped. It’s made to be pointy.

Yes, yes. It didn’t corrode like that. No, but I can’t see that being any practical common everyday tool. So that you must have something really valuable you’ll want to protect.

Yeah, it shocked a minute.

Yeah, every time I leave here, Carmen, I got a day just what you told me.

Yeah, I imagine you do too, though, right?

Oh, yeah. Good finds, Gary.

Yeah, well, hey, as always, thank you. Very good. I’m sorry I keep giving you more questions than answers, but you know what though, it’s always good, Carmen. It’s always a pleasure talking to you, really, because the wealth of knowledge you have is great.

I guarantee we’ll be back.

Alright, here’s thank you.

You.