The Curse of Oak Island S05E06

Synopsis

After years of searching, the Lagina's unearth evidence of what Marty believes is the exact location of the ultimate target - the Money Pit.

What I thought

It’s gloomy, waterproofs are sodden, as the rain comes down, yet Dan Henskee (first appearance this season!) and Jack are looking through spoils from H8, washing it down through wire mesh on a makeshift bench they’ve constructed. It’s been long hours washing through small items, most just normal stones etc, but they’ve found some more pottery with a nice blue design on white and some odd wood which they all are fascinated in. I can’t see much too unusual about it, but they’ve seen more fragments than I have.

Next day we’re off to St Mary’s University to Halifax with the bone and wood from H8 to get it scanned. Rick, Marty and Jack all dress up in white suits again as does the main expert but yet again, the computer operator is in his usual clothes. Electron microscope SEM that magnifies objects by 200x and composition material. Both items turn out to be bone! They can even see hairs and tissue; gross. Need more tests to find out if animal or human.

We’re then back with more spoils work by Dan and Jack on much better sunny day. They find a small piece of leather, possibly from a shoe. Then there’s a rather flopping paper pulp like piece of paper perhaps. It’s hard to tell exactly what it is, but it’s certainly interesting, given that this is possibly the area where that small piece of parchment was found many years ago.

Same day, we’re back in Money Pit. Apparently, they’ve done 35 out of 40 Geotech bore holes. Blimey, that was quick. Geophysics’ Mike is here. He’s putting probes down most of the holes that will read conductivity and detect items nearby. But wait, Rick is not there?! Seems he’s ill. We then get Marty to visit Rick who gets shirtless to show this bite on his back. Nasty. Both go off to doctor. It’s lime disease and he gets antibiotics for next month. Back in the Money Pit area, scans on several holes show nothing, but this time it’s hole H8 where everything has been happening recently that gets scanned. Indeed, there are disturbances down this hole at depths where the famed Chappell vault was suspected to be. After drilling to 250ft deep in hole H8, and 11 years after starting quest to find the Money Pit, the brothers declare they’ve found the Money Pit! One suspects a massive hole to be drilled now where H8 is.

3 days later, Rick is recovered and has a haircut too. In The War Room he reads out the results from St Mary’s University’s’ further tests which reveal that the bones are human and possibly two different people!

Rating 7/10 – Because we get conclusive proof of the bones being human (although we don’t know ages yet), more evidence from the spoils of H8, and positive detection in right location down H8, this is a very satisfying episode.

Jack & Dan discover more pottery from the spoils of H8.

And also find wood ... except it's not wood, it's bone!

Her'es the main controlling the electron microscope who is too cool to wear a white coat.

Before the results are displayed, the boys have to sit through an hour long Health & Safety video explaining how to wear white coats effectively.

The results are in: it's bone!

Jack watering his plants? Nope, these are more spoils from H8.

Having spent so many hours going through the spoils without any breaks, Jack finds himself wanting to eat the piece of leather.

The results of the scan down H8 show lots of stuff on the screen, none of which I had time to understand.

Marty points out that he's still using Windows 7.

The biggest shock this episode: Rick's choice in seats.