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Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island. The Jolly Roger was originally a Templar

symbol. Some of them became pirates.

I am very excited to see some sort of chamber on the Megabin area.

Is it going to be wood? I don't think so. It's pretty dense. If there's a

plate covering up something, that's going to be huge. We have this lead

artifact. Can you actually put a precise location on it? I think I got some

pretty interesting results for you.

It is the most historic thing that's maybe ever happened in North America.

there is an island in the north atlantic where people have been looking for an

incredible treasure for more than two hundred 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 start.

of a new and challenging day on Oak Island. Did you order this?

No, I certainly didn't. But despite battling strong winds and heavy rain,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team remain determined to continue

progress on one of their most ambitious and expensive search operations ever,

the excavation at Smith's Cove. How's it going?

We're experiencing some pretty hard driving right now. Are you? Yeah.

I see those two are a little bit higher on the end. Yeah, the last one that we

just drove, the taller one down there on the end.

Did you think you hit a boulder there, or is it just dense? No, it's really

dense till is what it is.

It's really, really dense, densed up.

Using more than 100 sections of steel sheet piling, the team from Irving

Equipment Limited is constructing a massive 525-foot-long cofferdam.

that will fully seal off the cove from the ocean allowing for it to be

completely drained and excavated down to a depth of 10 feet it is rick and marty

lagina's hope that by excavating the cove and carefully examining the spoils

they and their partners will be able to find new important clues and artifacts

artifacts such as the medieval lead cross that rick and gary drayton found

here last year that will help them solve the 223-year-old Oak Island treasure

mystery.

They also hope to be able to locate and shut off an ancient flood tunnel system

that feeds seawater into the money pit, and which many believe has prevented

searchers from being able to find and retrieve the fabled Oak Island treasure.

As I see the perimeter of Smith's Cove being enclosed, I'm very happy.

I think we have a very unique opportunity here and this structure will

allow us to once and for all properly investigate it in its entirety.

What's your goal for today then? Put in more false work or just run sheet? We're

going to concentrate on the sheeting for now and then tomorrow we'll concentrate

on more frame and then more sheets again.

Makes sense.

So all in all the only thing you want to change for tomorrow is the weather.

Yes?

You need help, you can give me a call. I will.

As the construction of the cofferdam continues at Smith's Cove, Rick Lagina

and members of the team have gathered in the war room to discuss an exciting

development, one which they hope will shed new light on the origin of their

most incredible find to date, the mysterious Lead Cross.

So, guys, everybody is well aware of the cross.

You know, Gary's smiling as we speak. He's made sure everybody knows about it.

Well, we've got something for you to look at.

Yeah, very nice.

Six weeks ago, Rick Lagina and Craig Tester arranged for the cross to be

tested at the University of New Brunswick using a process known as laser

ablation.

A microscopically small portion of the cross was irradiated with a laser beam.

in an effort to determine not only the exact chemical makeup of the cross, but

where the lead may have come from. The results were astounding.

So the lead cross is not from North America.

Wow. Now with this evidence, if you will, it's not North American lead. It

certainly doesn't eliminate the possibility that this is indeed a

Templar connection.

So in order to further the testing, We've reached out to the German Mining

Museum. Charles, why don't you call him up and we'll see what he can tell us.

Hello Tobias.

Hi guys, how are you doing?

Good, how are you?

Tobias Skowronik is a geochemist at the German Mining Museum in the city of

Bochum.

Established in 1930, the museum boasts a preeminent research archive in the field

of mining archaeology and is renowned for its vast database of metals and

other mineral deposits throughout the ancient world.

We're very grateful for whatever assistance you can provide us. I think

you have a basic understanding of our situation.

We have this lead artifact.

Okay, great. And what we would like to know is how can you help us? We're

looking for perhaps ore body signature, perhaps dating of the artifact.

If you already measured the isotopes using laser ablation, then I only need

the data to tell you where the lead for this cross was growing from.

Can you actually put a precise location on it or is it like a regional

definition, if you will?

That depends, of course, how good the data is. If the data is pretty good,

then we can assign this to a single quarry. If it's okay, then it's just,

yeah, some area like that you say is from England or from

Central Europe, something like that.

Is there any way to date the item?

If you know from which quarry the cross came.

then you can say when this query was in use.

So it all depends on how good our data is.

Yeah, right, right.

I guess the next question is, are you interested in participating in this

project? Of course, I'm very much interested in it. I'm looking forward to

this, of course.

Well, look, I think on our end, you know, we would certainly like to avail

ourselves of your expertise.

we shall send the data files on we will send pictures of the artifact and we

very much look forward to your result yeah i'm very excited for the data and i

hope that i can help you thank you very much thank you as rick lagina arranges

for the lead cross data to be sent to the german mining museum craig tester

and charles barkhouse arrive at the so-called megabin area located some 600

feet northeast of the Money Pit site.

Now, we don't want that pipe to slide back there.

It was the same area where recently conducted seismic testing had identified

a large and mysterious void, and where veteran treasure hunter Dan Blankenship

believed he had located a centuries-old latrine pit.

Dan's latrino, to me, is way more exciting than anything that could be.

potentially imaged in the money pit because this is in an undisturbed area

from a searcher's standpoint.

If you're going to dig a toilet facility in an underground chamber, it's because

men are working there.

Dan Blankenship came to an understanding or belief that there were tunnels and

rooms associated with that area, so we believe it's worth looking into

investigating.

In an effort to locate a possible underground chamber, The team is using a

process known as sonic drilling, which employs powerful vibrations to create a

high frequency sound capable of grinding its way through layers of rock and

earth. A coring barrel is then used to take samples at intervals of every 10

feet. These core samples will then be transferred into plastic sleeves.

Just like making sausage.

Yeah. So that they can be scanned with a metal detector before being carefully

searched by hand.

So how deep are you going on this?

The main target is around 50 feet, but we'll probably go to 100.

I want to get through the main targets that Dan's found in this general area.

After finding evidence of what he believed to be an old latrine pit, Dan

Blankenship and his company, known as the Triton Alliance, drilled some 40

exploratory boreholes in an effort to locate any underground tunnels that

might connect directly to the money pit.

In addition to finding pieces of metal wire, Dan's most astonishing discovery

came in October of 1973, when his drill bit struck an impenetrable metal plate

at a depth of 100 feet, a metal plate that Dan believed could be covering a

treasure vault.

Could Craig and the Oak Island team be close to locating the same mysterious

obstruction? And if so, what is it protecting?

This whole area has got a big question mark hanging over it. Maybe we're going

to get some answers here. One way or the other, we should know, right? Yep.

As the drilling operation continues in the Megabin area, Rick Lagina and Dave

Blankenship travel to Smith's Cove, along with Dave's father, veteran Oak

Island treasure hunter Dan Blankenship.

So, Dan, I'd just like to show you the cofferdam.

They made a lot of progress.

Backward or forward?

They are checking on the progress of the massive steel cofferdam, which is still

under construction.

My God, you made a four-lane highway down here.

When you see the crane, you'll know why.

Isn't that remarkable, Dan?

Wow.

Although at the age of 95, Dan Blankenship is not able to participate

in field operations as much as he'd like, Rick, Marty, and the other members

of the team consider him to be an invaluable resource.

The more than 50 years he has spent trying to solve the Oak Island mystery

has made him an expert on what can and can't be done on the island.

These sheet piles are put in about 27 feet in the ground so that water doesn't

come underneath it. It's a big, large-scale project.

No question about it.

I'd like to know how much counterweight this got in.

Almost 300 ton.

You're kidding.

Nope.

That's a 300-ton crane. It weighs as much as it can pick.

Wow. Yep.

I wished at the time I had put my dam out another 15, 20 feet.

Well, the U-shaped structure, we're certainly outside of that.

You should have relatively easy time.

In the early 1970s, while conducting his own investigation of Smith's Cove, Dan

and his partner, David Tobias, constructed a 15-foot-wide earth-filled

cofferdam surrounding the area.

While searching for evidence of the stone box drains, Dan made an incredible

discovery, a mysterious 65-foot-long wooden structure laid out in the shape

of a U.

Unfortunately, before Dan could fully expose and examine the possibly ancient

man-made formation, a series of violent storms compromised the dam.

bringing the operation to a bitter halt i wish i could have gotten inside of

dan's brain you can see in his eyes that he's marveling at the enormity the scale

of the project how much work was being done and his mind had to wander back to

it if only i had had that if only i could have accessed this if only i would

have had the man-power i would guess there was a bit of wistfulness in dan

that if only But I think he's looking forward to what we uncover.

I'll tell you one thing, they were awful clever.

Yes, they were.

Stymied people for 223 years. You bet they were clever.

As construction of the cofferdam continues at Smith's Cove, some 200

yards northwest... We're getting close to target depth.

Craig Tester, Charles Barkhouse, Gary Drayton.

and geologist Terry Matheson continue to monitor the progress of their drilling

operation at the Megabin site, the area where recent seismic scanning revealed

the presence of a massive 175-foot-long chamber some 50 feet beneath the

surface.

You know, from seismic we think about 50 feet's our target, so...

you know we're at 40 basically so we started looking really close from here

on down because sizing's not that perfect yeah so let's take a good look

hopefully we find something here very soon

so

we're

at uh 48 Yeah, 53, 53 to 58.

Put that patient on the table, please.

I think I'm going to have to operate, Craig. Go for it.

And then that's different.

It's very dry.

Yeah.

It's just sandy till.

So you get these, even within a major glacial phase, you'll get slight period

where there's been some thaw, and you'll get a sandy stream running down through

where all the fine material is down the stream.

To me, from a seismic standpoint, this may be the anomaly they were seeing.

It's possible.

Although it is not uncommon to encounter a sudden change in soil, from dense

layers of clay to loosely packed sand.

The fact that it occurs at nearly the same depth where seismic scanning

detected a large anomaly is a troubling sign.

Seismic technology relies on the measurement of sound waves to identify

abrupt material changes below ground.

What may appear to be a potential chamber or void may actually be little

more than a different type of earth.

It went from a very, very dense clay into a soft, unconsolidated sand, and I

think that's what the seismic was seeing. It was reflecting off when it

went from a hard clay to a softer sand.

I don't think it hurts us too much to try to go a little deeper. What do you

think? Yeah, I want to go deeper.

Although the anomaly has proven to not be a void, the team will now drill

deeper in an effort to find evidence of the old latrine pit.

that Dan Blankenship believes he discovered more than 40 years ago.

I'm excited to see what's coming yet because we're in an area where

historically there has been some evidence that man might have been here

underground. So we've got a target that we're going to drill for. What do you

think? We're going to cut her off at about 100, 120 or which one? Probably

120, yeah. Yeah, let's see what we got. Yep, sounds good.

As a new day begins on Oak Island, and as drilling continues at the Megaben

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

welcome an important visitor to the war room.

The gentleman today, we welcome Judy to the war room, and she comes to us by way

of Zena. She's worked with Zena.

on her research for over 10 years, and she's here to inform us about some of

her research.

Judy Rudabush is a former colleague and research partner of Rick's dear friend,

the late author Zena Halpern, who recently passed away.

These maps are part of the Templer document.

For the past two years, Zena was an invaluable resource to Rick, Marty, and

the team.

She provided them not only with compelling theories based on her decades

of exhaustive research, but also a copy of a 14th century map of Oak Island,

which she believed had been made by members of the Knights Templar.

Having worked closely with Zina for more than a decade, Judy has graciously

agreed to aid Rick and the team in their study of Zina's vast collection of

research materials.

Judy has reached out and made contact with an authoress, Gretchen Cornwall.

She has written a very insightful book. It's called The Secret Dossier of a

Knight Templar of the Sangreal.

And in that context, I'll turn it over to Judy.

Well, I first got a hold of Gretchen after I had seen some things that she

had written.

And we've been corresponding now for quite a while.

And the person that she wrote it with, John Temple, John is a direct hereditary

descendant of Templars, and I think they've got something interesting

to tell us as far as ancient Templars coming to America.

So, with that... Jack, why don't you make this connection to Gretchen and

John? All right.

Good morning. Good morning.

Hi, guys. I guess it's afternoon there, actually, isn't it? It is. Well, good

afternoon, then.

Okay.

Based in the United Kingdom, John Temple, a member of the modern-day Order

of the Knights Templar, and author Gretchen Cornwall have worked together

for over a decade, researching the history of the Templars and their vast

legacy.

In her 2016 book, The Secret Dossier of a Knight Templar of the Sangreal,

Gretchen presented what she referred to as a secret record, which was passed

down through generations of John Temple's family, and which purports to

document the survival of the Templar order following their persecution and

disbandment in France during the early 14th century.

I was going to try to give you an overview of our

perspective of history.

Okay.

The Templars, when they were outlawed in 1307 to 1312, they were young, they were

healthy, they had their craft, their navigation abilities.

They weren't just going to disappear into a puff of smoke because a king in

France wanted them to.

Yeah. No, they took to the seas, and some went to Scotland, some went to

northern England. They returned to Nova Scotia.

Some of them became...

pirates because they felt they'd been betrayed

what's your theory on this saint john the baptist

is the patron saint of the templar knight order and of course he was

famously beheaded yeah that's how the jolly roger became a

pirate symbol it's actually originally a templar symbol

and it represents John the Baptist.

The skull and crossbones, also known as the Jolly Roger, a symbol representing

the severed head of St. John the Baptist?

According to historical and biblical records, John the Baptist was a preacher

and prophet who lived in the ancient kingdom of Judea during the first

century A.D., revered as a major religious figure and Christian saint.

He foretold the coming of Jesus Christ as a Messiah and famously baptized him

in the waters of the River Jordan.

However, after publicly condemning King Herod of Galilee for unlawfully taking a

second wife, John the Baptist was imprisoned and later ordered beheaded by

the king's vengeful wife, Herodias.

There are many who believe that the Knights Templar, while defending

Christian pilgrims, and fighting for control of the Holy Land during the

Crusades came into possession of the skull of St. John the Baptist along with

a number of other sacred religious relics.

So the Templars were highly motivated to hide something of great worth that we

think that they discovered while in the Holy Land and it is our thought that

The money pit is Templar in origin.

Why do you draw an inference that there's a Templar connection to the

money pit?

Oak Island would be the safe and secure hidden place to put sacred

relics. The Templars were great engineers.

They would have left a physical stone key and marker.

And that's how the Templars passed down information, graffiti marks, stone,

buildings, architecture.

So fast forward to the Nolan Cross.

In 1981, Oak Island treasure hunter Fred Nolan discovered five massive cone

-shaped boulders on his property, which he observed formed a perfectly

symmetrical megalithic cross.

Even more astonishing.

was the sixth stone he found buried at the center which appeared to be carved

in the likeness of a human skull your headstone uh the skull

the head of the nolan cross is a huge sign post if you will that the templars

were there the nolan cross being literally a skull and crossbows

The head of the Nolan Cross is a huge signpost that the Templars were on Oak

Island.

In the war room, author and researcher Gretchen Cornwall, along with modern-day

Templar John Temple, have just presented Rick, Marty, and the team with an

incredible theory.

That the megalithic boulder formation on Oak Island, known as Nolan's Cross, was

created by members of the Knights Templar.

in the 14th century and that it is meant to signify that priceless religious

treasures are buried deep in the money pit the nolan cross is very

precise mathematically and the key to the money pit

the actual mathematics of nolan's cross

must be looked at as an overlay on top of the money pit

We know it's 90 feet down.

Using the Northern Cross as your measurement, if you take 868 feet,

which is the length of the cross, so if you just take 10% of that... Which is

tithing. Tithing is a key here, 10% of tithing. It was always about tithing, of

giving.

10%, 860, so we're talking 86.7 foot is that cross down the way.

That is what we're looking at.

The Nolan cross being literally a key.

If you could visualize picking that up, that structure up, and putting it right

down into the money pit.

Don't cross arms.

They wouldn't have used 360 feet on a length bar, but they would have used 36

feet, which is 10%. I do believe that digging from the side, the 36 foot

in, you find...

According to John and Gretchen's theory, by overlaying Nolan's cross with the

original money pit and then scaling down its dimensions, the result would act as

a literal map and key to the treasure's precise location, hidden in a side

chamber some 36 feet away from the main shaft.

It's not in the money pit.

It's off to the side somewhere.

Yes.

Well, is there just one problem, John and Gretchen? Charles, you want to

explain? Yeah, unfortunately, we don't know where that original shaft is.

Since the money pit was first discovered in 1795,

it has been the subject of numerous treasure hunting operations for more

than two centuries.

Because some of these search efforts were so extensive and the areas so

altered, The exact location of the original treasure shaft has been lost

over time.

It's unfortunate that the opinions that John has rendered will not facilitate

putting X on the ground in the money pit. It's just the money pit has no

points of reference any longer.

It's an interesting theory, but you have to be able to take a theory into the

field. And unfortunately, at this point at least, we're not able to do that.

What we can do...

We can give you some information regarding our most current work, and

that might help you a little bit as you further your computations.

All right.

But even if it takes you another five years to actually find what's there,

there is something there, gentlemen.

Something more significant than anyone can imagine.

Well, Gretchen, John, you've certainly given us a lot to puzzle over.

And we, for our part, all of us sitting around the table, thank you very much

for your time, considerations, and your knowledge.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Take care.

Later that day, Craig Tester

and metal detection expert Gary Drayton, along with geologist Terry Matheson, are

continuing their search of the spoils.

brought up from the team's drilling operation at the so-called Megabin site,

some 600 feet northeast of the Money Pit.

So we're going from 88 to 98.

You can see it's a pretty dense formation right now.

It is in the same area

that veteran Oak Island treasure hunter Dan Blankenship found compelling

evidence of human activity.

some 100 feet deep underground including mysterious voids wooden

tunnels and an impenetrable steel plate believed to be protecting a possible

treasure vault

Have you drilled through steel before?

Yes, we've actually drilled through a railway track before.

Oh, really? Yeah. What kind of noise does it make when it goes through? Very

metallic-y. Okay. Yeah, there's definitely shrieking, especially as you

core through it.

You're basically drilling without any lubrication, so you'll definitely hear

the squeaks.

Oh, we want to hear that noise at some point.

Hey, Terry.

Were you expecting to hit bedrock or anything like that any time?

I would have thought a little deeper.

Could it be wood or is it... I don't think so. It's pretty dense.

It could be a Halifax slate. It could be a gray slate.

It's harder than slate, whatever I'm on, I think.

Harder than slate?

This could be it.

But this could be it.

While drilling an exploratory borehole in the Megabin area, the Oak Island team

has just encountered a mysterious obstruction.

Teddy? You!

What was your final depth on that?

99 and a half.

Could the team have found evidence of the impenetrable metal object discovered

by Dan Blankenship at the same depth back in 1973?

A metal object?

he believed to be protecting an underground treasure vault?

He was torquing on it so much, all the joints are locked. Because

the drill is unable to penetrate the obstruction, the team

will now examine the core sample in the hopes of determining what it is and

possibly how to get through it.

We don't know what's down there, if there is a plate.

we'll see it and if there's a plate covering up something then that's going

to be huge would you get it on this one

sure

what the heck we got here pretty competent rock actually yeah we like to

refer to that as granite okay please geologists

That's bedrock.

And if we're in bedrock, that's going to finish this hole.

Now that the team has struck bedrock at a depth of some 100 feet, their

exploration of the megabin site has reached a disappointing end.

Having found no sign of the massive chamber indicated in their seismic

survey or any evidence of the underground structures reported by Dan

Blankenship, they must now decide.

whether to conduct further drilling in the area or move on to more promising

targets at the money pit gentlemen morning guys didn't find anything that

wasn't geological between 90 and 120 nothing just different clays and

sometimes some boulders but in general clay is almost the entire way i think

what they saw on the seismic is is this sand interval right here

That's the problem with seismic it's interpretive, you know, it's not a

photograph the data showed Densities this less dense layer that was

interpreted as a possible tunnel and or a cavern or void Unfortunately, it's not

so Disappointing but you know now we know every piece of information good or

bad Ultimately is good info.

So yeah move on unfortunately

Later that evening... So, Jack, if you can ring Tobias up.

...Brothers Marty and Rick Lagina gather with members of their team in the war

room.

Hello, Tobias.

Hi, guys.

They are eager to hear a report from German mining museum geochemist Tobias

Godronik concerning the origins of the lead cross found last year at Smith's

Cove.

So Tobias, as you can probably understand, we're somewhat on pins and

needles hoping to hear what you have to tell us. So if you'd be, again, so kind,

we're very anxious.

Yeah, so I compared the lead isotope data of the cross that you gave me with

my database of ore bodies and metals here.

And I think I got some pretty interesting results for you.

So as you already knew, the lead that was used for the cross.

cannot be from america comparing the data i noticed that the lead isotopes of

the cross are somehow related to european deposits but i did

not find any match with the quarries that were used in the fifteenth to

seventeenth centuries i therefore went on and compared the lead isotopes of the

cross with those of deposits where

Archaeologists know medieval mining took place, and I think I found a match

there. Really?

Yeah. And time period-wise, you think it's pre-15th century then?

I think it's pre-15th century, yes.

Wow. You nailed it, Gary. Yeah.

Fantastic. This could be Templar connected.

I think it's pre-15th century, yes.

Wow.

Fantastic. Unbelievable.

Sweet.

During a meeting in Oak Island's War Room, geochemist Tobias Kovronik has

just shared the results of an astonishing scientific report.

It suggests that the lead used to make the cross found last year at Smith's

Cove was mined from European deposits more than 600 years ago.

Pre-15th century, that's...

hugely impressive. How certain about the time period are you?

It must be earlier because from the 15th century onwards all the lead came from

very big deposits in Poland and in Germany and slightly different from

that. So I think the deposit from which this lead was mined is too small to be

exploited on an industrial scale.

Wow. where the heck did it come from the data of the cross is very consistent

with the area of southern france wow look at him look at him

grinning like a cheshire cat over there i knew it that's fantastic

that cross is associated with the templar influence region in france it's

certainly the time of the templars 1300s 1400s

or even earlier.

All of that is astounding news, but it's not just the one item. It's what that

item represents, and that item represents possibilities.

What other answers reside in that cove?

So, Tobias, can you name a specific city or region?

Most probably the area of two mountain ranges, the Cévennes and the so-called

Montagne Noire.

It's like 20 miles by 20 miles.

In the area of Rennes-le-Chateau? Yeah, yeah, that's pretty close, yeah.

That's exactly where we were. Wow.

Wow.

Four years ago, Marty and Alex Lagina traveled to Rennes-le-Chateau, a village

in southern France that has strong connections to the Knights Templar

dating back to the 13th century.

My name is Marty. Nice to meet you. There they met with Toby Dobler, a

modern-day Templar Grand Master.

If you were going to look for the treasure of the Knights Templar right

now today, you would look on Oak Island.

That's for sure.

It was Toby's belief that members of the Knights Templar moved priceless

religious artifacts to Rennes-le-Chateau in the 14th century for safekeeping

before transporting them to Scotland and later to Oak Island.

Could the team finally have the hard scientific evidence they've been looking

for? That the stories of a Templar journey to Oak Island are true?

And if so, does that mean that the many legends about Templars hiding a vast

treasure on Oak Island are true as well?

It's stunning information, but I'm more stunned by the fact that it has

propelled Marty to really give credence to the possibilities of something

happened on this island.

centuries ago it's a piece of data i can't disregard data here's a piece that

does support a very ancient landing on this island at least and so it's pre

-15th century is there any cutoff going back where you'd say well it can't be

older than something

These mines where the lead came from were used from the Roman area onwards.

This is indicated by pottery shards that were found there.

So it can be earlier.

Well, look, Tobias, all we can do is say thank you. I think you raised eyebrows

right across the length and breadth of this table, certainly.

And we'll have to discuss where we go with the information.

You're very welcome, and I thank you to be involved.

Thank you, Tobias. Appreciate it. We'll be in contact. Thank you. Bye.

Wow.

What do you think, Gary? I mean, I kind of figured it was medieval.

You did. That's why I believe that cross is an historic find for North America.

And we're overlooking the big picture. We haven't finished in Smith's Cove yet.

That's right. We could find something even more fantastic than the cross.

I mean, if it was made pre-15th century and it was deposited near the time it

was made, it is probably the most historic thing that's maybe ever

happened in North America.

Yeah. That's incredible news.

The hunt continues.

For Rick, Marty, and their team, the exciting news that the lead in the cross

found at Smith's Cove can be traced back more than six centuries.

and may also be connected to the activities of the Knights Templar in

France, offers a welcome validation.

It also suggests they may be closer than ever to solving the 223-year-old Oak

Island mystery.

But as they prepare to embark on their mammoth excavation of Smith's Cove, what

else will they find?

Evidence of a vast treasure?

Or... will they discover something of even greater value perhaps the

identities of those who left it there and why after more than two centuries of

searching has the mystery been so impossible to solve

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Not since Moses has the water been held back so well. The stars align to the

island. This is a star map where the actual treasure is. This is one of your

points. There's a huge boulder over here. It could be a landmark.

Look at that.

Almost gone. They're leaking.

We're severely compromised.

We can't function like this.

I think we've got something over here. Oh, look.

There's something curved there. Holy smokes. I do think this is the 90-foot

stone.