• This is a monster episode tonight, lots to talk about, two different areas for discussion,

  • • Bump Out/Smith's Cove/Digging...and the Painting/Swamp..starting in Island/War Room for today's Podcast episode

• episode opens looking over the bump out area, shows Laird and Rick bunch of cobble stones being discovered (or rediscovered)...Gary and Jack there as well

  • 6000 sq ft extension (Billy look up what else is 6000 sq ft) on the bump out, more area to dig!

• Log square shaped structure that had never been noted on any previous treasure hunter report. They think it could be one of the box drain fingers made of stone. first discovered in 1850 search

• packed stone, cobble going everywhere, this way and that way

• Rick: not on any map, talks about Dan not ever mentioning this log structure and notes he (Rick) cant believe Dan would ever build this structure and not not make a comment on it. He asks if this was Restall work?

  • • how would the Restall's build this if it was underwater?

    • Guptill notes this area is the South end of the slipway that was discovered, and they go back in episode to review the slipway discovery. Slipways designed to haul boats in and out of water, load, unload, repairs

    • was dated (slipway) to 1769 via dendrochronology, this date of course being well before 1795 discovery of Money Pit

    • ARE THE TWO items related?

    • Everyone back in Smith's Cove, Doug in the "wooden structure" talking about platforms and ladders used from one platform to another

      • at this point they need to either continue on or abandon this area as they will block out access to new bump out area, dont want to paint themselves into a corner

        • Laird kills the area with Doug in shaft...(DOUG MAD, DOUG SMASH)

  • Laird Sniffin around the area again from archaeologist point of view

  • they want to peel back the wall, but Laird says NOT SO FAST MY FRIEND, just a little bit (slow digging archaeologists)

  • Billy G starts his engines up, Gary wants to dig and detect (GREAT SOUND CLIP AT 10:30)

    • Garys detector goes nuts here, like nothing I have heard before, his "dagger" detector

    • "WOW, FANTASTIC" comment as he discovers old iron piece, cribbing spike (talked about last show on spikes)

    • Rick and Guptill show up and Jack is at least shown down in hole chucking rock outta there

    • Laird feels goo so far on what they are doing

• • • Exploratory bore holes now being laid looking for Shaft #2 (1804-1805) and lots of wood discovered and a corner piece?

      • need to find another wall to orient themselves to where Money PIt would be on the 14ft tunnel from Shaft #2, Rick comments on "POB" point of beginning that a surveyor needs for orientation

    • INCOMING SAUSAGE comment at 34:30

    • they find another wall and will age this wood

• ITS A TIMBER SOUND AT 6:00 min

  • Craig notes that Dan Blankenship loved this area, and it was outside of his cauffer dam

  • Smith's Cove - Structures are all around--MARTY SAYS DIG!!

• OK HERE WE GO: Theory Time!!

  • Corjan Mol (pronounced Korian)- in War Room

    • talks about a French artist using paintings w/ clues on Oak Island

      • Nicolas Poussin "Keeper of Secrets" classical painter, born 1594, he was "1st Painter" of King Louis XIII, worked in Rome, worked for The Pope

        • 3 specific paintings discussed:

          • 1627: "Shepherds of Arcadia"- shepherds around a stone tomb with "Et In Arcadia Ego" painted on tomb

            • Mol says this is an anagram? In Italian? Gtte Neo Arcadia? (LOOK THIS UP AGAIN TO CONFIRM) means Excursion to New Arcadia

            • 1523- Italian explorer Divarizano (CHECK NAME) sailed to North American continent for King Francis I of France (Italian working for French??) and landed in North Carolin, went North and named this area Arcadia meaning "refuge or paradise" in Greek

            • in 17th Century Samuel de Champlain changed name to Acadia (New France and Nove Scotia area)

          • 2nd painting at same time: "Midas Washing His Feet in River (DIDNT CATCH NAME FIND IT)

            • these two paintings meant to hang together called pendants

            • this painting shows Midas washing himself and gold falling off of him into a river, a "Gold River" which happens to be the name of the river that empties into the ocean near Oak Island, also the site of 1800s gold rush

          • 10 years later: Poussin paints "The Shepherds of Arcadia II" for Giulio Rospigliosi, future Pope Clement IX, this painting repaints the previous scenes and uses a pentagram (WHY A PENTAGRAM) for lining up shepherds and this image is overlaid on swamp image and when combined with a megalithic formation Nolan's Cross, points to area of possible treasure

            • hid ark? his theory is the Templars discovered the Ark and hid it on Oak Island

          • Then he is gone from show, to me, Rick liked the theory and Marty went "cool image" and that was that...but

          • in a few scenes later they are in the swamp with diver Tony and the GPR team in a dingy traversing the swamp looking for anomalies, follow up to painting theory

          • What a rigged up scenario, boats, dingy, raining, rope, guptill and Rick in waders, they do ping a 20 ft wide hit in 10 ft of water---at the same shepherd finger spot in swamp?

          • still waiting for dig permits in swamp Rick notes here

• ends in War Room, Marty notes how he loves wood dating

  • Craig: wood dated 1796 used in an 1805 shaft BOOM! and Rick is GOBSMACKED! Shaft #2 located..they are 20 ft from the money pit

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