NARRATOR: Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island...
RICK: We're trying to make a connection
between the Norse and the Templars.
We found a piece of wood in our swamp.
Very much like this.
This Viking ship could travel to Oak Island.
-FIONA: Look what popped out. -HELEN: What is that?
MARTY: Somebody on Lot 5 was deep
in the Money Pit based on this evidence.
This is a copper piece from Oak Island.
Here's that symbol next to a cross.
It's remarkable.
This cave might relate to Oak Island.
ROBERTO: This is it.
EMILIANO: Wow. Look at this.
RICK: We've seen that before.
NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic
where people have been looking for
an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
So far, they have found a stone slab
with strange symbols carved into it...
...man-made workings that date to medieval times,
and a lead cross whose origin may be connected
to the Knights Templar.
To date, six men have died
trying to solve the mystery.
And according to legend, one more will have to die
before the treasure can be found.
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MARTY: Gentlemen!
Hey, Marty. How you doing?
Looking for reports. Good reports.
TERRY: (chuckles) Well,
down to 137 here, Marty.
What we have in front of us is 117 to 137.
NARRATOR: Another chilly fall morning
has begun on Oak Island
for Marty Lagina and members of the team.
But despite the increasingly harsh weather,
they remain determined
to make a major breakthrough discovery
in the Money Pit area
that could finally solve
a 229-year-old treasure mystery.
And we don't have any, uh...
no wood or nothing like that?
TERRY: No.
This hole, really close
to the Garden Shaft, has a lot of silt and sand.
-That stuff? -TERRY: Oh yeah, very coarse material.
It very much looks like the sand that came into the Garden Shaft
-with the water. -Yeah. -Exactly.
NARRATOR: One month ago, the team began
a horizontal probe-drilling operation
at a depth of 106 feet in the Garden Shaft
to explore a seven-foot-high partially dismantled tunnel.
A tunnel that runs due West
into an area dubbed the Baby Blob
where water testing has revealed
high-trace evidence of gold and silver
between 80 and 120 feet underground.
NARRATOR: But as the probe-drilling proceeded,
salt water suddenly rushed into the structure...
NARRATOR: ...forcing the team members to vacate the shaft
and abandon the operation.
This has made the Oak Island team speculate
that they encountered
one of the infamous booby-trapped flood tunnels,
which have prevented searchers from successfully digging
below 90 feet in the Money Pit area
for more than two centuries.
You can see the sand all slumped in.
Let me see that one.
NARRATOR: Now, with only two weeks
before the onset of winter will force the team
to halt their search operations until next spring,
they are conducting a new core-drilling operation
in and around the Baby Blob
and the mysterious tunnel near the Garden Shaft
in the hopes of pinpointing the source
of the possible treasure that has been detected in the area.
MARTY: The scientists are absolutely convinced
that there's a source of metals.
And some of the metals are precious.
You would think, "Absolutely, we're close."
I will do my absolute damnedest
to advance the treasure hunt
in what little time we have left.
-Anyway. -Guys, carry on.
Maybe there's something down deep.
Right on.
See you later.
NARRATOR: While the search for the legendary treasure
continues on Oak Island...
...more than 3,200 miles to the northeast
in Roskilde, Denmark...
ALEX: Wow. Look at these.
PETER: Wow.
DOUG: It's amazing, eh?
-Hi. Morten? -MORTEN: Hi.
-Nice to meet you. -I'm Alex.
-Nice to meet you. -Alex. Morten.
NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina,
along with his nephews Alex and Peter,
Oak Island historian Doug Crowell
and researchers Emiliano Sacchetti
and Corjan Mol are meeting
with Dr. Morten Ravn
at the Viking Ship Museum
where he serves as the curator.
Yeah. Welcome to the Viking Ship Museum.
So glad that you want to visit us also here
on your long voyage through Europe and everywhere else.
Thank you.
NARRATOR: Over the past two weeks...
-Wow. -Oh, wow.
NARRATOR: ...Rick and the team have visited
numerous historic sites in Italy,
the Netherlands...
If you look carefully,
there is a four-dot cross here.
-Ah, look at these. -Oh, wow.
NARRATOR: ...and Denmark...
RICK: Look at how many of those runes
match the 90-foot stone.
NARRATOR: ...where Emiliano, Corjan
and other researchers have shown them carved symbols
and other compelling clues...
On the other side here,
-circle and dot. -ALEX: Yep.
NARRATOR: ...supporting the incredible theory
that members of the medieval Christian order known
as the Knights Templar conspired with Vikings
in order to smuggle their sacred religious treasures
across Europe before transporting them to Oak Island
nearly 800 years ago.
The five-schooner ship we have here is
from the absolutely latest part of the Viking Age,
turning into medieval times.
NARRATOR: Now, Rick and the team are hoping that Dr. Ravn
can provide more information on the Viking culture,
which is known to have explored
and created settlements in parts of North America
some 1,000 years ago...
...to see if he can offer more clues
that could help determine if this theory is true.
RICK: Can you give us an understanding
of the evolution of the design of the ships?
Because I'm sure, initially,
it would have been about commerce and raiding,
not necessarily transatlantic voyages.
Yeah, it's an excellent question.
First, it's large and larger ships,
which you would be rowing.
And after that,
at the beginning of the Viking Age,
around 750, comes the sail.
And with the sail,
you now can travel at the open sea,
and eventually go all the way to Canada and to United States.
If you are interested in seeing how we built
reconstructions of these ships,
you can just go outside and I have arranged
for one of our very skilled boat builders, Marten,
to-to show you a reconstruction of these oceangoing ships.
-Our new number one. -ALEX: Sounds great.
RICK: We're trying to make a connection
between the Norse and-and the Templars,
especially in context
of transatlantic voyages.
-Hello. -Hi. Welcome.
-Good to see you. -Hello.
RICK: If the Oak Island mystery is real,
you have to be able to connect the dots.
So right now we are looking at a seagoing Viking ship
that is built here at the museum.
And it's a good size ship, this one.
You have different layers of deck here.
So, you can see underneath here, if you take these up.
There's another layer of deck.
So you can have a lot of cargo underneath here.
The one we are looking at now is a cargo ship
that can carry a lot of weight, about 20 ton.
Could you sail to Canada on this?
To Oak Island?
I would say absolutely.
This is built in 1060.
On Oak Island, we have a couple of stone constructs
that we're told were likely built
in the 1200s.
So, is this boat representative of the type of boat
that may have been used in that time period?
Absolutely.
Yeah, I've been looking around here because we found
-a piece of wood in our swamp. -MARTEN: Yeah.
It was three-quarters of an inch thick. Very uniform.
-It looked like a railing. -Okay.
-And it carbon-dated to 770 A.D. -Okay. Wow.
And as I look around, I only see one piece of wood
that kind of resembles it, and that's up here
-along the bow. -MARTEN: Yeah.
We found a piece that very much looks like this.
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, look at that.
What do you got?
It looks like a piece of finished wood.
NARRATOR: In 2020,
while investigating the southern region
of the triangle-shaped swamp,
members of the team unearthed a well-fashioned piece of wood
that, according to carbon-14 testing,
is one of the oldest artifacts ever found on Oak Island.
So we tested it.
The date was 660 to 770 A.D.
(chuckling)
It's pretty much the same width, same thickness.
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
NARRATOR: Could Doug Crowell be correct that he,
Rick and the team may now be seeing
the exact same kind of woodworking
in a Viking Ship museum located in Denmark?
It makes total sense.
It's something that would easily fall off, I would say,
so that would make sense.
RICK: Well, Marten, you know, we obviously
have learned a lot today about not only the Viking culture
but, specifically, Viking ships.
And the ability, possibly,
to sail on transatlantic voyages long ago.
Without this information,
we can't fill in the holes in the story
that we believe is quite complex
regarding the Oak Island mystery.
So, thank you and everyone associated with this facility.
You're very welcome.
But the journey is not over because we are
-about to take off to Iceland. -Correct.
PETER: Unfortunately,
I'm not gonna be able to make the journey to Iceland,
uh, but I look forward to hearing about it.
-We'll fill you in. -Yep. -Yeah, same here.
I need to move back to the Netherlands for business.
But I wish you sound sailing with this group.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
-ALEX: We will. -Okay.
-Corjan, been fun. -Take care, man.
EMILIANO: Next stop, Iceland.
RICK: Absolutely.
NARRATOR: As a new morning begins on Oak Island...
...while the core-drilling operation continues
near the Garden Shaft in the Money Pit area...
MARTY: Pardon the usage of terms, Laird,
but we're trying to cement the relationship
between the Money Pit
and then Lot 5.
NARRATOR:...Marty Lagina and Jack Begley
meet with archaeologist Laird Niven
and archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan
in the Oak Island Laboratory.
We've collected a sample of clay from
the round feature and rectangular feature.
EMMA: And then at the Money Pit.
NARRATOR: They are eager to receive
a follow-up report from Laird and Emma
regarding mysterious clay-like and soil materials
that were recently discovered in two stone foundations
that are located in the middle of the island on Lot 5.
One of these features is rounded in appearance
and sits near the shoreline.
The other, which is rectangular,
sits further inland
and has also yielded compelling clues,
including an iron spike which Emma believes
could be more than 800 years old.
Curiously, preliminary analysis on
the clay-like soils found in the round feature
revealed that they are closely matched to
other soil samples that have been unearthed
in the Money Pit area.
Why don't you walk Jack and I through it?
So, this is from the rectangular feature.
MARTY: Yeah.
Another clay deposit
standing on its own.
Okay, so, we had a big bunch of clay
that, even by appearance, we thought
looked like the Money Pit, correct?
-Yes. Yeah. -MARTY: Okay.
And then Emma ran her analysis.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: In order to further analyze the soils
that were found in the features on Lot 5,
Emma has scanned them
with an X-ray diffraction device, or XRD,
which can identify the chemical composition of materials.
MARTY: Here we have the results of that comparison?
LAIRD: Yes.
EMMA: The rectangular feature, it is
a really close match to
a really shallow sample of the Money Pit.
-Okay, that's good. -EMMA: Yep.
MARTY: What is this?
LAIRD: Well, this is from part of the round feature.
MARTY: Okay.
And Emma tested this.
And so, in her analysis,
this soil matches the maroon till from the Money Pit.
Which is deep.
-Yep. -Mm-hmm. 118 feet.
So, we have two matches now to
-the Money Pit and Lot 5. -MARTY: Right.
JACK: How do you explain that in a feature
that was covered over before the Money Pit was discovered?
MARTY: Because we have some evidence that could
go back into the 1600s, even the 1500s,
even before.
Yeah.
MARTY: You have somebody over on Lot 5
or some somebodies over on Lot 5
who were deep in the Money Pit, based on this evidence.
Which is incredibly significant, okay?
If the data is correct,
the clay in these features on Lot 5
matches the clay found in the Money Pit,
then whoever was there
had something to do with the Money Pit.
Uh, that's a big deal.
That's a big connection.
All right. Good data. We need to find out
what it doesn't match,
because that will add credence to
what it does match. Okay.
-JACK: All right. -LAIRD: See you later.
-MARTY: Yeah. See you. Thank you. -EMMA: Yeah.
NARRATOR: As Marty, Jack, Laird and Emma
conclude their meeting on Oak Island...
...over 2,000 miles northeast
in Reykjavík, Iceland...
-RICK: What a beautiful day. -ALEX: Yeah.
NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina, along with his nephew Alex,
Doug Crowell and researcher Emiliano Sacchetti...
EMILIANO: Okay, we'll go in here.
...arrive at the Árni Magnússon Institute.
-Hello, Professor. -Hello.
Thanks for having us today, here.
NARRATOR: On Emiliano's recommendation,
they are meeting with Professor Gudvardur Mar Gunnlaugsson,
the curator of the institute's manuscripts,
to see more documented clues
that could link the Viking culture
to the order of the Knights Templar
and, potentially, the Oak Island mystery.
Basically collecting,
translating that knowledge
that was brought back from the holy land
from people like the Templars.
NARRATOR: Two weeks ago, Emiliano
and archeoastronomer Professor Adriano Gaspani
gave Rick and the team a tour
of a 12th-century monastery in Morimondo, Italy
that was built by Cistercian monks,
a Catholic order
that constructed certain Christian houses of worship
across Europe according to astronomical alignments
with stars in the night sky.
DOUG: We have the four-dot cross
carved on a stone on Oak Island,
along with a circle with a dot in the center.
NARRATOR: While there, the team not only saw numerous Templar symbols
that have been found over the years on Oak Island,
but were also informed by Professor Gaspani
that the Templars may have employed knowledge of astronomy
that they learned in such abbeys
in order to construct
megalithic formations on Oak Island,
including the feature made up of six boulders
known as Nolan's Cross.
Eventually, that knowledge reached, also, Iceland,
because what we know is that between the 11th century
and the 14th century, in this island,
were active more than 15 monastic houses.
And those abbeys
produced hundreds of manuscripts.
This one is evidence
that very specific knowledge--
and I'm talking about astronomy, sacred geometry--
arrived here and was processed here.
The oldest part is around 1190,
up to the early 14th century.
RICK: What is the language?
EMILIANO: The language is in Latin.
There are parts in Norse.
Emiliano, what have you identified in this
particular manuscript of interest to our quest?
EMILIANO: Not only this manuscript
contains information about astronomy,
but it also names specific stars.
-RICK: Yeah. -DOUG: Hmm.
-The primary alignment. -EMILIANO: Yeah.
NARRATOR: According to the research of Professor Adriano Gaspani,
the star known as Arcturus,
which is part of a constellation named Boötes,
was used as a key alignment
to create Nolan's Cross
on the surface of Oak Island.
Is it possible that Emiliano Sacchetti
has now found a new connection between
Arcturus and the Oak Island mystery
in a medieval Norse manuscript?
EMILIANO: This says that it was important to know the stars.
You know, celestial navigation,
and probably Arcturus,
which was called the day star for its brightness.
So, probably, Arcturus was one of the stars followed
because of its brightness.
ALEX: It's interesting because,
again, that says that's useful for sailing
at far north latitudes.
Yeah.
RICK: There were many interesting things
contained within the book, stellar alignments
that we find of significant interest
in how it may relate to Oak Island.
And it's possible that as we follow
this trail of information, it may become
more and more interesting, and perhaps valuable, to us.
DOUG: You know, I'm sitting here looking at this book
and I'm just... I'm marveling at it because
within this manuscript, I keep seeing
the repeated use of the symbol
that's on our copper piece on Oak Island.
RICK: That's remarkable.
DOUG: I keep seeing the repeated use of the symbol
that's on our copper piece on Oak Island.
NARRATOR: At the Árni Magnússon Institute in Reykjavík, Iceland...
I see it here and here,
and I've seen it on several pages.
...Doug Crowell may have just found a symbol
in a 12th-century Icelandic manuscript
that could be connected to
the Oak Island mystery.
DOUG: This is the ribbon-like symbol on our copper piece,
and, curious, it's next to
a representation of a cross.
RICK: That's remarkable.
It's not just here on this page, though.
It's throughout the text.
RICK: That's very interesting.
ALEX: Is this what you're talking about, Doug, here?
DOUG: Yes.
Yeah, this symbol right here.
Oh, yeah.
EMILIANO: Can you see it, Professor?
Yes. They look similar, yes.
NARRATOR: In 2022,
Gary Drayton and Jack Begley
unearthed a copper artifact
bearing a number of ornate symbols.
And when archaeologist Dr. Edwin Barnhardt
analyzed a metallurgy report conducted by Emma Culligan,
he made a fascinating observation.
EDWIN: It could be some sort of older object.
The other possibility is the Vikings.
DOUG: You see, until we
fully understand what this copper piece is...
I mean, it's found in
pretty close proximity to Nolan's Cross.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that Doug Crowell has found
more evidence in this 12th century manuscript
that may connect the copper artifact
found on Lot 8 to the Viking culture?
If so,
could it also support the theory
that Vikings helped the Knights Templar
bury priceless treasures on Oak Island?
Makes me wonder all the more whether
the astronomical constructs we have on the island--
if this isn't somehow associated with it.
I-It's remarkable. Stunning.
That symbol we see in the book
is the same symbol that we see on the copper artifact.
You cannot ignore that.
We have found the possibility of connective tissue
between this book and representations of symbology
found on Oak Island.
I just think it's
an incredible piece of history.
I'm certain all of us will treasure
-this moment for a long, long time. -GUNNLAUGSSON: Yes.
But the journey's not over.
DOUG: You've got us hooked.
RICK: Thank you.
NARRATOR: The following morning,
while the core-drilling operation
in the Money Pit area continues on Oak Island...
Thank you, Marvin.
...approximately 50 miles northeast
in Halifax, Nova Scotia...
-CHRISTA: Hey, how's it going? -JACK: Hey.
-Good to see you, Dr. Brosseau. -CHRISTA: Nice to see you again.
We actually have an artifact here
-we'd like you to take a look at. -Excellent.
NARRATOR: Jack Begley and Oak Island historian
Charles Barkhouse
arrive at the chemistry lab of Dr. Christa Brosseau
and Dr. Xiang Yang at St. Mary's University.
CHRISTA: So, uh, can you tell me a little bit about this artifact?
Sure, this was actually found on Lot 10
underneath a large boulder.
-Okay. -And these boulders make up
what we call Nolan's Cross.
NARRATOR: One week ago,
Marty Lagina and members of the team
lifted Cone E--
the bottom boulder of the believed
800-year-old formation known as Nolan's Cross.
It was Marty's hope
to find evidence of human activity
that could help identify who created the feature.
MARTY: I like this rock, there's something weird about it.
NARRATOR: Incredibly, Marty discovered
a mysterious conglomerate of a cement-like substance
which, when analyzed by archaeologist Laird Niven,
was found to contain what appeared to be
some kind of hair.
JACK: The big question is how did a hair
make its way under this boulder?
Okay, we'll have a look at it.
NARRATOR: Now, in an attempt to determine the type of hair
it could be, Doctors Brosseau and Yang
will examine it under a high-powered
scanning electron microscope or SEM.
The device can not only magnify objects up to 200,000 times
their actual size, but also determine their composition.
All right, so...
CHRISTA: The surface is covered in debris,
which indicates that those fibers
have been present on that conglomerate
for some amount of time.
-JACK: What? -XIANG: Yep.
It's not just one hair.
But, we don't know what kind of animal it is.
That's very curious.
JACK: Do they both look like the same type of hair?
Similar, quite similar.
NARRATOR: Animal hair discovered beneath Cone E of Nolan's Cross?
But if so, what kind is it?
And how might it help the team to reveal
another piece of the Oak Island puzzle?
CHARLES: To me, the next step i-is DNA analysis of the hairs.
Uh, determine what the species is.
You know, is this a oxen or horse or a burrowing animal?
Ideally, it would be an oxen, which you would
need to move these heavy stones.
-It surprised us. -Yeah.
-This is a game changer. -CHRISTA: Well, that's great news.
-All right. -Thank you very much.
-We'll be back. -Always nice seeing you.
Always a pleasure. Okay, thank you.
CHRISTA: Thanks for coming.
-CHARLES: Hey, Colten, where'd you get to? -137.
-137 -Very good.
NARRATOR: While search operations continue on Oak Island
more than 2,000 miles to the northeast
in Reykjavík, Iceland...
ÁRMANN: Welcome to the National Museum.
-So nice to meet you. -ALEX: Thank you.
Nice to see you. I'm Rick.
...Rick Lagina and members of the team
arrive at the National Museum.
I'd like to introduce you to Ármann Gudmundsson.
He's the curator of the artifacts
-with The National Museum of Iceland. -Mm-hmm.
EMILIANO: The main reason why you're here today is because
this museum hosts some Roman coins
that were unearthed
in the southern part of the island
-like we found on Oak Island. -Perfect.
NARRATOR: In addition to the mysterious stone foundations
that the team has unearthed on Lot 5
since they purchased it in 2022,
they were stunned to also discover
four Roman coins that have been dated
to between 1,500 and 2,000 years old.
So, uh, here we have the coins.
The Roman coins that have been found in Iceland.
So I think that
the Norse settlers that arrived here
in the late ninth century,
early tenth century, brought them
-with them. -RICK: Mm-hmm.
Maybe found in the British Isles
-or something like that. -Mm-hmm.
-Mm-hmm -DOUG: I'm curious as to what
date these were minted on.
Do you know the years the coins were issued?
Yeah, this is fourth century.
-Fourth century? -ÁRMANN: Yeah.
-Well that's great. -Yeah.
DOUG: We were told ours were from fifth century A.D.
ALEX: Right. There must have been many incidents
of travel for these to end up here.
It's just evidence of an interconnected
nature of everything much earlier than we had thought,
-is what I'm saying. -Oh, absolutely.
DOUG: On Oak Island, we find coins
from the same basic era, but the only known European activity
in our region of the world
before the 15th century is the Norse.
So that, in my mind, makes the Norse exploration
more important to our investigation on Oak Island.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the team has finally found evidence
of just who may have brought the Roman coins
that were discovered on Lot 5 to Oak Island?
Could that explain other discoveries,
including the piece of possible ship's railing
that was unearthed in the swamp,
the copper artifact that was found on Lot 8,
or the numerous tools and decorative lead pieces
which have been traced to Scandinavia?
RICK: Based on the information derived here in Europe,
we know that there was
trade between the Mediterranean
and the Norse.
We know that the Norse traveled the Atlantic.
It's a possible explanation
why Roman coins were on Oak Island.
It is explainable on some level.
Ármann, we certainly appreciate
your time and we value your expertise.
Understanding history
has been beneficial to our hunt, our search.
-Thank you for the information. -Yeah, definitely.
-RICK: Thank you again. -EMILIANO: Next stop, man-made caves.
NARRATOR: As Rick, Alex, Doug and Emiliano
conclude their visit at the National Museum of Iceland...
...back on Oak Island...
JACK: Hey, Helen. Hey, Fiona.
-Hi. -Hey, Jack. How you doing?
Came by to check on progress.
...Jack Begley arrives on Lot 5
where archeologists Fiona Steele and Helen Sheldon
continue investigating
the rectangular stone foundation.
A foundation where they have not only discovered
a potentially 800-year-old spike,
but also artificially manipulated soils
that have been unearthed in the Money Pit area.
JACK: It seems like you've almost reached the bottom, right?
FIONA: We're getting pretty close.
-It sure is looking like it. -Yeah.
Can I help by sifting?
-Sure. -Sure, we'd love that.
It's starting to get harder to get in and out of this pit.
-Yeah, I can see that. -It's getting deep.
NARRATOR: While Fiona and Helen
remove sediment from the structure,
Jack will sift spoils through a screen
in order to look for potential clues
or valuables.
MARTY: One of the big mysteries
we've always struggled with
is the Money Pit would have taken
quite a crew to do.
Where were they?
Where were they housed?
Maybe they were here.
We're getting close to the bottom, and at the bottom
would be data indicating the earliest dates they were there.
So, hopefully, we'll get some breakthroughs
as to what the heck happened on Lot 5.
Look, we're getting iron color, too, on the side.
That's interesting.
Could be something in there.
FIONA: Oh, yeah, look. Look.
Ah!
-What? -Look what popped out.
What is that?
It's got a heft to it.
It's like, it almost feels like lead.
-Oh, it feels like lead. -Yeah.
I've never seen anything like this before.
FIONA: Really?
HELEN: I've never seen anything like this before.
-JACK: What do you think it is? -HELEN: Looks like it has, like,
slightly faceted edges, doesn't it?
FIONA: Yeah. You can see it.
NARRATOR: While excavating the mysterious rectangular feature on Lot 5,
archaeologists Fiona Steele and Helen Sheldon
have just made another potentially important discovery.
Well, it's heavy.
It-it feels like lead.
Oh, that's cool.
HELEN: I think it's probably a weight of some sort.
A measuring weight, maybe.
That would make sense.
It definitely looks worked.
You can see...
it's almost like it's been carved, in a sense.
So, yeah, maybe it was carved to a specific weight.
JACK: Well, if it is a weight,
then it should be a exact measurement.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: A measuring weight?
Found in the rectangular structure on Lot 5?
In 2020, Rick Lagina and members of the team
unearthed a trade weight
believed to have possibly been designed
for weighing gold or silver coins.
It's the really weird artifacts that give
a fun side of the story.
NARRATOR: Given that this potential lead weight was discovered
in the feature on Lot 5
where the team recently found
a possible 800-year-old spike,
could it be another critical clue
that might help solve the Oak Island mystery?
JACK: I like that we keep finding
more and more artifacts
and the bottom keeps pushing deeper.
FIONA: Yeah.
Well, it sure shows that we're not done yet.
JACK: Yeah, definitely.
Well, let's bag this one and put it in the bag of plenty.
-Let's keep going. -This is really turning out
-to be a strange feature. -FIONA: Yeah.
NARRATOR: While the search for a legendary treasure
continues on Oak Island,
across the Atlantic Ocean,
some 70 miles southeast of Reykjavík, Iceland...
EMILIANO: Roberto would like to show us something
that could be really interesting for our search.
Perfect.
ROBERTO: There is a cave
that I would like to show you.
-ALEX: Sure. -RICK: Absolutely.
NARRATOR: ...Rick and Alex Lagina,
Doug Crowell and Emiliano Sacchetti are
meeting with historian Roberto Pagani
at Kverkarhellir cave.
So, here it is.
-ALEX: Okay. -Let's go.
NARRATOR: A man-made system of underground caverns
that archaeologists believe
may have been originally created around 800 A.D.
by a Christian monastic order from Ireland.
However, in 874 A.D., the area was conquered
by members of the Viking culture,
who settled here until the 13th century.
ROBERTO: This is it.
-EMILIANO: Wow. Look at this. -RICK: Yeah.
NARRATOR: It is Emiliano Sacchetti's belief
that Kverkarhellir Cave
contains clues that could further help connect
both the Vikings and the order of the Knights Templar
to the Oak Island mystery.
RICK: My hope would be that we see something definitive.
Some way to connect what we see there
with symbols that we have on Oak Island.
Some of these depictions,
some of these carvings in these caves
might represent some sort of Templar association. So,
I look forward to seeing if that is true.
-So, this is an artificial cave. -Okay.
As you can see, uh,
it's completely man-made.
It means that they started from the entrance
and they worked their way in.
But probably the single most interesting thing
is right here on this wall.
As you can see, there is a cross with a circular top.
DOUG: Oh.
RICK: Wow.
We've seen that before.
Oh, yeah.
That seems to match Gary's lead cross.
-RICK: The head is bent the right way. -ALEX: Yeah.
I think it's burned into my memory at this point.
It is. (chuckles)
NARRATOR: A carving of a Christian cross
found in Kverkarhellir cave in Iceland?
Matching the exact design
of the lead cross found on Oak Island?
DOUG: That particular form of a cross or crucifix
we've followed from Italy to France to here
and Oak Island.
NARRATOR: Incredibly, Rick and members of the team have now seen
this particular cross design in four locations.
A man-made cave system in Camerano, Italy
that they visited in 2022, and which was known
to have been a stronghold for the Knights Templar
between the 12th and 14th centuries,
inside of a 14th century Templar prison
in Domme, France, which they visited in 2017,
and later that year,
on Oak Island, when Rick and Gary Drayton discovered
a lead cross at Smith's Cove.
All right. Let's do the comparison.
DOUG: I think it bears quite a resemblance.
RICK: Yeah, I don't see how you can...
how you can say it's dissimilar.
No, it's mysterious.
-Yeah. -RICK: There was a reason
for that configuration.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that Rick and the team have just found
another critical piece of evidence in Iceland
that may help prove the theory that Vikings helped
members of the Templar order hide their sacred treasures
on Oak Island nearly eight centuries ago?
Look, this trip-- the genesis of it,
was to follow, perhaps, an old world connection
to the new world, east to west.
I think we have made huge strides towards probable.
-Mm-hmm. -Yeah.
RICK: But the work is not done.
It's time to get back to the island
and maybe do some digging and drilling.
-Yeah. -DOUG: And we have to say
goodbye to one more colleague.
EMILIANO: Well, I'm going back to Rome,
but I promise I'll be back on the island very soon.
-Deal. -EMILIANO: Deal.
Roberto, thank you.
-Until next time. -Yep.
-RICK: Okay. -ALEX: After you.
ROBERTO: Good luck with everything.
RICK: We thank you very much.
MARTY: Well, look who's here.
Welcome back, guys.
You look, uh, full of all kinds of knowledge.
I see you saved our seats for us.
Absolutely.
NARRATOR: Having just returned
from their unforgettable journey across Europe,
Rick and Alex Lagina, along with Doug Crowell
meet with Marty Lagina, Craig Tester
and other members of the Oak Island team
in the war room.
We want to know what happened.
Yeah.
My big takeaway was the fact that,
in most places we went
on the trip, from Italy
to the Netherlands to Denmark
to Iceland, we saw the symbols
that we're curious about here on Oak Island.
And for me, that just cements the idea:
they're old-world symbols.
Like, what symbols in particular?
Well, the four-dot cross,
some of the symbols in the 90-foot stone
-inscription. -Oh.
There's this as well.
This is a cave in Iceland.
This is right at the entrance.
This is the closest match we found
to Drayton's Cross, the lead cross.
Over the years, you know,
when we talk about the Knights Templar theory,
somebody coming here in the Middle Ages,
I probably dismissed the possibility...
more than I should.
No longer can I dismiss it and say,
"Well, nobody would have known about it."
But I believe there was all kinds of crossing happening.
I mean, we know the Norse were here in that time period.
We know the Templars were at the height of their power
during that time.
What do you take away from all that?
Two, three years ago, I would've said, uh,
you know, very low chance Templars were here.
Now it's looking more that it's potential that they were here.
So we need to keep on researching it.
To me, the conjecture of something
in the 12th century is possible.
-Yeah. -RICK: If Nolan's Cross
is a real construct--
and I happen to believe that it is--
from 1200, people came here
with some intent in the 1200s to do something.
Because, I think,
the magnitude of the construct of Nolan's Cross,
to me says that
it's a map to the treasure.
That's what I think.
Yeah.
MARTY: Well, big brother, we have been busy.
-Have we not, crew? -JACK: Oh, yeah.
MARTY: Cone E, lifting the boulder.
And we picked it up and I was fishing around the bottom,
and I felt a rock that felt different than the others.
And I said, "You know, this looks like concrete."
Put a picture up there, please.
Look at that. Looks like concrete, doesn't it?
Mm-hmm.
MARTY: So, we kind of got hopeful about that,
and I said, "Well, let's send it back to the lab."
And then we found that.
That is a hair.
-RICK: Incredible. -MARTY: Yeah.
And it's not the only one.
There are several hairs stuck in this rock,
if it's a rock.
I can't come up with a reason
for that being under that boulder.
I'm exceedingly grateful for everyone and...
this has been a long haul for each and every one of us.
But we are on the cusp, in my opinion,
of maybe cracking one of the W's,
maybe two, maybe even three.
Yeah.
RICK: This all comes down
to who, what, when, where, why and how.
And you have to crack one of the W's.
And I think we are about to crack,
if we have not already cracked, one of the W's.
Yep.
MARTY: The European team uncovered
some really interesting connections to the island.
We're getting to the endgame here.
We're gonna throw everything we have at it.
I'm hoping the bravo tango moment could be within reach.
Anyway, that's it. That's the report.
I think we're done.
-Yeah. -Why don't we get back out there?
-We're running out of time. -We got to.
-We're running out of time. -Let's do it.
NARRATOR: After tracing the possible path
of a legendary lost treasure across Europe,
the Laginas and their fellowship
may be closer than ever
to pinpointing where it lies hidden today.
Winter is fast approaching,
threatening the team's chances
of making the ultimate discovery.
However, as they keep digging and drilling,
could the curse that has allowed Oak Island
to keep its secrets for more than two centuries
finally come to an end?
Next time, on the thrilling season finale
of The Curse of Oak Island...
LAIRD: I think that's meant to go through something
-like chain mail. -That would make it old.
On the composition? Pre-1600.
-HELEN: Remember the lead weight? -Yes.
-I've just found two more. -What would they be measuring?
Gold.
All right, here we go. Fingers crossed?
-Yep. -RICK: We're looking for a vault.
This one might tell the tale.
MARTY: We got a chance of actually
finding treasure with this one.
RICK: X marks the spot.
-That's the spot, man, I can feel it. -I hope so.
MARTY: Come on, baby!
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