This week on The Curse of Oak Island, the group believes they’ve discovered the elusive tunnel on the backside of the backyard shaft. This should be the tunnel that stretches into the blob the place the excessive focus of treasured metals is situated.
Last week, the Dumas mining firm lastly bought to the underside of the unique working of the backyard shaft at a depth of 82 toes. The plan was then to do some exploratory probing within the hope of hitting a secret chamber or tunnel.
The backside of the shaft lies just some toes to the east of two areas nicknamed the blob and the child blob.
Dr. Ian Spooner beforehand discovered by means of water sampling that these two areas comprise a lot gold, silver, and different treasured metals that it’s very possible a treasure is hidden there.
The baby blob appears to be the most promising. It has an exceptionally excessive content material of gold and silver and is a really manageable measurement of solely 20 toes by 20 toes at a depth of about 80 to 120 toes.
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When the blokes did some exploratory borehole digging into the child blob a couple of months again, they hit what they thought is likely to be a tunnel heading toward the garden shaft.
Oak Island group discover the tunnel resulting in the child blob
Now, the group could have situated the opposite finish of the tunnel on the backside of the backyard shaft. A preview confirmed a smiling Scott Barlow telling the blokes on his cellphone, “We found our tunnel.”
This is doubtlessly seismic information because it means the Fellowship ought to have the ability to observe this tunnel to the treasure. And they’ve mining consultants, Dumas, to hold out the work for them.
The History Channel’s episode description backs up the above, studying:
“Rick, Marty and the team make a discovery below the Garden Shaft that could be the key to solving the Oak Island mystery.”
Is Lot 5 stone characteristic ‘the hatch’ from Zena Halpern’s Templar map?
In the meantime, viewers may anticipate the blokes to proceed excavating the unusual stone characteristic on Lot 5. The round despair of buried rocks piqued the blokes’ curiosity after they realized it had related dimensions to the unique Money Pit.
A preview now means that the construction is way bigger than the blokes anticipated. Marty Lagina is overheard, stating, “It’s quite a massive structure.” And Jack Begley wonders if this might be related to Zena Halpern’s map, “This could fit in with Zena’s map, this could be the hatch,” he remarks.
Zena was an professional on the Templar Knights and had researched the chance that the medieval order visited Oak Island. She found a map of Oak Island, which she suspected had been created by the Templars within the 14th century.
The map confirmed a number of options, one labeled “the Hole Under the hatch,” normally known as “the hatch.” However, the blokes have by no means been in a position to decipher its which means.
The Curse of Oak Island airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on History.
