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Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

October 16th, 2017.

So let's see if we can find something.

Treasure hunters Rick Lagina and Gary Drayton are searching the area on the

northeast corner of the island known as Smith's Cove.

That sounds good. Yeah. Yeah, that's worth digging.

It's good depth. It's saying 10 inches.

Whoa!

I see something.

Oh, my gosh.

That's a cross.

That's a cross.

That is an old, old cross. I would say that it's somewhere in between 1200 and

1600.

A centuries-old cross on a remote island in Nova Scotia?

How did this mysterious artifact come to be in the sands of Smith's Cove?

The answer may not only provide a clue as to what lies buried on Oak Island,

but could also bring into question the very history of North America.

Because incredibly, it is identical to a cross found on the wall of a 700-year

-old prison in France.

Could this cross be physical evidence that the treasures of the Knights

Templar are buried on Oak Island?

For more than 223 years, Oak Island has been the site of what is perhaps

history's greatest treasure hunt.

But to this day, what lies hidden beneath the surface remains a mystery.

Theories range from pirate treasure, to the lost crown jewels of Marie

Antoinette, to the lost manuscripts of William Shakespeare.

But for Rick Lagina, one of the driving forces behind the current excavations on

oak island one theory is more compelling than all the rest there's this

possibility that templars are associated in some way with the workings on oak

island the templars were enigmatic and powerful and influential and for them to

just disappear i think that story is quite magical could it be that

The Oak Island story has ramifications halfway across the globe.

Jerusalem, 1095 AD.

The city is the epicenter of the struggle for the Holy Land.

Muslim armies from Palestine and Egypt have ruled the walled enclave for more

than four centuries.

Slaughtering Christian supporters of the Holy Roman and Byzantine empires.

Jerusalem is important for at least three different religious traditions.

So it starts off, of course, as the capital for the Jewish tradition.

Then Christianity comes in the world, and these are spaces that are important

for Jesus.

For Muslims, it's important because Muhammad goes there from Mecca to

Jerusalem, from Jerusalem ascends up to heaven.

In 1095, Pope Urban II summons Christians from across Europe to join a

military expedition to recapture Jerusalem.

Well-armed crusaders take up his challenge, violently driving out the

Muslims within four years.

The success of the First Crusade generates a flood of Christian pilgrims

heading for Jerusalem.

But the journey is long and dangerous.

In 1118, a well-connected and influential French knight, Hugh de

Payenne, makes a proposal to set up a protection system for Jerusalem-bound

pilgrims to be based at the very center of the city on Temple Mount.

Hugh de Payenne.

went to the newly installed king of Jerusalem and asked for his permission

to defend pilgrims.

So the king gave them permission, gave them quarters in the Al-Aqsa Mosque,

which he was using as his palace.

So, Hugh de Payens gathered together eight other knights, and because Temple

Mount was their headquarters, they called themselves the Knights Templar.

Officially known as the Poor Fellow Knights of Solomon's Temple, there were

initially only nine members, and many believed their stated purpose of

protecting pilgrims was simply a cover.

The first thing they did was to do a survey of the mount, including all the

underground passages that were there, and it's believed that they may have

found the Ark of the Covenant.

The Ark of the Covenant holds the covenant from God to man, and that is

physically the two tablets representing the Ten Commandments.

Moses was given very specific instructions on how the ark was to be

constructed, and he followed them perfectly.

One of the descriptions that he was given was that there should be two

angels called cherubim sitting on top of the ark facing each other. And it was

the space between these angels where their wings came together to cover the

ark. That was the holy space where the power of God would manifest.

Certainly, the Templars would have been after the Ark of the Covenant because it

was the ultimate weapon, according to the Old Testament.

Curiously, after ten years, the Knights Templars' secret excavations at Temple

Mount suddenly came to a halt.

Is it possible that they found what they were looking for, the Ark of the

Covenant? Some researchers suggest that coming into possession of the Ark is

what allowed the Templars to extend their influence and begin to recruit new

members from all across Europe.

I often think of them as like American Green Berets.

It will take like a few guys will go into a foreign land and make contacts

with people of other languages and cultures and kind of train and recruit

them.

With their ranks swelling to more than 5,000 knights between 1118 and 1307, the

Templars soon found that protecting pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem could

be more than just a spiritual calling.

It was also a chance to substantially increase their wealth and power.

Travelers throughout Europe needed more than a physical police force to keep

their property safe.

So the Knights Templar came up with a system that is recognized by historians

as the world's first bank this is in in the pre-modern world where you're

traveling with your possessions you don't have a credit card you're carrying

the cash that you'll need for a six-month trip that makes a very

appealing target for robbers the knights templar worked out a system that they

could deposit their money in their home city go to Jerusalem with a letter of

credit, which was an invention of the Knights Templar, and present this and

receive their money so that the highwaymen were not able to get it.

But there was a nice subtext, which was that if you died en route, and an awful

lot of people did, then the Templars could take all your money.

And they did.

The Knights Templar of old were given border access to different countries by

the Pope, and also Pope Innocent III gave them tax exemption, which is a very

interesting thing as well.

This was something like a precursor to a multinational corporation, a very

powerful enterprise.

The story is well known that they had lent an enormous amount of money to the

King of France.

Having the King of France in their debt, put the Templars in a position of

incredible power, but also extraordinary danger.

King Philip IV was left with two choices, pay them or destroy them.

To get out of paying back the order, the King of France decides they're

Satanists. They're defiling the church and gets them drummed out.

The King of France then leaned on the Pope to back him up. and press charges

against the Knights Templar.

The Grand Master reported to the Pope and to no one else.

And here, the Pope was siding with the King of France, turning all of his

people over to be imprisoned and burned at the stake, and they felt horribly

betrayed.

In October of 1307, on Friday the 13th, King Philip IV arrested the

Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay.

He was tortured for seven long years.

But why?

Among the charges brought against the Templars was worship of a heathen idol,

an idol that some believe was the Ark of the Covenant.

Was King Philip attempting to discover where the Knights Templar had hidden it?

In the end, the Grand Master refused to reveal any Templar secrets.

And on March 18, 1314,

He was burned at the stake.

As Jacques de Molay stood at the funeral pyre waiting for the flames to consume

him, he cursed the king and he cursed the pope. And he said that both of them

would be called before God before the end of a year and a day.

Within a year, the pope dies of a prolonged illness.

Within a year, the king dies of a stroke on his way to go hunting.

But it doesn't end there.

Over the course of the next 14 years, the king of France's line, his three

sons and his grandson, all die in somewhat mysterious circumstances, and

this destroys the Capetian dynasty.

Arrested, convicted of heresy, tortured, and executed.

Is this the end?

of the Knights Templar.

France, 1307.

Upon the orders of King Philip IV, members of the Knights Templar, who were

once among the most powerful and highly regarded men in the world, are

persecuted, hunted down, and imprisoned throughout the country.

Those who are caught are subjected to interrogation and torture, and often

executed.

One prison where at least 70 Templars were held still stands today in the

fortified medieval village of Dôme, France.

Fearing that they may be the last of their order, the Templar prisoners

sought to preserve their legacy by carving symbols and coded messages into

the solid rock walls using whatever was available sometimes even their own teeth

it was long thoughts for hundreds of years that there were no written

records pertaining to the knights templar their archive in paris was

destroyed

But there are some traces of Templar writings in the form of graffiti, and

there are extensive examples of those in the guardhouse at Dome.

Come in.

In September 2017, Rick Lagiva and two of his nephews traveled to the 700

-year-old prison in Dome in search of further clues as to what treasures might

lie hidden on Oak Island.

And you can see lots of evidence of how they passed their time, which was by

making carvings in the walls to sustain them spiritually.

Over here is some of the most well-known carvings at Dom this way.

But of all the carvings in Dom, there was one that caught Rick's attention

more than any other.

And it was this same carving that he believed provided a match with the

mysterious lead cross he found at Smith's Cove just one week later.

That is an old, old cross.

I would say that it's somewhere in between 1200 and 1600.

But if the cross at Smith's Cove is determined to be of Templar origin, how

would it have made its way some 3,000 miles across the Atlantic?

Is it possible that during the period of their persecution,

Some of the Templars actually escaped, and if so, may have made their way to

North America.

Of the roughly 4,000 Knights Templar that existed at that time, a total of

about 500 have ever been arrested or put on trial at any given time.

That left 3,500 Knights Templar who had to be accounted for.

It was rumored that the Templars had a fleet of 18 ships, based at la rochelle

on the atlantic coast of france which king philip set out to capture his

troops immediately went to la rochelle to arrest the templar fleet they got

there and there were no ships the whole temple feet had disappeared where would

it have gone it is widely believed that the Templar fleet sailed

north to a country where they already had a stronghold and many supporters,

Scotland. The king, Robert the Bruce, was in trouble with the pope. He was

already excommunicated.

This made Scotland something of an open place.

This became a very attractive mecca for the Knights Templars after the Troubles.

The Templars had made arrangements for this inevitability.

They had sent money, they had sent treasure, they had sent documents to

places that they knew would be safe.

Some researchers believe that for decades the Fugitive Knights were

protected by one of Scotland's most powerful families, under the guidance of

their patriarch, Henry Sinclair.

Henry Sinclair was the child of Orkney.

He was from the family of the Sinclairs, originally Santa Clarus, which became

the Sinclair clan of today.

According to Christopher Knight and other Templar researchers, Henry's

ancestors, the Sinclairs, and their French relatives, the St. Clairs, were

instrumental in creating the Knights Templar.

Henry Sinclair was clearly a Templar or a descendant of the Knights Templar.

But although Scotland provided a temporary safe haven, the Knights

Templar were still being hunted by the Pope and wanted to create a homeland of

their own.

To that end, they sought a destination where they could build a new Jerusalem.

Although evidence that the Templars succeeded is unsubstantiated, there are

many who believe they were made aware of a vast new world some 3,000 miles to the

west.

There are records from the Irish, records from the Vikings.

There are indications that the Phoenicians came in this direction.

There is so much evidence now that Europeans were coming in this direction,

heading towards this new world hundreds of years before Columbus, hundreds of

years before official history actually recognizes it.

There was this kind of secret knowledge of another continent, which therefore

could have reached the Templars.

according to letters discovered in the sixteenth century prince henry sinclair

hired two experienced sailors from italy antonio and nicolazino to guide a daring

three thousand mile expedition from orkney scotland in the

documentation i kept actually was given back to

one of their relatives and remained hidden for about two hundred years was

found and then has since been transcribed

While the authenticity of the Zeno narratives remains unsubstantiated, they

report that Henry Sinclair rented 12 Venetian ships and filled them with

Templar fugitives.

After leaving Orkney, they sailed west toward North America.

If you trace their journey from Scotland down through Iceland, it makes so much

sense that they followed this trajectory and ended up in Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia, Latin for New Scotland, would have offered Henry Sinclair a

perfect home for himself and his fellow knights.

Here he made contact with the native people known as the Mi'kmaq, also

pronounced as Mi'kmaq.

Backing up the Zeno narrative are the stories passed down by the Mi'kmaq

themselves.

We're a Mi'kmaq on my mother's side, and she started talking about that when I

was very young.

you know, four years old, five years old.

I, for one, really do believe that Henry Sinclair did come to Cape Breton.

It fits with the Templar theory itself really well.

You know, if really, if Henry Sinclair was really here and he clearly would

have to interact with the First Nations peoples, he would have to. They lived

here.

It's intriguing.

But if the Templars really landed on the shores of Nova Scotia, Did they bring

their treasures with them?

And if so, where are they now?

According to legend, Scottish Prince Henry Sinclair and his armada of ships

reached the area now known as Nova Scotia in 1398.

Some researchers suggest that Sinclair learned there was land 3,000 miles to

the west through the stories of the Vikings, who had, by some accounts,

reached America even earlier.

But others believe he had a more direct source of information, the Knights

Templar themselves, who may have made their first trip to the New World 220

years earlier in 1178.

In 2016, Oak Island treasure hunter Rick Lagina and researcher Doug Crowell met

with Templar historian Zena Halpert. A former member of the New England

Antiquities Research Association, Zena has devoted much of the past decade to

researching possible evidence of Knights Templar activity in North America.

It was during the course of this research that she acquired copies of

what she believes to be ancient maps, the originals of which were found buried

in the pages of an old book.

These maps are part of the Templar document.

The main part of the book that I've written covers a 12th

century Templar voyage identified from 1178 to 1180 of a

Templar leader by the name of Ralph de Southerly.

According to historians, Ralph de Southerly was a wealthy English baron.

who fought alongside the Templars during the Crusades.

Zena Halpern believes that the maps provide evidence that not only did de

Soutile reach Nova Scotia, but that he buried all or part of the priceless

artifacts he acquired on Oak Island.

I think the purpose of de Soutile's journey was to explore the new area, but

also to possibly hide holy artifacts.

Shortly before meeting with Zena Halpern in 2016,

Rick Lagina had traveled with researchers Doug Crowell and Charles

Barkhouse to the village of New Ross, just 20 miles north of Oak Island.

They had been invited by local property owners Alessandra Nadudvari and her

husband Tim Long-Carich to come and visit what they believe to be evidence

of ancient Templar structures.

If you'd like, I'll show you what we've got.

Lead on.

In the 1970s, one of the previous owners was digging in the backyard here for a

garden. And when she got down a couple of feet, she started uncovering old

foundation stones.

This is one of the stones that she uncovered.

She called it the Hermstone, and she felt that it could be a grave marker.

And then if you look more closely on the face...

It looks like there could be something carved on the face. It's very worn, as

it would be if it was 700 or 800 years old.

I think that on the face of the stone, you can see a very faint outline of a

cross. In my opinion, what it looks like, it's a Christian cross and no

ordinary cross, but the cross of the Knights Templar.

The area is now overgrown by trees and foliage.

but excavations by the site's previous landowners revealed what appeared to be

an ancient foundation possibly built as a templar fortress a

far-fetched notion perhaps but there are many who believe new ross was only one

of many areas in nova scotia where the templars left behind evidence of their

activity in the new world the templars had interests in mining and We know that

there is a gold-producing area in the Nova Scotia region.

It's been conjectured that Templars went there to mine gold.

It's also been conjectured that Templars mined silver further afield in North

America.

In 2015, amateur archaeologist Terry Duvall invited Rick and Marty

Lagina, along with members of their Oak Island team, to a remote field some 130

miles southwest of New Ross, near the Bay of Fundy.

So is it this way? Pretty much. Okay. Great. Perfect. Let's go.

Terry was eager to show the Laguitas the Overton Stone, a large stone that sits

overlooking the bay, and on which are carved a number of mysterious images.

The rock here is probably located on the highest point in quite a distance

around.

So now you can see the carving quite clearly here. It's very beautiful.

It has the eagle feather, and behind the eagle feather there are a pair of

tobacco leaves.

There you have two of the most important symbols in the Mi'kmaq belief system.

The hypothesis that I'm suggesting is that this whole carving was made by a

European to commemorate, perhaps, a friendship treaty between Europeans and

Mi'kmaq. That is quite remarkable.

And isn't that a Templar cross?

A Templar cross?

And a carving which suggests a treaty between Europeans and the indigenous

peoples of Nova Scotia?

they could have been teaching each other these esoteric beliefs.

And in fact, all these stories of Christianity and Jesus really are part

of Micmac belief, surprisingly enough.

According to Micmac legend, the Micmac people did, in fact, have knowledge of

Europeans long before Columbus reached the New World in 1492.

They also openly recognized that one of the Europeans they formed a friendship

with was Henry Sinclair, who many believe was the inspiration for the god

known as Glooscap.

Glooscap was said to be an explorer, which Henry Sinclair certainly was.

Glooscap was said to have daughters. Henry Sinclair did.

Glooscap may have certain aspects that are larger than life.

As a matter of fact, there's one story where Glooskap arrives on a ship from

the east, bringing many gifts and advanced knowledge.

So that really has to be, I think, Sinclair.

Is it possible that the Mi'kmaq god Glooskap and Henry Sinclair were really

one and the same?

Perhaps the proof is actually hiding in plain sight in the form of the Mi'kmaq

flag. This is the ceremonial flag of the Mi'kmaq, and it's the reverse of the

Templar battle flag, which has the star below and the moon above.

And otherwise, they're absolutely identical.

And that is kind of why we think perhaps all these connections with the Templars

in Nova Scotia could be very significant.

If the Templars were carrying this extraordinary treasure to a place where

they wanted to be safe and create a new Jerusalem, this makes sense.

I do believe that the Templars were in Oak Island, and I do believe that they

brought something very extraordinary with them.

For 223 years, a maze of shafts, tunnels, and booby traps, have

frustrated any attempt by treasure hunters to solve the Oak Island mystery.

But given the engineering expertise involved in the design and construction

of such a complex defense system, could this feat really be the work of the

Knights Templar?

When you're thinking about the Sinclairs coming over and digging a big pit such

as Oak Island, they needed hundreds of workers.

They assuredly took Micmacs as employees to dig the holes and do all this

work.

I do believe that that was a Templar project, and I do believe it had to

involve Micmacs.

Another of the engineering feats that have been found at Oak Island is the

elaborate system of box drains first discovered at Smith's Cove in 1850.

By using a sophisticated filtration system, made of a combination of

eelgrass and coconut fibers.

The box drains provided the water used to booby-trap the Money Pit area and

thwart the efforts of would-be treasure hunters.

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Is that the mother load right there? That looks like it.

No way, I think that is.

Evidence of coconut fiber, a substance not native to North America, This looks

like more right there.

was found by the Laginas at Smith's Cove in 2013.

And I would say, without a word of a doubt, that's coconut fiber. Absolutely.

So we found it.

More tests were conducted, and the results were nothing less than

astounding. They're dating it between 1260 and 1400 A.D. That's what I

figured.

So it's old, old, old stuff.

The dating of these fibers take us directly to the period when the Templars

would have been escaping from persecution.

Ironically, further evidence connecting the Templars to Oak Island may have also

recently been found on the walls of the Dom prison in France.

So the graffiti at Dom is not meaningless scratches by any means. The

Templars there that made that graffiti were trying to communicate something.

There, next to the carving that appears similar to the lead cross found at

Smith's Cove, is one featuring a unique configuration of connecting lines and

crosses. Have you seen examples of that before?

No. These don't exist anywhere else. They only exist here.

It's so unusual, you have to think of what other sources of inspiration there

could have been for this. And I think it's possible...

given their contacts in the Holy Land, that this might have been inspired by

the Kabbalistic tree of life.

The tree of life?

As described in ancient Hebrew texts, the so-called tree of life lays out 10

attributes that connect the physical self to the spiritual realm.

It is said to represent the need to find a personal path through life. In other

words, a map that needs to be followed.

in order to find god jerry

referenced the carving which he thought was a tree of life design and for me i

believe we have found some evidence on the island that perhaps represents the

tree of life in 1981 treasure

hunter fred nolan first discovered that five large boulders on his Oak Island

property formed a symmetrical cross, measuring 720 feet wide by

867 feet long.

At the intersection of the arms of the cross, he later unearthed a sixth

boulder, one that seemed to be carved to resemble a human face.

Further research into the unique placement and configuration of the

boulders of Nolan's Cross

suggests to some researchers that it may in fact represent the tree of life.

This is Nolan's cross.

I say that this cross is more than one symbol and I will show you why.

If you add a few more points like this.

Between these stones there are certain paths.

The geometry indicates that we are talking about a tree of life.

But if Nolan's cross can really be proved to depict the Kabbalistic tree of

life, why was it constructed?

Was it to celebrate that the Templars had successfully found New Jerusalem in

Nova Scotia?

Or was it designed as a clue, one that offers evidence that not only did the

Templars come to Oak Island, but they had hidden a vast treasure there,

perhaps a treasure not only of gold and silver, but one first given to Moses

by God Himself.

Over the past 223 years, hundreds of men and women have been involved with the

search for treasure on Oak Island.

but although most come from a variety of backgrounds and geographic regions,

there is one attribute that a surprising number of them have in common.

Freemasonry.

From Daniel McGuinness, one of the three boys who first discovered the Money Pit

in 1795, to William Chappell and his son, M.R., and even future American

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who joined the search in 1909 oak island has

had a unique relationship with a society of men who are qualified in both

structural engineering and the ability to keep and protect secrets

the level of involvement of freemasons in

excavations was in oak island is too much to be a coincidence all of the

early attempts were all done by high-ranking Freemasons, and it's very

provable. Why is another question.

The obvious answer is that the Freemasons know what the money pit is,

what's down there, what it was meant to protect.

But why would members of the Fraternal Order of Freemasons know what lies

hidden on Oak Island?

Some researchers say that it is due to the fact that in many ways, The

Freemasons are the direct descendants of the Knights Templar, and as such, have

carried forward many of the Templars' ancient rites and traditions.

The transition of the Knights Templar into Freemasonry is an organic

evolution.

It's not something that starts and stops. There isn't a beginning date or

an end date. It always existed. It was always there.

And certainly the Sinclairs were a huge part of this.

Some researchers suggest that evidence tying both the Sinclair family and the

Knights Templar to Freemasonry can be found by examining one of the most

mysterious structures in Scotland, Roslyn Chapel.

Built in 1446 by Henry Sinclair's grandson William, the ornate building

seems to celebrate the Knights Templar's original base on Temple Mount.

It was intended, or so it is believed, to be the lady chapel of a much bigger

building that was going to be a copy of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem.

When Rick, Marty, and members of the Oak Island team visited the ancient church

in 2014, they encountered a strange design on the outside of the building

that may suggest the Templars transformed themselves into a new secret

society.

The stone carving shows a blindfolded man with a rope noose around his neck,

while a soldier holds the rope.

And this appears to be the same process that happens in a Masonic ritual,

and that's familiar to every Mason.

This is suggested by many to be a connection to Freemasonry, and it may

well have been.

But the fraternal society that became known as Freemasonry did not officially

exist until 250 years after the chapel was built.

Could this strange initiation ritual be evidence of a direct lineage between

Templars and Freemasons?

There are many connections between the Knights Templar and Freemasonry or the

Masonic Lodges.

You're looking at a lot of the same symbols, the same rites and rituals.

They wear the white gloves.

They have the secret handshakes.

Central to Freemasonry was the worship of the Old Testament patriarch, Enoch,

the great-grandfather of Noah, who is said to be responsible for building the

first temple in Jerusalem.

According to the ancient Masonic texts known as the Legend of Enoch, Enoch

built a series of underground chambers beneath Solomon's temple to guard all

the important knowledge and treasures of the world.

The first eight levels provided security.

In the ninth and final chamber, Enoch placed a triangle of pure gold

surrounded by jewels.

Known as the Enochian Delta, it was inscribed with one word, God.

When the Onslow Company excavated the money pit in 1804, workers encountered

nine platforms constructed from oak beams at every 10 feet.

The ninth and final level featured a stone slab bearing mysterious carved

symbols.

During their trip to Scotland in 2014, Rick and Marty Lagina met up with

Templar researcher Alan Butler to get his thoughts on the parallels that seem

to exist between Oak Island and Solomon's 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.

But if the Templars took pains to reproduce the vault of King Solomon on

Oak Island, was it so they could hide the treasures that were once hidden

there, chiefly the golden menorah of King Solomon and the Ark of the

Covenant?

People wonder why was it so important to build this great pit at Oak Island?

And you think about some of the things that the Templars might have had in

their possession could arguably include not only the chalice that collected

Jesus' blood, but there's a lot of treasures of the Holy Land that could

have ended up there.

Perhaps the ultimate proof of Templar activity in the New World still lies

buried. some 200 feet below the surface of Oak Island.

Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.

Or in the shape of an ancient cross recently discovered at Smith's Cove.

Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.

Holy shmoly, all right. Look at that.

That's a cross.

That's a cross.

Let me wash it off.

with the discovery of a simple lead cross small enough to fit in the palm of

his hand rick lagina may have found not only a clue that could help him solve

the oak island mystery i've seen that shape on a cross before when i was in

france i saw a carving like that in the templar prison and dome but important

evidence that could help prove that Europeans and perhaps surviving members

of the Knights Templar successfully crossed the Atlantic many centuries ago.

I believe that it's bulletproof that the Templars went to America.

Why wouldn't they? They had the ability and the motivation and the knowledge to

do it.

Perhaps the real treasure of Oak Island cannot be found in a chest of gold or

even in an ark.

containing the Ten Commandments.

Perhaps the treasure is one of knowledge.

The Templars had nothing to lose at this point.

Both of mankind's history and its destiny.

Sweet!

Every piece of information is important.

Is this a treasure hunt? Yeah, but it's also an information hunt.

In the Money Pit, what I'd like it to be is the Knights Templar treasure and or

information. I would love it to be in the bottom of the Money Pit.

Is it really there? I don't know.

And that's why we're here, to find out. Put the last piece in the puzzle. Here

it go, click, and be happy.

Ever since the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795, men of courage have come to

Oak Island.

in search of an incredible fortune but in many ways their legacy

is not unlike that of the men who came here centuries ago men of faith who

pursued a dream and who risked everything they had in order to prove

that their lives were not lived in vain

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