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NARRATOR: Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

We are definitely
drilling in the right spot.

There's a big, whopping bunch
of metal. I want to hit it.

JACQUO:
Under this castle
is a dungeon where we found

-Templar symbolism.
-Perhaps there are answers
down below.

CORJAN:
This symbol here, I've seen
in Templar prisons before.

It's a Viking sail.

GARY:
When this cone is rolled over,

we should be finding
something medieval.

JACK:
I'm just trying to figure out
how this made its way

underneath the boulder.

That doesn't happen naturally.

This is astounding.

NARRATOR:
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.

♪ ♪

MARTY:
Well, guys...

-Oh, hey, Marty.
-Hey, Marty.

Give me the story.
What happened?

Well, Marty, we started
drilling, we got to the bottom,

there was nothing but in situ
material, unfortunately.

-All the way up and down?
-Up and down, unfortunately.

NARRATOR: As a new day
begins on Oak Island,

Marty Lagina
and members of the team

remain determined
to brave not only

the chill of the fall season
but also a major setback

that recently took place
in the Money Pit area

in the hopes of making
a breakthrough discovery

that could finally solve
a 229-year-old mystery.

Nothing to write home about
at all.

-Sorry-- sorry to inform.
-No, that's okay.

-All data's good data.
-That's right.

NARRATOR: Three weeks ago,
the team began

a horizontal
probe-drilling operation

some 106 feet deep

at the bottom
of the Garden Shaft

to explore a mysterious
seven-foot-high tunnel.

A tunnel that runs due west

into an area dubbed
the "Baby Blob,"

where water testing has revealed

high-trace evidence
of gold and silver

between 80 and 120 feet
underground.

NARRATOR:
However, salt water

suddenly rushed in
and flooded the shaft...

NARRATOR:
...leaving the team to wonder

if they encountered one
of the legendary booby traps

believed to be connected
to the ocean.

We are definitely drilling
in the right spot.

This is where
the scientists tell us

there's a big,
whopping bunch of metal.

So, I want to hit it.

-Yeah.
-This next one,
we're gonna call it

the "Bravo Well," because...

I am hoping it leads to Tango.

-Okay?
-(laughs)

NARRATOR:
Marty and the team

are about to begin drilling
a new borehole

known as Bravo-1
near the Baby Blob,

in the hopes of pinpointing
the high source

of precious metals
that may be buried

more than 80 feet below ground.

All the indications are
leading us into this position,

so, uh, I'm looking forward
to this-this next hole.

-Yeah. Okay.
-TERRY: Bravo-1. Here we go.

-Bravo-1.
-Let's hope we hit Tango.

-Okay. We'll see you, guys.
-Absolutely.

-Take care.
-Okay. Yeah. See you, Marty.

MARTY:
Carry on.

NARRATOR:
As the operations continue

in the Money Pit area,

over on Lot 5,

located on the western side
of the island...

Whoa, you guys are deep.

-Oh, hi.
-Hi.
-Hello.

NARRATOR: ...Marty is joined
by Jack Begley

where archaeologists
Helen Sheldon and Moya MacDonald

are investigating
a rectangular stone foundation.

JACK:
It just keeps
getting deeper, Marty.

-Yeah.
-HELEN: Mm-hmm.
It's never-ending, this hole.

NARRATOR:
Although the team has found

a number of 18th-century
artifacts

near the surface of this feature

since they first acquired
Lot 5 in 2022,

as they have dug deeper,
evidence has been unearthed

suggesting that it could be
much older,

including an iron spike
that may date back

as much as eight centuries.

I was doing the final scrape
over this orangey soil...

-Mm-hmm.
-Because you have to make sure
it's subsoil.

-Yeah.
-And I got big chunks
of creamware coming out.

-Really?
-Yeah.

Like half bowls.
Yeah, a ton of stuff.

-So, we said,
"Hmm, this isn't subsoil."
-Right.

NARRATOR:
Subsoil refers to
a natural layer of earth

that would be undisturbed
by human activity.

Because archaeologist
Helen Sheldon

has just found fragments
of pottery

in the soil layer
that she is investigating,

that means the team
has not yet reached

the bottom of the foundation.

-And what's that?
-HELEN: Here we have this blob,

basically, of a much harder clay

with this rectangle in it.

It almost looks like blue-gray
till from the Money Pit.

Yeah, it does. It's similar.

Maybe the clay was put there
as more of a solid base.

MARTY:
The clay found in that feature

matches the clay
found 50 feet down

in the Money Pit in the 1800s.

That is highly significant.

JACK:
If this is
deep Money Pit material,

well, there's got to be
a connection

to these two features on Lot 5.

This could be related
to depositors.

-Yeah.
-NARRATOR: Could
Jack be correct

that the team has found
more evidence

that the features on Lot 5
may be connected

to an operation to bury
valuables in the Money Pit area?

If so, what might they find
as they continue to dig deeper?

I guess I'm pleased that
there's more to be found here.

-Yeah.
-Could I also get a sample

of that blue-gray clay
in a bag...

-Yeah.
-...and we'll get it analyzed
while I go back there.

-Jack, we can, we can
go do that.
-Mm-hmm.

-MARTY: Okay, carry on.
Thank you very much.
-Okay.

-Come on, Jack.
Let's go find out what this is.
-MOYA: Thank you.

Great work, ladies.

NARRATOR:
While the search for clues

and treasure
continues on Oak Island,

more than 3,200 miles to
the east in the Netherlands...

JACQUO: Right, guys. Welcome
to the Castle of Valkenburg,

one of the mightiest strongholds

in the Middle Ages
here in this region.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina,
his nephews Alex and Peter,

along with Doug Crowell
and Emiliano Sacchetti

are meeting
with author Corjan Mol

and historian Jacquo Silvertant

at a 12th-century fortress
known as Valkenburg Castle.

The lords of Valkenburg
had relations

with both the French
and the German kings,

so they were very powerful.

You see the Templar cross?

-DOUG: Oh, yeah.
-NARRATOR: One week ago,

Rick and the team began their
journey in Morimondo, Italy,

to investigate the theory

that as early
as the 12th century,

the medieval order
of the Knights Templar

conspired with members
of the Viking culture

to smuggle sacred
religious treasures

across Europe before
transporting them to Oak Island.

And while visiting sites
in Italy...

DOUG:
I see a four-dot cross.

NARRATOR:
...as well as outside the city

of Maastricht
in the Netherlands...

On the other side here,
circle and dot.

ALEX:
Yep.

Over here. Four-dot cross.

RICK:
That's remarkable.

NARRATOR:
...they were shown
numerous carved symbols

that have also been found
over the years on Oak Island.

Maybe they took
their treasure here

on their way up north.

NARRATOR:
Now, in light
of several new discoveries

on Oak Island,
including three artifacts

whose origins have been traced
to Scandinavia,

Corjan and Jacquo have arranged
for Rick and the team

to explore Valkenburg Castle
where they believe

more evidence
of a Templar/Viking alliance

is waiting to be revealed.

Under this castle is a dungeon
I'm gonna show you,

where a couple of years ago,
we found loads

of inscriptions that relate
to Templar symbolism.

The lords of Valkenburg

probably were involved
in arresting and, uh,

keeping, uh, Templar Knights
in their dungeon.

So, it might have been
refugees that they picked up.

DOUG:
As they fled.

-Yeah.
-RICK: Perhaps there are
answers down below.

CORJAN:
Let's find out,

go underground.

-You lead the way, Jacquo.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
In 1307,

King Philip IV of France

and Pope Clement V

dissolved and prosecuted
the Templar order

on charges of heresy.

However, some believe

that the true purpose was to
obtain the priceless treasures

that they may have found
in the Holy Land

during the 12th-century
Crusades,

including the golden menorah

that once stood
in King Solomon's Temple,

and the Ark of the Covenant.

(men screaming)

Hundreds of Templar Knights
were arrested and executed

in prisons across Europe
such as Valkenburg Castle.

However,
many others eluded capture

and their sacred treasures
have never been found.

-Mind your head. Corjan.
-Okay.

Yep. Thank you.

RICK:
Each of us in our own way

are trying to make these

very positive connections

between what we're seeing
and doing in the Old World

and how it may relate
to Oak Island and the mystery.

JACQUO:
Watch your head.

RICK:
If we see that evidenced here,

I think it will be
quite impactful.

CORJAN:
Be extremely careful.

-JACQUO: Everybody here?
-ALEX: Yeah.

JACQUO:
Okay, people, uh, this
is what I wanted to show you.

We're, uh, in a dungeon here,
under the Castle of Valkenburg.

Our interest goes
to these engravings

on this 14th-century, uh, wall.

If you look carefully,

uh, there is
a four-dot cross here,

-like you see.
-ALEX: Oh, yeah. Yep. Mm-hmm.

ALEX: We seem to see
these four-dot crosses

in a lot of places.

We've seen it on the H+O Stone,

uh, on Oak Island.

And we've seen it,
actually, throughout Europe.

It's much more significant to us

because we're kind of seeing it
crop up all along this trail

that we're chasing
of the Knights Templar.

-Could this be a goose paw?
-Ah! No way.

That is a goose paw.

Remember when we saw
this symbol in Nova Scotia?

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
At Valkenburg Castle,

a 12th-century fortress
in the Netherlands

that once held prisoners

connected
to the Knights Templar,

Rick Lagina and members

of the Oak Island team
have just discovered

a potentially important clue.

CORJAN:
But I mean,

but a goose paw here--

(chuckles)
I got goosebumps.

♪ ♪

That is the,
the mark of the Masons

for the Knights Templar.

Incredible.

NARRATOR:
In 2022,

Corjan Mol showed Rick
and members of the team

a so-called goose paw,

that in addition
to other symbols

that are related
to the Templar Order,

was carved
into the rocky shoreline

in Liverpool, Nova Scotia,

just 50 miles southwest
of Oak Island.

CORJAL:
That's-that's just crazy.

-Doug, if you have a minute.
-Yup.

-CORJAL: This--
-DOUG: What are you looking at?

CORJAL:
This symbol here

I've seen
in Templar prisons before.

DOUG:
Oh, really?

DOUG:
Oh, I can see.

Yeah, I can see
what you're pointing out.

I mean,

they are one of our primary
suspects this year...

Yeah.

DOUG:
...just because
of the convergence

of so many 1200s dates.

NARRATOR:
A possible Templar carving

of what may be
depicting a Viking sail?

There's been thoughts
that this is a Templar treasure

on Oak Island, right?

We know
the suppression happened.

-Yeah.
-DOUG: We know
they had motivation

to maybe take something
to a sanctuary

far away from the troubles.

But how did they get there?

How did they know
about the New World?

CORJAN:
Yep.

So Templars used Vikings

for transportation to come

to a promised land--

North America.

NARRATOR:
Earlier this year,

retired professor
of psychology Dr. Doug Symons

presented the team
with his published research

detailing how
the Scandinavian Viking culture,

which is known to have explored
regions of North America

more than 1,000 years ago,

intermingled
with the Templar Order

during the 12th-century Crusades

and may have helped them

navigate across
the Atlantic Ocean

in order to hide
their sacred treasures

on Oak Island.

This might be a clue
that there's a link

between Templar
and Viking technology.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that Corjan has

just found more evidence
in Valkenburg Castle

that supports
Dr. Symons' theory?

CORJAN:
That's a boat with two masts.

NARRATOR:
If so, could that explain
not only the artifacts

and structures
discovered on Oak Island

that may be related
to the Templar Order

but also those that were

scientifically traced
to Scandinavia?

If there are Templar carvings
in this dungeon prison,

to me, that supports the idea
that they did flee to the north.

-Yeah.
-ALEX: Which-which is exactly

-what we suspected
may have happened.
-CORJAN: I agree.

And they traveled through lands

where they didn't have
any holdings

so people wouldn't be
looking for them.

RICK:
There was a need for refuge,
safe refuge.

So, where are you going to go?

You're going to go
to the New World.

You have to cross the Atlantic.

So what we are
chasing now is that

east to west
voyage possibilities.

Did the Norse really have
the command of the oceans,

such that the Templars
could rely on them?

They went a more practical way

up north using the highway
of the Middle Ages--

-the river.
-Right.

That's part
of this trip we're making.

We'll be off
to Denmark here soon.

Oh, it's gonna be a lot more
interesting now we know this.

RICK:
Maybe there's a missing clue.

NARRATOR:
While Rick Lagina
and members of the team

continue their quest
for clues in Europe...

...the following morning
on Oak Island...

Dang.
Brought a big truck.

BILLY:
You can swing in.

I think we're all pretty
excited about this, actually.

I-I know I am.

NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina
and other members

of the Oak Island team

have gathered on Lot 10
near the center of the island

for a new investigation
of Cone E...

Good.

NARRATOR:
...one of the six boulders

that make up
the megalithic formation

known as Nolan's Cross.

BILLY:
So to help us
move the rock today,

this is, uh, Justin and Philip
with Corkum's Towing.

-How you doing, guys?
-Hey.

-Good.
-It's a good number for you

-to keep handy, Marty.
-Yeah. Yeah.

You gonna be able
to pick that bad boy up?

We're gonna give it
our best shot.

That's all we can ask.

This is real important to us
as to what's underneath that.

GARY:
And that's it.

If Professor Gaspani is right,

when this cone is rolled over,

we should be finding
something medieval.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
In light of the research

of Italian
archeoastronomy expert

Professor Adriano Gaspani,
who believes that members

of the Templar Order
created Nolan's Cross

some eight centuries ago,

Marty has secured
special permission

from fellow landowner Tom Nolan

to lift Cone E in order
to search for clues

that might help prove

that this incredible
theory is true.

If we can get it straight up,

-that's the ideal situation.
-Right.

TOM:
You know, so we don't
disturb what might be

underneath it.

-Yeah.
-MARTY: All right.

Proceed.

♪ ♪

MARTY:
Cone E has never been moved,
to our understanding.

If we pick it directly up
and then get an expert

like Dr. Ian Spooner
to look underneath it...

...I believe we have
a really good chance

of finding organic material.

-Oh!
-GARY: Ooh!

Might need
another strap, I think.

MARTY:
Then we can analyze the samples

and be definitive

as to whether it was placed
by people or by the glaciers.

If there's something
man-made under it,

then that's even
more definitive.

I want to see
what's under that stone.

GARY:
A little bit of history here.

TOM:
Yeah.

I think she's coming this time.

GARY:
It's a long time since
that boulder's been moved.

It's like an iceberg.
Most of it was underground.

PHILIP:
Yeah.

There it is.

GARY:
There we go.
Billy is gonna secure it.

All right.
You ready to rock and roll?

Yep.

It's-- You can see
there's a very thin

cover of the dark material.

Then we get right down
into what looks to me

like just C horizon.

There's nothing really obvious.

Nothing right now jumps out.

I'm going swimming.

I mean, there's--
there are leaves and stuff

directly at the bottom of it.

And just a sample is
really all I need.

MARTY:
Yeah. It can't hurt, right?

IAN:
No, no, no, no.

Especially if you found a stick.

MARTY:
I like this rock.

There's something
weird about it.

IAN:
Yeah, we'll take a look at it.

Okay.

Well, I've done
my amateur investigation.

I think you got what you need.

IAN:
Yep.

What's that look like to you?

SCOTT:
That is different.

IAN:
Yeah. It's a conglomerate,
but it's sort of odd.

MARTY:
It is odd, isn't it?

I mean, I'll tell you
what I'm hoping...

that that's cement.

Huh. Found cement.
That's as good as metal.

MARTY:
That'd be nice.

MARTY:
It is odd, isn't it?

I mean, I'll tell you
what I'm hoping.

That that's cement.

TOM:
Yeah. (chuckles)

SCOTT:
It seems like it's formed around

-or against something here.
-Yeah. Yeah, it does.

NARRATOR:
After lifting Cone E,
which is the bottom boulder

in the megalithic
formation on Oak Island

known as Nolan's Cross,

Marty Lagina

and members of the team
may have just uncovered

an important clue.

MARTY:
I mean, if that's cement,

then we found something.
(chuckles)

Well, yeah.

-Yeah.
-SCOTT: It's not something

I expected to see under there.

TOM:
It's worth getting tested,
for sure.

-MARTY: Oh, yeah. We will.
-Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you, sir.

MARTY:
I'd really like this to be
as scientific as possible.

I don't want any unknowns.
Let's get to the bottom of this.

Let's find out when this thing
was initially put in place.

All right. I think we're
all done here for now.

Well done to these gentlemen.

We still have some
more data to look at.

Let's back off
so they can do this safely.

-TOM: Okay.
-MARTY: Let's go.

NARRATOR:
While search operations continue

on Oak Island...

...nearly 3,400 miles
to the east

on the island
of Bornholm in Denmark...

-ALEX: Hello.
-ERLING: Hello.

-How are you?
-I'm fine, thanks.

-NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina...
-Nice to meet you.

...along with other
members of the team,

have arrived at Nylars Church...

Very nice.

NARRATOR:
...a Christian house of worship

that is believed to have been
constructed by members

of the Knights Templar
in the 12th century.

Very welcome
to this island of Bornholm.

-DOUG: Thank you.
-RICK: Thank you.

I-I'm so impressed to see
all you experts coming here.

-(laughter)
-That's a high compliment
indeed.

NARRATOR:
Here, they are meeting

with author, journalist
and documentary filmmaker

Erling Haagensen.

ERLING:
There were two reasons why

the-the Knights Templar
came to this island.

One of them was that they had

family relations from old time,
and then,

they wanted to make
an experiment to find out

how far it was
to go around the world

sailing, uh, east-west.

-Hmm.
-Okay. Interesting.

NARRATOR:
According to Erling's research,

Nylars Church was one of
the locations in Scandinavia

where members
of the Viking culture

helped the Templars
prepare to transport

their sacred treasures
across the Atlantic Ocean

in order to hide them
on Oak Island

approximately
eight centuries ago.

I'd love to see the church.

I would love to show you.

-After you, sir.
-DOUG: Lead the way, sir.

Okay, thank you.

RICK:
We're chasing
an Old World treasure,

Old World mystery
that travels from east to west.

It's beautiful.

RICK:
So, now we are in the land

of the Norse.

We hope to make
some direct connections

between the Norse
and the Templars.

And one of the ways
in which to do that

might be at this very church.

-ALEX: Oh, look at these.
-Oh, wow.

Wow.

CORJAN:
Oh, wow,

are these actual rune stones?

ERLINE:
They are rune stones,

and they were found here
close to the church

and then put
into the church later.

-CORJAN: Amazing.
-Yeah.

ERLING:
Rune stones on this island,
they are all connected

-to Christianity.
-Okay.

NARRATOR:
Dating back to as early
as the fourth century,

the Norse culture carved symbols
known as runes

into raised stones and boulders

throughout Scandinavia
and beyond

for various
commemorative purposes

such as honoring the dead,
religious worship

and to mark new territory.

RICK:
Look at how many of those runes

match the 90 Foot Stone.

Quite a few on there, actually.

Oh, wow.

NARRATOR:
Runes found

at a believed Templar church
in Denmark,

matching symbols reportedly
carved on the 90 Foot Stone

which was discovered
in the Money Pit back in 1804?

First documented by members
of the Onslow Company,

the 90 Foot Stone,
which was lost

in the early 20th century,

was described
as Swedish porphyry,

which is a type of igneous rock
with an olive-green color.

And upon its removal
from the Money Pit,

seawater began
flooding the shaft,

which has thwarted everyone
since then--

including the Laginas--
when attempts have been made

to dig below that depth
for whatever

may lie buried in the area.

DOUG:
I've got a photo of that
with me.

RICK:
Do you see many, Doug?

I see one.

DOUG:
The cross.

RICK:
Yep.

-CORJAN: The arrow.
-PETER: The arrow.

-CORJAN: Yep.
-RICK: Yeah.

-RICK: The dots.
-DOUG: Yeah.

ALEX:
Oh, wow.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that Rick Lagina
and members of the team

found critical clues
at Nylars Church

on the island of Bornholm

that may help identify

just who placed
the 90 Foot Stone

in the Money Pit?

This is a strange symbol here.

DOUG:
Yeah, the illustration certainly

looks like the shape
of a Templar cross.

And that's what might be
reflected right there.

If you recall, the description
of the 90 Foot Stone

is very interesting, also,
because it says,

"Swedish porphyry,
olive-green tinge."

It's close.

They come close.

Look at that stone right there.

The early descriptions
of the 90 Foot Stone

c-certainly fits what
we're seeing here at Nylars.

What it says to me is,

"Within these runes
might be a connection

to help us understand
the Oak Island mystery."

It's a remarkable journey

but it continues to get
even more remarkable.

So, I just want
to say thank you.

Thank you, all of you.
Thank you so much.

-DOUG: Thank you.
-ALEX: Thank you.

DOUG:
Hey, Jeanne.

JEANNE:
Oh, welcome to Madsebakke.

Ah, thank you. Glad to be here.

NARRATOR:
On the island of Bornholm
in Denmark,

Rick Lagina,
along with other members

of the Oak Island team,

are meeting
with local researcher

and historian Jeanne Cordua
at a site known as Madsebakke,

a massive rock face
that features

hundreds of ancient carvings
known as petroglyphs.

JEANNE:
So,

what we are going to see
is about 3,000 years old,

dating back
to the Scandinavian Bronze Age.

-ALEX: Wow.
-DOUG: What is the, uh,

archaeological thought
for these carvings?

Were they made
by the people of Bornholm?

JEANNE: I am sure they were made
by the local people.

And the rock carvings...

(exhales)
...they were sacred.

NARRATOR:
While historians believe

that many of the petroglyphs
at Madsebakke

were created
for religious purposes

as much as 3,500 years ago,

some of the carvings are thought
to depict navigational tools

and were created to align
with stars in the night sky.

It is researcher
Corjan Mol's belief

that between the 12th
and 13th centuries,

members of the Viking culture
and the Knights Templar

may have studied
these very carvings

in order to journey across
the Atlantic Ocean together

in order to hide sacred
treasures on Oak Island.

And the large one
you're going to see up here,

well, you can call it
a-a compass from the Bronze Age.

You will find north.

And it points to, uh, sunrise

at winter solstice
and sunset at winter solstice.

Norse mariners,
they could, of course,

use this, uh, knowledge,

so that they could travel
these immense distances.

They had some, uh, devices.

It's quite transparent,
translucent.

DOUG:
The, uh, sunstone.

-Yeah, sunstone. Yes, indeed.
-Sunstone.

NARRATOR:
According to 13th-century
Icelandic records,

a sunstone
is a translucent mineral block

that Viking mariners used

in order to navigate
on the high seas,

as it would allow them
to track the sun

through fog or overcast weather.

JEANNE:
I think you should go over here

to look at the-the large
wheel cross

with the cup marks around it
and the four little dots,

uh, signifying sunrise
and sunset at the solstices.

It's also like a-a Bronze Age
compass, if you want.

-So, uh, please.
-ALEX/PETER: Okay.

Oh, is this it?

PETER:
Yeah.

-It's impressive.
-CORJAN: Oh, wow. Look at that.

ALEX:
Wow. That is exactly
what we've been seeing.

RICK:
Mm-hmm.

PETER:
Pretty identical.

If that isn't
a four-dot cross...

(chuckles):
3,000 years old.

NARRATOR:
Could the team be correct

that this Bronze Age petroglyph
of an astronomical compass

might also represent
a four-dot cross,

a symbol that they have
not only seen

at numerous Templar strongholds
across Europe

but also on
the so-called H+O Stone

that was found on Oak Island
back in the 1920s?

CORJAN: You know,
I think the puzzle just got

more complicated in some way,
because we have a new use

for the four-dot cross, right?

-As a compass.
-Mm.

This is so old.

RICK:
It would make the four-dot cross

pre-Christianity.

I think, because we find

the four-dot cross
representation everywhere

here in the Old World,

I think it needs more study.

What cultures assimilated it?

Were they specific
to certain societies

or organizations
like the Templars?

-A lot more study.
-There is, also,

little deep potholes
that should depict,

perhaps, the Hyades,

part of the constellation
of Orion.

DOUG:
That looks like
five stone piles

in the shape of the Hyades.

NARRATOR:
Earlier this year,

Italian archaeoastronomer
Adriano Gaspani

shared research
with the team suggesting

that the five stone piles,
or cairns,

which were discovered
on Oak Island in the 1960s

were created
according to alignments

with a star cluster
known as Hyades

by members of the Templar Order
in the 13 century.

I have the picture here
of the stone cairns.

I'd say it's almost identical.

-CORJAN: That's just uncanny.
-ALEX: Looks pretty close.
-PETER: Looks pretty identical.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the team

has just found the inspiration

for that megalithic formation
more than 3,400 miles away

at Madsebakke?

It's a cross-fertilization
of cultures, right?

Using this old knowledge.

In that sense, this is--
this is a fantastic place

where a lot of lines
come together, literally.

RICK:
Well, it's cross-cultural
assimilation

and the Templars were

one of the most astute
at doing that.

We just have to figure out
the relationship.

-Yeah.
-Yeah.
-Indeed.

Thank you for showing us
this site.

-PETER: Amazing.
-RICK: Thank you very much.

Thank you.
It's a lifelong study.

You can never stop.

-RICK: Yeah.
-ALEX: Yeah.
-PETER: Yes.

RICK:
It's quite remarkable.

NARRATOR:
The following morning...

MARTY:
Okay. Where are we at?

We're about to get
kicked off here?

-Putting down the first core
right now, I think.
-I like it.

NARRATOR:
...while the core-drilling
operation continues

in the Money Pit area
on Oak Island...

-ANE JEPSEN NYBORG: Hello.
-RICK: Good morning.

-ANE: Good morning.
-Hi.
-How are you?

You are very welcome.

NARRATOR:
...Rick Lagina and the team

have traveled
to Kerteminde, Denmark

where they are meeting

with museum curator
Ane Jepsen Nyborg

at the historic
Ladby Viking Museum.

You are all very welcome
to the Ladby Viking Museum.

I've heard that you've
also brought something

for me to look at.
Is that right?

DOUG:
We have, indeed.

And we're hoping that maybe
you can enlighten us.

Shall we go and have
a look at it?

-Surely.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
First established in 1937,

the Ladby Viking Museum

is located on the burial site
of the King of Ladby,

who died in 925 AD,

and was buried within
a 70-foot-long Viking ship.

ANE:
So, do move in, guys.

This is gonna be
very, very small.

NARRATOR:
In the hopes of proving
more potential connections

between the Vikings
and the Oak Island mystery,

Rick and Doug
have brought a picture

of a believed
medieval crossbow bolt

that was found
on Oak Island back in the 1960s

by the late Robert Dunfield.

RICK:
As it turns out, we have
something we would like to show

that's currently being
conserved and tested.

-So, Doug, I believe you
have a picture of it.
-I do.

RICK:
It's a real, uh,
interesting item

and may have a story to tell.

That's the best photo
I have of it.

ANE:
Wow!

Now we're talking.

This is very interesting to me

because this is
the type of artifact

that I could find tomorrow

in-in an archaeological dig
around here.

in-in an archaeological dig
around here.

ANE: This is the type
of artifact that I could

find tomorrow in an
archaeological dig around here

and that could date
from the Vikings.

Or it could even date from
the early medieval period.

-Perfect.
-Wow.

NARRATOR: At the Ladby Viking
Museum in Kerteminde, Denmark,

museum curator Ane Jepsen Nyborg

has just given her assessment
that an iron arrowhead,

which was found on Oak Island
nearly 60 years ago,

could be of Viking origin.

ANE:
This is very
quintessentially the way

that they made these artifacts
in the Viking age.

-Wow.
-And, fortunately,

I have a replica here.

We have here an artifact
which quintessentially

looks very, very much like
what we see here on the picture.

Right.

ANE:
This is an arrowhead

for what we would call
a long bow.

Okay.

ANE:
So, these types of arrowheads,

they come in around
the beginning of the Viking age,

so we're talking about 800
we see this particular point.

And then it goes on
throughout the Viking age

and stops somewhere
around the middle

of the medieval period.

So, this is pre-1300.

-DOUG: That is really cool.
-Yeah.

So, this could have
been used through the 1200s?

-It could, yes. Yeah.
-Wow.

ANE:
So, the Vikings
were very keen archers,

both in war times
and for hunting.

So, this to me
is absolutely something

that belongs to a Nordic

or a Norse, uh,
sort of way of doing it.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
If Ane's assessment

of this arrowhead is correct,

could that help explain

who created the megalithic
structures on the island

such as the stone piles
on Lot 15

and Nolan's Cross,
which are believed

to date back
to approximately 1200 AD?

Would it account for the other
artifacts the team has found,

which have been scientifically
traced to Scandinavia?

And finally,
does it offer more evidence

to support
Dr. Doug Symons' theory

that Vikings assisted
members of the Knights Templar

in transporting
their sacred treasures

across the Atlantic Ocean
to Oak Island

as much as 800 years ago?

RICK:
So, Ane, we're always trying

to put X through things, right?

Yeah.

We have a list
of "usual suspects"

for the activities on the island
regarding the mystery.

Yeah.

So, we just have to take
this information back

-and build on that.
-Yeah, absolutely.

-RICK: So, thank you.
-ANE: You're very welcome.

NARRATOR:
As the search for clues
continues in Europe...

We're here to look
at the conglomerate

that you found under
the Cone E boulder

-that was lifted yesterday.
-Yep.

NARRATOR: ...back on Oak Island,
Marty Lagina

and geologist Terry Matheson

meet with other members
of the team in the laboratory

in order to further analyze
the cement-like substance

that was discovered
beneath Cone E

of Nolan's Cross
just one day ago.

MARTY:
I got in there,
'cause I thought I'm not gonna

have this cone moved and not
jump down there myself.

So, I did.

Now, what is that likely,
geologically?

And is it likely
to be found on Oak Island?

-Please, have a look.
-TERRY: Okay.

What I think I'm looking at
there, then, is,

it would seem to be, well...

I have smaller pieces if
you want to look at, at the--

Oh. Well, definitely, yes.
Absolutely.

-Could I, please?
-There you go.

Thank you.

Okay. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, looks like--
Oh, there we go. Okay.

It could be
a-a hardened piece of clay

but I see some chunks of rock
sticking out.

Okay.

Would it happen normally
under a boulder?

TERRY:
Oh, no.

I don't know how it would find
its way under a boulder.

-What is it made out of, Emma?
-So I do have a scan of it.

NARRATOR:
Earlier this morning,

archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

scanned the mysterious substance

using an X-ray
diffraction device-- or XRD--

which uses X-rays to determine

the chemical composition and
physical properties of minerals.

So, majority is,
there's a lot of quartz in it,

which is not surprising.

There's a lot of albite,
muscovite.

There's chlorite serpentine,
which again,

is another form of chlorite.

I-I see a lot of clay-esque
type of material.

EMMA:
Yep. Yep.

I'm not seeing anything
too unusual

-with the clay composition.
-Okay.

LAIRD:
So, I was photographing
the sample

at kind of a microscopic level.

I noticed that there's
a hair embedded in it.

-MARTY: This is it?
-LAIRD: It is.

Uh, okay. Wow.

-That is a hair
embedded in this rock?
-Yes.

-Would you explain that to me?
-I have no idea. It's in it--

-Have you ever
seen that before?
-(chuckling): No.

-Have you ever seen that before?
-I've never seen that before.

-Have you ever seen that before?
-I've never seen that before.

MARTY:
Wow, that is really,
really strange.

MARTY: There's a hair embedded
in this rock?

LAIRD: Yes.

-Have you ever seen that before?
-(chuckling): No.

-Have you ever seen that before?
-I've never seen that before.

MARTY:
Wow, that is really,
really strange.

JACK:
Wow.

NARRATOR:
In the Oak Island Laboratory,

archaeologist Laird Niven

has just revealed
that hair of some kind

has been found embedded

within the cement-like substance

that was discovered
beneath a boulder

known as Cone E
in Nolan's Cross.

That doesn't happen naturally,
right?

No, that's impossible.

JACK:
But then... I'm just trying

to figure out how this made
its way underneath the boulder.

A 60-ton boulder.

MARTY:
I don't want any unknowns.

Now, we have some evidence
that Cone E was placed.

But, who did it?

Maybe, finally,
we're going to figure that out.

Well, this is astounding.

This is... at this point,
inexplicable.

Yes.

MARTY:
Okay.

It's an enigma
that I can't explain.

It's like every bloody else
thing here, you know?

It's odd, it's weird,
it's inexplicable,

at the present.

And we arrive at the same place.

We need more data.
But you know what?

It could be very meaningful.

Laird doesn't know what it is.

Terry doesn't know what it is.

And so I'm putting that in

the just "I don't know
what that is" category

for right now.

And so, we need to test it

because it's
definitely anomalous.

Can we do a DNA test?

-SEM would be good.
-Yeah.

EMMA:
Scanning electron microscope.

-Okay.
-Yeah.

MARTY: I don't think every rock
here does mean something.

But I believe,
I really do believe

this one is super important.

We need to get it tested
and see what it means.

Could this actually
be from a human?

That's what we're
trying to figure out.

I just can't wait to see
what my brother says.

Right.

Beyond that,
thank you guys very much.

Uh, I think we're done
for today. Let's go.

JACK:
Great job, Laird.

NARRATOR:
When they began their quest
more than a decade ago,

Rick and Marty Lagina
vowed to leave no stone unturned

in order to solve
the Oak Island mystery.

Now, as they, and their team,

continue that disciplined
approach on the island,

as well as across Europe,

just what might
they uncover next?

And just how might it change
our understanding

about the true history
of North America?

Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...

RICK:
We're trying to make
a connection

between the Norse
and the Templars.

DOUG:
We found a piece of wood

in our swamp,
very much like this.

GUIDE:
This Viking ship could travel

to Oak Island.

FIONA: Look what popped out.
What is that?

MARTY:
Somebody on Lot 5 was deep

in the Money Pit
based on this evidence.

DOUG:
This is a copper piece
from Oak Island,

and here's that symbol
next to a cross.

RICK:
It's remarkable.

This cave might relate
to Oak Island.

-GUIDE: This is it.
-ALEX: Wow, look at this.

RICK:
We've seen that before.

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