The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s04e08 Episode Script

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tonight on the curse of Oak Island
that's a king George this is a treasure
on the street 1700s that changes a lot
they're not supposed to be here the
people who did this wanted it to be
found
take it slow the world hasn't seen this
hey what's that goal shiny thing needs
holy smokes
that's amazing
my hope as I'm watching this just show
me one man-made object what's that
there is an island in the North Atlantic
where people have been looking for an
incredible treasure for more than 200
years so far they have found bits of
gold chain a stone slab with strange
symbols carved into it even a 17th
century Spanish coin to date six men
have died trying to solve the mystery
and according to legend one more will
have to die before the treasure can be
found
well let's a little can see one and then
take a few grabs out of it for Rick and
Marty lagina and their partners this
search for treasure on Oak Island has
led them to a massive 40 inch wide steel
case for haul to simply known sc1 today
sir good day the Scots
lashed out there yeah we are absolutely
ready to go man it was at this very spot
where last year Island historian Charles
Barkhouse advised the team to drill an
exploratory borehole in an effort to
locate the site of the original money
pit after reaching a depth of 171 feet
they encountered would appear to be a 21
foot deep void in the bedrock below
here we go but even more astonishing was
what they saw after placing a pipe
inspection camera into the hole what's
that looks metallic yellow that is your
gold color
now after drilling a hole that is wide
enough and secure enough for a diver to
explore they are inserting a
high-resolution camera into the shaft in
an effort to see if they can locate the
mysterious gold colored object they
spotted last year
I'm gonna make a prediction that the
waters like off don't take smoosh into
water I don't know how many hours I've
spent watching swirly things in water
Brad forty feet right now he's going
quick sure is this shiny gold thing
gonna be there I hope for David that the
shiny gold thing is there oh look at
that it's remarkably clear I stand
corrected on this one I thought it'd be
- nothing I never thought it'd be just
clear he gave it a 90 percent chance of
not seeing anything - me too I believe I
was at a hundred so as your casing at
one oh yeah
you write down or it's a black thing
right there straight over here you'd
rotate it around Scott go up 90 degrees
and then perpendicular or horizontal and
rotate okay well this we're close to the
wall or it almost looks like yeah it's a
cavity yeah
and the plane goes back further opens up
that one yeah we saw an interesting
anomalous feature in the wall of the
cavity down see one is that a tunnel is
it an access point it's somewhat of a
guess can you pan around do stuff yep
way that looks chipped out right there
zoom in on this
that has a 90 degree angle to it there's
no way that's more than you
because 90-degree angles are something
rarely found in nature it's possible
that what Rick Marty and the team are
looking at is really a man-made feature
but if some who carved it and for what
purpose
every time we're looking underground on
Oak Island it's intriguing and
interesting the problem is you know you
come away with what did I really see
what does that really mean
where's our shiny gold thing Oh what is
that shiny thing as the team actually
located the same mysterious gold colored
object Rick and Charles spotted last
year or perhaps another one
are you rotating up Scotty yeah I just
want to see like see anything yeah what
do you think it looks like well it's
shining off the wall there's something
sticking out from the wall looks like
Greg don't you think yeah I think it's
just chips in there anhydrate when the
quartz is reflecting back the light yeah
you know I hate to say it I hope that
wasn't Dave's gold shiny thing that
shape color had a curved shape dude
the team's inability to find further
evidence of the shiny gold colored
object they photographed last year is
puzzling could it be that by making the
hole wider the object has been dislodged
and now lies somewhere at the bottom of
the cavity I'm gonna go find the bottom
go on down
how deep are we the four feet from the
bottom 176 all right yeah okay
177 I think is where we go into the
black silk what about I don't know a
foot off bottom looks like now let's
come up so I know much clearer cavity we
have the sudden presence of a layer of
heavy silt and black sludge as for now
prevented further examination 575 okay
so we got seven feet of clear hole
there's a bunch of cavity below there we
can't see anything the Oak Island team
will have to resort to other options if
they are ever to find anything like a
precious Marta fact or possibly evidence
of treasure lying within the void
so with us do you think he was still in
a hammer grab yes yes I can't think of
anything we'd see here that would make
me not want a hammer grab in here what
about a diver I think we need to get the
true dimensions before we send a guy
down there yeah maybe we should try
summer I agree
this island keeps tantalizing it keeps
giving you a little bit and then dashing
you on the rocks so to speak I think we
can come home come on oh it's got yeah
we were hoping we'd see something
metallic gold would be great we had
indications of it and we did not see it
with the camera but of course as always
we're not done we're gonna hammer grab
till we can't hammer grab anymore we're
gonna run sonar and then depending on
the results of the sonar we may put a
diver down there we got the conduit if
there's anything worth doing we're gonna
have a look at it now let's go do our
other jobs okay yep
while Rick Marty and the team arrange to
set up a hammer grab tool to further
explore the c1 shaft
what is this area in natchez this would
be lot 24 Oak Island historian Charles
Barkhouse and metal detection expert
Gary Drayton searched for clues on lot
24 near the western end of the island
this was one of the nine four acre lots
that were once owned by the former
American slave Samuel ball it's a little
chippy on signal okay born into slavery
in South Carolina in 1765
Samuel ball won his freedom by agreeing
to fight for the British during the
American Revolution but although he was
reported to have lived on Oak Island as
a simple cabbage farmer by the time of
his death in 1846 he had become one of
the wealthiest men in the area he's
always been the mystery out of Oak
Island and there are a lot of mystery
men but he's always been at the top of
the list and what's very intriguing
yesterday for the monies that were paid
for the lots that he ended up owning on
Oak Island he could have bought hundreds
of acres on the mainland why did he
choose to remain here Judge des roses
history of the county of Lunenburg right
which does have a section regarding
Samuel ball on a recent trip to the
Genealogical Society in nearby Lunenburg
Charles Barkhouse along with journalist
and author Randall Sullivan you
discovered important evidence that it
might have been Samuel ball and not
Anthony Vaughn who is one of the three
original discoverers of the Oak Island
money pit in the first edition of this
book Samuel ball he's named as one of
the original finders of the money pit
and in the subsequent editions his name
is removed and no explanation
this is money pit where your ancestors
were standing probably right in this
area right here Wow
last year during a rare visit three of
Daniel mcginnises direct descendants
returned to Oak Island to share an
incredible story one that had never been
publicly told before grandpa Daniel
noticed the depression in the ground so
he and his two friends started digging
now I've been told they found three
treasure chests really really and what
is in this box
is one of the things that came from that
chest the one that McGinnis took Wow
could Samuel ball have used the money
from one of the three reported treasure
chests to purchase additional acreage on
Oak Island
I believe the legend or the folklore is
that Samuel ball got kind of
unexpectedly wealthy and it came here
with nothing we're pretty sure of that
there are a lot of questions that mode
sent me wall
thankfully it's a coin it's not it's not
very deep reading it's only six inches
there yeah good weight of it now
it's not a good sign when it says
shallow lazarey
it's not a coin no it's a book that's a
fancy bomb
yeah that's seventeen hundred's really
yeah they call of dandy buttons did
anybody yeah as opposed to more of a
common yeah yeah there is something like
a shield on there they call these the
small ones are normally referred to as
cuff buttons and the larger ones are
normally jacket coat buttons but cool
fine yeah very cool fine hey keep going
okay Gary started getting these hits I
mean he was pretty excited and when Gary
gets excited that's when everybody else
should get excited let me check it yeah
the fact that there are a number of
metal objects being discovered on lock
24 is an indication that the area was
once the site of much human activity but
could this location also yield other
important information perhaps revealing
just how samuel ball amassed his fortune
look at this girl look I can see the
round edge at the side of B roof Zeca
coin yeah it's the coin
yeah I recognize that guy you know is
that's King George the second defamation
so that would put this coin to the 1700
yeah this is a treasure on this dream
King George the second reigned over
Great Britain from 1727 to 1760 a period
that predates the discovery of the money
pit by nearly four decades could this
coin have once been part of the Oak
Island treasure or could it have been
left here more than two centuries ago by
someone who came to the island looking
for it
let's keep going
it's another coin signal Charles yeah I
mean about here yep
just a lot very deep
what
you know what that is said this is a
type of thing that would be carried by a
British soldier and he would chop off an
inch of it and put it in the lead mold
for making the musket balls this is a
ninja a letting go for making musket
balls Wow
now we've got start putting things
together we've got a button we've got
coins and this may be this is some kind
of clamp
you know the encampment part that you're
talking about kind of fits into Fred
Nolan's theory he believed that this is
a British military operation in 1762
after the sacking of the vana in 1762
during the period known as the Seven
Years War the British Royal Navy invaded
Havana Cuba in an effort to defeat the
Spanish Armada after capturing the city
the British confiscated a vast hoard of
treasure much of which had been looted
by conquistadors centuries before the
British then loaded their spoils and
sailed to the board of Halifax some 60
miles north of Oak Island
but there are many theorists who believe
that part of the treasure was
deliberately diverted south to Oak
Island or renegade naval officers
instructed a team of military engineers
to hide the treasure ship
could gary drayton be finding evidence
that this incredible theory is true that
sounds better not very deep Iver
okay it's reading like four or five
inches
you see that on the top what is that
like that yeah
I know what it looks like to me okay I'm
writing on it it sounds like some kind
of script right you see here across it I
see that yeah
what would you say that is new to me it
would look like it was off for the stock
of like a or a musket okay you know
somebody's signature this is somebody's
name
Highschool that is very cool this is
somebody's signature this is somebody's
name while searching for artifacts on
lot 24 the area once owned in the early
1800s by Oak Island resident Samuel ball
metal detection expert Gary Drayton
along with Oak Island historian Charles
Barkhouse have just made a number of
incredible and potentially significant
discoveries so we've got six coins of
fancy Bolton and we look at that rivet
yeah and the way that's curves that
could have been on the end of a pistol
based on your experience are you willing
to say that this could be a camp yeah
some kind of encampment that's amazing
an encampment good Charles and Gary be
looking at evidence that the stories
about stolen Spanish gold are true if so
could the treasure still be hidden
somewhere on the island hey Marty yeah
over here what do you guys got tell them
what you think we found lay it on me
what do you got some good news good news
roundness rounder yep
Holy Smoke look at these Wow
oh hi there yes see king george ii was
that date from early 1700 no kidneys are
all British coppers all in one spot
yeah we've got six of them in this small
little radius here
and this there's got script no I think
this is offer the end of a pistol you
see the writing on them that could be
the person's name you own the pistol I
just think this there's so much stuff
here I think this is an encampment or a
camp well then we really could be onto
something right it's very exciting we
could be on some kind of encampment and
Gary feels it's George the seconds head
on there so if it's George the second it
predates the original finding of the
money pit so even more exciting this
quite a haul Wow Gary 1700s that changes
a lot they're not supposed to be here no
gary drayton spine names on lot 24 have
validated much that has long been
speculated about Samuel ball and his
connections to both the discovery of the
money pit and the search for treasure on
Oak Island
if anything it only serves to fuel
interest in the possibility that
something of enormous value was buried
here centuries ago something that still
may lie undiscovered and undisturbed
several hundred feet deep underground
this would have been just everyday mommy
Wow Gary that's got a jingle to where's
the gold never satisfied yeah I know
well you're only as good as your last
fine yeah well we'll give you credit
okay let's take a break it gets tiring
digging all these King George copies
yeah
after a day fall up new discoveries Oh
Randall I wanna thank you for coming
back Rick Marty and their partners meet
in the war room with investigative
journalist and author Randall Sullivan
and though you've been out in a boat in
the field researching Oak Island and
were very much interested in what you've
been up to well I've been learning
things I didn't know after spending the
previous four weeks in Nova Scotia he
has all but completed the research
needed for a book that promises to shed
new light on the Oak Island mystery
somebody did some fantastic work here it
has to be for some fantastic reason and
that has inclined me to think it's more
likely than not that the people who did
this wanted it to be found you're
intimating that the depositor never
intended to come back for it themselves
it was meant to be fun at some point in
the future yes that's the theory I find
most compelling to motivate people to do
it and then keep it secret I just think
you'd have to have some higher purpose
honestly had to start back it at the
beginning but just based on the things I
heard during a meeting in the war room
Rick Marty Craig and members of the team
are getting a debriefing from
investigative journalists and Oak Island
historian Randal Sullivan but you know
we're just like you I mean I'm making
the best guess I can based on what is
there early maps after spending several
years conducting research in addition to
spending the past several weeks
interviewing archivists and historians
in and around Halifax Nova Scotia and
this is a genealogy it is yeah
he believes he has finally been able to
verify the identity of the very person
who could have been the architect of the
entire Oak Island mystery
the one theory that really has connected
with me is the whole thing involving
Francis Bacon there is so much evidence
that is connected to Francis Bacon that
supports the idea that I find myself
pretty fascinated by the whole story is
mysterious but he actually is the one
that I think is the most mysterious Sir
Francis Bacon the 17th century British
philosopher scientist and nobleman of
the many intriguing theories about Oak
Island those involving Francis Bacon
proved the most persistent and
persuasive some even suggest that bacon
was the secret author of the works of
William Shakespeare and hid the original
handwritten manuscripts of Shakespeare's
plays on Oak Island for safekeeping
I was very dismissive of the bacon
theory until I actually started doing
some research why is everybody so
enamored of this guy well if you if you
ask a traditional academic is greatest
accomplishment was he founded the
scientific method he was the father of
empiricism but he was also a statesman
and philosopher but those who are the
true Baconian and especially the ones
that have followed him in those days and
now is because he was like a christ-like
figure he was a spiritual master who was
teaching them all how you create did he
belong to any particular order he
founded the Rosicrucians although many
questions remain about the elite secret
society of intellectuals known as the
Rosicrucians there are many who believe
they had a strong connection to the
Knights Templar and that they came into
possession of some of the Templars most
sacred treasures including the Ark of
the Covenant the Holy Grail and the
golden menorah that once stood in King
Solomon's Temple
is it possible that Sir Francis Bacon
could have come to Oak Island to hide
not only the manuscripts of William
Shakespeare but also precious religious
relics from the Holy Land he was a
member of the Royal Society as well as
you know founded the room he was
essentially in the bedrock of the Royal
Society when there was this almost
religious cult of devotion around them
but when I actually started looking at
what the facts were I realized man
there's just so much that seems like it
could be connected to Oak Island I just
have to find it hard to believe that
people go to this much effort to hide a
treasure of gold that it had to be
something gained a bunch of books well I
you know I think you could find people
who would say that Shakespeare's
manuscripts are more worth a hundred
times per ounce what gold is know if you
if you actually have shakes there's
manuscripts I would find the gold and
give you their way to them okay I deal
has been struck yeah ten times
Bacon's seminal work was New Atlantis
which was the description of a paradise
that would be created in North America
utopian a utopia
that would be created in North America
that would be finally the perfect
society when you look at the stuff that
bacon wrote one of the sections in
Silvis alarm is a description of how to
create a perpetual spring and the very
first line of instruction is dig a pit
upon the seashore they say find the high
ground near the seashore to start and
then we have a system of tunnels I mean
it it sounds like he's describing a
pilot
if I was gonna pursue a theory if I was
in your place I would go with the bacon
theory and follow it
Randall's theory that bacon did this
it's surely intriguing surely very
interesting bacon was a savant he was
the Michelangelo of his day might he
have labored to conduct this enterprise
possible well Randall this has been
great thank you for sharing this all
with us yeah okay well we all have a lot
to do let's go do it
as a new day begins on Oak Island here
we go
Rick lagina Craig tester and members of
the team are more eager than ever to
continue their exploration of the
mysterious borehole known as c1
now that the hammer Graham has been
positioned above the hole
they are hoping it can retrieve evidence
of the shiny metallic object they
discovered when they explored the site
last year
yep this is it
that's it with that
I got a few other things crossed
#NOME?
is proceeding that something definitive
will fall out of those jaws that one
singular something will fall into that
bucket and then we'll go AHA that's the
hope
it's always the hope it continues to be
the hope here comes Dan
let's come on Rick well you want to come
over there it's quite an interesting
development we hit the cavity at 171
gotta come out take a look at
we've worn those more than a few times
somebody has a big head around here
as the Oak Island team watches the 3-ton
hammer graph tool excavate mud and
debris from the bottom of Siwan
they are hoping that the Spoils will
contain important evidence of manmade
workings Matt Charles dear all or
perhaps proof that the shiny metallic
object Rick and Charles spotted last
year was not just an illusion hey Craig
what's that
or not I don't know what it is
your Dan man
it's black black
then which that
in dance more than five decades of
searching for treasure on Oak Island he
has seen more than anyone alive he also
knows when to be dismissive of a find
and when to be intrigued with it
is that water or is it charcoal or what
is it that is otk wood that's
interesting interesting save that old
decayed wood could the team have just
found evidence of an ancient man-made
structure some 170 feet below ground
he says that's decayed wood oh ok so how
do we how do we get that off my hands
and into a bag
I thought it was metal that thirst
coming up
that's the shoe
that honest healthy
that's interesting but that's not Vedra
Rick that's the good part of it since
the bedrock on this side of the island
is known to be limestone and hydride the
presence of this strange rock only adds
to the curiosity about the nature of the
mysterious underground void see what the
water has done to it that's okay I have
never ran into that a neurotic
that one piece of rock that came up I
found incredibly intriguing to me it
looked like the type of rock and the
type of formation in the rock that we
saw in the video we saw that type of
rock formation on the walls when the
camera was panning around inside of your
cavities yeah I'd say that that was the
this was the ceiling and that was the
problem
oh there was something hanging right off
of there
we're wood or wood look at that piece
yeah that's what right there big
question is is this wood part of an old
roof that's caved in
an old roof could it be a piece of an
underground tunnel or box or perhaps a
piece of the wooden vault first
discovered by treasure hunters William
Chappell and Frederick Blair in 1897
is not ours that's for damn sure cuz I
never I never drilled over there yeah
now this is a new cavity so I I guess is
it's a great sign having the wood coming
up yeah
Craig more wood ceiling
what is wood if it comes from that level
what's it doing
rather than having been introduced by
some activity of a human being Craig I
think what the what the big question
here is what is wood doing at that depth
below bedrock below virgin soil how do
we explain that I mean no I think it's
very encouraging I mean it there is a a
ceiling that had wood on it and it's
collapsed a bit then we're you know
we're bringing up some of that wood
that's from the class
now that the hammer grab at c1 has
yielded evidence that something of value
could lie at the bottom of the
underground void the team must figure
out what to do next do they continue to
blindly excavate the void which could
damage or destroy precious artifacts or
do they send a diver down to make a
firsthand investigation we need to
puzzle on how we're gonna explore this
we have two lineups on our lineup an ROV
any info is good info at this point my
opinion
the next step is to put us on our dog we
need the image the cavity we have to
know width breadth depth we have to get
as much information as possible before
we put a human being down into that
cavity just have to figure it all we got
more questions again today we thought
we'd get some answers we got quiet Oh
Skylanders maybe not tomorrow
at the end of a long day that saw
progress made at the c1 shaft we all
want to know this object that's leather
to the ceiling whether it's in the wall
or something there were all convinced
yeah Rick lagina Charles Barkhouse and
Jack Begley gather in the oak island war
room they are planning a further
exploration of what could be a man-made
cavity some 170 feet underground Charles
I know c1 intrigued you from getting oh
and now we've got this difficulty if you
will about how to explore it how to find
the shiny gold thing and there's only
one way to get it and that's the put a
diverter on the hole yeah John and
Howard did an exemplary dive in 10x so
we need to get them on the horn and see
if they're interested absolutely last
year world-renowned diver John
Chatterton made the perilous 235-foot
descent to the bottom of borehole 10x in
an effort to help the team look for
artifacts tunnels or other signs of
man-made workings
unfortunately this ability was virtually
zero and Chatterton's findings indicated
that what dan Blankenship had long
believed to be a man-made chamber could
be a natural formation yeah what what is
that done
it's far in a way more difficult than
10x god forbid there's a collapse and I
think if anyone can do it it's those two
all right let's ring them up see what
happens
hey guys John Howard hooria hey guys how
you doing good good
joining John Chatterton on the video
conference is his business partner and
safety diver Howard Ehrenberg we have a
proposition for you if you will awesome
you guys when you left you got bit by
the Oak Island bug you said you wanted
to be kept in the know yeah we've been
doing some digging in the money pit and
one of the holes based on last year's
work we thought we entered avoid a
swimmable cavity that may extend into
the original money pit so your question
is are we interested that is our
question I mean we really and truly wish
you guys the greatest success in all
this
I see but at the same time we prefer you
didn't have that great success without
us so I think all right that'd be great
yeah
so we've dropped the 43 inch case on to
get us a free access to the cavity so
you wouldn't be encumbered by like TEDx
the ladder the hoist rails all of that
we thought we'd give you really clear
dyes yeah the 43 inch caisson was
anchored in the bedrock but we did pull
off about 10 feet so you'd be going down
through uncase rock into the cavity okay
that's the last yes exactly and again at
that point of entry we're not sure if
there was a collapse of the ceiling so
there are a lot of questions it
certainly seems as though it's it's a
dynamic environment yes it's it's like
whether it's stable how or not figure it
out okay there was one other thing that
we noticed John as Rick said we hit this
void at two 171 and they put a camera
down and it appeared to show this shiny
gold thing but we're concerned that did
the caisson drop this gold object
somewhere down in the muck sure yes the
other part of the investigation aspect
of this hole we'd like to drop blue view
sonar down there and get a 3d computer
model of it what
else we can come up with in as much of
the knowns out of that hole as possible
and then you guys decide let's see what
it looks like with number one the sonar
and and then decide whether we really
need to make an exploratory dive or we
can feel like we've know enough that we
get right to work all right Joan and
Howard are committed even without a
complete understanding of what limited
information we have I say move ahead put
them in the hole thank you both very
much
appreciate it we're excited man all
right thanks Carol see ya I would love
to find something of monetary value that
would be great but to get some answers
would be sort of the de minimis wish
let's at least get some answers for Rick
Marty and the Oak Island team the dream
of making an important discovery in the
ce-1 shaft may soon become a reality
armed with both video footage of a
mysterious gold colored object and
physical evidence of a possible wooden
structure there is reason to believe
that the laginas and their partners
could be on the verge of a major
breakthrough
but if so what will they find
a chest containing the priceless
manuscripts of William Shakespeare a
wooden vault filled with stolen gold
or we'll see one proved to be a deadly
trap
one that will give to the island yet
another human trophy next time on the
curse of Oak Island I think we explored
10x no no wait wait why do you guys keep
hanging on to this because I believe
let's put this machine is yeah let's get
it all I still am puzzled by what's in
the bottom of 10x yeah still see the
square target I think it's still in the
same position John Chatterton is back
hopefully he can put his eyes on the
target he's got something on the metal
detector