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

RICK: We're trying
to make a connection

between the Norse
and the Templars.

We found a piece of
wood in our swamp.

Very much like this.

This Viking ship could
travel to Oak Island.

-FIONA: Look what popped out.
-HELEN: What is that?

MARTY: Somebody
on Lot 5 was deep

in the Money Pit
based on this evidence.

This is a copper
piece from Oak Island.

Here's that symbol
next to a cross.

It's remarkable.

This cave might
relate to Oak Island.

ROBERTO: This is it.

EMILIANO: Wow. Look at this.

RICK: We've seen that before.

NARRATOR: There is an
island in the North Atlantic

where people have
been looking for

an incredible treasure
for more than 200 years.

So far, they have
found a stone slab

with strange symbols
carved into it...

...man-made workings
that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross whose
origin may be connected

to the Knights Templar.

To date, six men have died

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,
one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

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MARTY: Gentlemen!

Hey, Marty. How you doing?

Looking for reports.
Good reports.

TERRY: [chuckles] Well,

down to 137 here, Marty.

What we have in front
of us is 117 to 137.

NARRATOR: Another
chilly fall morning

has begun on Oak Island

for Marty Lagina and
members of the team.

But despite the
increasingly harsh weather,

they remain determined

to make a major
breakthrough discovery

in the Money Pit area

that could finally solve

a 229-year-old treasure mystery.

And we don't have any, uh...

no wood or nothing like that?

TERRY: No.

This hole, really close

to the Garden Shaft,
has a lot of silt and sand.

-That stuff?
-TERRY: Oh yeah, very coarse material.

It very much looks like the sand
that came into the Garden Shaft

-with the water.
-Yeah. -Exactly.

NARRATOR: One month
ago, the team began

a horizontal
probe-drilling operation

at a depth of 106 feet
in the Garden Shaft

to explore a seven-foot-high
partially dismantled tunnel.

A tunnel that runs due West

into an area dubbed
the Baby Blob

where water testing has revealed

high-trace evidence
of gold and silver

between 80 and


NARRATOR: But as the
probe-drilling proceeded,

salt water suddenly
rushed into the structure...

NARRATOR: ...forcing the
team members to vacate the shaft

and abandon the operation.

This has made the Oak
Island team speculate

that they encountered

one of the infamous
booby-trapped flood tunnels,

which have prevented searchers
from successfully digging

below 90 feet in
the Money Pit area

for more than two centuries.

You can see the
sand all slumped in.

Let me see that one.

NARRATOR: Now,
with only two weeks

before the onset of
winter will force the team

to halt their search
operations until next spring,

they are conducting a
new core-drilling operation

in and around the Baby Blob

and the mysterious tunnel
near the Garden Shaft

in the hopes of
pinpointing the source

of the possible treasure that
has been detected in the area.

MARTY: The scientists
are absolutely convinced

that there's a source of metals.

And some of the
metals are precious.

You would think,
"Absolutely, we're close."

I will do my absolute damnedest

to advance the treasure hunt

in what little
time we have left.

-Anyway.
-Guys, carry on.

Maybe there's
something down deep.

Right on.

See you later.

NARRATOR: While the
search for the legendary treasure

continues on Oak Island...

...more than 3,200
miles to the northeast

in Roskilde, Denmark...

ALEX: Wow. Look at these.

PETER: Wow.

DOUG: It's amazing, eh?

-Hi. Morten?
-MORTEN: Hi.

-Nice to meet you.
-I'm Alex.

-Nice to meet you.
-Alex. Morten.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina,

along with his
nephews Alex and Peter,

Oak Island historian
Doug Crowell

and researchers
Emiliano Sacchetti

and Corjan Mol are meeting

with Dr. Morten Ravn

at the Viking Ship Museum

where he serves as the curator.

Yeah. Welcome to the
Viking Ship Museum.

So glad that you want
to visit us also here

on your long voyage through
Europe and everywhere else.

Thank you.

NARRATOR: Over
the past two weeks...

-Wow.
-Oh, wow.

NARRATOR: ...Rick
and the team have visited

numerous historic
sites in Italy,

the Netherlands...

If you look carefully,

there is a four-dot cross here.

-Ah, look at these.
-Oh, wow.

NARRATOR: ...and Denmark...

RICK: Look at how
many of those runes

match the 90-foot stone.

NARRATOR: ...where
Emiliano, Corjan

and other researchers have
shown them carved symbols

and other compelling clues...

On the other side here,

-circle and dot.
-ALEX: Yep.

NARRATOR: ...supporting
the incredible theory

that members of the
medieval Christian order known

as the Knights Templar
conspired with Vikings

in order to smuggle their
sacred religious treasures

across Europe before
transporting them to Oak Island

nearly 800 years ago.

The five-schooner
ship we have here is

from the absolutely latest
part of the Viking Age,

turning into medieval times.

NARRATOR: Now, Rick and
the team are hoping that Dr. Ravn

can provide more information
on the Viking culture,

which is known to have explored

and created settlements
in parts of North America

some 1,000 years ago...

...to see if he can
offer more clues

that could help determine
if this theory is true.

RICK: Can you give
us an understanding

of the evolution of the
design of the ships?

Because I'm sure, initially,

it would have been about
commerce and raiding,

not necessarily
transatlantic voyages.

Yeah, it's an
excellent question.

First, it's large
and larger ships,

which you would be rowing.

And after that,

at the beginning
of the Viking Age,

around 750, comes the sail.

And with the sail,

you now can travel
at the open sea,

and eventually go all the way
to Canada and to United States.

If you are interested
in seeing how we built

reconstructions of these ships,

you can just go outside
and I have arranged

for one of our very skilled
boat builders, Marten,

to-to show you a reconstruction
of these oceangoing ships.

-Our new number one.
-ALEX: Sounds great.

RICK: We're trying
to make a connection

between the Norse
and-and the Templars,

especially in context

of transatlantic voyages.

-Hello.
-Hi. Welcome.

-Good to see you.
-Hello.

RICK: If the Oak
Island mystery is real,

you have to be able
to connect the dots.

So right now we are looking
at a seagoing Viking ship

that is built here
at the museum.

And it's a good
size ship, this one.

You have different
layers of deck here.

So, you can see underneath
here, if you take these up.

There's another layer of deck.

So you can have a lot
of cargo underneath here.

The one we are looking
at now is a cargo ship

that can carry a lot of
weight, about 20 ton.

Could you sail to
Canada on this?

To Oak Island?

I would say absolutely.

This is built in 1060.

On Oak Island, we have a
couple of stone constructs

that we're told
were likely built

in the 1200s.

So, is this boat representative
of the type of boat

that may have been
used in that time period?

Absolutely.

Yeah, I've been looking
around here because we found

-a piece of wood in our swamp.
-MARTEN: Yeah.

It was three-quarters of
an inch thick. Very uniform.

-It looked like a railing.
-Okay.

-And it carbon-dated to 770 A.D.
-Okay. Wow.

And as I look around, I
only see one piece of wood

that kind of resembles
it, and that's up here

-along the bow.
-MARTEN: Yeah.

We found a piece that
very much looks like this.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, look at that.

What do you got?

It looks like a piece
of finished wood.

NARRATOR: In 2020,

while investigating
the southern region

of the triangle-shaped swamp,

members of the team unearthed
a well-fashioned piece of wood

that, according to
carbon-14 testing,

is one of the oldest artifacts
ever found on Oak Island.

So we tested it.

The date was 660 to 770 A.D.

[chuckling]

It's pretty much the same
width, same thickness.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

NARRATOR: Could Doug
Crowell be correct that he,

Rick and the team
may now be seeing

the exact same
kind of woodworking

in a Viking Ship museum
located in Denmark?

It makes total sense.

It's something that would
easily fall off, I would say,

so that would make sense.

RICK: Well, Marten,
you know, we obviously

have learned a lot today
about not only the Viking culture

but, specifically, Viking ships.

And the ability, possibly,

to sail on transatlantic
voyages long ago.

Without this information,

we can't fill in the
holes in the story

that we believe is quite complex

regarding the Oak
Island mystery.

So, thank you and everyone
associated with this facility.

You're very welcome.

But the journey is not
over because we are

-about to take off to Iceland.
-Correct.

PETER: Unfortunately,

I'm not gonna be able to
make the journey to Iceland,

uh, but I look forward
to hearing about it.

-We'll fill you in. -Yep.
-Yeah, same here.

I need to move back to the
Netherlands for business.

But I wish you sound
sailing with this group.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

-ALEX: We will.
-Okay.

-Corjan, been fun.
-Take care, man.

EMILIANO: Next stop, Iceland.

RICK: Absolutely.

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

...while the core-drilling
operation continues

near the Garden Shaft
in the Money Pit area...

MARTY: Pardon the
usage of terms, Laird,

but we're trying to
cement the relationship

between the Money Pit

and then Lot 5.

NARRATOR:...Marty
Lagina and Jack Begley

meet with
archaeologist Laird Niven

and archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

in the Oak Island Laboratory.

We've collected a
sample of clay from

the round feature and
rectangular feature.

EMMA: And then at the Money Pit.

NARRATOR: They
are eager to receive

a follow-up report
from Laird and Emma

regarding mysterious
clay-like and soil materials

that were recently discovered
in two stone foundations

that are located in the
middle of the island on Lot 5.

One of these features
is rounded in appearance

and sits near the shoreline.

The other, which is rectangular,

sits further inland

and has also yielded
compelling clues,

including an iron spike
which Emma believes

could be more
than 800 years old.

Curiously,
preliminary analysis on

the clay-like soils found
in the round feature

revealed that they
are closely matched to

other soil samples that
have been unearthed

in the Money Pit area.

Why don't you walk
Jack and I through it?

So, this is from the
rectangular feature.

MARTY: Yeah.

Another clay deposit

standing on its own.

Okay, so, we had
a big bunch of clay

that, even by
appearance, we thought

looked like the
Money Pit, correct?

-Yes. Yeah.
-MARTY: Okay.

And then Emma ran her analysis.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: In order to
further analyze the soils

that were found in
the features on Lot 5,

Emma has scanned them

with an X-ray diffraction
device, or XRD,

which can identify the chemical
composition of materials.

MARTY: Here we have the
results of that comparison?

LAIRD: Yes.

EMMA: The
rectangular feature, it is

a really close match to

a really shallow
sample of the Money Pit.

-Okay, that's good.
-EMMA: Yep.

MARTY: What is this?

LAIRD: Well, this is from
part of the round feature.

MARTY: Okay.

And Emma tested this.

And so, in her analysis,

this soil matches the
maroon till from the Money Pit.

Which is deep.

-Yep.
-Mm-hmm. 118 feet.

So, we have two matches now to

-the Money Pit and Lot 5.
-MARTY: Right.

JACK: How do you
explain that in a feature

that was covered over before
the Money Pit was discovered?

MARTY: Because we have
some evidence that could

go back into the


even before.

Yeah.

MARTY: You have
somebody over on Lot 5

or some somebodies over on Lot 5

who were deep in the Money
Pit, based on this evidence.

Which is incredibly
significant, okay?

If the data is correct,

the clay in these
features on Lot 5

matches the clay
found in the Money Pit,

then whoever was there

had something to
do with the Money Pit.

Uh, that's a big deal.

That's a big connection.

All right. Good data.
We need to find out

what it doesn't match,

because that will
add credence to

what it does match. Okay.

-JACK: All right.
-LAIRD: See you later.

-MARTY: Yeah. See you. Thank you.
-EMMA: Yeah.

NARRATOR: As Marty,
Jack, Laird and Emma

conclude their
meeting on Oak Island...

...over 2,000 miles northeast

in Reykjavík, Iceland...

-RICK: What a beautiful day.
-ALEX: Yeah.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina,
along with his nephew Alex,

Doug Crowell and researcher
Emiliano Sacchetti...

EMILIANO: Okay,
we'll go in here.

...arrive at the Árni
Magnússon Institute.

-Hello, Professor.
-Hello.

Thanks for having
us today, here.

NARRATOR: On
Emiliano's recommendation,

they are meeting with Professor
Gudvardur Mar Gunnlaugsson,

the curator of the
institute's manuscripts,

to see more documented clues

that could link
the Viking culture

to the order of the
Knights Templar

and, potentially, the
Oak Island mystery.

Basically collecting,

translating that knowledge

that was brought
back from the holy land

from people like the Templars.

NARRATOR: Two
weeks ago, Emiliano

and archeoastronomer
Professor Adriano Gaspani

gave Rick and the team a tour

of a 12th-century
monastery in Morimondo, Italy

that was built by
Cistercian monks,

a Catholic order

that constructed certain
Christian houses of worship

across Europe according
to astronomical alignments

with stars in the night sky.

DOUG: We have the four-dot cross

carved on a stone on Oak Island,

along with a circle
with a dot in the center.

NARRATOR: While there, the team
not only saw numerous Templar symbols

that have been found over
the years on Oak Island,

but were also informed
by Professor Gaspani

that the Templars may have
employed knowledge of astronomy

that they learned in such abbeys

in order to construct

megalithic formations
on Oak Island,

including the feature
made up of six boulders

known as Nolan's Cross.

Eventually, that knowledge
reached, also, Iceland,

because what we know is
that between the 11th century

and the 14th
century, in this island,

were active more than


And those abbeys

produced hundreds
of manuscripts.

This one is evidence

that very specific knowledge--

and I'm talking about
astronomy, sacred geometry--

arrived here and
was processed here.

The oldest part is around 1190,

up to the early 14th century.

RICK: What is the language?

EMILIANO: The
language is in Latin.

There are parts in Norse.

Emiliano, what have
you identified in this

particular manuscript
of interest to our quest?

EMILIANO: Not
only this manuscript

contains information
about astronomy,

but it also names
specific stars.

-RICK: Yeah.
-DOUG: Hmm.

-The primary alignment.
-EMILIANO: Yeah.

NARRATOR: According to the
research of Professor Adriano Gaspani,

the star known as Arcturus,

which is part of a
constellation named Boötes,

was used as a key alignment

to create Nolan's Cross

on the surface of Oak Island.

Is it possible that
Emiliano Sacchetti

has now found a new
connection between

Arcturus and the
Oak Island mystery

in a medieval Norse manuscript?

EMILIANO: This says that it
was important to know the stars.

You know, celestial navigation,

and probably Arcturus,

which was called the
day star for its brightness.

So, probably, Arcturus
was one of the stars followed

because of its brightness.

ALEX: It's interesting because,

again, that says
that's useful for sailing

at far north latitudes.

Yeah.

RICK: There were
many interesting things

contained within the
book, stellar alignments

that we find of
significant interest

in how it may
relate to Oak Island.

And it's possible
that as we follow

this trail of information,
it may become

more and more interesting,
and perhaps valuable, to us.

DOUG: You know, I'm
sitting here looking at this book

and I'm just... I'm
marveling at it because

within this manuscript,
I keep seeing

the repeated use of the symbol

that's on our copper
piece on Oak Island.

RICK: That's remarkable.

DOUG: I keep seeing the
repeated use of the symbol

that's on our copper
piece on Oak Island.

NARRATOR: At the Árni Magnússon
Institute in Reykjavík, Iceland...

I see it here and here,

and I've seen it
on several pages.

...Doug Crowell may
have just found a symbol

in a 12th-century
Icelandic manuscript

that could be connected to

the Oak Island mystery.

DOUG: This is the ribbon-like
symbol on our copper piece,

and, curious, it's next to

a representation of a cross.

RICK: That's remarkable.

It's not just here on
this page, though.

It's throughout the text.

RICK: That's very interesting.

ALEX: Is this what you're
talking about, Doug, here?

DOUG: Yes.

Yeah, this symbol right here.

Oh, yeah.

EMILIANO: Can
you see it, Professor?

Yes. They look similar, yes.

NARRATOR: In 2022,

Gary Drayton and Jack Begley

unearthed a copper artifact

bearing a number
of ornate symbols.

And when archaeologist
Dr. Edwin Barnhardt

analyzed a metallurgy report
conducted by Emma Culligan,

he made a
fascinating observation.

EDWIN: It could be
some sort of older object.

The other possibility
is the Vikings.

DOUG: You see, until we

fully understand what
this copper piece is...

I mean, it's found in

pretty close proximity
to Nolan's Cross.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Doug Crowell has found

more evidence in this


that may connect
the copper artifact

found on Lot 8 to
the Viking culture?

If so,

could it also support the theory

that Vikings helped
the Knights Templar

bury priceless
treasures on Oak Island?

Makes me wonder
all the more whether

the astronomical constructs
we have on the island--

if this isn't somehow
associated with it.

I-It's remarkable. Stunning.

That symbol we see in the book

is the same symbol that
we see on the copper artifact.

You cannot ignore that.

We have found the
possibility of connective tissue

between this book and
representations of symbology

found on Oak Island.

I just think it's

an incredible piece of history.

I'm certain all of
us will treasure

-this moment for a long, long time.
-GUNNLAUGSSON: Yes.

But the journey's not over.

DOUG: You've got us hooked.

RICK: Thank you.

NARRATOR: The following morning,

while the
core-drilling operation

in the Money Pit area
continues on Oak Island...

Thank you, Marvin.

...approximately


in Halifax, Nova Scotia...

-CHRISTA: Hey, how's it going?
-JACK: Hey.

-Good to see you, Dr. Brosseau.
-CHRISTA: Nice to see you again.

We actually have
an artifact here

-we'd like you to take a look at.
-Excellent.

NARRATOR: Jack Begley
and Oak Island historian

Charles Barkhouse

arrive at the chemistry
lab of Dr. Christa Brosseau

and Dr. Xiang Yang
at St. Mary's University.

CHRISTA: So, uh, can you tell
me a little bit about this artifact?

Sure, this was
actually found on Lot 10

underneath a large boulder.

-Okay.
-And these boulders make up

what we call Nolan's Cross.

NARRATOR: One week ago,

Marty Lagina and
members of the team

lifted Cone E--

the bottom boulder
of the believed


known as Nolan's Cross.

It was Marty's hope

to find evidence
of human activity

that could help identify
who created the feature.

MARTY: I like this rock,
there's something weird about it.

NARRATOR: Incredibly,
Marty discovered

a mysterious conglomerate
of a cement-like substance

which, when analyzed by
archaeologist Laird Niven,

was found to contain
what appeared to be

some kind of hair.

JACK: The big
question is how did a hair

make its way under this boulder?

Okay, we'll have a look at it.

NARRATOR: Now, in an attempt
to determine the type of hair

it could be, Doctors
Brosseau and Yang

will examine it
under a high-powered

scanning electron
microscope or SEM.

The device can not only magnify
objects up to 200,000 times

their actual size, but also
determine their composition.

All right, so...

CHRISTA: The surface
is covered in debris,

which indicates
that those fibers

have been present
on that conglomerate

for some amount of time.

-JACK: What?
-XIANG: Yep.

It's not just one hair.

But, we don't know
what kind of animal it is.

That's very curious.

JACK: Do they both look
like the same type of hair?

Similar, quite similar.

NARRATOR: Animal hair discovered
beneath Cone E of Nolan's Cross?

But if so, what kind is it?

And how might it
help the team to reveal

another piece of the
Oak Island puzzle?

CHARLES: To me, the next
step i-is DNA analysis of the hairs.

Uh, determine
what the species is.

You know, is this a oxen or
horse or a burrowing animal?

Ideally, it would be an
oxen, which you would

need to move these heavy stones.

-It surprised us.
-Yeah.

-This is a game changer.
-CHRISTA: Well, that's great news.

-All right.
-Thank you very much.

-We'll be back.
-Always nice seeing you.

Always a pleasure.
Okay, thank you.

CHRISTA: Thanks for coming.

-CHARLES: Hey, Colten, where'd you get to?
-137.

-137 -Very good.

NARRATOR: While search
operations continue on Oak Island

more than 2,000
miles to the northeast

in Reykjavík, Iceland...

ÁRMANN: Welcome
to the National Museum.

-So nice to meet you.
-ALEX: Thank you.

Nice to see you. I'm Rick.

...Rick Lagina and
members of the team

arrive at the National Museum.

I'd like to introduce you
to Ármann Gudmundsson.

He's the curator
of the artifacts

-with The National Museum of Iceland.
-Mm-hmm.

EMILIANO: The main reason
why you're here today is because

this museum hosts
some Roman coins

that were unearthed

in the southern
part of the island

-like we found on Oak Island.
-Perfect.

NARRATOR: In addition to
the mysterious stone foundations

that the team has
unearthed on Lot 5

since they purchased it in 2022,

they were stunned
to also discover

four Roman coins
that have been dated

to between 1,500
and 2,000 years old.

So, uh, here we have the coins.

The Roman coins that
have been found in Iceland.

So I think that

the Norse settlers
that arrived here

in the late ninth century,

early tenth century,
brought them

-with them.
-RICK: Mm-hmm.

Maybe found in the British Isles

-or something like that.
-Mm-hmm.

-Mm-hmm -DOUG:
I'm curious as to what

date these were minted on.

Do you know the years
the coins were issued?

Yeah, this is fourth century.

-Fourth century?
-ÁRMANN: Yeah.

-Well that's great.
-Yeah.

DOUG: We were told ours
were from fifth century A.D.

ALEX: Right. There must
have been many incidents

of travel for these
to end up here.

It's just evidence
of an interconnected

nature of everything much
earlier than we had thought,

-is what I'm saying.
-Oh, absolutely.

DOUG: On Oak
Island, we find coins

from the same basic era, but
the only known European activity

in our region of the world

before the 15th
century is the Norse.

So that, in my mind,
makes the Norse exploration

more important to our
investigation on Oak Island.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the team has finally found evidence

of just who may have
brought the Roman coins

that were discovered
on Lot 5 to Oak Island?

Could that explain
other discoveries,

including the piece of
possible ship's railing

that was unearthed in the swamp,

the copper artifact
that was found on Lot 8,

or the numerous tools
and decorative lead pieces

which have been
traced to Scandinavia?

RICK: Based on the information
derived here in Europe,

we know that there was

trade between the Mediterranean

and the Norse.

We know that the Norse
traveled the Atlantic.

It's a possible explanation

why Roman coins
were on Oak Island.

It is explainable on some level.

Ármann, we certainly appreciate

your time and we
value your expertise.

Understanding history

has been beneficial
to our hunt, our search.

-Thank you for the information.
-Yeah, definitely.

-RICK: Thank you again.
-EMILIANO: Next stop, man-made caves.

NARRATOR: As Rick,
Alex, Doug and Emiliano

conclude their visit at the
National Museum of Iceland...

...back on Oak Island...

JACK: Hey, Helen. Hey, Fiona.

-Hi. -Hey, Jack. How you doing?

Came by to check on progress.

...Jack Begley arrives on Lot 5

where archeologists Fiona
Steele and Helen Sheldon

continue investigating

the rectangular
stone foundation.

A foundation where they
have not only discovered

a potentially


but also artificially
manipulated soils

that have been unearthed
in the Money Pit area.

JACK: It seems like you've
almost reached the bottom, right?

FIONA: We're
getting pretty close.

-It sure is looking like it.
-Yeah.

Can I help by sifting?

-Sure.
-Sure, we'd love that.

It's starting to get harder
to get in and out of this pit.

-Yeah, I can see that.
-It's getting deep.

NARRATOR: While Fiona and Helen

remove sediment
from the structure,

Jack will sift spoils
through a screen

in order to look
for potential clues

or valuables.

MARTY: One of the big mysteries

we've always struggled with

is the Money Pit
would have taken

quite a crew to do.

Where were they?

Where were they housed?

Maybe they were here.

We're getting close to the
bottom, and at the bottom

would be data indicating the
earliest dates they were there.

So, hopefully, we'll
get some breakthroughs

as to what the heck
happened on Lot 5.

Look, we're getting iron
color, too, on the side.

That's interesting.

Could be something in there.

FIONA: Oh, yeah, look. Look.

Ah!

-What?
-Look what popped out.

What is that?

It's got a heft to it.

It's like, it almost
feels like lead.

-Oh, it feels like lead.
-Yeah.

I've never seen
anything like this before.

FIONA: Really?

HELEN: I've never seen
anything like this before.

-JACK: What do you think it is?
-HELEN: Looks like it has, like,

slightly faceted
edges, doesn't it?

FIONA: Yeah. You can see it.

NARRATOR: While excavating the
mysterious rectangular feature on Lot 5,

archaeologists Fiona
Steele and Helen Sheldon

have just made another
potentially important discovery.

Well, it's heavy.

It-it feels like lead.

Oh, that's cool.

HELEN: I think it's probably
a weight of some sort.

A measuring weight, maybe.

That would make sense.

It definitely looks worked.

You can see...

it's almost like it's
been carved, in a sense.

So, yeah, maybe it was
carved to a specific weight.

JACK: Well, if it is a weight,

then it should be a
exact measurement.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: A measuring weight?

Found in the rectangular
structure on Lot 5?

In 2020, Rick Lagina
and members of the team

unearthed a trade weight

believed to have
possibly been designed

for weighing gold
or silver coins.

It's the really weird
artifacts that give

a fun side of the story.

NARRATOR: Given that this
potential lead weight was discovered

in the feature on Lot 5

where the team recently found

a possible 800-year-old spike,

could it be
another critical clue

that might help solve
the Oak Island mystery?

JACK: I like that
we keep finding

more and more artifacts

and the bottom
keeps pushing deeper.

FIONA: Yeah.

Well, it sure shows
that we're not done yet.

JACK: Yeah, definitely.

Well, let's bag this one and
put it in the bag of plenty.

-Let's keep going.
-This is really turning out

-to be a strange feature.
-FIONA: Yeah.

NARRATOR: While the
search for a legendary treasure

continues on Oak Island,

across the Atlantic Ocean,

some 70 miles southeast
of Reykjavík, Iceland...

EMILIANO: Roberto would
like to show us something

that could be really
interesting for our search.

Perfect.

ROBERTO: There is a cave

that I would like to show you.

-ALEX: Sure.
-RICK: Absolutely.

NARRATOR: ...Rick
and Alex Lagina,

Doug Crowell and
Emiliano Sacchetti are

meeting with historian
Roberto Pagani

at Kverkarhellir cave.

So, here it is.

-ALEX: Okay.
-Let's go.

NARRATOR: A man-made
system of underground caverns

that archaeologists believe

may have been originally
created around 800 A.D.

by a Christian monastic
order from Ireland.

However, in 874 A.D.,
the area was conquered

by members of
the Viking culture,

who settled here
until the 13th century.

ROBERTO: This is it.

-EMILIANO: Wow. Look at this.
-RICK: Yeah.

NARRATOR: It is
Emiliano Sacchetti's belief

that Kverkarhellir Cave

contains clues that
could further help connect

both the Vikings and the
order of the Knights Templar

to the Oak Island mystery.

RICK: My hope would be that
we see something definitive.

Some way to connect
what we see there

with symbols that we
have on Oak Island.

Some of these depictions,

some of these
carvings in these caves

might represent some sort
of Templar association. So,

I look forward to
seeing if that is true.

-So, this is an artificial cave.
-Okay.

As you can see, uh,

it's completely man-made.

It means that they
started from the entrance

and they worked their way in.

But probably the single
most interesting thing

is right here on this wall.

As you can see, there is
a cross with a circular top.

DOUG: Oh.

RICK: Wow.

We've seen that before.

Oh, yeah.

That seems to match
Gary's lead cross.

-RICK: The head is bent the right way.
-ALEX: Yeah.

I think it's burned into
my memory at this point.

It is. [chuckles]

NARRATOR: A carving
of a Christian cross

found in Kverkarhellir
cave in Iceland?

Matching the exact design

of the lead cross
found on Oak Island?

DOUG: That particular
form of a cross or crucifix

we've followed from
Italy to France to here

and Oak Island.

NARRATOR: Incredibly, Rick and
members of the team have now seen

this particular cross
design in four locations.

A man-made cave
system in Camerano, Italy

that they visited in 2022,
and which was known

to have been a stronghold
for the Knights Templar

between the 12th
and 14th centuries,

inside of a 14th
century Templar prison

in Domme, France,
which they visited in 2017,

and later that year,

on Oak Island, when Rick
and Gary Drayton discovered

a lead cross at Smith's Cove.

All right. Let's do
the comparison.

DOUG: I think it bears
quite a resemblance.

RICK: Yeah, I don't
see how you can...

how you can say it's dissimilar.

No, it's mysterious.

-Yeah.
-RICK: There was a reason

for that configuration.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
Rick and the team have just found

another critical piece
of evidence in Iceland

that may help prove the
theory that Vikings helped

members of the Templar
order hide their sacred treasures

on Oak Island nearly
eight centuries ago?

Look, this trip--
the genesis of it,

was to follow, perhaps,
an old world connection

to the new world, east to west.

I think we have made huge
strides towards probable.

-Mm-hmm.
-Yeah.

RICK: But the work is not done.

It's time to get
back to the island

and maybe do some
digging and drilling.

-Yeah.
-DOUG: And we have to say

goodbye to one more colleague.

EMILIANO: Well, I'm
going back to Rome,

but I promise I'll be back
on the island very soon.

-Deal.
-EMILIANO: Deal.

Roberto, thank you.

-Until next time.
-Yep.

-RICK: Okay.
-ALEX: After you.

ROBERTO: Good
luck with everything.

RICK: We thank you very much.

MARTY: Well, look who's here.

Welcome back, guys.

You look, uh, full of
all kinds of knowledge.

I see you saved
our seats for us.

Absolutely.

NARRATOR: Having just returned

from their unforgettable
journey across Europe,

Rick and Alex Lagina,
along with Doug Crowell

meet with Marty
Lagina, Craig Tester

and other members
of the Oak Island team

in the w*r room.

We want to know what happened.

Yeah.

My big takeaway
was the fact that,

in most places we went

on the trip, from Italy

to the Netherlands to Denmark

to Iceland, we saw the symbols

that we're curious
about here on Oak Island.

And for me, that
just cements the idea:

they're old-world symbols.

Like, what symbols
in particular?

Well, the four-dot cross,

some of the symbols
in the 90-foot stone

-inscription.
-Oh.

There's this as well.

This is a cave in Iceland.

This is right at the entrance.

This is the closest
match we found

to Drayton's Cross,
the lead cross.

Over the years, you know,

when we talk about the
Knights Templar theory,

somebody coming
here in the Middle Ages,

I probably dismissed
the possibility...

more than I should.

No longer can I
dismiss it and say,

"Well, nobody would
have known about it."

But I believe there was all
kinds of crossing happening.

I mean, we know the Norse
were here in that time period.

We know the Templars were
at the height of their power

during that time.

What do you take
away from all that?

Two, three years ago,
I would've said, uh,

you know, very low
chance Templars were here.

Now it's looking more that it's
potential that they were here.

So we need to keep
on researching it.

To me, the conjecture
of something

in the 12th century is possible.

-Yeah.
-RICK: If Nolan's Cross

is a real construct--

and I happen to
believe that it is--

from 1200, people came here

with some intent in the


Because, I think,

the magnitude of the
construct of Nolan's Cross,

to me says that

it's a map to the treasure.

That's what I think.

Yeah.

MARTY: Well, big
brother, we have been busy.

-Have we not, crew?
-JACK: Oh, yeah.

MARTY: Cone E,
lifting the boulder.

And we picked it up and I
was fishing around the bottom,

and I felt a rock that felt
different than the others.

And I said, "You know,
this looks like concrete."

Put a picture up there, please.

Look at that. Looks
like concrete, doesn't it?

Mm-hmm.

MARTY: So, we kind
of got hopeful about that,

and I said, "Well, let's
send it back to the lab."

And then we found that.

That is a hair.

-RICK: Incredible.
-MARTY: Yeah.

And it's not the only one.

There are several
hairs stuck in this rock,

if it's a rock.

I can't come up with a reason

for that being
under that boulder.

I'm exceedingly grateful
for everyone and...

this has been a long haul
for each and every one of us.

But we are on the
cusp, in my opinion,

of maybe cracking
one of the W's,

maybe two, maybe even three.

Yeah.

RICK: This all comes down

to who, what, when,
where, why and how.

And you have to
crack one of the W's.

And I think we
are about to crack,

if we have not already
cracked, one of the W's.

Yep.

MARTY: The European
team uncovered

some really interesting
connections to the island.

We're getting to
the endgame here.

We're gonna throw
everything we have at it.

I'm hoping the bravo tango
moment could be within reach.

Anyway, that's it.
That's the report.

I think we're done.

-Yeah.
-Why don't we get back out there?

-We're running out of time.
-We got to.

-We're running out of time.
-Let's do it.

NARRATOR: After
tracing the possible path

of a legendary lost
treasure across Europe,

the Laginas and their fellowship

may be closer than ever

to pinpointing where
it lies hidden today.

Winter is fast approaching,

threatening the team's chances

of making the
ultimate discovery.

However, as they
keep digging and drilling,

could the curse that
has allowed Oak Island

to keep its secrets for
more than two centuries

finally come to an end?

Next time, on the
thrilling season finale

of The Curse of Oak Island...

LAIRD: I think that's meant
to go through something

-like chain mail.
-That would make it old.

On the composition? Pre-1600.

-HELEN: Remember the lead weight?
-Yes.

-I've just found two more.
-What would they be measuring?

Gold.

All right, here we
go. Fingers crossed?

-Yep.
-RICK: We're looking for a vault.

This one might tell the tale.

MARTY: We got a
chance of actually

finding treasure with this one.

RICK: X marks the spot.

-That's the spot, man, I can feel it.
-I hope so.

MARTY: Come on, baby!