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Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island...

This is the first hole in the southern edge

of the Golden Egg.

You could definitely hide a treasure chest in there.

Whoa. I think we're on wood.

We have this hollow area.

This is nothing

like anything else you've seen on the island.

How bizarre.

- Oh! - Oh, wow.

This is a pretty cool item.

You're pre-1650.

MARTY [over phone]: So, the plot thickens.

Again.

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.

Guys, I've asked us to come here

because this is kind of the crew that is

planning the well drilling.

And I would just like

to make sure we're all on the same page.

As a new day in the quest to solve

a 229-year-old treasure mystery begins on Oak Island...

Let's get these next holes decided.

...brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with their partner, Craig Tester, are meeting

with members of their team in the Research Center

to discuss their current search operations

in the legendary Money Pit area.

What have we drilled so far?

Right here.

Here's what we've done.

We've done 20 boreholes this year.

- They're all on that board. -Okay.

And we haven't found any indication

of spendables?

-No. -Correct.

Okay.

So, in and around the Baby Blob

and the pie area we have four left.

So, from here

we'll probably move up into the-the golden circle,

whatever you want to call that.

I've been focused very much

on these metals in the water.

After our recent go-around with the scientists,

they seem to say that that had the most potential

to be where the metals are coming from, wasn't it?

Yeah.

We put together in blue there, an area we call the pie.

Over the past three years,

geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

and his colleagues, chemist Dr. Matt Lukeman

and hydrogeologist Dr. Fred Michel

have conducted numerous groundwater tests

in previously drilled boreholes all across the Money Pit area

and have come to a stunning conclusion:

a massive source of gold, silver and other metals

is buried somewhere between 80 and 120 feet underground.

The yellow, that's Fred's sort of special

area of interest,

mainly because that's where we got

persistent high copper, lead, zinc and tin.

And while their most recent tests have suggested

that the treasure lies buried

inside of a 2,500-square-foot region known as the Pie,

Dr. Michel believes that it is most likely hidden

within a mere 30 by 15-foot oval-shaped area.

We need a name for this golden circle,

golden oval, golden ellipse.

All of those are too difficult.

Let's call it the Golden Egg from here on out, okay?

- Yep. - And let's hope that that name is prophetic.

Dr. Michel thinks

this is an appropriate place to find something.

So, all I'm saying is

let's put in a grid,

cover it as extensively as we can

while safeguarding any monitoring wells in the area.

Yes. Okay.

You know, Marty, the offset chamber

that you have long believed in?

It's very possible that it could be

- within the Golden Egg. - Yep.

Now we are talking the same language, Rick.

I want to see bits of metal come up.

Gold-colored metal.

While the team has recently

conducted large-scale excavations in an attempt

to locate the original Money Pit,

which has been lost

for more than a century due to previous searcher operations,

Marty has suspected that no one has found

the elusive treasure because it lies at the end

of a secret underground tunnel

in an offset chamber.

Could Rick be correct--

that the so-called Golden Egg

is where the legendary riches are hidden?

I have felt for a long time

that if something was concealed here,

it wouldn't have been at the bottom of the Money Pit.

But to drill an offset chamber or chambers--

that has always made sense to me.

I'd like to go here first, though.

And then kind of follow this line

and put the wells on side to stay away from the others

until we cover the thing.

- Okay. -We have the Golden Egg,

where most likely the metals are coming from.

So, we have to drill a bunch of wells in there,

sufficient to evaluate it.

So, our first well, by the sound of it, is gonna be EN-13.

So, 13 is covering

- the Baby Blob and the Golden Egg. -Yep.

- Seems like a good idea. -Yep.

This is what we need to do.

Okay. This is the year.

Let's go back. We're looking for treasure.

We're not gonna find it in here.

That's a good point, Scott.

We're not.

Later that morning...

-Morning, Rick. Morning, Alex. -Good morning.

Well, I'm hoping that you guys are gonna be

very successful today, right?

We got our fingers crossed, yeah.

Rick Lagina and his nephew Alex arrive

in the Money Pit area

where geologist Terry Matheson

and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse

are supervising the drilling

of the team's first potential target

inside the Golden Egg.

A borehole known as EN-13.

This is hole EN-13.

First hole, in the southern edge

of the southern portion of the Egg.

You could definitely hide a treasure chest in there.

Look, this Golden Egg is novel.

This is new.

It's a large area,

and there's no record of it in the historical narrative.

That's quite exciting,

but it's important to be very disciplined in how

we explore, so that, when you leave,

you know it's either there or it cannot be there.

We're gonna leave no ground, no place where a treasure chest

- can duck away and hide. -Right.

'Cause that's what this... what we're endeavoring

to do with the sonic drill program, right?

- We're trying to come up with a caisson location. - Yes.

Over the following weeks,

if the team's core-drilling operation

encounters compelling evidence of the believed treasure

that has eluded searchers since 1795,

Rick, Marty, and Craig will commission

a number of seven-foot-diameter steel caissons to be installed

in the hopes of finally retrieving the fabled riches.

We got a ways to go. Target horizon's

- about 80 feet away, gentlemen. - Yep.

Well, hopefully, we'll find something here.

While the core-drilling operation continues

in the Money Pit area,

on Lot 5, located on the western side of the island...

-You ready? -Let's see what we got.

...Jack Begley and archeologist Laird Niven

are also searching for answers

between two mysterious stone features.

These are two nonferrous hits,

which just means they're not iron.

- Yeah. - And they're so close to the rectangular feature.

If we can tie these two features together, that's just a bonus.

Yeah.

Although they sit

nearly half a mile away from the Money Pit,

these two stone features have yielded

some of the most compelling and confounding discoveries

that are potentially related to the Oak Island mystery,

including a cut British silver coin

and Venetian trade beads dating to the 16th century,

a 14th century barter token, which, like the lead cross

that was unearthed at Smith's Cove in 2017,

may be connected to the medieval order

of the Knights Templar,

and an iron spike that is possibly

more than 800 years old.

There you go.

These discoveries suggest

that both features may have been used

by different unknown groups of people

over a number of centuries

and have compelled the provincial government

to designate them as culturally significant "special places."

In light of that, Laird is supervising Jack Begley

as he methodically searches for metal targets

that were detected and flagged earlier today

by Gary Drayton.

One can say that, you know, with some assurance, that

whatever the structures are on Lot 5

were utilized for quite some time,

earlier than the original discovery of the Money Pit.

So, I would like a complete and clear understanding

of what the relationship might be

between Lot 5 and the Oak Island mystery.

There you go.

Try that.

Oh!

Oh, wow.

Oh, look at that.

It's a coin.

Oh, wow.

On Lot 5 of Oak Island,

while searching for clues

between two mysterious stone foundations,

Jack Begley and archeologist Laird Niven

have just made a potentially valuable discovery.

Do you know what type of coin that is?

The edges are really worn.

I'm seeing...

...not letters, but markings.

Yeah, I see that.

The edges are what

really kind of

make me think it's older.

My initial impression of the coin was that the patina

makes it look very old and very worn.

So, that may give us a good idea about

the function of the feature and perhaps some idea

whether it dates earlier than we thought.

We have found a lot of coins scattered

- around this area. - Yeah.

And thinking about it, some of the oldest ones

were those Roman coins.

Do you think it goes that old?

Uh, it could.

Incredibly, between

2022 and 2023,

the team unearthed four coins on Lot 5

that have been verified by numismatist Sandy Campbell

to be Roman in origin

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

And while numerous

coin experts have advised the team

that such coins may have been in circulation

as late as the medieval period

of the 14th century in Europe,

who may have brought them to Oak Island

remains a tantalizing mystery.

It'll be interesting to see if it's something exotic.

Exotic coins are no stranger on Oak Island.

I mean, that's got to have

some specific story of its own

in order for it to get here.

That's why I think it's so important to identify this.

It may give us a better idea of who was here

and what they were doing.

Mm.

Maybe we should have

Sandy Campbell take a look at it.

We might be able to figure out

- Yeah. - exactly what type of coin it is.

I think that should get back to the lab as soon as possible.

I can't wait to show the guys this.

Should be interesting.

Later that afternoon...

All right, let's go get it.

That's good.

...while the core-drilling operation proceeds

in the Money Pit area,

back on Lot 5...

You know, the feature's grown a lot.

...Alex Lagina joins Laird Niven

and other members of the team as they investigate

the rounded stone foundation near the shoreline.

Is this the edge of it,

- do you think? -We think so.

We have this odd

- outer perimeter. -Mm-hmm.

The cut coin came from this area.

That's where all

the maroon till was, too, that matched

the Money Pit soils.

That's why I think it's so important to open this area up.

In addition to discoveries

such as the 14th-century barter token

that the team has uncovered at this feature,

they also discovered an artificial,

mortar-like soil several feet deep

that, when analyzed by team geology expert Moya MacDonald,

was found to match other soils discovered

not only more than 100 feet deep in the Money Pit area

but also beneath the bottom boulder of Nolan's Cross,

the megalithic formation that may date back

to as early as 1200 AD.

We are about to expand

the archeological grid over here anyway.

Yeah. Exactly.

As we go down,

we should have a good chance of finding

- more artifacts. -He'll shovel,

you'll bucket, I'll screen?

Okay. Let's do it.

These discoveries

have led the team to speculate

that whoever created the Money Pit

and Nolan's Cross may have used

both of the features on Lot 5

as a base of operations,

and then deliberately buried them.

What I find so fascinating

is how did they

make the structure this big

in such a crude manner and have it last?

- Right. - You know, maybe that was

part of the reason it was buried, or was it buried

for some other mysterious reason?

What was it for, right?

Yeah.

Plus, we're finding all kinds of artifacts,

which is saying that people were here a lot.

I mean, this is obviously part of what was intended

- to be covered up. - Yeah.

-So, we'll keep at it. -Yeah.

So, I'm starting to hit rocks here.

Oh, more.

Yeah.

So, I'm hitting rocks.

- Yeah. - I think that I'm coming down

more of the structure.

-Yeah. - This structure

- keeps getting bigger. - Absolutely.

Another possible section

of the stone foundation? If so,

just how much more extensive

could this buried feature be?

And what else might the team discover

once they uncover it?

One of the most incredible discoveries

we've made on Lot 5 so far

is this connection between

these archeological features and the Money Pit.

It's starting to suggest

that maybe they were part of the Oak Island treasure deposit,

and then were hidden.

So, uh, somewhere under us could be more structure,

and we're gonna have to do this to get there.

This means we've got a lot more work to do.

Yeah.

The following morning...

Hopefully, there's something

to find in this area as well.

...as Laird

and the archeology team carefully work

to expose more of the rounded stone feature on Lot 5...

-Hey. -Morning, Alex.

How are we doing?

Got another core coming.

...in the Money Pit area,

Alex Lagina joins his Uncle Rick

and other members of the team

at the core- drilling operation

in borehole EN-13

within the so-called Golden Egg...

-Adam, what do you got? - Eighty-nine.

Eighty-nine.

...the region where the team has detected

high trace levels of silver and gold

between 80 and 120 feet underground.

Yeah, this is some pretty solid interface here.

The next run will hopefully give us something better.

- We may hit the mother lode. - Bravo Tango.

There's every reason

to believe that within the area

there lies some

source of these metals, i.e. treasure.

Every time the steel goes down the hole,

you're hoping it'll find treasure or a void

or a vault or a offset chamber or a tunnel.

We'll just have to be patient and see what we find.

Here it comes.

That's a lot of core, Adam.

- It got really loose at the bottom. - Okay.

That's some good news. Thank you.

That seems to change, right?

It got soft right at the bottom.

Sounds like soft ground beneath.

That bodes well for our potential target.

That's a good sign.

Absolutely.

Whoa.

Solid.

Hey, Mike.

I think we're on wood.

It got real stiff.

- Really? - Yeah.

I should actually get this out,

though, in case something happens.

You go for it.

He thinks that they might be on wood.

- Wow. - If Mike thinks he hit wood,

- he's not often wrong. - No.

There's nothing that, from the historical record

that we know, actually occurred in this area.

- Yeah. -To me, that says "depositor."

Yep.

Time's gonna tell as to whether we're into

a treasure vault, I hope.

This could be the one.

There's nothing that, from the historical record

that we know, actually occurred in this area.

To me, that says "depositor."

This could be the one.

Let's hope he pulls up some wood

and we've got a structure.

Maybe we'll get a doubloon today.

It is an intense moment

in the Money Pit area for Rick Lagina

and members of the Oak Island team.

We'll have a good look here now.

While drilling borehole EN-13

in the possible treasure zone,

dubbed the Golden Egg...

What do you got, Adam?

- Ninety-nine. - Ninety-nine feet. Thank you.

...evidence of a possible structure has been encountered

at a depth of nearly 100 feet.

- How you doing? - Good.

You felt like you just caught something?

Well, it was really soft at the top here.

Felt like it, anyway.

And then, got super stiff.

It is a little soft. Let's carve it up.

Most of the intersections at about

this level get soft.

But it gets relatively firm here.

But no wood.

And this is... this is relatively soft material.

We're in fertile territory. This looks pretty good, Mike.

So, we could be close to something.

Because underground structures

cause the soil and sediment immediately around them

to be less compacted than natural, undisturbed earth,

could geologist Terry Matheson be correct

that the drill may have just missed

some kind of man-made object or construct?

If so, might it be something

that contains the large source of precious metals

that have been detected in this area?

We're through that zone of interest,

but that is suggesting something--

something might be close.

We could go back.

I'd just move over here.

-No problem. -Right, and the next hole,

we're five feet away.

- Yeah. - So, if there's

something there, we should be able

to find it in that hole.

Any utility in

grabbing a sample of the water

for metal testing?

I'd like to see

Dr. Spooner take a sample.

All right. Good luck, guys.

- We'll see you later, all right? -You bet.

The following morning,

as geoscientist

Dr. Ian Spooner collects

a water sample from borehole EN-13

in the Money Pit area...

-Hey, Sandy. -Hey, Sandy.

-Good to have you back. -Welcome back.

Thank you. Good to be back.

...Craig Tester

and members of the team

meet with numismatist

Sandy Campbell in the Oak Island laboratory.

They are eager for him to examine the coin

that was discovered between the two stone foundations

on Lot 5 just one day ago.

Let's have a look.

So, this is, obviously,

a pretty cool item.

So, right off the bat,

the shape-- it's irregular,

which speaks to it

being hammered rather than struck.

So, you're pre-1650

- to start. - Oh, no way.

And then, you know, it comes down to

what we may be able to pull off the coin

from a design point of view.

You know, we're-we're seeing

an animal here, I think, maybe.

What kind of animal?

It kind of looks like a horse.

But in all likelihood, I...

I think it's Roman.

- Wow. - Wow.

Giddyup.

So, Emma, maybe you can shine a little light

on what the, uh, alloy would be on this piece?

Sure, can do.

Prior to their meeting,

archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan scanned the coin

using an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, or XRF.

A device which emits non-destructive radiation

that can identify an object's chemical composition.

It is copper based.

And it's 70% copper, um, 16% lead,

so there's a high lead content

that we do not see in modern coins.

And it definitely, yeah, it puts it medieval and pre.

And high contents of, um, arsenic and then sulfur.

So, yeah, a composition that we do see in Roman coins.

It ain't the first Roman coin that we found on Lot 5.

I'll send Rick a text.

Two words.

"Roman, baby."

Exactly.

Another Roman coin off Lot 5.

Those are the words I love to hear on Oak Island.

This is turning into a pretty special lot.

Wow, what a impressive group of smiling faces.

- Mm-hmm. - Good reason for it. - What's up?

Let me call Marty first.

- Okay. -Let's get him involved, too.

- What do you got? -We're getting closer.

We found a coin on Lot 5

and, uh, Sandy's here.

And we thought we'd bring you up to date.

We've done some investigating with Emma

in terms of metal content.

You know, all the evidence, to me,

points to it being late Roman.

When you say late Roman, can you put a time frame on that?

Two to 300 AD.

It's a copper coin that traded as currency

for a long period of time.

You know, the Vikings were great to repurpose.

So, when they would come across war chests of Roman coins,

they would repurpose it into their own coinage.

Well, when we were in Reykjavik, in Iceland,

we went to the museum there

and there were Roman coins.

We know for a fact,

artifacts such as those crossed the North Atlantic.

In 2023, Rick and members of the team

traveled to Europe in order to investigate

an incredible theory:

that approximately 800 years ago,

members of the Knights Templar

transported priceless religious treasures to Oak Island

with the help of sailors who were descendants of Vikings.

And during their travels through Italy...

- Oh, wow. - Wow.

-...the Netherlands... - Oh, is this it?

...Denmark and Iceland,

they were astonished to see Templar and Viking symbols

and artifacts that are strikingly similar

to others that have been found on Oak Island.

This museum hosts some Roman coins.

Perfect.

And at the National Museum of Iceland,

they also saw a number of Roman coins.

Is it possible that the Roman coins

the team has found on Lot 5

offer further proof of a connection

between the Knights Templar and the descendants of Vikings?

Well, remember, we went to Europe and to Scandinavia

to track east to west.

How would an old-world treasure and an old-world mystery

come from maybe even the Middle East,

across the continent of Europe

and possibly vis-à-vis the Templars connection

or association with the descendants of the Vikings?

We know the Norse traveled

t-the North Atlantic long, long ago.

I think we need some solid artifactual evidence

that says descendants of Vikings on Oak Island.

But I wouldn't rule it out.

This find will make five Roman coins we've found.

It must have something to do with at least, at the minimum,

what happened on Lot 5.

But what is it saying about the people that inhabited Lot 5?

Or the people that visited Lot 5?

I don't know what it's saying.

At least not yet.

I think it's incredibly important.

Because there has been strong suggestions or hints

based on the current work to date

that there is a tie to the Money Pit.

There ya have it. Marty, you--

Exactly. That's what you were gonna say.

Let's all get out there, there's a lot of work to do, right?

Absolutely.

Do you feel that there's more features to be found?

Or do you think we're actually moving away from it now?

- I think it's too early to tell. - Right.

We have this much fill on top of the original surface.

Following the incredible revelation

that a fifth Roman coin has been discovered

on Lot 5 of Oak Island,

Alex Lagina helps Laird Niven

and members of the archeology team

expose another possible section

of the mysterious rounded stone foundation

that sits near the shoreline.

This is really weird.

I'm getting some rock patterns.

Yeah, that kinda looks placed, doesn't it?

You can almost see them in a line.

I'm getting rocks here, too.

Which could relate to yours.

What it looks like is these rocks were placed here,

and then this, we have this...

- Yeah, that-- That's weird. - ...hollow area.

- You hear that? -I do.

That's like one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.

I mean, I can feel it in my feet right here.

I was gonna say that. That's vibrational.

How bizarre.

A potentially hollow area

in the rounded stone foundation?

Given the fact that Laird Niven believes this entire feature

was deliberately hidden by someone long ago,

is it possible that the team has just discovered

an additional buried compartment?

If so, just what might they find as they carefully excavate it?

Archeology is really the only way we're gonna get any answers.

But the north half of Lot 5

is now what's called a special place,

which means the rules have changed.

So, it's a tedious process.

Um, it takes a lot of time.

You have to be very careful about what you're doing

and very meticulous about how you record it.

And this is a huge feature.

It's exciting because there's much more to this structure

than we believed at first.

We're already looking at a feature

that's much bigger than what you'd expect.

And it seems to keep going here.

I mean, it will be something.

Uh, maybe it's an extension of this feature.

Maybe it's a new feature.

I don't know the answers.

Never had this happen before.

And this construction is nothing like anything else you've seen

on the island in regards to structures.

It's so crudely built, and I find that strange,

that it would be this large.

It's built for a purpose

and we don't even know what that end looks like.

Mm-hmm.

So, the feature continues.

It doesn't make any sense,

but I know we've got to keep digging.

Yeah.

See what we can find.

As Alex and the archaeology team continue uncovering more

of the mysterious foundation on Lot 5...

What's going on?

There's a lot happening right here.

It's kind of, for me, a first-time experience.

...Rick Lagina has arrived in the Money Pit area

after being alerted to a potentially major development

near the recently drilled borehole known as EN-13

in the so-called Golden Egg.

A borehole where, one day ago, the team believes

that they nearly drilled into a possible man-made structure

approximately 100 feet underground.

Right there, that's the drill hole EN-13.

And I just sampled FN-13,

in the yellow cone there,

- right under the yellow cone. -Yep.

And I was bailing it, and I thought there was thunder.

Boom, boom, boom.

And, uh, it was coming out of the-the well.

Really?

You've never heard that underground before?

No! No, honest to God.

It was really quite extraordinary.

It went on for about 30 seconds.

What do you make of that?

My thought is that when they were drilling EN-13 there,

we know they were in soft ground,

- that they're near something. - Mm-hmm.

And now it's moving around air within it.

The implication being there's something open down there?

Yes. This thing's collapsing.

So, to collapse, it means there has to be a void.

-100%. -Yep.

This thing's collapsing there.

That's quite interesting.

In the Money Pit area, geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

has alerted Rick Lagina that, just minutes ago,

a structure of some kind may have collapsed

deep underground while he was collecting

water samples from borehole EN-13.

A borehole located in the so-called Golden Egg

where Dr. Spooner also believes

the legendary Oak Island treasure

may be buried between a depth of 80 and 120 feet.

We know we've drilled a million holes here,

and we've had monitoring wells nearby

and I've never heard that.

If things are moving around

down there, there's an opening.

Dr. Spooner revealed

he heard some sort of collapse underground.

I never heard anyone talk of that before, so,

might there be a chance here

to-to discover the treasure once and for all? Sure.

There's all of these clues that strongly suggest

this area holds significant interest.

So, I think something's going on here.

- Something's going on here. - All the chemistry has

- kind of pointed to that. - Yeah.

So, you know, here's... here's one example.

If you hold it up to the sun, you can see the discoloration

in it, the yellow color.

- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. - Yeah, that wasn't there beforehand.

- You just took a sample? - Yeah.

- After that? - Yes.

The darker water can indicate

- we're closer to, uh, wood, a source of wood. - Oh.

So, I'm very interested 'cause we have not seen this

- at this well before. - Hmm.

And if that's the case, then we've moved something around.

There's some, almost a direct connection from something.

Yes.

I think the underground collapse

probably means that we're in and around an open chamber.

So, what we think is that this event moved water

from a tunnel or a shaft,

and all of this is critical

to understanding where the metals are coming from.

So, it's a good place to have a very strange event occur.

Well, that next hole will be very interesting.

Yes. Hopefully we'll just... we'll drill there,

we'll hit it, and we'll actually hit something

that can help us explain the metals.

Okay. Well, thank you for the update.

- Yup. - We need to keep our wits about us.

Yup.

The next morning...

Well, gentlemen, as you know,

last year, we ended off our east-to-west journey in Iceland.

And it-it was an incredible experience.

...Rick and Marty Lagina

are meeting in the research center

with Oak Island historian Doug Crowell

and researcher Emiliano Sacchetti.

Following the discovery of another a Roman coin--

which the team believes may be connected

to descendants of Vikings--

Doug and Emiliano have a new

and potentially important development to discuss.

We learned that by 875 AD,

the Norse had reached Iceland,

and by 985 AD, they had reached Greenland.

But what's more intriguing is,

the only known Viking settlement

on the North American continent,

the L'Anse aux Meadows site in Newfoundland,

was, uh, active in 1021 AD.

Seems like that's our next destination.

So, what I'm hearing is that what you want to do

is continue the trip. Follow the trail.

- Right. - Yeah.

Located in modern-day Newfoundland, Canada,

approximately 625 miles northeast of Oak Island,

L'Anse aux Meadows is a Viking settlement

that was established more than 1,000 years ago,

and has been designated by the Canadian government

as a National Historic Site.

Today, it is the only officially-recognized

Viking settlement in North America.

However, according to the 13th-century writings

known as "the Viking sagas,"

members of the Viking culture

and their descendants may have actually traveled

and explored much further to the south.

The descendants of Vikings are very important

to understanding how an old-world treasure

might have come to Oak Island.

I believe they were integral

to the ability of someone or someones

to come across the North Atlantic

to the Maritimes and do this work on Oak Island.

Well, you guys put together that if the Templars

had anything to do with this, the logical way to get here,

at that period of time,

was through the Vikings' descendants.

Right? I mean, they were good at it.

- Absolutely. -Yeah.

Plus, we know that the Vikings

and their descendants were active

in Greenland and, um, in Newfoundland

between 1021 and 1347 at least.

I mean, we got from Europe to the North Atlantic.

Now you need to get from Newfoundland

somewhere down around these shores.

Are we going to bring the things that we suspect possibly

could be related to the Vikings' descendants?

We-we can certainly get permission to do that.

- What about the arrowhead? - Absolutely.

-Good morning! - Hi.

In 2023,

Rick, Doug, Emiliano

and other members of the team

visited the Ladby Viking Museum

in Kerteminde, Denmark.

And there, they showed curator Ane Jepsen Nyborg...

Wow!

...a photo of an iron arrowhead

that was reportedly discovered on Oak Island

by geologist and treasure hunter Robert Dunfield in the 1960s.

It is very interesting to me

because this is the type of artifact

that I could find tomorrow

in an archaeological dig around here.

- Perfect. - Wow.

Now, there... there is something

that I don't think you're aware of yet.

- Uh-oh. - It just came to our attention.

So, uh, around 1885,

a very unique and ornate whistle was found

on Oak Island near Smith's Cove.

- Hmm. - And let me show you this artifact.

Now, what's interesting about this whistle

is that it came into the possession

of Mary B. Steward.

She was a wealthy New Yorker

who helped finance the 1932 expedition here on the island.

She had this whistle examined by museums in New York.

And at the American Museum of Natural History,

they reported to her

that this was most likely of Scandinavian origin,

and made out of walrus tusk ivory.

And this is important, because that is what

the descendants of the Vikings were collecting and trading

in Greenland in the 1200s.

So, here we have another artifact

found on Oak Island that could be related

to that group of people.

Okay, that's-that's very interesting.

Absolutely.

-That's very interesting. -Absolutely.

This piece here was supposedly found on Oak Island?

Yes, and it could potentially be

a Viking-related artifact.

In the Oak Island Research Center,

Doug Crowell and Emiliano Sacchetti

have just revealed to Rick and Marty Lagina

an archival image of an artifact,

possibly of Scandinavian origin,

that was reportedly discovered

on Oak Island in the late 19th century.

Well, I kind of disagree

with what the archeologists say about L'Anse aux Meadows,

because I don't think it's the only

Norse site in Canada.

Think about it. 400 years, only one camp?

I think there are other sites in Canada,

and maybe one is here.

Right. So,

when did they discover L'Anse aux Meadows?

- In the 1960s. -Yeah. Okay.

So, if that one was hidden until 1960,

- why would it be the only one? -Yeah.

- Yeah. -Well, this is another mystery, and this is why

I think maybe, since we have found other things on the island

of possible Scandinavian origin,

this could be indications of prolonged activity

- by descendants of the Vikings or the Templars. - Yeah.

Maybe they came down from L'Anse aux Meadows

in Newfoundland to hide something,

- and I think that's what brought 'em to Oak Island. - Yeah.

In addition to the five Roman coins

that were discovered on Lot 5

and the potentially 800-year-old structures--

like Nolan's Cross

and the paved area in the swamp--

in recent years,

the team has also unearthed a pickaxe

in the Money Pit area,

as well as a decorative lead artifact on Lot 13,

which have both been scientifically traced

to Scandinavia.

Could Doug Crowell be correct

that these finds offer evidence

that Norse descendants of the Vikings

helped members of the Knights Templar

hide a vast treasure on Oak Island?

And if so,

might the team find further evidence

at L'Anse aux Meadows that will help them prove it?

If something happened in the 1200s here,

it almost has to have a component

of the Vikings' descendants.

Based on everything we know right now, it almost has to.

Um, there weren't a lot of other people

who knew about this place then.

It's entirely possible

that they could have brought the Knights Templar

or anybody else to Oak Island

for purposes of depositing something.

So, I want to just chase that.

I think we should mount an expedition.

- I-I... - I really do. I want to go this time.

I totally agree. There's...

There's always something to learn.

- Yes. -Yeah.

You know, we just found another Roman coin on Lot 5.

My suggestion would be, go to L'Anse aux Meadows

and see what you can find.

- Absolutely. -I can stay,

hold down the fort here. I mean,

we'll get a full lowdown of what happens there,

and new perspective, new insight is always a-a big thing.

- Yeah, I'm in. -I'm in!

We will give you a full report.

- Right, guys? -Yeah.

- Yeah. - Yes. Okay. Let's go. - Yeah? I'm good.

-Let's make it happen. -See you, gentlemen.

Bon voyage.

For more than two centuries,

the Oak Island mystery has confounded historians,

scientists and faithful adventurers.

Who could have engineered such complex underground workings

in the Money Pit area?

Where did they come from?

And just what did they leave behind?

After more than a decade,

Rick, Marty, Craig

and their team have gathered incredible evidence

suggesting that the answers to those questions

could rewrite the history of North America.

As they keep digging

and following the trail of clues,

will all soon be

revealed?

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