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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

We're 170.

We're definitely sitting on something. The oscillator's on flat, hard surface.

Could this be the vault?

I found the ship's log.

It has been agreed that a deep pit be dug and treasures securely buried. The

pit do have a secret entrance by a tunnel from the shore. There's a trail

now to follow.

It fits in every aspect.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Holy... I've seen that shape before in the Templar prison in France.

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.

In their determination to find the spot where the original money pit was first

discovered back in 1795,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina have chosen a site known simply as H-8.

Excavation depth is right around 115 feet.

Yes, this wood slowed us up quite a bit, but it almost looks like they were right

dead center in the shaft, and that's what fell in there.

Because the money pit's exact location has been lost for decades, and the area

around it... has been compromised by more than two centuries of digging and

treasure hunting the laginas and their partners decided to locate their target

by employing what is known as the geotech method this involved the

drilling of more than three dozen six inch wide exploratory boreholes down to

depths of as much as 200 feet and it was by carefully checking the spoils brought

up from borehole h8 that the team found what is this a wad of parchment along

with a fragment of what was later identified as bookbinding a small piece

of pottery found below any previously recorded searcher depths and two human

bones human bones that when tested proved to be from two individuals one

from europe and one from the middle east

It's not advancing as fast as we did yesterday, obviously.

Now with the geotech process completed, the Laginas and their partners have

brought in a team from Irving Equipment Limited. Using 60-inch wide drilling

caissons, they will excavate the HA drill site down to a target depth of

some 150 feet.

If the money pit is finally located, the Oak Island team may be on the verge of

finding out once and for all.

if an incredible treasure was buried here more than two centuries ago a

treasure that has so far cost millions of dollars and at least six human lives

to find we're rotating down but every now and then we have to come up and

clean our teeth out because of the wood right you'll get tired of hearing this

but oak island always seems to give you a little bit of oh yes it can't be easy

heavy evening everybody be doing it it's nothing that we weren't aware of i mean

it's almost certainly the chapel yes yeah in 1931 oak island treasure hunter

m.r chapel attempted to locate a mysterious seven foot tall wooden box

that was first discovered by his father william chapel in 1897.

it was this box later dubbed the chapel vault where bits of parchment and traces

of gold were reportedly found on a drill bed

During an excavation effort to retrieve the box, the hole flooded with seawater

and the project was abandoned until some 34 years later when M.R. Chapel tried

and failed to reach the box by means of what is now known as the Chapel Shaft.

Lots of wood, Charles. I see lots of wood. You're right, Marty.

And the Chapel Shaft.

That's what it is.

It's been nothing but wood. No dirt.

Solid wood coming up. Yeah, I think it's shredded and then chunks of it. No dirt.

They're off their time table.

Slowing them down a bit. A bit because of the wood, but once we get through

this, we'll gain it back, so hopefully, right?

What we're hoping is we're on the corner of the chapel shaft, and they just

missed. Did you see anything that looks like that? We did, yeah. There was a

couple of timbers that we noticed. A couple of corner pieces like that? Yeah.

Okay. If Marty is correct, and the team is digging through a portion of the

chapel shaft, it might be a good sign.

A few weeks ago, while searching through records at a local historical society,

Oak Island researcher Doug Crowell discovered documents which indicated

that when digging the chapel shaft, MR Chapel had veered some 10 feet off

course, away from the last known location of the chapel vault.

At the depth in which the chapel vault was encountered.

They would have missed it. They would have missed it. Right.

If we just dig in the chapel shaft, we have zero chance of hitting the so

-called chapel vault because it would be explored.

So we're hoping the shaft is sort of going this way and our hole is going

straight and we're coming down.

half in, half out, but eventually we want to get out of that shaft.

When we're in the moment where we want action, we want, you know, the bit to

get down a hole and get us some answers, in that moment you realize that this is

a frustrating process and one must be patient and understand that, you know,

you're not going to get immediate gratification.

Hopefully, before you get to 150, you go back into undisturbed ground. That would

be the best situation.

Yeah.

As the Irving team continues to grind the enormous steel caisson deeper into

the money pit,

Rick and Marty Lagina head to the war room, where they and their team have

arranged to meet once again with Doug Crowell.

Okay, guys, so...

Doug is back. I believe you've gone to the Halifax Archives.

Yeah. Fill us in. I found eight pages of a ship, what looks like a ship's log.

These eight pages that I found, I made a transcript, guys, of what the log

actually says.

What's really interesting is it appears to be a ship's log that indicates that

they were here in advance of the French fleet that was coming over in 1746 to

take back Acadia.

In 1746, the French launched an armada of 97 ships and 13,000

men, the largest fleet at the time to have ever crossed the Atlantic, in an

attempt to seize Nova Scotia and parts of the northern American colonies from

the British.

Under the command of the acclaimed French admiral, Duke d'Anville, the

great fleet was bringing with it not only massive military force, but also a

vast treasure of untold riches.

However, some of the ships on the Duc d'Anville's fleet, including his, were

delayed and severely weakened during the long three-month journey by violent

storms, as well as outbreaks of typhus and scurvy.

By the time the ships made landfall in Canada, hundreds of sailors and soldiers

had died, including the Duc d'Anville.

The planned siege was soon abandoned, and the remaining ships were ordered to

return to France.

They came over here to take back Acadia, to burn Boston. You know, they were

going to come over here and do as much damage as they could due to sickness and

bad luck, basically. They didn't accomplish any of those goals.

Interestingly enough, the Duc d'Anvil is its real name.

was Jean Baptiste Louis Frédéric de Rochefoucauld.

Duke d'Anneville, a member of the Rochefoucauld family, the powerful and

noble French family dating back to the 10th century, and with possible

connections to the Knights Templar?

Remember the French Oak Island map that Zena showed us last summer there?

Two weeks ago, Doug Crowell presented the Oak Island team with astonishing new

information. concerning a reported 14th century Templar map of Oak Island.

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.

It was this information that prompted Rick and two of his nephews to travel

some 3,000 miles to Rochefoucauld Castle in southwest France.

There, they met with Sonia Matosian, a member of the Rochefoucauld family,

whose translation of an ancient map suggested a possible link between the

Rochefoucauld family and Oak Island.

Is that translation accurately presented there?

It doesn't mean to drink. Towards the west. Towards the west.

Could the Duke d'Anneville, a member of the Rochefoucauld family, have also

known about this map?

And if so, might there have been another, more strategic purpose behind

his voyage to Nova Scotia in 1746?

They were waiting on Duke d'Anneville's fleet to arrive.

And if you go through these eight pages...

They're actually talking about the vast amount of treasure they have on board.

They're worried about losing it because basically they're in enemy territory.

So this transcription I've handed out to you, I'm just going to read through it

really quickly here.

September 6th. Enter a deep bay southwesterly of Chebukto Bay.

So where is Chebukto Bay?

Chebukto Bay is now Halifax Harbour. Oh.

That was the original name that the French had given to Halifax Harbour.

So on September 6th, the ship's log was still no word of Danville and the

weather being clear, we set sail turning southwesterly along the coast, passing

many rocky islands.

At midday, we reach a deep bay with several hundred small islands wooded to

the shore.

The wind dying down, we anchored for the night.

The great quantity of treasure on this vessel makes it... unwise to jeopardize

it in any engagement with the enemy.

September 8th, it has been agreed that a deep pit be dug and treasure securely

buried. The pit do have a secret entrance by a tunnel from the shore.

On September 13th, down 67 feet, pit seems damp from seepage of seawater.

Have decided to go deeper to dry soil.

And that it ends.

And that's where it ends.

But it is amazing. I mean, a great quantity of treasure and...

and that they appear to be in this bay. In my mind, there's no doubt that

they're pointing right to Oak Island.

It has been agreed that a deep pit be dug and treasures securely buried.

What troubles me is how perfect this is.

While meeting in the war room, researcher Doug Crowell has just

presented Rick, Marty, and the team with a transcript of an 18th century military

ship log detailing the burial of treasure on an island with an eerily

similar description to that of oak island and its infamous money pit i mean

it fits in every aspect exactly as the ship's log unfolds it describes a

construction of a shaft very similar to the descriptions of the original find of

the money pit I think it fits.

The thing about this that makes it exciting is that it fits really well.

Could it lead to some more investigative work? Absolutely.

Doug, this is incredible, incredibly fascinating.

And whether it ties or not, it's a really interesting bit of history. Not

only that, but there's a trail now to follow.

You know where this came from.

You know, there's an incredible amount of material left to go through, so the

information hunt continues.

Could this ship's log, dated some 50 years before the discovery of the money

pit, be an account of the treasure shaft's original construction?

And could the Duc d'Anville, a member of the Rochefoucauld family, have chosen

Oak Island for his destination?

because he had secret knowledge that his family had been storing valuables on the

site since the days of the Knights Templar.

It's a Rochefoucauld connection.

The Rochefoucauld that was leading the expedition dies.

Duke Danville, who was leading the expedition, was a Rochefoucauld. It's

the Francis Rochefoucauld on Zena's map that's given information about Oak

Island and what looks like a buried treasure.

Did that derive out of this story of this French log?

and that was drawn up to send word back to the family that's what i would think

is most likely again the information hunt is is important it gets us from

from archival to boots on the ground at the money pit absolutely there's a

treasure trove here of information will it prove to be relevant to oak island i

don't know that but in my opinion we must follow it Hey, Doug, excellent job

as always. It's very intriguing. This is interesting stuff.

It leads to a whole bunch more avenues, as Rick often says, to explore.

Well done.

Yep. Thank you, Doug. Appreciate it. Let's go.

As the massive excavation of the H-8 drill site in the Money Pit continues,

Rick Lagina arrives, eager to find out.

if the team has dug down beyond remnants of an old searcher shaft and into soil

where they hope to reach the fabled Chapel Treasure Vault.

Our team did it again. We are exactly at all of your marks that you wanted us at.

The casing is at 155 exactly.

The grab excavation is down to 150 exactly.

Okay, 155 can depth, 150 excavation depth. The anomaly...

160, give or take. The next 10 feet, what we need to do is really watch the

pressures. Okay.

When borehole H8 was first drilled several weeks ago... You getting

readings? Yeah. A large metallic anomaly was identified by a dual induction metal

detection device at a depth of approximately 160 feet.

Picking something else up right here, which would put it very near the vault.

because we don't want to break through something aggressively.

The hope would be that it's 150 to 160.

We don't make a mistake.

Yeah, for sure. We want everyone's blessing to proceed from here. We know

this is really important to you guys and to this whole project and research, and

we're going to work and go as slow and as gingerly as possible.

That's why we're here. Find it.

Okay? Great job. Thank you, Vanessa.

So the hope is that because of the...

clues in the small diameter hole that as the can goes down there will be

something to hold in our hands now that the casing oscillator has driven

the 60 inch wide temporary caisson to a depth of 155 feet the

team will begin carefully searching the spoils for what could be valuable

evidence

As each load of spoils are brought up by the seven-ton hammer-grab tool, they

will be transported to a designated area, where metal detection expert Gary

Drayton will scan them, looking for artifacts.

Then, the same spoils will be carefully sifted using the team's custom-built

four-by-eight-foot wash table.

All right!

That's better.

We need to look at what comes out of the H8 dig very carefully. We need to look

for metal.

We need to look for things that are only visually located, like pottery or pieces

of leather or parchment or things like that.

Bone. Bone.

It's a work in progress. We have to do it right.

That's good. That's a signal.

Now I'm having fun. You are a indefatigable metal detector.

You never know what's going to come out with the next handful.

Hopefully you.

Yeah. It's in my hand.

Let's separate it.

So whatever it is, it's that. It's a shard.

Some kind of square spike type thing.

One little old Mary.

Well, that's a good sign.

That's a strong signal.

That's good. That's another signal. Wow.

What the heck is this?

What is that? Let's see it.

What the heck is this?

Rick!

At the Oak Island Bunny Pit... Let's see it.

Marty and Rick Lagina, along with metal detection expert Gary Drayton, have just

made an exciting discovery while searching the H8 spoils.

That's a big old chunky spike.

That's an oldie as well. That's raw iron.

And that came from 150.

That might be concrete. You might want to leave that on there.

Concrete on an iron spike found at a depth of 150 feet in the Money Pit area?

when treasure hunters william chappell and frederick blair first drilled into

the so-called chappell vault in eighteen ninety seven it appeared to be covered

in a concrete like substance after all the work that we've done here this is

the culmination may be the beginning of finally finally getting some answers and

that's the hope could this spike be a piece of the original chappell vault and

if so Could it mean that the team is moments away from finding actual proof

that they have at last reached the Oak Island money pit?

Okay, let's make some hole.

We're about to get to the interesting stuff here today, finally. You know,

this has been a long process.

The next 10 feet, that's where we start getting interested in the spoils, and

we're looking at all of them.

Get another load?

Yeah.

Well, how are you feeling?

Nervous, you know.

Got to be something there.

By something, I mean, could just be more bones, could be more leather, but it's

hard to think that that dual induction log was wrong.

There's got to be, you'd think there'd be something.

What was that depth? Aren't we there right now?

Yeah, 158, 160.

We're not there yet.

It's just a bone.

There's a lot more hand-chopped wood in here. One of the big pieces had a couple

hack marks on it.

I'm surprised you could see anything go through this stuff.

Yeah, that's cool.

Is this part of a bone?

You know, you're right. That is a bone. What?

Yeah, that's a bone.

Good eye, Jack.

Hey, Laguna brothers.

I got something to show you.

Bone. Yeah.

That is definitely bone.

I find a lot of it.

It's the first piece.

Everyone else is still looking, but I figured you guys would want to see

first. I'm going to help. All right.

Bone? Could it be another piece of bone?

from one of the 17th century individuals whose remains were found in H8 earlier

this year.

We found bookbinding, we found parchment, we found pottery at great

depth. And not only that, but we have science showing us there's an anomaly

here.

You guys find any more yet?

Pottery and a piece of glass.

All right.

What the heck is that?

I think it's an old nail.

We got pottery right here, guys.

We haven't found a vault yet?

There's a lot more room. That's the optimist part.

But the realist part says, well, a little less room.

There was a lot in there. That big chunk. Let's keep our eyes peeled.

You may come up with it, huh? The deck.

Suddenly, it appears that something out of the ordinary is occurring with the

oscillator.

We're sitting on something.

Let's get Marty.

So we just came over to check with Dan, and he says his pressures right now are

up to 150, and he feels like he's sitting on something.

Really? Yeah.

The fact that the oscillator is now circulating at a torque pressure of 150

bar, the equivalent of approximately 2,200 pounds per square inch, means it's

operating at nearly double its normal pressure.

and is unable to cut through whatever lies beneath it.

We're 170 piping the ground right now. We're definitely sitting on something

that we haven't cut before since we've been on this job.

It don't feel like metal. It feels like I'm on a whole bunch of wood at once

now.

A large wooden object?

Could the caisson have finally located the chapel vaults, and in so doing, have

found the Oak Island money pit?

Let me go grab Rick real quick.

Hey, Rick.

I really need to talk to you right now. Something going on down there.

He's on something.

It's way different, he said. He's at 170 feet.

He thinks it's perfectly flat.

And wood?

He thinks wood. He's not sure.

The oscillator's on a flat, hard surface.

That's exactly.

what we hope to encounter is there a vault below that i don't know now that

they have found what could be an actual treasure vault rick marty and the team

must decide how best to safely dig further and reveal what it might contain

okay so what are you what are you feeling what's what so

since we since we started this shaft this is different i'm probably three

inches into Whatever I'm cutting on.

And it seems to me, it can definitely be cut.

It might take a while, but like I was saying, I'm exactly where I was supposed

to stop. Right now... We're going to run out of pipe.

This is just an idea.

So we leave this, use the permanent that has all the teeth on it to saw through

what we're sawing through.

If you guys want.

We're excited.

We know that the money pit collapsed, so this could be the vault that has moved

downward.

But we have to make a decision.

If we break through to a void, what are we going to do? Send a diver down? Send

cameras down?

The decision really comes down to what's going to be less disruptive.

Hey, guys.

Hey. Hey, guys. What a bloody-ass mess.

So we ran out of water.

We went through the 7,000 gallons plus the extra 3,000 gallons.

But you can't take me seriously right now. No.

Hey, I accomplished a lot. You did a hell of a job today, pure and simple.

Everybody did. Everybody put in a full day. But we need to have a war room

meeting. Just a quick one before we call it a complete day. You know, if you can

get cleaned up as best you can to be comfortable.

And then we can all meet in the war room and just kick a few things around. A lot

happened today. Let's go talk about it.

After a tense and exciting day of excavations at the Oak Island Money Pit,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with members of their team, have

gathered in the war room for a critical meeting.

Now that the 60-inch wide drilling caisson and borehole HA has reached what

could very well be the fabled chapel vault at a depth of 170 feet, they must

determine how best to continue their exploration of the area.

Gentlemen, it's been a long, long day.

Everybody worked really hard. So let's have a little recap.

We reached 170 with the can.

Yeah. In true Oak Island fashion.

Right at the end of the day, at 170 feet, Danny, the oscillator operator,

said he had a marked change.

It was like nothing that happened all day. The torque went up. It was hard to

drive the can.

He thought, most significantly to me, it was on something flat.

Something, you know, flat and consistent, like the tabletop. Like he's

trying to drag the can right across this tabletop. Was it wood?

He thinks probably wood.

Well, the idea that we're on something relatively solid, that's great.

We're deeper right now than the chapel shaft ever went.

Is it possible that the team has finally excavated below the remains of the

searcher shaft installed by M.R. Chapel in 1931?

and have finally located the mysterious chapel vault.

What was the big hit at 157?

What's that conductivity reading that Mike West showed us? Could be still in

that pile.

Yeah. We were most interested in 150 to 170, basically.

Have we searched those cuttings yet? I don't think we have.

Not all of them.

Do you know which ones we have or haven't? We just started on 156 when we

ran out of water.

So actually, as we sit here around this table, We don't really know what we got

in the zone of interest yet. No.

Well, that's pretty cool.

Okay, so we haven't searched it. David, your big bag of coins is still out there

buried in clay. Yep. So we'll search those cuttings, and then we'll know if

there's something not quite so massive that we missed.

The real question is, Rick, what do you want to do about drilling H8?

I don't think we have a choice. I think we put the permanent down, and we slowly

advance the casing.

I mean, there is no alternative at this point. You dig and hammer grab.

Unfortunately, yes. There is no alternative.

We're committed.

To reduce the risks of damaging any potentially priceless artifacts, the

team has chosen to install a permanent inner casing.

This will allow them to do even deeper drilling and possible human exploration.

Some of these things that have been speculated about are irreplaceable. It

could be priceless documents.

It could be religious artifacts.

And so there's significant trepidation on my part, fear, if you will, that we

may damage something.

All right. What else? Anybody have anything else? I mean, tomorrow we get

more answers. I was hoping they'd happen today. So did you.

We're hopeful that we're close to answers. We spent an awful lot of effort

to bring in this massive equipment.

and dig in this one spot, following a well that produced all kinds of

tantalizing clues.

So yeah, we're hopeful. We're getting to the depth where there should be answers.

And 10 years ago, we were hopeful, and that hasn't stopped.

Gentlemen, it's been a long day.

Everybody worked really hard. We've had the peaks and valleys associated with

Oak Island. We need a bigger peak tomorrow.

Everybody needs some sleep. Let's call it a day.

Meeting adjourned.

A new day begins on Oak Island.

And as a permanent steel casing is installed in the newly dug HH shaft,

Rick Lagina and metal detection expert Gary Drayton are taking advantage of an

all-too-rare moment of free time to explore an area of Smith's Cove. So much

work has been done down here, between Dan, the rest stalls, every company that

came out tried to figure out what was going on with the salt water in the

money pit.

I mean, this is an ideal situation, Rick, because obviously it's low tide.

We've got these rock pools.

If anything got washed in and out of here, it's going to get trapped in these

rocks. This is an ideal situation.

So you're thinking between the beach and the old cofferdams, this is the perfect

spot. So let's see if we can find something.

When Gary decides he wants to investigate an area, I defer to him.

He has an incredible amount of experience, and the beaches fascinate

him, the inner tidal zone.

Maybe the ground in Smith's Cove has been disturbed enough that maybe

something has come close to surface.

It was at Smith's Cove where, in 1850, searchers from the Truro Company

discovered the remains of five stone box drains, each converging into a single

tunnel that appeared to head straight toward the Oak Island Money Pit.

They concluded... that these drains were constructed as part of an elaborate

booby trap system designed to frustrate the efforts of anyone who tried to

search in the area for treasure last year while trying to find evidence of

these box drains rick marty and members of their team found something even more

curious and possibly much older than the money pit itself a french drain

a formation of layered rocks used to divert and control the flow of water.

I'm going to put you on the spot now.

Man-made?

The sorting of the rocks is unusual.

It's definitely what we call cultural.

Okay. You mean you're saying based on your expertise with certainty, this is

placed here. It's a man-made something.

I believe so, yeah. Wow. Yeah.

What we'll do, we'll go up and down.

In this little area, work your way towards the rock.

That's worth digging, Rick.

Well, compared to inland, this is like a picnic digging, isn't it?

Let's see what this is.

It's hell.

I'll use my pinpoint, Rick.

Typical find on the beach, the bottle cap.

It's the right colour, but wrong material.

Another one here, Rick.

It's good depth, it's saying 10 inches.

i don't see it i see something

holy

holy all right it's a cross that's a cross

is it square old yeah right there it's heavy too

oh my gosh i mean that is an old old cross a

cross

located in the same area where the team found French drains at Smith's Cove.

But how did it get there?

And how long did it lie buried?

Gary was extremely excited, more excited than anything he's ever found on the

island. And mind you now, this year he's found coins from the late 1600s.

Those finds pale in comparison to this one in terms of his excitement level.

So I'm excited because Gary's excited, and that's the truth of it.

It looks like it's lead.

How old the hell is that? Look at that.

How old? Oh, my gosh.

That is... That's really old.

How old?

This is the type of thing I'd expect to find in Europe.

When I first saw it, I thought that looks like medieval, a medieval cross.

I mean, you know, I mean, this is old. This is really old. I don't. I hear it

in your voice, but I don't. How old?

So I would say that it's somewhere in between 1,200 and 1,600.

Holy shmoly, all right.

While metal detecting in Smith's Cove, Rick Lagina and Gary Drayton have just

made an astonishing discovery, a small metal object that appears to be a

medieval cross.

and which Gary believes could date back as far as the 13th century.

But if so, how did it get to Oak Island?

It's really that old. Yeah, that is old. That is really old.

What makes you say that? Just the crudeness of it and the style.

I mean, you don't normally see this kind of style.

I've seen that shape before. I swear that'll tell the tale how old it is,

that shape.

Where do you think you've seen it before?

You know, when I was in France, I saw a carving like that in the Templar prison

in Dome.

A lead cross?

Matching carvings made by members of the Knights Templar?

Just one week ago, while searching for evidence that might connect various

carvings found on and around Oak Island, to similar ones made by members of the

Knights Templar while they awaited execution at Dome Prison.

Rick Lagina was shown a wall on which was carved an early depiction of the

Hebrew Bible's so-called Tree of Life.

But just to the left of the carving was a Templar-era depiction of a Christian

cross, one that bears an eerie similarity to the object just unearthed

at Smith's Cove.

Could Rick and Gary have just found the first hard evidence connecting the

Knights Templar to the Oak Island mystery?

Let's see what it registers as.

Yeah, rock solid number.

Yeah, it's lead.

Wow.

That is a religious artifact.

So you got to have an expert look at this, and I'm sure someone would

probably know just by the style.

You know, where it comes from, who made it, the date range.

That is unbelievable.

It's beautiful.

It really is, isn't it? Mm-hmm.

I mean, we might have just made history, Rick.

All right, Gary, let's call my brother. Let me see if I can't get him.

Hey. Hello?

Yeah. Hey, Rick.

Here's your present for the day. It's not Bravo Tango, but it's quite

remarkable. It's definitely worth a bottle of red wine.

All right.

Holy smokes.

Oh, my goodness.

You see this shape?

I saw that in dome.

Carved in the wall?

Yes.

Wow.

Where'd you find that, Jerry?

Smith's Cove. But Gary thinks $1,200 to $1,600.

Not 1600s, 12 to 1600.

Wow.

It's one of the strange things about Oak Island. In this particular case, you go

to France, and you look at all kinds of different carvings on a wall, and then a

cross comes out of the earth on Oak Island, and you look at it and you say,

I've seen that just recently in France.

In a Templar prison.

What are the odds of that?

I'm pretty impressed, Gary, Rick. That's pretty cool.

Yeah, I mean, this is a really cool religious artifact.

Can you take a picture of it and send it, you know, text it to me and Craig or

email it?

Yep. Thank you, guys. Well done, Gary. Well done, Rick. Okay, see ya.

Thanks. If that cross turns out to be between 1,200 and 1,600, I'll become

more convinced that, no, something...

did happen here, something significant pre-Money Pit discovery. So it's a big

deal for me. Look, it's very curious. It's singularly our place. There's no

question about that.

It's all the more reason to follow wherever the search leads, wherever the

information trail leads regarding that cross.

Everybody but everybody came here looking for treasure. You come and you

find something possibly even predating original depositors. That makes it all

the more imperative that we try to figure out what that is. I think it

makes it almost a foregone conclusion we have to get back out there. Yeah. That's

what I think.

What a day.

That was fantastic.

That was remarkable.

For Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team.

the discovery of what could be a 13th century Templar cross may turn out to be

not only a clue, but the first step in finding an answer.

Perhaps the very answer that has eluded treasure hunters for more than two

centuries. For if proof can be established that members of the Knights

Templar successfully made their way to North America as many as seven centuries

ago,

it would change not only the history of a small island off the coast of Nova

Scotia, it could change the history of the world forever.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

We got lucky.

What do you got? A bone.

We're thinking a skeleton will come out of there, literally.

It's lead.

Laird, we've got something to show you. We think it's going to knock your socks

off. I haven't seen anything like that before.

What this is doing now, unbelievable.

We're down into open cavern void.

It means we're in the collapse of the money pit and we're going to find what

was ever in there.