08x05 - The Master Plan

[bunniefuu]

Narrator: Tonight on
the curse of oak island...

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

- Terry: Seems like old times.
- Yup.

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

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

than we ever imagined.

We will find something.
I'm positive.

A lot faster than I thought.

The anchors is actually
a bit of a clue.

- Marty: Wow.
- Doug: It's almost like

there is a master plan
to these features.

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

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

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

Narrator: There is an
island in the north atlantic

where people have been
looking for an incredible treasure

for more than 200 years.

So far,
they have found a stone slab

with strange
symbols carved into it,

mysterious fragments
of human bone,

and a lead cross whose
origin may stretch back

to the days of the
knights templar.

To date, six men have d*ed
trying to solve the mystery.

And, according to legend,

one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

♪ ♪

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

Charles: Yup.

Narrator: As the
start of a new day

dawns on oak island...

Hey, rick, how you doing?

- Charles: Hey, rick! - Hey.

Narrator: Brothers rick and
marty lagina and their partners

are commencing a
strategic drilling program

at the location where the
treasure mystery began

225 years ago... the money pit.

So, our first point of the
season is going to be f6.

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

- Let's do it. - All right.

Narrator: Due to
restrictions related

to the covid-19 pandemic,

rick,
marty and the oak island team

will be unable to perform the
large-scale digging operation

they hoped to conduct this
year with irving equipment limited.

Instead,
they are spending their time and resources

on a core-drilling program
with representatives

from choice sonic drilling.

This will entail drilling
a number of boreholes

along a strategic
grid in the hopes

of locating the
original treasure shaft

first discovered in 1795,

and the fabled vault believed
to be contained within it.

There it is, scott.

- F6. - F6.

This is going to be our hole.

Our first hole of the year.

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

of drill holes that help us map

- the money pit. - Right.

Kind of looking for the
deeper points in that perhaps.

And that's maybe a place

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

Or all of the treasure
has migrated.

Marty: Come on, baby. Make hole!

Narrator: Over
the past four years,

rick, marty and the team have
drilled a number of boreholes

and installed massive steel
shafts in an attempt to locate

the fabled chappell vault...

A seven-foot-tall wooden
box first discovered

by treasure hunters william
chappell and frederick blair

in 1897...

That was thought to contain
both gold and ancient manuscripts.

They believe that
one of these shafts,

dug three years ago,
known as "h8,"

may have encountered the vault

because of the
incredible discoveries

they made at a depth
of some 170 feet.

These included pieces of parchment,
leather bookbinding

and even 17th
century human bones.

But unfortunately,
as they dug deeper

in an attempt to penetrate it,

the team believes the vault may
have been pushed further down

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

Rick: We have been chasing
the very elusive treasure vault

for years now, and...

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

that it certainly has fallen.

The hope is that this year,
the sonic drill program

will tell us exactly
where to dig.

The detailed work in this area

is going to give us
a much better picture

- of where the money pit is.
- Well, I'll tell you what.

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

- Continuing on.
- All righty. Thank you.

- See you, guys.
- Charles: See you, rick.

- Terry: Take care.
- Charles: Take care.

Narrator: As the
drilling operation

gets underway in
the money pit area...

Marty: Morning, guys!

- Others: Morning.
- Gary: Hello, chaps.

Narrator: Rick lagina
joins his brother marty,

along with other
members of the team

and geoscientist dr. Ian spooner

to continue their exploration
of a mysterious feature

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

Are you going to
tell us where to dig?

Yes.

- Okay. Good! - (laughter)

narrator: This feature
is one of two locations

on either side of the swamp

where oak island
theorists corjan mol

and chris morford believe

that priceless
religious artifacts

connected to the
knights templar,

including the golden
menorah that once stood

in king solomon's temple,

as well as the ark
of the covenant,

could potentially be buried.

- That's impressive. - Yup.

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

Well,
metal detecting is critical.

- Agreed! - (laughter)

- finally, we reach an agreement!
- Marty: You know what?

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

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

then if we can, um,
we may not have

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

- Yeah. - Marty: Yeah, I think.

And then excavate.

So, I'm kind of

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

It's either young...
Which is terribly important,

because what were
they searching for?

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

- Yeah.
- Marty: No more talking.

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

♪ ♪

- (beeping) - come on.

Speak to me, machine.

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

Why wouldn't you
go check at this point?

Because chris and corjan...
They've been right to date.

The idea is to come
to an understanding

of the mounded area,
and so, the hope is

that we can find
some type of structure,

and we're always
looking for artifacts to try

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

Yeah, I think that's good.

Not really feeling
any love in here.

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

Ian: We should take a look now.

- Rick: That in the bucket?
- Ian: Yeah.

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

Ian: Yeah, it's not big rocks.

It's obviously
disturbed material,

and it's very loosely packed.

We'll have to just go deeper.

Billy: Yeah.

Ian: Not a lot of stones, no.

We want big stones.

Um,
that's a root system probably.

Marty: I think so.

Narrator: Because the team
is finding disturbed material,

or evidence of human workings,

could it mean
that they are close

to proving that chris morford

and corjan mol's
incredible theory is true?

You want to stop?

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

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

Stop there, billy.

Ian: That's good.

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

that this was piled on top of.

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

within this, there's no stones.

Is that indicative of a
much older dig then?

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

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

The mound itself was
almost exclusively dirt.

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

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

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

Doug: Big pile of
rocks right there.

Stop there, billy.

That's, to me,
the original layer.

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

Yeah. I think
that's interesting,

and the stone on the
side... It continues on.

Some of it fitted together

exactly the same
as the paved area.

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

Perfect.

Rick: They're somewhat fitted.

- Yeah. Yeah. - Right here.

Narrator: While investigating
a man-made trench feature,

located on lot 11,

along the western side

of the mysterious
triangle-shaped swamp,

rick and marty lagina,

along with geoscientist
dr. Ian spooner

and other members of their team,
have just made

a potentially
important discovery.

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

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

Maybe people were
throwing rocks up

as this was being excavated.

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

we both like to
build stuff with stone.

- Mm-hmm. - Is it possible

they used the
stone to line this?

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

Narrator: A layer
of fitted rocks

resembling the stone-paved area

that the team discovered
last year in the swamp,

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

Could the two features
be connected in some way?

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

it has some of the
characteristics of being older.

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

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

Billy?

Let's just take a look.

Yeah.

Huh.

Well,
we can see the edge pretty nicely there.

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

Rick: It's just hard to believe

that you would dig it this long,
right?

- Yeah.
- You know, why dig this?

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

A farmer doesn't do this.

It's just not a
everyday activity.

You got to chase the why of it.

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

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

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

That's close enough
for the technology

of the time we're dealing with.

Particularly the
sense of a trench.

If people are looking
for something,

but they're not exactly sure,

that's what you
do... Dig a trench.

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

that the treasure
hunt's been going on

a lot longer than
we ever imagined.

Someone could have been
trying to find something here

based on geometry similar

to what corjan and
chris have discovered.

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

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

and... And you get out of there.

To me,
it's another thing right now indicating

that there was very complex
activity going on here.

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

'cause we can
come in here easily.

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

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

- And what the data shows.
- Yeah.

Okay,
bill. I guess you can track out.

Yeah.

Rick: Imagine that,
another mystery.

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

Narrator: Later
that afternoon...

Rick: Today, gentlemen,

is a w*r room that I
truly look forward to.

Narrator: Rick lagina has
called a meeting in the w*r room,

where he and the
entire oak island team

will be presented with
a theory that could add

an intriguing new dimension

to the oak island treasure hunt.

Erin k. Helton,
uh, called me up.

She made mention that she had

a particular theory
about oak island.

She brings a unique perspective,
shall we say.

She has this background
in gis information systems,

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

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

Rick: Hey, everybody.

- Marty: Hello. - Steve g.: Hey.

Hi, guys.

- Rick: Hello, erin. - Hi.

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

but I'd ask you first to...

To, uh,
enlighten them a bit further

about your background and
how you approach this theory.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

To introduce myself,
um, uh, erin helton.

I actually started my career

in gis.

Narrator: Erin
helton is an expert

in geographic
information systems...

Or gis...

And has spent over a decade
studying archaeological surveys

and excavations
throughout north america.

Also joining the meeting

is judi rudebusch,
a former colleague

of the late author,
zena halpern,

whose research on
the oak island mystery

has played a central
role in erin's theory.

So, I'm a map person.

I'm a cartographer.

It was kind of
completely natural

to have intrigued me
when zena halpern

ended up presenting
a couple of maps,

um,
which I think are very valuable clues

to helping understand what's
happened on oak island.

Judi,
do you have anything to say

about the map and
your thoughts about it

and zena's work?

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

The first thing she said was,

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

(chuckling)

narrator: Four years ago,

zena presented rick
lagina and the team

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

of oak island,

created by members
of the knights templar.

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

is that it identifies many
well-known sites and landmarks

found on oak island,
including the swamp and the money pit.

However,
some features have remained a mystery

to rick, marty and the team...

Most notably,
two which are identified

simply as "the anchors."

erin: For me,
zena's maps really piqued my interest

to try to find these features.

I'll actually be focusing
mostly on the anchors

on this map.

I'll be locating these

and proposing a
location for those.

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

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

Started collecting data sets.

I went and found as many
aerial imagery data sets

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

is, I found, uh,
lidar aerial imagery.

And I started plotting
curious points of interest

all across the island.

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

which is the nolan's cross,

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

which was a very well
documented... by steve...

Uh,
boulder from your excavations

out in smith's cove.

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

Some of them haven't
been named before.

Um, I have adopted somewhat
of a naming convention

for each plot number...

So in this case,
20-a, it's on plot 20,

and I will be
adding a letter suffix.

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

or at least help keep track

of all of the various suspected
features and boulders.

Okay.

And with the help
of another boulder,

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

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

on the imagery here.

This is actually an east-west
meridian line between them

that extends the entire
stretch of the island.

This line has incredibly
high precision.

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

This meridian line
is very significant

and it helps orient a lot of...

Anything to true north,
essentially.

It's their true
north and true east.

It's really remarkable.

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

6-a is another suspected
boulder location.

It was visible on the
aerial imagery as well.

And with 6-a,

if you draw a circle...

Out to 21-a,

and swing the circle
all the way around,

and if you draw a line
through the headstone

and straight through,
you reach another boulder

along the east
side of the swamp.

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

I think this is

the west anchor.

Narrator: The west anchor?

As indicated on
what is believed to be

a 14th century templar map?

Located east of the mysterious
triangle-shaped swamp

and just 147 feet from the
megalithic formation of boulders

known as nolan's cross?

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

can be found exactly
30 degrees east of north,

up on the north edge.

I have numerous
alignments and very faint lidar

suggesting that there
will be a boulder located

right along that line.

So these, I believe,
are your two anchors

as depicted on zena's map.

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

Narrator: Could erin
helton's research be correct

that the two anchor points
depicted on zena halpern's map

might be boulders,

still setting in their
original position

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

Created by those who
buried a vast treasure

on oak island centuries ago?

If this is a truly significant
map depicting oak island,

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

And I think she's correct.

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

This anchors the grid.

I think that's a
logical conclusion.

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

My goal

is to help draw
out what's been lost

around the money pit area.

And I'm hoping,
after we've established

the money pit area,

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

In: After we've established
the money pit area,

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

Narrator: In the w*r room,

geographic information
systems specialist erin helton

has just presented rick, marty,
craig and the oak island team

with an astonishing theory,

a theory suggesting that
the so-called anchor points

on a possible 14th century
templar map of oak island

could hold the key to
revealing the true location

of the money pit treasure vault.

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

I found this map of oak island.

This was published in popular science,
June 1939.

And one thing that I
found really exciting

was when I discovered

that it's just
such a great clue.

It not only has the
two drilled stones

but it has all of these
other boulders marked.

And with these other boulders

and measurements
marked and indicated

and with the anchor,

we can triangulate the
location of the money pit.

Now, we're gonna zoom in here.

The boulder south of
the money pit on this map,

I'm designating 18-a.

We have 15-a

along the east
side of the swamp.

And another feature, 16-a,

is a suspected boulder
on the coastline.

So,
if we take the location of 15-a

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

in smith's cove,

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

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

just south of the
money pit location,

all three intersect

in where I think the
money pit is located.

And I'm a big fan

of corroborating
independent data sources,

so I asked for the center point

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

Whatever caisson
you currently feel

is most representative
of your money pit.

- Yeah. - This lines up

within three feet

of my proposed
money pit location.

Marty: Look at all the wood.

Gary: Wow, that is spectacular.

- Terry: Whoa!
- Narrator: Last year, the team

excavated an eight-foot-wide
steel-cased shaft

known as rf-1,

where they found incredible
evidence suggesting

they could be close to
locating the original money pit.

Is it possible that erin helton,

using zena halpern's
believed 14th century map

as a baseline for her theory,

has just found more evidence
that the oak island team

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

Erin, steve...

- I've got a question. - Sure.

Do you want me to
check all those stones?

If you could lock
in the west anchor

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

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

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

Because the smaller the boulder is,
the more precise

all the other alignments
coming out from it would be.

Confirming these
suspected boulders,

I think we can
finally put together

an actual location
for the vault.

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

and see what she comes up with.

Certainly will.

Rick: So, erin,

we want to say thank you.

And we look forward
to your continued

interest in this subject.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

- Thank you.
- Thanks, everybody.

Marty: Cheers.

To the hunt!

Narrator: The following day...

- Charles: Hey, marty.
- Marty: Hey, guys.

Where's all the goods?

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

Narrator: As the team
prepares to search

for erin helton's
so-called "anchor points,"

marty lagina checks
in at the money pit area

for a progress report
on borehole f-6.

A borehole rick and marty hope

will produce evidence of
the legendary chappell vault.

What do we got?

We got bedrock plateau at 160.

We went down
over 30 feet to 192.

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

- Good. - Hey, scott.

Pretty interesting thing
just happened over there.

They went from 206 to 213.5,

just the bar just went down.

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

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

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

Narrator: A seven-foot
void or cavity?

Some 213 feet deep
in the money pit?

Could the oak island
team have found an area

that may contain the
money pit treasure vault?

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

- So, an opening? - Yeah.

This right here is 206.

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

Let's take a look, shall we?

So,
this whole intersection here is?

206 to 213 and a half.

Something washed down
through here and-and

deposited a lot
of this material.

- Tedford: Yeah. - Okay.

Marty: Still don't
see any real void,

though... do you
think you've drilled

a real void anywhere yet?

- Not yet. - (knocks on table)

marty: Not yet?

This, I can see bedding in this.

Yeah,
this is not what we want to see.

- Marty: Thanks, guys.
- Terry: Thanks a lot, man.

Narrator: Because
the team has not found

evidence of the void
where the treasure vault

is believed to have migrated to,

they will now cease
drilling at this location

and move to the next
borehole on their grid.

The island is outwitting us.

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

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

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

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

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

Narrator: As charles
barkhouse and terry matheson

continue to oversee
the core-drilling operation

at the money pit...

Rick: I really do want to find

something that's
relevant to the story.

Yeah.

Narrator: Rick lagina and metal
detection expert gary drayton

arrive at lot 13,

on the opposite
side of the swamp

from the mysterious
trench on lot 11.

It is in this area that
oak island theorists

chris morford and corjan mol

have identified
a second location

where they believe
priceless religious treasures

may be hidden.

It's time to find
something that connects to

what oak island might be about.

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

Okay.

Let's find some gold and silver,
mate.

I'm not gonna argue.

(metal detector chimes)

- rick: I love that sound.
- Yeah.

So let's find something good.

(detector beeping)

- that's modern iron. - Yeah.

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

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

Yeah, just in there, mate.

(detector trilling)

that...

Is a large piece of iron.

It is off an old door lock.

Looks victorian to me.

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

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

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

Yeah,
it's like a cabinet drawer lock.

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

Yeah.

Wonder what it's doing out here.

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

Anthony graves's
home over there.

Narrator: A lock to a cabinet?

Found on property that once
belonged to anthony graves?

Although little is known
about this 19th century

oak island landowner,

he is rumored to have
often paid merchants

for goods on the
mainland using silver coins.

Is it possible that
anthony graves

may have discovered
part of the treasure,

and in one of the same
areas where chris morford

and corjan mol have instructed
the team to focus their search?

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

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

- Yep. - That's good.

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

Got to be something else here.

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

Marty: So, steve,
we're going to find the anchor points.

- Steve g.: The two anchor points.
- All right.

Alex: There's jack and gary.

- Hey, guys. - Marty: Gentlemen.

How's it going?

You guys are joining the party,
right?

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

Narrator: One day
after the team's meeting

with oak island
theorist erin helton,

marty and alex lagina,
along with surveyor steve guptill,

arrive at the mysterious
triangle-shaped swamp.

They are also being joined
by metal detection expert

gary drayton, and jack begley.

The team will attempt to
locate one of two anchor stones

noted on a 14th century
map of oak island.

A map that is believed
to be connected

to the knights templar.

Steve g.: So I
have the coordinate.

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

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

- whatever it is.
- Hopefully. This way.

Narrator: According
to erin's research,

these stones are
important markers

that could reveal
the precise location

of the original money
pit treasure vault.

I have real problems
with zena's map.

But when you get somebody
as professional as erin

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

because of her discipline,

that helps me think
perhaps it's real.

The coordinate
is taking me to...

Here.

- Jack: Wow.
- Alex: That is a rock.

Jack: You're kidding.

- It's bang-on. - Yeah.

But that looks
like a little rock.

Steve g.: She did say that
it would be a small rock.

Gary: Might be much
bigger in the ground.

Steve g.: Well, let's uncover
it. There could be a mark on it.

And that would be important.

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

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

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

If that really is an
ancient harbor...

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

Then it makes more sense
that you'd actually have

one of your anchor
stones nearby.

Marty: All right, jack,
if you don't mind.

Jack: Oh, yeah.

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

at least in the last 30 years.

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

- Thanks. - You're welcome.

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

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

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

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

It's something
that we would use.

And she's right. In our world,

something smaller,
because we want the center.

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

Was that exactly the
point? Right at the top?

Steve g.: That was the exact,
yeah.

Jack: I'm kind of
getting convinced

that this might be
an anchor stone.

It might actually be

in place.

They didn't have to move
it because they already

found stones that were in place.

So I think this is
pretty convincing.

Alex: I'm not seeing
much of anything.

Take a look at that.

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

Right in the center of the rock?

Jack: Yeah, I'm almost... I'm
kind of with steve on this one.

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

Steve g.: It
doesn't look natural.

I mean,
I put marks no bigger than that

in my survey control.

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

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

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

just for the grins.

- Steve g.: This is her anchor.
- Jack: Wow.

To land right on the
spot that she indicated.

- Alex: That's fantastic.
- Yeah.

Narrator: Could surveyor steve
guptill's assessment be correct?

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

as noted on a
possible templar map

that is believed to be
nearly 700 years old?

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

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

give him a general
area... In fact,

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

pull your boat in,
look to your right.

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

till you find the one
with the mark on it.

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

I can, too, yeah.

I mean, it certainly stands out.

It's a white granite rock.

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

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

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

This might be tough.

Narrator: The anchor stone,
visible from a ship?

Watch your hands, jack.

Narrator: Is it
possible this stone

was used by sailing vessels

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

All right, that's good.

Narrator: But also
the whereabouts

of the money pit treasure vault?

What's this right here?

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Alex: Not yet. - Gary: No.

But it is peculiar
that it lines up so well.

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

the way you'd
identify it now would be

similar size or similar
material in the other anchor.

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

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

So,
I feel like we should maybe go check out

- the other one.
- Marty: We should.

- Jack: Yep.
- Marty: All right. Let's go.

- All right. - Gary: Okay.

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

About 280 feet.

I'm guessing it's
about in the middle

of the boulderless beach.

Narrator: After locating

one of the so-called
anchor stones

noted on a 14th
century french map,

which theorist erin helton
believes will help lead

to the oak island
treasure vault...

It is a dramatic end

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

Narrator: Marty
lagina and his son alex,

along with jack begley,

metal detection
expert gary drayton

and surveyor steve guptill,

are searching for the
second anchor stone

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

Steve g.: We're about,
uh, 60 feet out.

Jack: At least
we're getting close.

It's just in here, guys.

(grunting)

there's the stone.

- That's it?
- Steve g.: That's it.

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

- Look at that. - Alex: I mean,

- that's pretty impressive.
- Yeah.

I think you guys
should come take a look.

It's a big rock.

Alex: What is that?

Steve g.: There is something

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

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

But I don't know.

Alex: Yeah.

What do you think,
alex? Yes or no?

Alex: I don't know.

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

kind of look a little bit like
the boat from the boat stone.

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

Narrator: A possible
man-made carving?

Similar to the one found

on the mysterious
so-called boat stone?

Located in westford,
massachusetts,

the boat stone is a
250-pound boulder

which contains what many believe

are 14th century
carvings of a ship,

an ancient crossbow arrow

and the numerals one,
eight, four.

Markus: The boat
represents a costal range.

Follow the coast.

Narrator: Five years ago,

oak island theorist
robert markus

proposed that the
inscriptions on the boat stone

were actually the
beginnings of a treasure map,

one that would
lead to oak island.

This is the starting point.

I believe the templars
had carved this.

Narrator: According to
robert markus's research,

the carvings on the boat stone

were made by the scottish
templar knight henry sinclair,

who many believe sailed
to oak island in 1398

to hide a vast treasure,

which included the
ark of the covenant

and the golden menorah
from king solomon's temple.

Is it possible
that this boulder,

believed to represent
one of the anchors

on a possible 14th
century templar map,

could also somehow be connected

to the legendary voyage
of prince henry sinclair?

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

Steve g.: She did, yeah.

She sees both of
them in the lidar data.

Gary: Oh, so, two for two.

- Steve g.: She's two for two.
- Yeah.

If you compare this stone
to the southern anchor rock,

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

- And the same sort of rock.
- Yeah.

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

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

- Marty: In size, I mean...
- Alex: A little smaller.

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

Yeah.

I'm anxious to see

what erin has in
store for us next

and how finding these boulders

will help lead to the
treasure chamber,

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

Marty: The anchor stone.

Look for the anchor stone.

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

Gary: Right on the edge of
the boulderless beach, as well.

Marty: Right.

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

'cause you'd come
in from open water,

just come down here
and hopefully see that rock.

And it shares
something in common

with the other stone at
the side of the swamp.

It's in an area where you could

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

They're certainly similar size,

shape and have similar
markings on them,

but there'd be no
way to know this

from any other
boulder on the beach.

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

- to identify it.
- Marty: Absolutely.

All right, well, this has been

- a successful mission.
- Gary: Yeah.

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

- Jack: We found what we were looking for.
- Alex: Right.

Gary: Yeah, that is fantastic.

Marty: Way to go, guys.

- Marty: Hey, gents.
- Peter: Hey, guys.

We come with reports.

Narrator: Following their search

for the two anchor stones

that could potentially
lead to the exact location

of the money pit treasure vault,

marty lagina and his son alex,

along with metal detection
expert gary drayton

and jack begley,

arrive at the oak island
interpretive centre,

where rick lagina, doug crowell

and peter fornetti are
eager to hear their report.

Peter: How'd your venture go?

We did manage to locate
both of the anchor stones.

What we think are both
of the anchor stones.

I mean,
how would you describe them?

Well, I'm a skeptic, okay?

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

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

- to be massive. - I don't.

And, well, they weren't.

The first one, the west one,

white granite sticking out.

That was exactly
where it should be.

I thought that one
was very intriguing,

and it seemed like it could
be an actual anchor stone

because it had the
pockmark on top.

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

if you pulled a ship in there.

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

I love the fact
that you believe,

on some level, that you found

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

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

Marty: And...

There was a tiny, little,
finger-sized pocket

in the one right
where it should be.

Gary: Yeah. There was actually

one on that one
on the east side.

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

There was a
possible marking on it.

You've got to remember,
you know,

we're trying to context
finding these things

when they may have been

put in position
hundreds of years ago.

If this is a grand conspiracy

over centuries of time,

knowledge of means is gonna
be passed down generationally

to-to keepers of the secret.

Yes.

I'm thoroughly impressed
by erin's background

and her willingness
to-to apply her experience

to further an understanding

of the validity of
zena's research.

I find zena's research
to be credible.

I'm excited about it.

It's gonna be highly
relevant. I think

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

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

I have always said a theory,

no matter how elegant,
is but a theory

until you hold
something in your hands.

- Right.
- Alex: I agree with you

that we don't have
the full theory yet.

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

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

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

On that note,
I do find it extremely interesting.

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

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

And I think I speak for
everybody here on that.

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

Narrator: For brothers rick
and marty lagina and their team,

finding evidence that could
help prove the authenticity

of a believed 14th century
templar treasure map

of oak island

could soon lead to
their greatest breakthrough yet

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

It could also prove
that the oak island mystery

goes back much further

and is much more profound
than anyone ever knew.

But as they push forward,

will the search lead
to an ingeniously hidden vault

full of history's
greatest treasures?

Or will they discover
that the island's secrets

are more carefully guarded

and potentially
much more dangerous

than they
ever could have imagined?

Next time
on the curse of oak island...

Rick:
That's impressive.

Don't take a Kn*fe
to a gunfight.

Wow. I was not expecting that.

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

It runs along the same line.

I would not have noticed that.

Ah-ha-ha!

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

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

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

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