What REALLY Happened on Oak Island 1 Hour Ago

The crew is determined to find as many clues as possible to piece together the AA island’s past and find the legendary riches,
since they found gold in the island’s water.

The Lagginina brothers and their crew are investigating and gathering data that suggests gold in the trees.
The team members are still high on their recent discovery.
The crew is more optimistic than ever that they can solve the 228-year-old treasure mystery.

An ancient handcrafted ladder leading to a dark underwater tunnel is one of several signs of human interference they uncover
as they explore the island’s aquatic and subsurface areas.

According to the legend of Oak Island, one more person will need to die to break the curse which hides the treasure.
Even the lore for the island has a scary story attached to it.
It hasn’t stopped the Lagginina brothers and their crew.

The episode starts with Paul and A saying that this was going to be an exciting place to be.
The camera zooms in on their camp on the island and finds the team marking a spot on the ground
that they think would be perfect for drilling.

Marty asks if they are ready to bring the rig in.
After an affirmative response, they disperse to better positions around the area.

As another exciting week begins, Marty Lagino explains that Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michaela believe
they have isolated an area of specific interest based on the water sample testing results.

Marty gestures grandly around him and says that they are standing in that area.
As he finishes explaining this, the audience gets a flashback to the team all sitting in a room together
talking about this very development.

A man with light hair and glasses is talking excitedly about finding something cool.
After conducting water tests in bore holes across the money pit area that suggested the treasure
may be located within a 70×25 ft area just west of the garden shaft that the team have decided to call the blob.

Another expert who appears in this flashback says that a variety of items that are being buried that contain these metals
are clustered in a relatively small area.

The geoscientist Dr. Spooner is revealed as another fair-haired, emotional man in glasses
and the second expert as Dr. Fred Michael, a hydrogeologist.

They conducted new tests that have greatly narrowed the search area for the cursed island to a zone
of only a 20×20 ft and between 80 and 120 ft deep.

Which Dr. Spooner has been dubbed the Blob 2.0, or the baby blob by the others on the team.

In the present day, everyone has a copy of the plan in their hands, talking about what curious area they have landed on
to research and rediscover.

What makes the area they are standing in so interesting is that they speculate that there could potentially be a tunnel
sitting at 95 ft which comes into this potential treasure location.

A possibly unfortunate or revealing turn of events.
The conclusion is that everything is leading to this area where they have marked a big orange X.

They come to the realization that the X that marks the spot is their best chance of covering all their bases at once.
Marty’s only way comment about this is to bring in the rig already.

The team gets ready to drill bore hole DN11.5A in the baby blob.
A bore hole that they hope will not only encounter valuables below a depth of 80 ft,
but may also be on track to intercept a tunnel believed to run directly below the garden shaft
where water testing has detected trace evidence of gold or broken bar.

There is excitement in the air as the area finally gets to the best part of all their hard work.
They have conducted an extensive ear waters sampling program over months and now they are at the point
of possibly uncovering the hidden treasure that has been whispered about for centuries.

Marty’s hope is that they find something there, even if it is not the treasure,
that would end their season’s long hunt.

Charles Barkhouse, the Oak Island historian, is left in charge of the operation
as Marty excuses himself from overseeing it personally.

The narrator lets the audience know that as the drilling operation in bore hole DN11.5 gets underway,
a short while later Marty is back, but this time in the company of Oak Island operations manager Scott Barlow
and Roger Forton from Dumas Contracting Limited as they prepare to personally inspect the garden shaft.

The reconstruction of the garden shaft is well past the halfway point and their goal of 80 ft deep.
Roger estimates that they will be around 60 ft underground as they conduct their inspections.

Over the past several weeks, the team from Dumas Contracting Limited has been excavating tons of muck and water
out of the dilapidated shaft, and installing watertight wooden levels every 8 ft that they call sets.

As they build their way down the shaft, they have begun drilling at different angles
to search for evidence of potential offset man-made chambers and items.

Marty counts himself and Scott lucky to be able to go down into the garden shaft
because they have found an old ladder down there that he considers part of the island’s mystical history.

Down in the shaft, Marty is amazed by the old ladder—
undeniable proof that he is standing where adventurers and treasure hunters did before him.

Scott asks if he can see where the ladder was whittled by hand as they certainly did not have a wood lathe all those years ago.
The ladder itself is treated as a treasure in itself, as very few if any people are whittling their own wooden ladders these days.

They talk about wanting to meet the man who made the ladder and his thoughts on their operation.
Given that the garden shaft may have been constructed more than half a century prior
to the discovery of the original money pit, they wonder if this handmade ladder could have been left behind
by someone who deposited vast caches of gold.

If this is the case, it would explain the high readings of precious metals coming from this area.
This theory holds a lot of water if one takes the time to think about how long it must have taken a craftsman
to handmake a ladder of such high quality only to leave it behind in an underground shaft.

In another flashback that takes place 12 weeks prior, the team is seen drilling a borehole located just 18 ft southwest of the garden shaft.
The team then discovered a large void that they believed could be a signal of an offset chamber.

In the present day, Scott Barlow has noticed a slump at the same approximate depth in the garden shaft
and the thinking is that it could be related to the void the team found weeks earlier.

The way raises everyone’s excitement as they wonder what water they will find with their probe drilling in that area.
The ability to see outside the shaft is thrilling as they will be able to see if theories of another chamber, tunnel, or shaft
next to the garden shaft can be proven true.

Back in the money pit area, historian Charles Barkhouse and geologist Terry Mat area are hard at work.
They have been closely monitoring the drilling of the borehole DN11.5.

Now that the drilling has reached the possible treasure zone,
which lies between 80 and 120 ft deep below the Earth’s surface, Andy, a geoscientist, walks over to the tent
that Charles and Terry are setting up to check on them and see how their work is going.

Terry lets him know that they are down DN11.5 and they have reached 78 to 88 ft, getting close to their goal.
As he says this, a loud grinding sound can be heard coming from the drilling crew and everyone looks up
as the screeching only gets louder.

The drill operator says that they need to pull up the drill because they broke through something.
They decide to take a measurement on the pipe to figure out what happened.

As the drill operator reads a measuring tape, he reads that they are open a foot and a half.
Terry looks on from the tent jaw dropped, worried that something has gone terribly wrong for the crew.

The drill operator makes his way to Terry and tells him what happened.
He claims to have broken through something when he reacted to a 90 ft underground.

Terry rephrases what he has said and now the situation can be understood
as the drill operator having an open space 98 ft below grade meaning there is a void down there.

The three men in the tent let the operator know that they are going to talk over this development
and they will let him know what to do once they reach a consensus,
but for now, they want to pause the drilling.

Charles takes out his phone to contact the Lagginina brothers Rick and Marty.
Rick is shown in a confessional saying that whenever he gets a call from the money pit drill program,
it is an exciting moment for him because the DN11.5 is within the treasure zone.

They have designated the importance of the area cannot be stressed enough.
They have invested a fortune in time and money to narrow down the area with the highest gold values.

The introduction of trapped air and the voids in the area.
Rick drives down to the area right away and is in a great mood.

The entire team starts to file into the tent to near the borehole.
Everyone gathering around to hear the latest development.

Mike, the operator of the drill, tells them that at around 90 ft, he could feel the rods break through something
and it was open about a foot and a half past his rods.