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Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island.

There we go.

That's solid wood.

We're on the side. We're on the edge of something.

We need to figure the best way to take a look at it. That cipher is the

instruction on how to stop the flow traps.

I still think the swamp has something to tell us.

X marks the spot.

We found another coin.

It could be very significant.

Looks like we've definitely got something. Looks like it's Knight's

Temple across.

Right now, this ends right here.

There is an island in the North Atlantic where men have been looking for treasure

for more than 200 years.

So far, they have uncovered booby-trapped flood tunnels, carved

stones with strange symbols, 17th century Spanish coins, and

evidence of a mysterious wooden vault covered in concrete.

six men have even lost their lives and according to legend

one more will have to die before the treasure can be found

Here we go.

Rick Lagina, his brother Marty, and their partners Crank Tester and Dave

Blankenship are hoping that today will be another exciting day on Oak Island.

Come on, right now, this ends right here, today.

Yep, we're going to bring up the gold shiny stuff.

Well, then we've got to dig it up.

That's the issue. Are you kidding? If you find something, that's a piece of

cake. Then we start spending.

Yesterday. After spending nearly three weeks of drilling in the area known as

the money pit, the team was finally able to get a split-spoon coring bit past

centuries of rocks and other debris left behind by previous treasure hunters.

When they retrieved it, what they found was astonishing.

Definitely got wood.

See what else we might have.

That's definitely clay.

I don't think that's bedrock.

Maybe it's concrete, Rick. That is a possibility.

Concrete and then wood.

That's the description.

That's what they found in the top of the vault.

After years of planning, thousands of hours of hard work. We should take this

to my brother.

And millions of dollars invested, the team on Oak Island believe they have had

an enormous breakthrough.

They are convinced that what they may have discovered is not only the infamous

Oak Island money pit, but also the legendary chapel vault.

I mean, everybody since 1897, when that vault was first found, has been trying

to refine this, and nobody has found it.

While drilling in the money pit back in 1897, treasure hunter William Chappell

came upon what he later described as a large wooden vault with walls seven

inches thick and measuring seven feet high.

Located at a depth of 153 feet below the island's surface, It was covered in a

hard concrete-like substance, which when tested was determined to be man-made.

But what was even more incredible than the discovery of the vault itself was

the fact that Chappell noticed that on his drill bit could be found traces of

gold. He also discovered a tiny piece of what looked like parchment on which were

written the letters VI.

Unfortunately, Soon after the mysterious vault was discovered, the shaft Chapel

had begun digging flooded with salt water.

The hole collapsed, and both the wooden vault and its mysterious contents were

never located again.

Could this be what the Laginas and their partners have just discovered?

Are they really within a few feet of solving the Oak Island mystery once and

for all? Then we got all kinds of money to play with. Yeah.

Buy your boat first, and then a nice bottle of wine on there, sit there and

bob up and down.

Sounds good, David.

Okay, here we are. Talk about counting our chickens before they're hatched.

What we might have penetrated is a vault built by the original makers of the

money pit. Everything that came back up was consistent with that. It looks like

we can cut through the roof, went right down the side of a post.

So here it is, a complete verification of that hole drilled 120 years ago.

Can't get excited about this, Jordan.

I don't know why you're here.

Whether we enter into a cavity, we bring up more wood, 100% that, you know, we

need to bring up another core.

Daniel! What do you say, Marty?

Good morning, partner.

Is today the day?

Who knows?

Yeah. Who knows? You don't let yourself get excited anymore, right? Not after

however many years.

It's been a long time. It'll be interesting to find out.

once you recover at that depth.

Veteran treasure hunter Dan Blankenship has been trying to solve the Oak Island

mystery for nearly 50 years.

Prior to that, he had been a successful building contractor, living with his

wife in Miami, Florida.

Hopefully, when the next one comes up, we'll have something to look at. Yeah.

Now in his 90s, Dan has refused to give up trying to find out what.

if anything, lies buried on Oak Island.

Let's see how it goes. It may fall right

away. It'll fall right down, I'll bet you anything.

The coring barrel the team is using can retrieve a core sample of up to two feet

in length.

But given the potentially fragile nature of the target object, Care must be taken

that it not be damaged by the process.

We may already have 18 inches. I don't believe we do. Okay, I don't believe you

got a full quarter barrel. Let's do six more

and... Six inches.

Come on, open.

That was the plan, six inches.

Yeah.

It's a pretty quick trip out.

we'll take a look and see what we have tell you what it went awful easy we only

laid short six inches we should have 18 inches of new stuff so we'll see but i

tell you what that went easy as hell just like it's in a big old vault lots

of gold in there because the split spoon core sampler seemed to have

no trouble going 18 inches farther below ground than it did yesterday marty and

the team are beginning to suspect that the drill is now, quite possibly, inside

the chapel vault.

I think I got some wood.

Yeah, don't pull any of that out.

Look at all the wood in the bottom of that.

That's solid wood.

More wood?

Lots of wood. Have Rick, Marty, and the team just recovered another piece of the

mysterious chapel vault? More vertical wood again.

Best case scenario, we're into the original vault. There's something of

immense value there, and we'll salvage it.

Okay, that's the bottom.

I mean, we're all excited. I think there was some trepidation on our part. Did we

really want to split the barrel and open and see what we were in? That's pretty

exciting.

There we go.

I think it's still that flat piece.

You're the half of that.

Well, this side is facing something, outside, inside.

I don't see no spendables here.

No, me neither.

We got some clay.

We got what looks like cement.

Then we got five inches of wood running this way, and then into what kind of

looked like we're skinning down a post, a vertical post.

I got more and more excited as I looked at it, but, you know, I want to reserve

judgment, as always, so I don't have to ride that emotional roller coaster.

We're on the side. We're on the edge of something.

That's what I think.

We're on the side. We're on the edge of something.

I mean, it could be a shaft, but there shouldn't be one there, should there?

Not at 142 feet. I don't think there's any shafts that were down that deep.

Because the area surrounding the money pit has been dug up and filled in dozens

of times during the past 200 years, it would not be unusual for the Laginas and

their partners to find the remains of old wood beams and other debris in one

of their coring samples.

That's a machined edge, I'd be virtually certain.

I built shafts, you know, and we never used anything like that. You don't put

anything vertical?

No.

Even if it was that filled, you would never expect it to be perfectly 180

degrees, you know?

Well, what's it going to be, Krager?

If we got a vault that we just found open, anything we do below can start

messing up that vault.

The only thing we can do, we can think about, drill in another hole, try and

find the center of this puppy.

Then we lose it.

Yep.

Whenever you drill, especially in...

unconsolidated ground like this is there's always the danger that we lose

the cavity we have what we hope is a big clue why risk drilling down and we lose

a big piece of the information we're done pouring then i think so i

think this is a small victory i mean either that or it's the teaser that

keeps you sucked in and time will tell but either way we're staying

For Rick, Marty, and the other members of the Oak Island team, finding the

chapel vault is one thing.

Getting to it and retrieving whatever lies inside it is quite another.

Because now they have to figure out how to keep thousands of gallons of ocean

water from flooding in and undermining their efforts.

To do so will require an enormous commitment of time and money.

Or perhaps the solution could come from a stranger.

One who has traveled thousands of miles across the globe in hopes of presenting

the Laginas the details of his incredible theory.

Long trip?

Very long trip, yeah. Been jet lagged. We're excited to see you.

Yep. Everybody, Daniel Ronstam. Daniel Ronstam is a researcher and amateur

cryptographer from Sweden who has spent the last several years studying the Oak

Island mystery.

Just give us a little background.

What initially attracted you? Because you're a cryptographer, amateur, self

-described. Yes, yes.

In 2010, I got interested in this Oak Island mystery.

I started investigating everything for six months, and then I found more

ciphers and codes.

So what I'm going to show you today is a very advanced cipher with beyond

reasonable doubt.

I'm going to take out some papers here.

Like many Oak Island theorists, Daniel Ronstam believes there is something of

great importance buried in the island's mysterious triangle-shaped swamp.

He also believes that during the course of his research...

he has discovered something unusual about the strange stone slab found in

the money pit back in 1804.

Known as the 90-foot stone because of the depth at which it was discovered,

the strange stone slab contained numerous carved symbols, which at the

time were believed could be translated using a simple substitution method.

Daniel Ronsdam has come to Oak Island not to dispute this widely held

translation.

but to suggest that the code used was even more ingenious because it was meant

to reveal not just one secret message, but two.

It's not just one single code. Yeah. It's a double cipher code.

Yes. And that will lead me on to a theory of how the money pit is

constructed and why it is constructed as this.

Okay. There's a very big difference by breaking a cipher and deciphering a

cipher. When you break it, you figure out the rules and the design of the

cipher disc, and it is very, very hard to do.

In 1971, a former U.S. military cryptographer, Dr. Ross Wilhelm, used

a 16th century book on cryptography to prove that the 90-foot stone contained a

second message in Spanish.

But the methodology used to decipher the symbols was later found to be flawed.

What Ross Willem found was, of course, the cipher disks start on the first

letter in the alphabet, A.

And the first symbol in the sequence is a triangle.

So we write an A.

And then you move one step, like this, when you leave that letter.

And that symbol is an O.

Change one step, an E.

And then we come to operating symbols that ask us to turn more than one step.

Instead, we do four steps.

One, two, three, four.

The two dots mean four steps?

Yes. Okay.

Inspired by Wilhelm's theory, Daniel Ronstam now believes he has deciphered

the stone's true translation.

Dr. Ross Willem made an error swapping two symbols here, but that's because he

used the Spanish alphabet instead of the English 16th century alphabet.

Oh, okay. And this is the reason Willem's cipher has been not believed to

be correct.

And it says in English, at 80, guide corn, long, narrow sea inlet, drain,

and then you have the last F, which means Francis Bacon.

Sir Francis Bacon?

Is it possible that the double-coated message on the 90-foot stone could

really have been authored by one of the most accomplished and intriguing

Englishmen of the 17th century?

Last year, Norwegian researcher Peter Amundsen presented evidence that

suggested Sir Francis Bacon, a scientist, explorer, and adventurer who

had ties to a secret society of intellectuals known as the Rosicrucians.

had hidden something of great value in the Oak Island swamp.

Could Daniel Ronstam's findings be further evidence that Bacon was also

behind the construction of the money pit?

So this is the instruction on how to stop the flood traps.

By putting corn within the caving pit and the south shore pit, possibly other

pits, it expands by the water and plugs the channel.

For nearly 200 years, Historians and researchers have tried to discover the

source of the ocean water that floods the money pit and undermines virtually

every effort to dig or drill at a depth below 90 feet.

In 1850, evidence of an elaborate system of five-stone box drains was discovered

at the area known as Smith's Cove.

Covered with a layer of coconut fiber, which would likely filter out ocean

debris,

The box drains appeared to be part of an elaborate system of booby-trapped flood

tunnels designed to thwart the efforts of would-be treasure hunters.

It would also serve as a natural protection for whatever it was that was

buried on Oak Island.

But could using something as simple and basic as corn to plug up the flood

tunnels really be the answer?

In the oil business, we use a lot of different things for lost circulation.

You know, corn, I suppose, would swell, and it might do it.

After a few months, it's eaten away by maggots, and it's working again.

Resets.

So why would Francis Bacon and his gang do this?

Forty feet below two million pounds of buried message.

This message activates the beacon.

And the beacon is, people will never forget this island. Come try to get the

treasure. It's working exactly as specified.

It's working on us, yeah.

For the Laginas and their partners, Daniel Ronsdam's translation of the

symbols on the 90-foot stone, if correct, might offer a tremendous

savings of both time and money.

But could something as simple as corn, poured down shafts at strategic points

on the island, really prevent ocean water from flooding the money pit?

If he's right that this is a cipher within a cipher, well, that shows a

great deal of complexity.

and thought and adds credence that this is really quite a world-class mystery.

To make a dual cipher, it's very, very hard.

Swedish researcher and amateur cryptographer Daniel Ronsdam has just

presented his incredible theory to Rick, Marty and the other members of the Oak

Island team.

After conducting a careful and painstaking analysis of the strange

symbols that were carved into the so-called 90-foot stone, Ronstam

believes that the stone was meant to be not only a lure for would-be treasure

hunters, but also a guide as to how corn could be used to prevent water from

flooding the money pit and thus allow access to whatever it is that lies

buried below.

Wait a minute, though. I mean, this is all based on the symbols that were

supposedly on the stone, right? But we don't know that those are the real

symbols, right? Yeah, of course. We cannot know if they actually came from

the pit.

If we want to confirm this, we have to find the stone.

What Marty's son Alex is referring to is that any translation using the carved

symbols from the 90-foot stone is potentially unreliable, as the stone has

been lost for nearly 100 years.

and there were no photographs or rubbings taken from it.

All anyone can go by are the various copies printed in books or drawings done

from memory.

We do know there was a stone found in the pit at 90 feet, right? There was

markings on it, and then it was taken by J.B. McCulley, supposedly to Halifax,

but possibly to Truro.

That was his mother lodge. He was a mason, right?

Pardon me? He was a mason? He was a mason, yes.

Because of what appears to be a number of elaborate and ingenious engineering

methods used in the construction of the Money Pit, there are many Oak Island

researchers who believe there are strong connections between the Oak Island

mystery and the ancient fraternity of builders known as the Freemasons.

In fact, the list of Freemasons who are connected to Oak Island is a long one

and includes prominent searchers like Gilbert Hedden and President Franklin

Delano Roosevelt.

who first came to the island while still in his 20s.

Wait a sec. Run this by me again. You think that this stone exists somewhere?

Yeah.

One of the theories is that a stone went to Halifax and was put in the front

window of a bookbinding firm down on Upper Water Street. It was used as a

marketing ploy.

According to historical records, in 1865, a stone believed to be the

original 90-foot stone... was put on display in the window of a bookbinding

business in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was used as a lure to help raise capital for

the treasure hunt on Oak Island.

But sometime after the end of World War I, around 1919,

the stone vanished and was never seen again.

I don't know if you guys know this or not, but I'm a Mason, and I'm going to

make a call to one of my brothers and see if he can assist in getting us

access into Grand Lodge and see if we can take a look at the archives.

And that's where the stone might be?

Well, if the stone or some information about it, you know, like a rubbing or a

photo or anything, chances are it would be there.

Okay, guys, go find the stone.

Okay. Okay.

After sharing his ingenious theory with the Oak Island team, Swedish researcher

and amateur cryptographer Daniel Ronstam, along with Alex Lagina and

Charles Barkhouse, have enlisted the aid of one of Charles' fellow masons, Kel

Hancock. They're hoping Kel can help them secure special permission to access

the Masonic archives located in nearby Halifax.

Thanks for doing this, Kel. We really appreciate this. My pleasure.

If successful, they may be able to track down information that will lead them to

the original stone, which has been missing for nearly 100 years.

Was it difficult to get permission to do it?

Well, I had three kids, and now I only have two, so...

Brother

Roy! Brother Kelly!

Good to see you again.

Hello, Daniel.

Pleased to meet you, Daniel. Pleased to meet you. Pleased to meet you. I'm Alex

Lagina. Hi, Alex. So these gentlemen have some questions for you today. We're

looking for some information perhaps on an individual named J.B. McCulley.

Right. Apparently J.B. McCulley removed a stone that was discovered on Oak

Island in the money pit that had inscriptions on it.

We thought maybe there would be some kind of a record of where the stone

went. Yes, because I think there is stuff that... was communicated to other

masons and not out in the public.

We had a tendency to do that. Yes.

We do have a few secrets.

It would be possible for us to maybe take a look in the Grand Lodge archive

for the historic things there.

You know, if we could be of any assistance, I'd be only too glad to

help. We're just as interested as you are. And I personally feel that the

money pit is probably Knights Templar.

The Knights Templar?

It has been widely held that the Knights Templar, a powerful order of warrior

monks who fought to liberate the Holy Land from Islamic rule during the

Crusades, may have had substantial contact with the indigenous Mi'kmaq

people as far back as the 14th century.

Templars are tied in. This has a very long Templar trail.

This is the Mi'kmaq flag.

This is what's called their Grand Council flag.

We find it interesting that the Mi'kmaq Grand Council flag is actually 100%

reverse mirror image of the Templar battle flag.

Many even believe that the Templars hid precious religious artifacts on Oak

Island, like the Ark of the Covenant, the golden menorah of King Solomon, and

even the Holy Grail.

But although Freemasonry can, in many respects, trace its origins back to the

Knights Templar, Is it possible that link could stretch all the way from the

14th century to the present day?

The massive undertaking that was done back then could only have been achieved

by Knights Templar. I'm kind of worried that what you find, are we ready for it?

Well, what are we doing?

What we got here is an ultrasonic cleaner. Yeah. Same sort of thing used

for dental instruments, cleaning ammunition, jewelry, all that sort of

stuff. Okay.

Back on the island, Marty Lagina, Craig Tester, and dive master Tony Sampson are

about to clean a coin that metal detector expert Gary Drayton found near

the money pit a few weeks ago.

At the time, the coin was thought to be a two mar of a D.

Similar to the 17th century 8 Maravadi, the team found in the Oak Island swamp

last year.

If so, it would do much to support the theory that Spanish pirates frequented

Oak Island centuries ago and might very well have buried some sort of treasure

here. And what we can do is we can use it to clean a coin up just to take some

of the tarnish off so you can actually see the date.

The Maravadi, to me, if it is one.

It would be very significant because we found one last year. Here's another one,

unrelated, found by a different seeker.

It could mean a lot. In two different locations as well. Two different

locations. Okay, should we drop her in and give her a cookie? Yes, hit the

timer, let her have it.

Okay, just about done?

Yep, we're just about cooked.

Back in the Oak Island war room.

Marty Lagina, Craig Tester, and Tony Sampson are about to see if by cleaning

the old copper coin found near the money pit a few weeks ago, they can tell just

how old it is or where it may have come from.

There we go.

All right, reveal your secrets.

Okay, let's see what you are.

You've got high hopes for this coin, Tony.

Okay, well, it looks like we've definitely got something on that side. I

can see some raise points there.

Yeah, look.

Well, there's like bars, sort of like parallel bars, very distinct,

but I don't know what to make of them.

See what I'm saying? See the line? I mean, those aren't just shiny points,

they're lines.

Well, they are distinct, aren't they? Yeah.

Sort of looks like a Templar cross.

Huh?

Templar cross?

Knights Templar? A Templar coin found near the money pit on Oak Island?

If so, then this could be the first tangible proof that the stories and

legends connecting the Knights Templar and Oak Island are true.

How do you know about that?

Well, I'm a Mason too.

Oh, are you really? Did they have coinage?

Well, they were the first bank.

During the period that stretches from the Middle Ages to about 1100 AD, the

Knights Templar were known not only for protecting pilgrims on their journeys to

and from the Holy Land, but for storing and guarding vast amounts of gold,

silver, and other valuables in their fortresses.

Over time...

These castles became the equivalent of the first banks, as many people would

deposit their valuables in Templar strongholds for safekeeping.

This later led to the Templars issuing letters of credit and other currency,

which in turn became the basis for the very same banking system still in

operation to this day.

I guess they would add coins.

I'll tell you what, this Templar thing just keeps coming up and coming up and

coming up.

And we need to get to the bottom of this.

Templar thing keeps surfacing on this island at least References to them seem

to yeah.

All right. Let's get after it. Okay Let

me introduce you to the Grand

Librarian of the Grand Lodge, Nova Scotia Brother Gordon MacDonald. Gordon,

I'm Alex Lagaina. Nice to meet you. Brother Tom Rogers.

Tom, I'm Alex. At the Grand Masonic Lodge in Halifax, Grand Librarian Gordon

MacDonald has scoured through the archives looking for information on

Jotham Macaulay, the man believed to have removed the 90-foot stone from Oak

Island sometime in 1865.

Well, how's it looking?

I understand you're primarily looking for Macaulay. Yes.

Unfortunately, I can't find him mentioned as a lodge officer, but

there's another name, Pitblotto.

We've found references to this individual belonging to the same lodge

as McCully from 1869 through to around 78.

And that's important because Pitblotto and McCully were probably the two

closest to the actual drilling operation.

listed as the chief engineer in some cases, and Pitblotto being listed as the

drilling engineer.

According to historical records, in 1849, an Oak Island treasure mining

corporation known as the Truro Company was supervised by manager Jotham

McCulley and foreman James Pitblotto.

One day, while drilling at the money pit, Pitblotto was seen to take

something from an auger bin and quickly tuck it away in his pocket.

Shortly thereafter, Pit Blotto left the company and then attempted,

unsuccessfully, to purchase the lot on the island that included the money pit.

Unfortunately, Pit Blotto died a few months later, leaving what he found a

mystery.

Whatever he found on that open-face auger, made him leave the company, leave

his position. Right. It made him think that there was something there.

Absolutely. Right. And you found mention of his name in your records?

Oh, yeah. Bit lotto, yes. Yeah.

We were able to find some pretty good info.

Some of it was a bit of a dead end, but I think we got some other names that we

can check out.

Though Alex, Charles, and Daniel were not able to track down much information

about the fate of the infamous 90-foot stone, they are hopeful that over

time... more information will come to light and more pieces of the puzzle will

be brought together.

Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Great to meet you.

It is a new day on

Oak Island.

And although the weather is anything but welcoming, it is not going to stop Rick

Lagina from looking for another breakthrough in the Oak Island mystery.

He is eager to explore the strange triangle-shaped swamp in hopes of

discovering evidence of man-made flood tunnels.

If they exist, they would seriously undermine the team's efforts to excavate

the money pit area and retrieve the so-called wooden vault the team found a

few days ago.

You really believe the tree of life is applied to this piece of real estate

right out here?

Yes. And I can show you the stones that we can calculate mercy from.

Joining Rick are Swedish researcher and Oak Island enthusiast Daniel Ronstam and

professional treasure hunter and metal detector expert David Spencer.

Like other Oak Island theorists, Daniel Ronstam is convinced that the swamp

holds the key to solving the entire Oak Island mystery.

According to his theory, Members of the Rosicrucians, a secret society often

linked to the Knights Templar, came to Oak Island sometime in the 17th century.

They carried with them the sacred religious objects the Templars had

rescued from the Holy Land during the Crusades.

Ronstam also believes that in an effort to hide their tracks, the Templars

deliberately created the swamp in the shape of a pyramid or triangle only

after first digging an underground vault.

Daniel's been very insightful in terms of his theory, and, you know, he

believes there's a vault in the swamp. So that's one target. Can we find it? I

don't know. Does it really exist?

I don't know.

Like Peter Amundsen, Ronstam also believes the vault lies at the so-called

Eye of the Pyramid, otherwise known as the Mercy Point, which in turn

corresponds to a point on what is known in the Old Testament and in the Hebrew

Kabbalah as the Tree of Life.

But based on his research, Ronstam is convinced that the reason Rick, Marty,

and the Oak Island team have so far not found the actual mercy point is because

they have been relying on imprecise measurements done on foot.

He believes that only precise GPS coordinates, using the boulders of

Nolan's Cross as a guide, will allow the team to accurately pinpoint and

hopefully enter the mysterious underground vault.

We got the data, downloaded the data off the GPS.

David Spencer has marked the precise GPS coordinates on his computer in an effort

to create an accurate map of the Mercy Point area.

I bisected that, ran a 90 degree off of that, and that X marks the spot.

So we get a boat in and we figure out, go take a look. Yeah, absolutely.

Sounds good.

The idea that there is something strange and perhaps of great importance lying at

the bottom of the Oak Island swamp dates back to 1960.

It was then that Oak Island treasure hunter Robert Rustall and his son Bobby

became convinced there was a so-called mystery box lying in the swamp near what

could be described as the southeastern corner.

Could this be connected in some way to the alleged booby-trapped flood tunnels?

Or could it be, as Daniel Ronstan believes, something of even greater

importance?

You're the god of the swamp.

I got a bit of debt here now, guys.

Hey, man.

I'm on the rock.

She's three feet, three feet by two feet probably.

Are they all around there, or are you just on one rock?

I'm on one at the moment.

Another one here.

It's a line of rocks, Rick. It's a line of rocks. Going from where we were last

year on the rocks, going this way.

Last summer, when Tony Sampson dove in the swamp near the Mercy Point, he found

a submerged flat rock surface, which the team believed might be the entrance to

the underwater vault.

Now, Tony believes he's standing on a similar structure, but at a different

location in the swamp.

Could the vault be much larger and more elaborate than anyone ever imagined?

Okay, well, one thing's for sure. We found enough information that leads me

to believe that, look, we have to drain it in order to retrieve the information

in order to get to the box.

I'd like to see it drain, and let's define what we've got out here. We're

not going to figure that out with four feet of water in that swamp.

In order to find the answer, what he's standing on and what it might be is to

drain the water in the swamp.

Let's get the hell out of this rain.

If the vault exists and there's something in that vault, whatever that

may be, here's proof that the search is legitimate, that there's something here

to be found, some story to be told.

So, guys.

We want to do additional research.

What do we need to do, and who's doing it?

Let's talk about it.

After Daniel Ronstam's departure from Oak Island, Rick, Marty, and their

partners meet in the war room.

Armed with new information about both the money pit and the swamp, it is time

to decide just how and where they will next focus their resources.

You know, as far as the swamp goes, we were in there, and there are still

anomalies that need investigating.

Yes. We need to go back.

Drain or dig, but we're going back.

Okay, but you're handling it. I'm going to do it. All right, so that's that

part. What else are we doing here today?

Well, as you know, we went to investigate and maybe find out what

happened to that inscribed stone that was found. Yes.

Unfortunately, we couldn't track down any leads, but one of the guys up there

is convinced that it was the Templars that did it.

Lots of people think Templars.

So how do we run that to ground?

Well, I got a call the other day from a woman named Kathleen McGowan. She's a

researcher who also believes that the Templars are behind this.

She is emphatic that the proof and even some clues as to what we can expect to

find over here is in Europe.

Does she seem credible to you?

Very. Really?

Absolutely.

She says that the sites are in the south of France. We could just, you know, take

a quick jog over there and have a look.

You think it's worth it? I do, yeah. All right.

Why don't you set it up with her, get the dates and stuff, and we'll do it.

Okay. All right, so let's talk about the money pit, right? That's probably the

most important thing we got going. We talked about one of the tests we wanted

to do this summer, this dye test.

In an effort to try and shut off the water that has flooded the money pit

over the years, Rick, Marty, and the team are planning to recreate what is

known as the dye test.

a test that was first conducted by Frederick Blair in 1898 and has been

repeated only a handful of times since.

First, dye, in the form of non-toxic colored powder, is poured down one of

the island's many treasure holes.

Then, after a period of a few hours, spotters placed at various points along

the coastline will watch to see if the dye can be found seeping out from

certain areas.

And if dye is seeping out, then these are also the most logical places to find

where ocean water could be coming in.

I do have one issue on that.

With finding what we found in the money pit, do we want to send the water down

there to see where that comes out as opposed to 10X?

Go down the hole we just drilled.

Yeah. I don't think we can get enough water in there. Well, I think maybe you

can. I mean, we're taking a risk.

Taking a risk of collapse.

We have such high hopes for it. Why would we do that? Why would we risk what

you consider to be so valuable?

It's just not worth it. I don't think it'll work. I don't think we can get a

border into it.

These two guys say no, let's not do it. What do you say?

I say no.

Charles? I wouldn't do it.

Done. Okay.

Yep, I'm fine with that. Yep.

Rather than risk damage to what they refer to as the chapel vault, the team

has chosen borehole 10X, located just 180 feet away from the money pit, as the

best alternative location for the dye test.

And I think that's about it, guys. Yeah.

Crown royal time, David?

Yeah, crown royal time. Great. All right, good, guys. This was a good

meeting.

The Laginas and their partners have now come closer to solving the Oak Island

mystery than any team in more than 200 years.

They have found not only the location of the original money pit, but also what

appears to be the strange wooden vault that was first discovered back in 1897.

They are also more and more convinced that there is something strange and

perhaps quite incredible lying at the bottom.

of the triangle shaped swamp but is it really possible there is more than one

treasure site on the island as some researchers believe or could the island

which has defeated all who have ever tried to unlock its secrets and has so

far taken the lives of six men simply be luring the laginas and their partners

deeper and deeper waiting for the opportunity to choose

its next victim.