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(Transcrito por TurboScribe. Atualize para Ilimitado para remover esta mensagem.) Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.

Welcome to Azores.

There's a number of questions that can be answered in the Azores.

Some things here relate to our search.

We have this on Oak Island.

It's time to dig.

We need to get to the treasure.

Look what we got here.

Wow.

You might have some evidence to a 14th century Portuguese presence in Oak Island.

The proof might be underground, right here.

Wow, fantastic.

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.

Cheers.

There you go, Billy.

As a crisp fall morning begins on Oak Island.

Workers from Rock Equipment and SB Canada repair the money pit area

where the Laginas and their team plan to dig another 8-foot diameter steel shaft in the coming days.

It is here where they have detected high traces of silver some 200 feet deep in the solution channel

which have been scientifically matched to a 14th century Portuguese coin

reportedly found in the original money pit back in 1849.

After this, this should be good.

While the work continues on Oak Island.

Over 2,000 miles to the southeast in the Azores Islands of Portugal.

Welcome.

Hello.

Welcome to Azores.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

Rick and other members of the team have traveled to Terceira.

They are following up on the research that suggests members of the Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar

known as the Knights of Christ may have used the Azores

to safeguard a portion of their sacred religious treasures

before sailing them to Oak Island between the 14th and 16th centuries.

Hey everybody, this is Francisco.

He's a historian here in the Azores.

He's worked with us in the past on the stone walls found on Lot 26.

Yep.

In 2022, Francisco examined photos of a stone wall on Lot 26 of Oak Island

and believed it could be of Portuguese origin and date back to the 15th century.

Welcome to the Great St. Sebastian Church.

It is the oldest church in this island.

It was built in 1455 by the first settlements in this island.

Oh really?

Wow.

What is very important is that this church was built by the action of a Franciscan fire.

Franciscans and the Order of Christ and the Templars were very...

Close.

Is there the possibility that there was a smaller group that arrived here before the official date?

And so is there anything in this church that speaks to that possibility?

Yes, perhaps there's some clues.

I think we're all eager to see inside.

We are.

Let's go inside?

Yeah.

Okay.

There's a number of questions that need to be asked and maybe can be answered in the Azores.

It would be wonderful to find a smoking gun directly connected to the Oak Island mystery.

All of these were saints that the Templars and the Franciscans used to pray on.

So this likely dates to the 1450s.

This is contemporary of the church.

Right, which would be about 150 years after the dissolution of the Knights Templar.

Yeah, yeah.

We're looking at something that the Order of Christ created.

What we have are figures that were important to the Knights Templar.

So this speaks to the continuation of the belief system.

Exactly, exactly.

How closely were the Order of Christ related to the Templar Order?

Was it a true continuation of the Order?

Yes, it was a true continuation, exactly.

So any belief systems, any treasures, anything they were safeguarding came with them?

Exactly, exactly.

Founded in 1318 by King Denis of Portugal,

the Order of Christ was a successor to the Knights Templar

after their disbanding and persecution by the Catholic Church in 1307.

While it is rumored that the Order of Christ protected Templar treasures in Portugal and the Azores Islands,

it is known that they were connected to the minting of coins

exactly like the one believed to have been found in the money pit.

We know from documents that there were some people sailing from Azores to the west.

In the period between 1434 and 1446,

departed from here, from Azores, 54 caravans to the west.

The Templars not always had the ships, but the Order of Christ had the ships.

But what was the destination west?

We don't know, perhaps eventually North America, eventually Oak Island.

It's not so outlandish to believe that an organization like the Order of Christ

would have had the capability, the knowledge, the connections to get to North America

to safeguard what they deemed to be of utmost importance.

If you think of the journey of the Templars as a pilgrimage,

we know from the Camino de Santiago, at the end of the pilgrimage,

the Templars would leave a goose paw, you would scratch a goose paw.

I want to share an observation.

If you look up.

So here we have three corners of the chapel.

Only three have three webbed feet.

Three goose paws.

Three there, three there, three there.

There they still have the original red color.

Very interesting.

Which ties this all together beautifully with the symbol that we found in Nova Scotia.

The goose paw is a three-pronged symbol that was designed by the Knights Templar

and used to mark important locations for the Order

throughout the Middle East and Europe between the 11th and 14th centuries.

In recent years, Corian has showed the team several goose paw carvings

found in places such as the Camerano Caves in Italy.

A 12th century Templar stronghold, which was created in the shape of a cross,

matching the design of the lead cross that was found on Oak Island in 2017.

That is the mark of the nations for the Knights Templar.

Incredible.

And in 2022, Corian showed them a goose paw carving in Liverpool, Nova Scotia,

just 50 miles southwest of Oak Island.

Isn't that a great connection to Oak Island?

You find the same symbol language here that we know both from close to Oak Island

and from the place in Europe where we've been.

So what this place brings is a consistent next step in the journey that we're sketching.

A journey that led from Jerusalem through the Mediterranean basin to Portugal

and through the Azores, maybe to Oak Island.

That's more than I expected.

We would invite you to come to the island at your convenience

and experience the same mystery, the same questions that we have puzzled over

all these many years and maybe with your help and others,

we can finally put an answer to these questions.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

But we have a lot to discover.

Yeah, let's keep going.

Let's keep looking.

This has been great.

As the team continues their investigation in the Azores,

back on Oak Island.

All right, well, I think I'm positioned okay.

Perfect.

So hopefully, with continued digging, you find an artifact to give us an answer to this thing.

That would be nice.

Yes.

Marty joins Laird and Fiona on Lot 8

at the stone cradle formation that the team found beneath a 40,000-pound boulder.

What's the plan?

So we just want to carefully check, see if there's a soil change,

see if it's not natural.

Yeah.

And just have a feeling that something was coming this way.

Why don't I dig this down and look for the roof of a tunnel?

Yeah.

Off chance, I understand, but...

Well, I mean, worst-case scenario is you hit a tunnel.

Yeah, which is also the best-case scenario.

Yeah.

All right, let's do it.

All right.

Over the past several weeks,

scientific testing and investigation at the site

has revealed traces of silver in the ground soil

and possible evidence of a shaft deeper below.

That's a lot of roots.

Now, because Laird does not want to risk archaeological damage to the feature,

he has given Marty permission to dig an adjacent trench

to look for evidence of a possible tunnel that may run beneath it.

It sounded like rocks, but I don't see any.

It's pretty consistent soil.

What the hell is that?

That's interesting.

Doesn't make any sense.

Unbelievable.

Let's see what we got.

I think that's bedrock.

These little chips are starting to look like bedrock.

Yeah.

While digging near the cradle of stones on Lot 8...

Oh, that's interesting.

Absolutely.

...Marty has made a potentially important discovery.

And yet we're higher than the base of the cradle over here.

Yeah.

Doesn't make any sense.

Huh.

On the eastern side of Oak Island,

the slate bedrock is known to be flat and at a uniform depth

because Marty has now confirmed that the cradle of stones

sits below the bedrock to the side of the feature.

This offers more compelling evidence that the stone cradle

is the result of an earlier excavation

and may be covering a much deeper man-made shaft.

But you didn't hit bedrock in the cradle over here.

No.

So what we need to do next, Laird, then,

is you need to dig deeper there.

Yeah.

See if you can find bedrock.

Laird doesn't appear to have hit the bedrock at all

in that cradle, so there's the possibility

that under that rock a lot of digging occurred,

which, you know, makes your mind go to shaft or a tunnel.

So I'm very excited about it.

I'm happy with the information.

It's moving the needle for me

that somebody did dig that out, way out.

They did it for a reason.

This is not something that somebody

would have done lightheartedly.

No.

I think we really need to take our time

and understand this a little bit better.

I think this makes it something

even more special than we already thought.

I know a certain Rick Lagina will be real interested in this too,

who will be back from the Azores soon.

So I think we leave this all like this

in case they want to do more or move something around.

Yeah.

So let's call it, shall we?

Excellent.

Meanwhile, over 2,000 miles away

on the island of Terceira in the Azores...

Hey, Francisco.

Hi.

Welcome to Cerreta.

Hey, Francisco.

Thank you.

Rick, Alex, and other members of the Oak Island team

have journeyed to the region of Cerreta

to meet once again with Francisco Nogueira.

Like we talked about this before,

we have the stone walls,

like the walls you have in Oak Island,

built by the Portuguese, this type of construction.

We have suggestions that the wall on Lot 26

bears a distinct Portuguese-Azorean style.

There's distinguishing features about the Lot 26 wall

that we want to keep an eye out for.

There are larger boulders that run along either edge

and inside of those large boulders

there are smaller rubble rocks.

So that's one thing that we're looking for here.

We want to look at these walls

and confirm they're made in the same way.

Yeah, those walls are very interesting to us

because carbon dating has said

that they were likely constructed somewhere around 1470, 1475.

The type of construction that we use in Portugal,

that they use in the first settlement here.

And that would put it in what sort of time?

15th, 16th century.

That's very comparable in time to the wall on Oak Island.

Yeah.

Why do you believe it's not earlier than that?

Yes, we don't know for sure.

Nothing says that this wasn't much earlier.

Yes.

In 1427, the Portuguese explorer,

Prince Henry the Navigator,

who was also a high-ranking member of the Order of Christ,

officially discovered and claimed the Azores Islands

on behalf of Portugal.

However, some believe that the Order of Christ

may have been secretly visiting the islands

as early as the mid-1300s

in order to safeguard their priceless treasures.

Well, let's go in and see how they compare the wall on Lot 26.

Let's see. Let's go.

I have really never seen anything like this in my life.

It's full of rock walls

that potentially predate the official dates

of discovery and settlement of the Azores.

Don't get lost. It's a labyrinth.

Looks like it.

Nobody seems to know who built them or what the purpose was.

Here's where it gets exciting,

because they're great candidates to compare to our wall on Lot 26.

Come take a look.

What did you find, Yi?

So, look at this.

So we have small rocks in the middle,

big rocks to contain it,

and the width, it's almost the same as Oak Island.

It's very close.

Come take a look at this.

That rubble right here.

Yeah, inside the wall.

Yeah, I see it everywhere.

Yep, it's all in there.

The interior wall is filled with rubble, small stones.

That is exactly the way the Lot 26 wall was created.

What you can see is a mirror of the Lot 26 wall.

The question here is, why was this wall built in this manner,

just that it is on Lot 26?

It's almost like the same technique was used on Lot 26,

so it's almost like that approach was taken from here to Oak Island.

The same style, the same understanding of how walls function,

how you build a wall.

Wall on Lot 26 is unique

because we don't have other examples like that in Nova Scotia, right?

No, there were no.

So, Francesco, would you think these might have been

like living quarters for people?

Maybe, maybe.

This is a great place to hide or to keep safe something, yes.

Interesting.

Might a treasure once have found its way to the Azores

and thus to Oak Island?

There's nothing we see within this complex

that would suggest anything other than the possibilities

when people are committed to an endeavor like Oak Island.

I've said it many times, where there's a will, there's a way.

All you have to do is look around you

at this incredible complex of stone

and realize that there is a purpose.

All of that is associated with Oak Island.

This fits all our timelines, right?

Yeah, it sure does.

We sort of suspect that perhaps somebody was here

in the 1300s secretly.

This is a great place to hide.

Yes.

We talk about it all the time on the island.

You've got to look backwards in order to look forwards.

And we know just from this little experience here

that indeed the possibility of information

having traveled through the New World generationally.

Is there a place on the island

where we can qualify a little bit more, perhaps?

Yes, we have a lot to see connected to Oak Island.

So let's go.

Yeah, okay.

As a new day begins on Oak Island...

Billy!

Hey, glad to see you here.

Thank you.

All right, I'm ready.

Marty joins other members of the team on Center Road

near the western border of the swamp.

The sand road projects right down here,

and if it's here, then that would be a very strong clue

that Center Road was here before the survey.

Right.

The team is preparing to dig a cross-section of Center Road

to look for evidence

that it may have been built by previous treasure hunters

on top of the sand-covered cobblestone road

that was recently found running through the swamp

toward the believed Portuguese Stone Road

in the southeast corner.

If the team can find evidence

of the sand and cobblestone road here,

it could suggest that it was created by someone long ago,

perhaps even before a 1762 survey

when Oak Island was divided into 32 4-acre lots.

As I'm standing here, Billy,

I see the sand road you nicely uncovered.

I'm lined right up with it,

which also lines right up with Center Road proper.

So I think this is our spot.

Yeah.

Hey, Marty, what time is it, mate?

It's time to dig.

Gary, time to dig.

You heard the man.

Let's give the boy room.

Here we go.

We speculate, upon looking at this sand road,

that it could be directly under Center Road.

If that's the case, whoever built it

came here long before anybody else.

Is that sand there already?

Oh, it might have the same sand.

Kind of, yeah.

That would explain the activity that was here

before the money pit.

It would explain the very significant wall on Lot 26.

Pretty rich.

It would explain the rock feature on Lot 8.

It would explain virtually everything.

A little aboard. Keep digging.

There's a rock here underneath there.

Yeah, it looks like sand now.

Check this out.

How do you think?

Yeah, that's sand there.

It should be.

There's still a lot of gravel in there too.

I'm afraid we're getting contamination from the road.

Yeah.

If you want to look at the end of the bucket here,

you can see the profile of what it is.

Rocks, sand.

Here, look, Laird.

Oh, here.

See how it's rocks on the bottom and the sand?

Yeah.

I mean, that shouldn't be here naturally.

That's not the natural dirt for here, no.

All right, gonna have a scan.

I just don't see anything definitive here.

No metal.

This isn't jumping out at me.

It's a little bit tricky to evaluate it

because you have to raise the possibility of contamination

from modern construction.

So we need to try another location.

Any sort of ancient road on this island is worth following.

You want to put this back, Billy,

and try one more right there?

Sure.

As the team repositions to dig another cross-section

through Center Road...

Oh, look at how pretty that is.

Yeah.

Beautiful.

Rick and members of the team

arrive at the Angra do Heroísmo Museum.

It's incredible.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Great to see you.

Thank you.

I'm Alex.

Welcome to the Museum of Angra.

Francisco has arranged for the team

to look for clues in the museum

and meet with local archaeologist Tiago Rodrigues

regarding artifacts that have been found on Oak Island.

We have a Portuguese coin dating to the late 1300s,

and if it came through the Azores,

that's about 50 years, give or take,

prior to the official date that the Azores were discovered

and then colonized.

The Portuguese navigated throughout the Atlantic.

We have other evidences that allows us to conclude

that the Azores had people before the Portuguese.

We didn't know how much they were, who they were.

So is it possible that some people knew

that the Azores were here?

Of course.

It does kind of remind me of the early years

of our treasure hunt on Oak Island,

stories that speak of people from Europe

at a time when the conventional story says

that people from Europe should not have been there.

And from what Tiago is telling us,

it sounds like that is again the case

with the story here in the Azores.

Before you arrived, Emiliano and myself

did some scouting here in the museum.

What we came to do here is well illustrated

by this stone here.

This is 15th century, Emiliano?

1454, probably.

And it's the oldest stone carving

that were found here in the Azores.

This caught our attention,

not only because it's possibly one of the oldest

or the oldest carved stones that there are on this island,

but particularly because of what it's showing

and, you know, the swirls here

from the copper piece from the ribbon.

In 2022, the team unearthed part of a copper artifact

on Lot 8, decorated with an ornate symbol.

Incredibly, one year later,

they saw the similar symbol in a Templar-related manuscript

in Reykjavik, Iceland,

that dated back to the 12th century.

I actually have a photo of our copper artifact

from Lot 8 that shows that symbol.

Let's see if it compares to what we're seeing here.

Hmm.

It could be a match.

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Well done.

It could be a match.

It has the same middle feature here,

and then on the ends, it could round closed for sure.

At the Angra do Heroísmo Museum in the Azores,

the team has found a 15th-century stone carving

that may be connected to the Knights Templar

and the Order of Christ,

which matches a symbol on the copper artifact

that was discovered on Lot 8 in 2022.

It shows that when people traveled,

they took their symbols with them, right?

Correct. Correct.

And also, that symbol is the one we found

in a manuscript in Reykjavik in Iceland.

It was a manuscript from the 1200s.

This is a stone from the 1400s,

and that means that that kind of knowledge

or the symbolism was passed on

because we are in the Azores,

thousands of kilometers from Iceland,

but still we are seeing a clear connection

between these countries and Oak Island.

Some things here relate to our search.

The image is telling a story.

We see the decorative carving

indicating the possibility that Templars

or the Knights of Christ knew of the Azores

before their documented discovery by the Portuguese.

Could it be related to the copper artifact

that we found on Lot 8?

I think it's very plausible that they had the ability

to make a transatlantic voyage.

Tiago, we've actually brought some artifacts

from Oak Island with us.

We were hoping you'd take a look at them.

I would be glad to help and to see,

and we have a room that we can look at closer.

Lead the way.

We're trying to understand the pre-Columbian history

of Oak Island and what happened there.

After you. Thank you.

We've brought a number of artifacts.

Tiago is qualified to look at them and render an opinion.

I hope that he can speak definitively about them.

Tiago, we really appreciate you taking a look at these items.

I guess maybe we just dive right in and get your thoughts.

This is actually one of the stone shot

that we found on the island.

This was found this year, actually.

It looks like a stone bullet,

so they have a period of time

where they were most used,

and that links to the 14th century...

Right.

...which could link to the periods that you're looking for.

So most probable, then, is that this is from the 1300s or earlier.

It could be.

They could have been using them later, but it's not common.

So, yeah, it points to the 14th century.

Have you found any around here in the Azores at all?

I've heard of some that are in the Azores,

in particular in the Serra Islands.

I know they exist.

This is more like human combat face-to-face,

through small battles.

But it's interesting,

because if you have to take this to Oak Island,

you have to go by boat,

and you have to be prepared for something.

It implicates a journey where the risk exists.

So it's a very interesting piece.

We're looking at several scenarios

of when treasure might have passed through the Azores

and then moved to Oak Island and safeguarded there.

To hear Tiago agree that our stone shot,

and others like it have been found here in the islands,

is the connective tissue we're looking for.

This is so small, it could link to a hand cannon.

So it's very interesting.

Now that you mention it,

this is a very interesting artifact,

and we believe that it may be a small hand cannon.

And I have the report to go along with it.

Earlier this year, when the team first discovered

a section of the sand-covered road

in the western region of the swamp,

they found part of a hand cannon,

a weapon first invented in China during the 12th century.

After having Emma Culligan examine the piece

in the lab, the team sent photos of the artifact

to Maltese military historian Matthew Balzan

for his analysis.

In European culture, it was used in warfare

mostly from the 13th to the 15th,

at most early 16th century.

Wow.

The hand cannons were common in the 1300s, yes.

In the report, the most...