The Curse of Oak Island

Tonight on the curse of oak island...

We are definitely drilling in the right spot.

There's a big, whopping bunch of metal. I want to hit it.

Under this castle is a dungeon where we found

- templar symbolism. - Perhaps there are answers down below.

This symbol here, I've seen in templar prisons before.

It's a viking sail.

When this cone is rolled over,

we should be finding something medieval.

I'm just trying to figure out how this made its way

underneath the Boulder.

That doesn't happen naturally.

This is astounding.

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.

- Well, guys... - Hey, Marty. - Hey, Marty.

Give me the story. What happened?

Well, Marty, we started drilling, we got to the bottom,

there was nothing but in situ material, unfortunately.

- All the way up and down? - Up and down, unfortunately.

As a new day begins on oak island,

Marty lagina and members of the team

remain determined to brave not only

the chill of the fall season but also a major setback

that recently took place in the money pit area

in the hopes of making a breakthrough discovery

that could finally solve a 229-year-old mystery.

Nothing to write home about at all.

- Sorry... sorry to inform. - No, that's okay.

- All data's good data. - That's right.

Three weeks ago, the team began

a horizontal probe-drilling operation

some 106 feet deep

at the bottom of the garden shaft

to explore a mysterious seven-foot-high 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.

However, salt water

suddenly rushed in and flooded the shaft

leaving the team to wonder

if they encountered one of the legendary booby traps

believed to be connected to the ocean.

We are definitely drilling in the right spot.

This is where the scientists tell us

there's a big, whopping bunch of metal.

So, I want to hit it.

- Yeah. - This next one, we're gonna call it

the "bravo well," because

I am hoping it leads to tango.

Okay?

Marty and the team

are about to begin drilling a new borehole

known as bravo-1 near the baby blob,

in the hopes of pinpointing the high source

of precious metals that may be buried

more than 80 feet below ground.

All the indications are leading us into this position,

so, I'm looking forward to this-this next hole.

- Yeah. Okay. - Bravo-1. Here we go.

- Bravo-1. - Let's hope we hit tango.

- Okay. We'll see you, guys. - Absolutely.

- Take care. - Okay. Yeah. See you, Marty.

Carry on.

As the operations continue in the money pit area,

over on lot 5,

located on the western side of the island...

Whoa, you guys are deep.

- Hi. - Hi. - Hello.

Marty is joined by Jack begley

where archaeologists Helen Sheldon and moya MacDonald

are investigating a rectangular stone foundation.

It just keeps getting deeper, Marty.

- Yeah. - It's never-ending, this hole.

Although the team has found

a number of 18th-century artifacts

near the surface of this feature

since they first acquired lot 5 in 2022,

as they have dug deeper, evidence has been unearthed

suggesting that it could be much older,

including an iron spike that may date back

as much as eight centuries.

I was doing the final scrape over this orangey soil...

Because you have to make sure it's subsoil.

Yeah.

And I got big chunks of creamware coming out.

- Really? - Yeah.

Like half bowls. Yeah, a ton of stuff.

- So, we said, "this isn't subsoil." - Right.

Subsoil refers to a natural layer of earth

that would be undisturbed by human activity.

Because archaeologist Helen Sheldon

has just found fragments of pottery

in the soil layer that she is investigating,

that means the team has not yet reached

the bottom of the foundation.

- And what's that? - Here we have this blob,

basically, of a much harder Clay

with this rectangle in it.

It almost looks like blue-gray till from the money pit.

Yeah, it does. It's similar.

Maybe the Clay was put there as more of a solid base.

The Clay found in that feature

matches the Clay found 50 feet down

in the money pit in the 1800s.

That is highly significant.

If this is deep money pit material,

well, there's got to be a connection

to these two features on lot 5.

This could be related to depositors.

- Yeah. - Could Jack be correct

that the team has found more evidence

that the features on lot 5 may be connected

to an operation to Bury valuables in the money pit area?

If so, what might they find as they continue to dig deeper?

I guess I'm pleased that there's more to be found here.

- Yeah. - Could I also get a sample

of that blue-gray Clay in a bag...

Yeah.

And we'll get it analyzed while I go back there.

Jack, we can, we can go do that.

- Okay, carry on. Thank you very much. - Okay.

Come on, Jack. Let's go find out what this is. Thank you.

Great work, ladies.

While the search for clues

and treasure continues on oak island,

more than 3,200 miles to the east in the Netherlands...

Right, guys. Welcome to the castle of valkenburg,

one of the mightiest strongholds

in the middle ages here in this region.

Rick lagina, his nephews Alex and Peter,

along with Doug crowell and Emiliano sacchetti

are meeting with author corjan mol

and historian jacquo silvertant

at a 12th-century fortress known as valkenburg castle.

The lords of valkenburg had relations

with both the French and the German kings,

so they were very powerful.

You see the templar cross?

- Yeah. - One week ago,

Rick and the team began their journey in morimondo, Italy,

to investigate the theory

that as early as the 12th century,

the medieval order of the knights templar

conspired with members of the viking culture

to smuggle sacred religious treasures

across Europe before transporting them to oak island.

And while visiting sites in Italy

I see a four-dot cross.

As well as outside the city

of maastricht in the Netherlands...

On the other side here, circle and dot.

Yep.

Over here. Four-dot cross.

That's remarkable.

They were shown numerous carved symbols

that have also been found over the years on oak island.

Maybe they took their treasure here

on their way up north.

Now, in light of several new discoveries

on oak island, including three artifacts

whose origins have been traced to scandinavia,

corjan and jacquo have arranged for Rick and the team

to explore valkenburg castle where they believe

more evidence of a templar/viking alliance

is waiting to be revealed.

Under this castle is a dungeon I'm gonna show you,

where a couple of years ago, we found loads

of inscriptions that relate to templar symbolism.

The lords of valkenburg

probably were involved in arresting and,

keeping, templar knights in their dungeon.

So, it might have been refugees that they picked up.

As they fled.

- Yeah. - Perhaps there are answers down below.

Let's find out, go underground.

- You lead the way, jacquo. - Yeah.

In 1307, king Philip iv of France

and pope clement v

dissolved and prosecuted the templar order

on charges of heresy.

However, some believe

that the true purpose was to obtain the priceless treasures

that they may have found in the holy land

during the 12th-century crusades,

including the golden menorah

that once stood in king Solomon's temple,

and the ark of the covenant.