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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

Gentlemen, we're almost there. Dan's breakthrough.

Time to make history.

This hole, it starts this day.

I'm dumbfounded. Those bones and now this dating. That fits with my stamp

art. Here we go, guys. Another signal.

Looks like a piece of ammunition, don't they? That's from a cannon.

Rochefoucauld. They're a prominent French family.

This is a family of crusader kings.

We now have a pathway from the Holy Land to Oak Island.

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 17th century coins even pieces

of human bone 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

ah

there's a site i like look at that yep a couple of cranes ready to go it is the

start of a new day on oak island as rick and marty lagina along with their friend

and partner craig tester head to the money pit where they are more convinced

than ever that they are on the brink of a major discovery this is looking

generally familiar let's go talk to andrew good deal let's do it they are

also on the brink of one of the most ambitious excavations ever undertaken on

the island The drilling of a 50-inch wide hole down to a depth of some 200

feet into the area at the Money Pit site known as borehole H8.

Andrew. Andrew.

Hey, Craig. We're back.

Couldn't get rid of us that easy, could you?

Absolutely not.

Here we go.

Make holes.

Last year, the Oak Island team worked with Irving Equipment Limited.

to excavate four steel-cased forty inch wide shafts in an effort to find the

original money pit that was first discovered in seventeen ninety five but

although the team made a number of promising discoveries including

mysterious metal objects a hand forged rose head spike and an eighteenth

century british military button their efforts failed to locate the infamous

treasure vault

okay let's go see x marks the spot excellent in an effort to avoid last

year's mistakes the team decided to try and first locate the money pit by means

of an exploratory drilling program known as geotech and it was only after

drilling some forty four six inch wide boreholes that they found the location

that became for them the most promising spot to dig borehole h a

And right here we see this is the top of hole of H8.

Over here we see our deviation for bottom of hole.

And over here is that X marks the spot.

Okay.

So this is where we're going right here. Right.

So where we actually hit the bone is about here?

Yep. Okay.

Well, I think we're ready. Girl.

Within the past few weeks, While carefully sifting through the spoils

from H8, the Oak Island team has made a number of astonishing discoveries,

including fragments of 18th century pottery located 190 feet deep

underground, small pieces of parchment, bits of leather, which appear to be

bookbinding, and incredibly, fragments of human bones.

Bones, which when tested, were determined to have come from two

different humans one of european descent and another from the middle east wow

middle east really about to knock me off my chair in addition

to all of the physical evidence gathered from h picking something else up right

here the team also discovered the presence of what appeared to be a large

metallic object at a depth of some one hundred and fifty five feet it was at

this same depth in eighteen ninety seven that treasure hunters william chappell

and frederick blair reported finding a seven foot high wooden vault a vault

which like h eight contained evidence of parchment and also bits of gold

an awful lot of very significant things have come out of just one hole h eight

i am convinced

We found the original money pit.

So your casing is that big, right?

Ish? 50 inch, yep.

Should swallow it all up.

Good. All right, let's go.

While similar to the excavations conducted last year, this year the

Irving team will be bringing in a custom-made rotating oscillator that

will be bigger.

and more powerful than ever before.

They will be digging wider and deeper in order to minimize any chance that the

team could miss their target.

Should we drop something down there for luck?

Drop a coin down there and see if you get it back. That's exactly what I was

going to do. There, I want to do that.

Here's the test.

Are we going to find this or not, right?

Go find your brother.

Did you hear that?

I did. Click.

No, he said I will.

Okay, we're good to go.

As Rick, Marty, and Craig wait for the final loads of heavy digging equipment

to arrive at the money pit, they have invited other members of the Oak Island

team to join them for an important meeting in the war room.

where they will be revealing the results of the carbon testing that was conducted

on the two fragments of bone from H8.

Well, gentlemen, as you are aware, we fished two bones out of H8 when we were

drilling it.

They were identified as human bones through DNA analysis.

And then we asked Craig to check into using C14, how old they might be, and I

understand you have the results.

That I do.

Beta analytical got us the results when I have the dates here.

The first one is the Middle East bone.

The date is between 1682 and 1736.

Wow. That's a long time.

That's a very long time. Yeah.

So the second one's the European, and the date is 1678

to 1764.

Well, I'm dumbfounded. Those bones and now this dating. Yeah.

Don't make any sense to me.

Two human bones, each dating from between the late 17th to mid-18th

centuries, and found some 160 feet deep in the money pit?

But how did they get there?

And could the identities of these two individuals hold some clue as to what

they were doing on Oak Island?

and perhaps more importantly, what they might have left behind.

That's great, Craig. That's fantastic news. I don't know what to make of it.

Yeah. I find it very odd that there'd be two different humans down in the

same pit.

Yeah. You know? What are human bones doing down at 162 feet?

I find that incomprehensible.

Me too.

Maybe my belief level has come up a bit with that data. His hasn't because he's

rock solid anyway.

But people were down there.

At those depths. At those depths around the 17th to 18th century.

Pre-date searcher activity, below searcher depth.

Yes. What were they doing?

Where is it? Where's the stuff?

I find that very intriguing, those dates.

What theory do you like that these put in?

There's... Lots of different theories.

Templars?

It would.

That certainly falls into the time frame.

European and Middle Eastern.

That fits with Knights Templar too.

Yeah.

I don't care which theory you pick. It puts people way deep in the money pit

way prior to when it was discovered. That has always been one of my absolute

requirements to get excited about this is that.

definitive evidence of human workings deep in the money pit prior to

1795.

And those bones might be it.

Unfortunately, it's another puzzle. Yeah. But a good piece.

Yeah. Well, we will slowly unravel it. Yeah, yeah. You're supposed to be

solving the mystery, not adding to it.

I know.

We're trying.

It will just make it more interesting when we do.

All right.

You got anything else today, Craig?

That's it. Okay.

So I think our work here is concluded.

We have to get to the bottom of this and find the one thing.

Yeah. Okay. Let's get back out there. Yeah. Sounds good.

continues assembling more than 400 tons of excavating equipment at the H-8 dig

site.

Rick, Marty, and members of the Oak Island team have arranged to meet at the

Mug and Anchor Pub in the nearby town of Mahone Bay.

Put it in that. Hey, Doug. Hey, Doug.

Hey, Doug. Gentlemen, how are you?

Although the team is convinced they have found the original money pit, they still

do not know who may have dug it.

or what they might discover at the bottom of age eight.

Good to see you, Doug. Where have you been?

Been well? I've been well. I've been well. Spent a lot of time in the

archives. Okay. Chasing leads.

Okay.

Helping them to find an answer is area historian Doug Crowell.

Doug Crowell is, I mean, his fascination with Oak Island rivals our own, I think,

if not exceeds it.

from a research agenda.

I mean, he's like a terrier with a bone. He's probably our go-to guy in terms of

doing research.

Anyway, Doug, what have you got for us? One of the things I was following up on

from last year was, remember the French Oak Island map that Zena showed us last

summer there?

Hello?

Hi, Zena, it's Doug.

Last year, New York-based researcher and historian Zena Halpern...

provided the team with a hand-drawn 14th century map of Oak Island.

It supported the theory that members of the Knights Templars sailed to the New

World as early as the 12th century to hide priceless religious treasures on

the island, including the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant.

There was a mention in the document dated 1178 to 1180.

that the temple voyage to the northeastern part of America took place,

and that the Templars had made landfall on an island of oaks.

Where did that map come from?

That map was found in a book between the pages, and it was more or less

discovered there.

The quality of the map, it's obviously hand-drawn. It's not done by a...

cartographer like hand-drawn maps before the cartographers really got a hold of

it and fancied it up for publication yeah if you recall up in the upper right

hand corner a loose translation of what was written there was a small gift for

francois de la rochefoucauld well i've been following up on that name i think i

found something really interesting in the way that name connects to nova

scotia

so rochefoucauld this is a really interesting family because this is a

family of crusader kings so these guys have a direct connection to the crusades

which is i find really interesting a reference to a noble french family

linked to the crusades on a 14th century templar map dating

back to the 10th century The French noble family La Rochefoucauld were a

powerful house from the ancient region of Neustria.

Their lineage can also be traced to the Lusignan family, who were among the

ruling class in the holy city of Jerusalem during the Crusades.

Their bloodline also extended to George Washington, Winston Churchill, and

even Prince Charles of England.

Could this illustrious family whose name appears on an alleged 14th century map

be one and the same?

I think we all have questions about the map. You asked about where did the map

come from. I don't know that we ever have created a proper timeline.

No, I don't think we have. And I think that's what we need to do next.

What I'm thinking is the college that I work at, COGS, has a special collections

room which is a lot of old history books on Nova Scotia and Acadia and I'm

thinking that we might be able to find some pertinent information there and I

guess I'm wondering if anyone wants to come along and help me delve into that

information. I'd be glad for any extra eyes I can get.

Alex? Sure.

Excellent. We have a reference to the Rochefoucaulds in Xena's map and now

Doug has found a reference outside of Xena's research.

When you get corroborative evidence it's always a aha moment that this may be

important and we should follow this and that's exactly where doug is headed i

think the information hunt to me is every bit as important as as what we're

doing on the island yeah well so the hunt continues cheers cheers

cheers to the hunt

the next day

Rick and Marty Lagina, along with Dave Blankenship and metal detection expert

Gary Drayton, are searching for clues on Lot 16, just north of the Money Pit

worksite.

There we go, guys.

Oh, another one.

It was here that the team recently recovered two 17th century British

coins, offering further evidence of human activity on the island.

nearly a century before the first documented discovery of the Money Pit in

1795. Look at David. He's pretty excited.

Right, baby?

That means something. That is fantastic.

They are looking for any further evidence that may indicate who may have

visited Oak Island centuries ago to deposit something of great value.

I find it interesting that all the targets we're getting in this area are

underneath the trees.

Well, this was all farmed at one time, Gary.

So, funny you talking about farming, Dave.

You can see what this is. It's a horseshoe, part of a horseshoe.

Is it?

Looks like a fairly small one.

Would you say it's a mule or...

Pony.

That's what it looks like.

So what's the deal with all the wells around here? I don't think they're

wells, Gary. I don't think they are either. I think they're search pits.

Search pits?

Yep. Old ones.

Search pits?

Located at shallow depths on Oak Island?

Ever since the money pit was first discovered by Daniel McGinnis and two

friends in 1795, other searchers have snuck onto the island.

to try their luck at locating the fabled treasure numerous residents from 18th

century former american slave samuel ball to 19th century landowner anthony

graves have been connected to rumors of valuable finds could their mysterious

good fortune give credence to the theory that oak island holds not one vast

treasure but many and in different secret locations

People have been digging on this island for, well, 225 years.

The most intriguing story is they hear digging at night. You've heard this

story, right?

They heard digging, and then they went to investigate, and they found a hole,

and it appeared as though an object had been pulled out of the hole. And then

they see a drag trail through the woods to the beach.

They see the problem of a ship coming onto the beach. They drag the chest or

whatever it is to there.

Obviously lifted in the boat, the boat takes off, and Fred told this story,

right? Yeah.

Well, yeah. Well, let's see if I missed something good.

Here we go, guys. Another signal.

All righty.

That sounds good.

I like that one.

It's deep as well, so I don't know what the heck it is. It's reading 12 inches,

so it could be even deeper.

Where did it go?

Once you get in here... It's not in the pile.

That's weird. It's disappeared.

Let me see if it's out on top.

Nope, just deeper. That's a good sign.

I just can't tell what metal it is.

All bets are off when the targets are this deep.

Good. Boy, that is rich-looking soil.

Let me have a recheck. This is a difficult one.

Fresh oil's disappearing. That means it's iron and it's probably out.

How can you tell that?

Because the fresh oil disappeared on the metal detector.

Meaning it's blanking it out as iron. It's rejecting it.

Wow.

That's from a cannon, right?

While searching the area on Oak Island known as Lot 16, Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with Dave Blankenship and metal detection expert Gary Drayton, have just

made a potentially important find.

I think this is a piece of grape shot by the look of it. Really?

Let's see it. What would you use that for?

I don't know.

Looks like a piece of ammunition to me.

This wouldn't have been used by a farmer. That's from a cannon.

Yeah. It would have packed it and fired a lot of it.

Grapeshot is a short-range artillery round that was used in both land-based

and naval warfare dating back to as early as the 15th century.

Consisting of metal balls linked by iron rings, the ammunition, resembling a

cluster of grapes, was tightly packed in a cylindrical form and fired from

cannons, creating a lethal blast pattern to kill troops.

or to cripple warships on the high seas.

But if Graveshot is on the island, how did it get there?

Is it evidence of a cannon fired from Oak Island?

Or of someone shooting at it?

The possibility that, you know, a cannon or cannonballs might be in that area,

you know, who knows what we're going to find.

I'm going to keep going along this rock, so I'll shout you back in if I get any

more interesting targets.

That sounds sweet.

This is a perfect scenario.

You've got rocks trapping stuff, stopping it from sinking further,

whatever it is.

Just here, mate.

What the hell?

Where the heck did it go?

Typical Oak Island, isn't it?

Yeah, it's over there.

I mean, you move some big rocks, hopefully it was underneath one of the

big rocks.

Come on, baby.

It's getting smaller and smaller.

Ooh, it's a coin!

Is it?

Yeah, check that out.

How long has that been there, eh?

Is it an irregular shape?

Yes.

Fantastic. That means it's more than likely old.

Could this mysterious old coin be connected to the grape shot that the

team just found earlier today?

And after cleaning, can it be dated to provide Rick, Marty, and the team a clue

as to when it was left on Oak Island and who brought it here?

It looks a lot like that Merevedi we pulled out of the swamp, but we'll see.

We'll clean it up and we'll see.

A couple of top pocket items, right? Look, here's what's encouraging.

There's 132 acres.

What did we do? Maybe half an acre? Yeah. And look what we found.

So the possibilities are incalculable. We've got a lot of area to cover, and we

need to continue.

As the team continues their exploration of Lot 16, Alex Lagina, along with Peter

Fernetti and Charles Barkhouse, travel approximately 66 miles northwest of Oak

Island to the Center of Geographic Sciences in Lawrence Town, Nova Scotia.

Gentlemen, how are you? Good to see you. They are joining researcher Doug Crowell

to find information that may give them insight into the origins of the Oak

Island money pit.

What I thought we'd do here today is take advantage of the resources that are

here and see if we can find any further connection to Nova Scotia in the

Rochefoucauld family.

After noticing the name Rochefoucauld on a believed 14th century map connecting

Oak Island to the Knights Templar, the team is eager to see if evidence of that

noble French family can be traced to Oak Island and the surrounding areas.

Evidence that could validate the map's authenticity.

This has gotten really interesting because this family is one of the oldest

and most noble families in France.

We want to find further ties.

and really just roll up our sleeves and dive in and see what we can find. Way

ahead of you.

Awesome. All right, so let's start with these, yeah?

Okay, yes.

This is what you've been doing? This is what I do a lot of, yeah.

We're looking for evidence that the Rochefoucaulds are connected to Nova

Scotia by more than just a hand-drawn map.

Basically, what we know is that they're...

a prominent French family, and they would have had the resources to do

something like what we suspect might have happened on Oak Island. So it's

really just a process of going over and over a ton of different stuff and kind

of building up these connections.

As Charles well knows, you might flip 100 pages before you find that one gem

of information.

Oh,

guys,

look at this.

Here we go. This map.

This was Samuel Champlain.

He was an early cartographer that came over here. You and I have always been

intrigued by the fact that Champlain left Mahon Bay off his map.

Mahon Bay?

Missing on a 17th century map drawn by the famed cartographer Samuel Champlain?

Known as the father of New France, Samuel Champlain was a key figure in the

exploration and mapping.

of northeastern Canada in the early 1600s.

And yet, the map that Champlain made of the area encompassing Nova Scotia has a

significant omission, Mahone Bay, the region where Oak Island is located.

But why?

Could it have been a simple oversight?

Or could there have been a more strategic reason why all references to

Oak Island and its location were omitted from this otherwise definitive map.

It's a heck of an oversight, isn't it? A 25 mile by 20 mile oversight with 360

plus islands in it. That's a big oversight.

It's hard to believe it wasn't purposely done.

That's what I've always thought.

How can you miss Mahone Bay? A man would have to be blind not to see Mahone Bay.

And he was too good of a cartographer to not see the bay.

As final preparations for the massive excavation of the HH shaft are being

completed at the Money Pit.

Does this kind of bring back memories?

Sure does.

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with their friend and partner Craig

Tester, carefully inspect the hammer grab equipment that will be used to

retrieve soil and possible artifacts from what will become a 50-inch wide

hole.

It must just be phenomenal force when this hits.

That's why we have to be very careful.

There's significant trepidation on my part, fear, if you will, that we damage

something that is irreplaceable.

We've got pottery at 192 feet.

Leather bookbinding. Got indications of the chapel vault.

Bone. We've got bone.

he doesn't want the last quote on the wall up there to be in the museum to say

rick and marty lagina they solved the mystery and destroyed the treasure the

crew from irving equipment limited now moves a thirty five ton bridge into

position over the dig site the bridge will offer a stabilizing platform for

the fifty thousand pound rotating oscillator that will be used to drive

the massive steel caissons some two hundred feet deep into the Earth.

Because of its size, the oscillator had to be custom-built in South Korea and

then shipped to Oak Island exclusively for this operation.

While the team awaits the arrival of the oscillator at the Money Pit, 80 miles

away, in the Rare Documents Archive at the Center for Geographic Sciences, Alex

Lagina and Peter Fernetti along with historians Doug Crowell and Charles

Barkhouse, are continuing their hunt for ties between the Rochefoucauld family

and the Oak Island mystery.

Here's a book, guys.

Pierre Degas, Seigneur de Mons. So this was the gentleman who Samuel Champlain

came over with. Champlain was his cartographer.

Yeah.

Oh, guys, look at this.

Genealogy of the Degas family.

Francis de la Rochefoucauld.

Married into the Degas family.

Pierre Degas?

The founder of the first French colony in Nova Scotia?

Related to a member of the Rochefoucauld family?

A family whose origins date back to the days of the Knights Templar?

Could this be a descendant of the very same Rochefoucauld?

that appears on Zena's map.

And could this explain why the famed cartographer Samuel Champlain did not

include Mahon Bay when he created the first known maps of the area around Oak

Island? Is it possible that he might have omitted it under the direction of

Pierre Degas and the Rochefoucauld family in an attempt to protect

something of great value hidden there?

And does this connection mean that Zena's map found in an ancient book, is

authentic.

Now we can see that this isn't just a name on a map. It's actually connected

to the early history of Nova Scotia. I will say this is one of the more

cohesively connected theories that we've had.

You know, there is a chain that goes from Oak Island right to where it needs

to go.

We now have a pathway through this family from the Holy Land.

to Oak Island, if you will.

In the war room, Rick Lagina and his nephew Alex are meeting to follow up on

critical new research into the origins of the Oak Island mystery.

You know, I've always been on about the information.

You've heard it over and over and over again.

You know, once Zina's map surfaced, when she was kind enough to show us her

research, you know, this question of the Rochefoucauld family and, you know,

possibly a Templar connection there, my idea was to hire a researcher.

After collecting compelling new evidence that the Rochefoucauld family, whose

name appears on a 14th-century map of Oak Island, came to Nova Scotia as early

as the 1600s...

The team has decided to pursue further information in the Rochefoucauld's

native France.

So I've reached out to someone embedded in France. Her name is Nicola Lewis.

And what I've asked Nicola to do is to reach out to the family Rochefoucauld

castle. And the hope is that she can help us gain access to that. I will call

her up. That would be great.

Hi, Nicola.

Based in Saint-Marcel, Nicolas Lewis is a researcher and translator with

experience deciphering French documents dating from the 16th to the 18th

century, specifically concerning French activity in the New World and during the

American War for Independence.

The reason for hiring Nicolas is very simple. We can't do everything.

Really, it was Doug who gave us the idea to hire Nicolas.

because he's not fluent in French. He's followed that trail as far as he can go.

But I am of the opinion that it's always best to have boots on the ground.

I was wondering how your research is going.

Specifically, what about the follow-up on the Rochefoucauld? Because we have

keen interest in that, given the fact that that name appears on Zina's map.

Well... I have been in touch with Sonia Matosian, who is a Rochefoucauld, and

she lives at the castle at La Rochefoucauld itself.

And I asked her if she would be willing to meet you and to show you around.

So she's kind of invited everybody. So if you would like to do that, it's

definitely on.

I would very much appreciate that.

I'm in. Alex is already nodding, so I know Alex is in. And I'd love to be able

to include my other nephew, Peter.

So we kindly accept that gracious offer.

I'm hoping that Sonia Matosian will be able to help us a bit on the map and to

see if she comes up with anything interesting there.

We very much look forward to meeting you and getting an update on your research.

Well, me too, and I'm looking forward to seeing you all.

Thank you.

Cheers.

I'm looking forward to it.

I think this is going to be a really, really cool opportunity to go to an

ancient family house in France.

I truly think that the answer to solving this mystery lies in many

places, and perhaps we'll find some of those answers in Europe.

There's a specific reference to a specific family on the 1347 map.

It's one of the best clues on the map. We have to follow it up.

I've always been on about the information hunt, and this is an

information hunt. Two friends.

Great. Looking forward to it.

Later that day... Today's the day, Rick. Today's the day.

Rick joins his brother Marty as they head to the money pit for the start of

their massive excavation of borehole H8, where they've already found evidence of

a vault, ancient pottery, and even human bones.

more than 150 feet below ground.

Well, think of the effort we went to. I mean, all those geotech holes and

painstakingly looking at the samples and then looking at the samples again and

washing them and finding these really odd things, all of them in H-8. Oh, if

there's one spot where there's something in the money pit based on the pattern

drilling, it's there. Right.

Many, many years ago.

When we were sort of dreaming about this island as boys, we had the idea to be

able to dig, dig up the fabled money pit, and now we're about to do it.

It's been a long time coming.

This is the culmination of everything we've done until now, and we're ready to

get after it.

Here we be.

Well?

Good morning.

Today's the day. Excited? Yeah.

Morning, guys. Morning.

The oscillator's on its way.

It's coming around the turn here.

Here we go.

There it is. There we go.

Time to make history?

Time to make history.

There we go.

We're in the air.

Loading. It's good right there, brother.

Once in place over H8.

The oscillator will apply some 3 million pounds of torque to drive the 50-inch

-wide caissons down as deep as 200 feet in an effort to reveal what has been

hidden in the money pit for more than two centuries.

It looks like they're trying to pick up that

first piece of pipe.

Right now, they're going to be picking that starter can.

Two-inch wall, 26 feet long. We'll place it into the oscillator, wedge it down,

get it in place, and then we can start oscillating.

We'll be slamming can, right? Slamming can.

See those teeth?

Those teeth are going to get to the bottom of this.

There he is.

Daniel? It is a historic moment on Oak Island.

Marty and members of the team are joined by veteran treasure hunter, Dan

Blankenship. Now age 94, Dan has spent more than half his incredible life

working to solve the Oak Island mystery.

And although he is unable to be as active in the field as he once was, his

determination to find an answer is as strong as ever.

I should go right on that break, sir. You want me to do that?

Good. Yeah, all right. I'm going to.

I suppose I should have a hard hat on for that, eh?

Give me that.

Hey, guys.

Yeah. Can I get up there?

Of course.

This is historical, and this is big, and we're all excited. It just seemed like a

ceremony was required of some sort.

And I know there had been writing on casings before. I remembered how many

times Rick has said, we need to find...

dan's breakthrough the breakthrough he's sought for 50 years so i thought all

right maybe this is it dan's breakthrough that's what i wrote how's

that dan breakthrough dan's breakthrough

right there it is it's on its way here it goes guys jack's got something

too for the oak island team Breaking ground in H8 has offered an emotional

moment filled with both joy and sadness.

That's nice.

As they reflect on another moment.

Here you go, bro.

Just one year ago, when the words forever family were first written by

Jack's brother, Drake Tester, who died earlier this year.

Let it go, Drake.

watching the oscillator about to break ground and watching Marty write Dan's

breakthrough on there. I had an overpowering feeling then.

I needed to go up there and write Forever Family for my

brother.

Because I just wish he was here right now. Yeah.

Yeah!

That's right, Jack.

That's right, Jack.

Very poignant and very moving, very appropriate.

Absolutely. So he wrote Forever Family for his deceased brother.

And then he just initialed it Drake Tester. So that was beautiful.

So Dan, we're about to get everything going here. Would you do us proud and

step over there and press the button? Oh, sure.

It seems appropriate that Dan Blankenship, who's given 50 years of his

life to this, win, lose, or draw, has a chance to start this year's big dig in

the money pit. So when he presses the button, it's, here we go. You know, this

is going to be your proof that what you started long ago, you will now see the

completion of it, hopefully in this hole.

We all believe that this is it. It's this hole. It starts this day.

Let's hope you're right.

I believe we are. Now put the torque to it. Let's oscillate. Right here, sir.

Ah, there she goes.

All right. Make a hole.

Yay!

Good job, man.

For Rick, Marty, and their partners, the possibility of solving the 222-year-old

Oak Island mystery has never been greater than it is right now.

And the answers they and countless others before them have been so eager to

learn have never been closer.

But will they find a priceless treasure buried on the island by 17th century

pirates? Or will they find a vast vault filled with precious artifacts hidden

away and guarded for centuries by the Knights Templar?

This much is certain.

Hundreds of lives have been invested on a centuries-old quest.

Six have paid the ultimate price, and the remains of two souls lie deep

underground.

Could the human cost equal the value of what lies below?

Or will the island demand an even steeper price before it

reveals its secrets?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

This takes the information hunt to another level. On his shield, he's got

this cross, which is exactly like the H.O. Stone.

Wow. That's the earliest stuff we've found so far. There was a reference to

your family name. Are there Templar connections?

There obviously is a connection.

They're trying to relay some sort of information.

There are secrets behind that wall. This is a Templar cross.

These don't exist anywhere else. They only exist here. It's what we came for,

really.