The Curse of Oak Island — Episode 5 Recap: “Keep On Rocking”

A fast, witty breakdown of everything that happened — and everything that made zero sense.

 The Great Mud Sausage Disappointment (Again)

We kick off the episode with yet another round of core drilling in the eternal hunt for the infamous “mud sausage.”
Shockingly — and by shockingly, we mean predictably — the team pulls up absolutely nothing.

Instead of admitting defeat, the Lagina brothers wander off to Smith’s Cove for a dramatic pout session. But don’t worry — the mood lifts once they conjure up a brand-new theory explaining how a 90-foot treasure somehow teleported itself 200 feet sideways and downward into the Money Pit.

Does it make sense? No.
Does anything at this point? Also no.

 Swamp Detecting: A Masterclass in Finding Nothing

Gary Drayton, armed with the world’s most excitable metal detector, gets a hit in the swamp.

The miraculous find?
Coal.

We never get an explanation for how coal rings as metal… but moving on.

Then comes a thrilling sequence of Gary discovering:

• A metal thing of no significance
• Another metal thing of no significance
• Wood
• More wood

Award-winning television.

 The Legendary Pile of Rocks (Now With Backhoe Action!)

Remember last week’s pile of rocks?

It returns — this time declared so historically important that the team brings in a backhoe to smash their way to the bottom of it.

One rock measures 72 inches across, which instantly proves it is — wait for it — a Templar rock.

Naturally, this leads to comparisons with another Templar rock somewhere else, because if it’s vaguely round, vaguely old, or vaguely rock-like, it’s Templar now.

 The Hand Cannon… Probably… Maybe… Or Not

Now to the big moment: the lab inspection of Gary’s “800-year-old hand cannon.”

Laird examines it and says:

• It might be that.
• It also might be a random chunk of something from the 1700s.

Visually? It looks like Billy dropped a bag of Bugles and only one survived.

So they bring in a war-room expert who definitively concludes that the artifact is:

• Maybe from the 13th century
• Or the 14th
• Or the 15th
• Maybe Italian… or French… or Spanish
• And also… possibly not a hand cannon at all

Instead, he says it could simply be… a gunpowder funnel.
From basically any time in history.

Well done, team. We got to the bottom of absolutely nothing.

Next Week on Oak Island… Things Get Explosive

The episode ends with a teaser where a “calm conversation about firing hand cannons” escalates into something borderline ballistic.

Because on Oak Island, even confusion has dramatic flair.