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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 d*ed

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,
one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

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- 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


down to an approximate
depth of 100 feet,

the team was elated
to reach a potentially



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


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


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


- 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


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


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 w*r 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 w*r 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


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 w*r 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 w*r 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 w*r 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.



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 w*r 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


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.