The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s02e05 Episode Script
The 90-Foot Stone
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Tonight on the curse of Oak Island there
we go solid wood we're on the side we're
on the edge of something we need to
figure the best way to take a look at
that cipher is the instruction will help
to stop the flood traps
I should don't think the swamp has
something to tell us x marks the spot we
found another coin it could be very
significant looks like we've definitely
got something looks like it's nice
Templar cross right now
this ends right here
there is an island in the North Atlantic
where men have been looking for treasure
for more than 200 years so far they have
uncovered booby-trapped flood tunnels
carved stones with strange symbols 17th
century Spanish coins and evidence of a
mysterious wooden vault covered in
concrete
six men have even lost their lives
according to legend
we'll have to die before the treasure
can be
here we go
Rick lagina his brother Marty and their
partners Craig tester and Dave
Blankenship are hoping that today will
be another exciting day on Oak Island
come on right now this ends right here
today yep we could bring up the gold
shiny stuff whether we got to dig it up
yeah that's the issue are you kiddin if
you find something massive that's a
piece of cake and we struck spending
yesterday after spending nearly three
weeks of drilling in the area known as
the money pit the team was finally able
to get a split-spoon coring bit past
centuries of rocks and other debris left
behind by previous treasure hunters when
they retrieved it what they found was
astonishing definitely got wood see what
else we might have
that's definitely clay I don't think
that's bedrock maybe it's concrete Rick
that is a possibility
concrete and then wood that's the
description that's what they found in
the top of the vault after years of
planning thousands of hours of hard work
we should take this to my brother and
millions of dollars invested the team on
Oak Island believe they have had an
enormous breakthrough they are convinced
that what they may have discovered is
not only the infamous Oak Island money
pit but also the legendary Chappell
vault I mean everybody since 1897 when
that vault was first found has been
trying to refine this and nobody has
found it while drilling in the money pit
back in 1897 treasure hunter William
Chappell came upon what he later
described as a large wooden vault
with walls seven inches thick and
measuring seven feet high located at a
depth of 153 feet below the islands
surface it was covered in a hard
concrete-like substance which when
tested was determined to be man-made but
what was even more incredible than the
discovery of the vault itself was the
fact that Chappell noticed that on his
drill bit could be found traces of gold
he also discovered a tiny piece of what
looked like parchment on which were
written the letters VI unfortunately
soon after the mysterious vault was
discovered the shaft Chappell had begun
digging flooded with soft water the hole
collapsed and both the wooden vault and
it's mysterious contents were never
located again
could this be what the laginas and their
partners have just discovered are they
really within a few feet of solving the
Oak Island mystery once and for all
Daniel where they say Marty good morning
partner
yesterday of the day who knows
ya know you don't let yourself get
excited anymore right not after now
however many years it's been a long time
you're the interesting to find out what
you recover it that depth veteran
treasure hunter dan Blankenship has been
trying to solve the Oak Island mystery
for nearly 50 years prior to that he had
been a successful building contractor
living with his wife in Miami Florida
hopefully when the next one comes up
we'll have something to look at yeah now
it is nineties Dan has refused to give
up trying to find out what if anything
lies buried on Oak Island
half the star let's see how it goes if
they fall right away it'll fall right
down I'll bet you anything the Corinne
barrel the team is using can retrieve a
core sample of up to two feet in length
but given the potentially fragile nature
of the target object care must be taken
that it not be damaged by the process I
don't believe we do okay I don't believe
you got a fork or barrel let's do it six
more
that was the plan six inches
it's a pretty quick trip Oh we'll take a
look and see we have tell you what it
went off wheezy we only laid short six
inches we should have 18 inches of new
stuff so we'll see you but I'll tell you
what that went easy as hell just like
it's in a big old vault lots of gold in
there
because the split-spoon core sampler
seemed to have no trouble going 18
inches farther below ground than it did
yesterday marty and the team are
beginning to suspect that the drill is
now quite possibly inside the Chappell
vault
the way at the bottom of that the seller
would Morwood lots of what have Rick
Marty and the team just recovered
another piece of the mysterious Chappell
vault or vertical what again best-case
scenario we're into the original vault
there's something of immense value there
and we'll salvage it okay that's the
bottom I mean we're all excited I think
there was some trepidation on our part
do we really want to split the barrel
and open and see what we were in that's
pretty exciting there we go
that's good he's still that flat piece
good after that well this side is facing
something outside inside don't see no
spendables here no me either we got some
clay we got what looks like cement then
we got five inches of wood running this
way and then into a kind of luckily
we're skidding down a post a vertical
post I got more and more excited as they
looked at it but you know I want a
reserved judgment as always so I don't
have to ride that emotional
rollercoaster we're on the side we're on
the edge of something that's what I
think coming out there's no shortage of
people who have theories about Oak
Island it's not just one single code
it's a double cipher code so this is the
instruction on how to stop the flood
traps
we're on the side we're on the edge of
something I mean it could be a shaft but
there shouldn't be one there should
there not at 142 feet I don't think of
any shafts that was down that deep
because the areas surrounding the money
pit has been dug up and filled in dozens
of times during the past 200 years it
would not be unusual for the laginas and
their partners to find the remains of
old wood beams and other debris in one
of their coring samples
that's a machined edge I'd be virtually
certain I built chance you know and we
never used anything like I don't put
anything vertical even if it was that
filled you would never expect it to be
perfectly a 180 degree you know you're
gonna be preggers and we got a vault
that we just found open anything we do
below can start messing up that ball the
other thing we can do we can think about
trying to find a sucker this puppy then
we lose it yeah whenever you drill
especially in unconsolidated ground like
this is there's always the danger that
we lose the cavity we have what we hope
is a big clue why risk drilling down and
we lose a big piece of the information
we're done for and then
for Rick Marty and the other members of
the Oak Island team finding the Chappell
vault is one thing getting to it and
retrieving whatever lies inside it he's
quite another because now they have to
figure out how to keep thousands of
gallons of ocean water from flooding in
and undermining their efforts to do so
will require an enormous commitment of
time and money or perhaps the solution
could come from a stranger one who has
traveled thousands of miles across the
globe in hopes of presenting the laginas
the details of his incredible theory
long trip very long trek filled up in
jet lag we're excited to see you yep
daniel ronnstam is a researcher and
amateur cryptographer from sweden who
has spent the last several years
studying the oak island mystery a little
background would initially attracted you
because you're a cryptographer and
amateur self-described yes yes it's in
2010 I got interested in this Oak Island
mystery I started investigating
everything for six months and there I
found more ciphers and codes
so what I'm gonna show you today is very
advanced cipher but beyond reasonable
doubts I'm gonna take out some papers
here like many Oak Island theorists
daniel ronnstam believes there is
something of great importance buried in
the island's mysterious triangle-shaped
swamp he also believes that during the
course of his research he has discovered
something unusual about the strange
stone slab found in the money pit back
in 1804 known as the 90-foot stone
because of the depth at which it was
discovered the strange stone slab
contained numerous carved symbols which
at the time were believed could be
translated using a simple substitution
method daniel ronnstam has come to oak
island not to dispute this widely-held
translation but to suggest that the code
used was even more ingenious because it
was meant to reveal not just one secret
message but to it's not just one single
code yeah it's a double cipher code yes
and that will lead me on to a theory of
how the market is constructed and why it
is constructed as is okay as well big
difference by breaking a cipher and
deciphering a cipher
when you break it you figure out the
rules and the design of the cipher disk
and it is very very hard to do in 1971 a
former US military cryptographer dr.
Ross Wilhelm used a 16th century book on
cryptography to prove that the 90-foot
stone contained a second message in
Spanish but the methodology used to
decipher the symbols was later found to
be flawed
what was real and found was of course
the cyclist start on the first letter in
the alphabet a and the first symbol in
the sequence is a triangle
so we write an A and then you move one
step like this when you leave that
letter and that simply is an O change
one step and E and then we come to
operating symbols and ask us to turn
more than one step instead we do four
steps go on two three four the two dots
mean four steps yes okay
inspired by wilhelm's theory daniel
ronnstam now believes he has deciphered
the stone's true translation
dr. Ross William made an error of
swapping two signals here but that's
because he used the Spanish alphabet
instead of the English 16th century
alphabet okay and this is the reason
villains cipher has been not believed to
be correct and it says in English at 80
guide corn long narrow sea Inlet drain
and then you have the lost F which means
Francis Bacon
Sir Francis Bacon
is it possible that the double coded
message on the 90-foot stone could
really have been authored by one of the
most accomplished and intriguing
englishmen of the 17th century
last year Norwegian researcher Petter
Amundsen presented evidence that
suggested Sir Francis Bacon a scientist
Explorer an adventurer who had ties to a
secret society of intellectuals known as
the Rosicrucians had hidden something of
great value in the Oak Island swamp
could daniel ronnstam's findings be
further evidence that bacon was also
behind the construction of the money pit
so this is the instruction on how to
stop the flood traps by putting corn
within the caving pit and South Shore
pits possible other pits expands by the
water on Clark's death Channel for
nearly 200 years historians and
researchers have tried to discover the
source of the ocean water that floods
the money pit and undermines virtually
every effort to dig or drill at a depth
below 90 feet
in 1850 evidence of an elaborate system
of five stone box drains was discovered
at the area known as Smith's Cove
covered with a layer of coconut fiber
which would likely filter out ocean
debris the Box drains appeared to be
part of an elaborate system of
booby-trapped flood tunnels designed to
thwart the efforts of would-be treasure
hunters it would also serve as a natural
protection for whatever it was that was
buried on Oak Island but could using
something as simple and basic as corn to
plug up the flood tunnels really be the
answer in the oil business we use a lot
of different things for lost circulation
and you know corn I suppose would swell
and it might do it after a few months is
eaten away by maggots and it's was
working again resets so why were fans
baking as gang do this 42 million pounds
of buried message this message activates
the beacon the beacon is people will
never forget to silent come try to get
the treasure he's working a cycle I've
specified she was working on us yep
for the laginas and their partners
daniel ronnstam's translation of the
symbols on the 90-foot stone if correct
might offer tremendous savings of both
time and money
but could something as simple as corn
poured down shafts at strategic points
on the island and really prevent ocean
water from flooding the money pit
coming up you think that this stone
exists yeah we have to find the stone
yeah we're just as interested as you
were and I feel a money pit is probably
Knights Templar
to make a dual cypher it's very very
hard so Swedish researcher at amateur
cryptographer daniel ronnstam has just
presented his incredible theory to Rick
Marty and the other members of the Oak
Island team team after conducting a
careful and painstaking analysis of the
strange symbols that were carved into
the so-called 90-foot stone ronnstam
believes that the stone was meant to be
not only a lure for would-be treasure
hunters but also a guide as to how corn
could be used to prevent water from
flooding the money pit and thus allow
access to whatever it is that lies
buried below wait a minute though I mean
this is all based on the symbols that
were supposedly on stone right we don't
know that those are the real symbols
right now of course we cannot know if if
they actually came from the pit if we
want to confirm this we have to find a
stone what Marty son Alex is referring
to is that any translation using the
carved symbols from the 90-foot stone is
potentially unreliable as the stone has
been lost for nearly 100 years
and there were no photographs or
rubbings taken from it all anyone can go
by are the various copies printed in
books or drawings done from memory we do
know there was a stone found in the in
the pit at 90 feet right there was
markings on it and then it was taken by
JB McCully supposedly to Halifax but
possibly to Truro that was his mother
lost I mean he was the Mason
it was amazing yes because of what
appears to be a number of elaborate and
ingenious engineering methods used in
the construction of the money pit there
are many Oak Island researchers who
believe there are strong connections
between the Oak Island mystery and the
ancient fraternity of builders known as
the Freemasons
in fact the list of Freemasons who are
connected to Oak Island he's a long one
and includes prominent searchers like
Gilbert Hedden and President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt who first came to the
island while still in his twenties we
say you run this by me again you think
that this stone exists somewhere yeah
one of the theories is that a stone went
to Halifax and was put in the front
window of a bookbinding firm down on
Upper Water Street was used as a
marketing ploy according to historical
records in 1865 a stone believed to be
the original 90-foot stone was put on
display in the window of a bookbinding
business in Halifax Nova Scotia it was
used as a lure to help raise capital for
the treasure hunt on Oak Island but
sometime after the end of World War one
around 1919 the stone vanished and was
never seen again
I don't know if you guys know this or
not but I'm a Mason and uh I'm gonna
make a call to one of my brothers and
see if he can assist in getting us
access into Grand Lodge and see we can
take a look at the archives and that's
where the stone might be well if the
stone or some information about it you
know like a rubbing or a photo or or
anything it the chances are it would be
there okay guys go find the stone okay
okay
after sharing his ingenious theory with
the oak island team swedish researcher
and amateur cryptographer daniel
ronnstam along with alex lagina and
charles barkhouse have enlisted the aid
of one of Charles's fellow Masons Cal
Hancock
they're hoping Cal can help them secure
special permission to access the Masonic
archives located in nearby Halifax
thanks for doing this Kelly Ryan
my pleasure if successful they may be
able to track down information that will
lead them to the original stone which
has been missing for nearly 100 years
was it difficult to get information to
do it well I had three kids and now I
only have two so
brother Roy brother Kelly hello Daniel
pleased to meet you asked me to write
Alex again oh yeah so these gentlemen
have some questions for you today we're
looking for some information perhaps on
an individual named JB McCully right
apparently JB McCully removed a stone
that was discovered on Oak Island in the
money pit but had inscriptions on it we
thought maybe there would be some kind
of a record of where the stone went yes
because I think there is stuff that was
communicated to other masons and not out
in the public
we had a tendency to do that yes we do
have a few secrets even possible for us
to maybe take a look in the Grand Lodge
archive before the historic things there
you know if we could be of any
assistance be only too glad to help
we're just as interested as you were and
I am personally feel that money pit is
probably Knights Templar
the Knights Templar it has been widely
held that the Knights Templar a powerful
order of warrior monks who fought to
liberate the Holy Land from Islamic rule
during the Crusades may have had
substantial contact with the indigenous
meghna people as far back as the 14th
century Templars are tied in this has a
very long Templar trail this is a
midlife slag this is what's called their
Grand Council flag we find it
interesting that the mid MA Grand
Council flag is actually a hundred
percent reverse mirror image of the
Templar battle flag many even believe
that the Templars hid precious religious
artifacts on Oak Island like the Ark of
the Covenant the golden menorah of King
Solomon and even the Holy Grail but
although Freemasonry can in many
respects trace its origins back to the
Knights Templar is it possible that link
could stretch all the way from the 14th
century to the present day
the massive undertaking that was done
back then could only have been achieved
by Knights Templar I'm kind of worried
that what you find are we ready for it
well what are we doing um what we got
here is an ultrasonic cleaner yeah and
same sort of thing used for dental
instruments cleaning ammunition jewelry
all that sort of stuff okay back on the
island Marty lagina Craig tester and
dive master Tony Sampson are about to
clean a coin that metal detector expert
Gary Drayton found near the money pit a
few weeks ago at the time the coin was
thought to be a two marvadi
similar to the 17th century eight
marvadi the team found in the Oak Island
swamp last year if so it would do much
to support the theory that Spanish
pirates frequented Oak Island centuries
ago and might very well have buried some
sort of treasure here and what we can do
is we can use it to clean a coin up just
to take some of the tarnish off so you
can actually see the date the mayor of
the deed to me if it is one it would be
very significant because we found one
last year here's another one unrelated
phoned by a different seeker it could
mean a lot in two different locations
who are locations yeah okay so we drop
at the time or let her have it
coming up I downloaded the data off the
GPS oh good x marks the spot I still
think the swamp has something to tell us
whatever he found I made him think that
there was something there absolutely
okay
just about done it was just about cooked
back in the oak island war room Marty
lagina Craig tester and Tony Sampson are
about to see if by cleaning the old
copper coin found near the money pit a
few weeks ago they can tell just how old
it is or where it may have come from
there we are all right reveal your
secrets okay let's see what you are
get
high hopes for this coin Tony okay well
it looks like we've definitely got
something on that side I can see some
raised points there yeah well there's
like bars sort of like parallel bars
very very distinct but I I don't know
what to make of it see what I'm saying
see the line I mean those those are just
shiny points they're lines well they are
just think that yeah so it looks like a
Templar cross
huh Templar cross Knights Templar a
Templar coin found near the money pit on
Oak Island if so then this could be the
first tangible proof that the stories
and legends connecting the Knights
Templar and Oak Island are true
how do you know about that I'm amazing -
oh are you really yeah did they have
coinage they were the first bank during
the period that stretches from the
Middle Ages to about 1100 AD the Knights
Templar were known not only for
protecting pilgrims on their journeys to
and from the Holy Land but for storing
and guarding vast amounts of gold silver
and other valuables in their fortresses
over time these castles became the
equivalent of the first banks as many
people would deposit their valuables in
Templar strongholds for safekeeping this
later led to the Templars issuing
letters of credit and other currency
which in turn became the basis for the
very same banking system still in
operation to this day I guess it would
add coins well I'll tell you what this
Templar thing just keeps coming up and
coming up and coming up and we need to
get to the bottom of this Templar thing
keep servicing on this island at least
references to them seem to yeah alright
let's get after it okay
hey let me introduce you to the grand
librarian of the Grand Lodge of Nova
Scotia brother Gordon MacDonald Gordon
I'm Alex lagina nice throughout there
Tom Rogers at the Grand Masonic Lodge in
Halifax grand librarian Gordon MacDonald
has scoured through the archives looking
for information on Jotham McCully the
man believed to have removed the 90-foot
stone from Oak Island sometime in 1865
yes unfortunately I can't find a
mentioned as a lodge officer mm-hmm but
there's another name
Pitblado we've found references to this
individual belonging to the same Lodge
as McCully from 1869 through to around
78 and that's important because Pitblado
and McCully were probably the two
closest to the actual drilling operation
McCully being listed as the chief
engineer in some cases and Pitblado
being listed as the Drilling Engineer
according to historical records in 18-49
an Oak Island treasure Mining
Corporation known as the Truro company
was supervised by manager Jotham McCully
and Foreman James Pitblado
one day while drilling at the money pit
Pitblado was seen to take something from
an auger bit and quickly tuck it away in
his pocket shortly thereafter Pitblado
left the company and then attempted
unsuccessfully to purchase the lot on
the island that included the money pit
unfortunately Pitblado died a few months
later leaving what he found a mystery
whatever he found on that open-face
auger made him leave the company leave
his position right I made him think that
there was something there absolutely
right and you you found mention of his
name in your records oh yeah yes yeah we
were able to find some pretty good info
some of it was a bit of a dead end but I
think we got some other names that we
can check out though Alex Charles and
Daniel were not able to track down much
information about the fate of the
infamous 90-foot stone they are hopeful
that over time more information will
come to light and more pieces of the
puzzle will be brought together thank
you so much really appreciate it great
to meet you
coming out you know as far as the swamp
goes we need to go back I got one of the
date off the GPS okay
x marks the spot I still think the swamp
has something to tell us it is a new day
on Oak Island
and although the weather is anything but
welcoming it is not going to stop Rick
lagina from looking for another
breakthrough in the Oak Island mystery
he is eager to explore the strange
triangle-shaped swamp in hopes of
discovering evidence of manmade flood
tunnels if they exist they would
seriously undermine the team's efforts
to excavate the money pit area and
retrieve the so-called wooden vault the
team found a few days ago you really
believe the Tree of Life is applied to
this piece of real estate right out here
yes like I show you the stones that we
can calculate Marissa Paul joining Rick
our Swedish researcher and Oak Island
enthusiast daniel ronnstam and
professional treasure hunter and metal
detector expert David Spencer like other
oak island theorists daniel ronnstam is
convinced that the swamp holds the key
to solving the entire Oak Island mystery
according to his theory members of the
Rosicrucians a secret society often
linked to the Knights Templar came to
Oak Island sometime in the 17th century
they carried with them the sacred
religious objects the Templars had
rescued from the Holy Land during the
Crusades ronnstam also believes that in
an effort to hide their tracks the
templars deliberately created the swamp
in the shape of a pyramid or triangle
only after first digging an underground
vault Daniel's been very insightful in
terms of his theory and you know he
believes there's a vault in the swamp so
that's one target can we find it I don't
know does it really exist
I don't know I'm in said ronnstam also
believes the vault lies at the so-called
eye of the pyramid otherwise known as
the mercy point which in turn
corresponds to a point on what is known
in the Old Testament and in the Hebrew
Kabbalah as the Tree of Life but based
on his research ronnstam is convinced
that the reason Rick Marty and the Oak
Island team have so far not found the
actual mercy point is because they have
been relying on imprecise measurements
done on foot he believes that only
precise GPS coordinates using the
boulders of Nolan's cross as a guide
will allow the team to accurately
pinpoint and hopefully enter the
mysterious underground vault
we got the data downloaded the data off
the GPS David Spencer has marked the
precise GPS coordinates on his computer
in an effort to create an accurate map
of the mercy point area i bisected that
ran a 90 degree off of that and that's x
marks the spot so we get a boat in and
we figure out go take a walk
the idea that there is something strange
and perhaps of great importance lying at
the bottom of the Oak Island swamp dates
back to 1960 it was then that Oak Island
treasure hunter Robert Restall and his
son Bobby became convinced there was a
so-called mystery box lying in the swamp
near what could be described as the
southeastern corner could this be
connected in some way to the alleged
booby-trapped flood tunnels or could it
be as daniel ronnstam believes something
of even greater importance you're the
god of the swamp I got a bit of deadpan
now guys just three feet
we flex which Republic are they on the
run there or are you just like nothing
wrong I'm on one at the Mogollon another
one here it's a line of rocks the liner
or going from where we were last year on
the rocks going this one last summer
when Tony Sampson dove in the swamp near
the mercy point he found a submerged
flat rock surface which the team
believed might be the entrance to the
underwater vault now Tony believes he's
standing on a similar structure but at a
different location in the swamp could
the vault be much larger and more
elaborate than anyone ever imagined
okay well one thing's for sure we found
enough information that leads me to
believe that look we have to drain it in
order to retrieve the information in
order to get to the box I'd like to see
it drain and let's define what we what
we've got out here we're not gonna
figure that out with four feet of water
in that swamp in order to find the
answer what he's standing on and what it
might be is to drain the water and the
swamp let's get the hell out of this
ring but the vault exists and there's
something in that vault whatever that
may be
here's proof that the search is
legitimate but there's something here to
be found some story to be told
so guys we want to do an additional
research what do we need to do and who's
doing it let's talk about after daniel
ronnstam's departure from Oak Island
Rick Marty and their partners meet in
the war room armed with new information
about both the money pit and the swamp
it is time to decide just how and where
they will next focus their resources you
know as far as the swamp goes we were in
there and we're there are still
anomalies that needed investigating yes
we need to go back drain or dig but
we're going back okay but you're
handling it I'm gonna do it all right so
that's that part what else are we doing
here today well as you know we went to
investigate and maybe find out what
happened to that inscribed stone that
was found yes unfortunately we couldn't
track down any leads but one of the guys
up there is convinced that it was the
Templars that did it
lots of people think Templars so how do
we run that to ground well I got a call
the other day from a woman named
Kathleen McGowan she's a researcher who
also believes that the Templars are
behind this she is emphatic that the
proof and even some clues as to what we
can expect to find over here is in
Europe
does she seem credible to you very
really absolutely
she says that the sites are in the South
of France we could just you know take a
quick jog over there and have a look you
think it's worth it I do yeah all right
why don't you set it up with her get the
dates and stuff and we'll do it okay all
right so let's talk about the money pit
right that's probably the most important
thing we got going we talked about one
of the tests we wanted to do this summer
this dye test in an effort to try and
shut off the water that has flooded the
money pit over the years Rick Marty and
the team are planning to recreate what
is known as the dye test a test that was
first conducted by Frederick Blair in
1898 and has been repeated only a
handful of times since first dye in the
form of non-toxic colored powder he's
poured down one of the islands many
treasure holes then after a period of a
few hours spotters placed at various
points along the coastline will watch to
see if the dye can be found seeping out
from certain areas and if dye is seeping
out then these are also the most logical
places to find where ocean water could
be coming in I do have one issue on that
who's finding what we found in the muddy
pit
do we want to send the water down there
to see where that comes out as opposed
to 10x go down the hole we just drilled
yeah I don't think we'd get enough water
in it well I think maybe you can I mean
at years we're taking a risk taking a
risk of collapse and we have such high
hopes for why would we do that
why would we risk what you consider to
be so valuable it's just not worth it I
don't think it'll work I don't think
these two guys say no let's not do it
what do you say I say no Charles I
wouldn't do it done okay yep I'm fine
with that
yep rather than risk damage to what they
refer to as the Chappell vault the team
has chosen borehole 10x located just 180
feet away from the money pit as the best
alternative location for the dye test
and I think that's about it guys yes
Crown Royal time David
yes ground roll time all right good good
the
laginas and their partners have now
come closer to solving the Oak Island
mystery
than any team in more than 200 years
they have found not only the location of
the original money pit but also what
appears to be the strange wooden vault
that was first discovered back in 1897
they are also more and more convinced
that there is something strange and
perhaps quite incredible lying at the
bottom of the triangle-shaped swamp but
is it really possible there is more than
one treasure site on the island as some
researchers believe
or could the island which is defeated
all who have ever tried to unlock its
secrets and has so far taken the lives
of six men and simply be luring the
laginas and their partners deeper and
deeper waiting for the opportunity to
choose its next victim next time on the
curse of Oak Island in order to dig in
the money pit we have to shut off all
the flood phones and maybe this digest
will lead us in that direction we're
here to the South France and we're
really trying to take back to find the
roots of this if you were gonna look for
the treasure of the Knights Templar I
could stop in Polk Island
I found something I'm excited
Tonight on the curse of Oak Island there
we go solid wood we're on the side we're
on the edge of something we need to
figure the best way to take a look at
that cipher is the instruction will help
to stop the flood traps
I should don't think the swamp has
something to tell us x marks the spot we
found another coin it could be very
significant looks like we've definitely
got something looks like it's nice
Templar cross right now
this ends right here
there is an island in the North Atlantic
where men have been looking for treasure
for more than 200 years so far they have
uncovered booby-trapped flood tunnels
carved stones with strange symbols 17th
century Spanish coins and evidence of a
mysterious wooden vault covered in
concrete
six men have even lost their lives
according to legend
we'll have to die before the treasure
can be
here we go
Rick lagina his brother Marty and their
partners Craig tester and Dave
Blankenship are hoping that today will
be another exciting day on Oak Island
come on right now this ends right here
today yep we could bring up the gold
shiny stuff whether we got to dig it up
yeah that's the issue are you kiddin if
you find something massive that's a
piece of cake and we struck spending
yesterday after spending nearly three
weeks of drilling in the area known as
the money pit the team was finally able
to get a split-spoon coring bit past
centuries of rocks and other debris left
behind by previous treasure hunters when
they retrieved it what they found was
astonishing definitely got wood see what
else we might have
that's definitely clay I don't think
that's bedrock maybe it's concrete Rick
that is a possibility
concrete and then wood that's the
description that's what they found in
the top of the vault after years of
planning thousands of hours of hard work
we should take this to my brother and
millions of dollars invested the team on
Oak Island believe they have had an
enormous breakthrough they are convinced
that what they may have discovered is
not only the infamous Oak Island money
pit but also the legendary Chappell
vault I mean everybody since 1897 when
that vault was first found has been
trying to refine this and nobody has
found it while drilling in the money pit
back in 1897 treasure hunter William
Chappell came upon what he later
described as a large wooden vault
with walls seven inches thick and
measuring seven feet high located at a
depth of 153 feet below the islands
surface it was covered in a hard
concrete-like substance which when
tested was determined to be man-made but
what was even more incredible than the
discovery of the vault itself was the
fact that Chappell noticed that on his
drill bit could be found traces of gold
he also discovered a tiny piece of what
looked like parchment on which were
written the letters VI unfortunately
soon after the mysterious vault was
discovered the shaft Chappell had begun
digging flooded with soft water the hole
collapsed and both the wooden vault and
it's mysterious contents were never
located again
could this be what the laginas and their
partners have just discovered are they
really within a few feet of solving the
Oak Island mystery once and for all
Daniel where they say Marty good morning
partner
yesterday of the day who knows
ya know you don't let yourself get
excited anymore right not after now
however many years it's been a long time
you're the interesting to find out what
you recover it that depth veteran
treasure hunter dan Blankenship has been
trying to solve the Oak Island mystery
for nearly 50 years prior to that he had
been a successful building contractor
living with his wife in Miami Florida
hopefully when the next one comes up
we'll have something to look at yeah now
it is nineties Dan has refused to give
up trying to find out what if anything
lies buried on Oak Island
half the star let's see how it goes if
they fall right away it'll fall right
down I'll bet you anything the Corinne
barrel the team is using can retrieve a
core sample of up to two feet in length
but given the potentially fragile nature
of the target object care must be taken
that it not be damaged by the process I
don't believe we do okay I don't believe
you got a fork or barrel let's do it six
more
that was the plan six inches
it's a pretty quick trip Oh we'll take a
look and see we have tell you what it
went off wheezy we only laid short six
inches we should have 18 inches of new
stuff so we'll see you but I'll tell you
what that went easy as hell just like
it's in a big old vault lots of gold in
there
because the split-spoon core sampler
seemed to have no trouble going 18
inches farther below ground than it did
yesterday marty and the team are
beginning to suspect that the drill is
now quite possibly inside the Chappell
vault
the way at the bottom of that the seller
would Morwood lots of what have Rick
Marty and the team just recovered
another piece of the mysterious Chappell
vault or vertical what again best-case
scenario we're into the original vault
there's something of immense value there
and we'll salvage it okay that's the
bottom I mean we're all excited I think
there was some trepidation on our part
do we really want to split the barrel
and open and see what we were in that's
pretty exciting there we go
that's good he's still that flat piece
good after that well this side is facing
something outside inside don't see no
spendables here no me either we got some
clay we got what looks like cement then
we got five inches of wood running this
way and then into a kind of luckily
we're skidding down a post a vertical
post I got more and more excited as they
looked at it but you know I want a
reserved judgment as always so I don't
have to ride that emotional
rollercoaster we're on the side we're on
the edge of something that's what I
think coming out there's no shortage of
people who have theories about Oak
Island it's not just one single code
it's a double cipher code so this is the
instruction on how to stop the flood
traps
we're on the side we're on the edge of
something I mean it could be a shaft but
there shouldn't be one there should
there not at 142 feet I don't think of
any shafts that was down that deep
because the areas surrounding the money
pit has been dug up and filled in dozens
of times during the past 200 years it
would not be unusual for the laginas and
their partners to find the remains of
old wood beams and other debris in one
of their coring samples
that's a machined edge I'd be virtually
certain I built chance you know and we
never used anything like I don't put
anything vertical even if it was that
filled you would never expect it to be
perfectly a 180 degree you know you're
gonna be preggers and we got a vault
that we just found open anything we do
below can start messing up that ball the
other thing we can do we can think about
trying to find a sucker this puppy then
we lose it yeah whenever you drill
especially in unconsolidated ground like
this is there's always the danger that
we lose the cavity we have what we hope
is a big clue why risk drilling down and
we lose a big piece of the information
we're done for and then
for Rick Marty and the other members of
the Oak Island team finding the Chappell
vault is one thing getting to it and
retrieving whatever lies inside it he's
quite another because now they have to
figure out how to keep thousands of
gallons of ocean water from flooding in
and undermining their efforts to do so
will require an enormous commitment of
time and money or perhaps the solution
could come from a stranger one who has
traveled thousands of miles across the
globe in hopes of presenting the laginas
the details of his incredible theory
long trip very long trek filled up in
jet lag we're excited to see you yep
daniel ronnstam is a researcher and
amateur cryptographer from sweden who
has spent the last several years
studying the oak island mystery a little
background would initially attracted you
because you're a cryptographer and
amateur self-described yes yes it's in
2010 I got interested in this Oak Island
mystery I started investigating
everything for six months and there I
found more ciphers and codes
so what I'm gonna show you today is very
advanced cipher but beyond reasonable
doubts I'm gonna take out some papers
here like many Oak Island theorists
daniel ronnstam believes there is
something of great importance buried in
the island's mysterious triangle-shaped
swamp he also believes that during the
course of his research he has discovered
something unusual about the strange
stone slab found in the money pit back
in 1804 known as the 90-foot stone
because of the depth at which it was
discovered the strange stone slab
contained numerous carved symbols which
at the time were believed could be
translated using a simple substitution
method daniel ronnstam has come to oak
island not to dispute this widely-held
translation but to suggest that the code
used was even more ingenious because it
was meant to reveal not just one secret
message but to it's not just one single
code yeah it's a double cipher code yes
and that will lead me on to a theory of
how the market is constructed and why it
is constructed as is okay as well big
difference by breaking a cipher and
deciphering a cipher
when you break it you figure out the
rules and the design of the cipher disk
and it is very very hard to do in 1971 a
former US military cryptographer dr.
Ross Wilhelm used a 16th century book on
cryptography to prove that the 90-foot
stone contained a second message in
Spanish but the methodology used to
decipher the symbols was later found to
be flawed
what was real and found was of course
the cyclist start on the first letter in
the alphabet a and the first symbol in
the sequence is a triangle
so we write an A and then you move one
step like this when you leave that
letter and that simply is an O change
one step and E and then we come to
operating symbols and ask us to turn
more than one step instead we do four
steps go on two three four the two dots
mean four steps yes okay
inspired by wilhelm's theory daniel
ronnstam now believes he has deciphered
the stone's true translation
dr. Ross William made an error of
swapping two signals here but that's
because he used the Spanish alphabet
instead of the English 16th century
alphabet okay and this is the reason
villains cipher has been not believed to
be correct and it says in English at 80
guide corn long narrow sea Inlet drain
and then you have the lost F which means
Francis Bacon
Sir Francis Bacon
is it possible that the double coded
message on the 90-foot stone could
really have been authored by one of the
most accomplished and intriguing
englishmen of the 17th century
last year Norwegian researcher Petter
Amundsen presented evidence that
suggested Sir Francis Bacon a scientist
Explorer an adventurer who had ties to a
secret society of intellectuals known as
the Rosicrucians had hidden something of
great value in the Oak Island swamp
could daniel ronnstam's findings be
further evidence that bacon was also
behind the construction of the money pit
so this is the instruction on how to
stop the flood traps by putting corn
within the caving pit and South Shore
pits possible other pits expands by the
water on Clark's death Channel for
nearly 200 years historians and
researchers have tried to discover the
source of the ocean water that floods
the money pit and undermines virtually
every effort to dig or drill at a depth
below 90 feet
in 1850 evidence of an elaborate system
of five stone box drains was discovered
at the area known as Smith's Cove
covered with a layer of coconut fiber
which would likely filter out ocean
debris the Box drains appeared to be
part of an elaborate system of
booby-trapped flood tunnels designed to
thwart the efforts of would-be treasure
hunters it would also serve as a natural
protection for whatever it was that was
buried on Oak Island but could using
something as simple and basic as corn to
plug up the flood tunnels really be the
answer in the oil business we use a lot
of different things for lost circulation
and you know corn I suppose would swell
and it might do it after a few months is
eaten away by maggots and it's was
working again resets so why were fans
baking as gang do this 42 million pounds
of buried message this message activates
the beacon the beacon is people will
never forget to silent come try to get
the treasure he's working a cycle I've
specified she was working on us yep
for the laginas and their partners
daniel ronnstam's translation of the
symbols on the 90-foot stone if correct
might offer tremendous savings of both
time and money
but could something as simple as corn
poured down shafts at strategic points
on the island and really prevent ocean
water from flooding the money pit
coming up you think that this stone
exists yeah we have to find the stone
yeah we're just as interested as you
were and I feel a money pit is probably
Knights Templar
to make a dual cypher it's very very
hard so Swedish researcher at amateur
cryptographer daniel ronnstam has just
presented his incredible theory to Rick
Marty and the other members of the Oak
Island team team after conducting a
careful and painstaking analysis of the
strange symbols that were carved into
the so-called 90-foot stone ronnstam
believes that the stone was meant to be
not only a lure for would-be treasure
hunters but also a guide as to how corn
could be used to prevent water from
flooding the money pit and thus allow
access to whatever it is that lies
buried below wait a minute though I mean
this is all based on the symbols that
were supposedly on stone right we don't
know that those are the real symbols
right now of course we cannot know if if
they actually came from the pit if we
want to confirm this we have to find a
stone what Marty son Alex is referring
to is that any translation using the
carved symbols from the 90-foot stone is
potentially unreliable as the stone has
been lost for nearly 100 years
and there were no photographs or
rubbings taken from it all anyone can go
by are the various copies printed in
books or drawings done from memory we do
know there was a stone found in the in
the pit at 90 feet right there was
markings on it and then it was taken by
JB McCully supposedly to Halifax but
possibly to Truro that was his mother
lost I mean he was the Mason
it was amazing yes because of what
appears to be a number of elaborate and
ingenious engineering methods used in
the construction of the money pit there
are many Oak Island researchers who
believe there are strong connections
between the Oak Island mystery and the
ancient fraternity of builders known as
the Freemasons
in fact the list of Freemasons who are
connected to Oak Island he's a long one
and includes prominent searchers like
Gilbert Hedden and President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt who first came to the
island while still in his twenties we
say you run this by me again you think
that this stone exists somewhere yeah
one of the theories is that a stone went
to Halifax and was put in the front
window of a bookbinding firm down on
Upper Water Street was used as a
marketing ploy according to historical
records in 1865 a stone believed to be
the original 90-foot stone was put on
display in the window of a bookbinding
business in Halifax Nova Scotia it was
used as a lure to help raise capital for
the treasure hunt on Oak Island but
sometime after the end of World War one
around 1919 the stone vanished and was
never seen again
I don't know if you guys know this or
not but I'm a Mason and uh I'm gonna
make a call to one of my brothers and
see if he can assist in getting us
access into Grand Lodge and see we can
take a look at the archives and that's
where the stone might be well if the
stone or some information about it you
know like a rubbing or a photo or or
anything it the chances are it would be
there okay guys go find the stone okay
okay
after sharing his ingenious theory with
the oak island team swedish researcher
and amateur cryptographer daniel
ronnstam along with alex lagina and
charles barkhouse have enlisted the aid
of one of Charles's fellow Masons Cal
Hancock
they're hoping Cal can help them secure
special permission to access the Masonic
archives located in nearby Halifax
thanks for doing this Kelly Ryan
my pleasure if successful they may be
able to track down information that will
lead them to the original stone which
has been missing for nearly 100 years
was it difficult to get information to
do it well I had three kids and now I
only have two so
brother Roy brother Kelly hello Daniel
pleased to meet you asked me to write
Alex again oh yeah so these gentlemen
have some questions for you today we're
looking for some information perhaps on
an individual named JB McCully right
apparently JB McCully removed a stone
that was discovered on Oak Island in the
money pit but had inscriptions on it we
thought maybe there would be some kind
of a record of where the stone went yes
because I think there is stuff that was
communicated to other masons and not out
in the public
we had a tendency to do that yes we do
have a few secrets even possible for us
to maybe take a look in the Grand Lodge
archive before the historic things there
you know if we could be of any
assistance be only too glad to help
we're just as interested as you were and
I am personally feel that money pit is
probably Knights Templar
the Knights Templar it has been widely
held that the Knights Templar a powerful
order of warrior monks who fought to
liberate the Holy Land from Islamic rule
during the Crusades may have had
substantial contact with the indigenous
meghna people as far back as the 14th
century Templars are tied in this has a
very long Templar trail this is a
midlife slag this is what's called their
Grand Council flag we find it
interesting that the mid MA Grand
Council flag is actually a hundred
percent reverse mirror image of the
Templar battle flag many even believe
that the Templars hid precious religious
artifacts on Oak Island like the Ark of
the Covenant the golden menorah of King
Solomon and even the Holy Grail but
although Freemasonry can in many
respects trace its origins back to the
Knights Templar is it possible that link
could stretch all the way from the 14th
century to the present day
the massive undertaking that was done
back then could only have been achieved
by Knights Templar I'm kind of worried
that what you find are we ready for it
well what are we doing um what we got
here is an ultrasonic cleaner yeah and
same sort of thing used for dental
instruments cleaning ammunition jewelry
all that sort of stuff okay back on the
island Marty lagina Craig tester and
dive master Tony Sampson are about to
clean a coin that metal detector expert
Gary Drayton found near the money pit a
few weeks ago at the time the coin was
thought to be a two marvadi
similar to the 17th century eight
marvadi the team found in the Oak Island
swamp last year if so it would do much
to support the theory that Spanish
pirates frequented Oak Island centuries
ago and might very well have buried some
sort of treasure here and what we can do
is we can use it to clean a coin up just
to take some of the tarnish off so you
can actually see the date the mayor of
the deed to me if it is one it would be
very significant because we found one
last year here's another one unrelated
phoned by a different seeker it could
mean a lot in two different locations
who are locations yeah okay so we drop
at the time or let her have it
coming up I downloaded the data off the
GPS oh good x marks the spot I still
think the swamp has something to tell us
whatever he found I made him think that
there was something there absolutely
okay
just about done it was just about cooked
back in the oak island war room Marty
lagina Craig tester and Tony Sampson are
about to see if by cleaning the old
copper coin found near the money pit a
few weeks ago they can tell just how old
it is or where it may have come from
there we are all right reveal your
secrets okay let's see what you are
get
high hopes for this coin Tony okay well
it looks like we've definitely got
something on that side I can see some
raised points there yeah well there's
like bars sort of like parallel bars
very very distinct but I I don't know
what to make of it see what I'm saying
see the line I mean those those are just
shiny points they're lines well they are
just think that yeah so it looks like a
Templar cross
huh Templar cross Knights Templar a
Templar coin found near the money pit on
Oak Island if so then this could be the
first tangible proof that the stories
and legends connecting the Knights
Templar and Oak Island are true
how do you know about that I'm amazing -
oh are you really yeah did they have
coinage they were the first bank during
the period that stretches from the
Middle Ages to about 1100 AD the Knights
Templar were known not only for
protecting pilgrims on their journeys to
and from the Holy Land but for storing
and guarding vast amounts of gold silver
and other valuables in their fortresses
over time these castles became the
equivalent of the first banks as many
people would deposit their valuables in
Templar strongholds for safekeeping this
later led to the Templars issuing
letters of credit and other currency
which in turn became the basis for the
very same banking system still in
operation to this day I guess it would
add coins well I'll tell you what this
Templar thing just keeps coming up and
coming up and coming up and we need to
get to the bottom of this Templar thing
keep servicing on this island at least
references to them seem to yeah alright
let's get after it okay
hey let me introduce you to the grand
librarian of the Grand Lodge of Nova
Scotia brother Gordon MacDonald Gordon
I'm Alex lagina nice throughout there
Tom Rogers at the Grand Masonic Lodge in
Halifax grand librarian Gordon MacDonald
has scoured through the archives looking
for information on Jotham McCully the
man believed to have removed the 90-foot
stone from Oak Island sometime in 1865
yes unfortunately I can't find a
mentioned as a lodge officer mm-hmm but
there's another name
Pitblado we've found references to this
individual belonging to the same Lodge
as McCully from 1869 through to around
78 and that's important because Pitblado
and McCully were probably the two
closest to the actual drilling operation
McCully being listed as the chief
engineer in some cases and Pitblado
being listed as the Drilling Engineer
according to historical records in 18-49
an Oak Island treasure Mining
Corporation known as the Truro company
was supervised by manager Jotham McCully
and Foreman James Pitblado
one day while drilling at the money pit
Pitblado was seen to take something from
an auger bit and quickly tuck it away in
his pocket shortly thereafter Pitblado
left the company and then attempted
unsuccessfully to purchase the lot on
the island that included the money pit
unfortunately Pitblado died a few months
later leaving what he found a mystery
whatever he found on that open-face
auger made him leave the company leave
his position right I made him think that
there was something there absolutely
right and you you found mention of his
name in your records oh yeah yes yeah we
were able to find some pretty good info
some of it was a bit of a dead end but I
think we got some other names that we
can check out though Alex Charles and
Daniel were not able to track down much
information about the fate of the
infamous 90-foot stone they are hopeful
that over time more information will
come to light and more pieces of the
puzzle will be brought together thank
you so much really appreciate it great
to meet you
coming out you know as far as the swamp
goes we need to go back I got one of the
date off the GPS okay
x marks the spot I still think the swamp
has something to tell us it is a new day
on Oak Island
and although the weather is anything but
welcoming it is not going to stop Rick
lagina from looking for another
breakthrough in the Oak Island mystery
he is eager to explore the strange
triangle-shaped swamp in hopes of
discovering evidence of manmade flood
tunnels if they exist they would
seriously undermine the team's efforts
to excavate the money pit area and
retrieve the so-called wooden vault the
team found a few days ago you really
believe the Tree of Life is applied to
this piece of real estate right out here
yes like I show you the stones that we
can calculate Marissa Paul joining Rick
our Swedish researcher and Oak Island
enthusiast daniel ronnstam and
professional treasure hunter and metal
detector expert David Spencer like other
oak island theorists daniel ronnstam is
convinced that the swamp holds the key
to solving the entire Oak Island mystery
according to his theory members of the
Rosicrucians a secret society often
linked to the Knights Templar came to
Oak Island sometime in the 17th century
they carried with them the sacred
religious objects the Templars had
rescued from the Holy Land during the
Crusades ronnstam also believes that in
an effort to hide their tracks the
templars deliberately created the swamp
in the shape of a pyramid or triangle
only after first digging an underground
vault Daniel's been very insightful in
terms of his theory and you know he
believes there's a vault in the swamp so
that's one target can we find it I don't
know does it really exist
I don't know I'm in said ronnstam also
believes the vault lies at the so-called
eye of the pyramid otherwise known as
the mercy point which in turn
corresponds to a point on what is known
in the Old Testament and in the Hebrew
Kabbalah as the Tree of Life but based
on his research ronnstam is convinced
that the reason Rick Marty and the Oak
Island team have so far not found the
actual mercy point is because they have
been relying on imprecise measurements
done on foot he believes that only
precise GPS coordinates using the
boulders of Nolan's cross as a guide
will allow the team to accurately
pinpoint and hopefully enter the
mysterious underground vault
we got the data downloaded the data off
the GPS David Spencer has marked the
precise GPS coordinates on his computer
in an effort to create an accurate map
of the mercy point area i bisected that
ran a 90 degree off of that and that's x
marks the spot so we get a boat in and
we figure out go take a walk
the idea that there is something strange
and perhaps of great importance lying at
the bottom of the Oak Island swamp dates
back to 1960 it was then that Oak Island
treasure hunter Robert Restall and his
son Bobby became convinced there was a
so-called mystery box lying in the swamp
near what could be described as the
southeastern corner could this be
connected in some way to the alleged
booby-trapped flood tunnels or could it
be as daniel ronnstam believes something
of even greater importance you're the
god of the swamp I got a bit of deadpan
now guys just three feet
we flex which Republic are they on the
run there or are you just like nothing
wrong I'm on one at the Mogollon another
one here it's a line of rocks the liner
or going from where we were last year on
the rocks going this one last summer
when Tony Sampson dove in the swamp near
the mercy point he found a submerged
flat rock surface which the team
believed might be the entrance to the
underwater vault now Tony believes he's
standing on a similar structure but at a
different location in the swamp could
the vault be much larger and more
elaborate than anyone ever imagined
okay well one thing's for sure we found
enough information that leads me to
believe that look we have to drain it in
order to retrieve the information in
order to get to the box I'd like to see
it drain and let's define what we what
we've got out here we're not gonna
figure that out with four feet of water
in that swamp in order to find the
answer what he's standing on and what it
might be is to drain the water and the
swamp let's get the hell out of this
ring but the vault exists and there's
something in that vault whatever that
may be
here's proof that the search is
legitimate but there's something here to
be found some story to be told
so guys we want to do an additional
research what do we need to do and who's
doing it let's talk about after daniel
ronnstam's departure from Oak Island
Rick Marty and their partners meet in
the war room armed with new information
about both the money pit and the swamp
it is time to decide just how and where
they will next focus their resources you
know as far as the swamp goes we were in
there and we're there are still
anomalies that needed investigating yes
we need to go back drain or dig but
we're going back okay but you're
handling it I'm gonna do it all right so
that's that part what else are we doing
here today well as you know we went to
investigate and maybe find out what
happened to that inscribed stone that
was found yes unfortunately we couldn't
track down any leads but one of the guys
up there is convinced that it was the
Templars that did it
lots of people think Templars so how do
we run that to ground well I got a call
the other day from a woman named
Kathleen McGowan she's a researcher who
also believes that the Templars are
behind this she is emphatic that the
proof and even some clues as to what we
can expect to find over here is in
Europe
does she seem credible to you very
really absolutely
she says that the sites are in the South
of France we could just you know take a
quick jog over there and have a look you
think it's worth it I do yeah all right
why don't you set it up with her get the
dates and stuff and we'll do it okay all
right so let's talk about the money pit
right that's probably the most important
thing we got going we talked about one
of the tests we wanted to do this summer
this dye test in an effort to try and
shut off the water that has flooded the
money pit over the years Rick Marty and
the team are planning to recreate what
is known as the dye test a test that was
first conducted by Frederick Blair in
1898 and has been repeated only a
handful of times since first dye in the
form of non-toxic colored powder he's
poured down one of the islands many
treasure holes then after a period of a
few hours spotters placed at various
points along the coastline will watch to
see if the dye can be found seeping out
from certain areas and if dye is seeping
out then these are also the most logical
places to find where ocean water could
be coming in I do have one issue on that
who's finding what we found in the muddy
pit
do we want to send the water down there
to see where that comes out as opposed
to 10x go down the hole we just drilled
yeah I don't think we'd get enough water
in it well I think maybe you can I mean
at years we're taking a risk taking a
risk of collapse and we have such high
hopes for why would we do that
why would we risk what you consider to
be so valuable it's just not worth it I
don't think it'll work I don't think
these two guys say no let's not do it
what do you say I say no Charles I
wouldn't do it done okay yep I'm fine
with that
yep rather than risk damage to what they
refer to as the Chappell vault the team
has chosen borehole 10x located just 180
feet away from the money pit as the best
alternative location for the dye test
and I think that's about it guys yes
Crown Royal time David
yes ground roll time all right good good
the
laginas and their partners have now
come closer to solving the Oak Island
mystery
than any team in more than 200 years
they have found not only the location of
the original money pit but also what
appears to be the strange wooden vault
that was first discovered back in 1897
they are also more and more convinced
that there is something strange and
perhaps quite incredible lying at the
bottom of the triangle-shaped swamp but
is it really possible there is more than
one treasure site on the island as some
researchers believe
or could the island which is defeated
all who have ever tried to unlock its
secrets and has so far taken the lives
of six men and simply be luring the
laginas and their partners deeper and
deeper waiting for the opportunity to
choose its next victim next time on the
curse of Oak Island in order to dig in
the money pit we have to shut off all
the flood phones and maybe this digest
will lead us in that direction we're
here to the South France and we're
really trying to take back to find the
roots of this if you were gonna look for
the treasure of the Knights Templar I
could stop in Polk Island
I found something I'm excited