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Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island, we say we're getting started.

Oh yeah, we're spinning off.

We're due for a little bit karma.

We are.

We should have to find out one thing.

We got a signal!

Hey, I should have been able to pinpoint it.

Oh, look at that!

See if you recognize this.

Oh, that might have been an individual of Masonic ties.

Yes.

Well, that is extraordinarily cool.

Alright, here we go.

It's time to lift that rock.

Oh, hey, look at that.

Yeah!

There is an island in the North Atlantic, where people have been looking for an

incredible treasure for more than 200 years.

So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it,

man-made workings, that date to medieval times, and a lead cross

whose origin maybe can 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.

Okay, this isn't such good news, Rick.

It's not a happy thing.

We just got going on TPF1.

A lot of pomp and circumstance.

The team all energized, and we're at about 25 feet, and we're stuck.

Before a new day, a exploration can begin on Oak Island.

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, their partner Craig Tester and Scott

Barlow, meet to discuss a shocking setback that has occurred in the Money Pit area.

If you notice, this is our current canister, and it

is digging into Phil Rock, and we got stuck at time.

25 feet.

Yeah, they can't pull it up.

They can't push down the auger, of course, and

go in and out, but the cans itself will move.

Alright, set her up!

Find some treasure boys!

Just one day ago, the teams from Solatanche, Bashi Canada and Rocky

Equipment began a new excavation method using a 7 foot diameter auger in the hopes

of rapidly installing a steel shaft, known as Top Pocket 5.

It was at that location, where soil samples collected from more than 200 feet

deep in the solution channel, during the team's core drilling operation.

Revealed high traces of silver.

But after encountering gravel, some 25 feet deep that was used to

backfill one of the team's previous and much more shallow excavations,

the drilling rig was unable to advance the steel case-ons deeper into the ground.

And while Rocky Equipment's massive rotating oscillator could be used to

continue the dig, parts needed to operate it,

won't arrive on the island for two more days.

So we have to decide what to do.

Well, to save days, we'd just move over here and go

ahead and drill one that had very little backfill.

Yes.

To me, it's a really good area because the

1850s drill casing that we brought up, H.58.5.

It was right there.

Well, we theorized that core layer could have brought up that coin.

That's right, it was from the correct time

period when they knew where the money fit was.

I just think that's a really good location.

Earlier this year, while drilling borehole H.58.5 to

explore the solution channel for signs of treasure.

At 178 feet deep, the team recovered a piece of old drill pipe that may be

connected to a drilling operation by the Truro Company in 1849.

That is when a 14th-century Portuguese silver coin linked to the Knights Templar,

was reportedly recovered from the original money

pit by drilling foreman James Pitt played out.

The new hole location is one of the holes that we pick.

Then it's in the area that still has very elevated

amounts of silver and some other metals in it.

We know we're definitely going to go back to top pocket fine, but we need to make

some holes and get down to the bottom of the solution

channel out here and we don't want to wait our own thing.

So we're going to dig this one.

You know what?

It's karma.

You know, it's really over here.

Yeah.

Well, not only is that, but maybe we only need one hole.

Or maybe karma is saying, you know what?

It's not here.

It's here.

Maybe that's the name for a new case on.

Karma one.

Karma one.

Nice joint effort, guys.

Excellent.

Team more.

Team more.

Makes the dream work.

In a worst case scenario or a very negative

situation, you've got to look at the upside.

Maybe it's a good karma.

Maybe we are forced to move to this location.

This area still has precious metals in the water and might contain some secrets.

Okay, well, I guess it's time to go up there and make it so.

Karma one.

Let's go.

Later that morning, as the teams from SB Canada and Rocky Equipment reposition

equipment to the new digging location known as karma one.

Is he working his way back this way?

Yeah.

Okay.

The Kabul is so tricky where we are now.

I mean, we're sort of on the perimeter of it here.

Craig joins Tom Nolan and other members of the team on Tom's property in the northern

region of the swamp as they continue to investigate a cobblestone pathway.

I know Steve's been surveying, marking all the stakes as they've come up.

So it'd be interesting to see what Steve has on his map.

Yeah, everything we found be at a stake or the Kabul he's pinned it.

And you want his continued work in your way around here.

We're just going to do a continuous loop right

over to where we left off from the other side.

Okay.

Sounds good.

After uncovering numerous sections of the cobblestone path throughout the swamp that

have been lined with eight-sided wooden survey stakes, the team is hoping to find

clues that may help determine if it is related to other mysterious structures in

the swamp, such as an empty brick and slate vault.

The potentially 16th-century stone road in the southeast corner, which may be of

Portuguese origin, and the massive paved area near

the center that could be as much as 800 years old.

We have a multiple number of carbon dates from the bog that lend credence to the

belief that people are here doing something in the 1200s and the 1600s,

possibly Knights Templar, the Knights of Malta.

But are they the ones?

Are they the who?

We don't know that yet.

Maybe a little piece of answers us with the work proceeds.

Is that a stake?

It looks like a stake.

How?

Where were you digging, Al?

Just right behind me.

Yeah, close to the road.

No, I think I got that closer to my track here.

Okay.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Yeah, definitely one of those stakes.

Eight-sided as well.

Is it really?

No kidding.

I'll pass it there to you guys.

Oh, mistaken.

That looks like an holding.

That's the same stake we've been finding over and over again in the book.

Seems to be right along the edge of the swamp.

And normally when we find these old stakes, we find cobbles in the area.

Yeah.

They're connected.

Should we survey that in?

I think we should.

Yeah, let's do that then.

I'll text Steve and let him know that we need that survey so that we can continue.

Okay, guys.

Due to the potential historic importance of the eight-sided survey stakes,

the team has Steve Gopto record their precise locations to help determine if

they bear any correlation with other features

on the island in addition to the cobbled path.

We're getting close to having uncovered most

if not all of the north side of the swamp.

And one of the major finds that sticks out is this, this row of stakes.

Here we go.

In fact... To me, it's the alignment more than anything.

You know, it's the combination of all these individual stakes.

That's going to point the direction that we need to take the treasure hunt.

Here we go, signal!

Yeah, signal!

None further signal in that last load.

I should be able to pinpoint it.

Let's see what it is.

Let's see if it's trash or if it's treasure.

There it is.

But I am.

Oh, what have we got here?

I think it's lead.

And I see things on there.

Do you see some kind of design?

It does look like it has markings.

Almost like a crest or a coat of arms on there.

Maybe some kind of coin or token in the northern region of the swamp.

Guys, check this out.

What we've just found up here.

Wonder where he's come up with.

I don't.

Gary has just discovered a curious and potentially valuable artifact.

Check this out.

Oh, Alex and I believe we see a design on the front of it.

Shoulders look like some kind of coin or token.

There is a pattern on that.

Yeah, I see a couple of lines that are shiny.

Little specks making their way through this.

A teen, if you will.

What does it mean to it?

It was a low-to-mid tone.

First, I'm thinking lead.

I believe it's some kind of copper alloy.

Well, it might be a mix.

We have found some strange metals on the island.

It might be even cooler.

Yeah, it's not very heavy.

Look, it's a head scratcher, isn't it?

Yeah, it is.

Just the edges of it remind you of an old silver piece of Spanish coin.

Yeah, the front of its bezier here.

The back is rounded, but it's soft.

So what we're seeing is just material stuck to it.

That's a great sign, and so does a chance this could be, I can all merrily thee,

or some other coin.

That's what I would... Yeah, be my guess.

I like the look of what we have uncovered.

We don't know what it is, but I know where it came from.

This was bang on the deck of the excavation and the swamp.

This has been there very long time.

It's encrusted.

I don't know if it's a kind of seal.

It could be a button, but I'm open.

It's a coin.

I think we should get this back to the lab.

Yeah.

Get him back right away.

Cool, I'm looking forward to seeing what this looks like.

As a new morning breaks on Oak Island.

Let's say we're getting started, Peter.

All right, I was spinning off.

We're due for a little bit, Kermit.

We are.

Peter Finetti, as Charles Barkhouse, oversee operations in the money pit area.

As the Karma One case on, he's about to break ground.

We have so many pieces of equipment here.

We have two different crane systems.

We have a front-end loader to move the material.

But what I really like is the fact that this area of an auger, which as it's

spinning, you can see the material come out.

It's really, really cool to see that in action.

In order to get down to the solution channel, SB Canada and Rocky Equipment are

using the massive auger bit to rapidly drive through soil, park clay or debris,

and bring the spoils to the surface.

Once the Karma One shadow penetrates the solution channel, below a depth of

approximately 160 feet, the auger will be replaced by a giant dig bucket that will

safely collect any remaining spoils and possible treasure.

We're moving over to the hopefully-named Karma location.

It's not in the back-filled areas.

We don't have to worry about this rock.

That caused the first one to seize up.

If it lives up to its name, and the Karma is good Karma, I hope it's one and done.

I hope we find something in the solution channel.

Anywhere between 170 and 220, I'm really excited about it.

I know that we have 250 feet of casing, so if

there's a deep target, we're going to get it.

We certainly are.

We've got all the tools here to really go deep, and hopefully find out one thing.

But you can put my own ghost hand.

Well, you came here as a skeptic, right?

You're starting to move over to our side.

You're coming from the dark side over to the light side.

Based on what we're finding, there's more evidence that work was done down there.

We just have to find out one thing, and it might be this whole...

I'm looking forward to seeing something come up

out of there, and finally put this story to that.

Yeah.

Let's do it.

Right here.

Karma.

As the Karma one shaft descends toward the solution channel.

Hi, guys.

Today is Big Day.

Big day.

Big bolder.

Rick, Marty, and Craig are on their way to lot 8, on the western side of the island.

I have a question for each of you.

What's under it?

I don't think it may be.

A tunnel?

That would be absolutely fabulous.

Exciting its power.

Well, let's go find out then, shall we?

It's time.

After weeks of patiently waiting, they are about to remove a massive

obstacle between them and possible answers to

the Oak Island mystery, a 40,000 pound boulder.

While this feature has never been documented by previous searchers,

over the past two months, the team has been methodically excavating around and

beneath the boulder by hand and discovered a series of evenly spaced stones holding

it in place, as well as a back-filled buoy beneath it.

I'll show you there's a really good spot.

All right.

After inserting a camera into the narrow space that was cleared under the boulder,

video evidence was recorded of a possible tool.

It's goal-looking.

It certainly is.

And even a gold-colored substance.

And soil samples recently collected beneath

it contained unnaturally high traces of lead.

We're seeing as high as 140 parts per million lead

in that organic matter underneath the boulder.

This is made Dr. Ian Spooner and the team speculate that there may be an old mine

shaft underground that the boulder is concealing.

Good morning, team.

Good morning.

Are we excited?

All right, absolutely.

We are emboldened.

You've been working on that one, haven't you?

What time is it, Ma?

It's time to lift that rock, Gary.

Oh, I can't wait to get stuck in.

Now, archaeologists, Laird Niven, has given the team

permission to lift the boulder using a 130-ton crane.

Here it comes, folks.

Right there.

We're about to get this show on our own.

It's very exciting.

I've been wanting to move a lot, eighth boulder.

As soon as I heard about it, every scientist who has looked at it says that

this giant boulder was moved into position.

Well, people don't do that even today for no reason.

Back in the day, it would have been a massive undertaking.

So it's very exciting as to why this thing was

placed there and one on earth is underneath it.

All of a sudden the chains don't look big enough.

No, they don't.

It's exciting.

You can tell that there's a little bit of a bus in the air that people are hopeful

that once the rock comes up out of the ground, that

there'll be an aha moment and you'll see something.

I.E.

answers to the Oak Island Mission.

Here, in real time, we're going to get an answer.

Is there something underneath it or not?

All right, okay.

We're going to have a lift off.

Everybody back up.

This is off the chain.

Wow!

No way.

Wow!

No way.

Look at that.

Nicely done.

Nice to kick.

Big piece of kick.

Look how deep it was in that bottom.

On lot it, a crane has just lifted the 40,000 pound boulder.

Good thing it was.

A boulder that the team suspects may have been moved into

place long ago in order to hide something beneath it.

That is going on onto the.

Where?

You're up.

In this observation, there's no sterile subsoil.

We're seeing organics that we're introduced somehow.

And not naturally.

The dark soil is not supposed to be under it.

Yeah, it looks like it filled hole.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And we don't see any structures yet.

That doesn't mean there's nothing down there.

There could be something much deeper under there.

Absolutely.

The boulder's lifted out.

And it should be sitting in glacial soils from

10,000 years ago when it was originally deposited.

But all of those soils have been removed from under it.

It confirmed 100%.

That boulder was not in its original position.

What time is it, mate?

It's time to metal detect.

Who's here?

Well, I'm going to get stuck in.

It's confounding to think about who got that out.

How they got it out.

Here we go.

I'll do this side first.

And I think it reinforces the theory that this was a coordinated effort by

well-organized large group of people for whatever reason.

Nothing.

No.

It's just not getting any metal at its own house, huh?

That doesn't really surprise me either, though, because if somebody did this and

was wanting to hide it, you're really going to be

careful about not dropping artifacts in there, too.

Plus, we've excavated even some 1800 shafts in the money pit, and there's no metal.

I mean, it's just wood all the way.

So no metal hits doesn't mean that there isn't something down there.

Much deeper.

The conjecture is that a lot of it was placed for some reason.

Dr. Spooner is certain the metals in the soil.

Doesn't fit the soil composition as it should be.

I think you're going to defend it when saying it

was worth moving, because there's all topsoil there.

It doesn't make any sense.

I absolutely think there's a possibility that this boulder covered something very

deeper in terms of potential structures or finds that could help us solve the overall

mystery because it was done a very long time ago for an important reason.

And we haven't figured that out yet.

I think the mystery continues.

It's possible we could have closed the door on it just now.

We could have picked this up and said, looks

like it was in place naturally that we did.

When it was being lifted, I did not see any signs of any sort of mechanical

equipment touching the underside, so it's still a bit of a mystery how the

ever would have moved this in the first place.

Okay, well, let's go to the next step, which is sampling, correct?

And you guys got to do your thing real carefully.

Cleaning out it.

We're going to clean up all the loose soils around the edge, clean up the loose

soils in the middle, and see how far down it goes.

It could be much deeper than what we're seeing on the surface.

I'm still very hopeful that there's something under here.

Absolutely.

This could absolutely be the highlight of this year's entire efforts.

There's no question about that.

So we've just got to let the work proceed.

You guys do your thing and we'll come back.

We'll keep you posted too.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, if we find tries we'll let you know.

Let's let them get to work.

Okay, here we go.

As the investigation on Laudade continues, later that afternoon.

So in our U-3 phoned, this artifact in the north part of the swamp, when we first

found this effect, it had a big dome over the top.

Yeah, we knew we could see markings, but we didn't know what to make of it.

Yeah, Marty, Craig and other members of the team joined Laird and Emma in the lab,

regarding the artifact that was found one day ago, near the cobblestone pathway.

We were open, it was a coin, a token.

So what is it, Laird, Emma?

Well, I learned a new word today.

Exonumia.

Ooh, which is non-government-issued metals and tokens.

So it's not a coin, it's a special item.

Yeah, so this is one of the first commemorative pieces made in the United States.

Really?

So now see if you recognize this person.

George Washington.

Oh, yeah.

Father of our country right there.

That's right.

And if we flip around to the other side, it's actually an urn, it's a funerary urn.

Well, so this is a metal from 1800 that commemorates

George Washington's death on December 14, 1799.

Well, that is extraordinarily cool.

And the hole on the top is deliberate because these

were meant to wear at a service for George Washington.

Wow.

On February 22, 1800.

So just unique, just to that funeral.

Yeah.

And interestingly, Washington was amazing, right?

This was designed by Jacob Perkins, who was amazing.

That's really something.

Jacob Perkins of Newberry Port, Massachusetts, was an inventor who

designed bank notes and developed anti-counterfitting techniques for U.S.

currency in the late 18th century.

He created the Washington funeral medal to serve as a unique Masonic tribute to

President Washington, who was also well-known member of the Freemasons,

the secretive fraternity that many believe descended from the Knights Templar.

It's extraordinary if you found it in Boston, right?

It's really extraordinary to find it here.

They're rare.

I think it speaks to somebody of pretty high status.

I find that extraordinarily exciting.

You do too, I can tell later.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, it's like everything we find.

That's no sense.

This is the second president that's actually tied to the Oak Island history,

because there's FDR, and there's George Washington.

Ain't there both masons?

Both those presidents, for sure.

Ever since the discovery of the money pit in 1795, Freemasons, such as Daniel

McGinnis, Melbourne Chapel, and Franklin D.

Roosevelt have either led or been involved in

nearly every organized treasure hunt on Oak Island.

And just as curious are the many Masonic symbols that have been found across its

140 acres, including a man-made feature in the northern region

of the Triangle-shaped swamp that may represent the All-C9.

I really like this.

I think this is really trying to tell some kind of story.

Well, what's it doing here?

I have no idea.

Well, listen, I would be remiss if I didn't get big brother over here.

So... hang on, let me text her.

Can't.

Something you need to see.

Bloody Maison, Emma.

You'll be here in a minute, I think.

Hello, big brother.

You reckon?

You reckon?

What secrets do we have today?

Here it is.

I'm secrets, but a great story.

Who is that?

Well, that's Washington.

Yes, sure is.

In the Oak Island Lab, Rick joins the team to see the Masonic funerary medal,

bearing the likeness of George Washington.

So it's a 1800 medal commemorating George Washington's death in 1799.

Really?

Yeah.

It's found here at Oak Island in the swamp.

This almost has to be somebody very much associated with George Washington.

That might have been an individual of Masonic ties.

That fits in with one of my cut theories.

Somehow Oak Island was associated with revenues to fund the American Revolution.

Right.

We know freemasons were a nice Templar.

But they had a hand in the creation of the United States.

In 2018, author and researcher, Court Lindell, along with his brother

Bruce, presented the team with this compelling theory.

Louis Alexander rushed to gold in his friendship

with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

He may have actually told them of Oak Island or whatever secret was there.

It was Court's belief that secret knowledge of Templar treasures on Oak

Island was given to General George Washington and other leaders of the

American Revolution by a member of the Roche-Vacomb family, a family of French

nobles, with ties to the Knights Templar dating back to the 12th century.

They could have had part of the treasure from Oak Island as

a way to finance the war and help establish the new country.

Holy smokes.

Watch your step as stuff is slippery.

Following their meeting, Bruce, Marty and members of the team examined a

carvie located on the island's northern shore.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

It was a carvie believed to depict a symbol known as an appeal to heaven.

Commissioned by General George Washington in 1775, the symbol adorned battle flags

throughout the 13 American colonies to inspire

support for the revolution against Great Britain.

One has to remember that in 1800, the treasure hunt had just started.

What was someone doing with a commemorative token of George Washington's

funeral tribe seen a boat in the north end of the bog.

It defies logic.

Unless that person had knowledge of some enterprise happening on the island,

maybe it's possibly connected to the group of

individuals responsible for the vault in the swamp.

It probably would be worth looking at who was still living on the island in this

period of time that might have had sympathies to the revolution on the American side.

I think that's what it's crying out for.

Yeah, I do.

I'm going to go back there.

Oh, yeah.

On the other side of the side, but what it takes is one good find.

This is a good find.

That is a good finding.

It's excellent.

We got to get back to work.

Yeah, all right.

See you later.

See you later.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Later that day.

Hello.

Hey, Larry.

Hey, Fiona.

The boulder's gone.

That's pretty impressive.

Craig, Jack, and Dr. Ian Sponer arrive at the site of the lot eight boulder.

It came up like nothing.

Zero resistance.

And interestingly, looks like this may have been all rock line.

And we now have the opportunity to see if there's metals in that soil that might

tell us a little bit more about what was happening.

It may help guide your work because if we see an area that's

high in metals, we should be really careful with that.

Yeah.

I think it's a good idea just to run a quick XRF.

Okay.

Your machines taking an image right off the surface, right?

Right off the surface.

So we can do the top of the upper layer, the top of the lower

layer, and even hit it from the side to get different ideas.

Okay.

So let's get this thing sparked up.

I see you brought in the eight team here, guys.

I'm going to come down there and you guys tell me what's going on.

Just getting ready to test the soil down there.

For anything else.

Anything else, yeah.

Well, let's run the XRF.

Yeah, so I'm going to scamper down there and do some scans.

Because Dr. Spooner has previously detected lead in the soil beneath the

boulder, he will now scan the entire area that was previously covered by the boulder

with a Vanta XRF spectrometer by emitting a stream of X-rays.

The device can identify various types of metals in

the soil that may not be natural to the environment.

So we should be all warmed up.

This is ready to go.

But I'm going to get down in there.

Well, I like instant gratification of that machine.

So hop on down there.

The lead shouldn't be in those organic soils.

There's nothing wrong with the boulder.

So that's another indication that this thing covered something.

A handheld XRF gives you immediate data on the elements

that might be in various quantities in the soil.

And I want to know what's underneath it, and I want to know when it hurts.

So you're in the area right now where we had the high lead samples.

It's showing something that I didn't see in the other sample.

Oh.

Which is some silver.

Yeah.

Silver is exciting isn't it?

Yes it is.

It's showing some silver.

And copper there.

Silver is exciting isn't it?

Yes it is.

Oh.

On lot eight, Dr. Spooner has just made a stunning discovery

in the soils that were covered by the massive boulder.

So to be clear then you're finding more of the silver content in the lower layer.

Not in that upper layer.

Well and that's very preliminary.

It has to go to Emma.

Could that be from something seeping up that you could be detecting?

If there was silver here at one point, it could leach into that soil.

Well what if it's still there underneath?

Yeah I think there's every possibility.

Could Fiona be correct?

That Dr. Spooner may have detected evidence of a large

cache of silver buried deeper below this feature?

If this was an air shaft for a tunnel, then there would be

forces that would be bringing up what's a miss and things.

Yeah.

Super saturated air that could carry along and then condense under here.

Yeah but where's the silver coming from?

Treasure.

Yeah.

Well that's a conjecture.

I think it goes much deeper.

Lifting the boulder initially confirms that it was placed by people.

The next step is for the archeologists to carefully

excavate the dark soils and then see what's underneath them.

Silver is just as exciting as gold when you're talking

about a treasure hunt and you're talking about coins.

I mean the pit blade of coin didn't have any gold in it.

It was a silver coin with copper.

Silver and copper showed up right here so...

I want to know where the heck it came from and we don't know that yet.

Interesting results, anomalous results.

We need to do more work and Craig and I got plenty of other work to do.

Okay, it's great.

All right, let's get after it.

Two days later.

Welcome to the water room.

I am very enthusiastic about what we will learn today.

As operations continue across the island, members of the team meet via video

conference with our Qestronomy expert, Professor Adriana Gaspani.

To me, the most inscrutable, hard to understand data in the swamp or the stakes.

The position of them, the orientation of them.

I believe they are trying to tell us something.

So I tasked Emiliano with getting in touch with

Professor Gaspani and having him look at that data.

The professor has done an incredible amount of work with Nolan's Cross.

That also goes through the swamp.

Yes.

In 2022, Professor Gaspani conducted a peer-reviewed study of the six megalithic

boulders that form Nolan's Cross, based on historical alignments that the

boulders had with certain stars in the night sky.

Professor Gaspani believes that Nolan's Cross was created in approximately 1200 A .D.

by members of the night's Templar.

It's almost undeniable these stakes are put in these orientations for a purpose.

Professor Gaspani's unique perspective.

Using our Qestronomy stellar solar alignments, you may be able to give us a timeline.

And if indeed it can point us in the right direction,

or give us the elusive bullseye, it would be fantastic.

I would like to welcome Professor Gaspani and Marcia Cebastiani,

who is kind enough to translate for Professor Gaspani.

Thank you.

Now, after receiving Steve Gomp tells detailed survey of the

eight-sided stakes that have been discovered in this one.

Professor Gaspani has completed his analysis of their possible historical

alignments with specific stars and constellations.

So, these are the stakes that are located in the north.

It's two separate groups, red and light blue.

And there's one very interesting aspect.

Professor Gaspani is here.

He's here.

He's here.

He's here.

He's here.

He's here.

Why is this so important?

He's here.

Dennis is the main star in the Cygnus constellation, and

we have a map of the Cygnus constellation on Nolan's cross.

This very peculiar stellar alignment that Caspani found for

the stakes shared the same constellation with Nolan's cross.

When Professor Gaspani, reported his belief that Nolan's cross was constructed

around 1200 AD, he came to that conclusion by matching the location of the boulders

with historical positions of certain stars in the sky.

Included, Dennis, in the Cygnus constellation, a constellation that

multiple researchers over the years have suggested a line with the cross.

Very interesting.

The two sets of stakes were dated astronomically.

And make us think once again that this link with Templar culture was present.

This is mind-blowing to me.

My conclusion is that Europeans with Templar culture

were present on Oak Island in the 13th century.

In the war room, Professor Adriana Gaspani has just presented his analysis that a

line of the eight-sided survey stakes found in

the swamp could date back to the 13th century.

And share historic stellar alignments with the boulders of Nolan's cross,

meaning that both features may have been

created by the same people nearly 800 years ago.

If those stakes represent something from the

1200s, that means there's a plan out there.

And so for me, that's probably the most important piece that I've taken from this

because what we're missing is that plan, right?

And it goes back to even what we found this year.

The lot ate bolder in the lot five marker stone.

Many of us here believe that those are potentially

settlements in that time period of the 1200s.

They might be part of a bigger plan to survey a treasure.

Maybe we haven't found other structures that carry those alignments.

And as you'll hear, what we need to do is target some areas.

There's three large boulders that form the stem of Nolan's cross.

The stem of the cross goes through the book.

Not very far from the stakes we found.

I think we'd be crazy not to search that.

Who knows what we could find in there?

I think Nolan's cross is saying something to us that we'd be able to understand

there is a new world, old-world connection vis-a-vis

these stakes, these structures and these alignments.

I would like to go back and revisit the stem of the cross.

It's too significant.

But I think within that construction, there are clues that will be incredibly

instrumental in helping to solve this mystery.

My home and belief is that we finally put a few puzzle pieces together.

The stakes are reflective of something.

I think the work and the body needs to continue.

Right.

I think we should all be quite proud of where

we have taken the Oak Island mystery to date.

It is things like this that will help tell the story.

And the story, hopefully, eventually, will lead to the treasure.

So, Professor Gaspani, we all, as we said here,

we're exceedingly interested in pursuing this.

And we want to thank you both very, very much.

Grazit me, Nick.

Grazit me, Nick.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Ciao.

Ciao, yeah.

For Rick, Marty and their team, a week had began with a daunting setback,

as ended with renewed hope that they are closing

in on the truth behind the 231-year-old mystery.

Having now discovered evidence of precious metals buried deep in the money in the

head area and beneath a megolithic boulder on lot 8, compelling new data has a firm

that Oak Island secrets could stretch back nearly 800 years.

So now, as the team digs deeper for the ultimate answers,

the stakes for what they may find have never been higher.