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Narrator:
DID THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

DISCOVER A GREAT TREASURE
HERE IN JERUSALEM?

DID THEY BRING IT BACK TO EUROPE

AND BECOME MORE POWERFUL
THAN THE POPE HIMSELF?

AND WHEN THE FRENCH KING
ORDERED THEIR ARREST

AND SEIZURE OF THEIR ASSETS,
WHY HAD IT DISAPPEARED?

IT'S ONE OF THE GREATEST
MYSTERIES OF ALL TIME.

Prince:
THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION

THAT THE TEMPLARS
HAD A HUGE AMOUNT OF TREASURE.

THE QUESTION IS, WHERE DID IT
GO? WHO TOOK IT?

Howells: THERE IS A CHANCE

THAT THEY FOUND THE ARK
OF THE COVENANT.

THAT IS THE BIG ONE
THAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT.

THEY MAY HAVE FOUND A MENORAH.

THEY MAY HAVE FOUND DOCUMENTS,
HERETICAL DOCUMENTS;

EARLY GOSPELS;
ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES.

Rev. Fanthorpe:
I WOULD SAY THERE'S
A VERY STRONG PROBABILITY

THAT MUCH OF WHAT THE TEMPLARS
HID HAS REMAINED HIDDEN.

Sinclair: THIS IS THE SHAPE
OF ROSSLYN CHAPEL.

AND IN THE VAULTS ARE BURIED
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT

AND THE HOLY OF HOLIES.

McNeil: CAN CALL IT
THE GRAIL POINTER.

ATTACH A PLUMB LINE TO IT,
DROP IT STRAIGHT DOWN,

AND DOES THAT TELL US
WHERE THE GRAIL IS HIDDEN?

Blankenship: TO DATE,

I THINK EVERYBODY
SAYS THAT KING TUT'S TOMB

IS THE MOST FAMOUS TREASURE
THAT WAS EVER FOUND.

AND, UH, I... I THINK WE HAVE
SOMETHING MUCH MORE VALUABLE

ON OAK ISLAND.

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Narrator:
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS NOW,

JERUSALEM HAS BEEN
A CITY OF POWER,

OF MAJESTY AND TURMOIL,

A FRENETIC MELTING POT

OF RELIGIONS AND BELIEFS
THAT CONTINUE TO THIS VERY DAY.

WHEN THE MAN THEY CALLED
THE MESSIAH WALKED ITS STREETS,

THE HEART OF THE CITY
WAS THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM,

HOUSING THE GREAT TREASURES
OF SOLOMON

AND PERHAPS EVEN THE ARK
OF THE COVENANT ITSELF.

[ INDISTINCT SHOUTING ]

THE TEMPLE HAD BEEN SACKED
TWICE BEFORE AND REBUILT.

THEN, IN 70 AD, THE ROMAN ARMY,
UNDER EMPEROR TITUS,

LEVELED THE CITY,
BURNT IT TO THE GROUND

AND LOOTED
WHATEVER GREAT TREASURES

IT COULD LAY ITS HANDS ON.

THE ARCH OF TITUS IN ROME
CLEARLY SHOWS THE TRIUMPHAL ARMY

PROUDLY CARRYING SACRED JEWISH
ARTIFACTS OUT OF THE CITY,

LIKE THE MENORAH,
THE SEVEN-BRANCHED CANDELABRA.

IN THIS EPISODE,
JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON

GOES IN SEARCH
OF THESE LOST TREASURES

AND UNRAVELS
THE INCREDIBLE STORY

OF WHERE THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN
HIDDEN AND WHY.

THE TEMPLE PRIESTS

HAD LONG FEARED A BRUTAL ATTACK
ON THE CITY,

AND IT'S BELIEVED THAT
THEY CLEVERLY HID THE TREASURE

IN SECRET STASHES UNDERGROUND.

THIS IS SHOWN
ON THE COPPER SCROLL,

PART OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
FOUND IN QUMRAN IN THE 1950s,

WHICH DETAILED EXACTLY
WHAT THE HIGH PRIESTS HAD BURIED

AND WHERE.

A THOUSAND YEARS LATER, IN 1119,
A GROUP OF FRENCH NOBLEMEN

ARRIVED IN JERUSALEM
ON A SECRET MISSION.

TODAY, WE KNOW THEM
AS THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,

AND MANY BELIEVE
THAT THEY CAME TO THE CITY

TO FIND THAT HIDDEN TREASURE.

Theakston: WHAT WERE THE
TEMPLARS DOING IN JERUSALEM?

Howells: THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS

ORIGINALLY WERE TASKED
WITH PROTECTING PILGRIMS,

BUT WHAT THEY ACTUALLY DO
WHEN THEY GET THERE,

AND IT'S RECORDED, IS
THEY SPEND THE FIRST, I THINK,

EIGHT YEARS
EXCAVATING SOLOMON'S MOUNT,

AND THE STABLES THAT WERE BUILT
UNDER THE TEMPLE.

SO THEY SPEND A LOT
OF TIME DIGGING.

SO WHAT YOU'RE SUGGESTING,
ROB, THEN,

WAS THAT THEY WERE TASKED
WITH PROTECTING THE PILGRIMS,

BUT YOU'RE SUGGESTING
THAT MAYBE THAT'S NOT

EXACTLY
WHAT THEY WERE DOING?

THEY SEEM TO HAVE
HAD AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE.

DO YOU THINK THEY WERE
LOOKING FOR THIS TREASURE?

UM, I THINK THEY
WERE MORE INTERESTED

IN KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION,
RATHER THAN CASH AND MONEY.

UM, WELL, OF COURSE,

IF THEY'RE LOOKING FOR THE ARK
OF THE COVENANT,

WHICH, AS A MILITARY ORDER,

IS SOMETHING YOU REALLY WANT
BECAUSE OF ITS POWER

TO DEFEAT AN ARMY'S ENEMIES,

YOU CAN SEE
THERE'S A MOTIVATION THERE.

BUT THERE'S NO SPECIFIC EVIDENCE
THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE AFTER.

Rev. Fanthorpe:
ONE OF THE THINGS

THEY MAY HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR

WAS THE SEMILEGENDARY LANCE
OF LONGINUS,

THE WEAPON WHICH,
IF YOU HELD IT,

WOULD MAKE YOU CONQUEROR
OF ALL YOUR ENEMIES.

IT WAS SAID,
IN ITS CHRISTIANIZED FORM,

TO HAVE BEEN THE SPEAR

WHICH THE CENTURION USED
TO PIERCE THE SIDE OF CHRIST

AT THE CRUCIFIXION.

IT WAS SOMETHING WITH A...
AN ENORMOUS INTRINSIC VALUE,

AND THEY DUG AND HUNTED
AND LOOKED FOR IT.

THEY WERE ALSO, OF COURSE,
LOOKING FOR SOLOMON'S WEALTH,

WHICH WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN
HIDDEN UNDER THE TEMPLE.

AND THERE WERE TALES
OF SECRET PASSAGES

LEADING FROM BELOW THE TEMPLE,

OUT TOWARDS THIS REPOSITORY

OF WHAT WAS LATER
TO BECOME TEMPLAR TREASURE,

BUT WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY THOUGHT
TO BE SOLOMON'S TREASURE.

Narrator:
BUT DID THEY FIND IT?

JAMIE HAS ARRANGED TO MEET
AN ISRAELI ARCHAEOLOGIST,

DR. SHIMON GIBSON,
WHO IS AN EXPERT

ON THE UNDERGROUND TUNNELS
AND CHAMBERS BENEATH JERUSALEM.

HE THINKS IT'S POSSIBLE

THAT THE HIGH PRIESTS DID BURY
THEIR MOST SACRED ITEMS,

WHICH THE TEMPLARS CAME LOOKING
FOR OVER 1,000 YEARS LATER.

Gibson: I WOULD THINK
IT'S QUITE LOGICAL

THAT IF YOU KNOW THAT
THE BABYLONIANS ARE HAMMERING

AT THE DOORS
OF THE CITY,

THE GATES OF THE CITY;
THEY WANT TO COME IN,

AND THEY WANT TO PILLAGE
AND RAPE AND DESTROY;

THAT YOU'RE GONNA
HIDE IT AWAY SOMEWHERE.

AND THAT MEANS THAT ONE
HAS TO THINK ABOUT

SUBTERRANEAN SPACES
BENEATH JERUSALEM.

THIS IS WHERE
YOU HID THINGS

IF YOU HAD
AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY,

IF YOU HAD SOME TREASURE,
YOU WOULD FIND

SOME SUBTERRANEAN SPACE,
AND YOU WOULD HIDE IT THERE.

IT IS CONCEIVABLE THAT
THERE MIGHT WELL BE TREASURE

LITERALLY BENEATH US NOW,
AS WE SPEAK?

EVERYTHING'S POSSIBLE
IN JERUSALEM, I'LL TELL YOU.

WHENEVER THEY EXCAVATE
IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF JERUSALEM,

SOMETHING IS FOUND.

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO,

A COLLEAGUE OF MINE
WAS EXCAVATING NEAR...

NEAR THE TEMPLE MOUNT

AND CAME ACROSS A HOARD
OF GOLD COINS FROM THE YEAR 613.

AND IT WAS EXCITING,
AND I COULD SEE IN HER EYES,

YOU KNOW,
HOW EXCITED SHE WAS.

YOU KNOW,
YES, SHE'S A SCIENTIST,

AND SHE'S DOING
HER ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK,

AND... AND EVERYTHING
SHOULD BE OF INTEREST,

BUT YOU COULD SEE THE GLINT
IN HER EYE,

UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN...
WHEN IT... WHEN... WHEN...

WHEN SHE WAS DESCRIBING
TO ME

THE DISCOVERY OF THESE
BEAUTIFUL GOLD COINS.

WONDERFUL.
THE YEAR 613.

HISTORIANS BELIEVE
THAT IT'S POSSIBLE

THE TEMPLARS DID GO TO JERUSALEM
ON A SPECIFIC MISSION...

TO ACTUALLY FIND
THIS BURIED TREASURE.

BUT DID THEY SUCCEED?

WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT,
WHEN THEY LEFT THE HOLY LAND

AND CAME BACK TO EUROPE,

THE ORDER WAS EXTRAORDINARILY
WEALTHY AND POWERFUL.

WHATEVER THEY HAD FOUND
IN JERUSALEM MADE THEM,

AS ONE COMMENTATOR
FROM THE TIME SAID,

"MORE POWERFUL THAN THE POPE,"

AN ENVIABLE, BUT ALSO DANGEROUS,
POSITION TO BE IN.

THEY WENT BACK TO EUROPE
AND, UH, JUST INCREASED,

INCREASED,
INCREASED, IN POWER,

INCREASED IN NUMBERS
AND BECAME INCREDIBLY POWERFUL

AND INCREDIBLY ARROGANT
AND INCREDIBLY RICH.

Gough: COULD IT BE
THAT THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS

DISCOVERED A TREASURE MAP?

COULD IT BE THAT SIMPLE?

AND WE KNOW THAT ONE EXISTED.

IT WAS CALLED THE COPPER SCROLL.

IT WAS PART
OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS,

AND IT LISTED ALL THE GOLD
AND SILVER

THEY DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE
BY LOOTERS,

SO THEY HID IT IN CREVICES
AND CAVES, APPARENTLY,

AROUND JERUSALEM.

IF THAT IS WHAT THEY DISCOVERED,

THEN THAT IS
THE BEST EXPLANATION

AS TO HOW THIS ORDER
CAME INTO ITS WEALTH.

Howells: BECAUSE THEY WERE
KNIGHTS AND ARMORED,

THEY WERE VERY GOOD FOR LOOKING
AFTER PEOPLE'S MONEY.

UH, THEY WERE ALSO... THEY
COULD LEND MONEY, AND THAT...

THAT'S WHAT ULTIMATELY
GOT THEM INTO TROUBLE,

WAS THE KING OF FRANCE, PHILIP,

OWED THEM A LOT OF MONEY
AND WAS BROKE.

AND HE SAW THEM
AS AN OPPORTUNITY

TO SEIZE THEIR WEALTH.

Prince: THEY WERE BASICALLY
THE BIGGEST INSTITUTION

IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
AFTER THE CHURCH ITSELF.

THEY WERE JUST...

EVERYWHERE, YOU WOULD FIND
TEMPLAR PROPERTIES.

THEY WERE JUST, YOU KNOW,
ABSOLUTELY UBIQUITOUS

IN THE SOCIETY AND VERY,
VERY POWERFUL FOR 200 YEARS.

AND THEN, UM,

THEY HAD THIS SORT OF SUDDEN
AND DRAMATIC DOWNFALL.

Narrator: THE SUDDEN
AND DRAMATIC ARREST

OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
ACROSS EUROPE,

THE SEIZURE OF ALL THEIR ASSETS

AND THE SACRED TREASURE
THAT SOMEHOW GOT AWAY,

COMING UP WHEN
"FORBIDDEN HISTORY" RETURNS.

Narrator:
WHEN THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

RETURN FROM THE HOLY LAND,

THEY BECAME ONE OF THE MOST
POWERFUL ORDERS IN EUROPE,

WITH VAST WEALTH AND POWER.

THEY WERE SAID
TO HAVE BROUGHT BACK

GREAT, SACRED TREASURES
FROM JERUSALEM,

BUT WHEN THEIR DOWNFALL CAME,

IT WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.

WHERE HAD IT GONE,
AND WHERE IS IT TODAY?

JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON
IS ON ITS TRAIL.

AS THE TEMPLARS
GREW IN POWER AND WEALTH,

SO DID THE OPPOSITION
AGAINST THEM,

INCLUDING THE FRENCH KING,

WHO WAS DESPERATE TO TRY
AND GET HIS HANDS

ON WHATEVER TREASURES THEY
HAD BROUGHT BACK FROM JERUSALEM.

IN THE END,
KING PHILIP IV OF FRANCE

MADE A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE,

SENDING OUT ORDERS
FOR THE ARREST OF ALL TEMPLARS

AND THE SEIZURE
OF THEIR TREASURES AND ASSETS.

THE DAY WOULD BE REMEMBERED
IN INFAMY,

FRIDAY THE 13th, 1307.

Rev. Fanthorpe:
YOU CAN SEE THEM NOW,

IN ALL THE TEMPLAR COMMANDERIES,

PHILIP LA BEL, PHILIP IV,

HAS GIVEN ORDERS
THAT THE TEMPLAR COMMANDERIES

HAVE GOT
TO BE ATTACKED SIMULTANEOUSLY.

SEE, PHILIP WAS NO FOOL.

HE'S NO HERO, BUT HE'S NO FOOL.

HE KNOWS THAT,

IF HE FAILS TO GET THE TEMPLARS,
BY THUNDER, THEY'LL GET HIM.

THEY ARE NOT MEN TO MESS WITH.

IF YOU ARE GOING TO STRIKE
A BLOW AGAINST THE TEMPLARS,

THEN YOU EITHER STRIKE
A FATAL BLOW,

OR YOU PREPARE TO DIE AS SOON
AS THEY'VE GOT UP AGAIN.

NOW, WHAT WE'VE GOT
THE SCENE HERE IS, IN A WAY,

A VERY STRANGE
HISTORICAL PARALLEL

TO WHAT HAPPENED IN THE TEMPLE
AT JERUSALEM

WHEN THE ROMANS ATTACKED.

YOU'VE GOT THESE MEN
OF GREAT DIGNITY,

AS WELL AS GREAT STRENGTH
AND COURAGE.

AND THEY ARE DETERMINED THAT,

WHATEVER HAPPENS BEING
ATTACKED SO TREACHEROUSLY

BY PHILIP'S SENESCHALS,

THEY ARE NOT GOING
TO LET HIM HAVE THAT TREASURE.

AND A FEW OF THE BRAVEST
OF THE BRAVE

WILL FIGHT THE OVERWHELMING
ATTACKING FORCE,

WHILE OTHERS
ESCAPE WITH THE MONEY

THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO ALLOW
IT TO FALL INTO PHILIP'S HANDS.

Narrator: IN THE END, AT DAWN
ON FRIDAY THE 13th, 1307,

HUNDREDS OF THE KING'S
HEAVILY ARMED TROOPS

STORMED INTO THE PARIS TEMPLE
AND OTHER TEMPLAR STRONGHOLDS

ACROSS FRANCE, DEAD SET

ON ARRESTING LARGE NUMBERS
OF KNIGHTS

AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY,

SEIZING THE TREASURES
THEY HAD STASHED AWAY.

Rev. Fanthorpe:
SO JUST IMAGINE THE SCENE.

IT'S FIRST LIGHT
ON FRIDAY THE 13th OF OCTOBER

IN 1307,
AND THE FORCES,

PHILIP'S SENESCHALS
AND ALL THEIR MEN,

AND THEY RESPECT THE TEMPLARS.

THEY WILL HAVE TAKEN
OVERWHELMING NUMBERS

OF SOLDIERS.

AND THE TEMPLAR COMMANDERY,
ONE COMMANDERY,

ONE AFTER THE OTHER, ARE DOOMED.

FROM THE POINT OF VIEW
OF THE SENESCHAL'S MEN,

HERE IS A TEMPLAR COMMANDERY.

WE'RE SWARMING OVER THE WALLS.

WE'RE KILLING THE DEFENDERS.

WE ARE GOING TO SCOOP UP
ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF TREASURE.

AND IF THERE'S ONE THING
THAT OUR MASTER, PHILIP LA BEL,

WILL THANK US FOR
AND WILL REWARD US ACCORDINGLY

IS TREASURE.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO REPORTS
FROM THE TIME,

A HUGE FORCE OF THE KING'S MEN
SWARMED INTO THE PARIS TEMPLE

TO BE MET BY A SMALL
BUT FIERCE TEMPLAR RESISTANCE.

THE BATTLE FOR CONTROL
LASTED SEVERAL HOURS

BEFORE THE TEMPLARS
WERE OVERCOME AND ARRESTED,

AND THE FRENCH TROOPS
COULD FINALLY REACH THE VAULTS.

THE SITE IN PARIS

WHERE THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR'S
COMMANDERY ONCE STOOD

IS NOW A METRO STATION,

AND WHEN THE KING'S FORCES
STORMED THE FORTRESS,

THE VAULTS WERE EMPTY.

CLEARLY, THEY'D BEEN TIPPED OFF,

AND THE TREASURE
HAD BEEN MOVED SOMEWHERE ELSE.

THE QUESTION IS,
WHERE DID IT GO?

Picknett: JUST BEFORE

THE KING'S MEN STORMED
THE PARIS TEMPLE,

THAT'S WHEN THE GRAND TEMPLAR
PRECEPTOR OF FRANCE,

GERARD DE VILLIERS,

HE HAD JUST LEGGED IT,
BASICALLY,

AND HE TOOK WITH HIM
50 HORSES AND 18 GALLEY SHIPS.

SO THAT'S A BIT MUCH
FOR JUST ONE MAN.

SO, PRESUMABLY,
WHEREVER HE WENT,

AND AGAIN, IT'S A MYSTERY;
HE TOOK THE TREASURE WITH HIM.

Theakston: SO THERE MUST
HAVE BEEN SOMETHING THERE

FOR THE FRENCH KING

TO BE PRETTY EXCITED
ABOUT IT, RIGHT?

YEAH. I MEAN, THERE'S...
THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION

THAT THE TEMPLARS
HAD A HUGE AMOUNT

OF TREASURE OF DIFFERENT...
DIFFERENT SORTS,

OBJECTS OF VALUE.

NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.

THERE'S ALSO NO DOUBT

THAT MOST OF IT
IN THE PARIS TEMPLE DISAPPEARED.

UM, THE QUESTION... THE QUESTION
IS, WHERE DID IT GO?

WHO TOOK IT?
BUT IN FACT,

AS IT WAS THE GUY
IN CHARGE OF THE PARIS TEMPLE,

THIS GERARD DE VILLIERS,

WHO WAS THE HIGHEST-RANKING
TEMPLAR TO ESCAPE THE ARREST,

YOU DON'T HAVE
TO BE SHERLOCK HOLMES

TO WORK OUT WHO TOOK IT,

BUT WHAT WE DON'T KNOW
IS WHERE IT WENT.

Narrator: THE TEMPLARS HAD
A LARGE FLEET OF GALLEONS

BASED IN THE PORT
OF LA ROCHELLE

ON THE WEST COAST OF FRANCE.

HISTORIANS THINK IT'S POSSIBLE
THAT THE HORSES AND WAGONS

THAT WOULD HAVE FLED FROM PARIS
HEADED TO THIS PORT,

BOARDED THE SHIPS AND SET SAIL

BEFORE THE KING'S TROOPS
HAD A CHANCE TO INTERCEPT THEM.

BUT WHERE THIS FLEET SAILED TO

IS ONE OF THE GREAT MYSTERIES
OF THE TEMPLAR SAGA.

SOME HISTORIANS BELIEVE
THEY CROSSED THE ATLANTIC

TO NORTH AMERICA
AND EVEN CANADA,

WHILE OTHERS THINK THEY SAILED
UP THE CHANNEL

TO THE EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND
AND CAME ASHORE NEAR EDINBURGH.

JAMIE'S HUNT FOR THE TEMPLAR
TREASURE CONTINUES,

AS CLUES IN A MEDIEVAL MASONIC
TREASURE MAP IN LONDON

LEAD HIM TO THE VAULTS
OF A SMALL CHAPEL

OUTSIDE EDINBURGH IN SCOTLAND.

AND A DRAMATIC TWIST
IN THE TALE,

WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY"
RETURNS.

Narrator:
THE FINAL RESTING PLACE

OF THE FABLED LOST TREASURE
OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

IS ONE OF THE GREAT MYSTERIES
OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD.

ACCORDING TO REPORTS
FROM THE TIME,

IT WAS BROUGHT BACK
FROM THE HOLY LAND

TO THE TEMPLAR COMMANDERY
IN PARIS.

BUT WHEN THIS WAS STORMED
BY THE KING'S TROOPS IN 1307,

IT HAD ALL GONE.

BUT WHERE TO?

JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON
HAS FOLLOWED A TRAIL OF CLUES

FROM JERUSALEM TO PARIS AND
NOW TO A CONTACT IN LONDON.

HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR
ANDREW SINCLAIR,

A DESCENDANT OF THE SINCLAIR
BLOODLINE,

BELIEVES HE HAS HARD EVIDENCE

THAT PROVES THAT THE TREASURE
WAS TAKEN TO ROSSLYN CHAPEL,

NEAR EDINBURGH IN SCOTLAND.

HE CLAIMS THAT DEPICTIONS
OF THE ARK

AND OTHER SACRED OBJECTS RESTING
IN THE VAULTS OF THE CHAPEL

ARE SHOWN
ON A 15th-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT

CALLED THE KIRKWALL SCROLL,

WHICH HE DISCOVERED
IN A MASONIC LODGE

ON THE ISLE OF ORKNEY.

Theakston: SO, ANDREW,
EXPLAIN TO ME,

WHAT ARE WE
LOOKING AT HERE?

THIS IS THE SHAPE
OF ROSSLYN CHAPEL,

AND IN THE VAULTS ARE BURIED
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT

AND THE HOLY OF HOLIES.
WOW.

AND THAT IS REALLY
QUITE A STATEMENT.

WE SEE TWO PRIESTS
ON A POLE

CARRYING THE ARK
OF THE COVENANT.

OH, WOW.
OKAY. YEAH.

AND WE SEE TWO OTHER PRIESTS
WORSHIPPING THE GOLDEN CALF.

AND THESE ARE TEMPLAR MAPS
OF A SEVENTH CRUSADE,

AND THEY ARE FULL
OF THESE JEWISH SYMBOLS

FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.

IN THE MIDDLE,
EVEN MORE REMARKABLE,

WE HAVE MASONIC
AND GNOSTIC SYMBOLS.

WE HAVE TWO CHERUBIM, WINGED,
GUARDING THE HOLY OF HOLIES.

AND UNDERNEATH THAT,

WE HAVE THE STRAIGHT MASONIC
BLACK-AND-WHITE

AND TEMPLAR
TESSELLATED PAVEMENT

THAT WAS ALSO
THE TEMPLAR FLAG.

THIS IS
THE TREASURE MAP.

IT SAYS
THERE ARE HOLY TREASURES

IN THE VAULT OF ROSSLYN.

IT IS SURROUNDED
WITH TEMPLAR SYMBOLS.

IT'S GOT TWO TEMPLAR CRUSADER
MAPS ON EITHER SIDE.

THAT'S IT FOR ME.

BUT FOR ME, THE KEY THING IS,
WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE,

THIS IS EVIDENCE
OF TEMPLAR TREASURE?

YES, IT'S EVIDENCE
OF TEMPLAR TREASURE.

IT'S ALSO EVIDENCE

THAT THE TEMPLARS
WENT INTO THE FREEMASONS.

FASCINATING.

Narrator: SO, DOES
ROSSLYN CHAPEL IN SCOTLAND

REALLY HOLD THE KEY
TO THIS TREASURE?

IT WAS BUILT IN 1446
BY SIR WILLIAM SINCLAIR,

WHOSE FAMILY
HAD STRONG CONNECTIONS

TO THE TEMPLAR ORDER,

AND HAD SAID THAT IT WAS BUILT
TO HOUSE SACRED RELICS,

WHICH WERE BROUGHT BACK
FROM THE HOLY LAND.

THE CHAPEL IS FAMOUS FOR
ITS ENIGMATIC STONE CARVINGS,

AND IT'S SAID
THAT THE CHAPEL'S FLOOR PLAN

IS MODELED ON THE TEMPLE
OF SOLOMON IN JERUSALEM.

IS THE LOST TREASURE

OF THE TEMPLARS BURIED HERE
UNDER ROSSLYN CHAPEL?

WELL, THERE ARE STORIES
AND THEORIES,

BUT THERE'S NOT EVIDENCE.

AND SO OUR VIEW AT THE MOMENT
IS THAT, NO,

THE TREASURE
ISN'T BURIED HERE.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS BURIED
UNDERNEATH THE CHAPEL?

IT'S VERY DIFFICULT
TO SAY.

WE DON'T HAVE
A DEFINITIVE ANSWER.

THERE ARE BITS OF EVIDENCE
THAT GIVE US CLUES.

SIR WALTER SCOTT
WROTE IN 1805

ABOUT THE KNIGHTS OF THE...
THE SINCLAIR KNIGHTS

BEING BURIED
IN THE VAULT.

"SOME TWENTY BARONS,"
HE SAID.

SO WALTER SCOTT WAS KNOWN
TO BE A VISITOR

AROUND THIS AREA.

IT'S QUITE POSSIBLE

THAT HE DID SEE
KNIGHTS BURIED THERE.

IT MAY BE
THAT THE SINCLAIR KNIGHTS

ARE BURIED IN THEIR FULL ARMOR.
WE DON'T KNOW.

ON THE ASSUMPTION
THAT THERE MIGHT BE KNIGHTS,

THERE MIGHT BE
ANCESTORS THERE,

AND IT MIGHT EFFECTIVELY
BE THE LAST RESTING PLACE,

UM, THE...
THE FAMILY ARE NOT KEEN

TO START DIGGING
AND INVESTIGATING.

AND I THINK
THAT'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

IF IT IS A RESTING PLACE,
IT'S ABOUT LEAVING IT

FOR... FOR PEOPLE
TO REST.

Narrator: MANY BELIEVE

THAT THE STONE CARVINGS
INSIDE THE CHAPEL

ARE ITS REAL TREASURE
AND ITS GREATEST SECRET.

ONE OF THE LOCAL GUIDES,
ANNE McNEIL,

AGREED TO SHOW JAMIE AROUND.

McNeil: NOW, JAMIE,
JUST AROUND HERE,

THIS IS THE MOST...
THE FAMOUS PART OF...

OF ROSSLYN CHAPEL,
IS THE APPRENTICE PILLAR.

THIS IS WHAT EVERYBODY
COMES TO SEE,

THE FAMOUS ROSSLYN LEGEND.

THIS PILLAR RIGHT HERE
WITH THE SPIRAL EFFECT.

Theakston: AND WHAT ABOUT
THE CARVINGS HERE?

WHAT HAVE WE GOT?

ARE THESE DRAGONS
OR SOMETHING?

AT THE BOTTOM, IT'S MEANT
TO BE THE SEVEN DRAGONS.

IT'S A REPRESENTATION OF...

OR IN... IN HONOR OF
THE SINCLAIRS' FAMILY ROOTS,

COMING FROM SCANDINAVIA

AND THE ORKNEY SAGAS,
ET CETERA.

SO IT'S DEPICTING A LITTLE BIT
OF THE FAMILY IN IT.

THE SPIRAL EFFECT,
SOME PEOPLE, AGAIN,

COULD MAYBE TRY AND BRING IN
A FREEMASONRY TEMPLAR HERE.

THAT'S A SPIRAL STAIRCASE,

WHICH YOU CAN OFTEN
SEE SOMETIMES IN THEIR CHARTS

IN VARIOUS DEGREES.

THEY ARE LEARNING
TO BE A GOOD FREEMASON

OR A GOOD PERSON
BY ASCENDING THE STAIRCASE.

SO THAT'S AN INTERPRETATION.

SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE

THAT THERE IS ACTUALLY
SOMETHING INSIDE THE COLUMN.

IS THAT RIGHT?

YES. AGAIN,
THE OTHER FAMOUS STORY,

MOSTLY COMING
FROM FREEMASONRY HERE,

THEY WILL TELL YOU
THE CHAPEL WAS A REPLICA

OF THE ORIGINAL SOLOMON'S TEMPLE
IN JERUSALEM.

AND THAT WAS WHERE WE GOT
STORIES OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,

TREASURE, HOLY GRAIL.

AND THE CHIEF ARCHITECT
OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE

WAS A GRAND
NAMED HIRAM ABIFF.

NOW, HE HIMSELF,

HE WAS MURDERED BY STONEMASONS
OR FELLOW CRAFT STONEMASONS

BECAUSE, IT'S CLAIMED,

HE WOULDN'T DIVULGE
TO THE THREE OF THEM

SECRETS OF STONEMASONRY.

THE BEST PART...

AND THEY USUALLY WHISPER
THIS PART...

THEY'LL SAY TO YOU,
"THE APPRENTICE PILLAR HERE

IS... IS NOT.

IT'S ACTUALLY THE MASTER
MASON'S PILLAR, HIRAM ABIFF.

IT'S HOLLOW."

THEY THINK THE HOLY GRAIL
IS HIDDEN IN THE MIDDLE.

AND, PERHAPS, WE'RE STANDING
ON ALL THE TREASURE.

SO HANG... WHOA, HANG ON.

IT'S A LOT.

WELL, SO,
WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS,

IS THAT
THERE ARE THE STORIES

THAT THIS IS
WHERE THE TREASURE IS BURIED?

UNDER THIS PILLAR?

THAT'S ONE OF THE...
THE TEMPLAR LEGEND.

AND THE GRAIL
IS INSIDE THE PILLAR?

THAT'S WHAT
CAN BE CLAIMED, YES.

IS THERE ANY WAY...
CAN WE... IS IT HOLLOW?

DO WE KNOW?
WE'VE HAD...

THE CHAPEL'S BEEN SCANNED
IN HEAT IMAGERY,

AND THE PILLARS
ARE SOLID STONE.

SO, NO GRAIL IN HERE?

NO.

Theakston: DO YOU THINK
THERE'S A CHANCE

THAT THE TREASURE COULD BE
UNDERNEATH ROSSLYN CHAPEL?

ROSSLYN CHAPEL
IS A VERY MYSTERIOUS

AND INTERESTING PLACE.

AND IT'S CERTAINLY...

WHEN YOU STUDY ITS INTERIOR
AND THE CARVINGS THAT ARE THERE,

IT SEEMS TO HAVE THE HALLMARK
OF TEMPLAR MYSTERY

THAT THEY WERE UNDOUBTEDLY
CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH IT.

THEY HAD LOYAL SUPPORTERS THERE

IN THE FORM OF THE SINCLAIR
FAMILY, AMONG OTHERS,

AND IT SEEMS TO ME
HIGHLY PROBABLE

THAT THEY WOULD HAVE FELT

IT WAS SAFE
TO LEAVE SOME, AT LEAST,

OF THE TREASURE THERE.

WHAT IS BURIED
UNDER ROSSLYN CHAPTER

IS A HOTLY CONTESTED SUBJECT.

I SUBMIT TO YOU,
THERE IS NO MYSTERY.

BY THIS POINT, WHAT IS DOWN
THERE IS WELL INVENTORIED.

SO THE FACT THAT WE HAVEN'T
HEARD OF WHAT IS DOWN THERE

TELLS ME ONE OF TWO THINGS.

EITHER IT'S HERETICAL,

SO IT'S SO CONTROVERSIAL

THAT IT SHOULDN'T
AND COULDN'T COME TO LIGHT.

OR IT'S AN ARTIFACT

THAT SHOULDN'T BE
IN THE PHYSICAL POSSESSION

OF SCOTLAND,
SUCH AS THE MENORAH.

THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE RETURNED
IN A HEARTBEAT.

OR IF IT WAS SOMETHING DRAMATIC,
LIKE THE ARK OF THE COVENANT,

WELL, THAT COULD UNLEASH
THE NEXT THIRD WORLD WAR.

SO THERE'S PROBABLY
A GOOD REASON

WHY WHATEVER IS THERE
HASN'T BEEN REVEALED.

Theakston: SO, WHAT'S
UNDERNEATH US HERE?

McNeil:
A VERY GOOD QUESTION.

ABOVE OUR HEADS,

WE HAVE WHAT MAYBE SOME PEOPLE
CALL THE KEYSTONE.

RIGHT?

IT JUST COMES STRAIGHT
TO A POINT UP THERE.

WE OFTEN CALL IT... MAYBE
WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF FUN;

WE CAN CALL IT
THE GRAIL POINTER.

ATTACH A PLUMB LINE TO IT,

DROP IT STRAIGHT DOWN,

AND DOES THAT TELL US
WHERE THE GRAIL IS HIDDEN?

WE'RE STANDING
ON TOP OF IT.

THE GRAIL'S
UNDERNEATH US NOW?

WE DON'T ACTUALLY
KNOW THAT.

RIGHT, OKAY.

DO WE KNOW
WHAT'S BURIED UNDER HERE?

UH, NO.

WE'VE HAD VARIOUS SCANS,
ET CETERA.

THERE'S AN INDICATION
THAT THERE MAY BE SOME METAL.

COULD BE THE KNIGHTS
OF THE TEMPLAR AND FAMILY.

BUT WE'RE... WE'RE...
WE'RE... WE'RE NOT...

WE'RE NOT 100% CERTAIN.
OKAY.

SO TEMPLAR KNIGHTS,
POSSIBLY BURIED UNDERNEATH US?

POSSIBLY.

Theakston: CAN'T WE JUST DIG
DOWN UNDERNEATH THE CHAPEL?

Gardner: SADLY NOT.

WHAT WE DO THINK IS THAT
THERE ARE SECRETS HERE.

WE KNOW THAT IN 1546,
MARY OF GUISE,

SHE WAS MARRIED
TO KING JAMES V

AND WAS THE MOTHER
OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS,

SHE WROTE TO WILLIAM SINCLAIR
AND THANKED HIM.

IT WAS QUITE
AN ENIGMATIC LETTER.

SHE THANKED HIM FOR SHARING
THE SECRETS OF ROSSLYN

AND PROMISED NOT TO SHARE THEM
WITH ANYBODY ELSE.

NOW, WE DON'T KNOW
WHAT THOSE SECRETS ARE.

WE MIGHT NOT KNOW
WHAT THEY ARE.

BUT I... I SUSPECT THAT,
OVER THE NEXT 500 YEARS,

PEOPLE WILL STILL COME HERE
TO TRY AND ANSWER,

WHAT WERE THOSE SECRETS,

AND IT KEEPS THE INTRIGUE
AND MYSTERY GOING.

Narrator:
SO WHAT DOES LIE IN THE VAULTS

BENEATH THIS ENIGMATIC CHAPEL?

BACK IN THE 1990s,

ARMED WITH HIS
15th-CENTURY TREASURE MAP,

ANDREW SINCLAIR
CARRIED OUT A GROUND SCAN

AND EXCAVATION
BENEATH THE FLOORS OF ROSSLYN.

AND ALTHOUGH THE RESULTS
WERE MIXED,

IT DID SHOW
THAT THERE'S A MUCH DEEPER VAULT

UNDER THE CHURCH
THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT.

Sinclair: WE HAD TWO NIGHTS,

AND WE TOOK A GROUND SCAN
FROM PEOPLE WHO DISCOVERED OIL.

AND THEY SEEMED TO SHOW
THERE ARE VAULTS UNDERNEATH.

WE KNOW THAT.

AND IT SEEMED TO SHOW
THAT THE VAULTS WERE CONNECTED,

BUT THERE WAS ONE SIDE VAULT
I KNEW OF.

AND WE DUG DOWN THE SIDE.

AND THERE WERE STEPS GOING DOWN,
APPARENTLY, INTO THE VAULT.

THERE WERE THREE COFFINS
IN THERE,

AND A MEDIEVAL WOODEN BOWL,

WHICH I CAME UP LATER
AND CALLED THE GRAIL.

WELL, WHO KNOWS
WHAT THE GRAIL LOOKED LIKE?

COULD BE A WOODEN PLATTER.

BUT THERE WAS A SIDE WALL,

AND I COULDN'T GO THROUGH.

AND LATER, WE PUT DOWN
SOMETHING CALLED AN ENDOSCOPE,

AND WE DRILLED
RIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE.

AND WE PUT DOWN THIS CAMERA
INTO THE WALLS,

BUT THE DIRT ALL FELL IN,

AND THAT WAS THE END
OF THE ENDOSCOPE.

SO I NEVER GOT THROUGH.

IT WON'T BE DONE AGAIN,

AND THERE WE ARE.

I'M PRETTY WELL CERTAIN
THAT SOME TEMPLAR TREASURES

AND RECORDS ARE DOWN THERE
AND PROBABLY THE HOLYROOD.

Narrator: WHEN ROSSLYN FEATURED
IN THE "DA VINCI CODE" MOVIE,

IT REALLY PUT THIS REMOTE LITTLE
CHAPEL ON THE TOURIST MAP.

BUT, UNFORTUNATELY
FOR THE GUIDES,

IT ALSO MEANT THAT TENS
OF THOUSANDS OF VISITORS

NOW COME EVERY YEAR,
LOOKING FOR THE SECRET ARCHIVES

OF THE PRIORY OF SION
AND THE TOMB OF MARY MAGDALENE.

WHAT IMPACT HAS THE "DA VINCI
CODE" FILM HAD ON ROSSLYN?

IT OPENED THE CHAPEL UP
TO THE WIDE WORLD.

OUR VISITOR NUMBERS,
THE YEAR 2006,

WE WENT FROM 30,000 VISITORS
A YEAR TO 176,000.

WOW.
THAT'S A DRAMATIC INCREASE.

I REMEMBER...
I REMEMBER THIS BIT FROM...

THIS WAS IN THE FILM,
WASN'T IT?

UH, VERY MUCH SO.

TOM HANKS STOPS AT THE TOP
OF THE STAIRS

AND HE LOOKS STRAIGHT AHEAD
AT THE FINAL CLUE,

WHICH WAS
A SIX-POINTED STAR.

WE DIDN'T HAVE ONE,

SO HOLLYWOOD MADE ONE
IN WOOD,

AND THEY STUCK IT
ON THE WALL.

THAT'S WHERE IT WAS?
THAT'S IT.

OKAY.
WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS.

HOLLYWOOD LEAVES;
THEY PULL IT OFF THE WALL,

AND THEY LEFT US WITH
THE CIRCLE, WHICH IS NOW KNOWN,

WE'VE GIVEN IT A NAME,

AND WE CALL IT
THE HOLLYWOOD CIRCLE.

Theakston: WHEN I WAS
IN JERUSALEM, THERE,

I SPOKE TO A LOT
OF PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED

THAT THE TEMPLARS DID REMOVE
TREASURE FROM JERUSALEM.

DO YOU THINK THAT'S...
DO YOU THINK THAT WAS THE CASE?

Gardner: WELL, WHAT I LOVE
ABOUT THIS PLACE

IS THAT YOU CAN LISTEN
TO THEORIES,

YOU CAN LISTEN TO VIEWS.

IT'S VERY HARD TO PROVE THEM
OR DISPROVE THEM.

AND I THINK THAT'S ONE
OF THE LINES

THAT'S ACTUALLY HARD
TO PROVE.

IT'S VERY HARD TO KNOW
IF THERE WAS A CONNECTION.

UH, BUT THERE...

THERE ARE LEGENDS
AND... AND STORIES,

WHICH KEEP
THE DEBATE GOING,

AND I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY
THE MOST IMPORTANT BIT.

Prince: AS LONG AS YOU DON'T
KNOW WHAT'S UNDER THERE,

YOU CAN KEEP THE MYSTERY GOING.

BUT AS SOON AS YOU FIND
THE VAULTS AND GO DOWN THERE,

YOU'RE EITHER GONNA FIND
THERE'S NOTHING THERE,

OR IT'S JUST THE TOMBS,
AS IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE.

IT'S THE BURIAL VAULTS.

THERE'S MORE, IF YOU LIKE,
MORE OF AN INDUSTRY

IN NOT OPENING THE VAULTS.

BECAUSE ONCE...
ONCE YOU'VE OPENED IT,

YOU KNOW WHAT'S THERE.

Theakston:
WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, CLIVE,

IS IT'S GOOD FOR BUSINESS?
YES.

Narrator: JAMIE THEAKSTON'S
RELENTLESS HUNT

FOR THE LOST TREASURE
OF THE TEMPLARS

LEADS HIM TO A SMALL ISLAND

OFF THE COAST
OF NOVA SCOTIA IN CANADA

AND A DRAMATIC
UNDERWATER DISCOVERY,

WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY"
RETURNS.

Narrator: JOURNALIST
JAMIE THEAKSTON IS ON A MISSION

TO TRY AND FIND

THE FABLED LOST TREASURE
OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.

SO FAR, THE CLUES HAVE LED HIM
FROM JERUSALEM TO PARIS,

THEN ONTO ROSSLYN CHAPEL
IN EDINBURGH

AND NOW ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

TO AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY
UNDERWATER.

THERE'S ANOTHER THEORY
ABOUT WHERE THE TEMPLARS

HID THEIR TREASURE,

AND IT'S ON A REMOTE ISLAND
IN NOVA SCOTIA.

ACCORDING TO THE STORY,
PART OF THE TEMPLAR FLEET

THAT LEFT THE PORT
OF LA ROCHELLE IN FRANCE

SECRETLY PEELED OFF AND,

INSTEAD OF GOING TO SCOTLAND,
CROSSED THE ATLANTIC

AND ENDED UP AT OAK ISLAND

ON THE WEST COAST OF CANADA.

THE LEGEND IS
THAT THEY DUG A DEEP PIT

OVER 100 FEET UNDERGROUND,

WHICH LED TO A VAST LABYRINTH
OF TUNNELS,

IN WHICH THEY BURIED THEIR MOST
PRECIOUS TREASURE.

IT THEN LAY UNTOUCHED
FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS,

UNTIL SOME LOCAL BOYS

ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERED
A HUGE VERTICAL SHAFT IN 1795.

THE KIDS WENT HOME, CAME BACK
WITH DIGGING EQUIPMENT;

THEY GOT DOWN 10 FEET

AND HIT THIS PLATFORM
OF OAK LOGS.

WHAT THEY WERE PULLING OUT
WAS SOFT, LOOSE BACKFILL,

BUT THE WALLS WERE HARD.

IT WAS SO CLEAR, SO OBVIOUS,
THAT IT HAD BEEN DUG.

IT WASN'T A NATURAL BLOWHOLE.

WELL, THEY WENT
DOWN ANOTHER 10 FEET,

AND THEY HIT ANOTHER PLATFORM
OF OAK LOGS,

DECIDED THIS IS
MORE THAN THREE LADS CAN DO.

AND THEN, ONE AFTER ANOTHER,
ADULT EXPEDITIONS

FOR THE NEXT 200 YEARS HAVE BEEN
TRYING TO GET TO THE TREASURE

IN THE OAK ISLAND MONEY PIT.

AND, UH, WE'VE BEEN OVER THERE
A NUMBER OF TIMES,

HAD TREMENDOUSLY
EXCITING VISITS.

THERE IS UNDOUBTEDLY SOMETHING
AMAZING HIDDEN DOWN THERE.

PROBLEM WAS THAT THE GUYS
WHO BUILT IT,

PROBABLY THE TEMPLARS,

HAD PUT TWO FLOOD TUNNELS IN
CONNECTING IT TO THE ATLANTIC.

WHEN THE DIGGERS WENT DOWN
SHORTLY AFTER THE BOYS,

AT THE START, THIS WOULD BE NOW,
OF THE 19th CENTURY,

THEY WENT THROUGH LAYERS
OF CAULKING CLAY

OF THE KIND THAT YOU USE
TO WATERPROOF A BOAT.

Narrator: THE TEMPLARS WERE
KNOWN TO BE GREAT BUILDERS,

AND SOME PEOPLE SUSPECT
THAT THEY CONSTRUCTED THIS PIT

WITH ELABORATE
SECURITY MEASURES,

INCLUDING MULTIPLE LEVELS
OF OAK LOGS

TO HAVE TO BREAK THROUGH
AND DIRECT INLETS TO THE SEA

SO THAT WHEN YOU DUG
TO A CERTAIN LEVEL,

THE PIT WOULD BE FLOODED
BY SEAWATER,

KILLING THOSE INSIDE AND MAKING
FURTHER EXCAVATIONS IMPOSSIBLE.

THE MAN
WHO CURRENTLY HAS THE RIGHTS

TO EXCAVATE THE MONEY PIT
IS DAN BLANKENSHIP,

AND JUST LIKE THOSE
WHO WENT BEFORE HIM,

MANY OF WHOM PERISHED
IN THEIR ATTEMPTS,

HE FIRMLY BELIEVES
THAT THERE IS A HUGE TREASURE

WAITING TO BE DUG UP.

Theakston: WHY DID YOU
FIRST COME HERE?

GOOD QUESTION.

NEVER REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT IT
TOO MUCH.

I SUPPOSE CURIOSITY WAS,
UH, A MAJOR FACTOR,

AND GET RICH QUICK,
PROBABLY, WAS A MAJOR FACTOR.

OH, UH, INQUISITIVENESS.

ALL OF THOSE, PROBABLY.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS
IN THE PIT?

WELL, VALUE-WISE,

WHAT THEY LEFT ON THE ISLAND
OR CONCEALED,

IT BOGGLES THE MIND
OF THE POSSIBILITIES.

MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION IS, UH,

IT WOULD PUT KING TUT'S TOMB,

AS A VERY, VERY SMALL FIND
IN COMPARISON.

AND TO DATE,

I THINK EVERYBODY
SAYS THAT KING TUT'S TOMB

IS THE MOST FAMOUS TREASURE
THAT WAS EVER FOUND.

AND, UH, I... I THINK WE HAVE
SOMETHING MUCH MORE VALUABLE

IN OAK ISLAND.

Narrator:
THE REVEREND LIONEL FANTHORPE

HAS SPENT OVER TWO DECADES

INVESTIGATING
THE OAK ISLAND MYSTERY

AND BELIEVES THAT BLANKENSHIP
AND ALL THE OTHER EXCAVATORS

MIGHT BE ON TO SOMETHING.

WHAT REALLY SENT THE OAK ISLAND
MYSTERY ALIGHT WAS THE DISCOVERY

IN THE SHAFT OF A CARVED STONE,
AN ENGRAVED STONE,

VERY CURIOUS LETTERS,

WHICH WERE FINALLY
DECIPHERED AS MEANING,

"40 FEET BELOW,
MILLIONS OF POUNDS ARE BURIED."

AND ONCE IT BECAME KNOWN

THAT THERE WAS A VAST TREASURE
THERE,

ACCORDING TO THE ENGRAVED STONE,

THEN ONE EXPEDITION
AFTER ANOTHER

SET OUT TO BEAT THE FLOODWATERS.

THE LEGEND IS
THAT SEVEN MEN MUST DIE

AND THE LAST OAK TREE MUST FALL

BEFORE THE SPIRIT OF THE ISLAND
WILL GIVE UP ITS TREASURE,

AND SIX MEN ARE DEAD

AND THE OAK TREES
HAVE BEEN LONG GONE.

Narrator: BUT THERE'S A NEW
TWIST TO THE OAK ISLAND MYSTERY.

ANDREW GOUGH WAS CONTACTED

BY A WELL-FUNDED
PROFESSIONAL EXPLORER,

WHO CLAIMED
THAT HE'D FOUND A TOMB

OF GREAT IMPORTANCE THERE.

Gough: AND WHAT, OVER THE COURSE
OF THREE OR FOUR YEARS,

HE REPORTED TO ME,
IS THEY FOUND, IN OAK ISLAND,

BENEATH THE ISLAND,
A TUBING SYSTEM,

CONNECTING OAK ISLAND
TO A NEIGHBORING ISLAND.

AND IN THIS TUBING SYSTEM,
IN THE WATER,

WAS THE PRESERVED BODY
OF KING DAVID.

Narrator:
HIS CONTACT TOLD HIM

THAT HE'D MANAGED TO GET
WITHIN A FEW FEET OF THE TOMB

AND THAT HE'D FOUND
SOME TEMPLAR ARTIFACTS AS WELL.

MOST IMPORTANTLY,

HE SAID THAT THERE WAS ALSO
A GREAT TREASURE THERE.

THE CLUE TO ITS ORIGIN,
HE TOLD GOUGH,

WAS ONE OF KING DAVID'S WIVES.

Gough: THERE'S ONE VERY FAMOUS
WIFE, AND THAT'S BATHSHEBA,

AND SHE, INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH,
IS THE MOTHER OF KING SOLOMON.

SO HERE YOU ARE ON AN ISLAND,
WITH RELICS,

INCLUDING THE BODY
OF KING DAVID,

OTHER TEMPLAR ARTIFACTS
AND THE MOTHER OF SOLOMON,

WHOSE TREASURE
MAY BE HIDDEN THERE AS WELL.

IT'S A FASCINATING POSSIBILITY.

Narrator: JAMIE'S SEARCH
FOR THE LOST TREASURE

TAKES A DRAMATIC TURN

WITH THE DISCOVERY
OF A SECRET TEMPLAR CAVE

DEEP UNDERNEATH A VILLAGE
IN ENGLAND,

WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY"
RETURNS.

Narrator: JOURNALIST
JAMIE THEAKSTON'S EPIC QUEST

TO FIND THE LOST TREASURE
OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

HAS, SO FAR, TAKEN HIM
FROM THE HOLY LAND TO FRANCE,

AND FROM SCOTLAND
TO NOVA SCOTIA, IN CANADA.

AND NOW, IN A FINAL TWIST,

THE TRAIL HAS LED HIM
TO A VILLAGE IN ENGLAND.

UNDER ROYSTON IN HERTFORDSHIRE,

ABOUT A TWO-HOUR DRIVE
FROM LONDON,

LIES A SMALL, MAN-MADE CABIN.

CARVED INTO THE LIMESTONE WALLS
ARE DEPICTIONS OF JESUS,

THE CRUCIFIXION, AND JERUSALEM,

WHICH ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN
MADE BY THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.

HISTORIANS BELIEVE THAT IT WAS
SOME SORT OF SECRET VAULT,

POSSIBLY BUILT
TO PROTECT A SACRED TREASURE.

INTRIGUINGLY,
THE CAVE HAS AN OCTAGONAL FLOOR,

WHICH MIRRORS THE FLOOR

OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY
SEPULCHRE IN JERUSALEM.

SO DID THE TEMPLARS,

AS SOME THINK, ACTUALLY HIDE
THEIR TREASURE NOT IN SCOTLAND,

OR NOVA SCOTIA,

BUT HERE IN THIS SECRET CAVE
IN ENGLAND?

LOCAL HISTORIAN SILVIA BEAMON
AGREED TO SHOW JAMIE AROUND.

Theakston: SO, HOW OLD
DO WE THINK THE CAVE IS?

WELL, IT COULD BE
AS EARLY AS NEOLITHIC,

BUT I THINK MOST
OF THE CARVINGS HAPPENED

IN THE 12th AND 13th CENTURY,

WHICH AREN'T
MY PARTICULAR THEORY.

AND I HAVE TO SAY,
IT IS A THEORY,

BUT IT WAS ASSOCIATED
WITH THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.

THE REASON BEING BALDOCK,
WHICH IS NINE MILES AWAY,

IS A TEMPLAR-CREATED
MARKET TOWN.

AND IT IS RECORDED
THAT FROM 1199 UNTIL 1254,

THE BALDOCK TEMPLARS

CAME TO ROYSTON
FOR THE PURPOSE OF MARKETING,

AND THE MARKET
WAS STRADDLED AROUND

THE CROSSROADS, VERY IMPORTANT
CROSSROADS, ACROSS ENGLAND.

'CAUSE IF YOU LOOK HERE,
YOU CAN SEE A CROSS

WITH A FIGURE ON IT,
ON THE LEFT HERE.

THIS ONE HERE?
YES.

AND LOOK AT THE ARMS
OF THE CROSS.

THEY ARE PATTéE, AND...

AND THE PATTéE CROSS
WAS USED BY THE TEMPLARS.

Narrator:
THERE IS ALSO A DEPICTION

OF WHAT COULD BE JESUS,
MARY MAGDALENE,

AND, CONTROVERSIALLY,
A SMALL CHILD.

WAS THIS ONE OF THE HERESIES
THAT THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

WERE ACCUSED OF,
A BELIEF IN THE BLOODLINE?

AND FOLLOWING ON,
WE SEE THIS GROUP HERE, OF...

WHICH MOST OF US THINK,
UH, IS AN ARMY.

BENEATH THE ARMY,
YOU CAN SEE

THAT IS A SHIELD
UPSIDE DOWN.

THIS ONE HERE?
YES.

A SHIELD UPSIDE DOWN
INDICATES THAT THE PEOPLE

FOR WHOM IT'S REPRESENTING
ARE DEAD.

THIS IS THE AREA
WHERE, I THINK,

THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
HAD TO SAY 40 OBITS,

THEIR... THEIR PRAYERS.

AND THEY WERE SAID REGULARLY,
EVERY DAY,

TO THEIR DEAD BRETHREN

WHO WERE IN OR HAD BEEN
IN JERUSALEM.

DO YOU THINK
THAT THE TEMPLARS

MIGHT HAVE HIDDEN TREASURE
IN THIS CAVE?

I THINK MORE THAN ANYTHING,
IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE TEMPLARS

CARRIED JEWELRY AND MONEY
UP AND DOWN THE COUNTRY

ON A REGULAR BASIS,

AND ROYSTON IS A VERY, UH,
WAS POSITIONED...

POSITIONED ON THE ROADS.

SO IT COULD HAVE BEEN
THAT THE JEWELRY

AND MONEY COULD HAVE COME UP,
FOR EXAMPLE,

FROM DOVER
THROUGH LONDON, UH, ROYSTON,

AND THEN UP TO STANFORD
AND YORK BEYOND.

AND THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN
A VERY USEFUL PLACE

TO HAVE KEPT IT HIDDEN,
SO THAT YOU COULD STORE,

OVERNIGHT, MONEY AND JEWELS
IF YOU WERE TRAVELING AROUND.

Narrator: IF THESE CARVINGS WERE
MADE BY THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR,

AS SILVIA THINKS,

THEN IT'S POSSIBLE
THAT THIS SMALL CAVE

WITH THE OCTAGONAL FLOOR

WAS USED BY THEM
FOR MEETINGS, RITUALS,

AND POSSIBLY FOR THE SAFEKEEPING
OF IMPORTANT TREASURES,

MAYBE EVEN SOME OF THE SACRED
RELICS FROM JERUSALEM.

WHATEVER THE TRUTH,

ROYSTON CAVE, HIDDEN AWAY
BENEATH THE HIGH STREET,

IS A TRULY FASCINATING PIECE
OF ENGLISH HISTORY.

DO YOU THINK, LIONEL,

THAT THERE IS STILL
TREASURE TO BE FOUND?

Rev. Fanthorpe:
ROSSLYN, I THINK,
IS A VERY LIKELY HIDING PLACE,

WITH THE SINCLAIRS HAVING
KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT THEY'VE GOT.

AND OAK ISLAND, I WOULD SAY,

IS THE STRONGEST SUSPECT
OF THEM ALL.

I THINK BECAUSE IT LOOKS SO MUCH
LIKE THE HANDIWORK

OF AN ORGANIZED FORCE
OF TEMPLARS, WHO,

AS THEY DUG THOSE FLOOD TUNNELS,

WERE ALMOST RUBBING THEIR HANDS
AND SAYING, "I DO HOPE

SOME OF PHILIP'S MEN
COME AND HAVE A LOOK."

Gough: I DON'T BELIEVE THERE
ARE MANY, IF ANY, ELEMENTS

OF THE TEMPLAR TREASURE
THAT ARE MISSING.

I BELIEVE SOMEONE
KNOWS WHERE EACH OF THEM ARE.

SURE, SOME OF THEM
MAY HAVE BEEN MELTED DOWN,

BUT I THINK MOST
OF THEM ARE PRESERVED

WITH WHAT AMOUNTS TO
THE TEMPLAR'S OWN COPPER SCROLL.

SOMEONE IS LOOKING AFTER
THESE RELICS SOMEWHERE TODAY.

Narrator: UNTIL IT'S FOUND,
UNDER ROSSLYN CHAPEL

OR ON OAK ISLAND
OR IN ROYSTON CAVES,

THE MYSTERY
OF WHERE THE TEMPLARS

REALLY HID THEIR TREASURE

WILL CONTINUE
TO ELUDE JAMIE THEAKSTON

AND THE MANY OTHERS
WHO TRY TO SEARCH FOR IT.

IT'S ALSO POSSIBLE

THAT THE TREASURE
WASN'T REMOVED FROM JERUSALEM

AT ALL, IN WHICH CASE

IT'S STILL SOMEWHERE BURIED
UNDERNEATH THE CITY,

JUST WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED.