The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s01e03 Episode Script
Outdoors: Voices from the Grave
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Tonight, on The
Curse of Oak Island
Someone's coming to
visit the island.
Her father and her brother died
looking for the treasure.
They were too close.
Oh, God
I'm just afraid you
might get stuck there.
The spirit of a dead
priest had entered my body.
I feel like I'm
constantly looking over my
shoulder.
Like there's
something watching you from
behind.
Yeah.
Look out!
Go!
The is an island
in the North Atlantic where men
have been digging for more than
200 years.
So far, they have uncovered
tunnels, booby-traps,
and carved stones with strange
symbols, suggesting that
something incredible must lie
below.
So far, six men have lost their
lives trying to solve the
mystery.
And according to legend, one
more will have to die before
the secret is revealed.
I guess we're all
agreed, then, that what we want
to do is plan the agenda.
Okay.
I think we need to
prioritize what we're gonna do,
and then have a backup plan,
'cause everybody knows whatever
can go awry goes awry here.
David is in charge of
all the dangerous stuff, right?
No, that's Rick's job.
That's Rick's job?
I'm just gonna throw
rope on him.
Six years ago,
Marty Lagina-- along with his
brother Rick-- purchased most
of Oak Island in an attempt to
solve the mystery once and for
all.
This started when I was
a little boy at 11 and read the
story of Oak Island.
All of these questions, you
know, that you could puzzle out
and think through that was,
that was very attractive.
So then this Oak
Island thing became our thing
that we always shared, which is
how he's always done everything
his whole life: he wants "us"
to do it.
The classic Rick was to
never give up.
And usually sort of dragged me
along with him, you know?
So so what?
In the past few
weeks, Rick, Marty and their
partners have managed to find
evidence of strange bits of
metal embedded in rock as
deep down as 235 feet.
Whoa, whoa.
Is that the-the
mother lode, right there?
That looks like it.
Yeah, yeah.
But the big
discovery so far
Yeah, there it is.
is that a
significant amount of coconut
fiber was found more than 1,500
miles from the nearest coconut
tree and dated to be more than
600 years old.
It's believed that this coconut
fiber was used as a kind of
ancient filter, needed to keep
sediment and debris out of the
booby traps that flooded the
Money Pit.
Okay.
I just want to bring everybody
up to speed about the swamp.
Fred Nolan tells us
that there's some sort of plank
thing in there.
Did you see that?
Well, there's no
question about that, because
like I say, when I was walking
through the mud with a wetsuit
on, you know, I'd take my foot
and feel on the outside, and I
could feel the circumference
of the tree.
I mean, they're pretty good
size trees.
Here's the swamp.
Where do you say in the swamp
The deep part's
right there.
Yeah.
Okay.
All of this is
shallow.
The water is only maybe maximum
five feet.
If anyone knows Oak
Island like the back of his
hand, it's Dan Blankenship.
Dan has been living on the
island and looking for treasure
here for nearly five decades.
Although he was never able to
fully explore the swamp, he
claims to have found metal stake
markers, wooden posts and--
perhaps most intriguing--
the stumps of old oak trees.
Why is that significant?
Oak trees cannot grow in water.
And if stumps are down there, it
could prove the theory that the
swamp is man-made.
Do you think
that swamp is man-made?
I always did.
Well, there you go.
If somebody created a swamp,
they did it to hide something,
right?
I mean, you don't make a swamp
for the hell of it.
So we want to see what's there.
We should get a sample
of the tree trunks to get, um,
tree dating on it to find out
when they were cut down.
That would limit certain
theories of who planted it
there.
And when the water
got there.
Yep.
Well, let's get to the
bottom of it, then.
Absolutely.
According to some
Oak Island theorists, the Money
Pit never contained any treasure
at all.
It was nothing more than a
ruse a decoy designed to
throw would-be treasure hunters
off the track.
They believe the real treasure
vault lies buried much closer to
the surface, and is hidden in
plain sight.
Is it possible that the swamp
has been the key to solving the
Oak Island mystery all along?
Okay, guys, well,
look.
It's us against this island.
This has thwarted 200 years'
worth of people trying, but
we're gonna
The island's
winning.
No, we're gonna win,
David.
Yeah?
We're gonna win.
This is the year.
This is the year.
All right.
Let's go.
Let's go do it.
Hey, everybody out.
We're gonna have a prelim
meeting right here.
Okay.
Let's figure out what
we're doing.
Okay, we're going back in there.
All of that stuff is coming out.
All of it.
This is the first one coming
down.
All right, it's laying
that way.
Which way you want to drop it?
I will drop it that
way.
You watch and see.
Well, my truck is there
and I don't want it on the in
the bed of the truck.
Don't worry about
the truck.
Oh!
Kind of chilly?
It's not deep, Rick.
Oh
Before they can
begin draining the swamp, Rick
Lagina and the boys need to
clear trees and brush so that
pumps can be brought in.
It's a very interesting
bottom in here.
It really is.
Yeah?
What's it like?
Like, flat.
Weird.
We have known anomalies in the
swamp area.
There's several rock anomalies,
flat, huge rocks.
There's a line of stones, which
may or may not be oriented
towards the Money Pit.
One of the reasons
the swamp has been so difficult
and dangerous to explore is
that it's known to contain
pockets of deadly hydrogen
sulfide, or H2S, gas.
Although colorless, it has a
smell of rotten eggs, and
naturally occurs when organic
matter is broken down by
bacteria.
It is also highly flammable, and
can even be explosive when
trapped in small areas.
You know the only
reason why I'm doing this, Dave,
don't you?
Why?
'Cause this water
stinks and I'm sitting in the
front seat.
Sitting right next to you.
No, you ain't!
Right?
As far as what's in the swamp,
there are some theories that are
beyond belief: The Ark of the
Covenant, the Holy Grail, the
Shakespearean Folios.
We don't know that these things
are in the swamp.
If they are, would it be
amazing?
You bet it would be.
All right.
You guys got it?
I'm getting
We gotta we gotta be pumping.
Yep.
I would just put 'em
just leave 'em there for now.
Look out!
Look out!
Go!
Look out!
Look out!
Go!
Heads up.
You think you're in the clear,
and you're not.
I mean, if the chainsaw's on,
something's happening,
and someone could get hurt.
And God forbid if-if it were
you two.
I-I'd just, I-I'd leave
this place.
Stay conscious at all times
of what's going on around you.
Rick Lagina has a
good reason to be concerned
about safety on Oak Island.
The island has been known to be
a dangerous, and at times,
deadly place.
Since the original Money Pit was
discovered on the island in
1795, six men have died
violently while searching
for treasure.
The first of the deaths occurred
in 1861, when one treasure
hunter-- who was trying to
remove the ocean water from the
booby-trapped pit using a steam
engine-- was scalded to death in
a bizarre accident.
His remains were never
identified.
In 1897, the island claimed its
second victim when a treasure
hunter named Maynard Kaiser fell
to his death into the Money Pit.
The island had now had its
second taste of blood, and it
wouldn't be long before it
wanted more.
Okay, guys, initially,
we're gonna go off
of Fred's map.
This is Fred's survey map.
Here's the area we want
to explore right here,
the swamp.
Once the Oak Island
swamp is drained, Rick and the
team will be searching the
bottom for anything unusual.
Could they find additional rocks
with strange carvings on them?
Or perhaps a gateway into the
original Money Pit?
So it looks like, we're
looking at this thing here?
I mean, that's kind of
Lee Lamb.
Uncle Rick, this must be
for you.
Oh, wow.
Hello?
Hi.
How are you?
The woman calling
Rick is Lee Lamb.
She is the daughter and the
sister of two more Oak Island
victims.
Her father Robert Restall and
her brother Robert Jr. were
killed along with two others
while working on Oak Island in
August of 1965.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
Great, we very much
look forward to you coming.
Okay, take care.
Well, that was Lee
Lamb, the Restalls' eldest
daughter.
You know, the anniversary
of the tragedy's coming up,
and you know, she has,
you know, strong ties to the
island, having lost her father
and her older brother in the
pit.
When that happened, you
said they were pretty close
to finding something,
or they thought so.
They thought so.
Hopefully, she can
assist us.
I believe she has information
that is relevant to our present
search, but, uh
Great, better get
cleaned up then, I guess.
Yeah, I'm excited.
The arrival of Lee
Lamb on Oak Island makes the
notions of a deadly curse seem
all the more real.
It was a Reader's Digeststory
about the Restalls' search for
treasure printed just a few
months before the tragedy that
attracted island treasure hunter
Dan Blankenship.
It was this same article that
fueled the childhood imagination
of an 11-year-old boy named
Rick Lagina.
A coincidence?
Or could it be that the Oak
Island curse identifies and
then lures its victims
in advance?
Hello, Lee, Andrew.
Dave.
Oh, David!
Hi!
Come on in.
Oh, Dan.
Excuse me.
So good to see you.
Good to see you, too.
Wonderful to see you.
Rick, nice to meet
you, Rick.
Do you know this guy?
What do you say,
Andrew?
Lee Lamb has
brought with her Andrew DeMont,
the only living survivor of the
Restall tragedy.
He has never shared
the details of what happened
on that August day
nearly 50 years ago.
Pete, let's you and I
hop in the way back here.
Okay.
There's times when I've resented
Oak Island, well, I've hated it
for what it did, to take the men
out of my life.
And then my husband died a
couple of months later.
Oak Island started it all.
I had the most perfect life.
Nobody in my life had ever died
before, before Oak Island.
The curse of Oak Island is that
things go very wrong.
It's a strange place, it does
strange things to people.
I certainly believe in the curse
and that there's some malevolent
spirit on Oak Island,
I really do.
So, is that the remains of
Hedden's Wharf?
That's it.
It's funny.
My memory doesn't have that
island so close.
In 1965, Lee Lamb
was a young woman living with
her husband in Ontario, Canada.
Although she was not on Oak
Island when her father and
brother were killed,
she remains haunted by the
tragedy to this day.
Have you seen this?
This is what Dan
No, I haven't.
Dan Blankenship had
put up.
Where were you saying that
the final pit was?
It was close to this
right here.
In that area right there.
Lee's father Robert
and her mother Mildred Restall,
worked together as motorcycle
daredevils at county fairs and
auto shows during the 1940s
and '50s.
Their act featured the notorious
Globe of Death, where both
reached speeds of 65 miles per
hour, crisscrossing one
another in a metal cage.
If their timing had been off by
even a fraction of a second,
the consequences could have
been deadly.
With that kind of fearlessness,
it's no wonder that Robert
Restall was convinced he could
solve the mystery of Oak Island.
His conviction later became
an obsession.
In 1959, he, along with Mildred
and their sons Robert Jr. and
Ricky, began living on Oak
Island while Robert and
Bobby Jr. looked
for treasure there.
But on August 17, 1965, just as
they thought they were getting
close to solving the mystery,
Robert stopped to check a 27-
foot-deep treasure shaft when he
was overcome by deadly H2S gas.
He then fell straight down into
four feet of water.
His son and four other men
jumped in to rescue him, but
not before they, too, were
overcome by the deadly gas that
had filled the watery pit.
After a frantic rescue effort,
only two men came out of the
hole alive.
Oak Island had claimed four more
souls, and Lee Lamb had lost
both her father and her brother
to the island's deadly curse.
The memories, they
are as plain as day.
I can still see it.
I heard cries.
And everybody, of course,
run to the pit to help.
So, Cyril and I was together.
The gas was so strong, that once
you got to it, you know there
was no going back up.
It was like a pit, it was just
nothing but a fog and an ugly
stink and a smell and it was
terrible.
So, uh, on the way down,
probably five feet, there was a
big timber there stretched
across the pit.
Leonard Kaiser, somehow he got
balanced just like this on a big
timber so they got him right
away.
And, uh, Cyril and I proceeded
to go down.
Your brother had your father by
the shoulders while he was
yelling, he still had him by
the shoulders out of the water.
The last I remember, I had your
brother by the shoulder.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh
And passed out.
Oh, yeah, I was gone
within seconds.
So, they were still
alive when you passed out.
Just your brother.
Your brother held on well, too.
He must have been really strong
because the gas
He was there
way before we got there, right?
Yeah.
And he still had your
father out of the water.
I felt so bad 'cause we couldn't
help.
Oh, God.
Okay.
For me to stand there and be
told by Andrew
how much, uh
had gone on that day
and to see the emotion in him.
And he told me things that I
didn't know.
So, I was glad to hear that.
I was glad to hear every piece
of it.
I just want to say
thank you, Andrew.
Oh, you're welcome.
It's great to meet you guys.
This isn't just about a
treasure hunt.
It's not just about finding
something on Oak Island.
It's bigger than that.
Oak Island has reached its
tentacles far beyond just Oak
Island.
It has affected numerous
people's families financially,
emotionally.
Ruined lives.
The Restall story, one thing it
tells is, look, you have to be
careful on Oak Island.
There's danger here.
Okay.
Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, it's lovely out
here.
It's beautiful,
isn't it?
Nice breeze.
Following her
emotional visit to the scene of
her father and brother's tragic
deaths, Lee Lamb has asked Rick
Lagina to meet with her one more
time before she returns home.
I just wanted a minute
alone with you.
I didn't want to make a big deal
in front of people.
Sure, mm-hmm.
This is one of Bobby's
maps.
Lee Lamb has spent
the decades since her father and
brother's deaths gathering
information about the Restall
tragedy, and sharing it with
those who have dared to follow
in their footsteps.
Now when we were on the
island and that article
came out that so tantalized all
of you.
(both laugh)
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
They were just buried
in mail and requests and
information
I mean, people
ask how many feet it is to this,
and whatever.
So, Bobby made this map up to
scale.
This was helpful because an
investor might, you know, find
this helpful.
Sure, sure.
Now, there's one other
thing, and I hope you'll study
them, but I must have them back.
This, this part is not a gift.
Uh, I'm curious now,
obviously.
Log books?
By your father or Bobby?
These are Bobby's
journals.
My father never wrote journals.
Oh, my goodness.
Bobby's the only one.
So, in here
How old was he here?
He was 18.
Yeah.
Every day, too.
Every day, every day.
Wow.
It's like history coming alive.
The 1704 stone
had
been part of a buried man-made
reservoir the Restalls uncovered
at Smith's Cove that fed ocean
water to the booby-trapped
tunnels that flooded the Money
Pit.
Could 1704 be the year the
Money Pit was constructed and
the treasure buried on Oak
Island?
Here's September 22,
This is exactly what we were
talking about.
According to Bobby
Restall's journals, he and his
father believed they were close
to finding a so-called "mystery
box" or vault that Jack Adams, a
former caretaker on the island
in the 1930s, claimed was
buried underneath the water and
muck of the Oak Island swamp.
Of the numerous theories about
Oak Island, many suggest that
something of great value may
have been buried on the island
and then hidden at the bottom of
a man-made swamp.
Could this "mystery box" be
proof that those theories are
true?
I have pictures of
this, Rick.
There's pictures of them working
in the swamp, like, leaning over
the water and probing with this
big long pole.
You know it would be,
would be immensely helpful
because then we-we have a way to
reference what we're looking at.
Okay, okay.
Perhaps, one of the
Restall expedition's greatest
discoveries was made in the
winter of 1962.
According to his journals, Bobby
and his father had discovered a
spiral-shaped tunnel in the
Money Pit, one that wound
downward in a clockwise
direction, approximately 104
feet below the island's surface.
Could the "mystery box" in the
swamp be somehow connected to
this strange, corkscrew-like
passageway?
Perhaps as an entrance or
gateway?
For the next two and a half
years, the Restalls worked day
and night hoping to find a way
into the strange tunnel and
whatever might be hidden there.
They believed they were on the
verge of solving the mystery of
Oak Island.
Unfortunately, they would never
live to prove it.
I want you to look at
this entry.
Monday, August 16.
That's Cave-in Pit,
and he puts the day's date in
for the next day, and that was
the day they were killed.
Wow.
I just want to give you
some advice.
I've been so impressed with how
much you respect the island.
And, uh, uh, it's just that,
that, I'm-I'm just afraid that
you might get stuck there, you
know.
It becomes difficult to go day
after day.
I mean, are you
suggesting that I stop working?
No, no (stammers)
I-I just have a little
trouble letting go of things.
But I'm sorry, I-I know you'll
understand.
Sure, sure.
You know what?
I mean, we can't change this.
We can't do anything about it,
but I hope, perhaps, on the end
of this book, you and I can fill
in here, excuse me, that we
finish.
Yeah, finish
the search.
Let's make a promise.
Okay.
Thank you.
Oh, you're welcome.
Give us one big hug
before you go.
I've had so many hugs.
I'm so spoiled.
All right, a big hug.
I'm not much of a hugger, but
you-you know
You're getting good.
I'm getting good.
Lee Lamb is
convinced her father and brother
were close to making a major
discovery before the accident
that took their lives.
Now that Rick Lagina and the
other members of the Oak Island
team are turning their
attentions to the swamp, could
history be repeating itself?
And, if so, will the outcome be
the same as it was on that
August day in 1965?
Hey, guys.
What are we doing?
Truck should be
behind us.
Okay.
Pumps are gonna get
offloaded down there.
We're running hose up
to the uplands.
Flip the switch-- water, goes up
there, swamp gets dried.
All right.
All the permits are in
place.
Swamp, water, dry.
Finally, I get it.
With all the
government permits and
permissions they need secured,
Rick, Dave and the boys begin
the process of draining the
swamp.
But it isn't going to be easy.
Covering an area close to four
and a half acres, the swamp
holds approximately 3 million
gallons of brackish water.
Because of environmental laws,
the team cannot simply pump the
water into the nearby ocean, so
they will have to move it from
the swamp to another part of the
island.
To do this, they are going to
use two 95 horsepower pumps and
five miles of hose.
Put four right here.
Four?
Yup.
It's an operation
that will take several days and
cost tens of thousands of
dollars before the team will be
able to find out what might have
been buried there hundreds of
years ago.
Male end toward
the pumps, female end away from
the pump.
Mm-hmm.
Now, this one is
rolled perfect right, the right
way so you plug it in and just
unroll it.
This is the male end,
smaller and has the grooves
for the female end to clamp in
on it.
Make sure you
got the rubber in it.
Yeah.
Got to have a rubber.
Yep.
We don't want a
bunch of baby hoses running
around.
(all laugh)
We'll take both hoses
about 30 feet up that road.
Yeah, and then
take them that way.
One will go over and
one'll go across.
Is that gonna
work or has it got a twist
in it?
No, that's right.
I'm too old for this.
Well, looks like you're
gonna come up a little short.
Do they get heavy
after about the 50th one or so?
Yes, they're heavy
right now.
We've always wanted to drain the
swamp for one simple reason.
It's never been done before.
There we go.
Now we've only got 98 more.
As far as what we
expect to find, I don't know.
And that's what's so exciting.
The unknown is always exciting.
So, as soon as we start the
draining of this swamp, then
we'll find out the answer.
Think she's
gonna work, Dan?
You know, it'll
certainly fill the hoses
with water, I mean
A self-proclaimed
hermit, Dan Henskee has been
searching for treasure on Oak
Island for nearly 50 years.
He is also firmly convinced that
the island is haunted, and that
the legends about a deadly curse
are all too true.
While helping Dan and Dave
Blankenship dig Borehole 10-X
back in the 1970s, Dan often
complained of having a series of
nightmares.
Nightmares that nearly scared
him to death.
Back in 1973, an
experience happened to me, which
was quite strange.
It involved what appeared to be
possession by a spirit of
someone long dead.
I thought that the spirit of a
dead priest had entered my body
and that the priest had his
throat cut.
I do remember falling down,
feeling that I was experiencing
the death of this person.
I don't actually know if what's
happened to me on Oak Island was
real or imaginary, there is this
long-standing legend about
pirates killing somebody in such
a way that the spirit of the
dead person would guard the
treasure forever, or until the
pirates came back and got it
themselves.
Could Dan Henskee's
belief that his soul was
possessed by a murdered priest
simply be dismissed as a strange
hallucination?
Or is it possible that there
really are dark forces on Oak
Island?
Forces that guard the secrets of
the island and protect whatever
it is that is buried there?
Some say the first instance of
something not quite right about
the island was the evening in
1795 when 18-year-old Daniel
McGinnis spotted three strange
green lights that eventually
lured him and two of his friends
across the bay to the area where
they would discover the Money
Pit.
Since then, other eerie
encounters have been documented
from sightings of the ghosts
of 18th century British troops
to those who believe the ravens
on the island are actually
possessed by the souls of the
slaves who dug the treasure
tunnels hundreds of years ago.
Before they drain the swamp,
Rick and Marty Lagina have
invited a group of paranormal
investigators to join them in an
effort to find out if the Oak
Island legends about ghosts and
curses have any basis in fact.
We've had lots of,
uh, different experiences here.
Linda's brought some pictures
for you guys to see.
Great.
This was the
first one that I had taken at
10-X, and wasn't really sure
what this was, so I zoomed in
on it.
Let me see that.
Still not really sure
what it is.
Looks like a skull,
doesn't it?
We try to debunk as
much as we can.
Once we can't debunk it anymore,
then it's just kind of left
unexplained.
Well, let me ask you
a question: you do this all over
the place, right?
Mm-hmm.
Is this place
different?
Yeah.
There's a mystery and an aura.
There's an energy
to it.
Yeah, there is.
Some of you play the
the skeptic.
Harold's a skeptic.
Yeah, and I did hear
what we thought were footsteps.
I was down by the swamp area.
Over to my right side, I could
hear these footsteps.
And I was shining the light in
the swamp, expecting to turn
around and-and see somebody
there, but there was nothing.
We got a bogeyman.
The investigators
lead Marty, Rick and the team
to the swamp one of the
places where many of them have
experienced strange, unexplained
phenomena.
Well, out of all the
spots on the island, this is
the spot that I get creeped out
the most in.
I actually don't even really
like being down here.
Can you articulate why
you don't like it here?
It's it's just the
energy that's down here.
Um, it's focused on these trees
over here.
We intend to do
extensive work here in the
swamp, looking for clues to
what happened.
Who knows what that activity
will engage?
So you're going to make
it creepier for me, is what
you're saying.
Yes, yes.
We're good to start
voice recorders.
Start at 8:00.
We have our K2s.
One of the little
green lights light up, there's
five little indicator lights on
it.
So what does that read?
Electromagnetic?
Yeah, any energy or
power sources.
There are those who
believe that if something really
is buried on Oak Island, it is
something best left undisturbed.
I feel very, very
creeped out and uncomfortable,
like I'm constantly looking over
my shoulder.
Um
Like there's
something watching.
Watching you from behind.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh.
We got a hit on the K2.
That's a big hit.
Yeah, that's a big
one.
What exactly have
the researchers on Oak Island
encountered?
Could it be just a simple
mechanical malfunction?
Or is it something much more
profound?
That is an indication
that there is something here
trying to communicate with us.
Is the curse valid?
I don't know.
Do strange things happen on Oak
Island?
Yes, they do.
There's another hit
there.
I'm not a big believer
in curses.
You know, it seems like there's
a pile of stuff that happens.
But no.
Honestly, in my heart, I don't
believe it's the Oak Island
curse.
We would like to get
more gear.
But, you know
We don't want to hinder
the search progress, but I-I
think we can cooperate.
Sounds great.
Did Rick and Marty
Lagina just experience one of
the mysterious forces that are
rumored to exist on Oak Island?
Perhaps.
But that isn't enough to prevent
them from trying to solve the
200-year-old mystery.
They've invested too many
years-- and too much money--
to stop now.
♪
After the strange
incident that happened at the
swamp the night before, Rick,
Marty and the Oak Island team
meet one last time before they
begin their biggest and possibly
most challenging operation so
far: the draining of the swamp.
I just want to talk
about
Okay, when we drain the swamp,
what are we going to do?
I mean, what are we looking for?
How are we gonna look for it?
Well, we're looking
If we start in this corner of
the swamp
That's where our pump
is, basically, right?
Right.
So we were probing in this
general vicinity and we came
upon
You can describe it.
A smooth rock.
As smooth as this table with no
silt on it, no nothing.
About three by eight feet.
That was two years ago.
We looked last year.
We couldn't find it.
Again.
Dan also claimed there
was a tunnel from the ocean to
the swamp.
I mean, you're looking at the
Money Pit.
Maybe there's a shaft.
They had to have a way to
introduce air down to those
lower depths.
Smooth stone
structures?
Tunnels into the Money Pit from
the ocean?
Could these findings be
connected to Bobby Restall's
journal entries about a "mystery
box" and strange, corkscrew-like
tunnels?
Okay, which brings me
to the last thing I have, then.
What about safety?
We know there's poison gas on
this island.
H2S will kill you very quickly,
basically paralyzes you.
So
Right.
We're going to be pumping the
swamp down, we're going to be in
a low-lying area.
Yes.
I mean, usually the
ocean breezes will keep the air
moving, we should be fine,
but
Yeah, well look,
though, but it's dangerous.
How much concentration
are we going to get in being
in such a big area?
It
David, it can
it can be really
It can behave really weirdly.
On a calm day, it could
pool, right?
Yeah, it pools up.
But that's just it.
I-I would like to see us have
part per million detectors.
The reason we know about this is
it's a common contaminant in
natural gas.
And at concentrations that'll
kill you so quickly you can't
One breath.
One breath and you're dead.
It paralyzes you.
Yeah, you're
paralyzed.
And the other insidious thing
about it is that at higher
concentrations it-it deadens
the olfactory cells in your
nose.
So you're going along and you're
saying, "Oh, man, that stinks,
so there's gas but I'm still
okay."
Then all of a sudden you don't
smell it again.
And then about ten seconds
later, you're dead.
You think you're good.
It's very important.
And it sounds insignificant, but
no one goes in there alone.
Ever.
I'll accept that.
David can speak to
that.
If it's going to go
wrong, it's going to go wrong.
On that note
Okay, let's go.
Let's call this meeting.
All right, everybody
out.
Let's get the hose in the water
and get after it.
If Rick and Marty
can successfully drain the
swamp, they could discover what
might be the final piece in a
200-year-old puzzle.
But will solving the Oak Island
mystery really be the end of the
story?
Or only the beginning?
All the previous
searchers, the early
discoverers, the early explorers
came with a sense of "I can
solve what's unsolvable."
More so than, I think, the
singular pursuit of treasure.
I think that's what has driven a
lot of people to this island.
I'm not
I'm not
thinking I'm the guy to do it,
necessarily.
I'm thinking he's the guy to do
it.
Well, I have no
intention of failing.
See?
Keep going, Rick.
We believe in you!
How cold is that
water, by the way, big brother?
It's not fun.
No, I'll bet not.
All right.
Okay.
Start it up.
Let's go.
There it goes.
Yeah, I want to see
the discharge point.
Yeah-hey!
High five!
The swamp is actually being
drained.
Rick, Marty and the
other members of their team are
within hours of finding out
whether the Oak Island swamp
hides the key to solving a
200-year-old mystery.
Could it really be a gateway to
a vast underground labyrinth of
tunnels and treasure vaults?
Or will it lead to a dead end?
And what of the legend that
seven must die in pursuit of the
treasure before it can ever be
found?
So far, six men have lost their
lives in pursuit of a dream.
A dream that became an
obsession.
But was it the island that
claimed these souls?
Or was it their own blind desire
to go farther and deeper than
man was ever meant to go?
And if so, who will be next?
Who will be the next victim of
the curse of Oak Island?
Next time, on The
Curse of Oak Island
I found a treasure map
leading to Oak Island.
It is concealed in codes in the
manuscripts of William
Shakespeare.
And it also tells you what the
treasure is.
You believe that the
menorah from the Temple of
Solomon could be buried on Oak
Island?
Yeah, basically.
I'm actually getting multiple signals.
Tonight, on The
Curse of Oak Island
Someone's coming to
visit the island.
Her father and her brother died
looking for the treasure.
They were too close.
Oh, God
I'm just afraid you
might get stuck there.
The spirit of a dead
priest had entered my body.
I feel like I'm
constantly looking over my
shoulder.
Like there's
something watching you from
behind.
Yeah.
Look out!
Go!
The is an island
in the North Atlantic where men
have been digging for more than
200 years.
So far, they have uncovered
tunnels, booby-traps,
and carved stones with strange
symbols, suggesting that
something incredible must lie
below.
So far, six men have lost their
lives trying to solve the
mystery.
And according to legend, one
more will have to die before
the secret is revealed.
I guess we're all
agreed, then, that what we want
to do is plan the agenda.
Okay.
I think we need to
prioritize what we're gonna do,
and then have a backup plan,
'cause everybody knows whatever
can go awry goes awry here.
David is in charge of
all the dangerous stuff, right?
No, that's Rick's job.
That's Rick's job?
I'm just gonna throw
rope on him.
Six years ago,
Marty Lagina-- along with his
brother Rick-- purchased most
of Oak Island in an attempt to
solve the mystery once and for
all.
This started when I was
a little boy at 11 and read the
story of Oak Island.
All of these questions, you
know, that you could puzzle out
and think through that was,
that was very attractive.
So then this Oak
Island thing became our thing
that we always shared, which is
how he's always done everything
his whole life: he wants "us"
to do it.
The classic Rick was to
never give up.
And usually sort of dragged me
along with him, you know?
So so what?
In the past few
weeks, Rick, Marty and their
partners have managed to find
evidence of strange bits of
metal embedded in rock as
deep down as 235 feet.
Whoa, whoa.
Is that the-the
mother lode, right there?
That looks like it.
Yeah, yeah.
But the big
discovery so far
Yeah, there it is.
is that a
significant amount of coconut
fiber was found more than 1,500
miles from the nearest coconut
tree and dated to be more than
600 years old.
It's believed that this coconut
fiber was used as a kind of
ancient filter, needed to keep
sediment and debris out of the
booby traps that flooded the
Money Pit.
Okay.
I just want to bring everybody
up to speed about the swamp.
Fred Nolan tells us
that there's some sort of plank
thing in there.
Did you see that?
Well, there's no
question about that, because
like I say, when I was walking
through the mud with a wetsuit
on, you know, I'd take my foot
and feel on the outside, and I
could feel the circumference
of the tree.
I mean, they're pretty good
size trees.
Here's the swamp.
Where do you say in the swamp
The deep part's
right there.
Yeah.
Okay.
All of this is
shallow.
The water is only maybe maximum
five feet.
If anyone knows Oak
Island like the back of his
hand, it's Dan Blankenship.
Dan has been living on the
island and looking for treasure
here for nearly five decades.
Although he was never able to
fully explore the swamp, he
claims to have found metal stake
markers, wooden posts and--
perhaps most intriguing--
the stumps of old oak trees.
Why is that significant?
Oak trees cannot grow in water.
And if stumps are down there, it
could prove the theory that the
swamp is man-made.
Do you think
that swamp is man-made?
I always did.
Well, there you go.
If somebody created a swamp,
they did it to hide something,
right?
I mean, you don't make a swamp
for the hell of it.
So we want to see what's there.
We should get a sample
of the tree trunks to get, um,
tree dating on it to find out
when they were cut down.
That would limit certain
theories of who planted it
there.
And when the water
got there.
Yep.
Well, let's get to the
bottom of it, then.
Absolutely.
According to some
Oak Island theorists, the Money
Pit never contained any treasure
at all.
It was nothing more than a
ruse a decoy designed to
throw would-be treasure hunters
off the track.
They believe the real treasure
vault lies buried much closer to
the surface, and is hidden in
plain sight.
Is it possible that the swamp
has been the key to solving the
Oak Island mystery all along?
Okay, guys, well,
look.
It's us against this island.
This has thwarted 200 years'
worth of people trying, but
we're gonna
The island's
winning.
No, we're gonna win,
David.
Yeah?
We're gonna win.
This is the year.
This is the year.
All right.
Let's go.
Let's go do it.
Hey, everybody out.
We're gonna have a prelim
meeting right here.
Okay.
Let's figure out what
we're doing.
Okay, we're going back in there.
All of that stuff is coming out.
All of it.
This is the first one coming
down.
All right, it's laying
that way.
Which way you want to drop it?
I will drop it that
way.
You watch and see.
Well, my truck is there
and I don't want it on the in
the bed of the truck.
Don't worry about
the truck.
Oh!
Kind of chilly?
It's not deep, Rick.
Oh
Before they can
begin draining the swamp, Rick
Lagina and the boys need to
clear trees and brush so that
pumps can be brought in.
It's a very interesting
bottom in here.
It really is.
Yeah?
What's it like?
Like, flat.
Weird.
We have known anomalies in the
swamp area.
There's several rock anomalies,
flat, huge rocks.
There's a line of stones, which
may or may not be oriented
towards the Money Pit.
One of the reasons
the swamp has been so difficult
and dangerous to explore is
that it's known to contain
pockets of deadly hydrogen
sulfide, or H2S, gas.
Although colorless, it has a
smell of rotten eggs, and
naturally occurs when organic
matter is broken down by
bacteria.
It is also highly flammable, and
can even be explosive when
trapped in small areas.
You know the only
reason why I'm doing this, Dave,
don't you?
Why?
'Cause this water
stinks and I'm sitting in the
front seat.
Sitting right next to you.
No, you ain't!
Right?
As far as what's in the swamp,
there are some theories that are
beyond belief: The Ark of the
Covenant, the Holy Grail, the
Shakespearean Folios.
We don't know that these things
are in the swamp.
If they are, would it be
amazing?
You bet it would be.
All right.
You guys got it?
I'm getting
We gotta we gotta be pumping.
Yep.
I would just put 'em
just leave 'em there for now.
Look out!
Look out!
Go!
Look out!
Look out!
Go!
Heads up.
You think you're in the clear,
and you're not.
I mean, if the chainsaw's on,
something's happening,
and someone could get hurt.
And God forbid if-if it were
you two.
I-I'd just, I-I'd leave
this place.
Stay conscious at all times
of what's going on around you.
Rick Lagina has a
good reason to be concerned
about safety on Oak Island.
The island has been known to be
a dangerous, and at times,
deadly place.
Since the original Money Pit was
discovered on the island in
1795, six men have died
violently while searching
for treasure.
The first of the deaths occurred
in 1861, when one treasure
hunter-- who was trying to
remove the ocean water from the
booby-trapped pit using a steam
engine-- was scalded to death in
a bizarre accident.
His remains were never
identified.
In 1897, the island claimed its
second victim when a treasure
hunter named Maynard Kaiser fell
to his death into the Money Pit.
The island had now had its
second taste of blood, and it
wouldn't be long before it
wanted more.
Okay, guys, initially,
we're gonna go off
of Fred's map.
This is Fred's survey map.
Here's the area we want
to explore right here,
the swamp.
Once the Oak Island
swamp is drained, Rick and the
team will be searching the
bottom for anything unusual.
Could they find additional rocks
with strange carvings on them?
Or perhaps a gateway into the
original Money Pit?
So it looks like, we're
looking at this thing here?
I mean, that's kind of
Lee Lamb.
Uncle Rick, this must be
for you.
Oh, wow.
Hello?
Hi.
How are you?
The woman calling
Rick is Lee Lamb.
She is the daughter and the
sister of two more Oak Island
victims.
Her father Robert Restall and
her brother Robert Jr. were
killed along with two others
while working on Oak Island in
August of 1965.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
Great, we very much
look forward to you coming.
Okay, take care.
Well, that was Lee
Lamb, the Restalls' eldest
daughter.
You know, the anniversary
of the tragedy's coming up,
and you know, she has,
you know, strong ties to the
island, having lost her father
and her older brother in the
pit.
When that happened, you
said they were pretty close
to finding something,
or they thought so.
They thought so.
Hopefully, she can
assist us.
I believe she has information
that is relevant to our present
search, but, uh
Great, better get
cleaned up then, I guess.
Yeah, I'm excited.
The arrival of Lee
Lamb on Oak Island makes the
notions of a deadly curse seem
all the more real.
It was a Reader's Digeststory
about the Restalls' search for
treasure printed just a few
months before the tragedy that
attracted island treasure hunter
Dan Blankenship.
It was this same article that
fueled the childhood imagination
of an 11-year-old boy named
Rick Lagina.
A coincidence?
Or could it be that the Oak
Island curse identifies and
then lures its victims
in advance?
Hello, Lee, Andrew.
Dave.
Oh, David!
Hi!
Come on in.
Oh, Dan.
Excuse me.
So good to see you.
Good to see you, too.
Wonderful to see you.
Rick, nice to meet
you, Rick.
Do you know this guy?
What do you say,
Andrew?
Lee Lamb has
brought with her Andrew DeMont,
the only living survivor of the
Restall tragedy.
He has never shared
the details of what happened
on that August day
nearly 50 years ago.
Pete, let's you and I
hop in the way back here.
Okay.
There's times when I've resented
Oak Island, well, I've hated it
for what it did, to take the men
out of my life.
And then my husband died a
couple of months later.
Oak Island started it all.
I had the most perfect life.
Nobody in my life had ever died
before, before Oak Island.
The curse of Oak Island is that
things go very wrong.
It's a strange place, it does
strange things to people.
I certainly believe in the curse
and that there's some malevolent
spirit on Oak Island,
I really do.
So, is that the remains of
Hedden's Wharf?
That's it.
It's funny.
My memory doesn't have that
island so close.
In 1965, Lee Lamb
was a young woman living with
her husband in Ontario, Canada.
Although she was not on Oak
Island when her father and
brother were killed,
she remains haunted by the
tragedy to this day.
Have you seen this?
This is what Dan
No, I haven't.
Dan Blankenship had
put up.
Where were you saying that
the final pit was?
It was close to this
right here.
In that area right there.
Lee's father Robert
and her mother Mildred Restall,
worked together as motorcycle
daredevils at county fairs and
auto shows during the 1940s
and '50s.
Their act featured the notorious
Globe of Death, where both
reached speeds of 65 miles per
hour, crisscrossing one
another in a metal cage.
If their timing had been off by
even a fraction of a second,
the consequences could have
been deadly.
With that kind of fearlessness,
it's no wonder that Robert
Restall was convinced he could
solve the mystery of Oak Island.
His conviction later became
an obsession.
In 1959, he, along with Mildred
and their sons Robert Jr. and
Ricky, began living on Oak
Island while Robert and
Bobby Jr. looked
for treasure there.
But on August 17, 1965, just as
they thought they were getting
close to solving the mystery,
Robert stopped to check a 27-
foot-deep treasure shaft when he
was overcome by deadly H2S gas.
He then fell straight down into
four feet of water.
His son and four other men
jumped in to rescue him, but
not before they, too, were
overcome by the deadly gas that
had filled the watery pit.
After a frantic rescue effort,
only two men came out of the
hole alive.
Oak Island had claimed four more
souls, and Lee Lamb had lost
both her father and her brother
to the island's deadly curse.
The memories, they
are as plain as day.
I can still see it.
I heard cries.
And everybody, of course,
run to the pit to help.
So, Cyril and I was together.
The gas was so strong, that once
you got to it, you know there
was no going back up.
It was like a pit, it was just
nothing but a fog and an ugly
stink and a smell and it was
terrible.
So, uh, on the way down,
probably five feet, there was a
big timber there stretched
across the pit.
Leonard Kaiser, somehow he got
balanced just like this on a big
timber so they got him right
away.
And, uh, Cyril and I proceeded
to go down.
Your brother had your father by
the shoulders while he was
yelling, he still had him by
the shoulders out of the water.
The last I remember, I had your
brother by the shoulder.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh
And passed out.
Oh, yeah, I was gone
within seconds.
So, they were still
alive when you passed out.
Just your brother.
Your brother held on well, too.
He must have been really strong
because the gas
He was there
way before we got there, right?
Yeah.
And he still had your
father out of the water.
I felt so bad 'cause we couldn't
help.
Oh, God.
Okay.
For me to stand there and be
told by Andrew
how much, uh
had gone on that day
and to see the emotion in him.
And he told me things that I
didn't know.
So, I was glad to hear that.
I was glad to hear every piece
of it.
I just want to say
thank you, Andrew.
Oh, you're welcome.
It's great to meet you guys.
This isn't just about a
treasure hunt.
It's not just about finding
something on Oak Island.
It's bigger than that.
Oak Island has reached its
tentacles far beyond just Oak
Island.
It has affected numerous
people's families financially,
emotionally.
Ruined lives.
The Restall story, one thing it
tells is, look, you have to be
careful on Oak Island.
There's danger here.
Okay.
Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, it's lovely out
here.
It's beautiful,
isn't it?
Nice breeze.
Following her
emotional visit to the scene of
her father and brother's tragic
deaths, Lee Lamb has asked Rick
Lagina to meet with her one more
time before she returns home.
I just wanted a minute
alone with you.
I didn't want to make a big deal
in front of people.
Sure, mm-hmm.
This is one of Bobby's
maps.
Lee Lamb has spent
the decades since her father and
brother's deaths gathering
information about the Restall
tragedy, and sharing it with
those who have dared to follow
in their footsteps.
Now when we were on the
island and that article
came out that so tantalized all
of you.
(both laugh)
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
They were just buried
in mail and requests and
information
I mean, people
ask how many feet it is to this,
and whatever.
So, Bobby made this map up to
scale.
This was helpful because an
investor might, you know, find
this helpful.
Sure, sure.
Now, there's one other
thing, and I hope you'll study
them, but I must have them back.
This, this part is not a gift.
Uh, I'm curious now,
obviously.
Log books?
By your father or Bobby?
These are Bobby's
journals.
My father never wrote journals.
Oh, my goodness.
Bobby's the only one.
So, in here
How old was he here?
He was 18.
Yeah.
Every day, too.
Every day, every day.
Wow.
It's like history coming alive.
The 1704 stone
had
been part of a buried man-made
reservoir the Restalls uncovered
at Smith's Cove that fed ocean
water to the booby-trapped
tunnels that flooded the Money
Pit.
Could 1704 be the year the
Money Pit was constructed and
the treasure buried on Oak
Island?
Here's September 22,
This is exactly what we were
talking about.
According to Bobby
Restall's journals, he and his
father believed they were close
to finding a so-called "mystery
box" or vault that Jack Adams, a
former caretaker on the island
in the 1930s, claimed was
buried underneath the water and
muck of the Oak Island swamp.
Of the numerous theories about
Oak Island, many suggest that
something of great value may
have been buried on the island
and then hidden at the bottom of
a man-made swamp.
Could this "mystery box" be
proof that those theories are
true?
I have pictures of
this, Rick.
There's pictures of them working
in the swamp, like, leaning over
the water and probing with this
big long pole.
You know it would be,
would be immensely helpful
because then we-we have a way to
reference what we're looking at.
Okay, okay.
Perhaps, one of the
Restall expedition's greatest
discoveries was made in the
winter of 1962.
According to his journals, Bobby
and his father had discovered a
spiral-shaped tunnel in the
Money Pit, one that wound
downward in a clockwise
direction, approximately 104
feet below the island's surface.
Could the "mystery box" in the
swamp be somehow connected to
this strange, corkscrew-like
passageway?
Perhaps as an entrance or
gateway?
For the next two and a half
years, the Restalls worked day
and night hoping to find a way
into the strange tunnel and
whatever might be hidden there.
They believed they were on the
verge of solving the mystery of
Oak Island.
Unfortunately, they would never
live to prove it.
I want you to look at
this entry.
Monday, August 16.
That's Cave-in Pit,
and he puts the day's date in
for the next day, and that was
the day they were killed.
Wow.
I just want to give you
some advice.
I've been so impressed with how
much you respect the island.
And, uh, uh, it's just that,
that, I'm-I'm just afraid that
you might get stuck there, you
know.
It becomes difficult to go day
after day.
I mean, are you
suggesting that I stop working?
No, no (stammers)
I-I just have a little
trouble letting go of things.
But I'm sorry, I-I know you'll
understand.
Sure, sure.
You know what?
I mean, we can't change this.
We can't do anything about it,
but I hope, perhaps, on the end
of this book, you and I can fill
in here, excuse me, that we
finish.
Yeah, finish
the search.
Let's make a promise.
Okay.
Thank you.
Oh, you're welcome.
Give us one big hug
before you go.
I've had so many hugs.
I'm so spoiled.
All right, a big hug.
I'm not much of a hugger, but
you-you know
You're getting good.
I'm getting good.
Lee Lamb is
convinced her father and brother
were close to making a major
discovery before the accident
that took their lives.
Now that Rick Lagina and the
other members of the Oak Island
team are turning their
attentions to the swamp, could
history be repeating itself?
And, if so, will the outcome be
the same as it was on that
August day in 1965?
Hey, guys.
What are we doing?
Truck should be
behind us.
Okay.
Pumps are gonna get
offloaded down there.
We're running hose up
to the uplands.
Flip the switch-- water, goes up
there, swamp gets dried.
All right.
All the permits are in
place.
Swamp, water, dry.
Finally, I get it.
With all the
government permits and
permissions they need secured,
Rick, Dave and the boys begin
the process of draining the
swamp.
But it isn't going to be easy.
Covering an area close to four
and a half acres, the swamp
holds approximately 3 million
gallons of brackish water.
Because of environmental laws,
the team cannot simply pump the
water into the nearby ocean, so
they will have to move it from
the swamp to another part of the
island.
To do this, they are going to
use two 95 horsepower pumps and
five miles of hose.
Put four right here.
Four?
Yup.
It's an operation
that will take several days and
cost tens of thousands of
dollars before the team will be
able to find out what might have
been buried there hundreds of
years ago.
Male end toward
the pumps, female end away from
the pump.
Mm-hmm.
Now, this one is
rolled perfect right, the right
way so you plug it in and just
unroll it.
This is the male end,
smaller and has the grooves
for the female end to clamp in
on it.
Make sure you
got the rubber in it.
Yeah.
Got to have a rubber.
Yep.
We don't want a
bunch of baby hoses running
around.
(all laugh)
We'll take both hoses
about 30 feet up that road.
Yeah, and then
take them that way.
One will go over and
one'll go across.
Is that gonna
work or has it got a twist
in it?
No, that's right.
I'm too old for this.
Well, looks like you're
gonna come up a little short.
Do they get heavy
after about the 50th one or so?
Yes, they're heavy
right now.
We've always wanted to drain the
swamp for one simple reason.
It's never been done before.
There we go.
Now we've only got 98 more.
As far as what we
expect to find, I don't know.
And that's what's so exciting.
The unknown is always exciting.
So, as soon as we start the
draining of this swamp, then
we'll find out the answer.
Think she's
gonna work, Dan?
You know, it'll
certainly fill the hoses
with water, I mean
A self-proclaimed
hermit, Dan Henskee has been
searching for treasure on Oak
Island for nearly 50 years.
He is also firmly convinced that
the island is haunted, and that
the legends about a deadly curse
are all too true.
While helping Dan and Dave
Blankenship dig Borehole 10-X
back in the 1970s, Dan often
complained of having a series of
nightmares.
Nightmares that nearly scared
him to death.
Back in 1973, an
experience happened to me, which
was quite strange.
It involved what appeared to be
possession by a spirit of
someone long dead.
I thought that the spirit of a
dead priest had entered my body
and that the priest had his
throat cut.
I do remember falling down,
feeling that I was experiencing
the death of this person.
I don't actually know if what's
happened to me on Oak Island was
real or imaginary, there is this
long-standing legend about
pirates killing somebody in such
a way that the spirit of the
dead person would guard the
treasure forever, or until the
pirates came back and got it
themselves.
Could Dan Henskee's
belief that his soul was
possessed by a murdered priest
simply be dismissed as a strange
hallucination?
Or is it possible that there
really are dark forces on Oak
Island?
Forces that guard the secrets of
the island and protect whatever
it is that is buried there?
Some say the first instance of
something not quite right about
the island was the evening in
1795 when 18-year-old Daniel
McGinnis spotted three strange
green lights that eventually
lured him and two of his friends
across the bay to the area where
they would discover the Money
Pit.
Since then, other eerie
encounters have been documented
from sightings of the ghosts
of 18th century British troops
to those who believe the ravens
on the island are actually
possessed by the souls of the
slaves who dug the treasure
tunnels hundreds of years ago.
Before they drain the swamp,
Rick and Marty Lagina have
invited a group of paranormal
investigators to join them in an
effort to find out if the Oak
Island legends about ghosts and
curses have any basis in fact.
We've had lots of,
uh, different experiences here.
Linda's brought some pictures
for you guys to see.
Great.
This was the
first one that I had taken at
10-X, and wasn't really sure
what this was, so I zoomed in
on it.
Let me see that.
Still not really sure
what it is.
Looks like a skull,
doesn't it?
We try to debunk as
much as we can.
Once we can't debunk it anymore,
then it's just kind of left
unexplained.
Well, let me ask you
a question: you do this all over
the place, right?
Mm-hmm.
Is this place
different?
Yeah.
There's a mystery and an aura.
There's an energy
to it.
Yeah, there is.
Some of you play the
the skeptic.
Harold's a skeptic.
Yeah, and I did hear
what we thought were footsteps.
I was down by the swamp area.
Over to my right side, I could
hear these footsteps.
And I was shining the light in
the swamp, expecting to turn
around and-and see somebody
there, but there was nothing.
We got a bogeyman.
The investigators
lead Marty, Rick and the team
to the swamp one of the
places where many of them have
experienced strange, unexplained
phenomena.
Well, out of all the
spots on the island, this is
the spot that I get creeped out
the most in.
I actually don't even really
like being down here.
Can you articulate why
you don't like it here?
It's it's just the
energy that's down here.
Um, it's focused on these trees
over here.
We intend to do
extensive work here in the
swamp, looking for clues to
what happened.
Who knows what that activity
will engage?
So you're going to make
it creepier for me, is what
you're saying.
Yes, yes.
We're good to start
voice recorders.
Start at 8:00.
We have our K2s.
One of the little
green lights light up, there's
five little indicator lights on
it.
So what does that read?
Electromagnetic?
Yeah, any energy or
power sources.
There are those who
believe that if something really
is buried on Oak Island, it is
something best left undisturbed.
I feel very, very
creeped out and uncomfortable,
like I'm constantly looking over
my shoulder.
Um
Like there's
something watching.
Watching you from behind.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh.
We got a hit on the K2.
That's a big hit.
Yeah, that's a big
one.
What exactly have
the researchers on Oak Island
encountered?
Could it be just a simple
mechanical malfunction?
Or is it something much more
profound?
That is an indication
that there is something here
trying to communicate with us.
Is the curse valid?
I don't know.
Do strange things happen on Oak
Island?
Yes, they do.
There's another hit
there.
I'm not a big believer
in curses.
You know, it seems like there's
a pile of stuff that happens.
But no.
Honestly, in my heart, I don't
believe it's the Oak Island
curse.
We would like to get
more gear.
But, you know
We don't want to hinder
the search progress, but I-I
think we can cooperate.
Sounds great.
Did Rick and Marty
Lagina just experience one of
the mysterious forces that are
rumored to exist on Oak Island?
Perhaps.
But that isn't enough to prevent
them from trying to solve the
200-year-old mystery.
They've invested too many
years-- and too much money--
to stop now.
♪
After the strange
incident that happened at the
swamp the night before, Rick,
Marty and the Oak Island team
meet one last time before they
begin their biggest and possibly
most challenging operation so
far: the draining of the swamp.
I just want to talk
about
Okay, when we drain the swamp,
what are we going to do?
I mean, what are we looking for?
How are we gonna look for it?
Well, we're looking
If we start in this corner of
the swamp
That's where our pump
is, basically, right?
Right.
So we were probing in this
general vicinity and we came
upon
You can describe it.
A smooth rock.
As smooth as this table with no
silt on it, no nothing.
About three by eight feet.
That was two years ago.
We looked last year.
We couldn't find it.
Again.
Dan also claimed there
was a tunnel from the ocean to
the swamp.
I mean, you're looking at the
Money Pit.
Maybe there's a shaft.
They had to have a way to
introduce air down to those
lower depths.
Smooth stone
structures?
Tunnels into the Money Pit from
the ocean?
Could these findings be
connected to Bobby Restall's
journal entries about a "mystery
box" and strange, corkscrew-like
tunnels?
Okay, which brings me
to the last thing I have, then.
What about safety?
We know there's poison gas on
this island.
H2S will kill you very quickly,
basically paralyzes you.
So
Right.
We're going to be pumping the
swamp down, we're going to be in
a low-lying area.
Yes.
I mean, usually the
ocean breezes will keep the air
moving, we should be fine,
but
Yeah, well look,
though, but it's dangerous.
How much concentration
are we going to get in being
in such a big area?
It
David, it can
it can be really
It can behave really weirdly.
On a calm day, it could
pool, right?
Yeah, it pools up.
But that's just it.
I-I would like to see us have
part per million detectors.
The reason we know about this is
it's a common contaminant in
natural gas.
And at concentrations that'll
kill you so quickly you can't
One breath.
One breath and you're dead.
It paralyzes you.
Yeah, you're
paralyzed.
And the other insidious thing
about it is that at higher
concentrations it-it deadens
the olfactory cells in your
nose.
So you're going along and you're
saying, "Oh, man, that stinks,
so there's gas but I'm still
okay."
Then all of a sudden you don't
smell it again.
And then about ten seconds
later, you're dead.
You think you're good.
It's very important.
And it sounds insignificant, but
no one goes in there alone.
Ever.
I'll accept that.
David can speak to
that.
If it's going to go
wrong, it's going to go wrong.
On that note
Okay, let's go.
Let's call this meeting.
All right, everybody
out.
Let's get the hose in the water
and get after it.
If Rick and Marty
can successfully drain the
swamp, they could discover what
might be the final piece in a
200-year-old puzzle.
But will solving the Oak Island
mystery really be the end of the
story?
Or only the beginning?
All the previous
searchers, the early
discoverers, the early explorers
came with a sense of "I can
solve what's unsolvable."
More so than, I think, the
singular pursuit of treasure.
I think that's what has driven a
lot of people to this island.
I'm not
I'm not
thinking I'm the guy to do it,
necessarily.
I'm thinking he's the guy to do
it.
Well, I have no
intention of failing.
See?
Keep going, Rick.
We believe in you!
How cold is that
water, by the way, big brother?
It's not fun.
No, I'll bet not.
All right.
Okay.
Start it up.
Let's go.
There it goes.
Yeah, I want to see
the discharge point.
Yeah-hey!
High five!
The swamp is actually being
drained.
Rick, Marty and the
other members of their team are
within hours of finding out
whether the Oak Island swamp
hides the key to solving a
200-year-old mystery.
Could it really be a gateway to
a vast underground labyrinth of
tunnels and treasure vaults?
Or will it lead to a dead end?
And what of the legend that
seven must die in pursuit of the
treasure before it can ever be
found?
So far, six men have lost their
lives in pursuit of a dream.
A dream that became an
obsession.
But was it the island that
claimed these souls?
Or was it their own blind desire
to go farther and deeper than
man was ever meant to go?
And if so, who will be next?
Who will be the next victim of
the curse of Oak Island?
Next time, on The
Curse of Oak Island
I found a treasure map
leading to Oak Island.
It is concealed in codes in the
manuscripts of William
Shakespeare.
And it also tells you what the
treasure is.
You believe that the
menorah from the Temple of
Solomon could be buried on Oak
Island?
Yeah, basically.
I'm actually getting multiple signals.