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(Transcrito por TurboScribe.ai. Atualize para Ilimitado para remover esta mensagem.) Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.

Looks like we're getting started.

Oh, yeah, we're spinning off.

We're due for a little bit of karma.

We are.

We just have to find that one thing.

Here we go, a signal.

Hey.

I should be able to pinpoint it.

Oh, look at that.

See if you recognize this.

Wow.

That might have been an individual with Masonic tithes.

Yes.

Well, that is extraordinarily cool.

All right, here we go.

It's time to lift that rock.

All right, moving.

Let's go.

Wow, look at that.

Yeah.

Wow.

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.

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

I mean, it's not a happy thing.

We just got going on TPF1.

A lot of pomp and circumstance.

The team all energized.

Yeah, yeah.

And we are at about 25 feet, and we're stuck.

Before a new day of 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 fill rock,

and we got stuck at 25 feet.

Yeah.

They can't pull it up, they can't push down.

The auger, of course, can go in and out,

but the cans itself won't move.

Yep.

All right, let's start it up.

Let's find some treasure, boys!

Just one day ago, the teams from Solitanch Bashi, Canada,

and Rock 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 caissons deeper into the ground.

And while Rock 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,

8.5, 8.5, it was right there.

Well, we theorized that Coral Barrel

could have brought up that coin.

That's right, it was from the correct time period

when they knew where the money pit was.

Yeah.

I just think that's a really good location.

Earlier this year, while drilling borehole 8.5, 8.5

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 Pitbladow.

The new hole location is one of the holes that we picked,

and it's an area that still has very elevated amounts of silver

and some other metals in it.

We know we're definitely gonna go back to Top Pocket find,

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,

so we're gonna dig this one.

You know what, it's karma, you know?

It's really over here.

Yeah.

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

Maybe karma's saying, you know what, it's not here, it's here.

Maybe that's a name for a new case home.

Karma.

Karma 1.

Karma 1.

Nice joint effort, guys, excellent.

Teamwork.

Teamwork.

Makes the dream work.

In a worst-case scenario or a very negative situation,

we've got to look at the upside.

Maybe it's 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.

Okay.

Karma 1.

Let's go.

Later that morning,

as the teams from SB Canada and Rock Equipment

reposition equipment to the new digging location

known as Karma 1.

Is he working his way back this way?

Yeah.

Okay.

The cobble 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'll be interesting to see what Steve has on his map.

Yeah, everything we found, be it a stake or the cobble,

he's pinned it.

And you want to just continue working your way around here?

We're just going to do a continuous loop

right over to where we left off on the other side.

Okay.

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 were 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 there'll be some answers as the work proceeds.

Is that a stake?

It looks like a stake, Al.

Where were you digging, Al?

Just right behind me.

Close to the road?

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

Okay.

Yeah.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Yeah, definitely one of those stakes,

8-sided as well.

Is it really?

No kidding.

I'll pass it down here.

Here it goes.

No mistaking that.

That looks like an old...

No, that's the same stake we've been finding

over and over again in the bog.

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?

Yeah, I would say so.

I think we should.

Yeah, let's do that then.

I'll text Steve and let him know that we need that surveyed

so that we can continue.

Okay, guys.

Due to the potential historic importance

of the 8-sided survey stakes,

the team has Steve Gomptil 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 row of stakes.

Here we go.

All right, 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.

We got a signal.

We got a signal.

Non-ferrous 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.

Got it in my hand.

Oh, what have we got here?

Wow.

Ooh, 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.

Mm-hmm.

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.

I wonder what he's come up with.

I don't know.

Gary has just discovered a curious

and potentially valuable artifact.

Check this out.

Ooh.

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

Sure does look like some kind of coin or token.

There is a pattern on that.

Yeah, I see a couple lines that are shiny.

Little specks making their way through this patina, if you will.

What is it made of, Gary?

It was a low to mid-tone.

First I'm thinking lead,

but I believe it's some kind of copper alloy.

Look, might be a mix.

We have found some strange metals on the island.

Might be even pooter.

Yeah, it's not very heavy, no.

That'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 it's busy.

The back is rounded, but it's soft.

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

That's a great sign, then.

So there's a chance this could be like an old Maravidi

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.

Ooh, this was bang on the deck of the excavation in the swamp.

This has been there a very long time.

It's encrusted.

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

Could be a button.

But I'm hoping it's a coin.

I think we should get this back to the lab.

Yeah.

Get it back right away.

Oh, I'm looking forward to see what this looks like.

As a new morning breaks on Okehamas.

Looks like we're getting started, Peter.

Yeah, we're spinning out.

We're due for a little good karma.

We are.

Yeah.

Peter Frenetti and Charles Barkhouse

oversee operations in the Money Pit area

as the Karma I caisson is 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 material.

But what I really like is the fact that this year

we have 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 ROC Equipment are using the massive auger bed

to rapidly drive through soil, hard clay, or debris

and bring the spoils to the surface.

Once the Karma I shaft 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 a back-filled area,

so 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.

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 that one thing.

That you can put in my uncle's 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 here.

Yeah.

We just have to find that one thing,

and it might be this hole.

I'm looking forward to seeing something come up out of there

and finally put this story to bed.

Yeah.

Let's do it.

Right here.

Karma.

As the Karma 1 shaft descends toward the solution channel...

All right, guys.

Today is a big day.

Big day.

Big boulder.

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'm thinking maybe a tunnel.

That would be absolutely fabulous.

Exciting as hell.

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 backfill void 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 gold-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 has made Dr. Ian Spooner and the team speculate

that there may be an old mine shaft underground

that the boulder is concealing.

Morning, team.

Morning.

Are we excited?

All right. Absolutely.

We are emboldened.

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

I have.

What time is it, Marty?

It's time to lift that rock, Gary.

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

Now, archaeologist 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 the road.

It's very exciting.

I've been wanting to move the Lot 8 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 what 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 there's a little bit of a buzz 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 mystery.

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

Is there something underneath it or not?

All right.

We're going to have a liftoff.

Everybody back up.

Here it goes.

Here we go.

This is off the chain.

Look at that.

Look at that.

Nicely done.

Piece of cake.

It's a big piece of cake.

Look how deep it was in that bottom.

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

Good.

Let's go take a look.

Let's look.

A boulder that the team suspects may have been moved into place

long ago in order to hide something beneath it.

What the heck is going on under there?

Laird, you're up.

Initial observation is there's no sterile subsoil.

We're seeing organics that were introduced somehow

and not naturally because a dark soil is not supposed to be under it.

Yeah, it looks like a filled hole.

Exactly.

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.

OK.

The boulder's lifted out, and it should be sitting in glacial soils

from 10,000 years ago when it was originally deposited naturally.

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

It confirmed 100% that that boulder was not in its original position.

What time is it, Matty?

It's time to metal detect, Gary.

Right.

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 a well-organized, large group of people for whatever reason.

Nothing.

No.

Just not getting any metal hits on the outside.

It 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 the Lot 8 boulder 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 can definitively say 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 buried 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, but we didn't.

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 they 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.

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 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 your poster, too.

Yeah, okay.

If we find treasure, we'll let you know.

Let's let them get to work.

Okay.

Thanks.

Yep.

As the investigation on Lot 8 continues...

later that afternoon...

So now you three found this artifact

in the north part of the swamp.

When we first found this artifact,

it had a big dome of dirt 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

join 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?

Mm-hmm.

So now see if you recognize this person.

George Washington.

Oh.

Yeah.

Father of our country right there.

Yeah, that's right.

And if we flip around to the other side...

It's actually an urn, it's a funerary urn.

Oh.

So this is a metal from 1800

that commemorates George Washington's death

on December 14, 1799.

Oh, that is extraordinarily cool.

Yeah.

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 a mason, right?

This was designed by Jacob Perkins, who was a mason.

That's really something.

Jacob Perkins of Newburyport, Massachusetts

was an inventor who designed banknotes

and developed anti-counterfeiting 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 a 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.

Yeah.

They're rare.

I think it speaks to somebody of pretty high status.

I find that extraordinarily exciting.

You do too, don't you? I can tell by your...

Well, it's like everything we find makes no sense.

Well, this is the second president

that's actually tied to the Oak Island mystery

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

And they were both masons.

Both those presidents, for sure.

Ever since the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795,

Freemasons such as Daniel McGuinness,

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-seeing eye.

I really like this.

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

Yeah.

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 him.

Okay.

Something you need to see.

Pretty amazing, isn't it?

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

Hello, Big Brother.

Hey, Rick.

What secrets do we have today?

Here it is.

No secrets, but a great story.

Who is that?

Well, that's Washington.

Yep.

It sure as heck 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 an 1800 medal

commemorating George Washington's death in 1799.

Really?

Yeah.

Found here on Oak Island in the swamp.

Hmm.

This almost has to be somebody

very much associated with George Washington.

That might have been an individual of Masonic ties.

Yes.

It fits in with one of my pet theories.

Yeah.

Somehow Oak Island was associated with revenues...

Yeah.

...to fund the American Revolution, right?

Right.

We know Freemasons were Knights Templar.

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

Yeah.

In 2018, author and researcher Court Lindahl,

along with his brother Bruce,

presented the team with this compelling theory.

Louis Alexander Rochefoucauld,

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 Rochefoucauld 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. This stuff is slippery.

Following their meeting,

Bruce, Marty, and members of the team

examined a carving located on the island's northern shore.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

It was a carving 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

traipsing about 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 revolt 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.

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

Yeah, I do.

You gonna go back there?

Oh, yeah.

And I always say the same,

all it takes is one good find.

This is a good find.

It is a good find.

It's excellent.

We gotta get back to work.

Yeah.

All right, we'll 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 Spooner

arrive at the site of the Lot 8 boulder.

It came up like nothing.

Zero resistance.

And interestingly,

looks like this may have been all rock lying.

Yeah.

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.

Yeah.

It may help guide your work

because if we see an area that's, you know,

high in metals,

we should be really careful with that.

Yeah.

Okay.

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

Okay.

Your machine's taking an image

right off the surface, right?

Right off the surface, yeah.

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?

Yep.