The Curse of Oak Island: Substantial Structures at Smith’s Cove (Season 6) | History

Well, what do you make of this?
NARRATOR: At S Smith’s C Con the eastern end of Oakak I, brothers Rick and Mary Laginana, along with members of their team, are continuing their investigation of a mysterious wooden object found buried beneath the beach, a wall that sits right in the area where they are searching for evidence of a man-made flood tunnel designed to feed seawater deep into the Money P.

The more we dig, the more chance we’ve got of finding something.
Y Yeah.
RICK LAGINA: Whenever you make an observation that the structure might be aligned with another structure, your first thought is, well, there’s some relationship. Some of these might be part of the work to introduce water into the Money P. I think there’s a higher board up there. What is that?
T There’s a wall here.
Oh, man, another day, another structure.
Yeah, it’s coming at an angle.
I told you, the further you go digging, the more structures we’ll find.

NARRATOR: A second wooden structure, just 5 feet behind the first? Could the team be close to finally uncovering the main flood tunnel?
Holy crap. You got it there.
W What’s that?
The wall.
That’s the third one then, right?
Yeah.
Now, there’s this one here.
Yeah.
And then— but then there’s the one outside.
Then there’s a parallel.
That’s number three.
Yeah.
Let’s see how deep it goes.
Ah, it’s a box.
There’s a board on this [inaudible].
We got something here.

Alright, what do we got here?
Well, we’re hoping you can maybe tell us.
Alright, I will. I’m coming down here to tell you what this is.
Is it a shaft?
We assume so.
Yeah.
It looks like a sluice box or something, doesn’t it?

NARRATOR: A sluice box? Traditionally made of wood or metal, a sluice box is a device designed to channel and regulate the flow of water. Could the team have found a structure put in place by previous researchers as a means of attempting to reroute the flow of ocean water away from a flood tunnel guarding the Money Pit? Or could it be much older and actually be a part of the booby-trapped flooding system itself?

I tell you what the problem is. You can’t finish your dang job here because you keep finding things. This is the trouble.
Yeah.
This is the trouble.
I’ll tell you what, Rick. Whatever that is, it’s beautifully done, isn’t it?
Artfully done.
That could be paneling in your stud.
Those boards are thicker than these, though.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So we’ve got three structures in very close proximity. Someone was endeavoring to do something substantial. It needs more digging.
And until that happens, I don’t think we can assess properly what this may be.

NARRATOR: With another mysterious but also promising discovery, Rick, Marty, and the team can only draw one conclusion— their investigation at Smith’s Cove is far from over. However, there is another unfortunate reality. Their time to explore on the island this year has come to an end.
Guys, here’s the unfortunate truth. And facts are stubborn.
We’re out of time this season.
Everything’s closing.
We’re running out of permit time.
We’re running out of weather.
We’re basically done.

NARRATOR: For the Laginas and their team, it has been an extraordinary year.
Gary, you’re the man.
Thanks, Marty.

NARRATOR: They not only conducted the most ambitious efforts in the history of a 223-year search for treasure on Oak Island, but they revealed more pieces to this complex puzzle than anyone before them.
Been a great season.

NARRATOR: And as the search for the clues that will complete the picture goes on, one thing appears more certain than ever.
Next year, the breakthrough.

NARRATOR: Something profound happened centuries ago on this North Atlantic island…
Take care.

NARRATOR: … something that may have impacted the fate of the entire world.
Alright, guys, let’s go.
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