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The Curse of Oak Island - 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.
00:19Oh, 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 where people have been looking for an incredible treasure for more than
00:42200 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.
01:32As a crisp fall morning begins on Oak Island, workers from Rock Equipment and SB Canada repair the money pit
01:41area where the Laginas and their team plan to dig another eight-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 channel, which
01:57have been scientifically matched to a 14th century Portuguese coin, reportedly found in the original money pit back in 1849.
02:08After this, this should be good.
02:10While the work continues on Oak Island, over 2,000 miles to the southeast in the Azores Islands of Portugal.
02:28Gentlemen.
02:29Welcome.
02:30Hello.
02:31Welcome to Azores.
02:32Thank you very much.
02:33Appreciate it.
02:33Rick and other members of the team have traveled to Terceira.
02:38They are following up on the research that suggests members of the Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar, known as
02:45the Knights of Christ, may have used the Azores to safeguard a portion of their sacred religious treasures before sailing
02:52them to Oak Island between the 14th and 16th centuries.
02:57Everybody, this is Francisco.
02:59He's a historian here in the Azores.
03:02He's worked with us in the past on the stone walls found on Lot 26?
03:06Yep.
03:07In 2022, Francisco examined photos of a stone wall on Lot 26 of Oak Island and believed it could be
03:17of Portuguese origin and date back to the 15th century.
03:22Welcome to the Igreja San Sebastian Church.
03:25It 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.
03:33What 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 date?
03:55And so is there anything in this church that speaks to that possibility?
03:58Yes, perhaps there's some clues.
04:01I think we're all eager to see inside.
04:03We are.
04:04Let's go, Luke.
04:05Let's go.
04:05Let's go inside?
04:06Yes.
04:06Okay.
04:08There's a number of questions that need to be asked and maybe can be answered in the Azores.
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.
04:50Right, which 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, exactly.
05:10How closely were the Order of Christ related to the Templar order?
05:14Was it a true continuation of the order?
05:16Yes, it was a true continuation.
05:19Exactly.
05:19So any belief systems, any treasures, anything they were safeguarding came with them.
05:25Exactly, exactly.
05:29Founded in 1318 by King Denis of Portugal, the Order of Christ was a successor to the Knights Templar after
05:38their 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.
05:54Exactly like the one believed to have been found in the money pit.
05:59We know from documents that there were some people sailing from Azores to the west.
06:07In the period between 1434 and 1446, departed from here, from Azores, 54 caravals to the west.
06:19The Templars not always had the ships, but the Order of Christ had the ships.
06:25Mm-hmm.
06:27But what was the destination west?
06:29We don't know.
06:31We 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 deem 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, three goose paws, three there, three there, three there.
07:18Three there, there 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 throughout 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 and in 2022, Corian showed them a goose paw
08:16carving in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, just 50 miles southwest of Oak Island.
08:23Isn't that a great connection to Oak Island?
08:26Mm-hmm.
08:27We 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.
08:34So what this place brings is a consistent next step in the journey that we're sketching, a journey that led
08:43from Jerusalem through the Mediterranean Basin to Portugal and through the Azores, maybe to Oak Island.
08:51That'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 the lowly's many years.
09:03And maybe with your help and others, we can finally put an answer to these questions.
09:09So thank you.
09:11Appreciate it.
09:12Thank you so much.
09:13We have a lot to discover.
09:15Yeah, let's keep going.
09:16You're looking.
09:16This has been great.
09:17As the team continues their investigation in the Azores, back on Oak Island.
09:24All right, well, 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.
09:45What'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.
11:00It 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 eight...
11:18Oh, 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.
11:31Yeah.
11:32It 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.
12:53So, 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.
13:12Hey, Francisco.
13:13Hi.
13:14Welcome to Serreta.
13:15Hey, Francisco.
13:17Rick, Alex, and other members of the Oak Island team have journeyed to the region of Serreta 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.
13:48There 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.
14:03Yeah, those walls are very interesting to us because carbon dating has said that they were likely constructed somewhere around
14:091470, 1475.
14:12The 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.
14:24That'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.
15:22Don't get lost. It's a labyrinth.
15:23Looks like it.
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, Yi?
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 was very close.
15:56Come take a look at this.
16:00That 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.
16:12That is exactly the way the Lot 26 wall was created.
16:17But what you can see is a mirror of the Lot 26 wall.
16:23The question here is, why was this wall built in this manner?
16:27You just said it is on Lot 26.
16:30It'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?
16:53Not that we know of.
16:56So, 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.
17:07It's interesting.
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
17:22when people are committed to an endeavor like Oak Island.
17:27I've said it many times.
17:28Where 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.
18:00And we know just from this little experience here that indeed the possibility of information
18:07having traveled through the new world 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.
18:19Okay.
18:23As a new day begins on Oak Island.
18:27Billy.
18:27Hey.
18:28Glad to see you here.
18:30All right, I'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
19:03toward the Belief Portuguese Stone Road in the southeast corner.
19:08If the team can find evidence of the sand and cobblestone road here, it could suggest that it was created
19:14by someone long ago.
19:17Perhaps even before a 1762 survey when Oak Island was divided into 32 four-acre lots.
19:26As I'm standing here, Billy, I see the sand road you nicely uncovered.
19:30I'm lined right up with it, which also lines right up with Center Road proper.
19:36So I think this is our spot.
19:38Yeah.
19:39Hey, Marty, what time is it, mate?
19:41It's time to dig.
19:42Gary, time 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 the 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 seem 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 of bulk.
20:30Keep digging.
20:45Look at the rock here underneath there.
20:48Yeah, it looks like sand now.
20:51Check this out.
20:54How do you think?
20:56Yeah, that's in there.
20:57It 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.
21:21Here, look, Larry.
21:23Oh, here.
21:24You can 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, we can have a scan.
21:39I just don't see anything definitive here.
21:42No metal.
21:45This isn't jumping out at me.
21:48It'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 it in one more right there.
22:09Sure.
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.
22:30Great to see you.
22:31I'm Alex.
22:32Welcome to the Museum of Angra.
22:35Francisco has arranged for the team to look for clues in the museum and meet with local archaeologist, Tiago Rodrigues,
22:42regarding artifacts that have been found on Oak Island.
22:47We have a Portuguese coin dating to the late 1300s.
22:51And if it came through the Azores, that's about 50 years, give or take, prior to the official date that
22:57the 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.
23:17So 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.
23:49What we came to do here is well illustrated by this stone here.
23:54This is 15th century, Emiliano?
23:591454, probably.
24:00And 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,
24:14but particularly because of what it's showing, you know, the swirls here from the copper piece from the ribbon.
24:23In 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.
24:50I 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
25:18that may be 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.
25:36Correct.
25:36Correct.
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.
25:47This is a stone from the 1400s, and that means that that kind of knowledge or the symbolism
25:55was passed on, because we are in the Azores, thousands 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.
26:12We see the decorative carving indicating the possibility that Templars or the Knights of
26:19Christ knew of the Azores before their 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.
26:41I would be glad to help and to see, and 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've brought a number of artifacts.
26:59Tiago is qualified to look at them and render an opinion.
27:02And I 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.
27:16This is actually one of the stone shot that we found on the island.
27:21This was found this year, actually.
27:28It looks like a stone bullet.
27:31So they have a period of time where they were most used, and that links to the 14th century.
27:40Right.
27:40Which could link to the period that you're looking for.
27:43Most 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.
27:55So, yeah, it points to the 14th century.
27:58Have you found any around here in the Azores at all?
28:02Well, I've heard of some that are in the Azores, in particular in the Seda Island.
28:07I know they exist.
28:09This is more like human combat 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 boats.
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.
28:39Do you 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,
29:19they 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,
29:31the team sent photos of the artifact
29:33to Maltese military historian Matthew Balzan for his analysis.
29:37In the 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,
30:03because it shows a lot of sulfur, which indicates an explosion,
30:10which means it was fired.
30:12Once again, links to the unknown,
30:16the journey going to the unknown world.
30:19You have to be prepared, you have a ship, you have some kind of weapons.
30:23It's a very interesting piece.
30:25The timelines that Tiago relates,
30:29it aligns perfectly for my belief
30:32that the effort on Oak Island was in multiple stages.
30:36I believe it's more aligned
30:39with the efforts here in the Azores
30:42to possibly protect the treasure in transit
30:45from Europe across the seas
30:48to North America and perhaps to Oak Island.
30:52This one here is a deck spike, we believe,
30:55from a ship.
30:56It was found a couple of years ago on the island.
31:06The believed deck spike was found in 2023
31:09by Jack Begley
31:11while investigating the Rounded Stone Foundation on Lot 5.
31:16That's also a very interesting piece
31:19because I've seen this before on the Portuguese ships.
31:23Oh, really?
31:24Yeah.
31:25The square style and the large head that's being hammered,
31:29it's a very typical nail that goes on the ship.
31:32It could go on a barrel.
31:34So for the Portuguese,
31:36it was very, very common,
31:38this 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
31:57and unique to the Portuguese?
31:58Yes.
31:59So for the Portuguese,
32:01it was very, very common,
32:03this kind of shape to be used in boats
32:05in the 14th century.
32:07Wow.
32:08They were very, very useful
32:10in linking the wood together.
32:13So it's for more to use in ships than in construction.
32:18Okay.
32:18At the Angra do Heroismo Museum in the Azores,
32:22archaeologist Tiago Rodriguez
32:24has concluded
32:26that a spike found in the round feature on Lot 5
32:29is not only of Portuguese origin,
32:31but could also date back to the 1300s.
32:36That artifact just got much more interesting.
32:38Yeah, it did.
32:39It did.
32:41Could this artifact
32:42offer further evidence to support the theory
32:45that members of the Templar-related Order of Christ
32:48may have visited Oak Island
32:50as much as for centuries
32:52before the discovery of the Money Pit?
32:55I mean, what can you say?
32:56Without any hesitation,
32:58this is Portuguese.
33:00Size, shape, weight, hammered head,
33:04everything spoke to him
33:06that it was a Portuguese design.
33:08Quite impactful.
33:11Okay, next up.
33:12This sparked a lot of excitement for us this year.
33:16It was revealed to us by a family
33:18that was associated with the treasure hunt
33:20on Oak Island in the past,
33:22and that family showed it to us this year,
33:24and it's a Portuguese coin
33:25for Ferdinand I.
33:28It minted somewhere between 1367 and 1383.
33:38Wow.
33:40Was this on Oak Island?
33:42Yeah, the story behind this coin
33:44is that in 1849,
33:47they were drilling
33:48to 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,
33:57you might have some answers
33:59to linking to the shipping spikes
34:03and other evidence
34:05that could suggest an early presence
34:08in Oak Island.
34:09Yeah.
34:10And you previously said about the stone shot
34:13that it was most predominantly used
34:15likely in the 14th century as well.
34:17Both those objects, we believe,
34:20came from underground on our island
34:22in 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
34:29seem to be centering on the 1300s
34:31that we've shown you here today.
34:33Several have,
34:33and several are also converging
34:36on the 15th century,
34:37which happens to be kind of the two timelines
34:39that we were wanting to investigate
34:41when we came up.
34:42Yeah, I don't think they are all
34:43from the same timeline.
34:45Right.
34:45And I think Oak Island
34:46have a lot of very, very, very good evidence
34:50that creates a pattern.
34:52Yeah.
34:53The proof might be underground
34:56on Oak Island,
34:57and we might only do as good
35:01as establishing plausibility
35:03until something comes out of the ground.
35:06Yeah, the forensic evidence
35:07seems to point that silver
35:09and gold is underground almost certainly.
35:12It's quite impactful
35:14to have a person of his experience
35:16and his understanding confirm
35:18the clues to the possibility
35:20of a treasure moving east to west.
35:23It's a very interesting piece.
35:25There might be multiple treasures
35:28connected to the Templars
35:29and their descendants.
35:31So we learn that as you uncover clues,
35:34you not only advance the search agenda,
35:37but you learn about history worldwide.
35:41You know, this is a little bit different setting
35:43than the war room on Oak Island,
35:45but it had been highly informative.
35:47We're most appreciative of both of your time.
35:50You've set us on a course of action
35:52that may provide the definitive answers
35:54that 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
36:14have moved to a location
36:16a few yards further down Center Road
36:18to look for evidence
36:20of the sand and cobblestone road beneath it.
36:28That's sand there.
36:29Yeah, it is.
36:29Yeah.
36:31Looks like it.
36:34The sand goes under the modern,
36:36and that's right on line.
36:44That's it, isn't it?
36:47Oh, yeah.
36:48Look at...
36:49Oh, that's the way that scoops are.
36:51Yeah.
36:52Is this what we're looking for?
36:53Is this...
36:54Oh, that's what we're looking for.
36:56Okay, well then,
36:57let's see what's underneath it.
37:04I'll go over
37:05and see if there's anything in that sand.
37:08Is that all sand right there?
37:09Yep.
37:10All this is.
37:12We're getting a little chirping, but...
37:16What here?
37:28Let's see if I can pimple it first.
37:42Let's see what we're doing.
37:44You got it, Gary.
37:46Oh, yeah.
37:50What you got, Gary?
37:52A nice little nail,
37:55little iron nail.
37:56After finding more possible evidence
37:58of the sand road beneath Center Road,
38:02Gary has just discovered
38:04what 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
38:18in the sand road.
38:21And this is a foot down.
38:23It's in excellent condition.
38:25Well, keep hold of this.
38:26Look.
38:27It's going back to the lab
38:28and Emma's going to run a magic on it.
38:31Maybe we can find out how old it is
38:34and 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,
38:44which is very significant.
38:45Yeah.
38:46So we have a lot of old dates
38:48in 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 herefore unknown.
38:58Right.
38:58So we have oxen going up and down this road
39:01well prior to the time
39:03when we thought Center Road didn't even exist.
39:06So now let's pull that together and say
39:10this road was actually just an extension
39:12of that sand road.
39:13Yeah, exactly.
39:15Then it goes, by my reckoning,
39:18directly to the beginning
39:19of what we've now called the Portuguese Road,
39:21which in fact goes up the hill
39:23towards the money pit.
39:25Yeah.
39:27Which leads us to the thought
39:28that perhaps Center Road here
39:30existed prior to the 1762 survey.
39:34The reason we're here today
39:35is to try and prove that theory,
39:37and 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,
39:46and it leads to a pretty solid conclusion
39:48that the so-called Center Road
39:51has actually been there for a very long time.
39:54It was not created after that survey.
39:57Okay, and then the next dot to connect,
39:59it said, well, there's our connection.
40:01Center Road goes right to Lot 5.
40:04How did Lot 5 get to the money pit?
40:06Well, it just went out to Center Road
40:07and then went on to go to the swamp,
40:09so that road could have carried the people
40:11back and forth between Lot 5
40:14and 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
40:23that 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,
40:34for absolute certain,
40:36I 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.
40:42Yeah.
40:43Okay, let's get on to the next task.
40:47Billy, put this back together.
40:48Very good.
40:49The deeper and further
40:52that Rick, Marty, Craig, and the team
40:55look into this 231-year-old mystery,
40:59new clues and revelations
41:01only bolster their will to keep digging.
41:05Because whether on Lot 8,
41:07in the money pit area,
41:09or 2,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean,
41:14one conclusion is becoming more probable by the day.
41:18Oak Island may be hiding secrets
41:21that changed the course of history in Europe
41:24and could most certainly rewrite the history
41:29of North America.
41:33Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.
41:37Wait, what's that?
41:38It's similar to what we have on Oak Island.
41:41This is from 2000 B.C.
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,
41:58the rest of it is still the money pit.
42:00Absolutely.
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