NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...
-CORJAN: Welcome to Portugal. -ALEX: Thank you.
If there is a Portuguese connection
to the construction of the road in the swamp,
-maybe this is the blueprint. -DOUG: Yeah.
That's exactly what we have on Oak Island.
-Wow! -Oh, man.
Oh, my God. That's brilliant!
-All right! -That's a trophy find, mate.
-The 90 Foot Stone definitely has this symbol on it. -CORJAN: Oh, wow.
-It looks the spitting image. -ALEX: Yeah.
-It's perfect. -You're looking right into it.
Whoa! It's not English?
-No. -Portuguese?
-Yeah. -That is amazing.
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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-DANNY: This is gonna be a good day. -ANDREW: Oh, yeah.
-TERRY: Another one in the ground. -BILLY: Yeah.
Last can of the year.
-Feeling good. -Absolutely.
NARRATOR: The chilly North Atlantic fall season
has arrived on Oak Island.
-Marty. How you doing, brother? -Good morning.
NARRATOR: But for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina,
as well as their team,
the burning will to solve
a 227-year-old treasure mystey
has never been stronger.
GARY: Here we go. Back to where it all started.
-Where we saw that shiny gold thing. -BILLY: Yeah, I always said
a lot of our finds have been in C-1, right?
-GARY: Yeah. -So it's only logical
-to go around it, right? -Yeah.
NARRATOR: With only three weeks left
before all search operations will need to be halted
until next spring,
they are excavating their fifh
ten-foot-wide steel-cased shat this year
in the Money Pit area, which they have dubbed
B4-C.
Where's the water, Andrew?
We're down 14 feet now
-since this morning with the water level. -Okay.
Well, let us know if you see any drastic changes
-or whatever. Okay. Thank you. -Yep. Yeah, yeah.
NARRATOR: Located in the so-called C-1 cluster,
just five feet north of Borehole C-1,
this is the same general location
where the team has recently recovered
not only high traces of both silver and gold
through water testing and core drilling...
...but also evidence of believed tunnels
at a depth of some 90 feet
that could date to as early as 1488.
When the B4-C shaft surpasses
that approximate depth less than two weeks from now..
That looks like first hammer grab is going in.
NARRATOR: ...Rick, Marty and the team
hope to not only confirm the location
of the original Money Pit shat
but also recover the legendary treasure vault.
MARTY: When we dug C-1, odd things started to turn up.
We thought, based on all the records,
that there shouldn't be any activity
from searchers up by C-1.
And yet, every time we drill, we find stuff.
I mean, it shows evidence of potential depositor activity.
So, between the old wood and the gold,
I am full of expectation.
The Money Pit's been producing.
I mean, you can't argue with the data.
Yes.
TERRY: The gold in the water
and the flecks of gold on some of the metallic pieces
that we took up out of this area,
-that-that makes the area hot. -Of course. -Yep.
GARY: Okay, guys. This is the day!
-JACK: Yep. -Okay, here we go.
-Let's get ready, Jack. -Okay. Let's go.
GARY: Let's go find some treasure.
NARRATOR: While Marty Lagina leads the team's efforts on Oak Island..
[bells tolling]
-NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina... -DOUG: Yeah, right there.
NARRATOR: ...his nephews Peter and Alex
and Oak Island historian Doug Crowell...
-Corjan. -CORJAN: Ah.
-Good morning. Welcome to Portugal. -Thank you.
NARRATOR: ...have traveled some 2,800 miles east
to the city of Póvoa de Lanhoso, Portugal.
Can I introduce you to Joao?
He's a historian,
and he's an expert, uh,
in the Knights Templar Portuguese.
Welcome to Portugal.
NARRATOR: Upon the invitation of researcher Corjan Mol,
Rick and the team are here to investigate
potential clues that Corjan believes
could tie the 14th-century set of the Knights Templar,
known as the Knights of Christ,
to a number of discoveries that have been made
over the last two years on Oak Island
and which are believed to be of Portuguese origin.
These finds
include the stone road or whaf
uncovered in the triangle-shaped swamp,
a fragment of a ship's cannon
and two stone cannonballs,
one of which was found deep in the Money Pit area.
RICK: I have always said to myself
that this Oak Island mystery
is incredibly complex.
And the only way, in my opinion,
to find some answers
is to look outside of the island.
That's the reason why we're here in Portugal.
We may learn something that we wouldn't otherwise have learned.
So, I have... I have high hopes. I really do.
NARRATOR: To begin their investigation, they have arrived
at the historic Church of Fontarcada.
So, is Corjan correct?
He tells me that this is the first land
granted to the Knights Templar in Portugal.
Yes. It is documented that in 1126,
the mother of our first king, Lady Teresa,
donated to the Templars Fontarcada.
Probably one of the oldest church
-that we have in Portugal. -DOUG: Is that right?
JOAO: Ye... From Christian times, yes.
Because they needed to have, like, a stronghold,
a force here for the reconquest
that was ongoing.
And at the same time, crusading was
being established to Holy Land.
NARRATOR: In 1126, during the Crusades,
members of the military order of monks
known as the Knights Templar
arrived in Portugal
at the invitation of King Afonso I.
In exchange for their service in battle against Islamic Moos
across the Iberian Peninsula,
the king granted the order both land
and great wealth that would help expand their influence
across Europe and the Holy Land,
where they are believed to have later obtained
priceless religious treasures.
Treasures that some researchers suggest
are buried today on Oak Islan.
We might be looking at what I think is
the oldest Templar commandery or place, uh, in-in Portugal.
-Maybe in Europe. -DOUG: Wow.
RICK: What that tells me, then,
is whatever the earliest understandings
and foundations of who the Templars were
might reside within the church.
JOAO: Correct.
Uh, we will not find written things.
We will find symbolism in some details of the church.
That was what they did at the time.
-Cool. -RICK: You know, the-the church
presents a unique opportunity to-to learn something today,
and I-I propose that we go visit.
-Let's go to church. -Let's go to church. -After you.
-ALEX: Oh, wow. -RICK: That's impressive.
DOUG: Wow.
CORJAN: It's the real deal, Doug.
Ah, this is cool, Corjan.
CORJAN: It's a solemn place.
-DOUG: A sanctuary. -CORJAN: A sacred place.
RICK: It's incredible.
This looks like, castle-like.
JOAO: It is...
In-in a sense, yeah, it is a fortress.
-Yes. -It's God's fortress, in a certain way.
That's the-the general idea at the time.
Why don't we split forces?
Peter, Alex, why don't the three of us
look for symbols on this side,
and you can look for symbols on that side?
-ALEX: Okay. -CORJAN: Yeah.
CORJAN: Okay, let's see what we can find.
ALEX: Every one of them has a symbol.
CORJAN: This is unbelievable, how many symbols
there are on the wall here.
-DOUG: So many different ones. -Yeah.
RICK: At Fontarcada,
you're immediately impressed
at the antiquity of the building.
You can literally breathe history out of the air,
and I-I find it fascinating.
But it has to be more than that.
Our hope is that we'll see some symbology
connected to Oak Island.
Joao, is this, is this an ankh right here?
-Like that? -JOAO: Probably not.
Not relating with Egyptian mythology.
-But it would be a cross and a hat. -ALEX: Oh, a cross
-with something on top. -Something on top.
JOAO: But these are mainly
mason marks, mason signatures.
Who-- The mason who made this stone.
-Yes. -Okay.
NARRATOR: Leaving mason's marks, or maker's marks,
was a common practice dating back to the 12th century,
wherein stonemasons would carve their initials
and sometimes cryptic symbols to memorialize their work.
A number of believed Masonic and Templar symbols
have been found over the years on Oak Island,
such as on the so-called G-Stone,
the H+O stone
and the legendary 90 Foot Stoe
that was found deep in the Money Pit back in 1804.
ALEX: The people that actually did the work...
-Mm-hmm. -...would they go on to become, or-or-- they-they certainly...
-Oh, yes. -...would go on to be governed by the Templars.
Yes. The only Templars were foreigners.
-They were not locals. -Okay.
-So they arrived. -Yeah.
They may have arrived to local people
using these symbols as their mason's marks.
-JOAO: Yes. Yes. -Okay.
DOUG: A lot of symbols, but I haven't seen anything
-that ties to Oak Island yet. -CORJAN: Not yet, huh?
-Let's keep looking. -Absolutely.
RICK: If we are really tracking the Templars
or Masonic connections to Oak Island,
we need to look at the masons' marks,
and see if they actually mean something.
It may only take one, just one clue,
one strange symbol that says, "Here. Here is what you seek."
ALEX: Hey, guys?
You might be interested in this one over here.
-DOUG: Oh, yeah? -Yeah.
DOUG: Oh, that's interesting. I can see it from here.
So, this symbol is definitely on the 90 Foot Stone.
RICK: Wow. That's pretty cool.
ALEX: So, I know what we have is
of the inscription on the 90 Foot Stone,
but it definitely has this symbol on it, right there.
NARRATOR: In Póvoa de Lanhoso, Portugal,
Alex Lagina has just identifid a potentially important clue
related to the Oak Island mystery
in the Church of Fontarcada,
a church that was once a stronghold
for the Knights Templar dating back to the 12th century.
-I actually, yeah, I have a copy of that picture right here. -Oh, yeah, right there.
Yep.
ALEX: Yeah, look at this.
-Right there. -That's perfect.
-Yep. -NARRATOR: A symbol found on the walls
of a 12th-century Templar church?
Matching one from the mysterious inscription
that was reportedly carved on the legendary 90 Foot Ston?
You know what's curious?
It's-it's even got the same slant.
I know. I know.
This is the only one of these makers' marks we've seen.
This is unique, right here.
RICK: Did the person who carved the 90 Foot Stone
have a connection to the Knights Templar and Portugal?
We know that that type of symbology
has the potential to tell us many things.
So the first thing to do is do a comprehensive study
of the mason's marks.
DOUG: One of the things about the 90 Foot Stone
we've always tried to evaluate is, is there a clue
to who wrote it in the symbols that were used
-to formulate the cypher? -Mm-hmm.
-PETER: Yeah. -DOUG: Now we have another option to consider.
- ALEX: Yeah. - Makers' marks.
RICK: But what did that mark mean
to the person who carved it?
CORJAN: Right.
We're not certain of the characters
on the 90 Foot Stone.
But as we understand it, that symbol is on that stone.
We should check outside.
We think there is something you should see there.
-Yeah. -RICK: Love to.
RICK: You have to take that information
and think to yourself, "Okay,
"is this part of a mason's mark,
"and does that make it imperative
"that we understand what these mason marks
possibly are telling us?"
CORJAN: So, here we are, at what I think
is one of the most interesting features of this church.
Big Templar cross...
...and it's configured with the sun to the left.
The crescent moon to the right.
Uh, this to me, screams, uh,
Knights Templar commandery, very early.
DOUG: The circle and the dot,
in the center of the cross,
that's one of our symbols on a stone
we call the H+O stone, that was on Oak Island.
I've never seen it on a cross like that before.
It is a-a symbol used by the Templars
-in Portugal. -Okay.
CORJAN: And I-I think the circle and the dot
is an early alchemical symbol for gold.
Yes.
NARRATOR: A symbol for gold?
In 1921, a massive boulder
featuring a number of carved symbols
was found on Oak Island's northern shore.
Believing it might be a marker for buried treasure,
searchers blew it up with dynamite
so that they could dig beneath it.
Unfortunately, no treasure was found,
and most of the fragments of the boulder have gone missing.
However, one piece that was photographed
has come to be known as the H+O stone.
Is it possible that the team has just found another clue
potentially connecting the Templars to Oak Island?
And if so, could it also be related
to the high trace evidence of precious metals
that the team has recovered in the Money Pit area this year?
I'm curious, y-your take on this.
Your interpretation, Joao.
Do you feel that the H+O stone could be Portuguese in origin?
It's very interesting.
[laughs]: It could be, definitely, European.
And if we are saying the Portuguese were
in Oak Island,
it would be something made by them.
RICK: Seeing the O symbol
on the H+O stone represented on the wall of the church,
that means something.
That represented something. It's not decorative.
And I think there is a direct connection to Oak Island.
So, there's some information there,
I just don't know what it is at this point.
ALEX: From what we did today,
it sounds like this is maybe,
this is the infancy of the Templars.
We may have found some connections here.
-Yes. Yes. -CORJAN: So, I believe, if I'm not mistaken,
we have the identical symbol
over the original entrance to the castle of Tomar,
where the Knights Templar and later the Order of Christ
had their headquarters.
JOAO: Yes.
Tomar is from the 1160.
The capital of the Templar Knights in Portugal.
So, if we're looking for evidence that the Templars
were connected to Oak Island, either-either through symbolism
or anything else, that's where we need to go.
CORJAN: And that's significant, because the Portuguese
Age of Discovery was completely fueled
and driven by the people in Tomar.
CORJAN: Yes. So, any journey that would have
landed on Oak Island in the 16th century
would have departed from, uh, from Tomar.
To me, it's pretty simple, right?
We also must take a voyage. A very short one.
We need to go to Tomar and figure out
how it might affect our search.
-Yep. -We do.
-So, off we go. -All right.
NARRATOR: As Rick, Corjan and members of the team
proceed with their investigation in Portugal,
-back on Oak Island... -SAM: I think he's gonna grab
another bucketful, so the boys can have a look at it.
That'd probably be good.
NARRATOR: ...while the excavation of the B4-C shaft continues
in the Money Pit area...
MARTY: Let's dig up these things around here.
GARY: All right, mate. Let's go for it.
-MARTY: Okay. -See what we got.
NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina and metal detection expert Gary Drayton
arrive on Lot 8, located West of the triangle-shaped swamp.
One time, I'd like to be with you, Gary,
when we find the spectacular find,
so I can show it to Rick and say, "Look what I found."
-[beeping] -I guess that's a little brother thing.
No, mate, it's gonna come.
MARTY: Lot 8 is really interesting
because we find things that seem out of place.
So I want to go back with Gary to see
if there are more clues
that might lead somewhere.
[beeping]
How come you're getting two different kinds
of sounds there, Gary?
Scratchy tones like this are normally iron.
-It's not a good two-way... -It's right there.
-...just there. -Yep.
-GARY: Pattern? -This digs easily. Thank you.
Yeah. That forest stuff is compacted, isn't it?
I can hear you hitting the rocks underneath.
MARTY: There you go.
-I'll bet it's in there. -Let's see.
-Still in there? -Just-- Yep, we're just missing it.
GARY: Look at that.
MARTY: Oh, man.
GARY: [whoops] That's weird.
What the heck?
There's some big chunky pieces of iron around here.
NARRATOR: While searching Lot8 on the western side
of Oak Island, Marty Lagina and Gary Drayton
may have just found another important clue.
What do you feel?
I have no idea what that is.
GARY: That makes two of us as well.
Maybe it's, uh, off a... kind of like a gate or a door?
-MARTY: Piece of a hinge, you mean? -Yeah.
-Yeah, there's gonna be a story here. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: A possible decorative hinge,
found where the team has already unearthed evidence
of heavy cargo being transported to this area?
MARTY: Gary and I actually found
a triangular-shaped piece of metal on Lot 8,
and of course, it's corroded.
It's been in the soil a long time.
I think we just need to find somebody
that knows what the heck it is.
All right, let's get the next one.
GARY: Okay.
-All right. -Next flag's over there.
-Let's see what this one sounds like. -I'll be Captain Obvious.
Ooh, let's have a coin.
-[beeping] -Ooh. -Whoa.
GARY: Got a two-way repeatable signal.
Definitely a big target, mate. Just there.
Reveal your secrets, as I often say.
-GARY: That went... -There we go.
GARY: All right.
[exhales sharply]
Another...
Another chunk of iron, by the feel of it.
Musket! Lock plate!
-Is it really? -Musket! We found a musket, mate.
-All right! -That...
-Is that, is that what that is? -GARY: Yeah!
GARY: That's what it's got to be.
-Hey, and I was involved. -[whoops]
That's the first really cool thing I've dug.
-Yeah, baby! -Brilliant.
That's a-- Oh, my God, that's a first for Oak Island.
So, that is a-- very dateable, then, is it not?
Yeah, this, this would be...
It's called a lock plate.
And that would be the frizzen,
and that would be the hammer.
So it's a flintlock?
Yeah! Look, the flint would have gone in there,
and there would have been more of this,
-but it's a musket, mate! -[laughs]
We found a musket on Oak Island.
Brilliant! That has got to be...
-That's fabulous, Gary. -Oh, that is fantastic.
-Ah... -So, this might have been an entire gun,
-and just all the wood and everything's gone? -Yeah.
-Yeah? -Uh, this is the lock.
And then you've got the stock,
-which is the wood part, and then the barrel. -Mm-hmm.
-The barr... -So the barrel could be around here.
MARTY: Gary's positive what it is.
It's the action piece of a flintlock musket,
the firing mechanism.
And to find it on Oak Island is-is really cool.
These things just weren't discarded, they were kept.
So it is a really cool find.
Uh, and it might... better yet,
it might tell, uh, a pretty major story.
Well, Gary, buddy,
I am glad I was here when you found what you were looking for.
-Yeah. Give me... -I've always wanted to find one, mate.
-And we are the Two Musketeers. -[both laugh]
-Brilliant. -Fantastic.
MARTY: Let's go. Let's go back to the shop.
GARY: Okay, mate. [Woo hoo!]
-That is a trophy find! -[laughs]
NARRATOR: Following their search of Lot 8...
MARTY: Hey, Laird.
NARRATOR: ...Marty and Gary arrange
to meet with archaeologist Laird Niven
in the Oak Island Interpretive Centre.
-I recognize that grin. -MARTY: Yeah.
A first for Oak Island, mate.
-Yeah. -Long time coming.
Here we go, mate, what I believe is a, uh,
-flintlock musket. -Oh, wow.
-MARTY: Isn't that cool? -LAIRD: That is cool.
That's not something you see very often.
I don't think I've ever found one.
-MARTY: Really? -Wow.
LAIRD: Well, I'll put it in the scanner and, uh,
it'll pretty much tell us everything about it.
-All right, well, let's see what the magic machine can do. -All right.
NARRATOR: In order to better assess the believed flintlock,
Laird is utilizing the SkyScan 1273 CT scanner.
The device emits nondestructive X-ray radiation
that penetrates corrosion and encrusted soil on artifacts,
producing high-definition,
three-dimensional images of them.
This process can identify not only microscopic details
but also the materials that the object is composed o.
All right, guys.
-Got it? -It's all done. Yep.
All right, let's have a look.
MARTY: Whoa.
That is amazing.
-GARY: Yeah, that is beautiful. -LAIRD: Yep.
LAIRD: So there it is.
MARTY: Explain to me what I'm looking at, Gary.
You see where the, uh, the front part,
that's the frizzen.
That is what covers the pan,
-where the gunpowder is. -Mm-hmm.
GARY: And at the back,
we've got the hammer, sometimes referred to as the cock...
-Mm-hmm. ...-going all the way down.
GARY: And I love that stylized hole in the middle.
I-I think that's unusual.
-That'll tell us something. -LAIRD: That was styled.
GARY: This has certainly got some style to it.
-MARTY: It sure looks like it. -LAIRD: Yeah.
-Huh. -LAIRD: Do you want to see the really neat thing?
This is a series of really,
really thin slices put together...
-Mm-hmm. -...to create a three-dimensional space.
You're going through the metal. So now you're starting to see
-internal parts... -MARTY: Oh, my goodness.
-GARY: Oh... -...that you couldn't see before.
MARTY: Fantastic.
-So you're looking right into it. -Mm-hmm.
And this...
-Wow. -...this is what's gonna help us identify it.
The configuration of the screws.
MARTY: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight...
-LAIRD: Yep. -...nine, ten, eleven, twelve
-screw holes, holding that thing together? Wow. -Yeah.
And I love the way you can literally dissect
this solid piece of metal.
GARY: These types of flintlock muskets
were popular from mid-1500s
all the way to the middle of the 1800s.
But this looks like it's an older style.
This has got something special about it.
It's probably not a British military issue.
So that leaves, uh, French.
-Hmm. -Or Portuguese?
Yeah.
MARTY: There's a lot of clues on that thing.
LAIRD: Yeah.
-All right. -Yeah.
-Gary Drayton, good find. -[chuckles]
-GARY: Good find, Marty. -Yeah, I...
-I was a great digger. -[Gary laughs]
NARRATOR: As a new day begins...
GARY: We could do with an Hail Mary find now, couldn't we?
NARRATOR: ...and while the excavation of the B4-C shaft
continues on Oak Island,
some 2,800 miles to the east...
-CORJAN: Gentlemen. -RICK: Hey, man.
-Who ordered the beautiful day? -CORJAN: I did.
NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina,
his nephews Alex and Peter
and Oak Island historian Doug Crowell
join researcher Corjan Mol
and Knights Templar expert Joao Fiandeiro
in the town square of Tomar, Portugal.
And welcome to the Templar city of Tomar.
CORJAN: Y-You've landed in-in the Templar heartland.
Tomar is a-a city on seven hills,
like Rome, like Jerusalem,
so it's a, it's a really special place.
RICK: Beautiful. Absolutely stunnin.
CORJAN: So, this is the town center.
This is the church of Saint John the Baptist
who was patron saint of the Knights Templar.
RICK: I see the sun is shining
on the statue that we've come to see.
-Correct? -CORJAN: Yes.
NARRATOR: In 1157, after a successful military campaign
in the Holy Land,
where the Templars were headquartered
during the Crusades,
Gualdim Pais returned to Tomar, Portugal,
where he became the fourth grand master of the order.
There he would make Tomar the new Templar headquarters
in Portugal and, according to some researchers,
the temporary hiding place
for their priceless religious treasures.
CORJAN: On-- to the left,
you see the first castle that Gualdim Pais built there.
So at the time that Gualdim started,
there were Knights Templar.
It was 1307 when King Philip
and the pope actually brought them to their knees.
-JOAO: That's right. -But the official abandonment
of the Knights Templar organization was 1317.
JOAO: Was 1317.
NARRATOR: Although Portugal would remain
a stronghold for the Knights Templar
long after the efforts of Gualdim Pais,
by 1307, their headquarters had been moved to France
and was now led by Grand Master Jacques de Molay.
But on Friday the 13th of that year,
in a shocking act of betrayal,
King Philip IV of France conspired with Pope Clement V
to disband and persecute the order.
Thousands of Templar Knights, including Jacques de Molay,
were arrested, tortured and executed.
However, it is believed that several hundred knights
escaped with their sacred treasures.
Some went to Scotland,
while others fled back to Portugal
and were renamed the Knights of Christ.
But to this day, no one knows for sure
what became of their priceless treasures.
CORJAN: The Portuguese king Denis did something very clever.
He just rebranded the Templars into the Order of Christ.
So what he did, he invented a new name and a new logo.
So instead of the Templar cross that we will see
on the shield of Gualdim, he made a square cross
with the flattened edges and another cross in the middle.
This is the cross that you will see, for example,
on the ships that went to America.
And then, over time, it got a little bit longer
until it ended like this today.
So, on the church, you see
-the elongated cross... -RICK: Oh, yes.
...of the Order of Christ.
DOUG: Wow.
So, when we look at that representation
-that you have... Yes. -This one here?
RICK: When I look at Nolan's Cross, on Oak Island,
and I see this representation, the longer part of the stem,
Nolan's Cross, possibly could indicate Portuguese influence.
Can we make that assessment?
DOUG: So it's kind of like a fingerprint, then.
If they created Nolan's Cross, it would be in the form
of the elongated cross.
NARRATOR: Could Rick Lagina be correct
that the megalithic cross formation of boulders
that was discovered in 1981 by Fred Nolan on Oak Island
is a representation of the symbol
for the Portuguese Knights of Christ?
RICK: The long-stemmed Templar cross
and Nolan's Cross, they are quite similar.
The stem is much longer than the arms.
There's something to this.
An actual connection between Portugal and Oak Island.
The thing we've found on Oak Island is,
even the most subtle clue might have impact.
Right? Might have import.
And that's why we're here, right?
-CORJAN: Absolutely. -Looking for clues.
NARRATOR: As Rick and the team continue
their investigation in Tomar, Portugal...
...back on Oak Island,
while the excavation of the B4-C shaft continues
in the Money Pit area...
MARTY: Carmen Legge,
this one I'm pretty sure I know what it is,
but you might be able to shed some light about it.
But I will just hand it to you, see what you say.
...Marty Lagina and his partner Craig Tester
are meeting with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge
in the research center.
They are eager to get Carmen's assessment
of the mysterious triangular object
discovered on Lot 8 just one day ago.
-Well, it looks like a hinge, don't it? -[chuckles]: It sure does.
CARMEN: Well,
this is something unique.
This is something you don't see every day.
It's a spade hinge.
You can see the little spade on the end of it.
But it's a very, very small spade.
Looks like on a suit of a deck of cards, right?
A lot of hinges were made with spade tips on the end.
-Oh, just for decoration, that part? -Also, if you look
at this one here, you can see a little bit
of a groove and a band around the bottom of the spade.
-MARTY: Hand-made then, no doubt. -Oh, yes, very..
very well made, too.
This looks really, really old.
This would be, uh, early 1400s.
Really?
Yeah. It's, it's
very, very old.
-How sure are you of that date? -How sure?
CARMEN: I know it would fit in the middle of the 1400s
up until about 1690, 1670.
-Okay. -Cool.
NARRATOR: In the research center,
blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge
has just given his assessment
that the decorative hinge found one day ago
on Lot 8 could predate the discovery of the Money Pit
by as much as four centuries.
CARMEN: You can look it up and you'll see a lot
of Spanish hinges with spades onto it.
MARTY: Okay, so Spanish, that's Iberian peninsula.
A-Any chance it's Portuguese?
Yes. Could be from that area.
-Seriously? -Yep.
CARMEN: This would have been off a very strong box.
-MARTY: Okay. -Nothing light like clothes
or-or wooden items or anything like that.
It would be more valuable items,
so china dishes, tools, valuables...
...treasure.
-Wow. -Anything valuable.
[laughter]
NARRATOR: Could Carmen Legge's belief
that this hinge was part of a chest
designed to hold valuable ites and possibly be
of Spanish or Portuguese origin, be correct?
If so, could it be related to the large metallic anomaly
that still lies buried some 20 feet deep
in the same area on Lot 8?
-MARTY: That's way more significant than I thought. -CRAIG: Yeah.
MARTY: Carmen, thank you very much. It is very helpful.
And we appreciate when you come down.
-We will find you more, so... cheers. -Very good.
-I'll see more. -Yep. -Take care.
MARTY: See you next time. Thank you.
NARRATOR: As Marty and Craig conclude
their meeting with Carmen Legge,
some 30 miles west of Tomar, Portugal,
in the town of Alqueidao da Serra...
ALEX: Corjan texted me. It should be just up here.
NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina, along with Alex, Peter
and Doug Crowell have arrived at the site
of a 2,000-year-old Roman construct:
a stone road that researcher Corjan Mol believes
may further connect the Portuguese Templar order
known as the Knights of Christ to the Oak Island mystery.
Look at, look at how beautifully constructed--
I mean, rough and raw, but look at the curvature.
Look at-- the degree of slope remains constant.
It's beautiful.
If there is a Portuguese connection
to the construction of the road in the swamp,
maybe this is the blueprint.
God, look at that.
That looks exactly like an old Roman road.
NARRATOR: Ever since the Oak Island team
unearthed the mysterious stone road
in the triangle-shaped swamp one year ago,
they have worked with numerous experts
in order to determine its possible origin.
This is the type of road
that was built in Europe in the 1500s.
NARRATOR: To date, the strongest opinion offered
has come from historian Terry Deveau,
who also serves as the president
of the New England Antiquities Research Association.
What comes to my mind is the Portuguese.
RICK: During our stewardship of the mystery,
the stone road is probably one
of the most significant finds we have made.
A road in a bog? To what end, for what purpose?
It looks a lot more similar to what we have,
-that's for sure. -DOUG: Yeah.
RICK: We now have a very unique opportunity
to visit a very early stone construct of a road
that goes back to Roman times.
And maybe there's a possible connection to Oak Island.
We were gonna drive up in a chariot.
-We changed our minds. -I'm so glad to see
-the show is finally on the road. -[laughter]
RICK: And it is. It's beautiful.
-How are you? Welcome. -Good. How are you?
NARRATOR: To shed light
on the 2,000-year-old construct,
Joao has asked archaeologist Jorge Figueiredo,
who is currently restoring the ancient feature,
to join their investigation.
We were talking on the way up how impressive this is,
and how very much similar to the road we have in the swamp.
CORJAN: Isn't it?
RICK: How was this built up?
Like, what are the stratigraphy? What are the layers?
It would be in the base,
putting big stones.
And then another layer of smaller stones
to make the compact.
RICK: What about in a wetter area than this?
Say, our swamp?
Yeah, it's already in another medieval constructions
in swamps, where they use bigger,
bigger stones on the base and the foundation.
Once... Once the Romans created roads like this,
did any other culture copy the technology?
-Did that become the method? -JORGE: Yes.
ALEX: We're looking for similarities between this
and the style of construction of our road,
because if we know there's Roman roads in Portugal,
then we know that the Portuguese would be able
to observe the technique, learn from it,
and incorporate it into their own.
And if they have done that, then we can look
for the same signs on Oak Island.
That's very exciting because we're actually startig
to connect the-the Portuguese exploration
directly with Oak Island.
CORJAN: I'm not sure if you've seen the road
-on Oak Island, but I believe we have pictures. -JORGE: Yes.
-Yeah, okay. -But...
-DOUG: Great. -JORGE: Okay? -CORJAN: Okay.
-Let's see it. -ALEX: After you.
DOUG: I'm gonna go get the video set up,
show Jorge our road.
-I'll meet you back down below? -Perfect.
-All right. -We'll be down, shortly.
RICK: Just think, you're walking on 2,000 years of...
-...history. -CORJAN: Yeah.
-PETER: That's true. -Isn't that amazing?
ALEX: Looks a lot like the stone path.
-CORJAN: Yeah, it looks the spitting image. -Yeah.
RICK: Just fabulous.
ALEX: The stone path, it looks exactly like this.
-Yeah, it looks the spitting image. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: In Alqueidao da Serra, Portugal,
archaeologist Jorge Figueiredo
has just shown Rick Lagina and members of the team
a stone feature that is nearly an exact match in design
to a pathway that the team found in the Oak Island swamp
just one year ago.
-RICK: It does. -CORJAN: Yeah, however simple it is,
it looks so purposeful, and it looks really,
really close to what is on Oak Island.
NARRATOR: When the Oak Island team uncovered the stone pathway
just adjacent to the massive stone road,
they were struck by the fact that they had also found
pieces of cargo barrels in the same area.
The pathway also appeared to be heading in the direction
of the Money Pit.
I think we have a few areas that might be in-in...
I don't want to say "better condition,"
but there's more rocks.
That makes sense.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that Rick
and members of the team have just seen evidence
to explain who may have built the stone features
in the southeast corner of the swamp?
RICK: You could have taken a snapshot of this,
and you could have taken a snapshot of the stone path
on Oak Island, and you wouldn't tell the difference.
To me, that matches up perfectly.
My opinion is, the stone road we have
is an adaptation of constructs such as these.
So, uh, we have some things we'd love to show you.
-Yeah? -And I think we should go take a look.
-Yeah, let's see. -Yeah, let's do that.
CORJAN: Let's be rolling stones.
JORGE: Yeah.
DOUG: Jorge, we have some stills.
RICK: This was in the bog, covered by about
-two feet of water. -Okay.
And off to the side here,
in the swamp material, we found a piece of milled plank
that carbon-dated to the 1500s.
-Okay. -RICK: So, would the Portuguese,
during that time frame, choose that type of construct
for purposes of crossing a swamp?
Is it possible
the Portuguese were on Oak Island?
Here you have a trained archaeologist who is saying yes.
Definitely, this is something interesting
and needed of a study.
RICK: Is it probable?
I'd say we're, we're approaching that,
but there's more work to do.
Yeah, so the technology must have come from outside.
RICK: We are certainly making some progress here in Portugal.
-JORGE: This is great. -RICK: It's about seeking out
and finding information, and we have made
some interesting discoveries.
I think we've found an avenue of-of continued search,
or research.
Then you can start
connecting the dots between Portugal and Oak Island.
The key question is, always, why?
-"Why?" -"Why?" That's true. -Why build that?
But every piece of information is exceedingly helpful,
and for that, we-we thank you.
-JORGE: Yeah. -JOAO: Yeah.
Well, we really appreciate your time.
ALEX: Yeah, thank you.
-Did you want to come back to Canada and have a look at it? -Yeah.
[laughter]
-Muito obrigado. -Thank you so much.
Thank you.
NARRATOR: A mystery that has confounded treasure hunters
for more than two centuries
may now be on the road to a resolution.
As Rick, Marty and their team recover each missing piee
of the puzzle, just what will they ultimately reveal?
A vast treasure that includes priceless objects
of divine inspiration?
Ancient, lost knowledge about the history of mankind?
One thing is more certain than ever:
as the dig continues, the answers
are getting closer to the surface.
Next time onThe Curse of Oak Island...
-It's the last caisson for the year. -STEVE G.: If we're gonna take
a shot at this, we're gonna take our best shot.
CORJAN: This is the holy of holiest
-of the Templars. -Wow.
CORJAN: I think we're gonna find some real answers here.
That is incredible.
-LAIRD: We're looking for the extension to the road. -MARTY: Yes.
STEVE G.: Whoa, whoa, whoa, look at this.
There's a lot of cobble there.
Yeah, I'm wondering if that's it already.
-ALEX: Wow. -CORJAN: It is spectacular.
Stunningly beautiful.
JOAO: There's nine platforms.
That's exactly the Money Pit story.
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