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

The way to unlock Nolan's Cross
is built into the cross itself.

If the ark is here, it will
be found using Nolan's Cross.

Let's dig there.

GARY:
Ooh, look at that.

BILLY:
There's a boulder.

Maybe this boulder
is marking the spot.

This is the copper artifact
found on Lot 8.

This could be identified
as Viking.

ROGER: Water started
coming in faster and faster.

RICK:
We may have hit a flood tunnel.

RONNIE:
Whoa! Whoa! Hey!

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.

♪ ♪

-SCOTT: Morning, Paul.
-COTE: Morning.
-RICK: Morning.

So you've got
the horizontal drills

-right by the shaft.
-Yeah, yeah.

I guess the next stop
is the shaft bottom?

Shaft bottom.

That's where we're going.

We're getting ready
to lower the drill there.

And start probe drilling
right at the bottom.

-That's good.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
It is the beginning

of another hopeful day
on Oak Island

as Rick Lagina and Scott Barlow

arrive in the Money Pit area

to oversee
a new probe-drilling operation

at the base of the Garden Shaft
that could help

finally solve
a 229-year-old treasure mystery.

The priority, in my opinion,

-is to drill the tunnel.
-Right.

SCOTT:
Look at that, right there.

RICK:
Wow.

Those are big beams.

NARRATOR:
Three weeks ago,

after extending
the 18th-century Garden Shaft

down to an approximate depth
of 100 feet,

the team was elated
to reach a potentially

17th-century wooden tunnel.

A tunnel that a previous
core-drilling operation

has tracked westward
into the so-called Baby Blob,

where high traces of
gold and silver

have been detected
by water testing

between 80
and 120 feet belowground.

We cannot find any sign
of walls or a ceiling.

NARRATOR:
However, the team was stunned

to discover
that the section of tunnel

that they uncovered
beneath the Garden Shaft

had been partially dismantled
sometime in the past.

-Big day here.
-Yeah.

This horizontal drill program

is gonna be, uh,
very important to us.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Now, having just finished

extending the Garden Shaft

down to a total depth
of 106 feet,

over the course
of the next few days,

representatives
from Dumas Contracting Limited

will conduct a probe-drilling
operation to look for sections

of the tunnel
that may still be intact

and hopefully
pinpoint the location

of the possible treasure.

MARTY:
Mystery number one.

No tops and no sides
of the tunnel.

Did somebody remove 'em? Why?

Did somebody do it
intentionally,

so the thing would collapse?
Why?

We're searching
for a great treasure here.

I have said
many times a collapse

would be an excellent way
to hide something.

The sooner we get to drilling,

-the more information we get.
-That's right.

If you encounter something
and you say,

"Hey, this is unusual,"

-Please let
Scott or myself or someone know.
-Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah.

And maybe we have
to readjust the plan.

-Yeah.
-RICK: It's been a long

and difficult road
to try to chase this tunnel.

It's just an intensive process.

The hope is that we're nearing
the end of it.

The Garden Shaft has
been extended to the point

where that work is
over and done with.

And now we begin
the process of drilling.

We all have great hope for that.

When you drill
into the tunnel itself,

we would like to get samples
every ten feet of the tunnel.

-Yeah.
-Accurate records, right?

-Yeah.
-We want to know distances,

elevations.

Because that,
those samples will go out

-to the lab for carbon dating.
-Yeah.

So I look forward to that.

I've got this tingling
in my toes.

(laughing)

Or in my hands, whatever, uh...

-Make sure we check his pockets
at the end of the day.
-(laughing)

SCOTT: I'll turn him
upside-down and shake him.

-Anyway,
we'll let you get to it.
-COTE: Yeah, okay.

-Thank you.
-See ya, Paul.

NARRATOR: As Dumas prepares
for the probe-drilling operation

in the Garden Shaft...

GARY:
What's the battle plan, Billy?

BILLY:
I guess the battle plan is

continue finding good stuff
over here on my right.

GARY: Yeah, and this
is the place to dig.

This is the hot spot
in the swamp.

-Yeah.
-JACK: Yeah.

NARRATOR: In the southeast
corner of the swamp,

next to the potentially
500-year-old stone road--

or ship's wharf--
Jack Begley, Gary Drayton

and Billy Gerhardt
are excavating

a mysterious wooden structure
that was first discovered

three weeks ago.

I think we're
the first people to dig this up

-since it was built.
-Right.

JACK: And the more artifacts
that we have found,

they tend to suggest
that this area could be

from pre-Money Pit discovery.

-Oh, yeah. Same as the road.
-So... Yeah.

NARRATOR:
In the past week,

while investigating
this feature,

the team has unearthed
hand-forged iron spikes,

a possibly ancient metal tool,

and a piece of a wooden barrel,

offering evidence
that this structure

may be related to the stone road

and, possibly,

an operation
to offload cargo from a ship

onto Oak Island.

The questions that arise
are what kind of cargo

could it have been?

And just where is it now?

You have to think
that that road was built

only because you had
something really important

to go on here or off,
one or the other, right?

Yeah, and it went
just over the hill

there in that Money Pit area.

-Right.
-GARY: Well, let's go for some

more of those old finds

-and let's fill our pockets.
-I'm ready.

Get the top pocket open,
get ready.

All right, mate,
let's find some artifacts.

RICK: We had hopes
that the stone road would

be our point of beginning,
i.e. the route

that may be heading
towards the Money Pit.

And it did lead somewhere.

It led to the stone path.

Then we lost the trail.

Where do we go from here?

There's certainly
unexplainable discoveries

in the body of the swamp.

I believe they are associated

with the mystery and we continue

to try to uncover them.

See the band of rocks
on top of the--

JACK:
On top of that bit of swamp.

And it's
all the same depth, right?

JACK:
That's weird.

BILLY: I don't know, Jack,
but that's looking suspiciously

like a bit of a road
over top of the swamp.

-Like someone buried it
on purpose.
-Right.

JACK: They wanted
to cover their tracks.

This could be
the road we were looking for

that leads to the Money Pit.

NARRATOR:
In 2019,

the team discovered
aerial photos of the island

dating back to the 1930s,

which revealed a stone pathway

running between the swamp
and the Money Pit area...

...that, unfortunately,
was later

destroyed by searcher
activities in the 1960s.

However,
could Jack Begley be correct

that Billy has uncovered

a section of that same pathway

next to the stone road

in the southeast corner
of the swamp?

What we found here
is really exciting,

and we need
to let all the guys know.

And they have to come over here
and take a look at that,

'cause it could be
a new discovery.

-Yeah.
-A new road
that we didn't know existed.

We might be really
onto something.

GARY: Agreed, mate.
Let's share the good news.

This was a good dig.

NARRATOR:
Later that afternoon...

Welcome back, Carmen.

NARRATOR: ...Jack Begley joins
archaeologist Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

for a meeting
with blacksmithing expert

Carmen Legge
in the Oak Island laboratory.

We have two different artifacts
we wanted to show you today.

They were recovered
from a dig that we were doing

in the southeast corner
of the swamp.

NARRATOR:
Carmen will be assessing
the possible

metal tool and iron spike
that were found

near the mysterious
wooden structure

just one week ago.

So we're hoping some of these

artifacts that we found
can help tell the story.

Really?

JACK:
Wow.

No way.

This is French.
From the early 1600s

to no later than 1750, 1760.

JACK:
Wow, it speaks

to hauling around the
southeast corner of the swamp.

They were hauling
something, yes.

NARRATOR:
In the Oak Island laboratory,

blacksmithing expert
Carmen Legge

has just given his assessment

that an iron backing bolt

that was found near
the mysterious wooden structure

and the stone road in the swamp
could be of French origin

and date as far back

as the 17th century.

So this might be some evidence
to people doing

a lot of hauling
or using oxen for that work.

I tend to think they were.

RICK:
Oxen come down the road

and pull a ship
or a load up the slipway.

I think that's a very
plausible explanation for it.

Sometimes the simplest
explanation is the best.

If that is real
connective tissue

to what happened here long ago,

maybe that's a step
towards understanding

the work on this island,
relative to the mystery.

JACK:
Our other object--

You can see remnants
of the wood

that's still on top
of this piece of iron.

So we didn't know
if it was a fastener

or if it was some type

of a tool that had
a wooden handle.

CARMEN:
What I'm looking at is probably
something 14 inches long.

But why is it so thin down here?

What's the, uh,
metallurgy on this?

So it's too big for me
to pop it in for a full scan.

So I did only get

a section of it just to get a
good look at the cross section.

NARRATOR:
To provide Carmen
with additional context,

Emma has scanned the artifact

using the X-ray
fluorescence spectrometer--

a device that emits
nondestructive radiation

to reveal an object's
elemental composition.

EMMA:
This one,
with its high manganese content,

it's too high
to be considered modern

and it's jumping

from different percentages
throughout the metal.

I think it is early 1700s
and before that.

-JACK: Really?
-EMMA: Yeah.

Because how inconsistent
the manganese content is

throughout the metal.

I think it's Swedish metal.

-CARMEN: Oh, I see.
-EMMA: Because the Swedish had

a natural manganese content

in their iron.

Yeah. Well, that's
what we've been suspecting

could've been there,
was a wharf that extended out.

Yeah, it'd be a wooden wharf

-that extended out
from the beach.
-Correct. Yeah. Yeah.

NARRATOR:
A wharf pin?

Of Swedish origin
that could predate the 1700s?

But if so,
could Carmen Legge's notion

of a possible Viking connection
have any basis in reality?

Templars used Vikings
for transportation to come

to a promised land--

North America.

NARRATOR:
Two weeks ago,

retired professor
of psychology Dr. Doug Symons

presented the Oak Island team
with his published research...

SYMONS:
While they're in Jerusalem,

they interact with knights

who would form
the Knights Templar.

NARRATOR:
...suggesting that members
of the Viking culture may have

conspired with the medieval
order of the Knights Templar

to hide priceless
religious artifacts

on Oak Island
more than 800 years ago.

Is it possible
that this wharf pin

could offer evidence
that Dr. Symons' theory is true?

And if so,
could it also be related

to other ancient discoveries

that the team has made
in the swamp,

including
the 800-year-old paved area

that was uncovered in 2019,

as well as a piece of ship's
railing that was found in 2020,

and which was dated
to as early as the 8th century.

JACK:
It really appears like there
could have been a wharf here

and that someone was
hauling goods

pre-Money Pit discovery

in the southeast corner
of the swamp.

-We know there was
an operation going on.
-JACK: Mm-hmm.

And hopefully we figure out
what they were hauling.

Oh, yes.

JACK:
Thank you, Carmen,

for properly analyzing
what these are.

CARMEN:
All right, very good.

NARRATOR:
The following morning...

...as the horizontal
probe-drilling operation gets

underway in the Garden Shaft...

...on Lot 5,
located near the shore

on the western side
of the island...

Hey, everybody.

-Hi.
-Hi, Jack.

I guess it's
all hands on deck today, huh?

-Yeah.
-Yes.

NARRATOR:
...Jack Begley joins

archaeologists Helen Sheldon,

Moya MacDonald, Jamie Kouba

and Fiona Steele

as they continue investigating
a large stone foundation.

FIONA:
Well, we're finally down
at the floor level

and it feels good to start
seeing things happening.

JACK:
After what you found recently,

everyone else wants to get

-a bit of treasure
for themselves.
-(laughter)

NARRATOR:
Since Rick, Marty
and Craig Tester purchased

Lot 5 one year ago,

the team has made

a number of incredible
discoveries in this feature,

including potentially
16th-century Venetian beads,

a cement-like substance
that has also been found

around the tunnel
beneath the Garden Shaft

and a 14th-century
lead barter token,

which, just like
the lead cross that was found

in 2017 at Smith's Cove,

may be connected
to the Knights Templar.

And, just one week ago,

Jamie Kouba found
a decorative artifact

that was almost entirely
composed of silver.

All right, well, can I sift

-through your material?
-Would you, please?

-Yes, please.
-(laughs)

-Yeah, we would love it.
-All right. Let's get to it.

NARRATOR:
Now, Jack will assist
the archaeology team

by sifting through the materials

they have just excavated
from the structure

in order to look
for additional clues

and potential valuables.

RICK:
This feature on Lot 5

is beginning to shape up to...

suggest that people have
been here for a long time,

perhaps pre-searcher era.

But what that activity is,
what it represents,

does it have anything to do

with the treasure story
or the mystery?

We don't know yet.

MOYA:
I have something interesting.

It's like this really
blue-ish fine clay.

HELEN:
Oh, look at that!

FIONA:
It's got a slight
blue tint to it.

So, Jack, do you want to come
and have a look at this?

JACK:
Yeah. What'd you find?

FIONA:
I'm looking at the soils

and I'm trying to, like, follow

-this blue-ish clay.
-JACK: Yeah.

So, why is there clay here?

Because, like in other places

we've dug around here,
you just get this sandy,

silt subsoil
and it just keeps going.

We don't actually hit clay.

JACK:
That blue-gray clay
looks a lot like

that deep down Money Pit clay.

I mean, it's not completely
out of the realm of possibility.

NARRATOR:
Blue clay?

Found in the stone
foundation on Lot 5?

In 1804, while excavating
the original Money Pit,

members of the Onslow Company
discovered a packed layer

of blue clay
at a depth of 40 feet,

which they believed
acted as a sealant

to stop the legendary
flood tunnel

from feeding seawater
into the treasure shaft.

MOYA:
So similar.

NARRATOR:
Could this blue clay be
further evidence

that this structure on Lot 5

may have a direct connection
to the Money Pit?

I don't want to jump
to conclusions and say it is,

but maybe we can test it,

and see if it has
similar chemical signatures

-as the Money Pit soils.
-JACK: Yeah.

So, put that in bags.

Very interesting.
We're gonna sample this.

-Give it to Emma.
-JACK: Well, cool find, Moya.

-I hope it's a match.
-MOYA: Me, too.

NARRATOR:
As the probe-drilling operation
continues

more than 100 feet underground

in the Garden Shaft...

RICK: Welcome,
lady and gentlemen,

to what I think is gonna be
a very interesting

and unique presentation.

NARRATOR:
...Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with other members
of the team, meet once again

in the war room
with researcher John Edwards.

Everyone is quite familiar

with John Edwards's work
to date.

He promised,
at the last meeting he had,

that he would come up
with X marks the spot,

which is what you're
always arguing for, right?

Having said that, John,
I'll turn it over to you.

EDWARDS:
Appreciate it.

The last war room,
I presented a theory

that Oak Island may be
the possible resting place

of the Ark of the Covenant.

And there are spots
on Nolan's Cross

that I think are relevant
to the Tree of Life,

and they could be
the actual place to dig.

NARRATOR:
In light
of the numerous discoveries

made by the team on Oak Island
during recent years

which have been dated

to between the 12th
and 18th centuries,

and which also may be connected

to the medieval order
of the Knights Templar...

EDWARDS:
I've spent the past 30 years

studying symbols and icons.

NARRATOR:
...last week,

Rick Lagina invited John Edwards

to present documents related
to the secretive fraternity

known as the Freemasons,

who some believe descended
from the Templar order.

Now, interestingly,

I have acquired
some ancient books

that have codes and maps.

NARRATOR:
Within these documents,

John found not only an image
of what appears to be Oak Island

but also what he believes
are encoded messages

that suggest the Templar order

buried sacred
religious artifacts,

including the Ark
of the Covenant,

on Oak Island
nearly 800 years ago.

And since then,
their descendants

in the Masonic order
have conspired

to keep them
from being discovered.

John also believes
that the key to finding

where these treasures
may be buried

is the megalithic formation
of six boulders

on the island's surface
known as Nolan's Cross,

which, like other researchers,

John believes
is part of a larger,

ten-point religious formation
referred to as the Tree of Life.

The way to unlock Nolan's Cross
is built into the cross itself.

NARRATOR:
Since John's first presentation,

Rick, Marty and Craig
allowed him

to work with
surveyor Steve Guptill

to investigate Nolan's Cross

and the believed locations
of the other markers

on the Tree of Life,
known as sefirot.

And when you go and look at
the two arms of the cross,

it's 720 feet.

And on the spine of
Nolan's Cross,

you have 864.

Everything was divisible by 72.

John, what is
the importance of 72?

NARRATOR:
Written in the early 12th
century by Hugues de Payens

and Bernard of Clairvaux,
who founded the Knights Templar,

the "Latin Rule," also known

as "Specific Behavior
of the Templar Order,"

was a document consisting
of 72 directives

that all Templar Knights
were trained to live by.

Could John Edwards be correct

that the number 72
was intentionally used

in the construction of
Nolan's Cross,

and that it may
offer more evidence

that the Templar order
is connected to

the Oak Island mystery?

If so, how might it help
pinpoint the location

of priceless
religious treasures?

Okay.

EDWARDS:
Where is the "X"

on Oak Island?

Now, if the ark is here,

it will be found at either

the Yesod, the Da'ath,

the Tiferet on Nolan's Cross.

NARRATOR:
According to many researchers,

the Templar order
adopted imagery

from the Kabbalistic order
of Judaism

that associated the Tree of Life

with ten divine principles
known as sefirot.

These attributes,
such as Yesod, or "foundation"

Tiferet, or "beauty,"
and Hod, or "humility"

are believed to lead one
on a spiritual path to God.

MARTY:
It's on Tom's land?

-STEVE: Yeah.
-This is all Tom's property.

Maybe we should take
a machine in there.

That was what I was thinking,
but it's not my land,

so I was waiting,
I was waiting for you to say it.

-Yeah.
-But, yeah, that is curious.

I think these are
eminently diggable.

I think it's

a very elegant theory.

But as John and I have had
many discussions,

a theory is but a theory

till you hold
the proof in your hand.

We'll only know if it
has relevance when we dig.

-What say you all?
-Absolutely.

-Sure.
-Yeah.

(laughter)

RICK:
I'd say, I'd say yes, too.

-72 times, yes.
-(laughter)

MARTY:
There you have it.

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

-GARY: Billy.
-BILLY: Hey, Gary.

We've spent a lot of time
at the front of the swamp there.

It's nice to be at the back.

This is exciting.

-This was a John Edwards spot?
-JACK: Mm-hmm.

NARRATOR: ...Jack Begley,
Gary Drayton

and Billy Gerhardt
are about to begin

an excavation
in the northern region of

the triangle-shaped swamp.

And at a location
of one of the sefirot

on the Tree of Life
known as Tiferet,

where researcher
John Edwards believes that

priceless religious treasures

may have been buried by members
of the Knights Templar

some eight centuries ago.

JACK:
It's pretty rocky in here.

It's a lot darker by you
than it is over here.

That boulder should
be on C horizon, right?

JACK:
Oh, I think it is.

See, that's not
C horizon, right?

No, that's not C horizon.

So that boulder is...

-That boulder was put there.
-That boulder was put there.

-JACK: That-that's
pretty awesome.
-BILLY: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
The C horizon

is a geological term

for the natural layer
of ground soil

that lies just above bedrock.

Because Billy and Jack

believe that the earth
beneath this large boulder,

where John Edwards
marked the sefirot,

known as Tiferet,

appears to have been
previously disturbed,

could they be correct
that the boulder

was placed here
as a marker in the swamp?

If so, what might
be buried underneath it?

JACK:
I mean, why would you go
through the effort of

pushing a boulder around if this
position didn't mean anything?

The boulder could mark

-whatever's there, right?
-JACK: Yeah.

BILLY:
I'm pretty excited that
we have a theorist's spot

that looks like
somebody dug here before.

JACK:
I totally agree.

And judging by the size,

we still have a lot left to dig

before we reach
what might be a bottom.

We need to get
Rick and Marty over here

to check this out,

but also we need Dr. Spooner

-to come and see this.
-Yup.

Good work, guys.

GARY:
Nice digging, Billy.

We'll be back.

NARRATOR:
Later that afternoon...

RONNIE:
All good?

NARRATOR:
...as the probe-drilling
operation

in the Garden Shaft continues...

RICK: So, guys, this is
a rather unique war room.

And I think this
is a very unique piece.

I would think that
everyone around this table

would agree with that.

NARRATOR: ...Rick,
Marty, Craig Tester

and other members
of the team

have assembled in the war room

for a meeting regarding
new developments on a find

that was made one year ago
on Oak Island.

RICK:
This is the copper artifact
that was found on Lot 8

by Gary and Jack.

-GARY: It's that.
-JACK: Whoa.

Oh, yeah. This is fantastic.

NARRATOR:
In 2022, while searching Lot 8

on the western side
of the island,

Gary and Jack
unearthed a copper artifact

that was covered
with mysterious symbols.

And when renowned archaeologist
Dr. Edwin Barnhart

examined the metallic
composition of the object,

he presented the team
with a stunning assessment.

BARNHART:
It could be
some sort of older object.

The other possibility is
the Vikings.

NARRATOR:
While Dr. Barnhart's speculation

was intriguing at the time,

after the recent discovery

of several more
artifacts on the island

which may have originated
in Scandinavia,

and the research
of Dr. Doug Symons

suggesting that Vikings
may have visited Oak Island

more than 800 years ago,

the team is eager to learn more
about this mysterious object

and the ornate symbols
on its surface.

RICK:
It's just a gorgeous object,

but it was folded.

Remember, there were
triple folds in this.

Doug reached out to
a conservator in Canada.

They were able
to actually unfold it.

And what we have here
is the result

of their effort,
and it is spectacular.

I think Marty and Craig,
you'll see a picture there.

Yeah.

It really, really is beautiful.

-It's spectacular.
-Mm-hmm.

MARTY:
Well, Laird, what is it?

(laughter)

You know, the only thing
I can say definitively is that

I'm virtually certain
it's a decorated piece

meant to go on top of something,

so it's not
an artifact in itself.

It's meant to
decorate something larger.

We did some updating
of the metallurgy.

What we can say is
that the copper source for it

isn't local. It's not from...

-Wow.
-...the area.

STEVE:
Could that have
been hand-made, most likely?

-Or hand designed?
-LAIRD: Well... Yeah.

As a matter of fact,

they said that they believe

it was made by
a process called pressblech.

And that's a technique
that's been around for,

well, well over
a thousand years.

NARRATOR:
Dating as far back
as the fifth century AD,

pressblech is a technique
by which metal workers

would place a thin sheet of
gold, silver or copper alloy

onto a patterned surface
and then carefully apply force

in order to create a decorative
appearance in the material.

The Anglo-Saxons, some western
European cultures used it.

Even the Norse
used this technique.

I'm gonna get Steve
to bring up, uh,

some images here.

So, this is
the restored artifact.

And if you look within
the borders of the design,

you'll see what looks like
a fish or a ribbon,

and then
you have a circle above it.

In our research so far,
we've only identified

one instance where we found
the two symbols used together.

MARTY:
Mm-hmm.

But we made
a recent, uh, discovery.

This here is an old
manuscript from Iceland

that has to do with
astronomy and astrology.

And if you see in the lower,
left-hand corner,

you'll see two symbols
that look very similar together.

And we found
that there's a Viking rune

that's very similar
to that ribbon-like symbol,

which looks like the symbol
on our copper piece.

So, this artifact could possibly
be identified as Viking.

RICK:
Wow.

DOUG:
This is actually from Iceland,

and it's an old manuscript
that has

to do with astronomy
and astrology.

There's a Viking rune
that's very similar

to that ribbon-like symbol,

which looks like the symbol
on our copper piece,

so, this artifact could possibly
be identified as Viking.

NARRATOR:
In the war room,

Doug Crowell has just presented

an Icelandic document
that suggests

the copper artifact
found one year ago

on Lot 8 bears
astronomical symbols

and may possibly be
of Viking origin.

DOUG: Just today,
in our research, we found

another artifact.

This is a quadrant
from an astrolabe

that's from Southern France.

1291 to 1310 is the date

they believe it was made in.

NARRATOR:
An astrolabe is an instrument

that was invented
in Ancient Greece

in order to track the positions

of the stars, planets
and the Moon in the sky.

With over 1,000
historically-documented uses,

astrolabes were critical tools
employed during medieval times

throughout Europe,
the Middle East and Asia,

to build megalithic structures
and houses of worship.

However, they were also used
as navigational guides on land,

as well as the high seas.

Steve, if you could go
to the next slide, please.

There's our two symbols
we're evaluating.

And within this medieval
astrolabe from the 13th century,

you'll see the repeating use
of those two symbols.

Here we have the lead cross

found on the island.

It's from Southern France.

So, this is yet another device

that may originate
in Southern France.

Now this is kind of exciting
to me because

we have Professor Gaspani
telling us about Nolan's Cross

possibly being created
in the 1200s.

There's six navigational stars
that Nolan's Cross aligns with.

And then we have another
artifact here on the island

that could have, possibly,
a couple of symbols on it

that relate
to ancient navigation, as well.

Wow.

NARRATOR:
In the past year,

Italian archaeoastronomer

Professor Adriano Gaspani

has made two presentations
regarding his belief

that Nolan's Cross was created
nearly 800 years ago

by members
of the Knights Templar,

and that the six
megalithic boulders

in the formation were placed
on the island's surface

according to alignments with
specific stars in the night sky.

Could Doug's notion be correct

that the copper artifact
was part of an astrolabe

that members
of the Viking culture

and the Knights Templar
may have used

for a journey to Oak Island
nearly 800 years ago,

and also
to create Nolan's Cross?

This is a most interesting
object, and

we have to run this to ground.

I mean, what you found
on the astrolabe

could be incredibly significant.

So, there's all kinds of clues.

We just have to be observant and
pay attention to the details,

and I think we're doing that
with this object.

-Mm-hmm.
-DOUG: We have sent
these images on

to Professor Gaspani
to evaluate,

hoping that he might
shed some light

on how this would've been used.

So that'd be good.
I'm all for that.

LAIRD:
Yeah. I think our research

tentacles are
getting stretched out

to broader areas in the world.

I think we have an entire island
of mysteries to solve,

so, let's get after it.

MARTY:
Great. Thank you!

-Let's go find some more stuff.
-RICK: Okeydoke.

NARRATOR:
While Rick, Marty,
Craig and members of the team

conclude their meeting
in the war room...

ROGER:
We ready to rock?

NARRATOR:
...in the Money Pit area,

the probe-drilling operation
continues

more than 100 feet underground
in the Garden Shaft.

SCOTT:
This is exciting.

ROGER:
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.

-(high-pitched squealing)
-(hissing)

-SCOTT: That's a lot of water.
-ROGER: For sure.

Okay, bring 'em up.

Okay, Ronnie, come on up.

-RICK: Hi, Roger.
-ROGER: Hey, Rick.

RICK:
So is everyone out of the shaft?

-Yes. Nobody hurt.
-That's great.

NARRATOR:
It is a critical moment

in the Money Pit area
for the Oak Island team.

ROGER:
Water started coming in
faster and faster,

come right out of the holes, and
it was coming out of the holes,

like, just pouring out of there.
It's unbelievable.

NARRATOR: Just moments ago,
as representatives

from Dumas Contracting Limited

were conducting a horizontal
probe-drilling operation

to explore the possible
treasure tunnel

beneath the Garden Shaft,
more than 100 feet underground,

water began flooding
into the structure.

-Is the water still coming up?
-ROGER: Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Where he says
the water was coming in

was around the 97-foot mark.

That's where we dug
for that tunnel.

RICK:
Let me just give
my brother a call.

(line ringing)

Hey.

RICK:
This is not the Bravo Tango
call you expected.

Okay, so I'm up
at the shaft right now,

and I've got Roger here
and Scott.

I'm gonna turn you over
to Roger.

So, Roger, here you go.

Hey, Marty, how's it going?

All right.

So, the guys drilled
a couple of holes,

and they seen the water and silt

starting to come out
through the lining

around the 97-foot mark,
which was pretty well

where our tunnel was
if you remember, right?

Then the water started
gushing out of the hole,

and it started coming in
at a very quick pace.

The two sets had been
completely covered,

the drill was
completely covered.

That's how quick
the water came in.

It's a lot easier
for us to drill that way

and get as much penetration
with the drill.

(sniffs)

ROGER:
...no walls or no roof in there.

Oh. Sorry.

I just drank a little bit
of the water,

and it's a little bit salty.

Yup.

NARRATOR:
Could Rick Lagina be correct
that while drilling

into a tunnel,
which leads to an area

where the team has detected
high traces

of precious metals
deep underground,

they may have breached one
of the legendary flood tunnels

that have thwarted
treasure hunters

for more than two centuries?

Yeah.

ROGER:
Yeah.

Yeah.

RICK:
There's no way to overstate

the potential problems
that this presents.

It could terminate the work
in the Garden Shaft.

Everything seems
to be coalescing here.

We're probe drilling.

We've got metals in the water.

So it does seem like
we're coming together here,

on one hand.

On the other hand,
we can't get to it.

And I mean, what we're
experiencing now is so like

what people experienced
220 years ago

that it's downright chilling.

Always something, yes.

All right. Thanks, Marty.

-All right. See ya. Bye.
-Yup. Bye.

It's a bump in the road,
but we'll get some answers.

-We'll pump her out.
-We'll see how big the bump is.

-Yup.
-But we have the right people,

the right attitude.

We'll figure it out.

-We'll get to the bottom of it.
-Yup.

RICK:
Okay, well,
just got to keep moving.

-ROGER: For sure.
-RICK: Thank you, Roger.

-Thanks for the update.
-Absolutely, Rick.

NARRATOR:
Over the past two centuries,

numerous searchers believed

that they were on the verge

of recovering a fabled treasure
in the Money Pit,

when disaster suddenly struck
and shattered their dreams

of solving
the Oak Island mystery.

Rick, Marty, Craig
and their team must now confront

that daunting prospect.

However, the historic clues
that they have uncovered

and the physical evidence
that they have unearthed

prove more than ever that
their dream is still worth...

the pursuit.

Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...

GARY:
Wow! Look at this.

-CRAIG: What do we have?
-GARY: Check out

that circle of stones.

JACK:
Right at the spot

where John Edwards theorized

we would find something.

ERIC:
Here's the artifact.

DOUG:
It was found on the island.

RICK: If it is as old
as we believe it is,

it is quite remarkable.

CORJAN:
In a castle here
in the Netherlands,

I found some symbols

that I recognize
from the island.

I think the trip is warranted.

You're going to find
the answers in Europe.

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