The Curse of Oak Island: TOP SWAMP FINDS: Possible Ship Plank (Season 4) | History

What is that? Looks like a piece of wood.
It’s not bored; there are nails in it. I don’t
see nails. They’re not sarthak jack.
Can haul it too short? Maybe you can keep
looking around. I got a hit off it, so it
could be something underneath it.

When Tony, who came up with a big long plank,
my first thought was, “Oh crap, there’s the
anomaly!”
Because if it was full of bolts or nails,
that would explain all those hits.

I’m not seeing any nailed stone.

Tony Sampson held up this really long board,
and we didn’t know exactly what it was.
I’m normally the person that handles the
metal detector, and so I was hopeful that
there might be some evidence for
anything metal or anything like that.
Maybe nails? Nothing. I’m not getting any
hits, guys.

“Okay, good. Well, then two things:
either we’re way off on our location, or
deep named, you know.”

I’m finally starting to think this through, and I’m thinking,
“No, wait a minute, if he comes up with
something, it’s gonna be shale. It’s gonna
be insignificant. I’d prefer it to be
deep. The anomalies, whatever they are, are
still down there.”

“Hey Tony, we call it a day unless you got
into something real good?”

“Okay, yeah. Thank you.”

“Okay, let’s go look at that board.”

Rick, there’s only one possible way to
analyze that: Tony couldn’t find the
largest anomaly in the swamp, and that
is that it’s deeper than his equipment
can look. That means that, because it’s
such impenetrable ground on that end of
the swamp, almost certainly somebody put
it down there.

So it’s definitely not our target, but
it’s interesting. It’s the longest four
dimensional lumber. It’s probably 18 feet
long, which is an odd dimension. So I’m
thinking plank: either deck planking or
side of the ship planking, because it was
obvious it was very long.

A section of planking, possibly from an
old wooden ship. How could something like
this find its way to the bottom of the
Oak Island swamp?

Could it be proof that the incredible
theory of a treasure ship buried here is
true?

“If it costs nothing to carbon date it,
let’s do it.”

“Yeah, what’s curious to me is the fact
that the bottom of that part of the swamp,
the western side of the swamp, is almost
impenetrable. So it had to have been put
there. It’s incredibly exciting, and
it’s a diggable target, a legitimate diggable
target.”

“No stone unturned. Willboard o board. I mean,
okay, fine, you mean no swamp Andre narrow?”

“Yeah, let’s drain the swamp again.”
“I like that a lot, Tory.”

“Nice job today.”
“Nice job today.”