The next episode in Season 5, Episode 514, will then air on February 20, with Episode 515 airing the week after on February 27. On August 2, 2016, it was announced that Nova Scotia Business Inc. After the call, he, Begley and Fornetti are joined by the Lagina brothers, to whom they present their find. . Atkinson then reveals that Captain Anderson was a spy as well as a pirate, captained a ship called the Betsy, and is known to have sailed as early as 1768. Sure enough, they quickly unearth a musket ball.
Anderson initially served as a lieutenant aboard a Continental galley before being given command of his own ship, the Baltimore. Brosseau, in turn, takes the nail to a lab, where research instrument technician Dr. The series discusses the history of the island, recent discoveries, theories, and prior attempts to investigate the site. Interpretation of the Spanish 8 Maravedis found in the Oak Island swamp. As early as 1768, James Anderson worked as a sailor. Marty and his brother Rick obtained a controlling interest in Oak Island Tours, which reportedly owns most of the island. The brothers were later approached by to do a reality show.
Plot Summary Rick and Marty Lagina, Craig Tester, and Charles Barkhouse lead a portable drilling rig across the Oak Island causeway to the Money Pit area. The brothers commend the men on their discovery and agree that they ought to have the coin fragment cleaned up and professionally examined. Upon being prompted by Craig Tester, Brosseau confirms that absence of sulfur in the piece suggests that it was smelted with charcoal, an ancient reducing agent. In October 2017, a fifth season was announced, which began airing on November 7, 2017. Later, Rick, Marty, and Charles meet with geologist Terry Matheson at the Money Pit area while the Brewster Drill Team goes about its work. The narrator reminds us of an old legend which holds that the three co-discoverers of the Money Pit- Daniel McGinnis, John Smith, and Anthony Vaughan- discovered three treasure chests in the Money Pit sometime after 1795. While the crew examines the charcoal piece, a deluge of water mysteriously bursts from the C1 Shaft.
Captain James Anderson and his Chest In this episode, Nova Scotian historian Doug Crowell of introduces us to Captain James Anderson, another historic character in the Oak Island story. If you enjoyed this article and would like to help support this website, please check out our online book store:. Season 5, Episode 4 November 28, 2017 Season 5, Episode 4 November 28, 2017 Danger strikes just as the geo-tech drilling team hits a possible void in the Money Pit, and the discovery of a long-lost artifact leads to an emotional reunion for one of the surviving members of the legendary Restall family. During the American Revolution, Anderson, then a resident of Baltimore, Maryland, pledged allegiance to the revolutionary government of Maryland and fought for the New English rebels. Later that day, Rick and Marty Lagina, Craig Tester, Dave Blankenship, Jack Begley, Charles Barkhouse, and Gary Drayton meet with local historian Doug Crowell. Brosseau and Yang then examine the metal of the rose head nail and conclude that it is composed of 90% iron and 10% carbon; that it bears no significant trace of nickle, molybdenum, or manganese; and that does not display any characteristic of a modern iron object.
Meanwhile, the fellowship of the dig must face the upsetting loss of one of their own. In an interview, Marty explains that Matheson will collect, examine, and analyse core samples brought up the Money Pit drill holes at 5-foot intervals. Xiang Yang places a sample of it under an electron microscope. Each hole will be cased with plastic piping to prevent it from collapsing, and to allow for future down-hole metal detection operations. Likely produced from the combustion of local red oak wood, this charcoal, some Oak Island researchers believe, might have been the product of a furnace used by the original Money Pit constructors to draw fresh air down to the diggers labouring in the shaft a practice which, according to civil engineer and Oak Island historian Graham Harris, was not common in the mining industry until 1665. Persons featured have included Zena Halpern discussing her theory about North African gold and sharing copies of a French map of the island which she claims is dated 1347; J. All things considered, the results of the metallurgical examination indicate that the rose head nail is at least several hundred years old.
The Curse of Oak Island Genre Narrated by Country of origin Canada Original language s English No. The narrator reminds us that Samuel Ball, prior to his Oak Island landownership, was a black plantation slave-turned who earned his freedom fighting for the British. For some reason, he changed his allegiance sometime during the war and sailed his ship to New York, where he delivered it to the British. The narrator reveals that other samples will be separated and spread out on a prospecting device called a shaker table. There, they meet with Dr. He died in 1796, a year after the discovery of the Money Pit, somewhere in the West Indies i. Season 5, Episode 1 November 7, 2017 Season 5, Episode 1 November 7, 2017 In the season premiere, trouble unfolds during a difficult dive as the brothers double their efforts to locate the original Money Pit in an ambitious engineering operation.
There, the three men search for artifacts with a metal detector, hoping that soil freshly-exposed by wind storms might have brought certain items of interest closer to the surface. One of these documents reveals Anderson as a Master Mason, or a high-ranking member of a Freemasonic Lodge. A special episode, The Templar Connection — looking at the history of the Knights Templar and the Templar links to Oak Island found so far — will air next Tuesday in place of a normal episode. Some believe Oak Island actually used to be two islands and the swamp — which has a distinctive triangular shape — was built to hide something, possibly a sunken pirate shift, treasure, or even a secret entrance to. The first document Alex examines is a hand-written certificate confirming Anderson as a Master Mason, a high-ranking member of a Freemasonic fraternity. Interpretation of the original Money Pit.
The show will take a one-week break next week February 13 due to the Winter Olympics, but will return the week after. From one such sample, taken from a depth of 195 feet, driller Kyle Fetterly retrieves a fragment of what appears to be charcoal. It has also been suggested by Zena Halpern, without evidence, that the Templars worshipped the Phoenician goddess Tanit. Dan Blankenship died on March 17, 2019, at age 95. The show features what is known as the , showing efforts to search for historical artifacts and treasure.