The Curse of Oak Island

That looks like it's hand-hewn.

I mean, it looks like a slipway, doesn't it?

You are right!

Are you guys ready to make some history today?

Yeah.

"Ia voute en bas de terre" is pointing right to the vault.

Zena's map has been pointing to the vault

this entire time.

Wow.

It's somewhere from 400 bc to 900 ad.

That is fan-damning-toesie!

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,

mysterious fragments of human bone,

and a lead cross whose origin may stretch back

to the days of 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.

Hey, everybody. Hello. Hello.

So, I'm sure everyone knows why we've gathered.

Erin, thank you again for making

this presentation, making yourself available.

Night has fallen on oak island.

But before they end another day of investigation,

brothers rick and Marty lagina, along with their team,

have gathered for a much-anticipated meeting

via video conference

with geographic information systems expert Erin helton.

One that they hope will shed new light

on a 225-year-old treasure mystery.

We all believe that, you know, this is going to be,

it may be, possibly, a turnaround moment

for-for oak island.

So please take the floor.

Okay, great.

So, to recap what I've presented previously,

um, I sent you guys out for a variety

of potential boulder locations, and with them,

I used them to redraw what has

been lost in the money pit area.

So, let me just share my screen, bring up my presentation.

Three weeks ago,

Erin shared an incredible theory

based on a reported 14th century hand-drawn map

of oak island, which the late author and researcher

zena halpern shared with rick, Marty and the team

back in 2016.

This map, which zena believed to have been made

by members of the knights Templar,

noted two locations labeled as "the anchors."

It was erin's suspicion, as a professional mapping expert,

that the so-called anchors

did not refer to anything related to a ship,

but might actually be purposely placed boulders,

or marker points, on a master grid

that would lead to the money pit treasure vault.

The coordinate is taking me to...

Here.

You're kidding. It's bang on.

When the team checked the gps coordinates

that Erin gave them,

they were more than impressed

by what they found.

This is her anchor.

- Okay. - Wow!

I can buy that.

Tonight, after incorporating the anchor points

into her own master map,

Erin is now ready to share

with rick, Marty and the team

the rest of her theory of where she believes they will

find the treasure and solve the oak island mystery.

To this point, Erin, we've confirmed a lot of your boulders

and we've yet to prove you wrong,

so I think it's time to go make some history.

Great. Awesome. So, we've gone out

and found a bunch of boulders to help confirm

where the money pit location is,

using these basic alignment principles.

And I actually don't think we need to be digging

in the money pit area anymore.

I think it's an entrance, a booby-trapped,

baited entrance,

um, but I actually think the vault location is somewhere else

and I think we can actually follow directions to it

using another clue that was in the possession of zena halpern.

Today we'll be talking about

la formule cipher and the instructions that it contains

to travel from the money pit

and to the actual vault location.

In addition to the map of oak island,

zena halpern also shared a document known as la formule,

a cipher comprised of mysterious symbols

which curiously match those reported to have been carved

on the legendary 90 foot stone.

In 2016,

rick, Marty and their partner Craig tester

worked with computer scientist dr. Kevin knight

and his research assistant nada aldarrab

from the university of southern California

in an attempt to decode it.

"Enter the" something and so,

it's some word that starts with a "c."

Professor, could that also be "chamber"?

That's a good connection, 'cause in french,

it's chambre.

If you accept that the zena halpern map is real,

then you have to look at it

and try to figure out, well, what does it mean?

You know, we're trying to bring in

the best minds to solve this puzzle,

and I've seen enough

from erin's first presentation

to be, very enthused about seeing the rest.

So we're going to focus on the first section.

We have, "do not dig."

I believe this is describing, do not dig all the way down,

to you... If you go too far, you're going to set off

the flood tunnel. But then it continues.

It says, "burrow at 40 foot"

"with an angle of 45 degree

the shaft of 522 foot."

Now, "45 degree," I think, is an alignment.

I personally believe it's in the northwest direction.

So, moving forward from here,

we have more instructions.

We have, "you enter the corridor

of 1,065 foot, you reach the chamber."

Now, we don't have an actual trajectory this time.

We only have a length... 1,065 foot.

So let's draw a circle

from the suspected corridor elbow out to 1,065 feet,

and see if it hits anything.

It does.

It hits cone "e" of nolan's cross.

Wow.

And if you overlay the corridor

as described in la formule cipher,

"la voute en bas de terre" is pointing right to the vault.

Zena's map has been pointing to the vault this entire time.

Wow.

Could Erin helton be correct,

that the treasure that people have been searching for

since 1795 is not buried at the bottom of the money pit

but instead at the end of a corridor or tunnel

extending over 1,000 feet to the west?

Am I hearing talking?

I'm not sure if I'm hearing discussion.

You're hearing stunned silence, that's what you're hearing.

Yes... That's exactly what you're hearing.

Well, Erin, for openers,

I love the concept that you're following here

because I've always felt like, to make sense

of what's happened over the years, the money pit was

some sort of trap, some sort of diversion,

and an offset chamber,

would be where any valuables would be stored.

Do you have a theory as to how deep this might be?

Well, I'm not, that I'm not quite sure,

but that actually leads me to, um, I guess you could say

a slight warning, um, on how we should probably proceed.

If we drill from the top,

we run the risk of water

rushing into the vault.

So I propose the safest way to approach this

would be to go after the 522-foot corridor.

So if we zoom in here...

This is where I propose we go after

to intersect the corridor line.

Again,

Erin has brought

an out-of-the-box approach to everything.

She's using zena's research material

and through that, she's going to provide "x" marks the spot.

What can you say about that other than... Wow?

So in summation

I love the concept that it's based on is great.

And I think, um, you know... It's well worth the boreholes.

I mean, it would be...

It would be just fabulous.

All righty, well, thanks, everybody.

Appreciate it. Erin, we will be in touch with you.

If you have any asks, please call.

Great. Absolutely. Thank you so much.

Thanks, Erin.

- Thanks, everybody. - Thank you.

Very interesting.

The following day,

rick lagina and surveyor Steve guptill

arrive at the money pit area

where they are joined by choice drilling representatives

mike tedford and Colton Robinson.

So, are you guys ready to make some history today?

- We're gonna try. - I mean,

I have high hopes, but at the end of the day,