The Curse of Oak Island: TREASURE TROVE OF RARE TREASURE MAPS (Season 4) | History

It is the start of another new day on
Oak Island.
It was sanctum sanctorum before
returning to their operations at Smith’s
Cove.
Rick, Marty, and members of the team
arrive at the home
of Dan Blankenship here.
They are hoping to find information that
will help them pinpoint
another drill site, their third in this
year’s
tireless search for the infamous Oak
Island money pit.

In the more than five decades that Dan
Blankenship has lived
and worked on Oak Island, trying to solve
the 221-year-old mystery,
he has collected a virtual treasure
trove of maps,
measurements, photos, and first-hand
information going as far back as the
1840s.

But even more valuable than the fragile
material Dan keeps carefully stored away
in the basement of his home is the vast
amount of knowledge
the veteran treasure hunter keeps within
his 93-year-old brain.

“I’ve not seen this before,” Fred Nolan,
surveyor,
“Drill hole locations Fred Nolan surveyed
them all in,
but he may have made the plan, but that’s
my writing on there.”
“Yeah, that’s what I think, Dan. I think
Fred did this and you did this. What were
you guys doing? Cooperating?”
“I’d crop weight with devils. I thought it
would
get me the answer to Rock Island.”

“Hey, Dan, whose map is this?”
“Mr. Gave Dunfield the location where he
thought the original pit was,
and that’s where he dug. It was in
that neighborhood.”

In the early 1930s, treasure hunter
Melbourne Chapel
created a detailed diagram of the money
pit area,
noting where the original pit was
believed to be.
In fact, he was so confident that he had
found the exact location, it was not
long before he and his father, William,
began construction on a serger tunnel
they believed could reach the fabled
treasure vault.

Unfortunately, their plans were thwarted
when ocean water from one of the flood
tunnels rushed in
and destroyed their shaft, the remnants
of which were discovered by Marty and Rick
earlier this year after drilling a hole
in the area known
as Valley 3.

“Look, I’m just one vote. When
I look at this, you know, just
brand new, if this is the shop they dug
and found
the parchment and the gold, I think we
should dig right here.
No question about it.”
“I respectfully disagree.”

“We need to sit down and look at this.”
“We are sitting down, and we are looking at
it.”

Where the third hole goes is a problem
because the
members of the fellowship have a
different idea about where that hole
should be.
Craig wants to go to the northeast for
his reasons, and Rick and David probably
want to go southwest of E3, and we all
have our reasons.

“I mean, we’re caught between the
devil and the deep blue sea here because
we have a massive piece of equipment
that’s going to, you know, but we can’t
we can’t let that dictate. I can see why,
you know, years ago, they just—oh, hang it,
let’s do a big dig. Let’s dig the whole
thing up.”

“You’re gonna photocopy that tomorrow?”
“Go ahead, give my guess. Just don’t
take it.”
“No?”

“Okay, guys, we’ve come as far as we can
here right now, and we’ll talk about it
tomorrow and make a decision.”
“Thank you, Dan. Let’s go.”