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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island. We know we have a target, the money pit.

Fingers crossed we hit the vault.

All it would take is one little obscure piece of paper and make it all worth it.

Here it is.

Oh.

That's something really, really hard. Could this be the aha moment?

We have another sample for you. Let's have a look at it. We need to run

composition analysis on it. Okay.

Wow. It appears to be Roman.

No way.

Roman, baby.

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,

mysterious fragments of human bone, and a lead cross whose origin may stretch

back to the days of the Knights Templar. To date, Six men have died trying to

solve the mystery and according to legend One more will have to die

before the treasure can be found

It

is

the end of another long day on Oak Island

Hey, guys.

As Rick Lagina, Craig Tester, and members of their team gather to inform

Rick's brother Marty and area archaeologist Laird Niven about a new

and potentially important discovery.

OK, so we all would like to bring everyone up to speed, including Marty,

about the recent finds that Gary made.

I did send you some pictures, I believe.

Yeah. got them right here which i think we all find quite remarkable i'd love to

hear about it gary yeah uh mike west decides to run his equipment along the

top of the beach right and we started getting targets straight away and

what we found just blew us away and we'll see what you think leard

I mean, is this what I think it is? Yeah. I mean, it's well-made, isn't it?

Yeah. It's handmade.

It looks like a crossbow bolt, does it not?

That's exactly what I said.

Unbelievable! Look at this!

What is it?

Earlier this same day, while metal detecting at the beachfront on Lot 26,

Jack Begley, Gary Drayton, and geophysicist Mike West discovered an

unusual metal object approximately 10 inches beneath the rocky soil. I mean,

this is old. We're talking like Templar old.

Used as a deadly weapon as early as the 7th century BC, the crossbow was for its

time a type of high-tech bow and arrow, one that could shoot projectiles with

great speed and deadly accuracy.

The arrows, or bolts, were so finely sharpened they could even penetrate.

Metal armor.

Aren't most crossbow bolts wood shafted, though?

They come in different varieties.

I mean, this looks like this was made for piercing chain mail.

Finely made. Like, really finely made.

Yeah, and not rusting over all these years. You know, minimal, especially on

the tip, where it was worked the most. Yeah.

Nice hardened iron, which makes me think it's old. I mean, that...

The quality of iron back then, it just doesn't rust very fast. You've always

said that, right, Gary?

Yeah. The older the iron, the better condition it's in. And this could be

potentially, like, unbelievable fine.

A medieval crossbow bolt found on the shore of Oak Island?

But if so, how did it get here?

Could it be connected in some way to the lead cross found at Smith's Cove last

year?

It's clearly very interesting what they found, this so-called crossbow bolt.

Very interesting, very out of place.

I mean, it's an interesting object. There's no question about it. Unlike

anything we've ever found before.

Actually, Gary, if that bolt is really, really old, it's probably more

significant than the cross because the cross is a artifact, a religious

artifact. It's possible to conjecture that it was dropped.

many years after it was formed.

You know, somebody could be carrying it.

But here's the thing.

You don't generally carry crossbow bolts around, you know, for 100 years and then

drop it. So if it really is old, honestly, Rick, I'd say it's more

significant than the cross.

Yeah. Well, look, guys, I think two things come to mind.

Obviously, additional testing. And the other thing is, I think we need to buy

Gary a new shirt with a larger, deeper pocket.

Yeah.

I think these finds are very intriguing, and Laird, you'll help us, you'll

assist. Yeah, absolutely.

There's more things to be learned.

To that extent, the work continues.

Sempre avanti. Sempre avanti.

All right. See you, Marty.

See you, Marty. Okay, guys.

Okay.

The next day, Rick Lagina, Craig Tester, and Charles Barkhouse head over to the

area known as the money pit.

They are in the early stages of finding out if recently conducted seismic

testing has allowed them to pinpoint the precise location of the original

treasure site, first discovered in 1795.

What depth are we at?

Down to 129.

Just one day ago, the team from Choice Drilling began a new six and a half inch

wide borehole known as DE6.

There's the one.

Bring it on over.

At a depth of 93 feet, they discovered evidence of a horizontal wooden beam

followed by a three-foot void.

I love it. It was laying this way.

Yeah. Not standing up. It's laying like this. So it could be the top of a

tunnel.

It was at this same depth that recent seismic scanning of the area revealed

what could be.

a network of underground tunnels. That carries on into what looks like a larger

network around the 100 to 110-footish range.

Flood tunnel? Could be.

Is it possible that Rick, Marty, and their partners have actually located one

of the legendary booby-trapped flood tunnels, the tunnels which many believe

were constructed in order to prevent searchers from finding the centuries-old

treasure vault?

What are you calling the depth?

164? Getting anything?

It's really soft.

Right. See, I keep drilling another whatever until you hit something hard.

Sure. Okay.

Although the team is encouraged by locating a possible tunnel, they are

even more hopeful to reach another one of the intriguing anomalies that was

detected by seismic scanning.

A nearly 30-foot-wide void at a depth of approximately 170 feet.

it was at this depth last year that the team while drilling with a sixty inch

wide steel caisson encountered what they believed could be the legendary chapel

vault a seven foot tall wooden box first discovered by treasure hunters william

chapel and frederick blair in eighteen ninety seven however instead of

penetrating the vault the caisson is believed to have actually pushed the

mysterious object further down into the mud and off to the side when we were

doing the big can on h8 we had a plug where the the bottom of the hole kept on

being pushed to the side so what was being pushed to the side drilling this

well might indicate what was pushed aside from h8 so we were looking for any

kind of evidence in that area fingers crossed we hit the vault or a debris

field from the treasure itself falling so it was an excellent place to be

Well, I hope we have something.

I hope so.

What would that something be you'd like?

I'd set it for silver. I don't need gold right now.

One step at a time, right? Yeah.

I'd love to have wood right here.

We're on something really, really hard.

Wow.

Wow. We're on something really, really hard.

While drilling DE6, a new borehole in the Money Pit area, the Oak Island team

has just struck an object at a depth of some 200 feet deep underground, an

object that seems impossible to penetrate.

What's your guess?

Looks like we tagged something hard, which we assumed to be an interface

bedrock of some sort.

Serious problem for you?

I think you just should stop.

We hit something around the 204, 205 range, so. It was a little bit out of

target zone.

So we have the bedrock plateau here?

Yeah.

Despite the fact that the team had previously recovered promising evidence

from this same borehole, Leading them to believe they might have located the

original money pit shaft, hitting bedrock offers a disappointing

development.

It means they may have missed the large underground anomaly that was indicated

on the 3D map created by the team's recent seismic scanning.

It also means they will be forced to choose a different site in the hopes of

locating the legendary chapel vault.

We certainly didn't hit the center of the anomaly.

And, you know, that's good and bad news.

But as long as the drill is done whole, there's hope.

There's a chance you might encounter something.

You know, as usual, with all the things we've done to date on Oak Island,

there's things to be learned. A few more questions.

Can you disappoint us?

Well, you know, the tunnel, to me...

Very interesting. Either it's an original, it's fantastic, but as a

searcher, it helps us define where the money pit is.

And we need to get back and look at all the different maps, interpretations of

where those tunnels were.

Definite disappointment.

You know, we're hoping to find, you know, a cavern at this area, and we

didn't. It's just part of the process.

We tested one target, and we move on to the next target.

Well, tomorrow's another day.

We'll see you gentlemen then. Take care, guys. Talk to you tomorrow.

The next day, as Rick Lagina remains on the island to begin planning the team's

next steps.

All data is good data, and we're about to get some.

His brother Marty, Craig Tester, and Marty's son Alex.

head some 50 miles northeast of Oak Island to St. Mary's University in the

city of Halifax.

Dr. Brousseau, we're back.

Welcome back. We keep finding things.

That's good.

They are meeting once again with Associate Professor of Chemistry Dr.

Krista Brousseau, an expert in the study of metals and their chemical

compositions. So you've got some... We have another sample for you. Yes, we do

indeed. So I guess we get right to it, right?

Yeah, let's have a look at it. All right.

They are hoping to find out if scientific testing on what they believe

to be a crossbow bolt might help determine its age.

That looks like iron.

Yes, we're quite sure of that.

Yeah.

So the conjecture was that it might be a crossbow bolt.

Okay. Okay, which we were all excited about.

It was designed to pierce armor.

Mm-hmm.

So we're here to see what you think.

Yep. Obviously, we're intrigued with it. We're trying to make sense out of that.

Right.

So for iron, the elemental analysis is the main test that we would be doing.

Okay. All right, let's see what the SEM says.

Let's do it. Okay.

Using samples carefully collected from the surface of the artifact.

All right, those samples are ready. Let's go.

Dr. Brisseau.

and her colleague, Dr. Shawn Yang, will now perform a chemical analysis of the

metal with the help of a high-powered scanning electron microscope, or SEM.

Okay, Dr. Brousseau, I always love this part.

This is the fun part.

Yeah.

Unlike traditional microscopes, which rely on a combination of light and

lenses to magnify objects, the SEM performs scans with a focused beam of

electrons. which can produce magnification as much as 200,000 times

greater than an object's actual size.

It can also provide a detailed analysis of the item's chemical composition.

Okay, so that's ready.

Yes.

Once we start looking at the sample, you'll see the image of the object and

the surface.

That's amazing. Yeah. Wow.

So you guys look for shiny bits on a large scale and we look on a very small

scale. Shiny bits on a small scale.

Okay, so we're going to do the chemistry.

So right now you're looking at a big enough piece that it should see any

impurities. Yeah.

All right, let's see what it's made of.

Iron pop-up.

Right.

But you've got some manganese. There is manganese in it? Yes.

Manganese?

Because manganese became used in the production of steel and iron beginning

in the 9th century B.C., its presence in the sample could be an indication

that the Oak Island team may be in possession of something far older.

than what they first thought possible.

All right, excellent analysis.

We'll get a hold of the weapons guy. For sure.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

The hard scientific data is so welcome because almost nothing we do is like

that. Anyway, thank you.

Appreciate it. Yeah, nice to see you. I'm sure we'll be back. I'm sure we will

be back. Yeah, nice to see you guys. Sean, nice to see you again.

Good luck with your search. Thank you. Yep.

Following his informative trip to St. Mary's University, Craig Tester has

arrived back on Oak Island to Smith's Cove, where one of the team's most

ambitious and expensive projects is well underway, the construction of a massive

525-foot-long steel cofferdam.

Good morning, Craig. How are you? Good. Good to see you. Yeah, same to you.

It looks like it's moving right along.

Yeah. So how many have you put in so far? It'll be the ninth sheet right

there, yeah.

Timing-wise, you're ahead of time?

I think we're pretty much on schedule, yeah.

Okay.

Since construction of the cofferdam began just one week ago, the team from

Irving Equipment Limited has installed nine out of the nearly 120 sections of

steel sheet piling that will form the watertight barrier.

Once completed, it will allow the site to be fully drained so that it can be

excavated, not only in the hope of finding historically significant

artifacts, but also the remains of the legendary box drain flooding system that

has effectively booby-trapped the entire Money Pit area.

Irving is driving pilings into the ground.

Basically, they're going to vibrate them into the ground and get us a nice

watertight... uh area to do our exploration in so that's about 20 feet

you pounded down they're in the ground to the rock it's like 26 feet okay yeah

any problems pounding them in no they're going good actually gotta work with the

tide too well that sounds good anything from us uh no i think we're good right

now i think we're good for a bit yeah while craig continues to oversee the

cofferdam's construction at smith's cove rick lagina has called members of the

oak island team together for an important meeting in the war room you

know i know everyone's not here right now but uh just i do want to let

everyone know it's with a lot of sadness for me especially that xena has passed

The news that Rick's close friend, Zena Halpern, has passed away at the age of

88 comes with great sadness for him and the rest of the team.

Oh, my goodness. Zena. How wonderful to meet you. Wonderful to meet you.

The New York-based author and historian spent more than 50 years researching

possible journeys to North America by members of the Knights Templar, journeys

that she was convinced were made centuries before the so-called discovery

of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492.

Two years ago, Zena presented Rick Lagina and the team with a number of

intriguing documents, including one which she believed to be a 14th-century

Templar map of Oak Island.

Zena had very serious health issues, and her health was failing, to be honest. As

sad as we are by Zena's passing, I am immensely grateful for having met her.

Can't speak highly enough about her. Her life has certainly impacted my own.

She brought a lot to, not only from a research perspective, but on a personal

level. I found her to be an incredible woman.

Rich Motz actually wrote something that I think is very apt and very eloquent.

Didn't he work with her?

He did work with her, and I would like to read it.

My heart is heavy at the loss of our dear friend Zina.

She was a sweet but tough woman in love with history.

I am comforted in believing she now has all the answers to all of the questions

she ever had about history as she listens to her creator.

She now knows the full history of Oak Island and what lies below the beautiful

surface.

I am thankful to have known her.

I love you, Zena.

Rest, my dear friend.

She was a lovely woman.

Rick was visibly moved by the news of Zena Halperin's passing.

He had established quite a bond with this woman. They must have been kindred

spirits somehow.

My heart goes out to him so much.

Well, Rick, I know you had a very soft spot in your heart for her.

Everybody understands that.

Her work was unfinished, but she was in a business where her work would be

unfinished. And it's kind of probably a happy thing.

She's been on that uncovering history road for her entire life.

and now the torch has been passed to us at least in in the oak island world yes

we the living carry on that's right three

days

after learning the news of his friend's passing rick lagina along with his

nephew peter fernetti travel some 800 miles southwest of Oak Island to visit

Zena's former home in Long Island, New York.

Zena has bequeathed to me the contents of her research.

A lifetime's worth of research.

And I'm quite humbled by the fact that she feels that in our hands, her

research will not falter. We will continue to move it forward.

Have you seen everything that we're going to see today?

Absolutely not, and that's why this is going to prove to be highly informative.

I mean, Zena, I have nothing but respect for what she accomplished over the

entirety of her career, but also as it relates to our search.

It's going to be a bit emotional for me, I will say that.

Let's go take a look.

Let's take a look.

For me, this is going to be a little puff.

There we go.

Jason, I presume?

Yep, Rick, right?

Absolutely. Nice to meet you. Hey, Rick.

Nice to meet you. My condolences.

Thank you, buddy.

Thank you. And to you, Jason. Thank you.

Condolences.

Peter. Come on in.

So, it was amazing, you know, to walk through here the first time I was here.

The width and breadth of not only the passion she brought to the research

agenda, but the commitment. So, got a little overwhelmed at how much.

you know, knowledge there was in her head.

Yeah, there's a lifetime of commitment here. And the hope is that there might

be some information here that we may be able to glean, which will further her

research and her belief in terms of what happened on Oak Island.

I think that's everyone's hope. That's everyone's hope.

Right. Where Zena's trail leads, I don't know.

Where her research leads, I don't know.

But she wouldn't give up. She was indomitable.

So neither will we.

So everything here on the floor, we went through, we made sure this is all

absolute research.

You can see a lot of the books with all of the post-its and the

notes. You don't see those kinds of notes in my books, do you, Peter? No.

And then there's still the closet behind you.

Oh, yeah.

I think our next step here is to start looking through things and start boxing

up. That would be the project.

Yeah.

Zena's passion was this work.

These rooms represent her life, and there's a lot of information to be

gleaned, some of it highly relevant to the search here on Oak Island.

My hope is that as we unravel it... it will lead us to new discoveries, new

understandings of perhaps a Templar voyage to the New World, perhaps

including Oak Island.

Here's something here.

This may be the book.

There's a page in here, right here.

Oh.

Bingo.

Can you see where the page is?

Right here.

Page in here, right here.

Oh. There you go.

Bingo.

At the home of late Oak Island researcher Zena Halpern in Long Island,

New York, Rick Lagina, his nephew Peter Fernetti, and Zena's son, Davin, are

pouring through more than 50 years of research collected by the noted author

during her lifetime.

Research which Rick hopes may help him and his partners solve the Oak Island

mystery. What's been called Xena's map.

And this is the formula cipher.

We went to some trouble.

We still have to puzzle this out, the true meaning of the cipher, the true

meaning of the map.

I want to make sure that these get safely back to Oak Island. So I'll give

these to Peter and make sure he boxes these up.

Peter, these may or may not hold secrets, but there's certainly something

intriguing about them. So we need to pack these up, make sure they're safe.

Okay, so I'll pack these up separate. Perfect, thanks.

So much information. I mean, I think we discussed about whether or not there are

original documents here.

Like that, for instance, right there.

There's Templars on the cover of that.

I know what this is.

I don't know if it's in its entirety.

But this is the Ralph de Soudelet deposition of his trip to the New World.

This is the Cremona document itself.

This is at the core of your mother's research.

The Cremona document?

Discovered during the 1970s in a church in Cremona, Italy, the so-called Cremona

document is a collection of maps, ciphers, and journal entries which are

believed to have been authored in part by the 12th century Templar knight,

Ralph de Soutelay.

it describes his activity at the temple mount in jerusalem where he is believed

to have discovered priceless religious artifacts such as the holy grail and the

ark of the covenant it also details a voyage that he made to north america

with other members of the knights templar although many mainstream

historians remain skeptical as to the cremona document's authenticity rick

lagina is convinced that much of the information contained within it is most

likely true that document led zina to connections to oak island

and that needs to be followed up on but as of yet we don't have a complete

understanding look i can't tell you what you already know she was a wonderful

lady and and uh hopefully her passion and her interest that her life is still

here within these volumes i hope We can do this justice. I hope we can follow

the trail she's led us on.

Absolutely. And I would like to just thank you for acknowledging her. And I'm

just so thrilled to know that her life's work isn't just going to stop right now.

I guarantee you it's not going to stop, Devin, Jason. It's not going to stop.

She wouldn't allow it to stop, and we won't either.

Thank you, bud.

Take care.

The next day, following his emotional trip to collect materials left to him by

Zena Halpern. Good morning, guys.

Gentlemen. Rick Lagina joins Craig Tester and other members of the Oak

Island team at the Money Pit site.

Now that drilling has begun at a second location, they are hopeful they will

soon reach a mysterious 30-foot-wide void located at a depth of some 170 feet

and which was identified earlier by seismic scanning.

In picking this location, H7.5, it is close proximity to H8 where we don't

have an understanding of what happened.

We certainly retrieved some very interesting items from H8. The hope is

that we can replicate those finds and maybe find something in addition to

those.

Much talked about.

H7.5. I pulled out H8 from last year.

Very, you know, interesting and important hole that spawned the large

diameter caisson.

And today we're very close with that one.

We're into open ground that hasn't had any real information on it, you know,

plus or minus five feet away from it.

We've got a really relatively virgin target very close to what I think is the

money pit.

This should be interesting.

you know considering what came out of h8 this should be a real hot zone for

artifacts so where are

we guys uh 159 ran the casing down to 158 to seal it

seal it off i want to make sure we didn't have any more slumping from above

so anything that slumps now will be the bottom but it's been advancing quite

well we can really keep open holes

210. It'll be interesting where this ends up. Yeah. We'll find out.

Using a specialized sonic rig, the choice drilling team will extract core

samples of Earth and any objects contained within at intervals every 10

feet. These samples will then be transferred into a plastic sleeve so

that they can be carefully examined by hand for any important clues or possible

treasure. Well, here we go.

What depth, Brennan? 160.

That's really gravelly, but it's mostly limestone. See that tan color? That's

limestone.

And there's silt. There's, you know, organics in there.

What is that?

That's weird.

I think this is coconut fiber.

I think this is coconut fiber.

That's really interesting.

At the money pit, while searching the spoils of the exploratory borehole known

as H7.5, Rick Lagina, Craig Tester, and members of the Oak Island team have

just made an amazing discovery.

When you look at the historical records, they did find, you know, what they

believed to be coconut fiber in the money pit when they were excavating it.

So it's not beyond the realm of possibility.

Some of the layers were described as coconut fiber. Exactly.

Coconut fiber in the money pit?

160 feet deep below the surface?

But if so, how did it get there?

And why?

In 1804.

when the money pit was excavated by the Onslow Company.

Searchers reported finding a large amount of coconut fiber at a depth of 60

feet. Given that the nearest coconut trees are located some 1,500 miles south

of Nova Scotia, they concluded that it had been used to make a kind of rope

that would enable depositors to lower something of great value down into the

shaft.

Could the discovery of coconut fiber be an important indication that rick marty

and the team have finally located the site of the original money pit you know

coconut fiber has been found at depth in the money pit if this indeed is coconut

fiber it makes this location much more relevant in terms of further search

agenda whether that means a large can or additional drilling i don't know

certainly a very unique find certainly worth testing i wasn't cut You can see

the axe.

See that?

Yeah. Somebody's hit these things with an axe. You can see the bevel of the

axe. This is interesting.

What are we at again at the top here?

171. 171.

Axe-cut wood found approximately 170 feet deep underground and

nearly the same depth where recent seismic scanning revealed a mysterious

30-foot-wide chamber?

Could the Oak Island team, have just discovered solid evidence of the

legendary chapel vault we are going to want to bag and tag these pieces of wood

in through here there's quite a bit of limestone rich material matrix there's

also very large rounded clasts we've never seen anything like that and this

minced up stuff here that's really interesting it's as though this

collected somehow in like in the corner of something or in the crevice of

something you know right Otherwise, this would be mixed.

You know, I wish I could make a very firm statement whenever we drill that,

okay, we're in this structure or we're in this shaft or we're in this wall.

But we don't know the underground.

That has been proven to us over and over and over again. At this point, we have a

lot of data.

the coring samples that we've brought up. And from that, maybe then get an

understanding of how these wood structures align.

That's my hope.

But how we pursue it, I don't know as of yet.

You have to have faith that what you're doing is right. I mean, like all the

searchers before, I mean, it was always the next day, the next hole, the next 10

feet of the shaft.

If you don't believe that, then it's time to go home. When it gets tough, I

go back to Bobby Russell's journal.

We made two inches today, and they were half.

Yeah, we came up dry, but we tried.

And we didn't quit, and neither did they.

Nope.

Well, we'll see what the next one brings up.

After a day of exciting new discoveries at the Oak Island Bunny Pit, brothers

Rick and Marty Lagina gather with the rest of the team in the war room.

where they eagerly await a report on one of their most exciting recent finds.

So guys, what I'm hoping we'll learn today is a significant discovery.

An item that we named, very preliminarily, a crossbow bolt.

And so I had asked Doug to reach out to an antiquities expert and get an

evaluation of the object. And I think, I hope, that we're in for a very

interesting revelation.

So, Doug, where are we? Well, we reached out to Gabriel Vandervoort in

California, an antiquities expert, and I think we should hear from him what he

has to say.

Hello. Hi, Gabriel.

Hi. Hi, Gabriel. How are you doing?

Good. How are you?

I'm well, thank you.

Lots of interesting stuff behind you there, that's for sure. Yeah.

I'm a specialist here. I deal in everything from ancient Mesopotamia

through the medieval and Crusades period.

Perfect. So Doug has reached out to you. I guess we very much look forward to

your analysis.

Yes, I've taken a look at this piece.

It is extremely interesting.

I spent quite a bit of time on it, actually.

When I first saw it, my first instinct was that it was from the medieval

period. from Europe.

That pyramidal tip was part of a lot

of medieval weaponry like crossbow bolts, but not with such a long neck

like that.

So I went through just dozens of references, really couldn't find it,

couldn't nail it down to the medieval period, so I started going back in time.

What it appears to be is Roman.

No way.

This type of Roman weapon was used from the Roman Republican period, first

century BC up through the fifth century AD.

That is unbelievable.

Two words, Roman, baby.

Wait a minute.

What it appears to be is the type of Roman javelin called a pilum.

A Roman pilum dating back as far as the 1st century BC, more than 2,000 years

ago?

Commonly carried by the legionnaires of ancient Rome, a pilum was a type of

throwing spear, also known as a javelin.

Although the shaft was made of wood, the tip was made of a very hard iron, which

could pierce through body armor.

It also featured a long, thin neck.

designed to break off inside the body of its victim, causing a fatal wound.

I found a reference to it, if I could show you.

We're looking at that right there.

And we've got about the top third of that weapon right there.

It was a sophisticated weapon in the Roman period, but it really wasn't

something that was used after that. It's well made, it's well preserved.

these are rare to be found like this yeah even rarer in north america

everybody's jaw in the room dropped when gabriel the antiquities expert said that

his best guess is that it was what's called the roman plan roman okay roman

that's you know pushing back a long ways i'm not sure what to make of it it's so

outside the box of our current belief i mean The idea that

we still don't know what had transpired here on the island, I mean, it's

incredible.

There's no reason I could imagine that something like this had been found on

Oak Island.

Nor can we. Yeah, neither can we.

You know, unless it was brought over as part of some kind of a cache of weapons

or, you know, antiquities even at the time, in a much later time.

What does that make you feel about Oak Island?

Very intrigued.

Very, very intrigued.

Welcome to our world.

We're all just sitting here with our mouths open. So we got to digest this a

little bit.

Absolutely. Yeah.

Appreciate your time. Thank you very much.

You're welcome. Take care.

Gentlemen, I think it's time to take a deep breath and think about all this.

And we also all have a lot to do. So let's go.

For Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team, it has been a week of emotional

highs and heartbreaking lows.

A week that underscored the need for both patience and perseverance.

It also served as a solemn reminder that life is short.

And the time to solve the Oak Island mystery is now.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

Maybe today we'll find the one thing. I think we're right on target for that

tunnel. Keep your eyes peeled, guys.

Sweet. What is that?

We found a copy of the Corona document.

That document will lead us to a Templar voyage to the New World, including Oak

Island. We have the first evidence the French were here.

Whoa! What do you got? I think he hit the tunnel from shaft six.