10x02 - Across The Pond

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

TERRY:
Wow.

We're intersecting
what has to be tunnels.

What the heck is this?

We just found another
bobby-dazzler on Oak Island.

- See that blue there?
- Yeah.

Sapphire?

PAUL S.:
They were signed by

La Rochefoucauld Duc d'Anville

in Nova Scotia, near Oak Island.

GRETCHEN:
Welcome to a Templar

- initiation chamber.
- Whoa!

That image there
is what I believe

is portrayed on the lead cross.

- Wow.
- Yeah.

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 d*ed

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,
one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

♪ ♪

TERRY: Here we go.

Thanks, Colten.

- This is to 88.
- TERRY: Holy cow!

This till is just as Mother
Nature put it in the ground.

Still got a little bit
of ways to go to get

to that same horizon we
were in at the last hole.

Right, this is it.

NARRATOR: An
exceptionally hopeful day

has begun on Oak Island for
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and their team as they forge
ahead in a quest to solve

a 227-year-old treasure mystery.

We'll see what happens when
we get down to depth here.

We're intersecting what
has to be tunnels because

there's in situ material
above and below.

NARRATOR: At the storied
site known as the Money Pit,

they are continuing their core
drilling operation at a target

known as Borehole DN-12.5.

It is here, on their
strategic drilling grid,

that they hope to
once again penetrate

a five-foot-high wooden
tunnel at a depth of 103 feet,

which they explored with a
camera just one week ago.

MARTY: That's really cool.

This is a previously unknown,

perhaps depositor, tunnel.

That is really exciting.

- Hey, Rick.
- Hey, Paul.

Where are we right now?

DN-12.5.

To see if we can further
delineate this tunnel.

NARRATOR: Wood
samples from the tunnel

have been carbon-dated
to as early as 1640,

and during a sonar operation
also conducted last week,

the team determined
that it is heading north

toward the so-called
Garden Shaft...

A mysterious,
dilapidated structure

that may date to
the early 1700s,

and where recent water
testing has revealed

high concentrations of gold
nearly 100 feet underground.

The sonic drill program

is right now oriented
around the Garden Shaft

because of the gold
signatures in the water.

And there's tunnel close by it

at an elevation
previously unknown to us.

Uh, we want to exploit that.

We want to understand,

as best we can, what's happening

in that area.

All right, this is gonna be 98.

More competent material there.

Looks like it's firming up, eh?

- Hold on. We got wood.
- Wow.

That's in... Wow.
That's incredible.

We had firm in place
material above that point.

Now we have a structure.

NARRATOR: Wood?
Unearthed from a depth of 98 feet?

But if so, is it part of the
tunnel that the team recently

discovered near this
area just five feet deeper?

Whoa, what's that?
There's a little more wood.

Check that out.

NARRATOR: Or could it be related

to some other kind
of structure or object?

RICK: What is most
curious is where we're at,

in front of the Garden Shaft.

An area that has been,

at least by our measure,
completely unexplored.

So, what is a wooden
feature doing at that depth

in an area previously ignored?

I think we need to define it
a little further east and west.

This is obviously a post
or beam from something.

- SCOTT: Yeah.
- It's another clue

and it's a step
in figuring it out.

Yep.

It's an interesting area.

There's no question about it.

So I think the
next step is, Craig,

you want to get
that water sample?

Paul, you'll work with them?

Yes, absolutely. Yep.

NARRATOR: To help verify

if this discovery might be
connected to the nearby tunnel

or the Garden Shaft,

the team will collect
a water sample

in order to test for the
presence of precious metals.

I think that's the
very first thing to do.

- TERRY: Thank you, sir.
- RICK: Yep.

NARRATOR: While Rick
and members of the team

continue their work
on Oak Island...

♪ ♪

MARTY: There's Gretchen.

-GRETCHEN: Hi.
[laughs] -Hello, Gretchen.

Nice to see you in person.

Approximately 2,900 miles away

in the town of
Royston, England...

GRETCHEN: Welcome to Royston,

the home of the Royston Cave.

Marty Lagina,
along with his son Alex

and Oak Island historian
Charles Barkhouse,

are meeting with author and
researcher Gretchen Cornwall.

We've got a Roman road

going north-south,
right out of London.

NARRATOR: Gretchen has
invited them to visit Royston Cave,

which some researchers believe

once served as a sacred
meeting place for members

of the Knights Templar...
The medieval Christian order

who are speculated
to have buried

priceless religious
treasures on Oak Island

between the 12th
and 14th centuries.

As you know, I've been studying
the Templars for many years.

- Yes.
- And I think

this location is
critical to their memory

and to the connection
to Oak Island,

and I would like to show you
the symbology in Royston Cave.

- Let's go have a look at it. -Let's take a look.
- GRETCHEN: Yes. Absolutely.

NARRATOR: Founded in 1184,

the town of Royston

is located in an area

that was not only once
part of the Roman Empire...

- GRETCHEN: So it's just through here.
- CHARLES: Oh.

But is also in a
region that later served

as a stronghold for
the Knights Templar

between the 12th
and 14th centuries.

Mind your head.

I would not have
suspected this, would you?

GRETCHEN: Careful.

ALEX: Wow.

NARRATOR: Although the date

of Royston Cave's
original construction

is unknown, most agree
it dates to medieval times.

- MARTY: Wow. This is really cool.
- CHARLES: It really is.

NARRATOR: Its existence
was first documented in 1742,

when a secret entrance

was discovered
during construction

in the town's marketplace,

and today it serves as
a major tourist attraction

due to its believed connection
to the Templar Order.

- MARTY: This entrance is very cool.
- ALEX: Yeah.

Whoa!

Welcome to a Templar
initiation chamber.

♪ ♪

CHARLES: Wow.

MARTY: First impression
when we get in the cave

is that there's more
to this than I thought.

You look around in this cave,
and there's carvings everywhere.

It's really quite,
quite amazing.

ALEX: The size of it is
incredible for something that,

I assume, was
dug by hand, right?

Yes. Absolutely. Dug by hand.

Like Oak Island.

[laughs] Good point.

MARTY: Gretchen,
this place is obviously

- super cool and interesting.
- ALEX: Yep.

Why don't you just give
us some background?

GRETCHEN: Well...

there are some
people who believe this

is a secret Templar
initiation chamber.

♪ ♪

My theory is, is
that there was a little

structure above here

and that it was
disguised as a market stall

to hide the activity here.

So what you would have done is,
you would have come down here,

then you would have
come down a small ladder.

And, of course, this
would have been very dark.

So you would have been
taken through with a candle.

Just curious, what's the
dimension across here?

It's approximately 16 feet.

But as we get into the center,

the center circle,
it's more like 13 feet

- in through there.
- There you go.

- 13 feet. There it is again.
- Mm-hmm.

Number just keeps popping up.

That was the original
diameter of the Money Pit.

It does bear a strong
resemblance, you know,

to what we saw in Portugal.

Yes. Very similar
to Sintra in concept.

RICK: Wow.

What is this dimension,
the diameter?



- Which is...
- That sounds awful familiar.

NARRATOR: One year ago,

Alex and his Uncle Rick visited
the town of Sintra, Portugal,

where they were shown

a mysterious Masonic
well that was 13 feet

in diameter and 90 feet deep
on grounds that once served

as a Templar stronghold
more than eight centuries ago.

JOAO: The initiation
well has nine platforms.

RICK: Branch of an
oak tree over the well.

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

GRETCHEN: So, if
we think about Templars

as "brothers without
borders," you would have had

potentially French Templars
here, English, Portuguese.

We know they
were here in the area

going back to easily
the early 1100s.

I mean, I could be
easily convinced

this was a Templar something.

- In fact, I think I am already.
- ALEX: Yep.

Are there connections
to Oak Island?

I believe there are.

That image there

is what I believe is portrayed

on the lead cross
that Gary found.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: At Royston Cave
in the town of Royston, England,

Marty and Alex Lagina,
along with Charles Barkhouse,

have just been shown a carving

depicting the
crucifixion of Christ.

A carving that author and
researcher Gretchen Cornwall

believes was made more
than six centuries ago

by members of
the Knights Templar

and which may
potentially be connected

to the Oak Island mystery.

Dimensionally, that is
basically the same thing.

The head is off to the side.

Even one arm of the cross
is shorter than the other, too.

I think you're
right. Actually, it is.

- It-it is, Marty, yeah.
- I don't know,

I don't know if
you can see that,

but there's the...

MARTY: Oh, that's
the prison at Domme.

- ALEX: Yeah.
- GRETCHEN: Yes.

MARTY: That is
very, very similar.

JERRY GLOVER: And you
can see they passed their time

by making carvings in the walls

to sustain them spiritually.

NARRATOR: In 2017, Rick Lagina,

along with his
nephews Alex and Peter,

visited a 14th century
prison in Domme, France

where Templar Knights

were held c*ptive
after the order

was disbanded by
King Philip IV in 1307.

There, they were shown a
number of Templar carvings,

including a very distinct cross.

Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

What?

NARRATOR: Just weeks later,

Rick and metal detection expert

Gary Drayton found a
lead cross on Oak Island

with a nearly identical design.

Holy schmoly! All right.

NARRATOR: A cross that,
when scientifically tested,

was determined to have
originated in Southern France

during the 14th century.

Is it possible that
Marty, Alex, and Charles

have now found a third example
in Royston Cave that could serve

as more evidence
connecting the Knights Templar

to the Oak Island mystery?

- It's three places now.
- Yeah.

I mean, it's the
lead cross itself...

- Yeah.
- And then Domme and here.

GRETCHEN: Yes.

The way that they're designed,

even with the
identical tilt of the head.

- This is a Templar design.
- Yeah.

You know, any of the shared
symbology is really interesting.

I think you'll find even
more interesting iconography.

Right here. Do you see
the bricks right there?

- MARTY: Yes.
- GRETCHEN: Up there,

on one of the bricks

- is literally carved 1347.
- Oh, yeah.

MARTY: I see it now.

- GRETCHEN: And that is literally on Zena's map.
- CHARLES: Incredible.

ZENA: When I found the
map, which is dated 1347,

I began to put pieces together.

NARRATOR: In 2016,

the late author and
researcher Zena Halpern

presented the Oak
Island team with two maps

and a mysterious
cypher suggesting

that the Knights Templar had
repeatedly visited Oak Island

between the 12th
and 14th centuries.

Incredibly, one of the maps

depicted many well-known
landmarks on the island,

such as the swamp,
the stone triangle,

and what came to be
known as the Money Pit.

It also featured
the date of 1347.

Zena's map, if it's real,

is a super direct
connection to Oak Island.

- I mean, it is Oak Island.
- GRETCHEN: Oh, it is Oak Island.

ALEX: Yep. Here's the map.

And the date is
actually written out here.

- "Un mille trois cent quarante sept."
- MARTY: Oh, okay.

You know, you do have that
exact date on Zena's map.

But I think it
refers to a voyage

in 1347.

MARTY: Right. The
conjecture would be

that's a commemorative stone.

Says, "All right, guys,
we're leaving this place now.

It's become too dangerous."

They inscribe it
because people do that.

And, actually, it is kind
of like a cornerstone,

which is where
you'd put such things.

And then they pack up and go.

According to you,

- to Oak Island, right?
- [all laughing]

NARRATOR: Although
many Templar Knights

were ex*cuted after their
persecution in France in 1307,

many others escaped
to areas across Europe,

including Portugal,
Scotland, and England,

and their sacred
treasures were never found.

Is it possible that Royston Cave

was one of the locations that
the Templars secretly used

for the safekeeping of valuables

before transporting them
to Oak Island in 1347?

MARTY: Anything else here

that you think is a connection

- somehow to Zena's map?
- Yes.

And she is right
behind you, Charles.

- Right there?
- Yeah.

Do you see a head, a crown,
shoulders, a body at the bottom,

and then I believe
that is a tail.

And that, I think, could be

Melusine from the sixth century,

who the Rochefoucaulds
claim as their ancestress.

NARRATOR: In ancient
European folklore, the half-fish,

half-human goddess
known as Melusine

was so revered
in medieval Europe

that many families believed
that they were her descendants.

According to
Gretchen's research,

one of these families,
whose name also appeared

on Zena Halpern's map,
was the Rochefoucaulds.

MARTY: You believe that is the
symbol of the Rochefoucauld family?

GRETCHEN: Yes.

She is their family crest.

I was in Rochefoucauld,

and I took this photo
at the château itself

while I was there.

And she's at the top here

holding up the marble
platform for a bust.

NARRATOR: The Rochefoucaulds
were a family of French nobles

dating back to the tenth century

and are believed to
have been connected

to the Knights Templar.

I found eight pages of a ship...
What looks like a ship's log.

NARRATOR: In 2017,

Oak Island historian
Doug Crowell

discovered a partial ship's log

describing a secret
French naval mission

to hide treasure
on a wooded island

in Nova Scotia back
in September of 1746.

DOUG: "September


"that a deep pit be dug
and treasure securely buried.

"The pit to have
a secret entrance

by a tunnel from the shore."

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: The admiral in
charge of that mission was named

Jean-Baptiste Louis
Frédérick de la Rochefoucauld,

also known as the Duc d'Anville.

MARTY: That's
an interesting find.

ALEX: Yeah.

If this represents the
Rochefoucauld family,

then that's another
connection to the map.

Yeah, two. At least
two, right in here.

ALEX: It's almost too
much to be a coincidence.

- GRETCHEN: Yes.
- Yeah, I need to be thinking about that.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Gretchen Cornwall

has found evidence
in Royston Cave

that the Knights Templar

and, later, members of
the Rochefoucauld family

both visited Oak Island
in order to hide valuables?

If so, could that also explain
the high trace evidence of gold

that the team has detected

near the Garden
Shaft in the Money Pit?

MARTY: Royston Cave delivered.

It was as interesting
as Gretchen said.

There are symbols
carved in the wall

that are similar to Domme.

It actually makes me believe

that that cave is older, that
maybe that is very ancient

and could be
significant to Oak Island.

So I'm just gonna get

- some video for Uncle Rick.
- Rick will want to see it.

- CHARLES: Absolutely.
- Especially this.

MARTY: So now
we'll be able to do

double duty on this trip because

I can also go speak to
one of our expert archivists

working in London.

This is a really cool place.

Yeah, there's more here
than I ever would have thought.

- Thank you for showing us around.
- Absolutely.

Thank you so
much for being here.

- MARTY: Lead on.
- GRETCHEN: Thank you, sir.

COLTEN: Trust me, you're
really gonna want to see

- where it goes at 150.
- MIKE: Oh, yeah.

NARRATOR: As Rick Lagina
and members of the team

continue drilling for
evidence of a potential

18th-century tunnel
in the Money Pit...

MIKE: All right.

GARY: This is an
interesting area.

JACK: Yeah.

We've got like six
or seven flags here.

Metal detection expert
Gary Drayton and Jack Begley

are also looking for
important clues on Lot 7,

located on the western
side of the island.

JACK: I think it's
a great opportunity

to see if maybe there's some

- really interesting finds.
- Yep.

It's telling more of the story.

Yeah.

[beeping]

Oh, wow.

This could be
something special, mate.

NARRATOR: One week ago,

while searching this area,

Gary and Jack discovered
what Gary believes to be

some type of ancient coin.

While the team
awaits expert analysis

to be conducted on the object,

they have confirmed that it
contains arsenical bronze...

A compound that was used
to produce currency, tools

and weaponry in Europe
prior to the 16th century.

Flag, mate.

See if we can get a...

an artifact in one,
not a hole in one.

NARRATOR: In accordance
with provincial regulations,

Gary has already
scanned the area

and marked a number
of targets with flags,

which team
archaeologist Laird Niven

has now given him
permission to dig up.

A bit chirpy.

[beeping]

It's round about here, mate.

That's, uh, most
of the signal there.

JACK: Yep.

Is it out?

What the heck is this?

JACK: An ornament? No.

An earring?

I have not got a clue, mate.

- It's very interesting.
- Look, it might be...

might be some jewelry.

GARY: Look at that, I mean,
the way that comes over.

You can see where the
pin comes out and across.

- Uh, but it's heavily corroded.
- Yeah.

GARY: Could be,
like, a-a large pin.

- Like a cloak pin.
- Or a pin.

BOTH: Yeah.

This would have looked
magnificent back in the day.

That would've been
all nice and shiny.

JACK: That's a really
big gemstone, then.

GARY: Yeah, it's-it's
a jewel or a gem.

JACK [laughing]: Yes.

GARY: That is brilliant, mate.

This could be treasure.

NARRATOR: A possible jewel?

Found on Lot 7?

We just found another
bobby-dazzler on Oak Island.

And lightning strikes
again in this area.

Remember the garnet
brooch that we found?

- Yeah.
- And that was really, really old.

The garnet brooch was a
part of Scott Clarke's theory.

And it had something to
do with Masonic rituals.

And maybe if this is a
gemstone, it somehow relates.

NARRATOR: In 2017, Rick
Lagina and Gary Drayton

found a semiprecious
garnet gemstone

on the adjacent Lot 8.

CLARKE: This garnet was actually

the perfect color,
size and general shape

as one of the stones

from a Masonic Royal
Arch High Priest breastplate.

NARRATOR: According
to 32nd-degree Freemason

Scott Clarke,

it may be related to a
sacred Masonic ritual

believed to be connected
to the Knights Templar.

CLARKE: The breastplate
was used in a specific ritual

meant to mimic the retrieval
of the Ark of the Covenant

from a secret vault underground.

Wow.

I am looking forward
to seeing what it is,

where it came from
and how old it is, mate.

- Great job, Gary. Yeah!
- Fantastic, mate.

- GARY: Jewel, baby!
- JACK: Yeah.

NARRATOR: The following day...

TERRY: 108.

- And that's the mid?
- Yeah.

- That's the bottom here. the top's there.
- Yep.

While Rick Lagina
and members of the team

continue searching for
answers on Oak Island...

TERRY: It's a little different,
but there's more silt than sand.

Approximately


in the London suburb of Kew...

- ALEX: We're here.
- MARTY: There it is.

- What do you think, Charles?
- Pretty impressive.

Marty and Alex Lagina,
along with Charles Barkhouse,

arrive at the United
Kingdom's National Archives

to meet with
historian Paul Stewart.

MARTY: There's Paul.

- Hello, sir. -Hi.
- PAUL S.: Hello.

- Hello. -ALEX: Nice to meet you.
- I'm Marty.

- Nice to meet you. Great to meet you.
- MARTY: Pleasure, Paul.

- I'm Charles.
- Great. Welcome to Kew.

Welcome to the UK
National Archives.

- Thank you.
- Yeah, well, we're excited to be here.

NARRATOR: Paul is one of
the European-based researchers

the Laginas have hired

to search through
historic archives

in the hopes of finding clues

that could help solve
the Oak Island mystery.

I looked at all sorts of stuff.

- Uh, but then I found a collection with Duc d'Anville.
- Yeah.

From the La
Rochefoucauld family.

And there seems to be

a lot of connections with
the Mahone Bay area.

- ALEX: Wow.
- No kidding?

- And maybe Oak Island.
- Oh, that sounds fabulous.

That's excellent, because
that's what we were looking for.

Yeah, I think you're gonna
find it interesting, yeah.

MARTY: That's fantastic.

So let's go on in and
have a look, yeah.

We're on Rick's
particular mission

to exhaust all possible
resources in terms of

researching what might
have happened on Oak Island.

Because we're here
to try and figure out

the riddle of Oak Island.

So this is where...

- some of the documents I've found here.
- Wow.

So we're gonna see
what Paul has found.

All right. What have
you run across?

I've come across, uh,
some capture documents.

Would you like to see some
of these capture documents

- that I've found?
- Absolutely.

NARRATOR: During
the 18th century,

England and France were
embroiled in a series of battles

for control of Nova Scotia.

According to international law,

when they commandeered
one another's ships

on the high seas, they were
legally required to document

such events with so-called
capture documents.

PAUL S.: This is Katherine
from the National Archives.

She's going to
handle them for us.

ALEX: Okay.

Now, this is... the Lively
was a British merchant ship.

They were privateering in
early 1746, perhaps even 1745.

It was captured by one
of Duc d'Anville's squadron

over by Nova Scotia.

And what is interesting
about these is that

when, um, the ships were taken,

they were signed by La
Rochefoucauld, Duc d'Anville.

- ALEX: Oh, yeah.
- MARTY: Yeah. -CHARLES: Oh.

Those are, in effect,
orders from d'Anville, right?

He was the
commander of this fleet.

Now, he wouldn't have done
that from France or anywhere else.

He must have been
there at that time.

This is 1746?

PAUL S. Yeah, January


MARTY: I see.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- That's the significance.

That puts him there earlier.

That seems really
early to me, yeah.

ALEX: Which means
he could have made

- many trips to the area.
- I think so, yeah.

MARTY: Yet another
mystery on Oak Island.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: At the National
Archives in London, England,

researcher Paul Stewart

has just presented
official documents

that state the French admiral
known as the Duc d'Anville,

who reportedly led a
mission to bury treasure

in Nova Scotia back
in September of 1746,

visited the area near Oak
Island nine months earlier.

That's amazing. I mean,
I think that's really...

Quite apart from
our little hunt here,

that document was
on board that ship.

Yeah.

ALEX: The biggest thing to me
is the fact that we investigated

the Rochefoucaulds
as a potential connection

to Oak Island,

and this document is reinforcing

that the Duc d'Anville
was active in the area.

It's not just a
tangential connection.

He was more familiar with the
area than maybe we imagined.

And he made more trips to the
area than maybe we imagined.

PAUL S.: So there's more I want
to tell you about the next papers.

These are, uh, Admiral
Anson's capture documents.

Hmm.

PAUL S.: Admiral Anson seemed
to have an interest in collecting,

uh, intelligence about
the Duc d'Anville fleet,

so he went for
some of these ships.

- 'Cause they had information.
- Yeah, they had information

about what-what their
fleet had been up to.

I see. Okay.

NARRATOR: Lord George
Anson was a highly revered member

of the British Navy, serving in

and also leading
many successful battles

for England during
the mid-18th century.

Following the French
mission that the Duc d'Anville

led to Nova Scotia
in September of 1746,

Admiral Anson began
targeting the ships

known to have been part
of that French armada.

PAUL S.: So this is the Diamant.

This was a famous
ship in the d'Anville fleet.

There, "The Diamant seized
by His Majesty's ships of w*r

under the command
of Admiral Anson."

There's a guy mentioned
in here called Hocquart,

who was captain of the Diamant
in the original d'Anville fleet.

Hocquart is captured
by Admiral Anson.

Anson put him in prison and
gave him a hard time in prison.

Anson obviously wanted to
try and find out something about

what was on the ship.

Right, so Anson comes in looking
for answers and maybe saying

what was the mission
before it was captured.

Then he imprisons him
and extracts that information.

Yeah, he wanted to find
out what they had been up to

when they were along
the coast of-of Mahone Bay.

- And that's the bit that fits into our search.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: Was Admiral
Anson targeting ships

in the Duc d'Anville's armada
simply as an act of w*r?

Or was it because he
was looking for the treasure

described in d'Anville's ship's
log dated to September of 1746

that Doug Crowell found in
the Nova Scotia archives?

MARTY: Admiral Anson,

he had targeted some
of these French ships.

He wanted to know what happened.

He wanted to get ahold of
these people as prisoners

and interrogate them.

Well, there's some
significance there.

So, what was he after?
What did they know?

Anson ended up getting
letters from all sorts

of top people in-in France
to try and get Hocquart out.

One of the letters that
was sent from France

looks pretty certainly to be
from the Rochefoucauld family.

And Anson wouldn't let
him out for a long time.

I mean, they were
kept for a reason.

They were interrogated
for a reason.

It has to do with Nova Scotia.

It might have to do
with Mahone Bay.

It might have to
do with Oak Island.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think the fact that Anson
was looking for this, you know,

knowledge as to
what was going on,

that's potentially connected
to the Duc d'Anville's fleet

- and Oak Island.
- Yeah.

ALEX: And maybe the information

got out as the barter
for their freedom.

- PAUL S.: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And then the British came

- looking for it.
- Yeah.

I could buy that.

It would really explain

the different artifacts
we're finding on Oak Island.

I mean, if the French and
the British are both involved,

we're finding British coins

and we're finding
French artifacts.

Yeah.

And one explanation
is that both groups

- knew about something on Oak Island.
- PAUL S.: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

NARRATOR: Over the years,

the Oak Island team has
found numerous artifacts,

such as musket balls,

cap badges, coins
and uniform buttons,

which suggest that both
the French and British m*llitary

set up encampments on Oak
Island during the 18th century.

We haven't been
able to make sense of it

because it's almost like...

it-it only fits,

- you know, the French or the British, not both.
- Yeah.

- But this explains it. This makes sense.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the British came to Oak Island

searching for a large
treasure that was hidden there

by the Duc d'Anville's
French fleet?

- This is excellent stuff.
- PAUL S.: Brilliant.

Incredibly historical,
too. I mean...

- ALEX: Well, it's just amazing the records are there.
- Yeah.

Well, Paul, excellent work.

Keep the data coming.

- I will. Oh, thank you.
- Thank you very much, Paul.

- Yeah, cheers. Take care.
- ALEX: Thanks, Paul. -Carry on.

- MARTY: Show that to the boys back home.
- ALEX: Yep.

JACK: Hey, Rick.

- RICK: Hey.
- LAIRD: How are you?

Uh-oh. Smiles
on the both of 'em.

- Oh-ho, yeah.
- Smiles, mate.

- LAIRD: What you got?
- Boom, baby!

We've just recovered
another jewel

on Oak Island.

- Really?
- Yep.

Let's see it.

Look at that, mate.

RICK: Oh, wow.

NARRATOR: In the Oak
Island Interpretive Centre,

metal detection expert Gary
Drayton and Jack Begley

are meeting with Rick Lagina
and archaeologist Laird Niven

to share the mysterious jewelry

they recently
discovered on Lot 7.

My first thoughts was maybe, uh,

an hat pin or a cloak
pin... not really sure.

JACK: It's got a jewel
on it, though, or glass or...

- LAIRD: Yeah, I see that.
- Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, it's definitely
jewelry. Right?

- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.

Definitely decorative.

JACK: Yeah, you wouldn't
wear something like that

- if you're working on the fields.
- LAIRD: Wouldn't think so.

JACK: And it's in the...
it's in the middle of the lot.

Hmm. Yeah, let's
put it under there.

NARRATOR: To examine
the believed cloak pin in detail,

Laird Niven will be using
a Fisherbrand 425 series

zoom stereoscopic microscope,

which can enhance an object
up to 50 times its actual size.

- See that blue there?
- Yeah.

Ooh, that's a right
bobby-dazzler.

- RICK: That is beautiful.
- LAIRD and JACK: Yeah.

That is a beauty, all right.

Sapphire?

I don't know if that...

If it is blue, it's
dark, isn't it?

GARY: Yeah.

- LAIRD: It's pretty cool.
- RICK: That is pretty cool.

The thing you see most,
of course, is the blueness.

A jewel, a sapphire.

Whatever it is, it's shiny,

it's bright and it's beautiful.

But you can't just
focus on the jewel.

You have to ask the
question, what is this?

Why is it found here?

Who might it have belonged to?

And why were they on the island?

Can you imagine how
long that took to build up

all that patina on there?

All that encrustation?

JACK: How long, do you think?

- [exhales sharply]
- Couple hundred years?

Very long time.

Yeah.

GARY: That's a right little

- bobby-dazzler, isn't it?
- [Rick chuckles]

- Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to analyze this.
- Yeah.

RICK: No...

Not even a guess as to age?

It's not from the


No.

LAIRD: It is unusual.

RICK: I look forward to a date,

whether stylistically

- or metal composition.
- Yeah.

Well, I think the-the CT
scanner will give us a better idea

- of construction.
- Mm.

LAIRD: We'll be
able to look inside it.

And then I think we
can do a little cleaning.

And then we can XRF it.

And that'll tell us certainly
what the base metal is

and perhaps what the jewel is.

Little bit of cleaning,
little bit of scanning

and a little bit of celebrating.

[chuckling]

I imagine you-you
guys did that already.

- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah.

It's very cool.

So, great job. Good find.

Let's get back stuck
in, mate, and find

- some more treasure.
- Yeah. Let's go find some more. -All right.

- RICK: Great find.
- LAIRD: See you. Thank you.

GARY: Well, it's
a gem of a find.

JACK: Yeah.

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...

TEDFORD: Might
be a little spray!

As the core drilling
operation continues

in the Money Pit area...

- DOUG: Hey, guys.
- PETER: Hey, guys.

I suppose we
should say, "Cheerio."

- [chuckling]
- Cheerio.

Rick Lagina and
members of the team

gather in the w*r room
for a video conference

with his brother Marty,

nephew Alex and
Charles Barkhouse

for a report on what they
have learned in England.

- RICK: Craig, welcome.
- Also joining remotely

is Rick and Marty's
business partner Craig Tester.

So, we're waiting to hear
from you what you've learned.

ALEX: Sure.

We started at
Royston Cave. Um...

it's-it's not a cave.

It's actually hand-dug

into the-the rock
underneath Royston.

And it's got

just an overwhelming
number of carvings in it.

It's larger-scale
than I expected.

You know, there's potential
Templar symbolism there.

And there's some symbols
that are, you know, familiar to us

from other trips
that we've taken,

like in Domme and at
Rochefoucauld Castle,

and potential
connections between both

the Rochefoucaulds,
the Duc d'Anville

and Oak Island.

JACK: What kinds of symbols

were you seeing that
drew connections?

Well, there's one in
particular that I have a photo of

that was, like... I
mean, it was obvious.

So why don't I
show you the photo.

We'll see what you think.

These are the
carvings in the cave.

You know, this is just
to give you an impression

of what we're looking at
when we go down there.

Oh.

This is the one

that just jumped
right out at us.

Oh...

RICK: Hmm.

That's remarkable.

RICK: Wow. That's stunning.

MARTY: If you look
at that, you know,

there's the cross,
only in more detail.

Mm.

GARY: Yeah, looks
like a match to me.

RICK: That's what I would say.

NARRATOR: In the w*r room, Marty

and Alex Lagina, along
with Charles Barkhouse,

have just shown Rick Lagina
and members of the team

an image of a carved cross
located in Royston Cave,

a medieval site near
London, England,

that many believe
to have once been

a sacred meeting place
for the Knights Templar.

MARTY: It's more likely than
not the Templars were in this cave

for part of its history.

Which makes that carving

Templar-ish.

And you couple that with Domme,

and I think that lead cross

has Templar origins.

RICK: Royston Cave

seemed to indicate
that there was

some sort of Templar
connection to the mystery.

They showed a carving

that replicated the cross
Gary found in Smith's Cove.

Of course, that
conjures up the time

Peter and I and
Alex went to Domme.

Are they similar? Yes.

This could be quite huge.

Now, does that mean they
were on Oak Island? No.

But it brings me a lot further
along than, say, I had been

- before I came here.
- Yeah.

Yeah.

ALEX: There's also a date

that's potentially
connected to Zena's map.

This is one of the remaining
bricks over that entrance.

JACK: Oh.

"1347."

MARTY: That apparently is
the exact date on Zena's map.

ALEX: It might be a
commemorative thing

to denote, uh,

when they might
have left the region.

The date of 1347,

that was closest to
making a connection

between the Royston Cave,

the Templars'
association with it

and Zena's map.

ALEX: So, here's
the other thing.

In the center of this image

is what kind of
resembles a mermaid.

See it?

RICK: Interesting.

ALEX: Until Gretchen
brought it up...

I-I did not remember this...

But when we were at
Rochefoucauld Castle,

if you look at
their coat of arms,

behind it is a mermaid.

MARTY: That was
their main symbol.

Yes.

MARTY: But it was
Gretchen who said

and showed us
the picture she took,

and it is in the
seal of the, uh,

- Rochefoucaulds.
- Yeah.

RICK: What it
somewhat reminds me of

is that it kind of
looks like the fish

at the bottom of the map.

NARRATOR: Could
Rick Lagina be correct

that the image of a possible
mermaid carved in Royston Cave

is also depicted on the
believed 14th-century map

that Zena Halpern
gave the team in 2016?

If so, could it offer another
key piece of evidence

that the Knights Templar
really were connected

to the Oak Island mystery?

Uh, we'd like to
tell you a little bit

about what happened at Kew.

It-it appears that the...

Duc d'Anville was up
to all kinds of things

that are yet to be discovered.

ALEX: We're seeing
the Duc d'Anville made

multiple journeys to the region,

some earlier than we thought.

MARTY: There are
records of the interrogation

of prisoners that
the British took,

apparently trying to
extract data from them

after the Duc
d'Anville expedition.

- Oh. Great.
- RICK: Wow.

Very cool.

This story is layered, and thus,

the uncovering it or the
unraveling of the story

is-is complicated as well.

But I think we've
got the people,

- the science, the commitment...
- Yeah.

To do that very
thing... unravel it.

And we couldn't do it
without everybody diving in,

and you dove in.

So, appreciate it. Certainly.

Thank you.

RICK: I have always said,

the past 227 years
of digging and drilling

has yet to solve the
Money Pit mystery.

I think the information
hunt and research

is an important part
of the ongoing search

for answers on Oak Island.

We have been busy
here on the island, too.

Gary has been out and about.

Yeah. Been grinding and finding.

-[chuckles] -[Craig chuckles]

Check that out, mate.

We found another bobby-dazzler.

It's a piece of jewelry.

- ALEX: Oh.
- I believe it's, uh,

either a pin or a brooch.

And you know me, Marty...

I don't get excited when
I find a bit of jewelry.

- No, no.
- And we shouldn't really speculate,

- but it's treasure, baby!
- [laughter]

MARTY: That's my man, Gary.

Save a couple for
me to dig up, okay?

-Uh, will do, mate. -All right.

Well, on that note, we're
gonna go fight London traffic.

Thank you, guys.

- Great meeting.
- All right. See ya.

Take care.

NARRATOR: As another
week comes to a close

for Rick, Marty and the team,

their efforts to
reveal the truth

of what happened
long ago on Oak Island

have once again been rewarded.

Even though there
is much work ahead

to find the undeniable
proof of who

and what lie at the center
of this 227-year-old mystery,

one thing is certain:

in order to reach
the ultimate answers,

they will not only
dig on Oak Island...

They will scour
the entire globe.

♪ ♪

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TERRY: There's something
going on in the Garden Shaft.

Oh, yeah, there we go. We
got something right there.

Oh, wow, look.

- What do you make of that?
- CRAIG: That's very odd.

Ooh, this is what I'd class
as treasure.

The roughness here,
it's 500 years old, at least.

- Whew.
- Wow.

There's a Canadian
mining company.

They could come in
and open up the Garden Shaft.

Are we gonna be able to actually
go underground in that shaft?

- Yeah.
- RICK: That's fantastic.

- MARTY: Brilliant.
- [chuckling]