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The Curse of Oak Island (2014) Season 13 Episode 23
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00:04Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island...
00:07Welcome to Azores.
00:08There's a number of questions that can be answered in the Azores.
00:11Some things here relate to our search.
00:13We have this on Oak Island.
00:15It's time to dig.
00:16We need to get to the treasure.
00:19Look what we got here.
00:21Wow.
00:22You might have some evidence to a 14th century Portuguese presence in Oak Island.
00:28The proof might be underground.
00:29It's right here.
00:30Wow.
00:30Fantastic.
00:34There is an island in the North Atlantic,
00:38where people have been looking for an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
00:44So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it.
00:50Man-made workings that date to medieval times.
00:54And a lead cross whose origin may be connected to the Knights Templar.
01:00To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.
01:05And according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
01:25Come up a little bit, Billy.
01:28There it is.
01:30There you go, Billy.
01:40There it is.
01:42There you go, Billy.
01:43People and their team plan to dig another 8-foot diameter steel shaft in the coming days.
01:49It is here where they have detected high traces of silver some 200 feet deep in the solution
01:56channel which have been scientifically matched to a 14th century Portuguese coin reportedly
02:02found in the original money pit back in 1849.
02:08After this it should be good.
02:10While the work continues on Oak Island, over 2,000 miles to the southeast in the Azores Islands
02:18of Portugal.
02:28Gentlemen, welcome, welcome to Azores, thank you very much, appreciate it.
02:34Rick and other members of the team have traveled to Terceira.
02:37They are following up on the research that suggests members of the Portuguese sect of
02:43the Knights Templar, known as the Knights of Christ, may have used the Azores to safeguard
02:48a portion of their sacred religious treasures before sailing them to Oak Island between the
02:5414th and 16th centuries.
02:57Everybody, this is Francisco, he's a historian here in the Azores.
03:02He's worked with us in the past on the stone walls found in Lot 26.
03:05Yep.
03:07In 2022, Francisco examined photos of a stone wall on Lot 26 of Oak Island, and believed
03:17it could be of Portuguese origin and date back to the 15th century.
03:22Welcome to the Igreja São Sebastião Church.
03:24It is the oldest church in this island.
03:27It was built in 1455 by the first settlements in this island.
03:32Oh, really?
03:33Wow.
03:34What is very important is that this church was built by the action of a Franciscan fire.
03:42Franciscans and the Order of Christ and the Templars were very close.
03:48Close.
03:50Is there the possibility that there was a smaller group that arrived here before the official
03:54date?
03:54And so is there anything in this church that speaks to that possibility?
03:59Yes.
03:59Perhaps there's some clues.
04:01I think we're all eager to see inside.
04:03We are.
04:04Let's go.
04:05Let's go inside?
04:06Yes.
04:06Okay.
04:07There's a number of questions that need to be asked and maybe can be answered in the
04:12Azores.
04:12It would be wonderful to find a smoking gun directly connected to the Oak Island mystery.
04:34All of these were saints that the Templars and the Franciscans used to pray on.
04:43So this likely dates to the 1450s.
04:46This dates, this is contemporary of the church.
04:50Which would be about 150 years after the dissolution of the Knights Templar.
04:57Yeah, yeah.
04:58We're looking at something that the Order of Christ created.
05:02What we have are figures that were important to the Knights Templar.
05:05So this speaks to the continuation of the belief system.
05:08Exactly.
05:09Exactly.
05:10How closely were the Order of Christ related to the Templar order?
05:13Was it a true continuation of the Order?
05:16Yes.
05:17It was a true continuation.
05:18Exactly.
05:19So any belief systems, any treasures, anything they were safeguarding came with them.
05:25Exactly.
05:29Founded in 1318 by King Denis of Portugal, the Order of Christ was a successor to the Knights
05:37Templar after their disbanding and persecution by the Catholic Church in 1307.
05:43While it is rumored that the Order of Christ protected Templar treasures in Portugal and the Azores Islands, it is
05:51known that they were connected to the minting of coins exactly like the one believed to have been found in
05:57the money pit.
05:59We know from documents that there were some people sailing from Azores to the west.
06:08In the period between 1434 and 1446, departed from here, from Azores, 54 caravals to the west.
06:18The Templars not always had the ships, but the Order of Christ had the ships.
06:26But what was the destination?
06:29West.
06:30We don't know.
06:31Perhaps, eventually, North America, eventually Oak Island.
06:35It's not so outlandish to believe that an organization like the Order of Christ would have had the capability, the
06:43knowledge, the connections to get to North America to safeguard what they deemed to be of utmost importance.
06:50If you think of the journey of the Templars as a pilgrimage, we know from the Camino de Santiago, at
06:56the end of the pilgrimage, the Templars would leave a goose paw, you would scratch a goose paw.
07:00Yeah.
07:01I want to share an observation if you look up.
07:06So here we have three corners of the chapel.
07:10Only three have three webbed feet.
07:13Three goose paws.
07:15Three there.
07:16Three there.
07:17Three there.
07:18Three there.
07:19There they still have the original red collar.
07:21Very interesting.
07:23Which ties this all together beautifully with the symbol that we found in Nova Scotia.
07:31The goose paw is a three-pronged symbol that was designed by the Knights Templar and used to mark important
07:38locations for the Order.
07:39Throughout the Middle East and Europe, between the 11th and 14th centuries.
07:46In recent years, Corian has showed the team several goose paw carvings found in places such as the Camerano Caves
07:53in Italy.
07:55A 12th century Templar stronghold, which was created in the shape of a cross, matching the design of the lead
08:02cross that was found on Oak Island in 2017.
08:08That is the mark of the nations for the Knights Templar.
08:11Incredible.
08:12And in 2022, Corian showed them a goose paw carving in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, just 50 miles southwest of Oak
08:22Island.
08:23Isn't that a great connection to Oak Island?
08:26Mm-hmm.
08:26We find the same symbol language here that we know both from close to Oak Island and from the place
08:33in Europe where we've been.
08:35So what this place brings is a consistent next step in the journey that we're sketching.
08:42A journey that led from Jerusalem through the Mediterranean Basin to Portugal and through the Azores, maybe to Oak Island.
08:50That's more than I expected.
08:53We would invite you to come to the island at your convenience and experience the same mystery, the same questions
09:00that we have puzzled over lowly's many years.
09:03And maybe with your help and others, we can finally put an answer to these questions.
09:09Thank you, Andrew.
09:11I appreciate it.
09:12Thank you so much.
09:13We have a lot to discover.
09:15Yeah, let's keep going.
09:15Keep looking.
09:16This has been great.
09:17As the team continues their investigation in the Azores, back on Oak Island.
09:24All right.
09:24Well, I think I'm positioned okay.
09:26Perfect.
09:29So hopefully, with continued digging, you find an artifact to give us an answer to this thing.
09:34That would be nice.
09:35Yes.
09:36Marty joins Laird and Fiona on Lot 8, at the stone cradle formation that the team found beneath a 40
09:43,000-pound boulder.
09:46What's the plan?
09:47So we just want to carefully check, see if there's a soil change, see if it's not natural.
09:54Yeah.
09:55And just have a feeling that something was coming this way.
09:58Why don't I dig this down and look for the roof of a tunnel?
10:01Yeah.
10:02Off chance, I understand, but...
10:04Well, I mean, worst-case scenario is you hit a tunnel.
10:07So...
10:08Yeah, which is also the best-case scenario.
10:10Yeah.
10:11All right, let's do it.
10:12All right.
10:14Over the past several weeks, scientific testing and investigation at the site has revealed traces of silver in the ground
10:22soil and possible evidence of a shaft deeper below.
10:26That's a lot of roots.
10:27Now, because Laird does not want to risk archaeological damage to the feature, he has given Marty permission to dig
10:36an adjacent trench to look for evidence of a possible tunnel that may run beneath it.
10:43It sounded like rocks, but I don't see any.
10:48It's pretty consistent soil.
10:55What the hell is that?
10:57That's interesting.
10:59It doesn't make any sense.
11:02Unbelievable.
11:06Let's see what we got.
11:09I think that's bedrock.
11:11These little chips are starting to look like bedrock.
11:15Yeah.
11:15While digging near the Cradle of Stones on Lot 8...
11:18Well, that's interesting.
11:20Absolutely.
11:21Marty has made a potentially important discovery.
11:25And yet, we're higher than the base of the cradle over here.
11:30Yeah.
11:31It doesn't make any sense.
11:33Huh.
11:35On the eastern side of Oak Island, the slate bedrock is known to be flat and at a uniform depth.
11:42Because Marty has now confirmed that the Cradle of Stones sits below the bedrock to the side of the feature.
11:49This offers more compelling evidence that the stone cradle is the result of an earlier excavation and may be covering
11:57a much deeper man-made shaft.
11:59But you didn't hit bedrock in the cradle over here.
12:03No.
12:06So, what we need to do next, Laird, then, is...
12:09You need to dig deeper there.
12:10Yeah.
12:11See if you can find bedrock.
12:13Laird doesn't appear to have hit the bedrock at all in that cradle.
12:16So, there's the possibility that under that rock, a lot of digging occurred, which, you know, makes your mind go
12:22to shaft or a tunnel.
12:25So, I'm very excited about it.
12:27I'm happy with the information.
12:29It's moving the needle for me that somebody did dig that out.
12:33Way out.
12:34They did it for a reason.
12:36This is not something that somebody would have done lightheartedly.
12:39No.
12:39I think we really need to take our time and understand this a little bit better.
12:43I think this makes it something even more special than we already thought.
12:46I know a certain Rick Lagina will be real interested in this too.
12:50We'll be back from the Azores soon.
12:52So, I think we leave this all like this in case they want to do more or move something around.
12:58Yeah.
12:59So, let's call it, shall we?
13:01Excellent.
13:06Meanwhile, over 2,000 miles away on the island of Terceira in the Azores.
13:11Hey, Francisco.
13:13Hi.
13:14Welcome to Sreta.
13:15Hey, Francisco.
13:16Rick, Alex, and other members of the Oak Island team have journeyed to the region of Sreta to meet once
13:24again with Francisco Nogueira.
13:27Like we talked about this before, we have the stone walls, like the walls you have in Oak Island, built
13:34by the Portuguese, this type of construction.
13:36We have suggestions that the wall on Lot 26 bears a distinct Portuguese Azorian style.
13:44There's distinguishing features about the Lot 26 wall that we want to keep an eye out for.
13:49There are larger boulders that run along either edge, and inside of those large boulders there are smaller rubble rocks.
13:56So that's one thing that we're looking for here.
13:58We want to look at these walls and confirm they're made in the same way.
14:04Yeah, those walls are very interesting to us because carbon dating has said that they were likely constructed somewhere around
14:091470, 1475.
14:13The type of construction that we use in Portugal, that they use in the first settlement here.
14:18And that would put it in what sort of time?
14:2215th, 16th century.
14:23That's very comparable in time to the wall on Oak Island.
14:27Yeah.
14:28Why do you believe it's not earlier than that?
14:31Yes, we don't know for sure.
14:34Nothing says that this wasn't much earlier.
14:36Yes.
14:38In 1427, the Portuguese explorer, Prince Henry the Navigator, who was also a high-ranking member of the Order of
14:47Christ,
14:47officially discovered and claimed the Azores Islands on behalf of Portugal.
14:53However, some believe that the Order of Christ may have been secretly visiting the islands as early as the mid
15:01-1300s,
15:02in order to safeguard their priceless treasures.
15:05Well, let's go in and see how they compare the wall on Lot 26.
15:09Let's see. Let's go.
15:11I have really never seen anything like this in my life.
15:14It's full of rock walls that potentially predate the official dates of discovery and settlement of the Azores.
15:21Don't get lost. It's a labyrinth.
15:23Looks like it.
15:24Mm-hmm.
15:25Nobody seems to know who built them or what the purpose was.
15:29Here's where it gets exciting, because they're great candidates to compare to our wall on Lot 26.
15:36Come take a look.
15:37What'd you find, E?
15:42So, look at this.
15:44So, we have small rocks in the middle, big rocks to contain it.
15:49And the width, it's almost the same as Oak Island.
15:54It's very close.
15:56Come take a look at this.
16:00Got rubble right here.
16:01Yeah, inside the wall.
16:02Yeah.
16:03Yeah.
16:04See it everywhere.
16:05Yep.
16:06It's all in there.
16:08The interior of the wall is filled with rubble, small stones.
16:13That is exactly the way the Lot 26 wall was created.
16:17What you can see is a mirror of the Lot 26 wall.
16:23The question here is, why was this wall built in this manner?
16:27Just that it is on Lot 26.
16:29It's almost like the same technique was used on Lot 26.
16:32So, it's almost like that approach was taken from here to Oak Island.
16:39The same style, the same understanding of how walls function, how you build a wall.
16:45The wall on Lot 26 is unique, because we don't have other examples like that in Nova Scotia, right?
16:53No, don't ignore.
16:55So, Francesco, would you think these might have been like living quarters for people?
17:01Maybe.
17:02Maybe.
17:03This is a great place to hide or to keep safe something, yes.
17:07Interesting.
17:11Might a treasure once have found its way to the Azores and thus to Oak Island?
17:16There's nothing we see within this complex that would suggest anything other than the possibilities when people are committed to
17:24an endeavor like Oak Island.
17:26I've said it many times, where there's a will, there's a way.
17:29All you have to do is look around you at this incredible complex of stone and realize that there is
17:37a purpose.
17:38All of that is associated with Oak Island.
17:42This fits all our timelines, right?
17:44Yeah.
17:45It sure does.
17:46We sort of suspect that perhaps somebody was here in the 1300s secretly.
17:53This is a great place to hide, yes.
17:56We talk about it all the time on the island.
17:58You've got to look backwards in order to look forwards.
17:59And we know, just from this little experience here, that indeed, the possibility of information having traveled through the new
18:09world, generationally.
18:11Is there a place on the island where we can qualify a little bit more, perhaps?
18:14Yes, we have a lot to see, connected to the Oak Island.
18:18So, let's go?
18:19Yeah, okay.
18:23As a new day begins on Oak Island...
18:27Billy!
18:27Hey, glad to see you here.
18:30All right.
18:31I'm ready.
18:31Marty joins other members of the team on Center Road, near the western border of the swamp.
18:37The sand road projects right down here.
18:40And if it's here, then that would be a very strong clue that Center Road was here before the survey.
18:50The team is preparing to dig a cross section of Center Road to look for evidence that it may have
18:56been built by previous treasure hunters
18:58on top of the sand-covered cobblestone road that was recently found running through the swamp toward the belief Portuguese
19:05stone road in the southeast corner.
19:07If the team can find evidence of the sand and cobblestone road here, it could suggest that it was created
19:14by someone long ago, perhaps even before a 1762 survey when Oak Island was divided into 32 four-acre lots.
19:26As I'm standing here.
19:27As I'm standing here, Billy, I see the sand road you nicely uncovered.
19:31I'm lined right up with it, which also lines right up with Center Road proper.
19:35So I think this is our spot.
19:38Yeah.
19:39Hey, Marty, what time is it, mate?
19:41It's time to dig.
19:42Gary.
19:43Time to dig.
19:43You heard the man.
19:49Let's give the boy room.
19:55Here we go.
19:58We speculate, upon looking at this sand road, that it could be directly under Center Road.
20:04If that's the case, whoever built it came here long before anybody else.
20:11Is that sand there already?
20:13Oh, it might have seen sand.
20:16Kind of, yeah.
20:17That would explain the activity that was here before the money pit.
20:20It would explain the very significant wall on Lot 26.
20:23You play Rich.
20:24It would explain the rock feature on Lot 8.
20:27It would explain virtually everything.
20:29It's a little above. Keep digging.
20:46I think the rock here underneath there.
20:48It sounds that way.
20:49Yeah, it looks like sun now.
20:51Check this out.
20:55How do you think?
20:56Right down there.
20:56Look at that.
20:57Yeah, that's down there.
20:57Look at that.
20:58It should be.
21:09Still a lot of gravel in there, too.
21:13I'm afraid we're getting contamination from the road.
21:15Yeah.
21:15If you want to look at the end of the bucket here, you can see the profile of what it
21:18is.
21:19Rocks, sand.
21:20Here you look, Larry.
21:23Oh, here.
21:24But see how it's rocks on the bottom and the sand?
21:27Yeah.
21:28But I mean, that shouldn't be here naturally.
21:31That's not the natural dirt for here, no.
21:34All right.
21:34Can I have a scan?
21:39I just don't see anything definitive here.
21:42No metal.
21:45This isn't jumping out at me.
21:49It's a little bit tricky to evaluate it because you have to raise the possibility of contamination from modern construction.
21:57So we need to try another location.
22:00Any sort of ancient road on this island is worth following.
22:06We want to put this back, Billy, and try one more right there.
22:09Sure.
22:10All right.
22:11As the team repositions to dig another cross section through Center Road.
22:17Oh, look at how pretty that is.
22:19Yeah.
22:20Beautiful.
22:20Rick and members of the team arrive at the Angra do Heroismo Museum.
22:26It's incredible.
22:28Welcome.
22:29Great to see you.
22:31I'm Alex.
22:32Welcome to the Museum of Angra.
22:33Francisco.
22:35Francisco has arranged for the team to look for clues in the museum and meet with local archaeologist, Tiago Rodriguez,
22:43regarding artifacts that have been found on Oak Island.
22:47We have a Portuguese coin dating to the late 1300s, and if it came through the Azores, that's about 50
22:54years, give or take, prior to the official date that the Azores were discovered and then colonized.
22:59The Portuguese navigated throughout the Atlantic.
23:02We have other evidences that allows us to conclude that the Azores had people before the Portuguese.
23:12We didn't know how much they were, who they were.
23:16So is it possible that some people knew that the Azores were here?
23:24Of course.
23:26It does kind of remind me of the early years of our treasure hunt on Oak Island.
23:30Stories that speak of people from Europe at a time when the conventional story says that people from Europe should
23:36not have been there.
23:38And from what Tiago is telling us, it sounds like that is again the case with the story here in
23:43the Azores.
23:44Before you arrived, Emiliano and myself did some scouting here in the museum.
23:48What we came to do here is well illustrated by this stone here.
23:54This is 15th century Emiliano?
23:581454 probably, and it's the oldest stone carving that were found here in the Azores.
24:05This caught our attention, not only because it's possibly one of the oldest or the oldest carved stones that there
24:13are on this island, but particularly because of what it's showing, you know, the swirls here from the copper piece
24:21from the ribbon.
24:22In 2022, the team unearthed part of a copper artifact on Lot 8, decorated with an ornate symbol.
24:31Incredibly, one year later, they saw the similar symbol in a Templar-related manuscript in Reykjavik, Iceland, that dated back
24:40to the 12th century.
24:42I actually have a photo of our copper artifact from Lot 8 that shows that symbol.
24:47Let's see if it compares to what we're seeing here.
24:51I mean, it could be a match.
24:57Well done.
25:00It could be a match.
25:02It has the same middle feature here.
25:06And then on the ends, it could round closed for sure.
25:11At the Angra do Heroismo Museum in the Azores, the team has found a 15th century stone carving that may
25:19be connected to the Knights Templar and the Order of Christ,
25:23which matches a symbol on the copper artifact that was discovered on Lot 8 in 2022.
25:31It shows that when people traveled, they took their symbols with them, right?
25:35Correct.
25:36And also that symbol is the one we found in a manuscript in Reykjavik in Iceland.
25:45It was a manuscript from the 1200s.
25:48This is a stone from the 1400s.
25:51And that means that that kind of knowledge or the symbolism was passed on because we are in the Azores,
25:58thousands of kilometers from Iceland.
26:00But still, we are seeing a clear connection between these countries and Oak Island.
26:07Some things here play to our search.
26:09The image is telling a story.
26:11We see the decorative carving indicating the possibility that Templars or the Knights of Christ knew of the Azores before
26:22their documented discovery by the Portuguese.
26:24Could it be related to the copper artifact that we found on Lot 8?
26:29I think it's very plausible that they had the ability to make a transatlantic voyage.
26:35Diego, we've actually brought some artifacts from Oak Island with us.
26:39We were hoping you'd take a look at them.
26:40I would be glad to help and to see.
26:43And we have a room that we can look at closer.
26:47Lead the way.
26:49We're trying to understand the pre-Columbian history of Oak Island and what happened there.
26:57We brought a number of artifacts.
26:59Tiago is qualified to look at them and render an opinion.
27:03I hope that he can speak definitively about them.
27:08Tiago, we really appreciate you taking a look at these items.
27:11I guess maybe we'll just dive right in and get your thoughts.
27:15Yeah, let's go.
27:16This is actually one of the stone shot that we found on the island.
27:21This was found this year, actually.
27:28It looks like stone bullets, so they have a period of time where they were most used.
27:36And that links to the 14th century.
27:40Right.
27:40Which could link to the period that you are looking for.
27:44So most probable then is that this is from the 1300s or earlier.
27:49It could be.
27:51They could have been using them later, but it's not common.
27:54So, yeah, it points to the 14th century.
27:58Have you found any around here in the Azores at all?
28:02I've heard of some that are in the Azores, in particular in the Seda Islands.
28:07I know they exist.
28:09This is more like human come back face to face to small battles.
28:15But it's interesting because if you have to take this to Oak Island, you have to go by boat.
28:22And you have to be prepared for something.
28:25It implicates a journey where the risk exists.
28:29So it's a very interesting piece.
28:32You know, we're looking at several scenarios of when treasure might have passed through the Azores
28:36and then moved to Oak Island and safeguarded there.
28:39To hear Tiago agree that our stone shot and others like it have been found here in the islands
28:45is the connective tissue we're looking for.
28:50This is so small it could link to a hand cannon.
28:55So it's very interesting.
28:57Now that you mention it, this is a very interesting artifact
29:02and we believe that it may be a small hand cannon.
29:10And I have the report to go along with it.
29:13Earlier this year, when the team first discovered a section of the sand-covered road
29:17in the western region of the swamp, they found part of a hand cannon,
29:22a weapon first invented in China during the 12th century.
29:27After having Emma Culligan examine the piece in the lab,
29:30the team sent photos of the artifact to Maltese military historian Matthew Balzan for his analysis.
29:37In European culture, it was used in warfare mostly from the 13th to the 15th,
29:46at most early 16th century.
29:49Wow.
29:52The hand cannon were common in the 1300s, yes.
29:57In the report, the most interesting part of this piece for me is the XRF, because it shows a lot
30:05of sulfur,
30:06which indicates an explosion, which means it was fired.
30:13Once again links to the unknown, the journey going to the unknown world.
30:19You have to be prepared, you have a ship, you have some kind of weapons.
30:24It's a very interesting piece.
30:25The timelines that Tiago relates, it aligns perfectly for my belief that the effort on Oak Island was in multiple
30:35stages.
30:36I believe it's more aligned with the efforts here in the Azores to possibly protect the treasure in transit from
30:46Europe,
30:47across the seas to North America and perhaps to Oak Island.
30:52This one here is a deck spike, we believe, from a ship.
30:56It was found a couple of years ago on the island.
31:05The believed deck spike was found in 2023 by Jack Begley, while investigating the Rounded Stone Foundation on Lot 5.
31:16That's also a very interesting piece, because I've seen this before on the Portuguese ships.
31:23Oh, really?
31:23Yeah. The square style and the large head that's being hammered, it's a very typical nail that goes on the
31:32ship.
31:32It could go on a barrel.
31:34So for the Portuguese, it was very, very common, this kind of shape, to be used in boats.
31:41Is there a time period that...
31:43This could be used in the 14th century.
31:50Amazing.
31:54Is it common for the Portuguese and unique to the Portuguese?
31:59Yes.
32:00So for the Portuguese, it was very, very common, this kind of shape, to be used in boats in the
32:0614th century.
32:07Wow.
32:08They were very, very useful in linking the wood together.
32:13So it's more used in ships than in construction.
32:17Okay.
32:18At the Angra do Herrismo Museum in the Azores, archaeologist Tiago Rodriguez has concluded that a spike found in the
32:27round feature on Lot 5 is not only of Portuguese origin, but could also date back to the 1300s.
32:36That artifact just got much more interesting.
32:38Yeah, it did. It did.
32:41Could this artifact offer further evidence to support the theory that members of the Templar-related Order of Christ may
32:49have visited Oak Island as much as for centuries before the discovery of the money pit?
32:54I mean, what can you say? Without any hesitation, this is Portuguese. Size, shape, weight, hammered head, everything spoke to
33:05him that it was a Portuguese design. Quite impactful.
33:11Okay, next up. This sparked a lot of excitement for us this year. It was revealed to us by a
33:18family that was associated with the treasure hunt on Oak Island in the past, and that family showed it to
33:23us this year, and it's a Portuguese coin for Ferdinand I.
33:28Minted somewhere between 1367 and 1383.
33:38Wow. Was this on Oak Island?
33:42Yeah, the story behind this coin is that in 1849, they were drilling to try and strike the treasure chamber,
33:50and this may have come up on the drill bit.
33:53If this is a coin from the 14th century, you might have some answers to linking to the shipping spikes
34:03and other evidence that could suggest an early presence in Oak Island.
34:09Yeah. And you previously said about the stone shot that it was most predominantly used likely in the 14th century
34:17as well. Both those objects, we believe, came from underground on our island in the so-called treasure pit.
34:24Yeah.
34:24So there's a connection there.
34:26Oh, almost for sure.
34:27So a lot of these artifacts seem to be centering on the 1300s that we've shown you here today.
34:32So several have, and several are also converging on the 15th century, which happens to be kind of the two
34:39timelines that we were wanting to investigate.
34:42Yeah, I don't think they are all from the same timeline.
34:45Right.
34:45And I think Oak Island have a lot of very, very, very good evidence that creates a pattern.
34:52Yeah.
34:53The proof might be underground on Oak Island, and we might only do as good as establishing plausibility until something
35:05comes out of the ground.
35:06Yeah, the forensic evidence seems to point that silver and gold is underground almost certainly.
35:11Mm-hmm.
35:13It's quite impactful to have a person of his experience and his understanding confirm the clues to the possibility of
35:21a treasure moving east to west.
35:23It's a very interesting piece.
35:25There might be multiple treasures connected to the Templars and their descendants.
35:31So we learned that as you uncover clues, you not only advance the search agenda, but you learn about history
35:40worldwide.
35:41You know, this is a little bit different setting than the war room on Oak Island, but it had been
35:46highly informative.
35:47We're most appreciative of both of your time.
35:50You've set us on a course of action that may provide the definitive answers that we seek.
35:56I can't say anything more than just thank you.
35:58My pleasure.
35:59Thank you very much.
36:03Let's go here.
36:05Meanwhile, back on Oak Island.
36:09Oh, the rock under that.
36:11Yep.
36:12Marty Laird and other members of the team have moved to a location a few yards further down Center Road
36:18to look for evidence of the sand and cobblestone road beneath it.
36:27That sand there.
36:29Yeah, it is.
36:30Yeah, it is.
36:31Looks like it.
36:33The sand goes under the modern.
36:36And that should be that's right on line.
36:44That's it, isn't it?
36:47Oh, yeah.
36:48Look at that.
36:49Oh, yeah.
36:50That's cool.
36:50Yeah.
36:51Is this what we're looking for?
36:53Is this?
36:54Oh, that's what we're looking for.
36:56Okay.
36:56Well then, let's see what's underneath it.
37:04I'll go over and see if there's anything in that sand.
37:08Is that all sand right there?
37:09Yep.
37:10Yep.
37:10All this is.
37:12I'm getting a little chirping, but...
37:16What here?
37:25There's something there, dig?
37:27Yeah.
37:28Let's see if I can pin pull it first.
37:42It's in the end.
37:43Let's see what we've got.
37:44You got it, Gary.
37:46Oh, yeah.
37:50You got it, Gary.
37:52Nice little nail.
37:55Little iron nail.
37:56After finding more possible evidence of the sand road beneath Centre Road, Gary has just
38:03discovered what could be another important clue.
38:06Could be an ox shoe nail.
38:09We found an ox shoe in the sand road.
38:12Stone throw away from here.
38:15This artifact is actually buried in the sand road.
38:21And this is a foot down.
38:23It's in excellent condition.
38:25Keep hold of the slip.
38:27It's going back to the lab.
38:28And Emma's going to run a magic on it.
38:30Maybe we can find out how old it is and date this sand road.
38:37That was the only find.
38:38What we don't have is anything definitive on a date.
38:42Well, we had the hand cannon, which is very significant.
38:45Yeah.
38:46So we have a lot of old dates in this particular area.
38:49Mm-hmm.
38:50Yep.
38:51Okay.
38:52We find a sand road in the swamp.
38:55It's really well constructed.
38:56It's here for unknown.
38:58Right.
38:59So we have oxen going up and down this road well prior to the time when we thought Centre Road
39:05didn't even exist.
39:06So now let's pull that together and say this road was actually just an extension of that sand road.
39:13Yeah, exactly.
39:15Then it goes, by my reckoning, directly to the beginning of what we've now called the Portuguese Road,
39:21which in fact goes up the hill towards the money pit.
39:26Yeah.
39:27Which leads us to the thought that perhaps Centre Road here existed prior to the 1762 survey.
39:34The reason we're here today is to try and prove that theory and we more or less did.
39:39Jeez.
39:40It's always fun finding what you're looking for.
39:42Yeah.
39:42It's Oak Highway.
39:44Pull all that together and it leads to a pretty solid conclusion that the so-called Centre Road has actually
39:52been there for a very long time.
39:54It was not created after that survey.
39:57Okay, and then the next dot to connect is said, well, there's our connection.
40:01Centre Road goes right to lot five.
40:04How did lot five get to the money pit?
40:06Well, they just went out to Centre Road and then went on to go to the swamp.
40:10So that road could have carried the people back and forth between lot five and the money pit area.
40:15Simple as that.
40:17It gives credence to what we're doing here, gentlemen.
40:19It helps that these things continually verify that we're not really on a wild goose chase.
40:26No, I think it's been a success.
40:28But now we need to get to the treasure.
40:32I know one thing for certain, for absolute certain, I know somebody who's going to be keenly interested in this
40:38when he gets back from the Azores.
40:40And that would be big brother Rick.
40:42Yeah.
40:42Yep.
40:43Okay.
40:44Let's get on to the next task.
40:47Billy, put this back together.
40:48Very good.
40:49Yeah.
40:49The deeper and further that Rick, Marty, Craig and the team look into this 231-year-old mystery, new clues
41:00and revelations only bolster their will to keep digging.
41:04Because whether on lot eight, in the money pit area or 2,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, one conclusion
41:15is becoming more probable by the day.
41:18Oak Island may be hiding secrets that changed the course of history in Europe and could most certainly rewrite the
41:27history of North America.
41:33Next time, on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:37What?
41:37What's that?
41:38It's similar to what we have on Oak Island.
41:41This is from 2,000 BC.
41:43Really?
41:43We're starting to find a hidden wall.
41:46Whoa.
41:46This would be an ideal place to deposit treasure.
41:49That sounds great.
41:51Wow.
41:51Oh my gosh.
41:52This is huge.
41:53Amazing.
41:54This is very, very, very significant.
41:57If that was part of the treasure, the rest of it is still in the money pit.
42:00Absolutely.
42:01Absolutely.
42:01Yeah.
42:04Absolutely.
42:05Svelte Hall.
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