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NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

-(horn honking) -CHARLES: Here they come.

-TERRY: Seems like old times. -Yup.

-RICK: What do you make of that? -We're back to the possibility

that the treasure hunt's been going on a lot longer

than we ever imagined.

We will find something. I'm positive.

A lot faster than I thought.

The anchors is actually a bit of a clue.

-MARTY: Wow. -DOUG: It's almost like

there is a master plan to these features.

-Take a look at that. -GARY: So you're seeing markings

-on the rock? -MARTY: Well, there's something

going on here. That's the anchor stone. I can buy that.

NARRATOR: 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.

♪ ♪

-Here they come. -TERRY: Seems like old times.

CHARLES: Yup.

NARRATOR: As the start of a new day

dawns on Oak Island...

Hey, Rick, how you doing?

-CHARLES: Hey, Rick! -Hey.

NARRATOR: ...brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their partners

are commencing a strategic drilling program

at the location where the treasure mystery began

225 years ago-- the Money Pit.

So, our first point of the season is going to be F6.

Let's go down. It should be right over there.

-Let's do it. -All right.

NARRATOR: Due to restrictions related

to the COVID-19 pandemic,

Rick, Marty and the Oak Island team

will be unable to perform the large-scale digging operation

they hoped to conduct this year with Irving Equipment Limited.

Instead, they are spending their time and resources

on a core-drilling program with representatives

from Choice Sonic Drilling.

This will entail drilling a number of boreholes

along a strategic grid in the hopes

of locating the original treasure shaft

first discovered in 1795,

and the fabled vault believed to be contained within it.

There it is, Scott.

-F6. -F6.

This is going to be our hole.

Our first hole of the year.

Of course, the goal is to have a tightly spaced pattern

of drill holes that help us map

-the Money Pit. -Right.

Kind of looking for the deeper points in that perhaps.

And that's maybe a place

where, with all the vibration and movement, some...

or all of the treasure has migrated.

MARTY: Come on, baby. Make hole!

NARRATOR: Over the past four years,

Rick, Marty and the team have drilled a number of boreholes

and installed massive steel shafts in an attempt to locate

the fabled Chappell Vault--

a seven-foot-tall wooden box first discovered

by treasure hunters William Chappell and Frederick Blair

in 1897--

that was thought to contain both gold and ancient manuscripts.

They believe that one of these shafts,

dug three years ago, known as "H8,"

may have encountered the vault

because of the incredible discoveries

they made at a depth of some 170 feet.

These included pieces of parchment, leather bookbinding

and even 17th century human bones.

But unfortunately, as they dug deeper

in an attempt to penetrate it,

the team believes the vault may have been pushed further down

and off to the side into a flooded void or chamber.

RICK: We have been chasing the very elusive treasure vault

for years now, and...

we have all come to a belief, more or less,

that it certainly has fallen.

The hope is that this year, the sonic drill program

will tell us exactly where to dig.

The detailed work in this area

is going to give us a much better picture

-of where the Money Pit is. -Well, I'll tell you what.

Continue to do what you... what you've done.

-Continuing on. -All righty. Thank you.

-See you, guys. -CHARLES: See you, Rick.

-TERRY: Take care. -CHARLES: Take care.

NARRATOR: As the drilling operation

gets underway in the Money Pit area...

MARTY: Morning, guys!

-OTHERS: Morning. -GARY: Hello, chaps.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina joins his brother Marty,

along with other members of the team

and geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

to continue their exploration of a mysterious feature

on Lot 11, near the western edge of the triangle-shaped swamp.

Are you going to tell us where to dig?

Yes.

-Okay. Good! -(laughter)

NARRATOR: This feature is one of two locations

on either side of the swamp

where Oak Island theorists Corjan Mol

and Chris Morford believe

that priceless religious artifacts

connected to the Knights Templar,

including the golden menorah that once stood

in King Solomon's Temple,

as well as the Ark of the Covenant,

could potentially be buried.

-That's impressive. -Yup.

Well, what are we doing, Ian? You're in charge here.

Well, metal detecting is critical.

-Agreed! -(laughter)

-Finally, we reach an agreement! -MARTY: You know what?

-Normally, you don't get to go first, do you? Yeah. -No.

Yeah, well, the order I would see is, metal detect,

then if we can, um, we may not have

to clear all the trees, but clear a few more.

-Yeah. -MARTY: Yeah, I think.

And then excavate.

So, I'm kind of

interested in this area right here because there's two things.

It's either young-- which is terribly important,

because what were they searching for?

And if it's old, there's many things it could have been.

-Yeah. -MARTY: No more talking.

-Get after it, Gary! -Oh, I am, mate.

♪ ♪

-(beeping) -Come on.

Speak to me, machine.

The west hill location is, again, a very interesting site.

Why wouldn't you go check at this point?

Because Chris and Corjan-- they've been right to date.

The idea is to come to an understanding

of the mounded area, and so, the hope is

that we can find some type of structure,

and we're always looking for artifacts to try

to tell the story of a... of a location.

Yeah, I think that's good.

Not really feeling any love in here.

-We're ready any time you are. -Okay.

IAN: We should take a look now.

-RICK: That in the bucket? -IAN: Yeah.

-Okay. -MARTY: Boy, not a rock in there.

IAN: Yeah, it's not big rocks.

It's obviously disturbed material,

and it's very loosely packed.

We'll have to just go deeper.

BILLY: Yeah.

IAN: Not a lot of stones, no.

We want big stones.

Um, that's a root system probably.

MARTY: I think so.

NARRATOR: Because the team is finding disturbed material,

or evidence of human workings,

could it mean that they are close

to proving that Chris Morford

and Corjan Mol's incredible theory is true?

You want to stop?

IAN: No. Uh, let him do one more bucket.

IAN: Well, I'm going to take a look.

Stop there, Billy.

IAN: That's good.

So, I think we're down into the surface, underneath,

that this was piled on top of.

-Exactly. -Also, if you take a look at it,

within this, there's no stones.

Is that indicative of a much older dig then?

Well, right now, that's what I'm defaulting to.

-Yeah. -Let's take another foot off it. -IAN: Yup.

The mound itself was almost exclusively dirt.

The rocks weren't there. We know that swamp,

'cause we've dug all over. It's full of rocks.

So that would imply to me that it was hand dug.

DOUG: Big pile of rocks right there.

Stop there, Billy.

That's, to me, the original layer.

They're somewhat fitted. That, that, that, that.

Yeah. I think that's interesting,

and the stone on the side-- it continues on.

Some of it fitted together

exactly the same as the paved area.

-Is that right? -Yeah. Looks hand-placed.

Perfect.

RICK: They're somewhat fitted.

-Yeah. Yeah. -Right here.

NARRATOR: While investigating a man-made trench feature,

located on Lot 11,

along the western side

of the mysterious triangle-shaped swamp,

Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

and other members of their team, have just made

a potentially important discovery.

IAN: It's all of the size, you know, small,

some of it fitted exactly the same as the paved area.

Maybe people were throwing rocks up

as this was being excavated.

What I'm thinking is, 'cause Marty knows,

we both like to build stuff with stone.

-Mm-hmm. -Is it possible

they used the stone to line this?

If this feature carries all the way, then, it's purposeful.

NARRATOR: A layer of fitted rocks

resembling the stone-paved area

that the team discovered last year in the swamp,

and which was dated to be as much as 800 years old?

Could the two features be connected in some way?

Again, what's got me a little perplexed is,

it has some of the characteristics of being older.

Bill, when you come back in, just only go so far.

-I'd just like to see if this carries through here. -Okay.

Billy?

Let's just take a look.

Yeah.

Huh.

Well, we can see the edge pretty nicely there.

-Mm-hmm. -The stone on the side continues on.

RICK: It's just hard to believe

that you would dig it this long, right?

-Yeah. -You know, why dig this?

-Yep. -IAN: It just doesn't make any sense.

A farmer doesn't do this.

It's just not a everyday activity.

You got to chase the why of it.

Why we're here. This has to do with...

Chris and Corjan's theory on the two points off of the pentagram.

Well, look, that leads to an obvious thing, right?

That's close enough for the technology

of the time we're dealing with.

Particularly the sense of a trench.

If people are looking for something,

but they're not exactly sure,

that's what you do-- dig a trench.

DOUG: The other thing is that we're back to the possibility

that the treasure hunt's been going on

a lot longer than we ever imagined.

Someone could have been trying to find something here

based on geometry similar

to what Corjan and Chris have discovered.

-Mm-hmm. -IAN: This was a dug pile.

Find what you didn't find or hide what you wanted to hide,

and... and you get out of there.

To me, it's another thing right now indicating

that there was very complex activity going on here.

My take on it is not to disturb it a lot more,

'cause we can come in here easily.

So then I'm thinking maybe we're done.

Let's just stand back and assess what we've done today and...

-and what the data shows. -Yeah.

Okay, Bill. I guess you can track out.

Yeah.

RICK: Imagine that, another mystery.

GARY: We will find something. I'm positive.

NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...

RICK: Today, gentlemen,

is a war room that I truly look forward to.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina has called a meeting in the war room,

where he and the entire Oak Island team

will be presented with a theory that could add

an intriguing new dimension

to the Oak Island treasure hunt.

Erin K. Helton, uh, called me up.

She made mention that she had

a particular theory about Oak Island.

She brings a unique perspective, shall we say.

She has this background in GIS information systems,

and, uh, Zena's work really was the genesis of her interest.

So to that end, Doug, if you can call everybody up.

RICK: Hey, everybody.

-MARTY: Hello. -STEVE G.: Hey.

Hi, guys.

-RICK: Hello, Erin. -Hi.

So, Erin, I would turn it over to you,

but I'd ask you first to...

to, uh, enlighten them a bit further

about your background and how you approach this theory.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

To introduce myself, um, uh, Erin Helton.

I actually started my career

in GIS.

NARRATOR: Erin Helton is an expert

in Geographic Information Systems--

or GIS--

and has spent over a decade studying archaeological surveys

and excavations throughout North America.

Also joining the meeting

is Judi Rudebusch, a former colleague

of the late author, Zena Halpern,

whose research on the Oak Island mystery

has played a central role in Erin's theory.

So, I'm a map person.

I'm a cartographer.

It was kind of completely natural

to have intrigued me when Zena Halpern

ended up presenting a couple of maps,

um, which I think are very valuable clues

to helping understand what's happened on Oak Island.

Judi, do you have anything to say

about the map and your thoughts about it

and Zena's work?

I remember when she, uh, first was given it to research.

The first thing she said was,

she says, "Judi, we're sitting on dynamite."

(chuckling)

NARRATOR: Four years ago,

Zena presented Rick Lagina and the team

with what she believed to be a 14th century French map

of Oak Island,

created by members of the Knights Templar.

One of the more intriguing aspects of the 14th century map

is that it identifies many well-known sites and landmarks

found on Oak Island, including the swamp and the Money Pit.

However, some features have remained a mystery

to Rick, Marty and the team--

most notably, two which are identified

simply as "the Anchors."

ERIN: For me, Zena's maps really piqued my interest

to try to find these features.

I'll actually be focusing mostly on the anchors

on this map.

I'll be locating these

and proposing a location for those.

And I think "the Anchors" is actually a bit of a clue.

So, as a good GIS analyst, I went and...

started collecting data sets.

I went and found as many aerial imagery data sets

that I could find, but also, in my opinion, more importantly,

is, I found, uh, lidar aerial imagery.

And I started plotting curious points of interest

all across the island.

Now, I'm gonna start with what's familiar,

which is the Nolan's Cross,

and I'm also going to start with 20-A,

which was a very well documented-- by Steve--

uh, boulder from your excavations

out in Smith's Cove.

I will be talking about a lot of suspected features--

some of them haven't been named before.

Um, I have adopted somewhat of a naming convention

for each plot number--

so in this case, 20-A, it's on plot 20,

and I will be adding a letter suffix.

So that way, it'll help me make sense,

or at least help keep track

of all of the various suspected features and boulders.

Okay.

And with the help of another boulder,

out on the west side of the island, 21-A,

you can see it's faint, but it is there,

on the imagery here.

This is actually an east-west meridian line between them

that extends the entire stretch of the island.

This line has incredibly high precision.

We're within five-hundredths of a degree due east-west.

This meridian line is very significant

and it helps orient a lot of...

anything to true north, essentially.

It's their true north and true east.

It's really remarkable.

Okay, so I'm gonna propose one other boulder.

6-A is another suspected boulder location.

It was visible on the aerial imagery as well.

And with 6-A,

if you draw a circle...

out to 21-A,

and swing the circle all the way around,

and if you draw a line through the headstone

and straight through, you reach another boulder

along the east side of the swamp.

But I don't think this is just any boulder.

I think this is

the west anchor.

NARRATOR: The west anchor?

As indicated on what is believed to be

a 14th century Templar map?

Located east of the mysterious triangle-shaped swamp

and just 147 feet from the megalithic formation of boulders

known as Nolan's Cross?

This being the west anchor, and I suspect the north anchor

can be found exactly 30 degrees east of north,

up on the north edge.

I have numerous alignments and very faint lidar

suggesting that there will be a boulder located

right along that line.

So these, I believe, are your two anchors

as depicted on Zena's map.

It's almost like there is a master plan to these features.

NARRATOR: Could Erin Helton's research be correct

that the two anchor points depicted on Zena Halpern's map

might be boulders,

still setting in their original position

as key coordinates of a master plan-- or grid--

created by those who buried a vast treasure

on Oak Island centuries ago?

If this is a truly significant map depicting Oak Island,

then you have to try and make sense out of the words on it.

And I think she's correct.

These anchor points could mean exactly what she's saying.

This anchors the grid.

I think that's a logical conclusion.

ERIN: So, we're gonna go back to our maps here.

My goal

is to help draw out what's been lost

around the Money Pit area.

And I'm hoping, after we've established

the Money Pit area,

we'll also be able to predict an actual location for the vault.

IN: After we've established the Money Pit area,

we'll also be able to predict an actual location for the vault.

NARRATOR: In the war room,

Geographic Information Systems specialist Erin Helton

has just presented Rick, Marty, Craig and the Oak Island team

with an astonishing theory,

a theory suggesting that the so-called anchor points

on a possible 14th century Templar map of Oak Island

could hold the key to revealing the true location

of the Money Pit treasure vault.

ERIN: We're gonna go back to our maps here.

I found this map of Oak Island.

This was published in Popular Science, June 1939.

And one thing that I found really exciting

was when I discovered

that it's just such a great clue.

It not only has the two drilled stones

but it has all of these other boulders marked.

And with these other boulders

and measurements marked and indicated

and with the anchor,

we can triangulate the location of the Money Pit.

Now, we're gonna zoom in here.

The boulder south of the Money Pit on this map,

I'm designating 18-A.

We have 15-A

along the east side of the swamp.

And another feature, 16-A,

is a suspected boulder on the coastline.

So, if we take the location of 15-A

and we run a line up to our east meridian line boulder, 20-A,

in Smith's Cove,

we run a line from 16-A on the edge of the beach

and we draw a circle from the west anchor out to 18-A,

just south of the Money Pit location,

all three intersect

in where I think the Money Pit is located.

And I'm a big fan

of corroborating independent data sources,

so I asked for the center point

for your "caisson of choice," I guess you could say.

Whatever caisson you currently feel

is most representative of your Money Pit.

-Yeah. -This lines up

within three feet

of my proposed Money Pit location.

MARTY: Look at all the wood.

GARY: Wow, that is spectacular.

-TERRY: Whoa! -NARRATOR: Last year, the team

excavated an eight-foot-wide steel-cased shaft

known as RF-1,

where they found incredible evidence suggesting

they could be close to locating the original Money Pit.

Is it possible that Erin Helton,

using Zena Halpern's believed 14th century map

as a baseline for her theory,

has just found more evidence that the Oak Island team

was in fact just mere feet from locating the fabled treasure?

Erin, Steve...

-I've got a question. -Sure.

Do you want me to check all those stones?

If you could lock in the west anchor

and north anchor, if we could get those confirmed, um,

-that would be, that would be great. -Sure.

ERIN: I'm curious to see kind of how large they are.

Because the smaller the boulder is, the more precise

all the other alignments coming out from it would be.

Confirming these suspected boulders,

I think we can finally put together

an actual location for the vault.

RICK: So, let's get her that data,

and see what she comes up with.

Certainly will.

RICK: So, Erin,

we want to say thank you.

And we look forward to your continued

interest in this subject.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

-Thank you. -Thanks, everybody.

MARTY: Cheers.

To the hunt!

NARRATOR: The following day...

-CHARLES: Hey, Marty. -MARTY: Hey, guys.

Where's all the goods?

The goods are right here in front of us, brother.

NARRATOR: ...as the team prepares to search

for Erin Helton's so-called "anchor points,"

Marty Lagina checks in at the Money Pit area

for a progress report on Borehole F-6.

A borehole Rick and Marty hope

will produce evidence of the legendary Chappell Vault.

What do we got?

We got bedrock plateau at 160.

We went down over 30 feet to 192.

-Right. Hey, Scott. -Hey, guys. How's it going?

-Good. -Hey, Scott.

Pretty interesting thing just happened over there.

They went from 206 to 213.5,

just the bar just went down.

-Just now? -Yes. -It's an opening.

Now that's maybe what I'm looking for.

-The plot thickens because we haven't seen this before. -Yeah.

NARRATOR: A seven-foot void or cavity?

Some 213 feet deep in the Money Pit?

Could the Oak Island team have found an area

that may contain the Money Pit treasure vault?

That's seven feet, seven and a half feet of stuff right there.

-So, an opening? -Yeah.

This right here is 206.

-TERRY: That's 206? Okay. -Yeah.

Let's take a look, shall we?

So, this whole intersection here is?

206 to 213 and a half.

Something washed down through here and-and

deposited a lot of this material.

-TEDFORD: Yeah. -Okay.

MARTY: Still don't see any real void,

though-- do you think you've drilled

a real void anywhere yet?

-Not yet. -(knocks on table)

MARTY: Not yet?

This, I can see bedding in this.

Yeah, this is not what we want to see.

-MARTY: Thanks, guys. -TERRY: Thanks a lot, man.

NARRATOR: Because the team has not found

evidence of the void where the treasure vault

is believed to have migrated to,

they will now cease drilling at this location

and move to the next borehole on their grid.

The island is outwitting us.

-Treasure runs away from the seeker, remember. -(laughter)

-Just keep plugging away. -It's there?

-It's there, Marty. -All right. -The day is coming.

On that happy thought, I got some stuff to do.

-Okay, Marty. Take care. -Carry on. -See you later.

NARRATOR: As Charles Barkhouse and Terry Matheson

continue to oversee the core-drilling operation

at the Money Pit...

RICK: I really do want to find

something that's relevant to the story.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina and metal detection expert Gary Drayton

arrive at Lot 13,

on the opposite side of the swamp

from the mysterious trench on Lot 11.

It is in this area that Oak Island theorists

Chris Morford and Corjan Mol

have identified a second location

where they believe priceless religious treasures

may be hidden.

It's time to find something that connects to

what Oak Island might be about.

Okay, mate. Time to put this place on the treasure map.

Okay.

Let's find some gold and silver, mate.

I'm not gonna argue.

(metal detector chimes)

-RICK: I love that sound. -Yeah.

So let's find something good.

(detector beeping)

-That's modern iron. -Yeah.

-I'm just gonna skip over it, mate. -Okay.

-(detector beeping) -RICK: That's not bad.

Yeah, just in there, mate.

(detector trilling)

That...

is a large piece of iron.

It is off an old door lock.

Looks Victorian to me.

Yeah, do you know what this reminds me of, actually?

If you had a fancy cabinet, like a little bureau.

-A latch? -This is what that looks like.

Yeah, it's like a cabinet drawer lock.

-Yeah, it's not big enough for a door. -Yeah.

Yeah.

Wonder what it's doing out here.

Well, remember, now, that's...

Anthony Graves's home over there.

NARRATOR: A lock to a cabinet?

Found on property that once belonged to Anthony Graves?

Although little is known about this 19th century

Oak Island landowner,

he is rumored to have often paid merchants

for goods on the mainland using silver coins.

Is it possible that Anthony Graves

may have discovered part of the treasure,

and in one of the same areas where Chris Morford

and Corjan Mol have instructed the team to focus their search?

If so, what else might still be waiting to be found?

At least we're going back in time, mate.

-Yep. -That's good.

-We need to go back further in time. -Oh, yeah.

Got to be something else here.

-RICK: This area holds a lot of promise. -Yeah.

MARTY: So, Steve, we're going to find the anchor points.

-STEVE G.: The two anchor points. -All right.

ALEX: There's Jack and Gary.

-Hey, guys. -MARTY: Gentlemen.

How's it going?

You guys are joining the party, right?

Yep, you got that right, mate. We're not missing out on this.

NARRATOR: One day after the team's meeting

with Oak Island theorist Erin Helton,

Marty and Alex Lagina, along with surveyor Steve Guptill,

arrive at the mysterious triangle-shaped swamp.

They are also being joined by metal detection expert

Gary Drayton, and Jack Begley.

The team will attempt to locate one of two anchor stones

noted on a 14th century map of Oak Island.

A map that is believed to be connected

to the Knights Templar.

STEVE G.: So I have the coordinate.

-We're about 200 feet away. -Let's go find it.

I hope she's right, I hope this is really dramatic,

-whatever it is. -Hopefully. This way.

NARRATOR: According to Erin's research,

these stones are important markers

that could reveal the precise location

of the original Money Pit treasure vault.

I have real problems with Zena's map.

But when you get somebody as professional as Erin

who looks at it and starts to think that it's real

because of her discipline,

that helps me think perhaps it's real.

The coordinate is taking me to...

here.

-JACK: Wow. -ALEX: That is a rock.

JACK: You're kidding.

-It's bang-on. -Yeah.

But that looks like a little rock.

STEVE G.: She did say that it would be a small rock.

GARY: Might be much bigger in the ground.

STEVE G.: Well, let's uncover it. There could be a mark on it.

And that would be important.

GARY: But, ironically, it's called an "anchor" stone.

You would see this, 'cause you'd be out on a ship there.

You'd come in here and you'd see it, yeah.

If that really is an ancient harbor...

Well, if that's a harbor, that helps.

...then it makes more sense that you'd actually have

one of your anchor stones nearby.

MARTY: All right, Jack, if you don't mind.

JACK: Oh, yeah.

STEVE G.: Here's how we-we know it wasn't put in place,

at least in the last 30 years.

There's a fairly substantial root on top of it.

-Thanks. -You're welcome.

We haven't got to the bottom of it yet.

-It could be quite large. -GARY: It is bigger.

STEVE G.: I mean, there's one thing that we can say, for survey control.

It's big, it's in place, it looks like it's in situ.

It's something that we would use.

And she's right. In our world,

something smaller, because we want the center.

-Well, let me ask you this. -Mm-hmm.

Was that exactly the point? Right at the top?

STEVE G.: That was the exact, yeah.

JACK: I'm kind of getting convinced

that this might be an anchor stone.

It might actually be

in place.

They didn't have to move it because they already

found stones that were in place.

So I think this is pretty convincing.

ALEX: I'm not seeing much of anything.

Take a look at that.

You don't think that's man-made?

Right in the center of the rock?

JACK: Yeah, I'm almost-- I'm kind of with Steve on this one.

-That could be. -It's so damn subtle, but...

STEVE G.: It doesn't look natural.

I mean, I put marks no bigger than that

in my survey control.

I wouldn't leave that for another survey to come behind.

-But I've put marks no bigger than that. -JACK: Yeah.

Put it right in there. See if that's the exact spot,

just for the grins.

-STEVE G.: This is her anchor. -JACK: Wow.

To land right on the spot that she indicated.

-ALEX: That's fantastic. -Yeah.

NARRATOR: Could surveyor Steve Guptill's assessment be correct?

That this rock is, in fact, the west anchor,

as noted on a possible Templar map

that is believed to be nearly 700 years old?

MARTY: I'm hoping there's something underneath.

That would make sense. You could send a guy out and say,

give him a general area... In fact,

I like what you said, Jack. Go to the harbor,

pull your boat in, look to your right.

You'll see a bunch of stones. Turn them over

till you find the one with the mark on it.

That's the anchor stone. I can buy that.

I can, too, yeah.

I mean, it certainly stands out.

It's a white granite rock.

-You would have seen it from inside the water there. -MARTY: Yeah.

We should just flip it up from this side. It'll...

-Flip it that way. Agreed. -Yeah, exactly.

This might be tough.

NARRATOR: The anchor stone, visible from a ship?

Watch your hands, Jack.

NARRATOR: Is it possible this stone

was used by sailing vessels

to mark not only the location of a safe harbor...

All right, that's good.

NARRATOR: ...but also the whereabouts

of the Money Pit treasure vault?

What's this right here?

GARY: So, you're seeing markings on the side of the rock?

MARTY: Well, there's something going on here, but...

GARY: Yeah, there's, like, a gash out the side, isn't there?

Is there anything about this rock, gentlemen, that would...

If you were to explain to somebody else how to find it,

anything you see here that makes it other than a rock?

-ALEX: Not yet. -GARY: No.

But it is peculiar that it lines up so well.

ALEX: I'm not seeing very much. So, I think

the way you'd identify it now would be

similar size or similar material in the other anchor.

But if you're trying to conceal something, you'd probably want

to make sure the person knew about both of the anchors.

So, I feel like we should maybe go check out

-the other one. -MARTY: We should.

-JACK: Yep. -MARTY: All right. Let's go.

-All right. -GARY: Okay.

All right, guys. We're off in this direction.

About 280 feet.

I'm guessing it's about in the middle

of the Boulderless Beach.

NARRATOR: After locating

one of the so-called anchor stones

noted on a 14th century French map,

which theorist Erin Helton believes will help lead

to the Oak Island treasure vault...

It is a dramatic end

-of the beach with the boulders, isn't it? -MARTY: It is.

NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina and his son Alex,

along with Jack Begley,

metal detection expert Gary Drayton

and surveyor Steve Guptill,

are searching for the second anchor stone

believed to be located along the island's northern shore.

STEVE G.: We're about, uh, 60 feet out.

JACK: At least we're getting close.

It's just in here, guys.

(grunting)

There's the stone.

-That's it? -STEVE G.: That's it.

-This is her north anchor. -JACK: Wow.

-Look at that. -ALEX: I mean,

-that's pretty impressive. -Yeah.

I think you guys should come take a look.

It's a big rock.

ALEX: What is that?

STEVE G.: There is something

that looks like a "T" or a cross on it at the top.

-JACK: Really? -But that looks like it could be natural.

But I don't know.

ALEX: Yeah.

What do you think, Alex? Yes or no?

ALEX: I don't know.

It looks like it's most likely natural, but it also does

kind of look a little bit like the boat from the Boat Stone.

-Oh, really? -It looks a bit like the-the boat.

NARRATOR: A possible man-made carving?

Similar to the one found

on the mysterious so-called Boat Stone?

Located in Westford, Massachusetts,

the Boat Stone is a 250-pound boulder

which contains what many believe

are 14th century carvings of a ship,

an ancient crossbow arrow

and the numerals one, eight, four.

MARKUS: The boat represents a costal range.

Follow the coast.

NARRATOR: Five years ago,

Oak Island theorist Robert Markus

proposed that the inscriptions on the Boat Stone

were actually the beginnings of a treasure map,

one that would lead to Oak Island.

This is the starting point.

I believe the Templars had carved this.

NARRATOR: According to Robert Markus's research,

the carvings on the Boat Stone

were made by the Scottish Templar knight Henry Sinclair,

who many believe sailed to Oak Island in 1398

to hide a vast treasure,

which included the Ark of the Covenant

and the golden menorah from King Solomon's Temple.

Is it possible that this boulder,

believed to represent one of the anchors

on a possible 14th century Templar map,

could also somehow be connected

to the legendary voyage of Prince Henry Sinclair?

Well, this is the one Erin said would be here?

STEVE G.: She did, yeah.

She sees both of them in the lidar data.

GARY: Oh, so, two for two.

-STEVE G.: She's two for two. -Yeah.

If you compare this stone to the southern anchor rock,

they're-they're pretty much the same size and shape.

-And the same sort of rock. -Yeah.

JACK: It has a very similar break to the last one.

You know, the gouge that was taken out of it?

-MARTY: In size, I mean... -ALEX: A little smaller.

MARTY: No, I'd say that's virtually identical.

Yeah.

I'm anxious to see

what Erin has in store for us next

and how finding these boulders

will help lead to the treasure chamber,

'cause that's what it's all about.

MARTY: The anchor stone.

Look for the anchor stone.

Yeah, I don't know how you'd ever find it, though.

GARY: Right on the edge of the Boulderless Beach, as well.

MARTY: Right.

-If you were looking at this from sea... -GARY: Yeah.

'Cause you'd come in from open water,

just come down here and hopefully see that rock.

And it shares something in common

with the other stone at the side of the swamp.

It's in an area where you could

tie to it if it was some kind of anchor rock.

They're certainly similar size,

shape and have similar markings on them,

but there'd be no way to know this

from any other boulder on the beach.

If this really is significant, there's got to be another way

-to identify it. -MARTY: Absolutely.

All right, well, this has been

-a successful mission. -GARY: Yeah.

-But for now, I think we're done. -All right.

-JACK: We found what we were looking for. -ALEX: Right.

GARY: Yeah, that is fantastic.

MARTY: Way to go, guys.

-MARTY: Hey, gents. -PETER: Hey, guys.

We come with reports.

NARRATOR: Following their search

for the two anchor stones

that could potentially lead to the exact location

of the Money Pit treasure vault,

Marty Lagina and his son Alex,

along with metal detection expert Gary Drayton

and Jack Begley,

arrive at the Oak Island Interpretive Centre,

where Rick Lagina, Doug Crowell

and Peter Fornetti are eager to hear their report.

PETER: How'd your venture go?

We did manage to locate both of the anchor stones.

What we think are both of the anchor stones.

I mean, how would you describe them?

Well, I'm a skeptic, okay?

I mean, I keep coming back to the same point,

but I expected them, if they're anchor stones,

-to be massive. -I don't.

And, well, they weren't.

The first one, the west one,

white granite sticking out.

That was exactly where it should be.

I thought that one was very intriguing,

and it seemed like it could be an actual anchor stone

because it had the pockmark on top.

It was in a nice position to be seen from the harbor

if you pulled a ship in there.

-Yeah. -RICK: Well, look, I think it's great.

I love the fact that you believe,

on some level, that you found

-her two anchor stones. -Oh, we definitely found it.

-We found two rocks. -Yeah. Mm-hmm.

MARTY: And...

there was a tiny, little, finger-sized pocket

in the one right where it should be.

GARY: Yeah. There was actually

one on that one on the east side.

ALEX: Oh, there was, that's right.

There was a possible marking on it.

You've got to remember, you know,

we're trying to context finding these things

when they may have been

put in position hundreds of years ago.

If this is a grand conspiracy

over centuries of time,

knowledge of means is gonna be passed down generationally

to-to keepers of the secret.

Yes.

I'm thoroughly impressed by Erin's background

and her willingness to-to apply her experience

to further an understanding

of the validity of Zena's research.

I find Zena's research to be credible.

I'm excited about it.

It's gonna be highly relevant. I think

that everyone is going to have a bit of an "aha" moment.

Look, there's a lot of confirmation yet to be done.

I have always said a theory,

no matter how elegant, is but a theory

until you hold something in your hands.

-Right. -ALEX: I agree with you

that we don't have the full theory yet.

And, so, we need to get this data together.

Send it off to Erin. See how it all fits in

to this, you know, as she presents it to us.

On that note, I do find it extremely interesting.

-Am I willing to keep an open mind and see the rest? -Yeah.

I'm not only willing. I'm excited to do it.

And I think I speak for everybody here on that.

Okay. Let's call it a day today, guys.

NARRATOR: For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team,

finding evidence that could help prove the authenticity

of a believed 14th century Templar treasure map

of Oak Island

could soon lead to their greatest breakthrough yet

in trying to solve a 225-year-old mystery.

It could also prove that the Oak Island mystery

goes back much further

and is much more profound than anyone ever knew.

But as they push forward,

will the search lead to an ingeniously hidden vault

full of history's greatest treasures?

Or will they discover that the island's secrets

are more carefully guarded

and potentially much more dangerous

than they ever could have imagined?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

RICK: That's impressive.

Don't take a knife to a gunfight.

Wow. I was not expecting that.

Doesn't that line up with the old stone triangle?

It runs along the same line.

I would not have noticed that.

Ah-ha-ha!

-Yeah, look at that. -IAN: What the hell is that?

That looks like a cannon, for God's sake.

Holy (bleep). I didn't expect to see this.

-Oh, geez. Look at that! -Whoa!

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