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Previously on The Curse of Oak Island.

In order to dig in the money pit, we have to shut off all the flood tunnels.

And maybe this dye test will lead us in that direction.

You can see, it looks like grain coming out of there.

We're here in the south of France, trying to dig back to find the roots of

this. If you were going to look for the treasure of the Knights Temple, I would

stop in Oak Island.

Ties to Oak Island are here, supposedly.

It all comes together in Scotland.

You need to come. Get thee to Scotland.

There is an island in the North Atlantic where men have been looking for treasure

for more than 200 years.

So far, they've uncovered booby-trapped flood tunnels, carved stones with

strange symbols, 17th century Spanish coins, and evidence

of a wooden vault covered in concrete.

Six men have even lost their lives trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure

can be found.

Okay, let's do this.

Jack, you going in? Sure, Rick. Yeah. Who's getting wet?

Jack volunteered.

Ever since finding evidence of a mysterious wooden vault buried deep

within the money pit, treasure hunter Rick Lagina is determined to find an

efficient way of getting to it. Charles, here, take this.

Because the object is buried more than 140 feet below ground and surrounded by

what are believed to be a network of booby-trapped flood tunnels, Rick

believes the key to shutting off the water and getting to the money pit might

be found hidden in the Oak Island swamp.

I should have worn shoes. Oh, God.

Something just floated up in between my toes. It's probably an eel.

Told you it was going to be over your head. Yeah, I know, right?

Due to environmental regulations, the water from the swamp cannot be pumped

into the nearby ocean, so the team will need to divert it several hundred yards

away to the western side of the island.

That's good. That's good.

That should do it. That'll work.

Because there is a widespread belief that the triangle-shaped swamp is man

-made, Many Oak Island researchers believe that everything from a

sophisticated hydraulic system to a vast underground treasure vault might lie

buried under four and a half acres of brackish water and muck.

Okay, good job.

Just don't drink any of that.

Okay,

good job, Jack.

Dave, you're up. Crank it. Let's go.

When Rick and his partners tried to drain the swamp one year ago, they found

that their efforts were undermined by a series of natural springs that put water

back in the swamp almost as fast as they could pump it out. This year, Rick will

be using a larger and more powerful pumping system. He will also be setting

up additional pumping stations at two more strategic points and running the

pumps for a longer period of time.

We need to solve this. And I've said it before and I'll say it again. I think

there's answers to be gained in the swamp and they're not going to come

easy. But it has to be done and it will be done.

I'm going to go check the road.

If all goes according to plan, Rick Lagina is confident that the swamp

should be fully drained in just a few days.

There we go.

Time enough for him to travel some 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to

Scotland, where he and other members of the team have been invited to join Marty

and Marty's son Alex, who have been on a fact-finding mission of their own.

Gentlemen, welcome to Scotland. This is our driver, Jack.

Jack, why are we driving on the wrong side of the road?

It is the right side of the road, actually.

During their recent trip to southern France, Marty Lagina and his son Alex

met with author and researcher Kathleen McGowan, who told of incredible

connections linking Oak Island with legends concerning the Knights Templar

and the possibility that what lies buried on the island could be priceless

religious objects dating back thousands of years.

Now in Scotland.

Marty and Alex, along with Rick, Dave Blankenship, and island historian

Charles Barkhouse, are traveling to Saltcoats, a small seaport town on the

western coast and one of the oldest villages in Great Britain.

Looks like we're here. I see the ocean.

Here at Saltcoats, Kathleen McGowan has arranged for Rick, Marty and the team

to meet with Alan Butler, a prolific English author who has done extensive

research on the Knights Templar and the various myths and stories connected to

them. Welcome to Scotland.

You might want to know why we brought you to a rainy part of Scotland like

this in connection with that place.

Oak Island so far away across this ocean.

But I think in order to explain it, I need to take you somewhere where we can

get a better view of the surrounding area.

OK.

I take it this is a lovely day here.

Oh, it's nice.

Yeah.

If you look around, you can see that this is a really good natural harbour.

It's particularly important because it's shielded by another part of the mainland

of Scotland and also by the islands.

It was a place where the French would never have dared to come.

According to McGowan and Butler, the Cathars, a group of early Christians who

traced their origins back to the days of Jesus...

placed a number of sacred objects, including the Ark of the Covenant and

the Holy Grail, into the hands of the Knights Templar, who in turn hid the

objects at various locations in France before taking them here to Saltcoats.

Why the Templars see this place as refuge and not England?

The most famous of the Scottish kings, Robert the Bruce, he had killed one of

his opponents on the steps of a church altar.

That made the Pope quite cross.

So he excommunicated Robert the Bruce and the whole of Scotland.

And that just happened to coincide with a time when the Templars were made

illegal.

According to legend, on Friday the 13th, 1307, King Philip IV of France and Pope

Clement V conspired to have the Templars arrested and executed on charges of

heresy. Although it is believed by some researchers that King Philip IV really

persecuted the Templars because he had fallen into debt with them and wanted to

confiscate their great wealth.

By 1312, the Knights Templar were nearly disbanded, but not before 18 ships.

believed to be carrying a precious cargo of religious artifacts, left La

Rochelle, France, en route to Scotland.

So the treasure of the Cathars and the Templars comes into this harbor that's

very, very protected, and they could have done it in a very secretive way.

And these treasures, we're talking about things like the Ark of the Covenant, the

tables of Solomon, the Holy Grail, could only be held on sacred ground. So they

would have taken the treasure from here.

to a sacred place, and that would be Kilwinning Abbey, and that's where we're

going to go next.

Okay.

Did the Knights Templar really bring priceless treasures, including the Ark

of the Covenant and the Holy Grail, to Scotland for safekeeping?

And if so, was it to prepare for an even greater journey, one that would take

these sacred religious artifacts across the Atlantic Ocean to Oak Island?

When I sit back and think about these theories, honestly, they're all far

-fetched, and generally, they're all credible.

They're both.

So we listen, and we're going to look.

Okay. Let's go.

Back on Oak Island, as the swamp continues to drain.

Researcher Jack Begley is looking for a way to get to the bottom of the money

pit without breaching one of the supposed booby trap flood tunnels.

With him is veteran treasure hunter Dan Blagenship, whose nearly 50 years of

treasure hunting while living on the island makes him an invaluable human

resource.

Jack is curious about a strange clearing known as the bald spot.

a mysterious patch of land on the island where trees inexplicably don't seem to

grow. I really like this spot already because it's above high tide line and

it's right off the boulderless beach.

We have to figure this all out before we get the claw digger in here.

All I need to do is to...

try and help you out and tell you what I think is there, and then, you know, take

it from there.

If we're going to be digging here, how deep do you think this spot is? It's

hard to say.

Well, I'll just watch. I've never seen dowsing before. I'm really interested.

To see if there are chambers or flood tunnels deep underground, Dan

Blankenship is using an unconventional and fairly controversial method,

dowsing. The ground condition is perfect for dowsing.

Wet. Good.

Also referred to as divining, dowsing dates back to the 15th century and

entails walking in a straight line while holding two L-shaped wooden or metal

rods parallel to the ground.

If the rods cross without any manipulation, it may be an indication

that a water source or a tunnel may lie hidden down below.

Now, I'm gripping them tight.

On purpose.

Okay, now they come by themselves.

You straighten them out.

When you see the rods cross, it's an attraction of something that's making

the rods cross. And in all probability, it's a tunnel.

Although not scientifically proven, dowsing has actually been employed for

years in the well drilling and energy industries.

It was by this method, back in 1969, that Dan Blankenship became convinced he

had found a location that might provide an alternate means of reaching the money

pit.

10X.

He digs down 235 feet and he finds this chamber underground.

And best of my knowledge, all he used was dowsing, which is something I don't

believe in.

So then you're left with the conclusion that I guess he was either incredibly

lucky.

Or perhaps dozing works.

There's a tunnel here, Jack. Saw that.

If Dan Blankenship did just locate a tunnel, could it be one of the so-called

flood tunnels connected to the money pit?

I suspect there'd be another tunnel coming out of here. I want to see

whether I can pick that up.

Yeah, I did.

Already I picked it up.

Here's the cross tunnel I was telling you about. I'm saying it's here for the

only reason that it's adjacent to two cross tunnels.

So this is the hottest place, I would say.

That's what I like to hear, Dan. That's what I like to hear.

Nearly 3,000 miles away, Rick, Marty, and Alex Lagina, along with Dave

Blankenship and Charles Barkhouse, arrive with researchers Kathleen McGowan

and Alan Butler at Kilwinning Abbey, considered by some to be among the most

sacred sites in Scotland.

This is a monastery built by a group of monks called the Turinensians.

You know, some monks pray, some monks farm.

These guys were builders.

Founded in Tiron, France in 1109, the Tironensian order adhered strictly to

what was known as the rule of Saint Benedict, which allowed little more than

prayer and work.

Over the years, the monks developed an astounding knowledge of architecture and

engineering, which in turn led to the construction of more than 100 sacred

abbeys and priories across France, England, Ireland, Wales, and

Scotland within a five-year period.

But the Tironensians were not only known for their ability to build structures

above ground, they were also experts at building tunnel systems, such as the one

believed to be at Roslyn Chapel in Scotland, which connects the chapel to a

nearby castle.

Now there's a strong tradition that the Ark came here to kill winning.

But is there any reason you think it's here in Kilwinning, aside from just the

fact that it would be a good spot for it?

Yeah, I'm absolutely certain that they would have kept it here, as much as

anything else, because it was so close to the coast.

And they knew that there would come a time when they had to get it out very

quickly. The Templars were very forward-looking people. If they wanted

to do something, they went to see the people who were already doing that

thing. They needed to come to people who could build, and those people were the

Tyranensians.

Kathleen McGowan and Alan Butler are among those who believe that members of

the Knights Templar brought their treasures, including the Ark of the

Covenant, here to Kilwinning Abbey after fleeing from France in 1312.

They also believed the Templars, and later the Freemasons, forged a secret

alliance with Tyranensian monks.

to hide these sacred objects on Oak Island.

Freemasonry took over to a great extent from the Templars in carrying that

message forward, and Freemasonry has been really important on Oak Island. I'm

sure that that will ultimately lead to the finding of the treasure.

I came away thinking, yes, there's a good chance there were some amazing

things that were spirited away with the fall of the Knights Templar. And

there's... Credible case made that they could have gone to Scotland. It makes

sense politically at the time, but we're trying to connect the dots back to Oak

Island. The next port of call to me, one of the most amazing places in the world,

is Rosslyn Chapel, and Kathleen's going to take you there. Great. Great.

Perfect.

While Rick, Marty, and the other members of their team are in Scotland,

tracing the possible connections between the Knights Templar and Oak Island.

This is the bald spot, Drake.

Craig Tester, his son Drake, and stepson Jack Begley are at the mysterious area

on the island known as the bald spot.

See how there's no living trees in this wide open area?

They are preparing to excavate where Dan Blankenship believes one of the island's

legendary flood tunnels runs underground.

So that's why we want to go ahead and excavate down and see if there's any

rooms or tunnels just 10, 12 feet down.

This area has also been of interest to Oak Island treasure hunters because it

is next to what is known as the boulderless beach.

The only stretch of beach on the island where all rocks and boulders appear to

have been cleared away.

Could it be hiding another flood system, like the one found in 1850 at Smith's

Cove? Or does Dan want to dig first?

Right where this stump is.

It has a tunnel leading straight over to where that other crossroads point is,

about in the middle of this bald spot.

Here he comes.

In order to see if Dan Blankenship's theory is correct, Craig Tester has

hired an excavator.

which can dig down approximately 12 feet.

Well the place we want to try digging is that stump right there.

With this dig, what we're really hoping to find is the top of a tunnel or a

room. It's going to be cribbed or have wood supporting it.

We're about halfway there, we think.

Let's take a look.

Holy camoly.

I'm not seeing any cribbing yet. No, me neither.

You might be able to get another foot or so.

Although the excavator is approaching its maximum depth of 12 feet, and as yet

there is no sign of a tunnel, a tunnel might still exist.

Dowsing, while believed to be effective at finding sources of water underground,

is not generally effective at calculating depth.

In other words, a flood tunnel may exist underground but may lie farther down

than the excavator can reach.

How deep do you think we are now?

I think we're about 12 feet. 12 feet.

That's as deep as this goes.

Yeah.

Let's go see if we can get it.

Okay.

Let's see how it's doing.

No wood, though.

We're not seeing anything here, so we'll move to another location.

Okay.

As digging and pumping activities continue on Oak Island, Rick, Marty and

the other members of their team are looking for important clues in one of

the most mysterious buildings in Scotland,

Roslyn Chapel.

Look at that.

Absolutely magnificent.

Yeah, that is beautiful.

Boy, did they create some magnificent things in stone at Roslyn Chapel.

It's clearly ornate.

It's beautiful. It's inspiring.

Roslyn Chapel was designed and commissioned by William Sinclair, a

powerful member of a clan with ties to the Knights Templar.

It was built by Freemasons in approximately 1456.

Wow.

Amazing.

Originally designed to be a Catholic church, many researchers believe the

strange carvings on the walls and ceilings of the chapel contain numerous

clues that could be instrumental in solving the Oak Island mystery.

We're particularly interested in North American influence in the chapel, and

that's simply because we've come looking for a connection to Oak Island in North

America that perhaps referencing the Sinclair voyage, that there may have

been some interaction or some purpose for that voyage or other voyages to the

New World. The legend is that Scottish knights went to the New World before

Columbus.

There are those who believe that in 1398, nearly a century before

Christopher Columbus set sail to the Americas, William Sinclair's

grandfather, Prince Henry Sinclair, sailed across the ocean from Scotland to

what would become known as Nova Scotia, or New Scotland.

He was accompanied on his journey by members of the Knights Templar, and

their goal was to hide not only the vast Templar treasure, but sacred religious

artifacts like the Ark of the Covenant, the golden menorah of King Solomon, and

the Holy Grail.

One of the theories we've heard is that the Mi'kmaq people,

original people in the Nova Scotia area have some symbols that are like some

found in here.

According to the historical timeline of the Mi'kmaq First Nation tribes people

of Nova Scotia, contact with Europeans was made in 1398.

It has been reported that the Mi'kmaq saw Henry Sinclair as a god named

Glooscap and that he taught them new ways of fishing and navigating.

This possible connection between the native peoples of Nova Scotia and the

Knights Templar is made even more convincing when comparing the Templar

battle flag of Henry Sinclair to the ceremonial flag used by the Mi'kmaq.

They are virtually identical.

The legend here is that Prince Henry Sinclair in 1398 sailed to the New

World and brought back with him

And if you look up here, there is what may appear to be maize, or as we have

called it, Indian corn.

This chapel was built well before Christopher Columbus went to America.

Corn?

Could this be the first important clue directly linking Roslyn Chapel to the

Oak Island mystery?

At Roslyn Chapel in Scotland, Rick and Marty Lagina have just been shown stone

carvings of what many believe to be corn.

Corn is a grain that is native to North America.

and could not have been known in this part of the world until after Columbus's

so-called discovery of the New World in 1492.

So how did it come to be incorporated into the architecture of a chapel built

in 1456?

There are those who believe that Prince Henry Sinclair, a member of the Knights

Templar, visited North America in 1398, nearly 100 years before Columbus.

and that the inclusion of corn in the design of the chapel serves as an

important clue, directly linking Sinclair to the Oak Island mystery.

On a recent visit to Oak Island, Swedish researcher Daniel Ronsdam suggested that

the stone slab found in the money pit contains secret instructions for

stopping the ocean water that floods the pit by using something as simple as

dried corn.

Could William Sinclair have intended these carvings to serve as a means of

instructing future generations of Templars on how to retrieve their sacred

treasure stash?

Honestly, it looks like you can see the little corn kernels. Yes.

There are other carvings, such as the aloe vera and trillium, which again is a

North American plant.

And interestingly, our botanist believed that the trillium was trillium.

We have to believe that the people who carved this chapel were far-traveled.

Corn is a New World crop, and one of the key things is that there appears to be a

carving of a trillium. Well, trilliums would have been unknown to the people

who built that chapel had they not been to North America.

People come to this chapel for many different reasons and with many

different beliefs, and we respect all the different beliefs that people come

with. So we can't say definitively Prince Henry didn't sail to the New

World, and that's part of the magic and mystery of the place.

We're very used to non-definitive answers.

We're experts in non-definitive answers.

Was it inspiring and was it quite an amazing place to visit? Yes, it was.

But as it regards this search, I don't know.

So, what do you guys think of Rosslyn?

I need time to digest it all. I really do. It's overwhelming.

You've got a lot of dot to connect.

Sensory overload.

We need to discuss all this and let it gel. I mean, it's spectacular.

Our friend Alan Butler has been working all day to put together a presentation

for you guys. So if you're ready, we can go have a drink and meet with Alan.

Well, we definitely need a drink.

Sounds like a great idea.

There's a wonderful bar called The Grail down the street. Maybe we should go

there. We seek The Grail. We seek The Grail.

Let's go.

Back on Oak Island, treasure hunters Craig Tester and Jack Begley are about

to dig a second test hole at the area known as the Bald Spot, so named because

large trees have never been known to grow there.

After dowsing the area, Dan Blankenship believes that one of the reasons for the

scarce vegetation might be that one of the man-made flood tunnels that feeds

ocean water into the money pit could lie underground.

Where else was Dan talking about?

It was over, he put some sticks in the ground, and there's like a crossroads.

He thinks that the tunnels that are here, they crisscross, but they're not

at the same level.

He thought that that was going to be the highest one, and this was the other hot

spot he had, and pretty much right in the center of all just these sticks.

This was the center of it? Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, I like this.

from the standpoint purely of the bald spot it's right almost in the very

center yeah smack them okay good place to start right here that

stick is the center of the hole yeah yeah correct

i'm

still enthusiastic about this area but we don't have a good idea how deep these

rooms or tunnels might be

If it's 10 feet, we'll hit it. If it's 15 feet, we're not going to hit it.

Take a look.

Wow. Wow.

At the strange treeless area on Oak Island known as the bald spot, Craig

Tester and Jack Begley are hoping to unearth one of the island's possible

booby-trapped flood tunnels.

Let's see how it's doing.

Wow.

Probably seven or eight feet.

Yeah, like halfway there.

This one's been going pretty good.

No wood, though.

Yeah, a lot of boulders.

Unfortunately, the excavator they are using can only reach a depth of 12 feet.

and there is no telling how deep the flood tunnel could be, assuming one

exists.

To test Dan Blankenship's findings, the team will have to return to the site

with larger and more powerful digging equipment.

Well, I think we're at 12 feet here again, and we're not finding anything.

It doesn't mean this isn't the end by any means.

It could be natural that there's no trees here, but it could be that the

tunnels are a little deep.

So we'll look at maybe running seismic, maybe ground-penetrating radar, but

I'm not done here for sure.

I sure hope they're having better luck in Europe than we're having here right

now.

On their last night in Scotland... Rick and Marty Lagina have arranged to have a

final meeting with researchers Kathleen McGowan and Alan Butler.

Time for a pint of bitter.

A pint of something.

Rick, Marty, and the team have spent the last two days investigating the theory

that the treasures of the Knights Templar, including the Ark of the

Covenant and the Holy Grail, could have made their way from France to Scotland

and then possibly to Oak Island.

It's time to connect the dots.

I hope you think it's worthwhile when you heard what we've got to say.

When I read the account of how McGuinness and his friends first started

to dig at the money pit, the first thing they came across, a couple of feet under

the turf, was a platform of flat stones.

Why is this significant?

Well, it's got to do with...

a threshing floor.

Often referred to in the Holy Bible, a threshing floor is a paved surface where

sheaves of crops are spread out and trampled in order to separate the edible

grains from the stalks.

But threshing floors also came to represent spiritual truth and were used

to mark very symbolic religious locations.

One of the greatest examples was the foundation used in building the original

Temple of King Solomon on what is now known as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

You said the dimensions of that were the size of a threshing floor. Well, the

dimensions of the original dig are quite small.

Yeah. That's all they were?

Yeah. Threshing floors were very small.

Were they always circular?

Yes, I've never seen one that wasn't.

While exploring Oak Island in 1795, Daniel McGuinness and his friends

Anthony Vaughn and John Smith found a circular depression 13 feet in diameter

in the ground at the foot of an old oak tree.

Because the area had been frequented by Spanish and Portuguese pirates, they

believed they had found buried treasure.

They began to dig.

And two feet deep, they found a layer of flat paving stones, not found anywhere

else on the island.

Could they have really uncovered a threshing floor?

Meant to mark the location not of pirate treasure, but something of great

spiritual and religious significance.

This rang a bell in my mind, especially in connection with how much interest

Freemasons had shown to Oak Island.

It's got to do with a particular part of Freemasonry which is called the Royal

Arch of Enoch.

In the Old Testament of the Bible, Enoch is the great-grandfather of Noah, the

man who, on God's command, built an ark to ensure humans and animals would

survive the great flood.

According to the so-called legend of Enoch, an ancient series of texts used

by Freemasons, Enoch built a structure deep underground that would ensure that

all the important knowledge and treasures of the world would also

survive.

The first eight chambers Enoch constructed were meant for protection,

but in the ninth and final chamber, he placed a triangle of pure gold known as

the Delta, on which the name of God was written.

he also placed a collection of great scientific and historical knowledge

alongside it time rolls by and along come the children of israel

and king solomon builds the temple they find the entrance to the

enochian chambers some masonic legends say that solomon added

to the treasures that were The Ark of the Covenant ultimately found its way

into the temple.

And when the Knights Templar were eventually able to build their own New

Jerusalem, the Money Pit was a deliberately constructed copy of

Solomon's Temple and the Chambers of Enoch.

In 1804, the Onslow Company excavated what became known as the Money Pit.

and found nine platforms made of oak logs every 10 feet.

At the ninth and final level, the so-called 90-foot stone was discovered,

on which mysterious carved symbols were found.

Could these nine platforms really have been constructed to represent the nine

chambers of King Solomon's temple?

If it's ever possible to say that X marks the spot, I would bet

a modest sum.

that what you're looking for is another shaft with another chamber, which is 996

feet due west of the Money Pit.

I hate to do this to you, Marty, but the prophecies about the New Jerusalem say

that the New Jerusalem will be built on an island of swamp.

X marks the spot.

What you're looking for is another shaft with another chamber.

On their last night in Scotland, Rick, Marty and the other members of their

team have just been told by researcher Alan Butler that a secret chamber that

connects to the money pit can be found 996 feet due west, right on the edge of

the Oak Island swamp.

But how did Alan Butler... arrive at such a precise measurement everything

about the money pit the structure itself with its paving slabs the size of it

lead me to believe the whole design is based on the linear unit of measurement

the megalithic yard equal to 2.72 feet The megalithic yard

is believed by some researchers to have been used as an ancient unit of

measurement in the construction of many mysterious megalithic structures,

including Stonehenge.

In later years, the Freemasons adopted this unit of measurement in the building

of other, often sacred sites, including Roslyn Chapel.

We know the gap between Rosslyn Chapel and Rosslyn Castle is 366 megalithic

yards. That is equivalent to 996 feet.

And I think that is the situation at Oak Island.

So if we look at what the Templars are doing, creating a new Jerusalem using

the Enochian model, there would be a chamber that is 366 megalithic yards

away.

The other end of the tunnel is at a fixed compass point from the origin,

which makes me think it's more likely it would be due west.

Am I to understand, looking at this, that we're back in that bloody swamp?

Yes.

Please, no.

Tell me it isn't true.

It's surprising, really, how many different theories keep landing in that

swamp. And it's been no secret I'd like to stick a big fork in the swamp and be

done with it.

I hate that swamp.

So how sure are you of this?

Me? Yeah. Absolutely sure.

Suppose it took exactly your life savings to dig it up. Would you do it?

Considering I'm as poor as a church mouse, it wouldn't be much of a... No,

but that's still the measure, isn't it? I would.

And I would.

Well, then, on that note, let's see what Big Brother says.

OK, Big Brother.

The question was asked earlier, would you commit?

to this endeavor?

And the answer for me is I will.

We're going to drain the swamp anyway.

It's still a monkey mess.

But I don't care how difficult it is. I really don't.

I mean, I'll go in there by myself. And that, Rick Lagaina, is why you are going

to find this treasure.

We are going to find this treasure.

The dots were not as close as I would have liked, but these people came with a

theory, a rather elegant theory.

At the end of the presentation, they gave us information that we could act

on. They put an X on the map. That's rare.

Yeah, one thing occurs to me that is interesting is that how many people

actually get to say that I spent a portion of my life seeking the grail?

How many people get to say that, huh?

Legitimately. Anyway, so thank you very much. Cheers.

To the quest. To the quest.

For Rick, Marty, and their partners, the trip to Europe has been both informative

and motivating.

Finally, the troops arrive.

They are heading back to Oak Island, more convinced than ever that something

of great significance may lie buried deep inside the money pit. Here's the

plan. We'll sheet this. And that an important key to reaching it might be

found at the bottom of the swamp.

A swamp that has so far been able to keep its secrets hidden.

Life takes a lot of twists and turns. It's kind of what makes it interesting.

This is what I worked my whole life for.

So it's hugely important that we listen to theorists.

But we need to get data.

Credible, usable, definitive data.

I would like to be able to say there's something to excavate here in the swamp.

At the end of the day, you have to prove the theory, take it into the field, take

theory into practice, take theory to result.

There's a story here, a magnificent story, something happened long ago. I

would like to play whatever part necessary to find out what that is.

Will the Laginas and their partners find sacred treasures hidden away by the

Knights Templar?

Or will it be something else?

Something so incredible that finding it will not represent the end, but only

the beginning.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

Right here is where we're going to start. I'm just so sick of this swamp.

Something right there.

He just got a reading. He's saying we got multiple hits in the same area.

We got some divers coming in. And we'll concentrate on 10X.

You ready to go? Let's do this.

What's in the bottom of 10X?

We're getting into analysis paralysis. I am wanting to quit.

What do you mean you want to quit?