12x23 - Family Ties

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NARRATOR: Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

EMILIANO: We're
in the oldest prison in Malta.

This is a place very rich
in symbolism.

DOUG: The four-dot
cross is thought to represent

the presence of holy relics.

There was indeed
a family bloodline

that we can connect
to Oak Island.

It's quite remarkable.

CRAIG: This is
one of the boulders

- that's on the map.
- Come on, baby.

Let's find a treasure.

- What the heck is that?
- JACK: Yeah!

- Boy, that is really pretty.
- [laughs]

- Very ornate.
- I wasn't expecting that.

NARRATOR: 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.

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A cool fall morning has
begun on Oak Island.

But in the fabled
Money Pit area,

ground repairs are
running at full steam

in preparation for brothers
Rick and Marty Lagina

to conduct the deepest
dig ever attempted

in search of a vast treasure.

How we doing?

You know those
crane mats over there?

We're gonna run
'em from here to here

to disperse the load and set
the oscillator on the crane mats.

- On top of these?
- Yeah.

MARTY: All right.
Let's make it so.

NARRATOR: Over
the past two months,

the Laginas and their
team have excavated

multiple seven-foot-diameter
steel shafts

in locations where they
have not only detected

high trace evidence of precious
metals deep underground

but also the legendary
Chappell Vault,

a massive concrete-encased box

that was first reported by
treasure hunters back in 1897

at a depth of 153 feet.

[clanking]

Hey. Stop. It's caving.

NARRATOR: However,
during one of their recent digs,

just as they hoped to
retrieve the buried vault,

the earth surrounding and
below the shaft suddenly caved in.

This has caused
the team to speculate

that the tons of soil
and the believed treasure

fell into a massive natural
cavity in the bedrock

more than 200 feet deep

known as the solution channel.

Now more than 50 tons
of gravel are being used

to make the Money Pit
area safe for the team

so they can sink another
seven-foot-diameter shaft

all the way down into
the solution channel

and hopefully recover
the storied riches.

While the repairs continue

in the Money Pit
area on Oak Island...

more than 4,000 miles
to the east in Gozo, Malta...

CORJAN: It's a
grand entrance here,

- with the bells ringing.
- ALEX: Yes.

-[bells tolling] -RICK: You know
what? Maybe it's a good omen.

Rick Lagina and other
members of the team

are investigating
an incredible theory

about the Oak Island mystery...

that members of the
medieval Christian order

known as the Knights Templar

and a related group known
as the Knights of Malta

made numerous visits between
the 12th and 17th centuries

in order to hide priceless
religious treasures

all across the island.

We're in, uh... within the
walls of the old citadel in Gozo.

So, after they built Valletta

in 1571,

the Knights of Malta
started improving

the fortification of Malta,

uh, the other cities
around Valletta,

and eventually
around here in Gozo.

NARRATOR: Over the past decade,

Rick, Marty, and their team

have made a number
of shocking discoveries

that may be related
to the Templar order...

such as a 14th
century lead cross

and numerous stone
structures that could date back

to as early as 1200 AD.

It's just absolutely incredible.

NARRATOR: And, incredibly,

just after their arrival in
Valletta, Malta one week ago...

EMILIANO: Is this clay?

It's grayish, bluish.

ALEX: The legend

tells of flood
tunnels on the island.

Rick and the team
saw underground tunnels

that were built by the Knights
of Malta in the 16th century

with a similar design
to the description

of the original Money Pit.

I did come across a
similar pattern here.

NARRATOR: They also confirmed

that a mysterious button
featuring a starburst pattern

and which was found
one year ago on Oak Island

may also be connected
to the Maltese order.

RICK: I think it is
highly suggestive

that the Knights of Malta

or an evolution of
the Knights of Malta

may have had something to
do with the Oak Island mystery.

There's a lot of
excitement about it

and an imperative
to follow those leads.

So the reason why we're
here today is to take a look

at the old prison
that is up there.

CORJAN: And the people here
bided their time by scratching

the-their beliefs and their
symbols into the walls.

We'll also find some symbols

that remind us very, very
much of the stuff we've seen

- on Oak Island.
- Hmm.

NARRATOR: After
fending off an invasion

by the Ottoman Empire in 1551,

the citadel of Victoria,
also known as Cittadella,

was reconstructed in 1599

with the help of
the Knights of Malta

to serve as a
fortification and prison.

Okay, why don't we
go to the old prison?

- Okay. -Perfect.
- JUDI: That's great.

NARRATOR: However,
some researchers believe

that it may have also
been used by the knights

to hide Templar-related
treasures

before they were
transferred to Oak Island

in the 17th century.

We're in the-the
oldest prison in Malta.

And, uh, this is a place
very rich in, uh, symbolism,

carvings, graffiti.

But I-I would like, before we
get in, to show you something.

It's actually, uh, behind you.

There's something there
that you might recognize.

- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah.

- That four-dot cross.
- EMILIANO: And...

- Four-dot cross.
- SCOTT: Yeah.

DOUG: The four-dot
cross is thought

to represent the
presence of holy relics

at some point in time.

- Yeah.
- And that's carved

on the H+O Stone
back on Oak Island.

NARRATOR: Discovered
on the northern shore

of Oak Island in 1921,

the so-called H+O Stone

was a fragment of a
much larger boulder

that was blown
apart by searchers

who mistakenly believed

that it marked the
location of buried treasure.

The H+O symbol featured a cross

surrounded by four
dots carved into it.

And in recent years,

the team has not
only found this symbol

at numerous Templar-related
sites throughout Europe,

including Portugal,

Italy,

Denmark,

and the Netherlands,

but have also learned
that it may represent

the presence of
religious artifacts.

Maybe this, before
being a prison,

was a place to hide or,

you know, keep something
that was special to the order.

RICK: The four-dot cross,

it is on Oak Island.

There's no getting around that.

We have to follow up on this.

It's incredibly important.

- Right. -CORJAN: Yeah.
- EMILIANO: So, guys,

why don't we go into the,
uh... the actual prison?

And then maybe we can split
and take a look at the carvings.

- ALEX: Sure.
- PETER: Okay. Sounds good. Let's do it.

NARRATOR: As Rick and
the team search for clues

at the Cittadella
in Gozo, Malta...

MARTY: Okay. I
have been informed

that you guys have
found something you find

pretty exciting,
pretty interesting.

Back on Oak Island, Marty Lagina

is meeting with
archaeologist Laird Niven,

archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan,

and other members of the team

- in the lab.
- So, is this it here?

- JACK: Yeah.
- NARRATOR: He is eager

to hear Laird and
Emma's analysis

of an ornate button
found one week ago

in the mysterious
round feature on Lot 5,

a feature that Laird believes
may have been used as a campsite

by multiple groups
prior to the 18th century

and also where they have found

a potentially
Templar-related barter token

as well as the starburst button.

MARTY: That is
really pretty cool.

I can see why you're
excited about this.

I was most
interested in the eye.

The eye was a very robust,
almost rectangular eye.

- MARTY: Mm-hmm.
- And, to me, that's earlier

than mid-1700s.

JACK: Huh.

LAIRD: That's what
really struck me.

Until we did the CT scan.

Okay. Let's see it.

And it revealed...

- MARTY: Boy, that is really pretty.
- JACK [laughs]: Whoa.

- LAIRD: Yeah. -I wasn't expecting that.
- CHARLES: No.

Very ornate.

EMMA: The back

is mostly, um, leaded brass,

but the body itself

is zinc and copper,

which is a less technical
manufacturing process.

So it could indicate

an older technique.

So, compositionally,

somewhat sitting between, um,

mid-1600s to 1700s.

And I think we just
need to do more work

in order to narrow
that date range.

Well, you can't help but
compare it to the starburst button.

- MARTY: Exactly.
- Yeah.

Can you pull that up so
we can look at the two...

juxtaposed?

LAIRD: Yeah.

JACK: Oh, wow.

They really are similar.

The way that the starburst
kind of turns with its lines,

it's very similar
to the other button.

NARRATOR: Another
potential 17th century button

found in the feature on Lot 5

and similar to the
so-called starburst button,

which may have
originated in Malta?

Is it possible that the team
has unearthed a second clue

that could link the Knights of
Malta to the Oak Island mystery?

MARTY: Something happened here.

- Yeah.
- Something...

significant.

Something unknown to history.

Well, look, uh, you know what,

anything in the


is, uh, pretty exciting.

Yeah.

Okay. You two come with me.

- Let's go find some stuff.
- All right. See you later.

- Yeah. See you. Thank you.
- See you.

DOUG: Have a look back
here, Rick, see what you think.

NARRATOR: On the
Maltese island of Gozo,

some 4,000 miles
east of Oak Island...

Here's the symbol here. I just
wanted to get your take on it.

Rick Lagina and other
members of the team

are at a 16th century citadel

looking for more
clues that may connect

the Knights of Malta

and the Knights Templar to the


ALEX: We're here in the citadel
to investigate the possibility

that there's a connection

between Oak Island
and the Knights of Malta.

We have a list of symbols
that we want to investigate,

so I most hope to
flesh out that connection

from both sides here.

This section of the
wall is pretty interesting.

We've seen this
here, this symbol here,

uh, in Italy for sure.

Six petals in a circle.

- DOUG: This might be very significant.
- JUDI: Yeah.

ALEX: So this is
yet another very...

uniquely shaped symbol

that we've seen
in-in conjunction

with the Knights Templar

and now we might be
seeing in conjunction

with the Knights of Malta.

And hopefully we can
prove out connections

to Oak Island.

This almost looks like a code.

- Some kind of code.
- PETER: Mm-hmm.

RICK: Something's
being said there,

- in my opinion.
- Mm-hmm.

- RICK: There's the circle and dot.
- Yeah.

RICK: There's some, uh,

- 90 Foot Stone symbolism there.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: A carved
symbol in Gozo, Malta

matching one found
on the 90 Foot Stone?

Unearthed in 1804
at a depth of 90 feet

in the original Money Pit,

the 90 Foot Stone was
covered with cryptic symbols.

Upon its removal,

the shaft flooded with seawater,

leaving searchers to believe

that a great
treasure was guarded

by an ingeniously
designed flood tunnel.

RICK: Would be nice to do

a comprehensive
study of all this.

NARRATOR: Is it
possible that here in Gozo...

the Oak Island team has
found not only a familiar symbol

that depicts religious treasures

but also another one
related to a booby trap

that may be protecting such
things deep in the Money Pit?

Every time you find
something that you think

is relatable to our quest to
solve the Oak Island mystery,

you pay attention.

And we see some of these
same symbols represented

in the characters
on the 90 Foot Stone.

Eerily similar.

I don't know about
the rest of you,

but today has just solidified
for me my impression

that we've got old-world
European symbolism

- on Oak Island.
- RICK: Absolutely.

We see these same
symbols on the island.

We can't escape that.

There was information
that was deemed necessary

to place on these
walls literally in stone.

If you're going to feel it's
important enough to write it

in stone, you're gonna
write it on documents,

and those documents
would be housed somewhere.

- Yeah.
- My takeaway is,

- there's a lot more work to do.
- ALEX: Yeah.

- JUDI: Let's go find it.
- Absolutely.

NARRATOR: As Rick and the
team continue their journey in Malta...

back on Oak Island,

as the search for clues
proceeds on Lot 5...

CRAIG: This is one

of the boulders
that's on the map.

MARTY: Yeah. That's right.

NARRATOR: Marty
Lagina, Craig Tester,

and other members of the team

are hoping to unearth
valuables on Lot 1,

over half a mile
west of the Money Pit.

JACK: If we move
this rock, we might find

some more evidence
if it was placed or not.

Okay.

This is the Blair treasure map.

From what we can gather,

there were three
separate treasure caches.

NARRATOR: Earlier this year,

Doug Crowell, Judi Rudebusch,

and historian Terry Deveau

presented the team

with a 19th century map of
the western end of Oak Island

that was created by the
legendary treasure hunter

Frederick Blair,

one of the men
who first reported

the so-called
Chappell Vault in 1897.

There were three original
notations on the map.

Three stones that
were indicated.

NARRATOR: Curiously,

the map depicted three boulders,

which Blair believed may have
been placed centuries earlier

in order to mark the
approximate locations

of shallow treasure deposits...

- Oh!
- Oh! That's what we're talking about!

GARY: Yeah. No
mistaking this one.

Boulders which the
team has already verified

were in the correct places

according to the map.

All right.

Without further ado,
let's find a treasure.

[beeping]

NARRATOR: Now, while
they wait for the repairs

to be completed in
the Money Pit area,

Marty and Craig want to
see if they can also verify

that treasure is or once was
buried beneath the boulders.

It might be bigger
than I initially thought.

Ooh, yeah!

STEVE: Somewhat
diamond-shaped, eh?

- Point at the bottom.
- Oh, yeah.

GARY: That boulder
is massive. A lot bigger

than it looks when
it's in the ground.

It was just barely pushed
into the "C" horizon.

It could have been
put here by humans.

- Well, why don't you metal-detect it, Gary?
- Yeah.

[detector beeps on]

[beeping]

Ooh, I got a good hit here.

Jack, get it out of there.

It's here.

- JACK: Oh!
- Look at that.

That's hand-forged.

I think it's a fastener.

Well, you don't
suppose it just fell out

of that timber you're
standing on, do you?

Yeah.

So that timber
is pretty old, then.

And so could this.

NARRATOR: A
hand-forged iron fastener

and a wooden timber

found under a boulder
that was identified

on Frederick Blair's
believed treasure map?

Could that mean
something of great value

could also be
buried in this area?

Why don't you grab this timber?

All right.

[beeping]

JACK: Wow!

MARTY: It looks like,

again, somebody or somebodies

were messing around
with that boulder.

We might be uncovering
another structure.

This is a wedge.

JACK: Oh, yeah!

Nice find, Craig.

MARTY: So
somebody was definitely

in and around that boulder
quite a long time ago.

I'm just gonna
go a little further.

CRAIG: Sounds good.

What the heck is that?

- JACK: That's really weird.
- Yeah.

- JACK: That's really weird.
- GARY: Yeah.

CRAIG: Look at that.

GARY: That's a
hell of a lot of rocks.

STEVE: A pile of rocks.

JACK: It looks like the
rocks could have been...

manipulated and placed there.

- STEVE: And we have a ring of boulders.
- MARTY: Oh, no kidding.

NARRATOR: It is
an exciting moment

for the Oak Island
team on Lot 1.

After lifting a boulder
which was marked

on a believed 19th
century treasure map

related to Frederick Blair,

they have just unearthed
what appears to be

a man-made ring of large stones.

This seems like an
intentional jumble.

CRAIG: Yeah.

NARRATOR: But
if so, who built it?

And what might the team
find buried underneath it?

What do you want to dig next?

Let's dig a
five-foot, uh, radius.

Agreed.

[beeping]

CRAIG: Following the
map is pretty exciting.

As we pulled the boulder out,

there was evidence there was
a lot more rocks around there.

I'm not sure
what to think of it,

but they look like they
were put there by man,

and we need to pursue it.

You want to
metal-detect this, Gary?

GARY: Yep.

[detector beeps on]

[soft beeping]

[beeping louder]

MARTY: That's good.

- Just here, please.
- Yep.

Let me see if I can pinpoint it.

No, it's here.

- JACK: Whoa!
- Ooh! Wow.

That's a chunky guy.

GARY: Yeah.

Some kind of iron pin.

It's got, like, a-a
wrought iron look to it.

You can see some
striations going down it.

JACK: So that's really old.

GARY: Yeah. It
was way down there.

So, another artifact.

MARTY: That's a
good one for Emma.

GARY: Yep. All
right, put it in the bag.

Wait, Gary, why don't
you go ahead and sweep

the bottom of this?

Okay, mate. Coming in.

[soft beeping]

Good hit just here.

[chuckles]: Nice!

- Is it in that piece of wood?
- [prolonged beeping]

Maybe.

Only one way to find out.

- Let's see.
- [beeping]

Is that it?

We've got another
piece of old iron

- by the look of it.
- Yeah!

Yeah.

I mean, look at that.

It's got a hook on it.

Unless it's bent round.

- JACK: Oh.
- And, you know what,

this is really heavy.

- I mean...
- Is it?

GARY: This is hand-forged.

What the hell's going on here?

I don't know, but someone
was here a long time ago

'cause this is old iron.

It sure seems like we're
confirming the map.

- Yep.
- Well, sweep the rest of the hole.

Right. Let's add
to the trophy list.

[detector not beeping]

Nope, that was it. Darn it.

- MARTY: Well, we well and truly explored it, too.
- Yeah.

NARRATOR: Although
the team is disappointed

to have not found
anything of value

beneath the
man-made stone feature,

could that be because
it is merely a marker

for valuables that are buried
somewhere else in the area?

Regardless, if the
team can determine

the age and possible
origin of these artifacts,

they may still
represent valuable clues

toward identifying just
who created this feature.

We have several other places
on the map to go and explore.

And we're burning daylight.

MARTY: We should dig every one

of the Goodwin
map rocks, for sure.

There could be other
places on the map

that are still hiding something.

So we can dig

and hopefully find more stuff.

We need to move
on with the hunt.

- GARY: Yeah.
- CRAIG: Sounds good.

And hopefully find the treasure
associated with the map.

Leave no stone unturned.

MARTY: That's right!

NARRATOR: As the team
continues their investigation

on the western
end of the island,

over 4,000 miles
away in Malta...

CORJAN: Welcome, everyone...

NARRATOR: Rick
and members of the team

have traveled to Mdina,

the one-time capital
when the Knights of Malta

first took control
of the island nation

back in the early 16th century.

Here, author and
researcher Corjan Mol

has arranged to present them

with new research,
which he believes

will further connect
the Knights of Malta

to the Oak Island mystery.

Okay.

In Jerusalem in 1187,

in Acre, 1291,

in Ruad, in Rhodes,

in Paris...

RICK: Wow. Interesting.

NARRATOR: At the Palazzo
Falson in Mdina, Malta,

author and researcher Corjan Mol

is presenting Rick Lagina
and members of the team

with compelling new research.

NARRATOR: Research
that he believes

could link a family connected
to the Knights of Malta

to priceless treasures,

as well as the
Oak Island mystery.

RICK: Yeah. Yeah.

CORJAN: In 1307, we
have Gérard de Villiers.

NARRATOR: After serving
and fighting on behalf

of the Catholic Church
for nearly two centuries,

on Friday, October 13th, 1307,

Pope Clement V and
King Philip IV of France

made the stunning decision

to dissolve and prosecute the
order of the Knights Templar,

on charges of heresy.

However, some
researchers believe

that the actual purpose was
to acquire the priceless relics

that the Templars were rumored

to have recovered
in the Holy Land,

including the golden menorah
from King Solomon's Temple,

the Holy Grail and the
Ark of the Covenant.

Treasures which the Templars

may have begun
transporting to Oak Island

as early as 1200 AD.

Although many
Templars were arrested,

imprisoned and ex*cuted,

some are known to have escaped,

and their remaining treasures
disappeared without a trace.

Very interesting.

NARRATOR: In 1632,
French Naval captain

and Knight of Malta
Isaac de Razilly

commanded an
expedition to North America

in order to establish
France's colony of Acadia,

now known as Nova Scotia.

For his efforts, he
was appointed the title

of lieutenant general
for New France.

Curiously, the site
that de Razilly chose

for the colony's headquarters

was Fort Point on
the LaHave River,

located only 15 miles
south of Oak Island.

ALEX: To me, I think the
most compelling part so far

is the connection
between these people

who were in charge
of the Knights Templar

and the de Villiers who
arrived in Nova Scotia.

I mean, you've got
people connected

to both sides of the Atlantic.

Yeah.

RICK: The Oak
Island story, to me,

was always even more
than multigenerational,

it was multi-depositional.

And that's what you
have laid out today.

I'm excited about
the possibilities

of what Oak Island represents.

Corjan provided us with
some connective tissue

and a framework upon which
we can build, but right now,

it's time to get
back to Oak Island

and finish the
work for the year.

My hope is that we can
work towards the ultimate goal

of really saying with periods
at the end of the sentences,

not question marks,
"this is what happened."

And if it is this story,
quite remarkable.

RICK: It's been a pleasure.

NARRATOR: As Rick
and the rest of the team

make the long journey back
to Oak Island from Malta...

STEVE: This is probably
the closest we're gonna get.

GARY: Yep.

Well, already, it looks like
this boulder's been placed.

CRAIG: Yeah.

NARRATOR: Marty
Lagina, Craig Tester,

and other members of
the team arrive on Lot 21.

It looks like it's laying
right on top of the ground.

GARY: Yeah.

NARRATOR: They are preparing
to investigate another boulder

that was identified on
the believed treasure map

based on the research
of Frederick Blair.

STEVE: So, this one
on the map is important,

because it helped me
find all the other ones.

- JACK: Mm-hmm.
- It's almost like an anchor stone on a map,

where everything was
calculated from this.

I see. Oh, okay.

Well, let's have a look at it.

- We can try to get some of those dead branches out of the way.
- Yeah. Yeah.

MARTY: We are at the
anchor stone from the map.

It's important, I think.

Any surveyor needs
a reference point.

So, here's a big boulder,
embedded nicely in the ground,

very difficult to move,
but incredibly intriguing.

So, what happened here?

We're sure gonna investigate it.

Hey, Gary. Should you
sweep first before we do it?

Uh, yeah. I'll go over the top

and I'll try and get
around as much as I can.

[metal detector beeps on]

[sporadic beeps]

[beeping steadily]

Got a good hit, just here.

And it's right there, Jack.

[beeping steadily]

Yep. We got it.

Ooh.

JACK: What is that?

JACK: Well, what
is that doing here?

- GARY: A little ox shoe.
- STEVE: Look at that.

NARRATOR: On Lot 21,

while investigating a
boulder that was marked

on a map connected
to 19th-century

treasure hunter
Frederick Blair...

Obviously, this isn't
farmland just around here.

It's too rocky.

NARRATOR: members
of the Oak Island team

have just made a potentially
important discovery.

Someone was using ox to
pull boulders into position.

- That's one heck of a clue.
- Yeah.

All right, well, let's
move this stone.

GARY: Yep.

NARRATOR: Could
the team be correct

that perhaps an oxen
was used long ago

to position this boulder
as a marker for something?

If so, what was it marking?

And might the
team find the answer

by digging beneath it?

GARY: That's a
hell of a lot of rocks.

- JACK: Is that natural?
- CRAIG: I don't know.

JACK: These angular rocks
look like some of the rocks

that we found in the
paved area in the swamp.

STEVE: Yep.

-[metal detector
beeps on] -Let's see.

Come on, baby.

GARY: No metals yet.

Oh, I'd love to find a
piece of metal this deep.

CRAIG: There's the C-horizon.

- MARTY: That's it, isn't it?
- STEVE: Yep.

NARRATOR: Because the
team has dug into the C-horizon,

or the natural layer of
earth below the topsoil,

it means that they
have reached a depth

where there is no more
evidence of human activity

beneath the believed
man-made feature.

I think this boulder was
just used for reference.

I don't think it was
used to hide anything,

- or anything like that.
- Yeah.

- But it seems like it was placed here.
- Yeah.

It was placed, for sure.

JACK: There's got to be
something buried nearby.

MARTY: Yes.

A few years ago, I
would have downplayed

that the western part of
the island had anything to do

with the treasure mystery,

but I can't do that anymore,
because there's been evidence,

good evidence, to the contrary.

So, we have to do
a lot of investigation.

If the boulders are indeed
markers, my ears perk up.

Then we know that something
spectacularly important

happened in this area.

No.

Unfortunately, no more
metals, just that one ox shoe.

So, we can get that to the
lab and compare it to the rest?

- Yep.
- MARTY: All right.

- Time to move.
- CRAIG: It is.

NARRATOR: The following day...

MARTY: Okay. We have
basically the whole brain trust here

because Rick and the
team, uh, that went to Malta

is back with information.

NARRATOR: having
just returned to Oak Island,

Rick Lagina is meeting
with his brother Marty

and other members of
the team in the museum.

RICK: So, I'd like to
know what you guys found,

what you did and-and,
uh, then of course

we want to tell
you what we found.

In general, what we
did was a lot of digging.

Specifically, we went and
thoroughly researched the map.

The Blair treasure map.

Oh, okay.

MARTY: We dug
under the two boulders

because it seemed to
be markers for something,

but we didn't find any treasure.

And I did go out and
take a look at the boulders.

So, the anchor boulder
on Lot 21, it's been moved.

The other boulder, it's
probably been moved.

At least it's been... There's
been digging around it.

So, it looks like
it's been adjusted.

But my take on the map is
that it's-it's very important.

It's the one treasure
map that exists.

RICK: The Blair Map
certainly suggests

that there's treasure,
but it's just a map.

It's not treasure. It
is not proof of that.

The proof is in the ground.

And I think we are all
quite enthusiastic about it

for one simple reason,
this is a treasure hunt

and this is a treasure map.

We'll do whatever it takes
to come to a conclusion.

A very significant final one

from our time while
you were away,

is that button right there.

That was found by
Laird and his team

near the steps into
the Lot 5 feature.

Right next to the
other starburst button.

The scans that Emma made,

it really is a very
beautiful thing.

I looked at the
scan that Emma did

and it reminds me of
something that we saw in Malta.

JACK: Really?

ALEX: I looked at the
scan that Emma did

and it reminds me of
something that we saw in Malta.

Really?

NARRATOR: In the
Oak Island Museum,

Alex Lagina has just made
a surprising observation

regarding the floral button

that was found one
week ago on Lot 5.

So, we visited a prison
at the Cittadella on Gozo

and carved into the wall
there was this symbol.

Steve, if you
could pull that up.

Keep on going.

That, right there.

So, this is graffiti on
the walls of the prison.

It was obviously
significant enough

to be carved in
the wall of a prison

that at one time

held members of
the Knights of Malta.

There are actually
similarities between

- that carving and the button.
- CRAIG: Yep.

NARRATOR: A
carving found on the wall

of a 16th-century
prison in Gozo, Malta?

One similar in design
to the floral button

that was found near the
stone foundation on Lot 5?

Could this be further evidence

that the Knights of
Malta made a secret visit

to Oak Island nearly


And so, at this same prison,

there's all kinds of
carvings on the wall.

- That's a Maltese cross.
- CHARLES: Maltese cross, yeah.

ALEX: There's the four-dot
cross. Which it's on the H+O Stone.

Yeah.

ALEX: So, I kind
of approached it

from the kind of "means, motive
and opportunity" perspective.

Opportunity is kind of settled,
because we know they were here.

Um, so, we wanted to investigate
the means and the motive.

And we saw a means and motive

when we went
underground in Valletta.

We saw the means, because
they have these massive cisterns

that they carved



and a network of tunnels.

PETER: So, what was
interesting for me was,

in these tunnels,

they used blue clay
to seal off water flow

to protect its valuable items.

Yeah.

RICK: So, here, this
kind of reminded me

of the old description
of the Money Pit.

The hard rock, you can see
the pick marks in the sides.

I mean, you are literally
walking through history here.

- It's incredible.
- Yeah.

Okay. When we talk
about the Knights Templar,

we know they had this
sneak attack on them in 1307.

Yeah.

And there's a legend that
people left with a great treasure.

Are there legends like that?

Corjan was able to trace
members of the Knights Templar

leaving possibly with treasure.

- That's what I'm looking for.
- ALEX: Right.

And it's connected to one
family, the de Villiers family.

The family itself maintains

positions of importance
within the Knights of Malta.

Right. A member of the
family left with the treasure

- just after the suppression of 1307.
- Right.

So, perhaps this one family
was charged with the protection

of certain relics,
certain treasure.

EMILIANO: Yeah. I
mean, the Knights of Malta

that was here in the mid-1600s,

landed in La Havre a
few miles from Oak Island,

supposedly related
to the de Villiers family.

They not only had
money, they had power

- and they had knowledge.
- Yeah.

MARTY: So, you can conclude
that the Knights of Malta

clearly had the scientific
and the technical ability

to construct massive
things underground.

And we do know from
Judi and others' research

that the-the Knights of
Malta were definitely here.

Just 20 miles down the road.

So, there's a connection.

Well, look, all I can say is,
you know, a job well done.

We learned a lot in Malta.

But I think we need
to go back out there,

because you want to exhaust
all the potential discoveries

- that yet remain out there.
- Yes.

- Time to dig, Marty.
- MARTY: That's right.

-[laughter] -And I'll tell
you what this has done,

this perhaps opens our
eyes to look more carefully

at the things that are
going to be coming out

of our last caisson
in the Money Pit.

So, now with this background,
we can keep our eye peeled

for things that
might be meaningful.

- Let's go see.
- Yep.

RICK: Back to work.

NARRATOR: For
more than 200 years,

people have uncovered
compelling evidence

that Oak Island is hiding
an incredible secret.

Could the new clues that
Rick, Marty and their team

have found both on the island,

and 4,000 miles away,

suggest that secret
may be more profound

than anyone ever imagined?

Now, as the team prepares

for their most ambitious dig
ever in the Money Pit area,

perhaps the secret
will finally be revealed

more than 200 feet underground.

Next time, on The
Curse of Oak Island...

Into the solution channel we go.

- Into the void.
- ALEX: Our best guess is that

the treasure is 200 feet
under that spot right there.

GARY: Ooh, look at that!

The vault connects
the swamp, potentially,

to the Knights of Malta.

- What is that?
- That might be depositor.

The only time I see
primitive tools this size

- was from the 1500s.
- Way before the Money Pit.

- TERRY: Here we go.
- We're into the solution channel.

- We're just coming into it.
- MARTY: Oh, baby!

- RICK: Check that out.
- MARTY: Reveal your secrets.