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Was it an american navy captain

Who stole a vast treasure during the revolutionary war?

I have captain james anderson's sea chest.

A pioneering band

Of freemasons with sacred riches of medieval origins?

The knights baronet might be responsible

For a treasure buried on oak island.

Or perhaps a famous explorer

Who had a priceless ulterior agenda.

What do you think this is?

What is book binding material doing in the money pit?

Do you think it's shakespeare's manuscripts?

It's time to connect the dots

To oak island.

Basically, I've connected the dots.

Ever since the deep shaft known as the money pit

Was discovered in 1795 on oak island,

Thousands of discoveries have been made,

Suggesting someone went to a lot of trouble

To hide a vast cache of treasure.

These include believed tunnels

Found approximately 100 feet underground,

Stone roads and pathways

Hidden beneath a brackish swamp,

Religious artifacts and megalithic structures

That date back more than five centuries,

And even high-trace evidence of silver and gold.

It's left brothers rick and marty lagina

And their team contemplating six ultimate questions:

Who, what, when, where, why and how?

And it's also led to many researchers

Coming forward to declare that they have the answers.

It is true there's been a vault's worth of theories

Brought forth that have all been supported

By finds made right here on the island.

So, until a treasure is actually found

That might help explain everything,

The most logical theories would point

To whoever was known to be in the area

At the time prior to the discovery of the money pit,

And who had something very valuable to hide.

That brings us to the first entry in our countdown.

The knights baronet theory.

So, the knights baronet are connected

To the knights templar,

And that connection goes right through nova scotia.

And it might be responsible

For a treasure buried on oak island.

In recent years,

James mcquiston, an author

And fellow of the society of antiquaries of scotland,

Has made several presentations to rick,

Marty, craig and the team about his top suspects:

The knights baronet.

Established in scotland by a nobleman,

Sir william alexander, in 1625,

This organization of the first documented freemasons

Established the colony in north america

That came to be known as nova scotia,

Or "new scotland."

That was the ultimate plan.

And if you look at the overall list of the knights baronet,

25% of them had some kind of connection

Back to the knights templar.

They may have had templar wealth in their families

Because when they were, dissolved,

Where's all that stuff going to go?

Over the years, many have speculated

That a vast treasure connected to

The medieval order of the knights templar,

Which included holy relics such as the ark of the covenant

And the holy grail,

Were transported from europe centuries ago

And hidden in the ingeniously constructed money pit.

During a subsequent presentation...

Hey, james.

James spoke on why the knights baronet

May have been the depositors.

So, here's the theory in a nutshell.

Unfortunately, the french attacked nova scotia,

Leaving the scots ousted in the spring of 1632,

And I believe they took shelter in mahone bay,

And oak island is at the back of it.

So, it would be the perfect place to hide back there

And bury what they couldn't take back with them

Or didn't want to take back with them.

Based on his thorough research,

James believes he's not only figured out

Who was behind the mystery

But also why nearly every team of searchers

Over the past two centuries

Has included high-ranking members of freemasonry,

Including franklin delano roosevelt in 1911.

But is there actual evidence?

Peter, if you can impart to them what your perceptions were

- About the wall. - Sure.

Just the way that the outside rocks

Are sort of structured to-to lean in on a wall,

Which is a classic way of holding a rubble wall together.

In 2022,

The team investigated a stone wall on lot 26

That struck them all as oddly constructed.

This included archaeologist laird niven,

Who found charcoal within it

That was carbon-dated to as early as the 17th century.

And when forestry technician peter romkey examined it,

He believed he recognized the technique.

It was almost like it had a foundation of small rocks.

And that would be,

Very similar to, castles and large structures

That were built in England and scotland.

The potentially scottish-designed wall

On lot 26 is only one of many discoveries

Made by the team dating to the 1600s.

Rick, check this out.

What have you got, gary?

But, in 2020,

While investigating the possibly man-made swamp...

It's one piece of wood.

They unearthed what could be

A smoking gun for the knights baronet.

- Check this out. - Hey, guys. What have you got?

We're hoping you can tell us.

God.

- Wow. - It's got to be a tool.

Yeah, I was going to say, like something for

- Architectural or... - Yeah.

- Yeah, like a little carpenter's square. - Yeah.

It was a wooden t-square

Used for masonry, and, incredibly,

It was scientifically dated to 1632,

The exact year that james mcquiston believes

The knights baronet buried templar treasures

In the money pit.

Finding a tool that may have been used

To help construct the money pit is compelling.

But how about finding an official military record

Potentially describing its construction?

That brings us to the next top theory on our list.

The duc d'anville theory.

I found eight pages of a ship...

What looks like a ship's log.

What's really interesting is

It appears to be a ship's log that indicates

That they were here in advance of the french fleet

That was coming over in 1746.

In 2017, team historian doug crowell

Dug a partial transcript out of provincial archives

Detailing a secret french naval mission

To hide valuables in nova scotia

As they battled great britain for control of the territory.

The effort was led by jean baptiste de la rochefoucauld,

Also known as the duc d'anville,

An admiral whose family had believed ties

To the knights templar dating back

To the 12th-century crusades.

And if you go through these eight pages,

They're actually talking about

The vast amount of treasure they have on board.

They're worried about losing it

Because, basically, they're in enemy territory.

So, this transcription I've handed out to you,

I'm just going to read through it really quickly here.

So, on September 6, the ship's log was:

"at midday, we reach a deep bay

"with several hundred small islands, wooded to the shore.

"the great quantity of treasure on this vessel

"makes it unwise to jeopardize it

"in any engagement with the enemy.

It has been agreed that a deep pit be dug

"and treasure securely buried.

"the pit to have a secret entrance

By a tunnel from the shore."

"down 67 feet.

"pit seems damp from seepage of seawater.

Have decided to go deeper to dry soil."

And it ends.

And that's where it ends.

But it is amazing. I mean, a great quantity

Of treasure, and that they appear to be in this bay.

In my mind, there's no doubt that

They're pointing right to oak island.

Is it possible that the duc d'anville's men

Dug the money pit in 1746

And buried a vault of treasures

That may include priceless templar relics?

Well, in addition to numerous artifacts

That date to that very time period,

They've also found 18th-century structures across the island,

Such as the so-called garden shaft,

An 82-foot-deep feature

Containing high-trace evidence of gold.

We're drilling down on the top ten treasure theories

That rick, marty and their team have heard

In their quest to solve the 228-year-old mystery.

And while many revolve around groups

Who visited the island centuries ago,

The next one on our list

Involves someone who actually lived here.

The captain james anderson theory.

I can show you guys more things.

I have captain james anderson's sea chest.

- Wow. - Sea chest? Like a treasure chest?

Yeah. Just like a treasure chest.

- We would love to see that. - In 2017, members of

The fellowship traveled to wolfville, nova scotia

To visit steve atkinson,

A descendant of the 18th-century privateer

Captain james anderson.

- He was quite a character. - Yeah.

That's a very good way to describe him, yeah.

Believed to have been from baltimore, maryland,

Captain james anderson

Was a freemason who made a living

As a pirate and privateer

Before becoming a naval captain for the united states

During the american revolution in the late 1700s.

However, after being given command of a ship

Loaded with valuables, he fled to british territory

In canada, where he purchased

Lot 26 on oak island

And resided there until 1788.

Is this it here?

That's the baby.

- Wow. - Holy crap.

- Look at that thing. - Here you go.

As to what became of the valuables

That captain anderson looted,

Steve atkinson offered a relatively inspired guess.

Wow.

Now, all those keys he has in his hand...

- Can I see them for a sec? - Sure.

That one opens that treasure chest.

Maybe some other ones, could be...

I couldn't help noticing there are four keys.

Could there have been more treasure chests on the island?

That's what I wonder.

Is it possible

That steve is correct and there might be

Three more chests full of treasure on oak island,

Care of captain james anderson?

Well, it just so happens that on lot 26,

Where the mysterious stone wall is located,

There is also a stone well,

A well where the team detected

High-trace evidence of silver in 2022.

The captain anderson investigation

Is interesting because it shows, once again,

The colorful history on this bloody little island.

If oak island tells you anything,

This island is all about

The what-ifs and the possibilities.

You have to follow every lead.

Whether or not captain james anderson

Is connected to that silver detected in lot 26

Remains a mystery, at least for now.

But the individual at the center of our next top theory

Might not only explain that silver hit

But also that gerhardt dump truck load

That might be buried in the money pit.

The sir william phips theory.

I've found, I believe, significant information

That really strengthens, the idea

Of there being silver in this area.

In 2021,

Scott clarke, a 32nd-degree freemason,

Presented his startling research

Along with a very plausible theory.

Many people are actually familiar with william phips's

Discovery of the concepcíon back in 1687.

We know that phips found silver on the concepcíon.

And I believe some of the treasure

From the concepcíon was secreted to oak island.

Very interesting.

There's no question about that.

In 1641,

The nuestra señora de la pura y limpia concepcíon,

A 600-ton spanish galleon

That was loaded with more than 100 tons of silver,

Sank in a massive hurricane off the northern coast

Of the modern-day dominican republic.

It remained lost for more than 40 years

Until captain william phips,

A british politician from the massachusetts bay colony,

Found the wreck in January of 1687

During a salvage mission that was financed

By the english crown.

Utilizing indigenous free divers,

Phips made an unprecedented recovery of silver artifacts.

When it was brought back to England,

The treasure was weighed in at over 34 tons

And valued at about 205,000 pounds,

Which would be 50 million u.S. Dollars in today's currency.

- That is remarkable. - Yeah.

Phips was knighted by king james

And treated as a hero in london. It was very big news.

Wow. So, he was pretty important.

Yeah. And this is about the time

When captain andrew belcher comes into the picture.

He was to become the assistant

Of the newly knighted sir william phips.

Captain andrew belcher

Was a well-known merchant and freemason

From cambridge, massachusetts.

And, according to scott clarke's research,

Belcher became a close aide to sir william phips

During his second mission to salvage

The rest of the concepcíon's sunken riches.

So, in September 1687,

Phips returned to the wreck of the concepcíon.

And during the second expedition of the treasure,

Phips brought back to England

What was only valued at 10,000 pounds.

He literally found 1/20 of what he found the first time.

He came back with less than expected, right?

- Much less. Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah.

I basically found a 1688 letter

That shows that captain andrew belcher

Was caught with one of phips's ships

In the mahone bay area

At the exact time that phips was coming back

From the second attempt,

Where he allegedly, officially, did not find as much silver.

The letter also states that they burnt a ship

At port l'hebert,

Which is very close to oak island.

I strongly believe that belcher and his comrades

Were actually transferring treasure from the concepcíon

To be taken to nova scotia.

But could scott clarke's sir william phips theory

Explain the discovery that geoscientist ian spooner

And his colleague dr. Matt lukeman made

By testing water in the money pit area

Back in 2020?

So, I've got one question to ask.

Do you think there's treasure in the money pit?

I like that lead-in.

No, you know, I'm serious.

- Do I? - Yeah.

Small chance.

I-I do. I absolutely do.

Right.

So, doug, can you bring,

- Bring up the presentation? - I can.

Great.

That image shows the wells. There were 12 of them.

We took the samples, and what matt did

Was take the initiative to scan it through the whole spectrum,

And that's when some interesting things came up.

Really?

At the end of the day, there is

Every reason to believe,

Down in those holes that there is

Something close by

That contains a fair bit of silver.

I guess I'm still trying to get a mental picture

Of how much silver it would take to give these levels.

Like, is it a handful of silver,

Or is it a gerhardt dump truck load of silver?

- It's a gerhardt dump truck. - Baby.

No way.

So far, we've covered several theories

About the oak island mystery

Involving people and events

From documented history.

And while they are all compelling and plausible,

The next top theory on our countdown

Is, without a doubt, rock solid.

Alex lagina's h+o stone theory.

Let's go.

In 2022, rick lagina,

Along with his nephews alex and peter,

And oak island historian doug crowell

Visited several ancient sites in Italy

That served as strongholds for the knights templar

Between the 12th and 14th centuries.

During the trip,

Researcher emiliano sacchetti

Showed them numerous caves and medieval churches

Containing carved symbols that have also

Been found over the years on oak island.

Rick.

Right here.

And at the church of santa maria nuova

In the city of viterbo...

H-I-c.

Which in latin means "here."

Alex noticed something

That sparked an incredible theory

About one of the most intriguing carvings

Ever discovered on oak island:

The h+o stone.

In the 1920s, a massive boulder

Was observed on the island's northern shore

Featuring a number of strange symbols.

Believing that it was a marker for buried treasure,

Searchers blew it up with dynamite

So they could dig beneath it.

Unfortunately, nothing was found,

But a large fragment of the boulder

That came to be known as the h+o stone

Has tantalized treasure hunters ever since

As to what the symbols could possibly mean.

So, in the church, we saw this.

Right?

What does that mean?

- "here." - if you do this...

You get the h+o stone.

And this symbol, we've learned today,

Means templar-related relic.

And what have we found that the symbol at the end means?

Some have interpreted it to be gold.

Yeah.

If you put it all together, I mean, there's the possibility

That the h+o stone represents,

"here, templar gold."

You may have just filled in the blank.

Or a blank or blanks.

Yeah.

Has alex lagina actually figured out

The source of the gold that's been detected right here,

Deep in the money pit area?

Well, maybe only more time and digging will tell.

But even if it is templar gold down there,

Who put it there?

Well, that's where the next top entry on our countdown comes in.

The sir francis bacon theory.

I actually claim to have found

The treasure map leading to oak island.

And this is found

In a most unlikely book,

Concealed in codes.

And the book I'm talking about

Is the great folio with the plays of william shakespeare.

In 2013,

Norwegian filmmaker and freemason petter amundsen

Laid out his take

On a theory that has actually been considered

By many researchers over the years.

That the original writings of william shakespeare,

Which are missing, by the way,

Were actually authored by a cabal of secret authors

Led by the 17th-century english nobleman,

Scientist and politician named sir francis bacon.

Curiously, bacon was also believed

To be a member of a secret society of intellectuals

Known as the rosicrucians,

An organization with strong connections

To... drumroll... The knights templar.

There is a coded map in shakespeare, which I found.

It takes you up in the sky and brings you down

To nova scotia, leading you to oak island.

Within the first printed edition

Of the shakespearean folios,

Which were financed by francis bacon

In the early 1600s,

Petter noticed oddly capitalized letters

And misspelled words, along with misnumbered pages.

- I brought some props. - Good.

It is his belief that these errors

Were purposeful and actually make up

An encoded treasure map

That aligns with the megalithic formation

Of six boulders on oak island

Known as nolan's cross.

This is nolan's cross.

Now, 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.

The kabbalistic symbol known as the tree of life

Was highly regarded

By both the rosicrucians and the templar order.

Petter believed that the cross

Is only what you see on the surface

And that the four other points of the tree of life,

Known as sefirot, lie hidden below ground.

There is the kingdom stone.

So, with the help of marty and alex,

He was able to find one of them.

Well, the stone itself is interesting

Because you'd think there'd be the other half of it somewhere.

Petter's theory is that francis bacon

Led the effort in the early 17th century

To hide priceless templar treasures,

Along with the original shakespearian manuscripts,

On oak island.

And he isn't the only theorist who strongly believes this.

Bacon wrote that one of the best ways to instruct people

Is to create a treasure hunt.

Really? That...

- That s-o-b. - That's quite compelling.

In 2018, author and oak island historian

Randall sullivan shared insight

On bacon's known writings

That may be directly related to the oak island mystery.

You may know this, rick, that...

One of bacon's works,

Is about creating a perpetual spring.

Yeah, and the very first line

Of his instructions is:

"dig a pit upon the seashore."

Could the bacon/shakespeare theory explain the evidence

Of silver and gold discovered deep in the money pit area?

Or perhaps the pieces of parchment

That have been unearthed during drilling operations

Over the years by previous searchers

And the laginas' team, as well?

Many of the theories that rick, marty, craig

And the team have heard during their quest

To solve the oak island mystery have been proven plausible

By discoveries they have made over the past decade.

But the next one on our countdown

Has been supported by a legend

That goes back over 600 years.

The prince henry sinclair theory.

According to the traditions of the indigenous people

Of nova scotia known as the mi'kmaq,

In 1398, a man arrived on their shores

With an army and many ships,

Befriended them and taught them new methods

For navigating the waters and fishing.

They came to worship him as a god named glooscap.

According to many researchers, this man was actually

A scottish prince named henry sinclair

Who may have come to nova scotia in order to hide

The order's sacred treasures on oak island.

Look at that.

Absolutely magnificent.

Yeah, that is beautiful.

In 2014, rick, marty

And members of the team traveled to scotland

To look for clues that might help prove

Prince henry journeyed to oak island.

There, they visited rosslyn chapel,

A mysterious church

That had been constructed by henry's grandson william

In 1446, nearly 50 years prior

To the so-called discovery of north america

By christopher columbus.

The legend here

Is that prince henry sinclair,

In 1398, sailed to the new world

And brought back with him corn.

And 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,

So 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.

Trilliums would have been unknown

To the people who built that chapel

Had they not been to north america.

Well, I have an interesting tale

- To tell you all. - Excellent.

If the sinclair legend seemed plausible

After the team's trip to scotland in 2014,

It was mapped out in historical detail

During their recent trip to Italy in 2022.

I have a very famous map

From the late, very late 17th century.

- And it says here... - There it is.

Right there in canada,

Discovered by antonio zeno in 1390.

So, this suggests that the zeno brothers

Had landed and discovered

This part of north america.

At the university of rome,

Professor andrea di robilant

Shared his research and a map that suggested

Two italian navigators named nicolai and antonio zeno

Actually helped prince henry sinclair

Make the voyage to nova scotia.

It is rather startling

Because we realize that they travel to iceland.

After iceland, they sail to greenland.

And very, very possibly,

To the coast of north america, along nova scotia.

Wow.

That puts a foothold for the zeno brothers

In canada, so they could be associated

With the oak island stories.

- Yes. - And then henry sinclair

In north america.

According to the ancient traditions

Of the mi'kmaq people,

Henry sinclair really did journey to nova scotia.

So, could he have been the one

Who actually carved the h+o stone?

Well, even if he did beat christopher columbus

To north america, believe it or not,

The next theory on our countdown

Suggests they both could be related

To the oak island mystery.

The christopher columbus theory.

I think one of the hardest challenges

In any conversation is to get to the truth.

In 2015, researcher jeff irving presented rick,

Marty, craig and the team with what certainly sounded like

A pretty incredible scenario.

What I think we're looking for is the ark of the covenant.

At this point, I will tell you that I believe

Christopher columbus was responsible

For the ark coming to oak island.

It may surprise some people,

But christopher columbus

Was actually directly connected to the knights templar.

His wife, filipa moniz perestrelo,

Was the daughter of bartolomeu perestrelo,

Who served as the grand master

For the portuguese sect of the templar order.

And even though christopher columbus's mission

To north america in 1492

Was financed by the spanish crown,

His ships traversed the atlantic ocean

With the portuguese version of the templar cross

Emblazoned on their sails.

But what gives jeff irving's theory its strongest footing

Was discovered in 2020,

As the team searched the spoils

Of a recently drilled borehole in the money pit area.

Yeah, what is that?

What do you think this is?

- Careful there. - Yeah, I don't want to...

Looks like leather almost.

It for sure looks like leather.

- Like a heel. - A toe. Or a heel.

- Yeah, it could be a heel. - A heel.

It was a boot heel, to be exact,

That the team immediately submitted for carbon dating.

Talk to us, craig. What do we got?

I've got two time periods,

But there's such a small gap between them,

It's basically one time period.

95% sure this is what it is:

1492 to 1662.

- 1492? - Isn't that amazing?

Holy crap.

Columbus could have been

Wearing this shoe.

We're down to our top two oak island theories.

And while the others we've covered so far

Have been propped up by trails of clues,

This next entry on our list

Has a literal road supporting it.

The military order of christ theory.

Wow.

It's quite impressive.

It's incredibly impressive.

Stand right there, and you'll get a real good perspective.

Unbelievable.

For decades, there has been speculation

That the triangle-shaped swamp in the middle of oak island

Might be man-made.

But when the team drained and meticulously excavated

The southeast corner of the brackish bog in 2020,

They pretty much proved it to be true.

That-that looks exactly like an old roman road.

It's possible.

You know, indicates probably a loading

Or unloading from a ship.

The stone road, or possible ship's wharf,

Connected right to a cobblestone pathway

That possibly leads in the direction of the money pit.

But who could have created it and then hidden it so well?

This is a type of road

That was built in europe in the 1500s.

Wow.

If you look for the way roads were generally made

By people in nova scotia,

What comes to my mind is the portuguese.

The portuguese were active in nova scotia

From 1522 up till

No later than, 1583.

When terry deveau, the president

Of the new England antiquities association,

Speculated that the road could be 500 years old

And of portuguese origin,

The team was certainly intrigued.

And then, in 2021,

They found a piece of cannon metal on lot 4

And two small stone shots,

One of which came from deep in the money pit area,

That other experts believed

Were of the same cultural vintage.

- Corjan. - Good morning.

- Welcome to portugal. - Thank you.

This prompted researcher corjan mol

To invite rick and members of the team

To visit a number of medieval sites and churches

In portugal.

Wow.

- That's impressive. - Wow.

While there, corjan shared his theory

That members of the portuguese sect of the knights templar,

Known as the military order of christ,

May have visited oak island in the 16th century.

- Hey, guys? - Generational.

You might be interested in this one over here.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

That's interesting. I can see it from here.

So, this symbol is definitely on the 90 foot stone.

At numerous locations where the portuguese templars

Held strongholds between the 12th and 16th centuries,

The team saw carvings and structures

That have also been found on oak island.

What I can't help compare it to is the design of the money pit.

This even included a 90-foot-deep ceremonial well

That appeared to be a replica of the money pit.

Look at that.

So, I would say that's a match to this.

At a military museum in lisbon,

They saw a 500-year-old cannon

That was a perfect fit for the stone shots

That were discovered on the island.

Look at how beautifully constructed,

I mean, rough and raw, but look at the curvature.

Look at the degree of slope remains constant.

It's beautiful.

If there is a portuguese connection to the construction

Of the road in the swamp, maybe this is the blueprint.

But the smoking gun for corjan's theory

Was found in the town of alqueidão da serra.

There, rick and the team walked down

A roman-era stone road

Connected to a cobblestone pathway

That was an exact match to the one unearthed in the swamp.

We were gonna drive up in a chariot.

We changed our minds.

I'm so glad to see this show is finally on the road.

And it is. It's beautiful.

You could've taken a snapshot of this,

And you could've taken a snapshot

Of the stone path on oak island,

And you wouldn't tell the difference.

To me, that matches up perfectly.

We've now covered nine theories about the oak island mystery

That have all been supported by artifacts,

Structures and scientific evidence

Found right here on these 140 acres.

So, which one is true?

The short answer is they might all be.

And there's one more theory out there

That might help explain that.

It's also the top treasure theory on our countdown.

Zena halpern's knights templar theory.

Hello?

- Hi, zena. It's doug. - Hi.

In 2016,

The late, new york-based author zena halpern

Shared her incredible research

With rick, marty, craig and the team.

We have the map that shows nova scotia,

We have a map of oak island, and then we have the cipher.

Zena's work centered on 12th- and 14th-century maps

Featuring oak island, along with a mysterious cipher

That she believed had been created

By members of the knights templar.

The templar order had been founded in jerusalem

During the 12th century to fight for christian interests

In the holy land during the crusades.

It is believed by many

That while headquartered on the original site

Of king solomon's temple, members of the order

Discovered many priceless religious treasures

And then established satellite strongholds all across europe.

It is known that in the 14th century

The knights templar were suddenly disbanded by the pope

And the king of France based on charges of heresy.

However, some believe the true purpose

Was to commandeer their treasures.

Many templars were imprisoned and executed,

But their treasures were never found.

We're uncovering something here

That people haven't seen for hundreds of years.

In 2017,

The fellowship uncovered a massive stone-paved feature

That had been constructed across

The middle of the swamp...

Holy crow.

What are we looking at?

I think something really important here.

Which dr. Spooner was able to carbon-date

When he found a branch lodged within it.

There's the dates we're getting.

- Wow. - Yeah.

What are they?

Around 1200 a.D.

Medieval.

Medieval, baby.

This is quite a thing you've found here. Beautiful well.

And you'll recall

The stone well on lot 26.

You know, the one that contains high-trace evidence of silver?

Dr. Spooner was able to date that, as well.

The date I got was 1028 to 1172.

No way.

That is really cool.

- 12th century, right? - Yeah.

So, if zena may have been right that the knights templar

Visited oak island in the 12th century,

Was she also correct that they returned some 200 years later?

Well, the team has not only found evidence

Of a wooden structure just north of the swamp,

Where zena's believed 1347 templar map

Indicates the presence of a dam...

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

But in 2017, rick and gary drayton

Made one of the most profound discoveries

In the history of the treasure hunt.

Holy...

Holy schmoly, all right.

- It's a cross. - That's a cross.

Thanks to cutting-edge scientific testing,

The small lead cross found at smith's cove

Was proven to have originated in southern France

And made from lead that was mined in the 14th century.

It was an exact match to a carving

That rick and members of the team saw

In a 14th-century templar prison in domme, France,

And a mirror image of a templar cave

That they recently visited in camerano, Italy.

So, is it possible that zena halpern

Uncovered the true origin

Of the oak island treasure mystery?

I do think that there was

A cabal, a group of people

Or entities or organizations

That information was passed down

Over centuries, perhaps even millennia.

So, does that mean there were successive attempts

To construct something, to conduct some enterprise

And that it was done over centuries?

I don't have any other explanation.

After finding so many clues

That range across so many centuries,

Is rick lagina correct that oak island contains

The secrets of a multigenerational

Treasure conspiracy?

Well, the only way to find out is to keep digging.

And that's exactly what the fellowship is going to do

When season 11 starts in just a matter of weeks.

Until then, as always,

Keep the faith and have a great night.

No pun intended.

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