The Curse of Oak Island: Unnatural Findings Near Buried Treasure Site

NARRATOR:
Marty Lagina and geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner join other members of the team in the northern region of the swamp where they have made a potentially important discovery.

MARTY:
Okay. What are we up to today, gentlemen?

IAN:
Well, quite honestly, Marty, I feel like we found something that’s rather significant. Steve’s standing on top of this boulder, where at the bottom, there’s definitely a disturbance here. This is one of John Edwards’, the theorist’s spots in the swamp. The way to unlock Nolan’s Cross is built into the cross itself.

NARRATOR:
One week ago, researcher John Edwards pointed the team to this location claiming that based on its proximity to the boulders of Nolan’s Cross, he believed that they might find a buried treasure connected to the Knights Templar.

MARTY:
That boulder was put there.

NARRATOR:
And, incredibly, as Billy Gerhardt excavated the area, a massive boulder was discovered sitting atop a potentially man-made stone formation.

MARTY:
So, we want to know whether that thing was moved or not?

IAN:
Yep.

NARRATOR:
Now the team has asked Dr. Spooner to examine the site in order to determine if it is merely a natural feature or if it really could be man-made.

IAN:
So I want to roll that boulder over and see what’s underneath it.

MARTY:
Okay. Well, let’s position ourselves over there and get after it.

IAN:
Good to go.

MARTY:
I’ll tell you what I find interesting about John Edwards’ presentation. How in the world are all these unrelated theorists, they keep focusing in on Nolan’s Cross?

MARTY:
Are you gonna try and pick that up?

JACK:
Oh, I think he is.

MARTY:
If Nolan’s Cross is real from a standpoint that it was constructed by people, that is a giant thing to me.

IAN:
Really, what I want to look at carefully is this surface right here. Okay. So this is getting interesting here. Here’s a cobble that I just turned over. There’s a stick up here that obviously was in between the boulder and the sediment. So I think it’s possible that boulder was moved around.

JACK:
(chuckles) Nice.

IAN:
People were moving around boulders.

MARTY:
To what end?

IAN:
If you wanted to move water through this area, if you wanted to get drainage here, you’d move stones, you’d move things around, you know?

MARTY:
Yeah. It just seems like people were manipulating or trying to change the water level in the swamp for whatever reason.

NARRATOR:
If Dr. Spooner and Billy are correct, that the area around this feature was artificially drained in the past, could that offer evidence to support the theory of researcher John Edwards, who believes it may have been created centuries ago by members of the Knights Templar?

IAN:
Ooh.

JACK:
What’d you find?

IAN:
Right at the base of the swamp material, some nice cut wood.

JACK:
Oh.

GARY:
Oh, right.

IAN:
Yeah, so I’ll take that in, we’ll carbon-date that and see what we come up with.

GARY:
Yeah.

JACK:
I think we have to continue digging around and see if we find any other oddities…

GARY:
Yeah, and hopefully, some metals, too.

MARTY:
Yep. Okay, we’ll let you do your thing. Steve and I are gonna run, do some other stuff.

GARY:
Okay, mate.