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

RICK:
We're trying
to make a connection

between the Norse
and the Templars.

We found a piece of wood
in our swamp.

Very much like this.

This Viking ship
could travel to Oak Island.

-FIONA: Look what popped out.
-HELEN: What is that?

MARTY:
Somebody on Lot 5 was deep

in the Money Pit
based on this evidence.

This is a copper piece
from Oak Island.

Here's that symbol
next to a cross.

It's remarkable.

This cave might relate
to Oak Island.

ROBERTO:
This is it.

EMILIANO:
Wow. Look at this.

RICK:
We've seen that before.

NARRATOR:
There is an island
in the North Atlantic

where people
have been looking for

an incredible treasure
for more than 200 years.

So far, they have found
a stone slab

with strange symbols
carved into it...

...man-made workings
that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross
whose origin may be connected

to the Knights Templar.

To date, six men have died

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,
one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

♪ ♪

MARTY:
Gentlemen!

Hey, Marty.
How you doing?

Looking for reports.
Good reports.

TERRY:
(chuckles) Well,

down to 137 here, Marty.

What we have in front of us
is 117 to 137.

NARRATOR:
Another chilly fall morning

has begun on Oak Island

for Marty Lagina
and members of the team.

But despite
the increasingly harsh weather,

they remain determined

to make a major
breakthrough discovery

in the Money Pit area

that could finally solve

a 229-year-old treasure mystery.

And we don't have any, uh...

no wood or nothing like that?

TERRY:
No.

This hole, really close

to the Garden Shaft,
has a lot of silt and sand.

-That stuff?
-TERRY: Oh yeah,
very coarse material.

It very much looks like the sand
that came into the Garden Shaft

-with the water.
-Yeah.
-Exactly.

NARRATOR:
One month ago, the team began

a horizontal
probe-drilling operation

at a depth of 106 feet
in the Garden Shaft

to explore a seven-foot-high
partially dismantled tunnel.

A tunnel that runs due West

into an area dubbed
the Baby Blob

where water testing has revealed

high-trace evidence
of gold and silver

between 80 and 120 feet
underground.

NARRATOR:
But as the probe-drilling
proceeded,

salt water suddenly rushed
into the structure...

NARRATOR:
...forcing the team members
to vacate the shaft

and abandon the operation.

This has made
the Oak Island team speculate

that they encountered

one of the infamous
booby-trapped flood tunnels,

which have prevented searchers
from successfully digging

below 90 feet
in the Money Pit area

for more than two centuries.

You can see the sand
all slumped in.

Let me see that one.

NARRATOR:
Now, with only two weeks

before the onset of winter
will force the team

to halt their search operations
until next spring,

they are conducting
a new core-drilling operation

in and around the Baby Blob

and the mysterious tunnel
near the Garden Shaft

in the hopes
of pinpointing the source

of the possible treasure that
has been detected in the area.

MARTY:
The scientists are
absolutely convinced

that there's a source of metals.

And some of the metals
are precious.

You would think,
"Absolutely, we're close."

I will do my absolute damnedest

to advance the treasure hunt

in what little time
we have left.

-Anyway.
-Guys, carry on.

Maybe there's something
down deep.

Right on.

See you later.

NARRATOR:
While the search
for the legendary treasure

continues on Oak Island...

...more than 3,200 miles
to the northeast

in Roskilde, Denmark...

ALEX: Wow. Look at these.

PETER: Wow.

DOUG:
It's amazing, eh?

-Hi. Morten?
-MORTEN: Hi.

-Nice to meet you.
-I'm Alex.

-Nice to meet you.
-Alex. Morten.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina,

along with his nephews
Alex and Peter,

Oak Island historian
Doug Crowell

and researchers
Emiliano Sacchetti

and Corjan Mol are meeting

with Dr. Morten Ravn

at the Viking Ship Museum

where he serves as the curator.

Yeah. Welcome
to the Viking Ship Museum.

So glad that you want
to visit us also here

on your long voyage through
Europe and everywhere else.

Thank you.

NARRATOR:
Over the past two weeks...

-Wow.
-Oh, wow.

NARRATOR:
...Rick and the team
have visited

numerous historic sites
in Italy,

the Netherlands...

If you look carefully,

there is a four-dot cross here.

-Ah, look at these.
-Oh, wow.

NARRATOR: ...and Denmark...

RICK:
Look at how many of those runes

match the 90-foot stone.

NARRATOR:
...where Emiliano, Corjan

and other researchers
have shown them carved symbols

and other compelling clues...

On the other side here,

-circle and dot.
-ALEX: Yep.

NARRATOR:
...supporting
the incredible theory

that members of the medieval
Christian order known

as the Knights Templar
conspired with Vikings

in order to smuggle their
sacred religious treasures

across Europe before
transporting them to Oak Island

nearly 800 years ago.

The five-schooner ship
we have here is

from the absolutely
latest part of the Viking Age,

turning into medieval times.

NARRATOR:
Now, Rick and the team
are hoping that Dr. Ravn

can provide more information
on the Viking culture,

which is known to have explored

and created settlements
in parts of North America

some 1,000 years ago...

...to see if he can
offer more clues

that could help determine
if this theory is true.

RICK:
Can you give us an understanding

of the evolution
of the design of the ships?

Because I'm sure, initially,

it would have been
about commerce and raiding,

not necessarily
transatlantic voyages.

Yeah, it's
an excellent question.

First, it's large
and larger ships,

which you would be rowing.

And after that,

at the beginning
of the Viking Age,

around 750, comes the sail.

And with the sail,

you now can travel
at the open sea,

and eventually go all the way
to Canada and to United States.

If you are interested
in seeing how we built

reconstructions of these ships,

you can just go outside
and I have arranged

for one of our very skilled
boat builders, Marten,

to-to show you a reconstruction
of these oceangoing ships.

-Our new number one.
-ALEX: Sounds great.

RICK:
We're trying
to make a connection

between the Norse
and-and the Templars,

especially in context

of transatlantic voyages.

-Hello.
-Hi. Welcome.

-Good to see you.
-Hello.

RICK:
If the Oak Island mystery
is real,

you have to be able
to connect the dots.

So right now we are looking
at a seagoing Viking ship

that is built here
at the museum.

And it's a good size ship,
this one.

You have different
layers of deck here.

So, you can see underneath here,
if you take these up.

There's another layer of deck.

So you can have a lot of cargo
underneath here.

The one we are looking at now
is a cargo ship

that can carry a lot of weight,
about 20 ton.

Could you sail
to Canada on this?

To Oak Island?

I would say absolutely.

This is built in 1060.

On Oak Island, we have
a couple of stone constructs

that we're told
were likely built

in the 1200s.

So, is this boat representative
of the type of boat

that may have been used
in that time period?

Absolutely.

Yeah, I've been looking
around here because we found

-a piece of wood in our swamp.
-MARTEN: Yeah.

It was three-quarters of an inch
thick. Very uniform.

-It looked like a railing.
-Okay.

-And it carbon-dated to 770 A.D.
-Okay. Wow.

And as I look around,
I only see one piece of wood

that kind of resembles it,
and that's up here

-along the bow.
-MARTEN: Yeah.

We found a piece
that very much looks like this.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, look at that.

What do you got?

It looks like
a piece of finished wood.

NARRATOR:
In 2020,

while investigating
the southern region

of the triangle-shaped swamp,

members of the team unearthed
a well-fashioned piece of wood

that, according
to carbon-14 testing,

is one of the oldest artifacts
ever found on Oak Island.

So we tested it.

The date was 660 to 770 A.D.

(chuckling)

It's pretty much the same width,
same thickness.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

NARRATOR:
Could Doug Crowell
be correct that he,

Rick and the team
may now be seeing

the exact same kind
of woodworking

in a Viking Ship museum
located in Denmark?

It makes total sense.

It's something that would
easily fall off, I would say,

so that would make sense.

RICK:
Well, Marten, you know,
we obviously

have learned a lot today about
not only the Viking culture

but, specifically, Viking ships.

And the ability, possibly,

to sail on transatlantic
voyages long ago.

Without this information,

we can't fill in the holes
in the story

that we believe is quite complex

regarding
the Oak Island mystery.

So, thank you and everyone
associated with this facility.

You're very welcome.

But the journey is not over
because we are

-about to take off to Iceland.
-Correct.

PETER:
Unfortunately,

I'm not gonna be able
to make the journey to Iceland,

uh, but I look forward
to hearing about it.

-We'll fill you in.
-Yep.
-Yeah, same here.

I need to move back
to the Netherlands for business.

But I wish you sound sailing
with this group.

Thank you.
I appreciate it.

-ALEX: We will.
-Okay.

-Corjan, been fun.
-Take care, man.

EMILIANO:
Next stop, Iceland.

RICK:
Absolutely.

NARRATOR:
As a new morning
begins on Oak Island...

...while the core-drilling
operation continues

near the Garden Shaft
in the Money Pit area...

MARTY: Pardon the usage
of terms, Laird,

but we're trying to cement
the relationship

between the Money Pit

and then Lot 5.

NARRATOR:...Marty Lagina
and Jack Begley

meet with archaeologist
Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

in the Oak Island Laboratory.

We've collected
a sample of clay from

the round feature
and rectangular feature.

EMMA:
And then at the Money Pit.

NARRATOR:
They are eager to receive

a follow-up report
from Laird and Emma

regarding mysterious
clay-like and soil materials

that were recently discovered
in two stone foundations

that are located in the middle
of the island on Lot 5.

One of these features
is rounded in appearance

and sits near the shoreline.

The other, which is rectangular,

sits further inland

and has also yielded
compelling clues,

including an iron spike
which Emma believes

could be
more than 800 years old.

Curiously,
preliminary analysis on

the clay-like soils
found in the round feature

revealed that they are
closely matched to

other soil samples
that have been unearthed

in the Money Pit area.

Why don't you walk
Jack and I through it?

So, this is from
the rectangular feature.

MARTY:
Yeah.

Another clay deposit

standing on its own.

Okay, so, we had
a big bunch of clay

that, even by appearance,
we thought

looked like
the Money Pit, correct?

-Yes. Yeah.
-MARTY: Okay.

And then Emma ran her analysis.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
In order to further
analyze the soils

that were found in
the features on Lot 5,

Emma has scanned them

with an X-ray diffraction
device, or XRD,

which can identify the chemical
composition of materials.

MARTY:
Here we have the results
of that comparison?

LAIRD:
Yes.

EMMA:
The rectangular feature, it is

a really close match to

a really shallow
sample of the Money Pit.

-Okay, that's good.
-EMMA: Yep.

MARTY:
What is this?

LAIRD:
Well, this is from
part of the round feature.

MARTY:
Okay.

And Emma tested this.

And so, in her analysis,

this soil matches the maroon
till from the Money Pit.

Which is deep.

-Yep.
-Mm-hmm. 118 feet.

So, we have two matches now to

-the Money Pit and Lot 5.
-MARTY: Right.

JACK:
How do you explain that
in a feature

that was covered over before
the Money Pit was discovered?

MARTY:
Because we have
some evidence that could

go back into the 1600s,
even the 1500s,

even before.

Yeah.

MARTY:
You have somebody over on Lot 5

or some somebodies over on Lot 5

who were deep in the Money Pit,
based on this evidence.

Which is incredibly
significant, okay?

If the data is correct,

the clay in these
features on Lot 5

matches the clay
found in the Money Pit,

then whoever was there

had something to do
with the Money Pit.

Uh, that's a big deal.

That's a big connection.

All right. Good data.
We need to find out

what it doesn't match,

because that will
add credence to

what it does match. Okay.

-JACK: All right.
-LAIRD: See you later.

-MARTY: Yeah. See you.
Thank you.
-EMMA: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
As Marty, Jack, Laird and Emma

conclude their meeting
on Oak Island...

...over 2,000 miles northeast

in Reykjavík, Iceland...

-RICK: What a beautiful day.
-ALEX: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
...Rick Lagina,
along with his nephew Alex,

Doug Crowell and researcher
Emiliano Sacchetti...

EMILIANO:
Okay, we'll go in here.

...arrive at
the Árni Magnússon Institute.

-Hello, Professor.
-Hello.

Thanks for having us
today, here.

NARRATOR:
On Emiliano's recommendation,

they are meeting with Professor
Gudvardur Mar Gunnlaugsson,

the curator of
the institute's manuscripts,

to see more documented clues

that could link
the Viking culture

to the order
of the Knights Templar

and, potentially,
the Oak Island mystery.

Basically collecting,

translating that knowledge

that was brought back
from the holy land

from people like the Templars.

NARRATOR:
Two weeks ago, Emiliano

and archeoastronomer
Professor Adriano Gaspani

gave Rick and the team a tour

of a 12th-century monastery
in Morimondo, Italy

that was built
by Cistercian monks,

a Catholic order

that constructed certain
Christian houses of worship

across Europe according to
astronomical alignments

with stars in the night sky.

DOUG:
We have the four-dot cross

carved on a stone on Oak Island,

along with a circle
with a dot in the center.

NARRATOR:
While there, the team not only
saw numerous Templar symbols

that have been found
over the years on Oak Island,

but were also
informed by Professor Gaspani

that the Templars may have
employed knowledge of astronomy

that they learned in such abbeys

in order to construct

megalithic formations
on Oak Island,

including the feature
made up of six boulders

known as Nolan's Cross.

Eventually, that knowledge
reached, also, Iceland,

because what we know
is that between the 11th century

and the 14th century,
in this island,

were active more
than 15 monastic houses.

And those abbeys

produced hundreds
of manuscripts.

This one is evidence

that very specific knowledge--

and I'm talking about
astronomy, sacred geometry--

arrived here
and was processed here.

The oldest part is around 1190,

up to the early 14th century.

RICK:
What is the language?

EMILIANO:
The language is in Latin.

There are parts in Norse.

Emiliano, what have
you identified in this

particular manuscript
of interest to our quest?

EMILIANO:
Not only this manuscript

contains information
about astronomy,

but it also
names specific stars.

-RICK: Yeah.
-DOUG: Hmm.

-The primary alignment.
-EMILIANO: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
According to the research
of Professor Adriano Gaspani,

the star known as Arcturus,

which is part of
a constellation named Boötes,

was used as a key alignment

to create Nolan's Cross

on the surface of Oak Island.

Is it possible
that Emiliano Sacchetti

has now found
a new connection between

Arcturus and
the Oak Island mystery

in a medieval Norse manuscript?

EMILIANO:
This says that it was
important to know the stars.

You know, celestial navigation,

and probably Arcturus,

which was called the day star
for its brightness.

So, probably, Arcturus
was one of the stars followed

because of its brightness.

ALEX:
It's interesting because,

again, that says that's
useful for sailing

at far north latitudes.

Yeah.

RICK:
There were many
interesting things

contained within the book,
stellar alignments

that we find
of significant interest

in how it may
relate to Oak Island.

And it's possible
that as we follow

this trail of information,
it may become

more and more interesting,
and perhaps valuable, to us.

DOUG:
You know, I'm sitting here
looking at this book

and I'm just...
I'm marveling at it because

within this manuscript,
I keep seeing

the repeated use of the symbol

that's on our copper piece
on Oak Island.

RICK:
That's remarkable.

DOUG: I keep seeing
the repeated use of the symbol

that's on our copper piece
on Oak Island.

NARRATOR:
At the Árni Magnússon Institute
in Reykjavík, Iceland...

I see it here and here,

and I've seen it
on several pages.

...Doug Crowell may have
just found a symbol

in a 12th-century
Icelandic manuscript

that could be connected to

the Oak Island mystery.

DOUG:
This is the ribbon-like symbol
on our copper piece,

and, curious, it's next to

a representation of a cross.

RICK:
That's remarkable.

It's not just here
on this page, though.

It's throughout the text.

RICK:
That's very interesting.

ALEX:
Is this what you're
talking about, Doug, here?

DOUG:
Yes.

Yeah, this symbol right here.

Oh, yeah.

EMILIANO:
Can you see it, Professor?

Yes. They look similar, yes.

NARRATOR:
In 2022,

Gary Drayton and Jack Begley

unearthed a copper artifact

bearing a number
of ornate symbols.

And when archaeologist
Dr. Edwin Barnhardt

analyzed a metallurgy report
conducted by Emma Culligan,

he made
a fascinating observation.

EDWIN:
It could be
some sort of older object.

The other possibility
is the Vikings.

DOUG:
You see, until we

fully understand
what this copper piece is...

I mean, it's found in

pretty close proximity
to Nolan's Cross.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Doug Crowell has found

more evidence
in this 12th century manuscript

that may connect
the copper artifact

found on Lot 8
to the Viking culture?

If so,

could it also support the theory

that Vikings helped
the Knights Templar

bury priceless treasures
on Oak Island?

Makes me wonder
all the more whether

the astronomical constructs
we have on the island--

if this isn't
somehow associated with it.

I-It's remarkable. Stunning.

That symbol we see in the book

is the same symbol that
we see on the copper artifact.

You cannot ignore that.

We have found the possibility
of connective tissue

between this book
and representations of symbology

found on Oak Island.

I just think it's

an incredible piece of history.

I'm certain all of us
will treasure

-this moment
for a long, long time.
-GUNNLAUGSSON: Yes.

But the journey's not over.

DOUG:
You've got us hooked.

RICK:
Thank you.

NARRATOR:
The following morning,

while the core-drilling
operation

in the Money Pit area
continues on Oak Island...

Thank you, Marvin.

...approximately
50 miles northeast

in Halifax, Nova Scotia...

-CHRISTA: Hey, how's it going?
-JACK: Hey.

-Good to see you, Dr. Brosseau.
-CHRISTA: Nice to see you again.

We actually have
an artifact here

-we'd like you
to take a look at.
-Excellent.

NARRATOR: Jack Begley
and Oak Island historian

Charles Barkhouse

arrive at the chemistry lab
of Dr. Christa Brosseau

and Dr. Xiang Yang
at St. Mary's University.

CHRISTA:
So, uh, can you tell me a little
bit about this artifact?

Sure, this was actually
found on Lot 10

underneath a large boulder.

-Okay.
-And these boulders make up

what we call Nolan's Cross.

NARRATOR:
One week ago,

Marty Lagina
and members of the team

lifted Cone E--

the bottom boulder
of the believed

800-year-old formation
known as Nolan's Cross.

It was Marty's hope

to find evidence
of human activity

that could help identify
who created the feature.

MARTY:
I like this rock, there's
something weird about it.

NARRATOR:
Incredibly, Marty discovered

a mysterious conglomerate
of a cement-like substance

which, when analyzed
by archaeologist Laird Niven,

was found to contain
what appeared to be

some kind of hair.

JACK:
The big question
is how did a hair

make its way under this boulder?

Okay, we'll have a look at it.

NARRATOR:
Now, in an attempt
to determine the type of hair

it could be,
Doctors Brosseau and Yang

will examine it
under a high-powered

scanning electron microscope
or SEM.

The device can not only magnify
objects up to 200,000 times

their actual size, but also
determine their composition.

All right, so...

CHRISTA:
The surface
is covered in debris,

which indicates
that those fibers

have been present
on that conglomerate

for some amount of time.

-JACK: What?
-XIANG: Yep.

It's not just one hair.

But, we don't know
what kind of animal it is.

That's very curious.

JACK:
Do they both look like
the same type of hair?

Similar, quite similar.

NARRATOR:
Animal hair discovered
beneath Cone E of Nolan's Cross?

But if so, what kind is it?

And how might it help
the team to reveal

another piece
of the Oak Island puzzle?

CHARLES:
To me, the next step i-is
DNA analysis of the hairs.

Uh, determine
what the species is.

You know, is this a oxen
or horse or a burrowing animal?

Ideally, it would be an oxen,
which you would

need to move these heavy stones.

-It surprised us.
-Yeah.

-This is a game changer.
-CHRISTA:
Well, that's great news.

-All right.
-Thank you very much.

-We'll be back.
-Always nice seeing you.

Always a pleasure.
Okay, thank you.

CHRISTA:
Thanks for coming.

-CHARLES: Hey, Colten,
where'd you get to?
-137.

-137
-Very good.

NARRATOR:
While search operations
continue on Oak Island

more than 2,000 miles
to the northeast

in Reykjavík, Iceland...

ÁRMANN:
Welcome to the National Museum.

-So nice to meet you.
-ALEX: Thank you.

Nice to see you. I'm Rick.

...Rick Lagina
and members of the team

arrive at the National Museum.

I'd like to introduce you
to Ármann Gudmundsson.

He's the curator
of the artifacts

-with The National Museum
of Iceland.
-Mm-hmm.

EMILIANO:
The main reason
why you're here today is because

this museum hosts
some Roman coins

that were unearthed

in the southern part
of the island

-like we found on Oak Island.
-Perfect.

NARRATOR: In addition to
the mysterious stone foundations

that the team
has unearthed on Lot 5

since they purchased it in 2022,

they were stunned
to also discover

four Roman coins
that have been dated

to between 1,500
and 2,000 years old.

So, uh, here we have the coins.

The Roman coins
that have been found in Iceland.

So I think that

the Norse settlers
that arrived here

in the late ninth century,

early tenth century,
brought them

-with them.
-RICK: Mm-hmm.

Maybe found in the British Isles

-or something like that.
-Mm-hmm.

-Mm-hmm
-DOUG: I'm curious as to what

date these were minted on.

Do you know the years
the coins were issued?

Yeah, this is fourth century.

-Fourth century?
-ÁRMANN: Yeah.

-Well that's great.
-Yeah.

DOUG:
We were told ours were
from fifth century A.D.

ALEX:
Right. There must have been
many incidents

of travel
for these to end up here.

It's just evidence
of an interconnected

nature of everything much
earlier than we had thought,

-is what I'm saying.
-Oh, absolutely.

DOUG:
On Oak Island, we find coins

from the same basic era, but
the only known European activity

in our region of the world

before the 15th century
is the Norse.

So that, in my mind,
makes the Norse exploration

more important to
our investigation on Oak Island.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the team
has finally found evidence

of just who may have brought
the Roman coins

that were discovered on Lot 5
to Oak Island?

Could that explain other
discoveries,

including the piece
of possible ship's railing

that was unearthed in the swamp,

the copper artifact
that was found on Lot 8,

or the numerous tools
and decorative lead pieces

which have been traced
to Scandinavia?

RICK:
Based on the information
derived here in Europe,

we know that there was

trade between the Mediterranean

and the Norse.

We know that the Norse
traveled the Atlantic.

It's a possible explanation

why Roman coins
were on Oak Island.

It is explainable on some level.

Ármann, we certainly appreciate

your time
and we value your expertise.

Understanding history

has been beneficial
to our hunt, our search.

-Thank you for the information.
-Yeah, definitely.

-RICK: Thank you again.
-EMILIANO: Next stop,
man-made caves.

NARRATOR:
As Rick, Alex,
Doug and Emiliano

conclude their visit at the
National Museum of Iceland...

...back on Oak Island...

JACK:
Hey, Helen. Hey, Fiona.

-Hi.
-Hey, Jack. How you doing?

Came by to check on progress.

...Jack Begley arrives
on Lot 5

where archeologists Fiona Steele
and Helen Sheldon

continue investigating

the rectangular
stone foundation.

A foundation where they have
not only discovered

a potentially
800-year-old spike,

but also
artificially manipulated soils

that have been unearthed
in the Money Pit area.

JACK:
It seems like you've almost
reached the bottom, right?

FIONA:
We're getting pretty close.

-It sure is looking like it.
-Yeah.

Can I help by sifting?

-Sure.
-Sure, we'd love that.

It's starting to get harder
to get in and out of this pit.

-Yeah, I can see that.
-It's getting deep.

NARRATOR:
While Fiona and Helen

remove sediment
from the structure,

Jack will sift spoils
through a screen

in order to look
for potential clues

or valuables.

MARTY:
One of the big mysteries

we've always struggled with

is the Money Pit
would have taken

quite a crew to do.

Where were they?

Where were they housed?

Maybe they were here.

We're getting close to the
bottom, and at the bottom

would be data indicating the
earliest dates they were there.

So, hopefully,
we'll get some breakthroughs

as to what
the heck happened on Lot 5.

Look, we're getting
iron color, too, on the side.

That's interesting.

Could be something in there.

FIONA:
Oh, yeah, look. Look.

Ah!

-What?
-Look what popped out.

What is that?

It's got a heft to it.

It's like,
it almost feels like lead.

-Oh, it feels like lead.
-Yeah.

I've never seen
anything like this before.

FIONA:
Really?

HELEN:
I've never seen anything
like this before.

-JACK: What do you think it is?
-HELEN: Looks like it has, like,

slightly faceted edges,
doesn't it?

FIONA:
Yeah. You can see it.

NARRATOR:
While excavating the mysterious
rectangular feature on Lot 5,

archaeologists
Fiona Steele and Helen Sheldon

have just made another
potentially important discovery.

Well, it's heavy.

It-it feels like lead.

Oh, that's cool.

HELEN: I think it's probably
a weight of some sort.

A measuring weight, maybe.

That would make sense.

It definitely looks worked.

You can see...

it's almost like it's been
carved, in a sense.

So, yeah, maybe it was carved
to a specific weight.

JACK:
Well, if it is a weight,

then it should be
a exact measurement.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
A measuring weight?

Found in the rectangular
structure on Lot 5?

In 2020, Rick Lagina
and members of the team

unearthed a trade weight

believed to have
possibly been designed

for weighing gold
or silver coins.

It's the really
weird artifacts that give

a fun side of the story.

NARRATOR:
Given that this potential
lead weight was discovered

in the feature on Lot 5

where the team recently found

a possible 800-year-old spike,

could it be
another critical clue

that might help solve
the Oak Island mystery?

JACK:
I like that we keep finding

more and more artifacts

and the bottom keeps
pushing deeper.

FIONA:
Yeah.

Well, it sure shows
that we're not done yet.

JACK:
Yeah, definitely.

Well, let's bag this one
and put it in the bag of plenty.

-Let's keep going.
-This is really turning out

-to be a strange feature.
-FIONA: Yeah.

NARRATOR: While the search
for a legendary treasure

continues on Oak Island,

across the Atlantic Ocean,

some 70 miles southeast
of Reykjavík, Iceland...

EMILIANO: Roberto would like
to show us something

that could be really
interesting for our search.

Perfect.

ROBERTO:
There is a cave

that I would like to show you.

-ALEX: Sure.
-RICK: Absolutely.

NARRATOR:
...Rick and Alex Lagina,

Doug Crowell
and Emiliano Sacchetti are

meeting with historian
Roberto Pagani

at Kverkarhellir cave.

So, here it is.

-ALEX: Okay.
-Let's go.

NARRATOR:
A man-made system
of underground caverns

that archaeologists believe

may have been originally
created around 800 A.D.

by a Christian monastic
order from Ireland.

However, in 874 A.D.,
the area was conquered

by members
of the Viking culture,

who settled here
until the 13th century.

ROBERTO:
This is it.

-EMILIANO: Wow. Look at this.
-RICK: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
It is Emiliano Sacchetti's
belief

that Kverkarhellir Cave

contains clues that could
further help connect

both the Vikings and the order
of the Knights Templar

to the Oak Island mystery.

RICK:
My hope would be that we see
something definitive.

Some way to connect
what we see there

with symbols that
we have on Oak Island.

Some of these depictions,

some of these carvings
in these caves

might represent some sort
of Templar association. So,

I look forward to seeing
if that is true.

-So, this is an artificial cave.
-Okay.

As you can see, uh,

it's completely man-made.

It means that they started
from the entrance

and they worked their way in.

But probably the single
most interesting thing

is right here on this wall.

As you can see, there is a cross
with a circular top.

DOUG:
Oh.

RICK:
Wow.

We've seen that before.

Oh, yeah.

That seems to match
Gary's lead cross.

-RICK: The head is bent
the right way.
-ALEX: Yeah.

I think it's burned
into my memory at this point.

It is.
(chuckles)

NARRATOR:
A carving
of a Christian cross

found in Kverkarhellir cave
in Iceland?

Matching the exact design

of the lead cross found
on Oak Island?

DOUG:
That particular form
of a cross or crucifix

we've followed from Italy
to France to here

and Oak Island.

NARRATOR:
Incredibly, Rick and members
of the team have now seen

this particular cross design
in four locations.

A man-made cave system
in Camerano, Italy

that they visited in 2022,
and which was known

to have been a stronghold
for the Knights Templar

between the 12th
and 14th centuries,

inside of a 14th century
Templar prison

in Domme, France,
which they visited in 2017,

and later that year,

on Oak Island, when Rick
and Gary Drayton discovered

a lead cross at Smith's Cove.

All right.
Let's do the comparison.

DOUG: I think it bears
quite a resemblance.

RICK:
Yeah, I don't see how you can...

how you can say it's dissimilar.

No, it's mysterious.

-Yeah.
-RICK: There was a reason

for that configuration.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that Rick
and the team have just found

another critical piece
of evidence in Iceland

that may help prove
the theory that Vikings helped

members of the Templar order
hide their sacred treasures

on Oak Island
nearly eight centuries ago?

Look, this trip--
the genesis of it,

was to follow, perhaps,
an old world connection

to the new world, east to west.

I think we have made
huge strides towards probable.

-Mm-hmm.
-Yeah.

RICK:
But the work is not done.

It's time to get back
to the island

and maybe do
some digging and drilling.

-Yeah.
-DOUG: And we have to say

goodbye to one more colleague.

EMILIANO:
Well, I'm going back to Rome,

but I promise I'll be back
on the island very soon.

-Deal.
-EMILIANO: Deal.

Roberto, thank you.

-Until next time.
-Yep.

-RICK: Okay.
-ALEX: After you.

ROBERTO:
Good luck with everything.

RICK:
We thank you very much.

MARTY: Well, look who's here.

Welcome back, guys.

You look, uh, full
of all kinds of knowledge.

I see you saved
our seats for us.

Absolutely.

NARRATOR:
Having just returned

from their unforgettable
journey across Europe,

Rick and Alex Lagina,
along with Doug Crowell

meet with Marty Lagina,
Craig Tester

and other members
of the Oak Island team

in the war room.

We want to know what happened.

Yeah.

My big takeaway
was the fact that,

in most places we went

on the trip, from Italy

to the Netherlands to Denmark

to Iceland, we saw the symbols

that we're curious about
here on Oak Island.

And for me,
that just cements the idea:

they're old-world symbols.

Like, what symbols
in particular?

Well, the four-dot cross,

some of the symbols
in the 90-foot stone

-inscription.
-Oh.

There's this as well.

This is a cave in Iceland.

This is right at the entrance.

This is the closest match
we found

to Drayton's Cross,
the lead cross.

Over the years, you know,

when we talk about
the Knights Templar theory,

somebody coming here
in the Middle Ages,

I probably dismissed
the possibility...

more than I should.

No longer
can I dismiss it and say,

"Well, nobody would have
known about it."

But I believe there was all
kinds of crossing happening.

I mean, we know the Norse were
here in that time period.

We know the Templars were
at the height of their power

during that time.

What do you take away
from all that?

Two, three years ago,
I would've said, uh,

you know, very low chance
Templars were here.

Now it's looking more that it's
potential that they were here.

So we need
to keep on researching it.

To me, the conjecture
of something

in the 12th century is possible.

-Yeah.
-RICK: If Nolan's Cross

is a real construct--

and I happen
to believe that it is--

from 1200, people came here

with some intent in the 1200s
to do something.

Because, I think,

the magnitude of the construct
of Nolan's Cross,

to me says that

it's a map to the treasure.

That's what I think.

Yeah.

MARTY:
Well, big brother,
we have been busy.

-Have we not, crew?
-JACK: Oh, yeah.

MARTY:
Cone E, lifting the boulder.

And we picked it up and
I was fishing around the bottom,

and I felt a rock that felt
different than the others.

And I said, "You know,
this looks like concrete."

Put a picture up there, please.

Look at that.
Looks like concrete, doesn't it?

Mm-hmm.

MARTY:
So, we kind of got
hopeful about that,

and I said, "Well, let's
send it back to the lab."

And then we found that.

That is a hair.

-RICK: Incredible.
-MARTY: Yeah.

And it's not the only one.

There are several hairs
stuck in this rock,

if it's a rock.

I can't come up with a reason

for that being
under that boulder.

I'm exceedingly grateful
for everyone and...

this has been a long haul
for each and every one of us.

But we are on the cusp,
in my opinion,

of maybe cracking
one of the W's,

maybe two, maybe even three.

Yeah.

RICK:
This all comes down

to who, what, when,
where, why and how.

And you have to crack
one of the W's.

And I think
we are about to crack,

if we have not already cracked,
one of the W's.

Yep.

MARTY:
The European team uncovered

some really interesting
connections to the island.

We're getting
to the endgame here.

We're gonna throw
everything we have at it.

I'm hoping the bravo tango
moment could be within reach.

Anyway, that's it.
That's the report.

I think we're done.

-Yeah.
-Why don't we get back
out there?

-We're running out of time.
-We got to.

-We're running out of time.
-Let's do it.

NARRATOR:
After tracing the possible path

of a legendary
lost treasure across Europe,

the Laginas and their fellowship

may be closer than ever

to pinpointing
where it lies hidden today.

Winter is fast approaching,

threatening the team's chances

of making
the ultimate discovery.

However, as they keep
digging and drilling,

could the curse
that has allowed Oak Island

to keep its secrets
for more than two centuries

finally come to an end?

Next time,
on the thrilling season finale

of The Curse of Oak Island...

LAIRD:
I think that's meant to go
through something

-like chain mail.
-That would make it old.

On the composition?
Pre-1600.

-HELEN: Remember
the lead weight?
-Yes.

-I've just found two more.
-What would they be measuring?

Gold.

All right, here we go.
Fingers crossed?

-Yep.
-RICK: We're looking
for a vault.

This one might tell the tale.

MARTY:
We got a chance of actually

finding treasure with this one.

RICK:
X marks the spot.

-That's the spot, man,
I can feel it.
-I hope so.

MARTY:
Come on, baby!

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