The Curse of Oak Island

Tonight, on the curse of oak island...

We're trying to make a connection

between the norse and the templars.

We found a piece of wood in our swamp.

Very much like this.

This viking ship could travel to oak island.

- Look what popped out. - What is that?

Somebody on lot 5 was deep

in the money pit based on this evidence.

This is a copper piece from oak island.

Here's that symbol next to a cross.

It's remarkable.

This cave might relate to oak island.

This is it.

Wow. Look at this.

We've seen that before.

There is an island in the north Atlantic

where people have been looking for

an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.

So far, they have found a stone slab

with strange symbols carved into it

man-made workings that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross whose origin may be connected

to the knights templar.

To date, six men have died

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend, one more will have to die

before the treasure can be found.

Gentlemen!

Hey, Marty. How you doing?

Looking for reports. Good reports.

Well, down to 137 here, Marty.

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

Another chilly fall morning

has begun on oak island

for Marty lagina and members of the team.

But despite the increasingly harsh weather,

they remain determined

to make a major breakthrough discovery

in the money pit area that could finally solve

a 229-year-old treasure mystery.

And we don't have any...

No wood or nothing like that?

No.

This hole, really close

to the garden shaft, has a lot of silt and sand.

- That stuff? - Yeah, very coarse material.

It very much looks like the sand that came into the garden shaft

- with the water. -Yeah. - Exactly.

One month ago, the team began

a horizontal probe-drilling operation

at a depth of 106 feet in the garden shaft

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

A tunnel that runs due west

into an area dubbed the baby blob

where water testing has revealed

high-trace evidence of gold and silver

between 80 and 120 feet underground.

But as the probe-drilling proceeded,

salt water suddenly rushed into the structure

forcing the team members to vacate the shaft

and abandon the operation.

This has made the oak island team speculate

that they encountered

one of the infamous booby-trapped flood tunnels,

which have prevented searchers from successfully digging

below 90 feet in the money pit area

for more than two centuries.

You can see the sand all slumped in.

Let me see that one.

Now, with only two weeks

before the onset of winter will force the team

to halt their search operations until next spring,

they are conducting a new core-drilling operation

in and around the baby blob

and the mysterious tunnel near the garden shaft

in the hopes of pinpointing the source

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

The scientists are absolutely convinced

that there's a source of metals.

And some of the metals are precious.

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

I will do my absolute damnedest

to advance the treasure hunt

in what little time we have left.

- Anyway. - Guys, carry on.

Maybe there's something down deep.

Right on.

See you later.

While the search for the legendary treasure

continues on oak island

more than 3,200 miles to the northeast

in roskilde, Denmark...

Wow. Look at these.

Wow.

It's amazing?

- Hi. Morten? - Hi.

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

- Nice to meet you. - Alex. Morten.

Rick lagina,

along with his nephews Alex and Peter,

oak island historian Doug crowell

and researchers Emiliano sacchetti

and corjan mol are meeting with Dr. Morten ravn

at the viking ship museum

where he serves as the curator.

Yeah. Welcome to the viking ship museum.

So glad that you want to visit us also here

on your long voyage through Europe and everywhere else.

Thank you.

- Over the past two weeks... - Wow. - Wow.

Rick and the team have visited

numerous historic sites in Italy,

the Netherlands... If you look carefully,

there is a four-dot cross here.

- Look at these. - Wow.

And Denmark... Look at how many of those runes

match the 90-foot stone.

Where Emiliano, corjan

and other researchers have shown them carved symbols

and other compelling clues...

- On the other side here, - circle and dot. - Yep.

Supporting the incredible theory

that members of the medieval Christian order known

as the knights templar conspired with vikings

in order to smuggle their sacred religious treasures

across Europe before transporting them to oak island

nearly 800 years ago.

The five-schooner ship we have here is

from the absolutely latest part of the viking age,

turning into medieval times.

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

can provide more information on the viking culture,

which is known to have explored

and created settlements in parts of North America

some 1,000 years ago

to see if he can offer more clues

that could help determine if this theory is true.

Can you give us an understanding

of the evolution of the design of the ships?

Because I'm sure, initially,

it would have been about commerce and raiding,

not necessarily transatlantic voyages.

Yeah, it's an excellent question.

First, it's large and larger ships,

which you would be rowing.

And after that,

at the beginning of the viking age,

around 750, comes the sail.

And with the sail,

you now can travel at the open sea,

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

If you are interested in seeing how we built

reconstructions of these ships,

you can just go outside and I have arranged

for one of our very skilled boat builders, marten,

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

- Our new number one. - Sounds great.

We're trying to make a connection

between the norse and-and the templars,

especially in context of transatlantic voyages.

- Hello. - Hi. Welcome.

- Good to see you. - Hello.

If the oak island mystery is real,

you have to be able to connect the dots.

So right now we are looking at a seagoing viking ship

that is built here at the museum.

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

You have different layers of deck here.

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

There's another layer of deck.

So you can have a lot of cargo underneath here.

The one we are looking at now is a cargo ship

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

Could you sail to Canada on this?

To oak island?

I would say absolutely.

This is built in 1060.

On oak island, we have a couple of stone constructs

that we're told were likely built in the 1200s.

So, is this boat representative of the type of boat

that may have been used in that time period?

Absolutely.

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

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

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

- It looked like a railing. - Okay.

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

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

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

- along the bow. - Yeah.

We found a piece that very much looks like this.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Look at that.

What do you got?

It looks like a piece of finished wood.

In 2020, while investigating the southern region

of the triangle-shaped swamp,

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

that, according to carbon-14 testing,