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Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

L'Anse aux Meadows
is a Norse base camp.

We suspect the Norse brought
the Knights Templar

- to Oak Island.
- Have a look at this.

- Wow.
- Whoa!

We have steps, then a chamber.
What if it's a church?

This lot is becoming
more interesting by the day.

We believe there's some kind
of a tunnel in the Golden Egg.

It's getting really loose.

So it's possible we're close

- to a structure.
- Yeah.

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.

Good morning, Alex.

Hey, Alex. How you doing?

Good. We set up on the hole?

- We are.
-Perfect.

has begun on Oak Island

for brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina

and their team...

So we're on EN-14,

which is in the Golden Egg.

We are. Yeah.

...because
in the fabled Money Pit area,

they have good reason to believe

that a vast treasure
may lie buried

directly below their feet

along with the truth
behind a 229-year-old mystery.

Any hole that we drill
in this area

could be the source
of the metals that we're seeing

- in the water.
- Exactly.
- Yeah.

And we're looking
for an indication

that we're next to a feature,

so soft material
coming out of the core

just like we saw in EN-13.

Yeah.

Adam, what do you got?

- 89.
- 89.

the team drilled a borehole
on their strategic grid

labeled EN-13
within a 30-by-15-foot region

dubbed the Golden Egg.

It is here
that recent groundwater tests

have indicated gold, silver

and other metals
have been detected

between 80
and 120 feet underground.

That seems to change. Right?

It got soft right at the bottom.

at a depth of some 95 feet,

soft, disturbed soil
was recovered,

suggesting that a structure
or container

of some kind may lie nearby.

There's nothing
that from the historical record

that we know actually
occurred in this area.

a new borehole known as EN-14,
just five feet to the east

in the hopes of pinpointing

the possible man-made feature
and determining

just what it may contain.

It's getting really loose.

-Hey, Terry!
- Mike, how's it going?

It definitely
got disturbed there.

Really?

Yeah. Like, the
whole run is pretty soft.

Okay. Interesting.
We'll take a look.

What's up?

So, uh, 69 to 79
he said looks really soft.

Oh.

So it's possible we're close

to a structure again,
at this point.

Hey, Adam.

- 79.
- 79.

- 79.
- Thank you.

And just feet
above the target depth

where water testing has
identified precious metals?

Hey, Rick.

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

- How are we doing?
- Well, we're going down

to 79 and Mike says we got

definitely a disturbed area,

so we're taking
a look at it right now.

Thank you, Adam.

Let's see what it brings us.

So some potential interest here.

All right.

Just a little softer here.

- You figure?
- I think so.

Yeah. It's a little
soft up there,

but we're not really seeing any
structure or material in here.

So another core,
core and a half?

Yeah.

men were underground working.

-89. 89.
-Okay.

79 to 89.
Here we go, guys.

of a structure in this proximity

and that might lead us
to the treasure.

It's a little soft,
but not really markedly.

Yep.

I don't know, guys.

Well, we certainly didn't hit
what we were expecting.

- No.
-But you never know.

Fingers crossed.

- Yeah.
- We got some soft area.

Not as soft as in EN-13,

so maybe we're close to
something we don't know about.

that the drill may have,
once again,

narrowly missed
the source of precious metals

that have been detected
in the so-called Golden Egg?

We know
that this area is interesting.

- Yes.
- So I think we stick
to the grid,

we try to understand
what it means.

- Yeah.
-I'm gonna stay
extremely hopeful,

and I know you guys will, too.

But we just got to keep going.

searching for the legendary
treasure on Oak Island...

...approximately 625 miles
to the northeast

in Newfoundland, Canada...

-Hello!
-Hi.
-Hi there.

Welcome to L'Anse aux Meadows.

I'm Marty. I have brought

- the Oak Island contingent here.
- Oh, lovely.

along with researchers
Doug Crowell

and Emiliano Sacchetti,

archaeologist Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

are meeting with Loretta Decker,

a manager for Parks Canada,

and archaeologist Kevin Smith

at the national historic site
known as L'Anse aux Meadows.

This is, as you know,

L'Anse aux Meadows
national historic site.

So L'Anse aux Meadows is
the very first evidence

of European presence
in North America.

The Norse here were
coming from Greenland

around the year 1000.

L'Anse aux Meadows is currently

the only verified Viking
settlement in North America.

Since its discovery in 1960

by Norwegian explorer
and writer Helge Ingstad,

nearly 800 Viking
and Norse artifacts

have been discovered here

in addition to the remains
of eight buildings,

including a forge

for the purpose
of producing iron tools.

The reason
we came here is because

these two gentlemen went
on an expedition to Europe

and they sort of did a kind
of an east to west passage.

It led to Scandinavia

and they found evidence

that the Norse might have been
somehow involved on Oak Island.

We followed the trail
as far as Iceland.

So we thought
the logical place to pick it up

was here in Newfoundland.

Makes sense.

How are you?

Good to see you again.

Doug, Emiliano
and other members of the team

traveled to medieval sites
in Italy...

-Oh. Look at these.
-Oh, wow.

Wow. Look at this.

That during
the early 13th century,

Norse descendants of the Vikings

helped members
of the Knights Templar

transport priceless
religious treasures

from Europe to Oak Island.

You see the Templar cross?

Incredibly,
at numerous locations

where researchers believe
that both groups intermingled,

the team saw a number
of symbols and artifacts

that are identical to others
that have been discovered

over the past two centuries
on Oak Island.

Now, Marty and the team are
looking for more evidence

at L'Anse aux Meadows
that may also help connect

the descendants of Vikings
and the Knights Templar

to the Oak Island mystery.

We know from evidence here

that this would be
like establishing

a base camp on the Moon.

This is essentially a base camp
for resource extraction.

They're coming here

because there's
resources in this region.

Not just
the L'Anse aux Meadows area

but this entire region.

Well, that sort of segues nicely
into why we're here.

It's not disputable
that the Vikings

- or the Norse were here.
- Mm.

What we're trying to figure out
is where they might

also have gone.

- Right.
- Specifically, on Oak Island.

-Yes.
- You know,

I mean, did--
could they have visited?

Could they have been part
of what went on there?

They may not have been here
during the summers.

- This is the wintering camp.
- Mm-hmm.

This is probably where
everybody is

congregating to in the fall...

- Mm-hmm.
- ...after they come back
from the expeditions,

which led them further south.

Okay. This is the only
proven site in North America.

Do you believe there are others?

The sagas talk
about another place called Hóp.

Hóp was the place where
they worked in the summer.

So yes, I do think
there was at least Hóp.

And that's not been identified?

That's not been
identified yet. No.

But it's supposed to be
somewhere to the south of here.

known as sagas are a collection
of poems and stories

authored during
the 13th and 14th centuries

that describe historical events
surrounding the Vikings

that are believed to have
actually taken place

between the ninth
and 11th centuries.

throughout Europe,
others describe

their explorations
of North America.

So the other
interesting thing, though,

we know that they're going
further south because we have

butternuts and a butternut burl
here in the collection.

They were found just nearby.

So in case you're wondering,

butternuts have never
grown here.

Right.

What geographic area
are they known to have grown in?

The furthest north is

in that Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick region.

Never here.

That proves
they did go as far south

- as Nova Scotia, for certainty.
- Yeah. Yeah.

that the Norse explored
much further south...

...because
that butternut seed only grows

between New Brunswick
and New England.

And that's important to us,

because in order to obtain
that butternut,

they may have came
to Oak Island.

You said that Hóp was, um,
the summer camp...

- Yes. Yes.
- ...mentioned in the sagas.

So, could Hóp be where
they found those butternuts?

- Or...
- Certainly.

- ...could that be Nova Scotia?
- Certainly.

Certainly.

- That's real interesting.
-Yeah.

That means they could have gone

as far south as Oak Island.

Yeah. Yeah.

So, could Hóp be Nova Scotia?

- Certainly.
-If they could travel

from Greenland to here,

it's reasonable
that they could travel

to the Nova Scotia area as well.

Viking settlement
known as L'Anse aux Meadows

in Newfoundland, Canada,

manager for Parks Canada
Loretta Decker

and archaeologist Kevin Smith

have just presented Marty Lagina

and other members of the team
with evidence that suggests

members of the Viking culture

may have traveled
hundreds of miles

further south of Newfoundland
to Nova Scotia,

and potentially Oak Island
over 1,000 years ago.

It all starts to make sense.

that descendants
of the Viking culture

helped members
of the Knights Templar

bury a vast treasure there

sometime between
the 13th and 14th centuries?

If it were other Europeans
that were on Oak Island--

- I mean, people have said
the Knights Templar...
-Mm.

- ...the people who might have
brought them here...
- Yeah.

- ...who knew how to cross
the ocean at that time...
- Right.

- were these people, right?
- Right.

Speaking of possible
connections between

the Viking descendants
and the Templars,

- we know the sagas even state
that the Norse visited Rome...
- Yeah.

- ...to meet with
the Pope, right?
- Yeah.

The Templars
were a Catholic order,

and that put the Pope
in direct control of them.

- Yeah.
-Right.

I think all of those sagas,
they all--

when you see
when they're written--

they all-- especially
the ones dealing

with this area-- they're all
linked into the Church.

- They were claiming land
to the west.
- Yeah.

- Yeah.
-On the island,

we've gotten some results
in the past that indicate

- European activity
in the 13th century.
- Yeah.

- Which is weird.
- Yeah. So, when you hear
those dates,

you automatically begin
to think the Norse.

- Yeah.
-It is
well-documented,

the Vikings began
converting from paganism

to Christianity
as their trade routes

expanded into Christian regions
across Europe.

In fact,
during the late 11th century,

descendants of the Vikings
helped the Catholic order

of the Knights Templar
defend Christian interests

in the Holy Land
during the Crusades,

when many researchers
believe that the Templars

discovered a number of
priceless religious treasures.

But what make these
historical connections

compelling to the Laginas
and their team

are the potentially 12th-century
structures on Oak Island

such as Nolan's Cross

and a stone-paved feature
in the swamp,

as well as the lead cross
that may be directly related

to the Templar order.

And incredibly,
they have also unearthed

a number of artifacts,
such as a pickax

from deep in the Money Pit area,

that have been scientifically
traced to Scandinavia.

It's because of those
discoveries on the island

that we're exploring
this avenue of possibility,

as far as who may have
done the work on Oak Island.

When you look at the timeline

that's starting to materialize,

we're seeing
a coalescing of history,

in that the Templars
were thought

to have a great treasure,

they were interacting
with the people

that had the means
and the knowledge

to sail across the Atlantic.

So, it's very likely

that it could well be
the descendants of the Vikings

who helped them
reach Oak Island.

This is all
incredibly interesting,

and we are very keen
to learn more.

So, what's next?

Well, come with me
and I'll show you.

continue searching for clues
at L'Anse aux Meadows...

-Wow, look.
-It looks a lot nicer.

Yeah. Look how
it's all smoothed out.

I'm hoping we can
find that little diamond

- in the rough.
- Hope you're right.

...Gary Drayton
and Peter Fornetti

have arrived on Lot 4

to search through spoils
that were removed

from a mysterious
circular stone feature

located several yards
to the east on Lot 5.

A stone feature
that has yielded artifacts

from vastly different eras,

such as a 17th-century
cut silver coin,

a lead barter token,
which may be related

to the 14th-century lead cross,

along with
a mortar-like substance

that nearly matches
other man-manipulated soils

found beneath Cone E

of the potentially
800-year-old Nolan's Cross

and, also,
from approximately 118 feet deep

in the Money Pit area.

Good signal here, mate.

- Right there?
- Yeah.

Sounds really good. Rock-solid.

- Just there.
- Okay.

That's a good signal, mate.

- Hey, hey, hey!
- What do you got?

It's a chunky coin.
We've got a coin.

That's what that is.

- Oh. That's a big coin.
- Ooh. Look at that.

Look at that patina.
Look at that green.

That's been in the ground
a long time.

- Yeah.
- That is a nice,

- chunky copper,
by the look of it.
- Mm-hmm.

discovered in the spoils removed
from the round feature on Lot 5?

Could it be related
to the cut English coin

that the team
recently uncovered?

Or might it be much, much older?

Obviously,

- the earlier the better.
- Mm-hmm.

-But I'll take
any of them, mate.
- Yeah.

Good find.

Yeah. Brilliant.

- You know where that's going.
- Top pocket?

Oh, a top-pocket find,
for sure, mate.

- All right.
-Let's find
more of its friends.

That's what we're here for.

Might get wet.

Oh, yeah.

more than 600 miles northeast

in the province
of Newfoundland...

Everybody, this is Ragnar.

- Good day.
-Hello.

Also, my real name
is Mark. Uh...

continue their tour of
the historic Viking settlement

known as L'Anse aux Meadows.

I've been trained in
the Viking Age aspect

of blacksmithing,
and I've been working here

for 25, uh, seasons now, yeah.

To give you some insight
on why we're here,

in our quest, you know,
down in Oak Island,

we are starting to suspect
that somehow, the Norse

may have had something to do
with what happened there.

Last year,
we managed to reacquire

an artifact that was said
to have been found in a dig

in 1965,

and it's this item here
that Laird has.

We showed that to an
archaeologist over in Denmark,

and she thought
it was very reminiscent

of the Viking time period.

geologist Robert Dunfield

conducted a massive excavation
in the Money Pit area

which was thwarted when seawater

caused his nearly
100-foot-diameter pit

to cave in.

Although he was unable
to recover any valuables

on Oak Island,

he reportedly discovered
an iron arrowhead.

And in 2023,

Rick, Doug
and members of the team

shared images of it
with historian Ane Jepsen Nyborg

at the Ladby Viking Museum
in Kerteminde, Denmark.

This is very interesting to me,

because this is
the type of artifact

that I could find tomorrow

in a, in an archaeological dig
around here,

and that could date
from the Vikings.

Do you think
that weapon point could be

made using your authentic,
early techniques?

Uh, it's possible.

I've made arrows
with Viking Age techniques

that look like this.

Excellent.

Do you think that could
be made using your...

techniques?

It's possible.

I've made arrows, uh,
look like this.

in Newfoundland, Canada,

blacksmithing expert
Mark Pilgrim

has just confirmed
that an iron arrowhead,

reportedly found on Oak Island
nearly 60 years ago,

could be of Viking design
and origin.

Have you tested
anything with it? Or...

I've done XRF scans on it,

and it's definitely not,
like, 1700s post.

So, the scans are ready.

Emma Culligan analyzed

the arrowhead
in the Oak Island lab

using an X-ray
fluorescence spectrometer,

a device that emits
nondestructive radiation

in order to identify
the elements

that make up
an object's composition

and which can help to determine
their age and origin.

I think these levels
would indicate

like, pre, you know, 1600s.

It may be supportive
of these other dates

from our other findings
on the island

that we have
in a medieval context.

Yeah. Exactly.

He was pretty good?

The guy who made that?

Yeah, he was pretty good.

Yeah.

So, this stuff
on the rock here that you see,

I can pass it around to you.

All right, and you can spread
it around, spread it around.

There you go,
just pass it around.

- That's bog ore. Okay?
- Yeah.

Generally, what bog ore is,

there's two major components,
there's ferrous oxide and sand.

Where you find this stuff
is actually in the bog.

So, it's prevalent
in this kind of environment.

A little bit closer
to Nova Scotia,

Oak Island has a swamp, as well.

typically found
in swamps or rivers,

and has been used across Europe

in order to forge
tools and weapons

dating as far back
as the fifth century BC.

It was also a material
commonly used by Vikings

and their descendants.

Is it possible
that the iron arrowhead

was also made with bog ore?

And if so, could it help prove

that the artifact
is of Scandinavian origin?

We have some bog iron
that's taken from the region

that we can give you, Emma,
for testing.

Yeah, I'm really excited
to collect any kind of data

of bog iron and...

in the future, I could
compare Oak Island artifacts

to potential bog iron.

Oak Island has become so complex
in this time we've spent there,

and with so many
different possibilities,

that we're just trying
to eliminate some.

Or gather some.

So, this is-- this is excellent.

I'm pretty charged up.

I think Rick's gonna be
very interested in the results

of our mission
to L'Anse aux Meadows.

The trip was
absolutely worth doing.

Mark, many thanks.

This has been very informative.
Really good stuff.

Loretta, Kevin,
thank you very much.

We've got a lot of data here.

We're gonna get back
to the island and go through it.

-Thanks for coming.
-Absolutely.

at L'Anse aux Meadows...

Oh!

Now that is
a banging signal, mate.

Oh. It's got everything
going for it, mate.

Yeah.

Gary Drayton and Peter Fornetti

have just detected
another potential clue

in the spoils
that have been removed

from the nearby circular
stone foundation on Lot 5.

I think it's out.

Hey, hey, hey!

- We've done it again, mate.
- I see roundness.

Yeah, I see the edge of it.

Oh, it is! It's a coin!

Okay!

That is a big copper again.

- Now, this looks
a little bit smaller...
- Yeah.

...than the previous one.

I'm hoping this is an oldie.

And what I love about
these type of coppers, mate,

they predate
that 1795 Money Pit story.

Could Gary Drayton be correct
that it predates

- the discovery
of the Money Pit in 1795?
- Beauty.

If so, just when
was it brought to Oak Island?

And might it be
another important clue

to help determine just who
created the feature on Lot 5,

as well as
the original Money Pit?

We've already found that clay
that matches the Money Pit.

Now we're finding coins
pre-Money Pit date.

We have three different
types of coins in this area.

Yeah.

Is that a normal thing
to have that type of find?

I'm glad you brought that up,
because we don't really know

- where this coin is from,
or the other one.
- Yeah.

We have found Roman coins
on the lot.

People would have had various
denominations of coins on them.

It potentially speaks to these
people, whomever they were,

going to different countries,
different empires.

And then finding their way here.

For what purpose? We don't know.

17th and 14th century
discoveries

that the team has made on Lot 5,

over the past two years,
they have also discovered

five Roman coins
in the area that,

according to numismatist
Sandy Campbell,

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

So, here we have the Roman coins
that have been found in Iceland.

visited the National Museum of Iceland

to investigate the theory
that Viking descendants

and members
of the Knights Templar

might be connected
to the Oak Island mystery,

they were shown
nearly identical Roman coins

that the Norse culture
was trading as currency

as much as 1,000 years ago.

It's just evidence
of an interconnected nature

of everything much earlier
than we had thought.

That, in my mind,
makes the Norse exploration

more important to
our investigation on Oak Island.

the nearly
800-year-old structures

and potentially Scandinavian
and Templar-related artifacts

that have been
found on Oak Island

offer evidence that this
incredible theory is true?

And also explain the high
reading for precious metals

that have been detected
across the Money Pit area?

Into the top pocket
this is going.

Brilliant, mate.
That's a two-coin day.

Can't go wrong with that.

Those are rare on Oak Island,
but they need to be more common.

Yeah. And they will be, mate,

the more we go through
all these spoils.

Okay, mate.
I'll put it in the bag.

As a new day
begins on Oak Island,

while the core-drilling
operation continues

in the Money Pit area...

I have a report
because we had a field trip.

I highly enjoyed it,

but it was also
really informative, I thought.

along with Laird Niven
and Emma Culligan

are meeting with Rick Lagina
and other members of the team

to share what they learned
during their trip

to the L'Anse aux Meadows
national historic site.

My conclusion is that I think
that trip made it,

in my mind at least,
a lot more plausible

that the Norse could
have visited this island.

We don't have a smoking gun.

But what we did get
is a lot of various facts

that would indicate
that they clearly had

motive and opportunity,
let's say, and ability.

Perhaps over
a period of a hundred years,

- on and off.
- Well, see...

The genesis was,
uh, at L'Anse aux Meadows,

but they didn't stay there.

They moved,
and they moved south.

So, one of the things
that adds credence

to the Norse
coming down this coast

is when you look at how far
they traveled from Greenland

down to L'Anse aux Meadow,

it's really just a little short
journey to get to Nova Scotia.

Kevin said
that hierarchy in the Church

was very interested
in claiming lands.

So, that that means
that the Roman Catholic Church

almost certainly knew
way before Columbus,

way before,
that there was a continent.

- Very interesting.
- Isn't it? Yeah.

That was an eye opener.

Well, if the Church knew,
the Templars knew.

The Knights Templar,
who were in the Middle East

and descendants of Vikings

are in the Middle East
with the Templars.

You have a 300-year window

when this information
could've been passed down

that there's land to the west

and here's how you get there.

Like I said, if the Church
knew it, the Templars knew it.

And if they were
looking for some place

to take away some relics
that they recovered

from the Temple Mount...

Nothing we found
would rule that out.

The Norse knew
how to leave Europe

to come to North America
and get back again.

The Church was very interested
in the North Atlantic area.

So, we can continue to research

the descendants
of Vikings connection

with Templars
and their evolution,

because this is important
to understanding Oak Island.

At the end of the day,
on what level

can you say to yourself,
"You know what?

The East-to-West connection
is now established"?

I've always been
a big supporter

of the Norse
coming to Nova Scotia.

I think visiting
L'Anse aux Meadows

kind of reinforced that.

What I'm hearing is,
it's harder now for you to argue

they were not here
than to argue that they were.

- Stopped by.
- A-And that's quite a step.

-Yeah. Yeah.
-Mm-hmm.

It was a great trip

and we'll process
what we heard here today

while we look for
more evidence on the island.

-Let's go.
-Thank you.

FN-14 is dead center
in the Golden Egg.

So, there's some hope for today.

89 to 99 is coming up.

- That's our sweet spot, right?
- Yeah.

...surveyor
Steve Guptill arrives

in the Money Pit area
to check on the progress

of the core-drilling operation
in borehole FN-14,

a borehole located
in the so-called Golden Egg,

where the team has detected
high-trace evidence

of precious metals between
80 and 120 feet underground.

Thank you. Got a big slice.

Yep.

Clay horizon.

Pretty firm stuff.

Great to tunnel in,
but no tunnel.

Yeah, unfortunately,
we got no structure here.

some sort of a structure
in the Golden Egg,

but that doesn't mean
we're gonna stop.

The preponderance
of the evidence

suggests that
the treasure could be

somewhere within
this designated area.

So, we persevere and
you just got to keep going.

We're starting
to weed things out,

because once we've drilled them,

we know they can't be there,
so we've X'd them off.

We want to make sure
that there's no place

a treasure chest
or a treasure vault can hide.

Doesn't mean
it's not down there.

- It just means
we haven't found it yet.
- Yeah.

move forward
in the Money Pit area,

later that afternoon...

Every time I come here,
it gets a little bit bigger.

Rick Lagina, Doug Crowell
and Emiliano Sacchetti

have arrived to inspect
the stone foundation

near the shoreline
after being alerted

that Laird Niven
and his team have uncovered

even more sections
of the mysterious feature.

You know,
we have some burnt soil.

It appears to be burnt soil

in that test pit,
test pit 20,

which we interpreted as natural,
because there has to be

a blacksmith
around here somewhere.

This lot is becoming, uh, more

and more interesting by the day.

It's a bit too early
to jump to conclusions,

but we have steps going down,

then something that looks
like a-a chamber

or a room.

If it's true,
that whoever came here

in the 13th century to build
Nolan's Cross

was a very religious person,
or a group of individuals.

And they must have had, uh,
a place to worship.

So what if...

uh, it is the apse of a church?

This could've been
a-a ritual place.

The idea that it's a church is
interesting on several levels.

Really amazing.

What we've just got back
are some results.

What we're seeing in the water

is just not
naturally occurring metals.

There's something
in that Golden Egg area.

Excellent.

This could've
been a ritual place.

Or some place to worship.

The idea that it's a church is
interesting on several levels.

researcher Emiliano Sacchetti

has just shared his theory
that the design

of the newly uncovered sections

of the mysterious
circular stone foundation

near the shoreline

suggests it could possibly be

the remains
of an ancient place of worship.

I like Emiliano's thought,
you know.

Are there
any consistent measurements

associated with a construction
from say that era?

The problem with that is

we don't quite have
the north wall...

- Mm.
- ...and the east wall.

And there's
so many strange things, right?

When we first talked
with Professor Gaspani,

we gave him the coordinates
for Nolan's Cross

and we gave him coordinates
for other features around,

just to see if there was
alignments with everything.

The only other
significant alignment he found

was with the center of this pit.

-Yeah.
- And he felt that this site

really had something
to do with Nolan's Cross.

- Absolutely.
- Yeah.

Italian archaeoastronomy expert

Professor Adriano Gaspani shared
his research suggesting

that based
on their historical alignments

with certain stars
in the night sky,

man-made features on Oak Island

such as the megalithic
formation of boulders

known as
Nolan's Cross,

the five stone piles on Lot 15,

and the stone foundation
on Lot 5 may have been created

in the 13th century by members

of the Knights Templar.

I mean, the first
photo I saw about this site was

a pile of stones or whatever.

Look at-- look at it now.

I mean,
it evolved into something

way bigger, way more complex.

- Yeah.
- We should excavate

more in order to see,

because maybe there
are surprises under there.

Is it possible
that Emiliano Sacchetti may be

correct about the origin
of this structure on Lot 5?

If so, would that explain
the lead barter token

that the team found here
two years ago,

which has been
scientifically linked

to the believed Templar cross

that was unearthed
at Smith's Cove

in 2017?

It's incredibly interesting.

It continues to evolve.

I think there's
some answers here, but...

- it's too early yet.
-Yeah.

You have to keep your mind
open to the possibilities.

Emiliano's opinion
that this structure, perhaps,

is a church,
was quite interesting.

I have always believed
that this was

a concerted effort
by a group or groups,

possibly Templars, to hide
something, safeguard something.

So it supports that theory.

Thus the reason, obviously,
to continue the work here.

You know,
the more you go on digging,

there will be
something interesting coming up.

Yeah, we should probably
go exploring it further.

You're gonna find
something definitive,

but you got to find it first.

Yeah.

We'll get back to it.

Good luck.

Dr. Spooner
and Dr. Michel are here

with the latest
water sample testing results.

Rick, Marty, Craig
and other members of the team

are meeting to hear
a new scientific report

from Dr. Ian Spooner
and Dr. Fred Michel regarding

their ongoing ground water
testing

in the Baby Blob and Golden Egg,

within the Money Pit area.

So I just want
to make everybody aware

that we did drill

the first "X marks the spot"
in the Golden Egg.

Alex and I were up
at the drill table last week

and at EN-13, right around...

94 and a half, there was
a four-feet section there that

was certainly a much softer area
than above and below.

So we might be close
to something

and we don't know what it is.

Yeah, you folks have decided

to drill in this area,
'cause it really...

may answer a ton of questions

with respect to why
we're getting this persistent

anomaly of these metals
in what we call the Baby Blob

and the Golden Egg.

And what we've just got back
are some results

from the last week and a half.

For the most part,
most of the wells

showed no evidence
of metals in the water,

except in two wells
that have persisted

in having anomalous amounts.

Those two wells are GN-10.5

and B.5N-11.

So they're both on the north
and south end of the Baby Blob.

So we're almost certain
what we're seeing in the water

is just
not naturally occurring metals.

And this is,
I think, an important thing,

is that it's not everywhere
in the Money Pit.

So, there's-there's
certainly a source

that includes silver in the Egg.

Therein lies our interest

in the area
we're calling the Golden Egg.

We're trying to understand why

the metal anomaly
seems to be in that area.

We believe there has
to be some kind of a shaft

or a tunnel
we don't know about in there

where these metals exist.

Wow.

If there's a tunnel
and a chamber in the area,

there has to be something
or we believe there has to be

something unique in that

- Golden Egg area.
- Good.

Dr. Ian Spooner
and Dr. Fred Michel have just

shared new
scientific data affirming

that the legendary
Money Pit treasure vault

may lie buried somewhere
within the so-called Golden Egg.

A 15-by-30-foot region
where the team's core-drilling

operation has
recently yielded evidence

of a nearby tunnel or structure
some 100 feet underground.

We're glad you're drilling
the Egg, the Golden Egg.

We'll sample water vigorously
as that happens.

Because if we disturb
the source of the anomaly,

it's gonna show up in our wells.

And we're hoping to have
some kind of report soon.

Okay. Hope springs eternal.

Yeah.

Let's hope the Golden Egg
lives up to its name.

Yeah.

-Bingo!
-There's wood.

there were man-made
workings in this area.

- All right.
- That's the last sample.

We have the high
anomalous metals values,

so I think it warrants,
uh, continuing the dig.

Okay.

There's certainly
significant interest here,

but at the end of the day,

a theory is only a theory
or a belief is only a belief

till you hold
the proof in your hand.

I'm chasing
the metals in the water.

We started out
doing brute kind of things.

- Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Sorry.
- Yeah, sure.

Good thing my cat-like reflexes
came in handy.

We were schlepping plywood
around in the swamp.

We were digging
with our own hands more.

We still do.

Okay. Are we ready?

We're ready.

But we got more
and more sophisticated

by applying technologies
to where we are running

a very scientific operation
right now.

Every time we dig,
that data will actually

help us find this treasure.

And, hopefully,
we get to the bottom of it all.

So what I'm hearing is
there's still hope

that we could find the source
of these metals yet this year.

We're doing everything right.

- Yes.
- Excellent.

Okay, well, you have work to do.

I have work to do right now,
so yeah.

Bye, guys.

For Rick,
Marty, Craig and their team,

another week of diligent
exploration has produced

new, compelling evidence
that a vast treasure

may lie buried
in the Money Pit area.

But as the digging continues,

are they narrowing in
on a discovery

that will change history
as we know it?

Or is the secret that Oak Island
has kept hidden

for more than two centuries

simply too precious to let go?

Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...

This is the Golden Egg, where
precious metals are coming from.

It could literally be gold.

Could be. We're due for a win.

The Restalls were convinced

that they found the flood tunnel
down in Smith's Cove.

If there's something here,
we should find it.

- Cement.
-Wow, there's
a chance we've hit

the flood tunnels?

I did do a CT scan
of the surface image.

- What do you think that is?
- It's related to gold.

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