The Mystery of Oak Island Has Been Solved 1 Hour Ago!

The crew is determined to find as many clues as possible to piece together the island’s past and find the legendary riches.

Since they found gold in the island’s water, the Lagina brothers and their crew are investigating and gathering data that suggests gold in the trees. The team is still high on their recent discovery. The crew is more optimistic than ever that they can solve the 228-year-old treasure mystery.

An ancient handcrafted ladder leading to a dark underwater tunnel is one of several signs of human interference they uncover as they explore the island’s aquatic and subsurface areas. According to the legend of Oak Island, one more person will need to die to break the curse which hides the treasure. Even though the island has a scary story attached to it, it hasn’t stopped the Lagina brothers and their crew.

The episode starts with Paul saying that this was going to be an exciting place to be. The camera zooms in on their camp on the island and finds the team marking a spot on the ground that they think would be perfect for drilling. Marty asks if they are ready to bring the rig in. After an affirmative response, they disperse to better positions around the area.

As another exciting week begins, Marty Lagina explains that Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michael believe they have isolated an area of specific interest based on the water sample testing results. Marty gestures grandly around him and says that they are standing in that area.

As he finishes explaining this, the audience gets a flashback to the team all sitting in a room together talking about this very development. A man with light hair and glasses is talking excitedly about finding something cool.

After conducting water tests in boreholes across the money pit area that suggested the treasure may be located within a 70 by 25 foot area just west of the Garden Shaft, the team has decided to call “the Blob.” Another expert appears in this flashback, saying that a variety of items that are being buried that contain those metals are clustered in a relatively small area. The geoscientist, Dr. Spooner, is revealed as the fair-haired, emotional man in glasses and the second expert as Dr. Fred Michael, a hydrogeologist. They conducted new tests that have greatly narrowed the search area for the Curse Island crew to a zone of only 20 by 20 feet and between 80 and 120 feet deep, which Dr. Spooner has been dubbed the Blob 2.0, or the baby Blob by the others on the team.

In the present day, everyone has a copy of the plan in their hands, talking about what a curious area they have landed on to research and rediscover. What makes the area they are standing in so interesting is that they speculate that they could potentially have a tunnel sitting at 95 feet which comes into this potential treasure location. A possibly unfortunate or revealing turn of events. The conclusion is that everything is leading to this area, where they have marked a big orange X. They come to the realization that the X that marks the spot is their best chance of covering all their bases at once. Marty’s only comment about this is to bring in the rig already.

The team gets ready to drill Borehole DN-11.5 in the Baby Blob, a borehole that they hope will not only encounter valuables below a depth of 80 feet but may also be on track to intercept a tunnel believed to run directly below the Garden Shaft, where water testing has detected trace evidence of gold. There is excitement in the air as they are finally getting to the best part of all their hard work. They have conducted an extensive water sampling program over months and now they are at the point of possibly uncovering the hidden treasure that has been whispered about for centuries. Marty’s hope is that they find something there even if it is not the treasure that would end their season’s long hunt.

Charles Barkhouse, the Oak Island Historian, is left in charge of the operation as Marty excuses himself from overseeing it himself. The narrator lets the audience know that as the drilling operation in Borehole DN-11.5 gets underway, a short while later Marty is back, but this time in the company of Oak Island operations manager Scott Barlow, and Roger Fortin, from Dumas Contracting Ltd. as they prepare to personally inspect the Garden Shaft. The reconstruction of the Garden Shaft is well past the halfway point and their goal of 80 feet deep. Roger estimates that they will be around 60 feet underground as they conduct their inspections.

Over the past several weeks, the team from Dumas Contracting Limited has been excavating tons of muck and water out of the dilapidated shaft and installing watertight wooden levels every 8 feet, that they call “sets.” As they build their way down the shaft, they have begun drilling in different angles to search for evidence of potential offset man-made chambers and items. Marty counts himself and Scott lucky to be able to go down into the Garden Shaft because they have found an old ladder down there that he considers a part of the island’s mystical history.

Down in the shaft, Marty is amazed by the old ladder, undeniable proof that he is standing where adventurers and treasure hunters did before him. Scott asks if he can see where the ladder was whittled by hand, as they certainly did not have a wood lathe all those years ago. The ladder itself is treated as a treasure in itself, certainly very few if any people are whittling their own wooden ladders in this day and age. They talk about wanting to meet the man who made the ladder and his thoughts on their operation. Given that the Garden Shaft may have been constructed more than half a century prior to the discovery of the original Money Pit, they wonder if this handmade ladder could have been left behind by someone who deposited a vast cache of gold? If this is the case, it would explain the high readings of precious metals coming from this area. This theory holds a lot of water if one takes the time to think about how long it must have taken a craftsman to hand make a ladder of such high quality, only to leave it behind in an underground shaft.

In another flashback that takes place 12 weeks prior, the team is seen drilling a borehole located just 18 feet southwest of the Garden Shaft. The team then discovered a large void that they believed could be a sign of an offset chamber. In the present day, Scott Barlow has noticed a slump at the same approximate depth in the Garden Shaft and the thinking is that it could be related to the void the team found weeks earlier. This raises everyone’s excitement as they wonder what they will find with their probe drilling in that area. The ability to see outside the shaft is thrilling, as they will be able to see if their theories of another chamber, tunnel or shaft next to the Garden Shaft can be proven true.

Back in the Money Pit area, historian Charles Barkhouse and geologist Terry Matheson are hard at work. They have been closely monitoring the drilling of the Borehole DN 11.5. Now that the drilling has reached the possible treasure zone, which lies between 80 and 120 feet deep below the earth’s surface.

Andy, a geoscientist, walks over to the tent that Charles and Terry are setting up to check on them and see how their work is going. Terry lets him know that they are down DN 11.5 and they have reached 78 to 88 feet, getting closer to their goal. As he says this, a loud grinding sound can be heard coming from the drilling crew, and everyone looks up as the screeching only gets louder. The drill operator says that they need to pull up the drill because they broke through something. They decide to take a measurement on the pipe to figure out what happened. As the drill operator reads a measuring tape, he reads that they are open a foot and a half. Terry looks on from the tent, jaw dropped, worried that something has gone terribly wrong for the crew.

The drill operator makes his way to Terry and tells him what happened; he claims to have broken through something when he reached 90 feet underground. Terry rephrases what he said and now the situation can be understood as the drill operator having an open space 90 feet below grade, meaning there is a void down there. The three men in the tent let the operator know that they are going to talk over this development and they will let him know what to do once they reach a consensus, but for now they want to pause the drilling.

Charles takes out his phone to contact the Lagina brothers, Rick and Marty. Rick is shown in a confessional saying that whenever he gets a call from the Money Pit drill program, it is an exciting moment for him because the DN 11.5 is within the treasure zone they have designated. The importance of the area cannot be stressed enough; they have invested a fortune in time and money to narrow down the area with the highest gold values, the introduction of trapped air, and the voids in the area. Rick drives down to the area right away and is in a great mood.

The entire team starts to file into the tent near the Borehole, everyone gathering around to hear the latest development. Mike, the operator of the drill, tells them that at around 90 feet he could feel the rods break through something and it was open about a foot and a half past his rods. He speculates that whatever he cut through likely fell out into this void. This is an exciting and worrying development; could he have hit buried treasure that has now dropped into a void?