NARRATOR: Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...
It's the last caisson
for the year.
If we're gonna take
a sh*t at this,
we're gonna take our best sh*t.
CORJAN:
This is the holy
of holiest of the Templars.
- Wow!
- Oh!
CORJAN: I think we're gonna
find some real answers here.
That is incredible.
- We're looking for the extension to the road.
- Yes.
LAIRD: Whoa, whoa,
whoa! Look at this.
There's a lot of cobble there.
Yeah, I'm wondering
if that's it already.
- ALEX: Wow.
- CORJAN: It is spectacular.
It's stunningly beautiful.
JOÃO FIANDEIRO:
There's nine platforms.
That's exactly the
Money Pit story.
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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- JACK: Last can for the year!
- GARY: Yeah.
- JACK: I feel good about this caisson.
- TERRY: Absolutely.
GARY: Hopefully,
we've saved the best
- till the last.
- TERRY: Hopefully, some
of the great mystery
- will be revealed today.
- Yeah.
NARRATOR: As
another brisk fall morning
gets underway on Oak
Island, the anticipation
for a potentially historic
breakthrough discovery
in the Money Pit area
has never been higher
for brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina
and the members of their team.
- Top of the morning, gentlemen.
- Hi, Sam. How you doing?
Oh, very best. So, our current
depth of hole is around 57 feet.
Super. We're starting
to get into full mouthfuls
of the maroon till.
- Yes, sir.
- We need to go
- from that to gold.
- That's right. -That's right.
First, through the wood maybe
and then into a
chamber, let's hope.
It appears, to our research,
- that there is some tunnel here.
- Yeah.
NARRATOR: At a
location just five feet north
of Borehole C-1, the
team is excavating their fifth
and final ten-foot-diameter
steel-cased shaft for this year.
Dubbed "B4-C," Rick, Marty
and their partner Craig Tester
are especially
hopeful for this dig
due to the incredible clues
that they've already recovered
in this area over the
past several months.
These finds include evidence
of mysterious wooden tunnels
at a depth of some 90 feet,
which have been carbon-dated
to as early as the 15th century.
But even more
compelling were the results
of water testing in
existing boreholes
and core drilling
across the area
that was conducted this year.
Both operations yielded
high-trace evidence
that vast quantities
of silver and gold
lie buried somewhere deep below.
RICK: Our expectations
are exceedingly high
for the final can.
The data strongly
suggests there's a tunnel,
and the tunnel perhaps
means treasure,
or proximity to treasure.
The other thing, of course,
is that at 150-foot level,
where in 1897 the vault
supposedly was drilled into.
There was a number
of intersections
that were confirmed by
two or three drill holes.
the first suspected tunnel.
So, we're getting close.
We're sneaking up on it.
- Yup.
- And hopefully, we'll open up into a chamber.
All right, fellas. We'll
be... we'll be in touch.
- All right then. -Thanks.
- Keep on rocking.
- Take care.
- [Sam laughs]
NARRATOR: Although it could take
as much as one more week
for the B4-C Shaft to
reach its target depth
below 150 feet,
geologist Terry Matheson
and members of the team will
continue searching the spoils
for valuable clues
that could help solve
the 227-year-old
Oak Island mystery.
So, we're in very dense,
tight material that
hasn't been disturbed.
So, that's great, and it just
bodes well for
tunnels, or an off...
Cross your fingers... an
offset chamber and some
silver and gold perhaps.
Here's to hoping.
NARRATOR: While
the excavation continues
in the Money Pit area,
later that morning...
- MARTY: Hey, Rick! Doug!
- SCOTT: Hey, guys.
- Hello, chaps.
- Hey, everybody.
NARRATOR: Marty Lagina
gathers members of the team
in the w*r room for
a video conference
with his brother Rick
and Oak Island
historian Doug Crowell,
who are currently
in Tomar, Portugal.
I got these guys all teed
up for a fantastic report.
So, have you got one?
I think an unqualified "yes."
Proceed!
It's been a very
interesting trip.
From the moment we arrived,
there was something
to be learned.
Finally, we're chasing
real historical information
as it relates to Oak Island.
And you cannot separate Portugal
from Templar, in my opinion.
Please, inform us.
- Let's go to church!
- Let's go to church.
NARRATOR: For the
past week, Rick and Doug,
along with Marty's son Alex
and his and Rick's nephew Peter,
have been investigating the area
around Tomar for clues
that might support
an incredible theory.
One connecting members
of the 12th century
medieval m*llitary order of monks
known as the "Knights Templar"
and their 14th-century
descendants
known as the
"Knights of Christ,"
to the Oak Island mystery.
Okay, let's see
what we can find.
NARRATOR: So far, working
with researcher Corjan Mol...
Every one of them has a symbol.
NARRATOR: they have
not only seen Templar carvings
at the historic church
of Fontarcada...
You might be interested
in this one over here.
NARRATOR: matching
symbols reportedly found
on the legendary
There's a circle and the
dot in the center of the cross.
NARRATOR: as
well as the H+O Stone.
CORJAN: The circle and the dot
is an early alchemical
symbol for gold.
NARRATOR: But also,
in Alqueidaão da Serra,
an ancient stone road
and pathway that appeared
eerily similar in design
to those that the team
has recently discovered
in the triangle-shaped swamp.
RICK: Isn't that spectacular?
Yeah, it's cool.
RICK: That is 2,000 years old.
DOUG: Unlike other
areas or other countries,
here in Portugal,
they seemed to have
embraced that design,
and they've carried that
forward through the centuries.
They have kept building
roads in this manner.
One of the things that
Jorge, the archaeologist,
told us was that
this construction type would
be suitable for hills and swamps.
We walked all the way
up the mountainside, and
they looked exactly like
the stone path we have.
- No kidding.
- CHARLES: Wow.
Yeah, that's fantastic.
Okay, well, that's
all good information.
Real interesting stuff,
guys, and it looks like
you're having an
interesting time.
Hurry back because
there's a lot of work
gonna be commencing up in
the Money Pit, as you're aware.
And, um, we look forward to
getting you back on the island.
We will do that.
All right, guys. Thank
you. See you later then.
We're going to get back to work.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...
- MARTY: Hey, gents!
- BILLY: Hey, Marty.
NARRATOR: Marty Lagina
joins Gary Drayton,
surveyor Steve Guptill,
and Billy Gerhardt on Lot 15,
located just east of the swamp.
If there's a road, that's
what we're after today.
- And clues.
- Yeah.
I've been wanting
to dig this ever since
we were out here
delineating this thing.
NARRATOR: In light of Rick
and Doug's report from Portugal,
Marty has just obtained
permission from the authorities
to continue investigating
a mysterious feature
discovered earlier this year.
First scan, coming up.
NARRATOR: While conducting
a ground-penetrating radar scan
just east of the stone road
in the southeast
corner of the swamp...
I think the stone road
- might be under us right here.
- Oh, that's interesting.
Alex Lagina and his
cousin David Fornetti
were stunned to
obtain possible evidence
that buried portions
of the feature
may continue somewhere
into the uplands.
- I have survey plans for everybody.
- Yay!
NARRATOR: Now,
it is Marty's hope
that he and members of the team
can not only prove
that the stone feature
does continue out of the swamp,
but also determine
just where it might lead.
If we're going to
take a sh*t at this,
we're going to
take our best sh*t.
- GARY: Yeah.
- All right.
- Positions, everyone.
- All right. -All right.
MARTY: This is
about the right width
and the right depth
to be the road,
and it's showing a
consistent anomaly
where we think the road is.
These things all add up. So,
it's risk-reward ratio:
it costs almost nothing,
and it could be a huge reward.
[scraping]
STEVE G.: Whoa,
whoa, whoa! Look at this.
That could be the road.
- You may want to take a look.
- MARTY: Really?
NARRATOR: On Lot 15,
Marty Lagina and
members of the team
may have just found
promising evidence
that the mysterious
stone pathway
believed to be of
possible Portuguese origin
does, in fact, continue
into the uplands.
STEVE G.: There is
a lot of cobble there.
- Oh, yeah. It kind of looks like down there.
- It does.
- Yes, it does. Yeah.
- MARTY: Yeah. All right, well,
- I'm gonna go dig over there.
- BILLY: Yeah.
- That's a good start.
- Okay.
MARTY: This new
area looks a lot like
it's the beginning
of yet another road
going off to the east.
The obvious thing to
do is follow the road,
see where it leads
us, keep digging.
GARY: This is getting
interesting, Billy.
BILLY: Yup. Really exciting.
- There's some cobble.
- Yeah, there they are.
You got one, two. This
one, three, four, five.
- That's flat, too.
- Yeah.
The question is, what do we do?
BILLY: Right. It certainly looks
very typical to other
things that we saw down
on the edge of the
swamp and in the swamp.
The people that built
the path, obviously,
probably built other roads.
STEVE G.: Another
piece of information
that makes this more likely,
or probable, to be a road is
that it's the same width as
the stone road in the swamp.
It's-it's about 20 feet wide.
This is exactly how the
road in the swamp started.
And I wonder if-if it's
carefully excavated,
if there'd be some more clues
that that's Portuguese
construction.
Of course, we've got
a team in Portugal.
So, we might want to
get Laird to look at it.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
NARRTOR: Now that
Marty and the team
have found evidence
of a potentially
ancient structure that has
never been documented
by previous searchers,
they will enlist
archaeologist Laird Niven
to join the investigation
in order to help
identify important clues
that may be critical in solving
the 227-year-old mystery.
If we get the archaeologists
in to uncover this
and show us exactly
what it looks like...
Yeah, or at least tell
us what they think.
- Yeah.
- In the meantime,
I do want to cut
a cross-section,
so let's try down there.
- STEVE G.: Yeah.
- MARTY: Okay, let's do it!
NARRATOR: While Marty
and members of the team
continue their
investigation on Lot 15...
TERRY: Hopefully,
some of the great mystery
will be revealed today.
- Yup.
- Let's hope we, uh, come
into something very interesting.
NARRATOR: and
as the excavation
of the B4-C Shaft continues
in the Money Pit area,
some 2,800 miles away in
the city of Tomar, Portugal...
CORJAN: So, here we are.
Welcome to the
Convento de Cristo.
JOÃO: The castle
of the Templar Knights.
PETER: Wow.
Impressive.
JOÃO: Built in the
ALEX: Wow.
NARRATOR: Rick
and Alex Lagina,
along with Doug Crowell
and Peter Fornetti,
meet up with historian
JOÃO Fiandeiro
and researcher Corjan Mol
at the Convento de Cristo,
a location that
served as a stronghold
for the Knights Templar
more than 800 years ago.
- RICK: Oh, wow.
- ALEX: Beautiful.
RICK: It certainly is.
JOÃO: So, we're here, and now,
I'll show you the most important
places where Templar
Knights left for us.
And I'm quite sure that
you will see the links
and the connection
to the Oak Island.
Oh.
CORJAN: I think we're gonna find
- some real answers here.
- RICK: Then I'm ready
to go look at them.
- JOÃO: Let's go?
- Let's go.
RICK: Is it possible that
somewhere in the building
there will be a testament to
the fact that they went west?
That they did indeed
come to Nova Scotia?
That's the hope.
CORJAN: After you, gentlemen.
- So, welcome to New Jerusalem.
- Oh, wow.
-Oh. -Wow. That's incredible.
RICK: Oh, it's...
It-it defies words.
When you think speechless,
- you see this.
- Exactly.
CORJAN: This is 12th century.
ALEX: You said
this is 12th century?
- 12th century.
- In the 1100s, this was built?
Exactly.
NARRATOR: During
the Crusades in 1160 AD,
the Knights Templar lost control
of Temple Mount in Jerusalem,
leading their grand
master, Gualdim Pais,
to establish a new
headquarters in Tomar, Portugal.
Within the Castle
of Tomar, he built
the Convento de Cristo, their
most sacred Catholic convent.
It would remain the
order's stronghold
for centuries to come, and
where they were rebranded
as the Knights
of Christ in 1318.
CORJAN: This is
the heart of the heart,
the holy of holiest of
the Templars in Europe.
RICK: What this
is a testament to is
that nothing was beyond them.
CORJAN: Yeah.
- Nothing.
- Yeah. That's true. -Yeah.
RICK: This just
defies imagination.
CORJAN: Okay, guys.
- Let's move on. There's a lot more to see here.
- Hmm.
This was also a
functioning building,
a functional community.
We're on top of a hill,
and they needed water.
So, they built a huge
aqueduct to bring water...
- Is that why?
- To this place
so they could
sustain themselves.
And the waterways
are underground.
So, there's tunnels under this
castle and under the convent.
And they had a very
special way to indicate
where the aqueducts
are underground,
and I think you're going to find
an interesting connection
there, perhaps, to Oak Island.
Are we allowed to
go underground?
I'll show you now.
JOÃO: Watch your step.
CORJAN: I'll show
you how they indicated
the underground water stream.
For the first time I was here,
I noticed this hand on the wall
with this strange,
extended middle finger.
- RICK: Mm-hmm.
- It's clearly a hand.
This, as far as I know,
there's five or six of those
in the convent, and they
indicate the aqueduct.
-Oh. -So, these hands
actually indicate
how the water flows
beneath the Convento,
which reminded me a little bit
of the-the finger
drains on Oak Island.
On Oak Island, the so-called
finger drains were rock.
- Yeah.
- And then a cap rock over the top of it.
- Is that how these are formed?
- JOÃO: Yes.
Under these, you
have a-a square pipe.
- CORJAN: Like a squared gutter.
- JOÃO: Yeah.
- Are they capped?
- CORJAN: With a... with a...
- with a cap stone.
- With a cap stone.
- ALEX: From stone? -From stone.
- RICK: That's exactly
the way it's described, right?
- As a finger drain.
- Yeah.
On the island. A finger
drain. There you go.
NARRATOR: The print of a hand?
Representing an
underground drainage system?
In 1850, members of the
Truro Company discovered
that the beach at Smith's Cove
had been artificially created.
After building a massive dam
composed of earth and rock,
they drained the cove
and uncovered
five finger-like drains
buried beneath layers of
eel grass and coconut fiber.
Constructed of flat stones
and covered with cap rocks,
these drains appeared
to converge at the beach
into a single tunnel,
heading due west
toward the Money Pit.
Is it possible that the
team has just found
the same kind of drainage
system at Convento de Cristo?
CORJAN: Shall we
follow the hands?
- Yes.
- Cool.
RICK: If there was ever a
connection to Oak Island,
this is it.
Finger drains in this Convento
built by the Templars, or
at least Templar influenced,
exactly as we understand
them in Smith's Cove.
It doesn't get any closer
connection than that,
at least not yet.
You saw the hand there,
you know, at the bottom
of the... of the wall,
and then... it lands here.
You see, the stones here,
then the next hand is there,
indicating the
flow of the water.
Finger drain.
RICK: This is an
exact representation
of the finger
drains on the island.
- Cap rock.
- Mm-hmm.
CORJAN: They were
engineers as much as, you know,
religious monks.
Engineers extraordinaire.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- I mean, from what we've seen.
Okay, guys. Let's move on.
Step through that door there.
- Right through here?
- Yeah. -Yup.
CORJAN: I'd like to show
you a number of things.
So, we're going to
walk back in time again,
all the way to the
original gate of the castle.
RICK: Can't wait.
CORJAN: Straight
down here, guys.
So, we're now going to the
more medieval part of the property.
To the original gate.
NARRATOR: At the
Convento de Christo
in Tomar, Portugal...
This would have been
the grand entrance.
NARRATOR:
researcher Corjan Mol
and historian JOÃO Fiandeiro
are showing Rick Lagina
and members of the team
clues that they believe
connect the Knights Templar
to the Oak Island mystery.
CORJAN: Now there's
a couple of things
I would like to show you here.
To start with,
now over the arch,
the big Templar cross.
This was their trademark.
Now, maybe even
more interesting,
and it's worn, but if you move
your eyes down to
the yellowish stone,
I believe there you have
a cross with four dots.
- Like the H+O Stone.
- Oh!
What I mean is this cross
here with the four dots.
RICK: Wow.
NARRATOR: A cross inscription?
Matching a symbol found
on the so-called H+O Stone?
Discovered on the northern
shore of Oak Island in 1921,
the H+O Stone was a fragment
of a much larger boulder
that was blown up with
dynamite by searchers
who mistakenly believed
that it marked the
location of buried treasure.
JOÃO: This is the
thing that the Templars
would use to mark
something of their own.
NARRATOR: One week
ago, while investigating
the ancient Knights Templar
Church of Fontarcada,
in Póvoa de Lanhoso, Portugal,
the team discovered
a Templar cross
featuring another
character on the H+O Stone.
CORJAN: The circle
and the dot is an early
alchemical symbol for gold.
NARRATOR: Is it
possible that the H+O Stone
was a marker for buried treasure
somewhere on
Oak Island after all?
A treasure hidden there
by Portuguese members
of the Knights Templar?
So, what do youthink
that represents?
I think it's a Templar cross,
and Knights Templar, here,
continuing into
the Order of Christ,
perhaps in possession
of something awesome
from the Holy Land,
that brought holy
relics to North America
and Oak Island.
ALEX: I think we've
kind of seen that
there is a thread that runs
through the Knights Templar,
and it's plausible that they had
something in their possession
that they may have
wanted to hide.
It's plausible that they
could have reached America.
Yeah, I think that's
exactly what it is.
RICK: We've heard this before...
The suggestion that
The Knights Templar
had in their possession
precious items.
What's impactful is that
we're seeing symbology
that we know once
existed on the island.
And could that
have something to do
with westerly exploration,
perhaps even to Nova Scotia?
- We always seek connective tissue.
- Yeah.
The most interesting
puzzles of all are those
that are difficult to solve.
- That's it.
- And we have one here.
- Yeah.
- That's it.
But surely, we have more pieces
because of these efforts.
So, all the more reason
to continue the search.
- Absolutely.
- Yeah.
RICK: Okay, let's go meet Doug.
NARRATOR: As Rick
and members of the team
continue their investigation
in Tomar, Portugal,
some 2,800 miles to
the west on Oak Island...
MARTY: Here's the man.
- Hey, fellas.
- Hey. You called?
NARRATOR:
archaeologist Laird Niven
and project manager Scott Barlow
join Marty Lagina and
other members of the team
to continue uncovering
the believed stone pathway
between the swamp and
the Money Pit on Lot 15.
MARTY: Yeah, here's the deal,
Laird. Here's the background.
We ran the OKM, got
several lined-up cross sections
of 20 feet across.
We dug the best one up there,
which I'd like you to look at.
LAIRD: Okay. We're looking
- for the extension to the road, right?
- MARTY: Yes.
- Yup.
- You guys walk on up.
I'll bring the machine,
and see what you think
of that spot right up there.
- Okay.
- All right.
MARTY: The stone
road is clearly man-made.
I mean, I don't think
there's any doubt.
But I don't know really
what to make of it.
The road has to go somewhere,
and it has to go somewhere
for a reason, and maybe we
can figure out what that reason is.
GARY: This is the area, mate.
Two scoops there,
and started hitting all of
these rocks and boulders.
Well, Laird, do
you see anything?
LAIRD: They're angular.
Billy's observation is that
these don't look glacial because
- they're so angular.
- Mm-hmm. So angular.
And they're slate. We
don't see much slate
- on this side, right?
- Yeah. I mean, all of 'em.
This-this seemed like what
we were looking for right away.
And we spent a lot of
time on that stone pathway,
- and this reminds me of that.
- Yes.
GARY: It's rocks and
cobbles. Small cobbles.
BILLY: Just take a peek.
This is our very first
bucket, but if you look here.
- Oh, yeah. Yeah.
- Right?
- You got a lot of rocks here, Laird.
- Yeah.
There, there,
there. There, there.
- And they're loose, too, right?
- They're loose.
- They're not packed in.
- Yeah. It's the size.
- Like, they're not huge.
- Yeah, yeah.
- And the placement.
- Right.
They look like they've
been put in there.
MARTY: How do we do this?
How do we do... ascertain
whether there's
something going on here?
LAIRD: If we just
take the excavator and
just kind of roll it over,
when you feel the rocks,
just come up and go along.
The purpose is to find
no rocks, rocks, no rocks.
- That may define a road.
- MARTY: Okay.
You show Billy
where to cut one more.
We got Laird here
so we can do it.
Maybe it'll tell us its secrets
without having to do
a bunch of excavation.
All right, let's quit gabbing
and start digging. Ready?
- STEVE G.: Let's do it!
- GARY: We're ready.
NARRATOR: As a new
day begins on Oak Island..
JACK: The game's afoot.
NARRATOR: while
the excavations continue
in the Money Pit area,
and on Lot 15...
All right. Moment of truth.
NARRATOR: nearly 2,800 miles
across the Atlantic Ocean...
RICK: Bom dia.
NARRATOR: Rick Lagina
and members of the team
arrive at the renowned m*llitary
Museum in Lisbon, Portugal.
Nice to meet you. All of you.
NARRATOR: Here, Corjan
Mol has arranged for them
to meet with Sergeants
Ricardo Lopes and Carlos Magro,
both of whom are experts
in Portuguese m*llitary history.
RICK: So, the reason
why we're here is,
we have some artifacts
that we have found
on the island,
and we were hoping
that you can affirm that the
stone sh*t which we have
is an exact match to what you
may have here in the museum.
Well, we've actually
brought along replicas
- of the stone sh*t we found on Oak Island.
- Okay.
All right, there's one.
Yes. 3.9 centimeters.
NARRATOR: Over
the past two years,
the team has found
two small cannonballs,
or stone sh*ts, one
of which was recovered
from deep in the Money Pit area.
But even more compelling
was the recent analysis
conducted by geology
professor Dr. Robert Raeside,
who believed the stone
that they were composed of
may have originated in
Portugal's Azores Islands.
DOUG: Could we
expect our stone sh*t
to be made in the Azores
or here on the mainland?
Wow.
Mm-hmm.
Yes. Yes.
- Oh, wow.
- ALEX: Is that a general rule
that smaller caliber on ships?
- Okay.
- Yes. Yes. Yes.
Mm-hmm.
RICK: What they
call a swivel g*n?
If we could see a cannon
that would sh**t that stone sh*t
such as that, we
would love to see it.
RICK: Love to.
We puzzle now over why
was that stone sh*t found
down in the Money Pit?
This one could
be used on a ship.
RICK: Are they
an artifact that was absolutely
connected to Oak Island
and perhaps here to this land?
- ALEX: So, this right here?
- RICARDO: Yes.
This is... 15th, 16th century
with a four-centimeter
caliber and fires
a, uh, half a Portuguese
pound iron ball.
I've got one of
the replicas here.
Um, we can try it. It's-it's
pretty corroded here, so...
CORJAN: Oh, look at that.
It's pretty close.
So, I would say
that's a match to this.
But that pretty much
confirms that that is a ca...
a known caliber of sh*t.
From the 14, 1500s.
RICK: But there's a
possibility that if you were
doing something,
say on our island,
you needed to protect
what you were doing,
to keep people away,
remove this g*n from the ship,
mount it in some
fashion on the island.
- That's big. That's huge.
- CORJAN: Good.
NARRATOR: Could the team
have just found an explanation
for how one of the potentially
Portuguese stone sh*ts
was found deep in
the Money Pit area?
There's quite a bit
of corrosion in there.
NARRATOR: If so, could
it be related to the evidence
of wooden tunnels
discovered earlier this year,
which could date
to as early as 1488?
And also, the
high concentrations
of silver and gold?
DOUG: I think we
have a new, strong
possibility that we really
have to give consideration to.
And I'm very, very hopeful,
but it couldn't happen
without people like yourselves.
We're most appreciative.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon,
nearly 20 miles
west of Lisbon...
JOÃO: Welcome to Sintra.
You are in the heart of
this very romantic town.
NARRATOR: Rick
Lagina and his team
arrive at an early
known as "Quinta da Regaleira."
Here, Corjan Mol
and Templar historian JOÃO
Fiandeiro have arranged
to show them one final
structure that they believe
may be directly connected
to the Oak Island mystery.
JOÃO: The Templar
Knights came to here,
and they managed
the land for a long time.
Everything you see was
built in the last century
to create this magical
Masonic wonderland.
But it's based on
much older ideas.
NARRATOR: In 1147,
during the Crusades,
following his
conquest of Lisbon,
the first king of Portugal,
Afonso Henriques,
also captured
the town of Sintra.
In 1154, the town
and its administrative
duties were transferred
to the Knights Templar,
who utilized it as a stronghold
for centuries to come.
However, in 1904,
a wealthy Freemason
named António Augusto
de Carvalho Monteiro
purchased this property
and established it as
"Quinta da Regaleira,"
a vast palatial estate
where he is believed
to have hosted secret
Masonic and Templar rituals.
There's indeed something here
that, uh, will remind you
very much of Oak Island.
The Initiation Well that
is the masterpiece here.
- Let's go.
- RICK: I'd love to.
The focus of
today's visit is really
any possible associations
we can make to Oak Island.
There might be some sort
of connection, some sort of
"aha" moment.
But we'll see as we
experience the Quinta.
So, the well is actually in
this megalithic formation here.
Oh, here!
- JOÃO: Yup.
- CORJAN: It's easy to walk past.
JOÃO: The beauty is inside.
RICK: That's remarkable.
Wow.
ALEX: Wow. It's deep.
What is this dimension,
the diameter?
- Which is...
- That sounds awfully familiar.
That chamber at the bottom...
I mean, it's very
Masonic at its core.
What I can't help
compare it to is
the design of the Money Pit.
NARRATOR: In Sintra, Portugal,
at an estate k
Rick Lagina and
members of the team
have just arrived at an early
known as the "Initiation Well."
JOÃO: The Initiation
Well has nine platforms.
PETER: The nine floors
sounds like something
that we have
possibly on Oak Island.
- RICK: Yeah, the Money Pit.
- ALEX: Yup.
[camera shutter clicking]
Okay, let's go down.
Smooth and easy.
Guys, watch your steps.
RICK: When you look at
the well, there are nine levels.
We know there were nine
levels in the original description
of the Money Pit.
We know that the
original Money Pit
was 13 feet in diameter.
It's curious.
If that is not a coincidence,
and it seems as
though it is not,
then where was that
information derived?
And why was it
important to replicate it?
What does it mean? I don't know.
CORJAN: It is rather
spectacular, isn't it?
ALEX: Yup.
DOUG: Remember,
the Restalls thought
there was a spiral staircase
- around the Money Pit?
- RICK: Mm-hmm.
NARRATOR: In 1963,
while conducting a
lateral drilling operation
deep in the Money Pit,
Oak Island treasure
hunters Robert Restall, Sr.
And Bobby Restall,
Jr. reportedly drilled
through a series
of mysterious voids
at oddly descending angles
beginning more than
This discovery led them to
the astonishing conclusion
that a spiral tunnel
encircled the Money Pit,
potentially leading to
the fabled treasure vault.
CORJAN: We're
almost there, guys.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the Initiation Well,
with its nine levels,
and which was constructed
nearly six decades
before the Restalls'
discovery, is in fact,
a replica of the Oak
Island Money Pit?
CORJAN: Oh, man. So, you would
perfectly see that oak
tree from here, right?
RICK: The branch of
an oak tree over the well.
That's exactly what the
Money Pit story is about.
Wow.
CORJAN: It's like staring up
from the bottom
of the Money Pit.
NARRATOR: In 1795,
when Freemason Daniel
McGinnis and his two friends
first discovered the Money Pit,
they were not merely
intrigued by the 13-foot
diameter depression
in the ground,
but also, by a block and tackle
hanging from the branch of
an oak tree directly overhead.
Could this oak tree's
position, directly next
to the Initiation Well
in Sintra, Portugal,
simply be a matter
of coincidence?
We now start the
path in the tunnels.
RICK: The whole point
of the Initiation Well is to
create a representation
of the influence
of Templars, possibly
the influence of
Masonic beliefs and ideals.
And here we are.
Back into the light.
JOÃO: Back in the light.
Initiation done!
RICK: There may
be some correlation
between the Initiation Well
and the Money Pit on Oak Island.
We have to take
the information back
and-and see what it tells us.
What we've seen here is a...
a vision that was not inspired,
but instructed
by knowledge from the past,
which is being carried forward
from the Knights Templar
into the Order of Christ,
into the Masonic thought,
leading all the way up to this.
Right.
ALEX: It shows that the ideas
have persisted throughout
time even to today.
And that means that they must
have been worth preserving.
I truly believe in what we
have learned in Portugal.
It only enhances my
belief that Oak Island
is part of this legacy.
I think we continue
to persevere in
that... with that hope.
And for that, we...
we thank you.
- RICK: Sempre Avanti.
- JOÃO: Sempre Avanti.
NARRATOR: While Rick
and members of the team
conclude their visit
in Sintra, Portugal,
back on Oak Island,
just east of the
swamp on Lot 15...
STEVE G.: Well,
there's your cobble.
GARY: There we go.
There's the cobble rock.
Lots of cobble.
NARRATOR: other
members of the Fellowship
continue unearthing the
mysterious stone pathway,
hoping to identify
just where it leads.
You found the cobble,
which happens between
the OKM anomaly,
which is the blue
tape there and there.
LAIRD: Below the stone
should be an organic layer
- where the original surface was, right?
- Right.
As you say, that'd
be very telling.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, we'll go a little deeper.
So, so far does this
look placed or natural?
It looks placed to me.
MARTY: I'm kind of the
guy who would like to dig
on almost any
information on Oak Island.
The anomalies line up,
and it looks like the
road, if this is accurate,
might be actually heading
towards the Money Pit.
So, it could be an
important discovery.
- That's funny. It seems much shallower over here.
- Yeah.
What we can do is cut a profile
to take a look at the
stratigraphy, right?
STEVE G.: What
do you see, Laird?
The horizon is
pretty distinctive.
See, it's kind of dipping down?
SCOTT: Yeah, I'd
say it's much shallower.
GARY: Think this could
possibly be a road, Laird?
NARRATOR: On Lot 15,
members of the Oak Island team
have just uncovered
another large section
of the mysterious stone pathway
between the Money Pit area
and the triangle-shaped swamp.
See, it's kind of dipping down?
STEVE G.: It's
filled in with rocks.
BILLY: Yeah, so you start
filling your ruts in, right?
You don't need to fill
- the whole road.
- Yeah. Yeah.
LAIRD: You can see the
soil definitely dip down,
and the cobbles fill that.
So, I think the layer
difference in the path,
the thin layer of
cobbles on one end
and thick layer of
cobbles on the other end,
just shows us that they
were filling in certain areas
to level it off, uh,
to make transportation
a-a little bit easier.
You'd constantly be
putting more cobbles on.
- Yeah.
- Bit like fixing potholes today.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the team is
uncovering a structure
that might lead them to a
breakthrough discovery?
And if so, given its nearly
identical construction
to what Rick Lagina has
recently been shown in Portugal,
could it prove to be related
to the medieval order
of the Knights Templar?
- All right, guys.
- LAIRD: Hey, Marty.
- What have you found?
- STEVE G.: Uh, we're dead center
on where we project
the potential road to be.
And it was nothing but cobble.
LAIRD: And it dips,
which led us to speculate,
you know, maybe
it was a low area
- that people filled in.
- Yeah, well, that makes sense.
SCOTT: I'd be curious
to see if there's any
- consistency in width.
- Yeah.
MARTY: I'll tell you what
we're going to do then.
How about I jump back in there?
- Yeah.
- And, um, we'll-we'll try and dig this
a little bit and try and
find out where the edge is,
- which would be meaningful.
- LAIRD: Yeah.
Okay. All right, let's do that.
You know, the
stone road is still
a mystery as to
what its purpose was,
and even when it
was constructed.
Seeing any change,
or is it all the same?
STEVE G.: Still lots of cobble.
MARTY: So, my thought
is the same thought I
always have after a discovery.
Keep going, find some more.
BILLY: Just wait,
Marty. Just for a sec.
The edge of the road
is right, right here, right?
Yup.
That makes sense
based on the data
that Alex collected, so...
Well, what's the plan here now?
LAIRD: The best way
to uncover a road is take
that much of
the soil off, right?
You'd have to do it by hand.
- Yeah.
- MARTY: Okay.
I think we've seen enough
to make us investigate further.
We're not finished with this.
No. I think there
was a road here.
Uh, whether it's ancient
or not, I don't know.
What it was used
for, I don't know.
- But we're aimed to find out.
- Yeah. -Yeah.
MARTY: You have to
follow even minor clues.
So, if we follow this road,
we may find something
hitherto non-discovered.
I'm gonna drive this thing off.
Why don't you guys go
get set for that next step?
- Sure.
- Okay.
- MARTY: Thanks.
- SCOTT: See ya, Marty.
NARRATOR: Even
while another harsh,
North Atlantic winter closes in,
the trail of clues that
may soon help Rick,
Marty and the team solve
a 227-year-old mystery
grows warmer by the day.
Could the ancient
Templar structures
and the cryptic Masonic symbols
located halfway across the globe
really be a testament to
what took place on Oak Island?
Or what the team might unearth
from deep in the Money Pit?
The answers may be
closer than ever before.
NARRATOR: Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...
- Today's the day, Gary.
- Oh, yeah.
NARRATOR: It's the
groundbreaking season finale.
- This is what we saw in Portugal.
- Mm-hmm.
Yeah. It's incredible.
- Wow.
- [laughs]
RICK: We can actually image
the entire island
underground to find a target
- in the Money Pit.
- That's great!
- GARY: We've hit the tunnel, mate.
- Whoa!
That tunnel will lead
us to the treasure.
Yeah. There you go.
Oh, look at that.
- What have we got here?
- Oh, what the heck is that?
09x24 - On the Road
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Follows brothers Marty and Rick as they search for the infamous treasure on Oak Island.
Follows brothers Marty and Rick as they search for the infamous treasure on Oak Island.