Narrator: Tonight on the curse of oak island...
It's the last caisson for the year.
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! -Oh!
Corjan: I think we're gonna find some real answers here.
That is incredible.
-We're looking for the extension to the road. -Yes.
Laird: 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.
It's stunningly beautiful.
João fiandeiro: There's nine platforms.
That's exactly the money pit story.
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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-Jack: Last can for the year! -Gary: Yeah.
-Jack: I feel good about this caisson. -Terry: Absolutely.
Gary: Hopefully, we've saved the best
-Till the last. -Terry: Hopefully, some
Of the great mystery
-Will be revealed today. -Yeah.
Narrator: As another brisk fall morning
Gets underway on oak island, the anticipation
For a potentially historic breakthrough discovery
In the money pit area has never been higher
For brothers rick and marty lagina
And the members of their team.
-Top of the morning, gentlemen. -Hi, sam. How you doing?
Oh, very best. So, our current depth of hole is around 57 feet.
Super. We're starting to get into full mouthfuls
Of the maroon till.
-Yes, sir. -We need to go
-From that to gold. -That's right. -That's right.
First, through the wood maybe
And then into a chamber, let's hope.
It appears, to our research,
-That there is some tunnel here. -Yeah.
Narrator: At a location just five feet north
Of borehole c-1, the team is excavating their fifth
And final ten-foot-diameter steel-cased shaft for this year.
Dubbed "b4-c," rick, marty and their partner craig tester
Are especially hopeful for this dig
Due to the incredible clues
That they've already recovered
In this area over the past several months.
These finds include evidence of mysterious wooden tunnels
At a depth of some 90 feet,
Which have been carbon-dated to as early as the 15th century.
But even more compelling were the results
Of water testing in existing boreholes
And core drilling across the area
That was conducted this year.
Both operations yielded high-trace evidence
That vast quantities of silver and gold
Lie buried somewhere deep below.
Rick: Our expectations are exceedingly high
For the final can.
The data strongly suggests there's a tunnel,
And the tunnel perhaps means treasure,
Or proximity to treasure.
The other thing, of course, is that at 150-foot level,
Where in 1897 the vault supposedly was drilled into.
There was a number of intersections
That were confirmed by two or three drill holes.
90 feet was the top of the first suspected tunnel.
So, we're getting close. We're sneaking up on it.
-Yup. -And hopefully, we'll open up into a chamber.
All right, fellas. We'll be... We'll be in touch.
-All right then. -Thanks. -Keep on rocking.
-Take care. -(sam laughs)
Narrator: Although it could take
As much as one more week
For the b4-c shaft to reach its target depth
Below 150 feet,
Geologist terry matheson
And members of the team will continue searching the spoils
For valuable clues that could help solve
The 227-year-old oak island mystery.
So, we're in very dense,
Tight material that hasn't been disturbed.
So, that's great, and it just
Bodes well for tunnels, or an off...
Cross your fingers-- an offset chamber and some
Silver and gold perhaps.
Here's to hoping.
Narrator: While the excavation continues
In the money pit area,
Later that morning...
-Marty: Hey, rick! Doug! -Scott: Hey, guys.
-Hello, chaps. -Hey, everybody.
Narrator: ...Marty lagina gathers members of the team
In the war room for a video conference
With his brother rick
And oak island historian doug crowell,
Who are currently in tomar, portugal.
I got these guys all teed up for a fantastic report.
So, have you got one?
I think an unqualified "yes."
Proceed!
It's been a very interesting trip.
From the moment we arrived,
There was something to be learned.
Finally, we're chasing real historical information
As it relates to oak island.
And you cannot separate portugal from templar, in my opinion.
Please, inform us.
-Let's go to church! -Let's go to church.
Narrator: For the past week, rick and doug,
Along with marty's son alex and his and rick's nephew peter,
Have been investigating the area
Around tomar for clues
That might support an incredible theory.
One connecting members of the 12th century
Medieval military order of monks
Known as the "knights templar"
And their 14th-century descendants
Known as the "knights of christ,"
To the oak island mystery.
Okay, let's see what we can find.
Narrator: So far, working with researcher corjan mol...
Every one of them has a symbol.
Narrator: ...They have not only seen templar carvings
At the historic church of fontarcada...
You might be interested in this one over here.
Narrator: ...Matching symbols reportedly found
On the legendary 90 foot stone...
There's a circle and the dot in the center of the cross.
Narrator: ...As well as the h+o stone.
Corjan: The circle and the dot
Is an early alchemical symbol for gold.
Narrator: But also,
In alqueidão da serra, an ancient stone road
And pathway that appeared eerily similar in design
To those that the team has recently discovered
In the triangle-shaped swamp.
Rick: Isn't that spectacular?
Yeah, it's cool.
Rick: That is 2,000 years old.
Doug: Unlike other areas or other countries,
Here in portugal,
They seemed to have embraced that design,
And they've carried that forward through the centuries.
They have kept building roads in this manner.
One of the things that jorge, the archaeologist,
Told us was that
This construction type would be suitable for hills and swamps.
We walked all the way up the mountainside, and
They looked exactly like the stone path we have.
-No kidding. -Charles: Wow.
Yeah, that's fantastic.
Okay, well, that's all good information.
Real interesting stuff, guys, and it looks like
You're having an interesting time.
Hurry back because there's a lot of work
Gonna be commencing up in the money pit, as you're aware.
And, um, we look forward to getting you back on the island.
We will do that.
All right, guys. Thank you. See you later then.
We're going to get back to work.
Yeah.
Narrator: Later that afternoon...
-Marty: Hey, gents! -Billy: Hey, marty.
Narrator: ...Marty lagina
Joins gary drayton, surveyor steve guptill,
And billy gerhardt on lot 15,
Located just east of the swamp.
If there's a road, that's what we're after today.
-And clues. -Yeah.
I've been wanting to dig this ever since
We were out here delineating this thing.
Narrator: In light of rick and doug's report from portugal,
Marty has just obtained
Permission from the authorities
To continue investigating a mysterious feature
Discovered earlier this year.
First scan, coming up.
Narrator: While conducting a ground-penetrating radar scan
Just east of the stone road
In the southeast corner of the swamp...
I think the stone road
-Might be under us right here. -Oh, that's interesting.
...Alex lagina and his cousin david fornetti
Were stunned to obtain possible evidence
That buried portions of the feature
May continue somewhere into the uplands.
-I have survey plans for everybody. -Yay!
Narrator: Now, it is marty's hope
That he and members of the team
Can not only prove that the stone feature
Does continue out of the swamp,
But also determine just where it might lead.
If we're going to take a shot at this,
We're going to take our best shot.
-Gary: Yeah. -All right.
-Positions, everyone. -All right. -All right.
Marty: This is about the right width
And the right depth to be the road,
And it's showing a consistent anomaly
Where we think the road is.
These things all add up. So,
It's risk-reward ratio: It costs almost nothing,
And it could be a huge reward.
(scraping)
Steve g.: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Look at this.
That could be the road.
-You may want to take a look. -Marty: Really?
Narrator: On lot 15,
Marty lagina and members of the team
May have just found promising evidence
That the mysterious stone pathway
Believed to be of possible portuguese origin
Does, in fact, continue into the uplands.
Steve g.: There is a lot of cobble there.
-Oh, yeah. It kind of looks like down there. -It does.
-Yes, it does. Yeah. -Marty: Yeah. All right, well,
-I'm gonna go dig over there. -Billy: Yeah.
-That's a good start. -Okay.
Marty: This new area looks a lot like
It's the beginning of yet another road
Going off to the east.
The obvious thing to do is follow the road,
See where it leads us, keep digging.
Gary: This is getting interesting, billy.
Billy: Yup. Really exciting.
-There's some cobble. -Yeah, there they are.
You got one, two. This one, three, four, five.
-That's flat, too. -Yeah.
The question is, what do we do?
Billy: Right. It certainly looks
Very typical to other things that we saw down
On the edge of the swamp and in the swamp.
The people that built the path, obviously,
Probably built other roads.
Steve g.: Another piece of information
That makes this more likely, or probable, to be a road is
That it's the same width as the stone road in the swamp.
It's-it's about 20 feet wide.
This is exactly how the road in the swamp started.
And I wonder if-if it's carefully excavated,
If there'd be some more clues
That that's portuguese construction.
Of course, we've got a team in portugal.
So, we might want to get laird to look at it.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Narrtor: Now that marty and the team
Have found evidence of a potentially
Ancient structure that has never been documented
By previous searchers,
They will enlist archaeologist laird niven
To join the investigation
In order to help identify important clues
That may be critical in solving the 227-year-old mystery.
If we get the archaeologists in to uncover this
And show us exactly what it looks like...
Yeah, or at least tell us what they think.
-Yeah. -In the meantime,
I do want to cut a cross-section,
So let's try down there.
-Steve g.: Yeah. -Marty: Okay, let's do it!
Narrator: While marty and members of the team
Continue their investigation on lot 15...
Terry: Hopefully,
Some of the great mystery will be revealed today.
-Yup. -Let's hope we, uh, come
Into something very interesting.
Narrator: ...And as the excavation
Of the b4-c shaft continues in the money pit area,
Some 2,800 miles away in the city of tomar, portugal...
Corjan: So, here we are.
Welcome to the convento de cristo.
João: The castle of the templar knights.
Peter: Wow.
Impressive.
João: Built in the 1st of March of 1160.
Alex: Wow.
Narrator: ...Rick and alex lagina,
Along with doug crowell and peter fornetti,
Meet up with historian joão fiandeiro
And researcher corjan mol at the convento de cristo,
A location that served as a stronghold
For the knights templar more than 800 years ago.
-Rick: Oh, wow. -Alex: Beautiful.
Rick: It certainly is.
João: So, we're here, and now,
I'll show you the most important
Places where templar knights left for us.
And I'm quite sure that you will see the links
And the connection to the oak island.
Oh.
Corjan: I think we're gonna find
-Some real answers here. -Rick: Then I'm ready
To go look at them.
-João: Let's go? -Let's go.
Rick: Is it possible that somewhere in the building
There will be a testament to the fact that they went west?
That they did indeed come to nova scotia?
That's the hope.
Corjan: After you, gentlemen.
-So, welcome to new jerusalem. -Oh, wow.
-Oh. -Wow. That's incredible.
Rick: Oh, it's... It-it defies words.
When you think speechless,
-You see this. -Exactly.
Corjan: This is 12th century.
Alex: You said this is 12th century?
-12th century. -In the 1100s, this was built?
Exactly.
Narrator: During the crusades in 1160 ad,
The knights templar lost control of temple mount in jerusalem,
Leading their grand master, gualdim pais,
To establish a new headquarters in tomar, portugal.
Within the castle of tomar, he built
The convento de cristo, their most sacred catholic convent.
It would remain the order's stronghold
For centuries to come, and where they were rebranded
As the knights of christ in 1318.
Corjan: This is the heart of the heart,
The holy of holiest of the templars in europe.
Rick: What this is a testament to is
That nothing was beyond them.
Corjan: Yeah.
-Nothing. -Yeah. That's true. -Yeah.
Rick: This just defies imagination.
Corjan: Okay, guys.
-Let's move on. There's a lot more to see here. -Hmm.
This was also a functioning building,
A functional community.
We're on top of a hill, and they needed water.
So, they built a huge aqueduct to bring water...
-Is that why? -...To this place
So they could sustain themselves.
And the waterways are underground.
So, there's tunnels under this castle and under the convent.
And they had a very special way to indicate
Where the aqueducts are underground,
And I think you're going to find
An interesting connection there, perhaps, to oak island.
Are we allowed to go underground?
I'll show you now.
João: Watch your step.
Corjan: I'll show you how they indicated
The underground water stream.
For the first time I was here, I noticed this hand on the wall
With this strange, extended middle finger.
-Rick: Mm-hmm. -It's clearly a hand.
This, as far as I know, there's five or six of those
In the convent, and they indicate the aqueduct.
-Oh. -So, these hands
Actually indicate how the water flows
Beneath the convento,
Which reminded me a little bit
Of the-the finger drains on oak island.
On oak island, the so-called finger drains were rock.
-Yeah. -And then a cap rock over the top of it.
-Is that how these are formed? -João: Yes.
Under these, you have a-a square pipe.
-Corjan: Like a squared gutter. -João: Yeah.
-Are they capped? -Corjan: With a... With a...
-With a cap stone. -With a cap stone.
-Alex: From stone? -From stone. -Rick: That's exactly
The way it's described, right?
-As a finger drain. -Yeah.
On the island. A finger drain. There you go.
Narrator: The print of a hand?
Representing an underground drainage system?
In 1850, members of the truro company discovered
That the beach at smith's cove had been artificially created.
After building a massive dam composed of earth and rock,
They drained the cove
And uncovered five finger-like drains
Buried beneath layers of eel grass and coconut fiber.
Constructed of flat stones and covered with cap rocks,
These drains appeared to converge at the beach
Into a single tunnel,
Heading due west toward the money pit.
Is it possible that the team has just found
The same kind of drainage system at convento de cristo?
Corjan: Shall we follow the hands?
-Yes. -Cool.
Rick: If there was ever a connection to oak island,
This is it.
Finger drains in this convento
Built by the templars, or at least templar influenced,
Exactly as we understand them in smith's cove.
It doesn't get any closer connection than that,
At least not yet.
You saw the hand there,
You know, at the bottom of the... Of the wall,
And then... It lands here.
You see, the stones here, then the next hand is there,
Indicating the flow of the water.
Finger drain.
Rick: This is an exact representation
Of the finger drains on the island.
-Cap rock. -Mm-hmm.
Corjan: They were engineers as much as, you know,
Religious monks.
Engineers extraordinaire.
-Yeah. Yeah. -I mean, from what we've seen.
Okay, guys. Let's move on.
Step through that door there.
-Right through here? -Yeah. -Yup.
Corjan: I'd like to show you a number of things.
So, we're going to walk back in time again,
All the way to the original gate of the castle.
Rick: Can't wait.
Corjan: Straight down here, guys.
So, we're now going to the more medieval part of the property.
To the original gate.
Narrator: At the convento de christo
In tomar, portugal...
This would have been the grand entrance.
Narrator: ...Researcher corjan mol
And historian joão fiandeiro
Are showing rick lagina and members of the team
Clues that they believe connect the knights templar
To the oak island mystery.
Corjan: Now there's a couple of things
I would like to show you here.
To start with, now over the arch,
The big templar cross. This was their trademark.
Now, maybe even more interesting,
And it's worn, but if you move
Your eyes down to the yellowish stone,
I believe there you have a cross with four dots.
-Like the h+o stone. -Oh!
What I mean is this cross here with the four dots.
Rick: Wow.
Narrator: A cross inscription?
Matching a symbol found on the so-called h+o stone?
Discovered on the northern shore of oak island in 1921,
The h+o stone was a fragment of a much larger boulder
That was blown up with dynamite by searchers
Who mistakenly believed
That it marked the location of buried treasure.
João: This is the thing that the templars
Would use to mark something of their own.
Narrator: One week ago, while investigating
The ancient knights templar church of fontarcada,
In póvoa de lanhoso, portugal,
The team discovered a templar cross
Featuring another character on the h+o stone.
Corjan: The circle and the dot is an early
Alchemical symbol for gold.
Narrator: Is it possible that the h+o stone
Was a marker for buried treasure
Somewhere on oak island after all?
A treasure hidden there
By portuguese members of the knights templar?
So, what do you think that represents?
I think it's a templar cross,
And knights templar, here,
Continuing into the order of christ,
Perhaps in possession of something awesome
From the holy land,
That brought holy relics to north america
And oak island.
Alex: I think we've kind of seen that
There is a thread that runs through the knights templar,
And it's plausible that they had
Something in their possession
That they may have wanted to hide.
It's plausible that they could have reached america.
Yeah, I think that's exactly what it is.
Rick: We've heard this before--
The suggestion that
The knights templar had in their possession
Precious items.
What's impactful is that we're seeing symbology
That we know once existed on the island.
And could that have something to do
With westerly exploration,
Perhaps even to nova scotia?
-We always seek connective tissue. -Yeah.
The most interesting puzzles of all are those
That are difficult to solve.
-That's it. -And we have one here.
-Yeah. -That's it.
But surely, we have more pieces
Because of these efforts.
So, all the more reason to continue the search.
-Absolutely. -Yeah.
Rick: Okay, let's go meet doug.
Narrator: As rick and members of the team
Continue their investigation in tomar, portugal,
Some 2,800 miles to the west on oak island...
Marty: Here's the man.
-Hey, fellas. -Hey. You called?
Narrator: ...Archaeologist laird niven
And project manager scott barlow
Join marty lagina and other members of the team
To continue uncovering the believed stone pathway
Between the swamp and the money pit on lot 15.
Marty: Yeah, here's the deal, laird. Here's the background.
We ran the okm, got several lined-up cross sections
Of 20 feet across.
We dug the best one up there, which I'd like you to look at.
Laird: Okay. We're looking
-For the extension to the road, right? -Marty: Yes.
-Yup. -You guys walk on up.
I'll bring the machine, and see what you think
Of that spot right up there.
-Okay. -All right.
Marty: The stone road is clearly man-made.
I mean, I don't think there's any doubt.
But I don't know really what to make of it.
The road has to go somewhere, and it has to go somewhere
For a reason, and maybe we can figure out what that reason is.
Gary: This is the area, mate.
Two scoops there,
And started hitting all of these rocks and boulders.
Well, laird, do you see anything?
Laird: They're angular.
Billy's observation is that
These don't look glacial because
-They're so angular. -Mm-hmm. So angular.
And they're slate. We don't see much slate
-On this side, right? -Yeah. I mean, all of 'em.
This-this seemed like what we were looking for right away.
And we spent a lot of time on that stone pathway,
-And this reminds me of that. -Yes.
Gary: It's rocks and cobbles. Small cobbles.
Billy: Just take a peek.
This is our very first bucket, but if you look here.
-Oh, yeah. Yeah. -Right?
-You got a lot of rocks here, laird. -Yeah.
There, there, there. There, there.
-And they're loose, too, right? -They're loose.
-They're not packed in. -Yeah. It's the size.
-Like, they're not huge. -Yeah, yeah.
-And the placement. -Right.
They look like they've been put in there.
Marty: How do we do this?
How do we do... Ascertain
Whether there's something going on here?
Laird: If we just take the excavator and
Just kind of roll it over,
When you feel the rocks, just come up and go along.
The purpose is to find
No rocks, rocks, no rocks.
-That may define a road. -Marty: Okay.
You show billy where to cut one more.
We got laird here so we can do it.
Maybe it'll tell us its secrets
Without having to do a bunch of excavation.
All right, let's quit gabbing and start digging. Ready?
-Steve g.: Let's do it! -Gary: We're ready.
Narrator: As a new day begins on oak island..
Jack: The game's afoot.
Narrator: ...While the excavations continue
In the money pit area,
And on lot 15...
All right. Moment of truth.
Narrator: ...Nearly 2,800 miles
Across the atlantic ocean...
Rick: Bom dia.
Narrator: ...Rick lagina and members of the team
Arrive at the renowned military museum in lisbon, portugal.
Nice to meet you. All of you.
Narrator: Here, corjan mol has arranged for them
To meet with sergeants ricardo lopes and carlos magro,
Both of whom are experts in portuguese military history.
Rick: So, the reason why we're here is,
We have some artifacts that we have found
On the island,
And we were hoping
That you can affirm that the stone shot which we have
Is an exact match to what you may have here in the museum.
Well, we've actually brought along replicas
-Of the stone shot we found on oak island. -Okay.
All right, there's one.
Yes. 3.9 centimeters.
Narrator: Over the past two years,
The team has found two small cannonballs,
Or stone shots, one of which was recovered
From deep in the money pit area.
But even more compelling was the recent analysis
Conducted by geology professor dr. Robert raeside,
Who believed the stone that they were composed of
May have originated in portugal's azores islands.
Doug: Could we expect our stone shot
To be made in the azores or here on the mainland?
Wow.
Mm-hmm.
Yes. Yes.
-Oh, wow. -Alex: Is that a general rule
That smaller caliber on ships?
-Okay. -Yes. Yes. Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Rick: What they call a swivel gun?
If we could see a cannon that would shoot that stone shot
Such as that, we would love to see it.
Rick: Love to.
We puzzle now over why was that stone shot found
Down in the money pit?
This one could be used on a ship.
Rick: Are they
An artifact that was absolutely connected to oak island
And perhaps here to this land?
-Alex: So, this right here? -Ricardo: Yes.
This is... 15th, 16th century
With a four-centimeter caliber and fires
A, uh, half a portuguese pound iron ball.
I've got one of the replicas here.
Um, we can try it. It's-it's pretty corroded here, so...
Corjan: Oh, look at that.
It's pretty close.
So, I would say that's a match to this.
But that pretty much confirms that that is a ca...
A known caliber of shot.
From the 14, 1500s.
Rick: But there's a possibility that if you were
Doing something, say on our island,
You needed to protect what you were doing,
To keep people away,
Remove this gun from the ship,
Mount it in some fashion on the island.
-That's big. That's huge. -Corjan: Good.
Narrator: Could the team have just found an explanation
For how one of the potentially portuguese stone shots
Was found deep in the money pit area?
There's quite a bit of corrosion in there.
Narrator: If so, could it be related to the evidence
Of wooden tunnels discovered earlier this year,
Which could date to as early as 1488?
And also, the high concentrations
Of silver and gold?
Doug: I think we have a new, strong
Possibility that we really have to give consideration to.
And I'm very, very hopeful, but it couldn't happen
Without people like yourselves.
We're most appreciative.
Narrator: Later that afternoon,
Nearly 20 miles west of lisbon...
João: Welcome to sintra.
You are in the heart of this very romantic town.
Narrator: ...Rick lagina and his team
Arrive at an early 20th century palace
Known as "quinta da regaleira."
Here, corjan mol
And templar historian joão fiandeiro have arranged
To show them one final structure that they believe
May be directly connected to the oak island mystery.
João: The templar knights came to here,
And they managed the land for a long time.
Everything you see was built in the last century
To create this magical masonic wonderland.
But it's based on much older ideas.
Narrator: In 1147, during the crusades,
Following his conquest of lisbon,
The first king of portugal, afonso henriques,
Also captured the town of sintra.
In 1154, the town
And its administrative duties were transferred
To the knights templar,
Who utilized it as a stronghold for centuries to come.
However, in 1904,
A wealthy freemason
Named antónio augusto de carvalho monteiro
Purchased this property
And established it as "quinta da regaleira,"
A vast palatial estate where he is believed
To have hosted secret masonic and templar rituals.
There's indeed something here
That, uh, will remind you very much of oak island.
The initiation well that is the masterpiece here.
-Let's go. -Rick: I'd love to.
The focus of today's visit is really
Any possible associations we can make to oak island.
There might be some sort of connection, some sort of
"aha" moment.
But we'll see as we experience the quinta.
So, the well is actually in this megalithic formation here.
Oh, here!
-João: Yup. -Corjan: It's easy to walk past.
João: The beauty is inside.
Rick: That's remarkable.
Wow.
Alex: Wow. It's deep.
What is this dimension, the diameter?
13 feet.
-Which is... -That sounds awfully familiar.
That chamber at the bottom--
I mean, it's very masonic at its core.
What I can't help compare it to is
The design of the money pit.
Narrator: In sintra, portugal,
At an estate k
Rick lagina and members of the team
Have just arrived at an early 20th century masonic structure
Known as the "initiation well."
João: The initiation well has nine platforms.
Peter: The nine floors sounds like something
That we have possibly on oak island.
-Rick: Yeah, the money pit. -Alex: Yup.
(camera shutter clicking)
Okay, let's go down.
Smooth and easy.
Guys, watch your steps.
Rick: When you look at the well, there are nine levels.
We know there were nine levels in the original description
Of the money pit.
We know that the original money pit
Was 13 feet in diameter.
It's curious.
If that is not a coincidence,
And it seems as though it is not,
Then where was that information derived?
And why was it important to replicate it?
What does it mean? I don't know.
Corjan: It is rather spectacular, isn't it?
Alex: Yup.
Doug: Remember, the restalls thought
There was a spiral staircase
-Around the money pit? -Rick: Mm-hmm.
Narrator: In 1963,
While conducting a lateral drilling operation
Deep in the money pit,
Oak island treasure hunters robert restall, sr.
And bobby restall, jr. Reportedly drilled
Through a series of mysterious voids
At oddly descending angles
Beginning more than 100 feet underground.
This discovery led them to the astonishing conclusion
That a spiral tunnel encircled the money pit,
Potentially leading to the fabled treasure vault.
Corjan: We're almost there, guys.
Narrator: Is it possible that the initiation well,
With its nine levels, 13-foot diameter,
And which was constructed nearly six decades
Before the restalls' discovery, is in fact,
A replica of the oak island money pit?
Corjan: Oh, man. So, you would
Perfectly see that oak tree from here, right?
Rick: The branch of an oak tree over the well.
That's exactly what the money pit story is about.
Wow.
Corjan: It's like staring up
From the bottom of the money pit.
Narrator: In 1795,
When freemason daniel mcginnis and his two friends
First discovered the money pit,
They were not merely intrigued by the 13-foot
Diameter depression in the ground,
But also, by a block and tackle
Hanging from the branch of an oak tree directly overhead.
Could this oak tree's position, directly next
To the initiation well in sintra, portugal,
Simply be a matter of coincidence?
We now start the path in the tunnels.
Rick: The whole point of the initiation well is to
Create a representation of the influence
Of templars, possibly the influence of
Masonic beliefs and ideals.
And here we are.
Back into the light.
João: Back in the light.
Initiation done!
Rick: There may be some correlation
Between the initiation well
And the money pit on oak island.
We have to take the information back
And-and see what it tells us.
What we've seen here is a... A vision that was not inspired,
But instructed
By knowledge from the past,
Which is being carried forward
From the knights templar into the order of christ,
Into the masonic thought, leading all the way up to this.
Right.
Alex: It shows that the ideas
Have persisted throughout time even to today.
And that means that they must have been worth preserving.
I truly believe in what we have learned in portugal.
It only enhances my belief that oak island
Is part of this legacy.
I think we continue
To persevere in that... With that hope.
And for that, we... We thank you.
-Rick: Sempre avanti. -João: Sempre avanti.
Narrator: While rick and members of the team
Conclude their visit in sintra, portugal,
Back on oak island,
Just east of the swamp on lot 15...
Steve g.: Well, there's your cobble.
Gary: There we go. There's the cobble rock.
Lots of cobble.
Narrator: ...Other members of the fellowship
Continue unearthing the mysterious stone pathway,
Hoping to identify just where it leads.
You found the cobble,
Which happens between the okm anomaly,
Which is the blue tape there and there.
Laird: Below the stone should be an organic layer
-Where the original surface was, right? -Right.
As you say, that'd be very telling.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, we'll go a little deeper.
So, so far does this look placed or natural?
It looks placed to me.
Marty: I'm kind of the guy who would like to dig
On almost any information on oak island.
The anomalies line up,
And it looks like the road, if this is accurate,
Might be actually heading towards the money pit.
So, it could be an important discovery.
-That's funny. It seems much shallower over here. -Yeah.
What we can do is cut a profile
To take a look at the stratigraphy, right?
Steve g.: What do you see, laird?
The horizon is pretty distinctive.
See, it's kind of dipping down?
Scott: Yeah, I'd say it's much shallower.
Gary: Think this could possibly be a road, laird?
Narrator: On lot 15,
Members of the oak island team
Have just uncovered another large section
Of the mysterious stone pathway
Between the money pit area and the triangle-shaped swamp.
See, it's kind of dipping down?
Steve g.: It's filled in with rocks.
Billy: Yeah, so you start
Filling your ruts in, right? You don't need to fill
-The whole road. -Yeah. Yeah.
Laird: You can see the soil definitely dip down,
And the cobbles fill that.
So, I think the layer difference in the path,
The thin layer of cobbles on one end
And thick layer of cobbles on the other end,
Just shows us that they were filling in certain areas
To level it off, uh,
To make transportation a-a little bit easier.
You'd constantly be putting more cobbles on.
-Yeah. -Bit like fixing potholes today.
Yeah.
Narrator: Is it possible
That the team is uncovering a structure
That might lead them to a breakthrough discovery?
And if so, given its nearly identical construction
To what rick lagina has recently been shown in portugal,
Could it prove to be related
To the medieval order of the knights templar?
-All right, guys. -Laird: Hey, marty.
-What have you found? -Steve g.: Uh, we're dead center
On where we project the potential road to be.
And it was nothing but cobble.
Laird: And it dips,
Which led us to speculate,
You know, maybe it was a low area
-That people filled in. -Yeah, well, that makes sense.
Scott: I'd be curious to see if there's any
-Consistency in width. -Yeah.
Marty: I'll tell you what we're going to do then.
How about I jump back in there?
-Yeah. -And, um, we'll-we'll try and dig this
A little bit and try and find out where the edge is,
-Which would be meaningful. -Laird: Yeah.
Okay. All right, let's do that.
You know, the stone road is still
A mystery as to what its purpose was,
And even when it was constructed.
Seeing any change, or is it all the same?
Steve g.: Still lots of cobble.
Marty: So, my thought
Is the same thought I always have after a discovery.
Keep going, find some more.
Billy: Just wait, marty. Just for a sec.
The edge of the road is right, right here, right?
Yup.
That makes sense based on the data
That alex collected, so...
Well, what's the plan here now?
Laird: The best way to uncover a road is take
That much of the soil off, right?
You'd have to do it by hand.
-Yeah. -Marty: Okay.
I think we've seen enough to make us investigate further.
We're not finished with this.
No. I think there was a road here.
Uh, whether it's ancient or not, I don't know.
What it was used for, I don't know.
-But we're aimed to find out. -Yeah. -Yeah.
Marty: You have to follow even minor clues.
So, if we follow this road,
We may find something hitherto non-discovered.
I'm gonna drive this thing off.
Why don't you guys go get set for that next step?
-Sure. -Okay.
-Marty: Thanks. -Scott: See ya, marty.
Narrator: Even while another harsh,
North atlantic winter closes in,
The trail of clues that may soon help rick,
Marty and the team solve a 227-year-old mystery
Grows warmer by the day.
Could the ancient templar structures
And the cryptic masonic symbols
Located halfway across the globe
Really be a testament to what took place on oak island?
Or what the team might unearth from deep in the money pit?
The answers may be closer than ever before.
Narrator: Next time on the curse of oak island...
-Today's the day, gary. -Oh, yeah.
Narrator: It's the groundbreaking season finale.
-This is what we saw in portugal. -Mm-hmm.
Yeah. It's incredible.
-Wow. -(laughs)
Rick: We can actually image
The entire island underground to find a target
-In the money pit. -That's great!
-Gary: We've hit the tunnel, mate. -Whoa!
That tunnel will lead us to the treasure.
Yeah. There you go.
Oh, look at that.
-What have we got here? -Oh, what the heck is that?
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