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00:00Three feet down and 14 feet long.
00:02Ooh, what the heck is that?
00:05Check out what I just found.
00:07What?
00:08This is definitely pre-discovery of the Money Pit.
00:10That's treasure.
00:11That's the only one of its kind.
00:13This could be medieval times.
00:14That's right in the era of the Templars.
00:17Did the Knights of Malta come to Oak Island?
00:19We could get an answer if we go to Malta.
00:22Then let's go.
00:26There is an island in the North Atlantic.
00:30Where people have been looking for an incredible treasure
00:33for more than 200 years.
00:36So far, they have found a stone slab
00:39with strange symbols carved into it.
00:42Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:46And a lead cross whose origin may be connected
00:49to the Knights Templar.
00:52To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
00:57And according to legend, one more will have to die
01:02before the treasure can be found.
01:17Super important day, folks.
01:19We are reaching the end of our ability to put additional cans
01:22in the Money Pit area.
01:24We want to find treasure this year,
01:26an indication of treasure, or the one thing that would explain
01:29what happened on this island.
01:31A new morning has begun on Oak Island for brothers Rick
01:35and Marty Lagina and their team.
01:38All of those things are yet to be found,
01:41but we're going to try our best to find them.
01:43And in their determination to solve a 230-year-old mystery,
01:48they are meeting in the war room to plot a new strategy
01:51for the recovery of a believed treasure buried deep
01:55in the Money Pit area.
01:57The hope this year was to find this one thing
02:00in the Shaft 6 caissons.
02:03So, Rick, why don't you just summarize for everybody,
02:06and then we'll discuss where we go next.
02:09I can do that in one word.
02:11Really, disappointment.
02:13I had long believed that the answers to the mystery
02:17were in Shaft 6, but unfortunately, we didn't find it.
02:22Over the past several weeks, the Oak Island team excavated
02:28three 7-foot diameter steel shafts in the Money Pit area,
02:33known as RP1, RP2, and RP3.
02:40Each is believed to have encountered a 118-foot deep
02:44surger shaft known as Shaft 6, as well as an adjacent tunnel
02:49that extended toward the original Money Pit.
02:53These structures were built in 1861 by the Oak Island Association
02:59in an attempt to retrieve two stacked treasure chests
03:03that were believed to sit some 100-feet deep in the Money Pit
03:07and just 10-feet below a man-made flood tunnel
03:11connected to the ocean.
03:14Unfortunately, the effort failed and caused tons of wood timbers
03:19in the Money Pit to collapse, leaving the searchers
03:22to speculate that the treasure chests had fallen
03:25into the Shaft 6 tunnel.
03:29We saw two different types of construction,
03:33dimensional wood, big, huge timbers.
03:36Everything about that spoke to a collapse.
03:42What's that, big piece of wood?
03:43Adds cut.
03:45In all three of the RP shafts, the Laginas and their team
03:49unearthed wood, potentially from the Shaft 6 tunnel
03:53and the original Money Pit.
03:56But unfortunately, they recovered no evidence of treasure.
04:02What we saw, to me, absolutely proved the narrative.
04:06There was every bit of evidence that there was, indeed,
04:10a catastrophic collapse, and that treasure went somewhere.
04:14So where did the treasure go?
04:16I think what it proved to me is that the treasure
04:19that once resided in the Money Pit currently resides
04:22in the solution channel or somewhere in close proximity to it.
04:26Yeah.
04:27On our first caisson, we did see proof that the solution channel,
04:30natural cavity, can accept a lot of material.
04:32We're almost to our first target depth of interest.
04:38Prior to the three RP shaft excavations,
04:42the team dug a shaft known as True Believer, or TB1,
04:47at the believed location of the original Money Pit,
04:50where they hoped to retrieve the legendary Chapel vault,
04:55a seven-foot-tall box encased in concrete
04:58that treasure hunter Frederick Blair
05:00and his drill operator, William Chapel,
05:03reportedly encountered 153 feet deep back in 1897.
05:13Hey, stop.
05:14It's caving.
05:15But upon reaching a depth below 150 feet,
05:20the ground beneath and surrounding the TB1 shaft
05:23suddenly caved in, leading the team to believe
05:27that tons of earth and the vault may have fallen
05:30into the so-called solution channel,
05:33a natural cavity in the bedrock that was formed by groundwater
05:37and which the team's previous drilling operations identified
05:40between 160 and 230 feet underground.
05:46The biggest reveal of all is that the solution channel
05:49or something down deep can accept massive amounts of material.
05:53Where else could it have gone?
05:56Could Rick and Marty Lagina be correct that the collapse around and below the TB1 shaft
06:02was much larger than they previously thought?
06:06Meaning that both the believed treasure in the Shaft 6 tunnel,
06:10as well as the fabled Chapel vault, may now lie more than 200 feet underground in the so-called solution channel.
06:18If so, the team will have to conduct major repairs to that area
06:23before they can safely attempt another large-scale excavation in search of the valuables.
06:29We have a real momentous decision to make and that is where does the next can go?
06:36To me, we must go deep into the solution channel. We have to.
06:42I'm with you. I'm all for getting down into the solution channel.
06:46One thing that I'm going to caution about,
06:48if we're going to go deep on this hole, we want to be able to do it right.
06:52Mm-hmm.
06:52So we'll need to get some other equipment in place to do this.
06:55Last thing we want to do is put a can down here and not be able to get to the bottom.
06:58Agreed.
06:59Okay, we need to pick the exact location.
07:01Steve, put that money pit plot up there.
07:04Sure will.
07:06Okay, look at that.
07:08So the green is the solution channel.
07:10Yes.
07:12Okay, put it in there, Steve.
07:14Put it where it has to go.
07:15The only place it can be.
07:18Right there.
07:19That's as close as I can get based on the requirements they've asked us to follow.
07:23Exactly.
07:24Let's not forget we started this year with TB1.
07:26We're over seven feet south of TB1.
07:29And many of us believe TB1 was the north end of the money pit.
07:32Well, this would make the south end of the money pit.
07:35All right.
07:36We got a shot right here to solve the whole damn thing.
07:39So I say, let's do it.
07:41Anybody disagree?
07:43No.
07:44Good.
07:45Okay.
07:46Scott, can we get going on it?
07:47I'll go out and talk to SBC and we'll get those plans in motion.
07:51So we'll have a little bit of a hiatus here then.
07:53It's going to be several weeks to regrade the pad.
07:56They'll have to get set up so we will have some time.
07:58Okay.
07:59Good.
08:00Due to the collapse that took place around and below the TB1 shaft, the ground is currently
08:07unstable and unsafe for a new excavation.
08:12This means that representatives from SB Canada and ROC Equipment will need several weeks to
08:18backfill and stabilize the area to support more than 300 tons of digging equipment.
08:24Okay, so it sounds like there's a little bit of window of time here to search for answers
08:29across the island.
08:31Perfect gap to do that.
08:32Yep.
08:33Well, here's a perfect segue to finish up on this then.
08:36Nobody talked about naming this.
08:38Clearly, this is the one thing, right?
08:41T-O-T.
08:42Tot.
08:43That's the name of this one.
08:45The one thing.
08:46Because it's going to bring it up.
08:47That is very hopeful, and all we have to do right now is execute.
08:51Let's go get it.
08:52All right.
08:53Let's go get it.
08:54Following the meeting in the war room...
08:56Hey, Tom.
08:57Hey, Rick.
08:58Rick joins fellow Oak Island landowner Tom Nolan and metal detection expert Gary Drayton
09:06in the northernmost region of the Triangle-shaped swamp.
09:09He's going to have to take a scoop behind there because she'll want to do level right across.
09:14Oh, yeah.
09:15And see if we see the wall.
09:18Whoa.
09:19There's even more big boulders down there.
09:22One week ago, after uncovering more sections of a cobblestone pathway...
09:27Here, here, here.
09:29The team was stunned to find a man-made formation of large boulders.
09:34I think you have a seawall.
09:36This is how you'd close this swamp off.
09:39This feature was found in the same area where Tom's late father, Fred Nolan,
09:45reportedly uncovered evidence of a wooden wall in the late 1960s, which he suspected was used to create the swamp in order to conceal multiple caches of treasure.
09:56And incredibly, this feature also matched one labeled the dam on a reported 14th century map of Oak Island that was given to the team by the late researcher, Zena Halpern, in 2016.
10:10A map that Zena believed was created by members of the Knights Templar during an operation to hide priceless religious artifacts on Oak Island.
10:22A map that Zena Halpern, in 2016.
10:24You got a signal just here?
10:25You got a signal?
10:26Yeah.
10:27Not bad, either.
10:28Yeah, good signal.
10:30Just there.
10:31Prediction here?
10:35I'm predicting it's a great find.
10:40Comes from deep enough.
10:45That was in sandy material, but...
10:52Ooh.
10:53What the heck is that?
10:56Wow.
10:57That is cool.
11:00What the heck is that?
11:02Is this thing home?
11:05Yes, it is.
11:06While investigating near a mysterious wall of boulders in the northern end of the Oak Island swamp, Gary Drayton has just made a potentially significant discovery.
11:18Huh?
11:19It's a tip of something.
11:21No, it almost looks like something's stamped into it.
11:25You can see this raised, see the circle here?
11:29Yeah.
11:30Or the radius?
11:31And then there's like a plate there?
11:33That might have something on it, too.
11:35Yeah.
11:37You know what?
11:38The more I look at it, and you see the notch there, and it's a socket, I think it's weapon or gun related.
11:45It kind of reminds me of a ramrod guide.
11:49Fire!
11:50Dating back to as early as the 16th century, a ramrod is a tool that is inserted through a guide on the barrel of a musket rifle in order to load ammunition charges into the weapon.
12:05Has Gary just found a ramrod guide near a possible man-made dam in the swamp?
12:10If so, just who left it here?
12:13And what were they doing in this area?
12:16That's amazing though, isn't it?
12:18Look at all the things that have come out of this bog.
12:20Yes.
12:21All the finds.
12:22We can't make a sentence with a period at the end of it.
12:24Nope.
12:25All right.
12:26Yep.
12:27Well, it takes us one good find.
12:29But, again, it speaks to the complexity of the mystery.
12:33Yeah, I know the archaeologist could be all over this and he'll tell us what it is.
12:38The more we uncover these rocks, the more it just looks like something.
12:44At some point, using GPR, maybe you'll find something else in there.
12:48Maybe there's something deeper.
12:49Oh, yeah.
12:50Yep.
12:51Okay, well, I've got to leave, but I'll be back and hopefully you'll have made some more discoveries.
12:56That's fantastic.
12:57What an unexpected find.
12:59Mm-hmm.
13:00Keep going.
13:01Okay, mate.
13:02Okay, we'll keep digging.
13:03Good luck.
13:04I am intrigued with all the things that have been found in the swamp.
13:09The swamp has some very interesting stories to tell.
13:13Is there treasure or not?
13:15We'll soon find out.
13:21Hey, Gary.
13:22Yep.
13:23What have you got, Tom?
13:25It's a brick.
13:27Yeah.
13:28It looks like an older style brick, especially as it's all worn out there.
13:34Yeah.
13:35This brick reminds me of the bricks that we recovered that line the top of that vault feature.
13:43Yeah.
13:44Doesn't that look like a vault to you?
13:47Earlier this year, after uncovering sections of the cobblestone pathway several yards to the
13:54south, the team was shocked to find an empty vault-like structure made of slate and handmade bricks.
14:02These type of bricks were definitely around the top of that vault.
14:06Oh, yeah.
14:07Maybe we're looking at a second deposit site.
14:09Yep.
14:10Is it possible that Gary and Tom have discovered evidence that another vault-like structure is buried near the potential dam?
14:19If so, might it still contain something of value?
14:23Well, my dad thought there could be multiple treasure burial sites on the island, so maybe this is one we're digging into here.
14:30Yeah.
14:31Old treasure's a better, Tom.
14:32Yep.
14:33Let's find some more here.
14:34Okay.
14:35All right.
14:36As the investigation continues in the northern end of the swamp, several hundred yards to the west on Lot 5.
14:44Well, hey, Fiona.
14:45Hi, Jack.
14:46So, can you tell me what's going on here?
14:48We're getting down to business.
14:50Jack Begley joins archaeologist Fiona Steele to continue excavating a mysterious round feature near the shoreline.
14:58So, how's progress on this test pit coming?
15:01This is actually a really interesting pit.
15:04Mm-hmm.
15:05Over the past two years, the Oak Island team has made a series of significant discoveries in and around this feature that suggest it may have been used as a campsite by multiple groups and during different time periods prior to the discovery of the money pit.
15:23These include a mortar-like substance matching soil samples that were unearthed from more than 100 feet deep in the money pit area, as well as a 14th century lead barter token, which, like the cross found in 2017 at Smith's Cove, may be connected to the Knights Templar.
15:44However, they've also discovered four Venetian trade beads and a button bearing a starburst design.
15:51What's unique about this button is that the rays going out are counterclockwise.
15:57All of which team researcher Judy Rudabusch believes may be connected to the Knights of Malta, a secretive group that was linked to the Order of the Knights Templar, and which are believed to have had a presence in Nova Scotia beginning in the 17th century.
16:13I'm actually just getting down to the artifact layer now.
16:17If you look at the range of the artifacts we're finding, we have a general range which gives us an occupation for the majority of what was happening on the site, but then we've got all these other outliers that are giving us earlier date ranges.
16:29Yeah.
16:30When we come down upon what we call an artifact-bearing layer, that really means that we've gone through the various layers and we've reached a level, which is what we would call the occupation level, because that's the area that's been used.
16:41So that becomes rich with artifacts.
16:43Let's get digging.
16:44All right.
16:45Great.
16:46We have to keep our eyes peeled because when we get to the artifact-bearing layer, this is where things get really exciting for us.
16:56Oh.
16:57Hey.
16:58Hey is right.
17:00That's a really old nail.
17:02That is really old.
17:04I can tell from here it's square.
17:06And it's also tapered down on all sides.
17:09Yeah.
17:10Does that give you a specific date range?
17:12Well, you know what's giving me part of the date range is actually the bubbling effect like you're seeing on this.
17:19You will get when the metal is older, and that's definitely got that, see it?
17:25The bubbling out effect.
17:26Oh, I see it.
17:27So yeah, I would say that's older.
17:29Before like 1795.
17:32You know what?
17:33This one, I could get you back maybe a little earlier.
17:36Oh.
17:37Again, just based on what I'm seeing.
17:39Yeah.
17:40Let's see what else we can find.
17:41Maybe they dropped some other things.
17:43Oh yeah, we're just getting going with this now.
17:45We need to see if we can further figure out what this nail was used for.
17:49Maybe there's a specific purpose for it that can give us more information as to what happened on Lot 5.
17:55Oh.
17:56Jack.
17:57Check out what I just found.
17:58Ha ha.
17:59Oh, that's beautiful.
18:14Oh, that's beautiful.
18:19We've got a bead.
18:20Look at that.
18:21That is gorgeous.
18:22This is a glass bead.
18:23Yep.
18:24You can tell.
18:25You can see it's a glass bead.
18:27While searching for new clues in the mysterious round feature on Lot 5, archaeologist Fiona Steele has just made a potentially significant find.
18:37Wow, that's different from all the other ones we've found.
18:42You know what?
18:43Look at the, see the striations on it?
18:45Yeah.
18:46That means it's a wound bead.
18:47Well, what's a wound bead?
18:48It's just a different technique that they used.
18:50The other Venetian beads that we had found previously, they would have taken a long string of glass and kind of pulled it out and cut it.
18:57That's not.
18:58That, when you see those striations, that means that they literally would have had like a piece of metal and they would have wound the glass around it.
19:05But this is still a Venetian bead, you believe?
19:08Uh, probably Venetian, but we'd have to take that back to the lab and get it analyzed.
19:11Hopefully we get an idea on it to say whether or not it's Venetian and maybe there's a specific time period when those Venetian beads were made.
19:20Oh, absolutely.
19:21Venetian beads go back quite a ways in time.
19:24Like, you know, you could be in the 1400s, upwards, 1600s, 1700s.
19:30Dating back to the late 15th century in Italy, so-called Venetian beads were considered highly valuable and were often used as a form of currency.
19:41If Fiona is correct, that this could be the fifth Venetian bead that has been found in this feature.
19:47Could it be another clue that might help identify just who inhabited this structure?
19:53This is definitely, definitely pre-discovery of the money fed.
19:56This is, this is all, either fits in with what we have or earlier.
20:00This particular bead was actually found about a third of the way down into our artifact bearing layer,
20:06which means that it has an older date range in it, because the lower we go when we're digging,
20:11the older the artifacts tend to get.
20:13This is something that would have been right in the sedimentary layers themselves.
20:17You know, I'd love to find gold and silver around here, but that's a little piece of jewelry,
20:22and I feel like that's treasure myself.
20:25You can see why it was used as a form of currency.
20:28Yeah, they often did do that.
20:30The fact that we found it, and that's the only one of its kind so far that we've found.
20:34Added bonus.
20:35Hopefully, this bead gives us another clue of who might have been here and what they were doing.
20:40Maybe we can delineate down more and more who was here originally.
20:44That's going in a different special bag, I think.
20:46That's a top-pocket find, isn't it?
20:48Yeah, I guess we could say that, can't we?
20:50Right on, Fiona. Good job.
20:52What an exciting day.
20:58The following morning...
21:01Yay!
21:02Are we digging in?
21:04Yeah.
21:05As he fills stuff in, you can detect that.
21:07Yeah.
21:08Because it all cascaded down.
21:09As long as he knows you're there.
21:11Gonna get in here, Al.
21:13All right.
21:14See you guys.
21:15Good luck.
21:16As the investigation in the northern end of the swamp continues...
21:21As always, you know, we want to thank you both for inviting the three of us down here.
21:25Rick Lagina, Doug Kroll, and Scott Barlow meet with archaeologist Laird Niven and archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan in the Oak Island Lab to hear their scientific analysis of the glass bead found on Lot 5.
21:41Emma?
21:42Emma?
21:43Laird?
21:44What are we looking at?
21:45I think what struck us is how it stood out from the other beads.
21:50Whereas the previous beads we found are drawn beads, which is fairly complex technology.
21:56This is a wound bead.
21:57They would just wind the bead around.
21:59A wire.
22:00Right?
22:01Pretty crude.
22:02So that predates the drawn beads.
22:06That's one thing we can conclude.
22:08Oh really?
22:09Yeah.
22:10Yeah.
22:11It's a lot more labor intensive.
22:12Wow.
22:13What would this be on?
22:14It could be on anything.
22:15It could be on a necklace.
22:16It could be used as bead work.
22:17But it was really Emma who came up with the aha moment about this bead.
22:22So when I get a bead or anything glass, I always compare it to the previous artifacts that I've scanned.
22:29Earlier today, Emma examined the glass bead using an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, or XRF.
22:37A device which emits non-destructive radiation to identify an object's chemical composition,
22:44which can help determine when it may have been created.
22:47And with the bead, I always do a comparison to the Venetian glass beads that we found in the past.
22:53But with this glass bead, there's a trait that stands out like a sore thumb.
22:59And it's its potassium content.
23:02So right here, we have a 26% composition.
23:06And on its own, that's high potassium.
23:09But when I compare it to other glass samples, the highest we have is a little over 10%.
23:16Like this one trumps all potassium contents I've seen in the glass beads.
23:21And it also lacks sodium content.
23:23This one has almost no sodium content and an astounding potassium content.
23:31And that actually, when looking into it, has a really interesting history.
23:35Because it's derived from greenery, so like ferns from the forest.
23:40And it's called a forest glass bead.
23:43That is a technique that is strictly known from Northern Europe.
23:49It's not something that pops up anywhere else.
23:53It's not from Venice, we know for sure.
23:56I will say that all the compositional comparisons that I was able to find
24:00does lean towards medieval to 1700s.
24:03Medieval.
24:06It's intriguing.
24:10I will say that all the compositional comparisons that I was able to find
24:13does lean towards medieval to 1700s.
24:16Oh, really?
24:17Yeah.
24:18It's intriguing.
24:19Wow.
24:20Yeah.
24:21It is a stunning moment for Rick Lagina and members of the Oak Island team.
24:25Well, that 1000 to 1700s, that really interests me.
24:29According to the scientific analysis of archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan, the glass bead found one day ago on Lot 5 is of Northern European origin and may predate the discovery of the Money Pit by as much as eight centuries.
24:46This is something quite unique.
24:49You are quite firm in your belief that that 1000 to 1700 AD is pretty much locked in.
24:55Mm-hmm.
24:56Right?
24:57It's rare that that happens.
24:58The earlier part of that timeframe, more towards 1000, that's right in the era of our whole theories about the Templars.
25:05The Templars.
25:06Yeah.
25:07I mean, that's what intrigues me.
25:08Right.
25:09This could be evidence of that.
25:10If it had that date on it, it would be very difficult for us to explain.
25:14Is it possible that this glass bead could be another critical clue?
25:19Just like the lead cross and barter token that may link the medieval order of the Knights Templar to the Oak Island mystery.
25:28Is it archaeologically significant?
25:31Meaning, do you find these here in North America?
25:35No, they're relatively rare.
25:37Hmm.
25:38It almost would be more useful if it dated later in that time period, because if this came up 1575, you'd know that it was made then, so it had to be lost after that.
25:49That falls right in line with the whole idea of the Knights of Multiperiod.
25:53Right.
25:54But it certainly fits that window of time of when something might have been initiated here on the island.
26:01To me, that's quite something.
26:03Could Doug's notion be correct that if this bead might support the theory that members of the Knights Templar buried sacred treasures on Oak Island as much as 800 years ago?
26:15Then might the Venetian beads and the so-called starburst button that were found on Lot 5 offer evidence that the Knights of Malta may have made another treasure deposit several centuries later?
26:28What about context of how this was found? Was it deep down?
26:31No. Fiona found it in the artifact-bearing layers on the northwest side, quite close to the feature. So we think there are two different building phases.
26:40And to find it in the artifact-bearing zone, I mean, you're always on about context. To find it there is critically important because it's not a drop.
26:50No.
26:51Well, it's easy to believe that there was almost certainly an interaction between the Knights Templar and the Knights of Malta.
26:59We know from the historical narrative that they inherited their wealth, their power, and most importantly, their information.
27:06If there was a multi-generational attempt to do something here on Oak Island, their interaction and the timelines associated with both groups would strongly suggest that possibility.
27:18I think it certainly warrants further research.
27:21So, I mean, it bears more study.
27:24Yeah.
27:25And that's the same thing we're doing on the theoretical side, right?
27:28Mm-hmm.
27:29We're looking for where the science may dovetail with the theories and the historical narrative.
27:33Yeah.
27:34Incredible work.
27:35I find it quite fascinating.
27:37So, thank you, Emma.
27:38Thank you, Laird.
27:39The three of us have jobs to do.
27:41Very enlightening.
27:43Thanks a lot.
27:44Later that afternoon.
27:47Peter, you can run that OKM?
27:50I have it all set up and ready.
27:52OK.
27:53Near the mysterious line of boulders in the northern end of the swamp, Rick Lagina and Tom Nolan are about to conduct a new investigation to look for evidence of a wooden wall that Tom's father, Fred Nolan, reportedly discovered nearly six decades ago.
28:10What should we call this?
28:12NBS, north, bog, south.
28:15And assisting them is Rick's nephew, Peter Fernetti, who has received specialized training on a ground-penetrating radar device known as the OKM Jeopard GPR 3D scanner.
28:28OK.
28:29I think you should just make one pass.
28:32Yeah.
28:33Do from there to the far wall.
28:36OK.
28:37You don't care for anything deeper than 38 feet, do you?
28:44Oh, no.
28:45Can't be more than 20.
28:47The OKM device works by emitting electromagnetic pulses into the ground that bounce off of solid objects.
28:55The data then produces three-dimensional images of potential man-made structures that are buried as much as 130 feet below the surface.
29:05OK.
29:06That's done.
29:08OK.
29:09So it looks like there is something that is four feet down.
29:13It's probably in this general area right here.
29:15Mm-hmm.
29:16And it's potentially 14 feet long.
29:20And that's what your father said, roughly 14 feet long.
29:24And you didn't know that, right?
29:28No, I didn't.
29:29Mm-hmm.
29:30What would be the odds?
29:31I remember your father.
29:33He said it was 14 feet wide.
29:35Well, we have the one measurement, certainly.
29:37It's almost like, OK, gents, here it is.
29:40It really is.
29:43A possible 14-foot-long buried structure matching the dimensions of the wall described in this area by the late Fred Nolan?
29:52If that is what Peter has just detected, could it also be related to the so-called dam that was marked on the reported 14th-century map that Zena Halpern believes was created by members of the Knights Templar?
30:06The deepest part of the bog is right here.
30:09Four feet down from current grade makes a lot more sense.
30:14Well, for this to work, if they were going to work it at any sort of low tide, it had to be deep.
30:20Mm-hmm.
30:21The other thing is that, what if that rock feature, what if that is a seawall?
30:26What if it extended out this way and was something having to do with making sure that the work could continue?
30:35You need something to protect yourself when you're down that deep, right?
30:38It's deeper than we thought it would be.
30:40Yeah.
30:41So...
30:42We can't dig that deep.
30:43We'd be flooded out.
30:44Yep.
30:45Moira will be able to look at this in more detail, I presume.
30:48Yep.
30:49I think Tom raised his eyebrows as well when Peter said, well, it's roughly 14 feet long.
30:54But we know that it's hard to interpret, so before we commit to digging four or five feet deeper,
31:03what we need is for Moira to render her opinion to confirm what Peter is suggesting is there.
31:08Let's have Moira look at it.
31:09Mm-hmm.
31:10And then rectify it to the point where we know roughly where it is.
31:14And then maybe we drive a core down.
31:16And if there's wood there, then, then wow, that's something.
31:21At this point, we can't say, oh, well, and walk away.
31:24Yeah.
31:25No.
31:26But it's the end of the day, and we can walk away now.
31:29Yeah.
31:30And then we'll come up with a plan.
31:31Yeah.
31:32Got more clues.
31:33Got more clues.
31:34Yep.
31:35Alrighty.
31:36Let's call her.
31:38I think we're done.
31:39Yep.
31:40A new day has dawned on Oak Island.
31:43I think we got it now.
31:45You think we got it?
31:46Yep.
31:47And while representatives from SB Canada begin the extensive repairs to the Money Pit area
31:53in preparation for a large-scale excavation.
31:56Good morning, everyone.
31:59Ladies and gentlemen.
32:01Rick, Marty, and Craig Tester have gathered members of the team in the war room
32:07to hear a follow-up report from researchers Doug Kroll, Emiliano Sicchetti, and Corian Maul
32:14that may further connect two related organizations to the Oak Island mystery,
32:19the medieval order of the Knights Templar and the Knights of Malta.
32:25I really appreciate the research hunt in terms of trying to understand the complexity
32:30that this mystery presents, and there have been some very interesting connections
32:35that have been presented between the Knights of Malta and the Templars.
32:39Yep.
32:40One of the more interesting aspects of our information hunt
32:44has been John Edwards' presentation of the two books we see in front of us.
32:48Over the past two years, researcher John Edwards has shared information
32:54from two 19th-century Masonic books containing encoded clues.
33:00Clues that suggest members of the Knights Templar and the Knights of Malta
33:06made repeated visits to Oak Island between the 12th and 17th centuries
33:11in order to hide Christless religious treasures
33:15that the Templars had discovered in Jerusalem during the Holy Wars known as the Crusades.
33:22Incredibly, one of the books not only depicted symbols associated with the Templars
33:29and the Knights of Malta, but also an image of Oak Island
33:34and a square feature in the northern region of the swamp,
33:38matching the empty brick and slate vault that the team uncovered earlier this year.
33:44There was an item found on Lot 5, a button, and then there was this button here
33:50on a Knight of Malta uniform.
33:52Just one week ago, after researching the documented records that prove the Knights of Malta
33:58had a presence in Nova Scotia during the 17th century,
34:02Judy Rudebush informed the team that the so-called starburst button,
34:07which they discovered in the mysterious stone foundation on Lot 5,
34:12appeared similar in design to buttons that the Knights of Malta were known to wear on their uniforms.
34:19Steve, do you want to bring up some slides there?
34:22Really, it comes down to this.
34:24We see on one book, you see it's Isle of Oak, and it shows the Holy Grail.
34:29It shows the menorah, and it shows Malta.
34:34We don't know everything the books are trying to tell us,
34:37but what we do know is they seem to be associated with Nova Scotia,
34:41Oak Island in particular, and Holy Relics, and Malta.
34:47Did the Knights of Malta learn something about a deposition by the Templars on Oak Island,
34:52and then follow them to Oak Island at a later date when they received
34:56all the possessions of the Templars after their suppression?
34:59This is something that we've got to try and determine,
35:02because the books seem to have a story to tell.
35:04In 1307, the Catholic Church and the King of France persecuted the Templar order on charges of heresy,
35:13and began seizing their assets.
35:16However, many Templars escaped, and their treasures were never found.
35:23It is believed that the Order of the Knights of Malta inherited what was left of the Templars' possessions,
35:29and then began moving them throughout Europe,
35:32ultimately settling on the island of Malta in the 16th century.
35:36Emiliano and Corian have taken time out from their very busy lives to go to Malta and do a scout trip.
35:44Okay.
35:45I did some research, and I found a manuscript from 1630.
35:51It's called The Treasure of the Holy Relics, which are in Malta.
35:56So we know for a fact that, you know, the Knights, the Order managed to bring their relics,
36:03their treasures, to Malta.
36:05The Knights of Malta, they moved relics over huge distances across the sea,
36:10and, you know, thought a little of it.
36:12These people were incredibly good sailors.
36:15Yeah, and these books on the table before us suggest that there were holy treasures
36:20that might have been moved from the east to the west,
36:23particularly maybe to Oak Island because Oak Island is referenced in the books.
36:27Yes.
36:28Yeah.
36:29There is a strong presence of Knights of Malta in Canada during the 1600s,
36:34and there's a hundred years where we know for a fact that the Knights of Malta were here in Acadia,
36:42which now is Nova Scotia.
36:44So what were these guys doing here?
36:47We know that all of them spent time in Malta.
36:51They were knighted there.
36:53So what were they doing here?
36:54Were they here just to establish a colony?
36:57Were they here for trading?
36:59Did they have a hidden agenda?
37:01Colin and I found a lot of interesting clues, links to Oak Island.
37:07Perfect.
37:08Yeah, so if you go to the next slide, Steve.
37:13This is Valletta.
37:14This is the capital of Malta and was built overground and underground.
37:19And, you know, Emiliano and myself have seen some incredible stuff underground caverns,
37:24all built with the technology of the 1530s, which are completely, completely amazing.
37:30Another thing we can find in Malta are clues and symbols,
37:34anything that connects to our search or even to Oak Island.
37:38Wow.
37:39And I think they could tell us some interesting things.
37:42Very cool.
37:43I think some of these questions could get an answer if we go to Malta.
37:49That's remarkable.
37:53I think some of these questions could get an answer if we go to Malta.
37:59Yeah.
38:00Well, you certainly make a case for looking into this further, that's for sure.
38:04Yeah.
38:05I think this is quite remarkable.
38:08Yeah.
38:09In the war room, researchers Emiliano Zacchetti and Corian Maul
38:14have presented the team with compelling new information,
38:18suggesting clues that could help solve the Oak Island mystery
38:22may be found more than 4,000 miles away on the island nation of Malta.
38:28The cool thing about this is that the Order of Malta still exists.
38:34Wow.
38:35So we can just ask them.
38:37Yeah.
38:38I'm sure.
38:39Yeah.
38:40Yeah.
38:41I like that.
38:42We've been surmising that the Knights Templar might have something to do with Oak Island.
38:47But here we have these Knights of Malta.
38:49We know they were here.
38:50They were here at an appropriate time for many of these theories, or they were the depositors.
38:55Yep.
38:56So to me, this is a very important starting point.
39:01And Corian and I also met from Malta very knowledgeable people, experts, archaeologists,
39:07that could give us an opinion on our artifacts.
39:11A lot of the curious artifacts that we have, if we're able to take them with us and speak
39:17to experts there, I think that will be a direct tie that I'm hoping for.
39:24We are on a treasure hunt, and if you're going to come up with some information that's highly relevant,
39:30then let's go.
39:31Bon viaggio.
39:32Bon viaggio.
39:33So what we need to do is get ready, pick a team, go, and come back with the information
39:42that everybody is desirous of.
39:44Yes.
39:45So I will stay on the island and keep advancing the ball, keep looking for treasure while you
39:49guys go, because I intend to dig.
39:52Is that a surprise?
39:54I'm with you.
39:55Yeah.
39:56Yeah.
39:57To me, the most fascinating connection here is this association between the Templars and
40:02the Knights of Malta.
40:04And then, which is quite astounding, was the members of their order having a presence here
40:10in Nova Scotia.
40:11For these reasons, there is every need to pursue a further understanding of the Knights
40:17of Malta.
40:18Hats off to Doug and Emiliano and Corian and Judy.
40:22I really appreciate all the work, and I think we owe it to everyone that has come before
40:27us to follow this lead.
40:28I think it is unique.
40:29Yeah, exactly.
40:30Having said that, there's work to do.
40:32I say we go do it.
40:33Let's go.
40:34I got it.
40:35Let's get back to work.
40:37Is it possible that critical clues to the Oak Island mystery might await the team thousands
40:43of miles away in Malta?
40:47Clues that could help prove that the incredible structures and artifacts that have been uncovered
40:53all across the island were connected to the Knights Templar and the Knights of Malta.
41:00If so, might the Laginas and their fellowship also learn the truth about what awaits them
41:07deep below ground in the Money Pit area?
41:11One thing is certain.
41:13Nothing will stop them from pursuing the answers to this mystery.
41:18Not even a deadly curse.
41:21Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:26Oh, my goodness.
41:27Oh, look at this.
41:28Oh, it's beautiful.
41:30Oh, my heavens.
41:31Whoa.
41:32Whoa.
41:33See right there?
41:34Yep.
41:35That's massive.
41:36That's been in there a long, long time.
41:37Yeah.
41:38That could be another vault.
41:39Welcome to Malta.
41:40Oh, look at this.
41:41It's quite amazing.
41:42It's just absolutely incredible.
41:43That's stunning.
41:44That's funny.
41:45Business.
41:46Blueish.
41:47Clay.
41:48Blue clay.
41:49It was one of the keys of working in the Money Pit.
41:50This is evidence of what happened on Oak Island.
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