The Curse of Oak Island

Tonight, on the curse of oak island...

Wow! Look at this.

What do we have?

Check out that circle of stones.

Right at the spot where John Edwards theorized

we would find something.

Here's the artifact.

It was found on the island.

If it is as old

as we believe it is,

it is quite remarkable.

In a castle in the Netherlands,

I found some symbols

that I recognize from the island.

I think the trip is warranted.

You're gonna find the answers in Europe.

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.

- Morning, Roger. - Morning, Roger.

Hey, guys. How's it going?

- You tell us. - Exactly.

Well, I wish I had much better news

to tell you than, than what I have.

As a new day begins on oak island

for brothers Rick and Marty lagina

and their team,

they find themselves facing a daunting ordeal

in the money pit area

that is almost as old as the 229-year mystery itself.

Water started coming in,

around 95 feet, where that

pretty well where that old tunnel was.

And it happened so fast

that nobody really had time to react.

It's the whole history

of oak island, right?

Yeah.

- The water. - That's right.

Water. Water. Water.

That's-that's been problematic for everyone.

And now it's a-a big problem for advancing this agenda.

Yep.

One week ago, the team had every reason to believe

that they were close to a major discovery

when representatives from dumas contracting limited

began a probe-drilling operation

at a depth of 106 feet deep in the garden shaft

as they attempted to explore a seven-foot-high tunnel

a tunnel that runs westward

into an area known as the baby blob,

where high-trace evidence of gold, silver

and other metals were recently detected

between 80 and 120 feet underground.

But just hours after the drilling operation began

salt water suddenly rushed into the shaft

forcing the workers to flee for safety,

and it left the team wondering if they had struck

one of the legendary man-made flood tunnels

that have thwarted the efforts of searchers

in the money pit for more than two centuries.

We're getting roughly about 479 gallons per minute

coming in through the bottom of the shaft.

It's a lot of water.

It's not just a... A drop in the bucket there.

- Yeah. - So, what are the

what are the next steps?

What do you, what do you intend to do?

We need to kind of sit down

and-and figure out what we want to do.

Maybe we can draw the water down low enough

- that we can perhaps get the drill out. - Yeah.

That's what I want to do is

sit down with everybody involved and-and just

- put a good plan together. - Yep.

Anything you need, Roger, let us know.

- Let Scott know. - Okay.

I'll talk to my people and I'll get back to you guys

as soon as we put something down pat.

Okey doke. We'll let you get after it.

Sounds good.

- Thank you, Roger. - All right.

- All right, thanks, guys. - See ya.

Later that morning...

Here's the thing.

I think we all believe

that the previous years' research trips have

yielded benefits.

Rick meets with his partner Craig tester,

Doug crowell and researchers corjan mol

and Emiliano sacchetti

who are joining via video conference.

So I think that it's important

to start the process

of researching a potential trip

to answer "who" and to confirm "when."

Yeah.

And I think, based on professor gaspani's work,

we have a potential point of beginning,

a potential "when."

In the past year,

Italian archaeoastronomer professor adriano gaspani

has shared his scientific research

that several megalithic stone structures

on oak island's surface including Nolan's cross,

five pyramid-shaped piles of stones on lot 15,

and the stone triangle, which pointed north

toward the original money pit shaft

were all created by aligning the stones

with certain stars and the sun during the 13th century

by members of the knights templar

the Christian military order

who many researchers have speculated

transported priceless religious artifacts

from Europe and hid them on oak island.

I think what we need to do to support professor gaspani's work

is to look for cultural context back in the old world.

You know, we've had some presentations

that maybe the norse could have been here around 1000.

So, if you could get some tie

between the templars, vikings,

I think that'd be a good way to go.

Okay.

Three weeks ago,

retired professor Dr. Doug symons

presented the team with his published research

describing how members

of the Scandinavian viking culture,

who were known to have established settlements

in Iceland, Greenland and northern Canada

more than 1,000 years ago,

assimilated with the templar order

during the 12th century crusades in the holy land

and may have helped the templars navigate to oak island

in order to hide their sacred treasures.

I would ask both of you to devote whatever resources

and the time you can to this endeavor.

And we will meet again shortly.

I think you guys are right.

What I will be looking for is,

you know, religious places

that have stellar and solar targets that are close

to what we know about Nolan's cross.

We have a target date now.

So that's definitely

something we should investigate.

We can certainly look for,

places in Europe where we can find

any connotation with the period that we're looking for.

So, yeah, I think, I think it's a great idea.

Thank you both. We'll-we'll be in touch.

We'll certainly get this started.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

- Take care, guys. - Okay.

While Rick and Craig finish their meeting

in the research center...

- Here we go. - The swamp doctor will

give us a diagnosis.

Marty lagina and geoscientist Dr. Ian spooner

join other members of the team

in the northern region of the swamp

where they have made a potentially

important discovery.

Okay. What are we up to today, gentlemen?

Well, quite honestly, Marty,

I feel like we found something that's rather significant.

Steve's standing on top of this Boulder,

where at the bottom,

there's definitely a disturbance here.

This is one of John Edwards',

the theorist's spots in the swamp.

The way to unlock Nolan's cross

is built into the cross itself.

One week ago,

researcher John Edwards pointed the team

to this location claiming

that based on its proximity to the boulders of Nolan's cross,

he believed that they might find a buried treasure

connected to the knights templar.

- That Boulder was put there. - That Boulder was put there.

And, incredibly,

as Billy gerhardt excavated the area,

a massive Boulder was discovered

sitting atop a potentially man-made stone formation.

So, we want to know whether that thing was moved or not?

Yep.

Now the team has asked Dr. Spooner

to examine the site

in order to determine if it is merely

a natural feature