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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.

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.

Good morning, Alex.

Hey, Alex. How you doing?

Good. We set up on the hole?

- We are. -Perfect.

An exhilarating new morning

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.

One week ago,

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.

And curiously,

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.

Today, the team is drilling

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.

More evidence of a potential structure?

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.

Soft soils implies

men were underground working.

-89. 89. -Okay.

79 to 89. Here we go, guys.

So the hope is that we might be in the area

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.

Is it possible

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.

Absolutely.

As Rick and members of the team continue

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.

...Marty Lagina

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.

Encompassing nearly 31 square miles,

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.

In 2023,

Doug, Emiliano and other members of the team

traveled to medieval sites in Italy...

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

...Denmark and Iceland...

Wow. Look at this.

...to investigate an incredible theory:

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.

Icelandic manuscripts

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.

While some describe the culture's conquests

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.

The butternut seed infers

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.

At the 11th-century

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.

But if so, could it also be true

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.

While Marty and the team

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

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

Yeah. Look how it's all smoothed out.

...back on Oak Island...

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.

Another coin,

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.

As the search for valuables continues on Lot 4...

Might get wet.

Oh, yeah.

...and in the Money Pit area on Oak Island,

more than 600 miles northeast

in the province of Newfoundland...

Everybody, this is Ragnar.

- Good day. -Hello.

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

...Marty Lagina and other members of the team

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.

In 1965,

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.

At the L'Anse aux Meadows national historic site

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.

In 2023,

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.

Bog ore is a naturally forming iron deposit

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.

As Marty and the team finish their visit

at L'Anse aux Meadows...

Oh!

Now that is a banging signal, mate.

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

Yeah.

...back on Oak Island,

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.

Another copper coin?

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.

In addition to the 18th,

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.

And in 2023, when Rick and members of the team

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.

Is it possible that the numerous Roman coins,

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.

...in the war room, Marty Lagina,

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.

Following the meeting in the war room...

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.

Unfortunately, we've not yet been able to find

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.

Not this one. Maybe next one.

As members of the team

move forward in the Money Pit area,

later that afternoon...

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

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

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.

On Lot 5 of Oak Island,

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.

In 2023,

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.

Later that afternoon...

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.

And if I can jump in there.

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.

In the Oak Island war room,

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.

We found some evidence that

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.

Thanks, Dr. Michel.

All right, see you, take care.

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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