The Curse of Oak Island: HUGE DISCOVERY Proves Gold is Near

 

**MARTY:**
“Gentlemen, here we go. Another season. Another attempt. We’ve come a long way and opened up a lot of possibilities. After all these years, we’re still together, still passionately committed to finding answers to what I have always believed since we were little kids—the story that is Oak Island, the magic that is Oak Island.”

**NARRATOR:**
“A new year of digging into the ground—as well as history—is about to begin on Oak Island for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team. Marty adds, ‘I’m all in. I want to throw everything we’ve got at it. It begins… now.'”

**(Team members express excitement)**
– “It’s a pretty exciting day here,” one of them says.
– “Yeah,” another responds.

**NARRATOR:**
“Craig Tester and surveyor Steve Guptill join Alex Lagina and other members of the team, where a large-scale excavation is about to begin in the hope of uncovering Shaft Two—a 110-foot-deep structure dug in 1805, just 14 feet southeast of the original Money Pit. ‘We’re digging up the first-ever searcher shaft on Oak Island,’ Alex Lagina notes, ‘Well, we think. That we know of.'”

**ALEX LAGINA:**
“So, the big goal is to get good, solid pieces of the shaft so we can do dendrochronology on it. That’ll give us an excellent date. If anything’s going to tie to the original Money Pit, it’s going to be Shaft Two.”

**NARRATOR:**
“Dendrochronology is a revolutionary testing method, where tree rings are analyzed in wood samples to determine the exact year a tree was cut down for use in construction. If the team is able to uncover what they believe to be Shaft Two and confirm it dates to approximately 1805, it could help them locate the original Money Pit and pinpoint the source of precious metals detected in the area.”

**ALEX LAGINA:**
“Look at that profile. That’s a big piece of wood in the side there—could be what we’re looking for.”

**SCOTT:**
“That’s awesome right there,” Scott adds as he examines the piece of wood. “Look at that.”

**ALEX LAGINA:**
“So, that’s what we’re probably looking at—one of the long walls.”

**RICK LAGINA:**
“Is it Shaft Two or not?” Rick asks, with a tone of both excitement and skepticism.

**RICK LAGINA (continuing):**
“Shaft Two is almost like the Holy Grail, other than finding the original Money Pit. If we can prove definitively that this supposed Shaft Two is really Shaft Two, the Money Pit should be somewhere in close proximity.”

**CRAIG:**
“Wow, look how thick that sucker is,” Craig Tester remarks after inspecting the wood.

**ALEX LAGINA:**
“Yeah. That’s rounded. This may be excellent for dendro,” Alex says, analyzing the piece. “Definitely would like to get more, though. Yeah, I like that.”

**CRAIG:**
“We want to try to get pieces that look like they have a lot of tree rings on them so we can date it by dendrochronology. And we need multiple samples from here.”

**ALEX LAGINA (noticing the work ongoing):**
“Hey, Marty, take a look at this,” Alex calls out.

**MARTY:**
“Looks like you got the shaft wall, eh?” Marty observes, a hint of excitement in his voice.

**STEVE:**
“Yep. It’s another piece in the puzzle, you know?” Steve responds as they continue digging.

**ALEX LAGINA:**
“Can you see what the far wall’s made of there?” Alex asks. “Not really. Why don’t you grab the mirror?”

**CRAIG:**
“We’ll do that,” Craig confirms.

**SCOTT:**
“We want to keep our dig going deeper. We’re using a mirror to try to shine some light down there so we can see and examine this shaft.”

**ALEX LAGINA:**
“Right there? There you go.”

**CRAIG:**
“Now you can see it going across,” Craig says, the excitement growing.

**MARTY:**
“So, is that the corner then?” Marty asks, confirming the find.

**STEVE:**
“That’s the corner,” Steve replies.

**MARTY (reflecting on the challenge of unearthing such shafts):**
“The thing that comes to mind immediately whenever we unearth these shafts is what people did here without technology. That’s the first thing, always, when you unearth these things. Then you think, ‘Okay, what does this mean to us?’ If we find Shaft Two, we know we have 14 feet to the Money Pit. That’s not a great distance.”

**BILLY:**
“Reposition the excavator here. Do a cross-section along that end, try and find the other wall.”

**CRAIG:**
“Well, hopefully, he can find the far end of this shaft,” Craig comments as they continue the excavation.

**(Suddenly, a metal detector beeps)**

**GARY:**
“Ooh, I’ve got a signal, Rick,” Billy calls out. “Hang on.”

**(The sound of the detector continues to beep)**

**RICK LAGINA (excitedly):**
“Oh, ho! Look at this, Rick. Oh, that’s a beauty.”

**GARY:**
“It’s an oldie, as well,” Gary says, holding up the find. “A rose-head spike.”

**RICK LAGINA:**
“What years?” Rick asks, intrigued by the spike.

**GARY:**
“Yeah, I mean, a spike like this, 1700s. Well, it lines up with the possibility that that’s Shaft Two.”

**NARRATOR:**
“A rose-head spike? Between the 1780s and 1840s, hand-forged iron spikes were created for construction, featuring crudely hammered heads resembling the petals of roses. Could this iron fastener be another important clue that may help verify the team’s discovery of Shaft Two?”

**MARTY (noticing darkened wood):**
“See where the darker area is? Yeah. There’s a whole bunch of boards in there.”

**RICK LAGINA (examining the wood):**
“Yup. And blacker usually looks older.”

**MARTY:**
“Okay, what do you want to do?” Marty asks as the team discusses their next steps.

**SCOTT (on radio):**
“Okay, Billy. We’ll try and grab the side of those beams.”

**RICK:**
“Looking at the bottom, you can see much older wood,” Rick says. “Shaft Two was created in 1805. So, the hope is that we can get a wood sample that will date to that period of time, and bingo, we have the first discovery shaft on Oak Island.”

**(Excavator moves into position, and the beam is successfully retrieved)**

**MARTY (amused):**
“When you get a hole 40 feet deep with vertical sides, it’s challenging for the equipment operator. Billy’s really good, but he cannot see where that bucket is. It’s like a very large, very expensive variation of the little grabber video games.”

**(The beam is pulled up and inspected)**

**SCOTT:**
“That’s a monstrous beam,” Scott says. “Look at that.”

**MARTY:**
“That’s a good piece.”

**GARY:**
“All right. Let’s see if there’s any metal in there.”

**MARTY:**
“Yes,” Marty says, as the metal detector beeps. “No metal in there. That is a good sign. No fasteners, maybe an older style of construction.”

**NARRATOR:**
“Possible older wooden beams, some 40 feet deep, found in the mysterious shaft? Could that suggest someone reconstructed the top portion of Shaft Two after it was first built in 1805? While it will take several weeks for dendrochronology testing to be conducted on the wood samples they’ve recovered, the team may have finally obtained the evidence they need to locate the original Money Pit.”

**STEVE:**
“So, I mean, if this is Shaft Two, we know we’re 14 feet away from the Money Pit. So, it’s a landmark for us.”

**RICK LAGINA:**
“We’ve succeeded in what we intended to do. We’ve got a proper sample at depth. We can send that off for dendro, move seamlessly forward with the drill program in the pie-shaped area. Look, we wanted proof that this may or may not be Shaft Two. This could be it.”

**MARTY:**
“Everybody wants to get at it. Everybody’s invested in this. Everybody wants to figure it out. Gentlemen, I think it’s time to declare victory.”

**GARY:**
“Yeah.”

**(Team members celebrate the success)**

**MARTY:**
“It feels good. The energy is high. Everybody thinks it’s worth doing. Okay, let’s go.”

**SCOTT:**
“Good job, everyone.”