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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...
We're in the oldest prison in Malta.
This is a place very rich in symbolism.
The four-dot cross is thought to represent
the presence of holy relics.
There was indeed a family bloodline
that we can connect to Oak Island.
It's quite remarkable.
This is one of the boulders
- that's on the map. - Come on, baby.
Let's find a treasure.
- What the heck is that? - Yeah!
Boy, that is really pretty.
- Very ornate. - I wasn't expecting that.
There is an island in the North Atlantic
where people have been looking for
an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
So far, they have found a stone slab
with strange symbols carved into it,
man-made workings that date to medieval times,
and a lead cross whose origin may be connected
to the Knights Templar.
To date, six men have died
trying to solve the mystery.
And according to legend,
one more will have to die
before the treasure can be found.
A cool fall morning has begun on Oak Island.
But in the fabled Money Pit area,
ground repairs are running at full steam
in preparation for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina
to conduct the deepest dig ever attempted
in search of a vast treasure.
How we doing?
You know those crane mats over there?
We're gonna run 'em from here to here
to disperse the load and set the oscillator on the crane mats.
- On top of these? - Yeah.
All right. Let's make it so.
Over the past two months,
the Laginas and their team have excavated
multiple seven-foot-diameter steel shafts
in locations where they have not only detected
high trace evidence of precious metals deep underground
but also the legendary Chappell Vault,
a massive concrete-encased box
that was first reported by treasure hunters back in 1897
at a depth of 153 feet.
Hey. Stop. It's caving.
However, during one of their recent digs,
just as they hoped to retrieve the buried vault,
the earth surrounding and below the shaft suddenly caved in.
This has caused the team to speculate
that the tons of soil and the believed treasure
fell into a massive natural cavity in the bedrock
more than 200 feet deep
known as the solution channel.
Now more than 50 tons of gravel are being used
to make the Money Pit area safe for the team
so they can sink another seven-foot-diameter shaft
all the way down into the solution channel
and hopefully recover the storied riches.
While the repairs continue
in the Money Pit area on Oak Island...
more than 4,000 miles to the east in Gozo, Malta...
It's a grand entrance here,
- with the bells ringing. - Yes.
You know what? Maybe it's a good omen.
Rick Lagina and other members of the team
are investigating an incredible theory
about the Oak Island mystery...
that members of the medieval Christian order
known as the Knights Templar
and a related group known as the Knights of Malta
made numerous visits between the 12th and 17th centuries
in order to hide priceless religious treasures
all across the island.
We're in, within the walls of the old citadel in Gozo.
So, after they built Valletta
in 1571,
the Knights of Malta started improving
the fortification of Malta,
the other cities around Valletta,
and eventually around here in Gozo.
Over the past decade,
Rick, Marty, and their team
have made a number of shocking discoveries
that may be related to the Templar order...
such as a 14th century lead cross
and numerous stone structures that could date back
to as early as 1200 AD.
It's just absolutely incredible.
And, incredibly,
just after their arrival in Valletta, Malta one week ago...
Is this clay?
It's grayish, bluish.
The legend
tells of flood tunnels on the island.
Rick and the team saw underground tunnels
that were built by the Knights of Malta in the 16th century
with a similar design to the description
of the original Money Pit.
I did come across a similar pattern here.
They also confirmed
that a mysterious button featuring a starburst pattern
and which was found one year ago on Oak Island
may also be connected to the Maltese order.
I think it is highly suggestive
that the Knights of Malta
or an evolution of the Knights of Malta
may have had something to do with the Oak Island mystery.
There's a lot of excitement about it
and an imperative to follow those leads.
So the reason why we're here today is to take a look
at the old prison that is up there.
And the people here bided their time by scratching
the-their beliefs and their symbols into the walls.
We'll also find some symbols
that remind us very, very much of the stuff we've seen
on Oak Island.
After fending off an invasion
by the Ottoman Empire in 1551,
the citadel of Victoria, also known as Cittadella,
was reconstructed in 1599
with the help of the Knights of Malta
to serve as a fortification and prison.
Okay, why don't we go to the old prison?
- Okay. -Perfect. - That's great.
However, some researchers believe
that it may have also been used by the knights
to hide Templar-related treasures
before they were transferred to Oak Island
in the 17th century.
We're in the-the oldest prison in Malta.
And, this is a place very rich in, symbolism,
carvings, graffiti.
But I-I would like, before we get in, to show you something.
It's actually, behind you.
There's something there that you might recognize.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- That four-dot cross. - And...
- Four-dot cross. - Yeah.
The four-dot cross is thought
to represent the presence of holy relics
at some point in time.
- Yeah. - And that's carved
on the H+O Stone back on Oak Island.
Discovered on the northern shore
of Oak Island in 1921,
the so-called H+O Stone
was a fragment of a much larger boulder
that was blown apart by searchers
who mistakenly believed
that it marked the location of buried treasure.
The H+O symbol featured a cross
surrounded by four dots carved into it.
And in recent years,
the team has not only found this symbol
at numerous Templar-related sites throughout Europe,
including Portugal,
Italy,
Denmark,
and the Netherlands,
but have also learned that it may represent
the presence of religious artifacts.
Maybe this, before being a prison,
was a place to hide or,
you know, keep something that was special to the order.
The four-dot cross,
it is on Oak Island.
There's no getting around that.
We have to follow up on this.
It's incredibly important.
- Yeah. - So, guys,
why don't we go into the, the actual prison?
And then maybe we can split and take a look at the carvings.
- Sure. - Okay. Sounds good. Let's do it.
As Rick and the team search for clues
at the Cittadella in Gozo, Malta...
Okay. I have been informed
that you guys have found something you find
pretty exciting, pretty interesting.
Back on Oak Island, Marty Lagina
is meeting with archaeologist Laird Niven,
archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan,
and other members of the team
- in the lab. - So, is this it here?
- Yeah. - He is eager
to hear Laird and Emma's analysis
of an ornate button found one week ago
in the mysterious round feature on Lot 5,
a feature that Laird believes may have been used as a campsite
by multiple groups prior to the 18th century
and also where they have found
a potentially Templar-related barter token
as well as the starburst button.
That is really pretty cool.
I can see why you're excited about this.
I was most interested in the eye.
The eye was a very robust, almost rectangular eye.
And, to me, that's earlier
than mid-1700s.
That's what really struck me.
Until we did the CT scan.
Okay. Let's see it.
And it revealed...
- Boy, that is really pretty. - Whoa.
- Yeah. -I wasn't expecting that. - No.
Very ornate.
The back
is mostly, um, leaded brass,
but the body itself
is zinc and copper,
which is a less technical manufacturing process.
So it could indicate
an older technique.
So, compositionally,
somewhat sitting between, um,
mid-1600s to 1700s.
And I think we just need to do more work
in order to narrow that date range.
Well, you can't help but compare it to the starburst button.
- Exactly. - Yeah.
Can you pull that up so we can look at the two...
juxtaposed?
Yeah.
Wow.
They really are similar.
The way that the starburst kind of turns with its lines,
it's very similar to the other button.
Another potential 17th century button
found in the feature on Lot 5
and similar to the so-called starburst button,
which may have originated in Malta?
Is it possible that the team has unearthed a second clue
that could link the Knights of Malta to the Oak Island mystery?
Something happened here.
- Yeah. - Something...
significant.
Something unknown to history.
Well, look, you know what,
anything in the 1600s on this island
is, pretty exciting.
Yeah.
Okay. You two come with me.
- Let's go find some stuff. - All right. See you later.
- Yeah. See you. Thank you. - See you.
Have a look back here, Rick, see what you think.
On the Maltese island of Gozo,
some 4,000 miles east of Oak Island...
Here's the symbol here. I just wanted to get your take on it.
Rick Lagina and other members of the team
are at a 16th century citadel
looking for more clues that may connect
the Knights of Malta
and the Knights Templar to the 230-year-old treasure mystery.
We're here in the citadel to investigate the possibility
that there's a connection
between Oak Island and the Knights of Malta.
We have a list of symbols that we want to investigate,
so I most hope to flesh out that connection
from both sides here.
This section of the wall is pretty interesting.
We've seen this here, this symbol here,
in Italy for sure.
Six petals in a circle.
- This might be very significant. - Yeah.
So this is yet another very...
uniquely shaped symbol
that we've seen in-in conjunction
with the Knights Templar
and now we might be seeing in conjunction
with the Knights of Malta.
And hopefully we can prove out connections
to Oak Island.
This almost looks like a code.
Some kind of code.
Something's being said there,
in my opinion.
- There's the circle and dot. - Yeah.
There's some,
- 90 Foot Stone symbolism there. - Yeah.
A carved symbol in Gozo, Malta
matching one found on the 90 Foot Stone?
Unearthed in 1804 at a depth of 90 feet
in the original Money Pit,
the 90 Foot Stone was covered with cryptic symbols.
Upon its removal,
the shaft flooded with seawater,
leaving searchers to believe
that a great treasure was guarded
by an ingeniously designed flood tunnel.
Would be nice to do
a comprehensive study of all this.
Is it possible that here in Gozo...
the Oak Island team has found not only a familiar symbol
that depicts religious treasures
but also another one related to a booby trap
that may be protecting such things deep in the Money Pit?
Every time you find something that you think
is relatable to our quest to solve the Oak Island mystery,
you pay attention.
And we see some of these same symbols represented
in the characters on the 90 Foot Stone.
Eerily similar.
I don't know about the rest of you,
but today has just solidified for me my impression
that we've got old-world European symbolism
- on Oak Island. - Absolutely.
We see these same symbols on the island.
We can't escape that.
There was information that was deemed necessary
to place on these walls literally in stone.
If you're going to feel it's important enough to write it
in stone, you're gonna write it on documents,
and those documents would be housed somewhere.
- Yeah. - My takeaway is,
- there's a lot more work to do. - Yeah.
- Let's go find it. - Absolutely.
As Rick and the team continue their journey in Malta...
back on Oak Island,
as the search for clues proceeds on Lot 5...
This is one
of the boulders that's on the map.
Yeah. That's right.
Marty Lagina, Craig Tester,
and other members of the team
are hoping to unearth valuables on Lot 1,
over half a mile west of the Money Pit.
If we move this rock, we might find
some more evidence if it was placed or not.
Okay.
This is the Blair treasure map.
From what we can gather,
there were three separate treasure caches.
Earlier this year,
Doug Crowell, Judi Rudebusch,
and historian Terry Deveau
presented the team
with a 19th century map of the western end of Oak Island
that was created by the legendary treasure hunter
Frederick Blair,
one of the men who first reported
the so-called Chappell Vault in 1897.
There were three original notations on the map.
Three stones that were indicated.
Curiously,
the map depicted three boulders,
which Blair believed may have been placed centuries earlier
in order to mark the approximate locations
of shallow treasure deposits...
That's what we're talking about!
Yeah. No mistaking this one.
Boulders which the team has already verified
were in the correct places
according to the map.
All right.
Without further ado, let's find a treasure.
Now, while they wait for the repairs
to be completed in the Money Pit area,
Marty and Craig want to see if they can also verify
that treasure is or once was buried beneath the boulders.
It might be bigger than I initially thought.
Ooh, yeah!
Somewhat diamond-shaped?
- Point at the bottom. - Yeah.
That boulder is massive. A lot bigger
than it looks when it's in the ground.
It was just barely pushed into the "C" horizon.
It could have been put here by humans.
- Well, why don't you metal-detect it, Gary? - Yeah.
Ooh, I got a good hit here.
Jack, get it out of there.
It's here.
Look at that.
That's hand-forged.
I think it's a fastener.
Well, you don't suppose it just fell out
of that timber you're standing on, do you?
Yeah.
So that timber is pretty old, then.
And so could this.
- A - hand-forged iron fastener
and a wooden timber
found under a boulder that was identified
on Frederick Blair's believed treasure map?
Could that mean something of great value
could also be buried in this area?
Why don't you grab this timber?
All right.
Wow!
It looks like,
again, somebody or somebodies
were messing around with that boulder.
We might be uncovering another structure.
This is a wedge.
Yeah!
Nice find, Craig.
So somebody was definitely
in and around that boulder quite a long time ago.
I'm just gonna go a little further.
Sounds good.
What the heck is that?
- That's really weird. - Yeah.
- That's really weird. - Yeah.
Look at that.
That's a hell of a lot of rocks.
A pile of rocks.
It looks like the rocks could have been...
manipulated and placed there.
- And we have a ring of boulders. - No kidding.
It is an exciting moment
for the Oak Island team on Lot 1.
After lifting a boulder which was marked
on a believed 19th century treasure map
related to Frederick Blair,
they have just unearthed what appears to be
a man-made ring of large stones.
This seems like an intentional jumble.
Yeah.
But if so, who built it?
And what might the team find buried underneath it?
What do you want to dig next?
Let's dig a five-foot, radius.
Agreed.
Following the map is pretty exciting.
As we pulled the boulder out,
there was evidence there was a lot more rocks around there.
I'm not sure what to think of it,
but they look like they were put there by man,
and we need to pursue it.
You want to metal-detect this, Gary?
Yep.
That's good.
- Just here, please. - Yep.
Let me see if I can pinpoint it.
No, it's here.
- Whoa! - Ooh! Wow.
That's a chunky guy.
Yeah.
Some kind of iron pin.
It's got, like, a-a wrought iron look to it.
You can see some striations going down it.
So that's really old.
Yeah. It was way down there.
So, another artifact.
That's a good one for Emma.
Yep. All right, put it in the bag.
Wait, Gary, why don't you go ahead and sweep
the bottom of this?
Okay, mate. Coming in.
Good hit just here.
Nice!
Is it in that piece of wood?
Maybe.
Only one way to find out.
Let's see.
Is that it?
We've got another piece of old iron
- by the look of it. - Yeah!
Yeah.
I mean, look at that.
It's got a hook on it.
Unless it's bent round.
And, you know what,
this is really heavy.
- I mean... - Is it?
This is hand-forged.
What the hell's going on here?
I don't know, but someone was here a long time ago
'cause this is old iron.
It sure seems like we're confirming the map.
- Yep. - Well, sweep the rest of the hole.
Right. Let's add to the trophy list.
Nope, that was it. Darn it.
- Well, we well and truly explored it, too. - Yeah.
Although the team is disappointed
to have not found anything of value
beneath the man-made stone feature,
could that be because it is merely a marker
for valuables that are buried somewhere else in the area?
Regardless, if the team can determine
the age and possible origin of these artifacts,
they may still represent valuable clues
toward identifying just who created this feature.
We have several other places on the map to go and explore.
And we're burning daylight.
We should dig every one
of the Goodwin map rocks, for sure.
There could be other places on the map
that are still hiding something.
So we can dig
and hopefully find more stuff.
We need to move on with the hunt.
- Yeah. - Sounds good.
And hopefully find the treasure associated with the map.
Leave no stone unturned.
That's right!
As the team continues their investigation
on the western end of the island,
over 4,000 miles away in Malta...
Welcome, everyone...
Rick and members of the team
have traveled to Mdina,
the one-time capital when the Knights of Malta
first took control of the island nation
back in the early 16th century.
Here, author and researcher Corjan Mol
has arranged to present them
with new research, which he believes
will further connect the Knights of Malta
to the Oak Island mystery.
Okay.
In Jerusalem in 1187,
in Acre, 1291,
in Ruad, in Rhodes,
in Paris...
Wow. Interesting.
At the Palazzo Falson in Mdina, Malta,
author and researcher Corjan Mol
is presenting Rick Lagina and members of the team
with compelling new research.
Research that he believes
could link a family connected to the Knights of Malta
to priceless treasures,
as well as the Oak Island mystery.
Yeah. Yeah.
In 1307, we have Gérard de Villiers.
After serving and fighting on behalf
of the Catholic Church for nearly two centuries,
on Friday, October 13th, 1307,
Pope Clement V and King Philip IV of France
made the stunning decision
to dissolve and prosecute the order of the Knights Templar,
on charges of heresy.
However, some researchers believe
that the actual purpose was to acquire the priceless relics
that the Templars were rumored
to have recovered in the Holy Land,
including the golden menorah from King Solomon's Temple,
the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant.
Treasures which the Templars
may have begun transporting to Oak Island
as early as 1200 AD.
Although many Templars were arrested,
imprisoned and executed,
some are known to have escaped,
and their remaining treasures disappeared without a trace.
Very interesting.
In 1632, French Naval captain
and Knight of Malta Isaac de Razilly
commanded an expedition to North America
in order to establish France's colony of Acadia,
now known as Nova Scotia.
For his efforts, he was appointed the title
of lieutenant general for New France.
Curiously, the site that de Razilly chose
for the colony's headquarters
was Fort Point on the LaHave River,
located only 15 miles south of Oak Island.
To me, I think the most compelling part so far
is the connection between these people
who were in charge of the Knights Templar
and the de Villiers who arrived in Nova Scotia.
I mean, you've got people connected
to both sides of the Atlantic.
Yeah.
The Oak Island story, to me,
was always even more than multigenerational,
it was multi-depositional.
And that's what you have laid out today.
I'm excited about the possibilities
of what Oak Island represents.
Corjan provided us with some connective tissue
and a framework upon which we can build, but right now,
it's time to get back to Oak Island
and finish the work for the year.
My hope is that we can work towards the ultimate goal
of really saying with periods at the end of the sentences,
not question marks, "this is what happened."
And if it is this story, quite remarkable.
It's been a pleasure.
As Rick and the rest of the team
make the long journey back to Oak Island from Malta...
This is probably the closest we're gonna get.
Yep.
Well, already, it looks like this boulder's been placed.
Yeah.
Marty Lagina, Craig Tester,
and other members of the team arrive on Lot 21.
It looks like it's laying right on top of the ground.
Yeah.
They are preparing to investigate another boulder
that was identified on the believed treasure map
based on the research of Frederick Blair.
So, this one on the map is important,
because it helped me find all the other ones.
It's almost like an anchor stone on a map,
where everything was calculated from this.
I see. Okay.
Well, let's have a look at it.
- We can try to get some of those dead branches out of the way. - Yeah. Yeah.
We are at the anchor stone from the map.
It's important, I think.
Any surveyor needs a reference point.
So, here's a big boulder, embedded nicely in the ground,
very difficult to move, but incredibly intriguing.
So, what happened here?
We're sure gonna investigate it.
Hey, Gary. Should you sweep first before we do it?
Yeah. I'll go over the top
and I'll try and get around as much as I can.
Got a good hit, just here.
And it's right there, Jack.
Yep. We got it.
Ooh.
What is that?
Well, what is that doing here?
- A little ox shoe. - Look at that.
On Lot 21,
while investigating a boulder that was marked
on a map connected to 19th-century
treasure hunter Frederick Blair...
Obviously, this isn't farmland just around here.
It's too rocky.
Members of the Oak Island team
have just made a potentially important discovery.
Someone was using ox to pull boulders into position.
- That's one heck of a clue. - Yeah.
All right, well, let's move this stone.
Yep.
Could the team be correct
that perhaps an oxen was used long ago
to position this boulder as a marker for something?
If so, what was it marking?
And might the team find the answer
by digging beneath it?
That's a hell of a lot of rocks.
- Is that natural? - I don't know.
These angular rocks look like some of the rocks
that we found in the paved area in the swamp.
Yep.
Let's see.
Come on, baby.
No metals yet.
I'd love to find a piece of metal this deep.
There's the C-horizon.
- That's it, isn't it? - Yep.
Because the team has dug into the C-horizon,
or the natural layer of earth below the topsoil,
it means that they have reached a depth
where there is no more evidence of human activity
beneath the believed man-made feature.
I think this boulder was just used for reference.
I don't think it was used to hide anything,
- or anything like that. - Yeah.
- But it seems like it was placed here. - Yeah.
It was placed, for sure.
There's got to be something buried nearby.
Yes.
A few years ago, I would have downplayed
that the western part of the island had anything to do
with the treasure mystery,
but I can't do that anymore, because there's been evidence,
good evidence, to the contrary.
So, we have to do a lot of investigation.
If the boulders are indeed markers, my ears perk up.
Then we know that something spectacularly important
happened in this area.
No.
Unfortunately, no more metals, just that one ox shoe.
So, we can get that to the lab and compare it to the rest?
- Yep. - All right.
- Time to move. - It is.
The following day...
Okay. We have basically the whole brain trust here
because Rick and the team, that went to Malta
is back with information.
Having just returned to Oak Island,
Rick Lagina is meeting with his brother Marty
and other members of the team in the museum.
So, I'd like to know what you guys found,
what you did and-and, then of course
we want to tell you what we found.
In general, what we did was a lot of digging.
Specifically, we went and thoroughly researched the map.
The Blair treasure map.
Okay.
We dug under the two boulders
because it seemed to be markers for something,
but we didn't find any treasure.
And I did go out and take a look at the boulders.
So, the anchor boulder on Lot 21, it's been moved.
The other boulder, it's probably been moved.
At least it's been... There's been digging around it.
So, it looks like it's been adjusted.
But my take on the map is that it's-it's very important.
It's the one treasure map that exists.
The Blair Map certainly suggests
that there's treasure, but it's just a map.
It's not treasure. It is not proof of that.
The proof is in the ground.
And I think we are all quite enthusiastic about it
for one simple reason, this is a treasure hunt
and this is a treasure map.
We'll do whatever it takes to come to a conclusion.
A very significant final one
from our time while you were away,
is that button right there.
That was found by Laird and his team
near the steps into the Lot 5 feature.
Right next to the other starburst button.
The scans that Emma made,
it really is a very beautiful thing.
I looked at the scan that Emma did
and it reminds me of something that we saw in Malta.
Really?
I looked at the scan that Emma did
and it reminds me of something that we saw in Malta.
Really?
In the Oak Island Museum,
Alex Lagina has just made a surprising observation
regarding the floral button
that was found one week ago on Lot 5.
So, we visited a prison at the Cittadella on Gozo
and carved into the wall there was this symbol.
Steve, if you could pull that up.
Keep on going.
That, right there.
So, this is graffiti on the walls of the prison.
It was obviously significant enough
to be carved in the wall of a prison
that at one time
held members of the Knights of Malta.
There are actually similarities between
- that carving and the button. - Yep.
- A - carving found on the wall
of a 16th-century prison in Gozo, Malta?
One similar in design to the floral button
that was found near the stone foundation on Lot 5?
Could this be further evidence
that the Knights of Malta made a secret visit
to Oak Island nearly 400 years ago?
And so, at this same prison,
there's all kinds of carvings on the wall.
- That's a Maltese cross. - Maltese cross, yeah.
There's the four-dot cross. Which it's on the H+O Stone.
Yeah.
So, I kind of approached it
from the kind of "means, motive and opportunity" perspective.
Opportunity is kind of settled, because we know they were here.
Um, so, we wanted to investigate the means and the motive.
And we saw a means and motive
when we went underground in Valletta.
We saw the means, because they have these massive cisterns
that they carved
60 feet under the city,
and a network of tunnels.
So, what was interesting for me was,
in these tunnels,
they used blue clay to seal off water flow
to protect its valuable items.
Yeah.
So, here, this kind of reminded me
of the old description of the Money Pit.
The hard rock, you can see the pick marks in the sides.
I mean, you are literally walking through history here.
- It's incredible. - Yeah.
Okay. When we talk about the Knights Templar,
we know they had this sneak attack on them in 1307.
Yeah.
And there's a legend that people left with a great treasure.
Are there legends like that?
Corjan was able to trace members of the Knights Templar
leaving possibly with treasure.
- That's what I'm looking for. - Right.
And it's connected to one family, the de Villiers family.
The family itself maintains
positions of importance within the Knights of Malta.
Right. A member of the family left with the treasure
- just after the suppression of 1307. - Right.
So, perhaps this one family was charged with the protection
of certain relics, certain treasure.
Yeah. I mean, the Knights of Malta
that was here in the mid-1600s,
landed in La Havre a few miles from Oak Island,
supposedly related to the de Villiers family.
They not only had money, they had power
- and they had knowledge. - Yeah.
So, you can conclude that the Knights of Malta
clearly had the scientific and the technical ability
to construct massive things underground.
And we do know from Judi and others' research
that the-the Knights of Malta were definitely here.
Just 20 miles down the road.
So, there's a connection.
Well, look, all I can say is, you know, a job well done.
We learned a lot in Malta.
But I think we need to go back out there,
because you want to exhaust all the potential discoveries
- that yet remain out there. - Yes.
- Time to dig, Marty. - That's right.
And I'll tell you what this has done,
this perhaps opens our eyes to look more carefully
at the things that are going to be coming out
of our last caisson in the Money Pit.
So, now with this background, we can keep our eye peeled
for things that might be meaningful.
- Let's go see. - Yep.
Back to work.
For more than 200 years,
people have uncovered compelling evidence
that Oak Island is hiding an incredible secret.
Could the new clues that Rick, Marty and their team
have found both on the island,
and 4,000 miles away,
suggest that secret may be more profound
than anyone ever imagined?
Now, as the team prepares
for their most ambitious dig ever in the Money Pit area,
perhaps the secret will finally be revealed
more than 200 feet underground.
Next time, on The Curse of Oak Island...
Into the solution channel we go.
- Into the void. - Our best guess is that
the treasure is 200 feet under that spot right there.
Ooh, look at that!
The vault connects the swamp, potentially,
to the Knights of Malta.
- What is that? - That might be depositor.
The only time I see primitive tools this size
- was from the 1500s. - Way before the Money Pit.
- Here we go. - We're into the solution channel.
- We're just coming into it. - Baby!
- Check that out. - Reveal your secrets.
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