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

It's the last caisson for the year.

If we're gonna take a shot at this,

we're gonna take our best shot.

CORJAN: This is the holy

of holiest of the Templars.

-Wow! -Oh!

CORJAN: I think we're gonna find some real answers here.

That is incredible.

-We're looking for the extension to the road. -Yes.

LAIRD: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Look at this.

There's a lot of cobble there.

Yeah, I'm wondering if that's it already.

-ALEX: Wow. -CORJAN: It is spectacular.

It's stunningly beautiful.

JOÃO FIANDEIRO: There's nine platforms.

That's exactly the Money Pit story.

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,

man-made workings that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross whose origin may be connected

to 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.

♪ ♪

-JACK: Last can for the year! -GARY: Yeah.

-JACK: I feel good about this caisson. -TERRY: Absolutely.

GARY: Hopefully, we've saved the best

-till the last. -TERRY: Hopefully, some

of the great mystery

-will be revealed today. -Yeah.

NARRATOR: As another brisk fall morning

gets underway on Oak Island, the anticipation

for a potentially historic breakthrough discovery

in the Money Pit area has never been higher

for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and the members of their team.

-Top of the morning, gentlemen. -Hi, Sam. How you doing?

Oh, very best. So, our current depth of hole is around 57 feet.

Super. We're starting to get into full mouthfuls

of the maroon till.

-Yes, sir. -We need to go

-from that to gold. -That's right. -That's right.

First, through the wood maybe

and then into a chamber, let's hope.

It appears, to our research,

-that there is some tunnel here. -Yeah.

NARRATOR: At a location just five feet north

of Borehole C-1, the team is excavating their fifth

and final ten-foot-diameter steel-cased shaft for this year.

Dubbed "B4-C," Rick, Marty and their partner Craig Tester

are especially hopeful for this dig

due to the incredible clues

that they've already recovered

in this area over the past several months.

These finds include evidence of mysterious wooden tunnels

at a depth of some 90 feet,

which have been carbon-dated to as early as the 15th century.

But even more compelling were the results

of water testing in existing boreholes

and core drilling across the area

that was conducted this year.

Both operations yielded high-trace evidence

that vast quantities of silver and gold

lie buried somewhere deep below.

RICK: Our expectations are exceedingly high

for the final can.

The data strongly suggests there's a tunnel,

and the tunnel perhaps means treasure,

or proximity to treasure.

The other thing, of course, is that at 150-foot level,

where in 1897 the vault supposedly was drilled into.

There was a number of intersections

that were confirmed by two or three drill holes.

90 feet was the top of the first suspected tunnel.

So, we're getting close. We're sneaking up on it.

-Yup. -And hopefully, we'll open up into a chamber.

All right, fellas. We'll be... we'll be in touch.

-All right then. -Thanks. -Keep on rocking.

-Take care. -(Sam laughs)

NARRATOR: Although it could take

as much as one more week

for the B4-C Shaft to reach its target depth

below 150 feet,

geologist Terry Matheson

and members of the team will continue searching the spoils

for valuable clues that could help solve

the 227-year-old Oak Island mystery.

So, we're in very dense,

tight material that hasn't been disturbed.

So, that's great, and it just

bodes well for tunnels, or an off...

Cross your fingers-- an offset chamber and some

silver and gold perhaps.

Here's to hoping.

NARRATOR: While the excavation continues

in the Money Pit area,

later that morning...

-MARTY: Hey, Rick! Doug! -SCOTT: Hey, guys.

-Hello, chaps. -Hey, everybody.

NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina gathers members of the team

in the war room for a video conference

with his brother Rick

and Oak Island historian Doug Crowell,

who are currently in Tomar, Portugal.

I got these guys all teed up for a fantastic report.

So, have you got one?

I think an unqualified "yes."

Proceed!

It's been a very interesting trip.

From the moment we arrived,

there was something to be learned.

Finally, we're chasing real historical information

as it relates to Oak Island.

And you cannot separate Portugal from Templar, in my opinion.

Please, inform us.

-Let's go to church! -Let's go to church.

NARRATOR: For the past week, Rick and Doug,

along with Marty's son Alex and his and Rick's nephew Peter,

have been investigating the area

around Tomar for clues

that might support an incredible theory.

One connecting members of the 12th century

medieval military order of monks

known as the "Knights Templar"

and their 14th-century descendants

known as the "Knights of Christ,"

to the Oak Island mystery.

Okay, let's see what we can find.

NARRATOR: So far, working with researcher Corjan Mol...

Every one of them has a symbol.

NARRATOR: ...they have not only seen Templar carvings

at the historic church of Fontarcada...

You might be interested in this one over here.

NARRATOR: ...matching symbols reportedly found

on the legendary 90 Foot Stone...

There's a circle and the dot in the center of the cross.

NARRATOR: ...as well as the H+O Stone.

CORJAN: The circle and the dot

is an early alchemical symbol for gold.

NARRATOR: But also,

in Alqueidão da Serra, an ancient stone road

and pathway that appeared eerily similar in design

to those that the team has recently discovered

in the triangle-shaped swamp.

RICK: Isn't that spectacular?

Yeah, it's cool.

RICK: That is 2,000 years old.

DOUG: Unlike other areas or other countries,

here in Portugal,

they seemed to have embraced that design,

and they've carried that forward through the centuries.

They have kept building roads in this manner.

One of the things that Jorge, the archaeologist,

told us was that

this construction type would be suitable for hills and swamps.

We walked all the way up the mountainside, and

they looked exactly like the stone path we have.

-No kidding. -CHARLES: Wow.

Yeah, that's fantastic.

Okay, well, that's all good information.

Real interesting stuff, guys, and it looks like

you're having an interesting time.

Hurry back because there's a lot of work

gonna be commencing up in the Money Pit, as you're aware.

And, um, we look forward to getting you back on the island.

We will do that.

All right, guys. Thank you. See you later then.

We're going to get back to work.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...

-MARTY: Hey, gents! -BILLY: Hey, Marty.

NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina

joins Gary Drayton, surveyor Steve Guptill,

and Billy Gerhardt on Lot 15,

located just east of the swamp.

If there's a road, that's what we're after today.

-And clues. -Yeah.

I've been wanting to dig this ever since

we were out here delineating this thing.

NARRATOR: In light of Rick and Doug's report from Portugal,

Marty has just obtained

permission from the authorities

to continue investigating a mysterious feature

discovered earlier this year.

First scan, coming up.

NARRATOR: While conducting a ground-penetrating radar scan

just east of the stone road

in the southeast corner of the swamp...

I think the stone road

-might be under us right here. -Oh, that's interesting.

...Alex Lagina and his cousin David Fornetti

were stunned to obtain possible evidence

that buried portions of the feature

may continue somewhere into the uplands.

-I have survey plans for everybody. -Yay!

NARRATOR: Now, it is Marty's hope

that he and members of the team

can not only prove that the stone feature

does continue out of the swamp,

but also determine just where it might lead.

If we're going to take a shot at this,

we're going to take our best shot.

-GARY: Yeah. -All right.

-Positions, everyone. -All right. -All right.

MARTY: This is about the right width

and the right depth to be the road,

and it's showing a consistent anomaly

where we think the road is.

These things all add up. So,

it's risk-reward ratio: it costs almost nothing,

and it could be a huge reward.

(scraping)

STEVE G.: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Look at this.

That could be the road.

-You may want to take a look. -MARTY: Really?

NARRATOR: On Lot 15,

Marty Lagina and members of the team

may have just found promising evidence

that the mysterious stone pathway

believed to be of possible Portuguese origin

does, in fact, continue into the uplands.

STEVE G.: There is a lot of cobble there.

-Oh, yeah. It kind of looks like down there. -It does.

-Yes, it does. Yeah. -MARTY: Yeah. All right, well,

-I'm gonna go dig over there. -BILLY: Yeah.

-That's a good start. -Okay.

MARTY: This new area looks a lot like

it's the beginning of yet another road

going off to the east.

The obvious thing to do is follow the road,

see where it leads us, keep digging.

GARY: This is getting interesting, Billy.

BILLY: Yup. Really exciting.

-There's some cobble. -Yeah, there they are.

You got one, two. This one, three, four, five.

-That's flat, too. -Yeah.

The question is, what do we do?

BILLY: Right. It certainly looks

very typical to other things that we saw down

on the edge of the swamp and in the swamp.

The people that built the path, obviously,

probably built other roads.

STEVE G.: Another piece of information

that makes this more likely, or probable, to be a road is

that it's the same width as the stone road in the swamp.

It's-it's about 20 feet wide.

This is exactly how the road in the swamp started.

And I wonder if-if it's carefully excavated,

if there'd be some more clues

that that's Portuguese construction.

Of course, we've got a team in Portugal.

So, we might want to get Laird to look at it.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

NARRTOR: Now that Marty and the team

have found evidence of a potentially

ancient structure that has never been documented

by previous searchers,

they will enlist archaeologist Laird Niven

to join the investigation

in order to help identify important clues

that may be critical in solving the 227-year-old mystery.

If we get the archaeologists in to uncover this

and show us exactly what it looks like...

Yeah, or at least tell us what they think.

-Yeah. -In the meantime,

I do want to cut a cross-section,

so let's try down there.

-STEVE G.: Yeah. -MARTY: Okay, let's do it!

NARRATOR: While Marty and members of the team

continue their investigation on Lot 15...

TERRY: Hopefully,

some of the great mystery will be revealed today.

-Yup. -Let's hope we, uh, come

into something very interesting.

NARRATOR: ...and as the excavation

of the B4-C Shaft continues in the Money Pit area,

some 2,800 miles away in the city of Tomar, Portugal...

CORJAN: So, here we are.

Welcome to the Convento de Cristo.

JOÃO: The castle of the Templar Knights.

PETER: Wow.

Impressive.

JOÃO: Built in the 1st of March of 1160.

ALEX: Wow.

NARRATOR: ...Rick and Alex Lagina,

along with Doug Crowell and Peter Fornetti,

meet up with historian João Fiandeiro

and researcher Corjan Mol at the Convento de Cristo,

a location that served as a stronghold

for the Knights Templar more than 800 years ago.

-RICK: Oh, wow. -ALEX: Beautiful.

RICK: It certainly is.

JOÃO: So, we're here, and now,

I'll show you the most important

places where Templar Knights left for us.

And I'm quite sure that you will see the links

and the connection to the Oak Island.

Oh.

CORJAN: I think we're gonna find

-some real answers here. -RICK: Then I'm ready

to go look at them.

-JOÃO: Let's go? -Let's go.

RICK: Is it possible that somewhere in the building

there will be a testament to the fact that they went west?

That they did indeed come to Nova Scotia?

That's the hope.

CORJAN: After you, gentlemen.

-So, welcome to New Jerusalem. -Oh, wow.

-Oh. -Wow. That's incredible.

RICK: Oh, it's... It-it defies words.

When you think speechless,

-you see this. -Exactly.

CORJAN: This is 12th century.

ALEX: You said this is 12th century?

-12th century. -In the 1100s, this was built?

Exactly.

NARRATOR: During the Crusades in 1160 AD,

the Knights Templar lost control of Temple Mount in Jerusalem,

leading their grand master, Gualdim Pais,

to establish a new headquarters in Tomar, Portugal.

Within the Castle of Tomar, he built

the Convento de Cristo, their most sacred Catholic convent.

It would remain the order's stronghold

for centuries to come, and where they were rebranded

as the Knights of Christ in 1318.

CORJAN: This is the heart of the heart,

the holy of holiest of the Templars in Europe.

RICK: What this is a testament to is

that nothing was beyond them.

CORJAN: Yeah.

-Nothing. -Yeah. That's true. -Yeah.

RICK: This just defies imagination.

CORJAN: Okay, guys.

-Let's move on. There's a lot more to see here. -Hmm.

This was also a functioning building,

a functional community.

We're on top of a hill, and they needed water.

So, they built a huge aqueduct to bring water...

-Is that why? -...to this place

so they could sustain themselves.

And the waterways are underground.

So, there's tunnels under this castle and under the convent.

And they had a very special way to indicate

where the aqueducts are underground,

and I think you're going to find

an interesting connection there, perhaps, to Oak Island.

Are we allowed to go underground?

I'll show you now.

JOÃO: Watch your step.

CORJAN: I'll show you how they indicated

the underground water stream.

For the first time I was here, I noticed this hand on the wall

with this strange, extended middle finger.

-RICK: Mm-hmm. -It's clearly a hand.

This, as far as I know, there's five or six of those

in the convent, and they indicate the aqueduct.

-Oh. -So, these hands

actually indicate how the water flows

beneath the Convento,

which reminded me a little bit

of the-the finger drains on Oak Island.

On Oak Island, the so-called finger drains were rock.

-Yeah. -And then a cap rock over the top of it.

-Is that how these are formed? -JOÃO: Yes.

Under these, you have a-a square pipe.

-CORJAN: Like a squared gutter. -JOÃO: Yeah.

-Are they capped? -CORJAN: With a... with a...

-with a cap stone. -With a cap stone.

-ALEX: From stone? -From stone. -RICK: That's exactly

the way it's described, right?

-As a finger drain. -Yeah.

On the island. A finger drain. There you go.

NARRATOR: The print of a hand?

Representing an underground drainage system?

In 1850, members of the Truro Company discovered

that the beach at Smith's Cove had been artificially created.

After building a massive dam composed of earth and rock,

they drained the cove

and uncovered five finger-like drains

buried beneath layers of eel grass and coconut fiber.

Constructed of flat stones and covered with cap rocks,

these drains appeared to converge at the beach

into a single tunnel,

heading due west toward the Money Pit.

Is it possible that the team has just found

the same kind of drainage system at Convento de Cristo?

CORJAN: Shall we follow the hands?

-Yes. -Cool.

RICK: If there was ever a connection to Oak Island,

this is it.

Finger drains in this Convento

built by the Templars, or at least Templar influenced,

exactly as we understand them in Smith's Cove.

It doesn't get any closer connection than that,

at least not yet.

You saw the hand there,

you know, at the bottom of the... of the wall,

and then... it lands here.

You see, the stones here, then the next hand is there,

indicating the flow of the water.

Finger drain.

RICK: This is an exact representation

of the finger drains on the island.

-Cap rock. -Mm-hmm.

CORJAN: They were engineers as much as, you know,

religious monks.

Engineers extraordinaire.

-Yeah. Yeah. -I mean, from what we've seen.

Okay, guys. Let's move on.

Step through that door there.

-Right through here? -Yeah. -Yup.

CORJAN: I'd like to show you a number of things.

So, we're going to walk back in time again,

all the way to the original gate of the castle.

RICK: Can't wait.

CORJAN: Straight down here, guys.

So, we're now going to the more medieval part of the property.

To the original gate.

NARRATOR: At the Convento de Christo

in Tomar, Portugal...

This would have been the grand entrance.

NARRATOR: ...researcher Corjan Mol

and historian João Fiandeiro

are showing Rick Lagina and members of the team

clues that they believe connect the Knights Templar

to the Oak Island mystery.

CORJAN: Now there's a couple of things

I would like to show you here.

To start with, now over the arch,

the big Templar cross. This was their trademark.

Now, maybe even more interesting,

and it's worn, but if you move

your eyes down to the yellowish stone,

I believe there you have a cross with four dots.

-Like the H+O Stone. -Oh!

What I mean is this cross here with the four dots.

RICK: Wow.

NARRATOR: A cross inscription?

Matching a symbol found on the so-called H+O Stone?

Discovered on the northern shore of Oak Island in 1921,

the H+O Stone was a fragment of a much larger boulder

that was blown up with dynamite by searchers

who mistakenly believed

that it marked the location of buried treasure.

JOÃO: This is the thing that the Templars

would use to mark something of their own.

NARRATOR: One week ago, while investigating

the ancient Knights Templar Church of Fontarcada,

in Póvoa de Lanhoso, Portugal,

the team discovered a Templar cross

featuring another character on the H+O Stone.

CORJAN: The circle and the dot is an early

alchemical symbol for gold.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the H+O Stone

was a marker for buried treasure

somewhere on Oak Island after all?

A treasure hidden there

by Portuguese members of the Knights Templar?

So, what do you think that represents?

I think it's a Templar cross,

and Knights Templar, here,

continuing into the Order of Christ,

perhaps in possession of something awesome

from the Holy Land,

that brought holy relics to North America

and Oak Island.

ALEX: I think we've kind of seen that

there is a thread that runs through the Knights Templar,

and it's plausible that they had

something in their possession

that they may have wanted to hide.

It's plausible that they could have reached America.

Yeah, I think that's exactly what it is.

RICK: We've heard this before--

the suggestion that

The Knights Templar had in their possession

precious items.

What's impactful is that we're seeing symbology

that we know once existed on the island.

And could that have something to do

with westerly exploration,

perhaps even to Nova Scotia?

-We always seek connective tissue. -Yeah.

The most interesting puzzles of all are those

that are difficult to solve.

-That's it. -And we have one here.

-Yeah. -That's it.

But surely, we have more pieces

because of these efforts.

So, all the more reason to continue the search.

-Absolutely. -Yeah.

RICK: Okay, let's go meet Doug.

NARRATOR: As Rick and members of the team

continue their investigation in Tomar, Portugal,

some 2,800 miles to the west on Oak Island...

MARTY: Here's the man.

-Hey, fellas. -Hey. You called?

NARRATOR: ...archaeologist Laird Niven

and project manager Scott Barlow

join Marty Lagina and other members of the team

to continue uncovering the believed stone pathway

between the swamp and the Money Pit on Lot 15.

MARTY: Yeah, here's the deal, Laird. Here's the background.

We ran the OKM, got several lined-up cross sections

of 20 feet across.

We dug the best one up there, which I'd like you to look at.

LAIRD: Okay. We're looking

-for the extension to the road, right? -MARTY: Yes.

-Yup. -You guys walk on up.

I'll bring the machine, and see what you think

of that spot right up there.

-Okay. -All right.

MARTY: The stone road is clearly man-made.

I mean, I don't think there's any doubt.

But I don't know really what to make of it.

The road has to go somewhere, and it has to go somewhere

for a reason, and maybe we can figure out what that reason is.

GARY: This is the area, mate.

Two scoops there,

and started hitting all of these rocks and boulders.

Well, Laird, do you see anything?

LAIRD: They're angular.

Billy's observation is that

these don't look glacial because

-they're so angular. -Mm-hmm. So angular.

And they're slate. We don't see much slate

-on this side, right? -Yeah. I mean, all of 'em.

This-this seemed like what we were looking for right away.

And we spent a lot of time on that stone pathway,

-and this reminds me of that. -Yes.

GARY: It's rocks and cobbles. Small cobbles.

BILLY: Just take a peek.

This is our very first bucket, but if you look here.

-Oh, yeah. Yeah. -Right?

-You got a lot of rocks here, Laird. -Yeah.

There, there, there. There, there.

-And they're loose, too, right? -They're loose.

-They're not packed in. -Yeah. It's the size.

-Like, they're not huge. -Yeah, yeah.

-And the placement. -Right.

They look like they've been put in there.

MARTY: How do we do this?

How do we do... ascertain

whether there's something going on here?

LAIRD: If we just take the excavator and

just kind of roll it over,

when you feel the rocks, just come up and go along.

The purpose is to find

no rocks, rocks, no rocks.

-That may define a road. -MARTY: Okay.

You show Billy where to cut one more.

We got Laird here so we can do it.

Maybe it'll tell us its secrets

without having to do a bunch of excavation.

All right, let's quit gabbing and start digging. Ready?

-STEVE G.: Let's do it! -GARY: We're ready.

NARRATOR: As a new day begins on Oak Island..

JACK: The game's afoot.

NARRATOR: ...while the excavations continue

in the Money Pit area,

and on Lot 15...

All right. Moment of truth.

NARRATOR: ...nearly 2,800 miles

across the Atlantic Ocean...

RICK: Bom dia.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina and members of the team

arrive at the renowned Military Museum in Lisbon, Portugal.

Nice to meet you. All of you.

NARRATOR: Here, Corjan Mol has arranged for them

to meet with Sergeants Ricardo Lopes and Carlos Magro,

both of whom are experts in Portuguese military history.

RICK: So, the reason why we're here is,

we have some artifacts that we have found

on the island,

and we were hoping

that you can affirm that the stone shot which we have

is an exact match to what you may have here in the museum.

Well, we've actually brought along replicas

-of the stone shot we found on Oak Island. -Okay.

All right, there's one.

Yes. 3.9 centimeters.

NARRATOR: Over the past two years,

the team has found two small cannonballs,

or stone shots, one of which was recovered

from deep in the Money Pit area.

But even more compelling was the recent analysis

conducted by geology professor Dr. Robert Raeside,

who believed the stone that they were composed of

may have originated in Portugal's Azores Islands.

DOUG: Could we expect our stone shot

to be made in the Azores or here on the mainland?

Wow.

Mm-hmm.

Yes. Yes.

-Oh, wow. -ALEX: Is that a general rule

that smaller caliber on ships?

-Okay. -Yes. Yes. Yes.

Mm-hmm.

RICK: What they call a swivel gun?

If we could see a cannon that would shoot that stone shot

such as that, we would love to see it.

RICK: Love to.

We puzzle now over why was that stone shot found

down in the Money Pit?

This one could be used on a ship.

RICK: Are they

an artifact that was absolutely connected to Oak Island

and perhaps here to this land?

-ALEX: So, this right here? -RICARDO: Yes.

This is... 15th, 16th century

with a four-centimeter caliber and fires

a, uh, half a Portuguese pound iron ball.

I've got one of the replicas here.

Um, we can try it. It's-it's pretty corroded here, so...

CORJAN: Oh, look at that.

It's pretty close.

So, I would say that's a match to this.

But that pretty much confirms that that is a ca...

a known caliber of shot.

From the 14, 1500s.

RICK: But there's a possibility that if you were

doing something, say on our island,

you needed to protect what you were doing,

to keep people away,

remove this gun from the ship,

mount it in some fashion on the island.

-That's big. That's huge. -CORJAN: Good.

NARRATOR: Could the team have just found an explanation

for how one of the potentially Portuguese stone shots

was found deep in the Money Pit area?

There's quite a bit of corrosion in there.

NARRATOR: If so, could it be related to the evidence

of wooden tunnels discovered earlier this year,

which could date to as early as 1488?

And also, the high concentrations

of silver and gold?

DOUG: I think we have a new, strong

possibility that we really have to give consideration to.

And I'm very, very hopeful, but it couldn't happen

without people like yourselves.

We're most appreciative.

NARRATOR: Later that afternoon,

nearly 20 miles west of Lisbon...

JOÃO: Welcome to Sintra.

You are in the heart of this very romantic town.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina and his team

arrive at an early 20th century palace

known as "Quinta da Regaleira."

Here, Corjan Mol

and Templar historian João Fiandeiro have arranged

to show them one final structure that they believe

may be directly connected to the Oak Island mystery.

JOÃO: The Templar Knights came to here,

and they managed the land for a long time.

Everything you see was built in the last century

to create this magical Masonic wonderland.

But it's based on much older ideas.

NARRATOR: In 1147, during the Crusades,

following his conquest of Lisbon,

the first king of Portugal, Afonso Henriques,

also captured the town of Sintra.

In 1154, the town

and its administrative duties were transferred

to the Knights Templar,

who utilized it as a stronghold for centuries to come.

However, in 1904,

a wealthy Freemason

named António Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro

purchased this property

and established it as "Quinta da Regaleira,"

a vast palatial estate where he is believed

to have hosted secret Masonic and Templar rituals.

There's indeed something here

that, uh, will remind you very much of Oak Island.

The Initiation Well that is the masterpiece here.

-Let's go. -RICK: I'd love to.

The focus of today's visit is really

any possible associations we can make to Oak Island.

There might be some sort of connection, some sort of

"aha" moment.

But we'll see as we experience the Quinta.

So, the well is actually in this megalithic formation here.

Oh, here!

-JOÃO: Yup. -CORJAN: It's easy to walk past.

JOÃO: The beauty is inside.

RICK: That's remarkable.

Wow.

ALEX: Wow. It's deep.

What is this dimension, the diameter?

13 feet.

-Which is... -That sounds awfully familiar.

That chamber at the bottom--

I mean, it's very Masonic at its core.

What I can't help compare it to is

the design of the Money Pit.

NARRATOR: In Sintra, Portugal,

at an estate k

Rick Lagina and members of the team

have just arrived at an early 20th century Masonic structure

known as the "Initiation Well."

JOÃO: The Initiation Well has nine platforms.

PETER: The nine floors sounds like something

that we have possibly on Oak Island.

-RICK: Yeah, the Money Pit. -ALEX: Yup.

(camera shutter clicking)

Okay, let's go down.

Smooth and easy.

Guys, watch your steps.

RICK: When you look at the well, there are nine levels.

We know there were nine levels in the original description

of the Money Pit.

We know that the original Money Pit

was 13 feet in diameter.

It's curious.

If that is not a coincidence,

and it seems as though it is not,

then where was that information derived?

And why was it important to replicate it?

What does it mean? I don't know.

CORJAN: It is rather spectacular, isn't it?

ALEX: Yup.

DOUG: Remember, the Restalls thought

there was a spiral staircase

-around the Money Pit? -RICK: Mm-hmm.

NARRATOR: In 1963,

while conducting a lateral drilling operation

deep in the Money Pit,

Oak Island treasure hunters Robert Restall, Sr.

and Bobby Restall, Jr. reportedly drilled

through a series of mysterious voids

at oddly descending angles

beginning more than 100 feet underground.

This discovery led them to the astonishing conclusion

that a spiral tunnel encircled the Money Pit,

potentially leading to the fabled treasure vault.

CORJAN: We're almost there, guys.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Initiation Well,

with its nine levels, 13-foot diameter,

and which was constructed nearly six decades

before the Restalls' discovery, is in fact,

a replica of the Oak Island Money Pit?

CORJAN: Oh, man. So, you would

perfectly see that oak tree from here, right?

RICK: The branch of an oak tree over the well.

That's exactly what the Money Pit story is about.

Wow.

CORJAN: It's like staring up

from the bottom of the Money Pit.

NARRATOR: In 1795,

when Freemason Daniel McGinnis and his two friends

first discovered the Money Pit,

they were not merely intrigued by the 13-foot

diameter depression in the ground,

but also, by a block and tackle

hanging from the branch of an oak tree directly overhead.

Could this oak tree's position, directly next

to the Initiation Well in Sintra, Portugal,

simply be a matter of coincidence?

We now start the path in the tunnels.

RICK: The whole point of the Initiation Well is to

create a representation of the influence

of Templars, possibly the influence of

Masonic beliefs and ideals.

And here we are.

Back into the light.

JOÃO: Back in the light.

Initiation done!

RICK: There may be some correlation

between the Initiation Well

and the Money Pit on Oak Island.

We have to take the information back

and-and see what it tells us.

What we've seen here is a... a vision that was not inspired,

but instructed

by knowledge from the past,

which is being carried forward

from the Knights Templar into the Order of Christ,

into the Masonic thought, leading all the way up to this.

Right.

ALEX: It shows that the ideas

have persisted throughout time even to today.

And that means that they must have been worth preserving.

I truly believe in what we have learned in Portugal.

It only enhances my belief that Oak Island

is part of this legacy.

I think we continue

to persevere in that... with that hope.

And for that, we... we thank you.

-RICK: Sempre Avanti. -JOÃO: Sempre Avanti.

NARRATOR: While Rick and members of the team

conclude their visit in Sintra, Portugal,

back on Oak Island,

just east of the swamp on Lot 15...

STEVE G.: Well, there's your cobble.

GARY: There we go. There's the cobble rock.

Lots of cobble.

NARRATOR: ...other members of the Fellowship

continue unearthing the mysterious stone pathway,

hoping to identify just where it leads.

You found the cobble,

which happens between the OKM anomaly,

which is the blue tape there and there.

LAIRD: Below the stone should be an organic layer

-where the original surface was, right? -Right.

As you say, that'd be very telling.

Yeah, exactly.

Well, we'll go a little deeper.

So, so far does this look placed or natural?

It looks placed to me.

MARTY: I'm kind of the guy who would like to dig

on almost any information on Oak Island.

The anomalies line up,

and it looks like the road, if this is accurate,

might be actually heading towards the Money Pit.

So, it could be an important discovery.

-That's funny. It seems much shallower over here. -Yeah.

What we can do is cut a profile

to take a look at the stratigraphy, right?

STEVE G.: What do you see, Laird?

The horizon is pretty distinctive.

See, it's kind of dipping down?

SCOTT: Yeah, I'd say it's much shallower.

GARY: Think this could possibly be a road, Laird?

NARRATOR: On Lot 15,

members of the Oak Island team

have just uncovered another large section

of the mysterious stone pathway

between the Money Pit area and the triangle-shaped swamp.

See, it's kind of dipping down?

STEVE G.: It's filled in with rocks.

BILLY: Yeah, so you start

filling your ruts in, right? You don't need to fill

-the whole road. -Yeah. Yeah.

LAIRD: You can see the soil definitely dip down,

and the cobbles fill that.

So, I think the layer difference in the path,

the thin layer of cobbles on one end

and thick layer of cobbles on the other end,

just shows us that they were filling in certain areas

to level it off, uh,

to make transportation a-a little bit easier.

You'd constantly be putting more cobbles on.

-Yeah. -Bit like fixing potholes today.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that the team is uncovering a structure

that might lead them to a breakthrough discovery?

And if so, given its nearly identical construction

to what Rick Lagina has recently been shown in Portugal,

could it prove to be related

to the medieval order of the Knights Templar?

-All right, guys. -LAIRD: Hey, Marty.

-What have you found? -STEVE G.: Uh, we're dead center

on where we project the potential road to be.

And it was nothing but cobble.

LAIRD: And it dips,

which led us to speculate,

you know, maybe it was a low area

-that people filled in. -Yeah, well, that makes sense.

SCOTT: I'd be curious to see if there's any

-consistency in width. -Yeah.

MARTY: I'll tell you what we're going to do then.

How about I jump back in there?

-Yeah. -And, um, we'll-we'll try and dig this

a little bit and try and find out where the edge is,

-which would be meaningful. -LAIRD: Yeah.

Okay. All right, let's do that.

You know, the stone road is still

a mystery as to what its purpose was,

and even when it was constructed.

Seeing any change, or is it all the same?

STEVE G.: Still lots of cobble.

MARTY: So, my thought

is the same thought I always have after a discovery.

Keep going, find some more.

BILLY: Just wait, Marty. Just for a sec.

The edge of the road is right, right here, right?

Yup.

That makes sense based on the data

that Alex collected, so...

Well, what's the plan here now?

LAIRD: The best way to uncover a road is take

that much of the soil off, right?

You'd have to do it by hand.

-Yeah. -MARTY: Okay.

I think we've seen enough to make us investigate further.

We're not finished with this.

No. I think there was a road here.

Uh, whether it's ancient or not, I don't know.

What it was used for, I don't know.

-But we're aimed to find out. -Yeah. -Yeah.

MARTY: You have to follow even minor clues.

So, if we follow this road,

we may find something hitherto non-discovered.

I'm gonna drive this thing off.

Why don't you guys go get set for that next step?

-Sure. -Okay.

-MARTY: Thanks. -SCOTT: See ya, Marty.

NARRATOR: Even while another harsh,

North Atlantic winter closes in,

the trail of clues that may soon help Rick,

Marty and the team solve a 227-year-old mystery

grows warmer by the day.

Could the ancient Templar structures

and the cryptic Masonic symbols

located halfway across the globe

really be a testament to what took place on Oak Island?

Or what the team might unearth from deep in the Money Pit?

The answers may be closer than ever before.

NARRATOR: Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

-Today's the day, Gary. -Oh, yeah.

NARRATOR: It's the groundbreaking season finale.

-This is what we saw in Portugal. -Mm-hmm.

Yeah. It's incredible.

-Wow. -(laughs)

RICK: We can actually image

the entire island underground to find a target

-in the Money Pit. -That's great!

-GARY: We've hit the tunnel, mate. -Whoa!

That tunnel will lead us to the treasure.

Yeah. There you go.

Oh, look at that.

-What have we got here? -Oh, what the heck is that?

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