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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:05,758 --> 00:00:07,275 There is an island 2 00:00:07,379 --> 00:00:10,655 in the North Atlantic 3 00:00:10,758 --> 00:00:13,137 where people have been looking for an incredible treasure 4 00:00:13,241 --> 00:00:14,931 for more than 200 years. 5 00:00:15,034 --> 00:00:16,965 Hold back! 6 00:00:17,068 --> 00:00:18,310 Oh! 7 00:00:18,413 --> 00:00:19,724 SHATNER: To date, 8 00:00:19,827 --> 00:00:22,758 six men have died trying to solve the mystery. 9 00:00:22,862 --> 00:00:25,620 - And according to legend... - [explosion] - Whoa! 10 00:00:25,724 --> 00:00:30,379 - SHATNER: ...one more will have to die... - [crow caws] 11 00:00:30,482 --> 00:00:32,551 ...before the treasure can be found. 12 00:00:33,862 --> 00:00:36,137 Treasure? 13 00:00:36,241 --> 00:00:38,586 Curses? [chuckles] 14 00:00:38,689 --> 00:00:40,517 Sounds like the stuff that would ignite the imagination 15 00:00:40,620 --> 00:00:42,896 of your average teenage boy. 16 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,586 And that's exactly what happened more than a half a century ago, 17 00:00:46,689 --> 00:00:49,758 when two brothers-- Rick and Marty Lagina-- 18 00:00:49,862 --> 00:00:52,310 read an article in Reader's Digest magazine 19 00:00:52,413 --> 00:00:55,551 that changed their lives forever. 20 00:00:55,655 --> 00:00:58,896 But is there really a vast and incredible treasure 21 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,517 buried somewhere on Oak Island? 22 00:01:00,620 --> 00:01:02,724 And could that treasure really be guarded 23 00:01:02,827 --> 00:01:04,793 by a deadly curse? 24 00:01:04,896 --> 00:01:07,034 Well, that is... 25 00:01:07,137 --> 00:01:09,793 what we'll try and find out. 26 00:01:09,896 --> 00:01:11,896 โ™ช 27 00:01:30,586 --> 00:01:32,103 SHATNER: On this small island 28 00:01:32,206 --> 00:01:34,103 just off the coast of Mahone Bay, 29 00:01:34,206 --> 00:01:36,931 the Lagina brothers-- Rick and Marty-- 30 00:01:37,034 --> 00:01:38,620 along with their partners, 31 00:01:38,724 --> 00:01:41,655 have invested thousands of hours 32 00:01:41,758 --> 00:01:44,517 and millions of dollars to find a treasure, 33 00:01:44,620 --> 00:01:49,655 and in doing so, solve a centuries-old mystery. 34 00:01:49,758 --> 00:01:52,482 MARTY: We hope to find the treasure. 35 00:01:52,586 --> 00:01:55,068 Either find some fabled treasure, 36 00:01:55,172 --> 00:01:57,068 or figure out what happened here. 37 00:01:57,172 --> 00:02:00,000 Either one of those is a success. 38 00:02:00,103 --> 00:02:02,137 That's what we're hoping for. 39 00:02:02,241 --> 00:02:04,862 RICK: Mine is, find the one thing 40 00:02:04,965 --> 00:02:08,827 that opens the door on the first page of this wonderful story. 41 00:02:08,931 --> 00:02:10,068 Find the one thing. 42 00:02:12,413 --> 00:02:14,137 SHATNER: But believe it or not, 43 00:02:14,241 --> 00:02:16,793 even with all the heavy equipment they've brought in, 44 00:02:16,896 --> 00:02:19,724 and despite finding a number of compelling clues, 45 00:02:19,827 --> 00:02:22,551 and even several intriguing artifacts, 46 00:02:22,655 --> 00:02:25,551 not one piece of genuine treasure 47 00:02:25,655 --> 00:02:28,103 has ever been found on Oak Island. 48 00:02:28,206 --> 00:02:31,000 Even after centuries 49 00:02:31,103 --> 00:02:33,965 of digging and drilling, and after the loss 50 00:02:34,068 --> 00:02:37,862 of no fewer than six lives, there has never been any proof 51 00:02:37,965 --> 00:02:40,827 that a treasure was ever buried there. 52 00:02:40,931 --> 00:02:45,413 So then, why do the Laginas and their partners keep at it? 53 00:02:47,931 --> 00:02:49,724 According to legend, 54 00:02:49,827 --> 00:02:53,068 the story began one night in 1795, 55 00:02:53,172 --> 00:02:55,586 when 18-year-old Daniel McGinnis 56 00:02:55,689 --> 00:03:00,758 noticed strange lights coming from nearby Oak Island. 57 00:03:00,862 --> 00:03:04,827 Deciding to row across the frigid waters of Mahone Bay 58 00:03:04,931 --> 00:03:07,655 to investigate, he brings with him two friends-- 59 00:03:07,758 --> 00:03:10,655 Anthony Vaughan and John Smith. 60 00:03:10,758 --> 00:03:13,551 After reaching the island, 61 00:03:13,655 --> 00:03:15,931 the three young men race toward the source 62 00:03:16,034 --> 00:03:17,137 of the strange lights. 63 00:03:17,241 --> 00:03:18,931 But what they find 64 00:03:19,034 --> 00:03:22,172 when they get there is equally mysterious-- 65 00:03:22,275 --> 00:03:24,862 a ship's block and tackle 66 00:03:24,965 --> 00:03:27,310 hanging from the limb of an oak tree, 67 00:03:27,413 --> 00:03:29,344 and just beneath it, 68 00:03:29,448 --> 00:03:33,137 a large, circular depression in the ground, 69 00:03:33,241 --> 00:03:37,965 as if something was recently buried and then covered up. 70 00:03:39,448 --> 00:03:41,275 PAUL TROUTMAN: Daniel McGinnis 71 00:03:41,379 --> 00:03:45,172 had known about the folklore of pirates being in the area, 72 00:03:45,275 --> 00:03:49,586 so he was suspicious that maybe there was a treasure here. 73 00:03:49,689 --> 00:03:53,068 They came back the next day and started digging. 74 00:03:53,172 --> 00:03:57,000 They started digging down, and they found a row of logs. 75 00:03:57,103 --> 00:03:59,862 And every ten feet, they kept digging, 76 00:03:59,965 --> 00:04:02,413 and they went down to as far as 30 feet. 77 00:04:02,517 --> 00:04:05,724 And they found putty and charcoal, 78 00:04:05,827 --> 00:04:08,137 and figured that there was something to this mystery. 79 00:04:08,241 --> 00:04:11,724 SHATNER: Convinced that no one would go to the trouble 80 00:04:11,827 --> 00:04:14,724 of constructing such an elaborate underground pit 81 00:04:14,827 --> 00:04:18,931 unless it was to bury something of tremendous value, 82 00:04:19,034 --> 00:04:24,103 for the next nine years, they dug deeper and deeper, 83 00:04:24,206 --> 00:04:29,758 until, in 1804, when they had reached a depth of 90 feet, 84 00:04:29,862 --> 00:04:32,655 they made a remarkable discovery. 85 00:04:32,758 --> 00:04:35,137 One that seemed to confirm their belief 86 00:04:35,241 --> 00:04:39,965 that they were on the brink of finding something extraordinary. 87 00:04:40,068 --> 00:04:43,379 There, embedded in the wooden platform, 88 00:04:43,482 --> 00:04:46,931 was a large, rectangular slab of granite 89 00:04:47,034 --> 00:04:50,551 on which was carved a number of strange symbols, 90 00:04:50,655 --> 00:04:53,344 almost like Egyptian hieroglyphs. 91 00:04:53,448 --> 00:04:55,724 But when they pulled the stone up, 92 00:04:55,827 --> 00:04:58,000 they were met with another surprise. 93 00:04:58,103 --> 00:05:00,827 The hole they dug quickly flooded with seawater, 94 00:05:00,931 --> 00:05:02,862 as if by removing the stone, 95 00:05:02,965 --> 00:05:06,000 they had sprung an ingeniously-designed booby trap. 96 00:05:06,103 --> 00:05:09,172 The event thwarted all subsequent attempts 97 00:05:09,275 --> 00:05:11,103 to dig in the area, 98 00:05:11,206 --> 00:05:14,000 which was now known as "the Money Pit." 99 00:05:15,655 --> 00:05:17,482 DAVID WHITEHEAD: For the next 200 years, 100 00:05:17,586 --> 00:05:19,827 flooding would hamper any attempt 101 00:05:19,931 --> 00:05:22,379 to uncover buried treasure there. 102 00:05:22,482 --> 00:05:25,758 Until the flooding problem is solved, 103 00:05:25,862 --> 00:05:28,034 there is very little likelihood 104 00:05:28,137 --> 00:05:30,344 that any treasure will be found there. 105 00:05:33,034 --> 00:05:36,344 SHATNER: When the symbols on the stone slab were later translated, 106 00:05:36,448 --> 00:05:38,241 it was believed to read, 107 00:05:38,344 --> 00:05:42,241 "Forty feet below two million pounds lie buried." 108 00:05:42,344 --> 00:05:46,724 But many Oak Island theorists weren't so certain 109 00:05:46,827 --> 00:05:48,931 this translation was accurate. 110 00:05:49,034 --> 00:05:52,172 After all, who said it was meant to be translated into English? 111 00:05:52,275 --> 00:05:55,689 French, Spanish, Portuguese pirates were known 112 00:05:55,793 --> 00:05:58,758 to frequent these islands ever since the 1600s. 113 00:05:58,862 --> 00:06:02,413 Some believed the translation offered instructions 114 00:06:02,517 --> 00:06:05,275 on how to shut off the booby traps, 115 00:06:05,379 --> 00:06:06,931 while others insisted 116 00:06:07,034 --> 00:06:09,862 the symbols were placed there as a deadly curse, 117 00:06:09,965 --> 00:06:12,896 daring anyone who continued the search for the treasure 118 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,413 to proceed at the risk of their life. 119 00:06:16,517 --> 00:06:18,206 D'ARCY O'CONNOR: There's been stories 120 00:06:18,310 --> 00:06:19,379 of the curse of Oak Island 121 00:06:19,482 --> 00:06:22,965 going way back, even before 1795. 122 00:06:23,068 --> 00:06:26,275 People believe this island is cursed, 123 00:06:26,379 --> 00:06:29,724 that if you get a little too close to the truth, 124 00:06:29,827 --> 00:06:33,068 to the treasure, your life was in danger. 125 00:06:35,344 --> 00:06:38,034 We don't know how curses work or if they work. 126 00:06:38,137 --> 00:06:40,103 Is there some kind of metaphysical power? 127 00:06:40,206 --> 00:06:42,000 Or is it the power of suggestion? 128 00:06:42,103 --> 00:06:44,758 Perhaps it's self-fulfilling. 129 00:06:44,862 --> 00:06:49,620 Somebody hears about the curse, and so, it has effect. 130 00:06:49,724 --> 00:06:51,724 Maybe you're not a superstitious person, 131 00:06:51,827 --> 00:06:54,275 you don't believe in curses, but just, 132 00:06:54,379 --> 00:06:56,275 it's not unusual 133 00:06:56,379 --> 00:06:58,896 that even if you think something's impossible, 134 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,344 still a lot of emotions are just driven 135 00:07:01,448 --> 00:07:03,137 through unconscious processes. 136 00:07:03,241 --> 00:07:05,137 And knowing that you're in a place 137 00:07:05,241 --> 00:07:09,275 that is cursed might make you feel bad and uneasy. 138 00:07:10,758 --> 00:07:14,965 So when we talk about a curse on Oak Island, 139 00:07:15,068 --> 00:07:19,034 is the curse manifested in some sort of supernatural element, 140 00:07:19,137 --> 00:07:22,793 or do people just feel that their luck isn't there? 141 00:07:22,896 --> 00:07:25,206 DOUG CROWELL: The island has a long history 142 00:07:25,310 --> 00:07:27,586 of something happening 143 00:07:27,689 --> 00:07:29,413 just when you're on the cusp 144 00:07:29,517 --> 00:07:32,413 of retrieving the treasure or getting the answers. 145 00:07:32,517 --> 00:07:35,931 SHATNER: But were the stories of curses justified? 146 00:07:36,034 --> 00:07:38,896 After all, what good is a curse without a victim? 147 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,793 That question was brutally answered 148 00:07:40,896 --> 00:07:44,379 on a hot summer's day in 1861. 149 00:07:44,482 --> 00:07:47,172 TROUTMAN: There was a man that was working at the Money Pit 150 00:07:47,275 --> 00:07:48,793 with a steam boiler. 151 00:07:48,896 --> 00:07:51,068 [steam hissing, rhythmic whooshing] 152 00:07:51,172 --> 00:07:54,448 The boiler overpressurized and exploded... 153 00:07:54,551 --> 00:07:56,379 [loud explosion] 154 00:07:56,482 --> 00:07:59,379 ...and apparently, scalded him to death and injured 155 00:07:59,482 --> 00:08:00,965 a few others. 156 00:08:01,068 --> 00:08:02,724 Unfortunately, we don't know his name 157 00:08:02,827 --> 00:08:04,896 because the death records weren't kept 158 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,413 until 1864 in the province. 159 00:08:10,482 --> 00:08:14,931 SHATNER: On March 26, 1897, 160 00:08:15,034 --> 00:08:16,862 tragedy struck again, 161 00:08:16,965 --> 00:08:19,551 when 47-year-old Maynard Kaiser, 162 00:08:19,655 --> 00:08:23,344 while working for the island's new owner, Frederick Blair, 163 00:08:23,448 --> 00:08:28,586 became Oak Island's second human casualty. 164 00:08:28,689 --> 00:08:30,206 They had a pit nearby the Money Pit 165 00:08:30,310 --> 00:08:32,206 that they were using for fresh water. 166 00:08:32,310 --> 00:08:35,241 And they would put the buckets down there and bring them up. 167 00:08:35,344 --> 00:08:37,896 And one of the buckets had become disconnected, 168 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,413 so Maynard Kaiser went down on the rope 169 00:08:41,517 --> 00:08:44,793 to reconnect the bucket. 170 00:08:44,896 --> 00:08:47,137 And as they were coming back up, 171 00:08:47,241 --> 00:08:49,310 the weight of the water in the bucket and the additional weight 172 00:08:49,413 --> 00:08:53,000 from Maynard caused the rope to unspool. 173 00:08:53,103 --> 00:08:55,586 - [man screaming] - And he fell to his death, 174 00:08:55,689 --> 00:08:57,344 some 80 feet down. 175 00:09:00,034 --> 00:09:03,586 The aftermath of this unfortunate incident 176 00:09:03,689 --> 00:09:06,413 is that many of the workers, 177 00:09:06,517 --> 00:09:09,172 being quite superstitious, it is said, 178 00:09:09,275 --> 00:09:11,551 refused to go back down in the pits. 179 00:09:13,172 --> 00:09:16,310 In fact, they quit their jobs, 180 00:09:16,413 --> 00:09:19,206 and work came to a standstill on the island. 181 00:09:24,275 --> 00:09:26,310 SHATNER: Maynard Kaiser's body was never recovered, 182 00:09:26,413 --> 00:09:30,965 as if devoured by the Money Pit itself. 183 00:09:31,068 --> 00:09:33,655 Oak Island now had a curse, 184 00:09:33,758 --> 00:09:36,965 and its second taste of human blood. 185 00:09:37,068 --> 00:09:39,620 But was there a treasure? 186 00:09:39,724 --> 00:09:43,206 And, if so, who buried it there? 187 00:09:43,310 --> 00:09:46,310 What group of people had the kind of skills 188 00:09:46,413 --> 00:09:48,068 needed to booby-trap 189 00:09:48,172 --> 00:09:51,137 something buried at least ten stories underground? 190 00:09:51,241 --> 00:09:55,068 For many, the answer was simple... 191 00:09:55,172 --> 00:09:57,103 pirates. 192 00:10:02,689 --> 00:10:06,172 SHATNER: On a humid summer day in 1969, 193 00:10:06,275 --> 00:10:08,793 Oak Island land owner and treasure hunter, Fred Nolan, 194 00:10:08,896 --> 00:10:11,517 makes a remarkable discovery. 195 00:10:11,620 --> 00:10:14,758 While investigating the island's triangle-shaped swamp, 196 00:10:14,862 --> 00:10:17,689 he unearths compelling evidence 197 00:10:17,793 --> 00:10:21,551 that a large ship might have been buried there. 198 00:10:21,655 --> 00:10:24,793 Fred actually retrieved ship artifacts from the swamp. 199 00:10:24,896 --> 00:10:28,344 There's was a ship's mast, there was ship's scuppers. 200 00:10:28,448 --> 00:10:30,655 Did he suspect there was a ship? 201 00:10:30,758 --> 00:10:33,310 The answer would almost certainly have to be "yes." 202 00:10:33,413 --> 00:10:36,689 SHATNER: The find serves to confirm 203 00:10:36,793 --> 00:10:39,793 what Fred Nolan has believed for some time: 204 00:10:39,896 --> 00:10:43,103 that the Oak Island swamp is man-made, 205 00:10:43,206 --> 00:10:48,241 and that it was created to hide a large sailing ship. 206 00:10:48,344 --> 00:10:50,620 But why? 207 00:10:50,724 --> 00:10:52,758 Well, the main thing that supports the idea 208 00:10:52,862 --> 00:10:55,896 that Oak Island was two islands 209 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,172 is that one end of the island is made of granite, 210 00:10:59,275 --> 00:11:03,448 and the other is sandstone, limestone, crumbly rocks. 211 00:11:03,551 --> 00:11:06,517 They're two completely different compositions 212 00:11:06,620 --> 00:11:08,413 on one end of the island and the other. 213 00:11:08,517 --> 00:11:10,655 So it-it almost seems like they're two... 214 00:11:10,758 --> 00:11:12,896 two separate... islands. 215 00:11:14,034 --> 00:11:16,551 Fred's theory that somebody sailed a boat 216 00:11:16,655 --> 00:11:19,137 into the waters, you know, 217 00:11:19,241 --> 00:11:21,482 between these two very close islands and sunk it 218 00:11:21,586 --> 00:11:24,758 with a treasure on it was, like, it was one more outlandish idea, 219 00:11:24,862 --> 00:11:26,620 until people started pulling 220 00:11:26,724 --> 00:11:30,620 pieces of an old Spanish ship out of the swamp. 221 00:11:30,724 --> 00:11:33,620 [chuckles]: So... it looks like a ship was sunk there. 222 00:11:33,724 --> 00:11:35,586 [crow cawing] 223 00:11:35,689 --> 00:11:37,517 SHATNER: Fred Nolan's discovery 224 00:11:37,620 --> 00:11:39,482 also seemed to validate the theory, 225 00:11:39,586 --> 00:11:42,758 held by Daniel McGinnis back in 1795, 226 00:11:42,862 --> 00:11:45,413 that not only was an incredible treasure buried 227 00:11:45,517 --> 00:11:47,448 somewhere on Oak Island 228 00:11:47,551 --> 00:11:49,758 but that it was put there 229 00:11:49,862 --> 00:11:52,344 sometime before the 18th century... 230 00:11:52,448 --> 00:11:54,482 by pirates. 231 00:11:54,586 --> 00:11:57,034 SULLIVAN: It was a time when pirate treasures 232 00:11:57,137 --> 00:11:59,724 or caches of gold coins 233 00:11:59,827 --> 00:12:02,000 were being discovered all over Nova Scotia. 234 00:12:03,827 --> 00:12:05,931 A lot of them buried by pirates. 235 00:12:06,034 --> 00:12:07,827 And so people 236 00:12:07,931 --> 00:12:10,758 were actually digging up treasures occasionally. 237 00:12:10,862 --> 00:12:13,000 Naturally, that's what people would imagine first 238 00:12:13,103 --> 00:12:17,275 about Oak Island, because it was the only known theory 239 00:12:17,379 --> 00:12:20,793 of people laying in treasure, uh, and it persisted 240 00:12:20,896 --> 00:12:23,793 because nobody came up with any alternatives. 241 00:12:23,896 --> 00:12:26,689 CROWELL: I think one of the reasons it's so easy 242 00:12:26,793 --> 00:12:29,586 to associate pirate lore with Oak Island 243 00:12:29,689 --> 00:12:32,586 is that Mahone Bay was unpopulated at that time. 244 00:12:32,689 --> 00:12:35,689 So, I mean, this was a very secluded bay, 245 00:12:35,793 --> 00:12:37,551 a perfect haven for pirates 246 00:12:37,655 --> 00:12:39,896 that wanted to be out of the way of prying eyes. 247 00:12:41,103 --> 00:12:43,068 TROUTMAN: Several pirates have been credited 248 00:12:43,172 --> 00:12:45,620 with possibly depositing the treasure here on Oak Island, 249 00:12:45,724 --> 00:12:47,586 including Peter Easton... 250 00:12:47,689 --> 00:12:49,689 Blackbeard... 251 00:12:49,793 --> 00:12:51,724 and William Kidd. 252 00:12:51,827 --> 00:12:54,379 In the early accounts of the Oak Island mystery, 253 00:12:54,482 --> 00:12:56,724 it was often told that... 254 00:12:56,827 --> 00:12:59,896 a dying man in the New England states 255 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,551 said he was a member of Captain Kidd's crew 256 00:13:02,655 --> 00:13:04,551 and that he had a treasure map 257 00:13:04,655 --> 00:13:07,000 to where Kidd's treasure was buried. 258 00:13:07,103 --> 00:13:09,586 Many historians will tell you that Captain Kidd 259 00:13:09,689 --> 00:13:11,241 never visited Nova Scotia, 260 00:13:11,344 --> 00:13:14,068 that he never got further north than Boston. 261 00:13:14,172 --> 00:13:16,965 There is a lot of local lore here in Nova Scotia, though, 262 00:13:17,068 --> 00:13:18,793 that he did. 263 00:13:22,206 --> 00:13:24,206 MARTY: My favorite pirate of all time is, uh, 264 00:13:24,310 --> 00:13:25,655 is Peter Easton, 265 00:13:25,758 --> 00:13:28,103 who was based up here in Newfoundland, 266 00:13:28,206 --> 00:13:32,517 and he had a fleet of something like 14 or 17 ships. 267 00:13:32,620 --> 00:13:35,482 They called him the Pirate Admiral. 268 00:13:35,586 --> 00:13:37,620 CROWELL: He often... 269 00:13:37,724 --> 00:13:39,896 stuck close to Newfoundland 270 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,862 and preyed on the trade routes from there. 271 00:13:41,965 --> 00:13:44,827 Once a year, the Spanish galleons would come 272 00:13:44,931 --> 00:13:47,413 from South America back to Spain. 273 00:13:47,517 --> 00:13:48,620 He would prey on them. 274 00:13:48,724 --> 00:13:50,620 He amassed quite a fortune. 275 00:13:50,724 --> 00:13:52,620 I've heard it said that Peter Easton amassed 276 00:13:52,724 --> 00:13:54,827 two million pounds. 277 00:13:54,931 --> 00:13:56,827 That is really interesting when you consider 278 00:13:56,931 --> 00:13:59,517 what the solution to the cipher 279 00:13:59,620 --> 00:14:01,586 that was on the 90 Foot Stone said, 280 00:14:01,689 --> 00:14:05,482 which was: "Forty feet below two million pounds are buried." 281 00:14:06,586 --> 00:14:08,724 Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, 282 00:14:08,827 --> 00:14:11,689 had said, before he was hung, 283 00:14:11,793 --> 00:14:14,517 that he had buried his treasure somewhere 284 00:14:14,620 --> 00:14:18,344 where "none but myself and the devil can find it." 285 00:14:18,448 --> 00:14:21,103 He claimed to have hidden the treasure somewhere 286 00:14:21,206 --> 00:14:23,068 in the New World, 287 00:14:23,172 --> 00:14:27,275 so people made the connection between Teach and Oak Island. 288 00:14:28,896 --> 00:14:31,034 SHATNER: The Pirate Admiral, 289 00:14:31,137 --> 00:14:33,482 Captain Kidd 290 00:14:33,586 --> 00:14:35,931 and Blackbeard. 291 00:14:36,034 --> 00:14:37,793 Did these infamous buccaneers 292 00:14:37,896 --> 00:14:41,862 really bury their stolen treasures on Oak Island? 293 00:14:41,965 --> 00:14:43,827 And even if they did, where did they get 294 00:14:43,931 --> 00:14:46,655 the incredible engineering skills 295 00:14:46,758 --> 00:14:49,931 that would have enabled them to bury a treasure so ingeniously, 296 00:14:50,034 --> 00:14:53,827 complete with booby traps? 297 00:14:53,931 --> 00:14:56,448 You know, when I was first asked whether it was possible 298 00:14:56,551 --> 00:14:59,068 pirates could've constructed the Money Pit, I scoffed. 299 00:14:59,172 --> 00:15:01,068 You know, I mean, because pirates would, 300 00:15:01,172 --> 00:15:02,655 what would they do with their booty? 301 00:15:02,758 --> 00:15:04,827 They'd dig a hole ten feet deep, 302 00:15:04,931 --> 00:15:08,103 bury it and come back for it when they were ready. 303 00:15:08,206 --> 00:15:10,965 But I didn't know then about the works that pirates had created 304 00:15:11,068 --> 00:15:14,655 at, uh, Port Royal in Jamaica and on Tortuga, 305 00:15:14,758 --> 00:15:19,275 which are incredibly elaborate systems of tunnels and vaults 306 00:15:19,379 --> 00:15:22,758 that more than match in scope what's been done on Oak Island. 307 00:15:22,862 --> 00:15:25,034 So there clearly were pirate engineers, 308 00:15:25,137 --> 00:15:29,827 and I couldn't be as dismissive of the pirate theory after that. 309 00:15:31,172 --> 00:15:33,172 SHATNER: But even if pirates did hide 310 00:15:33,275 --> 00:15:36,586 an incredible treasure on Oak Island, 311 00:15:36,689 --> 00:15:39,517 is it really possible that it would bear a deadly curse? 312 00:15:39,620 --> 00:15:43,586 There are some Oak Island historians who are convinced 313 00:15:43,689 --> 00:15:47,551 that the answer is a disturbing yes. 314 00:15:49,896 --> 00:15:51,724 In pirate folklore, it's a common thing 315 00:15:51,827 --> 00:15:54,068 that they would bury somebody that was alive 316 00:15:54,172 --> 00:15:56,068 to guard the treasure as a spirit 317 00:15:56,172 --> 00:15:58,034 so it would be cursed and haunted, 318 00:15:58,137 --> 00:16:00,758 so nobody would be able to get access to the treasure. 319 00:16:00,862 --> 00:16:02,931 That seems to play into a lot of the myths 320 00:16:03,034 --> 00:16:06,275 regarding the-the curse on the island. 321 00:16:06,379 --> 00:16:09,103 One of the stories is that pirates may have buried 322 00:16:09,206 --> 00:16:12,172 their treasure on the island in treasure tunnels. 323 00:16:12,275 --> 00:16:14,862 And they had slaves digging for them. 324 00:16:14,965 --> 00:16:18,965 And in the process, they left them there to die. 325 00:16:20,448 --> 00:16:22,103 [screams] 326 00:16:22,206 --> 00:16:24,758 And as they knew they were dying, 327 00:16:24,862 --> 00:16:26,620 those slaves cursed those pirates 328 00:16:26,724 --> 00:16:31,068 and cursed that treasure, and by extension, the whole island. 329 00:16:31,172 --> 00:16:33,172 [wailing, chains rattling] 330 00:16:33,275 --> 00:16:35,758 Sometimes those near the tunnels late at night 331 00:16:35,862 --> 00:16:38,103 could hear the rattling of chains. 332 00:16:40,344 --> 00:16:43,689 Perhaps that's the energy we're dealing with today. 333 00:16:43,793 --> 00:16:47,206 It is like a time bomb, 334 00:16:47,310 --> 00:16:51,137 something that goes down through the ages. 335 00:16:53,413 --> 00:16:56,655 The idea that Oak Island might be haunted by the souls 336 00:16:56,758 --> 00:17:00,034 of those who dug the treasure tunnels had a chilling effect 337 00:17:00,137 --> 00:17:02,206 on pretty much everyone who came there. 338 00:17:02,310 --> 00:17:04,862 So far, two men had died horribly. 339 00:17:04,965 --> 00:17:09,206 But Oak Island's reputation as cursed didn't really take hold 340 00:17:09,310 --> 00:17:13,931 until a man came to the island claiming that he and he alone 341 00:17:14,034 --> 00:17:15,413 could solve the mystery. 342 00:17:15,517 --> 00:17:18,379 It was a notion that would ultimately cost him 343 00:17:18,482 --> 00:17:23,068 and three other men, including his son, their lives. 344 00:17:31,034 --> 00:17:33,862 SHATNER: An article appears in Coronet magazine 345 00:17:33,965 --> 00:17:36,275 called "The Buried Treasure of Oak Island." 346 00:17:36,379 --> 00:17:39,586 It attracts the attention of a former motorcycle daredevil 347 00:17:39,689 --> 00:17:41,827 named Robert Restall. 348 00:17:41,931 --> 00:17:45,000 Having professionally toured Europe and North America 349 00:17:45,103 --> 00:17:47,862 with his wife Mildred throughout the 1930s and '40s, 350 00:17:47,965 --> 00:17:51,172 Robert was now a man who struggled to find work 351 00:17:51,275 --> 00:17:53,862 that earned him enough to provide for his family. 352 00:17:53,965 --> 00:17:58,793 But now, after reading about the possibility of a vast treasure 353 00:17:58,896 --> 00:18:02,344 buried deep beneath the surface of a small Canadian island, 354 00:18:02,448 --> 00:18:06,793 Robert became convinced that he had both the engineering skills 355 00:18:06,896 --> 00:18:12,551 and the determination to solve the Oak Island mystery. 356 00:18:12,655 --> 00:18:15,793 Robert Restall got involved in Oak Island 357 00:18:15,896 --> 00:18:18,448 like so many others have, by reading a magazine article. 358 00:18:18,551 --> 00:18:20,862 So when he read about Oak Island, 359 00:18:20,965 --> 00:18:25,172 he got every single available document, book, you name it, 360 00:18:25,275 --> 00:18:28,172 maps, charts, and studied Oak Island. 361 00:18:28,275 --> 00:18:30,655 It was his passion. He would stay up at night 362 00:18:30,758 --> 00:18:33,655 reading, like, the survey maps of Oak Island 363 00:18:33,758 --> 00:18:36,000 and looking for clues and codes and things. 364 00:18:36,103 --> 00:18:39,517 SHATNER: After making a deal with the owner of the island Mel Chappell 365 00:18:39,620 --> 00:18:42,655 on October 15, 1959, 366 00:18:42,758 --> 00:18:45,482 Robert Restall moves his family onto the island 367 00:18:45,586 --> 00:18:47,655 and takes up the search. 368 00:18:47,758 --> 00:18:49,172 RICK RESTALL: I was just a nine year old boy. 369 00:18:49,275 --> 00:18:51,827 It was, uh, it was like leaving the city 370 00:18:51,931 --> 00:18:54,517 and arriving in some paradise. 371 00:18:54,620 --> 00:18:58,896 It was just full of life, color, nature, 372 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,965 and, uh, I couldn't have been happier. 373 00:19:01,068 --> 00:19:04,931 For almost two or three years, I think, 374 00:19:05,034 --> 00:19:07,827 I was the luckiest kid in the world. 375 00:19:11,413 --> 00:19:14,862 Many people talk about the treasure of Oak Island, 376 00:19:14,965 --> 00:19:20,862 but the treasure to my dad was not so much the money, 377 00:19:20,965 --> 00:19:25,724 but it was being the one who was able to unravel 378 00:19:25,827 --> 00:19:29,413 the mystery of the island. 379 00:19:31,137 --> 00:19:34,137 RICK: The men were always busy digging... 380 00:19:36,137 --> 00:19:39,931 ...or writing letters to investors 381 00:19:40,034 --> 00:19:41,620 or working on a piece of machinery 382 00:19:41,724 --> 00:19:45,068 that was becoming problematic. 383 00:19:46,275 --> 00:19:48,862 Or as Bobby did, uh, 384 00:19:48,965 --> 00:19:53,827 making maps and drawings of the work that was ongoing. 385 00:19:55,896 --> 00:19:58,413 LAMB: My dad was totally innovative. 386 00:19:58,517 --> 00:20:00,551 And he knew what the others had done 387 00:20:00,655 --> 00:20:02,689 and where they had fallen short. 388 00:20:02,793 --> 00:20:05,551 Up to that point, people didn't really trust 389 00:20:05,655 --> 00:20:07,862 the work of the person ahead of them. 390 00:20:07,965 --> 00:20:10,413 But Dad wasn't gonna make that mistake. 391 00:20:10,517 --> 00:20:14,206 He was going to take everything just the one step further. 392 00:20:14,310 --> 00:20:16,206 That's all he had to do. 393 00:20:16,310 --> 00:20:18,310 It wasn't a big deal. 394 00:20:18,413 --> 00:20:21,137 And he really believed he could do it in about three months. 395 00:20:23,206 --> 00:20:25,586 SHATNER: Unfortunately for Robert Restall, 396 00:20:25,689 --> 00:20:29,517 three months eventually became five long years, 397 00:20:29,620 --> 00:20:33,862 during which his family endured the harshest of conditions. 398 00:20:33,965 --> 00:20:36,689 Bitter cold in the winter, 399 00:20:36,793 --> 00:20:38,862 sweltering heat during the summer. 400 00:20:38,965 --> 00:20:40,724 For Robert Restall, 401 00:20:40,827 --> 00:20:44,655 determination eventually turned into desperation. 402 00:20:44,758 --> 00:20:49,241 And desperation into obsession. 403 00:20:49,344 --> 00:20:50,862 If you're trying to understand the mindset 404 00:20:50,965 --> 00:20:53,068 of a treasure hunter, it's actually very useful 405 00:20:53,172 --> 00:20:55,689 to try to understand the psychology behind gambling. 406 00:20:56,827 --> 00:21:00,275 Sometimes gamblers will spend many, many hours 407 00:21:00,379 --> 00:21:03,413 at the same slot machine, and in a sense, you could say 408 00:21:03,517 --> 00:21:06,000 that's like a microcosm of what's happening 409 00:21:06,103 --> 00:21:08,310 with very obsessed treasure hunters. 410 00:21:08,413 --> 00:21:12,482 In the case of either treasure hunting or gambling, 411 00:21:12,586 --> 00:21:15,586 if the person is failing after many repeated attempts 412 00:21:15,689 --> 00:21:17,655 and not getting any reward, 413 00:21:17,758 --> 00:21:21,482 most often, people will eventually give out. 414 00:21:23,206 --> 00:21:27,000 But that's what separates these obsessive personalities 415 00:21:27,103 --> 00:21:29,310 from the ones that will just quit. 416 00:21:29,413 --> 00:21:32,965 And they will keep on chasing that rush 417 00:21:33,068 --> 00:21:35,000 and building up that anticipation 418 00:21:35,103 --> 00:21:37,827 until they get rewards. 419 00:21:39,172 --> 00:21:42,586 I think obsession is the salient characteristic 420 00:21:42,689 --> 00:21:43,793 of what happens on this island. 421 00:21:43,896 --> 00:21:45,000 I really, really do. 422 00:21:45,103 --> 00:21:48,000 And knowing that that condition exists here, 423 00:21:48,103 --> 00:21:50,310 I think it's something to be wary of. 424 00:21:50,413 --> 00:21:53,827 I think it's easy to become obsessed with this. 425 00:21:53,931 --> 00:21:57,689 I feel that the treasure is here and that we can get it, 426 00:21:57,793 --> 00:22:01,551 and we're going to stay here until we do. 427 00:22:01,655 --> 00:22:04,620 SHATNER: By 1965, Robert Restall had poured everything he had 428 00:22:04,724 --> 00:22:06,103 into Oak Island. 429 00:22:06,206 --> 00:22:09,034 He couldn't leave empty-handed. 430 00:22:09,137 --> 00:22:12,689 And then, on August 17, 1965, 431 00:22:12,793 --> 00:22:14,000 Robert Restall, 432 00:22:14,103 --> 00:22:16,862 his eldest son Bobby, 433 00:22:16,965 --> 00:22:18,827 and two of his coworkers 434 00:22:18,931 --> 00:22:22,068 would become part of Oak Island history. 435 00:22:22,172 --> 00:22:25,862 But not in the way they had hoped. 436 00:22:25,965 --> 00:22:28,655 That afternoon, Robert had intended to travel 437 00:22:28,758 --> 00:22:30,862 to the mainland to visit the bank. 438 00:22:30,965 --> 00:22:32,862 But he took one last walk to take another look 439 00:22:32,965 --> 00:22:34,793 at their current work. 440 00:22:34,896 --> 00:22:37,793 And while he was looking in the shaft, 441 00:22:37,896 --> 00:22:39,724 he tumbled in. 442 00:22:39,827 --> 00:22:41,034 โ™ช 443 00:22:41,137 --> 00:22:43,586 His son Bobby saw his father 444 00:22:43,689 --> 00:22:45,034 tumble into the shaft, 445 00:22:45,137 --> 00:22:47,931 and quickly went to his aid. 446 00:22:48,034 --> 00:22:50,586 Carl Graeser was very close behind, 447 00:22:50,689 --> 00:22:52,862 Cyril Hiltz, Andrew DeMont 448 00:22:52,965 --> 00:22:54,896 and Leonard Kaizer 449 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,482 also followed them down into the shaft. 450 00:23:04,689 --> 00:23:08,931 Of all the individuals that entered the shaft, 451 00:23:09,034 --> 00:23:11,137 only two were saved. 452 00:23:11,241 --> 00:23:13,965 They all seemed to have been overcome 453 00:23:14,068 --> 00:23:17,137 by some gas in the shaft. 454 00:23:17,241 --> 00:23:19,620 SHATNER: By the end of that tragic day, 455 00:23:19,724 --> 00:23:23,586 Oak Island's deadly curse had added the names of four men 456 00:23:23,689 --> 00:23:25,758 to its list of victims: 457 00:23:25,862 --> 00:23:27,689 Robert Restall, 458 00:23:27,793 --> 00:23:29,241 his son Bobby, 459 00:23:29,344 --> 00:23:30,620 Cyril Hiltz 460 00:23:30,724 --> 00:23:32,586 and Carl Graeser. 461 00:23:32,689 --> 00:23:37,827 And in a morbid twist on an already sad tale, 462 00:23:37,931 --> 00:23:41,034 a rumor was being spread 463 00:23:41,137 --> 00:23:44,103 that not only was the Oak Island curse real 464 00:23:44,206 --> 00:23:46,793 but that one more would have to die 465 00:23:46,896 --> 00:23:49,275 in pursuit of the treasure 466 00:23:49,379 --> 00:23:53,068 before the Oak Island mystery could be solved. 467 00:23:53,172 --> 00:23:56,931 The idea of seven people dying seems to have come 468 00:23:57,034 --> 00:24:00,724 from a 1967 article in True magazine. 469 00:24:00,827 --> 00:24:03,655 It was attributing this to a local legend 470 00:24:03,758 --> 00:24:05,931 that said seven men have to die 471 00:24:06,034 --> 00:24:08,827 before the treasure will be found. 472 00:24:08,931 --> 00:24:12,965 SHATNER: But is the notion of an Oak Island curse simply made-up, 473 00:24:13,068 --> 00:24:16,344 the product of a pulp writer's fantasy? 474 00:24:16,448 --> 00:24:18,965 Or is it real? 475 00:24:19,068 --> 00:24:21,758 There are many who insist that not only is it real 476 00:24:21,862 --> 00:24:23,827 but that its origins 477 00:24:23,931 --> 00:24:26,896 stretch back long before the days of pirates, 478 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,896 all the way back 479 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,310 to the days of the Knights Templar. 480 00:24:37,482 --> 00:24:39,620 โ™ช 481 00:24:39,724 --> 00:24:43,517 SHATNER: Smith's Cove, October, 2017. 482 00:24:43,620 --> 00:24:45,689 I mean, this is an ideal situation, Rick, 483 00:24:45,793 --> 00:24:47,103 because, obviously, it's low tide. 484 00:24:47,206 --> 00:24:49,931 - RICK: Mm-hmm. - We got these rock pools. 485 00:24:50,034 --> 00:24:51,310 RICK: So, you're thinking between 486 00:24:51,413 --> 00:24:52,551 the beach and the old cofferdams. 487 00:24:52,655 --> 00:24:54,724 - This is a perfect spot? - Yeah. 488 00:24:54,827 --> 00:24:56,206 So, let's see if we can find something. 489 00:24:56,310 --> 00:24:57,482 SHATNER: While searching 490 00:24:57,586 --> 00:24:59,241 along a stretch of Oak Island's shoreline, 491 00:24:59,344 --> 00:25:03,275 Rick Lagina and metal detection expert Gary Drayton 492 00:25:03,379 --> 00:25:04,827 make a shocking discovery... 493 00:25:04,931 --> 00:25:08,310 [beeping] 494 00:25:08,413 --> 00:25:09,965 That's worth digging, Rick. 495 00:25:11,965 --> 00:25:14,586 SHATNER: ...one that would ultimately shed light 496 00:25:14,689 --> 00:25:17,172 on the Oak Island curse. 497 00:25:17,275 --> 00:25:19,310 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! 498 00:25:19,413 --> 00:25:20,827 What? 499 00:25:20,931 --> 00:25:22,482 - I don't see anything. - I see something. 500 00:25:22,586 --> 00:25:25,000 [beeping] 501 00:25:29,344 --> 00:25:30,482 Holy... 502 00:25:30,586 --> 00:25:33,482 Holy schmoly, all right. 503 00:25:33,586 --> 00:25:35,965 - RICK: It's a cross. - That's a cross. 504 00:25:37,448 --> 00:25:39,000 There's a square hole. 505 00:25:39,103 --> 00:25:40,931 Yeah, right there. 506 00:25:41,034 --> 00:25:42,448 It's heavy, too. 507 00:25:42,551 --> 00:25:43,793 Oh, my gosh. I mean, 508 00:25:43,896 --> 00:25:46,758 that is an old, old cross. 509 00:25:47,655 --> 00:25:48,862 I didn't really know 510 00:25:48,965 --> 00:25:51,586 what it was until I pick it up 511 00:25:51,689 --> 00:25:53,344 and I can see 512 00:25:53,448 --> 00:25:56,241 this is a religious artifact. 513 00:25:56,344 --> 00:25:58,896 I could tell straightaway 514 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,517 that this cross is probably hundreds of years old. 515 00:26:03,620 --> 00:26:06,137 This isn't a modern design. 516 00:26:06,241 --> 00:26:07,758 I got to be honest, when I first saw it, 517 00:26:07,862 --> 00:26:09,517 I'm thinking medieval. 518 00:26:09,620 --> 00:26:12,379 Sweet! 519 00:26:12,482 --> 00:26:14,034 Gary was extremely excited. 520 00:26:14,137 --> 00:26:16,689 More excited than anything he's ever found on the island. 521 00:26:16,793 --> 00:26:20,241 GARY: This is the type of thing I'd expect to find in Europe. 522 00:26:20,344 --> 00:26:25,758 I would say that is somewhere between 1200 and 1600. 523 00:26:27,551 --> 00:26:28,586 RICK: It's really that old? 524 00:26:28,689 --> 00:26:29,758 Yeah, that is old. 525 00:26:29,862 --> 00:26:31,896 That is really old. 526 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,862 I've seen that shape before. 527 00:26:33,965 --> 00:26:35,620 I swear, that'll tell the tale how old it is. 528 00:26:35,724 --> 00:26:37,137 - That shape. - Yeah. 529 00:26:37,241 --> 00:26:39,620 Where do you think you've seen it before? 530 00:26:39,724 --> 00:26:41,758 You know, when I was in France, 531 00:26:41,862 --> 00:26:44,448 I swear I saw a carving like that 532 00:26:44,551 --> 00:26:47,517 in the Templar prison in Domme. 533 00:26:47,620 --> 00:26:50,482 โ™ช 534 00:26:50,586 --> 00:26:52,758 SHATNER: Incredibly, it was while on a research trip to France 535 00:26:52,862 --> 00:26:54,793 one month earlier 536 00:26:54,896 --> 00:26:57,931 that Rick Lagina was shown a virtually identical carving 537 00:26:58,034 --> 00:27:02,344 etched into the wall of Domme Prison, 538 00:27:02,448 --> 00:27:04,862 a 13th-century fortress 539 00:27:04,965 --> 00:27:07,517 where 70 members of the Knights Templar were imprisoned 540 00:27:07,620 --> 00:27:09,000 and tortured 541 00:27:09,103 --> 00:27:12,827 - prior to execution. - [distorted shouting] 542 00:27:12,931 --> 00:27:15,793 But could the striking similarity between the cross 543 00:27:15,896 --> 00:27:18,241 found by Rick Lagina at Smith's Cove 544 00:27:18,344 --> 00:27:21,448 and the carving on the wall at Domme Prison suggest 545 00:27:21,551 --> 00:27:24,000 that some members of the Knights Templar actually made 546 00:27:24,103 --> 00:27:26,448 their way across the Atlantic to North America 547 00:27:26,551 --> 00:27:30,310 centuries before Christopher Columbus' historic voyage 548 00:27:30,413 --> 00:27:33,896 in 1492? 549 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,034 The Knights Templar were founded in the 12th century, 550 00:27:37,137 --> 00:27:40,000 and they were the world's first combination 551 00:27:40,103 --> 00:27:42,862 of warrior and monk, a security force 552 00:27:42,965 --> 00:27:44,793 of a sort that would assist pilgrims 553 00:27:44,896 --> 00:27:47,827 on their journey to the Holy Land. 554 00:27:47,931 --> 00:27:49,517 And one of the services they provided 555 00:27:49,620 --> 00:27:52,724 was they would hold on to and-and give safekeeping to any 556 00:27:52,827 --> 00:27:54,689 of the relics that pilgrims would have gathered 557 00:27:54,793 --> 00:27:56,482 on their journey. 558 00:27:56,586 --> 00:27:59,551 They were the guardians of a lot of the treasures 559 00:27:59,655 --> 00:28:02,275 of various kings and popes and monarchs. 560 00:28:02,379 --> 00:28:04,965 And because of their amazing reputation, 561 00:28:05,068 --> 00:28:08,931 they became known as the world's first international bankers. 562 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,310 YOUNG: The French crown 563 00:28:12,413 --> 00:28:15,034 had borrowed a great deal of money from the organization, 564 00:28:15,137 --> 00:28:20,137 and so to get out of paying back the order, 565 00:28:20,241 --> 00:28:22,758 the king of France decides they are Satanists, 566 00:28:22,862 --> 00:28:26,620 and they're defiling the church. 567 00:28:26,724 --> 00:28:29,862 SANFORD HOLST: The king of France then leaned on the pope to back him up 568 00:28:29,965 --> 00:28:32,517 and press charges against the Knights Templar. 569 00:28:32,620 --> 00:28:35,724 And here, the pope was siding with the king of France, 570 00:28:35,827 --> 00:28:37,862 turning all of his people over to be imprisoned 571 00:28:37,965 --> 00:28:41,034 and burned at the stake, and they felt horribly betrayed. 572 00:28:43,517 --> 00:28:48,103 SHATNER: On Friday 13, 1307, 573 00:28:48,206 --> 00:28:50,655 Pope Clement V ordered the imprisonment 574 00:28:50,758 --> 00:28:52,344 of the Knights Templar, 575 00:28:52,448 --> 00:28:57,034 including their grandmaster Jacques de Molay. 576 00:28:57,137 --> 00:28:59,413 Of the Templars who were able to evade capture, 577 00:28:59,517 --> 00:29:01,413 many fled to Scotland, 578 00:29:01,517 --> 00:29:05,103 and as far as some Templar scholars are concerned, 579 00:29:05,206 --> 00:29:06,896 successfully made their way across the Atlantic 580 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,448 to North America. 581 00:29:08,551 --> 00:29:12,586 But if such an audacious theory is correct, 582 00:29:12,689 --> 00:29:14,793 is it also possible that the Templars brought with them 583 00:29:14,896 --> 00:29:17,310 many of their riches and religious artifacts 584 00:29:17,413 --> 00:29:20,413 that they rescued from the Holy Land? 585 00:29:20,517 --> 00:29:24,931 The Knights Templar were formed during the first Crusades, 586 00:29:25,034 --> 00:29:28,586 after the Christian knights had come to the Holy Land 587 00:29:28,689 --> 00:29:29,896 and captured Jerusalem. 588 00:29:31,517 --> 00:29:34,758 And it's believed that possibly they found the Holy Grail. 589 00:29:34,862 --> 00:29:37,000 They may have found the Ark of the Covenant. 590 00:29:38,896 --> 00:29:41,586 COPPENS: The Ark of the Covenant holds 591 00:29:41,689 --> 00:29:45,517 the covenant from God to man-- and that is, physically, 592 00:29:45,620 --> 00:29:49,241 the two tablets representing the Ten Commandments. 593 00:29:50,793 --> 00:29:54,655 If the Templars were carrying this extraordinary treasure 594 00:29:54,758 --> 00:29:56,586 to a place where they wanted to be safe 595 00:29:56,689 --> 00:30:00,551 and create a New Jerusalem, Oak Island makes sense. 596 00:30:01,827 --> 00:30:04,241 SHATNER: The Ark of the Covenant. 597 00:30:04,344 --> 00:30:07,793 Is it possible that this most sacred of all religious objects 598 00:30:07,896 --> 00:30:09,965 was brought to Oak Island and buried, 599 00:30:10,068 --> 00:30:12,793 along with other Templar treasures, 600 00:30:12,896 --> 00:30:15,896 in a booby-trapped vault deep beneath the ground? 601 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,655 It may sound like a far-fetched notion, 602 00:30:19,758 --> 00:30:24,034 but according to both Oak Island and Knights Templar researchers, 603 00:30:24,137 --> 00:30:27,137 the best proof of this theory may be something 604 00:30:27,241 --> 00:30:30,896 that both the island and the Templars have in common: 605 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,137 a deadly curse. 606 00:30:35,241 --> 00:30:38,965 COPPENS: When Jacques de Molay, was brought to the stake, 607 00:30:39,068 --> 00:30:42,172 he gave a very powerful and impassioned speech 608 00:30:42,275 --> 00:30:45,551 about his innocence and the innocence of his entire order. 609 00:30:45,655 --> 00:30:48,068 It was a very dramatic speech that to this day 610 00:30:48,172 --> 00:30:52,034 is talked about in France and elsewhere. 611 00:30:52,137 --> 00:30:55,827 As Jacques de Molay stood at the funeral pyre 612 00:30:55,931 --> 00:30:57,896 waiting for the flames to consume him, 613 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,068 he cursed the king and he cursed the pope. 614 00:31:02,172 --> 00:31:05,034 And he said that both of them would be called before God 615 00:31:05,137 --> 00:31:07,517 before the end of a year and a day. 616 00:31:07,620 --> 00:31:13,517 Within a year, the pope dies of a prolonged illness. 617 00:31:13,620 --> 00:31:16,965 Within a year, the king dies of a stroke 618 00:31:17,068 --> 00:31:18,965 on his way to go hunting. 619 00:31:19,068 --> 00:31:21,137 But it doesn't end there. 620 00:31:21,241 --> 00:31:24,724 Over the course of the next 14 years, 621 00:31:24,827 --> 00:31:29,103 the king of France's line, his three sons and his grandson, 622 00:31:29,206 --> 00:31:32,689 all die in somewhat mysterious circumstances. 623 00:31:32,793 --> 00:31:36,103 YOUNG: There is the kind of curse that carries over, 624 00:31:36,206 --> 00:31:39,000 that has long-lasting implications. 625 00:31:39,103 --> 00:31:42,482 When de Molay was killed by the French crown, 626 00:31:42,586 --> 00:31:45,482 there was a curse-- perhaps on France, perhaps on the materials 627 00:31:45,586 --> 00:31:49,034 or the wealth of the Templars-- that goes down through time. 628 00:31:49,137 --> 00:31:53,068 And anybody who recovers this or has some interest 629 00:31:53,172 --> 00:31:56,206 might be hurt by them. 630 00:31:56,310 --> 00:31:59,689 Is it possible that the curse somehow carried over 631 00:31:59,793 --> 00:32:01,758 and is protecting whatever is buried 632 00:32:01,862 --> 00:32:04,586 in the Money Pit on Oak Island, which some researchers 633 00:32:04,689 --> 00:32:06,827 have speculated is actually the resting place 634 00:32:06,931 --> 00:32:08,689 of the Ark of the Covenant? 635 00:32:13,172 --> 00:32:15,965 Could the fabled riches of the Knights Templar 636 00:32:16,068 --> 00:32:17,862 really lie buried 637 00:32:17,965 --> 00:32:22,000 in an elaborately constructed treasure vault on Oak Island? 638 00:32:22,103 --> 00:32:24,034 There are many who believe the answer 639 00:32:24,137 --> 00:32:26,206 is a profound yes 640 00:32:26,310 --> 00:32:28,896 and that these riches are still being protected 641 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,551 by Jacques de Molay's deadly curse, 642 00:32:32,655 --> 00:32:35,793 one that was designed to keep the treasure hidden 643 00:32:35,896 --> 00:32:38,241 at all costs. 644 00:32:46,620 --> 00:32:48,689 SHATNER: Shortly after performing the ancient practice 645 00:32:48,793 --> 00:32:51,586 known as dowsing, which entails using metal rods 646 00:32:51,689 --> 00:32:54,448 to detect underground voids, 647 00:32:54,551 --> 00:32:57,000 treasure hunter Dan Henskee 648 00:32:57,103 --> 00:32:59,310 is suddenly overcome with a strange 649 00:32:59,413 --> 00:33:01,896 and disturbing sensation. 650 00:33:03,344 --> 00:33:05,655 I don't actually know if what's happened to me 651 00:33:05,758 --> 00:33:08,137 on Oak Island was real or imaginary. 652 00:33:08,241 --> 00:33:10,896 It was quite strange. 653 00:33:13,655 --> 00:33:16,551 It involved what appeared to be possession 654 00:33:16,655 --> 00:33:19,620 by a spirit of someone long dead. 655 00:33:19,724 --> 00:33:23,241 I thought that the spirit of a dead priest 656 00:33:23,344 --> 00:33:24,793 had entered my body 657 00:33:24,896 --> 00:33:26,655 and that the priest had his throat cut. 658 00:33:26,758 --> 00:33:28,620 [man screams] 659 00:33:28,724 --> 00:33:32,137 - [heart beating] - I do remember falling down, 660 00:33:32,241 --> 00:33:35,172 feeling that I was experiencing the death 661 00:33:35,275 --> 00:33:37,827 of this person. 662 00:33:37,931 --> 00:33:41,172 SHATNER: After Dan was able to regain control of himself, 663 00:33:41,275 --> 00:33:44,068 he was left with a daunting question: 664 00:33:44,172 --> 00:33:46,793 Was his experience just a trick of his mind? 665 00:33:46,896 --> 00:33:50,482 Or could it have really happened? 666 00:33:50,586 --> 00:33:52,620 Now, what makes this really interesting 667 00:33:52,724 --> 00:33:54,793 is the fact that he was able to determine 668 00:33:54,896 --> 00:33:56,655 that the entity possessing him 669 00:33:56,758 --> 00:33:59,379 was that of an allegedly murdered priest. 670 00:33:59,482 --> 00:34:01,448 [man screams] 671 00:34:01,551 --> 00:34:03,000 Now, you might be wondering, 672 00:34:03,103 --> 00:34:06,206 how did he come by this information? 673 00:34:06,310 --> 00:34:07,793 It's entirely possible 674 00:34:07,896 --> 00:34:10,344 that whatever had been interacting with him 675 00:34:10,448 --> 00:34:13,620 literally just told him that this is who I am 676 00:34:13,724 --> 00:34:15,517 and this is what happened to me. 677 00:34:16,620 --> 00:34:18,586 SHATNER: While many think 678 00:34:18,689 --> 00:34:20,586 that Dan's story is too bizarre to believe, 679 00:34:20,689 --> 00:34:23,620 it's not an isolated event. 680 00:34:23,724 --> 00:34:25,862 Throughout Oak Island's history, 681 00:34:25,965 --> 00:34:29,448 tales of frightening, mystical phenomena 682 00:34:29,551 --> 00:34:31,482 are as numerous as the theories 683 00:34:31,586 --> 00:34:33,896 concerning the legendary treasure. 684 00:34:35,275 --> 00:34:37,689 One of the more interesting extreme reports 685 00:34:37,793 --> 00:34:39,379 comes from a man named Fred Nolan. 686 00:34:39,482 --> 00:34:42,172 He was convinced 687 00:34:42,275 --> 00:34:44,620 that the ravens on the island were possessed 688 00:34:44,724 --> 00:34:46,862 by the souls of former slaves 689 00:34:46,965 --> 00:34:49,965 who had helped in digging the pits and the flood tunnels. 690 00:34:50,068 --> 00:34:52,206 [squawks] 691 00:34:53,137 --> 00:34:54,586 There have been all kinds of stories 692 00:34:54,689 --> 00:34:58,310 about a dog with fiery eyes. 693 00:34:58,413 --> 00:34:59,689 [growling] 694 00:34:59,793 --> 00:35:02,862 People have told me 695 00:35:02,965 --> 00:35:06,379 stories of their father or their grandfather 696 00:35:06,482 --> 00:35:09,827 wandering across the island and seeing this dog. 697 00:35:10,827 --> 00:35:13,655 Red glowing eyes have also been reported, 698 00:35:13,758 --> 00:35:16,344 uh, in another story. 699 00:35:16,448 --> 00:35:19,137 After the Restall Tragedy, 700 00:35:19,241 --> 00:35:21,724 one of the people that worked for them, Jim Kaizer... 701 00:35:21,827 --> 00:35:24,172 He often worked as a night watchman. 702 00:35:24,275 --> 00:35:27,517 One night, he was staying in the Restalls' cabin, 703 00:35:27,620 --> 00:35:30,586 and he woke up to a feeling 704 00:35:30,689 --> 00:35:32,517 of a great weight on his chest. 705 00:35:32,620 --> 00:35:35,965 He had these two red eyes staring at him in the dark, 706 00:35:36,068 --> 00:35:37,965 and he heard a voice tell him to leave the island 707 00:35:38,068 --> 00:35:40,551 - and never come back. - [indistinct whispering] 708 00:35:40,655 --> 00:35:42,896 And in the morning, when he woke up, 709 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,931 he had bruises all over him. 710 00:35:45,034 --> 00:35:47,620 Jimmy Kaizer was a real stand-up guy, 711 00:35:47,724 --> 00:35:49,655 an unshakeable sort, 712 00:35:49,758 --> 00:35:51,862 and this particular event, I think, 713 00:35:51,965 --> 00:35:54,827 from all accounts, really affected him 714 00:35:54,931 --> 00:35:57,068 for the rest of his life. 715 00:35:58,965 --> 00:36:00,724 SHATNER: Although most would agree 716 00:36:00,827 --> 00:36:03,724 that Oak Island is an unusual place, 717 00:36:03,827 --> 00:36:06,931 could any physical evidence exist to support the notion 718 00:36:07,034 --> 00:36:09,827 that there really is a supernatural presence 719 00:36:09,931 --> 00:36:11,344 on the island? 720 00:36:11,448 --> 00:36:13,689 [squawks] 721 00:36:13,793 --> 00:36:15,758 For many, the evidence lies 722 00:36:15,862 --> 00:36:18,620 in the unusual electrical activity 723 00:36:18,724 --> 00:36:20,724 that regularly happens there. 724 00:36:20,827 --> 00:36:22,310 One of the first things 725 00:36:22,413 --> 00:36:25,000 is people here will have brand-new cell phones, 726 00:36:25,103 --> 00:36:27,275 and the batteries will constantly drain out. 727 00:36:27,379 --> 00:36:31,000 There is a Bermuda Triangle for Oak Island 728 00:36:31,103 --> 00:36:33,724 that occurs between Apple Island and Frog Island 729 00:36:33,827 --> 00:36:35,620 coming up to Oak Island. 730 00:36:35,724 --> 00:36:37,689 [engine whirring] 731 00:36:37,793 --> 00:36:40,965 Everything will go dead, you will lose power in your boat. 732 00:36:41,068 --> 00:36:44,551 It's happened to several people in this particular spot. 733 00:36:44,655 --> 00:36:47,827 There's no explanation for it or the reasons why. 734 00:36:47,931 --> 00:36:50,689 SHATNER: But are strange electrical anomalies 735 00:36:50,793 --> 00:36:53,000 really evidence of a curse? 736 00:36:53,103 --> 00:36:55,482 Isn't it more likely that the bizarre occurrences 737 00:36:55,586 --> 00:37:00,379 experienced on the island have a perfectly rational explanation? 738 00:37:00,482 --> 00:37:03,103 Perhaps. 739 00:37:03,206 --> 00:37:05,896 But as far as two of the islands' owners are concerned, 740 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,482 the notion that dark forces might be at work 741 00:37:09,586 --> 00:37:12,586 is not so easy to dismiss. 742 00:37:12,689 --> 00:37:16,137 You know, I'm a skeptic about paranormal stuff, 743 00:37:16,241 --> 00:37:18,413 [laughs]: but I spent, but I spent one night-- 744 00:37:18,517 --> 00:37:20,448 I said, "I'm gonna go check this out myself." 745 00:37:22,896 --> 00:37:24,896 So we drive out, it's dark as can be, 746 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,965 and it gets, um, sort of, like, misty. 747 00:37:29,413 --> 00:37:31,413 A lot of fog and stuff, you know. 748 00:37:31,517 --> 00:37:34,862 It's a spooky-- It is a spooky place at night. 749 00:37:34,965 --> 00:37:37,551 Rick walked off, and I'm kind of sitting there 750 00:37:37,655 --> 00:37:39,000 thinking, "Well, this is silly." 751 00:37:39,103 --> 00:37:40,655 And I got out of the car, and I'm kind of leaning 752 00:37:40,758 --> 00:37:42,896 against the car-- it's pitch black-- and all of a sudden, 753 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,241 I heard the nastiest scream you've ever heard in your life. 754 00:37:46,344 --> 00:37:48,413 I mean, a bloodcurdling scream. 755 00:37:49,896 --> 00:37:52,758 [laughs]: Scared the bejibbers out of me. 756 00:37:52,862 --> 00:37:54,000 I jumped back in the car and I took off. 757 00:37:54,103 --> 00:37:56,413 And-and I almost ran him over. 758 00:37:58,724 --> 00:38:02,206 So, uh, intellectually, I don't believe that sort of thing, 759 00:38:02,310 --> 00:38:06,103 but you know, emotionally, it seems to happen. 760 00:38:06,206 --> 00:38:07,586 And there have been plenty of instances 761 00:38:07,689 --> 00:38:10,586 where that exact thing has done-- has happened. 762 00:38:10,689 --> 00:38:13,517 And there's no logic to why they happen. 763 00:38:13,620 --> 00:38:16,517 That's what's... strange. 764 00:38:24,413 --> 00:38:26,379 โ™ช 765 00:38:28,034 --> 00:38:32,000 SHATNER: Is there really an Oak Island curse? 766 00:38:33,724 --> 00:38:35,551 There are many who believe the answer's yes, 767 00:38:35,655 --> 00:38:38,655 but they'll also tell you that it isn't a curse 768 00:38:38,758 --> 00:38:43,068 that involves dark forces or threats of death. 769 00:38:44,758 --> 00:38:48,896 They believe it's the one that takes root in the mind 770 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,103 of every would-be treasure hunter. 771 00:38:58,551 --> 00:39:01,275 There are many psychological processes that could explain 772 00:39:01,379 --> 00:39:05,275 why a person actually spends years searching for something, 773 00:39:05,379 --> 00:39:08,310 doesn't find it and keeps doing it for even more years. 774 00:39:08,413 --> 00:39:12,206 So, one explanation is this sunken cost fallacy, 775 00:39:12,310 --> 00:39:14,827 and the idea there is that if you think 776 00:39:14,931 --> 00:39:17,517 you've already invested a lot in finding something 777 00:39:17,620 --> 00:39:19,758 or pursuing something, 778 00:39:19,862 --> 00:39:24,241 then you don't want that investment to go to waste, 779 00:39:24,344 --> 00:39:26,448 so you're willing to put in more investment 780 00:39:26,551 --> 00:39:29,206 into the pursuit of the thing that you still didn't find. 781 00:39:29,310 --> 00:39:32,137 And additionally, they're often very worried 782 00:39:32,241 --> 00:39:34,241 that if they leave this treasure hunt site, 783 00:39:34,344 --> 00:39:37,034 someone else might come and swoop in right after them 784 00:39:37,137 --> 00:39:39,206 and benefit from all of the work 785 00:39:39,310 --> 00:39:42,206 they have been doing all this time and get the big rewards. 786 00:39:43,793 --> 00:39:47,206 I don't know what it is about the island 787 00:39:47,310 --> 00:39:49,655 that so captivates people. 788 00:39:49,758 --> 00:39:54,068 But I do know that it really does. 789 00:39:54,172 --> 00:39:57,068 It really does, and it goes beyond reason. 790 00:39:59,862 --> 00:40:01,724 RICK: I can see the fascination. 791 00:40:01,827 --> 00:40:04,724 If the accident hadn't happened when it did, 792 00:40:04,827 --> 00:40:07,172 and I had come to the age of 16 or so, 793 00:40:07,275 --> 00:40:10,862 I can see myself taking shovel in hand 794 00:40:10,965 --> 00:40:15,689 and becoming so upset with the cursedness of this mystery 795 00:40:15,793 --> 00:40:18,137 and going after the answer myself. 796 00:40:19,793 --> 00:40:23,103 CANO: Perhaps the legend of a curse, 797 00:40:23,206 --> 00:40:26,965 the reason for it existing is to hide something. 798 00:40:27,068 --> 00:40:29,758 And the fact that people are searching, 799 00:40:29,862 --> 00:40:32,551 people are actively saying, "I'm gonna go against this 800 00:40:32,655 --> 00:40:35,103 and I'm gonna look for it anyway," 801 00:40:35,206 --> 00:40:39,551 that inherently gives the curse a reason for being. 802 00:40:39,655 --> 00:40:42,724 There is a definite presence on Oak Island, 803 00:40:42,827 --> 00:40:46,103 and I don't know if this feeds into the curse, 804 00:40:46,206 --> 00:40:48,241 or if this is something completely different. 805 00:40:48,344 --> 00:40:52,137 Or manifested because of the general knowledge 806 00:40:52,241 --> 00:40:55,275 that there may be a curse on the island. 807 00:40:57,827 --> 00:40:59,413 I think the island is cursed or there at least 808 00:40:59,517 --> 00:41:02,724 is some negative energy around the multiple layers of history. 809 00:41:02,827 --> 00:41:06,068 I think the curse shows up in many forms, 810 00:41:06,172 --> 00:41:10,206 whether it's greed, obsession or financial difficulty. 811 00:41:10,310 --> 00:41:15,172 And I think something is still unresolved and unsettled. 812 00:41:15,275 --> 00:41:18,586 The curse is the way Oak Island swallows people's lives. 813 00:41:18,689 --> 00:41:21,103 It consumes their fortunes, 814 00:41:21,206 --> 00:41:24,827 and in many cases, destroys their sanity. 815 00:41:24,931 --> 00:41:27,551 The curse of Oak Island is that once you get in, 816 00:41:27,655 --> 00:41:29,344 it's really hard to get out. 817 00:41:32,896 --> 00:41:35,827 Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and the other members 818 00:41:35,931 --> 00:41:38,172 of the Oak Island team are risking 819 00:41:38,275 --> 00:41:40,793 an incredible amount of time and money 820 00:41:40,896 --> 00:41:44,034 looking for a fabled treasure on Oak Island. 821 00:41:44,137 --> 00:41:48,758 But are they also risking their lives? 822 00:41:48,862 --> 00:41:52,482 See, one thing is certain: so far, six men have died 823 00:41:52,586 --> 00:41:54,034 searching for the answer. 824 00:41:54,137 --> 00:41:58,689 And according to legend, one more will have to die 825 00:41:58,793 --> 00:42:01,172 before what lies buried there can be found 826 00:42:01,275 --> 00:42:05,758 and the Oak Island mystery will no longer be among 827 00:42:05,862 --> 00:42:09,137 The UnXplained. 65411

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