The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s01e05 Episode Script
The Find
1
Tonight on The Curse
of Oak Island
This is the most
sophisticated equipment that's
ever been on this island.
That's what we're
looking for.
Wow, this could be it.
This could be the find.
What are you
getting, Rick?
What are you getting,
big brother?
Whoa.
Whoa!
Are you serious?
Well, that's a
game-changer.
It predates the
Money Pit by at least 150 years.
It's the first piece
of evidence that I've been able
to hold in my hand.
This is the most
valuable thing that's ever been
found on Oak Island.
Yes!
There is a
mysterious island in the North
Atlantic where for more than
200 years people have been
looking for treasure.
So far they have found
underground tunnels and shafts,
bizarre booby traps
even a stone slab with strange
symbols carved into it--
but nothing of value.
Still, they dig, deeper
and deeper.
Six men have lost their lives in
the search.
And according to legend, one
more will have to die before the
mystery can be solved.
Oh, let's go get it.
Let's get Big Max in the swamp.
This is exciting.
I mean, I don't believe it,
okay, 'cause I'm not gonna
believe it till I see it, but
still, cool.
Rick and Marty
Lagina may be on the verge of a
breakthrough in solving the
mystery of Oak Island.
Let's go, let's figure
this out.
Look at the grin on that guy's
face.
Come on, let's go.
It's not very heavy,
Rick.
Andiamo.
A few minutes ago,
Rick Lagina stumbled onto
something that he hopes will
finally answer the biggest
question of all:
What lies below?
Holy (bleep).
After partially
draining the Oak Island swamp,
and using a simple metal
detector, he located what he
believes is a large
square-edged object lying just a
few feet beneath the water.
All right, let's go
get this thing.
Come on, let's go.
Located in the
middle of the island, the
strange triangle-shaped swamp
has long been thought to be
man-made-- but why?
I found the treasure
map leading to Oak Island.
According to
Norwegian researcher Petter
Amundsen, the swamp may very
well have been the place where
the Knights Templar, or their
descendants, buried priceless
religious artifacts rescued from
the Great Temple of Jerusalem
during the Crusades.
Shakespeare holds the
key.
His theory is based
on what he believes is an
elaborate series of codes
concealed within the first
printed folios of William
Shakespeare.
And the codes, in turn, lead to
what Amundsen calls the "Mercy
point," which is right where
Rick Lagina believes he has
located a mysterious
square-edged object.
Yeah, if you want to
start imaging and go out there
and do your ground balancing
Okay, let's do a ground balance.
Level coil.
Is he level?
Ground balance one.
Earlier, the swamp
was scanned using a conventional
metal detector.
Will you check your
data logger, make sure it's on?
Data logger's on.
Now the team has
returned and is using a bigger
and even more sophisticated
metal-detection device called
the Deepmax X6.
It can scan to a depth of nearly
40 feet, and can identify what
type of metal objects or
material might lie below.
If you see this
spike up, you know you're over
something.
Now that we got the
Deepmax unit out here, we can
confirm the data and we can see
it for the first time.
On Rick's mark, he
will say "Zero."
Zero starts the run.
You guys walk at a slow pace,
steady, try to get this coil as
far down as you can.
Teeter on the edge of falling
off if you have to, Will.
Don't step off in that muck.
He's got a belt on.
Okay, no steel here.
How big is the belt buckle?
Since the Deepmax
X6 will pick up any trace of
metal
Let's take it off.
it's imperative
the team members don't
accidentally compromise the
readings.
Give me your belt.
Yeah, we're gonna have
a little show here when your
pants fall off.
I've never done this
before.
While Rick and
Marty's nephew David and his
friend Will use the Deepmax unit
to scan the swamp, Rick follows
behind wearing a data recorder.
Rick, on your mark.
Okay.
Zero start.
Ready?
Yep.
Okay.
Go.
I think this is the
most sophisticated equipment
that's ever been on this island,
these metal detectors that can
sense very deep.
It's great.
Left side up, Will.
Keep going, keep going.
Okay, get it as far back-- get
the coil as far back as you can.
Get right on the edge of the
board.
Hey, David, if you fall off, you
know you're far enough.
(laughs)
What you getting, Rick?
Just nothing.
I got nothing.
That doesn't sound
good.
Go that way.
Holy (bleep).
You got to be kidding me.
That's it.
Right when you went
over that spot?
What'd you get, big
brother?
Full scale, almost a
sheet and a half.
Full scale.
That's what we're
looking for.
There were so many
hits.
I mean, it goes off in your hand
and you think, wow, this could
be it, this could be the find.
So, you got a spike
over that spot?
Good.
That's what I
want to hear.
It was quite
impressive.
You know, it mimicked what Steve
found, to a tee.
You know, I try not
to let my expectations rise too
much, 'cause you get
disappointed.
He got a big hit out there
straightaway, yeah, it's
exciting, but I'm not gonna let
my emotions get carried away
until we actually see something.
So it's great.
Uh, we got a lot more work to
do.
Uh, yeah, after we
get back.
Yeah, he got the data,
Rick.
Okay.
Let's run it
through software, see what we
get.
Yeah, absolutely.
Head for the war room.
To the war room!
After getting a
series of hits indicating that
there may very well be metal
objects somewhere buried in the
swamp, Rick, Marty and the team
return to the war room to
analyze the results gathered by
the Deepmax X6 data recorder.
You brought everything
we need to see, right, Steve?
Yes, sir.
Metal detection
expert Steve Zazulyk will try to
give Rick and Marty an idea of
what they found-- with the help
of a computer model.
All of our data is in.
It's very good that you keep
things in perspective.
So, I just want to kind of start
off by telling everybody what we
want to see, so you kind of
understand what we're looking
for.
Basically, when you're
detecting you're looking for a
nonferrous, uh target.
Yes.
A ferrous is a
would be iron.
Nonferrous would be
Gold, silver.
Yeah, gold and silver
are nonferrous.
Spendable, right,
David?
Spendable.
After decades of
hard work, thousands of hours of
planning, and millions of
dollars invested, are Rick,
Marty and their Oak Island
partners about to find out that
they've found something of great
value on Oak Island?
Could this mystery, for which
so many lives have been
sacrificed, really be close to
getting solved?
So, with this type
of machine, nonferrous will
come up as orange or red.
So let's take a look at, uh, the
screen and I can show you guys
what we have.
Yes.
Let's do that.
I see red.
All right!
Look at my boat!
Those look like some
mountains of red.
Okay, so let's take
a look at, uh, the screen and I
can show you guys what we have.
Yes.
Let's do that.
After using a
sophisticated metal detection
device to scan the area of the
swamp known as the Mercy point,
Rick, Marty and the team have
gotten together in the war room
to review their findings.
The data's gonna
display in colors.
All right, what color
we want?
Dave, what we want is
we want red.
It could be gold, it could be
silver.
I see red.
All right!
Look at my boat!
Those look like some
mountains of red.
Yeah, we want red.
The data was exciting.
I mean, the color was
everywhere.
Each one of these
is a layer.
Corresponding to
depth?
Uh, yes, sir.
So, as you can see, where we are
right here, there's a lot of red
and orange.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, so now you look
at a cross section of this.
Look at all the red.
When you get down towards the
blue down here, um, it's
basically nothing, so this is
just deeper.
And these are all layers, right?
And here we've got more red.
We've got a lot of red.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Well, we like that.
I see my boat there, Marty!
The handheld responses
came from that area, right?
How big is it, David?
Yes.
Looks like about a
100-footer.
(laughter)
So is this
confirmation of something to dig
up?
You know, with this
data and the, uh, data that
we've got from the handheld, in
my opinion, it's definitely an
area of interest for you.
I mean, quite frankly, if you're
gonna hide something somewhere,
it's a great spot to put it.
I think what we need
to do
I mean, I think there
are muck divers, you know, swamp
divers, uh, who will go in there
and, you know, actually go and
feel around on the bottom.
Don't be looking at me
when you say "muck divers."
(laughter)
That is not happening.
Why don't we see, you
know, Tony the Divemaster that
took Alex and I out?
Give him a call and see
if he's available.
We just need to know
it's there.
No problem.
What's your saying,
Rick, what's your quote?
Once in, all in?
One in, all in.
Once in, forever in.
He's talking about the
swamp.
Once in, forever in.
Let's go!
Why have two
centuries of treasure hunters
been drawn to Oak Island?
Because logic suggests that if
someone went to so much trouble
to hide something, using booby
traps and sophisticated
underground engineering, then it
must be to protect something of
enormous value.
But what?
Knights Templar treasure?
Millions in Spanish gold?
Priceless historical artifacts?
No one knows for sure, although
stories persist about a wealthy
landowner named Anthony Graves
who lived on the island 150
years ago.
Although he never actively
participated in any of the
documented treasure hunts, he is
rumored to have paid for goods
on the mainland with 17th
century Spanish coins.
When asked where he got them,
Graves would never say.
Well, there she is,
Tony.
Back again.
Oak Island.
To investigate what
they believe to be a mysterious
structure lying at the bottom of
the swamp, Rick and Marty have
brought in Tony Sampson, a local
Divemaster.
A treasure hunter in his own
right, Tony has been exploring
the waters around Oak Island for
decades, but this time he will
face a unique challenge, as the
water he will be getting into
will offer zero visibility.
And you've done
similar stuff, right?
Oh, God, yeah, yeah.
Used to recover (bleep) in
(bleep) for-for the police
force, yeah.
We used to dive in the, uh in
the surge ponds
Oh, God.
tryin' to find,
uh yeah, like, stolen
property, you know, murder
weapons, all that sort of stuff.
Yeah, well, this, I
think, is gonna be not exactly
that but about as close as you
can get.
I mean, it stinks.
It's just pretty damn nasty.
Once you're down there,
it's a slow, slow job, Marty,
because you're moving pretty
much hands and knees, you know,
a foot a foot at a time.
Well, have you been
able to find stuff in, you
know let's just call it zero
visibility water before?
Yeah.
It's
I use lighter gloves, so pretty
much everything's by Braille.
So you can feel it?
Exactly, yeah.
Just close your eyes and go Zen,
man.
Just start feeling.
(both laugh)
Tony is a very
competent diver.
It's clear when I was talking to
him.
I know a little bit about diving
and I know a little bit about
technology of diving.
He's a guy I believe we can
count on.
What can we what can
we do?
What can we carry or what can
we help with?
Um, well, we're just
gonna have a look first, Marty.
Okay, great, great.
Then you know what gear to get.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, you're gonna be
delighted to see this.
Yeah, wait till you see
this.
You're gonna be so
happy to see this.
The (bleep) that's
here, uh, just in front of the
ply, that's-that's the stuff we
can get out with the metal rakes
and crap.
What Tony suggested we
do is to remove as much
vegetation as possible so he can
actually submerge and get down
to the bottom of the swamp and
then metal-detect, probe and
actually physically feel what's
down there.
Okay, Tony, we're
gonna we're gonna take you
out to where I got that hit,
okay?
So just-just seriously watch
your step.
How am I, Charles?
Fine.
Yeah.
Rick, give me some guidance.
I think we're close.
It was a little bit
further, to your left.
Yeah, like, right
here, right?
Right there.
almost see where we went in.
Yeah.
Right.
So there's definitely
something hard down there, and I
felt it flat.
It could be a flat rock, it
could be a box.
I don't know.
A box?
Could this be the so-called
mystery box that was written
about in Bobby Restall's
journals?
The one that he and his father
were close to finding, right
before the tragic accident that
claimed four lives in 1965?
Okay, spring into
action, crew.
Yeah, I'm getting a
hit here.
Definitely.
Right there.
Move your shovel.
There's something there.
He must be getting
hits.
You on to something?
Think it's some
It may be something small.
See that?
See that?
(staticky beeping)
Oh, (bleep).
What is it?
This could be
something big.
Serious?
Whoa.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Is it a coin?
I believe this is a
coin.
No.
You serious?
What?
No.
A coin?
Found in the Oak Island swamp?
Is that a
What's that eight on it?
What the hell is that?
Oh, that's an eight.
What is it?
Yeah.
It is an eight, isn't it?
Yeah.
A strange coin with
an eight on it?
Yeah.
What is it?
I got no idea, man.
Could this be the
first of many waiting to be
found?
Part of a mother lode?
Were those trapezoid
edges at one time, do you think?
Well, it's copper.
Yeah.
You know, I've seen
something like this.
They're called, uh, like
m-mervadas or something like
this?
I-I've seen something like this
before.
Mervadas, that's
Spanish.
That's Spanish.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah, like 1500s or
1600s or something like that.
For more than 200
years, people have been
wondering about just what, if
anything, lies buried on Oak
Island.
In addition to theories about
the Knights Templar or their
successors, the Freemasons,
having hidden priceless
religious artifacts deep within
booby-trapped vaults
there are those that tell
stories of Spanish explorers
hiding a portion of their golden
plunder rather than turn it
all over to the king.
Could finding a Spanish coin on
Oak Island be evidence that this
theory is true?
This is, this is, this
is probably the most valuable
looking thing that's ever been
found on Oak Island.
To date.
But we've got a long
ways to go.
Oh, yeah.
For Marty Lagina,
finding tangible evidence of
something valuable being buried
on Oak Island is critical if he
is to continue pumping more time
and money into this project.
It's a great thing to
be here with Rick right now.
It's like here we are, off
again, collecting money from our
paper route, only this time it's
a pirate coin in the swamp.
I'm just ecstatic about that,
'cause I-I see the happiness in
my brother's face and that's
great.
But, even so-- the other day I
had a serious discussion with
Rick about throwing in the
towel.
I said, geez, Rick, we don't
have a lot here.
I need to see irrefutable proof.
Could this be the
proof Marty has been looking
for?
A small copper coin?
This at least says a
lot.
We got to figure out what it is.
He's always looking
for proof, show me the proof.
Okay, here's the coin, here's
the proof.
Okay, I just have one quick
question.
Yeah, yeah, I can feel
this coming.
Huh?
Talk to me.
I'm sorry I doubted
you.
How's that?
How's that, brother?
That's a good deal.
Let's
But just one
doesn't quite get you all the
way there, all right?
Let's keep going.
Let's go, get your suit on,
let's go.
You get in the water.
After finding the
coin, Rick and Marty are even
more eager to get Tony into the
swamp so that he can find what
else, if anything, is down
there.
Tony will be diving in the area
of the swamp known as the Mercy
point.
The same area where Norwegian
filmmaker and writer Petter
Amundsen believes is the
location of an entrance to a
large underground treasure
vault.
According to Amundsen's theory,
the Rosicrucians or their
successors, the Freemasons,
traveled to Oak Island more than
400 years ago.
There they buried the sacred
treasures the Knights Templar
had captured during the
Crusades.
Among the precious objects were
the Holy Grail
the Ark of the Covenant
and the golden menorah of the
Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
Could this be why the metal
detectors have indicated the
presence of nonferrous metals
like gold and silver at the
bottom of the swamp?
Is there anything here?
And could the
large, flat object that Rick
Lagina believes he found really
be the entrance to an ancient
underground treasure vault?
Ready to dive?
Tony has more than
four feet of muck and mud to dig
through before he can actually
touch the strange object Rick
believes is down there.
Because he will not be able to
see, Tony will have little to
rely on other than a small,
handheld metal detector and his
years of diving experience.
You know what, this is
not the fun part of treasure
hunting.
Watching somebody else do the
work.
Watching him and I thought,
you know what?
Maybe I just put some duct tape
over my mouth, and I just jump
in with him.
I mean, that's what I wanted to
do.
But you can see the man is
technically skilled and that he
loves what he's doing.
Yep?
Yeah.
You got a hit?
Right below you?
All right.
What kind of hit do
you have, Tony?
You know, he seems to
be interested in something.
Look.
Yeah, what is that?
What the hell?
Nothing.
God, that stuff is
thick, eh?
It's not just muck, it's
vegetation.
You know, it's a swamp.
It's, it's, there's four feet of
organic material in there.
I know it's torturing
you.
He couldn't do his
diving and handle the detector
and do his discovery work, so we
had to jump in and help him.
But it was just a simple process
of scooping this stuff up and
throwing it off to the side.
You're making me feel
bad.
You want me in there?
Yes.
Fine.
Oh, yeah, this is just frigging
magnificent.
I decided to jump in myself
because I couldn't stand to see
my brother up to his armpits in
mud doing all that hard work, I
just, you know, felt bad.
Hoo.
We're in this together, and I
wanted to be shoulder to
shoulder with him.
In the muck.
Oh, boy, here we go.
Here we go.
Ooh, baby.
Boots in the air.
That's what we wanted.
There's something
there.
There is something there.
Whoa-ho-ho.
I heard that.
We could hear audio,
we could hear audibly, ping,
ping, ping.
Oh, yeah.
Everybody's ears pick
up, everybody's standing there
quite excited, because we had
just found the coin, and now
we're thinking, maybe we found
what we're looking for.
This is right where
we all jumped in right here.
And we got the, all the major
hits right along this line.
Rick and Marty are
hoping they're just moments away
from the biggest discovery in
the history of Oak Island.
But they also know that the
island has fooled and frustrated
treasure hunters for more than
200 years.
They want to be excited.
Come on, Tony.
But it's best to be
cautious.
Wait.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
He's coming up.
What?
What?
What the hell?
Wait, wait.
He's coming up.
What?
What?
What the hell?
That's a big piece of
rock.
I have no idea what to
make of it.
Although Tony
hasn't found evidence of the
gold or silver objects that set
off the metal detector, he is
finding a number of strange flat
stones.
Why might this be significant?
When the original Money Pit was
excavated in 1795, a number of
flat stones were found along
with oak planks every ten feet.
At 90 feet, a large flat stone
was discovered that had a series
of strange markings, like
hieroglyphs, carved into it.
According to reports, this stone
had an unusual olive color.
And the stones Tony is
discovering seem to match that
description.
That's not granite.
That's not granite.
That's not granite.
It's almost a
sandstone.
I think it was old
concrete.
The Romans made
concrete.
It's weird.
It's weird!
(laughter)
I'm so tired of "That's weird."
Huh.
So many things have that name
put to them.
That's weird has been probably
the most common phrase here this
summer.
Okay, so far, I'd take several
of those pieces of eight,
instead of this rock.
Yeah.
Huh.
Yeah.
You've got to save
that.
Tony came up with a
couple rocks that we're going to
have analyzed that were odd, but
not what we wanted.
We wanted metal.
We wanted a box.
We wanted coins.
We wanted something definitive.
Well?
What say you?
Tell us.
It was weird, because,
initially, I got a hit about
two-thirds of the way down.
Sort of feeling across
everything as I was going, and I
thought, "What the hell is it?"
And, um, I did a test on my
ring, yeah, and it's the same
sort of sound-- obviously, gold.
Yeah, yeah.
Um, and I was going
through, like, inch-by-inch.
Obviously, if there was a coin
or something there, I would've
found it.
But, um, it was the same thing.
I was getting it, and then,
gone.
Wait.
Gone?
Then you wouldn't get it there
anymore?
Exactly, just gone.
How is it possible
that the strong signals that the
team was getting from the metal
detectors, indicating the
presence of objects made of gold
or silver, have now suddenly
disappeared?
Are you going to take
a break then, or do you have one
more in you, or?
Oh, (bleep), yeah.
I could go all day, man.
Could the readings
the team got earlier have been
the result of a technical
malfunction?
A glitch?
Or could there be another
reason?
Tony, could you see
if you can duplicate those hits
you got earlier?
Sure, man.
It has long been
reported that electrical devices
inexplicably break down while
being used on Oak Island,
especially in the area of the
swamp.
The one thing that's
the strangest thing here is that
we've had hits on all three
detectors, by three different
people, that have gone off in
space.
I've never seen that before.
Ever.
If I had an explanation
for you, I'd give it to you.
Is Oak Island up to
its old tricks?
Baiting its victims?
Giving them a glimpse of
success, only to snatch it away?
But the good news is,
we had a good day, you know?
We had a fantastic
day!
And although
finding the coin may turn out to
be significant, is that all
there is?
Okay.
I don't think we found anything.
Come aboard, Tony.
Phew.
Well?
Phew!
Oh.
Bloody weird, man.
32 years of this (bleep), and
I've never seen anything like
this place.
Really?
Yeah.
It's just crazy.
You get a hit, it goes away.
You know, and you come up with
nothing.
How is that possible?
I got no idea, man.
Oak Island.
Discovering what he
believes to be a Spanish coin
has convinced Rick Lagina that
he and his brother are on the
right path to solving the Oak
Island mystery, but Marty
remains doubtful.
I'm the skeptic.
I'm not as sure as him.
I've never been as sure as him.
Yeah, I got to think about it a
little bit.
I don't get "hits and no hits,"
Steve.
Deepmax?
You know, we turned that metal
detector on.
We were getting hits all over
the place.
Well, I don't know.
I really
I've never seen anything like
it, either.
Ghost targets that just keep on
going everywhere, and that's
all the only way you can
explain it is ghost targets.
I don't know what to
make of it.
I don't think there's anything
here.
The diver had gone down,
couldn't verify the Deepmax
data.
I
There's something inconsistent
about that data.
Let's move on.
So, I wanted to see if we can
figure out what's really going
on.
For Rick and Marty
Lagina, scouring the area of the
Oak Island swamp known as "the
Mercy point" has been both a
strange and frustrating
experience.
On two separate occasions, and
using the latest in
sophisticated metal detection
equipment
Keep going!
Keep going!
they received
evidence that there was
something large and metallic
lying beneath the murky water.
Nonferrous will come
up as "red."
Those are like some
mountains of red!
But now the
readings have stopped, and the
evidence they were convinced
they'd found has strangely
disappeared.
And nothing?
Nothing.
Still, they may
have in their possession the
possible evidence that the
legends about Oak Island are
true.
Something that could prove that
all of their hard work has not
been in vain.
Before heading home to clean up,
Marty, Rick and the team head
over to Dan Blankenship's house.
Dan has devoted most of his life
to looking for treasure on the
island, and they are eager to
show him their latest find.
Come on in!
Hey, Dan!
Daniel!
How you doing?
Yeah, how you doing,
Marty?
Rick!
We can't come in any
farther.
Looks like you guys
went swimming today.
Swimming in mud.
You've got the
evidence to prove it.
Yeah, we do.
That's right.
I don't want to get too
close to them.
No.
What you doing?
Back off here.
That's right.
Over the years, Dan
Blankenship has found many
strange objects.
Like early 18th century Spanish
scissors, a rock with a Masonic
symbol carved into it, and the
remains of man-made structures
at Smith's Cove.
And while he was digging the
235-foot deep treasure shaft,
known as 10-X, he claims he saw
underground tunnels
ancient tools
treasure chests
and even a dead body.
No, we just brought
something we want to show you.
Okay.
Want to sit down?
Looks like I'm gonna
have to.
When Rick handed that
coin to Dan, I knew it was a big
deal for Rick, and I knew it was
a big deal for Dan, you know?
It meant something in
that moment.
Yeah, it meant
something, you know?
He's got something to hold in
his hand to justify 48 years of
work.
I mean, it's not a treasure, but
it's a treasure in what it
means.
What do you think?
That's Spanish.
I know.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Today, after nearly
a half-century of searching, Dan
Blankenship is holding the first
solid evidence that there may
have been people on Oak Island
prior to 1795, and that those
people really might have buried
treasure here.
It confirms a lot of
things, Marty.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
It definitely does
confirm my suspicion that the
Spanish did it.
I've always said, the Spanish
did it.
Presumably, sometime
between 1500 and 1550.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's the first
thing I've held in my hands
I know.
since I've been
here almost 48 years.
Yeah.
That's why we came
right here.
And that's the first
thing I have, the real evidence,
you know.
Yup.
I told you we were
going to solve this.
That's just the start of it.
Up until now, myself,
especially, have been, uh,
operating on faith.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, uh, you got to
give us credit for persevering,
though.
Oh, yeah.
And believing in
something.
You believed.
I know you did.
In the same token, Dave has
never held anything in his hand,
either.
Dan takes the coin,
hands it to David.
It's almost like the passing of
the torch.
It was a great moment.
But now, we got to
find something more than that.
We're on it.
I want something this
thick, this wide, about this
long, oh, about 40 pounds, gold
color.
Well, we needed a
luck change.
Amen!
Yeah.
Let's hope.
Yeah.
Uh, I know you've
spent a small fortune up to
date.
I know that.
And, uh, I hope and pray that
this doesn't make you spend
another fortune before you see
something that is in a
container, you know?
Amen.
Yes.
All right, well, it's
almost time to have a drink.
I would love to join
you.
Nice to see you, Dan.
Congratulations.
Give me that, too,
Dan, again.
Glad to.
Partner.
It's been an
exciting day for Rick, Marty and
their team.
Although they didn't find a
long-lost treasure vault, they
did discover what may very well
be an important piece of
evidence, possibly a clue that
might help them solve the Oak
Island mystery.
But after extensive scientific
examination, will the strange
copper object found in the swamp
prove to be an authentic 17th
century Spanish treasure coin?
Or will Marty Lagina be forced
to tell his brother that this
summer on Oak Island will have
to be
their last?
The discovery of
what appears to be a 17th
century Spanish treasure coin
makes this an important day for
the team on Oak Island.
But could finding one small coin
really be the proof Marty Lagina
needs to continue to support his
brother's dream?
Gentlemen.
You happy happy?
You know, I'm having
trouble believing it.
I mean, do you feel that, sort
of?
Definitely,
definitely.
Is it enough to
convince him that all the hard
work and all the money spent
have not been in vain?
Hey, Alex!
Hey, guys.
How you doing?
Hey, Alex.
Good, good.
Good.
Big news, right?
Big news, yes.
The big news of the day is the
coin.
Charles, you're gonna tell us
all about it, right?
Yeah.
I've done some
research, and, uh, I think
you're gonna be, uh, surprised.
Pleasantly surprised
or greatly surprised?
Surprised.
Okay, uh it's a Spanish
maravedí.
Okay.
Eight cob.
Probably from the 1600s.
And unfortunately, the date is
obscured on the back, but
possibly predates the Money Pit
by at least 150 years.
That that's wildly
significant.
The maravedí eight
cob was a common form of
currency used by the Spanish
after the discovery of the New
World by Columbus in 1492.
Because of its tendency to be
sought after by pirates, it has
also been referred to as a
treasure coin.
Could its presence on Oak Island
suggest that the stories about
Spanish ships stashing their
plunder on the island are true?
Or could it be that Spanish
explorers, or possibly pirates,
on hearing stories about an
incredible treasure being buried
on Oak Island years before by
the Knights Templar or the
Rosicrucians came to the island
in the 1600s?
Perhaps they dug the Money Pit
in an effort to find that
treasure, but later
went away empty-handed.
Here's the funny thing
about it.
There it is right there, it's
real, uh, and I still am having
trouble getting my head around
it.
So where are we going, Rick?
There's only one
question to ask:
Do we want to go forward?
I say we need to take a vote.
Let's have a show of
hands.
I am.
I'll show my hands.
Yes, sir.
If I had a vote, I
would
Both hands go up with
you.
Yeah, both hands.
Alex?
Um, I think there's
still questions that we could
answer, so I'm gonna say yes.
Thank you, Alex.
Where do you stand,
boss?
Yeah, I didn't see your
hand, Marty.
Well you know, I
was sort of playing this in my
mind, and I'd say, well, there's
a group of these guys and they
go out and spend a bunch of
money and they bust their ass,
up to their necks in swamp, then
at the end of their summer
quest, they find a pirate
coin
and then they quit.
So, I guess
All right, so we're all in.
All my life I've tried
to convince my brother that Oak
Island is for real.
If I've done that, then I truly
am the richest man in the world.
You know, I realize this is just
one coin, but it's always been a
step-by-step process, and this
will lead us to where we want
to go.
We're on a journey--
a Fellowship of the Dig, if you
will-- and we are going to
follow wherever this leads us.
I think he's-- uh, how shall I
say it?-- uh, he's
now invested.
I won't say obsessed, but he's
now invested in this discovery
process.
God, I hope I'm not
obsessed.
Let's see where it leads us.
Oh.
For more than 200
years men have been searching
for something of great value on
Oak Island.
They have found bits of paper,
coconut fiber, even scraps of
metal, but little proof that any
of the stories about Spanish
pirates or Knights Templar
visiting the island were true.
Not until now.
It's been a good day.
How cold is this water?
Who cares?
There you go.
For the first time
in the history of Oak Island, an
object has been found that seems
to validate all of the centuries
of digging-- and all the lost
dreams of those who sacrificed
their lives.
If we hadn't come up
with that coin
Yeah?
I was gonna ask you
to call it quits.
I'm not sure what the
answer would have been.
But as far as Rick
and Marty Lagina are concerned,
their search has only just
begun.
But here's the thing--
I'm still in.
Let's go.
One in, all in.
Once in, forever in.
It's a good day, Rick.
It's not just a good
day, it's a great day.
One for us.
But where do they
go next?
Back to the swamp?
To Smith's Cove?
Or 10-X?
Perhaps the answers still lie
deep down at the bottom of the
Money Pit.
Answers that wait patiently
silently
defying those who seek them
and waiting for the next
opportunity for the curse of Oak
Island to strike
again.
Tonight on The Curse
of Oak Island
This is the most
sophisticated equipment that's
ever been on this island.
That's what we're
looking for.
Wow, this could be it.
This could be the find.
What are you
getting, Rick?
What are you getting,
big brother?
Whoa.
Whoa!
Are you serious?
Well, that's a
game-changer.
It predates the
Money Pit by at least 150 years.
It's the first piece
of evidence that I've been able
to hold in my hand.
This is the most
valuable thing that's ever been
found on Oak Island.
Yes!
There is a
mysterious island in the North
Atlantic where for more than
200 years people have been
looking for treasure.
So far they have found
underground tunnels and shafts,
bizarre booby traps
even a stone slab with strange
symbols carved into it--
but nothing of value.
Still, they dig, deeper
and deeper.
Six men have lost their lives in
the search.
And according to legend, one
more will have to die before the
mystery can be solved.
Oh, let's go get it.
Let's get Big Max in the swamp.
This is exciting.
I mean, I don't believe it,
okay, 'cause I'm not gonna
believe it till I see it, but
still, cool.
Rick and Marty
Lagina may be on the verge of a
breakthrough in solving the
mystery of Oak Island.
Let's go, let's figure
this out.
Look at the grin on that guy's
face.
Come on, let's go.
It's not very heavy,
Rick.
Andiamo.
A few minutes ago,
Rick Lagina stumbled onto
something that he hopes will
finally answer the biggest
question of all:
What lies below?
Holy (bleep).
After partially
draining the Oak Island swamp,
and using a simple metal
detector, he located what he
believes is a large
square-edged object lying just a
few feet beneath the water.
All right, let's go
get this thing.
Come on, let's go.
Located in the
middle of the island, the
strange triangle-shaped swamp
has long been thought to be
man-made-- but why?
I found the treasure
map leading to Oak Island.
According to
Norwegian researcher Petter
Amundsen, the swamp may very
well have been the place where
the Knights Templar, or their
descendants, buried priceless
religious artifacts rescued from
the Great Temple of Jerusalem
during the Crusades.
Shakespeare holds the
key.
His theory is based
on what he believes is an
elaborate series of codes
concealed within the first
printed folios of William
Shakespeare.
And the codes, in turn, lead to
what Amundsen calls the "Mercy
point," which is right where
Rick Lagina believes he has
located a mysterious
square-edged object.
Yeah, if you want to
start imaging and go out there
and do your ground balancing
Okay, let's do a ground balance.
Level coil.
Is he level?
Ground balance one.
Earlier, the swamp
was scanned using a conventional
metal detector.
Will you check your
data logger, make sure it's on?
Data logger's on.
Now the team has
returned and is using a bigger
and even more sophisticated
metal-detection device called
the Deepmax X6.
It can scan to a depth of nearly
40 feet, and can identify what
type of metal objects or
material might lie below.
If you see this
spike up, you know you're over
something.
Now that we got the
Deepmax unit out here, we can
confirm the data and we can see
it for the first time.
On Rick's mark, he
will say "Zero."
Zero starts the run.
You guys walk at a slow pace,
steady, try to get this coil as
far down as you can.
Teeter on the edge of falling
off if you have to, Will.
Don't step off in that muck.
He's got a belt on.
Okay, no steel here.
How big is the belt buckle?
Since the Deepmax
X6 will pick up any trace of
metal
Let's take it off.
it's imperative
the team members don't
accidentally compromise the
readings.
Give me your belt.
Yeah, we're gonna have
a little show here when your
pants fall off.
I've never done this
before.
While Rick and
Marty's nephew David and his
friend Will use the Deepmax unit
to scan the swamp, Rick follows
behind wearing a data recorder.
Rick, on your mark.
Okay.
Zero start.
Ready?
Yep.
Okay.
Go.
I think this is the
most sophisticated equipment
that's ever been on this island,
these metal detectors that can
sense very deep.
It's great.
Left side up, Will.
Keep going, keep going.
Okay, get it as far back-- get
the coil as far back as you can.
Get right on the edge of the
board.
Hey, David, if you fall off, you
know you're far enough.
(laughs)
What you getting, Rick?
Just nothing.
I got nothing.
That doesn't sound
good.
Go that way.
Holy (bleep).
You got to be kidding me.
That's it.
Right when you went
over that spot?
What'd you get, big
brother?
Full scale, almost a
sheet and a half.
Full scale.
That's what we're
looking for.
There were so many
hits.
I mean, it goes off in your hand
and you think, wow, this could
be it, this could be the find.
So, you got a spike
over that spot?
Good.
That's what I
want to hear.
It was quite
impressive.
You know, it mimicked what Steve
found, to a tee.
You know, I try not
to let my expectations rise too
much, 'cause you get
disappointed.
He got a big hit out there
straightaway, yeah, it's
exciting, but I'm not gonna let
my emotions get carried away
until we actually see something.
So it's great.
Uh, we got a lot more work to
do.
Uh, yeah, after we
get back.
Yeah, he got the data,
Rick.
Okay.
Let's run it
through software, see what we
get.
Yeah, absolutely.
Head for the war room.
To the war room!
After getting a
series of hits indicating that
there may very well be metal
objects somewhere buried in the
swamp, Rick, Marty and the team
return to the war room to
analyze the results gathered by
the Deepmax X6 data recorder.
You brought everything
we need to see, right, Steve?
Yes, sir.
Metal detection
expert Steve Zazulyk will try to
give Rick and Marty an idea of
what they found-- with the help
of a computer model.
All of our data is in.
It's very good that you keep
things in perspective.
So, I just want to kind of start
off by telling everybody what we
want to see, so you kind of
understand what we're looking
for.
Basically, when you're
detecting you're looking for a
nonferrous, uh target.
Yes.
A ferrous is a
would be iron.
Nonferrous would be
Gold, silver.
Yeah, gold and silver
are nonferrous.
Spendable, right,
David?
Spendable.
After decades of
hard work, thousands of hours of
planning, and millions of
dollars invested, are Rick,
Marty and their Oak Island
partners about to find out that
they've found something of great
value on Oak Island?
Could this mystery, for which
so many lives have been
sacrificed, really be close to
getting solved?
So, with this type
of machine, nonferrous will
come up as orange or red.
So let's take a look at, uh, the
screen and I can show you guys
what we have.
Yes.
Let's do that.
I see red.
All right!
Look at my boat!
Those look like some
mountains of red.
Okay, so let's take
a look at, uh, the screen and I
can show you guys what we have.
Yes.
Let's do that.
After using a
sophisticated metal detection
device to scan the area of the
swamp known as the Mercy point,
Rick, Marty and the team have
gotten together in the war room
to review their findings.
The data's gonna
display in colors.
All right, what color
we want?
Dave, what we want is
we want red.
It could be gold, it could be
silver.
I see red.
All right!
Look at my boat!
Those look like some
mountains of red.
Yeah, we want red.
The data was exciting.
I mean, the color was
everywhere.
Each one of these
is a layer.
Corresponding to
depth?
Uh, yes, sir.
So, as you can see, where we are
right here, there's a lot of red
and orange.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, so now you look
at a cross section of this.
Look at all the red.
When you get down towards the
blue down here, um, it's
basically nothing, so this is
just deeper.
And these are all layers, right?
And here we've got more red.
We've got a lot of red.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Well, we like that.
I see my boat there, Marty!
The handheld responses
came from that area, right?
How big is it, David?
Yes.
Looks like about a
100-footer.
(laughter)
So is this
confirmation of something to dig
up?
You know, with this
data and the, uh, data that
we've got from the handheld, in
my opinion, it's definitely an
area of interest for you.
I mean, quite frankly, if you're
gonna hide something somewhere,
it's a great spot to put it.
I think what we need
to do
I mean, I think there
are muck divers, you know, swamp
divers, uh, who will go in there
and, you know, actually go and
feel around on the bottom.
Don't be looking at me
when you say "muck divers."
(laughter)
That is not happening.
Why don't we see, you
know, Tony the Divemaster that
took Alex and I out?
Give him a call and see
if he's available.
We just need to know
it's there.
No problem.
What's your saying,
Rick, what's your quote?
Once in, all in?
One in, all in.
Once in, forever in.
He's talking about the
swamp.
Once in, forever in.
Let's go!
Why have two
centuries of treasure hunters
been drawn to Oak Island?
Because logic suggests that if
someone went to so much trouble
to hide something, using booby
traps and sophisticated
underground engineering, then it
must be to protect something of
enormous value.
But what?
Knights Templar treasure?
Millions in Spanish gold?
Priceless historical artifacts?
No one knows for sure, although
stories persist about a wealthy
landowner named Anthony Graves
who lived on the island 150
years ago.
Although he never actively
participated in any of the
documented treasure hunts, he is
rumored to have paid for goods
on the mainland with 17th
century Spanish coins.
When asked where he got them,
Graves would never say.
Well, there she is,
Tony.
Back again.
Oak Island.
To investigate what
they believe to be a mysterious
structure lying at the bottom of
the swamp, Rick and Marty have
brought in Tony Sampson, a local
Divemaster.
A treasure hunter in his own
right, Tony has been exploring
the waters around Oak Island for
decades, but this time he will
face a unique challenge, as the
water he will be getting into
will offer zero visibility.
And you've done
similar stuff, right?
Oh, God, yeah, yeah.
Used to recover (bleep) in
(bleep) for-for the police
force, yeah.
We used to dive in the, uh in
the surge ponds
Oh, God.
tryin' to find,
uh yeah, like, stolen
property, you know, murder
weapons, all that sort of stuff.
Yeah, well, this, I
think, is gonna be not exactly
that but about as close as you
can get.
I mean, it stinks.
It's just pretty damn nasty.
Once you're down there,
it's a slow, slow job, Marty,
because you're moving pretty
much hands and knees, you know,
a foot a foot at a time.
Well, have you been
able to find stuff in, you
know let's just call it zero
visibility water before?
Yeah.
It's
I use lighter gloves, so pretty
much everything's by Braille.
So you can feel it?
Exactly, yeah.
Just close your eyes and go Zen,
man.
Just start feeling.
(both laugh)
Tony is a very
competent diver.
It's clear when I was talking to
him.
I know a little bit about diving
and I know a little bit about
technology of diving.
He's a guy I believe we can
count on.
What can we what can
we do?
What can we carry or what can
we help with?
Um, well, we're just
gonna have a look first, Marty.
Okay, great, great.
Then you know what gear to get.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, you're gonna be
delighted to see this.
Yeah, wait till you see
this.
You're gonna be so
happy to see this.
The (bleep) that's
here, uh, just in front of the
ply, that's-that's the stuff we
can get out with the metal rakes
and crap.
What Tony suggested we
do is to remove as much
vegetation as possible so he can
actually submerge and get down
to the bottom of the swamp and
then metal-detect, probe and
actually physically feel what's
down there.
Okay, Tony, we're
gonna we're gonna take you
out to where I got that hit,
okay?
So just-just seriously watch
your step.
How am I, Charles?
Fine.
Yeah.
Rick, give me some guidance.
I think we're close.
It was a little bit
further, to your left.
Yeah, like, right
here, right?
Right there.
almost see where we went in.
Yeah.
Right.
So there's definitely
something hard down there, and I
felt it flat.
It could be a flat rock, it
could be a box.
I don't know.
A box?
Could this be the so-called
mystery box that was written
about in Bobby Restall's
journals?
The one that he and his father
were close to finding, right
before the tragic accident that
claimed four lives in 1965?
Okay, spring into
action, crew.
Yeah, I'm getting a
hit here.
Definitely.
Right there.
Move your shovel.
There's something there.
He must be getting
hits.
You on to something?
Think it's some
It may be something small.
See that?
See that?
(staticky beeping)
Oh, (bleep).
What is it?
This could be
something big.
Serious?
Whoa.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Is it a coin?
I believe this is a
coin.
No.
You serious?
What?
No.
A coin?
Found in the Oak Island swamp?
Is that a
What's that eight on it?
What the hell is that?
Oh, that's an eight.
What is it?
Yeah.
It is an eight, isn't it?
Yeah.
A strange coin with
an eight on it?
Yeah.
What is it?
I got no idea, man.
Could this be the
first of many waiting to be
found?
Part of a mother lode?
Were those trapezoid
edges at one time, do you think?
Well, it's copper.
Yeah.
You know, I've seen
something like this.
They're called, uh, like
m-mervadas or something like
this?
I-I've seen something like this
before.
Mervadas, that's
Spanish.
That's Spanish.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah, like 1500s or
1600s or something like that.
For more than 200
years, people have been
wondering about just what, if
anything, lies buried on Oak
Island.
In addition to theories about
the Knights Templar or their
successors, the Freemasons,
having hidden priceless
religious artifacts deep within
booby-trapped vaults
there are those that tell
stories of Spanish explorers
hiding a portion of their golden
plunder rather than turn it
all over to the king.
Could finding a Spanish coin on
Oak Island be evidence that this
theory is true?
This is, this is, this
is probably the most valuable
looking thing that's ever been
found on Oak Island.
To date.
But we've got a long
ways to go.
Oh, yeah.
For Marty Lagina,
finding tangible evidence of
something valuable being buried
on Oak Island is critical if he
is to continue pumping more time
and money into this project.
It's a great thing to
be here with Rick right now.
It's like here we are, off
again, collecting money from our
paper route, only this time it's
a pirate coin in the swamp.
I'm just ecstatic about that,
'cause I-I see the happiness in
my brother's face and that's
great.
But, even so-- the other day I
had a serious discussion with
Rick about throwing in the
towel.
I said, geez, Rick, we don't
have a lot here.
I need to see irrefutable proof.
Could this be the
proof Marty has been looking
for?
A small copper coin?
This at least says a
lot.
We got to figure out what it is.
He's always looking
for proof, show me the proof.
Okay, here's the coin, here's
the proof.
Okay, I just have one quick
question.
Yeah, yeah, I can feel
this coming.
Huh?
Talk to me.
I'm sorry I doubted
you.
How's that?
How's that, brother?
That's a good deal.
Let's
But just one
doesn't quite get you all the
way there, all right?
Let's keep going.
Let's go, get your suit on,
let's go.
You get in the water.
After finding the
coin, Rick and Marty are even
more eager to get Tony into the
swamp so that he can find what
else, if anything, is down
there.
Tony will be diving in the area
of the swamp known as the Mercy
point.
The same area where Norwegian
filmmaker and writer Petter
Amundsen believes is the
location of an entrance to a
large underground treasure
vault.
According to Amundsen's theory,
the Rosicrucians or their
successors, the Freemasons,
traveled to Oak Island more than
400 years ago.
There they buried the sacred
treasures the Knights Templar
had captured during the
Crusades.
Among the precious objects were
the Holy Grail
the Ark of the Covenant
and the golden menorah of the
Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
Could this be why the metal
detectors have indicated the
presence of nonferrous metals
like gold and silver at the
bottom of the swamp?
Is there anything here?
And could the
large, flat object that Rick
Lagina believes he found really
be the entrance to an ancient
underground treasure vault?
Ready to dive?
Tony has more than
four feet of muck and mud to dig
through before he can actually
touch the strange object Rick
believes is down there.
Because he will not be able to
see, Tony will have little to
rely on other than a small,
handheld metal detector and his
years of diving experience.
You know what, this is
not the fun part of treasure
hunting.
Watching somebody else do the
work.
Watching him and I thought,
you know what?
Maybe I just put some duct tape
over my mouth, and I just jump
in with him.
I mean, that's what I wanted to
do.
But you can see the man is
technically skilled and that he
loves what he's doing.
Yep?
Yeah.
You got a hit?
Right below you?
All right.
What kind of hit do
you have, Tony?
You know, he seems to
be interested in something.
Look.
Yeah, what is that?
What the hell?
Nothing.
God, that stuff is
thick, eh?
It's not just muck, it's
vegetation.
You know, it's a swamp.
It's, it's, there's four feet of
organic material in there.
I know it's torturing
you.
He couldn't do his
diving and handle the detector
and do his discovery work, so we
had to jump in and help him.
But it was just a simple process
of scooping this stuff up and
throwing it off to the side.
You're making me feel
bad.
You want me in there?
Yes.
Fine.
Oh, yeah, this is just frigging
magnificent.
I decided to jump in myself
because I couldn't stand to see
my brother up to his armpits in
mud doing all that hard work, I
just, you know, felt bad.
Hoo.
We're in this together, and I
wanted to be shoulder to
shoulder with him.
In the muck.
Oh, boy, here we go.
Here we go.
Ooh, baby.
Boots in the air.
That's what we wanted.
There's something
there.
There is something there.
Whoa-ho-ho.
I heard that.
We could hear audio,
we could hear audibly, ping,
ping, ping.
Oh, yeah.
Everybody's ears pick
up, everybody's standing there
quite excited, because we had
just found the coin, and now
we're thinking, maybe we found
what we're looking for.
This is right where
we all jumped in right here.
And we got the, all the major
hits right along this line.
Rick and Marty are
hoping they're just moments away
from the biggest discovery in
the history of Oak Island.
But they also know that the
island has fooled and frustrated
treasure hunters for more than
200 years.
They want to be excited.
Come on, Tony.
But it's best to be
cautious.
Wait.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
He's coming up.
What?
What?
What the hell?
Wait, wait.
He's coming up.
What?
What?
What the hell?
That's a big piece of
rock.
I have no idea what to
make of it.
Although Tony
hasn't found evidence of the
gold or silver objects that set
off the metal detector, he is
finding a number of strange flat
stones.
Why might this be significant?
When the original Money Pit was
excavated in 1795, a number of
flat stones were found along
with oak planks every ten feet.
At 90 feet, a large flat stone
was discovered that had a series
of strange markings, like
hieroglyphs, carved into it.
According to reports, this stone
had an unusual olive color.
And the stones Tony is
discovering seem to match that
description.
That's not granite.
That's not granite.
That's not granite.
It's almost a
sandstone.
I think it was old
concrete.
The Romans made
concrete.
It's weird.
It's weird!
(laughter)
I'm so tired of "That's weird."
Huh.
So many things have that name
put to them.
That's weird has been probably
the most common phrase here this
summer.
Okay, so far, I'd take several
of those pieces of eight,
instead of this rock.
Yeah.
Huh.
Yeah.
You've got to save
that.
Tony came up with a
couple rocks that we're going to
have analyzed that were odd, but
not what we wanted.
We wanted metal.
We wanted a box.
We wanted coins.
We wanted something definitive.
Well?
What say you?
Tell us.
It was weird, because,
initially, I got a hit about
two-thirds of the way down.
Sort of feeling across
everything as I was going, and I
thought, "What the hell is it?"
And, um, I did a test on my
ring, yeah, and it's the same
sort of sound-- obviously, gold.
Yeah, yeah.
Um, and I was going
through, like, inch-by-inch.
Obviously, if there was a coin
or something there, I would've
found it.
But, um, it was the same thing.
I was getting it, and then,
gone.
Wait.
Gone?
Then you wouldn't get it there
anymore?
Exactly, just gone.
How is it possible
that the strong signals that the
team was getting from the metal
detectors, indicating the
presence of objects made of gold
or silver, have now suddenly
disappeared?
Are you going to take
a break then, or do you have one
more in you, or?
Oh, (bleep), yeah.
I could go all day, man.
Could the readings
the team got earlier have been
the result of a technical
malfunction?
A glitch?
Or could there be another
reason?
Tony, could you see
if you can duplicate those hits
you got earlier?
Sure, man.
It has long been
reported that electrical devices
inexplicably break down while
being used on Oak Island,
especially in the area of the
swamp.
The one thing that's
the strangest thing here is that
we've had hits on all three
detectors, by three different
people, that have gone off in
space.
I've never seen that before.
Ever.
If I had an explanation
for you, I'd give it to you.
Is Oak Island up to
its old tricks?
Baiting its victims?
Giving them a glimpse of
success, only to snatch it away?
But the good news is,
we had a good day, you know?
We had a fantastic
day!
And although
finding the coin may turn out to
be significant, is that all
there is?
Okay.
I don't think we found anything.
Come aboard, Tony.
Phew.
Well?
Phew!
Oh.
Bloody weird, man.
32 years of this (bleep), and
I've never seen anything like
this place.
Really?
Yeah.
It's just crazy.
You get a hit, it goes away.
You know, and you come up with
nothing.
How is that possible?
I got no idea, man.
Oak Island.
Discovering what he
believes to be a Spanish coin
has convinced Rick Lagina that
he and his brother are on the
right path to solving the Oak
Island mystery, but Marty
remains doubtful.
I'm the skeptic.
I'm not as sure as him.
I've never been as sure as him.
Yeah, I got to think about it a
little bit.
I don't get "hits and no hits,"
Steve.
Deepmax?
You know, we turned that metal
detector on.
We were getting hits all over
the place.
Well, I don't know.
I really
I've never seen anything like
it, either.
Ghost targets that just keep on
going everywhere, and that's
all the only way you can
explain it is ghost targets.
I don't know what to
make of it.
I don't think there's anything
here.
The diver had gone down,
couldn't verify the Deepmax
data.
I
There's something inconsistent
about that data.
Let's move on.
So, I wanted to see if we can
figure out what's really going
on.
For Rick and Marty
Lagina, scouring the area of the
Oak Island swamp known as "the
Mercy point" has been both a
strange and frustrating
experience.
On two separate occasions, and
using the latest in
sophisticated metal detection
equipment
Keep going!
Keep going!
they received
evidence that there was
something large and metallic
lying beneath the murky water.
Nonferrous will come
up as "red."
Those are like some
mountains of red!
But now the
readings have stopped, and the
evidence they were convinced
they'd found has strangely
disappeared.
And nothing?
Nothing.
Still, they may
have in their possession the
possible evidence that the
legends about Oak Island are
true.
Something that could prove that
all of their hard work has not
been in vain.
Before heading home to clean up,
Marty, Rick and the team head
over to Dan Blankenship's house.
Dan has devoted most of his life
to looking for treasure on the
island, and they are eager to
show him their latest find.
Come on in!
Hey, Dan!
Daniel!
How you doing?
Yeah, how you doing,
Marty?
Rick!
We can't come in any
farther.
Looks like you guys
went swimming today.
Swimming in mud.
You've got the
evidence to prove it.
Yeah, we do.
That's right.
I don't want to get too
close to them.
No.
What you doing?
Back off here.
That's right.
Over the years, Dan
Blankenship has found many
strange objects.
Like early 18th century Spanish
scissors, a rock with a Masonic
symbol carved into it, and the
remains of man-made structures
at Smith's Cove.
And while he was digging the
235-foot deep treasure shaft,
known as 10-X, he claims he saw
underground tunnels
ancient tools
treasure chests
and even a dead body.
No, we just brought
something we want to show you.
Okay.
Want to sit down?
Looks like I'm gonna
have to.
When Rick handed that
coin to Dan, I knew it was a big
deal for Rick, and I knew it was
a big deal for Dan, you know?
It meant something in
that moment.
Yeah, it meant
something, you know?
He's got something to hold in
his hand to justify 48 years of
work.
I mean, it's not a treasure, but
it's a treasure in what it
means.
What do you think?
That's Spanish.
I know.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Today, after nearly
a half-century of searching, Dan
Blankenship is holding the first
solid evidence that there may
have been people on Oak Island
prior to 1795, and that those
people really might have buried
treasure here.
It confirms a lot of
things, Marty.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
It definitely does
confirm my suspicion that the
Spanish did it.
I've always said, the Spanish
did it.
Presumably, sometime
between 1500 and 1550.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's the first
thing I've held in my hands
I know.
since I've been
here almost 48 years.
Yeah.
That's why we came
right here.
And that's the first
thing I have, the real evidence,
you know.
Yup.
I told you we were
going to solve this.
That's just the start of it.
Up until now, myself,
especially, have been, uh,
operating on faith.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, uh, you got to
give us credit for persevering,
though.
Oh, yeah.
And believing in
something.
You believed.
I know you did.
In the same token, Dave has
never held anything in his hand,
either.
Dan takes the coin,
hands it to David.
It's almost like the passing of
the torch.
It was a great moment.
But now, we got to
find something more than that.
We're on it.
I want something this
thick, this wide, about this
long, oh, about 40 pounds, gold
color.
Well, we needed a
luck change.
Amen!
Yeah.
Let's hope.
Yeah.
Uh, I know you've
spent a small fortune up to
date.
I know that.
And, uh, I hope and pray that
this doesn't make you spend
another fortune before you see
something that is in a
container, you know?
Amen.
Yes.
All right, well, it's
almost time to have a drink.
I would love to join
you.
Nice to see you, Dan.
Congratulations.
Give me that, too,
Dan, again.
Glad to.
Partner.
It's been an
exciting day for Rick, Marty and
their team.
Although they didn't find a
long-lost treasure vault, they
did discover what may very well
be an important piece of
evidence, possibly a clue that
might help them solve the Oak
Island mystery.
But after extensive scientific
examination, will the strange
copper object found in the swamp
prove to be an authentic 17th
century Spanish treasure coin?
Or will Marty Lagina be forced
to tell his brother that this
summer on Oak Island will have
to be
their last?
The discovery of
what appears to be a 17th
century Spanish treasure coin
makes this an important day for
the team on Oak Island.
But could finding one small coin
really be the proof Marty Lagina
needs to continue to support his
brother's dream?
Gentlemen.
You happy happy?
You know, I'm having
trouble believing it.
I mean, do you feel that, sort
of?
Definitely,
definitely.
Is it enough to
convince him that all the hard
work and all the money spent
have not been in vain?
Hey, Alex!
Hey, guys.
How you doing?
Hey, Alex.
Good, good.
Good.
Big news, right?
Big news, yes.
The big news of the day is the
coin.
Charles, you're gonna tell us
all about it, right?
Yeah.
I've done some
research, and, uh, I think
you're gonna be, uh, surprised.
Pleasantly surprised
or greatly surprised?
Surprised.
Okay, uh it's a Spanish
maravedí.
Okay.
Eight cob.
Probably from the 1600s.
And unfortunately, the date is
obscured on the back, but
possibly predates the Money Pit
by at least 150 years.
That that's wildly
significant.
The maravedí eight
cob was a common form of
currency used by the Spanish
after the discovery of the New
World by Columbus in 1492.
Because of its tendency to be
sought after by pirates, it has
also been referred to as a
treasure coin.
Could its presence on Oak Island
suggest that the stories about
Spanish ships stashing their
plunder on the island are true?
Or could it be that Spanish
explorers, or possibly pirates,
on hearing stories about an
incredible treasure being buried
on Oak Island years before by
the Knights Templar or the
Rosicrucians came to the island
in the 1600s?
Perhaps they dug the Money Pit
in an effort to find that
treasure, but later
went away empty-handed.
Here's the funny thing
about it.
There it is right there, it's
real, uh, and I still am having
trouble getting my head around
it.
So where are we going, Rick?
There's only one
question to ask:
Do we want to go forward?
I say we need to take a vote.
Let's have a show of
hands.
I am.
I'll show my hands.
Yes, sir.
If I had a vote, I
would
Both hands go up with
you.
Yeah, both hands.
Alex?
Um, I think there's
still questions that we could
answer, so I'm gonna say yes.
Thank you, Alex.
Where do you stand,
boss?
Yeah, I didn't see your
hand, Marty.
Well you know, I
was sort of playing this in my
mind, and I'd say, well, there's
a group of these guys and they
go out and spend a bunch of
money and they bust their ass,
up to their necks in swamp, then
at the end of their summer
quest, they find a pirate
coin
and then they quit.
So, I guess
All right, so we're all in.
All my life I've tried
to convince my brother that Oak
Island is for real.
If I've done that, then I truly
am the richest man in the world.
You know, I realize this is just
one coin, but it's always been a
step-by-step process, and this
will lead us to where we want
to go.
We're on a journey--
a Fellowship of the Dig, if you
will-- and we are going to
follow wherever this leads us.
I think he's-- uh, how shall I
say it?-- uh, he's
now invested.
I won't say obsessed, but he's
now invested in this discovery
process.
God, I hope I'm not
obsessed.
Let's see where it leads us.
Oh.
For more than 200
years men have been searching
for something of great value on
Oak Island.
They have found bits of paper,
coconut fiber, even scraps of
metal, but little proof that any
of the stories about Spanish
pirates or Knights Templar
visiting the island were true.
Not until now.
It's been a good day.
How cold is this water?
Who cares?
There you go.
For the first time
in the history of Oak Island, an
object has been found that seems
to validate all of the centuries
of digging-- and all the lost
dreams of those who sacrificed
their lives.
If we hadn't come up
with that coin
Yeah?
I was gonna ask you
to call it quits.
I'm not sure what the
answer would have been.
But as far as Rick
and Marty Lagina are concerned,
their search has only just
begun.
But here's the thing--
I'm still in.
Let's go.
One in, all in.
Once in, forever in.
It's a good day, Rick.
It's not just a good
day, it's a great day.
One for us.
But where do they
go next?
Back to the swamp?
To Smith's Cove?
Or 10-X?
Perhaps the answers still lie
deep down at the bottom of the
Money Pit.
Answers that wait patiently
silently
defying those who seek them
and waiting for the next
opportunity for the curse of Oak
Island to strike
again.